skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built two successful consulting groups, while some people here are saying 25% cut is normal that is astronomical in my experience for what he is providing. I would never agree to that rate just for an introduction, 8-12% is more reasonable for an intro and payable only when the client pays their invoice.

If your friend is doing some work and on-going management or something than that's a different story and this may all be very fair. But if he is literally just making an intro and then now saying you have to sub-contract from him that is odd to me and for me and has red flags all over the place. Essentially it seems like he wants to control the client relationship and just have you do the work, there are a lot of potential downfalls here. For example, if you aren't talking directly to the client and instead he is playing middle man you may get a bad wrap from the client because your friend doesn't understand something properly. That client then talks to other potential clients and next thing you know you are taking a hit for your friends behavior. If he is letting you have direct access to the client and he literally is just billing, his 25% is insane. Other downfall is if you don't control the client relationship how are change requests going to go? Is he going to properly represent them? How is billing going to be handled, they pay him net 30 and you wait again to get paid so you now risk 45-60 days of non-payment? Is his company big enough you can feel confident he'll pay you timely and properly? If things go south, is his company large enough to compensate or protect you during a legal suit? Is he carrying all the proper insurance? This just has so many red flags to me.

Essentially IMO your friend is taking advantage of you by introducing you to a client he knows (maybe does business with regularly) and he knowing you charge too little is jacking your rate to something more reasonable and taking the difference. With friends like that you don't need any enemies for sure. I usually introduce friends to clients for free because it is good business to make sure clients stay happy and my friends find work. Plus if a friend fucks up I am not on the hook for their screw up, just for the intro which I can manage around. For people I don't know or that are just acquittances, I'll do intros but I do take a referral fee paid as they are paid from the client. Only time I take money for an intro when a friend is involved is if I need to get involved or the value of the contract would be such they can afford to pay a fair referral, but I'd never ask for 1/4 of the value even if I told them to charge 1.25x more.

Don't compare to staffing agencies, that isn't an accurate representation unless that is the business your friend is in.
tiller was, imho, a huge burden on even testing out helm. setting up the right permissions was such a pain in the ass.
YouTube is full of shit. They're in a hurry abandoning the unprofitable "you" in YouTube and replacing it with will smith driven garbage.

YouTube's denials about why it happened are again dumb, and a chat ban in YouTube should in no way affect the rest of your Google account. Just acknowledging that it happened isn't a good explanation.

"Ya our rules are dumb and on manual review we were still stupid assholes"

It's also impossible to get ahold of anyone at YouTube and YouTube's "ya we manually reviewed it and fucked up" is just another admission that their pile of a system just doesn't work.

I'm moving away from Google and any other provider like them. These incidents only impress the need to do it faster. I can't risk having my business and life ruined because of a youtube algorithm with no one behind the wheel.

I recommend everyone else do the same. Just the idea that YouTube chat bans would connect to other portions of the account means google is not interested in you. Every interaction with them is a threat to your digital well being where your whole account can be banned. It's totally unacceptable given the position they're in.

And it can all be manually reviewer and you'll be told to go fuck yourself and if you aren't markeplier or whoever you have no recourse.

Fuck that shit.
Welcome to 2020. Crazy time to be alive!
No thanks. Sticking with Firefox.
Why does something have to going on there?

Isnt it possible that there exists a profitable tech company outside of US that most of us has never heard of?
Futurespective: What is it and how do you conduct one?
Source for the performance claims?
Are they not upstreaming performance change for chromium?
Thanks for those links! I do know how it is used on HN (and other places on the Internet). However, I don't really think that is how it should be used and I haven't CMV. I don't think down voting disagreements adds any value to the discussion. I'd rather prefer upvoting agreements and leave the down vote button alone.
It doesn't cost anything in this form factor, and laptop users are more likely to use corded headphones, rather than earbuds.
Strong Towns has gained a decent following, and their core arguments[1] are pretty compelling, although their founder has the tendency to express half-baked theories about monetary policy that I think undermine his credibility somewhat.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/newcomers
Docker’s Next Chapter: Advancing Developer Workflows for Modern Apps
I'm the same - I tend to use the mute, volume, brightness keys instinctively without looking at the keyboard.
Wow, I get unlimited broadband internet for my home, mobile service (unlimited texts, 1000mins, 2GB data) and my landline for less than that!
you get a reasonably stable Unix box that also runs some commercial business software and worst terminal experience than running full ubuntu on windows wsl. Ubuntu on WSL> brew on mac.
The first plasma TV I bought was 42" and $2400. It was replaced a few years ago by a 62" plasma that has a tenth of the bezel, weighs at least half as much, and cost $800. There is no network hardware in either device.
Google basically decides what to implement, what not to implement, what to deprecate.

