skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emperor has no clothes... there is a skill in speaking in an optimistic way using a series of intentionally vague words which smart people feel bad about not understanding so they just pretend they do and think positively about a product because for the life of them they could not articulate why the pitch/business/product didn't have any value. There's nothing to argue against because "I don't know what you're talking about" is an apparent argument against yourself.

I'm going to start a business selling a quantum leap in synergy paradigms. Begin with the tagline, move on to a landing page, and after that's nicely done, get a group of people together to brainstorm what the company actually does.
Yeah I work in photonics (phd student in a lab that does optical microresonators). The problem is that photonic structures are massive (10s-100s of um) and waste a lot of space. Photonics will never beat electronics in terms of density on the chip because you're limited by the wavelength of the light you're using. They are also quite lossy. Every time the waveguide turns, you have some radiation loss, for example. You can't contain an optical signal on a chip as well as you can contain an electrical signal.
In Seattle, they call it version 2.0, 10, 2029, Lemur, and Q.
"Forced" is a weirdly charged word - like "garbage disposal workers forced to sign statement acknowledging that their work will involve handling garbage". What's the alternative here?

Yeah, it's awful, dirty work, and we should give them as much support as possible (definitely more support than they are getting right now) - but at the end of the day, "dealing with things most people don't want to touch" is literally the reason that the job exists...

TBH I'd be more concerned if YouTube was signing up moderators WITHOUT telling them that they're in for a life of emotional torture :/
Isn't it contradictory to maintain that a non-US citizen outside the country does not have rights under the US Constitution, but can be subject to US law?
I wouldn't work for a company that doesn't value my time as much as I do. Working on a platform I wished didn't exist would be very insulting. Your statement sounds like a typical out of touch high level manager that didn't think through an idea.
Society as a whole benefits from an infected person being quarantined so therefore society should also pay for it.

Is that not the case?

I'd assume the US has programs/budgets for this sort of contingency funded at the federal level?
If my making a living depended on doing stuff like this, I'd find another way to make a living.
What you have to remember about big public cases like these is that it's often something very specific that someone is being tried for.

In the Assange case the charge is "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion." The US is asking the UK to be a friend and arrest this person and then send them to a place where the laws apply so they can be punished for what they are accusing him of:

"Prosecutors accused Assange of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010, to crack a Defense Department computer password for accessing a vast trove of classified U.S. military and diplomatic material that subsequently was disclosed through WikiLeaks."

So just think of it like this: The US, UK and Australia are all "friends." The US thinks someone from Australia who was living in the UK did something that the US defined as bad. The US wants him to face trial for that and the only place to do that is in the US, so can their friends in the UK please send him along.
How would you solve the problem?
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The people doing illegal activity with planes don't care about requirements or are paying people to overlook them ignoring the requirements.
At present, your guess would be just as good as mine. Although, somebody is bound to follow the money and reveal the facts.
And in Poland there is interbank money transfer system called elixir so good luck finding job with elixir (lang) in description.
I'm not sure what you mean by that being the point in brexit.
Theresa May voted for remain and introduced bills like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
> The author presents no evidence of these accounts being bots other than them being closely connected and cliquey.

Multiple accounts with the same name, image, and profile, coupled with radical changes in the types of content posted, and also with superhuman (clearly automated) posting rates? What more evidence do you need?
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Banning bad activity for a public good should not require the government to "come up with" alternate behavior.

That isn't the function of government.
I'm not a photonics expert, but I have done some development on a device using optical parametric amplification (OPA) for high performance bulk compute.

The project goal was to outperform ASICs on a very well-defined, highly regular problem, and achieve it without the capital cost of typical ASICs, so that specialised circuits could realistically be built and used for different problems. So, not a general purpose CPU, but something that can compute.

OPA is potentially an extremely high bandwidth signal processing process, which doesn't involve converting to electrical signals, through transistors and then back to optical the way that some photonic designs do. It is more like the way optical communications amplifiers work, directly amplifying the modulated light that is passing through.

We are talking >1THz bit rates per logic element, and it's also quite an energy efficient process (despite limited OPA conversion efficiency, because you can recycle some of the light that hasn't converted), so it was worth exploring.

In the process, no insurmountable technical obstacles were found during the time of the project, but we ran out of time and money.

But it was surprising to find that, despite the superficial promise of photonics, it wasn't obviously a lot faster, or faster per Watt, than the best silicon electronics after all. This is because silicon transistors are pretty fast and efficient these days, and because you can fit a huge number of them in an area much smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You can confine light too, and there has been some published progress at nanoscale OPA elements, but it's a much more complicated structure and process (plasmons etc) than OPA in bulk materials, and nanoscale OPA may be just as difficult to manufacture as nanoscale transistors. Also, quantum: Just due to light being quantized as photons, there comes a point where to carry enough information at high data rates, the power density needed is an issue.

