skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we’ll have to wait and see how it gets used but I see potential for this being abused.

It’s not different from TV news vs Daily newspaper. One is more fluff than the other. When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

During a sit down interview you at least have a chance to make your argument if the interviewer has misconceived something or it needs elaboration.
Apple says it rejected almost 1M new apps in 2020 and explains why
I like your idea about recording the whole session, and it's something I think we should do for numerous reasons, including student safety, volunteer training, and the ability for those recordings to be used for academic research to better understand tutoring. I think depending on the file size it could get quite expensive to store them, but I'll defer to Dave on that!

One thing we probably won't do any time soon is make a library of past sessions available publicly to students. We want to stay firmly in the category of live, personalized support so that we don't overlap with sites like Khan Academy (videos) or Quora/Stack Overflow (asynchronous support).

We do really want to expand our volunteer training and get volunteers to provide feedback to their peers on their sessions though, and I agree the recorded sessions would help a lot with that!
That's just cheating. They're comparing people who have been unemployed long enough to lose the benefits to the recently unemployed. Obviously the former group will have underrepresented the people most independently inclined to look for a job, because more of those people will have found one before becoming members of that group.
and some more discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27120686

(how about move the discussion all under the actual article share here Dang?)
There are billions of hours of video on the internet already that could assist with that task. Sounds like a stretch of a reason to me.
How is he poisoning the conversation? The detail he is neglecting to mention only strengthens his position.
Exactly. There are probably two groups of people in this thread who are interested in the pitch:

* people who want a completely dumb display with a bunch of inputs, as you say

* people who want a display with some smarts but that is "open", can be "hacked", etc

I totally understand the desire to have more things to hack, but there are already numerous little boxes, pucks, sticks, etc to scratch that itch. What's really missing is a way to get a display that doesn't have any of that at all and also doesn't cost 5x because it's made for commercial entities. (Incidentally, my early research suggests a lot of commercial displays actually have "smart" BS in them already, it's just more targeted at device management than serving content-based ads, so that inflates the cost if I'm not going to use it.)

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>>The reason there's no money is because someone took a $130k annual salary and didn't actually work on the project. https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522

I can't seem to see this tweet any more. Did it get deleted?
Manned suborbital launches are little more than glorified pogo-stick rides. This has been true ever since America tossed Alan Shepard into the air as desperate PR damage control after the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit.

If nothing else, "New Shepard" is appropriately named.
Good idea, wrong company to fund it.
On its face, this sounds like an extreme behavioral reaction to having “replacement organs” available, but it actually tracks with my own anecdotal experience.

I was not comfortable skateboarding again until I had good insurance as I do now. I don’t go crazy, but it is definitely a weight off my shoulders knowing that if I break a bone I’ll be able to get help without wrecking my finances. On the other hand, my brother doesn’t currently have insurance, and in the past he was super advanced at skateboarding. He is very hesitant to skate with me because of his fear of getting hurt. It’s pretty wild to see that play out in my own life, and it has made even more empathetic to the decisions other people make and the sorts of high-level factors that come into play there.
I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.
Because it hasn't happened. I've been screwed over multiple times by a company that's supposed to be good. There aren't really any good jobs in my area and my wife won't move. I don't have any desire to improve at work because it won't be rewarded. It's really pavlovian - repeatedly beat a dog and they are just going to hide in the corner in hope they don't get beaten again.
Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...
Did anyone write to the NYT about this? "Letters to the editor" seems a more useful place for feedback than this, or the previous blog post.

(I can't check, I'm not a subscriber.)
> SCP-2521 (also known as ●●|●●●●●|●●|●) is a Keter-level SCP not currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who steals every piece of information about his nature, as long as the information is expressed in textual or verbal form. Because of that, nearly everything about him is registered by ideograms and pictures.

from https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521
I wonder why the editor chose 3k-pound instead of 1.5 ton, or 3,000 lb. Never seen that before.

Edit: OP changed the title, though the original title was within the HN character limit.
iOS is not for doing work. It is for consuming media. Apple has made it very clear what their target demographics and priorities are.
It is our jobs to call out the discrimination this creates for minorities. Tiktok isn't being asked to end discrimination. Selling a product who's main feature is discrimination is unacceptable.

A normal jobs finds keywords on resumes, filters by experiece and education. Tiktok filters by looks and race and then calls people in for an interview.
That's certainly more consistent with what I expected: that the person who originally reported there was nobody in the driver's seat was just wrong.
So, maybe a business model of buying a bunch of smart TVs, pulling off the wifi module and reselling them?
I think it's quite hard to separate the exogenous shock of the pandemic from how people are looking at the nature of their job.

