skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was talking about summarizing your point, I was looking to summarize your main arguments, as the statement "your analogy is poor" is fairly content-free.

> One is a response to a request, while the other is unsolicited and usually explicitly undesired.
..
> If I'm searching for a product, then yes I want to see some ads for those products.

It looks like you find ads acceptable when it is relevant to your search (e.g. a search for a product), but not when it's not solicited. This would seem to imply that even if there is a company that you really want to work for, if they do not advertise a position that you would like to fill, you will not contact them hoping to find a fit. Which is fine, not everyone wants to do that. I personally have contacted companies which didn't have appropriate positions listed, and have had them create positions which fit me.
Hahahah, ok dude, if that lets you sleep well at night then sure. One thing is for sure - that your belief is unfortunately pretty typical.
It’s a lot harder than you would think. I’m not a big drinker, not even a daily drinker, maybe once or twice per week.. and decided to do a month without drinking for fitness reasons.

After two weeks it was hard to resist the urge every time I’d see people drinking on a TV show, or at the airport, or with dinner at a restaurant. While it may not be a full blown addiction it made me realize I’m much closer to addiction than I’d like to admit.
> great is the enemy of good enough

One-man Factorio is a lot different than big-team Factorio. As a single factory-developer, you need to be startup-like and remember that your time in the present is the most valuable resource.

So always automate everything the first time, because you WILL need more of that component. But do it in a quick and dirty and unscalable manner so you can move on to something else. Start with box-fed production lines; when you're sick and tired of refilling the boxes, it's time to re-do it better.

Build a system to support this throwaway development, where you can tear things down later and replace them and it keeps working. Start with a narrow bus, not eight lanes each for iron and copper — but keep it open for expansion downstream. When you run out of space near the start of the bus, don't just move things a few tiles to squeeze in an incremental upgrade: build a much bigger production line further downstream. You'll have more and better components to do it right.

And always, always, always, keep your interconnects separate from your production components. You don't need a single straight-line bus like some people think, right angles and parallels and grids are fine, but if your belts are snaking through something else, it's real hard to tear down that something-else, and it's real hard to scale up. Encapsulation is important.

And when you're finally scaling up like crazy, ready for the big leagues, use a high-throughput component someone else developed and have your robots install it.
Long story short, if you want to do something off the beaten path, you need to get to know some of the faculty.

I also went to Waterloo but as a cs undergrad. I was also a student rep on the undergrad curriculum committee (this was all some years ago).

You’ll notice that all the non Math / CS major classes are completely different offerings. Non math majors can only take those “other” cs classes and likewise math majors can’t take them and must take the classes intended for CS students. Unless things have changed, very few faculty tech these non cs major CS classes (mostly sectional lecturers).

My overall impression (at the time) was that these classes weren’t that great. They mostly taught you to program (in Java) but exercises were grounded heavily in math problems but didn’t really teach math.

If you really want to get a good sense of “computer science” (the discipline) rather than just learn to program, I’d try and get to know the profs that teach 135 and see if you can get a specific override exception. You could possibly do the same for 136.

Going deeper down the cs course tree is a bit harder. Part of the challenge is the depth and pacing you want to offer majors doesn’t always align with the broader overview non majors are looking for. Eg you might want a single course covering algorithms and data structures rather than 3-4 courses and you might not care about the math involved to prove amortized costs.

If you want to go beyond 135/136 there are a few possible paths that come to mind and involve finding cross appointed faculty and seeing if they might sponsor you for an override into their class offering. If you’re in psych, the cog Sci route would get you to know people who are cross appointed with AI folks, arts used to have cross appointed faculty with the computer graphics lab (Craig Kaplan is a friendly face in the CGL). Physics obviously has overlap with the quantum computing lab. I don’t know any of current the undergrad ce advisors but J.P. Pretti might be able to point you in the right direction
An Introduction to Post-Quantum Public Key Cryptography
Russia already has a similar law since 2016, although it's applied selectively to whomever they please rather than to everyone by default. And the guise of the day is terrorism, not child abuse.

When you guys were surprised about Room 641A, Russia already had warrantless surveillance boxes mandatory for every ISP by law.

I've no clue about China, but I'd be very surprised if they're not even worse in this regard.
Maybe we should. Irrespective of any concerns on the philosophical underpinnings of mathematics, there is an active discourse on the shortcomings of pedagogical resources. See for example Hung-Hsi Wu and his negative view of "Textbook School Mathematics (TSM)". His critique is aimed at the US. I am unfamiliar with any cohesive argumentation across for example European curricula.
We are a long way from 5%. Fed is looking at raising rates a total of 0.75% over the next 12 months.
I'll be impressed when the AI consults with an ordinary calculator for the correct answer
I'm sorry that this course (and seeming department policy) gave such a bad experience. I've had similar experiences at top schools - most classes were about learning the material on your own, even if it wasn't explicitly stated.

