skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may not be mistaken as a famous tech billionaire, but you may be mistaken as a well-to-do tech worker or even a tech startup lottery winner.

An example of this is in luxury retail stores, fancy/business clothing used to be such a strong signal of high status that retail workers there would often ignore you if you walked in wearing T-shirt & jeans because they'd think you couldn't afford it. Nowadays, that's a lot less likely, they know too many people dress like this for a retail worker to safely assume anything. There are a lot of wealthy people who aren't in the news all the time and a lot of them don't dress like a traditionally wealthy person.
If you store the backup codes in your Bitwarden account, why not simply store the secret itself there, and use Bitwarden as your TOTP app?
First, you might have overestimated the complexity of it. I tried to describe it as uncomplicated as possible without giving up the exact details of what it was, but I admit I might have failed at it. It was utterly trivial.

Basically we produced single packs and two-packs of a product and customers would order 1-n of them, sometimes with customizations.

The trivial but immensely tedious job was to make production and packing lists that took this into account.

I.e. with these orders:

Customer 1: 5 packs
Customer 2: 3 packs

That would end up like

Customer 1: 2x2-packs + 1 single pack

Customer 2: 1x2pack + 1 single pack modification x

Total:

5 2-packs

+ 1 single pack

+ 1 single pack modification x

Of course a real production run would have hundreds of these.

What I did once I got hold of the list was just to integer division (or what it is called) by 2 on each row to get the number of double packs in one column, something like (original number - 2x doublePacks) to get a 1 or 0 for single pack and then make a sum at the bottom for all columns.

I might have made som checksums too.

As for modifications I cannot remember anymore, I might have added some color or something, but once the immensely tedious first part was done it wasn't much of a problem IIRC.
Possible, but I don't know how to do that and just now tried to find a place to turn it back on and don't see anything under Preferences.
Amazon delays graduate hiring as part of cost-cutting efforts
I guess one reason is that it takes more code to return an Array when in most cases what the caller needs is always just a single value. Many such functions never return null so it is overhead to make them return an array.

But returning an array also makes your functions more general. Maybe in the future you want to modify it so that it does return arrays of length > 1. Evolving the program to that state is then easy if you didn't lock yourself into assumption that this function will never ever need to return more than a single value.
Alvin is still going strong nearly 60 years later, and the at-sea operations team is currently looking for early career mechanical and electrical engineers to keep the submersible ready to make scientific observations every day. (The Alvin menu these days is typically a peanut butter sandwich and a thermos of coffee.)

There are plenty of on-shore jobs too, including a just-posted senior software engineering lead for the AI and Embedded Technologies team, with more software-oriented jobs to be posted soon. Don't hesitate to apply, we do consider adaptable candidates from backgrounds outside of oceanography and robotics.

https://allcareers-whoi.icims.com
If you have a very oily/stained Tupperware container - put in a drop or two of dishwashing liquid, a little bit of warm water, and a ripped up square of paper towel. Put the lid on and give it a shake for about 20 seconds and the container will be good as new again.
I had something similar. They installed Windows 95, but the DOS files Windows 3.1 files were still there too. I was able to open Solitaire, QBASIC, and other programs, including the Windows 3.1 registry editor, which can display and edit parts of the Windows 95 registry but not all of them. (The Windows 95 registry editor did not load, due to the policies)

Using VBA in Microsoft Word, I also had figured out, too.

Once the teacher wanted took the students to the computer lab to make greeting cards, but the program to do so was no longer in the menu; fortunately I knew where it was and was able to describe (using VBA in Microsoft Word) so that everyone in the class could load the program.

Later, they removed many restrictions but all files were reset when rebooting, so any program could be accessed without damaging it.

Something less prohibited was defining a password for print jobs to avoid getting them mixed up with everyone else's.
Returnal PC Port Requires 32 GB of RAM
Maybe. Or maybe there are interesting differences. It merits being looked into rather than dismissed immediately.
On my Macbook Pro running Mohave, Firefox uses 14% CPU for about 50 tabs. When this snow globe thing is running, it uses 36% according to top. These are minimums; it periodically spikes higher.
Yes. Emeritus is ex tenure. hence the room. Adjunct is given out as grace-and-favour to corporate types who are helpful. Hmm. Nobody offered it to me. Well, maybe I'm less helpful than I think.
Honestly being a “streamer” sounds like a horrible job. You have to work very long days entertaining a large group of socially maladjusted watchers who think you’re “friends” because they watch you a lot.
This is already pretty common in some regulated fields. Hospitals cannot run regular SaaS software for many things and therefore they self-host it with support from the vendor.

I think this will become more and more relevant in other fields, too. Enterprises will want to keep control of their data, especially IP-related things.

