skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If glucose spikes are bad for you, why not just exclude all foods with a glycemic index? That’s what I’ve done and find my mental health and energy levels have improved substantially.
A good enough product with great distribution can earn you a fantastic income if you bootstrap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911856
As the article says, the deal was already investigated by the UK and they dropped all charges back in 2013. It is weird for the US DoJ to pick it up now, obviously on the behest of a large American corporation.
I feel like Zuckerberg has always seen (and wanted to see) himself as an idea person. He's the guy who invented Facebook! That phrase is practically synonymous at this point with "tech visionary".

But he hasn't had a real, successful idea since Facebook. He bought Oculus, he bought Instagram, he bought WhatsApp. Original experiments like Portal have mostly been flops. The longer Facebook goes along as it is, the richer and more detached he gets, the deeper his delusion grows and the more audacious (and expensive) are his desperate efforts to prove that he's still the visionary he always thought/wished he was.

So now we're entering the "nobody except him even knows what he's talking about anymore" phase, which he probably takes as a sign that he's seeing things others can't, when the reality is that he's living in his own little world that's only getting further and further removed from the real one. Some part of me feels bad for him.
As someone who was on the original five guys /v/ threads the idea that GG wasn’t born out of harassing Zoe Quinn is absolutely ridiculous.
Well, no. So there are the occasional 140-160 BPM panic attacks now, so I approach the substance with caution and respect. But that's quite distinct from going from a resting rate of, say, 80 (about my serum maximum of caffeine rate) to a nice 100, while feeling great and getting a bunch of stuff done around the house.

Euphoria and relaxation aren't identical concepts...
Math problems become more difficult after smoking cannabis. This has been replicated in many psychological studies. It seems we cannot smoke joints and program well all night in the same way we can smoke cigarettes and program well all night.

That being said it is much easier to program in the morning after a night of smoking cannabis than a night of drinking.

My quest to find the best combination of drugs for programming has been long. Just vaping nicotine and drinking strong tea seems to be near the pinnacle. Sometimes we miss the simple solutions right in front of our eyes.
So i can make some GIF's and sell them? Is that a "digital" product? I can't refund and what about if i get a chargeback?
Are you saying we shouldn't continuously improve our scientific systems just because one day we might need to rebase it on Martian or some other physical constants?

There are two aspects to the metric system - the physical constants that the base measurements are derived from, and the mathematical relationships between different measurement scales, from microscopic to macroscopic.

The latter aspect will remain useful and sensible even if we need to rebase the former on something more appropriate one day. But that day is a long way off, realistically a century or more. Not a great reason.
>Woodman points out that Audubon also received karmic retribution for the stunt. His friend John Graham Bell was traveling with him in the 1840s as an assistant and taxidermist when the two separated for a week. While Audubon was gone, Bell sewed together the head, body and legs of different birds. Surprised by the creature, Audubon sent out an account right away. Weeks later, when Bell confessed, Audubon was livid, but soon saw the humor in the trick.

what the hell
In my country most salaries are mandated with trade-union agreements, even variable compensations. Only very specific and niche cases behave outside that framework.

If any trade union or person believed that there was a real pay gap in any company, they could sue and win if true. Even way before current law.

With the new law, it's even easier, as they get access to all the microdata basically.

But nothing lands on courts yet.
Because nothing is that black and white. As regards the civil case you must be able to show harm. If I sell you a house with a foundation that is only built to last 10 years and then you burn the house down, you can't sure me for damages so long as the crummy foundation had nothing to do with the house burning down. To win damages you must be able to show harm. So the entire civil case hinges on the root of the poor performance of the company after purchase.

On the criminal side it's all going to hinge on whether the accounting practices rise to the level of fraud. That's trickier to nail down than you may think because a certain amount of liberty is often taken in trying to project growth, future earnings, etc. HP is likely going to present the subsidiary's poor performance as evidence that the accounting did rise above the level of normal wiggle room. The defense will surely attack that argument.

But as long as HP had access to enough of the company's finincial documents to identify the accounting practices in question it will be hard to prove out and out fraud.

Edit: ENRON is a good example because as clear cut as people believe that fraud was, it wasn't so obvious at the time. Writing down future contracts as earnings wasn't unheard of. They just followed that logic to an unsustainable conclusion. Which in the end clearly was fraud but it took hundreds of small steps and it's hard to say exactly when it did become fraud.
Hey there, there is indeed an example store which you can view here: https://admin.sell.app/

Not too familiar with SnipCart, but looking at what they offer (& correct me if I'm wrong here) it's a little more technical than SellApp.

