skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to meet someone else with this problem. People would talk to me as if I was not old enough to be taken seriously, even though I had been working professionally in the field since my 18th birthday. One time, I was told that I should be at the company for at least 6 months before offering an opinion. It's understandable when someone is just inexperienced, but by rendering a judgment on someone's expertise based on perceived age, I can't help but call it reverse ageism.

Now closing in on 50 with my share of life experience (good and bad) and some gray hairs setting in, it has gotten better, although people often mistake me for being 10-15 years younger than I actually am.
I think people should strive to find meaning in work, even if it's difficult. If they can't, then at least they gave it a shot. And of course, you should find meaning outside of work as well.
I bet nukes, wind, and solar have very different material needs so ramping up all of them as fast as possible should be the course of action. Why exclude nuclear?
PipeWire: https://pipewire.org/
They were referring to a region, like europe! Even the name India indicates this: it's the greek pronunciation of the Iranian word Hindu, which is the Iranian pronunciation of the river Sindhu, which is the traditional western border between India and the Iranian lands.
Well then we should just keep moving Eastwards from California until we find the cheapest teams we can and outsource to those, right? Let me know how that works out.
Ageism is very real. I worked with a guy at a startup who literally said about a candidate, "He's too old to work here." Meaning he wouldn't be able to fit in and relate to his coworkers regardless of his technical ability.

Sidenote, he also voted to reject a candidate because, "we have too many white guys." (He himself was a white man)

Now the guy who said that was one of the few people in my career that I truly disliked working with but I'm sure for every guy like him who says those things out loud there are 10 thinking it to themselves.

One solution I've found is to increase the frequency of interview shadowing. That way you at least have two people in the room, hearing and seeing the same things, and able to catch and call out biases.
I’m not sure you’re reading that correctly, since the response concerned the idea that the core goal of financial markets is X, and you respond with a statement on equities markets, which by definition only concern financing companies.

Equities markets are a piece of the pie. The largest, by far, for the kind of HFT we’re talking about, but a fraction of financial activity.

The core goal of financial markets is to gather and match prospective buyers and sellers so that trading can occur.
Feren OS is a Linux distribution that is as lovely as it is easy to use
I would think that it can hold 1TB of RAM _per_socket_ (with 64GB DIMM), so _2TB_ total.
As does ours - but they manually review things to give them a 'sense check'. That doesn't scale at all to the crypto world where the concept is permissionless and instant transfers. Said differently, how would you implement multisig in a setup like Nomad and prevent this type of attack?
But can unikernel applications share a big server (without themselves running inside VMs)?
Obvious reason to study FP is: when, inevitably, someone appears who believes they are smarter than you due to their love of FP, you can more effectively defeat them.
> worth more than 50-100 bucks

Maybe in the US but not worldwide.
Oh interesting! Seems like some heavy gaslighting by Celo then
> needs to be cleaned up[1] as it's way too blurry to be seriously used as an app icon

Seems to have been blurred after the fact. The version linked in the article before cropping looked fairly sharp: https://jacobmartins.com/images/dalle2/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08...

Plus even that uncropped one is already jpeg'd, whereas DALL-E 2 downloads are pngs, so there should be an even sharper version.
Yeah, that was a separate issue, unrelated to the default authentication setting of the default db. And, yes, we fixed it.
Lots of sites have whitelists of email domains.
The aggressive diplomacy strategy has backfired spectacularly in Ukraine, yet people market it as a success.

With a quieter backroom strategy perhaps there would not be a war now.

But the U.S. can sell LPG gas to Europe now, so perhaps it is a success for them.
I don't think this is so crazy of an idea. Many of our institutions (example: democracy, checks and balances) are designed to "subvert government authority" in exactly the same spirit. The idea is to ensure that some rules are followed regardless of who is in charge.
The solutions to a number of problems, from climate change, inequality, inflation, housing crises, are all obvious. It's always capitalism that will actively prevent them from being implemented, because it would hurt their profits.
And by "steal", the article means "popularize pre-existing fashion"
I think we're conflating two different issues.
I didn't mention remittance because from people I personally know who send money back home they are getting much lower fees using traditional finance rails
You do you, but even if you don’t expect to make it big its not a good idea to leave money on the table.
Yes in fact I first saw this on Arch. This had nothing to do with the distro.
The feature requests (asks) that product wants to build - sorry for the confusion there.
> It's kind of insane that on the one hand we have folks playing lip service to "anyone can learn to code" and on the other, decent developers being so rare that to hire one you need to offer compensation equal to winning a minor lottery for just 2-4 years worth of work. I wonder how much more software would get written if it didn't cost $250-500K/yr for a single developer.

