skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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3) I'm a generalist problem solver with expert programming ability, who can adapt to any technology/stack and go deep with your problem domain as I've done multiple times across various fields.

IMO that seems like the ideal hire for any position, as they'd be good for existing problems, and they'd be good for any new problems the business might encounter. Rather than hire an expert in new technology X who knows nothing about your business and existing tech/infrastructure, you can throw Mr. 3 at it.

The only time I don't think that type of candidate would be useful is if the company is competing on technology, and they need someone who has dedicated their career to being an expert and/or researcher in that single specialty (example: machine learning). But even then, most companies don't need someone like that, and those that do could probably benefit from having some 3s on the team in addition to the specialists.
Every person has multiple social networks that they interact with on a daily basis. I think you're confusing your personal friend network with your larger professionally relevant network. All you need to get a job lead from someone in your professional network is for them to have a positive impression of you, even from years or decades ago. That impression can be built up from years of working closely together on projects including building up a close friendship, or from talking to someone for 15 minutes if you really stand out positively to them. Don't undersell the value of the connections that you have. Most people would rather hire someone that the know than someone randomly selected from a stack of resumes.
Mystery Timeouts with MS Graph API Webhook Subscriptions and AWS API Gateway
>In short, many parts of the document, including this one, assume guilt, and do not show any consideration for the accused. The potential for misuse and weaponization of such a code is of concern.

That seems to be what most people have been saying since day 1.
Did nobody tell Fibonacci that rabbits are mortal?
The Lucid Air Dream Edition Might Just Be Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare
As an ex-C++ developer myself I agree the builds are horrible, but go/java/C# are a great middle with type safety and a quick compile time.
There were people living in the Americas before your ancestors arrived there.
If humanity survives for the next 400 million years, undoubtedly space will be part of our future.

Currently organized human civilization as we know it has a much less than 1% chance of surviving the next 400 years.
Excellent point about the tax cuts that increased disposable income for most Americans at the cost of a deficit on an overinflated federal budget, but we're talking about the states here.
Awesome! Didn't see this. Thanks!
I'm aware of the patch and have used it previously on my VFIO endeavors. It worked surprisingly well for me, but unfortunately for a lot of cases it simply doesn't, according to the author on the VFIO Discord. It's disappointing to say the least.
But as long as the EQ effect of the speaker/microphone setup is constant, an AI should have no problem learning how to restore the original.
Most of those things require a lot more than even a hundred-billionaire can fix.

Hell, even just “make successful electric car brand” is more than I was expecting when I first heard about Tesla, and even if they do as well as their current market cap implies, they’re still not going to solve climate change by themselves — and that’s one of several causes of the current mass extinction.
That sounds fair.

That's not been my experience with most older people, but I can imagine, especially with those looking forward to retirement and leaving work behind.

I've found older people willing and interested to learn and use new things including tools and languages, wherever things take them, while also calm like they aren't trying to prove something any more. I'd like to think it's because I inspire and make things interesting and fun :-)

Like you I have found the younger ones care a lot about self development.

A small number of those have been difficult to work with, wanting to prove how "right" they are to people who are effectively above me in some hierarchy, which boils down to being argumentative, not caring about my point of view and making things more office-political than they needed to be.

Mostly, though, I found younger ones friendly and eager to learn things and have challenges, somewhat self-conscious and self-doubtful, and having a more modern social conscience, e.g. climate concerns. Overall pretty nice people.

Although I've seen projects where there was way too much copy/paste, it's been from all ages. Maybe different reasons underlie why though. At times I almost seem to specialise in writing scripts to de-duplicate other people's giant copy/pasta code and detect variations to maintain its behaviour :-)
I used Nhost a few months ago for a small project. The pricing was originally a huge block for me. I emailed them (elitan here on HN) to talk about pricing. He took my feedback and ended up giving me a big discount on a single project. Overall I was very impressed with the attention and customer service I got.

I don't really use Nhost for anything currently, but I'm definitely rooting for them. The product is really well made, and is exactly what I was looking for at the time (a completely managed Hasura instance). For their sake, I wish they didn't have to compete with the insanely generous free tier of Firebase, as that's nearly impossible to compete with as a new company. I think the Nhost pricing model becomes much more reasonable as you scale in size.

I hope to have the need to use Nhost again in the future. Would recommend.
Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning
the bad orange man said something about wanting to go to space
The author is that very special type that will probably burn you at the stakes 300 years ago if you said that humans will fly like the birds one day.

Physics today are incomplete and very flawed, with major theories being incompatible with one another and failing to answer basic questions. Even though they describe certain aspects of reality with some accuracy, it's universally agreed that they are a far cry from a grand unified theory that describes everything consistently. Everyone is still looking for that one. So realistically whether we have a destiny outside Earth or not is a very open question we will still be looking the answer of.