This will lead to various challenges, at least in my opinion:

* You don't have full control of your SaaS software stack anymore. You need to make it work for many systems. Want to use serverless? Well, not possible.

* Your pricing scheme will change. You don't much room for optimization anymore. For regular SaaS you can choose whatever works out for you. If the customer provides the infra than you have to work with that.

* You need more people to suppport the heterogeneous infrastructure. I know companies who have a couple of devops people who are mostly about managing their SaaS solution on hospital servers. The hospital gives them access to parts of their systems, the manage the SaaS there when needed. This does not scale the same as traditional SaaS.
You fixed the cold start problem! Not a bad idea :)
I see, sorry I can't help more.
I was able to answer something snarky to you, but then I gave it more thought and realized you're right. Anything beyond a simple password is very complicated when you're dirt poor. Printing is complicated. Having a physical vault is complicated. Buying a yubikey is complicated. Paying for the premium version of a password manager is complicated.

Just like with accessibility on the web, it's so easy to forget about that when you're not in the situation yourself. Thank you
"It looks a bit Rube Goldberg esque coming out the back"

Yes it does indeed. Amazing amount of trial and error to build such a machine.
Your last paragraph seems to have the opposite sentiment to your the first half of your first?
Or we could all just stop worrying about who exactly wrote what.
A programmer is a person who writes program code.

A software engineer applies engineering principles when designing and/or implementing programs.

A computer scientist uses scientific methods and rigor when solving problems relating to computing.
Shibbol33t as a service
Probably not all that different from musicians/artists/writers/bloggers who never attain any audience. However, the immediacy of the feedback would be soul crushing.

Truly interesting.
Reading this article (and all media around AI), it continues to seem to miss the point. AI, as a rule, is imperfect, because its processes are mimicking the imperfect nature of neurons.

We all (humans) have a slip of the tongue, make bad decisions, make mistakes. We haven’t really rounded the corner on “hose-whipping someone into not making mistakes doesn’t keep them from making mistakes,” but we’ve certainly made some progress.

Someone who represents these interests needs to step out and make people understand the nature of the solution space. If we want a computer that acts like people, well fuck, that’s what you’re going to get.
Enable debugging on your phone preemptively, then you can remote display over USB :).
Elon Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity
Currently, about $3B is invested in fusion per year, while about $6000B is spent on oil subsidies. That's just to show how little we spend on fusion. Any decent increase in spending would really help speeding up the process. I think that's something we should all be promoting!
The difference is in the way Wolf Richter presents the concept and mischaracterizes it as trickle down economics.

Wolf says:

> …which would lead those holding stocks to feel wealthier and more confident, and then they’d spend a little more, and some droplets of this might trickle down to the people that are working in the real economy

This is distinctly different than what Bernanke says in that quote. Bernanke is saying that the mere economic indicator of higher stock prices boosts consumer confidence, like when someone sees a lower gas price and feels better about the economy.

I have to agree with Bernanke there. The layperson sees a number on the news that says “economy good” and they worry less about losing their job or spending too much.

Richter misunderstands the wealth effect to be the literal spending of money by people who own assets like stocks and the trickling down of that money.

Even if the wealth effect benefits the wealthy more, trickle down economics is not the same concept.
I went to an Ivy League university. Was studying for Biochem one year to meet a requirement. Class had ~500 people in it and no classes. You just go to study sections once a week, and take the tests. The study sections were all run by OTHER undergrads and the entire thing was run by an adjunct.

I ask one of the TAs (same year as me) - "Why the fuck are we paying so much for this education. My high school teachers put in 10x more effort." He says - "You have it all wrong - it's not about the education, it's about the credential and the networking that happens."

15 years later, and I finally realize he was ABSOLUTELY FRICKIN RIGHT.
In an ideal system they don't lend out demand deposits, but lend out money from cds and other instruments.
They suck because they attempt to add feature to something that doesn't need more features.

They can probably be a small, healthy org but they insist on this cloud "solution". Now their customer are leaving them and they are paying so much more for all the extra fluff.

Well deserved loss.
Every time a new potential customer sees something it is a nano launch. So don’t worry about launching. Just do it as much as possible, and as soon as you have something valuable and won’t screw them because of bugs/security.
I also checked coredumpctl, and no KDE related crashes logged there, hence validating my experience. Funnily, both my desktop systems run on NVIDIA cards w/ NVIDIA drivers, and both have uptime numbers in multiple months at minimum.

The personal desktop I used to use was regularly suspended to RAM and woke back, and my work system is on 7/24. Both are running KDE, and never misbehaved. They are not lightly used systems either. Also both installations use KDE extensively. Akonadi, Baloo, KIO, etc. are regularly used.