On the other hand, there are lots of places to do math outside of formal schooling, and I thoroughly enjoyed those, even if it meant going through textbooks myself.
Such as PR fluff post by Meta, and it doesn't even mention one of the main problems EU has with US privacy laws: the CLOUD act.
Yup, the customers are definitely happy. Getting 1Gig on their own is rather expensive, but this way they pay indirectly, and still get most of the benefit. Many of the users don't overlap, where some come in the morning, some mid day, and some late at night. On top of that, most of the time they aren't exactly downloading terabytes of information, it's predominantly Zoom and YouTube, plus some general web traffic. I could do something with 20% of the bandwidth and no one would blink. But yes, in general, I would err on the side of offering better internet to the users, rather than making an extra buck with some trickery.
I wish USA would take a stronger stance on mobile numbers being used for identity - either permanently assigning numbers to people which can't be reassigned or banning the use of phone numbers for identity verification entirely. Your life should not be identified by a sequence of numbers that are no longer yours if you don't pay your bill or somebody pretends to be you in a cell phone store.

That said, Google has allowed me to use my Google Voice number for account verification for a very long time now. It probably helps that I added that number before I ported it over to Google Voice but it's nice not having accounts tied to phone bill.
* For what it's worth

Not sure how I managed to mangle that so badly.
My reaction was feeling really bad for the students/apprentices/whatever they are, who seem to me clearly in a terrible situation with few options and being exploited.
Ah I see what you mean
In my head, I do this:

8 + 8 = 16

16 + 8 = 24
I feel like these titles are a big reason we don't disclose our salaries in the US (beyond other cultural issues) - the title is our flex.
It's always seemed to me that they are a bit meaningless though. I'm a super senior engineer at my current company because I've been here for a lifetime. I have a lot of skills that port from company to company, but to my current company, I'm even more valuable because I know how to keep this train moving and how to get the tracks switched if need be. I have no doubt I'd need time to become that useful as an engineer at another company. My point is, titles are to some extent, onjly pertinent to your current setting.
And since I brought up Madoff, he managed to run for 17 years right under the nose of authorities. So I wouldn't count on their help any time soon either.
I set a take home task. Go build me a k8s cluster using free tier AWs that deploys hello world and is invoked with a single shell invocation or git push. That usually shakes out the wheat from the chaff.

I look for:
CI knowledge
Shell/python/node/whatever
Infra design (AZs, vpcs etc)
Etc
Thank you for yet another reminder that it sucks to be a mac user :-)
have you tried XWiki? https://www.xwiki.org/
well one aspect that is not really talked about is confidence, most wealth gained from people who can present their idea confidently, a lot of confidence comes from security. a lot of americans (my family for instance) we’re brought over on a boat with a promise of a better life if we worked for someone, my family was indentured servants who were scammed into working for free when they got here. a few of us died, many never recovered, my parents at a young age got into a terrible crash so i spent most of my childhood taking care of my father instead of the other way around. being raised in a small town that didn’t value university schooling i resulted to working in construction which ended up as damaging my arm and i ended up in serious depression, pain medicine was given to me and i ended up getting addicted because it was the only thing that made me feel normal after the accident. i started coding at a very young age but was diagnosed with add but was never treated so as time went on, it became more and more difficult for me to focus. later on i finally decided to go to school and the first year i was there i had to drop out because i got my gf pregnant. that forced me to go back to construction but ended up quitting after a bad breakup. so yeah we all aren’t starting out the same, some of us have a severe handicap that is hard to explain during interviews
Most premodern states (at least) in Europe didn't really have a monopoly on violence in the strict sense either. Kings were constrained by a variety of laws and customs which they couldn't easily change without triggering violent opposition and had to co-opt the local elites (who usually acted as independent actors) whenever they wanted to impose their will outside of the area they directly controlled. Even an 'absolute' ruler like Louis XVI had very limited direct power compared to many modern governments.
What is the value of legally requiring copies in every geographic location? That seems strictly worse from any kind of privacy perspective.
> The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Liars

Ok you would have to make actual legal guarantees that no PII data will _ever_ be processed outside of the EU. given that this effectively means that if you fly out of the EU, or are _routed_ out of the EU, you won't be able to use those services. This is because PII is anything personal to you, and processing means anything that makes decisions, like routing based on IP or username.

