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Everyone greatly overestimates ROI in their own area of expertise and greatly underestimates costs in the rest.

You might be right in some special instance, but generally you are not. One example: Sending files via Email is a security problem. So you prohibit this via settings, virus scanners, appliances, etc. Now you've solved the emailed worm problem. However, you've just created a "how do we move files/data/screenshots/..." problem for the whole company. Now everyone will need their own special solution for everything, support will need a screenshot upload tool because you cannot just email them screenshots anymore, marketing won't be able to do images in mails anymore, external people won't have access to internal file shares, etc.
> "... and that may threaten to impair national security."

Is there any framework for independent review whether something is a genuine threat?
Changing jobs are very refreshing depending on the company you will join. Facebook has high peer review pressure now a days. I heard stories around Amazon’s peer review system where people backstab and I do believe it will be worst when people are working remotely. For Netflix people say miss or hit as at the end of the year they will ask “should we raise your salary or let you go”, depending on your team and manager you might not able to show your self. I do believe Apple might be a good option as SwiftUI development might trigger tons of new design tasks with less pressure due to tons of old iOS devices out there. I hope people can comment with much better info then I have. You are not alone, I do believe community will start to write tons of comments for this type of questions more then the ones trying to find their next big thing. The next big thing is human as it was before.
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Depends. We might only be able to discover a form of FTL that requires a received that you need to bring over first.
Just cut one piece in half. It's a puzzle.
The whole app release process is a total mess. Having to hop between Asana/Trello, Teams/Slack, Android Studio, Bitrise/App Center, Firebase and the app stores multiple times is a real pain. It'd be nice if there's a glue to link all these systems together -- if Runway can do it without needing a lot of setup code/config, even better
I can't imagine something more interesting than radiation levels. Video? Boring. Audio? Even more boring. Maybe WiFi or other radio signals? Still radiation is much more interesting then those mundane things.
Foam is the open source alternative to Obsidian.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
This particular requirement that contractors cannot work from home had a purpose; so that full time employees have at least one advantage over contractors so that employees don't start asking to become contractors. Of course contractors get paid more so it makes no sense to be an employee... That's why companies need these odd rules; to artificially sweeten the worse deal... Even though there is no productivity benefit at all. It's all about exploiting psychology to keep costs down.
But there's no problem with kids throwing objects from the roof?

I don't recognize this gang thing, maybe because I don't live in a dense city (and don't recognize the attraction of it)
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There's a collection of additional VScode plugins called foam you might be interested in.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
> We know that fewer than about 1 in 100,000 galaxies has a Kardashev Type III civilization.

But we.. don't? We just don't have anything to compare to.
I am using Apache Airflow since a couple of years now and the biggest improvement was the addition of the Kubernetes Operator. You basically keep a vanilla Airflow installation and the custom code is encapsulated and tested in containers. This simplifies it a lot.
I'm not sure 1/10,000 have a smartwatch.
This is amazing. It's cool how you can drag the legibility slider up and down while it's writing and it responds live. It looks the most realistic to me when I alternate between high and low legibility, especially with certain styles like #3.
I have the opposite situation: My personal computer is faster .
I, personally, would prefer to rage at the fact that the TSA has managed to export that liquid rule to everyone else in the world. I don't see why, when flying from Ontatio to Quebec, I need to follow the TSA's security theatre.

Though I agree that's also besides the point.
"exhibit" is "example". "n" examples occured before, the "1" is this new one. Hence we have "n + 1" examples already, and the newest one can be called "exhibit n + 1".
Argo implements its own scheduler AFAIK, otherwise how would it manage dependencies and the execution graph. The part that Argo is using K8S for is orchestration, which Airflow can do as well with the KubernetesPodOperator, but it's not a cloud native solution and it spins the whole scheduler and backend for each task.

We tried to make Polyaxon[0] work with Airflow for Machine Learning specific workflows, but it was very painful and it does not have a good state/artifacts management, which leaves the users tweaking around. We end up making a simple abstraction on top K8S, much easier, to provide features for parallel executions, dependencies, failure handling, retries, ... as well as handling ML specific graphs such as hyperparameter tuning and distributed scheduling.

[0]: https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon
I know that they are both measuring energy. It's just that Watt is usually defined as Joule / second, so Joule seems more fundamental.

> They're measuring the same thing. Except a joule is one watt-second, which is an inconveniently small unit when talking about large energy storage like an EV battery.

That's what we have SI-prefixes for.

A Watt-Hour is also pretty small. We usually use Megawatt-hours or so. Using Giga-Joule instead wouldn't be too much of a difference.

