skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my phone I installed Firefox mobile using DDG default search about a year ago. But, whoops, it's a Pixel and so I occasionally use the OS's Google search.

I've not noticed a difference in result quality since the switch.
Good deal - I do most of my work in the US, I don't know of a similar deal here.
>It's not like you're creating money out of thin air.

No, but money (and value) is created out of ideas, of labor, and adding value to products.

When an IPO happens, for example, and a company owner holding 50% of the company is suddenly valued at $20B, that value did not come from taking $20B from other people. It's the value of the company. It is value simply created out of thin air, that didn't exist before.

If the next day, someone prices the stock 30% higher through market forces, the owners value shoots up 30% also. That 30% increase in a single day was not taken from anyone - it is made up out of thin air.

When a craftsman buys a piece of wood for $10, crafts it such that others value it at $1000, that craftsman just added $900 of value. It might have taken a week, or might have taken 15 minutes. It's not simply some labor value per hour times hours. The amount of value is created out of thin air, but it took some labor to allow that increase to happen. The labor amount and value added is somewhat related, but varies greatly across all endeavors.

And saying the employees could have just worked somewhere else is shuffling the truth - to have somewhere to work, someone has to start a company, which often takes significant money and risk to begin with, before thousands of workers can have a stable job. That money too was created previously through invention, innovation, labor, and previous investment.
Yeah, Grammarly is creepy as hell. I've explicitly banned it (and similar services) at work.

As for Youtube music, yup, that's undeniably a good deal. The music services should watch out, especially in younger demographics (I'm already 30+, Spotify premium user since 2009). Apple will probably push Music even harder and bundle that with their new video streaming. Spotify's really trying to become the defacto podcast service, which sucks in its own right (unlike Apple Podcasts, no user facing RSS support for indie premium content etc. Podcasting is the last free rich medium on the internet, largely thanks to Apple).

As for music, I'm too deep in the Spotify ecosystem myself, with stuff like proper Last.fm integration, recommendations and consistent audio quality.

I can't really enjoy music with that mushy sound typical for content that has been lossy-lossy transcoded tons of times. Of course, I have to deal with that for all the awesome live takes[1] available on Youtube, and there I'm of course just grateful they exist.

Spotify's audio didn't use to be all that great, except with the normalization turned off. Now with their 'quiet' normalization option, that doesn't compress quiet tracks (a clear edge over Apple Music), it's starting to sound transparent to me, as -q 9 encoded (~320 kbps) Vorbis should.

Youtube doesn't allow disabling of normalization at all, and it's not super clear to me when tracks are clean encodes sourced from the proper music distribution ecosystem that stocks Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal et al.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4V66UP4aDs
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Another way would be think that it's smarter to have a social safety net and cooperate with other people to that end.
But do they even have to pay much to youtubers for those ads? If you get 50k to 100k views per video then you'll likely make around the range of $50-$150 for the video. Paying the youtuber $50-$100 per video would already have a significant impact on their income, so they'd probably consider it. That would be 50k-100k people who will see the ad, because adblock can't block it.
I was just reading about advisor termination fee terms which were some substantial multiple of all fees incurred over some past number of years.

People under pressure make short term optimizations at the expense of long term strategy. There's nothing more to it. AWS reduced compute and IT expenses in the next few fiscal years, so people jumped all in on it. Solve the problem now. Someone will fix it in the future.
I jumped on DirecTV Now early on when they were offering a free Apple TV when you did a minimum of three months at $35 for the "Go Big" package. Even without the ATV it was a legitimately good deal.

Then last year they went to $40... still a good deal. Then once they hit $50 a few months later I dropped them because there are plenty of other services at that price point. Now it's $65? They're out of their minds.
Just use Cloudflare WARP since it's finally out. You're never really anymous unless it's a lifestyle anyways.
SwissCows might be slightly better per jurisdiction. DDG is blocking Tor users pretty often these days.
I think that what underlies this fear of apocryphal “brogrammers” is the fear that, if everybody is left alone to do as they please without being brought to heel, every company will grow into a place where they, personally, don’t feel they fit in. It says a lot more about the authoritarian mindset of people who use the term brogrammer than it says about programmers and nerd culture.
Yeah but you don’t need data center engineers, real estate specialists. Power specialists. Etc.
And a few years prior, Yeats had written that "The center cannot hold", and that "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity".

Worth remembering, IMO. Lots of passionate people calling for a conflict, and it's not clear that they've thought about ramifications very deeply.
You may want to check your blocking software or company firewall.

