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>But I also think there's a lot more opportunity in using statistics/ml/data science in the top line than most companies practice.

I consider myself a fairly honest Data Scientist, in the sense that I like it when I can map what I'm doing to the value it delivers. I know some other great people I've worked with who are like this as well.

This is anecdotal, but all of us have hated working with many top line people because there's some really fuzzy mapping from goal to value (since value is realized in the long term), and some of the people are champion bullshitters. I don't need to explain sales people. But marketing, corporate strategy, and even upper product management - they drove us crazy because their standard of being data driven was absolutely not consistent with how we thought about things at all. All of it was because the mapping from project to revenue was over years, not quarters. And it was all projections.

Compare this to bottom line people, where the mapping from project to cost savings is on a shorter time frame. The types of personalities this attracts is different.

Maybe the growth hacking stuff at software companies is different and you can focus on revenue growth and still connect what you are doing to that. I've never worked in that role so I don't know.
Bengaluru, with 1.5M IT workers, has dodged the tech winter ripping through CA
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So I am no stranger to CL, but the problem solved in the article isn't actually one that's solved by evaluating less than the whole file at once, and in fact I didn't tell anyone to re-evaluate the whole file at all in this article.

The critical idea here is it applies to long-running functions, like a loop, a server, or other things. These, when handed function objects, will not reflect new behavior if you re-evaluate a single function.

The article solves for this by explaining to intermediate programmers that there is a difference between using function objects and using vars, something that Common Lisp programmers learn too by using #' to retrieve function objects and passing symbols and using symbol-function to look up the associated function as needed.
The reference that comes to mind for me is something out of one of Martin Gardner's _Aha! Insight_ books from decades ago -- the idea of encoding something like the Encyclopedia Britannica into one big long bitstring, then converting it into a fraction... and putting one single very careful mark on a stick to represent that fraction.

The difference is that where the real world doesn't allow for storing anywhere near that level of precision in a mark on a stick, the Conway's Life universe is considered to be unbounded, so there's as much room as we need to implement this RCT trick.
> When market conditions chance, companies need to adapt

I agree with that part ^

Let me frame this more broadly. _How_ and _when_ should companies adapt? There are many ways, across many timescales.

I'll give a made up example, hopefully in a reasonable ballpark. A company needs to save $250M / year. Let's say there are three options under consideration, not mutually exclusive / can be blended:

Option A: Lay off 1% of 10,000 employees, saving $250M/year.

Option B: 15% across the board salary cuts, saving $250M/year.

Option C: Lower executive and VP-level compensation packages (salary, options, stock, deferred pay, etc), saving $250M.

Fairness in service of the company goals means that all viable options are given due consideration.

It is relatively easy for a CEO to do lay offs, even if other options (lowering their own comp) has better effects.
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Ask HN: How to unblock Yahoo email address of recently-widowed grandmother?
My grandmother has just phoned me in some distress. She has just been locked out of the Yahoo email address that she shared with her recently-deceased husband for a decade. Apparently, she had unthinkingly filled out some account-related request for information with her real name, which got it locked as it was her husband's account originally.

She is a lady of resource and mental fortitude, and has already managed to get hold of customer support on the phone twice. However, she's been told that there's nothing that can be done.

My question is - what can be done now? I've already recommended she starts again with another provider, and have promised to attempt account recovery (although I doubt it's possible through conventional means).
All laws make you less free. Laws exist to restrict freedoms in order to create a better society - what a better society means is the part where political differences come up. Most people can agree on laws existing to prevent harm unto others, but then what does that mean? Answers depend on your values and goals, and are fundamentally what politics are.

The point is though, all laws make someone "less free", because the purpose of law is to prohibit.
Why the question mark in the title?
I agree. Until it becomes an issue, where everyone runs screaming like chickens, literally nobody gives a shit.
I didn't take it as retirement, I took it as a break to figure out what he wants to do next and relax. Maybe he just calls it a career, maybe not.
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15 qubits should be easy to simulate. I'm confused what the actual experiment showed that simulation wouldn't.
php exchanged restart time for debugging time
I'd say the unfiltered water quality still might matter in your case. I had to swap to the "stronger" orange marked Maxtra cartridges for harder water because the standard ones weren't actually helping. And I can tell the difference because our kettle gets less limescale now - that's also still the marker for me when filter is about to wear off. For our family one cartridge lasts for about a month now.

