skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems pretty high for acetaminophen and low (proportionally) for ibuprofen. Why would you prescribe that?
Sorry, I’m using the word ‘shortage’ in the colloquial sense. I’m unaware of any technical meaning it may have in economics.
Yeah, the intuitive view of universe expansion is that it expands from the edges out.... but in reality, it expands everywhere at once, so really the space between us is expanding as well.
Do you mean you switched to a hosted Syncthing?

I'm looking into Nextcloud and syncthing. A lot of people suggested Nextcloud. What do you like better about syncthing?
My learnings on Linux BPF container performance engineering
In short, yes, but there are limits. A really (really) rough analogy would be filling a tank of water. If you fill it faster than it can drain, eventually it will overflow. If it is sealed, it may burst. The grid equivalents of an overflowing or bursting tank are not great scenarios.

And with intermittent energy sources, there are additional problems. We only get energy sometimes. We want energy always. It basically inverts the idea of base load and peak load sources. If your source is intermittent, then you do want to be able to over-produce at certain times, with an ability to capture the energy. Think batteries, but know that they need not be chemical batteries. Energy storage can then cover the valleys of production or the peaks of demand.

Add coordination to the challenges as well. Much (most?) solar is distributed. It's much easier to ramp generation up or down in a few centralized plants. If every home has a solar panel array, then you need to be able (either at the local or the grid level) be able to store excess energy or turn off production.

None of this is insurmountable, but there are many challenges that are non-trivial by nature and some that are difficult d/t the way energy grids are typically set up.
Do you send a fair amount of email? Where I had trouble was running an ecom site. We set up all the things you mention correctly. We never sent any unsolicited email, but I assume people might occasionally flag a receipt or password reset as spam, and then it was game over for our email getting delivered. No issues since switching to gSuite.
Wow. Actual user oriented and ground breaking innovations. This is the future. And it's beautiful. I'm impressed. Mozilla now looks like a dying swamp.
Right, and users of the engine aren't using it for free. They're paying in ad impressions.
Like I said, there are exceptions. To do this you have to be a well known expert in a highly valuable skill. I'm sure Troy Hunt does fairly well in security consulting on Azure for instance. Being an expert in something challenging but that doesn't make the client money (say Haskell, or whatever the distributed DB flavor of the month is) doesn't pay beans. Nor does knowing 50 languages or web frameworks: the client only cares that you know one. Determine up front what you want to specialize in, if you go this path.
It's called "mathemagick".
Yup, this is a massive trope in the UK. "We need to import more people from wherever, there's a real shortage of software people!"

No, there's a shortage of software people who are firstly willing to work for the £30K you seem to think is reasonable and secondly (implied by the pay on offer) willing to put up with being treated as if they are a junior, unskilled office worker.

Which is why those with any ambition become contractors and consultants, or leave the county...
Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry
I share your dream world. Sadly I never even come close to carrying out it out when I build a small thing for myself.
Given that Alphabet was basically Larry and Seigei's personal pet projects and the goal was for Google to fund these projects, it's easier to funnel money up instead of out.
I thought the same after seeing in the corner of my eye 2nd article - didn't know they did more (and likely have more in the backlog). Fantastic pr with genuine value.
As the average HN consumer, I can get behind this.
I think at various points in life, you worry about the whole system and its effects on people, not just maximizing your local niche. This seems good, both morally and from a systems perspective.

For me when younger this was about Ivan Illich (deschooling society), Feynman (the Brazilian light polarization story) etc. Now I'm older it's reading the anger in 'Excellent Sheep', watching the pain in low-trust workplaces, and telling my kids I value real learning over test-passing (they listen, but huge pressure to conform).

It seems true that a new field is more intellectually stimulating and liberating than a codified one (I've talked to older female analyst programmers from the 70s/80s who had a blast with computers and left when it got rigid and boring, I worked in Gurgaon early 00s when those interested in IT were self-educating geeks doing it for love, who later got moved aside + down when the money arrived). Maybe this is why IT people chase the new shiny, as a defensive strategy against codification, a red queen game to keep the game interesting ( though inefficient).

Anyway, glad Paul is publishing these viewpoints, even if the actions to be taken are not clear. Also, society is over-geeked currently. It's not obvious that hackers ( or intellectuals or logistics experts or technocrats) should have too much power instead of History students, or politicians or sports-stars or whoever. Life is both a game and not a game, short term gaming has long-term consequences. History and Biology and Literature teach us this clearly.
Ad impressions are like shares. They're only valuable if someone is actually paying real money for them somewhere.
I think with basic systems you have to give up the notion of controlling what goes where, give it data and "trust" it to put everything in a reasonable place. That's not a [frontend] dev approach; but it's a "i want information showing in a webpage" approach.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but if I was a 3 letter agency with infinite resources (so also no need to claim any prizes, no matter how much tempting they can be) and succeeded in recovering data that way, I would never tell anyone. Doing so would reveal what I can do, and by extension send the message "next time do a multiple pass wipe" which in the end would reveal what I cannot do.
The secret ingredients of ‘superforecasting’
> Being first is just a nerd victory like saying Apple was the first desktop operating system with a GUI. “Winning” in a for profit business is profit.

