skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this from my time in banking. For those not familiar, essentially you need to disappear for two weeks a year without access to anything. This is basically a safeguard to make sure that operations are robust and won’t just fall over if you’re not there. It’s also to make sure you’re not cooking up something nefarious that requires you to be there every day and keep an eye on it.
I did not know 9gag is a social media too.

Sorry to hear about your childhood. I hope you heal from it soon.

Where can I contact you? Do you have any contact email?
what if they lay off another person, does the article need to be update then? There's some advantage in using approximate numbers.
It's a funny joke and gets your mind going, but in the field, "very" doesn't get used that much to warrant wholesale replacing. It's not very prevalent, actually
I wonder if TikTok is investigating alternative display methods beyond just screens. Computational chemistry might be useful for figuring out a way to rearrange molecular structure as a display method.
In the description:

Team Introduction

Scientific Computing team has been focusing on tackling challenges in natural sciences including biology, physics, and materials, with computational tools such as Machine Learning, Computational Chemistry, High-throughput Computation.
Our goal is to create breakthroughs in natural science with new methodology and help the world.

Responsibilities

• Follow the latest progress in computational science such as material and biology.

• Solve real-world problems in material and biology, with computational approaches such as molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and machine learning.

• Optimize and speed up classical molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry algorithms with artificial intelligence and high-throughput computational methods.

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Maybe they do some research related with biology and they need a Computational Chemistry expert?
I believe the HDCP keys for the lower standards were leaked, right? It's 4K you need certification for I think to get the keys.
At small scale, you can lower your complexity using cloud. You don't need k8s for a small operation, just spin a couple of VMs and set them up via a few lines of Ansible.

OTOH you can pick a managed datsbase: you just get a connection string to a Postgres with failover and backup already taken care of. Same with queue services, email services, etc. They have really simple APIs.

You only need platform-specific knowledge when you start operating at a larger scale. By that time, you likely can afford to hire a dedicated SRE.
> "You can almost always change cash with no commission and at a better exchange rate than credit cards charge"

Can you? This doesn't seem to be the case except in countries where the real exchange rate has drifted from a government-imposed one. The spread on my credit card and ATM card are low enough (very negative, in fact, on the credit card when we consider cashback) where if this were the case I would be able to arbitrage against said jewelry stores.
It's amazing that this old and ugly app feels better than the React SPA monstrosity they have as the official mobile site.
>People in technical leadership roles should have formal training and should have spent some time in the trenches, full stop. We hold most other specialized leadership roles to this standard: Chief Financial Officers, Chief Legal Officers, Chief Medical Officers, etc. Why not CTOs and CISOs?

The vast majority of qualified candidates will not have relevant formal training. Until very recently it's been borderline impossible to get an infosec degree, and what little opportunities existed were of atrocious quality.

>Oh, please. I'm well aware that this problem is pervasive in American business culture. The article is about Equifax. I am commenting about Equifax.

1) It's not a problem

2) It's not American

This is just how emerging fields are, you can't have formal education when nobody knows what to teach.
Many small companies have roles such as this, especially in the embedded electronics space.
Not Mosaic but worth browsing : the capsules in the Geminiverse ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ ) have no modern browser gimmick at all and a very good signal-to-noise ration. #my2cents
Yeah, this is especially an issue as certain forms of medical care gets politicized. If a doctor is obviously telling people that cigarettes are healthy and alcohol abuse if the key to a long life then of course they probably should have their license revoked. If a doctor isn't certain of the literature or has moral objections to prescribing hormones to trans teenagers, well that one is up for debate.

Similarly see Alex Jones, I disagree entirely with his politics and virtually everything he's ever said, but ultimately he was just fined approximately $1 billion USD for no more than speaking. Honestly seeing that happen to a private entity is more concerning than it happening to a demographic that already requires government approval to legally operate (medical professional, in this case).
The science behind dogs’ sense of smell [video]
That's not my memory of it. Windows 95 introduced the Task Manager, which obviated some of that. Maybe I was lucky in having well-behaved applications.
Watt needed to get a set of technologies developed to make a workable efficient steam engine. E.g. how to bore a straight cylinder in a material that withstands high pressure and temperature.

Another aspect is that solutions tend to occupy a niche within the existing environment. E.g. an iPhone is no use to a Babylonian because they have no 5G infrastructure. A Lamborghini is no use to a Roman because a) no gas stations, although they could probably run it on alcohol, and b) it'd get stuck behind all the ox carts already on the road.
It should be opt in really though shouldn't it.

