skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know the point of a bar is not the alcohol, right?
Do you have anyone who you can work with? When I first started as a SWE I pair programmed every week with a senior engineer on fixing bugs in the application. It was one of the most fun and deep learning experiences I have had.

Besides that, when I come across a technical article - or even comments here on HN - I print it out to take it offline to read later, highlight, mark up. Then months later I circle back to it and usually find that I'm a lot more familiar and knowledgeable about it than the first time - a kind of long term spaced repetition.

Reading other people's code is also really good. Do you have other engineers in your organization that you can read code from? If you don't, try to find open source projects in your field. Again, I like to print things out. It is the best way I digest something. So yes, I print out code to go over later when I'm having dinner with wine.
Yes, however when everything is shit, perhaps it's our mindset that needs to change. Learn to enjoy what we've got, because while you can try getting into a better position, it really might not get better. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Wait, Nexo is your rebuttal here? The stuff the other person was talking about is a successor to Nexo.

Firms like Nexo use the yield farming services to make their questionable business plan viable! We will never know exactly what they were doing before but now they use decentralized versions of themselves.

Now this inevitably requires you to move the goal post to the critique that customers money is being put in smart contracts, good news there is also smart contract insurance that many people buy. I’m not kidding, 70% serious, that’s it’s own nuanced discussion but requires you to get off of a hill stuck in 2018.
well, this is the first step no?
You should read about the Kibbutz settlements [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz]. These were social settlements, that succeeded for a long time. However, many of them stopped being so social due to capitalistic pressures from the environment.

One of the biggest factors is that the Kibbutz is a business: it has income and expenses. If it doesn't produce enough income, it will fail, and indeed a successful Kibbutz is one that has a successful factory or other, producing goods or services that are sold to outside customers.
Was searching for accuracy in modern sleep trackers and smartwatches. Couldn’t find anything except a youtuber from Vienna which had an amazing confusion matrix to show in a video. All the articles I found where basically:”buy buy buy! Look at the features! Oh heres the affiliate link...”

I remember having a Polar heart monitor that said that my table had 67 beats per minute... best of class, so many features!

So I concur, ads are ruining everything.
Another pro for consultancy work: you can chose contracts that that don't require you to be on call for production problems so this isn't forced upon you.

I'm not saying you wouldn't learn from working on production, but whether it's worth the stress is another question. In terms of software development, it's hard to think of a worse feeling than when you do a production deploy, you hit refresh on the website or whatever it is, and it shows a fatal error, then there's a mad scramble to roll back the change and figure out quickly what went wrong before the consequences grow too great. Most of the time bosses + coworkers aren't that understanding about it either and get into finger-pointing.
You can also play it online in browser:
https://epicport.com/en/xcom
If you're going about that level of security (and you should be!) - why are you bothering with SSH being open to the public internet to begin with?

This is what's weird to me about this whole argument - people can come up with lots of ways to secure this, yet aren't willing to do one of the things that will provide the most security while also offering a high pass filter in blocking SSH access to the public internet. No log noise, no chance of a zero day hitting it, one key being compromised is no longer enough to result in an access breach.
Yes, as you can see if you watch carefully. That's disappointing. Legged locomotion technology is far enough along to make that work standalone. Maybe they could get Softbank to get them some consultants from Boston Dynamics. BD has gone to electric robots, so the people who did the hydraulic machines may be available.
That's not a town, that's a cult.
Collecting rents is not the same as "rent seeking".
Train Grisha Yakubik so his skills would overflow one-byte counter; he'd step very slowly, but hit alien two screens ahead in the eye before their first move.
AskHN: Cheap Home SDN Hardware
I was fortunate enough to work on a project setting up an SDN network from scratch a few years ago, and I want to carry on learning it.
Since then, I've been trying unsuccessfully to find a source of SDN hardware that is priced at the casual home user. Given that you'd need a few switches to properly explore it, think £/$hundreds each, rather than thousands.

This made me think.
We have various options when it comes to open-source replacement software such as OpenWRT to run on routers, but I haven't been able to find any equivalents for lower-end switches.

Are there any projects out there that supply replacement SDN-enabled firmware for cheap home switches (such as the Netgear GS724 range)?
(I don't need fibre, or 10G speeds - simple 100M or 1G Ethernet ports would be more than enough)

Failing that, what's the next best way of getting a network of several boxes with plenty of Ethernet ports that can run Open vSwitch/some OpenFlow-capable software? Multiple PCs, each with multiple 4-port ethernet cards in? RPis with lots of USB Ethernet ports? Wifi routers running OpenWRT + Open vSwitch?
Reminds me of the story of the Roman Horatii and Curiatii who fought in a duel to the death in place of their home armies. So I guess there is historical president for it.
I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam.

