skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't need 534 words of backstory, the post title was enough. Take the job;
presumably with your math background you will quickly outgrow it after 1-2
years, and you'll get promoted or move on. A master is merely a convenient
filter for employers -- what you'd learn there you'd never use in a
non-research role.
I'm a little disappointed in myself that I didn't come up with this. Selling placebo pills to treat people using placebo effect. I guess I need to work on my evil genius skills.
Many options were available. Tariffs, enforcement of environmental and working standards for foreign producers, taxation of companies outsourcing production and labor, distribution of a portion of savings to impacted workers, etc. For the most part the US chose none of these in favor of maximizing short-term profits.
> How often does the CEO of one company address management of its biggest competitor? How often can you even get said CEOs to public acknowledge the name of their competitors?

Not often enough! I work for Capital One. We are a decently large player in the US banking market (perhaps number 5 depending on how you count). I would love to have Jamie Dimond (of Chase) come speak to us.

But it goes the other way too. If Dimond were too invite Rich Fairbank (our CEO) to present to his executives they would definitely benefit. Rich would describe the ways in which we excel: things like the relationship we have between the business and tech sides of the organization.

In general, one would be a fool not to want to hear from one's competitors.
Will be interesting which alliance they join. If they join Star Alliance and they truly will deliver on being a more premium airline I might try them out for a flight to Italy!
Teslas strong dominance in the EV market is quite US-specific it seems. E.G. in France Renault sold more cars, and Peugeot is head to head with Tesla. In Germany VW sold multiple times as much as Tesla. In China BYD sold more than Tesla etc. (all BEV, not plugin hybrids).
Yeah I don't really buy the consumer welfare framing. Or maybe I do buy it for existing anti trust regulation. But I don't buy that it is the only thing we (as a society) should be looking at when considering regulation of companies. This isn't novel, we regulate other externalities even when the regulations themselves harm consumers in the direct sense. For instance, more environmental regulations result in higher prices. But they are often good for other reasons, like not poisoning drinking water. We just don't use anti trust regulation to do this.

Basically I just don't see anti trust regulation as being the best way to target the diverse set of issues society sees with the big tech companies of the moment.
Did you completely misunderstand the text segment you quoted? It doesn't say that the software itself is open-source/free software, it's just talking about the data it produces/maintains/uses, so your comment seems to be way offside.
I always assumed skipping a song had the same effect

My only problem with Spotify is that it seems to heavily lean on some songs, to the point I have to block them. I guess this in of itself questions my assumption

I have a theory (read: confirmation bias) that "That's not my name" by the Ting Tings is cheaper for them to play or something the amount shuffle seems to want to play it. No matter how many other songs are in the list, if that ones in there it'll be played within 5 songs haha
Pro-tip: Don't try to optimize your leisure time.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-07-25
The Web is just one decade away (tops) of being a synonym for ChromeOS runtime anyway.
Of all the terrible things the Nazis did, this is probably one of the least terrible ones. shrug
I am pretty sure I've had this on at least my 80286, and maybe even 80386 and 486DX2 (33/66MHz I think) too (though highly uncertain on the latter). Perhaps you only needed a case that would connect the turbo switch to the motherboard.

It was fun to turn it on for games that used timing-loops for frame rendering to make games twice as fast :)
We need a Casey Muratori for the web.
Wright also did a sketch of a house for Rand, that she quite liked and they discussed having built [1].

Here is what Rand said in 1937 prior to The Fountainhead being published in a correspondance with Wright about her book (from an LA Times piece in 2009, linked [2] below):

> In 1937 a little-known author named Ayn Rand wrote to revered modernist Frank Lloyd Wright.
“Dear Mr. Wright,” her letter of Dec. 12 began, “I am writing a novel about the career of an architect. ... I should like to have the privilege of meeting you and discussing it with you.”

> In “The Fountainhead,” modern architecture provided a convenient vehicle for her views. In her 1937 letter, she told Wright that her new novel “is to be the story of an architect who follows his own convictions throughout his life, no matter what society thinks of it or does to him. . . . A man who has an ideal and goes through hell for it. So you can understand why it seems to me that of all men on earth you are the one I must see.”

> But she added: “My hero is not you. I do not intend to follow in the novel the events of your life and career. His life will not be yours, nor his work, perhaps not even his artistic ideals. But his spirit is yours -- I think.”

[1] https://i.imgur.com/TgjvOjf.jpg

[2] https://archive.is/9s5iW
Is it illegal to shoot videos in public place without permission of all present ? Private places may have their own rules. Also this is R&D, long way before such questions matter.
> he was scared of stopping playing video games and surfing the Internet

For me it depends on the utility I get out of games. Minecraft is like Lego 2.0 and players often share custom maps they've built so there's a community there too. Minecraft is also hackable and I've seen many videos on Youtube of people creating exceptionally creative things with it. It's not just a time-sink: people derive pleasure out of sharing their creativity with the world - something difficult to do with Lego or board-games.