Works fine on my person device running ABP ( I just double checked to make sure).
I think people could argue that modern Blizzard does specifically lean into being diverse or "woke". Overwatch got a lot of praise on it's release for having such a diverse cast and they have continued to lean into that over the years since. I also think people could argue they started being more inclusive and diverse with some stuff they did in WoW, but I think they really got attention for it starting with Overwatch.

With that said, I kind of agree with you in that the foundation of their success was making fantastic PC games.
As for [1], the FTC etc. do a bad job of regulation, especially of Amazon. I actively do not trust Amazon to sell me things I ingest.

>there is no way to casually verify that what they are talking about actually happens

I have first hand experience working in more than one organization with security departments which did this sort of verification of vendors. Usually as required by law.

And the opposite was true as well, working in organizations which were beholden to those kinds of compliance requirements and to customers (and investors) verifying them.

It is indeed a long process with a lot of work. That kind of "box checking" tends to happen sometimes but not in an inventing reality way but a cargo cult way. There is enough surface area of these regulations though that you can't just get away with a song and dance, you end up actually having to do the right things.
If I didn't like the result could I go back?
Changed to that from https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/blizzard-postpones-world-.... Thanks!
This is why I love finance. Saudi Arabia vs Iran will in part be decided by New York and London investor attitudes.
Book Summary: The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
> An important aside here is that the US shale oil revolution now means that the US can produce oil domestically at similarly cheap prices.

Perhaps, but certain politicians like Elizabeth Warren would like to end that soon.

"On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking—everywhere."
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1170070887887986690

Some analysis:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/prospect-of-president-warren-sp... (paywall)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/business/elizabeth-warren-oil... (not paywall)
>In the end, everything is just blind luck

So you claim there is no correlation between, say, hours worked and money earned? That pay is some random variable not causally connected to any decision a person makes?
Billionaire is a bad metric. These are outliers of outliers. Obviously everyone can't be a billionaire. That's like asking why everyone isn't an Olympic gold medalist. Of course the path to a billionaire is going to start with abnormal conditions. It's also going to be completely abnormal along the way, too. It's an abnormal outcome. Why would you expect anything different?
Wow, that sounds like me! Do you mind sharing what the genetic disorder was? Or how you get tested for it in the first place? I have a feeling that if I asked my doctor about laziness, they would refer me to a therapist instead.
Zero mentions of Solaris. Surprising. BSD, Minix and Linux are mentioned. Even Santa Cruz Operation is mentioned. Bill Joy and Sun Microsystems are mentioned. Solaris was the most influential Unix of the 90’s so its omission is curious.
The statement is self defeating. Absolute power is playing far less "a game" for the continuted hold of power than is elected. You're right that people generally do whatever it is they think they can get away with, but simply put a king doesnt asnwer to anyone so he is more likely to act in self interest than someone who needs to please others.
You do know that DDG just serves Bing organic results, right ?
I’m soon 40. I like to think I’ve made piece with the world - I pretty much grok most of the idiosyncrasies between myself and the society around me. Statistically I’m way beyond the age when the most important friendships are formed. I’d like to be a little less anxious, but that’s about it. It’s not enough to sign up for experimental neurological treatment. So no, I would not apply this to myself.
I ordered a copy just now, but was somewhat disappointed that it didn't ship in tape format.
I rarely read long-form articles online these days. If it looks interesting, I'll print it. I read a lot of non-fiction, cover to cover, and always in physical form. I just enjoy sitting down with a book and marking it up. But also, I avoid recently published non-fiction because most of it reads like poorly edited blog posts. There are a few exceptions, but most of the new stuff doesn't draw me in the same way that older books do.

That said, I feel like because I do so much skimming online, just for work and whatnot, going from one physical page to the next while reading a book does something great for my brain. When I read offline, if I have selected the right book, I don't ever feel the need to skim. All of the time I spend reading offline feels like a compensatory reaction to the cognitive twitching that takes place in the browser all day.

See also: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-th...

Because we're talking about reading and non-fiction, here's a shameless plug for a non-fiction book club I'm putting together: https://strangers-club.com
"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

not

"Fortune rewards the prepared mind."

Although the latter is effectively Calvinism, which the US culture was founded on. It will probably echo through the ages.
If you go into race war here we're going to have to ban you again.
His campaigns also contributed to something like 60+ million deaths[1]. Maybe the Hitler of his time?

In his case, perhaps everyone who got in his way simply didn't have any luck.

