skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Craig Murray is basically a decent guy. He fell out with the British government when he was ambassador to Uzbekistam and broke protocol by protesting about the treatement of Uzbeks by their government - being boiled to death etc. He was subsequently bullied, disciplined and dismissed from his post for acting with humanity and integrity. I think he was traumatised and experienced something akin to a psychotic break, after which he saw conspiracies everywhere in officaldom. I used to follow his blog and it was a mixture of reasonable analysis and unsubstantiated consipiracy theories. In this case, he was clearly in the wrong - he is a blogger with a big following, and he posted material in breach of the injunction. This is why the authorities went for him: (1) breaking a court order, and (2) potentially identifying a sexual assault plaintive. In the UK the authorities don't muck around if you behave like that. This is why he is in prison.
> We Have Only Eight Years Left

Been hearing this in some form since the early 90s.
U.S. Steel peaked around there in the 1940s too, somewhere in the ballpark of 1 out of 175 U.S. workers.
Doesn't a glass of water satisfy that definition?
True, they're big too.

That said, amazon is just more of a moving target. So, news.
That is our term for what the Brits call the Foreign Office.
I have a sad realisation that "engagement" is more likely "enragement." Humans are activated best by anger. Joy? That is a big deactivator...

The algorithmic approach to the feed reminds me a model I work every day with: human perception.

Because there is an "algorithm" put between sensory perception and perception/awareness - and because the signal is highly processed - aaand the way processing is done is not available to our conscious awareness - you get all kinds of strange behaviours.

Where you cannot control how stimuli are processed and perception formed, you are for all intents and purposes manipulated, or at least denied control.

Unfortunately, any SM algo has to fit the same purpose - alter our perceptions and influence our behaviours. Guess I should delete my FB now...
Excluding the Post Office and the Military, 2 million people—just over 1% of the U.S. workforce or 0.6% of the total working population—are permanently employed by the federal government.
To be sure, much of the money I used for the downpayment on my house in the USA was earned in China, so...there are ways to get it out. Foreigners follow different rules, however, but Chinese citizens still had $50k/year quotas they could use, over a few family members it added up, and that wasn't the only way to get money out.

China practices 99 year leases, although everyone is expecting those leases to be rolled over with minimal amounts of money. When that didn't happen on earlier and shorter 40 or so year leases (made before the current policy was set), the central government had to step in and forced them to be rolled over, otherwise the rest of the country would have panicked.
It's unfortunate that developers seem to be unable to see the word "penetration" without making sexual jokes, but here we are.
This incident is such a baffling combination of the historically “loose” norms of both the security and gaming industries. I have no idea how to unpack all the layers here. I’m sure it would make me acutely uncomfortable to talk to someone (of any gender) wearing that shirt in a professional context.
I’ve read a few Quanta articles about topics in pure math, and they did about as good of a job as one could reasonably expect. E.g. they interviewed roughly the same people I would have chosen, and the author clearly spent a great deal of time trying to make the work accessible without saying anything untrue or misleading. Of course, there’s a certain amount of hype that tends to be a matter of opinion.

Here’s an example close to my heart: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-polynomia...
The law grants cities powers that corporations do not have. Corporations are only more powerful if wealth can be used to subvert the rule of law.

And that never happens. /s
> mid 80s
> but I don't have a strong algorithms background.

Very few people would say they have strong algorithms background even if they did research in graph algorithms.

Can you solve Leetcode easy?
I have fine penmanship but no ability to keep handwritten notes organized. Basically once I write it, I assume it’s lost forever. Now that I have a backed-up, searchable, accessible from any device directory of notes I have no issues keeping track of my writing.
https://sqlzoo.net/

By far, the best actionable resource I used.
Google search for answers/explanations & theory
- family-owned retail businesses

- distribution of ownership of the 'means of retail production'

- worker rights (looking at you, gig economy and Amazon delivery drivers)

- brand reliability (so much on Amazon is brand-free)
> Just because the machine is trained to highlight text or other visual features doesn't preclude it from ALSO understanding human concepts which are difficult to express to the computer in a straightforward way.

I honestly don't know how you reached this conclusion. You're skirting the line of contradicting yourself.

> Arguably, though, if the job can reasonably accomplished manually by a human then a computer should be able to do a similarly effective job.

I also don't see how this could possibly be true. Certainly the sphere of tasks that computers competently handle compared to humans is growing, but it's nowhere near "any job a human can reasonably do".
I'm trying to follow you last example.
It seems you are proving that for any computable function `f`, there is a number `n` such that f can be computed by never looking at more than the first `n` bits of the input?

