skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ta, and that sounds like a plausible explanation.

I read up on ASN (Autonomous systems numbering) and M247 as well.

Is there a way I can camouflage my IP headers so that BBC won't detect M247? Would using different protocols which NordVPN offers do any different - SOCKS, P2P?

Thanks for your suggestion again.
Thanks for sharing this. I think this is a good example of the kind of story we encounter more often.

But I think this is also a good example about values. Part of this is also how you 'sell' your story towards other teams, to get buy-in so we all get out of the fire-fighting. I bet you and your team tried, probably multiple times.

However, if that doesn't work, you'll have to cut your losses. Stay for the money or leave for the values. What does an environment do for you long-term?

I really wonder if there is some kind of way to negotiate a way out of this mess.
Lol I'm not doing some bullshit 1 month trail period bro. Hire me or don't, there are a hundred other opportunities out here any given day
They have a motion sensor you can use for triggering the light and activating cameras etc.
Obviously it should a learning experience but if we can possibly figure out where and when it started we can obviously put in measures for the future to stop it so I don't see how you can say it doesn't matter what the origin was.
Could you point me to the app you're talking about? I couldn't find it in any of the links.
I learned about trigrams when working on a personal project and trying to figure out how to do full text searches on postgres.

Good blog post about it : https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/03/18/fast-search-using-p...

The docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html
I'm not sure you can separate the two. Advertising as a concept is rooted in the economic system within which it's operates. Fundamentally it's a competition for the most "effective" ads. Advertising "as a concept" is meant to influence, and obstensibly obnoxious ads can effectively influence their target audience.
Very ignorant comment

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#Mathematical_wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...
> This sounds sketchy as hell.

Especially coming after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9g2szHsoz0 IMHO.
I really haven't seen a tech company with a PM role which provided real value. Typically the role ends up contending for scope with manager/engineer responsibilities or serving as a glorified task manager. The industry just doesn't have a good way to measure the performance of "product" and as such the PM can make good decisions or bad decisions and there is no measurement or mechanism to course correct.

Occasionally I've seen a "product research" role where individuals focus on characterizing the problems customer's face, running user studies, or other analysis. This role provided immense value as it's easily a full-time job just talking to customers and bucketing their pain points.
Vertical tabs mean that all web sites (that are usually built to be somewhat symmetric) are no longer centered on the screen
>"Are you sure you didn't also learn to be comfortable in a car?"

Yes, I'm pretty sure that I didn't have to learn to be comfortable in an environment that I immediately found comfortable.

>"You had to learn to drive, right?"

I must have forgotten the part where I was indoctrinated into praising the wonders of the holy automobile.

>"And didn't all that bussing condition you to find it comfortable in a cramped metal box that moves?"

No? What part of my anecdote made you think that I ever became comfortable with bussing? Are you really suggesting that a hard-shell non-adjustable bus seat (if one is lucky enough to not be standing), with strangers squished up again you, is comparable to what one gets in most automobiles?

>"I like driving but hate commuting in heavy traffic. I'm pretty sure most people do"

Moving the goalposts eh?

Still waiting for a direct response to my previous comment, but I don't really expect to get one.
"It seems like you are either 1) rejecting the possibility that technological innovation will allow for responsible and scalable use of automobiles and/or 2) rejecting human comfort as a valid argument for doing anything"
I'll go through a lot of bullshit for an interview but one thing I absolutely refuse to do is personality tests.

That is the ultimate red flag in my mind.
Downloads are expected to speed up over time. Google TCP window scaling to learn more.
I've posted this language on HN before (a different username) and the author responded. I haven't played with it, but found the concept interesting. I'm also not sure if dead or stable are the best terms for what appears to be a hobby project and not destined to run in production. It could be neither.
Agree 100%. They play a very different, and very odd, ball game compared to what you have to play at a startup. 90% of the noise in my career is one tier up managers think they're doing what their managers manager wants, but really they're just being combative.
I maintained a fork of webkit ~12 years ago and it was a nightmare to maintain because every couple months they would massively reengineer systems and result in hundreds of non-trivial file changes. And because webkit had a brain-dead way of implementing multi-platform support it meant you spent days or weeks re-integrating these changes.
UW's Physics Education Group, as well as Mazur's group, are a great reference.
I should have said over a hundred million more a year or hundreds of millions more. It was my mistake to say both as the deal only increased revenue by $140 million over predeal revenue in the best year.
The catch is that it is quite dificult to hire decently for weaknesses because they can easily sell you a lemon.
And plenty of people, like me, have moved to XeLaTeX because we prefer to type Greek or accented letters, and even math symbols, directly in our source rather than use the TeX commands for these things. Also, we want to use Opentype fonts and Fontspec.
I mean, I don't think anyone would mind that. Or advertisers for that matter.
For what it’s worth, at Facebook the general hiring process is in two steps. There’s a centralized hire/no hire that most people are aware of and then a second phase where team selection happens. This is where all the “hire for weakness” steps that the author mention happen. Teams are looking at this pool of people for speciality, levels... that they need and where the matchmaking happens.

