skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://discord.gg/rust-lang

There is also a community run server but I don’t know its URL offhand.
Same thing in California. I have the exact same situation going on. We had to unplug our equipment because using our own would effectively mean a 35 dollar cost to use it, because they offer "unlimited internet" (the old non-data capped service that used to be standard) for a discount. So, 15 cable modem rental gives saves you 50 for "unlimited" — you just have to use their gear! The customer benefits!

It's crazy making. I do NOT want them to know everything about how we use their service, what devices are connected, usage patterns, etc. But we can't avoid it. We're getting data farmed and we're billed extra if we don't allow it.

This bill does nothing to alleviate this situation for customers, and Comcast just announced that this data cap scheme is going to be rolling out across their network.
I've love to be pointed to some empirical evidence to the contrary, but it's hard for me to take anything written by Matt Stoller seriously. A lot of it comes off as knee jerk populism.

I do think tech needs much more scrutiny than it currently receives, but this kind of writing doesn't help imho.
They mean "obscure if you're American." The same way The Clash is an obscure band.
I didnt say that Atlantic is correct. I only meant that his tweets dont prove anything wrong about the accusation.
What your analysis is missing is the profit margin of each car maker. Never mind market share, what is Tesla's profit share? Does someone know this?
Most do not become wealthy or even approximate “rich.”

Most are simply made whole after years of being underpaid.

Looking at successful exits (the ones you hear about) as your indicator of the market state is lopsided and inaccurate. I have one friend who did well in an exit. I have countless other friends who have been in and out of startups that either fail, get rolled into another company with little/no cash landing in their pockets, or get acquired for a pittance.

You are looking at the Michael Jordans and Kobe Bryants and deciding that everyone can win big in basketball.
Hard enough bread keeps for years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack

Yeah it's not that palatable, but we're talking about a survival strategy. It's biscuit or death.
That’s the whole point. I, as a young and healthy European, prefer to earn half or less than I would make in the USA, but live in a society where almost nobody is left behind. The benefits of living in a place where you earn enough to have a decent live even with the minimum wage, are above my personal profit to me.
The other thing is that what indie creators do now is different from what they used to. Blogs, Instagrams, YouTube clips, tweets, apps, games, etc. Making a whole movie, writing a whole book, nobody takes time to consume those things anymore, much less produce them.
Tell them what? That if they had invested part of their huge six figure salaries into a diversity of tech stocks over the past several years they could have been actual millionaires by now instead of waiting this long for some IPO sitting on bubbly valuations that could pop in an instant?

Gladly. I hope they form a single file line.
> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I'm sorry if I violated the site rules, but I don't see how? At the time of my post, there was no hint or indication of lostgame being a victim of sexual assault [1].

I'm familiar with the concept of "steelmanning" an argument, but I don't think we should be expected to treat an argument as stronger than a reasonable interpretation warrants, given the information available at the time (sometimes called "supermanning").

[1] And I'm truly sorry for being insensitive, albeit unknowingly and unintentionally so.
What is incentivizing law firms to do it? It is not as if engineers will say "Oh, is your law firm Cooley? I am joining then".

The party that can make industry-wide changes are the VC firms.
Also, how would one effectively verify that militaries were disarming? History is littered with examples of militaries not actually doing so when they said they would.
Show HN: UK Company Dashboard and Search (Lockdown Project)
Hi HN,

https://companies.bx.tc

My colleague and I put together this tool for easily searching UK company data. We run a few server side batches daily to extract data from various government sources before linking it all together in (what is now) a fairly large database.

We're also using this project as a way to test out a new JS UI library we built (similar to Vue, but a bit faster) to see how it stands up in a real project.

We'd love to hear your feedback and any ideas you have for how we can improve the dashboard!

Thanks :)
>their market cap is $659B.

WOW. I knew their stock price has been like a rocket but I dont follow them closely. ( They were over priced ages ago ).

But $660B! Shouldn't that make Elon Musk the richest person on earth? I remember he owns 20% of Tesla?

Edit: Turns out Jeff Bezos [1], even after the divorce settlement , has a net worth of ~$187B. Elon is at $146B. Until SpaceX's IPO at ~$100B [2], which will add roughly $54B to his net worth... he will be the richest on Earth.

