skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the request to show up at the Seattle office was some kind of working with law enforcement. Evidently he planned to flee to India instead of take the meeting. He seems to have known there was risk to him in that meeting.
Sepia search, and federated timelines.

I think a client that is able to subscribe to remote instances client side (without an AP account somewhere) would significantly improve the state of discover ability across peertube servers.
And of course what users generally really care about is "does this app upload my location to somewhere? continuously or only when I take a specific action?" but permissions of that type are basically impossible to enforce by technical measures.
> They probably have computers on the outgoing checkpoint too.

Does the US have outgoing checkpoints on its land borders? I thought you only dealt with the Canadian/Mexican customs agents on your way out, and only dealt with US CBP on your way back in. (I haven't crossed a US land border since a road trip to Canada when I was a kid, so I could be very wrong.)
> because they haven't adopted the "shared nothing" approach,

In practice, many web applications are stateful. The load balancer would see to it that clients keep talking to the same frontend. For larger applications it is important for cache locality.

> untold amounts of PHP code out there that stores files and other uploaded data

This is quite normal when you have some type of blob, and normally what networked file systems are user for.
your body yeeted out of the car makes an even bigger mess and could hurt/kill sb.

so wear your damn seatbelt
Google, GitHub, and Azure are freezing hiring effective immediately
I suppose one can argue about the output but there have already been spin-offs from the JWST inventions that do have practical applications.

https://webb.nasa.gov/resources/JWST_spinoffs_v122011.pdf
Exactly. For example, how many buildings have UV sterilized return air, now?

A tiny, tiny fraction. And this would benefit us for way more than just Covid.
First the OP claims "Our salary offerings are very aggressive", I'm claiming they are not aggressive. I'll agree on the confusion with TC, but I'm also guessing for OP's company Salary == TC.

So right off the bat I'm not sure the point you're making. If the upper limit you are willing to pay does not exceed the 90th percentile TC, by definition you are not offering "very aggressive" pay. There are tons of mediocre, low paying software jobs out there, but posting that you are one of those is not going to attract more applicants. OP claims they are not one of those companies, and I disagree.

Second your numbers there aren't conditioning on seniority, and additionally given not only population size but proportion of tech jobs available the Bay area and NYC account for the majority of software jobs out there.

My point still stands that OPs company is in fact not offering "very aggressive" comp. Ignoring seniority (which will be weighted by more junior roles) not having the upper bound of comp being in the 90% means you are not really offering aggressive pay in the most major software markets.
We've been using SQLite in production (B2B setting) for almost a decade. Concurrent, multi-user systems too. Sometimes thousands of concurrent users will be hitting the same databases all at the same time. Literally not once have we had an incident related to SQLite/IO corruption or performance.

SQLite could handle a billion daily users with just one decent NVMe drive. You don't even have to do anything crazy to make this work. Just pick one of the top 10 techempower web frontends, tack on SQLite and set journal mode to WAL. Oh - try to use the same connection throughout as well. That one trips up a lot of developers used to the hosted SQL patterns.

Oh but what about high availability? DQLite, RQLite, et. al. are now ready to take you to the next level. You can also address this in your application logic instead of deferring to your RDBMS vendor (this is our path).
That line refers to the mechanism to prevent double spending. If the network needed a centralized controller to assign an ordering to transactions and ensure consistency, that would run afoul of Satoshi's vision. But centralized exchanges are merely users of the base network just like an individual broadcasting transactions themselves. They depend on network consensus just like everyone else.
> But he said he got better candidates with the ad that didn't post salary ranges.

He did, and that raises a lot of questions:

Were the ads identical otherwise?

Were the salaries actually competitive or did he just think they were?

Did any of these better candidates actually accept an offer?
It's nice that $1.5 million is pocket change to you, but it's still against the law to get even such as small - for you - sum by fraud, so SEC will prosecute it.
Pretty sure the agency is well aware of this fallacy, which is no doubt why they treated this guy so well in the very beginning.
What kind of underhanded techniques?
A MacBook Pro starts at $1299 with a significantly faster processor. You can’t upgrade a MacBook Pro, but if your laptop is getting stolen half way through it’s lifetime, you’re probably not upgrading it. So not really.
Cars are glorified and incredibly ingrained in culture

Some people can't even imagine walking anymore and are blind to even how much road furniture and infrastructure they litter everywhere

Some of the biggest structures we have are roads created in the last 100 years

Absolutely crazy
Where is an electric furnace typical? Electric heat would be several times more expensive for me to operate than my gas furnace.
Seen loads of strapi around too; has its warts but it’s easy enough for frontend folks to manage. :)
For a video that glosses over the details but loudly proclaims this “ugly truth” there’s this one. I can’t tell if he is a paid shill for the gas industry or just obtuse, or maybe a voice of common sense in the wilderness….

https://youtu.be/GhAKMAcmJFg
You make a great point about "adjacent" players. However, in the case of the military, it's even moreso. . .

