skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3g released over 24H is not the same as having a drink, that would be 0.124 g/H and probably does maintain a 0 BAC homeostatic environment.

A drink would be 8 oz (5%) = 11.2 g etoh / beer avg that is consumed in <30m so that's 22.4 g/H or 1800% higher rate of etoh consumption for single beer compared to what your body naturally produces. Due to that, it remains in your blood stream and crosses the blood brain barrier for some period of time before the enzymes can effectively convert it, hence the increase in BAC for that period of time. That indicates that you are not maintaining homeostasis at that rate of consumption. If you drink more, then that extends the time of exposure and raises the level further - so yea there is a non-linearity there.

I'd compare it more to toluene or some solvent you breath in accidentally while working. Sure your body removes it, there are acceptable OSHA personal exposure levels so obviously it won't kill you at that concentration, maybe it gets more efficient at removing it after you expose yourself repeatedly. Still it's a neurotoxin and breathing any in causes non-zero damage.

All this beer talk got me thirsty, cheers!
Turn the Lights Out. Here Come the Birds
I meant mentioning company
I’m guessing roaming clients is how they are actually going to make money.
Unsuccessful attempts at gatekeeping are nonetheless gatekeeping.
China has a huge workforce to exploit, and its a lot easier to catch up then to lead the way. That's the main reason their doing well economically
This is also a good implementation in pure gdscript: https://github.com/ephread/inkgd
Interestingness helps but not the point

Startup conditions are chaotic and every new person takes management + training overhead. Internship applicants who have well-done and challenging projects have shown the energy, self-management, know-how, & self-learning to get projects done in mini-versions of these conditions. So every hour spent on them goes a lot further, and both sides benefit more.

Conversely, if someone can't get their projects done, the projects are too low quality for where it matters, or their skill are on too-different of a thing, at best, it's non-evidence. So you'll have to fall back to evaluating weaker signals like grades. At worst, lacking or failing at projects is a red flag that they'll struggle on the adult-sized projects as well.

For 'interestingness', probably more relevant is 'tied to the mission', but I think being youthful covers 80% of that for intern-level folks.

Failure to figure out fit may mean everyone loses. Interns are more about recruitment pipeline for companies, and I'm not sure that's the wisest way to solve that for a lot of startups if that's the goal. Likewise, startups not ready to invest in their interns (management overhead, training, etc.), or fail to screen for a good match in skills, can easily be a bad experience and opportunity cost for the students, who may have had a more pleasant, productive, and rewarding experience at a more mature company.
Even the beta list is only 24 lines long...
yes, and if you leverage the multipart upload then downloading along those boundaries will have zero contention and you can go extra fast.
We've also run an app with 1 million+ users for a few years, and I can confirm that notifications are a wreck on both platforms, but IMO even more so on Android/FCM.

In fact most of our calculations show that we have never gone past 85% delivery of high-pri Android notifications to valid FCM tokens. By high-pri here we mean direct chat messages in an active 1-on-1 chat conversation. This has caused many users to abandon the app since they assume the system to be unreliable. One of the main reasons seems to be that many Android phone vendors have simply whitelisted WhatsApp, Facebook and a couple of famous apps and then dumped every single other app into some kind of "kill if in background and completely forget about it" bucket. In some cases it can be fixed by asking the users to wander deep into the phone settings and toggle some switches. We brought the delivery rate from the low 80s to 85% by literally buying a bunch of the phone models we had heard had issues and trying to repro what was happening then popping up custom instructions for users like "looks like you are running this kind of phone which in general will not deliver notifications, please go to settings -> blah". But the whole thing has been a gigantic game of cat and mouse which really shouldn't be in the hands of individual app developers. In many cases the FCM system does not return any error code.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone here has achieved 95%+ FCM delivery rates on Android apps.
There are services that provide insight of a given IP address (https://ipinfo.io/) and probably is used to check client on the go. Many other providers (Netflix, qobuz, tidal,...) have similar tech to fence off VPN users.
My guess based off my readings is that this view is what gives them their place in society not to be questioned.

If the economic and social outcomes most people are happy with, faith in the party is maintained.

It is an interesting contrast with the political system in the west where it feels like politicians don’t like to take responsibility for actions and blame it on large corporates... who work within the frameworks they have designed
No I didn't get that quite right. Still GHB is a major improvement upon alcohol and I think the dosage problem is mainly an issue of illegality. It's fairly dosable and redosable when you know what exactly you're ingesting. Also GHB doesn't disinhibit aggression as much as alcohol does.
This has to be a mistake lol. I had kind of assumed that the lists that come with my pi-hole block most telemetry stuff already.
The reason it’s a fucking dumb idea is in no small part because it doesn’t conform to our ordinary pattern recognition of really fucking dumb ideas.

