skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I have spotty internet but Netflix and Prime do great at buffering (on smart TV), so not an issue. Max is terrible at buffering. I don't think it buffers more than a few seconds at a time. I had to keep an additional HBO channel activated on my Prime account just to watch some HBO stuff.

I know I can save offline with an iPad and cast to the TV but too inconvenient. Will probably cancel soon.
Great point Andrew. I was shooting for an easily digestible example rather than a realistic one.

Some examples that we've actually worked on/are working on:
* Contract classification

* Content moderation

* NER

* Customer review understanding

* support ticket routing
> Ari Fleischer

Honestly I got more of a '1 life is a tragedy, 1million lives is a statistic' vibe from GP
I think this is mixing up 'Management Consultants' vs 'Engineering Consultants/Contractors'.

I'm a (supply chain) consultant which is similar and have a full time contract and full worker protections with my employer. Projects are sold on a fixed price basis, so there isn't anybody to fire - clients are buying the work output or report, not the person or set hours. Some projects are time & materials, but if the project gets cancelled I'm still getting paid - I have a full time contract.

As an example of the value prop - I come with information that your company doesn't necessarily have. Let's say you need to expand your existing (15 year old) miniload ASRS and are locked in with the incumbent provider - I know up-to-date market rates for miniloads and racking, and will be better able to credibly negotiate it down to market rates (particularly as I have probably done a project with the vendor before). I will also be better able to tell you if there is a better solution to expanding the ASRS because, while this is a '1 in 10' year activity for the client, this is what I do every day. Maybe they would be better putting some shuttles in a separate ASRS fed by the miniload because the actual bottleneck is throughput/accessions instead of storage, and their stock profile is different to what it was 15 years ago? They are better than me at running their warehouses, but (hopefully!) I'm better at specifying automation.

So that's the value proposition of consulting - you can get access to very specific expertise that you don't need for long. Most companies don't need a full time expert on specifying warehouse automation!
The pattern emerging from RF reflection across rooms is not completely obvious.

"ML" is just a very overstated word for: "I have a handful of example data and a library that does basic math things"
When I was in my late teens I briefly worked in a warehouse. Work was okay. Pay for what it was was okay. I would _not_ have liked an abrupt no options policy like this imposed. At least make it palatable with a premium per shift as well as make it optional. Ramming it like this will only make people resent it. In a non surveillance world, I’m certain shrinkage would go up from either theft or from intentional mishandling/damage.
https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-b... FTW
Not for long if this gets popular
Ha! This is amazing -- we did a similar process for an EEG research project, and it was stellar (working memory and learning curves)! Until now, I didn't have the right words to articulate what we did - so thank you for the incantation!
>> Starlink satellites are in orbit 550km high. So any journey would add at least 1100km

Might want to check with Pythagoras on that one..
Not to make light of these puns, but they aren't very coherent...
Last I tried to bind to ObjC APIs through C you needed to use NSAutoReleasePool at some point, and to interact with the GC as the APIs expect.

There was no option to use anything else. Has that changed?
Yes. Keyboard, Mousepad, Display, Sound, Graphics.

I mean input lag [1] is easily 50ms. But some of them requires software changes. And any thing software is expensive. The cost of this new Cable is only $300M. Hardware innovation is getting faster and cheaper than Software.

[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
The computer built to last 50 years
I second all of this, and this line from the fine article resonated deeply:

> That’s what I want from my products. I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so.

I too have the same "writer's block" issue for ideas. I've got some, but I dunno, it just seems so hopeless to gamble and go that route.

For now, I've managed to scrimp and invest enough from the day job, I may just quit and putter on projects until I hit on something. If I don't make enough to cover costs, I can try freelancing/consulting. Worst case, I can go back to the corporate grind.

> I'm not much of an idea guy. I can build stuff. I can get really passionate about how things "should be" and implement process and infrastructure to get there. But whatever "it" is, just hasn't come to me yet.

Me too, friend. Me too.
> Social media, other big (and small) tech, pharma, and banking

If you're ordering by importance, I 100% agree with "social media" being at the top of the list, and this almost cannot be emphasized enough.

I say almost because this article is about McKinsey and the role it played in the opioid crises. As an article it's also light on details, so I'm let down that I come to HN-- which is often great at filling in details-- and begin to read low-effort exchanges about the implications of someone's hair cut.

What do people know about McKinsey's relationship with Purdue in this case of pushing opioids into treatments where they didn't belong? I'd like to know more about that. And when I can blithely complain about the shit UX of a billion dollar company on HN and get a direct response from management, I'd expect information from PR nerds about McKinsey's role in the opioid crises and the ongoing lawsuits against them to flow to HN, too.

