skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe something similar happened with IBM. In the 90s, IBM was a household brand name that ranked up there with Coca Cola. Even in 2007 it was 5th on the Global 500 [1].

However, IBM pulled out of the consumer market. Watson on Jeopardy (c 2011) was their last public stunt. Their TV commercials became more and more abstract and eventually they were out of mind for the average person. So as one day, people no longer thought of IBM when they thought about who can solve big technology problems.

Of course, IBM suffers from many other problems, but I think you're on to something about the importance of doing consumer well to support your enterprise business when you're a large tech company.

1. https://brandirectory.com/rankings/global/2007/table
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no, I don't need a unique identifier

People fought against that and actually won, 23 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870

Unfortunately, that may have been the only victory, as they slowly started introducing a lot of other stuff silently under the guise of "security".

"not secure by design" nowadays comes close to being a coveted feature

Absolutely. As the saying goes, "insecurity is freedom".
That ISPs are blocking DoT so they can continue monetizing DNS metrics? No, that's happening.
It started with reality shows in the 90s, then on to digital reality shows (facebook) and now it's normalized. Old moral codes are being abandoned, as technology allows people to be more individualistic, more free to act. This was inevitable as technologal change is monotonic, and has been subject of books like brave new world. The idea of "community" as a moralizing entity is nice but also very limiting and newer generations will have a very ambivalent relationship with it.
The fact is not rooted in it, doesn't mean there is no relation - if anything because the drugs do work to reduce or remove depression in a lot of people.
Funny I worked there in 95-96 for half a year as a contractor (DTS), and the interviews were fairly simple, the hardest thing was looking at a page of source code and finding all the bugs. Otherwise most people knew the Mac software I had lead or worked on, so it wasn't a big deal. I left because I didn't want to be there when Apple crapped out as seemed likely.

Steve came back a year after I left. Oh well, I might have stayed there for 25 years too.
The DICOM standard document is like 6,000 pages and I've never heard anyone call it "fun".
I have had nearly this exact experience, marketing a small SaaS.

A sudden ads suspension arrived, with no explanation beyond "suspicious payments". This from the same billing account used with GSuite, Domains, GCP; and from a business that was having no trouble running ads on FB, Twitter, and Reddit. "How silly, but I'm sure we can get it fixed".. I thought.

Like OP I'm also a Xoogler, so after two rounds of unsuccessful appeals through the front door (including updating my payment account to a hard card, providing articles of incorporation, and so on, to no avail), I figured it was time to call in my first ever favor. Surely one of my old-timer engineer buddies could thunk a ticket somewhere and maybe we'd help them fix a bug in some automated system in the process.

But the Google of 2022 is far different than the earlier days. It seems individual employees, even well-placed engineers, have incredibly and increasingly limited agency to fix things outside their immediate purview; a wiki about internal escalations for ads suspension stated they were no longer accepted, vaguely for reasons of "compliance".

On the bright side, the whole episode made me rethink and ultimately diversify our technology dependency on Google. I was naive not to do so more seriously and earlier.
This again?

Did you miss the last 47 threads where people discussed the real world goods and services they purchase with cryptocurrency?
This is brilliant. I've been planning to print and bind some old journals from the Internet Archive and other places (eg Analog Dialogue), and I've been putting it off because I couldn't bring myself to set up for more involved binding methods.

But as other comments say, I may go with the purpose-made spinetape and maybe a cardboard cover (but then I'll start procrastinating over cover design!)
Making mobile apps accessible with machine learning
1. Lots of unpredictable overhead tackling an intractable problem.

2. Humans are yucky.

3. I really think they don't want more customers. Seems like their plan was to scrape the bottom of the barrel and catch whoever ended up there, and for an assortment of reasons, they ended up getting a massive amount of customers. If people want some fancy white glove service, plenty of other options are available, they have no need to compete in that space.
Seems like a total non-problem. It doesn't matter if it captures 4%, 99% or 0.000001% of the solar energy. All that matters is the total cost of the fuel at the end is in the same ballpark as current fuel prices. This depends on the plant being economic to build and to run.

