skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want learning to pay off in clarity. I don't want a language in which the best developers have no choice but to write the same bloated boilerplate that the worst developers would have written.

On codegen, I've never seen an IDE that will help everyone read what it generates. If we must generate code, do it during the build and then throw it away, don't make it something to maintain and review.
Reinfection with Covid-19 6 months later, rapid death
LTCM was never noted by mathematicians for its mathematical excellence. By economists, yes, but that's a rather different thing.
> where the builds run on your own hardware

This is possible with GitHub Actions, too: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/... (the place I work at uses it.)
Because the police wear badges and flak jackets that say POLICE on them and they are in a vehicle with POLICE in very large letters. And that’s also why impersonation of an officer is a huge offense. Citizens need to know that person is legit.

And this is why no knock warrants are a scourge to society. Someone smashes your door down while you’re asleep, you respond with extreme prejudice. And don’t say “well you shouldn’t have been doing something bad” because I’ll point out Breonna Taylor where the cops no knocked the wrong door, so of course the boyfriend assumed someone was breaking in.
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> In other words, it’s less a question of how to stop hackers from breaking in than how to best survive the inevitable damage.

There doesn't seem to be conventional wisdom about how to build systems that are easy to restore. How do you optimize for recovery after an attack? How do you ensure that you've eliminated all the backdoors?

My guess is a combination of "continuous restoration", version controlled code, and a complete separation of code from data.

I want to read books about this but they don't seem to exist.
Quant funds correct mispricings, I think the argument is. And in doing so, help with price discovery which is good for every market participant.
The unfortunate thing is that the ransom probably is priced such that it's cheaper than the company resolving the problem on their own. Or the company would just resolve it without paying the ransom. On the other hand, it's bad on many fronts if the company just decides it is the cost of doing business, and doesn't do a great job of securing their systems in the future...

Many companies just get by, rather than doing serious security design. How do you change that culture in a company? Will paying the ransom do that? Probably if it only costs $1M to do. If it costs them $100M to do, would they do it?
Indeed.. When the public has only two candidates to realistically choose from, both of whom represent parties which run on massive legalized bribery ("donations") and coordinate to systematically keep incumbents out - it's not fair to blame the American public for "electing" leaders that maintain and strengthen the status quo. They don't really have much of a choice.
What a marketing submarine! [0]

Let me count the vastly more transformational and earlier quantitative funds just off the top of my head: Princeton Newport, Commodities Corporation, Tudor, RenTech, Chicago Research; hell even Soros and the Tigers were more influential and just as quantitative. DE Shaw was an early mover for certain kinds of automated trading, but if he had never met Nunzio Tartaglia (and basically stole his secret sauce -hey at least they mentioned Morgan Stanley), he'd still be writing shitty papers on parallel computing models at Columbia. He got lucky, and was able to take advantage of his luck, but he is also a garbage human being who has made the world worse[1][2]. His company once offered me a job: I told them to go fuck themselves, and the only better "no" decision I made was saying no to Bear Stearns in 2006.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[1]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/david-e-shaw-college...

[2]https://www.propublica.org/article/hedge-fund-billionaires-d...
One more question: Does the data expire?
Hey, thanks for all the good ideas.

About the custom "VM-only" machine: currently I'm a little lacking in my "k8s ops" skills. So, until I am more comfortable managing the k8s environment, I have decided to continue using VMs for my "production" workloads. Until then, the K8s cluster will be treated like more of an experimental zone and I can worry less about breaking things.

As for the K8s storage options -- I don't really know! Haven't quite figured that one out. Like I mentioned in the blog post, I haven't really placed any serious workload on the K8s cluster yet. However, I have heard good things about OpenEBS (https://openebs.io/) and am considering that as a potential option in order to make use of the local SSDs on each NUC.

For single-node K8s, there are lots of good options. I haven't used it personally, but I know that MicroK8s (https://microk8s.io/) works well even in a single-node environment. It might be worth checking out.
Came here to say this. It's entertaining and enjoyable reading that happens to be about financial topics. It is to financial literacy what "take a long vacation in France" is to learning French.
I was actually thinking about a short blog post on the 8086's clock circuit. The short answer is that the clock signal into the 8086 goes through a bunch of inverters to strengthen and shape the signal, and then two-phase clock signals (i.e. clock and clock') wind around the chip.

