skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that follows, because you have to prove that car ownership would have increased the same way without any intervention by car manufacturers. You're treating it as a foregone conclusion.

If you follow the same 100 year trajectory in other countries, then you will see an uptick in car ownership for sure, and infrastructure adapts to support this (highways/freeways/motorways), but it's not nearly as drastic as it is stateside.

Of course, the US is a large place and even its states are larger than other countries. And it hasn't existed in its modern form for more than a couple of centuries whereas the civil infra on the other continents has been around for at least a full millennium and most likely longer than that (e.g. Roman roads in the UK that would date back well over 1000 years). So the US got the luxury of a blank slate and, well... see what you got from that.

At the same time...car manufacturers had the perfect opportunity to seize so they could sell more cars and thus have civil infrastructure designed around the fact that everyone has a car. If someone at that point in time had more money than Henry Ford they could have dumped it into trams and trains and the landscape would have been significantly changed.
Ubisoft are no better than Activision or EA. Absolute scum.
They ruin every game they touch with their greed.
A16z going off the rails a little lately? It's not the first crypto-related shitpost from them.
> You can currently find over 90 curated apps in AppCenter, [...]

I don't think this is as impressive as they think it is. On the contrary, this seems to be a very very small number that I wonder why it's mentioned in the first place. I don't use these GUI frontends, but if we ever want any Linux distro to be more user-friendly. Almost everything should be available.

Also I noticed that Elementary is taking a 30% cut (with a 50c minimum) which I find obnoxiously high. We have been complaining about Apple and Google, yet "we"(?) cannot seem to be doing better ourselves. It's a bit disappointing.
I have doubts it was close to working! It was close to placing Congresspeople at risk of life and limb, and it was a little bit further from being a hostage situation. A standoff with the National Guard, or the military itself, following such a hostage-taking, would have been very unfortunate.

But disrupting the continuity of government would take a good deal more than that. A real, non-sad coup attempt would have sent the military in there to support the crazies, or at the very least, a quasi-organized group of armed men who could set up some defensible position. Instead we saw mostly maniacs looting the speaker's podium.

> That's generous wording.

If you're assessing his intentions, yes, but while his act of "oh look I'm doing plausible deniability, I'm not organzing any coup" was weak, so was any organization he actually did. The risk is that next time people might learn from these mistakes.

(The other risk is a counter-coup crackdown like Turkey, which cracks down on the opposition and purges them from both the public and private sphere, as enemies of the state. Our due-process is still a little too strong for that to work right now, fortunately, and any attempts to that end that may exist are pretty marginal.)
Why would someone not report to the police in such cases?
Don’t get me wrong but if you’re not ok with how HR handled things you should report to the police, especially if there’s someone who touches you even if you’ve made it clear to them that you don’t want them to.

This is her story, I would like to hear their story, and this won’t happen if there is no investigation going on. If HR “is compliant with misogyny” they should be held accountable for that.

Until then, this is just a story put out there that could be true or totally made up.
Remember that it's not an exponential.

The total number of cases is very similar to a logistic curve that initially can be approximated by an exponential, but later it stabilizes and it looks like a step.

The number of active cases / hospitalizations is similar to the derivative of the logistic curve that initially can be approximated by an exponential, after some time goes to zero. It looks like a bump.

A smaller hospitalization rate means that hopefully the bump is low enough to not saturate the hospitals.

More about some simple models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...
Like everything else in crypto DAOs probably have a small niche where they will one day be wildly successful to the point that they are the standard way to do a thing. But that doesn't mean they will be or should be universally applied. Decentralized anything is by definition more expensive and less efficient than the centralized version of that thing, particularly when those decentralized systems have to interact with squishy human elements. In some cases that tradeoff is OK, but in some cases it isn't and it's silly to pretend otherwise.
The frequency and scale has been increasing. Walgreens is closing stores in SF. And the flashmob smash-and-grab trend is newer, it is criminals organizing on social platforms like instagram.
Public spending is not the biggest issue. The problem is that having lots of government employees in cushy jobs starves the labor market of talent. Why take on a risky job at a flimsy startup when you can have a nearly guaranteed income till retirement in a 9-5 job?
It really isn't.

It's just the cultural difference between the two companies. I have been told that GCP oncalls are a lot busier than rest of the Google, but it's still nowhere close to the suffering I had at AWS. It's an organizational pain and comes from the mindset AWS has towards software development and their engineers.
...a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said.

