skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Audits are performed as a due diligence before actually launching the product or service that will utilize it. The audit is a collaborative process between the auditing team (or contest participants, in this case), and the developer of the smart contract. Contestants are rewarded financially for finding exploitable issues, with unique criticals (i.e. exploits that lose customer funds or otherwise fundamentally breaks the intended behavior of the contract) paying the most. AFAIK no public Codearena or Sherlock audit has had a critical vulnerability exploited after a contest was completed.

It would be hard to compare the smart contract auditing ecosystem with audits of internal processes at those entities you mentioned, because the problem being solved is fundamentally different. Google, Amazon, et. al. are protecting access to information stored in data centers, whereas smart contracts are at most a few thousand lines of code that needs to work as intended, without clever hackers finding a way to exploit them.
Anyone loaded it to Bigquery yet?

I know this is "booo-google", but I just want to write some joins with other tables I happen to have in bigquery. I'm wondering if there is some "community" BQ rather than maintaining import of my own.
> Hire randomly

> Never put in the work to identify potential candidates based on their contribution to the industry or relevant projects.

Corollary: Never promote internally

If there is someone on the team interested in and capable of stepping up to become a team lead or manager, ignore him or her, and instead hire someone externally for the leadership role. Bonus: Always use the excuse "Gosh, we can't find any good internal candidates, so we grudgingly need to look outside the company for leaders!"
> I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...)

Do you consider devops types of roles software development and something you'd do? Those tasks you describe sound like sys-adminy types of things. Maybe try applying to that type of position?

Another option is to just get same role you have now but in an organization that has people writing code as a major deliverable of the company. I'm assuming there aren't teams like this in your current organization.
is it me or the UK is becoming some sort of a surveillance state right in front of us just like china

Yes and no.

The UK is a highly surveilled country. We have more CCTV cameras than any other country. We have Automatic Number Plate Recognition tracking cars literally everywhere. We're a part of Echelon and Five Eyes and probably a whole bunch of other things. Pretty much everything we do is tracked.

But...

That data isn't used for very much. The police actually need to request access, and generally they do without abusing it. The government doesn't (seem to) abuse the data available in nefarious ways. People can and do publish things that are very critical of the government. People protest (although those rights have been horribly eroded in the past couple of decades). The media isn't entirely on the side of the state. We don't have social surveillance with people reporting their neighbours.

So, yeah, it could be a lot better. It's not like China though (yet?).
Lucky for earth this all happens in US airspace eh?
> They were paid 2x more than what NASA paid SpaceX.

It's worth a case study - why didn't they try to pay Gwynne Shotwell 10x more + CEO role + (M\B)illions worth of stocks? Even if they did, why didn't she accept? She would certainly have turned their fortunes around.
This is something I didn't fully understand until I was hired into a position of a formal role model - principal engineer on a new team of fairly junior engineers. My manager had several conversations with me to drill into me that I now had to keep in mind the power of my example in behavior for the team. It's not that I was a bad role model, just that it wasn't always front-of-mind for me.

I think it's easy-ish to get promoted to Senior based on your personality and inclinations that lend themselves to being a "natural" role model; moderate deficiencies can easily be glossed over as long as there's enough compensatory strengths, and you aren't expected to be perfect. But once you start to become a role model - formal or informal - you gain a new job responsibility: consistently demonstrate the culture of professionalism and courtesy the company wishes to inculcate. Because your actions will be emulated, for better or worse.
Whenever a new device needs to be setup for my parents, I just install whatever I use (Firefox in this case). Then I show them the things they need on a day by day basis. The problem are people who did grow up with tech. They will say things like it will take too long. In cases like this you need to manipulate them based on their personality.
Based on what I'm hearing, it sounds like they weren't able to produce a macroscopic ingot of the stuff, so it seems likely to me that the superconducting part is up at the end there. However, without further explanation, I'm disinclined to take that video (fantastic as it seems) to be conclusive evidence of anything.
Don't forget politicians will also say the same thing.

Politicians being censors?! no way in a democracy(rollseyes)
Here I am reviewing my own game (2011)
If you're watching insta/tictok you're probably not also listening to music at the same time. Also kids these days listen to a much wider range of music then I was ever subjected to. We got whatever local radio stations could be picked up, or if your family had a collection and let you touch it. Now my daughter can pretty much pull up anything made on YouTube and play it from classic instrumental to whatever was released yesterday.
I would add “make toxic competition among team mates mandatory, and make it clear the winner will be well treated”. Then step back and watch the vicious infighting begin.

Double points if you tie this to financial reward like bonuses.
> Much like Adobe did to Macs in the 1990s, WeChat has become so powerful they control the platform.

I'd enjoy listening to the story here, spacebanana.
Unless its python, in which case you used the wrong whitespace, dummy.
Well 87% of membership earn too little for it to be a career. The union claims 116K active members, so that's 15K people who actually earn money.

