skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a company with branches in multiple cities. My team consisted of people living in different cities, so we only communicated with each other by Skype... and it worked okay. Yet somehow the idea of working from home was unpopular with management (this was before COVID-19), because "it is important for employees to interact with each other in person".

I think it is all just rationalizations and prejudices. Sometimes teams work better, sometimes they work worse, and the distance is just one of many possible factors.
BMW, Volvo, Samsung, Google back moratorium on deep seabed mining
While I understand your sentiment, I think the primary objective of the filmmaker is to make a good film. Sometimes that means doing something to simply get an emotional response out of it. If it’s effective in giving people a deeper appreciation of the animal and that ecosystem, then I'd argue it was a good choice and not at all misguided as you're portraying it.
I'm mostly familiar with the Oslo scene, which has Hackeriet[0] (of which I'm still a member) with more of a CCC-style crowd and Bitraf[1] which has a lot of physical equipment for "makers" and has a much larger space. Hackeriet's IRC channel is also quite nice (though usually in Norwegian and/or svorsk).

There's a few other organisations, notably Teknologihuset[2] which has some communities organising regular events and NUUG[3] which doesn't have a physical space but moves around and is generally a good community to get in contact with.

Note that NUUG have members all throughout Norway, and also an active (Norwegian) IRC channel, which may be a good place to ask about other towns as my knowledge of those is either outdated or non-existing!

Ses på IRC! :)

[0]: https://hackeriet.no
[1]: https://bitraf.no/
[2]: https://www.teknologihuset.no/
[3]: https://nuug.no
Whereas in Europe university driven innovations are often placed in the public domain, especially in France. What is better for society? Depends on the viewpoint I guess.
I'm reminded of a bit of dialogue from Fight Club:

"Which car company do you work for?"

"...a major one."
Somehow I am picturing only 1-3 tests for other competitors. SpaceX can do this because their launch platform is so cheap.
I tend to agree. If they said they had cleaned up the C++ backend that PyTorch uses and are releasing it separately on it's own with some usability enhancements as Flashlight, I could see that - they wouldn't have to maintain some other new thing. But this is apparently a completely separate thing.
Sure, but you can't actually use an example from Google to deduce what's going on at Epic Games.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying there aren't problems at Epic Games (most companies have them). What I'm saying is, we're just speculating: how is that helpful? Either to them or to this discussion?

We're either casting vague and hand-wavy aspersions or citing more specific examples where we actually have no idea whether they have any relevance to Epic Games.

It's just noise because, as you've pointed out, we're not internal.
Well, with cards in particular there was a big fad that went through the largest streamers a couple months ago. They discovered that opening $40k Pokemon boxes hoping for holos was an easy way to get massive views. Then that morphed into edge lord / troll style content of destroying super rare cards. That second part leaves a dirty taste in my mouth as these are insanely wealthy 20 something kids essentially bragging about how they can flippantly destroy something other enthusiasts would be thrilled to even just see at a convention, let alone own.
This. I interviewed for a role with a game studio and the pay was 40% lower than what I'm making.

I was just curious since they approached me and I had fun with the experience and saying I didn't play their games/had no idea.

The recruiter had no idea of local wages.
IMO, one should understand that software is the current era engineering focus. Just like electrical engineering in mid-20th century, aeronautical engineering in the early 1900s and steam engineering (remember, the origin of the term "engineering" is "engine") for some centuries before that. Before that there were optics and mechanics.

Considering that software isn't just a branch, but a current "engineer's engineering", the more complex, flexible, powerful area, a good software engineer should strive to maintain and expand his knowledge in other areas as well. Physics(actually, natural sciences) and math, and also other traditional branches of engineering can provide a lot of useful material. Search there too.

"Quantum Computing Since Democritus" is a good specific example, I think.
I don't buy it. This is why companies have (sometimes government-mandated) know-your-customer policies.

Allowing anyone to sign up and do business on your platform with minimal friction is great for growing your platform, but it's terrible for growing a trustworthy platform.

The things you bring up are the result of an allow-all policy with a denylist. Deny-all with an allowlist would fix the problem. But of course that costs a lot more to implement, and as long as people still buy stuff on Amazon despite the hassle of dealing with counterfeits, Amazon will continue to fail to fix the problem.
> An open web page ranking algorithm is useless in an adversarial environment.

Anybody with Search experience confirm or deny this claim?
I've spoken with more than 1 non-tech person who has said if they're going to see ads, they want them to be at least relevant, targeting nor not.
As a developer I was a big proponent of 'magic link' style authentication when it was new.

As a user who occasionally runs into this now, I hate it.
Flashlight is much lower level and gives more fine-grained performance control. For instance, I don't think there is really any way to do real-time speech recognition that is fast with PyTorch because of how it is architected.

