skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, keeping in mind both the well known problems of censorship and also our societal shitshow driven by disinformation campaigns and other outlandish groupthink, I've got to ponder synthesis here.

I'd like to hope that most of the problem is engagement amplification - eg social media's "algorithmic" editorialization for which they're not even S.230 immune (yet no one has taken them to task). Would things be so polarized if these companies didn't create personalized filter bubbles to drive engagement? Traditionally one's professed opinions had to survive in the scrutiny of the larger social sphere. Now no matter what you say, you're immediately given a soapbox and a tiny receptive audience.

In the long run, big social media like Facebook can only end up being lame, exactly how the nightly news has been - "the revolution will not be televised". Mass media inherently caters to the status quo, because at the very least it's owned by people with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Which points to increased routine filtering that keeps conversation within a nice small Overton window as it has traditionally been - that is to say, lame. In a way the rise of Zuck is an aberration indicating that when you get insanely powerful, there is no large mahogany table of stuffy old guys that sits you down and immediately brings you into their conspiracy "or else" - rather the overall dynamic happens slowly.

I also hope there is a growing up process being done by non-internet-natives newly buffeted by raw unfiltered media, en masse. Twenty years ago I was exposed to chemtrails theories, NSA mass surveillance, 9/11 was an inside job, Austrian economics, sovereign citizens - ideas that put you directly at odds with society, with differing kernels of truth (or not). No matter how much some resonated with me I was never going to start steadfastly preaching back in the real world, because the impedance mismatch was too large. Eventually you gain a sense of wisdom about the implications of these various theories and the cost of acting on them (regardless of their validity).

What I see missing today is any of this wisdom - sure vaccination could be a government sterilization campaign, but since you've made it through life so far generally trusting institutions including large corporations, perhaps following the actions implied by the conspiracy theory is imprudent. Maybe I'm being overly hopeful too, or this dynamic won't be reached because of a critical mass creating its own social proof, or it will take a few old generations to pass on and new generations steeped in the Internet's hostile noise to develop collective social wisdom.

Or maybe global communication is just the Great Filter.
I'm using Office365 w/ domains hosted at Hover. It may be that I use the commercial option, but the prices you list line up with what I am paying....

I am looking again at the family option of ICloud+ for wife and family accounts.
Is Aurora PostgreSQL faster and cheaper?
I eagerly tried this out, and unfortunately it doesn't fix the biggest stumbling block for me: Emacs's tab behavior. Coming from Vim, I never. ever. want to hit Tab and see nothing happen. Regardless of how strongly my editor thinks it knows best, hitting Tab should insert some spaces. I'll even accept indenting the current line the first time I hit Tab. But if I hit Tab a second time, follow my other preferences and insert some character(s).

And in 5 years I can't for the life of me configure this! No solution transparently sets this default for all time. Every new fucking file type I try to edit needs me to go around in circles fixing this stupid behavior.

Sigh. Back to Vim, I guess. I don't understand why this doesn't come up more often in all the blog posts about transitioning to/from Emacs.
Inventor of mRNA and DNA vaccines permanently suspended on Twitter
I use both. Vim is my to-go setup, with a minimal config, and an assurance that I can count on it being installed on almost every server I am working on. Emacs is my home court, where it is open all the time with about 100 various files open, and with all my organization and productivity tools available.

Vim is absolutely worth learning for the workflow alone, it's just a really good editor at heart. Emacs is worth learning for the fact that it can do almost anything, and can do them well (even emulate vim :)
Schools are part of the government and the government does and should have different restrictions on how it operates compared to a private for profit business.
Yeah, definitely sounds very similar, at least.
typical bonuses in bay area are percentage of salaries. Varies between 10% to 25% of your base. This looks like a retention grant which is also fairly common.
I served as a juror on a criminal case, in which the prosecution seemed to want to make a big deal out of DNA evidence found on some clothing. In turn, the defense wanted to dispose of that evidence by having an expert say that DNA evidence was unreliable. The expert they brought in was someone who admitted their knowledge of the field was only based on an article they read.

So the percentage of experts who spend real research on a question appears to be less than 100.
I'm assuming Bitcoin will be hacked in 1000 years. We will have Quantum computers that can hack the hashing algorithm. That on its own makes value of Bitcoin 0.
React, pytorch, quest, etc.
Meta is not just Facebook.
I don't see a specific period of time mentioned in the article which was the death blow for myself and a lot of colleagues; at one point in time instead of restricting it to amount, they restricted access to original size uploads on free accounts. Not just to viewers but content owners as well.

