skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok since it's anecdotal I will be more specific.

My previous company was involved in 3 to 6 months bootcamps and had the option to be the first to make offers to the best students. This put us in an advantageous position.

2 of the 5 we hired I think were already leaning to write software before starting the bootcamp (as in genuinely being interested in the field and having programmed some hobbyist stuff), 3 did not have such an experience.

All but one turned to be great additions, that one kept struggling but we knew he was weak since the beginning. The two hobbyists both turned great. But by far the best was a girl with no previous experience.

I was able to help her grow and push her to be curious all time to understand the whys. This combined with her huge drive, focus, and professionalism turned her in 18 months since starting to be one of the best devs in the entire org made of 100 devs. She just churned code (quality one), reviews and solved problems one after the other all day. I have been trying to convince her to join my current company 24/7 for a long time.

On the other hand many better programmers just didn't care. They spent days playing console or pc games, and just did subpar work enough to close their daily tasks asap. Hard to fire these people under Italian law, but they represented the overwhelming majority of devs.

Now, I understand this is anecdotak, the pool of talent was like a pyramid in the bootcamp, and the weakest or average ones weren't great, but the top and most motivated where better coworkers and juniors than most engineers I've met.

Hope this gives my opinion a context.
Microsoft blog post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/24/vol...
> Both fraught with union agreements that make it really difficult to fire bad actors.

In many states teachers are not allowed to bargain collectively and the unions have no power to prevent anyone's firing, and these states do not have better education outcomes, so I think for education at least we have to rule out the unions.
> I'm not from the US, so my question is sincere. Is the situation the same across all states?

It is fairly well the same everywhere in the US, red & blue states alike. There's no shortage of adults who are passionately stupid about kids w/o adults around. Maybe you educate one but there are millions more behind them.

At least one state passed a right-to-roam law. However, that didn't stop LEO from endlessly bullhorning false stranger risks or stop news orgs from thoughtlessly parroting it. The life-changing harm John Walsh has done to millions of kids is incalculable.
Everyone is trying too hard nowadays. It's one of the downsides of the internet. If you say "Rock and roll sin't as popular as it used to be" nobody will read your article. If you say "Rock is dead!" you'll get hits. I don't think it's fair to criticize the Atlantic for this. They're just playing by the rules of a game that many people here inadvertently designed.
That's interesting.

I really like the idea of having a personalized copy of your class/book once you're end of term.

Universities function far beyond just teaching undergraduates. They often function as essential research hubs, protect & disseminate knowledge.

However I agree we having technology that changes the need for traditional college lectures. Though I struggle to see how to adapt the need for accreditation & proving someone is qualified, which is a nice function of colleges.
Not really, the Game Blaster had no sample playback and was based on two Philips SAA1099 synthesizer chip; those chips and thus Game Blaster compatibility was removed already in the Sound Blaster 1.5 cards. A Sound Blaster as it is known today has nothing in common with the Game Blaster.

That said, it's more likely that the project doesn't support it (yet) because it's still much easier and cheaper to obtain a Sound Blaster than any of the other cards, since it was ubiquitous. GUSes typically go for hundreds of Euros these days while SBs can be had for much less than hundred.
> The paper shows that the model can compete with (but not decimate) vanilla Transformers on the scale of ~1B parameters in long-sequence prediction tasks. They did not "unleash" anything, and scalability to very large parameter counts and datasets still has not been tested.

One thing to keep in mind in particular is that the vast majority of transformer alternatives/improvements/optimizations that initially showed promise ultimately ended up scaling less well than the baseline transformer architecture. The transformer has been weirdly hard to improve/dethrone.
> It would also help to have compile-time guarantees about which nodes are running.

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but in theory I like the idea of something like Zenoh Flow to describe the larger data flow graph. https://zenoh.io/blog/2023-02-10-zenoh-flow/

> But I always like to say, why spend 5ns calling a function when you could spend 1ms waiting for a context switch or 50ms for the next event loop to tick over?

I think your context switch timing is off by several orders of magnitude, but regardless these things aren't one extreme or the other. For sharing data across threads, to an external system, or logging and visualization I still like pub/sub (and I've seen more than my share of horrible abuse), but it definitely shouldn't be treated as one size fits all.
The First Annual Scryer Prolog Meetup
I'm still unsure about the position, they should have added a drawing.
Optimise the Expensive First
> The UK’s NCA, meanwhile, has not only launched new advertising campaigns but even run its own fake booter services to identify would-be customers and then send them warnings—sometimes even with in-person visits—about the consequences of paying for criminal DDOS attacks.

