skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way is a statistics class not a math class?
Ha, what irony? “I am smart in one area so I am therefore smart in everything” is the original sin of crypto (and, frankly, tech in general).

Go back through HN threads on the countless crypto failures and frauds and count how many times some variation of “I don’t understand, they were so smart!” comes up. Or the threads leading up to those failures where the defenders invariably trot out “there are a lot of smart people involved in this, you seriously think you know better?”
I'm not sure that I'd qualify as a software architect. I work in a small software company and basically I do all important IT decisions. I'm kind of architect and full stack developer and devops at the same time.

So sometimes we do some design meetings. I suggest how to better design database, etc. I'm trying not to dictate everything but rather catch mistakes which are obvious from my experience. Avoiding mistake early is very important IMO.

Recent months I designed Kubernetes cluster. We have plenty of small and medium services and environments thrown around in a few dedicated servers. It's a giant mess. I dread when I need to untangle it. So it was unavoidable to redesign devops from the scratch and I decided to go with Kubernetes. I basically tried few approaches, some turned out to be too complex, e.g. I built a complete automation on terraform, shell scripts and flux and ditched it out, because nobody but me would understand it and I don't need that kind of job security. I ended up with a simplest setup possible. Terraform provisions servers (we use hoster with OpenStack), then I manually run kubeadm with prepared configs, then I run few shell scripts to install important stuff with helm, then I install our services with kustomize. I think it was very nice outcome. Simple and approachable for everyone who knows basics of Kubernetes. Not full-fledged GitOps, but I decided that we're not ready for it yet. That was one example of project that I did myself because we didn't have necessary expertise.

Right now I'm adapting our projects to work with Kubernetes, improving builds, adding health checks, writing yams, etc.

I also made a foundation for some important core projects which I couldn't trust others to design. Then people continued my work. It seems to work fine so far, I oversee those projects to keep them in a good condition.

Also I chat a lot with developers who stumble upon hard issues and struggle to resolve those or they can't make some decision.

And I have some vision how our system as a whole should look like in an ideal world. We don't have resource to implement that vision and probably never will, but I consider it a good direction so I'm trying to point important decisions to that direction.

Also I sometimes walk over repositories and fix stuff I don't like. Usually devops stuff, like bad dockerfiles, missing dockerignores, outdated dependencies.

Sometimes I feel like a janitor, LoL.
If you read the article, you got the message of GE's ads anyway.
What's also noteworthy is Emperor: Battle for Dune. Released by the same Westwood Studios in 2001, it was their first foray into 3D RTS. It was a great game IMO. Excellent soundtrack. The only problem was they replaced House Camino with a new House Ordos - a change that was unpopular among some Dune fans.
The downvoters know the truth. rbanffy, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, rbanffy, __children's_ice_cream__.

You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, rbanffy. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
That Apple's system uses the huge existing network of "every iphone" does reduce the barrier to entry quite a lot. It's cheaper, doesn't require as much technical knowledge, placement considerations for GPS antennas, power source for hungrier devices, etc.

And Apple did tout the features intended to discourage it being used this way.
Widely accepted to be smarter than dogs.
Voter registration also ensures that you're voting in the right races. Because the US has so many local races, people living not very far apart may have different ballots for things like local water district. And people are terrible at updating the address on their id.
What's the "winning" condition? I've barely played, but I gather that even the most successful fortress ends up with all of the dwarves dead eventually.

I think you just have to set your own goals. Maybe you want to get a population of 1000 before death, or maybe you want a fortress to last 100 years.

If you're not very good, then your goals can be very small, and get larger.

To mix some metaphors, the house always wins, but can you make par for the course, or "justify your seed" (to use the tennis term I picked up from Infinite Jest)?
Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?
These initiatives are quite bluntly idiotic. CMake's scripting language is a collosal red herring. CMake's scripting language is good enough for all conceivable use cases, and if you feel the need to write scripts, let alone complex ones, then you're already doing something awfully wrong and you should just reach out to the documentation to learn how to do things properly.
There are a lot of apps that having singing lessons. Yousician may be the most popular.

I'd equate being able to speak a foreign language to singing in key. That's what the apps will be able to help with, at least from what I've seen. If that's what you're looking for, that's a good place to start. However, there is a lot of technique to make your voice sound pleasant and interesting beyond just singing on key. I'm not sure if that apps really help out there that much like an actual vocal coach could.
Ooof. My inferential thinking is suffering this morning apparently.
That's an interesting solution to mitigating risk. I wasn't aware that LE would follow a CNAME to a different TXT record.

