skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not being super technical, there is an interesting miniature "The First Word Across the Ocean" in the "Decisive Moments in History" book by Stefan Zweig. It tells the story and circumstances of how the first trans-atlantic cable (back then for telegraphs) was laid in the late 19th century.
As an extreme lefty (repeal IP/piracy laws, legalize all drugs, safe injection sites/free for addicts, green new deal, free necessities for homeless/disabled, free college, cancel student debt, reduce maximum interest rate to on consumers to 10%Apr, AI/automation tax, steep wealth taxes up to 99% over $1B, internet/telephones are necessities, free contraceptives everywhere, 3rd trimester abortions, livable wage, punitive laws against financial criminals (put executives in prison for life for 2008), enhanced worker rights, single payer health care, etc). I think AOC and Bernie are a hairs breadth left of center trying to get their constituents what they need to survive in this boring bcapitalist dystopia. I think trump and mtg are white supremacist terrorists stoking up a hot race war. Does that help?
Of course it's a chemical, but still, no. 2 has only 1% of that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English. Yes this has been shared before but I've never seen an actual reference to this word itself yet. I wonder if anyone's memorized it yet.
> By using OpenSSL for AES decryption, I was able to speed up the decryption of video packets from up to 0.2 seconds to up to 0.007 seconds for large packets (On the Pi Zero). Average is now more like 0.002 seconds.

This is cool.
I note the things I need to do, sort them by most valuable, and try to start at the top. But, sometimes passion drives me to complete items out of order.

That usually works for me, although I've got mostly failed business attempts to my name.

How to Lose Money with 25 Years of Failed Businesses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022293
I'm being overly critical. Let's say it has problems:

- poetry shell didn't start the same shell that you were in: https://github.com/sarugaku/shellingham/issues/42. Looks like they fixed it 3 days ago though.

- It doesn't set the name of the project in the prompt, so you actually don't know you are in the shell. Very annoying if you have many windows.
I'm a 20 something McK consultant with a $10 haircut. Maybe $20 with tip. Or $0 now, because it's done at home.

I post this fairly frequently, but here we go again. Business is hard. Change is hard. Consultants get a lot of shit for saying things that someone lower in the org could have told them. That's not evidence of abuse, that's evidence that your org isn't working well. A lot of the time substantial portions of the findings come from interviewing and listening to lower ranking experts in the client. Bringing in consultants is, among other ways, a way to bring in people who can get shit done, moving bricks at lower levels of the org with the political mandate of the top. That's quite valuable, because otherwise a lot of orgs are just entrenched. A very large number of senior leaders don't know how to accomplish X, and don't know how to get the information about X from their own company. And again, that's not an insult, because business is hard. It's great and all for you to say "regurgitate snippets from articles in HBR" but I can't say that resembles any work I've done, ever.

Opioid work was bad though, let's not avoid that. (edit for spelling)
To play devil's advocate, they could be both ineffective and harmful. Just because they succeeded in getting the company to do something, that not mean it was the right thing. The sale of the drugs could have produced a net loss as well as harmed the people who bought them.
Githubs CTO on how they built their internal developer platform
There is a less contradictory note of "Consulting is useless BS" and "Shame on them for taking dirty money".
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is an essential step for rapidly scaling companies to keep their developers working productively and happily. In this roundtable discussion I speak with Jason Warner, the current CTO of GitHub and previous VP of Engineering for Heroku about how IDPs help teams of that scale build efficiently.
> One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order.

Google built this, but users turned out not to be interested in it and they discontinued it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
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Just some musings by someone on a trip who was privileged enough to have always-on high speed connectivity. And surprised to find out what it's like to not be in that situation.

> If you envision a file as a packet,

That's the _clearest_ idea presented; they should have gone with automotive transmission instead, would have been equally inadequate, IMO.
Unrelated to the article, but let’s not forget that leeching of estrogen into the ecosystem. This is a real thing and very measurable by ecologists.

The US Army also tests such things as sperm count and has seen a rapid decline.

So the real solution is less pollution :)
Indeed, exhaustive pattern matching is sweet. What is the noddy explanation of how it is achieved, I wonder?
>> Or if you are walking along the beach somewhere is there just some cable running out of the ocean along the beach to some building near the shore?

It is generally buried either under the sand or inside concrete. But yes, there are places where you can get very close to these things if you know what you are looking at.

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

Here is a pic of the landing for the US base in Cuba.

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/186633/uct-1-unit-choice-gtmo-...
Reverso's AI thinks “Black History Month” is “possibly inappropriate content”
First of all, those two graphs don't show the same thing. Why not?

Secondly, they both, in different ways, show a distinct bass boost. In the first one, between 100 and 200 HZ, there's a boost of up to 2 dB over 0. The reference studio monitor for that range is below 0.

