skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are the people who need the product going to pay for it? End users can still report on the value of the product even if they received it for free, there are many ways to evaluate effectiveness beyond P&L.

Capitalism is not the answer to everything.
My family(except for one brother) and I have completely cut all seed oils out for the last year. No longer burn at all, except for the brother that has not. He goes inside looking like a lobster.
haha yeah, there's a lot of nuance about a fitting room that's hard for 1 product to solve. Our current product focus more on the styling / outfits / engagement, not claiming on the exact fit. Hopefully it brings positive value to conversion and AOV, which would be enough to justify a B2B case. We've also build an app (Style Space), but are not experts in running it.
I mean, it's an early leaked build. I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced, which is why it hasn't been updated at all.

(I work at MS but not on Windows and I haven't tried 11 at all.)
Ask HN: Books on the inside stories of big tech?
It's been really interesting seeing some of the discussions in the internal emails from senior tech leaders that are getting published - e.g. https://twitter.com/TechEmails

Does anyone know of any books of other resources that contain similar insights or show the history/inner-workings of big tech companies?

Some good examples I've come across in the past include:

- The One Device
- Show Stoppers!
This fits in perfectly with my "bubbles are everywhere" thesis. +1 insightful.
Had a fun one relatively recently that was a mix of "hard to reproduce" and "hard to get internal state information". Flaky test in a rails app that would fail one in every ten to hundred runs of the full test suite with "this random number is too big to be a primary key" kind of message. Root cause was an edge case passing through multiple swiss-cheese holes in various assumptions:

1. ActiveRecord makes an assumption that primary keys are integers, and does its own check whether or not they are big enough to be persisted (rather than catching a database error).
2. Furthermore, it does this by coercing the key to an integer if it isn't already one. This is done with to_i, which for a string takes any leading 0-9 characters and discards the rest.
3. We had a table with a string primary key (UUID of some sort)
4. One of our test factories was generating a hexadecimal string for that primary key
5. And the test factory was not deterministic and did not respect the --seed flag in the test suite.

So the end result was a very innocuous-looking line of code occasionally generating a hexadecimal string with enough leading numeric digits to be larger than ActiveRecord thinks you can stuff into a table, causing an extremely cryptic error message. It does not reproduce with the same test seed. And the stack trace was about three frames and discarded all the context - all I could see was that ActiveRecord was throwing a fit over somehow mysteriously receiving a large number somehow.

Figuring that out was honestly like, 80% pure luck. Chased down a hunch that it was test object generation somehow and did that in the REPL, then narrowed it down via looking through child object generation until the haystack was small enough that I couldn't not find the needle.
Shouldn't this kind of stuff show up in the reviews rather quickly?
From my perspective as someone who's seen this happen before:

"Released as FOSS" means "We have withdrawn life support and it will now die a slow lingering death. Have fun with that." Unless you can spare the resources to maintain it yourself, this marks the point when it's officially time to migrate away immediately.

"Spun off to a small company" means "Someone has now been personally incentivized to take care of it." It's certainly not guaranteed to survive long-term, but it's at least been given a chance at revitalization. It's probably worth sticking around for a while to see what happens.
> Bubbles can be directly beneficial, or at least lead to positive spillover effects: The telecom bubble in the ’90s created cheap fiber, and when the world was ready for YouTube, that fiber made it more viable. Even the housing bubble had some upside: It created more housing inventory, and since the new houses were quite standardized, that made it great training data for “iBuying” algorithms — the rare case where the bubble is low-tech but the consequences are higher-tech.

The housing bubble led to a short term increase in housing inventory, but it also dampened housing development (arguably forever). I'm guessing the net affect to housing supply was economically inefficient.

Certainly a sign of the times when VC firms hype the positive externalities of bubbles as US companies climb to insanely high price to earnings ratios, interest rates are at record lows, and cheap money and debt abound.

I have a feeling this ain't gonna age well.
Imaginary Property is just a term ginned up by lawyers to parasitize actual productivity. It was invented by lawyers, for lawyers.

Fuck IP and fuck lawyers.
I agree with you. She seems to recognize that helping people to help themselves is a better use of the funds than trying to swoop in and "save them."
Haven't gone through it fully, but why are female breasts no-no, but male breasts are ok?
> Why do big things need to be done?

I dunno, maybe like improving the quality of life for everyone on this planet?

If you think things like this [0] will happen without "big things" getting done, you're mistaken.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
Right, but from the perspective of the bus rider, it's still unavoidable, as the rider can't control the bus driver. So I'd say it's still an acceptable excuse to give at the client meeting, unless there are other, more timely methods of transportation that you could reasonably be expected to take.

