skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of failures here:

1) Caller-ID spoofing. It straight out should not be possible to spoof government phone numbers, 911, etc. My Android has "Scam Likely" show up when a scammer calls (I believe this is part of the STIR/SHAKEN protocol), this should be expedited, expanded, and improved upon.

2) Someone should not be able to buy $3000 of Target gift cards without doing a lot of explaining. Personal experience: The grocery store I go to; the registers will straight out refuse to ring up above $500 of gift cards, you have to use the Customer Service desk where their agents grill you (and I do mean grill you, their default mode seems to be "You're being scammed", especially if you're on the phone with someone).

3) If I buy gift cards in New York, there's zero reason someone in Bangalore, India should immediately be able to redeem those gift cards. Perhaps Target could should spend some of their data collection techniques on this instead of trying to figure out if your daughter is pregnant so they can send you maternity coupons.

4) Is there a reason unused gift cards bought within a certain amount of time shouldn't be refundable?
If you don't mind me asking, what TCU are you at? I've been keeping an eye on my alma mater (Salish Kootenai College) and I think they were already doing decently with their online offerings after pushing the instructors more than 5 years ago to transition their teaching materials to Moodle.
Seriously it is not. I have a LG C9 and bought it after recommendation from friends who game on theirs. If you are going to leave it on the same screen all day long there are better choices, like having it on a new station that has a permanent ticker or channels which insist on a permanent logo.

You have to go out of your way to force burn in, there has been some good 3rd party testing [0]

Oh, as for the TV, the colors are astounding and its thinness is just a bit on the silly side, seriously from one third on up from the base it is as thick as iPad

I expect micro LED to over take it one day but for now if you are a movie aficionado there is no subsistute, this is especially true when dealing with letter boxed movies as there is no bleed into the black borders

[0] https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test
Supreme Court strikes down 2015 law allowing robocalls by debt collectors
This is very interesting to me. Why did you feel higher stress in lower wage positions?

I only ask because I worked low-to-minimum wage part time jobs from ages 14-22 before graduating from school and getting a "real" job, similar to SWE. I found the eact opposite: stress increased with $.

I always felt low stress in service jobs because I knew exactly what to do every moment, and knew exactly what happens if something goes wrong. Moreover, I knew I could find another job pretty quickly if worse came to worse - there's just so many places that need waiters, factory workers, cashiers, baristas...

In contrast, my new job often has vague tasks and expectations, constant evaluation against my peers, and much more complex outcomes - all of which drive stress for me.
I think you're making the mistake of assuming that HN has a singular opinion.

Of course in a thread about hydroxychloroquine, you'll find lots of people with a strong (in this case, positive) opinion on hydroxychloroquine. That's not representative of the entire HN crowd at all. People who are like "meh, I don't know" won't engage with that thread as much.
My Signal friends list triple in the past week due to the passing of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
I would be more impressed by that paper if they didn't make trivially falsifiable claims: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1280204127876808705

I am happy to take them at their word that their theory about symbol grounding proves that no LM will ever be able to solve "Three plus five equals" (appendix B); and thus, by modus tollens, GPT-3's ability to (already) solve "Three plus five equals" means their theory is wrong and I need not consider it any further.
There is some amount of capture of returning students. Due to the difficulties of transferring, it may be easier and collectively cheaper for a senior to return for their final year.
not necessarily the kids fault, so I am not sure I would agree.
Reinforcement learning. There's also a great course on Coursera for that, from the university of Alberta.
Back in the 1990s, I saw an old video of Buckminster Fuller talking about a hyperloop-like transit system that would connect the entire world using the ocean floor, amongst other things. To this day, I always thought Elon Musk got his idea from this video, yet I’ve never heard anyone mention it.
No that means once you start receiving money you have to disclose. The application process is fine.
It's less of a literal concept and more of a figurative one. The factory floor would certainly be fully lit.
Yes and what gender are the doctors? Even though medicine students are 60% female? That's the issue, the prestigious more powerful jobs are largely male dominated, while the "rank and file" who takes orders (or does the dirty work) is largely female. Show me one field (that does rely on the person's ability not looks) where there are more women in the higher ranked positions and more men in the lower ranked positions.
> almost nobody ever goes looking for them there

I've seen this claim a number of times and it's always so odd to me. One of my most common activities each day - certainly more common than the activity of writing new code - is reading the commit history for different files. It's always surprising to me to hear that this is an uncommon thing to do.

Edit to add: But I also think comments and documentation of all kinds are good. I don't advocate good commit messages instead of comments, but rather in addition to comments. The more documentation the better.
what if they "give" you a gift card after you submit? I've had that before, where the gitft card was essentially paypal credit.