I mean I dont know how Tesla is a $600B company, but I sure as hell think SpaceX is worth a lot more than $100B.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/12/19/elon...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/10/23/elon-mu...
Meh. Seems like a lot of hot air over nothing significant.
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For gun stores, auto repair shops and the like, I adopt the approach that supposedly it takes 15 minutes of close exposure to become infected (obviously probabilistically), so if I absolutely must visit one of those places I aim to be in and out in less than 10 minutes.
I was using Firefox's reader view
That is almost like the decription from "The Three Body Problem" how the aliens in the three star system handled winter. I wonder if there is an asian folk tale that might be the basis for both.
But there’s also been a lot of research suggesting most SOTA dense networks are arbitrarily replicatable with sparse networks, and may even be better in the sense of less overfitting. Perhaps things like GPT are still an exception, but for most applications SLIDE should work to train networks just as effective as naively specified dense architectures.
I can vouch that MacOS font rendering really became an eyesore on desktop monitors became after I updated to Catalina. It genuinely results in an inability to parse letters when using certain common fonts, and next to Windows and Linux it is by far the worst of the three.
> It's not quite a subset, not quite a superset, but rather a variant.

So it sounds like it's not aligned-enough to take advantage of TS's expansive ecosystem? It's more just "a high-level language designed for WASM, with syntactic decisions familiar to people who know TS but which don't actually make it compatible". That's a much less compelling proposition
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Or maybe you're trying to rationalize your investment thesis after buying into the stock.

- Sincerely, a TSLA hodler since summer 2019, when I bought my first car, a Tesla.

I'll be holding the stock I have, but I don't think traditional car companies are going away any time soon. On the contrary, I'm thinking of getting a Taycan, a BMW or some other EV car.

Tesla isn't overpriced per se, but once the spigot of cheap debt and printed money stops, we might see a good decline from the stock market. Not that I'm going to bet against the market either.
AWS's offerings for this are NOT cheap
> That shows he's learned from a few mistakes

Honestly, that’s pretty out of character for Michael Scott. For a character who otherwise repeatedly makes the same mistakes over and over again, to show even that tiny bit of insight is a pretty big plot twist that maybe he’s not completely the bumbling oaf he lets on.

I’m not saying he’s secretly a Machiavellian genius, but his stupid antics belie what seems to be a pretty high emotional IQ at times (in sales and management, at least).
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I trust you are smart enough to be well aware of the kind of bias you are bringing to the table with this judgement, in addition to some plain inaccuracies (actual startups - not AirBnB years deep into its lifecycle where the equity being doled out is not going to make you rich in an exit) regarding compensation vs giants like any FAANG.

I am glad you are excited about working at startups. There are a lot of people on here with a LOT of working experience who have seen this game play out over and over and are not dazzled by a handful of giants making it out anymore.

Yes, it’s probably better odds than the literal lottery. That does not say a lot. Anyhow, I’m happy you’re excited and am not going to convince you - clearly. Enjoy your weekend dude.
It's unclear wether vitamins and electrolytes supplements were necessary or not during this fast. If you read the paper:

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf

It looks like supplements were not given continuously.

I'm not an expert but some doctors on youtube point to studies which show stable levels of many things during extended fasting:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9374844/

https://thefastingmethod.com/vitamins-and-calcium/

Fat, liver, kidney store lots of useful things.

Some things like salt are easy to find all year anyway, they don't run away :).
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Not the richest, but the second richest according to current estimates. Second to Jeff Bezos only, who also massively increased his wealth this year.

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ (I had to disable essentially all content blockers to get this site to load.)
Anyone who thinks they are going to use their private car as a robotaxi doesn't understand how much they're going to spend on maintenance and insurance.

EVs may cost less to maintain their ICEs, but they still have moving parts that need to be replaced.

And taxi insurance is quite expensive; it's one of the reasons that driving for Uber/Lyft is a losing proposition for most of their drivers even before they take vehicle wear-and-tear into account. For autonomous driving, for a company with the worst safety record for AI-driving in the industry, that insurance may cost more than their combined insurance costs for everything else combined (i.e., house, healthcare, other cars, etc.).
"What the lawsuit is referring to is just WhatsApp adding the option of backing up your chat history to Google Drive on android devices."

Can you explain how that's any different from "granting Google access to millions of Americans’ end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messages, photos, videos, and audio files."?
Kudos for your self-awareness. Have a squirt of dopamine^W^W^W upvote. ;)

I have noticed the same reactions myself, and dislike them. I am slowly and gradually learning to be able to deflect that angry defensive reply impulse. Simple awareness seems to be the first step. I don't know yet what to do about the upvote thrill.
I would highly recommend Emery Berger's talks [1] for anyone interested in benchmarking software. The alignment and code layout in memory that huayra mentions has shockingly large performance implications.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A
The S&P 500 indices far outweigh other indices in the ETF space. Other ETFs tend to be for more risky domains. I agree with GP, Tesla should have been included way back, during the first jump to 250.
There’s at least two layers of indirection and yes I probably could fool you or just blatantly lie.
Your agreement was $25/month, so if they start to charge you $120 you pay them $25 and then cancel the service. This is very annoying but do happen dealing with unscrupulous businesses. Although if they have 500% margin eg. you pay $5 for something you can get for $1 elsewhere they will care more about keeping you as a customer. Compared to for example a cloud bill, renting a VPS is both cheaper and more predictive. If you are however paying $25/month you should start looking at dedicated servers, where all resources are preserved for you.
you assume no one is putting part of their base salary and cash bonus in the stock like any other person would. of course they are. just because the equity portion of your comp is illiquid vs someone else doesn’t mean you don’t have the means to save and invest.
>will not want to have spent them in waste.

