skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, large companies work like congress.

First you need something core to start a bill around. Let's make a law that makes it easier to buy guns.

But no one is going to vote for that, so let's give it a name you CAN'T say no to. It will henceforth be known as "The Child and Family Home Protection Act".

Great we have a cool name and we have a law significant enough to send to the floor of congress. Now let's get enough people to promise to vote for it so we don't waste our time. Oh, Congressman X says that he would vote for it as long as we add another law about funding polar bear research. Sure, whatever just add it in, we need the votes. Congresswoman Y says she will vote for it if we add a law about requiring masks at church. We need the votes, tack it on. Congressman Z has been trying to get more tanks sent to Afghanistan for nearly a decade, if we add that in I bet he will vote for out law too.

Then these things get bundled up and sent to the floor where people vote on laws with fun marketing names added to them.

The same thing happens in business. You start off with a core project like a new ERP system. Give it a complex sounding name that no one in accounts payable will say no to. Then we add in a bunch of computers into the budget that we have been trying to get for 2 years. Add a new printer. Throw in some docker desktop licenses for our developers, and then bundle it up and send it to Accounts Payable. Bam, now you have docker desktop licenses and new computers. You're welcome.
If we start with multiple source images that are "small" (by some definition of small) perturbations of each other and upscale them, what can be said about the results?
> Why would they work for you for pennies when they could move to Silicon Valley, make tons more, and have potential for much, much more?

Who says all talented engineers overseas can come to the US?
There is a huge amount of QA companies in Ukraine that contract their service to the west, for example, can they come to the US? I doubt it.
Overseas workers don't get the chance to make demands, US companies have leverage over them. Because there are way more talented engineers than high paying jobs. I have you seen how much people get paid in toptal, and other online contractor companies?
Agreed. Many people in this thread seem to overestimate scientist's ability to operate without ego and underestimate the power of institutions to suppress work it finds objectionable. That sort of environment encourages self-censorship, and many (possibly good) ideas are stuffed away for fear of rocking the boat. It's easier to go with the flow than to stand alone and cast a shadow over your reputation and ability to work in the future.
Right. I put the tildes before the color names to indicate that they are "around here".
This is the correct answer, and also the hardest answer because it's going to require you to have to swallow your pride.

Security will already be monitoring your traffic as a basic first step, which they will pipe straight into a SIEM or SOAR system. Doing this stuff will likely get you flagged for an audit.
Well, it's interesting, then, that Switzerland is one of the oldest political regimes in Europe. This kind of rhetoric tends to come from elitist thinkers that would want a guarantee of power over people because they think they are right and somehow destined to have it.

If we are on topic of exchanging opinions of famous men, I think Machiavelli said that the people can be misled and go astray but are not prevented by pride from correcting themselves, like rulers would.
> Those dastardly centrists, always waiting for conclusive information before jumping to conclusions!

While it is appealing to believe that moderates/centrists really did look at all available data and came to a principled conclusion from first principles, I somehow doubt that that is the case.
Lol obviously you’ve never risen to a level of management in a giant corporation.

It’s ok. Just keep telling yourself you’re smarter than everyone else.
I'm curious do you touch type, and, if so do you also touch type on the numpad?

I suspect the divide here is between people that are touch typists w/ experience in numeric data entry and people who still need to look at the physical keyboard to type.

As a touch typist I've never particularly cared where the keyboard is, and while I haven't used a numeric keypad in years, I still miss having one.
This is a great story! I love hearing about startups when they were tiny and growing (YC does a great job with this; Segment comes to mind).

My story about meeting someone "famous" when they were tiny is: I met @muneeb (a well known guy in the bitcoin-universe) in a 2 person office in a wework in NYC back in '14/'15. They were doing an identity/crypto sort of thing that I didn't understand.
Only on HN could we diagnosis someone with impulse control from less than 8 minutes of video.
Like my sibling sort of did I want to point out that this possibly was meant to counter another trend. Unfortunately furniture nowadays burn much faster than before.

They did an experiment. Built one room with old furniture made from solid wood and other "old style materials" and set it on fire. Then they built another one with modern materials with the typical particle board furniture. Set it on fire.

Not many more words needed. Just watch: https://youtu.be/aDNPhq5ggoE
It's Corona, there's no Standesamt available (no joke).
Thank you - I missed this while skimming.
Most of the people upset about the lockdowns seem to be people living outside of New Zealand. Quick search shows that currently 85% of New Zealanders agree with the current lockdown approach. We've seen what it did to Australia by not properly locking down. People are paid a covid support wage subsidy through their business to ensure that they stay being paid.
> With a ponzi scheme, there is no underlying investment. So the pool of capital never grows.

