skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Windows 10, turning on Secure Boot then requires every boot driver to be manually signed by Microsoft themselves, in addition to the dev's code signing cert. This is a significant security boundary, given that most malicious actors won't go through the process of EV registration with Microsoft to gain this. (I guess netfilter is an interesting exception) If they compromise someone's credentials and still get a driver signed, Microsoft have a copy of the driver and when/where it was signed.

In addition, Secure Boot prevents malware from changing the bootloader (and helps stop boot-time ransomware). It's just a good sense fix to many attack vectors left alone for years.
Time to make closed source illegal.
I've been applying for jobs for some... years? now.

I rarely apply to any position where I don't meet the mininum requeriments.

Also I've seen vacancies with huge lists of requeriments, including exotic ones (like being an RPG player) and I meet them all, sent a resume, and didn't got invited to the interview...

So I guess that indeed, the requeriments are bullshit.
Interior B.C. gets very hot and dry. Not like this extreme but close (upper 30s C), and this area is quite arid and has hot dry summers and cold winters.

There are parts of interior B.C. not super far from there that are classified as Canada's only desert (Osoyoos area).

As is often the case people are picking up on the "Canada" word in the headline and imagining a big cold land "up north." When thinking about this area it's best to think of interior Washington and Orgeon if you're familiar with them. It's neither very far north nor particularly cold.

What I find more concerning is that this insane heat seems to have extended over the coastal region, where, yes, as you say it's usually fairly cool. Every time I've been to Vancouver island and the coastal region it's been fairly cool and it is notorious for ... rain. But I also haven't been there in 20 years...
No, Snowden is portrayed as a hero. Emmanual Goldstein is "whiteness".
Yeah, but back in 2013? Most of what you're talking about is much more recent. To have 8 years of AI/ML expertise already while also previously being a graphics expert requires a very improbable career progression
please make it appear on my win 10 taskbar right besides my city temperature
...unless they've also ingested code that is incompatible with the GPL and CoPilot ends up regurgitating a mix.
Great way for companies that allow WFH to gain access to skilled employees at a lower price.
Here's a blog post outlining why I left Google this month (June 2021) to take a 1-year sabbatical: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue/

(Per AnIdiotOnTheNet's feedback here is a summary of my motivations and a compare/contrast with the ideas mentioned in the CNBC post) The main thing for me was the prospect of having kids in the next 5 years. It doesn't seem like it will ever get easier to have a sabbatical than it is right now. It helped me to think of the decision as a tradeoff between money, energy, and time. When you have a full-time job you optimize for money and sacrifice your energy and time. Taking a sabbatical means that I'm choosing to sacrifice money in order for more energy and time. Maybe this is helpful way to think about burnout: burnout is sacrificing too much time and energy for money. Not wanting to commute any longer was a secondary decision but not my primary concern. The article states “Either they’re unfulfilled from their jobs or their priorities have changed", I would say both of those were relevant in my experience. Last this article is suggesting that people are resigning because they have better opportunities elsewhere. I do worry that I'm taking this sabbatical as a terrible time. It could be a great time to switch jobs and lock in a full-remote position. I think there are two general groups of people participating in this potential "great resignation": sabbatical / gap year people like me who are doing it from a "life is short" philosophy and others who are doing it to land a better job. The motivations to resign are probably very different depending on what group you're in.

Edit: Someone left an angry comment (deleted a few seconds ago) stating that I keep linking to this post and it seems like I'm doing it as a bot. I will note here that I'm not a bot and I'm sorry if my comments are coming off as robotic, but I put a tremendous amount of effort into that blog post and I'm just trying to share my perspective without spending a lot of time on one-off comments. The fact that this conversation is coming up so frequently on page #1 shows that a lot of people are thinking about it. And because I actually took the leap I figure that my post is a good "skin in the game" anecdotal explanation of why one person actually participated in this "great resignation". (Edit 2: I put in a summary of my blog post and a compare/contrast of my motivations with the CNBC article's content so this last paragraph is now obsolete)
Software Multiplexing: Share Your Libraries and Statically Link Them Too
IMO using pre-determined time windows to filter on experience is always a mistake. Smart people acquire mastery in much shorter chronological time. This is literally the definition of intelligence and it’s been repeatedly verified over decades by industrial psychology.

If Linus Torvalds decided to pick up data engineering tomorrow, he’d be far better at it in 3 months than the average dev who’s been in the field for 10 years.

