skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that most people will know the offset of their own timezone from GMT/UTC. If you specify time in another timezone, they now need to know two offsets - theirs AND yours. Chances are they won't know yours and they have to look it up.
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I would first suggest improving your monitor situation.

I often find myself in a situation where there is a single application that I want to focus on (be it the terminal, a document, etc.) with some reference material (browser, other document, etc.) that I need. The ability to have even these two windows visible, together, without needing to alt-tab between them has been a big win.
I don't know the guy, but it does seem that he was doing it more for money and ego.
Meme stock company buys meme currency, such surprise.
I just want to know why is no one willing to hold Google and Apple accountable?

Why don't journalists from e.g TechCrunch or the Verge confront Sundar point blank and ask him how can stuff like this happen and why is the only solution to blow up on social media?
Yeah, and it would seem that Amazon has recently destroyed one million worth of clothing from a business owner on (allegedly) spurious counterfeiting claims, and an inability to get into touch with support.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210208171420/https://codewrite...
fortune favors the prepared mind

Is a very similar sentiment but suffers from use of the passive voice. It is a thing that is very obvious in hindsight, but isn't very, I don't know, motivational?

Reframing it into the active voice is a worthy goal, and this version I like better.
What about coins that use different underlying tech? like IOTA [1] (from what I last read about it). The basic premise, if I remember correctly, is that you pay the "fee" by checking 2 past transactions - thus eliminating the never-ending battle of miners and users. The purpose isn't a currency exactly and more of a tool to exchange data and value.

I agree that the UX of the whole crypto scene is crazy with the bottleneck of keeping your secret in a safe place, but you get some drawbacks I guess.

[1] - https://www.iota.org/get-started/what-is-iota
You simply don't know what you're talking about.

Let it go.
You can have a VC which never funds anything that ends up being meaningful. Or you can have a VC that hits a grand slam 0.1-1% of the time and helps bring world-changing businesses to reality.

I'd rather have the latter kind.
A terrible career move. As other commenter said, if there wasn't a pay cut, is because of the company charity.

Now she has to be not only a good coder but a great one, (and in a tech stack she didn't had used already).

Otherwise, a year from now, they might not feel so charitable, and the story will be "from director of design to fired IC".

A friend of mine made a similar mistake once, believing the BS of the "parallel management and engineering tracks".
First electric flying racing car world championship will start in 2022
I'm curious if Google were to provide a payed service for their web services, which includes human support, how many people would pay for that?

... Probably as many as currently pay for Youtube Premium and then come to HN and complain about ads on Youtube :)
Maybe not right away, but 5 years down the road when you're in an ugly power struggle with some other jerk for a middle management position HR might get an anonymous tip about how you lied on your resume.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what you're saying. Seems like you have some interesting points to make though.
Shark Deaths Have Left a 'Gaping Hole' in Ocean Life, Chilling Report Shows
> they say that the fact that it is deflationary and can not see inflation is a good thing, when it is actually a bad thing. There is a reason the target inflation is at ~2% almost everywhere. We need inflation to keep the economy going.

I don't doubt that at some point we'll see crypto getting a self-deleting coin. Balance today is $1. Tomorrow it's $.9995.
Sort of. He is constrained in some ways because they are a public company (regardless of % owned).
"Not your keys, not your coin"
GCP is in big trouble at the moment. Their issues are long standing and endemic, and not shared by their competitors.

They have absolutely been coasting, and the market is only getting more cutthroat.
I think the point is that more people would be able to figure out what the local time is if it was listed as 4pm CT (22:00 GMT/UTC), since more would know what their local time is compared to GMT vs compared to CT.
I guess I could amend it to "Never move up when someone else wants you to unless you get a pay bump."

If you want to move up and someone else is iffy on it, sure, skip the raise to help convince them.

It's a matter of who is prompting the move, and what extra responsibility is required and such. If your boss asks you to take on more responsibility, ask for more money. That's really all I'm saying.
As companies get larger and larger, the need to manage people becomes even greater challenge. The C level people start to disassociate from "tech" people and start associating more with "management". Even guys that start out as engineers, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. get swallowed up by management layer deep state.

You'll start noticing when the "Star" employees of the late stage start up are more from HR, director groups, instead of product, tech, etc.

A single developer developing an app vs large team building an enterprise SAAS application have exponential differences.
Related discussion on the initial tweets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
I went from being a software engineer to a flight instructor (83% pay cut - gulp), and that eventually landed me a gig as a spacecraft operator.

