skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see actual data on this but I doubt that a lot of people get hired because of their online reputation. And by "hired" I mean it directly lead to a job offer instead of just getting your profile noticed and getting you started through the recruitment funnel. And of those that had an offer, how many actually took it?

Being top 1% contributor in Go would tell a recruiter you know Go but the job probably involves other technologies you need to prove yourself in. Even in the rare case that you are top contributor in every technology on their checklist, the job might still involve domain knowledge that isn't purely tech. Or they'd want to evaluate your personality.

Anecdote: not to brag given my skepticism above but so far the only online activity of mine that lead to a job offer was a Ruby Github repo on traditional AI. The catch: I am not a Rubyist and that repo was nothing more than a fork I'm studying. Long story short, I was looking for a job then, this consulting firm saw my Github profile so I got an interview. Onsite, the TL looked at my resume, visited my profile, saw the Ruby project, asked a few questions about it, and then recommended me for an offer with the hiring manager.

I did not take the job because (a) they looked desperate for anyone in the process and (b) I would've bailed anyway because I already found a company I'm set on joining. Nothing more came of it other than this HN comment.
To many HRs “competitive salary” means nearly the median.

And now HR is perplexed why the customer reps are leaving because HR claims to believe the comp is competitive.
My dslr did that - every photo had a .raw and a .jpg but it rarely ended up close to what I’d get processing the raw
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So... Is Embiggen a cromulent word?
This is humorous timing for me. I just purchased an XPS 9510 and sleep mode was busted out of the box. After multiple hours of troubleshooting and updating bios and firmware with their "premium" support team, the machine still didn't work. I returned the laptop and vowed to never purchase a dell product ever again. They seem to have serious quality control issues in their product pipelines.
Nope, we are many that lived with that :-)

There is a difference between someone pressing a button now and then, and a person that actually writes 8-10 cps. You don't give them an audio feedback keyboard or you will go deaf.
> I am sure alot of people get hired off of it

Are there any numbers available on that? Do people on SO really get job offers if they have a high enough reputation? If so, are the offers from high-quality companies doing interesting things?

All of my previous job changes have been due to "in real life" networking. In order words, a friend of a friend recommended me for the job. I'm not looking to change jobs anytime soon but I sometimes wonder if my lack of online presence would hurt my chances of finding another job if had to. I have a blog and and a github account but both are pretty bare. I don't have a LinkedIn account because they started spamming me 15 years ago and they have been blocked by my email server ever since.
I don’t choose to sleep or shutdown. I want instant context saving and I will close my laptop many times a day. I expect opening it to restore me to where I was within 5 seconds with same application state and windows in the same place.

I have a MacBook which performs this flawlessly and my Linux desktop also pauses and restores flawlessly except immediately after installing new Nvidia GPU drivers.

I haven’t thought about different CPU sleep stages in approximately 9 years when I had to make my XPS M1330 handle them in the end years of its life.
I think it's something you can make for free, and sell for money. I don't think anyone "gets" the whole thing; I'd be shocked if anyone selling these things was also a collector. You either get the money or you give the money.
Privacy!=security.

It’s not that hard to understand. The pinephone has zero security (as well as most linux distros) - eg. you pick it up at the wrong moment and it fails to put the lock screen on, a single rouge program can do whatever it wants with user privilege only because the old user-root distinction is meaningless, since every valuable thing is stored as the given user, etc.

Android does proper sandboxing, MAC-based security, etc. The two are night and day.
Just heads up: Danish cities can't buy Lenovo laptops, at least certain models, because Lenovo can't guarantee that they are not made using Uyghur slave labour.

