skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only heard negative feedback about toptal

I started the process and they ended up spamming me for days/weeks so I schedule an interview before a nonsense deadline or they'll lock my account, I didn't go further...

Turing.com seems better, but REALLY selective
Transparency and remove all the bullshit fees.
imo Steve at gamers nexus is the best substitute for the objective, thorough coverage I used to get from anandtech. he doesn't always dive quite as deep, but his coverage is very prompt. his coverage is also a bit more consumer focused, so you do miss some enterprise/DC hardware coverage that anandtech might eventually get around to publishing. on the other hand, he does some really good reviews on stuff like cases and cooling that anandtech doesn't seem to have time for.
Um, why ? Are centralized cloud providers the only ones allowed to run Internet services now or what ?
Seems dead since beginning of last year. Any idea what happened.
It's plastic. You could throw it on a hard floor, or hit it with a hammer, and it would break open. They sell replacement bases because people breaking their own safe open isn't terribly uncommon, and the locking part is all in the lid.

https://www.thekitchensafe.com/
Thanks for all the great articles over the years, especially the in-depth CPU ones!
The loophole for years has been not being connected to the internet, they're getting rid of that.

Buying LTSC licenses as an individual is not particularly easy or cheap.
The fact that we found them says they are probably not gonna be eaten to extinction
Well, for one thing, if it's a standardized test, it will be leaked even if there are a few different versions. "A few years of really diligent work" also seems a pretty high bar to improve odds of getting a job at a handful of companies.
There is, naturally, a Roman proverb along the same lines:
qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatebur. It translate s as "The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
Patents have the positive effect of rewarding risk to recoup development costs.

The 17yr patent clock ends up leaving a handful of years for a company to balance its books before expiry and the onslaught of generics.

Hence the ludicrous per-pill costs.

Those demonizing pharma have not done the homework.

Disclaimer: wife works in pharma.
> And yet so much (not all, but a substantial part) of what that book is about has very little relationship to language safety.

Yes, yes. I know that.

But we literally have a book floating around around THE END of the WORLD and us nerds can't justify even the first step around fixing these systems. It's like someone asking what good fire hydrants are since they won't help with battery fires.
Yes I know, that's why I replied to:

>but little to copy, therefore companies would stop doing research altogether.

It's much more likely these companies would find a different incentives / business models.
The adversary can easily just copy the encrypted data before trying to decrypt it.
My point about PL design was that it may not be the most important issue with cybersecurity, and that even if it was, there are still many other important issues that it does not impact.
> I'm not in favor of civil asset forfeiture.

Might be a bit much to say... but I know some historic figures who would of raised arms over such a thing even existing. I have not heard a case where it even makes legal sense to do so.
You don't. You just teach them self control through reinforcement.
OP listen to this.

And go read So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. You'll see stories of people in situations very similar to you.

Source: I rebeled in my early 20s for a more meaningful life before I had enough career capital to spend and learned a lot of lessons the hard way. My saving grace was that I already had a degree and was demonstrably good (i.e. employable) at a couple of things.
Does patenting it yourself put you in a better spot than having blatant prior art?
That is so good to hear! I've always wanted to go to Egypt, but it almost seems a bit scary since I'm so unfamiliar with that part of the world aside from all of the negative bits you hear on the news, e.g. civil unrest.
Also the article did say specifically that the hunter-gatherers were within 10% TEE of the average US person. That's order-of-magnitude in line with the 300 calories/day, given that the NHS recommended calories/day for men is 2500 and 10% of that is 250 calories.
The "easy loophole" last time was to install windows without an internet connection and then repeatedly try/fail to create an account until the option appeared.
1. Find a venue and make a deal to sell tickets for them.

2. Goto step 1 many, many times.

Unfortunately you'll find that a lot of the consumer-hostile behavior is driven by the venues/promoters, who are the actual customers of the ticketing system. The huge fees are shared, offering the ability to advertise a fake cheap price. Ticketmaster takes the bad press as a serivce.
In my own career doing QC work I found that so many people would never ask for assistance understanding why their work was rejected. They would simply blame me for noticing their errors. That was literally my job, I was the second set of (trained) eyes.

I worked with a couple of people who would regularly see more than 90% of their work rejected for processing errors that were easily recognized if they had bothered to look at their own work but they consistently missed these things and suffered because they knew that I was waiting to look at it and if there was a problem they would know about it soon enough. They did no QC at all even though this regularly set them and the project back sometimes by weeks.

I would make a point to highlight the problem, describe the source of the problem and detail how to prevent it in the future yet inevitably I would see the same issues all over again from the same people. There was no effort to use any of the QC processes or tools that I set up for them so that errors could be minimized.

