skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things,

This is a big issue. But at the same time - it's not clear to me what the solution when every side is pushing hype rather than news. How do you publish an "opposing take" on something the other side is publishing that isn't real in the first place? It's not ideal to even acknowledge lies.
I think you're trying to compare against Google's best and largest products (which probably have the best PMs working for them, with the clearest demand for "vision.")

Compare instead Google's average products (y'know — the kind they eventually shut down) to the largest FOSS competitors in those same verticals.

For example, compare Google Reader at its peak MAU, to the current #1 open-source RSS reader app.

Or compare Google+ to, say, Mastadon. (Mastadon is a FOSS Twitter knockoff whereas Google+ was a Facebook knockoff, but I think the point stands.)

Or, for a painful one, compare Blogger to Wordpress! (Okay, maybe that one's not fair, since Wordpress is a real company that can hire product managers. But most WP development is still random FOSS developers scratching their own itches.)

Or compare Google Code at its peak to, well, anything. GitLab CE, GNU Savannah, anything.

None of these were failures of engineering. They were either failures of product management, or failures of budget/staffing — which is in essence still product management, since it's a PM's role to fight for the budget and headcount to get the job done.

(That's not to say all but the best Google products rot on the vine. IMHO Google are pretty good with steering their internal B2B engineering-driven offerings, e.g. GKE, Firebase, BigQuery, etc. Those are run a lot like FOSS projects, in that it's a combination of internal engineers scratching their own itches, and customers directly filing bug reports, that determine what gets built. It's the B2C products, and the marketing-driven B2B products — where in either case the engineers involved might not have the problem themselves, and the customers might never directly engage with them in troubleshooting their workflows — that tend to falter.)

> There is libreoffice, but even on it’s best day it’s not doing real time document editing/collaboration with 10+ people on opposite sides of the planet, and that is the Google Docs bread and butter for instance.

If that's your only requirement, then the FOSS project https://etherpad.org/ that Google acquired to build Google Wave off of (and then later dis-acquired) satisfies it pretty well. These days it's even kind of a word-processor! (Originally it was just a multiplayer <textarea> with per-user text background colors.)
> If you're working in tech and you can't bank enough to take 6m-1yr off, you're doing your finances wrong.

Why would you assume to know what other people's financial situations are, let alone their wage scale in an industry where not everyone is a US-based SWE?
Impressive! After all these years I still need to look at the keyboard.
Pocket change you made a huge deal about and called ‘significant money?’
I signed up and was presented with a French dashboard page. Everything was in English before. I manually changed the 'fr' in the URL to 'en' and then everything seemed to work fine :-).
Fist fights between men used to be a pretty normal way to resolve disputes.
I do the same thing, and I've noticed that this "they don't present the other side" thing is getting worse with time. I recently read [this HuffPo article][0] about how only 1% of American film characters are identifiably Muslim; however, nowhere in the article does it even mention the share of Americans who are Muslim, nor the share of movie characters that are of other religions. These things are certainly obvious and important points of context, but the article doesn't even broach them.

(According to [1], only 1% of Americans are Muslim, and 60+% are Christian--and I would be shocked if 60+% of American film characters are identifiably Christian never mind [how they are portrayed][2])

Worse, this seems to be increasingly prevalent in the academy as well. Indeed, the study cited in the article (from University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative) also doesn't mention these points of context and the paper is pretty overtly propagandist.

[0]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/movie-characters-muslim-riz-a...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

[2]: http://decentfilms.com/articles/hollywood-religion-problem
Google is certainly trying. On Chrome for Android you can do both of those. Whether that's a good thing is debatable though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...
I would personally take more free time over more money any day. The only reason I work a full time job is because it is the only way to get health coverage that you can actually afford.
I was once enticed by AirBnB's promise of "we don't store your ID data after validation"

Few years down the line, it requested me to submit my ID data for a booking in China.

All my ID data was pre-filled.
I find that strange for Austria, considering that in Romania; when unemployed, and not being registered as a job seeker, you can still have insurance.

It's automatic in those situations you've described, but you can buy into the system otherwise.

At today's exchange rate if you'd like to benefit from the healthcare system, for a year, you'd have to make a 271 EUR contribution, with no other criteria required.
In large parts of the world, from Scandinavia to Africa, you can transfer money instantly using only phone-numbers (or QR codes). I use the Danish mobile pay every day and never yet felt that it would improve from "being on the blockchain".
I have been thinking the same thing for some time now. Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath. If they are able to stay private, they probably will. It's easier to build a business when you don't have to deal with the hassle and interference of public markets.
The fact that Apple has refused to deliver that only proves the point. If they did, many apps wouldn’t be forced to be in the App Store. It’s certainly possible, as iirc, it works on Android for years now.
cmd.exe most certainly does execute the pipeline in parallel, much as unixes do. The old MS-DOS command.com would not (since only single process at a time execution was even supported). I have no idea if the Windows 9X/ME version of command.com worked the same way as dos or not, and I don't feel like firing up a VM to find out.

