skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon needs to be broken up. They are a web host, e-commerce giant, consumer electronics company, grocery store, primary care doctor, and movie studio. That is so wildly fucked.

These companies are entering into entirely new markets, destroying the value, giving it away for free, all subsidized by unrelated business unit profit.

One of the core reasons why Hollywood is floundering is because tech giants are doing this.

Why don't we do trust busting anymore?
Discussion (54 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115767
I'd think Google might benefit from Matrix bridges... ?
As-it says in the Abstract you linked: "The 202.5–0.53∗age formula developed in the present study was the best in the studied population, yielding lowest mean errors in most groups, suggesting it could be used in more active individuals."

Let's say it again — "suggesting it could be used".

And "A simple formula predicting HRmax based on age only may be used when the exact HRmax is not needed or is difficult to obtain."

For me the difference between 202.5 − 0.53·age and 211 − 0.64·age is less than 2 bpm!
Does it support tagged documents and PDF2.0 as well?
To be fair, with ActivityPub your account is always tied to a given server.

However as you have rightly noticed, the person you are responding to here is being disingenuous. Controlling the account doesn't fix the fundamental issue caused by network effects. An account that can't interact with a large portion of the network is no different than Mastoson in practice.

The Mastodon equivalent would be running your own single user instance which gets defederated by one of the big players.
libertarian

/ ˌlɪbəˈtɛərɪən /

noun

1) an idiot
Parents point is, even if the software to read the format disappears or is much more difficult to run for some reason- if there are published specs, you can recreate it. This is why non proprietary formats are such a great thing.

I would bet that the vast majority if not all image formats that can't be read anymore are due to their spec never being published.
I have common sense. They put the least serious people possible in charge of it, so of course I'm not going to take it seriously.

> I really think we're getting to a point where people are too hyper emotional and sensational about most topics which further limits real discussion and response.

Maybe, but this has nothing to do with emotion. I'm not a moron. An actual audit would be great, but would take more than the 30 days that Trump has been in office. They are lying, so I am left to speculate as to what.

> This time someone is.

Do you have any direct evidence they are doing something about it? I see several people supporting these actions that are based on emotion, but at a factual basis, it appears you are just regurgitating party propaganda.
iamb [1] tickles my vim fetish :)

[1] https://iamb.chat/

edit: added link
If the shoe fits, your only defense is to not wear it. Israel's government is genocidal and knows it.
Random smells can trigger headaches for me too. When I was little it was Fanta or Crush, something about the orange. Now I found the Trader Joe’s blood orange tea has the same scent and immediately triggers something.

Diesel exhaust is another one, but that’s not just a scent.

Surprisingly anything else motor related is fine. I’ve been soaked in brake cleaner and race fuel and it hasn’t been a problem.
I hope they at least open the original documents to the American public, instead of posting on X. IMHO the public should have the rights to review and grill the officials about the spending.
I don't know, there has been so many overhyped and faked demos in humanoid robotics space over the last couple years, it is difficult to believe what is clearly a demo release for shareholders. Would love to see some demonstration in a less controlled environment.
After so long I have no idea, but... that floppy file system also had a notion of copy-protected files. It turned out to be straightforward to work around that copy protection, so maybe there was some similar way around the data/program thing.

(All I remember is reading the docs of the filesystem calls and thinking "hm, could you do thus-and-so" and being a bit surprised it just worked.)
Except that 99% of engineers aren't being hired by Google nor being paid on comparable levels.

So why is Google relevant to this in any way?
>Take maximum subarray problem, which can be optimally solved with Kadane's algorithm. If you don't know that, you are looking at the problem as Professor Kadane once did. I can't say for sure, but I suspect it took him longer than 30-45 minutes to come up with his solution, and I also imagine he didn't spend the whole time blabbering about his thought process.

This is something that drives me nuts in academia when it comes to exam questions. I once took an exam that asked us to invent vector clocks from whole cloth, basically, having only knowledge of a basic Lamport clock for context. I think one person got it--and that person had just learned about vector clocks in a different class. Given some time, it's possible I could have figured it out. But on an exam, you've got like 10-15 minutes per question.

The funny thing about it is that I do the same damn thing from the other side all the time when working with students. It's incredibly tempting once you know the solution to a problem (especially if you didn't "solve" it yourself, but had the solution presented to you already) to present the question as though it has an obvious solution and expect somebody else to immediately solve it.

I'm aware of the effect, I've experienced it many times, and I still catch myself doing it. I've never interviewed a candidate for a job, but I can only imagine how tempting it would be to fall into that trap.
A web host / grocery store has no taste and should not be disrupting the entertainment industry.

