skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero copy serialisation and performance benefits over doing “row-at-a-time” like you would with protobuf.
My university had one, but it seemed more like a cover-your-ass move by the university than something that'd actually get people to think about these issues if/when they occur in their career.
saying they did not directly make a payment makes it certain someone paid.
I would presume that the attacker was able to obtain Domain Admin / Enterprise Admin rights before they deployed the payload, then they just steamrolled over everything.

The one of these that I got called-in to clean up after literally had a batch file on Domain Controllers w/ a text file of computer names for a FOR loop launching the malware on computer-after-computer with "psexec". It was decidedly non-sophisticated. The attacker compromised a Domain Admin account and then they were set.
Founder here - for our users, the initial value proposition of being able to deploy a Slack bot in less than 5 minutes without servers, is usually the starting point.

After that they start digging into our team features for Secrets, Configs, Logs and Events which along with our public registry gives them a significant feature set to work against!
I don't feel nervous at all. What am I missing?
Correct, you can only input up to 2048 tokens total (this is a big improvement over GPT-2's 1024 input size). You can use sliding windows to continue generating beyond that.

However, model training scales quadratically as input size increases which makes building larger models more difficult (which is why Reformer is trying workarounds to increase the input size).
(Webinar) machine learning on big data – open source
I forced myself to get into my own bootstrapped SAAS business in 2014 and it is now in a reasonable shape where I can continue to grow it at any pace I want while I enjoy a stability of enough revenue to sustain a decent lifestyle. I m no way to close to being done :) but I can say with comfort that I achieved the bare minimums and have replaced my meaningless corporate life successfully. Has been a tough 6+ years but was worth it for me.

On a personal side, I taught myself how to cut my own hair few years ago and boy it has been amazingly fruitful especially right now. My first 4-5 cuts were nothing short of embarrassments but I am a pro now with the limited way I give myself a buzz cut and scissors in front.
I feel like the article misses the most interesting question about Roman numerals and Roman (Greek really) math. How did the numerical system influence the math that they developed and used?

The Greeks were really into geometry using the compass and straight edge so they actually did a lot of math without really needing numbers at all. They viewed calculation as less worthy of mathematicians and my understanding is that we don't have a lot of evidence for how merchants and engineers did basic calculations since most of the great Greek math texts ignored it.

Algorithms and algebra probably existed in some informal way but they weren't really formalized until the Arabs did it with the help of Arabic numerals.

So, while you can do some calculations in roman numerals or using an abacus, the interesting question to me is: Did the Greeks (and the Romans) not develop algebra or use Arabic numerals because they weren't that into numbers as compared to geometry? Or was it the other way around? Did the clumsiness of doing calculations in Roman numerals keep them from developing more complex systems of numerical calculation?

I'm not an expert on the subject at all but it's always interested me. It makes me think of Bret Victor's Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/)
> So would it not make sense to tie the two systems together in an intelligent way?

There's no need to do so since ILS autoland has been a thing for decades and can be used by many aircraft today (from both Boeing and Airbus)

All the 'self-flying plane' has to do is engage the Cat III approach if it is available and let the old and boring autopilot do its thing.

Alternatively, if Cat III approach is unavailable, it can do what pilots already do: divert to an alternate airport.

https://www.flightdeckfriend.com/can-a-plane-land-automatica...
A good one to optimize for if you need to carve them into stone columns :)
Human pilots are also a recipe for disaster. We put two of them in the cockpit for redundancy but they definitely aren't perfect. I'm not saying that we should adopt this right away but one day this will surely be the safer option. And a transition plan of having pilots on board for backup seems very reasonable.
I think communal support in this manner is a good idea. Schooling children at home on a lower income is possible, and I've known people who have made it work successfully (pre-COVID). I also think things like homeschool "pods" or "co-ops" where families form isolated clusters to help share the burden can help.

Worth noting that, at least in California, a decision was made to allocate funding to schools based on last years enrollment numbers, rather than this upcoming school year's numbers.

One major implication is that charter schools that are more prepared to help parents deal with schooling at home will not receive increased funding to help with the massive increase in enrollment applications these schools have received.
Why would it be significantly harder than using some other system of numerals?
Has anyone used asynchronous video based collaboration tools?
Has anyone used asynchronous video based collaboration tools? Does that help cut down on daily meetings time.

I work remotely for a company and a lot of our time is wasted on daily syncs, brainstorming sessions. While these looked important when we were in an office setting pre covid, these feel redundant and hamper my productivity. Slack was fine but it does not do any justice to the tone of the message.

