skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a pretty sad world to me. The sole fact that we are talking about offense and defense is harsh. An individual needs his fundamental rights to be respected, and at the same time, a service provider needs data to pursue improve his product. We should consider both to hope for a balance. IMHO, the problem with today's solutions is that the individual is set out of the equation because data are "considered" anonymous. We take for granted something that may at least deserve more attention.
By promoting consent as a first-class citizen, we can reposition the individual at the center again.
Nothing screams "fun" like seeing a wall of text and multiple menus when I load up a video game. I'd really prefer to be dropped into gameplay when I open the link.
Yes!

It's also only slightly less efficient than batteries.
Batteries are just straight amazing, aren't they? Every other solution is just so complicated. Like pumped storage. You run power to a powerful electric pump, which moves water into a huge reservoir, which produces power through a hydro plant. Or a flywheel. You run electricity to a motor, which spins a huge piece of levitated metal, which then can run a generator.

A battery is an inert block you send electricity directly into and get electricity directly out of. It's quite literally a black box of electrical energy storage.

No other solution is ever going to be quite that simple -- electricity in, electricity out. There's always some other complexity, some other mechanism, some other pump, some shielding, some motor.
Modularity in IT security and IKEA’s Billy the bookcas
Also they have these in southern arizona. If you go to Tucson, you'll see them. And you see people driving past them sometimes. They are of questionable legality in practice, but I never was brave enough not to stop. There were endless stories of people refusing to stop & talk to the these border guards, and then there were strange legal arguments in court where the federal govt seemed like they didn't really want the cases to go to trial for not stopping, and I though it was because of the fear they'd lose the court case and set a precident.

They can make life hard for you, search your car for drugs or illegals, harass you for your citizenship details. A scourge on our country - a true "show me you papers" place. I heard from non-white friends that they were a little afraid of being harassed. It was a living embodiment of unfair policing.
The "payload" of the ping is a content of an arbitrary file - what can go wrong?
This always struck me as the dagger into the idea of freedom. How can one follow the law if one is not fully informed of the law?

Of course, those with money like it this way. It's a barrier for competition and exercising your rights.

Once you start looking at barriers, such as ISO, you start noticing them everywhere. Real estate, dentistry, doctors, school teachers. You can't even cross state lines as a school teacher, or other professions. People often argue that software developers should be licensed much like engineers. Let's be thankful that's not the case. Imagine the headache of being remote and having to get licensed in multiple states!
It must be ranked highly just because of the clickbait headline and not the content. Because the content is vacuous. It's literally taking two cherry-picked articles a decade apart, pulling out a few bad and good lines, then feeding the articles into an app to assign and compare scores. I'm glad we have a robot to tell us what good writing is!
PowerPC was the dominant processor in telecom equipment as far as I was aware. Perhaps the low end went MIPS.
I don't know who's actually using these kinds of game streaming solutions, or what games they're playing with them. The PSN version of the idea is basically unusable for FPS games, and I have a good broadband connection. Even Steam, over the LAN, Steam introduces a noticeable-enough lag that I just don't bother. But things like Stadia make it seem like enough people are getting mileage out of these solutions to make it profitable to run, so I guess I'm not the target demo.
It is beneath me to beat a dog out of spite when it bites me because it is sick or was badly trained. Such an act of cruelty would say more about me than anything else. I feel the same way about such low-life humans, pretty much.
Well, then let people keep crying everytime the market crashes due to the destructive practice that underly it. As I said, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism prohibit interest, we don't learn from history.
This is silly.

If they pay for Google Fi and Google Fiber then obviously they can contact customer support. There's a phone number and everything.

The account was probably an error in fraud/spam detection. Yes it sucks but just call Google, man. C'mon.

In this particular case, "help me get this seen by someone at Google" and "I've resigned myself that the account is likely gone forever" is just attention-seeking.

I'm sure an account rep will escalate it and the account will be restored. It's not like Google goes and instantly deletes all the data with someone's account with they flag it for suspected fraud/spam.
These batteries do not use cobalt, as mentioned in the article; they are lithium iron phosphate. (These are the elements I listed.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
The blockchain IS a third party. It's maintained by other entities.
Concerns about Covid evolution sould not hold back efforts to expand vaccination [pdf]
True for now, but there's a limited and ever-decreasing supply of older cars without rear-view cameras, small homes without HVAC, etc. Today it's hard to buy a car (in decent shape) without airbags; I expect that in 20 years it will be hard to buy one (in decent shape) without a rear-view camera. Fair point about lower maintenance costs though.
The collateral idea seems good, but it might encourage perverse incentives for Google. If they know they're going to get a few hundred bucks if they disable an account, I'd fear the rate of accounts being disabled may go up. Even if it doesn't, there would be the appearance that any account being disabled was for financial gain.

