skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible that you are missing the point of this. While it works, it is saving company millions in compensation and keep internal upward pressures low. It is absolutely not sustainable, but it ever comes to the point that it has to be adjusted, it can be. And changing those policies will be so much easier with extra cash in hand to 'attract' new workers.
In microeconomics, it’s a pretty foundational tenet that wages normalize to marginal worker productivity.
I guess I don't get what's so meta about it. We're not talking about a universe that describes universes.

Metaphysics = the physics of physics

Metascience = studying science itself with science

Metaphilosophy = Philosophy about philosophy itself

Metadata = data describing data

Gaming 'meta' = the game of how to best play the game

'Meta' is one of those ultra-abstract terms that obfuscates the meaning of whatever word it is attached to unless the listener gives or has given the word a fair amount of thought. Ah, then maybe that is why it is being used here.
California to pay off unpaid rent accrued during Covid-19 pandemic
That's what a groper would say.
Yes, but you used the "math is racist" people for a reason.

It is absurd and it is much better to link people to stupid, absurd ideas than ideas that are actually supported by a significant subgroup of "the Democrats."

You don't see how you are part of the exact problem that you are trying to critique. This is "meme activism" in action.
In the case of employer and employee, the employer is in the position of power. Even in tech where employees are in demand and have much more power that in other sectors, employers are still more powerful.

In the other cases discussed, the seller is in the position of power. And they rub their power in the face of the less powerful party because that party was operating on the assumption of equality of power and dared to negotiate.
I really dislike this entire mentality so much. At what point did we go from a place where you have a diverse set of companies making good revenues and profits and serve their audiences well to this crappy model of everyone trying to be the next Instagram.

Adult content creators are probably going to get booted off at some point for 'ad-friendliness' despite the fact that they helped build most of it.
USD is a terrorist ponzi.
> if he had agency in the attacks on him

I think he did in the sense that he could have chosen to respond in different ways. He could have said, for example, something like: "I admit I behaved badly in the past. I have changed who I am so I don't do those things any more, and I have apologized in private to the people I hurt. That's all I'm going to say about it." And then just ignored whatever happened on social media after that.

The question is whether that would have affected, for example, his getting fired and disowned by companies he had worked for. I don't think it would have, because I don't think the companies that fired him were doing it based on any evaluation they did themselves of his behavior; they were doing it based on fear of social media.

> it seems hard to simultaneously put forth that your previous behavior was wrong and should be judged harshly and also that you will not judge others for their previous behavior

I don't think that's what he's saying. The things he was accused of on social media and which caused companies to fire him were not things he had actually done in the past, but accusations about things he had not done in the past. So I don't think he's complaining about being judged on what he actually did. I think he's complaining about being cancelled on the basis of things he had not done, simply because social media never stops at what you actually did, but always goes on to accuse you of things you didn't do, and you have no way of defending yourself. And he's saying he won't judge other people based on things social media says about them because most of the things social media says about anybody aren't true.

(Note that if you disagree about whether, for example, he actually raped someone, naturally you'll disagree about the extent to which the social media cancellation was justified. But the fact is that he says he didn't rape anyone, so what he is saying is not what you are describing. He's not saying that rape isn't bad or that he wouldn't judge someone harshly who had raped someone. He's saying he won't judge someone harshly just because social media accuses them of raping someone.)
May I suggest the confessional next time.
Checkout should be load or open.
I sense there are colorful words before that word "No".
Proof of work is one approach, but so is proof of stake, which many modern blockchains use (ethereum 2 is moving to PoS from PoW)
Yea, but it was a huge amount of their traffic [1] and they never have recovered [2]. Even during the pandemic, while people were spending more time online, tumblrs usage has been lackluster, while other sites like fb have had consistent growth [3].

So, to say porn might not have been what made it likeable might be true, but porn certainly was one of the big drivers of traffic.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/chart/17378/tumblr-traffic/

[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/261925/unique-visitors-t...

[3] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...
All the people involved in the case at hand (building out Amazon's software paradigms) are highly paid, equity holding employees who have done quite well for themselves through this process.
>I have been thinking about this incident for several days now, as I really can't make up my mind if I did something wrong or not by including the meme. If anyone want to add his/her opinion I'd be grateful therefore.

As others have said, you did absolutely nothing wrong.

Feel free to point the hiring commission to The New York Times (<https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1133724550871560192>).
At most schools, what you are describing are called “club sports”. These sports have much less funding from the university, and they are ubiquitous.

