skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add that there are really challenging problems and continual technical development. And since each movie comes with its own new set of requirements, each one is a fresh slate of new, crazy problems. For me personally, I love the short iterative cycle between math and an output image.
The Scunthorpe problem?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I've occasionally played with the notations that maybe ə = e^i or even 1 = e^{2πi} to simplify these sorts of expressions before. So for example a forward moving wave can be written,

1^{x/λ – νt}

with no particular ambiguity or even parentheses. The choice of constants should give you some pause though—we don't have a great way to talk about "true wavenumber" k so we have to talk about wavelength, and we use "f" for a lot of other things while Greek nu looks like an English V so that can sometimes be confusing... it's not _bad_ but it's weird enough that it's not obviously better.
There are also tons of people who have claimed to see ghosts, tons of medieval peasants that saw witches, tons of people accused of summoning the devil in the 80s.

There are tons of people, the chances they misread something (kook or not) is high.
Really? Not the fake elector scheme? Or the attempt to overturn the results of the last election? Or the willful retention of classified documents and the attempts to evade returning them? Any one of those would be better candidates for watergate-squared.
There aren't even enough jobs for the people who are already here. See https://reddit.com/r/cscareerquestionscad

There also aren't enough houses for the people who are already here. Vancouver has a Vacancy rate under 0.9%, and we likely have more homeless people than available rentals.
Some of us also like not having to check every lamp and decoration in a bedroom/bathroom wondering if there's hidden cameras in it placed there by the "host"
This is a setting in your terminal emulator. For me, plain UUIDs are selected just fine when double clicking.
> The last time the government tried to set a computing language standard, we got COBOL,

Ada, actually (well, that might not be the last time, but it is certainly much more recent than COBOL.) COBOL and JOVIAL were roughly concurrent – both efforts started in 1959, I believe – but the effort that culminated in Ada started in the mid-1970s.
The Street Price of a Gram of Cocaine
I could never get it to work consistently enough to make it worth learning what it could do & making it part of my workflow. It got in the way more often than I triggered it on purpose, even when I was trying to give it a fair shot.

On Macbook touchpads, all it did was make my drag-n-drop operations fail ~70% of the time. I never did figure out a legitimate use for it on that platform, but then, I had to disable it as soon as I figured out that was what was messing me up. I don't need drag-n-drop to become a dexterity game.

And I don't have any fine motor control deficiencies or anything. It was all just too damn fiddly to be worth using.

Similar with the touchbar. Turns out my fingers just barely brush the F keys when I hit a couple of the number keys. No problem with physical F-keys, as there's almost no pressure applied, but the touchbar? Had to all but completely disable the damn thing to stop triggering it by accident. Not gonna change my typing muscle-memory for the sake of a fad interface that's not even available on most of the keyboards I touch in a day.

Apple's not above making mis-steps. They do it pretty often, in fact.
> B) export those people who are a burden on our society (children, the elderly, the sick, people who enjoy EDM, you get it).

This is so ridiculous! Export where??
Isn't it what Hitler tried to do?
Of course it does. If it occurred in the wild and then was transmitted to humans by eating or interaction the way we defend against a future pandemic will be fundamentally different from if there were certain things done or not done in a lab that could've prevented it.
>while a requirement to getting to functional nuclear weapons, isn’t the whole or, in practice, the limiting factor.

Nukes are not a physics challenge, but an engineering challenge. That's why an experiment showing a bunch of physicists understand simple particle physics isn't a useful demonstration that building nukes doesn't require insane amounts of help from a willing sponsor.

People "knew" how to build the A bomb before World War 2 even started, yet even when several countries put energy into it to aid their war effort, only the US succeeded, and only because they dedicated around one tenth of the entire GDP to the process.

Merely getting enough enriched material is enough of a problem to stop most countries.
Open-source “Davids” are taking on GPT-4 and other Goliaths
All good points. I doubt the folks running that site have vetted every one of their hundreds of thousands of data points, so it's not an authoritative source, just a descriptive one at most.

And, when did science fiction literature start getting big and developing plots involving aliens, and might that have stimulated people's imaginations about UFOs and aliens (which then conversely stimulated more scifi about them)? Was this happening prior to the atomic age or space age, or did that kind of scifi really get started with the space race? If the latter, that might also explain the huge increase in imaginings... er, sightings.

I also can't help but wonder at the timing, with geopolitical tensions rising and China challenging US military and technological supremacy. It's quite a coincidence. Maybe it's the mother of all CIA mindfuck psyops, to introduce a new source of uncertainty and deterrence into the CCP and Russia's strategic calculations.

