skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Regulation" also gave us things like a rapid reduction of deaths in cars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...) and airliners (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#/media/File:Fa...), and it's hardly illegal to start a Google competitor.

"Competition" isn't a cure-all any more than "regulation" is. Google got big because they competed well with the alternatives at the time.
Much more importantly, it depends on the multiplicative effect that an engineer is positioned to have.

It's 2002. Does a Kohls Director Of Whatever with tens of direct reports and thousands of people below those reports have more leverage than a single engineer at Amazon?

It's 2021. Does a manager of hundreds of warehouse workers have more leverage/impact potential than a single engineer in a robotics R&D division?
Totally fair. The potential impact a manager can have is much higher (good manager multiplying their positive impact across good engineers), but an ineffective manager can be less impactful (or even actively harmful) to their direct reports (bad engineer multiplying their negative impact across bad engineers).
God they're doing so well especially today after Tesla announced buying $1.5 billion worth. Thanks for asking.
Google engineers aren't exactly known to be loyal to the company, if Google didn't keep their promises about stuff like this I'm pretty sure it would get leaked quickly.
Try to keep the ambition and drive that you had when you were younger. I'm young myself, so I haven't had to face this, but I often see driven and motivated people become complacent once they hit that 30 mark.
An obvious example here is when you expand e^x with its Taylor series using `n` terms. The derivative of that length-n Taylor expansion is identical but only `n-1` terms long, so you lose precision.

More generally if you approximate a smooth function f with a truncated taylor series of length n around c, the error behaves as O((x−c)^(n+1)), and the error of the k'th derivative of that function auto-diffed will be of order O((x-c)^(n+1-k)).
I am only defending the sentences starting with "why don't you just" and ending with a "?". I am not defending nor support aggressive ones like the one that you mentioned.
Posted on HN yesterday as Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051883
This is maybe practical if you’re walking as a dedicated activity, but how many people are going to be using that kind of gear for, say, a trip to the corner store? Slip and fall danger is quite great, and can strike you in places you least expect it, like say a patch of black ice on your standard dark asphalt parking lot. It would be quite odd for me to bring a walking pole on my 30 minute walking commute to work.

This reminds me of comments that pedestrians should wear high-vis clothing if they don’t want to be hit by cars, as if high-vis clothing isn’t an explicit step outside of norms regarding clothing.
Wow, I didn't realize it was that high. I stand corrected.

I think most of the above still applies, but maybe expand "it'll be good enough for some people" to include some portion of average console-gamers (assuming the rest of the productization is done right, and assuming those console-gamers have fairly good internet)

The thing is that, even there, if you're putting it on a TV you're likely not going to want to plug in your Macbook or whatever. Which means, if you don't already have a console, you're going to be buying dedicated hardware regardless. Which significantly cuts into the "savings"/"no-purchase" angle, and steepens the question of "what's the point of this?"

One thought though: Microsoft could use this as a way to keep last-gen console owners engaged. At some future date when the Xbox Series Y or Z or whatever comes out, people with a Series S might still be able to play the latest games by streaming them. They're using dedicated hardware that plugs into a TV, but it's hardware they already bought which is essentially being repurposed.

Edit: Another thing is that the subscription model and the streaming model don't have to go hand-in-hand. I think game subscriptions are absolutely the future, but I think there will always be a market for devices that download and run those subscribed games locally.
I said "large" damn, not an average dam. But fair enough—I should have said "around as much as the largest dam".
But just try to get funding.
Oh if you think running water is important, try growing up in a desert. You will quickly realize still water is enough. WTF is this line of logic?
Perfect time to advertise Google's Takeout Services:

https://takeout.google.com/

This service permits the export of (nearly?) all Google services data on both a scheduled and unscheduled on-demand basis.

I have my Google account configure to automatically export all service data every 2 months and upload ZIP files to MS OneDrive. This process completely bypasses me and my local computer. I just have to remember to check that the data transferred to OneDrive as expected.

The only constructive criticism I have of the Takeout Services scheduled process is that the scheduled exports are limited to a one year duration. I have to remember to reconfigure the next year's scheduled exports. Ideally I'd be permitted to set and forget, with a periodic reminder that the export is still happening and a "Good" / "Not Good" confirmation that the process ought continue.

Takeout Services won't restore function and applications, but at least a great part of my data won't be irretrievably lost.
The "proper" comparison (that would still be horribly misguided) would be against the "core" crate in ripgrep. And that's only 5kloc, a lot of it from the "app.rs" (3kloc) and "args.rs" (1.2kloc) which is almost only declarative usage strings.

The "actual" code of ripgrep is accross its multiple support crates, which the community largely benefits from having since those are general enough to be almost foundational to any software.

imo, op is trolling, the old fashioned way
> Sheer hubris?

