skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber pays thousands of engineers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's not even close to "thousands of engineers". It's ~23k employees, not engineers.

The absolute vast majority of its employees are not engineers. And their salaries are of course laughable. It's barely median U.S. salary for employees, and below median for drivers [1]

So much for "investing in economy", "pumping money into workers’ hands" and other bullshit. It's a yet another unbelievably unprofitable American "unicorn" driving wages down and passing all costs onto its employees.

> Well this is the major difference - in the US they’re happy to invest and work for the long term, not short-term profits.

10 years and loss of 20 billion dollars is not "working for the long term".

> Why do you care or have an opinion on where someone else invests their money?

Ah yes. I'm not allowed to have an opinion. It's not as good of an argument as you think it is

> I’ve had to work my whole career for North American companies

Good for you. It's still not as good as argument as you think it is.

[1] https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Uber/salaries
Great.

One step closer to raise our mice overlords.
Am I the only one that sees the beauty and simplicity of a world that allows drug research companies to pay giant piles of money to people for them to agree to be test subjects for new treatments? The equalizing effect this could potentially have over wealth inequality across generations is arguably staggering. Some days it feels like our nobility and pride and respect for life are just ideals we claim on paper but end up just being huge shackles that keep us from preventing suffering in the now. We allow huge amounts of actual suffering and denigration of life to happen right under our noses.
So far so good, MCP has been going strong for 3 releases
It is worth also noting that it may not be wise to store your entire life savings in an experimental, possibly illegal alternate currency backed by a permissionless blockchain. Banks may be incompetent at times, but at least you have options. Lessons learned the hard way, but it’s not as if nobody was warning folks.
Seems like it's getting more features, slowly but surely.
Did you pay taxes on it (income, and potentially capital gains)?
Seems odd to call this a "vaccine" isn't this more like "gene therapy"?
Yeah it's why I intentionally take long breaks now and then (f your recruiter and his complaint about "work gaps") just to learn how to be human and creative again.
I sympathize with what he's saying, and I imagine he's correct, for his context, but some of us don't work on never-ending code and just want to write the best code we can, as quickly as possible, so we can move on to the next challenge. For those that are more pragmatic, and enjoy working on the hard problems the code is trying to solve rather than the hard problems of the code, using a debugger can be beneficial.
Skottie: Lottie player using the Skia graphics library[0][1]

Skia powers Google Chrome[2], Flutter, & Fuchia[3].

[0]: https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/
[1]: https://skottie.skia.org/
[2]: https://skia.org/
[3]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/flutter/
SVG is great. CSS is great. Both are not difficult to understand, relatively. There are existing libraries. Why reinvent the wheel? Does this reinvent CSS too?
This is great article with a lot of insights that some of us, who have been deep in tech our whole lives, might have never encountered or considered fully. I strongly recommend actually reading the article instead of just going to the comments.
Fast-tracking still involves testing. In the case of the coronavirus vaccine trials, most of them anyway, they went through all the same trials stages any other vaccine would go through. It just happened at a much accelerated tempo, with weeks between trials stages instead of many months or years. Volunteers, trials teams and vaccine stocks for the next stage were already recruited and commissioned before the completion of previous stages anticipating a green light to avoid any delays. There was still time to pull the plug at any stage though, if adverse results had been detected, as did actually happen to several candidate vaccines.

The results have been an astounding success, with vaccines that are about as safe and effective as those from previous development processes. So it is possible to safely fast track these projects with enough urgency and investment.
“Former Disney CEO Bog Iger says that he never spoke with Steve Jobs about a potential merger of Apple and Disney…”
This appears to be unfounded speculation, do you have a source?

Even if it is a real issue, the government regulators can simply set the max power limits lower for LiDAR units to ensure it's safe.
From your studies?
I did not skip BC's data manipulation, that's just crap you made up.

The data that I provided twice on this thread demonstrates decisively that vaccines reduce new cases: the clear majority of cases are from unvaccinated even though they are a minority of the population. This is definitely an indication of reduced spread.
They still need to hire. Employers don't hire for the fun of it.
Syria, Yemen, Sudan have lower incarceration rates than Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden. Wow, must be nice, safe places to live.

Pakistan has a lower incarceration rate than Japan. So does The Central African Republic.

India's incarceration rate is equal to Iceland, among the lowest in the world.

Some of the most dangerous places on the planet have comically hyper low incarceration rates.