For example the current controversial change: Google says "slow web is bad" and deprecates an API that allowed extensions to do almost unlimited work for any web page. Oops. Adblockers depended on that and did want to do almost unlimited work for any web page, and that wasn't a bug, but the API gets dropped, AIUI because Google wants performance. The reason doesn't matter though. Google gets to set the agenda, no matter what its reasons are.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-house-22-floods-repeated-cl...

"The six-bedroom house, which has an indoor swimming pool, sits along the San Jacinto River. It has flooded 22 times since 1979, making it one of the most flood-damaged properties in the country."
I've made a claim on a laptop before and it took a couple of weeks to get a replacement, plus claims make your premiums go up. I'm not saying it's not workable, but I feel more at ease carrying around less expensive equipment that's easier to replace.
”I don't think apple is ever going to release a server side framework”

I don’t think Apple releasing a server-side framework would help, as nobody would be using it.

Also, there is the Swift Server Work Group (https://swift.org/server/), where two out of six members have an Apple email address. They recently wrote a kind of “state of the union” that, in my view, shows progress is made towards using Swift on servers (https://swift.org/blog/sswg-update/)

As to a cross-platform GUI framework: I don’t see them doing that, just as I don’t see Microsoft or google doing that.
Sell SaaS Like Legos?
That's my experience, too, I guess it's from learning EMACS and its ancestors on actual VT-100 style terminals with no meta keys.
I am concerned about AI algorithms and especially recommendations algorithms in regards to biases. If someone is in a temporary psychological condition. The ad recommendation algorithms will keep reinforcing that bias behavior in order to maximize ad revenue. As long as the viewer is hooked on the site and keep coming back for more content. The algorithms have little or no sense what bias they are reinforcing. I wish there was more public debate and awareness from programmers about that. Ie we have moral obligations on what algorithms recommend.
You bring up a good point. Traffic fatalities in general are are a HUGE problem in the US, not just alcohol-related, and they're mostly due to poor civil engineering. Another abject failure of US governance.
I'd agree with this. I've never bought a "high end" board, either. Even the middle ground is fine.
A built-in HDMI port, and all my requests would have been fulfilled.
Private Equity company acquires .org registry
What Happens When Wildlife Camera Traps Accidentally Capture Photos of Humans
Sort of reminds me of a talk Valve gave about creating an anti-cheat for Counter-Strike using AI. When asked if they were worried about people using AI to create cheats to fool the AI, his answer was essentially that it was an arms-race won by the person with more data/processing power. That person would most likely always be Valve.

Link to talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc
Once you install https://pock.dev, the touchbar is useful
Kinda wish it was $200 more for 32GB of RAM instead of $400 - my only complaint.
Good to know. I'll have to check them out. My ~2015 Lenovo touchpad is utterly abysmal.
Old timers (like me) use it for meta. Ask anyone over 50!
Urbansportspass is a great example of a german startup: They have steady growth, good revenue flows, a great app and content customers.

I feel like in recent years the startup scene in Berlin has gone rather off rails, with obviously flawed projects getting funding. The truth of the startup scene is that >99% of projects are pretty bad, and never deserved to leave the brainstorming phase in the first place.
This is great news. Dairy, although it tastes incredibly delicious, is pretty bad for people's health. Dairy is very closely linked to Liver Cancer (the landmark china study), ovarian cancer, prostate cancer (very closely linked), diabetes in children, etc. In forks over knives they even sited one study that showed Dairy proteins (casein) could actually feed and active growth of cancerous cells. In experiments they were able to turn on and off the cancerous growth just by chaning the percentage of casein protein.

And, lets not forget milk increases the chance of osteoporosis and bone fractures. prolonged ingestion of dairy leads to metabolic acidosis which causes the body to leach calcium from the bones increasing the rate of bone fractures. All that calcium in the milk can't be absorbed by the body anyways, it just gets pissed out of the body: they've demonstrated this in labs by measuring the amount of calcium that leaves the body after drinking milk. It's much better to get your calcium from natural sources. there's so many foods that are naturally high in calcium: https://kale.world/c (set the bar for calcium) leafy green vegetables, Oranges, potatoes, kidney beans etc.
Well at least it's not 3000USD as was rumored :)
Email Migration: Part 1 (GSuite – Office 365)
I think the OP meant literal heat, as generated by the CPU or other internals.
> It was cited in the LWN article

Yes, I saw that, but it doesn't explain how the figure was arrived at. If it's from popcon, then the figure is very suspect.
I don't think it says a price, but it was previously used by a "nuclear polka" band :)
https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/
VCTK p240: duplicates the (a) north of England accent well.

VCTK p260: all over the place accent-wise.

LibriSpeech: can't really comment on the American examples, but they seem decent.
> I'm not convinced that they inherently need compensating though?

