skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing this nifty work of yours. I wonder if it's possible to give a score based on all-year-round and a few specific criteria that the user care about.

For example, I personally found that I'm the most comfortable when the temperature is 23-26 C and humidity around 30-40%. If I could search for cities in the US which meets the above criteria (temperature and humidity) for as many month as possible in a year, that'd be a very useful addition to this already-impressive work.

Again, this is just a suggestion in case you pick this up again to develop more features. :) Thank you for sharing.
I signed up recently from NL and half of their signup flow was pushing me towards personal workspaces, but I never got the option to actually select them. Was very confusing.
> This is because they have no principles.

They have principles. Among them is the principle that the people who amass the most resources should be the one who determine how society is run.
I setup a Pi-hole yesterday with two Android phones (manually setting the DNS on each device at the moment until I'm sure there are no issues and I want to set it at the router level for all devices on the network). Both phones worked as expected. One is a Pixel 4a with Chrome as the browser and I didn't experience any issues or have to do anything special during setup.
Trickle down didn't work in the late 1900s either. Nor in the late 1800s when it was called "horse and sparrow". It just doesn't work.
Don't judge too quickly. The ruling also made clear that it is judges who determine if content violates the law. It was not the case here. But it also means that platforms would have to comply with the judiciary restricting content and face fines if they don't. That wouldn't be too positive for the net and its development under certain circumstances.

Double-edged sword...
"Do you want to live "according to nature"? O you noble Stoics, what a verbal swindle! Imagine a being like nature - extravagant without limit, indifferent without limit, without purposes and consideration, without pity and justice, simultaneously fruitful, desolate, and unknown - imagine this indifference itself as a power - how could you live in accordance with this indifference?8 Living - isn't that precisely a will to be something different from what this nature is? Isn't living appraising, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different? And if your imperative "live according to nature" basically means what amounts to "live according to life"- why can you not just do that? Why make a principle out of what you yourselves are and must be? The truth of the matter is quite different: while you pretend to be in raptures as you read the canon of your law out of nature, you want something which is the reverse of this, you weird actors and self-deceivers! Your pride wants to prescribe to and incorporate into nature, this very nature, your morality, your ideal. You demand that nature be "in accordance with the stoa ," and you'd like to make all existence merely living in accordance with your own image of it - as a huge and eternal glorification and universalizing of stoicism! With all your love of truth, you have forced yourselves for such a long time and with such persistence and hypnotic rigidity to look at nature falsely, that is, stoically, until you're no long capable of seeing nature as anything else - and some abysmal arrogance finally inspires you with the lunatic hope that, because you know how to tyrannize over yourselves - Stoicism is self-tyranny - nature also allows herself to be tyrannized. Is the Stoic then not a part of nature?.... But this is an ancient eternal story: what happened then with the Stoics is still happening today, as soon as a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates a world in its own image. It cannot do anything different. Philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the spiritual will to power, to a "creation of the world," to the causa prima [first cause]."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 9
Extending the tool to accommodate planning for businesses sounds like an interesting prospect, though I'll be the first to admit I know less about the nuances there than in the personal finance domain. I'll take a note to do some more research in this direction, and if you have any further thoughts/suggestions on what kind of new features would be needed to accommodate use cases like that, I'd be all ears!
Just looked it up and you're right. The polyphony drops to 2 notes when using the 'auto accompaniment' function though.
I knew right away, so maybe it's regional.

I was told the machines are programmed with a certain value above which they'll pay out, (e.g. once the machine has taken £200, allow a win, then repeat).

If the machine is not ready to pay out then the claw just releases on the way back up to make it look like you came close to winning.

Likewise block-stacking machines - it's a little harder to tell with those though as you need to get all the way to the top before you'll know. The block very clearly jumps to the next space on the top row if you time it correctly and it's not ready to pay out.
Java was free. (And marketed by a large organization.)
https://google.github.io/kctf/vrp.html

Looks like a Kubernetes-specific CTF sponsored by Google. And, yes, they won $10k, but donated it to charity, in which case Google matches the donation (https://g.co/vrp):

>We understand that some of you are not interested in money. We offer the option to donate your reward to an established charity. If you do so, we will double your donation - subject to our discretion. Any rewards that are unclaimed after 12 months will be donated to a charity of our choosing.

So they won $20k for charity, essentially.
Referenced column by Kevin Roose (behind NYT paywall):

https://archive.md/As8DH
Facebook isn't the only threat, by a longshot.
>> Founders, investors, successful business owners and CEOs are more likely to show sociopathic behaviour than the average person next door.

