skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't agree with the author: technology such as A.I. as a means for exerting illiberal control on citizens is not inherently a feature of capitalism.

I think you're technically correct here, but, it is a feature of capitalism that only a small number of wealthy elites control this technology, especially given the incredibly large costs involved in training and maintaining AI models.

So we're largely at the mercy of these people and the corporations they control on whether they choose to implement it in an illiberal manner. That is, we're essentially relying on our technological overlords being of the 'benevolent dictator' type, regardless of profit incentives presented to them.

Personally, I don't have much hope in this regard, given what we've seen already.
> Some people simply live in underdeveloped countries where their talents can't shine and they have no way to get an interview at FAANG

Some other people would consider morally reprehensible to be accomplices of FAANG. I wouldn't work for them even if I could. It would be like working for Fox News.
The solution you suggest is irrelevant to the issue mentioned in the article. Even if you use np.random.RandomState, or any other "explicit RNG state", that state will still be copied in the fork() call.

The post just stresses that one should be careful when using random states and multiprocessing, so you should either reseed after forking or using multiprocess/multithread-aware RNG API.
Customer Development: Talking to 500 customers in 4 weeks
I guess for privacy related issues.
If I were collecting a large amount of data, I would most likely store it in a database.
Which one are you referring to? The recent millions of contacts that were exposed from FB contained phone numbers. It had my phone number and it's not public.
I can tell you it is a bit different. The visa is hard to obtain unfortunately, otherwise I think a lot more engineers would move, me included.

The only real options are:

- L-1 visa: Get into FAANG in Europe and try to transfer to the US. Lots of unknowns if you really get transferred and so on. L-1 to green card seems to be possible, best possibility for Europeans though
- H-1B visa: Applying from abroad: Nearly no chance, sorry. You will have to schedule your applications to the end of the year to get into the lottery in March or so, and then it is pure luck. 30% chance from what I have heard + you have to rock the interviews hard and the company must be super-willing to wait for you
- Study in the US. Do a masters degree there and be on Optional practical training (OPT) for up to a year/two years after graduation and hope your H-1B visa goes through in the meantime

All these paths have kind of unknowns unfortunately and the path to permanent residency is even more strict. Or you just marry someone from the US.
Is this really true? In my (limited) experience, the best coders are the ones who understand the technology, understand the hardware, and understand good program structure. "Communication" and "teamwork" are totally unimportant and they're usually organic side effects of understanding the domain. I've done open-source stuff with a total asshole and it wasn't pleasant but the end product was good because he was good, and I learned way faster than with most people.

But I've not been exposed to that kind of corporate environment. Is it really that important? It reeks of corporate buzzwords to me.
I had a similar thought when reading the article.

As an example individual or smaller investors simply cannot create lower risk options like an index fund by themselves. We don't have the ability to index specific markets and apply a personal weighting.
The broad options are: low risk index funds from a broker, medium risk managed funds or high risk individual investments. Most individuals cannot tolerate the risks so have no option but to choose from a list of index funds.
I'm in the UK and it's in the settings with a (beta) label.

I had zero idea it was released
I read it as then saying they just got them to spend even more time in bed, despite the problem being they already have a lot of non-sleep time in bed. So it just reduced their time available to do other stuff. Am I misunderstanding?
The US is seen as a bit of a backwards country; poor medical, technologically poor (banking, internet), little paid time off/vacation, no free/cheap higher education, rampant gun violence/domestic terror - on top of that you risk loosing some pension and health benefits in your "home" country if you stay abroad for years.

Note that the point with a solid/free education system isn't that kids of rich SEs get free college - it's that society as a whole gets better education - and your kid's friends also have a future/access to education.
There is no pension. There is 401k.
WTF Is Policy as Code?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
And libertarians say that what we have now isn't real capitalism because of social programs, taxes or because society isn't organized around NAP or whatever. Who am I supposed to believe here?

In my opinion it seems just like when some people are quick to call everything communism, but get defensive when you make the slightest critique of capitalism. Just in the opposite direction. I wouldn't even care what terms are we using to describe what, if it wasn't that we're generally operating on this false dichotomy of capitalism vs communism, with nothing in between.
> No group is truly homogeneous. We're talking about racial homogeneity.

So you do agree that saying that a country is "homogeneous" just because it is racially homogeneous does not make sense?
"I downloaded over a hundred thousand repositories from GitHub that import PyTorch... Out of these, over 95% of the repositories are plagued by this problem."

Title seems pretty accurate to me!
I don't remember him describing 'the commune' in the Communist Manifesto at all, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Overall Marx wrote very little about what he expected a communist society would look like, and almost none of it is in the Communist Manifesto, which is much more focused on immediate political goals and relations to long extinct other political movements.

