skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been at several companies, I think I was happiest about my career when I didn’t have a fancy title and did not really know anyone else’s either (aside from obvious managers). It was nicer just knowing who’s in charge of what thing, and seeing your influence grow as you are trusted with more things.

When I see titles, it just makes unhelpful thoughts enter my head, like: are all these people “at my level” really contributing as much as me? Sometimes I even thought the reverse, like: how can this seemingly-junior person still be stuck at that level, when he is clearly doing all this great stuff we depend on every day? Of course the especially soul-crushing case is when you encounter people that clearly suck at what they do, and they’re 1-2 levels above you; and worse, I have occasionally seen those people promoted further!

It is also hard not to look at titles on places like LinkedIn. I know I shouldn’t care, since titles mean different things at every company, and some especially-impressive-sounding titles can range from “meh” to “god-level” depending on where it is. And yet, it gets in my head sometimes, making me wonder every few years if I am at the level I should be.

When the title “matters” at a company, it also makes me consider it a factor in annual reviews. If I get a raise, bonus, etc. but see my damned title stagnate year over year, suddenly I care about this and take it as a complete lack of recognition by the company (that literally would not happen if they simply did not tell me what my title is!).
I'm guessing you fully trust Project Vertias's statements about their own truthfulness?

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_Veritas

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/09/project-ve...

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/fact-check-political-video...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/16/fac...

https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/project-veritas-amplifie...

https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/22a2b3a9

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/04/james-oke...

https://www.businessinsider.com/james-okeefe-project-veritas...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/10/18/project-veritas-elect...

https://ballotpedia.org/Project_Veritas

It is harder to find cases where they aren't spinning bullshit. I put a huge variety of sources in here just to hammer home the fact that pretty much every time someone tries to fact check a Project Veritas story it falls apart. He is a master of the out-of-context clip and the disingenuous talking point. He doesn't care about objective reality in the least, only pushing his political position. It is hard to overstate just how shameless O'Keefe is. Only a fool would take his statements at face value.
Very good Albert, yet here you are posting on HN like everybody else.
Totally agree! I have to get my bike up and down stairs as well. But instead of a cargo bike I use just a normal bike with trailer. A lot more flexible.
Tim's Vermeer is an excellent documentary that looks at the possibility that Vermeer used optical technology to produce his paintings. Pretty convincing documentary, imo.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/
You mean the bombs at DNC and RNC HQ, or the ones that Lonny Leroy Coffman confessed to bringing, along with firearms, to Capitol Hill?
I'm worried by many of the security issues fixed by the linked official apple release notes, including CVE-2021-30939, which indicates that it may be possible for a computer to be compromised by opening images or maybe even accessing its metadata, and many privilege escalations allowing user apps to acquire kernel privileges.
Nobody is arguing that a startup needs a datacenter; that is a ridiculous straw man. I'm well aware of the costs, having managed multiple colos as well as multiple cloud footprints. I also know you can lease most hardware, if you prefer not to depreciate assets.

You're casting this as a much more complicated concept than it is. It is essentially the same old "build vs buy" argument. No, it does not make sense to manage a datacenter to run a single wordpress blog, nor does it make sense for a telco to run their infra on top of a public cloud. These are all truisms.

My point stands that if you have a seven-figure AWS bill, you already have plenty of associated staffing costs. Once you hit the break-even point between the two, you can decide whether you want to continue to pay linearly, or go down the path of increasing RoI.
I think we aren't very confident yet that there's much selective pressure toward less severe disease - the reason being that the virus does a lot of its spreading before symptoms get to be their worst, so the severity of "worst" doesn't seem to factor into the evolutionary fitness of the virus. And this is supported by the fact that delta was both more contagious and more severe.