Here’s to risky career moves!
https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation.rust-lang.org/issues
Identical twin studies point away from genetics very hard. Pretty much all genetic anomalies will affect both identical twins 100% of the time. The fact that it's less than 40% points much more to environmental effects rather than genes.
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> reports of BTC going to 100K by EOY

uh...reports is a very generous word for speculative guesses

If btc was definitely going to 100K by EOY, it would already be worth at least 90k today
A finger-tapping test is often used to normalize other kinds of response time, essentially to control for uninteresting between-person differences in neuro-muscular performance. Was there some kind of cognitive control task too, e.g. where they ask you to refrain from responding to certain stimuli? Typically in something like that you'd have a hard and an easy condition, and the difference in average response times between those conditions is a proxy for "cognitive control" or impulsivity. If an employer were interested in that they'd want to remove the effect of finger speed.

I don't think companies should be administering psychometric tests. But it doesn't make the task you refused to do meaningless.
I'm always thrilled to hear stories from people who have or reach this level of self-awareness, about what determines their mood/satisfaction. It's so wonderfully freeing to know yourself to that level, and understand part of what makes you tick internally.

I myself am a former-engineer and current-manager, and I also remember absolutely loathing meetings as a waste of time, explaining things to people who don't really care that much about what I have to say, and plus why should I contort myself to speak "their" language and why can't they be bothered to learn to speak "my" language as an engineer?

But over time, I think I've come to develop a taste for, the style of communication that happens in most typical business meetings. If you think about coding and entering a "flow" state, to me the core of that flow is being able to clearly and concisely conceptualize the software abstractions you have in your head, mapping them effectively from business concepts or technical requirements and into code, and being able to just churn out a beautiful representation of all those things into something tangible (an application, a service, etc.).

Believe it or not, in roundabout ways, meetings can achieve that kind of "flow" state as well, creating a shared understanding of a beautiful abstraction, and resulting in high-bandwidth exchange of ideas. Certainly it is much harder to achieve "flow" for meeting communication than for coding/engineering (IMHO at least) since it involves lots of other people with lots of different backgrounds and different levels of understanding, but I find that nonetheless it is something I can find enjoyment from the pursuit of that state. Not every meeting succeeds in reaching that "flow" state, but more and more I can perceive and introspect why/why-not it didn't, and come out with tangible lessons for myself for improving. So long as I have a flywheel for getting better, it doesn't feel so draining or so pointless anymore even when I "fail". And sometimes, I really do come out of the most productive meetings feeling very energized, and hearing from my peers how much clarity they gained or how much more confident they are about a decision that was previously questionable/uncertain, is truly a great feeling (at least as good for me, as producing a solid piece of beautiful code).
I'm curious about what the combination of skills was ?
It took me on average about 3 hours a day for 1.5 weeks to manually use Facebook's "manage posts" bulk deletion tool and even then I didn't get everything deleted, as posts to my wall for my birthday were grouped up and in those groups I could only hide them, with ~1500 friends over 13 years, I opted to hide most of them. At least content I posted was gone.
> Do you mean with technology or something like "technically it could have worked in the market"?

Yes, I mean the technology. I played cyberpunk on it. It worked really well (better than I expected a streaming service to work).

> I have to pay full price + subscription price and maybe buy new hardware (to play on TVs).

You just need to pay the game to play in 1080p. The pro tier is if you want 4k and comes with free games. You can actually play free to play games like Destiny 2 for free on Stadia.

I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know however. Google marketing was terrible.
Wild is applied because animals behave in way we don't understand and it's much easier to chalk it up to the fact that they act without thought or reason, which we know is not true.

Animals think and reason, just because we don't understand their process doesn't mean they don't have a process.

Conversely unless we completely explain all of 'civilized' societies rules to these animals and secure agreement that they will follow all these rules, their is little chance they will behave within those guidelines.

I spent time with outlaw motorcycle clubs, and I would consider many of those groups the same as a gorilla or bear, the only difference would be that the bikers usually know the laws of society, but they reject hem.
Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
It has been almost two decades

And I'm not gonna lie I've only ever watched it once and never made it through a rewatch. The Whedonisms don't hold up for me.
I also got locked out of my google account - not because of a violation (automated flag or otherwise) but because google decided my login location was too different. I know my password and have access to my recovery email but I am put into and endless login loop of ‘unable to verify’. I contacted support which had me fill out a form and that was maybe 6 months ago. I’ve moved on now but I’ll never use a google product seriously ever again.
> After all, you can't take anti-trust action against a company until it's already a trust. ;-)

That's not what the laws on the books say. It's a colloquial term, and nobody like a pedant.

> I personally consider antitrust action against individual companies to be a short term fix, whereas permanent universal consumer protection laws are a long term fix.

Ralph Nader said the same thing in the 60s and 70s. Consumer protection laws have been used to encourage economic concentration and the abuses of labor and society that always come with it. The American government has never succeeded at compliance regulation — it gets weakened and corrupted, and we always wind up getting the worst version of laissez-faire economics as a result.

