skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix's Fraud Detection Framework for Streaming Services
Suppose I've taken ritalin and gotten very calm from it, why could that be? Certainly not placebo because I expected hyperfocus when I took it.
More interestingly, and even strangelier, however, the Goodwills around here take electronics for resale and put it all on the shelves without verifying that anything works at all. I returned an item once because it started sparking when I turned it on. I could not get my money back, they don't do that, only in-store credit for the amount paid, good for only 30 days, and only at the same store as the original purchase. Fat chance that I found anything there on which to use a credit of $60 or $70 within a month. But I went back the next week to look for anything plausible. The same piece of smoldering dumpster-fire trash I had returned was back on the shelf.
People don't need AI managers.

We need AI personal assistants to handle mundane shit while we do things that solve problems. Most people are reasonably capable of managing themselves once given initial direction.
Ah yes, the Uber app. Because all work is as simple and collaborative as going to a particular point to pick up a passenger, everybody dreams of working for a worker-friendly organization like Uber.
Selfish, but I was mad at myself that they made it free just a couple or so months after I paid for it. As a college student, I resented them a whole bunch for it because I was on the fence for a little over a year before pulling the trigger only for them to make it free (and I didn’t feel like I could have got my moneys worth because of that). If only I had waited a smidgeon longer!

Glad they are making it open source now though.
Forgot about that GPU cluster you spun up last month and built up an astronomical AWS bill? Don’t worry, you won’t have to sell a kidney, stay at Amazon Workhouse Services until you've cleared your debt!
My favorite aspect of lua is that it gives you all the tools to implement anything and do it simply. Python, C#, and many languages push you to find the “right” way to do things, and spend time searching through documentation to find the shortcomings of each option and which method may be optimal for your situation. It’s like walking into a hardware store with a specialized tool for everything—you spend your time worrying if you’re really using the right thing. Lua feels like a garage workshop with all the basic tools you need to quickly implement something on your own—master a few and only go hunting for something new when you’ve got no other choice.
I would be mortified to be delivering a monologue that my interlocutor is having trouble following or not interested in. And it would be the height of arrogance on my part to think I have a right to continue the monologue or be indignant that they’re prodding towards a more successful exchange.
Private Offices Redux (2006)
Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network
Yes, of course, I was simply saying that... it should not be too complicated in our era. Thanks.
Yes, I realized that it is inevitably to loose friends after having a child. At least those without kids frequently got very angry with me for cancelling dates late, not being on time, or not calling frequently enough. I cannot solve this riddle, so my priorities are

a) stay healthy enough to be able to support my family

b) spend time with my child, since you cannot postpone this

c) care for those who really rely on me (parents)

There's usually not much left afterwards, but I still have long term friends who understand that I may be largely unavailable for a 10 year timespan.
Yeah, as another commenter mentioned, all Google SWEs have developed in the cloud for a long time. It allows you to write, run, and test code performantly on any computer with a browser. Some of OP's wishlist are realities at Google. E.g.

- When I compile code, I want to fire up 1000 serverless
container and compile tiny parts of my code in parallel.
- When I run tests, I want to parallelize all of them. Or
define a grid with a 1000 combinations of parameters, or
whatever.

Build systems, testing infra, and cloud editing all need to be there for the magic to happen. When your cloud editor supports distributed builds & testing infra, and can be used by anyone, life is really good.

FWIW widely available cloud editing is also getting good with VSCode + LSP, if you don't want to pay Replit. Getting Bazel to do distributed builds instead of local builds is really annoying tho.
The Cold War didn’t become a Nuclear War because both powers realized in some capacity that an arms race spurred by this very assumption that the other is creating ever more advanced technology which could threaten one’s power would ultimately just result in each country annihilating the other in the name of self defense/preserving power/stability/“peace”.

Who benefits from those “advances” in technology in that case?

To argue that dangerous/unethical/X research must be done just because a potential adversary is also doing that research is what armed the world with the nuclear option in the first place. Sure, nuclear weapons would likely have been theoretically discovered anyways, but did they need to be actually built? Did we need to execute on actually building and using nuclear weapons to understand practical use cases for nuclear energy?

Because I am certain that powers today in an arms race with each other could and would, by this logic, discover and unleash entirely new man-made horrors upon this world that make nuclear weapons look elementary, if this is the path we’re going to go down.

Just because some people choose to study eugenics does not mean we all have to (or should).
EIP Climate Tech Index
Many communists in Europe openly support Russia. Maybe they never got the news about 1991. Or Maybe all that talk of anti imperialism was bullshit all along
> Historically, efforts to create cities by decree have not worked well.

