skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your calculation is over simplified. For example, hardware just doesn't run for five years without glitch once once you have multiple servers.

For sure Cloud is more expensive, as it charges a premium for not having to invest upfront in a lot of hardware, however,if it was 1000% no one would be using the Cloud.
Trucker's protest was similarly divided in US

That's exactly what he's saying. It wasn't divided between people who believe in the rights of protestors and people who didn't; it was divided between pro and anti-vaxxers, which is largely to say between the political Left and Right. I don't know if there ever was a political core that cared more about their principles of governance (good or bad) than their "side" but it's gone now. The people who dismissed the threat of BLM protests/riots being COVID super-spreader events in 2020 wanted truckers lynched for clogging up a city and honking their horns. On the other side, the same people cheering on an entire city in gridlock and effectively tortured by constant horn noise wanted police to gun down entire crowds for looting a Walmart. Both of them cloaked their defenses with cries of "free speech!" and both called for repression in the name of order and safety. Those of us who apply the same principles to people we love and hate, speech we cheer and find nauseating, are an endangered species.
Make them work harder for it
Some anecdata: My wife, a 25+-year middle school teacher, agrees. And so does just about every other teacher we know.

In the past 10-15 years, teachers have seen a startling shift in children's health overall, but especially mental health. Attention span is out the window. Prying away devices is like pulling a toy from a toddler, often with the accompanying screams and wails (and occasionally violence). Kids have always mocked and gossiped and bullied, but devices and media have turned it beyond 11. Some kids (says my wife and others) seem in a constant state of fight-or-flight, unable to deal with the stress.

Also: it's not just phones; at my wife's school, Chromebooks are prevalent and kids carry them everywhere, often open in the hallways as they walk, using them like phones. Side note: maintaining boundaries with Chromebooks is an even worse nightmare at some schools than smartphones. Google's hard push into K-12 education has been wildly successful; 'Google Classroom' and other tools are adopted by districts and create a hellscape of maintenance, security, and privacy concerns. For both staff and students.
I guess it depends 1) where you are in the world and 2) how you define "super tiny".
But it sounds like you had to come up with your own tools because a debugger wasn't enough?

That's my biggest criticism of debuggers having used both approaches: you forget that sometimes you need new tools. Whereas with prints you're constantly building new instrumentation for yourself.

https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106138280776488247
They had good relationships with VC funds to top up portfolio companies with extra cash (debt).

SVB would be lenient to the entire portfolio in exchange for access to the best performing companies.

i.e. Company A is a Series A start-up that needs non-dilutive financing to bridge itself to the next round. SVB would be willing to lend when no one else would. In exchange, VC’s would introduce SVB to much healthier growth stage or pre-IPO companies that need a banking partner.
Yeah taking random psychoactive chemicals in untested combinations can do that to you, lol. It always amazes me how uncritical people are of "natural" drugs, as if they're somehow implicitly safe and exempt from interactions, unlike "synthetic" drugs.
Ask HN: Is there anyone working in ML who regrets not getting a PhD?
Want to get a sense of how many people who currently work in the industry regret not getting a PhD to advance their career in ML
> In this country you can't discriminate based on age

You can’t legally discriminate against people because of age over 40; otherwise age discrimination is legal.

Also, most forms of illegal discrimination are routine, much of the work of HR and management training in regard to discrimination exists to make sure that hiring managers know what domcumentation needs to reflect irrespective of the true basis of personnel decisions so that illegal discrimination is difficult to prove (that’s not how it is framed, of course, because the training itself is part of the record.)
They didn't have those things in their pockets 24/7, and the social media apps are designed to be addictive. Not exactly the same scenario
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> If meta wanted to do something amazing. It'd enforce one reality tunnel on the networks. Rather than have a base set of rules. Have a base set of news and facts that everyone shares in.

Just no. I don't want any large corporation to determine what the "news and facts" are -- and particularly not Facebook.
I have similar feelings whenever I get something that's 'nice, new, shiny'. I feel an urge to protect/preserve it as best as possible, and worry more than I should.

One time, I bought a fancy wallet made of stainless steel (threads, woven into thin sheets, backed by plastic). For MONTHS, I was paranoid about leaving any scratches or blemishes on such a pristine, shiny thing.

Years later, it's still my wallet, and has enough blemishes and scratches for me to not care as much. One new scratch or blemish would be unnoticeable among the others. It still holds itself together just fine, and it still has the 'slippery' in-pocket texture that I like.

Point being, as long as you take decent care of Your Precious, it'll be fine with the exterior wear and tear.