[0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER
I am not sure most of the calls are bug reports. There's a customer support level, they triage. Sometimes what the customer think it's a bug it's a design decision (or lack of a feature) and the customer support knows another way of accomplishing the same task. Or they know it's not supported at all.
The problems are big. What are the plans for your not-yet-ready project? Are they purely technical like what you stated in the final paragraph?
I liked the point that algorithms don't have to be user-hostile. Thanks for the read.
Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying here about asking people if the problem exists. I can actually connect with that part :).

I actually never thought of that idea as a LinkedIn alternative. Rather one thing that came to my mind when I thought of this was 'Dynamic Resume'.
Again...that’s exactly my point; when you make blanket statements about broad groups of people you always end up being wrong in a lot of cases...I’m not the only young person who gladly chooses to live in a big city- not by a long shot.
Love to hear it
Aircraft Carrier Extreme – USS Abraham Lincoln High-Speed Turns [Drifting]
If the plane tries to crash itself during take off, it’s only a matter of time before a pilot doesn’t react quickly enough to prevent the plane from killing everyone on board. Blaming the pilot for not reacting quickly enough is really to miss the point. Really the plane shouldn’t be trying to dive into the ground after takeoff, this is an undesirable property for an airplane to have.

The fact that the same plane kept repeatedly trying to plow itself into the ground after takeoff really underscores the basic premise that the 737 Max is a bad aircraft, and should have never been certified.
No country is coming out of this unscathed. Even the ones that kept their cases low are going to be in a world of economic hurt. And they have far few ways to weather the storm than Western countries.
The cure - proper labor law.

Seriously
Great write-up. X-COM really grabs you just the way the article says. The characters are pets and it hurts when they die. I will never forget when my college roommate threw his keyboard across the room after his elite squad got wiped out in Terror from the Deep (which was really, really hard to win). The fact that nobody can die in Chimera Squad is why Chimera Squad is not a real X-COM game.
I wonder how much people changed their behavior in sunbelt states in July when cases were on the rise. I don't remember lots of new restrictions or lockdowns. New cases just kinda peaked.

I'm cautiously optimistic that the past week in the US is a blip from Labor day. Both peaks and troughs are improved from two weeks ago, but up from the week before.
Sounds like a neat routine. Thanks for sharing. It has definitely motivated me to be an early riser.
Your comment in question serves to communicate anger and derision in a way that is only likely to provoke more of the same, and contributes nothing of substance.

There may be other places for this sort of content, but it’s not here.
Well, it is. But not the only point.
The algorithm is exponential backoff. Every item has an interval associated with it. The interval determines when you will see the item next. If you recognize the item, the interval increases geometrically by some configurable factor, like say 1.25. If you lapse, then the interval shrinks by some other configurable factor, like say 0.6.

The initial short intervals for learning new items can follow some canned pattern measured in minutes: 5, 15, 45, 60. When an item goes through the by-the-minute intervals, then it jumps to a some initial interval that is measured in days (say 1 day, so you see all the new cards again tomorrow), and after that the exponential backoff kicks in.

To make the algorithm usable, you need a strategy for lapsed items. Suppose that you lapse on an item that has a 6 month interval. It cannot be that you just see the item once, lapse on it, and then the interval is adjusted to 4 months and you do not see the item again for that 4 months. A lapsed item requires relearning. It should go through a re-learning cycle with a sequence of temporarily instituted short intervals, like 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes. This is similar to the initial learning, but it can be less intensive: fewer reviews. Once it goes through that relearning sequence, then its regular interval (now adjusted to 4 months) kicks in, and you don't see it until then.

The learning and relearning sequences are like a ladder. When the user lapses during learning, they fall off the ladder and go back to the shortest interval. E.g. you're shown a new item. Then you see it again in 5 minutes, and again in 15, then again in 40. Oops, you forgot it; so you slide back to 5 minutes, then 15, then 40, ... you must climb it through the learning or re-learning ladder to propagate or return the item to the long-term schedule.