Not wanting to do an extra project is the second part of this problem - the best people already have jobs and aren't looking, so they're not going to spend all their free time working on high-effort job applications.
I don't think that was part of the intent - the weight and structural strength is probably a problem (including the strength of the glue joints), and the aerodynamics (because the connections between segments aren't airtight). The materials that the real plane is made of will have properties that are more suitable for a flying object.
I was at some festival where they had a raffle like this, thinking it was harmless, I put in my name and number. A week later I get a call that I have won a vacation but I need to come and attend their seminar.

It was some sort of buy timeshares which work across multiple properties around the world. Total cost was $10-15K but you can make low monthly payments. After the loan is paid off, you can stay for free during your vacations.

I did some rough calculations and thought it was worth it. But when I asked for better pictures or addresses of their properties, they could not provide it. They were getting frustrated and kept saying why you care what your room looks like, who stays in their room on a vacation, etc. After their refusal to give any such info, I left but there were other people who were signing up.

Later, I learned that these are indeed scams, and I got lucky that I didn't sign up with them. Their properties might be run down, and the company might fold after a few years and you will lose access access to "their" vacation properties.

To their credit, they did give me a a gift certificate for low end hotels chain.
To you, and some other repliers, I suggest reading this carefully again: "but technically, the ideal outcome is essentially everybody has already had it and deaths (and serious hospitalizations) are at zero."

If the long term effects put a lot of people in the hospital, than that would not be the ideal outcome. You can't just drop clauses out of my definition of "ideal" then turn around and tell me about how that's not ideal. I agree, actually! Something other than the ideal I described would in fact be less than ideal!

The point remains; on its own merits, the ideal would be that it turns out everybody's already had it, because that would prove that the currently-known negative impact is also the total final negative impact. Since the total known negative impact is basically a given and can't go down and is thus a minimum, finding out that's also a maximum would be good news. On the whole, more people having been exposed without hospitalization or even awareness is good news. Maybe earlier in the cycle that wouldn't be the case, but with where we are now, it is.

At least, for this pandemic, for a disease that happens to affect a small set of people badly but, to all evidence, most people not at all. In terms of weathering a pandemic in which it was actually bad news for a majority of people, this has been a rather disheartening experience. That's a problem for another day, though.

(Which is not a synonym for "not a problem at all". But it's a problem for another day. Trying to solve COVID-19 with measures appropriate for EvenMoreBubonic-2022 is not a win.)
> The problem with the example of getting a 20% payout is that there are diminishing returns on each additional dollar. Most software developers make far more than a living wage. After that threshold is met, most people have a lot of other things that matter more to them.

The question was not "What is the way to keep software developers without paying them"

> For example, for me, I work to support my family. Pretty much any software job in my area will be able to do that for me, so the bigger consideration in choosing is which jobs will actually allow me to spend quality time with my family (since that's the entire reason why I go to work). No amount of additional pay could persuade me to work 60 hours a week or work in an environment that leaves me drained by the end of the day.

Have you asked your wife if she would take a $1,000,000 a year for 2-4 years in exchange for you working 60 hour weeks? Because actual financial security as described by having extra half a million a year in a bank sounds like a boon to any family that does not already have millions of dollars in cash and cash equivalents.
There is a likelihood that many parents submit/falsify the financial aid application/documents. Hard to prove the student did it, and worse to rescind based on a parent's actions.
How much mass are we talking about here? I'm curious and the article doesn't give any numbers. Order of magnitude at least?
And on-going operations, troubleshooting, remediation, upgrades, etc. I either ship my teams out there on the regualar, or else hire locals. And that leads to questions of intellectual property leaks, security holes, fraud & waste, etc.
>It’s great that Harvard started their free tuition program, but for most students it costs $60-70k/year.

I think that's not quite right?

"About 55% of Harvard students receive need-based scholarship aid with average grant totals around $53,000."
I will always upvote this.

My brother worked out the landing gear articulation, with mechanical locking; previous Boeings had complicated hydraulic valving to make the gear stop moving at the bottom, with the failure mode that it immediately folds back in.

Here's hoping some of the 777s are chosen for hydrogen-fuel conversion. A 2-4 year job for a dozen A/Ps, by my guess. Aerogel-insulated LH2 tank amidships, all new fuel piping, new or reconfigured engines, for tens of tons more payload, and ultimately all wind- and solar-powered.
Personal Policy with CFEngine
Most of the "past few years" discussion happened when many thought AGI was just around the corner, which would allow robots to take over virtually every job. But it's become clear that isn't happening any time soon.
Learn Programming Concepts Not Languages
They are indeed massive, but a gigawatt is a lot of power! In the balance, nuclear uses a vastly less raw material and land per energy than almost all other energy sources. The DOE 2015 quadrennial report shows data on things like this, and here is a plot of the data (with citation) [1].

