skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The ability to formulate code problems as math problems, particularly as linear algebra problems, is a vastly underrated skill. The ability to grind out an already-solved algorithm is vastly overrated.

I've seen otherwise good programmers write loops over elaborate data structures to deal with what are effectively composed matrix math operations. Unless you're in a language that has first-class arrays (APL, R, Matlab), it's not immediately obvious how all those unknowns could be plugged into a system of equations and solved in a single op.

In a sense, math is the exact opposite of leetcode. Math is theoretical but can be turned to great advantage by a skilled programmer. Leetcode is entirely concrete (memorizable, not grounded in any theory) yet pragmatically useless for solving novel engineering problems.

So I agree, we need more engineers who understand dot products and eigenvalues, not algorithmic code golfing.

That is assuming your company actually wants to hire engineers - I suspect the purpose of leetcode is specifically to weed out people who are likely to ask "Um why would I write this leetcode algorithm when I could solve it faster by multiplying two matrices in BLAS?". We wouldn't want our engineers to apply critical thinking now would we?
Not to mention they send patches and build applications to help with linux support.
It's unfortunate that the loudest advocates of crypto in the US and Europe are screeching libertarians and grifters/scammers. They drown out the everyday users in far off places like Argentina and Nigeria that nobody (in the US and Europe) seem to care about.
Thank you for explaining this. I kept looking for an explanation of what it means to be a "high street" – After not finding said explanation, I assumed it had to do with elevation, and whether this person was exploring elevation "peaks" in London.

So it seems to be sort of like what are typically called "Main St" in American towns.
Great advice. Thank you so much!
the robotic surgical space is an extremely difficult market to break into. for laparoscopic procedures, intuitive surgical is generations ahead of their nearest competitor.

they maintain market leadership by possessing massive amounts of intellectual property and by creating very unique "lock-in" with surgical analytics that are reported to hospital executives. they effectively "score" surgeons with a way to calculate their ROI/profitability to the hospital.
Yeah, Ponzi sold quasi-currency issued by somebody other than him to people for a promise of large profits! Why do you ask?
I can transact with people who choose to use it and convert to fiat currency when needed. I have been doing this for over ten years now.

It works. What's the problem?

Are you saying that me merely using Bitcoin endangers others and is akin to driving into oncoming traffic?

edit: Sure, driving into oncoming traffic is bad. So let's criminalize and punish that, rather than banning vehicles because I could drive on the pavement and cause havoc.
I’ve been to Estonia a lot, and have never seen any retail business that would accept crypto.

I’m sure there’s a niche somewhere. But when you say “pretty popular payment option”, it sounds like it’s a rival to Visa and Mastercard, and that prices would be listed in crypto instead of euro. That’s absolutely not true.

Re: Nigeria, anecdotally my few friends from the country tell me that the crypto boom is primarily about local influencers promoting their own coins as investments, not actual payments.
The 2 letter domain must have been a premium.

Cool project.
What's the point of this? I thought all the mainstream VPN protocols are trivially detectable via DPI?
There is a multitude of governments involved in Bitcoin with different incentives and strategies. If you claim "The government can do X to Bitcoin" you should explain which government(s) and how exactly that would work.
When was the FED a "democratically elected government", by the way?
It's good for them. Their blindness makes thair grave digging process more efficient.
Very useful comment: the rate of change is just as important as the nature of the change. Hence why the change through evolution in the biosphere is generally much more stable that the change brought upon us by technological innovation.
Of course there’s an “intention”. The intention is to minimize loss (i.e. score well on a dataset). There are plenty of university students who bullshit through an exam to score well.
Yeh I'm sanitizing already thankfully. I've fixed the decoding issue, but I'm expecting some % of users to be borked for a whole other variety of quirky reasons.
Most companies requiring in-office work, at least for most tech and many other skills, are showing themselves as being poorly managed places that one should avoid working at.

Tech management is often bad, for any number of reasons (not the least of which is non-technical peoples' complete lack of understanding about what their people are doing). At least when these managers are beyond physical reach of their workers, the workers have a better chance of creating a productive environment and shielding themselves from distraction and nonsense interactions.

Many of these managers actually do very little beyond low-value talking and meeting. They are figureheads who are recognized by figureheads who likewise provide little actual value.

Meanwhile, a team of 1 product/project management skill + 2 devs + 1 designer, when all agreeing on the goal, can do what a corporate organization of 100 people cannot do.

This is why most new value is created by small independent teams who are then bought up by laggard giants that can no longer do anything beyond manipulating the system to maintain some form of monopolistic control.

