skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no law saying that relationships between managers/reports are forbidden. There is a huge potential for liability though, and any company with a legal team worth their salt will try to set some rules around it.

That said, if Germany explicitly forbids setting rules... well, that's neither here nor there.
How does this compare with Snips.co which can do offline speech recognition on a Rapberry Pi 3?

Coyld this be used to train a model/engine that can be used that way?
This is outrageous invasion of privacy. Facebook must die.
That’s cause it’d be way better for them if ECS “won”, but it didn’t, so they adapted. Similar to how Docker now has had to add Kubernetes support after being combative and dragging their feet for years.
Thanks for sharing. Processing PCM audio signals is something that is actually useful for more things that people realize.
Star inflation is a problem. Everybody wants to be 5 stars. Reviewing systems really struggle not to give loads of people the maximum score, thus making it useless.

One of the things that makes the Michelin guide stand out is that they've resisted the urge to be like "Oh, wow, restaurants suddenly all got awesome, every city in American now has fifty Michelin starred restaurants".

The UK decided to rate places that sell food with a star system, but it turns out that "Zero" is actually a valid rating, the regulator's perspective is that "Zero" means you did not break the rules badly enough to be shut down, so you're still open, so that's a zero. If you were worse than a zero, they would physically shut you down. You won't find any actual restaurants with a zero, but you definitely find places that sell food where you'd never think to check their rating and they have a zero because they didn't give a crap. So, the steak tartare in classy restaurant with a Five is probably safer than the hot dog in the corner store that got zero... but the government figures not enough people will get sick from those hot dogs to make it worth forcing the store to close.
Only 3/4? That only means the "researchers" didn't try hard enough on the remaining 1/4.

100% of every app you use, mobile or web, has user behavior tracking.
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>Deep, investigative stuff that’s hard and expensive to do if you’re paying people for it.

That answer is really the fundamental issue. OP Mizza had 2 paragraphs about "process" and "tools" because he believes the barrier to investigative journalism is the lack of a collaboration/communications hub. He wrote:

>When it comes to massively collaborative investigation, the key thing is _process_, not product. [...] I think in terms of what is needed of tools to be developed [...] cobbled together using Google Docs, Facebook and Slack

It's misleading to think that a technical software solution such as having programmers develop a slack+github+crypto-email hub will unleash investigative journalism.

The real key issue is the funding, not the web communication platforms. Another commenter nodded in agreement with Mizza and said we need more "PBS Frontline". Well, that show is funded[1] by viewer donations and grants from billionaires' philanthropic foundations. (e.g. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation oversees a ~$6 billion endowment.)

Can WikiTribune can attract billionaires to write checks
and pay for investigative journalism? We don't know yet. Maybe the only realistic path is for WikiTribune to start modestly with their supporters paying $15/month[2] for "fact-checked" and "evidence-based" journalism and when they build enough of a reputation, billionaires will open their wallets to pay for expensive months-long investigative work.

If applying for grants from philanthropic foundations (like PBS Frontline has done) is the wrong funding model for investigative journalism, I'd rather we discuss alternative ways to pay journalists instead of software tools.

Yes, new collaborative software tools can help smooth over some editing workflows -- but that's not the real problem.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/our-funders/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitribune#Business_model
Of course I promptly did that. The things is that I already unfollowed everything in the past. More importantly, I asked Google to remove everything multiple times.

This Whac-A-Mole is not a game, and that will not end well.
Are you sure? That is, do you have specific knowledge of the implementation? Because:

> The endpoint is a simple proxy that routes your queries to a rapidly scaled fleet of database resources.

That doesn’t seem to preclude a multiplexing proxy a la PgBouncer.
Look at how little equity in startups engineers get. Don't settle for common stock, it's 95% of the time worthless. And if it isn't you should be a millionaire for your risk, definitely not less than RSU compensation at megacorp #3.
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In case you think you've figured out the 2-state solution and you want to check that you can't do better, I've uploaded the number of 1s your machine should output at https://modalduality.org/static/busy-beaver-2.txt, but did not include the actual configuration.
IE6 was released about the same time as Mozilla 0.9.3. I think Mozilla was already ahead in technical terms at that point.

Certainly it had better CSS support, and on my machine it crashed less.

The important difference was a matter of support for "official" standards against support for "best viewed in Internet Explorer" sites.
how is that different than when apple has it's launch days?
the announcements are mostly relevant to the major audiences here, seems reasonable to think they'd get a surge of upvotes
This is really awesome! Would be cool if you also briefly explain Turing machines for the really uninformed
Is it easy for mastodon operators to disable?
Right but it can go in as cash and not be immediately invested. I'm wondering whether that might happen given the current state of the market.
Stackoverflow? Openstreetmap?
I am aware of that of course, but gold jewelry itself generally has very little intrinsic value (it's only valuable because people agree it is, just like bitcoin), and most elements (such as silicon) in electric components are much cheaper than gold.

