skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, the server has not been stolen yet, maybe it doesn't work the way we think.
Thank you :) I'm so glad people are enjoying it. Share a beat!
> it's usually capped at 100k

That's a pretty crappy life insurance policy. I wouldn't want my wife having to recreate an independent life on a runway of just 100k.

I'm not a big shot, but I'm set up so that if I die my wife won't have to worry about work for a very long time. These policies probably aren't as expensive as you think they are.
You can use entanglement for communication, as long as you also use some classical communication channel in addition to it. If you just want to transfer bits, entanglement does not provide much more than classical communication channels (maybe a bit better signal to noise ratio when used together).

Quantum teleportation requires both entanglement and classical communication channels to be present.

And all of this has nothing to do with FTL communication. No matter what piece of known physics you use, FTL communication is simply not possible. It is not just "not known how to do it", rather it contradicts and causes unresolvable paradoxes in an enormous body of extremely well verified laws of nature.
You can automize iOS and Android app's build, upload and versioning processes via Mobile App Automizer CLI tool. You can upload your app to Apple App Store, Google Play Store or your own CDN. You can use this tool for platform and frameworks below.

Native iOS, Native Android, React Native, Flutter, may be others...
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Taiwan Army can use scorched earth tactics to make sure that it does not happen.
The claim was incorrect. They are included. That's fundamentally different than claiming some kind of issue with how this information is calculated for cars.
All these months that you’ve been working remotely has your efficiency/amount of work/evaluation remained the same? If yes then you can use this as a valid and measurable point for your discussion with your manager.
Try to collect actual data (emails, messages, deadlines, quality...) clearly showing that while you were WFH.
As others have suggested, have a plan B during the discussion/negotiations. Can you offer a few days every month? Are you willing to loose any benefits or raises for a couple of years? What about equipment? You have to give something to the “stubborn” employers that don’t see the benefits of remote working, especially for specific jobs that can be performed from a computer anywhere on earth :-)
Hope you succeed!
The government has perverse incentives to keep it low and close to the same. The way the CPI is calculated has changed dozes of times in the last 30 years. Like you said, if you at food, healthcare, education, etc., they are up way more than 3% year over year.
Whatever you think of the validity of "hedonic adjustments" doesn't really matter as far as cars are concerned because the BLS doesn't apply hedonic adjustments to car prices.
Outlook messages only partially loading as of today (includes workaround)
How did this cause us to Ransack our Society? Here is the Reality
> For those who can afford to quit, claiming burnout may be an effective way to signal one’s essential employability, a way to reassure your future bosses that you will work yourself to the bone for them, too — right after this break.

I'm not a hiring manager, but I'd imagine from the perspective of one that claiming burnout as a reason for leaving actually signifies the opposite - you're unable to manage a proper work-life balance and there's a risk you'll burn out in a new job too.
There are software engs in Mexico etc.
What a surprise that this comment thread is full of software developers in HCOL areas anecdotally seeing prices rise faster than the national average!
OP here. Further information from Microsoft 365 Status on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1392208966231355392

Impacts current release of CTR Outlook Windows. Not impacted: mobile, OWA and Mac.
You're right, but there's also a difference between a daily work commute and a "let's do fun city stuff on weekends" commute that would influence your choice of house in a big metro area.
Nice p1 to wake up to
Not saving for retirement and one surprise bill from insolvency is the status quo. AMERICA!!!!
1) I <3 7\.
2) RDJ is a trickster and incorporates all sorts of weird stuff like this in his music.
It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. It's a somewhat more mathematically sound way of saying all of the usual stuff about quantum mechanics. It just takes the QM side more seriously, rather than trying to describe it as a bag on the side of classical physics.

The unobservable parts are not really any different from indirectly inferred concepts like potential energy. It's just that even seemingly concrete notions like location turn out to be macro scale approximations of this phase space. They're not accessible only because you are a macro scale object. You can very much demonstrate that it's real by simple experiments. You just need to be able to take them seriously, which is unexpectedly difficult because classical physics seems so intuitively obvious.
Maybe so, you could be right. But if this man is taking contracts from the general public, I think that must be a good lead.
Aphex Twin and BoC have changed my life. I've listened to Aphex Twin every day for the past two decades and not much else. The lore is so deep with both. Check out https://bocpages.org/wiki/About and the story behind Hexagon Sun studios. Very cool
The Fed and U.S. government are rigging our economic system to backdoor tax the middle class while gaslighting all of us into thinking that this is normal.

You don’t print $10T and handwave away millennia of basic economic principles.

Help me understand how CPI is not a joke with respect to how it’s used to say “this is normal.”

