skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have said racial or ethnic group, since there's no reason other than historical happenstance why any racial/ethnic grouping can't benefit. As for friends of the rich, has there been any economic system where that wasn't true? If not rich, then at least the powerful and well connected have always benefitted in every society. The challenging part is how to mitigate that somewhat.
Hacker News is also fast food, by the way. #deleteHN /s
Yes, which is why Russian propaganda is more concerned about muddying the waters than constructing any particular narrative.
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I think a big difference is the assumption of the kind of meeting you are in; for most of the business meetings I consider valuable, if there is someone distracted by a transient issue the meeting should stop and wait, and if it doesn't they are just going to have to stop everything themselves to request things be repeated for them. If you are in a meeting and it doesn't matter if you are distracted you aren't really participating, are you? ;P So like, definitely mute the call as you are just an observer.
I don’t want Google and Facebook to know everything there is about me... so I'll give all my data to Cloudflare instead?
Why would you load them? I have image blocking in Thunderbird since forever and never had a reason to load a single one.
And yet ... they never had a choice in the matter, so you're doing what you seek to destroy.
If someone has a problem they probably are seeking you out because you wrote the book, in which case you already have the job (unless HR discovers something bad) and the purpose of the interview is to convince you to take the job not the other way round! They already know you wrote the book and are hoping your pay isn't too much. This is the most valuable reason to write a book for most authors (there are other good reasons to write a book, but the rest typically don't produce $$$).

When the above doesn't apply you still need them to know you wrote the book because sometimes they will look up the book and a good book will overcome your bad interview.

The exception to the above is when you are bored of the topic and are interviewing for something completely different. In that case you hide it because they might assume you will leave for a better job in your field latter - after all you wrote the book in something else so you must be valuable.
What chain is that?? Sounds amazing..
What workloads do you run that require fp64?
At 50% utilization it beats the cloud in 2 months. 10% utilization, it beats the cloud within a year. If you're dabbling, definitely go with the cloud, but if you're turning around experiments on a regular basis, buying gets attractive quickly.

And no, cards don't just keel over in a few months at 100%. Crypto miners ran that experiment. A typical card has years of 100% in it.
> While submitting and then canceling orders isn’t illegal, it is unlawful as part of a strategy intended to dupe other traders.

So if you build an algorithm that "learns" this behavior, it's OK since human intent is removed?
If your studies were negatively impacted by <whatever factor outside your control>, why would "lenient grading" be the right response?

"You get a no-penalty 'incomplete' and can complete the course later" seems vastly more appropriate than saying you learned something that you haven't. I'm sure some people were negatively impacted; they should not suffer a poor grade as a result. Nor should they be granted a better grade than the ability they demonstrated.
Wait, what? I used to mine crypto on GPU back when that was a profitable thing to do, which involves leaving the card maxed out for long periods of time.. no real damage.

Are modern cards really so fragile you can expect them to die off under heavy use even if properly cooled and not overclocked?
I don't think it's that simple. The presence of a benefit can create a moat around other opportunities, e.g. social housing easing the burden of finding housing but also reinforcing geographic segregation by social class.
i logged in only to mention "How to be a 10x engineer: help ten other engineers be twice as good." is fantastic! That's going in one of my sigs.
My guess is that right-leaning people are more comfortable with private corporations having that sort of power because they presume that the people in charge of the corporations must be competent and wise to get to their position. Possibly also that the dynamics of the free market will somehow protect people's rights.
Philosophy majors are about the only humanities major with a marketable skill: actual skills in critical thinking and not largely an illusion of critical thinking

As such they do better financially than other humanities majors:

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/philosophy-majors-...
So I like this, its interesting and useful framing.

My personal view that whilst this subtle problem is our long term concern we have a more immediate risk that could cause serious social challenges - which is driven by similar issues as highlighted here.

Polarisation of Views; modern social media and associated algorithms are creating intense echo chambers which are creating more and more extreme polarisation. This is most obvious in politics - in the US the political rifts and clear and obvious. The same is true in the UK. My worry is the result of this is that the ruling party have strong leeway to suppress the others and eventually "win".

Case in point in the UK; new guidance for schools says that they should not share material published by groups that have at any point had anti-capitalist views. Critics immediately pointed out that this excludes the non-ruling party (who have socialist-leaning views).

Case in point two; the supreme court in the US (which is a game to see who can skew its political leanings the most).

This terrifies me; with deeply polarised societal groups it will create battlegrounds which must be won politically & ultimately we all lose. Ultimately it is the social media algorithms that drive this - the power they wield is scary!
Yet Steam has a much larger share of the digital PC games market than Apple has of the smartphone market and the latter is being sued for anti-competitive practices while the former isn't.
That's an interesting idea. As per your example, has the spread of social media affected other places in similar ways?
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When 'friends' post on Facebook, they are putting their message on my feed. That's fine, that's the implicit agreement.

