skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All excellent points I make myself but let’s say you move out of SF and no longer pay $3000/mo in rent but now pay half that $1500/mo. You’re now saving $18,000 a year which is cool but almost al your other expenses stay the same (car, Xbox, TV, Internet, insurance, etc). You’re going to lose more than $18,000/yr in TC in the near term and long term (after you leave stripe) you sure and he’ll are.

So the moral of my story is don’t move out of a high cost city for the money, it doesn’t add up. Move out for a myriad of other reasons that may be meaningful for you (family, life, etc)
FinCEN received 2 Million SARs last year. They have 333 employees.

https://www.rferl.org/a/global-banks-reported-2-trillion-in-...
quantum computing is a big fad. You cant do anything with a quantum pc except generate random numbers/bytes. If you think something can be in 2 states at the same time, you're delusional. I dont even know how you begin to believe in quantum entanglement. big yikes.

If you have something to say, tell me 1 example of something they actually built with a quantum pc and that's not a random number generator. And if you say encryption, it needs to be decryptable, and if you say hashing, then the hashes need to able to be checked by a quatum pc.

All i can find is articles saying X use-cases for quantum pcs in the future... Like we have quantum computers now... but they cant find use cases for it, because... there are none. It's useless

Also, just found these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
If we're talking big dreams, heir to Robert Ballard. I literally can't of anything I'd want to do more than traveling the world and finding old shipwrecks.
So, should we release all the kidnappers from jail because we want to be better than them?

I want the best for society, not some moral high ground, so I definitely would deny the benefits and if he does want to obtain them, he should at least do some public apologies.
I'd say this is more relevant now than in 2008. With SSDs and 100Gbit network connections, it's a lot easier to saturate a CPU with data. And a lot of cloud providers now recommend colocating computing such that it's as close to the data as possible.
This is exactly right. The treatment of Secretary Clinton and Judge (now Justice) Kavanaugh before the Senate are excellent examples of how the cameras cause senators pontificate and castigate rather than gather information and form policy. If senators wanted information to make decisions, they almost certainly wouldn't be questioning CEOs but rather a group of representatives from each corporation most knowledgeable about their concerns.
We also live in a time where people people get fired for saying the wrong thing due to public outrage on twitter. He can say what he wants. We can be outraged as we want.
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You may need to catch up on the news a bit, Steve Pieczenik of the U.S. State Department (common cover for CIA) admitted that he killed Aldo Moro to prevent him from divulging state secrets.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/italy-accuses-us-envoy-steve-piecz...

I would imagine some of those secrets may have had to do with other incidents where the Red Brigade and other left wing groups were framed in false flag incidents as part of the Gladio strategy of tension.

It's maybe noteworthy that the same Steve Pieczenik was pushing a larval version of the QAnon "deep state patriot" narrative in the leadup to the 2016 election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov5kvWSz5LM
free and fair? There's nothing free or fair about the upcoming election.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/heres-h...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/trump-voter-frau...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/gerrymanderin...
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Is there a name for this design philosophy? A lesser version of it is already what both shell scripts and PHP pages do by default. No crashing—only limping forward (likely in ridiculous invalid states.)

> if one branch exits with a nonzero exit code, the other branch is taken

That's called the Amb operator. It's actually fairly useful! Presuming you tended to write side-effect-free shell scripts, I could see enjoying this one.

> If you try to read a .json file that doesn't exist, you get the bytes "{}"

I would actually appreciate some little intermediary utility that would inject "{}" to stdout iff stdin was empty. It'd make piping maybe-JSON documents through to jq(1) work a lot more smoothly.

> If you try to connect to a port that nothing is listening on, it does its best to behave like the service that should be listening there.