Everything I’m interested in spending money on, new hires for my company, real estate, cars, computer hardware, food, lumber, gas. All of this is coincidentally more expensive sometimes by a factor of more than 2x from two years ago? Nope, not buying it.
There are alternative (non governmental) calculations that put the increase much higher (if the 1990 calculation method was still used).

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
The inflation rate is transitory. Price levels won't come back down unless we get transitory deflation of equal (or greater) magnitude.
The Candela boats he links to were discussed here[1] a while back, in case anyone is interested in that discussion.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222208
Impacts were small.

Just a few years ago, one of the most high profile financially-motivated ransomware attacks, WannaCry, hit the NHS and various other government agencies and companies around the world and demanded the unbelievable sum of $300 per computer [1], an amount that most of those organizations could only find by looking through their pocket lint for amounts so small. They spent 100x-1000x more money solving the residual problems than they did or would have needed to pay dealing with the ransom itself.

Just a few years ago, the worst case impacts were so small that the problem was not even worth caring about. What they did not realize is that the amounts were small because the ransomware groups likely consisted of young people with more technical ability than business sense. They did not realize how deep the money well went and how much they could really ask for, the criminal equivalent of a bunch of college students making a B2B startup and being worried that their $1k price tag might be too expensive since they would personally think that is a lot to spend. This is borne out by the fact that the targets even a few years earlier were mostly personal computers of random people who might actually have a problem paying $300 to get their family photos back. However, these ransomware groups have been rapidly wising up and now realize they were doing the effective equivalent of robbing the bank for their pens. They are starting to ask for reasonable amounts of money that businesses might actually worry about and with that money they are expanding their operations as fast as they can to try to exploit the entire market. They just have not gotten there quite yet since they do not have access to vast gobs of VC cash and need to instead bootstrap themselves up to a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise.

The unfortunate problem for all of their targets is that none of their things work and they did not think the problem was serious since the impact of failure was so small. They did not realize that was not because more could not be done, but because the people doing it did not know what they were doing and that they were actually at the start of a serious exponential ramp.

If you want more technical reasons, it is because every commercially available solution is completely inadequate for an environment where people with modest amounts of money want to attack your system. Nobody selling commercial IT systems has the first clue how to make systems that are actually robust against credible threat actors. The absolute best of the best can maybe protect a system against attacks funded at the ~$10M level, but when you are talking about companies with literally $100B revenue streams, that is a rounding error of a rounding error. Exactly 0 executives at such a company would think that being defenseless against attackers with $10M is acceptable if told directly and I think most of their shareholders and customers would be horrified if they had to put that in their commercials in big bold letters, but that is the best that they can get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
The best test of this, the Kansas Experiment, was an unpopular failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
Anecdotally I’m spending less than I was last year in every category.
You're talking about public info, that people posted on public forums. Is anyone surprised that that info would be public?

We may be talking about different things, but to me "all of the internet" means much more than public data and public forums.
[40 minutes into the talk]: Looks like the study scanned 3.6 million github issues across 1.7 million repositories and looked for the number of bugs that were TypeError, AttributeError, or NameError and found it was 2.7% of issues.

I'm not a fan of this kind of methodology, because there are so many different use cases for github issue tracker (including feature requests, documentation requests, etc.) that I think the denominator here is overestimated. I'd rather have a study that looked at 1000 issues in depth with a rigorous rubric than one that grepped through millions of issues.

Also, looking only at the issues doesn't count the ones that were caught in development or testing. I like the notion of "moving your bugs to the left"[1] and would much rather find these type errors at build time than later.

Finally as I said in my other comment, avoiding type errors is not the only benefit of type checking. Making code easier to understand and refactor (including programmatic refactoring) are other benefits that are not captured only by counting bugs.

[1] https://samwho.dev/blog/move-your-bugs-to-the-left/
The Chad orchid vs the virgin philodendron.
>How would you negotiate this with your employer?

Quit.
I think people have enjoyed the Wild West of the Internet long enough for governments to want to put a stop to it proactively instead of retroactively, although I don’t think it necessarily should be done.
This sentiment is quite popular among those who would like to have the same popularity that data scientists currently (well, more a few years ago, since there are many more critical voices now) have, but they don't.

Data science is a generic name. There are DS like me who have been "actual scientists" and others who until yesterday were working on dashboards and Excels files with 100 tabs open and pivot tables as far as the eye can see. Whatever, it is a name. What about "engineers"? It is a title with no legal value, people in the US can call themselves software engineers, but in many other countries, they could not. And who is a writer? Somebody making a living out of writing, somebody who has been published even if they got zero money for it and the magazine editor was their cousin, or else?