The FBI would be indicting them, not just warning them -- go to all that trouble of setting up a fake site, and then you just give up actually indicting them for their crime? What's even the point of that? That they didn't know it was a fake site is no defense, the FBI routinely, say, sells people fake bombs and then indicts them.
Could drinking water in this position be a potentially safer alternative?
In your demo I tried to create a message template but email go auto selected vs a "Choose your channel" flow that I expected. Cool tech though!
It sounds more like they're addressing the inevitable "why didn't you post as soon as it happened" party.
Ask HN: Can a subpoena be used to compel a company to collect future data?
Specifically, if previously x data wasnt collected, can a subpoena be used to compel the company to implement collection?
I’ve seen recommendations to use HopMAC (roughly H(key, customization=H(message))), to thwart differential power analysis, reducing the need for protection to the shorter outer call: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/llaqim/comment/go1w...
As others have said, Worms is turn based while this is real-time action. What it actually really reminds me of is Duck Game[0].

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/312530/Duck_Game/
Ron DeSantis has officially entered the 2024 presidential race
> add a bunch of water to the pan and steam them

This is pretty ironic in a thread about the misuse of the term "caramelize".

It's not steaming if you put water into the food directly. It's simply ... cooking, or maybe simmering/stewing.
In the case of rowing workouts, you only get like 4 a month with the lower subscription; I looked it up. My old rowing machine monitor wouldn't be compatible anyway; I'd have to upgrade and not really interested.
Because what the race for President needed was another Florida Man...
A Sign in Space
That's not what I said though is it? I said if someone cannot be bothered to do the bare minimum to survive why should anyone care about that plight? I didn't say if someone (physically / mentally) cannot do the bare minimum. It's like if you're starving to death and there's a perfectly prepared meal right in front of you. It's healthy, free, and clean. All you have to do is eat it. Should anyone care if you don't eat it and suffer the consequences? No.
To answer (2): You are token i. In order to see how much of a token j's value v_j you update yourself with, you compare your query q_i with token j's key k_j. This gives you the asymmetry between queries and keys.

This is even more apparent in a cross-attention setting, where one stream of tokens will have only queries associated with it and the other will have only keys/values.
Agreed. We compost fruit and vegetable waste in our garden, but it is scary how much other food waste (as well as meat and fish bones goes in our "blue bin" for external composting.

Entocycle (https://entocycle.com/) is one startup looking at this - using black soldier flies to convert food waste into high-protein animal food. (I'm not affiliated, but I think it's a neat idea!)
Any tips on the best gear for picking up trash? Right now my setup is pretty simple, I just have a trash picker, a trash bag, and disposable gloves. I want to me able to pick up more trash per unit time, so while the samurai back baskets are an interesting idea, I'm not sure I'd want to risk putting garbage over my head/face. A lot of trash I pick up is bags of poop so :/
RFC 2100: The Naming of Hosts
I see no tragedy here, everybody who actually cares sees the mission of this company clearly, and they are pretty open about it, so accepting that juicy paycheck comes with some baggage. Just another societal leech making the world worse one step at a time.

Same as some high tech banking positions, you accept morally dubious work and get compensated adequately. I dont see people here complaining when ie Goldman Sachs fires 10% of the workforce either, rather some childish schadenfreude is not uncommon.

Look at it this way - maybe those brilliant people will grok the life lesson and tune down their greed a bit and try to make the world a bit better place instead. Or go on. In any case, hardly something to get agitated about (unless folks write about themselves but then all above still stands)
We had a lot of fun playing this in our family on the Atari!

I had a mobile version of it on iPhone, but then it was taken out of the store. I stopped playing it for a while and unfortunately my phone decided it was taking up too much space and removed it. Now I can't get it back. I was very disappointed when I found that out.
I'm a self-admitted cardio addict. But stationary exercise equipment is something I find mind-numbingly boring. What is the peloton doing differently than others? Are the online classes really that motivating? Or is it something about the machine itself?
What is the case if it's not that?

In Denmark, small shops must refund at least the bottles they sell. Normal or large shops must refund all deposit bottles and cans.

Most people take the empties to a supermarket. People drinking in a public place often leave them for bottle collectors (often homeless etc) to gather.
I didn't mention smartphones. I said equipment necessary for survival.
Interesting article, but non sequitur I think. While Tsuda Sanzō was born into a Samurai family, he was not Samurai.

I do completely agree that it was not a smooth time period by any means.
Because I thought in America businesses were people. And I have been fortunate enough to work with businesses which seem like they have a heart. Consequently, I've rejected several offers to come work in America for extra pay. I think a system which is purely transactional is inferior, boring and at times immoral due to power imbalance. Society is not a computer program, businesses exist in society and they should behave like that.
Apple is implementing a similar philosophy where key projects are managed by teams of 4-5 people, and major divisions within the company are under one person who oversees every development personally.

You can be hyperproductive with few people. You can even be more secure, more detailed, ship more features in shorter time, and so on.