I've also got a $4k-ish ring made with white gold, and it came with a fucking mirror-like polish. Tiny scratches or dings were 'End of the world", until I was able to identify "inside" and "outside" orientation via a small blemish on one side.
Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees
> A vertical career into management is not for everyone.

That's a different question which is even more polarizing - should good engineers become managers. But to be clear, I brought up promotion because that's why many people make the decision to take on these responsibilities to save the project. It could be a pay raise or a promotion to a higher engineering level.

> Doesn't look like that if you leave a paper trail of everything you do.

It works this way from what I've seen, I'm sorry to say. But I've seen a lot. The paper trail is good evidence in a grievance situation but it's hard to restore one's reputation through the grievance process - formal or informal.

> Is there a career blockage if you don't stick around?

No, and leaving, to my mind, is the easiest healthy choice if an engineer finds themselves in this situation. However, it is still an undesirable situation to put oneself in if one wants career growth. If leaving is the way they wish to achieve that, it's better to just leave than to suffer for a while and then leave. If they wish to achieve career growth in the company, this will block them. In any case, it's wasted time from a career advancement perspective.

You could say that working in a high-pressure situation would teach the engineer something, and maybe it's true. But mostly it will make the engineer make many mistakes and be overwhelmed. Which is why most people argue that learning in a relaxed environment is much more practical.

Even people who study extreme medicine (battlefield medicine, mountain rescues, and similar topics) study it in a safe environment. They do real life simulations but in a supervised way. Throwing an engineer into the fire to teach them handling a pressure-cooker situation would be much like asking an extreme medicine doctor to learn on the battlefield. You could say they would learn, but probably a lot of what they would learn is to make mistakes.
> I’d argue preventing a total financial collapse in 2020 is more important

You mean the one that would have been caused by the government's draconian lockdowns?

Good thing the government came in to rescue everybody...
Ah I see, we should not fine or punish criminals because otherwise they would just hide their criminal behaviour. Makes sense.
Who's going to show a documentary like that?

I have seen articles claiming all sorts of "benefits" of the War, and I believe that was one of them. The coup of 1965, which massacred a million "Communists" was in there.
I'm struggling to think of a "great nation" that doesn't or didn't allow this.
AOL gave out free hours well before the web started taking off. It was a constant strategy they used to build their subscriber base. It was not in response to anything external, if I remember correctly.
I forget exactly what he suggested but I remember is being like kind of dumb. Elon was humoring him. This guy is absolutely not a rocket scientist. He's not even an engineer.
> There are an unusual number of comments from new accounts making disingenuous arguments on this post. I wonder who is behind the astroturfing.

The comments are so obviously going to elicit a negative response that a reasonable explanation would be that they're intentionally terrible. It might just be someone having a laugh - someone who is actually against this proposal.

Either that or they're not sending their best and brightest...
Do you not run your code locally when testing and evaluating things? I guess in my mind where and how an app is hosted is largely orthogonal to the choice language or framework.

Edit: Assuming a modern framework that can run basically anywhere. Something like old school .Net Framework that is essentially restricted to Windows and IIS would be a different story.
mods, can we ban these React bashing threads which seem to pop up every other day? another recent thread[0]

I get that react is full of problem and many people have to suffer because of it. But we are not even attempting to change status quo here. This thread merely serves as place to rant. and then go back to same problems. At this point, i have most of the opinions memorized and i am not even a React dev.

PS: if people are really into React/vue/angular rants, then have a monthly thread for it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061672
> A bank that can't pay back 100% of deposits has failed.

Well, not at the same time. No bank can do that.
The cost is not really that enormous when you consider these things are pretty bulletproof, I've had one for about 10 years on my keychain. That's €5 per year. I am currently waiting for NitroKey 3 to have non-alpha OpenPGP SC support and will likely buy one as soon as it's available (although maybe I should buy one now to support development and maybe have a play around myself).

You don't need a backup unless you don't trust your hardware at home, just store backup keys on some trusted host, or offline on some storage media, you then only need to buy a new security key whenever you lose yours. Even so, if you DO decide to go the backup route, the backup is not likely to get list and very likely to last much longer than 10 years.

With security keys which have NFC capabilities, you can set things up so that accessing any website from your phone is only a tap away (you need to enter the pin before hand, or every time, obviously choice of convenience here is up to you but if your phone itself is secure enough then maybe this isn't such an issue to keep the pin cached while the phone is on).
Why won't the FDIC resolve this quickly for depositors?
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> but presents himself as extremely knowledgeable

I don't get this sense at all. I've been watching his channel for a couple of years, and I've consistently found him to portray himself as a fan/enthusiast trying his best to understand and summarize complex information he doesn't have first-hand knowledge of. He's never pretended to be an engineer.