How you have gotten the notion that Marx supported the continuing existence of a state, or a strong state of any form, I'm also unsure of, as he firmly argued the state becomes superfluous in a classless society, and otherwise regularly argued against a centralized state even in the shorter term.

E.g. in his works on the Paris Commune he criticized the communards for not going further in destroying the state, and expressed support for the proposed loose federation of communes in its stead.

And in Critique of the Gotha Programme, he skewered the forerunner of Germany's SPD for proposing state run public education, and pointed to the model then employed (1872) in the US as a preferable model to giving the state control over education.

(He also argued for an armed working class for it to protect itself against oppression - in many ways he was more closely aligned with US politics than with the various 'socialist' states)
I don't know what it's like in other countries, but here in Belgium, if you want compensation that is anywhere near FAANG levels, you have to go the freelance route and charge high day rates. Then we'd have to be talking rates of 1000eur/day or more, which is extremely rare. And if you didn't incorporate, you'll be taking home less than 500eur/day. Which is still three times more than what the average SE employee gets to take home. But it's a far cry from US FAANG levels.
So it was a coincidence that it happened right after a lot of people died.
sorry, I don't get it

you buy phone credit and that phone credit it's money

you don't need crypto for that

mobile payments have been a thing in Africa since the 2000s

a digital currency doesn't have to be crypto to work

I would say that it works better if it isn't
They are probably stealing users from photopea instead
I'd bet that there are more people who knows and if you follow the law of supply and demand I think you can figure out the rest.

What is python qt support like for android and so forth by the way?
Samsung iTest – Compare Apples with Androids
This assumes that most of the content would require much funding to operate.

Could we make it cheap enough to host a personal blog and/or wiki on a smartphone for, say, $10 a year?

The economics would be very different as sites scale up their traffic (compare with, for example, The New York Times).

I think the (relatively) small number of high-traffic sites would be able to find revenue streams to support their hosting - perhaps those would be where subscriptions would be effective.
The Logistics of Donald Trump’s Campaign Scam: A Common Telemarketing Cash Grab
Vagrant works great on Macs with M1, the issue is finding a compatible 'provider' (VirtualBox, VMWare etc).

For my personal projects I've been able to switch from using VirtualBox to Docker as a Vagrant provider, and it works well enough for what I need it to do.

I created a cookiecutter template for Django projects at https://github.com/tmiller02/cookiecutter-django-react-ansib... that I use for development on my M1 mac using Vagrant + Docker.
Wow, 2 weeks of water is about 20 liters per person! That's a lot of water to have sitting around. Two weeks of food is kind of easy if you shop at Costco :)
Exactly, those that are interested in the performance of a specific company will invest and effectively have the same proportion of power as if the passive investors didn't exist.
But we really don't have an evidence that vaccine-induced immunity response prevents virus transmission. And we do have evidence that people recovered from COVID-19 months ago can bear high viral load in their respiratory system: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249642v...
He is also building an asset which he can sell.
The article raises valid points and has succeeded to make me dislike the idea much less than several days ago.

If Signal could offer a plugin and take a cut of all payments (whatever the currency) made in the app, that would be better. To support just one cryptocurrency decided is suboptimal.
Construction of sites for Yajna[0] and specifically, the Yajna Vedi[1] where the central fire was located, required precision and mathematical calculations[2]. Based on the origins of Hinduism/Buddhism, I'll not be surprised if instruments of calculation were common in religious affairs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajna

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedi_(altar)

[2]: http://ijyr.dsvv.ac.in/index.php/ijyr/article/view/50/101
Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M scraped user records leaked online
Yes. Ireland seems to be pretty much basing its entire economy, at the moment, on attracting huge American megacorps to set up shop in Dublin. Rather than actually investing in producing anything themselves.

It's a recipe for disaster. As will become apparent when some other equally strategically placed jurisdiction starts offering even more enticing tax-breaks and the megacorps up sticks and decamp there instead. Then the whole house of cards [and with it most of the Irish economy] will come tumbling down.

What a pathetic pathetic country!

[and I say that as a terminally embarrassed Irishman]
One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb: A Retrospective
Sorry, I misread you comment!

It seems like if this case succeeds then it would have big effects in other industries. Supermarkets are famous for legally "abusing" their market positions and data...
I grew up in rural Canada, and we had busses. Some kids came in from 60+ miles away. I recall quite a bit about school, and yet no one really complained about getting up at 5 to 6am.

Of course, most kids lived on farms, some even had chores before going to school, and early to bed, early to rise was normal.

We had a few antenna TV stations, no cable, VCRs weren't around for the average family, and of course no Internet.

We also didn't have city street lights / ambient light, street noise, the sound of neighbours.

