skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it'd be that hard. There are these cheap Android chips from China all over the place from companies like Allwinner which can be bought in almost any quantity (even extremely small quantities from an industrial perspective).

You take one of those (which currently have reverse-engineering efforts for drivers ongoing with Sunxi project) and simply run a stock Android AOSP without any code signing. The end user would need to install the Play Store and video wouldn't play above HD for the lack of Hardware-supported DRM, but then you would just model your remote control to work like a Game Controller (which Android supports decently).
If you're including sales in the bucket of administrative tasks (and fundraising is very much equivalent to sales), many successful companies are at or near 100% administrative tasks.

It does seem odd that so much of the work would go towards paying to keep looking for more money (fundraising for fundraising), but there are plenty of sales oriented organisations out there who don't make anything. It's just odd in this case that an OSS project seems to have gone on that direction.

I suspect nobody should be earning such a salary working on a project like that.
It has to be submitted to HN at least once every 149 days.
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It varies depending upon the situation but I've never been convinced it's a slam dunk financial decision.

Factors like:

- Can you rent the type of property you want

- For houses in particular, are you willing to put work in

- How mobile do you want to be

- How important is it to customize the property to how you want it

etc.
Really hope this doesn’t get traction. I’m imagining yet another hoop to jump through in the hiring process where recruiters and hiring managers require your Tiktok (and a dance video interview particular to their company). Seems very dystopian.
I've been worrying about tech for a while now, but mostly on the cybersecurity side since I figured AI was still too far away. That more or less changed when I read a post by Gwern on GPT-3, where he makes a compelling case that "there is a hardware overhang" or, in other words, as research in AI advances we're going to find that we do not need substantially more compute in order to achieve the capabilities of advanced AI. I think this was the post where he talked about it:

https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis

"GPT-3 could have been done decades ago with global computing resources & scientific budgets; what could be done with today’s hardware & budgets that we just don’t know or care to do? There is a hardware overhang."

And thinking about it more, this multi-agent method should work in the offensive cybersecurity world if one could figure out how to crack the reward functions like they did for PCA. I think the core insight they found was a hierarchy of agents. If one could formulate the reward functions for the different agents intelligently enough it could allow layered privilege escalation to achieve RCE without random thrashing.
Thanks for the links! Agreed, it’s extremely hard to do well - the basket of goods that one would consider reasonable doesn’t even stay the same over time, computers get added, gasoline (hopefully) drops out.
> was a scam app

That's a horribly irresponsible thing to say.
There is no metric for "inflation for cars". What the BLS data is saying is that the nominal price/quality for cars has stayed the same. So in 1990 you could get a mustang for $20k, and if instead you stuffed 20k in you mattress for 30 years, you could now buy a base model Kia, which when all the positives and negatives are added up delivers similar value to the features of a 1990 mustang. A 2021 mustang costs a lot more, but it's obviously in a different league, hence the adjustment.

Meanwhile, that $20k buys at loss less food, healthcare, education, house, etc which is why "today's dollars" are worth less and why it's fair to say cars got cheaper in inflation adjusted terms.
On Dictatorship
Where did he think those new golf clubs upgrades came from, twice?
I take anyone claiming this at their word. But it doesn't make Discord an aggressor. That word has a specific meaning.
Is your device running only formally verified software and has it been tested against every possible bit-flip or race or deadlock? Has anyone tested running the device for 51 days with a statistically sufficient sampling of configurations? Is it repeated after every update?

Fail safe and mitigate harm as much as possible. A power cycle is cheap and easy way to mitigate leaks and overflows.
It really is that hard. Technology monoculture? This is built on the back of existing networks, which will continue to exist when this new network is online.

Your Smart TV already spies on you. Not sure how this helps.
“Dictators ride on tigers from which they dare not dismount” - Winston Churchill
> suspect the average enterprise Java engineer has more discretionary spending

Engineers get discretionary spending? I haven't ever had a dollar discretionary. My last job paid for an ergo mouse for me (Logitech Vertical) at hire time and I was so ecstatic at the park and got myself a jumbo mousepad to go with it.

Is there a norm I'm not aware of?
I think SpaceX's secret sauce was they disrupted all the old, big, heavily corrupted aerospace contractors like Lockheed and Boeing by being agile, relatively cheap, and innovative because they had to be.

My worry is that nothing except perhaps their own engineering culture prevents them from going that same route eventually. Once upon a time, the big names were the innovative, nimble players.
Thank you. I'm baffled by how positive the HN community was to AirTags, but not to this...?

And aren't more networks a good thing? Shouldn't there be another competitor here?