As for surfing the Internet: well yes the Internet can be an endless rabbithole if you let it. I've stopped treating it as a rabbithole though, and casually glance at the Hackernews frontpage in the morning, see what tools / services / products I can leverage going forward, then close the tab, after bookmarking a link or two which I will revisit later when I'm feeling creative. Same for Reddit, Twitter etc

You can either scroll mindfully or scroll mindlessly. It's your choice.
In Santa Clara County, VTA has bike lockers at some transit stations.

https://www.vta.org/go/bike
Cool and all, but 'tuned' does this and so much more.

Custom profiles that can control boot command line options, sysctl parameters, sysfs, and so on.
> Money creation is surely and simply to keep up with the volume of goods and services in the economy? If we didn't create money we'd have deflation (prices would drop year on year).

Then why the guy from the FBI showed up the last time I tried to create more money to save the world from deflation?
It should only cost you half of your remaining life span.
FT: Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business
> why the recipe is exciting, and where it comes from, and what it means for the cook

I know you mean this as a joke, but many cooking books are like that, and I for one value knowing the history (and science, as in "The Food Lab", highly recommended) of what I'm cooking or eating
I agree, but that's not actually what people are mostly thinking about when they say to split up facebook. They mean facebook itself. But it's not clear what that even means to most people.
I don't see why you couldn't. One thing that I did not realize initially was that bind mounts do not work nicely out of the box on mac without mounting via sshfs. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016
You see this pattern in tons of web apps and sites. The browser is slowly turning into some sort of virtual machine. A sensible DOM structure with logical element naming seems to be a thing of the past. I think it makes development more complicated and also increases the barrier of entry for new devs.
> know a therapist who works for Google and they struggle with the job because of how entitled most Google employees are. Vast majority of them have no clue how good they have it compared to 99% of the population

And they don't see the irony of their own position?
and that spells the end of personal computing.
null safety: Can you provide us a reference to a working definition of the term?
Musk and Diess are rather friendly, wonder this goes for them, does this bring out the EV revolution? Can we really reduce emissions by the end of the decade?
People perform abortions for a myriad of reasons in societies where it is legal. Preference for a gender over another seems like just another reason on an individual basis. On a societal basis where most people commit abortion for the same reason seems like it will have big repercussions down the road.

I wonder if anyone has tried to model economic, business, societal and cultural outcomes of this. Will it even change TV shows or movies?

This seems like an interesting A/B test of societies around the world.

In history there used to be a male deficit in many societies after wars. I don't remember seeing many specific studies on that.
Netflix used to use Silverlight for their player. I wrote something a while back that needed to drive it and ended up writing code to click the scrubber to drive it.
Guess we are back there ;)
True. Or maybe they covered it up with cosmetics, another stereotype of aristocrats?
Stitches – CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime
>I came very close in an interview for a company I really want to work for and the recruiter said to try again in 6 months because I was so close and they all want me there, but just need a bit stronger technical skills. She said to focus on personal projects and take more classes if I can.

Yeah, fuck that. As someone on the hiring side in a tiny consultancy that builds machine learning products for enterprise, I like when someone has worked on a personal project that mattered to them, end to end, not some portfolio building bullshit where they strap a half-assed Flask app on top of a sklearn model. However, I won't tell them to focus on that and retry in 6 months, and if I really want them, I won't care: there's a trial period of 6 months where they get paid full-time salary. I mainly reject lazy, assholes, and people who have no curiosity. If they're an engineer and it takes them a full minute to get to their working directory, it tells me things I don't like.

We've hired 3rd year students with full-time employee contracts identical to everyone's. We're very flexible when they have to take exams or prepare or do homework. They work full-time only in the summer or during breaks. Our best hires were electrical engineers and physicists, even before I was involved with hiring (trained as an EE, taking bias into account).

Anyway, I'm on mobile that recently went through a factory reset. I have no idea how much you will be paid, but the field is in flux. It's the wild west out there and there's the emergence of MLOps, where every asshole is building a platform (we built one internally not to die that we now offer to others. Yes, I'm an ML platform building asshole; but an agreeable one). Joining a consultancy/small company allows you to define your role. Everything is to be done and someone ought to do it. You probably will be expected to do some things, but won't be prevented to do more things depending on the complexity you can take on. You can learn a lot in terms of pretty much everything, and can use it like a launchpad. Again, not knowing how much you're paid and your opportunity cost.

>The training program is 4 months in another country while getting paid (great!) but if you leave sooner than 2 years you have to pay back a large percentage of the salary you received during training (very odd to me).

