skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I don't think so. I think this is because the "moments" are different. A star becomes unobservable once it passes from the region within the particle horizon to the region outside the particle horizon. But passing into this region can't affect all the information on the way to us. That's because the region doesn't exist until we trace all light path backward. So start right now and trace out 14B years of light paths. You will find that star is within the region.

However some point in the future you notice that the star passed beyond the horizon. The star still exists it still emits light, but that light will never reach us.

We don't see the star "go away" as it passes beyond the horizon. Instead one day the future we will receive the last piece of information about the star redshifted to infinity. I think this means we observed a decay to some constant and that constant should be zero. This argument feels very similar to black hole arguments, so rings true to me.

2. I think this is trying to state something paradoxical. But it's not really a paradox. Everything we observe is within our particle horizon. Everything has it's own particle horizon. These regions don't overlap.

I think if I restate what you said without the objects the paradox dissolves.

> If there are points (P) in our particle horizon far enough away from us that these newly unobservable (U) points are still within the respective particle horizon of the points (P) in our horizon, should we detect the points (P) our particle horizon as being affected by points in their own horizons?

Of course, why should what we can observe in future affect what had happened in the past at some distant point.
> Microsoft dev stack is really a dead-end, any new startups or even large corporations starting new initiatives are more and more are moving away from any kind of MSF tech or Azure cloud development

This market is still huge. That said, the real question is what do you like building and working on? Do that. Besides, retooling isn't really all that bad, anyway and there is not an extinction event on the horizon for MS.

> no developer really wants to work with MSF tech.

Says every one about the tech they are not using in their product. There are plenty of devs that absolutely love MS stuff. What really matters is what you like working with. Do what you like to do. It makes getting up and going to work a lot easier.
I think this misses the point, though-- no matter how true it is.

The costs associated with procuring the existing, proprietary solution are understood and accepted. If it goes wrong, it's a risk that the organization has collectively selected together.

Advocating for doing something cheaper doesn't gain any individual person that much necessarily, and incurs outsized risk. It also incurs a lot of explicit, poorly-understood costs outside of those already accepted and recurring costs.
Good catch, honestly in that case this seems like great content marketing regardless of validity.
NFTs are just proof of ownership in a purely digital realm. Aside from the "contents" of an NFT, it is proof that the holder is a customer, or provides a provenance chain of ownership from the original customer. Advantages exist for both the customer and the seller. Far from useless.
Right, so you don’t “source” people who aren’t actively looking.

That’s a great approach, and by nature you’re prefiltering for those interested enough in the position to apply for it, but I don’t think it covers all the cases that people use LinkedIn for when hiring/being hired.
> In the US, healthcare is provided as an additional benefit on top of your gross salary.

I think it is actually rare for health care to be completely paid for out of pocket by the employer. Comparing with several peers in and out of tech (including one at FAANG), most companies only cover a portion of the health insurance premium cost per month. Retirement benefits also normally require you to contribute money from your paycheck. (For example, a company might contribute $0.5 per $1 you also contribute, up to a percentage of your salary)

Plus, there are usually still loads of out-of-pocket expenses even with insurance.

Point being: I think the math is more complex on this one.
This is something I think many HN'ers don't understand. For a good amount of modern web functionality, being supported in Firefox is less a matter of "do testing in firefox and make sure things work there" as much as it is "have a very popular product and good marketing team so that you can convince the firefox team to whitelist your domain in their internal maps of `what cool things should X domain be allowed to do`". People see that Slack works in Firefox, but Joe's Voice Calls.Com doesn't, and blame Joe for not supporting firefox. In reality it's firefox that doesn't support Joe.
Is there a word that means the opposite of schadenfreude? Displeasure at the advancement of others?
Exactly this. Popped a balloon that just happened to be the size of a mountain
I do find it interesting that those aren't exactly global brands. South Korea also has the whole Chaebol thing going on, so it might not be the best example of business ethics.

> #1 game company (Nexon)

Aren't Startcraft and League of Legends more popular? Being the #1 game company in South Korea doesn't imply you make the #1 games there.
There is zero chance that your career is going to be detailed by sticking withS technology at this point - it just might not be the most interesting.

Azure is an inferior platform to the alternatives on a technical level, but they make up for it with stronger enterprise relationship-building than AWS/GCP, and they do generally try to keep up with broad AWS capabilities of not the actual quality.
Most of those who "change the world" do it for the worse, so there's that...
Terence McKenna Dreams of a Metaverse (June 1994) [video]
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This 100%. Basic literacy & numeracy is stunningly low in UK prisons & improving basic education has been shown to improve reoffending rates greatly, in policy terms it ought to be a no-brainer but as you say the NGOs & charities in this space are starved of cash, mental health & addiction charities would slash offending rates, - but the government throws hundreds of millions of £ at contractors like Serco & G4S who can afford to lobby hard & donate to party funds, but who squander it.
My startup sublet from a company that did dark matter development. Not sexy work, but they had low turnover, and tended to be in and out of the office at normal hours.