Now cmd.exe has maintained a lot of stupidity, and even many obvious bugs from the old command.com executable, in order to ensure that positively ancient script still run as expected. (This includes horribleness like the cmd.exe code not being able to read ahead in the .bat file, in order to support old self-modifying .bat file tricks!).

But sequential-only pipelines are not part of the stupidity that was kept in place.
I think the Estonian e-Card scheme is the right one despite hiccups in its implementation and ID verification should be the domain and responsibility of governments. Each ID card has an embedded private key-public key pair and you can sign to reveal your identity without having to resort to giving away anything else about yourself. There is already a zero-risk way for customers to verify themselves, so giant ID databases are a step backwards.
I’m not claiming a fact, I’m quoting the article since you made a statement that didn’t accurately represent it.
The author makes a couple of arguments. Some like "we should increase the quality of our research by doing more pre-registration because we are sacrificing these animals in the pursuit of science and when we do bad science we make the sacrifice for naught" yes 100%!!!

But when he argues that there is poor translatability from rats to people (true) so therefore we should try doing more in vitro studies or going directly into humans. I think as bad as rat/mouse studies are in vitro studies have even worse translatability.
That is assuming the translation is of high quality and sadly that is not always the case. I am a native Spanish speaker and for the life of me I cannot understand most of the "Spanish Version" technical pages I read.
Yeah, no. You can't sell energy that you are not producing and the EPR in France and the UK is still not running. Just check the price in EUR/kWh and start to weep.

I'm not in principle against nuclear, but it's just not economically feasible to run on full nuclear, not when renewables are much cheaper.
We’ve been using this to verify short term rental guests (non-Airbnb) for the past year and it’s been extremely positive. Given that our guests have trouble even following a link for check-in the identity product has some great UX, they rarely get stuck on it.
I would like to know more about how they use machine learning for tuning. From the article:

> OtterTune works by iterating through different knob setting configurations and observing the database's performance. Its machine learning models are trained to make educated decisions about new configuration changes for the observed workload and optimization goals.

However, they did not give more details. I suppose that:

1. They have a large database of configurations (knob values or input features) and their corresponding performance values (e.g. a scalar value, where higher values mean better performance).

2. They do some kind of regression using the current configuration as starting point.

3. Then, they do an educated guess using their database of points (regression). If the guess is better than the current configuration, it is given to the user. Otherwise, try another guess.

4. They update their regression model by adding the current configuration to their database.
You're blurring the distinction between power and influence. Politicians don't get power from wealthy donors - they get power from votes.

Wealthy people have influence - that is the ability to persuade people, bribe people etc. Politicians have power, that is, the ability to coerce people.
At work we do eIDV of customers and we tested 5 companies. One was quality but too expensive and required too large commitments; two couldn't detect badly photoshopped frauds we threw together, another couldn't detect a printed or on-screen copy of a document being captured (vs the real document - difficult to do, but important). The fifth which we're using can detect printed copies of documents around half the time, but their OCR is shockingly poor when it comes to recognising DoBs so we have to manually check and update the age.

We'll try Stripe and see how much fraud they can detect.
> The US system of justice is based on assuming innocence until guilt is proven.

The US system of criminal justice is based on a strong presumption of innocence in court (and the civil system has a much weaker presumption), but those presumption are not intended to apply thr same way to the people who investigate crimes or to institutions who perform non-criminal, including investigatory, functions.

If you apply a strong presumption of innocence to the investigative function, you never investigate and never find evidence.
For anyone looking for the answer, in the US it's $1.50 / ID verification and $0.50 for Social Security Number lookup (an American tax number that is officially not for identity purposes but used that way all the time).
Rhetoric can be used to sell almost anything.

Fundamentally; we have no solution for the waste other than bury it.

> 1000 years is tomorrow in geologic terms

Think what the human race was actually doing 1000 years ago, and then try to make that statement again with a straight face.

The geology does not care. The terms that are important are human.

> Imagine the tech we'd have available by then if we're still around.