> Besides, energy has long been accounted for in hour-based units. Your power bill, for example. It's just easier to use those same units when thinking about storage, rather than rebasing everything around seconds.

Yes, tradition seems to be the real reason.
Our time on this Earth is limited and we can't do everything. We have to make decisions.

"X is required" is shorthand for "we do not want to deal with the consequences of the lack of X". It's a decision. Sure, they could, but they wouldn't have resources to deal with other things.

That's basically all there is to understand here.

All the rest are corollaries:

- Sometimes changed circumstances require revisiting some decisions. Like COVID-19.
- You can try and convince people to change their decisions. Your time to do that is limited too. Chose your battles.
- Decision fatigue exists. People may not want to make new decisions and will prefer sticking to old ones or push the burden onto other people.

Saying it's "imaginary" is childish. Sure, policies may be arbitrary, but the constraint of only having 24 hours in a day is not.
3-4 decades seems about right for "a few decades".
FritzFrog malware attacks Linux servers over SSH to mine Monero
Fileless, serverless, versatile and advanced FritzFrog is a botnet AND a worm that masters self-replication, deployment, growth and mining crypto.

Over 500 servers in the US and Europe belonging to government, education, healthcare and finance sectors have been breached already.

Guardicore Labs has identified the strand and provided remediation guidance.
Looks very interesting and would be a huge win if we were able to use it - any chance Oracle support is on your roadmap?
Tell that to wechat and Whatsapp ... the ccp is the bad guy.
It's an ads, the only type of ad on hackernews

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time."
> "What I see here is a senior manager type, maybe a VP or a bit below it, who needs numbers that go dramatically up and to the right in the short term and is thinking about their own personal success."

I mean, there are plenty of other ways to demonstrate value without forcing people to login with a Facebook account to use their Oculus devices. In-fact, I'm not sure what added value this requirement demonstrates in the first place?

People already pay for the hardware, servicing, apps/games, and upgrades.
A knowledgebase is very different from a GTD/to-do list. My personal encyclopaedia is full of so many citations and interlinked factoids that I can honestly say I wouldn't be half as learned as I am without it. Almost everything I write down no longer gives me a mental burden once I offload it from my memory. It's something that builds on itself over time as you gradually learn more and more about various topics.
I live in a country with a 1.3% wealth tax (the Netherlands), but as long as you own more than 5% of a company it doesn't apply to that part (a bit more complicated than that, but effectively this is what happens).

The wealth tax does apply once it's cash, so dividends you received, or proceeds from selling (part of) the company. I would imagine a wealth tax in the US could do the same thing.
I believe youre seeing an artifact of how governance is divided. It looks like sweden (and many other parliamentary systems) puts the administration & execution of law under the direction of a minister, who’s primarily a legislator.

In the USA these areas are more clearly divided. The federal legislature is comprised of a bicameral house and senate. There is a discrete executive branch charged with enforcing the law set by the legislature. The president is the head of that executive branch who enforces those laws. Thats where the aspect of specific enforcement by the president comes in.
There is an opinion that the more manager resembles high functioning sociopath the more efficient he is. He may even look friendly and provide benefits for the employees but that would be not because of empathy but because of calculated decision. Personally I think there is some truth to this opinion and I don't believe in the "benevolent" corporations, especially big ones.
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Amazon is not nearly as dominant in EU as in the US.

I think we will soon see large Chinese companies establishing themselves in Europe and take market share from both local stores and Amazon.

Many large sellers on AliExpress have already started delivering from their European warehouses.
One thing that does seem to be rarely mentioned is the weird rashes Covid can cause. My son and I both had a strange rash on our knees and feet that I’ve never experienced before. It looked exactly like the erythemato-papular or erythemato-vesicular rash described here [1]. For me this was the only symptom that differentiated Covid from a bad cold.

[1] https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-skinrash
You bought a thing with a certain agreement then the agreement is changed under you .
Will they reimburse the buyers? If not, then this is nuts and immoral.

If they do reimburse you, then it's just scary. The fact an unscrupulous entity like Facebook have such a strong hold in people life and business, opinions and privacy is a recipe for an Orwellian future (present?)

Virtual reality is the next frontier of cyberspace, a much more engulfing and immersive (if successful), I don't want Facebook to have so much power.
I've written some docs and have a Discord group where we share experiences and insights.

Feel free to email me (address in profile) and I can share the material and invite you to the group.
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Affiliate revshare? Doesn't really fit but the idea is baffling to me anyway
Just installed Obsidian to give it a quick test, and I must say I am impressed. I've been using Gollum for my personal wiki, but may just move over to Obsidian.

