skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also just to run the math on an example for "actually be much more direct for many people when crossing oceans": say someone is somewhere on the southern coast of Alaska, be it more towards King's Cove or back towards Newhalen, and want to talk to someone in Sapporo Japan. As the bird flies that's something like a 2500-3000 mile distance. But in practice there is no undersea cable direct linking Alaska and Asia (unless that's changed in the last year or two). Instead a connection probably has to go to Anchorage, then to Seattle, then probably to Tokyo, and then out to the rest of Japan from there. This could easily turn a 2500 mile path into a 7300 mile path. Starlink satellites in the current plan AFAIK are going to heavily be in shells 214 to 350 miles high (including Ku/Ka band current ones and future V-band ones). At 350 mi orbit, so maybe a 700-1000 mile up/down penalty, total distance could still be half the cable distance in this example, even before latency advantages.
Starlink satellites are in orbit 550km high. So any journey would add at least 1100km. Moreover not sure that a single satellite would be able to hit another one across transpacific distances and may need to go through multiple hops to get there.

Each hop will add latency since signal needs regeneration. So it’s not clear to me a swarm of satellites is a real winner from a latency POV. Furthermore, given costs to put the constellation up there, it’s extremely expensive on a $/bit basis and not sure how it could compete against fiber.

The value of Starlink is providing service in areas lacking existing broadband infrastructure where the cost to provide service exceeds the cost of Starlink.
The number of residency spots is an artificial barrier to being able to properly practice medicine. That number is controlled by doctors.
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If you accept the idea that programming is theory building, it's not that difficult to see when source code isn't worthless - when it's not the slow slog of building a theory entirely of well known facts, but when it contains leaps of insight.

There is also value in knowing which particular theories you're fleshing out vs. ignoring.
McKinsey is particularly known for obfuscating experience level and favoring a funnel of new ivy or ivy-like grad (often at graduate level, mind) through an internal bootcamp approach and out into the world as "expert".

I think that's what the GP was poking at.

You aren't wildly wrong on the job as a whole, though reasonably often it's more to escort boring bad ideas through the politics for someones benefit. And on the "amoral" front, they know what side their bread is buttered on.
yes, I have a regular profile and a kids profile and permissions get screwed up all the time when i switch between them to the point where i have to reboot the apple tv
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Everyone complaining this is just a cat-and-mouse game, it’s not a game these people choose to play.
They either play it or their movement dies.
I thought this was about me until I got to the word Rich in the title.
I lament the fate of another Yahoo-acquired property, Konfabulator.
Bestbuy, Target, Costco, and even Walmart are what I try to order from.

Waiting a few extra days is a small cost.
Man, you're really getting the short end of the stick here - it's actually pretty surprising because even though the forum is tech heavy, you wouldn't expect this much hate on consulting as a business model.

Outliers like the Opioid stuff aside, I do think most day to day typical things that consultants do is valuable work for companies. Say you're launching a new product and want to figure out cost based / value based pricing - it's either a single person in the company that does that that might not have a lot of experience in that area or a consultant from a consulting company that has a good track record at doing value based pricing specifically. I know who I'm going to pick.
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I’ve also seen them referred to as “safety collars”.
>So to ladder down you need to control the entire demand in the market

Isn't that what they did with robinhood/others restrictions?
There was an article in 2014: "Imagining a Rebel Firefox" ( https://medium.com/@efrensandoval/imagining-a-rebel-firefox-... ) which played with the idea if every firefox node would become tor(ish) gateway.

Is there no way to build this in the Signal clients themselves? Eg. on is on a wifi, try to upnp, ask the user if they'd wish to help.
Great project... I'll be trying out Pro too.
> Code is eternal.

Especially win32 apps, thanks both to windows and wine

> Even if the project is 'dead' it still runs, particularly on Windows.

For software I want to run long term, I always get the win32 version.
Spam filter is an interesting choice of motivating example, since usually it is your users labeling the data, rather than something that happens during the R&D process. You could try to use active learning but I'm not sure the users would like that product experience.
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Signal should be federated. This censorship problem would not exist, or would be organically routed around, were the service federated.

