skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the Gnomon recommendation. There was a free preview of it that came up from Google search. I just read it blind and I'm really enjoying it so far.
That doesn't support your core thesis that the US will lose a protracted war and that mass producing missiles is going to actually led to planes being destroyed. That's not how that works.
maybe true ten years ago, but I really feel that you would have been living under a rock to not understand that at this point.

take linkedin for example. what could possibly be the point of making a linkedin account other than to have people you don't/barely know message you about jobs, or vice versa? or look at how people use instagram. the whole point of using the platform seems (to me) to be to accumulate as many follows as possible.

I do think there's at least an argument to be made about reasonable defaults. unless it's overwhelmingly clear that a person would want their profile to be public, it should be private by default. perhaps private should be the only option for minors.
The US has a bunch of fab engineers as well. The problem isn't having the engineers, it's having the actual higher tech fabs.
Why do you feel so attacked about the subject of this article such that you have concluded this is part of a gender "war"?

If I understand your claim correctly, it is just that simply there weren't any reliable sources to verify the information because there are not any articles about these women; however, the article further examines (or at least considers) that exact fact as being part of the issue - that these women are not being written about at the same rate as men.
The "more or less" applied to "continuous", not "independent." But if you really want to argue that independence is a simple binary decision... you're just flat out wrong. No, seriously.

Let's take what should be a simple example: Canada. When did Canada become independent? Well... Wikipedia lists no fewer than three separate dates, and that's really understating the matter.

The Canadian Confederation was proclaimed on July 1, 1867 (and this is the date that Canada celebrates as its main independence day, FWIW). This created the basic structure of the Canadian government, but all changes to it required approval by Westminster, and Canada was not allowed autonomy in several areas of law, most notably foreign policy. This changed after the Canadian dissatisfaction with British negotiation of the US-Canada border dispute in the Alaska panhandle, and Canada started entering into international agreements and treaties in its own right in the early 1900s. The Statute of Westminster in 1931 dropped all legislative oversight over Canada, except for constitutional changes which came about in 1982.

So I ask you again, when did Canada become independent? Now, for bonus points, take the same criteria and ask if places such as Greenland, Bermuda, Taiwan, Palestine, Abu Dhabi, or Federated States of Micronesia are independent or not.
This changed how I view the problem of obesity and the world's problem with diet:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
People don't know how to type them on a US keyboard, so it'll never pass the "if I can't hand-write this in ed(1), it isn't a valid file format" hacker adoption barrier without someone of Google's size to force us all to adopt it (e.g. protobuf).
Robert Moses, a planner, demolished and fractured thriving neighborhoods to build massive highways in New York City in his quest to see cars working at scale. Architects and planners of the time like Moses and Le Corbusier did not pay close attention to markets, they were focused on utopic designs and unrealistic beliefs of what humans would achieve in radically new spaces.

That is why we have legacy highways and sprawling public housing projects.
They could spin off Instagram and/or WhatsApp into separate (perhaps publicly traded) companies.
Federal income tax on your paycheck is based on an estimate that you're responsible to calculate when you file the w-4 when you start working at a new employer (it can be amended at any time). Those paycheck estimated payments are added up and deducted from what you actually owe at the end of the year and result in either a refund (you overestimated) or taxes due (you underestimated).

If your net federal income tax is $0 there is an exemption box on the w-4 you can check. That causes no federal income tax to be withheld, but the same end of year calculation may find you owe money if you made more than expected.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2684221345/?eBP=CwEAAAF7X...
An earlier attempt of this is http://csvy.org/, but AFAIK it has never really caught on.
We had a disgruntled employee here at our small business purposefully release ransomware on our network. I don't think he was working with the ransomware people, he was just being disgruntled and trying to hurt us. Thankfully we're small enough and have a good enough data security plan that it just ended up wasting one day of my time to contain, analyze, walk the guy out the door, and restore from backups.
Has anyone found an easy way to expand their templates without using their whole stack? I tried getting Lua templates working from Python but didn't get very far...
Err, Apple allows the CCP to scan iCloud already, and did so willingly and actively.
Ah the old life imitating art problem.

Had a professor at UG who showed a similar mistake. His solution. Only buy and trust books from reputable authors.

Not a great fix, but he wasn't wrong.
That's why the Chinese are so keen on taking over Taiwan as it will give them that access. The core theory that the PLA repeats is that they could overwhelm US assets in the region and quickly crush Taiwan in hopes of forcing the US to agree to a cease fire and peace deal.
> You can't control what other people post about you but for the non-famous this is probably a relatively modest presence

I don't think this is right, at least not in the context of the parent. Perhaps it's true in regards to _public_ posts on the internet, but I think it's important to consider private photos.