I wish I had a good answer for this, though.
Ask HN: What Stories Would Make for a Good TV Adaptation?
I saw this article[0] on Ars Technica, suggesting that certain novels be adapted for television. I don't necessarily disagree with any of the suggestions, but I had a few others and imagine that other folks on HN would have more.

I'll start with a few I think would be wonderful as TV adaptations and look forward to hearing other suggestions:

1. The Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh

2. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

3. The Gateway Series by Fred Pohl

What novels/stories/series would you like to see turned into TV treatments?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/ars-plea-someone-make-this-into-a-series/
If it is using computer vision to detect a drowning person, why not just signal an alarm so people can help?
> The majority of SWEs employed at Google in the EU (Zurich, Dublin, London) have comp packages over 150k.

Nitpick: of those three, only Dublin is in the EU.
calling someone's book suggestion an "advertisement" is rude, and inaccurate. taleb wouldn't pay anyone to suggest his book when he could instead just show up here and insult everyone for free.
I imagine the weather at Baikonur Kazakhstan and Vostochny Siberia is no better, and the Russians launch from there.
The that's so hilariously stupid about the Googlers in charge of the ban policy is that they refuse to explain or put a person in between the automated systems and the final decision. They already have a TOS that reserves their right to terminate anyone for any reason, so why not just give the reason?

Sure it might cause people to want to fight more, but who cares? It's not like Google even gives them a way to contact them!
The Future Starts Now – decent book
> I feel Europeans looking in on the US from the outside consistently have a misleading view on healthcare

Maybe. All I know is that if I get sick or any other health emergency, I go to the hospital, they patch me up and I go home or stay there until I'm better. I literally have to do nothing else.

Even knowing what HSA or anything else is, is too much for 90% of the people, including me. Some of us view healthcare as something that should be there for everyone and with as little complications as possible, even if it is more expensive overall. When you're dealing with healthcare, you're most likely in a situation where you want to deal with as little as possible, so free public healthcare really help then.
That's a great idea as a present. How little the street patterns change over the years is fascinating.
Just existing doesn't give them value. After an apocalypse event, even with some sort of US military and US government functioning dollars will lose their fungibility quickly. What could happen is an increased supply of them e.g unprotected banks/vaults could be robbed. But this would have the effect of making more dollars available, so although they exist they are not scarce, if they are not scarce then why would I swap them for 10gallons of fuel? ATMs would be easily looted and are widely located.
WRT sex? Yeah that seems like a reasonable conjecture- but there are counter examples I can’t really figure.

Even atheistic American liberals are totally backwards on sex/bodies. Everything sexual is offensive, or gross. I feel it used to be the religious right in the USA that held those beliefs... now it’s everyone?
Further "compression" -- you only want the index of the first occurrence of a given string. Thus, you create a table of offsets for each string length, where index 0 is the first unique string of length n, index 1 is the second, etc. This allows you to elide the issue that indices can be arbitrarily large. Of course, the table is hard to compute for large n, and the resulting "compression" has indices at worst the size of the original data... so it's gonna be super efficient at compressing the bits of pi, and no worse than unity on average.
Same with Emacs if you select the TeX input method:
Alt-x set-input-method TeX

\pi → π

That works for any programming language. I’ve used it occasionally for my own programs but use plain ASCII if I expect others to work on the code.
(dons his prophetic tie clip)

In 110 years time Elons' interstellar Universeship will dwarf both his battery and the Starship.
> What I'd like to know is how much NHS-level healthcare would cost me in the US.

If you're employed by a tech company, the out-of-pocket costs to you will be $0, and your standard of care will probably go up.

Yes, you will occasionally have a $10 or $20 co-pay, but on a tech salary costs are negligible unless you're on a ton of meds.

The problem with care in the US is how it's impacting the lower-middle class and the poor. The professional class generally have great care and don't pay much for it.
I think the key difference here is that you are ultimately at the behest of your insurance company. I don’t like the idea of insurers making decisions over my health. I’d take the British NHS over US system any day as I know ultimately if I’m sick I can rely on it. You don’t have a plan B in US - or am I mistaken?
It concerns me that he’s (or anyone living under the control of the state which acts ostensibly on my behalf) not “allowed” to have a chess set.

It’s possible to separate the individual from the topic you know.
>The origin story remains entangled both in domestic politics and U.S.-China relations.

