skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got from the article that she does not really know. She had been so set on the particular career and 'getting to know the right' people she did not think through what happens when you are 'the man'.

Now 6 mil sounds like a lot (it is). But it is also easy to get in a habit of 'not worrying about money'. It sounds like she is setting herself up for that too (the cheese thing). It is ok to splurge but doing it every time and you will quickly find that money depleting. One lady I know got 15,000. In her social circles that was life changing. Along the lines of not worrying about many bills for a few years. It was gone in 3 weeks. I also feel that ladies assessment of wealth managers. Many are fairly weak at it.

My advice to the young new millionaire. Do nothing yet. Finding people to help manage your new burden is going to take time. Also watch out for the richer sharks. Many of them realized the best place to get money is from the newly rich with schemes of investing. Many investment advisors seem really fixated on what % of your money they are going to get per year. All the while telling you how they will grow it. Then drop you into index funds (that they get a kickback on). You could also think 'i know i will donate it' well that is an option. But take the time and evaluate them like the wealth management people. You will find the same people there. Ask around wait and see, do not let the money burn a hole in your pocket, evaluate. The best way to grow your own wealth and help out is to build things. Start a business. Maybe become a landlord that specializes in low income? Help create jobs in that segment? Instead of dumping it into some wealth management fund who is trying to build yet another 5k per unit per month condo building. Creating jobs and helping people level up is the best thing you can do with your money social wise. Giving it to someone else and hoping they get it right may or may not work.
Isn’t GitHub still in AWS though? Seems like they’ve just been pushing buggier software lately, perhaps that’s an effect of being under Microsoft but it also might just be an effect of growing faster.
I would say that the money did change your life. It's tempting to say that you just didn't recognize it, but clearly you did. By your own account, your life changed and your attitude has changed.

I hope that you are helping to make other lives better. I wish you well.
This is not overnight!

This person worked for a startup for likely several years to get her grant sufficiently vested to be valued at $6M.
Maybe add a small paragraph explaining each of them, and some information about the priority of order?
> The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation.

I'm with you there. I have a shortcut to a Google Drive on my phone homescreen that I use as my notebook that's worked out for me. I also have a reMarkable that I've been writing a lot on, but retyping everything has been a point of friction (and my handwriting is apparently so bad that OCR is only ~70% accurate and it takes about as much time to fix as to just retype it
So stop making useless predictions then
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

I'm guessing this one. Although facebook didn't invite this violence directly, they were the primary tool of propaganda. Now I'm not saying it's easy to solve this problem but facebook seems to be actively overlooking these things as it has happened repeatedly.
>she always disappoints me

siri doesnt default to female voice anymore.
In my country shareholders don't pay the same income tax as workers - this also plays in favour for the rich. It is insane that people who make money from other people work pay less tax than workers who create all those profits.
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GitHub at 7.5 billion around 2019 looks like a steal.. weird other software giants didn't try for it..
What risks are you trying to highlight?
Humankind itself is the reason. Since bronze age, we mine, use the nature and lower diversity of species. There is nothing you can do about it. People cannot live without using scarce resources, if they aren't in "stone age" stage. People don't want back to stone age. It is nice we have drugs, energy, cars, etc. But it consumes things. There is no possible economic system that can fix it. We need either downgrade to the point of not even using tools made from metals, or we need to scale up and get other planets as a resources.
You don't know their roadmap or plans for Nuance yet you attribute motive.
I'm in the on-device space, here's a recent demo of my engine for a niche use case (it also does large vocabulary dictation very well):
https://twitter.com/lunixbochs/status/1378159234861264896
Fabrice’s C compiler is implemented in 2048 bytes of obfuscated C, whereas mine is 1600 lines of formatted Go.

"It can compile itself" is an interesting benchmark of language complexity, and we now have of C and Go, so I wonder how the other common languages would compare. Of course you can "cheat" by choosing a subset that reduces the complexity of the whole.

As you can see, Mugo uses its own very inefficient ABI that’s nothing like the x86-64 ABI – the standard ABI puts the first six “cells” (64-bit values) in registers.

Considering that stacking args is the norm for 32-bit x86 and few other architectures, it's not that bad, especially since CPUs have special hardware to handle push/pop.
I imagine a big part of lottery winners going bankrupt are due to lack of education and/or comfort in having that much money at once (after all, the vast vast vast majority of lottery players are lower middle class to poor). It sounds like the writer (somewhat ironically) came from money so she'll probably be aight.
Ok, but what's the alternative? How long until Brazil's neighbors, feeling the impact of increasing desertification from the clear cutting of the Amazon in the name of beef production, declare war to stop it? And at that point, is it already too late?
Or just use VS Code alongside NDK, Flutter, Xamarin, Qt, their respecitive IDEs and Android CLI SDK.
I have family in Austin, and I agree with everything in this post... Except the part about Austin being charming. I don't find anything charming about the arrogant texan attitudes, the mini-malls, and the crappy collage-town bars on 6th street.
And then visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_State_Museum_of_th... - only a short train ride away (by Russian standards) :)
That's exactly the right perspective but if you've spent the last 20 years doing some job purely for the money, it's not an easy mental state to transition to and whether you're able will likely have a large part to do with your education and upbringing.

