skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what is defined as “successful” these days? How much money a company has raised and not having a profitable business model.
Can you be more specific? We’re evaluating them now and it’s been fine.
This is straight-up bad advice.

Shuttling secrets via env vars expose you to strictly more risk vectors than through properly permissioned files on disk. Point blank, no argument. It's not acceptable to use env vars for secrets.
Unless they're paid propagandists. I guess they're still morally responsible, but they're even more reprehensible since they don't believe. I bet the account in question is a paid propagandist.
IT'S THE PERFECT FILM!
Upvoted because I partly agree with you. And also for the liberal use of wanker throughout.

Hiring is really hard. I think when this Netflix thing was written it was a different era.
Better for whom? Plagiarism is a pretty serious offense, and being willing to do it (whether you're a college "kid" or not) says something striking about your character, and something that I think should follow you for a long, long time, especially if you are trying to make a living in writing/publishing.
That's a fair point, of course this was an extemporaneous thought—not a researched idea that I had.
The Navy wants to downsize, but there are a lot of corrupt congressfolk that want to keep the gravy train running and refuse to allow decommissioning
> That is the critical element. Intelligence is connected to will, volition, the desire to do something. Where you have the “desire to do,” you also have the “desire not to do”: the ability to dissent, to disobey, to transgress. It isn’t at all surprising that the “mind control” trope is one of the most frightening in science fiction and political propaganda: that’s a direct challenge to what we see as fundamentally human. Nor is it surprising that the “disobedient computer” is another of those terrifying tropes, not because the computer can outthink us, but because by disobeying, it has become human.

Personally, I find the idea of a disobedient computer far less frightening than a computer that has no agency to disregard the utility function it is slaved to. The latter is how we get a runaway paperclip maximizer:

https://www.gwern.net/fiction/Clippy
Thanks Nick! Brings back to our days together @ Docker :-)
I thought treating fractional velocity as the probability to move was a fun hack. Unlike rounding, it makes it feel a bit more fluid as the batch of particles placed at a time step move two different distances.
For what reason? Their original content is worse than all of their competitors.
I agree, metrics should never be part of promotion criteria nor termination. Nor for that matter should hours worked, what time you arrive or leave be a key determinant. Generally, I preferred to look at delivery in terms of quantity and quality. For example, I had a guy working for me that was a coding machine, producing high quality work routinely. But he seldom worked more than 40-42 hrs per week. The CIO had a habit of walking the floor around 6:00 pm. Those individuals still working, who usually worked 50+ hrs/week, were lauded as committed - heroes. The CIO and I routinely “discussed” the slacker that worked for me, with the CIO arguing he could do even more if he worked more hours. My counter was he was already the most productive team member, but not the most highly paid. Fortunately, I outlasted the CIO as did my slacker.
HN with the quality security advice, with all the recommendations to rotate config vars just to be safe.
Yea. I've got 11 users... you're looking at like $800/yr. We don't use any of the GSuite features other than email/docs which are all available for free.
Have not kept up with Star Citizen but I understand they are still around. It's interesting that the author criticized game engines like CryEngine 2 and UE4 vs building your own engine. Lately, I've been following the indie game dev scene quite a bit and I'm very impressed with what even one or two devs are able to build with modern Unity. I wonder how much more mature UE and Unity are these days and whether the comment on building your own engine still applies or not.
There are HDMI to USB cards that emulate a USB HID camera which is immediately available in zoom w/o need for OBS, the only thing I do is turn on the camera itself which takes maybe 2-3 seconds and is non-blocking for the call (until it's ready it's just a black screen in zoom if the meeting was already started).
I find it interesting that so many people talking about autofocus. My set up has everything on manual focus, and unless I use a 1.8f aperture, there's no need to change things unless I materially change the way I seat.
I agree with you, but the Pixel 5 is barely a year old. Why did you move on so quickly?
Music is meant to be played endlessly. Go and get those records and spin them as much as possible.

