skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were forced to sell a billion dollars worth of stock at half their previous valuation. And if they don’t succeed then they have to pay back a billion dollars at 10% interest.

So yeah I get they get to keep people and that’s good. But they were forced into making a bad deal. They’ve taken on 16% of their total raise to date and did it at half value. Someone got a potential 2 for 1.
Rabbis Urge Jews, Torn Between Tradition and Tech, to Not Gather for Passover
Google quit. Google always quits. Google is terrible at products. It's simple.

I enjoy reading a detailed analysis of a product's failure, but at the same time, lets remember that Google's leadership tends to fail the same way, over and over again.

I assume that Google is trying to follow a "fail fast" philosophy, so if a product does not do well in a set time frame, it is shut down. That is a great strategy for conserving capital. But it does mean that Google won't get into some markets, because other players are simply more patient, and are willing to stay in longer and get through the rough phase.
I've been reading about how feral hogs are rapidly spreading across the US and Canada. Might wolves help curtail their expansion?
The CEO of Roku said in an interview on a podcast that their goal is to keep the build of materials needed to run the software under $25 for the TV manufacturers.
Why does this need to be decentralized? There are plenty of ways to do this without any of the huge costs of decentralization.
(Most of) the source was distributed with the operating system binaries, as microfiche.

I spent a few days peering at an old 'fiche reader figuring out how VMS stored user-defined account text in the process control block. We were doing chargeback you see...

The fun bit was the explanation of how a VAX booted VMS. The Cheshire cat was the mascot: the CPU was set up to have real and virtual addresses line up, then the VM bit was turned on, and...presto, no cat.
6 days a week working 9am to 9pm? When do they go to the grocery store or even have time to spend at home?
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In WA, the state manages wolves in the eastern part of the state, and the feds manage the wolves in the western part.

The gray wolf population has been growing every year in eastern Washington, so culling is required to limit predation of livestock and decimation of other game animals.

I always suggest the state should capture the problematic gray wolves and re-home them in the western part of the state. Plenty of room in the western foothills of the Cascade mountains or on the Olympic peninsula for more wolves. It never seems to happen though.

So it may be inferred that west-side Washingtonians (the liberal/progressive parts of the state) are not really interested in saving wolves if it causes themselves any economic or personal hardship.
No questions, just THANK YOU for this effort and for making it public.

We use it here to help expand people's minds, shifting their thinking from just writing applications to designing for large-scale HA systems, with all the fun pitfalls that lurk in a cloud.
As a fun fact, although weekdays are named after Roman gods in Romance languages, Portuguese is a notable exception. It uses a literal translation from the ecclesiastic Latin weekdays, which refers to the days when God worked in creating the world: Monday is "Segunda-feira" (second workday), Tuesday is "Terça-feira" (third workday), and so on.

The weekends had already received Judaic/Christian names, therefore weren't changed and are quite similar to the other Romance languages: Saturday is "Sábado" (derived from Sabbath) and Sunday is "Domingo" (Dominicus, Lord's day in Latin).

Also, early in the Catholic tradition, Sunday the first workday and only Saturday was reserved for religious activities. For this reason, in Portuguese, the week starts in the "second" day.
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This is US only: I think that's an important distinction to make.
> "nowhere near enough money" ... "need to sell ads" ... "still costs money" ... "lost a little money"

This is their choice of price point. They could move their price point and make that not the case. Why bother losing a little money on each player -- they're making the best product out there.

What we're seeing here is a bunch of MBAs trying to squeeze the last tiny bits of profit out of the player to take advantage of their position as the market leader.
i think still in the ballpark for an Atom, 8GB RAM, 128GB mSATA config. could not find exactly that model, but this one's close:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32740319382.html

anyways, the price difference is not terribly relevant at this pricepoint for a qty of 1 upgraded every 5-10 years.
Maybe give it a shot this weekend. It's Easter, too.
I assume that was meant to be a conditional, and if so, the answer would be an unprovable counterfactual.
Try this on windows 10: windows + shift + S
Depends on Waymo or Zoox. If they have a widespread launch this year, then AV push will carry on no matter what.

Otherwise, we might possibly approach the trough of disillusionment.
And for 99.99% of people the normal banking system is a better solution
I’d like to try it but why force users to login with either gmail or Microsoft? What’s wrong with a plain old username/any other email provider and password?
There's a time and place for things to be said. In this case: Before he died, and to him only.
You might argue that the Google SRE books are part of a recruiting strategy, and the GCP service creates a massive need to recruit more SRE.
- Project managers who were "on the team's side", at least so far as the team could tell.

