skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obsession of 'China bad' now is absurdly similar to the ’US bad' during China's darkest period before opening up.
Violent crime wasn’t down, unfortunately, and it is actually going up.
They’ve never failed to turn off automatically when a car is coming in my experience. In fact, they turn off more reliably than if I was doing it myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus_(song)
Not mean to correct you, but China's still getting wealthier. Xi has generally kept his economy policies along the lines of his predessors, though politically it does seems he is much more conservative and nationalistic.
>"We provide evidence that regular cannabis use is associated with gray matter volume reduction in the medial temporal cortex, temporal pole, parahippocampal gyrus, insula, and orbitofrontal cortex;"

Yet another study that shows this. But what use do these studies have in a world where legalisation is becoming more and more widespread? How can we do something about the findings? (I'm actually asking, not trying to argue for legalisation one way or the other.)
Another question might be something like: I know you need to pay me less than the value I create, because this needs to be a mutually profitable arrangement. How much value do you expect I can bring to the company?

Or maybe the more open ended question is better?

I do like Never Split the Difference, great book. The most common complaint against it is that the author is a bit arrogant, but having read a couple other negotiation books first, I found the author's approach more fair and "real" than the bag-of-manipulative-tricks I found in the other books.

Also, since it's the CTO your talking to, try to establish an (for lack of a better term) "tech people versus the rest of the world" mentality, then he will be more likely to side with you. As we've all seen, people side with their own perceived group. I don't mean this to be as aggressive as it sounds, just try to use the natural camaraderie between tech workers.
I believe spherically symmetric bubbles in subluminal regime are more interesting than any warp drive solutions suggested so far. Firstly, they do not require negative energy. Secondly, the passengers in such bubbles age less by the time they reach any destination compared to other warp drives or conventional rockets. Given that exceeding the speed of light is fundamentally prohibited by physics, I would say that spherically symmetric warp drives are the most interesting warp drive constructions we got so far.
I could be wrong but even if you choose not to join the system I think it might still count against views. But you can dig into the story settings and get a referrer link that does not eat page views.
> Are you saying that a single BTC transaction verification provides anywhere near the utility as refrigerating food for four years?

judging by the price, yes it does apparently.

And that's where your opinion differs from mine - i don't place a utility judgement on the use of energy. If somebody is willing to pay for their use of electricity, they deserve to use it. As an outsider, i don't get to police anyone else's use of their electricity they pay for, no matter what i think of the actual use.

Of course, this presumes that the cost of the electricity is not somewhat externalized. Unfortunately, that is not quite the case today.
The song Lateralus by the band Tool, is all based on the Fibonacci sequence, and it's a masterpiece. Here goes the link if someone is curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7JG63IuaWs

Enjoy :)
So what part of falling in love with people in the lab, people in the lab falling in love with you, and that affecting concentration and productivity, is so evil as to get someone fired?

Sorry, honest question. Being from a different culture, I honestly fail to get this kind of outrage. For me it's just a description of humans being human...
They already expect you negotiating the offer that's why they lowballed on your expectations. 40 to 30 is already 1/4th of a cut in negotiations.

Just call them up and say all the nice things like great company, thanks for taking time, but then start counting your strengths and finally say that I think I bring a lot more value and these were my expectations and please think and talk about this internally and let me know.

They will most probably come back with a higher number.
6 months of potential time and money lost is a high cost for treating it as an experiment.
IMHO: with the latest fix -> more stable

search for "crash":

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.3/ ( 11x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.4/ ( 4x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.5/ ( 1x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.6/ ( 3x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.7/ ( 14x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.8/ ( 5x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.9/ ( 6x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.10/ ( 5x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.11/ ( 3x )

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.12/ ( 5x )
I think most mainlander Chinese like me would appreciate the vision of the politicians who chose to engage with the Communist Party—-We’re glad we don’t live in a West Korea as a result.

The real problem came when the Beijing model began to free-ride on the openness of the West: internet companies can go West but not East; same with some cultural exchanges, media and information. Trade rules failing to address unique tricks the Leninist party-state is able to pull. Failing to see the risk of the system generating mini-Mao-style dictators. To be fair before Xi we were on a somewhat benign track with regular transitions of power.
Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
Japan Etiquette
Wedding Rings: Have men always worn them? (2011)
That confused me a lot too, curious to know what it refers to. I find Google Meet quite easy to use and it works well, the only weird part is that sometimes I have to wait for people to let me in, sometimes not. Not a dark pattern though, just bad design.
The guy at the end is drinking. I though it was just water. Times have changed. My dad worked on Bart during the 70. He said, drinking was commonplace, at least amomg electricians.

