skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted your original comment because it shouldn't have been downvoted. But I'd suggest reading the paper I linked elsewhere in this discussion which helps to explain why Huffman called it impossible. The image is "impossible" under the assumptions of that paper. If it were known to be a real object, then it implies that something about the image is wrong (there is hidden information, like the edge you add in your diagram, or the viewport is unusual as described in another comment). Which would mean the camera or lighting needs to be adjust to reveal this hidden information to make the "pyramid" (potentially no longer a pyramid) possible.
Ok but Bitcoin is not currency.
I'm German and I never heard the term "Kleincousin". According to Wikipedia [0] it seems to be used regionally to refer to 2nd degree cousins (which I would call "Großcousin").

Anyway, "Kleincousin" and "Großcousin" don't imply the age of the cousin, but a degree of relationship (with regional differences to what is actually meant).

To refer to a younger cousin, I would just say "jüngerer Cousin". "kleiner Cousin" may be possible too (like "kleiner Bruder" for a younger Brother), but it sounds a bit like childs talk and it may not be immediately clear to everyone what is meant.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwandtschaftsbeziehung#Cousi...
I'm sorry but I used to work in healthcare and we see people suffer because they can't afford the $10 monthly copay on drugs that should cost no more than $10 or $20 for a year supply, like a giant bottle of generic aspirin. The fact that they suffer due to pure exploitation is disturbing.
> Big pharma sure profits, but they profit most off such staple as baby powder and insulin. Their profits, data of efficiency on vaccines etc are under glare of scientific scrutiny, while their pain killers and opioids are where they don't get any investigation.

Pfizer reported that earnings and sales more than doubled in the past quarter, and it raised its outlook for results the full year, thanks greatly to its Covid-19 vaccine.

The vaccine business alone was responsible for more than 60% of the company's sales, as vaccine revenue rose to $14.6 billion from only $1.7 billion a year earlier. The company said its Covid vaccine sales accounted for $13 billion of that revenue. Revenue outside of its Covid vaccine business was up a far more modest 7%.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/pfizer-earnings/inde...

It's the largest part of the business now, and they are protected from downside: Under the PREP Act, companies like Pfizer and Moderna have total immunity from liability if something unintentionally goes wrong with their vaccines.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...
I love Matt. But tell me I'm wrong.

Any proposed solution is going to have to explain how to change the very strong financial incentives that lead to people doing the same things over and over.
I originally wrote a perceptual color mangler of sorts using HSLuv, but then switched to OKLab and got better results for the same job.
This pandemic literally started with local politicians and bureaucrats, in Wuhan, lying to their central government and to the media about its effects, and grossly under-reporting deaths. This accelerated the spread, or may even mean they missed a window of opportunity to stop the spread.

It's obvious that officials have many incentives to downplay the impact, and dodge and shift blame. When local officials lie, their national government will probably repeat the lies, perhaps unknowingly
Thanks for the feedback.

The backstory: we originally tried to partner with other headset manufacturers for Linux compatibility (literally offering to help do the work for free under NDAs), but got turned down. We thought the greatest kernel of utility we could offer the Linux VR Computing ecosystem was a portable headset, so we went with it.

RE your existing Linux hardware: we will be offering a tethered version of our headset for a lower price which should be compatible with your existing setup. Even without our compute pack, our headset will offer by far the best tethered Linux VR Desktop experience on the market. (Also useful for gaming, if that's your cup of tea).
I'm sure shes very interested in keeping up the appearence of Google's Integrity
You hit the nail on the head.

> So you basically get the worst performing being also the most expensive. Which doesn't really fit the view that less government involvement results in a more efficient system. Well, I guess it is more efficient if the expected outcome is a larger profit for different private companies and middlemen and not the well-being of the rest of the population.

Healthcare and Big Pharma have captured regulators at various federal health institutions. The mission is maximizing profit outcomes not health outcomes.
XKeyscore: Secret computer system used by the US National Security Agency (NSA)
I guess the young ones here don't know how many times the news media has published stories that predicted that we were near the end of the world.
Now try to explain this to the average people. These critiques are true. It's hard to understand.
Don't listen to your brain. It will give you a bunch of reasons to be sad, and ruminating about it will only pull you in deeper.

Ensure you have enough of the following: Sunlight, physical activity, sleep.

Set a specific time to sleep and wake. Get a step counter and ensure you are getting at least 10k steps a day. Regular walks during the daytime will help with both sunlight and activity.