I love the idea of the xinetd(8) equivalent to Busybox. A multi-protocol stub server, that knows how to speak literally every protocol, and listens on every port it can, but does nothing much over any of those protocols. It could serve as a way to slow down a Metasploit scan, by offering it an endless variety of things to try to exploit!
Acts like an artificial neuron model, not a biological neuron.
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CRT pixels always line up perfectly because they are drawn with the electron gun, not etched into the screen like EL, plasma, or LCDs. OTOH, they are never square. They are always rounded at the ends and usually overlap due to focus and timing.
This has nothing to do with "modern neural networks". When they say "neuron" they mean an actual biological neuron. The main application for this device type is brain simulations.
it's not lowering ourselves to the same level, it's simply fairness. have him exhaust his personal wealth first, as happens to the rest of us, and then he can go on the public dole and get help if need be. why should he get special treatment?
Nothing free and fair? So it’s exactly like an election in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and the outcome is preordained?
To what end?

Senate is full of old people that struggle with internet 101. The previous attempt to grill the zuck was a farce.

Google & co are in need of ass kicking but this is not the way
> why would we not take this opportunity to create a much clearer window to the past.

My only concern would be that by the very nature of deep learning we are seeding it with simulated information from the current era so we could be injecting temporal biases. Imagine the process of colorizing -- imagine there was a dye color that we couldn't manufacture prior to year X. And we train colorization on a dataset that whether known to the curator or not includes this dye. Are we creating images that are a misrepresentation of the past?

On the other hand, "science" often does some pretty (I think) extreme extrapolation of things like dinosaur fossils, so maybe it shouldn't be such a big deal and it's just something we have to live with.
I've done all three, and flying private is still far different than what it was like pre-9/11.

Back in the 90s, you still had to go through security checkpoints, you just didn't need to take anything off, open anything up, or be touched/prodded/scanned except for maybe a metal detector.

You still had to show up early, because they still checked people in manually and thus you traded long security lines for long check-in lines. They also were much worse about losing luggage back then, and if it was lost, if was gone for good usually.

Private is another ballgame entirely. If you can afford it (or someone else is paying), and you don't mind the inflated carbon footprint, there's really no reason not to choose it.
Ask HN: Bored, stuck in a rut. What to do?
Hi everyone, so I'm in my mid-twenties, no debt, 1 years worth of salary in savings + index funds, work in software development in Canada, I have about a years worth of experience and I'm stuck in a rut. I don't enjoy working for the company that I currently work for because there's no opportunity for growth or advancement, and I'm a brainless blob because of how precise the tasks have to be completed. It'd actually be better for me to get a lobotomy.

I save more than half of my income after tax so I am hoping for an early retirement but I can't guarantee it.

I try to constantly solve problems in my life and post them to GitHub. I have many many many projects on the go but none of which are really sellable. I'm trying to constantly produce as much as I can in hopes that I'll develop something that someone else might find worth using.

I'd like to be an entrepreneur but it's a lot more work than creating a startup and getting passive income; it's highly risky and there's a high chance I'll lose my entire investment. I posted an idea to reddit which got significant attention (thousands of votes, hundreds of comments) and a lot of good questions and answers for my business idea but nobody outside of reddit finds it interesting.

I want to work in security but I don't have the credentials. I found a bug in Facebook's email-code two factor authentication many years ago which allowed the user to enter at least 30 codes incorrectly before entering in the right one. I reported it, they said it was not an issue but then fixed it a month later and I could only enter in three before getting locked out. Found vulnerabilities in other websites that exposed enough info to file a tax return for some.

I don't really see the point of doing things anymore. I'm super tired all of the time but my nutrition macros are ok according to some apps. Doctor says I'm fine so I'm probably just lazy.

What would you suggest that I do to get unstuck?
Having grown up in the 1960s, I took the title to mean that the change from those long, flat, comfortable bench-seats to individual bucket-seats meant that, while it was still possible, it was now much more difficult and uncomfortable to have sex in cars.
What's a branching strategy and why would you need one?
Right. A better example might be removing every 5th word from a famous work, say one of shakespeare's sonnets. Then run GPT3 on it to interpolate the missing words. I bet a reasonable fraction of would match the correct words. Some would be acceptable substitutions, maybe you lose some fidelity or wit from the original, but it doesn't impact the overall enjoyment or understanding of the work. Then will be some minority of cases where we get something weird or wrong. Maybe a word that matches the general meaning, but is modern slang for example. Or maybe it guessed something that is plausible in context, but is opposite in meaning that changes something substantial in the work. I would expect that last scenario to be very rare as a fraction of total word substitutions, but also quite likely over the course of a whole piece of work. On the other hand, if we were able to render have a new undiscovered play available constructed from some sort of damaged fragment, rather than my hypothetical test ... having something we could read or see performed rather than just analyze academically seems worth the chance of getting some (even important) nuance in the work wrong.
So what?

