skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This depends on exactly what you mean, but you can equally look at Nicole Hannah Jones for either the "reverse", or for an example of speech policing, but by the "other side".

> try to ignore everything that Weinstein has become since then

I feel like this is difficult to do. I'd sort of argue that "we caught a bad faith actor early" is a good thing. Maybe you could argue that Bret wouldn't be what he is today if he weren't fired, but I don't really find that convincing.
Coincidentally, the latest episode of Darknet Diaries tells the story of a similar victim.[0] Again, the goal was to capture their Instagram username. Similar antics employed. Fortunately, it doesn’t end in tragedy.

[0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/97/
Im good with that idea on investment properties. Though I have no issue with people having vacation homes. Theres a natural limit to how many vacation homes someone can have without a revenue source on the asset.
We're considering an Airbnb ordinance where I live. A major motivating factor is that Airbnbs are used frequently here to stage parties. It's difficult for homeowners to effectively police their properties for these (part of the reason they're Airbnb'ing them is that they're not living in the immediate vicinity).
What makes you so sure that within 300 years, the Mars colony won't become an existential threat with interplanetary nuclear weapons pointed our way? They may even take to calling themselves "Martians" as generations live and die on Mars with little connection to Earth. Like any civilization they'll have their own language, culture, and values.

The British colonized America in 1607 and 170 years later those colonists were calling themselves "Americans" and waged war for independence. What's it going to be like when that happens on an interplanetary scale?
In the book "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond he discusses how high turnover in residents negatively affects a neighborhood's sense of community. The book is insightful. Depressing but still insightful.

https://www.evictedbook.com/

Editorial: This is one of things that led me to conclude that poverty is more than a financial condition. In fact, more and more I believe that poverty is a symptom of other "conditions." Conditions that aggregate to manifest and perpetuate poverty.
Lens on Learners – Employability Outcomes of Recent College Graduates
So what is to stop me from signing up for a Signal account using your phone number? It's patently obvious that to use phone numbers as identifiers you have to prove control over them at some point. That involves the telephone network. Thus any service which uses phone numbers to identify people necessarily inherits the security issues of that network.

Edit: Yes, and I'm saying that the latter can actually be secure.
Employment vs. Employability Data – Assessing Current and New Data Needs
Its actually a real economic thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
That makes a lot of sense: niche areas in general pay higher so it’s not anything about cloud architecture or devops but rather when it was still niche that made it lucrative. I don’t think it’s anywhere niche anymore so I would assume the salaries will gradually lower but then again who knows, it’s hard to lower salaries that have been high previously.
I can confirm. I went to a gifted school and Lego Mindstorms was on the curriculum.

Then in (conventional) high school I hosted a workshop on beginning Python (with Turtle) and half the people couldn’t understand why x=2 after “x=1” and “x+=1”.
thank you lol. Hello World engineers will never stop criticizing K8s.
The domain isn't "mine" either. If I don't pay for it, I lose it. If someone sues me for trademark infringement, I can lose it. So long as I keep paying my bill, the phone number is mine, and even better is that the interaction with telephone carriers is highly regulated, and the regulations have withstood the test of time extremely well. Even if I fail to pay my bill one month for a phone number, I have the assurance that the carrier cannot just throw my number away on a whim as is the case with the business relationship most ISPs have with their customers. Walking away from E.164 means walking away from decades of consumer protections enshrined in telecom regulations, and that's a pretty major loss.

The perfect counter example is how email addresses are treated. The vast majority of consumers went with email addresses provided by their internet providers when they signed up 20 years ago. As a competitive ISP, there is no process comparable to Local Number Porting available for email addresses. I have potential customers who have run their business through somename@bigtelcoisp.com for so long that they refuse to change ISPs because they are unwilling to change that email address. If emails were regulated more like phone numbers, end users would be able to change ISPs and get a forwarding record. That is absolutely not the case for IP addresses and email addresses. That's a pretty major hole that you are ignoring.
Virtually none of the DNS hierarchy signed with DNSSEC, and it's unlikely it ever will be. It's a strange best practice to appeal to, since it's been categorically rejected by almost every security team in the industry.
I haven't been able to get modafinil for ADHD (n=1). I have heard of people getting prescriptions for modafinil because of their work schedules (e.g. being tied to the hours of a stock exchange in a different time zone).
In most of these sorts of competition environments, it's a lot less work (and cheaper) to make a competitive hand-tuned algorithm that a really competitive AI version. If you are already working on a similar training environment with a bunch of free/cheap compute jumping in for a weekend or whatever could give decent results, but otherwise you're likely going to get destroyed by bespoke tactics.
They wanted access to China and Lenovo gave that to them.
Yup, ignoring the costs of memory/storage access (cache, main memory, disk) can hurt an algorithm's real-world performance. Laying your data out in chunks that match the memory/storage blocks sizes (cache line size, disk block size) can yield much better performance.