From my understanding, Tensor Comprehensions and Halide are both very tentative research projects.

> not having it's direction beholden to the whims of Alphabet (see: Swift for Tensorflow).

I don't think this is an accurate recreation of the history that led to FB working on pytorch.
This is very accurate. I'm in the US eastern time zone but working with teams in the Pacific time zone, IST, and CEST constantly. My employer cancelled all of our leases when everyone went home so we're now all remote 100%, but that doesn't really change anything about having to work remote.

Embracing async communications is the key. If I send you a message at 3am just reply when you are ready. If I need a real time meeting I can schedule it, but that's rare for developer communication.
If it is, it's a pretty poor act. It doesn't matter if Firefox, Brave and Edge don't want to use Floc. Google controls Chrome and almost all of the non-FB digital ad ecosystem. They can still derive enormous benefits from it once third party cookies are extinct.
Oh great, we can have this debate again.

WFH is either the greatest thing ever, or the worst, depending on many factors(kids, quiet space, your need for socialization, your career positioning, etc).

WFH part time is either the greatest thing ever or the worst, depending on if you need to maintain an extra office and remain living in an expensive tech hub.
And in recent years they've been crippling extensions more and more, and even completely dropped support for them from their primary mobile browser for over a year now.

So yes, I think this is one of many signs that they're not paying enough attention to extensions, not a totally isolated "accidents happen" event. Were I an extension author, I'd see that event as reason to be more concerned.
Safari is the browser for iOS, so your 4% number is not accurate.
All those sources of uncertainty of the actual probabilities are, while in some cases not typical of a real coin (although uncertainty about actual bias one has been informed of certainly is), fairly typical all of real-world situations in which people face, so I’m not at all certain that that invalidates any application of the results to real-world situations.
As a website owner, you can opt out by setting the Permissions-Policy header to "interest-cohort=()". I rolled that out for pirsch.io today.
As a consumer, I want targeting features default-on, but I also don't mind too much having to turn them on manually.
...but it's Dogecoin.
Bangladeshi society focused more on education and healthcare initiatives, not propaganda -- at least according to wiki
ad targeting is good for economy and small businesses. Imagine all the wealth created by being able to show people ads they might be interested in seeing
You can turn that off:

Settings - Advanced - Escape Key - flip the switch
You do want Google to be able to continue paying $200K+ to fresh college grads, don't you? Or do you want them starving in the streets, you heartless barbarian?
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Now pause to think about how e.g. France has made the EU spend many, many billions to create a search engine that can replace Google? (Unlikely.)
The report isn't written by Michael Morell, the aforementioned 30 year etc., but "co-authored", and the whole thing was sponsored by Coinbase and Square. Who pays the piper, and all that. And if you want to use his CIA experience as authority: his expertise was counter-terrorism, not "normal" crime, and he defended the use of drone strikes and torture.

Their evidence is: "the firms we spoke with believe the unseen illicit activity is relatively small". That's it. The confident conclusion that it's overstated doesn't even allow you to infer if it's more or less than 50%; it doesn't even say which statistic they actually used.

If it's total percentage of transactions or sum of traded bitcoins, that isn't even that important: you can amass a small fortune in just a handful of transactions, whereas trading bitcoin for investment generates many more transactions, all completely irrelevant to the influence of bitcoin on crime.

There are other quotes from experts available, such as “Bitcoin — and virtual currency in general — is widely used in the trafficking of weapons and drugs, and in ransomware and extortion cases. It is used a lot by criminals.”
Perhaps this is just a difference in interpersonal communication styles, but if I were so chided in either case, I would have at least taken it to heart. Like, I don't ask questions whose answers can be Googled; I personally find it morally repugnant -- offensive even -- to ask a human to do a machine's job.

The problem at hand is that CO2 emissions exist and must be curtailed. This thread comes from a certain individual's repeated refusal to separate addressing electricity generation's CO2 emissions from moralistic opinions about the downstream use of that electricity. As if Mother Nature cared about our moralizing.

But thanks anyway for the tone-policing. Really adds to the discussion.
Global Trends 2040: US Intelligence report [pdf]
RTFA?

> The SoC can be used for AI and HPC applications and can be further customized by SiFive customers to meet their needs. Meanwhile, elements from this SoC can be licensed and used for other N5 designs without any significant effort.

> The SoC contains the SiFive E76 32-bit CPU core(s) for AI, microcontrollers, edge-computing, and other relatively simplistic applications that do not require full precision.
It's probably worth mentioning that you usually don't want to make changes in a live production environment, and even when you do, you probably want to capture those changes in a file as well, so that you have a record of what you did. It's possible to make arbitrary changes to a live, running system in Lisp with no other record of what changes you made, but it's not usually a good idea to do that.
Not allowing arbitrary code on a platform is hardly an irrelevant point. It's a fundamental architectural decision that makes deep statements about what a platform can do, and who has permission to do it. These decisions define both business models AND features such as user security and trustworthiness.

