skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA federal salaries are on the higher end of the GS scale because we tend to recruit better talent, and some of our key locations are in cost high areas, near Washington DC, or Silicon Valley. Likewise with our contractors & consultants.

However, we've been losing lots of talent recently to fortune 500 companies that poach our federal talent, and our contractor talent.

200% increases in compensation are not unusual for those leaving NASA federal, or contracting gigs.
Thanks, I must have misread what I saw earlier this week
I thought this was going to be an argument for adopting Rust on the basis of power consumption.
As with most things crypto, there's actually much less to it than it seems.

That said, Hacker News readers shouldn't be surprised that people use jargon to demonstrate membership of an in-group or keep away outsiders.
Boy, am I proud of my wild guess
> Along the same lines: “It’s never a hitman”

Common in fraud cases: it's never "I was hacked."

(ed. for clarification: identity fraud and other social engineering feats are not "hacking.")
A much different response than many below here, and also, more solidarity than actual advice.
I too feel this way. I've found it gives me high relatability to coworkers and great problem solving skills. (I may not have as much grey matter as a local expert on something, but I make up for it in white matter thinking). While I haven't been able to spin the web together yet, my goal is to use this in people management (3 weeks into new job, wish me luck). Enough knowledge to respect and empathize with the experts makes people trust and include, and eventually respect you. Single track experts are constantly getting jaded in my profession (engineering) because they can't champion their own ideas. Humans will intrinsically fight and even die for their ideals, as long as they can see that their environment will not remain status quo. I'm not sure your background or profession, but this might be a perspective for you where the only necessary "training" or "learning" is strong empathy skills.
Best to you,
As a sysadmin who is in charge of network security, at work and at home, I disagree.
A few other very important measures as well:

- Foreigners are restricted from selling Russian assets.

- Companies are now forced to hold a large percentage of their money in Rubles.

- Various other restrictions on selling the Ruble.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/04/05/1090920442/how...

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business?src=topnav
Because a 99+3=102 is not a valid upper interval bound. You cannot have >100% efficiency for a detector. Also, your expected value cannot be centered. So maybe 99+1-3 is a valid range (but I would be very suspicious if the bound includes 100%)
I'm not a frequent Linux user so that comment crept in there—we haven't evaluated as deeply. Any suggestions for how to best build Remotion (lightweight video chat + dock for your team) onto Linux?
What you say makes perfect sense from an engineering perspective. From a marketing and legal perspective, this is a feature to advertise for perspective buyers and ammunition for their anti-R2R lobbying so best to announce it as soon as possible.
You are forgetting the $0.30 per transaction.
That is pure profit for them too.
"Making it" in this context refers to getting rich off of crypto speculation.
It is much easier to replace Cloudflare if they violate your privacy than to replace your ISP if they violate it. That helps to keep Cloudflare honest.
Cool it on the whole "everyone needs a new phone every couple of years" thing, maybe? That's not the solution in and of itself, but it'd sure help. Not only would there be fewer variables in the hardware you have to support, but you help reduce e-waste.
Anyone want to take bets that they push it to next year because of "supply chain issues"?
I think I misunderstood his comment. I focused on the `index.html` example, but I think he was talking about servers (thanks for pointing that out). That said, the transition was good for servers too depending on what you were using. For example, `package.json` with Next.js was completely seamless!
I recently decided to interview for the first time in a while (and ended up accepting an offer - today is my last day at Google, after over ten years).

Anyway, Stripe would have been on my shortlist...except for exactly this problem. My criteria were "mid-sized public companies hiring lots of Googlers" and Stripe obviously didn't pass the "public" part of that. It's hard enough to think about what will happen to an RSU grant if the Fed raises rates or some relevant legislation gets passed; I don't want to have to form an opinion about private valuations on top of that.
They didn't say they are going to support macOS only.
> Is there a good way to use a ENS name without exposing your net worth

Not making one crypto wallet and your net worth the same thing?
Show HN: Masturbation Frequency Tracker
At 270 watts, your graphics card is using less energy in a day than it takes to drive your 2k pound car down the street to buy a coffee at Starbucks.

A gallon of gas is ~33kWh. A mile is ~1kWh.
You can also see a commit in a git patch format by adding “.patch” or “.diff” to a commit url.
Is that always the case? I suspect the hallucinogens that people have selected to intentionally trip on are a bit unusual (intentional dose sizes, presumably they are selected to get the person tripping in some particular timeframe, right? I'm obviously showing some ignorance on this topic).
I think people got tired of the bots that scan user names matching <name>.xyz and target them with bitcoin scams.
Hey all, I'm Aidan! I cofounded Cohere.

Really appreciate the folks hyping up our team heheh

Also the feedback on the marketing copy being shit really resonates. We're going to be launch a refresh pretty soon which I'll make sure reads better.

