skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dank meme to post it with only your username as the giveaway to anyone who can't recall entire paragraphs. I thought it was from Snow Crash but had to google a phrase to make sure. Then I came back here and noticed your username.
I am positive faang engineers are very sharp but would they be "expert at the latest technologies"? E.g. an engineer at Google likely has a whole host of bespoke systems vs. a mixture of vendor and open source solutions the rest of companies tend to use. E.g. Borg vs. Kubernetes and the like.
Just to be pedantic: not profitable enough doesn't necessarily imply profitable.

Consider, eg, shutting down their (Stadia's) game studio before the release of their first game. First release was scheduled a few months later, with no significant delays having occurred. Nevertheless, shutdown.

No one would expect it to have made a profit without a release. But apparently there was no way they could be profitable enough to warrant keeping.
The music industry, like any creative pursuit, is only profitable if you're in the top 1%, even then you're making as much as an entry level softer engineer in the midwest
A fellow ascii art enjoyer :)
Gluons are what holds protons together
Those 2 things aren't mutually exclusive.
Google never went through bad PR before Sundar?

Sunday became CEO on August 10, 2015.

Google+ was launched in 2011. (And the "real name" policy was a PR disaster.)

Google Reader was shut down in 2013. (You can hardly find a PR disaster that people in the tech world complain about more.)

Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe had an anti-poaching agreement that finally got settled in 2015, but they were getting bad press before that.

"Right to be forgotten" bad press was in 2014 and before.
I've been using their app for years, it's pretty helpful. I really wish they used a different name, though.
>Is tech that bloated?

Yes

>What are people doing all day where it’s realistic to lay of 10,000 people?

They're probably in meetings, while a fraction of their time is actually spent doing work.
Sure. Your iPhone unlocks using your fingerprint or face. But the point is that YOUR iPhone is what’s being unlocked with it — not a machine operated by someone else.
>If it takes 2% of the population to count votes, then you just...keep using the same percentage, just more people.

And if we build a team of 9 women, I bet they can produce a baby in a single month.
Having a dotcom is a signal of the organization's wealth. If your company is worth $3B, and your cash position is good, spending 0.01% of your valuation on a dotcom ($300k) is a no brainer. It might add to your legitimacy and prestige (even if marginally) and it's an asset that will most likely increase in value over time.
What are Split APKs and how they make apps smaller
Bizarre. I was a pretty serious PayPal user back in the day (~150k/year through my eBay store) and every issue I ran into was fixed with a 15 minute call to support.

This was 10 years ago, to be fair, but have you tried simply calling support and explaining what happened?
“1 or 2 years?? Are you planning on living for ever??? That’s like 4 to 8 quarters!”
> they may implement other UIs in practice

for the first time in my life I'm thinking "now here's something that should be called UX"
Forget AI-generated voices for a second. How are these tools trustworthy for defending against simple low-tech hacking like recording somebody's voice and editing it together in the right pattern?

These old comical soundboards of celebrity voices are imperfect as the audio often has different volume levels and subtle background noise, but illustrates the general principle. With an intense enough effort, you can record enough audio from a person to put together a natural conversation. It takes some effort, but is not outside of the technical capabilities for even a smart 14 year old to set this up.

https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/10716-arnold-schwarzen...

Unless these financial security systems have a way to look for very subtle, unnatural gaps in the audio or the consistency of the audio quality, the voice pattern that exists could be a perfect match with this kind of tactic.

The handful of times I've had to contact Fidelity, their customer service has been exceptionally professional. The only annoying part of the process is trying to insert a long password via the phone dialpad to verify my identity. I've been given the suggestion to setup their MyVoice feature, but have resisted setting that up because it seems like there's a possibility it could be bypassed.
Except, ten years ago "older folk" COULD enjoy much less competitive online multiplayer experiences. I place the moment Call of Duty started spawning you randomly during team deathmatch as the marker. Instead of spawning in a safe zone with clearish "Fronts" to approach and attack and plan around. Instead, you spawn randomly, often with your back to an enemy, and half the time you spawn you instead have an enemy's back to you. I hypothesize that quick "yeah I got a kill" made the game more attractive to kids, and not allowing you to plan and implement any sort of individual strategy other than "click heads faster than the other guy" made online games more demanding in ability.
To me, even that’s a poor comparison, since usernames can change per platform, multiple usernames can be created per user, etc.
We should have bought this to our TSA advisor, but the judge was a different teacher at our school. The problem we had was that we had to reach out to find out that we were disqualified and the appeal period was already passed. It would have been so simple to move to netlify hosting as can be seen in the github repo. It all stems from the fact that we misinterpreted the rules and had no ability to appeal in the short period allotted.
Yes it is. It means that adults have a state issued ID. What eligible voters do not have IDs, where are you getting 10%. If it's the elderly, I'm sure they can organize to have an ID drive. It's not a problem. There may be a lack of desire, but if even actual poor countries can accomplish this modest feat, surely the US can.
My concern would be email deliverability for less popular TLDs, although I imagine it's not an issue for the more popular alternatives like .io and .ai
>19% to education

Where does this go?