For instance, to be competitive in terms of performance, a browser almost certainly needs to JIT Javascript. If a platform prevents apps from generating code and enabling the 'X' bit in PTEs then this isn't going to work. Even if the platform provides JIT services (e.g., pass in an AST, out pops a few pages of callable code) there is still a ton of added risk.

Designing and maintaining the security of a platform is a ton of work and a big investment (assuming it's done well). Security teams are already quite busy, and adding whole app categories that are suddenly able to break previously established design decisions is not easy -- "just do a security audit on a handful of titles" is a phrase that we've all heard, many times, and it sends shivers down our spines. Having seen it tried, and been on some projects that did it, I think it's impossible to do well even at a small scale.

Been there, done that, seen projects canceled because PMs couldn't internalize the nature of the risk to the platform.
Which is exactly how it should be, no? Or do you favour kickin someone in their 50s out who has worked at the place for the last 20 years and will have a super hard time to find another job no matter how hard they try, so that their only option is being unemployed and to rely on social security?
Funny :) . I remember a comment "The next line is empty to improve readability".

With all that, John Ousterhout is a very knowledgeable person, so maybe the book deserves some close look.
Automated backups exist for Wordpress.

If hacked sites were really that much of an issue, then WP wouldn't be as popular as it is for business sites.

In any case, if you have a mature website, it's going to be complicated to switch from WP to Squarespace and vice versa. But with WP you still have the flexibility to host wherever you want, on whatever you want.
What exactly do they expect a cryptocurrency to be used for if not payments?
I work as a devops in the games industry. It’s true that it’s underpaid, and by quite a bit. But it’s not as bad as the programming teams, IME devops pays more.
I thought the question was about research strength, not money-making strength.
Although capitalisation is not really about making money rather than promising to make money later.
Pretty much orthogonal to the aim of research.
Both math(s) and (almost?) all programming languages have their quirks and inconsistencies. What immediately comes to mind is (a thing I've recently learned) the template syntax of C++ where if you get a single character wrong you get dozens of lines of error messages (there's a code golf on exactly this).

At least with programming, you generally don't see different semantics depending on the value of something! With math, there's sin^2 as in:
sin^2 theta + cos^2 theta = 1, which reads the square of the sin of theta, etc.
But then there's
sin^-1
which means the inverse sine AKA arcsine, and NOT 1 / sine, which would be consistent with previous usage.
This whole collector mania is hurting one of my hobbies. Namely the Legacy format in Magic: The Gathering. So the idea for this format is that all the different sets of MTG cards are legal, though some specific cards are banned. Well back in the 90s Wizards made a promise to early collectors they would not reprint certain cards, creating what is now known as the Reserved List. Unfortunately for Legacy, pretty much every Legacy deck requires at least some of these Reserved List cards. For most of the formats history, this was expensive, but manageable. However now the value of many of these format staples has shot through the roof, putting it out of the financial reach of a huge selection of the player base when it was already considered to be expensive.
Arkansas House passes unconstitutional bill putting creationism in schools
Muslims in Space: Observing Religious Rites in a New Environment (2013) [pdf]
On the other hand, employers often work around the restrictions on termination by employing people on a fixed-term employment contract ("befristeter Arbeitsvertrag") and then extending the employment period again and again [1]. In many sectors it is pretty much impossible to get an indefinite contract.

[1] Although there is a regular limit of two years, i.e. if you continue working after two years the employment contract will be considered indefinite. (Obligatory IANAL)
> seems to be helping them

I love that SpaceX is so open, but I'm not sure what material 'help' that actually gives them. I mean, I doubt NASA gives Spacex special consideration because they're popular.
In CS it's kind of combined.
And yet it’s a crapshoot more often than not. There are places that are absolutely terrible and these are easy to spot, but there are many functionally toxic places that you just can’t spot until you’ve accepted the job and are a few months in. What then? Suck it for a while? Quit and start over?
That's curious. I don't play Minecraft myself but my kids do. They have Bedrock Edition (via Nintendo Switch) and they keep begging me to get them the Java Edition. This is partly because it seems all the prominent YouTubers are on Java Edition.
It may also be a sign of people stuck at home going through their stuff and trying to find things to do with their time. It may be a sign of baseball fans not being able to go to games (or being scared of it, if they are able) spending their game ticket money on other fun baseball related activities.
> In North American english, a flashlight is a handheld light, there is no thought of the toy you're referring to when it is mentioned.