There's "whistleblowers" on TV claiming the US is in possession of "exotic materials", aka alien tech, since the 1940s. Just how much has been reverse engineered in that time, and deployed in super secret weapons systems that not even Congress knows about? Would the CCP really want to risk WWIII against the US when there's even a small possibility of that?

There's a great scene in "The Expanse" relevant to this situation, where UN Deputy Undersecretary Avasarala has a meeting considering the possibility of first contact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYRLV-qm3Qs

"I have a file with nine hundred pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios for what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling, is three pages long, and begins with 'Find God'".
This guy might be familiar to you :p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau
The problems that you work to solve are not the usual "I need a new parameter for this API endpoint" type of work. It's fun (for a while) and crazy and even glamorous (watching something you've worked on in a theater with the public is great). Another nice thing is that, while most software written is very evanescent (almost every bit of software I have worked on in my 38-year career is gone), my name in the credits of some very popular movies will be around 100 years after I'm dead. That's pretty cool.
I am genuinely curious about wasabi, the python LSP they announced on Meta open source but is not available anywhere. Would love to try that out, there is not enough competition in the LSP space in Python and it would foster new development https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/07/18/enablin...
That “government employee doesn’t get paid enough to attract talent” trope has to die. I work with many government employees that are not beholden to the government pay scales and get special exemptions to be compensated “at market rates.” You’d be surprised how many tech employees inside government clear $750k
Geometry isn't the only application of pi. Nor is the geometric interpretation the only way to determine what is "fundamental."

Why not use Darians? http://proper-pi-manifesto.com
Why we care about obscenity in pseudo-random ids and url?
Ask HN: Managers that dont hire you
what has your experience been?

Say mgr A hires you, after some time leaves, then mgr B comes in :
- does he/she attend your 1:1s?
- does he/she seem to care less or more about you than mgr A
I understand your argument, and I appreciate it. The same could be said of of the "other side" of this argument though. The "government will spy on you!"--is also emotional weight cynically being used to get people to go along with technical solutions that support CSAM.

I'd argue society would generally agree CSAM is unacceptable and we're allowing it right now. Many are quick to adopt the assumption that this law is an intentional and cleverly designed "attack on our rights to e2ee", as fact. If one can't recognize it's at least a poor attempt to balance the right to privacy with protecting kids, then I struggle to see how they're being honest with themselves.

I'm not arguing this law proposes the correct solution that should be adopted. I'm not arguing the surveillance state isn't licking their chops. I'm simply trying to point out that CSAM is a real problem. People really care about it. And it's factually wrong to claim otherwise.

It's also wrong and harmful to attribute motive based on assumptions. While you haven't done this, many others have. Instead of taking part in a constructive debate by arguing specific points, they try to paint a false motive on the opposition. "it's just so they can spy on you!" is roughly equivalent to "you view CSAM and that's why you don't want to protect our kids". These approaches are not how you reach a good solution that balances both sides of the argument. They're just throwing the oppositions legitimate concerns under the bus.

I'd also add, while e2ee is strong, unless you're verifying and compiling all the code you run on your device yourself, Apple/Google/etc still maintains the technical ability to snoop on you regardless of this law. I assume the bar to snoop on someone would most likely be lowered if laws like this are passed. But it's still technically possible (and likely happens).
There is also that fermi paradox resolution that basically says the same tech that unlocks infinite energy also unlocks the ability to destroy ourselves. So in theory there could be good reasons for avoiding commercialization of highly advanced technology, if it means that within a century some guy on the street could build an apparatus that destroys the planet in an industrial accident.
This is very similar to how I generate IDs in a project I'm working on.

Example:

|-A-|-|------------B--------------|
NMSPC-9TWN1-HR7SV-MTX00-0H8VP-YCCJZ
A = Namespace, padded to 5 chars. Max 5 chars. Uppercase.
B = Blake3 hashed microtime with a random key.

I like how it folds in a time component but that it also doesn't reveal the time it was generated.

Here's the snippet:
https://gist.github.com/jszym/d3c7907b7b6e916f68205c99e5e489...
This Venture Booms Ends with a Return to Governance
And if you go farther south, salaries are triple what they are in Vancouver. Or much more, if you're senior or specialized.

A word of advice: if you have employable skills in tech simply avoid Canada; and if you must travel here, then work for Americans. They'll pay you much more than anyone local will even consider.
> quit working

that is the plan... gotta save/invest
Systems We Love: how the past informs our present
Yeah, further to that:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/seattle-senior-developer-...

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/vancouver-senior-developer...

perhaps the parent had not considered USD CAD conversion rates or looked at a specific role
Your post makes me want to get off my ass and find my GGparents birth certificates so I can prove I'm "Irish" for citizenship and emigration from the US.