There's entire industries that got upended or closed overnight. If it was as 'simple' as just a recession or layoffs, I think that would be more of a controlled test.

But just off the top of my head, restaurants, grocery stores, retail, child care. Assuming people would just come back sort of implies that everything is the same, but it is most certainly not. Anecdotally, I've heard from friends who are nurses that feel severely burnt out from this.
The pandemic sort of flipped proverbial monopoly board, and I don't think you can restore the game to the exact state it was in.
I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas and regretted it
> Apple apologists will blur this by taking about the smart phone market as a whole.

Until you can find a judge willing to endorse your definition of "market", it's not just "Apple apologists" but "legal precedent".
This uncorroborated story is not 'conventional understanding'. It doesn't even demonstrate any link to AWS vision or architecture. Service oriented architectures existed years before this mythical memo and AWS didn't exist until years later. This memo reads like a Steve Jobs parody - just blatantly attributing all major tech and architectural decisions to Jeff's genius and foresight.
It's a shame that the third book is so unrepentantly a young adult novel, by comparison to the much more mature first two books.
He is levying accusations that money is, effectively, being stolen. That is not polite but if he genuinely believes it to be true, you are suggesting he remain quiet instead?
The randomness in MWI is observer-centric. It's trivially obvious. You reside in one world of many. The theory doesn't explain why your consciousness follows a specific bifurcation. The supposed copies of you are irrelevant.
After seeing all these landings, more and more of them successful...

I wonder if spaceships in the future will have that elongated football shape with 3 tail fins to land on vertically... Just like early scifi.
The difference is that most people on here have used Facebook (wrote and read something) while I'm pretty certain most people here have not created a video on Tiktok.
Politics is about deciding what should be society's rules of liberty and economics in the game we call modern life.
For a fly, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of
Shoot-move-shoot does what it sounds like. It moves the platform, allows time for the movement to settle, snaps the shot, then moves again. Astrotrackers like this are constantly moving at the same rate that the earth spins on its axis. This allows for the subject to remain in the same poistion in the frame during super long exposures. Depending on the accuracy of the polar alignment and the focal length of the lens, tracking allows for shots to go from <20 seconds to multiple minutes long for one exposure.
I wonder if anyone works in a worker cooperative software company. I'd imagine there are some, but I wonder what kinds of software they do / products they make.

From what I've read about co-ops, I would definitely love to work at one one day. Even having to work more hours would feel more meaningful because I'd by benefitting my own bottom line in a way, not just going towards the CEO's private island fund.
1) No it doesn't.

2) 99% of this story is fake.
I disagree. Hypocrisy allegations are expressing an important insight: "Obviously, moralizing about X isn't helpful because you know it's wrong, and you still do it", and further, "maybe you should use your special position as someone tempted to X to provide insight on what would stop you".

In your example, you're drinking yourself to death despite knowing it's stupid, and probably despite others telling you not to. Why would you think lecturing your friend helps?

Your reaction should be, "hey, what would stop me from drinking? Maybe I should try that and propose it for my friend too?"

In the NYT example, they should know why they're using the dark patterns, and what would get them to stop, and should be proposing that.
Yes you're right - since November last year. Thanks for the correction.
So tired of seeing this retort. To people who use it, such as yourself, the fact that only the sinophobic articles are upvoted means that the only possible avenue of discussion is to bash on China.

Consider the opposite - the fact that these things are so heavily upvoted means you either get an echo chamber where you can’t talk about anything else because it’s “whataboutism” or you get a full discussion including how the actions compare to other countries.

In other words, you can either have a shallow mud slinging fest or you can have a deep conversation.
The irony of a lot of this is that capitalism depends on the circulation of money. The poorer the person the less likely they are to put that money into some investment fund or the bank (which I wouldn't call trapping the money but it does make it less liquid). A UBI just seems like a great way to ensure that cash actually flows.
Still, it's difficult to do even 'soft' work on a GitHub project without producing some kind of trail.

Few commits? Well, OK, lots of reviews and PR handling.

Not too much of that either? Ah, issue triage!

Oh, not that either. Well, they're the most senior dev. Strong technical direction and forward-thinking research! Maybe mailing lists instead of the issue tracker or wiki.

... but Babel's usefulness is at an all-time low as browsers adopt new features regularly, core-js now handles all the polyfills, and non-Babel transpilers and non-JS languages add all the interesting features and performance improvements?