Sample size of 1, but this North American immediately thought "oh no, how unfortunate" on seeing the headline. (Admittedly, I do listen to more podcasts than the average person.)
This is really huge news. Starship has in about 18 months gone from a Elon standing next to a steel grain silo duct-taped into the shape of a rocket, to all the eggs in NASA's moon basket. The thing I kept thinking - and I have to believe was considered within NASA - is given the rapid progress SpaceX has been making along with the delays in Congressional funding, SLS, BlueOrigin's other projects etc ... if NASA hadn't selected SpaceX there was at least some chance they'd go ahead and do their own private Moon landing mission before NASA's, a massive egg-on-face moment.

There are still major risks with the Starship program so I don't think anyone should be 100% confident they can pull this off, but the massive side benefit is if they do NASA will have proven out a generic system, fully reusable and with orbital refueling, that can with minimal modification cost-effectively send humans to Mars and much of the rest of the solar system as well. A Model T or 737 in space. The original Artemis plan never made much sense as a Mars "proof-of-concept", but it actually does now.

If at some point say 2025, NASA says to the President "we can get the first human on Mars in 4 years for $15 billion" I have to imagine any American president being eager to sign their name on that accomplishment and give the JFK speech, "We choose to go to Mars in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win"

To me that's the real takeaway here: this is implicitly a huge NASA bet not just on the Moon, but Mars and the rest of the solar system. Finally.
Okay, but what about the performance question? I assume this would apply to any language wrapping SQL. How does GraphQL prevent people from sending pathological queries that would wreck DB performance?
> Apollo did quite well without an intermediate point.

Not particularly relevant. At the JFK planning moment, there were no plans, and hardly means, to fly to the Moon to stay. Different from what we have now. Today, "just" repeating "the small step" would be quite anticlimactic.
Big LibraryThing fan. I paid a teenager to label bins and catalog the books in each bin and made each bin a LT collection. If I can't find something on my office shelves, I check LT to see if it's in a bin. It's really handy.
most things on the erlang virtual machine? Debugging elixir is fantastic.
Indeed. It does seem like a defect in parenting. There is no conceivable reason why you can't forbid your kids from using these things (whether they disobey is another matter, but that's life and at least the law has been made known to said progeny; may the punishment begin!). If you can't do that, then frankly, you've got bigger issues as a parent than the inability to forbid the use of these services. Maybe start with those first.
I've heard Bezos' approach with Blue Origin compared to the 'tortoise and the hare' allegory. Slow and steady may work when your talented opponent is taking naps along the racetrack, it doesn't work when they are as driven as the SpaceX team.
Why is it normal to classify educated people solely based on employability? Is that all education is for?

Also, all automatons may not be incurious, just as all free thinkers may not be devoid of knowledge. A dash of curiosity and free thinking might help challenge those assumptions.
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I'm senior and been at many companies. We still write a ton of code. Of course, you do that and still do PRs, attend boring meetings, mentor juniors, etc.
You've just elucidated all that is wrong with EU research.

You won't have money for fundamental research if you don't have a huge focus, as a research institute, on economic output.
I wonder if for the first time in history one of these space programs can deliver on the original budget? That would be a serious coup for SpaceX.
> Yes, but they own search ads and a large percentage of web ads (though the non-siloed web is becoming less and less relevant each year), and they do everything in their power to put people into their ad funnel.

You can call any company as a monopoly if you define its market narrowly enough. The hard question is making a good argument for your choice of market. Google is absolutely a monopoly in search advertising. But is search advertising the right market to consider? Google would argue the appropriate market is advertising as a whole, where they are clearly not a monopoly.

The ultimate question at hand is whether and to what extent consumers are being harmed by anti-competitive practices. I think in Google's case that's a hard case to make. It might be a bit easier for e.g. Facebook or Amazon, though.
Which doesn't seem as large, when you calculate it out in number of shuttle launches you could do with that cash.
Weeder classes mean less tuition dollars flowing in...
how well does Tesla autopilot work?
I wonder if there are ways to detect some of the other spyware features in google chrome?

I’m genuinely hoping to do this on some of my web properties - if anyone has a hint on how, please let me know.
If you see 60 heads in a row from a coin you’ve been informed is biased to produce heads on average 60% of the time, you'd need a pretty strong bases for trust in your information to not conclude that the most likely explanation is that the bias was underreported. Yes, its possible with the reported bias (or even if the bias was overreported), but that's not the most likely conclusion absent some pretty firm external evidence of the accuracy of the bias estimate you were provided with.

> I’ve seen people roll a 20 on a d20 10 times in a row, and then not a single 20 the rest of the session on the same die.

People rolling dice aren’t, even when they try to be, perfect randomizers, and with a maximally favorable result and an action which demonstrably repeats it, there’s a strong incentive to repeat the action as accurately as possible rather than even trying to be a perfect randomizer.
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I think what actually happens is a new Goodreads minus the technical problems and also minus the reviews and community comes along. Turns out people prefer having actual book reviews to faster page loads and more stable link structures, and everyone stays where they are...