skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> things like traumatized people being less confident and more anxious is actually useful and protective

The core mechanism might be useful, but then there's a question of over-reaction. Consider, for instance, how the immune system is useful, but allergy might be life-threatening.
At a startup the most common failure mode I've seen is hiring someone who, even if they were good at there last job at BiggerCo, is terrible at what the startup (in a different business development stage) needs.

Hiring a person who's been running a thousand-person org to take over a 1-10 person org is often insanity, but it can look smart because "wow, they were doing so much at such a successful place and have so many great stories to share." Run a 1000-person org and after all, even if you suck, some of your sub-departments are likely to hit on some great results that you can share in future interviews!
Did I say you were wrong? No, you did.

No ego, just facts, and your attitude here is crap, your headspace is so negative I’m not at all surprised you’re suffering such as you are.
PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
Heya HN! We've built a Raspberry PI CM4 based SSD NAS for home hosting. We built it as a part of KubeSail.com - which is a platform aimed at making self-hosting easy and at making the technical bits (tunneling, backups, updates, etc) as easy as possible.

You may have seen plans for this about 9 months ago on HN, but we're finally in full production! I'll be booking tickets to fly out and help assemble the 2nd batch in a few days - we're effectively a two person computer company, which is a lot of fun and a crazy amount of work. Our mission is to make home-hosting a website, an app, or just personal photos a reasonable alternative to SaaS products.
My father worked in early IT days and a major fixture in my home growing up was boxes - and I mean dozens and dozens of boxes filled with thousands each - of punch cards they stopped using (all unpunched).

They made for fantastic quick note-taking, grocery-list making, or leaving notes for the family.

This is a super fun site from a pure nostalgia perspective.
MIT Researchers Create Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones
It may be barrels of pesticides, but at least it seems they opt for natural pesticide (liquid garlic/peppermint) instead of any toxic (to humans) substances.
>Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff.

So, what I'm hearing is, we need to bring back dueling.
They need little robots/drones to scout about at night for larva and kill them.

True, this will take a lot of robots. But that's ok, since during the daytime when the guests are there, the robots can go back to the fab shop and make more robots.

That should get the last few percent. I can't imagine anything going wrong with this idea. You're welcome!
I've worked with multiple people like this that have disastrously crashed and burned, and to a one without exception, they're always at some new company with the same title. Absolutely nothing seems to stick to them.
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Among the tools we have developed are a CAD/CAM system for genetic engineering: a compiler toolchain whose target architecture is life itself. This stack physically integrates high level genetic modules into microbial hosts. We also derive novel strains through random mutagenesis and directed evolution. Using our custom control platform, we then subject these experimental organisms to high throughput performance screening in our state-of-the-art robot labs.

Responsibilities: Design, develop and maintain web based application written in Python. Collaborate with scientists to transform an understanding of their workflow into designs and implementations of appropriate data models and user interfaces. Effectively communicate with research scientists. Apply best practices of software development throughout your work, while staying abreast of advances in the practice.

Qualifications: 8+ years of professional programming experience Strong coding skills in either Python or a similar language. Ideally deep experience in multiple languages. In addition to Python, Amyris has codebases in F#, R and PHP (phasing out, but still have some important legacy code). Experience with full-stack web application development, including coding skills in Javascript, CSS and HTML. Relational database design and coding experience. We use PostgreSQL and SQL Server, though we also treat plasmids and chromosomes as datastores. Experience developing software in a Unix environment. Dev tools are chosen at the developer’s discretion, but most of the software development and all production deployment is on Linux (Ubuntu). Fluent Linux command-line skills. Interest and ability to communicate with scientists Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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Data brokers amass profiles of pregnant women
By "sell properties they don't own" he was referring to the case where a non-realtor property owner wishes to sell but doesn't want to deal with conducting the sale themselves, and so hires a realtor to sell the property for them for a commission.
Wikipedia (I know, I know) seems to imply it was simply that the die was common, that it was a traditional symbol of an English soldier, and for identification of friend vs foe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(military_uniform):

> However, in the days of the musket (a weapon of limited range and accuracy) and black powder, battle field visibility was quickly obscured by clouds of smoke. Bright colours provided a means of distinguishing friend from foe without significantly adding risk. Furthermore, the vegetable dyes used until the 19th century would fade over time to a pink or ruddy-brown, so on a long campaign in a hot climate the colour was less conspicuous than the modern scarlet shade would be. As formal battles of the time commonly involved deployment in columns and lines, the individual soldier was not likely to be a target by himself.

and

> In his book British Military Uniforms (Hamylyn Publishing Group 1968), the military historian W. Y. Carman traces in considerable detail the slow evolution of red as the English soldier's colour, from the Tudors to the Stuarts. The reasons that emerge are a mixture of financial (cheaper red, russet or crimson dyes), cultural (a growing popular sense that red was the sign of an English soldier),[64] and simple chance (an order of 1594 is that coats "be of such colours as you can best provide").

