skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AP News has been my go-to source for the last year or so. But over that time I've noticed it seems to be down or not handing requests properly a staggering amount of time.
Oh no I love sci-hub but I second-guess linking it. Thanks for the mirror!

So, reading the paper proper, I was wrong about it being the authors' talks. They picked existing engineering talks and interviews. It'd be nice to be able to actually see the clips to get a sense of how much they changed the quality. They say they put the clips on youtube for the test but don't take the opportunity to link the clips.

In the Science Friday graph all the error bars overlap so meh. For the combined technical talks the error bars don't overlap and they're all in the same direction, which is way more encouraging, though I really wish they'd tried it with a pool of more talks to remove that systemic effect. I also worry about the fact that random mechanical turks may differ from the usual audience for a technical talk in important ways (e.g. not knowing the subject and so having nothing to go on besides audio quality). They say in a note at the end of the paper that they tried filtering by correctly answering a question at the end, and that the effect was still there, but they don't show the data for it or say if it affected the strength.

Overall I feel it's a reasonable methodology and certainly suggestive results, if a bit lacking in the exact methodological details and the number of talks they tried it on. And it's not like I have a prior that audio quality doesn't matter...
Every US public safety agency or SAR group I know of in the US prefers regular latitude and longitude or UTM instead of a commercial apps like that. It's easy enough to get your Lat/Lon or UTM on your phone and you don't even need a special app.

If someone's coordinates don't come through automatically with the 911 call, the dispatcher or person running the search can walk them through finding their location if the person doesn't know how to do it.
And to your point, likely a way that doesn't have global implications? Even other bubbles of the past didn't have quite the reach that the likes of Bitcoin has (maybe with the exception of the entire stock market in the Roaring 20s leading right up to the crash of 1929). That's why this time, this is much more dangerous in the long run.
Mining difficulty tends to be a lagging indicator of price, not the other way around. I doubt that a price increase in power would have much affect on the price of the currency itself.

We 100% need massive carbon taxes right now. It's really telling how the energy industry is trying to push blame to consumers, especially cryptocurrency miners, in order to distract from the discussion of real carbon taxes to force polluters to pay for the damage they're causing.

I'm sure I'm one of the largest supporters of cryptocurrency in this thread so far, and I'm perfectly comfortable stating the obvious that mining with fossil fuels is an abomination. It's going to keep happening though until regulators get serious about reigning in the fossil fuel industry.
There have been a few but they were mostly marketing bullshit. The google glass announcements impressed many even though they never delivered the initial demo. There was also that demo where they showed googles AI calling a store for you to book a haircut which also ended up being fake and never delivered.
Not only does that make no sense in the context of hiring programmers, it doesn't make sense for hiring anyone. Nailing interviews is about impressing someone first and foremost. It's kind of hard to impress when you don't have prior experience to look to.
Did you know eBay charges 10% commission on sales?
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Payments/What-is-eBay-...
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got tired of coding so decided to do something more permanent that last more than 3 sprints ... what do ya’ll think?
accomplices invokes images of people “in” on the conspiracy.
In my rough estimation based on nothing, I’d guess most website owners have no idea this is an issue that needs fixing.
Your rhetoric is inflammatory, inaccurate, and does your side of the argument harm by making the whole argument look absurd.
AP News is the gold standard. If AP News get allured by investors, we're done folks. It's a wrap, let's go home. Journalism would be dead. Please put a donate button. I am happy to chip in $50 year to keep this thing alive.

Anyone execs here working at AWS, Azure or GCP? Can we get AP News some decent hosting, yall?

Edit: Apparently, they're adtech: https://www.ap.org/en-us/services/advertise-with-us
I went to Microcenter, bought the best $90 video card I could, with a copy of the current bitcoin mining estimate sheet in hand.... ran it for a year in a pool, got my 1 whole BitCoin, then I moved it to MtGox, and lost it in the swindle. 8(
The whole point of docker was to have reproducible builds. What runs on the dev machine also runs on the server. But M1 macs change that in a major way. There might be bugs or available features in ARM versions of popular software, so what works on a dev machine might not work on the server and vice-versa.
I stopped following them when they downgraped their rss feeds
Yep.

He also found the location of the Jedi Temple last year. ;)

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1334947466442014720
But what did he interview for? There's a big difference between getting a customer support interview at Google and getting an engineering interview. He doesn't really say what he interviewed for.

