skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, a million times this! The app stores made the most sensible model extremely cumberstone! I want to buy a software and own it forever. On the other hand, forcing the developer to provide upgrades for free forever is not sustainable.

Maybe there is a clever way to work around this issue using in app purchases ...
This seems unnecessarily dismissive of audio content. Some people prefer audio content to reading. And with audio you can do passive consumption while doing something else.

> An automated text to speech translation is the worst of both.

I think you're underestimating how much better we're getting at making automated voices sound human. This site is way better than the average text to speech, and technology is only going to get better at it.
You could live on cruise ships 11 months out of the year...
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No we can't as the budget is not endless. So you invest in what makes the most sense and that's not nuclear.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nucle...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22146...
hi brian.

will labelbox offer something around image matting?

we need a more precise GT for our datasets.

image segmentation would help, but we would love to automate/outsource the whole image matting process.

thanks.
Powerful as your story is, it is only anecdotal evidence, not empirical.
I don’t know how they did it, but a doctor surgery near me (UK) had a large number of negative reviews up for several years. About one week ago, I looked and they now have one single 5 star review. So, anecdotally, there is at least some way to get the reviews removed.
Thanks for asking:

1. Exponential backoff. We don't notify clients, but we notify you with a webhook. We actually don't have it implemented yet, but will have in the next week or two.

2. Yes, and libraries for some languages (more coming) to easily verify it. See the docs for how it works, but standard stuff. We also plan on offering end-to-end encryption in the very near future so that we can't even access your payloads.

3. No, and no plans for supporting it for now. Does anyone do it? I think sending all of them is actually a feature.

4. Could you elaborate? You mean changing the webhook content in each attempt? No plan at the moment. Similar to the previous point. We consider webhook payloads as immutable messages.

5. You can either use our API to add them, or redirect users to a management UI we built with a one-time password. We will also offer JS libraries to make it easy to build your own UI.

6. I answered it a few times in this thread. Here's my original sloppy comment (with a link to a comment with more context): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26400510
My understanding is that IQ is distributed such that men are slightly lower on average than women, but more spread out.

If this is true, then it would follow that there would be more genius men than women, which would explain what you mention.
Well it makes it pretty easy to remember. Never heard of anyone complaining about their birthday being known, so it seems to work pretty well.
Don't disadvantage young men for the troubles older generations have caused. They did not want to be the scapegoat of women of older generations being held back by society in any form.

Frankly, all the quotas and other artificial constructions to help women should already tip people off that disadvantaging young men further will only cause more and more resentment.
Only if by "work involved" you mean burning lots of electricity with expensive GPUs/ASICs.
There's no way to save the fundamentally terrible design of guessing random numbers to verify a ledger. These are "solutions" to problems that are self created.
Of course, but that's the whole problem we should be addressing. We need to stop thinking about prison being the adult version of sitting in time-out and start thinking about it in terms of rehabilitation so that released prisoners can better reintegrate.
People on a commitee have free access to the final versions of anything that might be helpful to develop future standards.

I'm guessing from your username which standards you are interested in.
When your client base is comprised of child traffickers, cocaine smugglers and murderers. A company that prides itself on hiding nefarious figures with little to no legitimate clients will surely find itself at the end of a LEO hack.
> I won’t name any specific companies here, but tech giants (many with good intentions and with marching orders to boost their diversity numbers) often do a considerable amount of outreach and pre-interview engagement with candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. This outreach is usually an info session where one engineer speaks to a virtual room of candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. The engineer tells them what to expect in technical interviews, encourages them to learn how to articulate their thought process out loud while solving a problem, and recommends resources like Cracking the Coding Interview. Some companies even go so far as to offer their underrepresented candidates a mock interview or two. [...] Unfortunately, for candidates who are unfamiliar with the process, neither of these interventions is nearly enough.

At some point how much hand-holding is enough?

They pretty much told candidates where to get sample problems, gave a session showing what the interview is like, did one mock interview... Pretty much all what prospective applicants have to do is pair up and do a few more practice rounds.

How is it the evil tech company's fault? They gave them the toolbox with all the tools in it and instruction on what to do. And the material to practice building whatever they said they will test them on.
physical-economy interpretation: the teachers and children are lucky enough to live in a rich society where only a fraction of the population are required to do productive work such as growing food, distributing clean water, building and maintain housing and providing healthcare services. the teachers and children are freed from the burden of contributing productive work that benefits society and can instead engage in complex art / ritual / prayer activities involving plastic bricks, dice and sudoku.
Like environmental hormone response?
Jean-Marc Jancovici is a French engineer/entrepreneur who study energy and climate change for about 30 years.
There is a single talk I know he gave in China that is in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRC5-hAbUGA
Unfortunately most other talks are in French(auto subtitles maybe).
His style is a little arrogant and may hit a nerve. But past this, all he says is backed by research and physics.

