skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To all the folks who would do it "for the exposure": my partner volunteered as a graphic designer for a well-known European charity event that featured a former US president, known music groups and fashion designers as pro bono acts and had a live TV broadcast.

She really liked to volunteer and we received free tickets for said event and definitely enjoyed it.

She added the project to her CV, but unfortunately it had zero impact on her career - no paid project was ever generated out of it.

She learned about the why in several job interviews:

- the design tasks were "below the line" work, applying an already developed corporate design to various event brochures like invitations or menues.

- she wasn't the only volunteer for this event. Every year it recruited dozens of musicians, hairdressers, actors, designers to work pro bono for the good cause. The hiring bar wasn't very high - everybody in the "scene" knew this which devaluated the reference.

I do see some parallels to the Netflix show - if they ask photographers to work for free, they will surely ask hairdressers, caterers etc as well. Creative power of those volunteers will likely be 0.
Recent and related:

Lambda: The ultimate Excel worksheet function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923628 - Jan 2021 (4 comments)
Some related threads:

Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900419 - April 2021 (109 comments)

Xkcd: Excel Lambda - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899793 - April 2021 (1 comment)

Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25990978 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

Lambda: The ultimate Excel worksheet function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923628 - Jan 2021 (4 comments)

Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318386 - Dec 2020 (135 comments)

Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312725 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

Microsoft introduces LAMBDA functions for Excel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25295120 - Dec 2020 (7 comments)
Your link makes it clear that fish meal is made from fish bones and entrails that are inedible by humans, not their heads, skins and tails that I'm talking about and which are edible. Plus, it's made from by-catch which is not mant for human consumption anyway:

> Fishmeal is made from the bones and offal left over from fish caught by commercial fisheries. The vast majority of the fish from which fishmeal is manufactured are not used for human consumption; rather, fishmeal is generally manufactured from by-catch.[1][2]
I've been reading "Seeing Like a State", and this reminds me of the sort of legibility problems that States historically had around taxation. The premise of the book is that the State reorganizes society to make it easier to administer often times to the detriment of society itself. For instance, a medieval European kingdom wants to tax grain - there are no markets which determine the price of grain. There is no universal measurement, there is no universal language. Instead, each village has its own tradition founded upon hundreds of years of bitter dispute between the local lord, the peasants, and the local clergy. A peasant is given some number of baskets each year and is told to fill them up. The peasant and the lord don't trust each other. The peasant suspects baskets are bigger this year and the lord suspects the peasant will scheme to avoid filling them. So, everything is codified - the basket is filled from a certain height (eg shoulder) with a grain with a certain amount of wetness to a certain level - either mounded, semi-mounded, potentially leveled off with a specific tool, etc... Any changes to the system stand to create a revolt. Also, no one has a surname, detailed maps for productivity of fields don't really exist, and lets say 90% of males in England have 1 of 6 names. Peasants don't own anything anyway, but they have complex rules around the communal usage of land (even though that's illegal). Kings are forced to rely on the local knowledge of lesser lords as middlemen who can navigate the local systems without causing revolts; they in turn refuse to do anything to fix a system that benefits them greatly.

Anyway, that's about what I see happening if you try to tax carbon. There is no legibility into what causes pollution from the outside - you can't look at the good itself, you must know the history of all inputs down to the raw goods and then some! If you just tax the creation of carbon domestically, you will encourage offshoring everything that necessarily pollutes to places that will pollute way more. If you just tax big players, businesses will split off divisions to be under the limit. If you just tax certain industries, you will send them offshore (apart from air travel). The righter solution would be to implement a carbon VAT, so that you align the incentives of producers and consumers. Now, you are in the business of taxing grain from peasants! How much pollution goes into foreign steel? Who knows? Are their carbon offsets real? Do we just put a tariff on foreign steel which feels sorta right? That will violate trade deals and will doubtlessly punish the honest players the most, once again encouraging more pollution.
I would like to see some statistics on how many interneships are actually unpaid. Does it vary by industry? In the before times, when we worked on campus and had interns, ours were paid the same as full time employees and had paid for housing and benefits.
Since everyone else is being optimistic, I'll jump in as the bitter, cynical, devil's advocate:

- To a first-order of approximation: nowhere. People mention an Amazon (research?) group using TLA+, there's AdaCore with GNAT, INRIA with Frama-C, various dependently-typed language groups, but in practice I have not heard of any extensive use of formal methods.

For example DO-178C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C), "Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification", allows some formal methods in aviation software in addition to (but not replacing) testing. There's even a supplement, DO-333 (https://www.rtca.org/training/do-333-formal-methods-do-178c-...) for it.