When re-learning a lapsed item, additional lapses during re-learning can further trim its long interval. E.g. lapse on a 6 month item, it might go to 4. Lapse on it again during re-learning, it might drop to 2.4 months.
Leaking classified documents is not a free speech issue.
What you are saying doesn't seem to be the reality. Studies show that there is in fact risk beyond just your table.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm?s_cid=mm...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88543
The replacements could be "nothing". EU never needed these companies in the first place.
Adventures of porting PostmarketOS to the Librem 5
heh, I started searching on Spotify...
I can’t fix this apparently, but I meant port 53, not 80. Long days...
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wow I built something exactly like this before and was thinking of making into a saas. good work and good luck
Deploying via telnet is reality for a lot of kit
Google Deprecation is the only Google service out lives Google Search.
Has there been recent research on this? It'd be interesting to see if seeing the person's face matters, or how far they are, or what traits the more gifted have other than a talent for music.
They do demand more. My parents house has 3 trees. The price per tree has increased. Its difficult to get people and if we get someone they usually agree to their price. This in city though not village. Its still a dangerous job. One of the guys who used to come to our house broke his ribs falling from tree.
Monkeys being made to scale up trees? How inhumane. Better have some poor guy do it instead.
> It seems today that Western society's whole goal is to increase our option for idleness.

Can you please invite me to your Western society that celebrates idleness?

In my Western society, we spend the first 22 years of our lives training to work for another 40 years before we can comfortably enter "idleness" at around age 65 for most people.

I think that for a long time "idleness" is stigmatized as "uselessness", and that by doing nothing you are not contributing to the wellbeing of the colony/civilization/society. That's likely even more true for a burgeoning settlement or young country, but still true today in almost every culture in the world.
I got the Modi2/Magni2 set for my HD650s when they originally came out. Total disappointment: pots had static when inc/dec vol, and had balancing issues. The headphone amp on my macbook didn’t suffer from any of that, was indistinguishable in sound quality with a blind test, and was way less hassle. Only difference was that it didn’t get as loud, but since I don’t listen past the macbooks max, I put them in the closet and never looked back.
You're kidding, right? Look at unemployment rates in the EU or Japan compared to the US. These are all first-world countries and yet there is still a vast difference in outcome.

There are various degrees of being scathed. "Everyone gets scathed" is not an argument. Some did way, way better than others.
I don't quite follow.

I am not too experienced with Julia, but my understanding was that it uses LLVM to jit itself. Since the LLVM jit compiler is also an API available to C++, anything that can be done in Julia can be done with jit to LLVM api in C++.

Then you just compile the methods that you'll actually use with LLVM right before using them.
Do browsers allow > 13 month validity for certs from private CAs?

Either way I’d rather not trust my own CA as I’m not capable of keeping such a powerful tool secure.
If you turn up thin with ribs showing I'd hazard a guess that puts you at a significant disadvantage in any negotiations.
The companies do this for the money. And the people what work in those companies have no real sense of the risks, or they just care more for the numbers and want to roll the dice.

I would not trust someone who I just woke up at 2am to do something. He/she is mid-sleep. They will be prone to errors, they will be super tired, and I just ruined their next 1.5 days that it will take them to recover from that.

This is not a job where you live boxes where intellect is not needed as much, (strength and stamina will also be affected by a mid-night alarm). You want your folks to be 100% on par, otherwise they may make things worse.
If you liked X-COM, I can recommend Frozen Synapse, which is similar in many ways and very different in others.

The biggest difference is probably that after all players have planned their turns, they are executed simultaneously.
Anecdotally, I could probably get lots of value from some extensions (even free ones) but I generally won't consider installing them because a lot of the ones I could get value from would be able to intercept all data rather than specific sites or during times when I choose to activate them.

I hypothesize that there's a very substantial intersection between the set of users who would benefit from extensions and the set of users who might be concerned about security implications of the current extensions system in Chrome.

I would also be interested to write & monetise extensions except that I anticipate usage may be limited due to the above.
That's exactly what an economic contraction is. A long chain of payments not being made (regardless of one's legal obligation to do so). Breaking the chain causes new problems.

It reduces spending and purse strings get tightened. When the mortgage doesn't get paid, the mortgage backed security isn't getting its repayments. The retirees living off the dividends from the REIT don't get paid. Then the retiree spends less in the economy, which would've paid the restaurant worker's wages.

When the chain breaks, the whole system is impacted. Think of it as a graph. When payments aren't flowing from one node to the next due to crisis, the solution is to have the government ensure those payments be made via taking on debt in bad times (and less borrowing in good times).
Luck and luck. I’d guess they listened to PhDs instead of managers which is very very rare.
Anyone who’s been in the military before is familiar with being told to rake sand, or pickup trash in an area with no trash, etc.

Western society doesn’t increase idleness options. It actively discourages idleness by giving you ever simpler ways to use up every cycle.

Idleness leads to thinking, which tends to lead to people testing their cages.
1. Not every support request is the result of a bug.

