skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that had happened today Bill Gates would have had to step down as CEO and would have been disgraced for fraternizing with an underling.
It has made many people actual millionaires, there’s plenty of liquidity in Doge.
I had a similar problem with the mortgage insurance. I had to bring out my calculator to calculate the % it was asking for. Who pays mortgage insurance as a percentage of their mortgage? I think this should be a dollar amount, with inflation added.
"The above data suggest that development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine will require careful design and testing to assure efficacy and safety. There are several vaccine types currently being pursued including mRNA, DNA, recombinant protein, virus-like particle, and live-attenuated or killed virus. With the potential exception of live, attenuated virus vaccines, the general goal is to induce adaptive immune response resulting in high-affinity IgG against S or N viral capsid proteins. However, unless care is taken to modify the protein sequences to remove or inactivate regions highly associated with ADE, if this is even possible, we may produce vaccines that enhance, rather than protect against, severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. This could be particularly problematic in children, with their reduced risk of severe infection." [1]

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-clinical-...
I don’t totally agree with your analogy framing.

My take:

Car company requires third party manufacturers to adhere to its quality standards and pass review before being installed. The car company installs all of the third party parts for you and distributes them globally, handling payment, they charge 30% (or 15%) to the third party for this.

If you refuse to adhere to their quality standards they refuse to install your third party accessory.

Drivers can only get approved service from the car company.

Seems fine? Probably an exclusive benefit for owners of that car. I could see people choosing that car because of this.
Big local stores that sold books at a discount hurt small indies. Those big local stores were driven out of business by the big chains. And those chains have largely been put out of business by Amazon.
I'd love to see some kind of pre-populated sample account to play around in. My willingness to test out an app has an inverse relationship to the number of forms that app asks me to complete to view its functionality. In this case, i felt like there were quite a few forms that I needed to fill out to get to the charts.

Beyond that feedback, I think this looks really interesting and would love to see where it goes.
They are donating their wealth so its not like they are going to hoard the money because the tax is low. So I dont really understand why you think they should pay more than the official tax for now
Is that the real reason why those companies are hired? Judging by the comments here I wonder if there are any success stories at all.
thats... what the post is about..
He was. Only he was imprisoned for political reasons of being anti-bolshevik, you can even read this in the quote from his sentence in this cold-warish piece of writing in OP. This is biggest scientific myth i know - that soviets/marxism/etc deny science, because they prosecuted Vavilov for it. Like genetics back then was as it is now (search eugenics), and scientific debate about nature vs nurture was settled, and Lysenko was just some boy and didn't get applause in NYC conference on agrobiology. But I'm glad at least in research frontiers people do revisit Lysenko legacy nowadays, in the the light of epigenetic research. For common people it's just another neccesary illusion.
Keep in mind that that is an American problem.

Here in the Netherlands and most of Europe kids go to school independently. They are not constant prisoners of adults stuck in american suburbia where one can only safely go from A to B by car.

Here, they just make a sandwich themselves. Grab their bike and go to school when school starts. The schedule of parents might mean the parents are already gone. The schedules do not need to be in sync and mom isn't the kids drive around slave.
I was with you til the last sentence. The adult working population is about half of the total population, so approx 0.8% are lawyers, not 0.2%, and certainly not 0.02%.
If there was a screwdriver analogy, we could turn this in to: "If all you have is an MBA, every customer looks like it needs to be screwed".

All of this is of course fine banter, but there does seem to be a pattern where the end-of-the-chain responsible party just has some generic business related schooling that results in questionable practises in the name of profit, or in some cases just growth (or some derivative).

It's not the customer support agent that woke up one day and thought "how can I screw over the next customer I get on the line", it's probably not the engineer that made the software in such a way that it just screws over everyone who comes in contact with it. Middle management probably doesn't have much to do with it either; they are often just doing what their manager told them, and don't want to go against that and risk their position. They are often not responsible for the top-down policy either... so that leaves us with the people that feed a bad policy to the rest of the company.
Why do successful people always have to be rich? That's such a toxic silicon valley expectation.
Except that now you got control over your fingerprint. You can choose what to send to the website, you are the one that decide which website get it or not.

Sure you'll still get the other fingerprinting there, which still allow them to track you, but before FLoC, Google couldn't imagine reducing Chrome own fingerprints, now that they are going toward FLoC, they can do that, without cannibalizing their revenue stream.

In real life, most won't deactivate FLoC, and that's where they are still going to make money. Everyone else most probably already use adblockers or already refused ad targeting from Google Ads.
Is there any browser extension to automatically disable FLoC on every visited site?
Posting to “Who Is Hiring”
Is the job posting thread only open for one day? I don't see a good way to reply/post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661443
You are saying they dont pay taxes, do you have any proof for that?
Ask HN: Devs, is your team using story points to estimate work? Why/Why not?
Been going back and forth internally to understand the true value of story points in estimating sprints. How does your team currently do it?