And while having the algorithm be aware of the chunk sizes in every layer of your memory hierarchy is optimal, it can be inconvenient to get all that set up. But what's cool is that you can often lay your data out in a fractal-like pattern, and get pretty good performance no matter what the various chunk sizes are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
Its dominated by Microsoft, and the others have to follow guidelines to say Windows.
Shouldn’t it be “parrot or die”?
The advantage of having it in a commit message vs a comment is that there's no chance of the comment just hanging around once it inevitably becomes irrelevant. Once it's irrelevant it's anti-productive to leave it in. Since there is no direct link between a comment and the code it applies to (it could be at the top of the function or class, for example), it's also really easy to forget removing it once it is no longer relevant.
They are both good in the right proportions, harmony matters
Have you been at a low dose for a long time? Is there something you do to reduce tolerance?
> Doesn’t Amazon pay highest in its industry?

Absolutely not. On the tail of the recession, I moved back near my family and got a warehouse job doing the same thing that Amazon workers do. It was shit work under even shittier superiors, but by no means was it worse than what Amazon pays. And that's even being generous to Amazon, comparing it under conditions that totally stacked in Amazon's favor: it's almost like comparing apples to oranges, given that it's now 10 years hence, not to mention that the reference point is the recession. What's the bastion of magnanimity that we're comparing it to, by the way? None other than Walmart.

When I learned how little Amazon workers made, at the time around five years after my experience at Walmart, where you're essentially guaranteed a 50 cent raise every year (or more when the company does well, which is, again, essentially guaranteed), I was floored.
That's the only advantage of this small and little country. In Portugal it is illegal to own a cannabis plant.
As in, classes that aren't tagged as `dataclass` or `Enum`. You can have methods with dataclasses.
Jesus, that's depressing. 13 years ago I, 25, got a medior infra syseng role in Amsterdam at €70k and 30% ruling, net €4k. The market collapsed during the crisis and never came back.
WindTerm
> Virtually all agricultural irrigation evaporates. It doesn't even run off into local streams (which you can verify by, heh, the lack of local streams in the Utah desert), much less seep into the ground.

The evaporation figures I can find range from 30% to 50%, which is hardly virtually all. I've never been to the Utah desert, but in the California desert I've dumped out water and watched it disappear into the ground. The absence of streams only indicates that seepage and evaporation together get all of the water that would otherwise flow in them.

> Underground aquifers fill over decades and centuries, and in this environment, almost always laterally, not from seepage from rainfall. I think the demand for proof needs to go the other way, honestly. Presumptively this water is pretty clearly "wasted".

Unconfined aquifers will fill as fast as rainfall can seep in, which depending on the area can be a lot less than decades.

How is letting the Colorado flow into the Pacific more of a "waste" than using that water to grow food and letting the excess seep into the water table and fall as rain on the other side of the Rockies?
It absolutely doesn’t reduce your chances of getting infected.
> Humans are adverse to change; ergo, a constantly-changing interface is also a bad interface.

That's not an "ergo." Initially not liking something doesn't make it bad.

You seem to be extremely overestimating the cost of change. A few people can complain loudly for 24 hours, and then everyone's practically forgotten what the old UX was even like.

Kids can be averse to eating their vegetables, it doesn't mean we stop giving them to them. Similarly, when consumers actually benefit from the changes, it's not always immediately apparent, so they complain until they realize that son of a gun, the app is actually better/faster/easier now -- and then they rarely go back and talk about how great the new way is, they just use it without comment.

Using "humans are adverse to change" as an argument to not change is a pretty terrible way to go about things.

I'm not saying change for change's sake is good... but that people are actually happy for positive change even when it's small, even if they gripe about it at first. Remember, actions (continued usage) are louder than words.

(If people are leaving your app, on the other hand, it's probably not because of change in itself -- it's because the change was bad. We all make mistakes. Just fix it!)
Things become cheap if they are mass-produced.

Most current drones are highly custom, like cars in 1900. They can be much cheaper once a "Ford T" of drone tech emerges.
I feel like k8s sits in the same space as git. One of those tools that is ridiculously complex, obtuse, un-userfriendly but at the same time worth sucking it all up because the win from consolidating your knowledge into something that is an industry standard is far greater than whatever particular things one doesn't like about how it works.

It is a fascinating dynamic however that generates these outcomes where a large numbers of people collectively settle on something that the majority of them seem to hate.
Estimation depends on the unknowns which you can typically put down to overall task time and complexity of the task. If its is something they have done before and a short task (hours), x1 is fine. If it is something new and long (weeks), x5 may be underselling it.

