skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT consulting[0] firm I work for (~700 people, Germany-based + a few satellite branches in other European countries but unfortunately not in Sweden (yet) — which is where I take it you are located) hires people with zero professional SWE experience – often straight out of university (though not exclusively so) and frequently it's people who didn't even study computer science (though in that case it tends to be math/physics and they usually learned a bit of coding as part of their degree or thesis or something). In our interviews we do some coding exercises but what we're mainly interested in seeing are logical reasoning capabilities, communication skills, culture fit and a genuine interest in software engineering. Our stance is that you can and will learn everything else – either in the trainings you attend when you start or later on the job, with some guidance by our colleagues.

Long story short: You would very likely have a decent shot at an offer.

Now as I mentioned we don't have a branch in Sweden (and EU law would require one if you were to work for us remotely from Sweden), so I'm not here to advertize our firm. But maybe you can find similar companies? I know of at least a handful in Germany, so I assume there must be some in Scandinavia, too.

[0]: "Consulting" as in "We tell you how to do it and then we do it for/with you".
I certainly didn't mean to invalidate their discomfort -- as I mentioned at the end, I feel the same way sometimes. I apologize if people found it invalidating.

I actually wrote the initial draft of my comment with welcomingness as sort of a background assumption in my mind, and then I thought "wait a minute, even if I'm assuming that people would be welcoming, the person reading my comment might not. and given how hostile online discussions can get, it seems safer to err on the side of emphasizing welcomingness." That still seems roughly correct to me -- I think some topics have so much hostility associated with them that whatever you're going to say about the topic, it probably makes sense to also add in a bunch of welcomingness too, just so the discussion goes well.
From his tweets: he was renting a physical server for $55/m. So, a total joke.
This is the magic trick the ultra high net worth have done. The vast majority of their assets are never sold to realize any income. They just keep leveraging upwards to expand and also borrow against their assets to run their lavish life.
My concern long-term is that browsers will simply drop other options.

And keep in mind that "internal deployments" also include home servers and such, where it all makes even less sense.
I'd assume it's similar to what grubhub said here that the platform pays

https://twitter.com/grubhub/status/611320394256109568?lang=e...
Years of legal maneuvering made to legal in the US. Indian gaming made it impossible to ban, and the prospect of losing tv revenues make sports leagues suddenly in favor of sports betting.
The fact that essentially all concepts in math, programming, physics etc. are just applications of fixed points which is predicated on the idea of nilpotence.
Fixed points go by many names like invariance, spectra, diagonalization, embedding, braids etc.

By fixed point I mean something like the "Lawvere's fixed point theorem". https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore...

I have a braindump on this https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint

I also have a discord https://discord.gg/mr9TAhpyBW
No, I don't. I couldn't find any information on it other than he'd commissioned it and didn't like the result.
Sk8er Boi is an impressive song to demo. The chorus is in a different key than the verse, and one of the verse chords is out-of-key, borrowed from the chorus.
> Why particularly in LEO?

Faster degradation means quicker rejuvenation requirements. If you’re replacing your birds every five years in any case, the net benefit of rad hardening is diminished.
Linux works great for the highly technical and the tech-ignorant.

However, the "ordinary users" among today's young people grew up with tech, and expect more advanced functionality. Advanced functionality that, on Linux, requires advanced knowledge because of how fragmented and rough it is.
Anyone who is excels is out of their depth.

By definition if you continue to progress (in career or life), you will be doing something you have never done before. This means everyone that we look up to who appears to be on a upward trajectory is making it up as they go.
Yes :) it wasn't the clearest example. But is also slightly hard to express

I think superscalar architecture for hardware benefits from an explicit graph of dependencies. Then equally the user benefits from reduced need to convert the stack to a graph with SWAP DUP etc -- which is one way to think of the role of those operators (as a stack to graph conversion)

On the otherhand some problems are unrepresentable by a graph, and easily represented by a stack; for instance map, reduce, and a bunch of others

What I'm suggesting is that both the hardware and the user and arguably even the problem, generally prefer graphs
There's two updates.

It gets worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3bWLGZlGI

Filmora Told YouTube To Remove My Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMIIwQZMFLE
Bandwidth to send down results vs raw data? Ability to relay instructions directly from that data to the next satellite without a downlink and uplink?
You’re conflating connotation with denotation ;-)

Saying “it isn’t perfect” usually means something has fairly fundamental flaws that make it uncomfortable to use; and can simultaneously imply that it’s among the best we’ve got.