Fuck that, as well. I think I've seen it in the energy sector where they spend a good chunk of money on each candidate and train them on proprietary tech flying them around.

You can find better, less stringent psychopathic. What are they going to teach you anyway ? How to train an sklearn model or something? You seem too balanced for that kind of cringe or to publish a thankful post on LinkedIn for the backpack, laptop, and CD-ROM they gave you and how much it means to you.

Look, you went to a good school and seem motivated. Just don't associate with psychos for now. Then, whether you do a masters or not, I have no input on that.
Yes, they are poisonous raw. Not a real problem because they are swallowed will go out again entire but you can't made bread from beans without a lot of troubles
I think they've been worse about this w.r.t. tooling (dep comes to mind. The closest thing I can think of along this path for the standard library would be how they've handled errors, and deciding to go their own way instead of adopting dave cheney's pkg/errors[0]

they do definitely seem to have some NIH syndrome at times, but I can't say that as time has progressed that I haven't come to appreciate the decisions they've made that seemed controversial at the time.

[0] https://github.com/pkg/errors
Well, so did the Amazon one.
Looks like an interesting library. It’s cool to see practical examples of C++ drawing via WebAssembly. This is how Figma works and is fast, but Figma isn’t open source. I’m saving a link so I can go read the source later.

My feedback: replace the gif on the front page with your library! I thought it was an actual example and thought “cool idea but the implementation is slow and blurry”. But it works much better in the JSFiddle! Why not have some real examples here? There should be three at least - with a button to toggle between states. Your example pages also aren’t very mobile-screen responsive, could use a bit more love. (Browsing on iPhone 12 Pro Max)
Yes I meant more like e.g. a VW charging flatrate that also applies when using Teslas network as a VW owner. In any case this is pure speculation.
Soviet had all of those, but didn't allow risk taking founders. So far not a single country which doesn't enable risk taking founders to create big companies has succeeded in creating a good economy. So the data is really in the risk taking founders favor.
Typo, sorry. I meant org-babel + emacs-jupyter.
I can't understand your first paragraph, which is apparently arguing that hardware emulation is not emulation? I don't think there is any historical support for limiting use of the term emulation to only software, or excluding their fpga approach, 40 years or otherwise.
Analogue appears to be trying to change the definition, or more charitably, didn't know they were using the word wrong in their marketing.

What I suspect it comes down to is that marketing around the idea "emulation is bad and we don't use it" is easier than having to communicate the nuance that their type of emulation is better.

The exploitation of ambiguity and painting-over of nuance by marketing folks is to me just another one of many ways that marketing practices harm broader society.

A similar situation was when Zoom was trying to exploit ambiguity around the meaning of end to end encryption to support their invalid but nice-sounding claim that they used it. In that case the misunderstanding could lead to bigger problems than just annoying some people & causing argument.
You mean how bad they got it? :D

I loved modifying CONFIG.SYS with a hex editor to translate MS-DOS 6.2 (?) boot menu.
The introductory arithmetic I've seen recently even kind of flips it around and defines subtraction in terms of algebra. "7 - 5 = ?" is presented as "5 plus what equals 7?"
Yes, exactly this. Lot of dead wood to be cleaned out over the next decade across legacy automakers.
99.9% of the reason I am considering the masters is because I figure it fills a gap in my resume and makes me eligible to far more internships.

I don't really want to do data science. I sort've drifted towards it because my major was computational math and it was such a hot field (still is).

I don't think that I missed that job because of the pay or experience on my resume. I had a bit of an anxiety attack during my final interview of the onsite. It isn't the first company I lost out on due to last second freeze ups either sadly.

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that I carry on working on side projects and applying to jobs. I am fortunate enough to be able to survive doing this, but my feeling is that the longer I remain the fewer callbacks I will get due to the gap. Do you disagree or is there some way I can mitigate that effect?
I have impression DRM vendors REALLY want you to buy a smart TV. Except F1 that is just stupid.

I used to watch all stuff I wanted on a MacMini attached to a dumb TV.

Suddenly, Netflix stopped working on all browsers except chrome.

Then F1TV did the same, not only that some people found out it COULD work on other browsers, but after an specific update, they added code where it detects what browser you are using, and if it is not the browser and OS they want, the whole website refuses to work.

I then decided to replace the aging MacMini with a Raspberri Pi to see if I could solve this problem, but as I researched I found out that it wouldn't solve it either, Google makes the Widevine DRM, and seemly lately it has been notorious for doing silent changes that break it on all platforms except official Chrome versions on Windows, Android and Chrome OS, people using Pi for media wrote a bunch of posts all over the internet with warnings like: "Oh, Netflix will work on the Pi some 3 months per year, it will start working after someone manages to make Widevine work with Chromium, and then after some weeks working Google will make a silent update and break it again for several months until someone figure out how to make it work with Chromium again"

Also I am still bitter that the DRM race led to the death of 3D sound cards and some cool stuff that was possible with analog video on Windows versions before Vista.