In most counties, property taxes fund local schools. Public AND private universities are largely unaffordable without huge loans.
Seems like most of this money is being squandered, with maybe a few billion going to decent NSF grants.

Pre primary thru secondary education 152.2 0.0 7.3 789.9 949.4
[+] Tertiary education 481.3 0.0 292.8 49.7 823.7
[+] Education not definable by level 59.0 -112.0 80.6 13.3 40.9
[+] Subsidiary services to education 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
[+] R and D Education 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
[+] Education n.e.c. 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
I was there a little after and his division nor mine still had any such policy.

Joel worked on Office. Have you heard the hair-on-fire customer stories about Office from the 90s? It was a draconian response to what was probably seen as a serious company-wide problem at the time.
That's not the employer's purview. They can incentivize health but, seriously F right off with that controlling nonsense. They're employees, not your charges or children.
I'm pretty sure this is built on the OpenAI API, so not so much a competitor as a new sales channel.
Even LHR is better than the experience at any US airport.
Do you have an alternate hypothesis which could explain the results of all the studies the cites?
This is exactly why they have an itchy finger on the ban button for new accounts.

There is no easy solution to the "I got a brick in the mail" problem, from either the buyers or the sellers side.
Is there a way to discover new Libera chat channels beyond randomly joining different places?
Not necessarily. As long as the device is YOURS, you can unlock it with your face, thumbprint etc. That is how iPhones and Android security has been managed for a long time.

Perhaps to unlock even more valuable transactions, you’d want to bring an external key, like a Yubikey or Ledger Nano wallet etc.

Lengthy passwords that you enter are not very secure. Anyone can capture your keystrokes, look over your shoulder with a camera, or even look at heat signatures on your phone after you left to the bathroom and locked it: https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/this-thermal-attack...
I watched to again just a couple of nights ago. It still holds up! What a great cast.

When I watched the "voice is my passport" sequence, I still enjoyed it, but I immediately thought of our recent ability to mimic a voice speaking any sentence, just by supplying a few minutes of training data.

How long until people start recieving voicemails from scammers in their boss's voice? How long until we can filter voices in real time to convert anyone to sound like anyone else? Video is also not that far away. Will I be able to send my AI doppleganger to videocall standups?

On the plus side, it will help enable things like proper double blind interviews, to allow for gender bias free interviews. It will also help anonymity, or people with disabilities.

In an unrelated note, I had forgotten that President Roslin was in it and was such a fox (I'll probably say that about Battlestar in another twenty years after I have aged past her, like I have now caught up to her in Sneakers :-p
Let me ask a silly question.

Use case, I'm on Mac OS X (aka not Linux, not Windows). I have an Apple M1 processor (aka not x86_64). I have 8GB of RAM (silly mistake on my end, I know). Therefore, Docker + virtual machine based solutions are too expensive memory wise.

However, I also like to think in terms of "let me separate this functionality into say... a Kubernetes workload like a pod"

There's no good containerization solution for Mac OS.

Can something like `mask` be used to achieve basically a "poor man's k8s" for a long running service?

Basically, run these 5 or 6 services in parallel, let me be able to see their logs individually.

If not, I completely understand. I just can't tell if there is an actual need for a solution like this, if it already exists and I just can't find it, etc.
> Here is another example (about two thirds down the page): https://www.autods.com/blog/dropshipping-tips-strategies/inc...

That's a good find. It's possible that these are from a different chat mechanism or are old. I put more stock in that page than I do for a post on reddit or twitter. Your page has quite a bit of explanatory background information, unlike the social media posts.

