skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Twitter does have that power, but not in a way that Twitter or Twitter users understand. Most people aren't on Twitter and don't get their news directly from Twitter. And people who are on Twitter and who follow politics on Twitter tend to already be hyper-partisan, unlikely to change their minds in response to tweets. The majority still get most of their news from traditional news media. What's really been changed by Twitter is how the traditional news media is produced. Journalists themselves are very active on Twitter and report tweets as if they were news. So Twitter ends up filtering down to the public anyway, even if most of the public isn't on the platform.

As a result of this, Twitter's changes won't have much effect. It still all depends on whether journalists are reporting tweets to the public, and which tweets. Even if tweets get censored by Twitter, ironically that in itself becomes "newsworthy", and journalists spread the censored tweets.

Politicians love Twitter because it allows them to say whatever they want, without having pesky reporters ask them unpleasant questions. And the reporters nonetheless report these unfiltered messages (often lies) to the public. It's basically free press, free advertising. A politician doesn't have to be invited onto a news program, they can just make "news" whenever they want, in convenient soundbites.

The ultimate danger of Twitter to society is that journalists can't resist the temptation of reporting tweets as news. Of course this is a failing of journalists, not Twitter, but Twitter is giving these people a global public unfiltered platform they wouldn't otherwise have.
Help me to understand how you're reading this graph. I understand it to mean that in 1949 minimum wage was $4.22 an hour in 2018 dollars. Does that graph show worker productivity as well?

Similarly I do not understand your assertion that the author is "cherrypicking troughs and peaks". from tfa:

> Until 1968, the minimum wage not only kept pace with inflation, it rose in step with productivity growth. The logic is straightforward; we expect that wages in general will rise in step with productivity growth. For workers at the bottom to share in the overall improvement in society’s living standards, the minimum wage should also rise with productivity.

Is their assertion regarding 1968 and minimum wage factually incorrect?
Well that's a ray of good news.

My wife works for a huge social media company that you've definitely heard of, and some of her higher-ups have told her they're worried that the rise of employee activism is going to tear the company's culture apart. I told her she should tell them to follow Coinbase's example.
> Why did you leave Coinbase?

> They didn't align with my ethical framework.
Of course not.

The Pi itself was a herculean feat just to get broadcom stop suing consumers for using the chips as an individual consumer.

Broadcom itself is about as anti-user as they come.

What they really want to do is to sell you the features - you want decoding that's already on the chip? Sign NDA and pay them a few million dollars for each seat / license and they'll let you use it.
Why not? Is Twitter even really a "tech company"? What tech do they even produce? They seem to me to be an advertising company that uses computers and the Internet to serve ads. They just happen to have a social platform they use to get eyes on those ads.

That's all Twitter sells is ads. You can't purchase any other service from them. The only purpose of the social platform is for there to be people to serve ads to. That's not a product, that's a marketing strategy.

So why shouldn't they have a moral responsibility to curb the use of their platform to do societal harm through the dissemination of misinformation? They don't exist to provide an uncensored social platform, they exist to generate profit through advertising. If their practices do harm they should answer for it.
Pretty sure this applies to anything, I sure did find myself thinking about how to animate scenes when I was trying to go to bed after a long day in the cartoon mines.

I don't get it much in my current art practice, I dunno if it's because I've been doing this professionally for a couple decades, or if I've structured my work to not need too much of this kind of thinking. So my mind wanders to other stuff in my life instead.
I disagree with the constitutional angle. I do think enforcement is possible, it's really no different from enforcing the law IRL. I don't think having no terms and/or requiring private companies to have no terms is a better situation.
We have zero ability to verify election integrity and now we're not allowed to talk about it.

Slavery.
Miasma
Hydrogen is probably a feasible power source for container ships. Its energy density by unit of mass is very good, though energy density by volume isn't as good as methane. The cost of hydrogen containment is a function of surface area, and containers ships have large fuel tanks.

Cryogenic storage may be feasible for ships, since the ship is surrounded by water which makes heat exchangers work better. Cryogenic storage works by constantly releasing a bit of the fluid to keep temperature down. In the case of a ship crossing the ocean, fuel is constantly being siphoned off to power the boat anyway.

Methane is easier to work with, but the sabatier process (synthetic methane) requires a source of carbon. By comparison, it's feasible for costal nuclear power plants to desalinate water and create hydrogen through thermochemical reaction. The energy used in desalination isn't wasted, since bringing the water up to temperature is the first step in thermochemical hydrogen production.
This comment a little sexist. Is it just me?
Amazon's strategic failure with the video game industry
tldr: Give less f's, awesome will flow with fewer inhibitions, and stress will melt like an ice chip on a New York sidewalk during the summer solstice. Some things will fall flat because they seemed awesome only to you, but that's okay.