Almost certainly something will replace it or make it far more reliable, understandable, and ergonomic over time.
So? Just proves how difficult it is to make rockets that never explode. Are you saying that a non-expert would have more success?
Frechet differentiation.
writing down password does nothing when there is a digital copy too and your computer is compromised
Looks like possibly a supply chain attack targeted specifically at Luke Jr's server:

https://twitter.com/naka_frodo/status/1609655813789949959/ph...
When you turn the Linux kernel into a product and...
From quantum computing attacks it is safer, specifically because there is a fast quantum algorithm for prime factoring [1].

However, including working quantum computers in your threat profile is ridiculous for things like this at the moment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
WIP code but I added infos here: https://github.com/vikbez/PlayerPianoController/
I think Wednesday is forecasted with much more rain though. That said, I think the forecast yesterday was 2”.
> First, I keep testing all 16 possible R changes, G and B. And then, I try to find an even better solution using the current palette.

> It means 64 color distances to compute

Isn't it unnecessary to test all 16 R, G, and B values? I know the title of the post says "brute force", but you already know the desired R, G, or B value, and any other value seems guaranteed to have a larger color distance. (The distance function is subtracts actual R from desired R, right?)

Seems like you could compute only 19 color distance instead of 64: the closest R, G, and B plus the 16 palette entries.
Ask HN: What have you read recently that changed your mind about something?
People typically consume content that reinforces or builds on their existing opinions or world view.

Have you read anything recently that changed your mind or opinion on something? I’m particularly interested in things published in 2021 or 2022.
> How mortgage repayments change over time as you pay off some of it (YMMV)

This is a big one people buying houses recently due to FOMO don't understand: you're really not building equity the first few years because almost all of your monthly payment is going to interest. The "irrecoverable cost" of owning a home can often be higher than renting in some HCOL areas now, although I understand that people buy for more emotional reasons (e.g. not wanting to yank their family around to a new place each year to avoid being at the mercy of a bad landlord on each lease renewal).
I would hazard a guess to say that the best micropayment service in the world is going to have trouble competing with "free" for the average user.
From a radiation standpoint I think the Earth's magnetic field helps more than the atmosphere at that altitude.
It might aound silly, but have you looked into a full header of an email which ended up in spam folder?
Normally google provided some info about why and email eded up in soam folder.
Which is something that those that equate Android with GNU/Linux keep forgetting.
Food is ridiculously cheap to create right now to the point much of it is turned into fuel. Once it becomes more constrained, food production will increase as demand causes additional supply.

Those inefficiencies similarly become removed once demand is higher.
This is in Canada. Bosses will always defer to legal/HR and it's usually just BS. Oh this isn't policy, but policy is just made up for the company so they a) don't have to think, and b) can refer to the policy and say it's iron clad rule. businesses can do almost anything, it's that they _don't want to have to do the work_ to figure it out for you. Maybe they'll actually miss some rule where you are now "part-time" vs "full-time" if there is a legal distinction in your country based on hours worked and you can catch them in some loop hole or something and they don't want to try and figure it out, but in 99% of cases, it's just that they don't know what to actually do without thinking or researching, so they won't do it. If they make a mistake it's their ass on the line, and they don't know or care about you.

The best way to get away with this is to find an employer who is open to it from the start (good luck), or be so valuable that if you threaten to quit if you don't get it, they'll relent and do it for you. In my wife's case, they can't afford to lose her so they'll push HR into making the change. It wasn't painless and there was some annoyances and nuances to fix in the HR system, but it was worth it.

I've been self-employed for almost 15 years so that I would never have to deal with this kind of bullshit. I do consulting and work on my own business ideas. I've run several startups in the past, some of which were funded, so I've seen the back end of all this kind of stuff. My wife makes more money than I do and I work on finding businesses that can free us both from having to work. It sucks that she is making less now and we can feel it a bit, but it's not a huge blow as we aren't big spenders. It was 100% worth it, she is by far happier than she has been in years. They did a very poor job of reducing her workload with her time though, so watch out for that if you can get your 20% reduction. They'll pay you less, but expect you to work the 5th day in the 4. This is mainly a staffing issue on her team however.

I do feel some pressure to finally get something working so she can just leave her employment and in the last year I've managed to grow my latest business to twice her annual gross salary. If I can keep it up we'll be able to meet our goals, but a business is an ongoing monster with it's own risks and expenses, so it'll take some time before the leap can be made.

I hope you can achieve what you want, sometimes it takes some serious pressure to get your way, or you have to be willing to walk if they don't agree, but man that 3 day weekend every week is that much better and she still talks about how great it is a year later.
> That's because it's more expensive to pay people in a wealthy nation than a poor one. 25% of the budget just goes to paying salaries.

It's uncool to accuse people of stoking ideological arguments because they stated a relevant fact.

And can you please use better reasoning? How, in your view, does spending 25% of a budget on salaries explain a budget that's higher than the next nine countries combined?
Better never split up.
If you're going to rob a billionaire, you're probably not doing it cartoon style.