I'm using these jugs for 10 years already and the quality of these dropped significantly. The older Elemaris line (with "probes") had more durable plastic while the newer Style (with silicone lid handle) already broke twice during washing. At leas the rounded sensor is more waterproof than the "probe" - that one I had to replace twice and luckily the local distributor send these for free.
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That’s a great idea! Rather than selling it as a single game, sell it as a platform that people can build on top of. There’s a pile of potential in that.
The fact they can should be the worry.
Solving the metaverse user retention problem
EIP 6065: Real Estate Token Standard
Klasma Labs has released a new Ethereum token standard for on-chain real estate and is looking for critical feedback!
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This is the reason why travel does not appeal to me the way it seems to for most people. Its still me travelling. Cynical and self-defeating, I know.
I have two comments.

AWS Graviton is interesting because it is pretty different machine to their AMD and Intel offerings. A "16 vCPU" machine from AWS is 8 cores/16 threads, not 16 cores - except for Graviton, which actually has 16 cores, although much weaker ones. So for problems where you the cores can actually work in parallel, Graviton can keep up with AMD and Intel, while being somewhat cheaper. In single-threaded workload you get about half the performance.

Second thing I curious about is this very AWS heavy approach. ECS, CodeDeploy, ElastiCache. If I was their architect, I would probably go EKS, GitHub/Lab, Redis on EKS, just for the peace of mind.
Long time ago, in around 2006, a computer shop guy wanted to charge me 3 times more for color scans jpegs than black & white scans, because "color ink" is expensive!! I was like, its a paper to pdf, you are not using any ink at all, but he was like no, how will your pdf get colors from?
I was attacking the thing you said, in the comment I replied to:

> I’ve met very few people who believe climate change is a hoax. The belief is that the climate is not static and that it’s better for humans to adapt (as they always have) than to commit economic suicide.
Yeah if only. Our ops people are too uneducated to be able to deploy anything Apple. Literally there are armies of factory pressed Windows monkeys but nothing in the Apple space.

Note to apple: please start concentrating on the enterprise sector. We're dying over here. My Dell weighs 3x my personal M1 MBP, has a shitty keyboard with keys designed for Borrowers, the battery lasts 8 minutes and it reduces my sperm count if I put it on my lap. It feels like I have a ball and chain around my ankle 24/7. My only escape is WSL2 which is broken as fuck as well (can't run services, cron jobs, X problems etc) and we can't install a simple non-WSL VM on the node because Device Guard requires hyper-v to be enabled excluding sensible and pure VM options like VirtualBox. Docker for windows is a comedy of errors too.
And yet water filters for use when camping last WAY longer and don't cost that much more. A simple Katydid BeFree lasts 1000L. I'm betting the Brita indicator came on WAY before that.
It was claimed to be millions of net savings per deployed model.
Stocks give you dividends from the underlying company. You reap a realized return (for most stocks) even if you never sell.
I'm a caffeine addict and go through phases of more and less coffee. My longest stretch on zero caffeinated beverages in my adult life was about a year. The reduction for 1 to 0 coffees was brutal. Slept loads more and so much better the fist week. After a month of no coffee my sleep regressed to the same as now, drinking 4 coffees per day.

Research somewhat supports this, you get used to a certain caffeine consumption and only abrupt changes in consumption produce changes in sleep/wakefulness. I wish you the best friend, but you might not find abstinence to be a long term solution.
I think graph theory covers all this at a reasonable level of abstraction.
I'm curious how many people have colleagues that got a job in climate tech out of principle. There appear to be a good number of websites specifically made to advertise such positions (just google "climate jobs") that have sprung up this year alone.
It's possible that there is some firmware on some impossible-to-replace hardware bits that that phones home. They removed everything they possibly could that does that, and it's amazing how far they went, even running the binary blobs they couldn't remove on isolated processors iirc in order to keep them islolated from the rest of the phone

They really achieved something rare with the phone. I hope the project continues and the next version is even better
The US is very friendly to the immigrated but is very unfriendly to the immigrating.
I don't think anyone can or will disagree with you. What Facebook is doing with VR/AR is technologically beyond anything anyone else is doing.

We just don't think the ultimate application of all that research is going to be the Metaverse. Pretending that the ultimate goal is the Metaverse is masking the fact that this VR/AR research is all exploratory. We can assume Wall Street would otherwise heavily punish Facebook for investing blindly so heavily in R&D. The willingness of Facebook to mask the Metaverse as something other than R&D and not Eric's team, which allegedly paid for itself, is what is so baffling.
Let’s see if shareholders revolt against him. They collectively lost $1T+ during his tenure.
I guess so. But what if the dentist simply doesn’t like your politics? (Interpret this however you like: Democrat/Republican, pro/anti union, pro/anti Ukrainian sovereignty, etc. Suffice it to say, he doesn’t like something you wrote on Facebook.)

And what if that dentist is the only one within 50 miles? Even if it happens to be legal for the dentist to deny you, should it be?