Technology will not save us. Ego and the desire for progress at any cost is going to kill us far sooner.
I find it somewhat disconcerting that my fingers remember my passwords better than my brain does!
Fixed rate mortgage payments are constant, but rents rise with inflation. If people expect high inflation, that may explain why rents look cheap compared to current mortgage payments on comparable residences.
Safety can be a big part, but some people just want someone to talk to.
> Those who use Gemini find value in it.

The fact that your primary answer is a tautology is telling.

I'm asking what value I should find from it, what value I get from going down this bespoke, inaccessible, poorly tooled path versus using the web with it's widely-used tools, billions of users and a million onramps?

> Nothing compels people to use Gemini aside from their own personal interest.

Nothing compels me to use it, but nothing incentivizes me to use it, either. I'd like a static site generator for my blog. Why would I pick Gemini over Jekyll, Hugo, etc.? That's the missing part of the story.

> And why paint it in terms of negatives? People tend to compare Gemini to a crippled version of the web simply because that's what most of the world uses, but is more accurate to claim it is a modernized version of Gopher.

People tend to compare Gemini to a crippled version of the web simply because that's what it is. All of your arguments on how it's better than Gopher ignore the fact that the web has all of those same features.

It's negative because the web already did that, it's already a modernized version of Gopher. That's why we use it and not Gopher. That battle was lost when either NCSA Mosaic or Netscape Navigator was released 20something years ago.
Nobody forces you to use PWAs. I’m tired of this constant PWA bashing on HN.
Scale degrees are 1-indexed. Unison is the "first" when it should be zeroth if you want to add indices like that.

(3-1) + (3-1) = (5-1)
Revisiting secretarial skills: Shorthand for a 21st century writer
>I'm sure they're not as lax as Equifax

I am too, but that's not an endorsement. And more pertinently, that is nowhere nearly enough.

Every database of value tends towards uncontrollable sharing over time. The more available and more valuable it is, the harder it is to fight that trend.

The best thing for humanity is to stop making high-value data hordes like this. Unfortunately, the interests of smaller groupings are the reverse.
Forward error correction is usually at the PHY layer, not the transport layer. So the more appropriate question is, does 10GbE/100GbE/WLAN/etc use RS coding? (and yes some of them do.)
Funny, I think the same thing happened to teachers despite the fact that they cannot realistically have a remote option. Teachers unions have been holding out for better pay and benefits while holding in-school services hostage.
> The average engineer in South Dakota is not the same as one in San Francisco.

How do you know? I've worked with extremely talented engineers from all over the globe at this point, 20+ years in. Do you think all the engineers in San Francisco were born there?

You would never guess where I'm living, and it's not San Francisco. I'd love to, but I'm waiting for tech to recede a bit and a sense of normalcy to return.
Molten salt storage doesn't work well in practice. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/nevadas-crescen...

Even if you're somewhere where the wind could give you 90% of your energy, you'll still need a reliable, baseline power source if you don't want everything to randomly shut down the other 10% of the time.

Wind + solar aren't as cheap as the LCOE makes it seem because you always have to pay for another source of power as baseline. If you added similar subsidies to natural gas it would be by far the cheapest energy source
Technologies for Applied Data Science
You need to consider your informational sphere, considering you are on HN its probably vastly different than 95% of the US. Most of the US still views drug use as a criminal issue, including psychedelics. Psychedelics are still central to large pieces of the counter culture.
Has anyone used this? If so, how fast does it seem?
You should experience what it's like as parents and educators to use Google Meet for school. It's barely usable with massive performance and access issues.

Google Meet unfortunately doesn't just work as easily as it should.
This is a little Big_Brother-esque for my taste.
FYI
ADFS is now going the way of the dodo and being replaced by AAD which does what Okta and Auth0 do already.
Sensory deprivation chambers may.
I wonder if its possible to easily set up a phone or other device with a multiple password/ login system that depending on the credentials could either show something benign or wipe the device. I'd expect such systems to become more popular (and make the main result of these new powers be that police have a new tool to harass unsophisticated and already downtrodden folks, rather than actually to disrupt any serious crime)
You aren’t really competing on quality when you go up against these kinds of products though, you are competing against “free and good enough” which is actually quite compelling in a lot of cases. If you’ve ever been up against Microsoft in a deal for example they just ignore your product and keep throwing more unrelated free stuff into the enterprise agreement until the client acquiesces.
It would seem that by definition, if you want smart contracts or anything "on the blockchain" to interact with the real world, you will need to find intermediaries you trust. Meaning you're back to square one if you want to cross the crypto-real world membrane.
Careful with gap years to clear your plate to work on slower pace stuff - if you're anything like me, you'll have trouble doing the one thing day in and day out. Even with full freedom, it is hard to manage one's output
>Never piss off your employees by taking away something they feel entitled to.

