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I agree with others that a new business model for search is refreshing. But... for a privacy-oriented service, Neeva is doing a poor job in earning my trust.

I spent some minutes in their website and all I could find are vague promises and grandiose marketing-speak. Where's the evidence and the technical detail? Where are the privacy experts, data experts and engineers impressing me with the robustness, openness and cleverness of their system?

Mullvad, for example, excels at explaining how their privacy service works. They transparently explain how they designed a systen with privacy at the core and they're open in their processes and code. They're also independently audited. That's why I trust them.

Neeva, on the other hand, focusses on promises and not evidence. Also, when you scratch the surface they no longer seem so privacy-friendly.

Just compare the privacy policies of both companies and make your own judgement about who is truly privacy-oriented or not:

https://neeva.com/privacy
https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#numbered
https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy/

In regards to Neeva's positioning as 'private search', I don't think they have their architecture right. The best privacy-oriented services are keen on NOT knowing users. Neeva seems keen on getting their hands on all sorts of data.
For users: Create an account, send payment data, sync with documents, email, calendars, etc. For users and non-users: automatic hoarding of IP, user settings, location, etc.
> 15 weeks is rather short. Additionally, it's not really 15 weeks.

You're right. It's the lower bound, based on the duration of the experiment.

There have now been many, many studies all pointing in the same direction. A small selection:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Natural infection protects against Covid (incl. Alpha variant). Adjusted incidence rate ratio for covid infection - 0.159 (84% protection) and symptomatic covid - 0.074 - (93% protection) - 7 month follow up

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Patients who had 1 PCR positive tests had Hazard ratio 0.06 of further positive PCR - 94% protection - 12 month follow up.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

After 1 positive PCR, Protection against any COVID - 81.8%, symptomatic COVID - 84.5% - 6 month follow up - protection increased over time.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

seropositive patients had 94% reduction in hazard of testing positive - 8 month follow up

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034545

Adjusted risk ratio of covid infection for antibody positive healthcare workers was 0.11 (89% less likely) - 7 month follow up period. All reinfections were asymptomatic.

At this point, claiming that immunity to Covid (even against "the variants") is less than a year is an extraordinary claim. There is no reason, prima facie to presume that the results will be different for vaccines.
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Why was lambda chosen as the abstraction character in the lambda calculus? Mathematicians just pick random letters and symbols for things.
I've had success with Valerian, it is a quite mild sedative and anti-anxiety root. It's just enough to get over the pre-presentation anxiety and get in to the flow.
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Everyone at edX who helped define the future of education left about a half-decade ago. A third of the staff, including everyone who cared about learning, poor people, open, or much of anything else.

edX was overmonetized. If you want to see corruption on a grander scale, see where this $800M goes.
I worked my way through college as a mover (and came out the other side with high 5-figure debt). Many of the older guys I worked with had drug habits. I worked 16-hour days with those guys. They'd get on me for not running up stairs, for packing with too little paper around glass, for setting things down more than once. None wrote articles entitled "How to Work Hard." None knew Warren Buffet as a child (see Gates). None attended the most expensive schools, if they had they certainly wouldn't have chosen to drop out because they got bored or were unfulfilled (see Graham and Zuck). Take a look at the top 10 highest valued YC startups. All their founders came from schools with less than 10% acceptance rates.

Privilege is what I'm getting at. Having an income 300:1 your lowest paid employee is disturbing. Making millions or billions off speculative, debt-fueled VC is disturbing. Proselyting your brand of success is disturbing. Recommendation: every time a founder, investor or businessperson starts to wax poetic on virtue, look for an angle. Why do founders want to appear virtuous and hardworking? Why do we need that from them? How else can they justify making sometimes up to 50% of their companies entire payroll? How emotionally satisfying must it be for Graham and his ilk to tell you why they got what they have?

What if most of serious wealth and success is decided at birth?
So he was lucky to go through a system that had him competing against higher level talent while at a physical disadvantage. By far the best way to train at a young age. His statistically good body for football counterparts meanwhile competed at amongst themselves and with lower talent. He was lucky enough to be good enough to push past the barrier of being able to be in a situation of advantageous training. It is a very rare position that often leads to exceptional players.
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“has been shown to reduce malware by 60 percent.” is hilariously vague. The statement means absolutely nothing! 60 percent compared to what? Is the metric that's decreased the number of infections or the number of infections by unique malware? Was this 60% observed in a lab, and these measures defeat 60% of some test set of malware? Is there any reason to believe that malware won't adapt once these features are released? It is infuriating to see these kinds of vague numbers thrown about.
>Is Windows 11 even compelling enough for people to break their normal hardware upgrade schedule?