In the second one, from about 330Hz all the way to 7k is very close to 70 dB. Between 120 and 300 Hz, however, it's nearly 80 dB. 10dB is a huge difference in volume, and closely matches my experience of listening to music on HomePods.

That's four frequency response graphs so far
(see a comment further down the thread) that have been presented as evidence that the HomePod has a "flat" response curve, which, upon closer inspection, actually indicate a distinct bass boost.
I think there's another big one too:

Option 3 is for very personal stuff that you don't want to make public. Many of us put photos of our small children in this category. On a more depressing note, this could also include things like grief that a small group experiences over serious illness or death in the family. Not everything non-public is necessarily risque.

(FWIW I'm working on something in this space. Hoping to have something to share within another month or two...)
I’ve wondered the same, you can image search and find some pictures. They just sort of come out of the water and go up the beach (I guess what else would happen? Hah)

https://media.wired.com/photos/59546c71be605811a2fdcfd0/191:...
Yeah absolutely, you can start anytime. It is more about sharing the journey/learnings/useful info so that you're not just selling a group of people a product. They get to understand how this product is built, the people running it, and how certain decisions are made. It is quite powerful when it comes to trust building.
The big purges in the USSR happened in the 1930s.
Wow. How did this not exist already? Such a massive gap - good for you Ivan!
For twenty years I tried to build products and sell them to others, to no avail. "Marketing is the problem" - I always told myself about my failures.

I still have one product up from those days. FileSculptor is a file converter used by non developers to automate CSV to XLSX conversion. What was the last time I used it myself? Excluding testing before new releases or support issues, never.

I decided that my next product should be something I really care about. Something that scratches my on itch and that I would use on a daily basis. I should be the first one to find bugs on my product, not my users.

I always kept track of my expenses, but was less so with my budget. I used a spreadsheet and would update if once or twice a month. So I decided to create an app with the budget and expense tracking I wanted. I always had lots of ideas of how it should work, how it would forecast transactions automatically from a detailed budget and how it would deal with credit card purchases, hitting the budget on the month they'd appear of the credit card statement. It would support credit card purchases with installments, something always missing in the apps I tried.

I created Pleke to be the personal finance app I always wanted, and use it on a daily basis. For the last six months its been the only source of truth about my finances. At my day job I work on a product used by others. I'm grateful and want it to work well because it pays my bills. But with my app, its quite a different relationship. I'm always proud when I input data in it and it works as designed. When something breaks, I want to fix it ASAP. I have a text file with planned features for version 2, version 3, 4 and 5.

Pleke is the app I want to work on for the next ten years, even if others do not value it as much as I do. "Marketing is the problem" - I will tell myself, to their loss.

Be the first user of your product! A person who takes good care of their garden will work on it and admire it on a daily basis. So should we with our products.
Could you post without providing that ID?
As a Deckset user, my only gripe (minor, and usually not a big deal) is not having an HTML version generated by it (this is why I wrote this CLI tool [1])

[1]: Haskset: https://github.com/rberenguel/haskset
> Aside from collected data being used for other purposes besides advertisement

In the case of the Turtledove API proposal (https://github.com/WICG/turtledove) the collected data stays in the browser and can only be used for privately targeting ads.

(Disclosure: I work for google, speaking only for myself)
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I wasn't drawing a connection to tipping. I was responding to your claim that you "want good food" but "don't particularly care about the service". It's impossible to entirely separate those in my opinion.
That is, by the nature of a partnership, how it affects partner compensation.
If you're able to log in with old credentials but see a blank screen, please ping me (maciej@ceglowski.com); I'm trying to track down this bug.

I've also noticed there are some users in the users table who don't have an assigned shard ID (the database was split into 10 shards) but whose data is nevertheless on one of the shards.
They shouldn't have had verified status.
Show don't tell right?

Here's a Euronext tracker built on Airtable and Monitoro. It can also send notifications on Slack/Discord/...

https://www.monitoro.xyz/demo-euronext
It's a lot more than that. It's about further enabling power structures at the client organization while diminishing employee and other "lower classes" negotiation and influence possibilities. In essence, it's a turbo-charged manager service, where you pay a flat fee to someone to represent your interest. The fee is high, but for it you buy more loyalty, a deadline to the relationship and avoid labor disputes, employee rights lawsuits, etc.

"Your interest" as in whoever pays the check. This service is immensely valuable to stakeholders, otherwise they would not continuously pay for it. A career manager at a company will have much more complexity in interests and loyalties as opposed to a consultant hired by a single, at the end of it, actor (whoever controls the signing and payment process).

