skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
doubling down is not about increasing focus. It is about increasing risk by making a BIGGER (not smaller) bet on something.

This is in the original meaning in gambling (you are convinced you are right and so double your bet) and elsewhere.

Only in PR land is a cash flow pullback and risk reduction step such as a headcount reduction called a doubling down. It goes to show how pernicious these types of intentional miswordings are.
I am confused. If you used to work in DSP then you know the standard practice involves MATLAB, where the default is double precision. This is also the default datatype in NumPy. Most engineers don't like working in fixed-point unless they have to for other reasons, like moving it onto an FPGA or something.
That's not helpful for the majority of people that actually like where they live. I live in the middle of a city because I like living in the middle of a city, for reasons that have nothing to do with where I work. Most people are not harboring a secret desire to suddenly move to a completely different type of neighborhood for the cheap land if they no longer have to commute.

Being forced to purchase a larger living space because a company decides to go remote is transferring a business cost to the employee. The same goes for being forced to move to a different neighborhood with land that is "plentiful and cheap" because you can't afford to buy a bigger place in your current neighborhood.
Yeah, there is no way this is a sponsored Google effort. Google would never put something like this out in public.

My guess is that if Google finds out about this you’re gonna get shutdown, or maybe even fired (if the claim of being a google employee is actually legitimate).

And google wouldn’t be using sheets and Appsheet, they’d be using their own contract tracing API.

You put Google in the title to get hits. I don’t think google is at all involved with this.
You could argue that without painful consequences for breaches, companies will not care about preventing them from happening.
Aside from /Applications, I'd look through ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Library/{ADOBE_LOOKING_THINGS}, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/, the /Library versions of the last two (and /System/Library if you have SIP disabled), and /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools.
I will fix the internet by making it easier for people to make strong connections with attendees of virtual events! Mozilla Builders team is an exceptional group of people - certain that this program will be amazing
Ask HN: resources for improved writing at work?
I lead a team that needs to communicate with various stakeholders (usually in writing). I've noticed a number of issues in their writing:

1. Too wordy
2. Filled with jargon or "fancy-sounding" words that obscure their meaning
3. A lot of passive voice
4. Poor logic. Not sure if "logic" is the right word but it goes something like this: failing to see the difference between "the platform cannot do X" and "the platform can ONLY do Y".

Has anyone had any success improving the emails, docs, etc of their team? Any tips, links, etc are appreciated.
Exactly, the main app could have been a hello world app, but when the updater for it is created with classic adobe lack of care, and root access, it doesn’t matter.
What’s the benefit of signing the pdf itself rather than the distribution? If there’s a large need for this seems like an easy way to make a bit of money cutting out adobe.
30 Days Metamorphosis Review, Legit or a Scam?
Thank you. Appreciate the info.
What is it about React that state management is such a such a hassle? This is not the case in other frameworks.

Consider iOS for example. Just add fields in App and you're done:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/maintaining_...

Similarly in ASP.NET:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aspnet/75...

Same in JSP:
https://javabeginnerstutorial.com/jsp-tutorial/state-managem...

But in React it is such a huge issue, and there are multiple competing solutions. There must be something wrong with the design of React that is causing this.
I use gmail, so I just use the "Report as spam" option. I'm assuming Google uses that information in some way when calculating spam scores. So if enough people do the same, those emails will just start getting sent to spam automatically for huge amounts of people, and therefore punishing those folks for doing it in the first place. That seems more effective to me.

And I just never really had that big of an issue with spam where I needed to black-hole a specific email address. So for me it just wasn't worth the effort.
Currently in the Spring Open lab and truly loved it so far, the mentors are great and it has been an awesome way to distract ourselves during COVID and working on something cool. It is really cool that Mozilla is conducting this program again in the summer.

Shameless plug of what we have been working on https://twittersourcebot.tech/
> "My problem is the way the US approaches mixed-use continues to be at a 'larger than human' scale."

as much as i love mixed-use, this is a fair criticism. because of escalating land values (and regulatory costs/uncertainties) in cities, everyone wants to hit a home-run and plays it safe as a result by building hulking superblock developments. there are ways to make those developments human-scale, but that costs more throughout the development cycle, and developers don't see enough return for it, since the effects are long-term, and their financial horizons are shorter-term.
How so? I have no problem opening PDF links directly in Safari.
I didn't mention the inputs or outputs, I mentioned a perfect simulation in all biological details. That's the opposite of a black box, you'd be able to freely pause and inspect its behavior. So, I don't see why what you posted is relevant.