Most companies (regardless of industry) seek profit. Whether that's Microsoft or AT&T, or anyone else, they seek profit, and will do just about anything to get it.

The military, however, is not at all motivated by profit, but rather by winning wars. That has a very different profile than "profit", and being an existential sort of issue, prompts some very different outcomes.

The internet is one outcome, as I mentioned before, but also things like depleted uranium, which are a byproduct of enriching uranium.[0] Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be much of a civilian use for the material, but there sure is for war!

Anytime you can get different motivations, you get a more diverse set of outcomes. Teflon and Tang are probably the best known ones from NASA efforts. NASA is of course interested in rockets and scientific research, which have some overlap with commercial and some overlap with the military.

[0] - https://www.iaea.org/topics/spent-fuel-management/depleted-u...
First off, thanks for making great software. This is state of the art stuff.

As I see it, the main blocker on adoption is the extreme difficulty of deploying this giant piece of software. The setup steps is long, complicated and requires implicit knowledge on production level systems, which very few developers have.

I've really smashed my head into this trying to get PeerTube to work and I just can't. Other software I deploy is always in a docker container. I don't care how complicated the software solution is, deployment is always a breeze if it's containerized. In fact, deploying docker contains can be considered a "no-code" solution for services like DigitalOcean and Render.com.

Docker PeerTube would be an absolute game changer.

Right now, PeerTube requires that I have a stable URL which can't change ever. Can this be changed? If it's docker, the actual url may not be necessary at all.

Please please please, make a docker deployment the top priority for PeerTube. It will multiply the number of developers that will be able use it and contribute back.
> I wouldn't claim that NYC is a "dirty city".

NYC is a filthy city. I think most people that live here and love it would agree.
NewPipe supports this.
24 year olds? Since when are they sending the senior consultants out on engagements like this!

I lasted not even 6 months working in professional services, really woke me up to what "prestigious careers" really are.
Ok great, I don’t like hoping across 1000 instances, feels messy and unsafe. Like mini 2006 YouTube’s everywhere lol
Paralyzing a city or multiple cities. See the protests that happened in Ecuador recently for an example. The government agreed to the protestors demands after several weeks of protests (including preventing supplies from entering Cuenca).
Well by definition it's not a business. Maybe it's a bunch of friends just having fun doing good tutorials. Maybe it's a non-profit focused on financial literacy videos for the public.
In all fairness:

* Age limits: There is a similar age limit to buy a gun as there is to drive a car

* Driver's license: Pretty much anyone with a pulse over the age of 16 can get a driver's license and it's nearly impossible to revoke permanently

* Insurance: The legally required insurance limits in some states is so low that it's effectively useless
> At this point (read more like a year ago) I am burnt out from this project and now I figured to open it up and hopefully more people can be involved.

This is not moving forward, it looks like the author is just lofting it up as a resource for others to use as a starting point for similar projects.
> It would incentivize building a comparatively more expensive building that maximizes the developers profit. Whether that means shoeboxes or livable space depends on how much those things cost to build and how much people are willing to pay for them.

Yes, exactly. And my point is that a city shouldn't optimize along one direction like this, because families work in urban centres too. There should be a mix of housing for single people and families in the same urban areas, or you drive the families out of the city and encourage commuting and urban sprawl.
Coincidentally, the more rural the area, the less dangerous a driver would be to others and the easier the practical test would be. It's most dangerous in the more populated areas because of the concentration of drivers, pads, and things makes it more likely they would hit something.
> upper manager saw the cool tool promoted by someone and bought it

And closing that deal and having their reports implement the roll-out was milked for an entire quarters worth of performance metrics for that manager's brag-sheet.
"strengthening EU law to cover all forms of hate speech and hate crime."

It's gonna be tough.
Related:

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225 - Dec 2019 (382 comments)

The amyloid hypothesis on trial - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618027 - July 2018 (43 comments)

Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214 - July 2018 (109 comments)
My brother does this and it drives me crazy when I'm a passenger in his car, I can't fathom how he just deals with it.
As well as changing the license of the .net debugger so it can only be used with visual studio and closed source

As well as removing hotreload from .net and making it an exclusive feature to visual studio and closed source

https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...
More like Youtube how it was in the beginning.

What I'm saying is that monetization changes the way videos are made. They generally tend to be padded out, with intros, attempts at social engagement, ("Please like and subscribe, and let me know how you feel in the comments!"). This style is actively encouraged by YouTube.
There must be a name for books like Moby-Dick, where popular culture has a strong association between a topic - whaling - and the book, yet the author had absolutely minimal experience with the topic when writing the book.

