skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you said, that’s why I think moving away from Silicon Valley and building a network of “normal” people will be my best cure here.

I fully understand the controversy of my earlier message, I grew up poor in a modest European country after all.

But when you live your daily life and nearly all your friends of similar age or younger live in beautiful houses that cost $3M+ and you cannot even host a house gathering because you live in a rented small condo, that slowly affects your perspective.

I fully understand I could buy a Tesla. The difference is that a Tesla would be 5% of my net worth, so a very significant expense that I’m not going to entertain for a luxury and useless purchase.

For most of my peers, it’s 0.5%, so insignificant and more akin to what I would spend for a very nice vacation. Same analogy for an expensive house.
I am not in the US. But your point is actually in support of my last sentence :). Of course, I do agree that there are a bunch of worse work environments.
What a waste of material. They cut them in half, they had four halves, they can make two submarines, not one!
Wasn’t trying to lose weight and my diet remained essentially the same other than modification due to cost (mainly less meat).

I had a fixed grocery budget, and over months, I lost weight due to a caloric deficit. Literally I bought less food with the same money and the result was just over a pound a month lost .
If anyone is looking it improve the quality of their audio for home recordings I put up a 10,000 word blog post + 90 minute video (no ads) on this topic recently at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-record-great-sounding-...

It covers everything from general tips to room layouts to hardware / software suggestions.

It really doesn't take a lot to get pretty decent sounding audio. At minimum a $50-70 USB dynamic mic and following the tips will work well enough as a baseline, along with picking up a decent pair of headphones to make sure you can hear yourself properly.

This is based on having recorded over 400+ screencast videos and 75+ group podcast episodes over the years.
Any advice for someone who wants to learn to use audacity or similar to improve the audio of a recording after it's recorded? I use the Levelator with wine but I'd love to learn how to do some of that stuff myself.
I'm surprised they would be competitors. My (perhaps incorrect) assumption is that Bloomberg would have much more in-depth business coverage.

And that Reuters would have more breadth, but significantly less depth, and competing more generally with AP than Bloomberg.
> How do I know what environment variables of mine may have been available to the actor? Collapse

> You can determine the keys and tokens that are surfaced to your CI environment by running the env command in your CI pipeline. If anything returned from that command is considered private or sensitive, we strongly recommend invalidating the credential and generating a new one. Additionally, we would recommend that you audit the use of these tokens in your system.

Be aware that the output will be sent to your CI output logs. If those logs are public (e.g. a FOSS project) then they will be publicly published and expose all your environment secrets.
> IMHO, the best approach is to avoid anything Oracle touches and stick to OpenJDK. For a lot of corporate environments, that's anathema though.

I thought that was just the obvious path; why would companies not like it?
Google used to have a policy of banning cloaked sites but they also don't want users to search for 'New York Times' and get some result that is not 'The New York Times'.

So that rule seems to go out of the window for this reason?
Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
"I work for Twilio and forwarded it internally."

For the love of christ will you please give us an 'email' verb in twiml ?

Or do you need sendgrid signups for some business metric and, therefore, this dead simple integration has to be avoided ?
Have you ever had a job?

Its quite common for companies to store all of their data in excel files on a share drive with no backups. Why would companies do that when there are so many better ideas?

The letter makes it clear that these contractors have basically no interaction with FB proper, and are treated as disposable. Is that the sort of environment that leads to tools improved in creative ways just to make it less painful to work there?
We do product management at Miro
Dictionaries are not end all authoritative sources. They often do not keep up with slang. As a native English speaker I can say that "pimp" has both that usage and the usage coined from "pimp my ride". I don't have hard numbers on that usage of pimp, but I believe that it's entered the public lexicon at least for my generation. I don't think anyone my age would be confused by that usage.

You are technically correct, and also wrong at the same time by insisting that the way people actually use words in real life is "wrong" because the dictionary says so. If people use "pimp" in that manner, then it is correct.
Did they mention why? Sounds like FUD to me, since the psilos I know of are mostly water, indigestible chitin, and trace amount of kidney-excreted psilocin/psilocybin.
No justification for prohibition, but quite possibly justification for regulation.
> and A.I. is not yet able to do the job.

AI won't be able to do the job until we manage to digitize brains. Stuff like sarcasm, irony, fair use or "dog whistling" (e.g. using "globalists" as a replacement for "jews") is something current AI's can't grasp at all, and even a digitized brain will struggle with these concepts - not to mention the ethical concerns that would come with digitizing a brain. Is it morally acceptable to torture a virtual brain that, in contrast to a human, can't even leave? To reset it to default state when it's too damaged?
Why not take it a step further.