So if that's important to you, maybe don't buy Lenovo.
Out of the examples you gave, degrees, driving licenses, and permission to an API service are not suitable for NFTs, since they cannot/should not be traded. Presumably we do not want for people to sell their driving licenses or their degrees.
I've had an XPS running Linux for 8 years. Never was an issue. The problem definitely is Windows...
Here come the comments of people who see no value in crypto calming it has no value.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

A few years ago people laughed at me for buying bitcoin, it's good to see bitcoin adoption moving along nicely.
I don't know that anyone is spending any significant focus on shutting down NFTs, just explaining why they make me angry, since you asked.
But the specs they wanted were stupid and unnecessary. Pure requirements inflation and waste of taxpayer dollars.
Oh China is definitely cracking down on crypto, what I'm pointing out is that Western financial rags print the story late on expiry day to manipulate the market.
I have the android app called Lite, which is FB's Messenger app for low spec phones and doesn't have all the spyware aspects.
Sorry, I'm old-school. A computer is a device.
Getting the platform to the point where people can spend most of the time on the actual training and experiments (and less on the infrastructure) is our current goal. We do have a forward model simulator which should let you step through the environment without re-implementing it, but if that's not what you're after, we'd love to chat more on what we could do to make this easier (feel free to ping any of us on Discord https://discord.gg/tRUMgdfC).

P.S. Sounds like a cool project! Have you heard of the Hearthstone AI competition (https://hearthstoneai.github.io/)? Might be of interest to you.
It should be noted that this has nothing at all to do with Brexit.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/britain-facing-long-...
>My Bosch fridge is a smart fridge and I plan on putting it on a VLAN.

As another new owner of a Bosch fridge, why put it on anything at all? I just peeled the sticker that told me how to connect off, threw it in the trash, and treat it just like my old non-connected fridge. Is there actually some beneficial feature that makes it worth connecting at all?
Which is about approximately $240,000 USD.

Hrm...I wonder if I should mint some nft's?

And so it begins.
California requires all autonomous vehicles to be zero-emission starting in 2030
>>So of course age, obesity, etc. are all "risk factors" because they're always risk factors. However it's much harder with Covid to say "people with X health situation or Y pre-existing condition are the highest risk" because frankly Covid affects people differently, seemingly at random.

That's how all risk factors, for all diseases, work. It's a simple statistical correlation that gives someone a better than random chance of predicting what risk they face from a disease.

Outliers and unknowns do not nullify the utility of knowing the risk factors.

So despite your claim, COVID is not some extraordinary phenomenon with respect to how one ought to manage the risks it poses.

>>I don't think it's an overreaction to be worried.

One is not limited to the choices of not worrying about COVID, and one limiting specific COVID responses that are net-harmful. One can worry about COVID, and try to understand that the risk and response should be specific to each demographic group.

>>This is temporary; children aren't going to die because of getting fat from sitting inside more than playing outside for a few years.

Not true at all. Childhood obesity is a strong predictor of adult obesity. The behavioral patterns adopted during the COVID era are therefore going to lead a huge number of deaths, by raising future adult obesity rates.
Wouldn't it make sense for some electrical cables to have some fiber in them? When you're already laying them, you could get two services for the price of one.
If "publicly fund" here means government handouts to ExxonMobile, BP, Pacific Gas & Electric, and so on? No thanks.
Fair enough. My measurements were obviously more subjective :)
Android has a completely reimplemented user space on top of the (se-linux enabled) kernel. Saying that the two is one and the same is simply ignorant. They are as much the same as a human and a fish is. Just because the cells are largely the same doesn’t make them equivalent at all.
It's not just Chinese crypto traders at a loss. I think almost all crypto traders are at a loss in this state.
> And I very much doubt that tunneling your connection through a VPN can improve ping.

Yea... as someone who used to play a lot of online games, this was always a surefire way to increase ping time lol. "Crap, my VPN is still on... brb"
I think that's what offends me most about Facebook's whole ham-fisted victim routine. They adopted a business model that was dumbfoundingly, arrogantly unsustainable: trying to fool all of the people all of the time.