I would love your thoughts on this.
But then you're not going to get as high of a payout? Maybe this math works, or maybe it's a feeler to figure out where the line is.
I like the baseball dataviz better than the "metaphorr for life" pablum.
The biggest problem is we've allowed them to become so big they're capable of doing that. The rise of censor culture hasn't helped and is heaped on by advertisers and the media.
I'm certain that ballenf meant to follow the dictates of one's own inner conscience to do what is commonly called "the right thing." I fail to understand how can so many people instead ascribe evil intentions to what was a wonderful comment about improving one's actions.
I'm posting to second the recommendation for the novel. It is the most interesting exploration of the Mind's I (not a typo) that I've come across in modern sci-fi.

It can be read in its entirety at the author's site: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I'm quite surprised that people seem kind of ok with the idea of ransomware. It's a horrible, criminal corrupt practice and it's destructive to pay or participate in anything to do with this.
Seems very similar to the DC special flight rules area warning device, which was introduced to cut down the number of incidents of aircraft unintentionally erring into the DC SFRA resulting in expensive things like fighters being scrambled.

It's basically the same idea as a control tower's light gun sending the red/green "extreme caution" signal but it's laser-based to work at long range. They refuse to give much in the way of details, it's not even clear to me if it uses radar for targeting or the statements about it being radar-based just mean that the person operating it gets instructions from someone looking at ATC radar. It seems like it might just be a minor modification of this same device.

Actually I'll expand on this, because I think the article is a bit unclear but it seems like this is intended for the exact same use-case. it's not really a weapon but a signaling device. The problem with air traffic is that pilots occasionally err into restricted areas unintentionally. For various reasons (mostly bad ones, but still not too uncommon) they may not be monitoring any of the radio frequencies that a controller or the air force would try to use to communicate with them. So if the situation is severe enough, a military aircraft has to be scrambled to conduct an intercept and redirect. Even this has a failure rate because not all pilots seem to be familiar with the internationally agreed upon procedures for intercept and redirect by a military aircraft, although I'd argue it's pretty intuitive (if a fighter comes after you, act rational and follow them when they turn away).

So for the DC SFRA where this is a big ongoing problem they introduced this "visual warning system" that's just a laser that flashes red-green at the suspect aircraft. Ideally everyone who flies in that area knows about it, but they figure that even for people who don't, it's bright and conspicuous and alternating red/green means "use extreme caution" (every pilot should know that one, it's on the exam), so it ought to be enough to get people to figure out that there's something going on and they should start monitoring their radio. FAA provided a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wAhreg9qpo

Seems like this is the exact same idea, it's bright and conspicuous and will make people realize that something is up even if they're not monitoring the radio, and so hopefully they'll either turn their radio on or head the opposite direction to avoid trouble.
I've been debating "mast" as it sort of evokes "trunk" in an amusing seafaring sort of way, and partly for the same reason a lot people like "main" because their muscle memory is "ma<TAB>". For several reasons my muscle memory at this point is "mast<TAB>", so "mast" is even a slight improvement over my muscle memory.

But I'm not sure I'd get that much interest from other people to use "mast", it might just be something in my own projects.
I've read so many stories about drunk pilots, unlicensed pilots (primarily in third world countries), sleepy pilots, unskilled pilots (remember that aircraft that crashed because the captain was pushing down while the copilot was pulling up?), etc. that I think I'd be more comfortable flying with an AI.
He didn't says they were equal thirds :-)
What if you're an activist and your government _is_ the enemy?
While there's doubtless something to what you say, I don't believe there are that many undergrad interns getting the pay of a senior pilot. You're thinking of an extremely select subset of tech companies.
Hah, perhaps the best case to optimize for!
Say the stamp costs double and it now costs a dollar to mail an envelope instead of 50 cents. No one is priced out of mailing a letter, and we are in a better position s the net benefit is better off (total cost is lower than the previous total cost)
> If you ever work at a software company

No personal attacks, please.

I do, in fact, work at a tech company, and do, in fact, write a lot of code to do my job. However, it is not a software company, as it does not sell proprietary software directly.

> Rewriting perfectly working code is never valuable.

It might be far more valuable than the other option, i.e. releasing the proprietary software under a free software license. An AGPL licensing issue will only ever, in a worst case scenario, force you to choose one of those two options, no more.
I think I might trust an “AI” pilot more than a human one. Human pilots often fail to respond to unexpected conditions as well (see Air France Flight 447). Pilots have also gone nuts and crashed the plane intentionally (see Germanwings Flight 9525).

Something like this should at least allow airlines to use just one human pilot, who I doubt would do much 99% of the time. If there’s something that the computer can’t handle, the human could take over.
Yes. Oracle has done this (ASM) to eliminate overhead, implement fault tolerance and provide a storage management interface based on SQL, for example.