99 USD in Canada will buy you 50GB of data and unlimited calls to Canadian numbers only. Why are you judging a US phone plan based on how it compares to UK plans?
Didn't HP want to build a new type of computer on it?
The Respondus Lockdown browser, which I had to use last year, does something similar. I'm very pale and have white walls and literally had to hang a dark background because it couldn't see me, along with shining a bright light on my face.
This is exactly why Larry and Sergei created Alphabet, peaced out, and put Sundar at the helm at Google.
So? They may take a stricter stance, but I just fail to see how anything but extortion or treason really applies to working in security.

Hell, even if you committed a murder that doesn’t make you any more likely to steal company secrets.
The cameras have to do with the showmanship in the committee hearings, but not with the fact that oversight is what happens prior to and in preparation for the hearings.

As anywhere else, work doesn't get done in meetings, work that has been done prior gets approved or rejected in meetings.

Public meetings (with or without cameras, and even if the main public access is by public record) add showmanship to justify/excuse the action (or ones position for or against whatever becomes the committee action), but they aren't what puts the substantive work outside of the meetings. That's just how meetings, pretty invariably, work.
Pretty sure this was what I read https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/46074.Limbo
Sorry old timer, wasn't around for the 3D TV phase. Sorry your tech back then sucked so hard though!
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You're correct. In fact, it seems odd to me that a doctor would have diagnosed IPF in someone who had worked in coal mines for that long. As far as I know, the symptoms of black lung are basically indistinguishable from IPF. I'm not a doctor, but my father died of IPF, and his father died from black lung (steel industry, not coal, but they have the same risks).
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As Sir Humprey once said, official inquiry is not to find the root of the issue but to exonerate officials.
If you forbid direct measurement of something, then people will use proxies, which is generally harmful to everyone involved.

If you want to minimize the extent to which people use demographics as a proxy for qualities they want to select for, then make it as cheap and reliable as possible to measure those qualities directly.
So has there been any progress made so far which can reverse the warming?

They may be able handle 2 projects at a time but its of no use if its too late.
Move to San Francisco. Employers aren't allowed ask about arrests or conviction on a job application. They aren't allowed to do background checks until they have offered you the job. They can only consider convictions directly related to the job. And if they reject you because of a background check, they must notify you, allow you to respond, and reconsider based on the response.

https://sfgov.org/olse/fair-chance-ordinance-fco

https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FCO%20poster2020....
Freedom of speech and freedom of association are not abuses of power, even when liberals exercise them. These platforms are not acting above the law because, despite what you and many seem to want to believe, it isn't illegal for private companies to make decisions regarding the content they choose to publish or to moderate content on their platforms, and never has been.
> But the same laws are used much more frequently to try and enforce drug prohibition.

Drug cartels in the western hemisphere turn out to be pretty violent, to the point where you can think of them as terrorists -- bombings and other mass casualty events.

The other point you make is valid, though.
You don't install your dependencies' devDependencies, so by definition 100% of the devDependencies on your the libraries you use are not a concern! I'm talking as a library author here (thought that was clear?), when a random vulnerability scanner marks one of my devDependencies as having an issue, that in principle won't affect the people using my library (except in some very very rare extreme cases).
Hasn't this been debunked: https://www.quantamagazine.org/neural-dendrites-reveal-their...
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Don’t work until payment is made? Offer a discount for early payment? Charge interest on late payments?
It’s the other way around, the business class seats subsidize the cheap economy seats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
fio is definitely the way to go! Are you looking at what Jens has done with io_uring as well for async IO?
I could imagine this being very useful in the form of a tool like debootstrap(8), intended for conformance fuzz-testing. Feed it a set of switches/enum values, and it'll install these various different odd technically-conformant things into a chroot for you, in any combination you like. Feed it a random seed instead, and it'll select the setup flags based on seeded PRNG output.