The Nest could be disabled by waving at it...It was a feature.

There are smoke alarms you can connect to a central alarm panel. Alarm panels that can be monitored remotely. And monitoring services that will call you when there is an alarm.

The difference is each element prioritizes life safety by conforming to life safety standards.

An important dimension of these standards is saving the lives of firefighters. When everyone is out of the structure they don’t need to go into an actively burning building.

If you are out of earshot of a smoke alarm, what can you do besides turn it off?

Home IoT devices are not known for their security. Nor are they known for long term support. The article itself demonstrates that...

A smoke alarm is not a consumer is always right device. There’s nothing stopping an Alexa skill that responds to the noise of a smoke alarm with a text to your phone.
They make claims of better tax efficiency via tax-loss harvesting [1]. I don't know or care enough to evaluate it, but maybe it's better for some people, even if the allocation is no better than an ETF? Even if it worked, I wouldn't bother to do it manually.

This doesn't matter for a retirement account, though.

[1] https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/209348486-...
Second, PLEASE diversify your credit cards across different financial institutions.

ABSOLUTELY.

There is an old saying "Never stay with with the same Bank, Insurance Company, or lawyer for more than two years. Otherwise they think they own you."

While I think that 'two years' is a little paranoid, I like the overall gist of the saying.
> Yeah and then what's a viable alternative?

Their place, their rules doesn't depend on there being an alternative. You can come up with your own platform if there's nothing else out there.
PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI
Unlikely imo. False reliance on testing has created more issues than it helped. Look at Taiwan (another small island nation). They don't bother testing. If you are sick, it's assumed you have COVID and you quarantine for two weeks. Much smarter and safer imo.

I disagree, and think small island nations do have much better chances. Otherwise we'd probably have great success stories in places like Andorra, Armenia, and Vatican City. I'm sure island countries to be more self reliant, with fewer major transport hubs that can be locked down.
This seems common in the industry at large. At my job it's impossible to fix an issue unless someone specifically puts in a ticket for it. I look at all the bugs in the code taunting me. Little landmines either nobody has stepped on yet or was too lazy to write a ticket for. Some tickets languish for years in the tracking system we use until the almighty scrum master doles it out. I am in hell.
I'm actually getting better results with similar colored foreground/background pictures on removebackground.app vs remove.bg
I think there is a version of the story that the West somehow doesn’t hear a lot about.

In Mainland China, the sudden interference of the government is attributed to the discovery of the stake of Jiang Zemin’s faction in Ant Group. It’s not a direct stake, but obfuscated through a chain of ownerships.

JZM’s faction is nowadays widely seen in Mainland China as being full of corruption and selfish agenda. Naturally, President Xi doesn’t want to see the influence of JZM’s faction over something as large as Ant Group, so the government decided to halt the IPO before it got too big.
LAMP Here(P for Perl) - Glad to see CGI after long time. Perl used to be duct-tape of internet.
I'm pretty sure it was a convenient way for them to show that no one is above Xi Jinping and his reach, even for a relatively minor infraction in the eyes of the CCP.
FWIW I lived and worked in Chicago for 10 years. Never liked it. Expensive, and life just seemed really complicated. I always felt stressed out. If you grew up in a rural or small town lifestyle, it's a big adjustment.

Eventually moved back to my hometown and wouldn't care if I never saw Chicago again.
>> Why is it abhorrent? FLoC doesn't compromise your privacy.

You misunderstand - Google is in the business of compromising your privacy. They have lots of teams of lots of very smart people figuring out how to compromise your privacy.

Further, they are in the real world business of doing it. They are not naïve as your comment was - they find the balance of how far they can push it, by a combination of monopoly power, and also cunning politics, PR and posturing - they are fighting tooth and nail and using every tactic and trick in the business, with an unlimited budget - specifically to compromise your privacy for their financial and political power gain. Any area where they 'seemingly' back away from compromising your privacy, is where they have done extensive cost benefit analysis, and come up with alternative trickier or less understood ways to get what they want but that is more politically acceptable.

This is the underlaying reality - the rest of the details of FLoC etc is an information battleground where you as a user are fighting unlimited budget teams that are highly motivated to exploit your privacy. Advertising is in fact just one slice of the power they wield by exploiting your privacy along with everyone else on the planet's.

If you try to look at just FLoC in isolation you will miss the forest for the trees, as the results of FLoC are correlated with many other sources of information.

FLoC's motivations are some balance of:

- reducing PR fallout due to increasing awareness of their exploitation of everyone's privacy

- keeping full access to information they already extract from you and everyone else, and in fact increasing it as possible

- reducing or hindering other parties access to the total information so they gain more relative power

The rest my dear chap is details and their teams and teams of analysts working on this have all day every year to outsmart you in the details of how this is implemented.
The issue with FLoC is it based on a false premise. Advertising can be successful without needing to build a tracking profile on a person as they traverse multiple websites.

