skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or are they hoarding it for a rainy day?

Very much it, that's how "big semi" operated through the years.

R&D offices produce motherlodes worth of research for directors to pick depending on market situation on the moment notice.
https://www.sci-hub.tw/10.1038/nphoton.2011.253

https://www.sait.samsung.com/saithome/mobile/about/press_vie...

https://www.sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.apmt.2019.100541
YouTube Botnet – Hack Your Friend PC and Play YouTube in Background
It's a matter of judgement. I've read code in languages I don't know, even, where I could immediately figure out what was going on without reading any comments. I've also patched libraries in ten minutes without reading comments. It's certainly possible to write code that doesn't need comments, though perhaps, we're not the best people to judge when that's the case or not for our own code.
There's something deeply tragic about the idea that devising new ways to monetise and profit from activity is the definition of becoming more human.

We seem to have created an MBA-inspired nightmare where all social interactions become a meta-game of promotion, monetisation, and profit, and no activity can possibly have an intrinsic value unless it operates inside that context.
"Four" was a typo on my part. I'm definitely not buying anything illegal. Sheesh.

(Honestly, I think a money order would be terrible for this since they're traceable.)
Thank you for taking time to answer this!

I honestly thought that my lack of formal education would be hurdle when learning/working on Distributed Systems.
Don't you agree?

Also, I've always wondered how ML models are deployed in production at scale.
Building a model using libraries in Python seems fine, but how do they distribute and deploy it in Production?
Haha just a few years ahead of its time!

Some of the first bitcoin faucets had captchas to “reduce spam”, as in prevent humans from getting too much free bitcoin, but really the captcha was a real captcha that a bot was stuck on, and was just paying humans to solve them to access some greater bounty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23475071
Motte-and-Bailey (Fallacy)
I agree. 2019 was better. But still not enough, I feel. I got tired of Mercedes winning :).

Because of the COVID, they have pushed some of the needed reforms further out, which is unfortunate (like max $ spend per team, engine specs, reduced sensitivity to the car in front etc.).
There is also some (if limited) utility in having someone on the line doing stuff, watching stuff, and serving as a form of QC. You can hang in the control room watching the latest, greatest SCADA software run things, but it's useful to have some eyes-on as the line runs.
There's absolutely no indication whatsoever on

- who owns this page

- what's their proposal for replacing coal

As such, hard pass.

Yes, coal is bad. Yes, we have to replace it. But, at a minimum, be frank about who you are, and what's your end game. Otherwise we can think this is a hit piece by the competition.
I had a conversation with a scammer claiming to be MSFT support, maybe 5-6 years back. It was clearly a cold call, not based on any PII, so I just toyed along for maybe a half hour until I started getting bored. We talked another 10 minutes or so about life in his city, lack of jobs, using fake tech support as a stepping stone, practicing english, siblings, etc. Seemed like the same familiar monotonous daily grind, just trying to find a path and provide. Maybe that was all an act too, but it felt authentic.
Microsoft tends to use the waffle menu for switching between apps, and many of those apps will have a hamburger menu at various screen sizes. Some of those apps will also have ellipsis menus in various places, and that leads to my favorite of the silly food names for menu icons as these are often called qebab menus, especially the vertical ellipsis which is rare in text but common for menu icons so some people don't even realize they are meant to be ellipses, but they definitely look like a skewer of qebabs.

(ETA: Also yes, it is sort of weird that Microsoft feels a need for three levels of menus: waffle, hamburger, qebab. Though in practice it seems better than the Android apps I've seen with 2+ Hamburger menus. Which one is which? Which one does what? The hierarchy of waffle, hamburger, qebab offers some context.)
One of the largest problems with nuclear, even bigger than the scientific illiteracy about it which facilitates the spread of anti-nuclear hysteria, is the red tape the industry faces. Another problem is the lack of standardization among nuclear facilities. Both could be solved by adopting SMR (small modular reactor) base nuclear. The cores are small enough that in a power-down scenario they can passively cool themselves so there's zero chance of a Fukushima-type primary loop rupture due to the cooling loop power being lost. Also, if facilities are standardized, the cost to install a cluster of ten 150MWe SMRs would cost HALF of what it would cost to install a single 1.5GWe large reactor. Also with standardization we can achieve economies of scale driving the prices down further. For folks who live off the grid or have a fondness for solar cells and wind turbines they can still use those but nuclear fission for the base load can provide more than enough cheap electricity for today and tomorrow -- even a tomorrow where everyone drives an electric car.
Private Labeling with Multitenant FusionAuth
Off-topic, but seeing as we've got gorhill here:

Any plans to update uMatrix so it behaves nicer on mobile? The popup interface resists pinch-to-zoom and the text is so small as to be literally illegible on mobile devices. So I can't read the various domains to decide which ones I want to block or permit!

