skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's particularly sad. It is proof that the incel community really does enough "damage" that they have to be suppressed. I am curious as to when this was removed, and why it was removed.
The right to be forgotten only applies to people to whom the GDPR applies, which is a minority of Google users.
Meta-humor, maybe? "A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
> And the rise in housing prices is a bubble created by monetary inflation.

That doesn't account for the vast difference in price based on locale. Inflation is not locale based, but housing prices definitely are.

I don't doubt that monetary policy affects housing, because it makes it easier to get loans which will affect demand, and thus pricing, but it's not the whole story, and may not even be half the story depending on the area. For example, another thing that affected demand is urbanization. But, interestingly, the rate of urbanization seems to have decreased since the 1970s (and in some regions actually regressed in the 1970 in total, not in rate of change).[1]

I think this needs to be accounted for in any coherent theory that tries to link monetary policy to lack of savings now compared to the past, when we already know that housing prices have risen much faster but that housing prices are also extremely locale based, which monetary policy isn't.

Ultimately, while I think monetary is powerful in how it affects myriad things, I think we would be remiss to use it as an explanation for everything just because it's easy to point to. Most things are far more complex than that and have many inputs that affect them, and without careful examination we can't be sure if monetary policy was the majority of the reason, or even the primary reason.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
Wasn't able to read past the first paragraph due to paywall, but the first 2 sentences stuck out:

> Power in the U.S. flows through the gates of the Ivy League and a very small tier of other top universities. These institutions set and sanction the boundaries of knowledge, including what kinds of political and social views are welcomed in prestige cultural spaces.

Is that really the case anymore? If the last year has shown us anything, its that technology has further empowered grassroots ideas and activism, and that technology companies themselves are furthering their own influence in politics and knowledge (the free flow of information that is true and not true) way beyond what influencers in academia alone can do right now.
Exactly what I just suggested.

Surely control of the AppStore (ie. no 2nd store owned by Epic) is massively preferable to Apple long term.

AppStore revenue isn't a massive part of their earnings. But control over their own hardware has to be right up there as a priority.
After staring at the MatLab[https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/atan2.html#buct8h0...] explanation, I have to admit I don't really get that. Minus zero is a encoding artifact. Values of [x,y] with either `x == 0` or `y == 0` don't have, in the mathematical sense, a quadrant. The fact that a convention preserves an encoding artifact doesn't make it useful.

E.g. I've seen it argued that +0 and -0 represent limits of functions that approach zero from the negative side or the positive side. But that makes no sense, because no other floating point number represents a limit going from above or below the number, so why should 0? Also, all this walking on eggshells around a possible -0 (because that represents the limit of 0 coming from below 0) is just lost when someone writes 0. Admittedly, I've not seen the guts of most numerical code, but the only time I have ever seen a minus 0 written into code was to test the minus-zero handling of something.

/shrug
> And the elite universities have acted on it, and many of their new classes are very different.

No less elitist though. The idea of a selective college is elitist. The more selective, the more elitist. All the progressive talk is cant.
Wouldn't a supercookie like that make things more secure though? You could even use it for fingerprinting to help combat things like spam.
Yep. The HN whataboutism is really annoying
What would they do if every man spent 30 min writing a super long message that is drowned out by the other 1000 messages? They wouldn't spend the 2000 minutes it would take to skim all of them. I certainly would give up after 10 messages.
"so few women study technical topics"

I don't even know what to say to this. Is [picks from list] speech pathologist, dental hygienist, nurse, payroll clerk or hairdresser NOT a job that involves a fair amount of knowledge, training, and skill?

Just because it's not EE or CS doesn't mean there isn't a wealth of technical and scientific understanding (or even just an understanding of the legal environment) going on behind the scenes of a profession.

So you're probably not going to find a girl who has exactly the same job as you and wants to date you -- but if you ask them to explain their profession to you, you might just learn there's a lot going on under the hood.

"they have to settle with women they have little in common with"

Again, this is just a lack of imagination. I studied a bit of chemistry, my wife studied a lot of chemistry, we appreciate that chemistry is cool. Just because I went with computers and she went with medicine doesn't mean we have "little in common"; we just find other topics to geek-out about.

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."
― Bill Nye

[1] list was https://fourpillarfreedom.com/visualizing-u-s-occupational-e...
Another issue is the usage of BERT and other dense vector techniques. These are not as good at bm-25/tf-idf for information retrieval. This is one reason why google search results these days do a poor job when you need direct keyword based results.