It's time that we start trust busting these trillion dollar giants. Amazon needs a break up.

It's totally unfair that they subsidized all of that using unrelated business unit profit, displayed marquees on Amazon boxes and on the side of their delivery vans, and shipped all of our production crew jobs over to developing economies. US film production is in shambles because of Amazon.
The executive branch churns every 4 years, and is forced to churn at least every 8 years. In practice, it's not a concern, and it wouldn't be under congress, either.

Think about this in good faith and try to make it work in your head, and you will see that this proposal is actually not that different from how the executive branch rule-makers work today from a day-to-day perspective, while carrying very different legal implications.
AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved
It's a classic example of a long-term trust network getting breached, in this case by a trusted local that got in over their head. The bank was created to provide loans to locals, mostly farmers where everybody knew how farm loans worked and obviously did well doing that.

People don't understand that these trust networks are only as strong as the weakest link. Even with everyone having good intentions, they don't understand that people can be blackmailed, have mental health breakdowns, etc.
Using matrix isn’t enough to support the foundation, sadly.
McK's case interview is just as game-able as HackerRank style interviews. There are entire consulting clubs at many colleges that teach this exact interview style. It's true that it's harder (but not impossible) to use AI to help, but calling it an IQ-like test is true only as much as any other technical interview.

That being said, McK did create an entire game that they claim can't be studied for ahead of time. If the intention is to test true problem solving skills, then maybe that's roughly equivalent to a systems interview, which is hard(er) to cheat .
When "sloppiness" is defined as "did anything on my personal list of pet peeves" (and it often is) then the defensibility of the two begin to converge.
It's akin to how the board of directors doesn't let the CEO fire a companies auditors.
Taking this opportunity to recommend to everyone "Deep Sea" (深海), a 2023 Chinese animation film with wonderful art direction.
>I've seen was an offer of 8 months

Wasn't that actually "if you agree to resign and leave next September we'll continue paying your salary until then and you wont have to RTO if you work remotely" rather that actually 8 months of severance?

> then recalibrate as more information becomes available.

So you are waiting until they will start actually lying when they have more information (instead of "just" being incompetent)?

Giving someone who has proven time and time again to be exceptionally dishonest (Trump but also arguably Musk) the benefit of the doubt seems unwise. Why would they suddenly stop lying?

The fact alone that they have promised a huge tax cut to high income earners will will inevitably outweigh any potential savings by DOGE means that any claims about reducing public debt are inherently dishonest.
Which ones and where? Type and location, please.

The truth is that NATO has not put any rockets in Eastern Europe, and has dismantled many of those that were in Western Europe.
But if it wasn't crypto, it's much more likely they would have been able to track down and prosecute the scammers, and claw the money back.
Naming the actual engineers is not cool. Whatever you think of the big-picture situation here - that's both highly divisive, and not of their making.
> I don't think they have ill intent

Perhaps you could read their statements? DOGE communications are filled with ill intent, and their publicly stated goal, and the goal for which their supports seem to support them, is the destruction of the bureaucracy. That's ill intent.

That's before we look at their actions.
Why spend money chasing people who aren't collecting checks? That sounds like waste to me.
Think you can cheat with AI? Watermarks to detect AI-generated writing
It's shocking that you can just bury your head in the sand about the colloquial usage of "autist" (often happening at the same time as "Incel") replacing "retard" in the lexicon of the average zoomer.

It's not a persecution complex to identify the ways that hate gets used, deployed, and repackaged for a new generation. Putting your head in the sand about stuff like this is why Trump winning the election was SO shocking to some and extremely obvious to others.
How are those public contradictions going?

> increase good-faith in the masses big time

What incentive is there for anyone in the Trump administration to care about that? I don't see one.

> I don't think they'd renege on it.

Lower prices on day 1. Stopping Ukraine war on day 1.

Trump just says things in the moment to play for approval, then says something contradictory later if need be. There is no fallout, pushback or consequence from his supporters, and they have control of ... all branches of government right now.
What a BS article. As they say, just do the interview in person. Problem solved. Not sure about the US but 99% of jobs here in Spain are hybrid or onsite ("presencial"), not fully remote.

They're acting like all jobs are remote and it's impossible to do an interview in person.

Also, does it really matter? If a person is good at using AI and manages to be good at creating code with that, is it really so much worse than a person that does it from the top of their head? I think we have to drop the idea that AI is going to go away. I know it's all overhyped right now but there is definitely something to it. I think it will be another tool in our toolboxes. Just like stackoverflow has been for ages (and that didn't kill interviews either).
I still don't understand why Matrix exists. It feels like a solution looking for a problem to solve. I must be missing something? Can someone explain the gap it closes?
> This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.