2. Not every bug is directly related to the product owner/team. Bugs can be introduced from different teams/processes.

3. Requiring senior engineers to do L1 and L2 support is likely a misallocstion of resources when less senior people can handle those issues.
My favorite game of all time is another one in the turn based tactical genre, Jagged Alliance 2. A game still under active fan development some 20+ years later with the excellent 1.13 mod.
Well yes, clearly.
I'm curious, why can't people that created the system take part in production support. You've mentioned finance, that I presume require high level of security, but at the same time there are also people on the other side, just not knowing the system first hand and perhaps having skills different from knowing how to debug software. They can see all the data and in theory modify system behavior, eg modify/install any binary. Why are thrall developers less trusted, is it some kind of logic or regulation or just "the way it has always been done" in finance?
Makes sense: when life will end, Death will still be there.
California’s Deadliest Spring in 20 Years Suggests Covid Undercount
Looks like this was an undergraduate learning project rather than a practical solution to harvesting coconuts.

It reminds me of ABU Robocon, where undergraduates representing different countries compete to build the fastest robot using off-the-shelf parts that can solve an abstract problem. The point wasn't to fix a real-world issue but to serve as a learning tool, push technological boundaries and hopefully land a job while doing it.

Some cool videos from the last few years:

- 2019 Mongolia v/s Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVDXrlHUsA

- 2018 Vietnam v/s China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPI_51cLpo

- 2017 Vietnam v/s Malaysia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huzm9mrEZJE
> Back then, the turnaround time for a request was far quicker than it is now. “It’s really night and day,” he told me recently. It averaged, by Greenewald’s estimate, a couple of months before he heard an answer; today the wait is often measured in years.

This is sad, and something we should be pushing back on hard. FOIA needs an SLA agencies can be held accountable to.
It's easy to point out risk. Anyone can do that.

At what point do we fully re-open? Winter 2022 after everyone has had a mandatory vaccine?
> we can all see that some governments responded well and others did not.

Can we, though? We are not even half time yet (most likely). How are we going to judge a government in the beginning of a pandemic as if the pandemic was already over? Maybe what looks like a poor strategy now will turn out to be the best later. Same true for the economic bailouts, some countries went harder than others, and it's not yet clear which will work better.

There are some anomalies that's difficult to explain (Sweden, for example). Sure, we can retrofit some model, and imagine we have it all figured out, but could you have predicted it correctly?
> But I don't think we're really there yet, and worse the value isn't there in federated social media to offset the costs of time, money, and change.

Not for 99% of the users, for now. But there is an increasing faction that is taking issue with what any company does with their data.

At first, caring about one's own data was mostly a political thing. Now, abuse of data is getting so ridiculous that how much time you spend in the supermarket queue may depend on the aggregated data supermarkets have on you (and yes, supermarkets often aggregate their customer data via third-party reputation aggregator companies). Not to mention credit interest rates, insurance premiums, visas, and airport security checks. Soon people will too realize that taking their data off from ad networks is a good way to save money. At that point, one either goes silent or searches for a limited, well-protected social network.
I think Fortune wouldn’t agree:
https://fortune.com/2020/07/10/sp-500-index-apple-stock-aapl...

I do not know what it looks today tbh though.
To add to this, Sweden isn't seeing the big surge that France and Spain are seeing (among others, including Belgium and the Netherlands, both at or near record highs). Sweden's cases have dropped lower and have stayed there. Given their comparatively open approach to the virus, they should be seeing a surge. While it's possible it'll show up in the near future as it again spreads across parts of Europe, I think it's also plausible they've reached a partial herd immunity. The commonly repeated premise that you need ~60% to reach herd immunity is plainly false, that's a calculation meant for a vacuum. In reality people aren't numbers on a sheet or living in a vacuum, all people don't behave the same way, don't spread a virus the same way, aren't all similarly at risk, some large percentage of the population may already have immunity thanks to prior exposure to other coronaviruses, and so on.
I guess that makes sense to me.. you can just automatically convert the C in BLAS to Julia and then if they're both being converted to llvm ir by clang anyways than i guess it'll be about as fast!
Normally I would agree, but you answered a question asking what the problem would be with this approach, and I think it's reasonable to then read "many people" as referring to "those that oppose monkey labor." Maybe you didn't mean that, however, so I'll of course allow for the benefit of the doubt.
MMT literally says why not
I don't know if the author reads HN comments, but the story I heard about "Terror from the Deep" being so hard was because people were complaining that X-Com was too easy, due to an unfixed bug: Any time you loaded a save, the game reset to the easiest difficulty level.

Not only would people often not play in one sitting, but many strategy gamers aren't above save-scumming either. Result, a large fraction of game hours on X-Com were on the easiest difficulty level.
But the directors and VP's aren't getting paged at 3am, so the incentives of the organization still go to lower quality software.