Many processors of that era used pass transistors for temporary latches between circuits. The 8086 also used dynamic logic for gates, where instead of a pull-up resistor, the output would be precharged during one clock phase and then the gate would pull it down (or not) during the other clock phase.
The attackers likely compromised the computers using the remote device management system which means it's either disabled or unsafe to use.
You can't because of bitcoin. Bitcoin is what criminals dream of.
My first dance teacher used to refer to a similar study from 10 years ago in NEJM (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa022252); his commentary is at https://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm

But yeah, getting into lindy hop 15 years ago was literally the best thing that ever happened to me. It's incredible, being able to go to any major city on the planet and instantly finding a community.
Comments like "what if I’m flagged and gub’mint makes me isolate home" makes me think of people who object that the problem is idiot users who don't recognize a clearly superior product. If people don't trust the government, that's a failure of that government.
Genuine question: what is smart about this? What is the reasoning for not just writing the static assets by hand?
> some high-value specialties are performed mostly by consultants because most companies don't need them full-time

I think there is a conflation here of "cryptographer" in the sense of "person who studies, and maybe invents cryptographic algorithms" v/s "someone who needs a broad understanding of cryptographic algorithms in their day-to-day software work, studies them in some depth, but likely doesn't invent new ones".

The former is the kind you mean, but likely most people (including the OP, I think) are referring to the latter when they say "cryptographers". An unscientific test of this can be done by searching jobs.lever.co for "cryptographer" v/s "cryptography" – the former yield one position, whereas the latter yields ten pages. [1][2]

And maybe some of this is just due to the term being imprecise. For example, would you term this position as being a "cryptographer"? https://jobs.lever.co/protocol/9afbc1c9-8b3b-4c03-856d-6b0cb.... It's certainly full time.

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[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cryptographer%22+site%3Aj...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cryptography%22+site%3Ajo...
> But if the forces of capitalism are truly working, you have to wonder why so many firms like these continue to print money year after year

Because so many other counterparties don't continue to print money year after year. An incredibly high number of funds isn't successful. I think you're ignoring survivorship bias.
The principle the article is implicitly talking about is Landauer's principle [1]. It states that if information is lost in a system, it must be as heat dissipation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
This is the classic "Manufacturing Consent" narrative/conspiracy theory, at least when "engaging" implies (sometimes) "pays".

You may not mean it that way, but rather "talks to/adjusts its messaging". In that sense, it's quite obviously true, but just... not quite as sinister?

Some people have more influence because they people have come to enjoy, trust, or otherwise seek it. Sometimes, this dynamic is formalized by putting them into position with in-built distribution advantages, such as TV personality or editorial writer.

There is nothing wrong with that. "Opinion-having" is a skill like any other, and it would be strange to make it the one category where quality does not lead to more widespread consumption.

The US is also divided in a way not seen for generations. I don't quite see how one can look at the state of politics today and complain about a lack of choices, or imply that "they are all the same". If there is some cabal of mighty though-leaders, they certainly failed quite spectacular in 2016, when the Republican establishment was opposed to the current president at least as much as the Democratic party.

Indeed, you acknowledge the possibility that opinion-makers aren't on-board for rather mundane, individual reasons with the reference to "more democratic countries". I posit that even in the US, a majority does, in principle, support "the system". The left-wing critics of capitalism I know would be perfectly happy with something like the "Nordic Model" of social democracy, which is a set of policies entirely consistent with the current political structure of the US.
Apparently, you can after rendering the asciicast file to SVG: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
the problem is the chilling effect even on the meta argument

a recent example would be an IKEA HR firing a bigot in Poland

people seem can't detach from the instance and see the bigger picture: workers have literally protested decades against getting terminated for opinion crimes, and now because in this instance society sides with the corporate it looks like we're immediately ready to throw away all our hard fought rights to let corporate fire someone for having the wrong opinions (especially since they could have just claimed the bigot word where harassment toward another employer and let justice so the work for them)

but mention the bigger issue on a discussion and see how fast the topic moves back to the instance and the commenter thrown into the pit with the far right anti LGBT bigots keywords of his view on the instance.
Hubble points via gyroscopes, not thrusters! But they are slow, so that's part of why you need to schedule things well. YouTube video explaining how it points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZI9DxIQss

Also, I don't think it needs to change orbital parameters at all for its operation. Station-keeping yea, but I don't think it needs to burn more fuel because of pointing at things.
People rag on MBAs but a smart and thoughtful person will take away three superpowers from a typical core curriculum:

1. Understanding the domain language and key processes of all the business units that you didn’t already, which is by the way all of them. The heightened ability to engage in their own domain terms with everyone in a standard company is a social and cognitive upgrade.

2. Finding actionable insights (sometimes dramatically so) within your customers, partners, and competitors financial statements.