I thought that would fail for a simple function like "Does the stream include a 1", which takes finite time for any stream that includes a "1", but doesn't use a bounded prefix.
I guess restricting the input this way somehow makes the set not open?
I am quite impressed with all the other retailers websites, much more than Amazon’s actually.

I can see which aisle things are in the store, what can be picked up today, what can be ordered to the store, etc.
"Amazon employs 950,000 workers in the US"

Is that the count of actual "employees with an employee number", or does that include contractors?

Edit: Apparently, yes, actual US employees. From the Q2 2021 Quarterly Results:

"Amazon introduced a new mental health benefit for all of its 950,000 U.S. employees..."

https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2021/q2/...
It's not. They just need something to complain about.
Bullshit. I tried writing longhand for years with different pens and techniques. It was always slow and uncomfortable. I'll never write longhand again if I can possibly avoid it.
From your side, you are right, and hearing it spoken of when you do not see it could make a person question the narrative.

Just to say though, it seems probable to me that 99% of twenty-something women in the industry will have a misogynistic experience to recount. Perspective is relative.
This is poor logic, even if we agree on the ultimate result.

> Whether or not China recognizes human rights doesn’t have any bearing on whether or not they are breaking them.

"Whether or not your country recognizes Sharia doesn't have any bearing on whether or not you are breaking it and you should be prosecuted for breaking it."

See how stupid your logic sounds when it is told from another perspective?

If you want to fight for something at least try to understand what makes you right and the other one wrong.
The Republic of China are a nation of people that ran away and started their own place after the PRC drove them out. Putting whether China is the rightful owner of Taiwan aside, that's a lot of politics and back and forth. But how would Taiwan be the rightful owner of Hong Kong in any case?
It's the derivative that matters.
https://archive.is/2zW2N
ZFS doesn't need ECC but it does benefit from it. If your pool was becoming corrupt every six months, look to a shitty drive controller or cabling first.

I've run ZFS for quite a few years now on laptops and lower-end machines that can't use ECC memory and I've never had corruption, unrecoverable files/pools, etc.

https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...
Well this seems like an actual case of racism (as opposed to nonsense that's been floating around in the last few years). You can't say things like "black name" and use it in any context as if it was a scientific fact you can build your argument upon. You'd think Bloomberg of all media would know better.
I'm not happy about that, but what bigcorp doesn't try to bust unions? Certainly Walmart does it too, so that really seems to just be an instance of Amazon merely matching their competitors' abuses.
Linus is a big fan of rep movs.
The cyberpunks were by far the most prophetic of all sci-fi writers. William Gibson didn't get the specifics right as he knew little about actual computers, but he really nailed the zeitgeist as well.
If the founding fathers had word processors, the Constitution would be 1,000 pages long.

Handwriting forces concision and more careful thinking before committing ink to paper.
When I used C for a serious project, I always used `snprintf(dst, sizeof(dst), "%s", src);` to copy a string. It might be a little bit slow, but it freed me from all the headaches of identifying different string functions of C and remembering their subtle differences. It also is useful for other purposes, e.g. prefixing a string.
Of course not! It's jibberish to the same extent that "space is time rotated through 90 degrees" is. Fun, but jibberish.
Give it another 50-100 years.
Take a look at many of the other comments. My view as a regular user of JS tooling is that yarn provided a better option and also forced npm to become better in a hurry. The current level of package management fragmentation seems good for everyone.
So npm7 still copies everything in the local node_modules directory?

Still sucks then.
Earnings potential is a broad signal; individual borrowers still have quite a bit of risk even when pursuing a degree with a "high earning potential". Those risks can include things like the borrower drops out or gets kicked out of the degree program (or is otherwise unable to finish), the borrower being unwilling or unable to get a job that uses their degree, the market changing in a way that devalues the degree, the school or program losing its accreditation, etc. etc. etc.

Student loans being generally dischargeable in bankruptcy would change lending practices, but what would change is that lenders would require the loan to be either cosigned by someone with an acceptable risk profile, or the loan would need to be backed by some type of collateral that could be collected in the event of a default. Given that private student loans often tend to be in the five or six digit range, the practical result of this type of change would be a significant portion of the population simply being unable to obtain them and being priced out of an education.

This could arguably be a positive development if it forces educational institutions to keep their prices in check or risk pricing out most of their students. However, the idea that lenders would keep funding students attending engineering programs but not art programs (or whatever your vision was) is pure fantasy.
Please don't fulminate or call names on HN. You may not owe a tech CEO better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

Please review the site guidelines and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Doesn't that mean that iteration requires a write lock? That sounds bad for lots of applications.
Excuse you, this thread is for criticism of satellites and modern civilization.
In other words, if the scrappy startup is worse than Amazon?
I find it great that apparently sales in the tenths of thousands can be seen as a success. Apparently not everything has to sell millions upon millions.

