skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sounds great. However, I've seen ↓31/↑4 and ↓20/↑10 out of it. Anecdata doesn't prove much.

Anecdotes cannot prove population statistics, you need an unbiased random sample for that. But anecdotes absolute can prove limits though. Remember, this is what I was responding to, emphasis added:

>Starlink isn't CAPABLE of meeting its performance commitments

That's what I took issue with and think is important. Starlink is absolutely capable of those speeds; I've seen them. So the problem isn't the technology, the problem is balancing serving the most people (which is a public good too) with maintaining enough performance on average for each one, all while scaling and evolving the technology fast. I'm assuming SpaceX could have submitted private data showing the public results by ookla were off in some way that would have been sufficient and that the FCC didn't ignore that out of lobbying/politics, so I'm taking it as a given that they did fall behind there. But it's not like Starlink is "done", they're continuing to increase sat numbers, build more ground stations, they're prepping to bring online intersat optical links and have no given a firm date for that (it's required for their marine service to get away from coastal waters), they've got much better sats and a solid process on the rocket to launch them. If we didn't need someone to take on some more risk and help accelerate things, this entire program would be meaningless and there would be no need for government in this space at all! I guess it feels like they're being punished for trying to move faster when that's exactly what lots of Americans need. We needed something better then the crap we've had 10 years ago let alone now.

Of course, this may be 100% the correct legal decision depending on the exact language, administration and so on of the program. I could easily see the FCC not doing well on that but that doesn't mean they aren't required to stick to it by law. But that's not what I see most people criticizing it on, they're talking technical and societal angles instead. And on those grounds, I can be disappointed if the program didn't have some leeway. "Needs to be ready by 2028" isn't good enough!
> It removes some of the "romance" of donating items

I mean, what did you expect? Honest question: what romantic views did you have about donating used clothes (or anything) to Goodwill? Did you think they handed them out for free at the local soup kitchen for the homeless?
Seems like a no-brainer. But maybe they're building their own.
> It's an absolutely crucial issue that no one seems to be talking about or taking seriously.

Most men communities talk about it in one form or the other. However, most men communities on the internet are usually close in one form or another to the right politically.
Out of curiosity, where have you seen loop-blinn implemented? I was under the impression that it was generally a no-go due to the patent (which, incidentally, expires in 2024).
If you look at the authorized bids[1] versus the defaulted bids[2], you can see only three companies got any money from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund broadband subsidy. The other five companies got nothing, including SpaceX and LTD.

E-Fiber San Juan LLC gets $7.5M to provide broadband services to 1,085 homes in rural Utah. Monster Broadband gets $5.8M for 11,286 homes in Texas and Tennessee. Northern Arapaho Tribal Industries gets $7.8M for 2,408 homes in Wyoming (probably on Indian reservations). So a total of around $21 million will be spent on 15,000ish homes.

The FCC's budget for the RDOF subsidy is around $20 billion for 4 million homes, so 99.99% of the money is still up for grabs, as are 99.96% of the rural households.

1. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-848A2.pdf

2. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-848A3.pdf
A 2012 review in Wired says it rides pretty much like a normal bike: https://www.wired.com/2012/02/stringbike/

Other than that I can't readily find any more reviews from anyone who claims to have ridden one. I wonder why, given that they apparently have been making them for 10 years?
That's a pretty fair dog actually.

I like the goal you're looking at, I just don't think that's a viable path from where we're standing; which is to say in reality a broken US gives you more potential chaos, not less?

I've come to believe that "nation" is somewhat of a weird and artificial concept and so that in many ways it almost doesn't make sense to compare e.g. the US and Russia. And so, while "no lopsidedly strong nation" would be optimal, from here I do think that US in its current form is a pretty good hedge against the others, for the most part.
When I click “Select all” in Gmail my browser hangs for several seconds at least.
And now they say there is too much people. Hello! There is not too much people, there is is misutilization of your workforce! Instead of doing 100500+ chat app that will not do it to production, maybe focus on real customer problems and not on metrics? There is a lot comments now and before from people saying they seeing no impact from their work in FAANG. Of course, when your code means nothing and changes nothing - you will loose all motivation to do something useful
>But as companies grow they install more and more rules and regulations that end up making sure nothing ever gets done. It is not unusual to meet "developers" whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don't get anything done!

As long as you're not mean, you can hang out at most companies for at least 6 months just doing nothing.

I've been reprimanded before , when I took the initiative to try and start building out a framework. I literally had nothing else to do, but I was later told I should have waited until a committee could be formed.

Even if you barely do anything, at least you're not causing trouble. In my career. I've worked with several abrasive angry people, I've seen folks confront C level employees.

Developers who cry about having to use a PC to write some.net code and throw a temper tantrum. Threaten to just walk out because some legacy code needed updating and they're so used to having a precious Mac to code on.