He says renewable can't provide the level of energy we have without decreasing drastically our consumption.
And nuclear fission is the only path we have to reduce our CO2 emissions.

I would love renewable or fusion to cover all our needs, and keep my comfortable life as it is today.
But I didn't find any inspiring talks or readings so far to balance his arguments.
https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
I know this is controversial around here, but I think technical interviews are a fine tool when done well. I interviewed for triplebyte for a year (interviewing about 400 candidates). The triplebyte interview has a series of different parts assessing different skills (live coding, knowledge, debugging, etc). There’s plenty of room for candidates to be weak in some sections of the test but still pass with flying colours.

We had a hypothesis internally that some parts of the interview were redundant. The interview was certainly tweaked over time, but the data science team found otherwise. All scores are positively correlated. And removing any major part of our interview would have made the interview worse. Given all my experience with it, I believe the triplebyte interview to be a fair assessment of candidates, and respectful to everyone involved. (Though I’d be very interested to know how much 5+ practice interviews would move the needle on scores, as this article claims.)

The hardest part of my job was nervous candidates. Stress is designed to help us survive running away from a lion. When we get stressed, we shut down our ability for creative thought and our memory gets weaker - which is literally the opposite of what you want in a job interview. Most of my energy as an interviewer went into helping candidates stay calm throughout the process, and I wasn’t always successful.

I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with whiteboard interviews. You’re right - we could probably rearrange the professional world to avoid all stressful assessments but I tend to agree with this article. Just do a bunch of them and you’ll get used to them. Being interviewed is just talking for an hour or two with someone smart about something you care about. Usually you get to talk to someone you would have no access to in your daily life. If you can get past your terror of being judged, they can be a lot of fun.
If the poster works at a big tech company, there’s a reasonable chance they could get fired for bringing up a point like that. That’s the world we live in now.
> Transnistria, Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine.

All these are on the edge of Europe. Europe as a whole, including Western, Central, Northern, and even most of Eastern Europe, has been incredibly peaceful.

> As an Israeli civilian I say: if you hear rockets explode you chose a wrong city to live at.

Ah, so it's perfectly acceptable to you when rockets hit some Israeli cities, where the poorer Israelis live. You are fine with that, because you can afford to live in Tel-Aviv, and you're always happy to virtue-signal at the expense of your fellow citizens who aren't as fortunate as yourself.

Most nations have a strong sense of solidarity among their civilians. No poor Texan looked at 9/11 and said "those rich elites in NYC deserved it!". Neither will liberals in NYC accept it if some poor Texan border town is bombed by a Mexican militia.

Your attitude is morally despicable and simply indefensible.
That is absolutely the right idea, the question is, what boondoggles should we put our money into? If we carefully choose the right boondoggle we might even get something out of it. If you want to go down the path of nuclear power then you must consider a strategy that involves the construction of hundreds of new reactors, preferably continuously so that you don't run into the "build everything, then nothing and once you want to build again everyone has retired" problem.

Keeping nuclear power safe is very easy, you just have to decommission old power plants that aren't up to modern standards. That's all it would have taken to prevent Chernobyl and Fukushima. So why on earth do we build nuclear power plants that are difficult to rebuild? Why did we believe that immature technology is going to be enough for the next 50 years? You need to build more, to replace the crappy old power plants, you need to build more, to expand the fleet, you need to build more, to update previously built plants to a new safety standard, you need to build more, just to maintain a workforce.

It's done all the time with solar power and wind. Build it for 20+ years, if new tech comes out you just replace the old tech once it proves uneconomical.

My personal favorite boondoggles are still housing, internet, electric grid and road maintenance. We really need to put pressure on the job market through fiscal stimulus. That pressure will force companies to wake up and actually do something productive.
Agreed - I think mentions are a very cool in principle, but in practice it seems like blog software that supports them tends to just treat them as comments, which ends up being really irritating. Unfortunately this practice has been sort of solidified by platforms like Tumblr.

I would love to see mentions implemented in the UX as a completely separate concept from comments, where there is independently maybe a "mentioned x times" in the post footer which can be clicked for a list of mentioners. This could be a cool method for "webring-style" discovery of websites on similar topics without cluttering up the comment experience.
> fascists are more welcome here than anti-imperialists

Alas, we're going in circles now. That's certainly not true and a classic example of overgeneralizing from skewed data.