SnipCart lets you upload a product to their platform, but then they return HTML/JS which you have to add to your own site. That means you have to purchase your own domain and hosting, then enter the relevant code to your server, plus take care of the site's design and whatnot.

SellApp has a different approach. As soon as you sign up, you can create your own storefront by specifying the subdomain you'd like (such as admin.sell.app) and you're good to go. Any product created in the dashboard, will then be visible & purchaseable on your storefront. No code/configuration required.
Not sure if it was a mistake, it’s possible you were the second choice and the first choice rejected the offer. Still, the reason they gave you seems absolutely bonkers. Do they want to receive an avalanche of emails asking why candidates weren’t picked?
Roadmap: Data Infrastructure (Bessemer Venture Partners Report)
In semantic versioning parlance those would all be considered "patch" releases, not a "minor" release. The minor version segment in a semantic version is the 2nd number, so most people would consider the next "minor release" for MySQL to be 8.1.0.

If following the guidance set out at https://semver.org, a patch release wouldn't add any new functionality, it would just address bugs in a backwards compatible way. A minor version would introduce new functionality in a way that doesn't violate backwards compatibility.

Quickly scanning the release notes for some of the MySQL 8 versions, they seem to be generally sticking to this; most of the versions fixed some bugs or unintuitive behavior, but it doesn't look like much new functionality has been introduced since 8.0.4, the last release candidate for the major version bump.
> If cannabis really did cause SCZ, as opposed to merely being self-medication, general drug use dysfunctionality, or possibly just accelerating SCZ onset but not increasing total cases, we should see incredibly high rates in recreational legalizing jurisdictions where prevalence is now a large fraction of the population

So basically, let's keep watching Canada's national legalization and Switzerland's targeted trials to see what the population level impact is.
Sounds like something that would potentially be criminal in the jurisdiction in which the company operated, and for whom any questions of interpretation of accounting as criminal or otherwise would be wholly circumscribed: that jurisdiction is the UK.
Nothing - especially a US-style "plea bargain" of trumped up charges threatening long incarceration unless the victim pleads 'guilty' to them, akin to torture in the worthlessness of any admission or incrimination of others so obtained - combined with jurisdictional overreach, this should be laughed out of court in the UK.
Can You Be Addicted to Travel?
I guess people from PlanetScale will know. Not sure if they are reading the thread.
They really don’t though. We have some things that if you squint a little, and are willing to stretch the words, look like a quantum computer.
Yeah I'll admit it was an off-the-cuff quip that really isn't all that accurate. I don't put as much time into editing the newsletter as I do into my proper essays, so stuff that I'd normally polish out gets through. I do prefer to keep to papers after 2000 in general, less because of dramatic quality differences and more because it leaves fewer ways for people to dismiss stuff without looking at it.
It's amazing when cultures are so bad that people whose sole job is recruiting fail to follow the most basic federal regulations involved in their job (assuming your situation was in the US).

If you're going to be awful, at least...don't obviously violate federal law while being awful?
They are being sued u der California law. I think that specific law is fairly new and I can't recall any big cases in the news about it, but there may be stuff that wasnt reported. The other possibility is that places settle out of court in private negotiations. Either way, my impression is that there isn't much out there.
In fact a cost of $1-$4 for the preferred implementation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27894060

The colab provides a slightly-less-accurate version that operates in the cloud. For the real mccoy it seems one must set up one’s own environment and leverage the git repo.
So, what happens to the Diablo servers and, given the drm, Diablo itself, once the company shuts down / gets bankrupt?

I should at least hurry and play my copy while the servers are still running, I guess.
I'm surprised more business leaders don't run off with the company's money as soon as it takes off. This is basically how business worked during the "privatisation" phase in my post-Communist country: businesses getting set up to provide goods and services, only to collapse within months when the leadership runs away to Central America. After all, it's only rational if you can do it with impunity, and I doubt more money after the first $50-80 million really makes much difference. I'm honestly surprised this isn't the story of private enterprise everywhere. Growing up, basically all we dreamed of was to make a lot of money on some hustle and then run off to Rio de Janeiro to a life of luxury. Isn't this basically FIRE, which so many users here dream of?
I really struggle to understand this equal pay business; I'm not (and don't ever expect to be) paid the same as other equally qualified engineers on my team. Each engineer's pay is the product of their skill level, how they negotiated as well as competing offers they had.