The first man from the right has been identified as Slovak worker Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič from the village of Vyšný Slavkov in the Levoča District of Slovakia. Popovič was originally a lumberjack and carpenter. In 1932 he sent his wife Mária (Mariška) a postcard with this photograph on which he wrote, "Don't you worry, my dear Mariška, as you can see I'm still with bottle. Your Gusti."
I realize this is somewhat unrelated, but it still boggles my mind that it was a cancellable offense to suggest an investigation occur for a lab-leak origin from March 2020 through roughly January 2021.

I do not know what to make of it, but something about that feels terribly, horribly awry.
Absolutely. Bought Bowie’s Blackstar on vinyl. Just seemed to fit somehow.
Right but you wouldn't be able to make the claim that the market is centralized based on these factors.
I was in this situation: the (remote) company paid based on location, but also they paid about 2-3x as much as top companies from my country, and definitely 3-4x as much as what I earned in the previous job (local company).

Just want to say that it doesn't need to be all bad.
> Medical research and bridge-building are mostly rigorous, programming is mostly non-rigorous.

Medical research and bridge-building are increasingly dependent on programming. Maybe they are less rigorous than we like to think?
There are many levels of analysis to a paper. Yours is part of it but not the full picture. One other thing is the novelty aspect. To assess that, you need to know the current state of the field. Also the best practices, known methodological pitfalls, judge what is a valid chain of reasoning and what is too speculative etc. It's far from simple and I often see outsiders online criticizing largely irrelevant things while missing core issues. There's no shortcut to expertise in a field. You need first hand experience and knowledge of the state of the art. Otherwise, if papers have to talk to laypeople or generic scientists, we'll see even more smokes and mirrors. The idea of peer review is that a work should be challenged by those best equipped to challenge it.
Oh I need to try this. My enamel has been bad since I was a kid in spite of a great oral hygiene routine. Constant problems.

My dentist turned me on to Colgate Prevident and the regular Sensodyne fluoride pastes but never that one.
I'm afraid of being downvoted, but the algorithm for an Amazon return looks something like:

Your LTV = Forecasting total revenue
from your transactions so far
Revenue = The sum of your past
transactions
Refund? = LTV - Revenue - Refund Cost > 0

This is a much simpler, much more logical model. It appears everywhere, like with credit card disputes or when you get service discounts to not leave. Because when you don't get the refund for a $7,000 item, the assumption is you will "die" - quit using the service, stop buying, whatever - and your LTV - revenue is now zero.

What is frustrating to people is: it doesn't matter what happened to the package. You feel like you're this good person pursuing this great justice, but the simple facts are it doesn't matter what actually occurred. This is coming from someone who had two $3,500 computer deliveries stolen, probably because they had RTX 3080 written on them, but like, Amazon didn't care, it just refunded me. I didn't have to provide evidence or explain anything. Because my LTV was really high. Same with getting stuff refunded on my credit card. They simply did not care, and it was thousands of dollars of stuff where, obviously I was in the wrong, you can't just refund like airfare and such, but I asked for it and I got it because LTV.

Is this just? Like how else could it work? They investigate everything, spending more money than the cost of the refund? They would just not provide refunds, as was the case historically in e-commerce! And it's not Amazon, it's everyone. Indeed, the real innovation here isn't the strategy, it's that LTV forecasting has gotten really accurate. Otherwise I feel like these threads devolve into, people who don't know anything complain about stuff they keep using, and nobody critically looks into what's really going on.

There's an emotional desire, ironically, for this slow, legalistic, argumentative, plaintiff versus defense world. You know, when it suits you. The algorithmic approach, as soon as you open that Pandora's box, well of course it optimizes all that crap away - the LTV model of "justice" here is, in my opinion, a lot lot better.

It's just so inscrutable to a lay person, such a baffling reorganization of at least two decades of conditioning, I can see how the reaction is, "Oh my god, who is this blowhard, downvote." All I'm trying to do is share the facts of how remedies really work when you interact with giant, growing, successful companies.
I'm not sure we understood the parent comment the same way but you're right, you can't get your money back if sent to someone uncooperative. However, you can call the authorities and prove that you sent funds to that person and let them recover it if possible. I only addressed the question of attribution.
My experience is that books are mostly still OK (US based) but the frequency of getting a new book that is slightly damaged has increased significantly. Even books that are shrink wrapped by the publisher sometimes come with corner or other damage (which may or may not have happened once in Amazon's hands, but I should not have to tolerate).

What I can say with certainty is that the attention to shipping the books has plummeted compared to the early years of Amazon. Back then they would put the book(s) on a piece of cardboard and shrink wrap that and then put some of the bubble stuff in the box.