You'd find a legit way into the house.
For other HN readers:

I was like this too. I had no interest in ol' Bill. Then I read his 'best' works. And then I read them again. It takes a bit to get really used to iambic pentameter, to the old words, to the places and people he was writing for, to his limitations of candlelight and lack of amps, etc.

Reader, it is totally worth it.

There are very many very good reasons that he is still produced and studied. I encourage you in this new year to give him a solid try. Not just a play or two. Read him and watch the plays at the same time. There are hundreds of productions on YT for every play of his, all free, most very good.
Color me surprised … haha nvm rofl
Yes, he likely made a fundamental rookie error. Large sums should be stored completely offline.
Hey Lewis,

I’m pretty interested in learning from your experience - I’ll email you at the address in your profile, if that’s ok?
Inclined to agree here. Luke is going on about Intel ME backdoors on Twitter, but in reality there will be a far less crazy explanation for how he got owned.
To add: You can progress with a ramp/wall all the way to handstand pushups. Simple machines are legit.
I dont understand the reported size of the go runtime. Sure, an hello world can be 2 megs in Go, but not 500. Compiled binaries are standalone and famously statically linked, so there is no extra RUNtime. I'd think the reported 470MB is the compiler and stdlib install size ?
> This trend started 60 years ago in the US, and is finally fully mainstream today,

I assure you it’s not unique to desis in the US.

> even if some parents are still holding on to the past (and if some communities are slower than others). But thank goodness for the progress, at least!

It’s sad how many desis confuse “being more like white people” with “progress.”
Luke Jr is rather famous in the crypto world and has been for over 10 years. This isn’t a rando posting something.

It could be his Twitter has been hacked? We don’t know the whole story.
I went to watch the video, saw "Seoul National University," figured that makes sense with how big K-Pop is. Then "Dynamite" came on.
High inflation has always been the effect of massive increase of money supply, typically for the purpose of paying back creditors by state actors.

What account for money supply can be gold (Spain Inflation, 16th century), diluted gold coins (look for monetary crisis in Roman Empire), paper and scriptural money emission backed by unchanged gold possession (French Franc, after 1913 ; US dollar in the late '60), paper money not backed by gold (look for chinese ligatures), scriptural and paper money backed by a mix of other currencies (in the form of foreign government bonds) and gold (central bank system after 1973)...

...And homeland government debts (central banks system after 2008), which is called debt monetization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_monetization, which was, strangely enough, the polite way to say printing money when I was a kid.
I studied networking in the university, 20 years ago. We did study OSI as well as TCP/IP and the rest of the actual Internet stack, and it was blatantly obvious that the latter doesn't really conform to the former - protocols straddling boundaries etc. For example, TCP is not a strictly transport-layer protocol, since it also handles sessions.

When asked, our prof readily admitted that the OSI model was one of those design-by-committee experiments in purity that quickly broke down IRL.
Most of the northern world would not have much trouble buying its food wherever possible. For a high price, of course, but USA, Europe, Japan and even China are so extremely wealthy compared to others that they can outbid the majority of the South on the global food market without much difficulty. Thus, a decline in food production in the North would primarily affect the global South.
An honest criticism of Payload is it has no comments section. It also seems a bit Fox News-y.
You apply for jobs, most often jr. positions. Look for ads that explicitly state you don't need a formal education.

Companies have become much more accepting when it comes to non-traditional hires, in the past 5-10 years.
When we think about history over any time scale, we tend to think about one region, person, group, etc within that period of time. In reality, “everything” was going on during that time.

History is far richer than we tend to realize. So much is going on all the time; it’s impossible to grasp it all.
Here's something to think about: suppose you buy an assortment of candy from the grocery store and distribute a uniform collection of pieces to a room full of middle school students.

Some students will like the sour candy; others won't. Some will like coconut; others won't. Some will love nuts; others will hate them.

Now you let the students talk to each other and trade candy. The ones who like sour candy but hate coconut will trade with the students with the opposite preference, and so on.

At the end of the trades, everybody is happier with their new bundle - why would they have traded otherwise? So value has increased. But this is magic - no new candy was produced! Through trade we have increased overall value - the exercise was positive sum.

With some effort you can see that a middle man might add value by expediting trades - connecting people who like coconut with people who hate it (suppose there are thousands of students in the class who all speak different languages).

And you can see how fiat currency might make things easier. Rather than having to come up with the barter value of coconut candy and sour candy to nuts, you can convert both to a single unit and then trade units.
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What about summer rainfall? The cited atmospheric effect would presumably hold regardless of season as it's just about warmer air = more moisture in it.

Is there any evidence that it holds in Summer or are you just assuming?
I don't want to argue over the semantics of the word "embarrassed". Perhaps we can both agree that, whatever your (or their) personal feelings about the issue, it has objectively resulted in a lot of negative press coverage.

