skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people want to actually argue that a creator can be harassed by a dislike button, why not give the creator the option to disable dislikes for that specific video rather than pushing this onto every video out there?
That's seriously impressive work – though it occurs to me that you didn’t account for all the time spent thinking about what you were going to do in the two hours. And the feed-back is hilariously bad.

I’ve often wished I’d focussed more on coding over system administration but reading accounts like this makes me happier about my recent career choices.
This is because of all the COVID-19 mainstream media videos with far more dislikes than likes.
This right here. We've spoken to many dozens of Angel, Seed, and later-Stage investors. Principals and Associates are market researchers, not investors. If you're interested in being part of uncompensated market research and you have time on your hands, then take their meetings. If you're trying to raise money? Take meetings with General Partners or Managing Partners, and if you can't do that, then figure out how to do that. It's also very good practice for figuring out how to navigate the political, social, and marketplace incentives of a weird unresponsive system if your business happens to also be positioned to sell to "enterprise", but I digress.

Insofar as identifying great investors that a founder should treat as more than a check in the bank, I've learned through scar tissue that there's a very good qualifying criteria. Every VC talks a lot about being part of the team and how much they'll help you. The great ones don't bother with all the talk. They just start helping.

The Seed-stage ecosystem is also a really weird one. There's a lot of "tech celebrity" investing that distorts the lens of how the machine really works for everyone else, what's misaligned between how Seed is positioned vs. what Seed funds can actually do based on their constraints and incentives. It was quite the learning process for me and my co-founder.
There are pros and cons to each. I've got a couple of BMWs, but when buying an EV, going Tesla was a no-brainer. The other mfgrs just felt like a slap-dash job of bolting an electric motor to a traditional car, whereas Tesla was a slap-dash way of rethinking the entire car! :)

Seriously, I was years into Tesla ownership when I saw BMW ads showing people dancing around, taking their phones out of their pocket, and holding it to the door handle to unlock the car, like this was some high tech innovation. [1] Are you joking?

There are MANY things established automakers do, but innovation is not typically one of those things.

1. https://www.bmw.com/en/innovation/bmw-digital-key-iphone-as-...
> The deal makes money available to every Flint child who was exposed to the water, every adult who can show an injury, certain business owners and anyone who paid water bills.

After you subtract own money going to non-local property owners like large coporations, and then average out, yes.
There's a like button and no dislike button on the freaking blog post. Can you imagine the dislike ratio on this if they allowed it?
However, it may be sufficient to just know the hashes of the offending images – and then craft images accordingly.
Why Entry Level Jobs Are No Longer “Entry Level” Jobs
You are correct that the output of a false positive generator would not be CSAM. But one of the two inputs would need to be CSAM or a derivation of it.
The C programming Language
By Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

It will change your life. Or at least your approach to programming.
The “big-tobacco” redux: Importance of Bioethics in healthcare in the AI/ML era
I'm just surprised by how many people apparently looked at dislike counts. I read this headline and thought "who cares" then saw there were 900 comments and only came in to see what the controversy was.
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman.
The Pragmatic Programmer is still the standard handbook of best engineering practices.

Test Driven Development by Example, by Kent Beck is a great book, and it's aged well too. There's a lot of good 3rd party material on most concepts, but for TDD the first source is still the best.
I interpreted that as Imm correctly identifying my comment as a joke.

Regardless of how sincere the original post was, my comment was very obviously (to me, at least) a swipe at the morally bankrupt world we inhabit and the fact that a company doing this of their own volition right now feels absurd - not a dig at the idea itself.

To the original point - I tend to agree with people elsewhere in the thread saying this particular idea is infeasible and ignores the behind-the-scenes contributions of other staff. I am however very much in favour of the related concept of making employee ownership mandatory in certain situations (think anything on a major stock exchange). In that scenario, the cost savings would "trickle down" to all employees.
I think the high valuation is indicative of a bubble. When companies that haven't delivered a product in an ultra competitive market can be valued at such an absurdly high level the alarm bells are ringing. We've seen this before in markets going back hundreds of years, it's not different this time, it never is.
>You'll find that there's no audible benefit to lossless compression.*

* When the compression is done well. Shit compression makes itself known fast. If that shit compression possibly sounds okayish on 2000s style computer speakers, connecting the output to real speakers makes it even more obvious.

Not all compression is equal even if they do use the same codec.
Not to sound callous but maybe they incorporate future expecting earnings of someone living in Flint, MI in their calculations somehow.