Surely it can be prevented by giving the CIA more power and money?!
Isn't this just wrong? Speeding is 1 in 4 fatal crashes. Something like 1 in 2 is 'running over a pedestrian'. Why can't we fix that? Why don't we talk about that, instead of some marginal issue like speeding?
I wish they could cite some evidence that any number of people (who were not early crypto investors) even wanted this kind of thing to happen. Honestly, it is wankery.
> I really miss CrunchBang Linux.

There's a name i haven't heard in a while :)
Look up Archcraft, the OpenBox variant might scratch the same itch as CBL.
Kim Jong Un does that, but I can't find record of any other world leader doing so. That takes a special level of paranoia.
This 1994 paper is the important bit rather than the 2019 post. What it describes isn't much different than the interfaces that we have in operating system loadable modules or application-ecosystems with plugins. The only distinction is the requirement of first-class status. This would require a unification of language, operating system, and application. The closest I've seen to something like that is NeXT with Objective-C and the NS framework/Kits. The evolution of that into macOS/iOS, Swift, and *Kits are less so.

The other thing that comes to mind when reading this is the adage about any configuration file format evolving to become a poorly implemented subset of lisp.

As long as software development is a commercial endeavor I don't see how we'd ever end up with full interoperability with the goals being counter to it.
None of those are misinterpreted inputs. Those are clearly defined mechanics within the games that have a chance to have an unexpected outcome but in exclusively designed contexts.

I don’t see any of them making you better at the game either, but rather just being a context that you need to adapt to. Dropping all weapons before talking to someone because there’s a chance you might attack them if you don’t isn’t making you better at the game, it’s adding tedium to circumvent a risk that is only present due to your confusion state. If you had no such confusion, this behavior would just be a waste of time. You’re not better at the game generically for doing this.

Also fwiw that sounds like an incredibly stupid game mechanic in cogmind. None of your other examples felt remotely relevant to me.
Hilarious, ludicrously implausible.

I get that Andreesen-Horowitz has a lot of money at stake in this area and would love to make some of it back, but it's been more than 10 years since bitcoin emerged with the promise that the blockchain would have world-changing repercussions and _I still don't see even one meaningful application of the technology_ ?

Please go ahead and tell me how important NFTs are again. Or how Venezuelans are supposed to use bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Or how smart contracts are going to revolutionize... the exchange of goods (?), as soon as developers can figure out how to program them entirely without bugs.

On the basis of all of the applications of blockchains I've seen over the past decade (which I can count on one hand), why should I expect that ANY of the predictions in this piece will come to pass? Let alone something as world-changing as displacing the corporation as the leading organizational form for economic activity.
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Answer will and always be no.
Eh, it was pretty fun in 1996.
It's a coup when it's planned and assisted by Trump and his cronies.

The "system" is doing a poor job so far of punishing anyone but the useful idiots.
Cryptocurrency has no real use case just massive wealth transfer from clueless people to crypto scammers promising new revolution in many areas and then escaping with the money
Actual cryptography is interesting. Cypherpunk topics are interesting. Distributed networks like Tor are interesting. 'Crypto' in the modern parlance is not interesting. Compute-intensive blockchain technology is not necessary for any iteration of DeFi that I have personally ever encountered, and at the same time, everybody in the scene acts like it's the killer app. The whole scene is a confederacy of dunces who are all trying to fuck each other as much as possible.

https://ambcrypto.com/7-7-billion-lost-to-crypto-scams-but-h...
> This is basically what we're doing, except the stack is inside the trampoline. If you inlined the trampoline into the function itself then that is exactly a recursion -> iteration transform.

yeah but aren't you basically creating a stack on the heap, and then running the recursive algorithm there?

i mean more like rewriting the unbounded space recursive version of the fibonacci function as the constant space two temporary iterative version.
Ask HN: What is the value of a graduate degree (MS/PhD) in the tech industry?
Background: I am a software developer who has been working in the industry for around 5 years with a BS in CS. While I've been fortunate enough to have had good learning experiences and technical growth in my roles, I have been thinking about my career trajectory for the next 5-10 years.

I don't think I want to climb the career ladder in the same dimension that I have been. Learning new things/perspectives has been the most valuable part of every job I've had, and I'd like the freedom to pursue a deeper understanding of a subject for its own sake. For this reason, I have been considering the path of academia. But industry has its merits, and I don't want to limit my options to a pure research/teaching career. I understand that pursuing a PhD degree can be arduous and rigorous (not to mention time-consuming), so I want to make sure it's the right decision for me.

(I'm asking mostly about doctoral degrees here, because I've heard from various sources that a MS is near useless for career growth in the industry, but may be useful as a stepping stone to a PhD/path in academia. Other perspectives on the value of MS are also welcome.)