Although it does require an additional NS which is an additional maintenance overhead - that is preferable to leaving automated services sitting around with write access to important domains. At least until I can stop regularly writing DNS records.
Interviewed with about 28 companies for almost 3 months, without a single offer! I was starting to get really worried about money and burned out from interviewing. In the past I've never interviewed with more than 2 or 3 before getting an offer

I now this is incredibly privileged. I'm not humble-bragging, just observing the change in the market.

As things usually turn out, during the last week of the 3-month search I received 3 different offers all at once.

For reference and if it matters: I've got 14 years of experience.
Wikipedia says the patent for karaoke machine is held by a man in the Philippines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_del_Rosario?wprov=sfti...

It also says that Karaoke in Japan is predated by sing-a-long programs in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke?wprov=sfti1

Besides that I assume any patent from the 70s is now expired.
Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

Workforce Participation (a per capita metric) decreased. Starting from 2002 with a participation of 66%, the US employed ~192 million. But in 2022 at a participation of 62%, the US employed ~203 million.

Absolute employment is up. Between that and productivity gains, more work is being done today than ever before.
Most of that is BS of course but I get your point. His companies have received billions in tax breaks and NASA contracts, then supports Trumpism, Kanye and segregation.
> If I want to pass a variable into a function, and have its value changed by the function, what do I do? A lousy candidate says "put an ampersand in front of it". A meh candidate says to pass a pointer to the variable. The best candidate will talk about the difference between call-by-value versus call-by-reference.

I agree it's good for a candidate to demonstrate a solid understanding of evaluation strategies, but the way you phrased the question, the 'meh' answer seems about right. You asked what do I do? which invites a narrow answer specific to the language.
I work for an educational multimedia nonprofit. My job involves creating and maintaining educational websites.

The organization is not 100% 'not evil' by any means. There are a lot of issues, e.g. we take donations from unquestionably evil sources and prominently mention them (and/or run ads for them). But the mission is to educate, and I know for a fact that my work helps teachers and students every day, so all things considered I feel good about working here.

Many people who work here have taken salary/benefits cuts to do so. I'd say most of us are less motivated by money than we are by contributing to society. I was ludicrously underpaid for years, and only recently I got a raise that falls within the lower boundaries of what is average for my position and skills. I get recruiter emails almost daily offering tens of thousands of dollars more than I make now, but I'm not interested in contributing to spyware or optimizing landfill-junk production or any of the other evils that the vast majority of for-profit companies are rewarded for doing.

If I think about what it would take for me to work for a company like Facebook, it ends up being "enough to donate whatever it would take to negate the harm they do" - i.e. everything they have, and complete control over the direction of the company. I would turn down millions of dollars if taking it meant working for Facebook.
Gooood shit.
Yes we could easily be looking at Tesla and SpaceX having failed they came so close. I think Musk is obviously an extremist which is fine but sometimes you have a management strategy that works and you apply it in different scenarios and it falls flat. Pissing off and calling out advertisers is probably not ideal, for example.
Do you know if you can get this beneficial UVA from an artificial lamp?

Is it as good as going outside?

Is it good enough to be a near-replacement or is it even worthwhile as a supplement?
The first artificial hearts were implanted in the 1960's. I think the point I'm trying to make is that Neuralink is doing a huge amount basic science / R&D in addition to trying to get a product into FDA. In their final FDA application, it sounds like (from the article) that they'll have data from ~100 animals. That doesn't mean that the other animals were wasted - it's more that the 100 animals for the FDA are wasted in the sense that they're tested on the pristine final product rather than all the steps before.
These graphs seem to say otherwise. Leaving the gold standard seems to have ushered in the current dystopia we find ourselves in. The gold standard wasn’t perfect for sure, but having to have money rooted in something instead of nothing seems to have kept wage improvements for all classes, not just the elite.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

If you think about it when you turn on a money printer, those closest to it (elites, the well connected) are going to catch most of it.
> I would find it beyond bizarre if there were not thouands of "waves".

How would you account for the narrow genetic variability within indigenous American populations?
Nevertheless the point is the same. Some technologies are more stable and broadly adopted than others. A slice of the total risk management pie entails selecting a tech stack that is less likely to die soon than its competitors.
When there are too many people on Earth to support a sustainable live for humanity, not having kids is the paramount for survival.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879397
> These people have no idea what they are talking about.

It's true, but despite that I think they are plausibly in the ballpark of a useful idea. Their particular implementation sucks, but what if an implementation included a decision making process where false/flawed "facts" were subjected to skilful review by other people.

