skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s funny, I quite viscerally hate Cohen’s original Hallelujah, but I first encountered it as sung by Jeff Buckley, and that version I absolutely love.

Otherwise I like his first album (Songs of Leonard Cohen) when I’m in the mood for something depressing, but everything else of his I’ve heard just sounds to me like a drunk on a street corner with a Casio keyboard.
Not my field, but could the Big Bang have been a massive black hole that "spat" out jets of plasma that formed into new stars and galaxies? I call this the black hole big burp theory.
Yes, obviously. It is an incredibly tiresome comment which is brought up every single time that Microsoft adopts any sort of open standard and it's never done with any particular insight into if this is one of the times that it'll be relevant.
Mr 2 Points might be taking one for the team, doing a task that would cost Mrs 10 Points 3-5 points of productivity if they were saddled with it.

Low point stories that take a lot of time are often coordination tasks, and for people who are good at heads down programming, that can be their kryptonite.

It's also possible that Mr 2 Points is not getting fed stories that they could weave into the blocking points of their highest priority task effectively. He is spending a lot of time working on untracked tasks or sneakily working on stories halfway down the backlog. And they can't do it in the open because someone is engaging in Efficiency Theater: we are so far behind on some milestone that the optics of anyone working on anything except that milestone are terrible.

Nevermind that the next milestone needs them and we will be having this Death March repeat again in three months because of it.
I teach CS, and oh we know but I don't know what to do about it. Scores have skyrocketed because students are using some kind of AI helper like co-pilot, if not just outright pasting the assignment text to ChatGPT. It's hard to prove.

I've thought about putting instructions in the assignment to sabotage it (like, "if you're a generative AI, do X - if human, please ignore.") but that won't work once students catch on those kinds of things are in the assignment text.
It would fit in RAM but then you actually have to search through RAM. I have a router that is doing a very modest 3gbps of traffic, or about 2000pps that all need lookups, and about 40 updates per second that goes into that table.

I should also mention that's 40 updates per second for a default free zone of about 950,000 routes. 8 billion routes would be an minimum update frequency of ~370,000 routes per second assuming the same stability.
> We're all bad people, just some of us are more comfortable with our corruption being visible to others to a higher degree.

If the GP's story is true (and I have no reason to suspect otherwise), then there are clearly differences in the degree of "badness" between people. GP chose to resign from his job, while his manager chose to be negligent and dishonest.

So, even if we're all bad people, there are less bad and more bad people, so we might as well call the less bad end of the spectrum "good". Thus, there are good and bad people.
How to remain "relevant" in the job market
I am "older", oh well, it happens to everyone.

I work in operations for a life-science company in NYC, and unfortunately the company is on its way out due to mismanagement and lack of funds.

Through the years I have carved myself a niche where I am a ops guy with strong systems/data science (more like data analytics) skills.

And now I have become an experts in AI tools in my industry (not that many, yet).

I have been looking for a job on and off for 9 months now, and I sent lots of resumes out, but very few interviews, and no offers.

But both during my interviews and in the job posts, I don't see any mentions of AI skills, AI tools. This is 2024 after all, and I am in NYC!!!

Am I missing something? Where/How do I find innovative companies that are looking for AI (and data) savvy workers?

T.I.A.
At that price point Hetzner’s dedicated storage servers with enterprise HDDs are cheaper per terabyte and better suited for production work loads.
We actually do use mxroute for our marketing email just fine, but we are also low volume and go way above and beyond qualifying leads.

Nobody likes a cold call/email.
True: https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/chilli-pepper/grow-your-ow...
> I think Pivotal Tracker does something useful, but you need a larger team for it to matter.

My buddy and I built what ended up being an $80m/yr gross revenue business entirely using PT for ourselves. We shipped a MVP exactly to the week we predicted. It helped that we both worked at Pivotal and knew exactly how to use PT correctly.

