skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How in the world is looser regulation of opaque (at best) SV bullshit CO's a good idea? The more relevant question to ask is what exactly is the value prop of fintech?

I don't see it as any different than the mortgage brokers of the 2008's: stripping fees off transactions with ZERO value add to the consumer...

If you want to really fix things start with the national market system. At this point between dark pools, HFT and non-public company markets it is an unqualified effing disaster from both a price discovery and accessibility perspective.

#justsayin
If you live and work in California, you are doing business with the state. You aren't going to avoid that, no matter how hard you try.
aha amazing read, quality content.
I'm not sure we're using "balance" in the same way, precisely; I don't mean "balance" in the "present both sides of every issue as if they're equal," I mean that there's a continuum of regulatory options in a given field and that "less regulation" is not always the correct direction. (Not that regulation is really a spectrum, for that matter, as you could conceivably have high levels regulation in a given field that's still regulating badly.)

So, to answer that last rhetorical question with the way I'm intending "balance" to be used: I'm not at all opposed to regulations in food safety, wiring standards, water treatment, etc., that shift the balance of likely outcomes for me toward "alive and unharmed" and away from "stone dead." :)
Peleton's new bike is $2500. I'm surprised they're still going strong. The pandemic may have helped them a lot.
Same. Sounds like the author thinks he's way funnier than he is.
Almost all of the items listed here are improvements to AOSP rather than to Google Play Services, including the changes in the last 5 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
> Apple's being especially awful from a UX perspective in my opinion

Well it’s a minimum baseline kind of thing: I use a specific app for skiing and biking but for my needs it’s just fine for hiking, running, IIT. Some others may want specialized apps for those — great! But my needs there are pretty trivial, and actually t acted as the “gateway drug” for me to buy the specialized apps I did.
Shutting down NavHere
It’s also a pain for shared resources, e.g. Apple TV
The good, the bad, and the 'radically dishonest'
Back in May 2017, a talk in RISC-V con (https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tue1345pm-NVIDI... ) was given. Here are the conclusions of the talk:

- NVIDIA will use RISC-V processors in many of its products

- We are contributing because RISC-V and our interests align

- Contribute to the areas that you feel passionate about!

Since then, I didn't observe much NVIDIA activities in RISC-V software community. But some NVIDIA people do participate Virtual Memory Task Group.

Apparently, the stance have changed.
This here, is a great example of what you think would work. It’s diplomatic and reasonable. However, in my experience it reads well, but falls super short in practice.

It’s usually a request because someone is following a policy checklist. Either that someone is the same person you’re selling to (you’re lucky) or it’s a paralegal going through due diligence (you’re unlucky). In either case, none of what’s said here works because if they can’t check that box your dropped off the attention list as they know they can’t get it past upper approvals.

So, if it’s the person your selling to and you’ve built a product they love, then you might have what a lot of enterprise sales people strive for: “an internal ambassador or cheerleader”. But more often I think, that’s not the case as it’s the paralegal that has 0 connection to your product value at all or what you’ve built just isn’t necessary enough for the contact to work super hard around policy for.

In the likely hood of these scenarios, it just doesn’t end with a sale that keeps food on the table for early founder driven startups. It’s better to know your target audience and spend time where you need to that results in revenue. If that’s a SOC2 cert, go get it done.

edit apologies for typos. Mobile app isn’t the greatest. :/
Apple is a luxury brand. The fact they have such a market share is an aberration not the norm. The ex-ceo of Burberry works at Apple. They are for rich folks, 1500 for a phone remember!

Their incredible success has been in convincing non-rich folks their product is worth stretching their finances to get a new one as often as they can.

Every product line is marketed as a luxury product. It’s not surprising that their services are also marketed in the same way.
Bankrupt Chuck E. Cheese parent company wants to shred 7B tickets
>I'm not sure that I've ever seen somebody in the field suggest a reform that would reduce that cost,

You don't wind up in the nuclear field by being dumb and smart people don't say things that can easily be construed by the opposition as advocating for reduced safety.
I think this is interesting in that I don't know many people who view LLC's protections this way. The classic example is that if your rental property is in an LLC, then your tenants can't win a suit and get to your own personal house.

These examples of piercing the veil are from the other direction - a personal suit getting access to the LLC assets... Which sort of makes sense - the alternative would be the court ordering the seizure of my assets - which would be my ownership stake in the LLC. So in their example, I'd still expect to lose my ownership stake in my LLC by asset seizure even if I was in a multi-owner LLC... Or had stock in an S-corp.
Sure but Spotify’s development costs only have to cover the upper levels of the app whereas Apple is developing the system that both they and Spotify benefit from.

That’s why it’s not a like for like comparison.