For example if I visit a website that follows trends in computer hardware... advertisers may pay to put ads in this site to PC parts, etc. If I visit a site about popular camping locations.. advertisers can purchase ads that are relevant to camping,gear, travel etc.

The very idea that we need a tracking identity that monitors and identifies behavior from site to site is ridiculous.
What they mean is that 39% are fake. 100% are unreliable unless you have some reliable way to determine which are fake.
> Extract audio from a video

In my opinion, `ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 filename.wav` is one of the greatest known examples of powerful functionality with a simple interface.
I'd argue that:

a) You don't need really good unless you're doing cutting edge work at massive scales. There's lots of deep learning talent floating around that is good but not aligned with the FAANG interview process.

b) If you interview process is a clone of FAANG then, well, you're not going to have a good time. See previous point and also you probably don't need a FAANG interview process unless you're at FAANG scale.

c) If the company has other issues then, again, you're not going to have a good time but that's not due to how much you're paying but everything else.
Advertising is a scourge on the internet, and society in general. I doubt anyone would really miss those awful things. So yes, I want to kill advertising.
what about tencent?
Talent is everything. Without Elon Musk, or Von Braun there are no key rocket program break throughs.

Not that I know much about rockets, just that there are key talented people that push the world forward. You need the worker bees. But someone at the top has to be the visionary genius.

If was the manager of a soccer team that came in last in the League. One way of improving would be to replace my weakest players. And the team would probably marginally improve. But it doesn't usually happen that way. Chances are your best players are not talented enough either, and you should replace those too. Or Perhaps, trading two of your good players for one more talented. Which is typically what happens.

So not sure if I would agree with the premise of the article.

Also, If I was building a stock portfolio, one not terrible way of doing it would probably be around how many PhDs the companies have on the payroll.
Heard Elm is a gateway drug to 'All things functional'. Could not get time to explore other than 'Error handling'
See my other comment. Neither have Andorra, Armenia, or Vatican City.

I think from what we've seen, you need to be a small island nation AND have a strong policy response to have a chance at averting this crisis.
Your thinking is all backwards. Product comes first, and money comes later.
How far would the stocks have fallen if the US hadn’t pumped absolutely massive amounts of money into the stock market? When it falls and keeps falling people suddenly realize how worthless all the paper stocks they have been buying are and don’t want to keep buying more. I suspect 30% drop would have been the tip of the iceberg and no one asked me if I wanted my tax dollars spent this way so the rich that own all the equities could keep their paper gains.

Top 1% own 38% of the value in stocks.
Heh, looking forward to hear about people being asked in tech interviews to reverse a blockchain.
I found it amazing when I saw Sputnik fly over.
Control distributed Jmeter slaves from your local machine
Great start, now do Microsoft.
After a few years smoke alarms are supposed to be replaced. They have a lifespan based on radioactive decay of the detector.

Making them $200 a pop makes this less likely.

They are safe reliable technology. Convenience features make them less so.

Because we live in a world where some people can’t even operate a toaster.
Unrelated, it's odd that everyone who expresses concern over different aspects of vaccines are labelled anti vaxxer etc.. in few circles.

Here in India, many people have concerns over quality of vaccines and whether appropriate testing is done before releasing them. I think that's a valid concern considering how rampant corruption is.
I like this visualization. There is an Android app called History Timeline which has a similar concept but a much broader scope, and links to Wikipedia articles. I think it is a great way to explore history and see when similar events occurred that are not usually talked about in same context.
Once a PM and I were working on something and we came to a task where we needed to spend an hour or two repeatedly clicking through some boilerplate webforms in our own product, for an incredibly stupid reason, at the behest of a significant customer. I shrugged and told the PM I would do it, and I was kind of looking forward to listening to a podcast and mindlessly clicking. She told me that I had a valuable skill set and it wasn't a good use of my time and that she would do it instead. I really wanted to ask, but thought better of it, "Don't you have a valuable skill set?"

I guess the charitable interpretation is that she wanted to listen to a podcast (or equivalent). The less charitable interpretation is that she didn't value her own contributions.
One potentially negative unintended consequence: closed systems like Facebook become even more powerful than they already are. Their revenues will dwarf (even more than they do now) any other free digital platform that can't re-create a fully targeted ad product entirely in-house.

Without Google AdX and the mess of disturbing cross-site tracking, I can't see why advertisers wouldn't just spend 100% of their digital budgets in walled gardens. It would just be so much more effective.
The Art of Leadership from the same author is awesome as well :)
> I ended up reaching the conclusion that we should ban paying money for your attention, but I haven’t thought of better alternatives for businesses to grow or expand online yet.