Now you are lucky if they even put any filler in the box and best hope its not a rainy day and delivery leaves the package outside your door as boxes are flimsier and not always sealed tightly.
> I mentioned that Chad's flag is identical to the Romanian flag.

I find this unconvincing evidence because: you already knew this (somehow) and found it an interesting piece of trivia to bring up at that time. It's unsurprising, then, that a YouTube channel also finds it interesting.

It's very likely that you were influenced to remember this piece of trivia because of something you observed, like (for example) subconsciously spotting an advert.

These are common advertisements. You only noticed them the next day because you talked about them the previous day.
IDK man, less than 13" is a struggle for me, specially outdoors. If you need to scroll, or change between stuff and such, I don't how such small device won't get in the way.

It looks cool, but a bit casual.
Yes, I'm worried that until it gets significant traction outside Taiwan, it is vulnerable to the political fortunes there... Wider participation in the project would be very beneficial, now and in any darker future. Would love to see update even at the municipal level overseas.
Founder here. AMA :)

To answer a few recurring questions in the thread

---> Use case.

Video is a way more effective way to communicate than text. Not for the HN crowd, but if you're a blue collar worker a 2 minute video in your native language is much preferred to a 5 page pdf for training.

Anyone who has tried to record a simple corporate video know the pain of cameras, film crews, 25 takes to get one that works and post production. Cumbersome, slow and multidisciplinary. By the time the video is done the content is out of date.

Synthetic video is not yet at the quality of real video. Eventually it will be. But the mistake many are making here is comparing it to real video; it should be compared with text.

In X years we'll be able to make Hollywood films on a laptop without needing anything but time and imagination. Just like we can digitally compose music in Ableton, create images in Photoshop and type novels on keyboards rather than with pen and paper.

My (obviously biased;)) belief is that synthetic media will eventually become foundational technology that will move media production from cameras/microphones to API's. We'll be able to do all kind of things we couldn't do before.

Eg. personalized and interactive rich media, video-driven chatbots and eventually Hollywood blockbusters made by your favourite YouTuber from his or her bedroom.

---> Uncanny valley

Simulating real video is incredibly hard. We're constantly improving and launching more expressive synthesis soon.

From our tests with some of our largest clients 8/10 people don't realise it's a synthetic video (unless they are asked to look for it).

---> Tech

Has been developed over the last 3 yrs. Origins/team from Stanford/UCL/TUM.

Learning: Going from research to working, scaleable product is hard and takes time. But very rewarding when it works.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc5P2bvfl44

---> Bad uses

Bad actors will do bad things with synthetic media. Like with any other technology from smartphones to cars. We're moderating all content and building safeguards and verification + working with FAANG and others on detection and provenance technology.

Recommended read - deepfakes perfectly follow the story arc of any new, powerful technology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916209193...

---> Actors

Real actors getting rev share + upfront free from every video generated with their likeness. Like being a stock photo actor.
I think he's arrived at the wrong conclusion. It's more likely because he shared an IP address with the original targeted user (mother). Occam's IP.

That said, I'd expect a privacy tech worker to have adblocking on their devices and such a thing to not happen in the first place.
Of course it was. It is a completely different issue now after it became clear that China will not open its markets, and went openly adversarial
Gilboa is the one I've heard about. When they were building the dam there, a quarry (to get rock to face the dam) unearthed a world-famous Lagerstätte of Devonian era fossilized trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilboa_Fossil_Forest
Welp, just an illustration. Sorry for the confusion
As the Twitter thread says this has been debunked many times. People have been sniffing traffic for years trying to find evidence of this. However, the point of the thread is that they don't need to since they have other, possibly more sinister, ways to target you.
A New Worker-Owned Cooperative Starts Competing with Uber and Lyft
Current wisdom != a single blog post.

I disagree with every single one of his points btw and from the looks of it, so do a lot of others.
You could almost say the same thing about china!
Wouldn't it be possible that the wife looked up the flag topic on Google after the discussion and that it got mixed up as both devices shared the same (external) IP during that time? And because of that you got this suggestion? Just playing devils advocate here.
What products have they said and then not seen ads for?
History is a bit longer than 50~ years.
And, at least internally, European social democratic system is rather good at balancing both for well being, and freedom.
While the US system less so.
I don't think the problem is "socialism"
The fact that most websites asks me to accept cookies _every single time_ I visit is quite reassuring. If they can't even remember that I've visited their site a hundred times before, I'm not so worried about their tracking.
My favorite description is: Creative problem solving with computers for almost any application area.
Yes I still do and I FLAC them. I've been collecting CD's for 35 years, so it's difficult to stop. I am sometimes envious of the high-res downloads, but whenever I hear digital clipping in the 16-bit CD version, the clipping has always been present in the 24-bit version too.
From the original twitter thread posted here on HN as link for discussion:

> First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It's been debunked over and over again.

