skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you find anything consistent among these women who eat alone? Age, how busy/rushed they appear, how tough they appear, etc? Would you guess they are single with few friends in the area?

Perhaps they mostly just have more confidence in going out alone.
The same issue works the opposite direction. If you're so sure she discrimination is harmful to the companies doing it, why do you have a problem with them biasing themselves out of business?
Yes. Agencies pitch all the time to find their own clients, so they are not averse to getting pitched themselves.

A cold email better be great to work. A better bet is to go to meetups and local conferences for like Wordpress or SEO or digital marketing. You’re likely to meet some agency folks or people who contract with agencies. Chat them up, offer to buy them lunch, stay in contact.

Or, just look up agencies who are hiring for developers. Contact them and offer your contracting services.

A good portfolio is key. Strong client references are even better but it takes time to build those.

You can also do thought leadership type stuff like blog about topics, or participate in regional online communities.
Flagged as I don't think it's kosher to post a direct link to someone personal posting history.
This is removing sensational content from the articles. It's using a model to determine which sentences in the article are "not news" and stripping those out.
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"AI" seems to be synonymous with "crappy statistical analysis algorithm".
I don’t really understand what this article is trying to accomplish. Most of it is purely about the emotional impact of a car accident and realistically that’s going to be largely the same even if you were the one driving the car, it follows the same basic grief cycle as any tragedy.

> Singapore’s government requires drivers for services such as Grab to be licensed, a process that includes a background check, medical screening, classroom instruction, and a written test. The city-state used to require 60 hours of training for taxi drivers to earn a vocational license. That’s now 25, which is still longer than the 10-hour course required for private-hire car drivers. In those 10 hours—two of which can be done outside the classroom as “self-study”—applicants are supposed to learn all they need to know about service quality and road rules.

> Grab notes that Singapore law forbids the company access to driving or criminal records, and that authorities wouldn’t have issued a vocational license if they judged Chia to have a poor record.

Those two quotes pretty much sum up the rest and, at least to me, paint a different picture than the one she drew. Even if you somehow single out a ride hailing service as being different than an actual taxi or driving yourself / carpooling with a friend / etc. (which hardly seems to be justified in this case) it seems like Grab followed the law and if anything there is blame to be placed upon the government of Singapore by restricting their access to additional information.

> But we deserve more than expressions of remorse from companies such as Grab. Detailed safety records would be a good place to start.

I’m not sure how healthcare works in Singapore, but there was no mention of medical bills, so I’m curious what exactly Grab could or should have done above and beyond having their CEO visit her multiple times?

> Grab says that at the time of the accident, Chia had a valid license and had completed more than 500 rides on the platform with a good passenger rating, and his record was spotless.

So the driver had a spotless record while at Grab and the company has no access to his prior driving history. Exactly what other detailed safety records should they start with?
Yeah, I found the article to be very confusing too. The author seems to be upset that the driver and the passenger lost a lot of money/ body parts, but Grab did not lose anything. Sure, but the author fails to explain why Gab should lose anything?

It's like complaining that my Prius had an accident with somebody's Tesla, but Toyota and Tesla CEOs did not lose anything. Why should they?
IDK but Slack new logo looks like a nazi flag to me. It's weird.

I guess they either had money to waste, or a lawsuit coming up.
GM plant where nooses and 'whites-only' signs hung (2019)
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I take it back. Pizza shop guy needs to know what delivery service to use. The local guy down the block from me uses door-dash, uber eats and needs help with his yelp listing. Just uploading the menu to his yelp. He has no FB page. I explained to him he can take orders , get more customers using his FB page and use FB messenger. You can market this stuff to your local pizza guy. Just a 1 pager with Location, Menu, yelp links and an about us ( People love a good story) But the damn pizza has to be good. We have 50 pizza shops in a 1 mile radius.
You're implying that by rounding before handing off the numbers, valuable information is lost. Actually, the reverse is true - the rounding itself contains valuable information (how many digits are actually relevant) which is a hidden property of the process that obtained them. Unless you provide it through a side channel, failing to round hides this information, for no benefit at all (because the digits you provide are known to be meaningless).

The only time this wouldn't be true is if you mistrust the significant figure calculation of the source, and believe you have sufficient insight to do better.
Modern systems largely sacrifice consistent latency for more throughput and more energy efficiency. This leads to modern systems being able to do much more, but also having frequent little responsiveness hiccups and occasional larger hiccups. If you want to do a smaller job consistently, a simpler embedded system architecture is still the way to go. This is especially true when doing any kind of low-level signal generation, whether it be audio, video, or control.