But the trick is entropy is always after you. Always. Case in point, Apple itself in recent years has dropped the ball. Some of their teams are lean and mean, classic Apple, while others have gone the corporate way of twiddling their thumbs all day (while still doing useful work, but not nearly as much). As Steve Jobs called them "C players".

It's not easy to manage culture in a giant company. No matter what you do, when the machine is complex, culture gets heterogenous, things slip through the cracks, and entropy ensures you have lots of people who all look busy at all times, doing little.

But what Twitter did has nothing to do with any of this. Because Elon Musk just went up and fired basically 90% of the company without even having understood WTF is it that most people he's firing are doing there. As evidenced by scrambling to re-hire some of them. Then firing them again, hiring them again. Now trying to hire again.

Musk is erratic and over-confident. Firing half the people in a company overnight while you're two weeks in is like losing half your weight overnight. There's no such weight loss program. Someone chopped you in half.

You don't die immediately though. You're conscious for many more minutes, before you bleed out and lose awareness. In corporate PoV this can take months and even a couple of years. But to me Twitter is dead. Elon is tryin resuscitation. Probably will fail.

There's a way to make a company like Twitter leaner. But it would've taken a couple of years. He didn't want to put the time in, and learn. He wanted to save cash. Saving this way leads to bankruptcy.
Heh, reminds me of the Simon Singh criticism of Katie Melua's "Nine Million Bicycles".

Which she followed up on https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=21iUUe-W8L4
> "In 1969, Minsky and Seymour Papert published “Perceptrons,” a book that assailed Rosenblatt’s work and, essentially, sealed its fate. The following year, Minsky won the A.M. Turing Award - computing’s highest honor."

I don't understand how explaining the limitations of a single perceptron would be relevant. To use an imperfect analogy, it would be like if you explained the limitations of a single transistor as a way to assail a microprocessor research program. Maybe you will say it's hindsight but this criticism never made sense to me. I have to imagine Minsky had some powerful charisma to pull this off.
If this book interests you, here are a couple additional books to add to your reading list with similar subject matter:

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
- Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer

Las venas abiertas de América Latina
- Eduardo Galeano

The English translation is titled, Open Veins of Latin America

(Isabel Allende said she carried a copy of Galeano's book with her as she fled the 1973 US backed coup that overthrew the democratic government in Chile and installed the brutal far-right murderous dictator Pinochet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i...

Looks like the two Paris airports together get 10x the traffic of Nice.
Heh, I remember playing .mp3 files directly from QIC-80 tapes, somewhere around 1996. One tape could store about 120 MB, which is equal to about two compact discs' worth of audio. The noise of the tape drive was slightly annoying, though. And it made me appreciate what the 't' in 'tar' stands for.
World of Goo Remastered
This feels more like a trust problem than an android problem.

Android and iPhone both indicate when mic is active, but this app is supposed to access mic.

Should this have been catched by store review? I don't think it's possible to catch them all given the number of apps updated every day and how easy it is to sneak in something past store QA (for example it could be activated after a certain time or from a remote server).

The stupid part of this is that Android has had a built-in screen recorder for ages.
https://archive.is/kydCM
Married people who cheat don't regret it, finds study
It is perfectly clear that you are correct because trying to tell anyone about confidential subpoenas could be illegal.
> But, then again, doing Mach 2.8 in Class A airspace is kind of unrealistic.

My understanding is that the SR-71 flies so high (up to 90,000 feet) that they can go as fast as they like because there's nothing else up that high.
the telnet protocol does not have to be used only on the open internet, just as HTTP (insecure) does not have to be either. It can be used internally for whatever reason you want as well. I don't think that makes it outdated.
Celebrating 10 years of improving security and privacy
Thanks for this feedback. I'll check them out.

I'm currently paying nearly $600/mo. for a 2-gpu rental (two RTX 4070s), and can't seem to get a processor model any later than 2016.
I have literally not seen a single conference she has held without being flanked by sfpd officers. a key tenet of her campaign was rebuilding the relationship between the DA and sfpd. She supported every sfpd budget increase under her tenure and dropped charges on like the second sfpd cop to ever be charged by the city. her first major political move post appointment was backing a mayor/sfpd proposal to increase surveillance.

not saying if this is good or bad, and i don't know enough about the bail system to have an opinion, but its bad faith to say that she is not pro police, or at least pro sf police
I never tire of that story.

Growing up in an aviation family, I have heard endless cool stories (but few so cool).

One of my favorites was when my grandfather was flying when the F15 was in early flight development. The skies were much less busy, and there was a bit less formality.

Ground knew who was where, so it asked my grandfather, “would you like to see something interesting?” GD agreed, and moments later an F15 pulled up alongside him, pointed at an upward angle and maintaining what was a slow flight speed for it. The two pilots were close enough to exchange waves, and moments later the F15 rocketed away.