The team lead wants to test planning poker as well. Thoughts?
Not everything translated over exactly well from the original GNU/Linux copypasta, but I do agree here.

I've tested using microG in order to gain some functionality which is missing on pure AOSP builds (eg push notifications) and even with their FOSS minimal implementation of Google Play Services there's still subpar functionality like being unable to use many apps with integrated maps (Uber, Tinder, Google Maps).

Avoiding Google on your Android device results in an undeniably degraded user experience still. They additionally have abandoned many of the AOSP apps like the Calendar and Keyboard, to instead develop and maintain their own branded versions. F-Droid, LineageOS and microG in particular are picking up the slack, but we're still a good way from having the same level of functionality whilst avoiding Google proprietary software.
- For requeue, I measured an average of 21% decrease in performance compared to the original futex implementation. This is expected given the new design with individual flags. The performance trade-offs are explained at patch 4 ("futex2: Implement requeue operation").

It's not clear that this is a win overall. But hey, if Windows games run better under wine...
The FRED Blog,
«What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?»

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
Great now let's figure out how to measure BFP across the entire population the way we can with BMI. Every guide i've seen either uses expensive displacement equipment or trained professionals with calipers. That doesn't scale nearly as well as a height / weight calculation
Ask HN: AI image generation, is it ready to be helpful?
There is a problem we face regularly in digital marketing: car dealers/brands do not provide qualitative assets while we always need more image formats to match the variety of devices we create content for.
What happens is that we asks a graphic designer to hack some kind of composition using stock images and the car views provided by the brand.
It is time consuming, and the result is often... meh (examples below).
I think there might be a place for AI generated images here. Do you think we have reach that point where AI can do better ?

A few examples:

-Audi-

image A

https://www.audijamaica.com/content/dam/nemo/aola/Latin-America-general/2021/April/Home/Covers/General/web-V2.jpg?output-format=webp&downsize=1920px:*

image B (they added the man, but he is way too small compared to the car)

https://www.audi.de/dam/nemo/home-assets/2021/models/q4-e-tron/210331_Audi_Rom_1920x1920_StageTeaser_CLEAN.jpg?downsize=1920px:*

-Hyundai-

(perspective and shading are meh )

https://m.hyundai.fr/m/i/slides/essai-hyundai-tucson-nouvelle-generation.jpg

-Nissan-

(this one is actually nice)

https://www-europe.nissan-cdn.net/content/dam/Nissan/gb/homepage/004101_NISS_QASHQAI_HOMEPG_BNR_3000x1300.jpg

(not that one)

https://www.nissan.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/x-trail.html

edit: line breaks
It should be possible to run a PowerPC emulator (Sheepshaver?) on M1 using x86 Rosetta, and in that emulator run original Mac programs and get 4 layers of emulation.
There is definitely a market for this.

I had wealth management review recently and they used a 3rd party piece of software that was doing something similar, their entire pitch revolved around this app.

What you really need to have is a demo setup so I can just play with the output without having to input any data.

Also concerned about sharing this much personal detail with a start-up so I would not use it unfortunately as it is (at least with real data)
Same here. I though: "WTF is this ? Am I on a design your webpage site ?"
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...rather than complaints about Natty Geo's business model (and asking for an email address).

The latter complaints are obvious and uninteresting, and are not unique to Natty Geo.

I'm not categorically against such commentary, but it is not useful if they dominate the commentary here.

The former is interesting because it is relevant to the -content- of the article -- or the underling study if you prefer to read that.

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/...
I don't know about average but the median Amazon employee, including all those working in warehouses, driving trucks, etc. is unlikely to be wealthier.
I am not sure if you read our website but a couple of comments:

1. We use GPUs and many vCPUs actually help with multi-processing since most browser tabs will peg a single CPU

2. A lot fortune 500 companies have adopted "browser isolation" products that do something similar but aren't focused around speed.
I started my career in Accenture as a bright eye systems engineer that wanted to work with cool people and program computers and build cool stuff. O boy did they stomped that naive dream fast.

I was basically one of the offshore resources in a third world country mentioned in the other comments that gets payed peanuts (USD 420 a month to be precise, minimum wage in my country) and has zero experience but gets sold like he is a senior engineer. All my team was like that, there were only trainees and 2 semi seniors on my team. My "architect" didn't knew Java at all, the language of the project, and the person sitting besides me didn't knew what a bubble sort was but was trying to implement a sorting algorithm in C as part of the software that controlled the entire mobile telecom network for Spain (did not end well).

