skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410049195067674625

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"but eevee, humans also learn by reading open source code, so isn't that the same thing"
- no
- humans are capable of abstract understanding and have a breadth of other knowledge to draw from
- statistical models do not
- you have fallen for marketing
Agree! I tried being my own boss. Hated it. Maybe if I understand business better in the future I will try it again. But for now, I'm very happy being a worker bee trying to make my boss's vision a reality in exchange for fair pay.
Everything on Casey's blog is pretty great.
Out of curiosity. What did a crap diet constitute for you exactly ? And how much moving around did you do prior(e.g. running/walking/cycling) ?

I'm trying to figure out why people in my age group, with not so much different diets than mine, put on a lot more weight and so far I've narrowed it down to general lack of movement, but would gladly compare notes.
I wonder what would happen if someone scraped genius and used the lyrics to make a song writing tool.
Is it possible to work for SV $TOP directly from e.g Eastern Europe?

If yes, then how the salary would be reduced due to location adjustments?
Because of the long wavelength and high powers, the radio waves can be picked up pretty well by small ferrite aerials ('loopsticks'). In most cases, all the receiver has to do is detect the presence/absence of a signal; the transmissions start and stop every second, with variations in the starts and stops encoding the time (mostly it's necessary to receive a full 60s of transmissions, to get 60 bits of data that can be decoded to give the time).

It's one of the easiest radio signals to pick up, a cardboard box with a few turns of wire around it and single transistor are enough in most of Europe.
Tech-wise, maybe, culturally it makes a difference.
I've had great luck with freetaxusa.com, personally. I've been using them to file taxes for like, 10 years now.

E-filing the federal tax form is free, and state tax form is only like $14 I think, really cheap, and the website does a good job taking you through it step by step in an easy to understand way.
So you've not seen layoffs? I have. It was a mad scurry of people running around looking busy and indispensible.

Bullying? I've had it done to me and another time had to sit in with HR on someone else's behalf.

People being performance managed just because? I saw a bunch of 40 somethings get targeted and zeroed out. It got ugly.

30x1 is not the same as 1x30 or 6x5 or 15x2 or 10x3. They all look like the same equation but the experiences can be vastly different.
I recommend you watch this lecture. It may change the way you think about people that question the narrative. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LqaotiGWjQ
Don't forget open floor plans.
This is great news. Excited to see where this heads!
Title should read "A seller based in China has hijacked Cliff Stoll's Amazon Klein bottle listing"

"foreign" is provincial and kinda racist. "foreign to who"?

Is a seller in China foreign to a Chinese person?

Is a seller in Nigeria "foreign" to a Nigerian?

Is a seller in the UK "foreign" to a British person?

Will this make headlines in the broadsheets, The Washington Post in particular?
>He also later said that the ridiculous behavior was all a viral marketing stunt gone wrong

If that's the case ... still seems like 'guy throwing fit'.
"Memento mori" if you want to be fancy about it.
Sometimes 1-1s become idle chit chat and we forget important issues to bring up.

Chit chat is OK, even important for the relationship. BUT I hate thinking later on “oh I forgot to discuss X”. I think it’s good to track potential issues and talking points before 1-1s so you remember to address them.
And by the US in the 1930s with the New Deal [1]. Many at least partially credit it for the economic prosperity that followed WWII.

It's a tricky balance it seems.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
1. That's basically what I wrote :) although I collected different info. It can be really time intensive for bigger / older repositories...

2. Just going off commit author / email (and then corresponding gravatar) seems like enough. I get hand tailoring for something like this, but for a more "general purpose / throw a repo at me and I'll figure it out," I think using whatever you get is ok

3. Could try using tags for this, or I think specifically from Github, milestones / releases are stored differently? Don't know. I feel like this could also be an "include if present or ignore," although I do appreciate how it breaks up the history into a timeline

I don't have any specific projects in mind - for my own playing, I just used my own personal / work repos that I had available on my computer. I think the bigger, popular projects like Angular, React, or even language projects .NET Core or TypeScript could be interesting. I don't know if they would make great graphs or not though, I imagine it would be largely trial and error.
Really wish you'd been on my last hiring panel. (Quit after six months.)
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It's too bad sad puppy face doesn't work in year end reviews
That could have been so much cooler of a movie if they'd shot it from Jennifer Lawrence's POV but they probably didn't want to have Chris Pratt being super creepy (which in the story he's not a good guy).
Let's not be accomplices in Musk's trolling and mythmaking.

He is fantastically wealthy and has multiple wealthy ex-wives. There's zero chance this is his full-time residence.

