skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been keeping a daily work journal since 2013 [0]. Just some daily notes in Markdown files about what I worked on, who I talked to, problems solved, stuff to remember, what I should pick up with tomorrow. (Currently just using VS Code with the Foam extension, configured to create a YYYY-MM-DD file as a command.)

It's great for helping me look up "what was that fix I did a couple years ago?", but it's also invaluable come perf review season. I go through literally every day's notes for the last year, summarize each day into a bullet, then re-summarize into higher-level tasks and accomplishments.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advi...
That's not without risk if you don't already have an offer in hand, though. And it really is part of the manager's job.
Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
Reddit returns a 403 page with content "Blocked" right now for many firefox users.

Apparently not with Chromium. Probably a blocking mishap ongoing (as of this posting) at reddit.
Who’s to say you won’t like the people at your next job?
Previous company went through a fairly disastrous change in management. I was the 5th person out the door on a team of 8. New manager was super "data driven" so productivity plummeted as we were inundated with piles of new processes - a 3 day lab test (no additional cost other than my labor) took me over 6 weeks to get management approval and sign offs for. But, we didn't have any "old data" (because the processes were all new) to prove that things had gotten much worse.

Wife has commented many times on the change in my personality, as I'm not ending most days furious and miserable.

Guess that's "Company Culture" for purposes of the poll.
My baseline electricity rate is $0.29/kWh and my baseline gas rate converts to about $0.06/kWh. Weighted for best-case efficiency that makes the the heat pump water heater 18% more expensive to run than the gas heater. Adding cognitive burden to carefully engineer the water heater's behavior and training my family to change their showering habits to leverage TOU just to maybe-break-even is a bad proposition. Plus, extrapolating the last ten years of rates, I expect electric rates will rise faster than gas rates and make the value proposition worse over time.

Edit: And of course that ignores that I have the condensing gas heater and I don't have the heat pump, so there's capex to cover as well.
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Quite possibly, but a comment like this is only helpful if it explains how the article is misleading—i.e. if it provides more correct information on the topic. Otherwise it's just another low-quality dismissal, which we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> no nuclear plant that has submitted an application since the formation of the NRC in 1975 has yet commenced operation.

Wait, what? I knew that reactor construction stopped around then. I hear it alluded to often enough, e.g. "US grid could have been 100% low-CO2 power by now if we had just kept up the pace of deploying nuclear instead of stopping in the 80s." Still, I thought the story was a messy mix of regulations hitting at the same time as city growth was topping off and interest rates were skyrocketing.

If the NRC just says "no" to everything, that's a big deal. Is there more to the story?
Kerberos implementations generally just-send-whatever in IA5String fields. That means Windows sends UTF-8, and MIT Kerberos and Heimdal send whatever the user's locale uses. Windows doesn't normalize or anything. It works in that a) it interops when using ASCII names, b) it interops when using non-ASCII names in UTF-8 locales on Unix. It violates the spec, but it works.
I'd recommend _Never Split The Difference_, by former Chief FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss. Very fun read and widely applicable.

Spoiler: His advice is not to strong-arm, but to build trust with your counterpart.
GPT-X is better than RNNs I grant you but people have built mad-lib and rules-based text generation systems that are absolutely great for specific applications in particular domains. (e.g. GPT-X is still a bridesmaid instead of a bride)

I think you could do better with RNNs than most people are doing because of structural problems.

Usually when people run RNNs for text generation they start out with the inner state of the system at 0 and then start flipping the coin to choose individual letters so you are starting from a very constrained region of the latent space and not sampling it very well.

I read a paper where they through out the idea that you ought to add coefficients for the latent state that you train for at the same time you train the network which means the number of coefficients goes up with the number of text samples but they never actually did it and I never found a paper where somebody tried it.

I was working on a project where we were developing models based on abstracts of case studies from pubmed as a stand in for clinical notes (certainly real medical notes are very different but you might say that medical notes should look like the abstract) I had the intuition that, as above, the author (and/or the patient) started out with a latent state (e.g. the patient had a disease before coming in) and that we'd get better results if we did something like the above.

It looked like a big and high risk project to develop that kind of model so I proposed something different around supervised training of a "magic magic marker" that could highlight certain areas and unsupervised multi-tasks such as "put the punctuation back in when it is taken out" but the client was hopeful that word2vec would be helpful.

I am still hopeful that incremental improvements, attacks on structural weaknesses, and appropriate multi-task training ("did the patient die?") would get a lot more out of RNN and CNN models.
I commented on the original article with the same. Anyone who has used GPT-3 for more than 5 minutes knows this article is uninformed.
Lower maintenance, lower cost, and higher safety. Having something that is designed to start a fire permanently attached to an aircraft isn't ideal even at the best of times.