Well, obviously advertising the project, helping with fundraising... for what's majority their own salary... Hrm. Mitchell Baker, is that you?
> By not allowing v8, we are least have some hedge against a… hegemony. I like Apple over Google for many reasons, and would like to see Googles extremely hostile actions towards the web curtailed. I’ll take the trade off. I’d be less happy actually as a consumer if they allowed third party browser engines.

I'm sorry but I only see "I like X and I hate Y".

Worse, you want your preference to be forced on other people.
But only one acted on it.
HN has tons of users with training in bio and medicine, including a surprising number of practicing physicians and academics. This is a big community. People's mental image of it tends to be much smaller and less diverse than it actually is. It's a lot more than "comp sci" folks, which is good, because it's not supposed to be limited that way.
I think a survey would be needed to correctly understand definition of a dumb tv. To me, a dumb tv is actually equivalent to a dumb monitor but with a remote and without a tuner or audio IO/speakers.
> Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc.

Lots of jobs care precisely about those. Most notably sales, but also most other customer-facing jobs. Even for jobs where these aren’t the primary skills, they contribute to overall success. People who are good at these can equally complain that text doesn’t do them justice. In any case, calling these inhumanely degrading is just a subtle way to be inhumanely degrading to people who possess these qualities. It tells us more about you than the process honestly.
ah, yes, but as has been said elsewhere in this discussion, many banks now use apps instead of sms. an app would have worked over wifi.
Do you mean B Corps as benefit corporations defined by some state statutes, or those certified to be B corporations by B Lab certification?
very helpful article. please write article on error 302
Is it possible that person opposes the practice but is a minority opinion on the board? They might be restricted from talking ill of the paper and are using other examples to make thier point.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they find that time too is discrete.
Zombie companies, but also zombie jobs (or the much-quoted "bullshit jobs") where I have the impression they only stick around because people say "eh, it's not the most cost-efficient measure, but since we're paying people so little and they can easily be laid off why take the risk of automating it?"

As a European I often feel that way when looking at jobs in the US that in Europe would be too costly to staff: Three people at constructions signs holding signs with "Stop" and "Go" instead of a mobile traffic light. Senior citizens at the cash register which help you bag your groceries. I wouldn't mind if these kind of jobs would be made obsolete if workers had the option to not take them.
That Depends.

There may be classes of infovores and memetic cognitohazards which are not triggered by information so general that it does not assert the actual existence of any given entity.
> I've seen this opinion all over the internet from techies and I'm just baffled. Why do you like a pocket computer that isn't actually yours to do with as you like? And why do you feel compelled to force others into this philosophy?

Sheeps, shills or shareholders?
Not pleasant, but from then on you'd save $100k/month (according to user varispeed). If it's really that amount (which I doubt), every larger web company would spend it.
Didn't Blue Origin, as a company, start 2 years before Space X did? This is the strange part to me. Blue Origin started sooner, has a billion dollars a year of cash from Bezos, and still seems pretty far behind. I'm hoping New Glenn is everything it is planned to be, and arrives soon. More competition would be great.

I do like Space-X's test and manufacturing iteration process though, and think it gives them an edge. Not to mention the shear amount of experience they've gained with so many actual launches.
I can definitely see where you're coming from regarding the whole syncing thing. Personally, I've gotten into a habit of recording my transactions right after they happen (or at worst, at the end of the day), but somehow I get the feeling that I'm particularly crazy for doing that.

In any case, I agree that we could do better as far as showing examples/features altogether, but I figured (at least for the time being), just letting people use the app without an account (https://ufincs.com/noaccount) is as good a demo as any.

Definitely useful feedback, thanks!
What if the colony were 10x larger than you imagine?

Each Starship is designed to carry 100 tons to mars, IIRC.

What's stopping them from building hundreds of them?

I think the plan is to send a fleet of them with supplies only to mars first, and then bring them back, and do the trip a second time. It's feasible that once the tech is extant and they work and can be produced quickly, that they build hundreds or perhaps a thousand ships.
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This "foo" still suffers from the same problem as "Option::map" does: it is hard-coded for functions of fixed arity (2 in this case, 1 in Option::map's case).

Needing to write this function doesn't shorten the code. The SML-inspired solution allows one to write an "Option::map" which accepts functions of all possible arities (since they are all 1).

But yes, if there are a lot of places where I want to call "Option::map" for an "f" which takes 2 arguments, that could work. Although, personally, I think I'd still opt for an explicit lambda, in order to communicate intent more directly (avoid one level of indirection).
Software engineers can go bankrupt on healthcare costs alone. Either for them, or their family. Losing a job on top of high healthcare costs can force bankruptcy.
Deforestation over there is going to affect the entire planet, not just Brazil; I wonder what kind of pressure other countries could put in place to discourage that practice.
In the meantime, get rid of Bolsonaro ASAP!
There is the rub, the smart features subsidize the price instead of adding to it as it becomes an expected revenue stream.

