skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent, but back then they had longer battery life than conventional laptops, 93% size keyboard, were really cheap (great for me as a student) and were fine for browsing the net (for about a year, then the websites became suddenly a lot more complex) and remote work.

I remember trying to buy an eeePC in a computer store and when I said it is for programming the guy there didn't want to sell me one but tried to sell me a 17" monstrosity. But I needed it for travel and to do office and coding work and most of the time I used SSH to a more powerful PC anyway.

The only stupid thing was that Microsoft artificially limited netbooks to low resolution and low RAM. You could apparently either build a netbook, or a fully-featured laptop, but not a small-format laptop without getting some kind of license penalty. Same a couple of years later when Intel and MS mandated that Ultrabooks have glossy touchscreens and motion sensors and could be maxially X mm thick.
See Microsoft's announcement: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/05/25/accenture-github...
Wow. I had to click the link for the book to confirm this was all true. If it had been published on April 1st, I would have been sure it was a joke.
> 2. those disk support sata 3 @ 6.0 gbps, but the network interface on the odroid (as well as most other SBCs) is a 1gbps. not surprisingly, the graph for throughput kinda reflects that: the best performance for network-based sequential read (jiva) tops at about 1/6 of local physical volum device. iops for sequential reads are similar.

Jiva for sequential reads was 20MB/s, so the 1gbps network port wasn't saturated at that point.
Someone please translate that to Latin and start plastering that on office walls so people take it more seriously. It’s going to save all of our mental health in the long run.
I hardly trust Amazon to ship me authentic toothpaste. Who the hell buys a $7k item?

I try not to buy anything from amazon since FBA is mixed in with knock offs and other garbage items. They have no quality control at all and don't care about knock offs.
> [why] is a machine killing people more immoral than people killing people?

By detaching the moral choice from a person it makes killing more acceptable.

At least that's my take.
> The greatest programming language ever is lisp. I should learn lisp.

I really should
Please give some credit to other posters.

The way I read this; when he says "you", it's the generic you: he's talking about the "chauvinist monsters" like himself, and it's in the context of three particular ways in which his own failings prevent him working with women.

He forms and encourages inappropriate emotional relationships with his female colleagues and it affects his ability to give criticism of their work effectively.

Now you have the right to read that a different way; but please respect that others are not just "memory-holing" misogynistic comments for some reason or another.

I'm not defending him: he definitely has a problem with his attitude to women, it sounds like it might absolutely create a hostile workplace, and it's almost certainly inappropriate to be talking about the subject in such a light-hearted manner - but this is fundamentally a mea culpa rather than a criticism of women in science.
> " In other words, the Fibonacci numbers mod 7 are cyclic after 16 numbers and that cycle is used for the bottom notes."

To my naive view, that's really interesting. Whereas duodecimal number systems fell out of cultural fashion around the world, we have settled on one in the chromatic scale of western music and the way we often develop an intuition for the proportions and symmetries in music is using a mod/base-12 system. I have no real insight to add other than to just appreciate the coincidence that the periodicity of this cycle sounds nice. The idea that music can be discovered is just appealing.
I would have no problems with adopting that standard. But this standard isn't universally applied. Many of the criticisms against China is based on what people believe China's intentions are, not on what China actually does.

For example:

China sends masks to Europe -> we should be wary, because they're engaging in "mask diplomacy"

China funds infrastructure in Africa -> it's because they're intending to colonize those countries.

China sends vaccines to the global south -> it's because China intends to spread influence.

So which one is it? Do only facts matter, or do reading of intentions also matter?

If we can judge China based on our reading of their intentions, they should be able to judge us based on their reading of our intentions as well.

Or conversely, if only facts matter, then we should judge China only by what they do and not by what we think their intentions are. Naturally, they should do the same.
But the shipper (UPS) had a record of the package weighing only 2 pounds. That is hard evidence that the device was not present when shipped.
>But we have no proof of gravity either, only very strong suspicion supported by loads of experimental data.

Isn't that the difference between gravity and "facebook is surreptitiously listening to our conversations", that the former has loads of high quality evidence backing it up and can be trivially demonstrated and the latter doesn't? If someone claimed there was an invisible force that we don't know about, but you can't demonstrate it and the only evidence we have of it is various anecdotes, I'd be skeptical as well.

>Leaking a single keyword per day or per week would greatly enhance such systems' capabilities yet remain very very difficult to detect. Perhaps 52 new keywords per year is enough for them.

