skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuinely curious: Has change of this magnitude ever been achieved entirely by voting? It feels to me like it can only be achieved by revolution (ie, replacing the government entirely with a new government that does what the people actually want). I very well could be wrong.
You can own a computer, but you have to go back to the days of MS-DOS and floppy disks to really be sure. Once a program is running on MS-DOS, it essentially owns the machine until it makes a DOS or BIOS call. There isn't really enough room in the system to fit any advanced back doors, and you can have your operating system on a hardware write protected disk. You can make backups that you can verify, and write protect those, and keep them offline.

-- The key advantage of an old MS-DOS / floppy based computer is that you can always bring your system back to a known safe state--

Once you adopt any operating system that is always running, the OS has to protect the hardware from everything, if you want to be able to trust it. This rules out Linux, Mac-OS, Windows, etc. I'm hoping that Genode does a good enough job to be able to trust it, but it's a bit beyond my learning curve right now.

If you have a secure OS, which isn't stupid about trust, then you're back in the saddle again, and can build upon this foundation, being careful to never give any executable you run more privilege than it needs to do the job. Linux, Windows, and Mac-OS all have stupid defaults (allow everything the user is permitted)... Genode and systems that implement capabilities don't do that. (No, "access your contacts" on your tablet or phone is not a proper "capability", "you can read this file", and "you can write this folder" are proper capabilities).

-- A secure system lets you assign capabilities using dialog boxes like you're used to using, except they call them a "power box". The OS then enforces your decisions, not the application. No matter how rogue or confused your program gets, it can't access anything outside of the files or folders you've given it access to. 8)

We're a few years out before awareness of the stupid defaults we're all living with take hold, and the inertia of everything then has to be overcome. We'll get there eventually, if we can keep the idea at least an open option before big business closes it down for good.
32% of miners use renewables. That’s not even a majority amongst miners.
You can read the California DMV's set of autonomous vehicle accident reports.[1] Almost all the Waymo reports are "vehicle was entering intersection, detected cross traffic, stopped, was rear-ended by human driver". There's one Waymo report where someone ran a stop sign and hit them.

The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it's shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There's a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That's probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
One of my pseudonyms is "Gort Braggern"
"Singularity" is a song I wrote a few years ago the folks here might appreciate...
All of the vocals are synthetic.
https://chickenhouserecords.com/pages/Post.php?id=mq0ph8ne

Here are the lyrics for your amusement:

The future's here at last |
upload your mind. |
Neurons are the past. |
Singularity

Welcome to the world |
of the techno-revolution. |
Now we take the next step |
of human evolution.

Silicone / wetware interface, |
plug me in, begin the trace. |
All my brain waves will be captured, |
I'm gonna be part of the digital rapture.

Let the world rejoice. |
Machines will have a voice. |
Put an end to suffering, |
simplify the choice.

Our processes run faster, |
our circuits never sleep. |
Come be a robot hero |
and bring the world our peace. |
Sure, my twitter DM is open: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample or you can mail me

echo 'bGVhcm5ieWV4YW1wbGUubmV0QGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=' | base64 --decode
"simple reparation tasks like replacing a battery is a nightmare these days"

Had a recent experience with a Motorola phone with this. And there was no obvious technical reason they couldn't have held the battery down with something other than a shite ton of glue.
I don't think the article was bad enough to call it "fluff". Also the result is technically "guaranteed to be faster than the *currently best known* methods of solving dense linear systems", no? It might be the case that there's still some better way involving matrices that's faster than this iterative guessing method. Or did they prove that none could possibly exist?
?? By allowing us to use computationao services without leaking data to them?
> Once this is filled a bit, he can use that with some heuristics to estimate the data.

how many inputs do you need before the heuristics start letting you guess than a function with 128 bits of input is a 64 bit multiply?

and if the input is 8192 bits?

i feel like you're reporting some theoretical ("needs 2^1024 ciphertexts!") attack as though it is a practical concern.
>I'm sure I had it worse than you, at least you people assume you had electricity growing up.

Are there not times that cityfolk don't rib countryfolk about growing up in poorer conditions in almost any country? Not to say it's right. But I also think I'm not mistaken in thinking people back home have misconceptions about people in the US as well. Misconceptions are pretty universal.
Makes its closed-source storage format all the more a travesty.

All office file formats have stopped document and information processing and search way harder, and have been a lock-in pox on the world for, what, 3 decades now?
You brought up a good point. The Vietnam War (I kept using this example because I'm from Vietnam myself) happened because the North who pushed for it was poor and misled with propaganda.

With China and Taiwan, both are well-off and their citizens would not need to risk their livelihood if not necessary.

