skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to money most people in every profession look the other way.

I just can’t figure if 90%, or 99%?

Every profession, and every job, people look the other way on truth, and moral issues.

I usually have more respect for the criminal who admits he steals, and cheats, for a living.
>>As soon as autonomous vehicles are approved you're going to have driverless Amazon delivery trucks ejecting packages in your driveway and emailing you that they've arrived.

That is unlikely, the population has a huge problem right now with package theft, even if it does not "cost" the customer anything when i order something I need the product it if stolen from me even if I get another one a few days later it makes me less likely to buy online for things. Amazon's market dominance is directly tied to 1-2 days delivery times.

Having a bunch of robots just toss packages 5 feet from the road might seem like a good idea to an MBA, but in reality it will make package delivery less reliable if I have to have 30% of my amazon packages redelivered because of theft, damange etc, amazon will lose its market share.

Already they are losing in many way in price, i am often times finding things for lower prices than on amazon, largely because of their INSANE platform charges (i.e the 30% "fulfilled by amazon" surcharge)

Amazon Retail business is still either break even or losing money, AWS supports the company. I am not sure they can withstand the hit that would come from fully autonomous package delivery.

>All the truck drivers and their unions know that,

I can assure you it is not Truck Drivers or the Truck Driver unions (which really have almost no power these days) that are at the heart of anti-automation reporting.

Insurance and Local governments have alot more at stake, hell most local governments have huge amounts of revenue that come from parking and other road related fines that would disappear entirely with fully automated cars.
I'm getting a "connection was reset" error. The hoster is most likely blocking all requests to the host name, probably due to an automatic DDoS detection (Wordpress is quite memory hungry) or because the included traffic has been exceeded.
I think we need more funding outside of large tech companies and OpenAI for these kinds of things. I wonder if there is a way to crowdsource donations to rent the hardware to train big versions of these things in an open manner.
Not even Tesla is saying their system could or should be used that way. You're making quite a few assumptions about the capabilities of the system and going outside of the instructed and permitted use of the system if you are going to go read for 6 hours while the car drives itself.

Unexpected situations can and will happen. They are not at all as simple as "well the car will just detect it and break faster than me" by a long shot. What if there is debris on the road and the car misreads it? What if there are actually pedestrians because somebody got into an accident and decided it would be a bright idea to take a little walk?

I could go on, and I'm sure you or somebody else could answer every hypothetical I could come up with. That's not the point. The point is that even a "boring, predictable drive" is anything but. We put in a ton of processing power that makes that drive (usually) seem boring and predictable. A level 2 system is not designed to be let loose even in these circumstances.
>It's a country of 350 million people, with perhaps the most staggering differences in educational outcomes of any developed nation on Earth.

Economy depends on productivity and innovation. Who would've thought that the people like Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg and Ellison would create so much wealth and so many jobs without college degree. Robust US economy enabled them bringing their innovation to fruition but I'm afraid if they lived in another country they wouldn't be able to do that. Of course every country depends on higher education but sometimes creativity can outperform formal education.

I think public vs private is irrelevant because if you are productive as a worker or innovative as a entrepreneur result is the only thing that counts.
Saw this in tweet form:
https://twitter.com/splattne/status/1373698826880614402?s=21

Apparently Kurt Vonnegut Sr. came up with the plan.
There are thousands of actually qualified professionals looking at that data, including the licensing bodies of every developed nation. The EU has recently gone back-and-forth on the AZ vaccine. which would seem to only make sense under the assumption that they are actually cognisant of possible risks and trying to avoid them (and alternative some might want to argue is their hatred of the British, but that cannot explain the ultimate resolution, since EU still very much hates at least the Johnson government)

If you trust them, get the vaccine. If you don't trust them, why would you trust any data they might release?
Early employee, AMA!
Italy stopped having meaningful Covid tracing well before their first detected Covid-related death in February last year. They'd reported zero cases in the weeks leading up to it and there are a whole bunch of reasons to suspect that was a massive, massive underestimate. (I think they also imposed measures like school closures pretty soon after this. It didn't seem to help much.)
Debian doesn't have problems like this despite being mainly built by volunteers and living off donations.
I have a few problems.

In the default settings other users could not access the X server. I forgot how that is changed. I changed it once and now just copy the config

Biggest is getting the sound to work. Pulseaudio in system mode should do it. Although it is not recommended to use. And now my headphones do not work reliable anymore. Not sure if it is caused by system mode or by another setting.