There was a mad scramble of script writing to get all your originals downloaded before the magic cutoff date (I have some laying around somewhere), it was one of my first interactions with python if i recall correctly. People such as myself were naive and had only Flickr storing all our originals - this was our storage method.

It was at that point we all moved on to whatever else having had the scare of using the service in our minds, leaving the friends who had Pro accounts (you could gift them to people back then, it was neat) stranded without an audience. Probably Instagram, back in the beginning IG prided themselves on iPhone-only high quality (no web, no Android) which was sort of the what Flickr Pro users were using anyways.
Most probably
I like your friends already.
“Bare Metal Python” would be a much better title.
“Expert consensus says that washing hands prevents the spread of disease. It's been like that since the 1950s. Has that consensus been wrong?”

WRT Covid, yes that advice was wrong and has been abandoned as Covid isn’t spread by surface transmission.
> Why does anyone think it's OK to pay less on money you made with money you have?

If you know this you may think everybody knows this but a lot of people don't and find it highly unintuitive, so I'm going to spell it out:

In a very broad sense there are two definitions of "justice" and people will think of one or the other as obviously correct.

On the one hand you have people who think justice means that everyone can take what they need and give what they can. These people usually think that humans are cooperative by nature and are intrinsically motivated to do good by others as long as they aren't taken advantage of, i.e. as long as everyone else also gives as much as they can and only takes what they need.

On the other hand you have people who think justice means that everyone gets what they deserve. These people usually think that humans are competitive by nature and are intrinsically motivated to take advantage of others and need to be kept in their place as defined by the hierarchy they view as natural and self-evident.

You seem to be part of the former group. The people who think "it's OK to pay less on money you made with money you have" are part of the latter. Neither of the two views is "wrong" in a meaningful way, they are just fundamentally incompatible when it comes to pushing for what they see as "good" or "just".
When a recruiter reached out to me earlier this year, I knew two things: I would never work for Facebook, and I wanted to know how much they would pay. When the recruiter gave me the salary range, it made me seriously question the first thing. It was more than double my already-plentiful income as a senior dev.

I took a day to think about it and then went with my original plan, but that's the answer about why people would work for them. I could have retired years earlier! Even two years working for them would have put quite a lot into my retirement fund.

I told myself I wouldn't make it through the interview process, just to make myself feel better about giving up that cheddar.
It’s certainly awkward! I’m personally willing to stomach it because it’s kinda cool to “invent a new social primitive”, as dorky as it appears. There’s a very real tradeoff between mere awkwardness and fumbling with a text entry/forgetting the thing altogether.

I also recently rolled out a “create text note” escape hatch in the menu.
I’m curious, who paid your tuition? Were you a TA for those two years?
Most organizations with nuclear weapons most certainly do pay bounties. Generally for foreign intelligence, but I believe it applies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi...
Nah, you don't give a toss because you've prioritised something which is literally impossible.
This sort of jibes with my experience living in Texas. There are many personal freedoms that Texas will not let you have.

That’s the big contrast for me between Texas and California. CA has lots of personal freedoms. TX has lots of economic freedoms. Ideally, I want both. But having to choose between the two, I think I prefer the relative liberty the Bay Area offers me.

What would be cool is if we had a digital school library. Authors could make their book available to school students who had a school ID anywhere in America.
Those things are not equal. It's perfectly reasonable to take books with graphic depictions of sex and violence out of the children's section.
The convenience of mirrorless with no reduction in image quality really made this change basically inevitable.

But there is something rather sad for me about this eventually spelling the end of the EF lens line. There was something really magical about being able to use any EF lens on pretty any Canon SLR camera body, even going back to 1987 for either the lens or the camera, with at most a reduction in the automatic feature set. You could get an old hand-me-down and mix-and-match with the newest equipment and keep using it. (There was also the dark side of this, where Canon intentionally kept the electronic connection proprietary to make it more difficult for third-party lens makers to compete)

You can still use lens adapters, but nothing quite beats the psychological satisfaction of picking up a 30-year-old lens and sticking it on a brand-new dSLR with no modifications required at all, or taking a modern lens and sticking it on an old-school film SLR.
But now the question is "is this aesthetic value high enough to sustain the network?". Maybe, maybe not. But it's no longer a mathematical certainty, which is what this paper is about.
The locking is in the company that controls the spec of the protocol and its reference implementation. It’s always been about getting as many people onboard as possible, this time the bait is decentralisation.
I take it that you don’t do much Radare2, much less IDA-Pro.
I think if the value drops then the security requirements would also drop. And all the existing UTXO's that were already mined when the difficulty was high would also stay secure, so they'd be comparable to Gold bars that could be stored for thousands of years without spending any energy.
They pay a bit better than other FAANGs but it's not hugely out of line. Chances are if you can get a gig at Meta, you can get one at any of the others. Apple, for what it's worth pays a bit less than the FAANG median.