The US govt. telling all of its citizens to 'consume less', aka don't spend as much in the economy, could cause some level of danger to the country. Or more likely, to the elected officials reelection chances.
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> It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls.

1. It is a bunch of extra work and expense for something I probably do not really want to be on. Easy audio communication is bound to induce more audio communication.

2. I have to maintain a bunch of infrastructure for it, manage configuration, and deal with all the wires. It is far from a free and easy improvement.

3. I rarely speak in meetings anyway.
US should impose sanctions on Russia over presidential election irreguties and interference.
Fyi, it was predicted very early on. The first reply to Satoshi’s announcement email to the cypherpunks mailing list criticized the idea as unscalable. Satoshi implemented an early version of payment channels in Bitcoin Core around version 0.1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels

Finally, some $49B was transacted yesterday on Bitcoin. Whether billions is virtually zero is a matter of interpretation.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
Agreed. My experience from watching some...challenging films in small film festivals is that bad picture can be tolerated, while bad audio will utterly ruin a film.
Not if the vaccine isn't safe.

For the record, I'm not coming down on one side or the other of this argument, just pointing out what the calculus they seem to be operating under is.
we just slurp/dump clojure maps to disk. clojure is our query language.
Front line moderators are seen, treated and paid like expendable cannon fodder. No one cares about them, because if they drop out there's a steady stream of replacements for them.

It's similar to Amazon's warehouse pickers, callcenter agents and farm laborers. The less skills your job requires the more abuse employers can get away with.
I cannot stop thinking about flex tape when I read this headline. That's a lot of damage...
I'm curious about how portable your setup is. Currently at home I have a giant dynamic mic (EV RE20) on a boom arm, but that's not going to be something I can use at the actual office when I hop into a little enclosed pod for a Zoom meeting or something. Does your setup work for that kind of thing?
I calculate a 99.99% chance you have never tried any such substance and therefore know not what you're talking about. The "long term personality changes" are for the vast majority transformational in a positive way, as in doing away with pathological stuff forever.

I encourage you to take a moment to get acquainted with what is being done clinically ( which to be honest is not what I was referring to ) ;

Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y

Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins.

I could accept your statement with "afraid" switched for "prudent" but even then, it turns out Psilocybin is your friend.
In some newer systems (the Nintendo Switch) there are hardware fuses they blow with each update. Their software won't work if the appropriate fuse is already blown.
You can do it now:

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps3/syste...
I don't think it's a "problem" with mypy, I just think it's likely the cause of a lot of the programs that the authors think don't type check.

Though I will say, while most have been fixable in a few minutes, some have been a real chore to fix. Sometimes an innocuous looking error balloons into several hours of reconciling obscure type system behavior errors once you start fixing it. Regardless, it's a small price to pay for proper type checking in Python. I've more than made up the lost time in detecting bugs before they ship.
They should charge for today's news, but give free access to older news (olds?) to facilitate research.
It also presents a problem for the news companies, as it makes it even harder to inform viewers of things that the viewers don’t want to know / believe.
FT is even worse; $50-$100 per month for individual subscribers, depending on which package you have and whether you catch a promotion.

I agree with the other poster who suggested Reuters is targeting pros with this pricing.
>I have no evidence to back this up, but I strongly believe that video quality would have similar effects

Any dating website will have this as basic advice. Thats evidence enough for me. Higher quality images are associate with better looking people -- however this is counter intutive, you would think that a lower quality image would leave more to the imagination.
If they are cloaking, can we get around the paywall by using the Google crawler user agent string?
> Do we just sit back and say "let's stop subjecting those poor officers from having to see evil things"? Of course not. We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty. Not everyone who sees this stuff is scarred for life.

I happen to know cops. The suicide and dropout rate for those in IT evidence and sexual crimes departments is enormous.
Thompson Reuters business model at least used to be similar to Bloomberg’s: create first to market reporting and use that data as Alpha to sell financial services.

While moving to monetize the news side certainly doesn’t preclude this, I wonder if it will produce more friction than value?
That wouldn't necessarily be true though - some people could not afford to go through the work involved in upgrading from Java 8
Use background replacement. Most videoconf software like Zoom have them.
Yes, Schmidhuber could present things in a better way and be more charitable. But do not overlook his work -- he has genuinely groundbreaking contributions to early theory of intelligence.

