skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Would you rather pay a CEO $100k to bring in $1million in charity funds, or pay a CEO $1million to bring in $5million in charity funds?

Personally I'd rather pay five CEOs $100k each to bring in $5million, than one CEO double that for the same net effect.

There is only so much money people will give to charity in a given year. It's entirely possible that the larger charities with higher expense ratios starve out smaller charities that are more efficient at spending the money the receive, so the net effect is worse.
Worldwide problem.

"The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose." -- Albert J. Nock
> people that think they are being witty by posting "how soon before it's cancelled?"

I legitimately don't think most people are trying to be funny when they say things like this. I think they feel (as I feel) that it's not worthing becoming reliant on Google's new fancy products, because there is a high likelihood they stop working in a few short years.
Alright, I'll drink the Kool-Aid. I think this is an excellent strategic investment for Microsoft that also aligns with timely ethical priorities. I didn't read the post and think "this is corporate glossy bullshit," I read it and thought "this is an actual strategic initiative that is driving broad organizational alignment, which has measurable success criteria, and which makes sense."

I am genuinely surprised by the sincerity, cogency, and aspirational nature of this initiative and its associated PR glossies.

I am measurably more likely to work at and invest in Microsoft after reading this.

I guess they've hacked my demographic?
The most ostentatious waste that I've seen has been in Las Vegas, where they had gigantic pools of water and gigantic fountains running all day, in 120 degree heat.

All that water evaporating for nothing in the desert, where every drop of water is (or should be) precious, just seemed like such a gigantic waste.
I would have preferred .pipe, .partial and .partialRight functions in the std library instead of adding more syntax sugar.
We always knew that neurons did way more than just integrate voltage and produce spikes. The problem with testing out what those things are has largely been technological. Only until quite recently have we been able to electrically isolate dendrites and axons for recording, and slowly it's becoming tractable to image from entire neurons with high temporal resolution using voltage-sensitive fluorescent indicators. So the field of dendritic and other sub-neuronal computation arguably in its infancy.

The other things we figured out in the meantime relate to different types of neurotransmission (e.g. volume neurotransmission), active processes in axons and dendrites like vesicular trafficking, synaptic tag-and-capture (if it turns out to be true) and all kinds of weird types of plasticity. Basically a neuron's function is a lot more nuanced than the simplistic "integrate and fire" idea.

Artificial neural networks (in the deep learning sense) therefore don't really have much of anything to do with biological ones function-wise. It really is just regression with a lot of nodes and layers, and maybe some bells and whistles. That doesn't mean they're not powerful in their own right, just not comparable to brain circuits and don't do the same kind of thing nor solve the same kinds of tasks.
Or “this national park put up signs saying the glaciers would be gone in 2020, then had to take them down”: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-202...

Tying every observable short-term climate anomaly to CO2 will continue to backfire as often as not, because the truth is nobody can predict whether one year will be snowier than the next, or whether the next major natural disaster will be a hurricane, a flood, or a fire. The overall claim will actually become harder to sell - if that’s your goal.
Meyers-Briggs claims that

1. We all have specific preferences in the way we construe our experiences, and these preferences underlie our interests, needs, values, and motivation

2. The MBTI is an accurate measure of #1

There's also an implicit claim that each of the 4 dichotomies are well represented by a binary value.

There are far more claims made about it by Meyers and Briggs, but those 3 are baked into the MBTI test.

People have definitely had their comfort zone expanded by following advice in horoscopes, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to "believe" with regards to horoscopes.
> Pairing causes the social part of my brain to activate which is fine, but I cannot also think analytically in real time while speaking.

This happens to me in whiteboard interviews and other high anxiety situations. There is no need to be atypical or suffer any disorder to feel this. Undoubtedly, this likely happens to a big chunk of the population given the disgust most people have for whiteboard interviews and other anxiety inducing situations.
Does it require you to be connected to the internet? Or does it show you an ad if you are? Also, it shows an ad even if you pay? That doesn't sound great...
10 meters should be doable. You'd need a custom fairing.

Probably you'd want a fairing that holds the mirror on edge, so that it travels edge first as if looking to the side during launch. This would save on air resistance during launch.
Will support be available if Google marks the account as malicious?

What's the point of paying when the biggest potential issue is Google itself disabling the account?
Can't comment on Termly specifically, but I have used services to generate basic templates for me to get moving with and then as we had resources we had attorney's review the T&C etc. Two things I usually do when I use a template, one make sure there is some statement about the right to update at any time, and two I compare it to other similar services to see if there are any key sections missing which I might be concerned about.

IANAL, but this has worked for me in the past and when I had enough resources I had an attorney go over it all for me. The only time I can think of right now where I'd not launch without a legal review first would be if my software/solution was in a high liability area. e.g. if it managed peoples bank information, or health care data etc.

*edit fixed a word
Anecdata: I made a game like this (where enough functionality is playable to find out if you like it, and there's a one-time IAP to unlock the full game) and got a ton of complaints about it. All of them were about IAP generally, not the one in the game. I think people just see the IAP flag in the store and assume it'll be potions or gems or whatever.
In principle a competent CEO who truly brings in "novel" money to a charity more than a cheap one is worth it. Note my use of the word Novel above because it is to differentiate between money a charity makes by just poaching money that would have gone to some charity anyways from money that would not be spent philanthropically otherwise.

If Robin Mahfood can justify his 400k CEO paycheck for "Food for Poor" (real name and number) and also promise that all the new money he brought in was actually money that would have been squandered otherwise, then Robin Mahfood is indeed a worthwhile expenditure. I doubt that's the case most of the time, though.

Nevertheless, these might not be comparable scenarios anyways - an expensive CEO might atleast make financial sense if not a moral one. It's just a stretch to say a very low margin charity event is even a financially viable event, and hopefully your million dollar CeO can see that and avoid it for his charity.
Nicely done, i was trying to compare languages , but every time i choose "c++" it hangs...
What after Target's holiday fiasco
I was very lucky/fortunate enough to be able to play D&D with the Gygax family on the weekends up in WI during high school.

Gary was letting his sons run the campaign and was just playing himself, but so much of the game's immersion came not from the rules but from how an experienced DM knew when to focus on the rules vs. focus on the story. Players can get in the way of this, but "good" gaming groups generally have a collective sense for when to focus on game play and when to shut up and let the DM develop the story further.

The net result is you actually make substantial progress instead of spending the entire session letting someone who thinks they are clever pick fights with random townsfolk that they want to play out in gory detail and otherwise derail the adventure. Yeah there are ways to deal with people like that, but my point is when you have a group where you don't need to, magic happens.

There are of course times when you want to stress rules because they add to the story. Case in point, I have fond memories of Gary walking me through volumetric calculations to help educate me that "no, the fireball does not only hit the kobolds, you also managed to nuke your entire wounded party."
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It's a porn company, not a bank or other "respectable" business, so it's possible that they could actually face consequences.

And to counter that, the victims are porn actors/actresses, so the perpetrators probably won't face consequences for it.

I'd like to /s this comment, but I'm not sure I can.
Step You Can Take Next Might Be to Escape
XC Skiing is more an alternative to jogging than it is to Downhill skiing.
the fact that it's a macbook means you can develop apps for apple products whereas any other labtop that would be extremely difficult to do, if not impossible.
Likewise. I've always limited myself to TeX, including my own preprocessor. After looking at the article I am glad--for myself, not for the apparent state of the LaTeX ecosystem.
I love the way the thumbnails for each year change with Apple’s brand typography from the era. The one thing I would change is pre-1984: Apple started using Garamond with the introduction of the Macintosh; I would use either Motter Tektura (from the old logo) or Univers condensed (used in Apple II print materials) for 1977-1983.
The 10.4 version and especially the 10.9 version of Aqua was basically perfect in my eyes… they had dimension and contrast without being overbearing and were bright and cheery without being blinding. I know people are fond of the 10.5 and 10.6 Aqua but I found its darker grey window chrome a bit too dreary looking.
Nobody's proposing you wouldn't be allowed to work; just that you wouldn't have to. If you want to go find a boss and be their employee, have at it.
Very minor nitpick, but IMHO, this article creates a little unnecessary confusion by insisting upon a particular meaning of the word "allocate" without being very clear it's doing that.

That is, it uses "allocate" to mean "make ready for immediate use with no further (lazy) processing". Another perfectly reasonable definition would be "guarantee to be possible to use".

The distinction would arise on, for example, a system which doesn't over-commit memory but also doesn't fault pages in upon allocation. On such a system, allocation might give you a rock solid guarantee that you can write to (and read from) that memory but it wouldn't give you any guarantee about how fast or slow that would happen on initial access.

Personally, I prefer the second definition, but that's not really the point. The point is to be clear and avoid confusion.
We are all just mutated Lisp...and mutts.

https://xkcd.com/224/
Other groups who have been "nonprofit" until recently include Visa (the credit card network) and the NFL.
I could really use that weird side effect. What other molecules did you cycle up/down?
Adorable Tardigrades Have a Surprising, Fatal Weakness – Live Science
Out of curiosity, I wonder what the closest star to Sol system is that is large enough to supernova?
What idiot-colors do you think it would corresponds to?

fire - red

water - blue

earth - green

air - yellow

pretty sure it's "scientific"
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That sounds cheap compared to the cost of old-age healthcare. For comparison, Alzheimer’s care homes cost ~£1000/week in the UK.
Another study was done with multiple countries and 17,000 wallets with some interesting results

https://www.boredpanda.com/social-experiment-lost-found-wall...
> Thus, to reforest 3 billion acres at current prices will cost the world an investment of $3 trillion/year for 20 years. That sounds like a lot, but the world GDP of 2017 was $80 trillion. Therefore, this plan would require an investment of a little less than 4% of world GDP every year for 20 years.

$3T each year (4% of world GDP) for 20 years still sounds like a lot.
See, that's a perfect example of this tactic.

They got the date wrong by a few years, and the new expected date is 2030. This is now being portrayed as if a major error was made and climate change is debunked, but it's really just an example of how most science includes a margin of error.
Claiming that them saying it is them thinking they are being witty is disputing the validity of their complaint.
Just to confirm, are you the person the changed the Preview PDF text selection in newer macOS versions? o_0
Edit: Completely missed that VS Live Share has a solution for this. Amending my complaint to be about the discoverability of the UX
The citation for lowering test scores is probably supposed to be PISA, which doesn't get listed in the footnotes, so who knows which report he got it from.

The citation for harming long-term memory is https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01443410.2018.1... which specifically investigates the distracting effect of allowing the use of phones and laptops during class for purposes other than the class itself. (Ironically, the in-classroom questions had to be answered electronically.)
Clojure is always the wrong option to get into the principles of Lisp.

* Clojure utilizes non-standard Lisp syntax like []{}, weird function declaration and differ semantics of some forms (like cond usage, a powerful specie of switch-case of Lisp);

* Clojure don't have cons pairs, neither car and cdr operators. Cons pairs are fundamental Data Structures to build compound data, very well explored in SICP and any LISP text book.

* Clojure has the batteries of Java, so you will own a giant ecosystem to build complex software, but the evil parts of jvm will be inherited too. For the first contact with Lisp, this can be a unnecessary pain in the ass.

I would recommend to start a LISP journey with Land of Lisp or Practical Common Lisp (PCL), both focused in Common Lisp. Land of Lisp has a lot of history about the beginning of Lisp and the author write the book in a fun way, lot of charges and xkcd-like humor. The book has a collection of game projects per chapter, one at time, teaching principles of the language. PCL it's very useful for understanding specific parts of the language, I used as complement when Land of Lisp was not sufficient (loop topic on PCL is very good).
You know your brain adapts so you can read something easier/faster the more you are exposed to it. For me, Lisp code couldn't be easier/faster to read and comprehend.

I'm convinced most of the people making jokes about parentheses or Lisp code being hard to read are superficially dismissing it without putting in even a minimal effort of working with it.

Things that don't immediately click are discarded. Individual curiosity ("Really smart people say great things about this, I wonder why that is..") leading to individual effort leading to deep understanding is not the prevailing attitude.

Sad state of affairs.
If they take every dollar Chevron is paying them to enhance oil recovery with deep learning and then put it in this climate innovation fund then maybe I'd believe them.
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That's great. Remember the keyword is "Positioning". Spend a lot of time on your marketing website/copy and specially the Landing Page. Put yourself in the shoes of your best clients and imagine that you landed on your own site. Is the copy compelling and clear enough to show me value for ME within less than 5 seconds ? Also, setup an Outbound strategy with your co founder where he/she finds prospects through things like Linkedin etc. Rinse and repeat.
A very pessimistic view of everything!

I can't say anything about your fraud or conning comments. Obviously that's bad, and I worry that you're arguing in bad faith by bringing that up.

My main point is that being the leader of a large organization that brings in lots of money is a skill that is highly sought after. If you want to attract that kind of person then you'll have to pay for it, or find the 1 in [some large number of people] that has both the skills needed and the willingness to work for much lower than the rest of the market would pay them.
The tabloid you can further deactivate under the gear of the new tab
> "conscious" is a language construct that defines an abstract concept that is only vaguely defined. Why? Because we haven't found a falsifiable theory that allows us to objectively state "x or y are conscious or not conscious"

I lean on defining the concept based on adaptation to the environment - consciousness is the function that adapts an agent to its environment. Its purpose is to safeguard the agent against external perturbations and achieve its own goals.

For example, how would we get food without consciousness. How would reproduction work? Consciousness has a vital role here. Evolution works at a slow pace, consciousness is required for quick adaptation, otherwise the penalty is death.

I think consciousness is being made into something transcendent, or unfalsifiable, or essentially different than physical processes because we like to make ourselves feel special in comparison to the world.
Unless your criteria is 4+ stars in an excellent location, or at at very peak time of year, those prices are completely out of line.
RISC-V
We created a low-level framework that was used by PDFKit (and hence by Preview) to change the way selection of text in PDF documents is done. We never worked on Preview itself. Since the feature is part of PDFKit, it is also available to third-party apps that use PDFKit.
It has to be true then, the book author did state that he was surrounded by such.
That's even less how climate change works.
What's probably going to happen and soon? The comment you're replying to does not suggest some event will happen.
100k may be better for the overall charitable sector, but its worse for this particular charity. It's the tragedy of the commons. It's a well-studied problem, and there's no non-centralized solution to that problem.

My wife worked for a non-profit theater (12 million/year budget, 4 million from donations, 8 million from ticket sales. Most of the donations are from major donors - 5K and more.) Its 'CEO' was the best-paid person in the theater, paid ~230k/year. The stagehands, who were making ~$25/hour would grouse non-stop about how much he was paid. From what I know of him, and his job, (mostly fundraising), I am almost positive that he was a profit center for the theater. If he left three months from now, their financials would not improve.

Now, it's entirely possible that someone else in his position, who would take the job for $130,000/year, and would raise as much, or more money. Or maybe someone else would raise even more money, and expect $500,000/year.

I think that for that particular theater, they'd probably be wrong to fire their CEO, if their goal was to cut costs.
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Would you stake your house on a bet that these glaciers will be gone by 2030? Because if there really is a long-term risk of disaster, you’re basically doing exactly that by crying wolf with flaky short-term claims.
How does one approach companies for consulting when it's process improvement? I have a product for a specific industry I'm part of, it needs to be adopted company wide as it touches on all departments.
Ideally, a company would let me spend a few days to understand their processes, and I'd tell them how they can improve.

I would do the discovery phase for free, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. I fear using the word free, as I feel that changes the dynamics. And would set expectation for a cheap product down the line.
Only tangential related, but do not delete files. Sort them into folders, compress those folders, archive those folders, but do not delete files.
Everytime i cleaned up my machine, some customer jumped around the corner, asking for that specific project that i just purged.
Yes, i have backups, but those backups are a) stowed away. b) maybee incomplete or out of date c) have been deleted by somebody else, who was tasked with a cleanup.
I disagree.

The value 2^80 can be exactly represented in double-precision as well, but it is also the most precise representation of 2^28 other integers, so it is ambiguous which integer is being represented.

[edit]

To clarify, the representation you suggest would also be the best possible representation of -2^52-1.
I think it would make a fascinating study on how mobile gaming turned into this, when PC and console gaming (while suffering from some of this) is still viable for people who just want to buy a game and play it without shenanigans.
They probably aren't needed, but they are present on some forms of identification, like a UK birth certificate.
It's funny that there are a tons of requirements before you are allowed to store credit cards (PCI DSS), which are easily changed and expire anyway, yet none for storing ID photo or other highly sensitive personal data, much of which is unchangeable (like date of birth).

As always, the powerful (banks) can rig the system in their favor.
Like most other satellites, it can be seen when it reflects the Sun. Satellites tend to be shiny. For an extreme case, check out "Iridium flares" - a brief but bright flares on the sky caused by old Iridium satellites, whose antennas were essentially large, rectangular mirrors.
Those are static though right? For starlink you'd need to have it moving.
Is it just me or is edge with blink faster than chrome with blink
There are ways to remove the CO2 already in the atmosphere: like planting trees. [1] Also, Microsoft just announced that by 2050 they will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975. [2]

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/how-t...

[2] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b...
But you are already paying for your cloud resources! How can they justify charging you again to even support it?
Logitech Spent Millions on a Gaming Mouse
As good of a time as any to remind people of Moonpig: https://blog.plover.com/prog/Moonpig.html.
It's not very common for anyone to be good at business. But for some reason when people are good at tech, suddenly that becomes the reason they are bad at business.
A vegan/plant-based diet and now we're talking! I like this list a lot!
You could do something similar with built-in ActiveRecord callbacks as well.
Netscape had three phases, the startup, the amazing new big business, and then the slow decline. During the slow decline a lot of fiefdoms popped up. With some people control was more important than collaboration, process was more important than results. Too many suits took over without any real engineering prowess to understand how the things they wanted to do would actually work, and how long they'd take.