Before Google Docs / G+ suite there was really only Office. Now everything is Google vs Office 365. Most small/medium even startups use Google Docs as it is good enough. Yes like I said, entrenched Microsoft companies use Office and Office 365 is finally good and is winning in businesses because business/marketing like Office. But Google made it to 'versus' level with Microsoft.

We also glossed over Gmail, that has been immense for attracting people to Google apps.

Apple is also in this space but the desktop market share is so low that they don't compete here.

> We know the value - $23 billion over 7 years. The fact that Google still pays Apple $8 billion a year shows that there is more value in a platform that attracts people that can afford to spend money than people who only spend $240 on a phone.

If Google has to pay Apple $8 billion for mobile search. How much would they have to pay another mobile platform if they didn't run it? Probably $5+ billion or more since it is bigger, there is still value in the platform. I can't even believe I have to state that. Apple also shows this by what Google has to pay them, platforms are value as they bring in revenue opportunities.

Android OS and devices were shoddy for a long time, but they are immensely better now. Apple does own the high-end market but that won't always be the case and there is value in the market share even if it is less per phone.

> A “bigger effort” doesn’t put money in the bank and DropBox not only has never been profitable, they have repeatedly said that they don’t know when or if they will ever be profitable.

Dropbox is probably in a more precarious situation than Google or Microsoft in terms of storage competition. To compete they probably can't make a profit for a long time and will probably end up getting purchased maybe.

You can simply not deny that Google Drive was first and is mostly winning the storage battle.

OneDrive is rarely used even in enterprise settings even at Microsoft shops. Yes entrenched Office based companies probably use it like they used sub-par Sharepoint.

For storage though, most are in Google Drive or Dropbox. Branding/usage also creates value in marketing and cross over products, obviously more for Google than Dropbox as the latter is boxed in and can only raise prices or push people to business plans.
Anything that can't use mobile GPU (or DSP/TPU for quantized inference) is pretty useless IMO, because it's just not energy efficient enough to be practical in a battery powered device, even if it's fast enough.
It is not just mass. Hollow points are considered to have more stopping power because they mushroom to a greater diameter and impart more energy to the target. A steel round of greater mass can pass through the target with greater ease imparting much less energy.
I've read the article in full. It raises an important point, but it's indeed a laborious read. As I read it, the haunting paragraph from The Elements of Style came to mind:

"Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

- - -

If you enjoy the essay form, I highly recommend the "Essays of E.B. White" (yes, the same White of The Elements of Style). Some of the essays stay with you for a long time.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060932237/essays-of-e-b-wh...
Why should I use a special share button when my browser already displays the URL and my operating system already enables copy/paste?
Directing lasers at foreign military aircraft in international waters vs. directing lasers at local police
But you also want to consider alternatives. If you have something which is only effective for a small percentage of people even though it's really dangerous, that may still be worth it as something to use for people for which existing treatments were ineffective and the remaining alternative is certain death. Saving 15% of those people can be better than none.
When's the last time you went with a whois spamming agency?
Even when Amazon wasn't the largest company on the planet, anyone offering services on AWS had a hell of a time competing on equal footing with AWS offering a similar, if inferior, version of the service. It's not unlike when Microsoft was competing with application vendors... except in the case of open-source you're competing with your own code.
A strict view of equality can actually lead to the law treating people differently due to who they are. Consider a flat fine for speeding: pragmatically, that means that someone living paycheck to paycheck has to obey speed limits whilst a millionaire does not. That is wrong.
Well if we’re averaging, sure. But that’s not what the parent is talking about. Moreover, what you’re describing isn’t a HFT strategy, it’s an investment strategy.
>In the mid-twentieth century, when the economy was composed of oligopolies, the only way to the top was by playing their game. But it's not true now.

It is still true. A FAANG job is the easiest path for a engineer to millionaire status in about 5 - 10 years.

The interview process is eminently hackable.

Or perhaps you want to do a startup, get funding. You build a this for that .com. Do some social media, find a few users who love it. Read pg's advice, pitch deck advice, go to some demo days.

Hack the test. Get funding. The incubators, the vc fiends are themselves, oligopolic. A handful of firms with common expectations. Mmr. Hockey stick user growth. It's the team! Here's your A good chap.