The "pool of capital" never grows here, either. Landlords get more assets (houses), but also more liabilities (deposits).

A Ponzi scheme is perfectly capable of having underlying investments, by the way. I'm pretty sure Madoff bought houses with his money, too.

> Which they could invest for an 8% or so return

Where the heck do you get an 8% return with no risk? I want in.

> The fact that is has been around for so long

How many decades did Madoff's ponzi scheme last?
Linux has a very flexible LED framework, and there's a variety of different "triggers" one can use to drive the LEDs. CPU usage, disk usage, network device usage, backlight level, usb port usage, audio are all different triggers one can control an LED via, that are baked into the kernel[1]. There's userland devices one can use to do whatever else one wants.

This isn't as aesthetic as say, the LiveWire[2] mention in the comments. But it's readily available on almost all systems, and is a very flexible ambient indicator.

There's a lot of really really fun good stuff in the comments here. Ambient is good, but to me, I want computing that exposes the causal relationships of what is happening as it's processing, as it's running. "This button was clicked so I'm trying to change the screen brightness now." All of the entities of computing, the data, these user events, should be reified, should be made into a logged sequence of what is happening. From that basis, we can all be free to explore computing, and to- EventSourcing style- extend the graph of computing as we might see fit.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/leds/t...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348148
> The most capable workers had already emigrated to US

This is insanely wrong. What makes you think that?
On Improving Editing and Writing
I'm 40 and the difference is very obvious to me. I have no interest in any low DPI screens.
This has nothing to do with Python. The faulty package was xeus-cling, a C++ kernel for Jupyter.
We're terrible at identifying colours, because colour is context dependent. Which makes it easy to create colour illusions like these:

http://brainden.com/color-illusions.htm

We don't have an absolute colour sense except under controlled conditions.

No-compromise colour professionals - high-end graphic designers, commercial photographers, photo libraries, printers and such - minimise contextual distortions with highly accurate colour-calibrated monitors set up in an environment with controlled ambient lighting and a neutral (usually grey) wall colour.
"I look forward to your contributions to our projects"

Where can we find the code for those projects?

The repo you linked is empty. The GH profile says FCSF was founded in 2020, but none of the 5 visible repos contain any new code:

- brand-guidelines (not software)

- open-case-filing-system (empty, created 6 days ago, but in another comment you said this the main focus?)

- open-source-policy (not software)

- ef-cms (forked from another org)

- mousejiggler (forked from another org)
Still based in MV.
I have bought a few System76 laptops, though not this variant - I like to buy the ones that ship with coreboot.

As for the price difference: you can buy the base model of the System76 and upgrade ram/disk yourself. This is harder to do on the Lenovo ones; it seems the T14 has (some of) the ram soldered on (ugh).

But, it is nice to see that you can actually buy a T14 with Ubuntu preinstalled (if you are willing to wait 4+ months...), and they list it next to the (more expensive!) Windows version:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...
I don't know. It's the first volume. I agree this is more likely to attract submissions from fields where there's more vicious controversy, but give it time.

There's a good chance it will largely stay within the area of the first volumes' articles, perhaps with a bit more focus in bioethics or something of that sort. I could also forsee some sort of bombshell paper appearing that draws attention to the journal and raises its profile.

A reasonable comparison might be whistleblower outlets. They tend not to churn out scandalous intelligence all the time, but rather, have long boring periods punctuated by significant submissions.

I hope the journal establishes itself really. I think the main stake it's trying to make is protection of author anonymity, which I imagine could get very contentious at more mainstream outlets, even those in the physical sciences. I could even see a disgruntled editor at a typical journal leaking information about a submission in some belief that everything should be open, despite some consensus among the remaining editorial and publishing staff that anonymity should be preserved. Remember that there's a huge trend now in academic publishing toward radical transparency, in the sense of getting rid of blinded reviews. This is taking the opposite approach it seems, of increasing anonymity of everyone involved. If nothing else, it demonstrates the value of anonymity in academic publishing, and maybe provides a counterperspective to radical openness.
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If your ear had only 3 types of detectors which only detected 3 specific frequency distributions within about half an octave but could locate stimuli within your field of hearing with pinpoint accuracy, after a lifetime of using that equipment you would probably be able to make relatively fine distinctions in pitch in that very limited range.

Instead, the human cochlea contains thousands of little pitch detectors spread over 10 octaves, and the perceptual architecture and typical training built around it is designed to detect relative pitches (e.g. noticing the difference between two different people’s voices more strongly than the absolute frequency of the fundamental pitch of either voice).