I think this is the biggest story of our time and no-one, not even the United States government, knows what the hell to do about it.
The one thing that stands out for me - and this goes for both brothers - is their modesty. There are a lot of people thumping their chests all day long about very minor achievements and these guys just plug away at what underpins a very large fraction of all e-commerce. Stripe one day will be really too big to fail.
Your question is addressed here: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37366988/Dose_sp...

When vaccines are in limited supply, expanding the number of people who receive some vaccine can reduce disease and mortality compared to concentrating vaccines in a subset of the population. A corollary of such dose-sparing strategies is that vaccinated individuals may have less protective immunity. Concerns have been raised that expanding the fraction of the population with partial immunity to SARS-CoV-2 could increase selection for vaccine escape variants, ultimately undermining vaccine effectiveness. We argue that although this is possible, preliminary evidence instead suggests such strategies should slow the rate of vaccine or immune escape. As long as vaccination provides some protection against escape variants, the corresponding reduction in prevalence and incidence should reduce the rate at which new variants are generated and the speed of adaptation. Because there is little evidence for efficient immune selection of SARS-CoV-2 during typical infections, these population-level effects are likely to dominate vaccine-induced evolution.
You're absolutely right. I'll agree with the person you replied to as well though: displacing (at least some portion of) MATLAB use cases really would be a good goal for Julia.

Personally, I managed to switch over 100% and DifferentialEquations.jl is the reason that made sense for my work.
I'm sure the words they chose sounded suspicious if heard repeatedly but if heard just occasionally they were probably less so than words like Delta, Foxtrot, Tango, etc.
The reaction you had resonated with me in that it's the feeling I most want to avoid giving someone else. I'm a white male hiring manager who is often incorporating explicit diversity/inclusion strategies into work. It's tricky--like tap dancing around all the ways that the work can go wrong. And this is one I overindex for. I never want someone to think they are a token.

IMO, there are five main motivations for having a diversity & inclusion strategy. One is legal, to avoid breaking a law or facing a lawsuit. One is PR so that general public doesn't yell at you. The other three are a belief that it's the right thing to do, belief that it creates a more interesting or fun culture, belief that it will make the company more money.

I'm basically subscribed to all five. But I almost always lead with just the last one: diversity & inclusion helps the business by helping the business make better decisions, helps find higher quality candidates, helps avoid product/marketing blindspots that limit the reach of a product. All of those things boil down to: it's good for business.

This is the tap dancing. It's almost uncouth to tell an employee that you only care about their ability to help the business make money. But there's also something really unhealthy about not mentioning it at all. Of course, the business cares about an employee's happiness and positive social impact, but those aren't the foundation of the relationship. The foundation is the thing that allows the employment in the first place, which is making money.

I like leading with that good-for-business foundation because then if, say, I went out recruiting Native Americans, they can see a visible concrete motivation beyond tokenism. It's a relatively straightforward business hypothesis to think: "I bet this group of people doesn't see a lot of recruiters so if I get good at recruiting from that group then I'll be facing less competition from other recruiters."

That's a hypothesis that I've found to generally be true, especially when paired with at least a mediocre level of inclusivity after you make a hire. It's like a sad arbitrage that allows you to take advantage of industry bias. Statistically, hiring from an underrepresented group means fewer counter offers, and if you follow up by creating good opportunity for growth, a lot of people will way out perform their peers simply because other jobs had never given them much opportunity.

It's all about how do you talk about these issues which are real, and which are impossible for me to viscerally understand with my own limited & privileged life experience, in a way that doesn't sound like charity and instead sounds like raising the bar. "I know your past resume sucks, but you're here because we think you could out perform your past work by a lot."
> If they pay for Google Fi and Google Fiber then obviously they can contact customer support. There's a phone number and everything.

Hahahaha that's a funny take. I'm going to guess that you've never had the misfortune of needing to contact Google for support of their products.
Abstract:

When vaccines are in limited supply, expanding the number of people who receive some vaccine can reduce disease and mortality compared to concentrating vaccines in a subset of the population. A corollary of such dose-sparing strategies is that vaccinated individuals may have less protective immunity. Concerns have been raised that expanding the fraction of the population with partial immunity to SARS-CoV-2 could increase selection for vaccine escape variants, ultimately undermining vaccine effectiveness. We argue that although this is possible, preliminary evidence instead suggests such strategies should slow the rate of vaccine or immune escape. As long as vaccination provides some protection against escape variants, the corresponding reduction in prevalence and incidence should reduce the rate at which new variants are generated and the speed of adaptation. Because there is little evidence for efficient immune selection of SARS-CoV-2 during typical infections, these population-level effects are likely to dominate vaccine-induced evolution.