[uBlock Origin was recently updated to make it more mobile friendly. Although, ironically, out of the two, it was already more usable on mobile as it was possible to zoom and pan round the interface.]
Thanks for replying, and please forgive my pessimistic tone! I’ll have to check out Canva!
Which then begs the question - why are video compression standards developed in the US at all? MPEG is obviously US based but Xiph is also a US nonprofit. The software patents should be hugely crippling the ability for Americans to develop competitive video codecs when every other nation doesn't have such nonsense. Why hasn't Europe invested in and developed better codecs that combine the techniques impossible to mix in the states?

Is it just basically the same mechanism that leads to so much drug development happening in the US despite how backwards its medical system is, because those regressive institutions create profit incentives not available elsewhere (to develop drugs or video codecs for profit) and thus the US already has capitalists throwing money at what could be profitable whereas everyone else would look at it as an investment cost for basically research infrastructure.
I reject the premise of the book. Nearly all jobs are necessary or they wouldn't exist. The exception seems to be government excess and nepotism (these are a tiny minority of jobs). If a business could actually save money by laying people off that aren't doing anything, why don't they? Why don't their conpetitors? What about hiring someone to do nothing is more valuable than keeping that money instead?

"It’s also phenomenological. If you feel your job is bulls---, it probably is.", says the author

I disagree and maintain the view that the clear reason many people feel their jobs are "bullshit" is because they aren't fulfilled by them, because they aren't productive for a full 40 hours every week, and/or the work that they do accomplish goes unrecognized. Those all may very well be true, but it does not follow that those jobs might as well not exist.
You seem to be arguing with someone claiming the virus isn't a bad thing, not me. None of that is relevant to my point.
I'm trying to build a program to optimally schedule time to work on your tasks based on your schedule.

I have a bunch of tasks I have to complete by a certain deadline — these include things like engineering sprint tasks, drafting a design document, completing an assignment, etc. I have to get these tasks done in between my regular schedule of meetings, lunch breaks, and rests. I want to get a program to tell me when I should work on what depending on a task's due date and priority. If something comes up, I want my schedule readjust to accommodate the interruption.
I can confirm that Index Ventures did not apply for a PPP loan at any point. The entry listed is in error, as although it lists us as a business name, it is not our address or correct information about our fund. Our legal team is looking into why our name is listed and look to correct it ASAP.
Did you consider simply asking a local on the street?

From my experience you'll get better information that way, and as an added bonus you get to interact with a real live human being.

I traveled through most of Italy by bus last autumn, with an ancient Nokia phone. As a result I was completely dependent on real humans, which turned out to be a blessing.

The thing is, most people are more than happy to help once they get over the hump of suspecting you for whatever. A friendly smile goes a long way.
Clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe
I am aware of this. India has been a market economy since the 90s. Is almost 30 years not enough for the magic of markets to improve the situation?

Regarding China, "legal status" is irrelevant. Prices in China are set via market mechanisms. That is a market economy, period. Your link boils down to this:

> According to the EU, China subsidizes its industries to a great extent, particularly steel and aluminum, making their sales prices in the international market unfair.

This is essentially saying China is using market mechanisms that the EU does not like.

Moreover, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy#Marke..., "Julan Du and Chenggang Xu analyzed the Chinese model in a 2005 paper to assess whether it represents a type of market socialism or capitalism. They concluded that China's contemporary economic system represents a form of capitalism rather than market socialism...."

Rectified.

In response to your edit: "Currently a majority of North Koreans are dependent on markets for their survival." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangmadang. North Korea is also a market economy.

In what way has the US interfered in South Korea or Japan since 1950? How does that compare to being sanctioned and embargoed by every major Western nation? Would you like to hear about Cuba instead?
> >I am reasonably sure that I have it slightly easier at conferences as a man because women do not hit on me

> Can we acknowledge the fact that most men would be ecstatic to be hit on by a woman or two at a conference? Can we acknowledge that men and women are innately different? That forcing men to change their behavior significantly to accommodate for women in male spaces may in fact place unequal strain on men?

