skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I hadn't had to work jobs just to keep food on the table, I'd have invented the things I did A LOT earlier. I'd probably be finished rewriting the internet's protocols by now, instead of only being 30% of the way there.

But that's not how this world works. Most of the early discoveries were by affluent people or had benefactors and didn't need jobs and thus actually had time.
Looks like IT analyst work:

https://www.indeed.com/q-Hcl-America-Google-jobs.html
How about a bookmarks manager that is also a git repo?
Hii, I am subbed to your youtube :)
The value of expensive property with old houses is 90%+ in the land. My 1950's house is valued at 6% of what the land is.
Hibernate promises that you use the database "as if" it was not there. You can drop into SQL whenever you need, but you cannot remove all the stuff you had to add just to make it work (saving, reloading, handling caching....). So instead of being "out of the way" it poisons your entire code-base.
Looks like aspects of it might be mentioned https://youtu.be/aCv29JKmHNY?t=45
There are lots of 20, 40, 80 person offices and I don’t think they are going to Starbucks.
I'd go farther and suggest that culture is the central problem.

Only better culture can deliver peace and a modicum of justice. In particular, a social culture in which neighbors do not seek to rob or enslave each other.

Self-driving cars, or even a cure for cancer, will not advance this central goal. Better schools on the other hand, just might.
Yeah I mostly agree but I mentioned it because I spent some time trying to figure how how the leftPadding variable in the let block can be referenced outside the let block. It's been a couple of years since I've used Haskell.
yes, i'm not dismissing the importance of color/design. i think it has to be easily recognizable/consistent and i doubt many would choose the color red for environmental causes. but these things are obvious to any 10 people you survey. it's the advice on the specifics which i find hugely inconclusive.
Reminds me of when I lived with my methhead landlord in college who was also really into crystal magic...
> Gates is turning into a Soros like figure,

You say that as if it is a bad thing.
Surely they are still selling the 32 bit version to the embedded market?
There are more than 100k TVCs at Google. I don't think you can speak generally about them, because there is high diversity in their job roles.
I like to support or at least not be critical of anything where I haven’t put in the work myself, so take this in the best spirit.

Is this substantially different from the built in search?

Example:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=SHOW+HN
Hey Fanatic Data Scientist, Your Language Sucks (Mine Too) – But Don't Mind
It's funny how everybody covets more power and more money, employers and employees alike, and always want to wrap it all up in a facade of being the moral choice.
I agree with your broad claim, but the devil is in the details. Google should presumably have an element in their contracts that says that contracting companies should not do anything illegal with respect to their employees. Perhaps there should even be a minimum wage requirement. However, I do not think it is Google's responsibility to adjudicate and investigate whether a particular anti-union activity on the part of a contracting partner crosses the line of legality.
I always wonder about these ham-handed anti-union efforts. I assume they must work to some degree, or they wouldn't do it. But it seems like the sudden escalation of anti-union arguments would only end up working in favor of the union. Because it betrays how against it they are. It confirms that yes, this union will have an effect, and not in management's favor. Like "Clearly we're onto something here if they oppose it this much."
I have a 100 trillion dollar note from Zimbabwe.

When I was there locals have draws full of everything from 10 billion up to the 100 trillion note.

They are utterly worthless now, except for tourists who pay $50 for them at Vic Falls.

For anyone curious, I kept a single bank note from all of the 35 countries I recently drove through in Africa [1]. There are some really fun ones in there like the Congolese Franc, etc.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BxwGx7vljjv/
> I've passed 100C with a 360mm radiator and roaring fans

Damn, which radiator? Was there a GPU under load in your water loop?
My.....technocratic oligarchy? Sure, yeah.

Notice you have to assume that most people agree on what's good and that you know what that is. It's a solved problem, it's just a matter of implementing it.

> If I invest $100 in protecting a public good....So I'll only invest if everyone else chips in, too.

Public goods are non-rivalrous, another person consuming the good has no effect on you. So out of spite you're going to go against your own best interest because you think it's better to punish other people than to purchase a good that you would purchase if you could just figure out how to exclude them from using it. That's valuing the suffering of others over your own well-being. Going back to how hard it is to figure out what people think is "good".....
i'm on the side of color theory in terms of visual harmony. just not on the definitive psychology side of it.
We will, thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2019/mar/15/cli...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-auto-workers-uaw-general...
Uber, Lyft Drivers Torn as California Law Could Reclassify Them
For Indian developers that's above average pay, and HCL has a heavy Indian presence.

Prices for developers outside of the US and Europe are actually quite low, and part of the reason is the low costs in other countries that let companies get away with paying less, and another part is that there's a lot of engineers available.