Does it mean that they are definitely NOT receiving benefits, though?
You should pivot to fanfiction recommendations. I bet you will get a lot of traffic with that :)
This is one of those areas where it’s quite obvious how much confirmation bias there is in medicine. I told the patient to do X, they did X and they are better. Only the patient either didn’t do X and lied or they did X and something else and didn’t argue with the doctor about it.

How many people over the centuries have been told to stay off their cast but got up to get their kid or themselves some cookies from the top shelf? Or to do chores because nobody else was picking up the slack?
That's quite a big conclusion to draw from my statement. Whether or not it is good engineering or not really depends on the problem you're solving, your team structure, your integration footprint, etc. Not everything is a custom CRUD app.
> Compiling shaders directly from a high level representation to the GPU ISA only really happens on consoles.

When targeting Apple platforms, you can use the metal-tt tool to precompile your shaders to ISA. You give it a list of target triples and a JSON file that describes your PSO. metal-tt comes with Xcode, and is also available for Windows as part of the Game Porting Toolkit.

Unfortunately, most people don’t do that. They’re spoiled by the Steam monoculture, in which Steam harvests the compiled ISA from gamers’ machines and makes it available on Valve’s CDN.
Guys please for the love of God. Dont eat so many eggs. We have cut down our egg consumption to 4 per week between the two of us. And I don’t think about the cost. I can afford it. I think about the supply.

Please please reduce your egg consumption. If you have people who are unhealthy and in need of nutrition, get as many eggs for them as you can. And leave it for them only. But if you are healthy, leave it for others.
I feel like we, SWEs, have been over-engineering our interview process. Maybe it's time to simplify it, for example, just ask questions based on the candidate's resume instead of coming up with random challenges. I feel like all the new proposals seem overly complicated, and nobody, interviewer or interviewee, is happy with any of them.
I'm not arguing to let people cheat with AI. I'm saying asking people to write code in interviews is useless.
That's definitely up to the interviewer, in which a lot of discretion and trust has been placed. I think a lot of it also comes down to the culture of the company—whether they're cutthroat or supportive. As you get better people into the company, hopefully this improves over time. I know that when we did it, it was never about nailing it on the first try, it was literally about proving you knew how to program and were not an asshole. So, not the equivalent of reversing a binary tree on a whiteboard. The kinds of problems we worked on in the interviews weren't leetcode type problems, they were real tickets from our current project. Sometimes it was just doing stuff like making a new component or closing a bug, but those were the things we really did, so it felt like a better test.
Teen rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google sues UC for discrimination [video]
Before the first 6 seasons of GoT, pretty much every book to screen SF/Fantasy adaption was awful. An okay-ish adaptation was something to celebrate. WoT and Rings of Power were okay-ish.
we barely do democracy anymore
>Organizations which have their own IP ranges can use them at Hetzner, too.

If you own the nodes you can just log the encrypted traffic with metadata like user IP (if its an entry-node, which requires a Guard-flag), source and destination Tor-node and timestamp to send it to a centralized logging server. No need to host them in the same rack.

The problem of three nodes being in one rack is traffic analysis of an external attacker, who doesn't own the nodes.
If someone already owns the nodes it doesn't matter where they host them.. Using your own IP range for an attack would just be more complicated, less effective than just buying nodes worldwide and is an OPSEC risk.

So the only reason to run tor nodes on your own IP range on Hetzner servers is if you work together with an organization which has access to ISP and datacenter traffic and probably work together with the datacenter owner to attack Tor users through a correlation attack.

>Exit circuits are not the only type of circuit.
Connections to onion services are sent over 6 nodes, not 3. You talked about 3 nodes, so I assumed you talk about the typical Guard or Bridge Node -> Mid-Node -> Exit-Node circuit. The only reason to have less nodes are single-hop onion services. They are an edge-case..

EDIT: fixed grammer
Because Treasuries are the foundation of the global financial system, and there's basically nothing that could replace them completely.
Should the government get a blank check? If there is waste and removing it won’t reduce efficacy, it should be purged.
> i.e. if you wag your tail chasing a bad end for 15 mins, this is a fail in an interview

That’s an assumption. Perhaps following a dead end for a while, realizing it, pivoting, etc is a valuable, positive, signal?
Same, I was finishing my first read through as the show cane out. So disappointed… Lots of really major changes for very little reason.

In the last episode of S2 Loial gets stabbed with the ruby hilted dagger, which is typically extremely lethal.