Further, how would you make it "permanent"? Constitutional amendments are a non-starter right now, and Congress can't pass laws that have 80%+ popular support. You know what is permanent? Court-ordered break-ups under the Clayton Act.
Dialog Agrees to $6B Takeover by Renesas Electronics
Money that encourages people to spend it has already been thought of: http://www.larryniven.net/stories/roentgen.shtml
I took a sort-of similar route. I was a Senior Data Analyst who loved to code, and managed to transition to Junior Software Developer. I’ve stayed hungry and constantly improved as a dev, and over the years have incrementally moved up to my current role, Staff Software Developer. Stick with it Kristina! One of the great things about programming is that bright, passionate, hard working people can be highly successful despite coming from non-traditional backgrounds.
I think this gives a lot of insight to political issues in the US today.
Found the feminist.
https://twitter.com/theophite/status/1030225104234373121?lan...
It's simple and look at AMD and it's stock increases over the last 5 years and some big institutional investors jumping on board and purchasing AMD's stock. And maybe the largest of the Institutional investors getting a seat on AMD's Board of Directors or some pull in getting some influence there in choosing one of AMD's BOD Members!

So once AMD's Zen products were on the market and AMD's renewal of competition in the x86 server and consumer market
was assured and AMD's CPU/GPU product lines were taking back more market share and that was then leading to more Big Institutional Investor attention! And Big Institutional investors are going to be Gross Margin focused and Lisa Su answers to AMD's Board of Directors who answer to AMD's investors.

So increasing AMD's ASP and Quarterly Gross Margin numbers is what Lisa Su is tasked to do and look at every company's Quarterly Conference Call and Gross Margins are always mentioned.

Once a company attracts the Big Retirement funds as Investors well those tend to be in for the long term as they are restricted in how they can invest, if they are a State's Retirement fund especially. And AMD's stocks where so attractive from an equity investment strategy early on when they were in the $1.97 range and beginning their rise and more than doubling every year for a while and any of the large Institutional Investors that got in at the beginnings of that are now fat with equity in AMD's shares/share value and that share price rise has leveled off for a while now at $90-$100 range . So those Institutional Investors are wanting more through increases in gross margins and higher ASPs.

AMD's Institutional Investors have so much pull now relative to their investments in AMD's stock and those fund managers Know the Retailers are making out more from the demand market pricing and that AMD who only gets its wholesale pricing and no more unless AMD's increases it's wholesale ASPs. And AMD's R&D investments are really needing to be increased as well to remain competitive with Intel and Nvidia. So Higher ASPs are required for that!
You completely skipped over a highly relevant portion of my comment re: the illegality of steroids for this purpose.
If journalists are bothersome, they lose their access. How would journalists “confront” anyone if they can’t get a foot in the door?
On the flip side, I reached out to Google Fi for a payment issue (my account was a French account originally which got converted to a US account and that created an issue) and I got through to a human. This was during the beta phase though so might have been different during that time.
YFFA (your favorite fintech app) still has many advantages over Bitcoin.

When sending money:

YFFA free, Bitcoin not free

YFFA instant, Bitcoin not instant

YFFA has fraud protection, Bitcoin does not

YFFA approved by government regulation, Bitcoin still not

However, there is one thing YFFA does not give you, a shot at 10x or 100x your money.
Show HN: I made a one-line API to OpenAI's new CLIP image classifier model
Hey HN!
My name's Erik, and I took OpenAI's CLIP zero-shot image classifier https://openai.com/blog/clip/ and API-ified it.

It takes in a list of images (local .jpg or .png, or URL) and a list of natural language prompts and returns similarity and probibility distributions for those images compared against the promts. It's basically a general purpose CV model that doesn't need to be trained.

You can currently use it from Python3 and Node.js with a single line of code (+ an import).

If you want the fastest time-to-use, run this google colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xe8dB_azJ78Gbki7Gif...

I've been building dev tooling and infra products at Booste for nearly two years now. TLDR on my career is that I'm a self taught dev, and because of learning on my own, I end up spending a lot of time building abstractions around the things that I find to be a big pain, so others don't need to do the same. Recently I've been building Booste as a "Twilio/Stripe for ML" to handle the productionizing step that plagues most AI startups.

This API was inspired by a collab I did with the folks at Roboflow https://roboflow.com, where we used CLIP to judge MS-Paint style drawings against cards-against-humanity like prompts. You can find it here: https://paint.wtf/ With it we built everything from the AI judging part to a NSFW and hate speech filter on the images, just by adding prompts.

Now you can do the same on Booste.

Jump on, play around, and let me know what you think!
I kind of rambled on about this in another comment on this thread, but I paid someone $250 to optimize my resume with key words to appease AI. It worked. I got automated replies to schedule phone screenings from jobs that had rejected my old resume. It's already happening.
Unpopular opinion - there's a lot of entitled people here and jumping to conspiracy.

