skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, they're humorous, but looking back at the larger scale projects I've done over my career in larger companies, the results have always slid into the double/double category more times than I'd like to remember.

If you're a 1:1 consultant, you can probably estimate things a lot easier and that's a good thing.
The ones who are actually employees? Maybe.

The ones who are regular users who choose to moderate a community? No. There's no business relationship.
Honestly the chess keeps me coming back. At first I was excited to be playing chess again, but it's a great way to have a casual chat and get to know each other a bit better. Can't recommend it enough.
what is this, Man in the High Castle?
The vast majority of the financial sector does nothing significant to the outside world, and often just cause negative side-effects.

So... like Silicon Valley then?
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Ooook I don't want to be that guy, but if you take a signal processing course in a university, you'd see that algorithms that Shazam probably uses aren't blackmagic. In UC Berkeley one of the projects we did in our Linear Algebra class was doing something like Shazam; the input was a 5 seconds of a random song tuned down so much that human hear can barely hear and white noise added. Then the problem is matching this record with the song and specify start and end time (e.g. 2:30 to 2:35). Shazam is probably much more complex than this (I don't use it) but if college freshmen can do this...
I generally agree with this, but it really depends on the consumer not being lazy. We all have the friend that scours the forums, but 10x more friends that just buy the highest rated item on Amazon.
I have seen sys admins stand-up a bunch of EC2's in AWS and install PostGres and Docker on them (because the dev's said they need a DB and a docker server). They don't get the services model (use RDS and ECS). Sys admins have to change. Orgs can't afford this cost nor be slowed down by this 1990s mindset.

Standing up a bunch of EC2's in AWS is just a horrible idea and an expensive one as well. It also moves all of the on-prem problems (patching, backups, access, sys admins as gatekeepers, etc.) to the cloud. It's the absolutely wrong way to use AWS.

So stop sys admins from doing that as soon as you notice. Teach them about the services and how, when used properly, the services are a real multiplier that frees everyone up to do other, more important things rather than baby sitting hundreds of servers.
Lots of talented people end up working in another country, especially top talent. Would you rather have a glass ceiling at 40k or start at 100+k in SF?

Not to mention, low salaries garantees that not much international talent will relocate in France
It took me several days to root out all of the programs and services in my enterprise windows 10 install which were spying on me or attempting to install software without my consent, had to prevent cortana from running, block windows servers with hosts file, delete scheduled tasks, adjust group policy, disable updates, and firewall my own computer.

All this so that I could have an OS that isn't actively spying on me, and play games on it. Thank goodness valve is making progress on linux...
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You have it backwards: those neurons firing is my free will.

In other words, I am not a product of neurons firing, I am neurons firing.

I feel like we should reread Descartes' Meditations. But roughly speaking, "I think therefore I am" can be interpreted as "I am thought."

What is essential to me is the information processing that happens as a result of the neurons firing.
> How is it any different from ER doctor, coroner, social worker, or investigator?

Yes. All those people should have support too. And many more.

What is it with people and saying we need to race to the bottom? Like when people react to other people's high pay and benefits not by saying, "I should be up there with you", but instead, "why aren't you down here with me?"

The implication being, I guess, we need to do more to spread the suffering and not lift people.
You don’t get a free pass for injuring your workers just because you give them access to doctors, why would this be any different?
The researchers found that the presence of RASGRF2 in their sample populations went from 6% to 14% and 9.5% to 34% when comparing controls to chronic drug abusers.

So this means that addiction is a complex, multi-factor condition, and these researchers may have identified another factor. People with this gene may be predisposed to addictive behaviors but not behave that way for any number of environmental or other reasons; likewise, people without the gene may still develop addictive behaviors.

The researchers didn't study rats or dogs, so there isn't much in the way of evidence for this gene's presence in those species.
This news is a clever marketing tool of a major ad strategy firm for an "AI" called.......

https://selenascola.com

https://www.instagram.com/selena_scola/?hl=en
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> but those are things it's not really worth buying multiple of (e.g. houses, super yachts)

Don't think consumer goods. Think:

* own and run a professional sports team

* spearhead a transit project in your hometown

* build 100 libraries with your name on them

* influence politics for a generation

* fund the cure for the rare disease that killed your mother

If all you can think to do with a few billion extra dollars is buy more consumer goods, you're not using your imagination.
Lightsail is basically a toy to compete with Vultr/DO/OVH/etc. You can't even rename a server or change its metadata. You can't resize a server (except for taking a snapshot and building a new server). Essentially, you can't make any changes to a server and there are zero tools for organizing, tagging, or even adding a description field. Of course, you cannot manage Lightsail instances using the AWS console (or even see them). All of the powerful AWS tools are invisible to you as well, and your entire Lightsail infrastructure is invisible from within AWS itself (except for the bill).