Or for that matter, what kind of job he's looking for and what his skills are other than QA @ EA (was he writing automation, or doing gameplay testing?), an 18 year old developer (intern?) at IBM, and customer service at Amazon. And maybe that's part of the problem -- hiring managers don't know what he wants to do. (which is easier to get away with at a small company since you'll do a bit of everything, but larger companies are generally looking for someone to fill a specific role)

If he's consistently getting first interviews but not getting past that, then maybe his resume sounds better than his actual skill level.
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I tried using docker for x86 builds for Lambda (which doesn't support ARM), and hit this brick wall, unfortunately:
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5123

I went and checked the issue when i saw they've made a formal release but it doesn't appear to be resolved. So maybe keep it in mind if anyone has issues trying to use docker now :)

Edit: I see Docker has closed the issue and encouraged people to simply use ARM containers instead. Unfortunately that's not an option for cross-compilation when you're using x86 servers. Something for people to keep in mind when deciding what laptop to buy next, i guess.
The consumer's choice isn't always buying the monthly plan vs. yearly.

It can also be yearly plan vs. nothing.

You're trying too hard to extrapolate information from a single data point.

You seem to be focusing on the yearly customers because you don't have the same mindset or budgeting habits.

If it were me, I would be looking at the monthly subscribers. How long they sign up for, what the retention rates are like, how many switch to yearly, reasons people give for canceling, etc. I would be trying to find out why my product isn't good enough for people to be willing to commit to it in exchange for a lower fee.

You've got a lot of good advice in this thread but you seem to be still seeing things from your own point of view.
There's an outside possibility that mining will drop off so quickly that the 2016 block difficulty recalculation will struggle to happen, but honestly if that happens there will be a consensus fork.

Thankfully what will happen if the price collapses is that mining will reduce.

Bitcoin has been through a cycle of a "run on dollars" before, it has never died before.
The BBC is more akin to a tabloid now than reliable news source. Complete decadence.
See, but intelligent people will consider you a parasite for assisting in US imperialism.

Maybe we could recommend a path that does not include indiscriminant murder overseas?
> "I haven't lasted anywhere longer than 2 months. I contribute a lot and then quit after I feel like I'm not getting appropriate compensation."

After two months in my latest gig I was still learning names of people in the org, being onboarded to project and trying to piece together the codebase. Seems like you need to learn some lessons in humility.

Occam's razor is a principal that applies here. You are getting turned down because you are simply not an attractive enough applicant. If you want to improve your chances- you need to put more energy into what you've already mentioned.

I know some people who have put 150 hours of their time into leetcode problems alone before their interview for an entry-level position at Google.
ABC in Australia is the opposite of objectivity, considering they take over a month to issue retractions on false reporting. I've reported dozens of issues with false reporting in a broad range of news outlets, and ABC is nearly the worst.

ABC corrects mistakes in a month on a good day (worst case 2.5 months).

Contrasted with the private sector, Fairfax and News Corp both issued retractions to my complaints in a timely fashion, at 3 days for Fairfax and 15 minutes(!) for News Corp.

ABC simply doesn't care about journalism, why else would they have such lazy policies that ensure incorrect information is distributed as widely as possible?
If you see humans as vermin, why don't you stop being a hypocrite, follow your words and commit suicide?

Virtue signalling and hypocrisy. It always amuses me how many people fall for it.

Here is some little inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMCFoudyYxQ&ab_channel=ITSTa...
Let's rephrase that... to what extent are website owners who do not opt accomplices with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, etc. Please also note that Firefox enables multiple telemetry features by default, such as safe browsing lists that checks links you visit presumably also tracking your URLs in the process.
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> Up until now Reuters has had some of the most shockingly invasive banner ads I've ever seen, exploiting every CSS and Javascript trick in the book to force its ads (quite successfully) past all major ad blockers.

I’ve never seen an ad on Reuters. I’d call uBo and uMatrix pretty major.
Rupert Murdoch is half the reason we’re in this mess.
On #5- Make sure to actually drive to completion. It doesn't have to be perfect or what you originally envisioned, but it does need to run without too much error in a way someone else can use/understand. A lot of abandoned useless github repos isn't nearly as useful as a few cool demonstrable tools/sites.
>regardless of where we are getting our energy from
So you dont care about the actual real problem which is carbon emissions?

>we should be making efforts to massively reduce consumption across the board
Why? Theres no problem with the consumption of renewable energies

When you want to trample on people's freedoms just because you dont deem them "worthy" of consuming energy its no wonder that people gives you the finger.
Google misled Android users about location data collection: Australian court
Yes it is true. But, its not that the nutrients dont exist. It is that there is no life in the soil to make them available to plants.

https://www.csuchico.edu/regenerativeagriculture/blog/nutrie...
I love this. A concise mental model for documentation, an oft maligned but necessary evil.
I have some former co-workers, and some senior executive folks that could write letter of recommendations vouching that I'm competent etc. I used to have long hair which I've cut. I think that I dress farily ok. I have a brooks brother suit, levi jeans, some decent t-shirts etc.
Every programming language overloads the same few ASCII non-alpha-numeric characters to have multiple meanings. A colon : can mean multiple things in most computer languages, or it gets combined. Even a symbol like less-than < gets extremely different meanings depending upon context: comparison, template, XML, << operator (bonus if overloaded), <- operator (ugggh mixed with minus for bonus confusion) etcetera.