If you're going in/out of warzones, the trade-offs could absolutely make sense but as a "standard feature" a IR laser is inexpensive and works "well enough."
Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines
There are large appliances where DC doesn't make sense, but something like a LNG or Propane would make better sense for cooking, and for heating and cooling, switching to geothermal with a DC heat pump would be a viable alternative.

For clothes drying, what most of the world does is hang their clothes up to dry.
I knew it as "mid-Atlantic" ... you sometimes hear it in old black and white Hollywood movies featuring upper crust East Coast Americans and media personalities like William F. Buckley. I believe FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt used it as well.
What an odd and condescending take, even when try explaining to me the failure modes of a system I actually have firsthand experience with. Doesn't that seem like something that should give you pause to self-reflect?

I understand your point. What you seem to be missing is that we're talking about two different things. I agree that decisions should be made in the context of the risk of the engineering application. That's trivially apparent to the point where it's almost confusing that you would feel the need to bring up up (ad nauseum). It's also not particularly interesting because just about everybody will agree with that. What I'm talking about is when people fall prey to cognitive biases to the point where they can no longer make accurate risk assessments. That's a much more interesting problem because the engineering world is full of cases where otherwise smart engineers make terrible judgement calls, all the while telling themselves that they understand the risk. I literally brought up cognitive biases in my first post and instead of responding to what I'm actually discussing, you just keep underscoring a trivially simple point.

I think you're reading your own interpretation into what I'm trying to say and then somehow twisting it into being a miscommunication on my part. When I'm saying subjective judgement can lead to bad decisions, I am not saying "we take all the unique and contextual facts into consideration and arrive at a reasonable subjective risk assessment for this scenario". I'm saying people's cognitive biases can lead to them discounting risk without good evidence because it results in a decision they are emotionally attached to. E.g., "I don't want to miss schedule and look bad, so let's rationalize away this risk that really wasn't mitigated." That is not an objective risk-based decision, it's a biased emotional one. They may think it's "good enough" to get the job done, until it's not (as in the cases I specifically brought up).

While I already explained it but it didn't seem to sink in, I'll reiterate one last time:

You seem to say your definition of "good enough" is based on good, risk-based judgement. I already said if that's the case then we don't disagree. But I also said that is not the context that the term "good enough" is generally used in practice. In my experience, it's used to justify a sub-standard effort and I've given you concrete examples of that. That point of digression between what I'm saying and what you're interpreting seemed to fly right by you because you're more concerned with arguing, and there's some irony in you pointing out that someone else isn't listening.
It mentions 500 W at 48V will be all we need cuz all the appliances are getting so efficient :) Overall it's so confused and so hard to argue with.
I recently left because of money. I loved where I was at but I'm 40, I don't have a partner, and I want to buy a house already. I'm Canadian and got a job with a US company which worked out to be an almost 50% increase, so nothing they really could have done, unfortunately.

Well, I also really wanted to write Elixir professionally, and now I am! :) So it's not 100% true that it was all about the money.
I just ran into this myself and came to see if others ran into it. I'm blocked (while logged in, with strict settings and NoScript) on Firefox Developer Edition, but it's working on a relatively default (and not logged in) version of plain old Firefox.

{ Edit: tried both old and www with the same results. }
It's only affecting Firefox users
Reminds me of that FDA reviewer who refused to approve any drugs on the grounds that risk couldn't be completely eliminated.
Show HN: DuckDuckGo Lite
This is sort of a profoundly different way of looking at it. The creation of the first semiconductors was closely tied to the development of quantum theory around electrons in metal. Bell labs hired up Shockley, Bardeen and a bunch of other solid state physicists (when it started to become obvious that the US needed to build computing devices that were faster and more rugged than vacuum tubes) and it was their knowledge of quantum physics that enabled them to solve key problems in the development of the transistor.

QM is still the best theory for semiconductors and a lot of semiconductor improvement happens by applying quantum physics.

The important part to recognize is that this is a part of QM that doesn't involve entanglement or wave function collapse, but definitely relies heavily on quantum tunnelling. All of this is well documented by the primary literature in the field.
Why post 4 stories on the same subject? [Edit - help there's more]

Previously discussed / debunked here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29350915
I just saw the same thing. Guess my productivity is going to skyrocket.
This has gotta be related to the Russia's recent demands to Nato on Ukraine and resulting negotiations [1]. They yield here, the counterpart yields there.