Another great community and series are the cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson, who finished the last few WoT after Robert Jordan passed away. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archives are both amazing. Also, 9000 pages and over 3 million words for all of the cosmere books, so you will be reading for a bit!
Hard to say. I only know the salary data ends up at less scrupulous data brokers (e.g. ones that sell directly to advertisers, though perhaps TWN does this too, idk)
> On a global scale, that increases power and manufacturing on a huge scale. Why are we throwing power and more modern materials at a problem that was solved in Roman times?

Really?

A high quality modern balanced ventilator can ventilate an average sized house using 20-40W. That can supply over 100cfm and avoid around 90% of the conditioning that those 100cfm would otherwise require.

A good approximation is that 1 cfm at a 1 degree F temperature difference transfers 1.08 BTU/hr (sigh) or 0.317W of “sensible heat”. So, in a mild Mediterranean climate in the winter, heating by 30 degrees F, that 100cfm needs 0.317 times 3000 = 951W of sensible heat added.

So you can burn 951W of fuel. Or you can use 20-40W to get the same amount of fresh air but only need 95W to heat it. Or live in a climate with warm days and cool nights and require less thermal mass and therefore less material to moderate the temperature and avoid the need for active heating or cooling.

Without an HRV, either you don’t heat the building, or you ventilate less, or you use considerably more resources for temperature control.

Oh, and the device itself is two fans, a heat exchanger (fancy piece of plastic, generally), and some electronics and a box. Not exactly resource-intensive to build. And it can usually completely replace your bathroom fans if configured to do so, making it even less resource intensive.

In climates that require dehumidification or winter humidification, it’s more extreme because an ERV can exchange humidity (“recover latent heat”) too.
Wait until we find out how intelligent broccoli is.
Discover Vulnerable Assets Using Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM)

Well that's an unfortunate acronym. Applied the updates on Alpine and MX Linux (Debian) without issue.
Show HN: Shoptimality: Qauntitative Laptop and Cloud VM Shopping
I am building a tool that organizes product data to help you make the correct purchase decision.

Currently I have datasets for laptops, automobiles, and cloud VMs. More datasets are in the works.
Did you fail to notice the diversity of the cast in the last 20 years of Bond films?

And if you mean the title character, you are presupposing that:

A. the quota existing means Bond won't be a white man (he absolutely will be in the first Amazon outing), and

B. Bond ceases to be Bond if he isn't white.

There's no reason for modern Bond stories to require a white Bond. He does have to be a guy, but don't see why race changes the story.
> 20% against the debt

That seems insignificant when their other proposed policies are intended to massively increase that debt?
They brought back the stalk in the new Model Y, so they seem to agree with my assessment. A product can still be successful even if there’s something bad about it. I don’t like the capacitive turn signal buttons at all but it wouldn’t have stopped me from buying a Tesla.
Practical RL (Yandex Data School)
Town halls where only people with an agenda to push or retired and bored people show up?
I agree. Good access controls and being prevented from accessing things that I don't need access to protect me as an employee just as much as the data itself.
Governments with almost a gigaton of nuclear weapons should not be run in "fast startup ways". Losing some VC money and reshaping the global economy or compromising nuclear safety are not the same stakes.
What browser are you working in? I'm not having any trouble in Brave, Chrome, or Opera.
I am not reading your twitter history to say that assuming Elon and Trump wont renege on something is the worst bet of your entire life.
So far, from a technology demonstration perspective, it has become somewhat clear that more degrees of freedom makes autonomous operations easier. road vehicles suffer from terrible decision making in realtime whereas airplanes and drones seem to work sufficiently for cost effective operations. Ships are somewhere inbetween. As long as they are autonomous enough to return to base then maintenance shouldn't be a blocker. Also, the living space requirements on a ship is also a risk because of free surface effects on the interiour.

I think autonomous marine assets are as effective as their engine reliability.
This is called "watching YouTube tutorials". We've had it for decades.
hard lesson to learn
Possible evidence of windborne H5N1 viral infections in chickens
> any service that pays Amazon

If we go literal with this, it gets far more complicated counting Amazon web services
Well, the people who read that are welcome to try that and outcompete me in the market. Triplebyte still exists.
It's addressed in a foot note:

>At the time of our review, approximately 44,000 of the 18.9 million number holders were receiving SSA payments.

It was mentioned earlier in the article there are 531 million SSN in the system total.
All Bonds are marketing phenomena. Amazon Prime Bond will be no different. Good time to try new brands for guns, watches, cars, gadgets and so on.
Is this even reality or CGI? They really should show these things off in less sterile environemtns because this video has a very CGI feel to it.
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