Those are the tests here. But there are other ways to get an A+. You don't have to start a business the way software people start a business. You can do it like the cabinet maker, or the electrician, or the store owner.

You can buy one increasingly easier today because the baby boomers who started than decades ago want to retire. Imagine how you can take that business into the future with the software you can use to automate it.

Business brokers abound. Go talk to one.

Stop thinking go big or go home.

Go talk to a business broker. Go ask about owner absent business options. Residual income and you didn't even have to be there. Use automation to make the employees lives better and more prodictive. And your customers' lives.

Package that software you write into a SaaS and sell it to you competitors. Profit more.

You are your own case study.
No, the universe is expanding. No magic required.
That’s not what I read. They absolutely are trying to stop current criminals. Like this one,

> A high-profile Chinese businessman is on the brink of becoming a social outcast and being banned from his lavish spending habits by the courts if he doesn't pay back $21.5 million debt, even though he is the son a well-known real estate tycoon.

> Wang Sicong, the son of the billionaire owner of AMC Theaters, Wang Jianlin, was last week listed in the national database of the Supreme Court of China of debtors and defaulters with outstanding debt. A failure to pay within the given time will see him join the ranks of “discredited” people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/billionaire-s-son-latest-...
Starting work before I had a written purchase order in hand (or at least a verbal purchase order number with the promise of getting me the written purchase order soon). if you’re working before you get the purchase order there’s no need for them to actually make this a priority. It always eventually turns into a problem. Also having a purchase order shows that everyone in the company is on the same page (between engineering and the finance department).
My bad, probably misread date to data :)
If you are using web of trust in a gpg style then homoglyph attacks are not particularly effective..

If you are using CAs then homoglyph attacks are the simplest of many attacks based on a system of minimal technical compliance.
I have no way of knowing. I’ve never had a job that provides insurance. And I think most jobs do not break out the portion of compensation that pays for health insurance.
Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction
Boston Dynamics would like a word.

But seriously - they are laying the foundations of the platform of mobility that will be built upon to do many things - yet like most things, military comes first.
Ask HN: Why WebRTC media servers are NOT built upon webrtc.org source?
WebRTC's "canonical" implementation is by definition the "right" one because it is directly used in the Chromium browser, which means directly or indirectly, most WebRTC users in the world. So if something else interfaces with it poorly, it's their own problem. Yet, no major WebRTC media server - like Janus, Mediasoup, Wowza, ... - uses it, they build their own implementation, usually kind of lame in some way, either buggy or limited in supported protocols and codecs, or both.

Why? I know every "why don't you just..." styled question always has an answer totally exposing ignorance of one's asking, and yet... Why not build a media server which will use www.webrtc.org code to send and receive streams - and libav* for transcoding and other media-related tasks?

Is there some licensing pitfall there?

Just out of curiosity, i have simulated it by running some javascript to shuffle streams, in Chromium on Xvfb, manipulated by a Node script. It works just fine and totally simulates a well-functional media server. In addition, making a video MCU (Achilles' heel of most WebRTC servers), trivial :D. Obviously, hopelessly inefficient in terms of CPU and (especially) memory consumption, since i'm pulling whole browser along, but what if i just take the webrtc part, right in C++?
If you lived on a planet where there were lots of dumb animals you could eat, and also one not-very-meaty alien species that was 10x more intelligent than you and had machines and weapons, would you try to eat the superintelligent ones? I think they are just too smart to eat humans.
You have a problem, your problem is not me. Have you been drinking?

I said I would not give you an answer without specifics. Instead of accepting that, your response is full of insults[1] that have nothing to do with me, and don't stick to me ~ perhaps you're talking about yourself, there, pal? Do you have anger issues? Self-destructive tendencies? Do you have trouble getting a "no" from people?

Whatever your issue is, it's not my problem and has nothing to do with me. If you're not happy with my response, "Anon", too bad. Your reaction is your responsibility.

Or can't you take responsibility, and do you need to project? Don't try to give your anger to me. It's yours. I give it back to you, and you take it now, and you don't give it back to me.

Yours, pal, all yours. Get it?

[1]: "need to get that chip off your shoulder", "stupid", "complete narcissistic at best", "can't take", "stop programming", "crawl into a hole". <-- hahaha, yeah let's take advice about how to behave from the guy who reacts like this, mwahahahahaha.
"How many people do you know with a Roomba?" None, not even another branded robot hoover. Though I know people who have a cleaner once or twice a week.
What makes you think the world isn't? It hardly ever is the best service or product that wins, but the one that sells best. And that is, to a huge degree, marketing. Maybe crap is to harsh, but not the best products? I certainly would sign that sentiment.
Q:
>You're investing time in the same company you're asking them to invest money in. If it's not a good investment, why are you even doing it?

