skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it actually matters that it's an urban legend. If it were a true story the value of its message would be less disputable. But if it's an urban legend that means that the message -- that line workers have valuable and inexpensive insights to offer -- is unsubstantiated and may not be true in the main. (I qualify this with "in the main" because of course there must have been some occasion when a line worker had a big brain idea that saved the company a bunch. The question is how often it happens and whether it's cost effective to detect and implement these cases.)

Parables are dangerous, because they sound good and appeal to common sense, but it turns out that in real life common sense is often not correct. Common sense works best when applied to situations encountered in the ancestral environment and does not necessarily convert over well to systems engineering.
>The Adrian Lamo chat logs (published by Wired) show Assange was contacted by Manning with express intent to leak. So there was no conspiracy.

Could you please elaborate on why you think that matters to the charge of conspiracy?
>Is there? Can you expand on the methodology?

I'm ok with the regular "cricic makes an assesment" methodology for that. Just needs critics that know their stuff (e.g. not just marketers and shallow dabblers) and who don't just pander to some fashion du jour when making a list in spite of their actual prefereneces thinking that this will make their list more sellable/controversial (and thus generating views)/etc.

Which I think was lacking here. I don't believe those are the actual tastes of those critics, them just wanting to appear like that...
> If you want home security that can reach all parts of your home, and provide alerts when someone breaks in, get a dog.

Agree with everything you said except this. This is terrible advice for most people. Don't get a dog unless you really want a dog. And if you do get one, adopt, because there are people who do think like this^ about animals, and a significant number of those animals will end up at a shelter at some point.
That would be amazing if it were 'professionally' done and not just one dude on a guitar.
You need tiny bit of memory for activations if you don't want fine-tuning. I think for GPT-3, fine-tuning is out of window. But it is reasonable to expect inference takes less than a minute with single 3090 and fast enough SSD.
I know the FTC regulates stuff like what frequencies something is broadcasting on, and on some of the broadcast spectrums they also regulate what is said. What else do they regulate?
I disagree. Ants are highly social, but few would ascribe them self awareness. They pursue social objectives using instinct.

But pack animals? Maybe. We don't have an answer to how our own self awareness works, so we're largely working in the dark.
Why this focus on funding academia/universities exclusively?
All research grants I stumble upon have the requirements of being an official university "researcher".

Are talented enginners not capable in advancing science without a university affiliation?
I currently use Adapta Nokto on Ubuntu.
Amazing seeing what a big performance difference there is between Chrome and Safari on a Mac. It's clear that Chrome on a Mac isn't as hardware accelerated as I previously thought.
for what it's worth, I don't think they claimed that it originated in Chinese, merely that it was translated from Chinese at some point. it's possible that it originated not in Chinese, was translated to Chinese at some point, then translated back into English.
For amusement sake I removed punctuation. The contrast is between people who find themselves unable to move when a tool sucks and people who just solve a problem. The latter just move on from tools that don't solve their problem or solve it poorly. If the problem is big enough they solve it themselves.

They don't have to be engineers. They'll pay $100 / mo to solve it or hire a guy on Upwork to solve it or cobble something together on Zapier + Airtable. The thing is, the tool is insignificant. They don't really spend an appreciable amount of time on complaining about it because it's faster to stop using it.
Deuterium-tritium fusion produces neutrons, which can be used to turn lithium into tritium. So in some sense, the required fuels are deuterium and lithium, both of which are abundant enough to be used for fusion.

The sun is a great fusion reactor, but it is also kind of far away. By the time its energy gets to Earth, it's spread out to about 1.4 kW/m^2. The actual power produced per m^2 of solar panels is about 20 times smaller, since the Earth's surface area is 4 times its cross-section, and solar panels are around 20% efficient.

The United States consumes about 3,911,000,000,000 kW h / yr for an average power consumption of 446 GW. By my calculations, an area of 6.37 billion square meters would be required to supply this through solar power. According to Wolfram Alpha, this is about twice the area of Rhode Island. As well as taking up a large amount of land, that is going to require an enormously large amount of materials to make those solar panels, including some with polluting production processes. This is without worrying about storage, or any other details like that.

I like solar power, and I think it certainly has its place, but I hope you see why people also want to make artificial fusion work.
I think another take-away from the story is that the domain you work in will dictate the solution you come up with.

If you are a high-level exec, the domain you have, the levers and pulleys available to you, are asking your direct reports to investigate the issue and come up with a report on the problem and generate potential solutions, which will then be discussed and evaluated in meetings–at a very high level. To somebody on the ground level, the domain of the problem is "what do I have around me to save time? oh, I have a fan, let me use that. Done."

