skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> had to run on old machines in a poor district

Your problem space is much different than most people starting out, because you already know what hardware your software is running on, and could probably physically go there to test it out in person. In that case, a web or native app makes sense because you have already identified your market and it is not likely to change, nor are you likely to issue frequent updates. This is opposed to someone like Notion who does not know who their customers are or where they are coming from; they essentially offer a free service to anyone who can make it to their website. A bored user might click off the page and never encounter it again, while the district you worked for probably had a contract and bidding process that solidified the entire process ("we are going to budget money for this" vs "oh this looks cool, I might try it").

> Non-US markets too benefit from less memory hungry apps.

Agreed. I send my grandparents in Eastern Europe a laptop every few years, and their current one is from 2014. They probably don't have as much RAM or CPU power as me. However, it's been quite a few years since 8GB became the standard, and I think you need a really inefficient web app to start seeing the machine struggling there. Most of the time when we complain about slow web pages, it's really because of all the ads, not the app itself. If you shoved that much adware garbage into a native app, it would use just as much memory and be just as slow.

> VMs can help simulate more restricted or very different platforms

Definitely! In Chrome and Firefox's devtools, you can also simulate a 3G or GPRS cell connection, in order to measure page load times and see what you could do to optimize them.
Without the bitcoin driven demand, there would be less pressure to mine faster than feasible and fewer accidents.

The pressure would still be there... but there are cost-related reasons the mining is colocated with the power generation.

Seems a reasonable guess that this virtuous cycle of coal-and-crypto mining synergy resulted in some soylent externalities.
UptimeRobot and Notify17
"I just keep a GOGS instance that auto-mirrors youtube-DL these days now, so I always have a copy."

I keep this in my local crontab:

ssh john@rsync.net "git clone mirror https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git"
This is a well known phenomenon that was documented in Freakanomics. The agents don’t care about chasing every last dollar they can unless it’s their own house.
Here is my unimpressive ML project: https://modmusicgen.com/ You should look into content generation imho, it's way more interesting than stock trading. :p
So far it’s been irrelevant to govt and enjoying free rent.

Guess we’ll see how many people are willing to die on this hill. Shifts in power shed blood.
Wouldn't it be just as easy to test videos in formats A, B, and C and see if the play? You could check that video.currentTime advances. If it lies about that you could draw to a canvas and check the values. That seems more robust than checking WebGL.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Coal and nuclear are fairly interchangeable. Since nuclear was shut down and some coal remains, it’s fairly clear Germany chose coal over nuclear for the medium term.
An alternative to rolling your own scripts is to use GoAccess for web lig analysis, which can both generate HTML statistics or you can open its ncurses based UI: https://goaccess.io/
I guess I have no problems with the bonus structure where I work. The base salary is so strong, that equity and bonus is exactly that - ownership and reward for strong quarters.

With that said, I have been under valued and depended on bonuses before, but i guess i don't let that shape my current positive experience. I make sure I only budget for my salary and nothing else.

As others have said, the extras are funny money until they're cash and never forget, taxes on bonuses SUCK
Depends how scalable it is. For some products you need to accurately predict how much you can produce and sell. So targets are a matter of everyone executing their part on schedule.
They are high end in price and classes, generally considered cheap construction
> This competition would bear out in your heating or electric company guaranteeing their installation and agreeing to be liable for any damages caused by faults in their product.

That sound nice, but it doesn't work in reality. In reality, companies facing liability can, and often do, respond by simply dissolving, and the liability disappears. This is why I have a concrete tile roof that's falling off the house, with a worthless 30-year guarantee made by a company that no longer exists.

And yes, a failing concrete tile roof is as dangerous as it sounds.
By default, when running a Spring Boot application locally on your system or for development, it handles HTTP requests.

In other to make it handle HTTPS, first thing to do is to
They're not even necessarily comparable within a vendor. The underlying hardware changes, and newer generations will (hopefully) perform better than previous generations. E.g., Azure publishes CoreMark perf stats for some¹ of their VM types, and the score can vary by 60%. (Now, I don't know how CoreMark scores translate into raw CPU perf.) But hopefully it's trivial to show that 1 vCPU of yesteryear's model != 1 vCPU of this year's model.

I think EC2 some sort of "ECU" to try to normalize them? I don't know of any other such attempts though.

