skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One that lacks substance and likely couldn't actually be proven as stated

https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/6907616035?s=20
> but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second.

Reminds me of the saying that the fastest throughput is achieved by a 747 full of hard drives.

> Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process.

A thousand times this.
I get the impression that in the long term and on average, people benefit more from being honest.

So how about just saying, "I'm currently only considering positions with salary XY. Is that in your budget?"
Sounds like an organization problem to me. Roll back to the last working state. You have CI right... right?
>You do know that left wing misinformation is a thing too, right? You understand that both ideologies can be taken too far and that they both have elements engaging in misinformation. You understand that, right

I guess it depends on what you are talking about. The US left has no equivalent to Fox News, OAN, Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones, QAnon, etc..

The right-wing misinformation machine is massive. Millions of people think the election was stolen because of how effective the right-wing misinformation machine is. Part of the right-wing misinformation machine is indoctrinating viewers into believe that there is a left-wing indoctrination machine, which is probably why you are 'both-sides'ing something that is clearly a much bigger problem for the right-wing of America.
The poor would typically make their own clothes. This was of course very labor intensive, but back in the day, benefits from division of labor weren’t that huge, and the poor often did not have better employment opportunities (that’s why they were poor in the first place).
> Arguably the more important outcome than monetary damages is that the offending program is ceased.

That's not how we punish other crimes. We don't give serial killers 1 year in prison and set them loose because the killin' spree has ceased.
I would very much like to be free of spectacle without having to live in the woods. What is it that makes society and spectacle inseparable in your mind? I like these questions because they directly address social assumptions.
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My guess (I have no experience in the biotech industry) is that this is largely because you can't run an hour-long experiment with the candidate to test their competence. They must rely on a conversational technique. I don't know how much we can compare software with other industries.

The software industry is unique (or so we think) in that we can directly test a candidate to judge their competency in an hour, either by white-boarding or going over a take-home problem (or similar).
Not yet. But we use Iridium + predict wind. Unit cost $1,000 then you pay $250/year for Predict Wind (weather prediction and routing) and $200/month for unlimited data.
Video streaming non stop: find yourself another hobby
Wait so you literally work at multiple companies? How do you manage meetings and deadlines and things like that? Surely that creates conflicts between them.
> 2. Personally, though, I find the topic of numerical stability to be a little bit depressing, since it focuses on all the ways computers don't work!

Maybe a way to more positively reformulate this would be: There is no a priori reason to assume that floating point numbers are well behaved. The fact that we were able to come up with a structure so that it approximates real numbers adequately, that arithmetic operations on it are fast (which they aren't for infinite precision) and that, if we design the algorithms correctly, errors are well-behaved, is an astonishing feat of engineering.
I'm pretty sure that Akamai were one of the survivors of the first dotcom bust.
> In the same sense, is the idea that I now have to look when a particular piece was written to understand how to interpret the pronouns? How does that make the language better?

We already interpret language through the lens of its era all the time.

For example, when's the last time you heard someone use the word "gay" to mean "happy" or "awful" to mean "awe-inspiring?" They have very different colloquial definitions today, but when I hear the Flintstones theme song I know what "have a gay old time" means, and when I go to church I know that the hymn "God of awful majesty" isn't sacrilegious.
Not really sure, but it sounds like some of things you are testing might be syntax - which makes sense if it's critical to your hiring need - ex. hiring senior C++ folks to start a new project - otherwise every new job I've started in this industry thrusts me into a new language and I have no problem sending CRs almost immediately (given Google and an IDE).

I'm generally more a fan of keeping skill-based examination too, but making it very easy and language agnostic. Harder than FizzBuzz of course, but nowhere close to dynamic programming.

Ideally, if a candidate has never seen it before, a basic tree traversal is enough. But since 100% of people have practiced that before interviewing, I invent a problem by ripping out a little piece from the codebase I'm working on. It usually amounts to.. Show me some clear control flow, factor that code into a subroutine, iterate over a collection and call that subroutine, contemplate the performance characteristics in a discussion (not bigO complexity, more so consider the I/O device..caching..)
Fry's at the end went consignment model and none of the big brands would do it so their shelves were empty. So highly doubt Target or Walmart are using consignment model for the majority of their goods.
for stateless apps (with HA, capacity etc) its easy
There are huge inefficiencies with high inflation, even if predictable.

For instance, if you know your dollar is worth considerably less every day, you're more likely to go spend it on things that you may not need as long as they retain value. Barter is inefficient as well. You'll be willing to wait on line as soon as you receive your paycheck. You'll fill up your tank more often. There's expenses with adjusting people's pay to account for inflation and keeping track of what a "reasonable" price should be or whether you're getting fleeced. I agree uncertainty is a huge problem, but even high anticipated inflation is a huge pain in the ass.