And sharing files. Good that the browser cannot change my files, but it works both ways. My normal user cannot change the browser files, sometimes not even access the downloads.
So now every web app has to encapsulate an equivalent to the entire os repository tooling + your entire build system + whatever devops tooling needed to deploy. Bonus... A lot of build tooling is to allow for faster upgrades than the OS provides... Especially with dynamic languages.
None of those links are specific to this company, so they're not really relevant.
He isn’t actually selling the Brooklyn Bridge, but a (comically poor) drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge:

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9201a886740d193e315f1f1b2b193321...

So this is not really a scam, but rather a legitimate satire of recent NFT sales.
Well, and if we could wave a wand and have universal self-driving--while remote work throws something of a wrench into the calculus--you presumably have people living further away from work, having a car circle the block a few times rather than park, etc.

I'd place a bigger and bigger bet on cars driving fully autonomously on designated sections of highway and Manhattan being essentially a maybe someday location over the next decade or two.
Waymo does have better than human capabilities.
On the other hand, podcasts can be listened to in the background, while text must be actively read. There are pros and cons to each format as a consumer, not to mention differences in production workflow.
From[1]:

> Meanwhile, aid agencies say the embargo imposed by the U.S. (and UK-backed) Arab coalition has had dramatic effect with about 80% of population in urgent need of vital resources such as food, water and medical supplies. Saudi Arabia, reportedly relying on U.S. intelligence reports and surveillance images for target selection, began airstrikes, some of which were against weapons and aircraft. The U.S. has dispatched warships in the region after Houthi missiles targeted the UAE-operated HSV-2 Swift, which some critics interpreted as the U.S. reinforcing the coalition blockade. According to Iranian sources, it has refueled Saudi planes, sent the Saudi military targeting intelligence, and resupplied them with tens of billions of dollars worth of bombs. The U.S. (and the UK) support the effort through arms sales and technical assistance. Amnesty International urged the U.S. and the UK to stop supplying arms to Saudi Arabia and to the Saudi-led coalition. It has been reported that U.S. is regarded as an indirect partner for Saudi Arabia in the war and blockade on Yemen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Yemen#United_State...
In theory. I've not seen a contract that does that, however.

This doesn't mean they couldn't exist, just that (in my current understanding) it's not part of the ERC-721 spec.
Wow! That's really interesting. I was typing in some random numbers looking at what other companies were in this directory, how large it went, etc etc, and I hit quite a few of these missing pages. I wonder if all of those companies got ejected for breaking the code of ethics, or if there are other reasons?
There are quite a few other routes in to these roles (start as a graduate, lateral hire from consulting/industry, internal moves, etc) and I don't think they really see stiffer competition or higher calibre candidates than you'd see for a front office role at GS or another bulge bracket IB.

However if you start at GS/another IB then you get plugged into a network where you see a lot more of these opportunities without having to go out to look for them as much. It's partially a numbers game so the more opportunities you see the better the chance of landing one.
Low wattage amps have high impedance. So you want high impedance speakers to match.

More wattage = lower impedance = expensive equipment.
this is why i think Gemini is the most interesting thing happening in the web space today. the browser itself can't overcome the fundamental bloat and decay of the web as we know it today; the heavier and heavier js load, the ridiculous ad load that necessitates entire extensions just to escape from it; etc, etc.

Gemini is a project that actually attacks the root of the problem by presenting an extremely stripped-down hypertext format and giving an alternative at the protocol level.

i highly recommend checking out Gemini https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi and the Lagrange Browser https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange if you find this interesting.

at least for my circle, there's a consensus that the web has calcified and become such a walled garden that we've reached a time where it makes sense to "start over" at a pretty base level; rather than trying to build on top of a platform that, by its nature, inevitably tends towards centralization and capitalization.
You'd be required to pay attention continuously and be able to do immediate takeovers at all times for that LA-SF drive at L2. You simply wouldn't have to actually drive. L3 is where your attention is "allowed" to wander. Quoting NHTSA guidance:

> Therefore, the L2 driver is expected to be alert and monitoring the road continuously. The L3 driver is not expected to be paying attention to the road at all times, but is expected to be takeover-ready with advance notice.
Huawei end up having to use SMIC, so less business for TSMC.
It's weird for me to read HN and see people speak of PoS as some kind of new cutting edge technology. Maybe some of the issues with it may or have may not been solved but it is so damn old now that it's 2021.

Like the first live real money implementation of a PoS chain was done by SunnyKing back in like...I want to say 2012, but maybe 2013. SunnyKing was the same guy who went on to make the somewhat interesting PoW function via finding largest prime numbers(arguably somewhat useful PoW, certainly more than double SHA-256), Primecoin.

Then in a larger scale there was NXT which was like 2013-2014ish, full PoS.