The sweet spot at this stage in the capitalist narrative arc is like a Series C/D startup that's found product-market fit and is rapidly growing. You'll get the same cash, and while there's a bit more risk, the equity could be dramatically more rewarding. Right on the knee of the curve.
It's a novel that begins with a school disaster and includes all kinds of violence, including sexual.

Deciding what books are appropriate for a high school library isn't an exact science, and it's often down to a few people carrying out a district selection process. It's not as simple as "you have to stock every book else you're guilty of censorship", regardless of the motives of people seeking to exclude (or include) specific books.

And for what it's worth, thousands of books are rejected each year by American school districts. Publishers, authors, and other interests push hard to get 'their' books into schools.
I'm not them but it sounds like his wife had a lot of untreated anger issues and ketamine therapy bypassed the coping mechanisms that she had been using to prevent herself form blowing up, i.e. pouring gasoline into the fire in her veins.

It probably didn't make her more angry, just less able to resist expressing her anger.
Is this actually banned? Ie, if a student posses this book at home they face school discipline?

Or is that the school libraries won't stock the book?

There is a somewhat big difference between a school library not stocking a book and a school district banning it for all students.

Iran school district bans bible might be very different from this texas "ban".

Why is it so important that children have access to this book? Do (local) parents working with a (local) school district not have some right to input on these things?
I think there was a rape case in some high school bathroom that probably he got more mileage out of.
That is not how it actually works. Sometimes it creates publicity about the thing, but most of time the book just disappears. Censorship actually works.
I haven't checked Embedded Rust yet, but it is in my todo list. However, my two main embedded targets for C are Z80 and 8051, and my understanding is that these targets are not supported. I'd love to have Rust there.
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This was the entire point of talk radio: mobilize the historically politically-inactive by inciting them with a summarized issue of the day. Or basically TED, except for anger instead of hope.

Crowdsourced rage on platforms other than radio (e.g. social media) is the same theory, different medium.

What's disgusting is that Meta/Facebook et al. avoid doing anything about it, while profiting directly. And by "it" I mean "engagement algorithms that reward outrage," not "content." Attempts to moderate content (or not) are a red herring, and useless, as addressing content doesn't change the underlying engagement systems that incentivized that outrage in the first place.
The idea "parents should have a say in what their children are taught" sounds well enough, until you consider the conflicts and overlaps that type of argument leads to.
We certainly do have grid-scale technology.

Whether it can be, or is, or will be deployed is another question.
Because coins are not regulated like stock. An IPO is not something you can do anyway you want.
Yes I was being somewhat flippant. Besides genetic susceptibility, the current research indicates that the issue with salt is more due to osmolality than quantity.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/

And yet the medical experts still get it wrong by oversimplifying the issue and making dietary recommendations based on quantity.

https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/c...
Buy a time management book. It might help you use the budget better next year, so you’re not cramming at the last minute.
This seems to be the most common method by which children determine that fantasy characters are in fact fantasy.
> So if a 50Hz tick is too slow to respond to some stimulus, something has gone horribly wrong.

Which is why the abort system probably doesn't need to wait for that tick.
I used NoSQL databases that are ACID.
Sorry to distract, then.
Great game! I am wondering though why the prince of Persia has blonde hair with a white skin tone. I know this came out in '89 or so, still even for this time it seems kind of silly since I think even back then everybody knew Arabs don’t have blonde hair
Ask HN: Why isn't there a simple, seemless Windows screen recording app?
Seriously, I looked everywhere and I couldn't find anything that does the following in a straight forward way and with minimalist UI:

- Shortcut to show region selection (Something like taking a screenshot in Windows (SHIFT+WIN+S)

- After region selection, start recording immediately

- Stop recording and save in a predefined location

Features:

- Configure in advance whether to save as MP3 or GIF

Every tool I tried is either too bloated or has some extra steps that ruins the fluidity of the UX.

The closest thing I found is LiceCap, but this tool is GIF exclusive and has extra UI steps.

For someone that takes screen recordings every day, any tool becomes too tedious.

I wish I could build it myself, but time constraints.
More:

- It is designed well for medium-length content, say a few paragraphs or so per message.

- It works well, and is mostly understood to be used for asynchronous communication.

- Easily and usefully searchable.

- Captures state/context well.

