skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to continue this train of thought. It is dangerous that people consider layoff as a performance indicator for the employee. It’s just too hard to tell.

I was laid off recently along with many others because an entire experimental project was killed because the market shifted (crypto, I know). Prior to that I’d received top performance marks and had been promoted to team lead. They gave me a great recommendation for the next gig.

It’s as easy to get a low performer who’s on a PIP and employed, as a high performer in a risky company. Hard to tell which one you’re interviewing.
No, the complaint is that it was illegal to work with them.

> RuTarget was later listed in an April 6 Treasury announcement that imposed full blocking sanctions on Sberbank and other Russian entities and people. The sanctions mean U.S. individuals and entities are not supposed to conduct business with RuTarget or Sberbank.

> [Google spokesperson Michael Aciman] acknowledged the Russian company was still receiving user and ad buying data from Google before being alerted by ProPublica and Adalytics.
>> Think you're naive to what the area was before, to be honest. Without the Olympics it would have done just fine.

I first lived near Hackney Wick in 2014 and it was a bit of a dump then, so I can only imagine what it was like a few years before that! What's there now may be 'soulless' but it's a hell of a lot nicer.
Depending on your dictatorship, it will be different everywhere.

In free countries you just broadcast. It's like the right to eat pancakes, it's not specifically regulated. Of course there are rules of what you are allowed to do or not, for example you can't broadcast in specific frequencies because those are licensed and if you like to do that you need to purchase a license. If you broadcast using loudspeakers, you will have regulations on the loudness of it.

The commercial license might come with its own limitations. Depending on your location, you might get into trouble if you take advertisements for drugs or cigarettes or alcohol. You can lose your license over it but your broadcasting equipment wont try stopping you from doing it.
Police Can Trace Cameras Thanks to Sensor Imperfection ‘Fingerprints’
Automating Real Estate Investing: Estimate the monthly cashflow for a property
Hi,

I am an engineer by day, IndieHacker by night. I have been very interested in real estate and the powers and freedom it can provide, specifically cash flow rentals.

By looking through deals I have found that deal finding can be very redundant and manual. Basically taking the numbers such as financing, hoa fees, accounting for capex and maintenance, property taxes etc. You build your monthly total for expenses and find out comparable rent through a tool like Rentometer. I use BiggerPockets calculator to calculate expenses and it generates a nice report showing cashflow, home equity etc.

There is no reason why I can't know all of these numbers instantly when I click on a Zillow listing. That is why I am building homescope.io, a tool to show you how much a rental can cashflow the second you click on a Zillow listing.

If you have neat tools that help you find and calculate real estate deals, please share!
Thanks for jumping in here.

> In order to provide an additional layer of privacy for our users, we proxy all STT requests through Mycroft's servers. This prevents Google's service from profiling Mycroft users or connecting voice recordings to their identities. Only the voice recording is sent to Google, no other identifying information is included in the request. Therefore Google's STT service does not know if an individual person is making thousands of requests, or if thousands of people are making a small number of requests each.

Well, unless Google does voiceprint analysis. But Google wouldn't do that, would they? /s

Beyond that, if I'm reading right, local STT will still require a separate STT server. It won't run on the Mark II itself, right?
Thanks for sharing! Based on my reading, reducing refrigerants is one of the highest-impact ways to reduce planet risk.

"Our plan is simple and has zero technical risk"
What do you see as the biggest risk? And what is your assessment for why no one has pursued this approach before?
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As for all tools, for most use cases, some decent middle ground tools do the trick. Pro grade tools have some properties that benefit pros (and can be hard to get by non-pros). Above that tools are an object of d!sire. Ehich os totally fine, if you want that 12k pro grade telephoto lense, by all means, go and get it. Shoot great photos with it and enjoy it everytime you use it. Or everytime you use that fancy knife to prepare a meal. Just don't make it a prerequisite for what you do, because you don't have to justufy the purchase. The simple joy you get of using it ia reason enough, and someone doing the same thing with less expensive gear is by no means diminishing the value you get from your expensive purchase.
Yup, I was a die-hard Alfred user with tons of custom automations. Haven't looked back for even a second. I was shocked; I've never had a piece of software replace something I depended on so easily.
What happens if you feed it the Riemann Hypothesis or the Collatz Conjecture?