I think your point about incentivizing workers is part of it. This story reminds me of the This American Life piece about the NUMMI plant where Toyota worked with GM to teach them the Toyota way of assembling cars. [1] Part of the Toyota Way is to empower the individuals at the ground level to own the process and to improve it. The interviews are surprisingly emotional for something that's "just work", but I think it shows how empowering people to own and improve their everyday gives them agency.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
You don't need a Unity plugin. Just use LEd, export to JSON, and have a unity script read in the level as JSON and populate the scene.

The beauty of this is that it is completely engine agnostic.
In a similar vein, create your own Hatsune Miku style music https://aidn.jp/mikutap/
It's a really important thing for the apps because by default only unhappy people go to Play Store and give 1 star. Then it looks like your app is crap and the competitors are way better.

In prev job, we had few ratings of our app, and avg. of 3.5. After adding the question, we got thousands of 5 stars and went to avg. 4.7 in a few months.

Of course the app should give you "I don't care" option, and store your answer to not repeat the question.
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
I like Tiled but dang it has some quirky behaviors that can't be fixed for backwards compatibility reasons.
Hello ! dev here.

Good point and thanks for the feedback !
The best there is currently is the gallery, with artists who sent us artwork they did with the software: https://ossia.io/gallery.html - theater plays, merry-go-rounds, static museum installations...

> Is a streaming session on OBS such a show?

I'd say so ? it's "show" in the general, artistic sense so it depends on the meaning you put in the word :-)

> What interactions are supported?

We tried to make something generic enough as for you to not feel restricted - so yes, MIDI, but also OSC, DMX, some people directly control servomotors & such through serial port connection, gamepads, wiimote etc.

The idea is that the timeline of the software allows you to write a score for those interactions. That is, write a score such as "when everyone finished playing part 1, move to part 2" or "when the dancer steps into the circle, make a fade out on the lights".

> How does MIDI get involved here?

You can say for instance, "when CC 35 on my keyboard is greater than 64, trigger this branch of the score".

The documentation on this website is not finished yet but we are aiming to complete it during next month.

I'd recommend watching this recording of a talk I gave at the Audio Programmer Meetup which is the most recent overview of the software: https://youtu.be/P_qT2a_2jlo?t=1394
I never said it’s the only reason to use git. However, it makes things like SOX change control easier because you can pass the commit ID around as a shorthand for a known state of a repository that is, practically, a UUID.

Similarly, as a single developer, it means I can verify repository backups by checking that all the repositories have the same branches and that the head of each branch has the same commit ID.
I'm aware of the replication crisis and that correlation does not equal causation. Are you aware of any research that contradicts the original statements?
> To sum it up: you don't need mentorship, you just need a new job

Eh, sometimes it does help though. I agree with you that OP's situation isn't tenable in the long term, but switching jobs without figuring out if there's something else that's overlooked isn't a good idea in the long term either.

It's hard to know if that's the case from OP's description, but sometimes bad habits do have a deleterious effect on people's careers, and having an external party discuss their current situation helps with that.
See my sibling comment, but the dataset that the GPT-2 folks did was “just grab whatever people on reddit upvoted”. Any grad student might have done the same (and in a sense, James Hays and Alyosha Efros did something like that long ago with flickr data for im2gps).

While GPT-3 is trained on a massive V100 cluster, you could probably do so with a much smaller one / there exist interesting smaller models. It’s expensive to rent this class of equipment, but it is available.

The distinction is that OpenAI made a focused bet. Most research funding and labs spread their bets heavily (e.g., each institution or researcher gets $50k/yr of funding). OpenAI takes a different stance, but it’s not clear that they’re spending even as much as say Google, Facebook or other large institutions. It’s also not obvious that you even have to play the same game to get similar results.
Have you tried requesting the desktop site? That worked for me.
>It's the defenses job to prove that that is a reasonable doubt. At trial. A trial that cannot happen unless assange is extradited. For that reason the burden of proof for extradition is lower.

No. At least in the US, it's the prosecution's responsibility to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty.

The defense needn't prove anything. Although, it's often a good idea to find some evidence that exonerates the defendant.

Here's a little primer[0] for you.

[0] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resource...
Great work.

If you can get these working as Unity post processing shaders I'd pay for it .
I usually more inclined to fly with a380 over 777 when given the choice. I'm researcher so my travel is much more flexible and has more option.

im also not american, the patriotism of flying boeing is lacking from me.
I don’t know that I agree. Mentorship is very important at the early stages of a career and I definitely missed out on it personally joining a small company out of college. Not sure exactly what OPs resume looks like but if it’s enough for him to transition to a mid size tech company that would have more structure around engineering, I would imagine that would be a fruitful move from both financial and educational perspectives.
Do you think about code as a tree?