After that, work on diet and social activity. If that doesn't fix it, talk to a professional.
wow even solidity is better than this, and thats a super low bar! just pass an array
$900 for a month? That seems excessive. 720 hrs * 1.8 kW = 1296 kWh. 1800w is a maxed out 120v 20A circuit.

I pay about $0.10 per kWh, that’s $129.60 for a month.
What's miraculous about flu disappearing? Most Covid countermeasures (masking, distancing) work on flu, we already had a flu vaccine, and flu is far less contagious.
I think there is still some low hanging fruit to be had in terms of how things are taught today.

But I have seen nothing remotely approaching this idea of being able to download into the brain.
He was arrested a while back for having bomb-making materials in his apartment. Based on that and some other public comments, he seems to be mentally ill.
Or package signing would help. Something NPM has continuously refused to implement because they believe it is difficult…
Which is ironic, given that "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" is in PEP 20.
Sure you might have been concerned if you were already on the edge, but it's not because you disapproved. You just kept the ones with the most utility once it turned into a crisis.
If anyone is doubting how much influence US intelligence has over Danish intelligence:

>Danish intelligence also helped the US agency to spy on the Danish foreign and finance ministries as well as a Danish weapons manufacturer. The FE also cooperated with the NSA on spying operations against the US government itself.

https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on...

The NSA made the Danish FE spy on both the Danish and US government. That is wild.
A letter would work too if bribes are paid.
Ideally we would parse words according to their definitions but the vernacular and it's connotations are impossible to ignore. "Privilege" is a trendy word that gets thrown around haphazardly in arguments, especially in a condescending manner. In my anecdotal experience, the p-word is most often invoked as an explanation for why a critic of [x] doesn't see the merit of [x] because they simply can't understand due to their background.
I care.

People in my life who are on the spectrum, that I care about, care.

I'm not standing up for you so much as I'm standing up for them.
Does anyone have a cli command to check down the dependency tree for these packages? I'm seeing this issue on my company's app and trying to figure out which package(s) it stems from.
How do you fit AGPL in with the freedom to run the program as you wish, which is explained in the gnu.org link you gave as:

> The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity. In this freedom, it is the user's purpose that matters, not the developer's purpose; you as a user are free to run the program for your purposes, and if you distribute it to someone else, she is then free to run it for her purposes, but you are not entitled to impose your purposes on her.

Suppose I find an AGPL program that takes a photo on standard input and does interesting transforms (like the effects Apple Booth and many chat programs support), I tweak the code a bit, and I hook it up to a camera and write some glue scripts that take a photo with the camera, apply a transform selected by pressing a button, and print the results which I put in a nice frame. I build this all into a booth and put it an a mall and use it to sell fancy framed goofy transforms of people.

All fine under AGPL. I don't have to tell the people who come to my booth that I'm using AGPL software or tell them where to download it.

But then I make it so if your mobile device is using the mall WiFi hotspot, you can upload a photo from your device to have my system make your goofy framed transform photo. Now AGPL requires me to tell them I'm using AGPL code and make the download available.

So...the requirements change depending on how the inputs are supplied?

If the inputs come from the camera hooked directly to the computer, I can use the tweaked AGPL program for my purpose (making goofy framed photos) "without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity", but if the inputs come through the mall WiFi I do now have to communicate about it with a specific entity (whoever supplied the inputs)?
I worked for a pair of founders that blew all their savings on the company even with an investor involved which taught me that some investors are just regular old scammers. I'm quite glad to be long out of that place. Once you're out of money, they get to dangle your own company on a stick, especially if they'd prefer to take a larger and larger piece of the company for themself. OP's situation feels worryingly familiar to me.
I was about to point out the fact that all this guy's motivations seem to be mental illness YOLO and that it seems he recently lost his job. Kind of like the movie "falling down" but even more petty somehow
Do you have more information, than what is written in that article?

Because I see your conclusion only as a vague possible hypothesis among many other options.

And intelligence services are by default usually into very grey, if not dark areas of ethics. So all this might just as well be an internal power struggle of which the public will only get to view a very distorted picture, of what was actually going on.
Here's a theory: Insurance companies argue and refuse to pay out to hospitals because it's an adversarial relationship.

Hospitals increase rates to cover the overhead of dealing with hostile insurance companies. Insurance companies raise rates to match increased hospital billing. Ironically both industries are incentivized to raise rates on customers while trying to gouge each other.