Industry figures are that only 1 to 5% of people actually work in anything other than an extra or a day job. So with an active membership of 116K, that's between 1,000 and 5,000 people who actually make a living as actors.

They get a lot of press, and they like it that way, but the framing is kind of messed up, since this isn't a full-time job for most of them.
“He has not seen but spoke with anonymous people about it” and apparently is trying to be stopped but can’t go into detail.

Sounds like utter nonsense.
I wonder if it would really mean a different sort of battery maybe like a super capacitor that doesn't discharge.
> when there are plenty of Israeli newspapers wherein the reasons for the rift in Israel are discussed to the nth degree... in English... by people who know what they're talking about.

You are incorrectly assuming I haven’t read any of those articles, and then using that incorrect assumption to dismiss my argument without actually engaging with it
Diffusion is more parameter-efficient and you quickly saturate the target fidelity, especially with some refiner cascade. It's a solved problem. You do not need more than maybe 4B total. Images are far more redundant than text.

In fact, most interesting papers since Imagen show that you get more mileage out of scaling the text encoder part, which is, of course, a Transformer. This is what drives accuracy, text rendering, compositionality, parsing edge cases. In SD 1.5 the text encoder part (CLIP ViT-L/14) takes a measly 123M parameters.[1] In Imagen, it was T5-XXL with 4.6B [2]. I am interested in someone trying to use a really strong encoder baseline – maybe from a UL2-20B – to push this tactic further.

Seeing as you can throw out diffusion altogether and synthesize images with transformers [3], there is no reason to prioritize the diffusion part as such.

1. https://forums.fast.ai/t/stable-diffusion-parameter-budget-a...

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11487

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704
You mean our nuclear weapons where the secrets were leaked[0] to other governments repeatedly?
Those secrets?
The secrets that we executed both of the Rosenbergs over?

No our government has not demonstrated their ability to keep secrets over the span of a few years, let alone decades.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies
Yeah. BCS was proposed a half century after the first conventional superconductor was discovered, and even today we don't have a convincing mechanism for "regular" high-Tc superconductors. But if it superconducts, it superconducts, and research into the how is useful but not a blocker to using it.
Fair. I don't find HN correctable when it veers off of tech topics—confidently-wrong and often ideologically-fixed while lacking basic education in a topic is a bad mix; some folks try, but it mostly just adds to the noise or ends up... well, here, which similar-tone tech-related observations do not, they typically have to get much nastier first and these kinds of general and ought-to-be-obvious expressions of bafflement get a pass, I guess because the HN "hive mind" more often experiences the same "WTF?" as the poster, in those cases.

... however, complaining about it doesn't help, sure, and I'm aware that posting (in basically any capacity...) doesn't improve it, so, shouldn't have posted. I'll leave it be, thanks for the deserved "bop".

I do wish there were a way for HN to get better at this specific thing, as it's always been about the same amount of bad, and avoiding non-tech topics doesn't seem to be something HN's interested in doing ("it's hard to define what that is" well, yes, but other tech-focused forums manage regardless—but they also get less engagement, and that does matter for this site's advertising purposes, I get it).

I think downplaying identity was a good idea to try and I like the ideals of it and appreciate what it's trying to achieve, but I'd say the evidence is firmly favoring the "failed" column for that experiment. We see the same people having the same extensive bad exchanges over and over, and identity helps avoid that with group-education about repeated behaviors by certain posters in certain contexts. Changing course might help with this and some of the other most-acute issues on the site. I expect nothing, just putting it out there. I know, unsolicited opinions are like assholes :-)

Failing that, user-managed blocklists would be a godsend—I know those come with their own problems, but it'd be well worth it on here. Bonus points if you could have separate lists for tech and non-tech posts (I know, tricky, that's why it's bonus points, haha). Some posters exclusively post uninformed flamebait nonsense (within the threshold of "HN Nice" so it keeps happening—not a dig at moderation, that's a Hard Problem in that space) in non-tech threads, but do contribute positively to tech threads. ("so correct them" -> folks do, that's how the threads keep happening, it's like sitting in on a 101 course mostly attended by non-majors who are nonetheless passionate about their uninformed position, and arguing with the professor and won't accept they may be wrong—it's not productive or enlightening) It'd be lovely to never see that again, but get to keep reading the site. Blocklists are the #1-100 features I'd add to the site, if I had a genie that could grant 100 only-HN-feature-related wishes.
So the test involved letting the car go at 30mph through a live intersection, not taking any emergency steps such as checks notes stepping on the brake when approaching the red light at 25mph, and then cursing about it afterwards and STILL not making any attempts to correct it?
People’s eyes would probably gloss over if you start discussing prior probabilities and how everyone uses them for everything (whether rightly or wrongly), and it is an innate part of humans and probably most other animals.
My first guess is that heating multiple drums to 100℃ would be faster than boiling one drum. This is based on the rate of heat exchange by contact when two things of different temperature touch is proportional to the temperature difference.

