skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am as critical of government overspending as anyone, this comparison misses some important nuances.

Let's take the SpaceX example. SpaceX is great in terms of pushing innovation. But there would be no SpaceX without NASA or other government entities. They need those tax dollars (especially early on) to survive. And when they lose a government payload, the government takes something to the tune of 80% of the loss because they are self-insured. This has the effect of SpaceX farming out their risk to the government.

But this is one of the areas where the government excels. Namely, taking large risks in nascent fields where the risk is too big for private companies to balance against the benefit by themselves. But the complexities and unknowns that create that risk is also the very same thing that creates the budget and schedule risk as well.
Not easily. I don't think the literature is very incredible on this - how do you define a prior over all of the parameters of an NN?
Seems similar to fly.io, but fly.io seems better: uses WireGuard instead of service mesh, supports custom domains, supports any TCP or UDP service, provides volumes, etc. But that’s great seeing more options in that market!
I enjoyed this a lot.

One decent strat to explore was just turning on extra comp and nothing else. Social stability tended to stay at the max. 141k people died. Knowing how strong this is, you can just buy your way out of almost any upset with other choices for a relatively marginal increase in costs.

A couple things I didn't understand:

* My immune numbers started to go down at some point. Why?

* How many people are there? The game suggests 10 million, but near the end it suggested there could have been 14 million people infected. I wonder if this game just uses an exponential model under its hood rather than something logarithmic.

* Can the vaccine pr ever work out favorably? Seems like it doesn't.
Boy if that's true that's a real bummer. That's not very different than just getting a cash bonus.

The entire point is to encourage people to stay by letting their wealth grow with the company? A scheme like that seems wildly counterproductive.
> cookiengineer claims 4chan members took things considerably further, including into physical harassment. He claimed: "It was attempted murder with an illegal butterfly knife. In the whole state of Germany, butterfly knifes are considered an illegal weapon. There were three witnesses in place that saw the incident. I was slit in the arm. On private property, that you have to physically break into in order to enter."

This is scary to read. I cannot imagine being personally attacked for something as mundane as forking a Github repository and making some commits.

> "I am in contact with GitHub and the German BKA (federal police) as of now, therefore I will not disclose any more information publicly about what happened to anyone. Evidence has been gathered, submitted and will be acted upon. I will not legally let go of this."

It's good to hear that cookiengineer is taking this through the appropriate legal channels. Nobody should have to live in fear.
My employer (not yet reflected in my profile and I'm not speaking for them here) made this change last year for every employee with at least 2 years tenure. For such employees, the post-termination exercise window equals the years of service up to a maximum of 4 years. I've heard similar things at a handful of other well-known tech startups.
I have the same book regarding fiction books vs series or movies. The books have a lot more depth and are more creative in my experience.
Depending on the amount/cost of onboarding it's very possible that an employee that only stays for 364 days is a net drain on resources.
we do daily deploys, so we're mostly using this as a way to check cves across rails and react in a way that fails loudly and doesn't require anyone to step outside their standard workflow. Regardless of whether the new commits introduced the cve or not.
OpenTelemetry: A Way to Achieve Observability
I think there is a bit of a selection bias going on in that subreddit.

I finished undergrad last May and had multiple offers to choose from well before I even graduated. Maybe covid has slowed hiring since, though.
Hoe it works out! But I’m not sure I understand how it works, so 13 hiv negative people not considered at risk of HIV are getting injected, how will they know if the vaccine works ? Wouldn’t you rather take two groups of people exposed to HIV, vaccinate one and compare the rate of infection of both ?

And also, I had no idea male circumcision contributed to reducing the infection rate during unprotected sex, how is that, is it because there’s less friction somehow and therefore less chances of blood exchanging between partners ?
It's interesting that the game contrasts Voluntary and Involuntary Participation in pandemic counter-measures. At the extremes, everything is either voluntary or involuntary, but in real life, people are making decisions all the time based on the conditions they see; enforcement of government orders is only one of those conditions.
I have yet to see streaming/event sourcing work well. Every time I’ve seen it used it’s caused more problems than it’s resolved. The main problems, out of order events and/or slow to propagate events.
I think it's also fascinating to learn about computation, sensing, reaction etc. in other cells, both within multicell organisms and when looking at single cell organisms.

There was an article on this that I don't know how to find again - the point being that neurons are not unique in their capacity for computation, they are only the most evolved formed of it.
The minimum size in this experiment was 20 people in a company. So not the kind of place that had exactly one person manning a cash register.

Each company handled it differently, but presumably for something like retail, it would be a matter of scheduling shifts such that some predictable time of low utilization would have lower staff.