EDIT: I know there is a rule against discussing downvotes, but this is a factual statement and the notion that this comment isn't relevant or doesn't enhance the conversation (for anyone who downvoted me) is an affront to any semblance of being capable of reasonable discourse in civil society - any downvoters should really reflect on what makes you feel like a statement made by a poster is actually what the poster thinks may or may not be right vs. your feelings of the post upsetting you.
I really dislike articles like these. It's a well known fact that the interview process is deeply flawed; this study isn't really presenting any new material. What's more, the flaw being critiqued - that interviews are bad for people with performance anxiety - adds nothing to the conversation. What is the advocacy here? That interviews should be abolished?

Also, it's social science research with a small sample size, which means that few to no conclusions should be drawn from it (see: replication crisis).
The best thing you can do for your personal and our collective compensation right now is to quit and seek a higher, more equity-based employment offer elsewhere.
Offering emigration as a solutuon to someone who does not have money for tertiary education is a wildly ignorant thing to say.

Emigration is expensive, and quite difficult, doubly so if someone is not educated. Emigration to the US even more so.
Mailchimp Employees Shocked When Their Health Benefits Ended
If the target hash is sufficient, then yes, that would invalidate my argument. Although that still requires one to come into possession of such a hash string, which might not be "easy" as a purely practical exercise.
The Tools of Linux Gamers in 2021
How is this test at all related to the skills required in this job?
When the internet was first rolled out to the masses everyone took a basic thing and put "on the internet" after it to make the dotCom bubble

Seems history it repeating itself with "Artificial intelligence" with all things done by a computer...
What I like about this tradition is that it dignifies work and competence instead of treating it with contempt.
I’m on the list for a cybertruck and I have basically no confidence that they will come in anywhere near their originally stated prices. I’m a big fan of the audacity of the design (but let’s face it, it looks silly. I just don’t care that it looks silly), and I like that cost savings is a big factor that influenced it, not merely looking silly for its own sake. I plan to wait until it’s actually available and I can see the real price and then decide whether I want it or the F150. The F150 is my safe, perfectly fine backup. The CT is the interesting choice. I’m not even considering the Rivian despite the fact that it looks awesome simply because I think the starting price is nuts.
I always said that youtube is too successful and is looking for ways to get rid of users. Peak youtube, as far as pure power for users, was probably the late 2000s. 2016 was when things started to go downhill.

We have a lot of problems where our society has been too successful at its technological goal. Inequality, climate change, gun control. All areas where capitalist economics has produced wild success and enormous effort is diverted from other useful goals to control that success.
The Southern Europe have cook with olive oil since centuries. The North and the US, with butter, which is far worse.
Its amazing that you have kubernetes and ceph at home! Shows a lot of initiative. There are a lot of DevOps/SRE/Cloud jobs that you can work towards. Getting the first job would be your biggest hurdle, should be smooth sailing after that.
ripgrep is noticeably faster than ag. I'm not sure what features you mention that ripgrep is missing, but I've been plenty happy with it for basic grepping around. I'm sure it's also partly because BurntSushi, the author of ripgrep, is reasonably active here.

Some fun benchmarks, and a fair description of how text search works, can be found in this 2016 post https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
And it's being paid by the state, presumably in no small part by tax dollars the victims themselves contributed to state funds. It's a slap in the face all around.
Things which are deeply intertwingled. Joe Armstrong (Erlang) gave at least one talk about it, available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1UfLPK7_Q

The key points were that Wikipedia style wikis force you into a page-at-a-time model. And TiddlyWiki uses more like a post-it-note sized amount of information. Wikipedia has a few links, TiddlyWiki items would have dense links to other notes. Then the experience of reading something would be like a 'choose your own adventure' book - click on a link and you don't get whisked away to a new page with all the context lost, you get the next note appearing below. It's building on the work of Ted Nelson and the early HyperText dreams from before the Web.

As you click and explore, you build up a longer page of just the ideas and content you want, and don't have to write huge topic-wide essays and browse huge topic-wide pages all in one go. He called it "the correct level of granularity, deeply intertwingled".

There were probably other important points I've forgotten.

Relevantly for Dendron, the slide I've clicked onto in the YouTube has a quote: "Hierarchical and sequential structures are usually forced and artificial. People keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't" - Ted Nelson, 1974.
Wow, yeah, that sounds pretty callous.
Clearly the key thing here is the security but I having used a backup to switch to a new phone recently, I was amazed at what an appallingly bad user experience it was - it got stuck multiple times (no fault of my own and no way to tell it to stop trying to hopelessly continue) and then you have to wait longer and longer each time to repeat it.
Attorneys have been seeking as much as $200 million in legal fees from the $626 million settlement.

-TFA
When I went to college in the 90s my dad gifted me his receiver from the 70s. I used that all the way through the 00s as my primary and through the 10s as a secondary boost until I finally retired it. That thing still had better sound quality than anything else I owned, it was just heavy as a brick and had to be manually powered on and switched.