Spotify can sell it for the same price as Apple, since they don’t have to fund the extra investments.
I think "marketplace of ideas" fails as soon as you have curated feeds.
Something interesting I noticed is that the further you go down the pages, the slower it gets.

By their own metric, page 10+ take several times longer to arrive, and most search terms only have a few hundred results at best, even when showing billions of results, you only see the real number when you hit the last page. For example, for me, the word "the" only has 445 actual results (instead of 25 billions), and page 45 takes 2 seconds to complete, compared to 0.7 seconds for page 1.
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That is what happens.

The scale is just so immense.

Coca Cola, for instance, is produced and bottled in at least 68 separate plants in the US alone.
MIPS hasn't been neglected, though it's clearly not one of the new hotness and hasn't seen the attention that ARM has. Look at what companies like Octeon have produced.

If someone stepped up with nation-state levels of investment, I think you could see some very interesting outcomes. That's the concern.
> don't even dare to use ZFS without dedicating 8-16 GB of ECC [!] memory to it

Fixed that for you.

Now, I've since build a storage server for my homelab using ZFS, but mdadm is far more accessible. It also feels easier - I know what's on the drives and how it is stored. In case of something strange happening with ZFS, I don't have any hope except backups. Also, ZFS lacks support in most distributions and somewhat obscure encryption capability.

I don't mean to bash ZFS here - it's great. But the GP feels like it's saying "I don't see why would anyone not want to run a dedicated kubernetes cluster with HA for running a program on Linux".
clickbait. no "passport" is found. very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number from an instagrammed boarding pass booking number. is that still a big security hole? i guess. could have been one tweet though
I have never read/heard that saying but reading it this evening made me smile. Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of my own favorite: "you are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made of stardust travelling on a rock through outer space.

Fear nothing."
Recognizing that not many will care about my opinion on the subject, I will link to this excellent (and IMO accurate) paper by Guido Imbens:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07271.pdf

One of the problems in groups is that there is a belief that the loudest and most self-confident individual is correct. I believe that is the case with Pearl. He attracts a following based on his personality, but when it comes to actually doing empirical research, he comes up short.

"Separate from the theoretical merits of the two approaches, another reason for the lack of adoption in economics is that the DAG literature has not shown much evidence of the alleged benefits for empirical practice in settings that resonate with economists....In contrast in the DAG literature, TBOW, [Pearl, 2000], and[Peters, Janzing, and Sch ̈olkopf, 2017] have no substantive empirical examples, focusing largely on identification questions in what TBOW refers to as “toy” models. Compare the lack of impact of the DAG literature in economics with the recent embrace of regression discontinuity designs imported from the psychology literature, or with the current rapid spread of the machine learning methods from computer science, or the recent quick adoption of synthetic control methods developed in economics [Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003, Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller,2010]. All three came with multiple concrete and detailed examples that highlighted their benefits over traditional methods. In the absence of such concrete examples the toy models in the DAG literature sometimes appear to be a set of solutions in search of problems, rather than a set of clever solutions for substantive problems previously posed in social sciences, bringing to mind the discussion of Leamer on the Tobit model ([Leamer, 1997])."
I agree, kind of. I had to skim it, some of the jokes were funny, it just took up too much space.
It's weird that nobody talks about what it means when you relocate. For Stripe it might not be an issue, but large companies probably have people in all different locations. This means that if you relocate to a place where someone else is already working, is it fair if someone moved there and is now being paid much more than you?

Also, what about if you had all women at a location and a man relocates there and gets to keep their higher salary. I think the women would feel that this is not okay either. This applies to any other protected categories where legal issues can come up.

There are other considerations when talking about salary, and whether people can keep higher salaries when they relocate from a place where there is high competition for employees and a high average salary to a place with lower competition for employees and lower average salaries.
This puts your name, address, and association with your company name into public record. Not recommended if there is >0 probability of attention from internet crazies.
Covid-19 virus uses heparan sulfate to get inside cells
Any good recommendations on some of those specialized reddits?
For every really-faking-it-until-they-make-it junior dev there's a goldbricking veteran spending 80% of company time on a side pursuit.
Microsoft is looking to MetaOS to make Microsoft 365 a 'whole life' experience
I’ve worked with a few people they could do case studies on.
Colorado is $50 to create a LLC, then $10 a year to file your annual report. If you miss the annual report filing date, the fee is $50 to get back in good standing.
Not defending the import versioning strategy, but I found it helpful to read Russ Cox’s writeup on the topic: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import
The problem is that the algorithms reinforce ideas by feeding in more and more. The crazier it is the more it reinforces. This is Facebook’s fault. They should feel responsible for this affect.
Offices that lead with (or even only use) algorithmic questions are either places you know the name of, or they aren't high quality places. That's my rubric.
Yes. Taiwan isn't China, especially with respect to semiconductor manufacturing.