In this case, each proposition asserted by the proponent could be rejected based on valid critiques from a diverse set of reviewers (here there is non-trivial complexity, but nothing insurmountable imho), and they could rework their recommendations to eliminate those flaws and return with an improved plan that would be subjected to the same process. After several rounds, I'd think this could produce better ideas, and over time I'd think people would get much better at it cutting the time it takes for iterations.

> If the tests get overused and it becomes common knowledge what is on them, they stop being useful metrics because now they can be gamed, essentially.

Under current approaches that mostly come from academia (not exactly the most diverse set of minds), and are subject to long iteration cycles - fund 100 startups to work on the problem and we may see better results.

Isn't it weird that we complain endlessly about poor results, and yet hardly anyone has strong feelings about doing things differently (if not outright scoff at the very idea)? I've read your posts for many years, please tell me that you can see this phenomenon all around us?
PG is one of the most important bishops of the Cult of the Founder. This is more of the same.

We should recognize that he, by popularizing this world view, has done as much as anyone to empower the SBFs of the world.
The whole CA model is broken by the OS and browser model of "Every CA is trusted for every use case across any TLD or IP range" without any sort of context of scope except dates. Do you REALLY trust that some of these CAs aren't issuing sketchy certificates to their local intelligence agencies, as one of the Middle Eastern CAs was caught doing? Why is it every single one of the 30+ CAs that Mozilla or Google trusts can issue .com domain certs, not just ones for their local TLDs or local which would dramatically limit the blast radius for a breach? To pick on Chrome since they're the biggest, they've got Turkish and Greek, Chinese and Hong Kong and Taiwanese CAs in there, how do you think people in those countries feel about trusting TLS certs from the other?
The high bar to establish a trusted CA in terms of cybersecurity capital investments and audit requirements means there's very few developing country CAs. What if LacNIC or AfriNIC could run their own CAs, but they were scoped only to work on IPv4 or IPv6 blocks they managed?
Meanwhile, in a corporate enterprise use case, how about being able to trust a CA only to issue certs for my dev and test .local domain, possibly with a scoped range of IPs? At that point, I don't care if that internal CA gets breached and an attacker issues fake .com certs, my OSes and browsers I installed the CA on would know they're only valid for foobarlab.local on 10.10.x.x - 10.100.x.x or some IPv6 equivalent.
> other potentially addictive things

...and then you go on to list a bunch of things that share the property that they are enjoyable.

There really are addictive substances; but honestly, sugar isn't one of them. These are behaviours that people become habituated to. It's not fair on real addicts to claim that your serial adultery is the consequence of "sex addiction".
If your L2 has the same security and decentralization of the L1, then it's another L1. Since it has the performance part of things, it can only have either security (but then it's centralized, so it could fully securely write bullshit, which then gets written to L1), or decentralization (and then you get to write unsecure bullshit, which has no reason to either be trusted or true, and you can write that to your L1).

It could write to L1 immediately, but your writes can still not be trusted or right.
Weird space to wade into, as wealth inequality is no joke worthy of tweets.
Isn't it hypocritical to dismiss that argument, though?

Arguably if you cared about animal wellbeing you'd start with the farming industry.

I'm not saying shutdown animal-cruelty cops because the farming industry is far worse than individuals abusing animals, but those 1500 animals killed were killed in the name of science.
The idea that the fruits of automation should be awarded to the single guy on top is ridiculous, and that's not communist thinking.

The idea of automation is that we should advance as society. The very point of it is that we need to work less, but it never turns out that way because the benefits of automation are seized by the few.

Hence, we forcefully invent new labor regardless of purpose. Half of our economy is keeping each other busy with bullshit to keep this going.

And if that wasn't perverted enough, now the message is: actually, we don't need you. At all.
Permits and permission for buying and disposing of lab rats and lab mice (which seem to make up the bulk of the 1500 number)? Hardly…
Comments are from 2010, so the images were probably put up there before Photobucket started watermarking everything (around 2017, I think).

Edit: just noticed the date of the post is June 2010.
Well, if I were an artist who wants to make work publicly available (previews?) and charge for it, I would make sure the license I use to publish my work explicitly states that it's not allowed to use my work as part of training data for any ML algorithm. If they want my work for that, then pay for it.

Hell, I think I as a developer could do that... Gonna invent a new open source license.
How did you use uBlock origin with Steven block hosts list on the print paper?
I think the more people are living where they want to and not where they're forced to the happier people will be in general.