This model rewards those who put in the effort and is definitely biased towards people with certain personalities (disagreeable, etc). If we want to change this model, fine, but that's not the world we live in right now and I'm not convinced that it's necessarily a better world.
If someone lives forever, they don't evolve physically. This is basic. To the degree we evolve culturally, most of our culture comes to us in our eponymous "formative years." Leaving those behind tends to result in comparatively little change in culture over the remaining course of our lives.

That is not a law of physics or biology. People get heart implants, or even exercise and become stronger.

I rest my case.

Rest your case how? You didn't demonstrate that it is selfish and immature to desire to live, perhaps indefinitely.

This was not a call to try and live forever, this is a call to live boldly, take risks and not to fear death. Striving for immortality is the absolute opposite, the coward's response to the challenge made in the poem.

I assure you that I do not make conscious decisions about whether I live a thousand years if I undertake a given activity. I am also pretty sure that I routinely undertaken relatively dangerous activities that would kill me.

I doubt most people who becomes immortal will become the sort of conscious decision makers deciding not to take risk lest they jeopardize their thousand years+ lifespan. That doesn't seem to jives with human nature.
Yeah, I don't understand this. I actually read 5 to 10 books at a time. Many "classics" that we have these days were actually published as periodicals/in serial form. So when War and Peace was first published, no one sat down and just read 1500 pages. New chapters were released once a month or so over the period of 2+ years.

So if that's how War and Peace was originally read, why shouldn't I read it the same way?
I really would not want this. I already compare myself to my peers and feel the pressure enough. I don't want to have the salary figures as an extra metric to obsess about. I think it would lead to a lot of resentment and be generally unproductive
I have a comment from earlier today that is downvoted to -4 and I can reply to it and other comments just fine. This has always been true for me.
By this logic, racial and gender pay gaps should never have existed. Why didn't any visionary CEO in America hire blacks instead of whites in 1950 and save 50% on labor?
I don't deny that happened. I'm just talking about current-day GG.
it's kind of off-putting how many different grievances are bundled together here—many different accusations about a wide variety of topics intended to paint a very broadly negative view of the company culture, everywhere from management to lower-level (male) employees. while I don't doubt that many of the grievances are true and merited, I have a hard time believing things could be as broadly, uniformly terrible for all women in the company specifically as the overall picture depicted here. it would be one thing if several women were speaking out about a specific individual or perhaps about the general attitude of management as a whole, but the broad-brush way the whole company is being portrayed here definitely gives me pause—especially when people on social media are dogpiling on yet another semi-annual "everyone in tech just hates women" event, by bringing in tangentially or wholly-unrelated issues and allegations from their own workplace, while painting an entire industry as innately, seemingly incurably misogynistic. when you bring up both a coworker's suicide and guys drinking and being hungover at work in the same legal complaint, it makes the overall negative portrayal seem weak and reaching at best. whatever the case, as always, hopefully justice will be served regardless.
You can indeed. Anything that can be delivered digitally, can be sold on SellApp.
Minerva, a higher education innovator, is now an accredited university
I am constantly attempting to improve myself. Sometimes, I wonder if I will finally achieve perfection only to run out of time and die :-/

There's a heluva lot I wish I could tell my 20 year old self. Sometimes I counsel my friends in their 20s, but they don't believe me, as I didn't believe this stuff in my 20s.
Many strange things happen in hiring processes like this: they interviewed persons A and B, made an offer to B, then B refused the offer, now they are desperate and A could get a second chance.

If they "ghost" A they are in an easier position to make A an offer.
You're welcome to them.
Dynamic Bitmaps - A smart bitmap data structure
Yeah, that one stood out to me too. I don't think there is anything inherently sexist about letting employees drink on the clock or come in hungover.
This made me curious since I haven't heard much GG discourse recently so I went to /r/KotakuInAction since they bill themselves as "the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit". The third highest upvoted post over the last month is a mod that increases the butt size of a female character in a video game. Definitely seems to be a community focused on ethics with zero hint of sexism and misogyny.

EDIT: So apparently I was wrong that it was specifically about the size of the butt. The headline is "There's now a mod to fix Miranda's butt in the Mass Effect remaster, for anyone that cares" and the screenshot is a big butt. I took "fixed Miranda's butt" to mean they fixed the appearance of it. The issue was instead that gratuities shots of said butt were removed not that the butt itself was changed. I don't think that changes the fundamental issue, but I apologize for my lack of ethics in games journalism.
The high THC and lack of CBD in today's strains is concerning (to me) honestly. I'm worried that a lot of the data we've seen in the past about chronic cannabis use being relatively safe may not apply when THC/CBD ratios approach 50:1, since CBD and other cannabinoids counter act some of THCs effects.
The smiley face makes it sound like you think that's a good outcome for fraud?
> I don’t know what the difference is between “modern” weed and the grown-in-the-ditch North Carolina weed I smoked in my youth. But it is not the same thing.

