skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile Executives, presidents and ministers don't need to show competence in anything at all, and their decisions affect lives of millions
"Arguably" being a key word -- Estimated number of users on various collab tools according to some quick searches:

Slack - 12 million

Jira - 25 million

Teams - 75 million

Sharepoint - 190 million

Sure, Slack is popular, and almost everyone I know uses it. But it is a messaging tool. It is absolutely eclipsed by other collaborative tools, especially in Enterprise IT, once you expand beyond messaging. Most companies I know do not make Slack into the hub for all things collaborative.
Is there a rule against this?

If you have better facts, please provide them. Disparaging a source of information adds nothing to the conversation.
imagine posting a day in a life of San Fran Public School Teacher on YouTube and seeing a student deliberately setting the school on fire
The wavefunction of an n qubit system is representable by a 2^n vector of complex numbers [1]. Using single precision floats [2], a 10 qubit wavefunction is 8 KB, 20 qubit = 8 MB, 30 qubit = 8 GB and 40 qubit = 8 TB.

Hence a run-of-the-mill laptop can easily simulate a perfect 30 qubit computer, provided you are using a sufficiently performant simulator (such as https://github.com/qulacs/qulacs ).

[1] This is actually a pessimistic upper bound for the classical simulation because current quantum hardware is not fully connected and not fully coherent.

Most problems of interest (optimization, chemistry etc) also do not ever generate fully entangled wavefunctions and so can be simulated with significantly less resources.

So for any applications (beyond simulating quantum advantage experiments built specifically to make classical simulation hard), classical computers are crushing quantum computers.

[2] Because QM is a linear theory, numerical precision isnt an issue, as it would be in a chaotic classical simulation of eg fluid dynamics.
No America voted for establishment nonsense. Telling children the wage gap myth is real, fetishism of race, historical revenge narratives, inflation.

Americans spent the last year calling anyone with a proactive or liberty first stance on china and covid a xenophobe.

Americans elected to not act more more "American" in what may be it's most controversial election, but to instead change every law they could.

There is no American renaissance.
My confidence in HN is restored :)
Yeah but what's wrong with trying to provide as many tool as possible to people with the right attitude?
Peru is the country with the most deaths per capita in the world. It also had a government-sponsored program to give away free Ivermectin most of last year. The region/state with the highest death count in Peru you ask? Ica. The city with the highest death count? Chincha (in Ica). It is also the city and state with the highest use of Ivermectin - mainly because the lab that sold it and the veterinarian that owns that company and promoted its use (millions spent here), lives there.

It did not matter that Merck (the lab that discovered Ivermectin), said to not use it for COVID. Tons of money made and people died. I have never cussed in HNs, but with all due respect F** tha* shi*!
I am not able to understand what you are saying.

You could just stage a ransomware before a prolonged downtime (eg. phishing happy new year emails from an account with a leaked credentials in the source code that's accessible via website.com/.git) and hope that one of your employees will click on the attachment.

That would be quite easy IMHO
What other killer jailbroken apps are these days?
I think this gap is sufficiently explained by the individuals irresponsibility. We can try to stop the painful learning process by adding regulation but I believe this only leads to „learned helplessness“
Ask HN: What’s the best freelance platform these days?
It sounds like software dev freelancing/contract platforms have come a long way in the last 10 years. Or at least upwork and elancer don’t seem like the only options anymore. Gun.io seems solid, but I’m sure there’s more out there.

If someone has no client referral base, where is the best place to start getting freelance work?
Interesting, though it appears work stopped before rsync moved from MD4 to MD5. I suppose that doesn't matter since it's a standalone thing.
Well it doesn’t have to be that hard, you just have to come up with a problem that is not actually a problem for you, making it very trivial.
An example: right now it is sunny outside, so what if I could build a service that notifies me of the time for sunset every day.

It doesn’t have to be a problem with actual value to anyone, but once you start thinking about it, you will probably find it engaging to solve.
Example where etcd’s logger was calculating log size and suffering from a performance issue as a result: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12835
Indeed, I think that's why stonk investing is associated with Gen-Z: they didn't invent mimetic desire, they just happen to be young enough to not have seen the "weighing machine" part of the cycle with their own money.
Exactly. I wrote this as a comment in another thread and I was flagged!
with the Federal Government treating as a crime of terrorism does that mean the Airlines now have claim given 9-11 attacks?

Seems that everyone is choosing an easy way out instead of the hard choice that needs to be made.

I would rather see the hard choices made instead.

IE, Maybe Russia cannot be directly attacked but certainly Russia forces in Ukraine can be attacked in a cyber manner,
non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/0cnrg
They're able to 'get away with it' since their profit models isn’t just the profit from the initial sale. If Apple didn't have their 30% cut of apps and in-app purchases, they would have to increase their margins on the product to make up for the years of income they otherwise would've gotten - I wouldn't be surprised if that meant a $500 increase since they're losing out on multiple years of income.

