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From the article:

"Mathew Vachaparampil, CEO of Caresoft, an engineering and automotive benchmarking firm, said his company’s engineers spent 200,000 hours building a digital replica of Tesla’s unboxed platform"

200K hours? This can't be right. If the engineers are paid $50/hour, that is a cost of $10 million just to create a digital replica of the process?
Also a reason why Golang isn't viable for DS/ML. I have 6 years of experience in Go, and I thought it would be easy to implement a PyTorch like library in a weekend, I had done so with Python and Julia previously. Go's lack of sum types is a huge restriction, once you hit this wall you realize it's the reason for a lot of wacky workaround in various libraries (especially any parsing libraries!)
My company regularly outsources large projects to Eastern Europe. Almost perfect English, great developers, projects get done on time, and the pay is a fraction of US developers.
Wanting someone who will stay for the long haul makes sense, but it leaves me as an unemployed engineer with two options:

- Stay unemployed until I find a job that seems interesting enough to work there for years. Apply, get rejected because companies don't like hiring unemployed people.

- Get a job that I don't like, then be constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to leave. Get rejected because I haven't been on my job for long enough.

What should I do?
Ultra-low interest rates like in the past 15 years are historically an anomaly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Federal_...
Nobody knows how it will develop in the future.
Hi, I'm a co-author of the post linked here.

We're currently focused on Wasm, as deterministic Wasm compute is a major push for us (which is also a major part of IPVM), but we've had container-driven and mixed Wasm/container workloads on our larger roadmap too. So, eventually :).

We're also working on registry-like plans for function and workflow reuse, which should alleviate always having to write/implement Wasm components from scratch.
I'm not a selfish asshole, just a normal asshole. Yeah, I'm going to be affected by my job also being automated, everyone will. It's not a field specific problem. It's a societal paradigm change.
I believe same was the case for "Growth mindset"
Why? Do they not know where the data in their own system, that they built, is being sent?
Isn't the point of a honeypot that it's not a real server? What guarantees are there that there won't be an exploit that allows escaping the honeypot into the real data? Personally, I do not believe anything is 100% secure. So inviting the vampire into your facade home, and then getting upset when the vampire sees the charade and walks into your real home is just one of those "well of course that happened" situations.
> The whole point is that this happens all the time

What happens all the time is an adult raising their our children and then later on raising their grandchildren. But what you’re suggesting is having old people with zero experience raising anyone taking care of their grandchildren. I don’t quite see that as a clearcut case of success.
This isn't authoritarianism.

Just to review: In the US, even at the state-level, you elect officials to handle governance on your behalf. You typically elect an official to a lower legislative house, an upper legislative house, and a governor.

All 3 must cooperate in some fashion for legislation to become law, unless the state has a stipulation that a threshold of legislative members may override the governor.

As a resident you have say in each legislative chamber and for the state-level governor seat.

Now, it's the responsibility of a truly functional legislative body to respond to unpopular political objectives by determining if the electorate wants another solution or wants the issue dropped altogether. If the legislative body makes an error, one may vote out their representative via a party primary or via scheduled elections. If they have made a grave error, typically this can be resolved via the courts as a check.

While a carbon tax may very well be unpopular due to political will, a bill is proposing an alternative mechanism. This is a legislative body working as designed.

So no, this isn't authoritarianism.
I’ve heard from a lot of people that this is happening and as a hiring manager myself when I do have an open role I see a lot more good applications than I saw say, five years ago, which means I’m rejecting a lot of people that have great experience. I’m working at a startup, so it seems to span most company sizes.
Eby's NDP government boosted housing starts by 11%. Rental prices still went up in Vancouver and the surrounding area because an 11% increase is a pittance compared to the insane demand from current immigration policy. Assuming that's even possible nationally and that the Federal NDP will have similar policies (both of which are dubious assumptions), that's not going to be adequate to keep up with the insane surge in immigration all of the big three parties seem to be behind. The Liberals at least appear to be somewhat open to minor course corrections but the NDP has historically and is currently the most pro immigration party in the country and it's not possible to get market conditions to improve if you want the population to grow by 2,000,000 people a year.

You can't bring in enough people for 800,000 homes if you have historically built around 250,000 and the best government in the country manages an 11% increase without inflating rents and making the housing crisis worse. We need to radically slow the insane surge in demand so that building more housing has a chance to keep up. Canada has historically had 2.3 people per home so if we increase builds to 300,000/year we can support bringing in roughly 660,000 people with stable prices. If we bring in 2M everyone can guess what will happen.
It's not just the price I think. Also dwindling acceptance of less than 100% skill match due to how remote makes the candidate pool much larger. Expect even more "openings" that aren't really open unless that one imaginary prince in shining armor shows up.
I think it actually might be the best spot because the far side of the moon is always positioned facing away from earth.