I think that being perceived as a rich elite is somewhat at odds with his desired populist persona, so he puts out nonsense like this to change people's perception.
If you like reading about the history of CRPG's you'll love The Digital Antiquarian[1]

[1] - https://www.filfre.net/hall-of-fame/
The AI doesn't produce its own code or learn, it is just a search engine on existing code. Any result it gives exists in some form in the original dataset. That's why the original dataset needs to be massive in the first place, whereas actual learning uses very little data.
I really like this idea and think it would be very useful for our team. I do worry how well it will work because I've never used a less reliable voice chat in my life than Slack calls. My entire team has problems with it about half the time and it has never gotten better.
Making the step from a hobby to a business means having to make the necessary investments, some of which may be costly and a pain in the ass, to protect one's intellectual property.
The biggest fake influencers on social media
Yeah, good clarification. I should be saying DNA plasmid.
> should literally be nationalized

Political note: calls for nationalisation, in American politics, is a gift to the other side. It lets one paint the opposition as extremists without grounding in U.S. Constitutional law or the economic history of countries that regularly expropriate property.

I get the impulse. But literally any other phrasing—massive fines, criminal prosecution, open-licensing requirements, et cetera—is more productive for any aim other than blowing steam.
Valves [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-lon...
Pretty sure merely hosting code hoesn't trigger AGPL; if it did, github would have to be open-sourced.
Please don't fulminate on HN. That's in the site guidelines:

"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Regardless of how you feel about $Bigco, plagues on planets, psychopaths, and similar rhetoric makes for bad HN threads, and we're trying to avoid those here. Thoughtful critique is welcome of course.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685624.
I would agree that almost all companies are political to some degree, but I wouldn't agree with heavily political. It's a sign of poor leadership if they end up in that state because you can minimize the impact of different goals and incentives, be they personal, professional, or organizational which is what drives basically all of politics.
Got a link to the source for that ratio? Also, your conclusion definitely doesn't follow from that ratio alone. A simple example:

Before: cold kills 20 people, heat kills 1 person. Cold kills 20x more, for a total of 21 deaths.

After: cold kills 15 people, heat kills 15 people. Cold kills the same number of people as heat, for a total of 30 deaths.
To add two points to that.
First, people here always point out about the boss looking over the peons in their open space office. That may be true for a lot of situations, but what is also depressing is that even if there is no boss/manager/whatever overlooking the employees, those will watch each other.

Second, I can second the hallway conversations, those never happened at the places I've worked. If anything, it was more akin to "send me an e-mail/message" about it.
This year I paid TurboTax extra to get their "professional advice". I didn't get any. Had to find a real accountant to solve the problem. This was my last year of using TT.
>I think it's ridiculous that when people think about abusive big tech, they never think about Intuit.

I don't know why you think people don't think that. I imagine that most people who have been informed will think along similar lines. Those who don't think it are likely not yet informed.
In the current arrangement, capital by itself is useless - you need workers to utilize it to generate wealth. Owners of capital can then collect economic rent from that generated wealth, but they have to leave enough for the workers to sustain themselves. This is an unfair arrangement, obviously; but at least the workers get something out of it, so it can be fairly stable.

In the hypothetical fully-automated future, there's no need for workers anymore; automated capital can generate wealth directly, and its owners can trade the output between each other to fully satisfy all their needs. The only reason to give anything to the 99.99% at that point would be to keep them content enough to prevent a revolution, and that's less than you need to pay people to actually come and work for you.
I just bought a 2 terabyte drive for $55, which is mind boggling to an old salt like me. The need to store enormous amounts of real time data will keep driving storage advances. Text and image data may turn out to be a trivial percentage of the overall storage needs in the longer term.
See I was the opposite. I had no time as an intern but have plenty of time as a full timer.

It seems like it's almost completely self-inflicted if someone doesn't have time as a full timer (at the 2 Big-N tech companies I've been at). I didn't have time as an intern because I wasn't confident and felt I needed to prove something. Now, many years into it, I know I can work my 40 hour weeks, enjoy the perks for what they are, and relax most of the time.

I've never understood why people consider perks like food as traps to keep you on campus. Nothing stops you from leaving campus for lunch, as long as there's not some meeting you scheduled. Nothing stops you from working 40 hours a week, unless you choose to work more to get ahead faster.
A side thought... it's quite incredible how we in "the west" have managed to make our lives flow with little impact from seasons, weather, and stuff like that. Just in general. Thinking about how people had it 200 years ago... it was so different.
You might find this interesting

Debunking Elon Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8
Further evidence of the "Conspiracy Practice" discussed yesterday on HN.
"Hot Hatch" = "high performance hatchback car"

"Rival" is a verb here, not an adjective describing VW. This parses as "Tesla is going to introduce inexpensive, fast, small car to compete with one currently available from Volkswagen".
You must work for my company!