We seem to have gotten lucky that omicron is even more contagious but less severe; fingers crossed that bolsters worldwide immunity.
Sounds like a very simplified version of the the Belbin team roles two vs nine.
As someone who went all-in on ebooks for 10+Y, having bought a kindle immediately and used it extensively, I've gone back to books. The kindle experience just isn't as good and it took me a long time to simply accept that.
Would be interested to see the progress of solar mapped against this.

They seem fairly similar tech, with broadly similar histories.
This looks like a good comparison. A lot of comparisons online are way superficial or plain wrong.
Talking about Ariane 5, it's been interesting reading parts of its history. Particularly:

"Ariane 5's first test flight (Ariane 5 Flight 501) on 4 June 1996 failed, with the rocket self-destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software. A data conversion from 64-bit floating point value to 16-bit signed integer value to be stored in a variable representing horizontal bias caused a processor trap (operand error)because the floating point value was too large to be represented by a 16-bit signed integer. The software was originally written for the Ariane 4 where efficiency considerations (the computer running the software had an 80% maximum workload requirement) led to four variables being protected with a handler while three others, including the horizontal bias variable, were left unprotected because it was thought that they were "physically limited or that there was a large margin of safety". The software, written in Ada, was included in the Ariane 5 through the reuse of an entire Ariane 4 subsystem despite the fact that the particular software containing the bug, which was just a part of the subsystem, was not required by the Ariane 5 because it has a different preparation sequence than the Ariane 4"

I wouldn't want any part on something as mission critical as getting a rocket to deliver something into orbit.
> They did use the GBA SP mode in the comparison: https://youtu.be/h6l5fAbcim0?t=619

Apologies, missed that for sure. There could still be a multitude of other factors at play (backlight brightness, saturation setting, sharpness setting, etc.)

> But the broader point that the channel is specifically unboxing/first-impressions and not a review is definitely accurate.

Agreed!
Ironically, it seems like half of the emails there are just spam.
A kick scooter weighs about 5 pounds and folds up. An electric kick scooter is maybe 30 pounds, and again folds up.

A cargo bike is 60 or 80 pounds, and generally don’t collapse (yes, I know some models do).

So it’s easier to carry a scooter up stairs than it is a cargo bike.
It's an old idea, using a language model on top of character level OCR. Works well for general text but doesn't solve random sequences of digits and letters. So you can't use it to correct your invoices where you have lots of out-of-dictionary tokens.
Yeah Lain and also Ghost in the Shell have similar portrayal of research facilities, they still look more surreal than Eva on those animes though. But I wouldn't say they are giant robots animes. Bubblegum Crisis and of course Gundam are and there the facilities are more pristine and everything is more like military run.
"Commonly" is the operative word here. I'd say that null values are far more common than NaN.
Not one that requires me to be on the hook for potentially infinite money.
All conducted in the heat of the moment where saying anything that gives the slightest wiff of "masks don't work" gets you shunned, your career destroyed, and all social media platforms labeling your content as "misinformation".

Yeah... I'm sure all these studies done post-2019 are totally legit though.
>However, it is unlikely you would be able to say to a VP or GM, "Hey, I want to work on THAT project, not this crap one you stuck me on, because I want more visibility for promotion!"

I think this is very dependent on the incentives that are set up for the GM. If they're being judged on how they're developing their org, and number of promotions is looked at, now they may agree with you that the non-crap thing is the best thing to work on.

There's also the more implicit side of it, where if you're just generally good at what you do (or more cynically, if you're on the manager's good side for whatever reason), they'll be more inclined to let you work on what you want regardless of the motivations.
A friend of mine said the Nihola that they used had better balance and was more maneuverable than a bike with a trailer, but also better than other cargo bikes so not sure how much better in each case.
It was so easy to game Altavista you didn't even have to try. I was gaming the search engines starting in 1996. I was #1 for whatever term I wanted.

It was a lot harder once PageRank came along and required you to have external parties essentially vouch for you.
That's why I believe we should bring back WebRings or something similar: Get a curated list of websites that have content for the sake of sharing. That do not have any SEO crap, ads or any "ulterior motive" rather than sharing knowledge.

