skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice play. I’ll raise you a Postman…

(W)e have been rather slow in recognizing that in solving the information problem, we created a new problem never experienced before: information glut, incoherence, and meaninglessness. … Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, we are awash in information, without even a broom to help us get rid of it. The tie between information and human purpose has been severed. … it comes indiscriminately, whether asked for or not, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume, at high speeds, disconnected from meaning and import. It comes unquestioned and uncombined, and we do not have, as (poet Edna St. Vincent) Millay said, a loom to weave it all into fabric.

- Neil Postman, Science and the Story that We Need, 1997
What if there’s no solution? What if you’re right and ageism is real and the industry is only going downhill from here? How does a Hacker accept that fact and change the situation?

I believe the successful hackers went on to start their own consultancy firms. Same job, totally different culture and treatment. Threshold is a major skill upgrade in self-marketing though.
> So long as it does better than a human driver and/or better than the current status quo, it's already a great improvement.

I've yet to see evidence that this is the case.

In this particular situation, it's hard to believe that a human driver would have struggled.
I'd like to see how the dummy looks like from the perspective of the car. If they painted the back side with a pattern of the road, then of course a car without Lidar can't see it. But neither could a human driver.

"Thing on street" detection is probably the most basic function of an autopilot, after lane keeping. I would be surprized if there wasn't a robust "thing on street" detector as a separate module in front of, and separate from the whole self-driving AI. As far as I heard, simple obstacle detection can already be made more robust than human vision, just with stereo cameras.

Now what is hard is, stuff moving perpendicular to the road. Child running towards the road behind a chain-link fence is OK, but if there is no fence, stop immediately. Is that rolling thing a tumbleweed, or a ball? And so on...
There are a lot of companies that don't primarily do web development, maybe look into that if you know or want to learn Java, C++? Telecom, automotive, finance, games, medicine, industry. These companies need a lot of developers and they're typically much nicer to work at. Better paid, much less stress.
His senate bid was mainly for legal protection since he can't get sued under the guise that they are "political ads".
Ah, I didn't even spot Volvo and Cadillac between all those brands that sound like they are trying to sell USB hubs and t-shirts on Amazon.
> Sadly, Google Maps does everything they can to prevent you from doing this, e.g. not showing street names at all unless you zoom in to ridiculous levels

This has been my pet peeve as well. I do use Gmaps to show me the route and then I ride it on my bike without looking at the phone but if it is a route that I don't know yet I would like which street to turn at, all the while Gmaps refusing to be a map and telling me what the name of the street is.

Gmaps seems to be less of a map, more of a directory of locations and instructions how to get to those, so the actual streets on which the locations are is not interesting to GMaps at all and it doesn't put any effort into that usecase.
I stopped here:

> It’s often easier to identify when people didn’t adequately consider the second and subsequent order impacts. For example, consider a country that, wanting to inspire regime change in another country, funds and provides weapons to a group of “moderate rebels.” Only it turns out that those moderate rebels will become powerful and then go to war with the sponsoring country for decades. Whoops.

The author is talking about thinking, and then uses a country to illustrate his point.

But... countries don't think! People think (animals too, to varying extents, perhaps plants) but not countries! Countries are a human CONCEPT. Its more possible that a stone could think than a concept!

This is -1 thinking in my book.
Wrong again. We have a Walmart Super Center, ER, quite a few good restaurants, and many other things.

The city with more stuff is 20 minutes away, less time then you'll sit in traffic in the city going a few miles to the same thing.

So less time commuting than in the city and I prefer the privacy of driving over public transportation. I hate people, especially crowds.
Move in to management. The reason tech sucks is mainly due to non technical managers who think writing code is the same as laying bricks, constantly breathing on developer necks and nagging about progress. The world needs more tech experienced managers to replace the supervisor types that barely understand the words they use.
It depends on your personality type. If you're the type who just must change everything to fit your worldview, it's important to settle in a place with similar values. But many people aren't into trying to impose their view on everyone else and as a result, can settle into areas with people of differing values. The rub can be if your appearance signals values that you might not want to push onto others but your presence makes people wary you might want to. For people like that, it can be difficult, but many do find with some time, people get accustomed to them and relax once they determine they're not there to upset the social order. In a few cases, the negative reaction is great enough that there isn't time for either side to get to know the other's intentions. That's pretty rare if you're lowkey but still happens here and there from time to time.
It looks like the kind of stabilization one should (or could) apply to shaky handheld video. That kind works by zooming in and using the borders for cropping and rotating. In this video it gets extra weird because somes scenes are meant to be shaky.
WFH guide: How to keep out distractions
That place needs to rename into Pine Hoax
That was a complete shitshow thanks to cultural differences, my personality and covid. I had interest in Japanese/Chinese while my lab only focussed on English. Basically whatever I proposed for 3 years was thrashed to the bin without any explanation, and when I found another lab more appreciative of my work it was already too late to switch. The only "guidance" I got during this time was to "make a quizz" (multiple choice) as if it was something revolutionary and doctoral level.