J. Fogerty, if you're reading this, I miss overhearing your engineering conversations with your colleagues.
Title: "Why I don't have a blog?". URL is `/blog/` (with a clever little comments section designed). Did I fall trap for sarcasm?
I've worked as a data scientist for quite awhile now in IC, lead and manager roles and the biggest thing I've found is that data scientists cannot be allowed to live exclusively in notebooks.

Notebooks are essential for the EDA and early prototyping stages but all data scientists should be enough "software engineer" to get their code out of their notebook and into a reusable library/package of tools shared with engineering.

The best teams I've worked on the hand off between DS and engineering is not a notebook, it's a pull request, with code review from engineers. Data scientists must put their models in a standard format in a library used by engineering, they must create their own unit tests, and be subject to the same code review that engineer would. This last step is important: my experience is that many data scientists, especially coming from academic research, are scared of writing real code. However after a few rounds of getting helpful feedback from engineers they quickly realize how to write code much better.

This process is also essential because if you are shipping models to production, you will encounter bugs that require a data scientist to fix that an engineer cannot solve alone. If the data scientists aren't familiar with the model part of the code base this process is a nightmare, as you have to ask them to dust of questionable notebooks from months or years ago.

There are lots of the process of shipping a model to production that data scientists don't need to worry about, but they absolutely should be working as engineers at the final stage of the hand off.
I've never been a union member, but I've certainly worked with several people I would call "dead weight." Sometimes they've even earned more than me whether through better negotiation or better at office politics. I don't see this as something that only arises when unions are introduced.
I'm as far from a libertarian as I could be, but why should a libertarian think this? If you don't want to work for a company who has signed a contract with a labor union for a closed shop, you can go to a different company and negotiate your own. Surely I have the right as an individual to choose to join a closed shop, right?
My more charitable take is that they are trying to pick a fight they can win based on the political and legal landscape. Antitrust enforcement has been weakened, diminished, and atrophied since the Borkism infected both political parties in the late 70s and early 80s. As such, they have to pick their early battles careful in order to gain experience, figure out which strategies can prevail in court, in public opinion, etc.

We all want to see them take on the big fight with monopolists like the ISPs, but no one has more experience fighting antitrust action. The current set of DOJ lawyers and federal judges are not the ones who broke up ATT in the 50s and 80s, they're going to have to rebuild the foundation of antitrust enforcement.
Don't forget carriers got us here by charging PER text.

I remember when iMessage came out, and for some people it was a way to get away from getting charged for texts. Especially international! Things have changed so much it's hard to see the original inspiration in 200x.

As for interop, in 2020s it looks like platforms are the style du jour, things like XMPP didn't quite cut it. I'd be happy to see that change, but for google to lay this claim sounds lazy to me.
I am a programmer and indirectly got my current job via Linkedin. In 2019, a big four accounting firm contacted me on Linkedin to do consulting work for them. I would not have thought of applying to them but since they reached out I talked to them and was hired, and was placed at a Fortune 100 company. A year later (2020) I was hired by the F100 company.

Recruiters from Meta/Facebook and other companies have reached out to me since then. The non-spammy ones directly from companies I respond to, but told them I am not currently interviewing.

In your settings you can check if you're active looking, casually browsing etc. If you're marked as actively looking you might get more incoming.
That's good to know, however I was encountering this MySQL truncation just last year in COTS software, so clearly there's a long tail. As a related example, log4j 1.x has been deprecated for years, but 100% of atlassian uses it with their own maintained version.

In fact, when the log4j thing came up, we audited all our existing COTS/internal and virtually all of it was still on the "EOL" log4j 1.x.

Since you're familiar with this. What happens with an existing upgrade - is strict mode enabled by a typical distro package upgrade or does it only impact new installs?
> Isn't network monitoring and logging the bigger issue for a VPN service?

Great point. I have a hard time comparing the importance of the integrity of our VPN servers with monitoring and logging of network traffic happening upstream of them without a long discussion of the many nuances. Let’s leave it at; they are both very important issues.

> How can you provide transparency of the network?

That’s very hard. Individual AS’s upstream of the VPN server you’re connected to might change their routing at any moment, and suddenly your traffic makes its way through an unexpected AS or jurisdiction, which may change the monitoring situation completely.

