skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's seem to be the case [1]

"Therefore, it's in the scammers' best interest to minimize the number of false positives who cost them effort but never send them cash. By sending an initial email that's obvious in its shortcomings, the scammers are isolating the most gullible targets"

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...
In Western Europe it's not super usual to rent or buy property without a kitchen and you having to furnish it yourself.
Single room occupancy. A type of hotel, with shared bathrooms down the hall.

Here's an article from yesterday's NYT that has a historical background section about halfway down:

When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go? https://nyti.ms/33ZiTKV
Because some people have decided to take an all-or-nothing approach to "all people are equal". Imagine if during the social justice movement of the mid 20th century, we saw people saying "actually, there's no such thing as black and white, everybody has the same skin color", in an attempt to show that the races are valued equally as humans. That would be absurd. And yet that's what is now happening with gender.
> But what if the employee had been in the KKK, and had argued for white supremacy, and that other races were lazy and poor workers? Would you still think an employer would be out of bounds for firing that employee?

I'm going to go in a different direction here and say maybe we shouldn't fire former KKK members if they aren't causing problems at work.

Look, these people need to eat. Either they work somewhere, or they get welfare. At least with the former they're doing something productive with their time other than... whatever a white supremacist might do with their free time.

Also, if we're firing former KKK members, we're not really leaving them a path towards deradicalization. If they can't integrate with society and get a normal job even if they renounce the KKK, then they have a strong disincentive to leave their hateful community.
The responses to this comment pretty much sum up the wealthy person's understanding of the daily struggles of the poor.
Yeah, the above comment kind of stuck to the analogy item of shoes. A lot of the things that are quality and are worth it (from a long-term POV) are going to be better value than getting the lower quality item more often, than the one time purchase.

Housing is also getting pretty bad. Essentially, the lower your income, the more you are expected to pay back to the bank since you can only put aside so much money for the mortgage each month.

A well-off person will pay his house as much as 2-3x faster than a 'poor' person, essentially allowing him to invest for the future at a much earlier stage in life.
I’m fairly sure when GP says raw ingredients, they mean things like fresh vegetables and cheap cuts of meat. Fresh vegetables are generally fairly expensive and cheap cuts of meat are close to nonexistent in food deserts. Staples like rice and beans are only cheap if you buy in bulk, but that requires a hefty capital investment upfront, which is usually impractical to begin with, and time commitment and skill to turn into an enjoyable meal. The time commitment is especially onerous for someone working juggling jobs just to be able to pay rent and generally make ends meet. All of that adds up to what less nutritious alternatives being far cheaper when you account for all the costs and for cash flow and opportunity cost in particular, at least in the short term. The cash flow problem makes it hard to optimize for the long term, so now you’re stuck unless you can invest superhuman effort from an already thoroughly exhausted body.
It takes effort to screw up a single word while copy-pasting it from a Google search result page.
> you told me that there are houses without a toilet

There are plenty of low cost apartment buildings with shared toilets and no bathtub/shower. That's when a gym membership might be necessary at the very least. Except in covid times when you weren't allowed to use the gym's shower facilities.
My first week moving here, in 2018, I took a bus and saw a girl getting mugged in front of everyone. I froze. I stopped taking public transport after that. It’s sad how much money I waste on ubers just because I’m scared of public transport here.
Yes. A famous recent example was stress-induced stem cells:

https://www.nature.com/news/failed-replications-put-stap-ste...
I don't know. WFH is harder for management. I don't think it will last after the pandemic.
Not sure where you are in Europe, but in Germany you have to search a bit to find a residential ISP with symmetric bandwidth. Mine is 50/10.
At what speed does a Toyota Corolla have to hit against your door for it to be the same force as a sledge hammer?
fwiw Synapse has got progressively better, especially in the last 6 months. Element performance has certainly got worse over time though and we are working on that now.
Facebook Instagram Proactively Removed Millions of Copyright Infringing Content
There’s a lot wrapped into this comment. Did you perceive yellow to be white because it is the default and you are white? I say that because of your realization you had. I assume that some people felt excluded because of their preconceived notion that the Simpsons are white (with good reason) but also that others (perhaps younger people who may not have seen the show) would follow the same default->my skin color connection.
Are you looking at Facebook with glasses from 2010? Because one would expect a almost-trillion-dollar company to work on more than a single-focus product.

Why would a search engine (1997) make glasses (2013)?
I didn't try the app yet but I use an app called "Yomiwa" to OCR Japanese. The biggest issue I find is that it seems to be trained on black on white images so if I try to OCR a sign with different colors, or some text on a product or menu, it often fails. For example I just tried it on the ingredients of the label of the soda I'm drinking which is white on black and it's completely failing.
> PHP was the clear leader for anyone who wanted to get something done.

Isn't that still the case?