One person's position was put in jeopardy when they fell so far behind that a big client had to be informed that deadlines would slip. Only then did that person catch me in the hall and ask me to show them exactly how I checked their data, what I looked for, and how they could fix their processes so that their data passed QC. I ended up teaching that person all the things that their job required anyway and they became one of the best performers in the group.

I was not hard to reach, difficult to work with, unwilling to teach or assist - people were just unwilling to ask for help since it could imply a weakness in their skill sets and put some of their other work under closer scrutiny.

It was a depressing job overall since I always felt like I was the bad guy whose only purpose was to point out all the defects in someone else's hard work.

With the final data products they were producing becoming the basis for a client's decision to spend multiple millions of dollars it was important to me to get things right.

Good luck with your checklist.
The reality is developing and maintaining a web service at MS scale is expensive and certainly not free. I am glad that MS has taken a very ethical rouate and is providing users a choice. I hope other big tech follow MS lead here.
> therefore companies would stop doing research altogether.

Don't discount first mover advantage.
It’s chill, I redid my maths my maths A-level and got an A, I basically had a one on one maths tutor for a year in the prison learning complex, came in very useful now I am a software engineer.

The ironic thing is that the police waited about 2 years after they seized the laptop to ask me for the pass phrase. I’m not sure I even actually remembered it as it was so long. PGP Whole Disk Encryption ftw. At the time WDE wasn’t available on the mac and the police got loads of data from my pals text editor temporary files. No one got anything from mine hahaha
Live with your parents as long as you can.

Deep dive on difficult work and learn as much as you can. Develop you, invest in you, that may mean working for cheap, taking a corporate job, travelling and developing a more comprehensive view of the world, whatever, for someone who knows how to scale or pursuing mentorship through working for someone who knows what they are doing.

What are your ideas? Have you validated any of them? Ideas are cheap, if you really don't care about their success or failure (which I personally doubt) you should prove it to yourself and others by sharing them widely. Hermits in a cave don't accomplish anything statistically.

A lot of people fuck around in their 20s to very little detriment, it just depends on how wealthy your parents are.

Until you are ~24 your brain isn't fully developed around risk, don't fight the science on that, just try and factor it in, emphasize developing personal skills, knowledge and communication, and get yourself exposed to as much new stuff as possible.

Create stuff, do stuff, don't get addicted to consumption or cheap dopamine, drop tv, get a computer that's terrible for video games, etc. if you are doing programming.

Just based on the internets population and the fact that this is a post. You probably aren't an outlier, you probably don't know much, you probably experience your current discomfort because the internet allows us to compare ourselves to people way outside our cohort and comparison is the thief of joy and powerful cumulative development. Imagination is always more effortlessly rewarding than the grind and difficult learning, it just doesn't DO anything. If you are of unusual talent, ability or insight you should already have some external validations or achievements of that by 21. If you don't, you may still be exceptional but just a late bloomer who needs to spend more time working and growing in the real world to better synthesize data.

"Otherwise my existence makes no sense"

Life is strange and the world has changed radically in the last 100 years, you have no idea what will be discovered or how things will change in the course of your natural lifespan. A little less desperation and a little more intellectual humility will make you a more effective, more curious and importantly, a more resilient person.

Everything regresses to the mean. Hopefully your parents are wealthy and well connected.
Not unless you have both enabled... then ABP picks it up
> What about a naturalist tale of keeping the desert as it is, and resisting the urge to destroy it for the supposed benefit of the humans?

Well, in the Dune source material it was terraformed into desert from a green planet. So, you know, returning it to green is perfectly fine.
Unless they are poor. And, again, I don't believe you when you say a monetary stake is required to make them come back.
Happy Birthday HN.

Obligatory and much warranted shouts of thanks to Dang.

Trying to find my 'green' posts now for memory lane
Trim is not really recommended for any encrypted volume to begin with, since it clearly reveals how much space is being used as well as some other filesystem metadata.
" I was drunk on a public beach and kissing my girlfriend in Ramadan,"

Oh man, the trifecta - Alchohol, Ramadan+Beach + With a woman not a member of your family. In the three+ months I was in Dubai in 2015, I was nervous even shaking hands in a business meeting with a woman (and obviously would never do so with a local woman, couldn't even be in an elevator alone with one) - was instructed very strictly about appropriate behavior during Ramadan (don't expose your knees on the beach).

Counter Intuitively, I've never been in any city in the world where the hotel lounges were so aggressive in serving alcohol. I ended up drinking more alcohol in Dubai in a month than I would the rest of the year in other cities around the world.
Sorry, I can't find where you answered it. Quote?

I believe the question is relevant because you seem to equate delivering results with working long hours, and while the two are usually correlated, it might not be the case when talking about star performers. For example, if my peers are all like Jeff Dean in terms of productivity, I would probably feel inadequate. You could even say I would feel pressured into doing more - not by my peers or even my manager - I'd be pressuring myself. This, to me, does not mean the environment is toxic. And that's why I believe the environment at Netflix is not toxic (assuming no other issues).

