skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In defense as a delegator ;

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I have, through my career, managed, directed, employed, mentored MANY people that were WAY smarter than I am (Looking at you JDB) -- but I had "mortar skills" -- oor as i call them "Lego Skills"

I am talented in bringing disparate engineering disciplines together.

Ill give you a real world example ;

Brocade.

I was the TPM on the build of their new HQ in San Jose, I was responsible for literally the entire go-live of collapsing all offices and data-centers down to the new HQ (I have dont this with other companies, including ILM, Facebook, Lockheed)

Its kinda my jam....

anyway, there were teams Server, storage, network, app, HR, blah blah not to mention the relocation of ~60,000 devices from colos in the valley to the new 4-storey DC building made at Brocade's HQ campus...

I was brought in because I knew how to gather the data req'd to inform an actual migration strategy.

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I met with each SME of every discipline, asked them of their needs, inputs, workproduct, team, etc...

I did this with each SME for each discipline separately.

I then formed a plan of action, both tactical and hypothetical.

Once I had a plan together, held a meeting and showed the cohesive plan, with every teams dependencies and I threw that up on the wall and had all the SMEs in a meeting and asked them

"Tell me what is wrong with this plan. Show me any deficiencies that your team may suffer, and what is also needed from the other teams to make YOUR team successful. Throw as many darts as you can at THE PROBLEM and not the people on the other team."

A flawless move of ~4,000 employees and ~60K devices to a new colo with ZERO downtime to regular employees.

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So, just know that just because youre not an SME in a deep subject, delegators have value. In my case : I was not an expert in ANY of their fields, but I knew how to tie a team together in a way that was less divisive. Super successful and I allowed each SME to air their project issues and requirements in private, so as to keep emotions to a min. Esp considering prior to my joining the project, they had not been talking cross-teams at all.

Delegation is a skill -- you need to know enough about the problem (both project and team issues) to be effective, and really what it comes down to, is ensuring that your SME stays focused on being an SME for [SUBJECT] and remove the Human Emotional friction that can happen on teams of really smart people.
That’s examination when crossing the border and you’ve given them cause to suspect you’re breaking the law; and is done with wifi turned off so that they aren’t reading your social media, email, etc. They are typically looking for evidence of child sexual abuse, money laundering, undeclared goods, and false identification. About 1 out of 10000 travellers have their device examined and of those, about a third turn up evidence of illegal activity. So bottom line, not at all comparable to what’s going down in Russia.
Or, watch the series Alone. Might pick up some basics on surviving against adversity with a small set of tools.
It's not very hard at all. The issue is exclusively licensing fees.

Cheapest depends. There are Allwinner parts that are $2? But with the move to RISC-V, we will see costs decrease further, probably so that a Linux-capable part is just as expensive or cheaper than an MCU.

Whenever possible I reach for a part that can run Linux, because most of any embedded task nowadays is connectivity. A lot of parts include a microcontroller on the same die for realtime tasks.
Disclaimer: I am Russian, so you could count all of this as a russian propaganda.

We don't want to kill a large number of people at all. In the first days of war, our army even had an order to somehow skip the fights with regular army and fight only so-called "volunteer batallions" - these are real, patented, nazis (google "azov battalion nazis" and you could find a lot of interesting photos). Of course, they failed and right now it is a bloody mess. But look at the videos captured cities - our troops didn't event drop the ukrainian flag and there are demonstrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JIaJTSWoqQ

Do you really think that this city looks like the city after the genocide? Come on.

What we really want is no NATO bases everywhere near our border and now looks like the only way (idk, maybe there were others, but Putin decided so) to do it is to destroy ukrainian state completely (the state, not the people).
Translation (I’m unable to verify the quality of this).
https://twitter.com/jirivysin/status/1500560017640067077?s=2...
May I try to spoil this view with two insights?

First, this move by Visa and Mastercard did nothing internally, all the Visa and Mastercard issued cards will work due to local processing center. Absolutely zero impact for poor people who shop in Pyaterochka and then go home to watch TV propaganda for a leisure. Only educated people abroad (foreign students and runaway workers) will suffer.

Second, gov media spins these measures and gains more support internally. Their approval ratings now skyrocket because they have invested years into building vision of enemies who want to hurt through sanctions. Common people now run to them in fear and agree to trade even more of their freedoms for “protection”. Just open up the list of laws introduced over the past week, and see for yourself.
Following the same rhetoric of the pro Russia propaganda, Venezuela is in the sphere of influence of the US and should make a special military operation /s, but this one would actually be going against a real fascist regime /not s.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you about Iraq 2003, and I'm not saying that claims like that are always true or always false (I think it's obvious that it only makes sense to assess such claims in context). All Putin's talk of "de-nazification" as a war aim, of WMD, and a whole host of other stuff is total pretextual fiction, and absolutely makes it harder to negotiate any kind of end to the war now, because pretext has a zombie-like ability to live on and prevent peace, even if there is agreement to resolve the real causes.

