skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company status in the UK seems to be 'dissolved':
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

Seems to be active in Singapore though?
Why stop only at product imports? If I “import” a service done off-shore, should that energy be counted somehow? Well, it depends on the reason you’re asking the question.
I think we'll see a big rise in phishing attacks if this comes to pass. Unlike physical SIMs where you can move them about yourself, you often have to call support to change an eSIM. So, mobile companies are going to have to make it even easier to change eSIMs. And it's not like mobile providers are known for security. T-Mobile gave up my personal details to the world along with 50 million others a few months back.
Google's featured snippets is a waste of screen real estate and time.
You can also use Syncthing and the merge function! It comes in very handy when two devices have made changes to the password database file and you end up with merge conflicts :D
I’m far from a proponent of the big media companies but isn’t this argument basically “my theft is okay because they’ve stolen too”? Arguing that those companies are abusive seems like a much stronger argument for watching something else or voting for legal reforms, not taking advantage of other people’s work without compensation.
My carrier in Canada has one-time use eSIM tokens that you can only buy in-store and only from select stores and it costs four times as much as an actual SIM card (20$ for an eSIM token QR code vs $5 for SIM card). If you need to use the eSIM on another phone, you need to buy another 20$ QR code.
Oh man this brings back memories of doing tech support back in the day. All those calls of people complaining about "slow speeds" we'd adjust the modem init string to report the port speed rather than the actual connection speed and people were so happy to see that 56k number.
I'm also in a co-working space. Mine has two main rooms, one is a free for all and the other is a silent area. I'm in the silent area, and if I need to take make a call I take my laptop to the other side so as not to disturb anyone. I get very irritated by office noises, and this works pretty well for me.
Your description immediately reminded me of Wikipedia. It's a shame these good projects fall to these levels.
Digital Audio Basics: Audio Sample Rate and Bit Depth
I am not sure that's true anymore. Every single application to work remotely that I know of (including mine[*]) has been approved.

That said, most people are choosing to continue being based at whatever office they were based pre-COVID and will return to office once the public health situation permits (some already have been choosing to come to the office, though the situation is obviously highly location-dependent and fluid).

[*] In my case to relocate to an office of my choosing, though the outcome would have been the same had I applied to permanently WFH.
Look, FOSS is great. But FOSS fundamentalism is not (perpetrated by those who refuse to use any proprietary software).
> I don’t see anyone being an effective leader by only sticking around for less than 2 years. Having tenures less than 2 years especially at senior roles doesn’t give a lot of positive feelings of leadership in my opinion.

This is an awful mindset and one wish would just get deleted forever from all the memory of all humans for good.

I've been trying to find a senior dev position for the last ~20 months and most gigs I only lasted 3 months and that was because all employers (except one) didn't adhere to the agreed upon contract because let's face it, how will I enforce it?

So I was left with a few CTOs asking me why am I job hopping and they didn't believe me that I busted my arse working to prove myself on every single gig I landed in the mentioned period but was given super unfair conditions and deadlines and was met with expectations that the most senior dev in their company couldn't adhere to.

So please, do consider that what you say is only one side of the coin. I don't know if it was bad luck or me emitting the wrong signals during interviews; likely the latter because Occam's Razor says so. But even if that's the case, I feel I didn't deserve the skepticism that was projected towards me. The interviewers came to the interview already assuming that I am a job hopper. It is not fair.
I imagine that it's inherently easier to create a fake voice that's convincing over a grainy phone line, than it is to make a convincing deep fake video.

Maybe big tech orgs(including Adobe) don't want to risk the liability/PR fallout.
> Even puny single-precision floating point operations are accurate to something like 7 decimal digits and have a dynamic range of hundreds of dB. According to the spec sheet, the appliance only uses 6-bit inputs and 8-bit outputs, so the relative errors are probably on the percent level. This makes it hard to believe that any signal will propagate through something like a DNN without completely drowning in noise.

Maybe you aren't aware, but half-precision (16 bit float) is already well-established in the AI community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format. In context single-precision isn't all that puny!

And there have already been successful experiments with stronger quantization, like 8-bit neural nets, or even 1-bit (!) neural nets. There is a lot of evidence that neural networks can be very resilient to quantization noise.
Fast, excellent customer support.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_eExHpTZI

There is a link in the description of the video you shared to an extended version showing more how the animations were created from videos.
> Admittedly, much of the most important implementation work happened in big tech companies, or occasionally startups. Not in academia

> - Rust, which successfully applied a lot of lesser-appreciated academic ideas including affine types.

There's some scepticism going round about a model of technological innovation where academics invent an idea and engineers implement it. While I accept that affine types were known to academics, I recall a precursor to them existed in the form of C++ unique pointers. I'm wondering whether the Rust creators reinvented affine types independently, instead of learning of them from the academic literature.