Most likely that day, the F15 was the fastest thing in the air for several hundred miles.
I didn't know about Zulip stream/topics but heres my naive tl;dr after reading about it: Streams are like slack channels, topics belong to streams and have no analog in slack. They are essentially sub channels. Or tags/categories within the stream scope for your messages. Although threads (if people use them) arguably serve a similar purpose on slack.

I wonder, is it possible to message on the base stream, or only topics? I feel like if you cant comment on the base stream you always need a general topic. Otherwise you're going to keep making new super-niche topics or make topics "off-topic." And what happens when discussion on one topic ventures towards some other topic? To bridge the gap it seems like I need to make a new message in the other topic and link in the original one.

Generally speaking, I do not like forcing these structures on the "write" side. I had the same problem with Arc browser (with respect to types of tabs, workspaces). I don't want to have to essentially define some metadata about the action I want to perform. I have the same attitude towards taking notes. Generally speaking I'd rather have powerful tools to discover, re-organize as I see fit. I guess maybe this is less true in a messaging app though because you already have to choose a channel either way.
Even in the absence of NDA, are you allowed to? Counsel has apparently advised them not to. Would it not carry the risk of being complicit to a crime?
tealdear and tldr seems to do "top 10 most useful things you can do with this command"
Project Management Is Simple: Unveiling the Magic Behind the Madness
Ah, project management! The mere mention of it can make some folks break out in a cold sweat, while others reminisce about countless nights spent staring at Gantt charts until their eyes turned into tiny, red squares.
lots of nostalgia for partyvan.org during the chanology days
Thanks! By the way, I realised just now I was leaving a bit of performance on the table: getImageData() is slow, but I don't need to do it on click, I can do it just once after loading the image. Changing that gets it to be consistently under 100ms for clicks after the first one.
I’ve still got my Seven Cities of Gold cardboard folder sitting on my shelf on display and Starflight in a box somewhere.
> People say Microsoft isn't the same as 20 years ago, that they are not pure evil, but this is proof...

People haven't been paying attention since their consent decree expired over a decade ago.
Ron DeSantis stands accused of war crimes, according to the testimony of several prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He has been notably and particularly evasive about his military service in interviews during his governorship. Whatever his supporters think of his other policies, I hope that they don't ignore this obviously disqualifying stain on his record.

https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft/desantis
It’s not too hard to find with the following search, “we can recover data from tape formats including onstream”
It's not just limited to tape, most archiving and backup software is proprietary.
It's impossible to open Acronis or Macrium Reflect images without their Windows software. In Acronis's case they even make it impossible to use offline or on a server OS without paying for a license.
NTBackup is awfully slow and doesn't work past Vista, and it's not even part of XP POSReady for whatever reason, so I had to rip the exe from a XP ISO and unpack it (NTBACKUP._EX... I forgot microsoft's term for that) because the Vista version available on Microsoft's site specifically checks for longhorn or vista.

Then there's slightly more obscure formats that didn't take off in the western world, and the physical mediums too. Not many people had the pleasure of having to extract hundreds of "GCA" files off of MO disks using obscure Japanese freeware from 2002. The English version of the software even has a bunch of flags on virustotal that the standard one doesn't. And there's obscure LZH compression algorithms that no tool available now can handle.

I've found myself setting up one-time Windows 2000/XP VMs just to access backups made after 2000.
The SSD is soldered to what I guess is an SBC.
I'm open to being convinced the ARMs are better for the individual but I don't buy it with my current info. Having a lower fixed rate for the entire duration of the loan sounds like the most consumer friendly one to me. My current mortgage is 2.87$ APR fixed and I don't see how an ARM could benefit me one bit. Sounds like constant anxiety.
They do have. You're just looking at the manual from one particular source of utilities, GNU, and overgeneralizing. Aside from the well-known antipathy to man pages, with every GNU manual page telling you at its foot to go and use a different tool to read a different doco format, it is not representative of manual pages in general.

The Illumos manual page for grep(1) has an examples section:

* https://illumos.org/man/1/grep#examples

So has the FreeBSD manual page for grep(1):

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=grep&sektion=1#EXA...

Not everything is written like GNU man(1) pages.

Even the Linux Documentation Project has a novice's approach to grep with several basic examples in its _Introduction To Linux_:

* https://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_03.html#sect_0...
Try placing cameras recording federal judges in public spaces and see how that works out for you.
Same thing, my friends fiancé somehow became known as a very good and reliable dog walker. He would walk dogs around some very expensive parts of SF. Was making close to 200k and looking at homes last I heard.

I feel like this must have a huge luck component, he must have just gotten in with one person in this community and then met clients by referral until he took over that area.