skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel much more job security as a consultant than I ever did as an employee. The minute your not making money for a company your let go.

As a consultant you can have two or three clients in different sectors and diversify.

You will be sorely disappointed if you think getting paid w2 vs 1099 (in the us) gives you job security.

Job security is your drive, skill, and luck living in an area that has work for you. (If you live in the us consider yourself lucky - in tech)
Can you supply some context to this denounciation?
This is not the case in computer science and particularly machine learning, especially in recent years. You'll find many papers where a majority of references are to preprints that stay preprints for ever. You'll also find many papers that have hundreds of citations, all while remaining preprints forever (and many of those citations are from forever-preprints themselves).

In machine learning, for the most part, arxiv is used to avoid peer-review. Or a way to "publish" work that has been rejected by a peer-reviewed publication, of course.

And to be more cynical, it's also a convenient source of references to pad up a Related Work section and make it look like incremental work is part of a growing body of groundbreaking new work. /jaded

Edit: well, I'm not just being cynical. The fact that everyone can put their half-baked papers on arxiv means that the 90% of work that is crap, per Sturgeon's Law, is now a much bigger quantity than ever before and one must sift through reams and reams of crap before finding work that has any meaningful results to report. Again, that's the case in machine learning specifically. I don't know about other fields.
With our current technology, could we make a useful radio link to a planet 11 light years away? If so, about when would that have become possible? Last 20 years? My gut says it's still not possible we'd have trouble picking anything out of the noise and the power requirements would take more energy than we manipulate as electricity.
I have ~50Gb so this works well for me:

- Local copy on desktop

- Google Photos (with upgraded storage) for "everyday" use (sharing albums with family, viewing on phone, etc).

- The "proper" backup is done with Kopia to B2 and Wasabi. I don't have a large amount of photos, so B2 is really cheap and its just a redundancy for Google Photos and Wasabi.
Is your experience that this is universal, though? I could easily envision organizations (based on my own experience, albeit not as a consultant in that sense) that would take your representation at face value - if things go south and you take the blame, they will blacklist and badmouth you, and vice versa they will love you if you can somehow hoard all the credit for a success. Perhaps it rarely plays out that way, but I’m skeptical that it never happens.
Israeli trial, world’s first, finds 4th dose ‘not good enough’ against Omicron
Ironically though the best chance bitcoin has at being the currency of the future is if it stops being an investors plaything, which would involve btc being severly devauled over what it is now and therefore making the people that hold it "poorer" in a sense (unless they seriously believe that the currency of the future will deal in denominations of 0.000001 for everday transactions)
"Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-videogames-bobby-kot... — mirror at https://archive.fo/fzdAv

And if you're completely out of the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_...
I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I was just replying to somebody saying something about Cash :)

I'm ambivalent regarding your documentation point, on one end jQuery is way more popular and one can largely just read jQuery's documentation for the methods that Cash implements too. On the other end that doesn't quite work when Cash's implementation works a bit differently than jQuery's, and just having a consistent, good, documentation is better in that case, and probably in general too.

I don't personally care much which libraries people use for their needs, personally I'm trying to incrementally move away to Cash and other jQuery-like direct DOM manipulation libraries entirely, but it takes time.
Interestingly, the peers doing the hard work (of actual reviewing) for free.

Running the reviewing process can also happen through https://openreview.net

Not sure why we need Elsevier exactly, could you be more specific?
Don't mistake your friends change in policy with a change in attitude about the individual vs society. Vaccine mandates, incentives, and restrictions were all done with paternalistic intent. However we've reached the point where the rotten child is a danger to the parents and they're being kicked out of the house. Patience and humanity are exhausted and it's been turned into anger. Few accept their "personal risk assessment" as an acceptable choice.
I think the problem is that "How much is someone worth?" can't (or shouldn't) have a financial answer, in the same way that slavery is morally wrong.

(Yes, technically it is necessary to calculate things like the amount of money a society should spend to increase the number of Quality-Adjusted Life Years of the population as a whole, given that there are finite resources and competing things to spend them on, but even then we don't typically try to judge recipients by their skills or professions.)

If I were trapped on an island, I wouldn't want a doctor or a coder to join me, I'd want to not be trapped on the island. That's dodging the question a little, but just because a doctor might be more useful to me in some circumstances doesn't necessarily mean that I want society to produce worse outcomes for coders (or anyone else) than for doctors, except to the extent that providing better outcomes for doctors is necessary to produce more/better/enough doctors.
Number four, you meet lots of people, sounds like a downside to me :) Each to his own I guess.
So? The criteria I am talking about is "produces value for society" not "how easy to employ".
I generally replace jQuery with something like:

$ = (s, p = document) => p.querySelector(s)
$$ = (s, p = document) => p.querySelectorAll(s)

If I’m feeling arrayish I’ll wrap the latter in [...qSA] so I can use .map and the rest of them, otherwise for/of works just as well.