I miss that beautiful sound.
No one says these interviews have to be abolished, but perhaps their formats can be tweaked to reduce anxiety. It could also be an argument in favor of asymmetric technical exercises such as take-home assignments or the mythical paid trial period.

It's at least an attempt to apply some scientific methodology to examining the current interview process, and even if this individual research is flawed then it simply means more studies should be done with better sampling.
No. Avoid butter, fry with olive oil. And threat sugar and/or corn syrup as if they were a plague.
what's the threat this hsm is adding protection against ?

i don't mean to be ironic, i genuinely couldn't understand after reading the paper.
While I like the meme, this is the first time I've heard the context, so I appreciate that you wrote this.
Considering adults also have to ‘prove’ they were injured by the lead… much of this money likely won’t be making it into the right hands
The strategy described is that China takes Taiwan very quickly, and the US can’t stop them. Then it’s up to the US to choose how to retaliate.

They won’t be able to undo the invasion, and there’s no threat to the US directly. So there’s not much incentive for terrible retaliation.

The US might prefer to keep its promises to Taiwan, but at that point it would be choosing to let that go, or escalate into war with a nuclear power.
Today's audio production makes production in the 70s look like it was made with bubble gum and bailing wire. Then again, they were litterally making stuff up. Taking things apart, rewiring, tying together things not normally together.

People today just get to re-create things digitally using the things from the previous times as a basis. The folks making the originals had no basis, and just made shit up as they went.
Interestingly I’ve recently found that master quality is more important than file/compression format at high quality. That is,

Rip a shitty 80s mastered CD, rip to wav, flac, etc.

Get a remastered version of the same album (watch out for loudness war, avoid 2000s), and rip 192+ mp3 or 128+ opus, high quality settings.

Compare. I’ve found the new master lossy sounds better than my old flacs, due to the better source.

Still, space is so cheap I’m mostly getting 16-44 or 48k flacs for new stuff these days, the cost of space is under ten dollars and can reencode forever.
Some piece of company malware on my MBP causes it to panic every two or three days. Before that it got mad fan disease and had to be wiped to get it back to 'normal'.

I have eight icons in the menu bar for installed malware/spyware/whatever on my company owned laptop. That's just the stuff that has an icon, I bet there's more (including JAMF, for sure). It's ridiculous.
At least this time the execs can't escape through their standard "i didn't know" (and if it were up to me i'd criminally charged any related city employee who hadn't filed a whistleblower complain about the water quality):

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2018/01/city_of_the_state_f...

>Flint has had a total of four emergency managers: Ed Kurtz, Mike Brown, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose. Both Earley and Ambrose are currently facing charges of criminal wrongdoing in relation to the city’s lead-in-water crisis, which occurred after the DEQ failed to require the city to treat Flint River water to make it less corrosive to lead.

>A March 13, 2014, order signed by former Emergency Manager Gerald Ambrose for a water main cut-in at the water plant cleared the way for the switch to the river, according to emails released previously by the state Treasury.

>Water quality complaints began to pour in almost immediately from city residents following the switch.
Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup
At least host reads are usually somewhat related to the genre of the channel, and skippable.
It's absolutely a replicable scenario. A test case to show exactly how minimal the consequences will be of government abandonment of public resources.
Pol Pot and his government was responsible for the death of 1/4 Cambodian population in a short amount of time, not counting deaths from neighboring countries. A lot of Cambodians migrated to Vietnam (including the author of this wonderful piece). The history about this period is interesting if you're looking for a good read. It's not being widely taught, even during Vietnamese K12 education.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese...
"United States" is a (shortened form) of the name of a country. "US" here functions as an adjective, and the lowercased "states" refers to the states themselves (the noun). It'd be exactly like saying "German states" or "Indian states".
Honestly, if anybody ever bothered to assume that Tether worked the way it was advertised most of the time - just like both the NYAG and CFTC found most of the time for most Tethers - it would actually all make sense.

Why would better managed and more transparent competitors like USDC, GUSD, and PAXOS all be rising in circulation at the exact same trajectory as Tether, if Tether was just doing funny money accounting or having completely uncollateralized Tethers compared to just the same distribution of regional crypto enthusiasm in the same kinds of transactions. What if, yeah I know, what if people actually just deposit fiat and rarely redeem for fiat because they treat stablecoins as basically their savings and investing account. The craaaziest idea, I know, but the behavior is being mimicked across all fiat-backed stablecoins which suggests that its harder to assume the worst about Tether simply because its never transparent enough and yeah, it won't be. My only point is to think "hm maybe people actually use it and like it and that's the vast majority of the creation of more tethers just like two US regulators found."
> For the most part, demand is inelastic.