Without a lot more context incarceration rates don't tell you very much in fact.
This is untrue; not everyone lives in a major city; and the vast majority of people who can't afford food have somewhere to live. People steal food everywhere, everyday, and when I was homeless, finding free food was nearly a full time job, which failed often. There were particular days with particular churches (with particular requirements), but no sort of blanket food coverage that didn't involve constant hunting.
Veritasium – The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of [video]
Just a gentle reminder as to why the US wants Assange

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
How would Storj be centralized when its node operators have a much lower barrier to entry compared to Filecoin?
With respect, while I broadly agree that a good driver could significantly mitigate the impact, I think you're looking at this with too much hindsight.

1. Even a sober, awake driver glances down to confirm their speedometer and scan their fuel gauge, check engine light, tire pressure, etc.

2. A sober, awake driver should be scanning the road along and beside the projected vehicle path. But they doesn't necessarily mean the would be looking in the direction of the occluded headlights at the very first instant they tell of a crashed car.

3. A sober, awake driver has to process what they see.

4. A sober, awake driver still has a good 0.2 to 0.25 second reaction time.

5. I actually do look for occluded lights when driving at night, but my experience talking about this with others in person is that this is a totally foreign concept.

In other words, you know where and how and when to look for the obstruction because you've watched the video a few times.

This is sort of like the Air France 447 flight or the Boeing 737 Max trim problem. If someone tells you exactly what kind of scenario you're going to face, how to handle it and approximately when you'll face it: you can win every time. 100% of pilots who were briefed on the specifics of AF447 avoided crashing the sim. Same for the 737 Max.

Yet, hundreds of people are dead because pilots in actual cockpits, who were not given prior notification failed to act correctly.
I definitely agree that competition is very important, I don't think there are many doubts about that. I just don't see how DeFi can bring competition to the banking sector by allowing people to become banks. Ordinary people becoming a bank is not realistic competition to actual banks. People have jobs, they have work to do, they have to raise a family, they're not going to become competent bankers on top of that and outcompete professionals, even if they tried.
Putting important funds in SOL, which isn't even a crypto anyone has ever heard of, is already a mistake
> That caravan of hondurans? While Fox news is victim blaming juan for bringing his kids over the border, they overlook that people in juan's neighborhood were being killed and juan's daughter was being scoped out by a local bang for forced prostitution.

They also “overlook” that the “local” gang is has a core of drug offenders hardened in US prisons and then deported, and on multiple levels is a product of the US war on drugs.
> Here's hoping this is the peak — it seems to be, from my studies.

Until the Fed gets inflation under control (2-3 quarters, if not more), we'll still see plenty of retail money go into risky speculative instruments. Alchemy just raised a ton of money, OpenSea just raised a ton of money, YGG just raised a ton of money, Nike just acquired RTFKT, Ubisoft is doing gaming skins as NFTs. Why do you think this is the peak?
To your point, I'll add that semantic HTML with CSS was like this. It was maybe a little technical, but a motivated person could fairly easily override their browser's stylesheet. And I imagine that this was not just some esoterica to, say, people with limited vision. I don't think you can do this anymore, practically?
> When was the last time you had to take a month off for a flu shot?

A flu shot? No. If you are traveling internationally they recommend getting your vaccinations a month in advance. Plus it's generally not the case that they want you to take every vaccination on the same day. If you had to be re vaccinated for everything you're currently required to go to school, you'd be taking DTap, Polio, Varicella, MMR, Hep A, Hep B, Hib, and probably Meningitis, and a couple of those take multiple doses.

> Not to mention, people take time off for augmentations and plastic surgery all the time.

Everyone, or upper and middle class?
> os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions
on your disk using grub-mount to check them for other OS,
which is not a nice thing to do as root as you can exploit
bugs in the filesystem code easily.

How often does the Linux kernel have filesystem exploits? I assume that the answer is "never" with an asterisk: If you're a high-value target worth blowing a zero-day on. So here we have a rare edge case, and instead of those people using a fork of grub, those of us who don't care need to use a fork of grub. Really shows where the priorities are in the Linux world. It's an obsession with security that overrules all thought.
You posted a ton of comments to this thread (over 60 of them!) perpetuating a massive flamewar, and broke the site guidelines in a whole bunch of places, including outright personal attacks. We ban accounts that carry on this way, and we've had to warn you about breaking the site guidelines more than once in the past.

We don't want flamewars here. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and without swipes in the future—regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

Btw, when discussion degenerates to the level of people arguing about what each other did or didn't say, that's a sure sign that the conversation has become tedious and uninteresting to those not involved in the spat, and that it's time to step away from the comment box.

You weren't the only person in the thread doing these things, but (from the subset I've seen), your account was behaving the worst, both qualitatively (in terms of how badly you were breaking the site guidelines) and quantitatively (in terms of how many posts you made and how much fuel you added to the flames).