¹regrettably, the older ones.
> remind myself that Huawei is fully employee owned with no majority shareholders

You know it’s a Chinese company right? That employees have as much control over it as they do companies that are formally state owned enterprises, none? That it’s run by the internal CCP committee?
Oh, it's not a science fair scam - it's a great way for kids to learn about electricity! Compare it to sticking similar nails in a few other objects, and you've got yourself a poster.

But it's also not as simple as growing a field of lumpy batteries.
> This is a targeted attack.

Kind of. If you have a dump of email/phone combos lying around then it's just a dragnet operation against vulnerable institutions.

If you're pointing out that you said "random" phone numbers, I think it's worth mentioning that the techniques mentioned in this thread can let you target your favorite million numbers, but even just having a pool of a random numbers is still valuable -- for any account you want to compromise you have a 1/10k chance of controlling the number needed. That's an annoying cost but not prohibitive even for accounts only worth pennies on average.

> As I read this, it involves sending messages from random numbers, not reading messages that get sent to random numbers?

Send and receive (since you need to know which people would respond to obvious scams). As I say that though, I don't think there's much if any benefit over the other SMS spoofing scams which just use a link as the payload.

> "if the data exists, it must be valuable" is not a particularly strong argument.

True, but that wasn't _quite_ the implied argument. People mostly view phones as private, and in 1M person hours you're likely to capture admissions of crimes, cheating, and all kinds of things. If for no other reason than pure blackmail those should have value to an adversary; the question at hand is more about how much value exists and how hard it will be to find and exploit. Private comms are qualitatively different from, e.g., the twitter firehose.

> Insider trading doesn't really work, since by hypothesis you have no idea who the people are whose messages you're reading.

I don't think that's actually a requirement. If somebody confidently asserts they're personally doing [important thing] tomorrow (as opposed to you just sniffing a text saying they think doge is going up) then that can be a strong signal that [important thing] is going to happen. Since most texts probably aren't actionable on the stock market, you probably won't get many such signals, so you can probably afford to actually look up the owners for any matches you get to double-check your hunches.

I still don't think that'd be super easy to turn a feed of texts into insider trading (some ballpark math suggests you might not get much if any actionable intelligence in a reasonable period of time even if you could sift through it), hence my lack of confidence when I proposed it, but there aren't any fundamental barriers that would prevent texts from a pool of randomly selected numbers from being indicative of stock movements.
I agree completely that assasination, beyond moral abhorrence, would work out as well as most U.S. foreign policy - horrifically. The last foreign policy success I'm aware of was the Marshall plan.

I think it's a mistake to minimize Russian influence, when it suffices to compare the unmitigated disaster of U.S. actions - both government and private sector, and at enormous scale - in post-Soviet Russia.
The problem is that we don't know what the thresholds should be in advance. With manufactured goods, it's easy to compare. Salesperson A sold 10 Toyota Prius Base models for $18,000 and Salesperson B sold 10 Toyota Prius Base models for $19,000. Houses can't be directly compared.

If the seller is in charge of the thresholds, they can just set them unreasonably high. I can look at my house which would be reasonably valued at $500,000 and say that Threshold1 should be $750,000 and Threshold2 should be $800,000. The agent will never be able to meet those thresholds.

If the thresholds are with respect to the listing price, it's easy to just list high and then accept a lower offer. If Threshold1 is 5% above listing and Threshold2 is 10% above listing, people will just list their houses higher.

With cars, I believe most places do laddered commissions. However, it's easy to know the value of a bunch of manufactured goods that are all comparable. With housing, you can't go by square footage. Some places are nicer than others. Even within a neighborhood, some areas are more desirable and even different sides of the street might get better light.

The incentives are definitely misaligned, but I think it's hard to align them given that they're selling a good where we don't actually know what the value is and where each sale is pretty unique.
I first heard about it here! Glad it’s still a thing, it’s neat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9981745
Bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
It's not. That is an independent contractor relationship. Employment means you play ball for the stability of the paycheck. If you want to throw a tantrum every time you feel slighted, you shouldn't commit to a full-time permanent job.

Employees are not the top of the totem pole, there are always other factors that people making these decisions have to consider. They don't always have to share that with you. It's a nice idealistic view to think otherwise, and I truly hope you always find work in places like that. But this is not the lived reality for the majority of people, and it's actually not a bad thing.
If I recall correctly, the employees just picked a charity and Google gave the donation. The "gift" was being able to pick the charity. I don't think there was any employee tax break.
whats the variance on that effect?? doesn't a large data set like that just lead to type ii errors?
Grigori Perelman (Solver of Poincare Conjecture)
zinc ain't no cakewalk either
The Revenge of the Winklevii
That smells of old news.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364187/

By the way, two smells are really distinctive in my experience.