As for P-Zombies, there would again be no difference between this brain, and a stranger you pass by on the street. Either of them could be a p-zombie, but we give other humans the benefit of the doubt; the same biology should lead to the same internal experience. Personally, I'm completely unconvinced by the p-zombie concept in general, but that's not relevant either.
It seems like something could be written around useRecoilCallback() to watch/get the current value of an atom outside of a React component. Does that sound right?
Not everybody uses the scheme for some futile security purpose, some sites are just a bit annoying with their outgoing addresses with their non-nefarious communication and the + scheme can be a nice way for rules.
> That depends mostly on whatever method is used to increment the reputation counter. If you disallow the "account" balance to go up from anything other than on-site activities or a one-time transfer, a lot of the abuse cases are mitigated.

You misunderstood me. A "reputation counter" co-opts the word "reputation" to refer e-points, which is something that's entirely different. But the fact that the terminology is misleading doesn't mean e-points have any actual relation to reputation, properly understood.

E-points are a broken system that you get when you try cheaply quantify something that is nearly unquantifiable (hammer, meet screw). Calling e-points "reputation" is what you do when you want to pretend your system does something it actually doesn't, or when you're too confused to know the difference.
I don't agree that the essence is not wrong, but I can imagine a decent argument for that position predicated on considering Phlogiston as chemical energy. Some substances can easily release energy through oxidation, others not so much.
It's simple.

There needed to be an outside force to push large scale testing of remote to convince people to try it. That's the pandemic. It wasn't going to happen on large scale without it.

Now that it's been proven in many fields to be viable, it's got a much higher likelihood of sticking than before.
Ask HN: How do you get support from Google?
My wife lost her phone, doesn't remember Google (Fi customer) password.

Can't use find my phone because no password.

Can't use backup phone because no password.

Can't recover password because no phone.

I realize the first response will probably be something about how it's not Google's fault and my wife should've remembered her password.

But I'm done with that excuse. We pay Google for phone service, it's not a free account.

Also, any recommendations on where to spend $50k month in ads? Looking for somewhere besides Google, Microsoft, or Facebook.
ATI came out with CTM, which was just an assembler. CUDA was released a month or so after that. It was a full C compiler and already had a pretty large set of examples and library functions.

I downloaded CUDA about the day it was released, and used it for real some months later when I bought a 8600 GT GPU.

To call CUDA a response to CTM is too much praise for Nvidia, because it suggests that their response included cobbling a compiler and SDK in just a month. :-)
The Hyundai Ioniq is a similarly shaped EV as the Model 3, and it gets very similar numbers - 133 MPGe (Ioniq) versus 141 MPGe for the best version of the Model 3 Standard Range

The Ioniq has substantially less range than the Model 3, and is a much smaller car. If the Model 3 still gets slightly better MPGe despite those differences, I'd say Tesla still has a pretty significant efficiency advantage in this comparison.
150 years is blink of a second in the order of history. Think about how long feudalism has lasted and how long it took bourgeoisie to eliminate the ruling class.

Also, it's debatable if Russian Revolution was a communist revolution per se. There is sufficient literature that goes both ways, i.e. arguing it was more of a bourgeoisie revolution against the monarchy than a proletarian revolution.

Of course, Marx himself predicted (which is not a prediction of his theory) that a communist revolution will happen in his lifetime. It might be him overfitting to his own era which saw successive revolutions. I personally don't find this a big deal since it doesn't have any important implication to materialism. It just makes Marx's prediction wrong.

For an updated/modern view on Marxism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory
A List of Free Networking courses that offer free certification
Just the title had me thinking of the Foundation series.
I have to concur. The spam I'm getting only comes to aliases I published on some public-facing site. So I get a lot of spam for fb@, and hn_work@ (used in "Who wants to be hired?" posts), but surprisingly not hn@ (which is in my profile) or hello@ (used on my website). I don't think I got spam for any alias I used only to register an account with some vendor.
Many people don't want to live in the sticks, they have a preference for where they already live.
Yes, and that is also lower now than it was in 2000!
So if you lived in that Ohio suburb, your code quality would be reduced vs living in California?
This could just mean they aren’t developing lidar further. Because there is no retraining culture it’s difficult to tell.
Qubes isn't designed to run in a VM, but it can.
Scale is not a prerequisite, but you do have to sell it to your company. If not a greenfield, porting a codebase over is not easy, and you have to do your organizational excellence homework too. Monorepo, well reviewed code, team not in permanent crunch, high-quality tooling culture.

Just like Kubernetes, Bazel is not a silver bullet. But if you get all your ducks in a row, switching over is a gamechanger and will help you out even at the smallest scale.
FAANGs had more than two years to prepare between the voting of GDPR (april 2016) and its implementation date (may 2018)
I've been making a iOS app which makes iOS apps. You can live preview your app instantly, and it integrates with git. (Right now, the git feature is only on the Testflight version, not the store version). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-maker-build-native-apps/id...
Do you really think you're escaping "monoculture" by moving to Ohio?
Awesome project, I love it! If haven't seen it yet, Google has some hand-picked highlights of places with stunning aerial pictures: https://earthview.withgoogle.com/. Some high-level info here: https://www.blog.google/products/earth/most-stunning-images-...