Eyes and ears just have fundamentally different physical mechanisms and we make sense of visual and auditory stimuli in fundamentally different ways. They are not really directly comparable.

In both cases, however, our perception is strongly context-relative.
Unfortunately, it looks like <https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/pang10/README.html> the Pangolin line has several non-open blobs in the firmware, so it's unclear if you can disable the AMD Platform Security Processor.

The only available tech specs seem to be for pang10 not pang11 hardware, maybe this will change.
Probably not, that's likely a hundreds of billions of dollars investment, whereas I imagine self driving investment totals a couple tens at the most.
The surprise isn't that they were influenced but that they actually quit over it
Eh not really, I've used the hidpi MacBooks for work, it doesn't really make a big difference.

I can tell the difference between a 1440p/4k and a 1080p screen, but it doesn't bother me to the point where I won't buy machines which don't have it, it's just a nice bonus.
CI on Power9 (PPC64LE) LPAR using snapper
Because it creates a false dichotomy in people's minds. It pushes everyone into a zero sum mode.

They have to win at the opponent's expense.

Instead, both parties should be looking for win win solutions to all the problems they face.
Show HN: The Moai – Habit change through group accountability
My name is Suket and I built The Moai (https://themoai.org). It's a platform that enables habit change through social support groups.

The idea was born out of my frustration with "productivity porn" on the internet. People would just consume motivational content, but not act on it. This is by design - the attention economy incentivizes consumption over action. The Moai aims to fix this at the root, by providing content creators an aligned business model that makes money when their audience succeeds.

How we achieve this:
- Students must place a deposit for accountability. If they don’t complete the program (judged on effort, not results), it is donated to charity (not us). Skin in the game for them and for us.
- Students pay what they want. It’s free to join - they only pay if they see results. So far, students average $30 for a 30 day program.
- Cohort sizes are small (4 people) to foster real community.
- Students must share weekly check-ins on what worked and what didn’t. This creates a tight feedback loop and the foundation for shared learnings, motivation and accountability.

Here's an example of a program built using the platform: https://themoai.org/intentional-technology. The goal of the program is to help people use technology more intentionally - less as an escape, more as a tool.

I would love your feedback on whether you would consider joining such a program or be interested in building your own program using the platform.

Thanks in advance!
irony over text..?
That isn't the case on Windows Server, and on Windows Desktop SKUs, having a logged in user is normal and expected.
I could not disagree more with this take.

>Within science, many ideas are "controversial" because they're demonstrably wrong. Such ideas should not be "published" in a "journal" in some misguided attempt to give them the exposure they're justifiably denied everywhere else, that's not how science works. (example off the top of my head: chiropractics and other psuedoscientific nonsense)

They absolutely should be published. How else can I, as a scientist, be able to determine what is right and what is wrong? For example, in my field there was a small scandal regarding the publication and claims of a macromolecular structure, and to what resolution they had been solved.

http://xray0.princeton.edu/~phil/Facility/Guides/ABCtranspor...

I'm glad those papers were published because the truth was eventually determined, and nearly everyone in the field had a good lesson to learn from it. Not all the same lesson, either. Don't gatekeep - just falsify. Otherwise we won't know when we end up wrong.
Entire text as a 53 MB PDF: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/hw/MusicTheory-Aug-2020.p... (from https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/)
Yeah, under and over are great (wish k had more 'combinators' in general), but k does manage to cram a lot of stuff in with overloads. I feel like k is terser in general but I don't really have much evidence to back it up, just from playing a bit with both of them.
I don't intend to be personally rude here and appreciate that you're trying your best to do the right thing in this circumstance. I know there's some good Googlers out there.

But I'd have to say that it is absolutely shameful that desperate businesses have to try and hope to get noticed on social media to get a problem resolved. We all know that this is true. Not having responsive customer support is the way a scam operates, not a legitimate business.

Offer a paid customer support line if you must to reduce requests to a manageable number, but Google is absolutely killing off many innocent small businesses with the way they operate. Especially in these troubled economic times, it's absolutely horrific behavior.
People generally have a very good idea about the job of their colleagues and how it compares to theirs.
Yea sorry I don't think those are facts at all, and certainly not so without proper context and analysis.

In fact, reading what you wrote just strengthened my conviction that they're not true at all.
Demo Day is today and tomorrow for the S21 batch. I'm not sure if that means all the startups are on-the-record but for sure most will be.
Folks interested in this might be interested in the Told in Stone YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone
What about the old vrml standard ? I remember playing with 3d in the browsers in the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
We actually do verify data on Levels.fyi – we collect verified proof documents such as W2s and offer letters to anchor the self-reported data points.