It would be super helpful to me if some of you here would be willing to take an advanced look and just tear it up with some critical feedback!

Also anytime you have feedback about the product; like model quality, the experience of onboarding and using the product; etc. please shoot me an email!!

I'm at aidan.gomez@cohere.ai

Thanks again all!
> I have used swarm optimization methods that have consistently provided better solutions than alternatives for optimizations of solution spaces in alterst 3 different domains.

Benchmark your PSO implementation against a) a naive Monte Carlo implementation with an uniform distribution, b) low-discrepancy sequence, c) a global optimization algorithm such as DIRECT, and compare convergence rates.

I'd be surprised if your PSO implementation did not competed for the last place in terms of function evaluations.
Yeah federal pay is rough and probably the primary reason I avoid government jobs, at least for the time being.

I don’t do anything remotely exciting, difficult or demanding for a company you’ve never heard of, yet I make as much as one of the higher paid NASA positions I’ve seen requiring extremely niche experience you will only get from and full of places. Probably more when you consider CoL and such.

Similarly, I saw a position with everyone’s favorite three letter agency. The job looked really cool, and required some modestly niche skillsets and experience in security, reverse engineering, exploit development. Only issue: the starting salary was very rough, particularly for the DC area.

The other thing is just the bureaucratic nature of the pay scales. I’ve seen jobs asking for a PhD or significantly more in YoE that probably requires because that’s what the GS requirements were. I’m not even sure if the usual “don’t interpret job requirements literally” is of any value. After all we’re talking about government agencies. I’d also hope agencies have become to relax degree requirements on certain types of positions but I doubt it. I was told for years, the federal government probably wouldn’t hire me without one.

All that being said, I’d probably be willing to hop on over if the work was really interesting and the pay wasn’t complete atrocious.
It seems funny that there's many downvotes to responses in these threads.

Says the top reply to the top comment of the thread.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not yet a bus driver, but we're heading that way. Slowly.
That PDF is great, thanks for sharing.
Someone stated that Putin doesn't think he's at war with Ukraine. He thinks he's at war with NATO. From some of the things he's said, I think that assessment is correct.

That makes it really hard to stop. If he thinks he's already at war with us, then he can make that a reality how and when he wants. But I'm not sure we're sleepwalking into it. We're aware; we just have very few options of avoiding it if Putin is determined to make it happen. We are, however, trying to avoid direct confrontation while also avoiding appeasement and "peace in our time". I don't know that we have a better option.

How do I cope? Well, I'm a Christian. I believe that God is in charge of history - this isn't all at the whim of random human folly. And I believe that, even if I get killed, that's all right too, because I have something better that I'm going to.

If that's not where you're coming from... yeah, it's scary. I don't know what to tell you in terms of how to deal with it.
I don’t know if that’s a reference to crypto for the majority of people - I’ve worked in crypto for years and I had an 0x name for my white hat hacking related accounts (it was trendy there a while back) but never for cryptocurrency stuff
You do understand the problem but have taken a hard stance. I mean at this point what is crossing the line? Would we all be up in arms if the developer decides to say: "Butt f*ck your best friend"

The point I'm making is that there are lines to be crossed and if you don't understand that you have simply taken a hard stance on some aspect of this.

That all being said, YES I totally agree the dev should have full rights to say that in his software - but we can have an opinion too.
In looking at financing my new house, despite the relatively high ratings the company had, I didn't even consider Better - even ignoring the human cost, it's clear the company is in free-fall in some way or another.
And if someone wrote a browser extension that hides those popups (or makes them scrollable instead of sticky), the user would not need to do anything to reject cookies.
I can't speak for the US. In Britain you don't really need photo id for much. A driving licence, if you drive (plenty don't), a passport if you want to go abroad, or something if you're young (or look young) and want to drink alcohol. I don't think I need mine more than once a year or so. So there's no particular problem being solved there, either.

Now, there was a big drive to set up a compulsory photo ID here under the Blair government. The purpose was really to generate a single central government identity database rather than to help those without ID to lead easier lives, though. It sank years of political debate and a stack of money and was eventually cancelled after public protest. I don't think anyone's going to try again.