Also part of that agreement, when I comment on their post.

That's where most problems arise for me. I typically unfriend people when they're offended when I question their post.
How hard can you believe in your logic?
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>aircraft spend a much larger proportion of their journeys operating at high power levels.

Luckily the high power level is maintained at reliably high speed [0], ensuring airflow for cooling.

Even better, aircraft by its very long-range nature will have much larger battery:engine ratio. For example this 2018 article [1] discusses airplane with 9x the Tesla's battery capacity and 3x the Tesla's engine power, in other words, its batteries would need to handle only 1/3rd electrical load as much at peak load (per unit). The lower power density[2] of the battery pack again provides for easier cooling; perhaps even passive cooling or air cooling instead of forced liquid cooling. Whereas Tesla's sustained performance is limited by battery pack thermals.

Lastly, it's worth noting the ICE aircraft engines are "overbuilt" as compared to the roadgoing ones, mostly for sake of reliability.

--

[0] aside of the engine run-up and initial acceleration, but both of those are short anyway

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602771

[2] not to mix it up with energy density
> Humanities are a mess just for the reason that they take tuition and time from students and leave them hanging out to dray, after they graduate with no direct job prospects (i.e. a way to make a living).

It seems like this is a rumor that refuses to die. Humanities majors do just fine.

According to a 2018 ACS survey,[0] humanities majors are looking at 2.13% unemployment, which is comparable to other fields. The same survey shows that people who majored in the humanities earn comparable salaries to their peers in other disciplines.[1]

A 2014 study in Forbes found that humanities majors go on to earn even more than their peers in other disciplines as they all advance on their chosen career paths.[2]

I'm curious why the image of the deadbeat humanist persists, especially in an era where we need people who have been trained to look at potentially misleading information, identify why it is misleading, and point us towards better sources. Rampant misinformation in this social media age has shown us that "the facts" are much more slippery than anyone would like, and we need people who have been trained in the subjective arts of parsing contradictory information and -- even more importantly -- justifying their interpretation to others.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ld4Ki99C_0WFUcyBXyix...

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ld4Ki99C_0WFUcyBXyix...

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/11/20/surpr...
> If your question is "what is the total power held by white supremacists?" you'll end up with a larger number.

I very much doubt so. The richest people in the US are whites (e.g. Besos, Gates, Buffet), but not suprematists. If you have data which proves otherwise, please share.
Spying so intrusively on employees need to be done very carefully to stay legal in the UK as well. The ICO (the national data protection regulator) provides extensive guidance for employers on workplace monitoring, and there are several laws that might be relevant depending on the circumstances. The rules are far more nuanced than just saying that an employee on work time can be subject to whatever monitoring an employer feels like doing.
If I was 1 day in the office I’d live in midtown Sac instead of the Bay Area.

Or Napa. Or Santa Cruz. Etc. one ungodly commute a week is very doable.
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Your bottom line doesn't rise above basic human rights. If your profit forecast requires you to make concessions on rights to a political party that is currently putting an ethnic and religious minority in detention camps, then your profit forecast is wrong.

There is no reason sufficient to justify such behavior.

edit:

As to Google in the US, there is no legal framework requiring them to obey any administration and in fact significant protection if they would like to make fun of or openly attack it. There is no comparison here that isn't in utter bad faith.
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> ...paying for AWS/GCP DDOS protection

GCP offers free protection for web properties falling under select categories through Jigsaw's Shield program: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/

AWS does offer freemium DDoS protection with some of their products, like Global Accelerator: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/features/
> My homelab is Kubernetes running on Raspberry Pi 4

Honest question- do you just run one RPi4 or do you have multiple? Either way- how much ram do you have and do you find you use it all/wish you had more?
This is no different than the server logs that any web host has. You can't block it unless you never make the request in the first place, but you can use a VPN and remove browser headers to limit your data.
Completely agree. It's like engineers consistently fail to recognize that users generally don't care about the internals. If it doesn't LOOK like FB why use it?
Well that is always an option, which I have thought about. I would basically need to remove my entire family and a large amount of friends (not low-quality friends, they are just educated in other areas).

Once I realized that, it was easier to just delete facebook, and keep in touch with my close friends and people that are in similar studies to myself by using group chat messages, emails or just face to face (not so much this option in 2020)
Right, bur could one of the clients be elected to the OT leader role without having tje smarts at a backend? I guess it boils down to trusting the integrity of the client.
I don't know either. His history shows some extensive knowledge about the types of things I'd expect readers of hacker news to know. Or course there are a lot of beginners, but the goal is to discuss things people like him are interested in. I aspire to write posts as helpful and detailed as his comment history shows.
My Samsung is getting long in the tooth.

