skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great to see more and more talk of vector search and vector databases. We've been promoting this technology for over a year now and have several intro articles for anyone looking to learn more[1], and a generous free tier on our vector search service[2] for anyone looking to give vector search a shot.

[1] https://www.pinecone.io/learn/

[2] https://app.pinecone.io/

We are also actively researching the space, and just recently published a paper on improving Google's ScaNN: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02179
Guide: What Is an AWS Savings Plan?
> I guarantee you they are not.

I'm speaking from firsthand knowledge. How embarrassing for you to think that because you know some Private Equity folks (generally the worst people at managing technology), that 100% of the rest of the world is doing (or not doing) exactly what they're doing.

You wrote paragraphs about how expensive it is to hire people to do stuff in a datacenter. What is your argument, if it is not that this is more costly than outsourcing it?

This entire debate should be recast the simple "build vs buy" concept that it already is.
Yes, those languages have nulls, but the nulls don't display the strange operator semantics of SQL ANSI nulls.

In JavaScript, null == null yields true. "Test" == null yields false. In SQL, those expressions yield null. SQL is afaik unique in its belief that algebra involving nulls should yield nulls instead of boolean values. That's what's meant by "three value logic", and that's what I find problematic. It violates several mathematical rules, like the reflexive property of equality.
Inflation is most certainly a problem for the bottom 90%, affecting each part of the 90% differently. An average hourly increase does not mean real income growth by itself. As you move from high to middle to low class, consumption becomes a bigger piece of the expense pie(rent, food, clothes, etc...) and those goods are also the ones that are increasing in price. Meanwhile someone that bought a house last year basically anywhere has probably seen a large appreciation.
Not quite as bad, but when I tried out a car in 2008 with Ford/Microsoft's SYNC system (voice interface), there were cases where pressing an unconfigured button would disable the sound system until you restarted the engine. See number 8:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2008/07/setting-sync-strai...

Also, whenever the power goes out, I always express thanks that the toilets still work, and they didn't introduce some npm-style pointless dependency.
You're only confused about how they work today because they changed from yesterday and are most assuredly different than what they will be tomorrow.
Fair, but he did go on and on about all the things he's seen.
I work on small engines. Their carburetors usually are held together with JIS screws, which do look like Phillips. You can tell if someone took it apart with Phillips, though, as the screw is (basically anyways) visibly damaged and the screwdriver doesn't seat as well.
I can understand this mindset perfectly, but it bothers me when it's mixed in with confused stuff about how playing on a cycle-accurate emulator is somehow a perversion of the original experience.
Google meet is dog slow on chrome too. It kills the battery too.
When a Genetic Disorder Discovery Is Unwelcome News
You want the file type and creator code, but they're eaten along with the resource fork when you move the file to something that's not HFS, I think.
Not very good, this article? Will I ever get a downvote button for articles or does HN not have that at all?
I pretty much work whenever I like, except for the 1-2 daily meetings I have during normal business hours.

> what's the best path for a senior software developer to enter that space? Is the pay the same?

Well it depends what you’d wanna do. I work in application security which imo is the easiest transition into security for a senior dev.

Security experts who possess a strong programming background are quite rare. It’s been a huge advantage for me personally.

The most straightforward way into appsec might be to get your oscp. People will take you seriously if you’re a senior dev and have that cert. I hear it’s a beast but it can be done with a few months of serious effort.

As for pay, It’s hard to tell cause devs have a wide range. I make ~170k and live in Atlanta for reference after 4 yrs experience.

The roles that come my way are between 150k-225k. Obviously if you can land a FAANG role the compensation can be much greater.
Ahh, so you consider yourself an "A" player. Ever wonder why your personal philosophy places you at the top and everyone else below?
> Which is atrociously low for [deleted] consultant rates

I don't think $50 an hour is a reasonable salary for consulting period. An experienced/senior developer working full time for a company with benefits in a cheap area should still (off the top of my head) probably be looking for at min $100,000 to $120,000 yearly salary (roughly $50 an hour). Depending on the situation you might be able to get more than that, I'm sure I could find people who would tell me that my estimation is also low. It is a very low salary for developers living in San Francisco, but let's leave that area out of the conversation for a second since it's something of an anomaly.

When you consult/contract, you are now paying for your own health insurance, your taxes are now more complicated, you are paying for most of your own gear, your situation is more complicated and your work is short time, you don't have the same level of job security, you are more self-directed, and you are taking on a greater amount of responsibility for the success of the project you're working on.

You need to charge more for consulting work than you charge for normal full-time development.

