skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's plausible to believe that we'll make all kinds of technological advancements, solve world hunger and such kinds of scarcity, go to Mars, or whatever. However, it's unlikely that humans will ever overcome their greatest enemy, themselves. Such a utopian fantasy is still hard to take in for most people, while it's much easier to imagine things going to shit and degenerating to a cyberpunk dystopia. Humans make the technology and so technology will never be the answer to solving human nature.
Even in the private sector (my school is independent, with 600 pupils, 200 staff, $20M revenue) things are as bad.

Technical decision making is by an IT department that reports through the bursar (head of all non academic staff) to the head. There’s no accountability to core competency: teaching and learning. We are merely stakeholders at an equal level on the org chart.

Contrast this to when I was a FAANG SWE, when every function at the company — including IT — was subordinate to those who built the actual tech: Engineering.

The flip side is that as a teacher I have complete autonomy over anything that does fall to me; namely the bulk of the CS curriculum and the way it is taught.

(Tools like repl.it are wonderful for completely side stepping any involvement with bureaucracy. Invite the kids to sign up and just get stuff done.)
If you have niche requirements then expect to pay some premium for the gear because the development costs are amortized into the unit price. It’s that way for AV gear as well as many other niches.

If the market won’t bear the price then people or companies able or willing to bear the development risk will shrink, or in this case maybe never develop.
And, you're deflecting. It's called "whataboutism," and it's a logical fallacy. Educate yourself and look it up. You're also straw manning by claiming I said imperialism is unique to capitalism, when I did no such thing. Please either refrain from replying, or actually engage with an argument.

Now, back to the question I posed to you: did, or did not capitalist nations participate in wars of imperialism for the sake of economic expansion, which then resulted in people dying?

PS: I know damn well what capitalism is. It's private ownership of the means of production, along with a market based economy and enforcement of private property rights.

If you understood what capitalism was, or even basic economics, you would know that labor is one of the factors of production which is completely separate from capital. You also grossly mischaracterize how labor works in a socialist framework, again showing that you've never cracked a book other than maybe Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom.

Moreover, you have no literal idea what a capitalist is, either, so I'll tell you: a capitalist is one who generates his or her living solely or mostly off of capital. Capital is defined as "means of production," including land, tools, and other things besides labor and raw materials that allow for this thing we call "production" to happen.

And, I know you have this strange notion of the word "voluntary," whereby because I choose not to starve or freeze on the street, I have to live indoors, and, because I can't afford to buy my own home, I have to rent, yet you consider it "voluntary" that I have to agree to a coercive contractual agreement in order to have an extremely basic standard of living. This is laughable, and capitalism deserves all the jeers it gets for redefining common sense terms like this.

So, anyway, let's not continue to deflect, and return to. the main point: do you want to answer the question or not? Did capitalist nations participate in wars of imperialism for the sake of economic expansion, resulting in the death of even one human? One is greater than 0, after all, so, if you can acknowledge that, then we can begin a more thorough accounting of the deaths of capitalism.
Skeleton screens and spinners don't feel faster.
Maybe the gaming press wants games to be philosophical/political works because it gives them something to write about.
But the experience may net you something... an ounce of pride, or maybe a pound of regret, depending on how it goes!
Shame. I do find that feature very useful.
Richard Montañez has all my admiration for what he achieved. This is a beautiful story.

Unfortunately, those kinds of stories also play into the narrative: be a good model employee, make sure the floors shine and trust that hard work, and great ideas will make you deservedly insanely rich. Because there are smart CEOs who will see all of that

Cinderella, capitalist version.

Too rare to be significant as a policy. Most likely does not scale. Too often, dreams are useful to convince people to accept their fate.
Oh, Earth will eventually recycle all of the molecules in the plastic, at least that which is exposed to erosive forces and not sedimented down to be preserved for millenia. The question is how much disruption, poisoning, death, and destruction it will cause as it contaminates everything, is sucked up in the massive recycling systems, and filtered through the food web over and over. We're going to find out the hard way and there won't be much we can do but watch. My guess is that it is at least partially responsible for the insect apocalypse and severely disrupts the microbiota of most ecosystems. It's also probably pretty bad for human health.
Some people take this seriously, not realizing that Seymour was being sarcastic. He used pencil and paper to design his computers, not even an Apple II.
I'm not talking about the robot you bought off Amazon. Robots do surgery and manufacturing these days, they are a little more capable than a 7 year old.
Also, it sounds like his presentation skills provided management with a spokesperson/avatar/salesman for the project, possibly making it the right time to move forward with some ideas they already had but didn't have the right person for.
Windows 10 on ARM is real Windows, with Win32, MFC, and all. You can build and distribute native applications using any of those APIs. Some ARM-based Windows PCs come configured with Windows 10 S, which only accepts apps from the Microsoft Store, but those can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro, which has full support for side-loading just like x86/x64.