For example your social network may be largely people you work with - if you stop working, you lose those connections. And lockdown has shown what impact social isolation can have.
This is excellent! And a great way to understand what's the simplest a computer and a programming language can be. Students should puzzle their way through exercises built on systems like this.
Lufthansa at least has Rail & Fly where for €60 return you can add a DB train ticket to the flight. The ticket gets you from anywhere to the airport and back. Since the train and flight are booked on the same ticket, if there is a train delay (or flight delay returning) you will get rebooked on the next flight as if you had taken a flight. It's pretty great, I would recommend it.

https://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/rail-and-fly
Maybe I should have specified, "in my city", indeed, when the concentration of people drops, people are still on copper or on satellite or other wireless alternatives. The point is, the country is investing in fiber: Landlines. Allthough this may change when we blanked the country with 5G towers. Already I have 60/60 mbit in my home via 4G, approaching my current 100/100 fiber subscription. Not sure which is going to scale better in the future.
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> People are able to stay fit, lean, and healthy without becoming some robotic fool who survives on water and protein powder.

Yes those are often those people who dont have that big of a problem to start with. You have a lot of forces working against you when you have an weight problem especially when you are obese.

> Tracking your TDEE and macros is very simple, and not restrictive at all. One can drink beer, eat pizza and candy, and retain a great physique with ease. It requires only that you don't go overboard when indulging. One doesn't have to be in a caloric deficit every single day. As long as one is in cal-def a majority of the time, it's fine. As long as they don't shovel enough food into their mouth on their 'bad' days, to undo all the hard work from the 'good' days, it works out fine.

You are forgetting why people get overwieght from the beginning. Weight problems are mostly an psycological problem and if it where as simple as not shoveling food in their mouth on their bad days there this would not be an issue at all.

Am not trying to convince people they cannot suceed, but I think its important to tell people how hard it can be and it get harder the more weight you have to loose.

Try to loose weight when you have two/three lunch bussiness meetings where the client has payed for the lunch/dinner and then have a social life with alcohool and food during the weekend when you have a weight problem. Its a hard task and requires a decent amount of dicipline.

Am not saying its impossible to loose wieht and that you should not do it. But its important to know the challange ahead and what it will take.
It shouldn't be a surprise. It didn't just spring into existence. They got here by being subjected to a long campaign of ignoring actual, verifiable evidence. Decades long, if not longer.

There was a battle over basic epistemology, and objective reality lost. Everything else has followed on from that.
a couple years back, github added an 'upload' button when browsing your own repo from the web.
correct on all counts - thanks for highlighting that forgotten part of recent history.
> You know who else talked about the commodification of labour? M- is dragged off stage by angry HN audience

I mean HN is the news aggregator for ycombinator, an entrepreneurial startup incubator.

Doesn't mean there aren't good points there, but this is a tech news site for technology capitalists. This is the culture that gave us hackathons and death marches and veneration of guys like Steve Jobs.
There is a bit of a sweet feeling: Sabotage can be mostly done without victims where the only collateral is equipment. Please do not see this as validating this specific sabotage itself, but with such scenarios at least we might have reduced human suffering part of our existence.
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So who are the non-MSM in your opinion? Facebook is more than merely and aggregator. They know how to keep peoples' eyes glued to them. They know what stories/narratives will push your buttons so to speak.
So Microsoft can see your private repositories, your documents if you use Office, your personal files (one drive), your company communication (teams), now they will be able to listen what you talk about.
Where is this going?
Should we trust this company so much?
I think companies like this should be split up.
Siri is a train wreck. I have a $1200 phone where it takes more time to do “hey Siri FaceTime so-and-so” than to navigate. It just sits and spins.
Thanks for your detailed response. A few comments:

First of all, something does not have to be totally banned for FUD to be harmful. Take for example, anti-vax. Even though vaccines are available, it can still be harmful.

On more positive example, education and warning labels have decreased tobacco use in the US, even without a ban.

You mention that DDT programs were stopped prematurely because of bad data. However, how much did the FUD against DDT contribute to governments feeling pressure to stop DDT use, and then finding/not scrutinizing data that suggested they could stop?
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Google Font's failed to load earlier too
If you're the only person that knows a particular sequence of letters or numbers you own it.