Breaking down a long task to be as granular as possible then rating each component against a scale of how much experience/confidence you have is the best approach to managing risk. As a manager, if you aren't asking people to explain this, you should be.

I've never seen anyone do it (I also haven't worked anywhere massive), but monte-carlo analysis with a tornado chart etc. would be the best way of managing this kind of risk at a complex-systems scale. It is a system used by the top real-estate developers.
Token to rule them all (comedy)
Once in a Lifetime, a token is born. A token that stands out and shines with value, and supremacy of use case. A token to rule all tokens to ever be made! A token of such grandeur, even ETH and BTC kneel before it.

If this ever exists i'll grab some fo sho'

Till then all these other coins can be protected with a Dead Man's Switch using Sarcophagus.
https://sarcophagus.io
;)
A business is a business if it has customers. It only stops being a business if it loses those customers or it's no longer profitable. Whole Foods was one of the 1st grocery retailers to treat their workers better, yet at the same time many people nicknamed the store as "Whole Paycheck". What customers are willing to pay for or more importantly what they are able to pay for is also an important part of the conversation.
> Energy consumption is not a problem, provided it comes from the sun. The sun is going to burn and blast the earth with energy, whether we harness it or not.

Harnessing solar energy is not free - you still need to build solar panels or other kinds of solar plants. Producing these requires metals that need to be mined, forged and transported. Solar energy only works for half the day, and is only plentiful part of the year.

Not to mention, today we need to decommission all fossil fuels in the world and replace them with renewables, also covering the energy needs of emerging countries. So while in some distant future of 100% renewables we could contemplate desalination, we can't spare any energy today towards new industries.

Even so, it is unlikely that we could replace all of our current energy consumption with renewables, given the huge problems with variability, in the foreseeable future.
Government protected monopolies and intervention to centralise corporations has created these megacorporations ruled by some of the most ruthless in our society. What we really need is de-centralisation, artisan ingenuity, and more free-spirited independent-thinkers who make decisions based on their ethics. Large corporations can make decisions where no one really feels responsible for the negative results. Small corporations would make people feel more invested in he end results, community, ecological results, etc.
Stack Overflow is deprecating mobile-only views
I dont think they are design mistakes, but it is clear the whole macOS 11 UI was designed with 1 Billion + iOS / iPad OS user in mind and not regular macOS users. The possibility of them buying into the Mac Ecosystem. From consumers, to enterprise.

I am not too sure about that decision. I am increasingly thinking those that are stuck or are comfortable with a PC or Mac, are very different group of user to those who use iPad and iPhone. Most of them are only using PC when they are forced to use it such as work.

But then a lot of the UX design expert left when Jony become CDO and had crashes during iOS 7 era. And it is the same that current design chief is from an industrial background, with little to no software ux expertise.
A common quote on HN (and one that I firmly believe in) is:

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

This so applies to AirBnB. It's not salary per se but those that benefit by renting out units or those for whom this has saved them money I've found typically get so defensive about AirBnB to the point of calling detractors NIMBYists and the like.

I've long thought that AirBnB allows people to profit off something that others around them bear the negative externalities from but I think it's even worse than I would've pegged it. Clear negatives:

1. Reduces housing supply;

2. Creates safety problems;

3. Creates nuisance problems; and

4. Brings temporary residents into neighbourhoods that have no tie to that neighbourhood.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with people renting out rooms or an ADU on their property. Most cities don't either.

But AirBnB is clearly used to create illegal hotels and that's the problem.
I'm sure online resources abound...but do you have a favorite descriptor or implementation of them? Or a particular use-case?
Did you know Airbnb has a full ban on parties? If you're a neighbor and you find a party, you can call Airbnb and have it dealt with: https://www.airbnb.com/neighbors
> Most complaints seem to involve EVGA-made versions of the GeForce RTX 3090

Coincidentally, my evga gtx 1080 lit on green fire last week while powering the system on. It was during power up when I was there luckily, not over night. It’s terrifying when you think of what could have happened
For the Netherlands, Gergely Orosz recently published an interesting article titled "The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe" at https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

It's a worthwhile read, but this bit from the start is notable:

> The 2019 Honeypot Amsterdam developer survey says, "the most experienced developers earn an average of €55,000 high as over €70,000". The 2021 Talent.io salary report puts the most experienced software engineering salaries in Amsterdam at €60,000/year. Meanwhile, I've observed the average senior total compensation figures at Uber nearly double from €110,000 in 2015 to €170,000-€230,000/year by 2020. It's not just Uber: Booking.com senior total packages have gone up by 50% from around €100,000 in 2016 to €150,000+, as part of the EU salary research I've been running
> nation-states

You mean "countries", right, or are you trying to make some point about nationalism?
Individual factors are useful, but I've also found it very effective to ask for more that one confidence level, e.g. tell me how long you think it will take with 95% confidence, and with 50%. The spread on these is informative.
What a breath of fresh air and common sense. I think there are so many entrenched interests in seeing case numbers go up and the pandemic continue that, as the article points out, the we've forgotten the goal of minimizing harm and made it about counting virus particles.