At least here in Europe the word Backend Developer is basically synonymous with PHP Developer.

Every other language for backend development is pretty niche. Sure there is Java (and C#) for the enterprise but that was already there back then. Ruby had a good run but modern PHP with frameworks like Laravel could reclaim most productivity benefits so not that fierce of a competition. JS with node, sure but I mostly hear it in the context of micro services which is the opposite of wanting to get something done.

> PHP barely ages - from 1999 or 2010 or 2020, it looks similar and works fine.

Yes but no. PHP takes stability and backwards compatibility quite seriously but the language and culture around it has changed tremendously. The wild west days are long gone, it has gotten much more professional and mature while adding many modern language features.
It’s not complex. It’s none of your business what people think about you. You might be shocked to find out that most people think some pretty fundamentally incompatible beliefs and look pretty harshly down on people outside of their realm of beliefs.

Look at the stats on how many Muslims in the US ideally want Sharia as national law. Look at how many Christians desperately try to make the US Christian roots official and foam at the mouth when someone says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.

Everyone thinks about half the other people are dog shit. That’s how the US works. It’s a thin veneer of camaraderie over a seething dissonance underneath.
Web development is running into the wrong direction
I never saw this feeling expressed by anyone else. Had a period in my life where I was "heating got turned off"-poor. It took me quite some time after financially recovering until I felt comfortable spending money on anything other than the most basic food/clothing/etc. But now sometimes it just clicks and I realize that I can buy whatever I want (within reason, e.g. expensive foodstuff in the supermarket). Great feeling.
Lots of replies here about time, and while they are true, they aren’t the full story. The fact is that vegetables are ridiculously expensive in America compared to Europe. I’ve lived in both. I’ve been dirt poor and I’m now quite well off. Buying vegetables here in the UK costs literal pennies for many meals. In the US, the same veg can cost literally 10x as much in some cases.

Prepped food on the other hand is half the price in the US than it is in the UK. These two factors combined make it a no brainer to go for the prepped stuff over the raw ingredients when you are trying to save money.
And that's precisely the attitude that perpetuates the system.
On a side note, being from Eastern Europe as well, I think that, at least mentally, it was different being poor here in the 80s/90s than it was in the western world. Basically you and all of your neighbors and everyone else around you would be poor (unless you were a party member). Everybody had the same starting point when democracy arrived and there was real incentive for factories to come up with a good balance between quality and cost.
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Oh you’re talking about the level of quality leveling off at a certain point when increasing price.

The quality difference between a $10 product and a $100 product of the same type is enormous. But then when you go up to $200 the quality increases much less. There is a name for this that I can’t recall right this second, the point being that there is a sweet spot price/quality wise for most things.
A Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all
Then why is it selling cars for a loss?
Fantastic advice: "Don't refer to Java as 'lower level language' in an interview."

Then again, in some environments that opinion might actually be a positive sign.
okay, I have to rent at most 4-5 times a year so definitely not the same experience
1. About 30% of the visible users on Matrix are on Matrix.org. So, yes.

2. Almost all public rooms seem to have users from other servers.

3. Account portability/multihoming is in the works at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787
It is not reasonable to assume. I may have different views about some traditions and customs but I may also understand that my views are not shared/accepted and act by the accepted norms even if I think they should change. "When in Rome…".
Thoughtcrime moving from fiction to reality looks very scary.
Is this serious? Why should other states import SFs homeless problem?
The purpose of this service isn't giving people the ability to block things they don't want to see, but to block things they don't want other people to see. Instead of censoring they make a tool to censor. Children of abusive parents end up being victims of such tools.
> Coffee is often grown in countries where there is a water shortage, such as Ethiopia.

I would imagine that the water shortage is a problem in the low altitude arid deserts near the coast, while coffee is grown in the high altitude inland mountainous regions.

Coffee needs a high altitude tropical climate with a lot of rainfall, that's why it is grown in tropical monsoon/rainforest climates (Brazil, Indonesia, Africa) where rain is abundant
Ah, I see what you mean now; yes, it's not reliable in the sense that there are ways to measure it that look a little harder. That being said, I'm not sure I'd classify it as "inaccurate"–it has, in my experience at least, been a fairly good first approximation of memory usage.
Unless you have been taught at a young age that cooking is something valuable, I've found out that a lot of adults run from it like hell. When covid hit, I expected people to start being reasonable with their budget (and health) and reckoned that food delivery services would have a rough time surviving.

Turns out, people started ordering food for home a lot more, even though they now had the time as well as the incentive to save money due to the uncertainty.
Sorry if this is off topic but as a windows user is there a good one around for that, that people would recommend
Ok, for those that want proof, its pretty simple to do.