This argument is being taken as a Gospel. Seems to be a work of people who gave us the Stanford Torture Experiment. Given 50% of the so called psych studies are not reproducible. Basing foundational changes on this kind, fast-food pop psy is not a great idea.

We have wisdom of thousands of years in the classics and religious texts, I would rely on them.
This will be a monumental accomplishment, when it launches for the first time.

4-6 times the payload to LEO as the Space Shuttle, but 100% reusable with the aim of fast turn-around times and minimal refurbishment, at a fraction of the price.

Detract from the eccentricity of the company's owner all you want, but the engineers making that rocket happen are doing brilliant work, in my book.
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I would love to chat with you. Is there a way to contact you directly?
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Too bad it takes 1 month for any of those services to permanently delete your account -- logging in up to a month after clicking the "delete" button, even accidentally, fully restores the account and you have to go through the entire process again.

Need more incentive? Just try finding the delete button on your Facebook or Instagram account. Go ahead, just look for it right now.

You weren't able to find it, right? Just "disable"? That's because you can only delete either account through the delete account page, which you can only navigate to via... a link. Nowhere in the UI leads to this. And the Instagram one clearly hasn't been maintained since 2007 or so.

Pages:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/account/delete

Haven't deleted your account yet? Just think for a minute about why you maintain an account with a company that respects your autonomy so little that they make you jump through multiple obnoxious hoops just to delete your account. And make you wait a full month, just in case you aren't 100% sure. Because they're your friend.
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When I took my current position at a financial firm, it had the clause, but it also came with a form where I could declare, in specific or broad terms, things I did outside of employment. The company still included language affirming the CA guidance on this, and I spoke to HR and gave them hypotheticals, which they responded to in email.

I have lots of technical interests that aren't even remotely related to fintech, so I feel comfortable with these boundaries. Plus, at work I'm given a Windows machine, and all my personal projects -- and other commercial endeavors -- won't run on Windows. For that reason alone, I haven't requested alternative hardware/OS even though I could.
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You are correct that the main competing technology is throughput compute (GPUs, TPUs, ML processors) rather than "general-purpose" CPU-style compute with batch size of 1. The way we use CPUs is fairly unique, though, where we time share a lot of different code on each core of a system. Trying to move CPU applications to an FPGA-style device would be a disaster.

I used to believe that FPGAs could compete with GPUs in throughput compute cases thanks to high-level synthesis and OpenCL, but it looks like most applications have gone with something more ASIC-like than general-purpose (eg TPUs and matrix units in GPUs for ML).
Transmeta is probably the only approach that could really make VLIW work in a general purpose system, I think. Dynamic processors get a good chunk of their speed from being able to (aside from schedule, maybe not as well as a compiler, in the good times, but from being able to re-schedule in adverse conditions) - if you have the power of software to be able to do that speculation then I think it could work.

Hard to know with Transmeta because they had to implement X86 which is a legal minefield - FWIW I've read a lot of Transmeta engineers saying that they were completely sold on the idea but just couldn't make it stick in time - I'm too young to have been around when it was being produced so I don't know.
I had an SK-1 for a couple of years. I think I paid $12 at a gooodwill around 2009.

I play a bunch of musical instruments, including keys and I also have a pretty good grasp on synthesis, and that helped me get more out of the instrument.

I honestly think it is a pretty cool cheap instrument if you know what you're doing. It's like the pocket operators/ volcas/ tiny korg synths / etc in that it basically looks like a toy and you can do some pretty cheesy things with it.

I know I did. I really enjoyed just playing songs using it as a super goofy backing band.

At the same time, it has a n okay synth in it... one that is very inexpensive and unique for early oughts (thought it certainly wasn't cheap when it came out by my standards).

The sampler is hard to use, but like anything creative people can do a lot with it's limitations... I used it to sample pitched instruments, and it worked pretty well for that. Not to mention that it was super easy to use.
> The side project myth is getting out of control.

I was rejected in an interview last year within seconds of the interview starting because my answer to "what would you do if you suddenly had a bunch of free time" was not relevant enough to the job.

For the record, my answer was that I'd learn basic 2D animation, because I have a deep respect for the people who do it, and I have no real clue how it's done. I also had relevant education on my CV, and the interview was for a graduate position.