People in my team do causal modeling, use reinforcement learning for network configuration, NLP for chatboxes, computer vision for face ID, and (again) network configuration. They are all called data scientists. Thinking that what people who have the title "Data Scientist" do is "generating value via increased consumer retention" or "ETL for Excel files for the boss" is between misinformed and laughable, but mostly laughable. The world is much bigger than that.

Then, I agree that "learning from data" as a specialty has been over-hyped, and most companies do not have the maturity to take advantage of ML prediction, causal and statistical modeling, etc., but that's the nature of the world: one can take advantage of it or being bitter about it. I took advantage of the hype and I am fine, happy, and with no regrets. If tomorrow someone would propose to use for the same job the title "Data Monk" and it paid more, were more visible, and led to more career opportunities, I would grab it as quickly as I would grab 100 dollars floating in and out of the sidewalk.
Cicada 3301 is also a movie now released in 2021, I was surprised it had some basis in reality.
I think it’s well designed, and I really like the analog drum samples (though I think the clap sounds better at G2 instead of C2). I would had made it 4 rows of 16 steps instead of 8 rows of 8 steps, but that’s because I’ve been using Roland grids for so long, that’s what I’m used to working with.

I also wish I could save a pattern as a long link. (MIDI slave sync support would also be nice, but I’m not sure browser sound libraries support that)
I quote from their website

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Today, WhatsApp does not share your personal information with Facebook to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook. This is a result of discussions with the Irish Data Protection Commission and other Data Protection Authorities in Europe. We're always working on new ways to improve how you experience WhatsApp and the other Facebook Company Products you use. Should we choose to share such data with the Facebook Companies for this purpose in the future, we will only do so when we reach an understanding with the Irish Data Protection Commission on a future mechanism to enable such use. We'll keep you updated on new experiences we offer and our information practices.

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This is legalese for pretty much what I posted. In particular, the keep you update here does not necessarily mean you get to agree to a new privacy policy, as the current policy does not include a commitment not to share data (for ads etc) with facebook in the first place. This statement is deviously placed outside the privacy policy!

Also further up they say that they associate the whatsapp profile with any facebook profile in the household/net/vicinity. To be clear, they do this now. Not in the future.
No idea why this is downvoted. Our groceries and staple household items have increased at least 10% over the last year.
block them via dns.
most users that are on facebook probably do not know how to go around that block.
Consider fake meat. A veggie burger used to cost a buck or so. Compare that to today’s beyond beef which is almost beyond beef in price. Hedonic adjustments in everything.
There are high quality workers everywhere in the world, but they are also expensive. You generally get what you pay for - the skilled developers in others countries are also smart enough to find a better deal if they are underpaid. The 1/3 price workers are not at the same level, and quite frankly often overpaid compared to their relative productivity.
There are many advantages to remote/home office for employers. Even if you just hire in your country, you can save a lot on office space, costs for niceties in the office (coffee, food, etc).
It’s almost like JP Morgan has a vested interest in the success of commercial real estate. HMMMMMMM
If you actually were a potential Tesla buyer before this, you'd certainly be in the minority if this is what changed your mind. Most people see the transparency as a good thing, especially people with concerns about whether their own car might kill them. By getting in front of the story, he's doing his job. Correcting a false and derogatory narrative that threatens your differentiating feature in an extremely competitive market is absolutely the most important thing he should be doing.
There is a more modern alternative* to Email:
Matrix
It improves significantly in security (easy E2EE) and usability (and of course functionality) while still keeping advantages like decentralization.

How the protocol is used is up to you and the Matrix client (which atm is mostly chat, but I am sure one could give you a more email-like client).

*ignoring the ubiquitous presence of email, which is kind of the main selling point - Matrix is still in the tens of millions
HTC Announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Pro 3 Headsets
To play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate: why haven't you been doing this already for the past 5 years?
For anyone else wondering, like I was, this is a photo of copper wiring. I'm guessing thick gauge (6AWG) for dealing with high amperage. Not sure what the /3 signifies.
It doesn't make sense to compare a study where asymptomatic people were being mass tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA with the vaccine trials or the CDC's existing tracking of breakthrough infections, both of which require the presence of symptoms before running any tests. The CDC has even set a lower CT threshold (i.e. higher amount of viral RNA must be present) in order to consider a positive test to be an actual breakthrough infection.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/can-you-get-covid-tw...
The report mentioned in Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.com/1.5053685) was plausible but by no means incontrovertible.