Conclusion:

We propose that dose-sparing strategies, which could have large public health benefits, not be dismissed out of concern that they might promote immune escape in SARS-CoV-2. In fact, multiple lines of evidence suggest that expanded vaccination coverage could reduce the rate of immune escape, providing an additional benefit of dose sparing beyond its immediate impact on disease. These beneficial effects hinge on the assumption that vaccination provides some protection against variants of SARS-CoV-2, or in other words, that vaccine effectiveness against the variants is not zero under dose sparing. Another requirement is that other fitness-enhancing mutations not be exclusively linked to vaccine escape mutations. Both of these assumptions appear currently met. We encourage research to refine understanding of vaccine effectiveness, immune pressure, and the evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, and to investigate this problem more thoroughly.

Author Affiliation

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
The point is that most tech company were doing things wrong by the letter of the law.
But instead of going through and rounding up every CFO in the Bay area, they picked a couple to send to jail to make examples of.

The choice of who to jail was basically arbitrary, given that almost everyone was guilty.
Private company they can do whatever they want yada yada
How do the responsibilities compare? I am at the upper end of the local senior positions in companies(well, well below 100k) and get offers for up to 100k.

Currently i am doing consulting, building up the organization to be more modern, creating videos, system architecture positions for customers, golang courses and development, some frontend stuff. Is this something similiar to these top paying companies?

And do all of these require the leetcode interviews you always read about? Sure would like to double my salary in germany haha
Cool stuff! I'll give it a lookover later.

A few years ago, I wrote AESRAND (https://github.com/dragontamer/AESRand). I managed to get some well-known programmers to look into it, and their advice helped me write some pretty neat SIMD-tricks. EX: I SIMD-implemented a 32-bit integer -> floating point [0.0, 1.0] operator, to convert the bitstream into floats. As well as integer-based nearly bias-free division / modulus free conversion into [0, WhateverInt] (such as D20 rolls). For 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit integers (with less bias the more bits you supplied).

Unfortunately, I ran out of time and some work-related stuff came up. So I never really finished the experiments.

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My current home project is bump-allocator + semi-space garbage collection in SIMD for GPUs. As far as I can tell, both bump-allocation and semi-space garbage collection are easily SIMDified in an obvious manner. And since cudamalloc is fully synchronous, I wanted a more scalable, parallel solution to the GPU memory allocation problem.
For comparison I make mid 70s as a mid level dev in a medium cost of living area of the US.

I feel that very often when Europe compares itself to the US on this, they only look at the super HCOL areas like SV, Seattle, NYC.

I feel like we are underpaid still, compared to SV and NYC devs.

For another comparison my coworker was recently promoted to senior dev and he is starting in the mid 90s.

Also there is no fancy comp, we have employee health insurance(that we still have to pay for both monthly and when we use any medical service -- for non Americans this is very standard), we have a 401k(retirement portfolio) that our employer matches the first 5% of everything that goes into it. We also have a few other niche benefits, but no fancy comp.

I just wanted to give a more realistic portrayal of the usual American dev.
Most of its functionality is meant to work on other websites. There is probably little reason to install it for amazon.com only.

Note: I’m the author of this article.
People in the US are far more likely to be armed than people in Europe or Asia. That in fact makes them more dangerous.
Can we have "100 MW" in the title, either after "giant", or in substitution with "giant"? I think it would be a much better title.

Edit: also, forgot to mention that most people don't seem to know that batteries used for these type of large projects are not in competition with batteries used in cars, in the sense that they are either of a different kind, or recycled/used ones.
We don't know why it was disabled. It may have been in error, but there are other possible reasons.

In particular, Google will disable accounts it believes have been compromised by third parties. This is a good thing, because it prevents the attacker from downloading the entire account and advancing through even more of the attackee's life, or deleting everything.

Recovery should be available via the backup account, if one has ever set that. This user doesn't say what they have tried on the recovery side.

The bottom line is that we don't know why what happened happened. It may be a bad reason--those certainly happen--but legitimate issues can also drop users into this bad situation.
I have contacted Google multiple times for different products, and it's been fine. No misfortune involved. Nothing amazing but nothing terrible either. Just standard customer support, you know?
That's why we also should use a bartering system to keep things in check, just like how societies survived for thousands of years.

I'm not claiming to understand the whole machine, however, we know for certain there are rotten practices that make the machine unstable and also much more difficult to understand. Interest and usury are at the core, along with other things that are prohibited by Islam (e.g. selling things that you don't own and several more).

Once those are removed, the system will become much more stable, fair, and better off for everyone.