skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the definition of high-skill.

High-skill as in "you need to know lotsa stuff", yes.

High-skills as in "the skills are rare, and require a special degree or years or training", no.

They're not that rare (there's an overabundance of both skilled and non-skilled photographers), and they're not that hard to pick up (to the point that 18 year olds can know all there is to it with a little determination and practice).

Or let's just say that "high skill" is relative, and being a pro photographer is hardly like being a pro coder or a surgeon...
Brazilian government actually wanted to do it recently, require companies such as Facebook to require that you submit your ID and that you link a phone number to your account. [1] It sure makes things easier for the authorities, since they are also dealing with fake news and hate speech. However, it goes against the LGPD (like a Brazilian version of the GDPR). And it is hard to trust a company such as Facebook to keep data such as your ID. How can you be sure if they're keeping this data safe? How can you be sure they won't sell it?

[1] https://www.uol.com.br/tilt/noticias/redacao/2020/06/24/face... (in Portuguese)
Which non-tech industries are most underserved by technology?
What problems do they face? How can tech solve those problems?

It would be great if you could provide examples of philanthropic industries

For example I would like to help Doctors Without Borders but I don't understand what problems they face and how can tech be used to solve their problems
Had a quick look at the BIOS install blog post. It's recommending grub as a bootloader, so dual booting should work as long as you don't mess up in partitioning and accidentally delete or overwrite your other OS.
Anzee. Build integrations so you could have a Mailchimp-anzee setup. If it's a company you're starting, think about the headlines: "Mailchimp-anzee merger".

Option 2:

"Howler". Since it blasts campaigns, campaigns are "howls" instead of "campaigns".

Also: Howler is a monkey that lives in the Amazon. Since you mentioned Amazon Web Services integration. It's a twist on mailchimp and AWS.

If we want to be a bit douchey, we could drop some letters to get Howlr or Hwlr.

Option 3:

"Hermes", who is the "the herald of the gods, as well as the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves,[1] merchants, and orators."

Your users are the gods. The fact it sends messages for a fraction of the cost plays on merchants/thieves/travellers having a tight relation with money.

If not Hermes, then "Augur". Again, douchey: "Augr" or "Ogur".

Option 4:

"Colporteur" or "Colport": A colporteur is a peddler. A seller who goes around small villages or isolated places[your software reaches even the most isolated people] and screams to villagers or a place's inhabitants what's to sell/buy. Typically, the inhabitants, hearing the colporter's cries will go down and haggle/trade, buy or sell. These "screams" have a certain "rythm" and aren't disagreeable, which you can use as a metaphor for a "campaign" in your software.

Also known as a "Hawker", apparently from the Wikipedia entry.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Just like people still like to go to live concerts I think that people will still like real live models. And knowing that a real live model has a limited life span will make them way more interesting while in their prime. Besides, what makes a person quite interesting many times is not necessarily only how they look but how they live their lives.

I do agree that AI models may/can become huge. But there will still be plenty of room for human ones.

It almost feels that if AI models became prevalent the result would be to make some human models even more interesting.

This is just a gut feeling of course.
You're providing them with market research about inventory, sales, customer demographics, ad click through, etc.... Google isn't doing this for you.
Ah, deltas—must be inspired by the changemyview subreddit.

I wonder how much it relies on having good human moderators. I also wonder how users are incentivized to give deltas only to opponents who have persuaded them, instead of to people they already agreed with. I think in the changemyview subreddit, you give deltas in comment replies, and there I guess it would look obviously silly if you gave deltas to those who agreed with you; that may be a simple resolution for that particular issue.
Problem with this book is: what to read after. The book is really good but leaves you with the feeling "there are some many topics I don't know yet... but all the other books out there suck". Any recommendation for someone that has already read DDIA?
Yeah, a lot of programmers don't care about making things "pretty". I greatly prefer simple, information dense, plain text websites for the most part.
I built the same product back in 1998. It worked well during a heightened time of new IPO listings. Not always the case. but I was able to sell it to a hedge fund back then 2 years later. good luck!
They should've just gone for the system that D has. It's dead simple, easy to standardize and more flexible (The contracts themselves are effectively user defined so you can be as simple or complicated as you like)
that would not speed it up at all.
Dragonflies reveal mercury levels in national parks
Copyright law is intellectual property law. It's the only kind explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution.

Regular copyright law says that if you _buy_ a book, digital or not, you can resell it. If you license a book, digital or not, you can't except as specified in the license.