When you filter on years of experience, you’re inadvertently biasing towards less intelligent candidates. Smart people with that much experience will have enough mastery that they’re not looking for a mid level position. Polymaths who jump between fields, quickly building up competence won’t meet your arbitrary threshold.
The Right Way to Solve Salesforce vs HubSpot CRM Dilemma
The proximal cause of this heatwave is an omega block in the jet stream. Atmospheric models predict that these types of events should be less common as the world warms. At least that is what I was able to read about it a couple of days ago when I was worrying about this same question.
it is absurdly ironic that OpenAi is turning out to be one of the biggest opennes perpetrators in the near-future/present.
Wow am I grateful for my CS curriculum now, I didn't know such professors existed. Our first class focused on learning multiple languages, we did Rex, ISCAL, Java, and Prolog. It was intentionally designed to give you a feel for the scope of programming language paradigms. The follow up course was data structures in C++, and after that every class pretty much used whatever language the professor felt like. The department's official stance was that what mattered was concepts and not languages and any major could get proficient enough in any given language where they may not be able to develop good code in the large, but they could learn the core concepts the class was pushing.

Except C++, fuck C++. My favorite line from a professor was "Any course taught using C++ always turns into a course ON C++."
Aha, but how does the software partition things, wouldn't that require more memory to work?

I guess the queue also needs some sort of memory.
I figure it is safe as long as you use the products outside of CA's borders.
> This heatwave has reached further above historical means than any other summer heatwave previously recorded anywhere in North America.

That right there is a pretty powerful point.
Every decade was supposed to see fewer hours working for higher pay and quality of life. It didn't happen, as business owners (not just 1% fat cats, the owners of mom and pop shops are at least as guilty as anyone, they just sucked at scaling their avarice).

So the claim that this technological revolution will be different and that it will result in a broad social safety net, universal basic income, and substantive, well-paid part-time work is a joke but not a very good one. It will be more of the same - massive concentration of wealth among those who already hold enough capital to wield it effectively. A few lucky ones who manage to create their own wealth. And those left behind working more hours for less.
Welcome accessory citizens to your new neighbourhood. A dystopia like this is not just on the horizon it's all but here already. "Middle class" is not meaningful any more. Working class has slipped into actual poverty and the middle class are now accessory to the wealth hoarders.

Educated twenty-somethings don't have much of a future to look forward to. They can't even afford the land to put an Accessory Dwelling Unit on, they'll have to rent one from an existing home owner. They will be living on a salary that stalled in the 90s, dealing with ever rising food and environmental costs, and subsisting in a world where we have a perma-health watch reducing their freedom to socialize.
its not a democracy. its a republic.
> I’d love to hear how the next 5-10 years would play out.

You, me, and every economist, analyst, and investor.
I propose we as developers, start a secret society where we let the AI write the code, but we still claim to write it manually. In combination with the new working from home policies, we can lay at the beach all day and still be as productive as before.

Who is in favor of starting it? ;)
Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place.

In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.
Fact-check: false. The Florida law only applies to rioters, not protestors. "Riot" is defined as:

"three or more people acting with common intent resulting in injury to others, damage to property, or the imminent danger of injury or damage."

There's a second "Aggravated riot":

"25 or more participants cause great bodily harm or more than $5,000 in property damage, uses or threatens to use a deadly weapon, or blocks roadways by force or threat of force."

If you're doing any of the above things, you're not protesting.

The law was most likely the direct result of a violent mob climbing on top of this guy's car in Florida, one of whom the driver hit in his attempts to get away.
I honestly don't know whether these articles are over-stating their case, and neither do I know how typical my own experience is, but for some reason it bothers me that the tone of the HN discussion is so reflexively dismissive.

I understand that a lot of people will respond to a question of whether they intend to quit their job with a 'you bet!' even at the best of times, but I'm seeing a lot of people quitting and switching right now, as different company plans are crystallized for the 'new normal'.

In my current company (for another 2 months) I was interviewed to join a team of 12 tech developers, and a couple of months ago the first of the switchers quit to leave for another company specifically because they were guaranteeing remote-first work.

Then another five of us quit over the following few weeks. We met up last week for a goodbye lunch in the park: half the team that I joined a year ago leaving the company over the Spring and Summer.

Is a 50% quit-rate normal? Maybe each of us had slightly different priorities and plans for the future? But I do know for sure that people are reflecting more than I've ever experienced before, about their work environment, the balance in their lives, and prioritizing other things than 40-50 hours each week sitting in front of a screen, inside an office.
I agree with your point, but you should s/cost/memory to make your comparison analogous. Slashdot was dismissing the iPod because it had less storage than a Creative Nomad and other popular players of the time.
Talk is cheap
Military funding of terrorists is nothing new.

Pakistan as a proxy state of the US created the Taliban in Afghanistan.

US wanted religiously motivated fighters countering the USSR. Pakistan, armed with US weapon, and flush with US money, obliged.

Taliban was actually created at the behest of the US.

It is an open secret.

The US, to counter Al-Assad, armed and funded Al-Noosra front. Much, if not most of the money and weapons went to the ISIS.