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this site more to heart from now on? I don't want to ban you, but if this keeps happening, we'll end up having to, because it's not what this site is for and it destroys what it is for.
I've been through this and in my case it turned out to be clinical ADHD.

Unfortunately my diagnosis came at the very late age (40+) because whole life I thought it is just me being lazy and unfocused and seeking medical help / medication is the wrong answer to such problems - only to discover now that some of our brains are actually wired differently and it's not that we are being weak or unfocused but it's actually the wiring in our brain making us behave this way and you can freaking see this on an MRI too.

If you can't get an evaluation at least try to read this book called driven to distraction. One other book which I also read again and again is 'Finish' by Jon acuff. Has many useful tips which anyone can use.
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It's worth noting that if those Dyson spheres were quantum computers (and we ignored light-speed delays even within single spheres) you'd only need to count up to 2^128, not 2^256 to brute-force a 256-bit key. Still well outside the realm of possibility for anything smaller than a Dyson sphere.
Individual Humanism will return.

It's long overdue.
There is no reason to do person communication with staticish websites. Don't foist the problems of social media onto the Internet Archive.
Well I assumed it would be an electron app because getting it done with a shedload of giant 555 timers wouldn't be as funny :)
$2/GB in perpetuity is really cheap. They should write a paper about how they did it, if they haven't already.

Edit: I'm assuming they can deliver reliability and durability similar to modern cloud standards, like AWS S3.
What works for me is setting a schedule and having milestones. I follow a plan for a period of time or until I create a concrete deliverable. Then I decide to work more on the project or pause to peruse something else.

I found constantly deciding what to do was too exhausting.
Try any Bootstrap site
Rediculus Strawman
not op but we recently wanted to mount nfs and the sysadmin was adamant we use automounter[0] instead of fstab because if the nfs mount is not available it can hang the kernel.

Not sure if it is true or just sysadmin lore but was interesting enough to learn about a alternative.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/8/automount
Well, to model organic interactions you basically need a molecule-level model of the body or even deeper - especially for extremely complex molecules like proteins (which can famously "fold" in extremely hard to predict ways).

So, to very accurately model the human body, you need a model that has as many parameters as there are molecules in a human body, give or take a few orders of magnitude.

I have no idea to what extent you could get away with more high-level models - i would expect they could work well for some kinds of problems, but not for very systemic interactions, like hormonal or aging-related issues, that affect each cell in the human body to some extent.
> What's the point of trying to come up with a single optimal order?

On the frontpage of Endcrawl, the company behind this blog post:

> Ace your end credits and de-stress post production with the solution used by over 2,000 films and series.

Having a standard template seems like a way to easily "de-stress post production", and maybe even "ace your end credits". If this actually becomes an industry standard, the company behind it would also get some publicity. I've personally never even thought about how credits were made, and never knew that there were companies focused on just this point. Now I know that Endcrawl exist, and have a positive opinion of them because they wrote an intersting blog post, that could be used as a reference for other ordering problems. They're also trading this standard template for your email address: https://endcrawl.com/template/
neo – The Rise and Fall of Teletext [video]
>Then you're reconfiguring a breeder into a burner. You don't have both at the same time.

My point was what the same fast reactor can be used as both breeder and burner without specifying "at the same time". And I am pretty sure (though not 100% confident) that you can mix both breeder and burner rods, thus changing breeder/burner ratio at will.

>the part where you concentrate a substantial mass of an unholy mix of medium-lived actinides to be burned into a fairly large structure seems kind of scary

Yeah, fuel and waste handling is probably the most difficult part of a breeder/burner system, not the reactor itself.
> Not same thing as the earlier discussion of rare or difficult conditions.

There was no earlier discussion of "rare or difficult conditions".

> 91% of Americans have health insurance.

That health insurance is often tied to the employer and wildly varies in what it offers. And you have to fight insurance tooth and nail to get what you need. Even on a good insurance.

Also, https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

--- start quote ---

In 2020, 8.6 percent of people, or 28.0 million, did not have health insurance at any point during the year.

The percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2020 was 91.4.

More children under the age of 19 in poverty were uninsured in 2020 than in 2018. Uninsured rates for children under the age of 19 in poverty rose 1.6 percentage points to 9.3 percent.

--- end quote ---

I can't imagine a European saying "yeah, we have 28 million uninsured, many of them kids, it's their own fault".
For now I make charitable donations, a lot of them. It's amazing how much we could do to elevate people up Maslow's hierarchy if we made that a priority. And Kentucky might even be a great idea if we didn't have such divergent politics over the pandemic.

