skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, I usually click "refuse" or accept the very minimum possible, if it doesn't look fishy.

If there's too much work, like I have to uncheck every one of a zillion boxes, or if there's the trustarc or what's-it-called that needs to "work on it" for 10 minutes, I just leave the site.

I do this in the hopes that someone in marketing looks at the stats of people specifically refusing, takes note, and maybe comes up with something less invasive. Or at least realizes there's a market for that.

There is one site on which I don't do this, jeuxvideo.com. It's a French video game review site. They present a choice: "accept tracking" or "pay for a subscription". I only go there once in a blue moon, so a subscription wouldn't make sense for me. Plus, their ads aren't particularly intrusive (with UBlock on, but on MS Edge - which I barely use, since it runs on my gaming PC) so I figure it's fair.

Most sites that present the cookie banned don't usually have a subscription-based alternative.
Did HD-DVD use Java like Blue-Ray?

No, that was one of the value propositions to HD-DVD: you don't need to update your disc player in order to watch your new movie. Which apparently was a common occurrence in the early days, in that your player needed an update before your player can play that latest release. HD-DVD users were like, "why does a DVD player need an Ethernet port? Uh, oh..."
I've tried to apply to federal positions for years. I won't even get so much as a "fuck off".

However when I apply to commercial, I'm snapped up in weeks. The most recent move was to a contractor. Again, 2 weeks to hire. 3 interviews total 2h. I have no degree, but my work expertise speaks for itself. Commercial sees that. The feds dont seem to care.

It is with a contractor for the federal govt. $150k/yr. Generous benefits. But being a contractor, it is without federal protections, without school debt forgiveness, and others.

Whatever. I prefer to stay for the length of the project. In this case, it's 2-3y. Would I work for the feds again? Absolutely. Will I even get a response when applying? Hardly.
Yeah the house I signed a contract on in November was about 25% cheaper the previous year, though it's gone up another $20k since then (the same house in the same community)
First, yes, it was impossible: most people in the country were legally ineligible to vote.

That aside, though: voting in the 19th century looked nothing like it does today. Most of what we think of as modern Democratic voting (the secret ballot, registration, etc) are Progressive Era reforms.
Thank you for being so patient and kind. I am pretty slow in my thinking (low IQ), so it really helps when someone, point by point, explains to me why I am wrong in a compassionate and unassuming way. And I am glad I could entertain you with my stupidity along the way :).

I will work on not talking out of place, and not being so worried about climate change, but I do understand that I am in this position in the first place because of my moral and rational faults.

My best wishes to you and your loved ones, may you continue to find peace and stay dry (well, as you explained, you'll probably stay dry either way, still, the sentiment still stands).
and

https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/raw/main/assets/Mo...
If you ever meet a developer doesn't like making trade offs show them the door, it's basically all we do.
Look at the numbers

What numbers? You just gave a single anecdote that doesn't even support what you were saying.
I have the same problem. But it seems like a very nice puzzle!
Infamously, Georgia provides more early voting access than much of New York.
New AI-Driven Algorithm Can Detect Autism in Brain “Fingerprints”
I agree. It still sucks to look and see how waiting a few months can mean a $400+ payment difference.
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Well, special in two senses: First, in the canonical formula for Gaussians, sigma appears directly. For the case at hand, the confidence limits associated with 1 sigma, 2 sigma etc. in physics match exactly the area under the curve for a Gaussian integrated +- said sigma around the mean. That's were that connection actually comes from, and a physicist will always think: Within 1 sigma? That's 67%.

Hearing 99+-3% is a very strong indication that the person used an incorrect way to determine the uncertainty, most likely by taking the square-root of counts. But you are right, if the efficiency would be around 50%, that approximation is not so bad.
I think you better gave examples of government being inefficient. But also I was to add that there are places that do milk the government. Both of these can be true. It's not homogeneous. But you're right that we should be more nuanced and it's good to have an insider perspective.

For a more funny example of your point, I like The Pentagon Wars' Bradley tank evolution

https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA
Cofounder here. Thanks, appreciate it! What platforms are your coworkers on? You're welcome to try it if you'd like or I can let you know when we support those platforms. If interested LMK at alexander [at] remotion [dot] com
Nice to see this sort of thing coming back - it was a problem I worked on for a couple of years during my MSc / PhD.

I think that there is probably a lot of scope for this type of approach. IIRC a key issue is around tuning the Genotype -> Phenotype mapping algorithm so that you start covering the space of potential network architectures reasonably efficiently while maintaining an ordered enough fitness landscape to enable the genetic algorithm to search reasonably efficiently.