There are also a lot of smaller but specialized longstanding loops like front-end, AI... and one off “reqs” for special roles that teams need.

The world of hiring is very fascinating :)
The PM I've worked with the most over the past few years is excellent acting as a sort of coordinator role, as you describe - maintaining relationships with UX and engineering across organizations, making sure UXR is involved, having an overarching vision, etc.
There are no specifications about what the cohorts will be, Google is literally leaving that for the ad companies to figure it out. It wouldnt be suprising it at all they realize a way to make small enough cohorts in such a way you can be fingerprinted.

The bottom line is that you are giving them your browsing data, obfuscated by fancy algorithms. Unless you trust ad-tech to have the best interests about your privacy (ha!)
I’m a tab hoarder as well. I often have 500+ tabs open.

Usually that means I open a ton of windows and can still see all the tabs in each window
Are parallel downloads faster in S3? My intuition says you will hit network or disk bottlenecks before being able to saturate a single core with work?
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You can get a lot better than that, and you actually reference it in a later comment -- you see how well they perform on an actual task. It's true that high standardized test scores and IQ test scores often come along with high performers, but it's at best a necessary but not sufficient condition. That's like saying the only thing you need to make great wine is good grapes. Plenty of awful wine has been made from excellent grapes.
Or like the prison guard union defending the drug war.
I forgot one other thing. I moved from a place 20 miles from work to one 7 miles from work. I'll buy an electric car once the one I own is kaput. The only other things I can do is replace my gas furnace with a heat pump.

I feel like there is only so much I can do personally. A lot of what needed at system wide changes that allow people to live with a lower footprint without screwing themselves.
Agreed. After 10 years, Im still a fanboy
> Daubechies studied different types of wavelets, which are now an essential part of image compression formats like JPEG.

Minor correction but the discrete wavelet transform based on Daubechies' work is used in JPEG2000, not JPEG, which uses the discrete cosine transform (other codecs generally use related integer approximations). JPEG2000 never managed to gain much popularity outside of digital cinema (e.g. Red RAW, Cineform, and I believe delivery codecs for cinemas). Which is a shame, given that wavelets have superior properties for multi-resolution decomposition.
Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX is done trying to catch its rocket components
> Some break middle clicking but I can still right click and select "open in new tab" from the menu

IIRC, that’s a very old (long since fixed, but not everyone updates) bug in React Router’s Link component.
There is aioboto3 which wraps boto3 in asyncio calls. It's a lot simpler than all of this.
I ran into this (surprising) problem. Ended up having to shift my deployment from Netlify to Vercel itself to get around it.
It can be known, but it's quite crazy how in the western world since the Greek period to the Renaissance, there was basically no big impact on the theoretical side (at least).

Then the banks (and so some Italians) arrived and it all got more relevant.
There are a lot of bridges in the world, so the list is relatively short. If your argument that bridges are as hard (or harder) to build safely compared to software at a similar scale, I don't think a list of bridge failures backs that argument without comparing it to total number of bridges and then doing similar comparisons between software failures and software.
>“Their market dominance has been ironclad because of their database: they have infrared codes for hundreds of thousands of devices, from brand-name TVs to random HDMI doodads on page fourteen of Amazon. For obvious reasons, they haven’t open-sourced this database.”

What stops someone from dumping this database?

>Since much of the Harmony software is cloud-based

still you could script a comprehensive query to copy everything.

Reminder: "Data that is factual has no copyright protection under U.S. law; it is not possible to copyright facts."
I want to concentrate on my code, and only my code. I only split the coding window since an entire line is too long.
My thoughts on passive investing have evolved a lot over the years. First I had a rather unsophistacted view of The Index, as a kind of benchmark you were aiming to beat.

Then came an uncomfortable realization. There are multiple indices. Which one should you aim to beat and why? This question stuck with me and I didn't manage to resolve it at the time.

Then I learned about the argument that active investors cannot beat passive investors because on average these two groups will hold the same stocks in the same proportions. The active investors are just trading stock back and forth and incurring fees in the process. This seemed logical and convincing at the time.

A few years later I was trying to think on a theorethical level, how can active investors stand a chance against passive investors, if on average they hold the same things, and the passive investors don't incur fees? What I came up with was this: Stocks enter and exit indices. So even index funds have to do the occasional trade. If active investors as a group buy a stock before it enters an index, they can gain a leg up on the passive investors.