Even the smartest, most devious minds in tech should have realized that that gravy train had a limit.
I definitely don't buy a new laptop every two years, few people do, and when I do buy one, like most people, I sell or hand it down. Same with a phone, I don't think many people throw away 2 year old phones.

Using a laptop intensively for 5-6 years cannot be called "throwaway culture".

When it's finally unusable, Apple will recycle it for free, at least if you buy a new one at the same time. I don't know what they do with the battery, but I can't see why it would help if it was easily user replaceable.

Maybe you feel that the M1 is overhyped because you only had your previous laptop for a year or two? Coming from a 2016 MBP the difference was huge. And of course that laptop is still in use 5-6 hours a day.

Most importantly, assuming Framework is still around in 10 years, do you think you'll use it for significantly longer than 8 years, which I suppose will be the lifetime of my old MBP?
Looks like something serious is cooking around Chinese economy.
My understanding is that, in the US at least, "securities" is a broad category that applies to any financial asset or product that isn't regulated under other rules. However, this is pretty uncharted territory, and until there's some judicial precedent, it's impossible to be completely sure.
Good stuff. I'd be interested in sorting that by stock to see what stocks they (including their spouses/sig-oth) all are purchasing.
Wouldn't it be detrimental if the topic was sex? you'd have to specify "female-identifying people born with a vagina".

I'm not kidding, recently I read advice for lube for "people born with a vagina".

Sex is not gender, it's detrimental for communication to mix the two.
But laptop chargers _do_ have transformers, and inductors for that matter -- they're switching power supplies! I actually had a problem with this on my MacBook to the degree that I would simply connect a wire between the protective earth and a radiator I had. It worked, strangely enough. It's also perfectly safe to do.
Since I bought iPhone 12 Pro a few weeks ago [1], I am curios what is the camera upgrade (and if should regret my impatience).

A real-world side-by-side comparisons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nty5sWZFbA
and https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/iphone-13-pro-max-review-a-.... tl;dr:

- slightly better tele

- slightly better in the dark

- macro mode (but there is video macro autoswitch, which everyone finds annoying)

- in other conditions practically no difference even if comparing side-by-side

[1] Yes, just before iPhone 12 Pro release; I am impatient + was in an urgent need.
I would like to see independent corroborating analysis before accepting the hypothesis as fact. But re-agglomerated stone is a much simpler explanation than anything that has been posited so far. A little different but if you consider that geopolymers were known to the ancients the schist disk is less mysterious as well. One of the applications Davidovits sells is high temperature geopolymer composite parts. The parts are stone in shapes that would be impossible to carve or make in any other way.

https://www.materialstoday.com/polymers-soft-materials/featu...
Except that, it's not even true.

NFTs are equivalent to a orange checkmark on the website twotter.com that I just set up.
I sort of wish that one day, one of these postings will say "fewer and fewer people can be scammed using mail from paypalsecurityteam472318@yahoo.com with a nice paypal logo in the message, so now the scammers are using homographs as a new and more dangerous attack". But they never say that, they always just talk about what might be this or might be that. Sigh.
I have never in my life met anyone that has an iPhone or a Mac because Apple is processing everything on the device itself. People have iPhone and macs for 2 reasons. iMessage and because Apple is a premium brand that even that richest of richest people use. The money Apple would lose if they started mining your data like Facebook would be indistinguishable from random noise.
> IP Refresh

> Does the service limit your usage of a single IP address?

From the linked page listed as a yes in the features list.
https://github.com/DevJac/solve_the_spire

I stretched the truth a bit, I'm actually doing something like "hierarchical model-free reinforcement learning", even so, figuring out how to break the game down to create a hierarchy of agents is a lot of work. Basically, the AI is composed of about 8 different traditional RL agents (neural networks), each deciding a different thing. One chooses which cards to draft, one chooses which actions to take in combat, one chooses which path to take on the map, etc.

Simple rules like "play random cards until your energy is used up" alone can sometimes beat the act 1 boss. My AI is barely above that, and still far from solving the game. I'm not convinced even DeepMind or other researchers could solve Slay the Spire right now.