The primary issue is that these 5 steps work.
Based on my experience with India, they will try to pay 20-30% more than next best comopany in that region you live in.
I recommend reading up on the laws of supply and demand.
This is a very late response, but thanks. I’ll give it a look.
After reading this article a few times I’m still not sure what’s going on here.

You can start a blog for a lot of reasons. I don’t think anyone gets into it in 2021 thinking that it’s an ticket to a career-level income, but at times that’s what this author assumes someone writing a blog wants to do it for.

I guess the takeaway from this post is not to quit your day job to blog…but isn’t that takeaway ridiculously obvious?

There’s also a weird dichotomy with this article where at times it tells you to do or not do things but then it tells you not to listen to other people who are telling you to do or not do things.

Any anyway, would it be so wrong for someone to write a blog just for the sake of other people reading? The author tells us to keep our writing private and only show close friends. Why? And why should we listen to that advice?

I’m also not really sure why it matters that three random authors I’ve never heard of are “losers,” or what we all get out of placing that label on anyone (and it’s not like a sample size of three indicates a trend). It seems like an unnecessary discussion.
Hopefully we'll get some good data on how much methane was released during this event.
Ask HN: A Secure IoT device – Is it possible?
Could a device be made which is accessible via the internet and functions for years without being hacked?
Slightly?

If you’re suggesting HN is old and cranky…

You’d be correct.
I'm a bit curious as to why they had the MongoDB docker container running with the 27017 port mapped in the first place, maybe for testing?

You don't need to map ports for inter-container communications, and maybe that's where some of the confusion comes in for people using docker.

I have noticed a few friends who have been playing with docker for home server stuff thinking that they need to map ports for everything, just to get containers in a stack talking to each other.

At the same time docker really shouldn't be messing with the hosts incoming firewall rules.

And MongoDB really should force auth by default.
Why smallish? Small only teaches you tactics and not strategy. (in the sense architecture is most important for largish projects)
Oh, I didn't know that, that's even worse for them, it means all customer Buys are done on 2-day credit, basically.
It's probably easier and more likely that software crackers will patch out the TPM requirement and make pirate versions of Windows 11 that install without it.

Emulating a TPM at the hardware level is possible but too much work when you can just buy the chips themselves--they aren't some magic unobtanium locked down thing, for example: https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/trusted-platfor...

The problem is to get an old system to use it you'd have to also modify its bios to make it aware of the TPM (and figure out how to get access to the phsyical bus the TPM needs to interface with the motherboard). There is a lot of reverse engineering and work to do that sort of thing.
Argyle is hiring a Senior Software Engineer
Try moving the clock to face a different direction. Also the reception varies a lot throughout the day (bad near sunset and sunrise); most radio clocks rely on gettings the occasional good reception and running in the conventional way the rest of the time. So it can be a case of waiting a day or two for the clock to get a good time reception.
I don't think he said that mRNA is low hanging fruit though. I think he said that vaccines for viral diseases are a low hanging fruit for applying mRNA.
This is such a ridiculous thing to get annoyed about. I work with a bunch of Croatians; do you really think they prefer that I speak English (US), or would they like it more if I were fluent in Croatian?
A perfect example of why I buy less and less from sites that support 3rd party sellers.

The problem is even once reliable sites like newegg.com are now playing these games. If I wanted the Ebay/alibaba experience I can get that! Why large retailer sites dilute their brand and frustrate customers in the fruitless chase of "being like Amazon" in catering to 3rd party sellers amazes and annoys me.

At least most other sites let you weed out the 3rd party sellers fairly easily. What's really annoying is with Amazon, even if you are buying from "Amazon" it could be ultimately supplied to Amazon by some hackney 3rd party and not a trusted wholesaler or the original manufacturer. And as Cliff Stoll found out, Amazon doesn't care either.

Talk about coasting on your reputation. It will be interesting to see how much trust they have to piss away before it affects them enough for them to finally pay attention to stuff like this :/
Can you show me where that is or what visualization that is?

I haven't put anything on the website intentionally, perhaps it's auto generated.