Is there anywhere else in the solar system that can claim that?
His behavior being oddly shifty with appointments, scheduled dates, delaying delaying delay, and then canceling last minute, sort of points to his pattern of lying and how messy his tangle of lies and schedule got.

In a business, where science, truth, and integrity are core to his brand. I think this really damaged his image.

I think he really needs to respond and not just brush aside these allegations against his character. Admitting real fault and harm and seeking help would've shown some humility and maturity. No one is perfect, but in an industry where you talk about how to optimize your health, mental, physical and relationships. It's a bad look.

I will say that I have personally benefited from some of his presentations and discussions with experts on various topics like eye health. For that I am grateful.

I will also say, some of his podcasts lacked tighter presentation and would veer into questionable science or studies.
> https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476...

Written by an elementary education specialist and an unknown lecturer. No medical value.

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/

A very nice summarization paper on ADHD. You do not seem to have read the summary at the end, as it does not support your points of argument. It primarily suggests a wider approach using additional medication, as well as DNA based diagnosis and treatment. The latter does not seem to be available yet.

> https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

This suggests the brain adapts to long-term medication with methylphenidate, but does not go as far as establishing a causal relationship, or show that the dopamine transporter alterations are to the detriment of the patient.

In fact, this meta-study seems to be a contribution to the field of establishing the origins of ADHD; its argument is that these dopamine transporter changes may not be useful in understanding ADHD as they are caused by the treatment. However, there's this:

"It is, however, also possible that lower dopamine transporter density and lower dopamine release in medication-naive ADHD patients reflect prefrontal pathology, well demonstrated in neuroimaging results for ADHD (5), since frontostriatal glutamatergic circuits regulate striatal dopamine release."

It's hinting at a possibility that, in reverse, the unmedicated state without the long-term effects may be a key contributor to ADHD itself.

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25066615/

This discusses distinctions between ADHD diagnostic criteria in DSM-IV vs. DSM-5. The ones in DSM-5 cast a wider net than DSM-IV. The study comes to the conclusion that the net is still not wide enough, particularly in adults. I don't know why you believe this paper supports any of your points.
I mean usually the cut-off time is to "order by 8 PM to get the product delivered the next day". I'm not convinced that setting the order deadline at 8 PM instead of 10 PM significantly boosts sales. E-commerce platforms are full of dark patterns, but on Amazon (perhaps because I go there when I already know what I want to buy), I haven't noticed many. Another potential dark pattern is that the lowest price is shown for offers with Prime included, while sometimes there are lower prices available for the same product shipped without Prime. However, even in this case, I don't have any complaints. Not defending Amazon obviously, but since I pay for Prime, I definitely want the fastest shipment possible.
Not signed or ratified by at least 59 countries.
People build in languages they are comfortable with. Golang is fairly easy to ship with and the performance is fine for something like this. Seems like a good tool for the job
Non-reciprocal topological solitons in active metamaterials
Yeah I don't like entitled scientists either.

It's especially disheartening to see my own community come off this way.

That said, I think most of us are aware of the reality: from a funding point of view science is somewhere between a luxury and a trick to teach young idealistic people skills. Those skills can then be repurposed for industry or military applications. We aren't at all shy about pointing this out in grant proposals, so it's sad that people come off as though the scientific community is somehow entitled to anything.

Don't get me wrong, I fully believe that science is important, but in a world ruled by markets science funding is always going to be a charity.
Leave. If you have an opportunity to, then by definition it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been at your current job.
Go totally slipped my mind. It's also a good choice for the design I outlined.
That deadline has passed, but I was living in a one bedroom flat making no money at all at 25, as were most of my friends.
You can simply ask whether women really are financially independent today: You have student debt, mortgage costs, credit cards etc on one hand and the necessity of keeping that job once you're "independent" of your family and significant other on the other hand. How independent are you if you're paycheck to paycheck?
They actually were given the same projects! It was anonymously self-reported.
I think most startups fail. I can't imagine rejecting a candidate because they took a swing at starting something and it didn't work out.
Are those WiFi phones plugged into the wall or are they cordless? I believe the advantage of DECT is that the phones consume much less power compared to WiFi which makes sense if they're on battery. Many of the IP phone vendors use DECT instead of WiFi for this reason and they sell POE DECT transcievers.
Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance as Proprietary
Endlessh periodically sends data so the read timeout won't trigger. Specifically, it draws out the crypto negotiation stage indefinitely by exploiting a feature of the SSH protocol.