I'm trying to understand what you mean by "toxic", that's why I keep asking the question.
Unbundling (the copper lines) and open fiber deployments are different things.

Many municipalities still haven't gotten fiber deployments from the local utilities, and in practice you can be stuck on Swisscom's fiber. It's not too bad since several ISPs are also able to use it: for instance Sunrise before (I'm not sure they still allow it), but also Init7 (their Hybrid7 offering). However an ISP like Salt uses only open fiber, at least for now.

Salt and Sunrise had signed an agreement to push for extensive open fiber deployments by 2027. But then the deal blew up when Sunrise got acquired by UPC, since they'd rather use the existing DOCSIS infrastructure in the less dense areas.

Swisscom was going to push its own deployment as well (even though G.fast is not bad) and Salt was now interested in chipping in, but soon after the Comco has stopped Swisscom from using P2MP which is a big setback in its strategy to cover sub-urban areas. I understand the decision to enforce P2P deployments and give smaller ISPs a fair chance but it's definitely going to hinder the speed of new deployments. I believe we're rich enough, and we should mandate (and fund) open deployments in all these sub-urban municipalities that won't do it on their own.
Oof. Even without any physical issues if I get stressed about stuff in a way that makes it hard to concentrate I usually then manage to do the 'stress about my stress' thing on top of that and damn but that's no fun at all.
anyone have more info on the group that makes these videos ?
seems like they make decoy accounts and pretend to be underage targets but would like to learn more about their process: are they legit or would it be equivalent to police entrapment ?
I'm not a fan of thunderbird compared to Outlook. To me it's a bit like LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. I know some people prefer LibreOffice, it was pretty similar 12 years ago and today it's still better in some ways, but I rather use Microsoft Office.
Thank you for this I've always wanted something like this.
Not to mention every other post is of a self proclaimed influencer who can't do jackshit
more likely:

1. MSFT attempts to assert patent

2. Defender says haha

3. MSFT files motion with court

4. Defender calls MSFT: "you want your patent invalidated, because this is how you get your patent invalidated"

5. <back and forth>

6. Defender pays $, MSFT withdraws motion from court.

even more likely:

1. MSFT doesn't take companies to court on patents - that's not their business model

2. In the next mega cross-licensing negotiation between MSFT and <Google, IBM, etc> said patent it added to a pile of 1000s of others.

3. Little stack pays bigger stack by the inch (not joking)

4. Your cellphone is $1 more expensive

5. Patent attorney's kid goes to college. Yours does too.

6. Attorney's kid goes debt-free. Yours does not.

(pls correct me if there's a more modern version)
That word is so rare that your comment is the 4th search result hit on DDG: https://imgur.com/xSyGRT1
Seems like this is also a mathematical explanation of why Einstein's brain was so powerful. He was overparameterized in similar fashion with more connections per neuron than the average brain.
Huh. I hadn't even considered that it would be possible to assign partitions to the vdevs instead of the entirety of the drive. Though I guess it does make sense that you can, otherwise you wouldn't be able to use a drive participating in a vdev as a boot device.

I don't need the feature that badly though. It's just something that's interested me about Unraid (and most consumer NAS devices actually), especially since I'm running 4 2TB drives and 2 3TB drives as a single RAIDZ2 vdev in my home TrueNAS setup.
I think the idea is to have them enter the password that destroys the data.
The article is not even a slightly bit misleading, if you read it in full and without any prior expectation or reading other comments. Here is a quote:
"took hundreds of patients on a roller-coaster ride of technological innovations, regulatory successes, medical and financial setbacks, and a near-total meltdown" – this is not simply about how they abandoned the tech or almost went bankrupt. This is also about the challenges they and their patients faced along the way.
What the history of AI tells us about its future
That's well and good for safe Rust, but unsafe Rust is hard as hell to audit because nobody _really_ knows what the rules are. We're kind of still figuring out how to write unsafe Rust safely. Have a look at the "too many linked lists" book, which turns out to have had a fundamental error in it for years.

I think miri is a part of the answer to this, but it is not perfect. At the end of the day, you need unsafe at some level to do anything useful, and we need more explicit rules about how to do it properly.
Separately to my other comment I want to add that not every IT job is corporate.

Have you considered working in the charity sector (even at a really basic, fixing-the-stuff-in-the-office level) while freelancing?

> My biggest fear is mediocracy

My biggest fear for you is that you might get stuck in a pattern where you feel like this at 31, with more credit card debt. It gets a lot harder to change your ways after 25.
> Why?

Did you read this ?