However, China seems to be following the path of America who's such a powerful bully that they can start wars left and right without any retaliation on their soil, save for 9/11. If that's the case, this logic won't apply at least to the China side, and again, propaganda.
Is it good?
Did you check LinkedIn?
Excel is faster to get off the ground. You can get a initial feel for a data set in excel far faster than in Python of SQL. I grant that may be the practitioners limitations than the software.
This is unfair. Probably acting unprofessionally. She’s made some serious accusations, let her go to court with them. Discrimination in hiring is not unfortunate, it’s illegal. Maybe she’s a nut. Maybe she’s a witness to illegal discrimination. Maybe both! But her claims should not be summarily dismissed. Bring your evidence to the court if need be.
Patterson always smirks when people ask him what the "V" is for, and mumbles an uncharacteristically vague reply (something about it being the fifth chip project he's worked on or something like that...)

It's no coincidence that MIPS used roman numerals for its architectures, MIPS-I, MIPS-II, MIPS-III, MIPS-IV, and MIPS-V.

So instead of using MIPS-V Berkeley created RISC-V.

You aren't going to get anybody who was involved to say this on the record -- that they changed just barely enough to evade the licensing (instruction encoding) and trademark ("MIPS-V") problems. Openly admitting in print that it was a "minimum noninfringing change" simply invites lawsuits claiming that they were one hair's width on the wrong side of that line.
I can't speak for other companies, but the point at which candidates do the programming task is after they've come in and met 3 or 4 of us. It would be really awkward in my opinion to then not have them back after they've completed it. By that point, we really want to have them in and we hope they do really well. We have 4-5 engineers in the code review for 1-2 hours. That time more than matches the candidate's commitment, which I think is equitable.
Even if you require precise mapping, that's not at all a deal breaker. Google went and mapped rural Kenya to make Google Maps.

Mapping wealthy cities with >1 million population for a product with vastly more revenue potential is a trivial hurdle.
Alright I have to share. I’m brownish and never I think encountered racism. As for the women I’ve had the pleasure of working with they’ve have all been an absolute joy to work with, with the exception of one. They’re in a male dominated field and I suspect they know and work to compensate against it. I bet it must suck for them honestly to live with that pressure but as their peer its made them exceptionally competent and professional. I’d work again with them anytime enthusiastically (which is rare)

The one woman I worked with that didn’t end up so well was an engineer, who when she decided she wanted to move on with her career developed a standard playbook of falsely claiming sexual harassment against an executive and walk away with a nice check in hand. Done to every employers she’s ever worked with including a few FAANGs.

On a more related note about this article, I got lost on the cultural termination. I didn’t hear discrimination. I heard bad hiring practice, probably by people who don’t have a lot experience hiring. If they were smart after that term they updated their hiring practices. That’s why some startups invite you to lunch or an outing.. to avoid those issues.

As a new founder having accusations like this terrify me of hiring in general. It’s different when it’s yours and not just a cog in a machine
One example of a interesting model I haven't seen mentioned in the article or comments/discussion is the toilets at Bryant Park in NYC. They're publically accessible, maintained regularly, and staffed with attendants, but is paid for with private funds.
if they were going to get a medical bill, they would've been in the same, or worse position. They would've been without a shoe, instead of with a shoe and face default on the shoe loan.
A way to mitigate this is to just accept having multiple devices. This doesn't solve issues like unaccountable microphones, but does give you at least one device that you do control and the no-nonsense software benefits that brings.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't really need proprietary apps on the go, so my "full take" device is a tablet that mostly stays home.
Imagine the two together.
Idoru. Rei Toei looks different to everyone watching her.
I've seen listings on eBay for Intel 4004s, 8008s, and other chips at what seem like crazy prices. I wonder if anyone buys them.

Here's someone thinking they'll get $120 for an old Russian Z80 clone: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-vintage-gold-cpu-ceramic-Zilog...
Every copy of This Person Does Not Exist is personalized.
A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
Canada has a landmass larger than the US with a population smaller than California. Where it is developed everything is much like the US (actually better, telecom rules make it so that cable providers are required to allow alternate ISPs access).
But outside of populated areas the availability of services drops off very quickly. I live about a mile from a Costco and I don’t have access to public sewer or garbage collection.
None of this makes it better. “We give candidates all the time they need” (which you suggest is something insanely short notice, like 1-2 weeks) is not an answer. What about people who cannot give you time outside of 1-2 hour blocks within business hours of a weekday, as in they can never work on your assignment apart from that. You’re just openly admitting that you won’t assess that whole cohort of humans. I urge you to reconsider. You are determining a process that you happen to fancy, maybe because it makes you feel like you’re a visionary of interview process or you’re going against the trend, but you’ve got blinders on about your commitment to this and what it means for people who just happen to have obligations.