I really should try and find the time to think a bit about this again...
I would be interested to hear from any HN readers who live or work in SF nowadays. How does this tweet compare to your lived experience?
> No NATO missiles were being deployed in Kharkiv that I know, so this was not Cuba

You must not be counting the thousands of TOW, Stinger, Javelin, and Switchblade Drone/Missiles that NATO is sending to Ukraine.
In general, computers just aren't that bad. Yes, it's wasteful, but... even pegging a CPU core for a few hours just doesn't use that much electricity. If you drove a car into the office and then turned off every computer in the building and drove home for the weekend, the commute burned more energy than you saved. I used to play with my laptops trying to get power use down, but eventually realized that I could turn off a light or lower the heat 1 degree and save at least as much power.

> SaaS is a bottomless hole where you throw your processing without thought of power consumption, just write a check and make it go away.

On the contrary, this is the best case - energy is priced in, you pay by the CPU-second, all the incentives are perfectly aligned. That it's so cheap probably demonstrates that it just isn't that big a deal (we can argue about effective subsidies, but at least Google is using enough renewable power that I doubt it).
The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14
I think you're talking about the businesses' motivations and I'm talking about the random EU bureaucrats that imposed the regulations. Despite how skeptical I am of most government interventions, I'd tend to assign benign intentions on the bureaucrats part here as I'd have to guess that they genuinely wanted to do something good. But like any bureaucrats sitting in their ivory towers imposing rules on others, the majority of their rules have unintended consequences, can be taken advantage of, are usually designed by committees that even when well-intentioned produce a mish-mash of inconsistent ideas, etc.
why not work with an innovative contractor supporting the government instead?
I agree it is a psychological issue, but have a polar opposite conclusion.

What we are seeing is the result of general disillusionment in our social systems coupled with moral post-modernism.

People have become so obsessed with the flaws in our economic, social, and legal system that they accept anarchy and mob rule. The worst cases in our current system are widely publicized, and not viewed as an area for improvement but reason for abandonment . The whole system of government is not seen as a slow march towards progress, but an inherently racist institution which serves primarily to oppress.

under such a world view, criminals are the victims, and and those trying to improve the existing systems are villains.
Food52 lays off 20 people in company restructuring
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Well, in my book, if someone promises X and does Y and pretend that X was never mentioned, then it's a lie, not a lure. Besides, isn't "lure" a "lie" that we are trying to cover as a "lure" in order to feel better with ourselves?
Well the JWT has encrypted info that is verified on each call, so there is extra security.
I agree. Still sucks to see that I'm paying $400+ by waiting just a few months lol
distrobox to manage the container: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Then just install XFCE and tiger VNC server inside it. Using VNC makes it easy to connect into a little isolated session that has its own theming, etc. vs. trying to send geany to my native X11/wayland server (which wouldn't theme it like windows 95).

You could also just run it in a browser window with a VNC HTML bridge, this would be a good base for that: https://github.com/accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-g3

The easiest way to get Chicago95 setup is to run its GUI installer python script. I don't try to script it in a dockerfile or container setup.
Heck, I remember browsing public ftp sites out of boredom.
Completely OT, but switching to a Firefox tab with TFA loaded takes noticeably longer than switching to other tabs (about 3 seconds vs less than a second).
FWIW good things come in 3s and innovation could roll up under Impact.
The value is market driven.
Watching it again with that in mind, I think you're right. Now that I read other comments where he said that MI3 will still be canon.
Alas, I must heartily disagree. Law has never been a programming language and oh-my-lord thank fuck for that, because it would be an inhuman unjust catastrophe that we'd have to throw away and replace with something else.

With regards specifically to that US system; not being an American, I am not infested with the exceptionalism of the flag-saluters, and from the outside looking in the US constitution (especially with the Bill of Rights) looks like it was inevitably going to spawn the vast, sprawling shitshow that is the US code today. The fundamental difference being the positive construction of freedoms, which thereby ensured any right not strictly guaranteed is (irrespective of rightly or wrongly) perceived as fair game by just about every other entity jostling for position, who then spend inordinate amounts of energy whittling away at them.

All humans, other than a few ascetic hermits, have vested interests, so it's essential that any system of laws assumes this rather than trying to push an avalanche back uphill whilst complaining about all the snow.
That's kinda what gemini is: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Also, there's a gopher hn mirror:

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=hngopher.com+70+31
Yeah, gasoline is incredibly energy dense. Unfortunately, internal combustion engines are also really inefficient.

The Tesla battery pack weighs over 1000lbs, but only carries the same energy as 3 gallons of gas.
That makes sense. 2 x 6 core Xeons were cheap even back in the day. And it came without storage. Again, as someone who actually buys straight off FB and Google when they dispose servers (as the companies who you buy from off eBay), I'd really like to know where he got that specific 64 core (which would be a quad socket if it's older than 2015) 192 GB 24 TB server because I'd like to order more than a few. Your server is not even worth 1/20th of what his is worth.