For example, if you can design a cheaper version of the plant that captures only 1% of the energy of the sun, you just need 4 times as many mirrors (and the land to put them on). That might cost more than the savings on the cheaper plant design, or it might cost less. It might depend on where you are building the plant and what the land values are there and how much sunshine the area gets.
Problem is that the consoles market is very lucrative for CPU vendors because it is a guaranteed turnover of specific models. Intel, AMD and Qualcomm will implement them. You can disable it though. It would suck if it were enable by default, at least lenovo said they will disable it at first.
Agreed. For proof, just look at how so much anti virus software can be considered malware in their own right.
So no books then? Most of them are published commercially.
I don't know anybody's advocating for people to stay in abusive relationships. Maintaining the family structure means keeping a close bond with the people you love as much as possible. If they don't respect you enough, and you can't work it out, leave, and find someone who does respect you. And build a family bond there.
Highly intelligent, (technically) capable and motivated people are probably not in any way correlated with the amount of complexity you are needing to fight with. And if it is, it's most likely negative.

Lack of intelligence is probably not your problem, the computer genius who swoops in and saves the day only exists in movies. You are probably in a much bigger need of accountable management who actually structures the work and aligns the team by making decisions.

There are plenty of reliable, mature, productive people with great team work and communication skills, who will get rejected because they say that they are actually passionate about playing guitar, not programming, and because they can't solve esoteric programming problems on whiteboards.

Your hiring process is not optimised to further business goals, it's optimised for acting out the big bang theory in the workplace.
In efficient and mostly essential-focused civilization, enough money for a decent living cannot flow to households by only abiding to the supply-and-demand economic rules: this is dangerous to believe in such utopia, it is similar to the soviet one.

It is even more accute when related to being able to afford an accomodation: countries and cities around the world are increasing significantly their public housing share, to a point private housing becomes the lesser way.

Heard Singapore is at 80% and Vienna at 65%. But here, we are talking about Singapore and Austrian cultures, in which that amount of public housing could work, in many other cultures you will end up with unmaintained slums.
I admit there are evenings when I just don't feel like cooking at all--although a lot of the time I then realize it would be more effort/time to hop in the car and get takeout. I also admit that if I lived in a city and had good takeout options like decent Chinese within a 5 or 10 minute walk, I'd probably get takeout more.

I've been mostly working at home (or traveling) for years now but when I was going into an office, a had a repertoire of quick and easy weeknight meals--and others that I could make on weekends and give me one or two meals of leftovers.
This looks nice, the goals seem to be pretty close to SerenityOS's ones : a "love letter" to 90's UNIX experience, using modern tech (although this is obviously not a full-blown OS like Serenity). I love retro projects like this!
That sounds like banker’s getting into the game late.
The Rodeo Clown Theory of Personal Development
> although it may be too late for this account

Aren't bans from Google services always eternal in the sense that trying to circumvent them by e.g. creating different accounts just gets you in even hotter water? Plus, it is very easy to detect when someone reinstates an ad (or Play Store app / YouTube channel) for something that was already banned under a different account.
We've been hearing this story for a real long time...
Microsoft doesn't need an "untamperable" kernel to force spying on users. Windows 10/11 has horrible invasive telemetry that can't be disabled, but no one has figured out how to modify the OS and strip it out, all the "solutions" involve temporarily disabling services or blocking network traffic. Is there actually some new capability here that points to future surveillance and censorship, or are you just fitting everything Microsoft does into a narrative where these things are just around the corner and waiting for the right technology? In my opinion the technology has been there for many years, it's just waiting for the US to go insane enough to implement massive censorship.
how are individuals rewarded for this?
might as well drop apple laptops, as well, since Pluton is pretty much Secure Enclave for PC.
Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?
It exists in danish as well. Where it's actually picked up from English.

https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=co
> First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless

Just want to make a small point that people often pay not for the information but for how it's packaged. Ideally I buy things that take free information & package them in a condensed way that I can learn easier & quicker.
National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents
ohwait, that means no more computers at all.

well shit, time to switch careers.
Even then what is the goal? If you can simulate a universe then you've figured everything out already.
Very well. Grunt work is very appreciated and it not only allows you to start working without pressure it endears you to the other senior engineers as a can-do person. As they will feel grateful and released from the grunt work they might even start doing direct mentoring. They also will start to get to know you, with all the benefits it brings. That has been my experience in both professional as well as open source development.
RPA is a simple technology that completes repetitive, rule-based actions from structured digital data inputs. RPA automates processes and tasks by mimicking action through scripting and following rules. In contrast, cognitive automation leverages learning, reasoning, and self-correction.
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GameStop's NFT Marketplace: unlikely “winner”?
He makes a valid point though. Money is uninteresting when you have it, but very important if you don't. Those are two extremes, but the point stands for the shades of gray in between.