Also, google has always personalized their search results (personalized pagerank) and maybe that's impacting you?
Professional hide-and-go-seek is a painful reality. The lost server, lost VM, lost power outlet, lost cable drop etc. It’s usually funny in hindsight but painful at the time.
In a rules based system, maybe.

In a "holistic" system, where they pick whoever they want to pick, pissing the selectors off will not work.
Who closes slack for more than 5 minutes though? My desktop slack is pretty much running 24/7.
We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors

In this belly of a whale

Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting

I guess we have some time to kill

- The Mariner’s Revenge Song, The Decemberists
maybe I was looking at bad data? this says 51.2% of retail ecommerce

https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2021/amazon-walmart-nearl...
Definitely! I made some too:

https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w

There are a few videos (not just this one) where I tweaked the rules arbitrarily but got realty interesting behavior!
No they don't. Also optix isn't a renderer, it just traces rays and runs shaders on the ray hits on nvidia cards. Memory limitations and immature renderers hinder gpu rendering. The makers of gpu renderers want you to think it's what most companies use, but it is not.

Also Hollywood is a city and most computer animation is not done there. The big movie studios aren't even in Hollywood except for paramount.
Quote: "At a virtual session, the Senate approved S4104 by a margin of 51 to 12"

Who are those 12? Name them and make sure they don't get reelected.
I think there's still a lot of research to be done in this area, but most of what I've read shows that exercise has minimal impact on this (and on obesity) and for both, diet is a far larger contributing factor. That said, it's not even conclusive that diet has been the cause of lower T levels over the years. That's part of why it's so disturbing... we have this huge change in a core part of the biological basis of masculinity at the same time as we're seeing social shifts that seem affected by it (both positive and negative) and minimal research funding seems directed at these questions (although there's been enough research over the years that the preponderance of evidence really strongly points to plastics critically messing with our hormone balances as humans).
Switzerland's bank secrecy lost not because of a tax cartel but because FATCA was signed to allow the United States to unconstitutionally give itself universal jurisdiction over bank accounts held by American customers. It was a "my way or high way" power play by the Obama administration coupled with a punishing increase of citizenship renunciation fees from 0 to the highest in the world at nearly $2.5k.
Traveling and even just being new to a town is a huge time suck. Every errand takes twice as long because you don't just have to do it. You have to choose a place, find it, etc. I won't try to visit somewhere and work for less than three months.

There are two ways to make it work I just thought of. One is to have your errands taken care of. Maybe this is because you're visiting family and the groceries are already there. Or, you're rich enough (in that place at least) to pay for someone to do everything. The other big option is to be on tour. Travel in a big group where the work and the travel blend together and there's an efficiency in numbers.
I’d never heard the word cromulent until I came to HN.
Facebook employee here. A significant chunk of onboarding is driving the message through that if you abuse your powers as an engineer to access personal user data, you will be insta-fired without warning. There are a number of checks in place to ensure that employees that don't need access to the data for their specific work cannot get it either.

Additionally, the privacy review process for new products/features is extremely stringent and time consuming. Product teams have been hamstrung significantly, with some engineers I know complaining that they're not even able to get half as much work done as they used to.
They remove tons of stuff as they're run by Democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=&cycle...

Use DuckDuckGo. Google is a neoliberal censor.
Windows already asks if you're sure when you try to change a file's extension.
I thought reverb was mainly implemented with running windowed convolution, making delay line tuning not important.
we don’t know what was said at the briefing.
Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
Don’t some cities use RF to communicate between traffic signals at intersections?

I notice when driving I get FM radio interference on some intersections in my current city
Doesn't matter. Serials numbers can be spoofed, chips can be found in already discarded electronics of the same model by other reasons. Have 2 or 3 broken phones, make one good from them. The bill is a big step in preventing Apple suing the local shop that was doing just that.
Humans, the unpatchable vulnerability.
You can usually audit classes of local universities. I’ve done it, and I recommend it!
> A child of a high-school teacher simply isn't becoming an Olympic figure skater. The monetary investment is far too titanic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hanyu

> Regarded as one of, if not the greatest male figure skater in history, Hanyu has broken world records nineteen times ...

