skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the nice things about the german system is that when the crisis is over, the companies can ramp their workforce back up near instantaneously without hiring and training.

Compare that to the US where they lay people off in a down turn, only to then have to rehire and retrain once the economy picks up again.
Wouldn't that be a argument for the kid to be placed into a foster home?
NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
Very strange, I can confirm that your Spotify sample does sound much better than my one. Mine sounds identical on Windows and Android though, two very different platforms, so it may indeed be a UK problem. Thank you very much for the code.
Not for profit doesn't mean what you think it does. Teachers at not for profit schools earn a wage, just like at for profit schools. It means that the excess can be siphoned off to stock owners instead of being reinvested in the school.
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For what it's worth, the meteorologist specifically called it a mirage, not an optical illusion. Specifically, this is a "superior" mirage, meaning that the object appears to be above its actual location.

A mirage is not an optical illusion in the way that you describe it. The BBC correspondent is the person that called it an optical illusion, not the meteorologist. :)
Switzerland has the highest salaries in whole Europe. It's easy to dismiss 50k as peanuts living there, but look around - Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, salaries there are not that high and 50k might be a standard for someone with ~5y of experience
Pure unfounded speculation. The Russians and Chinese have a huge advantage over American intelligence agencies just by the simple fact that there are far more English-speaking Russians/Chinese than there are Russian-speaking Americans. Massive information asymmetry. How many native English speakers speak fluent Russian? Less than a few hundred in the entire world (I'm a Russian academic, I know). How many native Russian speakers speak fluent English? Hundreds of thousands of people. That's the reason why the Russian government is able to run massive projects that directly influence American public opinion through social media. America simply doesn't have that volume of talent and infiltration into foreign societies.

> The US must have some fantastic assets if they are putting up so little fuss about solarwinds and this attack.

Actually they are putting up so little fuss because they are incompetent and castrated since the last administration.
They law was aimed at the big guys and they are in my opinion still not compliant, but have not heard of them being fined, some small guys on the other hand...
This law feels more like it was a bribe fishing and checkbox exercise rather than genuine attempt at solving the issue.
They don't in metals but I don't think it would make any difference if they did.
Number of dead projects is increasing: 330 out of 1279. Is the end nigh?
What's wrong with Yubikey?
If you prefer JS, that's perfectly valid. But it's worth noting you can adopt TS incrementally, you absolutely do not need to define a type for every little variable. You could pretty much write an entire project in the same way and just use types for the most complex part.

As someone that's been using Vue since pre v1, I think Vue 3 with TS is a massive upgrade.
I'm not sure we have the same understanding of emergence, here (and I'm not going to insist on being precise).

I would think being emergent has something to do with a structure being present in a system which is not a fundamental part of the description. Something like thought being emergent from connecting a group of neurons.

Calling x, p, t, emergent, when they are co-ordinates in the conventional formulation of QM, is not this. I wouldn't call time emergent in the description of a simple harmonic oscillator, and I wouldn't call frequency emergent either.

Could you elaborate on what you meant?
If it provided such an enormous value to you, what's wrong with paying for it?
What's an IAB or CMP?
I don't know any which is why I am asking. It seems like there should be well-known victims of being made an example of.
Count me as another person for whom Coursera was a life-changer. I went from disaffected lawyer to deeply satisfied software dev in 4 years, in large part due to Coursera and edX, with nods to MIT's OpenCourseWare and Stanford's platform as well. Classes such as Nand to Tetris, Prof Sedgwick's algorithms, Prof Ng's ML on Coursera and MIT's Intro to CS and Programming on edX, among many others, were more than enough to get me to a place where I felt confident applying for jobs. (Especially when mixed with a few years of a Pluralsight sub as well, and some time as a volunteer with a nonprofit.)

I am deeply indebted to Coursera, but I always felt like they would struggle making money. People are only willing to pay for certs if they mean something, and unfortunately they don't. When I interviewed, every place I met with was impressed by the courses I had put myself through and the knowledge I had gained -- but not a single one even asked a question about any certificates. I always thought a sub model would probably fit them better, but it's obviously difficult-nigh-on-impossible to claw back free content. If they wanted the content to stay free, they really needed the strong backing of some sort of private entity.
It might have been easier to understand if Benjamin Franklin had used the correct polarity for electrons.

He made the proton positive, and the electrons negative. But this mistake became a historical embarrassment, but ultimately stuck, because the world was too entrenched in it.

Instead, he should’ve made the proton as negative, and the electron as positive. Intuitively, this may have helped people understand how electricity flows better.

An alien extraterrestrial society in a distant galaxy would probably be wondering why we have our electricity signs all backwards.

Such as: why must we disconnect the negative cable from our car battery first?
Xkcd, like hackernews, does not require these silly pop ups.

