skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to maybe be contrarian and say pivoting and being persistent after the pivot were actually probably the smartest moves to make, and I'm going to be completely speculative and say that maybe there's a chance it was just the strategy and/or execution that was the problem.

In my opinion, there's huge demand and little supply for good, comprehensive, credible debunking videos. I also think the fact that someone linked to it wasn't necessarily a fluke: debunking is basically just investigative journalism, and good, accurate, novel investigative journalism is hard to come by and likely to be shared when it's discovered, if it's concerning some topic of interest to many people.

I'd even say - if you want to and are truly passionate about it, at least - that you should consider trying it again but take a dramatically different approach to what you choose to investigate and publish. Or perhaps hone your investigative skills and tactics, as well.

Doing it on a separate channel might be the best option, though, like you said in another comment.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for games developers? Like they are some exploited sweat shop workers? One example in there a person was earning 150k+. They started off low and due to experience increased their salary. We keep getting told how awful the games industry is. I'm doubtful, why would so many people continue to work in it? At the very least any of the programmers could move to other sectors.
I'm guessing the answer is the type of work. It's highly creative unlike business programming.
There are a bunch for sale on amazon.co.uk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01MQN9MLL/ref=psdcmw_31871...
since their doors aren’t mechanical you’re stuck inside once the battery dies

This is maliciously false. There's a manual door handle just like you'd find in every other car; to the point where people new to them almost always use it by accident instead of using the button.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-vs-model-3-differenc...

It's in an identical place on the other models. Please don't trot out hot takes like this on something you don't understand.
I can't say I'm surprised, but it's still pretty crazy to think about that it took us 44 years to get an object to a place it takes light less than 24 hours to get to. It feels both pretty far and also not far at all at the same time.
Radiology AI startups in 2021 are like Tesla 10 years ago
This seems cool. I was just today thinking that I wished there was a way to save podcast snippets easily for annotation and later retrieval.
My corporate Outlook email client does not show images by default if the sender is external.
For most regular emails and newsletters I would agree. Those who truly care to know which HTML and css tags are available in email client are sending some for of ad.

Say you’re a webshop and a customer has signed up for you “newsletter” then you kinda need HTML emails to show your advertised product directly in an email client.
The one-way light times are at the bottom of
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
roughly 17.5 hours for Voyager2 and 21 hours for Voyager 1
Usury is a crime where I live.
That depends a bit on your country.
Proven Data and Monstercloud in the US were found to have been doing that.

https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack...
> legitimate concerns

FWIW, I didn't see any legitimate concerns. I would love to hear a legitimate concern.

All I see is "but I don't know... I'm not sure...". And I just don't get it. facepalm I fully admit this could be due to a lack of imagination on my part. I often suffer from that, especially when it comes to empathy.

> Thank you everyone for having this frank discussion and not canceling or censoring it(even though it has cost me quite a bit of karma it has given me more perspective and I appreciate that)

Bravo, solidly agree. Things will only be broken more when we can't even talk with each other. Glad we can still do that. Whew. And I'll upvote your comments, should you care about the points. :)
Ah, thanks, I wasn't aware of this. I might put future projects under a preloaded TLD.
I don't hate X86, but I hope to god it finally goes, and I know I won't miss it.
Can you point me to the fake news source stating so
Meanwhile he's spending billions on climate change propaganda to tell us that we shouldn't pollute as much as we do.

Do what I say not what I do.
Nuclear fission reactors are even crazier. With breeding you get 22,500,000,000 Wh/kg. Good old E=MC^2.
I think manual review might actually be the worst way to solve this problem, because you're relying on human labor to fix every single hiccup, which ruins the point of an automated system anyways. I think for sure they run the route through a bunch of simulations to tune the ML mode, but I seriously doubt they would go as low-level as using telemetry to disable certain features by hand. The best solution would be updating the model so that it makes the right calls on the right type of road - so that when it encounters a similar road, you don't need to wait for another fatal accident before kicking the review process into gear and making the necessary changes again.

tl;dr it doesn't scale and would be a logistical nightmare to maintain individual configurations for every road the system struggles on
Sure, they can be upset at Amazon for misusing their brand name is product results, but that has been done for so long, i doubt there is any legal path to stop it from happening. Amazon is well within their right to show similar products when you search for a brand name.

As for the high prices, tough luck. I'm America, when you buy something, you have the right to sell it at whatever price you want, for the most part.
“Optimal Adaptive Balancing of Food Seeking and Territoriality in Feline cactus”

We’ve published the study in the peer reviewed Catster Magazine.
The irony here is that Tesla probably runs Linux.
Oh nice - powerpoint porn at that point :-)
I am in my 40s. I have spent 99.9% of my personal computing life not using a laptop.