While I think the premise is wrong - not anyone can learn to code - there are also levels of "learn to code" so it's simpler to spin up a create-react-app and modify it a bit for a code school credit compared to advanced Scala - it's also true that learning to code is nowhere near the hardest part of software engineering productivity.
It's going to depend on the penalties for being unavailable. Small B2B customers are very different from enterprise B2B customers too, so you ultimately have to build for your context.

If you have to give service credits to customers then with "one box" you have to give 100% of customers a credit. If your services are partitioned across two "shards" then one of those shards can go down, but your credits are only paid out at 50%.

Getting to this place doesn't prevent a 100% outage and it imposes complexity. This kind of design can be planned for enterprise B2B apps when the team are experienced with enterprise clients. Many B2B SaaS are tech folk with zero enterprise experience, so they have no idea of relatively simple things that can be done to enable a shift to this architecture.

Enterprise customers do care where things are hosted. They very likely have some users in the EU, or other locations, which care more about data protection and sovereignty than the average US organization. Since they are used to hosting on-prem and doing their own due diligence they will often have preferences over hosting. In industries like healthcare, you can find out what the hosting preferences are, as well as understand how the public clouds are addressing them. While not viewed as applicable by many on HN due to the focus on B2C and smaller B2B here, this is the kind of thing that can put a worse product ahead in the enterprise scenario.
‘An Engine for the Imagination’: The Rise of AI Image Generators
Logo's are generally protected by trademark rather than copyright. I don't think anything prevents you from using a generated logo with trademark. For example you could have a trademark on an orange square, even though you could never copyright it. In the same way a trademark could protect your product name even if it is a single English common noun, as long as it is distinctive in use within your trademark scope.
> We're talking about 2 different kind of VPN here, and you know it, please don't spread confusion on that topic. Nobody needs to connect to his own database service using some B2C service like North VPN to obfuscate where the actually queries come from.

Honestly, a student/hobbyist from Turkey who is trying specifically to defend against a local eavesdropping or censorship threat, or to work around restrictive firewall configurations on public WiFi networks, might very well use exactly the same types of VPNs you're describing, for some of the same legitimate purposes as any professional would use their corporate VPN. After all, they don't have a corporate IT department to maintain their own private VPN. These types of companies probably have more friendly pricing for a student/hobbyist from Turkey than the VPN companies whose marketing material focused on corporate use cases instead of circumventing Netflix geo blocks.

You're right that it would not be the ideal type of VPN for database access control, but I can imagine it being an element of viable defense-in-depth strategies where one is in a country where most inbound local traffic other than your own would be malicious. Imagine coupling a restriction on source IP range with TLS + IAM credentials, or something like that. Requiring a presence on the specific chosen VPN company's netblock drastically shrinks the threat model vs allowing connection attempts from 0.0.0.0/0.

> I'm not siding with Oracle, but Oracle owes absolutely nothing to a free tier user suspected of fraud.

I agree that they don't owe anything to such a user, but equally we don't owe it to Oracle to refrain from criticizing these kinds of false positives in their fraud detection with no avenue for redress. Anyone who either experiences or hears about these kinds of outcomes is justified both in criticizing Oracle and in being less likely to recommend or choose Oracle for their or their employer's cloud computing needs.

In turn, Oracle owes it to themselves to at least consider that possible consequence, and to allow at least enough redress to keep the severity of this reputational impact within whatever range they deem acceptable.
> Where you'll get into trouble is if you get popular quickly. You may run into scaling issues early on

Did it ever occur to you that you can still use the cloud for on demand scaling? =)
It’s a free cloud service. If you rely on someone else to host your compute/storage at no cost, prepare for getting little or very delayed support. Ask all the YouTube creators or Instagram users that had their accounts randomly shut off and had to do a lot of work to get it back. This isn’t specific to Oracle at all. Or try AWS and get a surprise $10k bill that they won’t refund.
1. “ghidra dragon, logo, digital art, drawing, in a dark circle as the background, logo, digital art, drawing, in a dark circle as the background”

[1] https://labs.openai.com/s/x2UP0MEmj2qNnKWTbko8rrso

2. “cute baby dragon, logo, digital art, in a dark circle as the background”

[2] https://labs.openai.com/s/JmOXAqjpR2ctmraDxEkB7twF

Thanks for this post, it helped me tailor my own search queries. Because of your post, I was able to discover a whole new realm to DALLE-2. For some reason, repeating the same query parameter at the end yields some rather interesting results.
I really am blaming the "victim" of a layoff of an upper class engineering job if they suffer the consequences of setting up their lives as though they will always be employed without gaps.

It is not a lot to ask for someone in the top x% of earners to set aside a few months' expenses instead of spending every dollar on housing/food/entertainment/etc.