What does being a propaganda shill on HN pay these day?
Waltons and Kochs actually give a lot. I am very close to an organization that receives money from both of their foundations. They do have a political agenda with much or their giving but in certain areas it could be considered apolitical.
Sorry I missed your reply, but technically, yeah. Being remote when I switched jobs gave me an absolutely great negotiating posture. I didn't even have to leave the house, and it's not as if I was stepping away from my desk to make secret phone calls. Plus I could work anywhere in the world, so it became about company selection and negotiation.

Once I found the company and nailed the interviews, I got an offer ~30% lower than the SF salary because of CoL adjustment. My position was that if my salary could be offset by much riskier equity (aka more than the 30% cut, but essentially free for the company), I would accept the position. So I ended up getting a larger total comp than would have been available to me in SF. Also I don't even need 50% of my salary to live outside of CA anyway, so it's a major lifestyle upgrade.

This only works because I get to choose any company in the world. That means the equity I get is something I would have invested in anyway given the opportunity.

For the first time in my career I feel that I negotiated well and have confidence in my employer, and it never would have happened by just being another dev in the bay area.
*more than half
Taught him everything -- except ethics.
Perhaps, but only to an extent. It is not as if, if only average people were clever enough, we could all become billionaires, and the GDP could be 10,000x higher than it currently is. There are, in fact, scarce resources – including land and minerals and other natural resources, but also labor. Most billionaires become that way by being in charge of a large company, one with a lot of workers. Well, you can't be the ruler without people to rule over. And if not for you, those people would still exist and would be making some other contribution to society.
Show HN: Built a nostalgic search engine and mailing client from the 90s
So I basically built a search engine and an email client for fun last month as part of Python Discord's Summer of Code Jam.
How to spot an AWS Lambda novice, just like that
Not all are members presently, but all are certainly welcome. It's a completely voluntary join. Right now I'd say we have mostly long-tenured programmers and two guys from our DevOps team and a young fella from UI.

I'll bring it up in our next congregation and see about getting some of the writers in the group together and collaborate with our marketing team about maybe publishing a blog series.
Helpful? Yes, sort of. Should you have to read that to understand how the module versioning system works? Absolutely not.

The Go module system is a debacle. It's not intuitive and it's badly broken right now.
I found the writing style to be very entertaining. Maybe someone else would've stopped at a tweet but in the end he managed get on the phone with Tony Abbott himself and got himself a cool story to tell.
I would love that, however iirc targeting Stadia doesn't give much benefit to targeting desktop Linux.

I may (and hope I am) be wrong though.
I am curious how this would work in Japan. Walking through a grocery store or a convenience store most tea and soda is in plastic. I suppose that could be glass but carrying home several litters of liquid is already heavy enough with out adding glass. (most people walk to the grocery story so they have to carry stuff home).

Most yogurt is in plastic. Putting that in ceramic or glass seems out or similar reasons.

All bread products are wrapped in plastic. There used to open bins in the "bakery" area but because of covid-19 every pastry, bagel, croissant, etc is not individually wrapped in plastic. All chips and crackers are in plastic. I'm not 100% sure they can be wrapped in paper given how humid it is. Maybe wax paper?

Milk is almost universally in cardboard though 80-90% have a plastic cap. I'm not sure that the cardboard isn't plastic coated though. It certainly feels like it is but maybe that's some kind of wax?

All meat is in styrofoam trays (plastic) wrapped in plastic. I don't know if they could wrap it in anything else as people want to see it before buying (paper is opaque) and having a butcher counter would be much slower having to wait in line for the butcher.

All cheese products are in plastic. Same as the butcher, I can imagine a cheese counter where they wrap the cheese in paper but no one wants to wait in line and plastic wrapped cheese lets me see the cheese.

Japanese pumpkin is often sold in quarters because a single pumpkin is too much for one. Those are wrapped in plastic. Not sure what else you could wrap them in and leave them on the counter for a day. I suppose you could require to people to buy whole pumpkins.

All tofu is sold in plastic.

I'm also not sure what to do for garbage. Japan, or at least my area, requires garbage to be put in vinyl bags. It arguably helps putting out a bunch of food stuffs to not just be open and lure for rats and bugs so I'm not sure what we could switch to there.

Well, there is definitely lots of room for improvement. At least in July they finally made stores require to charge for plastic bags and ask if you want one (not just auto charge you). I'm not sure how affective it is but it did manage to change my behavior. I carry a reusable bag now.
How is the knowing developer, not with the lead title, able to survive on a team like this?

I tried escaping - from my bumpkin locale to Boston, a 3 hour trip every morning and 3 hours back, until I couldn't handle it five months later and went tail back to the same team with the same issues. Here, I'm still hopeful to eventually figure this out.
Mastering on SoundCloud
"The most insane document of all time" is not the point. It is good to make documents unreadable, sure, but they still must be valid, and you have to be sure they are valid, before you use them in the battle. However close to the realms of sci-fi we may be, I believe we are still very far from any machine being able to compete with a professional lawyer in that kind of stuff. Jokes aside, they kinda specialise on it.