But you're absolutely right about chainsaws and shovels though. Wielding power tools and long walks with my dog are the best form of therapy I've ever encountered.
> it's likely you will get your own very personalized cancer that will take you out

Do you mean because of the longevity treatment, or in the sense that everyone gets cancer if they live long enough?
The key leak could just as easily be incompetence. Accidentally committed to git, or in their travis setup in such a way as to be easily obtainable, or a bunch of other options.

High effort for high reward like this is not surprising but it could all start with incompetence.
Nope, none of that uses symmetric keys >256 bits. Nothing does. The only reason to go >256 bits is if your crypto is getting attacked by an adversary with a Dyson Sphere-sized quantum computer, or an adversary that's found a way around the laws of thermodynamics. Either way, you have big problems.
> some of our junk can become historical gold

That's what interests me. For example, there's a cool repository of 12 step speaker meeting talks hosted in Iceland [1] and frankly, some of the talks are junk, but there's a lot of wisdom. What I find interesting is how it showcases how ordinary citizens talk to each other. The words they use, the accents, the little gems of folk wisdom contained, along with some uncommon stories.

This will be valuable 100 years from now if, for example, you want to build a virtual world based in the mid to late 20th century and you want to get the accents correct. What phrases did people use? What were some common misconceptions? Maybe 100 years from now addiction will no longer be a problem. If my virtual world is to be accurate I need to know what it was like for ordinary people when it was a problem. Etc...

[1] https://xa-speakers.org/
Why not add it yourself?
Can confirm, Australian Wine is now almost entirely screw tops.
Yikes - I thought it was going to hit the semi-truck on first viewing. Title should be changed to Crashed Truck, not stopped/parked truck.

So many questions

1> Why isn't the back corner of the pickup truck reflecting any light? Were the reflectors somehow tinted?
2> Was there still power in the truck? The hazard blinkers weren't on.
3> How sure are we there is zero latency between the UI and the frames as they roll in from the camera?
4> Does Tesla have a red team working to generate/test these type of corner cases? If not, why not?
5> Does Tesla FSD actively watch for mammal eyes at night in the country, like Deer, Moose, Bear, etc? If not, why not?

I likely would have been following the semi in his lane, as is my habit at night. I assume they have a better view, younger eyes, and they'll hit deer, etc. so I don't have too.

If I was driving in that lane, I would probably have hit it, if I hadn't noticed the occlusion.
The most common heating system in new separate homes are heat pumps. They can function as air conditioners when it's hot and heaters when it's cold.
Hey Arubis, I was pretty bummed about that acquihire too, but was inspired to build Slik. Please feel free to read through our WhitePaper (https://sliksafe.com/whitepaper.pdf), to learn how the technology works. We've tried to keep it simple and short.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at arpit@sliksafe.com. Happy to support your use case.
> If you'd asked my younger self 'what is a shrub?' I would have said 'uh, like a small bush?'

Would your younger self have felt that one could always decide whether something was a bush or a tree?
I don’t care either. However the telemarketers and scammers are hell bent on making sure the laws are written and interpreted in such a way to benefit them and not you.
Solana is the 5th largest blockchain by market cap in the world, has a ton of investors and ongoing development by a lot of talented developers. Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not a legitimate project.
>Is this how it's like at all large companies?

Not all, but a lot.

>What should I do?

Short term: Mentally check out. Embrace the Zen of just doing what's asked of you. It's not your job to be a go-getter anymore. Half because of institutional complexity/inertia, and half because in a tall organization hierarchy the middle managers don't want anyone below them swimming outside their lane (even if it would be to their unit's benefit and they can take every ounce of credit).

You'll notice that many people in this thread explaining why you shouldn't expect this or that from other teams. And they're not wrong, but none of them are acknowledging or explaining why those reasons weren't automatically communicated in your conversation with those teams. You're not only not seen as a problem solver anymore, you're also too low on the totem pole to be owed an explanation.

So follow the official processes to adapt their system to your product, and your product to their system. Keep your management in the loop about the time cost of both options, it's their problem to fix, not yours. Pour your mental energy into something outside work.

Long term: Decide if you like being checked out or want a new job.
There has been work done one optimizing regular base64 using SSE:

http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/sse-base64/
How do I get you interested in the Nix ecosystem? It's a great sandbox for all sorts of portability and bootstrapping experiments.
This is not how things work at all. The wood and plaster and glass your house is made of doesn't go up in value, your land (aka deed) does. So if your house burns down, you did not, in fact, lose $800k.
hah, before ci/devops tools was popular and you had to setup multiple identical/fall-over machines you could scp your .bash_history clean it up a bit and source it, neat.