skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cashing out in the short-term sounds more like what these executives generally do.

It only sounds like what they do because you only ever read stuff written by people who believe that without any evidence.

Sundar Pichai has been with Google since 2004.
https://twitter.com/MikeSievert/status/1480716872848842752

According to this it's only for people with content filters.
How do you solve the ghost writer problem? The capitalist version to cheating on your homework that we’re taught to believe is bad in academia but totally ok in the real world.
Nobody stole creds off the project owner in the left-pad incident. npm chose the needs of the many rather the few in that incident:
https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712417370686365697

which seems like very much akin to what they are doing now.
> Also you’d be offering something that’s not on the market - a 30th floor view or whatever

Does Davis have anything worth seeing? The Central Valley is all flat farmland with the dry side of some mountains in the distance.
First example that also came to my (vaguely aware) mind - seems like a clickbait title once again.
I have seen dozens (probably hundreds in my overall life) of dead bodies in the Ganges long before Covid. It's disgusting but try telling the people to change their traditions and you will cause a riot.
Well, I used the word "always" to make sure noone can argue I sometimes tell the truth. I am not sure I understand your point.
my favorite mask, the Moldex 4200 is not listed. This is the only mask that does not fog my glasses

(used to be a lot cheaper)

https://www.amazon.com/Moldex-4200N95-Disposable-Respirator-...
Not completely sure what this “phenomenon”. There’s a few things I can imagine you are insinuating but they all had simple explanations so I’m not sure.

Don’t disagree with the main theory that search quality is deteriorating. I have to use increasingly contrived queries to get anything but bullshit blog spam, and indexing seems really odd at times.
Here I was thinking "Conway's Law" was B3/S23!

https://slackermanz.com/wp-content/uploads/VID/CGOL_LTL_HROT...
You might want to think twice about the future of the Davis housing market. Remote learning is changing how students get degrees and UC schools are no exception. Online and "hybrid" classes are here to stay at every level. Who wouldn't want a morning class when all you have to do is roll over and open your laptop? This is going to seriously impact demand for housing in Davis. I'd wait and see how enrollments and housing patterns settle out before planning any project.
Are we doomed to repeat web2 history?
I suspect that these numbers are probably correct for Delta. For Omicron, the active cases are nearly uniformly distributed with respect to vaccination rates. It still helps to reduce hospitalization rates however which is good.

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
Right. Working with Node.js I assume all dependencies are on the local disk. And that makes it simple and straightforward to use "require" in Node.js.

But sometimes I'd like the same code to work also in the browser. Then I should be using ES6, but it doesn't work very smoothly with Node.js and I fear there may be complications if I have to wait (or "await") for the modules to have loaded.

The ES6 "dynamic imports" add more considerations to the mix. Surely their exports can not be used until "await" is over?

I think it would simplify things if I didn't have to choose between module-systems when I really just want to choose between sync and async.
It's hard for new couples to form, when you cannot leave your apartment
yeah i don't see it as an attack and was very surprised Github suspended his account, less so that NPM unpublished the package. It is easy to think of these platforms as unbiased repositories, but as soon as something is deemed 'wrong' suddenly you need to think what the criteria is for that decision, who makes the decision and how? Where is the line?

Is an infinite loop is the line? Updating a package to display random text without an infinite loop is crossing the line too? Who decides what _my_ OSS library is allowed to do? Can I update it just to add a banner asking for donations? How is that functionally different to random text other than intent?
I just did the 4 searches you suggested but didn’t see anything note worthy. What did I miss?
Keep in mind Marak was active in the issue tracker afterwards pretending to be fixing the "bug". Marak didn't change the description, readme, or roadmap of the package. He passed the release off as a functioning library that deliberately crashes any process that used the library. That is a Trojan.
I make a point of never doing "projects" during a recruitment process. The fact is that there are too many good opportunities out there that will not require me two spend a full day or even several days in a week to complete a job application, without compensation. Whenever I hear that there is a "project" to complete, I just tell them that I already have tons of projects to work on and pass the "opportunity".
This has been repeatedly proposed for busy airports like Heathrow. Unsurprisingly incumbent airlines who already have slots hate the idea though.

http://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/324401/heathrow-slot-auct...
It's been two and a half years since the Index launched. I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been a refresh or update for the hardware.
At least part of SF is already there, and as posted elsewhere here, at least one developer is taking a crack at using the state code as intended.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/How-one-S-F-housing-p...
my point is that these are the fat tail + survivor bias of cases where you do actually care about performance to this degree, so it probably is actually more common in practice when you're looking into it.

even though precise control is the exception, if you can't do it, you can't use your language in a lot of critical contexts (and end up linking C, Zig, Rust, etc).
You can get a rough idea by using Netflix’ impact value figure, the formula of which isn’t public but appears to be about seven times the number who watched at least two minutes of the title in the first month. (This is based on the leaked documents about Squid Game’s performance, and again, the real formula is surely more complicated. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/netflixs-squid-game-is-repor...)