It is, in some ways, but this is not the best model to reason about code, IMHO.
How can this be justified in the name of terrorism?

I don't single an ounce of a justification for destroying holy places.

How can I as a westerner support their (xinjiangs) plight?
I'll join in on punishing these techniques, in an effort to make it not work.
> Solve that and I may be a convert.

As a Linux desktop user, I've only ever been able to tolerate LTSC releases of Windows 10, and those still have telemetry features. They also lag behind Windows 10 releases so that things like WSL2 are still unsupported.

I tried running Windows as my daily driver because I was somewhat sold on WSL and WSL 2, however using non-LTSC releases of Windows is a frustrating experience, and there were too many incompatibilities between enterprise Windows and the desktop/development environment I was trying to use it as.

My solution is to have an LTSC virtual machine set up so that I can dip into Windows when I need to, and just use a sane Linux environment as the host OS.
From other comments I get it's a "urban legend" and it's meant to prove a point, but I guarantee anyone who has worked in a bigger manufacturing facility involving people has heard a similar story or has experienced one. Working as a production engineer I heard and experienced several, even though the sums in question were not nearly as big.

When I read the story, my initial thought was that there would be a link pointing to Toyota or Kaizen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
Point Kaizen - It is one of the most commonly implemented types of kaizen. It happens very quickly and usually without much planning. As soon as something is found broken or incorrect, quick and immediate measures are taken to correct the issues
Advice for Becoming the Worst Developer Possible
Art isn’t simply about aesthetics though. There is meaning, metaphor, context, intent, and all sorts of other nebulous characteristics that matter. This means that ugly art can still be good art.
The morale of this story is that as a proper consultant, you should be the one to charge that customer $8mio for the $20 fan, because that's what value based pricing is all about.
it's too bad you can't loop things together
> Well, often people should rely on common sense, rather than experts

Sometimes, probably. It's definitely true that large organizations can overlook simple fixes due to the distribution of responsibilities.

However this story and maybe your response seem to fuel a certain "I won't believe what I can't see" attitude, which is extremely harmful (you'll be able to come up with examples yourself).
Take a look at Wikipedia section about photometry and spectroscopy. It seems that magnetite (so iron and oxygen) is present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu
See my answer above.

A good critic does a subjective assessment, but also understands things like the place of a work within the larger history of the medium, it's relative importance, how influential it has been, several skills involved (not necessarily technical "playing" skill - skills in e.g. emotional resonanse or expression or production, etc are good to judge too), and so on.

And whetever the fashion of 2010-2020, they wouldn't put "Let's Get In On" as the #1 in a 500 Greatest Albums of all time list.

This looks more like a too-little-too-late "let's have RS show some hypocritical allegiance with the black movement and the whole hoopla in 2020" calculated ranking, than actual consideration of the relative merits of the work.
Switch to another role where you’ll have more time to practice and learn technical skills. For example, switch to testing, support, training, sales. Then follow your intuition.
> I don't see how. Stuxnet was able to remotely infect windows machines over the internet and local network while this is a purely physically local attack.

I think the reference was to the payload, which was targeted at the Siemens S7-315-2 programmable logic controller in order to destabilize high frequency drives and thus ruin the centrifuges attached to them.
> A Short Story for Engineers

JFTR, Every time I see such titles it curios me: which type of Engineers it directed for: Software, Civil, Social, etc.? It should be clarified in the title, because all of them are different.
I agree that a larger N would be preferable, but the effect size was enormous, and so the P value was <.001. Therefore, IMO, it's very likely that Vitamin D has a causal effect. Given that Vitamin D has at least some causal effect, it's much more likely that the observational studies that show a correlation are due to causation.
> the objective criteria is beauty/ugliness

So Sgt Pepper is beautiful? What makes it so?
Hey there, I'd be happy to talk to you about mentorship (and I'm sure lots of other people here would, too). Please shoot me an email and I'd be happy to talk you through some options. I'm currently managing remotely for a Silicon Valley company but have worked at other local market companies, as well.

Key point like others have already said: You're not on the precipice, though it sometimes feels that way!

Email is in my profile.
In the words of John von Neumann, there's a lot more that's known than is proved.

It's often frustratingly difficult to go from the known to the proven; still, just because something's not proved doesn't mean that scientists are ignoring it.
When you get disgusted/angry enough. Knowledge is the goldmine that never runs out. Collecting all of the universe's information into a big server heap is a 2000yr journey.
Worldometers provides case history (total, current active, daily new) and calculated CFR. Calculated likely mortaality is based on this data.