I suspect you're getting some of the threads mixed up. Other commenters have mentioned about this sort of activity being detectable via network monitoring, but I never made such claim. Instead, I claimed that such activity would be detectable by the operating system itself, due to the microphone activity indicators. That's not something you can sneak one word at a time, because you need to be listening all the time to pick up keywords.
Depressed? Just change your genes. /s

This is a misleading headline to say the least. On par with "just stop being sad."
And when oil runs out do the rest of the world remember about human rights and we at least not minimize the abuses that happen?

Do the prediction tell if there will be internal struggles when the oil ends and who will end up on top? What if some more extremist leader/group gets the power?1
There used to be a belief that if you were exposed to am image, say someone drinking a prominently labeled Coca-Cola, it would make you want a Coke even if the image only flashed by so fast that you were not even consciously aware you had seen it such as if the image was a single frame inserted in a scene in a movie.

This was debunked.

There is, however, something sort of in the same ballpark that has been reproduced and does show that your brain does have an astounding capacity to at least partially remember images seen only briefly.

Take a large collection of images of a variety of ordinary things. Pictures of things like a bunch of bananas, a dog catching a Frisbee, a cat sunning itself near a window, kids waiting for a school bus, a cat pouncing on a mouse, someone eating a banana, yadda yadda.

Divide the collection randomly into two equal sets, A and B.

Show test subjects the images from set A serially, letting them see each image for a hundred milliseconds or two, with occasionally rest breaks if the image set is large (I believe this has been with image sets up to 10K in the total collection, so it can take quite a while to go through set A).

If you then tested people on how well they could recall these images, they would suck at it. Ask them to describe all the dog images they saw, for instance, and they will only recall a small fraction of them.

Where it gets interesting is if instead the test you do is at a later time you randomly pair up each image from set A with an image from set B, and serially show the subjects these pairs in random order and with the random left/right placement, and ask the subjects to identify which of the two images is one they have seen before.

People get it right some astoundingly high percentage of the time, like 90% after several days. They might not really "remember" most of the A set in the sense that they can purposefully recall them, but apparently we do automatically and effortlessly store something that is good enough to let us tell which of two images is the one we've seen before.

I wonder if this effect would apply with ads? You see a banner ad in passing for brand X molten boron, not paying attention to it. This doesn't make you subconsciously want to go buy the product--that was the old debunked subliminal advertising theory.

But later, you actually need some molten boron and so head out to the store. They have brands X and Y. I wonder if because of the banner ad you saw a few days ago, you'd recognize brand X as one you have seen before and be more likely to choose it over brand Y.
I've seen lack-of-documentation worn as a badge of honor. "I'm moving so fast, I can't waste my time on documentation. That's the next guys problem."

And management is usually/always ok with this short-term optimization.
> Are they listening to mics? That is constantly debated/debunked.

No. They don’t need to. Also, in iOS at least, they’d get caught as there are visual indicators now for when mic/camera are activated.
For stoicism you've got it covered. I would say make sure to get at least somewhat modern translations to avoid the irony of phrases like "thou shalt use plain speech". Part of stoicism is about being simple and direct. The older translations are not as effective at driving that point home because language has changed.

For philosophy in general, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance continually comes up on HN for good reason. I would also say the audio version narrated by Michael Kramer is the best way to experience it, given how big a roll the idea of conversation plays in the story.
This, and the current “sober” posts on r/ExperiencedDevs, makes me think of Herodotus describing the way the Persians made important decisions - once sober, once drunk, and if the drunk and sober decisions were the same they knew it was a good one.
Ask HN: How would you assess a startup offer?
What factors would you consider when evaluating a job offer from an early stage startup?

Someone close to me got an offer from an early stage startup (under 20 employees) recently and asked me if the offer is good (I work at a pre-IPO company). We discussed the basic factors of whether they like the team, their role, the numbers and whether they believe in the product and the founders. Given the early stage of the startup, the risk is higher and there is a general lack of external signals to assess the opportunity. So, I thought of reaching out to the wisdom of the HN crowd to see what other factors should one consider in deciding whether to bet the next few years of their career on a startup.
Once, upon a midnight dreary,

While I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious seashell,

Gathered from some forgotten shore ...
>Don't meet your heroes. I paid 5k to take a course by one of my heroes. He's a brilliant man, but at the end of it I realized that he's making it up as he goes along like the rest of us.

I thought they were going to go the direction of "he's an asshole" and was ready to accept that, but this particular criticism is actually disturbing. People with strong visions can often appear to be "making it up as they go along," when really they are just subpar communicators.

Short story, I am helping my current company switch from a monolith to service-oriented architecture, and in the process have built a framework for spinning up new fully-deployable services from scratch that gets engineers 90% of the way there (minus the business logic). I have a strong vision for how it works and had a dozen-page RFC accepted by the engineering team for it. Yet there are engineers who think I am making it up as I go (I have been asked this indirectly), without any vision guiding the pieces into place. I have chalked up this feedback to me needing to improve my communication of the vision.