Anyone using $.animate() and $.ajax() this year should probably stop.
> I don't understand your argument at all. Why does an attacker need to try a full set of characters? Real attackers try from dictionaries or password generation methods (eg dictionary + numbers, dictionary + dictionary + number + symbol, etc), and "password" is one of the first passwords they'll try. They do this because they don't know exactly how you generated the password, but due to password leaks, they do have a pretty good idea of how most people generate passwords.

I'm well aware. How does this help the attacker attacking the higher-entropy string I outlined?

How difficult is it for an attacker to attack a password consisting of four lower case english dictionary words?

If you run some of these permutations through John, you'll see how long it takes just to generate even quick broken hashes like MD5 versus using something that is a long string of essentially type-able byte data.

> Entropy is supposed to be a bound that even if the attacker knows your generation method, they won't be able to do better than brute-force search. For this, the author is correct that min-entropy or a similarly conservative measure is the right one; though for the most common (uniform) generation methods this is the same as Shannon entropy.

I'm not sure who has dictated that this is supposed to be how entropy is used for password management. Do you have any references here? Because otherwise it looks like it's still the author and yourself assigning a set of rules to something that doesn't actually apply in the real world and doesn't represent how things are used in practice.

My entire point is that the author has taken an incredibly narrow definition of what entropy must be applied to (only to the distribution of the overall set of characters used in the example) and how it must be used in this circumstance, and argued against that.

Where it falls down is this: The entire purpose of using entropy as a measure of difficulty of cracking a password is precisely the character set approach. If you were to type "password" into any system employing a Shannon entropy analysis on the set of characters required to generate that password, you would at worst have to generate 26^8 combinations. Dictionary attacks are good because they reduce that from around 208 billion to about half a million. 208 billion is not a high enough number, and these systems will tell you it's weak. Smarter ones will probably alert you that it's a dictionary word as well.

If the issue is that people are "misusing" the term entropy for passwords here, that's fine but that's a different article (and I'd still disagree).
I think it's more "old man yells at cloud" than you realize. Do you think people who manually input programs by moving wires around lamented bytecodes and assemblers? I would guess they did. The better C compilers get, the less there is to do in low-level code, and the less there is to innovate on that will be missed by no one knowing more than what's left. They can already compile themselves.

This lament draws a straight line back to concerns over books hurting memory and a culture of oral and visual teaching and storytelling. Books probably did have that effect, but the gain was worth it. There would have been no books to hold on to the progress of the ancients through the various rough patches Europe went through without books. "How much progress was lost because it wasn't written down?" and "how much progress was lost because the tools were inaccessible to the person with the right idea?" are the same question.

Assembly is fairly easy to learn (going by my few attempts) in the same way picking up the syntax for most languages is easy, but doing anything non-trivial is at least as involved as any other way of communicating with thinking sand.
one of the best use cases is that it reduces the control state actors have using the banking system. Crypto can bypass arbitrary governmental walls for moving money across country borders. It can allow transactions that are banned or heavily discouraged (taxed) by govts.

This will be illegal behavior, but not all things that are illegal are immoral.

International wire transfers and even stock purchases require days to clear between entities. With blockchain those transactions are essentially instantaneous.
Apparently the price tag is $68.7 billion. How long until they recoup the investment?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-buy-activision-bliz...
I was confused at first because the article mentions that "a spacecraft bound for the center of the solar system would need to slow itself down" and "engineers must take Parker past Venus seven times throughout the mission, so that the spacecraft can use that planet’s gravity as a brake", but you mention that PSP is traveling very fast (and indeed I've always understood that items orbiting closer to the center travel faster). Is this just a dumbing-down in the article's verbiage, or is it common to think of shrinking the perihelion as "braking"?
>The entire crypto market is now over 5X larger

On what basis? Certainly not on the basis of volume of transactions used to purchase goods and services in the real economy. Nor on the basis of adoption of other use cases for smart contracts, supply chain provenance tracking, etc. I assume you mean on the basis of trading volumes and market caps, which are completely irrelevant.
Testing is what Beta phases are for.
Seems to me that an immutable transaction record going back to day 0 would be a very dangerous way to practice civil disobedience under many regimes.

All it takes is to turn one participant, and the threads can be followed to trace the money.
> Any application where you need an immutable ledger is a good application for blockchain.