Then I thought of something even worse. A bad actor could "poison" the index by founding companies. Trade a few stocks back and forth with a buddy to establish a high market cap. If it makes it into the index, the index funds have to buy from you.*

Another thing that an index fund has to do is buy and sell when people enter and exit the fund, and when it does it has to trade with active investors. If active investors can predict in/outflows into the index-fund they can beat its cap-weighted**performance.

Recently I've been thinking about the inclusion criteria for the index. This kind of ties in with all of the previous threads I mentioned and unifies them. Every index has a bunch of inclusion criteria, this is completely necessary and inescapable or else the poison problem becomes serious. Whichever index you choose, there will be some good companies inside and some bad companies outside. Thus there is no right index to choose. And here is another opportunity for active investors as a group, trying to beat the inclusion criteria of the index. Avoiding the poison better than the index funds. And picking good companies that didn't make it inside, and of course investments that are outside the index because it's in a different region, or because they are not stock at all.

* This is a simple example. You could imagine a much more sophisticated scheme, with many different actors trading stocks back and forth, and mixing real companies in with the duds.

** An example to help the imagination: An index fund falls in value, almost everyone exit the fund. It recovers, people come back. Even though the fund is +-0, the average investor has lost money.
I'm aware, it's still bullshit we've accepted this.
Your mindset is modeled after a simple selection process. Big companies often have pipelines for selection processes. HR does screening, leader does interview, manager approves.

Each step of the pipeline, the responsible has to optimize for what the team needs. In practice, each one is evaluated by what the layer above thinks. HR optimizes for CVs the leader likes, leader optimizes for profiles the manager likes.

Specially at large corporations, managers are removed from the daily needs and don’t have the context to evaluate if the person is the optimal fit for their future tasks, so they concern themselves with evaluating “raw talent” (obviously in a very subjective and biased way). Same thing happens with HR doing the screening.

So “talent” is defining both at the beginning and the end of the pipeline, it’s no surprise the end result is an inconsistent hiring pipeline.
Why do you say that? Because of the mining power or other reason? (CCPCoin comment)
Considering how much of the biosphere humans have destroyed I have my doubts about this theory I bet there are fewer novel viruses out there than any time in human history. I have a lot more fear of a crackpot despotic country like NK getting it's hands on something like a version of anthrax that is as virulent/transmissible as covid.
Your quote is inaccurate/out of context. Did you misunderstand it, or did you just fail to read past the first page?
Yes, they do. It's called a server-side paywall.
I'm assuming the predictive power is in relation to fact the MBTI has been shown to have low repeatability in the test results, which undermines its ability to predict the actual personality of the individual in question.
I think the type of fork that OC was referring to would be a project that forks to provide a change in feature set, yet still tries to remain up to date with upstream. So, not a hard fork.
Extreme case can be when you make heavy use of s3 for ec2 workloads and want to saturate your instance connection. This can go up to 40g afaik

Edit: I read this recently and if I remember correctly there’s a limit of like a thousand parallel connections to s3

AWS internally probably has higher limits for some of their services, e.g. when you query data in s3 with Athena
Though if your service is destined for deployment on a systemd system then that's priced in.

A service that runs as pid 1 inside a container would be a different matter.
> Today there's such a large disconnect between how you think about software (APIs, services, systems, data flows, replication, data storage, access patterns, and so on) and how you actually develop software, with plain text files on disk

I view this a little differently. People have tried again and again to move the abstraction layer for coding above text files. This was happening back in the 90's (in the guise of so-called "4GLs" [0]) and still today (now rebranded as "no-code" [1]). I myself spent a good deal of effort trying to code "diagramatically" through top down UML (with an amazing product for it's time, Together). So the ambition to shift programming up the abstraction food chain has been tried continuously for 30 years and continued to fail every time. Eventually I changed my view and decided that there were fundamental reasons why higher level abstractions don't work - software is just too complex, the abstractions are too leaky. The details matter, they are critically important. We are in a long arc of figuring out the right abstractions that may take a century or more and in the meantime, we simply have to have the flexibility of text based formats to let us express the complexity we need to manage in the meantime.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/26/the-no-code-generation-is-...
It sounds very nice to be a decamillionaire.
I don't use Glassdoor, but Google Meet works fine in Firefox, at least as far as I can tell. What issues are you experiencing?

The dev tools in Firefox are better for working with CSS [1], about as good for everything else. I only resort to Chromium when working with PWAs.