This. I've found this so imporant in my time. As far as I'm concerned, if a manager can't keep their own team on side, they might as well not bother. When the manager is popular and people unite around them in times of stress, then everything will work so much better. From there camaraderie and esprit de corps naturally starts to follow, especially if the product manager personally hired many of the members of the team and starts to build a tradition.

If I were to add something to your list it would be accountability, but not blame. If somebody does something wrong, both engineering wise but also in soft skills, its important that figures of authority take the time to both explain where the person went wrong with a view to trying to understand why the person made the mistake, but also visibly put into effect processes for the future to prevent this kind of thing, either by adding it to the onboarding training or with some kind of code review or even just make sure everyone in the team knows a key piece of information that person may have missed.
This was always going to happen, unfortunately.

The DNC hasn't changed in four years, and they opposed Bernie this time just like last time. He's not their preferred candidate. It's even mostly the same people.

They're instead pushing Biden, who despite Bernie's statement may simply not be electable. So, we may well end up with Trump being re-elected because the Democrats don't care... him being re-elected means it's that much easier for them to shoehorn their candidate into the office in 2024. They don't care about the damage that will be done in the meantime.

So, because both parties in our system won't change and won't allow any change to the system because it would threaten their choke hold. They'll pretty much maintain this situation until the country burns unless they're forced to change.

So... unless people want to just put up with four more years of slow death, I think the only possibility for progress is for the States to decide to change things.
Hi, I think there could be some synergies between what I'm working on and what you are doing. Couldn't find a way to contact you other than Twitter or LinkedIn, if you want to have a talk my email is in my profile :)
Wave's problem was even more fundamental than I think the article is getting at. Wave was, as an end-user facing product, far too amorphous. It could be used for email, for documents, for chat, and for just about anything else via bots.

The UI and features allowed for all of these things, but guided you on none of them. There were no first-class workflows for any of the possible use cases.

No, I don't want a conversation to spring up anywhere in the middle of a document. I want the workflows and UI for edits, suggestions, and comments to be distinct and guide me and all of my collaborators towards clear and efficient ways of accomplishing my goals. With Wave we had to invent our own conventions for each task. That's why everyone shrugged and left.

Wave as an enabling technology and platform for apps would have been great though. Make it easy to repackage the basic features in a tailored UI for chat, email, docs, etc... Maybe even leave in the general interface to allow for hybrid apps, universal inbox, etc. At least the specific apps would have avoided confusion on what Wave is actually for.
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Good catch, I missed Trax! Trax is a configuration-driven neural network framework focused on sequence model research, as a successor to Tensor2Tensor.

Comparisons are hard in general and I don't have a good answer for you right now, but keep in mind most of these libraries are from researchers openly sharing the codebases they develop for their own work. We see the role of JAX as analogous to NumPy, that is, a common substrate on which folks can build these sorts of tools.
in psychology there was a time period between ca 1900 to the mid century where behaviourism rose in prominence, which was the paradigm, simplified, that internal processes of the mind are not really interesting, and what matters is rather only the relationship between input and output, treating the mind as a black box of sorts (roughly analog to ML models).

This came under heavy attack during what is called the cognitive revolution, which put focus on understanding mental processes at a structural level (for the reasons outlined in the post above).

Economics went through a similar process. Up until the 70s Keynesianism was very dominant, which mostly focusses on using aggregate economic quantified data, i.e output, unemployment, capital and so on to make policy suggestions. This began to be attacked and supplemented with what's called 'micro-foundations', which aimed to not just look at quantified data, but to model, from the individual up, not just top-down, fundamental behaviour and interaction, i.e the actual entities that generate the aggregate data.

There was also a similar movement to this in linguistics starting (mostly) with Chomsky at about the same time applying the same criticism to how we model language.
The US is no white knight. But it is not doing anything close to what the CCP does on a regular basis. When was the last time a Trump protestor or Obama protestor disappeared and was never heard from again? Or disappeared and show up again months later, 30 lbs lighter and apologetic about how wrong they were about the government?
The supply of developers is not going to outstrip demand for quite some time, especially as automation continues to eat low-skill jobs.
You mean the same program that also "infiltrated" (I guess you take those companies at their word that they weren't cooperating) every other tech giant? Again, that's why I asked "Compared to what?" What is your favorite tech company, uninfiltrated by the NSA while also serving billions of users, whose SRE books would be more worthwhile?
I tried to install your app but it is 10.15 only. Seems like a nice idea, good luck with it.
I'm smart enough and I didn't know he was the cocreater of tcp/ip. I also get him confused with Tim Berners Lee, as they are both referred to as the father of <2 different things that are use somewhat interchangeably>.
It seems [Edie Freedman](https://www.itworld.com/article/2708642/history-of-the-o-rei...) chooses the animal based on the description from the authors:

> I ask the authors to supply me with a description of the topic of the book. What I am looking for is adjectives that really give me an idea of the "personality" of the topic.... Sometimes it is based on no more than what the title sounds like. (COFF, for example, sounded like a walrus noise to me.) Sometimes it is very much linked to the name of the book or software. (For example, vi, the "Visual Editor," suggested some beast with huge eyes).