But frankly they don't need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.
oh get off it. I personally cant afford the better classes, and I support this decision. 99% of the shitty people that do stuff like this, are in coach.

Punish the people who are causing the problem, not everyone.
I have an amazing story.

Moved into a new place, in Poland. Bought a new smart TV, it was a Samsung (kaput after 2 years). Me and my wife decided to have an impromptu singing session just bellowing out 'Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel' in a Pitbull (Cuban rapper) style whilst looking for holidays to book.

Within the next 5 minutes, Trivago was on the TV. Now bear in mind I have literally never seen Trivago being advertising on the TV and all of a sudden their catchphrase at the end of the ad got me 'Hotel, Trivago'.

Safe to say me and wife had a few minutes of WTF just staring at the screen then each other. That's when I truly became convinced that everything is listening. Could have been a coincidence though but it was an almighty coincidence to say the least.
I would add that what is basically Computer Science curriculum is called “Programtervező Informatika” (roughly software engineering/modeling informatics~=compsci) while what is generally the same as Computer Science Engineering is called “Mérnökinformatika” (roughly engineering informatics).

But you are right that as a job description, “informatikus” is a more basic position than “programozó”=developer/software engineer, etc.
Name a high price first and they'll either have to justify their lower price or walk away altogether . Or if you don't have enough knowledge of what you're worth to them, maybe you miss out on an even higher initial offer they were willing to make.

Whether it's best to anchor really depends on whether you can accurately estimate the top end of what they'll actually be willing to offer, or know they aggressively lowball everyone.
That didn’t happen though. Even today you can find Winnie the Pooh memes on Chinese social media. Most Chinese people think they’re racist and uninteresting, but that’s a different matter.
The wife gives everything every permission it wants. She has no interest in protecting "privacy", the concept is meaningless to her. She wants Facebook and games and icon packs. How could installing an icon pack be "dangerous"?!? I'm the bad guy for mentioning it.

Her phone is a Samsung A50 probably Android 10 or 11.

> we only have years of anecdotes but zero such trials.

There's some quip about lack of evidence not equating evidence of lacking. But more importantly: at some point the quantity of individual anecdotes, along with the technical ability and interest of the parties involved, become data in and of itself.
I'll go one further and say that some are actually quicker than Amazon. I've recently bought two different items from bestbuy.com that I would have normally bought from Amazon when prime shipping actually took two days.

In both cases bestbuy's free shipping could get the items to my house 1 day quicker than amazon so I went with them.
China Responds to Kevin Rudd
This is just an instance of Conway's Law:

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
— Melvin E. Conway
Samsung doesn't "make" its phones in Vietnam. It assembles its phones in Vietnam using parts imported from China. 5G, battery protection circuits, microphones and speakers... Those are all Chinese in every phone regardless of where it is assembled AFAIK.
That’s not the entire truth. At some point marginal cost versus other options comes into play, especially if I’m in a business with generally fixed rates for work (like outsourcing/contracting.)

The OP should negotiate up (especially if they have data on comparable pay they can use), but what others in the market with comparable skill are willing to take also matters.
Sounds like coincidence mixed with confirmation bias. The likelier explanation for stories like this.
Just an FYI to people who don't agree with me and downvoting me or thinking about flagging this, it doesn't affect me in anyway. The Hackernews karma doesn't feed me or my family. I'm just sharing what I think, without any malice towards the people of China. But I can understand why some might think that way. Just wanted to clarify that I've no personal hatred towards people who live in China. Just like I've no personal hatred towards people living in North Korea and for that matter the Germans who lived in Germany during Nazi rule. Sometimes it's just too late before the people can do anything.
I mean, I'm pretty sure we know our phones aren't listening. We have privacy controls for microphone access and people are checking this stuff pretty regularly because they're scared of it too.

If that video about flags appeared when you hadn't talked about flags would you have thought about it? Probably not. You only made a note of it because you'd talked about flags and it "confirmed" your suspicions about phones listening to us.

What initially led you to talk about flags? Was flags something you'd actually looked at before? Maybe, but again you probably never thought anything of it and you probably can't remember whether you did or not. But youtube would remember.

Advertisers also use so many different things about you. They estimate or know your age, interests, location, eating habits, etc.
Yes but unfortunately Gitlab’s choice of features that go into the non free vs the open source version seem increasingly designed to deter use of the open source version.

Even on installing the self hosted Gitlab, the open source version is hidden, with the free yet closed source version being pushed.
Honestly, the people who jump to conclusions about him saying this need to read some Berné Brown.
I stopped buying anything over $200 from Amazon for this reason. Just not worth it. Amazon wants to sell cheap Chinese junk and nothing more.