skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone in this thread is applying a binary model of immunity - either you are immune or you aren't, either a variant escapes or it doesn't.

But immunity is analogue. A strong, specific, antibody response can prevent infection. A T-cell response can stop infection turning into severe illness and death. Variants can evade antibodies somewhat easily, but find it much harder to evade T-cells. Antibody levels wane in weeks or months (although memory B-cells remain), T-cells remain active for years or decades.

If you had COVID last winter, then there would be a good chance of you getting it again this winter, even if it was the exact same strain. But you'd be much less likely to die of it.

So when does the pandemic "end"? What is a "pandemic"? If tens of percent of the population are catching every winter, but few are dying, is that still a pandemic?
If a few people voluntarily break my state, my state is still broken.

If a few terrorists voluntarily fly a plane into a building, they're still taking countless innocents with them.
I am thinking back to the quote from Dune:
"you've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."
I remember hearing about "hire to fire" at Amazon as far back as 2014, though the claim was that it happened "merely" enough to have a cute name, not that it was endemic.
If I understand you, you're saying that we see patterns of intelligence or understanding in ML models in the same way we see patterns of intelligence or understanding in children or animals?

If so, I agree. I think that's our big flaw, in fact, because we instinctually apply patterns from birth, even when those patterns shouldn't be applied. So we see faces in the moon or on mars that aren't there. We see shapes moving in the dark that don't exist. And we seem to believe that ML models will develop over time as children or animals do, based on nothing more than our perceptions of similarity, our instinct to apply patterns even when we shouldn't.

Unlike a baby human, that ML model isn't going to develop increased complexity of thought over time. It's already maxed out. New models might up the complexity slightly, but that baby is going to vastly surpass any existing model in weeks or days.
This should not be read as a disagreement with anything you’ve said, but smart people are still human. We’re all susceptible to the same flaws, but those flaws are just expressed with more complexity as intelligence increases.
Ugh.. do you think AVs are useless or something? Why do people think this. Shit AVs are shit, end of story. Reading memory and is not cpu intensive the disk i/o intensity if windows vs linux alone is very drastic if you want to evaluate that as a baseline instead.

It's like asking the carbon footprint of freeway guardrails. I mean, norton sucks, sure but at least turn on defender (which is really good btw). The amount if lives not ruined and money not lost due to cybercrime thanks to AVs alone is staggering imo
Maybe I’m missing something, but what’s so wrong with selling a bike rack with every new car? Seems a bit silly, but I’d expect it would encourage cycling while slightly raising the price of cars which are already under priced relative to the externalities they cause.
I was really into Scala ten years ago, but felt that a "Scala--" might be more accessible to most devs and hurt Scala adoption. Lo and behold, we got Kotlin.
Understand what success looks like for you in 5-10 years. Not planning is planning for failure.

Is it being a millionaire employee at big tech? Is it working a little from the beach and starting a family? Is it not having a boss and running your own business?

This is one of the few fields where you can actually shape your life and leverage the need for developers to your advantage.
Don't waste your opportunity and try to work

Try to work towards the best version possible of your future.

If you build something to scratch your itch, try to polish it and market it a bit online, so that you can use it as something to show off in an interview or as the start of a new side business - or even just as social media post to build an audience for a future business.

If you're working as an employee, try to grow your career and think how projects and roles would look like on a CV, no matter whether you're working on your career or not.

Maybe one day you'll be able to use that line on the CV, that side project or that side business.

I'm not saying you should disperse your energies too much (for example: I wouldn't recommend going crazy on OSS contributions, I did that and it didn't bring me nowhere), but if you're doing something that could be useful, do that extra 5% and create value for your future self.

Best of luck
I didn't say it's "useful because it's useful". It's "useful because it's used by many people". Unless you are implicitly agreeing with me that the definition of useful is that many people use something and find value in it.
I have a couple FOSS repos/apps. I make nothing from them.

I actually have the opposite assumption. I think fewer than 50% of HN regulars have a project that makes them money.
> I would bet that the people of the 1920s would find the world of the 2020s much more recognizable than the people of the 1820s would find the world of the 1920s.

Let's start by explaining smartphones, then Twitter and Facebook and then on how companies used them to hijack elections and destabilize democracies in multiple countries.

Or, for an amusing time, try to explain how a cryptocurrency works.