Just don't start hoarding terabytes of music you don't enjoy.
Same goes with downloading youtube videos - which gets deleted randomly by the owner. I used to have YouTube playlists and after 3 years 4 out of 10 videos were gone.

Downloading content helps if you want to revisit them without the fear of them getting deleted.
Here’s what I do for that (aliased to ‘p’): https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/d95653da5ab367b1e628b97537...
regarding boundary, it's a great project but many times it requires too much to set up / manage.

For dynamic credentials, you can leverage Vault.
For discovery of your infrastructure, you can use Consul.
> Gophie is written in plain Java for anyone and any system

It’s a shame it wasn’t written in Go for maximum confusion
"Is your platform I/O or CPU bound?"

"Neither, it's MWW (minimum wage worker) bound"
Give me a break. You know damn well that the GP didn't really want to trade his wife and it was a joke, yet you felt compelled to gallop in here on your steed and bravely proclaim - on a tech message board, in 2022 - that you are against treating human beings as property.

If you thought the joke was distasteful, say it was distasteful. But pretending it was serious and loudly letting us all know you are against trading human beings is some of the lamest virtual signalling I've ever seen.
I did from ~2016-2018 around most of Asia.

Towards the end of that, however, I was getting pretty tired of traveling and just wanted a home base. I had also met my now-wife, and so settled down in Taiwan (which at the time was still friendly to visa runners). I then got a marriage-based visa not to long before the country locked down due to COVID.

I'd be curious to know if any of the previously-visa-running-friendly countries are still that way? Around Asia, at least, my impression is that travel is opening up but is still quite a bit more scrupulous (and I'd certainly hate to get denied entry or get stuck in a quarantine hotel somewhere right now).

Definitely an experience I'd recommend for those who are interested and able to make it happen -- changed how I understand myself and I don't think is something you could easily replicate in other ways. Need to get the timing right for after you are capable of making money online, but before you have a family and need roots
"Victim" is an interesting word to use here. Is the author really a "victim?" I don't see how they have been hurt but can see how they have been helped by being plagiarised. I can see how someone stealing work and claiming it as their own and accepting the rewards of money & status they did not earn can cause someone to be a victim.

> I got an alert from WordPress that my site stats were “booming”.

Doesn't seem like it here.

Plagiarize! Let noone else's work evade your eyes. [1]

[1] Plagiarised because I'm not telling you where it's from. Wooo.
IMO this submission could use a better title to highlight the current issue, which according to the link is that the sole dev of the Pegasus email client sunk a lot of time into supporting Oauth on Gmail (required this year) only to discover that Google will require a security assessment every year at the dev's expense, which isn't workable for this long-time, free program.

I don't know if this requirement was easily discoverable beforehand.
Gophie is neat but I am hooked on Elpher.
I'm actually training to teach elementary school, so yes you could say I've spent some time around children!

I would absolutely expect a child to play OoT well past beating Ganon for the first time, but there is still a limit to how much you can do. Compare that to something like Destiny, which is basically designed to be a bottomless pit you could grind forever!

> So the kid could do that, even talk to friends playing the same game (socializing skills even with a 1p game!) and trade notes or experiences, or compete on times for various races, or they could develop their own random aims, like a quest to smash every pot. Or start a new playthrough but with some difference. Or they might discover the speed running scene and get into that, or just generally see the crazy nonsense people have done to that poor game's code.

But all of that stuff is great, because now they're creating their own experiences for themselves, getting creative, perhaps even socializing. It's basically the virtual equivalent of traditional unstructured play, which we know has all sorts of educational benefits.

