skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can create a Bitcoin address simply with random data, and since you can transfer Bitcoin without an intermediary it’s trivial to bypass any list of suspect addresses.

Further, you don’t throw a party with a list of people not invited. It’s super ineffective to try to globally block an infinite list of bad.

Fungibility of a currency is actually important for it to be effective as a store of value. If my 1 USD is somehow worth more at the supermarket because it previously was owned by Elon Musk.

That said it’s not entirely impossible to track the source of origin of a Bitcoin transaction. It’s just computationally very expensive. Since you can programmatically create wallets and transactions that can obfuscate the origin of transactions. So by the time the funds reach any exchange the money has changed hands too many times for them to reasonably be able know if the origins of digital coin came from illegal activity. Then, by the time they do know it was stolen the funds are gone.

Here’s the punchline though, since most exchanges do in fact keep records and the blockchain is an immutable list it’s only a matter of time till the software/computing resources adapt.
I don't think that's a feature of molten salt specifically? I though this was also achieved with pebble bed reactors via doppler-spreading on neutron velocities?
Not to mention the hubris inherent in the assumption that any aliens would consider us worthy of such an announcement. The universe is 14 Billion years old, while our civilization is roughly 10 Thousand years old. From the standpoint of an interstellar civilization, we may not be worth the miniscule effortinvolved, just like humans have never condescended to announce our presence to "lesser" species.

When they see us puttering around, they may just chuckle, thinking "the filter's definitely gonna get these chumps!"
I have an open secret for you - they never dropped stack ranking. It is just called differently and less transparent now but they still grade on the curve. The only real change is that you, as a manager, don’t have to have 5% on “possible fire list”. But larger teams will, on average, have about 5% of people whom they don’t care about and/or prefer to lose.
Well it appears to have done a number on you but myself and many others really enjoy it and would never go back to an office. Not sure I’d assume my own experience should speak for everyone else’s. But I run a remote first team and have worked remote for decades, with great success and no mental issues.
Hell is other people's CSVs.
It's a race to the bottom - or the top depending on how you look at it. Unless right to repair laws cripple their attempts, companies like John Deere will be able to use their lock in to wring ever more revenue out of their customers. That extra revenue, even if marginal in the grand scheme of things, will drive improvements in their hardware and software that competitors will have to match, most often by implementing the same tactics as John Deere (why not, when JD has already proved them? an MBA will say). Agriculture is already an industry forever on the razor's edge so any short term competitive advantage in yield or even up front capital cost will rapidly outweigh any medium to long term maintenance issue for farmers that live from loan to loan.

Just look at how fast the industry flipped over from dumb TVs to smart TVs, a similarly competitive and low margin market. I haven't been able to find a dumb TV at a big box store in years and the only options left are for commercial signage displays that command a large premium - largely made by the same brands that make the smart TVs.

I have a Pinephone myself but Android and iOS have already sucked all the oxygen out of the room - it's still nowhere near ready to be a daily driver and it's a decade plus late to the party. I got a small open source 3G cell tower for development years before the Pinephone even hit the drawing board.
> Nobody buys prepared food every day

I get what you are trying to say, but empirically false
Engineering line managers who don’t firmly grasp the technical subject matter sometimes (in my anecdotal experience, often) use “ass-in-seat”-style proxy metrics to do performance management.

This is harder to do remote. Reading the tasks and diffs is not harder to do remote.

Such managers are often effective at impacting the organization (for better or worse).

I am not surprised there is a “back to the office” lobby, and I won’t be surprised if it’s an effective lobby.
> There were lots of cases where they turned on each other, and lots of cases where they did not.

The fact that it's a coin flip is the key aspect of the message Golding wanted to impart. It's chilling, and unsurprising, that reality bears it out.
> Once you optimize your job to be close to your home, many of the benefits of wfh disappear.

LOL.
Why? Kids very rarely get seriously ill from COVID-19, and if everyone else is vaccinated they should be safe as well.
I can't recall mine ever doing that. We use it mostly with Spotify. No Prime and not in the US, so that might mean that we miss those things.

If one of the kids botches a request, it might suggest something they could ask, but it's always basic stuff.
That's great. Man, always felt for those SO employees high on "market rate" spiel.
Kinda interesting how “going the extra mile” in the US is viewed as ineptitude in either planning or execution in Germany. Also how the phrase “this is unacceptable” is used very differently in the same places.
But is the patch introducing mRNA or the spike protein itself? It sounded like the latter (though I only read the abstract).
I agree. Those looking to force everyone back into the office want to prove their worth in front of everyone else.