That's not even considering the capital controls that are often put into place that prevent you from holding stable assets. So you're stuck holding this depreciating asset or you're bending over backwards to buy as much stuff as possible to retain you wealth.
What is there now was significantly rehashed under the first Cameron administration. I remember talking to a few insiders at PyconUK, around 2010-11, and they were saying they basically had carte blanche to nuke it all from orbit and rebuild how they saw fit. The government wasn't particularly popular at the time (what with the sweeping cuts to social services), but the people in question were adamant that, on digital services at least, the big guys really wanted to make a difference for good, and that it was a clean break from the past - hence why they were going to places like PyConUK to recruit motivated forward-looking people. That government effectively lasted 5 years, so they did a lot of work in that timeframe. I later heard through the grapevine that the waters got choppier after 2016, and I've not really heard anything after 2019 (beyond the occasional coded grumble on twitter), so I don't know how things are today.

> it would be upon the civil servants and associates that came up with the initiative

From what I understand, the power of this was precisely that it came from people outside the career civil service. Although this narrative came from Conservative quarters (who occasionally indulge in civil-service bashing), I find it credible. Established powers in the system tend to have established friends among deep-pocketed vendors, particularly these days that doors tend to revolve quite furiously. For all the good they did elsewhere, one undoubtedly bad legacy of the Blair-Brown years was eccessive trust on friendly vendors vs in-house.
Because "Celestial object unlike anything astronomers have seen before" might be happening every day.
Sounds pretty close to the heuristic I expect real-world autonomous machines to follow, which is "do the thing that is least likely to cause a lawsuit."

Doing nothing is generally seen as more innocent than doing something, at which point I'd expect most mobile robots to freeze when something goes wrong.
If someone steals from the debitcard, they steal your money.

If someone steals from your credit card, that's not your money, it's the bank's money - the bank was trying to give you a loan and gave it to the wrong person. That's their problem.

If we didn't have this rule, there would be unlimited rampant fraud - you don't just loose all you have, you loose what you haven't. We would suddenly find out that we are a million dollars in debt for no reason.
Your best bet is to get ahold of actual Facebook engineers, and this is a good place to do it. Take this issue to Twitter as well. It looks like your previous posts didn't make it to the front page, but with any luck this time you'll get some real traction.

The suggestion in a previous thread about buying an Oculus to get priority customer support is also not a bad one.

Do you have any snapshots of your membership base? Maybe you can reach out and start anew. Check your email, as it'll typically have a lot of names and accounts. Also see if archive.org and archive.is have snapshots.

If and when you do get your community back, I'd highly suggest starting an internet forum and directing some or all of your community there.
Is that because you were previously unaware of an extremely common idiom?
Why do you think something serving as a tool, or having a utility, makes something less important?

You could see lungs as a tool to breathe, it doesn’t mean they aren’t essential.
The first time I had to post a mail was when I moved to an apartment and I had to send the check to the landlord.

So I wrote my landlord’s address at the top and my address below it, stamped it and happily posted it.

Sure thing after two days I received in my mailbox my check /facepalm
Agree, but the rumor is that their social media business (YT, ads) brings US$ 800K/year
Exactly. Imagine your DMV experiences but applied to this. Then again, based on stories like this, private seems to be even worse. Even the DMV has human interaction possible after demoralizing wait times unlike shouting into blackholes that is FAANG support
Just for context; I'm from Central Europe, have 7 years of experience in a world-class Mobile app company and am searching for remote options, mainly in the states.
I think just enough components of the problem are too abstract for most people to practically reason about.

HIPAA passed when people expected Clinton to push for health insurance improvements. The HITECH accompaniment passed in 2009 when health care was a huge issue in the wake of the 2008 disaster, and people expected the govt to crack down on big company malfeasance. Subjectively, I think 'keeping your health information secret because it should be secret' seems more viscerally compelling. SOX passed in the wake of Enron and WorldCom during the .com bust. The EU, broadly, seems less regulation averse than the US, but I'm no expert. That the US hasn't followed suit, despite the current backlash against social media and data tracking in general, is telling.

Most folks think someone getting ahold of their CC# is the worst-case scenario and they or someone they know has probably experienced it. It was probably resolved with a 5-minute phone call, and they probably blamed the last in-person retail transaction they executed before the fraudulent charges rather than some online company they bought a potholder from 18 months prior. They likely don't even consider the implications of someone using their SSN to open a mortgage, lease a boat, claim unemployment benefits, or work a year claiming total tax exemption on their W4.