REevil arrest is just a token of good will, probably in exchange for something.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59985589
Thanks kind stranger. And the people who downvoted me for asking, eat my short.
Laser Propagating Through Air Sets Stability Record
In America, the train hasn't been that vital to infrastructure since the era that inspired the trope. Trucks move 7 times more value annually [https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-num...].
There's another paper from June of last year[0] that proposed a long COVID explanation: Epstein-Barr reactivation. I haven't seen any follow-up work yet, but if both that and this paper have any predictive power to them[1] we might start seeing a cohort of "long long COVID[2]": people who got COVID, didn't recover, and then progressed to MS.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34204243/

[1] I'm particularly worried about the "EBV reactivation" theory as COVID-related studies have been used as a vehicle for many medical frauds.

[2] As per ISO standards long long COVID must have an infection duration represented with at least a 64-bit machine integer
Always be ready to leave the table first.

It doesn’t mean that you will; it doesn’t mean that you should. It means you are prepared. And this can be a huge advantage.
El-Al has flown with anti-missile defense on commericial aircraft for a while now. Flares since 2004, at least: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/24/air.defense/ , and probably upgrades since.

This isn't all that newsworthy to me. I assume FedEx flies into a variety of places where they could be a legitimate target. This probably just means the laser technology is now affordable enough to justify installing it.

Edit: A link to a military anti-missle IR countermeasure device. Might be helpful to see how they work: http://img.bemil.chosun.com/nbrd/data/10067/upfile/201503/20...
As someone with an autoimmune disease, is there anything I can do to prevent getting more? Iirc having one is a risk factor for others
Electric steering need not sound the death knell for fun driving.

The 2004 Honda S2000 has electric steering and it is so good, it’s difficult to tell until you are really at the limit. I also happen to have a 2008 Boxster S with hydraulic steering. If you drive them back to back, you might give the Porsche a small edge, but it’s small. The weight balance and lower to weight ratios are similar, but again at the very threshold of adhesion in a corner, the Boxster has a slim edge.

Honda just nailed it out of the gate, proving that it’s possible without much technology.

I also drive an Ariel Atom with some regularity, which has no power steering and can confirm that this is another level of road feel, similar to a 2006 Lotus Elise.

Having driven all these incredible machines only serves to reinforce Honda’s achievement.
Definitely. You're not wrong. But one of the downsides of sticking around for 4+ years is, like I said, there is a _risk of_ (ie, not guaranteed) becoming kind of a stick in the mud and the company then could suffer from your leadership/clout rather than benefiting from it. I've worked at several companies where the leadership had been there for 8+ years, and that led to inertia and small-C conservatism and reluctance to adopt new technologies or paradigms that would really accelerate company growth. The companies were generally successful, but working there was kind of a slog and it was tough to attract new engineers to work on old tech in outdated paradigms. That said, there are plenty of folks who _like_ the old tech, so it's not necessarily a deal-breaker for anyone.

All that to say: you aren't wrong. If you're in that position and you don't want to leave, that's really the company's problem and not yours. Do your own thing! I support it 100%! (Not that you need my support, but you have it anyway!)
Sometimes people leave their job because they retire. In fact, nearly everybody eventually retires.
The organization lost my respect once they mandated that I get a health procedure in order to work for them. I received an "exemption", but the damage was done: I no longer believe the organization is a net positive for me because they will play political games, and I am just a pawn.
I really hope this wasn't an intentional change.
I feel that's filed under "company culture", no?
They cite vague comments of short range manpads style attacks having happened in the past.

Some interesting background, the A321-200 is kind of an older passenger plane and part of aging out is there's a big push to convert and sell as freighter and Fedex bought a couple dozen.

Generally the big push to sell the A321 as a freighter is to use it for long distance line haul service so this is going between Shenzhen and some customs clearing warehouse in the USA or central hub. So this is international every trip and not dropping at your local field to do local delivery. So they're kind of implying anticipation of unrest in either Shenzhen or NYC, not just some random farm community in Canada or whatever.

There are certain implications in relying on IR for missile protection; the simplest and most foolproof way to protect against short range IR missiles is to control the land for a couple miles around in every direction aka build a giant airport in the rural middle of nowhere and surround it with a fence and short range can't hit. This jammer is only useful against a threat where there's an urban built up environment around the airport. Its to protect against a threat when landing at O'Hare not when landing at that airport in Denver that is (used to be?) 50 miles out of town. So they're installing this in expectation of civil unrest generally out east in the big urban cities, not out west, at least in the USA. So that's interesting. Of course with covid, everyone who can flee the big cities already has or is trying to, so that has implications also.
I've been spoiling myself and forced Netflix to 1080p (due to Linux, by default it won't go over 720) and I'm starting to slowly agree higher bitrates do look nicer.