Doctors in Canada are well versed in this actually. The standing advice I have gotten from every doctor I've seen is to ensure some CBD content in the cannabis at all times to reduce the impact of the substance. That said, there's a push to have higher and higher concentrations of THC as a cost-saving measure, which is not generally considered a good thing.
Native macros were never supposed to be used that way. If anything goes wrong, you still have to deal with that, and no IDE will save you from having to invoke your compiler with “preprocess-only” flag to see what you’re dealing with. Been there, done that, don’t want to do that ever again.

Compared to that, debugging generated code is a breeze.

Also, there’s no “third-party” generators - everything just lives in your own source tree. If I ever need to go meta, it’s just a printf away; I can even commit the generated files to my VCS and be able to see what had changed in them between commits in a simple and understandable diff.

Regarding the integration, I’ll take setting up an additional build phase (once) over having to debug C macros any day.
Activision Blizzard isn't going anywhere anytime soon lol
Bobby is your guy if you want great your company's stock to gain value.

I personally would never want him as a leader, yet alone a CEO. Ethically, I wouldn't be okay.
I'm sorry, but you'd rather be ignorant to potential pay discrepancies not in your favor because you might just feel bad?

If you were the best person on your team and were being paid the least you wouldn't want to know? I honestly don't understand your view.
I don't think that diminishes the point though.
Google itself regularly blocks CGNAT IPs with annoying captchas or outright blocks on usage of google.com entirely.

If Google does it, so do lots of other companies.
I presume you are from Spain, which indeed is one of the top countries in the Global Gender Gap Index [1] but its unadjusted gender pay gap still sits at 11.9% (2019 provisional) [2]. Yes it's called "unadjusted" for a reason (gender pay gap is a broad phenomenon and can't be described with a single statistics and that's why we have the Index) but it is far from "non-existant".

[1] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2021.pdf (14th place in 2021)

[2] https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=sdg...
For more on metaphors, check out Douglas Hofstadter’s fascinating talk on “Analogy as the core of cognition”: https://youtu.be/n8m7lFQ3njk

Ended up inspiring Melanie Mitchell, and became a driving theme of her research :-)
Maybe you should have specified that.

Even with that said, I work at a small enough company where anonymous salaries could still easily be associated with an individual, and I would still not like that, for privacy reasons.
My feeling is there's as much anti-hype as there is hype these days. I'll continue with the maxim "progress is always slower than you think in the short term, and faster than you think in the long term."
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend Ex Machina. It also explores the philosophy of AGI in a serious way.
I'm not sure if you are using FiOS as a synonym for FTTH. If so, you might be interested to know I live somewhere with FTTH that is reasonably low-density (~25-30 people per sq km). I think Starlink will be a very serious consideration here.
I’m guessing not, as the general rule is that US doesn’t extradite it’s citizens.
Personally I believe that the fundamental driver of aging is dna damage. The direct issue is cancer, but the indirect consequence is that the body slows down cellular reproduction to counteract said cancer. This means slower healing of any injuries, and lower vigor.

Thus I see any aging treatment that doesn't fix dna damage as fundamentally a blind alley. And conversely if someone manages to fix dna damage, then the rest should just be some small details.
In case anyone is interested, the WoW subreddit has put together a list of former and current female employees confirming and commenting on these allegations: https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/op1t7m/activision_bliz...
I have the occasional comment that goes negative and it’s never been an issue whatsoever.

It’s possible then that HN has some other criteria that are limiting you? Possibly you go negative very often or something. I’ve also not hit a rate limit before either, though I rarely comment super densely.
There's absolutely no comparing the two fields.

ML already has a massive impact on industry and society as a whole. The future of many careers will forever be altered even by current ML application, let alone future developments.

From automated face recognition, to customer service, job interviews, risk assessment and protein folding, ML has become part of our daily lives already to varying degrees (of both impact and success).

It's a field that won't go away and will only grow and probably change quite a bit in the next decades. Admittedly we're far from a Butlerian Jihad-situation, but there's no denying that ML is much more than just hype.

AGI, now that's a different story.
Fucking disgusting. Reading this makes my blood boil.

This is a big reason why me and my other female engineer friends ask about gender ratio during job interviews: sometimes a mostly male organization will be treat its female employees fine, but sometimes it will disrespect them, harass them, and treat them like garbage.