You can already get dumb TV, they are often used for signage or other commercial purposes, but they cost a lot more than consumer equipment.
I don't think this is directly related to covid, but a powerful knock-on effect. The IT market in many centers outside of the typically high-demand areas is absolutely booming right now. I'm not convinced covid taught us anything definitive about remote work, but the involuntary loss of central control at many companies showed that satellite or hub organizations will be very doable, and sometimes come with huge cost savings. I know of several Seattle companies setting up entire dev teams (30+) in Canadian cities where they are paying 30-45% premiums and still recognizing similar cost savings. Amazon et al have done this at scale for a while (Seattle -> Vancouver) but it's now viewed as viable for those 300+ person companies that are growing fast, and it's meant demand for tech workers is as hot as the housing markets.
You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp
As a formerly obese person, I can absolutely confirm this. Respect is a big issue for me, because for the first ~25 years of my life, disrespect and even disgust were the default with every new person I interacted with.

Still, I mostly like videos posted by attractive people on TikTok, because I’m not about lying to myself to pretend to be woke. It’s a visual medium. Just like you don’t hire stupid engineers, it doesn’t make sense to watch ugly people. It’s about knowing your strengths, if you’re not going to maintain your appearance, maybe do podcasts instead. Or one of the millions of TikTok videos that don’t show your appearance, because that is 100% optional.
That's TC though, can't think of a company that pays this much in base.

130k base salary is comparable to a new grad or mid level SWE in the bay.
Do you mind me asking what site you tried doing online tutoring for? I'd love to hear more about your experience (both the positives + negatives)!

On our site, students seem to really like the text-based communication because it creates what we call a "judgment-free zone". They have time to think through what they want to say and can end up less embarrassed to admit when they don't understand something.

On the tutor side... yes, it does require the tutors to be particularly engaging and patient. :) Our best tutors try to gauge students' understanding often and ask lots of questions to elicit active participation. Like anything, it just gets easier with practice!
In this analogy I am still a hypocrite but I'm still dead-right, so sure.
The marketing site (https://ufincs.com) uses React + NextJS + Tailwind. The app itself (https://app.ufincs.com) uses a design system that I built completely custom (with plain old Sass).
It reminds me of the fade when firms were trying to recruit people in 2nd life 10years ago.
A bluetooth keyboard makes a massive difference. Working in a jupyter notebook (hosted elswhere) on Android is a smooth experience for me
Let's wait to answer that until we've seen babies born that have gestated in 1/6th gravity.
There is also Don't change color, Kitty, the "10000 - Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78hZIEqONM
It's certainly possible. We'd need more information to know.
In hindsight could that money have been better spent?
It must be alien to you that some people do like Chrome for what it offers.
To me a big problem with UBI is who is eligible. Yes, I know it is called 'universal' but this doesnt mean everybody. Like should a person living in Europe be able to claim UBI from the US? Well, this example is silly, but just to show that 'universal' wont mean 'everybody'. I believe for UBI the devil is really in the detail.
Cloudflare on the Edge
We'll actually be operating out of Walnut Creek, CA. Sorry for the out-of-date descriptions on Workable!
I'm not sure "quantum leaps" were ever seriously described as "instantaneous". Headlines like OP haven't done much service to the more concrete (albeit layman) definition; when we are talking about quantum speed limits and propagation, what we are really getting at is the speed at which information is propagated through spacetime.

When we talk about the cosmic speed limit and why nothing can travel faster than light, that's what we are really trying to describe. Not that nothing can travel faster than light, but rather information propagates at a certain speed, which also just so happens to be the speed of light. The consequence is of course that nothing can travel faster than the speed of information propagation, not even "quantum leaps".
I think the same could be said about Gen X vs Millenials and before that as well.

My dad would tell me stories of copying code from magazines by hand and how little memory they had.

Today, memory and CPU speed is basically a non-factor; it's assumed to be infinite or at least extremely high for many applications.
Agreed! This is super cool, and I hope a working prototype makes discussion of the formal proposal move a little faster.
TBH, it would vary from year to year. A lot of the savings were used during the year (I never carried debt, so I would use saved money to do big purchases).

I also live pretty humbly. A lot of HN folks would not approve.
Ah but you have to use the Apple app store. There is no alternative.