There is no such thing as a free lunch [0] for people to depend a commercial service on. If your business model depends on another company providing you a free service perhaps you should reconsider.

This seems to be a person being cheap and jumping to conclusions, claiming broad assumptions and conjecture as fact.

Yes, cloudflare's free tier is deliberately dropping your requests to foil your freeloading commercial company - raise pitchforks!

Assuming this is all true (which I don't), I don't feel sympathy for the author for not purchasing a paid plan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...
Twitter reportedly mulls charging for TweetDeck and new advanced features
Higher risk begets higher premiums.
> They fill a similar role to prosecutors that field drug tests serve to cops[1]: they aren't meant to be accurate, they exist to give the the cops legitimacy as they proceed to do whatever it is they wanted to do to you. In the cops' case, they need legitimacy to search and arrest you, and in the prosecutors' case, they need legitimacy to charge and convict you.

In case any of you are interested, or completely flabbergasted as I was, by the idea that law enforcement's purpose and raison d'etre could ever become as distorted and contorted as this comment mentions, you should definitely read more on Walter "Johnny D." Macmillan [1] or watch the movie based on his story: Just Mercy[2].

Absolutely mind-blowing stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Mercy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_McMillian
Instagram Celebrities Promote Dubai's Underground Animal Trade
In my case, I use Fastmail to provide my email.

With it, I have email from multiple domains doing what I want. I also have a <username>@fastmail.fm which has only been provided to one person: my domain registrar.

If you pay someone to handle your email this is a good approach, IMO.
Not feeling inferior, but feeling insecure. The message in the title can easily reinforce people's insecurities and discourage them from pursuing their dreams, because they'll just get "demoted".
News sites want to keep you on their site, where you can be exposed to their advertising. Providing a link to the source would take you away from their site.
The link submitted here doesn't work for me, but this one does: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/07/pfizer... .
Tesla needs it. Next few years are going to be rough for the Tesla with all big auto makers selling EVs.
Lots of VPNs route through hosting providers. Some hosting providers are more prevalent with spammers than others. But in the end you can only really use it as a scoring measure. It's not nearly binary enough to straight filter using it.
Honestly steering a programming language is basically just work and writing rather than anything particularly strategic.
Yes you did, did you expect me to be ashamed about this?
Are you sure people don’t want it? I think it’s one of the biggest market potentials in gaming right now.

I’m quickly approaching 40, and I would like nothing more to not have to own the windows desktop that I only use for one thing. To play blood bowl 2 (and eventually 3) a few times a week. If I could do that from a browser on my MacBook, you can bet I’d never own another desktop in this life.

That’s anecdotal or course, but there’s quite a lot of us.
Because they are not really Journalists, they are extensions of the PR Dept.

This is dubbed as "Access Journalism" but it is not really Journalism at all.
> So in that sense, the "value" of a manager/director is "higher".

That depends on how high the multiplier is and how many direct reports a manager has. A manager with 5 direct reports and a multiplier of 110% is only producing as much net value as 0.5 of his/her reports. A manager with 20 direct reports and a multiplier of 106% produces a net value of 1.2 of his/her reports.

It's not safe to say that managers in general produce more value. Some do, some don't. It depends on their ability and the abilities of those they share a management relationship with. But the same could be said about engineers/architects/devs.
I'll add my reply that I was typing out for the other post before it was deleted.

To make your assertion requires far too many assumptions for you to know whether this was an act of "charity" or not.

People are with more than their paper skill sets. If this person had been working at Stack Overflow for years, then she probably knows far more about the company itself than a new CS grad. That can be a huge asset. Likewise, her experience of being a manager of the Production Design team, and the Director of Design, can be great experiences to add depth to the development team.

I am a senior software engineer. I am far from the best programmer on my team. A new CS grad could probably out-whiteboard any CS problem thrown at me. But my knowledge of 12 years of the company's development history, my gut-understanding of what kinds of decisions are good for the company, my ability to communicate well with product owners and elicit the right kinds of information and foresee design problems before they happen all contribute to me being an invaluable member of the team.
I understand the convenience of skirting AML regulations when sending money. I'm saying that's not a real use-case because it's going to go away when government and regulatory bodies crack down on it.
I go for a 3 to 4 mile walk every day before work.
Start off sleepy, end up excited to get to work.
Much of the same benefits without the sweat of running.
The "rap" in this case is entirely artificial. There's no evidence TeamCity is insecure, or at least, no more insecure than any other CI system.
Consider the last sentence : "I think most men and people in general like to think of themselves as non-biased so most of this happens as subconscious actions."

Pretty sure this commenter thought of themselves as non-biased. Irony is a cruel mistress.