In places where this is sort of thing is common, I wonder if people aren't bothered by it because they truly in their heart of hearts don't mind, or because they've just resigned themselves to the unpredictability of their transportation.
Ha, I became a math major accidentally when I happened to take a proof based course and math finally came alive for me.
Most Americans have employer provided health insurance. Fewer than 10% have no health insurance. Hardly anyone is paying out of pocket.

> we need to completely restructure our society in the USA

The specific primary reason the USA is rich is that we’ve resisted the temptation to do harebrained projects like this.
> The situation has devolved to where startups treat public funding as though it were revenue and have dedicated teams to chase it.

This is how it works in America, too. Professional grant writers who know how to get funding are basically the rainmakers for research teams.
Some do fail to load for me, yet they then do load when I right click them to open them in a new tab.
There are thousands of travelers flying from China to the US every single day. It seems obvious that the earliest infections would be sooner than January 2020. I remain unsurprised by these new findings, because past conversations around this topic would always be shut down or dismissed, leading to no serious, balanced conversation. Common sense and reasonable speculation were met with vitriol and people tried to claim a moral high road of "trusting the science". Just like with the lab leak theory not actually being "debunked", this too is further evidence of how echo chambers, politics, and groupthink have corrupted discourse.
I would agree with you that the 50/50 split is pretty bizarre and arbitrary, however allowing that much cash to accumulate in one couple's pockets is, I think, a pretty clear signal that other much larger parts of our system are fundamentally broken.
I think you’re confusing median and mean. Median actually does account for the long tail.

Over 90% of Americans have health insurance.
We tried 202 and 204 and both led some UAs to show broken image placeholders. But during the time we did that people assumed that we were tracking them just incompetently ("Look! They've revealed themselves!" style).

Maybe we tried some other codes but anything but 200 was unsafe to many UAs (you could 3xx but UAs would break on 304 too because the tracking pixel wasn't actually cached). Anything that led to UA breakage was verboten anyway on our side since we didn't want anyone to have a broken experience because they set DNT. That would have been bullshit.

We were dumb-enough to handle P3P headers too (which AFAIK no one really used in the end). Lots of dead code. Ugh.
I'd summarize blockchain like this: computation that is outside any individual's control. It's surprising that it's even possible!

It makes the virtual world actually a lot more like the physical world: no one person can alter the laws of physics, just as no one person can alter the laws of Bitcoin (or similar). This property makes me think that describing blockchain as a metaverse is actually pretty accurate.

It's intriguing to think that with fully homomorphic encryption, we can have distributed computation that's not only outside anyone's control, but outside anyone's understanding! You can literally imagine an A.I. agent that no one controls - and no one understands.
The chances are really low that it was covid. A lot of colds go around and many last a long time. Millions of Americans had a cold in December 2019. A handful likely had COVID-19. You are probably in the former camp.
I could see that. I got absolutely wrecked around the end of February, in part because I got badly chilled one night and allowed it to persist (not wanting to go make a fire in the woodstove when it was already nighttime). I ran a high fever for days and was totally wiped out, and have always wondered if it was COVID.

Ended up just getting vaccinated, now I'll never know. For what it's worth, the second Moderna dose clobbered me like it was supposed to, so maybe it was busy making antibodies and I didn't actually get any immunity from February 2020…
First, they laugh at you
What does that have to do with Google's use of your SSID? If someone wants to use your SSID signal to image what's going on in your house, they don't need to have first gotten your SSID from google's mapping database.
I generally enjoy a brief description of the overlying concept, at the top of each function. I don't care to know how a function is implemented as much as rough details to help me navigate the new/forgotten code space/context. Usually, a quick example of usage, within some relevant context, is enough to push me in the right direction.

If I have to read every line of implementation to know wtf is going on, then I'm probably going to have a bad time.
Sounds like a weird cold. There just wasn't very much COVID around back then.
Unless I'm mistaken Amtel was founded in the US. However the AVR was developed in Norway.
> the wealth of the "family", where 99.99% of that wealth is from one of the people.

Scott was a cofounder instrumental in getting Amazon going in the early days, not a "trophy wife". Equity is equity.
The solution is simple, though: ship with the debugger.
I thought it was a good combination of practical while being backed with data. They are big proponents of modeling out energy use with something called Manual J. They advocate for designing based on data instead of hunch which often leads to over-provisioning (less phone calls) and less efficiency. Posters also seem to be practical and focused on cost efficient solutions. This can be more rare than you think when dealing with passive house consultants or with efficiency consultants as I received many recommendations that had >= 50 year pay off times!
Quantum computing’s answer to the global food security problem
I'm really down for just funding existing organizations too. A bunch of artists in my city were livid when council approved some new $xxxk arts grant, but then it turned out that half of it was going to a new full-time position for someone to "oversee" the program.