Even if the average engineer is not as good, there's so many engineers in India that companies have a huge candidate pool from just the above average ones.
It’s kept low for performance. I wonder if they’ll revisit the limit at some point.
Isn't this article incorrect? Apple changed the _distribution_ mechanism for Safari extensions, something they have been communicating for a year to developers. And many developers, like 1Blocker, have already moved on to the new extension packaging format and work just fine like they did.

What they have not done is cripple Safari's web extension capabilities. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am sure developers can still use the exact same blocklists that they used before.

Same as documented on https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

Comparing this to what Chrome pulled is not fair - I think Chrome actually crippled ad blocker capabilities, while Apple only changed the format of a packaged extension.

Right?
Magellan had the vision and Elcano completed it.
I worked for a bit on a code gen based typescript postgres builder, but haven't had time lately to build it out - https://github.com/Sammons/morbid

I really think typescript would benefit from a good solution to this.
The original comment was talking about blocking Chinese money from coming into Australia on the basis that it was associated with mainland Chinese ideology. That is unadulturated nationalism and it will almost certainly be interpreted as racist by the worlds up-and-coming superpower and probably in Australia as well. It clearly aligns with the goals of the mid-far right.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything, I'm just pointing out we have a political ideology that wants this and it is a long way out of the mainstream. "We want to isolate ourselves from China" is a radically fringe position in Australia. We are not a nationalist nation, we are a nation of immigrants with a very fluid identity. It would also be strategic suicide to antagonise the regional superpower.

We are not going to exclude China. If China wants to send students to Australia we are going to take them in and accept whatever money they have. That isn't an accusation, that is a frank assessment of what has been obvious in Australian politics for the last decade.

I feel for Hong Kong, I truly do, but China has a long reach now; much like America. You can't run from American influence anywhere in the world [0]. There is no hope of escaping China while still basically being in Asia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Invest...
OK and how would you surmise that from my text. As I said take a look at the videos, packs of feral hogs, and prairie dogs can number in the 50's or more. You certainly need some form of high capacity gun that fires with every trigger pull, as after the first shot you have to make multiple quick follow up shots to eradicate the ones that are now fleeing. OK so I don't need an AR, but what would you suggest, I certainly need a rifle with a high capacity magazine, which can fire a shot with every trigger pull? Are we saying that it just needs to not look like an AR. Because it certainly has to perform like one, a Browning Automatic Rifle would suffice with a FAL high capacity magazine, but they are fairly expensive and actually do more damage than an AR (AR's are actually an under-powered gun for feral hog eradication and cause unneeded suffering), but they don't look like an AR, and look like a hunting gun. so we are back to wanting to ban cosmetics. Because there certainly is a legitimate use for high capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles in nuance eradication. Many ranchers use an AR-10 or AK-12 for hog eradication, because they are the perfect tool.

All of my firearms are semi-autos, all of them where purchased for a specific type of hunting that I do. I actually don't own or have a need for a bolt action single shot, as I do not hunt deer, elk any large herbivores. I would love to have a .338 Lapua bolt action, but the funny part is, it would be a vanity gun purchase, as I have absolutely no need for it other than plinking long range shots. the exact thing most people accuse AR owners of purchasing their AR for.

On a personal note, I do not like the AR platform and personally think it is inferior to both the FAL and AK platforms.
If I remember right, it's hugely lacking in ability to interact with more complex data types in e.g. postgres, like jsonb
Not on one voyage. However, I'm sure his life was an interesting one.
It's WWIV and it may have started on 9/11/01, which I have started wondering might have been a proxy attack. Don't know but it seems possible. WWIII was the cold war with all its proxy battles.

Full scale hot wars between major powers have been too Pyrrhic a scenario even for the winner since the bomb, so now they are a mix of propaganda, espionage, proxies, terrorism, and economic warfare. The meme stuff you mention is just newer propaganda techniques. Terror is really another propaganda technique.

As others have noted in my OP I perhaps made it sound too conspiracy-ish and organized. There is surely a bit of that but it's mostly people behaving in a short sighted, selfish, and reactive way.

I don't think tech will collapse. I think as nature collapses we may grow more reliant on it. Space is on the table too. It's another place to go, and very strategically powerful.

This future looks a ton like cyberpunk. The prophecies of William Gibson continue to unfold.

It sucks in that there were and are much better options, but collectively I am not convinced humans are intelligent or conscious enough to override the brain stem yet and choose them.