What's your definition of good? An immutable ledger is a good idea and useful. An immutable ledger where every write costs 50-200 USD isn't as useful, for example.
This 100%, I've literally been hired onto a client to basically tell management something their internal team had been saying for ages. The challenge wasn't telling management that; but rather getting them to (politically very carefully) open their eyes to the fact they had the solution (and the people to implement) right in front of them the entire time. That was a very tricky situation as the management didn't trust their team at all. So most of our time was spent untangling that and doing a little implementation.
"dishes" require some form of transmission - people teaching their children how to make them, writing down recipes.

It's tough to maintain that continuity when writing is expensive or nonexistent, and the people who survived contact with Europeans were repeatedly forcibly resettled in different parts of the continent.
Shit yeah, curation is much more time consuming than backup. As true for family photos and videos as it is for music, movies, and TV shows.

I put photos and videos in separate folders, and then subfolder for year, subfolder for month. Within the per-month folders I rename those photos / videos from their defaults to something that describes their content, eg:

"Daughter cracking the shits in egg and spoon race"

Or

"Daughter getting chased by duck".

The ones we want to re-live.

This takes long time reviewing each and every photo and video though. I'm only up to 2014...
Why is there any use for blockchain in supply chains? Wouldn't it be more efficient and cheaper to run a append only database?
We all have iPhones, so we use an app to automatically upload our pictures to the central nas. At the central nas a 24/7 sync runs to an external usb drive and other backup schematics to two other nas systems. Once in a while i copy (and encrypt) everything to another external usb drive. That usb drive then goes to another location.
Those people use already hawala (under whatever local name). Do they even know about bitcoin?
An Isle of Wight’er here. We’re a welcoming bunch and when myself and my family travel to the North Island it does take a little adjustment in terms of adjusting to things such as body language and resisting the urge to speak with random people!
Crypto is essentially the modern equivalent of the pre-Federal Reserve era of US banking, commonly known as the "Free Banking" era or "Wildcat banking".

Back then, states chartered their own banks, there was little cooperation between banking outfits and banks could issue their own currency. Financial crime targeting consumers was everywhere and currency stability was a major problem, two major issues that crypto faces today.

Historians largely attribute the failure of the Free Banking era as a catalyst of the creation of the Federal Reserve. We need to be able to at least have a nuanced conversation about how we've seen these patterns in history, it didn't go well then, and there's not a lot of evidence that these age-old problems have gone away with this new technology.
> More than 1,700 stars could have seen Earth in the past 5,000 years.

The most interesting observational period for observing Earth would be the beginning of the industrial period right up to the banning of CFCs and other detectable, non-naturally occurring organic compounds. The spectra would have been a dead giveaway that we're here.

Here's hoping JWST can spot CFCs or similar in extrasolar spectra.
Completely was the case with me. A large client cut my hours for about six months and now they are roaring to better than pre pandemic levels. Sadly they were acquired by another company during that time and a lot of people were let go due to the slow down and acquisition.

If I were an employee I mostly likely would have been let go.
> Upon close, we will offer as many Activision Blizzard games as we can within Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, both new titles and games from Activision Blizzard’s incredible catalog. [Xbox PR]

> The acquisition also bolsters Microsoft’s Game Pass portfolio with plans to launch Activision Blizzard games into Game Pass [MS PR]

In case anyone still doubts that Microsoft is all-in on Game Pass.
>What about the work of health workers, delivery people, drivers, employees in supermarkets, cleaners, constructions workers, etc.?

They have salaries. The artists really didn't have a salary beyond the dole.
Fascinating cryptology work exists without cryptocurrencies, the reverse is not true.
If you expect an honest answer from your candidate, and you don't expect a well-qualified candidate to choose a well-endowed female to be their character of choice, then you're living in a fantasy world. I understand that it's insane to talk about that during an interview, but I think it's fairly common for non-creepy people to choose a character they find pleasurable to look at.
Exactly what I was thinking. Even worse, doesnt taking the blame mean they can ask/sue for damages?

Not sure why this is controversial, but I saw agency funded projects if they fail the companies have to repay the funding. Employees are usually protected but if a consultant was on board who would take the responsibility for that failure, I would expect at least some of the companies with legal departments to try to get the money from that consultant.
Just shortcuts to begin/end dictation.