Now, set up your CI system so that your "POSIX build" builds N times, each time in a new one of these randomly-generated "technically POSIX" chroots.
>>> He retired from the multitude “more in pity than in anger,” to scenes of simple nature, to the pure delights of literature, and to the exercise of domestic virtues -The Mysteries of Udolpho

The tone from the intro to the first issue is remarkable. They invoke Alexander Graham Bell and his invention that allows for the "transmission of intelligence". At every stage they speak about human progress. And how the endgame of their inventions seek to illuminate the world with reason. And elevate humankind out of darkness. Very different than the current vogue in corporate pr speak ;)
I'm always completely puzzled when people talk in positive terms about opening coal mines back up and revitalizing that industry. I get that there are areas where the economy was destroyed due to coal mines being shut down, but there has to be a better way to address it than putting people's lives at risk.
I don't think Snowden cares.
I went through the same situation, except I chose to work for myself instead of going into the job market. I shared a small part of my story for the first time on reddit [1] , which led to me being interviewed on the stackoverflow podcast [2] . All I can say is that from my experience, knowing how to code is a skill that has proven to be indispensable. I don’t know what I would be doing if it wasn’t for the fact that I can create things I can sell, with no funding, and nothing but ideas. In the past, my options were few, now they seem limitless.

Much respect for your friend, and congrats on her success! It’s not easy at all to actually self rehabilitate behind those walls.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ht5krp/prisons...

https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/w...
Google has the same deal. There is plenty of confidential information readily available on the public Internet but confirming it is still breach of contract and they will sue. I hear Apple is even more zealous about NDAs.
What is clear to me is that our current nand based hardware is not ideal to model artificial neurones.

But from my point of view, the difficult part is the many-to-many connectivity.
I misspoke. I was referring to the fact that the web was not on an open standard.
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I wouldn't call this IO bound, and I'd argue anyone calling it IO bound is wrong, and needs coaching. If your waiting on a query to execute your bound on whatever the query is bound on (IO/Memory/CPU).

Also I'm IO bound, so don't care is a weird response. Doesn't matter were I'm bound, if it needs to go faster, I need to examine what I can do to remove that bottleneck. What I'm bound on just gives me a clue where most of my energy tuning/troubleshooting goes, not shrug and forget the problem.

But maybe I'm just lucky to have always worked with good people.
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Do you actually use it as a hammer?
> Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1.

The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities where Google has offices. So, the folks they mention weren't working remotely, but rather working locally in remote offices.

Source: Google San Diego employee
Nowadays such fonts are still actively designed and maintained for the game Dwarf Fortress, where they are used for tilesets.

Here's an overview of some DF tilesets: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Tileset_repository#8.C3.978

(the images you see on the left ARE the tilesets)
At what point do we even begin to consider the possibility that systems intended to serve an eighteenth century slave-owning agrarian society of only a few million people might not be the most effective in representing the interests of a multicultural 300 million strong global superpower in the year of our Lord 2020?
For the unaware: what's wrong with flying Spirit?
My paranoid thoughts about the state of disorganization in organizations like Mozilla and Gnome is that large corporations like Google and Microsoft clandestinely pay agent provocateurs involved in these organizations to derail progress in the projects.

Systemd is really just the most blatant of these kinds of efforts.
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My point was that figures like Gandhi are idolized in the West through tired, decontextualized quotes like the one above, and the result is that they are (popularly) effectively above reproach. The result is an ahistorical understanding of a complicated person who held a number of views (at various points in his life, although there's little evidence to support that his thinking on this particular topic evolved much over the course of his life) and engaged in behaviours that few would disagree were completely reprehensible.

Speaking of ahistoricism, I don't understand your point that his views were "a product of his time". Firstly, not everyone in his time held them, and more importantly, applying that logic one could dismiss pretty much any atrocity as "a product of its time".
Oh yeah for sure! I'm developing mobile apps now, and I'm excited to get my hands on a pixel device some time. It's too tempting after using simulator :)