And the idea that software engineers make a lot of money and are debt free at 60 is mostly an American thing. Around here it's easy to pay more than a months net salary in mortgage payments (you need two incomes), and that's after you've payed three years salary as obligatory cash deposit.

(10M SEK house, 50k SEK/month salary)
Does reflashing the BIOS EEPROM (via hardware clip) work? Or have they "secured" that out of the question too?
In the US, the "mini bibliotheek" is called a "Little Free Library". There are four or five within a fifteen-minute walk of where I live.
For certain definitions of "just fine". Some manufacturers will use a private tag to hold the same information that's meant to be in a standard tag—and even sometimes put different values in the two, with the private tag being correct.
lol Amazon is now more like Ebay than a store with their own inventory, as in the majority of sales come from shady third party marketplace vendors. If you think it’s safer it’s most likely because they’ve gotten very good at rigging reviews.
The only industry I wouldn't want to be in now is Crypto.

Everything else, it's just a blip. Upward and onward. Be greedy when others are fearful etc
But this is a critical observation. The thing that increases pay is not switching jobs, but working at companies that pay in different tiers.
I applied to several Apple positions this year, they are still hell-bent on hybrid/on-site positions.
Show HN: Semdle – a novel AI /NLP powered, semantic-based word game
Semdle, is a novel Artificial Intelligence (NLP) powered, semantic-based word game. It's like Wordle, but with a twist - you have to guess words with higher semantic score (closest in meaning) to find the hidden word.

What is semantic and example?
Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words. For example, "destination" and "last stop" technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.

How to Play
~ Guess the hidden word in 20 tries.
~ One hint word is provided at the start of game to get you started.
~ Each guess must be a valid English word. Hit the enter button to submit.
~ For each guess, a semantic similarity score shows how close your guess was to the hidden word.
~ Use additional 4 hints as needed.

Challenge and fun aspects
~ The game uses GPT-3 APIs from OpenAI to compute the dynamic semantic score for each guess word. The hints too are generated dynamically using GPT-3 prompts.
~ There are infinite paths to successfully completing the game. As such, the game play is unique to each player.
~ The game play allows implicit multiple strategies for players to discover and apply.
~ The skill is to use limited hints, and guess words with higher semantic score to reach the goal.
~ The game score can be computed and shared based on combination of number of tries and hints used (not yet implemented in beta).

This is currently in beta and I would love to get constructive feedback. So go ahead and give it a try - and feel free to share it with friends!

http://167.71.1.193/

Cheers!
Sandeep Khomne
Breast reconstruction is reversible, minus some possible loss of nerves from the original tissue source.
I have a different opinion about Curtis - I think it presents the topics in a uniquely understandable way, and is a very valuable book for learning undergraduate-level astrodynamics.

> I’d say if you’re starting out, go with BMW, and if you want to get more advanced, go with Schaub and Junkins

I'd replace BMW with Curtis here.
And there are thousands if not millions of Americans without healthcare. Not a judgement against you or anyone looking for healthtech jobs, more power to you/them, but that's where I personally draw the line as someone looking for a (hopefully ethical) software/Web development job.
If you're not on the executive team, or on the fast track to getting there, being called an asset to a business should be considered an insult.

Be an asset to your family.
> ...Now, I only write original journal entries on the left side of a notebook and leave the right side for future responses. I make a habit of revisiting journal entries from a week, a month, and a year prior, etc, and expounding on the right side of the page with lessons learned later, counter points, and context from an "outside" perspective...

This is the sort of thing that if one was a famous person...then after their death, historians would consider a gold mine to discover! For example, when the journal of Nikola Tesla waas found and in addition he had entries years l;ater of his thoughts about aid original entries, that would be doubly-amazing. This is no less amazing of an idea for us mere mortals! Thank you for sharing this seemingly simple but awesomely wonderfuly idea!!!
My google cloud account is blocked since day one... My best impression about google is that they don't use their own products, and leadership simply doesn't care.
If you're looking for safety in tech, look at the individual companies rather than the industries. Sure there are some industries that are slightly better or worse than others, but overall there isn't a huge difference.

