skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And fair arguments. The "nobody has privacy, get over it," argument from the CEO of Sun years ago as well. I called it rhetorical because encryption policy has very concrete consequences because you have to actively implement the compromises in code, and there is no natural base state where authorities have access to your communications.

Even the American "papers and effects," doctrine is using their 4A framework is a weaker argument than presumption of innocence question stated above. Regarding non-discriminating security measures at airports, oppressing and degrading everyone doesn't make it justified or fair, and on this forum we all know what "random" means, but the way random is applied in airports is really just covert, it is not random.

The only legitimate random search I would concievably accept would be if the officer chose a number, and I rolled my own 20-sided dice and if the number came up, I would consider submitting to a random search - but anything else is demonstrable bullshit. How do the authorities trust my dice? They pick a random number.

In the UK, the sovereign is the crown and its agents, and indeed, the Queen doesn't have discretion, but without a constitution with inaliable rights, agents acting with the authority of the crown do have unlimited discretion. Canada has a "notwithstanding" clause in its charter and a bunch of mealy mouthed language about reasonableness elsewhere that has produced some astonishingly derisible results.

It is a power you give them, and if you don't give it to them, they are taking it, and my argument is that this is a question of whether compelling people to sabotage algorithms as a means to surveil them a legitimate allocation of powers. In a state with inaliable rights, it's not, but in these other places, we should just call it what it is.
Intelligent - understands that Musk has contributed greatly to human progress in both space travel and electric cars.
I think this might be a compliment? If so, thank you :)

I have given it some thought in as far that the best I can do is get better at thinking and writing, so that I can publish my thoughts and insights on my blog. If reading them resonates with a few people, and helps them lead a better life, I will have achieved something meaningful. (I just linked my writing outlets in my profile). I also hope that openly writing about neurodiversity and mental illness will help deconstruct stigma, and I don't mind enduring whatever consequences this might have on my career.

I don't think improving relations between humans is something I'd be good at at all, nor does it really interest me. However, the topic of doing good is becoming increasingly relevant to me as I just turned 40, and I am discovering that systems thinking deeply resonates with me. I will try to pivot into agritech or another climate change related topic soon.

On a more prosaic level, hopefully I will become confident enough in my writing to try to distill what I learned about programming in the near future, and this might help people make a clearer point in technical debates here and there :)
I will add to this - while Elon has a ton of flaws and is overrated by people who think he brought the tech expertise, you have to give him credit for the simple fact that without him, our space program might be dead and electric cars really might have never happened. We take them for granted now, but 15 years ago they seemed completely absurd.
>Feds need to threaten Elon with cancelling Space X contracts unless he gets his shit together.

When did abusing contracting, environmental reviews, and government process/prmits to address unrelated political actions become acceptable?
There is also a JS port

https://github.com/jvail/spl.js
A) Youtube is a big site. It's more likely that you're seeing the same ads on the channels that you watch. It's very unlikely to be the same set that I see.

b) Apart from the products you like, none of it is a good offer?

c) Are you sure this is true for all sponsors?

d) Is advertising ever justified in your mind?

Overall, I think you just don't like ads, so have decided to arrive at that conclusion. Your arguments don't seem to hold water.
Ah...that makes sense (and me, a bit sad, as I don't know if Gaiman will be able to do as good a job).
We cannot decouple our own security from that of our allies, but yes, they should shoulder more of the burden.
yeah... I kinda use walmart more since it has a better signal/noise ratio.
Pro tip: If you absolutely must buy the junk being sold by MOFFBUZW and other randomly generated drop-shipper brands, the exact same product is usually available on AliExpress for 10% the price.
Half of the Twitter thread is just talking about literal bribes paid to Amazon staff to conveniently change things in the system in the black-hat sellers' favor.

This is not a "why don't they fight the spam harder" problem. That's Google's problem. Amazon's problem is, apparently, that their corporate culture is so toxic and broken as to make any kind of internal controls or moderation outright useless.
Walmart has third-party sellers now too.
I was the organizer of Austrias biggest developer meetup for a few years. Took it from 5 people in a cellar to a monthly mini conference with 100+ attendees each month. When it became to expensive to pay for Pizza and beer out of my own pocket, I got sponsors.

the sponsor got logo and link to their job boards in the newsletters, and they HAD TO give a talk: 5 (to 10 min max), then 4 min Q&A, then 3 for their pitch (mostly looking for devs).
hard time limit, hard format. only if they agreed to this they were allowed to sponsor our pizza and beer.

oh, and the talk HAD TO include some real world code. Q&A was non negotiable.

the HR department (the sponsor initiators) was surprised.

the audience loved it. as the HR did send lead devs / CTO to give the talk. some of the best talks of the meetup we got that way.

after some time I had waiting lists for sponsorships as the format worked so well.

the secret to advertise to developers? show some real world code!

meetup was called ViennaJS
That's not the correct interpretation of his quote.

