skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a personal comment.
I used to love calamari, I'm from Scotland so seafood is plentiful and of a high standard. However I decided never to eat it again after watching "my octopus teacher" on Netflix. It's an emotive documentary clearly made to evoke feelings in the audience, it certainly changed my mind.
We can't effectively measure animal intelligence compared to humans, we make decisions based on ethics and morality so I made that decision to never eat squid again.

It's clear that humans over-consume and as an "intelligent species" who can make decisions based on morality and ethics, we still collectively seem unable to logically reason this overconsumption will eventually effect us all.
It might even find them a 4 day job.
> But in India, jobs are careers for life

But remarks like this with no data whatsoever on the average turn over time of Indian vs US engineers are more reliable than Glassdoor rating of thousands of people?
> For the exploitability, it doesn’t echo and the rest of the parameters don’t seem like to be controllable. Thus I don’t think this case is exploitable.

It's lucky that `CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArguments` doesn't appear to support format specifiers like `%n` which would allow writes, not just reads...
Scientists Are Embracing NFTs
I’ve been using GeoJSON for indoor robotics mapping efforts for about 9 years now and it is a fantastic fit. One thing that kind of sucks is technically the standard insists that the CRS is degrees on an ellipsoid. But I use metres on a flat land.

Luckily most, but not all, tools are okay with this.
A commercial quantum computer has arrived in Europe – what does that mean?
Biggest mistake was suggesting parellelizatio n of test procedures in a satellite program saving multi-million dollars of test time then not claiming it as my own idea.

- The boss stole it and got all the upper-company accolades.
Great to hear! Mind if I ask what features need to be added / refined to make Markup a complete solution for your use case?
Obviously everyones situation is different, but if you can manage more sleep you'll likely find the rest of your day is overall more productive despite being shorter.
Most of the arguments against accepting an mRNA shot read as “too new, do not want” to me. What are the specific long-term side effects that one should be aware of when accepting an mRNA shot?
Reminds me of Choose Boring Technology[1]. I guess the essay might as well be called "Choose Lindy Technology".

[1]: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
He posted the article just to leave the comment. Check out his history…
Cats, Orcas etc are known to do the same. But only humans have perfected the art and science of torture and killing on an industrial scale. Here is an example

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8372727/Thousands-p...

We can't control what orcas do in the oceans, but we can at least try to not be complete monsters to the animals we raise.
Phorklift – HTTP server and proxy daemon, with dynamic configuration
Both.

The public school system goes behind education because it's the only state service where most children can be reached. They're crucially important for providing food security and shelter to millions of children whose parents can't or won't.
Information overload can only be tackled by organizing stuff, documentation, knowledge management etc.
Most of which are processes or tools, which this list tries to capture.

I wrote this list for EMs in my org so they can have a handy list of tools and a good point to start digging deeper.

Of course, sharing such a long list will inevitably cause the TLDR effect.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/boundless/201903/the...
It's extremely common for companies to underpay their long term staff.

I've been at my current place for about 2 years and after my latest cost of living raise of ~5% I'm still earning 5-20% under what recruiters reach out to me with regularly. I'm on the low end of the salary scale so need at least 10% to see any noticeable difference in monthly income.

At a previous position at a very large international corp, my colleagues who had joined as graduates and now had 5 years experience with the company were being paid <1% more than the initial offer for new graduates.
Thankfully we have 0% tax on capital gains.
> How is this argument different from, say, "There are a huge number of men who aren't comfortable with homosexuals seeing their nakedness in public restrooms and changing rooms, and if they won't take medical treatment to get rid of their unnatural attractions, they need to be separated from society"?

The difference is that I said the equivalent of the first part of the sentence, whereas the part "and if they won't take medical treatment to get rid of their unnatural attractions, they need to be separated from society" has been added by you, and this is happening regularly in these discussions because people feel the main argument is too weak so they try to add made up things.

If we really want to solve this problem instead of creating confusion, we should really concentrate on the finding out some solutions rather than mischaracterizing the other side. Because, as far as possible solutions go, I haven't heard of many.
Looks interesting, but multi-account containers are crucial for me...
Yeah the radio looks like a tasteful Dieter Rams knockoff. Article is trying way too hard.
Well, the Pentagon sent us a video of a blurry dot. So it must have been an alien space ship moving 16,000 miles per hour through atmosphere but not heating the air at all
Given the disclaimer in the site footer, I’d guess nintendo emulators are amongst the available apps.
Monkeys throw their feces. Should humans do the same because, you know, wild animals do it?
The abstract concept of arrowized FRP is quite promising.