I think the value is in getting inspired to dig deeper when he shows you something interesting.
> The story seems to be that SV put all their deposits into 10 y bonds in 2021.

Not sure who told you that, its incorrect.

https://twitter.com/jamiequint/status/1633956163565002752?s=...
The other option is self-sovereign identity.

We desperately need to break the assumption that email is your identity. It’s like saying your postal address is your identity and if it changes everything gets messy. It doesn't work: it’s not universal and some people don’t even have addresses.

The problem is not that email is privatized (though I agree I’d love to see ssn@id.gov as a usable recovery address), it’s that we’re tied to it as the only way to identify people online. Hopefully webauthn will change this and as long as services accept any signature, we aren't tied to blessed identity providers. So in my book, legislation and political effort need to focus around the “right to self-sign”.

Less abstractly, we cannot allow Google, Apple, and Facebook to become the de-facto blessed ID providers. It’s silly and there’s no meatspace equivalent because it would be absurd like the article points out. We need to require that services accept any email (side rant and any oauth provider url so you can run self-hosted oauth) and, as webauthn proliferates, any signature.

Finally, we need a political solution here because this is not behavior that has or will come naturally. Platforms want to own identity for profit and lock in. Other companies using identity want to only trust certain platforms/oauth providers/vendors for “security” and product simplicity. Nobody is thinking about protecting users’ rights so we must take that upon ourselves.
That's a pretty specific case. You can get really good performance for a ton of tasks in video (video question answering, object identification and tracking, action recognition, etc) by just sampling a frame per second or even less frequently. Definitely can't do that with audio.
I don't know, does it? I really would like to hear an answer by the OP for example.
I am not complaining about paying. I've been paying for a fonts.com sub since probably 2013 or 2014. I bought dozen of indidual fonts from small foundries. I have no problem paying for licenses.

My problem is the licenses themselves.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/federal-r...

The obvious example is the panic of 1907, and if your argument is that today’s fed looks anything like 1929’s fed, that’s gonna be a tough road to hoe.
I guess we have different opinions what "no bullshit" means. This is what I consider no bullshit license:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

And yes, I also wish everyone used this license everywhere.
As an outsider, can you give an estimate on what it would cost to have a font designed from the ground up, and get full rights to all the files?

Are we talking $25k, $250k, $2.5m?
It's funny the lengths I've seen people go to on HN to make everyone and their kid suddenly given a smartphone not a big deal at all, which couldn't possibility have any ramifications for mental health or development.
Yeah, SMB has to be partner-led. They're often specialists (geography, vertical, etc.) That don't have the BigCo overhead that enabled BigCo to build the product in the first place. Partners are a huge part of selling for most B2B hardware and software companies. 50% or more of sales is not uncommon.
It's so non-obvious that 60% of the entire population of the Earth uses it.
> Felt like a lot of dumb panic.

A lesson everyone should have learned from the toilet paper scarcity crisis during the pandemic is that it doesn't matter if it's rational or smart, if you want to keep your ass clean make sure you're in the front of a line when people are panicking.

You could make a pretty compelling argument that the last decade the entire tech sector has been propped up by "dumb exuberance", but people aren't complaining about the money they made during that period.
There has been a change in social behaviour which I think is obviously linked to electronic media, and probably also the mental health issues. The % of American students who say they meet up physically with friends "almost every day": https://journals.sagepub.com/cms/10.1177/0265407519836170/as...

It declines slightly through the 70s, 80s, 90s from ~55% to 50% (almost statistically insignificant) and then, starting in the mid-late '00s starts dropping steadily, now down to less than 25%. Half as many teenagers socialize in person with their friends almost every day, as they did in my generation. (And going by the data on "how many parties" attended, my generation in the 90s/00s was still relatively introverted compared to my parents' generation, even though we saw our friends every day.)

source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02654075198361... ( https://sci-hub.ru/10.1177/0265407519836170 )
As an author from time to time, I am keenly sensitive to the dynamic where so many books could have been a single essay, but there's no money in essays.

Unless you have something to sell, and presto, so many essays and blog posts are really advertisements for the author or their employer.
IME, business "leaders" follow the crowd even more than venture capitalists. If AWS gets frequent glowing praise in CFO Magazine, then by golly, we're going to move to the cloud and "save a bundle". Make enough similar decisions without actually being able to properly cost estimate the intangibles of what else is lost when those couple dozen experienced systems engineers move on, and you end up being valued at one-tenth of what you used to be within a few years (as is the enterprise where I was such an engineer).
This isn't bitcoin world though, deposits are FDIC insured to stop this
I'm pretty down on social media. But, you can easily argue that "my child should never smoke". You cannot easily argue that "my child should never use social media".