Note that although it's only a 4 day work week, it was also 9 hour days, so you're only cutting hours 10%. So, find the slow time and schedule somebody to leave before it. Or something like that; it varies from organization to organization.

Or maybe they do need to hire another person. If they've got 20 employees whose hours have been cut by 10%, then they hire two more people. It costs more, but overall, they found that it improved life enough to be worth it.

No idea how it would apply to small businesses. Probably, it doesn't. But it gives their employees a bit of negotiating power for more money. They think it will help, rather than harm, the overall economy.
This is a blog post.
I would say it's near impossible to do accidentally. And If you did so deliberately it wouldn't be a major safety incident and you could expect some prison time or a large fine.

I've actually driven over this and didn't even remember it as you're so far from the airport buildings at that point. Unlike Gibraltar where it's actually rather busy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/disXPcTEh3GMfwAF8
>> But I really don't know what all goes into making a space telescope so expensive currently.

I think you already said it. The long life (high reliability) requirement, and I'll add the complexity of having it unfold. Both of those become non-issues if you build the telescope right into a space-X starship. There may be other issues with that, but the mirror wouldn't need to fold ;-)
Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly.

So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (your first year at the company), 25% of your 4-year grant is immediately vested. Every quarter after that is another 6.25% of your initial grant.

I believe the point they were trying to make in the article is that, instead of quarterly grants following the pattern of:

[0%, 0%, 0%, 25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...]

It would instead follow the pattern:

[6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...]

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Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is minimal”
>I cannot really think of a story where an over-capacity hospital leads to the same or reduced mortality.

I think the emphasis on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic likely caused an increase in mortality in hospitalized patients. At peak panic, there was a big push to create and distribute ventilators, including open source projects, big name tech billionaires dedicating resources, etc. Then we realized these were actually damaging lungs further, and nixed that treatment, switching to oxygen supplementation only.
I think the first thing they could do is make ALL notifications on Android opt-in.

Most notifications that I get are SPAM.
Eh, I talk to a fair number of undergrads and I think it has been tough this past year.
They are great for data exploration, data science, analytics, etc. I would NOT put one as a dependency on a user experience though.
The argument is bad for privacy, since the business solution to that problem is the same for other IP antitrust: mandating non-discriminatory licensing to anyone who wants access to the data.
How do you redesign a form/process from paper to digital workflow?
Imagine that your company has decided to move to a truly digital workflow. (Not necessarily paper->online but that's the easiest example.) Perhaps it's "let's move the real estate paperwork to the cloud" or "automate the approval process for a corporate project launch, with Legal and Regulatory oversight." Or something simpler.

A lot of processes duplicate ‘the way we’ve always done it’ without rethinking the problem. If I put together a list of useful advice what should be included?

What did you learn the hard way? Or, what tips would you hope to read before you got started on such an endeavor?
Amazing book, written by a former Madison Avenue employee (the subject of "Mad Men")

I think someone should make a movie or TV series out of this, it'd be the perfect parody of Mad Men in particular and our messed up hyper-corporate dystopia in general
Certainly a lot of the cost of the project is R&D, but most people would be shocked by how much of aerospace project budgets are driven by quality. E.g., a bolt costs $200 not because it has to go through a new R&D cycle, but because it needs a chain-of-custody, inspections, metal coupons stored, etc.

There's also a huge amount of political risk for a government entity. Politicians will be reluctant to fund another JWST if the first one fails because many will fight it as a waste of money, and the previous failure just bolsters the JWST-opponent's position.
'PRO/CESS' customizable 3D printed bike saddle
I don't think most landlords have the option of convincing Masayashi Son to write an infeasibly large cheque on the grounds that that remind him of what he used to be like, and/or that they are making a "tech" company.
Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.
Wasn't true when I was (re-)hired a year ago. Grant is in dollars, it's converted to shares based on the share price when you start, and then you that fixed number of shares divided by the number of vesting periods over the term of the grant. The vesting period depends on how big the grant is; low-level employees will likely vest quarterly, mid/high-level monthly. No cliff; they removed it a couple years ago.
They look small since they're next to big planes, but plane tires are actually quite big, so I'm not surprised they wouldn't have any trouble w/ the tracks.
Sunborn is relatively affordable too! I believe it claims 5 stars, which is overselling it, and the noise from the bars on the landward side isn't great but it's nice all the same
Why was stockfighter never open sourced? I played it, never finished it unfortunately.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/

Turn off recommendations, comments, autoplay etc. I only see exactly who I've subscribed to and nothing more.
This is correct. I believe the share-price they pick is something like the average daily share price for the next full month after you join. So if you join Jan 28, the $$ value of your stock grant will be evaluated around March 1 to determine your grant-price, and then you'll get your first vested shares monthly (around the 25th, I think?).