When the water is at 100℃ the difference between it and the heating element should be less than when the water is colder and so it should be transferring heat slower.

By switching drums you are spending more time with the heating element in colder water so can transfer more energy.

However there may be other factors.

First, dH/dt = k ΔT, but k depends on the particular two things that are exchanging heat. I don't know if the k for the heating element and liquid water is the same as the k for the heating element and water that is undergoing a phase transition to steam. Someone who remembers their college thermodynamics a lot better than I do will be needed here.

Second, the battery is going to have some limit on how fast it can transfer energy. That may be low enough that whether you use one drum or multiple may not matter.
So a possibly feasible explanation is that there has been a bunch of animal testing by foreign defence initiatives that has crashed on US soil?
A strange exposition video then, I would try to remove the part that wasn’t superconducting (the part touching the magnet) before I released this. A completely floating piece of this superconductor would remove literally all doubt.
> I hope someday there’s a version of this or something comparable to it that can run on <8gb consumer hardware.

Someday is today: from the official announcement: “SDXL 1.0 should work effectively on consumer GPUs with 8GB VRAM or readily available cloud instances.” https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-sdxl-1-announceme...
I agree. People will tell you they have objective ways of proving the quality of music, it's emotional reactionary BS. It's an art that moves with culture and technology; the length of the song, the instruments, complexity - people are going to make what they feel and listen to what they like (and there will always be people making some version of something even if it's not popular - one of my friends is committed to metrical verse). With so many people making music (and art in general) now, writing off a generation's output based on what sold or showed up in commercial media is short sighted. "Music" is so much more than what's irritating the taste-keepers.
Good PMs are rare, but good PMs are worth their weight in gold.
A stand up is fine if the team wants to do it. Once it's dictated from above and run by a manager it's lost all worth
Well shit. I'm wrong and things at Mozilla are much worse than I imagined.

re: HTTP/2, yes, everyone is well aware it didn't allow HTTP connections from the start. But there was no risk of HTTP/1.1 going away at that time. And you can technically still use a non-CA self signed cert for the implementations of HTTP/2 in major browsers. But it is also a bad protocol like HTTP/3.

I have no idea what conspiracy theory stuff you're going on about. People just haven't thought through the consequences of these design decisions outside of their work headspace bubble. Much like with WEI.
It's probably better to link to the original, not this mirror: https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1684255515944034304
It's still twitter.

I love that your previous comment was that "people use twitter because of free speech", and now I can't even look at it without logging in. Proof that on the internet anyone can sound confident.
Alternatively, the 1999 levels weren't reasonable. Or the 1999 level isn't reasonably today because there's a LOT more entertainment alternatives vying for attention.
Hmm. I experienced this. As a child, I chewed on my shirt. No one could figure out why. From kindergarten to maybe 4th grade, it was a problem. My guardians' response was to collude with the school administrations and instruct teachers to call me out in class and belittle me if they saw me chewing on my shirt, and to send me to the principal's office. Then I would get beaten/punished at home. This happened with regularity. A lot of shame and punishment.

At the time, I had undiagnosed OCD. And, it turns out, the medicine which I was being given against my will for an ADHD diagnosis I received at age 5, was causing me to experience dry mouth, which made me instinctually suck on the buttons and corners of my shirt. Mystery solved. But two therapists and years of punishment didn't figure that out. I did, in my adulthood.

I had the same experience with uncontrollable, hour-long bouts of laughter which would end in vomiting and extreme stomach pain. Punished for them, told I was just trying to get attention. Turns out that was an expression of OCD. And dozens of other things not worth mentioning. The older I got, the more I came to appreciate the level of misunderstandings about my issues which led to even more violence inflicted upon me.

So that is a possible avenue of explanation for why RSD and ADHD seem to be correlated. After speaking with some friends who have borderline disorder (I don't have this, but I do have bipolar disorder type II) it seems to be something they have experienced as well. And a great deal of BPD cases involve trauma.

There is little doubt that something chemical is taking place given that specific gene mutations seem to cause these disorders, or at least predispositions to them. I'm sure that there is a correlation between RSD and the dopamine reuptake issues which characterize ADHD. But the feedback systems in nature vs nurture mean that these disorders can cause problems which themselves exacerbate the disorders or cause new symptoms to present.
I thought that xmonad just changed the windows dimensions and location for most of the layout configurations, can it change scale of the windows as well?
One thing I find amazing is the diversity of UAP vehicles.

It used to be saucers, then silvery orbs, tic tac pills, triangles with bright lights , and now during the hearing we learn about dark cubes in translucent spheres!