1) we know that sending voice data to "HQ" costs power

2) we know that live transcription costs a huge wedge of power

3) we know that wakeword matching is quite power efficient. (see https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wake-word/, https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise)

So, in a quite room we know that to save power and data, devices won't be streaming data/listening. We can use that as a baseline for power and network usage.

Then we can start talking, measure that

then start saying watchwords and see what happens.

That aside, we know that its really expensive to listen & transcribe 24/7. Its far easier and cheaper to monitor your web activity and surmise your intentions from that. There are quite a few searches/website visits that strongly correlate to life events. Humans are not as unique and random as you may think, especially to a machine with perfect memory.
I'm waiting for Flutter to stop draining the battery. On my Mac, a single TextField with a blinking cursor inside uses somewhere between 10% and 20% CPU. This is a complete show stopper for me.
Because of sharding, we can’t use them at work. I haven’t thought of foreign keys in years…
When you are extremely to the left everything else is to the right, right?
And yet people don't. Are they so stupid and inept that they're physically incapable of this? Well, they can tie their shoelaces and go to work and carry out tasks at that job, so certainly not so stupid that they can't do this as well.

So I guess there must be something else going on here. I guess the situation must somehow be less simple and obvious than you assume. Reality, it appears, just doesn't match your simplistic view of how the world should work.
Frame is not the company. Andrew Frame is the CEO of Citizen.
The World’s Most Expensive Carpets
Am I the only one who wants to work from home and still get the 30k-a-year raise?

jokes apart, if remote culture consolidates with different compensation and benefit packages compared with those in the office, we'll likely start to see lawsuits in that matter.
Apple will stop making the iPhone?

That's crazy talk. It's literally their most successful product line ever.
It's not cultural, people are just different.

I'm not poor, which is thankful because it means I can live off food bars instead of having to prepare meals daily, which would annoy me a lot.
Why do you need a truck for that? What's wrong with trailers? Even my 2-door coupe can tow a 1800 kg trailer with brakes (750 kg for trailers without brakes).
Scroll all the way to the end for the short, bullet points answer to the question.

(The rest of the article is an anecdote. I kind of feel stupid for reading all of that now.)
> Normally, when you have a business and you produce something industrial, you have the plant somewhere and it makes a lot of dirt, and poison, and noise, and destroys the environment.

That’s... not how industry works anymore. The reason you don’t want to live in an industrial park is because they are bright, loud, and take up a ton of space so they destroy walkability.

To the larger point though. It’s a bit daft to compare not talking about politics to shooting Jews. The German guards most certainly discussed what they were doing and felt that it was the right thing.

If we’re going for melodramatic comparisons, political echo chambers in the workplace lead to the type of groupthink that result in real gas chambers.
> I don’t think there’s any evidence that most people agree with your perspective.

What perspective?
It's open-source: https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/wav2...
You don't mention where you are based currently, nor exactly what your "analytical science" entails.

Nevertheless, my suggestion would be to identify the companies that could best use your analytical science knowledge and expertise and then approach them directly. This path is more or less what many PhDs have used to land jobs in the brokering/funds industries. Combining two strong skills makes you a more appealing hire.
Soup that takes three minutes to make is a prepared food...

Anyway, for me, maybe 50/50 I'd forget the soup on the stove and it would char a bit.
Could this work on an M1, if optimized for its ML cores?
I don’t think that’s what the person you’re responding to is saying, and it seems like you’re saying it as if they’re talking about the primacy of feelings over facts. It’s a bit of a straw man.

Take the example they made of a KKK member - should they be trusted to make those decisions based on facts and evidence?
The thing is it may also explain preferences in other areas, which may affect interest and competence. It is good to have some gender balance in most workplaces, and imbalance may worsen work conditions. Balance can make it more attractive for the opposite sex in general, not just for the outlier few.
Yes, why would that be?
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> if there was "evidence" that not punishing murderers was the "best thing for society" (in terms of rehabilitation, crime rate, etc) would you support that policy?

Yes, if the "best thing .. in terms of .. crime rate" includes fewer murders. I prefer the package (fewer murders + higher percentage of murderers unpunished) over the package (more murders + lower percentage of murderers unpunished). Where unpunished does not mean "no reaction" but rather treatment, medication and rehabilitation.
There absolutely is a genetic basis for behaviour though. A bird doesn't sing because it likes music. But because genes that exhibit that trait have a competitive advantage. And the same kind of thing can be seen in humans, and most keenly in babies and toddlers. Suddenly something happens in their brain and behaviours emerge by instinct.

There could easily be a genetic basis for why girls and boys like different things. And that is interesting. And obviously other factors play a role (like TV and siblings). The mistake is to believe that this is somehow a restriction on free will. The amazing thing about humans is out ability to break out of our genetic mold. The robin can never make rock music, but we can.