Does anyone know if you can write your own plugins for it?
Do you claim this was not the case when R&D spending was demonstrably lower? I see no evidence demonstrating that when I looked for it.
I think a point of that method is to demonstrate that it can be done by an amateur.

If you have a skilled professional at hand that can file a blank, you might as well assume you have a skilled lockpicker at hand.
Can't you already navigate with the tree view instead of materialised backlinks? What's the benefit?

I prefer to link my sites organically inside of text in the page. E.g. on a page about Linux I'd write

GNU/Linux is an [operating system](../os) based on the Linux [Kernel](../kernel).

Tada, two backlinks without having to list them. If there's no link on the page it's not important.

Do you see problems with that approach?
Assuming both are laptops and you don't have some insane personal computer - you should seriously examine why your workplace is skimping on a few hundred dollars extra on a machine that might save you, an employee with a salary in the tens of thousands (or higher) a few days of waiting for things to load, render or compile a year.

There certainly is a logic around not wasting money where it'd do no good - but companies that are tight with employee capital expenditures make me really nervous. It's a thing I've avoided consciously in employers since my thirties - if you don't value me enough for a decent keyboard, a chair, and a sufficiently performing computer - then you don't have anyone who is sane at evaluating RoI at your upper echelons.
I keep a list of migration tools here fwiw https://github.com/typescript-cheatsheets/react/blob/master/...
I dunno. If I had that kind of money, I would hire someone to use reddit for me.
If you don’t care about mobile, Anno [1] is nice. It’s very simple; just a web-based UI for Markdown files. There’s an okay-ish PDF feature as well.

[1] https://github.com/gwgundersen/anno
Ask HN: Moving into ML as a DevOps/Security Guy
I'm looking to move into ML. Some facts about me:

* My background is in Security (i.e. pentesting/red teaming, security engineering) and I spent some time as a "DevOps" guy. I'm comfortable with designing and building cloud environments, worked a lot on Kubernetes, poked around Kafka. I've reviewed security for event driven architectures etc. So I've seen a few things around the block and I know how things fit together in modern environments. I'm Senior in my security role.

* I can "code" but I'm no "software engineer". I can throw together whatever several hundred lines of Python I need to get anything done, I've built quite a few frontend and backend services for side projects over the years, worked with MQs etc. but I'm no software architect. If I wanted to get hired as a software engineer I'd probably be looking at junior-mid-level positions, but I feel I would ramp up quite fast given transferable skills I have from Security and "DevOps". Probably what I'm lacking most is theoretical CS stuff that would come up in interviews.

* I'm doing the MITx "Statistics and Data Science MicorMasters" part-time.

* I have enough savings to quit my job and spend a solid year (or even two) re-skilling without emptying the bank account.

* I'm not under the illusion that I can transfer to ML after a puny MicroMasters and start doing some hardcore theoretical stuff. That's not the objective. I do seriously want to wrap my head around the work of others though.

What is your advice to someone in my position who wants to work on the exciting "new world" stuff driven by our progress with ML?

If you work somewhere doing awesome things with ML, where do you think a guy with my background would provide good value, with some reskilling?
And they didn't need any medical records to do it!

... which was pretty much my point.

If they can steal money out of doctors' bank accounts, or redirect it on its way in, they don't need patient data. The doctors already have patients. And payments coming in. This isn't like income tax refunds where the payer pays each individual.

In fact, if they have patient data, it's stupid to use it. What insurer isn't going to notice some doctor suddenly getting a thousand new patients all in the course of one week?

Sorry man, it still doesn't add up. If you're equipped to do this at all you're equipped to do it without needing patient data.
It's just a different tradeoff. We could absolutely make "Roman" concrete that lasts millennia, but it has a much lower strength than modern concrete so you can't make something like a harbor quay out of it. That said, "lasting a thousand years" is not as useful as it sounds, 99+++% of buildings will need to be demolished before that time anyway.
Same here, I simply look at 1-star reviews and ignore that there are 100x 5-star reviews.

Note that this won't work on sites where the seller can delay publishing your review (e.g AliExpress).
https://kanboard.org/ has dependencies. What do you mean by 'dependency graph'? A graph showing relations and backlinks like with Obsidian? Or graph in a programming sense where you can access elements programmatically?
I suspect we all have. The question is rather: how much would it have cost to prevent that mistake?