Also, I'm not sure where people are getting that Amazon is bad at privacy. Amazon isn't Facebook, nor is it even Google Analytics, nor has it been involved in any user/privacy data scandal I can think of. I mean, most of the criticism of Amazon seems to do with worry that electronics you buy might turn out to be counterfeit... but that has nothing to do with this.

This seems like really cool tech, folks.
The replies to this are emblematic of HN culture -- a whole lot of quick dismissals without engaging with why this might exist, who it might benefit, and who it might turn away.

A decade ago everyone was telling me how millennials were lazy or disconnected or didn't understand the real world. And it felt pretty bad. I'm seeing all the same commentary shifted down a generation to GenZ without any introspection.

Yes, you might find this silly, and yes, you might not want to get hired this way. But also consider that for some companies, for some roles, or even for some pipelines there could be benefits to broadening the applicant pool.

Some folks are going to have a hard time articulating their experience via resume, some folks are going to have a hard time articulating their experience via tiktok. Why wouldn't we want to consider folks from both input sources and let folks present themselves using the form they feel best conveys their strengths?
When they were talking about the Starship launch the other day, it hit home for me how much more practical knowledge you can learn about your device when it survives use and you can disassemble it to study. Especially in these days where a device that can analyze metal for microscopic cracks is cheap enough that every airline maintenance hub has one on hand.

This fact essentially, and I think somewhat ironically, makes single use rockets harder to do design iteration on than ones meant to last for years.

Presumably the newest rockets will have higher thrust to weight ratios, or lower risk of failure, so the older ones will be priced as the cheap seats for as long as they last and the opportunity costs aren’t too high. Then they’ll either be parted out or put on display - land an EOL stage at every new spaceport and put that out front as a billboard.
It would be surprising if those old game developers didn't have their own library of code, gradually perfected from game to game. That would have been their modern frameworks.
> The S&P 500 goes up at a pretty consistent 7-10 percent yearly clip. Your $100k down payment will be worth about a quarter of a million dollars in ten years.

Bay Area housing prices tend to appreciate at that rate or faster, and you can acheive much more leverage with better downside risk protection buying housing, since California is a non-recourse state. Plus, it replaces a rental expense you would otherwise have, which a stock market investment doesn’t: you can’t live in an ETF.

Risk is higher, too, so its not all upside.
Yes, I feel very much the same. I never saw it written so succinctly.
I recently ran into the concept of a "variational inequality". A variational inequality defines the optimality conditions for a problem in terms of some F. It basically says that x is the optimal solution to the problem if "for all y, dot(F(x), y - x) >= 0".

Regular convex optimization (set gradient equal to zero) is a special case of a variational inequality, if you define F(x) to be the gradient of the objective. But one can also define F(x) for a saddle-point problem, or even in some cases a general-sum Nash equilibrium.

Anyway, I don't know very much about this topic, but it was a mind-expanding idea for me to run into, in terms of generalizing the connections between optimization and game-theoretic equilibria, and might be of interest to people who also find this work interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_inequality
Based on the description I would say that yeah, your business probably views you as a cost rather than a source of value. If financial circumstances for the company were to change, your position would be insecure. (aka, sales people get fired last). Your negotiating power for higher salaries is also probably limited.

There's plenty of jobs that are like this and if you're comfortable than I can't really tell you what to do, but I always position myself to be a source of value to my company rather than a cost. The salaries are much higher here.

I'm also a developer, but deep on the IC track (architect). I create platforms that give my company whole capabilities that it wouldn't have otherwise. I can directly measure the value in what I do.
https://t.me/black_triangle_tg

Russian channel of Russian hackers. Excellent content on anonymity in sites and digital support
ah thanks! that makes it so much clearer.
> "They are a distributor of the ETI Thermapen and nothing more except 'good friends' with the owners of ETI and that they have contributed design ideas to some versions of the Thermapen."

The text of the blog post also says "Today ThermoWorks also operates its own product design studio in Utah where innovative professional thermometers and timers are created for both companies." so Thermoworks is more than a distributor. jjeaff's representation of the blog post is clearly incorrect and should only increase suspicion of the original accusation of fraud.
I love what you're doing. These kinds of services are so desperately needed. I used to volunteer for an organization called Build (build.org) and experienced first hand just how powerful mentorship can be.
I always feel like Babel is forced on me because of tutorials, setups, examples and frameworks. I don't want it.
This is what happens when technology outpaces laws and laws are reactive rather than preventitive.

We seriously need to rethink some of the most fundamental layers of society - built and designed for an era where information travels at the speed of light and PB's of information is moved around the globe each day. Our current laws are obsolete, outdated and outpaced and should be updated every 1-2 years in lockstep with new apps/services/platforms. We're only now beginning to see legislation against online platforms, decades later after they first appeared...Why?