Therefore, if your company is demanding you come back to the office, you can bet they are not a place you want to work at (unless your goal is _only_ money).
Yes Norway is fortunate to have great transportation, a work culture that respects people's quality of life, clean and safe cities

In the UK and the US workers are treated more like serfs who are told to assemble in offices regardless of how long/arduous the commute, how shitty the city is, how little the boss cares for your quality of life etc. etc.
Aren't you jumping the gun a little bit? While it's a valid question, it's very premature.
And beyond web engines, operating systems have them too - both Windows and macOS have workarounds for popular apps.
Yes, the modification the authors propose is indeed "simple."

It's "obvious" only in hindsight.
Wow, you still have an expense budget for routine employee lunches such that you’re doing work out at restaurants and stuff!? /s
Sir, this is the internet. Nobody reads past the headline before spouting their opinion.
Valve is a good pick, at least as much as any company can.

but the one mark against them is that by pushing Steam, they normalized DRM in the video game space and killed physical media on PCs.
Better by some measure - LEGO is probably optimizing for different metrics:

- Number of distinct pieces (fewer is better),

- Complexity of build-process,

- Robustness,
Interesting concept. This would work for the moment, until the providers hear about this type of detection and change the session sizes or intervals. I am unsure what the intent of this type of detection would bring other than knowing that someone is using OpenVPN. Doing this at scale would be even more difficult.

There are quite a few work arounds which would defeat this testing methodology.
Since they only tested OpenVPN, and with Wireguard becoming a bigger player, (additionally the Tailscale/Headscale's of the world), this detection would never work.

I am surprised they didn't attempt to try this with Tor since those people are more likely to be more serious about their anonymity and privacy.
$100 but worth it for the fun!
Making Lotties 10x Smaller
Yep, with a dash of "All my work goes better in face-to-face meetings, so everyone else's must too."
It's extremely unlikely to be you.
What's wrong with having to justify a budget each year rather than assuming last year's budget was fine and still makes sense as a starting point for this year?
Somewhere in the rabbit hole of delusion that is "buying in" to crypto is the idea that:

1. "Bitcoin is inevitable" and governments will be forced to buy it as "digital gold" to prevent a collapse of the world financial system.

2. Governments are already sneakily stockpiling BTC as insurance against a collapse of the world financial system.
> "A very slow boil, when the liquid is hardly moving except for a bubble at one point, is called to simmer"

Yup, I remember reading that definition of simmer, and I tried to use that. I omitted that definition from my post to save space; besides, I can't give an exact quote because I lost my copy of Child's book in a disaster. Net, using her definition about quivering water or some such, the results were as I described, chunks of charcoal -- in my experience that definition of simmer was TOO HOT, over 200 F, which is TOO HOT.

> A very slow boil

That word, "boil", that's close to 212 F. The beef chunks are small enough that quickly they will be at the temperature of the liquid so will be well above 170 F or so. Anything like "boil" is just way too hot.

The solution both then and now was a thermometer and a definition of simmer in terms of TEMPERATURE as measured by a thermometer.

I use the same approach with pork: Pork Picnic shoulder, skin side down, on a V-rack, in a roasting pan, uncovered, in an oven at 210 F to an internal temperature of 179 F. Use a fork or some tongs and separate the cooked, lean meat from the bone, fat, and skin. Nearly all the fat is next to the skin. The resulting pork falls apart.

For sandwiches, 4 ounces per sandwich is generous. Maybe add some salt and red pepper flakes. Add ~2 ounces of BBQ sauce. If have the cooked pork cold, in a bowl, covered, warm it in microwave. Then using, say, two forks, separate the meat chunks into fibers (no knife needed) and mix in the sauce. When it's cold, it's too stiff to separate into fibers; warmed, it falls apart. 210 F oven and 179 F internal temperature. "Low and slow".
Signaling to attract a desired mate. Or whatever other reason (at least some) humans are attracted to power.

What amount of work is necessary? Apartment life without personal car? Townhouses with a 1 car garage? Detached single family homes with 2 car driveway with 2 Toyotas? Or is it 1 Toyota and 1 Lexus? A flight to a tropical destination once ever 3 years? Or every year?

You see where this is going.
There's a number of smaller companies that I think might fit the bill. I have high hopes for Framework, we'll see if they keep it going.
Citation? All the data would indicate that the job market is still very, very strong.
Nice :)

Ah, I bet you discovered that subdomains aren't case-sensitive while HN usernames are case-sensitive, didn't you? :)
I read the whole thing and I don't see any evidence of leaked information. It's synthesizing this argument from public information and reasonable inferences but not any privileged information.

It is hardly the first one to connect these dots. I and many others came to these same conclusions years ago when it became apparent that SpaceX had the ability to execute on the Starlink plan.
I think the problem is not a secular worldview per se (and I am a Christian myself) but a materialist secular worldview that encourages things like the hustle culture and the undervaluing of personal relationships and community.
For yogurt, you boil the milk anyway, so raw or not makes no difference.
Yep in Maryland we have "Tag & Title" places - they don't offer all the services of the MVA (our name for the DMV), but for what they do offer the fee is generally well worth it.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I hope you have your own business or are you "baby fed" by your boss.
> But service level security features have the potential to cause enterprise-level problems.