If you remove all knowledge of that information you destroy it. And by "all knowledge" I mean every known way to generate it, not just a simple representation.

There is nothing special among any single number in 160 byte string, but it contains all SMS ever sent. Some of those messages are of special interest to some people.
that's a movie recreation of Gagarin's space flight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLBy-8vdeww . Cheers!

the movie mentions the scene of the lady and her grandma's meeting with Gagarin as mentioned in the linked article, so it must have gotten right something.
And the US Navy, after a hiatus has started training officers and crew on how to use a sextant since modern warfare will probably result in GPS being either jammed to oblivion or shot down.
Most compiled languages are bootstraped, how come "we now have of C and Go" ?
It's not just "leftist", it's impostor syndrome.
If she had spent days and nights, weekends and had 3 abortions and 2 divorces to come up with a product idea so innovative it liberated people from a common chore forever (like say she invented a way to never have to sleep anymore while having the benefit of rest still here), she maybe wouldn't say it like that.

She'd be "fucking hell finally I get something out of this endless suffering". Here she joined a company, waited a bit, and became a millionaire. We may all feel a bit disappointed at winning life with so little excitement :D
Doesn’t default to male voice either, you will have to choose. I bet most people keep it what it always was (female in the US, some countries like UK were male voices).
Live captioning in Microsoft Teams isn't terrible.
I actually like SXMo very much and I wish I could choose it sometimes during the booting. I don't use it daily only because it relies on postmarketOS and not Debian.
same in Poland
60 years of very little progress. Unfortunately our generation decided to go on Facebook instead of going to space.
And the worst part, the deal is likely going to be approved (or they would not be announcing it). There's just _no way in hell_ the current political landscape allows "splitting up" a company when it is still allowing to grow it even further.
One thing I considered doing long ago was creating middleware to use NaturallySpeaking via an API and noticed in their license agreement they have the following:

A license for the Software
Package does not allow Licensee to use the Software
Package on a
server.

I'm curious how well this would hold up in a court. I only mention this because Nuance is a pretty litigious organization. I imagine they were bought pretty much for the patents.
Other people choose their own tasks off the backlog. I chose my own and got a talking to. :)

Our lead says that all work must come from the scrum master but in practice it is selectively enforced.
I talked about local vendors reselling things from China. Pretty much their entire value is in shielding the buyer from the inconveniences you listed.

The real experience of a typical person I know is:

- Go to your local eBay equivalent, look for LED lightbulbs, sort by price.

- Pick the cheapest offer that doesn't look super-sketchy, place an order for half a dozen and pay for it, all with a few clicks.

- Wait 2-5 days, depending on seasons and phase of the moon.

- Depending on the delivery method you picked in step 2, a courier comes and brings you a package, or you visit the parcel locker 2-5 minutes from your home at a time that's convenient for you.

- Repeat the process when the cheapass bulbs invariably all burn out within a year.

At least in Europe, shopping on-line is a solved problem.
Asphalt shingles last 30+yr (depending on climate, use case and installation quality) before they run into issues.

25yr an unacceptably short lifetime for any professionally installed roof. That's like what you get when you install liquidated shingles that were sitting outside on a pallet for 15yr on a garden shed that has small tree bits falling on it and moss growing on it.
Nuance OEMs and sells backend systems for IVRs and all sorts of products. You probably interact with their stuff routinely and not even know it.

They also bought up a lot of small companies and products from bigger companies and own a lot of patents.
Unfortunately, Google and Apple have effectively made it impossible to use the paper-based details in order to contact people and tell them to self-isolate if someone who used the app to check in tests positive by blocking this.
Law is an entirely artificial concept. That's the whole point of it.
Actually, most of my business is not actually around that stuff. It's the shingle I hang, but I worked as a wage slave for most of my life. I'm now at the point where, if someone wants to work with me, I will do so, on my own terms, and try to make that clear, so I don't really get a whole lot of approaches (not surprising. I'm not complaining).

I am currently keeping my dance card [very] full, working for nothing, on stuff that interests me. I would have been happy as hell to work for others at a fraction of the cost of many, as I don't especially care about the money, as I do about the working environment and project goals.

I like working. I really do. I just get quite tired of having my work destroyed and hamstrung by others[0], so I'm actually living the dream, these days.

Recruiters..love me...until they find out that I'm not young. Then, the call gets interrupted, and I never hear from them again. I've taken to just making sure everyone knows my age up front, so we don't waste each others' time. That seems to have stopped a lot of those types of contacts.