This isn't actually a facebook specific problem S3/azure/google and their customers all have the same problem.

but of course yah boo facebook.
oh yeah, this is super true of sales. everyone in your sales org needs absurd titles or nobody will ever speak to them. Just one of those things apparently.
I see you posting this kind of stuff on crypto threads regularly, and I'm no crypto bro, but I definitely think you're being hyperbolic. For context, the entire market cap of crypto is a third less than $AAPL. The idea that a crypto crash (hell, even if it goes to zero) is going to lead to riots is bonkers. In the next ~10 years, it's probably just going to get mildly regulated and stabilize as a (riskier) investment instrument.
> good scientists are comfortable with cognitive dissonance

I'm not sure "cognitive dissonance" is the right term for what I was referring to, although it's related. "Cognitive dissonance" means that things you think you know appear to be at odds with each other. But "not knowing" just means you don't know; you don't hold any belief with enough confidence to even make it a possible source of cognitive dissonance. The skills of being able to live with each of these things are probably related, but I don't think they're quite the same thing.

> good science and politics are inherently at odds

In the sense that politics is set up to insist on answers to questions whether they are justified by current knowledge or not, yes, I agree.
Telegram begins blocking some channels in Germany after meeting with government
Love how many people refer to them as Facebook, unlike Twitter and the news where they even refer to past activities as coming from Meta which sounds incongruent.

Like “in 2016, Meta did xyz…”
One real moral of this story may be that the immigration system is so broken, and it has cascading consequences. Why not let people on student visas stay longer while job-searching?
Reminded me of Pando, started by a former TechCrunch editor 10 years ago. At the top of the Pando investor: Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel.

https://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/sarah-lacys-pandodaily-launche...

https://allthingsd.com/20120116/sarah-lacy-debuts-new-tech-s...

It didn't last.
I couldn't sleep for the first few days because although my body was tired, my mind was expecting to watch some sort of carnal entertainment.

I also felt an uncomfortable rush of blood in my left temple everytime I wanted to indulge again, but that could be purely psychological, I don't know.
The more selection criteria depends on cut-off (which it is in the university setting), the more likely selection from normal distribution is going to be skewed. Then Fields medalists are selected from long tail of already skewed population, all bets are off.
That is often given as an excuse for this common experience, but it is not really intended. Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates. It is part of the rankings they are obsessed with. It serves no one--students or schools--for students to be weeded out in these intro courses.

The truth is just that even top schools in the US (and I suspect, ESPECIALLY top schools, more so than middle-tier schools) are really, really bad at teaching STEM, even to students very interested in learning. I still have clear memories 20 years later of my awful Calc 3 (multivariate) class. In one lecture, the prof spent the entire time on one problem on the chalkboard. He never looked at his notes. At the very end, he looked at his notes and then at the solution on the board and then back at his notes...and stuttered that the solution on the board was incorrect. Somewhere along the way he made a mistake. "But you get the idea," he said. No, we didn't. Just awful. We were completely on our own. All this guy cared about was his research. We were a distraction to him.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293297
Given the demand for tech of all types you'd have to try hard to pick the wrong thing. Regardless, you'll probably move on to some other stack in 3 to 5 years.

1) Give it your best guess / shot now.

2) Embrace the fact that you'll always need to be learning :)
Thievery in nature is really interesting, squirrels also do it.

https://www.labroots.com/trending/plants-and-animals/15629/s...
In a blind index, in each region: https://medium.com/@joshuakelly/blind-indexes-in-3-minutes-m...
I remember back in 2014, just before annexing Crimea, Russian operatives managed to shut off the power to the Ukrainian army's headquarters in Crimea, leading to a lot of confusion and inability to communicate (they had to use mobile phones). I think what's more likely, and more useful, is to somehow isolate Ukraine itself from the rest of the world (instead of just Twitter), so that the news of the invasion could not spread outside. Although in either case you still can't do much about satellite images.
From this article it sounds like he probably did give info over to the FSB when running VK after he got spooked. Though at least it does sound like after that he made changes to get out of the country so he could be more independent.
you can exfiltrate data at a bit/hour through power consumption.

Run while(1){sin(cos(tan(rand(1))) for 1, nothing for 0, every half hour, with a correctional bit thrown in for good measure.

measure the heat of the room via remote sensing, power consumption, AC/air frequency analysis.

the NSA will have to add a layer of thermodynamic static noise in addition to their rooms full of stereo's blasting white noise.