Sorry, I didn't answer your question :-)

My guess: Actually making a photonic CPU is economically and motivationally constrained rather than science constrained at this point, even though there's plenty of R&D still needed to do it. The motivation isn't that strong because the benefits aren't that obvious, and I think if they were obvious, the big commercial labs would have shipped a working prototype already.
It's a field hospital, not a modern building. Imagine MASH...
Garbage workers have used labor organization to stand up to unfair treatment.

Do YouTube Moderators?
Sorry the pricing is unclear. In Secret Manager, secrets are versioned (a "secret" is a named collection of "secret versions"). We only charge for active secret versions (you can destroy secret versions, usually after a rotation operation).

The secret version contains that actual secret data (i.e. "ABCD1234"), and you can choose the regions in which you want that secret data replicated. Each region you choose is $0.06.

So if you had 1 secret with 12 versions stored in 2 regions, that would be 12 x 2 x $0.06/mo = $1.44. Hope that helps!

EDIT: replaced "*" with "x" in math because it was getting parsed as italics
Drug smuggling planes might not be in full compliance with every single regulation.
Telengard was great fun, but it was still similar to a rogue-like in the sense that you were just walking around a dungeon trying to kill, loot, and not die.

I always heard it was procedurally generated but the layout was always the same for me. Looking into it, it seems that to save on memory, the levels are "generated" on the fly, but from a set of seed numbers that were hard coded into the game and didn't change.

I tried mapping for a while but lost patience. Good thing I did because it allegedly has something like 2 million rooms.
As someone who really admires Dutch culture, I would just add that in my experience "you are crazy enough" is more true in the Netherlands than elsewhere ;) It's probably not for nothing that such a small country has had such an outsized impact on the history of Science and Technology...
What's the point in posting an article which has a paywall? Does anyone have a link which points to an open version of the article?
Probably the people who wanted to have it done have done it. Others who are skeptical or uninterested were never going to do it.
The existing standard in old industry was disability and workman's comp but the lines are a bit more fuzzy than just "x-ray says you have black lung" or "you don't have a right hand anymore".

The ergonomics of what could actually prevent PTSD from developing other than massive churn would be an interesting area of study period.
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> There are highly effective “unnatural” SEO strategies, for example you could just generate fake bounces on your competitors pages using proxies.

That's not unnatural seo it's negative seo.
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Remember the paper is talking about entropy[1] rather than any kind of human-encoded information.

[1]: https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our...
Try to find a way so that you don't have to communicate the gravity of it. For example start fixing it slowly and quietly.
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Vault is also operationally complex and does a lot more than you need most of the time.
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Thanks for that link, I hadn't heard of Luminous.
> there ARE times when it helps to be able to quickly convey to new acquaintances that you are legitimate

There was a thread on HN about shibboleths. It was kicked off by someone who pointed out that tech support took them seriously and skipped the basic "have you tried turning it off and on" steps when they saw XCode was installed.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1201003855770607618
>jobs which need to be done, but are harmful to the people doing them?

Does this job need to be done? Perhaps we have learned that opening a platform for anyone to upload anything in an anonymous state is not good for society.

Maybe it is time to force anyone uploading to YouTube to be approved prior.

All the hand wringing concerning online services and the belief they should exist since everyone seems to like them is something society has to deal with. No one is practically looking at the ill the services are doing to the world.

Why should anyone get PTSD to ensure YouTube can continue to offer videos? Wow.
Well, in the traditional sense of diversity, I see just about every race/ethnicity represented there. It's very diverse staff represented in this picture.
In software development, what are the most important qualities of an engineer?

Chaff: Understands computer science. Knows how to scale. Mentor of junior engineers.

Wheat: Understands people. Knows when to scale. Mentee of junior engineers.
I agree with this sentiment and would like to see more this sort of this not just for moderators but for every "low skill" job. Especially the C-level employees and shareholders - no one should be asking anyone to do something without either A) doing it themselves so they know what they're asking or B) treating the workers as experts whose opinions and requests should be taken seriously.
>If you have decent insurance, you pay your maximum out of pocket and insurance pays the rest (at negotiated rates).

I think the OP's question was more: who decides this person gets treated by a state-of-the-art robot, while this person gets a prescription and told to go home and rest?
Electrolysis only produces chlorine to the extent that chloride ion is present in the water. If the charge-carrying ions are metallic positive and hydroxide negative, the chlorine produced will be negligible.

