skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First of all, the magnetic gauss needed to flip bits on LTO media is huge. It's not a practical concern unless you're choosing an incredibly inappropriate storage location.

You're right, it does seem huge: https://superuser.com/a/568367/111650

(Some of the links from this answer are quite interesting.)

The issue is that I don't know (and I suspect it's difficult to know or even classified) whether an EMP attack (the main scenario I'm worried about, which can be quite powerful) would be sufficient to cause damage. I don't believe there is a consensus on this though I'd be glad to be proved wrong here.

> why wouldn't you store your tapes in a case or a vault that is magnetically shielded?

I would; as I said I put some magnetic hard drives in Faraday cages. However, I'm not confident that the Faraday cage would be sufficient. A lot of the discussion online about constructing Faraday cages to protect electronics is speculation. I haven't seen any clear data showing that during an EMP attack magnetic data is protected inside of a Faraday cage, or protected without one.
This has been known for literally about 2 decades.

(Keywords: Dr. Gasser, LSD, Switzerland, depression, cancer, study, 1998)
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The last point is an underappreciated one I think. Having been an engineer and worked around engineers for a long time, I've seen a lot of people get very frustrated in the face of fuzziness in organizations, teams, politics. It's just a fact of nature that there isn't one optimal system that everything should fit into. The sooner you can come to terms with that the more effective you will be in life.
I am so tired of recruiters and hiring managers spending time telling me about the company. It's all the same BS. Everything I want to know about the company I can usually learn from the website.
Right, but that’s not a counterexample. The bitter lesson suggests that, eventually, it’ll be difficult to outperform a learning system manually. It doesn’t say that this is always true. DeepBlue _was_ better than all other chess players at the time. But now, AlphaZero is better.

I believe the same is true for neural network architecture search: at some point, learning systems will be better than all humans. Maybe that’s not true today, but I wouldn’t bet on that _always_ being false.
ECC is also easy to mess up, especially the NIST curves. Plenty of subtle stuff to get wrong.
Wow. My whole life I have thought hospital billing was absolutely insane, and this is a great example. I don’t know why a good lawyer hasn’t filed a massive class action lawsuit for billing fraud. Why does the government do nothing about this. I think most people just think the billing is the correct amount, and it seems to me to be off 10x to 100x.
GDP doesn't reflect household incomes[1].

[1] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_GDP_per_capita_...
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a wireless mouse? To have the mousepad plugged in. Might as well have a normal mouse plugged in then.

What is the game plan here? To run around the house with the mouse?
Teachers in America Were Already Facing Collapse. Covid Only Made It Worse
this would be really cool along national hiking trails to hold data abut a spot, or have a guest login, or a trail-head/trail-check-point type logging system, say along the appalachian trail where hikers register/leave notes etc at each check point.

these should be placed all over and come up with a good app to manage such.

these was that cheap card here a while back which had cell coverage for like 5 years and could send out some limited data per month...

that would be perfect marriage... typing with popcicle sorry for formatting
My impression is that most companies are a dysfunctional mess _on_purpose_. The burden of delivering something in this mess in on the employees, and it allows the the companies to move faster, at the cost of burning out people - but they can always be replaced.

The alternative, i.e. a hypothetical company would be a joy to work at, with good processes, good decision, plenty of time to make things right, would just take longer to deliver products and thus make less money for the owners. At least that's the short-term business thinking which seems to dominate current software world.
You know you don't have to finance a car with a dealer loan, right?
They want to outsource the costs of developing talent. To their own detriment, then they want to blame everyone else.

This is of course when they're not busy abusing someone on a visa to make them do more work than a human should have to do.
I agree. As someone who is dealing with a loved one with metastatic cancer, the depression and anxiety for everyone involved is off the charts.

The idea around this solution, is it is something available now, so not a lot of research or costs need to be invested to get it going. Whereas immunotherapy or CAR T-cell therapy is still ongoing research and investment.
You're not wrong, but I believe you're so far off on the necessary scale that it'll never solve the problem.

For an AI to learn to play Bomberman at an acceptable level, you need to run 2-3 billion training steps with RL learning where the AI is free to explore new actions to collect data about how well they work. I'm part of team CloudGamepad and we'll compete in the Bomberland AI challenge finals tomorrow, so I do have some practical experience there. Before I looked at things in detail, I also vastly overestimated reinforcement learning's capabilities.

For an AI to learn useful policy without the ability to confirm what an action does, you need exponentially more data. There's great papers by DeepMind and OpenAI that try to ease the pain a bit, but as-is, I don't think even a trillion miles driven would be enough data. Letting the AI try out things, of course, is dangerous, as we have seen in the past.