The choice of whether to set a Moon base or not will bare 0 effect on those that wish to stay in the cave.
If Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk (while Elon isn't posting moronic nonsense on Twitter) would take all the money they've invested in their pet projects trying to colonize Mars and the like and directly invested it in local programs to get some of the worst areas in the USA affected by homelessness fixed, it would likely have a greater impact on more peoples lives than what they're doing now IMO.
> OTOH, we've had frequent cases of sexual harassment (primarily men hitting on women at events) and a CoC has been extremely useful in dealing with those situations.

This seems like a pretty reasonable use for a CoC in my view--flirting isn't ubiquitously taboo (unlike racism, trolling, or overt sexual harassment) nor should it be, but it's understandable that a community would prefer to just prohibit it outright and set that expectation clearly up front.

CoCs should focus narrowly on this kind of thing (of course, without giving the impression that these are the only offenses that a person might be kicked out for), and proponents of CoCs should talk about this. Instead, much of this thread is talking about racist trolling, as though CoCs are necessary or sufficient for dissuading a racist troll (everyone understands racism is unacceptable; if you're motivated to cross that line anyway, a CoC isn't going to deter you).
I was doing a stint of formulating our national enterprise architecture, something I was invited to because of my local work on the subject.

During this period I staid at hotels quite often, and learned that the best way to get a good and cheap booking is to E-mail the hotel directly. The cheap part came from being an enterprise organisation, but as far as secure and easy booking goes I always email hotels directly for private stays as well. Maybe it’ll cost me a few extra dollars, but I avoid the hassle of having to deal with hotels.com who among other things charge you up front and make it almost impossible to cancel.
I worked with a commercial broker in NYC up till the pandemic broke out.

The empty spots in the city do speak with prospective tenants but often have unrealistic requirements for small companies and unrealistic pricing. Beyond the rent you may be required to have seven figures liquid to be in a position to secure a lease. Especially for a restaurant. Especially if there is a buildout.
This makes sense. Something similar has likely happened with some apartment landlords as COVID hit big cities. Rather than lowering rents and triggering a re-valuation, they let occupancy slide but could argue that potential rent was still the same. Both of these cases do require that the debt has the valuation terms in it, which not all do.
> I can't imagine anything that will happen to earth that will render it less habitable than Mars. Not nuclear weapons, not rogue states, not even asteroids. We could "colonize" an uninhabitable Earth more easily than any other planet. The fact that we could colonize a different planet makes us different from past species in mass extinction events.

Human civilization on Earth is founded on the assumption that the environment will be Earth-like.

Yes, if we had all of the resources/organization we have now, we could "'colonize' an uninhabitable Earth" but following a cataclysmic event, we wouldn't.

As a species, we _might_ survive but even just a nuclear war between say the US and Russia would probably set civilization back by, say, a thousand years.

That's with current military technology. Weapons don't get less dangerous or harder to use over time.
Trying and failing indeed doesn’t make you stupid but in many circumstances, e.g. being poor, makes you stop trying or the feeling of inferiority seeps in. Also the people around you set a background that make it even harder to escape from.
I live in Bay Area 20 mins (by bike) from new Apple campus. A house next to ours has been empty for at least 5 years.

Once a year a lady from China shows up for not longer than week. It is never rented out, just sits empty...
Covid-19 detection using AI on forced-cough recordings
I love this, but now the Too Many Cooks[0] skit is stuck in my head.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Life has spent 3.5 billion years adapting to the peculiarities of this planet.

There’s undoubtedly much we have yet to learn about the universe, and exploring it is the obvious way to learn. Yet I have long seen it as the height of hubris to think we could replace this planet from which we arose.

Everything from gravity to day length to soil composition, never mind the atmosphere which is at least theoretically reproducible, is something with millions of years of adaptation encoded into our genes, and has no compatible world within our known universe.

We can and should explore, and some will choose to make their home among the stars, but as a species, nothing can replace our Earth.
To be fair, the article in question is not about a software project, it's about an individual who is using github as a food blog being trolled using the github collaboration features. It's an example of horrible online behavior, but I don't think it's relevant to OSS communities.
Will read about TikTok's community fund. Thank you.

I assumed that there's at least some OC on TikTok (and others?) getting paid. Those successful influencers I keep reading about.

What's the long term plan for these "platforms" like TikTok, DoorDash, Uber, etc if the laborers don't get paid? I simply don't know.