I really like the concept of this thing and as a life long gamer with a soft spot for controllers, devices and new concepts this should be right up my alley. Nonetheless, with international shipping and taxes not even in the initial price, the value proposition for me personally is too steep. But as I said: I wish them all the success.
“a” and “g” could be single-storey or double-storey. For example the font you’ve seeing now, Verdana, has double storey ‘a’ and single-storey ‘g’.
Bird Brains Left Other Dinosaurs Behind
JS is a fairly low bar to compare other programming languages to.
This is what we are looking to do soon.
Or even the 80s, IIRC
I was in the same dilemma a month ago. Went to the closest outlet and got a great pair of Nike running shoes for about $55 (which I could try before buying).

I think a KEY benefit of amazon is that you know it has everything.

Sure, you might get better Foo at another store, but that's not the same store that sells you the better Bar. So you just default to amzn
While I’m sure there’s a fresh college grad SWE making $250K first-year somewhere, I’d be shocked if the median were over $150K and surprised if the median was $100K or more in the US.
Sometimes I forget I need to explain humor or irony and I am not even the native English speaker. But I accept this as my fault.
Keep being nice. Ask other people questions, people like a good listener - but if they run on too much ask them to summarize. Be willing to say no, regularly, and if asked for explanations be blunt but not arrogant or helpless, eg 'I'd prefer not to take on more projects' rather than 'it's not interesting' or 'I don't have time.' Help others. Don't ask people to help, which requires them to work out what sort of help you need. Ask them to do specific things, which gives them an easy decision as long as your requests are not burdensome.

Take the initiative, which is often as simple as being the first person to leave a conversation or conversely make others wait a little to discover your opinion. Those can be your times to lead. Settling small disputes by saying you'll take responsibility will win you attention because so many people prefer to duck it.

Tell people it's nice to see them and look out for opportunities to give people small compliments. Don't talk too much. Don't forget to thank people. Thanks that come later make more of an impact than thanks in the moment.

In sum, limit your availability but make your presence enjoyable to others while providing a sense of direction.
Chapters/indigo in Canada is like that. Half the stores are gift shops for socks and blankets etc. They removed all the tables and chairs they had 20 years ago for you to read at. At least they still exist though, all 4 used bookstores (plus one chapters) near where I live have closed down
I didn't express any "outrage" at all. In fact, I summed it up with:

"I really don't care much that I can't access my old account, but I do think it's pretty ridiculous that I couldn't block a political ad with just one click and be done with it."

You had to make a long leap to pretend you found any "outrage" in what I wrote.

But what if one of my grandkids had been sitting with me while I was on FB?

Would entering their age as a reason I didn't want this on my FB be a reasonable excuse to answer that "what is your age" question the way I did?

And really, shouldn't I just be able to choose not to see a specific ad with a single click of a button?
GWSocket: Simple WebSocket Server RFC6455 Compliant
Yes, there is some overhead due to not being able to speculate across the privilege boundary. However, the cache effects that you mention are not syscall overhead that you could get rid of by reducing privilege crossings. They are caused by the fact that the syscall is actually executing code. You would see the same effects even if you were to link everything together into the kernel and it were just a subroutine call.

That means that if cache effects due to syscalls are your major problem then you will basically not benefit even if you were to use io_uring or equivalent mechanisms to reduce your privilege crossings. The actual problem is that you are asking the kernel to do too much work and the only solution there is to rearchitect to require less time manipulating kernel data structures.
So plausible that people closer to the facts and details thought he did.
You can filter the results to see only cons.
You're right. In San Francisco that would not be anywhere near sufficient to maintain a middle class lifestyle.

Middle class in the Bay Area starts around $150-200k per year.
> Is it conceivable/realistic/justified that this would, at least for a while, hurt?

The people reminiscing about hurtful teasing would hurt. The algorithm that did the cropping would not. Algorithms don't have intent and intentions matter.
Fixing the AI to avoid such issues is indeed likely impossible, but adding a feature to correct the AI's decision would probably take a week or two of engineering effort.
Do you have children? Do you teach them that this behaviour is OK? What about beating up random people? We can also make some argument that those also came about for some evolutionary reason and testoron...
There was an article on the front page about how Amazon does this in some places already.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
> Most sensible, considerate humans would avoid cropping an image of a woman to her boobs simply because it's insensitive to do so

The manners of sexualization of the human form, even nudity, is not a human universal, not even a western universal, eg Nordics and Germany. Even though through omission, this move is still overemphasizing the sexuality of breasts, which is basically pushing American cultural sensitivities upon the world.
If you keep repeating "8 years left" every year then eventually you'll be right. And that's when you get to say "I told you so"
We Have Only Eight Years Left

Can we stop this already please? Incalculable damage has been done to the cause by people pretending there exists a hard deadline and then later the deniers come in and say "ha where is your apocalypse?"