a technically proficient attacker could infer the value of a encryption key given the GDP of the nation-state, if the data was granular enough.
Meanwhile Brits needs to confirm your age with your phone operator before accessing certain pages (even if it is just switch).
And how is it going with proposal to ban encryption in UK?
These are the consequences of being a bad actor in the global information ecosystem. Did you forget that they made money off the violence in Myanmar?
I believe we are discovering that space isn’t as empty as we once imagined. Rock-hopping could be a viable method of (slow) interstellar travel.
https://archive.is/5hX2b
In Praise of 'Line Goes Up'
Right. In the SCIFs I have been in, if there even are windows, the blinds remain drawn at all times.
With this intuition, why is it i*i=-1 and not i+i (90+90=180 after all)?
Titles seem to have more to do with pay scales than they do with skill.
This is an important factor. Accessibility only gets harder to integrate with time and is fundamental to any serious general long-term usage.
Ruqqus Has Been Revived
Why does the Arctic warm faster than the rest of the planet?
https://archive.is/4peub
My family was so poor, I got into college for free. Talk about unprivileged.
Raising the interest rates increases the unemployment rate and 9/10 times causes a recession. That's cutting off your nose to support your face.
If there are three known planets in the Proxima Centauri, why are they called b, c and d — why is there no Proxima Centauri a?
CS/programming (yes, I know they're not the same thing) is something of an odd beast at many top schools. I took MIT's intro MOOC a while back. And the idea that I could pass that, alongside other coursework, never having done any real programming boggles the mind. Yet, no other engineering major has that degree of informal prerequisite. And, yes, it's pretty much like the arts.

(As a side note, I did take an Intro to Music class in college. Of course, I discover it's taught by a rather well-known choral director so the class is filled with people who were quite practiced in music and said choral was happy to teach to that level. I actually got something out of it but a lot was also over my head.)

(As another side note, way back when I took intro to programming--or whatever it was called--for non-CS majors. This was back before PCs were widespread and I'm sure anyone here would find it ludicrously elementary for even an intro course at a good university.)
Here is one of those laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
You must have worked in some pretty crappy places. For me a DevOps/sre/platform engineer (call it what you want) who can't code in bash + at least one other (node, golang, python) is just out.
If it dropped off the face of the earth today, nobody at all would notice. Well, my Twitter timeline would clean up. But otherwise, nothing would happen. It's an issue of scale. If it continue to grow unabated, it's a real risk.

This is sort of frog boiling. It's legal tender in one of the world's poorest countries, where there were already Bitcoin riots. The space has seen investments from the Quebec pension plan, and the Ontario teachers pension plan.

If at each milestone we step back and say, well, it's not a systemic risk today so let's just ignore it - one day we turn around, and it's a systemic risk to the global financial system. Mortgage backed securities weren't a risk until one day they were. Albanian MLMs weren't a risk until one day they were.

Just like Bitcoin's electricity usage. Hal Finney mentioned CO2 risk a decade ago. Now it consumes an entire country of power to do the work of a single Raspberry Pi. Each time the price goes up, so does its waste budget. However at every step along the way, folks continued to downplay. The longer we ignore it the more the cancer metastasizes. Until one day, pop.

Forget where it's at now, assess it based on its incentives and its trajectory. It won't get regulated unless people speak out. The sooner, the better.
> No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.

She planted the tracking devices on him with his permission, after discussing with him that she wanted to write a piece on the experience. This information is right in the article.
Here's a Terraform provider for you-

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/efokschaner/factorio...
Perhaps the thinking is: if you keep saying it, it may become true.
"It's interesting, these titles," Musk said. "You know that there's actually only three titles that actually mean anything for a corporation? It's president, secretary, and treasurer. And technically they can be the same person. And all these other titles are just basically made up. So CEO is a made-up title, CFO is a made-up title. General counsel, a made-up title. They don't mean anything."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXtjnNWUeAk
https://www.quora.com/How-good-at-math-was-Richard-Feynman/a...
Simple Protein Calculator for Kids
Made a quick Streamlit app to help me figure out how much protein my kids are getting each day. Sharing it in case it's useful for other parents!
On one hand, I understand that new and novel biotechnology will require animal testing, and, by extension, animal suffering.

On the other hand, this account does sound horrifying for the monkeys. If it's possible to have the research without this suffering, we should aim for that. If you're experiments brings the Silver Spring Monkey case [0] to mind, then maybe we need to rethink some things.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring_monkeys
Also http://factoryidle.com. There's no "person" that you're in control of and it plays different for other reasons, but it's definitely in the same category.

There's also Satisfactory if you like a 1st person view of things.
Will Rapid Grocery Delivery Change NYC? Look to Berlin
Study: Fewer than 30% of US workers have paid sick leave protected by state law
My sole stint as a VP was in a thirteen-person startup. I had that title for pseudo-legal reasons, we needed a VP.

My later role as Director of a 50-person engineering group in a 200-person startup was way more relevant in terms of my experience managing development.
Oh man, I hadn't heard about that. Best of luck to him but he's right prostate cancer is a pretty bad one.

What are the other few sites you do know of?

And you are absolutely right about the rocket equation. You can't really get around it.