It’s impressive that the model is clearly learning a lot of facts in training that it just memorizes—like the variance of the first m even numbers, and remarkable to me that these models can generate correct output with high probability when they have no actual understanding of mathematics. But perhaps that’s just an indication that my own ideas are wrong—to wit, maybe math just isn’t that hard (in the sense that the sequence of correct outputs to a given prompt are a highly constrained pattern built around successive substitutions in common templates, rather than searching for a needle in a practically-infinite haystack).
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This case pretty clearly crosses the line into criminal negligence / manslaughter / murder. If they were are book publisher or TV network, someone at Google would be facing jail time.
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I hate the fact that this is even entertained.
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Yes, it is completely different, as explained in that comment. Glad we've sorted this out, I trust that you'll stop making this claim in the future.
I recently read the book The Jakarta Method and it was extremely eye-opening. I'd previously heard a very abridged account of what happened in Indonesia in the 60s from Chomsky, but this book goes and examines how the same pattern was intentionally repeated by the US in many countries throughout the world. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say the US successfully inflicted a fourth reich on the global south over the course of the 20th century. Any left-wing or labor movements were threatened or actually put down with shocking fascist violence so that the wealth could keep flowing out of the country to the US. Not even necessarily communist movements, just the same social-democratic policies that all the nordic countries were implementing. Things are very comfortable here in the core; all the really sick shit happens abroad and is never reported until decades later in books by academics. We can be certain it still happens to this day: nobody here ever faced any consequences, and the same faces or schools are still in power. And they benefit greatly.
Oh this is an article about how someone else screwed up an airport? I was hoping to learn how to mess them up myself :(
Interesting, I'm used to the US market. Back when I was a regular user (as opposed to sometimes-caving-and-buying-a-dispo quitter), salts were usually 25 and 50, with lower strengths provided by freebase nicotine juices. I think the last freebase juice I bought was a 3 or 6mg, but those were less common.

Disposables are usually 5% salts over here, afaik.
Public access tv (in the US at least) is actually a private platform, you do not have the right to broadcast anything you with on it "as long as it's not illegal."

As with newspapers, magazines, radio, social media platforms, etc., the owners public access tv stations are allowed to exercise editorial discretion with regards to what they publish. There was actually a landmark Supreme Court case about it:[0]

[0]https://www.commlawblog.com/2019/06/articles/broadcast/supre...
It's legit, here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19086589

I'll also add, my personal reading of the quote has more than a note of "this sounds too good to be true." But that could well be a matter of interpretation.
V backer here. I've never ever felt remotely scammed or deceived. So people who bring up the scamming topic can continue to do so with the imaginary money they did not pledge/donate.

Also I see the Patreon topic a lot - Patreon is not a contract. If one is unhappy they can stop pledging ANY time, immediately. So like it or not, the Patreon support you see is a very accurate representation of satisfied backers as well.
AI can code low level stuff. This one function. This small piece of logic. What it can't do is conceive of how to take a bunch of different functions and put them together to produce an actual product. It can't tell you if you should use postges or mongo. Programmers will always be needed, we'll just move up the stack, and we'll produce more value per hour of our work, justifying our high salaries.

Compare the visible output of someone writing in assembly vs someone writing on top of a modern web framework. Is assembly harder? Yeah. But the web framework is going to give you a usable product in a fraction of the time with way more features. And that's worth more money to the company you work for.

It's always going to be a knowledge worker's job. It's always going to reward experience and creativity and attention to detail. A lot of programming is looking at the world, seeing a gap in what exists, and figuring out what best fits that gap. An AI can't do that. Programming is making 1000 tiny decisions that can't possibly be specified completely by a product manager and need a human to weigh the tradeoffs.
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This stuff blows my mind but tends to occur everywhere

What is the value add of an engineer doing project management work in an environment where project managers exist

Should the project managers need to do a little coding then?

Also the quiet part out loud - project managers tend to be vastly cheaper (often 2:1) than engineers. Any and every task that an engineering team can offload to a project manager is big dollars saved by the firm.

I frequently find myself in engineering roles where I am doing most stakeholder comms, requirements gathering, JIRA ticket entry/management, project planning, user documentation, support runbooks, PR reviewing, a bit of dev, occasionally testing, deployments, and sit on the support escalation pager rotation. Any of the above tasks you can offload to a non-engineer saves the firm money.
How dare you earn more than zig!?
Foolish? The fact that military operations are happening with no oversight, particularly without the constitutionally required oversight (congress must declare war) is the basis of the criticism itself.

Does a dozen people with guns acting in combat under government orders count as "war"? They are skating on that ambiguity.
A 0.3 language feature that is marked as "not ready for production" on the website have bugs. How unexpected.
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Do you actually expect a response to that wall of questions? If you're that interested please read the docs, it's not that hard.
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