It's the same for consoles - PS5 and Xbox Series consoles are quite literally sold at a lost or at-cost, and that miniscule amount they make off the consoles doesn't pay for the servers, software, or the margin they actually would want for engineering the hardware if they didn't lock purchases to their own stores and take 30% of those sales.

The only difference between iOS devices and these is that you can see an upfront profit on the purchase for iOS devices, even if that doesn't include the margin Apple actually expects over the lifetime of the device.

https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-is-being-sold-at-a-loss-but-h...
Seeing live lobsters semi-frozen on ice so they can stay alive until you can take them home and then boil them alive is one of the cruelest forms of torture I've seen. Same with keeping chickens and pigs in cages the size of their bodies.

This is all disgraceful, and if we can't at least respect the animals we eat, we probably don't deserve to eat them.
Try now. We’ve upped the resources.
This is why I think a third party bug bounty middleman service is inevitable. They will be better equipped to exact appropriate remuneration and develop relationships.

Companies should be trying really hard to avoid this happening by offering better rewards with less hoops to jump through.
The mutual language was made artificially, in the sense its naming was political. It was a political construct as much as the Croatian language is a political construct. They're not identical languages and people in general do not consider some exact degree of difference as decisive, even if (some) academics do. It's not like calling the earth flat since that is not a matter of degree.

For example, Dutch is derived from, and similar to, German as is Swiss German, but no-one is saying that Dutch should be called Dutch German, and the Dutch would surely vigorously object to that. Croatians have every right to reject the notion that they speak Serbo-Croatian or that such a language even exists.

Can you say there's only 10% difference between the two languages? Absolutely. Does that give someone the right to declare the languages the same outside of Academia? No. There is no objective standard to rest your claims of objective truth on.
whether we should protect animals should be based on the sustainability of such practice (can the human race sustain not eating/experimenting on octopuses and lobsters), not the fact that they feel pain. Of course they do.

If this "discovery" is how they try to convince people to support the cause then they're out of touch with reality.
Pyrrole
Is this in any way distinguishable from just picking random accounts? There is no discernible similarity between the supposedly similar accounts that I can discern.
Surely this couldn't happen with any kind of reasonable testing?
Some of these failing school systems (Baltimore, MD & Prince George’s County, MD) have some of the highest budgets per pupil in the country. The problem isn’t money.
The wrinkle in this discussion is the inevitable march of technology. It’s simply a lot more difficult to make a valuable contribution to society today than it was a few decades ago. It takes a lot more education and specialized training to gain the skills that put oneself in demand.

The idea that we can push water uphill, and bring the most struggling students up above an ever-rising bar, is becoming a controversial one these days. There is a small but growing chorus of voices saying “enough already”, on both [1] sides [2] of the spectrum.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36319077-the-case-agains...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51087394-the-cult-of-sma...
But in the long term we are all dead.
System failure: Inside Maine’s $35M human resources software meltdown
Who would want their ownership tracked on a public ledger? And what happens when people forget about or don't care about tracking the transfer on the ledger? Also there's still plenty of people to sell fakes to since not everyone is going to verify the authenticity.
Strangely i haven't heard kidnappings with a payment in cryptocurrency.

That's order of magnitude easier than requesting paper money
To attempt to reach synthesis, I would say it could be valuable as a therapeutic exercise for yourself. However, my own experience is that choosing to vote with your feet doesn't really effect change that often. I've done it twice and while it felt good, life just kind of went on at the places I left behind.

The remaining people/mgmt will either do nothing, see it as a squeaky wheel thankfully now being gone, or maybe even add "we need to do something about attrition" to quarterly goals but not actually change anything meaningful.

So even if you get past the "oh they were just disgruntled" justifications, I find that companies are more likely to add ping pong, beer fridays, or even bump compensation before significantly trying to change the culture.
Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled by the pandemic
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Checkout 7GUIs, is an interesting gym for an environment that provide a GUI.

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks/
> something like 30% of the school's budget is allocated to these "difficult kids". ...

Much of that money and effort is simply wasted if teachers aren't going to adopt effective approaches towards teaching and helping these kids.
You probably should not leave.

At the very least, preserve the option to come back. Be honest with your employer, tell them you enjoy the work but are just curious what else is there.
I think that's a little unfair. The focus here is on the software. Yes, the examples show it running on a pi, but they don't limit it to that. It should also be able to run on your hypothetical rugged box.
We created Netgoals. It's like Netflix for exclusive motivational content
AltStore itself doesn't even use any private APIs iirc, it just calls to the 'server' (a desktop running the companion daemon) when a user asks to install an app and the server uses the iTunes/Xcode wifi app development functionality to install user-signed apps OTA.
Would be great to have an rsync like protocol running in the webbrowser ideally based on webrtc purely P2P. No install needed. I hate all those custom clients for all those cloud storage services. Particularly was looking for an option for a client with a lot of IT restrictions to upload a large number of large files. Embarrassingly often we end up shipping encrypted hard drives.
Think of minority report and it'll all become clear.
My biggest mistake was not accounting for the ethics of what the company was doing.

