skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure he’s not talking about charas?
You hit on the head with the difference in interest. At that sort of scale you're looking at a difference of almost a million dollars in just a year, even if I were doing that for my own personal account I don't think I'd consider a better UI to be worth a million dollars a year. Anyone in a corporate setting suggesting that amount should be swallowed so that someone interacting with the account a few times a month can do it a bit easier would be laughed out of the room.
I think you should reconsider the actual problem, if you do not understand it.

The fact that rustc is backwards compatible is great, sure. But it does not solve the problem of distributors.

Say you have libfoo-1.0 that uses rust and cargo 1.2 . A distributor that now releases their linux version and wants to ship libfoo-1.0 must consider the requirements for supporting it. This support usually outlives the upstream support.

If libfoo-1.0 uses C, for instance, it is highly likely that a distributor can backport any security-relevant changes from libfoo-1.1, 1.2, and later into 1.0.

In the case of rust there are two uncertainties creeping in: One is the highly dynamic nature of cargo dependencies. libfoo might depend on a myriad of crates transitively and rust simply is too young to provide any experience in how long they will be available or supported. And no, it is generally not a good idea to update to new feature releases for security updates. This is something that stable distributions explicitly try to avoid.

So our distributor now must consider if changes in libfoo-1.2 pulled in changes via cargo that cannot be easily backported because they are feature releases or have a dependency on a newer version of rust.

The second problem is the compiler itself. Any change in libfoo-1.2 might require a newer version of rust. It is great that they want to be backwards compatible but now our distributor must consider upgrading a substantial piece of software during the support period (and testing the backwards compatibility, of course) just to backport a security fix.

Please don't get me wrong, I really like rust and I think these problems can be solved. But I also like stable software and all these languages with their package repositories seem to simply ignore everything that's older than one or two years. If rust wants to become a new C, which I would very much like, it needs to demonstrate a certain stability.
"Yep, it would definitely be difficult to justify running it in production. Accuracy would need to be higher as you said or it would need to be applicable to more tasks such that you can take other models out of production."

Part of the justification is the MoE sparsity by design means only a small part of the model will be activated by a given query. Don't think of it as a single giant 1t model, think of it as 50 small models which happen to share a glue layer at the input. So at deployment, you could, for example, keep the gating-layer in RAM and only pull the necessary sub-model off disk as necessary. Or you could shard the sub-models over 51 GPUs and feed the master gating-layer+GPU lots of queries, and each query will be dispatched to a different expert+GPU pair. This could easily be competitive with running a lot of dense models in parallel trying to keep up with the same load.
Same thing happened 2 years ago in Hawaii https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140761
The company has direct communication with the contractor. The contractor has incentives because we don't commission on their payment as upwork and other platforms. We have several features to submit time sheets and proof of work. Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

"Doors can have two states: open or closed. They should not require instruction."
Somewhat related, the GDPR regulations do explicitly spell out that unsubscribing from an email list should be clear and simple.

Ideally, the same kind of regulation could be put in place for stopping a service on the internet (like NYT).
As with many things in life, if it didn't work, they wouldn't do it.

So to answer your question, yes, it probably does reduce churn, if only slightly. Is there an occasional person who goes to try and cancel, runs into this byzantine process and then says, ah fuck it, I'll just stay subscribed so they don't have to deal with this bullshit? Yes, but probably only infrequently.

Instead, it infuriates all the rest who DO go thru the byzantine process and add more frustrating to whatever reason they were already intent on canceling from in the first place, as was demonstrated in this OP's chat transcript.
FWIW, with my contrarian hat firmly affixed, I suspect that C plus tools makes more economic sense than Rust.

https://compcert.org/ > The CompCert project investigates the formal verification of realistic compilers usable for critical embedded software. Such verified compilers come with a mathematical, machine-checked proof that the generated executable code behaves exactly as prescribed by the semantics of the source program.

https://frama-c.com/ > Frama-C gathers several static and dynamic analysis techniques in a single collaborative framework. The collaborative approach of Frama-C allows static analyzers to build upon the results already computed by other analyzers in the framework.

https://www.cprover.org/cbmc/ > CBMC is a Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ programs. ... CBMC
verifies memory safety (which includes array bounds checks and checks for
the safe use of pointers), checks for ex­cep­tions, checks for various
variants of undefined behavior, and user-specified as­ser­tions.
Looking at the UI, anyone would be confused. I feel bad for the employee put into the spotlight. The spotlight should be on whomever designed and approved this software and UI.

Unfortunately because of the court case, instead, people associated are the users.
You miss the fact that what bitcoin does is a tiny fraction of what banks do.