The standard whiteboard hazing trivia is bad enough, and 4+ hour long marathon on-sites that require weeks of study and taking vacation days just to interview are ridiculous. But your method is not much better. You’re still perpetuating this myth that somehow, unlike virtually every other profession on the planet, software engineering requires intense examination of on-the-spot demonstrated skill, rather than simple conversation probing past experience and domain knowledge.

We just do interviewing completely ass backwards in software. Part to assert gatekeeper superiority, part to judge fealty. It’s just bananas.
Purism/Librem sell coreboot'd devices. It's worth checking out
Dropbox's San Francisco HQ is selling for a record-breaking $1.08B
There are a lot of socially enept developers out there. Maybe it’s changed a bit recently. But if you think about taking your average developer and putting them in a propel-facing sales role, how well would they do?

Something you see often is developers who were bullied at school, finding refuge in their computer, finding something they enjoy, and then the feminists canceling them because they don’t have the social skills to understand all the new rules of what is not politically correct. E.g. James Damore - the fired Google guy - was just quoting scientific evidence regarding women in tech but without realizing the sensitivities of 2010+ and that some things are better left unsaid. This is simply a lack of social awareness, and now the nerds and re-bullied day in day out because they started making lots of money.
>Quite a nice read, and I definitely appreciate the information.

Thanks.

>The title is a bit misleading

Initially I chose the title as "My book writing experience" which felt boring (the url is still based on that title).
I've been writing music for about 10 years, but low output, only about 1 song per year. I mostly write some variation of metal. I love writing, but so far haven't gotten much practice at mixing, so a "professional" sounding mix eludes me.

Here's what it sounds like when I have help with the mixing:

https://soundcloud.com/planetlotus/rude-awakening-mix-3

Something newer, without help mixing:

https://soundcloud.com/planetlotus/silver-lining
For some easy to grok examples: imagine MNIST, where all the pixels besides the writing are 0; or a recommendation system, where column i has the users rating for movie i, or number of times they listened to song i; or any one-got encoding scheme
>The fact that I see stories like this happen about once every month or so makes me incredibly uneasy about Google in general.

Not just Google! I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was similarly shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

I don't want to create a fake new Facebook account. I want my own back.

>And then, notoriously there is almost no way to deal with it or get the accounts back online. Only in a few rare circumstances does someone luck out and hit the right person on HackerNews or Twitter who actually has the ability to restore things.

No luck for me so far on this front. Maybe the right person will see this one of these days.
13 years for turnaround on bad results isn’t abysmal in my view. Science is hard and will take a long time.

Getting people used to that seems impossible though.
>The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it's shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There's a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That's probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.

I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.

Most times when I hear about people getting rear-ended it's because the driver behind them was looking at their phone or otherwise distracted. We shouldn't invent features that allow that to continue.

On the other hand, I think this is fine in some rare cases, like maybe an accident or some other incident happens up ahead, a driver stomps their brakes, and then the person behind them who doesn't know what's happened doesn't stop soon enough. But even for the latter case, you could argue that the DMV says to keep enough distance where in most cases you should be able to still come to a stop with barely a moment's notice as long as you're paying enough attention. Of course, most people don't leave that much space much, if ever.
Startups: millions of dollars a year for AWS bills is just the price of doing business!

Also startups: We can't afford a hundred dollar PDF uwu.
It’s a step back if you are talking about sex and not gender expression.

Not everyone is from the US or a Western country.

The broader question is would it be allowed even with that. If it was done for safety reasons, you can make an argument that it’s discriminatory towards men because you are assuming they will be violent. Pretty sure the same justification was used against black/poor/immigrants/etc.

If it’s not for safety reasons, and just a thing, could you enforce it? You can create a place called “A Woman’s Space” but would men be legally allowed to go?
I think there is a market niche which is being overlooked: pay-to-use search engines.

Infinity Search (https://infinitysearch.co) is something like what I have in mind, but they only charge $5 per month, and search results are noticably less comprehensive than Google.

Kind of like how there are various pay-to-use email services which market themselves on their security, I'd like to see a lot more competitors in the paid search engine space. Eg instead of paying $5 per month, let's pay $200 a year for a search engine which consistently returns superior results to Google.
Best thread ever. I"m following everyone I can on the platforms.

minimalism meets very lo-fi homemade analog electronica?

old fashioned banger:

https://n-gram.bandcamp.com/track/who-they-loved

a quiet pause:

https://n-gram.bandcamp.com/track/sleeping-dogs

the simulation, with 1977 phillip k. dick, and a 303:

https://n-gram.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-find-this-world-bad...