[1]: https://youtu.be/a-V8GFtwjos
GPT3 answers to the prompt, “Being vaccinated does NOT mean ”
I agree completely. There are tons of wonderful, tolerant people here. There are a few gross people too that tend to be a lot more gross than on the west coast, but overall it's not too bad.
I don't understand how I'm living in such a different world than the author here. He asks "Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world", but every large organization I'm familiar invests a lot into telling its users about climate change, civics, and various other social causes which the organization finds important. Is there something I'm misunderstanding?
your email not seems to work even if you remove the "<"
Draft: A new writing tool for rough drafts
Has there ever been a large scale successful rewrite? How much of Netscape/Firefox was rewritten from the ground up?
Documentation Best Practices
> we just want a simple way to iterate over what a human reader would call a single character

But that's almost never what a language is giving you with their 'characters'.
Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine
Take it from my cold drunk hands.

I could try to make different arguments as to why I want to retain my right to drink. But that's the wrong strategy.

The better answer is, you can't stop me. I do t owe anyone an explanation for what I put in my own body. I don't have to defend it. I do it or not because I want to or don't. And you're going to have to stop me by force if that is your goal.

To defend it gives the puritans credibility. You don't owe them an explanation.
more about UXN here: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html
b) but not highly incentivized to let anyone else know wha they found out unless it rules them out as the source.
2021 update: Rafael was banned from fishing and forced to sell his fleet. He's out of jail as of last month, and looking to move into property investment.

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/crime/2021/03/03/...
China Fines Alibaba $2.8B for Breaking Anti-Monopoly Law
While FLoC does sound like a bad idea, I think it would be helpful if critistism was coupled with counter proposals. What do the critics see as ideal solution here: making all of the free services paid? having just more content-based ads? or something different?
Instead of more palatable user tracking, how about we tell advertisers and internet companies: fuck off, we don't want any tracking? How about we hunt down and eliminate all features that allow cross-site information sharing? How about we treat attacks on user privacy as security problems of the web standards, à la Tor, and build technology that aggressively hides any user signature in any layer, from rotating IP and MAC addresses to user agents, referers and canvas leaks?

But wait you say, how would the very useful internet ecosystem survive without advertising revenue? Well, there is nothing wrong with advertising per se, it's a natural part of a free market economy. It's ok to target ads to the user's search terms or social feed. The problem is that, in the pursuit of advertising revenue, a cutthroat economic competition pushed advertisers to mine more and more personal data simply to stay competitive. It's a low sum game: it doesn't bring much more money in advertising or make the internet significantly more useful, but it destroys the privacy of everyone. A spectacular market failure ripe for correction.
> project work that is not known in advance, you need very versatile people

Don't you need the team to be versatile instead of individuals?
And websites are under no obligation to serve up pages without prior payment from visitors.

We could all go around in circles like this for hours.
The text then mentions that there is no issue, so hardware seems safe.

I guess there are self checks.
Hopefully they have not forgot anything!
Make sense, thank you. Wouldn't you want to multiprocess the downloads instead of multithread? I imagine you would run into the Python global interpreter lock before being able to push through 40gb?
The headline is an amusing play. In fact as the subtitle declares, there is no mystery at all. Some people who are fully vaccinated still get sick, often with mild or asymptomatic presentations, and that's what happened to the author.

Keep your masks on. This is the home stretch (at least here in the US it is), but vaccination alone is only part of the puzzle. The pandemic is over when the case counts drop near zero (probably not to zero, pretty much everyone expect covid to persist as a normal endemic disease) and stay there. Until then we need to practice all the same defense in depth techniques. Even if we're vaccinated.
back few years ago, entering the destination was optional, and I had people cancel on me after knowing the destination.

now it doesn't make sense because they know where you're going before they accept.

some have told me that if they reject too many rides the algorithm punishes them.
Tired of this take. Why would removing these rules suddenly cause all apps to goto shit?

You can't stop shitty apps by imposing more and more rules anyway.
Given the context is Brave, their alternative is attention token
> How can such enormous gains be so overlooked? For immigration, I’m convinced the main answer is anti-foreign bias

Strange how almost every population shares this bias. Almost as if populations without this entirely irrational, harmful, counter-productive bias, for some reason, don't fare as well...

We are so fortunate to be able to do away with such irrational fears by looking at the world through a purely economic lens!
The latency on ip control, especially mediated through a centrex is awesome bad. Local IR can switch channels before I've unlocked my phone.
> killing advertising itself

We had advertising before invasive tracking. The ad business can survive without tracking, they just don’t want to.
If you think that AppStore is a wasteland, don’t even look at Play Store unless you want a PTSD.
> People need to actually have felt the pain.

Just like those that never have been hacked dont care about security. Or those that have never lost data dont care about backups. Or those who has never had more then 10 simultaneous users dont care about performance. Basically we do stuff in order to avoid pain.