If you upload photos to your private Google Photos account, it will ask you "is this FriendA?" and have you train an image classifier for all your friends. Even if FriendA is not online, as long as FriendB is taking photos of FriendA and tagging them (for example, to make it easier for FriendB to search their photo album) then Google knows how to recognize FriendA.

I have no idea if this training data is used outside of FriendB's library, but I'd assume so.
In a Warming World, Consider the Mist Garden
Notice this resembles somewhat (in reverse) the WW2 situation with high quality German tanks and Japanese Zeros etc and the us making many more tanks and planes compared to the Germans and Japanese. But we are on the other side of that now.
The CS Student Guide: The Advice I Wish I Had – Xuntos
They do bring suits against scammers pretty regularly, but they only really go after very successful scammers who have stolen 7-8 figures+ from their victims. The FTC does not have the resources to go after smaller claims. They leave that up to civil plaintiff to at least somewhat rectify. They're not as inactive as you think it's just that there's a LOT of federal crime that goes unpunished. The federal government in general is only capable of effectively pursuing a small sample of federal crimes that occur.

This has a lot to do with the way that we finance our regulators -- a lot of these crimes could be handled on a bounty system, which would fix the manpower problems.
Strip just under 50% of the country of voting rights to combat creeping authoritarianism? At least you’re shameless I guess.
> In order to make sure they’re ready, though, the solar industry is creating programs to train commercial recycling companies to understand what’s in manufacturers’ products and how to break them down,

It seems to me like recycling should be part of the design process for these products. Instead of hoping that recyclers are able to do something with them, we should require that manufacturers account for the entire lifecycle of the product up-front.
Hence the dummy account to segregate your day to day Google activities from your YouTube retrieval activities with a cookie piped into ytdl.
I never understood how anyone who calls themselves a 'project manager' of a software project, could not actually be a technical contributor. The best projects that I've been associated with have always been led by technicians who also could write, present, manage users, project plans, etc. They're not just 'coders'.. How can anyone define project strategy, tasks, and timelines without an implicit understanding of how it all works? These people (generally rare in my experience) can easily cut through bullshit by technical, and non-technical staff pretty easily. The projects that they lead are generally on time, with fewer problems. I've learned early in my career never to get too far from what it is people are paying us to do : deliver some business value through the act of writing software.
Just look out for the hand gestures, some represent a variety of meanings and may be even offensive in certain countries/cultures[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns
Great wisdom presents itself with different faces to different people throughout time, but maintains the same essence. That's what makes it wisdom. It is eternal and unchanging, it just takes perspective to see.

I had exactly the same epiphany while reading Meditations. I thought, "wow, this sounds an awful lot like the Buddhism I've read/heard about".

Again, after reading Ralph Waldo Emerson I saw the same wisdom with a different face. I realized that all these people throughout time came independently to precisely the same conclusions about how to live life as part of the great "wholeness" (for lack of a better word) to which we all belong.

My experience with Buddhism is mostly limited to interactions with an old Buddhist friend, but in terms of literature I found Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and J. D. Salinger's Teddy to be very palatable from a western perspective.

For stoic philosophy you can really do no better than Marcus Aurelius's meditations, specifically the more modern Gregory Hays translation. Epictectus's discourses are pretty good too, but are less pithy and have a lower signal to noise ratio when it comes to true wisdom IMO.

Emerson's Self Reliance, History, and finally The Oversoul will reveal the same wisdom from all the other works I mentioned.
The danger of the unpolished article thing is that if there is a falsehood on it people will publish the equivalent of this article but with the title: How a Wikipedia Lie Ruined This Man’s Life. Or some such thing.
> I don't agree the GPs code is more aesthetically pleasing but he's right that it is subjective.

An easy way to see that these issues aren't subjective in general is to ask why absolutely no-one uses the kind of code given above unless they're forced to because of the platform they're using, e.g. a constrained embedded environment or whatever.

You either have to conclude that effectively all developers have the same subjective take on these issues, or that there's something beyond subjectivity at work. There are very good arguments for the latter.
Jenkins have Jenkinsfile in Groovy, but it's still kinda hard to debug it. Never tried
"Such small discrepancy"? Women's articles are 30% more likely to be nominated than by random chance. That's actually quite a large discrepancy to be explained away by handwaving about how editors might be biased in including too many non-notable women. The journal article even claims it's exactly the opposite:

"Studies show that women’s biographies are slightly more notable than men’s (Wagner et al., 2016)"
By "taking advantage of the Birthday Paradox" - he means that even though the chance of two random images colliding is ~ 1/1 trillion, if you have a set of size ~ sqrt(1 trillion) you have a good chance of having a collision amongst all pairs.
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

Apple has to store data of chinese citizens in china? And Apple has to adhere to chinese laws in china? How insane.