Lightsail is really great for personal sandbox servers, or for moving to AWS on the cheap, but it's not even as capable as its worst competitor (and certainly cuts out a lot of features compared to real AWS.)

The worst part is probably the surprising and seemingly minor factor of being able to simply rename or resize a server. This makes using it in a team or production environment surprisingly difficult.

With that all said, I still find Lightsail very useful for small prototyping and other fast jobs (or a Lambda replacement -- it's way cheaper than running any reasonably busy Lambda function), but I can't see using it for real production usage. Your best bet for real production usage, or something that will someday move into production, would be probably vultr/DO/linode. (OVH really wants to be great, and it should be because the hardware is really great, but the dashboard and billing are so bizarrely bad..)

AWS is good when you have a virtually unlimited budget or don't mind running up the bill while you're getting rolling, but getting locked into AWS will mean that you are stuck with it forever. It's very hard to migrate away if you start using a vendor-specific thing like DynamoDB (to be fair, Google Firebase has exactly the same issue; Instances are basically fungible, but proprietary data stores are not)
> If you were born as male - you are male. If you were born as female

It's a tad more complicated than that, even at the biological level. Your sex is determined by your chromosomes, but for example, you can be born with chromosomes XXY. Which biological sex is XXY? Admittedly, this is an extremely rare occurrence. I guess you could argue that "presence of Y = male, absence of Y = female" to make it unambiguous.
How so? You don't need free will to adapt to feedback.
> I'm pretty sure its recognition quality dropped drastically in the last 2 years

What happened 2 years ago that you think affected its recognition quality?
You're screwed. Same thing happened to me. And it was because Stripe wasn't able to fraud-check orders at the time (don't know if they fraud-check orders now) and so some scammers were able to push my chargeback rate higher than Stripe liked by placing fraudulent orders and then issuing chargebacks on them.

I reached out to Stripe, explained the situation, they said they understand and they re-instated my account. Two weeks later they suspended it again for the same reason and this time didn't respond to messages.

Given that they suspended my account for something that was caused by Stripe's own shortcomings, and the terribly unprofessional manner in which it was handled, I decided to give up on Stripe and not risk my business to such an unreliable payment provider.

Stripe sucks, stay away!
Whenever free will comes up I like to bring up Conway's Free Will Theorem[1].

If you define free will as future choices cannot be predicted based on history, then it turns out that if humans have free will, so do elementary particles. To me, this doesn't mean we don't have free will, but instead the linear, deterministic model that's often used to discount free will is just not how the universe works.

Note that this result does not depend on statistical randomness like some of quantum mechanics, but just three simple axioms. I highly recommend reading the full paper, especially the end, "Free Will Versus Determinism".

[1]: http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf
Except that we live in a physical world where not everything is perfectly measurable. Imperial units reflect this in their real-world analogues.

Moving to metric units would still result in the same fight, even if there is a greater possibility you could actually win.
>Say, I have a Samsung tv with internet. I hook it up to the 'net. I use the built in features intended. It updates when it needs to.

In your proposed universe, you won't have a "smart tv" because you will choose not to pay the $3500 price tag to cover the security audits and increased litigation insurance that will accompany the manufacture of such devices.

Most linux distros will also be sued out of existence. Such laws are a dream for authoritarian regimes. Ultimately there will be a only a small handful of monopoly powers who have enough resources to navigate the regulatory landscape.
"If you’re good, it’s not uncommon to see software engineers with 5-6 years of experience make $300k-$400k per year in total compensation (which includes your base salary, yearly bonus and stocks)."

So I've heard this before, but it never matches up with data that sites like Glassdoor provide. Like, right now, the listings for "senior software engineer" with 10-14 years of experience in SF seem to top out around $200k in salary + bonuses, and that's the extreme upper end. The average is under $160k

Is the Glassdoor data bad, or is this a case of the author's information merely being anecdotal? Or are we comparing apples to oranges - do such people get 1/3 to 1/2 of their total compensation in stock?
Sensuelle Radio Stations
I mean a feature in a sense that it seems (although I assume I wrong and thus am asking) like something that one uses extremely rarely and offers limited utility. I have used Shazam a few times, and each time quickly install, use it, and remove it. I would have used it more if I could just ask Siri or Ok Google what a song was.

There is another reply to me that snarkily opines that the average HNer doesn't engage in social events, which is a bit humorous really because a more correct statement is that most people are socializing at social events, not doing inference on background music. I can say that I have never, ever seen another person pull out shazam in public.
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It seems like maybe one way of improving conditions would be to purposely dilute suspect content with "Known OK" content. So, you would only moderate at most 10-15% of flagged content and the rest would be family photos, cat videos, cool stunts, etc. Sure, this would mean that people in these roles would be doing some useless work, but, you'd also be reminding them that most content is good content and that most people are posting cute, funny, happy, cool, or interesting things.

