skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> usually people with advanced degrees from hard-to-get-into colleges and years of experience along with very specialized knowledge.

Maybe 2005 Google, but not anymore. A good bachelors degree or enough YoE at most companies gets you the interview, and then the interview result usually does the rest. Those are the "line engineers" that move on to other faangs or unicorns when psychological safety becomes an issue.

Typically it's the people from the hard-to-get-into colleges, or with years of company tenure, or with specialized knowledge causing the psychological safety issues.
I don't find the whole discussion about simulation or not simulation so brilliant and interesting anymore.

Is it likely we exist within something bigger? Yes of course. Your city is within a country, your country is within a continent, your continent within a planet, galaxy, universe.

So yes very likely there is something bigger containing our universe.
That does not mean though the object that contain us is the top.

It's not like there is THE ONE REALITY simulating us in THE ONE SIMULATION.
It's more probable that we are inside of a bigger reality and that reality is also inside something else and it might go on like this endlessly.
That does not imply that our reality is less real than the others outer or inner realities.
>>The estimate is likely to be pretty inaccurate

But let's be clear, inaccurate has different meanings - in this context if the official figure is 20 and it turns out that only 40 have died then that's 100% out on the official side and 50% out on the estimated side. In this context the high figure may have far more utility as well - by producing a more appropriate response from the authorities and society.
Lyn Alden does a deep dive into money printing and inflation and describes the difference between the money printing in the past and what is going on now:

https://www.lynalden.com/economic-japanification/
I'd really like for someone to get a contract, then sell the information a la carte for $1-$5 a pop. Until that happens, people won't care.
Not sure why you are so obsessed with this. Yes this process does involve humans, but the process has aspects can be examined as independent of humans.

This study does not care about the reviewers, it cares about the process. For example, you can certainly improve the process without replacing any reviewers. It is just blatantly false to claim the process is all about humans.

Another example, the review process can even be totally conducted by AIs. See? The process is not all about humans, or human behavior.

To make this even more understandable, considering the process of building a LEGO, you need human to build a LEGO, but you can examine the process of building the LEGO without examine the humans who build the LEGO.
If you have to ask you're not a big enough customer.
Before: Repeatedly bashed until died. After: Repeatedly bashed, then had heart attack and died. Is that it? Please.
It's what drives the price increases in the Bay Area in California, as well. When 20% or more of the purchases in a given year are by foreign persons, it is problematic. They don't live here, they buy properties and let them sit vacant or rent them out. We need to basically prohibit ownership of anything but a primary residence by any entity that isn't a citizen or permanent resident (corporate entities would qualify if 100% of their true beneficial owners meet the same standard).
So context here, I’m transgender — but transition was always about bringing 100% of myself to the table at all times. I similarly had my “work self” and “true self” — but keeping them separate was impossible when in that identity-less state a lot of trans people experience mid-transition.

So when I was reestablishing my personal identity in my late 20s, I just never made a separate “work self”, and it’s been a deliberate decision. I regularly talk openly with my superiors and make it known that I’m very opinionated but I’m also fallible and open to learning from my mistakes. This kind of openness and trust is absolutely essential at the executive level; the real secret is that none of us really knows what we’re doing and we’re all making it up as we go too.

Doing this a few times with the right people will help you learn when asking questions is helpful and when you should get out of the way and follow orders. A good leader has the level of humility to know they’re not always right.

In fact, this ability to “fight back” effectively is what gets you promoted above a line manager level. And in my opinion is why white men are so overrepresented in senior levels of companies: the psychological safety is there for them in the rest of their lives so they can have it at work, and it’s not there for others so it’s a lot harder to build the muscle on the job if you’re always on guard at home.
Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity?
I think the 200k was mostly rent.
The fourth amendment stops the government forcing a company to disclose customer records, but it doesn't stop that company voluntarily turning over the records (ie selling it).
Past related threads:

Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip YouTube Sponsorships, Intros, Outros and More - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533858 - June 2020 (2 comments)

An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743196 - Dec 2019 (101 comments)

Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778926 - Aug 2019 (137 comments)
I think the managers do live in reality. They know perfectly well that this is a power tool that can be used against engineers who are more intelligent than themselves.

U.S. companies are very much fear driven. Management always keeps people in doubt and uncertainty. Violating psychological safety is another charge to hit people with.

It is the same as the "counterrevolutionary" charge in communist countries, to be used against intelligent dissidents.
A little clunky, but it works well. I make a "bin" directory in my windows home directory with visual basic scripts in it to launch things from Windows shortcuts. The "xterm.vbs" script from my "bin" directory:

args = "-c" & " -l " & """export DISPLAY=:0.0;xterm -fn 10x20 -bg black -fg green"""
WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute "bash", args, "", "open", 0
"It's okay, we didn't buy it, we shared it."
This is interesting, and very well executed (for a prototype)!