Oh well time to go fry up some krill wafers and jack back into the matrix.
So you prefer to pay 10 times or 100 times the amount to subsidize debt which drives the capital appreciation of stocks to benefit rich shareholders and executives who either sit around and do nothing, or worse: they use the money to create shitty companies which waste everyone's time and energy... Then when the companies finally go bankrupt after a decade everyone loses except the executives who are actually responsible for the whole mess to begin with... Then they use the proceeds of their years of huge salary and bonuses to fund their next shitty company and repeat the process over and over again.

The situation is so bad now that if you're reading this as an employee, your current boss probably fits the description above perfectly. Your boss right now is probably a serial entrepreneur who created 10 different companies which made him a ton of money but which for some reason are all dead now and either added no value to society or created negative value.
Why the "Middle East"?

AdGuard and similar apps such as Blokada function as local VPNs, as mentioned, so most traffic does not pass through any particular external server.

The AdGuard app does use AdGuard's DNS servers, so DNS traffic passes through their servers in Russia: https://community.spiceworks.com/tools/ip-lookup/results?hos...

AdGuard says they do not log DNS queries.

The company was founded in Moscow in 2009. In 2017, they changed their official headquarters to Cyprus: https://adguard.com/en/blog/the-chronicle-of-adguard/amp.htm...
This it the best explanation I've read of how memory is allocated to training deep learning models, and what possible solutions there are to reducing that footprint.

Some things I already knew about, such as gradient checkpointing and FP16. What was new to me is microbatching (gradient accumulation).

Many of the large models appearing these days (Transformers in particular) are really costly to train from scratch. What I've noticed, about BERT in particular, is that none of the memory-saving techniques are used. I suppose a large corporation doesn't mind spending more money on compute, but for a startup, these techniques could be quite useful on a limited budget. The cost to accuracy appears small, given the right mix of methods.
Could be more of a foothold like America's hundreds of overseas military bases.
I think many people using a Mac use Safari because it’s the default.
Understood. Sorry, it was not clear to me what was going on. In any case, the fix seems to be blocked on something, as it hasn't landed yet, and it's unclear what.
I've tried to switch to Safari about 10 different times, and each time some random different missing feature stopped me from being able to do it. It's got low market share relative to the other browsers and the most picky users are going to be those who weren't satisfied with it in the first place (like me).

Safari content blockers are okay, but not great, and 1Blocker didn't block nearly the amount of ads that were blocked by uBlock Origin on Firefox/Chrome, so I just decided to stay with Chrome/FF.
Couldn't you use the same argument against inflation as well? That the improved life and economic growth in the 20th and 21th centuries have been driven by technological advances, and not by the inflationary economy?
I doubt the unionizing HCL workers would appreciate
the remedy that some people here are proposing.
People are saying to terminate the contract with
HCL. What? What good would that do?

If there are no consequences for union-busting then what? This is the same question for US companies that do overseas human rights compliance audits on their supply chains, it is true that if a supplier fails the people being mistreated lose their jobs, but if the threat of losing the contract does not exist the managers have every incentive to simply cheat and lie and then apologize when they get caught.

The willingness to lose your employment in the battle for labour fairness in an important element of organized labour, it is that sort of solidarity that gives you the leverage you need to win.
Microservices are long lived and having an in-memory cache can alleviate network calls and improve response time, depending on the kind of work being done. A shared cache like redis requires a network call obviously. One of our caching libs does just that: check memory, then check redis, then do the expensive data collection from source.
Pegleg: Raspberry Pi Implanted Below the Skin
I do agree with the sentiment that via political donations the U.S. political system is corrupted, but I hope you can offer a citation for the millions killed and hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens, and a clear cause and effect of the stated motivation, please. I think most of what you said is an overstatement, not to belittle those that suffered because of greed.
I think the threat of firing is more relevant - no one gets downgraded to a contractor, you just get pushed out the door
@southbaybox, I've seen a similar issue a few months back:
. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126301 (2019-02-08, crypto-currencies)

For a few years I worked on a startup that aimed to address fraud management in e-commerce from a quantitative risk modelling perspective. And when Stripe released radar 2.0, I went through their docs. I was impressed by Stripe's marketing (docs) and UI—they're knowingly good for that, but I was much less impressed by radar 2.0's feature-set and product. The biggest issue for me was their "one-size-fit-all" approach, because that just does NOT work in what I've seen, i.e., both billion- and million-euro businesses.

From a risk management perspective, a 2-7% gross margin e-commerce manages risk totally differently than a 50%+ gross margin e-commerce. For one, the false negative (i.e., a fraud gets through) is super-expensive. For the other, a false positive (i.e., a real client is stopped) is super expensive. And I did not see anywhere in their docs how they integrated the cost-imbalance of the risk for each of their client (you), and event less for each of their client's clients! It's possible to do, but it's hard.