Disclosure: I used to work on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft.
Honestly, I found Cyberpunk really underwhelming and basically stopped playing. Apart from 1 or 2 moments (spider bot is cool,hotel theft job alright.)

It's just very run and gun. And uniteresting. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I'd love it to be a mix of syndicate (if you know that game), Detroit, and something like a point and click game. Something with a ton of interaction and only a bit of fighting.
Impact diamonds are something of a misnomer as cubic kilometers of rock cool quite slowly. What’s interesting isn’t the formation of diamonds which are extremely common, but how they end up close to the surface without breaking down at lower pressures.

Amusingly, despite the tag line diamonds slowly break down at standard pressure and temperature into graphite, they also burn at fairly normal campfire temperatures.
The masters thesis was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
Test on wine on linux on arm in qemu?
I'd say doing the post + video at least 10x's the time involved in one of these projects.

A lot of people can get to the 'I did this thing and I got it to work' stage. Getting to 'I did this thing and I can get it to work from scratch a 2nd time' is better. Getting to 'I did this thing and here's my documentation, enough to help you do it too' is my goal, for pretty much anything I work on.
It always amazes me how ignorant most of the so called "capitalists" (who generally control little to no actual capital) are. Thanks for showing me at least someone paid attention in economics (or maybe history) class.
where do I buy such device?
I think coming up with the final formula requires an understanding of not just taste/food science, but also manufacturing logistics, raw material sourcing, etc. There's probably a lot of trade-offs involved, as you can imagine as well. I agree with you that it's a team effort, but unfortunately the impact of such stories is probably diminished if they weren't about the janitor walking into the CEO's office and hitting a home run.
On the other hand on my android phone I use firefox+uBlock and see no ad at all even on youtube...
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I am all for good writing, but what standard it being held to? Cyberpunk has a better plot than 90% of holiwood movies
Hashbang URLs are gone because of the PushState API, not because people have given up on the idea.
I think OP is alluding to the fact there was a big pop on IPO day (which indicates that the IPO was mispriced). Though that is not a "fee", but money left on the table for the company.
“Panspermia” is the keyword to get you started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Hm, I don't know, wielding "child labour" is pretty heavy-handed. After all, we all have seen movies with 8yo actors, right? So where is the difference. Of course assuming some specialties in contract wrt to the age (which surely exist in movie production as well) are respected.
what (if anything) stop the founders from just giving themselves more shares?

they only have the same incentive to not dilute if they are getting the same penalty for diluting, right?

I am not an expert in any of this but it seems they could just agree to issue a ton of shares to all the investors / founders but not to employees in a way where everyone except the employees benefit.
Which to me seems way more impressive than working for NASA
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WW1, the seven years war, current conflicts in the middle east (including foreign interventions in the Syrian Civil War), the Napoleonic Wars, all escalated to catastrophic proportions in part because of complications in relations to military alliances.

Even the recent war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is made more complex and harder to resolve peacefully because of relations to Russia and especially Turkey.

There is a reason why many nations are currently condemning Israel’s opening relations to Morocco. It is seen as a normalization of (a) Israel’s occupation of the Palestine territories and (b) normalization of Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara. So if a war breaks out in either of these places, it is gonna be more devastating as a result.
I find that they're all over the place on what actually has the commercials and what doesn't. The network broadcasts are the worst.

I will say that nfl does have a nice feature (it's like $25 for the end of the season so I can watch stuff delayed) where about an hour or 2 after the game (editing time) they actually just auto-cut the broadcast so there are no commercial breaks.
It's pretty easy to get companies to use if you make a special carousel at the top of the search results page which is reserved for it.
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FYI: I collect a best of crypto quotes over at open blockchains, see https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes

To quote Nouriel Roubini, Economist:

No use ever, past, present and future for XRP and Ripple products... it is already flopping after spending a fortune and printing a huge amount of totally useless XRP. (Now the XRP army of Twitter trolls, bots, hired guns and zealots will attack again...)
The way I see it, the game purports to be cyberpunk so it seems fair to judge the game as cyberpunk.
When did it come out? Where can I see it?
Some of these cases are based on unlawful terminations --- for instance, Kelly was pregnant when she was fired. If this person is a member of a protected class or has other reasons to believe that they've been fired for a statutorily invalid reason, by all means, pursue that.