I recommend having a stroll through his website, for anyone interested in AI (or even art, creativity, etc.):

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/

Special Notes:

Godel Machine : While clearly absolutely impractical, this is a nice theoretical construction on what we could mean by "self-improvement" in a real, definite way.

Speed Priors

Super Omegas (and various thoughts on algorithmic information)

Always keep in mind a grain of salt when reading his results, but they are genuinely great.

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I think establishing causation and giving credit does have a role in research, namely giving additional opportunity to those researchers to do even better research, elucidating the history of science, and to an extent giving a monetary incentive and morale recognition for researchers w.r.t. prizes, grants, etc.

For example isn't the story of Einstein, or von Neuman, or Feynman, etc. part of a narrative that makes science compelling? They had very interesting and lively lives and opinions that sometimes drove their research tastes. There is value in preserving individual history (as well as disregarding it when not particularly relevant).

That said, a scientists (or a good citizen in general) should not be driven primarily by ego, and in science this becomes clearly bad, impeding open collaboration, exchange of ideas that are essential for good functioning and good progress of science; I'd say Schmidhuber does let that through sometimes, to the detriment of his work.
You're going to have a really really tough time riding Microsoft from government, considering it really is the number 1 enterprise software solution stack, and nothing even comes close to what Microsoft does in enterprise environments. I get that the hackernews crowd is very linux-biased because most of the web-software development world is based around linux. It's easy to think that linux is everything when it's really not.
You can't equate WSJ/NYT with Reuters or AP.

They serve completely different purposes. The "biases" of them is hardly relevant unless you are routinely taking their opinion sections as fact.
Ants shrink brains for motherhood but can enlarge them when egg-laying ends
Afraid? Pretty much everything we do affects us. I’d say choice of jobs and schools has had a giant effect on me, much of it not what I would choose.

Make a careful, informed decision. But there is no need to be ‘afraid’.
We as humans communicate in many levels beyond speaking. So for me it's natural to think we can communicate in some way with animals and even with plants. I personally believe emotions can be transmitted, they don't "stay inside". I believe in the hive mind theory so to speak. We're all connected, humans, animals, plants etc.
Sure, the article is about PS3 and PS4, but this scope really covers all digital "assets" that you "buy" (for various definitions of buy).

The more we see, purchases involving proprietary software/firmware are increasingly turning from actual purchases to horrific rental agreements. And those rentals aren't stated in clear language - you find out when you try to exert your rights... and you cannot. And many of these times, has arbitrary and pointless (for the human) internet "requirements" solely for the purpose of locking people they don't want out, and by tying people in a terrible forced ecosystem.

Until we have a buyer's rights of ownership with regards to embedded software, I cannot willingly purchase anything that requires forced internet, administered by myself, and/or completely software reloadable by myself or someone I hire.

And because of the extreme inherent controls that manufacturers try to retain control, that's why I recommend piracy. Piracy is the only real way to retain your money and retain control, cause I'm sure as hell not going to spend money on stuff that can be simply YOINKED away at their whim.
I forgot about that, I'm not such a fan of that one.
Looks like one of them wasn't deemed seaworthy.

> Luckily for the French navy, one of the Perle’s sister boats, the Saphir, which was retired from service in 2019, was awaiting dismantling at a shipyard in the northwestern port of Cherbourg.
> Governments have millions of extremely well organized heavily armed people who can kill you if you don't accept the medium of exchange they're proposing.

Which medium of exchange are those extremely organized and heavily armed people compensated with?

When societal shifts happen they happen at a similar rate across every profession or job.

TikTok was just as big among military members compared to people of similar age demographic.
Possibly give them something to take away and Google in order to satisfy their latent curiosity -- enumerating the tools, IDEs and toolkits (eg boost, spring) used on a daily basis.
The hassle factor is way too high and it doesn't work easily for live streaming from a phone.
I often have ideas while walking and I always thought this kind of device would be good for jotting down thoughts while taking a walk... I could always use a phone with some dictation note-taking software, but I think a small chorded keyboard device that records everything, has a great battery life, and can sync via bluetooth or wifi would be very nice.
Zoom is quite good in virtual backgrounds even with no green screen (on Win and Mac. Linux is worse)
Sure I do. I'm from picturesque, rural Montana. My first visit to LA in the 90s was quite shocking. But a war zone implies a level of lawlessness that doesn't apply. Most of what is going on, people using drugs, using the bathroom on the street, etc, it isn't good but it doesn't really affect you. In a war zone, you have high odds of being maimed or killed any second for no good reason. It's a poor analogy. I think the homelessness is a problem we need to desperately to address but this kind of militant rhetoric doesn't help at all. In fact for several decades here it has made things worse.
They were similarly pushy about Manifest V3, AMP, etc. I suppose anything they can do that creates more of a gap between their tracking abilities and other people's is a really core way to boost revenue. Shareholders really want to hang onto the history of strong double-digit percentage YoY gains.
And I've never said anything about self hosting email.