Also, maybe a better question is how beneficial the literature on affine types was to the Rust creators.
Mentioned research project

P2P Models

https://p2pmodels.eu/about/

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2RFGSF0Rf9k
This is why my community moved over to Discord; our IRC channels were dead, even the forums are slow. When switching over to Discord, we had a great deal of new users and a lot of older users who have since switched to Discord jumped back on.
> Have they ever heard of padding? And colours?

my first reflex whenever I see a website with tons of paddings and colours is ctrl-w. gimme those win9x UIs please !!!
Nice, I'm using Clickhouse to build Luabase[0]. I saw "ClickHouse cluster support" on your roadmap, are you just using a single node right now? How are you handling persistent storage?

0 - https://luabase.com/
At least at a high level, this sounds a lot like Avalanche? Each node tells their neighbors about something and eventually a phase transition is passed that makes it super difficult for anyone to convince anyone something different happened? (Which itself claims to be revolutionary but has always felt like an example of an Ising model to me, which others have used for consensus.)

My biggest concern, at a lower level, is the mechanism used to try to get away from this algorithm having "turns"--which the real world does not have as there is no shared clock due to distance effects (which is made all the worse due to the Internet not satisfying triangle inequality)--seems to rely on a fixed diameter and some timing assumptions that squick me (as someone who always wants to find asynchronous solutions).
> Whole days will go missing because of a lack of effective communication

A friend in the construction industry has been dealing with this since COVID WFH started. He works with a lot of different architects, designers, suppliers, and so on that have to coordinate work. He also has to track the costs of mistakes and extra time lost due to drawing issues, errors, missed change orders and so on.

As soon as COVID WFH started, the rate of errors spiked upward. It didn’t decline until companies brought their employees back into the office. He now goes out of his way to work with companies that have gone back to in-office work because it’s the simplest and most predictable way to reduce the amount of money he loses to simple errors.
I read through the paper when the first draft was published on Arxiv a few weeks ago. It's a very neat algorithm and there seems to be a cool underlying concept here, but I wasn't quite able to make it practical.

This algorithm requires a lot of messages. E.g. if you have four nodes positioned in a line and an action is starting at the end, it will need in total 15 messages (A sends 4 messages to B; B sends 3 messages to both A+C; C sends 2 messages to both B+D; D sends one message to C). And in general what happens is that as the action is being propagated to the boundary of the graph, the current nodes keep "heart beating" to each other: They continue sending messages to each other which doesn't contribute to any specific exchange of information (other than staying in sync).

In addition this is heavily round-based (the nodes only progress once they've received responses from all neighbors) which means that one slow node ("straggler") can stall everything.

I'm super interested if it's possible to expand on the ideas in the paper though!
Did they give you a reason that they are pulling the plug? Was it because your fraud numbers are too high or something?
This same thing happened to a startup I confounded on a Friday afternoon with Chase Payment Services (Paymentech). It was because our fraud numbers had breached 1% which was their line in the sand fraud limit.
We switched to Braintree in a few hours, we already had that code built as a backup.
You are fundamentally mistaken about what "the rule of law" is. The rule of law is not based on "agreement" but enforcement. Even the veneer of agreement is based on enforcement. Historically, this has taken the form of enforced religion. Today, enforced school attendance serves a similar role.
> K&R are not the last word on this. They made their comment in 1978, and now it's 2021, and computing is very different.

Yes, but K&R back then are relevant to refuting GP's contention that

>> C was always considered a high-level language.
Problem with this is that you don't want to just work in an office, but also have other people from the company work with you at the office. It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys also work remote or not.

Anyway, at this point of the pandemic, I'd still not feel comfortable having lunch with coworkers in a closed space. I just prefer to have lunch myself alone, or at home, than risking getting infected.
Web3 is MUCH MORE than that!! Hope you get to know their benefits!
For me it was the other way around. The first book was so bad that I stopped reading fiction all together because I realized there are more important things I can do with my limited time.
Presumably Apple executives, by virtue of working for a global company, are more likely than average to use dual-SIM or swap between SIMs when travelling. Don't they see that for a large segment of their existing market not having this feature might make it a deal-breaker when upgrading?
Thank you, I enjoyed playing the Atari ST version of PoP many years ago, I remember it as one of the best games of the time!
In my experience slack/discord are close to unusable when you have a really bad internet connection (for example on certain trains).
They will pretend to send your message, but it will not actually go through (if you even manage to start slack/discord in the first place).

Mosh is the only thing that actually works in those cases.
Would this generate less heat? Heat is still a bottleneck in some ways right? What about size? Can we get smaller?