Tooling engineering is a commodity thing, not a tech leadership thing.

Apple products are designed in the US, because the same problem, you couldn't find 1000 engineers able to design an iPhone all in one place anywhere else. Yes, the Tooling engineers are in the lower cost to manufacture countries we export the manufacturing to, but the designers of the product are in the US, bay area specifically. Often tunes tooling engineers assemble production lines, molding stations, etc. From components and tools designed and built in the US and Europe. I.e a tooling engineer will design an automated work cell with a robot arm and an injection molding machine. The robot and injection molding machine are designed and built by a us, Japanese or European company, and the rest is sourced locally and then assembled together.
> I hate it when people compare the US to any other country, except possibly Russia, or the EU as a whole.

This is a new angle I haven’t heard. Having multiple cultures doesn’t need to mean they murder each other. But let’s say that there is something special about the US cultural makeup that causes a higher level of violence.

The murder rate has been declining. Why?
Direct link to image:

https://archive.ph/LC3PF/87a04d67bf1d6574004d2f931dc1085afe8...

I didn't realize this article was more than 10 months old.
My wife is an Airbnb superhost (i.e., highly rated), but our property is in Flagstaff, AZ and was directly affected by the Tunnel and Pipeline fires (but not burned). We just got massive flooding last week due to the burn scar. We've had to cancel guests to make repair to the property including the driveway being washed away and 12 inches of mud being deposited across the entire property. The property is currently a safety hazard until the county fixes the runoff problem. The flash flooding hit before the cellphone based alarms went off. Fortunately, our guests had not arrived because their car would have been destroyed or stranded in a sea of mud. Airbnb required us to provide photos AND a letter from our county to document the reason for the cancellations.
Thanks for responding.

Where do you feel the line is online, specifically in Youtube videos/podcasts, where SponsorBlock is effective?
I think amazon has jumped the shark[1]

There is no practical way to buy a reputable/brand name on amazon.

Some brand names are "available", but it seems not officially and people are buying them at a store and shipping them to customers.

Other brand names are available, but the search results are paid (and manipulated) so they get crowded off the page by sponsored and "5 star (2)" results.

and so amazon as a brand is associated with junk.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
it only appears on mobile tho, so i'm not sure what it's supposed to be...
What book was that? I'd be interested in giving it a read.
I wonder if they would care more if they got split from AWS
> They're very prone, in my experience, to believing that their explanations are ultra-rational, though, reality be damned.

Like for example, their analyses of "conspiracy theorists" (when what they are actually analyzing is their own incredibly flawed semi-conscious representation of conspiracy theorists). It's quite funny that the world is this way if you think about it deeply, because it could be otherwise.
Did they ever give an explanation for the ban or was it some no answer like "please review the terms and conditions"?
Any site that leaves this up for 20 minutes and doesn’t permanently ban the submitter is having serious quality control issues. How did this make the front page?
For me, the deal is often lost on the landing page. "Give us your phone number to get the one piece of technical documentation we have prepared." Nope. I do not want to receive a phone call from you and won't answer it. "Contact sales for pricing." I don't have time. I have more than enough meetings as it is, and I would rather use the time to put together a proof of concept. The next step would be building a consensus internally to get permission to give you the money. Some things I just can't afford, if it's $100k per year, then I'm not interested. If it's $5/month and the product is useful, then I can maybe build a case.

I get why people want to funnel everything through sales; their entire day is meetings and if they have an empty slot, they're wasting money. I could, of course, dramatically misunderstand how to use the product and pass on it if I do an unguided evaluation, and that's a risk they want to avoid. But I think that's the nature of selling to developers; they are the types that want to explore on their own. If the docs don't cut it, your company is dead. They can't just issue a purchase order after a 30 minute phone call. ("Contact sales" also works around the "how much should this even cost" problem. I get that companies want to know if they're losing sales because of the price being too high and can't collect that information from a simple web visit. I say, that's kind of too bad. I want to solve a problem, not be a test subject in your A/B test. Start low, and work your way up after you have existing customers. Or start high, and sell to someone other than me.)