Matrix was viewed about 3 million times in its opening week. Assuming it doubles that over the first month, that’d be 6M * 7 or an impact value of $42MM. If you want to be generous, multiply again by a number to account for HBO Max’s smaller size compared to Netflix, or to account for Max’s strategic importance to Warner. Either way, the contribution is significant but not enough to make Matrix 4 a hit relative to its budget.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16049954

I do wonder if this would have been considered creepy back then. Assuming such cameras weren't as prevalent as they are today, it certainly feels like people would have been creeped out if they'd found out about this.

Anyway, love the pictures! I'm glad the student decided to be creepy.
It's the airport equivalent of a land tax: making people pay for hogging scarce resources is a strong incentive to either use them or sell them off to somebody else who will.
Armchair answer: many things, probably including Homo Erectus itself.
It doesn't matter how they gauge the success internally.

They never share viewership numbers to the producers, and they don't pay by the actual viewership , they buy the property and do internal P&L on success of the buy as you say.

From the producers perspective it only matters how much Netflix paid for a movie.
these don't have filtered output, do they?
Seems nobody is really investing in that scenario. With modest, to low investment, there should also be very modest returns. By that, I mean taking less to extend runway, but then also have it all pay very nicely on take off.
Hi back atcha!

I took 6.824 under Paxos (I think we took it at the same time maybe? not sure if you were TA at that point) and then helped a friend when it switched to raft and good lord that seemed to be a worse for them.
But if you just search for “person” or “couple” you get results showing mostly white people and couples. I don’t think what you’ve observed is saying what you think it is…
For the first two, I think that black people use the phrase “white people” more than white people use the phrase “black people”, so “white people” includes black people in the results due to using quotes associated with people in the search ranking. (Whether things people have said should factor into image search is another question.)
And let's face it. 500k salaries are definitely overpaid. No one in the world other than FAANG engineers get that salary and they are definitely not the best software engineers out there.
The article mostly talks about IA (instant answers) which are notoriously hard. The recent advances in machine learning have made the technology more approachable, so startups like Kagi Search (disclaimer: founder) can also leverage latest advances in NLP and compete on this ground.

To give just a few examples:

Query 1: how many stars in the usa flag

Google: https://cln.sh/63sVzh

Kagi: https://cln.sh/bFEHsD

Pretty surprising that Google would get something like this wrong.

Query 2: when did moon explode

Google https://cln.sh/fUhdJS

Kagi https://cln.sh/5wDvXG

Both engines feature the same article but for some reason Google decides this is not fiction, and gives a (wrong) answer.

Query 3: do most rabbits have short or long ears

Google: https://cln.sh/JuOeqq

Kagi: https://cln.sh/BkZi6O

Both engines use the same article for source, but Google completely misses the context.

These examples show that a search startup has a chance to go neck-to-neck with Google and compete even in technology as sophisticated as instant answers. We invested considerable resources in the Kagi Search AI capabilities, discussed in some detail here https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html

What is mind boggling though from a product management perspective is that Google had nearly a decade head start and a cash purse of hundreds of billions of dollars to get this right.

To be fair, it is likely that the vast majority of queries are answered correctly, but only the outliers get the public attention. Also Kagi is not without its own share of silly mistakes too, but just being able to be considered in the same basket as Google is already a huge thing for us.
Well

I did try (2) for awhile with some success. You basically vet everything you import.

This generally follows the same rules of supply chain validation expected _and common_ in other industries where people actually give a crap about what they are doing.

In the case of large projects, especially those with a solid track record of testing and security issue management, the vetting is organizational. You don't need to read every line of Kafka (though you should, as I did, actually look through it to see what you're getting into), as an example, at least today.

But for smaller projects, just like with smaller vendors, you need to go deeper. You do need to read the code. Then you look at their issue tracking and see if they have any concept at all of quality, sanity, security notices, what their maintainer attitude is, and so on. You definitely read the code. If you're sloppy, you at least read through a good sample of the code. Again, diligence - you have the obligation to your downstream to know what you are getting into.

This is no different than the vendor management you expect in pretty much every supply chain that you interact with. Food, cars, medicine, pharmaceuticals, building materials, heavy machinery, embedded software in medical devices, and so on. Software has gotten away with complete negligence for a long time and instead of addressing it, the common practice has gotten worse and worse. At some point, we are going to accidentally kill someone.