3. Recognising your own decision biases. (Whether you bother correcting for them is another matter)

Interestingly I feel the most under-rated of these is #1, to the extent that many of us in tech carry the mistaken assumption that we already know all the machinery of firms, having learned it “on the job” or by deriving the existence of tax accounting from first principles. Unless you’ve been a general manager or founder already this is almost certainly a self-delusion. I can say it was for me, I am a mathematics major who appended the MBA twenty years later and despite directing many successful enterprise-scale projects and lurking around Day 1 startups for aeons still had scales removed from my eyes.

Never under-rate the value of understanding other people better; there is no diminishing return, quite the opposite, it is compounding.
If you believe regulation to be ineffective then why advocate for it at all?
Media coordination is only slightly more advanced when we go "up" one level. Same talking points; they just bother to reword them or use more effective (and hence deceptive) psychological techniques. Mr. Oliver knows this, he is an integrated part of pretending his friends are being honest with their viewers. Consider watching CNN a year in the past, or any major 'news' source. Most of what they say is false, or worse.

http://v6y.net/ownership.jpg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352498
I disagree that training and customizing have zero marginal costs necessarily. I think for a larger scale astroturfing campaign to be effective, you're going to have to put more money and effort in customization/network-training in order to avoid detection and to make sure your campaign is effective. I probably should have clarified that's what I meant in my original comment.

Also, I wonder how cheap use will actually be. Even storing 175B parameters seems like it would cost a lot to me. I haven't looked too much into it, though.
> Even more fundamental than privacy, though, is do people even know that these apps exist?

Speaking for Ireland the app was heavily publicised, and there's even a prominent "Share app" feature in the app itself.
Ask HN: Mindsets that help focusing on growth and self-challenge at work?
I've been working in a FAANG for several years and coasting is pretty easy, but now looking back made me realize I haven't been learning and growing as much as I would like.

What mindsets do you use?
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you can't reduce the size of your position without losing your shirt, you're not really winning; and if staying in your position requires you to put up more money than you can raise, you've hit the limit I was referring to. No one can expect to keep finding money to support their trades until they turn profitable.

EDIT: Maybe you mean that they didn't try to make a larger bet after they got in trouble? But whether they needed to make a bigger bet or whether their existing bet was already too big, it's still the same issue; the only way to avoid liquidation is to expand the use of credit, which hits a limit at some point.
It's about as far as you can get from standard cell. Every logic gate is different with the transistors shaped to fit in their surroundings.
Let's have some data on US-UK-Canada CFR:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/canada?countr...

Which, yup, Canada and the US aren't that far apart, and the UK has a higher CFR.

And Canada…it's worth noting that Canada is a bunch of city-states bound loosely together by Tim Horton's, and the responses varied quite a bit by province. British Columbia bent their curve early, and made some really key decisions in regards to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities that made a big difference versus Ontario and Quebec. (Last I checked 81% of COVID deaths here were in such facilities. If we'd managed to secure nursing homes and figure out protections for farm workers, there'd be far fewer deaths. ICUs never, ever hit anywhere near capacity, at least in Toronto.)

And pure off-topic anecdote: testing has gone very well for me. My local hospital here on the east side of Toronto was on top of this early, and my tests have all come back in less than 24 hours. (Though I live with a front-line healthcare worker, which makes me think they're giving me just a little extra speed.)
If it's not specific enough a significant portion of the population will have to go into quarantine for no obvious reason, and if it's no precise enough you either need to keep the restrictions or let a significant portion of the infected population move around with no precautions whatsoever.

I'm not sure why you're not seeing any problems with this.
You can pretty much make a telescope as large as you'd like, depending on your technological level. Hypothetically, you can use gravitational lensing to make a telescope via the sun! It's rather unfeasible at our current level of rocketry, but in time, maybe! Article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/using-the-...

You can also use Earth's atmosphere as a lens too! It's an amazing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA

Going even crazier, I can imagine we could some day use a massive black hole as a giant telescope.
I'll stand by it, but I admit my argument is weaker than needed to match the rhetoric.

I don't think the proposal directly bans suburbs, but I think it may transitively. I wouldn't expect there to be a single state that doesn't receive federal dollars for community development. And if the state receives any dollars at all, per this proposal they are required to move towards bans on "exclusionary zoning" aka "single family zoning." So if a state wants to ensure federal funds for communities and allow for single family zoned suburbs, there seems to be a conflict. Because I believe every state would be interested in doing both (subsidizing poorer communities and permitting suburban communities), it worries me greatly that this bill will effectively ban suburbs.

I would absolutely remove my characterization of this bill as abolishing suburbs if the bill only applied to states that use federal funds to subsidize the creation of suburbs. I would still have a problem with it, but it would be very minor.
We're not going to snuff this out quickly regardless of whether people cooperate with contact tracers. SARS-CoV-2 will become the fifth circulating endemic coronavirus in the worldwide human population (plus some animals). Eradicating it has become effectively impossible, and not even the development of a vaccine will change that.
Dogs kill 25,000 people every year. They is an insane number which makes me think it cannot be right.
Mostly people are not mad at me for this but for other things I guess.