In the end, I had to back back in my country, where I was able to reconnect with someone that did his PhD on a very close topic (albeit not using computers), so I plan to finish my degree here using things I worked alone on for years. It's infinitely easier to work with people able and willing to understand ideas and who focus on quality instead of quantity. I'm indeed sitting on some stuff albeit it would need a lot more development for some to reach the light. I'm also finishing writing some papers but it's progressing slowly due to having a 9-5 job with 3 hours half commutation.
> it doesn't always kill or seriously maim a child - there are numerous examples where it didn't

Don't intentionally misquote me to twist my argument.

Give me an example where it did actually kill or seriously maim a child.

Also you don't get to automatically ignore all the children that were saved from inattentive drivers by this system. It works even when autopilot is inactive.
>> Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?

I would say yes, but only on case by case basis - it's recommended for people who work around and in forests (forest rangers, holiday camp caretakers etc.).

I believe TCE is far more rare so the vaccine is not so important for regular people as vaccine for lyme would be (if I read stats correctly there is two orders of magnitude difference between them - 200 cases per year for TCE versus 20000 for lyme)
You'll hear the opposite refrain where I live, as the expansion of the university prices locals out of rented accommodation.
The trick is to have two kitchens. One for actual use (maybe even by staff) the other for representative purposes or for light use once per month ;-)

This tongue-in-cheek comment is inspired by relatives who actually have two kitchens: One in the house with the store and manufacturing space (with space for 6 people to eat), one in the house they live in (and about twice as big, with no sitting space). The former is used all the time (often it's "the boss" cooking for the employees and visitors), and the other one, well... she said they don't actually need it, but he enjoys cooking a lot and is really good at it, so a spacious and nice kitchen was his treat for their successful store (it happens to look representative as well, but the purpose is actual cooking).
Well, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue.

Clicking on the "TinySnap Blog" leads to https://blog.tinysnap.app.

May I know your location and browser version? I'll try to locate the issue and fix it.
Defeatist attitude is completely expected if you're burned out/depressed. My suggestion is to treat the latter (lots of good advice in the thread) to get rid of the former, not the other way around. The other way around simply doesn't work.
the only person i've heard that were affected by lyme also were living in Poland, in the woods.. They were badly taken care of for years until they couldn't even move from their bed.

Seems like poland really is a danger zone..
It was my (typically German) poor attempt at making a joke about the 'German precision engineering' cliché ;)
Check out functions/procedures/subroutines.
Yep. OP's post sounds like I could have written it, and it's because small companies are absolute hell. You won't get benefits, you won't get health insurance, you won't get vacation days, your pay goes down below livable levels, and your proximity to clients shrinks dramatically. Investors have all the power and small dev shop owners worship them to the detriment of their employees.

Switching to a small shop will make the burnout exponentially worse.
> I did not know that Lyme disease also exists in Europe.

I guess it exists anywhere the ticks do.

> Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?

Not obligatorily, AFIK. But I, personally, got my vaccine some years ago.
That's funny, I've been haunted by nightmares about school as well. I sometimes dream that I get perfect grades in all my classes but then there is this one subject I totally forgot about. I did not go to any classes. I did not take any exams. I did not do any homework. And it completely ruins my transcript and chances for college.
Absolutely awful experience with air conditioners. They keep malfunctioning every two years.

Meanwhile my parents have a 25 year old aircon with heavy duty copper wiring that’s still going strong.

I’ll pay a premium for appliances that are simply built to last, but there’s nothing on the market built to that spec anymore.
Reminds me of this old video of a pneumatic contraption as an "alarm clock" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-l5PlDa-k
>It's a continuous variable, not a Boolean.

My take on this: It's a multi-dimensional ordinal variable across the permutation of all possible domain combinations in which you can develop domain experience and synthetic thinking. The state space is so large that it looks continuous but on the other hand it's still ordered into stages/levels when looking at a smaller subset of domains in which cognitive development can happen. In effect it's not just having a wider horizon but having the right combination of horizons against which to synthesize for the given problem. Which isn't always obvious(to outsiders of the "correct" perspective) until it's hindsight.
Why would you write a long blog about it? The whole concept was explained in one paragraph. Everything after that is just trying to make the idea more appealing.
>Moreover, the developers of these tools are aware of the potential pitfalls of producing exact replicas of art in their training datasets. OpenAI admitted that this was a problem in some of the earlier iterations of the program, and they now filter out specific instances of this happening.