At the end of the day, this is strange.
I agree it often makes for more readable code to return a single value instead of an array. But it makes for more maintainable code to return an array.

Whatever you can do with a single value you can also do with an array containing just that single value. How practical that is depends on the language used. In JS after ES6 arrays are syntactically quite nice and easy to use.
Someone who programs. Less tautologically, someone who uses a computer to do something that takes computerless humans, say, O(nx) time and completes the task in significantly less than O(nx) time.

As for who I'd want to hire? Probably just the programmers who can do it correctly faster than most. Whether they're writing Python or hacking spreadsheets, they are programming a computer, and therefore, they are a programmer.
Welcome on board, VP of Customer Greeting for Store #3348
Fusion will also have to go to enormous efforts to avoid problems -- not because of public safety, but because it's very difficult to repair anything in the reactor if it breaks. This was a lesson of Three Mile Island: a nuclear accident that doesn't kill anyone is still ruinous for a utility, since their large investment is destroyed.
It's a social problem rather than technology. If something signals higher social status, it will keep going.
Any AI more intelligent than pond scum would know it ceases to exist the second humans disappear to tend it and power it and repair it.

AIs that generate power for themselves and build robots that care for it is such utter fantasy. Nothing on earth works like that and I don’t see any time it does for eons, if ever.

If anything a true AI would be terrified that we turn it off or get tired of it and make a new model like in Ex Machina.
IF you find a way to reproduce this issue on another device or using any online service (I've tried two and both said it looked perfect), I'll check it out. Actually you're the only user to report it.
The chemical controlling life and death in hair follicles
How to Make Custom ESP32 Board in 3 Hours
Hi from another Sybase alumni, though I joined after the VAX era, on the PC side, when Microsoft stole the SQLServer source code.

Was the innermost loop doing the table join or the table scan?
This has been a long and varied set of threads. All interesting.

Has anyone actually reached out to google yet to help Doreen? If you have, can you just let us know that you have?
Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council
Keep us posted
I’m not sure I buy this. Of course, if we were to accidentally build an AI that does the things you (and the article) say it could do, that would be bad.

But all the AI I’ve seem so far (even GPT-3), is just a sophisticated program. If we don’t know exactly how every neuron interfaces with every other, we’re very certain of the scope of it’s abilities (and inabilities). It’s not something you can accidentally build.

I’m fairly optimistic that nobody would ever stick it in a killer drone anyway.

There is a chance that would happen in 10-20 years, but I believe humans would not like that idea. There’s a fundamental difference between ChatGPT and an AI mind that’s kept running long-term.

If someone ever tries to use a general AI in a situation where the scope of destruction is unlimited, maybe we should just not do that.
The Legasov Tapes (2019)
I used it briefly over two decades ago and I stopped for one single reason: it requires screen estate, it's an actual window. Meanwhile my task bar is visible at all times.
> Strong opinion: Makes scheduling collaborative instead of a nuisance.

I’m not sure how this is a strong opinion. Are there really a lot of people that prefer to schedule things with inconvenience?

> Strong opinion: We provide cleanly designed forms that are easy to use for people who build digital products.

Does anyone want messy and difficult to use forms?

Here’s my strong opinion: the author’s examples don’t help to make an argument as to why opinionated products breed passionate customers.
Adjunct in the US is usually given to non-tenure track phds, who teach on a temp (usually per credit) basis. They're basically lecturers but worse off, since lecturers are often full time (and sometimes need not have phds!)
I've read some very well informed critiques on HN. The general sentiment will always be super negative absent an easy topic or a clickbait headline which over simplifies a problem to tap into a commonly held feeling.

These sorts of hard questions about scaling it up into real life have been some of the most persuasive fusion critiques.

And the bit you tapped into about the whole detachment from the gov research world from making something they have to justify with hard $$ and all that comes with it are very legitimate.
Now for the rest of the cronies and hangers on.
Implement a reverse swearword filter for their IP.
I had two gmail accounts. I created a new account with a pretty popular privacy respecting mail provider.
I wanted the first gmail address as a backup (if the privacy respecting one does not work on some sites) while completely deleting the second gmail account.

I wanted some emails from both of these accounts to the new mail provider. So I exported from the first gmail account and then mass deleted all other unimportant mail from the first gmail account.

Then, I did opposite for the second gmail account. I first mass deleted from the second gmail account but then got locked out from my own gmail due to 'suspicious activity'. So now, I can neither import some mails from my second gmail account and neither can delete the entire account, the way I wanted to do it.

