skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. It sounds like he's just explaining the architecture and process flow.

But maybe that's related to this:

"That's a 10x engineer to me."

The definition changes from person to person.
That's an excellent summary of how selective ad targeting does its part to drive political polarization.

Paradoxically, people being more informed about different messages can also drive polarization. To recycle the article's example of Exxon telling liberals 'we're becoming more green' and conservatives 'hands off our pipelines' (my paraphrases), if a liberal sees the conservative-targeted message they will likely think 'Exxon is greenwashing its dirty business' while in the reverse case a conservative may think 'woke virtue signalling at its worst.'

Every ad campaign is like a bet on on attention that could pay off but could also backfire if it's too far adrift from the truth or public perceptions/attitudes about your firm/sector (eg if you're a serious company like an accountancy firm, don't try to do funny ads because finance people don't want to hire clowns). Running campaigns where the audience is systematically split and segmented mitigates those risks to some extent, but also runs the risk of eroding the public trust completely once there's a broad awareness that all corporate communications are targeted.

To be honest, I'm somewhat surprised we haven't yet seen corporations put out different press releases to different parts of the media catering to different political orientations. You could probably send different press releases to, say, Newsmax and the Huffington Post and it would be a while before readers of one became aware of the different source material in the other.
If your property taxes and insurance are high it’s because your house is worth a lot of money. If your house’s value constitutes a large share of your net worth such that taxes and insurance are a burden then it indicates that too much of your equity is in your house and you should downsize.
They are bundling the IaaS hardware with the price of the MS software stack subscription. You need to net out the cost of standalone windows and office from the monthly price. At the lower hardware tiers, it's a bigger percentage of the price.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compa...
Residents of the US have self-selected into two cohorts:

1) People that will get resistance via vaccines

2) People that will get resistance via infection

Some 30-40% of the US population decided on #2. Roughly 0.7% of them will die because of that decision, but this is exactly what they are asking for! If you are in cohort #1, you really don't have a lot to worry about from the virus. Why are you denying people the consequences of their decisions?

Yes, the medical system will be briefly overrun, and it would be a terrible time to need hospitalization. That's a good argument for getting it over as quickly as possible! The delta variant is estimated to have an R0 of 8-10. Let it rip and the surge will be over in weeks.

What about the children? Serious negative effects on kids seem to be extraordinarily rare. The kids will be fine.

I am only half joking here. "We live in a society" cuts both ways - we have to respect the general health of everyone, but we also have to respect the explicit wishes of a huge portion of the population - almost a third. The good news is that almost exclusively, they're going to be the ones dying. I can live with that.
There was some CDC data published recently on breakthrough infections in the US (I don't have a better site--saw it somewhere on Apple New+). It worked out to 4 COVID hospitalizations or deaths per 100k.

For comparison, that's about twice the US death rate due to flu in 2019, and about 1/40th the US death rate due to COVID before vaccinations were available (and before the delta variant was in the US). That's about 10x better than death rate pre-vaccination in the state that had the lowest death rate (Hawaii).
Windows 365's lowest tier, with only 2GB of RAM, works out to $288/year. If you're on a Mac, you can grab the Pro version of Parallels for $99USD/year and run it locally, and spin up an instance of any version of Windows you need, along with guaranteed uptime and availability.

I really don't see Windows 365 as a viable option for most developers, when there are so many better -- and cheaper -- alternatives readily available.
I can certainly understand preferring the office. I'm not sure I can understand preferring the office when remote jobs pay 3x as much, though.
I would love to see exactly how many public school teachers are actually getting 120k. I'm very certain they are at the very high end and very few in number. Most are getting slightly above the national median income.
Seems like about 5 years ago things took off, but if you stick to small job pool areas you will probably see jobs near the same rate as they were back then. I took a SV-based job to get leveraged up, now work remote for same rate, which is like 50% more than I was making 1.5 years ago. Friend of mine just went to another company full remote, I think he 2x'd his total previous income from a job he'd worked at for years (and it was a company that could afford to pay him way more than they did, but advancing without changing jobs is hard).

I think basically any tech company that you've heard of will be willing to pay close to 300k for experience, although remember half of that will generally be stock, and the higher the compensation, the higher percentage will be stock-based.

If you have more than 5 years experience and make less than 200k/year, I suggest you start interviewing.
> Rust is "Safe"

I'm tired of this meme. It's not true. Any Rust code that goes low level liberally uses unsafe{} blocks. There are also debugging and test modes in Zig that will sniff out leaks for you.
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I’m talking about the specific meme, not particulars of Ferrari ownership. That’s an interesting digression, however.
The Science of Mirage
Zulip-terminal: The official terminal client for Zulip
Yes the answer must be something like this. You can implement BYOD throughout the organization.
"Other thread", yes. The point, though, is that basic optimizations, like hoisting some computation out of a loop, are off the table in Python, because the compiler can't be sure something won't mess with the innards of the loop at run time.