The practical implementations are either way too complex for everyday usage¹, or specialized into a narrow application. Also, arrows create a completely different sublanguage on any mainstream language that supports it; a sublanguage where things don't compose as nicely.

1 - You can't demand that people will convert a simple procedure into a series of unrelated steps spread all around, that's a receipt for bad code. The fact that people do such things on unrelated domains is not a reason to have it here, it creates bad code there too.
The last sentence is brilliant! Sometimes, I feel I am the only person that I know who admits to being a terrible driver. I am so easily distracted by beautiful nature, construction sites, other car crashes, whatever... Thank goodness I never had an accident, but many close calls. As a result, I try to drive as little as possible.
Do references really work like this? I've always given them the name of someone I worked closely with.
It's still there. All I can say, is that we're a nice bunch, as none of us have done anything with it (yet).
While I agree he's wrong about open source's economic effect, there are plenty of areas where open standards have succeeded in creating interoperability without open source, the obvious example being in computer hardware -- think about USB, WiFi, etc.
How so? Predators get tired, they dont have machinary that helps them kill thousands of preys everyday
I know what you mean, but as soon as you have transitive dependencies it doesn't work at all. At that point you can't reproduce the same state of your venv at a later date because some minor version of a dependent package could change and maybe break your build.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We are living in the timeline with millionaire Instagram influencers.
> fast cultural changes of society

Don't panic. Cultural upheaval will eventually subside once technological progress stagnates.

More seriously, society goes insane every time technological progress upsets the status quo. I doubt things will settle down anytime soon.

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re Bari Weiss

Every generation thinks they invented sex. Youth rebel, elders scold. It's the (pundit) cycle of life.

My mom was a teacher, mostly learning disabled kids. Her passion. Champion of her kids. Think Tiger Mom as teacher.

Toured our state helping other LD teachers. She fought the district, the state, the union, the building administration, the curriculum, etc. Really pissed off a lot of people. Her students and their parents loved her.

Teachers pay a high price. Blood, sweat, and tears.

It's now Weiss' turn at the wood shed.
LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor
When I read your post I think the focus on using this leverage profit is probably not something that would motivate a lot of developers.

Income from work is obviously a prerequisite to maintain a good life for the vast majority, but in my experience (anecdotal evidence), there's a pretty sharp decline in life quality improvement after a certain threshold (which varies depending on life style and geographical placement)

After this point things like work/life balance, challenging tasks, ethical impact, and other, I dare say, less tangible benefits become more desirable

I think software engineers definitely have a lot of leverage, but it is probably hard to use it directly. My experience has been that many companies still operate under the antiquated assumption, that there's more supply than demand for software developers

Using the leverage directly doesn't work as they consider developers expendable

The best way to use this leverage then becomes to find another position that provides the desired benefits

I'm personally doing this at the moment, as I think my employer's business practices are unethical and I don't want to sell my services to projects I consider harmful to the world

So in conclusion I think the best way to use this leverage is through market forces. Consider whether you're selling your services at a value you're happy with and that you work at a business/project that aligns with your convictions

Since there's a shortage or developer skills, businesses who do not provide jobs that are desirable for engineers will simply go out of business, as they can't develop or maintain their product
The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzcGOgxDoEk
Yea. He has been a prolific contributor to the Ruby ecosystem. Inspiring work!
Sorry, but what’s AES67?
The trade off, of course, is that while someone else may be more knowledgeable, they don’t necessarily share the same incentives as you. Mackenzie may want to have her grant support the arts in underprivileged communities, but the head of that program may prefer handing out five new high paying jobs to her family members instead.
And that's why he's been accused of practicing engineering without a license and not perjury, and why this is a reply to a specific statement about the first amendment in courtrooms and not a top-level comment about This One Oppressed Guy.

Even if he's 100% correct, that doesn't mean he has a first amendment right to testify!
The topology of cayley graphs [pdf]
Oh 100%. It's a selfish play I admit. But if there's greater than zero risk of any long-term unknown effects from a vaccine, the number of people already vaccinated means the expected value is probably negative for anyone who hasn't been vaccinated yet.
I would love to have one myself. I may have to put one together.

Just thinking if I had the device and if even only Wikipedia were on it — would save perhaps a small amount of internet traffic? Maybe negligible, but I think if I knew I had a "local cache" of all of Wikipedia I might rely on it more.

Then I wonder if there was a way to integrate it with my browsing of the actual internet — perhaps keeping a running feed of Wikipedia article links somewhere in my UI as I type words or as some script scans the contents of the pages I am browsing so that detail on any topic is literally a click away. With the local Wikipedia cache of course I have no privacy concerns.
I'm at the point of my career where it's all about the manager, the hours, the comp, and the kind of work I'll be doing. I no longer care as much about the title or level. In fact if the level is lower, great -- I'll have an even easier time getting high perf scores.