Can you really not understand why we'd moderate a comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368582 without appealing to ideology? It plainly violated the site guidelines, and the account had been breaking them aggressively (and surely on purpose) even after repeated requests to stop.

That's bog-standard moderation based simply on trying to keep the forum alive for interesting conversation, as opposed to flamewar and scorched earth. Interesting HN conversations can and do contain interesting comments with anti-imperialist ideas...but this case was obviously not that.
Thanks for the example there. I should have clarified better I meant more like the online equivalent of numbered swiss bank accounts, not a simple visit to the doctor's office or yelling at kids. I think one of the key discussions of this decade will be how much is too much privacy - and how little is too little privacy. We will see products and services triumph and fall based on this discussion.
MaxMind provide both.
this is a good thing
There is http://www.openintents.org/flashlight/

And other apps in the OI family. Not sure whether they've been updated for current Android versions.
If you said of someone, "I wouldn't be surprised if they were a thief," that would rightly be viewed as a pseudo-accusation of thievery or other dishonesty. It doesn't literally mean the same thing as "he is a thief," but saying you believe someone has a decent chance of being a thief is still a type of accusation -- one of dishonesty and distrust. If the belief is unjustified, then I think it's fair to call it an unsubstantiated accusation.

But if that doesn't work for you, pretend I called it an unsubstantiated implication instead. Either way, I think we all understood what the OP meant, and we all understood what I meant in my response. So at least we are communicating.
> Why are unions given any special allowance in law?

Because people got tires of capitalist exploitation enabled by the combination of the balance of wealth in capitalism and the absence of those special allowances.

> I feel like unions are just a separate service company

They aren't, in fact, and your feelings don't change that.

> but with a monopoly granted by the law.

Unions may be granted a monopoly with very tightly defined scope with a prescribed mechanism for removal, but unions exist without such monopolies (unions can be formed and exist before winning a certification election.)

> If people want to "organize", why not form their own service company that contracts out their labor?

That's called a labor cooperative, and it's a completely different thing than a union. Unions exist within labor coops (and many organizations promoting labor coops promote unionization both in general and within coops.)

> Otherwise, the entire notion feels like a serious abridgement on the freedom of those who own the company.

Insofar as the “freedom” of capitalist property rights are—both in practice and, despite some facially class-neutral post-hoc rationalizations, in the original motivation for which they were sought by the mercantile class against the traditional structure of the feudal economy a mechanism by—a mechanism by which a particular narrow class exercise dominant power over the rest of society, that's the whole point of not only legally-empowered unions, and also the rest of the changes since the peak of capitalism in the late 19th Century by which the developed world has abandoned pure capitalism for the modern mixed economy.
Because Microsoft doesn't demand you open source your plugins. GNU software might force you to.

Corporations choosing to not use GPL software mostly don't know enough about it, to know it's ok. So they ban it outright.
None. It's the banking system :)
Neither of those options provide revenue.
And PoW has significant economies of scale. The big Chinese miners have special deals with power companies and ASIC manufacturers. PoS at least gives everyone an even playing field; big or small you get the same percentage return.

(Of course that's pretty much the point of the analogy.)
IEC, ISO and BS standards compilations are are all over the torrent sites.
If you could opt-in to change Amazon and other online retailer's customer aggregated reviews to an authoritative nonpartisan review created by a professional product reviewer, would you do it? Why (not)?
Multiplayer for free. You don't have to run server.

Plus, it is many different games, not just one that is not for everyone. Minecraft was popular, but there were many kids that found it boring.

Yet plus, all kids that I know who play minecraft had it explained by someone. It could be other kid, but basically, game is not self explanatory and is difficult to figure out at first.
I would like to see a comparison between the top 10% vegan and omnivores. Most vegans are clueless when it comes to making up deficiencies in typical vegan diets.

Glycine is one of the relevant aminos that is very suboptimal or even scarce in vegetarian and vegan diets. It is also going to be one of the important (and likely most common) limiting factors in tissue repair.

Proline is also needed for collagen production, but not as deficient in Glycine as far as vegetarian diets. Glycine is also highly water soluble and a small molecule; it is constantly lost in urine. The need for glycine goes way beyond collagen production. It is essential for so many biological functions.