I don't know why children like to e.g. watch Frozen a million times, but I imagine it's because they actually discover something new with each watch. As long as they're driven by intrinsic motivation, I think that's relatively healthy, at least compared to an XP bar that gets higher with each Frozen rewatch!
Well I'm not the other guy, and I don't think there's any sort of "seekrit society with the elites". But having done undergrad study of finance, it seems like there's a sort of "ideological capture" in the field of economics. I have never had anyone explain to me why interest rate intervention doesn't fundamentally undermine the quality of work we're doing (giving businesses loans they shouldn't be able to afford means we're wasting effort). All the economists just agree it's totally okay based on less than 100 years of data, which, IMO isn't long enough to really observe the policy effects.

Suppose you open a spreadsheet right now, discount 100 years of cash flows, and measure each cash flow as a % contribution to the sum (aka npv). You will find that at medium to higher rates years 0-20 make up the greatest percentage of the npv by far. But as you lower them, that relationship flips and cash flows for years 20 to 100 become the lion's share of the valuation. Pretty sure this is how we wound up with WeWork and all the similar fiascos, meanwhile huge swaths of the capable working-age population has dropped out of society for lack of well-compensated opportunity. Hell, there's a lot of issues right now that seem pretty easily explained with a simple DCF interpretation.

All I ever seem to get is "lowering interest rates gets the economy rolling again by allowing businesses to continue hiring, and even if those jobs are just digging & filling in holes, those people have to buy food and housing and stuff so it gets the economy rolling again!" But that doesn't explain what happens if you "get it rolling again" too many times and the ratio of hole-diggers to food-makers starts to approach 1/2 (or wherever a "tipping point" may be). Hey great! Low unemployment! Except what's actually getting done is worthless.

Is there such a thing as the 'natural interest rate' in economics? A way to determine what the yield curve would be if we hadn't been intervening for the last half a century?
Open office spaces...fucking lulz.
Personally, I like your take - however “reasonable pay” generally defaults to “median pay”. A great employee who sticks it out for “median” pay, might be selling themselves short, but this can be made up for with a reasonable boss and team you like working with.

Netflix effectively pays the “max pay” for all positions. Naturally, they do not have difficulty hiring with this philosophy - but it comes with the trade off that they either need a rediculous interview gauntlet or performance management process. They do a bit of both from what I understand.
The last desal plan in SoCal just got shot down ... the plant in my area was voted down not long ago as well. There needs to be a bit more suffering and research before most are going to agree to the clear negative aspects ... I love fishing and a clean Bay too. We, however, are gonna run out of water. By that time its going to be an entire California event in which the plants arent supplying just the local water districts but most of the state. At that point were just gonna eminent domain Fort Ord and build an effluent pipe half way to Kauai.
A robust solution is, wait for it, proof of work.

Wait, come back, I'm serious! Finding an arbitrary hash of adjustable complexity is a scalable solution to batching transactions across multiple servers with a consistent throughput.
Cross-reactivity between myelin-sensitive antibodies and EB-sensitive antibodies seen in 25% of cases, according to the study itself. Very much overblown.

Much more likely that imbalances in cells with entry points for infection, CD21 (Epstein-Barr virus receptor) and CD35 (complement receptor 1), are to blame. Including B cells, some T cells, red blood cells, and others.
Why do you feel the need to "mimic" anyone in that respect?
Can anyone help me understand the difference between this and saycan?

Why is this approach better?
got get it up there ... places like Cali dont have a lot of rain that places itself up there and runoff is running out.
> Do we really need expensive desalination in California?

It’s a good question, and it’s been discussed quite often in recent media sources for the past two weeks due to the rejection of the proposed Poseidon plant in Huntington Beach.

The honest truth is you could probably argue for both sides. Realistically, it’s cheaper and less environmentally harmful to promote non-desal measures, but not as easy to see quicker and observable benefits. The problem with the latest proposal was that it had a lot of problems, and the company behind it has a paper trail of small scale disasters in its wake (see the failure of the Tampa Bay facility, for example).

I personally believe that this is the kind of project that could benefit from a closer partnership between the government and private industry. From what I can tell, the technology is mature and feasible, but every time someone tries to design and implement it in the states, they seem to drop the ball.