The problematic nature of opt out is common sense at this point.
You could probably get something used, but it would be a bit of a hassle. Or another way to experience the city like a local.

But while you’re shopping, and the trip in from the airport would be pretty miserable.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html

write doesn't require you to allocate any memory
Definitely not lol. Cash changing places are always colossal rip-offs that give you an exchange rate that's off by like 30%...
The world’s fastest tool for querying JSON files
Could you please elaborate? Why is true a better value than yes? Seems like an arbitrary choice to me. Does one choice have some advantages over the other?
Not as tired as we got of people calling for our deaths.

Speech has consequences. Not only can it provoke actual real-world violence, but it can create a constant strain of fear. Free speech absolutists do themselves no favors by pretending that these are not real things.

Personally, I'd love to see existing laws enforced. Death threats are illegal; death threats over the Internet are a matter for the FBI. Round up a few hundred thousand people who have made death threats on the Internet and punish them according to the law, and the Internet would be a very different place.

Meantime, if the FBI won't do its job, it's no surprise that individual corporations do it on their own. I don't want to do business with somebody who threatens genocide -- even when it's not against me.
The founders of the US, among them some authors of that Constitution, would disagree.

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Virtue ennobles individual character and lifts society as a whole. Virtuous principles eschew prejudice and discrimination, confirming that “all men are created equal.” Virtue encompasses characteristics of goodwill, patience, tolerance, kindness, respect, humility, gratitude, courage, honor, industry, honesty, chastity and fidelity. These precepts serve as the cornerstones for both individual happiness and societal governance.
More like:

“We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are profitable”
Shockingly, this contains your salary information. Which is pretty dangerous for salary negotiation.
I'm sorry, 'lwneal. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Not if you add about half a million partially conflicting add-ons to it, no it isn’t!

Sorry. Yes, (n)vi(m) is great and useful and all, but it’s not an IDE.
Embedded System Modeling, Simulation in an Open Source RISC-V Virtual Prototype
Lots of large companies (I'm familiar, via friends, with Exxon) have a strong "rotation" policy in finance & related, for this exact reason. Many classes of fraudulent activity rely on networks of people who trust each other. If you break up the network, you can prevent gross levels of fraud.

Tangentially related: it's one of the reasons why government positions should be (randomly) rotated. In many ways, it's the same reason why we should choose our elected representatives randomly. (Also: I'm under the impression that random selection of representatives is one of the few ways to implement robust, fair representation.)
Will you use AWS or GCP?

I refuse to force my customers to drink "Google" so I go with AWS. The word "Google" violates my personal code of ethics.
tldr:

Such a policy is considered an important internal safeguard largely because of the fact that perpetration of an embezzlement of any substantial size usually requires the constant presence of the embezzler in order to manipulate records, respond to inquiries from customers or other employees, and otherwise prevent detection.
> If you have any suggestions or advice on good resources to learn this system, please let me know anytime.

Their reply:

> Just have a look at www.epicor-blahblah.com/documentation. You will find everything you need to know!
Why would anyone laugh at that unless they themselves had a laughably simplistic concept of how the field of medicine works? As I recall, the details and limitations of the various vaccines were not hidden and no one was lied to.
I'm surprised that they found this surprising:

>>"...however, to their surprise, the researchers discovered that adversarial training not only makes the models more robust against paraphrasing attacks, but it also makes them more accurate and versatile.

>>“This was one of the surprising findings we had in this project. Initially, we started with the angle of robustness. But we found out that this method not only improves robustness, but also improves generalizability,” Wu says. “If instead of attacks, you just think about what is the best way to augment your model, paraphrasing is a very good generalization tool to increase the capability of your AI model.”

These "AI" or "Deep Learning" models are (I thought) widely known, especially among the researchers, to have zero understanding of what they are categorizing, and essentially being mere (albeit massive) statistical pattern matchers, resulting in absurdities like the excellent turtle->rifle example at the beginning of the article.