This isn't gram obviously, which I nuked because it wasn't serving a business or personal branding purpose for sometime, but I will slip back in for a vintage car restoration.

If someone cares about votes, they'll be a slave to them and:

- worry more what other people think of them that writing, doing, or creating

- they'll censor themselves about something they feel strongly about and regret it

- they'll do something incredibly stupid for attention and regret it, such as jumping on top of a moving freight train. Don't. Or get pulled over by 4 UFOs for doing a buck 40 (mph, that's 225 kph). Don't do that either. Or drop a cover over their motorcycle license plate and outrun the cops from a highway on city streets. Don't do that either. Or have insanely hot sex at work in the back stairwell just before the lunch rush. You get the idea. You don't need social media for the best things in life; some things are best not shared but lifecasting is cool too.

- Don't become a trained monkey performer unless it's a determined career path.

On HN, express yourself with reason and evidence, and let the chips fall where they may. On gram, it's different because it's about displaying moments, creations, and art publicly and let the critics do whatever the heck they're going to do; it's a museum or a show-and-tell where folks have probably had some champagne already and also cyberdisinhibitionism, so feedback needs some big ass grains of salt.

Meditate on being more like Peter in Office Space after hypnosis and be awesome. Votes are for other people. Take it only as feedback after the fact, not before. Risk being booed on-stage.

Peace, out
It's our fault. We neglected and destroyed Usenet and made Twitter so large. Well, the latter is mostly the media's fault for paying so much attention to it.
Except, of course, this is almost certainly a machine learning algorithm. Who knows what it's actually looking for.
> if the two disagree

If the two disagree in a calculation matter, the calculations spelled out in the tax form should be upheld as the gold standard as to which side made the calculation error.

> they had both erroneously tried to apply capital gains tax where it didn't apply at all

Was this issue due to paper tax forms doing a calculation one way, but the IRS's implementation doing it another way?

Most recently, I screwed up by claiming a credit that was not allowed. However, the conditions for it are documented; I was wrong. This is where code could help, in order to clarify obtuse language in the requirements. Obviously, the government runs code which checks the conditions that determine whether a nonzero amount can be claimed in some field, so it's just another calculation. Still, it would be better for that to be crystal clear pseudo-code and not the fragment of some actual implementation.
I have looked into alternatives before, but not either of those actually.

Plausible looks more promising of the two and I will check it out (PostHog could also be, but I didn't really understand the features as it related to a normal WordPress website).

It would be interesting to know how other Plausible users have found their traffic numbers compare vs Google Analytics. Likely that some users would be counted that weren't before, while perhaps bot filtering works differently.
The same EU court ruled EU states must curb mass spying on data: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-privacy/top-court-rule...
> I think that says nothing of a persons political views

Rubbish - we all know what type of political activism is tearing these companies apart and we all know what political views are the only ones that can be safely expressed.
It is ludicrous to place any trust in any validity vetting these corporations will enact. That's placing the foxes in charge of the hen house. We need independent bodies, with regulatory power, and anything less is simply enabling the oppressors and their democratic destruction.
You misunderstand the point of a company like broadcom.

The Pi is a rounding error money wise.
Well, Paul Graham, YC founder seems to agree with me:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1310583298666696705

Edit: To clarify, he is saying the right way ahead for companies is to be apolitical, or, "mission-founded".

Coinbase offered employees not comfortable with the non-political mission-founded way exit packages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636899
Sure, here's the first youtube result I got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQaYLbsl33g

> I can only say that I will watch in good faith.

You won't.

> If, as you seem to suggest, I do see issues with the video and evidence, and you don't, what does that tell you about your threshold for the acceptance of what is presented as true to you?

Of course my threshold of acceptance is lower than yours! This whole discussion, my point was that your "threshold of acceptance" is ridiculously, insanely high.

For instance, I do think that the BBC guy in this video is acting in good faith. Also, given the two following hypothesis:
- Thousands of people around the globe have been putting up complex magic tricks and keep the secret for more than two centuries to make me believe that a gas can burn an produce water;
- Hydrogen and oxygen mixed together and ignited produce water vapor.