Enabling our users to use multiple hops is one mitigation, another is vetting our data center providers. In collaboration with some of our Internet providers in Europe we have deployed protections on layers below IP. Come to think of it, I don’t think we’ve blogged about that. Thanks!
100% and many companies that are security aware have similar policies.
It is really hard to tell if you are trolling. Anyway, it is all flat earth nut whack conspiracy, have a good day.
It was better having all the extensions in a mobile browser. Like a damn user agent switcher. Firefox is not worse than Chrome by any means, it's just a pathetic shadow of the powerful tool it used to be.
The goal is not every three years. It's whenever people feel like it, but there's been discussion about formalising it to every three years
> When you say "complex ride" what does that mean?

On managed postgresql services like RDS it's easy, yes, because Amazon does all of the nasty work for you and has already seen all the kinks you may run into.

If you are on your own and using Docker, you essentially need a third-party image that has the old and new binaries (https://github.com/tianon/docker-postgres-upgrade). Good f...ing luck if you dare run PostgreSQL inside a Kubernetes environment, because adapting that guide to that is a can of worms large enough to make anyone squirm.

If you are on your own and are using distribution packages, it's more complicated (https://blog.samuel.domains/blog/tutorials/from-stretch-to-b...).

If you are on your own and use postgres from source, well... have fun, there's a reason why I prefer using distribution-maintained packages when possible.
Outsider wins DARPA challenge to predict where floats will drift
While true it’s still a good decision.
Thanks, opened an issue for discussion : https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/13445
How else do you track your old work colleagues and ask for a job when they get hired at a place to work? Recruiters are there too, but if you know someone it can ease the hunt especially if you do good work and they remember you.
I have been saying for years that we should have a windmill system you could place on top of a building or home that powers a larger, highspeed flywheel buried underground below the house. Ideally with the flywheel in vacuum and balanced by magnets for reduced friction. This ensures no loss converting energy types (mechanical to mechanical) and it can be used later for electricity or other energy in small, large bursts (sort of like a capacitor). You would still want batteries for energy storage but this would drastically increase the lifespan of those batteries by reducing stress on their chemistry. Batteries really do not like to discharge in short, high intensity bursts. There are flywheel based UPS systems that work sort of in a similar principle and they have much longer maintenance intervals vs a battery type UPS>
It's hard to say, but I think a useful measure would be to look at mode-dropping compared to the training data. Whatever the 'number of unique characters is', it clearly ought to be at least as large as the characters you see in the original training data, right?

For TADNE, Arfafax ran Danbooru2019 and a few million TADNE samples through CLIP to get the image embeddings, and clustered them; when the two sets of clusters were graphed using tsne, you could see that the TADNE StyleGAN2-ext did a lot of mode-dropping in that many smaller outlying clusters of characters/franchises/topics simply did not appear in TADNE samples. The TADNE looked like a big galaxy, while Danbooru2019 looked more like it was surrounded by archipelagos. TADNE was extensively trained on them and was a very large model, but the GAN dynamics & StyleGAN architecture mean it didn't do a good job absorbing rarer/more idiosyncratic Danbooru2019 image-clusters.

I expect newer generative models which avoid GAN losses and which use more flexible (but expensive!) architectures, like DALL-E, would perform much better in terms of mode-dropping, so you'd see a lot more unique characters/images out of them. (I'm very excited about them. As good as TADNE or Waifu Labs v2 may be, I think they are still far behind what could be done with just existing data/arch/compute.)
It's an ill formed question. By definition, the Creator exists outsides the realms of His creation, and thus, is not bound by its laws.
This conversation makes me crazy. I was at Google when its employee union, a.k.a. "AWU", was trying to get off the ground. I formed my opinion of it completely independent of company propaganda. AWU is a political advocacy organization, not a traditional union. AWU's mission statement is explicitly and emphatically not to further my or other full-time employee's interests. Rather, it is organized primarily as a vehicle for achieving a broader political end ("social justice", as that term is construed by AWU's organizers), potentially at employees' expense. Almost none of AWU's projects have focused on Googlers' work conditions or pay. Instead, they focus nearly exclusively on modifying Google's products and policing its contracts, often in ways I find extremely objectionable. For example, they have lobbied heavily for Google to increase censorship of YouTube and Search, and to demonetize "problematic" content creators. They advocate increasing institutional support for DEI efforts, and it was their efforts which led to the creation of Alphabet's Chief Diversity Officer position. They agitated on behalf of ex-employee Timnit Gebru against Google's ML work, which is obviously a threat to the hundreds of Google workers whose jobs depend on the models that Gebru's research criticized. Why should I support such a "union"?