I do understand the importance of perception. But when the reality is that personation is essentially a non-problem and one political party is pushing a narrative that it is in order to change the rules to their electoral advantage, I'm not convinced that the best democratic solution is to let them do it. It's interesting that over here there has never been widespread public (as opposed to confected elite) concern about personation, but we did have some public discomfort (with somewhat more foundation) about extensions to postal voting in the 00s. That wasn't really treated as a partisan issue and some of the potential issues were dealt with with follow-up legislation.
While it might be true nationally that left policies aren’t being implemented, it’s not true on the West Coast. Just as one example, in Portland where I live, all drugs were decriminalized in personal user amounts beginning in February 2021, in response to a ballot measure. In Seattle, one of the candidates for the city attorney’s office during this last election had previously tweeted “Eat shit” to the SPD’s benign holiday greeting, and she still secured a healthy chunk of the vote. At least one of Seattle’s city council members is a socialist and regularly advocates for seizing private housing to redistribute.
A bit late to the show, but I'm trying to use Pharo on an M1.
It runs for sure, however the interface is blurry. Seems like it doesn't know how to render hi dpi. Is there some setting to get that right?
I'm with you in that a lot of TS use seems dogmatic or ritualistic today. I have a strong feeling in the near future we're going to see the bow string snap back and simple zero build, basic dynamic use of pure JS comes back in vogue.
If you're not in the right area yes it is a huge problem.
It looks like an almost dead project with very little development since Aug 2021, and the last release was in 2019.
You could always buy the ENS name without associating it with your main address (whether directly or via reverse lookup). But at that point, you're just domain squatting and it kinda defeats the purpose of paying for the domain name in the first place
Second paragraph is a response to @latchkey's question

> How do we know their bots didn't have bugs in them that pushed the results in favor of the tone of the article?

And I'm replying, that the point of the report is to tell about information bubble. The same one you are describing.

> how they watch videos and how they scroll through them, and as such changing recommendation algorithm

Bots' viewing rules can only change the *amount of war related videos* uploaded before March 4th, not the *reported lack of fresh videos* from the other side for the russian bot. And as such there should be no issues about the lack of source code.
I'm just waiting for Gopher to make a comeback.
Without starting an a discussion on the technology itself, volume/users are growing and not declining so this isn’t the case
It's reasonably intuitive for a non-technical user to use (since it has pretty much the same control scheme as the familiar Notepad), but has enough technical tools built into it that you can do some serious diagnostic work.

In my job I often have clients install it so that we can review their datafiles and diagnose load problems. Many of my calls sound like this.

(On Zoom)

Me: Okay, so I understand this file is not loading, can you show me the file?

Client: (opens file)

Me: Ok, hard to see what's wrong at a glance. Can you open the file in Notepad++ for me?

Client: (Reopens file in N++)

Me: Ah, here we go. You see those characters in blue on line 49? Those are non-ASCII characters. You've got some garbage in there. NULLs, control characters, or some other thing. Those will break the XML parser. Try removing them and reloading the file.

Or:

Me: So it looks like this is coming from your source system with no line endings, and is quite difficult to read. Can you download the plug-in XML Tools/JSON Tools/Poor Man's TSQL Formatter and let's see if we can get the files indented to make reviewing easier?

Or:

Me: So if you click on the "View" tab and show the line-endings...thank you. This file is coming over with Windows CRLF line endings instead of the expected LF endings on UNIX/Linux. It's probably throwing off the record parser by one byte for each row. You can use the tool under 'EDIT' to change the newlines to UNIX convention, and you should be good to go.

Small things like that. It's a heck of a lot easier to teach the client to do that rather than try to convince them to run dos2unix on a terminal.
In the US, the Democrats generally control urban areas, the Republicans rural. So financing is not so much the issue with polling places.

I don't know what "this is HN, not Facebook" is supposed to mean, but I'm pretty sure the guidelines ask you not to write stuff like that.
As a single person or with a family?

Philly suburbs are quite expensive for housing. It seems about $100k to support a family is decent but not "very well off". I image that extra $10k could make a big difference. A single person making that (or a dual income family around $200k) would certainly be well off.
Oh ... how often you masturbate, not the frequency of the motions?

Nevermind.
- Krypton was a U2F/WebAuthn emulator as a browser extension, controlled from an app on your phone (now part of Akamai) [they also handled SSH auth with a PAM plugin]

- MYKI kind of did this scanning barcodes thing (part of something else now or at least closed down)

- Countries with national ID schemes can do most of this via SmartCard or SIM.

- Client certificates would have been great for much of this but browsers have completely killed the usability for them.

- Think GLUU was doing something along these lines as well

Passwords can be easily stolen, bruted or guessed, en masse and remotely, but stealing phones, security keys, smartcards is way harder. So that's the only reason for 2FA. Regrettably few use 2FA without being forced into it.

But what's the redundancy going to be? I'm going to have two phones? How do I verify myself if I need to setup a new phone for auth? Can I backup my auth? And how am I authenticating to apps/sites on the phone itself?

Registration shouldn't need any input like user/email. That should just be sent when you scan the QR code (Phil just scanned our code, either sign him up or log him in if he has an account).

But in the end this has to be something that can work standalone/off-line and users shouldn't be tied to one identity/auth provider (it should be portable).