I mean, how do you do for example mortgages or corporate finance with bitcoin - without hiring all the people and using all the resources current financial system does?

Frankly, more proper comparison would be the resource consumption of using gold in the financial system.
> I can get thousands of valid phone numbers

How?
Ok, but... there are some powertools that cannot be made completely safe. Like git.
That seems like a deal that's slanted extremely in favour of the company.

Don't expect passion and dedication if the company doesn't offer the same guarantee back when the going gets tough or they change direction. You treat your staff like mercenaries, that's what you'll get.
Oh yes, SBCL would also apply, I guess!
How could they have trusted some Indian subcontractor to do something so important with their money? Guess it's also a lesson in "you get what you pay for".
Good grief, yes it is.

It's not nearly as addictive. It's not nearly as deadly. It's much easier to control dosage. It has modes of consumption that are non-pathological.

This is typical of the distorted anglo-saxon view of alcohol as a tool for getting flat-out drunk. This is not how most of the world relates to alcohol, nor is it a healthy relationship with it.

Honestly, this says more about you than about booze.
> 2.5% interest rates, while inflation is arguably significantly higher than that number.

Inflation in the US isn't, even arguably, significantly higher than 2.5% per annum, and anyplace it is, interest rates are substantially higher.

And don't “but asset price inflation”; that's not relevant, since that's just the rate at which people invested in assets can get richer, not a price deflator that helps gauge how rich someone with a given nominal $ amount of wealth is.
The original twitter thread is what kicked this off.
https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668
I'd argue the infrastructure between phone numbers and e-mails are different enough that filtering for fake phone numbers is easier.

You can look up carrier data on a phone number easily enough, and if you're in the industry you have a general idea of which carriers are the ones that actually follow the rules for registering a number. You filter on the ones that don't.
A better way to say that is that if the tenured professor accidentally takes 5mg more, or has an off day, he doesn't kill somebody while driving a truck, or someone who programs a circuit wrong and causes a dump of chemical into a water supply.
>We should be promoting safe use and harm reduction education

Right, but this is harm-denial.
5700XT costs 1000$ in Ukraine. It cost 500$ when it just got released. WTF?

Edit: 1100$ actually.
A lot of it I think was just trajectory. But I think deregulation (lowering costs of domestic production) + tariffs (raising costs of imports) is probably the right approach.
However opening up an LLC and a bank account is not that easy, when you are from latin america, and receiving the money in a US bank account implies you have to report to the IRS.
What is the name of the ebook?
As a product designer who works in the enterprise space, it's good to know I'll have a long career barring any personal failures due to programs like this.
Let's check in on this guy in a few years.
It's pretty clear at this point that HN collectively tends toward the "C hating" camp. It's a sad state of affairs.
Why do people keep betting against Elon's plans, they always lose in the long run.
It means absolutely nothing. The "loan" was made many months after the funds were transferred. In reality, Bitfinex does not treat Tether as an segregated account...it's just part of Bitfinex. When they lost money, they just used Tether funds and later on they formalized it as a loan when they started to be investigated.

It's like saying you gave yourself a $1k loan and then repaid it. It's just going from one pocket to the other. It's meaningless.
Crossplane – GitOps-Based Infrastructure as Code Through Kubernetes API
I've never hated a piece of software with the same burning passion I reserve for Coq, but I'm happy to see they are still around releasing new way to brutalize the mind of the unprepared.
IMHO, the least-worst choice for governments everywhere has been to partially freeze their economies into lock-down, and borrow and spend however much is necessary, for as long as necessary, to keep human and capital infrastructure in decent shape until the pandemic is history.

The alternatives would have been horrific.

But I suspect we'll have to reign debts at some point, either via high taxes (relatively benign, but unpleasant), high inflation rates (more unpleasant and destructive), financial/economic crises (extremely unpleasant and destructive), or some other mechanism.
Agreed, especially considering the article's title blames UI.

They aren't naming the designers of the software, the devs who implemented it, or any number of other middle managers and other folks involved in building it and maintaining it. Just these 3 unfortunate individuals who failed to use it properly...
Same with "The Globe & Mail" here in Canada. You can only cancel via phone.
If the numbers don't convince, maybe the cozy picture of the man who enjoys doing large corporate transactions will seal the deal!
Average software developer compensation in the US can be around 100k to 120k . In latin america you can get excellent top tier tech talent for 30k-40k.
At work we have several modules which each have their "output control". When the user hits "submit", we run several checks and outputs a list of potential issues.

We've got four levels: info, warning, severe warning and error. Warnings are highlighted, severe warnings must be explicitly accepted (and we log this) and errors prevent submission.