No and your average consumer doesn't care anyways. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

I was half-interested in buying a pair of these to try that with. However, an honest assessment of my ability to commit and complete it made me skip it. If this is successful and a second device (or less expensive version of this) comes out I'll reconsider.
What's wrong with your wired internet that you're considering Starlink?

It's better than rural WISPs by far... most of the time... but even compared to DSL it loses out on things like consistent latency and packet loss.

Yes, you do see the 300+Mbit spikes, but it's realistically closer to 50Mbit average - which, again, for rural areas, is really quite good.

I have it, I mostly like it, but it's still my backup/bulk transfer connection, and I keep a rural WISP for my primary work connection because it's less prone to the random glitches and hiccups that Starlink suffers, and because I have a public IP instead of CGNAT, my VPN devices and SSH connections all seem to recover a lot more reasonably from packet loss on that link than on Starlink.

For mobile use (RVs and such), absolutely, it makes a lot of sense (if you can handle the power use). But I didn't think cell roaming was enabled yet - maybe I missed something.
Musk has made clear that his intention with Starlink is to fund his Mars dreams. The upside potential of Starlink is so enormous that selling now seems premature. Maybe, when Starlink is raking in billions a month and some large fraction of the potential market is actually on board Musk could cash in and concentrate on his real goals, but right now doesn't make sense to me.
You realize when you say the word "corporation", you mean "people". Like a group of people coordinating together for a common cause. As much as people might confuse a specific Supreme Court ruling, corporations are not actually sentient entities, but just a group of human beings like any others.

And I have no interest in this neoreactionary fantasy that governments are less corrupt than corporations. The data is overwhelming that free markets are less corrupt, less polluting, and less harmful.
Awesome - but I fear maintaining the code generated by it in the future.. can the AI maintain it as well?

I am looking forward to AI testing the programs I write though. That would be awesome.
I know.. But we can dream. Also I'me sure when we first got code completion we said - "This thing won't write functions by itself."
You can go ahead and block FB before FB blocks you.

With a simple /etc/hosts update like that:

https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA

Several years without FB and its scripts anywhere.
Never regret about such decision.
In Iain M. Banks culture novels he describes an effector that manipulates matter at the quantum level. I'm thinking that being able to visualise at this level of magnification it's only a small step to manipulating matter at an atomic level.
MacOS hiding scrollbars isn't too bad.
Google trying to make all scrollbars like 1 pixel wide, that's the worst.
Dell also at least used to offer some of their Latitude laptops without webcams, probably targeting people and industries working in situations where cameras in certain areas where forbidden.
You're assuming customers will be using all of their bandwidth 24/7, no ISP / telephone / utility company works like that.
And the Amish do opt out of some taxes and benefits that almost no other group does.

So, there is clear precedent for not paying some common taxes and not using the benefits.
Terraform just does too much and is abused. Its great for simple config but quickly turns into custom modules to make things easier. Eventually those modules need to change and stuff breaks but you never know until someone trys to run it again. Then you just pray no one trys to manage their database with it.

Additionally as its put together over time if you actually had to re create the environment it would never work. I spent time automating recreating an environment and quickly stopped. Terraform is the illusion of infra as code and fails miserably at any scale.
> for some rural areas

Not just rural. I live in a medium density suburban metro and we can't get more than one provider to compete. They've divvied it up amongst themselves so they maintain a monopoly in their area.
No idea. I was not trying to make a legal argument. This was to try to convey why someone might feel ok about humans learning from their work but not necessarily about training a model.
There are two steps in the signup process. Step 1 is for basic email and password. Step 2 is for the bare minimum information necessary to find your profiles at data brokers.

We found when people skipped step 2 and then logged in, they would get this error. We fixed the bug and have made step 2 required.

Here's more info: https://help.optery.com/en/article/why-does-optery-need-so-m...
> Only the most rural of areas would use Starlink.

I mean yes? Rural and underserved areas always been the target market of Starlink in the first place. Starlink isn't attempting to target the urban market.
In my defense, dismissing him as a charlatan and not engaging with his latest news is the most effective way to combat Musk-ism. People have taken him seriously long enough and in enough numbers to give him some air of legitimacy when none is deserved.