The next logical question is probably “why aren’t all sports club sports?” The short answer is that varsity football and basketball are often direct or indirect money makers for the school that warrant funding for competitiveness, and title ix that says that there has to be access to sports at equal levels (typically this means a university needs a few women’s sports that have equivalent quality equipment, facilities, etc. as football and basketball).
It seems like a pyramid scheme, not a ponzi scheme. I thought one of the hallmarks of a ponzi scheme was faked financials and/or dividends being paid fraudulently.
Help Wanted: Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper in imminent danger
That's why it's a flag. You could do git reset HEAD^ && git stash instead

Also, git reset ---hard HEAD^ deletes nothing. The commit HEAD was pointing is not deleted. You have to work really hard to delete that commit accidentally
If I've equally upset tribalists on both sides of the aisle, I consider that an absolute win.
Compare the performance of GOOG vs AMZN over the past 6mo, 1 yr, 2 yr.

Amazon's pandemic growth is leveling out.
That's one hell of a false equivalence.
Relevance? How is this not flagged?
I didn't bring up the "math is racist" people, another guy did. However where I live we have a person who published a paper arguing "math is sexist" at an important public position, so I believe the claim about "math is racist" people getting support instead of disdain.
Ads that follow you around in VR. There will be no escape.

Also, Apple will try to make useful things appear in your VR goggles - like showing you how to get home on a map, when in fact you're planning to go out for a drink, or go grocery shopping, or anything but.

This is a terrible article, but the idea is - if not sound, at least potentially interesting.

It's basically enhanced location-aware cognition, taking input from everything around you - sound, video, tactile input, GPS location, event history, AI-enhanced memory - and combining it in real time to produce (checks notes...) "a new class of life-enhancing interactions."

The problem? It needs a lot of moving parts working together seamlessly with better-than-human performance and reliability.

Otherwise it will be a kludgy distracting nightmare of failed meta-everything - like the most annoying and useless intern anyone has ever had, only everywhere.
> We’re going to build the Oasis and

The Black Sun was there first.

Can i interest you in a loose collection of extremely janky perl scripts? The bar’s owner hates it but, who cares? If he kicks us out we can just race bikes for a while until the fuss blows over.
However, in some cases, it has been excluded altogether. Such as when I took in it the 90s. My class was roughly about sewing and kitchen skills.
Goa (https://github.com/goadesign/goa). Having to maintain autogenerated code is worse than to maintain "your own" code.
Escalati: the secretive guild of hereditary escalator engineers who maintain the escalators in the Illuminati's secret volcano lair (escalator reliability engineering is a major concern when world leaders are frequently escalating over giant cauldrons of molten lava)
Yes, people are often hiding behind the PP.

But often the biggest risk is to not take any risk.
Why would the auto companies care about profits for their dealerships? That’s margin going to someone else when that could instead be spent on higher priced vehicles.
I always thought the fact that they had their own nuclear reactor was pretty crazy: https://news.yahoo.com/news/kodak-had-secret-nuclear-reactor...
The Windows platform wasn't bug-ridden, it was a work-of-art UX, and I don't ever remember having issues with any of my Lumias.

I held on to Windows Phone for a long time. That platform suffered a slow death by abandonment. I can still use that phone, it's just that I can't use half the apps on it anymore.

The demise of Lumia was Microsoft pulling the plug on the OS.
Grants vest over a period of 4 years, with overlapping grants generally granted each year. So you don't need to wait a full 4 years to begin selling.
Another tactic that Amazon recruiters use a lot to convince you to take a shitty role:

"You are coming in at level X, but this role is actually scoped at level X+1."

In reality, it means nothing and you can get promoted in lots of different ways. It is just a trick that unethical recruiters and managers play.
It's the universe (the regular meatspace one) augmented with metadata, traditionally named such in AR/VR circles. Metadata like names, statistics, directions, etc. Such as a HUD you'd see in first-person video games.

Another use of the term (not here) would be a way to jump between VR systems, but they never generalized well enough to make that a significant thing. Right now Steam would count
What the Crypto Crowd Doesn’t Understand About Economics

Stable coins are being minted and used to drive the crypto market. More then half of all crypto trades involve stable coins.

The value of these stable coins is being set at some artificial level and accepted by the "crypto crowd" without any real, tangible, verifiable basis for their worth.

In the words of Elon Musk, it's a hustle. You're either one of the hustlers or you're one of the marks.
There are markets in Maharasthra where sprouts are sold on an everyday basis. Some Chinese stores have it too. Regarding making these at home: Granted there is a lot of wait time with these processes, but a lot of it is inactive - soak, rinse, wait, repeat.

But, it is a fair point that you should have these healthy foods available to you easily without having to worry about preparing it yourself.
> And nothing has changed about that.