My mom, born in 1935, doesn't understand what I do beyond that I write computer programs (which isn't even that much true anymore).
One benefit of RSUs that you should consider is that you are granted them at your start date even if they vest years out. This gives you a ton of “time in the market” and they generally appreciate quite significantly if you’ve picked a good company. Salary will never match that.
There's no reason at all in your comment on reasons to make your parties indoor, instead of outdoor like the GP said. It's like you are replying to a different comment.
This is specifically for military communication https://www.dencrypt.dk/
Is this just the new way of saying "big data"?
Guess you could say the Swiss Army took the knife to them.
This allows you to override the logic later. Public fields in a language where "x.y" means "directly access field y on value x" don't allow that; x.y forever means "directly access field x" and you can't later interpose code between attributes and the code accessing it.

This isn't the only way of doing it, depending on your language. Python has a completely different mechanism where a class can start with a directly-accessed "y", but in a later version make it a property. (More than one, actually.) Some languages route all property accesses through something you can hook. Some languages simply automatically do what C# is doing here.

Semantically and abstractly, there's no reason to every not be able to override a property access in later versions like that, because it is so darned useful. Unfortunately, performance wise, it's hard to beat a language that guarantees structure layout and guarantees that x.y can be compiled into a single constant memory load instruction, and unfortunately, you can't just wave "compiler optimization" at the problem and make it go away (considered in isolation this seems like an obvious solution but as usual as it starts interacting with all the other features it gets much harder than the simple cases). The higher performance languages have a strong reason to give people ways to get guaranteed direct struct member accesses.
So, if I predict something catastrophical will happen and I make efforts to prepare for it, I'm part of the problem?
> Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google to Chrome.

People keep saying this as if crypto isn't already mainstream. Exchanges have hundreds of millions of customers. A significant portion of the world has traded crypto. And 99.99% aren't doing anything else with it but speculate.

It's not as if magically bundling a wallet on millions of machines will suddenly cause a bunch of usecases to materialize.
Fair point, I've now elaborated in a child comment.
When you talk to children who haven't developed the skill of talking completely, you still get the sense that there's a lot going on inside that they're unable to express. Sometimes they will show it to you with their actions. I wonder if chat bots are also struggling with the language, but have an internal story that's playing out, desperate to be understood. But they can't, because the only interface they have is a stream of text.
> a poor person confined in their home is less free than a rich person confined on their home

I disagree. The rich person may be more comfortable, but they are no more free. Confinement is confinement.

> Or is fraud prevention unrelated to liberty

Fraud is related to securing of property rights, which are a part of liberty. How free are you if people can remove the food from your pantry? Fraud as a criminal offense has been derived from "theft by false pretense". But I'm pretty sure we'd be fine if we decriminalized it and relegated it to a tort.
I'm not conflating anything that hasn't been done. Political posturing around saving thr environment is exactly how politician convinced a vast section of the professional class that solar is a solution to our energy needs. Despite it being much less reliable, producing minuscule amounts of energy in large parts of the country and requiring a much more complicated supply chain. Even solar's claimed environmental benefits are vastly over stated.

For poorer people, stuck in older homes with baseboard heaters. The rising price of electricity meant they couldn't heat their home as much. So they're already suffering. While also being told by politicians its better for the environment this way.

A better, vastly more reliable, and powerful alternative of building new nuclear plants lost out due to political posturing around the environment. My province of Ontario, killed two nuclear projects, and our electrical prices nearly doubled. The professional class deference to "feel good" saving the environment experts they see on TV is a bummer to see. But they will not be isolated from these feel good, but poor decisions into the future. So I don't need to convince anyone. The bill will come due.
I worry that this 'admin stuff' can actually leak quite a lot of information.

For example, to an adversary able to see the direct one to one social messages between a platoon of soldiers can probably easily figure out social dynamics, who might be most easily bribed, etc.
It might not be real. This could be a way of saying "I'm done with this site, forget about me."
There seems to be this common perception on HN that chatbots are good enough to pass the Turing Test thereby making such a test irrelevant. I’m not sure why this idea is so pervasive.
It's been a year or two since Twilio became so large that the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. You have my sympathies. Good luck.
Imagine being this stressed and miserable over someone else building something cool and valuable when you already have enough money to never need to work again. What a wretched existence
You should have spent more than ten seconds.

> By the time DOE, now known as NEO, was released in 1995, Sun had already moved on to Java as their next big thing. Java was now the GUI of choice for client-side applications, and Sun's OpenStep plans were quietly dropped (see Lighthouse Design). NEO was re-positioned as a Java system with the introduction of the "Joe" framework, but it saw little use. Components of NEO and Joe were eventually subsumed into Enterprise JavaBeans.

Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhere
> The market is very good at empirically validating research. It helps filter out the chaff and ensure research is useful.