EDIT: I read the readme and of course you mentioned Earth View :). Leaving the links for other people who might be interested.
I wonder if this is a hint at the true inflation rate to come. I pay $60 on average on a food delivery app for lunch for two people in the bay area, which already seems higher than what I paid pre-pandemic.
Just performance limitations. The two implementations should be identical otherwise.

What would numbered pages look like?
"we are just handing over all our data to you?" that is in fact the requirement as outlined by the State of Washington Governor's office (Jay Inslee), document here:https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/COVID19Phase... - we made no assumptions about "what org is responsible for handling this data" and instead designed a "data roach motel". It does remain to be seen who would access the data in the event that the state of washington needed to "contact a bunch of restaurant patrons informing them of exposure". This app does not attempt to solve for that, in fact.

"but couldn’t be bothered to put the information onto the actual public web" - that's a fair comment. We are approaching this in stages. I also have a bunch of restaurant contacts as well as technology contacts, and wanted a kind of "soft release".

And if we had gone ahead and created a "proper website" we would get dinged for having gone too far too quickly, before a proper peer review. This approach seems like a good compromise in terms of sharing info but not being "too proper, too soon". Again, I do appreciate this feedback. Keep it coming.
Without the upper class buying the "expensive toys" there wouldn't be a tesla at all or electric cars this faar advanced. So maybe think about that before shitting and saying its toys. It's an electric car.
You want to join Uber because you think Bazel is cool tech?

Having spent the last few weeks of my life converting our build system to Bazel I guarantee you it's far from what I would consider cool. It's more of a necessary evil because the alternatives are even worse.
Cathay Innovation raises $550M for its second global VC fund
Which languages are you thinking of? I just checked Haskell and Python, and they both give 1 for both integer and floating-point exponentiation.
Reddit used to truly feel like the front page of the internet. My siblings would never send me cool things because I had probably already seen it. More often than not, they were right. Now, that's not the case.
> Isn't dialectical materialism an attempt at finding laws of history?

Perhaps. Or perhaps it was an attempt at making up a basis for Marx's already-decided-upon agenda.

> Dialectical materialism (while not infallible) is not derailed by genocides and totalitarianism but rather predicts such events...

Does it predicts the genocides and totalitarianism produced by communism? Somehow I doubt it, but I am open to correction.

And, I wonder what evidence would make you decide that dialectic materialism was in fact a failed idea - not just "not infallible", but "mostly wrong". Between the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and the fall of (real) communism in China[1], the dialectic materialist view of history is looking (at least to me) like a fairy tale.

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[1] I can't imagine Marx regarding "to get rich is glorious" as having any place in a genuinely communist society.
>Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team.

Self driving will be solved with computer vision. Lidar is an unnecessary technology even for full level 5 autonomy. Most self driving companies have come to this conclusion by now.
Nice. Also a Bear fan. I've actually tried your Graphviz code before! I just wish there was an opensource Zettelkasten-ish platform like Bear that I can customize to by extra nerdy preferences.
TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
My comment was not about this particular instance. In general, installing decades old C++ programs is asking for trouble. C++ language, unlike Rust, Java and .NET applications tend to contain memory related bugs, and that is inherent in C/C++ language.
DigitalOcean raises $50M more from Access Industries and A16Z
>Stronger assumptions at compile time allows for higher quality code

this depends very heavily on your definition of higher quality code. I really hate this new trend in language discussions of declaring subjective benefits to be objective.

Stronger compile-time assumptions, by definition, reduce the scope of runtime dynamism, which, for many people is an important feature of say dynamic languages.

Stronger assumptions at compile time are part of a trend of attempting to verify programs formally ahead of time, which is not the only way to produce robust software, but seems to be increasingly treated as such.
I have been improving https://passportlist.co/ a detailed list of visa-free, visa on arrival, and visa required countries you can visit depending on your passport strength. Get latest visa requirements and document checklist for different countries

You will be able to find here visa data for over 200 passports, visa requirements, and document checklist for different countries easily.
I read an article a few years ago that compared the trading performance of various strategies. The number one performer was the "dead people" strategy, which happens when a person dies and his portfolio cannot be traded while the inheritance issues are sorted out. Next best is the broad index fund, and dead last was the average investor.

Edit: Found the article!

https://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performe...
> But numpy can be ported. So can pytorch.

Letting AMD or Intel port themselves everything that has been developed in CUDA like it was done for Pytorch is not substainable and will always lag behind.

It can only help to create a monopoly on the long term.
> This tech negativity seems out of place on HN.