Finally, if I do reach out, spell my name the same way I typed it into the "contact us" form. Nobody calls me "John" and those letters don't appear in my name in that order. I know you think you know better than I do, but you don't.
I would be willing to bet amazon gets sued/settled/arbitration
for discrimination fairly regularly.
oh, very easy. illegal naked short selling. hedge funds and too big to fail banks got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. very very simple to explain. too bad no one cares to listen, though.
They should sell ads on the trash cans to street furniture companies and then the trash cans would be free, or profitable for the city.
What’s the lag time between launch orders and actual launches? Wonder if we’re looking at a 9-12 month trailing indicator of health and the broader tech reset is dampening orders in the last 2-3 months.
Ok, Ya, I'm investigating WAM right now. This is very interesting indeed.
Intel: i3/i5/i7/i9

AMD Ryzen: 3/5/7/9

Looks pretty straightforward to me: higher number - better processor. Now between M1 Pro, Max and Ultra how can you tell which one is supposed to be better ? :)
Tesla already existed before Elon. Can you make the case that they wouldn't have been as successful without him? I don't see any specific performance that would indicate that he's instrumental to their success.
PayPal doesn't have foreign transaction fees while most credit cards (at least in the US) do.
Not true. The main competitor is a regular dumb trash can you can buy from home depot for $50.

Edited to say $50 not $10 per below comment.
I can turn a bike left without steering right first just by jumping with rear wheel only.
Most places try to use the law to discourage anti-social behavior.
I don't get the hate against OpenOffice. Sure, LibreOffice is clearly superior right now, but does it really hurt to have a second option, bad as it may be? There's no reason the two of them can't co-exist.

Also, the current office market is all about momentum and basically nothing about feature set anyway, so it's not like a bit more dev time is sufficient to get LibreOffice anywhere near the Microsoft monopoly.
I tend to think of a matched filter as an "optimum denoiser" (in the mean squared error sense with white gaussian noise), but it's not an optimum detector in the general case, or an optimum "de-interferer".

The case shown here should be more resilient to changes in signal amplitude and non-matching interference.

Of course, because the kernel is actually learned, it can adapt to interference and try to be a "matched filter to what we want, plus anti-matched filter to interference" (i.e. give near-0 response to common interference signals). But SCS does seem like a more natural way to achieve a similarity metric and feature detection. (although this non-flexibility might work against it)
By "freedom" I mean the lack of government regulations and controls allowing companies to "freely" abuse workers etc. Same goes for banks not being held accountable for bad deals and knowing they are too big to fail. Or that a large company that has committed a crime can opt for deferred prosecution (because it would hurt too many people if they were held accountable) only to have the whole thing dismissed years later or fined a tiny fine.
I had similar issue with Venmo. Venmo told me it's my fault. I went directly to my credit card and after 2 month and a lot of evidence, credit card company sided with me. Venmo said I can't use their products ever again. Fine by me, I use ApplePay now (until they screw me over I guess)
Roles that require a vast array of expertise but do not necessarily paying top $$$$ for that expertise.

--Dinosaur Unix SA
> influencer types in the fastai community who have 10ks of followers and shills

Everyone that I can see that fits that profile work at real companies doing real deep learning work, or are building infrastructure and tools that we all use. Nvidia, Huggingface, Etc. I don't see pure media stuff at all, most people are developing libraries or doing other applied work, and talk about their work publicly. Frankly, your comments come across like you are salty. Being a unpleasant person in online forums that enjoys insulting people seems correlated, which likely doesn't bode well for your professional aspirations, regardless of how much math or python you do/don't know.

> You don't need math

He's saying you don't need a PhD in math, not that you should ignore math all together. I have graduate level math and CS background and I don't thing either of those helped much, other than overcoming gatekeeping. The thing thats far more important for applied ML is to practice DL on lots of different problems to be effective. PhD level math might be useful for research, but that isn't necessary in practice for most people.
Maybe talk to people outside your bubble?
The article mentions that the majority of the launches have been for themselves (i.e. Starlink) but neglects to mention exactly how many. Does anyone know?
I'd argue that there is no nobody you should trust more than yourself. This does not mean disregarding expertise or imagining that you know, or can know, everything. But the moment that you grant final primacy over your own thoughts to somebody other than yourself is the moment that that person can make you believe, and consequently act, in nearly any way. And, at scale, that's quite a disconcerting thought.

When people trust themselves above all it means we'll never have a utopia because we all can't help but believing some pretty stupid stuff at times. But at the same time we'll never have an absolute dystopia, because the diversity of thought ensures we'll never all fall off the deep end, or be pushed off it, together.
Down with mantras: Collaboration at work can be good, but not necessarily
Yes, of course socializing is fun. But when it comes to housing accommodations for travel, I'm surprised so many people view that as being a perk of Airbnb over the hotels. Or maybe everybody else just accepts it not as a bonus, but as a neutral affect of the system and the value of Airbnb is in the location and the style.

Or maybe I'm just an outlier here. It wouldn't be the first time I didn't quite click with a large B2C company's product (cc facebook, instagram).
I'm glad he didn't go into politics.