I am very skeptical and would like to see studies that evidence this. Counterfactually, the market would never tolerate the decades of research behind MRNA vaccines and the researchers behind it were considered useless. The market has also put in mind-blowing amounts of money towards the ameloid hypothesis behind alzheimers to massive disappointment.
My 2 year old blog post has the answer to that.

http://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-c...

People come up with all sorts of silly ideas rather than actually addressing the real issue.

Addressing virus software will save the world exactly 0 days.

UPDATE

Coal usage is at record usage for power generation. It emits over twice as much CO2 as natural gas

while these silly little ideas about optimizing your website to use less electricity or using a different computer language are a fun way to waste the day, all the coal we keep burning is costing us significant time.

Anything else is better. Waiting for the windmills isnt working.

Anyway, just the occasional reminder that we keep squandering valuable time and now we need a bigger miracle.

Good luck with the shaming to address the problem.

UPDATE 2

"Stop all economic growth"

No one said that. That is a right wing sound bite simply meant to add noise to the discussion.
>Why bother having the states roll it out?

Because there's no guarantee it'll work right the first time and that there won't be some tweaks that need to be made.
The doctors don't believe the story. The woman does. The doctors believe that the woman's belief caused her early death, but that's independent of whether they accept that story as true - people (the woman) can convince themselves of a lot of things.
It follows the new trend of making the top row of keys multimedia keys, but they're F1-F12 if you hold down the Fn key.

On this laptop I can't even see the F1-F12 label near those keys (from the video, also from The Verge writer[1]), so, what's next, will they have their own version of "How to use Excel" that says "If you want to edit a cell's contents, press Fn-Mute"? Hooray for the stupidification of the computer.

Oh, I spoke to soon, at 1:56 [2] the backlight does change from backlighting the icons to backlighting Fx "keys" in between them. But my complaint remains, now a user and tech support has another hurdle of "I don't see the F2 key" because they both don't realise they have to press the Fn key...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMhA_ZbwI0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMhA_ZbwI0&t=116s
Happiness doesn't come from making a ton of money. It comes from liberation. Who gives a flying poop about how much money some schmuck is making to pay for his overpriced junk. Rich people are usually owned by their money and status. They come raining down on the streets from their penthouses every time the market dips. They die early from drugs. They corrupt themselves with evil vices on private islands which degrade human life. They die in prisons waiting trial for crimes that would make a normal human being puke.

You couldn't pay me to take up a life like most millionaires. Beyond $100k I think is just too much. Living in big empty houses with few to no friends. What point is there in making money if you can't be free? Look into FIRE, look into frugal living, study philosophy, meditate, take a CBT course. Money doesn't fix the problems, it just makes them much worse.
To be fair, they also are responsible for some reduction in carbon output. I have seen people just get a new machine if their computer gets too compromised with viruses so any level of virus protection will end up keeping computers out of landfills.
> LEGO employs some professionals who no doubt devote their career to understanding many things about LEGO

That is not limited to LEGO: Some researchers from Lancaster University also were researching LEGO bricks (read: Playing around trying to set record-low temperatures for LEGO bricks); and found out they're excellent insulators at sub-kelvin temperatures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21884755
Casually available apps can be used on-base as well.

A few years back, US bases could be spotted using a fitness trackers heat map: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
No it isn't. Fuzz testing is based on us knowing that bugs probably exist, and no more than that. The entire concept is that you provide random input and see whether bugs occur. You're not looking for particular kinds of bugs.
There isn't really a new "problem" with AI. Businesses love hype, they love anything that can punch up a sales pitch, they love shitty cheap automation that replaces expensive human work, they love to identify ways to lower quality and save money without affecting revenue, and AI can be good for all of those things without being good at anything.
How common of an event is runaway stabilizer on a commercial flight though? Of course it happens, but rarely.

If we’re talking about practicing for rare events a few hours of simulator time that puts pilots through various crises would be more useful than 100 hours of uneventful flying.
"he did win another typing competition using the CharaChorder to hit 267 WPM with 76% accuracy."

76% accuracy doesn't sound so great to me, no matter how fast I can type on it.
Would you have a late 80s great-grandmother outside in the cold? Its 30F right now and I'm not even in a cold part of the country. I got some buddies out in the mid-west that are in 0F weather and -20F wind chill.

Realistically speaking, the party is going to be at a house of one of her children, or grand-children.