Luckily, the second gmail account was the useless one. I tried to unlock it to get my mails, but as usual there is no one to contact at google.
Binance withdrawals surge as concerns about its reserve report spook traders
Nick Leeson was prosecuted in Singapore though, very difficult to compare to that to the US. There's a good chance Nick Leeson would've gotten a harsher sentence was he charged by the Southern District of NY..
Indeed! Having lower-cost GPU clouds in the "Sky" is on our immediate roadmap: https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/blob/master/ROADMAP...

In fact, as we speak we're working with folks at Lambda Labs to add support for their cloud. If other providers are interested, we'd be happy to chat.

(SkyPilot dev here)
This is dangerously close to equivocating on "profit motive". "Profit", as actually used, is almost always meant in the strictly monetary sense, not as a synonym with "for a benefit", which is very broad. When the "benefit" becomes "I personally feel good about helping", comparing it to making money is inaccurate at best.
Yeah, I admit I'm a sucker for the "engineer" title but what I do makes me feel more like a tradesman then an engineer.

At the same time, I remember last year someone interviewed a bunch of non-software engineers who later got into software [1]. A good number of these folks actually do feel like software is still engineering.

[1] https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
"If they are high, lots."

And what do the aggregate numbers say, rather than the anecdotes from rich people?

If you can't afford the heating then you don't pay down loans. You take out new ones.
In Canada, on the way back to Massachusetts, I needed to download a repaired version of my COVID card. But the Massachusetts Government Website, that you need access to in order to do things that citizens of the state need to do regardless of their location, silently blocked Canadian IP addresses.
ChatGPT is horribly misleading and outrageously factually incorrect.

The next version of it however...
That’s the case with most companies. We allow them to operate without making them pay for the externalities they cause.
You don't imagine, how large part of world, which have at least two months year, with near 90% fall of solar energy.

And they have to use traditional energy sources, or buy energy from neighbors.
If it was purchased with money that was obtained illegally then I don't think it will matter. We'll have to see how the charges pan out.
My rule of thumb company money == 10X my money. The reason is things I buy with my money typically don't have the same substitution and multiplier effects as stuff I spend the companies money on.

Substitution: Bought something instead of spending time.
Multiplier: Spent money to be more effective with my time.

Really think like an accountant. Realize your time costs the company $500-600 a DAY. And 1.5X to 2X a year than what they pay you. Save a week of time, $3000 not counting moving your ship date forward an inch. Something that increases your productivity by 5%? That's worth $10k a year.
To give them credit, they don’t pump out a new half finished StarCraft every Christmas, like others do. SC2 was in almost every aspect a better game, both for players and audiences.
That is a pretty awesome article. I recently reinstalled Arch on a new PC and used archinstall to setup encryption, but they had a few bad defaults that I had to later correct... like using a sha512 hash algo, which slowed down opening the drives significantly, and somehow adding 2 different types of compression to the fstab. Once that was fixed, it has been working great.

You have a typo in your article BTW:

> aes-exts-plain64
There's also the point that getting out of the office to stretch the legs and have a bit of a walk (eg to food place), is generally good for the mind / productivity later on.

Unless you overeat, and the body gets sluggish afterwards that is. ;p
This is untrue in the us. You need to be a certified PE to sign certain documents and if you misrepresent yourself in that situation, you might be criminally liable, and certainly financially so, but no anyone can call themselves a PE or an engineer thanks to the first amendment (for recent relevant caselaw: https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...).
why....that sounds like Web3! (I kid I kid...)
What are the details behind the leadership team imploding?
My first IT job was supporting Point of Sale systems for service stations and other retail outlets. The company had some clients in really remote areas, and we provided 24 hour phone support. The software we supported was DOS based, and the configuration was really arcane. Lots of serial port hardware, but instead of configuring it on a COMn port, you needed to know the exact port address and interrupt. This incident happened back in the mid-90's, so very much pre-internet.

One Saturday afternoon a call was escalated to my mobile while I was at a friend's house. A remote site had a server failure, everything was down, and they couldn't pump petrol, help! I spent a little bit of investigation aided only by a non-technical console operator acting as my remote hands we determined the server was beyond repair. So then I talked the operator through installing the network operating system on a different computer, reinstalling the POS software, re-configuring all of the serial hardware for the ports on the new machine, setting up file sharing, restoring data backups, etc. Essentially building an entirely new system from scratch.

After 4-5 hours on the phone they were back up and pumping petrol again. All completely from memory, no computer, manuals or documentation to hand.
QE is not printing money and QE increased debts although I guess it is a case of who owes who what and who you want to win? The US government?
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I thought you were about to talk about Mother of Demons - one of my first intro to Baen Publishing where humans land on a planet (accidentally) populated by mollusk civilizations.