Aside from the narrow question here, my broader point is that “consequences for your actions” is the whole question we should be discussing and I don’t think the term “cancel culture” is that helpful in actually exploring that issue.
Yeah, I read the whole thing twice before I posted. I don't recognize his name, so if he posted using his real name then I don't know him.
What's the reason for not storing a cookie? It's not like browsers that don't support cookies are targeted, right? Cookies can also be "great for privacy", if their power is not abused server-side ...
They may well just mean that making these sorts of mistakes feels worse when you're an adult. When children don't know the difference between a goose and a duck, or between N Sync and the Beatles, we don't think much of it, whereas suddenly as an adult this seems like a big deal.

I used to get Al Pacino and Robert De Niro muddled up, like badly enough that it made it difficult to follow Heat (which features both actors in major roles)! No, they don't look alike, I don't know why I couldn't keep that straight.

Whereas I had no problem distinguishing the real Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) in the Phantom Menace while apparently that plot point caught out other people I watched it with the first time - shrug.
Well, in concept yes, we have multiple people and they're able to work on multiple problems.

We don't have "enough people" to solve pancreatic cancer, though, or it would be a solved problem. So if there are two problems, and one of them is pancreatic cancer, we do not actually have enough people to solve multiple problems.

(In fact, we devote a lot more people to attempts to solve cancer than makes sense.)
> But if you could instead just write a (subset of a) SVG parser and renderer as simply as you'd write it in any other programming language, but where the compiler instead creates a chain of conditional probability distributions that can be traversed with gradient descent, you can reach a highly reliable predictive model with significantly less training time and data.

It's a balance between engineer time (headcount costs) and training time/costs (infra costs.) Usually engineer time is more valuable than training costs. Embedding engineers into teams and building cost models is one of those cases where probabilistic programming makes a lot more sense than a DL approach, but most situations favor the economics of a DL approach.
A good abstract section is not the title.

https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/writing-an-abs...
There are export tools.
I got a Turbo Pascal book as a present for doing well in school. It took me a while to understand that you can't make websites with that :)

Then I got a cracked copy of Adobe Dreamwaver and learned HTML using the visual editor.
Is hate speech not essentially the ultimate form of calling to cancel someone?

We are in a situation where we are seeing a strong increase in right extremist terrorism (just look at the last month) and it is by far the most prevelant terrorism in the US and many western countries, but somehow the discussion revolves around how the "poor" people who incite and support the violence are "being cancelled". That's intellectually dishonest.

The talk about "cancellation" is almost exclusively a deflection tactic used from one political direction, who have absolutely no problem to use cancellation themselves. Nobody complained about protestor being removed from Trump rallies, often violently, or let's look at the more recent blocking of left-wing twitter accounts by self proclaimed free-speech absolutist Elon Musk (https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...)
> Startups are paying above FAANG for many senior positions.

Citation needed.
I shouldn’t have to try so hard to make multitasking work on a Mac
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Is it possible to export?

Is it possible to make them export it for you - via a GDPR request?
> Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.

The hedge fund guys would say the same about your team. I know you are emotional but this is uncalled for.
In the USA, if I understand it correctly, it seems there is a lot of case law establishing criminal or civil liability for autonomous mechanical devices that kill or injure someone - Typically traps like tripwired guns, so it would be interesting to see how it applies to autonomous robots having some degree of "perception" and "judgement"
That could help on the biofilm/mold front, but won't do anything about particulates in the filter.
You don't think it is easier to socialize with people with similar upbringings and culture to you? You don't think a group of people indoctrinated into a society from birth are more likely to share goals and beliefs than someone born into a different one?

Blind nationalism is bad, but absolutely no responsibility towards the society and the people that raised and support you is a crazy take. You're ideal would only work if we had 0 social programs and people were 100% responsible for providing for themselves and their loved ones, including education.
There is no first or second tier with law the local law prevails however bad it may be.
I still dine out alone at times because my family doesn't like some of the places I like to eat (spicy foods mostly) and I don't care what anyone thinks, it doesn't bother me.
Is this app available to try anywhere, as a PoC or otherwise?
I have absolutely no idea if this claim is true. Just thought it might provoke a good discussion, and hopefully, some people have collected data on Twitter performance in the past vs. now.
I'd have to check and see, but I know at least some of the features overlap (for example f# lets you send a single function/etc to the repl and update the existing definition. However to the specific point he brought up, I'm not sure if anything like the var capture issue comes into play.
I've seen a story of a man losing his business because his daughter made a stupid joke.

You can bury your head in the sand and pretend this sort of damage isn't happening regularly, but the rest of us choose not to.
Oddly enough, decades later, I can say: yes it does.