The closest I can get a disposed server with those specs is at least 8k
So I actually buzz my hair really short for high power rifle season so I can feel the wind better. I'm also balding, so that helps.

It mostly boils down to using it as a "don't pull the trigger, the wind just did something funky" sensor.

Granted about half the time I end up throwing a baseball cap on it because not getting sunburn/skin cancer is more important to me than a few points at 600 yards, but it does help.
Potentially, yes. And no, that's not a contradiction, unless you seriously believe that the Democratic Party is doing its best to support working-class Black people. In which case, I'd like to inform you about the great investment potential of this bridge I'm selling.

But you're still going to have to convince me that such lines are a thing in Fulton, specifically. The article I cross-referenced suggests they opened a lot more polling places to address the problem in the last election cycle.

Edit: I forgot to post the article. It's been a hard month.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924527679/why-do-nonwhite-geo...
The meaning of “going to make it” is that they will succeed. I.e. that the cryptocurrencies they are holding will be worth more USD in the future, or possibly even that the cryptocurrencies themselves become widespread enough that you can use them directly when transacting with others, and that in the latter scenario the worth of the cryptocurrency would also be high.

The term “to make it” is a regular phrase in English, and although it is commonly used in the cryptocurrency world it’s not exclusively used by them.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/make%20it

> To make it is to accomplish something, or to become successful.
But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine.

Same with the pi, which despite your insistence its only a teaching tool, I suspect that is actually a small fraction of their sales. The compute modules and their carriers make that point along with the popular HATs.

As do a few other posters on this forum noting how they show up on the internet connected to peoples various IoT devices. Pi holes, Kodi boxes, cheap security cameras, on and on. Pretty much everyone I know in IT has a few of them they are using for those purposes or sitting in their junk boxes. One guy I knew literally purchased thousands of them because he was running a little hobby security business and they are great (cheap!) little security cameras given a PoE hat and a camera.

The number of students I know with them? Two, both of which were getting CS/etc style degrees, and I purchased for them to play around with. High schoolers/etc zero. Despite asking quite a number of them on the robotics teams/etc. Frankly, they aren't very good IoT devices either, wemos/arduino/etc are far more approachable if all you want to learn how to do is blink a led, or connect a moisture sensor to the internet.

So, at least where I live and the people I talk to, they are basically hacker devices.

Also, note the questions in: https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/
Article links to a video by Engineering with Utsav, which is a very good channel in my opinion. This is probably one of the best algorithm solving videos I’ve ever seen, since it does not rely on knowing any solutions beforehand but actually goes through the process of evaluating different techniques:

https://youtu.be/FSycYs8RpsA
Didn't the XB-70 become the B-1?
Not an acronym but posting a picture of the graded trading card du jour. I guess we've come full circle, again.
A lot of DC area people view federal public sector as the “amazing [stable] opportunity” and dont think FAANG opportunities as options, many dont know about them

High five figure to low six figure salaries are the aspiration

Everything else is too absurd or too risky

Very risk averse dynasties there that will drill this into their neighbors and children their whole life

Many contractors are also chasing a carrot on a stick hoping to convert to a federal employee if “mastuh is pleased”

There is a whole industry there catering to that

There are also a lot of opportunities for actually ambitious people such as making the contracting firm or selling something stupid to an agency that your friend working there signed off on
The proposed "blind referral" system, where people refer people they don't even know for jobs, seems like it should be a completely worthless signal on the hiring side. On the referrer side the benefit is obvious, if the person gets the job you get cash. But on the company side, what is the value of a referral that's predicated specifically on a shallow social interaction?
Because 90% of the time cookies are used only for tracking. Unless a site has a login mechanism, and I have a profile on it I don't see the reason to consent on the use of cookies. Since I installed uMatrix I don't even get the annoying notification.
I think I get your point, and to thread the needle:

If you look for external sources of meaning (big house, cars) are really just looking for validation. You want others to think of you a certain way.

But if you genuinely enjoy cars, and driving/working on them puts you in a flow state, that’s great.

Most people suffer a lack of engagement at work and should retire to work on what they actually enjoy. If Miyazaki enjoys his art (he enjoys it in the average, looking back, glad he did it after all, like exercise) then of course he should continue. A rich, bored retiree is miserable because they realized they were chasing external validation, which is truly hollow, and can now begin the process of doing what is internally meaningful to them.

Asking whether something is meaningful, in your heart of hearts, lets you sidestep decades of chasing the wrong goal.
Sounds like the first step to being an airbender
It's a known bug. But haven't been able to identify the root cause. Probably some race condition. I will fix it, but you can refresh too, which should resume the game from the same position.
It would be horrifying, not beneficial, and what's more it'd be by definition incomplete, and therefore unsuitable for any but the most banal proceedings.
> It is unclear to me what a default is supposed to indicate when the the collectors are the ones holding and freezing the assets that easily could be used to pay it.

