skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disappointing that the WWF ever decided to support the "planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters" by getting involved in the NFT market.
On the other hand, this is far from the worst thing the WWF has ever done: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wid...

To quote the New Statesman article about this:

> Many on social media immediately pointed out that blockchain technology is at odds with conservation ideals since it requires vast amounts of energy to run, and contributes to worsening climate change. [...]

> It is true that Polygon is environmentally friendly relative to older blockchain platforms such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. [... But] it is not yet possible to purchase a WWF NFT without also using the older Ethereum technology. This is because Polygon is a “sidechain” that must eventually log its transactions on Ethereum’s larger system, and also because Ethereum’s currency, ETH, is required to make the purchase. Ethereum may [become more efficient] in the future, but the energy consumption of its networks is currently equivalent to the carbon footprint of Sweden.

Source: https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2022/02/wwfs-decision-t...
How soon do people think we will see his candidacy for President? 2028 is my guess.
I'm sorry for what you are going through and can't offer any advice pertaining to your main question. Have you heard of AllStripes (https://www.allstripes.com/) by any chance?
- DAUs decreased -0.05% from 1,930m in Q3 22 to 1,929m in Q4 22. ("sequentially")
- DAUs increased +4.5% from 1,845m in Q4 21 to 1,929m in Q4 22. ("year over year")
- See pp18: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q4...

DAUs are those using FB app only. Metric for those using all apps (Insta, Whatsapp, etc) increased.

Btw - there are ~4.66B internet users - and FB has 77% of those log into one of their apps a month (MAPs = 3.59b, pp11).
> I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device

I have no doubt that the iPad is great at the things you list in your post, and I wish I had any skills that would justify buying an Apple Pencil.

However, I don't understand why Apple and we on HN are so focused on making the iPad "more" than a consumption device. What's wrong with consumption?

If I were to buy another iPad, it'd be for reading PDFs (terrible on e-book readers), for listening to podcasts and audiobooks, or to let my children play an educational game sometimes. But Apple keeps investing in productivity features while their Books app seems moribund at times (widget please?), their Podcasts app is an ongoing disaster, and they still don't have a read-only guest mode for children or friends. iPadOS has gotten so "pro" that buying an iPad for grandparents is not the no-brainer it used to be, either.

For all the derision that iPads get for being couch potato devices, I wish they were better at being that.
I don't do much running, mostly just weightlifting and a whole lot of walking but after I caught what I believe is the omicron variant relatively recently, I tried to go back to the gym and do a typical hard session. I felt like my heart/lungs were going to burst out of my chest after a heavy set that I normally might just be breathing mildy-heavy after.

I've definitely learned to take it a little easy for a while.
A point: NetBSD would still run fine under a Pentium and 48-64MB of RAM once you make the kernel smaller.
Perhaps part of getting 'this much wealth' is a desire for more, more, more that doesn't seem to be something they can turn off?

I have enjoyed seeing PG just sort of fade into the background of YC and enjoy his kids (his twitter feed). He seems to have done well by doing well and seems fairly satisfied with all of it.
We need more single purpose devices
Factual imagery like a random athlete throwing a virus at the viewer.

> and were in fact created by an Chinese Australian artist.

This is gonna blow your mind, but I have seen an absurd amount of racism from the Chinese diaspora. Things like Taiwanese people calling Andrew Yang (who is himself descended from people from Taiwan) a CCP agent for having a completely milquetoast position on Taiwan for an American politican.
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> If you find that you are at the end of your wits and unable to find one more source for management advice to the point that you have to turn to the masters of slaves of a few thousand years ago

I think you've interpreted the article as some kind of prescriptive document modeled on slavery.

This isn't Business Insider. It's Aeon.

If anything the article comes across as critical of modern management by way of being too similar to Roman slave management.

But it's more interesting than that. It's a look at how Roman slavery was a very complex system, much different from the way we popularly imagine "Slavery" (with a capital "S")--AKA American chattel slavery.

I think that your revulsion is coming from a very beautiful place, and that you're a bit out of step here. We can rightly revile chattel slavery, and despise the thought of ancient slavery, and also be curious about it.
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How are these remotely similar? The Chinese comic is symbolizing the actual war crimes of actual Australian soldiers against actual Afghan children. For which no one was held accountable IIRC.

Olympic athletes are not committing war crimes or violence as suggested by the agitprop posters.
- Zero to One, arguably a must read book

- Popularized memetic theory
Sure - it does. But it first needs equality between countries. This means that the wage, cost of living, and quality of life is generally quite comparable between countries. One country is not pillaging another and one does not exploit the other - etc.

The problem is that neoliberals and capitalists don’t want this because then they can’t have as cheap of a slave class that they currently do. HN is full of these types and why you’re not seeing this recognized further up.