Without federation, Signal is just another stepping stone in the long path of eventually abandoned instant messengers, all the way back from ICQ. We will get to an SMTP-like protocol, and email-like service, at some point. If not Signal, some other one.
I think this is like morphine: really stops the pain, until you're so addicted it kills you.
1 mb (1 milibit) HTML is not that "fat"...
That's an option you can set. Go to options, F8, then "Feeds" and "Automatically update feeds on startup".
The architect is the only idiot, who knows the tool as a whole and, more importantly, its role in the bigger world. Other idiots know only how bits are fiddled in a small corner of the tool on which they worked during their probation, they don't know the big picture, at all. In any case documentation in big companies today is outsourced to people with zero programming experience, and they obviously can generate only absolutely vapid text with traces of fuzzy associative connections with the topic.
Mine tend to stick to the same four or five spots. Those spots do change, but rather infrequently.
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They're not specific complaints. Said complaints can even be attributed to several streaming services. Why even bother releasing collections of something when there's major gaps in content for no apparent reason? Omitting content, whether it be through sheer incompetence or the company volunteering as a censorship board, does the series a horrendous disservice to its legacy.
Do they still sell rigid collars?
I don't think that what I said implies that, no.

Even outside of work, don't you find it satisfying to do something you're really good at? A dumb example: I love skiing, and the better I get at it, the more fun I have doing it. It's not because I enjoy showing up the people around me -- using my skills just becomes more enjoyable the better I get.
Please let us know if you need a hand. I'd definitely be up for donating time to help with the site.
> these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service

I think the difference is that you have sat down and watched it and liked it, while the article author has done this previously and wants to again, but half is missing.

Is all the Jetsons present? Is Hanna Barbera all there?
Is it possible to press a river through a straw?

And would anybody able to handle the result without being cut apart?
One trick will make you a 10x developer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-qu2MqDYk
tldr: Code needs constant updating, and a coder who hadn't
originally wrote the code will almost certainly make distasteful and often
incorrect modifications. Ergo, code is worthless.

editorial: Most devs with >5 years experience know this. The digitization of
content made movies, music, books, and software all but financially worthless.
Split-second, error-free replication has rendered the IP of so-called
"knowledge workers" far less valuable (movie studios, recording labels,
newspapers, programmers).
Popular bad ideas should be down-voted much more liberally than unpopular bad ideas.
From the article it sounds like the spirit behind this decision is to better serve the customer by hitting fast delivery times more. Is this really such an important thing for people? I for one would rather wait an extra day if it meant there weren’t countless workers having their schedules destroyed.

I’d be interested to see the percentage of people complaining about slow delivery times vs the percentage of people who choose the “slow” shipping option on amazon.
will you still be impressed if they also censor(ed) episodes of the Jetsons?
Are consultants something like lawyers, in that they will do "good" work for ethical clients and "bad" work for unethical ones? Lawyers can point to the higher values of truth and justice. What are the higher values of consultants, to help them avoid "bad" work?
When I was first learning about fiber, graded-index multimode was the "hot new thing" with corning promising the modal-dispersion of single-mode fiber with the light-carrying capacity of multimode, which should reduce repeaters compared to either. Since these are single-mode fibers, I assume those promises were overstated?
this guy’s. the guy you’re replying to. :-)
Unfortunately, it's easy for governments to criminalise owning Starlink terminal equipment. Also, Starlink may be legally forced to deny service to users in certain geographical regions.
> there isn't

YET. I wonder if someone will find a simple way to map these with shodan.
With a comma? Ineffective doesn't mean no-effect, it means 'not the intended effect'.

I.E. "McKinsey worked with Purdue to implement an ineffective business strategy that resulted in bankruptcy for the business, due the harmful nature of the product and the predatory nature of the strategy."
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I feel like APL would really benefit from a shadertoy-like site.

It is an array language, an image is worth a thousand words, and an array[3][2][500] is a square image.

It'd be fun to tinker with visual effects of an APL function, and fun is a great way to fuel learning?
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> perception is reality.

That's something that experienced devs know is very clearly false. That make work with your manager, but it doesn't work with your code.
> by default

Seriously? They expect us to believe that because the manager will have to actually press a button to activate it, that's protecting privacy?

This is very worrying.
The SE chat is really worth lurking if you're at all curious about APL; nearly everyone who has written a publicly-available array language implementation who isn't dead or over sixty is active on it.
I’ll pirate book if it’s not available in DRM-free format for reasonable price.
Sometime (often in my limited experience) they do the same in order NOT to change. My employer before last Brough consultants in to see how they could improve. Employees listed the same things as we're listed 3 years previous when the same exercise came in. No action was taken, just lots of considering and discussions.
The scheduler in Dokku is pluggable. You can use Kubernetes or Nomad: http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/advanced-usage/schedulers/alt...
Remote work should help you in this case. Writing and reading are scalable. 1:1’s are not for explaining how stuff works and why. If you don’t write this all down then you are introducing risk and key person dependency.
The vast majority of people need to work whatever job pays best. Gotta step out of that overpaid web dev bubble.
A lot of times employers help write or weaken those labor laws (see proposition 22 in California). I'm not sure they can shrug their shoulders and say: "Aw shucks guys, we're just following the rules!".
Despite the common trope that software/hardware engineers think they understand everything, automation can make exponential development possible in bio. I know someone who works at a biotech company, and the stories I hear lead me to believe that traditional thinking in e.g. medicine and insurance, and from colleagues, really is a bottleneck. Maybe exponential growth will never apply to the number of diseases cured, but it can and should apply to the hardware and software that facilitates the next iteration of biological discovery.
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This assumes they don't have any competition looking to take their market share (which reduces their intake).