People I came through for before seem to pop up in my times of need now. And people who helped others when we were younger now have amazing support networks, which makes a huge difference.
I’m trying to tease apart the bandwagon effect from the fundamentals you’re describing.

The reason why the distinction is important is that the bandwagon effect will come and go, while the fundamentals can stay negative for any amount of time.
I held out for a really long time. Google Music used to sell music and be an online player at the same time, which was pretty good. Then they threw that away.
Good salespeople are at least somewhat objective.

I had a realtor point out issues with properties that I might never have thought to ask about. Now, maybe that was to steer me to other properties that he would make more money on, but they were real issues. It did serve to build a sense that he was not hiding information just to get a sale.
"Everyone was kind, smart, dedicated, thoughtful, generous with their time and knowledge, and a genuine pleasure to work with."

I know this is what everyone says after leaving a company if they don't want to burn bridges, and I bet it's even fairly true to Eric's experience. I'm also entirely sympathetic to his frustration with both the immediate experience of being laid off for any reason and the broader large-organization irrationality about costs.

And yet. We're talking about Facebook, a company whose impact on the world is very hard to see as net positive, from teen mental health to national politics. I just really wish it was the industry norm that people who are, in local ways, genuinely thoughtful and kind, and have many employment options, would also think seriously about what their work is ultimately building.
Not that it holds much scientific value, but my impression from reading news stories about school shootings is that the perpetrators usually were already known in their social circles as bullies, not bullying victims.
To touch lightly on the title:

A graphics artist on a Corridor Crew YouTube video recently said that you must love the day-to-day of your job because a lot of what you make will never see the light of day. I think this is especially true when you are not the owner of your work's fate.

This is not a criticism or judgment on Eric's feelings towards his work being abandoned. He seems like someone who has loved every minute of problem solving. And it doesn't mean you're not allowed to feel feelings when your work gets tossed. But it's something that resonated with me, and it might resonate with you too.
I'd argue just find a different cloud provider.

GCP, Azure, Supabase, Cloudflare etc if you want managed services.

If you want a mix of managed services and raw compute, look more at Fly.io, Linode, Digital Ocean perhaps?

I have found AWS being the "cheapest" or even "reasonable" in the cost department to be slimmer every year.
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Same here. They published some bad article on trans rights, a few weeks before my subscription was up for renewal. It wasn't really something I could support. Cancelled after 15 years or so
Depends on a lot of factory. The primary school I was a student at had public IPs at every computer, our national academic and research network operators are encouraging local network operators to avoid private IPs. But the high school at which I'm currently a student, has private IP addresses on every computer and a single external IPv4 for the entire facility. It's not so one sided.
Dang, the US doesn't even require you speak English.
Apple Is Buying More Twitter Ads Despite Elon, Data Shows
Check if your library let's you print. Mine let's me print something like 50 pages a month for free then you pay for any additional pages.
This is outrageous. Only a small percentage of owners know this kind of tricks. Imagine the environmental damage created by thousands of users throwing away perfectly usable cartridges. I always feel bad about throwing away laser printer cartridges, they have so many components that are working just fine, there should be a way to just refill the toner and reuse it.
1. I would fiercely recommend reading “An Engine, Not A Camera” (Donald MacKenzie). Formally, it reads as a sociological study of the practice of finance - how financial markets shape society instead of simply capturing its needs and desires at large. More importantly, however, it made me think deeper on questions about fields of study that are (were?) distant and to question assumptions: a lot of ideas that we take for granted as absolute truths are simply consensus-derived and have no objective reality.

2. On a similar theme, “The Lady Tasting Tea” (David Salsburg) was a wonderful history of the development of statistics as a mathematical discipline. I found it absolutely fascinating to map out how individual personalities were buffeted and shaped by larger historical events and movements (e.g. eugenics in the late 19th century, WW2, the rise of the Soviet Union, etc.) into asking questions of data that propelled statistics forward. Disciplines we think of as being “hard” (math, CS, statistics, physics) have been shaped by social forces in a non-linear non-Hegelian fashion, in fits and starts, quite contrary to the way they are presented in a pedagogical setting.
Ask HN: How would you set up a computer to protect against state-level actors?
How would you setup your computer to work on a project that may be seen as threatening by state-level actors?

See: situation in Russia, China, ... What are your tips?
Reactionary fluff != citing reactionary fluff.
I reckon we could just about run to a Honda if we tried, but the Citroen works fine. So not really feeling the need for it ;)
Does anyone know how it works between Chinese and US Apple IDs? For example if I FaceTime someone in China or use iMessage with them, is that protected from the Chinese government? Is there any info on this?