And all of that even ignores that at the point you're doing consulting work, you're doing it because you're likely a domain expert. A full-time domain expert in a company should be making way more than $120,000 a year, and similarly should be charging even more for consulting work. Contractors undervaluing themselves and choosing to charge too little is a pretty big cause of burnout and failure for people who are trying to get into that kind of work. I would not entertain for a second a $50 an hour rate for contracting work even if I lived in a rural area with cheap housing.

Everyone's situation is different, maybe there are people who can make that work and it makes sense for them, but on average people undervalue what their salaries should be when contracting. The overwhelming advice that I hear from contractors is "take what you think is fair to pay yourself and at least double it to get your minimum rate." Huge cause of burnout for people who get into self-employment, they give away their work for too little and then can't keep up because they're over-stressed and overworked.
> "I own #Bitcoin because it's the one thing they can't manipulate or control."

And lo, the plot was lost.
They didn't drop it but a clamp released unexpectedly during some operation and it caused vibrations in the telescope. At that time they didn't have sensors attached that would be able to confirm if the vibration was within specified tolerances so manual inspection of sensitive components had to be done again.

Glad to hear it went well and we are back on track!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-capitol-...

edit: I see in a sibling thread that you have changed your goalpost to be "bomb in the capitol". I tried being reasonable but you don't want to listen to reason.

edit 2: The person you replied to didn't explicitly specify the location, but reporting on these bombs found at the RNC and DNC headquarters was widespread. A good-faith assumption would have been that they were talking about what was widely reported on and didn't feel the need to justify details to someone who is being needlessly pedantic to try and trip people over their own words.

Did you at least learning something new here? About the bombs?
Can't wait till we start settling the Arctic.
This is the dumbest thing they could do.

“Ah yes, all you hackers and crackers, please take this DRM’ed copy of IDA and please obey the licensing agreement and don’t bypass the DRM.”
https://www.slowernews.com

I cherry-pick articles that dissect trends, unveil lesser known trends or are interesting edge cases, and are relevant, at least, for some months. It's like a generalist and slow HN once most articles appeared here. I couldn't find something similar so I built it... RSS, quarterly newsletter[0] and open source[1]. It's my pet project: I feed him, he doesn't feed me but in the end he makes me a better person.

[0] https://slowernews.substack.com/

[1] https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews
I personally go out a heck of a lot less with these insane mask mandates. I hate wearing a mask.

Plus many of these people arguing to keep them around forever forget that actual living humans work at these businesses. It takes a lot of privilege to suggest employees should continue wearing masks forever to make a small set of extremely fearful customers feel "safe". I bet 99% of the "pro mask" people on are not in a place requiring them to wear a mask 40 hours a week.
It would be great to see Gpt-3 taken further than this so there’s less need to mess with the layout afterwards. Maybe you describe a sketch and Gpt-3 draws you their best bike riding avocado? Or you add something that says “photos from todays trip” and it spins up the album roll. This would detract from the simplicity and may not make the product any more successful- but it would be very cool.
Both frameworks have matured a lot and I think we're coming up on some really awesome applications in the coming years. The tools around them which make it easier to apply DL everywhere are really the bottleneck at this point!
People are being extremely literal here about "seeing" what they're imagining. When you look at an actual tiger, you can count the stripes. When I imagine a tiger, I can also count the stripes.
> I truly think that TFLite + Coral will be a game-changer for a lot of industries

I'd like to agree. Google was very far ahead of the curve when they released Coral. I was completely stoked when they finally added hardware video encoding to the platform with the release of the Dev Board Mini.

I want them to succeed but I fear if they don't drastically improve their Developer Experience, others will catch up and eat their lunch. TensorFlow has been hard to pick up. A few years ago when I was trying to pick this up to create some edge applications, PyTorch wasn't so much easier that it seemed worth sacrificing EdgeTPU support. But now PyTorch seems much, much easier than it did then, while TensorFlow hasn't seemed to improve in ease-of-use.

Now I'm genuinely considering sacrificing TFLite / EdgeTPU in favor of, say Jetson-esque solutions just so that I can start doing something.

Note: I am an amateur/hobbyist in this context, I am not doing Edge machine learning professionally.
Richard Stallman wants all software to be free, which I disagree with, but adding a paywall to open-source will push companies to find a free replacement or build the software themselves.
What a nightmare for this crew's families, as well.

Certainly not as awful as loss of life, but I wonder how much uncertainty the family of a submariner must come to accept.
If we could summon the political will to do that we could already summon the political will to transfer subsidies that go to fossil fuels to renewables instead and that would mostly end the need for nuclear.

*slight edit for clarity
It's worth considering that nowadays we don't really do backup copies of satellites/probes because launch is pretty reliable by now, especially on rockets that have been flying for a while (which is pretty much a requirement to be chosen to launch a flagship project like JWST).