Even many people who understand the privacy implications might not understand how frequently breaches happen, the practical steps to mitigate them, and whether they're proportional to the risk. Few could factually evaluate the inevitable industry FUD. I think it'd get way more pushback than the right to repair did in Massachusetts, and industry flung some pretty outrageous fear-mongering BS over that one— they implied non-proprietary car computer interfaces would result in women being stalked and raped. In a television commercial.

I think it's doable and very important that we do, but I completely understand why there hasn't been any popular grassroots uprising about it.
Thousands of years later, we’re still realizing impermanence is a thing, yet keep on keeping on trying to ignore that fact.
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Construction is private and buildings don't fall down and are incredibly safe. Food production is private and people don't get spoiled or poisonous products. I think this is reductive.
It would be a pretty wild design failure if you could just take an encrypted drive and quickly crack it.

I mean, unless there's a deliberate backdoor, any half-competent drive encryption implementation will require a passphrase or key to decrypt.
Did the kid paint the radio waves too?

In all seriousness, why is it brighter than expected? What's the expected brightness for such an object, and how many error bars is it away from this value?
Reading the article would dispel your confusion.
Wish I had heard about these opportunities, I spent 5 years inside FRC and got nothing but this lousy t-shirt...
That virus has also not caused a global, multi-year long pandemic. In this context, your reference seems tangential to me. Vaccinations ought to reduce SARS-CoV-2 variant emergence rates by virtue of reducing viral replications.
I read Maus in middle school. It gave me an excellent first awareness on difficult topics. It fascinated me and probably gave me a head start on social thinking. Even if I was an outlier, I can't fathom how it could do so much damage to some children that is worthy of robbing other children of its value.
Masking, especially with children, is far from a "minor" inconvenience.

Especially since kids are the LEAST affected by the virus and the least likely to spread it. Any restrictions on kids or vaccine mandates on them is beyond child abuse at this point.

Masking (with cloth) does NOTHING to prevent or even slow the spread of an airborne virus. What it does do is provide a nice physiological equivalent to a baby's pacifier. Tricking people into believing they have some control, when they don't.

And why should there be any restrictions for unvaccinated, especially if they have already had the virus? Vaccinated people can get and spread the virus - there is zero scientific basis for treating vaccinated and unvaccinated any differently, especially unvaccinated that have already had COVID - they have better immunity than the "vaccinated". It's all politics; zero science.

What's the most disgusting about all of this is blatantly irrational people like you are burning any societal credibility that will be needed if there ever is an event that is really deserving of this kind of a response. Much like the vast overuse of calling people you don't like an -ist or -phobe; those words loose their meaning and significance and make it harder for people really experiencing that stuff to get attention or help.

And people wonder why trust in our institutions is at an all time low? Seriously?!?
Fair enough I agree not all roles need that sort of background
There is a lot of basic scientific knowledge that many/most modern people have (germ theory of disease, how the body works at some level, astronomy 101, etc.) But ancient people weren't stupid. They just didn't have advanced technology. Recreating a whole chain of technology to bring about the iron age maybe 1000 years early probably isn't happening. The fact is that they're mostly doing pretty well with building things that the technology more or less exists for.
200% is easy mode since legacy apps look sort of ok. i'm on a 4k monitor with 150% scaling right now and e.g. task manager (hardly a legacy app) looks absolutely awful.
How is it greener? You drive to a store and back alone; delivery driver has multiple deliveries next to each other on the route.
I don't remember every single detail, but I have clear memories from before I could walk, like watching Wizard of Oz on VHS and not being able to walk away even though I was tired of watching it. My wife says she doesn't remember anything before about age 5.
It does, at least a little.

If you give someone a $20 shirt, causing yourself a little embarassment, that's not quite the same commitment to charity as giving them your $20,000 car.
Vendors will do rebates so they do have some control over price. Like new cars when a dealers sells at their cost, there is a large rebate the customer doesn't see.
If a civilization was exponentially more advanced yet still didn't have FTL travel (or FTL communication) might they harness such a galaxy-level radio signal as a beacon?

All you'd have to do at that point is figure out how to make it blink in a pattern by intermittently blocking it

Might take centuries for others to receive but it could be a historical record.
> That's why it's ridiculous

What's ridiculous to me is that you insist:

> First, it seems you didn't read the article, the comparison is not between various ages of a given person but between a bunch of human life now and a bunch of other life in the future.
(...)
> To make it even simpler, the DCF arises because you can simply show that receiving a dollar now is preferable to a dollar in the future. Can you even claim that about human life?