Let's take a typical employee manager loyalty conundrum, pick one: loyal to the CEO, your boss, the shareholders at large, a specific shareholder group, the board? They often have different interests, and recruit or are looking to recruit agents for them. For the consultant? Whoever pays!

I found the book "Confronting managerialism: How the business elite and their schools threw our lives out of balance" by Locke and Spencer quite useful to understand some of the realities at play (not specifically consulting, but the broader managerial and by application consulting manager roles).

If leaders keep hiring consultants, there is value for them. This does not mean value for the organization. Most certainly, not for society at large, as the parent article can demonstrate.
Many thanks; an informative read. FWIW I've just come across a related piece in Jacobin from December 2020:

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/mckinsey-consulting-firm-opio...
It's a case of "I want to keep all my data on the same place" because nobody has the attention span to manage a relational database, a document database, an hierarchical database, and a key-value database (did I miss any?). All that while you lose atomicity, because your data is now distributed.

Also, data often changes in form, and you don't want to rewrite everything to get the data from a different place just because its type changed.
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Its about time it became normal in the UK for accounts to carry fees. I dont know how retail banking can continue without them. Esp the new fintechs they will have near-zero revenue coming in and have to pay to hold cash.
> will deliver record-breaking capacity of 250 terabits per second (Tbps) across the ocean—enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second.

Damn. Anyone else just agog at this figure?
I'm sorry, after the fact, if I've been unclear.

Long-term potentiality is not the point of disagreement. The disagreement is that individual memories are not recalled, as they are not stored, per se. The idea is that neurons acclimate to inputs, so that when we "recall" them we are not retrieving a "memory" from a storage location but instead are being activated in a way that allows us to preform a learned action.

I imagine those marble/cardboard diagrams of logic gates, where the cardboard flap will be left in a particular position after a marble has passed. In this way you can add numbers by dropping marbles into the appropriate input slots. Yet in this way, one could not derive prior calculations, as it does not store this information anywhere.
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In case anybody mistakenly thinks doing so is 'cheating', you're the author of both libraries!

This is absurd, but in a good way.
Love it.

Also it would be cool if the computation can be pushed down in case of using remote db tables using fdw or db link.
And moderation came _very quickly_. Usenet started seeing significant use in 1983. The first moderated Usenet group was created in 1984 (insert mandatory weak Orwell joke). And Usenet was eventually largely replaced by very heavily moderated webforums, and then by things like reddit where the popular subreddits that people actually want to use are mostly fairly heavily moderated.

It turns out that people don't, as a general rule, actually enjoy using totally unmoderated fora; they tend to quickly fill with spam and awful stuff.
A $500MM fine is a bit beyond "shame on you for taking dirty money".

I doubt any marketing firms working for Purdue was fined $500MM despite contributing to the same outcome. And that's because they didn't have the same impact.

The justice system metes out punishment relative to one's contribution to the crime.
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestry at all
Meeting European VC Champions: Collaborating with Business Angels
Read books. Reading is one of the best ways to learn new tricks.
What else can std visit generate? I’d imagine it does exactly that
Wow that sucks. If they must install VSCode they should use VSCodium which omits the telemetry.
this is super cool!

1. need to lock room (privacy<3)

2. drag and drop files

3. donation button so you get some money to keep it alive after it goes viral

this def should be shared on reddit for the love
It used to be M -> 45W, U -> 15W, Y <15W for mobile CPUs, but Y CPUs were awful and only on the most budget devices. At some point M also sprouted H and HQ, of which M and HQ eventually got dropped.

K was for overclocked/unlocked CPUs, T was for TDP limited CPUs. For "average consumers", both were pretty irrelevant.

Never seen EC, EQ, MQ, R, S or TE cpus,

Still, 4th-9th gen were pretty simple, you needed to know K (unlocked) and F (no integrated graphics) for desktop CPUs if you were buying the CPU directly, if it just came in your PC an OEM built it didn't make a difference.

Laptops you also needed two: M (later H) for faster, less battery life, U for slower, more battery life. If you were going for a netbook, maybe Y also, but there certainly wasn't any price range to contain both Y and M/H CPUs.
Yes, and I agree with all the child comments. The principal-agent cost with consulting firms is enormous. In the most uncharitable light, their business model is a wealth transfer insofar as their profit derives directly from maximizing this cost.
Starlink.
It's interesting because McK is a club, not a company. They are a relatively disparate group of people operating on the basis of culture, it's not top down.