The latter is far, far more likely than the former.
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A GUIDE TO HUMANS
I see a lot of this on HN and it’s disappointing. Place can be a bit too steeped in privilege and survivorship bias at times.
Consumers also want cocaine, but that doesn't mean you get to sell it to them with impunity.
In the hedge fund world there is a mindset that if you're going to fail, you must fail BIG (without breaking the law). Then you get a sort of undeserved glamor associated with the failure that can actually lead to new opportunities. For example, the case of Brian Hunter, if he failed small he would've been long forgotten.
Brain activity, as measured here, does not imply good writing. I'm quite certain that if you were to type with one hand while juggling a few golf balls with the other your "brain engagement" would be much higher than simple handwriting.
My family and I have watched hundreds of hours of h.264 1080p on a pi 3b+, but it struggles with HEVC h.265 and runs very hot doing so.
The $10k thing is only necessary for AML compliance.

Since the bank is on the hook for giving out customer money to random con artists, their threshold for investigating suspicious account activity is much lower.
The Enchiridion (135 CE)
It's become an alien concept to online users that companies can be forced to comply with financial laws. But they can.
Here's the FINRA complaint form.[1]

Also, here's some FINRA arbitration information.[2]

Online users are so used to being powerless, facing unreasonable EULAs, that most are unaware they can push back hard. FINRA has the authority to have brokerage employees fired and barred from the securities industry. So brokerages pay attention when a complaint comes in via FINRA.

[1] https://www.finra.org/investors/have-problem/file-complaint/...

[2] https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/resolution-and-r...
Has it gotten 10x harder? Was running the vast agglomeration of companies that was ITT really less difficult than running today's sprawling companies? Do you think the CEOs of today's companies get into the nitty gritty of all of those issues you talk about, or do they, as always, delegate the real work of understanding those issues to their subordinates?
We sent Voyager probes through the solar system using Newton laws, although we know that general relativity is more accurate.
Knowledge is a spectrum. If you think that anything has a definitive answer, then I don't know what you are doing, but it is not science.
Just turn it off for four months. Just turn the whole thing off and everything will be fine.

Honestly I wouldn't mind if the government DDOS'd them, or starting blocking all social media sites for four months. This is an emergency and these corps are behaving in an irresponsible manner which threatens our national security.
The graph in the article really looks like as if value generation simply got decoupled from minimum age earners' labour at some point. Intuitively this makes sense. Sure, the invention of steam engine driven factories or something like the assembly line did drive productivity. However, you still needed human labour to actually produce the widgets. Now total productivity growth is largely driven by highly paid specialists producing textual descriptions of widgets and setting up automated systems that keep churning out the widgets themselves. Figuratively speaking, you don't actually need to pay anyone to push the button to make a widget every time you need one. So you don't.
The Airbus proposals from a couple of weeks ago had the fuel tanks in the rear of the fuselage.
Uh, it's nice to see the name Actian come out for once.

My previous employer used Versant by Actian (now called Actian NoSQL) heavily.

It's much more of a NoSQL database: it's a real object oriented database. You don't store tuples, you store objects. You don't make queries with selection and projection, you make a cut of a graph of objects.

It's insanely fast, multithreaded, has very good tooling, scales vertically very well, can do online schema evolution (class definition evolution, really).

Sadly it's almost impossible to scale horizontally (I'd be glad to be proven wrong).

It's basically what the industry needs to avoid the object-relational mismatch: an object oriented database.

But everybody only learns SQL...
If you scroll to the very bottom of https://protonmail.com, you'll find that "This project is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program".

I'm not sure whether Swiss companies can apply to this grant, but it does seem like ProtonMail have some sort of relationship with the EU.
fmt, par, and nroff are common unix utilities that can justify text (in order of complexity). I've been told that fmt was the disk formatter on at least one oddball unix. Or maybe it's just an urban legend to keep people from running unknown commands as root.
> (eastern part) of the Soviet Union

Erm, Eastern part of Europe: the Soviet Union.

Whatever, I bet people know what I'm talking about. Cutting up countries is bad for their health!
In no specific order:

- Andrej Karpathy

- Jeremy Howard

- François Chollet

- Adam Paszke

- Thomas Kipf

- Sebastian Ruder

- Julia Evans

- Martin Kleppmann
How is my comment sexist?
And a simple ‘cargo tree‘ will show you the tree of dependencies for a crate, nicely formatted.
Depends on the organization and the type of leaders within it.

At the higher levels of organizational leadership, it’s exactly emergent mission, vision and culture.

This is why Tony From Zappos gives away Dave Logan’s book on Tribal Leadership for free.

Stage 3 leaders try to tell everyone in the company what the culture is; Stage 4 leaders create a culture based on actual shared values (not something from a mission statement or poster on the wall or offsite activity).

Most cultures are still at stage 3, but the greatest ones are stage 4+.