I would actually lean towards organizational incompetence. There is just too much human brain mass at Google to say the the company as a whole is screwing up this bad because of hubris. They are just at such a high complexity level that the disorganization is causing incompetent outcomes.
No, Rust has been independent since Rust 1.0. Mozilla only provided free legal advice (+trademarks, etc) and employed some team members but they didn't have control.
Does F-Droid compile the binaries themselves? Or do they just take a look at my github and then trust the .apk I build myself and send them?

I mean, I could very well make an open source app and then load some malware in the apk in addition to the well behaved thing... Are they immune from this attack?
This is basically how the Palm Pilot worked.
The RAM in the system was a developer-invisible cache that sat on top of a record-oriented access layer on top of the nonvolatile flash and system ROM.

I'm simplifying slightly but it's the same idea. It worked okay but had its quirks.
...says a right wing newsletter with little credibility.
Regulation gave us Google (and chrome).

If the US and the EU hadn't threatened Microsoft with anti-trust they clearly would have embedded browser and search into their (then) dominant OS.
So you decide whats a waste of energy then?

Here watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYYh4aPXAM

Bitcoin mining allows energy companies to de-risk an investment in green energy solutions such as solar. If you place some miners onsite you always have full demand (which is a problem during peak production times). Bitcoin mining is a energy revolution.
There are always exceptions to rules, I'm not sure we need to dwell too much on that fact. This is about risk reduction, not absolute protection.
The confusing messaging around that question has been a big part of the problem

Regardless though, I think buying full-priced games that you don't actually own is the real non-starter. These aren't $0.99 songs on iTunes; these are $60 investments.
Interesting that they're putting so much focus on the DNA piece, since the actual crime was witnessed by a police officer and there is circumstantial evidence tying the suspect to the weapon (it was found along the path they used to flee from the scene).
Agreed.

I was looking into Sam Altmans comment about "being formidable". He quotes PG ( point # 8 ) and thought I would look for different ways to be formidable and this article came up.

Orinal article:

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
I'm skeptical that market cap is a useful metric here. Owning a cryptocurrency doesn't entitle you to a share of the value generated by that currency, so it's not clear why multiplying the price of 1 BTC by 21 million should produce a meaningful estimate of how much Bitcoin as a whole is worth.
Since nobody seems to have said it yet:

Happy Birthday! :)
Consequently, WU's idiotic "risk management machine learning" has now taken your money, and is refusing to return it to you or send it to your destination without days or weeks of documentation and pain.
Move, sit, pick, and carry in such a way as to protect your back. Lift with your legs, not your back. Face the load you're lifting.
Google has a serious problem with their tightly coupled identities. They need to be forced to decouple their business so losing your YouTube account doesn't have an effect on your email service or literally any other service. Clearly they're not going to do it voluntarily, so it's time for courts to step in and start taking care of consumers.
(Blog post author here) Referring to my job change as the company offering me charity is offensive and incorrect (I took a pay cut and worked hard to learn what I need to in order to be effective).

Asserting that someone working in UX research/design is in an entirely unrelated field from software development is also wildly incorrect. UX folks work with SWEs regularly and are working on the same projects, albeit from a different perspective.

There are also examples of men at my company making fairly similar changes across organizations. I'd love for you to take a minute and consider why you approached my story with the preconceived notion that I've only gotten this opportunity because I'm a woman.
Well, I guess the joke works perfectly well for 10% too. The company will just live for a bit longer.

The fact that the practice is immediately visible as stupid does not stop real companies from adopting it.
If anything, I would say unenumerable.
> But 0.001% of billions or users is still millions of accounts...

Not that I disagree with your point, but even if we assume 50 billion accounts (6+ for every human on earth), 0.001% of that would still be 'just' 100k, not millions.
Happy birthday! If you made it this far, your life expectancy is a lot higher now. That means you should probably start thinking longer term -- whereas in your late teens you thought about college, in college you thought about your twenties, and in your twenties you were busy with your career, in your thirties you should start thinking about retirement.

The two items that are going to dominate your retirement are your finances and your health. If any one of these suffers, the other will as well. So start saving if you haven't already, or increase your savings otherwise. Be mindful what you put in your body, not only drugs and alcohol but food as well. Stop "trying" to exercise, do both aerobic and anaerobic exercises, consistently.

That said: you're not done with life. So keep learning, keep growing, keep enjoying every day. Set goals and work on them.
Right. Selfish genes don't necessarily need to be beneficial for every individual that carries them. Queen bees have evolved -- through regular Darwinian evolution -- the trait of having a majority sterile offspring. Those genes don't help the worker bees, but they help the queen and so get passed down.

If you have a genetic mutation that means 1/4 of your offspring won't bear their own children, but will increase the likelihood of your grandchildren living to adulthood, that may well be something that gets selected for.