That's how I host my blog: A small Ghost instance with snippets of stuff I want to "talk loud" about. Some personal projects and whatnot. No ads, no crazy javascript, no SEO. Just share for the sake of community.
Just below:

> 14. What if I don’t renew on the subscription plan?
Existing users can continue to use the version of IDA Pro/Decompiler he have purchased under the perpetual license model indefinitely. However, they will not be able to receive product updates and tech support after the 12-month support expires. No re-downloads of past versions will be provided, so make sure to keep all necessary backups.
I don't understand this about the Dutch people. So many old, granny bikes, that are so heavy, with steel fenders, steel stands etc. So heavy, inefficient.

So many cyclists with their chains screeching loudly, as if they haven't seen oil in years. So many broken chains around the streets and bike paths. So many with terrible lighting, cheap flickering LEDs that are barely visible. Or many young people with no lighting at all.

In comparison, the Germans seem to invest a lot more in their bikes. A lot more expensive bikes, and generally a lot better maintained.
So no guns found inside the capitol?

Not a single gun was found inside of the location where it's claimed it's claimed they were trying to overthrow? Not a single shot went off?

Just poop on the walls?

Can you overthrow a government by making it so gross with poo that they don't want to go back in the building?

I don't believe this should be labeled an insurrection.
How do I know "her experience is entirely consistent with Omicron appearing less virulent because it's infecting the previously infected and vaccinated who already have some degree of immunity."

1. We know that break through infections are less serious than infections to the unvaccinated and uninfected.
2. We determine virulence by # of hospitalizations (or other serious outcome) / # of infections
3. If we add more infections that don't have serious outcomes (because they are break through cases) that greatly increases the denominator without affecting the numerator.
4. This is how you could have Omicron be just as virulent as the original but look less virulent to a doctor. (Because of the break through cases)

Does that make sense?
Its surprising how many people don't know this all these years later. Hubble is repurposed spy satellite. The main cost of the vehicle isn't in the spacecraft itself though its the optics which are different from those used on KH-11. What is good for looking at Russian military bases doesn't directly translate to looking at galaxies.
I was following and accepting the summaries until the Bitcoin pitch.
I wonder if they could embed an NFT that is exposed via bluetooth or similar inside of shoes. A user could have a virtual shoe closet and authenticating that a given user actually has the given shoe that they are selling on some new marketplace would be easy. Tying NFTs to real world goods that actually are scarce seems to make a lot more sense than trading limited edition virtual pictures.
What's the opposite?

I can vividly picture people. I can recognize and describe most people I've ever met in my adult life. I can remember and picture our conversation we had the one and only time we met at a bar 3 years ago. Where we were in the bar, the people around us, the drinks we had (at least the type of glass, I can't taste in my head).

But your name? No where to be found. Disappears almost instantly.

It's incredibly frustrating.
I liked Matt’s Script Archive. I had some with my homepage at the university at the time
Neat idea :)
"completeists" -- This reminds me of Big Year [1], i.e. ridiculous.

I've been to a lot of the world's major museums, but I've never been to The Netherlands (or Russia). I really don't get the attraction of a "private viewing." As long as there aren't so many people that someone's always walking in front of me (like at the Uffizi), I'm fine with other tourists there. Once in a great while, someone will say something interesting about it.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
> acceptable levels

Define acceptable levels? And does this suggest we continue masking every winter when "cases surge"? There will always be a variant of covid. Always. It's never going away. Basing mask mandates of any metric, be it cases, hospitalizations or deaths means every winter you'll be wearing a state mandated mask.
What Nextgrid is saying is a common, incorrect stereotype.

"Is it really profitable to get in, like now?" Yes, but... Long version: Yes, you will make your money back within 2 years almost guaranteed on a new mining rig. There is a minimum cost to get in. For example, at a minimum, you will need a good card at 3k+, which puts you at 3.5-4k just for price of entry. However, you will make that back within a year.