Some partners can go way off the reservation compared to others, and they may have little to do with one another.
Actually, some things _did_ break and required wonky work-arounds (redirect through three top-level domains to set cookies so you can show the user a page composed from three different systems embedded widgets) and at some point we'll have to make it work better. But while Apple and company are aware of this use case they don't have a solution that can't be _also_ used by ad companies as well as integrators ... so it gets harder to integrate on the front end, unless you trust all the things being integrated implicitly (which you don't)
Here's a near realtime Euronext tracker built on Airtable and Monitoro.
It can also send notifications to Slack, Discord ...

https://www.monitoro.xyz/demo-euronext
The problem with this is we don't (and one presumes you don't either) know whether you're above or below average. My perspective, from running into people from Big Computer consultancies back in the '00s was that the business model was to hire recent college grads, pump them up with the sheen of the company brand and then let them learn on the job at smaller companies and "failing upward" until they are experienced enough to be loaned out at massive rates based on their long track record of . . . success. Whether any customer during that process benefited from the consultant's journey is mere coincidence.
It does: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0582/

Though, as the sibling comments say, it's debatable whether it should.
Can someone explain this, Matt Levine-style? I mean, if someone offered to pay me interest to take out a loan, I'd immediately request MAXINT.
Yeah no kidding. I prefer it as a prototyping language. Unfortunately, I work in networking, and it's become the raison d'etre for our "DevOps". At least we're not using Ansible anymore... :|
One of my pet peeves is science journalism abusing the active voice, often in ways that almost anthropomorphize the process. The absolute worst are phrases like "Nature designed this protein to...", which I have seen otherwise reasonable, rational writers toss about carelessly. (It's like the inverse of the passive voice used to describe police shootings: "the suspect was hit by gunfire", etc.)
There's no exercises per se, but the whole book is one big programming assignment (or rather, two) - you build a raytracer and a rasterizer by the end of it.
Sorry about that. It was late when I posted this.

Book: [0]Memory and the Computational Brain, C. R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King

You can read the main thesis here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/978144431049...

Review: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262093114_Man_as_Ma...

Also please take all my comments with a grain of salt. I am not expert, I'm just trying to restate what I've read and understood.
Obligatory (musical) commentary from the 80ies:

Dalbello - Black On Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feSKlG47n1Y
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My Firefox Developer Edition (86) doesn't load the page completely, one of the resources (https://gweb-cloudblog-publish.appspot.com/api/w_v2/pagesByU...) has an untrusted certificate (SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER). It is issued by "Cisco Umbrella Secondary SubCA".
The fine seems related to the amount of damning quotes that came from McKinsey produced materials. They left a bigger paper trail than anyone else.

Like this sort of thing:

"One was to give distributors a rebate for every OxyContin overdose attributable to pills they sold. The slides are notable for their granular detail.

For example, McKinsey estimated that 2,484 CVS customers would overdose or develop an opioid use disorder in 2019 from taking OxyContin. CVS said the plan was never implemented."

Not implemented, so didn't end up being effective. But damn.
What? Lawyers are absolutely liable. Their only shield is in the most complex realms where the actual legal theory isn't yet tested in court / with a regulator, so you know going in their advice may not pan out, because it's /experimental/.

That's not the vast majority of law, though.
I'm not sure what this is (something like FirefoxOS?) but what I meant is there's no such thing as a "Gecko WebView" (for embedding in UI frameworks) or a "Gecko Electron" that you can use without forking some huge Mozilla thing (except for GeckoView).
Negative interest has to deal with lending (and savings) base interest rates, not as a fee per se, but as a tool of monetary policy.
assuming there isn't a point-to-point encryption layer for the whole cable.
> Chrome will never: ban 3rd party cookies

"Once these approaches have addressed the needs of users, publishers, and advertisers, and we have developed the tools to mitigate workarounds, we plan to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome. Our intention is to do this within two years [from January 2020]." -- https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...

Want to bet on whether Chrome still supports third-party cookies, say, by the end of 2023?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Only if you can show negligence
Is Google using this for consumer services (Gmail/Search/YouTube/Stadia) that don't run on GCP or is this only for GCP? If it's only for GCP, they are betting big, which is good.
Why? Many banks are already making lots of money, regardless if you know how they make their money or not. I definitely do not agree that "its about time" to pay for having an account.
In other words your clients have incompetent executives and instead of suggesting those people be replaced you do their work for them since they are the ones paying your fees.
Curious, what about environment variables? I like the ability to put my environment variables in my activate script. It seems like if you did things the way the author does, you would need all of your env variables to be global, which could be hazardous
Hackish????
Came here to recommend the same. I reread it every 5 years or so for inspiration.
Google uses gcp.
Why do the PragPros do this?
what is the advantage over ebooks?
This is nonsense. Google cannot simply provide a fake or broken button and get away with it. If Google is required to provide a mechanism for reporting DMCA violations in a timely manner, and they do not, they're going to found liable no matter what kind of excuse they provide.
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