It's the same strategy with internet trolls; you either ignore them completely, or call them out on trolling and engage no further. Musk is, in some sense, the internet's largest troll. And droves of people have taken the bait.
Yeah, I don't see any issue with Starlink getting subscribers. HughesNet has 1.3 million subscribers in the US and Canada alone. ViaSat has 600,000. There are 10x that on slow rural DSL. And that's just North America.

Demand is not going to be the problem for Starlink. If they can roll-out a service just a bit more reliable than their current beta, and they can increase their network capacity fast enough, they will have tens of millions of subscribers in a few years.
> (This was German-speaking Europe)

In which case the correct answer is "Das geht Sie überhaupt nichts an."
I would gladly pay more for Starlink JUST to spite Comcast.
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I agree. I have no need at for Starlink unless it's mobile. I would probably pay $150-200 a month for decent mobile remote internet.
Not the most rural, remember that also this is unlimited data while most carriers still shy away from "truly" unlimited data plans.

Yes 5g, more bandwidth etc so plans may become more liberal but still.

WISP for rural areas are hard to manage, not just the engineering but the marketing and customer retention, now I feel (really believe/know) is not the time to even begin to be a rural WISP where starlink and telecoms are on technological breakthroughs to literally deicentivize using you.
Is this being censored? I would think this thread would have 1000 comments by now.
SALOME: https://www.salome-platform.org/

OpenCASCADE, contraints engine lifted from FreeCAD, Python bindings that map 1:1 with the GUI (like Blender). A criminally underrated tool.
Thanks for being the person who I knew would try to make this about Java. I don't care about Java, it was a trivial example.

The rest of your post doesn't really have to do with mine. Yeah, you can cut down on boilerplate with changes to languages... duh. But in terms of conveying context there's always a tradeoff of explicit vs implicit, and one of those costs is taking the time to actually turn your mental model into a written implementation - this eases that burden.

As I said, it's a fancy autocomplete.
What about talking to a person about the previous topic while listening to another person talk about the current?
The problem is that people will naturally interpret colors on certain scales whether that was intended by the authors or not. The goal of visualization is to make the natural reaction the correct one.

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/10/16/how-bad-is-your-co...

The link above goes over some interesting plots that have very misleading color gradients.
I understand the bit about doing less payments is cheaper than doing more payments. The part that everyone is glossing over is:

"and you receive tickets at 1/2500 probability"

How do you receive these tickets? How can they be trusted? How can you guarantee they are honored? If we can receive lottery tickets in a cheap, trusted, secure manner why don't we just use the same system for the money itself?
60 percent of the time, it works every time.
> We are all nervous in job interviews. The best ones flow once they start.

I've found I'm least anxious in interviews where I don't feel like I need to get the job, e.g. at an org that's not at the top of my list, or when the desire to switch employers is not urgent or desperate[1].

If you have the time, and the experience is not traumatic, I'd encourage everyone to interview once a year (or once every 2 years) even if you're happy with your current position. At worst, you bomb out of an interview for a job you never really wanted; at best, you can a find out that the job is actually interesting (or pays more, or both). You may even get a raise and keep your old job. In any of the cases, you likely come out a little better at interviewing.

1. Which means you shouldn't wait until it's too late to switch jobs. If you see any warning signs, start sending out feelers, if you wait until you can't stand the sight of your manager (or cubicle/corporate logo), then your job search might feel urgent, which is not good if you're not a natural interviewee.
> Would you also take the 40% reduction in post-tax, post-healthcare, post-retirement pay?

Yes, and I have! What I missed most when not living in the US:

* variety of everything

* large appliances

What I missed least:

* driving/car culture

* overwork

So sadly I found I was actually a typical “consumer” who wants things that are pretty crappy for the environment (except for the car thing). I was fine with getting paid less than I would in the US because as a senior technologist, I was making way more than most of the locals and the economy was tuned to their pay.
> I mean yes? Rural and underserved areas always been the target market of Starlink in the first place. Starlink isn't attempting to target the urban market.

Are there millions of people in rural areas who will trust a US-based space ISP over local ISPs?