But this war was a serious possibility even without those pretexts. Russia was incredibly weak, militarily and economically (both are closely linked) at the time of previous NATO expansions that mattered to Russia (1999, 2004). It's not strong now. Ukraine may be a worse quagmire than the SU in Afghanistan. But it does now seem to be able to stretch itself and probably win the immediate war against the Ukrainian military proper. They have complained about NATO expansion for 15 years, and finally have the capability to do what all great powers do: force their will through unjust means, and call it just.

The sooner there is some agreement to resolve the real causes, the less impact the pretextual bullshit will have in preventing that peace. And as I said before, if I'm wrong, possibly WW3 will just be delayed slightly, but Russia is still not strong enough to do what everyone is implying with their WW2 references, so I don't see it happening.
The same. I've been pairing for probably close to a decade now, and this guide helped me to reflect on my own style, and gave me a few points to refine as well.

As an aside, one of the things I make sure to do with new hires is to cover "beginner's mind". Just because you've got ten years on the iron doesn't mean you can't learn something new, and that something new might just be from the grass-green new guy that joined last week.

Likewise, for the new guys that think they're hot shit because they've got a degree from McSmartypants University doesn't mean you actually know anything. Don't just take things on an "I said so" basis, but also don't discount the value of experience.

When you run into a new idea: use active listening to ensure you understand it, and explore its ramifications. Poke and see where it falls down, and where it doesn't. You'll avoid a lot of bullshit this way.
I haven’t travelled to China since before Covid was a thing, but when I went previously border control weren’t at all interested in our phones, and more or less waved us into the country once they’d checked our visas. To say they mess with any Android phone crossing the border is either massive hyperbole, or they’re doing it remotely as you run them through X-ray scanners.
Bummer, that train is gone. There recently was a kernel community decision to explicitly move to C11.

Its nicely documented on LWN
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/885941/01fdc39df2ecc25f/

It was also discussed here on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459634
2003 invasion of Iraq, just to give a recent example?
I didn't see this at pagat.com, but for the booklet of games one can play with Rook cards (including "I Doubt It" and maybe around 20 games total, curiously not all listed in its table of contents, but for a variety of ages & difficulty levels) is at archive.org (dated 1924). I was relieved to find it, since the cards we purchased from Hasbro didn't have this info.

https://archive.org/details/rook-instruction-manual-1924-ima...
I thought Putin wanted to attack in the depths of winter, when German/W. European leaders would be afraid to take action for fear of losing the Russian gas and freezing their constituents' butts in the cold (although still in the comfort of their apartments), but maybe he got stuck with this late February date after with Xi Jinping demanded he not upstage the Winter Olympics[1], and not wanting to wait until next winter.

Hah, losing a war because of scheduling conflicts.

On the topic of freezing, I wonder if EU countries can send firefighting planes to drop water on top of these Russian soldiers, under the pretense of "We got reports from the Ukrainian government that there were forest fires!".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukrain...
Remind me to find a different emergency shelter to you!
There's still time to prevent this risk. Get the Moldovan government to invite a deployment of troops from a NATO country. That is, not joining the alliance - just invite troops. It is better to delay publicizing the invitation after arrival.

This will not be a challenge to Russia - they haven't said anything about Moldova and are rather busy right now, but will be enough to make Putin hesitate to invade. Being busy means he can't respond quickly, by the time deployment is done he'll have to swallow it. Putin will not dare risk a conflict with NATO.

This better be done soon, because otherwise there's a risk that Russia manages to progress too much in Ukraine and will have the ability to respond quickly. Or that Russia makes a move first.
Ask HN: Qualities of a Senior Software Engineer
Hello HN, I am doing a research to try to get a feeling of what different people in the industry consider to be essential qualities of a "senior" software engineer.

If you could pick 3 qualities that makes a software engineer worthy of the "senior" title, what would they be?
Is it a good time and place to mention Tracker Control ?

https://trackercontrol.org/
Yeah, that's why it is merely a hypothesis. I think the Lottery Ticket hypothesis goes further and states that this subnetwork also has a subnetwork which matches test accuracy, up to some degree. Else it wouldn't be interesting. Of course there must be a limit...
Punishment for using a Russian bank and not offshoring your assets... What is next building a wall to keep people from "voting with their feet"?
I think it’s a fair question. Russia has put much of the world on edge right now, and has turned life into a waking nightmare for millions of Ukrainians. I could see how this romanticization of Soviet tech could be upsetting to some people.