I understand the need and desire for innovation, and sure, it's a 'free market', but certain 'apps' can have far reaching social consequences; now you need to be comfortable having your likeness exposed to multiple platforms, and of course, you'll need the capability to make a video in the first place (phone, internet service, account on platforms...).

What's the use of 'laws' when they are bypassed this easily? How is this not going to be discriminatory/racist the second it's launched? It's ripe for a budding lawyer to build a case and sue someone.

Why are there no laws preventing/outlawing video based resume's until we have decided whether they are okay and in what capability they are allowed.

Why are we even allowing the concept of an "AI" to exist before it's legislated against? Have we learnt nothing that we should probably make laws first, otherwise it's essentially a free-for-all situation which is not good for society.
>Simple conclusion: "Masks make a huge difference indoors and rarely matter outdoors."

Also: For a disease that we now know is airborne/aerosol spread rather than airborne/droplet, N95 and KN95 masks are highly effective, a two layer cloth mask fit tightly over a surgical mask is moderately effective, and a cloth mask by itself is largely for show. I still see people saying you should NOT use N95 masks (they're cheaply and widely available now) while donning a neck gaiter pulled up over their mouth. It's another area where the initial messaging was terrible (in this case out of the good intention of reserving them for healthcare workers) and unfortunately has persisted.
Wouldn't you be happier on the moon though?
Happy to be "the only one" :)
It's a cool idea, and I support it, but it will apply to a fairly narrow demographic. I also think it will have a very difficult time passing legal challenges. Caveat emptor...
Does your GPU work with free graphics drivers?
Except for the LCD panel itself, everything else (the controller, PSU, wire harnesses, connectors, etc) are already easily serviceable. If you can build a computer, you can service this display.

A big bonus with my industrial design would be that the casing itself is made out of metal and harder to damage than plastic casing of most large format displays.

For your specific case, is that a consumer grade panel? What issues are you having?
Open source note app for developer
It is designed for developers. You can take a note and publish. The initial idea was make a platform to write tech doc easily.

Link to github
https://github.com/kenyasue/amidanote
Any critics are welcome !
What do you want a citation for? That being prevented from being an equal participant in society is negative?
Social Media in Real Time
But they aren't trying to solve the same problem.

I believe Waymo works better in a pre scanned area, where there are no construction sites or major changes, but in a general context you can atleast attempt to use Autopilot, which you can't with Waymo. Thus I would not say that Waymo is miles better.
The policing comes in when the top comment criticizes how the poster presents themselves instead of addressing the content of the post.
You're missing the whole concept of choice.

Being forced into something "for your own good" is still being forced, and is anathema to some.
Put together with all of the other mistakes around covid, it all seems rather silly.

- We all know about the WHO and their statement on masks.

- Distinctly remember people saying, "We don't know if antibodies offer protection," (in contrast to every other known sickness afaik). Turns out they do and they are superior to vaccine - Doesn't matter follow the same precautions as
everyone. I know people who have had antibodies for over a year, but nobody would hang-out with them because immunity wasn't explained to the lay-people.

- So much hand-wringing about whether the vaccine prevents transmission. Seemed like a given. Turns out it was a given.

- Still so much hand-wringing about vaccinated people. Given 30% of america is vaccinated, it seems obvious that anybody vaccinated can pretty much go no-mask, no precautions, and if all the vulnerable populations are vaccinated then everybody can go no-mask. Basically America should be 100% open, and the .0001% who are vulnerable but can't get a vaccine can wear masks and quarantine.

It's simply unacceptable for professionsals to say "We don't know X, we'll let you know in 3 months." If you don't know about the India variants and the vaccine, spend 100k to FLY-OUT 1,000 vaccines to India same day, inoculate 1000 volunteers, and track them. You'll have your answer within 40 days. Do this for every variant, it's not rocket-science.

If there's something I'm missing, then they need to explain it about 10x better than they are doing so far. Feels like a bunch of middle-managers.

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tl; dr - CDC needs to be managed by some software engineers apparently.

Edit - Feel free to justify those downvotes if you think you can.
I've used the challenging freeze before where it seemed like I was deer in headlights but also guarded aware, capible and ready for both attack and defense because my unconscious saw sometbi g which triggered my alarms and so I was preparing mentally for the altercation real time as I absorbed more and more details of the altercation, sort of like slowing time.

This subtle preparation of mind and body in location of space and time. You move between the attacker and your loved ones. You gaurd up, and prepare to deal with the matter at hand in the now, trying your best not to let emotions play into further escalations but knowing shit is about to go down. Seeing a person or animal go into offensive or defensive manuvering as if a switch was turned on is always an intimidating observation and thus you could disarm an attacker's momentum and allow for potential descalations.