I am. I find some excellent Youtube channels, and i m sure google is not compensating them enough. I find interesting comments here or on reddit which are never compensated. For small audiences, there is just no way to be compensated. IF people take the time to provide value to me, simple logic says there should be a way to compensate them (but there isn't). It seems like we have the technology to transform the way we live and we don't use it.

> create high value content and put it online for free

Most people do that with the expectation that once they hit a popularity threshold, they 'll be able to monetize it. At least that's what Google promises them (thats how blogs and youtube took off), and after they bait they switch and start starving creators of income. We can do better than that, imho
Show HN: Contenteditable div to quick edit something
I am not saying they should stop. There is also no sign of slowing or stopping new exploration.
Marginalized identity is directly related to the kinds of hardships that parent claimed were not directly associated with marginalized identity (see the first sentence). You generally have to go pretty far up the income/class scale to find black lesbian who's better off than a given poor white man.

To put it a way most guys here will understand: how much more money does a 5'4" man have to make to get the same social and professional consideration as a 6'2" man? Identity is not destiny, but at the same time, you'd be forgiven for getting that impression from a glance at American society.
Show HN: My Weekend Project, AutoSSL
Im advocating using existing stuff instead of reinventing the wheel. Making it work with existing DHCP clients is certainly less code than implementing a whole new one.
You're missing the main thrust of their effort. It's not to individually tailor ads, it's to study consumer behavior to the point where they discover what actions they can take to cause the effect they want.

The idea is similar to the reason gas stations have loyalty cards... they're not so loyal customers get discounts, it's because they can sell that data to companies wanting to analyze spending habits.

If Google can use its expertise to cross-correlate data from financial services like it does other sources, that fills in a link in the chain, from money going into the consumer's pocket to money coming out in a purchase.

Gas stations already know that e.g. (making this example up) someone who buys gas at a certain time of the morning has a X% chance to also buy a breakfast donut if they buy a coffee. They get this from statistical analysis of the data from loyalty cards.

So all the gas station has to do if they want to make some amount of money from the people who buy donuts is to trigger the behavior - provide free coffee or coffee at a discount at a certain time of the morning, and at the same time add a few cents to the price of donuts. In exchange for a loss on the coffee, they get a very high likelihood of making extra money by manipulating consumer behavior, and likely the consumers don't even know it. That percent advantage is worth dollars.

Google wants to correlate consumer data to the point where they know all the things that trigger when people spend. Other corporations will pay gigantic amounts of money for that service, because it's a bankable return for them. There's no guessing whether (going back to my example) free coffee in the morning will cause better sales of donuts, because they know as opposed to guess.

Google filling in all the blanks in its chain of data sources means that they'll be able to correlate things like "During a three paycheck month, men age 30-45 tend to put that extra disposable income in their checking account for use on a mix of necessities and luxury items.". If a company selling luxury goods wants to know when they should saturate men age 30-45 in a given market with ads to drive sales temporarily up 65%, Google can sell them that information.

Just knowing when specific people will have the ability and interest in buying something they're selling lets them avoid spending money on advertising, shipping, or even producing goods that won't easily sell. That's a huge advantage in the market over another company that has to guess when and what kind of advertising will be effective.

The consumer targeted by this will not know... they'll just be more likely to buy a particular product when they happen to have the money to do so because the sellers will be subtly increasing the coverage of ads or targeting those ads to the demographic involved during that time period, and those ads can manipulate as well using sex, rhetoric, or any of the other techniques advertising knows about.

Being more certain (even if not 100%) what will happen in the future translates into money and power.
Helm is a package manager in the same line as apt, yum, homebrew, and others.

A package manager lets someone who has knowledge of how to run an application on a platform (e.g., postgresql on debian) package it up in a way that others who don't have this knowledge can run an application without needing to learn it.

That's why I can use `apt install` regularly without needing to know the business logic of running all those apps on my system.

Package managers let you compartmentalize and automate expertise.
And then what? It will be your word of “I voted A” against the factual “B” on the paper.
It surprises me the large shipping companies (UPS, Fedex) haven't pushed fulfillment to the level Amazon has. Frankly, I would be shopping directly through retailers more if I could get everything for free two-day shipping.

I get part of that is funded through the Prime annual fee and Amazon's cut of the proceeds but given their large distribution networks I would think they could come to Amazon's level (but this also probably depends on the volume of other packages they handle which AREN'T retail).
Awesome! can’t wait to have some code to play with and start feeding ebooks to produce audiobooks with voices i actually like
Creator here. While building my current startup, we had this requirement to offer custom domains to our users. We also wanted to serve those domains over HTTPS. After days of searching and brainstorming, I had no luck! I found a couple of potential solutions but they were either too expensive or too complicated.