The prime driver of gold's value is clearly its historical role as a commodity and its scarcity, neither of which are related to any kind of intrinsic qualities.

My point is that the two things gold has going for it (scarcity and the fact that people believe it is a good place to store value) can now be said about bitcoin as well from what I can see.

Full disclosure: I do not own any cryptocoins. Too volatile for my tastes.
That is a fair point. Back maybe 20 or 30 years ago, the average person would bring their camera on vacations and that was probably the extent of it. But it's a bit different now that most people carry a camera in their pocket so these moments of "fake" display are much more common.
Additionally, how will the drones be secured? A baseball could knock these things out of the air. It's not like with a delivery person where there's a lot of risk involved trying to take a package.
FB pays new grads in NYC the same.
>>:-) You haven't driven around SF much perhaps? But notice he said "almost" not "did" so clearly he is leaving enough space to avoid collisions.

Have driven plenty in big cities and small towns. You should always leave enough space in front of you in case somebody suddenly stops.How much space you leave in front of you depends on how fast you are going. At least that was drilled to me by more experienced drivers. I think it was even part of the DMV exam. I have not driven in San Francisco. How bad is it? Do they drive bumper to bumper?
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Again, let's please be precise, not return to imprecision. For the individual, it is a local maximum. For the population, it isn't, it's a trap/local maximum. However moving whole groups to new behavior is insanely tough for a simple reason: culture-retainment (cognitive herding) is high in the list of what humans do best, for good reason. Ironically perhaps, the history of colonization provides the best evidence of how to initiate change. Building a new prestigious culture within the old one does work. Maybe not in a delightful direction, but it has been demonstrated to be effective.
I think using Chromium makes sense when sites have a preference, and there are attempts to remove the Google tracking from the core of the project:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/releases
The Java 8 lambda syntax is all objects under the hood, and the Haskell "do" notation is all functional under the hood. It's impressive that both languages are able to accommodate other programming paradigms while remaining pretty much the same under the hood.
Please don't comment like this again, it breaks the guidelines by being uncivil and unsubstantive.

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H-1B applications often exclude expected value of bonus and RSUs (mine does) and can understate comp at bigtech by ~60k (entry level) to ~150k (mid level) to ~300k+ (senior+).
Strikes. The only thing more expensive than expensive printers is no printers.

Printers' unions were very powerful. Maybe not as infamously as teamsters in the US or miners in the UK but definitely up there. Automation broke them in the 1980's but not without one hell of a struggle.
This is not a feature that the App Store offers, AFAIK. Some developers are pretty salty about it.
> Presumably Microsoft and Google and IBM have similar cloud offerings.

Google certainly does:

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/
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Instagram has 1:1 feature parity now. You might not have checked it out in a while. I've been on since it launched when they didn't have parity but they quickly caught up.

It's possible to send disappearing video or photo stories to only selected individuals or selected group chats or a mix of both.
Is it easy to send Facebook images from a SMS app? (I don't know, FB is not installed on my phone)
Have you seen https://www.levels.fyi/ ?
> but they're still supporting it better than Microsoft manages to support Windows.

I don't know what metric if any you're using to make that statement but any person working Enterprise/Corporate IT will tell you what MS manages to pull year over year with Windows, Office and bunch of other stuff is fairly monumental given the demands of their operating space. Only way Apple can survive there with their current Engineering setup/culture is if they only did simple stuff and told the customers no interop and you only get to do what we think is best for you!
Learn to read?

EDIT: I try to not degrinitgrate the illiterate, but as the first commenter on this thread (you), I've gotta go "gosh!" Please tell me how I am wrong. (It's possible that I am both wrong and having a bad day)
Yeah, I've used transcription to generate speaker notes or even give me the start of a blog post. It doesn't need to be anywhere near perfect. It's just sometimes easier/faster to get a rough dump of a presentation you're comfortable giving rather than starting with a blank sheet of paper.
Works for me, so looks like I am smart enough ;-)
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/self-driving-cars-cant-even-co...