The problem isn’t the gdpr, it’s sites trying to use your personal data against your will.
Why you want to compare "potential punishment for lack of endorsement of the state" in the USSR with "potential punishment for opposing feminism" in modern days? Those are such different things...

Where I'm from there are plenty of people who oppose parts of feminism. And I dont see them being punished at all. Even I'm openly opposing some of what nowadays is part of feminism!
https://ibb.co/4SPCVvm
I'm having a hard time determining the actual risk here. It seems all of these issues are related to to the various ways of circumventing the Secure Boot process, but are people really relying on Secure Boot for security? Whenever I've looked at it, it seems like like it doesn't really solve any really security problems? What's the threat model where Secure Boot is useful?

Widows might be doing something interesting with it, but does it help in the case of dual boot?

I'm using Qubes OS myself so I don't think Secure Boot would ever be useful in my case?
Interesting thoughts. When looking at your link which links to Shannon-Mind-Reading machine I immediately think of several things. One: branch prediction. The mind-reading machine seems a lot like a branch predictor. Two: I used this type of algorithm for a baseball game I wrote when writing the pitching /batting 'AI'. - In fact I stole it from the Intel hardware manual. Three: Rock Paper Scissors - people who are good at Rock Paper Scissors , I feel, use some type of prediction based on your tendencies and tells. Like the dog you mention... There's more in this deep well but I'll stop there.
It can also be for advertising. It's very unclear where the line is: of course Facebook has an interest in tracking you, it legitimately makes them money. Afaik that's what this purpose is for. But it should also be weighed how reasonable versus invasive it is. The data protection authorities are clear on how they see it (namely as mostly a dummy clause that rarely lets you do anything) but it has yet to be seen how this holds up in court.
Well, the pure ones have a lot of weight when they debunk false claims even in applied math... Why should she confine herself?
> If you record any audio or make calls with people outside your organisation,

... please ask your employer to invest in some sort of microphone upgrade. Unless you're self-employed, paying for work equipment is not your responsibility.
In the installation guides, please mention at least in passing that it needs Erlang to be installed as a prerequisite. Being a casual reader, I wasn't sure about that until I found https://caramel.run/manual/getting-started/first-steps.html#.... Notably, the "it's just a single binary" might be highly misleading in this context for people not coming from the BEAM users community.

Also, it would be super cool if I could easily find a list of limitations/differences vs. conventional OCaml language & runtime. And a hello-world snippet on the front page (or possibly some other tiny one showing some cool BEAM feature), it took me a while to find the "examples" folder in the github repo.

Please note those are just some tiny complaints rooted in the fact that I absolutely love what you did here! :)
> The confusing part is that the government has to maintain the confidence of the house, and is comprised of members of parliament.

Confidence of the Commons, yes. The government doesn't have a majority in the Lords.

>Normally the government whips mean that parliament does whatever the government tell it to do, so "holds the government to account" is a laughable statement.

To an extent, that's true. The select committee system enables alternate power base within Parliament (especially the Commons) so that independently-minded backbench MPs to scrutinise ministers and other public officials with less interference from the whips.

And over the past 2 parliaments we have seen the rise of the Tory "research groups" - especially the ERG - which have been very influential on the government.

I'm not saying that everything is perfect here, until we ditch the first-past-the-post electoral system everything is still screwed up, but the government does have to listen to Parliament when the latter wants something.
Crappy remixes on TikTok and Instagram that can’t hold a candle to the hay day of YTMND?

The other poster is probably right, the indie game scene is pretty prolific with jams and remixes and has more collaboration than most early web phenomena.
Just purchased. Waiting for the link. Looks very interesting. I’ve always loved recipe books like these.
Shameless plug.. I made a super slow motion 184 byte aperture grille (Trinitron) animation:

https://www.dwitter.net/d/12335

And a more recent one with more interesting motion at faster speed:

https://www.dwitter.net/d/21705

It is interesting how even as an animation it makes it look a lot smoother than the raw upscaled pixels of the same simple graphics.
I just deployed a change that should fix this. Try clearing your cache and refreshing the page. Sorry!
Is there a way to know the audio latency of a specific device before buying it? Is this data published somewhere?
The HDD macs work very well with an SSD swap (hard in a corporate setting,) or just an external SSD (easy in a corporate setting.) But should have maximum RAM (hard to change in a corporate setting.)

I'm not at all fond of the newer more disposable Macs. Still, they should perform pretty well. One of my coworkers installed browser themes that seemed to be crypto mining or something equally ridiculous once. You may want to create a fresh user without any personalization and see if problems go away. I find Mac users and PC users tend never to do a wipe/install and almost everyone tends to port their problems with them by bringing their home directory even to new machines of the same OS.
Talking like that to a coworker might cause some friction in the team (more or less depending on social norms in your country of origin/work)

But put your self into the shoes if Linus.