Only if you don’t know what you’re doing. Which you should given you’re paid to work on enterprise systems.

Whereas not having this causes problems for users are not paid to learn this technology.

So it seems completely reasonable to tailor some features to lesser experienced owners given the wide spectrum of users that run openssh.
Exactly, but the value proposition of crypto is that it's *very* difficult to disrupt. See Nigeria for a current example of a national government trying and failing to get its population to give up on crypto.
It's running the script tag from your profile.

<script>alert(1)</script>

Are you testing it?
Yeah, which kind of proves the point of the design of UNIX compilers, versus other platforms.

I know GCC since 1995, and am I quite aware why such bad developer experience should be preferable kind of argumentation.
> The key idea behind our threat model is that end devices using a VPN connection will, by default, send all their traffic to the same destination (the VPN server) identified by its public IP address – Refer to Figure 1. On the other hand, non-VPN traffic is typically sent to a mix of different destinations; e.g. websites, weather widget, OS update server, etc.

It's about looking at the cardinality / entropy of target ip's.
Is the person who posted this

"Yep, for every person who gains a dollar someone had to lose a dollar. No value was created."

right or wrong?
The fact that your one-time purchases are perpetually held hostage by Valve is a pretty rotten principle at the very core, and Valve is guilty here just like many other companies. Why should your continued ability to play games you've purchased offline depend on Valve deciding you're still in their good graces? Why can't you have your own independent & transferable copy of what you've purchased so they can't dictate what you do with it outside their servers? How do you respect a company that sells you something but still maintains the right to revoke your access to it?

Oh and did you forget about lootboxes? and their effects on children?

(Note I'm taking a somewhat exaggerated position here -- I don't think Valve is a terrible company as far as companies nowadays go. But the bar in this question seems intended to be absolute, not relative.)
Background: Started in industrial automation (lots of Fanuc, Yaskawa, Omron, etc.), built a lot of cool systems with cool people that made things with robots. Pivoted to "general" robotics in grad school. Been spending the last 5+ years making "general" robots.

I think the best thing for learning robotics looks pretty similar to learning a programming language: Have a specific task in mind that the robot/programming language will help you solve. Even if its just a pick-and-place and a camera, or a shaker table with a camera over top, or a garden watering timer/relay combo. Just work on something specific with your toy robot and you'll naturally encounter much of the difficult things about robotics (spatial manipulation, control, timing, perception, drivers (GODDAMN DRIVERS), data, you name it).

Going right to a high-DOF arm or trained LLM is always cool, but the person who hacks together a camera/relay/antenna to automate some gardening task or throws some servos and slides together to make a Foosball robot is doing the most interesting things, in my opinion.
Sun stuff was remarkably well built physically, too. At least the server gear i was scrap sourcing and extending the life of. It was possible to do things like swap parts on power supplies, because the designs were not full of tricks to prevent that.

Those monster backplane slots were full of delicate little pins that were easy to bend, but the pins themselves were actually made tough and hard to break so a fine touch could have a hope of straightening them.

They made all their docs available, and kept them up for a very long time. The PDFs of the service manuals were immensely valuable.
The Microsoft ruling in the US was that Microsoft was forcing third-party OEMs (Dell, HP etc) to ship Internet Explorer, not that they shipped it themselves.

As for the EU, they have already forced Apple to allow third-party browser engines under the DMA, as well as are forcing Apple to show a "browser ballot" like they made Microsoft do.
He's not wrong about FL. There are state and municipal DMV sites. It can be years between site visits (renew:2years and later automatic and then later by mail).

That's long enough to not know if official domains have changed and/or not be familiar with the new copycats that sprung up. Given the median age can be death in places, the copycats may do a brisk business.

We moved to a new county. We found 2 sites that could auto-fill our info from state databases - because the state sells it. Neither were .gov domains, might even have been able to perform the needed service. Or maybe not.

We ultimately opted to visit. The walk-in location is quick and competent.
> This only works if your grandfather was born in the UK, amd went to a colony

Anyone with any grandparent born in the UK is eligible, whether that grandparent went to a colony or not.
Shutting down personal transportation devices in the middle of the street sounds problematic. It's dangerous for the rider and the full sized vehicles nearby.
I found something below, but still do not know the answer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/uwxgbo/comment/i9xji...
Adobe's shenanigans are bad, but I put a lot of the blame here on Windows and its persistent refusal to implement a decent way to uninstall programs without using a vendor-provided binary/script.