Although I use a programmable keyboard, which I've configured to "push to talk", that is - I hold a key for dictation, releasing the case stops dictation.
Yeah, this is pretty universally the job of a management consultancy: interview the staff, and report what they're saying.
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64
Microsoft just bought them I am sure they will be more convenient for the gamers now.
The main storage ("media" partition of ~450GB hosted on a DL380G7 with a DS4243 array (mdadm/lvm) "under the stairs") is kept in sync (using rsnapshot) with a secondary storage (SS4200 with an external eSATA enclosure) in another building on the farm - but hosted on the same electrical branch and connected to the same physical network so it is vulnerable to any spikes which make it past the quite elaborate power filtering I installed when I got fed up with repairing or replacing hardware after every thunderstorm. There is a separate backup to a set of spare drives on the DS4243 meant for quick access, e.g. when some experiment has gone wrong. Separate from this I make encrypted regular backups to online file hosting services (currently using free accounts on Mega) as well as to storage hosted by family abroad. I've given up on making backups on DVD a long time ago since this was simply too much work for the relatively small benefits.

The chance of all of these versions becoming unavailable is low enough for me not to worry. If I end up under a tree some day nothing changes in the short term, the data will be available to those who have not yet met their tree. In the longer term I'd expect someone to either pick up where I left off or move the data to some storage which befits their level of expertise and needs. I don't want to force them into any contract with any provider, nor can I decide what they deem to be worth keeping.
I have like 10 photos that are special to me physically printed out.

People are such hoarders when it comes to family photos and videos. You are never going to look at 99% of those photos and videos.
> take responsibility for things, sometimes even things that are outside your control

Although this might sometimes be a good idea for diplomatic reasons, it feels just as wrong and "bullshitty" as accepting praise for things that are outside your control. And it might lead to a loss of respect by people who see through this fake humility.
I like how the article casually skips over the fact humans do a lot of the same stuff they're pointing out as failures.

Seen plenty of people turning when they shouldn't, using the shoulder to get to a stop sign to turn, going down one way roads the wrong way, etc.

It doesn't need to be perfect. It only needs to be better than humans as an average.
I used editors with multiline editing capabilities in the past.

There are only 2 usecases where it was of any value to me: If I have to write multiple lines in a similar fashion, or if I have to edit the same thing in a similar fashion in several places at once.

Both can be done much easier by using a regular expression.
>It's not about taking it literally... it's a proverb.

Like "no BS Sherlock"?
I think there are two parts to matrix multiplications:

1) How you do it by hand, which this page offers a very handy and easy to remember recipe for.

2) And why you do it in such a weird and not very multiplicative way.

Matrix multiplication is so arbitrary when first introduced. Every time I see it work for some real life application I am surprised how mathematicians came up with it in the first place.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978723
I remember a Starcraft II fan map named Bobby Kotick TD. If he hits you, you loose money. If you hit him, you loose money too. It was banned after a short time.

To be honest, I think Microsoft and Activision deserve each other.
Indeed. I remember drawing my own maps on paper before we had a computer at home. It seems so simple looking back.
Activision's value skyrocketed under Kotick, not sure why they would want to replace him.
I owned a pretty decent amount of crypto back in 2012, but sold all of it and own essentially none now. I think what you’re missing here is that there is actually potential in the space and that there are a decent amount of people trying to solve real problems that exist today.

The two big ones I can think of are payments and ownership.

Payments has always been a difficult part of the web. Multi billion dollar companies have been created around this difficulty. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a native, protocol level way to handle payment?

Similarly, digital ownership is totally fragmented. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way that I could take my digital things with me between different services? I own a number of videos on Amazon, but why can’t I take that ownership right with me to view them on Hulu, or some other service.
As a general rule, people in aggregate don't like people that don't look like them. It's certainly not specific to northern Europe.
No, I’m arguing your complaint is based on your own misreading. Some form of “reinfected” or “reinfections” appears 4 times in the press release.

There’s no need to “add qualifiers” - simply to not remove them.
I work for a very very large firm. Consulting will always be a relationship business first and everything else second. All the really valuable things I’ve worked in all start with “well I know someone in DC that has done X and I know a guy out in Seattle that has a team that does Y, let’s get a call together and talk about solving Z.
This is all very ominous to me, in a way that transcends Ukraine per se.
> but the calculated result of creative effort.

Wouldn’t this mean it’s calculated by something that can conveniently ignore both computational complexity and logical completeness?

To me this seems as unreasonable as young earth creationism..

Or are you thinking of something else..?
No, no excuses for no real online multiplayer either : even on PC Diablo 2 Resurrected sucks, because (AFAIK ?) they added always online DRM requirement (via Battle.net launcher), but especially removed real online multiplayer (leaving only their walled garden Battle.net) play, and finally removed (most) modding potential.

Which were the main reasons why Diablo 2 classic was still played in the first place !
Category Theory really helped me in building a framework for finding similarities in problems. Which, after all, is the basis for creativity in general. Can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what questions to ask in the first place.
Oops, that's embarrassing, cheers for pointing it out :)