Every major city has construction zones. Right now this is a no-go for self-driving cars.
With customized model u can do that. Models like MobileNet/SqueezeNet are designed specifically for fast inference on constrained device. Although during inference, the precision of your model can be quantized as low as single digit bits. This is an active area of research, but a lot of exciting stuff is happening and the progress made is massive.
> It's easy to identify, it's easy to break up into smaller units or consolidate into larger ones, easy to form into coins. It has a global distribution,it's relatively inert so you don't need to worry about degradation

Everything in that sentence also applies to bitcoin. Probably the one difference I can see is that if someone loses their private key, the bitcoins associated with that key become useless. Gold does not have that problem.

EDIT: Okay, another huge con with bitcoins is that people don't understand them. Most people at least think they understand why gold is valuable. The confusion a "cryptocurrency" creates is a notable negative.
Nonsense. Here are some of the apps I use:

- AOSP email client

- Silence

- F-droid

- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

I don't think any of those are tracking my behaviour.
I know middle aged people who do the same thing, their "performances" are appropriate for their age. Pictures of expensive vacations, manicured gardens and so on. Same phenomenon.
Absolutely, been doing it for a few market cycles already and the automation is a god sent, everything is working on an autopilot...
Yes, their big annual conference: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
That is the "top subset". It is untrue for a lot of other established companies
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It's pretty simple. On YouTube, the TappBrothers channel has a "5 exercises every morning" video that I used as a guide.

It works better than caffeine to get me going in the morning.
App bundles are the current "workaround", at least in the iOS store.
Do robots have unions yet? If not, then probably not. :)
enough to not work a day in my life and hopefully will leave it to my children when they are old/wise enough...
re:Invent is happening right now.
They should go searching around for earthworms in some of the perchlorate contaminated soils in the US. Natural selection could have given those worms better survivability in the same test.

Ironically, perchlorate contamination is often caused by past rocket motor production & test facilities...
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> I had a harder time with OO when I first encountered it than pointers

Pointers weren't too hard to learn (although, the deeper they're nested, the harder they are to think about, for me). OO felt immediately intuitive, using the "shape class, rectangle class, square class" examples. Recursion is the concept that I understood the general idea of, but had to do immense amounts of work to be able to visualize.

I think that everyone has their own areas that they learn easily, that others have a hard time with.
Move it to a desktop and you'll notice. I saved a number of videos directly from the camera view and it's much lower resolution than the built-in camera, like 720p or lower, which I didn't (disappointingly) discover until I got home.
Apple is falling further behind in this AI race...
I'm still on Mavericks and never plan to upgrade. Every new Mac OS now seems to be a major regression in basic functionality in the name of more eye candy, more Apple lockin, and more crap I have to turn off just to get work done. I'm done. I just bought a Dell XPS 13, installed Linux on it, and I'm not looking back.
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What's to stop someone from trading a normal trust fund away? The recipient can simply take out a loan with the trust as collateral.
Would you mind sharing which MT-based service you're using for podcast transcription?
TL;DR the CrossFit of permaculture

Yes! We need this and I dream about dedicating my life towards this work. Permaculture fits in this. It might be tricky to keep the stigma of food kitchen out of this idea, or maybe expand and fund food kitchens some how.

I want to farm healthy food and give it away. I want to cook healthy food and show people a better way of eating.

I think the MVP of this idea is to sell food as close to cost as possible. Make it taste amazing.
Make the atmosphere not feel like a cafeteria but more like a Starbucks.

Invite people to stay as long as they like, invite them to help.

The biggest expense would likely be the commercial kitchen (hopefully buying the building and land). The first versions of this idea could be private but substidised. Government gives me 100k and I use 100k of my own money to buy and setup the facility.

Another idea is to treat it like a gym membership, like those crossfit clubs that have sprung all over the United States.

Pay $150/mo for all you can eat healthy choices.
I don't think anyone here is talking about taking away anyone's rights. The implication above was that government providing free food might lead to less choice as government crowds out business, but not removing someone's "right" to choose. The tradeoff between more choice in food and people starving doesn't seem to be much of a tradeoff. There's plenty of room for a middle ground.
This is for mobile. The goal is quick access to the people you talk to often without having to search.

This passes the "subway test". You're walking out of a busy subway station and want to quickly take an action on the go - how fast can you get it done on a tiny mobile screen with so-so connectivity?

On desktop, this is less of a problem when you have all the time, connectivity, and physical dexterity in the world to perform searches rapidly.
GraphQL can in fact be a graph query language -- my company has built and open-sourced a tool that makes that possible. Here's a blog post that describes how it works: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query...

If you want to try it out:

pip install graphql-compiler
Hope it will be useful!

This lib is a brick in an adblock for radio broadcasts I have been developing for a while and that I am progressively open sourcing.
Yes. Though maybe not from TripleByte.