I have zero interest getting one for the forseeable future.

Work assigns me one. It sits on my desk at work in the dock. It could be a desktop but company policy is "everyone gets a laptop".

shrug Each to their own.
over 100,000 Toyota Prius were sold in 2016. Tesla is likely to be the top company in the electric vehicle space for quite some time. but to act like they invented the market and no one else was working on it is just silly. it's like saying that Bill Gates invented computers
Did the business follow best security practices? Did it do its due diligence to harden against attacks?

Why should insurers pay, when businesses have no incentive to do this?
Laptops are overrated. I had MBPs for 15+ years. But I no longer got to conferences or take my laptop with me, my phone works for most things. Then I recognized that 99% of time I use my laptop on a table with an external monitor. Switched to an iMacPro which already was a much better experience. Now have a powerful desktop which is cheaper than an MBP but more powerful (main reason was ML training though, otherwise I would have stayed with the iMacPro).
Rainloop web client used by Disroot and some others defaults to not showing images and needs you to click a button to display them. IIRC Protonmail is the same in its webmail.

The only non-web client I've used much in recent years is aerc, which is basically covered under "mutt" in this case.
Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency
I lived in a communist country that rationed everything (meat, fuel, and so on, due to persistent shortages).

No, money didn’t matter much. You could have money and still do nothing with it. You needed connections and an ability to kombinować (untranslable word, but somenthing akin to hustle or hack).

Not saying here that rationing is bad by itself (I think people would starve or revolt otherwise). But that your „full stop” is not always true.

Also, during mask shortages and toilet paper shortages last year, in no country I think, money would help you much. I could pay $1000 for N95 back then (literally), and wasn’t able to find one.

Oh oh, and remember that scene in Titanic where a rich guy offers a pile of money to get on a life boat? :,)
Recently, I sent a longer-form announcement email and I think it really benefited from simple formatting. Headers that were visually distinct made it easier to parse, and in one place I set an image to float right which I felt made it less disruptive. I even set a max-width on the whole email, which I think works far better than the hard-wrapped text that some people write.
DNA is not a protein, DNA is not a type of protein, DNA is not formed from protein. DNA is not formed using instructions from mRNA, nor is it modified by mRNA. DNA is made up of nucleotides, proteins are made up of amino acids. They are chemically different things.

As every medical expert has been saying for months now, the vaccine doesn't effect your DNA.

The immune response is what causes the side effects, and the immune response is stronger with the second dose (this follows intuitively from immunity being more robust after 2 doses).
The popular media has done a huge disservice by naming this the "Indian double mutant." It's two changes that have been seen in other variants and have been studied already.

The "double mutation" is L452R and E484Q. L452R is the defining feature of the B.1.429 variant (California). E484Q has been seen in derivatives of B.1.429 and in bunches of other variants in the US. It has some antibody evasive properties, but not enough to render vaccines ineffective. Yes, the E484K mutation seen in B.1.351, P.1, and P.2 has been more studied, but E484Q has been studied too.

Double mutant makes it sound like it is something entirely novel that is going to murder us all.
If somebody put a new car on the market for $9000 with the same features as the 1990 Ford Mustang, what would happen?

Yes, they'd be arrested for not meeting safety standards. But assuming we changed the law, would people want to buy it?

Would it be better or worse than a second-hand modern car at the same price?
and your point is ... ?

also: even if there are some things which do not rely on DNS, but proportionally speaking majority of things do rely on DNS - web, email, file sharing, chats, calls, you name it. it already gets to significant majority of internet activities, so ... your point is not clear.
First of all anything that is widely adopted will be used for crime. That's just human nature. Tor is widely adopted right now but there have been alternatives like Freenet for example.

So the choice is either anonymity and crime, or no anonymity at all. And crime won't go away, it just won't be able to use an anonymous channel for communications.

And it's not like criminals are getting away with it by being anonymous either. If you go on tor to commit crimes then you will be hunted down by the international police. And if you commit heinous crimes against children then you will find no refuge. That's not a good life to live. Odds are you will end up in prison sooner or later.
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Right, so what is it about this particular individual that lends credibility?

If an economist was writing about computer science, everybody on HN would dismiss it.
I'm not an expert, but I do work in information security and I personally would tell people to pay, too. I strongly believe there needs to be a way to reduce the frequency of and counter these attacks, but I don't think banning ransom payment is the way.
Too much heat from this hack.
I’m using NaSC and it’s not too bad. Though not as good as Calca, but Calca isn’t available for purchase on Linux. :/

I’m curious about this one. Though I’d prefer a plain text storage format but otherwise it’d need to be cross platform.
It's complicated.