I make music to get away from screens and I'm working on something experimental that I hope will be an HN post of its own when it's done.
Don't let those negative reviews get you down! I'm traditionally published. We get some amazing trolls. They're just noise. Great that you are making things and teaching, and even more awesome that you are giving back with free versions. Thank you for all you do.
These are some tunes I wrote and performed with my band Jonny Lives!

"I'm No Good By Myself" video where we had puppets of the band made by the Team America puppeteers and I got to realize my maker dreams to the max, building a life sized record player with a working (chain-driven) turntable.

https://youtu.be/Tee4sIg6DWU

The "Get Steady" video was produced and directed by Kal Penn and was paid for out of the film budget for Van Wilder 2 (we were on the soundtrack). If you haven't seen Van Wilder 2, spare yourself, but fun video!

https://youtu.be/zwFpFS2rBrE

We have a bunch of free downloads on our Reverb Nation page.

https://www.reverbnation.com/jonnylives/songs

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TwKl1XPNVfX857I9Q362A?si=nR...
Even if a browser is FLOSS, I wouldn't say a user can truly "own" a browser any more than an absolute ruler can govern a country alone. Browser engines are complex beasts that have grown beyond what anyone can hope to understand, re-create, or even maintain without billions of dollars of annual funding.

Software needs to be simple for users to be in control.

(Plug: a section of an article of mine covered this previously. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982860)
Appreciate the write up with specific examples. I haven’t been discriminated against at work (that I’m aware of) and try very, very hard to avoid it (though I’m sure I have failed unknowingly). This helps remind me of how it can happen whether intentional or not.
So sad to hear this.

I took a lot of anti biotics as a kid. I'm pretty sure it killed off whatever gut microbiome I had multiple times over.

Never really had an issue except for becoming fat. Except for headaches. Which I never really thought about for many many years. You know, just take a pill. Probably took 20 years for me to figure it out somewhat.

This may or may not work at all for you and even for myself I can't really scientifically say anything about it. But what helped me was probiotics. I had to try a lot of them. And it got worse first before it got better while the bacteria were fighting with each other and I'm not sure what would happen if I stopped them.

However the best explanation I have found so far is that these probiotics that have Bacillus Subtilis in them made the difference. I don't want to advertise a specific product but since I've been asked before, what I take is Garden of Life Primal Defense Ultra. I tried others before and the one difference is Bacillus Subtilis. YMMV but worth a try if you ask me. I did combine it with a Keto diet too but I'm no longer on it and still fine.

Also in case you drink beer for example, I get worse when I have beer. Hard liquor? Absolutely fine now with the probiotics but beer still screws me up if I have it for a longer period of time.
> Is not the inability to think on your feet in a productive way in front of others - especially stakeholders - a gigantic red flag you want to catch?

In my engineers? No. In my sales people? Yes.

I want my newly hired engineers (including of the software variety) to be focused on engineering, not doing half-assed "problem solving" presentations without any preparation or analysis. That's not how problem solving works, and I want my engineers to take their time, model problems, explore different approaches, and find solutions that are well explored, documented, and proved.

Conversely, being able to think/bullshit your way through live presentations without being given a chance to prepare anything is EXACTLY what I want in sales people; that skill is part of the skillset of being charismatic, and that is the skillset of people who do sales.

I wouldn't turn down an engineer who turns out to be good with charisma, and the ability to come up with decent answers on the spot is something I expect senior engineers to grow into after a few years of familiarity with our problem spaces. But I certainly wouldn't select for it, much as I wouldn't select a car mechanic based on how nice their haircut looks.
My younger daughter and I have been making music these last couple of years as sideSister:

- https:://sidesister.bandcamp.com/
> This phenomenon of everything being about what color you are is relatively new

If by “is relatively new” you mean “very briefly receded before returning”, sure. The whole “we are living in a post-racial society” thing was trendy for about the second half of 00s, but fell apart fairly rapidly in the early 2010s.i

> and orders of magnitude more controversial than its pushers like to admit.

No one, anywhere, disputes that it's controversial, and always had been; what has changed notably, though, is the degree to which the divide had become much more aligned with the partisan divide than it had ever been in the past.
How is that a counter-example? A paralyzed human can still exhibit a chemical or physical response to an external stressor or stimulus in general, such as body temperature, sweating, neural activity, etc.
"The simulations were not conducted independently of the company, nor were they reviewed by any third-party for verification prior to the company making them public." from https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22315361/waymo-autonomous-...
here's a campaign [1] where Amazon was paying $5 credit to get this spyware installed on the browser. These campaigns have been going on for years.

[1] https://slickdeals.net/e/14668013-select-amazon-member-earn-...