The culture is up or out, completely cutthroat, a nightmare. They apply something called "the tooth paste tube principle" to their employees: the more you squeeze, the more it comes out (I actually heard that from one of the managers there).
The model is endless armies of low wage trainees on third world countries that get sold as "seniors" and get pay little so they will take as much overtime as possible to actually make a living wage.
The good thing? They will hire almost anybody and they give you a month full time training free before you start, so if you want a place to start with a very low entry bar or are looking for free training, or you are a sociopath and like playing power games with people and walking over them, this is you place.

If I sound bitter 15 years later it's because I still am.
That's a _perfect_ description -- concise yet thorough, and very accurate (I've been a consultant for 23 years, and have worked on several projects with Accenture involved).
Maybe I missed it in the text/instructions, as I was going pretty fast just trying to "see what it is" and typing a bunch of things in, but it asked me about Debt, so I put in a mortgage. Then it asked me about a house, and when I said it wasn't paid off, it wanted mortgage details. I already added that under debt.

(Also Delete is disabled on that debt, so I cannot go back and change that.)

EDIT: OK I started over and see that it specifies that Debt is "not associated with a specific asset."

Later Debt seems to become "Expenses" which is a little confusing. Not big complaints, just trying to make sense of it.

Similar confusion with the plan, where it asked for a payment amount for the mortgage, but then wanted it again as a payoff plan? This was even though I unchecked Pay Off As Soon As Possible? What's going on here? It's confusing.

Also it seems like excess salary is going into cash savings, not taxable investments OR tax-advantages accounts. That is severely limiting growth in the projections. <-- No I was partially wrong, it's just that it has my mortgage payment in twice as I mentioned previously due to the confusing wizard. So my expenses were way higher and the investment amount was reduced. But even removing that my "Cash" at the end of the period of income is massive; it should be putting "cash" into investments.
> A floc Id is shared amongst millions of users, and can be reset at any time by the user.

Sure but are you sharing your IP with a millions of users? That's only a single other information about you, there's a bunch others given by your browser.
> It just happens so that most software development is more like the Linux kernel and less like game development

I don't think that is true. Linux kernel development is truly distributed. It is expected that there are multiple completely deployed branches. Most software development using git does have a single point of ownership and a single release branch. It is done on company machines with managed environments.
It's a direct-drive Panasonic PL-5 with the internal calibration strobe, so no belt.

I always clean them with a Zerostat and Discwasher. And have a Japanese stylus cleaner too (the stuff that looks like a breast implant for mice porn stars.)

The local record store has the same record, maybe they'd compare them?
I do code review on both Gitlab and Github and found the experience on Github more pleasant. Things that help:

- Keep the PR small, the code changes focused.

- The “viewed” checkbox per file. Tick it as the file is reviewed. If the file is changed later, it will expand as “Changed since last viewed”. If not, one less thing to check on next review iteration.

- Keep discussions off Github. There should be one comment per issue as the initializer as well as reminder. The long discussions goes into a Slack thread.

- The reviewer is the one to resolve the comment. This way, you can resolve them as in “tick them off” as done.
There are a lot of great lessons to be learned from this situation. First, you have to do what you think is best for your business...and that's not always easy. You will damage relationships making these types of tough decisions and that's just how it goes. If you don't have the stomach for it, how are you ever going to fire someone who isn't getting it done, when they have a family to support?

Many VCs will try to create a no-shop dynamic...they make you an offer and you can't use that offer to get a better one from someone else. However, you have to do what's best for your business - even if they won't like it. And BTW, if all they have to offer is cash and locking you in via guilt trip, if you have an alternative, you should ditch these folks. But, you don't always have an alternative.

The last thing you should consider is that no one will ever be better to you than when you are just about to sign on the dotted line. If this is how they treat you now, how do you think it'll go in the future? What kinda crap do you think they'll try to pull when you have a real problem?

Their solution of adding the other person for the round and the only person to get diluted is you, especially under the terms you listed, is a huge red flag. First off, you would take all the dilution. Secondly, the numbers don't make sense. They propose that the other VC, coming in with 2.5x the cash, and a higher valuation gets way worse terms then they get...that's a helluva counter offer.