Wage inequality is the biggest barrier to a universal passport. You need to get this part done first - and then universal passport and removal of boarders will be good. Then we can just have the United earth federation or whatever BS.

But that’s all like 1,000 years from now. By then - I presume we’ll have killed most of our species off and regress back to 1,000 AD.
No that logic is a bit off. You shouldn't be benchmarking against your past self. You should be benchmarking against what you could get elsewhere and, more importantly, what you're actively getting now.

If you found yourself getting a similar TC excluding the signing bonus at another company, and have reason to believe that's actually a fair price for your labor, the cash signing bonus will still more than offset your switching costs. It's also, simply put, an absurdly high bonus. Nothing stopping you from collecting another one of those in a couple years at another company.
Bad genetics, not bad choices, it runs in family. I had gym, buddies and trainer to manage it.
It's still interesting to note that boys wore pink and played with dolls in the USA 100-150 years ago.
Yeah, and you might get into a funk and decide to just hit it really hard one time and then you are pretty much back where you started. I found cold turkey worked best.
Lab leak hypothesis?
There is an interesting kernel of an idea that much of math is emergent from A low level basic structure but it didn’t take a book the size of Kentucky to say it and others like Chaitin say the same thing with far more clarity and far less self promotion.
Despite the weird name, the company is somewhat well known amongst hairdressers/beauticians - my wife's a hairdresser and I'd heard of them. They were one of a few companies doing online courses in hygiene, PPE, covid safety, etc. who came along at exactly the right time for the pandemic.
It helps some people. But there are people for whom it makes things worse. I know one of them. She had covid early in the spring of 2020 and made very slow progress to getting better. The vaccine put her back six months at least. I'm not saying someone should not get it, but find some statistics about the likelihood it will make you better vs worse.
Yes. If you’re a developer that’s done a fair amount of automation, Python and the like are easier for batch or timed tasks. Having said that, I still use n8n for running event based source stuff which might still feed into a script. I also use it when I want a GUI instead of working out the “best” library and no HTTP API exists that I export by relocating requests from my browser (I’m looking at you all those devs moving to WS).

I just wish its main configuration/scripting language wasn’t JavaScript. If it was agnostic and I could drop-down to something else that would be great.

The Docker and packaged Apps they provide are excellent starting points.
experiment.com?
Bombshell, if true. Is there a less ideologically motivated source reporting on this?
I don't get it. I find my interlocutor knowing my phone number a severe threat to my privacy.
This rate adjustment was arguably overdue. People always complain about rising rates, but the alternative is prices spiraling upwards even further and an even harsher corrective move down the road. To be sure, good fiscal discipline from the government could also help avoid spikes in bond rates.
You are absolutely correct that the genre is maturing more than many gamers realize. Many gaming pundits that I follow seem to get caught in a particular game, and it changes their perspective of the format as a whole. For example, I have been hearing a lot of praise for Final Fantasy: First Soldier lately.

I actually think something similar to the Gartner hype cycle applies [1]. Any shovelware became profitable during the Zynga/King heydays, but quality declined and the ecosystem become more competitive. We are now hitting a point where some quality is needed to distinguish ones self.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
> Adapting to rapid change is part of the career, and the only difference with front-end work is the mostly self-inflicted churn. HTML, CSS, Javascript are not changing month-to-month.

True, but if you are at an early stage of your career, keeping up with that churn is important as that's what your next FAANG job interviews for.

Being stuck handling backend or infrastructure when the job was supposed to be "front end development" is not acceptable in a company the size of Spotify.

If this were a startup, then the discussion would be very different.
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Put another way, work-context can matter as much as work-content. A bartender in Manhattan is going to make more than a bartender in Puerto Rico for the same work-content. Same with an engineer from non-FANG to FANG.

Or another way, the revenue per employee at FANG-like companies is higher than non-fang-like companies, so the company can afford to pay them more.
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It's not about wealth once you reach a certain level. That's a simple and incorrect way of thinking about it. It's about legacy. Wealth is freedom and power to make change in society, politics, and the world that governments frankly are to ineffective, don't have the stomach, or intentionally choose not to change.
It could be exactly how science works! You start out proposing that, perhaps based on intuition, then you do a study to confirm or deny it.
His attack on gawker are anything but commendable. They may have been a trashy gossip site, but attacking press like that is not good for society.
There was a comment in a thread on HN a while ago by someone that interviewed with Thiel's hedge fund. Apparently the fund lost a lot of money and Thiel was directing the trading decisions. Other investors pulled their money and it was mostly Thiel's money in the fund going forward.
> Why silence him, unless he’s breaking laws or losing lawsuits.

There’s also business considerations. If enough employees, advertisers, artists, etc… decide to leave Spotify because they don’t want anything to do with Rogan, then Spotify might decide to end their relationship with him.