As for the sound, I don't think Yamaha's implementation of "FM" [1] has been comprehensively reverse-engineered in the way that, say, the Commodore SID has. There are a lot of little quirks and edge cases to take into account when considering the full operational ranges of the various chips. Even MAME's implementation is allegedly distinguishable even after 20 years of tweaking and testing against hundreds of games, and I imagine most VSTs are using significantly less mature code.

[1] I recall reading that the actual implementation is phase modulation because directly doing FM in the digital domain would put quantization error in the frequency domain, i.e. notes would be off-pitch instead of having noise.
Security risks I can think of:

- lots of information that could be used for identity theft unless you clear it all

- an attack vector for scamming your friends unless you defriend them all

- leaking information about your friends unless you defriend them all

- access to any apps where you’ve used FB as your identity service unless you make sure you have no connected apps

- reputation risk

- just generally having your identity connected to potentially criminal activity

- installing an extension would give attackers access to all your internet traffic (bank accounts etc)

- remote access to your machine using TeamViewer is just nuts
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Really? There are people who feel the same way about extracting money from rich VCs as they feel about the harm Facebook does worldwide? Seriously? Who and where are these people? Where can I see their widespread and articulated stance on the equivalence of those things?
They didn't target one person. What she wrote was quite clear.
Is the US the only country that saddles it poor and low middle class college students with arguably a "lifetime" of student debt - - all the while allowing generous GI benefits to those poor and low middle class who offer to forgo college initially to risk several years of their lives "squeezing the trigger" on foreign citizens that our government just happens to not agree with ? Seems it's always the general population of disagreeing states that suffer on both ends, while the sons and daughters of the politicians go to the best schools debt free.
This has multiple upvotes and no comments. Is it just that they are seemingly working at Apple?

Btw you can also search HN for people who work at Apple (or develop for part of the ecosystem - iOS, etc):

https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?quick_search=true&sear...
They might have wanted to build the demo on some game that has more realistic geometry and textures to showcase the benefits of raytracing. Quake 2 still looks 90's mostly. I can spot the "hard" features in the demo myself to some extent but given well-known shading techniques you could get a close enough similar emulation of the effects that would fool most people.
Yikes, doing this since the 90s and your top price is 2500k?! You are focusing on the wrong opportunities and I bet you lose a lot of opportunities and you don’t know why.

If you pitch a 2500k website to a 20+ person business there is 0 perceived value in that. That’s one persons time in their org for 2 weeks.

What’s the value you are bringing? Decades of experience, marketing experience, conversion optimization, inbound marketing strategies, CRM integration...

If that business is - say a law firm for 20 attorneys.

A sale to them is 10K+ for a new legal gig.

If your website can outperform others and you bring them 5 more leads a month, 50+ more leads a year ... 10+ more sales then you can charge much more!

You are losing jobs to companies charging for the real value they bring.

Let those small one to two person companies use wix or whatever

And if that’s the only value you bring then you need to learn different skills

Companies WANT to pay good money for good services. They are probably laughing at your 2500 quote and going with the 25,000 quote.

Move of the value chain.
They get a new website but that’s not what you’re selling.

You’re selling leads, sales, new business, business growth, hands off / zero worries on their part.

Start charging way more today.
Exactly. The stage keyboard is dead innovation wise. The synth market is alive and well. The whole modular boom, Korg's analogs, Moog and smaller vendors are making exciting stuff.
Genuinely curious - why do you think that? I have been self studying math for about 4 years now and find it to be the same as everything else that's worth learning: hard! But I haven't found that it's some entirely different realm divorced from all other intellectual pursuits.
Re hard braking: Smooth driving may be a nice-to-have, rather than an clear indicator. Or, to put it another way, if there is a useful signal in apps that score driving smoothness and lack of distraction from phone calls and texts, extracting that signal from the noise of whether the driver frequents dangerous roads, drives at night, drives fatigued, intoxicated, is using a second mobile device, in bad weather, etc. isn't easy. Or, to put it yet another way, the real signal isn't in the score provided to the driver, it may be something the driver would consider unfair and outside their control in many cases.

These apps influence drivers to drive more smoothly, which is useful for ride hailing since it improves the perceived quality of the ride, but that's much less directly connected to safety.
60 million in funding for nuclear fusion vs 2 trillion in spending on welfare and entitlements annually

Bread and circus rather than progress is the establishments top priority

The tragedy is that nearly all of the problems we currently face would already be solved if we just invested in our future. NASA used to get 4.5% of our federal budget invested in it, now it's .3%. We used to invest $3 into research or infrastructure for every $1 in entitlements, now we spend $5 in entitlements for every 1$ invested in our future.
A generalized solution would be incredibly powerful for putting to rest these tired, ostensibly plausible clichés.
I am so tired of Microsoft meddling in the developer space. I wish they just crawled away and made themselves irrelevant.
If not for the money and how they shove they products in people's throats nobody would consider even using them.
Internet? They had to taint it with IE6. Operating systems? The dreadful Windows 10 malware OS. Then lure developers with their software, which if you have money then you can produce a ton of and just crush everything that is good in the IT.
To Quit or Not to Quit? That Is the Question…
...because I'm more concerned with the welfare of the employees fired than I am with the abstract darwinian fitness of their employers?