It can be the case that the market isn't very competitive, but it isn't the case that the companies can just arbitrarily raise rates.
My impression is that developers love it because it makes things easier to develop, but users not so much because it makes interacting with web pages even slower than it already is.

Also, it makes webpages a pain to scrape, consumes more RAM and CPU, and recursive module dependencies can become a huge attack surface.
Synology Starts Locking Drives for New NASes
That's not the post's headline; why did someone cherry pick this subheading? Is this simple clickbaiting?
Context : "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues for the existence and societal harm of meaningless jobs. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters."

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber
For my hobby servers I have tried dokku, Flynn and countless other similar solutions. Settled with caprover[1] and very happy with it

[1] https://caprover.com
Well, if a programmer wants to send you email... Everybody else will have no idea what to do with it.
True, but the premise of the article and my comment revolves around taking or seeing the code.
But there is no reason for X11 to be in the picture, it does absolutely nothing other than adding another communication step between the client and the compositor.
Whether this is true depends on what you do.

The last update to TeX (widely used in math and computer science for typesetting) was 12 January 2014.

A lot of payment processing systems are still running on code written in the 1960s and 1970s. Frequently untouched since Y2K.

I have a friend who went to work in the mid 2000s for a company she had worked for in the early 1970s. Out of curiosity she looked up her old programs. They were still running, unchanged. She asked why and was told, "They never broke."

One of the reasons for the survival of FORTRAN is that there are trusted software packages that people rely on which were written decades ago and still run.

There is an active emulator community for people who want to run games that are decades old, unchanged.

No, your old Netscape browser won't work in the modern web. Nor are early mobile apps going to run. But you'd be amazed at how many places you can find old software still happily running today.
Index fund performance is starting to sound exactly like "house prices have never gone down" in 2005.
Mind boggling idea. Thinking of how it could apply to the marketplaces that offer non physical goods.
> Asset inflation has been raging for at least a decade, maybe 2, inflating stock assets, housing and commodities, bitcoin

In the US maybe, in the UK the FTSE100 has been pretty flat for over twenty years. Yes houses have gone up a lot, do you really think that can continue? Commodities are flat in the last few decades.
Question for the room:

Are index funds that focus entirely on socially and environmentally responsible companies something that’s on your radar? Why/why not?
> customer service, return policies, payment methods, and the entire process of buying stuff is leaps and bounds above somewhere like the European Union.

Nonsense. Buying stuff is just as easy here as in the US and my experience of return policies is that they are more generous here. Plus you have a much longer legally enforced warranties. What payment methods do you have in the US that we don't? Apart from cheques that is.
I keep an eye on the work censorship.ai does as they are usually at the cutting edge of it: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/

Tor, Jigsaw's Outline, and V2RayNG are worth keeping tabs on as they're FOSS projects and do much of their development in the open.

Lantern's development whilst it was still open source was fascinating to see as well. Since 2016 (I believe) they stopped doing so out of security concerns: https://twitter.com/adamfisk/status/1316569766832869377
...to safely fly the dog back home.
Hi NMCA,
I'm Raza one of the founders of Humanloop. I totally agree that transfer learning is one of the best strategies for data efficiency and it's pretty common to see people start from large pre-trained models like BERT. Active learning then provides an additional benefit, especially when labels are expensive. For example we've worked with teams where lawyers have to annotate.

In terms of breakthroughs in recent years, some things I'd point to would BALD (https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5745) and its applications in deep learning as well. There has also been progress in coreset methods (https://openreview.net/forum?id=H1aIuk-RW).

I think that you're right that it used to be much to hard to get active learning to work. Part of what we're trying to do is make it easy enough that its worth the benefits.
How is Working from home without the ability to go out to socialize due to the pandemic all that different from home confinement sentences?