On the other hand, I think it’s healthy to take a step back and remember that even in dark times and people that you may hate, there are positive qualities. And even things like this that can be strangely beautiful.
There's ample literature showing that neutral vocoders generalize to new speakers not seen in training. IME, once you train on around ten speakers the models generalize quite well to new speakers, and in practice training sets for production models are often using hundreds of speakers for training.

There are also non autoregressive GAN vocoders which work great, with a tiny fraction of the compute of the original WaveNet. Soundstream is a good example of this.

My own work on bird song separation uses non AR models for generating separation masks. It works great and generalizes to new habitats and species without difficulty. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/separating-birdsong-in-wil...

Calling architecture variants a hack is risking no true Scotsman arguments... The only true neutral networks are the ones that don't work, perhaps?
Does anybody know why the color scheme of the Soviet era was so "pale"?
Can't you use the auction house from single-player? If so, this is part of my point. This isn't some grand conspiracy to limit ownership of games. This is the kind of thing that more people want. They want the interconnectedness and that is an understated part of why gaming has been taking off as of the last decade.

There are a lot of things that are designed to limit how you can use your software, but gaming is one of the places that companies genuinely don't have to do that because the features that necessitate limiting how you use said software (eg. introducing anti-cheats and forcing you to be online) is stuff that people actually want.
Russia forcing all businesses to relocate away from Internet in 5 days
Why is author attacking Durov? Not a good look.
Unless you hyperfocus on the myriad various possibilities and get into analysis paralysis, which since this is still a vague theoretical issue in this scenario is very easy to do.
Really? I've always pronounced it car (kar) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.
Thanks, their site isn’t otherwise working.
I think this thread actually highlights how the modern internet can "hack" normal human perception due to the way it makes it very difficult to see how much support an idea/position actually has.

I mean, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that there is some portion, even a sizable portion, of the Russian populace that supports the invasion of Ukraine. But, suppose the support is on the order of 5-10% (I have no idea what it is - more on that below). In the days before telecommunications, if you all had to go out to the town square, or heck just gossip with your neighbors, it would be easy to see that the invasion has so little support most people would just discount it entirely.

With the Internet, though, that 5-10% represents millions of people, which would make it easy to find video after video of people supporting the invasion. Worse, if you were someone on the fence about this issue (or any issue really), it's very easy to go down "the YouTube rabbit hole", see video after video of people telling you how noble the fight to "deNazify Ukraine" is, and convince yourself that all the sane people must be pro-invasion.

When it comes to present-day Russia, Putin obviously has a huge base of real support, but is it a majority? Hard to say given how opaque Russia's institutions are.
Sure. But I also append a few chars to everything written down so they wouldn't be able to do anything with the passwords if they had them.

It also helps I don't do anything that would be on their radar crime-wise, at least compared to the general populus.

But also don't put steel bars on my windows, sleep with a gun under my pillow, or put ring security cameras around my house.

It's all about threat modeling.
Live one day at a time. Consume news to stay abreast of the events and to keep aware, but only sufficient for that purpose -- do not dwell or doomscroll. Eat a healthy diet. Your job, family, and home should fill all your other time. Exercise and sleep. Be deliberate about all these.

We can't control what may come, but maintaining as much of that in our immediate sphere is the best one can do for sanity.
I don't know about $2K but I definitely had a $1K limit on one of my ATM cards at one point.
Binary search with confidence
Did you make the original repo it was forked from too?
And then you can't use the incognito mode when you don't want to mess up your recommendations.
This is also definitely a possibility. It may need to be this.
Thanks the name set off alarm bells for me. Good to know they're not affiliated.
Do you know if Restic supports block-level deduplication? I am backing up some database dumps and the backup filesystem has ballooned in size, even though the dumps are 99% identical every day. This makes me suspect that they only deduplicate on the file level, and that I would have some very significant savings if I zipped the dumps before backing up.

EDIT: Some details on deduplication are here, and I'm puzzled as to why my backups are so big: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/100_references.html?...
Yeah my MoYu also has a face or two that sometimes desync. Really annoying.

I have a basic case recognition feature, though no statistics are tracked there yet. I also have some code for tracking splits (only CFOP), though I haven't integrated it into the app for tracking stats.

csTimer has a ton of features too, but I've completely stopped using it, since CubingB has everything I need for basic timing and lots of improvements (like not losing session data, easily moving solves between sessions, partial scramble diagrams).
Github Azure Edition doesn't seem to be a real product that I could find any reference to.

Searching "Github Azure Edition" brings up this page[0]. That's the name of this promo page, and it talks about Github integrations into various Azure products. The very first product it talks about is Azure DevOps. Direct quote:

"Simplify deployment from your repository with seamless access to the Azure portal and Azure DevOps using your GitHub account credentials."