Are you mathematically guaranteed these lives in the future will exist? If not, yes you can.

> If you cannot even find a good explanation for your theory how can you claim you can come with an equation for it?

Yes, as probability theory creates strictly decreasing functions.

> The DCF is a very precise way to compare mesurable quantities. How would you even define the value of a human life?

You don't have to. With a strictly decreasing function where any f(x)>0, you can say either that lim x->+inf f(x)=0 or there's a w such that f(w)=0 - even if you don't know anymore more about f(x)

If you are saying that's it's likely that the population will increase and humanity will not destroy itself, you have a partial argument, but then there's the counter argument that technology will progress alleviating all problems (a strong claim given the past performance of the human species fixing many ailments, poverty, etc) or that humanity will evolve into something else (say, gnostic ascention, computer uploading ala matrix, cybernetics ala battlestar galactica...) and back to square one: a bunch of real people exist now, for sure.
Milling grain, hammering wrought iron, crushing ore etc. There were plenty of uses of mechanized power even in antiquity, and the ancients realized that through use of water wheels.
The time commitment is pretty minimal. It takes at most 50 hours of studying to get up to speed on leetcode style problems. There are only about 20 different types and once you learn the patterns they get a lot easier. Professional organizations in other fields require continuing education in excess of that to keep your credentials. If you can't free up 50 hours over the course of a few months that is a time management problem. Worst case you could just spend 1 hour of your work day preparing. Lots of people spend more than that on HN and other sites.

The bottom line is there are more qualified applicants than there are spots available. No matter how people are selected some group is going to feel unfairly treated.
Spielberg made Ready Player One at the right time. It covers the terrain of the "metaverse" in a way which is accessible to all generations -- he did it late enough that people would accept it but early enough to remind us that Zuckerberg is a follower not a leader.

A big thing this article misses is that work is going to be a big driver for VR and in AR. I saw a documentary the other day that showed how the operators of an offshore drilling operating in Europe use a VR "Cave" to model everything from the gas reservoir they are tapping to the operation of machines that do tasks like connecting wells to pipelines. AR is hugely practical when it comes to accessing service manuals when you are inside an aircraft engine or can overlay the plans for a construction project over the physical space. In these applications avoiding mistakes can justify the cost of the hardware and software development.

In terms of entertainment the strength of VR is highly intense experiences. People can't stand to be in VR for as long as they can spend reading, watching TV, playing video games, surfing the web, swiping on tinder, etc. I would love to turn an abandoned store in the mall into a VR park where people can play LaserTag++ but on top of dealing with people who fall blind wearing $3000 worth of gear (I think I could manage to do that on a padded surface and not get hurt but I know many people couldn't) I just can't see how you could make the financials work out.
> Mods weren't clever enough to ask the people if they wanted or not to be in Fox, who should be the spokesperson,

They did ask the subreddit. It voted that no one should go on Fox.
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Related to this if you like the topic and anime, watch Dr. Stone.
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Sometimes company legal teams can be the most accessible way to draw attention to something like this, and I don't mean in a combative way. They're very risk conscious, they see a '10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff of smoke' in terms of risks, both of bad publicity but also if you were to somehow litigate because of the damage to your business or project. Often they have an email address that is manned because they have to respond to legal requests of various types.

You can potentially request all your data (and data about the hack) and let them know why, maybe reach out asking how you can get law enforcement involved and who you should contact after you've made a police report. It's not a threat, but it get it on somebodies radar. If you express how devastated you are there is potential for them to help. They also have a lot more latitude than any kind of helpdesk (especially at the scale of Facebook, and the users/customers facebook has).

They're also well connected with-in an organization because they have to sign-off on all kinds of projects and risks.

I think `patio11` has amazing advice is a similar vein[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1162561822248992768?lang=... (I think he has a longer version/reference, but I can't find it)
Flamingos are pink because they eat pink shrimp.

The difference is that pinkness in animals is specific to species and we have explanations for why they are pink. And we also have explanations for albinism, but it's not limited to specific species- it's found widely, across the complex life domain.

Find a pink duck? OK, the neighbor painted a duck. Find a population of pink ducks that reproduce and their children are all pink? OK, now we have an interesting situation.
Thanks for your opinion, I think the right thing to do is to focus on products that have small table stakes, so the MVP won't take a lot of time to build, even adding a few extra features, and therefore, we can enter the market quickly like a good player
The cost is a feature, not a bug. It must be pricey to signal status.
Someone should ask Spectra Logic folks for their numbers :-)

(Spectra Logic's tape libraries run FreeBSD too.)
And when you eyes look at your computer screen they only see the light coming off it, not the actual screen.