It does seem the "sharing economy" grift is evergreen. IRL, MLMs and other grifts seem to wax and wane, but never really go away.
> it could create a scenario where we spend even more on space exploration and less on addressing Earth's climate

And what exactly is "addressing Earth's climate" ?

This naive hope that green parties keep pushing "if we cut carbon emissions it's all going to go back to the way it was" ?

Carbon levels have already risen and climate change is already happening - nobody can realistically predict the specifics or the time scale. All existing predictions I've seen have been way out of error margins - and stuff like thawing ice and releasing trapped methane etc. can have huge non-linear contributions.

Saying that X% cut in emissions is going to reduce temperature increase by Y on Z timescale is just wishful thinking, and we don't even have mechanisms to enforce X% cut across the world.

Investing in technology that could help settle Mars is a way to protect from the inescapable negative climate effects we will have to live with, the sooner we start to deal with those the better (eg. start building for hurricanes/floods/large temperature differences, etc.)
Purdue actually paid 8 billion out of 11 billion profit. That seems reasonable as tons of people using their drugs did have a legitimate need.

The 235 Million in personal civil liabilities PLUS their losses from owning so much of the company.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

> 8 billion payout on 11 billion profit. That seems reasonable. Not all of the people using their drugs were being prescribed without good reason.
> Purdue Pharma has agreed to plead guilty in federal court in New Jersey to a three-count felony information charging it with one count of dual-object conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and two counts of conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. The criminal resolution includes the largest penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical manufacturer, including a criminal fine of $3.544 billion and an additional $2 billion in criminal forfeiture. For the $2 billion forfeiture, the company will pay $225 million on the effective date of the bankruptcy, and, as further explained below, the department is willing to credit the value conferred by the company to State and local governments under the department’s anti-piling on and coordination policy. Purdue has also agreed to a civil settlement in the amount of $2.8 billion to resolve its civil liability under the False Claims Act. Separately, the Sackler family has agreed to pay $225 million in damages to resolve its civil False Claims Act liability.
Physicists Discover Strange New Magnetoelectric Effect
What’s new in Fedora 33 Workstation
Massive Asteroid Subject of New Findings
I don't get it, how would the restaurant be losing money from this behaviour? Isn't Grubhub paying the regular takeout price, same as if you order it yourself?
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I think this is a bit too passive of an approach to generating freelance work. Everyone that I know of in consulting or freelancing is actively approaching people, drumming up conversations and trying to find things that they can help with to get their foot in the door. Once you've delivered on some projects with those clients, then they'll typically start coming back and asking for more, but it's not realistic to think that you'll get people cold-calling you asking for your services simply because you talked to them on LinkedIn for 10 minutes.
Yes, I think you are correct. I have never heard of a residential mortgage having a clause like that. It could definitely apply to store-fronts in NYC though
> I don't understand why a broader grouping (possibly global) of people wouldn't outcompete a smaller group...

Ability to pool resources, ability and will to bend rules for the sake of promoting group's interests (ie. nepotism).
People like having one factor to blame. It means they can avoid all the cognitive overhead of engaging with a complex reality. It means never having to evaluate if policies you support and goals you desire might be at odds.

When everything is the fault of those foreigners, a truly remarkable amount of cognitive work just doesn't have to happen.
I understand we are at risk of large populations being displaced. But you seem to be under the impression we are facing a human extinction event, is that something backed up by science?
there are plenty of sad places in this world who got rid of investors ...
I think we're talking past each other. Would you be able to answer any of the questions I posed earlier?

> but they're usually (as evidenced by this very OP) applied inconsistently, politically

Do you have the impression OP was a political disagreement?

> Professionals tend to act professionally.

Yes, but people aren't robots. These are still human interactions between people. You develop personal relationships at conferences, or fail to. People with a hostile attitude toward minoritized groups, whether explicitly expressed or not, are going to make these people feel less welcome, and as a result, they will have a worse outcome at the conference.
> The alternatives to twitter for people who are not of ill repute are places like Parler and Mastodon, and they're doing just fine and the tyrannical hand of the free market has not crushed them.

It is literally true that:

- alternative platforms do exist

- the free market has not crushed them

I can't help but notice that you didn't address this point:

>> And all of this does not take into consideration that visibility of speech largely varies per platform. No, you do not have a "right" to be on a platform, but that is orthogonal to the question of whether the broadcast of certain ideas is being forcefully limited by the employees or executives of large platforms (completely within their current rights).

Whether they are "doing fine" depends on the definition of that phrase - doing "fine" at what, precisely? At merely existing, in a binary sense? Yes, it is literally true they do continue to exist. Are they "doing fine" (comparable to Twitter, Facebook, etc) at disseminating the speech and ideas of individual members of society? Objectively, no they are not.