This is how desktop chat appears for me. https://ibb.co/WzLH6Yg . The blue Hello box on the right is my typing, which shows a definite difference from what is shown on the Twitter post. I used ibb to upload the image, since it was the first google result for uploading images.
These weak sauce sources are better than any (read: none) sources you've been so kind as to share. To your point, I am better at mindful activities when I'm alone in my quiet home office with a comfortable chair than I am in a noisy cube farm with Jeff trying to talk to me about his weekend plans or asking me to head to the next-door Mexican restaurant for lunch. Plus, I work longer when I don't have an hour of commute to worry about. Eat breakfast and I'm ready to work.
I had a couple of Alphas in my home lab up until about 9-10 years ago (a largish DEC3000, a 'generic' 164PC, a DS20). Even as elderly boxes they were astonishingly well built, performant enough to do real work on, and gave a useful 'not an x86' check when I was testing for portability and such. However, I figured out they used a significant fraction of all the power consumed in the lab and generated heat like furnaces. When I did a tech refresh regrettably they needed to go. The 3000 in particular seemed like it was designed to go into combat.
Not everyone at a tech company works on the product. It takes a ton of staff to do things like marketing, ad sales, content moderation. They may be backing away from some markets or maybe they automated a lot of the work.
Ketchup as a Vegetable
Yep, have experienced similar surprise negative balances with Visa debit cards in New Zealand as well.
This is pretty much the simplest feasible way to do distributed audio over IP, and it's commonly implemented by commercial distributed audio amplifiers.

The advantage of IP distributed audio is that it functions over the existing IP network, so it avoids the need to wire a high-voltage audio system (which will still require multiple amplifiers in large buildings) or dedicated signal-level wiring to distributed amplifiers. It also tends to be more reliable as the IP network is more robust to issues like crosstalk and poor connections that can turn into frustrating troubleshooting on analog systems.

"Some RPi that pulls the stream" is exactly what this system is except it uses multicast for significantly reduced bandwidth usage and the receivers are presumably commercially-supported distributed audio equipment. No hotel wants to be doing patch management for embedded Linux devices.
When I was a teenager there was no reason not to transfer the money out immediately. It was understood it was a middleman that allowed us to accept payment online without a merchant account. So we treated that way. It felt like a hack. It still feels like a hack, but as you say they've taken on the look of a bank. Once they started offering cards you could use to debit from your account etc, people started leaving the money behind more and more.
Hasn't this just recently changed to per employee?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3686611/oracle-per-employe...
> There’s an industry of consultants who run challenges and hackathons and I’ve been surprised when organizations spend $100k on consultants to give our $1k in prizes or something.

Ah yes the "Thanks for the record breaking quarter everyone, enjoy these 4 $5 Hot n Ready pizzas and two bottles of Coke" event.
Many other places have solved this problem. San Francisco has relatively low population density compared even when only looking at US cities. NYC is very livable.

It's in CA best long term interest to support as many people as possible. Remote work isn't going to solve the problem that someone who works at Walgreens cannot afford to live within 20 mi of the city.
Actually the multicast audio is a pretty good system. There're multiple elevators. Broadcasting makes it simple to sync up the music on them. Using a Wifi speaker has much lower cost than adding a wired speaker to a moving elevator. It’s also simple and low cost to add extra WiFi speakers in other areas of the hotel, creating an ad hoc PA system.
> For the most accurate approximation, we want to minimize the expectation

> E[(Y - f(X))^2]

I don't think it's obvious why you would want that. It looks like you smuggle in your conclusion with that assumption.

I would start with establishing that probability space of variables with second moments is a Hilbert space with the inner product of X and Y defined as E[XY], which lends itself to a nice geometrical interpretation. Then we can project Y onto X, hence Y = Y_∥ + Y_⊥ where Y_∥ is an orthogonal projection and Y_⊥ is the leftover part that is orthogonal to X, ie X can perfectly predict Y_∥ but cannot say anything about Y_⊥. So Y_∥ by construction contains all information we can have about Y if we know X. We can also note that orthogonal projection minimizes distance, i.e. it minimizes E[(X-f(Y))^2].
I wish people would stop saying this because it is clearly wrong. Biometrics have different security properties to both usernames and passwords. They're another category. They aren't the same as usernames.

In some cases they are totally appropriate as passwords. For example fingerprints & face recognition for building access.

(And before you say "but someone could copy your fingerprint from a glass and wear a prosthetic mask that looks like you!" think about how you would break into "password" style building security - PINs and access cards.)
More than half of YC startups don’t have a dot com for the same reason people aren’t building new homes on Manhattan island - there’s no empty space and buying existing desirable space is unnecessarily expensive.
Tangential I know but I hate just how dominant and unquestioned the London Tube style is for transit maps. Its supposed benefits are less important than imagined. Those thick ribbons of all one color could all just be a single line. People are perfectly capable of making that abstraction, there's no need to spell it out with 6-8 lane ribbons of mostly redundant information. All that does is add clutter, not clarity. Even more egregious is the empty space between the lines. It makes them needlessly fat and it interlaces clashing colors from the background geography. I will give it credit for coloring things in a way that incidentally sorts the lines into useful groups (namely, colored by operator). The dotted line thing is mostly ok but the last one ("opens this year") is out of order and misleading. The choice of visual vocabulary could have been better.