Not saying that this is necessarily the case with "gay genes," simply that it is perfectly consistent with standard evolution.
DNA testing should be double blind. I have no idea if it is.

Sample contamination can be arranged before sent to the lab though.
The lesson here is: you are too big. If you were smaller, you could manage these issues. But you choose to be big instead.
Actually that’s because I do a lot of high impact activities with some risk. The risks don’t always work out.
I'm saying what's the point of even keeping score when the odds are so stacked against women. Your complaints are entirely anecdotal, meanwhile it's very easy to point at empirical data showing how women are treated poorly.

If you wanna line up your complaints alongside mountains of empirical evidence showing how women are disenfranchised repeatedly feel free, just don't expect people to take you seriously when you call yourself a feminist.

If you actually want to call yourself a legitimate feminist you should spend more time listening and learning. It might make you actually feel silly to complain about how men are treated in tech.
Most say American system is not sound
Nile Red did a great video on his attempts to reproduce these results:

https://youtu.be/x1H-323d838
Thanks, that's what I meant to type but didn't.
Don't ask for advice, don't follow advice, don't give advice.

These people don't know you.

Learn to know yourself and make your own decisions, live your own life. It's yours to live and it'll be over way faster than you think.
I grew up in the midwest and I always have enjoyed running and cycling during frigid weather. No one else is out and usually on the coldest days the sun is shining.
> I'm sorry, but that's not obvious. Given that we've got PCI circuits running at 16GHz, why don't chipmakers give us full-scale processors with those faster clock speeds?

That's not what I said. I'm just saying that it's obvious that if you wanted a fast 64 bit adder on the process, you'd build a carry lookahead adder or other fast adder, not stack a single bit adder 64 times. Saying "YOU NEED TO MULTIPLY PROP TIME BY 64" seems kinda dishonest.

I said:

> > You could obviously use the process to make wide adders with faster clock speeds than stacking serial adders in front of each other.

Do you really think the optimum thing is going to be stacking 64 of these in a row?
One question for you: how does an engineer know what to automate?
This would all be perfectly okay and understandable if the AI were the first line of defense and there was any meaningful way at all to contact support and escalate things after that filter. (I mean besides making headlines in all the gaming-news articles.)
To appreciate the article, you need to first understand the scoop of Stephen Wolfram's intellectual persuite.

This is obviously pure theoretical computer science (turing complete automata), but what Wolfram is trying to investigate, is if physical phenomenon can be explained through the use of cellular automata configured with simple rules (which explains why he's trying to link it to quantum physics).

If he is right, it would mean that we would have completely new ways of computing physical calculations of nature and that could posses some advantages.

Besides that, it also opens up our knowledge on what exactly computing is, through the articulation of computational process.

For a more comprehensive article on this aspect o suggest you see https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
You may be thinking of earlier generations.

Cloud Native Buildpacks (1) have reproducibility as a design constraint[0][1] and (2) produce container images as their output.

[0] https://buildpacks.io/docs/reference/reproducibility/

[1] https://medium.com/buildpacks/time-travel-with-pack-e0efd8bf...
If you have a business you get a separate phone number for it, and potentially for each customer project. You can reuse it when the project is done, or it makes it easy to hand off the amount, assets etc to the customer.

What I do is use my gf's number (so occasionally I have to ask her for the code that shows up on her phone :-) ). I am fortunate not to use google for anything I care about, or even much at all, so this is no inconvenience for me; OTOH she not only keeps everything in google but used to work there.
I would say AI roots and research are lisp, as 99% of all early research work was done on lisp.

Lisp was the language people like Richard Stallman or John McCarthy(the inventor of Lisp) used at MIT AI laboratory:

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

Everybody used Lisp there and young people that learned from the masters learned lisp too.

But that was AI 1.0. Then came the AI winter and 2.0 spring with GPUs that were programmed in C dialects and gave incredible levels of raw power.

So, as a high level access to low level C code, python was picked by most people.
And yet we don't allow for blowing off that error rate because of the number of total cases in the system. It's also possible to get a retrial or dismissal if the errors are identified.
Would I prefer government enforce food safety standards, or let consumers decide what they want?

Would I prefer government enforce building safety codes, or let consumers decide what they want?

Would I completely ignore the fact that Google has sucked the air out of the room with their market dominance, so hardly any competitors are left for consumers to decide between?
The longest living websites are forgotten accidents. It's always some ancient webserver using maybe a single RAID-1 array of two tiny spinning disks, running forgotten software that is never ever updated. The uptime on those boxes are not uncommonly measured in decades. Somebody's credit card just keeps gets charged $40 a year ($10 for the domain and $30 for the website hosting), and the machine never gets touched.

