skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do kind of agree. But I think that can be a process and tooling problem that can be solved in numerous ways that don't involve handing over the keys to those blocks to the ad industry.

I do kind of disagree. I don't think it needs to be a lot more complicated. I just think the industry kept growing to a point that it needed to justify complexity. There's entire categories of jobs that don't need to exist.

Consider how advertising works for YouTube sponsorship. It's literally just some person emailing another person saying, "hey I've seen your site and based on a bit of research (the thing that justifies my jobs existence) I think your personality and demographic and other factors are all a match for advertising this product. Want to talk about it more?" And then the advertising agency hands over a package for the YouTuber to fit into their channel in an organic, appropriate way. Why oh why is that so hard for the web ad industry to do? Let's hash out the details, and then our guys will send your guys some html and other assets and you can plug it in to run for a month, using whatever technical architecture you use to run ads.
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>their original in-house motor tech has basically nothing in common with the motors used in the Model 3.

What point are you trying to make here? The model 3 uses a different motor because the target price band and performance requirements are different.

If you buy a Cruze from GM it comes with a cheaper, less performant motor than a CTS-V.
Fascinating! Thanks a lot!
Never understood this comment. What's so wrong with the registry?
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Keep walking down that path to find v. heavy regulation.
I actually did a "side project" to fix this about 10 years ago.

Never "released" it; I just wanted to see if it would work. I still think it could.

Imagine being being able to get a copy of a zone file and that file reliably revealing something about what was being served from the associated IP address. Where each name was by the nature of its tld disambiguated from any other name. "Collision-proof" naming. Arguably, it already exists IRL.

As a member of the public I can get a list, or search a database, of trademarks that reveals exactly what type of goods or services each mark ("name") covers. I do not need to submit each name/good/service I am interested in to a gatekeeper advertising company who will try to guess what it is I want based on other people's searches or personal information gathered about me.

OTOH, if, for example, a trademark office started running an authoritative nameserver, serving its own zone with its own descriptive tlds and giving trademark registrants a matching domain name within a class-specific tld, I would not hesistate to add those tlds to the custom root.zone I use.

It stands to reason that a business owner should trust a government entity with some accountability more than it trusts a made-up "authority" like ICANN.

The "organisation of the world's information" should not be controlled by a private company.

Any such company would obviously stand to benefit from the continued disorganisation of information on the web. A lack of organisation that only they have the "expertise" necessary to rectify. The ambiguity of ICANN domain names is one contributor to the ongoing state of disorganisation.

Nor should the control of domain names be entrusted to a private company. They, too, benefit from the ambiguity. The profits from selling (through contractors) dispute resolution services and then new tlds to trademark holders are only possible when the ambiguity continues to exist.
Endless war is a mistake. Which is what people were arrested for in that case.
I've tried to find people that way, but usually there is nobody. Let's see, searching for "assembly" and "assembler" and "embedded"...

1. I already asked. He wants Rust and probably won't leave Albuquerque. Bummer. He'd be perfect.

2. Argentina... nope.

3. Barcelona... nope.

4. One might work. I probably already asked, but don't remember.

5. Remote only... nope.

6. Lisbon... nope.

7. Paris... nope.

8. I already asked. He won't leave southwest Florida, even for Tampa or Melbourne. Bummer.

9. Bay Area and won't relocate... nope.

10. He's hesitant to relocate. Hmmm, I could try.

11. Paris... nope.

So that is the situation as of now, with 155 comments 7 hours after the post. I can email a couple of them.
Holy shit the memories are flooding back. Nice.
Pretty sure they wouldn't need a warrant or any red tape at all if the receiver authorized them to open mail on their behalf
This is really cool.

I wonder if chat like this would work for a dating platform. The live typing seemed more intimate to me.
I also jumped in and tried it with /random. Was really neat! Awesome work!

The conversation felt really different compared to writing in a normal chat.

I think it would be an interesting "social experiment" (ugh...) to have a chat feature like this in a dating app, perhaps with Snapchat-like message deletion. It feels like it would remove some of that facade you can put up when you have time to think and compose the message.
> Also, in the US, if you are in public a photographer can take a photo of you and publish it. You have no "property rights" over the photo whatsoever.

Not a lawyer, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you have the right to prevent your image from being used to endorse a product without your permission.
I'm a consultant as well. You go through enough companies and you can see how much of a problem this actually is.

As much as I did not particularly care for the management style of Steve Jobs, as far as I know, he was the one that first used the term.

https://guykawasaki.com/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/

Edited to add:

This just happened recently. Maybe you'll appreciate it.

15 years ago or so (before the term "technical debt" got widespread usage) management kept asking why we working on so many bugs. The solution was to label them as "enhancements".

Just recently within the past year, I saw the exact same thing happen again.
Darn, you're right, I missed that.
Well, they did say that that there is a $100 million road improvement fund and some kind of "pothole blitz". I'd rather hear a plan than an apology I guess.
Unparalleled in the _land_ animal world perhaps. But there are stories of birds that fly for months at a time. Penguins (in water), ostrich's and camels can also achieve pretty unparalleled things wrt endurance. And who knows about things in the sea...
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The Mountain View warehouse is massive, but even "smaller" offices like NYC, which is not that small, have been screening mail for years. It's not just a security measure: employees can relocate from one building to another at any time, so it's just easier for the company to do the final routing. Some places like the headquarters for Walmart and Mayo Clinic also get their own ZIP code.
I’m in touch to this day with a friend that I made through sysop chat. Kind of hard to believe that was 25+ years ago!
Yeah but it isn't, it is available in the US. The claim was that health care in the US sucks. It presumably doesn't. Only the insurance situation sucks (I guess - I am not in the US). The service itself is good.
> Good luck finding your way out of the national park with your empty phone.