People have gotten up early to do farm work for aeons, and go to sleep early too. In fact, to be more precise, staying up past 8 or 9pm is an urban / modern aberration.

Point is, staying up late is the problem. Nothing more.

Now of course, society has changed, so maybe change is needed. However, there is also a lot of counter literature on even TV as a sleep depriver. And now we have phone in bed, with a glowing screen, keeping a mind active.

My point? OK, change the time. However, will kids just stay up even later?

Or, as they do now, will they think "I should go to sleep now, or I will be tired tomorrow, but just one more text..."?
Hi guys, I am Ivan, the creator of Photopea :)

I made almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads. The rest is from Premium (users paying to hide ads) and licensing a self-hosted version of Photopea.

When you start your own project, you never know, if it will ever make $250k a year. But if you get hired, you can be quite sure, that you will never make more than $250k a year.

Follow Photopea to see my progress :) http://facebook.com/photopea , http://twitter.com/photopeacom
> increased nighttime sleep... led to small decreases in labor supply.

This indicates to me that they found something better to do, than this study.
This site is amazing. I love it. As a side project, while teaching my kids, I have been building a site for using python for maths for the same target audience (10 - 16 year olds). I plan on continuing to add to it as I give 1-to-1 support to my kids.

Having started on the project for about a month now, I have an appreciation for the amount of care that has gone into that the mathigon site.

Kudos to them for providing such a high quality free resource for building passion and education in maths.

In relation to people commenting that some names are missing and some are not specifically mathematicians etc. It doesn't matter - the project is ongoing, the learning resources have plenty that are still in construction - and any name mentioned sits somewhere in the realm of math interest.

It is a great site. Very polished.
good luck with that when was the last time something changed on HN? My belief which is nothing but an educated guess is that the latest addition was the anti-procrastinate switch.
> Kwon's family say he was the victim of a "ghost doctor," the name given to someone who performs a surgery another surgeon was hired for when the patient is under general anesthetic.

Sounds similar to what happens in the US: patients go to see a medical doctor (ie, someone who graduated from med school), but are instead seen by an "advanced practice" nurse with a "doctorate" of nursing practice who shows up in a white coat and doesn't properly introduce themself as a nurse practitioner.

Many nurse practitioner schools can be completed in 2 years or less following nursing school. They require 500 hours of clinical training, with an average of 650 hours. That's less than the 800 hours of training that dog groomers at Petsmart receive. It's also far, far less than the 1000s of hours of training that medical doctors receive.

It's a complete bait and switch, and it's one of the MANY issues plaguing healthcare in America.
Foxconn founder invests in biotech firm
Stylebot [or similar]:

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A lot of people talking about the revenue (no issue with that).

I wonder about the implementation. How is this done? Feels performant from my limited testing. I see that it uses WebGL but would love to know more details.
I finally managed to move a big chunk of my friends over to Signal after almost a year of gentle but steady encouragement.

Now I wish I hadn't bothered. I'm sure I won't be able to get them to move again and I've lost my confidence that any other new solution will be trustworthy. Maybe the devil you know in WhatsApp is better than more nasty surprises like this?
No, I don't. Since we can't take it literally, it's an acceptable abbreviation to "racial homogeneity". And you all obviously knew what it meant, there wasn't any confusion of what was actually being said here.
Unfortunately, it won't be easy to defend lawsuit from adobe. I don't see how it'll survive unless Microsoft or Facebook buy it.
Photopea is super easy to use and I’m using it almost every day, despite having a fully licensed PS 2021 version installed on my iMac.

Photoshop is just way to slow compared to Photopea. So it’s both easier to use and much faster than the original.

Kudos to Ivan for this!
I think we should disable local-storage entirely, all of it. 99% of the websites out there don't need cookies. And for the 1% that do need it, how about we build tech around a central authority issuing "cookie issuing" licenses that the browsers respect. Have it become a process and trust-chain similar to certificates so that we can block/ban root certs that allow tracking en-masse.

But until then, please developers stop putting the damn shopping cart in cookies and local-state, just persist it on your damn DB and only allow me to have a cart after creating an account with you. That is your damn consent for you to track me, not your stupid GDPR popup that you spam me and every other visitor to your site.
I don't know anything about the inner workings of Google. However, if they were all mostly doing that kind of thing, it's probably what was expected and rewarded by whoever they worked for.

If, for example, finishing projects on the original projected timeline is heavily weighted...you get the ruthless scope cutting you mention. Or, if compensation is tied to team size, you get empire building.
Did I say that it wasn't?
It is crazy that people have to resort to such solutions. Why telemetry isn't illegal? If you were going to track someone in real life, you'd end up in jail in no time, but on the internet it is fine?
Worse than that - buy shit they don’t need having been manipulated by big data. Google doesn’t sell clicks it sells expected customer value.
You want to kill cookies but still have accounts? How's that going to work?
I'm not sure you need to memorize the tables to do multiplication in your head.