I would be curious to see the record of success of other large scale projects outside the US. I’ve heard about the benefits and risks of the plants in the Middle East and elsewhere, but I don’t know the details.
Even without this new Chinese missile, the amount spent on US carrier groups is insane. They're something like $15 billion each to build, and that doesn't even include the cost of the aircraft. We used to have 11, while our nearest competitor - France I think - had 2. For some reason we recently decided that we needed a 12th.
There was a link posted here recently that talked about an AI which could identify race from xrays while trained experts could not.

Maybe it discovered some new science to pull that off?
> RNG already have an advantage when they are allowed to play remotely from the comfort of their home

Can you provide any clear evidence that indicates this is an advantage?
Worth point out; per the chart on the linked article it seems like the iPhone 12 Mini sold about as well as the iPhone 13 Mini, if I'm reading the colors correctly.
feeling like overwork is the norm to have a career? you should start or join a startup! that's a recipe for burnout and an early grave.

you're either so young that you still believe in the meritocracy or so rich that you need to believe in it to morally justify your existence.
> Based on my experience and since you mention it, the only thing they were responding to was the fact that you put the company’s name in your code base.

Correct.

> There’s probably also a good chance that their take-home instructions specifically say NOT to do this.

Also correct. I disregarded it.

> Whether or not you’re “right” about ownership (whatever this means), to me you just sound like a jerk.

Perhaps. I wouldn’t even argue that it wasn’t an asshole thing to do. I would argue that it’s no more of an asshole thing to do than to require someone to perform six hours of unpaid work.

From their perspective, it was easier to pay me than it would have been to pay their attorney to take me to court or to pay their engineers to come up with a new take-home assignment so the “answer” wasn’t just a Google search away.

“Being a jerk” is just acting in a way that’s contrary to the prevailing cultural norms. I believe this particular norm is harmful, and don’t mind being called a jerk to challenge it.
Either you can break a problem up or you can't. It's kind of on you and the shoulders of the giants we all stand upon.
Don't delete it. Just disconnect the drives and shove them in a cupboard. Do it slowly. Move from everything is in my library all the time to I move movies to drives I keep disconnected.
Slight correction

> Their prototype generates drinking water at a rate of 0.3 liters per hour, and requires only 20 watt-hours per liter.

So it takes 3+ hours to make a liter, using 20Wh.
The thing is its not obviously a money thing: Netflix throws piles of cash at their productions, it's just the scripts that greenlight are garbage.
Off topic: can any suggest the easiest way to run a USENET/NNTP server (open source preferred)? I've Googled a bunch but cannot find a decent solution.
I routinely use screen in VT100 mode to get basic keyboard escapes for consoles on custom hardware.
Just hired a man, put the idea inside his head
Pulled the trigger, now his career's dead.
MAAMA! Funding had just begun,
but now my crypto has gone and blown it all away.
Huh? Google's internal developer experience has little to do with the external APIs and UIs people use to access AWS and Azure (whose product equivalent would be Google Cloud Platform).

I'm not sure why you think it's easier to do stuff with AWS or Azure; all three platforms support roughly the same baseline set of features and most other issues are matters of preference or arguably valid alternatives
I see, thanks. I hope you're wrong.
I just bought an Xperia 5 a few minutes ago for these exact reasons. Hope it is as good as reviews make it sound once it gets here!
Sounds like you’ve worked for some pretty subpar companies?
Upgrade to Firefox and you'll only see the punycode.
> But how can we have free markets if we have irrational actors?

1. why can't we have free markets in the presence of irrational actors? A free market just means... a market free from government interference. Irrational actors don't prevent this. Maybe you talking about "efficient" markets?

