skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative to Facebook isn't SMS and phone calls.
The article starts out with a fairly standard condemnation of white people for daring to keep our salary information to ourselves, and/or for daring to believe that we make the money we make fairly (you know, by delivering value to our employers).
Or changing the sender's email address.

e.g. myaccount+randomstring@domain.com

Otherwise a unique subject is always easy for some people.
Facebook is big tobacco. Intelligent people generating profits that knowingly harms society (even if you do get some joy from a cigarette, that doesn't justify working for a tobacco company).

I really hope the smart people at Facebook see the obvious parallel, and choose another career.

History will judge you.
Apple does use Google's storage (among others) for iCloud, but it could be unrelated.
This post oversimplifies the story by putting all the emphasis on compute power. Deep Blue using brute force to solve chess obviously fits this pattern, but the others?

Let's take computer vision. Alex Krizhevsky et al destroyed the ImageNet competition with a neural network in 2012, kicking off the current AI hype cycle. Essentially everything in their model had been known about since the late 80s. But we also didn't know how to train deep networks much before this (it turned out how you initialise the neural network was important), and we also didn't have a big enough dataset to train such a deep model on until ImageNet. Since then, we have built models that perform another order of magnitude better than the 2012 model, mainly because of improvements to the architectures (a combination of ingenuity and a lot of trial and error).

So compute is necessary, but it isn't enough, I don't buy that we've 'brute forced' image recognition in the same way as chess.
What I'm talking about? "Yes, but when pre-compiling, you implicitly trust the code." Citation needed. It's not true at all.
Where you live influences your salary by quite a bit. You insert javascript ad tags? That's ~70k/yr in southern california, and 150k/yr in New York as remote. If you have experience building a system to handle a billion metrics per day, of course you can jump into a Senior Engineer IV position (or whatever) at 180k... It's hard to talk about salaries when the context is opaque because titles and skills are so fungible on both sides (employers and employees)
You know what has the best paper trail?

Paper ballots.
Right, the then world's richest started a charitable trust purely so he could improve his public image.
You recycle them because they're waste that doesn't fall into super specialized radioactive processing categories:

https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-...

Energy dept on energy lifecycle of PV pays back in < 3 years of their typical 20-30 year lifespan. (and that's a span to 80% sustained production - the panels can go longer...)

I could keep answering all those questions point by point, but they're googleable and I feel there is a distinct lack of curiosity on those points...
I'm really not that special, don't sell yourself short.

And thanks :)
They have some of the highest salaries, according to levels.fyi. They've also produced cool tech like React. Developers I know who work there seem pretty happy.

Plus, most people seem less concerned about the negative effects and/or basically believe they can be fixed or mitigated.
Banking doesn't require ballot secrecy.
That's not how the word gaslight works.
Well, the people who argue that these networks have an overall negative impact have plenty of examples to draw from - ranging from the last US election, to the genocide in Myanmar, the extremely fine ad targeting it enables perpetuating sociology economical discrimination, etc.

People who argue for its value mostly point to the fact that grandma can see pictures of the kids and other pedestrian examples of things that were just as feasible over email/instant chat before planetary scale social networks.

At this point it’s becoming pretty clear that open by default social networks à la Twitter/Facebook are generally a bad thing for our societies.
Job prospects for information workers will be far better than those in physically demanding jobs. People’s bodies give out by 50. Not completely, but enough where they can’t do physically laborious work.

The broader point of the new replacing the old is generally true (your marketability will decline by age 50), but I still see many baby boomers holding onto well paying positions for the foreseeable future. I save to hedge the risk, but I’m not too worried, since I believe the risk is over-stated.
I believe that API is in the play store itself. If your user used a third party store, you could ask them to give you an API to install other apps with no user interaction too.

As far as the platform is concerned, any app with the right permissions can install any other app. It just so happens that only the play store and other stores have that permission.
I think people here in Raleigh would hardly notice if Google Fiber pulled out. They only ever offered it in a very small area and AT&T has been offering gigabit to to large parts of the area for several years now.
Some random points of advice after 30 years in tech...

First, decide whether you are more interested in pushing forward on technology or on earning more. Yes, you probably want both, but you should decide which matters more. Also, note that the answer will likely change if your personal situation changes, in particular, if you start a family.

These points are primarily for those who put earning more above pushing technology. I was married early on and that became the priority for me.

- Always work to make your boss successful. There are a variety of advantages to this. First, if you make them successful and they rise in the company, they are more likely to give you a promotion and raise as well. Second, if they change jobs and go to a place you'd like to work, whether it's in one, five, ten years or more, you'll be someone they call when they need to hire. Third, it makes it much easier for them to go to bat for you when you ask for a raise.