[1] https://www.scifacts.net/human/genghis-khan-death-toll/
the article assumes that nobody has orders of magnitude higher skills like nobody has iq orders of magnitude higher. that's extremely faulty because someone with an iq of 160 doesn't solve 60% more problems. He solves problems that others find impossible. Paul Allen and Gates hit iq ceiling
Rummaging around the local mall bookstore in ~1982, I came upon 'Software Tools in Pascal', by Kernighan and Plaugher. I fell in love with the ideas, and the prose. It became the first of what is now a nearly complete collection of everything Kernighan has published (I don't have the AMPL book, or 'D for Digital'.) I can't calculate how much I know because of Dr. Kernighan, or how much my career's course has been altered by the levers he's given me, but it's a large number.

This is now on my Amazon wish list (How many of you have private lists for 'things to remember and check out later?' Mine's called 'Random Followup Stuff')
Not all introverts are ‘on the spectrum’.
Exactly but now embedded systems look more and more like personal computing used to be not much time ago. We're certainly on par with mid to late 90s in regards to that, and even farther if you consider things like the RPi as embedded. Not only processing power but relating to the skill set needed.

I don't take lightly your skillset at all, but it comes a time when people start using inneficient solutions because it's faster to produce, and you have plenty of hw resources, so... why not? Do it in Python and improve it later... maybe, and then you don't. :-)

I believe you get my point. Not that I personally think using micropython is a worthy path solution for embedded dev as of now, in a professional context. But there will come a time when that can make sense, as it's already the case in the RPi, as I mentioned.

> I consider myself a very good embedded engineer, but my software is merely "straightforward"

And that's where I make my business. I'm merely a straightforward embedded engineer but focus on the software/hw integration making the excellent work of people like you work with the external world, databases, desktop/web UIs and all of that using software engineering practices. Basically doing the "cloud", "edge" and "IoT" buzzwords.
Quantum mechanics has the free will theorem: if you have free will, then so do sub-atomic particles.

Thus if you want to have free will, then so does a rock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
Microsoft announces Secured-core PCS to counter firmware attacks
Triple X: Ex-Facebook. Ex-Google. Ex-husband.
That's almost as much as they make on overdraft fees!
Yes but both still charge crazy money for the bandwidth.

(Although Azure is apart of the bandwidth alliance if you use cloudflare/b2)
Service Mesh Challenges
Previously discussed on ycombinator starting March 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591908

including the Pluchino paper (scroll/search on the above page to find the reference).
I am just glad that both incidents coincided to happen within the same week. If it was just one or the other, it wouldn't have been as impactful. But with both NBA and Blizzard being put in a tough spotlight at the same time, the message is significantly amplified.
That price doesn’t include usage as a shippable asset, though. The purchase page sets terms that indicate you can only do renderings for that amount.

They don’t seem to publish a price for usage as game assets.
At this point I've written fairly little go code, but reviewed quite a bit. Among those I work with, my opinion seems to be shared.

> I think you'll find that visual structure is actually important.

I didn't say otherwise. What I did say is that go adds visual noise that isn't present in python. (and it is noise: the proposal to add try! shows that the error handling style is noisy. It can be basically entirely removed by an automated transformation). Actual pattern matching like rust has, or even what Google C++ has with StatusOr and [1] our nonsense RETURN_IF_ERROR macros are better than what go does, and just as explicit (actually often moreso, since its more difficult to forget an error condition)

[1]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/d0f91c863ae...
Pessimists Guide to 2028 (2018)
Znpy (tin-python?) posted the comment to which I replied.
Increasing Geographic Inequalities in DNA in Great Britain
What if you hustle and all you get is bad luck?

I think one of you is saying that neutral situations should allow one to scramble up just due to willpower alone. I'm not sure I agree.

But some people are born with one foot in a bucket. They just keep getting hit by sic relatives and floods and what have you and everything they get never lasts.
Heroes of Open Source
This is a good point. However, if you insert yourself among people who all have a certain level of material comfort to lack material ambition, it is much, much easier to forge authentic relationships. The prevailing social aim becomes to experience joy, learn interesting things, and grow as a person. Of course, this dynamic is still rare. Even when people aren't fighting for money, there's still an urge to fight for status, which only rarely perfectly manifests itself in a competition to create beauty. This is partly why conspicuous consumption is frowned upon by certain factions of the upper classes. It reveals you're playing the wrong game.
Theoretically, a perfect estimate means you'll be under it 50% of the time and over it 50% of the time. No bias.

Still management definitely feels something has gone wrong when you say at least half the projects will be over estimate.
My team and I use Taskade at Go X.
The turkey said that same thing the day before Thanksgiving.