I think saying programming languages are better than Mathematics is just due to your familiarity.
Bitcoin doesn’t produce trust. It just produces a verified log.
There it is, Bitcoin only makes sense when we have world peace. It’s amazing that this is always the end state of this argument.
How does not opting out as a website owner benefit Google?
It is a bit funny how obtuse some of this cryptocurrency stuff can actually be, which honestly is a great thing, if it means less of the inexperienced can participate at all.
New housing tends to be upscale, thus more expensive. The well to do move from cheaper to more expensive housing on average. This frees up cheaper units for the less well to do.

Caps on rent prices reduce the incentive to build high end housing where the margin would be higher, but rent caps limit this, so less gets built overall.
I think saying like it is actually good, the post actually asks for honest feedback.

Well, there it is. It's better to give honest feedback so that the OP can fix these issues and realize how his behavior makes people feel.

The first step into fixing things is realizing the problem.
Rent control just picks a few lottery winners and lets everyone else pay for their housing. It is inherently not a scalable solution, and in some cases is a double-edged sword for the lottery winners. One of my first neighbors in NYC was an agoraphobic pensioner. He hated the city, but literally couldn't move because he could only afford his 2BR in the UES for $400/mo (for reference, I was paying $1600/mo for a studio across the hall from him).
> They have many, many things to do and find, but none of them feel satisfying.

I’m usually downvoted to oblivion (pun intended) on Reddit for saying: I didn’t like Breath of the Wild for this reason. Empty world, no real rewards, infuriating weapon system, lack of scenario, no memorable music.
Does Firefox sending URLs you visit to a an external service not constitute as unhealthy?
Bitcoin produces money for the miners just like cigarette companies, kidnap for ransom, and muggings.
Paywalling of corporate media leads to less deaths, considering Reuters regularly beats the war drums along with CNN, New York Times and the Washington Post.

Remember when they lied about WMDs in Iraq? What about when they lied about Russia hacking critical US energy infrastructure? What about when they lied about Russia placing a "hit bounty" on the heads of US soldiers?

For those not paying attention, Reuters was also engaged in propaganda around the time of the Turkey coup, which was assuredly backed by US intelligence. Reuters falsely reported that Erdogan had fled during the coup and tried to seek asylum in Europe -- which was US intelligence propaganda and false.
I don't see why anyone would down vote a simple fact. Almost all issues have pros and cons, even popular ideas like wind turbines. Seems silly and tribal to down vote like that.
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Wasn’t expecting a mention of Marc on HN, but I was pleasantly surprised. Things that bring true joy are easily worth £1000 :). Happy playing/composing!
Let me get this straight: even if my site has no ads or trackers, Chrome will now use my visitors data for advertising and surveillance???

Does anyone else see FLoC as worse than the current state we're in?
For all the pearl clutching about bitcoin, I find it humorous that computer games still consume more energy. [1]

[1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/introducing-cbei-a-new-...
> I'm not fighting here.

I think their point was that militaries are doing the fighting as of right now, but nobody is talking about how that's a useless waste of energy and we could "just agree" to do things more efficiently by not fighting. Because in practice "just agreeing" isn't so easy.

> And don't forget. Bitcoin is not replacing these other institutions that need energy.

I don't think that's obviously true.
Monero fails the privacy doom principle, eventually analytics will be enough to fully break it. In the long term, it's not really any safer than bitcoin.
A bit off topic: The Google's feature requires me to input date on MM/DD/YYYY format even though locale is ja-jp (We NEVER use it). When I just wrongly input "2021/04/16" to field and search, they even don't show format error, but show the result of 184/05/04. What??? I believe it never tested by locals. I've sent report but of course no response.
> A six-figure salary to study whether the electric grid is racist is absolutely excessive, but it’s just a small detail of the overall fraud, waste, and abuse that drives the exorbitant utility prices in Seattle.

Yikes. If the market demand for the role is six figures (because the financial rewards more-than-justify the spend; see my previous citation), then the cost is absolutely a good value for the grid, for the employee, and for the customers who get better service out of the utility.

And to tshaddox's point, nostromo's comment picked this specific spend as an (implied) example of fraud and waste... over all the other inefficiencies in the system. Utilities are wasteful in so, so many more ways, largely around maintaining manual and error-prone processes that are both slow and costly as a result. These inefficiencies are leagues worse tha studying "how the utility grid was systemically racist" in wastefulness.

I'm not really sure this conversation makes any more sense to pursue.
> Yeah, how do they know you viewed 5 stories? Block cookies or clear cookies on exit and they have basically no way of knowing.

Require a login to view the server-rendered page? Use browser fingerprinting?