Ariane 5 has a long flight record with very few failures and the design has been further carefully reviewed specifically for JWST, with the previous two launches having served as verification for any fixes that needed to be made prior to flying this mission.

Basically, the chance of JWST being lost due to a rocket issue is much lower compared to the chance of it being lost due to design issues with the telescope itself.
I've been a customer since ~2010, and have been paying out of my personal pocket the $469 / year support renewal for a standard IDA Pro named license, which I've carried with me through various jobs in my career.

The new subscription model will almost double my costs ($900 / year), all while I've been getting less and less value with each update. Furthermore if I ever stop paying, I will lose access to the product.

Whereas if I stop paying now, I will maintain indefinite access to what I currently have.

I think I simply won't renew next year, and will rely on Ghidra to fill any gaps going forward.
I think the checklist of technical differences is a bit outdated at this point!
Vast majority of those are mild illness or where it was a secondary finding. There's been a sharp decline in the number of hospitalizations requiring additional oxygen.
I guess I'm drawing on memory, but not visually. Try closing your eyes. You probably still have a sense of the shape of the room you are in, without actually picturing it right? Like you know how far away the walls are and where the bookshelf is. It's similar with faces. I have some sort of "model" of her face in my head, there's just no visual component.

And as I read that over, I realize it's a terrible explanation. I have no clue how to respond usefully.
Since you're apparently such a free-thinking rebel, why would you care?
> Getting infected with COVID does not.

Going to a live game has benefits. Do those not matter?
In Turkey, bread lines grow longer as inflation soars
FTA:

> OpenSSL 3.0.0 SSL/TLS clients are affected by this issue.
> OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.

I haven't encountered any stable distro running a higher version than 1.1.1. Arch, Debian Unstable, Alpine latest, and Ubuntu 20.10 are all on 1.1.1.
How to run workloads on bare metal Kubernetes with MAAS
"Because of the world, I have to wonder are people really this overly sensitive, or just trolls looking to stir trouble?"

Poor sentence building on my part, I get caught up on petty linguistics. No harm intended.

"However, this person seems very confused on what painting is. After their insensitivity accusations, they go on to claim that drawing on a iPad is equivalent to painting. That's like claiming someone plaing a golf game on iPad has insights on the skill of professional golfer."

No, really, modern digital tools are friggin awesome!

What I intended to convey that a person should really try painting once in their life, but they don't need to set up a studio with good lighting, get solvents and paints and brushes and so on.

I say this as a lifelong art enthusiast who loves his pens, charcoals, inks, acrylics and oils. And the IPad Pro with an Apple Pencil fits there actually really, really well. Similar experience can be had on a Wacom tablet and Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Krita or what ever program that takes into account artistic sensibilities in their tooling.

90% of the problematics constructing a painting can be investigated using a digital medium.

Oils bring in the pigments and their interaction with each other and medium, but that's kind of an added layer of complexity on top of the artistically critical elements - shape, color, detail reproduction and so on. Because when you paint, it's not an act of photography, but a process where one needs to decide on lots of these issues.

You can take what ever course or book that teaches oil painting, and apply it on a digital medium quite far.

The key tools are 1. a brush that maps pressure to size 2. a brush that maps pressure to opacity 3. a blend tool to blend the colors. Layers help in keeping things tight. It's really nice if the software attempts to provide realistic blending of colors, but it's not necessary - all of these have been available for decades on digital paint tools.

I totally agree a digital painting lacks the feeling of an actual oil painting, but the problematics are the same. As an example these include shape, tonal mapping from the scene to the canvas, choosing a palette, choosing which details to render and which not.
github-wiki-see.page is a new one I came across today.
"same" padding for convolutional layers is super convenient too
I'm more nervous about the deployment. There are so many things that can go wrong after the launch but before it is fully operational.
On the other hand, I can't use the Analog Pocket to play PlayStation, Dreamcast, Genesis, etc., can I?
> "It is possible that both neurosurgeons and aerospace engineers are unnecessarily placed on a pedestal," the study reflected. "Other specialties might deserve to be on that pedestal, and future work should aim to determine the most deserving profession."

OR rocket scientists and neurosurgeons have other predispositions which simply aren't measured by childish cognitive test such as "giving a definition to a complex word" and "rotating a 3D model in your head".

I have such a strong dislike for these pseudo-scientific studies because they build a weird limited definition of "cleverness" and "intelligence" and then they publish conclusions based on a model built on their field's preconceived notions of what is "intelligence". It would be all fun and games if they kept to their academic journal, but then the researchers will say stuff like the above quote as if they had proven something.
Do you have visual experiences while dreaming? For me "seeing in my head" is most similar to those: certainly a visual experience but with less detail than when I'm actually looking at something. I believe some people's are much more detailed than mine, as some people can reproduce scenes in exquisite detail from memory.