I was young, and super excited to have a job in software while still in school, building things. Only much later did I realize that multi-level marketing (pyramid schemes), pay day loans and companies selling bath salts to smoke, all hurt people.

I was removed enough from the problem that I didn’t see it at the time, and it all seemed so exciting, but I certainly have lots of regrets from that time.
I hate insurance. It is a necessary evil (car, health and maybe life). On top of that theres a conflict of interest when executing the insurance because the Insurer profit depends on NOT paying you when something happens. So it's an uphill battle for the little person.

I wish there could be something like a union or similar that would balance power .
Huh, checked some of my older accounts and none of them matched each other. So I must be doing something right.
My 4 year old daugther would probably love that place... but its haunting indeed!
> in the meantime the newest patch (let's say for OracleDB) is just compatible/certified for 8.2, but you sit for 6 month on a centos 8.1.

Is this a real scenario? Can you point to a product officially compatible with CentOS, with a patch released only for rhel 8.2 and ignoring CentOS 8.1?
Are continuous glucose monitors a waste of time for people without diabetes?
If you're interested in offline HiFi archiving checkout my project 22120 to create a personal offline browsing archive:

Https://github.com/i5ik/22120
Some of them believe that but it's not a Marxian belief.

Marx's argument is "structural". The contradictions of a capitalist economy and society are the problem. The bourgeois are a symptom of that, not the cause. Killing all the bourgeois wouldn't solve the problem in itself, a radical restructuring of society is required.
I find this article jarring. FTA - "it's important to be cautious even if there's not complete certainty these animals are sentient." Uh what? I am no zoologist or marine biologist (or whatever 'ologist) but this is ridiculous. Octopii are known to be very intelligent. Lobsters may not be as intelligent as octopii but they are big and complex creatures. To assume that they are not sentient and will not feel pain if you throw them alive in boiling water is arrogant and pretentious. If you don't know for sure, the assumption should be the opposite unless proven otherwise.
I'm concerned about the fast cultural changes of society. From everything I read, there's been a lot of changes around how and what we teach our children in public schools in the US. I'm worried about the long term impacts on the next generation, primarily because the change was so sudden and abrupt [0]. None of these ideas and methods have stood the test of time and proven themselves effective in producing well adjusted functioning members of society.

I think we should have more reverence towards culture and tradition, especially relating to raising our children. I'm surprised how many people are so convicted of their newly found belief system that they're willing to experiment with their own children

[0] https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-...
it happens, plenty reports out there, random kidnappings just don't make high-profile news as much.
Indeed, it is one of the proposed solutions as listed in the corresponding wikipedia article on the St. Petersburg paradox. There is a table with quite low expected values, mapping the wealth of the bank to the expected value.
Trees are big too.
Well said. I believe the irresponsibility is driven by the desire to use your diamond hands to YOLO into a potentially a multi-million dollar gain. But not everyone can be Roaring Kitty.
It is. And you’re in it!

Has anybody seen the movie: “The Gods Must Be Crazy”?
Expanding GNU Press into your local bookstore
This feels similar to when people describe poker as a game of luck. It's easy to dismiss skill if you haven't played enough hands.
Oh no, my question is not about money at all. My question is about being mighty scientist having some programming skills as core ability. Also my question is about being a good man, for example, I do not want to develop (or to help to develop) any malware, weapons, fake news providers and surveillance stuff.
You have the choice to purchase something else, though. Why is it a problem that Apple sells a product which comes with restrictions and intentions? Silly argument.
Apple doesn't target a particular level of profit that they refuse to exceed.
If you think a smart phone lasts 10 years in the hands of poor people, you are extremely optimistic.

From what I can tell, even here in South Africa's townships they are using fairly new Samsung, Huawei etc smart phones (always with a broken screen - this happens without exception), albeit cheap ones.

Even my gardener has a Samsung 10 something. Not entirely sure how he can afford it, but I suspect he borrowed a lot of money to afford it. Having next to nothing, the smart phones becomes your communication channel and your media center, news and.. hopefully learning.

You'd be surprised how many poor smart phone users exists in all of Africa. And 3G or better is almost everywhere now.

The pricing has come down and that is truly bridging the digital divide.
You can put scare quotes around insurance, but they're really just counterexamples to your claim.