You are at the head of one of the most important FOSS projects. You probably get a endless stream of noise directed your way (emails, tweets, PR's, commments in general).

You don't respond to it all, because you can't (and shouldn't). But in certain cases you do, and initially you give reasons for why you wont accept the PR.

And now that you have given something your attention, the various elements on the internet pile on, each believing that their opinions regarding your repository and its rules are important to voice to you.

I don't see him acting in any way that isn't completely justified in this context.
> Anything below 60Hz in VR has a significantly increased chance of giving motion sickness due to latency.

I think there is a subtle difference between fps (avg) and latency. I would say that a 'stable' latency is always better than a high fps.

> Try Guitar Hero / Rock Band with various audio / video latency settings. 10ms is obviously impactful, anything higher borderlines on unplayable, and even 5ms has a subtle impact increasing missing notes.

Do you mean that you set an additional latency for both video and audio? Or you delay only the audio by 10ms?
Or they may be angry because there is too much right-wing cranks, and not enough left-wing cranks.
> no spam, no captcha, no sign up, no passwords, bring your own identity

I tried one of the projects listed there, and it required me to log in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is a modern programming language?

I like discovering new programming languages or more specifically new approaches to programming. I'm looking for new landscapes these languages can help me to explore. And when I say new I mean something I was not aware of, not necessary something recent. This is why I'm both surprised and disappointed when the claim is to be modern without specific novelties.
Why business models of Google or Facebook simply cannot be made illegal just like you can't setup a ponzi scheme?
There is AptX LL (low latency). I have no idea how widespread support is, but you can buy BT dongles, eg to connect video equipment.
Ask HN: Embedding a reset-password form directly in email?
Typically a password reset flow is tedious, first you submit your email on the site, second you check your emails for a link, click that link get redirected to a form where you finally reset your password

I think most email clients can support HTML forms, what would you think of inlining the reset password form in the email directly? any cons?
"Consultation hours" may be a less confusing term.
A website where devs can download templates to improve their HTML and CSS skills
One story is not. The reporting of the media as a whole is. It's always FEAR FEAR FEAR, without mentioning how likely these cases actually are. Because of this, there are young, healthy people who think they have a significant chance of dying of Covid, which is just objectively wrong.

But it's understandable. If you dare trying to look rationally at the matter, you get accused of "hand wav[ing] away COVID". As if the only two options were "worse than the plague" and "harmless like the common cold".
I'm always a bit surprised there was the space for Electron to exist in the first place. Since most operating systems have widget toolkits that have browsers effectively embedded into them.

What I would have liked to have seen instead of Electron would have been a shim API that abstracted OSX/iOS/WinForms/QT webviews, and for those webviews to have a working API that would allow DOM manipulation, and allowed native sub-views to be inserted as block elements.
I'm curious to know why this did not affect Office 365 / Exchange Online.

I used to work for a law firm which ran on-premises Exchange, but had OWA running behind a VPN. I remember finding it extremely inconvenient at the time. But they're the ones laughing now.
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E-Commerce Explosion Revamps Retail
Right. This passage from TFA hits on that:

> ...mistaking the wave for the medium. Is "electricity" the electrons, or is it the wave of electron-flow, or is it energy that flows THROUGH a column of electrons. Think of how difficult it would be to understand sound waves and air pressure if we had just a single word that meant both "sound" and "wind" and "air."
How is it "light" weight?

> Low CPU and memory footprint. Current CPU stays at 0% on idle and memory usage is under 20mb for a hello world program.

20MB!
It bothers me when wealthy cities with horrible law and order problems start focusing on peripheral issues like environmental protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Oakland,_California
I'm not the previous person, but I assume they mean that not everything about life should be regulated. There are actually some real practical problems with this, because life is complicated and has an endless list of edge cases that can't possibly be captured in law.
Is QM really trying very hard to tell us that spacetime is emergent?

Space is emergent because: spooky action at a distance.
Time is emergent because: delayed choice quantum eraser experiments.
That really pisses me off.

Go look at the source, IBM. They started a pilot program, with power users, and converted them to Macs, and then a year in said that Macs need less support and cost less over their 3 year lifecycle.

See the problems? They couldn't know a year in about 3 costs over 3 years, and taking power users that demand Macs and saying they don't need support is obvious. That's a bullshit and obviously wrong "statistic" and source to use.
You got me.

I feel nostalgia for lower gini coefficients and less widespread surveillance.

Even if my point of view is in the minority on this issue, I do not regret it at all.
Unfortunately a few comments here have honed in on one contrived example of why I think this strategy is broken. To give another contrived example: I personally had a logon to this portal, but it broke last year when they integrated logons with Azure and it took me like three months to get it fixed.