I once made a 'file system' to mount cpio archives (read-only) in an embedded system. Cpio is an extremely simple format to generate and edit (in code) and mounting it directly was very effective.
I think you'll find few people who are willing to make changes to those things just to implement an AGPL library --- and even fewer who would call it a "simple solution".
Show HN: Simple XState Examples
The best landing I ever had was on a Boeing 747(?) coming into LAX probably somewhere around 2000.

We were flying through a really big storm front forever. Drop. Rise. Drop. Rise. For hours.

Finally, we start coming down still bouncing all over the place. About 30 minutes outside LAX, the plane suddenly got as smooth as glass and we touched down with the lightest touch I had ever experienced.

Captain comes on: "Well, we were planning on diverting, but you can all thank the fine engineers at Boeing for bringing us down in that weather on autoland."

Guy next to me who threw up: "Why the hell couldn't they have turned that on 2 hours earlier?"

Pilots are done.
Thanks a lot Kenton. Appreciate the reply and excited to see what the Workers team build next.

> WebRTC is a peer-to-peer (browser-to-browser) protocol. We don't currently have plans to implement it directly in Workers, though that's an interesting idea.

The reason I asked is, since overlay distributed networks are being built on top of WebRTC (like u/feross' https://WebTorrent.io), Workers Unbound, if it supported WebRTC, could potentially then be a participant in such distributed networks. May be, I can seed torrents through Workers Unbound or build a P2P CDN on top of it which is at least as fast as usual CDNs when there are not very many connectable peers nearby. Or, have Workers Unbound participate as a host in a P2P database / filesystem like GunDB [0], for example.

> Is this commonly used for things other than forward proxies?

Yep, pretty much the use-case I was going for with Workers Unbound, tunneling traffic through HTTP to bypass firewalls and navigate NATs. A TURN over HTTPS of sorts, like Tailscale's DERP [1] but with servers worldwide. Will this be supported out-of-the-box?

Thanks again!

[0] https://github.com/amark/gun

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/
Why are buskers allowed to bellow out whatever garbage They want through amplifiers which are just as loud and to me more obnoxious?
Ahh, I see the error of my ways.
It's because you're point-blank wrong and keep doubling down on it instead of taking the L.
I haven't seen as much as you, I'm sure, but I did like MP more than Angkor Wat. They are roughly the same timeframe but MP felt like AW done with Expert Mode turned on and at altitude. Would love to hear a couple from your list that I might consider.
I would imagine something like Starlink could help with the deadzone issue?
Not only that, but it's free training. This helps keep pilots sharp and current.

If autoland fails it could be that there's something else going wrong with the aircraft(ranging from a faulty sensor to something more serious). Now you have a pilot with degraded proficiency trying to land in an unusual condition. This impairs safety.
The Red Cross still considers them to be dangerous.

The human eye (depending on the person) magnifies light 100,000-500,000 times. The inverse square law means that only minor variations in distance can have large differences in effective light (laser irradiance conforms to this law). Rangefinders aren't perfect and the smaller they are, the harder it is to detect the range accurately (inverse square law again). Laser damage happens in just 0.25 seconds, so even a tiny mistake can have catastrophic consequences.

The US military has admitted to their own soldiers being hurt, but it would be an international incident to admit it happened to someone they were fighting, so I doubt you'll see them releasing any stats about that.

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jmcz....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328516-400-should-p...

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/chorioretinal-injury-cau...
I don’t appreciate the condescension. It’s half assed in that I put a rough direction out there for conversation for a huge problem that will inevitably cause social problems. Your reply isn’t in line with HN guidelines and certainly doesn’t make me want to participate in conversation with you about important topics.
I don't think it's decayed at all. It's certainly changed. Change and decay aren't actually synonyms.
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I think there would be comparable prestige if the government did something like roll out public broadband or made some sort of publicly owned social media.
> This is despite a massive economy-rocking effort to "flatten the curve"

In the US, that was largely a complete failure because everywhere started reopening because New York’s case numbers were going down while the rest of the country was going up, and everyone declared “mission accomplished”.
How the turn table
Poor comparison. FedEx and UPS cannot ship first class mail. It is literally against the law. The USPS has a monopoly on first class mail, no one else can do it, so you cannot compare costs.
Sounds like confirmation bias. I don’t know if there is a higher noise ceiling than cars. I’ve seen plenty of people in cars rev their engines. And it’s wildly common all over the USA... Civics with fart pipes, trucks rolling coal, v8s with a muffler delete, etc.

Most motorcycles are built with an enthusiast in mind who wants a louder bike. Most cars aren’t build with enthusiasts in mind.

I’d love to know why we’ve allowed delivery vehicles and buses (commercial vehicles) to have similar noise regulations. Since those vehicles are really only for utility, one would assume we’d regulate those into quietness at least...
A friend of mine, a military helicopter pilot told me years ago, that Airbus can basicaly fly by itself, except for taxiing. It was about 15 years ago.