> where billions are spent developing a drug and getting it approved
For me personally it's because I can't manage priority emails or use the search through a 3rd party mail client. Most of my time in Gmail when I'm not just reading messages is using gmail specific functionality that isn't supported in 3rd party clients.
Well, I make a lot. I'm sure my boss is aware of that. I don't know a single person that is paid this much in Toronto and doesn't have to manage others. Not even close. So maybe that's why he doesn't need to know.
We are only hearing one side. I worked in graduate research and we had some very angry and difficult professors who were denied tenure despite solid publications. They had a lot of challenges getting folks wanting to work for them, and typically had to farm overseas to (barely) fill their lab. They were terrible leaders, difficult people, and mediocre at best in teaching. Even with a solid background in research they were viewed as a liability and there was the tough decision of hoping the devil you don’t know (whoever takes that spot) than the devil you do know, who you are denying tenure.

Also, I don’t see anywhere that this is about race and not sure why he is bring it up.
while just about all my computing I can do elsewhere. There is one aspect where I feel more confident in windows: VR. Sure you can run off an oculus - but the applications are still significantly better on a dedicated machine. I may be wrong though now (what is the linux or Mac way of doing this?) or later (Apple, c'mon don't disappoint).
It doesn't take very long for me to pick up litter on my walks. But I still will wish people would stop fucking littering.
Stop. Depending. On. FAAANG.
Show HN: A Theory of Anxiety Conditions
Hi HN,

I ve been in this community for a while now and have a huge amount of respect for the people and the forum so I wanted to post this here.

This is a pretty random one and I wish to emphasise from the very beginning this is not medical advice and is only based on what I saw in myself. It is therefore entirely up to anyone kind enough to have a read to decide whether they think what I describe makes any sense for them.
If people have comments or thoughts I think it would be quite cool to use the GitHub issues as a forum for discussion and collecting peoples’ feedback.

TLDR

When I was diagnosed with an anxiety condition I thought about the specifics of what was going on in my mind probably an unhealthy amount. I wrote it down, then rewrote it many many times and it then sat in my draw for a few years, and I ve finally decided I should put it online just in case it helps someone else.

I believe we have largely overlooked the possibility of using introspection of one’s own consciousness to gain scientific understanding and theories of the casual mechanism involved in anxiety conditions. I propose that when I study my own consciousness there appear to be useful abstractions (many of which we already allude to in common language) and that formalising the system described by these abstractions appears to be useful for understanding the casual mechanism underlying the anxiety conditions I experienced.

At it’s most basic the casual mechanism I propose relates to the existence (under certain conditions / beliefs) of a feedback loop between those feelings that are partially endogenous and our thoughts (under the definitions of these terms laid out in the essay). Whilst I can only analyse myself, this casual mechanism also appears to be consistent with and explain many of the clinical characteristics of the anxiety conditions described in the DSM. I believe it also sheds light on the current successful therapeutic approaches as well as their failings.
However, as emphasised throughout, this is, and can only ever be a theory about me, and can only ever be falsified on an individual basis. Therefore, I would love to hear other peoples’ opinions on whether this description of my conscious experience and the theory I propose is also true for them.

Github issues - https://github.com/A-Theory-Of-Anxiety-Conditions/A-Theory-O...

PS apologies for the website I m no web developer
How much of this is just timing though? Anecdata, but my parents took my computer away a bunch of times and restricted me from watching TV on weekdays, and I still got terrible grades in middle and high school (though I almost always did well on tests, just didn't like doing homework).

My grades didn't get measurably worse when I got the computer back, and my parents stopped taking it away from me when they saw that I was teaching myself how to code for fun, because I think they realized that is a marketable skill, and I think I taught myself to code (and my grades started improving) because I simply grew up a bit.

Granted, there weren't really "smartphones" throughout most of my high school years, and I didn't even have a laptop at that point either, so it's possible my information is out of date.
Motif: Programmable Blogs for Developers
Battery backups for when the power goes out. There's a high correlation to the power going out to the needs of being able to communicate. If your main modes of communication go down during an emergency things can get pretty bad.
I would love to be able to test the rules others have created to see how universal the descriptions are
Outlook is part of office or windows, both paid products. I don't really see how putting ads in a paid product is ethical.
Delete Facebook. Permanent Account Deletion
Expense was part of the equation initially, however, through economies of scale, we eventually would have been able to reach a feasible price point. Cost has nothing to do with why Tesla is pursuing an optical-only system.

To get rid of the dependency on the radar sensor for autopilot, we generated over 10 billion labels across two and a half million clips. To do this we had to scale our offline neural networks and our simulation engine across 1000s of GPUs, and just a little bit shy of 20,000 CPU cores. We also included over 2000 actual autopilot full self driving computers in the loop with our simulation engine. And that's the smallest compute cluster.
Doesn't sound like something (most) Mac Users would do. And I am also quiet honoured that the marcan_42 replied to my mere comment. Keep doing what you are doing, if you feel you are doing great doing so.
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