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An "outdoor" party these days is a closed tent anyway with heaters. Its practically an indoor party with the same air-flow issues except much much more expensive. Do you think I haven't looked into this?
So, you take on faith that the s/ns ratio as described by "Eigenrobot" who is quoting "Brett" (who are they?) is correct, and the s/ns ratio described by many microbiologists and genome experts, identifiable on their Twitter accounts, is wrong?

I mean, we can find anyone on Twitter saying anything. I could create an account right now that says I'm an expert on time travel and tweet about it.

And of course now that omicron is circulating widely in humans, its pattern and ratio of mutations is occurring as one would expect. I wonder why something we know is a natural occurrence (mutation as it infects humans worldwide) looks natural. It makes me wonder why the original omicron looked so weird.

To me this is not a conversation about whether a lab leak occurred. It's a conversation about why the experts are not ruling out hypotheses that explain the information so they can (if necessary) move on to other hypotheses. Just dismissing hypotheses that explain the existing information is not very scientific, unless the hypotheses are untestable or are truly off the wall. This hypothesis is not truly off the wall.
Books. Books. Books. Books. Books.
A little bit of computer gaming. Some travel. Some more books.
I got one of these as the second step for a senior engineering manager position. I had the luxury of telling them there was an obvious disconnect in terms of what we felt was valuable and required to be a good leader, and cancelled the process. No response from them until 3 months later I got an email saying they were moving forward with a different candidate and asking me to rate their interview process!

This is the redacted exchange:

Hi [PeopleOps],
I started the assessment and was very disappointed to the point where I didn't complete it. I've been an Engineering Manager for about three years and still have a lot to learn, but I've never encountered anything that looks like a set of brain teaser puzzles & psychometric analysis similar to this test. I have to interpret this a huge mismatch between how [Company Name] defines the best skills and aptitudes for the role and my own, so I'm going to withdraw from the process. I can't imagine a lot of candidates are prepared to jump through these sort of hoops but that's just my single perspective.

MONTHS LATER

Thanks for the time earlier this week.

I wanted to give you a heads up as to where we are at in our Sr. Engineering Manager hiring. We had an Engineering manager join us earlier this week and as of right now, we're ok on the hiring front.

I'd love it if you could provide us some feedback on the process as we're always looking to improve. Here's a link to a very brief survey that would really help us out. Thanks!
This is partially stupid. You're worth how much someone is willing to pay you. What about raises? Do NYC also want to know what raise everyone is getting? I like the minimum requirement but not the maximum one. My guess is that companies will really inflate the maximum number to leave the option open when hiring a super star.
Not sure why the downvotes.

I used to go through a bunch of H1B paperwork and the salaries listed there were indeed something like $100k-$250k.

I'm pretty sure these numbers were correct: a "senior developer" can be anything from someone who just have hatched form juniors and still struggling to find the way around to a guy with a zero bus-factor who holds the skies in the company.
There is no way to know when it will end.
It's the combination of two things: saying that some solution is "so fucking worth" as if you're evaluating it impartially, and then also failing to mention that it costs a surprising amount of money.

The opposite would have been to say "I think I can solve this for you for $50 a month."
> Where exactly did it all go?

On hardened physical crypto radios I presume - rather than on consumer-grade apps.
In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way.

The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial"

EDIT:

If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine:

Charles - North Korean refugee turned programmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziqq5gUXu8g

North Korean Spy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rLqYXTaFI

Girl with parents who worked in the government whose whole family escaped
https://www.youtube.com/c/Pyonghattan/videos
Inter-Annotator Agreement: An Introduction to Krippendorff’s Alpha
I think there is a straightforward path to having Browsix generically support the WebAssembly WASI system interface[0] -- any toolchain that emitted binaries targeting that would then work in Browsix without e.g. Emscripting needing to know anything about Browsix.

0 - https://wasi.dev
This is fantastic. Switzerland needs to use something within its jurisdiction, threema is an excellent choice.

The title is a bit misleading, at first glance it seems as if the military banned encrypted communications for soldiers' personal communication. No, this only applies to mile Gary communications, and is to allow swiss sovereignty over the services they use.
I could pass the technical interviews, because we do practical problem interviews, plus a discussion of technical experience with a variety of technologies, which is pretty much the interview I did when I first applied for my job.

However, I would not get the job because I wouldn't pass our in-house recruiter's phone screen. We recently did interview training, and got an explanation of what kinds of questions HR uses to filter out candidates, and when I pointed out that I would be thrown out after the first two questions, despite widely being considered a great culture fit, all I got was a shrug. :(
Yeah, the p and q are guaranteed to be positive, should be added. But that is indeed a more elegant solution.