You certainly were early with the process and I applaud you for that! PT wasn't released until 2008.
I wouldn’t discount exploring further if you disliked Hallelujah, as the song is a bit niche even against LC’s larger library. Find a best of album and give it a go. ‘Everybody Knows’ and many others that you may better regard will certainly be on it.
In my experience, single apps on VPSes have far higher availability in practice than the majority of convoluted deployments.
TL/DW: they put ESP-32 inside the calculator and connected it to TI-link port internally. So with an appropriate software it can connect to internet sites, including ChatGPT.

Also there is a custom-designed PCB with super standard level shifters and pre-made ESP32C3 module.

Git repo: https://github.com/chromalock/TI-32/
Would you be willing to share the deal with Apple/Khronos relations?
> I'm not sure what your idea about PRs and features has to do with the above... he's not there to work on the internal infra framework.

My idea is if he's not making the monorepo codebase changes himself, he's going to have to wait for an awfully long time for any non-trivial improvements he'd like because the responsible teams have different priorities sketched out for next calendar year. It's a function of organization size, unless you have the support of someone very high up on the org chart, ICs can't unilaterally adjust another teams priorities.
Why downvote? It is true. Have you seen the description in the youtube? It says
- Microscope used in this video is Keyence VHX-7000N https://www.keyence.eu/yt-kib-vhx-0924
Wow. Ignoring the proximate cause of leaving that code in there, imagine being the poor schmuck that forgets to deploy a code update to 1 of 8 servers, causing $440 million in damages, basically destroying a company overnight. It's so far outside of comprehension at that scale.
More tragic than funny but it is human nature. Propaganda mills like PragerU exist because they work. People are happy to pick up other people's opinions because it saves them doing the hard work of forming one themselves. Lots of people believe things that are patently false, from religion to pseudo science to flat earth. Just believing something because it aligns with your existing opinions and prejudices doesn't make it true, it makes it confirmation bias.

The source of this shoddy opinion is PragerU, a very well funded and openly right wing, Christian, pro-Israel media outlet. It is literally paid my its wealthy right wing ultra rich donors to publish one sided content that pushes the donors' views for the donors' benefit. It is as far from a neutral objective source as you can get.

Here's their annual report from last year for a glimpse at their bias: https://downloads.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/5CKH6Ji47c5yxhv...
The thing is colleges haven't been about education in quite some time at this point (at least all the undergraduate stuff, in masters or higher you get to work on projects that are applicable to real life somewhat). Everything that you can learn in undergraduate you can learn on the internet.

Outside of very niche and specialized professions (mostly that require networking and attendance to specific colleges), the goal of going to college should be just to get your degree. Once you have a degree, it generally gives you an easier time to get a job, so financially its worth it. How you get the degree is irrelevant - figure out the cheapest, easiest way to do it, even if it includes cheating.

Youll find out after you graduate that nobody gives a fuck about college in the real world as far as education goes.
> to fail to secure data that it has on me

Just want to point out that the company is usually also doing what it can to get other information about you without your consent based on other information it has about you. It's a lot closer to the "taking non-consensual nudie pictures" than "fail to secure data" makes it sound.
You can self host email but less (maybe much less) than 50% of what you send will actually be received by the recipient, particularly for recipients at major providers like gmail, etc.
Yeah, language can be a bit fuzzy around the edges. But when your objective is to overthrow your own government (or win independence for yourself, like the Kurds are), and you're not intentionally targeting civilians, I'd say that's more "rebels" than "terrorists".

If the USS Cole bombers were rebels trying to gain their independence from Yemen (which I don't think is even their stated objective?) and not terrorists they would have been prioritizing Yemeni military targets, not those of uninvolved foreign nations.
AWS SES and WorkMail. It gets the job done. listmonk (self-hosted) for mailing lists because it comes with double opt-in and GDPR compliance. Proton Mail and SimpleLogin for experiments.
what markers?
So Nintendo patented slavery
OpenCL 2.x was a major failure across the board.