Yes, you can do awful things involving creating an optimized loop, detecting at run time that someone broke it from the outside, and switching from compiled to interpreted mode. I think PyPy does stuff like that. It's a huge effort in the compiler and in the runtime to handle such cases.

It's also part of why Python sucks at threading, with the Global Interpreter Lock. There's not enough separation between threads.
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It's a big red flag when a dev makes something really cool that is (according to them) 90% done, then hands it off to someone else to finish. It's a sign that they:

1. Can't finish what they started

2. Are going to rewrite stuff unnecessarily

3. Are willing to throw their coworkers under the bus
Not designed for individuals or families, this is strictly a business offering.
But this is a contrived example where each person agrees to buy the hot dog for purposes of this experiment.

Fair market value is typically defined as the value you'd get on the market, selling to someone you don't know and without coercion.

So, like if I arrange with a rich guy to sell my house (worth about $700k) to him for $2million, so that he can 'donate' it back to me and take the charitable giving write-off for $2million, this would not fly, because by the definition of fair market value used by the IRS (and other agencies), my arrangement with the guy is not the fair market value. In order to determine that, I'd need to put the house up for sale to general availability and see what others offer 'me'.

So to 'fix' your example, you'd need to sit in a circle with your friends. Say the hot dog you are about to eat is for sale, and see if any of your friends want it from you.
Technical employees who frequently act like firefighters (especially those that draw attention to themselves when doing so, i.e., the martyr types) are toxic and should be removed ASAP.
You could, but with how inexpensive/frictionless a local hypervisor is, it seems like an expensive way to test.
After the past two years it'll be a long time before I ever trust a "scientist".
This could be considered misinformation because it is misinformation. We can in fact measure these things and the mRNA vaccines have been demonstrated to generated a robust immune response including memory B cells:

https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/6/58/eabi6950
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/eabf4063
You don't find an agreement to deport someone who isn't a resident bizarre? And presumably these deportations involve detention for things that would also be crimes in the "home" country. Would publishing classified US documents violate Australian law?
If this was a skit, it would be a teacher yelling louder and louder explaining all the things that can go wrong with the machines until a sonic boom destroys the classroom.
I believe the iAd platform offers fine-grained "eyeball" targeting, but not fine-grained context targeting. The iAds framework knows a lot about the device and its owner; but it doesn't/can't directly read the content of the app the iAd gets embedded into (the "host" app) — only the host app's barest metadata, e.g. the App Store category the host app is published under (e.g. Games vs. Productivity vs. Travel, etc.)

In the case of some apps, e.g. Apple's own News app, the app may opt to feed the iAds framework a "context clue" about the content currently being viewed — telling it the category of content being displayed (e.g. is this a Business News story? An Entertainment story? etc.) But this is just a high-level, categorical identifier attached to the metadata of the item being displayed, with no ability for specific content within the viewport to trigger specific ads.

Apple has a page for exactly what the iAds framework does/doesn't use as an input for its targeting algorithm: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT205223

One interesting thing I figure I should highlight from that page, for the sake of people who don't bother to click:

> We create segments, which are groups of people who share similar characteristics, and use these groups for delivering targeted ads. Information about you may be used to determine which segments you’re assigned to, and thus, which ads you receive. To protect your privacy, targeted ads are delivered only if more than 5,000 people meet the targeting criteria.

This is, I believe, a move to combat "seemingly-innocent" targeting rules that nevertheless de-anonymize someone, just because that person is weird. For example, if you're the only Tagalog speaker in Cuba, just plain-old Region+Language targeting that every platform supports would be enough to target+track you specifically. So Apple just won't allow "Cuba+Tagalog" unless there are at least 5000 Tagalog speakers in Cuba with iOS devices.
These are awesome and exactly the kind of formulas I wish I would have been taught earlier on my life! I've personally been using a free spreadsheet-based tool called the Investment Portfolio Tracker by The Measure of a Plan (https://themeasureofaplan.com/investment-portfolio-tracker/) and it's been absolutely wonderful; it never ceases to amaze me how much power spreadsheets have. The author has other tools as well (https://themeasureofaplan.com/tools/) and is really responsive via email. Be sure to donate if you find value in his work as I did!
that's not really a "fall." that's normal inflation. a small amount of inflation is desirable because it incentivizes people to use their money rather than sit on it and let it accumulate value.