But the truly nasty part about AI and RL in particular is that the AI will act as if anything that it didn't see often enough during training simply doesn't exist. If it never sees a pink truck from the side, no "virtual neurons" will grow to detect this. AIs in general don't generalize. So if your driving dataset lacks enough examples of 0.1% black swan events, you can be sure that your AI is going to go totally haywire when they happen. Like "I've never seen a truck sideways before => it doesn't exist => boom."
You can just turn them off. Or they will disappear on their own soon-ish, since it’s an April Fools thing.
I think an end-to-end RL approach will eventually work- but _eventually_ could be in a really long time. It’s also a question of scale: even if Comma’s approach is fundamentally better, how much better is it? If Tesla has 1000x more cars, and their approach is 10x worse, they’ll still improve 100x faster than Comma.
This answer lacks a lot of imagination.

I have successfully used this hiring method. To say "nobody with options would do this" is patently false. In fact, it can be a great way to get in with people who have a LOT of options, but they aren't sure they want to work for YOU.

Every single time I've used this hiring method, I've gotten some of the best developers I've known. They weren't even looking for a job at the time. They just wanted to hustle a few extra hours to make some play money. I'd give them as much work as they wanted. Some of them stuck to just a few hours a week. Some decided they liked the project enough they wanted to do more.
We're not talking about code bugs per se (program computes something different from what you intended). It's more like mathematical errors: you correctly compute what you intended to, but that turns out to be insecure for subtle reasons. Padding oracle attacks are an example that the article spent some time on.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02244v5
For those who are interested in this topic, there are a few other good summaries / guidelines that we found useful:

- https://clig.dev/

- https://primer.style/cli/
They're also funded by the National Endowment for Democracy who is funded by the US government. They also just happen to write articles that push US imperialism encouraging war and overthrowing governments.
Heads up, themoviedb has a very robust API which is free and used by big services such as JustWatch and some streaming services.

https://www.themoviedb.org/
In Turkey that would be meal for 2 including delivery.
> Start a stopwatch when you sit down

In this car market they’d be crazy to give up a car without upselling, given manufacturers’ prohibitions on raising prices.
Minimodem was originally created to be able to get debugging information out of a computer with no network connectivity - if audio is working, one can transmit kernel and network driver debug dumps and decode them on another computer.
> Especially as repeating "but there are Ukrainian Nazis!" only helps Russia, and why the fuck would you want to help Russia?

It's a fact. Saying "but stating the fact only helps the enemy!" doesn't change that it's a fact. You're suggesting we subscribe to a falsehood because you think the truth rhetorically helps the enemy.
Waymo is not a raw neural network. Waymo has an explicit geometric world model, and you can look at it.
What is it like a "dropped packets" deal? This is not my field at all. I just hear about it a lot regarding low power/far range.
Hi! Please excuse me for being the "a stranger was wrong on the internet >:(" guy, but the precession of the equinoxes is an incredibly cool concept that I've been learning a lot about lately, and it's not quite what you're describing, but rather the slow rotation of the earth's axis over a period of about 26,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession

Just thought I'd share because astronomy is cool!
TIL I should be working remote from Turkey. (If only it was that easy)
It's been like that since the 1990's.
This survey says about half of the responders are using Rust in production (or at work in some capacity). It doesn't say anything about what percentage of those surveyed AND use Rust at work are ALSO using stable vs nightly.
Ink Markup Language (InkML)
Yeah, Serbia doesn’t have gas to hold the west hostage. Everything else is the same or worse: Putin is Miloschevitch with nukes.
You don't know what this database is --- upthread, you said you don't even know what the product is. All you appear to know is that they should be using something like RDS. Isn't that a weird position to take?
Heads-up was welcome.
Its more than misleading

There's no space after the comma and the commenter is putting two values in a single variable which normal holds an integer
Our senior-only contracting firm does five interviews but they aren't formal and do not have any gotchas. We mostly look for integrity (is your resume true) and the ability to be trusted with clients. Any of the five can veto and many do get vetoed for not being technical enough or getting a bad reference from anyone in the group. Getting fired is very rare...almost unheard of. No one has ever been laid off in twenty years.
If you called it anishathalye-contributions it would seem fairly friendly to me.
Haha, reminds me of Casa Blanca, “Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to invade.”
Man I completely forgot playing with these in elementary school. One of the coolest things on that era of the internet.
For those wondering if there's a redability lib in their favorite language. Here's a list of them all (as far as i know) plus the original arc-90 implementation

https://github.com/masukomi/arc90-readability/#readability

Please submit a PR if there's something i don't have listed there.
This is what happens when you view left and right through the lens of the US two-party system. The left does not see Democrats as representative of it position.