Of course, counter-training against these sensitivities would make zero progress towards any kind of even child-level understanding in the model. Yet it seems obvious that it should at least make the system more robust to random or deliberate noise. So I'm confused why they found it so surprising.
They're also very high quality when compared to cheap Chinese chargers that can electrocute the user, catch fire, or only produce a small fraction of their rated power safely. Are they overpriced when you factor that in?
he must, and i noted on another comment that if he is proceeding in this manner and is calm about it, then i should follow his lead and feel the same. no sense getting myself worked up and dreading an outcome that may never even come to fruition. i think what this post's replies have really opened my eyes to is that the burden of change rests on my shoulders and mine alone. i can take this scenario for what it is - an opportunity. maybe i won't have to troubleshoot, but at least i was there.
It's not a valid criticism of anyone. Essentially zero people with that kind of work experience have infosec degrees.

It's hard to get a formal degree on a subject which isn't taught anywhere!

For example: HN loves Mudge, who also happened to just leave a CISO post, and also only holds a music degree from Berkelee.
Even your simple example, MP3 decoders, that do one thing, have had code execution exploits and other security issues over the years. WinAMP had CVEs for it.

All software will have bugs. I want my fixes fast and often to an environment where I run untrusted code from that many places.
Think about the power you want the government to have. And then imagine what your political opponents will do with it the next time they win the election.
Most tech people have chargers. Most everyone here is probably drowning in them. Not getting a new piece of garbage with every device seems like a feature to us.

But we aren't "most people". Surely there's a middle ground here.

And I have to say it, but one piece of the solution needs to be "Apple stops selling junk with proprietary connectors". The space of people who have an extra USB-C charger is MUCH larger than folks who have an extra lightning brick. I've stopped carrying extra bricks around when travelling with the family because the laptop charger does quadruple duty on all the devices.
One fun story from a buddy of mine when he was a (civil) engineering intern might shed some light on expectations here.

He was under 2 bosses for the summer on a construction site, and together, they were (1) the engineers responsible for construction & (2) project managers responsible for "make sure things don't go wrong."

Halfway through the summer, he's doing a great job. The bosses trust him to handle things for a day or two, and are off on other sites. This is the first time he's the only 'engineer' there.

Of course, disaster strikes - I never got the full details, but apparently there was a LOT of water, flooding a half dozen residences next to the site. Called his bosses - no answer.

He knew nothing, of course, but was nominally "in charge" so just did what he could think to do: made sure the foreman was on top of fixing the problem; knocked on the residence doors to make sure everyone nearby knew what was happening; got in touch with emergency-water-damage folks listed somewhere in the company's directory; and wrote up an email to his bosses documenting what happened, why, and what's been tried to fix it.

The way he tells it, when his boss finally called, my friend opened up with "I know you're probably gonna fire me, but I'm just doing what I can to fix this." His boss responded "fire you? I'm gonna offer you a f*cking full time job"

TLDR: it's not your job to launch this thing on your own. Other people are doing their jobs too. Just to be ready to contribute how you can, if & when you're needed.
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Feel free to engage any of the points I brought up.

Or don't. You are hyperbolic and provided nothing of value to the conversation thus far.

I don't deny climate change. I question the appropriate response and the motivations of those that intend to place themselves in positions of authority unsubstantiated. You fall into the latter category if not the former.
This is like all the anti-vegan humor. There must be a mental condition in which someone proselytizing is interpreted as a personal attack.
If you buy the theory that Bytedance is a covert operation by the Chinese government, then this fits the narrative.

Use the TikTok brand to attract top global talent and perform research in areas of general interest for government agencies.

They only need to build a backdoor for Chinese officials to access the research data.

Sounds far fetched but I believe this is well within the realm of possibilities.
> It was an expectation, yes, not a proven fact...

I wonder if they wonder if substantially (the memeplex is...complex) describing it otherwise was to their advantage, in retrospect.
Maybe around the edges of peak season is better option?

Skiing in colorado is best end of March into April. Crowds are completely gone and snow is the best.
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> and are possibly old enough to be possible to emulate on one of these fast new Macs

... or on an older slow Mac if it didn't have to go through a browser?
The equipment is indeed defective. If your receiver is able to be overloaded by adjacent channel interference because you as the designed neglected to install a bandpass filter on such a critical piece of equipment, and it wasn't discovered until later when someone legally was granted a license to use adjacent spectrum, your equipment is WILDLY defective. Just because it took many many years to identify the failure doesn't give the manufacturers a pass.