> Hanyu was born ... the second and youngest child to his father, who is a junior high school teacher

Oh, maybe this doesn't count? After all, his father was a junior high school teacher. /s
Particularly when they're looking for the important personality trait of not Asian.
Why would I hire engineers to set up mixpanel? You hire marketing people for that!
At least some of these CEOs fomented the wokeness and tried to utilize it until it became a liability.

I worked at one of the companies mentioned in the article, and remember the CEO saying at town halls "there is no better company than <this company> to enact positive change in the world today" and pat themselves on the bat.
I think he is opinionated, in that he knows what he likes so will do that and not waste time on anything else. But snob implies he'd judge you for not liking the same things, which I definitely disagree with. I do agree he has a bit of a cult following.
How to Become Invisible Online
Careers, relationships, etc. No one wants to admit how much of their life was a random thing they just kept doing.
Oops, I've been misreading that for ages; thanks for the correction.
> Given that the vast majority breakups are initiated by women

I suspect what the poster meant to write was that most divorces are initiated by women. Which is a different statistic but still somewhat relevant. It's actually true, it's around 69% that are initiated by women. Here's the study i quickly found for it which seems credible https://www.asanet.org/press-center/press-releases/women-mor...

Interestingly it explicitly states that there's no large difference for non-marital relationships. So the poster is incorrect about breakups in general.

Speaking anecdotally from my own experience, there is a pervasive fear of marriage and raising children amongst men. Most believe that if you get divorced you'll be left destroyed financially and denied access to your children regardless of the circumstances and that getting divorced is extremely likely. Whether that's actually true or not, I don't actually know, but it's still widely believed and influencing men's behavior/plans all the same. I suspect that's a big factor in the frequency of men who don't seem to care about having their shit together. From my own observation of divorces within my extended family and those of my close friends, it does seem to be true to me. Many divorces I've been privy to, seem to almost always end with the man living a much lower standard of living by himself with restricted access to children, while the mother lives in the family home with a higher standard of living that the ex-husband pays for. Totally anecdotal of course, but it certainly makes me extremely cautious when considering marriage and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of young men don't even consider it.
I read this a lot, but I've always had better results using the back of my knife. The top of the blade is squared off and peels ginger perfectly (better than when I tried a spoon) and I'm already holding it.
To paraphrase the moderator of comp.compilers from many years ago, everything is easier if you always keep in mind that TCL is a string substitution language.
I already addressed this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476900
Ok, well sort of. The consequences of seigniorage are afforded to those that spend the money earliest, including borrowers if the money borrowed is newly created money. However, the borrowers are paying for that privilege. And everyone else is paying for that privilege down the line. IE the borrower pays interest well in excess of any seigniorage realted benefits, the people or companies he pays with that loan money are selling things to him at a lower rate than they should based on the increased money supply (becuase that information takes time to propagate through the market), so when they spend the money, they have already been taxed.

But most banks aren't the originator of that money. The Fed creates money, all other banks lend it out which causes a money multiplier effect. However, the money multiplier doesn't actually affect prices directly - beause most of that money are deposits, ie they're not being used. Money only leads to price inflation when its spent. Banks gain seigniorage by having first access to money lent out or spent by The Fed. If they need extra money to cover for too little deposits, The Fed is there to give those banks below-market-rate loans. If the government needs to borrow more money and banks don't have enough to buy the bonds, The Fed will buy bonds from banks at above market rates so those banks can buy more bonds with the money they get back from that. That's where the seigniorage happens.

There are also financial institutions that banks give benefits to (cheap loans for example). Those financial institutions also benefit from seigniorage by getting those cheap loans. Ordinary people aren't getting cheaper loans tho. If anything, the monetary inflation pushes loan rates up, even as nil resere requirements and a low discount rate have pushed them down.
Do you know what a pointed question is?
Viruses are invisible. Pandemics are NOT. I don't see a pandemic so I will not be taking the jib jab. My body my choice.
Watched for the first time just now. I love the PoV videos! It's really helpful to see just what the hands are doing, and no cuts.

The biggest gaps in written IMHO tend to be (a) things people do but don't realize they do, (b) things people do but assume everyone else already knows, (c) things people do more efficiently but don't think to mention (obvious example: use a cook time break to clean prep-ware).
There's an old saying, "if it walks like a duck".
Is India in on it, too? https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/new-treatment-guide...