- Yes and no. No, in the sense that I was introduced to it as an (early) undergrad and it forms a good chunk of my intuitions and how I think about some problems. On the other hand, I don't believe anyone still does that kind of thing, and formal methods have become a separate, diverging area of study, particularly if you are experienced and looking to add it to what you already know.

- By and large, it's not needed. The current technological culture does not apply any form of pressure to encourage the extra effort needed in general. There is some such pressure in some areas---like the Amazon TLA network protocol stuff (it's really hard to debug your way out of a bad network protocol :-))---but on the leading edge, innovation is preferred to reliability, and on the trailing edge, low price is. (In a sense, it's "move fast, break things" writ large.) Since the consequences of technical failures don't generally end up on the technical community's doorstep and major failures are management problems, the "need" for formal methods is entirely theoretical.

- By and large, no, in the sense that future earnings provide the value of your education. You would be much better rewarded spending the time learning some particular domain or more popular technologies.

Now, as I said, I grew up with formal methods and they are the base of how I think about things. Plus, they're just plain fun. (No, really, Coq (https://coq.inria.fr/) is the best computer game I've ever seen. And Frama-C is just brilliant, if you can get it working and are living within its constraints.) I've spent a lot of time and effort learning formal methods and I wouldn't do anything differently. But then, I have a lower long-term salary history than many of my peers. For what it's worth...
I think the problem is that people like James Damore will say that women aren’t suited for work in tech, and I don’t think that’s correct. And worse, the very idea almost provides support for the abuse women regularly feel working in tech from their male coworkers.

So sure, hormone differences seem to lead to different brain chemistry. But then people draw wild and incorrect conclusions like gate keeping women out of tech. And the fact that their conclusion is wrong is more important than the fact that some differences do exist.

Edit: I worked at Google when the memo came out. Personally I didn’t think the memo was that bad... until I spoke to my female friends that worked at Google. They told me a lot about how women are treated in tech. And they showed me how things said in the memo that I thought were harmless actually perpetuated beliefs that they believed did cause them harm.

So the people saying I am misrepresenting the situation... are you a man? Maybe you can’t recognize the harmful statements the way women do and so you do not remember them being harmful? I certainly got a lesson in my own bias after that memo came out. My close friends sat me down and we had some difficult conversations about it. If you’ve never done that, consider what you might be missing.
>This is a valid concern. In fact, Bitcoin Core is largely run by engineers who work for Blockstream. They took VC investment from PayPal and other companies who demand a return-on-investment. The product they pitched is called Liquid. Liquid itself depends on Bitcoin not processing very many transactions on-chain.

This is the key point that small-blockers kept denying and obfuscating.

> The wild volatility in cryptocurrencies, in large part, is due to the issuance. [...] The volatility makes them useless for denominating business contracts.

Gold is "issued" at a slow and predictable rate just like Bitcoin and was very stable when it was used as currency. The volatility in Bitcoin is because most transactions are speculation instead of real commerce, just like gold is today.
There are no exchange traded options on BRK.A, lending shares to be shorted gives you interest on the total $ value, not the number of shares. Neither of these are the reason for not splitting.
Credit cards can also be a ~1% cash back across the board for the business and tools like Brex, Divvy, Airbase, etc... can provide even more spending visibility + budget tracking.

These tools can also offer virtual cards, auto coding of expenses, and spending caps by card.

ACH is better (lower cost) for the vendor but a proper card-based spend mgmt setup might be better for most buyers.
Cisco RV34X Privilege Escalation (CVE-2021-1520) Root Cause Analysis
There are advantages to text. Some of my favourites:

1. Humans can understand text too!

2. Text can travel over every transport.

3. Text is benign.

4. Large text is large and small text is small, but all objects look the same size.
I think it would be hard to make sense of these results without comparing to trans women. A decrease in depression and an increase in social confidence seems likely to occur in both groups.
Andrew Boni doesn't sound like an East Asian name to many people, though it certainly could be. A quick google search indicates he also looks less East Asian than Justin Zhu.

Edit: Since someone seemed to be irritated with my comment enough to downvote, people just with East Asian names have been known to suddenly face less discrimination once they started using non-East Asian names, or be characterized as non-East Asian after changing their names to something non-Asian.