That most places are looking for side projects may be a myth; there certainly are, however, at least some places that look for them.
I have also been on both sides and I'll say that each side has different sets of advantages highly dependent on a host of factors a non exhaustive list of which is:

* Culture

* CI/CD tooling support

* Codebase sizes
Thousands of years in the classics and religious texts also point to "the rich fuck over everyone else; eat them".
What is that supposed to mean in English? In French it usually refers to the eponymous book from Rousseau, that basically explains that leaders powers are always in balance against the people's will to overthrow them and that there has to be some kind of mutual gains between leaders and the population they rule for it to be stable.

It was mostly an argument in favor of democracy and some kind of redistributive system.
I didn't realize ranked choice had become a partisan thing. I suppose right now there's a certain visibility with the divisions between center-left and far-left in the Democratic party, which may have cost them the 2016 election, but it seems to be that similar divisions could be calculated to have cost the Republicans 2020.

I'm not the biggest fan of alternative voting systems, in that I don't think they'll make people as happy as they hope. I don't believe it will upset the basic two party system, since people won't generally agree on a specific third party and will all end up with their second choice (which will end up being one of the two major parties).

Still, I don't think it harms anything. The worst that could happen is confused voters, but that happens anyway. And I suspect people will see the lack of big changes as proof that it was rigged all along rather than a consequence of any electoral system with a single winner. Which, again, is just where we are today. And who knows, maybe it will actually make people happier to think that their voices were heard, even if it didn't radically alter the outcome.

So I don't see how it's in the WSJ editorial board's interest to make it a partisan issue. Perhaps it's just the generic problem of "If they want it, it must be bad"?
One of the other things to consider* is that the details of person X that is looking to buy item Y are a snaphot at the time that information was brought/sold.

When person X buys item Y from company Z, company Z is unlikely to broadcast that fact. Ergo, the 'system' doesn't know that you have now brought item Y and that you no longer have an active interest in purchasing Y.

*Things may have changed in 20 years so the above is just an outdated observation based on a brief stint at a turn of the century B2B marketing start-up.
Who pays for these kinds of articles? Is there some PR firm Big Tech funds to get these kinds of articles? Just doesn't seem like the type of stuff NYTimes really cares about but I guess clicks is all that matters.
> Where’s the subscription management startup model?

https://patreon.com/
Yeah, I pretty much think of his "this ticks all the boxes" every time I am pluggin up some new bit of equipment.
> Often I hear the argument, people saying "I prefer ads that are relevant for me over random ads".

My response to that is "I prefer random ads, because relevant ads are an indication that I'm being spied on". My objection to ads isn't the ads themselves -- I'm going to ignore those no matter what -- it's all the spying the ads bring with them.
I can’t recall seeing a study where only men were allowed to participate, with the exception of male-specific health studies (erectile dysfunction, testosterone replacement therapy, and so on).

In fact, any study that arbitrarily excluded women without good reason would almost certainly be flagged by review boards before being allowed to proceed, and it would struggle to get accepted into journals.

Maybe this was true many decades ago, but it’s certainly not true in recent history.
NASA is a large customer of Spacex. Those profits earned via NASA, which go towards Starship development, are paid by taxpayers.

It is de facto tax payer funding as there isn't another customer like NASA for Spacex to go to (realistically).
The first app to predict your mood based on how you type
:facepalm:

Why didn’t I think of that?
I wish this was an onion article
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I'm not really driving at anything. I'd just feel more comfortable with less cutting when discussing a matter where details could be important.

I didn't really find any problems with comprehension either. I'm just not sure if the understanding I get is affected by editing.

I appreciate the effort to explain the system in general, and I suppose also from a foreigner or tourist point of view. I have been to Japan twice, and while I'm not the type that's likely to get into trouble, it's always good to understand the culture you're visiting.
I think it's a bit early to be claiming that iOS impression loss has "stabilized".

I'm the first one most of my friends come to for tech questions, and I make a point of explaining privacy issues to them and helping them counter creepy behavior in apps/websites. When my parents buy iPhones, the first thing I'll be telling them is which button to push when apps want to stalk them.

By myself, I'm an irrelevantly small data point, but it's not just me—most of my "tech support" friends are privacy-aware and evangelize it. I suspect iOS losses have only just begun, and will continue.
>Imagine a chat application you had to install instead of just going to a website

This is a bit of a bizarre argument. When using a chat app on a web site, your browser downloads the source, unpacks it, then executes in a runtime on your machine. You're doing the same thing, otherwise the app wouldn't work.