But then the airline prohibited to use the automated systems during take-off and landing, because the pilots don't get practise. But pilots need those practise if they should take over in emergency situations.

The same is true for automated driving. I always say, we will see automated railways and automated airplanes before we see automated cars.

PS: Because of some comments, Nuremberg had the first railways system to allow mixed traffic of automated and manual railways. Yeah, I know some of the guys doing the saftey certifcations for this.
It's actually just the Mercator projection that is broken for some reason. Lots of things are missing.
Yes my comparison was with extremes... but I wouldn't bet against the average working pilot earning less than the average tech intern either.
Show HN: Don't want to see an AD? Beat the level with 3 stars
Ever since I released Qubes[1] I wanted to come up with a way of making some money without a lot of ADs or to charge the user to play the game. So this is what I came up with: If you beat the level with 3 stars I don't show you a AD, how about that?!

It's kind of the opposite of pay to win. If you win (with the optimal solution) you don't have to "pay".

Anyway, I hope this catches on and more developers adopt this strategy, and I also hope more people play my game.

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.victorribeiro.qubes
Be on time: important of network time synchronization
No, but there ain't no rule about flattening pixels and using it as input data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554944
Yes. Anyone who is willing to work for less than market value while new people are coming in at market values aren’t “idiots” but they are unwise.

Did you tell them that “we are all family here”?
Let A be a Pedant and Let B be a Pedant
Thanks you very much! It's very interesting.

It's exactly what we've started to do: targeting startups in incubators.

DevOps people in early-stage startups are not very common, so it's seems safe to say that a Devops-as-a-service may be useful for them.
650,000 out of a global population? More people have died from seasonal flu every year. You're taking this way too personally, it's not political argument. I urge you to pull back and reconsider your emotions.
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-nu... Twitter caught using phone numbers for marketing purposes.
Green paper pays for more in life
That's good practice. Sadly these kinds of scams already happen without the effort of synthetic voices. Scammers call an older person and say "Hey Grandma, it's me your grandson. I need $500 for bail right away!" With the help of Facebook they can learn names and details to sound more convincing.
Please don't use terms like "magic" when trying to explain things to people. They never point out where the "magic" part lines up to any of their other explanation.
There have been demos of it writing code from English comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSFNUT6iY8

It's not clear how much the demos have been gamed for presentation, and it seems more of an opportunity than a threat - it will still need devs to put stuff together, and (assuming it is as impressive as demoed) will take a lot of the donkey work away.
>Of course in practice, we know that people's fears are not rational. Things like shark attacks and nuclear meltdowns scare people in a manner vastly disproportionate from their actual impact. It could be that the public has a lesser reaction to a plane going down with a person at the helm than an automated flight crashing.

In an analogy to self-driving cars...even if the math is sound, people will take issue until the technology is universally so far above a human driver that the accident rate is neglible.
Great! You, and all who do so, are then protected from ever having to face any problems from AGPL.
It definitely has to do with the company processes and culture as well. Companies like Automattic, Gitlab, Zapier have nailed it. The problem lies in companies where the Management layer was always involved in bureaucracy and politics.
In general, Great remote companies imbibe a culture where employees are self starters and motivated to get things done.
President Kennedy was shot. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Mandela went to prison and still found a way to forgive every single former oppressor. Yet, all these people advanced societies. Look at Ghandi, who freed an entire nation, that was difficult.

Finding a job or starting a business outside of Google is not the same level of difficult.

If the employees thought something was evil, either they are evil for doing it, or they didn't actually think it was evil.
What am I missing? How is any of his visualizations GPT-3 specific and not, say, a deep learning LSTM from years ago?
I suspect operating on block storage directly may both be easier and more reliable for databases, since about 75 % of the complication in writing transactional I/O software is working around the kernel's behavior.
All too often "keep up their skils" is code for "learn what I think is important" and says more about the speaker's (in)ability to know what's important than about actual skill. That's how ageism creeps in - not intentionally but through lack of awareness of one's own bias.
What Is SQRL?
The reasons are twofold. Like you mentioned a pitcher's aim isn't perfect. Also a batter isn't perfect at reading pitches. A pitch aimed at the bottom of the strike zone might miss accidentally. Or a pitch like a curveball can be aimed below the strike zone but it appears to the batter to be a strike only for it to drop and end up outside the zone. Not swinging at these seemingly borderline pitches results in a lot more pitches being called balls.

Also pitches thrown in these tough to hit locations will often result in bad contact. Bad contact is generally worse than a strike. A ball that is weakly hit into play will almost always result in an out. A strike will only result in an out when there are already 2 strikes. Therefore swinging at fewer pitches means the batter sees more pitches and gets deeper into counts. The batter will therefore have more late counts in which they are ahead simply due to fewer at bats being ended prematurely.