There is no mention of "dazzle" camouflage or of confounding numbers at all.
Yes - this is the problem.

I worked at a company that was relatively successful because of the connections the CEO brought to the table.

Objectively, the company would have been far less stressful to work at - and more profitable - if we had a better leader, but it wouldn’t have existed without his connections.
> but writing a makefile and only evaluating against it makes it difficult to guarantee that you will see the same behaviour on a non-GNU system

This would only be true if the entirety of thr GNU suite were necessary for GNU make to work. But it's not, so I always find this kind of argument really weird.

I mean it's not necessarily completely irrelevant criticism, but I somehow only see this level of criticism aimed at GNU tools.

I haven't seen many "you know let's make a variant of ninja because the current one is too ideological let's find another one that's still ninja but has slight differences that we 'all' agree are more basic or standardised somehow".
Erlang/Elixir and Kubernetes are, IMHO, the best platform to write distributed applications:

- who needs microservices when you have the OTP framework and gen_servers?
- "let it crash" philosophy: supervisors will restart your processes automatically
- design fault tolerant systems at the application level with supervisors and OTP applications
- design fault tolerant systems at the infrastructure level with Kubernetes
- bring the two together with Horde and libcluster
- store in-memory distributed state with Mnesia (who needs Redis?)
- Phoenix and Ecto for the web stuff
My dad was a math professor (he was really a computer nerd, but there was no "computer nerd" course of study back then). Down the hall from his office there was a room with a variety of toys in it, including an IBM 029 [1] which was great fun for me to play with as a kid. (It was noisy and you could make your very own cards you could keep!) Although the card punch was still operational, nobody really used it at that point since interactive terminals had taken over.

The computing center had a seemingly infinite supply of cards, and many of them made their way home. My mom to this day (over 40 years later) still uses punch cards as note paper. Good memories.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch#IBM_029_Card_Punch
Seems to be back up.

Outage was between 21:40 and 23:02 UTC by my count.

[edit]

Temperamental

6 mins down again between 23:10 and 23:17 UTC for me.
Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in CIA drone strike in Afghanistan: US officials
Seems to me you are not walking the talk
Someone else might think they're really good. That someone else might themselves be incompetent, but might also have people who think they're good.

This gets less likely as the relationship graph grows, but I don't think people are good at judging competence without widely recognized and respected metrics.

This is why getting friends and connections is a powerful strategy, because many fields are not interested in establishing fair gatekeeping. And for some very difficult roles, it's way easier to make friends than to be competent.

This is made all the more difficult when competence is a quickly moving target. The positive referral is a rarely moving target though.
There's been a lot of redefinition recently. It's most definitely by design. The only thing to be argued is whether it is done so wrongfully or rightfully.

The UK government for example recently price-capped certain products that are used to measure inflation. At least this redefinition in the US is more public.

Ultimately, gate-keep the definition all you like. The cost of living has pushed the working class to the breaking point, it doesn't matter what you call that - the experience is most definitely real.
Yeah, that's sort of what I thought. Thanks for addressing my question!
Yeah but in a nonlethal way. I mentioned maybe it could be channeled into competitive sports- that could include esports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0dr7hXabqI&t=36s
From the docs, Database: read only details on this page
https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/ossl-manual/index.html#os...

1.4 OSSL mongoDB
MongoDB is an Open Source noSQL DB hence fast and fully scalable and extendable (affordable costs for cloud solutions such as MongoDB Atlas and similar). TensorFlow and other cutting-edge ML algorithms can be easily integrated and served through a GUI.