In fact I have had a foreigner come back and thank me several years later for the effort I put in for her and there are several others that seem happy evertime I meet them.

(HN is a weird place though. Here I am racist according to many peoples definitions.)
Entheogens increase your consciousness. High consciousness gets us closer to the truth of what reality is, which allows us to break our self-deceptions.
Thanks for the advice about the NAS. Perhaps it's best to leave critical data and backups to a professional product.

As for the firewall, I had a Ubiquiti Security Gateway for a while and it worked great. Not sure how it compares to the UniFi Dream Machine, however. The only reason I made a custom firewall is because I wanted to try and learn a bit about firewalls and routing in general. And, since my own device has worked well for me so far, I haven't bothered to replace it.
Similarly, contradance (though that's much more limited to the US).
A mouse that doesn't bite
They now maximize ad click which will save all of us do not worry.
They do this on paid versions. They use fake, misleading subject lines and pretend to be non-massmails.

I dropped Dropbox a while ago when _I was literally paying to receive ads in multiple places_
re [1][2]:

It's not clear to me how donating 10s of millions of dollars to prestigious universities in order to secure a grand total of 2 spots for his kids has made the world worse.
French were already war happy without Napoleon. 30 year war, Spain, Netherlands, Austria, then we get to French and Indian War and American Revolution. If anything Napoleonic Wars brought peace and introduced never seen before liberties. Obviously being a Pole makes me strongly biased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Warsaw
Since it's done by stacking 30-45 min exposures, it would be sharp. All you have to do is align the images well.
https://openstax.org/subjects/business

Look up the curriculum/reading lists of MBA programs.
Some possibilities come to mind:

1. because the people writing the content are not developers.
2. there’s dynamic content, but when you know you’re going to get a large influx of traffic from a single region/event, you can precompute it for a short period.
States borrow but almost all must balance the budget. When they borrow it should be a project, not to cover a shortfall. This is not a federal requirement but a restriction the states put on themselves.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/state-balanced-b...
I would prefer that to banning anonymity. I don't disagree that you should be extra suspicious of anonymous sources.
Curious; where did you get the 10% number from
The goal is what turns game into work :).

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/dont-...
> A 100k GBP London salary can be as efficient as a $170k Salary in SF

The marginal tax on a £100-125k London salary is 62%. Also, VAT there is much higher than sales tax in CA. The savings from your ISA accounts will be negligible until your portfolio grows significantly. Just move to TX/FL/etc before realizing any gains and you'll end up paying just 15% long-term federal CGT.

> Stock options for employees are often very tax efficient too

I don't know about options, but an acquaintance of mine had to pay ~75% marginal tax on AMZN RSUs (£100-125k bracket; income tax + employee NI + employer's NI + personal allowance tapering).

If you want to optimize your net worth, move to Switzerland or the US (CA, CO, TX, WA), not the UK.
Even assuming for a second that Google stores the location of every user (they didn’t store mine), how would they do contact tracing when they don’t have access to data on iOS devices? Even assuming they did, what key would they join on?

But no, a confident blanket assertion is made without providing any evidence.
Sure, you need to make sure your AD and device management is clean before starting the process. My point was that once you're bootstraped you shouldn't need a fully manual recovery process.
Should quantify “beaten up a bit more” since peeps are having bones broken as well as losing eyesight from “less than lethal” shotgun rounds. Great, you got your day in court. But you’re handicapped for life.

If the officer’s can’t handle extra attention caused by blatantly identifying themselves as officers, they should pick a new profession. Because what they are doing now is just escalating an already bad situation.
Ask HN: What new dishes have you cooked during shelter-in-place?
Ask HN: What are some free software tools you want?
I'm looking to build out my portfolio with free software. What are some tools you would like to have that aren't currently free.
Yeah, unfortunately the free ESXi makes it difficult to "programmatically" create VMs. However, I decided that it was an acceptable trade-off for now. It would be super cool to run a script with "nothing" running on your network and have it set up everything from the ground up. Perhaps I'll manage to get there someday as well.
Obviously there's a business incentive to maximize gatekeeping. Even if the gate's left wide open (for now), having control of a gate is of tremendous potential value.

Just imagine how much more $$ one can elicit in an acquisition if potential buyers may add tolls to an already established and well-traveled gate.
Releasing the clutches of control over user data/devices is a very difficult concept to grasp for particular type of business people.
Who did he pay the most?
America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis