skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say "objective", it definitely needs air quotes, because the well-meaning skeptics love to toss it around for some decidedly non-objective opinions. My pet example is quoting "THD" as if it were a useful figure. It's not. The advantage of THD isn't that it is meaningful, but rather that it's easy to measure. Run a 1khz sine wave into the front of the amp, tap a resistive load on the back of the amp, measure the difference. Manufacturers like it because it makes for a competitive-sounding spec. But it has approximately zero to do with how an amplifier behaves in the face of complex musical signals, driving complex speaker loads.

When it comes to recording, my "objective" reality is the sound I hear in the room before it ever hits a microphone. But what comes out of the other end of the microphone is already deeply subjective. The objective ability of hi-fi systems to reproduce that subjective, colored microphone signal (plus whatever processing is involved downstream) is about as objective as they get. But the recording itself? Outside the world of purely electronic music, it's a subjective experience.

I play acoustic guitar every day, listen to unamplified singers/musicians (other than me) at least weekly, play electric guitar at least weekly, gig regularly. These direct, objective experiences of the natural sounds of instruments color my interpretation of both magical-thinking audiophiles and pseudo-scientific skeptics. I know intimately what the natural sound is, I know intimately what the recorded/reproduced sound is, and I know how the entire recording process works, from miking to mixing to mastering. Laws and sausages. The audiophiles and skeptics are both missing that perspective.

So, as a recording/mixing engineer, as a producer, I'm looking not to deliver audiophile accuracy, but rather to deliver the intended intellectual and emotional experience of the music. What feeling is the artist trying to convey? How do I manipulate the sonics to emphasize the musician's intent, as expressed through the lyrics, the composition/arrangement, and the natural tones of their instruments? That's the fun part, for me.

(As an aside, I'm currently working on a particular song of my own, destined for my long-delayed solo album. I wrote the song based on a nightmare I had in great distress. A few years back, I suffered an illness that left me nearly unable to speak, much less sing, and my voice is permanently damaged (I have surgery a few times a year on my vocal cords to keep speaking and not die of suffocation). I recorded the song right after writing it, just a couple of weeks before my first surgery, with a near-useless voice. "My broken voice won't fill the air / I know that you don't really care / You may not need my song but I need to sing it anyway". Fitting with the broken voice is the melody repeated on a piano that hasn't been tuned in over 50 years and has been flooded multiple times, so it's, um, colorful. To both the audiophile and objective mindset, neither the voice nor the piano were worth recording at all. But as an artist trying to communicate an emotional experience, they're vital.)
> not only is the phrase "black" list steeped in a history you may not realize you're invoking

nonsense.

> but it's much less precise than the term "stop list"

tenuous. the term blacklist has existed since at least the 1600s[1]. i would be surprised if its meaning was not well understood.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
> The real solution to carbon is immediate reduction of fossil fuel usage with a very short-term goal of nearly absolute cessation of greenhouse gas generation.

The problem is that while this is accurate given the current state of science/technology, it's a complete political non-starter. There's always incentive for someone to be a bad actor, moreso if everyone else is behaving themselves. Unfortunately, very few nations are going to be willing to commit to massive greenhouse gas reduction while any other nation is profiting from it.

I think the comment from Altman (we will figure out fusion because we have to) has the subtext: 'or we're all dead.' It seems unlikely that killing fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas polluters will get killed by political fiat. That leaves killing them economically, which means creating a more efficient energy source.
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The idea is that once cones are collected, packaged, and tokenized, they will be put up for sale by the tree's owners (or those given permission to collect on their land—anyone collecting forest products without permission in Maine already faces a fine of up to $500).

The hope is that this will enable property owners (residential, schools, camp grounds, corporate campuses, municipalities, land trusts, commercial forests, etc.) to monetize their trees without needing to cut them down or remove much biomass.

Since Maine is over 90% forested, the equation is different here than many other places. We collected our Initial Cone Offering from a tree next to our house, in a mixed-use zone of a city. It's less about helping forests per se, more about creating an incentive to plant and maintain trees beyond just aesthetics and lumber.

We're not quite at the point of selling our tokenized cones, and have yet to provide any free tokens to others who have collected verifiable cones. We hope to have updates on those fronts soon. Thanks for checking it out!
I just downloaded the latest Brave browser and scanned it with Windows Defender -- no issues reported. Perhaps there have been issues in the past, but there don't appear to be any known ones at the moment.

Now, the separate tor browser component that's included, that's a different story. But the Brave browser itself is just fine.
Updating the 'date_password_last_changed' will invalidate all the tokens for a user. It solves the purpose but has its own trade offs.
As the owner of several pets, I'm not sure I want an electric car following me "like a pet". I've been tripped by my dogs more times than I can count -- if my car tried the same thing, I'd probably be in a wheelchair.
The SFGate article is a literal reposting of that NYTimes story, and they state as such by the bottom. I think the link should be updated to point to the Times in this case.
SchilliX appears to be missing from that list.

Jörg Schilling regularly mentions and contrasts the Schily Tools with GNU tools.
> To be fair, all sides trust the government.

> The people who don't trust the government, don't want the government to take ANY action

Which is it?
Going from B2B to B2C by itself is a major turnaround in company policy, it's easy to fail (and crash the existing business doing so) even for a very well run company.
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Because only rich people should get access to computing resources.
Fix 2), hire a few good people and they will fix the rest if they get left alone.
> Yes, but is it being used that way ?

Yes, most hosts have and enforce (though imperfectly) content rules as they would be disincentivized from doing without CDA 230.

> Everything that I've seen has indicated that service providers use this law to play it both ways: they actively control what users see through algorithms, but then claim that they are (largely) not responsible for the moderation of questionable content.

That's not playing it both ways.

> IOW, they are not just a passive distribution point for information, and, in many cases, actively control the flow of information.

Yes, the entire point of CDA 230 is to allow them to actively moderate without becoming strictly liable for all content, since without that allowance they would be disincentivized from moderation. Removing CDA 230 would not encourage active moderation, it would make active moderation a gateway to unmanageable liability.

> Doesn't that intrinsically make them a publisher ?

Yes, without CDA 230 it would, restoring the “if you moderate content at all, you must succeed in capturing every bit of user-submitted illegal content or be fully liable as if you had deliberately originated it yourself” rule that was in place before CDA 230 (with the added challenge that there are more content regulations now than before the CDA was adopted), which is not something that promotes moderation, it promotes either no moderation or no user content hosting at all, leaving moderated hosting for operators outside of US jurisdiction.
> I want to give advice to the management at my exit interview

Your management probably doesn't want to hear any of your advice. You're welcome to tell them whatever you want, but be cognizant that it'll be about as effective as going to a confessional, or complaining to your bartender.

You're about to quit. Why are you taking on the task of improving the company hiring process? Are you out of personal projects to work on? These people are busy digging their own grave, don't knock the shovels out of their hands, they'll just hit you with them.
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Exit interviews in my opinion are stupid. The time to give constructive feedback is when you are employed with that company. At the time of leaving, just say goodbye with a smile and move on.
Will you pay to access that front-end? I'm not a fan of closed systems but I notice that folks want access to other people's system and data without paying for it.
The account which posted this link to HN seems to have a posting history that includes at least one other Medium article by a one-time 'author' plagiarized from Hackernoon.
Its not that they have to be hard choices. Its rather that we are only commiting to try the easy ones.

And i do agree that what matters is the outcome. I just don't think we are changing the outcome as much as we should be doing given our beneficial position in the world. There are only so many easy "things", for lack of a better word, we can do. The rest are hard. And it seems to me that we are stopping short of committing to doing anything "hard".

I could be wrong about what produces the best outcome with regards the environment considering wether to stopping or continue drilling(edit: in norway). But our carbon emmisions are still climbing while most of the europe that we should be comparing ourselves to has either stopped or reduced their emmisions. We are still not contributing to a carbon negative world other than not being as bad as we could have been.
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Also, 2.5 W/kg in a shielded room is far, far more than 1.6 W/kg exposure. Cell phone radiation, when it even goes through your head, keeps on going right through to the other side[1]. In a shielded room, the radiation bounces off the walls until it's absorbed by the stuff in the room... ie the rats. The absorbed power in humans is microwatts. The rats were absorbing fractions of a watt.

[1]: as evidenced by the fact that cell phones actually work. When you cover them up with your hand, you don't suddenly drop the call.
There is no scientific study about wage gap for equivalent work. If it had been reported properly by newspapers, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
You have to get over that quickly. The company doesn't feel that way.
Noted, thanks, we'll look at adding more information on identifying seeded cones.
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> Wouldn't a non-centralized version of the web make it harder to police said speech?

It might make it easier, by not connecting to those parts of the decentralized web where hate-speech is prevalent. Of course, this might then amplify echo-chambers.
Looks like some great information but you need to change the way you style the links to the different chapters. The links look like ordinary text and I had no idea that I could click them until I accidentally hovered over one.
This is my exact situation. I live across the street from two auto repair shops and it is spectacularly annoying to be woken up early in the morning by people blowing horns, grinding metal, or having inventory replenished by loud trucks.

I am fully in favor of mixed development and would love to live above a coffee shop, restaurant, bodega, retail store etc. I am not in favor of living next to a place where assembly or manufacturing is taking place (or any other industrial behavior). Either the type of business needs to be somewhat regulated or the hours in which commerce can occur need to be better regulated to encourage people to do things like replenishing inventory in the evening as opposed to early in the morning.
How rare false accusations are is completely irrelevant. If the goal is justice, then due process is non-negotiable. Period.
Will they get paid for the time they are walking out?
Does anyone know how much do BAT publishers get paid, compared to regular ads?

How much of that money comes from VCs (in form of "BAT monthly giveaway") vs from the actual advertisers?
That feeling is called Stockholm Syndrome, and exists entirely within your mind, with no objective external reality to correspond to.
Robots will deliver your mail in Norway
I've been doing the Khan Academy linear algebra course which is good too.
There's no place for 'sexual harassment' culture, period.

If your employer started murdering people in the streets outside your office, would you just pack up and find a new job?
Brave is now based on Chromium. You can install extensions from the Chrome web store just as you would in Chrome.

To me, Brave is just Chrome without all the Google stuff and a built-in ad-blocker. It's fantastic.
Arguably the people who value free over everything else aren't good customers and aren't a good foundation to build an actual sustainable business on.
That's normal in a lot of cities, including New York.

The answer is that the apartment above the grocery store is an apartment for someone who would have lived in a place less desirable to them otherwise.
KRS: A new tool for gathering Kubernetes resource statistics
> You don't have to have a lot of trust in the government, just more than you do in corporations.

Corporations (sans legal monopoly) have power over their constituents insofar as their products are desirable.

Governments have power over their constituents with physical force.

It is 1000x easier for me to delete my Facebook account than for me to move to another country and change my citizenship.
http://weeksmd.com/2013/03/does-your-cell-phone-heat-up-your...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071445/
Do you have to ping auth on every websocket communication? I feel like you should be able to auth once when you open the connection, and then keep track of the intended session timeout locally (unless you expect external factors to extend that timeout I suppose).

Unless that's in regards to checking whether an auth has been blacklisted, which isn't something jwt solves, as far as I can tell.
It's not great news, this study. It could be wrong, it could be inapplicable to reality, it could be a lot of things that mitigate the results in one way or another.

But I think we can all agree that it would have been nicer to hear that there was "No Evidence" of a link.
> However, we do have trouble hiring developers because 1) Glassdoor reviews are bad 2) compensation is small 3) work is frustrating 4) you don't learn anything from colleagues, unless you learn it yourself and push others to follow suit.

You just identified all of the things you need to fix.

1. Glassdoor reviews are bad because the company is bad.

2. People (usually) don't work for the fun of it. Pay your people more.

3. Figure out where the frustrating things are in a given persons day, fix them, rinse, and repeat. Maybe start with adding version control and tests. Those are two big quality of life things that can make things substantially less frustrating for any developer.

4. Set up a required lunch and learn or something. Have the company buy pizza, and have one or two people every week teach the team something new and how it could make your lives better internally and/or how it could make your customers' lives easier.

You're not gonna get good engineers for an AI startup if you don't have your ducks in a row first, IMO. Backburner the AI startup, fix your company first, then re-evaluate.

All of that said: don't try to give advice in an exit interview. If the management cared about this stuff, they'd proactively ask about it. Telling management why their company is bad on the way out the door is a good way to burn bridges, and while you probably won't ever go back to this company, your managers might go to other places where you'd want to work.
They are salary - I'm 100% confident they will.
THIS IS HallOWEEN
You owe them nothing. They pay you in exchange for your work. Don't doubt for a second that they wouldn't get rid of you without much concern. If you want to stay, see if they'll give you what you need to stay (though you described it as genuinely bad so I don't know why you'd want to stay). Take your experience and find someplace you can grow in the directions you want to grow.
You didn’t specify how many people they are looking for but if it is multiple people, you could reduce the headcount and double the salary. This makes the pay more competitive and will attract more engineers.

With that being said I’ve always avoided giving real feedback during an exit interview to prevent accidental bridge burning.