Malaysia is not necessarily more threatening than Indonesia so it’s rather unclear why you mention it in particular. Indeed, Indonesia bombed various things in Singapore during the Konfrontasi period, whereas Malaysia has never done anything like that. (Well, I’ve heard rumours of actual hostilities about some islands supposedly from a relative in the army, but either way both sides have kept it very quiet if that did happen.)

I don’t really see the point of an iron dome system for SG: Singapore can hit KL or Jakarta in a matter of hours (if that), their relatives shop and children go to school at international schools in Singapore, there’s a big American base, if Singapore gets hit they’ll immediately end up in a terrible recession, etc.
If I accepted a (negotiable) pay cut and/or agreed to forfeit some of the company benefits, would you allow me to WFH instead of hiring a cheaper engineer?
Thx! Menu dive a bit and you can re-pitch the clap. There is some, though not robust, MIDI support I will eventually be looking into. What do you mean exactly about saving a pattern as a long link?
I don't have this experience. I like to prototype by writing code (or type signatures), and then refactor a lot from the initial solution. That's easier to do if the syntax is reasonably concise (the other half is to have good types which Ada definitely provides).
Processed/packaged food/goods has another trick where they give you less but it seems like the same amount, and charge you the same, so you don't notice it as much. I bet you a lot of those things you're buying you're actually getting less than you were 1-2 years ago. They reduce the number of toilet roll sheets by 30-40, or the ounces in the package go down 3-4 oz, or they give you 1 less hot dog.

Here's a site that tracks the downsizing (I've also seen it called 'Shrinkflation'), and there are a lot of examples on the site. I'm sure you'll find something (probably multiple somethings) you buy on there that got downsized in the last year or two.

https://www.mouseprint.org/category/downsiz/

The top one on there shows they reduced Dorito's bags from 9 3/4 oz to 9 1/4 oz....sneaky sneaky!
Is there anything that a citizen can do today to advocate for preparing for an event like this?
Indeed. A 2021 Accord is far superior to a 1990 Rolls Royce or other ultraluxury car in terms of amenities, engine power, quietness, build quality, etc.

That’s not even mentioning the leaps and bounds in efficiency and safety. I’d argue cars have gotten effectively cheaper over the years, as they’ve dramatically improved in every respect. If you could still buy a 1990 Accord manufactured today, it would probably sell for a couple thousand dollars.

Edit: as for the Mustang example in the grandparent post, that $27,000 Mustang of today outperforms entry-level Ferraris of 1990. A fully-spec’d $80,000 Mustang of today would outperform every Ferrari from 1990, including the F40, which sold for $400,000 in 1990 dollars (~$800k in today’s dollars).

So if anything, the CPI doesn’t implement hedonic adjustments enough for cars.
Good luck proving you caught sars in the office and not going to the super market or in your own home.
I have a 14+ year old Reddit account, and that platform was always astroturfed.
This is what I was thinking...

These corporations are the ones whom benefited from exporting the production infrastructure at the expense of the labor market. Now, they want the labor market to fund the redevelopment of the infrastructure for their benefit.

I'm confused as to why the US government needs to be involved capital investment when these companies are boasting historic profit margins.
Which will happen because people will stop wanting things
I’m not sure I understand you. How does the introduction of AirTags diminish the Tile network? Are you assuming Tile users will switch?
Ironically, they sell those $300 TVs at a profit of about $500, after advertising deals.
Is it really inflation or higher prices due to higher than normal demand? When the demand goes up the market clearing prices naturally increase (until more efficient suppliers join the game)
It is interesting that the illustrations use traditional looking props rather than ducted or shaft-less rim-driven thrusters.

https://www.researchgate.net/project/RIM-DRIVEN-THRUSTER
The sounds crackle a bit on chrome Version 89.0.4389.114 on Ubuntu. Works fine on my firefox though
Stock buybacks end up being nothing other than a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to shareholders because anytime something happens the government steps in bails them out because they're too big. Now everyone knows that so there's no incentive for companies to act responsibly. The fact that it's now accepted and normalized is incredibly disheartening to say the least. No government subsidies. Let the capitalists figure it out. Otherwise let's just nationalize everything instead of privatizing profits and socializing losses.
Why don't we just get rid of property taxes, and just keep income tax and sales tax and be done with it?

I find it immoral to tax people on things they already own and have already paid taxes on in the form of the income they used to purchase said item.

A big part of the upside of this will be cheaper rents for the rest of us, because right now, ultimately, real estate owners just pass the property tax responsibility to us in the form of higher rents.
Most of the population lives in the urban high cost of living areas.
There isn’t any support for this in iOS.
Bravo. 5031 was a brilliant read. (“Salt”, OMG.)

First encountered SCP by chance, absolutely baffling - so much fictional detail. Favorite is the self-filling whiskey tumbler.