It isn't productive if we keep hop-scotching over the meat of every article to talk about some other hazard to society that isn't mentioned in the article. If that's going to be the flow then the next article that pops up about Google's monopolistic practices will instantly veer off into whatabout Visa/Mastercard's monopolistic practices, as it did before.

Edit: clarification
If you ever need to find a desire path, for whatever reason, the first place to go is any college campus/quad.

Every corner is cut and all open spaces are crisscrossed with paths.

I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success.
Same with the people I know at Mckinsey. I makes sense though, companies contract out the work that would cause them bad publicity. Then when someone writes a news story they can say "hey, that wasn't us, it was the consultants."
Signal was federated at one point: https://lwn.net/Articles/687294/

Moxie, one of the original authors of the Signal protocol, said federation severely restricted flexibility and so they had to move on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668912
I think FB’s policy is to comply with local laws regardless of ethical concerns?
Great point, and it works great for Ted, but Ted is only but one format. For academic purposes, I would go with all the opposite.
d=r(1/cos(s/(2r))-1)=3958(1/cos(6906/7916)-1)~=2198 mi; Yes, into the lower mantle with only 692 mi to go to the outer core. What I would love the internetz to explain is how to justify the h8 for HFT, yet the luv for Musk since he is the one in the driver's seat at the moment for this stuff with StarLink and the Boring company.
I know of many CS PhDs working at McK doing MBA-facing jobs.

So really, I don't see the difference.
One of the Mckinsey decks that got leaked can be found here in case anyone's curious

https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/comments/k2c8ku/mckinsey...
Are they fundamentally incompatible other than arbitrary restrictions applied by the business?
As of March 2019, Netflix is reported [0] to have 60 petabytes of data. Google tells me that 60 petabytes / 250 terabits per second comes out to 32 minutes. I’m not sure that translates to the layperson who might not appreciate what a petabyte is, but in the space of a single show you could theoretically transfer the contents of Netflix’s entire library over this pipe. So basically almost enough bandwidth to transfer the average user’s porn stash in a single day!

[0]: https://zeenea.com/metacat-netflix-makes-their-big-data-acce...
Haha some of them are probably annoyed. But luckily one friend spent an entire class on the book and wrote a paper on it. So they're sympathetic.
Consensus Redux: Distributed Ledgers in the Face of Adversarial Supremacy (2020) [pdf]
I'm not arguing that the harm isn't there. I'm arguing that the harm they cause is second order and smaller.

And just as a small rebuttal: the small companies are usually owned by larger companies. So while they may not be "the company" people think of, they're still part of "that company." The connection is certainly just as direct as a McKinsey-client connection.
I think theoretical/practical background will allow me to figure stuff out as I go with relative ease. Often times in bioinformatics there are useful vignettes a Google search away. But you are right that specialized tools and libraries which I haven't used before are likely needed. At least for me the main bottleneck will be proper space for processing and the aspect of (reusable) hardware to keep costs down costs. While NanoPores appear to have hidden costs it still seems to be way cheaper than other methods if I want to have my own sequencing rig.
I’m not so sure. Moxies reasons about how federation leads to protocol development slowing and then freezing are solid.

It’s why we re not using smtp for chat. SMTP can’t be extended enough so replacements are built instead.
Similarly if signal federated, eventually it would freeze and a few years later users would move to wherever they could get new features.

Federation is a good thing but only when the protocol is finished or if there is a forcing mechanism to allow updates to the protocol. ethereum/Bitcoin are good examples as they have flag days that force the value of currency to be in the balance to keep the protocol moving forward.
I mean, RSS fits well to prepare data to go somewhere. Just the offline part you probably do not need. Create your pipe, share the account, or let the other developer fork the pipe. The tool that in the end consumes the feed can just work with the online feed directly from Pipes - those tools expect an url anyway.
They appeared in my history, I think you re-open them one by one based on their title.
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Radio broadcasts in US territories do not pay the performer, but they do pay a fee to the songwriter.
None of the dozens of cases were based on evidence, so of course they were dismissed. Judges don't just throw them out because they "see where the wind blows".
A lot of content is not available as streaming flat rates but via various rental or purchase platforms (iTunes, Amazon Video, etc.)

There’s no (and there should be no) obligation to make things available for bargain dollars. If the publisher things the movie is worth a $15 dollar purchase or $8 rental, they can charge that. It’s our right not to watch it if we don’t think it’s worth that.
I agree with the conclusions, but the premise that “source code is worthless” is click-baity and misleading.

After having gone through a few M&A discussions with a high-tech software startup this is how I think about it: Nobody wants to buy just the source code. Talent / team that is used to work together and has proven itself has some value (i.e. “talent acquisition”), but valuation won’t be very high. What’s really valuable is talent and code (with IPR rights) combined.