So the post's response of "I realized that he's making it up as he goes along like the rest of us" is disturbing because it makes me realize just how difficult communicating a vision is... if this hero that the poster paid $5k to go see can't even convince one of their fans, what chance do normal people like you and I have of convincing people that we're not making it up as we go?

>EDIT: I realize that I am posting under the assumption that the person's hero does in fact know what he's doing. If he truly is making it up as he goes, the above doesn't apply.
Been doing this professionally 15 years, and still am enamored with tech and programming. I actually avoided getting into the field because I was worried it would ruin my favorite hobby if I did it professionally (which is why I majored in Philosophy instead of CS in college)

I get sick and tired of all the rest of the bullshit, but never with tech and programming itself.
Computing Science? Algorithmology?
Yes. Many times, and at scale.

While not strictly accurate, it's easiest to think about it as a simple machine learning system. The system can't be interrogated, so you don't really know what correlations are being made.

The actual way it works is in layers. There's a human layer, using logic to create segments or other targeting methods. There's the ad network's automated optimisation options. FB really took this to the next level. There's retargeting. Bidding, and the economics of advertising plays a big role in giving the system intelligence. 3rd party ad management software.

Each piece/layer typically ads additional data to the set. The human/advertiser generally does this this by uploading or tagging their own customers. FB, for example, will allow you to create a "similar" list, where it finds user similar to those you designate. Similarity is somewhat ambiguous. FB/Adwords is where the heavy lifting happens, most commonly via bid optimisation.

The only intention is "goals per $." Price, and volume. As I said, the sausage factor is complex and no one sees the whole thing. In practical terms, a massive NN optimizing for sales/signups/etc itself is a decent analogy... and increasingly not an analogy.
I think it was to encourage companies to sign up for support accounts. You can't even comment on issues without one.
UC Berkeley to auction NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning documents
Well I guess for one: who's held accountable if it kills the wrong people? The engineers? probably not. The higher ups? I'm sure they've mastered the art of weaseling their way out of consequences by now.
And what about human rights and who what if when oil runs out some extremists ideas will popup ? When things go bad the people will try to find someone to blame and there might be a risk that extremist ideas will grow.
Fun facts about Les Revenants:

- the main location is the city of Annecy, in South-east France, on the exact oposite side of the Alps were the city of the post is

- the underwater scenes were shot in Italy, precisely in the Tirino river in the small town of Capistrano, in central Italy (in the province of Aquila, Abruzzo region)
It's not mandated anywhere in US law, but the vast majority of reputable retailers (e.g. Walmart, Amazon, Target etc.) have very generous return policies. They're usually far more generous than 14 days. As you might expect, there are of course reasonable limitations (e.g. customized products, digital products, etc.).

Amazon: 30 days https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Walmart: 90 days https://www.walmart.com/cp/returns/1231920

Target: 90 days: https://help.target.com/help/subcategoryarticle?childcat=Ret...
I keep telling the kids I need more personal time, but they don’t seem to be listening.
We had a customer who wanted to use a transfexive display. Huge project, some kind of outdoor advertizing in asia. We got prototypes from a major display manufacturer (can't say which but I think there are not so many) and well... it looked like they just took a normal LCD and left out the backlight. Readability and contrast was really bad in any light.

A trainee acidentially broke the display but he was lucky: the customer wasn't interested in it anymore after seeing a demo. I don't know what became of the project.
Yep, this is called cross-device matching. Generally consists of some modeling for devices seen together on the same IP address. One of the notable AdTech companies in cross-device modeling is Drawbridge (purchased by LinkedIn).

Here's a 2015 Kaggle competition that they hosted, which provides sample data that they use in modeling, https://www.kaggle.com/c/icdm-2015-drawbridge-cross-device-c...

And here's a technical writeup of one of the well-performing solutions from that competition, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.01175.pdf
Meditate. Increased mindfulness helps develop your brain to recognize the unimportant, so you can let it go, and focus on the important.
> Undermining the credibility of computer science research is the best possible outcome for the field, since the institution in its current form does not deserve the credibility that it has.

This is obviously somewhat tongue in cheek, but I’m not sure the author appreciates the full implications of how this would play out. Research funding for AI exists in competition with funding for all other fields. Revealing deep-seated BS would serve mostly to decrease funding commitments to AI projects in favor of other fields, or away from R&D entirely. It would be bad for all researchers (but if the true level of fraud is that high, and I have no doubt that it is, this may simply be an inevitable market correction).