And will at least think about what this means.
That's true, but I'm not referring to the show but the article/theory of work interactions.
This is far more concerning to me

https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1340073777573539840...

That's a lot of shares trading hands and its got alot of optionality coming due.

Remember that stocks usually drop right after they are added to the index as the arbs tend to over shoot and then get out quick once their even has happened.
This is what an engineer would say and that's important but, behind the scenes it's all about operating costs (e.g. administration). I worked with Cisco on a contract, they had about 22 folks managing the day to day operation for a specific on premise integration. Imagine if Cisco didn't have to pay 22 folks to manage the day to day? Let's say we cut that need in half but the licensing price remained the same or you could repurpose good engineers to deliver value elsewhere?

All of the elastic and horizontal stuff is great, but that's covered under SLA.
Yes, we have some bus services (Greyhound, like in the movies, and a bus that goes between towns once a day) but I've never been on one and don't know anyone who has. Kids begin driving age 16 and under that age are typically driven places by a friend or parent, so there's not much need for busses.

Also: younger kids are ferried back and forth to school in special yellow busses that are only used for school service. So actually there _is_ a widespread public transport service all over the US but people don't think of it as such because it's run by the schools and only usable by school kids. Some companies run their own busses too for their workers, to and from the plant, to suit shift hours.
Last quarter TSLA reported earnings of 62 cents per share. That makes for a P/E ratio of 1321 at $695/share. (Per Thinkorswim)
> I am asexual by choice due to several instances of violent sexual assault.

I am sorry for what you had to endure. However, I think you're using the term "asexual" in a non-standard way, and I believe that has led me and others to misinterpret your original post. One cannot "choose" to be asexual, the same way as one cannot choose to be homosexual or heterosexual. One can, however, choose to be sexually abstinent or inactive. Would you agree that this is a better description of your lifestyle?
Heck, let's also not forget that patents aren't copyright.

Patents last 20 years, and it's not unusual for 5 of those to past between filing and the invention being turned into a usable product that hits the market.
CD Projekt's bad week: a breakdown
"A rush to release, a bugged-out game, a refund disaster, a GOG debacle... has it really only been seven days?"
A filter that works on a still image doesn't necessarily work well on motion graphics, because you need a certain stability from frame to frame.
My investment thesis was made prior to my purchase, not after. I make a decision and I stick to it. This is a 5-year investment for me.
> I feel like Windows Update didn't used to be such a shitshow.

Did you cross over from a parallel universe, because Windows Update always was, to use the term of endearment, a shitshow:

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+update+deleted+docum...
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That, and I usually comment my ffmpeg commands to understand what I wanted it to do when I get back to it later.
Since this post in 2013, the major change in the US is the addition of 83(i) [1].

At least that way, folks who believe the stock will be liquid within 5 years, but don’t want to wait can exercise, defer taxes, change jobs and see how it goes. As the article says though:

> And, as in any option exercise, paying the exercise price itself is an investment risk and having a tax-deferred exercise does not make the exercise risk-free.

[1] http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/tax-deferred-option-exerc...
> What’s more frightening is the political corruption that Google and Facebook are enabling. Thousands of newspapers have fallen apart over the past ten years, and over the next three, thousands more will collapse. Aside from killing pro-social institutions like newspapers, these platforms have been inducing significant harms society-wide, from enabling ethnic cleansing abroad and divisiveness in Western democracies, to undermining our economy writ large. The end state is frightening.

I honestly laughed at the claim that newspapers are "pro-social." What evidence is there for that? And while certainly social media reduces barriers against certain awful mob behavior, it's hardly reasonable that Facebook or Google are responsible, especially since in the very next paragraph he gripes about YouTube ruling over creators with an iron fist.

I despise both of these companies and want to see the world rid of them in their current forms, but this whole article is fairly silly. Openly celebrating an authoritarian strongman like New Deal trust-buster Thurmond Arnold is not exactly my idea of "rule of law," which Stoller repeatedly appeals to and claims to cherish.
> There are industrialized countries with less than 1/3 the per capita death rate of the US.