- Threaded
First time I hear of Coincap.
The de facto standard reference for such stats is coinmarketcap.com, which lists a mind-boggling 16,155 cryptos.
Chiming in on the "both sides" argument as not being productive, and worse, not being accurate.

There's a concerted effort of using school boards as a political tool to rally the base -- and the OP is the result of that.
I understand but this is a single district in Texas, and it's a library book, not a textbook. If the whole state banned the book it would be a bigger deal but I still question how productive getting outraged about it is. If anything, making this a statewide or national issue would probably increase the likelihood of the book getting banned elsewhere, although I reckon it would also be good for sales.
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"They", being the morons, middle schoolers, or your parents?
I used Emacs for everything, until I got chronic pain in my left pinky and went back to "traditional" editors. I've been willing to give it a go again in cua-mode, but couldn't find the time yet.

And yes, I have tried to replace left-ctrl with capslock, but it was annoying as well.
Schools are public institutions, funded by tax payers. Their policies have to, by nature, be neutral to the public.

Private companies can do whatever they want.
> The task is so boring that I just can't put any effort into it. I've never wrote any documentation before, and always struggled with writing descriptive content. The last time I did it was for my internship report and it was so daunting.

Try to make the writing exercise less about yourself. Who is the documentation for? A new hire or someone else whose never worked with this product before. Try to make the documentation exercise more about them.

If you were asked to ramp up on this product, what information would you want to know? How can you help others be successful?

A good technical leader isn’t just about to churn out code and make trade offs in design. A good technical leader is able to take a complex space and drive clarity for others.

You have an opportunity to disambiguate a topic here to help others. You get to choose what’s the right level of detail to provide.
There are astrology “experts”. The idea that someone is an expert is very difficult to establish. Many times I discover that “expert” doctors who give public health advice don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. Experts are made in a biased environment. Those who could get rid of their biases would probably be filtered out by that same environment.
Agreed, we should definitely keep the bible away from children.
Good to hear, thank you for sharing.
> "Take her out back, we boys figured, then hand on the titties, put it in her cornbox, put it in her cornhole, grab a hold of that braid, rub that calico"

Ah yes, the pinnacle of English Literature. Very suitable for an eleven year old to be reading.
I mean, that’s why the person had to be kidnapped by a non-family member.

If a family member kidnaps them the it follows the usual formula of who cared for the kidnapped person for half the year plus a day.
I think in this case that comment was just a funny way of saying both "this is actually for the well known USA nuclear weapons program, which everyone knows uses Crays" as well as "I couldn't get anyone to approve a bounty"
Reach and PyTorch are I believe developed within the Facebook arm. I assume by Quest you mean Oculus, so that's off to the side but... like, not really.
This reads like an obligatory post on the topic with no real substance. I’m on mobile so it’s a good opportunity to succinctly express what I view as the major, near-future positives for Web3:

- identity and trustless SSO via things like ENS and “sign in with {client such as metamask}”

- data sovereignty, or at least less platform lock-in, especially for low/no code users

- grants, crowdfunding, and other financial support for useful open-source projects. This may be the most provably successful outcome to date in Web3; I’m confident I could cite enough sources here with a little homework.

I encourage all readers to disassociate (or rather decouple) the terms “cryptocurrency” and “NFT” from Web3. Web3, while still fairly nebulous, in my current understanding, is mostly protocol-level implementations of web paradigms incorporating decentralized technologies. Like any growing technology, there will be many variations, and the unscrupulous outliers should not overshadow the constellation of fascinating things humanity can speedrun with these new building blocks.
You back that up with combustion turbines burning some renewably-sourced fuel.

Capital cost of a simple cycle combustion turbine power plant: $500/kW
Capital cost of a nuclear power plant: $10,000/kW

So, one can have this backup sitting there ready to go for just 5% of the cost of an all nuclear grid. You do need the fuel, but if it's only used a few hundred hours per year the fuel cost will be minor.
The US government failed attempts to stop robocalls is my favorite example of how ineffective and corrupt the system is. We all know that in a healthy system it is an easy problem to solve. All the lobbyist and corporate interest is goin in the way. It's ironic because the government officials know how directly the general population feel the pain of this one and sometimes really want to do the unordinary and focus on interest of The People but can't get it done!
I imagine there's a real drop in kidnappings after July 1 then. That's just sensible tax planning.
Do supertelephoto lenses exist for mirrorless cameras?
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How many days off for online study does 2k buy you?
This is nothing. But in my experience, Apple has a lot of engineers who are not very good, so I’m not going to try to poach them on this count.
$180k per 4 years is peanuts for "top engineers". Would expect that as a routine annual bonus for the top half of FAANG engineers (i.e. common "senior" titles and higher).