I was talking about client projects. Hosting email isn't a client project and is something I wouldn't selfhost either.

When I mean creating projects in the cloud, I'm talking about using the big 3 Google, Microsoft and Amazon cloud. I even explicitly mentioned azure...

Netlify is build on top of AWS and for them, it's useful for actual scaling on the "edge". But most sites on netlify don't need their edge capabilities.

And cloudflare is one self hosting it on more edge locations ( i think they could even join the big 3 soon)

And still, some customers had issues 21 days ago with netlify DNS. So those clients spend time on that too and didn't knew what was happening at first

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581027

Additionally, here are some edge cases you can run into for DNS:

https://answers.netlify.com/t/support-guide-dns-quick-start-...

But i guess those issues don't count as "maintenance/work" :)
I absolutely lost it when I saw the picture of the finished product with the caption: 'How to get shot in the airport'

very entertaining read, and really cool!
> the whole premise of Singer is that we can't change things through the political process so instead we should use "effective altruism".

(I'm assuming "I disagree" was meant to be a separate sentence)

I think Singer would say that it's often but not always hard to change things through the political process. But he hardly shuns politics entirely; he often speaks and writes about political issues, and he ran for Australian Senate in 1996.

But anyways Singer's beliefs about the effectiveness of political causes isn't the central point of Singer's EA advocacy, it's just one piece of his beliefs.
It's more like Apple loves to push their own standard on products and then hide them behind NDAs

The amount of hoops you had to jump through to make a MFi bluetooth device was insane.
Raising the price almost never hurts.
They should consider https://www.digitimes.com/index.asp 's model:

The news articles are free for a few days. After that, access to older articles require premium subscription. This generates eyeballs and ads revenue for the site especially for hot news.

They also generate the premium quarterly industrial reports which are very informative and marketing, product folks of certain industrial love to pay for them.
I had the distinct pleasure to make a trip with late Nobel laureate Jack Steinberger to CERN. And while he was certainly deserving all the recognition he got, he himself mentioned that giving prizes like the Nobel to individuals (and I would presume Turing is similar) becomes increasingly outdated. When Nobel conceived the prize, it was still a common thing for individual researchers to make big advances more or less in isolation. That is just not the case anymore in almost any scientific field (math might be an exception, idk). Prizes should go to research groups because most fields of science have become so complex that its very hard to get anything done as an individual researcher. The nobel peace price is regularly awarded to institutions, so it is not inconceivable.
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The ecological disaster that is Bitcoin
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Fireblocks (massive institutional settlement platform for crypto-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions (like bank-size transactions) is on openethereum too -- all the settlements are completely backed up right now and tether is going really bid
Let's be honest, most of the HN crowd probably has a paywall blocker extension. That, or they just turn their cookies off and the website can't keep track of how many articles they have left. Not so lucky people can probably do the same.

In my mind, a subscription model for these websites is essentially a donation model.
I've been using SQLite in a desktop product for around 10 years, and I guess there are around 1-2k deployments of it.

Therr have been a couple (literally) of occasions where customers have contacted me and it turned out their database was corrupt, though I don't know the circumstances under which it occurred. Presumably there are instances where it wasn't reported to me too.
Space Junk has been an issue for "rocket scientists" since the 1980s. The consensus even back than was that it's really not doable simply due to physics and the volume of "space" in orbit. The only viable strategy identified was to design launched objects to re-enter and burn up. But that was only started with DOD and NASA - nothing could be assured that the USSR/Russia or China would ever do the same. And the military always kept the option to put national defense ahead of this as well.

I always look in articles about space junk for any inkling of addressing the fundamental physics issues we identified back in the 1980s and I've yet to ever see those mentioned. It's always some shallowly thought-out, gee-whiz ideas by someone who's never actually worked in the field. Elon Musk-style.
Open Jdk tends to create random and strange issues.

At that point you might as well pitch migrating the tech stack to .net
No. There is a distinct Opinion Section with it's own editorial oversight.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion

Just like every other high quality news source.