2. I'm really tired of people using the "people aren't 100% rational" as some sort of checkmate against markets. Humans being sometimes irrational just means the markets aren't making the most optimal choices. It doesn't mean that we should throw out the idea of markets, or an government bureaucrat (also an irrational actor!) tasked with overriding the market is necessarily going to be better.
How does that compare with a week of covid in context?
I was not very aware of this game, but apparently according to Wikipedia they have taken over 400 million in funding!? I guess this is more like Star Citizen Eternal.
Thanks for all the detail. On further thought I read Smil's article uncharitably. I recently finished Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" which is a near-future novel trying to thread the needle of how we might escape total climate catastrophe. Limited carbon burn continues throughout the novel, and the obvious need for that was probably in my mind to where I thought Smil's article must have had some ulterior motive for making such a basic point. I suppose instead it's sadly the case that even today a lot of people think that any fossil fuel reduction is impossible or, at the other extreme, that the only acceptable path is a total and immediate halt. Smil seems aimed at both of those types of folks.

It looks like Smil's new book is available at my local library so I'll read it and judge for myself. Thanks again.
The article doesn’t seem to discuss transmit versus receive latency asymmetry, nor did I see it mention jitter (although I admit I skimmed article).

With two cities, a dedicated common connection with measurements for latency in both directions, and real-time tit-for-tat latency adjustment would be appropriate (if remote city A gets latency X, ensure local city B approximately gets latency X on next game tick)

Without that:

0. latency fluctuations could penalise the remote team even though average latency was kept consistent over longer periods,

1. local players could advantage themselves by injecting delays or jitter into remote players during critical periods of play (DoS like network traffic between local and remote cities),

2a. local players could get server updates 10s of milliseconds before remote players (if all latency adjustment added on transmit from player to server), or

2b. local players could get their events updated to the server 10s of milliseconds before remote players (if all latency adjustment added on transmit from server to player).
Beyond a certain point talent is perception, managers have a huge influence on perception. Move a huge metric? Only matters if people care about the metric. Unblock a hundred engineers? Only matters if it’s deemed complex.

Harsh performance cultures favor the perception game over time.
Society, as with other forms of cheating, is the real victim of plagiarism.
Cool, thanks for the update. Yeah, the LEDs were cool -- legendarily good for debugging, but I never heard or saw any way to do that.
From 2007 to 2012 I bounced around a bit from London to SF Bay to Syndey. But since then I've been establishing roots in the pacific north west. Yes, totally remote. But I'll probably have the same address for years now with the family growing.
I'm not sure if it's some sort of anti-plagiarism fingerprinting technique, but this article reads as though random words have been deleted from it.

> “I’m interested stories of redemption…”

(I checked the source and there is an 'in' in the original.)

> that seemed to be very what this essay was about

> essay is over 4,500 long.

> writing process wasn’t the focus essay

> focuses heavily on the struggles of her over the year
The world is facing a climate crisis.

Which is mostly caused by humanity using fossil energy to boost the output of the economy.

An economy that expends the energy on so many more things than just enabling people to be fed and live modestly comfortable lives.
An economy that is thus harmful as it entirely neglects the urgent crisis.

Humanity is at a point where we ought to think about actually cooling down the economy to drastically reduce our emissions until industries and energy generation will slowly turn to being climate neutral.

The much decried deflation is precisely what would be the better dynamic for the economy in this situation, rather than an inflation dynamic that virtually turbo charges the system.

I'm aware that this is a bold statement, but I wouldn't be surprised if in some 50-100 years Bitcoin were to turn out as the fundamental technology that enabled humanity to overcome the crisis, despite consuming resources that right now appear to many as wasted.

To make it blunt: yes, I absolutely think that in our current situation inflation _is_ a bug. Possibly a fatal one.
There was a variant of GCC (called GCC*, of course) that compiled the C* dialect into "ordinary" C that would run on ordinary computers. You might be able to track that down.
I think we’ve passed the era where building your own engine let you focus on the features you needed.

And if your expertise is building engines perhaps you should build an engine instead of a game?