What kind of impact will a PhD have on a software career in industry? For those who have pursued academia and industry, what has been your experience?
> as all these apps and the whole platform still continue to be open source.

I mean, what is that even meant to convey? Do you mean to say that one can always create hard forks of non-trivial packages like GTK or develop extensions for GNOME shell the change the way it works like the PopOS guys did? We all know how well that turned out.

> I've also found that KDE apps don't really work well outside of KDE

Funny, because I use i3wm on an old NAS and KDE apps like Spectacle, Gwenview, and Dolphin work fine and use whatever theme and font I tell them to use and don't make decisions for me by assuming I'm incapable of making them. Can't say the same for GTK4 GNOME apps. They're not built to be used outside GNOME because GNOME is now a "platform", which is just doublespeak for a walled garden.

> the stance on extensions has always been pretty obvious to me.

It's obvious to me as well — we don't care about GNOME extensions[^1]. It's rather unfortunate that the extension system exists at all. People waste so much time and resources on making elaborate extensions like the Pop Shell or Dash to Dock under the impression that their extensions are somehow welcome but then they have to keep fixing them after every new GNOME release. What's even worse is that unsuspecting users use these extensions.

[^1]: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/07/13/community-power-...
Users flagged the post you're linking to. We didn't see that one. I probably would have turned off the flags if I had seen it.

Be careful not to draw excessively general conclusions from these data points. The current post, for example, spend 22 hours on HN's front page. That's as much exposure as anything gets here.
You aren't guaranteed your salary either though and in many of those cases in the 2000's workers were laid off. Being paid entirely in cash salary doesn't make you immune to market turbulence.
"Our TPS reports are the same length as everyone else's!"
That is pretty neat. In your opinion was this workflow significantly different / better because the people directing your work had a DAO in the middle?
It's the 21st century version of lead in makeup.

I'm certain in 100-150 years it will be viewed in the same way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian-era_cosmetics
20k of GDP per capita means in any year of your life, even after 65.

People migrate to the US before the EU. Besides, US lifestyle (also a high tax country btw) is not the only possible alternative to european style quasi socialism (56% on the way there)
A16 is quite deep in their crypto investments. They will have to keep the hype train going to get their returns.
Not so stealth anymore I guess
wsj is pretty shallow on topics like these. As for a16z: their job is not to do great diligence; it's to take their LP's money and do a spray and pray (this is the case for pretty much any mega VC fund; DD is too hard). Instead they do sector diligence; when they find one they like they pump it up to attract deal flow. Hence Levine's semi-jocular suggestion that a16z be considered a media company with an investment arm.

They have $2B allocated to crypto deals. They like to take both coins and equity.
> we should (unfairly!) help people who are being destroyed by debt

The plans are to forgive 10K of debt per person. There is a crazy suggestion of forgiving 50K of debt per person but let's just ignore that (it costs more than a trillion).

People who owe 100K are still fucked. They did go to better schools, though, so they have better jobs. Many also have good connections, because they have an easier time networking with their connections.

Wanna know who is more fucked?

Many people who didn't take loans and went to no-name schools and are working low paying jobs and have few social connections.

If we give money to either group it's a handout. For these politicians to pretend it's not a handout because it's forgiving a loan is disingenuous.

Elon Musk isn't wrong to poke fun at Elizabeth Warren. Let's just hope it doesn't result in another Trumpist president.
Meanwhile pfizer and moderna are laughing all the way to the bank.

At least I'd like to be not on the side of big corp interests.
Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud
If you are a fairly-serious aerospace, history, or military equipment buff, then allow 2 days for the USAF Museum. It's very good, and it's huge.
Thank you for the links.

Bringing it back to Aristotle times makes sense. Though also frighteningly expands the scope of my search :)
Even cool non-bs cryptocurrency topics just get derided by cRyPtO iS a ScAm comments sadly. It’s an easy way to get karma :)
That really depends on what specific game you're looking at.
I think they mean workers playing games that implicitly solve problems or accomplish something real. I could be wrong though, this blathering post of nonsense did little to connect with me.
Since your intention is to add nuance and scrutiny, you should be posting much more thoughtfully and substantively than comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29594691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29597691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596075

Those comments aren't adding nuance, they're perpetuating flamewar. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
they have a big crypto fund, ran (if I am not mistaken) by Chris Dixon. I admire him, and he made me think deeply and research crypto, but I came to conclusion its a castle made out of sand.
Secrecy Creep
> Going by this, I also think that you may have the correlation wrong. If the study is correct (more generous welfare systems => less decrease in birth rates), that seems like it would mean that people who can afford it will keep having kids.