There are situations where employers do mistreat employees, but failing to guarantee perpetual employment is not one of them.
This is true. "Virtuous liquidity" is the term I've heard used. The same thing is true of Tor right? if the _only_ people using it are bad the usage itself is what gets criminalized. The speculators on crypto likely provide a lot of this
Where are you getting that price from? I see 167.99 here: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Android/Samsung-Galaxy-S21-5G-U...

I think even 240 is reasonable for original parts considering the technology in the screen.
I wouldn't recommend one, but at least two, for redundancy.
The question to me really is which central authorities you trust less...

And for me it is at the moment the crypto side. I don't trust exchanges and I can't be bothered to do local transactions. So central government "approved" system is easier for my life.
That works on people who are using your system with good intentions.

That does not work on people who are using your system with malicious intentions (and who face zero personal consequences when they get caught again, and again, and again). They don't get rehabilitated, when you tell them which rule you broke[1], they just adjust their malicious use to work around that rule. Rehabilitation is only possible when both parties are operating in good faith, which is why it is done with threat of prison, fines, revocation of parole, etc. It can't be done when the 'rehabilitated' party can just reneg on the agreement with zero consequences.

The point of anti-abuse rules isn't the letter of the rules, it's the intent behind them. 'There's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball' only works in children's fairy tales.

There's a reason why no large firm or financial institution will tell you the why. It's not because they think you have good intentions, and they hate you. It's because they are afraid you have malicious intentions, and they aren't interested in holding your hand as you defraud them.

Of course, people in category one get burnt by this, and then complain on Twitter/FB/HN.

[1] If you want to live in a world where anti-abuse systems tell you which rule you broke, you'll probably need to also live in a world where there are very serious consequences that are - with high consistency - inflicted on people breaking those rules in bad faith. We don't live in that kind of world, things like the CFAA are at the same time, both overly broad and draconian and largely toothless.
You acted wisely. I’m glad the statute of limitations expired without any consequesnces.
People commenting on this don’t seem to understand market dynamics. The price people are willing to pay for some vehicles is much greater than the MSRP. Someone along the chain is going to sell those vehicles at the greater price. It’s either the manufacturer in the case of Tesla (they’ve massively raised their prices), or the dealership, or third party scalpers.
I think the best reason to study FP is to get out of the OOP mindset.

But ideally in the real world you don't go crazy with either.

Objects are excellent for data but OOP is a mess for control flow.

Immutability is great but everything-is-recursion is not.

And so on.

When performance comes up all of this goes out of the window, maybe. But I'm talking about good defaults for correct, readable programs.
Somebody who directly invested the majority of their money in an experimental bridge protocol that raised its seed round 3 months ago is by definition not a normie.
I think a lot of DALL-E 2 outputs fall into the category of "extremely impressive that a neural network made this" and also "not quite up to the standards of a human expert". Like if you show me an output and told me a machine made it, I'm absolutely fascinated, but if you showed me the same image and told me a human drew it, I'd just scroll past without a second thought. Even so, there are some applications for which being able to generate a pretty okay image for a few cents is a great deal - I use it for things like D&D character portraits.

Of course, DALL-E 2 is not the end of of text-to-image research - it'll be interesting to see where we are a year from now.
There was an NYT article not too long ago whose entire point is that "true" psychedelic drugs are too dangerous to go mainstream, but isolated chemical compounds that provide some of the chemical effects of LSD / Mushrooms / Ketamine without the "trip" were a much better way to go. The reasoning was that they could engineer a way to chemically induce neuroplastic change in the brain without the liability of visual or auditory hallucinations.

Talk about missing the forest from the trees.

The whole transformative experience is the "trip" itself. Dosing myself in a therapist's office sounds terrifying. The best experience I've ever had was taking a hit of LSD in my living room and spending the day with a pen and paper, writing down thoughts as they came to me.
The end will come not because those extra billions are not being fed, but because they will not stay put and starve. They will go where they think they would be able to live. In going, they will provoke panic in affected countries, driving fascists into power, who will provoke wars, as fascists everywhere do.

Wars interfere with supply chains, making everything worse, globally. Degrading conditions provoke more wars. It ends badly.
I really enjoyed that!

I was laid off my last job. It was totally expected (I saw it coming, years ahead), and the "forcing function" for me, was encountering the Brick Wall of Silicon Valley Ageism.

It forced me to accept that I was in early retirement; whether or not I liked it.

Turns out, it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

META: He may want to reconsider his choice of thumbnails. I think it's a great one, but Disney has a rather fearsome reputation for going after even the smallest misuses of its IP.
Got it. So we likely agree that wealth identification will be difficult here if we're only going with household income and tax returns.