To access OSSL DB best use the mongoDB either through a graphical user interface using Robo 3T, or by using the mongodb via R. The following parameters (database credentials) allow ready only access to DB:

Funding from: NIFA Invests Over $7 Million in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Other Cyberinformatics Research
It's a game theoretical ratchet:

- My friends will tell me who they know

- People are responsible for their own hiring

- If I recommend this guy and he's at least acceptable, my network grows

- If the guy I recommend is not that good, all three will make excuses: my mate who hired him (will blame chemistry/randomness or me), the dude himself (will blame chemistry/randomness or me), and me (will blame chemistry/randomness). Since we're all adults, you can't blame someone else for your lack of due diligence, so it's a shame their styles were so different and the market turned against their brilliant plan.

- Nobody ever gets blacklisted for bad recommendations

- Everyone is complacent about who they will recommend

- My network grows, and I don't need to grill everyone. So my network grows.

Of course what this also means is if you don't happen to be in one of these networks of mediocre people, you are totally out of luck because those networks are big enough that someone will be found, just not you.
Central Bank of Zambia's response to a ransomware attack
The bit his argument is missing is about how the news gets funded.

Me, currently I pay for a Guardian subscription, because I think it plays an important role in our democracy - although I don't actually read it.
Hello my name is Jeff. I focus on web applications, data visualization, front end, and full stack development. I have a background in Psychology and Computer Science. ~10 years of experience at smaller startups, enterprise clients, and freelancing. IT Security experience with an airline company. I was let go during the pandemic... bad time to be a newer employee in the travel industry. Recently doing more studying and working on personal projects. Open to remote, freelance, or full time opportunities.

Location: Chicago
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: maybe

Technologies: Javascript, data visualization, D3js, VueJs, Node, Test driven development, Jest, Ajax, Css preprocessors, responsive design + development, Linux + VMs.

Server side scripting with Perl. Python, game development with pygame. Coursera data science, pandas, and Rstudio. Some native app development with java and android studio. Recently worked on Auth examples with Django and postgres. Currently just working on personal Svelte + data visualization projects.

Cloud experience with AWS, EC2, S3, heroku, cloudflare.
I keep wishing this wasn’t vaporware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
What Happens When the Last Coal Ship Leaves Hawaii?
"clean room" reverse engineering really benefits from the room being clean. I'm not sure how much this applies to Asahi's efforts, but if you're working on reactos or wine, having been exposed to microsoft's source makes you tainted.

So to bulk out the grandparent's claim - I'd really like if there was an internal effort that was sanctioned on a "keep our name out of it" grounds.
This is not so unusual compared to other jobs - I've worked with crappy engineer coworkers who went on to bigger and better jobs. Always a fun day when your peer who you thought was slowing the team down announces they're leaving for Google, say! Most people fail sideways at worst, vs flunking out of the ability to tackle a role again ever in the future.

If the assumption is that other people would be better at these roles and the hiring is broken (this is PG's assumption, as far as I can tell from the tweet), how would we better identify those people who'd do better?

(Personally, I think we're under-estimating the amount of it that's caused by "it's fucking hard.")
> The problem with these 100% vertically integrated stacks is that every hardware release could be completely different and it'll take years to catch up with just that release. In the intervening time more hardware generations were released

>At this point, it's pretty likely that M2 will be at feature parity with M1 with <24h of actual work.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1542957901651685376
You can hit the jackpot by hiring a CxO from a brand university who has both the connections and the skill set.

Unfortunately you can’t discover the strength of either until you’re in quite deep. That’s the risk.
I think there's justified anger on the part of people who have seen companies they enjoy working at be damaged, either in culture or in more direct results by a poor C-level hire, and most people have experienced situations where this has been abundantly clear from the outset.

It's completely reasonable to want to see a company you work for succeed, and it's completely reasonable to be frustrated when those companies make obviously bad decisions that put your job in jeopardy or make the company a worse place to work for. Particularly with startups, a lot of your career success is fairly closely tied to the success of the companies you work for (no one cares about hiring a eng or other role from a startup who crashed and burned).
HN is the only site I know that has server level procrastination blocking. I love it for that.
Thanks for the snappy reply!

Warms my heart to see startups still catering to us web/app-averse "luddites".

I'm in no position to question your business model - I don't know your situation as a company, but $7/mo seems a little steep for me. But it's understandable that costs are higher early on. Do you think prices might drop later on, assuming your product is successful? Or when you have more of a feature suite to segment into different plans?

I quite like Bitwarden's model of having a limited free version, an "enthusiast" model with a few extra features nerd especially might like, such as yubikey support. That's $1/mo. Then they have various business facing plans with higher cost and enterprise features.
I can upgrade to 1.5/1 gigabit from my provider, but I'm satisfied with 1/1 right now. From what I've heard the reason the upgrade isn't symmetrical is that the ONT that they provide is the bottleneck.