The thing about targeting rural areas, is that you're by definition targeting a small subset of people. People generally live in cities, on the average.
All that wealth is tied up in his shares in his companies, he doesn’t have much in the way of liquidity to fund anything and I don’t see him selling large chunks of these companies any time soon. Occasional judicious funding rounds, sure, but that’s not really him funding anything.
I'm unfamiliar with anything like that in Rust, beyond Rust's structural approach to tuples. I'd love to hear more about it, though!
"competing internet providers"
I wish this was the case. I have lived in 6+ homes in the last 15 years and I cant remember a single time I had a choice of internet provider. They seem to have an agreement amongst themselves to not compete.
Starlink isn't a replacement for Comcast if you care about latency, but it is for rural dialup and satellite Internet. And probably a whole host of new usages, such as sensors deployed to the field, etc.

edit: Okay, so folks don't like my fairly honest take on Starlink? It's a great service that's going to make a ton of money. But it doesn't replace all classes of Internet use. That's unrealistic.
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I had a very similar experience a few years ago after travelling to Rarotonga for a holiday. There was little reception for mobile data without a new sim - this turned out to be an absolute blessing. The first day or so was easy, but the next few were restless. We had explored the island, snorkelled, swam in the pool, and tried lots of the local food. We had run out of things to do.

The funny thing is, it took there being nothing to do, no phone to idly turn to, to truly start to unwind and relax. I didn't initially realise it at the time, but my body and mind had been in this constant state of stress. After pushing through that initial restlessness and that constant need to be actively doing or reading about something productive, my whole body began to feel noticeably more relaxed. The invisible state of constant stress was finally parting. Waking up later than usual, grabbing some tropical fruits and enjoying them around the pool with a light fictional book at the ready started to feel more natural and enjoyable. It started to feel like I could truly enjoy doing "nothing" and just bathe in the relaxation.

After returning home, there were many noticeable improvements to my creative thinking, productivity, and my general feeling of wellbeing.

My take away from this experience is that it is so incredible difficult to fully disconnect from day-to-day life when your phone can provide constant access to information. It's oh so easy to go on holiday but still turn to your phone and hn or reddit when idle. I highly highly recommend taking a holiday either without your phone, or without any easy access to the internet.
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The incremental note-taking approach is interesting - it's definitely a solid primitive for tracking the history of data. But it also puts an even greater burden on the surrounding features for sorting, organizing, summarizing, because now you can't just delete something that is better represented elsewhere.
Hey guys, I work on Neeva and wanted to add some more context re: US only launch. We work with partners to provide localized data for results such as weather, sports, movies and more. We're working hard to get these partnerships in place beyond the US, and we expect to launch in Canada and Western Europe within a few quarters.
How much would HFT firms pay for lower latency between world stock exchanges? I think that could be a significant source of income.
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I think you're assuming the satellites aren't oversubscribed? Generally consumer ISPs are marketed well in excess of what all customers could actually use simultaneously. The economics change somewhat if you can put 400-4000 customers on the average satellite instead of 40.
That's why this copilot won't fly. The junior programmer will not be able to spot subtle errors but will kind-of feel "productive" by some random pastes from a giant brain, which cannot be interrogated.

If anything, I see copilot generating more work for existing, senior programmers - so there you have it.
You said I was spreading doubt about vaccines during a deadly pandemic.

I have said zero about the safety of the vaccines. I have only stated the unassailable fact that they have not completed phase 3 trials.

How is telling the facts about the status of the vaccines spreading doubt?

I have taken plenty more vaccines than you, I'm sure, I'm not some anti-vaccine nutcase. I love medical technology, I love vaccines. I also love bioethics. I wish more people, like you, did too.

You say I'm afraid, and you couldn't be further from the truth. I'm more well-informed about covid than most people I interact with on a daily basis, and I live in a state that values individual autonomy, so we've experienced basically zero impact on our daily lives because of covid. Some folks used to wear masks, most folks didn't. Everything remained open, save a brief closure of our bowling alley, now thankfully back open.

I walk around without any fear whatsoever and all my local fellows seem to as well. Nobody talks about covid or really cares much about it all. Very few are vaccinated.

Life is fine.

Others are more scared. Others, like you, are trying to hide information about the vaccines. That sucks.

I hope your life improves, friend!
I agree its just the current one that affects me. We did have someone get fired from an AWS migration at my first startup but they just turned around and tried to do again. It took one year for a single application that only lived on a single server and we never did anything more advanced before we sold.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639810
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The math is more complicated than that. Oversubscription reduces the number of satellites needed while oceans increase it.
In the end this would slightly increase likelihood of such sections appearing in licenses generated by AIs.
I would think that most enterprise customers will try to run Windows 10 as long as they can too.
I've had 0 malware in probably 10 years. 60% of 0 is still 0
If we could answer those questions definitively, we could also put lawyers out of a job. There’s always going to be a legal gray area around situations like this.