(Of course, the bot author could detect that behaviour too.)

There's more info from the author of Endlessh: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/
For what it’s worth I wasn’t referencing you specifically. There were, at the time of my last reply, people elsewhere in this comment section advocating for exactly what I mentioned. My apologies.
National parks require a nation, who owns parts of the Moon? Why would they be interested on making "parks" on their part of the land? Think of it more like Antarctica, which actually makes things fine I guess, since Antarctica is basically a big scientific lab, with almost no industrial development
It's still a going business at least, and obviously India is chosen for cost above any other concern. That ethos showed up in a lot of decisions made by the private equity guys, so it's hard to say exactly which change caused the decline. Certainly in some sense the company is a shell of its former self, but maybe it's more profitable than ever, or maybe the PE guys are extracting lots of money from it? I assume they're making money somehow.
How can your company guarantee p99.9 if there is only one instance? Is there any log shipping/duplication etc? Is consistency maintained on one server fault?
I see overread books like Dune and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe as part of the problem, not part of the solution. Back in the 1980s there were so many "sci-fi fans" who had read Hitchhiker 20 times but never read Asimov or Heinlein or Dick or Smith or LeGunn or Pohl or...

I am a big fan of Frank Herbert's other books, particularly The Santaroga Barrier, Under Pressure, Destination Void, Eyes of Heisenberg, Whipping Star and the Dosadi books. I can't stand Dune but for some reason people read it over and over again and don't get into the rest of Herbert never mind any other authors.

I'd also blame Tor press for the downfall of sci-fi. Some of their books were groundbreaking like Ender's Game and Forge of God but because they represented a counter-reformation to the "new wave" which made Smith look cool again (great!) but really diminished the range of stories people would tell instead of expanding it. There was also the expansion of fantasy megaseries like Xanth (way too squicky for visual adaptation) and Discworld (too bad visual adaptations stopped when Pratchett passed away, but at least I can go to a Hogfather showing on the epiphany and cosplay as Twoflower)

I kinda feel about Vinge the way I feel about Niven, he didn't quite continue the promise he showed in his early career in his late career. Same with Charlie Stross, who became as bad a left wing nut (sees a fascist under every rock) as Niven was a right wing nut and gave up on the promising Eschaton series for just plain tiring series like The Merchant Princes (Xanth envy without the notes at the end about how much the author hates writing them?)

I liked the self-published We are Legion (We are Bob) which I found at the Salvation Army. Also

https://www.amazon.com/Terraformers-Annalee-Newitz/dp/125022...

for a very recent book.
Don't write your smut on someone else's computer. If they're American, at some point the puritans will come knocking at the door.
That’s the point of an IPO.

All the employees whose comp has been heavily weighted in equity that might never be worth anything are finally rewarded for taking that risk

I worked at a startup that stayed private for 15 years and let me tell you, getting bonuses in options started to feel like a slap in the face. Had a “million dollars” and struggled to make rent.

The IPO was like a big exhale and I finally had a down payment on a home
Indeed, we aren't separate; that does not mean that swimming in an acid mine lake is equivalent to swimming in a clear glacial lake... one is more likely to kill you than the other.

You mentioned studying philosophy, you're confusing your ontological and epistemological positions.
There's no damage. At least you're not leaving a gap in your CV for when you look for a new job after a failed business. It's something you gained experience from, learnt from, and can talk about in interviews. In fact, if you acquired a specialist skill whilst doing the startup, then it can get you head-hunted for certain roles.
> Our compensation/benefits are well above industry standard

I've definitely heard companies saying this when it wasn't the case, "industry standard" means different things to different people I guess, and also depends what country you're hiring from.
"irreparable damage to my career."

Means I care too much what others think of me - which is not a great sign.

The most interesting companies I've seen are hiring former founders and have open roles - because they know you are a problem solver.
By the way things are going on in the world faster they'll remove all hetero-only content.
Yeah, it's a bit confusing what they're doing that's so different. They still have to assemble everything together at the end.
> when other people eating the same amount and with the same amount of activity are not gaining weight, especially when eating less could cause you to gain more weight until you hit a threshold

That's part of the "calories out" side of the equation, that few people put in the effort to find (if they even know how). And I've found online estimators aren't very useful here, you need to find it for yourself - they say mine is around 1600 when it's actually more like 2200.

Ignoring half of CICO just because people only like talking about CI doesn't make it false.
Also eroding user choice:

- in-app file browsers (garbage stock dialog from operating system, not your favorite commander)

- in-app text editors (stock text input widget; not your favorite editor)

- in-app programming languages (Javascript, VB ..., rarely Lisp)

Let's complain about everything while we are at it!
If HN can prohibit explicit content, why not Google?