These days, when I negotiate for a new job in Big Tech, I first and foremost maximize base pay. That's [1] immediate (no waiting for vest or anything), [2] durable (carries forward into future jobs), [3] non-variable (doesn't arbitrarily change much year to year while at the same company), and [4] the basis for bonus.

Then, I pay very close attention to who my manager will be. In fact I've once switched companies just to follow a great manager.

After that, I make sure I won't be carrying a pager that can ever "go off" in the middle of the night. That's a non-negotiable for me at this point in my career.

Then I negotiate up-front for a couple of pre-planned multi-week trips in my first two years to get around the bullsh*t of "you don't get real vacation time until you've earned it by staying at the company long enough."

Finally I look at the small print in the non-compete and the benefits. Oh wait, you mean my long-term disability coverage won't actually become effective until I've been with the company for 12 months? Nope; it's effective immediately. Oh, you want 18 months of non-compete? Nope, you're doing what every other company does. 12 months.

I'm finding that I'm in way too high demand among tech employers to put up with anything less. I am well aware that my demands are too much for places like Amazon, which is no skin off my back.
Wikipedia does support rsync on their mirrors.
Ok, unless he's also running a voting ring which would be directly against HN ToS, I don't see a problem with that either. I mean, the topic is obviously interesting enough to get the upvotes. If that means his side project gets more traction and eventually leads to more 4-day jobs being available, I'd consider that a win-win situation.
Masked Language Models vs Causal Language Models in NLP
I agree 100%. When we hire in or from India, the turnover on their CVs is incredible. Some people only stay one year, and then leave. How much impact can you really have after one year? It's bizarre, but I try very hard not to discriminate and just chalk it up to "local working culture".
Freddie DeBoer Wants to Make College Even Dumber
Very nice! Can you link some resources regarding how to implement AES67? What kind of latencies are you able to achieve?
It would cost a lot of money for Earthlings to send an occasional mission to the relatively nearby Moon or Mars. There must be a lot of really affluent civilizations in the universes.
I have absolutely nothing against CGMs, but the author confounds measurement error (which can happen in both blood tests as well as subcutaneous measurement which a CGM does), thresholding on a population level (I doubt anyone thinks an A1c of 4.5 and 5.6 are the same), and weak evidence of impact in actual health outcomes. It’s fun in the same way a Fitbit/Apple Watch is fun, but I don’t think one should oversell it’s utility.
a protocol for audio over IP
I don't feel like it can be much of a coincidence that there is a new branch of the US military with a currently low yearly expenditure compared to the other branches, which could potentially be the source of incredibly lucrative private contracts to corporations with former generals sitting on their boards.
That’s the ultimate issue though. If parents don’t have the choice then we never really know that.

Right now, the only parents with a choice are the ones who can afford all the options, including moving to a better public school district.
> I know of at least three different date keys in different calendars that refer to the same calendar day

Aside from the fact that you have very limited knowledge of calebdar systems, I’m not sure what this is supposed to prove. “Natural” in “natural key” doesn't mean “exists in nature outside of human invention”, it means “exists outside the database as part of the data in the data model, rather than being created solely to have a ubique key in the database ubder design".

The date in whatever particular calendar system is used in the data model is a natural key for a calendar table.
Random guess: new job with higher total compensation, especially big signing bonus and earlier vesting.
You think expressing dissent is akin to mental abuse? I think people have every right to express their opinions or dissaproval regardless of how many twitter followers they have.
It was an amazing feeling when the interrupted nights stopped, after roughly 9 years over three kids.
Why is it so difficult to understand that not everyone the same ?

Touchy. Perhaps you need some more sleep.
You may not think it's a computer, users may not think it's a computer, Apple may not call it a computer, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a computer.
It's only a phone in the same sense that a man crawling on the floor is a four-legged animal.
0.939 here. I wonder who has the lowest top similarity score (pg has 0.88)!
The article is “published” on a preprint server and carries a suitable warning at the top. It’s preliminary, unverified and not reviewed. The target audience is other researchers, not the general public. It’s useful to publish preliminary results based on low sample sizes, it can guide future research. Basically a “hey, we found something we consider interesting, it may be worth having a better look at this.” It’s very dangerous to read too much into this, though - hence the warning at the top.
I wonder if someday when robot dogs are as affordable and intelligent as biological ones, will the market drop out for biologicals? All the selective breeding for hypoallergenic or good behavior is moot if it's programmable. Turn it to guard mode when you leave home, have a cuddle buddy when you're there.
FWIW this thread was a good read: https://mobile.twitter.com/skepticalzebra/status/14058997241...