I believe they used to due quarterly vesting for folks who didn't get much equity, but now that you can have vesting of fractional shares, ~everybody should be on a monthly vesting schedule.
I think we need to consider each company separately.

Smaller firms may have smaller codebase and less complex infrastructure and processes to get familiar with. Learning all of that wouldn’t take more than a week or a month, tops.

Larger, public companies like FAANGS will often have completely custom stacks, specialized developer tools and a ton of checks before anything you write hits production. Learning to navigate this will take a lot longer. IIRC Facebook has a bootcamp of several weeks (months?) just to get new engineers familiar with their shit.

In either case, I personally don’t think it’s a “wash” since even at the bigger company it’s not like you’re not doing anything and once you get familiar with the stack you can be productive af.
It seems very unlikely that a government run warehouse network would have invested into Kiva Robotics like Amazon did. Their warehouse tech is a big part of their competitive advantage.
Thirteen adults? It‘s actually incredibly unlikely to get HIV, how does this study have any worth? Wouldn‘t it need thousands of participants?
As a self taught guy transitioning from chemical engineering, I hope its not too hard. Starting my search in a couple months
Something is off then. Are they in big cities? Do they not know where/how to apply? We’ve had a hard time hiring anyone, including entry level.
Whoops, I completely forgot about libsparkcrypto (https://github.com/Componolit/libsparkcrypto) which is a "formally verified implementation of several widely used cryptographic algorithms using the SPARK 2014 programming language and toolset. For the complete library proofs of the absence of run-time errors like type range violations, division by zero and numerical overflows are available. Some of its subprograms include proofs of partial correctness.".

Features:

* AES-128, AES-192, AES-256

* AES-CBC (all supported AES modes)

* SHA-1

* HMAC-SHA1

* SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512

* HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, HMAC-SHA-512

* PRF-HMAC-SHA-256, PRF-HMAC-SHA-384, PRF-HMAC-SHA-512

* RIPEMD-160

* HMAC-RIPEMD-160

* ECDSA, ECGDSA

It is pretty awesome. :)
It does seem to be the same sentence worded slightly different. I’m curious to what the actual distinction is as well.
That’s - not at all what I meant.
how to obtain ground truth in production?
Fair enough, and your point is perfectly valid taken on its own.
This is most likely a Phase I human trial which only establishes the safety of the drug (or vaccine), which is why it is such a small group. Phases II and III establish the efficacy.
Safety test. They can also test for antibody response.
New grad jobs are often a completely different pool from the rest of the roles, so that doesn’t necessarily conflict.
It's ESA that's getting it up into space, NASA is "just" collaborating.
This is fundamental to the rule of law. Judges and juries apply the law to the facts. Civilians can ask the government to review their plans in advance and make a ruling.

We don't say murder laws are bad because there's no way to know in advance if "bashing someone's head in with a pipe who dies a month later" counts as murder.
> ADHD is the condition where there are many problems around and you cannot decide which ones are really worth solving, so you spend some effort on most of them but solve none.

What you described here has nothing to do with ADHD. You described a situation, a problem solving strategy and an outcome. That says nothing about the brain involved, or its functioning.

ADHD is a particular state of a nervous system, one of over stimulation/over excitation in one end and under stimulation in another. You can see it on an EEG, excess beta waves (among other things). You can see it as a neurotransmitter inbalance, neuroinhibitors not working properly.

But besides, the functioning of a brain and the environment it finds itself in are two interested things. But of course there is some influence between them.
I think this is a problem across the industry. Companies don't want to give engineers adequate raises so they get trained as juniors and walk out and get 20-30k raises. So then everyone is only interested in seniors.

Senior has all but lost its meaning too... It describes how long you've been in the industry, not if you have the skills to be a technical leader, etc.

At larger corps when a senior leaves, you're often given budget to re-hire a senior, so there is no incentive to hire a junior/entry level. A lot of companies don't even have pathways from internships to entry-level positions. They just let them finish their internship and say "good luck"

This is a problem for diversity as well. Look at the makeup of the seniors in the industry. Now look at the junior/entry level folks coming out of master programs, colleges and boot camps.
Probably, but IIRC that's about how many users are estimated to run ad blockers which was the basis.

Obviously less people care about privacy than care about intrusive ads, but if such features were combined you might get momentum.
I think the rational for buying it was they were the single largest user of it, and were concerned about funding stability.

Does anyone have the numbers before they bought github, I saw them once, don't remember the values, just remember being shocked at what percentage of the total github code base was Microsoft. I had no idea they were using it at all.
I think the larger the company the longer it takes to ramp up, but at a small startup you can have a big impact in month one.