There is one thing that makes, in my opinion, all simple to-do lists unusable very quickly: what if the user has thousands of (hierarchical) things to do? What if the user wants to delegate some of the work to other members of the team? What if some to-do items are not really a to-do items?
Porsche Taycan Sales Surge
I'm assuming your asking about an IC role and not something higher up the food chain. If you want to stay in the Bay Area, I'd say FlexPort is a safer bet. Anduril isn't (IMHO) going to be a public company and (based on Brose's work) are a better acquisition target for one of the main defense players. But if you have read Brose's book, then I'd say you would enjoy Anduril more than flexport.
Great idea! So many nice communities across the country. I often wonder why more companies don't just take over - giving their employees quality of life options.
This still works as written. Just test it yourself with a Mac and Apple Configurator.
Funny how none of that ever comes up when we're discussing bailing out corporations. Quantitative easing by itself was several trillions of dollars arbitrarily invented, let alone the various bank and corporate bailouts over the past decade. And don't forget that we literally allow banks and such to print money and stocks on demand (aka leverage) to allow them to make money.

In any case, value fiat money is not a product of rarity, it is a statement of the value of future tax receipts. Money encodes/is an exchange marker for work done or promises of work to be done.
$200k on legal fees? Outrageous! Let's see what the article says:

>$200,000 on rent, an architect, a lawyer, equipment and fees

Strange.
I disagree, I don't want my project to successfully build at all if I have type errors.
With the utmost possible respect, 'criminal or counterintelligence' in no way implies the involvement of a foreign government, and trying to allege racism on such flimsy grounds is a rhetorical tactic well past it's sell-by date.
> i am the only person working on ML at Netdata and i can confirm we don't gather any data for ML purposes, which is actually my biggest challenge right now :)

Yeah I would have to imagine that it would be an issue. This is just my personal opinion, but I think there should be a way to provide anonymized data for building models for anomaly detection. Maybe an opt-in feature, as it would benefit everybody using netdata, but this is just my own personal opinion.
Seems like in America (or the world, or capitalism in general), incumbents have a strong grasp on everything, from business to government to land. In SF, it's magnified with the amount of space being scarce. People who were there first, whether they are homeowners or business owners, and benefit from obstructing newcomers.
Ethics are highly subjective on the margins. In this case they completely missed this issue. However the opposite is more often the case.

A good example is challenge testing Covid vaccines. This was widely deemed to be unethical despite large numbers of volunteers. Perhaps a million lives could have been saved if we had vaccines a few months sooner.

Research without ethics (as currently practiced) can have value.
Coincedentally,

The system distro is where all of the magic happens. The sytem distro is a containerized Linux environment where the WSLg XServer, Wayland server and Pulse Audio server are running.
...
The system distro is based on the Microsoft CBL-Mariner Linux. This is a minimal Linux environment, just enough to run the various pieces of WSLg. For details on how to build and deploy a private system distro please see our build instructions. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#wslg-system-distro
Were all of the commits from UMN emails GPG signed with countersigned/trusted keys?
> I now believe it's better to use SQL directly than to use an ORM

I reached the same conclusion. Everything is so much simpler that way. I ask the database for the data, the database gives it to me. That's the end of it.

I used to like highly abstract libraries but the truth is they provide the lowest common denominator in features at a huge cost in complexity. Now I'd rather work as closely to the implementation as possible. I feel like I actually understand how stuff works now.
I doubt most people reading the article coming from HN are writing disassemblers, and all such people would have to read it anyway because the number itself isn't sufficient to validate that you've enumerated all of them (because as my sibling points out, it's more complicated than that). The specific number is the least interesting part.
This is by design from the SF preservationists. The more development they can prevent, the better. The attitude I've heard is that SF is like Yosemite and it must absolutely not be allowed to change in any way.
You have to pay rent while you navigate the permitting and inspection process.

Edit: What I'm saying is that if you spend a year paying rent on an unopened shop while waiting on a permit, then that is properly understood as a cost of the permit.
Yeah, I hear ya... of course there are degrees of in-between. In the article and the comments here, however, the tone of the criticisms of this guy and his ideas (e.g. "managed a few good years of self-promotion") seem weirdly personal and harsh.

That may be my bias as a very casual reader who isn't particularly invested in linguistic theories. (I certainly like Chomsky's social/political criticisms.)
Why would investors of crypto themed startups want or need to see the receipts for the founder's new Tesla?
I wonder what data rate is actually possible on a cassette tape, using modern modulation and error correction techniques? A blog commenter claimed to get 13.8 kbps per channel using Digital Radio Mondiale with OFDM+QAM, but I didn't see an obvious way to reproduce this:

http://www.windytan.com/2012/08/vintage-bits-on-cassettes.ht...