Yet - it's a prediction based on the capability of future hardware that seems plausible.

> Let's see the hardware that "doesn't suck", let's see the UI and utility that "are there" and then I'll tell you if we have a winner or not.

Yeah sure, it's way easier to make predictions in hindsight after other people have already built it. Even then - when the iPhone launched in 2007 it was largely panned in a similar way to what you're doing now.

Making accurate predictions is hard - I agree with that. If you dismiss everything you'll be right a lot of the time, but you'll also miss every big and interesting change until someone else builds it.
> McCloskey has given to candidates of both parties...

I find stupid people being distributed across political parties more or less evenly.

[1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
I definitely agree that this kind of curriculum should be widely offered.

I'm much more doubtful about the scope of the positive impact it would have.

I think it's roughly the idea that lack of culture is caused by a distribution problem. I think internet more than showed that improving distribution works only up to a limit.

There is a theory - the paradox of abundance - that paradoxally after you reach this limit you actually decrease access to the ones that need it the most.

https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
Do not associate with people who have tribal Twitter bios and you'll avoid said slander.
So, elaborate on your model of the world. Shouldn't the logistic employees already be leaving in droves since they're not getting stock? Why aren't they?
There is no hate at all here. What about what i said makes you think that?

Furthermore, what about being homeless is good? Since all i said is a way to resolve homelessness, in my eyes, yet you perceive that as hate. To me it is hateful to leave those people in this state.
> All that, that's gross injustice, too?

Hold on, in your little narrative, how are the accusers sure that there was a rape?

No, seriously, that's the point of the justice system - determine if the crime happened.

So, if anyone ever calls you a rapist, then you are one? Or are you arguing that these rules are only for other people, not for you?
Unfortunately this is one of those instances where looking out for oneself (in a business sense) does more harm to society than eating the costs and fighting the battle.

IANASBO (I am not a Small Business Owner) so I can't say I wouldn't necessarily do any different, sadly. But I like to think I would.
Are you referring to non-collapsible steering columns? After all before collapsible steering columns presumably, following along this threads logic, the fear of being impaled made crashes non-existant.

We can also remove the seat belts.

Oh and 500Hp 8,000lb pick up trucks with 6ft tall front grills don’t accelerate fast enough, let’s put Tesla’s plaid tech in them so they can get to 90mph in seconds. Currently there’s far too much lag when 8,000lb trucks hit the gas to weave through traffic at 95mph.

Presumable Making these updates will give people the proper fear they need in order to drive safer and reduce accidents.
You're conflating bitcoin (specifically) with blockchain (generally). The general class of networked computers spawned a bunch of specific implementations: www, usenet, gopher, etc. Some survived, others didn't. The ones that survived are incredibly valuable.

One example: A ground-truth ledger with decentralized trust & transparency has a great many use cases. Each of these is a rabbit hole of antiquity... but a few good examples are digital voting (see recent US elections), realestate transactions (see land registry & title hell) and stock transactions (DTC is absurd; need only look to RegSHO).
I think its unfair to assume that about him. There were a decent number of athletes in engineering degrees when I was in school and they absolutely worked their asses off, myself included.

Although there were special athletic academic tutors, there weren't any available that could tutor for engineering subjects so I doubt any athletes were getting assignments done for them. Regular tutors wouldn't have played along with that game. Also, the professors (at least most of mine) were pretty skeptical of athletics, so I was on a short leash for what I could get away with (missing classes, moving exam dates, asking for extra time on projects, etc). If they sniffed that I was cheating, they would have brought the hammer down without thinking twice. That's just my experience at my school though.
High end camera companies have been doing this for awhile.

Leica has rebranded a mirrorless camera from Panasonic as their own, charging a 2x price for a red dot.

Hasselblad rebranded a Sony camera with some faux wood paneling: https://petapixel.com/2015/06/13/hasselblad-lusso-to-be-a-lu...
I understand all that, and agree. Separately, I'm saying that labeling people on one side of this issue as "against free speech" is a common quip, and is also toxic. It's similar to labeling pro-choice people as pro-murder.

I expect people on Twitter to fall into that hole, and I don't engage with Twitter for that reason. I have more respect for HN users. For example, the sibling to this reply refers to me, saying "These people are a lost cause. They cannot be convinced of the value of free speech." I'd like to keep sentiments like that at bay here, and I have hope for that (see the fact that the comment I'm referring to is dead).
Also credit to TF for the sheer volume and variety of very long form podcast interviews of usually very high quality.

I sort of see him as a curator of interesting guests now - very often individuals I've never heard of. Some of those interviews have changed my perspective on the world.