IME if I had to guess how well someone would work out and was told only the degree, I would answer:

physics/math degree > EE/ME degree > CS degree > humanities degree.

This is because in my experience, CS degrees are incredibly popular and a lot of people get them even though they may not be particularly good at programming or even enjoy it. 20 years ago, I'd put the CS degree higher up, but today Universities have lowered standards significantly and are minting lots of CS graduates with dollar signs in their eyes.

But that's not how it works because those with only a college degree are (for the most part) not competing for the same set of jobs as those with work experience. They are competing for internships, and when it comes to internships, you are going to hire someone with a CS degree over someone with an EE degree. Therefore you are right, when it comes to internships.

When someone has only a degree and no work experience, that's a risky proposition -- those candidates should be routed to internships so both sides can get to know each other without a long term commitment. In all the companies I've ever worked with, we've never hired straight from college without it being an internship. More likely than not, an internship will result in a job offer if it goes well, and IME most do go well. That means that in practice, it's much easier for college graduates to enter the labor market. But they enter via internships that are converted to offers and generate work experience. Then the work experience is all that counts and the degree becomes a checkbox.

In other words, your college degree is important, but it's important to open the door to your first real job by getting you an internship. After that, it very rapidly decays in importance. This is because the work experience is so much more informative and relevant than the education. I've never looked at anyone's grades or honors, and it's not uncommon to have a lot of employees without a college degree if they have proven their skills in other ways. This disregard for grades or degree and focus on actual skills is what makes things like dev bootcamps work (for good or ill).
No one expects the comp time to exactly equal how much extra time you worked. It's just like a little thank you for working hard, and so you can decompress and take care of whatever you've been neglecting in your life during crunch.

Would I have enjoyed this if I wasn't a 20-something with no kids who who lived and breathed games? No. So I don't honestly expect everyone to understand this either.

If you love your work, it's not work.

Never once did I feel like crunch "wreaked havoc with my life". I think you are imagining the worst case scenario. Sure, it could. And the people who worked there who were parents with kids, I felt bad for them. I don't think I would have made that choice. But for me and many of my childless colleagues, the reality is that we loved working in games and getting that experience was vital to our careers.
Is that true for astra zeneca vs. south african variant?
I know the following will sound like something only a sock puppet would say, but I created an account just to agree with the level of rancor you've got towards the boring-by-default literary world. I got serious about writing as a teen, and being a serious writer meant aping the great literature I was reading -- ie an emphasis on fine prose and emotional weather reporting -- which led to an acute lack of juice in my fiction. Trying to remedy that now, and always looking to hear more from people working on that same project.

Have you got a blog or anything like that?
They’re not in control of the operating system. I have no doubt that Samsung can create a chip that’s every bit a good as the M1. I just think they’ll struggle to get the same level of performance from Windows as Apple can by controlling both CPU and OS.
Only seller available is ETI. How is this evidence?
There are people working towards that (and doing so thoughtfully, not just to segregate poor folks into projects)

https://eastbayforeveryone.org/socialhousing/
You could be right, my game industry career could be an outlier. I never worked at a big AAA studio like EA or Ubisoft. I worked on MMOs.
Basically it feels like going after the SV crowd coding with macs on starbucks.
> Not a Flat Earther, but its not beyond the realm of possibility reality might be a two dimensional projection. Despite our sensory perceptions. Look into "Holographic Universe".

Flat Earthers are never talking about a "holographic universe," though. They're always talking about the Earth being like a board whose edges you could fall off from.
I kind of like the idea, but I am imagining what my reaction to seeing it as I apply will be.

I can't work it out now - wrong context. Probably assume that I would get a day long home test, or something.

Anyway, Volaticotherium antiquus
If you have time and wish you can add them yourself:

https://pixls.us/articles/create-lens-calibration-data-for-l...
yes, they do
Let's recognize your comment for what it is: unhelpful internet toughguy-ism. You need to regain some perspective. Calling others "treasonous" for this pretty clearly violates HN community guidelines.
It’s now 22 Billion km away from Earth. Amazing.
The thermoworks dot option is also manufactured and sold by ETI in the UK. Thermoworks just slapped a different name in it.
They mention PulsePoint in the article.
> when you buy something, you have the right to sell it at whatever price you want

As a consumer to other consumers, yes, but not as a business. Otherwise we wouldn't have things like MAP (minimum advertised price), which is enforceable by manufacturers. First-sale doctrine only covers so much.
If I recall right a version of Office came on about 45 floppies.

You were screwed if you had an error on disk 43.