That of dead people (the real ones not the socially dead) after a few days and that of young males, especially when they happen to be the reason for the smell of the former ones.

...

In the words of that great old man of filthy humour, Mel Brooks:

Life Stinks

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/
Will we not need some sort of interface for the ordinary user to perform perhaps unordinary action on said data (the same data that’s in airtable)?

The command line can be daunting until you play with it a bit and I know many web devs try to avoid it as much as possible while working.
inserting invalid transactions is not the double spend issue.

If their hash rate is over 50% they can "unconfirm" a confirmed transaction by making a chain with more work on it. This is how the attack plays out in simplified form:

Bitcoin is sent to an exchange by the attacker, confirmed, sold and withdrawn for cash. Attacker then makes a chain with more work on it than the chain where the Bitcoin was sent to the exchange. Now as far as Bitcoin network is concerned, the coins were never sent to the exchange, but the exchange already let the user sell the Bitcoin and cash out. So now the exchange has neither the cash or the Bitcoin. The attacker has both.
employees should negotiate whatever compensation they think is fair for the work they provide. bonuses and perks can be part of that, but it's probably better to just ask for a base salary that is fair

salaried employees are generally not paid by the hour, and it's rare that 40 hours a week (or any maximum) is specified in a high compensation contract. if I know that a job won't be "9-5", I'll factor that into whatever base salary I ask for
My bonus this year was reduced, and also didn’t receive any increase. While it sucks, all I can think about is how lucky I am to get a bonus and still have a job. Many others weren’t so lucky.
Never Pay for a To-Do List App Again
Bicycles are fitness toys that do not harm the user directly, unlike cigarettes and instagram.
there will come a day when i think read more before commenting. today was not that day. sorry
Er, wait, your comment sounds really interesting, but what is the threat model for algorithmic traders? Who are they trying to hide from and why?

Almost none of the web breaks simply because you're using a (very well known, very old) VPN IP. Purchases using a credit card are pretty much the only thing that is likely to get blocked. And you face a few more captchas sometimes.

Do algorithmic traders need to use something on the web that blocks VPN IPs more aggressively than this? They must, because juggling all those SIM cards sounds like a huge headache, and cell phone data has awful latency. I'm wondering what they're scraping that the average person doesn't use, and why they want to look like an average person if that's the case.
The challenge I faced earlier was to get things executed ( expected outcome) from different teams. When I found my first follower , the one who really buys my vision and takes it down, things started to roll faster. This might give you an idea of first followers.

https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ
Genuine question: could you (and other collectors) expand on the joy you experience with a 'collecting' hobby?

I'm curious about things like 'is it the part about knowing that you've got the things' and/or 'is it looking at the things' and/or 'remembering the effort needed to successfully get the things', etc?

I never quite 'got' why some people like collecting stuff and would love to hear more about what brings y'all joy :)
Thanks for taking the time to write that. It means a lot to me and I'm really happy you're enjoying the videos.

Good call on the microphone. I'm still testing some things out so will keep that in mind as I produce the next few videos.

Thanks for subscribing and looking forward to hearing what you think of the next video!
If your OS has a "reduce motion" option (I know windows and mac do), many websites are starting to obey this as an accessibility requirement.

I actually noticed this when I accidentally disabled animations on a few websites I visit by disabling them at the OS level. Unfortunately the website animations actually made things easier to use, so I had to turn the painful OS animations back on to get the website animations back.
Obligatory portal 2 snippet:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0S3_YJC6OFs
Do these writers realize that multi-millionaires actually often eat at fast food restaurants? I could literally buy a hundred S class Mercedes cars and yet I went to Target a couple days ago to buy a dish scrubber and got a cheeseburger at a chain yesterday.
> Yes, in theory. There's a coordination problem to get all the pools to do what you want, but if they (or anyone) could pull that off, then yes.

A strongly worded memo from Xi should sort that out, unless of course they want to switch from mining coins to mining minerals. They're in the right region already.
That is correct but I don't see why you are pointing it out.
Care to name the countries?
Of course most people aren't that Machiavellian.

That's why you hire professional PR people, who a "spokesperson" presumably is. Their job is to be that cool cucumber when things go wrong.
We have pretty accurate algorithms for home appraisal that seem to work for most properties, except the very unusual.