When clicking on an item in the list, the cursor moves to the relevant control, so they don't have to hunt around.

We add the checks we can think of, and keep on adding checks based on user mistakes and feedback.

I'm not familiar with the financial world, so I don't know how common it would be to do what they wanted to do, but at the very least it sounds like the principal account number being filled out but not the two others is something we'd made an info item from, to highlight what would happen. If what they ended up doing is unusual, it would be a warning and likely severe warning due to the amount.
Census Raises $16M Series A from Sequoia
First Microsoft and not Airbnb.

As if our traffic didn't qualify us as the LA of the East.

Seriously though, metropolitan Atlanta is a great area to live with three major interstates going through the city and a very well developer surrounding area. With many businesses adopting more lenient WFH policies the drive is not always a concern. Schools are generally a good mix of public and private as with any area.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/02/11/investing-to-gro...
What's more fun is that they also took down the pages of health officials, charities, schools and even their own corporate PR page, turning the whole thing from an act of corporate petulance to a rather spectacular self-own.
> Lenders conveniently forget the reason they can charge interest is because there's a risk they won't be paid back.

No, the reason they can charge interest is that they have the money now, and other people want it, and are willing.to pay interest to get it.

The reason they need to charge interest if they don't want to go broke is that there is a risk they won't be paid back.
it needs to fit inside the fairing. also what do winged aircraft use to fly?
In today's society, the desire to be noticed is easily 50x the level of anxiety about being in a surveillance state.

We could start with the nonstop, look-at-me nature of Instagram (or any other social site). They satisfy a deep craving that just keeps growing. We could marvel at the Jan. 6 rioters posting their moments in history for all to see. It's endless, and it isn't slowing down.

Yes, there's a powerful argument to be made that nonstop surveillance could work out badly. But after 15 years of seeing such pieces thunder into obscurity, rehashing the same arguments in isolation seems futile.

Anyone who wants to contribute to the conversation needs to spend serious time thinking about the reasons why so many people want strangers to know about them. It's a deep-felt desire. For a lot of people, the dread of being unknown/un-noticed/ignored is greater than the risks that come from being noticed. Once we understand why that's so, we might be able to move forward.
Proactive vs reactive? If you can tell someone will cause an accident, you don't wait until it happens.
Mine is from '91 but same. I also don't fully understand the flaming the model M as flimsy, I am fairly confident I could use mine as a medieval cudgel if I needed to!
When you rationalize your drug habit so hard you write a book
Census: The Rise of Operational Analytics
Not a dev agency, but grew my (other kind of) agency from 1 to 25 FTEs in 2020.

- Build a personal brand on LinkedIn and Facebook. Connect and engage with folks in your target demographic

- Create content that adds value to the lives of your target demographic. Figure out if that's non-technical founders looking to build an MVP or engineering managers who need to scale.

- Do this for several years

- You need to ladder up as quick as possible to the highest value projects. This means every project you take on should lead to 2x bigger opportunities.

- Don't take on projects if the case study won't lead to 2x bigger opportunities. It's not worth the short term cash flow.

- Try and only do one thing. If you want to do do machine learning, don't take a website project for short term cashflow. A great outcome wont help you get more machine learning clients.

- Doing one thing will make marketing, sales, operations, and value delivery easier and more consistent. It's really hard to do a lot of things well. You probably won't be able too either.

- When you're calculating cost, don't forget PTO, maternity / paternity leave, cost of recruitment, hiring and retention.

- Document everything. Agencies are labor triage and well documented processes and frameworks enable junior level team members to do senior level work.
> It's a strange new world

Not really. In Germany it's very uncommon to name individuals in news reports, even in murder cases. If at all the format used is Angela M.

There is always a balance between the 'personality rights' of the individual and the public's right of information.

The story here is a good example - there is zero need to know the individuals' names.
Two minute video with an interesting little fact. Also a test to see how good your browser's Unicode coverage is for the symbols in the title ;-)
Many years ago, there were discussions here in Luxembourg to build a nuclear power plant together with the French in the east of Luxembourg. The "greens" at that time were against it, so it was not being build.

But the french build it then in France just 10km from the border (the biggest at that time with 4 reactors), and it's closer to our capital then your nuclear power plant to yours.
I could fund a startup's seed round, yes. Maybe several. Would I? Probably not. My ROI would be crap and take too long, compared to just buying stocks. But if I had maybe 5 times more money? Absolutely, wouldn't even care. And best of all, because of the social circles I frequent, I could name at least three others who could do the same.
I really liked the feel of my 2017 MBP. It just didn't work well as a portable, every day device because the keyboard was always breaking.
> a workplace dispute

It was a dispute about unions and how POC felt in the workplace, according to the person who spoke up. You can't get more woke than that.
Also big:

* We're currently planning to release Ansible-4.0.0 in the middle of
May, roughly a month after Ansible-core-2.11 releases. See the
Ansible 4 Roadmap for details:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_4...
Read it, but please also read it's critics[1] and form your own opinion knowing about the two sides.