My guess is the animals of the series is kind of decided by the first animal. Several Kubernetes (operators)/Cloud-native books are with birds on front page.
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The problem with this flu specifically is that it is much more virulent and more dangerous than the regular flu.

However unlike the annual flu it does not appear to be changing super dramatically so until shown otherwise eventual herd immunity will drastically reduce the effective virulence.

Obviously a vaccine would be a great thing to have, but there is nothing at all to indicate that this is going to be an annual or seasonal outbreak going forward.
Google made the right call with Wave, finally. The better call would have been to not release it.
> Every time we've gone to GCP support, we've been unhappy with excessive back-and-forth

Exactly this! I love GCP (especially firebase functions), inspite of these service disruptions. But, I can't deal with GCP support. They are unbelievably incompetent and have no understanding of the problem or solution. I feel like paying for support only to waste my time - explaining my problem to them with no hope for a solution.
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Perhaps best not to use this word at all to describe what someone is doing since it has such an extreme alternate meaning?
Perhaps Amazon should look inward and focus on its image a little more and perhaps people would be a little less cynical.
Most of it is in German. so i had to read subtitles. there is an English version, but (at least for now), it's not free. (I'm not complaining, I'm letting you all know)

It was mostly about the man, and less about his work. i would've preferred the reverse. of course, it's on the label...

I liked it, but i didn't love it. I'm gonna watch it again on a PC (instead of Chromecasting to my TV, and maybe in English) and screenshot the products that caught my eye.

There are other docus about him, too.
Funny, in Croatian Sunday is "Nedjelja" which literally translates to "Noworkday". I don't think Yugoslav communists ever tried to rename it :-)
My laptop does not have enough disk space to check out my repository.

Also, security policies. But I like the first reason more.

Then again, my laptop won't run friggin mosh, because of security policies.
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No, and I cannot fathom why you would believe that could be implied by my response.

Lots of people are reading things I didn't write. I merely asserted that there exist people for whom Spravato/esketamine is not the answer and related my own experience with having someone very close to me treated with it. That's it. Every other random implication is from someone reading things that I didn't write.

And it's sad, because esketamine really looked like a good treatment at first. It made real improvements for a while. As you might imagine, it was discontinued immediately after that incident.
10 questions' animated form just to learn there is no free tier nor free trial? not too cool.
Yes, Gmail FAILED Android FAILED
Chrome FAILED. Let's not forget the elephant in the room SEARCH also FAILED.

Also saving capital but a 10yr bet on self driving cars.
My favorite post-mortem failure mode of Wave was that people were not actually leaving chat trails behind for future searching.

As people were typing, the other people could see the response in real time and would begin typing a response, the first person would see a response was being typed, delete their message and start typing a response ad nauseam.
Google Docs already existed. They overhauled the real-time collaboration system to be based on Wave's, but that's about it.
This was interesting:

"When the Maps project was completed, Lars and Jens moved on to develop a product dubbed “Walkabout.” Their ultimate goal was to answer a number of questions about how people communicated online:

Why are there divisions between email, chat, and document-based communication?"

That very first question they asked, they didn't get a good answer? Maybe that's why it failed?

I feel like there are very good reasons there are divisions between all those things. Those are all different things, and I use them all in very different situations, and those divisions are a good thing, and there's no reason I'd want one thing to do that.

I remember when they launched this, the technology seemed amazing, but I couldn't think of any reason I'd use it.
Management of gray wolves in the State of Washington - we have been at it while.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-recover...
I just don't think the cost/benefit is there. These people would take more training (more time of "more skilled" engineers"). They already have way too many competent applicants for the "more skilled" internships.
One of my favorite aspects of Hacker News is how many people get really miffed when one criticizes the alt-right ideology, but are cowardly enough to not argue the points.
it doesn't matter what it literally stands for. (actually, it does matter but not in the way you think because it is a diversion really.)

there are more than enough math ph.d.s, and i can tell you that as a person who has advanced degrees in mathematics, interviewing for "STEM" jobs will generally get you nowhere without also having taught yourself computer science and programming (in the way that the company wants). most people do not care about the skill set, much less understand it. people just want software engineers and/or data scientists, and they do not want to train. people would generally rather hire a new grad who just came out of machine learning and algorithms courses than someone with advanced mathematics degrees (which creates a much higher ceiling that's ignored) and even experience.

so like i said, STEM is just a way to get more software engineers trained outside of companies before they hire them.
Any plans to make a web version of it? Or maybe API/SDK or ZAP to upload img/video? The main problem with current tools like Loom or Cloud app is ability to work on Linux.
Wikipedia pages don't date from that era.
Sandstorm.io community members host weekly meetings on Jitsi and have for a few months. It's not perfect, but it works and it's open source, and that's great. I will say the audio on a computer is a bit hit and miss, I often opt to dial in with my phone instead, which works pretty solidly.