Part of raising a child in the modern era needs to be teaching how to manage and handle the use of these things. Hell, online games are a great example of a social platform where kids are often in the majority.
"Dear customer, we're currently having a teensy tiny problem with liquidity. Kindly do not withdraw any money for the next 10 years. No worries, though! Everything is fine. Please don't panic."
On apple devices, reduce motion generally just replaces the motion in the animation with a fade in-out. The transition still takes the same amount of time.
I am not sold on deposits rising overall because startups die a lot and the few homeruns will quickly dump you for Morgan Stanley or JPM as soon as they make it big.

But even if deposits rise how are you going to propel the money multiplier considering that your customer base doesn’t need loans?

Startups are notoriously scared of any debt/loan
You can do this without using cloudflare workers.

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As a us customer I have not received any emails about this. I reached out to them asking about it. They gave me the same boiler plate code. Sent back another email say thats basically fraud in the us.

their response

`My bad. I assume the mail you sent was after reading a communication made for
clients paying in £.
You're not impacted by this communication.

We’re currently reviewing our general conditions and pricing policy in each
currency given the fluctuation for the latter which means changes won’t likely
be the same for each currency.

Should a change occur for you; you'll receive a mail from us.`

I asked them to confirm the free email isnt being removed for US customers yet, and if it does a email will be sent out.

their reply

`I can only confirm what I shared with you above.`
> Frankly if you think the BBC is anything other than the broadcast media wing of the Guardian you are severely deluded.

The extensive airtime given to Nigel Farage on BBC Question Time (> 30 appearances) contradicts this statement.
I promise you dang is in absolutely no way on top of any of this.
The BBC has a tricky needle to thread. Agnostic to any claim made the episode, it seems a very normal scepticism would come from a documentary funded in part by organizations that then promote themselves based on the gravitas of said documentary. I'd think that the BBC wouldn't even start a documentary about rural electrification funded by a coal company, or poverty mitigation by payday lenders.

A sixth episode has also been filmed, which is understood to be a stark look at the losses of nature in the UK and what has caused the declines. It is also understood to include some examples of rewilding, a concept that has been controversial in some rightwing circles.

The documentary, which was part-funded by nature charities the WWF and RSPB, will not be broadcast along with the others and will instead be available only on the BBC’s iPlayer service. . . .

. . . This week the Telegraph newspaper attacked the BBC for creating the series and for taking funding from “two charities previously criticised for their political lobbying” – the WWF and RSPB.

[...]

The charities involved in the programme are already using it to launch a campaign – unaffiliated with the BBC – called Save Our Wild Isles. They have also gained the support of the National Trust, the Guardian understands.
If you're willing to close your account with payment in bonds that mature in 8 years sure, if you're looking to withdraw cash, no.
Even AMD has closed source blobs as firmware though?
You're using the term AI pretty generously there. Let's not delude ourselves into believing that deterministic algorithms are general artificial intelligence.
> So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting after meeting, and no time remaining, but still insist on trying to help.

Oh god, I hate this. The thing that happens most often in my experience is they have time to do the "fun parts" of something, and then leave others with all the testing, paperwork, bug fixing, etc, to make their update into something "real".
No, he's not an engineer and he cannot build anything, he has no special insights or novel ideas. He is an educator that popularizes niche and inaccessible knowledge to a large audience and that large audience really appreciates his efforts. His work in popularizing space tech is a net benefit to your industry and thus your company.
And specialized hardware. Not sure how long an inference on CPU only will take, but I suspect it will crush usability.
Could you give me an example of his 'arrogance'? I've been watching his content for some time, and I'd say he's always been very upfront and transparent about being an enthusiast/fanboy and not an engineer. His concept is to be an audience insert and ask the stuff his non-professional audience would ask, as a sort of avatar. I would expect no more expertise from him than from myself.

If the people he interviews are humoring or correcting him, that's exactly what I would expect and is part of the value of the content really. He's giving them a platform and enthusiastic laymen a chance to ask dumb questions.
I don't which other states may do this, but in Cali Labor Code Section 558.1 - company managers and owners are personally liable for missed wages. It is a codified approach to piercing the corporate veil. I learned this well when we had a single digit bank account and were waiting on funding to get wired in as payroll was coming due.
tired of this boomer cynical bullshit usually coming from people without a clue as to what crypto and AI is or works.
I didn't say it was useless, only that its use is highly limited to a very specific case, namely "do a bunch of things at the same time and block until completion".