Why look at the companies? See who's growing in a logical fashion. If the company doubled in size at the start of COVID and keeps growing at similarly crazy rates - that might be a sign of trouble. It doesn't matter if the company is 100, 1000, or 10,000. The same general rules apply.

Belts are tightening. If a company was hiring stupidly/risky, they are going to need to lay off people - unfortunately. Or maybe they don't "need to" layoff, but they will want to. We've already seen this at some of the bigger tech companies.
That's cool, but you can't give out mailboxes for free like you can give away computers. It needs to run somewhere, the servers maintained by someone. Do you have a better solution than Gmail? I know only about Microsoft, is that even an improvement?
Not representative I'm sure, but early in the pandemic with offices closed, I saw more than one "Woe be me" comments from large tech employees bemoaning how they were going to manage with their office cafeterias closed.
Refer to “Practical uses of synchronized clocks in distributed systems” for some info on algorithms like this.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/112600.112601

Google spanner uses stuff like this with a clock called TrueTime. I don’t know how leap seconds / smearing is handled in that system.
I thought most of the world have settled on Metric Ton / tonne already.

Are there any places where Imperial Ton is still being used?
Textbooks should really be public domain. They're paid for by public money anyway, it's just we currently also pay 10x the cost to make them directly to elsevier or pearson.
Lots of legal liability and often more applicants than needed. Similar to the reason to not say anything in an exit interview and “ok thanks“ is really all employees get to say to management.
I remember, after Loggly raised ~4.2M, our revenues hit $7,500 after about 4-6 months. At the time, I thought the effort to build what we had built, code-wise, could be done by 1-2 people in maybe a couple of years.

Marketing plays a big part in how much revenue comes in to a startup. The product also plays a big part, but if the product does what people need it to do, it becomes a marketing task to accelerate growth to justify the investments.

Startups are a balancing act, especially when there are multiple stakeholders involved. I'm not sure these crypto offerings offer anything "product wise" that is useful to getting things done, other than making more money.

Slight of hand models are tricky to evaluate.

With Helium, they need people providing Internet to other people. Helium's "offering" drops to being an exchange from the marketplace (which must be grown) to the user base (which must also be grown). This "burning the candle at both ends" approach requires many multiples of capital influx to achieve, and even then if the business model is not sound (we all already have Internet) it will fail.
that doesn’t tell you anything. it’s the short term airbnbs for the entire property that are illegal. you can still rent out a room in a place you live in as far as I know. or do monthly rentals.
Is it possible they're doing this in mass to benefit financially somehow?
Why not 100 Mg?
"nobody wants mediocre user interface"

Is Gmail your idea of a good user interface? How many ordinaty people can setup filters to direct email from a prticular sender to a particular folder? Why can't I right click on an email and add it to a specific rule?

"be unable to search emails"

The mobile Gmail app fails at search, if my latest email has a word in it, typing in that word into searchbar returns nothing. I had to switch to outlook, ironically

"Even with encrypted emails, that's just the beginning of the privacy story."

I can get bank statements or medical records by post, they are confidential and are accepted by every court in the land.

I can't get a bank statement by email and every email will be subject to 'is this real, did he really send it'. Its bear i possible to prove.

so I think we've failed as an industry here
CodeStruct is a wonderful tool! Combining the structured style of a block based editor while keeping certain aspects of text based editors really helps students transition smoothly!
The issues exist with normal non-anonymous cards also.

I'm currently having an issue because I used the same amex card on multiple Google accounts (within a corp gsuite instance), and I must have triggered something because now that card won't work anywhere with Google. And it fails with a useless "try again later error".

Same then happened with a standard visa card. These corporate cards haven't worked for over a year.

I wish they would just do some extra bit of verification rather than blacklist the cards without explanation.
Don't forget money laundering, human trafficking and drug sales! And destroying the environment through sheer waste is just the crypto cherry on top!
I favor the line of argument that goes something like, civilization enslaved humans by trapping them in productive cycles taking long time horizons.

The invention of social class, work for hire, and farming seem like pareto optimizations for the collective even though individual members seems like slaves. But they wouldnt have existed at all if we all hunted and gathered.

It just seems easy to imagine that 10000 years ago the opportunity to simply trade some work at the protocity for grain would be attractive compared to wandering daily for food.