Here's a Santa Clara Law Review article (take that for whatever it's worth) on almost exactly this scenario, in the context of Zynga, citing Newberger, and suggesting that "company determines employee is not worth the equity they were originally allocated" is a valid reason to terminate an at-will employee (even if it is, as I'm sure we all agree, bad business):

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

But look, I'm not saying that this person shouldn't talk to a lawyer; in fact, I'm saying the opposite. Find out if the termination is valid. But be clear-eyed: when you get a straightforward answer to whether you can be terminated, and it confirms that the termination is valid, stop there, and don't spend a fortune in money and time fighting a foregone conclusion.
Can someone explain why the SEC is so active during this presidential transition time? Is it something about Trump, Biden, their appointees, or something generically about the transition period?
Simple but multifunction library for console log
Ask HN: How can a person be more playful?
I have a 2 year old, and he's always playing. It made me self-reflect and I feel like I've become, well, boring. Not that I need to be as playful as a toddler, but as I've aged (mid-thirties now), I feel like my sense of humor, my willingness to explore, make random jokes, etc have all decayed away (even compared to late twenties / early thirties).

Has anyone else felt this way?
ok, yeah that sucks. Esp on a commuter train. The portland route will generally just toss extra bikes on in the baggage car and strap them up. yes it can damage your fancy ass paint job.
I'd love for Mark Rober to make an accredited physics class for high school students. It would be a huge undertaking, but I could see it becoming the standard for distance learning. He could even do it in pieces, in partnership with Khan Academy. Heck, I'd pay for a Kickstarter for this.

Similarly, it would be amazing for Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) to write a physics textbook.
I completely agree with this. For reference, I'm a relatively new developer - 3.5+ years of experience in my first developer position.

At the beginning of college everyone was SUPER into NoSQL. All my friends were using it, SQL was slow, etc.

Nearing the end of college and the beginning of my job I began seeing articles saying why NoSQL wasn't the best, why SQL is good for some things over NoSQL, etc.

Technology is cyclical. 10 years from now I expect to read about something "new" only to realize that it was something old.
If anything Nintendo has mellowed out since the Yamauchi days.
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The sheer amount of hatred being thrown at this game is really something odd. It feels artificial, especially when practically every media outlet has the same vitriolic tone.

I don’t play games much anymore, but I did pick Cyberpunk 2077 up (via Stadia) and I’ve found it to be a blast. Certainly not perfect, but absolutely a world worth exploring. My favorite part are the details; there are tons of little stories and narratives in the items you pick up during each mission. The constant barrage of negativity surrounding it make no sense to me.
Another way this story could have ended:

CEO: Thanks for the idea! Goodbye, and don't forget your mop!

(CEO shares go up by $20M)

Janitor: Damn, I should have brought a lawyer. If only I had the money for one.
A link off the Twitter site wouldn't get as many reads, and I believe if you have a good Titter client it will thread the messages for you.
In the UK, at least, Amazon hires temps via an agency.

Source: I work there for the agency (since I can't find a job... thanks to the Gov response to COVID!)
The professor probably had other options, but decided that this is the route to go. And once the decision is done, there is no turning back.

In the early phase of a startup it quite often happens that equity is given on very relaxed way on good terms. For example someone can work only short time in the company and still get nice piece of equity, just because other founders are lazy or careless.

A lot related to startups is "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". Sometimes you can get lot of equity & money if you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Other times you end up working a lot and get nothing.
This is a good story that poses philosophical questions as what intelligence means. Regardless his social class and jobs he look for opportunities and achieved success. There is a movement in tech for underrepresented minorities. I would dispute that opportunities should be given to anybody regardless their social class race or background, just not only latinos, black or women
There's the word punk in the title. Why not analyze the game relating to the punk culture (including its philosophy and politics)?

There's enough space on the Internet for "is this game fun?" reviews and "is this game epistemologically sound?" reviews.
For those interested in the details of the cancelled Apple processor, here is the manual:

https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
Came here to yell" Don't forget to look at dadabots too!" hehe:)
What Is the Proper Balance Between Working and Learning?
A few years ago, I had this bright idea of updating a site I maintained to be a single page application (SPA). I was very inspired by this site (https://pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-pok...) and thought it would make the user experience a lot better by making the site easier to navigate.

I preloaded data such that a user could navigate via search or clicking through some drill-down menus without having to wait for a full page refresh. The data would hydrate the views so that the transition time between views was almost always fast, even on slow mobile traffic.

One aspect that was very difficult to figure out was incorporating views that would require more data from the server. Once a user drilled down to such a view, the challenge became how to load the view via AJAX without having to make another AJAX call to load more data.

The solution was to return server side rendered HTML instead of JSON...