"Male spaces"?! Since when are conferences male spaces, they are a freaking professional space and yes expecting men (and women) to act professionally is exactly what we should do.

> Edit: are we just going to deny the fact that men are biologically driven to reproduce and compete for women? That this is an instinctual urge that we are required to suppress? You don't solve problems by ignoring their sources.

B*ll, to imply that men can't control themselves is just offensive to men. But I guess you're also a proponent that women should wear burkas to protect them from those men that can't control themselves. Funny how those "policies" are always to the detriment of the women, not the men who can't control themselves. So much for unequal strain.
Ask HN: Do other Silicon Valley startups open back their office?
I am currently working at Tellus, a real estate fintech startup in silicon valley. I was wondering how other silicon valley startups will reintroduce employees to an shuttered office environment. With what's going on with COVID-19, i was wondering if your company has a reopening plan for your offices. I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.
This is an experience my parents experience on a regular basis. Unfortunately, my father, who used to be very tech savvy - worked for Control Data for all of his career - is suffering from mild dementia and my mother doesn't know up from down on the computer. My father still loves to sit at his computer putzing around but too often gets sucked into some kind of infomercial / scam. As an additional example, we were recently charged over $1800 of overage fees when my dad kept backing up his entire harddrive to a cloud service not really knowing what he was doing.

It has gotten to the point where they really need me to assist them with all most everything related to managing their computers. Unfortunately I am 1000 miles away so we struggle on the phone to get things sorted out.

What recommendations do people have for being able to remotely manage windows machines. I am on windows 10 and they are still using w7. I'd like to be able to remote into their machine with admin rights so I can manage software, finances, etc.

thanks for any advice.
Yep... dealing with a large US bank right now and fax is the only way to do what I need to do. I made an inquiry at the IRS last year, fax was my only option for submitting some info they needed to fulfill my request. Fax is not dead in the US yet.
8/9 went to law school at Harvard or Yale (the Notorious R.B.G. went to Columbia Law).

For undergrad, 3 went to Princeton, 1 to Columbia (not RBG, interestingly), 1 to Harvard, 1 to Yale, 1 to Cornell, 1 to Stanford, and 1 to Holy Cross.

That's evidence that signaling matters in a law degree, but the larger context of this discussion is of an undergraduate degree and I don't think the signalling is as strong there.
Weird. What genres are your musician friends into? Must just the circles I travel with but in the parts of the techno/house/drum and bass scenes that I’m privy to in the US, UK, and Germany I see less than 5% macs probably and as the hardware has gotten less expandable (soldered ram, soldered ssd) that number has been decreasing further. Odd that we see such drastically different trends in our respective subcultures.
Pylance Is a New Python Language Server for Visual Studio Code
> But I think a lot of developers actually build software that is used by the same people mentioned in the book/article to be more productive at doing their bullshit jobs.

I believe Graeber calls it second-order bs jobs.
> With FR the immediate issue is making many false matches

I don't get it though. False matches seem to be a great thing: it means that facial recognition does not really work well and can't be used to tell who is where. Do you prefer FR that never makes mistakes?
What do you have against him? After having worked at Boeing for 35 years, I would never recommend it to anyone I cared about.
So for me, I get stressed when I have less control over my work / time / etc.

The less you make, the more they tell you exactly what to do, when and how to do it and you lose flexibility. There's no trust.

As I've moved up, I'm largely trusted to know what I'm doing. I can basically set my own hours, do what work I think is impactful and nobody really checks in on me. Some days I accomplish very little and nobody cares, other days, I accomplish a lot.

Bonus points in that I have tons of employee protections (I wouldn't be fired without at least a large severance) and I have so much money saved that I don't need to work for long periods of time. My healthcare is covered and my living finances are less than a quarter of my base salary.
When you say years ahead, are you talking about production “at high scale” or quality of product? Everyone seems to have quantum dot sets now (tcl, vizio, lg, Samsung, Sony “triluminos”) and I don’t see anything earth shattering between the offerings
Agree completely, I remember the books by brothers grimm as a young child. Trolls and goblins and all manner of imaginative creatures used to keep me up at night.
> 2. Social connections with your professors, their graduate students, and their network.