Where are you getting your info?

E=MC² from the fuel does indeed carry over into incredibly low land, raw material, and waste footprints in nuclear. That's what's so cool about it.

[1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a45d683b0be3...

Edit: actual citation is table 10.4 in [2] on pg 390 of the pdf. That cites ref 52 which points to [3] from Argonne National Lab. Would be nice to find a better reference.

[2] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/quadrenn...

[3] https://greet.es.anl.gov/

More info in here [4]

[4] http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/961711588875536384/Minerals-...
Yes, exactly. Thanks for reminding me of that - I remember reading about it a few months ago. Hopefully I could encode a user uploaded video into Laban Movement notation basically to index it in the database.
Creating a smooth landing page animation with CSS animations and vanilla
Nature Paper Puts an Eye on China’s New Generation of AI
Someone get this guy a job at Boeing. He seems like a better engineer than some of the people making real planes.
Exoplanet in the hot-Neptune desert is the first of its kind
https://www.bfi.org/
Since there's no objective universal definition of good and evil, how can you rely on your ability to use code under such a license? It doesn't matter what your project is - if the licensor wants to, they can find some way to describe it as evil. So, in my opinion, those licenses are themselves unethical.
Here is one of those tests:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test

Is it extreme? Sure, but it's not contrived--five hours on, one hour off. If the TV in the office break room was an OLED, it would absolutely exhibit this level of burn in.
> Says who?

Says the company who created the job. They created the job you think is bullshit. They have the right to do so. If you want to make this bullshit job not exist, they are the one you'd have to convince.

What is your goal here? Sure I think a lot of these jobs are BS too. The point is it doesn't matter at all what you or I think unless you're advocating for some specific change.

Congress as far as I know has never outlawed a job for being pointless nor do they have any authority as far as I know to do so.

The NY Times can say whatever they want about any job in the world but they don't have any say in the issue.

If the company goes out of business than the problem resolves itself.

So is your goal to complain to the internet that you don't like the fact that some job exists. If so, sure, scream to the skies about how dumb these jobs are.

If you are saying something should change, that's when the stuff I'm talking about is relevant because you are going to find that your perception of them being bullshit does not give you any avenue to make them not exist.
everyone also has a pretty shallow pool of quality talent, so it doesn't scale well.

Once you've been involved in hiring you see why a company will pass on a likely good candidate to avoid a maybe bad experience. In the longer term it's way less work.
Someone posted on the GH issue that someone posted the GH issue on HackerNews.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929#issuecomm...
Ask HN: How will Shelter In Place / Work From Home affect taxes this year?
Both in terms of payroll taxes and personal taxes, it seems like this is going to be an accounting and filing nightmare.
Dgraph-io/ristretto v0.0.3 – Ristretto is a fast, concurrent cache (Go) library
But the real issue if the how much the transmission providers are willing to pay. This market is open to all generators of an acceptable size who have passed govt. certification. In most countries this market is an auction in various sized time blocks (from months long down to a few hours).

Obviously the price of solar and wind are lower than coal in a lot of localities, and in some are even lower than natural gas. And what's more for solar once it is in place it has miniscule opex, so almost any price above zero will produce net revenue. Natural gas will find it hard to compete with this in even a few years time.

Having said that in the US approx 30% of natural gas is used in electricity production. Even though it is a minority of end use market share it will still affect prices.

So I'd say if Buffett got it at a 30% discount or more he should be OK, a lesser discount may be problematic.
Prove it. I spend a significant amount of my time making sure I buy brands that DO NOT fund that hateful family. I have also written to companies I like that advertise of Fox News.

(I don't need a hobby, I like using my time to vote with my dollars.)
I think it's not so much that it isn't feasible as that it doesn't serve any useful purpose at least to Mozilla.

The Firefox out-of-band revocation mechanism (OneCRL) certainly could revoke all these intermediates but Firefox isn't vulnerable to a problem here, so there's no obvious upside to doing that and it's disruptive.
Not So Simple: Notes From a Tech-Free Life
Yeah... why are they singling out a certain software development company, in the first place? Trying to shut the coal mining industry down by pressuring one of the software suppliers with an organized mob rage campaign makes no practical sense, from an environmental activist perspective.
It's not a loss to the world. It is a loss to China, and surely it is a loss to HK people but who are Chinese.
So this is very insightful.

Is this why activities associated with bad 'dopamine habits' are so strongly correlated with said the bad habits that involved dopamine?