It's crazy how deluded the "CCP crowd" are. Apparently, the "CCP crowd" thinks companies are allowed to do business in another country and not abide by their laws.

Are you going to go insane since the EU requires tech companies to store EU citizens data within the EU?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2021/05/06/eu-data-boun...

You would think most countries would demand their citizens data be stored locally.
>I wonder why white pages fell out of favor.

People could look up numbers online if they wanted to, so there was just no need for a big book any longer. They also never had cell numbers so they became less useful in that regard. And most people don't just call a person out of the blue any longer.
It's one reason I prefer lighter languages for NIF's. My personal preference is to use Nim and Nimler [1]. It generally compiles quicker than Rust while providing most of the same benefits. To be fair compiling a small Rust library doesn't take too much time. Especially compared to the performance numbers from those Rust NIFs!

1: https://github.com/wltsmrz/nimler
Ask HN: Leaving Fang for Consulting?
I've been at a FANG company for about 6 years and I'm considering leaving the standard 9-5 to do private consulting. Before FANG I was part of two successful startups.

My motivations for consulting is more flexibility in my schedule and get the chance to build more projects from the ground up.

I have a fairly broad and deep set of skills. My principle background is infrastructure and distributed systems. Some of those systems are very large. I'm comfortable with Java, Go, Python and infrastructure tooling (docker, kubernetes, CI/CD, etc). I have a deep understanding of security models (network, application, AWS IAM, etc).

I love nothing more than bootstrapping complicated infrastructure. I have a start-to-finish, project-based mindset. I've always worked well independently or with a team. I THINK I'd enjoy consulting, but am I just fooling myself?

What's it like out there for people like me? What does it realistically take to get a stable income stream? How do I get started?
Seems inevitably we'll eventually get unsustainable levels of junk up there.

Anyone have creative ideas for how to clean all this crap up someday with "deep tech"?
The Metaverse vs. Nation States
Alternatively, a corrupt government might want folks to distrust their mass market phone such that they can have an individual come along and offer them a 'completely secure and private' alternative[1].

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted...
Not Just Bikes talks about zoning in the US vs Dutch cities in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ. My impression was that the US has more restrictive regulations on what can be built.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Politicians like MTG and Boebert are part of the system just to cheapen it. The crazier they are, the more off-tilt they are, the better the strategy works, the more it weakens the average Americans faith in the system. This strategy started with Trump, but it's started permeating every level of politics. The more wild they act, the more they can insist that the other side is being just as crazy.
I hate this regarding my day job. I don’t have a single day like other days so, setting routines is nearly impossible. Can 10-12 be focus time? Nope. Someone will need to throw a meeting in there.

I thrive with routine and structure, but can’t find it at work, which makes things way harder than they need to be.
Do people in the center of big cities in the USA have multiple private parking spots right out front? (I genuinely don't know but I'll make an assumption.) Perhaps in smaller cities they might have made it a priority over the decades while the city grew, but in something like NYC I can't imagine they didn't run into practicality issues. Do people there not expect visitors ever? Of course they do. You hop on the metro, I assume at least. Same here, and if you live outside of a big city's center, you'll find it's not only free to park anywhere, it's actually annoyingly hard to do normal things without a car. I was in Limburg a few weeks ago for 8 days, alone without a driver's license to use said car parked out front (the thing expired, I didn't notice). Let me tell you I didn't see many places and family had to pick me up or I'd have had hours of public transport time for a 20 minute drive to their place.
At this point I don't have much faith that there is any existential scenario that would unite the world in cooperation.

The fact that this isn't existential or even comprehensible to lets say 80% of the world's population, tells me we as engineers and designers need to plan for our technologies to be able to operate despite an inevitable cascading space collision.
Google has been prompting me for the past several months to add my birthday. Leaving it in doubt seems to be the best way forward.
> guess who will not have a famine even if the worst war + disasters strike?

Worst? Really? You think corn fields survive nuclear war? An asteroid the size of you know what?
It's a pity I distrust Facebook so much that I'd never give this a try (my kids simply don't social except sorta on Nintendo).

My kids connected with their friends through outside activities properly masked up.
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained in 3D
Why JSON? I don't see any benefits in storing `format.txt` as JSON (specially in a file with the txt extension). It just makes editing harder.

