skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean what is a huge salary? There’s so much money flowing around at the top of society where it’s in the interest of tech investors to get the best founders and companies working for them I think investment is going to be larger which will inevitably trickle down to salaries. Weirdly it’s actually much better to not take a large salary and have the lowest possible burn rate to reduce the need for investment diluting your steak.
Show HN: Media Downloader for YouTube, Instagram, oreilly books, etc.
It's a fancy frontend for plain-text markdown files stored in a folder tree. Nothing proprietary about it.
That's just about redrawing. It does nothing about other, potentially unwanted process background CPU use.
It seems we are headed for level 2 of the abortion debate with stuff like this. Surely in the West we’ll have the open debate, but most of the world won’t. A place like China will do the most practical thing (practical vs humane).

I can’t help but think of this Onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/autistic-child-ruins-marriage-he-wa...

My body my choice will soon morph into ‘Our family, our choice’. I’m pro-choice for what it’s worth, but there are limits to all of this.
JavaScript is a language where you need to implement your own hash table, since the built-in object only understands key strings, and the built-in Map class only has value semantics when the keys are primitive types (strings, ints, etc), and compares objects by object identity.
The limiting attribute of the smartphone market isn't the release cycle. Even large international corporations find it hard to compete in the smartphone market.

The biggest problem is that a sustainable smartphone product wouldn't sell very well and the market is heavily based on selling incremental changes and flashy non-features as groundbreaking innovations.

I'd say one of the biggest differences between sectors where coops do well and where they don't is that the latter tend to be sectors where the value proposition of the product is almost entirely driven by marketing and the products are only profitable because they're disposable.

Apple doesn't make a profit from selling you an iPhone every five years. Apple makes a profit from selling (lowercase-i) influencers an iPhone at least once a year to convince everyone else they should really cycle out their current model long before it's actually obsolete.

Another important factor of course is that coops tend to focus on local communities and smartphones are almost entirely manufactured overseas at this point (speaking from an American or European POV). It's hardly a coop if 99% of the workers involved are working for non-coop subcontractors in a different country.
Disable hyperthreading, it saves about 10% energy
Money laundering can’t just be done in an arbitrary location. You need to transfer money back into your country’s banking system while looking legitimate to safely spend it.

Put another way, banks are already operating on digital money that’s the problem.
It's in the footer, grey on grey so it's not very visible
When was that ?

IIRC that was the general feeling then but the impression has changed in the mean time ?
What do you do when the choices of two people conflict? What if you want to throw me in jail for stealing your house, but in my regulatory framework houses aren't owned but merely occupied?

You can't have "personal choice" as the foundation of government.
Kaggle's State of Machine Learning and Data Science 2021[pdf]
It will be interesting to see where Gartner place the Metaverse on their Hype Cycle and track it going forward but there is no doubt it is already in the Amara's Law phase where we are overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term.

Yet, even overhyped as it may currently be, the actual short term impacts will still be significant. Real Time Edge Rendered Cloud Pixel Streaming, Digital Twins, AI/ML/ Computer Vision, and social platform avatars etc are the escape velocity needed to extend XR beyond the gaming community into ordinary personal and business interactions. In so many cases, just adding an interactive layer of 3D imaginative space can make the things we do better.

People who are in the space have experienced several false dawn episodes but the intersection of hardware capabilities and software use cases has never been so virtuous as they are now so strap in & hang on to your hats folks !
As an open-source alternative, Joplin could be worth a look. It's a little different in terms of features, missing a lot of the linking which is kind of key to Obsidian's appeal, so maybe it's closer to Evernote. Still, they're fundamentally the same in terms of being a note-taking app built on folders of markdown files. It's quite actively maintained and improved too.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fugates+blue+skin&t=h_&iax=images&...
Yep. It’s a mistake. People who want an architect designed house for the price of a kit house are going to be disappointed. Especially ones that have massive lists of new wonder products they have been sold on by adverts from manufacturers, they are a nightmare. He shouldn’t have taken the job at all or he should have replied straight away to the first detailed brief saying that it’s not possible. In the UK you can be struck off if you fumble this situation badly, I would imagine that it’s the same in the US?
I agree. I also think the author blindly followed up on some automatic GitHub bot suggestions only to find out you can't just upgrade everything.

My experience is actually the opposite: it's never been easier to develop at scale in frontend. People forget how hard frontend is. You need to ship everything and it needs to work everywhere. You have zero control over the code execution environment. The fact that build tools like Webpack and frameworks like Vue/React exist made it a breeze to quickly develop high-quality web applications, and that is actually a triumph of the JavaScript ecosystem.