> They're relative failures in the marketplace, but the market doesn't owe them success simply because they have different/lower moderation standards.

It's interesting that you point this out despite me already explicitly acknowledging that fact, while simultaneously not addressing an important point where we actually disagree. I always wonder what's going on on the other end of the wire when these scenarios arise...is this selective attention conscious and intentional, or is it more like a kind of intuitive, reflexive behavior. Sadly, it seems Western culture is not yet at a point where such things can be discussed in polite company.
> Now lets say I buy a widget that is worth 100 dollars for 200 dollars. Then I sell it for 100 dollars. I now have converted 200 dollars of worthless illegal money into 100 dollars of legal money.

You washed the dirty $200 for clean $100. However, the seller of that widget has made $100 additional profit; to the seller, $200 is clean.
Take a look at the differential equation

dx/dt = x^2

which is outrageous in many ways -- it blows up for some particular t. It grows "faster than exponential" close to the singularity but "alower than exponential" far from it.

Some people wonder if the equation has something to do with why most one horse towns are now two horse towns while others are much bigger: the 'failures' are far out to the right side of that curve.
Odd. I would only assume people kept possessions they made (tools, weapons, trinkets, etc.) prior to any formal states existing (or pooled them voluntarily). But, then, you get into _de facto_ states and what that potentially means.
Straw buyers exist, not denying it.

Straw buyers who are entirely price insensitive may exist, but are so rare as to be unicorns.

If you are actually “laundering” money, ie from a crime other than fleeing oppression, the cost of laundering matters. Buying a $1M condo for $2M costs you a 50% of your ill gotten gains, and there is still risk of seizure.

At those costs there are far cheaper routes for laundering your money.

So what’s occasionally happening is that Chinese trying to escape the control of the PRC dictatorship send money to a trusted expatriate, sometimes a student, and tell them to pay up to $X for a property at market prices. Naturally this can lead to paying slightly over market because the proxy isn’t motivated to negotiate, or often equipped to.

If I price my home at $1M when it’s worth $950k, they’ll pay the $1M. But they aren’t offering me $1.4M. And it’s questionable what the specific market price really is at any moment.

My friend recently bought a home for $605k that was listed at $599k. He got an early preview the day before it’s initial open house. That night He made a full cash offer at $6k over ask that expired the moment the open house started. The buyer accepted 15 minutes before expiration.

Did he overpay? The buyers received over a half dozen backup offers during the open house, some as high as $30k over ask.
I'm pretty sure OP just wants to know, and talk to, his neighbours; not smash the working classes.
There are very few SPAs that are tolerable. Even Google can't make a good one, their admin console for GSuite is terrible and has latency out of this world.
Trump tweeted that he wants to go to space. The anti-Trump crowd is conjuring reasons of why that’s bad now.

In reality, NASA’s budget is a rounding error in the context of the US budget - 0.4% of the federal budget. Further, SpaceX presents a realistic path forward to privatizing Mars travel, trivializing the budgetary concerns anyway.
Nobody will talk about it honestly, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis
You're looking for section 3.1 in [1] where they analyze the effect of scaling width and kernel size for any abitrary downscaling kernel.

> Any algorithm is vulnerable to image-scaling attacks if the ratior of pixels with highweight is small enough.

1 - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-quiring.pdf
I kind of agree with #3 only because the focus is on “early on”. I would agree that there isn’t a ton of need for a business person when you’re just trying to figure out if the science works.

That said, there is some business work to be done - determining if you have a viable business. Cool science is a great and all, but it’s not a business if people won’t pony up the dollars for it.

And once you know the science works there is a ton of business work to be done, especially with medical products where reimbursement can be really complex and require a year or more of work to get ready for launch. And reimbursement can make or break a product.
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I think it can: https://docs.manim.community/en/latest/examples/3d.html
figlet and cowsay are integral to the unix experience imo
Since when is providing some background about your experience considered a negative? You should try to be a bit more generous and not assume, on almost non-existent evidence, that someone is being disingenuous.
It's also possible that the chuckler thought the guy was joking. Not as crazy as it sounds - people joke about being tired/sleep-deprived, unmotivated, and (more to the point) various negative emotional states all the time in a business environment. Others laugh because they've been there. Perhaps all the more so if you phrase it in an unexpectedly precise, analytical way using big words. If someone says "Right now I would prefer a silica-rich intertidal environment in a tropical latitude" I would probably laugh. That's a trivial example but you get the idea.

Not saying "This is how it is," but rather "It's possible." Also keep in mind that we're only getting (ironically) one side of it/one person's experience with this blog post, and will likely never know what was in the mind of the one who chuckled.