In all honesty, do you consider yourself a rational person? As in, is there something that could actually convince you that those drugs don't do much for Covid? I ask with absolute sincerity.
"The best X" is just good marketing. I've generally found him to be very up front with the criteria he's using to judge a particular food, and where there's a well-known broad range of tastes (like with chocolate chip cookies), he often includes information on how to get different results than he personally prefers. But the goal of those articles _is_ to find the best way to make (a particular style of) that dish, so the title is fair.

Sure, he could put "in my opinion" and "to me" all over the place, but that would just be useless clutter. Everyone knows that "best" when referring to an aesthetic experience is always a subjective matter.
Sure, one can get intellectual stimulation from other men, but having an intellectual partner means one can have intellectual stimulation around the clock – if you think of something interesting at any hour of the day, you have someone to share it and discuss it with. I value my male friends, but you can't reasonably expect to see them more than a few hours a week, and many gradually fall away as they e.g. get bogged down in childrearing that no longer leaves them time for the intellectual things that once bound us together. Your feeling that the woman won't have time to provide companionship doesn’t necessary hold in this day and age when more and more people doing knowledge work are working remotely, so you might be sitting together most of the day.

Also, if one's particular interesting in learning extends to longterm travels, immersing oneself in foreign countries to study the languages or aspects of culture there, your male friends are probably not going to accompany you for more than a brief time. When people go on longterm travels, it is their partners that they rely on for companionship. (That holds, of course, for non-intellectual people traveling, too, as anyone in the bikepacking or overlanding scenes can tell you.)

For a bookish person, being in a relationship with a partner who merely has "good qualities", but who doesn't share that basic context, can mean feeling like one is not truly understood and there is a barrier between you. There is nothing worse than being in a relationship yet feeling alone.
i tried this once recently -- my email was just ignored. :-D

but i appreciate the hustle - i would do it again.

i think the hiring process is - i mean it's hard to put an actual percentage on it - but 50% completely arbitrary.

or 100% partially arbitrary.

in this cycle, i was offered lead technical role (at a serious database tech company), and rejected for a much more junior tech support role -- because i didn't know enough sql. :-D

you can't make this shit up.

i think half the people i interview with are legit stupid.

maybe that's a bit strong of a word, but i use it in an all-encompassing sense -- stupid, naive, incompetent, lazy, B or C players, etc., some combination of all of the above -- just not people who i would respect on a technical or high-performing-professional level.

as very flawed human beings deserving of the same dignity as everyone else?

of course.

point is, you may be doing something wrong.

or you might just be having a bad run, maybe a bit too picky, maybe there's a pandemic and now you're not just competing with other upper-class white males from America but with everyone from all over the world.

ping me if you want a second opinion on your job search/process.

i started as a dev, then support, then product, now tam.
Show HN: Understanding how Arduino works using cscope and ctags
Relatively accurate projection detection should be feasible for some, particularly vector, maps. Perhaps a library for this could be made. A simple approach would be convolution of nearby topographic features by assumed potential projection and then a least-difference comparison with observed positions. I am sure the CIA foreign map processing people have had this stuff for decades already.
The only question not answered is "Wtf is tables?" Smh.
If I may share a recipe, his par-boiled baking soda roasted potatoes are a simple but amazing addition to my kit.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-roast-potatoes-ever-rec...

I doubt he invented it, but I don't doubt he tested and researched it exhaustively. For me it comes down to three things: the baking soda eating the exterior and making a "fluffy" (surface area) result, the infused oil for flavour without burning the herbs, and the placement on a bare metal baking tray for crisping.
>> Ads today are almost indistinguishable from organic content

> If that's the problem then there should be specific rules addressing that.

Honest question, why? If ads make the experience worse for users then the page owner will suffer and be vulnerable to competition. If they make the experience better (possibly by raising money to fund unrelated improvements) it's pro-consumer.

Is the problem that it's deceitful? That it's fraud? That users are tricked into clicking a link? IMO the barrier to regulation should be pretty high, and I'm not sure this is something where the government needs to get involved.

(Now, if the ad content appears to be attributed to someone, I guess that person could consider it defamatory. And if it's untrue or illegal I could see the page owner being liable. But "not clearly an ad" is too thin.)
Yeah this is what I meant. I think that 'taboo' is also a big part of it. I think there are many high functioning autistic people that really don't want the label/perception, but also seem to be burning themselves out by constantly masking (to maybe little benefit). Seems like they could be happier if they accepted who they were
fortunately didn't end up like this chap: https://theync.com/villagers-find-child-inside-of-a-crocodil...