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randomnumber314··on What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
Are you plugging them in for permanent use? Or are you using them as mobile security cameras?
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Did Google search change (for the worse) today?
It's likely part of their August 2024 release: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/08/august-202...

https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates

According to their [status dashboard](https://status.search.google.com/incidents/gVx6b2o78zke7GrMi...) the release will take about a month to roll out, so you may have just experienced an update to that search.

randomnumber314··on Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
I live in a suburb near a county airport. I cannot fathom a life with Tesla owners flying over where my kids and I bbq. This idea is great, but people should still be licensed for the real safety protocols e.g. radio and not crashing into others.
randomnumber314··on Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)
Careful, their IQ is slipping https://columns.ai/chatgpt/0qvrhRcljw6Xwh
randomnumber314··on Meta outage
>Facebook: global daily active users 2023.

>Statista https://www.statista.com › statistics › facebook-global-dau Feb 9, 2024 — During the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 2.1 billion, a minor increase on the previous quarter.

So roughly 28% of the planet.

randomnumber314··on How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
I get the sense that you're trying to mask the simplicity of predicting the next-most-likely-word after training your app, ala markov chains, under the guise of "magical AI." Providing an error threshold when it spits out the wrong response to a phrase seems to be worsening its natural ability as well.
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
Nice. Thanks. I saw the light saber version is in ASCII in the source for usds.gov, I figured there was a meaningful back story.

One more observation: If I were to want to work for the USDS, there aren't job listings (that I saw) nor would I know what I was applying for by clicking the "Apply Now" button.

I have been out of Fed. Gov. for about a decade, but the hiring process was very complex and confusing back then, the "rule of thumb" was for people to apply to as many as thirty jobs, and expect to wait a month for a response. I'd recommend explaining how (if) USDS is different. I certainly wouldn't fill out the "Apply Now" form not knowing what I'd be interviewed for, in DC, with a response sometime in the next month.

randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
What's the story with Mollie the crab?
randomnumber314··on Blocking website ads with a hosts file
edit /etc/hosts
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: When do ISPs begin selling your data, and is a VPN all that's needed?
There's a good chance I'm wrong here, but isn't directing your traffic overseas the exact thing that makes it fair game to state-level inspection?
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: What is the most important publicly unknown fact in your industry?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but aren't ACH transactions just an SFTP upload?
randomnumber314··on Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
>So?

So, there's a huge lesson when an organization starts blaming every one else for scale problems; if everywhere you go there are issues, it's you.

randomnumber314··on NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2017/02/spitzer-discove.html
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
|Experience in Numpy, Scipy and ML or NLP

Every line above this one states nothing but "you will work here"

Am I losing context or are "ship code to product" and/or have experience "writing [...] code" or "not dumb" terrible benchmarks?

randomnumber314··on DeepTraffic is a gamified simulation of typical highway traffic
|Why is everybody driving in random lanes?

Because that's closer to how humans drive. As infuriating as it is, midwest-USA traffic follows almost no rules about what the left lanes are for.

randomnumber314··on Thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint
I put together a search engine[1] for this very thing a few months ago. The data is publicly available, but obscure and usually buried in poorly described .gov city pages.

[1]http://bit.ly/2h5yGNg

randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
http://blog.plugg.io/2016/12/18/blog-let-walmart-delivery-dr... published draft?
randomnumber314··on To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury
Why do people, such as this author, treat the world as this dichotomy of passion and work? Isn't wanting to be great at whatever you do a passion? Isn't wanting to be challenged and learning new things a passion? I've worked (literally) in the shit, and now I'm writing this on a $2,500 Mac a company bought for me, while sitting at a desk. I think the lesson us millennials are failing to learn is that you can pursue your passion, but find a way to do so that is valuable to others.

Want to end world hunger? Okay, quit whining about the 1%, get to work, and create an organization that can make that happen. If it truly was your passion, there shouldn't be anything stopping you from accomplishing it. It seems, then, that the "passion" is really just an excuse for not trying.

randomnumber314··on Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6M scheme has to pay it back
In the broader scheme of things, isn't the casino setting itself up for trouble? If someone lost significant money, can't they now file suit claiming the casino likely used a similar scheme to force the game in the casino's favor?
randomnumber314··on Why we chose Vue.js
>How would you do it in Vue?

     {{ data | json }}
will give you formatted json output of the data object (i.e. state/props) In reality you can put anything that's in the Vue object's scope between curly braces, pipe it through the json filter.

>immutable list in Vue

    <li class="for-example" v-repeat="item in list">{{item}}</li>
randomnumber314··on Negotiate my salary, negotiation consultants
With zero information about you or your organization, why would anyone trust you to handle the delicate diplomacy required in salary negotiation with one's employer?
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help
I'd put it at the top of your list, considering it touches on exactly what you're about to endure.
randomnumber314··on The Imposter's Handbook
>I've learned more in this last year since I started programming over 25 years ago

From the OP link. The author spent a year "filling holes" in his knowledge.

randomnumber314··on Ask HN: What are the selling points of .NET?
I've done some development with Java, writing Android apps, and some work in Unity making games, and by trade I'm a PHP developer--I'd be curious to hear how .NET workflow compares to these others.
randomnumber314··on Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough
Thank you. I assumed my instinct was correct, but fell-back on the assumption that I am simply misunderstanding something.
randomnumber314··on U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds
In my experience, this will cause anger and outrage, someone high up will be sacrificed--but that's it.

The military is an absolute money burning machine. In my seven years of experience the following were in-the-open examples:

* End of year spending binges on equipment no one wanted or needed to max out budgets, to justify the next budget year's sum

* Pre-inspection trashing of inventory to mitigate write ups for discrepancies between on-hand and on-book items.

* I met a team of inspectors in Iraq who were tasked with finding some number of billions worth of equipment that was paid for, but no one was able to locate.

* Getting rank often involves pushing through big expensive projects, no matter the need, in exchange for bullet points on personnel review files.

* My favorite: an enormous dining facility was built on a base in Iraq, but it was too close to the exterior fence, which presented a situation where there would potentially be slow-moving line of hundreds of military, closely grouped together, within "throwing distance" of the perimeter fence. Thus, the contractors were required to complete the building, to make-good on the contract, to force the military to pay them in full, for a facility that was unusable due to above.

randomnumber314··on Ask HN: How do you come up with progressive project ideas?
Isn't that what AOL and Yahoo did?
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
But it's definitely a paradox of choice. There are seemingly infinite problem and infinite solutions...so which do you invest your time in pursuing.
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursuing?
Describe someone who is using this service, and how they use it.
randomnumber314··on Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursuing?
FYI - most links the menus lead to 404
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