For games I remember Star Trek 25th anniversary on 7 floppies, using 1/4 of my hard drive.
Nope, and this advice is responsible for untold misery among people who spend all of their time perfecting 50 job applications when they could have spent all that time simply shotgunning thousands of applications out. I have seen so many of my friends take your "advice" and then end up without internships or jobs for long periods because they couldn't imagine that getting a job is a "numbers game" like I do.

Your advice makes sense for people who already have a job who want a very specific next job. Outside of that, please shove it somewhere the light doesn't shine because people who follow it are knee-capping themselves in the modern jobs market.
I guess the overlap between physicists/engineers and type system/PLT people isn’t large enough.

C++ has supported units, as a library, since the early 90s. The Barton Nackman book had the initial implementation [1] and it was picked up years later by Scott Meyers [2].

[1] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/scientific-and-engineering-c-a...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28698558/c-dimensional-a...
Assuming you live in the West, we are all taking the same few vaccines. The trials are not complete for any of the big 3. The specifics of the legality vary from country to country. It typically takes nearly a decade to approve a new vaccine.
They are not overrated. They allow you to move your office any time you want: you can work from office, work from home, work from a hotel, etc. Laptops are mobile workstations and with 2-in-1 they are also big tablets.
Should mbti types be represented in university equally 1/16, or proportionally to their demographics in the usa ?
What about in engineering ? Should mbti types be equally represented in all professions?
If all you want is user-mode tracing, there's ETW. Where you run into problems is that it doesn't let you block on calls, etc.
The Curl programming language for Web applications had units for purposes like its GUI objects, circa 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language)
> A representative of the REvil ransomware gang said in a March interview that the group specifically targets victims known to have cyber-insurance, because they’re “one of the tastiest morsels” who can more easily afford to pay.

Wow.
The pointless throwaway account is right. Even if the have-nots revolt, they will immediately go back to using some form of money to exchange goods with each other. We can debate how wealthy individuals should become or how high tax rates can be, but wealth will always be how resources are ultimately allocated
My theory is FANGS pay more because it's a casino like setup.

Yes, their employees are making lot of money but where her money ends up going? A large part of that ends up paying rent in a region where there are many others making similar wages like you, and trying to outcompete you out of the best property you can choose to live.

Mostly people at headquarters or major offices get paid large salaries.

Executives make decisions where to open office, they've upphand on the info and have access to money, they buy the land in and around the region where office will be setup, where their employees will want to live.

That way half the money they pay ends right back into pocket of executives while FANG employees have statisfaction of making highest engineering wages.

It doesn't matter how much you make, if you still find yourself doing the same thing you were doing 5 years ago, perhaps, all that money didn't bring you much.

Now, there are exceptions to this where people saved up their salary and launched another business into huge success, yea those benefit the most. But most of the FANG employees will find themselves doing similar job after 5 years, so...

How exactly that extra money has changed your life? Are you driving Buggati or Bentley to your office? Do you have celebrities (male/female -depending on your orientation) caressing your hair while you hack on the code? Did you start a school to teach underprivileged kids?

As we can see most of these luxuries are still not available to majority FAANG employees regardless of how much they make. It's the money on paper, it doesn't buy much power. To have real power in society, having more money than your peers is not necessary - what you need is vastly more money and influence over other people.
So, the author is trying to understand hedonic adjustment, and does it via the BLS CPI series for new car purchases.

Which is rather clearly a fatal error since BLS uses cost-based, rather than hedonic, quality adjustments for new car and truck purchases. [0] The author is trying to understand a process by examining an area in which the process is not applied.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/ (see ELI TA011)
Tech bros' next move: Private cities without government control
Fun fact: South Dakota gave lenders exemption from usury laws in 1980, leading to the modern credit card industry as we all know it:

https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/2072176

https://www.argusleader.com/story/stu-whitney/2015/04/04/whi...
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
of course yes in product companies or tech companies that can happen. in large banks for e.g. its more difficult, as different departments are run pretty much like different companies. you can eventually align things either at peer level or from executive level but would take lot of time. its not a problem of SOA per se, but overall friction/inertia inherent in large orgs..
I think this is an ongoing challenge. You see it with comics as well, where Marvel and DC have gotten really good at knowing what sells to their niche audience. But their audience has been in lengthy decline, in part because they've focused on selling to their niche audience rather than figuring out how to broaden their base.
Shrine grounds in Japan are also a great place for old trees and remnant biodiversity. When the rest of the surroundings got logged in the past, and .. covered in concrete in the present, the shrines just get left alone.
Thank you for being better at words than me.
If she likes her steaks as rare as possible you should look into buying here a sous vide setup. You can get the whole steak to whatever doneness you want and then just quickly sear the outside. It gives me consistently good results.