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Thank you, I could remember the story but not the word for it.
I actually have this setup on my desk. Meaning, I have a Kinesis Freestyle 2 (split keyboard) and in between, there’s an Apple trackpad.
> Great engineers are human members of a team, and there's more to a team member than their LeetCode score (seriously?) and/or how many GitHub stars they've obtained.
I was referring to performance metrics in general, I didn't said those were the ones to take into account. I have definitely seen people here in HN referring to github stars, stackoverflow points, etc... as some sort of badge of honor.

Also I find your answer pretty condescending towards folks overseas, although that's your opinion. In my team at Google, we have people from all over the world, and they are amazing. Don't see how they don't have the "required qualifications" you are referring to.
Extortion. They built an entire community of docker users and then this. it's one thing if we all knew they were oracle. It's another thing for them to turn into Oracle after capturing mindshare.
No you’re missing the point I think. The point is that a gun let’s you defend yourself from tyranny. And that is a sufficient number of people find a government tyrannical they can choose to organize against them by not following their tyrannical laws which are illegitimate. And the tyrannical government would have to take up arms against these people to enforce their power with the knowledge these people can defend themselves.

Guns rights are about defense not coercion per-se. The knowledge that the public is already armed is a deterrent in even trying to create or enforce law that meets this criteria. Thankfully we aren’t there and I hope we never will, but as they chip chip chip away you start to wonder what will be tried next.
Curious why you don't want compensation transparency? That information asymmetry is a huge reason an employer has a negotiating advantage against you.
The difference is that you buy or don't buy the car if negotiations fail.

At work you have or done have a job or even revenue if the only thing employer and employees are doing is trying to throw wrenches into the machinery to get the upper hand.
They could do what Apple did 20 years ago: Make them modular.

You used to be able to pop the trackball out from the right side of the keyboard area, slide the keys to the right, and then re-insert the trackball into the left side.

Do the same with a num pad, instead of a trackball. And for people who don't want the num pad, make available half-width blank inserts to occupy the space on both sides.
Update: Co-founder found. Thanks, HN!
> Ironically , the same conservatives that have been trumpeting the 2nd have concurrently been undermining the 5th and now can be used against you as evidence of guilt.

Just out of curiosity - are you possibly confusing civil vs. criminal cases? The 5th amendment does apply in civil cases to the extent that you cannot be compelled to testify - but a judge can interpret your lack of response in a negative light in a civil setting. This differs from criminal cases where the lack of testimony is not admissible nor can it be considered in determination or sentencing.
I saw a wasp help another wasp get its leg out of a gap between a light fixture and some siding.

I saw the whole thing, I was watching the stuck wasp because it was trying to fly away but its foot was pinned. As I’m watching, another wasp flies by, slows down, turns around and lands by the stuck one. The helper just kind of bit at the foot and pulled on it. After a couple of tugs it broke free (or off) and they both flew away.

I went and found how many neurons they have in their brain, I can’t find it now but it was under a million maybe 500k or so. I thought it was remarkably complex behavior.

And then I killed them both. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a bit of a shameless plug, but I'm an astronomer who has been interested in these kinds of questions for a long time and earlier this year started a podcast to delve into answering them. It's a history of astronomy starting with the Babylonians and working towards modern astronomy (though at one episode a month it will take a while to get all the way through).

My intention has been to take the astronomy of each era on its own terms and try to understand what questions they were trying to answer and what techniques they used to answer them. You tend to read things like "the Ptolemaic system was geocentric and had to use lots of epicycles to work and then 1500 years later Copernicus introduced a heliocentric system that didn't need epicycles." but I'm trying to explain how these systems developed, why epicycles seemed to be natural, how they figured out what epicycles were needed based on the observations they had made, etc.

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These aren’t factory line workers — these are highly compensated “employment at will” knowledge workers at one of the most prestigious employers in the world. With Apple on your resume, you can likely apply for a job at many firms who will compensate you much more than Apple. A typical skilled knowledge worker who feels underpaid would look for opportunities elsewhere and either leave or leverage an offer for a raise —- unless of course they were not really skilled and/or they had other motivations.

Also, these demands for pay equity from knowledge workers (and their leaks to tech media activists) will almost certainly incentivize and drive employers to increase hierarchies and divisions in their organizational structures. Can you legitimately complain about pay equity when your job is unlike anyone else’s job in the org chart?
Apple probably even uses Windows, for those 3D modeling workstations.

"Made in China. Designed in California on a Windows PC."
> I (annoying person that I am) pointed out that statistically the children were much more likely to die in a traffic accident on the way to school. This did not go over well.

Wait until you try to bring up stats on legal vs illegal firearm crimes...
Which is why this shady tactic works time and again.