Other comments in this thread seem to miss the point as well: “why don’t universities select for quality not quantity”? Well, the change has to start with the funding sources for the unis to care.
Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
Previous similar discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914112
A Few Thoughts on Depression
I think it's pretty unusual to have photos of photographers at this point in time. Noone was interested in knowing how photos were taken, the subject wasn't the photographer. Photographer as personality happened in the 60s.

Saying that, the photo in question does look rather fine. The equipment looks right, i'd say that it's a Speed Graphic, and it looks to be the right sort of model, looks like it's got a rangefinder although he's using the wire sights for framing. Holding the front bed with the left hand for stability looks to be about right, so this i'd suggest is definitely a photographer, not a model/actor playing a photographer if you see what I mean.
Well, this is not a specific advice about job interviews, but general business.

And you should give a fuck about signing the contract, otherwise you shouldn't lose your time and try negotiating in the first place.
I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value of the Accept-Language request header regardless of what IP address a request is coming from.
I have never heard the suggestion that Asian people aren't considered "PoC".
> as an individual researcher

And how is an individual researcher funded, if I may ask? We already have many homeless teachers living in their cars, so I don't think the power of public opinion will rebalance financial incentives to make an even more useless profession (in the eyes of the general public) attractive. Joe-Schmoe-the-janitor won't see financially supporting lone nerds as a first priority.
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We have been doing a research on simplifying cryptocurrency management with decentralized control.
the journey is the reward.

and the wine. more wine.
Bigots in India are thinking anti-govt = anti-india

And ruling BJP party ~220 million votes out of total ~800 million votes'
Also, most companies like to brand themselves as ‘tech’ to signal that they are growth based. Why is Peloton a tech company? They’re not.

A lot of us have jobs because companies need to fulfill the image. It’s half the reason why so many people are allowed to do full-stack when in reality they would have no business dealing with those parts of the stack in a real operation.

So no, you don’t actually deserve more money because you are working on more things in an inconsequential space (e.g What the entire Peloton engineering team does is probably bullshit. You need maybe a few devs).

There are certainly better examples than Peloton, but that’s what came to mind (a home gym tech (lol) company). Can’t wait until Bowflex starts hiring out web developers.
Did they compare to the similar group of people who did not get ads?
Amen. Something bizarre I have noticed though in junior-almost-senior engineers is that they pride themselves in obfuscating and writing "highly complex" logic, with no documentation. It's almost like they are demonstrating their new abilities in the worst way possible. I have been dealing with one of these engineers recently, and they have expressed to me that they love writing <highly problematic, confusing code> because it's so terse. It's been a point of friction, actually, because I have been trying to get other engineers to help on the software they have been contributing to, but it is nearly indecipherable without the original author's help.

Very frustrating.
I'm pretty sure that's not how congestion control works... My ISP doesn't honor my congestion control flags. Whatever congestion control I set up ONLY changes things on my side of the ISP connection. And yes, within my LAN, I definitely can prioritize various streams.
Yeah, that is certainly part of it. Another part is that right after I get the kids to bed, I don’t want to do the dishes and clean up things to get ready for bed, so I take a break. But then I get more tired and want to clean up even less, so I stay up longer. Until I am so tired I sleep clean and go to bed.
Commodore’s Assemblers: BSO CY6502
Working with coinduction. So that’s not a good definition :-)
We used it at the University of Western Australia back in the ‘80s when I’d attend lectures and tutorials for a course without formally enrolling (bureaucratic issues meant that that was often impossible). Some academics were very positive about it, they got good participants in the room, rather than just check-the-box degree mill students.
> Internet companies can go west but not east.

Also native Chinese here. I do not quite agree with your view on that. Yes, Facebook and Google were censored in China, but were eBay and Amazon blocked in China? Neither of them found a way to do business well in the China market.

I'm totally against censorship, too. But blaming all things on the GFW is unreasonable to me. I think the reason here is that most educated Chinese people CAN speak, or at least read, simple English, while very few western people can speak Chinese. Getting into a market that speaks a language you understand is much easier than getting into a market with different language.

Everything invented in the silicon valley will be shared and discussed in Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen in almost no time. There are even Weibo accounts just reposting HN headlines, arxiv papers, etc. Each of these accounts has a huge amount of followers. How many westerns can read Chinese and know what is happening right now in China? China is far behind the western world when it comes to science and technology, but with a 1.4 billion population, I'm sure there are a few great ideas. However, westerners are hard to get them not because of the "closeness" of the east, but for the language barriers.

When I see a technical post on HN, the comments are always meaningful and profound. But the comments in political posts are often too simple, sometimes even naïve. I wish we could think as hard as we do when discuss the newest technologies.