I know this a lot of rambling, I've been up for 20 hours :/
Great name! waves

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> Flight 571

TIL. That was a terrifying read..
I agree. But i'm sure someone will create an ML model that might give what you need, not just what you asked for. Good enough for commercial purposes, mostly.

Personally, I would never buy a painting generated by an ML model, or even a commercial illustration, if i can help it. The artist and their life experience is half the point of art, IMO.
I beat all the Lucasfilm classics them without looking anything up.

I think Loom was the hardest for me.
OP could just be confused. It wasn't obvious to me until I clicked it's a post published today looking back at 2021, the doc itself isn't from 2021.
Gebru.
Not forgetting it but it doesn’t move the needle much. If you assume an average card transaction size of $10, which is likely higher. That is only 0.3% of processing which may increase revenue by 30% at best.
This is also why nudists who spend most of their time naked with air flowing over their bodies as they move have better proprioception than clothed individuals.
> versioned multi-repos may solve this for the team[s] demanding incompatible changes to shared code but any team who was happy to use the shared code as it currently is, and was expecting to also benefit from any upcoming compatible improvements will see only problems with this "solution"

Normally this is solved with semantic versioning... you pin to a minor version, so you get all non-breaking changes, but don't pull in breaking changes.
> 4. If you are such an advanced user of cookie-banners then it is natural for you to think they are somewhat useful for you - what are the advantages of this?

They're not useful, they're an unwanted annoyance. Nobody wants to fill out a cookie form, they want to browse the site. Delete the cookie banners and the associated tracking completely.

Figuring out whatever tortuous process any particular cookie banner uses in lieu of what should be an equally prominent "reject all" button (or a completely absent banner and no tracking) does not make me an "advanced user of cookie banners".

> 3. Do you know about some instruments like DO-NOT-TRACK but for cookie banners?

Yes, Do-Not-Track is precisely that instrument. (And occasionally, some of the cookie banners seem to notice the do-not-track and use it to pre-populate all the checkboxes to "no".) If a site receives a Do-Not-Track, it should not show a cookie banner, and should just auto-reject all tracking. (If a site doesn't receive a Do-Not-Track, it should also not show a cookie banner, and should still auto-reject all tracking.)

> Adblock or adblock-like extentions IMO miss the point of doing the conscious decision.

There shouldn't need to be a conscious decision; all of the banners and tracking should be auto-rejected.
Different preferences. Some people are in situations where they only have a phone and want to be able to do something. The app shouldn’t be restricted to iPad only due to lack of imagination.

My friend wrote two(!) novels on his lunch breaks using an iPhone and a Bluetooth keyboard.
> But that is not when most polling stations are open. Only a small subset are... because everyone is expected to vote on a Tuesday.

Not true. Under the Georgia law, for example, counties are required to provide at least two Saturdays of early voting, and certain large urban counties are required to provide early voting in certain designated locations. Insofar as polling places are often schools and similar locations, obviously there will be fewer early voting polling locations. But in Atlanta, for example, there are typically dozens in key locations such as public libraries accessible by public transit.

> Yep. People that can't get to their DMV will surely have time to go to county registrar's office.

In France you have to apply for your national ID card in person as well. In Germany and most German-speaking countries, you’re required to show up in person to the municipality within 30 days of moving to a new location. People manage.

> And I'm sure that financing does not affect availability of these sites, right?

Yeah, and more affluent counties typically vote democrat. In Georgia, it’s certainly not the mostly white rural counties that have all the money.

> This is HN, not Facebook, I'm sure most here are aware of how systems operate and and have heard of compounding effects.

I think there are a lot of people who are willing to make assumptions and believe wild exaggerations about people on the other side of the political aisle.
Yup, that's one of the strategies I sometimes employ as well :)
Actually, I am mad at them for creating that Bulldozer mess. Nevertheless, it is good to have some competition back in the game.
Here are some less cherry-picked examples. Mostly from the twitter accounts of OpenAI employees.

https://twitter.com/BecomingCritter/status/15118082774908969...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/tyaz70/link...
I disagree, I think the destination is "elevator operator" and we are half way there.

Automating flight has quite a bit of low hanging fruits and Airbus has become the first harvester out there. The rest opposed at first, but the only logical path forward is automating people out of the systems. Yes, we had the 737MAX thingy but even then arguments for re-humanisation of aircraft controls didn't catch much traction.
Looking at what it takes to replace a gas fueled generator with solar, it's easy to overlook how much power is in gas. The one upside to permanent solar is that it's always producing when there's enough sun...unlike a generator that needs to be using fuel to make power.
It was discussed here in 2020 but it didn't get too many comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816167 (30 points | April 8, 2020 | 5 comments)
from :https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/raw/main/assets/Mo...

https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/raw/main/assets/Mo...
I worked for state government, in a very red state (read, does not like to spend on government) for my first “real” job at around $37k, circa 5-6 years ago.