The fact a critical security update can't just be downloaded is bad. I don't care if someone in sales thinks every licensed user should probably be able to get it. Here NCC produced a list of "valid" files to help people scan for not legit files. Except they don't have Exchange 2019 CU 8 because they couldn't get it:

https://github.com/nccgroup/Cyber-Defence/tree/master/Intell...

Microsoft has a hard limit (5?) on the number of individual accounts you can grant access and in a big enough org it's still plausible they'll be scattered across the world and you'll find none of them available the exact hour you need this update.
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Too much close to a Phrenology 2.0 IMAO
The UI images look a lot like https://privacy.com. Privacy.com recently added an API (https://privacy.com/card-issuing), so it may actually be.
HN changed the trajectory of our company entirely, after the community found it interesting.

The story is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327717

There are a lot of influential people on HN. I have seen companies win business and lose business for content posted here.

Either way, If the community takes interest in something (positive or negative), it is impactful.
This is a fake job, a copy paste of this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26363129
I patched my Exchange servers the morning this was announced, a few days ago. The patch takes about ten minutes per server, and does not require a reboot. If your server was a client facing one (CAS) users would have seen a brief outage in Outlook connectivity.

The patches were single file downloads, one for each version of Exchange, yes you needed to be on the latest Cumulative Update for Exchange, so if you weren't you really have no right running a production mail system...
> I vividly remember playing one of the Shinobi games on the Sega Master system, and spent a huge amount of time wandering back and forth in the levels thinking about the townsfolk who occupied various buildings and their work days.

I remember Choplifter for the Sega Master System. Half the fun was the story in my head regarding the hostages, the behind the scenes operation of rescue attempt, etc. And the tragedy of it all going wrong when you'd crash with people on board...
It's true that there's no universal center, and relativity supports this.

However, dropping the idea of a universal center, it's false that the Earth is the center of the solar system, i.e. the other major objects in the solar system don't revolve around the Earth, even though it's possible to produce a consistent Earth-centric model that works like that.

Relativity doesn't say that both an Earth-centric and solar-barycentric models are equally correct, since the Earth-centric model is not an inertial frame, and Earth's contribution to spacetime curvature is one of the smaller ones. Both special and general relativity allow us to draw reliable conclusions about which models better represent reality, as opposed to just making accurate predictions.

As such, this example provides better support for the idea that interpretations matter, than that they don't. It suggests that the situation with quantum interpretations may well be similar. You can make accurate predictions under any sufficiently complete interpretation, but that doesn't mean that there isn't an interpretation that's a better fit to reality than others. We may just lack the ability to determine that yet.

Aaronson's take is similar to the "shut up and calculate" take in the sense that it explicitly ignores or rejects the question here. It's an anti-knowledge position - it's saying we should be happy with what we already know, and simply work within that framework, ignoring deeper questions. It's the position of an engineer rather than a fundamental research scientist.
Yes and no. Rule #1 for starting a community - and starting is not the same as later - is to establish a strong and tight knit core.* That's more important than trying to appeal to _everyone_. Is that elitist? Or smart?

Religious beliefs aside (read: it's simply an example), look at Christianity. One guy and twelve disciples. I'm not a preacher but I don't think Jesus was elitist :)

* The same can be said of product. That is, established a core audience. Establish fit. Evolve from there.
It is a waste of time and a growing place of toxicity a smugness, but it is not very different from the rest of the internet.
Seeing what other people are working on via HN dulls my desire to work on similar things, so it's a nice way to kill ambition and melt into complacency.
I hired two strong engineers directly from contacts made here.

I made one (modestly) successful angel investment from a chain of events inseparably linked to here.

I do value the intangible enjoyment/education from HN much more than the concrete things above, though.

There’s no way the time I spend here is “paid back” just from the concrete RoI items and if you’re trying to build a financial Excel model to decide whether to spend time here, your answer probably rounds to “No”
It's not just about geeky interests. I am not a native English speaker, and I was in the artillery (so I have mild hearing loss). I can follow presentations with good audio quality without effort, but at times this video is damn near incomprehensible to me. At least the subtitles are good.
> Stuff like "how can you carry water without a vessel?" (you freeze it!), which might stump a lot of AI models.

What? Even I couldn't answer that. I thought it was a brainteaser. "Water" in common parlance refers to its liquid form, as opposed to ice or steam.
This is exactly my point, a properly designed molten salt thorium fission reactor is really terrible to build nuclear weapons (no nation would ever do it) and a Fukushima-style meltdown is literally impossible.

The waste from a closed cycle breeder reactor only has to be stored less then 300 years and you can put it back into a mine before that if you want.
Thanks, it's fixed.
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