I can confirm that the parent comment you replied to is correct, as I used to work at Microsoft during the time when the renaming from Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was happening internally. As in, not that I was involved in it, but that we used VSTS, and then we noticed that the name was changing to Azure DevOps everywhere. All while we were still accessing the same service and all as before.

0. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/github/
I remember when every American put an American flag on their cars.
NATO is never going to establish a no fly zone over Ukraine. Anyone who thinks that they are is living in a dream world.
I'd be happy to do that. There are just a bunch of other things that need to get done first.
C# reference
After bad guys flew planes into buildings...
Implementations I’ve seen are a modification of your main PIN. Add 1 to each number, etc.
This is absurd. Everybody has known for absolutely decades that a big problem with oil is that most of the petrostates are nuts. Russia is, by oil-producer standards, about middle of the pack when it comes to behaviour.

Everybody is going to have to get off oil at some point anyway, why not do it now when the will is there? Or do people just think global warming will go away?
Well..they really went there didnt they?

Ahh nothing like BLACK to trigger that warm i'm-here-to-liberate-you-from-nazis-over-there feeling.

Good luck with that Putin.
In Bitcoin land this is ancient history. It has already lost all those gains and then some.
Thank you for reminding me the IMAP "drafts" trick! I had been using it for 10+ years with pine/mutt but the transition to mobile killed it for me.
> Uber would never allow TikTok to take and sell Uber’s own data, that’s just bad business. Secondly the only data that TikTok would have access to in such a scenario would be whatever campaign data Uber send them in the conversion request, which again, is not licensed for reuse.

Is this based on your knowledge or experience in the ad industry? Or just your intuition on how it should work? What I see in OP is UberEats loading a tracking pixel directly from TikTok servers, where the “pixel” is actually a full events.js analytics script that could send user data straight to TikTok.
Version numbers can also tell you the date of the release.
I responded to multiple major compromises during the Hafnium Exchange hacks.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22319934/microsoft-hafnium...

In quite a few cases, we identified that ultimately a server has been popped using this unknown zero day, but never before seen webshells and Cobalt strike droppers all ended up dropped on servers and then deleted by Windows Defender. We recommended rebuilds regardless but the product clearly provided more security than people give it credit for.

Then we identified a number of places it didn't appear to work. Why? The answer was people following "best practices" of adding AV exclusions for the whole web root folder, and for some reason the whole user profile folder.

That big Kaseya hack? Every Kaseya user was told by Kaseya to add exclusions for every folder used by the product.

One of the understated issues with modern EDR products is people simply following vendor advise and making it useless. I've got a software product that handles payment details that randomly drops EICAR test files in random folders all of the user PC while it's running just so it can shut itself down if it detects Defender in use "for support reasons".

All the top EDR products in the world and all the hardening advice you can find can go down the toilet pretty quickly if you let vendors tell you how to run these products - ignoring them is a highly rated hardening tip.
Too paywall; didn’t read.
Yes, I know. And it's not ok.

It's hard to hold the complexity of these situations at the best of times, and when people are feeling stressed, afraid, and so on, capacity for that plummets further. Then we start feeling like empathy for the suffering of one person or group means demanding suffering for others.
This is an impossible question because of missing unfilled variables such as threat model, use case and the nature of data protected. I agree with the general sentiment.

Let's say you're a journalist at an important news org. Even for your personal devices, the builtin defender isn't enough.

There is a fundamental principle for sophisticated actors, that prevention is not enough. Your security software should do monitoring (off device) and do that very well. You are already compromised, you should be looking into the collected data to see where, when and by whom so you can do something about it. Unfortunately in the last fee years the line has been getting very blurry between sophisticated nation state actors and criminals and common criminals trying to score as much loot as possible (mostly due to being forced to use sophisticated tools and techniques because solutions like Defender have gotten very good).

You maybe an average joe and still be a target for "sophisticated" actors or you may think you are an "average joe" but your pwnage offers a strategic value to someone resourceful,

My advice is to take inventory of the data and resources you have access to and see (with help if needed) what threat model fits your use case. MS does offer a Defender ATP that's basically turning on few more switches and sending them a log of everything happening your machine.

Back tracking a bit: Defender is really good. Cloud based protection is their secret sauce, turn it on and pretend they are to be trusted with collecting random files from your PC.
For the Record: Kamil Galeev works at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a DC based think tank. His Ukraine-War threads on twitter are informative, but to be taken with a grain of salt.

And I think in the case of "To put it simply, [Russia]'s going full fascist." with a couple of grains more.
The three pronunciations I've heard used are "kar", "char" (like "charge"), and "care".
The patches. Jeebus the patches. Don't miss Oracle one bit.
Maybe it’s actually a good idea for intelligent people to be curious about Russian ideas, design and history. Especially now. Seems like a treating the curiosity as “bad taste” could lead to unhealthy deliberate ignorance.