I've seen what the article talks about, about critics of vaccines using positive tests as evidence the vaccine doesn't work.

Let's hope this gets the attention it deserves and that for once "follow the science" will be used positively to stop focusing on an irrelevant segment of testing.
You're getting downvoted (sad that people can't engage in argument and resort to burying differing points of view) but this is the truth. THERE ARE NO SELF-MADE MEN! Everyone, Bezos included, owes their "success" to the sum of everyone that is living and has ever lived before them.

(i) Amazon wouldn't exist without all the technological and societal advances made in the past 4 millenia. It wouldn't exist without Aristotle, Plato, Jesus, John Locke, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and thousands of other thinkers. It wouldn't exist without the Watt engine or the Caravel or Gunpowder or thousands of other technological breakthroughs. It wouldn't exist without the millions of workers who build roads throughout the world, who drained the swamps, who cultivated the lands. All of this is hidden, but it's there!

(ii) Amazon also wouldn't exist without the direct collaboration of 100,000s of people and the indirect collaboration of millions.

The things in (i) are the common heritage of all mankind, which no person can claim more than another. The things in (ii) should be fairly compensated, but they're not because of the coercive and violent system of capitalism which compels the workers to surrender most of the value they produce to the owners of capital (capitalism ≠ markets, cannot stress this enough).
Atari ST 520/1040, for the built-in MIDI ports and retro sequencing software.
Touche. But what Firefox needs is popularity too, and being the last browser to drop a feature used by some niche isnt helping them. I'd argue not to add ftp if it wasn't already there, but why drop it?
What’s the purpose of the office – and do we still need it?
>It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that.

That's not true at all. I sell games as a business and have to check them for authenticity. Things like print patterns and tactile properties of the gloss are both incredibly consistent across the genuine product and nearly impossible to reproduce perfectly.

There are plenty of $1000+ games that have been around for decades, and not once has there even been a repro made that could pass as genuine to even an amateur.

As far as copyright goes, outright pirate carts have been a thing since the atari days.
I highly recommend Charles Ferguson's "Computer Wars" on this topic, as well as his other book (about startups and the early Web), "High Stakes, No Prisoners."
And that limit is enforced by upkeep costs.

Owning homes isn't free, you know. It is a physically depreciating asset, that you have to take care of, whether you use it actively or not. Doing so costs money, so depth of your wallet puts a firm limit on the amount of properties you are capable to take care of.
As long as it doesn't violate the spec, I'd look at actual performance results of it. I.e. if it interferes with usage or creates some kind of performance degradation for the applications, then it's indeed a problem. Otherwise this requirement should have been an explicit part of the spec.

I.e. I'd imagine if this is a real problem, there should be some RFC for the updated version of the API where this is prohibited or some requirements are added about how to control it.
There are plenty of examples of grindr users touching kids.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/02/11/boy-grindr-sexual-abus...

https://nypost.com/2018/06/15/teacher-busted-in-car-with-tee...

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/13/grindr-rape-teenage-bo...
For those desiring a GUI interface around VapourSynth and other advanced A/V processing tools, I strongly recommend StaxRip: https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip
This paper has some big flaws. See https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/olwous for an in-depth critique.
"It is difficult to get a [person] to understand something, when [their] salary depends on [their] not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
I'm sure they have full bans on all sorts of abuse. I'm glad they have a web page for people to find, but that's obviously not a solution to the problem.

The municipality I live in does not give a single fuck about Airbnb's "Neighborhood Support Team". They're simply going to license Airbnb rentals, and permanently revoke the licenses of any resident who doesn't meet an onerous (and likely to become more onerous) set of criteria set out in the ordinance. Neighbors hate Airbnbs, and usually with good reason.

It doesn't help Airbnb that they have irritated basically every faction of our board. The more conservative board members are responsive to resident complaints about nuisances and safety. The lefty board members are responsive to concerns about Airbnb displacing housing stock. Restrictions make everyone on the board happy. I don't have a dog in the fight (I've enjoyed several Airbnb stays) but I'm not going to be sad when this happens in the next couple months. Abuses stemming from people (and companies) turning single-family houses into unlicensed hotels aren't tech company tech support problems.
That's a good point, though. Statcounter is probably blocked by most tracker protection implementations, so Firefox users are probably underrepresented because of the privacy Firefox brings.

Only people without privacy-preserving addons will show up in these statistics. It's a game rigged in favour of Google, Microsoft, and only partially, Apple.