Another data point: If I need to remember a spelling (often I don't, as it's just in muscle memory - but say I was asked to spell something by saying the letters out loud), then I will visualise the word in my head, and then read it out. Not quite like reading from paper, but very similar.
That's a bit embarrassing, thanks for the correction.

It didn't occur to me that some FAQ items would modify others, so I stopped reading at #13.
Nor is irrational panic
The True 4-dimensional Klein Bottle
Hospitalisations and deaths will likely increase regardless, as so many more people will be infected, even if it's proportionately less dangerous to a given individual. But I agree, more data in the next few weeks are what we need to make genuine determinations.
We built an enterprise resource planning for Startups and Small Businesses
Yes, negotiation. She asked for more money and got it.

Welcome to earth.
Which would you rather walk down as a single woman, a street empty other than a single man or a street full of sidewalk cafes and people? While the safety could be argued to be more perceived than real, (though I doubt that, it’s city street smarts 101 not to walk down dark empty alleys in the middle of the night), that increase in people’s comfort leads to the positives, healthy vibrant street life, pleasant utilization of public space, and walkability.
Yes, that's what I meant, and why I advocated for developing omicron boosters in the post.
> 10. What if I do not renew my subscription?

> 14. What if I don’t renew on the subscription plan?

Not sure how a contraction and the word "on the", "plan" make those separate questions...
I'm op:

After many, many long hours working on this bare metal Kubernetes whitepaper, it's FINALLY done and published.

I think I literally did work my a$$ off - at least, sitting in my chair typing this away did make me forget I had legs.

If you are interested in taking a walk down memory lane to see how we got here, how it differs from Virtual Machines, or just want to learn about it - this paper I truly hope will be interesting to you.

It even covers how to practically roll out bare metal Kubernetes and includes a video link (at the end) with a hands on tutorial (also involved in wearing me out).

Go, download, read, skim, enjoy :).
The policy changes the more one of those things swings to the extreme. Ultimately growth should be moderated...despite what some believe, high growth all the time is not a good thing.
Cargo bikes work better for heavier loads, most trailers seem to be ~30 kg whereas cargo bikes do 100-200 kg. And I wouldn't want to have that much on a trailer because of what happens when braking when towing a brakeless load on a wobbly arm that's heavier than the tractor.

Trailers also bounce around a lot when empty at any speed and can fall over if you're eg crossing a curb while cornering.
> Your whole post relies on blaming SA for what happened to them, using their fellow SAfricans who exploited them (alongside the West) as a fall-guy. That’s a very unfair characterisation of colonialism and its modern effects, like I claimed in my post.

No, I did not claim that, I am saying that the voters in South Africa are voting in policies based on color and racial lines, not based on their self-interest.

> Further, similarly to the way you dismissed the West for purchasing slaves,

I did not dismiss the West for purchasing slaves (I said that they should not have), I merely pointed out that native Africans were enslaving their neighbours (and worse) well before they started selling their slaves to the West.

> you skipped over Shell getting away with bribing the poorer previously colonised country.

I did not;

1) No accusation was made that Shell was bribing anyone,

and

2) I pointed out very clearly that mining rights are usually SOLD to the highest bidder by the state. If the state does not then use that money for its citizens, you can hardly blame the source of the money. Since the state is legitimately elected by the voters, the voters have only themselves to blame when their leaders (whom have been in charge for the last 30 years almost) take all the money.
Is is generally not-advised to put sanitized dot files and similar configurations into git? That's what I've been doing.
Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm a SWE with experience in large scale data processing and backend, with a recent focus on ML/Natural Language Processing.

Location: Vancouver, BC
Remote: Yes, in Canada
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Java, Spark, Kubernetes, FastAPI
Résumé/CV: https://natpat.net/static/cv.pdf
Email: nmtpatel7337 [at] gmail [dot] com

Whilst I am a strong technical contributor, I'm also interested in leadership, mentorship and learning. My favourite challenge recently has been leading a highly motivated and skilled team of SWE, AI Researchers and Data Scientists. I'm interested in a position where I can continue working with strong co-workers and help mould and lead strong, productive and happy teams.
I also love learning and being surrounded by people from different backgrounds and fields to me. I've had exposure to bio-tech and NLP, but would also be interested in other ML fields, robotics, health, eco/green energy, and probably more.

I'm also very interested in game development, mainly as a hobby - see https://natpat.net/games. Would be very open to roles in that sector too!

Sadly, I can only accept roles that would be able to provide me with a Canadian Work Permit, which likely excludes many US-only based companies.