I'd bet facebook could afford it.

Also, it seems like having a 3 strikes policy on accounts that post this stuff would be a good idea, too. Protect workers by ensuring that they're not moderating one angry nazi that gets every other post flagged. (maybe they already do this?)

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He is also a president with a very low popularity blaming the population for not being happy with his terrible reforms.
This news is a clever marketing tool of a major ad strategy firm for an "AI" called.......typical MSM mind attack and impact startegis

https://selenascola.com

https://www.instagram.com/selena_scola/?hl=en
Pedant baited.
flickr.com ?
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Why?
I am in this situation and now I stumbled upon a (good?) idea with some code but it's very difficult to market as it aims at replacing one of the most successful software of all the time, namely git.
Yes. Paying extra for the service itself, not an arbitrary charge that could vary greatly at any time seems worth it.
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Yeah that's nice and all, but then you have total and complete vendor lock-in.

I decided to do the EC2 thing when I built one of my products, knowing that I couldn't have vendor lock in - and that decision was critical to the survival of my company when:

1) A customer wanted to run on azure. We would have lost a 2.5 million pound contract if we couldn't do that

2) Another customer wanted on-prem solution, we would have lost a 55 million USD contract if we were vendor locked to AWS

so sometimes it makes sense
By coincidence I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066472 about the expense of AWS et al for NASA's HPC work. (Deep learning, "big data" et al are, or should be, basically using HPC and general research computing techniques, although the NASA load seems mostly engineering simulation.)
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Wait, you just lost me. The whole thing is cooked up for an ad firm to sue on behalf of an AI?
iPhone XS applies skin smoothing/beauty filter by default with no way to disable
That’s hardly “stealing”, though. Sounds more like “really dumb mistake”.
I built a search engine for talks (http://findlectures.com/), and one of the explicit goals was not to collect user data for privacy.

The content is selected by recommendations - e.g. someone on HN say a speaker was good, so bring in all the conferences they spoke at, then there are some filters to exclude things (e.g. terrible audio).

There are also facets to explore different ways, and my experience has been that this approach works well for researching new technology, in that I can typically find a small number of highly relevant talks on a subject I'm researching.
I have lived in SF, Raleigh, and Austin and I would take either of their weather over SF.

SF has chilly fog, high wind, and no sun or sky for 200 days a year. Miserable.

I hear that South Bay is completely different, and I occasionally trek down there on the weekends just to get a few hours sunlight. It seems a lot better.

And I don’t even live out by the ocean, I’m technically not in the crazy fog zone.

I like living here overall but to me the weather is NOT a selling point.
Singapore fines Grab and Uber over Merger, imposes measures to open up market
Exploring Nix and Haskell Part 1: Project Setup
Well, is it not?
Step-by-step guide to build a slackbot to schedule items on your calendar
Consumer tech is a different beast though and subject to stronger reactionary market forces and whiplash vs enterprise.
For that matter, Apple aggressive marketed to the techie-and-designer crowd for years, even while everyone knew aiming products at programmers was far lower margin than mass-market stuff. The payoff wasn't bottom line profits, it was cachet and technical support and useful software that ran nicely on Macs.

For something like Chrome, one price of alienating devs is, among other things, that everyone who thinks "damn, I wish I had an extension for X, I guess I'll make one!" develops it for Firefox instead.
Wild speculation but kinda hilarious if Intel asked Apple, "Hey how does design element X work in the existing product?" and Apple said, "Gee, I dunno, let's ask the existing vendor. Hey Qualcomm, how does this part work again?"
No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court
Consumption of chicken and cheese has gone through the roof. Consumption of sweeteners and simple carbs has gone done. Do the math.
Grass is always greener, I guess. I would love to be unsearchable on the Internet. There are fewer than five people in the world with my name as far as I know. One of them, younger than me, did start playing college football about a decade ago and all of a sudden took over the top search results, which was good, but it's still pretty easy to distinguish us with any kind of real search.

(My first name is nothing unusual, this is due to my last name. I gave my kids what I would consider fairly common first names, though again due to the last name there are only a few others of each.)
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What is it with people saying we need to sugar coat, bubble wrap, and insulate our tender egoes from the reality of the world? Psychologists have a term for that. It's called denial.
Off topic, but you really think there arnt automatic turrets, seems very feasible today, especially in a situation like a sewer where you really dont have to worry about shooting the wrong (moving) thing.
Hackernews needs it’s own version of infowars where people can declare and believe in their most absurd and cynical conspiracy theories regarding tech.
I wonder if this will increase the dynamic range? Anyone can answer this?
It is called a hunger strike and for that you must be literally hungry anyway. All other strikes are solved by dealing with few instigators. I doubt that it really requires any citation, since it is a manager’s textbook case.
Why we built an annotation tool
Not quite. There seem to be two problems:

The one everyone cares about, that google keeps its own cookies

and the one you mentioned, that it also keeps local storage (not only that of google)
Is alleging collusion actually an extraordinary claim? It is a very inexpensive and hard to punish play that produces a ton of value. We literally already CAUGHT these people doing the same in respect of developer salaries and yet you're still incredulous.