Some notable biracial (White/East Asian) Hollywood actresses with ambiguous racial characteristics have had to change their East Asian sounding name to a white name to get roles, or non-typecast roles. For example Sandrine Ho (of House of Cards) changed her name to Sandrine Holt and suddenly got more callbacks.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21792079
Pixie lead maintainer here. We’re excited to license Pixie under Apache 2.0 to make it more accessible to people. More about the project and decision can be found in our blog post: https://blog.px.dev/open-source-release/

Happy to answer any questions here!
There's two persistence types: pinned and unpinned files. Pinned files persist, but someone needs to seed them at least occasionally. Unpinned files get eventually garbage collected. If you want to share a file, you don't need to pin it if the recipient for example tells you when the download is complete. In this sense, all these WebRTC examples are more equivalent to unpinned files.
Who is the 'we' in that statement? You think this free market thing means get the government involved to prevent some kind of exploitation?
I think this is why a lot of big, corporate entities stop innovating. Too many processes, red tapism all in the same of security and stability. Most workers are too afraid to try something new because of repercussions. Worked in some, decided life is too short for soul-sucking work and decided to work for smaller companies where I can be creative.
Working for "exposure" sounds really bad in general, but just about everyone in the general getting-married demographic has at least heard of Love is Blind. If I was shopping for a photographer and someone's portfolio included Love is Blind I'd absolutely think they were top talent.
Some calculus is great for understanding concepts like rate of change and how you can measure something that has curves in it. All that being said, the domain of mathematics is so much larger than calculus but all of my high-school math curriculum was geared towards integrals.
"column" here refers to a type of data. let's say you have a bunch of records of purchases. one column would be price, another column would be quantity.

if you're doing a linear algebra like transformation, you want to do it on all the prices or all the quantities, and a linear algebra library expects a big array of numbers, which is why you have to transform your records into an array of prices and an array of quantities.

"column" here refers to properties of objects, and not rows vs columns with in an array of number
Windows Defender bug may fill your hard drive with thousands of files
I think 'cheap' comes from outsourcing. There are so many producers in China that have been only doing outsourced production, but now they want to sell their own products. But for the moment they dont have brands, dont know the market, dont know how to approach customers in the wild. So they produce cheap and hope to at least compete by price in a crowd of anonymous alike companies.
I suspect the closest American mindset is something like “They’re not paying me enough to worry about that” or “that’s outta my pay grade”. When we choose Chinese companies that optimize for price above all else, fixing problems that crop up completely destroys their profit margin, so it’s unsurprising that they often don’t bother.
Not naming the production company doesn't put ANY eyeballs on the folks who did the thing.
What a beautiful easter egg.
> The only way to prevent the extreme outlier men from dominating everything is to prevent winner-takes-all games

Which is why we should focus on infinite wealth creation games, rather than zero-sum status games.

Throwing away equity while chasing equality is a recipe for ushering in the next dark age.
Digital technology has changed the art world in the year of the pandemic
Feels bit overselling as something radically novel, when PowerShell has most of the stuff also even if slightly different form. You have both advanced autocomplete (based on introspection), automatic form building (in ISE), and prompting of missing parameters in PowerShell.

Still, this replit "clui" might be pretty good execution of the idea, so I'm not dismissing it completely. Might be interesting experiment to plug it into powershell backend to see how well it works with more real-world stuff.
Russian intelligence launches anonymous threat tipping portal in Tor
"Those who have information about impending threats to Russia may now tip the Russian intelligence services off using the Tor browser on the darknet.

The message about the novel way to submit documents and other relevant information concerning Russian national security appeared on the website of the SVR, the Russian analog of the CIA." https://www.ewdn.com/2021/05/04/russian-intelligence-launche...
Salesforce's bulk API is actually pretty nice. You can drop millions of records and they handle the processing and reporting back row level errors.
Finally has ARM builds for pyarrow!
The guy trips on LSD before investors, refuses to cooperate with people who work with him, and then blames getting fired on his race? No matter what real biases may be involved, those are things that would get a lot of people fired, no matter their race or anything else.
Indeed, I meant popular in general. It's interesting you bring that up though because that's precisely what started me on this. A feminist friend and I disagreed on that and so we looked into it both came out with more nuanced views. The science does not support gender essentialism nor does it support the tabula rasa kind of thing her and your wife were advocating. The answer is that it's nature and nurture and we just don't know how much of which yet.

Somewhere there's an entire Wikipedia page on people debating whether this is legitimate research or somehow sexism. I thought all of their arguments were pretty poor though. It's kind of a scary situation though that some people are so hostile to even looking into it at all.