What GPT-3 can be good at though is making a huge amounts of text cheaply and quickly. Making up a tons of bullshit to present in court (or putting the other side in a position when they have to) is a way to make litigation last forever, i.e. until the side with less money is forced to give up on a case they could have otherwise won. You can win by virtue of having more lawyers to read and type stuff.

And that way to use GPT-3 based stuff I imagine to be much closer shot. A company with 2 competent lawyers will be able to generate virtually same amount of semi-coherent bullshit as a company with a 100 of lawyers. You can produce an amount of stuff in a single night that is humanly impossible to read, but still if kinda meaningful stuff with some content kinda "relevant" to the matter at hand. At some point it will stop making any sense, the judge won't read this shit, nobody will. You will have to somehow forbid to make stuff more complicated than it must be. What is currently normal will fall apart.

As I said, I don't actually believe it will do any good: people will still find a way to make it way too complicated for normal humans, but acceptable for lawyers. But until they agree on a new norm, it will be painful for everybody involved.
Great question!

My goal with Deepserve.ai is to be drastically easier than the big cloud providers, with less lock-in. Rather than giving you infinite configurability with low-level primitives, I want to give you an easy, scalable solution right out of the box. Sagemaker and Tensorflow Serving have some quick-to-deploy options like this, but are really built in expecting you to use their entire ecosystem.

I started off with Fast.ai for simplicity and want to expand to support PyTorch, Tensorflow and ApacheMX. My aim is to have an option that is tested and proven for every library version and every mix of inputs/outputs. So if you have a PyTorch 1.5.0 model that expects an image and returns a set of bounding boxes, you choose that configuration and have everything ready to go.

You're right on with having things like logging and tuning built in for everyone from the get go.

I will obviously never be cheaper than the big cloud providers. I want to compete on ease of use and the soft costs of hiring for or dealing with devops.

Thanks for your kind words!
Republican voters aren't stupid, they are grossly misinformed. This fact is supported by multiple studies of the subject, and is hardly controversial.

> The group who names MSNBC as their main news source is far more likely than the Fox News group to answer correctly that the coronavirus originated in nature rather than a laboratory and that it will take a year or more for a vaccine to become available. On both questions, the portion in the CNN group to answer correctly falls between the MSNBC and Fox News numbers.

> About three-quarters (76 percent) of those who name Fox News as their main source are conservative Republicans and Republican leaners, while 57 percent who name MSNBC are liberal Democrats and Democratic leaners.

https://www.journalism.org/2020/04/01/cable-tv-and-covid-19-...
So what? Those are still invalidating the idea of "80 years since a conflict between continental European nations".
And what do either of those have to do with Freeney's opinion on Gates?

We're not going to try and guess what you're thinking, you have to tell us.
Wix employs guild structure for all it's teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpeY_jahjI
I find it shocking that someone of Milton Friedman's stature would begin his argument with something as flimsy as an appeal to virtue ethics. Hard to take the following statement seriously when it begins with such a baseless and by no means uncontroversial value judgment. That Friedman considers "accumulating wealth" a "virtue" in itself is a profound indictment of his worldview.
The writing style was irreverent, colloquial, and replete with cultural references, but also dense with information. I felt a constant tension of wanting to skim-read and actually parsing the content, but found it really entertaining all the while.
And just to be clear, the Koch brothers fund things like efforts to end civil asset forfeiture, not just the things people like to get mad at them for in the media...
And, sorry to say, not just for the United States.
Future autonomous machines may build trust through emotion
Make family and friends Zoom recordings public for archival
India Plans to Introduce Law to Ban Cryptocurrency Trading
For stuff I don’t really care about meeting any sort of SLA.
What 5 Philosophers Said That Help Us in Time of Pandemic
Part of the motivation for the bad behavior, and the subsequent lack of reprimand, is pressure for results in a system with case overload. The pressure to close cases quickly drives an improper need for convenience and expediency in violation of ethical norms. The unpopular solution is to increase available manpower to drive more thoroughly examined results and peer oversight.
It reads like a travel diary. Which I really like because you get the things that are done and the thoughts and feelings along the way.
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/free-libre-open
I loved it, it helped me keep reading the whole way through an extremely long, yet engaging article. Different people like different writing styles and humour obviously.
Peloton’s doing a great job, they have an Apple Watch app, and I don’t believe Apple is getting 30% out of them. Peloton’s ecosystem is awesome.
Urbit's IDs are 32-bit numbers represented in a pronounceable format (search for `@p`): https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-school/atoms-aura...

Meanwhile in the real world, there's proquints: https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016