A really nice perk is that you can have your room name URL, and the dial in number is the same for that URL, so if you reuse the same "room", you can just know the meeting ID and all, which I haven't really seen from other solutions.
One Team at Uber Is Moving from Microservices to Macroservices
I should have mentioned that. How is that project going? I wrote the first physics engine 10 years ago.
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People started hoarding out of hysteria. Which creates shortages for no reason. Which drives the prices up for no reason. Which benefits and encourages hoarding. Which encourages yet more hoarding out of speculation.

Which means resources needed at this instant are instead sitting idle, at best awaiting higher prices at some arbitrary future date. And earnings, rather than going to producers, are wasted on pointlessly destructive arbitrage. So in crisis, the market has led us into a soviet style toilet paper shortages for no reason. Not to mention far more important critical supplies.
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Did you note that the example signature is a phallicism?

More of these in "Signature_example.pdf".

In my opinion, this is a bit childish. But on the other hand, the whole scan-and-sign procedure is also a bit childish if you ask me.
I think it was a bit of a wry joke
People in underpaid jobs in my country have a similar saying that translates roughly to: "I can always work less than you pay me".
I've always hated how as soon as someone dies, people pretend that they never did anything wrong. And if anyone dares to bring up the bad things they did then that person usually gets strongly criticized and told to be more compassionate or whatever. I definitely think people should be polite about their grievances ofc, but ignoring the bad stuff a person did throughout their life is more damaging than acknowledging it.

Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood, herself a survivor of rape and sexual abuse, got a lot of shit recently for her tweet about the late Koby Bryant for example.

"What has happened is tragic. I am heartbroken for Kobe’s family. He was a sports hero. He was also a rapist. And all of these truths can exist simultaneously"

Context about the case for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_cas...
Thanks! Been viewing presentations over at pirsa.org about LIGO and other experiments that requires high accuracy, and it's just jaw dropping the extremes one has to go through to eliminate the various noise sources. Highly impressive work, that's for sure!

Speaking of, do you have a link to share of a recorded presentation about this or one of the previous experiments?
> even most of the Python books don't have pythons!

Well, that actually makes sense since Python derives its name from Monty Python and not the reptile.
Also see: http://enwp.org/Code_of_Ur-Nammu
Yes, Michelle Obama.
So, most sales use cases are for moving data into or out of a CRM, where the APIs are awkward or don't exist (e.g. LinkedIn -> HubSpot, SalesForce -> Sales Loft).

In your case, you could create a template for your emails and hangout invites, mail merge style. In addition to sending the hangout invite, you could trigger another action in your CRM.

I'm speculating as an example, it really depends on what particular processes you have that are repetitive.
Don't forget Neural Tangents, a high level library for building and running experiments with infinite width neural networks: https://github.com/google/neural-tangents
Firefox has supported stereo opus for a very long time (four years at least?). We know it works, it's used by medical professionals for their job and they wrote a message a few month thanking us for this feature, that doesn't seem to work on other browser (according to them, but I see tickets open on chromium).

Of course all the chain has to be stereo, that goes without saying: input signal is stereo, negotiation has been done in stereo, having enough bandwidth is important (otherwise opus goes mono), and then playback has to be on stereo hardware (but that's the easy part).
> If I report harmful content on Twitter or Facebook or Google, we need a system that ensures I receive a non-automated, competent response

That seems extremely prone to being DOS-ed by bots or a brigade of complaint-heavy users.
Japanese chemistry professor shows kinds of masks effective against the virus
I guess it depends on how long-term your goals really are.
A visiting engineer from Japan was asked "What do you do on the weekend at home?" He replied "What weekend? A week at home is Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Friday-Friday"
Ah, thanks for the update. Glad they're using such a secure, unhackable technique /s
Perhaps they're more likely to have traditional family roles? Leaving aside extended families, I'd find it hard to imagine that a nuclear family unit could sustain both adults working a schedule like that.
Looking at the authors, this book would be more about security, rather than reliability.
Please share your grep binary that allows me to search countless hours of boring video for actionable content.
Yes, but there are hacks to get that back: I have been using https://ipmeta.io/ with success.