I hate the idea of how some companies try and position the company as your second family. “No I’m here to do what I do to find my life outside of here.”
For people who like where they live that isn't necessarily a factor. Even if I was fully remote I don't think I'd move
Yeah if I made Google wages I would not want to waste an hour or more a day on commuting. Plus, you can easily make food for 10-20 dollars a day so saving by eating the company food will cost you more just by colmuting and losing your time (or potential wages).
> Their cloud storage is down

That's why I never trust "non-cloud" companies with cloud storage, because you never know if they suddenly don't want to do it anymore, or in this case get hacked because of incompetencies.
> I spend 150$+ per month on AC and heat because of the pandemic. I spent ~30$ in gas a month commuting. I could even walk if my bike didn't work.

Work from home doesn't mean you have to literally work from home. There are plenty of places you can work from, ranging from free like libraries or parks, to paid like coffee shops and co-working spaces. You can get your employer to pay for the latter.

> Once you optimize your job to be close to your home, many of the benefits of wfh disappear.

Those optimizations become liabilities if you get a new job elsewhere.
I don't even want to begin to engage upon what you purport KOMO to be, because I don't really care... But the people and lives that video shows are real. Do you have left-wing friendly media pieces to balance it out? This is not something that is typically portrayed positively in media in Seattle, so it's not easy to find good news
More and more services require Android/iOS, either with Google services, or they even detect and block users with rooted devices/custom firmware such as LineageOS (for example Revolut). So far, one can go without them, with some inconvenience, but it's getting progressively worse.
Plus Microsoft is homing in for the kill with ATP, which they will price to displace fireeye gear.
> Nobody buys prepared food every day,

I know many people who don't cook at all and live solely on prepared food.
SO is explicitly NOT for discussion. It's Q&A.
Hey there -- do you have English-language versions of these job posts?
RSA is still under ITAR too which just seems incredibly dumb.
I have fantastic colleagues and I'd still rather work remote. My commute easily gets up to 10 hours / week on a miserable public transit system. I prefer to spend that extra 10 hours with my family, friends, and neighbors, or on household chores, or hobbies, or just relaxing. I certainly understand that some people prefer the buzz of the office and I support people working in the environment that best suits their needs and personalities.

That said, having worked with an effective team in a hybrid environment (even before the pandemic) the idea of companies forcing people back into the office mostly reads as a lack of trust in the people they've hired. To me, that indicates a different set of problems.
I haven’t had a job do any sort of training in… 20+ years. But then I’ve had some odd luck/experiences at every job I’ve had, except my first one. That first job was when I was 14 and was mowing yards with my neighbor who was a grad student.
The system appears to involve music, dance and places. It seems to be documented in the following book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29759605-the-memory-code
From my memory the profits from such attacks were remarkably low. In particular it's very striking that the hackers who compromised JP Morgan couldn't find anything more profitable to do with that access than send basic scam emails to their client lists.
>Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition

For whom? For people who uses it since the beginning it isn’t even the same place anymore. It’s UX (and I’m not talking about the aesthetics of the new design, I don’t mind those) is legitimately the worst I’ve ever experienced and the quality of discussion has went down the drain. Even if you find a tightly controlled community dedicated to a topic you’re interested in it’s either one extreme to another or doesn’t last long.

That doesn’t even get into the constant rolling out for Facebook-tier features that no Reddit user ever wanted. I stopped using Reddit last month after ~12 years and I’ve since realized I was getting nothing but regurgitated memes and anger from a dozen people replying to my every comment who aren’t even addressing what I was saying just arguing for arguments sake.

It’s basically what Facebook groups were in 2016 at this point. I’m sure it’s a great acquisition for those who bought it, but for the old power users it’s anything but.
This is the real answer. All of the other answers are suggesting various changes to the JSON structure to eliminate key repetition, but this is irrelevant under compression.

Where it becomes relevant is if each record is stored as a separate document so you can't just compress them all together. Compressing each record separately won't eliminate the duplication, so you're better off with either a columnar format (like a typical database) or a schema-based format (like protobuf.)
Hm, does that mean the side effects would be expected to be about the same as the vaccines we have already? I'm worried that regular boosters will be an extremely hard sell if so many people get sick for days after each one.
I'm not a mobile person, I've traveled the world but lived in one city my whole life. I've done the 90 minute commute, I've driven all over. This role I picked especially because of the location. Work fits my life not the other way around.
I’d say that’s a company culture thing, not a German thing. I lived and worked in Austria and my teams in Austria and Germany were both willing to work extra and on holidays when needed.
In my humble opinion it is not Amazon who is at fault here, but our flawed human nature. Management set goals in good faith and with honorable intentions but then people started to optimize for the numbers more than for the spirit of the goal. I’ve read someone referencing the cobra effect here and it’s a very good example of loopholes causing more harm than if no policy had been implemented. Whenever a company plays with compensation and bonuses, it’s always a tricky game.

PS my SO works at AWS and has never heard of this "practice". I wonder how common it really is. Maybe this is all click-bait. From what I’ve seen AWS hiring processes are stellar.
> I don’t think you’re an outlier.