Looking at the demo, this seems very similar to some of the things I had to do minus 95% of the hacky Angular/PHP code I had to set up.

This is a killer feature to have in Rails and I am looking forward to learn more of the conventions that will surround the implementation.
I'm trying to understand how your non-technical founder plans to continue supporting the product as they "work on it themselves". Is the intent to simply replace you with cheaper labor who won't expect equity? Have the investors asked for you to be replaced by someone of their choosing? This feels like a key point to the decision making, IE: knowing what the future leadership of the company will actually be and whether there really is a future here or best to walk away.
The Great Irish famine was a product of market capitalism[1] and private property[2], killing over 1 million people.

The Bengal Famine killed over 10 million people[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_ex...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Causes_...

[3] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/7/17/1314447/-Capitali...
Off topic from the main thread, but Travel map looks really good. Reminds me of all the travel blogs I used to read when I was in high school / college dreaming about getting out and exploring the world. Great work!
And now you can run proprietary EDA tools natively on Arm systems.
Yes, that's correct. This is why the vast majority of IPOing shares RISE in price early on.

Partly this is countered by the competition between banks, if Morgan Stanley tell you they can IPO you at 50usd but Jefferies say 55usd, you go with Jefferies.

It's also good news for anyone who continues to hold equity (CEOs, founders, early/angle investors etc). Only the initial equity sold goes at this discount. For this reason many companies will start by offering small amounts of equity and later issuing more at the market price.

Of course, its also a very hard question to answer: how much is a share of company X worth? When there is no market to reference. So the discount is also a risk premium both for fraud and for mis-valuation.

I actually think IPOs are one of the hardest parts of finance to fully understand and to do and so are one of the most interesting. That's not to say that there aren't conflicts of interest and dodgy activity. Just that there are 101 moving parts.
Similarly, why can't you buy a good speakerphone?

It seems like all of the professional quality stuff is not amenable to just plugging in at home. I have a Jabra speakermic thing that's passable, but not as good as something in a real conference room.

I, unfortunately, cannot wear something on or in my ears all day, or a high-quality audio setup would be easy.
A couple of startups I've worked at over the years did this. Couple of observations:

The coating doesn't seem to be quite as thick. Perhaps a few coats of whiteboard conditioner before starting and at intervals would help.

If you don't put a faux border on it, then you get whiteboard ink dust on the walls and it looks kind of trashy. I speculate that your best bet would be to get a bunch of trim with a rabbet in the back, bolt the bottom piece to the wall, have someone hold the board in place while you bolt the top part on to keep it from shifting. Hide a couple of screws through the boards along the sides to make sure it doesn't buckle on you.
I'm a big fan of pure HTML pages because of performance and simplicity, but the techniques presented here are neither of those.

For performance, server-side rendering is just bad. It won't scale to high volume traffic, cost too much money and is complicated to maintain. Hosting a static HTML files is more performant than that.

For simplicity, the current protocol relies on so much "magics" to give the impression of simplicity. I think that's just an illusion of simplicity.
That's good, because I've been deliberately ignoring pop webdev technology in hopes this would happen.
You don't even need the hardware, just the internet pipe with stadia or geforce now.
> Can I come to your home to borrow anything you aren't using at the moment?

If I could have it back instantly when I wished, it's not private (like my diary), and it's impossible for you to damage it, sure, why not?
Some similarities, some differences.

US sees most of the highest budget anime and from the largest studios. US entrepreneurs that started as enthusiasts are basically financing a lot of it directly and through syndication agreements.

But there are tons of IP that is ignored and not syndicated abroad and there are tons more in the manga and book form.

Although many western anime fans are curious about Japanese customs, the west likes the style more and resonates with things that have broader appeal to western interests. Essentially, not-Japan, or resonating with anime-style works from western studios and directors. I’m sure we can think of an exception here or there but anime about mundane life in Japan is not popular outside of a Japan.
How will all the poor rent seekers survive?

What's happening to this country? I thought regulatory capture was the #1 priority, here.
Isn’t that how all wifi is connected?
> Downloading porn on lime wire doesn't stop you from advancing in the process with a polygraph.

This is factually incorrect. I personally know two people who, already holding a TS/SCI, were denied further career opportunities due to the volume and duration of their downloading of pirated material while in college (which they were honest about due to thinking, as you erroneously assert, that it wasn't a big deal).

The "digital piracy" was specifically cited as the reason for not advancing in the process. Two different former colleagues, both proven performers.

Also, prior drug use ABSOLUTELY does disqualify you if there's enough of it, even if you've never been addicted to anything or if it's years in the past. They're especially tough on hallucinogens for some reason which is hilariously ironic because LSD...I mean....