It's definitely a thorny process whichever factor one adopts to benchmark process outcomes against.
The feature comparison chart between 4 and 5 would not look good. I have yet to find a media player that offers as many available settings for auto-transcoding and directory structuring on sync as Winamp 4.x.x . I bought a license back in 2016 or so to sync music to sd cards for a car I had.
Idk... I'm pretty sure US has solid infrastructure on average. In Illinois the roads / bridges have to withstand temperatures ranging form 110F to -20F every year. My house withstands the same temperatures, hail, winds 70+ mph 3-4 times a year. A foot of snow in the winter.

"U.S. Infrastructure" is some of the best of the world and also varies WILDLY between states. Each state manages its own infrastructure, so it's unfair to compare the US as a whole vs individual states.

The weather in Illinois is much more robust than say, Germany or the UK. The UK is much closer to the weather of Portland than that of Illinois.
In America we live in a democracy (last I checked) so it's the mainstream public who decides in the end. The people in various western states were the first to decide that marijuana should be legal. So by normies I mean mainstream voters who worry about their children having uncontrolled access to psychedelics. Normies believe rules are made to be followed and laws are there for a reason.
literally from the screenshot in the article.
I guess - I would also guess that one not getting promoted might also be related to the lack skills at leadership, etc.

Given his thoughts on leadership:

Well, my theory is that all leadership is a form of evil, because the whole point of managing people is getting them to do stuff they don’t want to do on their own. You don’t need a manager to tell people to eat chocolate chip cookies, because they want to do that. But you do need a manager to tell them to work extra hours for the same amount of pay, and I’m not good at that. If managing were truly a case of win-win scenarios – you give me more and you get more out – I could definitely do that. But the “best” managers are not like that, [according to real-world corporate behaviour]. The “best” ones are the ones getting you to do stuff and giving you nothing in return.

I can see that he might not be promoted due to skill and ability.
Ask HN: License for restricting specific political-related usage?
I host a public wiki of information. I don't mind what it's used for for the most part, but I don't particularly want any of it being used to benefit right-wing related groups.

Is there a license to host my content with in that case?
Claiming that Hetzner is equivalent is fallacious. The offerings are completely different.

Agreed on networking though!
I think flooding in the midwest is largely due to farming practices. Lands are engineered to immediately dump excess rain into the local streams which feed the rivers and end up flooding some town in Iowa. If the farm land was allowed to flood this would happen far less often.

Finding a way to collect that rain and get it down into the aquafer would also mean they wouldn't have to keep drilling deeper wells to reach it.
I disagree. Suppose you have an enormous DB that's mainly written to by workers inside a company, but has to be widely read by the public outside. You want your internal services on machines with extra layers of security, perhaps only accessible by VPN. Your external facing microservices have other things like e.g. user authentication (which may be tied to a different monolithic database), and you want to put them closer to users, spread out in various data centers or on the edge. Even if they're all bound to one database, there's a lot to recommend keeping them on separate, light cheap servers that are built for http traffic and occasional DB reads. And even more so if those services do a lot of processing on the data that's accessed, such as building up reports, etc.
Its already a full blown war, with civilians being targeted with cruise missiles (Kalibr). https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/27/ukraine-shop...

Do you mean a war where proper Germans die?
I'm confused about why anyone is comparing the security of a defi token swapping platform to that of a fiat savings account.

If you want an apple to apples comparison you should be comparing the security of a savings account to that of a cold wallet. Those are much more alike in their function.

I don't think we classify people who engage in cross network token swapping as "normies". That's like classifying algorithmic day traders as an "average joe investor".
Pretty good answer, but I’ll caveat with wealthy/elite provably bought into this a while ago. A subset of them run OpEds in NYT criticizing the space as bunk. Another large subset have been in it for years.

Some data points to support this:

- most major algorithmic hedge funds, market makers, etc are significantly involved. Not the janky crypto native one, the lethal ones from NY.

- Microstrategy had to convince a whole slew of board members and legal to convert their treasury to btc (“wealthy/elite”). Saylor is on record as saying that all but 1 of them where already on the space and fine with it, or something to that effect.

- this is old days btc lore, but there is a famous known event of Wences Cesares and I want to say Reid Hoffman having a SV get together with a few other who’s-who and sending a couple mil in btc around their phones while sitting in a living room. This
And related Got most of the early day big tech people who are in it now to invest. This was years ago. Peter Thiel is the most public of this group today.

- CIA had the btc core lead Dev visit to explain the tech in 2011 (Gavin Andresen/spelling).

- Go to a digital assets event in DC that gets actual DC people to attend, and you’ll have notable elected officials discussing its use as a covert tool

- US has paid foreign fighters in it

- Bank of International Settlements is allowing member banks to hold a % of btc in reserves

- Fidelity has mined btc since early 2010s and is notably involved today.

There are a lot of examples like this out there. It’s a large wealth transfer currently benefiting really top crust people/orgs and the tinfoil hat crowd. Everyone else is reading Paul Krugman opeds and calling it a day, or missing the key so-what of the tech that’s worth committing to.