After having quit smoking, I find myself desperately wanting to do the 'break thing' whereby you stop what you're doing, take 5 minutes to just stand, relax and and enjoy the moment for a second while ignoring the stress.

I honestly don't even think I want the cigarette, just everything else about that experience.
Why is this particularly Air India though? Is the Boeing 777 different for other airlines?
I think it's more appropriate to hold companies, governments, organizations that use these algorithm on the general public under scrutiny. Research that doesn't materially impact anyone shouldn't be placed under such scrutiny.

I understand that the research is what is driving this and vice versa, because companies and governments are funding a lot of this research (face recognition research specifically had significantly increased funding due to 9/11). It's the companies and governments who should be scrutinized and put under pressure instead of researchers who are trying to get ahead in academia or publish their next article or are incentivized by funding.
US Tech Companies Suspend Hong Kong Data Requests
Whether it's a desktop solution or a cloud component isn't really a big difference in my eyes. With both of them they will be purchasing (use-case agnostic) "customer support" as the main service.

What I do think is more problematic, is when the company goes out of their way to help develop the tools specifically for questionable industries, which is exactly what they are highlighting in the linked PDF (which is still a hotlink to Autodesk servers...).
First of all excellent write up, thanks for putting in the time.

Apologies if you mentioned this in the article and I missed it, but what advantages does an approach like this have over creating a HOC?
Do you really want to try to get individual licenses from every single person who worked on video codecs from in the last 20 years so you can legally compress video?
This is a really great idea

> The compiler extracts anything marked as a parameter into a separate data structure, with a link to the location in the source code they came from. When the IDE renders the Yoga code, it shows the parameters as sliders.

Turning code into data that can be represented in another way. I guess the idea is from projectional editors, where the code is projected onto different representations depending on the context and what the user wants to accomplish.

Does anyone know of other work along similar lines? Programming the robot is also cool and I'm curious if this idea can be applied to other types of programming where a simplified projection of the program can make code more accessible to non-programmers.
Probably the first MA college that I've seen to say only freshman coming back. Mine, (WPI) still has been telling every undergrad that everything is only optionally online, and that they would just convert triples to doubles and the usual covid guidelines. Freshman-only seems to me more realistic although disheartening to hear as a rising senior.
> I'd like to think that if enough people did this they wouldn't make any money.

The population density and average income disparity between the US and India works strongly in their favor, however.
why will it make them useless? Does anyone ever need gift cards urgently?
A New Desk
>If you spent so much time at the workplace like the Japanese you end up with a low producivity on paper pretty much by definition, because it's simply output divided by amount of time worked.

It is not as simple as that: in general, more developed countries tend to have higher labor productivity. Japan has been historically low for several decades.

I'm no specialist of labor statistics, but note that Japan actaually worked fewers hours than Italy , accoding to OECD anyaway: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS. I am pretty sure that most people unfamiliar w/ Japan would not place its productivity as low as it is, close to countries like Turkey or Slovakia.

>Here in Germany we have a similar paper culture (although not quite as extreme) but very high labour productivity

I am familiar with both countries, worked in both, and it is nowhere near comparable. But paper is only part of it. The overtime culture is quite intense. I still vividly remember my first work experience in Japan > 15 years ago, with 3-4 hours-long meetings where half the members, including the lab's head, were sleeping.
Yes I have but the UI is too cluttered for me. And I'd like the option to export my data in a useful format and pick my own storage solution.
Hello. A few weeks ago, I had posted a very basic version of a programming language that I put together, called Dip. I was blown away by the kind and honest feedback given by the community, and have worked on it, adding examples of Dip code so users can get to know the language, adding a learning path for beginners so that they can learn how to code in a streamlined fashion, and also changing the site to match the language’s identity.
So now, I (re)introduce you to Dip, a small project I’ve been working on, which also happens to be a programming language targeting beginners. I’ve tried to make the syntax easy to understand, and also tried to make the language easy to read and write for complete beginners. I've tried to eliminate a few issues the Python language has (such as indentation and error messages), though it is up to you to see to what extent Dip succeeds. I’ve also tried to allow Dip to communicate with Python, so users are not limited to Dip’s features, because the way I see it, Dip is not meant to compete with Python, and does not aim to, but I think Dip’s simpler syntax and error messages might be useful to beginners in some cases and get them up the learning ladder, and I would love to see Dip being used as a stepping stone by the Python community, learning the ropes using Dip, and then moving on to Python.

You can look at Dip’s website at dip-lang.org.

I would love your feedback on how I could improve the language.

Also, if you wish to contribute to this small venture of mine, feel free to help me with the core language or the site on Github.
Was also very popular in communist era Poland, including people extending the paper models to be capable of self-propelled taxiing and certain set of "moveable" features implemented as extras.