Ofcourse it's difficult to understand the entire build chain, but often it's not necessary to understand every detail. If you use vue-cli/create-react-app you get a perfect bootstrapped environment that works out of the box. If you really need to upgrade, I would suggest creating a new empty project and migrate all the code to the new project, instead of changing dependency version numbers in package.json.

My personal experience is that I've run into quite some issues, but not necessarily more than when doing anything backend related. I've spent weeks trying to understand the Python module system. And worse, Python doesn't even have declarative dependency management built-in. Also it's very difficult to find high quality packages because there's hardly anything like npmjs.com for the Python ecosystem.

That being said, I love both JS and Python, but I don't think of the quirks of both languages and their ecosystems as a "mess", but rather an understandable reality we have to deal with it that is definitely worth the trade-off. Innovating and backwards compatibility are often orthogonal direction so it's definitely not easy facilitating both.
Is Delhi’s Heavy Surveillance Making Women Safer?
When it comes to IoT, never ask how bad things can be for they will surely be worse than you can possibly imagine.
No, offline is still almost non-existent.
I think the biggest problem with Emacs is that you cannot really make sense of a lot of stuff until you start programming elisp in anger. I tried for many years to copy and paste snippets etc, but now I realised you just need to bite the bullet and learn it like any other programming language and be prepared to do "real development" in Emacs. Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs, IMHO, a lot of things just don't make sense until you became more of a elisp programmer.
I've been enjoying the "All Songs Considered" podcast from NPR. Discovered a lot of great music through them.
The less power controlled by the investor class, the better.
Well... now I feel extremely self conscious.
Ah, I thought they meant AoE 3. My bad.
auto-cpufreq author here, I'm here if you have any questions!
It's also an amazing hiring ad. Apart from just being a cool and interesting product, stuff like this convinces me that the notion people have their head in the right place. Unfortunately I can't work in the states or I would've applied to them already.
The massacre was also deliberately covered up or worse lied about by other "news" outlets including the NY Times, The Times, Time Magazine etc....

https://www.wrmea.org/1997-march/a-1961-massacre-of-algerian...

From the link above:

The full horror of this inglorious 1961 episode in French history was largely covered up at the time. Though harrowing personal accounts did eventually percolate to the surface in the French press, the newspapers—enfeebled by years of government censorship and control—for the most part stuck with official figures that only two and, later, five people had died in the demonstration. Government-owned French TV showed Algerians being shipped out of France after the demonstration, but showed none of the police violence.

Journalists had been warned away from coverage of the demonstration and were not allowed near the detention centers.

With few exceptions, the British and American press stuck to the official story, including suggestions that the Algerians had opened fire first. Even the newsman who saw the piles of Algerian corpses was not allowed to report the story; his bosses ordered that the bureau reports stick to the official figures.

Both French and foreign journalists in Paris seemed tacitly to agree that nothing should be done to further destabilize the French government or endanger de Gaulle, who was widely seen as the last, best hope for navigating France out of its troubles.

The story quickly died, drowned out by fresher alarums and excursions in Europe and elsewhere. And, of course, in the next year, Algeria would have its independence.

Jacques Vergàs, the controversial French lawyer who represented the FLN during the war in Algeria, told me in an interview last summer that the police violence and government and press cover-up in 1961 were not surprising. The political circumstances were right for it, and the news media usually do what they’re told.

Just look at how easy it was to round up and intern American citizens of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor, he observed.

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More on American and French journalism:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/108118001129172...
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It's sort of strange that this selective pronoun approach only really works in an online context and doesn't scale appropriately to real life interactions, to the point where pronouns become useless as an information compression and so we would be better off not using them at all and just use proper nouns. But this is where it gets funny because that's easiest in most online comms with the use of @.

It's quite clear no one has any idea what they are doing.
The Open Source solution which serves me well for years has been TiddyWiki (1). Supports Tags and various modes of output. Each page one file or all in one, very open so recursive changes can be applied on the shell in plain files.

(1) https://tiddlywiki.com/
Some oxiditation (1%) of Hb (Fe 2+) to metHb (Fe 3+) is normal, it gets reduced back by the enzyme Cytochrome b5 reductase. So far so good.

But since metHb is dysfunctional and cannot bind oxygen and you need levels of at least 10% metHb to be visible as cyanosis: Why didn't they exhibit oxygen-deficit related symptoms?

Or can your body compensate with other mechanism if it's congenital?
At least when it is visibly induced you most certainly will also suffer from symptoms like shortness of breath etc.
Many of us can still do 6502 assembly naturally.

Fast 6502? Simplified computing. Understandable systems.