Where is home/your mother in Ireland, if you don't mind my asking? Dublin is probably a different beast in some ways, but when I was on a train from Cork to Dublin, I had expected to read the whole way, but this elderly woman sat across from me and we had a wonderful conversation for the whole trip.
well, that's just crazy talk.
The "plug in a monitor" case is an example where computers are hilariously (and likely unnecessarily) slow to do something that should be simple.

Say I have two monitors plugged in and running. When I plug in a third one, here's what happens:

1. Monitor 2 goes blank.

2. Monitor one flashes off then back on.

3. Monitor 2 comes back on.

4. Both monitors go off.

5. All three monitors finally come back on.

Putting on my developer hat, I kind of know what's going on here. The devices are frantically talking to the device drivers, transmitting their capabilities, the OS is frantically reading config files to understand where to display the virtual desktops, everyone is frantically handshaking with everyone else. It's a terrible design and should not be excused. Putting on my end-user hat, what the fuck is this shit? I just plugged a monitor in. I'm not asking the computer to perform wizardry.
Interesting, does the server fetch the html itself? Or does the client POST it? The letter would be useful for paywalled sites like Cook‘s Illustrated.
I spent quite some time on ingredient labelling (what’s a unit, quantity etc.). Feel free to ping at hn[at]franz.hamburg
There's enough comedic content in this article for several Silicon Valley episodes.
Almost all of Earth's population carries a camera (with their phones), and yet sightings of UFOs (or any cryptid) have been at an all-time low.

https://xkcd.com/1235/
I will check out Watson. I'm really just looking to tag ingredients. I could always create my own tag standards for the what I'm curious about.

I have read through this thread to try to make myself more articulate.
I guess I'm thinking of it as an ingredient centered approach. The recipe is secondary to whatever is available. The idea would be the ingredients would have tags for properties. The properties would be the nutritional content, cultural references, mouth feel, taste profile, allergens, ...

The combining of ingredients might have less to do with recipes and more to do with necessities and circumstances.

The flour example is probably the most illustrative. Many grains and roots can be used as flour. If one was using taro root flour all recipes would just accommodate that substitution.
dang, the article says 2𝞹, not 2n
Supposedly a few pieces of technology that we use in military and everyday use were created using alien technology. Stealth fighters and holograms. But I have read the book about the engineering/creation of the f-117 stealth fighter at skunkworks and nothing in that airplane doesn't seem like it could be created using currently understood scientific principles. One thing that did stand out was the timeline from creation to delivery was very short, also the plane cannot fly using just human piloting, a advanced computer must make micro adjustments to the crafts trajectory every second or the plane crashes. This was done in the late 70s so that seems extremely advanced for back then so who knows.
> Agree that many safety-critical coding standards are a grab-bag of sometimes dubiously-valuable rules.

What frustrates me is that most standards are self-aware of this and explicitly allow you to tailor them, but hardly anyone does that to a meaningful extent.
On the other side, they brought a fingerprint reader that actually stored biometric data safely, innaccessible to the OS with the first secure enclave.
And your lawn guy’s office has a pool.
> What caused them to crash?

Because nobody has figured out an autopilot that doesn't shit the bed once in a while? I'm betting on taking a nap in the backseat is just a universally bad idea when nobody is driving.
> I think a lot of ORM hate comes from people who never got deep enough to really hit the sweet spot.

This. And also, the feel of using Rails/ActiveRecord resonates with me in a way that no other ORM I've used does. It's not just the ORM but the tooling around it esp. wrt generating migrations, scaffolding and so on.

> There's a learning curve here, where you have to understand when to "break glass" for writing queries directly.

Yep. ORM is a tool. The craftsperson needs to acquire skill both in using the tool and in knowing when to reach for another tool.

Maybe some people feel ORM is never the right tool. Who can argue with that? I'm curious to see how they do it. Maybe I'll learn something.
> You should call it d/dx bar.

Or put the modifier on the denominator so that the product and chain rules are obvious (the modifier only persists on the dx, not on the dy)
Fly.io was the darling of the webhosting world amongst techworkers particularly because of the honest transparent communication and blog posts explicitly admitting fuck ups

Raising a bunch of money just isn't a "good" announcement to most of us. When unpopular things have happened with the company, your communication usually directly acknowledges and focuses on the concerns of the userbase. This serves two purposes:

1. It gives you a chance to show concrete steps to prevent specific concerns we have

2. Perhaps more importantly, it shows we're all on the same page and you're actually in touch with how your userbase thinks

Failing on #1 is something you can fix later, but I've never seen a company rebound from losing the trust gained by #2. It loses confidence that future decisions made can also be equally out of touch.