Many forms of insurance include a cap to reduce the insurer's risk, but that doesn't mean such a cap is necessary for it to be called insurance. The height of the premium can be defined by law, but it's still an insurance premium.

Pensions can be hard to understand because longevity risk is a bit counterintuitive, but depending on how they work in your country they can definitely be a form of insurance.
Why wouldn't any legal business expense not be paid out of pre-tax dollars? Am I missing something?
Doubt it. This smells of lawyers. It’s how they get you to sign their agreement IMO.
I believe the ruby side of that is a 2009 talk given by Matt Aimonetti that contained an image of a scantily clad woman's rear end with the text: "CouchDB: Perform Like A Pr0n Star."
Transmeta were VLIW, yes, but weren't EPIC - which is the main difference involved. VLIW just means there's a long instruction word, usually targeting multiple units, but it doesn't necessarily mean there's no dynamic reshuffle in the CPU architecture or anything like that.

EPIC stood for Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing, and took the "let's push it all to compiler" to the extreme. Itanium was never supposed to have any form of branch prediction or OOB, because it was supposed to be handled by the compiler.

This led to someone quipping that Itanium was a very fast DSP, but ridiculously expensive.
I haven’t read this for a while. I personally find it very funny, so thanks for posting it.
The first link provided seems to need a very detailed human-provided cost function for specific development needs.

The second one is indeed interesting research and seems to be a combination of the prior learned motion mapping working in tandem with a generative model.

I suppose you could say that the automation of the dataset is considered as "augmentation"; but the difference here is that the dataset is just pixels and inputs rather than all that animation info and simulation data. Yes, a simulation is running; but the GAN only gets the pixels and the input.

There's a similarity there though; you're right. In either case; the explicit goal of the video you posted is to combat runtime constraints of generative models. I'm not certain it's a fair comparison.

The latter video and sentdex's result both seem to generalize to unique scenarios not present in the training set. This may mean they are creating an efficient representation of the underlying data in order to predict future samples more easily than simply overfitting.

The top level comment here is a shallow dismissal and Randomoneh could have answered these questions themselves before throwing out a smug comment like "I fail to see novelty here" when it's at the very least the first large-scale GAN successfully trained on GTA V.
Seconding this. As someone who's depended on CentOS for years, I like how AlmaLinux has been set up so far. The fact that it's the CloudLinux people who made this is also a plus.
There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
I'm all for grassroots/direct action, especially in extreme situations like protecting the cockpit of the airplane, but this is what I was getting at, when I mentioned our proactive in-house measures: people almost always rely on separation of labour, in this case executive power, to do the policing, no? Any change in this area would require at least a generation of kids being taught basic IT-sec along with the usage of office programs in schools and training programs in the workforces at a massive scale.

If this is the type of paradigm shift you're talking about, then I don't see it coming any time soon, unfortunately.
Yes, what very, very poor rural schools and hospitals in the heart of Africa really want is porn and not access to teaching aids and medical databases.
Deployed some code worked on by an intern without properly reviewing it. The changes weren't so much the issue, the problem was that they had migrated the project from SVN to Git but had neglected to check in the .htaccess file restricting access based on UNIX group membership. It took us some weeks to discover that everyone on the intranet now had access to the app.

I recall this particular intern used GUIs for everything and suspect their file manager wouldn't have displayed dot files by default.
How about lettuce, carrots, eggs, etc? Just because their reaction times are slower does not mean they are not suffering?

The truth is humans are wired to gauge the level of environmental danger by looking for personably relatable aggression events. And there is a practical limit how low we should go. Also with living more dense, humans are gotten way better at handling various aggressive stimuli, like noise, air pollution, constant close interaction. We have stopped treating them as aggression, but it still is for the rest of life on this rock.
To those who would say "but people would be manipulated into installing malware".

Firstly, Apple could make the unlocking process purposely hard. Many Android phones come with unlockable bootloaders, but the average person has no idea because you need a computer with the SDK to run that specific command to unlock it.

Secondly, people do get scammed on iOS devices anyway. Both through the web, and through poorly reviewed apps that slip to the app store every now and then. Moreover, Apple has a vested interest in not policing these thoroughly because they get to keep the 30% cut from the scammers' earnings.
That's part of what makes "Asian schools" interesting. Many Asian American students at high-performing US public schools come from solidly middle and working-class backgrounds. Their parents simply chose to invest every cent in their child's education, sometimes at great personal financial risk. Anecdotally, I know one Korean American couple of extremely modest means who took out a second mortage just to get their oldest through undergrad.

To a significant extent, Asian American parents and students have shown that merit-based admissions _do_ work as a socioeconomic equalizer (see above Atlantic article). The problem as I see it is how to replicate this success among other demographics, including white Americans of middle and working-class backgrounds. Another part of the solution in my view is just making more magnet schools.