You also had to first download and install the web browser used to download and install the chat app.
It is quite clear that with these types of articles, NYTimes is pushing an agenda.
In the interview process I wait until they want me, and one of the things I do before final offer is ask for employee handbooks and any and all expected legal obligations for me to sign. Often under the premise that I would like to review the inclusiveness of ip work ie are they claiming outside work. Then I tell them to correct it or won't sign it. On principle we as an industry should be rejecting these things and setting healthier boundaries.

I wish we would unionize and take over the world, seriously, for our own benefit and be the source of change. There is a shortage and if we unionized optionally a cross the industry we could force real change, not for some woke cause but for the economics of it. We could fix a lot of this bs.
In comparing with CPUs I would also want to see thorough measurement of latency too.
How do you ensure the people that are selected have any significant level of intelligence, or desire to better their country rather than just themselves, or have any applicable life experience or knowledge that would lead them to make good, wise, decisions? How can you ensure that if it's a random selection?
I find "horse and sparrow" to be a particularly visceral description that neatly describes what's actually being proposed:

> 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'
CG-NAT is widespread in the US as well, but is only used when a site isn't reachable over IPv6.
Bay area realtors?
Sorry you experienced that. As a hiring manager I would think that's pretty cool you want to learn 2D animation even if it has nothing to do with the day job. The fact that you have a desire to learn a skill should be desirable to a hiring manager IMO.
This is so awesome - thank you for building this! Just subscribed.
I'm a bit incredulous whenever I see the claim that HMs are looking for extensive side-projects because I have quite a few on my github and resume I don't think anyone interviewing me has even looked at them or at least no one has ever asked me anything substantive about any of my projects during an interview. The one exception is the startup that I worked on full-time for a period. I think most HM's look at extensive side-projects as a red flag that you are flighty and unreliable and will be hacking on weekend toys instead of working. Ultimately I think people are just lazy and don't care most of the time.

edit: regarding IP assignment agreements - in CA these are unenforceable for anything invented on your own time and equipment, companies still make you sign them because they do need the IP assignment for the stuff you produce on their time which is fine.
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When Intel shipped a compiler that artificially, and purposefully, crippled performance of resulting binaries when run on an AMD CPU.

Not what you had in mind, but that dirty trick compiler did give Intel an advantage.
Do you think a complaint from all three customers in your area who understand the issue is going to change anything, especially when options are limited and your only choices of ISP are engaging in the same behavior?

On unencrypted connections, there's nothing preventing an intermediary from altering a page. Assume it happens.
I got an iPad and was shocked to see an ad load on the web twice that on an Android tablet or on an ordinary computer. For instance, two prerolls instead of one preroll on Youtube.

I installed an adblocker and found that almost all sites with advertising would refuse to server content to my ipad, whereas an adblocker on my computer gets blocked only occasionally.

It seems if you have a iDevice people think you're made out of money.
I call it a foot gun because of how many times I've seen people shoot themselves in the foot.

My assertion is that the "build and deploy new code with updated downstream users" only works in a minority of cases. Now, I grant that this could be due to the micro service nature of where I'm at. And I also grant that it is nice when this can work. However, the times it goes wrong are usually not at all worth the risk.
Why poll it? Doesn't your client library of choice support callbacks/events/observables etc?
Literally six months ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/technology/san-francisco-...
I think people are generally way to over paranoid about this. In my field of quant finance this is particularly acute. People refuse to talk about even what markets they’re trading for fear that their competitors will steal their edge.

I’ve seen enough to know, that your secret sauce probably isn’t as secret as you think. Even in the ridiculously tight-lipped world of quant trading, it turns out that everyone’s mostly doing the same few basic ideas with not much more to distinguish than a few peripheral variations here and there.

In general execution ability, not having the best idea, tends to be the main driver of which teams win. If a third party does think your idea is brilliant, then stealing it from you is a pretty moronic way to capitalize on it. You’re creating a motivated competitor from day one who by definition has a lot more domain expertise.

It’s much simpler to just cut the guy a check for equity in the company.
It gets the US to politically leave our banks and other institutions alone for a decade or maybe two.
P.S.: An interesting experiment may be an ad-blocker with an option "block animated ads and tracking only" (or rather, "show static ads only"). And maybe another option "filter ads to greyscale".

I guess, reducing distraction and moving towards a client-based and user-controlled "ads manager" may have a decisive impact on overall blocking habits.
With a different ad model. It wasn't really that long ago when it wasn't possible for ad companies to engage in such widespread spying -- but ad-supported things existed nonetheless. It's not like nobody knows how to do this correctly.