And I have not "always been on my own," as I worked on huge teams, consisting of people all over the world, but I haven't found any team that was willing to cut me much slack. I've always worked in environments where I was expected to hold up my end of things without a need for much extra support. No safety net. The trapeze is all mine.

[0] https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-02
Sure, if you want to pick just one metric that might be true. Do you have the per capita metrics? I don't know what it would show. Maybe it's higher than before due to more consumerism, maybe it's lower than in the past due to technology improvements. What about all the other pollution like mercury, sulfur, etc? All I'm saying is that the general trend has been the adoption of cleaner technology over time, and that some of it is from efficiency or costs as opposed to laws. One example would be diesel electric trains vs the old coal powered steam engines - way cleaner, more efficient, easier to maintain, and less water usage.

"Some local trends look promising, but advanced economies outsourcing manufacturing and thus CO2 emissions isn’t actually helpful."

I completely agree. Much of it has been a shell game. Without true authority over those manufacturing countries, they will likely play a shell game. The real issue will be the lack of definition of what constitutes ecocide and putting that determination by an international body against the sovereignty of the offending country.
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Connecting to international flights at CDG is the most common example. These are still allowed BTW.
Stuff happens. I am sorry all over the place :roll_eyes:
I am not saying that total lack of updates is more secure. I am saying that special actions required for the update can make it more secure.
It is an amazing story. Stories like this break barriers of nations, languages and status and make humans out of these otherwise exalted individuals.
Nobody makes any decision, stop being a douchebag. But there are places that try to classify this stuff and you know where it is.
> people can have different option on what is elegant and what is not

Thera are also measurable effects of elegant system like number of bugs, questions, libraries, standards, etc.
You clearly haven't had the pleasure of trying to use voice control in a Mercedes-Benz. It makes Siri and Cortana seem telepathic by comparison.
While I somehow understand Prometheus idea that pull is easier to scale than push I've had a bad luck with it.

First of all Prometheus doesn't even consider monitoring of long-running jobs other than pull way (which didn't make sense for me). There is push gateway [0] but clients libraries seem to consider it only for short-lived jobs where you can send the metrics at the end [1]. It seems I couldn't "push" from long living jobs trivially

Second when using it for example with django you have to be careful with how you handle multiprocessing that UWSGI/gunicorn does, see [2] - it has bitten me at leas once.

Comparing to push model where I can just push metrics to [3] statsd_exporter directly and be done with it, but support for statsd is lacking both in terms of frameworks (everyone seems to be migrating to native clients...) and functionality (you've to do labeling basically manually [4])

To sum up: Prometheus is really great when it works, until you try to go off-track (intentionally or not, see django [2]) then you see its all undiscovered and immature landscape

[0] https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway

[1] https://github.com/prometheus/client_python#exporting-to-a-p...

[2] https://github.com/korfuri/django-prometheus/blob/master/doc...

[3] https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter

[4] https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter#glob-matching
There are a lot of factors.

One thing is your compute environment; if there's a really solid way to assure that the connection between your proxy and your service implementation remains secure then that's one thing - however, outside of K8s (or similar) that may not be easy or may be bespoke, and there's a configuration overhead of assuring that proxies run the right place, bind the right ports, expose them only to the right places and so on.

Even assuming a good orchestrator, there is that extra degree of assurance in knowing that TLS is actually being terminated in your process.

Public CA PKI vs. enterprise PKI also makes a difference; it's easy enough to integrate with LetsEncrypt or whatever using Nginx but your enterprise PKI might be more complex and having SDKs for direct integration into service code might actually be easier. In a large environment, or one where certificates are short-lived, the operational aspect dominates.

Level of cloud buy-in is also a factor; for example, if you're deep in AWS then you're probably already hosting behind an AWS load balancer of some sort that knows how to terminate TLS and also knows how to integrate with ACM for automated renewals.

Finally, if you need client authentication certificates then you might find your proxy implementation just passes them on to you as headers (or perhaps just does chain validation), which leaves you holding the bag for the rest of that in your service anyway.
It’s an interesting product but it’s very barebones. Netlify is a whole company vested in making the same thing as this “side project” by CloudFlare and therefore has a lot more interesting features than just serving static files.
Plenty of blind people would get behind this if it happened. https://t.co/vQIch9PLiW
The skype thing was a clusterfuck. I loved skype casts and they fucked it all. Discorde is OK now, but dam does it make me feel old. I join a server and join a VC and here a bunch of 13 year olds. I have to leave because I am 38 and it's creepy to be talking to 13 14 yearolds on the internets at my age lol I made a server for tech nerds and people who like OpenWrt. https://discord.gg/KuNhWzvp5S.
It's really amazing how many experts and professionals in information technology seem to understand what information is less well than stodgy old lawyers and politicians.