Is it any wonder healthcare is a scam?
If the bee network gets fully built then it could be great, but even then it relies upon a lot of paint on the road rather than segregated cycleways. There are some, such as Stockport and Oxford Road but there needs to be far more.
I was going to say "that's what you get" which would be pretty much the same.

An interesting case indeed. I hope more info surfaces. We know things are bad, question is in what exact ways. Maybe something of substance will trickle down to us mortals.
Package managers should not intentionally expose users to new versions without explicit action.

Go modules did different then npm, and I argue Go modules did it correctly.
I think it's because at their core they're built around garbage, much like the packaged and repackaged derivatives that had A+ rating but at the bottom of the pile were a bunch of garbage investments that did a lot to help with the market crash in 2008. We would just like to warn people to not spend more on them than they can afford to pitch in the fireplace and burn.
No, they go to the individual, as explained in a debate on Danish TV yesterday. The journalists then bring the information to their employeers, which call their lawyers and handle the matter from there.

The journalists aren’t legally required to allow themselfs to be questioned. That’s only if the case goes to court, but no one is refusing to testify in that case, because then the charges are public and a judge is present.
yeah, the 10xer sort of exists, it just depends what we're measuring.

If we're talking about code monkeys, devs who just take in requirements and churn out code, then no, there are no 10x code monkeys. At best the senior devs are like 3x better.

If we're talking about developers that are also planners and trailblazers, devs that understand the business needs, and are constantly thinking about how to leverage their own tech knowledge and the company's assets to get maximum business value for minimum effort, then yeah there's definitely 10x engineers. Arguably there are even 10000x engineers (thinking about those startup entrepreneurs that created working prototype apps that grew into multi-million dollar businesses)
Real World OCaml (https://dev.realworldocaml.org/) is a great one.
* Google (YouTube)

* Community Colleges

* WaWa (mainly midatlantic US convenience store)

* most state level departments/agencies

* trips (some call them vacations) that involve standing in many lines

* cell service

* products engineered to reduce costs that end up being barely usable instead of robust and long-lasting

* scented soaps

* banks

* chain restaurants

* business attire

* business casual attire

* disposable razors - recently went to safety razors. going
well. hope to keep up with it

* junk food
N=1, I worked with a guy who was at least 10 times as productive as any other programmer I’ve ever met. He was also incapable of delegating, compromising, or cooperating with others. I’ve got a lot of life experience dealing with difficult personalities, and am sympathetic to an extent, so he and I were able to come to a mutual understanding, but it led to deep rifts and dysfunctions in the team that hurt our ability to deliver on product objectives as a whole. He has moved on, but most of his remaining code is (sometimes unfairly) treated as “dragons” territory.

Some organizations are able to accommodate people like this effectively, but the organization has to be set up for that.

EDIT: The only other engineer that I would consider a “superstar” that I have encountered was nowhere near as prolific as the person above, but had an ability to make any project go smoothly. He was technically excellent, but also had the soft skills to help people converge on good solutions and motivate people to contribute. So, N=2.
I was trying to do the exact same thing without git and coding (so that people could just view the bookmarks, maybe react to them as a voting mechanism). Ironically I ended up coding a solution for that - https://www.axomark.xyz .

The previous version was a free service without the need to sign up - just create a bookmark collection page with an optional password, then anyone with the password can use it right away. The link to the collection could be totally anonymous because the app tracked nothing at all. But I got 0 users, apart from myself. So I rewrote it from scratch to make the collections more organizable. The sharing is still anonymous because there's no way for another user to know who created them. There has to be a way, however to track your own bookmarks, so I guess it's not truly "anonymous" as in "impossible to track" (the database contains the bookmark owner). But it seemed this time around people are more interested. I guess there has to be a balance.
What does natural immunity mean with new variants and when it lasts from 90 days to six months? Are these people going to pay to get their antibody titers checked every week? If they incubate a new variant themselves are they willing to be held personally liable?
Took me a while to wrap my head around the `baseball card analogy` but I've come to the conclusion that if they can be used to perceptively represent NFT's then pragmatically, the `serial number of the card` (or the object's metadata) is what you own as recorded on the blockchain and not the object itself.
> there are good companies and bad companies

Are there any large companies, that stayed good?
Amusing coincidence I think -- that linked article is about switching your home network's DNS resolver to your own (not switching to your own DNS server for your website).

Based on whois info, it looks like he's using the DNSMadeEasy service for Pinboard's DNS.
> Employer based healthcare is a result of the stabilization act of 1942. Health benefits were offered as incentives to workers because employers could not raise wages.

Employers can raise wages, and have been able to for some time, so that's not why we still have it.