There are various data modes for ham radio (e.g. JT65), but tapes are better in some ways (bandwidth) and worse in others (wow and flutter), so those codecs seem ill-suited.
Are you serious? If I publish a paper on the social engineering vulnerabilities we have used over the last three months to gain access to your password and attempt to take over Hacker News, you would be fine with it? No outburst, no angrily banning my account...
I don't think it's what the license says. It says that if you are building a larger product that includes an AGPL part, then the whole product has to be AGPL. Even if you didn't change a single line of the AGPL code and just built "around" it.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26884504.
Every sovereign nation with resources should be able to handle emergencies. India is not a small nation without resources. At this point, it seems that people are shifting blame from an ineffective government as well as people's will to cooperate on some externality such as world reserve currency.

Did people read the FT article at all?
The original concept and development was a turn based game but the devs were eventually convinced to change to real-time.
Sure, but the article wasn't written now. It's an old article. The SLIME version gives you an indication when the article was published: somewhen not too long after 2014. The original QGAME code is from 1999-2004.
PS C:\Users\2ion> cat .\.wslconfig
[wsl2]
memory=6G
processors=4

These settings are being respected, as far as I can tell. Since when is it not common sense to assign a reasonable amount to a VM? The only thing that does not seem to work well at the moment is a "memory balloon" RAM allocation scheme. WSL2 is a VM, not a shared memory container. They could do better, but RAM is pretty cheap nowadays and WSLg is IMO the much more productive feature.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#conf....
> it is short term, at best.

Short-term, where short-term is around 70 to 100 years [1], seems just fine to me. It'll buy us time to develop better technology for carbon sequestration and clean energy.

In fact, the problem with planting trees might be the opposite -- trees don't reach their maximum rate of carbon sequestration for a couple of decades, and by then it might be too late.

[1] https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2011/fpl_2011_lippke00...
Isnt hyper inflation on the order of 1000% and not 100%? I think we are looking at somewhere below hyper inflation, but I definitely agree CPI is not showing it. Its not like we lost a war or have impossible debts to pay to our enemies. Everyone else is in the same boat. Do you really think we will see hyper inflation like Zimbabwe and Germany? Im foreseeing large inflation in previously cheap COL areas and low inflation in the already expensive places like SF, NY, DC.

It seems like the asset in shortest supply is where can I store my money against inflation.

Vacation home housing is one of the best products for that.
Computer Forensics Tool Testing Program (CFTT)
I’m interested in MSU’s list of exempt categories. Most of them are predicated on the individual subjects not being identifiable. Since this research is being done on a public mailing list that is archived and available for all to read, it is trivial to go through the archive and find the patches they quote in their paper to find out who reviewed them, and their exact responses. Would that disqualify the research from being exempt, even if the researchers themselves do not record that data or present it in their paper?

What if they did a survey of passers–by on a public street, that might be in view of CCTV operated by someone else?
https://archive.is/mNiPp
Apple disagrees with you.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/09/02/apple-security-person...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/09/sfpd-investigating-i...
The ethics board is most likely not at fault here. They were simply lied to, if we take Lu's paper serious. I would just expell the 3 malicious actors here, the 2 students and the Prof who approved it. I don't see any fault in Wang yet.

The damage is not that big. Only 4 committers to linux in the last decade, 2 of them, the students, with malicious backdoors, the Prof not with bad code but bad ethics, and the 4th, the Ass Prof did good patches and already left them.
Regexes, some 3rd party java annotations, quantum concepts, even some patterns of OOP that involve a lot of abstraction.
This isn't even the first ice cream parlour in SF that has had this happen: https://boingboing.net/2012/02/04/on-the-horrors-of-getting-...
At the very least, convert the down payment to USDC or DAI. Decent interest rate ~8% APY. Of course, this might not be enough...
You probably can learn more and faster about new drugs by testing them in humans rather than rats. However, science is not above ethics. That is a lesson history has taught us in the most unpleasant of ways.
Can't believe Apple doesn't understand rainbow tables.
The article does not do a good job of explaining the issue, as far as I can tell what happened is:
1. SF allows neighborhood objections to new businesses, in this case his potential competitors used the objection process to cost him 6 months.
2. After making it through the objection process, it took another 6 months for the city to issue all the permits that he needed.

Rent on the space is $7300 a month so this cost him $87600 in addition to whatever he spent on lawyers and his own energy.
> Yet prices keep going up and inflation remains low.

I’m struggling a bit with this. Isn’t “inflation” defined as the state where prices for the same good keep going up?