Just wish I had time to listen to more of them.
CAT phones actually offer some utility such as IR camera and laser rangefinder beyond the brand appeal. I almost bought an S61 back in the day but did not because it had no VoLTE capability.
> But just from a cost standpoint, it seems unlikely that we could actually afford a UBI would that actually provides universal-net-income.

The point of UBI isn’t provide a universal net income, that’s plainly impossible (at least, from first order effects; after factoring in induced economic growth, it may be possible, but it is still not the point.)

The point is to eliminate the welfare trap posed by rapid early clawback of outside income in means-tested welfare programs, and eliminate the inefficiencies of redundant tax and welfare bureaucracies. If you tie in taxes on capital income as a progreasive taxes on non-capital income, it can also be a way to mitigate inequality driven by progressive automation and other factors driving returns to capital and a narrow subset of labor.
I think adults become fact-obsessed, whereas children are more idea-based, and willing to let "impossibilities" become reality for just a little while. If you want to reclaim the thought process, you would have to convince yourself to not take the facts you know so seriously for some periods of time.

I always thought artists like Dali did exactly that - looked at things they know about, and considered alternative realities where the known facts aren't in the way of the imagination. Sure it's just a clock, but what could that clock do in another reality? Can time melt, and if it did, how would it look?

Maybe read some children's poetry and stories, and appreciate them for the various qualities that run deeper than the story itself. How do these adult writers express themselves in ways that children enjoy? What is currently blocking you from enjoying it?

Have you ever read books from Terry Pratchett? I think his Discworld series is a masterpiece of word and concept punnery that borders on childrens' imagination.
A game changer delivered by JPEG XL that is often overlooked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi5U6dxeZU&t=223s

To summarize, JPEG XL has the potential to use a single file to deliver many formats. This would deprecate the current practice of web developers storing many versions of the same image to optimize for different device types/sizes.

The advantages are shockingly large:

- It simply is much easier (time saved)

- Huge storage/cost savings for media-heavy sites/apps

- Significant world wide environmental benefit

- Less need for huge platforms (Facebook, Twitter) to aggressively compress photos

- No need to constantly add new sizes, future-proof

A dream feature, if you ask me. Do note that this feature requires both browser and web server support, so don't hold your breath. But one can dream.
It looks a problem peculiar to Seattle as there are not many choices of hyper-growth companies. I can't imagine the same dilemma in the bay area, where one can switch from one promising company to another every week from weeks.
As long as we're complaining about the title, can I register my dislike of the pointless "Hey,"? I guess this is supposed to make science reporting seem more casual and approachable?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576526.
I carry a first aid kit in my car to be prepared for some horrific medical emergency.

Is it sad to make yourself ready for a horrifying, but historically likely event?

Preparing for bad things doesn't mean you hope they happen. You should still you everything you can to avoid it. But you are an idiot if you choose to stick your head in the sand and pretend it can't happen.
I think there are also some topics where people are conditioned to respond emotionally. Once responding emotionally of course a fair reading is out the window.

I do think there is a lot of silence due to social expectations, also probably many of the likes/shares with little additional commentary come from such expectations. But IME the people that write the long rants tearing X person apart are either legitimately upset, or have an agenda way beyond trying to fit social expectations.

Of course you can't have mob justice without both the instigators and the larger crowd giving passive support. But I don't think it's accurate to assume it's purely people wanting to fit in. Many of the cases that gain traction have an emotional core.
I wonder should Undo as a concept apply to all Git actions/commans which have state side-effects on the repo or work dir OR should Undo only cover certain operations (which ones)?
Yes. The police in the US explicitly reject people with high IQs. It has been challenged in court but upheld.

https://www.kake.com/story/32508747/court-oks-barring-high-i...
Sorry I got carried away.

It's not clear to me if I'm banned or not though.

edit: I have emailed hn@ycombinator.com
You can absolutely eat them raw, no problem. Some people like me, don't like the taste of raw sprouts, that's all.
> In that way, anger after an apology actually means it may have worked.

If that's true (you will get punished for apologising), then there is no incentive for the guilty party to ever apologise.

Who would want more punishment on top of what they already had?
I'm not a lawyer.

Please be careful with the advice from the second paragraph. Talk to your financial advisor and lawyer first. Buying a large portion of a competitor's stock may violate SEC laws based on the training I recalled.
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An incredible amount of companies have a "release" build pipeline; They don't simply release some sufficiently tested version of master, but cut a branch and muck with things until they get a "release".

This is the source of many, many bugs in software that is shipped, and many many regressions as "release" branches are reused inappropriately.