Why? Cynicism tends to make the source look smart. And the HN comments section is mostly filled with people (me included) trying to look smart.

While it's possible to stick to commenting only on topics we know a lot about, that's not the most efficient way to farm karma. The best way is to take a big cynical dump on whatever new thing people are trying to do. And under no circumstances should we show optimism - we won't look smart if we do.

Here are two comments from this thread. Ask yourself, which person seems smarter.

1. "I wish my company was at the scale of Uber to work on all these kinds of tech. Makes me want to leave my current job just to go to Uber."

2. "This will surely bring them to profitability. Exactly the innovation the food delivery space was looking for."
Is there no difference between conjecture about yet to happen future events and promoting false claims about the past?
> You put Google in the title to get hits.

Not hits. Eyeballs for review.

This project attempts to address a critical need in very short time, and constructive feedback might help it succeed.
Curious why you think so?

I've encountered PDF's that simply don't work in Preview by design -- as far as I've been able to figure out, Preview won't run JavaScript embedded in PDF's for instance.

But all my experiences with filling out forms, makring up annotations, and all that jazz has been totally on par with Acrobat Reader. The same tools are present and all seem to work generally the same way.

What specifically have you run into that is poor in Preview?
I created this app for my daughter to help her get better at math. It's still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share it here to get some initial feedback. https://tafels.app

Source code:
https://github.com/vnglst/tafels.app
I don't think it's quite that simple. Ignoring the fact that I'm not in the EU, the company would also have to have some sort of presence in the EU for that to have any effect. And then which company do I send it to? The original one? Or the one they shared my address with and is now spamming me? Presumably the latter, since they are the one sending the spam. But if the initial company shared my email address with that company, they probably shared it with a lot of others, too. And what are the chances someone who has resorted to these sorts of tactics is going to care anyway?
Thanks very much for the kind words! I wasn't sure if others would find the technical details of this topic interesting (it's my first foray into GIS work), but it sounds like they would, so consider a blog post in the works.
Somewhat true.

My favorite: "We adhere to the highest ethical principles" - as they give you a 500 page ethics doc that no one reads or follows.

But I've actually found it's a good / reliable tell. You just stay away from companies like this that can't talk straight and you end up a LOT happier. I don't mean they need to be nice - but just clear relatively honest normal English language communication.

ie, "we're cutting back to reduce our burn rate." vs "we are doubling down on engineering talent." Some PR people actually get it I think and can basically be honest while adding some things you may not have thought of. Not in this case though!
Society already sends girls the message that their greatest asset is their looks, and their value in society is their ability to attract a man. That beautiful women don't have to work hard to make money or succeed in society isn't exactly a revelation to anyone.

Society already also sends boys the message that their greatest value lies in their sexual exploits, and that as long as they have money and power and are aggressive enough, sex with beautiful women is their just and deserved reward.

Both of these signals are primarily sent through popular media, and their purpose is to reinforce outdated notions of both masculinity and femininity, and superficial and exploitative ideals of relationships and sex which lend themselves more readily to consumerism and commercial exploitation.

None of this is in any way new.
I was talking about other accounts than yours. You're fine.
Nobody claimed they were, you introduced those words.
It's not at all uncommon for companies to simultaneously perform layoffs while actively hiring.
Yea totally. The FUSE support is already very close to being elexactly that. We’ve been using it internally during our beta as an in office P2P dropbox using the mounts feature
A cheaper way for him to get started is to use his Super Serial Card with ADTPro (https://adtpro.com). ADTPro can be bootstrapped onto the Apple using just a null modem cable ($5-10) connected to his PC and a couple of console commands. ADTPro can then transfer disk images from the PC and write them to floppy disks. Even if he also has to buy a USB serial adapter ($10) and floppy disks, it will be cheaper than buying a SD floppy emulator like the BMOW FloppyEMU ($109+).
I am part of a product team at Google called AppSheet. AppSheet.com was a Google acquisition in Jan 2020. I received approval to post this via social media and then I did so. You may be correct that this project and idea never sees the light of "production" day. We didn't and don't need the hits. We were trying to solve a particularly tricky problem. Thanks again for the feedback.
This is also somewhat of a self-correcting problem too. If these conversations really matter so much and either information isn't transmitted efficiently throughout the organization or it becomes a remote vs office clique thing, management either finds a solution or you probably go back to everyone in the office.

What I do know is that a lot of businesses are functioning perfectly fine 100% remote right now and there's a lot of fat that can be cut converting to full-time remote. Those benefits are likely going to outweigh "But what if Timmy gets left out of a conversation?!?!" If 100% or majority remote work becomes a competitive advantage, businesses will find a way to fix the communication gap.
Have to admit again, Huang is an amazing salesman