I don't care about the merits of these particular chains, but PoS was one of the earliest innovations in blockchain tech. The lineage was roughly something like:

0. All the centralised pre-Bitcoin cypherpunk digital currency stuff from the mailing list like Bitgold, Chaumian ecash whatever.

1. Bitcoin

2. Namecoin(decentralized DNS)

3. Feathercoin/Litecoin(Bitcoin with 0.25 block target time and 4x total coins), arguably shouldn't be on the list for 'innovation' but Litecoin is successful(at some point they changed the PoW work function to scrypt so I guess it counts, there were other scam coins around this time too doing the same thing. So I don't necessarily mean Litecoin was 'third place' overall, just that it ended up rising from the pile of shit).

4. Different forms of PoW functions. ie Litecoin doing scrypt so people could still use their ATI Radeon 4xxx to mine and not order ASICs from shady companies), Cryptonight stuff maybe(lies about it being 'developed on the darknet for years and being related that cicada thing' before and such, hard to make an accurate timeline for that one(ended up forked off as Monero, possibly post-PoS tech)).

5. PoS, 2012-2014ish. Probably didn't come before different PoW functions but it might have switched with #4's place, hard to remember the exact timelines, but people were trolling and making fun of PoS ever since it was theorized. Probably because a true fully realized PoS that is superior to PoW is a threat to the massive investments one must put behind PoW systems, which also becomes the root of their 'nothing at stake' arguments against PoS, which certainly had merit back then with early PoS implementations. I wonder if those truly got solved.

This was all like 2014 at the latest. Very old stuff but crypto is full of sales snakes(not targeted at you at all) who try to sell other peoples old open source tech as new modern innovations. It's a familiar pattern. People sold Bitcoin as private and anonymous for years...like way too long.

I'm imagining now there will be a point when PoS is 10+ years old and people will acting like it's the newest thing on the block still.
So because there is a real difference between two pieces of equipment, you no longer think that often audiophiles deceive themselves about differences among other pieces of equipment? I don’t understand the reasoning.
> Fraud in the startup world is a lot more prevalent than might be well known.

This is quite true. I'd actually estimate it north of 50% given my discussions with various people over the years.

I would argue that its probably better than this in the "bootstrapped" arena rather than the VC-funded arena. VC lottery tickets seem to attract fraudsters like flies.

> Investors don't do enough due diligence and trust their own gut too much.

This is probably true, but one of the real problems is that serial fraudsters really don't get punished. In addition, the bottom-feeding lawyers that enable them also don't get punished.

A successful lawsuit against one of these fraudsters will cost you at least a megabuck. It's almost always more cost-effective to walk away with whatever payment you can threaten out of them than to actually file a lawsuit.
Honestly, the short answer is to google model numbers and look at discussions on sites like Audiokarma.

The TLDR is that most Japanese "name brands you've heard of" from the 1970s are pretty good. After the mid 1980s, the build quality starts to nosedive. Top-of-range models are often still impressive, but more of the BOM cost ends up on things like decoding defunct Surround Sound formats and rear-channel amplification. This often corresponds with the change from silver-alumiuum faceplates to black plastic, and the expression "Black Plastic C*p".

Speakers are a lot more subjective and also more subject to material degredation-- the foam ring that attaches the speaker cones to the casing can go brittle or crack or fall apart. This can be fixed with rebuild kits for many models, but this is a situation where new kit has some benefits with improved materials science.
I don't care about cookies blocks more. In uBO you can add the I don't care about cookies list: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
Normally I do that - in this case, pictures are useful though.
Joseph Henrich, a professor of human biological evolution as Harvard, has some pretty good theories on the subject.

He defines culture as, ”the large body of practices, techniques, heuristics, tools, motivations, values, and beliefs that we all acquire while growing up, mostly by learning from other people.”

He estimates that our ability to use culture started at perhaps a million or so years ago, maybe a bit more, maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

This article challenges his ideas bit since he seems to think that culture is unique to our species, and in contrast these researches of course claim wales have it too.

I think the largest point of contention may lie in the definition of culture. Does the ability to communicate danger really amount to “culture”?
Ask HN: Are there solar spectrograms over the 11 year period?
There are widely available images of averaged solar spectrum, with a peak around the green wavelength. It's also known that the solar activity changes over the 11 year period. It seems natural to combine the two and draw an FFT spectrogram, but for some reason it's difficult to find one.
Scanners already effectively give this, finding the vulnerable components and a list of CVEs. But it may be difficult, expensive, or too time consuming to upgrade the affected components. Or there may be blackout periods (e.g. during open enrollment for many healthcare companies) where they basically can't make any changes to the production stack.