Would we need semiconductors anymore?
Everyone can tear down a straw man.

It's more along the lines of "Fred, you exceed all our expectations but we're worried that you haven't been keeping up with the trade skills in your area due to being in only one company and likely been way too cozy there to evolve your skills".
For those saying there are many people working in office now (I've been remote for the last 2 years without an office to go into), are your offices requiring employees to wear masks in office? Are coworkers having lunch together?

There are definitely some things I miss about having the option to go into an office, but I think any enjoyment I may have derived from that in the past would be negated if myself and coworkers were masked at all times, and ate lunch separately.

I do think that's the responsible thing to do though. Unless working with a very small group of people, I imagine that would be the expectation for in-office workers now (especially with the Omicron variant spreading). Which makes me dislike the idea of working in-office even more.
Block their ads and telemetry which you should be doing already. Stop feeding the machine.
> It's pretty bad - nobody is really doing it.

I'm curious how you came to that conclusion.

Messo's question above made me curious, so I just did a quick query on the database of Mailhardener. >99% of email coming from Gmail is delivered over IPv6 (from ~10k samples).

This appears to be provider specific though. For example: Yahoo seems to mail exclusively over IPv4, Zoho also IPv4. Most exchange based services appear to prefer IPv6. Microsoft 365 also uses IPv6.

So your conclusion doesn't really reflect what I am seeing in our database. Obviously, we process mostly DMARC reports, so maybe regular email is more IPv4 biased to support mail services that are not IPv6 capable.
Here's something better that doesn't use TeX and is fully WYSIWYG:

http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html
I have a similar system but take advantage of prefix-search rather than Ctrl+r

For commands that I reuse semi-frequently I set an environment variable so that I can easily find them with prefix searching. So for example I sometimes pin IPFS paths to Infura so I have this command in my history. I can then type pin=<Up> and recall that command (until it drops off the end of my shell history).

pin= r curl -fiXPOST "https://ipfs.infura.io:5001/api/v0/pin/add?recursive=true&arg=$(c)"
By choosing Discord, you also lock out users with accessibility needs

And by choosing Sourcehut, you deprive yourself of anything resembling
usability.
>le technology le bad

This is the most boomer thing I read on this platform and that says a lot.
Why your pricing model might be wrong
"The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences."
You're just inventing all this. A whole back and forth argument in your head where you invented both sides.
Physically it will require more energy to extract carbon from the air later. But "cost" is a funny, human construct. We just don't know how much it will cost, because we don't have carbon capture at scale yet. As with everything in economics this is just guessing about the future.
A 250 meter long wall 11 meters tall is far from "triumph of engineering" even in 1200. "Drainage channels" are far from "evidence of a sophisticated civilisation". They could even be naturally formed by water along the unpaved ground and other parts of the world had sewer systems a lot earlier. I could go on and talk about 10k people and so on...

Why? Why do they feel the need to do this?
One important difference is that opium addiction in China hurt the addicts in China (and indirectly everyone else in China). Fossil fuel addiction through climate change hurts everyone.

The merchants of the EIC stayed away from using opium themselves because being an opium addict is plainly pretty bad for you. Being a fossil fuel addict, though, can be very pleasant - ski trips to the Alps every month, fast cars, fresh produce flown in out of season etc. The costs will be carried mostly by other people.
Gigabit is not a decent connection, it’s an excellent connection. Many people can’t afford or don’t even have access to that speed.
The article is from 2017.

Would be great if that could be added to the headline here.
> its not like they're some big evil company

Unsure how you want to quantify this, and I'm curious what makes you say that. Are you affiliated with Discord in some way? I'm not trying to accuse you.

Even if it is true and Discord is some benevolent company when it comes to their long term intentions (which we can't know): The thing with companies is that their leadership is always subject to change.

It's not like we have any shortage of companies betraying the trust of their users, leaking data due to either user hostility or negligence, becoming shitty or "evil", or even turning their product into something entirely different.
Stop buying Apple products.
> Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans

Historically, this was true but no longer. There is a fraction of the life that the ocean used to support. A great source is the book Once and Future World, which describes captains' logs before steamship. They reported that ships at sea would be stopped in the middle of the ocean, far from land, by schools of fish that densely packed. Today, people are happy to see a whale if they visit the coast. Not long ago, people could see whales as far as the eye could see all day long some times of year.

Also, to call the waters "oxygen-starved" in response to climate change misses the cause and effect. Specifically, human behavior is causing these things. They aren't just happening. If we change our behavior, we can change the results.