Oh, and trustable. Less concerns about layers of unchecked code... Actually, it's a pleasant dream, the idea of an evolution of, say, a C64, keeping the projectual simplicity as much as possible, as a laptop. "Know your system byte by byte".
I found one paper describing one case. Is that what you're referring to? If so I'm guessing you haven't had much exposure to biology -- definitions always have counter examples in biology. The important thing is to have simple definitions that get at the core conceptual structure. "Females are XX humans; males are XY humans" is one such definition, questioned only by a small contingent of non scientific social activists in western countries in the last decade or so.
More important; if you don't think this is ethical; what are you willing to do, to keep others from doing it?

There's folks already convinced we have human clones running around, that was decided to be bad as far as I know but the possibility has existed for a while now... Anyone betting there aren't any clones now? Will you extend that bet another decade?
A database isn't a markdown file.
Or more interesting probes, such as deep-drilling equipment
This reminds me of that thing where people read the newspaper & say "wow, I can't believe they got $MY_AREA_OF_EXPERTISE so wrong" but then turn the page & take in other stories as if they were gospel truth.

Next time someone tells me a fun fact about another country I shall remember the 'closed pubs' of Ireland on Paddy's Day!
China Tested Suborbital Bombardment System with a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle
You are 100% right. People simply want everything: rich, flexible and robust API's. That's not possible. Pick 2, not 3. Also think of the time you have saved by building on top of so many building blocks. Everything's a trade-off.
This is the part where I wish there was a 3 month game dev bootcamp. I don’t want it to get a job, I want it because I just wanna make games.
> If anything, those stock awards sound less attractive as they should be options at a very high valuation?

An option to buy something at a certain price isn't the same as just getting the something. As mentioned in the article, ceo compensation consists usually of stock + options (et al.) tied to performance targets.

> In effect, isn't this the same as later VCs reallocating the cap table in favour of the founders (and against earlier investor and employees)?

Sort of, that's the point of the article. Apparently, new founders take on too much early financing.
yup, easy way to distinguish is the 90 deg angle... AFAIK only the Nazi one is 45deg. If it's 90deg it's in reference to one of the many uses in Asian cultures and religions. This really aught to be taught next to WW history in the west to ensure people properly contextualise it's use when they encounter it in the wider world.
> My argument was based on the premise that votes from power users are more valuable as they better at judging the quality of the content.

That is quite unlikely. What you call power user is someone distinguished by willingness to rank. It does not make that person better representation of all users or be more knowledgeable off quality or more experienced. Just more judgy.

It means you will be recommended based on tastes of special minority and likely alienate the rest of users in the process.
> TiddyWiki

That's an interesting name for an open source project. :P
> How are these stock awards different to owning the company?

Getting (a) stock worth $800mm and (b) investing some lesser fraction many years ago that winds up being worth $800mm are very, very different different.

> those stock awards sound less attractive as they should be options at a very high valuation?

They are. (Well, sort of. Robinhood grants RSUs that vest depending on the stock price, with only 20% of the pre-IPO grants vesting at the current price and 0% of the post-IPO grants vesting until the stock price at least triples within the next 8 years [1].)

Getting (a) $800mm in cash versus (b) an option theoretically worth $800mm but which must be held to expiration are very, very different.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001783879/000162828... page 226, Narrative Description of Executive Compensation Arrangements
- https://wan-ifra.org/2021/06/how-bbc-news-labs-uses-ai-power...

- https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2017/10/19/bbc-ai-im...

- https://techhq.com/2019/12/machines-wrote-the-bbcs-uk-electi...
That’s a good point. For pain and anxiety and other mental states it’s probably ok to give someone a placebo if it convinces them to change the state of their own mind, provided they have asked for the change.
This is an interesting question. I don't know about dyslexia, but the question of whether dyslexia is language independent is interesting.

I think one can improve their command of a language with practice, as you say. If they don't encounter it in their day to day life, they can try and find ways to consume content in their target language [reading, watching, listening, interacting].

As an example, English is my fifth language. Do I use it in my physical day to day life in the country I am in? Not really. However, our internal communications are all in English (code, comments, Slack conversations, GitLab issues and comments, documentation, emails, pretty much everything).

The content I consume is mainly in English as well: talks, movies, books, articles, etc.

This can dramatically improve both your comprehension and your production. You can take a look at Stephen Krashen's work on language acquisition, it's interesting and matches my experience with languages (confirmation bias).
Yeah but the 【 ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ】
Beautiful? No, fucking awful. How can you consider this a good thing when there's no way to teach the service what you want to listen to and when?
Yeah, this one is impressive to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swwdaKotXT8
It's ok to be interested in things not directly related to the main subject. No need for name-calling and generalizing.
It depends on the flour. A friend of mine baked bread, but he also made the flour (and everything really. Not for mass production). His bread took a week to go stale. It was also amazing to eat (not an expert).