The OP might be incorrect, but you are using the wrong argument against theirs.
Well, first, I was responding to OP's complaint that the article "supports the author's point of view and offering no opposing points of view. This is not journalism." by pointing out that, in fact, it's not journalism, it's opinion.

Second, the whole reason articles like this get published and read is that, in this case, one man's "alarmism" or "deception" or "paranoia" is another man's sober scientific caution. It's the same problem with GMOs. People are rushing to market with unproven technology to make money while insisting it's all perfectly safe.

Why not wait a century, do more research, and decide then? What's the urgency to roll it out now?
His auntie wouldn't exaggerate or leave out details... would she?
Exciting talk! And I'm happy to know that one of the leading shader devs from Rust community has successfully "embarked" :)

Technology-wise, the compiler goes from MIR to SPIR-V. This is specific to Rust and different from the other direction Khronos has been exploring: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/LLVM-SPIRV-Backend . It's a bit sad that we can't all have nice things.
At Sourceress we formalized skillsharing with a simple spreadsheet. Now, engineers teach each other the skills that we want to spread throughout the org.
> Let's say the snack bars come in a package of 10 and the expiration date is 2 days from now. Do you want to be forced choose between eat 5 bars a day or throwing some of them out?

With the exception of infant formula, the dates on food products are not expiration dates. They are sell-by, use-by, or best-by dates.

Sell-by dates tell when the store should remove the product. If you buy the item by then, and consume it at a normal rate, it should be fine.

Use-by and best-by dates are when the item is at peak quality or flavor. It doesn't go bad right after those dates--it just isn't as good.

For items like snack bars, it is probably a sell-by date. Use-by and best-by dates are more appropriate for items that spoil fairly rapidly, or that are reasonably freshly made. A 10 pack of snack bars with a sell-by date 2 days in the future should be no problem.

Infant formula has separate labeling rules. It does give the date after which you should not use it.
Or they pair with a "controller" device and any user pairs direct with that?

Could be a dongle with a button that plugs in to a router usb port.
Many are in banking, finance, etc., though.
They blatantly steal intellectual property from the little guy. Here's a story about them stealing from a MIT student whom they invited out for an interview/demo her invention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
The use of a llama as a logo seems to support this.
Yeah, I totally agree -- and there are a lot of very valid reasons someone might choose a service over a DIY solution.

My main point up there was just that I'm always kind of surprised and honestly have trouble believing it when I hear someone whose career is in network security say they don't trust themselves to secure a VPN server. If a person can tout creds securing an entire organization, a little ephemeral Linux instance that you can blow away and rebuild at will should be cake.
I take more solace in imagining (hoping) which authors won't be remembered. Lee Child and Dan Brown, I hope :)
Related: https://faithit.com/i-cant-afford-my-wife-steven-nelms/
a stay-at-home mom is worth $75K+/yr
https://web.archive.org/web/20191021160628/https://www.busin...
Question for any lawyers here, do NDA's have any form of "natural expiration" if no explicit expiration date is set?

What happens to them if the company goes out of business?
Bandwidth is expensive, storage is cheap.
Or trusting companies only known because of extensive marketing.
You work there so you probably have a better idea than I do but they have a terrible reputation externally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782
This is still happening. Just last week:

https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1183094406573748225
Cyberdyne. This is what I expect. Remainder of building has no windows.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/335+Inverness+Dr+S,+Englew...

And this one doesn't have windows either.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/739+Welch+St,+Medford,+OR+...

However, this one looks really nice. Would work there.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/+Rimba+Hotel+Karang+Mas+E...
I hope it works out. I'm looking forward to the day when those with high cholesterol cure it by fixing their liver, while those with normal cholesterol cure it by fixing their brain cells. (the good effects of the high cholesterol gene on the brain where completely made up: while it meets the bar of plausible enough for an example, there is no particular reason to believe it is true)
Meritocracy harms everyone, even the winners
Looks cool, but feeling slightly twitchy about going anywhere near that with my Google account after last week's news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
Maybe they only disclosed it publicly but notified customers out of the public eye ?
Are there any details regarding the hardware setup they run/use/own to run this all?
This article tries to enumerate the use cases for use of commercial VPN services, but misses out my only use case of these services: evading geoblocks. It seems fallacious to me.
Have you used Nord VPN? These aren't questions users would have. I could be wrong, but I'm confident that a plumber that has used Nord would know what a datacenter is, just from using the app. My tech illiterate Dad (70s) sure does.
For what it's worth, I really don't like AWS - aside from their S3/Route53/CloudFront products. There is a layer of abstraction that is so minimal that you may as well roll out the services yourself & save a ton of money. Of course, if you like that layer, then that's fine too.