I've read one of the easiest ways to break moral in an office is to simply take away the snacks. Forget nap pods, or walking desks- don't touch my clif bars!!
I don't think Bitcoin is a fraud, after all 1BTC=1BTC. However, its price in USD is largely fictitious. 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake according to Bitwise. [1]

Trading BTC is almost exclusively conducted not against USD but against USDT, on the order of 80%. [2]

Tether is by their own admission (or I should say pie chart) 3% backed by USD. [3] That 65% "commercial paper" would make them the second largest global holder of commercial paper after JP Morgan, but nobody on Wall Street has heard of them. By their own terms of service, they never have to redeem a single one for USD, on any timeline - not for you, not for anyone else - and even if they chose to out of good will, they could redeem it for any "backing" they so choose. [4]

Tether is, by and large, a fraudulent enterprise. [5]

So, my conviction is based on the idea that if $60B worth of dollars (not market cap, dollars) and 80% of trading volume against BTC is these chuck-e-cheese tokens - and they were to suddenly disintegrate, that yes, the market price would utterly collapse.

There are no good players in this space. Even Coinbase, widely regarded as the "best" of the exchanges, had to settle with the CFTC because at one point they allowed 99% of the entire Litecoin trading pair (globally) to exist as wash trading between two bots at Coinbase HQ. [6] That's the best of the best.

tl;dr: The market is overwhelmingly manipulated, wash traded, spoofed, and trading is conducted in a currency that's backed by chewing gum and baling twine.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitwise-calls-out-to-sec-95-o...

[2] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin

[3] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/05/13/tether-publi...

[4] https://tether.to/legal/ section (3)

[5] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

[6] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21
When you put it that way it sounds like some combination of smart caching and branch prediction.
One of the creepiest products of the last decade. Let's wait for the inevitable data breach.
"They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives"

Check out Counterspin, from the media watchdog FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting).[1]

They monitor mainstream media and critique it from a left-wing perspective.

[1] - https://fair.org/counterspin/
Fortunately, nobody has jurisdiction over your brain. They can ask you to reveal the password but they have no way to extracit it from your head. You can always claim you forgot it.
> To me at least, the vagueness of this phrase has made it untrustworthy.

Perhaps that was the GP's choice of wording, to keep the comment brief?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_Wa...

The French used tear gas first, the Germans were the first to use chlorine. There's a big difference between these gasses.
> It is not clear to me that there is any restriction on the scope of information

Presumably the warrant defines the scope of the search. Of course the judges issuing the warrants aren't technical and generally cooperate with investigations, so I would expect vague and over-broad warrants to be the rule.
> I didn't know that European public health insurance was commonly contingent on employment

I'm not sure it is! It's not in the UK, certainly.
Will you update this thread? I am highly interested in results.
Not sure I'm a fan of this site in general, but I do like their list of sites at https://swprs.org/media-navigator/.

I've picked up some great regular reads from that list.
Counterfeit chips can be a hazard even at the hobbyist level. I've had 2.5A rated DC/DC converters from Ali Express that, if overloaded, enter thermal runaway, and fake MAX232 devices that on any given powerup, have a single-digit percentage risk of the charge pump locking up and getting so hot that you can burn your fingers on them - thermal runaway again.

Apparently a lot of the AVR328s on low-end Arduinos (which are still useful, despite much better microcontrollers existing now) are fake too, though I've never had a problem with one.
No. 1. Stripe cares tremendously about and knows the importance of security—we’ve learned a lot from securely processing hundreds of billions of dollars in payments annually, and Identity is built from those learnings. (https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe).

2. Any biometric identifiers that are created to perform the verification are never stored or retained—they are fully removed from all of our systems within 48 hours (usually within minutes).

More on this at https://support.stripe.com/questions/managing-your-id-verifi....
Curious, do you recall if it was slow? like, great than 2 seconds or?
We store data in the US right now (https://support.stripe.com/questions/managing-your-id-verifi... ), but we’ll look into region-specific storage in the future.
Ooof, what happens if you use some sort of hardware key as your password - yubikey or similar - and it ends up getting broken somehow (maybe during you being tackled to the floor or something), there would be no way to recover that password or TOTP.

Simply falling over and breaking it on your keys would be enough to put you foul of this law?
> In comparison, Stripe seems to charge for each product it offers. I think that’s a more fair and transparent model.

They could be charging you AND creating an international ID database.
irccloud is a third party thing that makes this as seamless as other persistent chats but its not free