I think it's going to be really hard to figure out how much is biological vs. cultural but I suspect society may get to some of those experiments before science at this rate.
It depends. US dollars held by US banks, probably yes. US dollars held as reserves by foreign central banks, such as say, the central bank of Iran, I don't think so. These are reserves in the form of physical dollars and bank deposits, typically not in a US bank. There is no way the Fed can make them disappear.
You’re correct, the GP’s entire post is wrong, see my sibling comment to your post.
Different strokes for different folks. I'm glad HN offers both views! I personally think the flamewar-detector, while useful for keeping a good signal-to-noise ratio, is too sensitive and browsing /active lets you find things you would have only seen if you are one of those readers who refresh / every 5 minutes. Plus, there are only so many "Obscure Tool Rewritten In Rust" articles I can take :)
I'm not being obtuse - I still don't understand why this is important. Is 'ability to transport a lot of energy on a train' really key? Renewables have a completely different model for how they are distributed and how their supply is constrained.
Applications like AutoCAD have long had a terminal window where you can perform one-off scripting, introspection of state, and so on. Blender has something similar with a built-in Python REPL:

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/python_con...
Not much. I just wanted to point out how insane intern salaries can get.

As a computer science student, us students idealize those internships because the benefits and longer hours means more money to pay off student loans.
This is something I like about GNU unifont. The emojis all just use the text color.
I think you and the parent comment actually agree quite a bit.

The parent comment is saying "profit is killing our planet", and you're basically saying "markets aren't killing our planet". The resolution, of course, is that non profit-motivated organizations can exist and participate in markets.
I really like the 3 sex groups idea. As a male I've often felt that women tend to look at the extreme outlier men and assume we're all like that.
>My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital.

My understanding is M&A is how large, stable companies that are focused on maintenance activities ultimately fund R&D. It would be interesting to see how M&A compares with in-house R&D in terms of "destroying capital"
> we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents

It's absurd to diminish talent (never mind maintain that it doesn't exist), this is used to marginalize accomplished people (like minorities) and frankly it's hard to see this than anything other than a tactic of bullying and dogmatic ideology.

> "Teachers can support discussions that center mathematical reasoning rather than issues of status and bias by intentionally defining what it means to do and learn mathematics together in ways that include and highlight the languages, identities, and practices of historically marginalized communities."

This part beggars belief. It seems to declare that they'd like to maintain the pretense of teaching math by redefining math to mean critical race theory topics.
Here's the thing. Nobody wants to admit that solving climate change will involve reducing the standard of living of a lot of people.

I don't think that's necessarily true. It will be expensive to switch to renewables, certainly, but the ongoing externalities and subsidies for fossil fuels are already extremely expensive to society. Even if you completely ignore climate change, the costs in terms of healthcare and QALYs just due to air pollution alone are tremendous.

We have the technology we need to solve climate change already, the problem is not that people aren't willing to make the necessary sacrifices, the problem is that it's hard to get past societal inertia and overcome entrenched special interests.
>It's essentially voting by adoption

Unlike democratic policy, the votes for bitcoin policy are not 1 citizens 1 vote. You can claim that citizens have effectively no control (although they clearly do have some control). If you're not a miner you have absolutely no control. Even if you are a miner, your control is some function of your hash power.
The idea that the article uses is that if you find commonalities across widely dispersed and different cultures, that strongly points to a common biological cause.
X1 carbons aren't exactly known for being the most repairable thinkpads.

My new P15 still has a modular gpu and, IIRC, has easy access to most components by removing the back cover.
For reference, a quick Google search says there are ~1 million bitcoin miners. However, presumably there's a pareto-type distribution where some some small% of miners are responsible for the majority of the hashrate, so I'd be curious how many miners would need to agree to dictate the direction of Bitcoin. This is also probably complicated by the existence of huge mining pools and relatively apolitical miners who would go along with whatever client upgrades the pool said was required to keep mining with that pool -- although, OTOH, switching pools is not particularly difficult.

Something that's interesting to me is that forking the blockchain creates money out of thin air, if people accept both sides of the fork -- I've seen people who recovered old wallets make sure to collect the extra bit from Bitcoin Cash along with the main windfall of regular Bitcoin. If blockchains really do take over finance, there's interesting implications for inflation control / monetary policy there, I think.
Well, then it’s unfortunately just a fact of life. I’m sure similar disproportionate mating chances are apparent in many species of animals between sexes as well and it may even serve an evolutionary goal that the stronger gets to pass their genetic lineup.

Either way, the answer is most definitely not viewing women as objects that should be forcefully attached to a male to have any value and other misogynistic shit that incels make up. I do get their frustrations, but it’s a downward spiral. Many of them could very well find a partner if he would actually believe that he is wanted. But even if he himself doubts that, how can he reasonably think that someone else will want to do anything with him? And at this point we are very close to mental health issues, most likely depression, but then that should be treated.