Given all of that, it's also important to work for bosses that you want to see succeed. If you really don't like your boss, and you find it distasteful to help them be successful, work towards their success while you look for another boss.

- If you want to earn more, ask for more responsibility. I was married when I was an engineer of 3 years. To earn more, I asked to be made a project lead. I delivered several projects, then asked to be made a manager. I managed several people, then asked for a transfer to start and manage a remote sales and service office. In each case, I was given 30%+ raises.

The point here is that you need to ask. Let your boss and HR know that you want to be considered for promotion. Once you've asked, remind them at more or less regular intervals, perhaps 6 months. You want it to stick in their minds that you are looking to move up and at some point, an opportunity may come up that you'd be on the short list for.

- Change jobs or companies. This is typically the most effective way to get a raise. The key is to look while you're still working. Many people in tech keep their heads down until the company goes through a rough patch and lays off or shuts down. Then, if they don't have runway, they have to take the first position that comes along. If you think you need to move, keep your job and do your search so you can evaluate each opportunity without being under pressure.

- Treat options or other equity as the icing, not the cake. You can be deliberate about accumulating wealth without windfalls by consistently earning more than you spend and conscientiously investing your savings. If you're able to cash in on options, that is great, invest it, buy a home or whatever. But earn what you're worth in cash.
You like that it cost 10mil ? Ok man, Ok.
No I'm not. I'm using it as an easy-to-recognize reference to a body of knowledge about the early stages of Facebook, which I feel no need to retype in full every time someone declares themselves innocent of any contextual knowledge. The name for this literary device is synecdoche, and I think you know perfectly well what the ancillary context is.
Ask HN: Are these VCs toying with me?
I'm a solo founder who's built a product and have some very small early traction.

An EU-based VC (I'm US-based) reached out. I've had two meetings on zoom/phone. Associate -> Partner, after which they asked to see some KPIs which I sent.

In two weeks they're co-hosting a conference in SF and they've suggested that I come to the conference for free (it's about $400). Also said that the full partner team will be there and that we could have a meeting the next day. They haven't offered to pay for the flight (I'm in NY).

How should I be reading this situation?
AlphaZero did pretty well teaching itself chess and go just from the rules. You could imagine a better AI program learning a lot from basic data, say a physics simulator and access to the internet.
"Evil, or insane?" is a dilemma with a poor history. Once you descend to that standard it's better just to throw the whole thing out and start over. They can't get themselves out of this situation with the same brains that got them into it.
I just attempted to sign up with Epic. Only my email address had already been signed up. I used the password reset and took over the account. No games just setup with a strange name and in Thailand. Now I can’t buy games because of the country. I can’t change country. Support wants a photo of my passport, that’s not happening, to change country.

I found an article showing many email addresses had been signed up in the same way. Epic was not validating email addresses.

They’ve lost my business.
Splitting patches so change topics aren't mixed together: important at Mozilla.

Not breaking thousands of browser extensions in one release: not so much.
The "Google never actually meant to be an ISP, they just wanted to kickstart competition" spin I hear pushed on this reminds me of the "they were just trying to start the conversation" spin when people get caught faking racist/sexist/homophobic attacks on themselves.
I can't reply to your last comment...but yes..anything dealing with time series it's easily the best in the world. In a past life long ago I worked in finance and heard about it then. Recently, I was thinking about simulations and how to maybe deal with and analyze the timeseries data and I thought about it. Apparently, NASA is experimenting with it at their Ames Frontier Development Lab, astrophysics data is huge. Anyway, I am just kicking the tires at this point and trying to find ways to implement and play around with it a bit. If you or anyone you know develops an interest, feel free to drop me a line. grantroy _@_ caltech dot edu
Facebook’s Biblically Bad Week
https://twitter.com/flightaware/status/1105918162451738624
Hi Luke, late to the show here, but agreed this should never happen. Can you reach out to me directly with the domain name you used? You can DM me at twitter.com/jplevine
> Paper ballots aren't scalable or transparent.

Australia holds elections this way and has done so for a century. Scaling has not been an issue. Neither has transparency.
shouldn't this be possible? I don't see why not?
"configuration" is what we call code that has the greatest potential impact and the least amount of static checking.
Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&T, companies made of pure greed. Small end sub ISPs have to claw for every strand of dark fiber. Google really shouldn’t be the answer though. We need to demand that politicians address the issue in the upcoming election before they start looking at the Silicon Valley giants.
We use Skype for the same purpose. It has all the PROs but none of the negatives. Same is true for any other free/freemium chat or communication tool.
First, it's not even true, according to most studies I've seen. Second, it only applies to ethanol made from corn, which is a highly inefficient way of making it.
Soda companies also don't leave deteriorating trenches behind on the roads in town when their tests fail.
Hurting people is worse than all of those things.
It does look like you have to download a 10Mb js file, but once that is downloaded and cached, it uses a websocket to communicate with the server on the backend and only necessary text will be sent to the browser. I don't think the bandwidth requirements should be too much more than a terminal editor over ssh.
Not just that but the Secretary of Transportation is ex Boeing I believe
Unlocking Insights from Videos with Artificial Intelligence
And it was detected.