The problems with upgrades are usually centered around testing and understanding the changes and ensuring that things still work. It often requires more resources, especially time & developers, than may be available at any given time. And some companies treat all IT functions as cost centers and you can see this from how they run the place: the internal people don't know their own setup very well and may not have much experience in general, things are run by a tiny number of people who may have multiple roles to fill, etc.

Source: I've helped many people in many industries upgrade complex, security-sensitive enterprise software that interfaces with large amounts of their infrastructure.
Hey! Before I can ask this, question for you, are you raising venture capital now or plan to in the future? If so then a C Corp is the right decision!

Re taxes, first a disclosure: I am not a tax professional and this is purely information advice

Depending on your business and whether or not you have effectively connected income to the US + a physical presence in the US, there might be a situation where an LLC would have tax savings. However, I cant answer this professionally / I'd need more info from you to even give you a high level answer on my side. However, if you DM me on Twitter (@arjmahadevan) I'm happy to see if I can connect you with a resource or CPA who might be able to help you here!
Weird. I gave up on Eagle before I was able to get PCB ready for manufacturing, but I found KiCad to be very intuitive. (Except when importing external libraries, that’s one horror show.)
A book, "Failure to Disrupt
Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education", recently came out about exactly this. In an interview, the author, Justin Reich, explained that schools perform so many different functions in so many different ways that MOOCs neve had a shot at replacing it. Instead, it got swallowed up and and integrated with our existing educational system.

[0]https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674089044
Well, it is for the good of children as the worst thing a child can get is "implicit racism" that can't be cleansed.

As teacher's union repeatedly said, reopening schools even in this December is "a recipe for propagating structural racism". See? what's bigger than racism? Nothing is bigger than racisms, be it truths, problems, issues, or challenges in the US.

So, if you dare to mention reopening the school again, you're a racist. If you dare to discuss education reform, you're a damn racist. If you dare to challenge teachers union, you're a racist. Case closed.
I recommend “The Dropout” podcast. Very well done, lots of great interviews.

https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/
Frankly, this looks like the playbook of sociopaths. I would use this book to figure out what bad actors would use to manipulate me.

If you want a book that teaches you how to get what you want while also not being a shit person I would recommend "How to win friends and influence people". The thrust of that book is that people helping each other results in mutual benefit that is greater than the sum of its parts.
A little boost to end your week on a high
Naively I would think that there must be a service out there that auto-generates transcriptions from podcasts. Youtube already do this for (some) videos. The output isn't perfect, but it gets about 99% of the words correct.

So my suggestion to OP wouldn't be "don't do the podcast". Instead I would say "do the podcast, but consider that it might not be searchable without a bit of extra effort".
For one, AZ doesn’t use the pre-fusion stabilized spike protein in their vector, while the mRNA and J&J vaccines do.
Because some things don't even show up as a problem until you've encountered them before. I'm not sure about now, but Wordpress used to be nigh-unusable for a blog if you got any sort of notable traffic unless you you installed and configured a caching plugin. People that went through that generally did it from then on for any future blog they configured, but that doesn't mean some new blog from some new blogger would have it, or that someone wouldn't forget about it when setting up a new one.

The problem is that it's often not a slow degradation, it's an exponential one. Things will be going fine, and then things will look a little slower, and then things will completely fall apart. This is because the few parts that actual lock and cause contention stack, and problems beget more problems. See also virtual memory in servers. Often, that point at which your server needs virtual memory is the point at which it slows everything down more that more and more requests stack up (because virtual memory is slow), needing more memory, and you get a spiral of death in many cases.
We're getting there but it's super hard to do it in remote areas and conflict regions.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/health/in-pakistan-victory-agains...
It's not that maintenance has no marketplace value, but that it's only really valuable when the system is on fire.

I've optimized that kind of SQL statement, and it paid
really well, but only because it was at a point where it was causing a whole lot of pain, so the fix provided CEO-visible relief. What is not a great use of your time is to preemptively fix issues like this, unless it's somewhere so system critical that engineering effort is going to be rewarded regardless.

But even then, you might want to do something in a way that is easy to sell later in your career. You want to at least be able to say: Remember how <famous architect> sold his innovative system at <famous conference>, and HN wonder why this talk existed, as there's no way this solution could scale? Well, they were right, it didn't scale, and I was the one that replaced it with something good, piece by piece, without anything falling down.

And that's the reason you don't get a lot of high quality maintenance work happening at most places. The vast majority of systems in the world are just not worth the engineering effort to build very well. And even in companies that can afford to do this kind of work, you will see a lot of effort spent shuffling engineers across projects, as a team that has high visibility tasks in a quarter might not have any the next.