IA's point is that digital books (which are many or most books nowadats) aren't sold; instead, they are licensed.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

> Further, the privileges created by the first sale principle do not "extend to any person who has acquired possession of the copy or phonorecord from the copyright owner, by rental, lease, loan, or otherwise, without acquiring ownership of it." See 17 U.S.C. § 109(d).
At first, me too.

But amazon doesn't have a search monopoly, millions of android devices, google maps, or youtube to drive the sales.

Neither do they have the huge amount of data google already have on people.

Now there is a possibility that google fails because sales require a lot of IRL stuff they suck at. So maybe it will be a balanced game.

But if they win, it's going to be a nightmare.

Unrelated, but I'm also quite worried about Apple deciding to become a bank one day.
Given how semiconductors are becoming a battleground over national security, trade, and technology between China and the US, what are the chances this would be delayed by Chinese regulators or used as a bargaining chip over trade war negotiations?

The Mellanox deal was delayed for months by the Chinese competition authorities, and ARM is a far larger and more important player in the space.
Not like they are under any pressure...
Try saying this one three times fast: Smart Sally in Sales scales sales from a smart scale.
You're right - but this isn't the first time we've heard about this exact practice. It's been reported on extensively, so if anyone was going to investigate something illegal, it would have happened.

It is however, good ground for an Anti-Trust case. Using your position as a market maker to push your own products is literally illegal anti-competitive behavior and can trigger a court order to break up the company.
I thought with libraries like Zygote there is some really nice stuff already in Julia. I'd say it's still early days for good autodiff libraries in general and I think we still haven't really explored what they can do.
It's entirely possible they launched competing products because they know something everyone else doesn't. Did anyone bother to investigate why they didn't acquire these companies?

I've worked at several startups and you'll be surprised at why some corporations don't purchase a startup.

Some of them have awful cultures of psychological abuse, you walk in the door and you know something isn't right because the founder(s) have a cult-like environment that includes abusing his/her employees to the point where they are all afraid to say anything.

Some startups have founders and employees that are lying about everything and when you actually dig into their source code and infrastructure they aren't doing anything they say they are doing.

Some of them have the worst infrastructure imaginable and/or they have such poor software engineering practices that they will never be able to scale to meet the kind of demand a company like amazon has.

Just because they have a good idea and a company doesn't mean they have an implementation that is worth investing in.
You have two s's too many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
I'm still waiting for them to move to 10nm.
Check out Apache Guacamole! "clientless remote desktop gateway" basically VNC/RDP through a browser

https://guacamole.apache.org/
Or wipe out the low commission fee competition in the payment processor space.

If the US had better anti-competitive enforcement I feel like this is akin to the Internet Explorer/Netscape/Microsoft case, in them using one monopoly (search) to take over another market (same hook too: "free").

Plus you know they're going to reward sites for using this in their search rankings (or just outright place them at the top).
Low Level Programming is a book in dire need of a native English speaking editor, but it might be of interest to you too.
Interesting. But given that so many big brands simply use Arial or Helvetica for their logo and brand, is this really a thing?
Precedent? It's the law.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
I struggle to imagine what non-segregated resource would be so central as to affect their customer-facing app platform, internal email (or maybe mail gateways), and call center.

Maybe DNS got hosed? I mean pretty impressive ransomware if it swept across the company that far and wide, crossing so many network boundaries and resource types so quickly.

Maybe accounts/control being held for ransom instead of storage encryption (what I usually think of as ransomware).
Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Perhaps make all the past notifications you generated fully visible with no login required. Nothing sensitive about the past? Show the dates you'd have sent the content and what it would have looked like. Would be good for SEO too I think.
It may depend on the value-proposition for the sellers. If Amazon takes too much of a cut, alternatives, even with fewer customers, may look attractive.
The thing that annoys the living shit out of me are two fold:

1) the content policy for the public is clear, well thought out and easy to understand. but that doesn't apply to politicians. The rules that apply to politicians is hidden, opaque and taken on the fly.

2) the moral compass of the leadership team is fundamentally blinkered and naive. They do not understand or seem to want to understand viewpoints of other people. Unless you are posh & rich and upper middle class, you have to battle really hard to get your point across.
I think your pricing instincts are directionally correct. They may be off by a bit, but I don't think it's by a magnitude. Perhaps you settle at $15, but I think charging ~$2-5/mo for this would be much too little. Might as well hold at $19 for now and see how it goes. If you can't get early adopters at that price point I don't think pricing is your main concern. The pain is acute enough that any passable product should be in-demand.