That's a big part of the advantage of paper ballots. The cost of subversion is high because more people need to be in on any conspiracy to subvert the system. More conspirators means more and more incentive to defect against co-conspirators.

Electronic systems do not scale subversion cost with electorate size. But they do scale the payoff of subversion.
"In other words, Toine is being condescending"
I didn’t totally flush this out, but I don’t feel upper middle class in the conventional sense since I’m used to simple living. The two cars, white picket fence lifestyle isn’t me. But by raw income numbers, it certainly places me there.

It all sort of feels relative. If a “beginner” single family bungalow costs 850k+ in my neighborhood, home ownership still feels like a gamble (well, the accompanying debt burden would make me uncomfortable). A $4k mortgage payment does not sound fun if I were to lose my job, for example.
Very well, but how do we accomplish this at scale? Email me if interested in discussing!
Also there's the "sales/business people made the problem worse" angle as well that developers just love.
Is the device actually broken, or is the image merely corrupted, where burning a new SSD image will allow you to boot the not-actually-broken device?

I find it unlikely the device is actually broken. The file system, sure...
This thread is notable for the absence of 'free speech defenders'.
It's also worth reminding that it was a ruling which put a prominent politician in prison for campaigning against WW1 and encouraging people to resist the draft.

Which is to say, it came preassembled with a slippery slope.
Which is why we need more competition in the payment processor space. Alternatives to Visa and MasterCard are a must.
Threelly AI unlocks 80% of insights in videos that often go unnoticed like - topics, scenes, people, sentiments, brands, expressions, labels, Visual text (OCR), known graphics & logos and much more. Allowing you and your user base to rapidly gain intelligent insights.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/threelly-smartview...

Some have called it "A quantum leap forward in video viewing", "a game changer for youtubers", "a radical shift in the video viewing paradigm".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQjL8Vxrao
The webpage says it has the Velious expansion and a level cap of 60, so more like 2001.

In 1999, there were no expansions and the level cap was 50.
Makes sense. It pops in my head because any RISCV story here usually gets flooded with people hoping for an affordable RISCV chip that will run Linux. I figured the comparison might spawn some false hope :)
I think it is also based on how you perceive the world and how you treat the forces that you don't have control over. Human empathy and tribalism arose from the benefit of working together against natural selection, and there's no guarantee for AGI to 'go rogue' when they could also just as easily recognize the importance of working with it's creators and peers. Again, the stuff you're afraid of is mostly the dystopian scifi at this point, meant to generate a good story more than accurately predict future states, so don't sweat it.
I ended up finding my way to that after reading TFA and Googling 427.

Not just that, but the fact that they had audio all the way down, and the pilots utter disbelief that they plane was responding to his inputs in the way that it was.

The idea that they were not actually supposed to pull up in the scenario but leave the stick level and just turn hard right is unbelievable. The amount of training to be able to react like that instinctively would be tremendous.

The plane hit 3 or 4 G and apparently the copilot could be heard straining on the tape. They were analyzing the pilot’s gasping to deduce how he way applying rudder because the black box didn’t record rudder inputs at the time.

All of this is inconceivable. The sheer speed of the event and how quickly that 30 second video is over is probably the most shocking.

This one showing the pilot inputs is even more terrifying:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/USAir_Fl...
My progression:

2008: Graduated with a BS in CS from University of London. I grew up in Europe.

2008: €30K - Joined a small company in Europe as their only programmer doing vehicle GPS tracking.

2009: €30K - Still there.

2010: €50K - Joined Amazon in Dublin, Ireland as an SDE-1 (entry level) in the AWS CloudWatch team.

2011: €75K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2012: $120K - Moved to Seattle with the same team. Promoted to SDE-2.

2013: $150K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2014: $185K - Promoted to SDE-3 (senior level), same team.

2015: $230K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2016: $390K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2017: $470K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2018: $511K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2019: Left Amazon last month. You can read more about why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135399

All figures are gross income as shown in my W2. My last 3 year-end (Dec) paystubs: http://imgur.com/a/EgIVQln

Ask me anything.
You're deranged.
I wish there was a way to run VS Code in headless server mode on a remote host and then connect to attach to it from my local machine.
The ballot was not always secret.