And that (even if only because of the negative coverage) powerful people are taking steps (like returning millions of dollars) to distance themselves from him.

And finally that, whether it's the motive or not, swift prosecution is an effective way for officials to distance themselves.

The rest is speculation, but not crazy.
This feels like a very privileged VC tech-centric from inside the bubble view of things, though I am admittedly no expert and left the tech world (for the most part) in 2010 - telecom and IT. There are many things that keep my over-active mind even more over-active and I cannot help but believe that because they are all so intricately and deeply intertwined, their impacts are beginning to be felt and will be increasingly disruptive and result in increasing discontinuities in 2023 and beyond. They are, in no particular order,

- war in Ukraine moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight
- we've likely reached the biophysical limits of earth
- ecological collapse with little real progress at COP15
- climate crisis with little progress of substance at COP27
- peak oil has passed
- the impending energy crisis - we have nothing on the horizon which can replace the energy density of a barrel of oil - and its impacts on shipping/transportation, the input side to industry and manufacturing, culture, society and expectations around quality of life
- problematic demographics (aging population) in many countries and its impacts on growth (as we've come to expect it) and consumption
- the end of the "Order", i.e. Bretton Woods and the unwinding of globalization
- populism, autocracy and authoritarianism, totalitarianism
- financial crises and the bill coming due for the fiat currency free-for-all and the hyperfinancial house of cards in places like China
- increasing discontent, depression and the rise of nihilism in may western countries
- the increase in truthiness and the misrepresentation and misuse of provably factual information
- neoliberalism
- CBDCs and increased government control
- AI

Perhaps normalcy bias is more prevalent than one would expect.
The ultra wealthy avoid having much income by borrowing against their assets instead of selling. So they usually never realize capital gains on most of their assets all the way until their death.

https://www.businessinsider.com/american-billionaires-tax-av...
We are just one volcano eruption away from global cooling.
I saw a copy of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" on the shelf yesterday and couldn't help wondering if there would ever be another edition. It has some great, foundational stuff in it -- but the techniques described are about as far from the current state of the art as a Byzantine dromon is from an aircraft carrier. Russell and Norvig would pretty much have to rewrite the book from scratch, and by the time the draft was ready for editing their approach would probably no longer be modern.

I'm calling it now: if AI isn't the biggest news of the next ten years, then the reason will probably be because it got upstaged by World War 3 or something similarly dramatic. And it baffles me how little press the subject gets.
I would suggest "The Phoenix Project" as an easy read
Tensors. Years ago, I would read the Wikipedia page about them every so often, and completely fail to understand what they were.

Then one day I was modeling something in a spreadsheet, and I thought to myself "you know, what I really need here, is 3rd axis to this spreadsheet". And for a few minutes, I thought I had invented a new form of spreadsheet/structure, and was considering trying to build a 3d spreadsheet program.

But, of course, suddenly everything I'd read about tensors and not understood before snapped into place, and I realized that this is exactly what they are (to be precise, this is a special case of a tensor, the contemplation of which caused me to understand what the general case is, and why e.g. a scalar is a rank 0 tensor, a vector is rank 1, a matrix is rank 2 my 3d spreadsheet idea is rank 3, etc).
... Did you see what happened in Afganistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, South America?

... Did you hear about the torture, black sites, global surveillance, drone assassinations, and censorship?

... Did you see what happened to the people who blew the whistle on this stuff?

And you're not ashamed to play a part in this? Is there some line they haven't crossed yet that would do it for you?
Probably bad security practices. Maybe he has accessed a compromised server over ssh and used agent forwarding or something. Anyhow, looks like a pretty bizarre profile...
They protect a lot of "objectionable" websites from DDoS, though.
Related works are Lewis Wolpert's Triump of the Embryo, and the Dutch Flag problem.
I think it depends on what kind of programming job you want.

In my experience hiring practices wary a lot between different types of companies. Getting a job at a FAANG type of company varies from getting hired by a local web agency, a consultancy, startup or just being hired to run the company website.

HN tends to focus a lot on FAANG and well financed startups, but there are a lot of very different programming jobs out there.
Possible in Extremadura, Andalusia and the Castilles. Also, Spain has the concept of "menú del día", a complete cheap menu. That's it: a starter, a second dish and a dessert. In the South of Spain you can find cheapish prices from 6 eur to 10.
This is not quite the same.

Experts did make mistakes for the challenger explosion, but they did much better than the average person. Put 1000 people at complete random into a room and say design and build a rocket, I suspect they won't even get to the build phase after several years.

When it comes to something everyone should be able to do, an expert making a mistake is a bad omen for the rest of us.