Bill Clinton was one of the most charismatic people ever in US politics. I am happy he never turned to the dark side - he could have caused an awful lot of damage. I was never afraid of what he'd do while he was in office, though I often disagreed with him. He never seemed to want power for power's sake, unlike too many other politicians. As far as I can tell, he just wanted people to like him.
Perfect; that sounds like exactly what I've observed - in others as well as myself - but I did not have a name, so now I can google better, thx :)

(any recommendations on that specific book?)
I'd agree, most likely part of the seed data that's needed for install or bootstrapping.
Greenwashing Affects the Bottom Line
I skip most of the sponsorship on YouTube. I used to use an extension to do it (i think this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...), but mostly just press the right arrow key until it looks like it's not the ad anymore. Let's be honest. I'm not going to buy your graphical website builder or VPN. I can get both of those in other ways.

For me, you basically have to have good organic search results, or I won't hear about it. Or write something interesting and put it on HN. Works quite well for Tailscale and Fly.io.
To be fair, in the general case (particles placed in arbitrary positions), it worked very well. The issue was that in the area of electromagnetics I worked on at the time, we make an assumption about things being placed on a regular grid, and that allows you to do the force calculation by convolving a kernel with the charges/dipole strength in Fourier space.
> I'll consider ceasing to write "good" commit messages when I'm confident the code I check in doesn't contain any bugs.

Please don't. As much as it is useful to fix buggy code at a later point, it is the same useful to prevent introducing buggy code at a later point!

Never saw some code that looked funny at first sight, and that you considered 'fixing', then checked the commit messages and understood why the code was written the way it is?
Fixing it, would have meant introducing a bug.
When? According to the article, it hasn't been used here since 2000.

Edit: I believe I did, too, but that would have been back in the 1970s.
Just a week or so ago HN was foaming about how awesome it is that Snap launched a web client. Now wallstreet doesn't like their numbers and the sky is falling. Talk about an "Oh Shit" rollercoaster, ugh.

I've interviewed with snap and I came away unimpressed with their overall vision / focus / direction / trajectory. Their products and core offerings consistently give me the same impression and feeling- kinda impractical, confusing, and/or dumb. What is snap fundamentally about?

Remember that tiny kite picture-taking drone that would not be able to withstand even a small breeze? What were they thinking? I've been to the beach and out and about a lot this year, and have never seen one IRL.

The summation of all their efforts is unfortunate and leaves me a bit sad; the people themselves who work there are amazing and some of the nicest and most caring I've come across in the tech industry. Snap appears significantly less user-hostile than all the other social media platforms. They've pioneered filters and other trendy tech. However, the brand has challenges. I don't necessarily want all my messages constantly disappearing into thin air or constant silly craziness, because it's not useful. These perceptions aren't helpful for getting traction with "regular" people who want to communicate in an easy and predictable way.

Snap bitmojis were a ton of fun at the time, though.
I wonder if a Mac repair shop would do this mod, perhaps if I sourced the thermal pad myself.
Porn and cat pictures
> we used to junk cars sooner because new cars were cheaper

This is not obvious to you? Look at how many things (especially plastics and electronics) are wasted today while they still function because they are so cheap. How many times have you replaced your smartphone while it still worked fine?

The point, again, is that we can do reasonable mental gymnastics to more or less counter-act any hedonic adjustments (which were also mental gymnastics to make inflation seem lower in the first place). A better metric would involve fewer loopholes like this that allow arbitrary mental gymnastics in the first place and instead say "how much does an entry level vehicle cost, amortized with upkeep costs and fuel for the average American." There should be no adjustment for better airbags or bluetooth, nor a reverse adjustment for taking into account improved automation in factories.
Everyone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces.
It really opens up your eyes to the sheer size of the fake account and bot traffic, market. It makes you skeptical of everything you see online.

You can buy verified Twitter accounts, blue check mark accounts, Facebook ad accounts, Google AdSense/AdWords accounts, Amazon accounts, and more bot traffic than you can imagine. All for a few hundred dollars at most.

I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts.
I don't trust anyone who refers to the COVID vaccines as "the jab"
That's not in the article, a different comment here got it from Wikipedia.
Two questions for you:

Do you believe that sponsorships are worse that targeted digital advertising?

Do you believe there are any Youtubers who have acted ethically in accepting sponsorships?

> I made SponsorBlock, and over the years working on it, I have been able to see how horrible some of the techniques people use are

It seems somewhat hypocritical to pretend that SponsorBlock is an ethical reaction to bad sponsorships when the clear ethical response would be to simply not watch the content. To be clear, I don't think there's anything wrong with SponsorBlock, but let's be honest. It's purpose is convenience, not any higher moral objective.
I hope this is trolling because the details of this are widely reported and discoverable. There is no Tesla without Elon, and there barely was an entity called Tesla before Elon. Even with Elon the company barely made it many times