Now the heavy BUT:

1. No one knows what will happen once ETH switches from mining to proof of stake in 2022. Mining profits may go to 0.

2. If BTC price goes to hell, so do your profits in the long run. This is price-risk, regulatory-risk, etc.

3. There are heavy tax implications and a lot of management. For example, you won't get the returns mentioned if you don't properly account for equipment costs.

4. Once you want to make more than $10 a day, there are heavy, heavy set up costs - cooling, proper power supply, etc.

Finally, profitability of mining is back because China is actively banning crypto mining, so other areas can compete now.

"I don't think it was ever profitable unless your energy prices can compete with what industrial-scale miners get in favourable locations (right next to a power plant in an area with too much surplus power, etc"

This is simply not true Nextgrid, see https://whattomine.com/ for roughly-valid numbers. Note that BTC is not anywhere on the GPU list - you do need extremely expensive ASICs to mine BTC. You also need to order them from China, pay a 25% import tax, and overall risk quite a bit.

Final note - if you could get GPUs at cost or MSRP, you would be in pure profit in less than a year. The problem is that a $2000 GPU is marked up to about $3500 atm.
FTA:

For instance, a stack file begins with a stack block (signified by the hexadecimal values, “53 54 41 4B,” which correspond to the ASCII characters, “STAK”), and the file is terminated by a tail block (signified by the ASCII characters, “TAIL”
>But that figure, found in scientific studies, advocacy reports, the popular press, and even the 2021 U.N. climate assessment, is incorrect

So my understanding is that linking papers that claim the IPCC is wrong makes you a science denier, or am I confused about how the rules work?
Big tech? Agreed. A built in sync that I don't have to think about, so all .y various environments look and feel th same? Yes, please

(I know, I need to look at syncthing or some other such tool)
I agree. I’ve been getting more and more into rust. It’s actually very elegant and feels fun, but writing production code for anything serious has turned into a massive battle against the compiler and borrow checker. Learning curve is steep and I still struggle over a year later.
> idea that money can’t be found without siphoning it from the growing essential workforce that drives to work (or drives for work) and lives pay check to pay check is just nonsense.

I have to disagree. Rich people have money, working class people have productivity. Money doesn't create things, it just moves them around. Everything done by the government necessarily displaces productive resources from workers. If we take x% of the workforce and have them building reactors instead of Y, there will be less of Y to go around, and the rich will employ money to make sure their portion of Y is unaffected.
> Another idea I've had (and again, this is largely ripping off existing monetization schemes), is that it might make sense to have a section of the website dedicated sagas about "products" (e.g. "IPhone 17"), linking to things like reviews and spec sheets, with affiliate links to amazon.

I don’t know much but as a user i’m hard to deceive, and this seems like the most pragmatic way to make a real, efficient compromise without sacrificing some of the purer intentions of your project.

Good luck man, I’m rooting for you.
My family has always created wishlists to address this, but now that we're all adults, we've got the issue that we can buy what we want for ourselves. I've had to make a policy of delaying non-urgent purchases and putting them on my wishlist instead, because otherwise the answer to "What do you want for Christmas?" is "I don't know—I already bought all the [reasonably priced] things I want!"

If Christmas weren't a thing, I'd've bought some new cycling gloves a month or two ago, but as it is, I'll keep riding with my very-torn-up pair until Christmas so my family can continue to partake in the gift giving ritual we enjoy without having to resort to finding random stuff the recipient probably doesn't actually want.

The curse of having enough money and not wanting a lot of things. :-)
Got it. Awesome, thanks for the info I'll check them both out this week
If anybody could do that once, they'd all have done it already, and most of them wouldn't be posting on HN anymore.
Google Meet is unusable on Firefox... about 1/3 of the time, 30-50min into a meeting, my whole computer starts to freeze up. Using Chrome fixes it. So now I have Chrome on my computer and use it exclusively for Google Meet (I have to use Google Meet for work).