It seems to me you’re focused quite narrowly on currency inflation, which like you point out isn’t that much of a concern for the average American. What they care about is inflating prices of the things necessary for a decent living: food, housing, utilities, clothing, etc. “I have to do more work to afford the same things”. Colloquially, that’s the fear most people are referring to when they discuss “inflation”. Maybe people who have actually lived through inflationary spirals think of it differently though.
Nonsense, governments fail all the time

Moreover, in functioning democracies, turnover happens frequently, and there are checks and balances that help keep it in line, including a free press which just loves to expose waste and inefficiency whenever it can.

Also notice that the events in TFA occurred in the area of Italy that is roughly the birthplace of their organized crime syndicates.

This is the kind of thing that happens when governments become dysfunctional, and are captured by authoritarians and/or criminals, not a normally functioning democratic government.

Also note that it is a particularly egregious and spectacular example and makes news, not the ordinary everyday operations.
Interesting... Thanks
those that can't do teach, and those that can't teach troll open source devs?
The source for that doesn't say that the man fell between carriages. There's not enough detail to tell what happened. But yes, this particular paternoster might have been a bad apple.
We still have C/C++ as a first year subject where I studied, with Java being a second year subject.
You're asking developers at the largest ad company in the world why some of the development they do relates to ads. It has nothing to do with engineers vs managers, both are and have been willing to push against user interest for the vast piles of money.
Such a moat is possibly to their own detriment, due to the success business clustering can bring.
> you could burn the top 2b to mark instructions as 2/4/6/8 bytes (or whatever) in length.

FWIW, this is exactly what RISC-V does.
What do you think smart contracts are?
64-bit Windows doesn't support 16 or 8 bit applications any longer, a VM is needed. At that point it doesn't matter much what the host OS is.
I think that the OP is pointing out that some democracies are freer to act than others. The USA has absolute latitude, especially after demonstrating that countries that might threaten that latitude (ie. anyone who cut the oil off up to 10 years ago - now irrelevant) will be destroyed. India does not have all that much latitude.
They are more advanced typically than just extracting data from a phone. Not sure to which extent they advertise it brazenly though. Fairly certain they blog about it a lot
When hospitals run out of oxygen you end up with ICUs full of corpses:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/middleeast/egypt-ho...

Seems like a rational thing to want to avoid, even if you have to screw steel mills for a little while.
The Bankers Are Coming for Your Bitcoin
As an ex of SF it seems to me this person vastly underestimated just how hard or expensive setting up a new business anywhere might be, especially a food business.

And in SF of all places…
> DOS programs still run on it,

I don't think that is correct. Any windows after 9x will need something like dosbox to run dos programs.
Lagos rollout $20 mln economic stimulus scheme to support households
I really appreciate the constructive response back.

From reading all the press, it feels like MongoDB did not do this to garner more revenue but to instead prevent open-source parasites from causing MongoDB to lose money or even go out of business. When I read Eliot's posts in 2018, it feels like he's trying to stay in business, not be greedy.

From a commercial point of view, databases have been shown to need management. Maybe someday somebody will write a database that has a magic simple-to-use endpoint, stays up 100% of the time, and doesn't require a cadre of people dancing around the database chanting spells to operate it. None to date... So the cloud providers capitalize on that need, and wrap control planes around databases - often hurting the people who are working hard to innovate on that software - and deserve to be paid for their work.

As to harm to the open source ecosystem, cloud providers wrapping managed services around databases has been shown to stifle innovation on those open source products. I.e. why would anybody want to improve PostgreSQL or MySQL when Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL exist, CloudSQL and Azure SQL all exist - and may or may not take the changes - and even when they do, it takes many months or years.

Finally, I guess I'm puzzled by your last two paragraphs.

You mention that "all the dev hours invested into MongoDB post 2018 likely will have been invested in vain" - why? They go into the community edition, which anybody can use. They go into the EA and Atlas version, which customers who want enterprise-quality software with enterprise-quality support can use.

Your discussion implies MongoDB's license (and Elastic and now a host of others) prevents people from contributing to MongoDB. It doesn't. Or that it prevents them using MongoDB as much as they want. It doesn't, with one exception - and that exception probably affects <0.01% of the users of the software. The MongoDB license (and the Elastic and TimeScaleDB and many other licenses) don't even prevent anybody from wrapping up the software into a cloud service and offering it for money. In fact, many companies (SAP, IBM, Tencent, Alibaba, to name a few, apparently do). It just means you have to talk to the company before doing it.

I personally love MongoDB and I think the SSPL ended up preserving the company and preserving innovation, which is good for the open source community. At least it's not a complicated mess like MySQL and MariaDB.

That said, I'd love to hear more about how SSPL actually damages anybody in a meaningful way. I haven't yet seen anything except a philosophical argument. I'd love to hear it.