And after the pandemic, I feel like down town areas will become even hotter than before if WFH is permanent. Without socializing at work, it will need to be made up after work.
NZ has a population of less than ~5mil, with 1/3rd being on one city, and no land borders with anyone (people claiming "border is just as good as being an island" don't realize that, before we even get to illegal crossings, border areas in Canada/USA and Mexico/USA are integrated and numerous, whereas in NZ any cross-border traffic is designed full-time around specialized chokepoints like ports and airports.

Good luck doing that in a country of 320mil with no internal border infrastructure or legal framework whatsoever, and a huge land-based border.

That said, even if it were possible, I'd take liberty over safety (from a vastly overblown hazard by all estimates) in this case; really grateful to an American for this crisis.
> Is this really such an important thing for people? I for one would rather wait an extra day if it meant there weren’t countless workers having their schedules destroyed.

I'd wager that most of Amazon's customers aren't aware that there's even a trolley problem to solve here.
Like I said, I agree that it's extremely hard to judge if someone has genuine ability before they exhibit the track record. I'm simply saying that once the track record is established, attributing it to chance alone doesn't really make sense mathematically speaking.
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HN's rules don't stop applying when you think a post is off topic.
Supposedly, small market garden farms can be quite profitable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHwAfHQA9M
Importantly, while 23andme won’t sell customer data, it’s not considered selling if they’re sharing it with other parts of the same conglomerate they’re now part of.
Nice article.

> Caches work great for CSS files, images and javascript - stuff that doesn't chance for each user. It doesn't work as well for the responses to API calls, for which the responses are different for each user, and sometimes, each time

Regarding this, there seems to be some people addressing the issue now (I have fly.io in mind, and maybe Vercel but I believe the latter use lambdas behind the hood so probably less effective).
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This. Same sentiment here. Although one of the greatest strengths in the engine is the fact that it's open source, and extremely easy to build.

Any limitation I've come across I've been able to modify or extend with relative ease.
Regarding #2...Aren't most ISPs based on dynamic IPs which are leased? I don't understand the risk of our digital footprint being leaked here, much less its severity.
My experience is that the drivetrain is MUCH more reliable than it used to be, but the various electronic systems are subject to high failure rates - displays, buttons, computers, sensors, etc. Many of these failures don't impact your actual driving ability, but are just a nuisance, like if your AC button stops working or your cars information displays.
I also learnt R before tidyverse was a thing (2007), and eventually abandoned it for Python & Pandas a year before tidyverse came out. I sorely missed ggplot, but I couldn't justify the ugliness of R to make up for it. Now when I look at R code, it's almost always tidyverse, and makes little sense to me.

I'll probably move to Julia at some point.
But if the equity increases in value by the amount the currency has been debased, are you ahead? To me it looks like you're just even.

Worse, you're behind if you have to pay taxes on the gains.
Provocative, exaggerated title but a great article.

I would argue that many bodies of source code are worth something even if they were handed to me without any additional info. Let's say I'm working with a new microcontroller and someone gives me the source to a TCP/IP stack for that new micro. From the data sheet of the micro I could make sense of the lower levels of the stack and TCP/IP is so well defined that just the value of someone making it work on the particular hardware, which is mostly busywork, has huge value.
I'd also point out that people always focus on just the labelling savings from active learning but there are other benefits in practice too:
1) faster feedback on model performance during the annotation process
and 2) Better engagement from the annotators as they can see the benefit of their work.
Sounds like that's kind of the point, you impose a policy only a certain type of worker can manage. The fact that this type of worker skews cheaper and more flexible (younger, single, no kids, lower cost of living, etc.) is probably not a coincidence.
I've upvoted you because this point needs to be countered and stopped.

Something that was pirated does NOT equal a lost sale.

I might enjoy Charlie Chaplin films, I would never pay for the ability to watch them. I don't feel it is worth my money. It doesn't matter if it becomes available at some-point in the future, I won't ever pay for it. If anti-piracy measures were 100% effective and reasonable and I couldn't get a copy of his material without paying for it. I will never pay for it.

There are a lot of reasons that pirates use to justify their actions; some can be agreed with, others are self-serving rhetoric.

Another good example of this "Piracy does not equal lost revenue"; music.

Terrestrial radio stations do not pay for the music that they play (unlike internet based streaming services). *[edit: Another HN'er has corrected me, but they do pay a fee to the songwriter] So if I had the ability to hear the song on the radio, the artist did not receive a penny from my listening. They can continue to not receive any money if I play an .mp3 of the same song.
Jan Gehl is all over this. "How to Study Public Life" is particularly good. People interested in a complex understanding of streets and public spaces will want to check him out.
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