For pricing context, FinViz elite (https://finviz.com/elite) costs ~$25/mo. Other, newer tools (Atom, Koyfin) are free. However, these are research tools, not notification tools. Anecdotally, notification tools seem to command higher prices.

I would guess that false negatives are your biggest churn risk. Meaning, subscribers will be angry if your list fails to cover one opportunity that they miss out on.

I think subscribers will (and should) also expect 0 downtime at this price. So, it may be better to focus on reliability over new feature rollouts. In this market, a plaintext email with companies, tickers, and list dates would be a significant upgrade over existing consumer (read: not Bloomberg) alternatives.
thanks, i hope it gives some fodder to make sense of this new world we find ourselves in. and maybe some opportunity.
Not sure why they think chip details and bitstreams need to be kept secret. If they would open up, people would make better tools for them.
Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables
If your business is so fragile that all anybody needs to do to out compete you is the description of your business idea, then I'd say you don't really have a business that is long for this world. If not Amazon, someone else is going to clone and eat you from San Francisco, Seattle, Hyderabad, or Shanghai.

Ideas don't really mean much if you don't have excellent, industry leading execution.
It's effectively MIPS warmed over.

And MIPS never went anywhere because it never cracked the cellphone market (which is where the real volume is).

When someone puts out a RISC-V phone, you've got a battle on your hands. Until then, you're fighting over table scraps.
A name, a destiny.
Yes, unlike prior to the pandemic New Zealand is burdened by now requiring border controls to prevent re-infection and a test & trace infrastructure to find anything that slips past and stop community transmission.

All this is of course still much cheaper than the alternative.
"back-in-the-day"?

How about last month... (Ok... over the last year)...

AppGet vs WinGet

Maybe not a buyout - but dangling a job possibility, with interviews where the candidate's brain was picked over...

https://www.techworm.net/2020/06/microsoft-appget-windows-pa....
> There is no reason to believe that X-37 cannot be a space-based weapons platform.

There is a difference between "I suspect you committed a crime" and "I have video of you committing a crime".

> Why does it matter if the weapon was fired at a satellite from the ground, or at a satellite from space?

Well, it matters because everyone said they wouldn't do this. The weaponization of space is something we said we wouldn't do.
Bringing criminals to justice is a positive outcome.

Negative outcomes include:

1. Racist people persecuting people based on their ancestry, as determined from DNA data.

1. Police performing incorrect DNA database searches and falsely accusing people of crimes. Example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-father-took-an-at-home-d...

1. Police misconstruing DNA evidence and falsely accusing people of crimes. For example, a person's DNA can appear at a crime scene if they rode in a Lyft before a perpetrator.

1. Criminals extorting parents of sperm-donor children: Pay us or we'll reveal to your kids that he's not their dad.

1. Criminals extorting unfaithful parents: Pay us or we'll tell him that the kid isn't his. Pay us or we'll tell her about the child born from your affair. Pay us or we'll tell your religious group about your child born not to your spouse.

1. Criminals extorting people about their expected health outcomes: Pay us or we'll tell the shareholders about your 50% chance of getting disease X in the next 5 years. Pay us or we'll tell her that you're likely infertile. Pay us or we'll tell your kid that they will probably die by age 30.

1. Criminals extorting folks who have changed their identities: asylees, stalking victims, protected witnesses, etc.

1. Oppressive governments persecuting relatives of escaped asylees: Your brother who disappeared actually went to country X. We can't punish him so we're punishing you.
For one, it wraps the screen and input into one window. Using two would be unwieldy.
I used to like buying with Google Checkout back in the day. And does anyone remember Froogle? They used to have free product listings, and then they started charging. One of the reasons I heard for that change was that they were getting a lot of spam.

I guess by partnering with Shopify they can let someone else worry about that, but likely they'll have a counterfeit problem if this gets any traction.
Have any insider accounts of the 10nm debacle emerged, or is it still too soon?
“If you aren't working with Datomic, or in finance- this move is a stronger statement that maybe Clojure doesn't have the strongest future for you.”

I don’t follow. The company the python BDFL last worked for was a storage outfit with a valuation roughly equal to Nubank. The Rails BDFL is at a pretty small software shop in Chicago. Ruby BDFL was at a division of Salesforce last I checked.