This would be better, IMHO:

csvddfVersion: 1.2
delimiter: ";"
doubleQuote: true
lineTerminator: "\r\n"
quoteChar: "\""
skipInitialSpace: true
header: true
commentChar: "#"
Yes - branching both schema and data in terminus - becoming more JSON oriented too with a new document API
The US government manufactures a lot of classified chips in house. It’s unclear what their exact capabilities are, but looking at funding they could in theory be ahead of the industry.
I'll answer here. :)

Banks spend 13x more advertising to men than women. Young women have the largest spending power of any demographic ever - this is a seismic shift in the market.

Credit card rewards target where men are spending 60% more of the time, versus where women are spending 60% more (and control 85% of GDP).
Agreed. I don't think people realize that privacy exploitation for profit is really just a negative externality and moves us away further from equilibrium (along with environmental negative externalities where corporation x pollutes more for short term profits but long term ecological degradation)
> None of this matters, because the limiting factor for civs is collective intelligence, not energy.

Is this really the limiting factor? I've always assumed the limiting factor was distance. I can envision a species that is more intelligent or more altruistic. But what I can't envision is how collective action is coordinated over interstellar distances. It would seem to me that the extreme communication delay would cause any interstellar civilization to inevitably break apart into a bunch of separate "local" civilizations.
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I take your point that diagnosis is problematic.

The [3] source you’re quoting is basically demonstrating that chronic exposure to a dopamine agonist leads to downregulation, which isn’t exactly surprising. The sentence immediately before the one you’re quoting is a very important qualifier as well.

No snark intended, there’s so much out there that the best resource I know to recommend is the citations section of the Amphetamine Wikipedia page (ex: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...).
The usage of the word probably implies the same about this take.
Like the main article.
Increasing the barrier to entry here didn't help.

This isn't about a celebrities haircut.

This is an admin who doesn't understand a topic sitting as gatekeeper on said topic. It doesn't scale and causes problems.

Reducing the barrier to entry is better to encourage engagement. Higher barriers of entry should be needed for evolving topics as is appropriate but the fact Wikipedia has gone this way from my last attempt at a contribution (2004) is sad.
But even going against big players like Amazon, why can't they say - hey, you are selling products with totally false descriptions, refund everyone who but the fake "apple certified" device, or the "UL listed" device. Just do mass refunds across 10's of thousands of customers.

Instead they are going after Apple. In my experience at least least scammy company out there. My refunds go through, the warranty / applecare stuff works, subscription renewals are fair and easy to cancel, no * fine print on trials.
The information from FTC might be more recent than the last released numbers during an earnings call. That would be my best guess!
Seems strange to me that a purportedly high-integrity journalistic organization would refer to it as ‘weed’ in the headline. Is ‘cannabis’ not click-baity enough for Reuters?
> the web editor has support for workflow syntax and will determine if your action is viable before committing.

I don't use the web editor, but more importantly it can't catch logical errors (missing required with: arguments, secrets that don't exist, environment variable names, etc).

> I'm curious what prevents you from writing your own actions in typescript now?

When I say "I want to write actions in typescript" I mean that I want to specify the entirety of my CI using a typescript program, without any YAML configuration. In particular, the jobs of a workflow themselves.

I have many jobs shared between build/test/release with slightly different triggers and configurations, but the only way to handle this in actions (especially when using imported actions) is by copying/pasting YAML. That wound up being untenable, and it's why I stripped out all action dependencies and wrote the automation to not use them such that all workflows

I've also had use cases for recursive workflows.

Act doesn't cover any of my use cases.
Same. Ridiculous.
Probably. But not because it makes sense. After all, it would be easy to do bad things even with 100% surveillance. At some point, you have to trust somebody. That's especially true at big companies where the executives don't do anything except email and spreadsheets. There is no combination of email, spreadsheets, and enterprise surveillance webportal that can prevent a malefactor from doing harm, and in fact I would argue that such measures only increase the problems. Why? False positives should scare everyone, especially the good guys.
I don't think china did that, any supporting news articles?
Anecdotal, I know, but the saddest interview I’ve ever done was a state government web developer. I was writing a js on the whiteboard, setting up a problem that started something like

var a = 1;
a = 2;

Before I got any further they blurted out “that’s false! The second line is false” and this was someone who had been writing production code for the government for the last five years.

I honestly just felt really bad for them, more than anything.
The point being that using a uniform standard when you compare women and men will always have a systematic bias.
> Again. Leaving an article and requesting additions from the public is drastically different to deleting it because it doesn't meet some arbitrary standard.

Correct, but irrelevant. There was no article. Only a draft specifically created and submitted to be reviewed. It was reviewed and fair feedback was provided. This is different from the process where an article already exists and is marked for deletion.

Edit: See here for more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237054

Edit 2: There apparently was another article in 2014 which was deleted. The information above is about the more recent AFC that was deleted.