skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 years ago I was so excited and optimistic about the future technology was going to bring us. As that future comes closer it's quickly becoming quite clear that this entire industry is bringing us a giant dystopian future. Tech companies have more power then governments, individual privacy is gone. Corporations, already pretty impersonal, have completed the transition to treating people as "resources", completely dropping the word "human".

We all need to think about the future we're building here.
I'm actually surprised there isn't more legal action taken. Not this specific case, but in advertising there's quite some damage for automated bans with unreasonable time to resolve the issue.

In a setting where advertisers are effectively forced to use Google to avoid giving market share to competitors, there's the element of not having a choice while ending up with a significant disadvantage once these mechanisms falsely trigger.

With Google being the operator of the platform and judge at the same time, I don't think they can hide behind terms of use in all jurisdictions. Scaling up without carrying the costs involved seems pretty unjustified.
But that 35% sales tax is a huge increase for everyone at the bottom, that’s the point. The bottom 50% pay “no income tax”, spend roughly 100% of their income, and would have their taxes go up by XX * 35% in taxes under this scheme (where XX depends on what you put in the exemption bucket or not). There’s probably data from Washington state or similar on the distribution of purchases, but you can’t just stop at “35% would work” since you have to exempt more things if you goal is not to be regressive.

P.S. I don’t think when people call for “just sales tax” they also mean “oh and sure plus capital gains” (besides, this would just shift back towards dividends).
You're totally correct.

In the USA the Biden admin is setting up mass vax sites that currently aren't running(so i expect they will make an impact) and they're promising they can speed up by 50% more.

Also for what it's worth I assumed I was talking to an adult who wants a vax when I made my statement.
I like it. Fast and clean.

More importantly (to me), it let me see how few of the shows I watch are in IMDB.
I have been told we cannot distinguish phase.

I have been told audio -> FFT —> audio (the kind of standard audio compression/decompression algorithms we use) lose that phase information and we can't tell.

I have been told the "phase information" is the imaginary part of the complex numbers that are involved in an FFT.
I'm actually already on Google One for the storage - iirc when I bought it I was just buying a storage upgrade... maybe I got transferred in from storage upgrade to the Google One product? I don't remember if it was called One when I bought in.

Looking it over, I didn't realize the Google One product offers human support options, so... maybe hypothetically I could actually get service if my account was shuttered? Or they'll actually be resistant to shuttering my account?
> it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour

Wow, the co-founder's argument to not disclose the source code to the defendant was that it's too many lines of code. Also... ten lines reviewed in an hour!?
Every 12 years we have been having a great depression anyway which had nothing to do with crypto. What exactly changes in the great depression caused by crypto hoarding?
>> You know what would be revolutionary? Getting rid of currency altogether.

Many have tried. Probably most famously, the writers behind Star Trek tried to build a fictional world without currencies. Even that didn't last. All manner of currencies were introduced to sustain various plot points. Some form of money exists in every large scifi franchise. We cannot even maintain the thought experiment of a fictional society without currency. At this point a world without currency is literally beyond our imagination.
Many central banks and governments are experimenting with cryptocurrency/blockchain. I believe some have gone live with various projects around voting, currency-issuing and accounting.

Notably also, the US government is using USD-pegged crypto currency "USDC" to circumvent governmental corruption in Venezuela, in order to deliver economic aid directly (to intended recipients who weren't receiving it through government-controlled Venezuelan banks):

https://blockchain.news/news/us-government-usdc-stablecoin-o...

Mainstream source:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-government-enlists-usdc-gl...
And if the stars are the equivalent of our atoms to a much larger form of life, what would it's nanotech look like to us?
I know, appreciate it.
> If you think about what meetings are attempting to achieve, it's about allowing a number of people to participate in a conversation, achieve progress on some decisions or plans, and if necessary communicate out the actions required.

Broadly, every meeting fall under three categories - "Decision", "Information" or "Discussion". In any case, each of these three categories should lead to "Who does What by When" (WDWBW). In my personal experience, if WDWBW outcome is achieved - meetings move things forward. Otherwise, they don't do so much. Some things which have personally helped me to get towards WDWBW

1. Define Key Objectives for a Meeting

2. Define Agenda

3. Agenda has 4 parts - Topic, Owner, Expected Outcome, Duration, Time

4. Owner - The owner of the part of the agenda is expected to own the topic and drive it

5. Owner needs to pre-define the Expected Outcome beforehand. Broadly, there could be three outcomes - Information, Discussion or Decision

6. Moderator should keep a strict check on Time. Sometimes, if there's a overshoot - the moderator should either ask for team agreement to continue the topic for a limited time (10 min - for example) until the Expected Outcome is reached. If not, stop the meeting and move on the the next item on the Agenda.
For a much more sophisticated version of this, see Soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/

(Disclaimer: I'm the developer)
Do not underestimate the power of mediocre at scale.