A: Because you and them don’t have the same circumstances, and thus don’t have the same utility function. You have different values.

The whole (long) thing is a mess of obvious misses. Too bad.
Join forums orientated towards what you do (or better, start your own!) then make friends, socialise, position yourself as 'the expert', give free advice and help (but not too much, obviously) then you'll get clients like that.

It's basically networking but online instead of the 'real world'.
I solve it with a browser extension that redirects AMP to HTML, but that solution might not last forever.

One problem is that Google wants AMP to replace HTML. I've already seen AMP pages in the Google search results (on desktop), and at least one large website so far appears to be built entirely in AMP.[1]

Google already sends desktop users to Wikipedia's mobile site from some of their listings, so I wouldn't be surprised if Google eventually starts to send desktop users to AMP pages. Google benefits when people visit AMP sites, because Google will be able to spoof the domains and serve the content themselves, giving them increased control over publishers.

[1] independent.co.uk, but they removed the CSS that delays page loading.
There's a good chance it was a 'no win, no fee' type lawyer.

They charge extra because they know they don't get paid if they loose. Also, there was a good chance they wouldnt get paid if the recipient of the money took it all overseas, or if the 74 year old died before the issue was resolved.
I recall opening some book in Korean pertaining to linguistics: almost every words had its hanja version in-between parenthesis. This was quite ridiculous: the mixed-script version would have been almost twice shorter, and the content was not understandable without hanja anyway.
Might still be the case. I use 1Password. It’s easy to upload passwords from chrome to 1Password fwiw
What about marketing churn? If people try your product and have a bad experience, maybe they won't try anything else you offer either? It seems like the product at least needs to be somewhat decent?
Basically every CRT tube is a particle accelerator for electrons. Given that these run at 10 kV, of course burns can happen (and states of confusion)...
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No.

UK banking system is 6 digit sort code and like 8 digit acc.

The accounts are IBAN compatible though & it's derived from the above - but I can send money to a friend UK-UK without any IBAN stuff.
When I use the actual second party's public key, the decryption won't work though, so you'd be found out immediately, surely?
Most of the field is moving to PyTorch because of what the author is describing. PyTorch is super nice by all accounts.
> "Build it and they will come" is the dream and misconception of every programmer (...)

Well, the amount of marketing required strongly depends on the quality of and demand for your product.

I built a software product and launched it with very very minimal marketing (I emailed a blogger and published it on a mailing list).

People liked my app so much that I had a 1000 downloads within a few weeks (which I consider decent for a somewhat niche app).

Working on that app has since become my full time job, and I do very minimal marketing.

Maybe I could make more revenue if I focussed more on marketing, but to be honest I'm pretty amazed how well word of mouth advertising works.
Billionaires haven’t earned all they have
How many problems can be solved in a garage with little to no infrastructure?
> Yup, this is a massive trope in the UK. "We need to import more people from wherever, there's a real shortage of software people!"

Following that logic, there must be a massive shortage of CEOs and high-level executives (given their salaries) - let's import them from Romania and significantly lower the costs across the economy!
Nonsense. MBAs believe the money mostly has to be returned to management--who get paid massive salaries and benefits for often mediocre results.
The hacking starts once you learn that building great products isn't the only, or even the best, way to create a successful business.
All the freelancers I know (though only three, including myself) started off taking a job from a company they had worked with previously. Start off doing some moonlighting on a side project, then if it goes well enough to do full time, go for it. I think in all cases it was questionable whether our employment contracts allowed it but nobody's employer seemed to care. Typically you can charge 4x what you were making in salary, and it'll still be less than the company was paying for you earlier.
Can you expand on this? Also, can somebody else provide a counterpoint?
there are no (.. common) reasons to build it yourself, just pip install it
There is also evaporation occurring on the top surface of the gas bubble, and condensation happening on the bottom.

Since there is a small pressure differential, there will be a net upwards movement.

It's a small effect, but it might dominate.
Here're mistakes I didn't make:

- Insisted on payment once contract is done and ignore "could you also do that and then i'll pay you for everything together.

- Did not race to the bottom with developers from poor countries.

- Did not take startup stock/shares/options to sacrifise salary.

- Realized that 5% of customers are responsible for 95% of revenues and prioritize attention to their requirements accordingly.
> The more parameters, the more noise.

Interesting observation.

Do you have more specific references? Those three are so popular it’s hard to narrow to commentary on parameters and noise.
The brain facilitates social grouping and pack hunting. The latter is just about the most effective predatory strategy in nature.