Then, on top of that, you lock it down. You mirror it, you pin it, you make an active plan to monitor the project to make sure you are aware if it is abandoned, hijacked, deleted, etc. You take responsibility for dealing with these possibilities. You mitigate immediate threat by not pulling random crap live when you build. You further make sure you partition your system such that code you have not classified as high quality has a reasonable blast radius and security boundaries.

But whatever, let's say you're a typical valley company that operates like a psychopath and you don't care about that. What companies should be worried about is liability. Yes, most of the security activities for most SaaS and other SW is laughable and mostly theater and checklists. But there is liability nonetheless. After all, you are about to represent it as high quality software and you are taking on the liability. No judge in the world is going to let you go with the "but it was this javascript we pulled in, not ours" excuse.

We built quite substantial systems using this approach, and it was important in the domain that we were working in to have done so. It is not without hassle and cost.

Really, what are we talking about here? It's _too expensive_ or _too difficult_ to have even the slightest quality verification of software? The industry is a complete joke if that is true.
Thanks for posting this.

I'm grateful for the images of predecessors, captured when they were going about their daily lives. t looked like they were in the main happy to be alive.
It's a norm to see mothers riding two children on a bike here in Tokyo. Grocery stores are typically in walking distance, so no need for the bike ride for that.

Note that reliance on cars leads to grocery stores not being within walking/biking distance, and less cars (and denser cities) leads to more livable cities.

The goal is to make it possible to bike places safely, which makes it easier to transition from reliance on cars to better forms of transportation. No one is suggesting that we switch everything over to bikes right now.
Would it not be easy to stop the spread of intimate images through your platform?

If you have a platform for "intimate" images maybe have a record on file that shows everyone is of age and consents. If an image, or video providence can not be confirmed you don't put it up for consumption. There is no shortage of "intimate" images and it would not present a hardship or be a barrier to entry to those that want to produce or consume the content. Please, explain how it is ethical to do otherwise.
I mean, I'm not an expert by any means, but the link you shared also says "Myocarditis is seen much more commonly in people who become infected with COVID-19 than in people who are vaccinated. A preliminary study from the United States(link is external) found the rate of myocarditis in young men after COVID-19 is approximately 45 cases per 100,000 infections"... So, a higher incidence among people with infections than vaccinations, so if you're suggesting to just let everyone get infected... Anyway, I think it's really difficult to weigh the risk when we're dealing with such small numbers (0.045% vs 0.01%), and we don't know all the data.
> Liar's Paradox doesn't have a name.

"Liar's paradox" is the "name" I discovered in this list today, to describe this kind of paradox. It has a wikipedia page, and pages in other encyclopaedias under this title. So I guess this is the most recognized name for it.
Industry has research jobs too.
You can buy cheesecloth masks on amazon. They aren’t really any more comfortable though than a surgical mask.
The one that causes repeated flamewars on HN?
In Figure 3 you can see what looks like a webshell. They probably found
a way to upload php files to the server which allowed them to do anything.

Alternatively, they might have guessed the password and then uploaded the file from the web gui.
Almost nobody turned if off. And, to answer your question: If your history shows hundreds of queries for Java, PHP, and Ruby, odds are your query about Perl or Crystal or Go isn't about the species or stone or game.
My process.

1) Ugh, they cheated. How dumb.

2) No, wait, that's clever. I like it.

3) Oooh, it's that perennial solution of thinking with orthogonality.

4) Wait, what? The golden ratio's in there?! No. Way! That's so cool. And the solution it's some random garbage, but pretty regimented. Neat-o!
I thought about starting a company, but that's not where my energy is, it's doing the science. Everything I do is permissively licensed open source (though if I had a chance to work on awesome rendering in a proprietary product I would not turn it down).

I'll also add, I looked into academia and talked to some people about steps in that direction, for example seriously considering taking on teaching a class at UC Berkeley. But I decided that the daily grind of academia was not for me. I think I get to spend a larger fraction of my time actually working on my problems at Google than I would at a university.
Will this attract people who try to game the application and the interview process just to get in? Does this in effect force YC to adjust their interview process and possibly make it harder for anyone to get in? I wonder if there are unforeseen side effects beyond just the increased figure.
It’s funny, as someone with a child’s understanding of cavemen, I sneer when I read the question. “Isn’t it possible,” I think, “that as nomads, they simply wandered up out of there by accident?” I think any article on this topic should start with why that’s not possible, for the benefit of other children and cavemen like me!
But let's not pretend the original maintainer did all of the work or owned all of the copyright. There were a ton of contributors to color, and some dude actually had more lines of code edited than the original maintainer:
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commits/master

and faker.js seems to be more or less a port of a ruby library which was a port of a perl library.
That's a real trove of information!

I see there are no cloth masks tested. I'd love to know how useful they are (or can be) as I much prefer being able to reuse my masks.