It's just that I come from VCD rips and still think that anything better than DVD is fantasticly detailed. Just never had the urge to let myself get used to better, but I'm starting to with 1080p.
The initial dialog tree and year of “improvements” were done by IBM themselves.

The main issue was that it was a vanity project for a stakeholder, which they used to pivot into a new job / career as a “thought leader”
An "Intro to Logic" (Pseudocode) class was required at my university before you could move on to any of the actual programming courses. It was a glorified linear programming course - think BASIC or BATCH with a bunch of jumps and goto's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTRkZ-SKs5g

That's basically the CPU running at 1.024 Mhz. The video hardware is dumb, runs independent of the CPU, and just scans a region of memory to send pixels to the display. All software pushing pixels otherwise.

You are not wrong with the NES, C64 and other machines using a graphics chip with sprites and other hardware features to assist in various ways. But, quite a lot happened on the CPU.

BTW, this game is done on a 1Mhz 6809, all software pushing pixels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKxa5C9jHY

(I would skip out to the middle somewhere in that video to get a sense of what is being done)

On that game specifically, it's a single frame buffer. Screen divided into two halves, each drawn while the display is delivering the other to the player.
I was really worried one of my bots had run awry and got my IP banned. Tried different browsers to see what the issue is, and it seems to be a FireFox issue. Googling "Reddit Blocked" doesn't return anything helpful.

Searching HN was the right way to go.
(Disclosure: I do corporate training (Python and Data Science) for a living.)

I generally don't teach coding to newbies, so a lot of the coding I teach is correcting poor mental models and teaching features (somewhat) unique (or different) in Python.

My best Pandas courses have been when the client opts to use their data for the course (instead of my canned data). The students are already subject matter experts with the data and when they learn some of the tricks to slice and dice, summarize, and visualize, they are off to the races. They dig right in.

Teaching as the article suggests is very difficult because examples that appeal to some or boring or confusing to others. I'm not saying it won't work, but there are cons as well. When I'm teaching with my "canned data", I try to mix in a few different datasets from different areas so students can see that the ideas are generally adaptable.
See this chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...

Edit:

Apparently they approved NuScale's Small Modular Reactors:

NuScale spent over $500 million and more than 2 million labor hours to compile the information needed for its design certification application.
I don't work in tech, but I'd like to mention something as somebody who fits that slice of gal + highly interested in tech as a hobby(1):

Personally have had a lifelong passion for computers since the Win95 days; I don't code per se, but I've built personal sites (I find a lot of my friends who are also women get into coding via the HTML/CSS side and making personal sites a la neocities), and am the general family IT support.

That being said even despite that passion, I'd never work in "the tech industry" as a dayjob for a few reasons. Some I'm not going to mention here, but others are like ... I find there to be a lot more abusive companies on average just in terms of work/life balance and people treating others with no dignity ... Too many companies are just plain unethical (The one time I considered joining an adjacent tech company to my current industry, a week later there was a scandal of data harvesting), and I'm not fond of the constant "must know the hot trends" treadmill. Design's got enough of that already.

Just my two cents.

(1) my main computer's a linux machine from S76, if that's enough for surface level creds.
What, you haven't heard of the ketamine early treatment protocols?
If I have two "proto3" implementations using the same definitions, I trust they work together, generally speaking.

If I have two ASN.1 BER implementations, I sadly can't really trust they work together, because I don't know what parts of "ASN.1" each one implemented.
Sure it runs, but will it run TLS 1.3? that seems to be a big requirement for websites these day
That's a pro, but now the blast radius of your malfeasance is also larger. Instead of stealing a couple of Amazon packages a day, you can now deprive tens of thousands of people out of their life savings, you can deprive thousands of a medication they might need, you're now able to corrupt law enforcement and officials without any moral qualms and so on.

"Safer" in the short term for the criminal and law enforcement, but overall much more damaging to society and the rule of law.
Just came here to see if I was the only one seeing that. HN never disappoints.
There has been a lot more new stuff in the world of programming languages, even recently, than there has been in the world of data schemata and encoding rules.

That said, most of the innovation in programming language theory has been around Haskell and related languages, and it has not justified languages like Golang or Python. DSLs in general are justified regardless of whether they are innovative in terms of programming language theory.
It still doesn't work if I switch my user-agent from Firefox to something else. Some other factor?

Works in Edge and Chrome. Let's see how long they take to restore the site this time.