Synthetic is scalable.
David Feng talks Chinese trains and subways [audio]
Particularly when TrueAllele specializes in

>probabilistic genotyping [1]

and

>solves mixed DNA samples, low template DNA and kinship problems [1]

And the product sheet discusses

> models for PCR artifacts [2]

This sure feels like they go way beyond typical dna match technology into maximally extracting information via statistics, so their methods definitely should be open for review.

[1] https://www.cybgen.com/products/casework.shtml

[2] https://www.cybgen.com/solutions/brochures/unique_features.p...
> Don’t be naive, the majority will accept the money and gladly.

I wouldn't accept it to sneak the change in, but I'd probably be perfectly willing to take their hand off and sell rights to the product. Assuming of course I didn't just delete the message assuming it was some sort of phishing scam or other rather than a genuine offer.

I'd feel obligated to make it known that I'd done this, perhaps via a notification in the app prior to hand-over and in its README. Something along the lines of a normal change of ownership message (copyright has been transferred to X, contact them for further information, future official releases will come from their fork, of course existing open source releases remain open source even if they change licencing arrangements for future releases, yadda yadda). Though we all know how often people just click through notifications, so I'm not sure how much difference that would really make - so if I were a robot I might be considered culpable under the second half of the first law...

If the buyer would walk away if I didn't agree to a more silent sale then I wouldn't touch it. It is a thin line that I won't cross, but still a line I like to think wouldn't cross. Then again I have the luxury of being relatively comfortable at this point in my life (decent day job at a company which is weathering the current collection of world crises pretty well, the little flat's mortgage near paid), for many others out there the financial incentive would be much harder to ignore. I'm not sure that I like that I wouldn't draw my line in a different place, but I'd be dishonest if I tried to claim that I would.
>If I had a bank account with balance, why would I use western union?

Because sending money to people in the third world who DON'T have a bank account is almost impossible via a normal transfer. My understanding is that the vast majority of the Somali population in the US, for instance, send money home to friends and family via WU. They have a bank account in the US, their friends/family back home do not.

>What if I lost my wallet with my debit card, why would I know the language?

If you lost your wallet and debit card, why would you have thousands of dollars of cash on hand in a country you don't speak the language? That sounds both unlikely and extremely dangerous.

>You are making a TON of assumptions and not considering A LOT of use cases.

I've actually considered most of them, and I've yet to hear a situation that makes any realistic sense outside of illegal activities.
See also: region locking in video games. Again, the development costs vastly outweigh the marginal cost of producing an extra unit to sell, so they sell the product at whatever the local market will bear, which breaks down if richer markets have access to supply from poorer ones.
The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
I recommend Jane Goodall's memoirs (In the Shadow of Man, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, and more), I think they provide a fairly balanced view on our relationship with our near ancestors (what Chimpanzees can and cannot do).
Happens on GitHub as well, fortunately not with such massive flood
Not bad. I have a dentist one town over, and "Bitcoin Fabio" who has spammed the map in every major city nearby and buys and sells Bitcoin, and seems very trustworthy, because he says it is "100% safe !"

I think I prefer your options...
Very cool! Can you also show which machine each supplier use? I'd love to see HP vs. stratasys etc...
Creating Custom Environments in OpenAI Gym
An "eyeball grep" through recent blocks shows that the average bitcoin exchange fee is around USD$5.
Duplicating the link https://welovenocode.com
> This is analogus to me asking for objective data about Afganistan...from the US.

They said objective review of data, not objective data. I would expect Americans are perfectly capable of objectively reviewing data about Afganistan. If you disagree, please provide evidence.

> disregarding my concern for objectivity as invalid or you really do believe commonwealth countries, which are largely homogenous and/or majority white - are the best examples of objective views on a criminal/race driven murder in a majority black, African state

Why not? Why does an analyst need to be black/African to be "objective"?
>My prediction: this firm will probably try to get removed from the case, rather than open source their shitty code.

That isn't necessarily their choice. The prosecutors will make the decision about whether to withdraw the DNA evidence. They probably won't, given that they would need to give the defendant a new trial, which could lead to an accused murderer getting off. A bad look for any prosecutor.