I’ve seen this in my work over the past 20 years working with founders from some of the most successful companies (as a personal coach and advisor).
Judging by the mention of pumpkins in the article, my (extremely non-)educated guess would be that it's a round object that has something small-ish sticking out of its side. Like a breast with a nipple. And their brown/orange hue is, perhaps, similar enough to skin tones that Facebook's poor algorithms get messed up.
I dread the day that codebases are filled with unicode and it's up to you to notice that "x ⊗ y" is not the same as "x ⊛ y" or "x ⊗ ȳ".
To confirm that your software works, you test it on a computer for $1. If you're wrong, you've wasted a few minutes of dev time and electricity. A programmer can often point out problems before you run the code.

To see if you're complying with the law correctly, you test it in court for $10K. If you're wrong, you may be fined or imprisoned. A good lawyer can often point out problems before you go to trial.

As long as the law "runs" on the minds of judges and juries, it'll be unpredictable.

(Bonus: To see if your cure for cancer works, you test it in clinical trials for $1M. If you're wrong, people may be harmed or even die. Testing on animals can often point out problems before you use it on humans.)
They might mean that they approve users for it more easily and quickly than other brokerages. Logs are definitely kept (and in more locations than just RH).
There's a phenomenon I've noticed in job interviews where the interviewer will in a sense torture the interviewee if it's a domain that the interviewer has expertise in, asking needlessly complex questions as if to grandstand and show off. It becomes theatrical and I can only attribute that to some level of sadism- or narcissism-like traits. I am not impugning Adora's motives here just commenting on my own experience.
"She refused to accept the scientific theory until she learned that a proponent of the scientific theory was a Muslim like herself."

RIP Science.
Interesting aside is that neither engage the brain as much as oral storytelling.

Imagine having to remember and tell your history repeatedly encompassing generations including complexities of land boundaries down to the nearest tree or bush
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I don't agree with your characterization.

Ideally twitter shouldn't really be able to spread "misinformation" because people shouldn't be using it as a source of information to begin with. These moves they have been making around fact checking, censoring things etc, make this problem worse. They're trying to increase people's trust in twitter, which they shouldn't be doing, they should be actively trying to do the opposite, and they will fail to remove all of the misinformation.

So the result will be that people will still see misinformation, but they'll trust it more. It's the exact opposite.
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All the companies we've reached out to in order to get a virtual card issuing API only work with business registered in the EU or US.

We're thinking about registering our business in the US through Stripe Atlas just to get access to an API.

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It's rough seeing this downvoted. Asians are one of the historically more discriminated and disadvantaged populations in the US. Just as the general culture and atmosphere has be come more tolerant and they're advancing socially, some how they're immediately grouped with rich and privileged people and barred from the universities where they should be long based on their merits.
No, "total compensation" includes things like health insurance benefits that simultaneously have gotten more expensive in real terms over time, and don't put money in my pocket.

If I could go to my landlord and trade them a months' worth of health insurance benefits for rent, then you'd be on to something. If you could find a way to separate out the part of "total compensation" that actually contributes to income, such as stock grants & such, then we could talk. But, just "total compensation" doesn't cut it.

If you really want to get a true picture of how screwed the American worker is, take a look at housing and education costs over time, as well. Both have increased faster than inflation, and vastly outpaced wage growth; yet everyone needs a home, and a college degree is practically a requirement for any vaguely middle-class career.
Sure, prepend all your sentences by "The evidence that I have seen indicates" if it makes you happy. It changes nothing about the fact that knowledge exists even if you can personally experience it using solely your senses. I know that we've been to the Moon (do you?) although I wasn't even born when this happened.
As a relative outsider, I would hope being labeled as one of the biggest failures would be a mark of experience among a set that claims or claimed to uphold the “fail fast” mentality and treats failure like the learning experience it is.
I love the PICO-8 version as a way to spend time when waiting for a compile to finish. Thanks for making it!
That's not really true unfortunately, there's a good amount of videos that proves the contrary.
It also does make sense to come protected when the police use dangerous weapons and violent strategies against protests.
There was a Youtube reviewer who said it was so much like pencil on paper that he forgot it wasn't real paper and attempted to smudge the graphite on it with his finger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wudCMFWPQ&t=16s
Dropbox locked me out of my account.

I only have about $20k worth of dev work locked up in it, but it's gone.

Fuck dropbox.
E-3 visa applications are subject to the same prevailing wage requirements and it appears that the government is going to tighten the E-3 visa requirements and process, which to date have been much easier than the H-1B visa requirements and process.
>the top 10 percent now own more than 88 percent of corporate equity and mutual fund shares, meaning they benefit most from the booming markets

I was under the impression everyone had a 401k.
Are you able to prove that the crossing out was done before you signed rather than after?
Because the buckets are only time slots. If you can predict what time your highly focused market is to be online the most, good on you, but it doesn’t involve collecting any additional data.