It does not matter direction what the relationship is, only that it exists at the family level and so family-level correlations are non-causal for the effect of coronavirus as claimed by OP. We should be equally skeptical for the same reason if the result had instead came out as "kids during coronavirus have 10 higher IQ points because their parents played with them more thanks to remote working and subsidies"; there is no reason to believe that changes in childbearing during coronavirus has been, in any place, exogenous and randomized, and we know that pretty much all of these relationships are partially to completely confounded, thanks to studies which do include family controls (like all the Scandinavian population registry studies which exploit siblings). The burden of proof is on anyone who wants to argue that their correlation is the one special snowflake immune to this general trend, and should be taken at 100% face value.
So transformers have done it again, another sub-field of ML with all its past approaches surpassed by a simple language model, at least when there is enough data.

So far they can handle: text, image, video, code, proteins and now planning and behavior. It's like a universal algorithm for learning and reminds me of the uniformity of the brain. Hope we're going to see much more efficient hardware implementations in the future.
The user has to manually open System Preferences and allow this program all the same. One place where this workaround would work for malware is embedding in apps that are expected to need these rights though.
Seems like a strawman, as no company is giving you the cash as a lump sum payment like that up front. Even if you get the option, which mostly you don't, it's between:

1. A grant at $Xk, converted to shares on start date and vesting proportionally over 4 years

or...

2. A salary bump equivalent to the grant in (1), paid out ~bi-weekly at (1/104)*$Xk. 104 being the amount of bi-weekly pay periods to occur over a 4 year span.
My bad, Freudian slip. I meant enable.
Nope. Id love the extra money though. Apparently I'm too slow to do my regular one well enough (got a further development needed rating and a 5% pay cut).
I'm not looking. I've got companies reaching out to me. If there is no recruiter or recruiter defers to interviewer to discuss salary range then I want that question out of the way before I spend my time interviewing.

It doesn't matter if they tell me what the salary range is or confirm my expectations are within their salary range for that role - I just want to know upfront before everyone involved wastes their time.
Sorry but what exodus in the it industry?

Here in Germany if you can code "hello world". You will get a job.

Also all of my peers and friends around Europe are still working in the industry.

So I'm just wondering.

Can you point to any source?
Is this maybe something that happens in the US?
^ this - unless looking at reporting to a CXO or director the interviewers, even the HM, are usually only slightly less of a minion than the candidate. They may have a range, but it's nowhere near what you think it is and if they want you they will offer the top of it.
As a gamer, I can say we are a fickle bunch. We’re no different that pop-song listeners at this point. We love it when it’s a hit, and we’ll play it out until we can’t stand it anymore and never look back. If you make an indie game or a big budget one, you are vulnerable to this fickle crowd. You are better off hyping the living hell out of a game and cashing in the initial few months than you are to build a modest game with a community that will stick around.

It was never really like this, I’m not sure what happened. I really don’t know where it all went wrong.

It’s a hits driven industry at this point.
So you’re saying the encoding could be a neural net OR something like word2vec?
Underneath the giant pile of scammers and spammers there is a small core of people quietly toiling away because they really believe that the technology can change the world. Those are the people and projects that make crypto interesting, I think.
For personal project where I actually want to finish it, Laravel, MySQL, Apache, Linux because I know it well and highly productive in it.

But for pure joy and play, Swift/SwiftUI/XCode/MacOS. I have just got into it, I love how everything just works. Another comment mentions that Apple docs are not that great but so far I haven't run into any issues.

I am also exploring Unity/VR/C# ecosystem, that seems fun too. At work, I spend enough time dealing with non-dev tasks. So at home, I just want to write code and make it do something.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously here. We ban accounts that do that. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting.

Lots of past explanation:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
As per my comment - the unfortunate truth is that offering users a choice means denying users the freedom from being creeped on as every app under the sun asks for silent microphone access "for design reasons". We've seen how ineffective app permissions (that can't be selectively restricted by the OS as on Android) have been for iOS devices. Apps boot up and demand access to contacts, your camera and your microphone and if you refuse they quit out.

It can be empowering to users to deny bad choices - since it prevents users from being coerced by malicious software (i.e. tiktok, facebook, instagram - not like virus laden software).

That all said there is some legitimate functionality being lost with this decision.
I don’t think this is the case as we don’t see any rolling shutter distortion. The linear sensor scans just like a shutter curtain exhibiting the same distortion. The plane is proportioned correctly. Maybe the scan time is fast enough.