In the case of Al-Noosra turned ISIS, the US has plausible deniability. It doesn't even have that much of it in case of the next generation of the Mujahids fighting the USSR being turned into the Taliban.
Can you recommend a good static site generator?
It doesn't matter how simple it was. For its time, that was the state of art as far as I can tell.

There's lots of things invented decades ago that would be a parlor trick today.
Climate is a complex system, and averages are just averages. Feedback loops and all that.
1) Examine what it is you are really missing: you say you love your work and the team and it brings you joy. That is not so common. So maybe it is more about a new project or some lateral things that could be accomplished within the existing setup?

2) Not sure there is a (good) relationship between fit and salary. Some high salaries have a reason and those reasons might not be so pretty.

3) Masters. My experience is that folks opting for a masters later in their career tend to often have one of two things in mind: (a) some move towards executive/different career path, which then tends to mean MBA with the respective networking; or (b) some change in the "underlying", i.e. trying to add more skills that are somewhat different to the existing
Thanks for your question!

A good example is Dovydas Čeilutka, our Lead of Data Science, next to being ML team lead at Vinted (2nd hand clothing marketplace, valued at $4.5b), he is the President of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania and a founder of Tribe of AI, artificial intelligence learning community in Lithuania.

While Dovydas is well respected in the Baltics, we are in the progress of bringing more Data Science industry experts from global markets.

Another way we are making sure our quality is great, is by working closely with companies (Hiring Partners) by co-creating and integrating their projects into our curriculum. This assures that whatever projects our learners are working on are relevant to the market & companies they might eventually work at.
Responsibilities is not a bad idea. Really anything that isn't as dishonest as it is now.
The politicians in these countries are often corrupt and happily defraud the state, which doesn't help with repaying debts.
The 'Simplify Protocol' Refactoring
One of the examples pointed out in the reply threads was the suggestion in a new file to insert the GPL disclaimer header.

So, the length of the samples being drawn is not necessarily small: the chunk size is based on its commonality. It could easily be long enough to trigger a copyright violation.
cant montenegro just kick them out and not pay? I mean, what's china going to do, invade them? It seems the most they could do is cut them off trade or something.

I'm asking seriously.
The way HR communicates (requirements are a communication) is asymmetrical. Within HR, you are regularly exposed to examples. These requirements yielded these resumes, these hires... A lot of this is temporal and demand sensitive. That allows people involved to develop nuance that outsiders (like those applying) can't intuit... like the nuanced language that dealers of exotic livestock or antiques develop.

Anyway... these aren't to be taken too literally.
people who don't think about that, but rush to sign up probably.
What happens when someone puts code up on GitHub with a license that says "This code may not be used for training a code generation model"?

- Is GitHub actually going to pay any attention to that, or are they just going to ingest the code and thus violate its license anyway?

- If they go ahead and violate the code's license, what are the legal repercussions for the resulting model? Can a model be "un-trained" from a particular piece of code, or would the whole thing need to be thrown out?
That doesn't make sense if they're already hitting people to begin with....
...except, really, when people use this argument, they're often not using that one data point in isolation. This is just one data point, true, but it's one _more_ data point on top of an increasingly long list of "freak" weather events.

500-year floods, 100-year storms, 100-year heat waves, etc. are becoming almost annual / decennial events. We absolutely should be willing to change our prior probability that global warming is A Real Thing from "very high" to "very, very high" for one more data point; that's how Bayesian inference works.
The funny thing is that precisely what got me into Go was replacing an Erlang system that was constantly falling over despite quite considerable efforts with a Go system that ran on a fraction of the resources, ran much more quickly, and by comparison was rock-solid. I just ported the essence of supervision trees in to Go and was off to the races.

This is part of what I mean; Erlang doesn't have access to special CPU instructions that make supervision trees possible. They're just code. There's no reason you can write them in other languages. It's not even particularly hard, unless you insist on exactly matching all the accidental details of the way Erlang implements them instead of implementing their essential details in a manner idiomatic to the base language.
I'm currently in developer relations. I haven't bounced back to being a developer, but I'm sure that developer jobs of the same type as I had before would be open to me. Sure, I'd need to do some off-hours studying to be up to speed on the latest tech, because it'd have been a few years since I was deep into it, but I'd have to do that anyway.

I don't know how much coding Twilio developer evangelists do, but at my current position (admittedly a much smaller company) I can do a fair amount of coding if I choose to.

The next step I might take after being an advocate (if you don't want to stay in that space and take on larger and larger projects, going from dev advocate -> senior dev advocate -> lead dev advocate -> staff dev advocate), would depend if you wanted to keep training.

There's a large need for professional software trainers out there. I was involved in AWS training for a while and was able to get $1300/day. I know some folks getting $1500+/day.