So, I spent a few weeks building an in house solution that automates the whole process of provisioning and renewing SSL certs for our users. It involves Let's Encrypt and has been working great so far!

Last week I thought of offering this as a SaaS product. With the help of my friend, I coded an app where customers can add their domains in a few steps. It's live at https://autossl.co. Once a domain is added to our system, we generate a CNAME record for that domain. When the domain is accessed for the first time, we generate an SSL cert on demand through Let's Encrypt and renew it every 3 months. I also expose APIs to add domains to our system. So, if you are a SaaS company offering custom domains to your customers, you can completely automate SSL issuance in an easy and cost effective way.

I think it has got some potential. What do you think?
I would love to hear a complete response to the things you think are wrong in this article. The order/deal incorrectness is just semantics, and not all that useful.

I found the article's description of how header bidding operates useful. What's inaccurate about it? In particular, why does the header bidding library solicit bids from everyone except GAM, then ask GAM for final bid? Seems like contacting all of them would be the way to go -- or is GAM registering the ad impression for other networks as well? If so, that's really interesting! It means google has insight into the entire ad placement market, even when they don't have anything to do with the network.
This was claimed for propaganda purposes and never substantiated, afaik.
He has been working on that for a long time. Though much of his earlier work is symbolic differentiation, I’m not very familiar with the more recent AD stuff.
Two mechanisms:

1.) Less inventory. Advertisers bid for spots on the platform, which means that if there're fewer users accepting advertisers, the remaining spots will require more BAT, which requires purchasing more BAT on the open market. Higher demand + constant supply = higher price.

2.) Fewer user rewards. Users receive BAT when browsing, which they can either tip to creators or sell on an exchange (I'm not sure the latter option is available right now). Unless the users or creators are themselves advertisers, there's no use for BAT though, other than selling it to an advertiser. So when fewer users are receiving BAT, there's less available for purchase on exchanges. Constant demand + reduced supply = higher price.
It would be more accurate to say "Don't build your city on a river delta or flood plain", but that's where the good soil is. It's also hard to go back in time hundreds of years to yell at your ancestors.
Well... You are unfortunately correct.
I took the headline from this Two Minute Papers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sR1rU3gLzQ
And if it was truly willing, and the toolbar only did what it claimed it would do, then it wasn't malware.
Won't happen until these companies can field their own drone armies, until then the people with the guns will always have the last word and tech companies don't have the social clout to raise a human army.
Then it has very limited value relative to its costs, one being function keys...
I am aware of that, and here is one the of the issues I have with the strategic patch strategy:

> The patch you did in the preceding exercise is called a strategic merge patch. Notice that the patch did not replace the containers list. Instead it added a new Container to the list. In other words, the list in the patch was merged with the existing list. This is not always what happens when you use a strategic merge patch on a list. In some cases, the list is replaced, not merged. [0]

This seems like a lot of cognitive overload. I understand there are some use cases for this but really, all I want is to have my K8s resources all tracked with a git commit reference and then that is what is deployed exactly.

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-...
So who are the shovel manufacturers in this case?
Will point out that it is cloning after a short sample and with an unknown speaker. So this is great for that type of comparison and in particular when the person listening does not know much or have great experience with the person speaking.

Now if you were to take something by a well known person (where there is a great deal of audio) it would be much harder to clone anything other than a really short passage.

This would be similar to faking handwriting. Easier to fake one word than to fake three pages. Easier to fake something where you have little to compare a pattern (less can go wrong).

Not saying this isn't impressive it is. But it's also a bit of a trick based on the very short clips (both samples and created).

I would say that a trained person could do a better fake because they could take into account all the info and be less likely to make a mistake.

Now sure you could manually change the AI as well doing the same thing.
it's not only US megacorps, a lot of well funded tech companies pay salaries close to what Amazon or Google pay and they have to as that's what the market demands. As a software engineer in Berlin i can't really say i don't like that though.
Berlin rents might have doubled since 2010, but they were also way below other german capitals due to Berlins history, so the rents coming to the same level as say Hamburg or Munich was just a matter of time anyway.
In the end it creates value for the city, higher tax income, more spending. Yes, gentrification is a problem, but it's far less of a problem here then in other major capitals.
In Greg Egan's _Permutation City_ this is mentioned in passing (an arms race between AI video call spam bots and AIs screening the calls for spam while impersonating the owner of the phone).

The anti-spam software loses because eventually having self-aware AI view spam calls 24/7 was considered torture and they weren't allowed to go that far.
The MSI and ThinkPads have had four ram slots for years...

You can easily upgrade to 128 gb on these models.
I realized a few years ago that we've been steadily moving towards a cyberpunk dystopia for a few decades.