There are ways beyond clients clearing cookies to have the server render a page.
Flashing, Not Juggling, Is the Key to Productivity
Out of principle, I don't pay for payealls. I wish there was a filter where I can exclude paywalled links.
Hi Trey, is that you?
I agree mod tools with matrix/synapse/element need major expansion, it's my major thing with it.

BUT I was able to create a couple moderators level 50 for several rooms and admins level 100 for several - with a click tap once I got the basic syanapse/element running on a vps. So some moderation is working out of the box mostly okay.

When I read about the mod-bot that creates a mod room where you can pop in there and tell the bot to 'Do X to user Y in room Z' - well when I read it the third time I started to get how great that is - but I have not gotten to install that part yet - I got stuck on the sticker pack addon not working..

cuz my 2021 install of debian 9 on Digital Ocean had an issue with ssl or some crap - I've got about 20 hours into trying to fix and basically given up (I did find a python support thread that offered a (temp?-) fix by rolling back the TLS version - but pass) - probably going to do a new install on a newer box/debian with latest python and try again. Which probably means a diff domain name and all that - and then I don't think there is a way to port my usernames/email addy of users to the newer install.. so I'm stuck.

There's at least one more addon package for moderating that I have not gotten to that adds like a backened admin page kind of thing I think.

I've made some suggestions for moderation enhancements in the element and synapse chat rooms - but what is getting prioritized by the core team has other things on the road map last I checked.

I'll likely make some blog posts about my suggestions I guess to keep a running list of moderation addons / needs. Someone pointed me to some vote up page for feature requests, maybe it was on github? but I don't do that system yet. My plan was going to be to offer the makers of the admin-page addons some cash to add some features - or find someone via toptal / upwork to write some code and submit to the team for code review maybe.

I think we'll see more moderation tooling sooner than later, I certainly need some more options in that area.
I think we both agree on this, but in case not: I don't think Click's uncompetitiveness was due to inherent limitations of hybrid fiber/coax. These days, cable TV companies routinely sell gigabit or near-gigabit download speeds to their HFC-network customers. Yet Click doesn't sell more than 100 Mbps even now. Click's financial problems may or may not have started because they stopped being competitive - perhaps the causation went the other way - but that failure to change certainly didn't help.

For instance, I just picked a random house for sale in Tacoma and tried pricing Internet for new customers from Xfinity (Comcast) and Rainier Connect (former Click). Xfinity offered 1 Gigabit (fine print says 940 Mbps) downloads for $84.99/month on a 1-year contract, increasing to $100 after the contract term. Rainier Connect's fastest offering was only 100 Mbps and cost $104.95/month - pay more to get one-tenth the speed.

(These rates aren't exactly comparable, though I think they are still roughly so. In particular, Xfinity has a 1.2 TB monthly data limit, while it's not clear whether former-Click customers at Rainier have one. Click did impose a < 1 TB monthly data cap. [1])

The most silly thing about this exercise is that if you look at Rainier's rates in Puyallup [2], which is not a former Click Network location, you see that they definitely sell gigabit to some customers for only $80 - but apparently not in Tacoma.

[1] Rainier posts its own usage policy and Click's policy as separate webpages: https://www.rainierconnect.com/rainier-connect-internet-acce... ; https://www.rainierconnect.com/click-network-internet-accept...

[2] https://www.rainierconnect.com/residential/internet#puyallup...
What I have seen in government is that there are lots of constraints laid down by politicians that are ill-considered, and the bureaucrats work around them such that in practice, things function more like a private business.

How do you know the consultant wasn't lying in order to get business for the law firm?
You can opt out of that (or is it opt in now), too.
What's your bias? You seem to have created your HN account 8 months ago and comment almost exclusively about trying to get cryptocurrencies banned.

We don't need a world with more Luddites trying to outlaw math. The future will be secured and cryptographically verified, and there's not anything you can do to stop it.
Berlin is a state, not just a city. Same issue though.
I'm no fan of Seattle's government, but FWIW, I have lived in one of those Desert cities (San Diego). They have a sewage pipe that goes about 2.5 miles into the ocean [1] and spews out "lightly" treated sewage water. There is no secondary treatment, they even have a waiver to do this (I believe from the federal government or possibly state government) [2].

In Seattle, on the other hand, we are not allowed to dump water at that level of contamination into lake Washington or the Sound. It costs a LOT of money to do secondary treatment, and we are taking it even further by building a massive underground holding tank to make sure that we don't dump any overflow in the event of heavy rain.

This is more than what is federally required, but in this instance I actually think the extra cost is worth it.

[1] https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1989/sep/21/end-pipe/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Loma_Wastewater_Treatmen...
[3] https://www.surfrider.org/campaigns/san-diego-secondary-trea...
and...just make zoning laws not so dictated by real estate investors that benefit from rising property values and to allow more building of housing. Real estate brokers have so much power on local levels it makes Washington look clean.