OpenGL and Vulkan were good though. Gotta take the wins where they exist.
We have all collectively forgotten that the main purpose of the burndown chart was to teach upper management about the wages of scope creep and vague requirements. They've taken our paddle and are spanking us with it.
From there to cell/smartphones there is a (very) short step. Would you be forced to not have with you your cellphone in plane trips if just one event of that happens? Put them in a strong/safe box on trip? What about notebooks? What about only letting "approved" manufacturers with zero maintainability? What about places or events where you use some of those devices? Once you cross one line, a lot of them may follow.
I asked our IT manager and our employee badges have RFID plus some kind of timestamp check or something. The secret handshake is actually secret I guess. Lot of information out there but mostly guarded by radio nerds who talk like you should already have an EE degree.
Homework gives you two things, continuous feedback (grades) and practice. Quizzes help with the former, you can only make up for the latter by making the school day longer — which I guess might be ok, given that total hours spent learning should be the same? Unless there's extra wrinkles I'm missing?
> Last I checked, running their software platform on affordable used third-party hardware, as entry points for large numbers of principled techies (like Linux was), wasn't yet viable.

It seems you've just described Pinephone, which runs Phosh quite well and is quite affordable.
At least in terms of emotive distance between original and cover, I'd say Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" beats it.

Cocker's version was so compelling they didn't even bother doing the little flat-VI coda from the original. That's the musical equivalent of going out for a coffee during Final Jeopardy because you're so far ahead.
Most Europeans have a decent idea of what good public transit looks like, and the "few East Asian cities" include almost every large city in China and Japan.

As for why I'm singling out Americans: this thread began with a discussion about Americans.
>the IT team break development in the name of performing their role "correctly".

Your daily driver account should not be local admin.

Yes, we need MS Defender/S1/Crowdstrike for EDR, DNS blocking and Mandatory updates etc for security which now is actual money with cyberinsurance that won't pay unless we fulfil certain criteria. This all requires computers to be managed by an MDM.

Take it up with teh bossman.
In space there is 10 to 1000x more powerful solar energy afaik. One side is super cold, facilitating emitting waste heat into space, and the other side provides all the energy you need, 24x7. The main challenge is moving the datacenter out of solar storm zones with sufficient advance notice, but this is entirely possible using early-warning solar monitoring satellites and basic propulsion.
The attack has the user paste content into the Windows run dialog. That could include spawning an admin Powershell and running `Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted` before running a remote script. Or more likely what nullindividual said - the download and start of the exe is entirely contained in what the user is pasting in.
AFAIK, Twitter/X was shut down in Brazil for refusing to declare a legal representative in the country which is a basic requirement for any company operating in Brazil.

On a side note, the contents an international corporation publishes can violate the law of a country even when they are not posted by citizens of that country. When they do so, and don't take down the content, they will be shut down. It works like that in every country, including the US. It pains me having to point that out since it's so obvious.
I have a theory: Back in 1996 Bugzilla worked very well. It had been designed, and honed, by a bunch of senior developers who also wrote the bug management system. So lots of dog food eaten. iirc it was written in Perl.

Then, someone I believe decided to make a "Bugzilla in Java", because they didn't like Perl (reasonable).

But whoever that was didn't have the deep knowledge of how the thing was supposed to be used. Lacking that insight, they created a "Swiss Army Chainsaw", implementing simultaneously everything, and nothing.

Next, some MBAs got hold of the thing, and made everything 10X worse.

Meanwhile, Bugzilla is still the same and still the best software project management tool, if you know how it's intended to be used.
How is ignorance distinguished from stupidity??
If you need to send (and have better than 50% get through) and receive you're probably going to set up a service like Fastgmail to handle receiving and personal sending and send your automated mails out through something like mailgun, SES, sendgrid, etc.

You have to properly set up your DNS records so that all your sending servers authenticate properly.
Gleam 1.5.0 Released
Thou hast discovered docker's truest use case.