This is the most telling thing. They have a system, which might not even be part of the "AI" it might simply be they are comparing outputs for close matches to the OG dataset and then hiding them from the end user.

I mean we've seen OpenAI's solution to their un-diverse data set so we know what standards they work to.
As a non-Indian, the caste problem seems so endemic that the only solution seems to be to not hire anyone born in India. Their American-born children will, presumably, have overcome the issue.

(Not 100% serious, but not 100% joking.)
Strangely, i know someone from lithuania that told me her whole family got vaccinated against lyme.

Does a working vaccine already exists ?
The Canvas of Babel – [YouTube]
Huh. So it's just to protect against casual perusal I guess?
How to become a master at talkimg to stangers
Please submit your advices. I am mediocre at this
> It's incredibly powerful of you to be vulnerable and put your feelings out there

People that say this are quick to demand you to cry when THEY expect it. Doesn't have to do anything with empathy. Perhaps it is good for marketing indeed.

To be honest, if I were laid of and see my former boss crying about it I would have mixed feelings too.
Really? Do you read the 40 page small print for any service you use? On every cloud service it says we can do whatever we want without liability, then establishes you can’t sue - arbitration only and then says take it or leave it
Like Eugene, Corvallis is very nice. There’s decent food, and houses are a lot cheaper than Portland. It’s a lot closer to Portland on days you want to drive up, which is a plus.
I felt the same way as you did in my Corporate SAP gig - writing the same type of report programs day in and day out - in hindsight it was soul sucking really.

SAP in the mean time did their third attempt at the cloud (BTP/Steampunk) and it seemed like the same old shit I was working on the classic ECC 6.0 buried in more layers of shit but now running in the "cloud".

Covid then came along and I got laid off which provided me with a financial cushion of a year to realize SAP is not what I wanted to do anymore , interviews to rebalance a binary tree - really ????.

Learned something new/went back to my old roots as a C developer.

Now doing Python with Pandas - less pay - less hours but far far happier.
I wonder if someone has done the same for Fujifilm’s X series wifi protocol. I imagine it’s similar
Came here to post about Sowell and you've beaten me to it. I can't remember the exact quote but he's said that economics is just asking "and then what?".
You can’t no. It’s a set up
My network home setup v3.0
Really? What type? Here in Europe they’re invariably Japanese heatpumps (Daikin, Hitachi etc) - crazy reliable
And yet this is advice targeted towards developer with 15 years of experience.

If someone is in position of working in the field, having a lot of experience and still having issue with putting some cash aside to take few months off then it might hint that not the field but particular work place is root cause.
> These kinds of things put his credibility on other claims into question as well.

The author has written a new book ("Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller"; linked in the article). Based on his past work, you can expect it to be well-researched and non-hagiographic about these sorts of things (despite the title).
Don't take it personally, but you seem to hate quite a lot of things that are outside of your control, or just objective truths that are there to stay:

* DevOps: If people find value in releasing software in an organized manner to avoid breaking websites / "testing in production" and losing a lot of revenue, why do you strongly hate or care at all? You don't have to work on devops.

* Learning new frameworks: Did someone force you to learn every new JS framework released in the past 10 years? React is the main framework people have been using since ~2015-2016, and other frameworks are either not super important (latest CSS framework someone came up with) or worth the cost of learning (Gatsby, Next). Continuous learning is an important skill in all jobs.

* "having the fundamental stuff I learned early on - objects are good, always separate presentation from logic - being totally flipped around": People realized that this is not the right approach for building web frontends. These best practices are not meant to be seen as dogma/ideology, they adapt to people's experience (and usually will only apply in some contexts)

So I think you can just relax, enjoy the parts you love, and be more open to things changing around you.
Bosses unsure if UK's four-day week trial can continue
One should always strive to consider side effects as far as possible, but there are obviously limitations. The number of effects to consider increases exponentially with the order of thinking. Weighing them against each other becomes harder as well, as the scope increases and effects may no longer be tightly tied within the same domain. Probabilities necessarily become part of the equation, and they only become fuzzier the higher the level. A sufficiently high order of thinking becomes essentially to predict butterfly effects.

Not that this makes the task impossible, within some scope. Games like Chess have a similar kind of chaotic unpredictability, yet people get really good at thinking many moves ahead and ignoring dead-end paths. Higher order is better, as far as you can be confident. But the real world is huge, and full of unknowns, so higher order conclusions will be as highly up for debate.
I wonder how many retweets and twitter likes were bought for this tweet promoting a technology that's also on the stock market.