Glycine is not considered an "essential amino" because the body produces glycine itself, hence it is overlooked by many. It turns out the body produces only enough to usually barely scrape by. My guess is if another group of vegans were given Glycine (at around 4 to 5 grams/day) supplementation the disadvantage relative to omnivores would be erased.
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I'm not sure that people were as much aware as we are/could be today tbh. I had a few relatives (now dead) who supported the nazi politics (I'm Swedish) and my understanding is that it was not at all clear until after the war. Perhaps there were rumors, but facts were much more difficult to come by at that time (even though it's sometimes confusing nowadays too).
Interesting - around here they have a code word that can be said to the pharmacist and they will know what to do (call the cops).
Source for the trojan/employee flipping claim?
I think it's probably the unDraw[1] illustrations you're seeing and not the theme itself.

[1] https://undraw.co/illustrations
we must measure edited lines not the difference between
numbers of lines after and numbers of lines before!
It is like if you work in money exchanges: there is
buying and selling.
That only makes it slightly more expensive for the rich people who, instead of fabbing ASICs, have to just buy more GPUs.
Can someone continue the staking analogy? What exactly is being staked? You put a bunch of bricks in the center and randomly choose one, then return the remaining bricks to their owners?
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It depends, economically speaking, renewables are superior. However, you need to convince people who don't believe in climate change and only see the downsides of the new tech that is being pushed.
I'm sorry that I'm not going to respond to outright false claims, such that Israel used "chemical weapons" in Gaza, especially when you are at the same breath apparently defending Syria, which has been proved to use chemical weapons against civilians multiple times.
Dismissing weak arguments is easy. Try imagining what a strong argument for the author's point would look like, and then respond to that.

On the topic of object browsers, I'd argue that "no significant innovation" has been made at the intersection of object browsers and Web browsers since around 2001 when Joe Hewitt checked in the original DOM Inspector for Netscape, aside from possibly the inline display of the results of expressions evaluated in the console. (DOM Inspector didn't have such a console.)

In many ways, browser devtools are worse than the DOM Inspector that was baked into Firefox 1.0. The node tree was fast, and you could open up not just a view for more than one object, but more than one view of a single object, too. Meanwhile, in the tools baked into major browsers, I can't even look at the "Layout" pane and the CSS "Rules" pane at the same time. Want to have the document's DOM tree on the screen while looking at some JSON returned by an AJAX call? Too bad.
Don't think of it as comments on blog posts, think of it as enabling entire conversation threads between websites instead of between twitter accounts.
>Today, nuclear power supplies about 10% of the world’s energy, down from 13% in 2010. Its use might continue to fall, although it will remain a part of the global energy mix for many decades, with a role in decarbonizing energy supplies as the fossil-fuel age comes to a close.

An overly optimistic statement if every I saw one. China is a case in point,they're bringing more and more fossil-fuelled power stations online by the year.

And at that rate, the rest of the world risks being left behind in energy poverty or becoming dependent on China et al for their energy needs.

Wars have been fought over less.
Dams have a life expectancy of 50-100 years. Globally, most dams are past their life expectancy. If they don't abruptly fail, then they eventually silt up and become useless.
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> Proof of stake literally makes rich richer, thats the point of it

That's certainly true with a very simple PoS mechanism. I don't think that type of PoS is used in practice with any major cryptocurrency (please correct me if I'm wrong though).

The one I'm most familiar with (Cardano) uses delegated proof of stake, so users delegate their stake to a stake pool and share in the rewards. The platform supports, encourages, and enables this for users with only very introductory understanding of Cardano.

Stake pools also suffer a penalty when they amass too much stake (their rewards decrease), so decentralization is encouraged and no one would be able to get, say, 50% RoA by owning of 50% of the Cardano currency (ADA)
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I would argue that with old media, the license was explicitly and permanently baked into your purchase price - after all, you owned the physical medium. You could access it any time you wanted to, without asking permission every time.

I think moving away from this model sucks. We used to purchase the license; now we're renting it. In my above comment, the music didn't belong to me, but the license did.
It’s like something between Twitter reply and quoted RT, which both shows up for your own followers and notifies the OP you said something about their topic. Before big social networks were popular, this was a very good way to make new friends on the internet.
We already have substantial investment in nuclear if we want or not. We still have to throw money at this radioactive pile of waste for decades and you still have to get rid of the old reactors which are still there.

Renewables are getting better and cheaper fast and if you have you're not convinced by that, I see no reasonable argument for nuclear.
Not exactly the same, but I've been using https://f5bot.com/ for a while now. Sends me a notification any time specified keywords are found on Reddit, HN, etc. Great service with no fees.
Way too centralized (Centranet?), but it is very nice for now. It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.