It shows definite signs of improvement, but has only reached a point where it can beat the act 1 boss about 50% of the time. I think that is its limit right now. I'm doing policy gradient which is very sample inefficient. I'm going to implement soft-actor-critic and see if it can do better with better sample efficiency.

One thing I like about Slay the Spire is it's an environment to solve, not a competition. Gamers like to talk about PvP and PvE, well, I prefer AI vs environment over AI vs AI. In the end, an AI will win the competition, no surprise. An AI solving a new kind of environment is much more exciting IMHO.
One good thing to always keep in mind is that China structurally maintains the status quo of a Leninist state --- IMO, the entire reason they banned crypto is that crypto's goal --- relative anonymity, privacy, and freedom of where to move one's money --- goes directly _against_ China's closed, tightly regulated financial system. The bureaucrats at their Ministry of Finance must be absolutely appalled by the idea that one could transfer money via bitcoin easily outside China without any sort of authorization.
Did anyone expect anything else? It was either extinction of the virus (which was unrealistic once it was out of China) or it evolving into a sort of cold with lots of casualties on the way there (the better adapted a disease is to their host, the better the survival rate of the host usually is).

Even Dr. Christian Drosten, one of Germany's top virologists [0], is now saying that he's planning to get the disease one day to develop additional immunity in the upper respiratory tract but ideally he would like to be able to receive a booster shot before that. He also wants that available doses go to countries with low vaccination rates first, though, so I guess that means he's not planning to get Covid anytime soon[1][2].

[0] If you want to get an idea what sort of 'top' we're talking about: he co-discovered SARS-Cov-1 and was part of the collaboration that developed the first Covid-19 test.

[1] (german) https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript324.pdf

[2] page 16ff. in [1]: "Mein Ziel als Virologe Drosten, wie ich jetzt gerne immun werden will, ist: Ich will eine Impfimmunität haben und darauf aufsattelnd will ich dann aber durchaus irgendwann meine erste allgemeine Infektion und die zweite und die dritte haben. Damit habe ich mich schon lange abgefunden. [...] Und ich muss zugeben, ich wäre gerne auch noch ein drittes Mal geimpft. Aber hier würde ich als Bürger dann auch sagen: Meine dritte Impfdosis geht erst mal nach Afrika."
Diversification. Theoretically most of the nodes are owned by different people, and every connection will randomize your node list route between them, making it difficult to track, unless most of the nodes were owned by one organization. With VPNs, all of your connections are through servers owned by one company, identified by an account ID.
There is a 14 day return window if you happen to be within it still.
Is your band famous in any way? Or does it have a cult following of some kind?

If not, who would buy an NFT of your jam sessions? The pioneering garage rock band The Stooges released a remastered edition of 1970's Fun House some years back, and included 2 CDs of rehearsal/studio sessions and outtakes.

They were widely panned for it, with some reviews saying that even the most ardent Iggy Pop fan wouldn't need 5 versions of "TV Eye".
For those itching for better-than-phone image quality in a portable form factor, look no further than the Ricoh GR, which packs a huge APS-C sensor and an incredible lens into a tiny inconspicuous package.
How do you think the dollar keeps its value? Do you understand that the reason it has value is because it’s backed by the US military, which provides peace and stability for industry to consume a vast amount of energy to produce goods that get shipped around using fossil fuel? Have you calculated the total energy expenditure of the entire US financial system, direct and indirect, and then compare it to proof-of-work calculations? No. No you haven’t. Don’t just parrot what the current-day zeitgeist told you to think.
Imagine living in a civilized country that can't bring itself to ban a massive distributed Ponzi scheme with huge environmental consequences. Bitcoin alone uses about 1/10th as much energy as the entire world's concrete production. Even if it were to transition entirely to renewable energy it also generates as much e-waste as an entire first-world country.