coincidentally that's actually a big problem with bitcoin... it's a deflationary currency so all the wealth is accumulating in the hands of the early adopters who are just sitting on it. this hinders its adoption since people are incentivized to not spend it.
Lasers were my first thought since it requires so much energy to change orbits in order to interact more directly with the debris. What properties are considered when classifying lasers as weapons? Would a lower power laser still be feasible for small debris?
My favorite medieval city-builders aren't historically accurate at all: namely Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress keep me coming back for more. I've never been a huge fan of 4x titles or real-time strategy, but the gameplay loop of these titles feels the most "authentic" to me. I think most people will agree, too: confining a role-playing game to the accuracy of non-fiction isn't much of a roleplaying game at all.
> You create a new account to spam the thread with accusations, and links to biased articles (see my comment above).

If you'd just look at my comment history, it's obvious this isn't the case.

I don't understand, if it is this unready, why not test it locally?
They should create their own social platform and monitor that. /s
At some point cinder block construction will become it's own aesthetic (or an element of an aesthetic), perhaps something like the current 'industrial' trend or maybe an architectural equivalent of 'tactical' stylng.
I think HOI problem (more familiar with 4) is that it feels much more half baked. US Congress is mostly click a few event popups, click a few policy stuff in a menu and see the congress members just flip. It's more shoehorning it into the HOI system.

I think you could make the process fun, but in paradox style games where you need to generalise a system to fit everywhere in the world, it can fall flat.
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And whose fault are vaccine injuries?
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Reading these comments makes me realise how lucky I was in my first job. Brilliant people and amazing tech.
This is why I hate the "sell shovels to miners" advice. No, the biggest winners are the ones who vertically integrate and capture the full value stack, not the tools vendors.
Is k8s really considered that complex? Yes, you need a lot of tooling to go from code to orchestration. But when you are commoditizing software to run on a desktop, on prem, in the cloud, across many customers and topologies, reproducible deployments are way simpler than hand-rolled whatevers.
> You could make an entire game about just that subject.
Which is probably why it's abstracted away in most games. If I want to play a game of growth and conquest, I don't really want to have to micro-manage too many details of peasant life.
Do I understand your design right in that private keys are backed up to Google Drive or iCloud?

Giving all my login information to a third party seems like an awful idea. How are the keys secured from Google and Apple?

What is the contingency plan for logging in if your biometrics change? People lose fingers sometimes.
Except China didn't? The professor personally chose to terminate her relationship with the student, the only complaint she received was from a Chinese student in Canada. You make it seem like the Chinese ambassador was involved.
Looking like line noise is pretty standard for esolangs, especially amongst the brainfuck variants and functional turing tarpits (unlambda, jot).
Disease resistance and environment adaptation is why we need to continue to produce and collect seed as locally as possible.

Another common plant that wouldn't exist without human intervention is what we know as strawberries. The garden strawberry is a cross of a North American and a Chilean Fragaria species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry
I still didn't get how bare Windows VM can speed up a new developer on-boarding. In all my jobs slowest part was always familiarization with a new build/deploy environment. OS/Laptop setup was always trivial and took 1-2 day max, even in orgs with 20k employees.
Not how trademark law is argued I think. Mike Roe Software (mikeroesoft) had a similar challenge. Trademark law is kind of inane but what are you going to do.
Most definitely. I'm a Canadian who's never had a problem job hunting even as a junior. Reading this is like looking into an alternate reality.
> I've been in this field for 15 years and have had some good gigs on my resume, not currently looking around but this pay rate is way outside what seems to be the norm.

To be clear, I'm not talking about the norm, I'm talking specifically about FAANG (including bonuses and RSUs, not base pay rate). Also you have to work at the headquarters or maybe NYC to make these comps.
Fair question, they can. Both are working towards well paid careers. Still, housing costs in the UK are extremely high these days. I got help from my parents with the deposit for my first house and I want to be able to do the same thing for my kids.

They’re both hard working, they do well at school and have part time jobs over the summer. I’m not worried about them on that score.
Anything in space with a booster is by definition a weapon :D
The Anno series is somewhat in this direction.
Well, I feel pretty strongly about this issue as someone who cares about security. It is a question of ethics to me. I mean, saying Rust is unsafe because it has the unsafe block is like saying Haskell isn’t a pure language because it has IO. Yes, but it totally misses the point. The language is designed to minimize and constrain usage of unsafe features. And, outside of unsafe blocks, you know your code is safe. This is an important guarantee.
If I would have to pay $100-$200 for the software subscriptions for my Windows VM (windows license, office) it gets close? Especially if Microsoft is also throwing in some hardware so my local computer is taxed less? Of course streaming a cloud desktop introduces its own problems (latency, unreliability, etc) but also advantages (portability, reproducibility, etc)
To some people, the pain of letting the money go is greater than the perceived benefit of the product/service they get in return for the money, most of the time. You can imagine such people accumulating money all their life. For them, FIRE would be a very attractive proposition.
Not disagreeing with you, but just a note that with the M1's being ARM based, the Windows 10 will also be ARM based and may not run the necessary software for you to test with. For example, I know currently Visual Studio will not run on that.
Information profiling and payment skimming are entirely separate issues.