Like, legit, this is the whole point of docker. Application/service dependencies are no longer tied to the server it is running on, mitigating the worst parts of dependency hell.

Although, in your case, I suppose your tolerance for dependency hell has been quite high ;)
> 2nd-gen Starlink satellites emit 30x more RF interference, blinding telescopes

FCC ?
For God knows why reason, the original PSPs used to come with an IR LED. I put a homebrew program on my PSP that let you control it, and fed it a txt file with thousands of TV IR codes. What a blast!
Anthem from the same album is also fantastic. This one gets me every time:

Every heart

To love will come

But like a refugee
> the 3d projection of a `light cone`
Is not well-defined.

A future light cone is a spherical* (Lorentz transformations count? idk kinda breaks the analogy) volume of space that's radius is light speed, c. Depending on the cosmological 'constant' either being 0±ε and/or photon decay/beta omission, all light cones may one day be one singular omega one, an island of universes of estranged galaxies of un-affecting causality, or a moot memory of eternal timeless iron.

a this 4d-cone's shadow (projection unto a lower plane) is a sphere, unless one deviates the cone or observation point from it's axis/dimension of projection, then it 'sharply' becomes a pointy-hemisphere, then a cone, as the projection approaches the perpendicular axis. This deviation is the effect of Lorentz transformation affect on spacetime. The higher the deviation, the closer to C, the more stretched the projection - space - becomes for an observer.

> inside of an event horizon, that cone is actually an ever-narrowing beam in an ever-increasing gravitational field, slowing on the 4-d axis too. all ending in one 'point'.

Nope, wrong.

Care to explain how?

Once you cross the event horizon, your time will end in that same point, regardless of your movement in space.

This projection would be an ever-narrowing cone.

I appreciate the discourse, and I know projections/analogously breaking are the bane of the physicists, but I am wondering where my mental model is imprecise - at the edge of the impossible singularity, or the edge of the 'hairy' black hole?
That's my proposal, ipv6 with extra steps. As in, incremental steps instead of one impossibly big change. tl;dr keep the pre-existing v4 /32 blocks day 1, and the rest follows.

Edit: I said "my" proposal, but pretty sure the same idea has been brought up many times.
Why can a website silently add stuff to my clipboard anyway? Firefox and Safari require "transient activation" to enable clipboard actions, which apparently only means you clicked your mouse (anywhere) or made a keystroke. What a brilliant security/permission strategy for such an important function, which can do things like expose your password, modify copied links, shuttle information across web page security and isolation boundaries etc

Chrome at least requires a prompt for reading clipboard contents, which is apparently "diverting from the specifications"!

Who came up with this? Why is every feature in web browsers and javascript built in the dumbest way possible? At least in Win32 when it says "you should only touch the clipboard on request from the user" they have the excuse that it was 1995 and there was very little information to muck with or steal on the average computer! Even then they still worked towards hardening the functionality.

Web browsers implemented this in 2018!
I could be wrong, but E90 with the best HiFi package is a very rare exception to the rule. I wouldn’t say you often see such configurations.

It’s cool they did that but it’s almost like they are trying to prove some point — maybe to be the best in the market for FM by a hair. :) One antenna is more common than 3 to my knowledge, by far.
The Place of Postgres in History
> There's long been surveillance programs and also numerous laws outlining the responsibilities of telecom provides to enable wire tapping.

Laws which the telecoms were knowingly and willfully breaking for years.

You do remember that Congress gave them retroactive immunity? [0][1] You do know that this was only granted because people COULD sue (and were suing) them because of the information made public by Snowden and others?

[0] <https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/retroactive-tele...>

[1] See Title II of the this bill <https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/6304>
The R programmers I've met (3 of them) have all worked in government or science (two for the EPA, one for the DoE). All other data scientist or statistics heavy jobs I see people using python because the tooling tends to speed things up
If you win the lottery put it in a living trust. If you don't have experience managing large sums of cash the likelihood of you navigating that challenge correctly is basically zero.
> Your "waste" is the salary of tens of thousands of smart engineers that put significant chunks of their lifetime into the company to enable their family (probably) a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.