Aren’t there a number of big cities that have been built by decree and work well? I’m thinking of capital cities like Canberra (AUS), Brasilia (BRA) and Washington DC (USA). Granted, these are not quite so ambitious as The Line, but they turned mostly uninhabited swampland and farmland into major cities.
There's a fine line between NIH (not invented here) syndrom and overusing third party libraries. The classic example being the is-even[0] npm library, which seems like a joke, but has ~200k weekly downloads. It just seems that many devs too quickly reach for a third party library before taking a few minutes to think if it would make more sense or not to write the code themselves.

0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
Sparse matrices is the answer. GPUs do not offer significant speed up in these cases.

Google for linear programming gpu acceleration to see for yourself
I use a piece of paper and scratch one or two words in order to not forget getting back into a point but also not interrupting.

Obviously this doesn’t work on all circumstances, but it works well on work zoom meetings.
While I appreciate the effort, this is just your opinion man! Im Sorry that this is going to sound like a rant because i disagree with allmost everything you said.

Of course High availability matters to me because i can be proud of what i build. No Its 2022 its not enough to just make public your /var/html/ folder and call it a day. While creating my rootles container builds i learn about the software that i am putting into my servers.

No its not okay for my site to be down for a couple of days because if i would not assume someone would be using it, why do i bother to create content in the first place?

Finally talking about electrical costs: 3 pies with k3s is about as much power as some people put into their IDLING graphics card.
I haven't seen so many people eagerly waiting for mainframes from 70s. As the author said - no IPs, no CIDR no NAT, no counting of ram so vast infinite resources, you only need a terminal to do everything remotely, it's only one development environement, mainframes for the masses this time....
And yet you still have to work within boundries because you or whoever you work for don't have money for infinite resources. It's a small contradiction omitted everywhere in these kinds of posts. But hey, lets come full circle into the 70s and welcome our ma...cough.. Cloud 2.0. If this happens there's hope. We will relive the microcomputer revolution after that. :)
T-Mobile USA should have different leadership than Deutsch Telekom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile

Although, Deutsche almost has majority ownership of T-Mobile USA, and is trying to get it:

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/deutsche-tele...
I'd love to give it a try. However, Pharo still doesn't run out of the box on my Fedora system. It used to work, up to Pharo ~5-6, then stopped working altogether. There's little documentation around installation and even less info on troubleshooting. I'd love to like Pharo, but it simply doesn't work, and nobody cares :( From my memories of it, even when it was still starting properly, it worked... Well, some of the time. Resizing the default font killed the looks of all UI elements, for example.

It's all fixable with enough time and effort, no doubt. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of time on my hands anymore. I'd love to see and use all the new shiny tools developed in and for Pharo, but - even if it started working again - I don't have the time to read all the code and piece the puzzle together on my own. Some kind of documentation would be nice. Hopefully, included in the distribution. No such luck as far as I can see.

So, even knowing that I'm missing out on some really cool things, I recently switched my Smalltalk development to Cincom® VisualWorks© Smalltalk (I hope I got these Rs and Cs right...) It's a version from 6 years ago at this point and partially closed-source, but it's rock-solid and stable, very well documented with thousands of up to date (easier to provide when you're working with a stable system) pages in PDFs, with guides and references; comes with a lot of goodies and working, well tested support for namespaces, inner classes, visibility modifiers for classes, extended streams (though they're closer to RxJava than classic streams, and I didn't like them very much), some other language extensions (no traits though), the GUI painter, and so on. And all of that works, even if some of it looks less glamorous then the screenshots presented here, which are all I'll ever see of this toolkit until Pharo starts treating users with a bit of basic respect.

I have a blog post about making VW IDE a bit prettier - just look at the screenshots: https://klibert.pl/posts/smalltalk-ide-quickfix.html - yeah, it looks so last-gen, right? I know. But it works. And it survived like 3 system upgrades, 1 reinstall and 1 fresh install on a new laptop without issues. If only Cincom was more flexible when it comes to licensing the commercial version!
> It's just a massive feel good exercise.

At best. At worst, it is a concept pushed by corporate giants to pin responsibility for plastic/trash production on the working class. "It's not our fault for shipping everything in plastic, or using Chinese factories spewing unregulated megatons of smog - it's your fault for not recycling."
Oh they do. Even some staunch putinists would say Russia is following US/western example (like of meddling in foreign country affairs in case of Ukraine).
Interestingly, one could host this on a WWW frontend for Git. Then you'd only need to download (say a daily) diff. Why download the entire list when you can match checksum?
I’m just talking about when I’m using my distro of choice, not in general. Politics by definition is divisive and always thinking about it is destructive, I want to relax and stop thinking about stuff at least when I’m minding my own business using Linux and sharing stuff without caring about what other people’s opinions are.
I can imagine it can be a fintech opportunity. An AI that automatically performs a credit check behind the scene and lend you the money in advance, probably money in your account in seconds. It's not too hard actually.
There has never been a more just war than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the sense that no other war has had so many different incompatible justifications
How to make better use of antidepressants
After talking to manager at Google during an interview and him explaining to me that almost all tools at Google are home baked because most if not all services are so huge you wont be able to use opensource solutions for that.