A Walk in the Woods is another like that, though I'm not sure what the deeper significance was in that instance.
Alzheimer isn’t a growing epidemic. The incidence is going down.
> why certain societies are able to solve this issues and others are not.

You mean by enforcing a racially homogenous society which does not allow poor (or anyone really) people from other parts of the world?
I agree here. I think features that help the (general) patreon model are a winner for adoption. Maybe features that make it easier to host custom peertube instances for content creators.
Aren't Excel and slreadsheet synonyms? Certainly seem to be!

Excel seems so ingrained at this point, supporting something else would be very hard I think.
Graphic car safety ad about seatbelts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk
What "let the market figure it out" with LVT means is what I'm asking about. As I've explained elsewhere, if that means packing as many tiny units together in an urban core rather than a mix of bachelor pads and family-suitable living spaces, than that drives families out of urban centers and encourages urban sprawl, which creates terrible commutes and traffic and all subsequent problems.
Land Conservation Easements May Prove Misguided

https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/2001_02/easements.htm
Quote: "I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread."

It's almost inconceivable to go so far off track, but finally conclude a freelancer would have been better when that was their first step. WTH is "WebAgency" who doesn't have time for small clients doing in a freelancer thread??

They should be outed here for wearing sheep's clothing. But the client is happy cos it's all free advertising, so who are the sheep?
Yeah, that would be nice, like how Matrix has EMS and such.

Mastodon already has plenty of services like that, such as Masto.Host, but none are "official".
it kinda reminds me of the whole aca website debacle. in both cases, they tried to use one of these large, general outsourcing firms for technology work and in both cases it ended up with nobody on either side knowing what they were doing.

if there's a lesson, i'm pretty sure it's "if you choose to outsource something because it's sufficiently special that you don't feel comfortable doing it, make sure you outsource it to someone who specializes in what you need done."
The thing about continuous space solutions is that they are typically differentiable, which means you can use a gradient descent or LM optimization rather than needing to fully explore the solution space. Typically there are large regions which are heuristically excludable, which is what you are getting at I think, but even an unbiased sampling plus gradient descent often makes problems much more tractable than discrete problems.
All utilities will be much cheaper if they are amortized over many properties.

Heat pump capital costs are too high. They should be standardized or designed to be cheap and used everywhere…to recover waste heat from everywhere in the home.
ML is useful for many things. I'm asking the question of whether prediction is useful, and whether it is accurate to describe ML as making predictions.

The reason to raise those questions is that for many people, the word prediction has connotations of surveillance and control, so it is best not to use it loosely.

The meaning of the word "predict" is to indicate a future event, so it doesn't make grammatical sense to put a present tense verb after it, as you have done in "Predict what features a user is most interested in." Aside from the verb being in the present tense, being interested in something is not an event.

You can't predict a present state of affairs. If I look out the window and see that it is raining, no one would say that I've predicted the weather. If I come to that conclusion indirectly (e.g. a wet umbrella by the door), that would not be considered a prediction either because it's in the present. The accurate term for this is "inference", not "prediction".

The usage of the word predict is also incorrect from the point of view of an A/B test. If your ML model has truly predicted that your users will purchase a particular product, they will purchase it regardless of which condition they are in. But this is the null hypothesis, and the ML model is being introduced in the treatment group to disprove this.
The science is only more reliable than non-science, not reliable in any absolute sense. And scientists are as fond of superstition as anybody.

Masks were described as useless for countering COVID transmission because of what turned out to be superstition around "airborne transmission", itself finally traced to a result that properly only applied to tuberculosis.

Belief in ivermectin efficacy was a similarly widespread superstition among mostly non-scientists.

We have generally had much better results from science. Science was finally obliged to abandon its "airborne transmission" model by people who knew better publicizing correct information. But most ivermectin fans still cling to it.
They do that about everything. There are consistently a dozen nearby "available" drivers in the downtown area where I live within a 5 minute drive and I don't think I've ever actually gotten one of those drivers. I also frequently need rides early in the morning/late at night because of a weird work schedule. They also prominently advertise a discount for reserving a car two hours in advance and then proceed to charge me $15 dollars more than what it costs to get a ride at the time of night normally. It is worth it, so that I know I will have a ride at that time and that they will be there when I get out of work and I don't want to wait around for 30 minutes at 4am just to go home. But don't piss on my shoes and tell me its raining.
Seatbelts also protect other car occupants. When your car goes from 80mph to 0mph, if you’re not wearing a seatbelt, you become a 80kg, 80mph meat missile bouncing around the car.