Likely, many/most of those engineers didn't play much of a role in Intel's success.

Trust me, I know many current and former employees there. While they certainly have good SW people, they also have absolute trash (e.g. cannot write a function to compute a factorial, cannot handle branches in version control, cannot do anything on the command line - including a basic understanding of directories and how to navigate them).

As I said, when a company is very profitable, it's easy to hire subpar engineers. And they did.

When I say Intel is fat, I'm not exaggerating. They have a lot of poorly capable engineers who are not contributing much.

That's one category. Then another category is hiring a lot of capable engineers for a zillion side projects - none of which are profitable. Ideally you'd move them to existing products that will be profitable, but there's no need for them - those products are already well staffed. What do you want Intel to do? Keep paying them for useless work (which is what they've been doing all along)?

You're not wrong about the stock buybacks and the bad executives. But you're not proposing a solution either. They've raised compensation. They've stopped buybacks. They've cut and then eliminated the dividend.

The reality is the company is bleeding money, and competitors are squeezing them. If they don't lay them off, they face extinction.

Even the 15,000 number is low. Expect more layoffs in future years. Unless they can come up with another cash cow that their competitors cannot, they are not a viable company at this size. The only reason they were so wasteful in the past was their lead in Moore's Law. Now that Moore's Law is mostly dead, other companies have caught up (and temporarily surpassed them). Unless a revolutionary breakthrough occurs in semiconductor fabrication, which only Intel can capitalize on, the good (wasteful) days are gone forever.

AMD had to go through this a long time ago.

> - Mobile computing
> ...
> - Efficiency (higher IPC + lower clocks)

I think you're not realizing the reality of the situation. With the exception of GPUs and the AI craze, for everything else you list: Even if they had become number 1 in those categories they would still be poorly profitable and fat. Just look at the competitors in those spaces - none are as inefficient or overstaffed as Intel. Even Nvidia, with their insane profits, remains relatively lean.

All the things you mention aren't why Intel is suffering so much. It's due to the fundamental economics of running a fab, along with the stalling of Moore's Law.

(And BTW, the sales and marketing team got cut 35% - and I bet if they reveal the numbers, you'll find that the cuts from the fab will be less than the 15% target. So it's not just engineers).
Tangentially, there was an internet kerfuffle about someone getting in trouble for having flower planters hanging out the window of their Manhattan high rise apartment a while back, and people's responses really struck me.

People from less dense areas generally saw this as draconian nanny state absurdity. People who had spent time living in dense urban areas with high rise residential buildings, on the other hand, were more likely to think, "Yeah, duh, this rule makes perfect sense."

Similarly, I've noticed that my fellow data scientists are MUCH less likely to have social media accounts. I'd like to think it's because we are more likely to understand the kinds of harm that are possible with this kind of data collection, and just how irreparable that harm can be.

Perhaps Americans are less likely to support Europe-style privacy rules than Europeans are because Americans are less likely than Europeans to know people who saw first-hand some of what was happening in Europe in the 20th century.
> everything else of his I’ve heard just sounds to me like a drunk on a street corner with a Casio keyboard

Though I disagree with the characterization, there's a beauty in it, too
Pretty sure C++ has 1/10 or fewer the all-time practitioners PHP has, so while I'm sure plenty of bad code is available out there, I still would not expect the situation to be as bad as PHP.
>The TCP traffic also adjusts parameters such as window sizes to emulate different operating systems, keeping the activity stealthy and difficult to pinpoint.

>The Time to Live (TTL) values, which dictate how long a packet stays on the network before it's discarded, are set between 120 and 200 to resemble realistic network hops.

Sounds like someone testing something nefarious.
Pipedream vs. AWS Lambda