But to say the left should always oppose war is incorrect. If the world grew closer to fascism, the left would be calling out more to fight it. That doesn't make it any more warlike than, for example, small countries facing imperialism, or tribes facing colonialism. Distributing power improves the chances for peace, or so the principle goes.
I was wondering the same thing! After a bit of searching, my best guess is "Performance Improvement Plan".
OP here: I run a popular youtube channel helping people get fair car deals (search YAA). We are building a crowdsourced database of reviews to find dealers who are doing this type of stuff: https://joinyaa.com/car-dealer-reviews/results/
YC advices in a new video format where slides are 'detached' from video itself
> ... We use the HTTP/2 transport protocol ...

> ... AdGuard VPN protocol operates with data and not with packets. This means that AdGuard VPN establishes a separate "tunnel" for each connection, each HTTP/2 stream corresponds to one connection.

so this is a proxy. Did you ever use SOCKS5 proxy provided by some universities, or "-D" / "DynamicForward" option in ssh? This uses the same approach.

I suspect the innovative part is that they could get it working with mobile devices. I am not vary familiar with Android/iOS VPN hooks, but if the AdAguard only gets TCP packets, it'll need local TCP stack in userspace to terminate. OTOH, quick googling shows there are some SOCKS proxy apps for mobile devices, so maybe that's solved as well?
The article says:

"We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run."

And I would argue: It saves at least 100x in compute time. So by hand-designing relevant areas, I can build an AI today which otherwise would become possible due to Moore's law in about 7 years. Those 7 years are the reason to do it. That's plenty of time to create a startup and cash out.
do we know what the actual goals of the russians are?

In Sun Tzu's inimitable Art of War, he observes, “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive.”[1]

[1] google
Or from any number of "no haggle" dealers. There are plenty.
What is nuclear fusion?
I built one for iOS https://flathabits.com
> By cross-referencing data points within this leak to independent sources including social media profiles and other leaked databases, we can confirm that it is indeed authentic

[...]

> We searched the phone numbers in the leak for a range of individuals linked to the GRU, Russia’s foreign military intelligence service, whom we have discovered over the past few years.

> One of these numbers is for a man named Yevgeny who was linked to the GRU Academy and was a contact of high-ranking GRU officer Andrei Ilchenko. After searching for his phone number, we found an order he placed to 1st Neopalimovsky Lane 12 in Moscow. This address is publicly listed as being owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Consular Service. Further research into this individual through leaked Moscow oblast vehicle registration information revealed a license plate to a luxury car, which was photographed in Kyiv in 2019.

> During our investigation into the poisoning of Alexey Navalny by a team of FSB officers, we analysed numerous calls made by phone numbers linked to those carrying out and planning the operation.

> One number which surfaced quite often was to a research institute in Dubna, a northern Moscow suburb. We were unable to identify the owner of this phone number until searching for it within the Yandex.Food leak, which revealed the name of this person, who frequently spoke with the FSB officers planning Navalny’s poisoning.

The funniest part is that the the Russian state security apparatus has facilitated their own doxxing by means of the law passed a couple years ago requiring a lot of this personal data be retained by sites....data which is then sold by the company, an unscrupulous employee, or hackers.

Note to aspiring fascist spooks: collect lots of data...on systems only you can get access to
I lost my older brother when I was in my early 20's, and both my parents has since passed as well.

I don't like the phrase 'get over' either, but you absolutely have to come to terms with the loss. Carrying the weight forever is pathological.

Everyone and everything you know will die. Yet I find ways to both enjoy life, and help others with theirs. Grief will still find you at times. Let it wash over you, and on. You will remain. What, then, to do with your time?
I'd consider this off topic by hacker news guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But because I can't resist, basically all of the most elite Americans have gone through Harvard or Yale at some point, but really it's the cultures at all the most elite schools. No one school can be said to be the offender - they are all equally permicious and pushing the same things.
Even as late as 1997 only ~35% of households in the US had a computer [0]. Earlier in the '90s it would have been quite a bit fewer, closer to the ~15% in 1990. Elsewhere in the world even fewer still. And it's very plausible that computer professionals were more likely to have a computer, substantially above the average.

You seem to have taken offense with what OP said and returned it for free, with no arguments attached.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/Apr/wk1/art01.htm
I made a concrete statement about what I think the minimum technical bar for EMs is up to at least L7. I also remarked that "clearly this isn't your main focus" at that seniority, which you seemed to skip.