What's a good competitor that doesn't do this? Sony?
Ask HN: Guide to being effective in knowledge work jobs?
Is there a book that goes over general methods for being effective? I'm thinking it'd cover inbox zero, task management and organization, writing clear emails, getting and giving feedback, and other things beneficial for personal productivity when working for a company.
I find this unpersuasive.

The level of control/conformity on canonical Western media was such that, for most topics of daily news, thinking about the bias of the reporter was not a first-order concern.

For some topics (let's say, hot-button US-vs-USSR things, or race issues in the US), the bias of the source was of course important, anywhere.

But for, say, reporting inflation, unemployment, or the wheat harvest, whether NBC news or the Washington Post was biased wasn't critical in the same way it would have been in the USSR.

Basically, my argument is that the difference in degree is still a worthwhile difference.
> Zoom, the videoconferencing technology provider, has acknowledged it shut down the account of a group of prominent Chinese activists based in the U.S. after they held an event on the platform honoring the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

(emphasis added)

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-10...
There are also deeper potential meanings, though the OP did clarify some.

Cattle are products on a farm. They have purposes. A few bulls are left for breeding, the rest are gelded. Some cows are for milk. Others are fattened up as much as possible.

But all end up in the slaughterhouse. Anyone that steps out of line causes problems before that time may find themselves culled from the herd.

The purpose of the system is not to make cows happy, or meet cow needs. It's to produce as much economic product as possible.
I think this is basically true. although there are some issues that are so polarizing that they take precedence over the false positive vs false negative preference. the examples that immediately come to mind involve enforcement and punishment. the right generally seems to accept policies like stop-and-frisk or demanding ID from brown people near the border, regardless of how many of those targeted turn out to be doing nothing wrong. the left pretty much takes the same position on campus sexual assault cases, although it at least asserts that false positives are very rare.
Your idea of freedom of speech means I'm not free to criticize you.
Excellent and well-written answer. I hadn't considered the dead weight of the generator. It's more proof that questions with seemingly simple answers rarely exist in the real world. As a friend of mine (a data analyst) likes to say: "the real world is messy".
Hey, I knew you on IRC a long time ago. You hooked me up with some SuperVPN proxies that worked for a few years. I left the scene about the same time because of YUI's arrest- I wanted to say thanks. I've been thinking about HTP and co a lot recently, because of my work. Also want to thank you for pwning r000t.
Lots of good info in here. Some thoughts from a current B2B software sales guy:

* The successful B2B sales folks I’ve encountered aren’t what the general public would deem your typical salesperson. They listen more than they talk. They’re looking to help. They aren't pushy.

* You can’t control whether someone says yes or no or even if they respond. Figure out what you can control (whether or not you ask, how many people you reach out to, etc.), and focus on that. The other stuff will follow.

* Predictable Revenue has been mentioned. It’s a good ideal to strive for. I’d argue it’s overkill for a company in its infancy. For a new business, I’d suggest something simpler. Find about 100 potential customers, reach out to them, talk with them, and see if there’s a fit. Go from there.

* Sales is solving problems. What problem(s) do you solve? What problem(s) do your potential customers have? Is there a fit? “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

* Some folks to follow on Linkedin
Sarah Brazier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjbrazier/
Sam Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realsamnelson/
Sahil Mansuri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahilmansuri/
Scott Leese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottleese/
Trish Bertuzzi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishbertuzzi/

* The Entrepid How to Sell pdf is making the rounds, and for good reason. It’s solid. Here’s the link again: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57daf6098419c27febcd4...

Anyways, this is my $0.02.
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>You could be reading or doing your knitting on the train rather than holding that wheel.

You can also brush shoulders with a diverse cross section of America and see and meet all sorts of interesting people. You can get pretty lucky in the dining car if you're traveling alone being sat with cool people with interesting stories to tell, or passing a covert bottle of whiskey back and forth with a stranger. There's a camaraderie you get on the train you never get in a car or on a plane, something more and more important the more fractured and divisive we get. People of all classes and backgrounds, mixed in a comfy tube with nothing better to do than to talk to each other.
Weird. I've got a Samsung QLED 4k TV (Q60) and I've never seen an ad. I suppose I'll keep my eyes open.
I think you're getting to the the crux of it. Exactly What actions make it seem like the other person has branded you as untrustworthy? Would a cashier counting the money you gave them be a sign that they don't trust you? Or an airport security making you pass through a metal detector? Or a Police officer running a speed gun on your car?

With the old 'Trust, but verify' idea, the disagreement is always on the 'how' in verify.
Net it's a loss compared to constant velocity.

A few years ago an electric bus hypermiled to get some ludicrous range. Turns out the trial stripped all spare mass from the rig (seats, other interior), pumped tyres to munition-rated pressures, hugely oversized the battery, and held a constant speed of about 24 kph (15 mph).

https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-proterra-ran...

(The article, as with most, reveals no test conditions though does at least note "a Proterra spokeswoman said they won’t reveal the test bus speed".)

In production, range claims seem to be about 1/3 this.

Typical city busses stop every block or two, accelerating to about 40 kph, then braking, every 60 seconds or so.

Both mileage and wear and tear suffer immensely.
It makes me want to cry actually.

The space of "chat" program makes me feel despair. Back in 2000 I helped localize Paltalk for Brazil and since then there has been CUSeeMe, AIM, ICQ, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and many others. Microsoft alone has had Microsoft Messenger, Skype, Skype For Business, Linc (as opposed to Linq), MSN, etc.

The pattern is not "competition" or "monopoly" but rather some new platform fixes the worst flaws of the current platform, replaces it, then itself decays. It's hard to see how there's been any advance from AIM to Facebook Messenger except one was tied to the AOL platform and the other was tied to Facebook. Platform lock-in is the song that remains the same, but no vendor in this space is able to maintain a chat platform that remains workable over the long term.

People who really "think different" might care about privacy (Signal) or care about openness (XMPP) but the main market for openness in chat seems to be military, intelligence and law enforcement.

If the euros wanted to win for once they might try to do something about chat because the Silicon Valley model has failed consumers here.
What? There's a lot more to learning the intersection of power tools and a given craft area X than just how to not hurt yourself.

Why would I use a spade vs a single point vs a Forstner drill bit? When would I use a backer board? When would I use conventional cutting vs climb cutting? If I want to achieve tolerance X on face F, what should be my sequence of operations? How can I fixture this work to give me the best results? When is a circular saw vs a table saw vs a jig saw vs a mitre saw appropriate?
> Also, regarding "overcome the hurdles": those hurdles are now practically non-existent with various publishers. This results in books on the topic that should never have been published.

This is a real problem. People writing some really bad quality tech books from certain publishers. I'm not going to trash the publishers because some of the authors care about writing good books (rather than being able to say they wrote something) and do it with little editorial help. They produce something which would have been better in other circumstances.
You're missing the point. Tracking gives you numbers, but they are not accurate numbers. Your clients think they're beneficial because they don't know the numbers aren't accurate. Building funnels on top of bad data is not impressive.
aye - The numbers I quoted were from my father's experience. I ended up carrying 1 years pay in non-dischargeable debt on graduation in 2010. Even on an accelerated payment schedule it took 10 years to fully pay down the debt. Paradoxically my initial inability to pay the debt nearly cost me my first job.
Not the OP but they want authors with big social followings or email lists etc, because the main risk of a book is will it sell - and if you already have a big audience to market to, that risk goes down a lot.
IANAL, but I would think that it would be your (as the person deploying and maintaining this algorithm) responsibility to make sure this algorithm doesn't do anything illegal or disingenuous, either by putting safeguards into it or by constantly tracking it to make sure it doesn't do something bad.
I've been dealing with a ban evader/forum shock image spammer for months now, and the place he is buying proxies from is actively doing BGP hijacking on resources owned by AT&T, Windstream, hospitals and universities - for the primary purpose of carding and fraud. I haven't managed to get anyone knowledgeable at those companies to figure out how to pressure the small upstreams (that are not those T1s) to stop it.
Back in the late 90's me and a friend were memorizing PI just for fun. I got to 300 digits. Based on how long it took me to recite those 300 digits, we estimated that the world record holder at that time spent about 16 hours just reciting the numbers. I can't imagine the time they must have put into memorizing it.
For growth FB, Google, Whatsapp and Pinterest, did you find there was one primary method of growth they all used? (that's also applicable to founders of the new tech companies)
I don't want you to be successful in this. Marketing is a blight, find something better to do with your time.
Agreed. This is critical.
I remember both Roundcube and Squirrelmail supporting them, and they are quite common.
-Even more interesting given that Rolls-Royce plc has a number of boffins at a subsidiary in Trondheim, Norway working on exotic PM motor designs, including for aviation. (The company is called SmartMotor, was purchased by what was then Rolls-Royce Marine, then was retained under the RR umbrella when the rest of the Marine division was sold to Kongsberg a couple of years ago.