Then I reminded myself about VictoriaMetrics that in
benchmark outclassed Google Cloud Metrics by an order of magnitude.

Ppl at Google think they are the smartest (and often are) but in some cases they are simply outclassed so hard.

After this discussion decided Ill never ever want to work with ppl with such attitude.
While I was still working there, a vendor had approached us with a service that allow employees to get a pay advance. No fees if it's 2 to 3 days ahead. I can't for the life of me remember their name. But it's basically a debit card you get where your estimated pay is deposited earlier. And they have an api we can integrate with.

So to answer your question, yes it sure can.
https://archive.ph/p5aYe
How do you quantify the tipping point where a longer but continuous line is prettier than a broken line? (broken where?)
I'm not convinced that 16ms or 6ms is the right budget to talk about. Sure, if you want someone to see the picture, make a decision and reflect it back in the next picture, that would be the budget. But take a comparison to telephony, the ITU says the budget for unnoticeable latency is 150ms. So I can talk to you on the phone with 150ms latency and not even notice. Now, I think gaming is probably lower than 150 because the timing of speech is fairly slow compared to twitch shooters, but I don't think it's 6ms. You might be right it's still unachievable (and I agree, the only viable solution might be to boil the ocean by sticking data centres on the end of every street and create a new guaranteed low latency protocol that takes precedence over all other TCP traffic), but I'm not as certain.
The limit on sick days only matters for payroll decisions (what bucket will the day off fit in, paid leave or unpaid leave?). IME that's handled directly by the employee most of the time when they request the day off in the system.

The manager gets involved at performance evaluation time, or if it has severe otherwise impacts (you're then asking the person to potentially leave), but I don't see the "figure out a solution" part of it. Asking someone to be less sick feels complicated.
Sorry but this is not optimization, this is a bunch of heuristics ran on a gpu.
I think that you're mixing up Watson the jeopardy bot with Deep Blue the chess bot.
That only works in scenarios where labor is fungible, like logo design. Try telling a key employee all that stuff, you'll get told you can do it yourself.
I thought the problem with modifying gravity was that there was no one modification you could make to explain observations. It's plausible that 1000s of different galaxies spin differently because they each have different amount of mass of dark matter in them. But it's not really possible to explain 1000s of different data points without 1000s of different gravity equations. If there were some rule (eg on large scales gravity is actually an exponential) then someone would have found it and we would have a candidate for a new law. But they haven't...

Is that wrong?
Yea, really screwed. Choosing the top country by least hours worked is not appropriate as a baseline. Look at Mexico, or any Asian country besides Japan. They work their asses off compared to Americans.

Meanwhile software engineers in the U.S. make more than twice their German counterparts' salary: https://www.google.com/amp/s/codesubmit.io/blog/software-eng...

Of course, not everyone is a software engineer. But it doesn't seem surprising there would be a correlation between fewer hours worked and lower salaries, likely because employers who are able to pick countries to hire from will avoid those where individual workers do the least amount of work.
> Turns out, we didn't either, at least for military applications

The military purposes for the Shuttle were primarily servicing and refuelling the KH-11 satellites and launching other NRO payloads that couldn't ride a normal launcher.

The cargo bay and cross-range landing performance specifications were derived from those mission requirements.
I think we all agree that when we says about the damn things about JIRA, it's about development experience...
Sure, and workers have great fun exploiting the hell out of whatever shitty metrics they're given but certain stuff just doesn't get done, and workers who like dealing with humans (probably the best sort of workers to have in a retail organization...) leave.

We could do this with developers too. Give the biggest raise to the developers with the most lines of code committed, and maybe design a shiny dashboard with it as a number to replace the project manager. What could possibly go wrong?
January 2017 with 90 days 4h on this end. Love this product.
> When you upgrade to the next version of Windows and you experience (a) disk corruption, (b) sporadic Explore crashes, or (c) sporadic loss of functionality in your favorite program, do you blame the program or do you blame Windows?

Even knowing all that, I would still blame Windows for foisting an unnecessary, unwanted upgrade.

Just quasi-freeze the thing already into a strict maintenance mode.