The creditors are mostly not the people holding and freezing the assets. They may in some cases be citizens and institutions of the same nationalities as the governments doing the freezing, but often they aren't even that. Russia has dollar and euro denominated debt to private investors (individual and institutional) around the globe that it can't pay.
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California Board Diversity Law Overturned: Debate Could Rekindle
Oh God, what have you done. You have entered the code incorrectly. Look what your careless hands have wrought. Select the pistol, and then, select your horse.
I worked on Flowdock for a couple years, and noticed that the current team formally announced its shut down a few days ago. When I started work on it, it had been in stasis for a year or two after being acquired by Rally Software, and then having the initial team leave.

It was a thrill to regain access to all the parts of the service which had been orphaned, and to get them updated and working properly again, but the whole thing was haunted by Slack during my time working on it. One of the oldest users in the system was Stewart Butterfield, under an account for Tiny Speck. When we'd run into an issue, like people phishing using malicious links, we'd go look at how Slack was solving the same problem, and usually find that they had invested way more engineering time into solving the problem then we could afford to devote to the entire project: in that case, they had (have?) a service that front runs links before posting them to shared channels, and scans them for viruses and other bad content.

The hybrid flat/threaded messaging system was innovative and worked well for people who adopted it, but often caused confusion for people new to the product. When I was working on it, we reused parts of the existing API to allow for dragging and dropping messages you had written between threads, which is something I miss in other threaded chat tools today.

Ultimately, I think it was doomed by tech debt, organizational mismanagement, and its owners being serially acquired by other companies. It was bundled with other Rally/CA/Broadcom products for enterprise sales, and that means that even when it had 100,000+ users, the monthly revenue was assigned to other products in the bundle, and it was treated as making very little money, and given staffing to match. I think Rally likely acquired it to compete with Atlassian's Hipchat, but when Atlassian lost interest in Hipchat, Rally/CA also questioned their decision.

At one point under Rally's ownership, the choice was made to move from the original Finnish team's host of choice, Hetzner, to AWS. The monthly cost of running Flowdock's systems went from ~$1k to ~$50k, which was untenable for a product that size. Costs were able to be reduced with careful management of storage classes in AWS later, but the size of the MongoDB clusters meant that expenses never again made sense for the revenue that Flowdock brought in.

It was a blast working on Flowdock, and I'm sure there are quite a few people who managed the product over its decade long lifespan who wonder if they could have been Slack if they had only made a few choices differently. Live and learn!
at least they still have this spreadsheet to work from for awhile
Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times?

Has anyone asked the Money Stuff author?
We scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1B active series
Ask HN: Finding a new role in a new industry
Hi HN. I am in my late 30s working and have been working for the same company for around 10 years. My role has ranged from consulting to product management to now sales and business development. Responding to RFPs is definitely not my dream and I have been considering a career change but I am not stuck on what to pursue. Being a pure product manager is one possibility but I do like customer engagement and really understanding the issues and concerns clients have.

The other part of this is that I am in an industry that isn't really changing all that much. There's a lot of consolidation and we're not seeing tremendous growth in sales, in fact the writing is on the wall that our competitors are making more strides than us.

Any tips on positioning myself, my resume, etc. for the correct role? Do I cast a wide net and just hope to get bites? My worry is being able to even get a foot in the door because I have no relevant industry experience outside of the one I am in.
We lock the vehicles and hide the access devices while video and home automation logs anyone going into the garage and their duration.
I don't understand what "migrate this code into the year 2022" means. What's the actual problem you're trying to solve? If:

wget, unzip, untar, ./configure, make, su make install and it works perfectly

Then, you're done, right? Why do you need to make any changes? If it doesn't like -std=c99, and it works without it, just don't compile it with -std=c99.

Are you trying to port it to some other host or architecture? If so, you'll need to learn C to port it.

Are you trying to port it to a 64-bit target or something like that? If so, you'll need to learn some C.

Does the existing code compile and run but has show-stopper bugs for you? If so, you'll need to learn C and fix them.
In fairness, that is an argument that is made - https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-l... - although it's perhaps better put as "use basically any compiled language" (even Go, at 3x the energy use of C, pales before the 29x of PHP and 76x of Python).
Nonparametric methods are often used when the assumptions of parametric tests don't hold.

In physics experiments they want to fix the structure of the model and know the assumptions. They want to know the distribution and parameters to hold. If assumptions don't hold, they must find out why, find better assumptions and fix the model.

To say it differently: physicists are not trying to discover statistical laws. They are trying to discover physical laws trough statistics.