That's why the national park is full of clearly marked trails.

If you're backpacking through unmarked wilderness, you need a navigation system, and you know you need it. That's 0% of people to several significant figures.
That engine is libertarianism, which is basically just objectivism that isn't firing on all cylinders.

This post is not an endorsement of objectivism by the way, both are ludicrous.

Taleb nailed this: there is no single perfect scale-independent political philosophy.

A quick pass at what I prefer at various scales:
Family: Something a lot like Communism (from each according to his ability, to each according to his need).
Neighborhood: Libertarianism (mutal respect for property boundaries and common spaces).
City/Town: Democracy.
State: Republic.
Federal: Federal Republic.

Obviously these are just my preferences, although I think the family level one is virtually universal among people who want their families to succeed. The point isn't that I'm right or wrong about any level, it's that different systems are optimal for different scales.
Seriously, I've been doing remote for the past three years and I despise it. Maybe I'm just a weird for working together as a team instead of lone wolfing everything but it gets incredibly lonely.

Being unable to easily bounce ideas or ask Joe why something works a particular way is incredibly frustrating.
you are asking.
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A blinking caret would be historically accurate, for me anyway (my terminal had one; but everyone could configure theirs differently). Also the caret would jump to the other person's window to draw their characters :-)
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The omission is shocking, I can't seem to find any on UK or German Amazon.

Though on amazon.de I see at least one alternative to the Zweikanal-Klimaanlage or whatever you'd call it; a small split system with two condensers for just four-hundred euro. Though it seems like it'd likely warrant professional installation, and therefore €€€. https://amazon.de/dp/B06XTQKLXM/

Perhaps it is a Russian conspiracy to keep you all burning that sweet sweet gazprom oil (except the UK, congratulations!). ;- )
They've indirectly stated support for it so long as VB6 (and COM) continue to be supported.
I suspect a 32bit runtime deprecation is probably slatted for a sooner deprecation than the registry
A couple year ago I started buying computers with the smallest hard-drives offered, because my primary storage is now on an NFS NAS across a VPN (if I'm not home.) Everything is in one place and the storage is cheaper. NFS thankfully works better on MacOS than it did a few years ago.

Not a good configuration for everybody, but pretty good for me.
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I work as a sound mixer for film and estimating how long it will take is always hard, but I never really got a bad reception when I just said: I canlt tell you unless I see the thing.

Hell if you ask a mechanic to fix your car they will also have to check the thing first before deciding how long it is going to take.

This is the professional thing to do: gauge the situation, take tour time to figure out the scale of the thing as long as you need and then give a pessimistic guess with a disclaimer that things can easily get out of hand without anybodies fault if unforseen problems arise.
Panasonic is the answer to your question. https://www.google.com/search?q=who+makes+tesla+batteries
Good journalism is also more than just low-key denigrating a man for being a mechanical engineer with an M.B.A.
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I know (I'm in Sydney regularly). But I reckon 1/10 people I saw walking down the street had airpods in on a Tuesday arvo in SF.
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> Some (more obscure) languages unify this, i.e. f(x) is the same as x.f(). I don't think there's a "wrong way around", the difference is a technicality.

Matlab! Which uses a pretty wild form of dynamic dispatch when the (more common) f(x) form is used:

> When MATLAB® invokes an ordinary method that has an argument list, it uses the following criteria to determine which method to call

> The class of the leftmost argument whose class is not specified as inferior to any other argument's class is chosen as the dominant class and its method is invoked.

> If this class does not define the called method, then a function with that name that is on the MATLAB path is invoked.

> If no such function exists, MATLAB issues an error indicating that the dominant class does not define the named method.

Also, it doesn't care at all if you pass in an array or a scalar (everything's an array). Methods must be written to handle a "this" of any size - even empty.

What an odd language.
Except that most of the tools that come with Go are pretty mediocre. Go's debugger is worse than mediocre.
I'm sorry, but if you're spending $500k or more based upon one engineer's "estimate" (for which you're paying $10k/month) then something is more fucked up in that company than what appears on the surface.

But I agree with you, if the engineering management can't budget and prioritize work to get done, that's a larger issue.
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Think it's more likely because we stick to the rules more than most countries. For example I was in Italy a few weeks ago and there's some weird risks they take where they think it's fine to cross the other lane of traffic when turning even when something's close and barrelling at them at full speed. A few seconds saved where a small distraction in the other driver could cause a side on collision.

I'd also be interested to see how those rates compare historically, I only drive occasionally and it's very noticeable that the UK is now plastered in speed cameras compared to even 10 years ago.
Interestingly, the Swiss railway system publishes real-world figures on its Co2 efficiency per passenger-kilometer. [https://www.mobitool.ch/de/tools/vergleichsrechner-15.html, german-only, un nfortunately]

They report some 80 passenger-km per liter of Diesel equivalent energy, compared to 13 passenger-km in a modern hybrid. Both values include the energy production, utilization and energy expenditure for infrastructure.

This assumes a modern network with electric trains though. I'm not sure if the article you cited still uses diesel-powered trains to arrive at such extremely different figures.
Yuck though! Imagine if you were writing a compiler. Would you make it accept “unsinged” “unnsigned” “unssined” and “unsined” as keywords, just to catch spelling mistakes? Not sure I like that pattern.
I think you might be confused: if there are activation functions then backward pass is also non-linear. Try to derive backprop equations by hand and you will see that.
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Teens are now using Google Docs as a chat app:

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Human endurance is unparalleled in the animal world when the temperature is high. At low temperatures some canids and horses can do as well or better, but they can't shed heat efficiently.