You could make the profiling illegal and it would still be good for buyers and profitable for businesses to give interest free loans while skimming processing fees.
Is this the same idea as `stale-while-revalidate`?
I just recently hit the 140k mark after 8 years of experience as a data scientist, and I already feel bafflingly overpaid for what I actually accomplish. I suppose things are different at FAANG companies, but not even my coworkers working out of more expensive locations get paid anywhere near $300k.

That said, the contracting company I work for is getting paid around $330k annualized for me, so maybe when the option to hire me comes up in a few months all I need to do is ask ... aw, who'm I kidding. I don't know what I'd do with $300k a year. Put away half of it and retire early, I guess.

My girlfriend works a lot harder than I do for $45k. There but for the grace of God go I.
I can't actually find these for sale anywhere.
Some points in that page don't seem like valid criticism. Like, complaining that the compiler is not "zero dependency" on Linux, because it depends on glibc?

Also, allocating a fixed 1000 byte region at the start of a program is not a "memory leak". In fact even glibc has tons of such "initial fixed cost" allocations - IIRC valgrind has built-in "suppression file" to ignore these allocations. (It would be a memory leak if the compiler allocated new 1000 byte chunks every time println is called, but the article doesn't demonstrate it so I guess I'll never know.)
Yes. This is very similar. Lots of commenters here seem to be missing that point. Rather than making a low confidence claim about the immediate future (the economy will crash next year) it's making a more confident claim about the distant future (growth rates are unsustainable over the next hundreds or thousands of years without mind-bending physics).
Neural MMO: A Multiagent Game Environment
Mexico to sue U.S.-based gunmakers over flow of arms across border
> Also, if you work for FAANG, you get RSUs which don't vest until some time, but do count towards total compensation before then.

I think the most common vesting cliff is 1 year, which isn't really that long so it's reasonable to count towards total compensation.

It gets fuzzier if the vesting schedule is backloaded (amazon is notorious for this: something like 5% vesting after the first year, and then high turnover as the kicker), but from my understanding you'll often see signing bonuses to make up for this.
> To aid in their research, the group created a browser plug-in called Ad Observer, which collects data on the political ads users see and why they were targeted for the ad.

Understandable that any entity that bypasses their API/consent flows and collects a user's data would be a big no, regardless of what their intended use is.
> Git will compress the objects it stores

Only when they get packed, and it doesn't exactly help when github will reject individual objects larger than 100MB inflated.
You still have access that cloud Windows from ... laptop. So one have to pay for laptop + that cloud instance.
try this one out:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Integration-Parado...
Or you can just use windows iso as is without activation on a VM and call it a day. Then, if you are adventurous, fire up that kms38 and you are off to the races
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> is foster an environment conductive to dialogue

How are we to foster dialogue with people that want to kill us? That want mass murder and a cleansing of anyone that doesn't agree with them politically? How are we to dialogue with people who accuse anyone who doesn't align with them politically as pedophile satanists? Have you even seen what these people post online?

These people don't dialogue, they use words as weapons, and you are giving them the ability to weaponize and grift, period.

In reddit's r/askhistorians, where experts actually run things, they don't even allow people to ask questions about holocaust denialism, because they already know those questions are disingenuous, and allowing them does nothing to solve any problems.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...

> I think we can all agree that when we attempt to silence certain views, they are often pushed underground instead of being fully eradicated. Not only that...they gain more traction.

In what world? Study is showing that deplatforming works, it seems you are lying to yourself.
Rise to Ruins is also somewhat in that vein - more of a city-builder combined with a tower-defense game.
I absolutely hate using VMs over VPNs, any slight interruption in my fragile home Wi-Fi (or whatever the hell the VPN is doing) causes my whole dev environment to freeze.

It's a security/usability trade off for me.
Yes we often here about "anti-intellectualism" but there are often good reasons to be contemptuous of a sector of society that likes to tell everybody else how to think and behave but dont live up to those same standards themselves. People arent stupid.
I really don't understand why everyone is making fun of what is clearly a stub implementation. Have we not all written code like this so we can go work on some other part of the code that depends on this?