Of course, like any fraud prevention system, radar 2.0 allows clients to add rules and lists to customise their logic, but these mechanisms are difficult to setup when you start processing payments, because you don't have yet any payment history, as well as when your e-commerce gains in velocity and complexity, because you don't necessarily have the in-house resources or skills to keep your rules and lists up to date and well maintained.

And in the lucky case that one just feels happy with Stripe's radar 2.0 system, then how do you know that you're not loosing customers? Having no risk of chargeback is very easy, just don't accept any payment and you've a risk-free e-commerce! In my experience, we increased sales by 7% (a few tenths of millions of euros) by just re-parameterising how fraud was managed. I don't see anywhere anywhere in the docs why and how I should trust radar 2.0 for the specifics of e-commerce A, B, and C. One-size-fit all just doesn't work.

As a former startup founder in that area, I still see we're a long way towards personalised risk management in e-commerce services, that would help owners throughout the different stages of their e-commerce, i.e., idea, proof of concept, scaling, growth... sounds similar?

Best of luck :-)
I have three things for you

1. Designing data intenstive applications

2. Database internals https://www.amazon.com/Database-Internals-deep-dive-distribu...

3. Andy Pavlo's database course videos at cmu and guest lecture series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA
Isn’t video encoding a multi-threaded workload?
Maybe there aren't that many Safari users at all and the remaining just moved to Firefox/Chrome.
I think their angle is that it’s not in anyone’s favour to unionise.
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This is basically the pitch for YC
The question is not about whether it crosses the line of legality, but whether it crosses the standards set by Google. Would Google admit to treating their own employees in this way? If not, it's reasonable to demand the same from their suppliers, legality aside.
I see parallels too, but trickle down economics is about sending capital "up" in the hope that what's produced trickles back down from wealthy people, whereas the idea of investing in lots of people is more like sending capital "down", or at least sideways.

I think a plausible factor in the failures of trickle down economics to enrich the masses as much as hoped by those who advocate it, is wealthy groups of people acting so as to keep what wealth they have in their own control, away from others. And, over generations, perhaps ceasing to be wealth generators (e.g. inventors and industrialists) and becoming wealth controllers (e.g. "old money" families).

Widespread investing in lots of people isn't subject to the same problem, by definition. (Assuming those people are paid decently, rather than indentured servants to some capital controller).
I think it has to be framed against the baseline of pervasive anti-union ideology in the US. When people have been inculcated all their lives with the idea that labor organizing is bad, they’re all just temporarily embarrassed corporate execs, it doesn’t take too much to push them back towards this baseline. Or at least enough to quash the union.
Not protest-tech per se, but Alphabet's Jigsaw [0] has an impressive collection of opensource tools they themselves built.

And the usual suspects (a few are not startups): the guardianproject [1], lantern-vpn [2], the tor-project [3], freedom-box [4], matrix [5], GNU Jami [6], letsencrypt, grapheneos [7], signal [8], freedom.press [9] ivpn / pia / mulluvad et al.

[0] https://jigsaw.google.com

[1] https://guardianproject.info

[2] https://getlantern.org

[3] https://torproject.org

[4] https://freedomboxfoundation.org

[5] https://matrix.org

[6] https://jami.net

[7] https://grapheneos.org

[8] https://signal.org

[9] https://freedom.press
I 100% guarantee you that if Google were to try to terminate the contract over this, people would be claiming that Google is anti-union and that that itself constituted a form of union-busting. The proper way to handle something like this would be to have penalties in the contract for illegal behavior on the part of the contracting company that reflects poorly on Google.
It is Google's, and the government, responsibility. Why not both?

Google contracts a company. Company does shady things. Google should play detective, should make sure its suppliers well behave. Google employees should demand their employer is doing this, consumers should too. Why can't they?

And Google is free to ignore, but then face the consequences - which will be practically none in this case or like any other case from any other company in any other market involving contractors. Nestlé hires companies using slaves, Apple hires Foxconn who drives people to suicide, Zara hires Thai companies using child labour.

The important point here is that it's ok to at least calibrate our expectations: I do expect Google is at least considering, if this is true, to talk with HCL and say "dudes this is bad PR, get your shit together or we're gonna talk about $".

Things aren't either nil responsibility or maximum responsibility, different actors play different roles with different levels - sure, enforcing the law is government's responsibility, but Google can have its own share and we can call it responsibility too.
We should all unionize IMHO
That's the sound of a door being slammed very hard with no consideration of what you may get back in return.

The whole model of giving people tax money to do work is called research and is quite a large area and has produced some amazingly valuable things that you benefit from.

BTW I do see what you mean, but I have been trying to start a company for ages and getting the money together is just incredibly hard. It's also hard IT, not pet grooming or similar. It's difficult.