[1] https://mises.org/wire/review-stephanie-keltons-deficit-myth
I love the music and theme here. Kind of vapor/synthwave
The false data from exchanges likely is key to the belief that these coins have value, and thus affects the data even from exchanges that aren't noticeably faking data.
Facebook's Australian news blackout is a PR disaster
> I was thinking that as well. Can anyone explain why this isn't common practice?

If you squint a little bit, this is exactly what the whole premise of corporate VC is. Take the funds that you'd allocate to long shots and operate as a VC would, provide strategic distribution where you can add value as a bigco, etc. Problem here is that compared to pure VCs you risk portfolio conflict in a different way that may not be as attractive to founders, but at least it's viable.
Best Fonts for Programming in 2021
Pemex was in terrible condition long before the opening up of the oil and gas market to competition.

I expect that this event will change nothing long term, it is Mexico after all.

If anyone is interested is how things look from the Mexican side, in English:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/natural-gas-shortage-trigge...

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/blackouts-extended-to-29-st...
Agreed, I expected better from Ars.

The UI bug and the impact is interesting, but the names of the individuals or where they are from add no value to this article.
I know they’ve outsourced customer service agents to India but didn’t think they also outsourced the execution of billion dollar transfers. Hope the wage arbitrage was worth it boys!
How ClickHouse saved our data (2020)
I'd like to know the word that describes the sort of cognitive dissonance in your comment.
How is it mathematically possible for prior failure to predict failure, without prior success predicting success?
The trouble is CPI is not generated in a transparent enough manner to prove your or my assertion.
Rewrite vs Transpile

I see references to "fixing" C and rewriting. An alternative would be to transpile a memory safe, easy to program language such as python3 and generate code in a memory safe language.

Since I don't know which one of these is the best, I have implemented basic (as in fibonacci and a simple class) in several languages.

I hope more effort is spent on writing code in small statically typed languages and generating memory safe code.

https://github.com/adsharma/py2many
Why would employees of a cooking podcast be exempt from concerns about workplace discrimination? It seems they are an employer like most others.
Good try, but just grep for Trump and you'll find the connection.

"Mr. Freidman, who was partners with Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, disclosed the plan in a 2012 speech at Yeshiva University. "
What font do you use for programming? Let me know!
Maybe you can't have startups at big companies, but you can look at your career and personal brand like an entrepreneur. Who are your customers/employers? What market niche are you capturing? How good are you at demonstrating your leadership in that niche? What do you need to change to put yourself in a better position with current/potential employers?
I agree we are dealing with problems better than in the 20th century... but we're on the precipice of a massive economic depression, actually probably already in the throes of it. Unfortunately the fed has bastardized the cost of money and so people are getting cheap loans despite the outsized risk that it'll simply never be paid back.

We're in for interesting times that's for sure.
If it was really Unicode I could use an eye roll emoji to reply with a succinct image, instead of all these words to describe my reaction.
I would recommend Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy

I would read one of the sections to my 7 year old daughter before bed and we would talk about it. She loved it.

This is geared for kids, but the questions are something we as adults think about all the time.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Ideas-Curious-Minds-Introduction/...

I have some other books on critical and logical thinking for kids, but they are geared towards the 12 year old age. I could not quite get her into them.

My current approach has been to teach her how to think about problems using a set of lessons I created in Scratch. I essentially start her with a plan of what we want to do. Then I use a series of questions while we are building the project. The platform gives you a fast visual feedback so it is perfect. 8 years of age is probably the youngest age a kid can be to do this without adult supervision. This has been my experience teaching this to several elementary school classes grades 1-5
Are we equating alcohol with heroin?
I don’t think the issue is that working at a pseudo startup doesn’t pay enough while a real startup does. Startups almost always pay less than big companies. Even most of the successful ones. For a worker, the pseudo startup is a great option. You get a high base salary, and a large stock grant, and the high growth stock we’ve seen at a lot of the big companies over a reasonably long period. By the end of your vesting, your $125k cash + $75k RSU = $200k/yr has (using apple growth, which is reasonably FAANG representative) grown to $125k + $245k RSUs = $370k/yr assuming no promotions and a linear vest.

Equity does build wealth, and BigCo equity does it much more reliably than a real startup.
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