What the heck? No! There are existing groups that will happily receive the money and get it to artists, and yes, provide you accountability about where it went and what it did.
I think you are slightly off, those are 12oz (340g) packages.
>Work identity is also a thing. Where you kinda become what you do for a living. Which is bad.

lol

I've seen once a video called something like "a day of googler"

and I was shocked that "average day" was hanging out with your coworkers after the work

don't get me wrong, it's not like we dont do it here (poland), but it's from time to time, even when we have insanely good relations with eachother

it's 16:00 on the clock and that's it - cya people tomorrow.

I hope the video was not reflecting reality well?
The scale is exactly the problem. The social contract of what's acceptable for friends, mailmen, or passersby hailing a cab does not apply when extended to automated processes running on computers of global megacorps.

I have no issue with a police officer tailing and tracking a suspect with license plate ABC1234. That license plate number is publicly visible information. I do take issue with the police installing license plate cameras that give them a location history of the entire driving population of a city.

I have no issue with an acquaintance recognizing me by the shape of my face. If I go out in public, I expect to be publicly visible. I do take issue with Facebook running facial recognition on photos taken by their users, or installing their own facial recognition cameras, and sending advertisements and connection suggestions to me based on my proximity to other people.

I have no issue with my neighbor, trying to connect his wifi, seeing my SSID alongside his. The router needs to broadcast a publicly visible management beacon so that he can locate his wireless network and I can locate mine. I do take issue with Google making a global database to allow devices to use the visible SSIDs to determine their location.

I have no issue with a web server querying my browser to see what system fonts I have available, or what size my browser window is. These and other bits of information are useful to display the website I'm requesting to me. I do take issue with the server or their advertising partners using these characteristics to construct a fingerprint to track me across sessions or sites.

I recognize that there's no empirical difference between these uses. Public information is public, it's not obvious why the source should be able to determine how it's used or where the line is between acceptable, intended, private party use and unacceptable, automated, exploitative use. But I think I know what's acceptable when I see it.
I wish I had it on hand, but I have seen it more than once, including not long after it came out: in October 2019, one of the 4chan folks, one of the lab geeks, posted that they had seen a fairly unusual virus come trucking through in the SARS family. I saw the screenshot posted again around December.

I would not be even a little shocked if it were kicking around in early 2019, or even before. Just think of how HIV was skulking about, smoldering, before really catching on the tinder.
Frankly, I think it's just very hard to get the kind of effect you're imagining. https://www.formatech.com I know this company that does what you want, but I don't think their rendering is close to what you're imagining. We recognize it's difficulty, so want to start with a more constrained case, maybe will eventually get there :)
Ronaldo's Coca Cola gesture caused $4bn to be knocked off company's market value
I was going to debate you further, but then I realized I don't care about poor people either, just want to appear like I do.
Nonsense. You do realize that people don’t just relocate to another country let alone to another continent, especially when the benefits are questionable at best. Somewhat more pay, but for more expenses due to a ridiculous health-care, depending on location, it may very well be less safe, etc.
It is really, really easy to have a lack of faith in governments (well in the US at least) right now due to the extremely neo-liberal bent that's been ingrained into governance starting with Regan. I think that investing in non-profit organizations in the US might be optimal, while abroad I do agree - governments have much better inherent oversight and market knowledge than most other participants.
It's opening the database _immediately_ after the browser starts that's the problem, which is easily missed given the browser isn't restarted for each test. Provided an IndexedDB test isn't run immediately after any restart, it'll pass.

As with every race condition (cross process, too, so tools like TSAN don't help), testing for the absence of race conditions is hard.
I just did and it seems generally lower than the USA in quite a few countries. When you look state by state and country by country it becomes clear it's highly localized to certain urban areas. Plus there seems to be a difference in reporting (Germany for instance counts hundreds of thousands of asylum seeking refugees).
I find that LTSC still sneaks in an OS update (and a reboot) every now and then, even though it is not supposed to be doing that.
I'm very interested in a low down payment, not to buy a house beyond my budget, but instead to avoid locking in more cash than I have to. Could you recommend any guidelines or important factors for me to determine whether I should prefer minimal down payment vs standard (>=20% iirc)?
from "the other side", this has been known for rather a while: seminarians usually have a few obligatory courses in psychology and counseling best practices lumped in under "pastoral care". There's usually a hospital chaplaincy rotation that can give you exposure to psychiatric care as well (or other areas, depending on what you're interested in).

It's no real surprise that, for example, confession and talk therapy are extremely close cousins. People seem to fundamentally need to put words to ideas and fears and sadness and stress and angst, and in putting words around those things we can hope to control our reactions to them better.