I think western society struggles with banning things. But we've shown an aptitude for taxing vices. It's all about the money, right? Rather than banning, would taxing this economy achieve a compromised version of what you're seeking?
My question about the helicopter is 'What happens if it falls from (say) six feet and lands on its side?'

Does it have any way of standing on its feet again?
I just want an update flowchart. Show me all the timers, all the conditions, all the paths, with a little marker that says "you are here".

I still haven't figured out which (if any) group policy settings will prevent automatic reboots. Hours of my life wasted.
I used Boto to upload static images from Django to s3. Ran into a few problems where the sync takes so long that I stopped relying on it. And just add new files to local and the corresponding s3 folder. Kind of annoying. This was still on Django 1.6. Not sure if this has now been fixed.
I just tested a couple of images on both.

remove.bg seems to be more conservative in its approach; when given an image without an obvious “background” the subject of the image can be left with some chunks of background. Even with an obvious background, literally solid colored, one segment still was left over.

This tool produced much cleaner results for my attempts. However, it did remove a couple tiny elements that I would’ve considered foreground elements. Still, it cleanly removed the backgrounds, and it seems to work pretty okay with both photorealistic images and illustrations.

Sample size is low but I think there is merit in the approach.
I hear you. Based on my experience with what my peers poke me for help with, a considerable amount can be done with just support for the most common features:

GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, CRS/projection support (OpenLayers handles this quite well already), tabular and spatial joins, filters, buffer/intersect.

A concern I think we share is that you'll always need that one, less common feature to get to the finish line. This may be. But I haven't found it to be the case as often as I worried. A lot of questions are really just about "how does X relate to Y?" where the linkage is space, time, or some other attribute.
> Worse, she reported, “Engineers say they have been encouraged to build fewer new products and focus on building improvements to existing ones.”

Sounds like a different Google indeed. Most complaints I hear about nowadays are that Google incentivizes shipping new features too much and ignores buggy existing features.
How do training sets for something like this get built up? Creating a synthetic image of a foreground object pasted onto an existing background wouldn't seem to work because it would not capture the the complex interaction eg. The image of an astronaut walking in a field of grass.

But hand labelling would be incredibly costly, far more than image classication.

There must be an interesting trick in generating training data.
Sorry! They don't work on ios :(
Does characterizing an entire job family as being mentally deficient suggest low or high EI?
There is no reason why we'd have to use purely centralized government control to fix these issues.

For example, we can offset some mechanistic parts of government to decentralized systems.

Or we can change ownership structures to promote cooperative modes of entreprise.

We can also use decentralized systems to make government more accountable by preventing those in power from hiding their misdeeds.

There is a lot that can be done to move away from markets where there is decentralization but no flexibility as the profit motive reins supreme, and centralized government that can operate arbitrarily but based on central motivations.
I agree that vacant units, and units that are unsafe due to lead, asbestos, etc... are a very real problem and a good target for public policy. I think the idea that I often hear, that we can build new homes until rents are so low it decreases homelessness, to be a poorly thought out idea. To see a good example of how it turns out, look at San Jose’s new google village. Homelessness increases while the developers and google get rich, and the public get a few hundred “low income” studio apartments that if they don’t sit vacant will end up renting to the googlers who are the only ones who can actually afford the $3000 “low income” rent, for example.
An interesting thing about titanium - I think it will become much more common and cheaper in the future. The Kroll process is comically complex, and the newer Armstrong process reduces refinement down to just a few steps with way less energy consumption. Titanium is also hard to machine, but the Armstrong process produces a powder as a result. If the Armstrong process can be tuned to produce Ti powder suitable for 3D printing, then the upcoming patent lapses on metal 3D printing will mean cheap 3D printed titanium gadgets may be in the future.

Aluminum for example used to be so rare and difficult to produce that Napoleon used Gold plates at the dinner table with his regular guests and Aluminum plates with the very best guests. Then we found a better way to refine aluminum and now we have cheap dollar store aluminum bottle openers. Titanium itself is decently abundant in the Earth's crust, so I am hoping these cost reductions in refining and manufacturing, when widespread, will mean cheap Titanium stuff too.

And seriously it is worth watching this video on the Kroll process from Oakridge National Laboratory. It feels like a rube goldberg contraption and clearly uses lots of energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWyrzZh3We0

And here is their video on the Armstrong process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73HLzYuIfx0
You're totally right it's worth it sometimes for other reasons to drink.
In some cases, school is a legal way to discriminate. The top tier companies incorporate recruiting into their culture.

If you recruit at Brown, you’re going to get a different candidate than some CUNY school. They all tested well in high school or have parents with good networks, and they tend to look and quack alike.
gonna test this out...
I don't see the point of these quantum computing training programs. Are there any programs that will allow me try my hands on a real quantum computer, not an emulator.
Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money (2020)