For context, salary at FAMG is in the range of 100-110K for a new grad. So its in the lower half of the "Junior" area, which would make sense. Total comp though puts you into the 80-90% Senior territory.

For exact numbers, I believe Amazon starts people at 103K in Seattle, Microsoft at 107K in Seattle, and Facebook and Google both start at 110K in South SV.

But the caveat is that

- Amazon provides ~50K in cash over 2 years, and 65K in stock at a 5/15/40/40 vest, with the expectation that the stock value increases

- Google provides ~100K in stock over 4 years

- Facebook provides 100-120K in stock over 4 years (and up to 100K in signing bonus for returning interns)

- Microsoft provides 30-120K in stock over 3.5 years

And all 4, as far as I know, have target bonuses in the 10-15% of base salary range. So 4 year annualized total compensation numbers can be close to (or even beyond) double base salary.

For example, a 103K base Amazon employee expects ~130K/year. A Google employee would take 150K, and an above average Facebook intern approaches 180K/year, if you average out everything.

And that's prior to any negotiation or stock appreciation.
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This is a form of Nimby: "well I don't do those things and it is reprehensible that people in my society do!". That's cute and all but what are we doing about that? Look at the Weinstein scandal - that dude was on a 37 year streak. Or Pixar's Lasseter with a history dating back 15 years. NYT quoted Rashida Jones:

“There is so much talent at Pixar, and we remain enormous fans of their films,” they continued. “However, it is also a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/business/media/john-lasse...

Racism, Sexism. _But not me, not in my backyard, those people exercise reprehensible behaviour! shame on them_. Come on.

I'm just saying: we gotta own up a bit, we live in this society too, we also make it what it is and we can all strive to make it better. I don't see bad eggs, I see bad systems that foster bad eggs.
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I had one fly low near my top-floor unit recently and it was way louder than I ever expected it to be.
> We are auditing our development processes to help prevent this from happening again

The root of the problem is the CEO has put an emphasis on flashy useless features rather than quality. Jobs realized that quality was ultimately what sells first, followed by practicality, which was driven by need and innovation.

The Steve Ballmer of Apple thinks has squeezed creativity at Apple dry. Sad to see problems from the hardware division start to creep into the software division. :(
It seems a lot of Amazon services are managed instances of open source applications. For example, commenters are suggesting this may be based on Janus. Elastic load balancers, at least originally, were likely based on haproxy. Etc etc.

Has anyone ever considered the licensing implications of this? How is amazon able to convert an open source product into a proprietary one and then charge for access to it?

Of course you can argue they’re charging for the infrastructure management, not the software itself. But that argument quickly breaks down as Amazon introduces new software, under new names, with a proprietary management interface over an open source core. Try to find the source code; you can’t.

And if you accept the premise that they’re just charging for hosting, then it leads to the question of why an open source project doesn’t reap any benefits from that hosting, or at the very least, from the management interface on top of it.

It seems like a better solution would be something akin to AWS marketplace, where open source projects are available to be hosted, and the maintainers can see some revenue from them.

It seems like unfair rent seeking behavior that amazon is able to slap a management interface on open source software and then charge for it under the guise of “hosting.”
I think HN is quick to overlook the potential positives of this dynamic, so I'll play devil's advocate here.

Maybe the Instagram experience is how people actually want to behave? And it gives them a chance to express that ideal self. In other words, it's like the phone is a magic wand, and when it's pointed at them, it's suddenly socially-acceptable to break out of their shell and act silly.

Obviously it's weird that it only happens when the phone is pointed at them. But maybe, over time, this "behavioral reinforcement" will give them the courage to act like that all of the time (if that's how they want to be), rather than only when the phone is out.

In other words, the key notion that I challenge is this claim that HN is fit to judge Instagram as a misrepresentation of reality. How can we claim that the moments when the phone is away is more real than the moments when they are out? They both happened, therefore they're both real. And there's this unquestioned assumption that just because people behave a certain way when the phone is away, that's how they truly want to behave, when it may as well be just the opposite.
> We've found that engineers are at a fundamental disadvantage in salary and equity negotiations. They always know less than the hiring manager. This is unfair.

I'd be interested to know if they are motivated not just by a sense of fair play, but also if their commissions are tied to salary.
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Not to mention that there is absolutely no incentive to fake round-Earth photos. What could anyone possibly have to gain from that?
You're welcome! I guess while I'm at it I should mention that I am a huge fan of your HN comments also. I learn more from them on a technical level than probably anyone else on this site.
This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options to build this, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!
Could you please not post these comments? They break the guidelines, and you have plenty of other insightful and informative things to say.

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