Not sure what inspired you to make a claim from a position of ignorance. Definitely an outlier. The vast majority of people have commutes that are not within 8 minutes by any means.
1 Google search and see the US - https://blog.batchgeo.com/commute-times-and-transportation/
or Europe - http://ftp.iza.org/dp12916.pdf
To a first approximation, no one is spending $60/day on restaurant meals unless they're traveling.
This makes we wonder what happened to Google employees living in box trucks in the Google parking lot.
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>Citation needed

This is close, and it's from 2014

https://news.usni.org/2014/07/29/chinese-russian-radars-trac...

VHF and lower frequency radars see right through any stealth coatings and bounce off the airframe, engines, etc.
I live in a medium/low col city. Not everywhere is NYC or Cali
Guide to P-code Injection: Changing the intermediate representation of code on
AWS tends to have different policies from the rest of amazon (such as different promo requirements). Not sure if that's true in this case.
It comes from watching Law & Order, and from decades of (elected) prosecutors painting important constitutional protections as trivial loopholes.
On the diverse and fantastical shapes of testing
Pidgin is ubiquitous on darkweb drug markets and in exploit communities.
I certainly don't worry about what I spend on food and I spend a few dollars a day on breakfast and lunch. Maybe $10-15 typically on dinner (if that). Most people don't have the free breakfast/lunch/dinner some tech employers do. And my utilities might differ a few dollars per day if I'm home or not.
Why are there less sex scandals?
> The only exceptions are when the office environment is truly terrible.

Given that the trend is to open floor plans with limited personal space, I suspect that "truly terrible" is a fair--if not flat out generous--description of a lot of office space.
I've been trying MS out for a couple weeks. The default search results are very good - i.e., you get what your search terms asked for, near the top - something the better-known sites are getting worse at, as they try to be all things to all people ... and in the process second-guessing or just ignoring carefully chosen terms.

At times "removing the top sites" helps drill down into more obscure sources ... still unsure about the intent there.
If it's good for you, that's fine. But most of your ideas here are dead wrong. Things like "oh yeah real innovation happens because of hallways conversations" come from pervasive myth, not actual reality. Oh BTW pair programming is much easier over a shared screen, remotely, than it is trying to squish people in front of a single monitor.
Map of island:

https://goo.gl/maps/DRmA2F5roGeHmyKs7

And Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻAta
Anyone who has ever worked at Amazon and participated in the interview process will know how absurd this claim is. As if somehow a hiring manager could collude with the BR and the rest of the loop and hire someone who really didn’t meet the bar just so they can turn around and fire them. Why do people immediately believe everything they read on branded journalism sites like Inc? Is Inc really a bastion of integrity that is trying to expose a deep dark secret at a major tech company or are they selling clicks?
There's some startup (maybe a ycombinator one) that "provides online meeting places for apartment communities." The managers of the building I live in have been pushing it pretty hard. I went to join it the other month because it's always good to socialize some.

Absolutely no web presence outside of (essentially) a brochure and email complaint form. I thought about complaining but I really don't care enough.
I totally agree with you. Legislators should watch out for too much power consolidation here.
But that's a really limited view. If you live in a city, there are likely loads of activities, clubs, meetups you can go to at least weekly.
no shit they all do this.
Here's the rest of the figures:

> Thirty percent (30%) of respondents reported living in a home owned or rented by themselves or a partner immediately prior to becoming homeless. Thirty-threepercent (33%) reported staying with friends or family. Twelvepercent (12%) reported living in subsidized housing, and 5% were staying in a hotel or motel. Sixpercent (6%) of respondents reported they were in a jailor prison immediately prior to becoming homeless, while 4% were in a hospital or treatment facility, 3% were living in foster care, and 1% were in a juvenile justice facility
Sure. Russian VHF radars have a detection accuracy of 100m range and 20 minutes of angle azimuth [https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/nebo-sv...]

At a range of 60km that means 350m inaccuracy in azimuth and 100m inaccuracy in range.

350m is within IR and optical range, so any IR-capable missile can be cued in. The 9M96 missiles are rumored to have IR/optical capability but this is just a rumor, while the 9M100 missiles do have that capability.

As for radar missiles, the F-35 has a minumum RCS of 0.0015 sqm. Being generous to the F-35 and saying it must be detected by 1km, it means that any radar capable of detecting a 1sqm target at a distance of 25km can detect and F-35 at a distance of 1km.

This does require estimation but 25km range against 1sqm target is realistic.
I was also one of those students who loved to read going into high school only to have it beaten out of me by English teachers over-analyzing everything. But... as an adult I can definitely see and appreciate the value of it.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen comments on r/TheHandmaidsTale along the lines of “why do people keep bringing up abortion laws here it has nothing to do with this show!” or have discussed Avenue 5 or South Park or some other satire with someone only to realize they’ve _completely_ missed the underlying message the writer(s) had made exceedingly obvious.