I mean... how many different alien races exactly are playing tourists over here?
The late 70s and early 80s was the dawn of tape trading, punk rock, rap, metal, and disco. 90% of it was only available through tape trading (or runs of 200 singles) because everyone had been shut out of a stagnant industry that was resting on AOR, super-decadent and overproduced prog, and continuing to throw money at the people who made money in the 60s.

As the 80s started, the record companies caught on and adjusted by hiring new A&R and getting into the clubs again. Then MTV happened.
That's the exact same thing as residuals. Just a different word that means the same thing.

If you mean profit sharing based on actual profit, then they would also need to share in the risk, i.e. invest money.

No one wants that, so residuals is what they do instead.

It wouldn't help anyway, most actors are mostly background or one-off scenes and do too little to actual make money there.

The big names aren't at risk of poverty. The issue is not the payment structure, the issue is that this field is way too small for the number of members, the union needs to reduce its ranks.
Here are some sample workflows where I have a bunch of different windows open. But I also have three screens (38" ultrawide - so I have close to 180* of screen around me).

* Full stack dev. One window for backend code (sub-tiled into two or three editor windows). One window for terminal (subtiled into two or three consoles). One window for Sublime with various notes and configs. One window for front-end code. And a bunch of minimized windows for docker desktop, file managers, Chrome, etc etc.

* 3D graphics. One window (sub-tiled into a couple of views) for 3D viewing and editing. One window for reference materials and textures. One window for render output.

* Scientific compute. A window with PDFs; window with Chrome with towardsdatascience / kaggle / stackoverflow; window subtiled into several ipynb (editor) views. Maybe some more diagrams / graphs / etc for a good measure.
Not clear if they're doing it at school or outside of school. If the latter, the analogy doesn't apply.
If you are at a materials science or physics lab, it can't be difficult to get.
Every time they release actual footage (like the gofast/tictac videos from a few years ago), it is not very convincing, with plausible explanations (parallax, etc) for what we are seeing. We are often told that the good videos are still classified. Why is it that only the bad videos are the ones that are released? The shtick is wearing thin.
I want a plug-and-play way to install services like (front-ends) BreezeWiki, Rimgo, Nitter, and Invidious, and (self-hosted) Miniflux, Gitea, a centralized Syncthing node, and an image sync tool (possibly Immich), onto an old laptop I own, without messing with users, groups, AUR builds, upgrading between Postgres versions... like a world where sandstorm.io had taken off. Then access them on any of my devices, like Tailscale but without binding arbitration and a class action waiver...
Well, my wife uses one my 5 user Office 365 subscription licenses on her Mac. I use it on my iPad and phone. My mom uses it on her Windows laptop and her iPad.

We each get 1TB of online storage.

Compare that to the $599 that Office for Mac use to cost and that you could only use on one computer.
Taken from Mayo clinic, for anyone not clear on what isometric exercise refers to:

Isometric exercises are tightening (contractions) of a specific muscle or group of muscles. During isometric exercises, the muscle doesn't noticeably change length. The affected joint also doesn't move. Isometric exercises help maintain strength. They can also build strength, but not effectively. And they can be performed anywhere. Examples include a leg lift or plank.
I think https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... would be better for contacting EU antitrust.

Here you can specifically create new antitrust complaints.
They don't exist in a vacuum. These people know they are playing text-based game. As I see it, the danger is similar to how other kinds of fiction is erroneously seen as truthful.
This is the best case of "competition is good for consumers" I've seen. Google Maps has such a head start compared to anyone else, and is the de facto way many people navigate; Apple Maps has only been able to catch up in the US thanks to the dominance of iPhones.

Because of this, rather than trying to compete on the same playing field, their competitors just gave it away completely free for anyone to build off of. I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like this before, but, as someone who has no substantial stake in any of the listed companies, I'm happy to see it.
Bon Air Fire Company Shut Down After Member Allegedly Tries to Join Proud Boys
"even worse"? Phrasing like that has always made me uncomfortable, like you're born with some sort of original sin by being a man. As if men are just inherently bad people. Not the kind of stuff I would want my son to grow up reading.
It's part of a larger trend of eroding competence at civic infrastructure scale construction, but also specific to nuclear we've found repeatedly that construction and decommissioning costs and schedules were wildly optimistic.
Oh, so it’s like the HDMI DRM that attempts to let displays certify “I’m a real honest-to-goodness TV, not a capture card.”

That one is in the category of things that is little more than a nuisance in practice since it’s so easy to circumvent, but that’s a hardware thing and therefore it’s easier to plug something in that is unauthorized. Things are getting so tightened up on the software side with secure boot, Apple’s read-only system partition and by-default App Store Only policy on the Mac, etc. that I suspect this type of thing will be a pain for normal people, though actual at-scale bad actors will probably figure it out.