I mean, it's not abstract: I'm in that demographic. And while my job seems stable right now, I'd like not to be fired because I'm 47, thank you very much.
AI might be able to help with that by spotting subterfuge out there.
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. I recently had my facebook account "accidentally reactivated" against my will after I had deactivated it on facebook. I deactivated it a second time, and am currently hoping that it doesn't "come back to life" again for one reason or another. The last time it happened, it was because I was right in the middle of a big california fire and I think facebook was trying to be "helpful" or something by giving me the option of alerting family members that I was okay.

I wouldn't mind deleting everything, loading up facebook onto a VPN-facing VM and selling it for cash and watching it burn. Maybe my old account would become so cluttered with garbage, that they'll be forced to finally let me open up a blank new account with nothing on it that I'll park and forget the password to one day. Only then will the illusion of privacy finally be complete.
2.5D/3D ICs, Chiplets and Fan-Out Semiconductor Packages Ahead
I always wondered, how do they get these intermediate renderings from the game? Is this some kind of profiling tool? And no source code required?
That's actually quite nice.
Looks like all the data brokers will receive emails from me today :)

The last company I made erase me was cdon.com after I bought something on sale there and they demanded my SSN to pay with credit cards. I see that they are missing from your site, their DPO email is: dpo@cdon.com

I also like "This service does not collect or trade any personal data."
Maybe the company should have insurance if something bad happens? But if the law does nor require this then I am sure this companies would try to shift the blame and have the driver pay.
This past week I rode a lyft to a tech meetup in Atlanta. The drive was about an hour away, which meant that the fastest route was through the interstate (I75).

The car was a 4 year old Toyota Camry. It looked very nice from the outside and was very clean inside. The driver was a very friendly man who drove very carefully. Rather surprising here in Atlanta.

However, the one thing that made the ride highly dangerous:

The car had a blown strut (shock absorber) on the front right side. It was not very noticeable at low speeds. There were little vibrations coming through the floorpan but it could have easily been the tires needing a rotation or slightly out of balance.

When we got into I75 that's when I was scared for my life. Doing 70+ MPH on a car with a blown front strut is very dangerous. It vibrated and shook as if it was going to break in two any moment. I told the driver to slow the fuck down because we would have an accident. He did. Then I explained why. The driver mentioned being in an accident a month ago. He had fixed the cosmetics, but not the mechanicam because "a friend told him it was ok".

I made it to the tech meetup in one piece. Yes, I could have requested another car, but decided to not stop on an unknown area of Atlanta.

Lyft must make sure the cars are in good mechanical condition. It must also provide a way to report this sort of incident directly.

How do I know about what was wrong with the car? Im a master mechanic who used to specialize and work for Toyota.

This incident made me realize Im better off driving downtown. Which is a bit insane given how awful people drive there.
This is from their official blog.

https://slackhq.com/say-hello-new-logo
That’s awfully cynical. Other than wondering exactly why they used those Azure services (which makes sense now that I know they work for Microsoft), nothing else about Microsoft stood out for me when I read through.

Edit: I’m not sure how that was worthy of a downvote. Not everything is a conspiracy, but thanks for valuing contradictory options.
What does maintaining sores mean?
Wasn’t the reason for higher taxes at that time to pay for the war effort and defense? Not to get rich people to pay for healthcare and education for middle class people?
Does it matter? If you're showing off something that depends on your company's product then you're advertising for them, regardless of whether you're paid for it directly.
I am honestly puzzled by all the comments about reduced quality of life. It sounds completely alien to me, as if I live on a different planet. I literally don't understand what you guys are talking about. The place where I live everything - shops, kid's school, entertainment and recreation - is less than 10min cycling away. Work commute is less than 1hour by train in a comfortable seat with wi-fi or a book. I do own a car but I don't depend on it for my QOL.
Yeah there is a huge amount of armchair conspiracy invention in this thread.
Is there a way to throw money at specific NASA projects? Ie a way for the crowd to indicate interest. I doubt it, but nasa is pretty popular
That's impossible according to this naive part of the article.

> When you pair, you’re linking your shoes directly to your Nike+ account, so there is no chance of anyone either connecting to or controlling your shoes
My go-to line on this:

> If you spend 5 minutes Googling this you’ll know more than me.

It’s short enough, if flatters and encourages the recipient, it demonstrates modesty.

Much better than RTFM!
Not the more they ask for equality, the more behavior is directed at past transgressions that had nothing to do with a guy.