I remember my teacher used to talk about the “what level” and the “so what level” and he definitely went overboard in exploring the so what level but I’m also grateful I’m not blind to it. I think there are a surprising number of people who are unaware of any meaning beyond the literal words they read or hear.
When Dropbox served food I valued it at 50k, ie: in order fro a company to poach me, given they don't have food, that's 50k they'd have to make up for. While I don't spend anywhere near 4k a month on food, there were a few things to consider:

a) 3 meals prepared for me saves me time and money. I love to cook but I don't have tons of time anymore and I don't have a a good kitchen. If I want to save time via delivery I end up spending tons more, and I don't think I eat as healthy.

b) The food was ridiculous. I've eaten a lot of good food, I've eaten in numerous countries, and Dropbox's food was god tier.

c) Tons of snacks, little treats, etc. Wine as well. Given the incredible quality of the food I wouldn't be surprised to find that I was eating quite a lot in terms of money.

It was such a quality of life win, especially as someone who loves food, to just have insanely good meals every single day. Even if ultimately it probably saved me closer to 1000 a month than 5000.
Why not compare it to sports teams where you keep some people on a bench through the season?

I definately dont think a whole bunch of dangerous cobras are being creared.
I've certainly made many friends through work, but in my experience a for-profit workplace is an artificial environment with a lot of distorting incentives that make it more challenging to establish genuine friendship.
My prediction: Talk is cheap and all the bellyaching will amount to maybe a temporary increase in attrition for a quarter (2x perhaps?) but negligible long term.
I did. The whole post is worded in a confrontational way, intending to piss people off and start arguments.
risk/reward ratio here is way different, no?
I'm okay with not ever needing to find out :-) I think there is a Sun Tzu saying about not fighting a war is the best way to win it. But yeah, it would be disappointing to need it and have it not meet expectations. That is always true of course.

I believe the last time that happened was with the F-111.
Yo, start that discussion! I’m autistic, and while I can benefit from face to face, I often don’t. I don’t work for your company but I know I’m depending on you to work with and for your colleagues and to help set an example.
Nit: directors (parallel to L8) at Google earn closer to 1m/year, not 3m per year, i.e. 3x what Sr. Engineers (L5) do.
Just about every large company has low performing employees, and just about every large company (at least in the U.S.) has a PIP process that attempts to help redeem employees who are identified to be at risk of flunking out. Some individuals, for better or worse, are just not fit to work in a particular role or at a particular company, and fail the PIP. This system is not unique to Amazon, and it's very common in the industry.

About 15 years ago, I was placed on a PIP for low performance at a large technical employer. I managed to climb out of my hole and shine, but it's a good lesson in humility and responding constructively to feedback.
Wyoming is a place where in large parts of the state oil wells as far as the eye can see and giant open-pit coal mines are normal and acceptable. Look at Gillette, WY and scroll around a satellite view, you've got open pit mines stretching for 70 miles and and the endless checkerboard of pumpjacks and access paths across the plains.

They're also a place with a erratic economy largely dependent on declining commodities and a past and present willingness to accept environmental damage and personal/community health risks for economic gain.

I am not suggesting a nuclear plant should cause any substantial amount of such risks, just that I think the opposition in many places in WY would be a lot more muted than in most other places you could look to place a reactor in the country.
> Nobody buys prepared food every day, and the costs of food are negligible for a Google employee.

Of course they do? When I've been crunching, like just putting insane hours in, I've gone weeks without cooking and just ordering in. It costs a fortune, even at Google salary - or in my case, 'SF' salary. Not to mention the cost of living is already absurd due to rent - your salary gets eaten up faster than you might imagine.
If this turns out to have merit,
I can imagine all sorts of shady uses for this information. Our faces and biometric info are already out there, and this doesn’t take a fancy ML algorithm to use. However, the other comments seem to indicate it’s bunk, but an idea that’s wrong can still have purchase.
could slap a skin patch onto everyone that walks through the door.. viola, spike proteins for everyone! It wouldn't bother those that already have anti-bodies for it, and the rest would naturally start making anti-bodies.
Senator Rubio is very serious about the importance of this important matter, so you can rest assured that folks assumed to be idiots are not our national adversaries.
They don't need to get seriously ill from it - they'll contract it and then carry it home to their caregivers.

Schools can be considered continuous super-spreader events.
It will take an second edge, but out of the box it is generally only sharpened on one side.
Russian and Chinese stealth fighter-interceptors are fundamentally based on air defense and area denial missions. You're exactly right, their main use case is not to fly over enemy countries as much as flying over friendly countries, the ocean, and their own soil.
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