So to promote electrolysis, add KOH or NaOH (lye) instead of NaCl (table salt). Or don't add anything, and let your charge carriers be H3O+ and HCO3- from dissolved CO2.

The chlorine will come off first, and if you have a reducible anode, it will attack that first. If you have a graphite anode, you will get Cl2, which will oxidize pure hydrogen just fine. You'll get HCl in the combustion, which isn't dangerous when diluted (it's the same acid that's produced in your stomach).

Fluorine gas is not produced from aqueous fluoride salts because the oxygen is always oxidized first.

The half-reactions:

2 H2O + 2 e- --> H2 + 2 [OH-] (-0.83 V)
2 H2O --> O2 + 4 [H+] + 4 e- (-1.23 V)
2 [Cl-] --> Cl2 + 2 e- (-1.36 V)
2 [F-] --> F2 + 2 e- (-2.87 V)

Even if you do get a F2, it immediately reacts with the electrolysis water to produce oxygen gas:

2 F2 (g) + 2 H2O (l) --> 4 HF (aq) + O2 (g)

In short, this is not much of a problem.

By the redox half-reactions, it looks like oxygen should be produced before chlorine, but there is also something called "overpotential" at the electrode. On a graphite electrode, the activation overpotentials for H2, O2, and Cl2 are -0.62V, +0.95V, and +0.12V, respectively. There is also a "bubble overpotential" of the tiny bubbles that form on the electrode. That pushes the preference towards chlorine gas. Tiny oxygen bubbles will form, but the energy required to grow them large enough to detach from the electrode and rise to the surface exceeds that required to form and grow a chlorine bubble.
Explain how this is unfair treatment.
> They talk about "the industry-leading wellness program and comprehensive support services we provide" - but should there be a basic standard of support set which they have to meet?

> I'm not sure of what a good answer would look like

IMO the bare minimum is credit to cover any and all inpatient/outpatient therapy with LCSW/PsyD/Clinical Psy PhD/MD health professionals, as well as a generous amount of allowance for prescribed paid leave(from a LCSW/PsyD/Clinical PhD/MD) due to distress.
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Yeah I keep waiting to hear about insurance companies finally paying off politicians enough to get HIPPA revoked.
Sorry, not much to back it up other than lack of knowledge of any shared-wafer fabs in the US. From what I can tell, having a fab in the US is more a consequence of wanting to make one's own chips, not 'chips as a commodity' (foundry) business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_model

Additionally there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

Note as a result of this comment I did some digging and it does seem like Global Foundries does do wafer-share: https://www.globalfoundries.com/design-services/multi-projec...
> It uses a cheaper fuel of which we have a virtually endless supply of

Which fuel is that? Thorium-U233?
Agreed, many of the rights described were once considered the "natural" rights of man, not granted, and I thought the language clearly demonstrated that main concern was with restricting the power of government from denying those rights.

Not everybody believes in rights that are not granted, so I think the view that these rights only applied to citizens was always around, but yes, 9/11 did provide added motivation to deny rights to non-citizens.
It's really not like that at all. People aren't sitting right on top of you a foot away. If they are, I'm sorry.
In China, for instance, your annual income is a common get-to-know-you type question, right along with where you’re from
Exactly. Hegel developed a theory that historical progress goes always forward, or towards better things. Capitalist-based theory says that Capitalism is the inevitable outgrowth from Feudalism, which is false (Meiksins-wood showed that Capitalism is an idea that was enacted through force, not an inevitable outgrowth of the previous systems). Communist theory says that Capitalism inevitably fails and tends towards Socialism, which eventually develops into Communism, which has yet to be shown. People tend to think that Evolution results in better and better organisms, rather than those that convey the best advantages for it's environment. For some reason lot of people tend to think that a society's values will get better over time, and that modern societies are qualitatively better than those from thousands of years ago, rather than just different.

Hell, even here a lot of people believe that technological progress is a linear path towards the future, even when there's evidence contrary to that assumption. Without even reaching for evidence from other fields, it's trivial to find examples of entire theories that have been forgotten and rediscovered. Think of Low-Density Parity-check codes, that were developed in the 1960s and essentially forgotten for 20 or so years. A lot of technology has been found and then lost.
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Yes, that's what I meant -- sorry if it was unclear. You know what you need to do, but you are unable to use that knowledge to do the thing.
I have the exact same problem, i'm pretty curious about what solution will be proposed.