I would also blame Microsoft for creating that situation in the first place. It's severely ironic that a "certain company" would have a program that is so important that Microsoft has to scramble to put in compatibility hacks for undocumented behaviors to keep the program running --- yet somehow that "certain company" doesn't have the rapport with Microsoft to proactively collaborate on a more proper solution.

Microsoft's behavior creates a double standard: some players in the ecosystem are important enough that their dependencies on undocumented behaviors are catered to ... and then there is the rest.

Everyone depending on undocumented behavior should be left hung out to dry equally, or else catered to equally.

Document the backwards compatibility hack and make it work for everyone, or don't do it.
Wow, thought mine was high. I have been listening since October 2015, 114 days. I must confess that sometimes I fall asleep while listening.
It seems like the pillar is lit from an angle? Is this an artifact of some other phenomena (eg higher density being at the same side of the pillars) or is there a nearby star shining on it?
Peter Drucker argued (with data) in the late 90s that the entire edifice of computing had yet to return a total positive return on business as a whole. basically claiming that if one subtracts total cost including things like the brain drain of minds which would normally funnel into advanced business and management schools to comp sci programs, and the tendency for advances in individual firms' efficiencies to cross cancel in a competitive market, not to mention actual hardware/software costs, then business and by extension consumers are paying an ongoing tax to support computing, which is not returned even equally as improved services and goods.
If you do this, please make it alphanumeric, like the above comment's example and make sure your prefix is unique. Modern search engines, especially Google, are very bad at finding literal strings if searched without quotes (many users don't know to do that) and have all sorts of gotchas that make finding errors near impossible.

Some bad examples (both from Microsoft):
- "Code -4" (putting a minus in front of a word makes Google exclude that word from results),
- "0x00071153" (search engines love to omit the 0x and give you a bunch of phone numbers instead)
Syncthing can keep a local history for a dir with git.
> How, specifically, will AI be better at that than humans?

At first, it won't. But eventually, with AIs getting more elaborate and employee databases getting connected, it is not hard to see a scenario where "fired by an AI" becomes a black mark that prevents future employment. Such a black mark would eventually be enough for Jack to follow orders, just for fear of consequences.
And because every dev has a different idea about how to simplify things, you throw any sort of standardization out of the window.
Wait, how does that work?

The shadow is always going to be opposite of the sun, so it does not provide any extra info which the sun doesn't already give you.

In order to estimate the current time ("it's about 5 o'clock") using the position of the sun/a shadow - you need to know the cardinal directions. So, only if you already know where north is, you can tell the time from the shadow.

In order to estimate the cardinal directions from the position of the sun/a shadow - you need to know what time it is. So only if you know the time, you can tell where north is from the sun/shadow. And to know the time you need a watch or something similar?

But if you can deduce both time AND cardinal directions just using the sun/shadow and no other information... yeah, I have to agree, that seems like witchcraft!
I wish them success. It could be an interesting experiment. I hope it is not a scam by some architects. From people living in other places, this is not attractive, but for people living in deserts, it could be something nice.
Ask HN: Tips for making concise demo clips?
Recently I released v1.0 of my vim-like cursor control for Windows[0], and for its README I recorded some clips of myself using the various modes, but constantly find the result unsatisfactory when played back.

I was quite baffled as to how to contrive short use-case scenarios that are self-explanatory without explicitly annotating what is happening on the screen.

It seems to me that doing it well is a sophisticated art, yet I could hardly find any satisfactory literature in helping one become proficient at it.

I would very much appreciate if folks here could kindly share insights and experiences about this particular art. Thanks.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse
I avoid things like Echo, Roomba, and closed ecosystem IOT-type devices for just this reason. And I'd never allow these in my home.

To get around this problem, it would be cool to see something like a DIY merged with quality industrial design where the owner gets end-to-end custody of resulting data. Unfortunately this doesn't lend itself to being a favorable investment for corporate monopolies.
> Shuttle's very large wings

Surprisingly, the first result from the search returns [0]

[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/28243/could-space-...
> Google's biggest Android partner, Samsung, is in decline in many established markets

I can't find a source for that.
Calling in sick regularly is often a sign of some other problem. Any competent manager will encourage an employee to either deal with that problem or arrange for help.

In a dystopia, the manager will indeed ignore that problem and 'encourage' the worker to come to work. I believe this style of management can be replaced by an AI quite readily, and I believe this has already happened by rather trivial software (think the fake gig-workers for uber, lyft etc. Don't come in today? Your rating will drop tomorrow, along with your wage).
Are you sure you are talking of the P21 peptide (Ciliary neurotrophic factor), and not of Ras GTPase or p21 as a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor?
Last several replies you gave are such high quality. I hate it when people overintellectualize such obvious things like having a kid. I would have flipped out at the other poster, but you stuck in there and gave some really good points. Awesome.