Apparently there are previous studies (pre-covid Era) that found similar changes in the brain associated with loss of smell.

Quoting:

> What if I told you there was also an illness in which:

> "grey matter reduction was observed in the gyrus rectus, orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus, and the insula"

> This is taken from a study on Chronic rhinosinusitis with olfactory loss
Looks like they had a huge parking garage off to the side of them all. Almost like someone realized your question and they added it as an afterthought.

In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzpDqqB2fk it appears they didn't really finish any of them, which definitely makes it seem like a scam. Who would build a giant project like this not in phases?
Is Julia Really Fast?
The Pentagon didn't send or release anything. They confirmed the publication of an - at least perhaps initially - unidentified object to be a genuine recording.
Ask HN: What are you working on?
Please share your side projects/businesses/hobbies, ideally with links.
Very slick production video but the grammar / spelling errors instantly tank credibility.

Serious question - where is the disconnect with Chinese OEMs not being able to do basic spell / grammar checking?
The corruption of the licensing board - which is not argued at all in this case, it's just whole-cloth speculation on your part - is not relevant to whether or not Nutt has the first amendment right to testify or the board the right to sanction him if he does.
Absolutely that would work. As well as any tax fraud would.
You should check the interviews (there are several, including a 60 minutes) with the pilot David Fravor (1).

There are two pilots and two wizards that saw the same with their own eyes (even I have only see the other pilot confirming it). That's an UFO. That doesn't mean that it's extraterrestrial.

To say that it's extraterrestrial at this point, is, in my opinion, so ridiculous like to say that there is nothing to explain (like the author of the article seems to believe).

(1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E (this is a great interview interesting in its own right, even without the UFO part)
> It's not sustainable if everybody did this

Well there always are certain jobs that are necessary to exist, but there is a large quantity of them that has very low value and nothing would be lost if they did not exist.

People don't eat money.
I’ve always wondered about this logic: it makes sense for life insurance where the average person pays in for decades before withdrawing.

But for geico (primarily auto), where’s the float? I thought it was like a pyramid scheme: this years payments pay out this year’s claims. There would be minimal float for the future except to cover black swan events like a hurricane hitting a state every 10 years, and that might be what Reinsurance is for (something else BH does a lot of, and probably self-deals a lot). Float would be great for the insureco, but any insurer charging anything more annually than average annual claims will lose all their business.
This is called 'retrofitting', and it commonly costs $100k to $300k per machine. It's a niche business as people smart enough to pull it off are fairly rare.
Data hoarder that I am I would like it to scrape more of the site than I actually visit ... in case I missed something when I'm browsing offline later.
The spike protein is the disease
Looks like it was hidden now.
"million+ people working". Yeah, most of them are filling and taping boxes in warehouses. I think people are discussing software engineers which might only be 20K or so.

I cringe when I see similar comments about Apple. The vast majority of their staff are not highly paid engineers that roam HN. Instead, they are Apple Store staff or phone technicians (is that still a thing in 2021?).
It sounds like her strategy given her words and this list, is to look for teams who have executed well and not give much thought into what they are actually doing. There is not 1 ounce of effective altruism in this post, and this list of charities wouldn't likely fair well in expected impact.

This is in sharp contrast to the Gates foundation or Musk's work, where they think a lot about what they can do to build a better future, then work from there.

I'm pretty skeptical looking at this list that this teams-first approach will deliver as much results. For example, if she gave $10M to Cal State Fullerton, a state funded institution with a back of the envelope funding of $300m/year, it's hard to think how that would deliver much. And maybe that is the point, she's hoping it might contribute somehow to 100-10,000 additional productive members of society. But all these bets seem similar. It will be very hard to know if it did any good for the world.

I'm trying to not be too critical, I think philanthropy has a role ideally to fill the white space between government and for profit industries. And her money is enough to really do clear good in the world. I am really hoping she becomes a new mega-force for good.
Unfortunately, due diligence is an essential element of any monetary transaction. Do you know how much time the world would collectively save if products just worked the way manufacturers claimed? If companies were straightforward with everything they do?
I was not banned, my old account was simply shadow-banned. I had high karma fwiw , but I criticized PG. I think that was too much.
That's why I said these are two different cases of the same pattern, not the exact same thing. You're right that they are not the same thing.

But we found a working solution to the previous problem: gay people get to be gay, and people who worry about gay people checking them out in bathrooms and in changing rooms have to deal with it. It's not a balanced solution, in the sense that it didn't make the two sides of that debate equally unhappy, but from all accounts, it seems to work just fine.

The same solution seems like it should apply to the present problem, too. That's why I think these two cases, even though they are different cases, have similarities.