Global:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Iceland:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iceland/
The oracle adapter is pretty incomplete.
When that happens, the US will just ban Chinese aircraft from US airspace and impose economic sanctions on the Chinese aircraft industry under the pretext of IP theft and/or National Security<tm>.

That is the Washington solution for Huawei, TikTok, and Tecent after all.
First transaction for the lunar blockchain.
Have you tried changing your user agent/checking the "Desktop site" on your mobile browser?
They have a mobile app, and they also stream via the web. I imagine due to vast consumer preference, they detect mobile and steer you to the mobile app for ease of use, but the web player will work.

I use the web player on desktop all the time and its seen its fair share of improvements, so its really about meeting the average consumer where they are at, I think.
The Tarkov Solo Experience – Escape from Tarkov
Shouldn't be too hard when I think about it , if I write my own unity integration I'll open source it .
I signed up and didn't actually get a calendar invite.
Oh uhh, hello there. You make really, really cool stuff.

That makes complete sense though, feels like you have to be told about it (or go on a Wikipedia programming-language crawl) to know it exists.

Thanks for the response, and keep being awesome =D
Show HN: Gitjacker: Leak Git repositories from misconfigured websites
I'm just a generalist engineer with some senior roles under my belt and apparently a good reputation. These were not super senior roles at those FAANGs and I'm not making millions, to make it clear.
The Imperial Doppelgänger – When One Typewriter Is Never Enough
Scientists Identify Human Brain Processes Critical to Short-Term Memory (2017)
It's a great anecdote but good manufacturing organizations have long realized that you need engineers, managers and the workforce on the floor to constantly communicate and get everyone to pull together. One big problem is the culture clash between white and blue collar, unfortunately.

And every once in a while outside consultants aren't the bloodsuckers they are made out to be.
Yeah, like it or not, but technologies that changed the World and gave tremendous boost in adoption of IT were C, SQL, Visual Basic and Java.
Hackr.io
Suppose I grant a user access to system X for 2 weeks via a cert. When this user then requires 8 hours of access to system Y, can I just provide an additional cert with this claim and have the users ssh client figure it all out?

Or does this scenario either require the user juggling certs, or me generating certs containing all concurrent claims?
The only way those permissions are sneaking by me is if I sneeze right when the page shows up so my eyes are shut and the movement causes me to accidentally click "allow".
The mirror-test is not even close to exhaustive with respect to conclusions about self-awareness. It is certainly conceivable that a self-aware creature could simply be incapable of understanding a mirror or that they might be otherwise indifferent to what they see in it. For example, dogs fail the mirror test, but they are obviously self-aware creatures.
First, take a deep breath.

"Senior Developer" is a heavily diluted term at this point. You can generally only count on it meaning 3 years experience. It's effectively code for "did not wash out".

The problem here seems to be that you are in fact a Lead Engineer, not a Senior Engineer, which does have some pretty hefty expectations associated with it. You feel like the blind leading the blind.

If you want to go back to being 'just' a Senior engineer, then you need to do what the rest of us do when we are objectively or subjectively good at something that makes us uncomfortable or unhappy.

You lie by omission.

Downplay the leadership responsibilities of your position on your resume, so you look like someone who can be groomed into a lead role instead of expected to do it from Day 1. You'll get to backfill some of your experience along the way into that role, or they'll leave you alone.
The trick is to avoid trying to "future-proof" your tools.
You have to treat them as quite disposable, not polished gems.

Add features as you need them and build components that you can salvage for your next tool.
I’m not explicitly backpedaling on anything. I argued against the narrative that

A) it’s dangerous to hire a third party inverted movers because their might be an interaction between the evicted tenant and the crew moving things out. The police are always involved during a legal eviction when you move the tenant out.

B) inverted movers may destroy the property. Secure “storage” in states where the two don’t happen the same day - moving the tenant out and moving their stuff could just be leave it in the house and if they don’t come for it dispose of it however you want - including using inverted movers.

Have you ever lived in country X? No? Then you have no right to question anything I say about the politics or history of country X."

You are allowed to have your own opinions but not your own facts. One of us have actually gone through the legal eviction process. One of us haven’t. I think I have more credibility.
Putting a plug for mynoise.net. I've been using and recommending them for years although I am unaffiliated.

brain.fm looks cool though.
Ask HN: How to learn sales?
First time entrepreneur here. I am creating a product that will solve address a large potential. The more I think about it and read about startup, I am finding that a key to early and often success is Sales.

I am been engineer by choice and engineering manager by profession. I have never done sales. I understand you learn by doing similar to driving. I am a bit talkative but sometime I have hard time not getting bogged down by emotions.

How do I get started? Can you share books, videos, tutorials, prior recorded sales call references?

Where can I learn about metrics to track? Any ideas?