Another option would to be consult, either in devrel or in whatever Twilio is training you up on. Or write some books and see if you can make a living that way. Consulting + books + training is a great way to make a living being a teacher.

And finally, I think if you are a developer, you can always fall back to that. It may be a salary or autonomy decrease, but the market for experienced devs is pretty tight right now and I don't see that changing for a few years. There's just so much appetite for software and the complements of software devs (CPU, memory, disk, network access) keep getting cheaper.
As I recall Police Quest was set in fictional Lytton, California, not Lytton, British Columbia.

https://policequest.fandom.com/wiki/Lytton
The guide to training data and why it is important
What do you need to do with LVM on a laptop that can't be done in another way?

Probably nothing that you can't do, but I bought a machine with lots of storage space, spread over three physical devices, and I'm just accustomed to using LVM to manage things. It's not exactly a "Big Deal" or anything. Just something that jumped out to me based on my pre-existing biases.
Googler, opinions are my own.

Over in payments, we use micros regularly, as documented here: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/gl...

GCP on there other hand has standardized on unit + nano. They use this for money and time. So unit would 1 second or 1 dollar, then the nano field allows more precision. You can see an example here with the unitPrice field: https://cloud.google.com/billing/v1/how-tos/catalog-api#gett...
The differences between sentiment analysis and emotion recognition
Isn't this restricting speech ? How is this constitutional ?
NATO Secret is one of the highest and you definitely need to have had extensive background checks and clearances to have access to this data. From my experience this is not the type of data your typical employee (uniformed or civilian) would be in contact with.
Using Neurosciences for Better Management
This is great. Programmers will be able to write bloated, non-intuitive, badly designed applications much faster now. Just what the world needs.
It might be trivial, but it's something that can annoy new Linux users.

And they also break on every GNOME release, often enough that I kinda' gave up on my favorite GNOME extension (Dash to Dock). Not that I blame the extension developers, but e.g. the review times on extensions.gnome.org are atrocious, and the build system is fiddly enough that I can't remember what I did to install it manually 6, 12 or 18 months earlier.
For WordPress? No. I don't use it. I just know SSGs for it exists and not enough people/companies use it (when they're using WP in the first place). :)

Vanilla SSGs are so simple I ended up writing a basic one out of a markdown and jinja parser in Python every time (for example: https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master...).

If I were not lazy I might learn one of the major ones like Hugo.

It doesn't matter what SSG you pick, they all produce the exact same kind of thing.
You can build a custom home for the price of a spec home. However it means sticking to the budget instead of upgrading. You can put a $15 light fixture in the bedroom, or a $50 one - spec homes do the former, custom homes all later - it doesn't seem like much but these all add up. The cost to build a custom home and a spec home is nearly the same if you are careful not to do any upgrades. Those upgrades cost money though - if you are planning to live in the house for many years I'd say they are worth it but be aware of what you are getting into.
At 49.6C air must be as dry as possible and people likely need a source of colder water as well in order to have a chance of survival because that's obviously extremely hot (body must somehow be able to be 12-13 cooler than air!)

See [1]

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/billions-face-deadly-threshold-h...
I personally also despise PDF as a medium. I'm just really happy somebody is daring to defy established norms because they feel like it.

In an era of ultra-conformity on the web i find it refreshing to see that some people still use HTTP as a means to share documents of their choice, not just single-page applications.
What's a "perma-health watch", and how does it the reduce ability to socialize?
Pretty much! There's only three major fears remaining

* Co-pilot fails to detect it, and you have a potential lawsuit/ethical concern when someone finds out. Although the devil on my shoulder says that if Co-pilot didn't detect it, what's to say another tool will?

* Co-pilot reuses code in a way that still violates copyright, but is difficult to detect. I.e. If you checked via a syntax tree, you'd notice that the code was the same, but if you looked at it as raw text, you wouldn't.

* Purely ethical - is it right to take licensed code and condense it into a product, without having to take into account the wishes of the original creators? It might be treated as normal that other coders will read it, and pick up on it, but when these licenses were written no one saw products like this coming about. They never assumed that a single person could read all their code, memorise it, and quote it near-verbatim on command.
> But I meant papers and essays from the likes of ...

Oh they're all in there! They're just put at the back end of the 4 years partly because the more advanced content goes towards the end and partly because I haven't distributed everything properly.

I've spent quite a few hours curating the ~800 items and have in that process learnt a few new names that you mentioned, such as Niklaus Wirth. From him, the list has "Good Ideas, Through The Looking Glass".

I don't recognize Daniel Ingalls and Peter Naur so I'll look into them and consider adding them to the list. Cheers :)

Edit: Oh, Peter Naur would be the Naur in Backus-Naur form. He'd be in there.