The flip side is the insurance argument: given a big enough organisation, a mistake like that will happen, even if the probability of each individual mistake is very low. So assuming one of these will happen, what can you do to reduce the impact or to reduce the latency of fixing such a mistake?
I had this experience with some companies I was interviewing with. They would force me to submit my most recent payslip from my previous employer. I gave up after some protest, coz they could not have proceeded with my interviews without it.
Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
I haven't used FB in a while, but are there any real barriers stopping people from making fake/alt FB accounts for this purpose? If not, that seems like a pretty easy way to just not care about any of this to me. (Or was there a theory that FB wasn't already logging everything you did on an Oculus before they started making logins mandatory?)
Hmmm, lawyers, they will be involved. Add astronomical insurance and liability costs when things do go wrong in less-constrained and less-controlled environments.
I'm often impressed by the cleverness of the programming behind these bots / malwares and the ways they try and avoid detection and communicate back to their controllers.

I can't help but wonder though; in a case like this where the malware is written in a relatively new language like Golang and uses some quite specialist techniques, whether the person behind it might be 'fingerprinting' themselves just by being one of a relatively small group of people who can do all of this 'stuff'?
The algorithm is state of the art. There are several implementations of the algorithm, the original is with the mxnet framework, and my implementation with tensorflow framework has a slightly lower accuracy.
In my experience (I am a contractor) the real reason is control. Companies want to ensure you (who are a separate legal entity and therefore have certain freedoms) have your nose to the grindstone. It's understandable, but paranoid.
My reason for this rule would be: if you allow consultanta to work from home, how do you make sure they are not double- selling their workhours? Like they bill you 8h, but only work 4h on your project.
What happened to Microsoft? Surely if the US really wanted a fast sale then turning it into a bidding war is a stupid move?
I appreciate you're giving an example, but this is pretty much solved at most big companies currently with OneDrive (or any other flavor of cloud storage). For external sharing, you just select if the link can be seen external to the org.
The Discworld has both narrativium and the Lady to account for that.
No, both are desktops; and I work at computer engineering department of a (not so research-focussed) state university as an academic, with my specialisation being low-level software engineering; not at a software company. Even lab computers are not so better than my personal computer, except for the supercomputing lab.
> Do many people really write large scale texts letter by letter with space between each?

As an anecdata, Alfred Wainwright did all his books like that (and justified the text, to boot.)

cf https://www.ramblers.org.uk/-/media/Images/Walk%20magazine/F...
The huge hypocrisies here is that the sell must be done to a US company, not a European or an Indian one for instance but specifically a US one. I think that's a good lesson for the rest of the world, and a big warning.

Btw I think that following this and the Huawei little war, Apple is about to suffer from it. It's very probable that the Apple store will be forbidden in China. This will destroy Apple in China (impacting 18% Apple revenue), and it will at the same time preserve the image of China as the factory of the world.
This is just the beginning of a long war.
Many believe that this is the mechanism by which the Trump administration is using to remove Chinese influence from TikTok rather than the cause.

It’s easier to legally justify than proving the ‘security threat’ of TikTok giving the Chinese government users data.
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Call me strange but I've actually counted the pieces to a few of my kids puzzles and the 100 and 200 piece puzzles never have exactly that number. And it wasn't off-by-one either. I always figured it make sense that the box advertises an 'around'-number as an indication of difficulty. (For the Why?: When puzzling together the key is to not overdo with the helping, so there is some time at hand for other brain activities.)
> Chesterton's fence

Is there a "reverse" version of this where you do understand the reasoning, explain clearly why it doesn't apply anymore, but the other side just refuses to think for themselves and just sticks with the status quo because it must've been done with good reason and they don't want to second-guess it?
Shareholder value capitalism was only ever an aspiration.

In practice companies have always been run for the benefit of corporate insiders. Not the widows and orphans who might own a few stocks.
Thanks! What makes it state of the art and why is lower accuracy acceptable?
I've read a sci-fi story set on a cold planet where methane was fulfilling the role of water. There were methane rivers, seas, it was falling in rain, and it was the basis for all the chemistry.

It sounded reasonable, but I'm not good enough with science to know if it was legit.
Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
I don't know - the anecdote about being asked to do a talk by a conference investor is very specific. GPT-3 would have to be willing to just plagiarize that story from elsewhere, or synthesize/invent it, which is outright lying. Perhaps it does that, though - access is too restricted to get a clear picture, and I'm beginning to think it will stay that way.
Are you suggesting the authors failed to get their theoretical attack to work, yet left that detail out of the paper?

Pretty shady if so...
Ask HN: Why are modern scientific calculators such rubbish?
Given how powerful computing is, and how cheap devices are, why are specialized devices like modern scientific and graphing calculators such rubbish? Admittedly they're incredibly cheap now, but it seems that not only has their quality declined dramatically, but even the more expensive ones don't actually have any features - just a harder body. Has anyone found scientific calculators that are high quality?
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