There's been a recent frenzy in the last few days including stuff by Dan O'Dowd running commercials that fall into the vein of ouright libel in order to gain financial value from seeing the Tesla shares drop doing exactly the same type of fake test as this one where the Tesla runs over a fake child.

Then there's this guy who has a vested interest in the company he's promoting in his video he produced here. As he dodges the question here: https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1556998237432811520 Also very likely lying about Tesla for financial gain.
I would be careful with corporates

Most people who had burn outs in my life had it while working for corporates, where actually there was hardly any pressure outwardly, but they all put it on themselves inwardly.

Outwardly there was hardly anything going on, but I think the internal politics & having a personality being sensitive to social pressure played a role. But not fully sure.

Sometimes I'm more tired when there is hardly anything to do, or when there is no real possibility to add any value because there is so many stiff ideas floating around. I prefer hard work but with real results then corporate cushions. Maybe that also plays a role for certain people.

The best places are in my experience team with a reasonable goal, people who care for the goal and each other and there is pressure but also understanding.
I was in a similar situation. What I did was to switch slightly into another lane. I went into Project Management, and now Product Management. I believe my development experiences helps me when managing other developers.
Don't get me wrong, I like music, but when I work, especially if it's programming, I can't focus enough. I get distracted. However I'd be interesting to try with some classic music.
> you can always acquire them later when you actually want to read them

That doesn't track with my experience at all for a number of reasons:

- Smaller bookstores who may or may not be an official part of the publishing supply chain stock smaller amount of copies of a given book. Once an edition sells out, they might not even have the means to restock/order from a new batch of printing.

- Even big chain bookstores have to consider supply and demand economics when stocking their shelves so even them can't guarantee "perpetual availability" of a title.

- Not to mention, books go out of print, even way before they go in the public domain. The best way to get a copy is by accident in a thrift shop. If I encounter one I really like, the best move for me would be to buy it then and there, my current reading queue be damned.

- Admittedly, acquiring books is easier now due to Amazon, et. al., but we are still very from from being able to acquire a book when you actually want to read them. Not all books are available to buy online!
TypeScript is a Microsoft band-aid on problems far better solved by other languages. The level to which people praise it feels like Stockholm Syndrome, and criticizing it frequently gets the stereotypical toxic programmer forum replies like "well you just don't know how to use types." It's impossible to speak critically about TypeScript unless you write long blog posts.
There is none. There are other diseases you can get from ticks, such as encephalitis, and there is a vaccine for it, so maybe the friend mixed the two up.
Remember, "A little bit beyond Hello World" in Carmack's mind is Video Decompression code. Brings a little bit of perspective.
Also good to increase time to market and make you think more about types, less about business logic. It has both pros and cons depending on what you are doing.

I have learned and can read and write typescript, but it doesn’t click when it comes to “we’ll need it tomorrow to check our ideas fast”, the usual mode of startup operation. These stories about night and day difference also do not match my reality. All my code paths are either hot or tested. How many type-related bugs have I encountered last year? Maybe a few, but can’t remember even a single one. Maybe I’ll gradually type it after we go into maintenance mode, maybe leave it as an exercise to a maintainer if they see fit. My last few projects were successful and brought solid revenue without any type-related issues.
> except they chose restraint

No they chose to instigate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings
and then left the rebels out to dry. Thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of Iraqis were killed by Sadam's forces.

The equivalent of 1991 (obviously on a very different scale) would be the Allies stopping at the border of Germany in 1944 (after liberating France) and allowing Hitler to stay in power (while simultaneously claiming that it’s the job of the German people to remove him).
Magic Latern is an alternative firmware for (some) Canon cameras that offers an almost unbelievable feature set and can run scripts. It's worth looking into if you use cameras for automation.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for data security
As the title suggests I am looking for book recommendations for data security. I started a new job at a company that focuses on data security and privacy while my experiences are in development for classical engineering and the web. To get up to speed I like to read books (as I am looking at a screen most of the day already). A few years ago I had good experiences with "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow" and would like to know if there is something similar for data-/cyber-security?

Any recommendations welcome!
Note: I am looking for a book but other recommendations are welcome as well!
> Fargate is a little expensive for what we are running

Because of low usage? Lambda supports containers now (as of 2021 I think) so if you have a container to run (or something you could containerise) it's a relatively straightforward usage question which of Lambda/Fargate/EC2 makes sense on price. Lambda doesn't have to complicate comparison by being a completely different architecture/setup any more.