Especially as the "city" fills up with "city people" they hopefully will stop voting so strongly against "city".
>I don't think anyone has claimed that either

You said they'd "have to double-run every trial you're doing". Which isn't correct. They have to double run the experiments they screwed up on. That may or may not be faster than taking the time to improve experiment quality.
It's similar for me and I still get exposed to people in the non-work part of my life, quite a lot actually, I just don't get two crammed train cars full of people twice a day anymore. I'm not as healthy as during quarantine, but I'm mildly sick-ish right now and I used to get knocked out for a week or so around this time before wfh almost every year and be a lot sicker otherwise, so whatever I'm being exposed to right now my immune system seems to be able to handle. I had a few infections in spring and summer when everyone here finally came out of quarantine, so I guess the post-isolation shock is already behind me.

Besides, if "normal society" means miserable unpaid commutes and cold offices with bad cafeteria food and a lot less time and energy for the things in life that really matter, then I'm quite happy to miss out on that. I'm not living in some kind of self-imposed total isolation, if anything I'm more active outside work these days, and my whole life feels a lot healthier (and that sure helps too)
now you’re getting it.
> OTOH, i am unsure what do you mean by a statistical over-representation of GD.

This is quite clear to me and I do not think gender dysphoria - which is a DSM-5 diagnosis [1] - is the correct term to use. Compared to previous years or decades (or centuries) there is a markedly higher percentage of children/young adults who "self-identify as 'trans'", often clustered and in waves. This did not use to be so but that does not mean similar phenomena did not occur, they just did not get a diagnosis attached to them. It is highly probable (and feed for a dissertation if there is a university which would accept such a politically charged project) that the same character types who now "self-identify as 'trans'" were those who would style themselves as "goth" or "emo" or (in the late 80's and 90's) "metrosexual" or any other androgynous style. The difference is that these earlier style figures did not come with a diagnosis nor were they adopted by any mainstream political movement and as such were taken less seriously. You could be a goth just like you could be a metalhead or a prep and be part of your in-crowd by just wearing the right clothes (and, for some crowds, make-up) and listening to the right bands. It was accepted as a way for children and young adults to "belong" without coming with much baggage.

[1] https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphori...
JetBrains Update on Ukraine
> Absolute belief that gender is purely a social construct (a core tenet of second-wave feminism) is strictly incompatible with gender dysphoria existing at all, since gender dysphoria necessarily means that our brains are inherently wired to be male or female.

That's not true. It would just indicate that the gender dysphoria is socially caused (perhaps by the imposition of strong gender norms) rather than being an unavoidable part of someone's nature.

It does lead to very different policy proposals though: if gender dysphoria is socially caused then it makes sense to prioritise minimising the cause (by widening the scope of acceptable gender expression for each gender) rather than treating the symptom (by allowing people to change their recognised gender).
AMD Zen 4 Cost Table and Tuning Patches Posted for the GCC Compiler
Reusing the already installed browser is better than Electron, which packages its own browser. Many popular apps, like Slack, Asana, Discord, Github Desktop each install a full browser on your system (see https://www.electronjs.org/apps for more).
My point was that your example shouldn't have provable negative expected value. Feel free to use the S&P 499 example in the future.

And look, I agree that indexed investing is likely the best strategy for most people. However, some people do beat the market consistently over the long term. TFA states that plainly, although it tries to downplay it. Additionally, this specific "research" is released by S&P Dow Jones Indices. What is the S&P 500 and Dow Jones if not a hand-picked selection of stocks? So this article isn't really saying it's impossible to beat the market. The article is saying that it's impossible to beat S&P Dow Jones Indices at picking stocks, which means the article is just a marketing piece. I'll also add that the S&P 500 plays with a stacked deck. By the nature of its size, companies included in the index trade at a substantial premium to similar companies outside of the index.
I read the opening para, got the message that GE was the exclusive advertiser in one edition of the NYT, and then stopped.
Yep, smartest guy I knew in my physics program dropped out of his masters when he realized he would earn more in a year at a MAGMA than he would over half a decade begging for grants.
Hey! (Taiga CEO) Wonderful to see taiga getting some exposure on HN. We're working on a completely new Taiga codebase, codenamed TaigaNext (we'll eventually decide on a proper name). We'll open up repos and stuff very soon for those who want to mess around with code and experimental features. Of course, TaigaNext and Penpot will have a tight integration so that both the lean and design process become more fluid for teams. We are being a bit silent on the Taiga front simply because we have a ton happening on Penpot's front atm! But expect great things from Taiga in 2023!
Sprawling suburbia is not small towns and villages. I could see medium-sized towns being the happy middle ground for density vs costs vs desirability. But the typical American suburb is a blight on the planet.
I showed some stable diffusion "failures" to an architect and he had a similar response about it being it's own interesting/different style.