Also, no one is suggesting that we isolate some kids on a desert island to see what would happen. But there is nothing wrong with running that thought experiment! And maybe that understanding can help us break out of our genetic mold. We might be able to catch bad instinctive behaviours in ourselves and moderate them.
The first image in the website links to a video[1] showing what it can do and why they're researching it.

[1] https://vimeo.com/551468278
You're thinking of the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
Slightly simpler:

c = x ^ y;
return popcount(((c >> 1) | 0x8080808080808080) - c) & 0x8080808080808080);
The 10-year-old boy who beat a chess grandmaster – but didn't want to boast
He's pretty much the programmer's John von Neumann of our time, isn't he? Or at least one of the few contenders for that title
I just listened to a conversation where Sam Harris paints a bleak picture after having spoken with leaders in tech.

Sam Harris (SH):

I was recently at a meeting of very connected people in tech and media. I won't name anyone but they are people who are or were running some of the biggest companies. These are people with massive influence and are on the same page with everything we've said here. But when told that they really should just present a united front here and not tolerate these mutinies of their woke employees. So the example I gave in this meeting is ... (Sam goes over the situation of Nicholas Christakis at Yale, omitted for brevity) ... So I floated that example to these captains of industry, and said at what point do your companies just hold the line? And say: if you feel that way go work somewhere else. And everyone in the room agreed that that was not going to happen, that there was no way that was going to happen.

Jesse Singal (JS):

Just because of the backlash you mean?

SH:

Yeah that it has gone too far, it's too scary, there is too much money to lose. It went over like a lead balloon, it was a complete non-starter. I kept pushing it, the people in this room literally know everybody, you could have a star chamber meeting where everyone agreed to be on the same page here, so that the mutineers from Google couldn't just jump over to Amazon or Facebook or Apple. You could literally get everyone to agree to just wake up simultaneously. They said: there's no way it's going to happen. It's over. It was an incredibly bleak picture coming from people who either are at the top or were at the top of some of the biggest businesses in tech and media. Which suggested to me that the situation is worse than I thought, not better.

The above is a partial transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18mvHPN9mY from 36:55 forward.
Just checkout the Walmart website; a bag of onions is $2, carrots is $.80, and celery is $1.30. one pound of minced beef is $3.70 tinned tomatoes for $.50 and spaghetti is $0.80. that's a meal for 4 for $9 and takes ~30 minutes to prepare and clean up.

Cooked well, that will lead you to a bland meal. Cooked badly it will be pretty awful. If you're used to high in salt/sugar it will taste awful regardless.

Craft Mac and cheese is $1/portion and ready in less than 10 minutes with one dish.

[0] https://www.walmart.com/grocery/search/
Someone bought me a really good pair of shoes 30 years ago based on the state of my own shoes at the time. A simple act of kindness I won't forget.
“Extensive evidence of similar scenarios”?

So if in another company a man discriminated against a woman, it increases the probability that the same thing is happening to the OP?

That sounds quite sexist actually. You’re basically stereotyping men based on a few bad actors.
But is it, though?
Seems like they actually are the Watch Company.
Looks great for bar staff
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-than-5p...
> Just stop to think about it logically for a minute... is the workplace the best place to circulate a petition condemning something that has nothing to do with work?

You spent most of your waking hours at work. The slave mentality required to basically turn off your moral compass while you are there (for 8+ hours) - that's mind bending to me
It does make me wonder: if we wrote an LZ77-based algorithm (like gzip and xz) with that time-budget in mind, could we match NNCP?
Elixir v1.12 Released
Yep, but file metadata still takes some space.
Attach a "$1000" security device to each item. It gets taken off at the counter.
Totally. Plus FFmpeg…
Poverty is such a relative thing. There are some things on this list that, while I can understand how they are hallmarks of poverty in the US, are completely alien to what's considered to be poverty where I am from (a car? Buying cereal?)

Then again maybe we are all just horrifically poor here apart from a select few. Western indices certainly seem to think so.
I think hero-worship in any field is weird and unhealthy. That said, Bellard is astonishingly talented and prolific and it's hard to look at someone like that and say he's just a mortal who tries his best to write code, just like everyone else.

So what is it that causes this big gulf in productivity? I know that as a programmer I have all sorts of internal and external obstacles to just sitting down and churning out entire projects, let alone something useful with clever and high-quality code. Is a 10x rockstar just somebody who's been able to eliminate most of their obstacles, and has some amount of talent left over to solve problems with?
Compression speed is around 2 KB/sec.

Apologies if this is a noob question, but could you improve it with training?
>But IME, your brain needs time to get used to these kinds of things and build them into its proprioception.

Their video [1] says that it's very intuitive and people can do basic stuff with it in minutes.

[1] https://vimeo.com/551468278
If your data is metered, is a good idea for peace of mind. Otherwise you risk someone dosing you and getting a large bill. That applies to both static or dynamic content.