Discriminatory divorce laws keep men from marrying. I see this very openly.

Overcorrection with MeToo will make many men hesitate to interact with a woman if he gets a vibe that she might misread his actions. It will also decrease interactions by men who planned on harrassing her though.
Yes, discriminating machine learning is commonplace, but often hard to uncover, as it's not often obvious to the users of automated systems how those values are constructed.

Luckily some critical parts like issurance calculation is regulated (in some parts of the world) to have the requirement of explainable algorithms to prevent this kind of discrimination, so it's not as bleak as it's often made out to be. Of course it's also important that it stays that way.
The best-known Yamaha FM synth chips don't even have analog output; they pair with a separate DAC chip.
This is wrong. Is there nothing to know or learn about nutrition? Yes, it’s hard and there is a lot of bad stuff out there, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
More to the likes of improving gas chamber efficiency or something like that.
David Bowie on the Internet (1999)
When did we start calling them drones instead of probes?
Chigozie Obioma’s Homerian Epic
This is only a problem if you believe that racial bias provides real economic value to the ones doing the biasing. Otherwise, why do you care if a bunch of racists make their businesses less economically efficient? Someone else who is otherwise equal but not racist will eat their lunch with all these high quality people hired at a discount because the original group biased against them.
It would be good to explain (perhaps in a blog post) why this is useful. It's not obvious to me.

Neither the syntax nor build process for protocol buffers has ever seemed particularly difficult.

You mentioned something about cognitive load, but even as a Go developer this looks like it would add to my cognitive load. I have to learn/remember this new syntax and learn/remember the (imperfect) ways in which it maps to protocol buffers, etc.

I could really use some concrete examples of the ways this is better.
Desktop one off purchases:
Clients for MySQL and SQLite (prettier and easier to use than free alternatives). Snagit for screenshots

Desktop subscription based:
Devexpress Winforms and ASP.net component suite (best Windows component suite on the market - leaves free alternatives in the dust). Add in Express components for building office add-ins (could not build my core product without it)

Both of these combined cost me about €1,000 a year. Well worth it too as they make my software far superior to all the competition that use free components.

SaaS:
Hotjar for website heatmaps and session cams (HUGELY VALUABLE!). Linkedin Premium for help contacting potential partners (HUGELY VALUABLE!). Feedbin, RSS reader. Mailchimp

[All of my own products are desktop apps that consumers pay $60-$150 for. Sales are up.]
The crazy thing is when I interact with IBM, it’s mostly older workers. I can’t recall a smart young person going there in decades.
Anonymous kickstarts DDoS protest against Zimbabwe's government
Ski boots are purposefully stiffer, which is presumably the reason they don't use laces like snowboard boots. Ski boots are less comfortable, but I thought one advantage is that they can already be set to a desired tightness very easily? What are you looking for?
Then just permanently delete your account instead of deactivating it?
Mandatory jail times to protect 60 year old VPs over low socioeconomic status workers?
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It's more that the unfortunate reality is that programming is so amazingly powerful and relatively easy to do (i.e. compared to becoming a doctor or lawyer) and is so scalable that companies make so much money off developers that it's not a big deal to pay them six figures.
There's one major problem with apps of any sort of scale that involve any scenario where dangerous accidents are possible. The problem is that as these apps scale, these accidents will happen, and with a degree of regularity that also scales alongside the growth of the app/company - even when there is absolutely 0 negligence involved. And the media then takes these anecdotal bits and implies they are representative of the service itself, further implying negligence.

In this case the article mentions that the driver was an actively licensed taxi/vocational driver that had been driving taxis on and off for 40+ years. And had completed more than 500 flawless rides on Grab in his month of work with them, with a good overall review rating. The only thing the author mentions as something trying to be framed as a red flag is that in his decades of driving, the driver states he had "several small and big road accidents."

Let's look into that. This [1] article from the NYTimes indicates that taxis get into crashes about 4.6 times per million miles driven, which was substantially better than the rate for non-taxi drivers. Another search indicated that taxi drivers hit around 70k miles per year. [2] So we now have the numbers we need. 1 million / 70k / 4.6 = 1 crash per 3.1 years. That means a perfectly average taxi driver gets into a crash every 3.1 years of driving on average. A taxi driver that's been driving for 40 years would expect to get into an average of about 13 crashes. Given that the article mentions our driver drove taxis "on and off", his accounting of "several" means he was probably just about perfectly average.

The point of this is that anecdotal evidence is irrelevant. I suppose like the old saying goes, Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is news. Yet when all you see from media is reporting these incidents of man bites dog, it leads to a distorted worldview where there seems to be a rash of men biting dogs.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/nyregion/that-wild-taxi-r...

[2] - https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-does-a-NYC-taxi-do-in-i...