But don’t think you can put the source code on GitHub under an MIT license and it won’t affect your M&A discussion... ;)
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If all the traffic going via the proxies is e2e encrypted is there much that can happen?
Ransomware Payoffs Surge by 311% to Nearly $350M
My understanding is that GCP is essentially selling off extra capacity in those data centers, so for example your VM running in GCP is scheduled by Borg under the hood. So it's more like GCP runs on Google, rather than Google running on GCP.
My apologies if I caused offense. In terms of focus I advocate for the power of "and" although I disagree with your characterization of the problems raised as "smaller inward-focused." The wars and droning are not small nor inward-focused. The ramming was referred to in gallows humor as I don't think the Navy is so incompetent that they would think ramming cargo vessels would be effective, just incompetent enough to be accident-prone.

The g-parent comment asserts that "China must be stopped" and I started thinking about what aspect(s) of China do they want to stop. Certainly they don't want to end the country and its inhabitants. Maybe they want to stop some behaviors that cause harm in the world? What behaviors would those be? The comment uses the past tense "stopped" instead of "stop" so the implication is that some not-China entity performs the stopping.

So what behavior to stop and what entity to do the stopping? Are the actions necessary to stop the behavior proportionate and are they likely effective? To predict this, I look to the track record of previous attempts to "stop" nations and it isn't pretty. My comment came from thinking about what has happened in the US over the course of this century as it has embarked on ever newer crusades to stop this or that.
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Haha of course. I don't have any experience being a democrat in, say, Wyoming, so I'm not entirely sure if my observation is correct. But I would genuinely feel like my career is in jeopardy if I wore a MAGA hat to the tech office. I can't imagine the vice versa scenario being equally widespread in right-wing communities. So even though I live in more leftist circles, it does feel like the outrage is more intense in general.

I understand there are two sides so our natural inclination is to say "both sides are equally bad!" like disciplining children or something. But sometimes one side is a little worse than the other at a particular moment in history. I don't think it makes me a partisan to point some things out.
This is what brought me to fish! Finally, a shell for the 90s!

Maybe I should dive into Go...
Ironically despite the lower cost, the German medical system also provides a wider range of services than are provided in the US.

For example my mother in law had an unusual cancer and after her treatments she had a rest spa paid for; once the treatments could no longer help she had in home care. In the US, good luck.
I Finally Started Getting Programming
I think you missed the (a bit pedantic) joke about units
>It's neither a conspiracy, nor a scheme, nor a world of wealthy indulgence

But it is a crime the company is responsible for that caused many people to die and become addicted to opioids.

You think Kim Jong Un walks among the people he starves to death on a daily basis in North Korea? No. He's too high up. He's in his palace in the capital and he doesn't even see the real state of his country. He just hears about it in reports and goes to do his day to day job like any other person in a company disconnected from the consequences of their actions.

Does this mean Kim Jong Un is not guilty? No. Not. at. all.

Does this mean McKinsey's is not guilty?

Does this mean you're not guilty?
> But labor experts say the move to consolidate shifts in the warehouse industry is a tactic long used by employers to cut back on labor costs; hiring and scheduling fewer workers for longer shifts means paying for fewer benefits.

It's still 40 hours per person per week, and they run 24/7, so the only way this could reduce the number of benefits they have to pay for is if people on this schedule legitimately work better. While this could very well be the case (doctors and nurses for example typically work long shifts to reduce the risks associated with shift changes), I don't really see that being the case here where it doesn't really matter who is handling a package.

Further, the alternative scenario with lots of shorter shifts is a frequent predatory practice which allows employers to hire lots of part time individuals who do not qualify for benefits as well as giving them leverage over their employees by threatening to give them bad shifts and insufficient hours. It would be one thing if day shift workers were being asked to switch back and forth between day and night shifts with short notice, but that's not what's happening here. They are being offered a different position with steady hours to completely replace their current one. It would be silly to say that once you've accepted a day shift position you're ineligible from being offered a night shift position.

The article also frames this as exploiting existing workers who will get fired if they don't comply. But would it have been better for either the employees or amazon to just lay off everyone at the closing location and fill the new warehouses with all new hires, thus forcing those who would have been fine with working there into a difficult job market and depriving Amazon of skilled employees? One might make the argument that the current warehouse should not have been closed in the first place, but the factors which caused that decision and its merits are beyond the scope of this discussion. Regardless, giving everyone the voluntary option to remain employed in some capacity when closing a facility is, at least in my opinion, good practice which should not be vilified.
I disagree. It’s the offloading of a decision space very carefully explored. Perhaps “language” and “syntax” can be generalized (ie “excrement”), but the ability to offload a decision space about how to react to a given scenario, without requiring someone to be actively thinking about the minutiae of the problem space, will always have value.