I want to add that I agree with some of AWU political stands. For example, they opposed Project Dragonfly, a censored version of Google Search intended for the Chinese market. They opposed Google contracts with the DoD and CPB. I think these are all worthy causes and I hope that employees continue to agitate against them! But I am under no illusions that AWU would represent my interests as an employee. Primarily, they are a political action committee set up by and for an extremely vocal minority of Google's employees.
Make sure you disable this nonsense: https://www.fastcompany.com/90620494/google-maps-will-start-...
Keep in mind they wanted to bring back a union similiar to the one that helped take down the old GM plant.
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> Consider partnerships, sole proprietorships, cottage industries, co-ops, and more specific arrangements within those vehicles like profit sharing, limited partnerships, and employee ownership (not to be confused with stocks/options, though they are similar in concept).

None of those have proven to work at scale though. So as far as we know corporations is how you have to do it. You can believe that there are other ways, but you cannot know that there are other ways as nothing else has proven to work.
The problem is the system. A jail term is supposed to be the full "payment" of your "debt to society", but once you have a conviction on your record, you are doomed, regardless of whether or not you are at risk of recidivism.

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2015/12/10/former-inmates-sti...
What economic value (other than hoping for the value to increase, aka tulip mania) can I derive out of ultra-rare sneakers? What usage that goes above "it looks cooler than an unbranded, otherwise identical sneaker"?

For me, this kind of product is part of the "bullshit economy" - similar to "bullshit jobs", this kind of product has no reason to exist other than vanity, as almost all of these "collectibles" won't ever be used. We are using up valuable, finite resources to create and distribute this kind of useless "bullshit product", we are using up valuable human time and IT resources on developing websites capable to resist (D)DoS attacks and on developing snipers to bypass the anti-bot technologies employed by the shops, and we are creating a lot of demand for all kinds of sneaker-related crime - and there's a lot of that: theft and robberies from stores, theft and robberies in the supply chain, ebay/classifieds scams, credit card fraud, robberies on broad daylight [1].

Seriously, fuck all that shit. No one needs hundreds of dollars worth of sneakers that only incentivize crime and bullshit.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=man+robbed+because+of+sneake...
More than "have to" I wonder "can you"...
Had a chance to read it, but it doesn't really say how you decided that your company is just as productive with a 4-day workweek as before. How did you measure?
I think possibly they meant it's endemic now. Most officials don't want to call it that yet, but I think it's pretty well accepted that at some point, we're going to call the pandemic over not because covid is gone, but because it's just everywhere all the time.
A lot of early cloud adopters were more "nimble" organisations who didn't have deep ties to MS enterprise agreements. We are now in the phase where those large enterprises have gotten over their early cloud experimentation phase and are migrating for real - which will result in a bit of an MS resurgence I expect.
Companies have guidelines. Wage bargaining arrangements negotiated between companies and unions have binding guarantees. One is obviously easier for a company to ignore if it's in their interests to incentivise a staff member than another.

Also, company wage setting guidelines are more likely to prioritise "retain and reward the staff we think are best" in the first place. (Obviously unions prioritising things like reducing wage inequality or rewarding the union leaders' core constituency are good for other people's wages instead.) Seems far odder to insist that as companies have some sort of guidelines, unions can take credit for but accept no blame for any of the changes they negotiate whilst formalising them.
There are definite tradeoffs. Hunter gatherers tend to be better nourished while in their prime but with no noticeable calorie surplus, while agrarian societies are the reverse.

Any mix of the two I suspect bolsters bulk calories with foraged protein and nutritious plants.
I'm guessing he was hired for Python then decided to learn Rust by doing a few work-related tasks in Rust and it snowballed.
We've had a variant of this in the form of intel's persistent memory (named Octane DC memory or something stupid like this). It's addressable like RAM, but persistent. Performance is not quite that of DRAM (within an order of magnitude), but reads and writes go through the normal memory cache so latency and throughput effects are often hidden by the cache.

It's been a research topic to decide how to best use persistent byte addressable memory. Performance disparities are one problem, but the larger issue is actually one of correctness. Data structures are written to protect against race conditions in critical sections, but generally they are not written to maintain correctness in the event of a power failure and subsequent bring-up with some indeterminate persistent state (anything that went through cache is persistent, nothing else is. what was happening when the machine went down)?

It's an interesting problem, lots of solutions. Most use a transactional interface--now doing this efficiently is the harder problem separate from but informed by the actual performance of the hardware.
After the discovery of WIV1 in bats it was found that it efficiently infected human airway epithelial cells, and since the palm civets were never linked to any outbreaks it is possible that the virus had directly hopped to humans from bats and that the palm civets were unnecessary as an intermediate species. It was also later found that it infects racoon dogs, ferret badgers and domestic cats. There was never any conclusive proof that raccoon dogs were responsible/required and that now looks unnecessary, which is a good example of how over a decade later what we think we know can change.