I've never seen a company rebound from losing that confidence
>but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member

LOL

Its amazing how easy it is. I guess if you spend your entire history being a shitty company and then spend a couple of years pretending to be marginally less shitty then you can dupe a bunch of people.
Exactly. Humanity's first radio broadcast capable of detection from distant space was the 1936 Berlin Olympics broadcast. Then nukes nine years later were even more detectable, and discernible from natural sources. 4yrs travel time to Alpha Centauri, then 4 years back in a lightspeed craft, and voila - Roswell, sightings, abductions, coverups, etc.
Reverse engineering a UFO would be disassembling and studying it so that we can recreate it or repurpose the technologies in it. Presumably it would have some manner of exotic engine or power source or perhaps weapons, etc.
Yeah...that was kinda the point.
From the end of the article...

________________________

When it was all over, the conference drew an admiring blog post from Ozan Onay, one of the teachers at San Francisco's nearby Bradfield School of Computer Science, who called it "one of the most enjoyable conferences I've ever attended."

Providing a link to video for nearly every one of the talks, Onay wrote, "There is a special breed of engineer who reserves their greatest esteem for dusty old workhorse systems: those operating systems and networking protocols and museum piece hardware systems designed decades ago that typically go unseen and unloved."
Yes and no. The military has lots of old tech because it's heavily field tested, well understood, and still does what it needs to do good enough.

They do use cutting edge stuff to, and silicon valley pays well, but really only if your a software guy. Contrary to contemporary beliefs, their still are smart engineers out their building cutting edge non-compute hardware.
I think they meant "run apps directly on hardware / virtual hardware". As in building the app with a unikernel, bypassing the need for a (large) operating system.
If you're really slick about it, you even "fix" the Gaussian integral this way.

Let é = e^sqrt(2pi), déx = dx/sqrt(2pi), and we have

int_{R}(é^(int_0^x(t dét)) déx)

= int_{R}(e^(sqrt(2pi) x^2/(2 sqrt(2pi))) dx/sqrt(2pi))

= 1/sqrt(2pi) int_{R}(e^(x^2/2) dx)

= sqrt(2pi) / sqrt(2pi)

= 1
Currently have to use sqlalchemy on an existing project, and while I am not necessarily disagreeing with you on ORMs or performance, just wanted to add that chatgpt has been able to reduce my time fighting with their documentation by what I estimate of 90+%. To be fair, if I would have written pure sql, I might not have needed chatgpt at all, but i also would have to learn pythons database connector calls for the umpteenth time.
What are the biggest unaddressed concerns?
Setting it up is a little bit complicated.

I wish they have a offline electron app.
Dammit, you make a fair point ;) Coming soon!
Data showing Google's ads success? It's out there - check SEC fillings for Google's advertising revenue.

Meanwhile I'm still waiting for you to respond to my original request of source of your bold claim:

> For most businesses today, Google ads are not cost-effective.
Ergh, I get what you're trying to prevent, but this actively breaks those custom safe parsers we build, and now you have to do some additional active parsing. Please don't do this, just set contractual expectations in your API.
I would love to see one. I've, personally, never had Apple pull anything out from under me, so I'd be really curious what it would even contain.
> Aliens have super sophisticated tech that is hardy enough to travel millions of light years through space but it crashes so easy on earth? What caused them to crash?

Multiple different sets of aliens, fighting over Earth. (I’m not saying that this is true, just that it is one scenario that explains crashes happening if there were aliens as described building craft capable of visiting Earth.)
tl;dr summary:

The essay is aimed at people who feel (in a deep way) that they aren't deserving, a debt of sorts that can be reduced but no amount of productivity can ever eliminate.
> any more than you can remove the concept of "the computer" in a cloud environment

But that's just not true. Tons of cloud services completely abstract the computer out of the picture. You are paying for capacity or throughput as an abstract unit of cost and the cloud configures as many computers as needed to run your request. You never interact with anything resembling a computer in this situation.
It’s also not a big risk at all as the US has basically already vetted them by way of the H-1B visa application. Really it's a win win and as you say, minimal cost.
We're talking about building a server, so usually availability is different than to a home consumer. But fwiw lambda has their Node for 330k (which gets pretty close to that price), whereas the A100's are $170k, so double my figure. Especially considering the H100 nodes are 8U instead of 4U. so you need twice as many racks.
Are the standards for electricians, heavy machine operators, roofers somehow higher than software engineering, such that immigrants are more than capable of software engineering but apparently not trades?
Netflix drops its cheapest ad-free plan in Canada
Reverse engineering
Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera
American employer and American work location - correct?