EDIT: about F1 being stupid: most DRM streaming apps have a SmartTV version. Formula 1 official doesn't. They want you to use Chrome on a PC. I just cannot understand what is wrong with them, why not allow people to watch Formula 1 on a TV like most normal people would want to?
Have you tried Markdownload? It's a browser extension that saves and downloads web content as markdown. I use it all the time on my desktop but it's a browser extension and supports Safari, so maybe it's helpful for you too.

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload
I am reminded of this similar but unrelated project: "Reverse-Emulating NES" https://hackaday.com/2018/05/31/reverse-emulating-nes-ninten...
Yeah, of course, and I doubt my colleagues are putting in eight consecutive productive hours every day either. Hard to be on all the time.
What is the benefit to netflix of preventing a user programatically seeking the video?

I can only imagine that perhaps netflix is trying to eliminate bugs caused by third party plugins that (for example) seek the htmlVideoElement, but don't trigger the network request to preload the necessary video that would normally happen as the user is dragging the scrubber.
> Hundreds of thousands were killed in that war, a hundred dead in Paris wouldn't be very notable.

300 people killed a few street away from your house impact you more than thousands across an ocean or the Mediterranean. You are conveniently comparing numbers in a void.

This war was fought in another country (or territory). Killing and hunting civilians and non combatants living in your country is a totally different matter.

The USA did put Japanese and Americans of Japanese origin but they did not casually threw them over the SF bridge the night after a demonstration. Nor did NYPD threw Germans living in NY over the Brooklyn Bridge.

That's how them dying in Paris is different from them dying in Algeria in the war.
Yes that would be a good idea. However, they could already have a generic collection lib in the same place (branch/repo) where the generics feature is created.
This. Thai airways
Plus sea birds, seafood, seals an whales. Americans ate a lot of acorns also, and many europeans did, so maybe irish did the same

And of course lots of rabbits
While Obsidian may be proprietary, as long as the files follow standard markdown syntax, it can be opened in any markdown editor. I am currently using both Obsidian & Typora on the same workspace folder(I like Typora better for editing since its WYSIWIG). Not being locked down to any specific software was the primary reason I moved away from OneNote.
Just caught up on this thread, but just to reiterate what Amy said elsewhere and to refute your response that I can't reply to because it's flagged like basically everything else: She did not block Star.
Yes, of course. BTW, I don't think my comment covered the fact that I agree with you 100% on the impenetrability of mathematical notation.

That said, all notations --including the written alphabets of many spoken languages-- are impenetrable until you learn them. As a personal example, for me, learning French and German was a million times easier than learning Chinese and Japanese. In the first two cases I could read and write the languages right away. In the case of the latter two the notation imposed both a significant time drain and a cognitive load that got in the way of learning. I did a lot better with Japanese than Chinese. And BTW, I would not dare say I know these two languages. I can rattle off a bunch of phrases in Japanese and understand them if spoken slowly. My brain has yet to synchronize to Chinese.

My point is that specialized notations have been a part of the human experience forever. From cuneiform to modern written languages. Our brains are pretty good at learning notation. I would not fault mathematics for anything other than, perhaps, practitioners assuming everyone reading a math-heavy text understands the notation as they do.

Personal example: One of my kids is going though an MIT CS class on edX. He got scared when he was presented a formula with a huge sigma "Σ" sign in front of it and numbers below and above it.

It took less than a minute to explain that this just means a sequence of sums, maybe ten seconds. I just wrote down something like: "(a0 * b0) + (a1 * b1) + ... + (an * bn)" and said: "This is what it means. Summation". Done.

The point is, notation doesn't have to be hard.
Do engineers on these teams not voice their concerns and refuse to do stuff like this that actively hurts the web?
I'm not sure if the link you provided supports the conclusion that Dan Ariely is "almost completely discredited". That seems overly harsh. Quoting from the tag line, "Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest."

For what it's worth, the placebo study relevant to this discussion does not seem to be on the list of disputed studies from what I can tell [1]. That said, I'd be curious to know if that one also failed to replicate, please share if you have knowledge of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ariely#Accusations_of_data...
Library resources are the best information finding tools that hardly anyone uses. I frequently see even grad students who should know better futility trying to google for relevant academic papers.

Use the subject headings! They are assigned by real humans who actually understand the content! It's night and day vs whatever web search engines are doing these days. If you have never used these kinds tools before to discover new information, give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised.

It's incredibly refreshing for every result to be a long form exploration of the topic instead of mindless clickbait copied from Wikipedia intro sections.
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