If someone else happens to be in that car with you. Then it very likely you’re gonna kill them. If multiple people are not wearing a seatbelt, then the problems only escalates from there.

Sitting in the back doesn’t changes the dynamics much either. Car seats aren’t designed to withstand a 60+kg mass hitting them from behind at 80mph. They fold flat, and anyone still sitting in them gets folded flat at well, and that’s all before you start worrying about what happens when two skulls collide at 30-100mph.
I've shared this before on HN, but it never fails to make me laugh when I think about it:

>Several years ago a conversation about a similar topic prompted me to look at the ad targeting data Facebook had on me. At the time I'd had a Facebook account for 12 years with lots of posts, group memberships and ~500 friends. Their cutting edge data collection and complex ad targeting algorithms had identified my "Hobbies and activities" as: "Mosquito", "Hobby", "Leaf" and "Species": https://imgur.com/nWCWn63. Whatever that means.
Except that's not what this is, and the diet has existed longer than economic downturn in whatever country you're in.
Cobb county is not becoming blue because of demographics. As another poster pointed out it’s likely the college educated younger people like myself.
I often wonder how much it would cost to literally hire the best freelancers in the market today to build their alternative to this monstrosity
Some robots made a cool musical about this:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nZZjkBu_E4olFSb5Ey...
Sorry, this point was not made clear in the original post
Wait what. He worked for Google and is not able to build a website like this himself?
I went to a Dutch high school that used Google Accounts for email, and they once caught some students "cheating" on a group project (i.e. collaborating in larger groups than they were meant to collaborate in, I guess) via email. This made me suspect that the admins could read our school email (which people also used to talk about various other stuff, which I guess was unwise). I don't know if that was actually how they found out, but it made me very conscious of email privacy (or lack thereof).

Now I work at ProtonMail, so go figure.
How's the censoring story on PeerTube? The good kind of censoring, I mean. If I'm to use a decentralized service which provides me with content, I want to be able to sensor it against terrorist propaganda, child pornography and the likes. Does it offer a solution to that? Genuinely curious.
It is definitely a veneer of control. People's brains and senses have all kinds of strange blind spots that make it a more dangerous activity than it seems. The whole 'zoning out' while driving down a stretch of road for example.
I'm curious about this comment and it being the top comment. Is this something people don't know? Everything in this paper was introduced in Attention Is All You Need[0]. They introduced Dot Product Attention, which is what everyone just refers to now as Attention, and they talk about the decoder and encoder framework. The encoder is just self attention `softmax(<q(x),k(x)>)v(x)` and decoder includes joint attention `softmax(<q(x),k(x)>)v(y)`

I have a lot of complaints about this paper because it only covers topics addressed in the main attention paper (Vaswani) and I can't see how it accomplishes anything but pulling citations away from grad students who did survey papers on Attention, which are more precise and have more coverage of the field. As a quick search, here's a survey paper from last year that has more in depth discussion and more mathematical precision[1].

Maybe because this is an area of research adjacent to my active area, but I'm a little confused at the attention (pun intended) it is getting. Seems just like Deep Mind's name is the major motivation.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04554
Ads interest creators, and users are interested in the presence of content from creators they like.
Just seems like an aimless and unsatisfying piece of writing. I guess others must have got something from it. I felt like I was wasting my time.
I was being billed at > $300/hr when I first got out of school at 21 as consultant. 24 would make someone a senior consultant!
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-pl...

It should be easy to replace most of the services.
> It might not hit a person but it will hit a car in the other lanes and cause accidents

A butterfly flaps its wings in China causing ok_dad to speculate wildly about the deadly consequences of car fired human projectiles.

We definitely need to ban butterflies.
I'd bet if you look historically it has been about the same (or more).
I've always heard this, and so when I went for my first smart thermometer I went straight to Ecobee (which I'm very happy with btw).

So I gotta ask HN...what the heck was so popular about Nests?! It's one thing to be go after shiny lures like new iPhone apps or luxury items...but a Thermostat?!

Mind boggling...
I hope the community will find it in their hearts to be swayed by my humble appeal, I mean no harm. Who will help the widow's son?
Well, that’s because almost everyone wears a seatbelt.
It's a nice zinger, but obviously false.
have seen it described in telecom industry as "dinosaurs mating"
> 2. It is déclassé.

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation” – Gustavo Petro
If you're starting from scratch scratch, these might be of more use to you. Second focuses on vision transformers, but all the concepts still apply.

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

https://medium.com/pytorch/training-compact-transformers-fro...
> being able to pay for a repair person to come and fix my work machine

In the context of the Framework, I think it seems to be the intention of the designers that you buy replacement parts and replace them yourself.