This happens even with all my browser extensions turned off.

I find it very frustrating.
Definitely cost

Why go through the entire recertification process when the alternative solution is simply reboot every couple of weeks?
The gzipped tar for this is 90MB. It's 265MB unzipped.

That's bigger than my kernel, my initramfs, all my terminal emulators, my media player, glibc and the gnu coreutils together, and I'd still have room to spare for some mp3s.

No.
New Datasets to Democratize Speech Recognition Technology
The price of a good electric cargo bike is still way cheaper than a fairly decent used car.

That said, a cargo bike seems like there’s less fussiness if you’re routinely hauling cargo (kids, groceries, etc). With a regular bike you’re going to be reconfiguring panniers, back seats, etc.
My understanding is that most of the cost is driven by outdated and draconian compliance requirements (created by public/government agencies). For example, safety requirements that don't have a threshold but instead require reducing risk "as much as possible" which is equivalent to 0 profit.
Well, let's look at that.

The very last version of NeXTSTEP was 4.x, and was released in 1996 near the end of NeXT's life. It was basically identical in looks to 3.x. Here are some screenshots of 3.x:

https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/53c394c2-abc2-ab26-5111-c3...
https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/53c394c2-abc2-ab26-5111-c3...
https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/53c394c2-abc2-ab26-5111-c3...

Some shots of NeXTSTEP 4.2. https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/openstep42

Windows was of course presently on Windows 95. Interestingly, both Windows 95 and OS/2 had largely copied NeXTSTEP design elements, including its famous "3D" look and feel, but even little things, like the popup corner menu, practically identical close and minimize (er, maximize) icons, etc., but with a much worse graphics subsystem, and terrible fonts and icons compared to NeXT.

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win95

MacOS was not quite on version 8 yet but let's round it up. It too had copied design elements from NeXTSTEP, and likewise had a much cruder graphics subsystem with terrible fonts and icons in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course. Windows and MacOS had caught up somewhat by then. But I think it's pretty incredible to seriously say that Windows or MacOS were ever better looking (or functioning) than NeXTSTEP, at least up until NeXT was bought by Apple and NeXTSTEP ceased to exist as a product. Heck, neither 95 nor MacOS 8 even had live window dragging, something NeXTSTEP had in 1989.
https://anbernic.com/products/anbernic-new-rg351v-retro-game...

Seems to be $120 for equivalent form-factor, but still missing a large amount of what the Pocket supports (such as physical cartridges, link cable, and TV output), and with a worse display and a smaller battery. And it's not like the Pocket is that much more expensive at $220.
Possibly they're just better than you were 2 years ago? Tech education moves as quickly as tech itself
Sounds like a good playground for self driving tech. Low speeds and risk, low regulations, dedicated infrastructure.

The Uno electric trike at the end of the article looks like a ultra lightweight automobile, it would be quite something if it could drive me around safely with no intervention to any point reachable via a bike lane.
No I mean confirmed bombs found in the capitol or near the capitol.
I've always thought of "Member of Technical Staff" as a Bell Labs thing.

I almost did it at my last startup, to signal the egalitarian, cooperative engineering culture that I intended. One of the concerns was that it could hurt people's career mobility out (and willingness to join, since the startup was unlikely to be the engineer's home for the next few decades until retirement).

I think it works easily when your organization is known as one of the places to go, everyone knows that they do titles that way, and that anyone there is worth considering as a hire. (But not when recruiters filter their resume keyword searches for senior, staff, or principal.)

I don't know why Google didn't do it, way back when, since they did a few other culture things. I suppose that might've set a different tone for our industry today. (Though what seemed at the time to be low-loyalty culture coming out of California was already in force when Google started, most conspicuously in what I called "IPO-hopping", and maybe Google just had to work within that, at the time.)