That said I've took a punch to the face sober from a slightly older drunk man because I was young and didn't understand he was in a different realm. Be careful with your freeze response and know yourself and your enemy.

Freezing is a good response when a weapon is pulled because it gives a chance to descalation. Freezing yeild advantage to the attacker so keep in mind: you may be ambushed on a whim so minimize your time spent freezing. Think and perceive just enough to allow your mature conscious egoic mind to choose a path, for example: instead of taking a punch to the face, disarm the drunk before he has a chance by a quick shove and entering a defensive position you have practiced and rehearsed since a child. Shout, "what the fuck do you think you are doing", make noise and draw attention. You have to put into action your training during these situations so you don't get anyone killed, but you also have to be ready to kill.
Agile gives management the illusion of insight into what the developer does without having to look into the code or understanding the technicalities. Talking about features and problems with your boss is so much more appropriate compared to processing Jira tickets at constant full speed grind without after-thought or planning.
Although I'd point out that many companies were pretty hybrid before this between people traveling, people in different offices, and, yes, people remote. Even if I went into our local office pre-pandemic, only a few people I work with are there and I don't actually even know most people in the office. I don't disagree though. This was sort of my point. People who don't want remote or hybrid will have to seek out companies with stronger butt-in-seats cultures.
I love the idea.

How do you stop predatory paedophiles from abusing young people using your service?

> Our coaches will never make you feel bad to ask questions—even the ones you’re too embarrassed to ask in class.

How do you ensure this?

It does look great though.
Also, further thoughts on this, an example would be the Pine64 series of Boards. They're open source, they've got reverse-engineered drivers coming slowly, they've got Android support already. Basically just take their board, wire the HDMI connector and instead wire that into the TV controller, and you've already got stock Android as long as you can get CEC over HDMI working (for the remote).
1.49 days if Boeing has recently done something dumb and newsworthy.
Android tablets are dead. Same conclusion. I enjoyed a few samsung tabs, but beyond content consumption they are basically useless. I installed node on a few, but I kept getting frustrated about the lack of a real ide. Between phones and smaller tabletesque laptops these days, I don't see a future for the true tablets.
Why investors are getting into cryptocurrency business
I've been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they've got an engine developed (BE-4) that's pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.
I would love to know the logic as to why my comments were flagged. I'll happily take every misinformed, foolish downvote from the Luddite crew, but flagging? Give me a break.
Videos introduce bias towards young, attractive candidates and bias away from shy people or those without a lot of confidence or experience talking at a camera. Which makes peoples' objections understandable.

However, there are a lot of jobs for which being young, confident, and attractive are pretty valuable skills. So I'm sure that it will enjoy fairly wide adoption.
Yeah I think that's mostly accurate. I also think that learning signals processing/sampling teaches you an enormous amount of practical, transferrable skill.

Similar kinds of problems come up in physics, so for me this tracks.
I mean, they were all working the same jobs for 2-4 years before the pandemic hit. They experienced the decrease in productivity first-hand.

And yeah, I'm sure the pandemic had am impact on the effectiveness of remote work. But I'm disputing the aforementioned "mountain of evidence" which I so far haven't been able to view from my vantage point.
I understand what you mean. I also think that durability and longevity are very important. But wouldn't you agree that those qualities are very difficult to achieve and thus expensive?

Part of the problem is that software development is still in its infancy in my understanding. Average software quality and reliability just isn't very high.
not all housing everywhere has gone up, just the desirable housing in desirable locations where people have excess income to spend on housing. Housing can gobble up as much of percentage of your incomine as you let it, and when incomes are large, and interest rates are low, the ceiling becomes quite high.
Yes, but the typical CEO/COO does not have to worry about their family becoming homeless if they lose their job. Let us not be disingenuous about the stakes here.
How is this any more legally risky than an in person interview?
No, 2 includes "what is not known, and what is being done to fill in the gaps". Being honest about "we don't have an answer to this yet but are working on it" helps with the others.
Would it really be possible to get best piece of the tech working? The fact it can rely on iOS network to find it? I’m sure that would be the hard part.
generating an idea or a solution is of course easier than following through, if you generate solutions and ideas quicker than most people it means you will have lots of ideas and solutions, you then need to develop the skill of only saying the best ideas otherwise with all the ideas you will be too enervating (and some times you will fail at this task)

furthermore there are some careers that mean you will not develop a reputation for follow through before you develop a reputation for ideas, for example if you are a consultant and brought into a place you will say a lot of ideas before you have the chance to follow through. In these situations you will be seen as all talk no action because you start off with lots of talk and nobody has experienced your actions. I'm sure similar scenarios can spring to mind.