That said, I actually really like him how limited social interactions are with remote work. I don't need to know your political beliefs, I don't need to be your friend, I don't want to get drinks with you, I want to do what is necessary for my job.

Corporate fluff plays a role. I imagine Google develops products that will never be profitable just so they can look at their shareholders and say, looky we do stuff aside from search.
I'm willing to spend, say, 5 or 10x what one would at Uniqlo or Old Navy to buy quality garments that will last a long time and be socially acceptable in upper middle class west coast cliques—i.e., I don't need tailored suits in my world. Where do I go?
Not sure I understand the comparison with Lisp. You list five reasons for the semantic web that mostly involve cost.
The most interesting thing is that the model is relatively small compared to Imagen, Dalle 2 and Parti. They have specially trained this model so that people can easily use it on their GPUs. I think StabilityAI will train a larger version of Stable Diffusion, perhaps with a larger text encoder, as the one used in this model is quite small and I think that is the biggest bottleneck in this model; Imagen shows how scaling the text encoder is actually more important than scaling the generator.
In the end, the architecture of the model is not very different from LDM-400m that CompVis had already trained, but it is conditioned on CLIP text embeddings instead of text tokens, they trained an autoencoder from 512 instead of 256, and of course Stable Diffusion was trained for much more.
Unity Software Wins Contract to Help US Government Defense
I wonder if it's still that way. At Meta it is not, you need to go through an interview loop to move from Production Engineering to SWE (even though the culture at Meta makes PE far more similar to SWE than SRE is to SWE). I bet the reasoning is the same: they don't want to make it easy for folks to move from PE to SWE.
> serious about being able to back on a working bike in almost any conceivable breakdown situation

We've seriously shifted the goalposts from "serious cyclist."
My wife and I tried a number of apps and settled on YNAB. We've been using it for a year now and the app is incredibly helpful. Fair warning, the learning curve is a little steep.

Fortunately, it supports syncing with the small credit union we belong to. It does NOT support some of our accounts like our retirement accounts, some credit cards like Apple and Sam's Club, but it supports enough to be convenient.

YNAB does have an API https://api.youneedabudget.com/

My wife and I are considering switching banks to have more reliable integration with YNAB.
Thanks for the question. From where I'm standing this is a great emai and a opportunity for brands to convey their message more effectively and to make users experience more enjoyable.

From where this community is standing, this is a big opportunity to work on fun projects. Email development is specific a little bit, but it's greatly enjoyable for many.

Whether it's worth the risks, hmm, maybe, maybe not, I've seen a few great arguments in this thread.

Actually, from this thread, I feel this type of email I mentioned MIGHT be acceptable in a sense. The ones where you can do a functional thing from email, like accept a calendar event are a different story.

But we're a long way from having amp as a standard practice.
The problem is in the real world, you can't perfectly optimize prioritization. In theory, you can run 5 4k streams on 100Mb. However, in practice, real time data can get messed up.

Before switching to 1Gbps fiber, I had 100Mbps and I frequently noticed that Zoom would lag when 2 people were streaming at the same time. There were enough situations where 3 clients simultaneously needed more data that introduced latency.
I can't speak much to European history, but near-universal electrical and telephone service in the United States is the result of a very substantial regulatory and subsidy effort from the 1920s-1970s. Some of this was achieved through regulation (e.g. AT&T's requirement to provide telephone service in all markets that met certain triggers regardless of profitability, which resulted in AT&T charging higher prices elsewhere as a form of subsidy) and through direct legislative facilitation and subsidies (e.g. the Rural Electrification Act and resulting Administration, which offered extremely advantageous loans to rural electric and telephone co-ops).

These programs still exist to some degree in the form of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Universal Service Fund Administrator Co (USAC), and the chunk of money here (called RDOF) is actually a specially earmarked portion of the USF. That said, USF's impact on improving broadband across the country has been somewhat limited because USF's focus tends to be on areas and individuals with no service (e.g. due to rural locations or poverty), rather than improving competitiveness of service in markets that have it. For example, the "Free Cellphone" popup booths you see in poorer areas of the US are an implementation of USF programs to provide subsidized connectivity to low-income individuals, as are the $10/mo ISP plans available to low-income households.