He grew his own wheat and had some very specific requirements when making the flour (he didn't own the grind, but he was friend with the owner).

That's all I know. Of course no GMO.
No advanced art process can avoid some amount of engineering, because the demand that is made is to measure and select with precision that which is to be edited.

When we use a mark-making tool like a pen, all that's happening is that we select the area being pressed to be darkened. Technique with those tools takes years to develop, and their full use comes in tandem with additional tools like rulers, prospekt, and stencils.

So when we add knobs and sliders and modes we are simply trying to describe those kinds of intents within a precise abstraction instead of a collection of simpler tools. It does go overboard in that nobody's going to adjust every knob presented.
> The article seems to speak of stock awards and not salary, despite what the title says.

Doesn't the title say 'pay package'? Stock awards are part of your pay package. Where did you read 'salary'?
That's just your rationalization of a company's bad practices. A company can provide great service and great benefits to its employees, at the cost of a single factor - its bottomline.
emacs-jupyter
From the study you cited:

> We note that almost 43% of patients after influenza had at least one long-COVID feature recorded (Table 1) including 29.7% during the 90- to 180-day period. In this regard, we suggest researchers take a broad and balanced view as to the nature and specificity of long-COVID.
These days I've become a bit picky, with a couple of absolute deal breakers:

Today I run an older xps13 which is quite close. My next will probably be a framework (immediately) when they get a matte screen option.

!: matte screen, >350nit, >150dpi, >12", <1.66 aspect (want vertical space).

!: good keyboard. subjectively of course.

!: >10h, full day's work on battery.

!: good linux compatibility. I'll run my own and don't need the headache.

!: dead silent and cool. I run underclocked mostly, with fans off.

!: <1.4kg

Things I don't need:

-: very fast cpu. I mostly run seriously underclocked, have a small cluster to offload compiling and heavy work onto.

-: design. Just plain, simple, no flashy-flashy nor logos nor stickers.

-: touch screen.

What I would like:

:) >16h battery.

:) <1kg, ca A4 format, great if I can detach the screen to put it in portrait in front of me.

:) oled or similar, 300dpi. Best would of course be primarily reflective instead of transmittive. If we're already dreaming.

:) mouse nubbin thingy, or eye tracking (!)

:) good on board sound and a 3.5mm jack.
> It would be an absurd conclusion that the reason Diogenes is able to make a mockery of this request is because this homeless man is more powerful than Alexander the Great.

The only moral of this story I understood is that it is nonsensical to compare two different metrics. I do not know how one would come to the above conclusion, comparing Alexander’s power over many others to Diogenes’ power over himself and presumably pain receptors.

Alexander being able to kill Diogenes more easily than Diogenes being able to kill Alexander would be a proper comparison, or Alexander being able to compel more people than Diogenes, but even then, I fail to see the utility for this discussion.
If something slightly helps you but completely wrecks the whole economy after you've left office, you do it. That's the joy of anglo-style democracy...
>Think about how you will live in and use the space (as in, on an average Tuesday), and design for that. Assume you will not completely change your lifestyle just because of a new house. ;)

I didn't build a house but I bought one and it's had some significant remodels for some combination of desire and necessity. This is a great point. It's easy to design in things, maybe a formal dining room for example, that correspond to some idealized now house-owning state but that don't really line up with your actual lifestyle.
Ask HN: Is it still worth it to switch companies every few year?
Hi! Is it still worth it to switch companies every few years if ur already high paid? This is not meant to be a humble brag or anything but I just started outa college and make 180k and if I get a promo to ic4, I’ll basically get a 33% pay bump and then to ic5 is another pay bump. My mentors/ friends all say to get to ic5 is just a matter of time as long as ur competent. I hear people say u should be switching jobs every 2 to 4 years and what not but wouldn’t that make me lose all the “political” capital within the team and org and delay promo?
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Yes let's fracture the ecosystem with a bunch of libs doing generic map, slice etc. Cause there is no way to figure out how to do it right as this is a very novel feature that no other lang has
Royal consanguinity marriages in old Europe. And many other places as well. Sibling marriages in Egypt and the Diadochi!
I had to look this up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down

What tool should have been used to do that conversion (in reverse)? To their credit, it sounds like they solved the problem and moved on.
Yes, niche, as in not in the top 50 in Tiobe index, as in less than 25k people on the Elixir subreddit, as in around 1000 jobs in the whole of the U.S which is a fraction of the popular stacks.
Niche. No matter which measurement I go with Elixir isn't anywhere near the top 20. The third one (spectrum) is actually a combination of 11 measurement metrics, so before you yell at me that Elixir devs don't use Stackoverflow - Elixir isn't niche only on Stackoverflow. It's just niche, period.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2...
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/