The only page that I haven't purposely optimised for mobile is the editor, as you can't really create principles on your mobile.
Yep; so unions become militias.
I think too much of the blame here gets put on the "executive/managerial" and capital class for the back to office drive and not enough gets put on the soulless HR machine at these mega companies. A huge amount of the value and work the HR org does is manage things in the office, mange in person conflicts, manage relationships, etc. With remote work, so much of the impetus for these busybodies is gone, and the scope of the chief of HR role is decreased quite a bit. I think a lot of the "back to work" chatter is these type of people making up more or less baseless justifications for the amount of influence they had 18 months ago.
There's doesn't need to be surplus to be unable to lease. Even after Apple Park was completed and every team slated to move in had moved Apple still had all (or most) their old buildings still filled.

If they allowed remote work they could consolidate their far flung offices in Apple Park, which was the original intent of the damned building. Apple Park is like all of the form-over-function complaints about Apple crystallized into a single space.
Yes many of the top tech companies are now hiring across Europe (and in fact have been). Ex. https://eng.lyft.com/introducing-lyft-engineering-kyiv-2884d...

Salaries are definitely adjusted. To get a feel for salaries:

- https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Netherland...

- https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Ukraine/

- https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/London/
They do. Until VC money dries up. But even then it might go on...
Sounds great, but there's nothing like college and work for bringing people together all day. Without the structure, most people won't come together.
some crypto exchanges do
If you don't depend on clusters being 100% available all the time and design your applications to handle cluster-wide outages (which you need to do at Google scale anyway), then simply doing progressive rollouts across clusters is good enough. If a cluster rollout fails and knocks some workloads offline, so be it. Just revert the rollout and figure out what went wrong.

You can also throw in some smaller clusters that replicate the 'main' clusters' software stack and have some workloads whose downtime does not impact production jobs (not just dev workloads, but replicas of prod workloads!). These can be the earliest in your rollout pipeline and serve as an early stage canary.
A significant amount of programming is done by superstition (2015)
Okay, why not start with https://www.schwab.com? Their phone number is literally one-click away at the top of the site.
Some fun ones:

BBS games started adding virtual currency that you could transfer between players. Some even participated in a network of BBS systems, allowing the movement of game currency from one BBS to another. These frequently didn't have input validation and you could transfer -1 to another player and they'd receive 4294967296 dollars. Unfortunately we were kids and kids do nasty things. We would completely upend a competitive game by giving all the underdogs huge wealth.

Pager numbers all fell in the same exchanges. Every number under 123-456-xxxx would be a pager. I wrote a program to war dial all these and leave the same victim's phone number on all the pagers. We did it to a friend and witnessed an endless stream of frustrated calls to their house for a few hours. Brutal.

A school system put their mechanical control systems on a modem. We acquired the software and directory that could access these control systems. Not only did they put all the HVAC systems on it, they also added things like emergency and off-hour lighting. Some of the stuff that was controllable through this remote interface was down right scary: boiler pressure measurements, boiler system valves, etc. We weren't stupid enough to mess with that but would have fun turning off all the lights at night, or turning up the heat before the Saturday morning recreation basketball games in the gym.
Where did he indicate he wants to work for Apple?
Ha, do you have that public anywhere? That seems like it would be fun to play with.
Its a kickback to FINRA so that they’ll fuck off, and it consolidates a variety of complaints as resolved, absolving Robinhood off all its perceived indiscretions

FINRA has said they’ll use some of the funds ($30mm) on educating investors, aka expect an extra paragraph on page 34 of the disclaimer PDF before checking “I’ve read and agreed”
IMHO large endowments are less of a distraction to the purpose of the university than NCAA sports are. The Ivy League simply shut down sports completely during COVID time, which was certainly a better idea than the dozens of colleges who got as many students on campus as they could and then had to send them home within months or (!) weeks. If voters want third-class universities without endowments to continue to exist, they need to elect politicians willing to support those universities with public funds.
I agree with the others but not the middle one, at Oculus he worked exclusively on the mobile variants, the GearVR and in-house prototypes. His entire mission was dedicated to mobile graphics pipelines and graphics hardware & drivers.
Bob did actually meet Terry A. Davis at some point, around 3-4 years ago!
We are an financ company engaged in invest activities to trading pro traders
How to create your own human-like Text-to-speech software
>https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-millio...

President Donald Trump's 2018 budget blueprint is out, and it wisely cuts IRS funding by $239 million.

Compared to pretty much any metric where increasing their budget will increase tax collection. Mainly because most tax fraud happens where no one is looking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-defic...

The number of IRS revenue agents — the auditors qualified to examine complex returns — has plummeted 43 percent over the past decade, according to a report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Audit rates of those filing these complex returns have also sharply declined.

For example, the number of millionaires who were audited in fiscal 2020 was about a quarter of the number from fiscal 2012. Accordingly, these IRS audits turned up unreported tax bills of $1.2 billion last year, about a quarter of the $4.8 billion found in fiscal 2012.