It boggles my mind that Windows has no concept of "track what files and registry entries are from what apps, so we can uninstall apps even if the vendor is an asshole/malware distributor/etc", and the corollary "a page that shows what apps still have files or registry entries on the system".

This is worsened by heavy use of the registry, which allows apps to spread files all over the filesystem in a way that is very difficult for users to follow. It's further worsened by the uselessness of Task Manager (it's nearly unfit for purpose, especially considering the bizarre number of strange processes running on even a clean Windows install). Then add in opaque things like svchost.exe and it's very, very hard to tell whether there are any processes left over from an install.

Windows really needs to add better uninstall or cleanup tools for that kind of stuff. Maybe a way to audit what files and registry keys apps access, so users (or a tool) can cross-check them after an app is uninstalled. Maybe some kind of "this app has been running in the background but you haven't interacted with it in X months" info display. Maybe some kind of "you uninstalled app X but I found a folder named X in %appdata%" tools.

It really gives Windows a bad name that no one can trust that uninstalls of apps actually work.
No thank you, to pasting strings.
It's not. But it's on the EU government, or possibly the Horizon scheme managers, to fix it.
> There was no pressure to buy.

With the caveat that you had to buy Solaris.
The problem is how can "follow more unusual trains of thought" apply to a language model ? Sure it can selectively attend to certain parts of the input and generate based on that, but what is the internal signal for "unusual" ? Any selective focus is also going to appear like groundhog day since the model's weights are fixed and what was "unusual" today will continue to be "unusual" even after it's been exposed to it for the 1000th time!
Again, this kind of arguments gets tiring, compilers get upgrades.
A tool to help you remember the shit you're interested in [video]
You'll likely forget 90% of the content you consume within a week. I built Recall to fix this. Recall summarizes online content, connects it in a knowledge graph and resurfaces it on a schedule tailored to your learning curve, helping you remember the information you care about.
eh, tech jobs are abundant in the US
There's a large cohort of people who want to hate on anything related to cryptocurrency, whether it's a specific currency like Bitcoin, NFTs, web3 or related technology. You may be right that cryptocurrency proper is easier to defend against but the default position I see by most people is to criticize carbon emissions, energy usage, attack the legitimacy or the utility. One of the first comments here to this article was a comment specifically asking why Bitcoin was needed at all (in the US).

I agree that problems of Bitcoin are different from other neighboring technologies, people lump them into one and tend to use the same arguments (energy usage, scams, ponzi schemes, illegitimate, crime only use case, etc.).

This article at least starts to make the argument of why something like Bitcoin is needed and how it solves real world problems.
It uses OpenAI's set of whisper models, which support multilingual transcription and translation across 100 languages. Since the models run entirely locally in your browser (thanks to Transformers.js), no data leaves your device! Huge for privacy!

Source code: https://github.com/xenova/whisper-web/tree/experimental-webg...
I've known people who care more about preventing undeserving people from receiving help even if the cost of enforcement is greater than the cost of abuse.
Black sharpie and electrical tape. Never travel without them.
Ok i do not want to get into the whole argument of usefulness of bitcoin, but I have to repeat something that I have been repeating for many years on this site, on other sites and in real life, and it still does not catch on. Bitcoin is not anonymous! True, the government may need to do some work to find your wallet number, but once they do they will know all transactions you have ever done with that wallet in all of time. In fact bitcoin allows for surveillance possibilities that governments could only dream of before. It also provides surveillance opportunities for people that are not the lawful government and do not have the power to issue warrants.

Anytime you engage in any transaction using bitcoin, the other party must necessarily know your wallet number. Then the other party can easily check every single transaction made with that wallet for the history of bitcoin, and can do additional checks in the future. Of course you can get a new wallet, but moving the money from the old wallet to the new wallet will also appear for everyone to see.

Thus any government agent, creditor or ordinary stalker can figure out a way to sell you something or buy something from you using bitcoin, and voila they have your entire financial history.

The writer of the original article is being dangerously misleading when he implies bitcoin is anonymous. There are people languishing in jails right now because they thought bitcoin was anonymous.
No for-profit company doesn’t either pay dividends or buy back shares forever.
Chatting with some major-firm management consultants was enough to remove any lingering “… but surely they’re smarter than I’m giving them credit for” doubts I had about the C-suite.

Their view was way less favorable and more comprehensive than mine, and they’ve seen more of them and from bigger companies than I have. They talked about them like they’re toddlers.
Fish aren't the only things that live in water. There are other marine organisms, some of which have leg-like things. What if one of those organisms, already equipped with legs, evolved to survive on the surface?
What you as a single person trust or not doesn't matter in this case. Enough people already decided to "trust" Bitcoin, that why it's worth 70k. I'm not promoting anything, thats just how money works. There is simply no Intrinsic value.
Very healthy attitude.

Would do exactly the same.