Clarifying the cause and effect helps clarify what to do about it besides passively watch it happen.
Didn't get there, and also had no way to know it _was_ there because of this stupid doodad.
Nonprofits gotta solicit donations. NPR does this, PBS' infamous pledge week does this. This isn't "falling," it's an old practice.
heat is just power. 10x less power is 10x less heat.
It’s Appfleet that have just filed accounts. (edit: and to reply to the person saying about numbers - turnover numbers stated are the payment processing fees, not the amounts actually transacted - see note 5 in the accounts)
Serious question: is the game beatable in 60 mins?
I can finally pass levels by just changing the url query
Then, thanks a lot. I spent countless hours on this very version !
Tell me your economic class without telling me your economic class.
YC Mock Interview for Y Combinator – TestRigor
extremely well done, even the same quirks when jumping up and not directly under the edge!
Destroying people's ability to navigate and understand the structure of a text is one of the reasons this kind of thing is terrible for users.
Did you reread your sentence and noted the contradiction? You literally wrote
"Please don't tell other people what to do"
You missed the part where wherever Apple goes everybody else will follow in couple of years.
It's a little ironic that this application actually does not run on Windows[1] apparently due a bug in a library[2] unfixed since 2018, which is owned and maintained by a $83B publicly-listed company[3], last updated 14 days ago, but unwilling to fix that little cross-platform bug.

[1]: https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84/issues/13

[2]: https://github.com/uber-go/zap/issues/621

[3]: https://github.com/uber-go
There are some people that view these as a solution to Proof of Work energy use

I’ve been researching OPUs for this purpose, as in, the concept of optical processors only came to my attention because of the people looking for an edge in mining and energy use.

From what I can tell, it could only be a stopgap or decade
long solution to PoW, as people would just hoard these over time till the energy use was the same

But any slowdown is good

Good for sellers of OPUs though
I laughed :D
This article could have been 1/8th of its length and the message would still be clear. Modern writing is vague, overly detailed and inelegant.
I'm not the person that you responses to, but Home Assistant offers most of the automation capabilities that the Alexa platform does. I haven't yet looked into the speech-to-text interface alternatives described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561452
I never used !! and similar. However my CLI is set to keep the cursor at the front when pressing <Up> to go through history (for easy prefix searching) so I can just use `<Up>sudo ` to get the same result and I like seeing the full command before I run it.
Aperture fouling (dirt / grime) seems like it would make such a service flaky. Aside from needlessly low data caps, the cell network is pretty great for road trip connectivity. High bandwidth intermittent connectivity would be nice for self-driving car sensor log offload.

Inside my home it would be cool to have 10 gbps to my laptop, but I don't have a real use case where that's meaningfully better than the 500-800 mbps that I already get with WiFi.
(shameless plug) I work at Yieldstreet. Our company is filled with people just like yourself. Our policy is 3 days a week from the office and 2 days remote, so obviously we tend to attract people who like working in an office - in person collaboration, grabbing lunch, etc.

We have engineering offices in NYC, Miami, Boston, Malta, and Brazil (Porto Alegre and Florianópolis). Many open engineering roles (recently raised a $150 million Series C) https://www.yieldstreet.com/careers/
> It looks like an Instagram post, except it has more value - because the post belongs to Instagram, and the NFT you created belongs to you. It's saved on the blockchain, so no one can delete it.

Which NFT generator are you using. In most of them the photo is not stored in the blockchain because it's too expensive. It only stores the URL of a webpage that host your photo.

> It's very much like an official document. I thought - why not use this technology to secure a connection with another person? Why not make marriage 3.0 using NFT?

What happens if I want a divorce?

How do you prevent double spending?
I recently donated a three year old Samsung to my neighbor for his beer because it would not stop icing and leaking inside the refrigeration area. Supposedly a revised part fixes it. The revised part was installed...still crap. $2000 POS

I replaced it with a new frig using an old basic design from GE. $800

I should have known better.
Postgres? Seriously, for one-off playing around? Just use Airtable and you can do all the filtering and nesting you want. Plus then you can share it with us and we can collaboratively contribute.
For me with Chrome on Windows, I can just scroll to the bottom and it's sat there doing nothing but with a "Waiting for ..." in the status tab. Possibly it's just because the server is busy, or because they're DDOSing their own server by keeping all these connections open, or maybe it just doesn't work. It's kind of hard to tell.

EDIT: After refreshing the page with F5, I then saw it working, and upon scrolling to the end of the document, there was no waiting status message. But looks like it still needs work with timing issues / cold cache load.
https://www.citatum.org/book/Intuition_Pumps_and_Other_Tools...

You can`t do much carpentry with your bare hands and you can`t do much thinking with your bare brain.

- Bo Dahlbom, quoted by Daniel Dennett in his book

"Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_mY54hjM0 (talk by Daniel on Google Campus)
Probably not... but both ways are fine.