Whether that takes the form of a dependency graph in a software application or a set of assumptions (with their corresponding citations) in a scientific journal, the decision tree (inclusive of dependency graph) will always be essential.
I guess wifi chips are all designed the same way, they all have a firmware.
No, the example was made in jest after thinking about various actions by other countries that should be stopped.
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Adding to what Raza as said - to your point on "real active learning" hardly working. I would be interested to hear what approaches you took?
We've found that the quality of the uncertainty estimate for your model is quite important for active learning to work well in practise. So applying good approximations for the model uncertainty for modern sized transformer models (like BERT) is an important consideration
Profit for a study like this is likely on the order of $1M
Ethics? I don't care too much if mouse company gets more money for their empire from me or not. Lets be real, that money more less goes to people that have nothing to do with people that create shows/content etc.

But thats beside the point, I don't care much about it. I am adult, I earn money and at this point in my life my time IS worth money.

If the effort/cost of watching a show it greater than firing up torrents, I will fire up torrents.

Its not like pirating a show is free, there are hidden 'costs' involved (time == money). You have to manually track episodes you watch, and if interrupted, where you stopped mid episode. You have to get the right version/quality etc etc... All of it is some effort that you have to put in.

When you are young or dont have much spare cash, that cost feels much smaller.

Watching via Netflix et al. have none of those inconvenience 'costs'.

Start netflix -> continue watching. Done. I am now watch it.

However the moment that actual subscription costs and hassle of managing subscriptions exceedes 'cost of inconvinience' of piracy. I will pirate it. If I want to watch show X and netfix have only season 1-5 in EU and 1-7 in US, i will pirate it. I pay for netflix and I pirate its shows cuz for some reason even tho EU pays more for Netflix subscriptions we get reduced catalog!

I am not sure why this seems so hard for business people to understand. You will never get all people to pay for the 'digital goods'. And thats ok.

But the moment that you start throwing obstacles in the way of people willing to pay... well, thats just pushing your customers into BitTorrent arms.

I myself only use Netflix at the moment, I am not going to buy disney+ just to watch mandalorian.

Ethical/lawful or not, I don't care. I am a customer, you make an effort.
for anyone wondering how US healthcare got to where it is today, this is a succinct historical summary in the form of a podcast, by a historian.

https://www.econtalk.org/christy-ford-chapin-on-the-evolutio...
Unless you are Waymo and the theft is by one of your employees.
Totally agree, and I also generally find the article poorly written. I would reduce it to the following statements: 1. HBO is not showing the entire Tom and Jerry collection, which is bad because even though some episodes contain offensive stereotypes the show is culturally significant and unavailable elsewhere. 2. HBO streaming has bad UX.

Most of the article seems devoted to 1 and focused on the 'cancel culture' reasons why HBO might not be showing the full catalog while also admitting that there is also a large amount of the catalog not on HBO that is not plausibly part of the several episodes that would be targeted for being cancelled. Seems like the premise of the article kind of falls apart at that point, a little self-refuting.

Having the Jetsons and Flintstones on streaming has been a blast for me as well.
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Legally, no. Ethically...maybe? The United States does have a long tradition of allowing grey areas when rightsholders become unreasonable. Oftentimes these wind up being formalized as right-of-ways, easements, or other access rights.

In the case of online streaming, its clear that the rightsholders are consolidated and engaged in monopolistic, anti-consumer behavior. Piracy is a natural response to that type of behavior, so is it really wrong for consumers to fight back?
> "This beauty is relative...."

that doesn't seem to be the right descriptor for what you're relating. a lot of modern art, at a visceral level, is visually ugly and modern music sonically ugly (often but not always intentionally), but you can appreciate the context and the ideas around it and find those abstractions beautiful for their cleverness, intricacy, or whatever (as you can find a math equation elegant, or a piece of music passionate).

the level to which you appreciate those contexts and ideas would be 'relative'. a lot of human affect contextualizes in a narrow band of difference when zoomed out, but our brains are attuned to those narrow bands (like how radio stations exist in a relatively narrow band of frequencies), which is to say what we find beautiful is mostly similar, and our relativity is relatively slight.
> It doesn't matter if it's bullshit, it matters if people that can move the markets will trade on it.

Since anyone can reach any conclusion depending on which indicators and which parameters they use, technical analysis can't and won't tell you how "people that can move the markets" will decide.
what.cd did it just fine for music and that was a tiny community.

There are a several longstanding open projects out there to compile metadata databases that are free to use like: https://musicbrainz.org/statistics (33 million tracks)

Music is less than 100 million items, Movies fewer than 1 million, TV somewhere in between and books are a few hundred million. I'm sure they all have mostly-complete metadata databases available already.
Meh, he said at least. There could be cases where you beam up then down nearly vertically (same city).
Easy to say when it is not your life or your families’ lives at risk.