This set of priorities is in no small part because, as you can imagine, the incumbent ISPs lobby against USAC actions that would subject them to more competition. But it also comes out of the history of the concept of "Universal Service" which was born in an era when regulated monopolies were the norm for public utilities, and so inter-provider competition was simply not something being discussed. At that point in history, areas with inter-provider competition were generally viewed as bad for the consumer because in areas with competing telcos (for example Los Angeles in the 1910s with LA Telephone and LA Home Telephone) you could only call people that used the same telephone company as you... requiring businesses to have two phones and list two phone numbers. The present world of multiple competing but interconnected providers wasn't really something that was contemplated when most of the regulatory system was built, and post-1982 (AT&T divestiture) the regulatory system has never really caught up... which we can fairly confidently blame heavily on extensive lobbying by both divested AT&T companies (USWest, AT&T, etc) and their competitors that forced the '82 monopoly busting (Sprint/MCI, GTE/Verizon, etc).
I would argue that deep-thinking technical work, with unpredictable hours where new ideas that compel you to bust our vim and make a diff can come at any moment, alongside a group of people who are similarly motivated to not just keep revenue ticking over but who want to completely change an whole market sector — that very much is an emotionally embedded relationship akin to a partnership.

It’s not for everyone. It certainly induces ageism when people have kids and start to find their work/life balance no longer aligns with daytime/nighttime. It’s also exhausting and requires physical and mental stamina that provably is lacking the older you get.

These things are real but it just because you don’t align with this kind of business, it doesn’t make it wrong. Perhaps you think these startupesque workers are being exploited? Their graduate salaries suggest otherwise.
Imagine investing early in a market with unlimited supply? Even the most aggressive artificial scarcity can't possibly out-pace Moore's law.
We do hire entry level people, in fact we're wrapping up our first cohort of interns right now. Exclusively hiring experienced dudes from the tech bubble is a failure mode in the long run. We're invested in hiring folks with diverse backgrounds and experience levels, and we need to talk about that more for sure.

Our jobs page is sparse right now because we’re focusing on hiring EMs to help grow a healthy eng org. We’ll have more openings before long, and you should absolutely apply when something sounds right. Feel free to hunt me down online in the mean time!
Woven fabrics like those on dress shirts should be ok
> Next year it's likely the Senate will have changed hands, so the likelihood of the program still existing is low.

This program started under the previous administration. Overall these subsidies have been around forever and will likely continue. Here’s a negative take on the status quo that runs through the history up to this program:

https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/broadband/rural...

Personally I think this falls into the category of “if it’s worth doing it’s worth doing poorly.” I actually think that having 100/20 as a benchmark is good and that Starlink will get there. Is it close enough to be an improvement over Hughsnet and 56k modems? Yes. Even at 20 up, 10 down it’s more usable.

Anything Elon Musk touches invites controversy these days so boring policy issues like this get a new life of their own.

If this were Comcast being shown the door we’d all be cheering. For example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-is...
One would hope that have a better analytics and conversion tracking setup by now, which would go further to see how well they convert into actual users, paid or oss.
> As a consultant having worked for both large government agencies and large corporations, they are all the same.

Large corporations are often indistinguishable from government agencies in part because all large, centralized organizations suffer similar problems, and in part because they become intertwined. The only difference is often whether your prison walls are gray or beige.

But capitalism is not just "large corporations". Capitalism is also startups, freelancers, small businesses, "mittlestand", cooperatives, family farms, etc. It is respecting property rights, and managing behavior through contracts and social norms rather than reams of regulations. Those things definitely are superior to government.
America’s New Monkeypox Strategy Rests on a Single Study
This iteration through pseudo productivity comes from management's real world problem of demonstrating progress on their projects. The promises of visibility on your development team's productivity always turns Agile into a steaming pile of burn-downs and story points.

"No one has done true Agile" is the "No one has done true Communism" for software engineering. Because, in the real world, no one uses Agile in an ideal environment free of pressures like deadlines or budgets.
If consider yourself one of those people who are smart, but not happy, ask yourself these questions:

Would you sacrifice a portion of your intelligence for an equal (whatever that might mean) portion of happiness?

There are people that you would consider very dumb and very happy, do you desire to swap places with them?

And finally, would you sacrifice all of your intelligence for eternal bliss?

If the answer is no to all, then you simply don't value happiness that much, which is totally fine. Society/culture might force you to think that happiness is the ultimate goal, but you don't have to accept that.

YMMV, but what worked for me is accepting happiness as a resource, same as food or sleep. You don't need too much of it, just enough be healthy and get through without dying.
What if you work for a company that specialises in complex clean ups?

Sadly, I know that a number more than zero of building companies will simply bury asbestos when they happen upon it, rather than paying through the nose for specialist disposal companies.
>are Snap or TikTok disadvantaged because Facebook, Microsoft and Google are sharing information

While I think it's ridiculous entities like Meta have taken it up on themselves to have their own "watch lists", in this instant I'd say absolutely not. Indeed I would argue one of the significant reasons Tik Tok is continuing to explode in popularity is they aren't participating in the overt censorship going on in the rest of big tech.
25mbit 4K ewwww this is why we don't yet have same bitrate of 4K blurays something like 128Mbps
If they don't pay they just assume the value of your work is zero and therefore crap.