This isn't going to hold for most undergraduates, since you're not going to interact with professors enough unless you're participating in undergraduate research. And getting sufficient attention to get into those programs is probably going to be harder in an online-only environment.
This is ironic, because it's exactly the journalists who are doing what you accuse the VCs of doing. The second they get any criticism whatsoever -- whether it's on Twitter or on Clubhouse -- they immediately play the victim and write pieces like this one that question the nerve of anyone who dares to criticize the media industry. As if they're above it all. Journalism is a for-profit industry just like any other, so why shouldn't they be open to criticism, too?

According to VICE, the "audio chat had spiraled wildly out of control" because what, it was critical of journalists?

Also, notice that none of the tech people in any of these conversations said that tech should be above criticism. They've literally simply said that the media should be accountable, too. Do you disagree?

For decades the media has NOT been accountable. They were the only organizations able to reach the masses directly. Now other people can to, and those people can criticize media coverage without having to go through the media itself, and so you get whiny pieces like this one that hypocritically try to argue that others should be open to criticism but they're assholes for criticizing the media.
I wonder how much Steve Huffman and Sam Altman know.
In the interest of good faith, here's my affirmative. In short, it can be found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations.^0

Articles in particular:

2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion (emphasis mine), national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

10. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

11. (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

29. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

Whether this dialogue can progress further depends on whether we can agree that, despite having no official jurisdiction, a social media mob attacking an individual constitutes being charged with a criminal and penal offense worthy of legal protections as illuminated by the above. If you believe that it not being formal prosecution that such protections don't extend to the accused, then there's no point in progressing further and I reiterate my original post.

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0 https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
One major issue with paper vs digital is that paper scales really, really badly. IIRC (I can't find the article) there was a marked difference between how easy it was to access COVID benefits in Korea (where the process was entirely digital) vs Japan (where you had to show up to an office and fill out paperwork)
Learning Rust will never be as easy as scrolling through social media or playing a video game.

The cognitive effort required to "learn Rust" is much greater than scrolling social media, watching YouTube, etc. and doesn't provide the same reward/stimulation. The brain will always crave the easier sources of dopamine and prefers to be on auto-pilot.

In my opinion having done a few of them, a dopamine detox is likely a waste of time, although disconnecting from electronics can be a nice break if you need/want that.

You will never want to start learning Rust because there's always easier sources of dopamine for your brain to indulge in. The key is starting anyways. Open the Rust docs and start trying. I only require myself to do 10 minutes of coding per day. Usually, after the 10 minutes my brain is already engaged and I continue for multiple hours on that momentum. Occasionally I'm having an off day and can't get myself to focus/engage properly for whatever reason and after the 10 minutes or the one small change I wanted to make is over I stop.

Even just the 10 minutes each day is infinitely more than continuing to do nothing.
1. Victims are evil or citizens of an evil country. They built their wealth exploiting scammer's country.

2. Victims are insured, they will get their money back from their government.
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You know something no one else does?
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> No, because the market is more than happy to pay [...]

Is it? Because Google/YouTube, Amazon/Twitch, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia, Cisco, etc, are all part of AO Media:

* https://aomedia.org/membership/members/

The main major tech player I don't see is Qualcomm.
Yeah, but that's implementation. Top level syntax, an object and dictionary are distinct.
Isn't Simpson's Paradox when something is true of both parts but not of the whole? Wouldn't that make it not apply if the death rate is falling in the Northeast but not in the South?
> "They didn't send any money but both of them said it was incredibly difficult to keep what I'd told them in mind because "what if it really was you needing help?"

Perhaps a pre-established code phrase is a good way to address this. "If I ever need help, I will mention that [memorable vacation] we spent together. If that vacation isn't mentioned explicitly, it's not me."
Alphavantage.jl – Getting Market Data into Julia
Sounds like an r/K selection thing. If you can't afford an Ivy and aren't elegable for assistance, then it may be more worthwhile to do community college and laterally-transfer into a different school.

I knew a dude who did community college in Northern VA (NVCC) and transferred to Cornell. Shaved off a lot of costs, got a scholarship, and walked out with an Ivy League diplo. All of those hills were good for his leg strength, too.
I don't have the Netflix / Disney+ / etc containers to analyze but Youtube has pretty much totally purged mp3 from every video on the site. Billions of watch hours a day of Opus audio there at least.