The 10s are a freebie, and the 2s can be done by most people without much effort, for numbers under 100. 5s are just half of the 10s. 9s are just 10x - 1x. 11s are adorable. I'd wager most people internalize little tricks like these for all the multiples of single digit numbers and the lower double digits. Of course, if you do math in your head all the time, eventually you memorize frequent combinations.

Anybody who can trivially multiply high doubles digits or 3 digit numbers in their head is exceptional.
This argument only seems to hold if everyone was a passive investor. Also not all investors can take the same amount of risk, which naturally results in passive investors.
You might be right. The essense is technology misuse. That's for sure.

However, I'm wondering whether some systems come with authoritarianism bundled, so the use of technology in that way is somewhat expected. I'm not so sure about it though, since I'm not that knowledgeable about politics & systems in that breadth.

At the end of the day, my comment was only to counter my parent comment, which is now edited and clarified.
Depends where you are. In the UK and much of the EU it’s a pension, as far as I know.

Either way, isn’t this mostly semantics? My point is that one persons priorities doesn’t necessarily match with another’s.
I gave a talk about it two years ago :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmaeC_Ma5A
French here. No way I would leave a society who achieve 35 workweek, minimum wage, 25 days payed vacation and free healthcare. As a programmer I could win more in another country, but I dont want this money if people around me cant live a decent life. Even in France it is quite hard. I wont leave for a lesser country like the US. I want my nurse to be able to do a great work and it means having a good life.
Yeah thanks for sharing. Really Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress was just such a step forward for small companies that needed websites. Before this they would've been locked in to one smallish sized companies solution and either get stuck with them or having to pay a relatively huge sum to get locked into some other companies solution.
I'm not really sure what you mean by the comparison to Somalia?

Seems like a very different situation, as Somalia is still recovering from civil war and genocide, and due to this, much of the economic support for its people is being provided by Somali diaspora around the world who send funds back home. Productivity potentially being squandered is the least of their problems really.
Exactly, we all knew what it meant, that's why I said it's racist. Thinking that people of the same race will vote the same policies in different countries, or that the only division that makes implementing policies harder is the one of race, or that race must be a dividing block, is just a racist way of thinking.
Can digital currencies and crypto investors close India’s SME financing gap?
Unless the penalities are prohibitively expensive, proportional to the capacity (the more fish the ship can catch, the higher the penalty) and extreme (confiscation and destruction in case of N no. of repeat offences), unscrupulous operators will continue to use such ships.
That, plus the fact that building your own shit, being your own boss, and making your own mark on the world is probably a lot cooler and more satisfying to most of us here than helping sell more ads or get people to watch even more TV.
How did the author know the words used in pokemon and big data are quite similar?
If for only that they are using past data, nothing to worry about, with their power they could simply earn more from just investing.
Haha whoa, I didn’t realise at one point EVE Online released an update that deleted the Boot.ini file. (Below the Iceberg)

[0]: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/about-the-boot.ini-issue
Does FAANG let you delegate your time to other people. E.g. if I don’t feel like coding today I can just hire someone to do it for me and collect my FAANG salary? Can I sell my job for a million when I’m fed up of it? No?

Ok then running photopea is not comparable to a FAANG 9-5
The majority of comments seem to have the belief that the need for 8 hours of sleep is truth, and seem to mostly be making up various excuses why the increase in sleep here doesn't show results.

As far as I can tell, the 8 hours figure is on pretty shaky grounds and most believe it due to pop-science books like 'Why we sleep' and it could easily be the case that this is just another study showing how exaggerated that claim is.
Is now.
Why won't she use it...you never stated why! We need to understand what our users really want!
Even if you could tell a big winner in advance, the time volatility in return is still a risk factor.
Show HN: React Gradient Text
I try to leave a well-defined little task for myself at the end of a work session which will be straightforward to pick up from the next day.

Usually if I just do a little bit of anything at all to bring my project forward, the momentum will carry me.
Active data yes, archived data goes into the warehouse.
You can get the high salary in Zurich, although if you're already in Zurich you'd be better off working in finance. Source: my colleague who moved to Google Zurich and then switched jobs to finance.
I keep hearing how App store is stringent on rules. There are plenty of terrible apps either don't do they advertise or totally trying to scam users. I have reported to Apple before, and they just say you can uninstall them and get a refund but they won't do anything about them.
And if you think about if all applications where using files for communication blocking one program from the internet would be as simple as a chmod.
2021 the year of leaks ..
Compared to the best mids of previous generations making things that would blast civilization back to stone age in matter of minutes, I'd say this is progress :-)