Sorry, but that is obviously untrue. If it was true, gas prices would just go up and stay up.

> But when you talk about the same thing for a necessity like food, water and electricity then getting priced out of the market means death.

Then you'll have to accept that the inevitable shortages also mean death. Anti-gouging laws not only produce shortages, they make for less supply overall being available. (This is because high prices motivate increased supply.)

P.S. For just one example, when gas prices are low, people will drive to the store to pick up a loaf of bread. When they're high, people will combine errands and buy more items on fewer trips to the store.
While I agree that this is most probably a PR stunt, it's also an interesting conflict of interest: Apple has probably lost some trust in tech communities since, but might conversely build trust with law enforcement, legislators and the broader public so that they may continue without external intrusion.
Needing to push through people who are trying to scam you is very unpleasant for many people. Others get a kick out of it, I get that, but it just not being a part of the process at all is a big win for me.
In case this piques anyone’s interest in Cambodian history, I’ve really liked this podcast: https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/. Good production quality, good depth of academic/scholarly research, and good presentation from the host. There’s a one-hour “recap” episode from earlier this year summarizing everything covered thus far; might be a good sampler (not seeing it on website, but up on Spotify/Apple Podcasts apparently).
WiFi Hotspots Around the World
Ciao just launched an app to allow to help Digital Nomads find work spots in any city around the world. If your geolocation is on, post a speed test to help a cafe or coworking spot appeal to Digital Nomads
Seems like Google does not know internets. No wonder, they are like a cancer to Internet for long time now.
For perspective on how much lead Flint children were exposed to I suggest:

https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/body-work/study-examines-bloo...
I didn't know Rosetta on M1 simulating x86 is faster than Intel.
One news a day, makes the noknowledge go away.
I'm a little surprised no one reached for the obvious humor here:
Google spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn humans will create mobs.

This was such an obvious/good change to make. Viewers will still be able to use views:upvotes ratio for determining a video's popularity/worth. A mob won't want to attack that ratio because a high view count could encourage more views.

Judging by what's bubbling up on HN, I guess I'm in the minority on this one.
> Some subgroups -- motivated groups who seem to have endless free time and a lot of passion to click little arrows and leave comments -- brigade and basically remove any functional utility of likes, dislikes and often even ratings. Hateful groups tend to particularly dominate, and weird agendas dominate.

And who exactly are these nebulous people? This sounds like something O'Brien from 1984 would say about Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers.
There’s probably something to be said about doing something quickly with high quality, and also in an unfamiliar way.
Better than some class-action settlement splits, I suppose.
If we're talking about a country that's attempting to (or has no choice but to) cut USD out of its foreign trading, I don't think we're talking about a standard, highly-liquid currency pair.

And what currency a good is purchased in absolutely means something!

Your claim is that people store the proceeds of sales in dollars because of the trust factors, volume, and tight spreads. But I'd say that 2/3 of those (volume and tight spreads) are consequences of its utility and use as an international settling currency. Catch 22.

Yet are those things worth enough that international exporters would continue to trade in / hold in (effectively the same, if we collapse the goods trader and forex trader into a single entity) if the dollar ran 5% inflation and low central bank rates for years?

I suppose we'll see, but that's an atypical situation in the last 50 years of pure fiat international finance.
Sorry to hear that, I had a pretty different experience this year but maybe I’m an outlier.
I also highly recommend their Pinecil soldering iron, as well as tabletop power supply. Amazing value for the money.
In this case, there's a great practical need, namely the 10-100x speed increase given by esbuild and swc, written in Go and Rust respectively.
Speculation, but the obvious market to me is insurance providers. I'd think that data is worth a decent amount to them, both for good and bad reasons.
<<In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior 1.>>

Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. Because we can easily say that the effect is not "dislike attacking" but other effects:

- shy people more afraid to give their opinion not knowing that others have done the same.

- the feature feeling useless, as even if you dislike, you might thing that you click will worth nothing as no one will see it.

Imagine if you were voting for something but no one will give you the result of the votation.

Also, strangely they did not do the same experiment with the "like" button to see if there was not a "like attack".

So when I see something like that, I'm thinking that they are now in the dominant position where they don't have to care about their users anymore...
I wish they weren't so hard to come by.
Does anyone know if any bodies are trying to define an open standard? I wonder if the money they're spending fighting this would be better spent developing this standard.
My head instantly went to fusion experiments[0]. There are planned experiments in that space which, if they go ahead, won't produce results until the 2040s.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments
Complaints from GNOME team caused System76 maintainer stop work on Linux desktop