Edit: just realised that both Type and Style can be cloth and the cloth ones are presumably all under Style. All of them failed :(
The prohibition is against eating pig, not benefiting from it
I read a dozen of these names to a friend just now and she said, "This is genius! They must have let the snowplow crews name their own plows. After all, who is going to take better care of their machine, the crew who drives Snowplow 437 or the crew who drives Clearopathra?"

This made me curious: who did come up with these names? Was it top down from the DOT? Or did they let the crews name their plows?
>Minor inflation? Look at the cost of food and housing

Housing costs have roughly doubled in the past decade (not accounting for inflation; if you account for that, it's only by 50%). Bitcoin has, on multiple occasions, changed by that same factor of two in the span of a month. Anyone who thinks cryptocurrencies represent anything other than a volatile investment vehicle at the present moment is not living in reality.
The English seem divided on this, which I do not understand.
> There’s an abundance of supply of people with masters degrees in machine learning? How’s that possible?

I don't know for ML, but there are almost 12k Masters CS degrees awarded per year and 1.1k PhDs. If my university is any indication, then there's a good portion of those that are ML or doing some sort of ML in their research. But even if it was just 10%, that's a lot of people per year that are being added. This is just the US btw.

https://datausa.io/profile/cip/computer-science-110701
>Alternatives that require you to reveal your identity (via a phone number), or to reveal your whole social graph/usage patterns (by being organized around a single actor in the middle knowing about everything and everyone in the network)?

No. Matrix and Tox come to mind.
But veiled implications of some kind of media or government conspiracy during an election year has a place on HN? Based on your 42 days of residence here?
They can just mess with the Tiktok algorithm. i’m 100% sure there is lots of content that will increase birth rate.
We owe dogs a great debt for helping humanity for many thousands of years.
The assumption here is that the entire world uses western naming conventions, there are many cultures where people are given one or five names or whatever number, and western society (or our idea of what a name is) is forcing them to conform.

These are not always 'arbitrary naming whims'.
With OPenComputer on 1.7.10 we call out to a compiler .so library for the Lua interpreter which I assume could do floating poin correctly.
I'm pulling for ya!

Have you been doing at-home dialysis or at a facility?
The reasons people seem to be dancing around is censorship. Woke ideology on one side and the CCP on the other. That’s an extremely narrow area to work in.

I don’t see this movie as an outlier. TV and Film have been in trouble since BLM and now with China buying AMC, the prospects don’t look good.

As as a (former) movie goer I’ve seen nothing but shit for the last 2 years. I now suspect shit is the new normal. I’m not paying for shit… it’s that simple. In other words, I agree with you.
At least for the "complete discretion", California has the "Housing Accountability Act", which roughly says cities have 60 days to approve developments that contain 20% low-income housing. If they deny it, it must be for an "objective, quantifiable, written development" policy.

It's not much, requiring cities to have their housing rules written down ahead of time. But it is enough the organizations like CaRLA are having some success suing cities for capriciously denying housing.

https://carlaef.org/category/legal-action/housing-accountabi...
I think you can just do more MFN SAFEs for small follow-on, if an investor is willing (maybe not though if there is no discount)
I guess because it rolls off the tongue better?
> People wanting to "abolish work" may rather leech on society, it is a consequence of social media brainwashing: gambling, crypto, FIRE, 4hww, etc. These concepts have wide scale, harmful implications for the future of humanity

Leech on society... I think you've got this backwards. The "leech on society" is all rent-seekers.

Maybe we should ban landlords, seems they're pretty leechy by just holding onto a residence so they can make people who can't really afford it, pay them just for the privilege of having a bed to sleep in....
>It is an incredible mess, and no single Google product is as good as Hangouts was in 2015.

100%.

Google Chat is an absolute shitshow, they replaced the quite mature Hangouts with this junk which still has glaring, obvious bugs everywhere.

All those smart people who must have worked on it, they must have some ridiculous structural inefficiencies inside Google to think that is worthy of shipping. It's hot garbage.
Table only shows mask names on mobile. Don’t be surprised if your announcement doesn’t have the impact you wanted it to. You need a website that does its job on mobile.
This is something that has enraged me for years.

If a household has two breadwinners instead of one, then it could be twice as wealthy, no? NO! Nowadays most households need two breadwinners, just to scrape by.

When I was a kid, I welcomed automation; robots, computers, machines. I thought these things would help us, and free us all from wage slavery. That's not what happened; the automation certainly increased our productivity, but that just ended up meaning that we were expected to produce more for the same reward.

Automation should have meant that we could all be free. Didn't work out like that. Automation has disappointed me.
I did not agree with regulation until this post on hacker news.

The comments here have convinced me that the industry is basically beyond self help.
New Braincare Startup
"Do what I mean not what I say" becomes Very Interesting™ when politics are involved!