These things actually have huge meaningful state security risks. Not too long ago the entire country of Albania got swept up in Ponzi schemes. It go so bad, they imprisoned their finance minister for trying to stop it. Then they had a civil war about it. The IMF had to airdrop in bags of money to bail them out. [1]

1997 Albania is what the maxis are working towards.

In this case the PRC not only has the moral high ground, but also is acting out of a real, rational fear of economic collapse.

If America had any sense, it would put the ban hammer down on this before it gets any worse.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...
Thank you for not spreading fear. Much love.
Wouldn’t most laws need a real-world source of truth and arbitration external to the network? It seems like a lot of work just to arrive at what is essentially centralization once again.

And the people who might have initially dismissed the early internet would likely have not understood it. A lot of NFT detractors are plenty tech-savvy.
Should that perhaps be part of the defintion of an empire? Something like, "you only know you really are an empire when you realise you're a failing one."
From the article, it's unclear to me that this plane exists or will ever ever exist in a practical form, for that matter I don't think it's a given that reusable practical scramjet engines will ever make sense.
That’s nothing. You should see the graph of pirates vs global warming.

To think Bluebeard was rescuing us from the deleterious effects of too much CO2 in the air!
By the time they get their technology ironed out & scaled up (5-10 years) we may see that, if historical decay rates of solar cell prices continue.
this looks great, excited to try it.
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> If you think you want a VPN for "privacy", use Tor Browser.

What about Tor over VPN, so that your ISP can't see that you're using Tor? That is, the VPN hides your usage of Tor from your ISP and Tor hides your browsing from the VPN (and since many VPN services even advertise Tor support, its not like it would be suspicious, plus you can pay for many VPN's with cryptocurrency while I definitely can't hide my identity or location from my ISP).
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We don’t operate renewable grids in most of the world, and for most of the world renewable energy supply isn’t great enough to supply the dips without fossil supplements.

All that means is that in almost all scenarios bitcoin mining will be directly causing an increase usage of non-renewable energy. There are of course certain times and places where this doesn’t hold true and there’s a genuine surplus of renewable power that can’t be stored. But that’s an exception not the rule. Try and tell me with a straight face that the majority of power consumed by crypto is surplus renewable energy.
You mainly spend money on lawyers when things go wrong (or in anticipation of things going wrong).

In crypto, when things go wrong they just fork the blockchain. YOLO
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> As a democracy, there's no alternative to the government working with whatever majority it gets.

The government managed to sell the need for the military industrial complex.

The military is the most popular branch of the Federal Governemnt whereas the Fed and Treasury linger at 50-60% depending on who is in the WH.

50-60% is very low, that's the reason why Bitcoin thrives. If that number was 92-95% then Bitcoin would not exist.

Is it possible to have that number at 92-95% ? Maybe, maybe not...in any event the answer is not attacking bitcoin because even if Bitcoin is destroyed that remaining 50% void will be filled pretty quickly by something else.
Ah, I stand corrected. Been a few years since I visited. At the time, everyone I met seemed to be feeling like a victim of the bombings and harboring some resentment at the west.
Sorry If I’m misunderstanding something, but aren’t both of the things you mentioned already a reality? I thought RAWs included jpeg already, and Bridge already has an option to prefer that.
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Heh, I had to go back through some of my old questions and sure enough Gordon has helped me before. I had to laugh because my comment below his answer was that he figured out my problem so fast that StackOverflow wouldn't even let me accept his answer as it was too soon after posting the question.
Light load over a long period of time will result in a fairly uniform temperature distribution. It sounds like the system must have no "general" temperature sensor measuring the air temperature inside the machine (or chassis temperature).

Probably some small component on the logic board generates a bit of heat, requiring a certain "internal ambient" temperature, and the designers (never having thought to test it with restricted airflow) never noticed the implicit assumptions they had made.
It's always been one of my favourite Simpsons' jokes, precisely because it's so subtle.

And yes, I use both words all the time.