Also the title needs to match the article title, in accordance with HN posting guidelines.
If you want the actual details then it’s best if you just google it. If you’re trying to make a point, I do know the differences, and it’s far off.
Stripping is nice an all but I want a plugin or greasemonkey script to rewrite that to pp=random on every request.
Getting over Gold: Athletes and Mental Health
Check “Basier Mono” from Atipo. Regular weight is free and the other weights are quite cheap.
A company that will reduce CEO salaries tomorrow will find itself in a difficult position – difficult to find new CEOs, maybe bad publicity etc. But over time (years, a decade?), salaries will likely normalize due to companies hiring cheaper CEOs piecemeal.

Notice how that's never the conversation.
While we're at it, we should ban the Unix utilities "finger", "strip", and "touch" because they have sexual connotations and rename "git" because it's an insult in British English.
I could definitely believe this. Renting something is a hassle and risky. Tenants can easily trash the place requiring expensive repairs. Especially if you don't live close by to have an eye on things.

Also I've heard about apartments and commercial rental space staying empty because people can borrow money against the 'value'. If rents drop that value shrinks. If it sits empty, no such problem. You still borrow against that commercial property that rents for $5000 a month. You were just unlucky finding a tenant the past 5 years.
I agree that these companies cannot fix the harm they've caused. However, I have an alternative view point on why. I don't think the ML has much to do with it, although it doesn't help.

These companies are just trying to increase their engagement metrics, like how long users are on the site, or how many ads they see on average. This was true before they started using ML, but maybe less obvious. What these companies found was that human nature, in general, gets addicted to outrage and gossip. They are just supplying that to us.

It's not very different than tobacco companies. They found an addictive substance, that is not good for us, and are trying to get it out as much as possible. The problem is people 'want' this product, despite its negative effects.

That's why these companies can't fix their product. It's like asking "How can we make tobacco healthy?". We can't.
Sailors still rely(ied) on stars even with chronometers but I get the point you're making. "Head west for 8 weeks" wasn't quite enough.
SoloSuit (YC W21) is hiring a remote senior engineer
I absolutely agree with you, they all do it, because all major corporations suppress wages, because there’s no real consequences for it anymore.

“If the only punishment is a fine then it’s legal for the rich” or however the saying goes.
Does that mean the new site will be for profit and owned by the mods?
Hi yes are right but we are winning :-)
I find it hilarious when people who make twice as much as me talk about how I'm "preaching from that ivory tower". Have you looked at condos? Townhouses? The idea that you are constrained by your salary is ridiculous. You are constrained by supply, nothing else.
The desire to fight and human sexuality are a bit different in this respect. You can imagine and want to live In a society free of violence but sexuality is with us for the foreseeable future.

It is also a lot more subjective and difficult set standards around sexual behavior while it is easy to define violence and say what behaviors have no place in the workplace.

Sexual advances are more tricky because the same exact behavior may receive a positive or negative reception.
You're not aware of Succession?
What about conspiracy theories that spread through WhatsApp? A lot of the harm of social media is because some people spread harmful things and now it's easier for them to do so.
One-liner summary: Author suggests using just memcpy() typically, strncpy() rarely/maybe, and even more rarely, or never, strcpy().
I see it in older folks. They dont care at all about any of it because they have literally been told since the 60/70s that theres only X more years before Y happens, and every single time the date passes and the dire prognostication does not occur.

Its crisis fatigue
I don’t agree with OP, but what they were trying to say is they’re killing open source business models. They take a popular open source project, turn it into an AWS offering and then crush any SaaS/cloud ambitions of the open source developers.
A right without enforcement is just a nice idea. I don't think we've ever had anything close to international human rights. It is not remotely obvious how a framework of global human rights would work in current times.
Makes sense, thanks for your insight!
Reading the whole story makes it worse, not better. Telling someone, dressed as WHATEVER inquiring about a job "are you lost" and "are you here with your boyfriend" is just as bad if not worse.

She's an attendee at a security conference wearing a tshirt. They're representatives of a company trying to hire people at that conference.
The chorus of people rushing to make the same old jokes over and over again really degrades the discussion on reddit and I'm glad to see it is much less welcome on Hn.

"Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason"

There is only so much screen space avaliable. I want it all to be signal. The sole reason I post under my own name is that I found I was just posting on forums without adding anything to the discussion. I got pissed off at my myself and decided to put all my posts under my own name. Now every time I post I ask am I adding anything of value?

If you go through my post history I'm sad to say you'll find instances where I didn't add anything of value. I feel bad about that, but I reflect on my failure and try again.