I've seen posts on here by Swiss people who are able to get 10/10 as well.
> “ Despite cease-and-desist actions against Forsage for operating as a fraud in September 2020 by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and in March 2021 by the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, the defendants allegedly continued to promote the scheme while denying the claims in several YouTube videos and by other means.”

Even now, the site Forsage.io is live, and claims that 2,559 people joined the past 24 hours. Who knows if it’s true.

But how does this work: when a site like this is charged with fraud, can it operate until there is a verdict, defrauding more unsuspecting victims? Needless to say, visitors to the site will have know knowledge of this lawsuit.
> Are there other languages with Martian time in their standard library?

Not that I know of, no. Hare's concept of timescales is quite unique in itself already.

> Or maybe with at least some solid third-party implementations?

There exist a few libraries and programs out there, but I'm not familiar with all of them.

For simple Martian time (Javascript):

https://marsclock.com/

NASA has their graphical "Mars24 Sunclock" (Java):

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/

As for chronologies, I don't know any other implementations of the Martian Business Calendar. There are implementations of the Darian calendar out there.
>It made sense for Shimano to remove support

But, they didn't remove support. They demanded a 3rd party who had reversed their protocol remove support. They actually put legal work in to put an end to someone else's technical work.

A reasonable response would be to say "use at your own risk" and refuse to put any resources to supporting the 3rd party.
Its definitely not a speed issue, we can make very fast electric cars and the torque and horsepower delivery is vastly superior to a hydrocarbon engine. The problem is energy density. Petrol stores a lot more energy in a smaller space and weight than a battery currently and that accounts for a large amount of the deficit between them for race distances. Still Formula E is improving and it has a future in a net zero world where as the hydrocarbon super cars of F1 likely do not.
Yes, it does. Not one sentence of which backs up your alarmism. Stop lying.
Anyone analysing queues should familiarise themselves with http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/PDQcode.html
How to tell if a woman is in love with you – medieval edition
Except they have helped, just not with the documentations side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
Somehow I doubt we'll see a similar ruling that Visa/MC can be sued for monetizing homicide via sales of firearms at Walmart et. al.

(FWIW I don't think a payment processor should be on the hook for what a merchant sells, period.)
If the argument is to enable backports and let it update, what’s your use case for stable vs using testing?

The whole point of stable vs testing is that versions are fixed, reviewed security updates make it, it’s all tested and vetted.

On the other hand, testing and backports haven’t been tested as well and could have issues.

If we use stable and incorporate backports from testing, is it still stable?
I’m building a tool to automate billing audits for physicians.

Doctors work their butts off for the benefit of others with the expectation that they will be compensated accordingly. Unfortunately hospitals aren’t incentivized to make sure all of their procedures are correctly accounted for, and as a result are doctors are often unpaid for their work.

Currently their only recourse is manually going through the EMR and tallying their billables themselves, but they don’t do this because it takes time which they don’t have.

Electronic Medical Record software is built for administrators and doesn’t make it easy to automate, so I’m taking a Robotic Process Automation approach.
Good questions.

At the foundry level, roadmap and research is always ongoing many nodes into the future. The degree of resources provided to a node is of course proportional to how close to becoming a source of revenue it is. Typically different nodes are owned by different development organizations, but they will frequently share development insights with each other. Sometimes the "more researchy" nodes come up with something so great that adoption gets pulled in closer to the current node.

Throughout this process, the foundry is in discussions with OEMs (AMAT, Lam, TEL, ASML, ASM etc), iteratively providing product requirements, and then as the manufacturing cut-in date approaches, a winning vendor/tool is selected for each layer/unit step for the node in question, and the device integration is frozen for high volume manufacturing.

> Does each fab invent its own process for N-nm? Or does the "N-nm process" for TSMC look the same as another fabs?

They all use the same OEMs, and device physics and scaling is the same for everybody, so typically they end up looking pretty similar. However often there is no clear "best" way to solve an integration problem, so you you end up with different solutions depending on the foundry -- and often those solutions are driven more by business considerations and existing supplier relationships than technical merit. In other cases somebody (historically, Intel) comes up with an idea so powerful (FinFET) that everyone else (TSMC) steals it.
> about 5,000 annually

That's not a lot of housing production for a city of 2 million.