More to the point, if the firm withdraws from any case where their credibility is questioned, what does that say to law enforcement agencies who are thinking about using their software?
Thanks! That's actually the catalyst that got me to take the project on. It took me way too long to find the release date on For All Mankind after googling.
I really left IntelliJ (Python and Go) for Vim. I wanted to give Vim a good try anyway. My motivation was how ridiculously heavy IntelliJ is on resources

I was doing Rust in VSCode and liked it but the Python support in VSCode was pretty terrible, and Go was so-so (Refactor/Rename tends to rename about 50% of the occurrences if you're lucky), so I wanted to try to concentrate everything in one editor.

The downside for a language like Python without strong type system is the need to use the debugger super often, and I haven't gotten my command-line debugging chops up yet. The IntelliJ debugging experience is really, really nice.
> I think Scala will always suffer from its choice to make implicits so fundamental.

Thankfully it won't. Scala 3 deconstructs implicits and discourages (or outright discards) the bad parts: http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/contextual/motivation.ht...

"Implicits" are useful for the Type class pattern and is available in Scala 3 with an improved syntax.

"Implicits" for implicit conversions is an ugly hack that should be avoided as much as possible and Scala 3 restricts it.

"Implicits" for extension methods is a clever hack, and Scala 3 provides a dedicated syntax for defining extension methods.
There was an arcade game many years ago where that was part of the game play, and this “test” could probably be manipulated in the same way: “
Because the game responded to repeatedly pressing the "run" buttons at high frequency, players of the arcade version resorted to various tricks such as rapidly swiping a coin or ping-pong ball over the buttons, or using a metal ruler which was repeated struck such that it would vibrate and press the buttons.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_&_Field_(video_game)
The vast majority of bitcoin mining is a sustainability solution.

The source is more important than the amount of energy.

Most bitcoin mining is using energy at the source that was uneconomical to use for other purposes, because of the loss experienced in transporting the energy to economic centers. That includes places that were previously opting to pollute the air with hydrocarbons, which now use that energy on site for miners instead.

This has been the reality for years.
I have a Pixel 3a, and I'm pretty sure it's done this since it was new (Spring 2019). I also thought my previous phone (Pixel 1) did it, though I don't have anymore and can't check.
Read for yourself. Disclaimer: these are reports that an adverse reaction occurred. It does not "necessarily" mean that they are the result of the vaccine.
https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data
https://dap.ema.europa.eu/analytics/saw.dll?PortalPages&Port...
cf. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15456433/

"Appropriate early treatment of cat bites of the hand is the key to success. Treatment with antibiotics, surgical drainage, debridement and copious irrigation, and use of corticosteroids in some cases, proved to be effective. Hand elevation and intensive physiotherapy after a short period of immobilization is critical. We believe that prophylactic antibiotics should be given even in case of a minor infection following cat bites of the hand. Clear guidelines for clinical recognition of infection, hospital admission and management are provided in our study."
Hey, author here! Imagine my surprise to check HN this morning and see one of my posts up! (Thanks, u/mooreds!)

Besides being riddled with typos, as I've scanned through these comments I'm finding many _far better ways_ of accomplishing what I set out to accomplish.

I might update my script (and consequently the post)! sometime soon. Unfortunately with Covid, I've spent far less time in coffee shops than I once did.
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It doesn't. The cryptocurrency space includes stable coins, usually pegged to the dollar, which have a stable price.
That's been my experience but it probably does legitimately depend. I think there are some people whose skills match sought after keywords and they're fine with those positions. If you've got a more eclectic (and often more senior with varied types of experience), keywords probably don't help much at all.
I have a hard time getting excited for a product solving a problem Visa&co solved decades ago.
Github's code search has never been useful though
I’m pretty sure from context that when he says “white people” he’s referring to the general American public - not Janet Yellen.
how do you know the stablecoins are actually collateralized?

https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...
secret sauce :)
At least it'll be able to scale... because it uses the VISA network :-)
Bitcoin is a nightmare to use. The transaction can take hours to clear, you need specific forms of ID to open an account, and the fees are insane.

I just now sent $100 to someone in South America and it cost me $17.

Bitcoin is a fad that targets and takes advantage of gullible people and those involved in the illegal drug trade.
You can build smart contracts with dollars through the Ethereum cryptocurrency. If you think you can make smart contracts any other way then you don't really understand what smart contracts are.
There's no reason they can't put a reasonable support ticket price in place. Hell - MS has been doing it for ages.

Make the support request cost $250-$500. Guarantee a human on the other end. That drops spam/scam attempts down to basically nothing. It also helps cover the cost of providing real review. Plus, $500 is a very reasonable expense for most companies (basically negligible for all but the smallest), and it's a high bar for scams/spam.