It was made secret because all the problems you say aren't important, were very important.
I deleted Facebook, and it’s still finding ways to annoy me.
I've been always looking for something like this. I used Cloud9 [1] for a moment but I gave up using this after Amazon acquired it. It's shame to look how a tech gaint destroyed a great product.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
How Goroutines Work in TinyGo
Ironically the fear-mongering about the propaganda campaign you are describing is intended to turn Facebook into an instrument of US government propaganda. Zuckerberg has been resisting that, which is why Facebook is being attacked from all sides at the moment.
Nuclear waste only gets talked about because it is visible.

Waste that goes into the air? Waste from mines in third world countries? Out of sight out of mind.

Nuclear waste is easily containable, and the country that generates the power has to pay for it. Not only that, but newer reactor designs can take existing nuclear waste in, outputting energy and a smaller pile of waste.
3 is important in decision making because it makes it easier to form a consensus. If I disagree with your idea, you have another entity to act as an arbiter.
Recently started using dating apps and also read the book 'Dataclysm', so this is a timely article. I can confirm it's all true - men are treated like second class citizens on these apps because that's just the way it is. Very average or even ugly looking women will get hundreds of messages, some of them from very attractive men, no matter what they do, so they don't do much of anything. A man with no bio, only one so-so picture, and who doesn't respond in a timely manner has literally zero chance but I see girls act that way all the time. Very commonly you see girls with bios that are nothing but a list of requirements - "6 foot, works out, nice, is funny, no hookups, follow me on Instagram if you want to talk."

I don't think there's anything we can or should do to change but it is a raw deal for guys. Also note that apps like Tinder seem very artificial and surreal (e.g. like they don't actually matter) and I do believe this skews behavior.
I am sure the company has access to metrics that the public doesn't. The argument that the uninformed majority is a priory right is not convincing enough.

...No offense to anyone's democratic beliefs.
I got a surprisingly comprehensible (and similarly recursive) ListView question: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/15327.
You might like this post from last week:

Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755
I don't believe it was a convenient lie. I personally reported A LOT of posts and entire blogs for very very very obviously inappropriate underage content, yet they still remained. Tumblr was quickly becoming a cesspool they couldn't clean.
This scheme is prevented by having scrutineers appointed by multiple candidates. Australia does this and it works well.
India started developing nuclear weapons in the 1950s and first tested a nuclear bomb in 1974.
it's worth understanding why India doesn't sign the non-proliferation treaty.

The treaty essentially states that only 5 countries (US, UK, France, China, Russia) can have nuclear weapons. India says this is discriminatory: either all countries denuclearize or other countries can develop nuclear weapons.

afaik india has a good record of preserving its nuclear secrets, and not doing "proliferation" to other countries.
Stripe and Paypal along with Braintree and many others refuse to process credit cards for all kind of products(i.e sale of kodi boxes).

This on top of Visa and Mastercard ban policies.

Something like Youtube would never be allowed to process credit cards if it didnt't have a big corporation/money behind.
These might be good arguments for letting people fill the ballot in manually, if they wish. Based on the design as I understand it, it seems like users aren't prohibited from printing a blank ballot and taking a pen to it themselves.
> No. Running a company is a more attractive experience for most employers than a degree, ESPECIALLY in a place like Stockholm.

It doesn't really matter if you are attractive to employers when they won't pay you much more than anyone else.

> About the other stuff, the guy is 31, there’s plenty of time. And I don’t think the question was even about that, it was about work wasn’t it?

Work isn't just about work. Someone who wants to be successful, or at least not unsuccessful, of course have to consider what they are getting for their work.

> Also, not that many people in Sweden will have saved hundreds of thousands at 31.

They saved hundreds of thousands by not having to buy at today's prices. Add to that the high taxes on work income, but not on e.g. inheritance or real estate, and you might never catch up.

In fact you will be paying other people's education, parental leave and kids while paying twice the mortgage for at least twice as long as they do. That is if you can even get a mortgage and are aren't just paying market rents in a suburb somewhere.

Stockholm is just a shitty deal at the moment. But that isn't even the point. It is that by running a startup someone might very well have become disadvantaged and that is something that needs to be considered. Some things will very much not solves themselves. Given the choice I would absolutely advice anyone to go to Berlin instead of Stockholm these days.
I don't see what's wrong with this if they asked for permission first. I gave access to Epic Games to collect info on who my steam friends are so I could play Apex with them.
> That's why there are engineers at Google right now working on a censorship machine at the directive of the Chinese government

It's already been built for the US government, so why not profit by selling a US supervised version to the Chinese? Better than China building its own tech.

I think you underestimate the degree to which Google is a top defense contractor and in building this stuff for China is acting at the behest of the US Government.