It's their servers, they can do with them what they want.
How does that work in visual memory, does it break and fix it too and that quickly? I have strong visual memory that I remember back in school I used to remember the page and it’s page number just by looking at it for few seconds, and if I saw a face for a second even randomly anywhere, I can recall when and where for a long period after.. I find it hard to imagine or rather scary all that is breaking/fixing the dna..
Anyone who edits news articles, blog posts or such without clearly disclosing the edit immediately loses my trust. It's a huge problem these days where everything is online instead of in print, but most people do not want to take responsibility for sloppy research or misleading reporting. And that's part of the reason why there is so much misinformation, it sometimes comes from trusted sources too, not just anonymous social media users.
Education is not training for work. It has much more significant value beyond being something that launches a junior career,
> They straight up told us that if a job can be done from home, then it can be done from India.

Company leadership could be done from home during covid, right?
Is it any more crazy than thinking that some corporation, country, or individual has a right to do something on the moon?
Treaties can be updated or even ignored if new economic or technological realities come into play.
> It is clearly the right way

It's clearly not. Either<T, Err> creates a dependence between T and Err that should not exist. They are logically independent variables. The state of Err has no reason to imply anything about the state of T.

I'd be inclined to agree that, for all practical purposes, it is the best we've got, but that doesn't mean it is right. An ideal language can do better.
Was this strategy very successful?
Just came out of this. I can totally see where you are coming from. When I started 3 years back I had same concerns and doubts. But took the leap of faith. You have to trust your skillsets and have some confidence. You have worked for 10 years so you do have good amount of experience. In my experience it was much easier for me to get interviews lined up. And honestly in terms of career progression I am farther ahead than I imagined.
One thing that I would improve though is have some idea before jumping off the wagon. Need not have product or funding secured (better if you can) but some direction. Also would highly advise looking for someone to work with unless you are going indie route. It can get lonely and is a roller coaster of emotions daily.
The reasons I ask for a counter example is because the number of “what ifs” are pretty much unlimited and easy to come up with, whereas I have to do a lot more thinking to answer them. It’s asymmetric and gets tiring

Answer is: no, not proven to be perfect. Most source is closed for the software. There is no specification. Never been a red team trying to break it. Unknown if it’s ever stopped any threats. There is no requirement to do it, and it’s all voluntary (though pretty much all synthesis providers do it). Mostly they just hash kmers and translations thereof and scan a pathogens/functional database. So implementable in a simple KV store for the most part. The bigger problem is false positives, and most work is done in de-shittifying the upstream pathogens data.

Here’s a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9988571/

Last I checked all the groups charged a lot of money for access, unfortunately, and I’m not really big enough to join a group like the International Gene Synthesis Consortium :(
I'm not the OP but I think you're looking at it backwards. It's not that you're looking for a 10 year commitment, it's that you're looking for someone who isn't planning to leave in 1-2 years. At my place we actively discard resumes of people who never stick around for longer than 2 years even when they're a good candidate. The investment we put into the hire and the amount of pain caused when someone leaves means it is difficult to hire those people. We've never hired to increase or maintain headcount, we have always aimed to fill specific positions.

As a side effect, a good 10% of our employee base is at 10+ years (including me at 12) and around half the company is at 5+. Which is incredible considering the company is only 17 years old.
Maybe a junior straight out of boot camp doesn't know what they'll be doing in six months -- but generally people have some kind of intent, eg, "I'd like to have a stable job for the next three years" or something along those lines.

I don't think GP is asking a candidate to know whether they'll stay for years at GP's org -- they're asking that the candidate have the intention of staying ~somewhere~ for a longer stint.
Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches
> A significant percentage are failing and being left behind.

Do you have any theory on why that is ?
It's getting a bit better now that they finally broke the back of the "if you take credit cards you must not provide a cash discount" which was straight up anti-trust monopoly abuse.

Now most of the smaller restaurants around here have a sign saying "prices reflect a 3% cash discount" - and the auto repair shop charges 3% to use a credit card but nothing to use debit or cash.
Inspecting network traffic is not a self invented regulation.

MITM of network traffic historically was the easiest way to monitor what goes in and out of ones network. It's still pretty easy. It's a corporate resource, the ethics aren't that bad.

People say to inspect the endpoint. I'm simply not sure the technology is there to inspect data destined to leave an endpoint in clear text. The next step would be for apps to encrypt data before they let the operating system know they want to send data outbound.

Then the next step is to only allow applications that comply with some sort of framework for content inspection prior to sending stuff over the network. I don't know if there's any thing like that currently.
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge