skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed the trend on here shift towards the more "libertarian" views. Most Google/Microsoft/Apple/Giant-Corporation threads have a ton of "just stop using their service" replies that ignore the practicality of such a solution.

I did notice that this all reversed when TikTok was going to be banned, and a lot of people were happy that the US government was going through with it.

One thing I do question is if there was an actual shift in the trend and I noticed it or if this libertarian-ism was always present in tech circles and I'm noticing it more now.
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Anecdotal, but I doubt there is much hard evidence about reasons people stop using Google products, or even if individuals do, or whether there is just less growth.

I have decided not to buy a Google phone next time, and to start the mamoth task of moving my primary email address to one using a domain I own rather than a gmail.com one (changing email address is hard :( ).

It isn;t so much because Google is evil, it is because their stuff isn't as good as it used to be, and they arbitarily lock people out of accounts for poor reasons, or force changes on people, at times. I have a Pixel 4 and have been pretty unimpressed with it as a phone and with how buggy Android seems to have become. I've also, over the past few years, started to dislike their stuff more and more. Having to use G Suite for work, as a user and an admin of it and supporting users (though I don't actually suport them directly myself), puts me off their stuff too.

Google no longer makes good products, but they think they do, and change thewir stuff on the assumption that they are improving it when they are not.
Getting the POE hat in there somewhere, somehow, would be pretty neat.
Back in 1988 or so in Norway when me and my brother got our first computer an Amiga 1000, that costs about $2200 adjusted for inflation. And salaries where lower then. It would have been impossible to buy without a generous "donation" by my grand parents which had quite some savings.

And back then salaries where much lower even adjusted for inflation. That Amiga had 256 KB of RAM. This Raspberry is just a beast in comparison to what me and my brother had and it costs 31x LESS, in a world where salaries are higher than back then.

I can see this opening up a lot of opportunities for families and schools in less affluent countries. Maybe even businesses. I can imagine various famers and small businesses out in the countryside in Africa or India could benefit from a computer like this to lookup market information for crops, plan budgets, savings, purchases etc.
Great question! We recently migrated from AWS to Azure, so it's new for the entire team. In that sense it would be beneficial, but since we are running almost everything on Kubernetes (and they are very similar) I wouldn't see it as a requirement.
I used to work in buy side research. Most of the good datasets have already been stripped of alpha, but are bought and sold anyways because funds have to know what the data is saying to keep up with the other funds. A true new dataset with separate alpha is a goldmine. There are ones that add to the edge, and require quants, but in my experience all the valuable alternative data can be normalized and then back tested to the stock price. If you cant do that with it, its not that valuable outside a few hedge funds.
Positive with what ? I head PCR stay positive a long time
In fairness that just changed in August. Before that you had to be a millionaire or make $200K/year.
What is an example of an eye-rolling claim from Taibbi?
>Deepfaking doesn’t have to be used on its own. A dedicated entity can shoot entirely new original scenes (unique footage), deepfake actors’ faces to look like the people they’re targeting, edit it all together, and possibly add CG VFX as a final layer to make the resulting video look very real

This was treated (along with the ubiquity of CCTV in London) by the 2019 BBC show The Capture[0].

They glossed over a bunch of technical issues, but got the idea across pretty well.

Of course, they made the Americans look like the worse bad guys (no one comes out looking good, even the nominal "victim.") but that's to be expected, given the darkness the show attempts to purvey.

It's not great, but it absolutely provides context for the eventual advent of reasonable quality deep-fakes and the potential for abuse of the technology.

I'd expect that we'll see lots more of this sort of story telling, especially since any sort of video production (not including raw video footage) is never seen the way things actually are. As such, the "faking" (minus the deep-fakes with faces, etc.) is the key to the exercise.

Go watch the taping/filming of any television or movie and that will become immediately clear.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)

Edit: Added the missing link.
> There are S-Bahn stations in Switzerland with 10 times the daily riders of BART that are nothing more than a signpost and a place to stand.

Do you mean a specific BART station? The average total BART daily ridership (400k weekday, 100k weekend) is roughly comparable to the total daily Zürich S-Bahn network ridership (400k-450k in one figure I found).

I'm not sure that Zürich has the most popular network in the country but I would assume it's up there. Bigger stations here are definitely smaller than that SJ monstrosity, and I really like how efficiently they're laid out, but which popular stations are you thinking of that are just a signpost and a place to stand? Even the most popular space-constrained ones in the city (Hardbrücke, Stadelhofen) are way more than that, and the only I can think of in the city that are basically just a signpost are those with relatively infrequent service (Seebach, Friesenberg, etc.).

In any case, I think Caltrain feels a lot more like the S-Bahn equivalent, and most of the stations aren't much bigger either. This seems to hold for several other commuter train services in the US, such as NJ Transit.
> Why do journalists write like this?

It's journalists writing for other journalists.
Some time ago I needed ball video tracking for a demo at work. I failed to find any out of the box solution which worked satisfactorily. It was way easier to find solutions for seemingly more complex tasks of people tracking or human pose estimation, for which you have numerous publically available algorithms/models.
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> I continue to get treated like I'm a loon who has no basis to claim any kind of competence at all.

> And if I say that is evidence of sexism, well, that's just more "evidence" I'm some crank.

You claimed in the thread that you were deserving of the Nobel prize in medicine. If people are treating you like a crank and you are making claims like that, that is pretty far from "no basis to claim any kind of competence at all." That one seems to be a claim of supreme competence.
Usually hedge funds prefer the raw data so their own research teams can do modeling and analysis.
Simple ping command actually prints statistics
Since there is no real completion on this market my 7y/o laptop worth nearly nothing today is 3 times faster than this 100$ RPi. Sad, but true.
Don't know why you are being downvoted, but I agree with your reasoning.

I've worked most of my career in places where technology was king and AWS is certainly technologically ahead of its competitors.

Fast forward a couple decades and I ended up in financial institutions where economics is king and they don't use AWS, not as much as they should, if you listen to the average internet guru.

Not because AWS doesn't do what they say it does, but because economically it's not advantageous, at least until it is.

Which is not at the beginning.

To put it in simple words: they don't ask "are we ready to scale" but instead "are we making money out of this".
Yes, and it will mostly likely be handling debits and credits.
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Are these American cities that unique in this regard, or for that matter, even that old? Probably this is a genuine difference between a novel development in a new Chinese city, but the fact is these major infrastructure projects are done much more cheaply in places like Paris and London.

_In some ways, M.T.A. projects have been easier than work elsewhere. East Side Access uses an existing tunnel for nearly half its route. The hard rock under the city also is easy to blast through, and workers do not encounter ancient sites that need to be protected._

_“They’re claiming the age of the city is to blame?” asked Andy Mitchell, the former head of Crossrail, a project to build 13 miles of subway under the center of London, a city built 2,000 years ago. “Really?”_

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
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Unlike something like friendly_id, this isn't really indexable, since n is variable in the sluggable query, at least for pg:

left(id::text, n) = friendy_uuid

It always results in a sequential scan.
I apologize for my rudeness. I wasn't adding anything with that comment. I did find the parent comment jarring, as if it was willfully ignoring the downsides in an effort to promote AWS. That's in a comment thread that otherwise seemed like a candid discussion of the pros, the cons, and how it's a good deal for some but a worse deal for others.

Of course, the cost is built into other services. As pointed out, AWS can get very expensive for many use cases, and that's exactly what you're paying for: access to managed services.

Beyond that by developing on AWS you are taking steps to lock yourself into using their system - your configuration isn't portable to other services. So the time/manpower you spend configuring AWS-specific things is another cost associated exclusively with its use.
Anecdotally, my company spends several millions a year on AWS, and they do it mostly so they don’t have to think too much about the hardware every team uses to implement their solutions. I’d say the strategy is an unmitigated success, even if it costs them 3 times more than a similar on-premise (or dedicated) solution would cost.

My last company went the dedicated route, and they were perpetually in need of more servers because nobody was willing to pre-plan capacity. To the point that the database team just couldn’t provision any new databases for a year.
About a hundred of years ago, when starting to mechanize the agriculture: what are all those displaced farm workers going to do?

Have a little faith in humanity. We learn and adapt. We’ll manage. Your worries are misplaced.
The manifest is stored as a Win32 Resource, any resource-editor will work. I used Visual Studio (File > Open > EXE).
Combining Label Propagation and Simple Models Out-Performs Graph Neural Networks
Also see this tweet thread summarizing the paper: https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1323323061370724352, as well as a higher level of where this paper fits into the general literature here: https://twitter.com/austinbenson/status/1323320759608057857
https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22510008

TL;DR It's an ad company posing as a privacy company. Brave replaces other ads with Brave's, created a crypto currency for the purpose of sharing profits with website owners, but in reality pockets almost all of the money since site owners rarely become aware of it [0] or more likely because it's spread so thin across the web that few sites reach the 100$ threshold.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
"It turns out that the primary reason Russians airbrush their cars is for theft-prevention. “Airbrushed cars are instantly recognizable to bystanders and security cameras.” And so the artwork functions as a psychological deterrent to thieves. "

That is genius.
Opening a brand new Pi and building up the environment is part of the attraction. An old machine that doesn’t support new features seems somehow inferior to a new machine that doesn’t support some stuff.

The satisfaction in making a tiny little computer board go is very apparent when you see a kid do it, even if it’s just to make some lights flash or boot into a Nintendo 64 emulator via a console. It all feels very close to the metal but without a great risk of damage.
You ask for anekdata, so here my 2 cents.

I was an early Gmail user, got my account though an invite from a kind slashdotter. I've introduced Google docs/drive to a few organisations successfully around 2010. A few years later the privacy issues started to become clear to me and are what started my quest for ending my Google use. Around 2013 I started moving services off Google one by one, as fast as I could find satisfactory alternatives. Gmail was the last service I left, in about 2015, because it was obviously tied to external use, and for which i made a plan with timeline. Search by the way was not hard, other engines are really quite good, otherwise just use a proxy like startpage.com.

I still have an account for the odd Drive share I have to collaborate on, but other than that, zero. I even deleted the email address this year.
I watched the talk some days ago. You apparently came to another conlusion. Do you have references about the case you mentioned?
...and a partisan obsession for relating every participant’s mask usage (or lack thereof).
uh no, please don't do that. Individual decisions that seem harmless can be incredibly destructive in the aggregate, and this is one of them.
Edward Snowden applies for Russian citizenship for sake of future son
This is a tricky question to answer. :) First and foremost we want to find the right people for our team. In order to hire people remotely across Europe we need to adapt compensation rates based on where you're located. However, if you apply from Switzerland you're probably competing with candidates from countries where the asking rate is lower, so that may be a disadvantage if everything else is "equal".

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There are some merits to AWS, I can agree with that, and there comes a point where a startup outgrows baremetal / cookie cutter VPS-es, but I disagree with "AWS is trivial" and that it takes a day or two to get things set up. For basic set up like getting a few servers done behind a load balancer and a database - sure - and I'd argue that services like DigitalOcean and Linode are actually easier to set up than AWS for basic services.

To actually do more advanced stuff (the thing that AWS is good for) and utilize tools such as Terraform, you'd essentially need to hire engineers that are experts in AWS in addition to engineers who can do devops, as there's only so much "magic" AWS can provide.
If you doubt the top 1% are creating more wealth than 40 years ago, what makes you believe the bottom 99% do?
This works in theory, but in practice when you start making estimates of engagement numbers that are twice removed from the underlying stock price, you get into trouble. The deeper you get away from a direct relationship to stock price, the harder it is to predict something in practice.
Seems to me that this sort of thinking is predicated on the the idea that infrastructure should still work like it did 10-20 years ago.

Cost is not the driving factor, and in any case, cost is often calculated wrong. Putting one set of prices 'for stuff' in one column and another set in another column and looking at the difference tells you almost nothing.

Forget about start-ups for a minute. There are certainly arguments to be made both ways there. Focus on big enterprises for a second. Infrastructure complexity isnt getting smaller over time and neither is demand. Delivering on demand and managing complexity with a bounded number of people requires a change in thinking when it comes to infrastucture writ-large. We cannot sustain the old on-premises, dinosaur pen style data centres and deliver and grow our core businesses. It just wont work... So you either go cloud or create something very cloud like and do it on-premises. Heck that is how AWS came about in the first place.

Anyone that thinks going cloud is a good way to reduce headcount is going to get a shock. Going to cloud (or lets say changing the way you do infrastructure) is a way to continue to do business with the headcount you have. It's not a question of carrying on with the 'old school' infrastructure you have, you just want keep up doing that. Do nothing and your headcout requirements are unbounded.

Anyone that thinks cloud infrastructure requires you to hire only a bunch of cloud experts is wrong. Chances are you have the bulk of the infra people you need right now. All those people that have been doing 'old school' infrastructure for years are still your most valuable resource. The mechanics of the infrastructure are fairly irrelevant (ok they are not, but in the grand scheme of things we can kind of cancel the mechanics out in the equations), oft missed value is the operational knowledge. The operational bit is what gets swept under the rug in the DevOps discussion. I believe the knowledge of how to translate existing infra into a 'new' model doesnt come from hiring DevOps people or cloud people, it comes from the infrastructure people that have been doing it for years. Leverage the intellectual capital you already have.

The flip side of that bargain is that 'old school' infrastructure people need to recognise we have to adapt. Those that dont are doomed to be cancelled out in the same equations that cancel out the mechnanics of the infrasturcture itself.

Enterprises that fail to recognise the shift are also doomed. Those start-ups we arent talking about? They can scale far more quickly and quickly get to a point where they can deliver at the level a much bigger organisation can. They can eclipse the slow movers. I assume this is why a lot of consolidation happens... The slow dudes only really have one move and that is to buy the little guys before they can get there (the Facebook defence). But thats like doubling your bet on red every time you lose at roulette. Eventually you go bust or the game moves quicker than your bankroll...

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Practically every modern receiver works fine under 700 mph(edit: apparently the COCOM limits are approximately 1,200 mph). But the data can be tampered with, and if you’re not clever about how you do it there will be some discrepancies. Presumably a company validating their data would be a relatively trustworthy way to catch the tampering. There are a couple people on Strava (a fitness app) that doctor their GPS data to shave a few seconds of their times and take the top spot on the leaderboard. Sometimes they get caught because of the discrepancies.

This is really about Shelby getting caught with a doctored video and lying about a fake record but the author is too nice to call them out on it.
Yoooo I've been waiting for a book like this for ages!
Too simple global state / store for React (feedback wanted)
> 3rd party nature of Flutter

Currently yes, but I believe long term this will change.
Though worth noting only for specific AVX-512 CPUs.

Though you can still have vectorised support for regular precision for AVX2.
Why would that mean the underground complexity is any less so in Europe?
I think Apple added translation to their latest Safari too. They recently introduced their own translation app.
The good old days of floppy disk swapping!

I used to spend a bit of time browsing Computer & Game magazines at the local newsagency and library. I think some of what I picked up came from the likes of PCMag, C+VG and a lot of trial and error.
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Ah thanks, this second link is really great analysis of that part of the code base. Cheers!
In London (where I commute), without 'mezzanine levels' or their equivalent, there's nowhere to queue and everyone would squeeze onto the platform which is a safety issue and then the police and/or the railway staff would close the station. This happens frequently when we have problems with the track or trains.

London has terminus stations - the platform the train arrives on is where the train stops, and then starts on its return journey. Trains to your destination are therefore limited by signalling and traffic, typically a 10-15 minute turn around time. On average, in London during rush hour, you have a train to your home station every 20 minutes.

Perhaps in the US all major stations are through stations, but in the UK, especially London, we just don't have that, and mezzanines are at the very minimum, a safety requirement, because the platform your train leaves from, has other passengers waiting for other trains before your one.

Platforms are not large, and trains are very, very busy, and frankly, if you've only ever caught a train in the US you are in for a huge surprise commuting in the UK.

If the US ever adopted trains like the rest of the world has, the best time for building mezzanines, and huge stations is "yesterday".
That is absurd. You could work yourself to death scrubbing dishes and it will never match the returns of inheriting a fortune from your parents. You do not live in a world where wealth is meritocratically distributed.