A jammer is a malicious, unlicensed product specifically designed to prevent your Wifi from working.
* University flashbacks *
I think toml is optimized for reading/writing by humans, while this is primarily exchange format. So readability is not too much of an concern. Seems like a compromise between JSON and protobuf
That would rank pretty far up in the "unethical jobs" list
> Modern people overestimate how long we have been able to engineer things precisely

I think you're underestimating it also. For example, micrometres capable of measuring imperceptible differences have existed for many centuries, same for manufacturing machines (lathes, mills) that can shape objects to imperceptible requirements.

Cameras probably just don't require such precision.
Alaska officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1B snow crabs
Interesting! Is there a modern equivalent of kernel32, then?

I haven't done low-level Windows programming since before the 64-bit transition, but I thought they kept the model of a DLL wrapper with a stable ABI.
What fraction of existing code uses languages with true/false vs yes/no? I’d imagine it should be “least surprising” for most users.
Since RAM failures are related to solar events, could we log memory failure info and send the data (anonymously) to collectively operate a cosmic ray detector?
I think that time away from a job has tremendous value for everyone. beyond the finance industry. Let's ignore the fun and regenerative benefits of vacations to the vacation-taker.

For the business:

* It's a real life test of what happens if an employee quits/resigns, with less impact (a team member will probably be able to reach them in an emergency).

* You can test your operational robustness (as mentioned by the parent comment).

* It exposes holes in processes and documentation that have been papered over by a human.

* The vacation may reveal tasks which can be delegated to others or not done at all (timeline depending, of course).
it really did help. thank you for sharing an experience you had.

sometimes its nice to know that you aren't alone, even if you feel like you are. i never expected so much support from all of you guys but it has filled me with a lot of confidence and generally good vibes that i didn't know i needed.

thanks again
> Heroku/Dokku > Public Cloud >Dedicated servers in someone else's DC > Custom Hardware in custom built data centers.

I think stackoverflow and its siblings proved that having a handful of servers can go a very long way, even making cloud ops redundant.

Of course this is function of what you're optimizing for, and whether you want to go down the "boring monolithic app" route.
I guess it depends on your sensibilities. Tokyo in the summer matches where I live in the summer, so it's no real change. Also I'd say weather is all part of the experience. Places like Sapporo or Sendai are great to visit in the winter, because you get a real winter experience. Something we don't get in my country.

Most countries have more than 4 season in practical terms though, and going during the "seasons inbetween" is my recommendation. In Australia, the indigenous have up to 6 different seasons they identified depending on the location/tribe, and they have more nuanced events expected for each season. Most countries are like that in real terms, so intimate knowledge can get you a great budget off-season holiday experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_seasons
All this to say "I'm a contrarian"

I don't think most people legitimately enjoy "empty military museums" "walking across town aimlessly twice" "visiting in bad weather" "watching bad soccer matches" "eating at the same place three quarters of meals for 8 weeks"

I do 4-8 month backpacking trips semi-regularly and try to visit new countries whenever possible... But even I can't find a single piece of appreciable advice from this whole read.
What timezone do you assume the source datetime is in?
The title of the job opening says computational chemistry, but the details indicate they're looking for someone with credentials in one of a few different computation / simulation specialized fields. If I had to guess, it seems possible they think those types of simulation design skills may be useful for simulating user social behavior somehow?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26149721.
Are you following your own advice? You don't sound smart, you sound smug
Pyramids were built during offseasons. But it wouldn't really have been an option to redeploy that unskilled, uneducated labour towards industrial research instead, at least not without a radical change to ancient societies. Not least because kings and religions tended to want non-agricultural engineering resources focused on monuments and defences, not finding more labour/cost-effective ways of increasing output of craft produce or pursuing science for the sake of science
From what I hear you certainly risk prosecution in Turkey if you simply say that you think Turkish economic policy is bad.
at some levels a covert operation by the Chinese government

It isn't covert.

They only need to build a backdoor for Chinese officials to access the research data.

If it's located in China the Chinese government can access it, period. It's not secret or a conspiracy; it's how business is done.
This article is very specifically not talking about locomotive steam engines, but the early, even pre-Newcomen, pre-Watt, low-pressure steam engines developed by Thomas Savery in the 1690s.
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Yeah. Exactly the same for me. It was a serious misstep because by all accounts some of the functionality (circles in particular) would have been a significant step forward for social media in general. By the time they realised their mistake and started pushing it (heavily) the ship had sailed.
Yes, we're planning also to add a kill switch to the allocator that we switch on if anything allocates after init().