Typically it sits in the back of a dusty rack for a website hosting vendor (or, rarely, a colo provider) and the gear has long since paid for itself, but also is unmaintainable due to not even having the remotest semblance of a service warranty or service parts (other than what somebody might have ordered as spares years before). If it ever loses power, everything starts back up on boot time and it keeps on chugging, defying the usual laws of computer entropy.
Interview with Employee #1 at Zapier
Works well! Cheap and fast
I assumed you're implying mal intentions. Otherwise, sure it is ad supported and not a charity.
Anecdata: my sister got off the bus with her 7-yo son as rain began to fall. In seconds it was impossible to walk on the sidewalk. They resorted to walking on grass lawns, then at each driveway she would get her son to crouch and she would push him sliding across then run and glide. It took an hour to go 2 blocks.

A failure in a traction device (she didn't have any) can leave you seriously stranded. Yak trax are very popular, but they fail routinely. I carry a spare set in my truck.

The weather is more unpredictable than we can imagine.
Technical:

- Don't be afraid to try new things. (this is tech, jobs, locations, people, everything...)

- Don't be hard on yourself if something you thought was going to be "cool" or "interesting" turns out to not be.

- Don't be afraid to do the things that no one else wants to do.

- Evaluate your work/life balance and DO NOT let your work over take your life in the long run.

- Companies don't give a *$%# about you as a person, only what value you bring to them as a company. In a lot of ways that is a good thing but understand that when push comes to shove you are expendable.

Personal:

- Save for retirement, as much as you can (gentle voice, as this can be very challenging at times). Compound interest is an amazing beast that will set you up for life.

- Every raise you get put a % in retirement, and keep the rest. You need a real time reward for your hard work as much as you need to save. "Treat Yo Self"

- If you need help. ASK FOR IT. Don't sit around and wait for someone to hand you the answer. People are there just waiting to give you all the help you need.

- If you ask for help and get a crappy response, file away that person's response and ask someone else.

- Record milestones and keep them safe. Then when you need (in the low times) review those milestones and recognize how much you've accomplished. Essentially try to step away from the canvas and get out of the moment in time problem you are stuck in.

Last and most important:

- Help others, without ego, where you can. You got here by receiving help from so many people, pay that forward.
>You can't find someone else's anecdotes untrue.

Sure I can when they're filled with obvious and apparent cognitive biases.
Regulation gave same-day/instant money transfers between banks in other countries, blame US politics for the regulatory capture

> "Regulation" gave us professionals -- doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc -- who systematically exclude competitors and overcharge their customers because they aren't exposed to the full force of competition and innovation.

I find the overconfidence funny if not for the sheer ignorance of history. Snake oils were literally a thing. (And you're still free to buy them in a way)
FWIW I saw the feedback in here on the title, agreed with the potential for misinterpretation, and changed it in the original blog post to make its intended meaning more clear. The title was correct when it was posted.
Maybe you can increase your Lysine [0] intake. Amazon sells pure Lysine tabs [1]. I should warn you though, they're a bit big to swallow and have a slight after-taste.

[0] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/lysine-benefits

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Elements-Complex-Vitamin-Veget...
The language of the "promise" is such that there is a lot of gray area and there is a lot of information contained with an email that is not the "message" of the email.

Do you honestly think they just blindly deliver emails and don't take even a single scrap of data from them for their own benefit? The biggest data aggregator on the planet is just ignoring all of that data?

Ok.
That's great, thanks for sharing that! I am not a professional journalist but @ntytypos does make mistakes when pointing out errors in Times, but of course they are corrected, unlike what takes place elsewhere.
Elon Musk Now a Live Doge Twitter Meme; Dogecoin.org Redirects to Him, Much Wow?
This is obviously not true in a majority of industries
Thanks for sharing! I had not heard about him.
Beautiful APIs
This was definitely true of previous generations, where each buildpack needed lots of magic to play nice with others and you needed to fork them if you wanted a particular feature.

CNBs are easily composable, partly because of that experience. No more forking necessary.
Yes, subject to minor variations. The version I heard had him going from the back of the section in a community (amateur) orchestra to playing in the Toronto Symphony to leading the viola section in the Berlin Philharmonic -- and making the same wish ("make me a better musician") each time.
Htf do you call yourself a feminist with posts like this?
So it's fiberglass except it uses thin strips of bleached wood in place of the glass fiber substrate?

Also, being lighter than glass (presumably by unit volume?) is a pretty low bar. Glass is heavy. "Stronger" is so vague it's almost meaningless. Stronger under tension? Compression? Flex? Impact resistance? What?
> You can't even trust phone companies to do their job right and ensure the secure verification code is sent to the right phone! You provided some more secure ways for users to authenticate themselves,

For those that don't know, phone companies are easily susceptible to sim-swapping attacks which can make it easy for an attacker to intercept SMS 2fa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22016212

Edit: looks like OP changed their entire comment while I was replying.