The second paragraph, the one you seem to have an issue with, a combination of 2 things:

- a few examples of extremely senior, extremely successful engineering leaders who stayed at or near the top of the game technically, and those are but a few examples from a very long list

- an observation that in other fields, law for example, they call in the highly-knowledgable, highly-expensive, person capable of solving problems few in anyone else in the organization can and that this person carries titles like "partner" and makes the most money.

I know this is a touchy subject and I've been trying to be less flamey on HN so I didn't go hard like the GP, but they're fundamentally right even if the language is a bit intemperate: there is a prestigious and important job track for people who are pretty damned technical/quantitative but not wildly hands-on and generally concerned as much or more with coordination and communication, particularly in cross-functional or externally-facing scenarios than software systems per se: product manager. As a wild oversimplification: when an EM becomes senior enough they end up as a CTO, and when a PM becomes senior enough they end up as a CEO. This is natural and healthy division of labor.

An EM is concerned first and foremost with the health, happiness, and therefore productivity of engineers. On the foundation of the trust and rapport and deep knowledge that comes from that kind of engagement with their team, they are able to also be concerned with how their team fits into the bigger business picture: is this the right team for the needs of the business, what hiring and performance management would be necessary to make it so if not, what is a realistic schedule for the work that needs to be done given the strengths and weakness of the team members both generally and at this moment in time?

When I'm wearing my hacker hat I have no interest in reporting to an EM who couldn't do my job in a pinch, I might respect that person on a lot of levels but I won't be interested in their opinion of how I should do my job. And at no time in my career has it been so easy to identify such managers: they are the "back to the office damn the torpedos" crowd. When the task tool, and the code review tool, and the oncall/incident situation, and the build wiki are not sufficiently comprehensible to an EM to form an opinion of who is doing a good job, the instinct to do "ass-in-seat" performance evaluation is strong, the instinct to be "visible" is strong, and narrative that there's value add looks very threadbare over Zoom.

This bloc is probably too big and too entrenched to dislodge, but WFH for 2 years working out just fine is the best chance we're going to get. IMHO.
Not really. You can do your best to figure it out, but (almost) every single candidate will be trying to game the interview to get hired at all costs. No matter if I'm interested in the job or just treating it as a throwaway practice interview, I will always say exactly what I think the interviewer wants to hear in order to hire me. This doesn't necessarily correlate with what will actually happen in reality.
Pretty sure most people in America aren't making much more than OECD nations. Software engineering isn't the only career out here
So don't build your AI/AGI approach too high-level. But you still need to represent common sense somehow.
As if video games, or art itself was ever apolitical. The only thing that changed is that women and minorities started carving out a piece for themselves within an industry. It became a problem for some people on the right, and their answer was online harassment. On the left this became a career opportunity for some people.

Still the market can't be stopped. There are new audiences now who want non-traditional experiences and proper representation, and they are voting with their wallets.
Is that....unusual? I can definitely order food with delivery through JustEat or UberEats here in UK for about £7-8(obviously nothing fancy, but I could get a portion of Chinese or a cheap place pizza).

Edit: just tested it - pizza+delivery = £8.40
https://ibb.co/T8pmwCR
this is true for russia as well.
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Most likely there is an almost identical model having an RJ-45 along with wifi or in place of it, in addition to USB.
It has a thick UI layer in React (which I wouldn’t want to write in anything else), and it’s crucial to be able to share types and functions across the whole stack, as it’s designed in a way where a lot is shared. That’s the main reason.
I have made it pretty clear that you are incorrect about #2 (in a practical sense, not a literal one). There's nothing more to say.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I've helped dozens of people buy cars from them and they are notorious for this. It's a shame, most dealers do this crap. It's ridiculous.
The challenge is that in some states, employer suits attorney fees are paid by the employer. So employees can hire an attorney on spec to threaten the company, and say "pay us less than the cost for you to defend this suit and win, and we will go away". So you put the company in a situation where:
- if they win they are out maybe -$100k
- if they lose, they are out maybe -$250k

(Assuming the dispute is about $50k).

And in many areas companies must hire attorneys to represent them. They can't represent themselves.

I'm all for resolving actual issues, and I think the solution here is:
- make it so parties do not need to hire attorneys
- use things like fairclaims.com to arbitrate (must faster and cheaper)
That rules
Please, submit it to f-droid!
Damage to the World != Damage to Democracy
He acted on principle and conviction by whistleblowing. Look how far that got him.

Easy to call for being courageous when your not the one facing life in prison.
PIPs are not exclusively foregone conclusion/CYA before firing. I've personally been on a PIP while in the "red zone" before an expected promotion, and came out the other side with an "exceeds" rating and said promotion during the next cycle. Sometimes, it's legitimately just a formal way of stating "this is what we expect from you if you want to stay here"; if you can meet those expectations, then great!