Anything that doesn't do what they expect it's clearly your fault because you messed with it 8 months ago.
You should be able to ban him from your website. But not all other websites on the Internet.
Clothes ripping by accident, food or drink spilling on them and staining them, and so on...
As my Reinforcment Learning professor said: "It's all about incentives, people"

This is the kind of idea that begs me to reconsider crypto as a possible real-world-problem-solving-tool. But I've yet to see an example of crypto working in a way that feels like it'll take off for anything other than (1) another form of "stock" at best, or (2) a grift at worst. I suppose we're in the market for another solution.

To use a Machine Learning analogy, there's the "Credit Assignment Problem." which is basically the same thing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ajcq9xWi2fmgn8RBJ/the-credit...
I feel like addiction is a complicated label; this is a natural[0] desire. If it is agreed to be destructive to the pursuit of forming healthy relationships: any amount is harmful, or at least the start of something that will be more and more harmful.

[0] - natural like how we crave sugar for our health, yet harmful like I eat candy all day
Why don't you just make sure there are no unsavory links on whatever page you are using the in-app browser for and disable/hide the address bar so they can't just jump onto the open web? Seems like you can have your cake and eat it!
The problem with ideas like this is that it takes the ladder away from middle class and the poor.

Both need growth in order to improve their conditions, and their place in society exists only because they can produce growth.

Without it the power of the wealthy over them would become a weight pressing down with such force that it would intolerable.
Yes. Is there a legitimate use case for injecting arbitrary Javascript by the native app? (Honest question)
The compartment there is not for the filter that comes with the bags. You'll notice the cut lines don't match up. That filter behind the bags is the pre-motor filter. It's a very wirey filter, kind of like the back of a sponge. It's not smooth.

If you try using an exhaust filter on the motor intake, it will starve the intake, stressing the motor.
I love little facts like this.

I recall seeing an Instagram(?) post from Kanye West where he’d had a tab open in the background for the Pirate Bay, I believe searching for a fairly common plugin. (EDIT: I confirmed this, link at [0])

The reality is - a lot of us pirated software to get by, and potentially to learn; especially as younger folks.

But as we grow in our industry and career, (especially if you work in software!) I believe supporting software by buying it is important.

For myself - I justified pirating software that I used virtually every day as ‘when I make enough money from it, I’ll buy a license’.

Old habits die hard; though, and I’ve only recently turned that around.

Great example: for years and years I’d used a MacOS independently developed FTP client called ‘Fetch’, but each time I’d either just used the trial and kill the plists to reset it or found ‘some alternatives’, when available.

I’d got a tax refund recently, I was dealing with the expired trial prompt, and this time I decided to just finally drop the…$25(?) it was to buy a license. It felt good, and I’ll never have to deal with that minor annoyance again.

As I get older, and my careers are going well; the inconvenience of keeping an up to date pirated version of software, blocking IP addresses, etc; becomes more annoying than it is just to throw some cash at a license.

I just want the tool. I want it to ‘just work’ - and if it doesn’t - it’s nice to have the potential option for support.

That being said, I do refuse to pay for some software out of principle, namely those that charge subscription fees.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/kanye...
The interesting primitives are: add mul fma sqrt. All of these are mandated by ieee-754 to be correctly rounded. While gpus have been found to cut corners in the past, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
1) Personally, I'd say that the search algorithm chosen should be customizable (there may be times you're looking for official sources AND times that you're looking for alternative ideas). At the very least, the algorithm should be very transparent. In my book, this isn't too transparent because the commentary on their algorithm is hidden away in some blog post that maybe less than 0.1% of YouTube's visitors would ever see without purposefully seeking it out.

2) On medical videos, to cover their butt from liability and also tell people to seek verification of information, I think warning labels on the page advising people to also seek help about medical problems through official sources and also their doctors would be a good idea. It's sort of weird to me that Google doesn't already have warning labels on medical related videos: the only thing they actually do is try to shill the vaccine on Covid-19 videos.

3) Google is not a medical institution with perfect knowledge of reality in the realm of health. They shouldn't be the arbiters of truth, only the platform that delivers ideas. Hell, even the best doctors in the world do not have perfect knowledge of reality and their fancy titles are not necessarily proof that their ideas are true.

4) What really bothers me is that progress beyond officially authorized medical ideas can be stopped by these efforts. Every good and valid idea is "unsupported by official sources" until it suddenly is. We've all heard stories about about the era when surgeons washing their hands was outright scoffed at by the medical community. If YouTube was around hundreds of years ago, they'd probably be calling the people who told surgeons to wash their hands conspiracy theories and cranks. There may be hundreds of nuggets of wisdom in unofficially sanctioned sources that would do the world good.