The people who are caught and litigated against with respect to anti-competitive agreements almost exclusively look like fraud 101 rank amateurs. Do you think only stupid people try to take the free money off the table?
The problem is that "software engineer" encompasses both the architects who design skyscrapers and the construction workers who install drywall in them

I have a lot of engineer friends in silicon valley making $220-280k, anecdotally
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But that`s the job. It`s not like they were doing something else and this is a side effect.

If i employ you to clean human feces, you can sure me for not providing adequate protection etc but you cant sure me because you had to deal with human feces. That is the job.
Don't overestimate the value of full frame. Unless you're trying to get a shallower depth of field than you can achieve with your MFT lenses, a full frame camera doesn't offer much inherent advantage.

For example, the Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 lens is visually equivalent to a hypothetical 85mm f/3.4 lens on a full frame (35mm) sensor. When I say equivalent, I mean these combinations would have the same practical field of view, the same depth of field, and—this is the part which trips people up—the same overall quantity of photons falling on the sensor area.

Historically, larger sensors have been more efficient at converting said photons into data, but the difference has narrowed greatly to the point where it doesn't matter so much, particularly at the relatively modest resolution of 4K video (approximately 8.3—8.9 megapixels) where the limits of lens diffraction don't tend to come into play.

Of course on full frame systems you can easily find inexpensive 85mm f/1.8 and very high quality f/1.4 lenses. But if you don't use the extra depth of field and you shoot FF at f/3.4 or greater, there was no fundamental benefit. (Of course you should never discount the glass advantage, as the mid-range FF glass tends to be optically superior to high-end MFT glass... but does that benefit apply to a new lens mount? Will these cameras do a good job focusing EF and/or F mount glass?)
It would depend on that person’s moral preferences and perceived value of benefits/drawbacks a company offers. Your “harm” might be someone else’s “good” (see: other person in this thread condemning games).
That's a more typically American phenomenon, I think.

Unless you live in an absolutely hopeless job market (e.g. small mid-west towns with nothing for 50-60 miles around them), then relocating for a job should come with absolutely mind-blowing perks and really be worth it for you to uproot everything.

Or you're relocating within the same region where you can still commute back every weekend or so (e.g. DC to NY or Boston to NY).
Did you accurately calculate the extra expenses needed to create a secure TV? Or did you pull $3500 out of your ass to bolster your argument?
Maybe they’ll add a p2p payments system too!
We need disclosure laws. If the program no longer clears Google Cookies, the user should be warned when they clear cookies with Chrome that Google cookies are not cleared.
Glass door data is stale and I believe that’s only largely true at large companies unless you do real gymnastics with your stock options. It is true though.
I'd disagree.

The problem with most companies that put some intelligence in dumb devices is that they:

1. Rely on their own cloud platform

2. Use lockin to their specific plan

3. Fail to quickly respond to security incidences

4. Abandon when their next incremental version comes out

And most of these types of devices are the ones that end up being a member in a botnet or other bad networks.

The best defense is to make "dumb" devices. No, our microwave, refrigerator, oven, dish washer, and others do NOT need network connectivity. Hard to hack a machine with no connectivity.
While I don't have an in-depth technical understanding of exactly why this happens in every instance, I have definitely observed this while playing Cities: Skylines, a SimCity-like game which emulates traffic flow.
The crypto community has a few strategies similar to this. Gitcoin and the Bounties Network come to mind, though neither is set up exactly like this. A smart contract could solve the most difficult payment problems pretty easily.
When Apple bought Test Flight, I can remember hearing the ATP guys talk about it and come to the conclusion that Apple probably hates when a 3rd party service exists to cover some corner case that they don't do themselves.

The fact that the Installers don't do well with this kind of situation is probably an indication they should survey the landscape and buy one of them so it can be integrated.
Amazon starts letting Alexa developers sell extra lives in voice games
Consumers don't want that.

There is already a kind of hardware and software where companies are liable: in medical equipment. Now look at what that does to the prices.

Open source and consumer serviceable makes sense, but that's already being fought for with the "right to repair" movement.
Apropos of nothing, several Southeastern states are currently releasing rabies vaccine in food packets to cut down on the incidence in raccoons and other wild animals.