If you want to raise more money, that's fine. But, the person writing the biggest check typically sets the terms. But, you know what's a great way to figure out if someone is going to be a good partner? Go to Brad and tell him what's up. He'll probably have good advice AND if you agree with him / empower him, will probably reach out to the other party and come up with terms or just cut a bigger check and keep those folks out of the deal. Either way, it's a win for you.
I just came off a contract where I was subbed to Accenture, I was on the previous contract and they "inherited" me. Can confirm all this. Accenture's model is to wow the executives with slick presentations, buzz words, and name cachet. Then they bill insane hours designing and "solutioning" from many people who maybe log into the client network once a week but spend the rest of the time on the Accenture corporate network, maybe doing work for the project, maybe doing nothing, maybe double billing on another client, who knows? They can get a greenfield small app going at likely 5x the cost it should be but decorated with all sorts of fancy docs and presentations and runbooks and guides but on my project they tried to leverage that experience into taking over a large, established, legacy, enterprise system and from what I hear they are basically spinning in place doing nothing.
There will be a new one posted in 2 days on the first of each month.
“People like stories because people are stories.”

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This was in 2017-2018.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf
> but a lot of it was stuff like not paying sales tax if they didn't have a physical presence in the state

Amazon collects sales tax in every jurisdiction outside the USA, yet still had incredible growth. It's not really about prices ( a new book I want is £7 cheaper on ebay ) but convenience.
Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics? (2016)
Pixels, at least when they come from cameras or need to be mapped to a 3D world, are still not square.

https://doc.visionappster.com/3.0-beta5/engine/world-coordin...
and IBM Global Services.
It’s not fully without risk though - When a consultation fails, the person who pushed it is also tarred, and in proportion to the scale of the disruption and cost.
Most of Us CEO's Have No Idea What We're Doing
The vertical axis turbine seems like it would scale in size better since the blades are spinning perpendicular to gravity
I have been seeing a lot of FLoC articles recently. Can someone please ELI5 for me what FLoC is and why is it bad?
François Chollet on deep learning experts
AzureFunBytes Reminder Containers and Kubernetes with brendandburns – 4/29/2021
Amazon Air Launches New Hub in Southern California
Chia Cryptomining Causes 500% Increase in Adata High-Capacity SSD Sales
Noise, maintenance, added cost and complexity. Then you also have the issue that you need an inverter and some kind of scheme to communicate with the mini wind turbines so they don't drive the voltage too high or some other kind of scheme for regulating that.
Software qualities: what they are and how can you improve them
Is there any evidence that people who live in areas with better air have better health outcomes overall?

Hong Kong average life expectancy is 85. Iceland is 83.
Hong Kong has poor air quality and Iceland has some of the best.

I'm for better air quality but it's just part of the puzzle.
Currently, no. I suppose one could criticize that from an operations perspective, but at least data requested for deletion does really go away.
The last data that I saw indicates I have < 0.15% chance of dying from Covid. That has dropped from the WHO's initial estimate of 3%, there is some reason to believe it may drop even lower. The chance of dying from the vaccine is a non-zero amount, but unknown; long term effects _can't_ be known at present. We might interpret the data differently, but it is not irrational to make decisions using a different strategy. Minimax vs minimin vs whatever else. Making decisions with limited data requires some amount of strategic preference. It is rational to take the vaccine or not take the vaccine, but depends on your criteria and optimization function.
IIRC, when she married Bill - she resigned from the company.
Per their datasheet, the SKS PN-14 produces 80-200 kW. Now compare this to a modern Vestas V164 8000kW turbine. The latter seems way simpler engineering-wise to me
Not true, I never, ever felt tired at "bedtime" as a kid, ever. I would protest my bedtime pretty much everyday because "I'm not tired." Fixed bedtime still "worked" for me because when you're 1) on a firm schedule and 2) laying in bed without anything else to do then sleep comes.
TIL hnreplies exists! It's exactly what I've been looking for.
Probably this will end up like all the apps which ask for all kind of permissions they really don't need
I know HN hates joke responses, but it's late in this thread and nobody is paying attention anyway, so what the hell :)

https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762?lang=en
A recent and similar variation, also featuring someone who has a surname associated with the phallus

https://twitter.com/KTVB/status/1384706494294286341

https://www.today.com/popculture/who-mark-johnson-why-did-hi...

> Anchor Mark Johnson is an important member of the KTVB-TV staff — so much so that on Tuesday night someone on the social media desk for the Boise, Idaho, NBC affiliate tweeted out a link to Mark Johnson's bio (complete with professional photo), and his name.

And nothing else.
because a whole city with turbines on each street light might produce the same amount of power as 1 large scale wind farm at a fraction of the maintenance cost
Back when Instamatic got popular, I was using an N900 and of course didn't have access to the app. So I made my own, by piping images over SSH to a server running a couple of Imagemagick scripts that applied one of a few LUTs I cooked up, and optionally some vignetting maybe.

Worked OK, was completely pointless of course.

Edit: I meant Hipstamatic. It's been a while.
Road to CTA: Salesforce Security
What would be some realworld differences between owning a coin and owning a non-voting, no dividend stock?