Seems a bit reductive to say that Clojure creator being employed by a bank makes Clojure a worse choice outside finance.
If you want something pithy. AD makes it easy to compute derivatives, PPLs make it easy to compute integrals. In particularly, the kind that come from taking the expectation of a function with respect to some probability distribution.
Although I'm not really looking to replace any current install, I'll definitely check this out in a vm. See how many and what programs it has preinstalled and have a look through the themes.
Maybe throw it on a machine next time I do a reinstall if it is as nice as it looks.
Not going to happen. The company with one of the worst customer support vs the most customer centric. Maybe some dont care, but I know a lot that prefer Amazon over any other Shop because of the service.
Could they just bring back froogle already?

If it’s free to list, why not just make a special shopping filter on google to find stuff for sale. Amazon included.

I miss the day when I could google for products and find the best price quality. Amazon search shows more ads than search results and the world really needs a shopping google.
Google's e-commerce had been floundering for years, I'm glad they brought in fresh leadership and upped investment to keep Amazon from having a near-monopoly. Customers will benefit.
I Get Interviews for Jobs I’m Underqualified For
The article says the choice of songs is "all the ’90s songs that charted in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100". Is that incorrect? It does seem likely that Jay-Z at least would be on there...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

He has embraced the concept:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamready/
Also remember that models are human talent and human talent tends to come with costs which must be geographically local: makeup, photographer, scene, etc.

This sounds vaguely similar to initial discussions I remember with self-diving cars. It begins with "I look forward to the day we don't have fallible humans at the wheel" and end with the realization the AIs are going to be more fallible and in different, strange ways.

I mean, hypothetically, suppose you had a system that could constantly monitor world fashion trends, world clothing markets, the routes of hip and average people and so-forth.
In the case you might create a system that produced a variety of still and moving images that satisfied all the constraints that today's fashion industry satisfies just with a few written or spoken suggestions from executives. Then you'd eliminated no just models but a large chunk of the industry.

But let's look at what "AI" is now (and what it seems likely to be for a while without any "revolutionary" changes). What you have now is a way to extrapolate typical objects out of a stream of similar objects. Just GPT-3 does a great job create texts that sound vaguely right, you can create a vaguely plausible looking set of still and moving images of one or another "typical" model. Moreover, these extrapolations require constant training by professional much more highly paid than actual models now (as the GP notes).

Further, without being in the fashion industry, I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to a useful set of images than "looking about right". I suspect you could generate a model-image that would "work" with a kind of clothing (since both clothing and image can be trained). But generating a model-image that suits a given demographic, that expresses "what's becoming hip right now" and so-forth would be extremely hard.
It may not be impossible but it would require lots of high paid labor by AI engineers, defeating the entire purpose once the novelty wears off. And all this is to say that these "replace human activity" approaches wind-up with the problem of doing an "90%" of the activity right and then foundering on corner cases - like self-driving cars that are easy-yet-impossible AI tasks.
One of the canned responses we have observed Zuckerberg make to the media in response has been something along the lines of "Facebook gives people who would not otherwise have a voice a chance to be heard" (words are mine, not theirs).

The web already did that. By advocating that the world use only a single website to "speak", we allowed a single website owner to create a business by charging its users for the opportunity to publish their "speech" to segments of the website's audience.

The reason most of those millions of people "joined" Facebook was not to voice their opinions to an audience. It was to communicate with family and friends. A new mode of communication.

If those people who wanted to voice their opinions to audiences had their own websites, who would visit them? Would they have an audience of millions?

(The term "millions" is used here as an expression for "many", not as an accurate estimate of the numbers in question)

I have heard that there is talk in the US media of doing away with the US Postal Service. AKA Ye Olde Mode of Communication. It is unsettling how far things have come in eroding the American's right to be free from commercial or ideological pandering. There used to be a legally recognised principle that an American could say "No more", and then the pandering must stop. Try that with Facebook or any other "tech" company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Form_1500

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_v._United_States_Post_Of...
Looking at https://www.datingsitesreviews.com/article.php?story=Why-did... , it may not have been a question of too many women, but just a question of no willingness to accept people from outside the target market.
The big winner in Slack’s Microsoft fight could be Google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011467
It's pretty much Youtube's modus operandi at this point...

Ignore the problem that's making us money through ad revenue by not having support staff to address these issues and instead rely on algorithms and empty platitudes to calm anybody who's got a genuine issue with the platform.

"Oh, hold on, we're finally getting sued for our (in)actions? Well we're sorry! It must be the algorithm that's not detecting these scam videos! _Sorry!_" (until the next time)