Doing this with a guide who is there to tell you that no matter what, you matter, and probably give you some rituals to do that'll settle your mind a bit, has proven to be durably useful for approximately ever. Whether you call that person "your therapist" or "your priest" or "your imam" or "this monk i talk to sometimes" seems more or less secondary.
That sounds like confirmation bias.
Part of the problem is that nobody has a definition for what "blockchain" even means. We all know what Bitcoin means because it has a whitepaper and an implementation. The same goes for all other operational systems that use the same ideas.

"Blockchain", on the other hand, just means whatever anybody who wants to ride on hype wants it to mean. For example, some simply take it to mean a series of blocks where each block references its parent block by its hash. To others, that definition makes no sense because that concept existed long before Bitcoin (eg. git).
Thoughts on NLP's Rapid Growth as a Super Popular Domain in Machine Learning
3.0 is out, congrats on the release! I'd built that myself to try it out earlier this year, IIRC the previous stable build was 5 years old. Guessing I didn't have the OpenMP version from my build, so this should be a performance boost.

Unrelated to parallelism, is there a way to lock the vertical axis for orbit, what blender calls "turntable" style rather than "trackball"? Coming from an AutoCAD and Blender background, I'm a lot more comfortable in that mode.
Don't forget this happy little Earth hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater

edit: upon further investigation, maybe it's not much worse than a bunch of cows farting..
In Denver, 'fancy coffee' (i.e. Fair trade / Fair wage / environmentally sustainable, 100% Arabica) from the many local roasters starts at around $15.50 a pound and goes up to about $24 a pound.
Mostly any pc you build with much less than $5k will beat a $5k MacBook pro
americans really live in another dimension
You never lived through auto-javadoc?
> No one has tracked text editing in this way, making it fully traceable, unwind-able, and outside-verifiable.

I know it's trite on HN, but: isn't this literally just version control? Particular integrity choices aside, Git has all of the properties you state above.
What a strange article - how would you know if a bubble is “well behaved” before the fact?
One problem with this that now you need expertise in building a cheap, high quality school. And how do you know your product (education) will be better than competing products?

And by what metric do you compare the effectiveness of your school vs competition? "Retaining customers", so does that mean we judge a school's quality by year over year revenue growth, since that indicates customer retention?
FirstEver Congressional Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs Announced Drug War Anniv
There was a nasty flu going around that winter. I got it in October/November and it very nearly hospitalized me. I was down for two solid weeks.

It was too early for C19, but it was brutal nonetheless.
What I wish was taught before college: Unless going into research or hardcore STEM, college is a waste of time and money. Go intern or get a junior level position. You'll be four years ahead of those in your age group. Invest the money that would have been spent towards tuition in something, anything that pays dividends. For life skills, go live life.
There are a lot of cases where there is visual contact at the same time.
what about the aliens who were looking for ways to get us to speed up heating the planet so it was more to their liking?
Nobody has found a use case for a decentralized, trustless, permissionless ledger which is free from the horror of attack by byzantine generals.

Git is only one of those three, well two if you count the byzantines.
My M1 Air renders and edits 4k as well as my ryzen 3700x with 64 gigs of ram and a samsung nvme.
It loses out in encoding though. I cant get the same quality/size ratio with VideoToolBox as I can with NVENC.
I think there may be some good uses for public immutable records that can be verified as a chain.

But none of that requires distributing the block chain.
Don't worry, your document's editing history is safe from hackers... Or something
It's tough because I think in some cases there really are new things that can be done, where the volume of money in question makes it logical to start over— thinking of the Gates foundation trying to tackle malaria, or address sanitation issues around toilets.

But education? Inequality? These aren't ones where some random person who hasn't been thinking about it for decades is going to come up with a radically new approach.
I think personal finance is big.

Skincare and grooming would also be nice.

Some basic documenting (such as take horizontal videos, scanning official documents, filling important papers)
Windows 11 leak gives us our first look at the radical new design
To me it's actually faster and easier to read code instead. This is because i generally don't trust "what" comments - either I know the code already or I don't, and if I don't, then I don't trust the "what" comment fully, so I both have to parse "what" and code.

A "why" comment usually ages well, so I generally trust it and can use it to better parse the code and its intentions.

So I belong in the "what only for API methods" camp.
As a Canadian/American dualie - I have a lot of faith in my government... now that I've emigrated to Canada - it isn't perfect but it is very good at holding itself to account. Governments in the US might still be the best places to invest to get bang for your buck - but I can certainly sympathize with people who feel distrust after the extreme levels of partisanship and neo-liberalism down there.