We still have it because of tax and other incentives, and because government keeps making policy decisions to protect, and even extend it (e.g., the ACA employer mandate), not because of the employers need to offer health benefits to compete because they can't offer more wages because of WWII-era wage controls.
everything supports links these days, so anything beyond firefox already has links. That being said, I keep links in the following systems
1. google docs
2. emacs and org
3. private github markdown files

These 3 systems allows me to adequately save links to almost anything based on context.

I wish the tools in this space were better to share bookmarks between systems but it seems like a lost cause with all the bookmark systems shutdown.
FWIW, how it began: https://web.archive.org/web/20100429003009/https://joindiasp...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301607
Did you order a Thyrocare test by any chance?
> I don't think Google would be concerned about unionization if they were as terrific as is often claimed.

This doesn't follow.

In general, unions are bad for companies. That isn't the same thing as saying that they're good for employees. If they do nothing useful and increase overhead, they're bad for both.

Unions also have structural incentives to impose things like seniority rules, because existing employees have a vote in the union and future employees don't, so they vote for things that benefit one at the expense of the other. But that can interfere with the company's ability to attract new talent, which is bad for everybody.
A very large portion of that number is phone gamers. Over half iirc. And nobody in any part of the gamer group is gaming 24/7.
If I were in a union, I don't need them to negotiate on pay at all -- I'd want them to negotiate for better transparency about the ways that people get managed out / fired, because at the company where I work, that's all very The Pit And The Pendulum, hanging over your head even if you're doing good work. I'd want them to set some boundaries around oncall shifts, because unfairness or imbalance in those practices is handled entirely through watching for attrition. I'd want them to approximate some portion of the protections that the employees in Europe that I work with have, because clearly that's not so unreasonable that the company would fold, and it's led to some really unfair situations being shoved on non EU teams. I find this kind of thing tiresome to have to get political about and my interests are simple enough to have someone else represent them.
Or in the case of robot overlords no skin at all.
> Heaven forbid “wage inflation!”

I realized after double checking that it was actually a 1942 Roosevelt bill, and they were trying to figure out how to keep a lid on rising prices during the war. It's also not uniformly good if prices also rise quickly. Inflationary spirals are real, and very bad for regular people.

> Was the AFL pushing for employer-based and the CIO pushing for national?

I'd have to double check.

> It’s virtually impossible for an average person to learn about the history of the American labor movement.

A bunch of this stuff is available in more popular history and online now. "The Devil Is Here in These Hills" is supposed to be good, but I haven't read it.
If a major FOSS Linux distro decided to add a virus to their latest release, would you say the same thing?

It certainly isn't "his code" anyway. Many people contributed to it with the good-faith belief that he would not use it as a Trojan horse.
Between 1 and 2, remove the crypto mining code that came with it.
Okay. I didn't expect that to be the case, but I'm happy to hear that it is.
You are assuming the poor in America aren't working hard and are having health care handed to them on a silver platter, neither of which is true in general. But sure, many poor people (who don't qualify for Medicaid) are looking forward to the day they turn 65 and can get healthcare benefits...hoping that they live that long enough to see any of that.

Of all the developed countries, only America treats its non-rich citizens so harshly. Your implied advice that poor people should "just work harder and make more money!" isn't very useful.
To be fair, it is a big factor in competitive cycling. Such that, just getting good is not enough. You have to get good and but the best equipment.

Not that big of a deal when you are all getting together in real life. You can see if you were at a disadvantage due to equipment. Online, you don't get to see.
I'd also suggest Jeremy's book Polished Ruby[1]. It's excellent IMHO.

1. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/polished-ruby-programmi...
uhhh yes staying pinned to an old version forever solves some problems, but not other problems? article doesn't mention 'npm audit' and how there are cases where you want to encourage an upgrade

real long-term solve here is a code review community for widely-used public packages I suspect?

am not a huge blockchain fan but this is one thing that blockchain could conceivably do well, because reviews are public, need to be authenticated, exist as compact metadata that can fit on chain, and benefit from public reputation dynamics
These damn employees, what are they thinking that they could better their employment and lives. They're a bunch of hypocrites for wanting a better piece of the cake of the billion dollar extremely profitable company they built.
Won't someone please think of the poor shareholders?
/s
Then I'm not really sure what your point is. People were talking about the specific domain mentioned, then you said "or" is code smell regardless of domain, then people pointed out why it's _not_ code smell in this domain, then you come back and say "of course it's not code smell in this domain, I was talking about something else".