Not the worst map, but I've been obsessed lately and had to nitpick.
No. Hijacking emotional/biochemical triggers in our brains is not the same as giving us what we "want". It is the exact same problem as with clickbait/ragebait titles on content (which... often get shared to Facebook).

People ruin their lives doing things that feel "good" in the moment all the time. Facebook is a machine for that.
I think the trick you are missing is that AWS competitors do not need to replicate their infrastructure.

The model you are wed to is "one service-provider per niche." Yeah, that requires scaling to an absolutely ridiculous extent.

…but for those of us not in favor of soviet-style centralism, and there are a couple of us, well we'd love hosting providers that can let us serve a sufficiently profitable percentage of the market.

Down with monopolist capitalism and oligopolist communism! All hail the vibrant marketplace!
A lisp tablet would be quiet novel. Instead of parens it might be better to draw half circles around the functions
Google still has interesting problems to work on? I thought they just printed money with adsense and launched projects just so they could cancel them 2 weeks later. /s
okay this is way over my head - but this would have to be steganography hiding in the audio file that could only be run by someone like OP, detecting; downloading; etc the udp data, right?
18650 battery weighting 45 grams would have 54Wh while typical 18650 now have around 10Wh
> Here's another futile one, you, yes, you, really need to make backups and replicate time-snapshots off-site.

Yeah, but... you know... I'm like, busy and stuff. And realistically it'll never happen to me anyway.
"kids these days aren't independent"

Oh look its literally illegal to be independent.

If you have kids this is both a relief and the source of the problem isn't exactly a shock.
Long unsightly url after redirection but doesn't appear to be an affiliate link.
Do we have virtual memory API at the network level ? The goal is i can use Redis as my real memory.
It may make sense to put bulk email on a completely separate domain anyway, so then you could do something like:

example.tech
exampletech.com

That has it's own downsides if it confuses your users, but most email clients barely show sender addresses any more, so a lot of users may not even realize you're emailing from a different domain than you use for your website.
I own a set of cheaper, but decent stainless steel pans.

However, I've never gotten scrambled eggs to work without just coating the entire pan in egg.

Scrambled eggs don't play nice with high heat, and too high heat and the butter will brown or just burn. I can absolutely coat the pan with butter, and the eggs still stick.

Not sure what the solution is here.
This seems like a reasonable proposal to protect parents against subjective interpretation of the law. Responsible parents should be able to gauge the capabilities of their children and give them Independence based on that was capabilities opposed to fear of third-party criminalization
You can do all that (except in a way that allows you to verify your vote was counted without being able to prove it to others) without a digital electronic voting system.

All you need is the ordinary "fill in the bubbles" optical scan system with two changes:

1. Special ink is used to print the ballots,

2. A special marker is used to mark them.

See "Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems
using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes" [1] (in HTML [2]) and "Proving Coercion-Resistance of Scantegrity II" [3].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf
What % are actively operating but don't have any website... not counting a placeholder "coming soon" page?

I suspect the answer would be surprising.
Hot desks?

A reservation system? I work for a remote optional company and employees can reserve desks ahead of time and/or you can get an assigned seat if you come in daily.
If you're paying for insurance in the US you are paying for them. Check out how insurance pools work. Society, even a wild capitalist society, benefits from healthier members.

I'm a former professional athlete and am currently, in my middle age, in better shape than most, including youths in their 20s, with blood tests to prove it.

When I was making weight, it was extremely difficult to find the balance to fine-tune the diet. Those 400 grams for me were just as difficult to shed, while performing to task. And I had a professional team behind me.

Consumerist civilization is obsessed with the magic pill, we agree on that. A pharma subscription for life is not the solution. However, I personally know, and there are people like that commenting in this post, individuals that were unlucky to be born obese. If you are going to take a grand statement position, familiarize yourself with what that does to a hormonal system. And that is only one sub-case of many where obesity is completely outside of an individual's control.

With industrialized food, including sugar, HFC and carbohydrate lobbying corrupting the policy in the US for longer than 70 years, and that is a number simply of convenience, since we have easily accessible records of such industry lobbying, obese individuals are not the cause of the problem.

Having more tools to address obesity is a good thing. Hopefully, one arrow of many towards a systemic approach.
I think that both are entirely necessary, and neither is sufficient on their own. Excluding evidence that has been illegally collected is necessary, as otherwise there would be an incentive for officers to collect the evidence anyways, if the career growth from cases outweighs the punishment. Redressing the breach of privacy is necessary, as otherwise an officer could harass an individual through unreasonable searches, each time claiming that they believed the search to be justified.
Then we're back to being at risk of being banned for no reason, though. Can't have it both ways.