From my experience it is really case dependant. I went throught several "legacy" codebases, and everything depends on the willingness of change in the company. I think my 3 last experiences are revelant of different situations :

1 - Peoples want to change
A few years ago I went to a company with some code from 5+years, with poor quality. It was quite easy to explain peoples we were facing troubles maintaining the codebase in descent state, since it was a small company with people involved in dev process/ selling the product.

2 - Clueless people
After that i moved to a company with terrible codebase. I put everything on git and set a dev environment on my first week. It was in 2017. The legacy was unmaintainable, and by speaking with the ceo/cto, we managed to explain the risks for the company. It took month, but they understood the urge of refactoring, rewriting, etc. They just were not able to find a solution by themselves and our help to rationalise the problem and find effective solution was sufficent to give them understanding of the problem and willingness on moving forward.

3 - Conservative peoples
I moved a few month ago in a really conservative company with totaly insane codebase. For the moment I have no clue on what to do to make people understand at what point the code is in a sinistred state. Tech people understand it but not the rest of the company. Company is economicaly wealthy and it's really hard to make people understand that it does hide terrible technical reality.

I personally think the most important point are :
- Explain to your boss what are the most dangerous problems (unencrypted passwords in DB, that kind of things)
- Explain what is tech debt
- Explain that current techs are solutions to those problems
- Speak about the costs

Everything is easier if you are in a small company, wether ir not peoples around you does have thech background or not.
It's easier too if you can prove what you're saying: with examples of dangerous things understandable by non tech people, and with POC.
For the moment i just does not figure out how to push the need of purging tech debt when company is wealthy. People feel that everything goes well and you're just too much of a geek/perfectionnist
I'm curious what you mean by philosophical stance. Could you expand a little?
Well garbage workers unions have ensured that the job is one of the best paying you can get without a degree or credential.
Making a product is not even half of the path to success
Can you post a link to the interview?
Aren't we reading about the US government denying that he has 1st amendment rights when the US government is restricted from denying those rights by the 1st amendment? The amendment doesn't specify US citizens get a positive right, it limits the government itself
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It was obviously snark.

"We avoided screen time in the womb and my child could communicate with full Morse code using kicks at 8 months of gestation. Now let me tell you how to parent."
Based on preliminary contagion rates thus far (R0=3.8), and assuming SARS-like fatality rates (25%), the death toll over the next month in China alone is likely to be in the tens of thousands - estimates are between 40,000 and 120,000.

...for just the next ONE MONTH.

They are definitely not overreacting. The only thing that can reduce the R0 level now is transit bans, public gathering bans, and quarantines.
Interesting he mentions festivals banning it. There's a startup in LA who's trying to add facial recognition to ticket gates of large venues like stadiums for both security and marketing. I wonder how 50,000 people think about being facially recognized / tracked just to go see the ball game or concert?
I personally feel that privacy and individuality holds much more value than solving crime. I hope society never comes to the point that they'll allow government to do anything to them in order to provide "safety"
That is the reason not to post "XXX is down" articles.
Not really. As a shy person, I've been playing it my whole life. For some reason, people meet me and assume... I dunno, that I'm just someone who can be swept aside. I let them believe that.

But I'm a lot more capable than people give me credit for being, and I'll be honest, a part of me enjoys it when that realization starts to set in.

It's not really a machiavellian ploy on my part to optimize some kind of social outcome, just a pattern I've settled into. It's fine for most aspects of my life. Good for poker games with strangers. Bad for first dates and FAANG-style job interviews, where I excessively downplay my abilities.

However, I think generally in life you shouldn't try to "be" anything except healthier and kinder. You were given a role in life, and it is up to you to play it to your best ability. I'm paraphrasing Kurt Vonnegut, I think, when I say be careful who you pretend to be -- because that might be the person you become.

Consciously playing social games is foolish. What you really want in life is inside of you. Strive to be better, not to find artificial ways to dominate others.
Ugh, I know, right. I'm still waiting for the education app that isn't "a drill quiz, ... but on a computer! [1]", or "a drill quiz but with flashylights when you get it right/wrong" to be used at scale by schools.

I have seen some that get like a special day at school. There was something they did with Scratch, for instance.

I've thought that part of the reason that all the studies are showing that computers don't seem to help with education are just showing that computers as they are currently used don't help with education. A key element of ... but on a computer! is that if you just take something from the physical world and put it on a computer, you end up with the disadvantages of both compounding. To successfully put something on a computer, you need to work out a way to harness the unique advantages a computer can give you to make up for the inevitable disadvantages it brings. Simply randomizing numbers for addition & multiplication isn't really it.

[1]: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2916
I think that depends on the gate.
Time will tell :-)
I would not suggest this if your career/love life/opportunity depends on it.
How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?