Basically - No, your answer is not a valid reason to not provide human based support.
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Are we not heading for a 3rd AI Winter? The first being in the 1970's and the second in the 1980's and 1990's (which I experienced)?
I have a section on my resume called:

'Technologies I'm Unfamiliar With'

Underneath is a Laundry list of today's sexiest technologies.

It's not quite as advanced as your suggestion, but it's pretty effective. It's also a good icebreaker when you have the in person interview.
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How Instagram Celebrities Promote Dubai's Underground Animal Trade
Well I'm on Xubuntu 18.04 and none of them are available on official repos and I do manually fetch the binaries from their repos (thanks for your awesome work and for providing `deb`s for rg btw ;) )
but yeah my observation was based on empirical evidence on older distros...things seem to have changed...

https://repology.org/project/ripgrep/versions
https://repology.org/project/fd-find/versions
https://repology.org/project/fzf/versions

Still I find quite a lot of Rust apps that I like to use but there is not a distro package for them and the repos don't provide a binary or a deb or PPA. At least with Python repos, because of the nature of scripting vs compiled languages, I can simply isolate anything with a simple `pipx install app`
You're right. It has to be a balance between the cost of the infrastructure and the developer's time. One feature we have for this is to only show comments in PRs if the cost increase is above a certain threshold.

Another idea we have is to allow developers to set alerts based on their actual project/IaC concepts instead of configuring alerts based on tags and services. Do you think this would help?
The myth and reality of the super soldier
Thanks! I did have turn off my scrapper before pulling all the data off IMDB. They have ~200k TV shows cataloged. I only managed to pull around 3k during the weekend.
Sonos the new product will be a Mini Sonos move
Freezeframe: Refrigerate Your Workspace
Related story: I applied for a position with United Airlines a few months ago. I started the job application, then stopped in the middle for whatever reason. United’s job system emailed me at 9 PM a reminder to continue my application, and I completed it less than a half hour later. A half hour after that (just after 10 PM) United emailed me a rejection notice. So either some United recruiter was working late (I’m in the same time zone as United’s HQ) or my resume was completely rejected by a bot.

It’s pretty annoying to put in all that work and get a rejection so quickly.
In China, an App Offered Space for Debate. Then the Censors Came
I recoiled when I tried to install the Spotify app for Nuvola on Arch and it said it needed Flash player.

Quickly uninstalled after that, but still have a nasty taste after coming this close to having installed that.
Async Rust: Futures, Tasks, Wakers; Oh My
> Most VPS providers tick most of the boxes on your list, so I'm not sure what you're on about.

Which VPS provider are you talking about specifically?

> Plus what is the point of scaling when you're losing money at any scale?

My point is that I'm not losing money. I'm saving money by transferring unpredictable salary costs into predictable server costs.

> I run a site with roughly 2 million monthly visitors. On AWS it would cost me $20,000/month on traffic alone.

If this is a static site, 2 million monthly visitors on AWS would cost less than $5.

If it's a non-static site and none of those 2 million visits are cached, I still can't begin to imagine what your app is doing that it could possibly cost you $20,000/month. That would buy you a huge fleet of servers (something like 200 mid-to-large EC2 instances).

It doesn't sound like you have a sense of what AWS costs, even within an order of magnitude.

> Instead I run it on 4 dedicated servers and a bunch of VPS, costing me around $500/month all-in-all.

Four medium EC2 instances also cost ~$500/month all-in, so you're seemingly saving nothing. The layers of software on top of the (virtual) hardware are free.
Also seems biased towards programmers that prefer spaces instead of tabs...
This is definitely on our roadmap and will be shipped soon
Beeing a “perennial favorite of a crowd” seems like a good property for a store of value ;)
> The whole thing, from top to bottom, is just a long chain of poorly aligned incentives. Field sobriety tests are even worse. The fact that your license can be revoked for refusing the test under the above grounds is nothing short of an end-run around the 4th amendment by declaring driving a "privilege, not a right"

I agree and I wish I had a better solution.

>They need to force people to go in for a blood draw to establish BAC.

I know the intention is good, but that seems like a very scary proposition to me. I think the same poorly aligned incentives will line up here too.

"We are now partnered exclusively with X-clinic to do all the blood tests."

X-clinic just happens to tweak their procedure so that borderline samples end up showing under influence.
Yeah I wouldn’t feel proud of getting that job.

We had some of those too there’d also be this webcam screen thing where you answer vague interpersonal questions as the camera looks at you.
I saw mention of Pascal, so I had to take a quick peek:

https://github.com/Soldat/soldat/blob/develop/server/ServerC...

The last time I used Pascal was in the late 1980s on a VAX/VMS system. Very fond memories!