Are we reducing a multivariate phenomenon to public policy?

Clearly the US is horrifically unhealthy, could have different age demographics, etc.

At the end of the day, no I don't think I have the right to tell someone who's possibly struggling already they cannot work.

This is all a massive bet ignoring the massive costs that everyone else in society have to bear.

And sadly none of the supposed smart people making these decisions will bear the cost (and we know they never make bad decisions /s).
Yes. I get the impression that often they simply don't know how to put these masks on -- you need to pull them apart somewhat so they extend from the nose bridge to the chin. If you don't know that's how they're fitted, you'll end up with either of the nose or bottom of the mouth uncovered.
Ask HN: Looking for a recent blog post on the state of Speech Recognition
I remember seeing a post here a few months ago, from a veteran (Mozilla co-founder?). They talked about their perception and experience of where the field of speech recognition products is right now and where we could be headed. They had some brilliant insights and I remember saving the story for later. But I'm unable to find it in my saves and multiple searches on HN and Google didn't lead me to that article. If someone remembers the article, I'd be grateful if you could share it here.
I think the public is assailed by so much content that it unconsciously protects itself against it. One way is the star system, which is what we are seeing here.
You say "I've enjoyed them much more than the machine learning I've done". I actually find the machine learning the LEAST interesting thing about a data science career in the sense that it's just another tool in your DS toolbox to solve open-ended problems that no one has properly tackled before. It sits in the same box as bar charts, web scraping, asking better questions etc. and you can do valuable work with a variety of approaches, not all of them machine learning. Not sure exactly what part of data science you feel you don't enjoy, and it sounds like you DO enjoy a variety of technical disciplines, but I was just curious whether you wholly equate data science with machine learning.
Meritocracy is a good thing and we should never stop striving for it. The problem isn't that some strive for meritocracy, the problem is when people argue that they are meritocratic when they aren't. It is pretty easy to argue that there is plenty of merit in hiring women, like adding diversity to teams has benefits and so on, I don't see why you need to argue against the concept itself.

> The concept of a meritocracy sounds nice on paper, but I think it ignores how humans work.

Not really, the concept is nice both on paper and in reality. The most successful companies in the world today are much more meritocratic than most organizations that preceded them, they produce great results using it, the concept works great. And I don't see why you think it wouldn't, we humans have two signals, merit and bias. Without merit we just go by our biases. The problems you describe doesn't come from focusing too much on merit but too little on it.
Oh you know a setup's going to be good when the discord has its own github group and website haha https://github.com/python-discord
Ok, we've changed the title to the less objectionable subtitle above.

Assuming there was not an earlier production RISC-based personal computer.
34 million adults in the U.S. still smoke.
The credentials are not enough. I am French and replaced the ISP (Orange) provided router (which is a piece of crap) with my own router.

The reverse engineering needed to get access is huge. There are people who managed to match the credentials with the DHCP request to be sent but Orange can change this anytime.

Other providers (Bouygues for instance) are easier as they do not try to do that.

What surprises me is that they have maybe 0.001% of their subscribers who will even think about replacing the box (and dealing withe the issues as this is not supported) so I tend to think that the ISP is just dumb rather than malicious.
>Making a whole movie, writing a whole book, nobody takes time to consume those things anymore, much less produce them.

Books maybe, but aren't people watching more movies than ever?

The thing is, they're also watching a smaller slice of the movies produced than ever...
I actually agree with you if you redefine all the terms in this way, but then we are talking about something else.
the first game with a built in level editor

Pinball Construction Set pre-dates Lode Runner.

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

In the circles I traveled in, PCS was far more popular than Lode Runner.
Yeah I just make bunch of bash files (which also contains comment) for specific scenarios.
Arm processors are more energy efficient.
> Do your best to be confident, kind, and engaged and you will run circles around the characters enumerated here, even the "winners".

Yes! That's why we have great leaders like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg,Elizabeth Holmes, Vladimir Putin.

If anything the guide was not cynical enough. I saw stuff 10x worse in corporate environments.
Acorn was well known in its day, not at all obscure.
It's a nothingburger if all they're doing is just backing up WhatsApp user data. It's not if the terms of the agreement allowed for anything else, which we don't really know because that part of the complaint has been redacted.
Agreed. If I recall correctly, around the same time, Electronic Arts was capturing some similar success by releasing several games with "Construction Set" in the name. Did Lode Runner inspire this?

A lesser known Lode Runner clone that I particularly enjoyed was "Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory," [1] though the Wikipedia page claims the gameplay was more similar to Miner 2049er. I think the addition of a level builder made it less like Miner and more like Lode Runner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_and_His_Robot_Factor...
“ A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.”

What part of this contradicts the title?