I've always found the one year cliff funny, since investors don't have a cliff.

I've been hoping startups would start doing this for a while, and think DD is really a pioneer here and think this will become a trend. I know personally I turned down a few opportunities at promising startups simply because I was young, in my twenties, and a year felt like a long time. I found the probability of a life changing event that would require me to move and leave a company too high, and didn't want to bust my butt for 10 months with a salary cut, then have to leave and get no equity. So I said "no" to a few opportunities that otherwise would have been great.

Currently incentives first your first year are to focus on not getting fired. Now it can be on making an impact.
You know, now that I think about it, I'm not sure where I land on this issue.

On the one hand, kids not being able to get off their phone to the point it impacts their performance at school is worrying.

On the other hand, school is kid prison, and I really can't begrudge any kid who, when having to listen to a teacher for hours on end, takes any opportunity to do something more interesting they find.
Having been fired once at the 10-month mark early in my career, not for misconduct and not after any prior performance warnings, the 1-year cliff can be heavily abused by employers. Your argument assumes the employee has the control over when they leave, which isn't always true.

(In actual fact I was then a pretty underperforming employee who misunderstood the situation, but the apparent trigger for me getting fired was my own request for help addressing the situation since I realized something was wrong. The startup founders were as early-career as me and didn't really know how to give me the feedback I needed. My next employer did give me the necessary constructive criticism, after which I made the necessary changes, got subsequent positive feedback from that same employer, and have been a decent to good employee everywhere I've been since then.)
And if they provide attribution?
Well as much as I can understand the author of this article wanting to get past Riesman’s ideas in “The Lonely Crowd” the time period his predictions occur is during the age of “incipient decline” which is definitely right now and hasn’t ended yet. I do think Riesman predicted the rise of social media in the context of other-directedness without directly describing social media itself. Riesman’s work is still relevant but sure- it’s time for new voices to be heard.
The case we are talking about is only about specific persons, in which case they is incredible confusing. It's a shame we lost the plural you, unless you count y'all, and we shouldn't let it happen to they.

For example: "Here is Bob, a builder. They are moving here to find work in construction."

I'm mostly indifferent about pronouns, but I wouldn't call someone "they" also because it's too much like the royal "we". Unless they are royalty of course.
Maybe not quite what you're talking about, but https://www.nationstates.net/ is almost like Model UN the game. Played a bit with friends back in the day, but missing some of the mechanics of Civ
>> it will go around the Earth once per year.

I think more accurately it will go around the sun once per year. The earth will provide the extra gravitational pull (toward the sun) needed to orbit the sun at a larger radius than the earth in the same amount of time as the earth.
Energy is specified in KWh here, i.e. we have a metering system installed which states that our heat pump delivered 128024 KWh of heat and the electricity company's metering system tells me that it used 34844 KWh of electrical energy to do this.

Anyway, for one unit input we got about 3.6 units of output, which has been produced with an almost zero carbon footprint, as we buy only ecologically produced electricity.

And yes, English is a second language.
> My immune numbers started to go down at some point. Why?

The methodology page [0] explains resistant people eventually become susceptible to infection again.

> but near the end it suggested there could have been 14 million people infected

Since the game is tracking total number of infections, rather than people infected, and since infected people can become susceptible again, that would explain the #infections > total population.

[0] https://koronahra.cz/about
This article doesn't actually say anything besides the conclusion of the author (who wrote "The Snowden Operation", where he "demolishes Snowden's claim to be a whistleblower").

He wrote a conclusion, that Twitter and LinkedIn are kowtowing to China, added a bunch of color to that conclusion, and said nothing about how he arrived at that conclusion.
I wonder if it is possible to have an ML filter that can downsample in a way that is aesthetically pleasing, even if things are not aligned at pixel-boundaries.
> The pendulum has swung too far to the left.

Maybe I'm biased as someone not from the US, but this is sounds so absurd and myopic that it spoils the entire article for me.

The US has never implemented anything remotely close to the "socialist" policies that many European countries have. The latter did so for many decades on top of that and with great success, and most importantly: without causing any of the social issues described in this article during those decades. So if "leftist thinking" is the cause of these issues, then Europe would have had increased anxiety and self-censorship decades ahead of the US.

"But the author is talking about gender politics, not socialism and economic theory" you might say. So? That does not excuse the author from mixing up completely different issues by saying "the pendulum has swung too far to the left" as if social media-fueled internet hate machines have anything to do with things like unionizing, demanding a living minimum wage, affordable housing and a healthcare system that doesn't risk bankrupting people.