That would probably have the unintended side-effect of growing Rogan’s audience. I’m not convinced that being on Spotify is helping Rogan on that front. If his show were more widely available, his audience would likely be larger.
Pigeonhole principle?
I don’t think GMO is necessarily bad, but while companies are working on ways to make plants more robust, I doubt they’re taking the long term effects on human health into account.
You don't become Peter Thiel rich if money is a means to an end rather than an end in itself for you.
The UX of Tines beats the pants off ALL of their competitors. They’re just too expensive.

I’ve tried them all.
Which seems to correlate with Facebook user numbers, ironically.
> that's about as meaningful as tarot cards

As a non-supernatural tarot practitioner, binary political labels are objectively worse than tarot. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I came to tarot by way of procedural narrative generation. In that vein, tarot is a fantastic way of providing a space to temporarily reframe psycho-social conflict and construct compelling narratives within a consistent framework of narrative-semiotic objects.

I'm more than willing to admit this is likely a minority opinion, but it has helped me in re-examining things like perceived intentions, what is the true conflict, how would I feel about particular outcomes in a way that checks my gut instinct to reactively reach for the most convenient answer or one that makes me feel the best.
Thank you. Yes, idefine collaborates with All Stripes. Hopefully soon we will pass 100 registered participants there. Very important work. https://www.allstripes.com/program/kleefstra
I'll wait until Intel actually gets and then keeps a foundry customer across more than 1 node / product. Intel's track record is not good. Most recently Achronix abandoned Intel as a foundry, and the regularity of FPGAs makes them one of the easier products to manufacture on a new process. Is anyone else even willing to risk using Intel as a foundry today?
New grads get 15 days, no?
It’s probably because saying anything positive about (forbidden country) gets you permanently labeled a CCP drone.

May as well add “couldn’t help but notice you say Chinese people are just like people anywhere else. Curious.”
Default should be first fret to the left, as is used widely. This way it's quite confusing and it's not obvious where to flip it.
That's the opposite of a sunk cost. That's a pending reward.
I had to do this too. I eventually learned I could write python plug-ins and started writing the workflows that way instead. But then it exposed to me how actually unwieldy the api was and I was extremely unhappy with the work.
I would automated everything myself, without the framework, but the platform was in part there to help those who lacked the technical skills to do everything from a terminal etc. I hear they’re still fighting with it even months after I left the job.
While using a vaporizer is better than smoking, try switching to edibles (especially ones without sugar like tablets or oils) so that there's no ritual involved with ingestion. Much of the habit is packing the vaporizer and holding it to your mouth. When this link is broken by minimizing the ritual (swallowing once) and disconnecting the action from the reaction, (takes about an hour to feel effect) you can be much more rational about your consumption.
> But seriously, what is the point of thinking about these things. Who is going to go to such lengths to try to "identify" me.

Nobody's going to very much trouble at all. They're just dumping every characteristic they can gather about you into an AI system, like a Bayesian classifier or a Convolution Neural Net. It doesn't require very much work to take into account clearly discrete data like the set of headers you submit, or the delay between switching pages, or parts of your IP address.

You hear a lot of stuff on HN about how inaccurate AI is, and much of it is true. But for figuring out when the set of HTTP headers correlates with your shopping habits, it should actually do a pretty good job, because it's basically just a matter of finding ways to correlate data together. No need to recognize when it's missing some form of outside context, because it doesn't "fail" or "succeed", it just does "worse" or "better." As long as it does better than a coin flip, it's worth it.

Right now, it's pretty effective to block ads by just not loading them, but there's no universal law that says it will always be that way. That already doesn't work on YouTube, which serves the ads from the same domain as the content, meaning that most ad blockers don't work on it. If ad blocking keeps becoming more popular, tactics like that will become more common. Once the ad serving becomes strictly first-party, relying on JavaScript looks like an increasingly terrible idea, not because of the minuscule number of people blocking JavaScript, but because you can't trust the potentially-malicious client to defend against click fraud.
That's not their official policy IIRC. It's 10 vacation days for your first year, 15 after that. And 6 days of sick time.

There's lots of leeway for your manager not to enforce it though.
Some day, eventually, after all the dust settles in the JS ecosystem, there will be a stable framework for managing UI state in a sane, sensible, predictable and well-understood manner - and someone at the WHATWG/W3C will finally write up a spec and the functionality will be baked-into Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc.

And we'll be free from having to learn a new JS framework every 6 months. And maybe even npm hell too.

Until then, time to buy another Pluralsign training course...
To be honest from your article itself it doesn't seem to be reported that he has been convicted as a rapist but that he had uncommon ideas about the topic? Does that make someone a rapist?
I imagine its fun for them. I personally cannot relate to this either, but you could apply this question to so many things. Like why would a world record sprinter want to run faster? I imagine with that reframing makes it more relatable.
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Thanks, your objections make sense to me now, and seem pretty consistent.

I'd argue Xi is pretty responsible for the Covid outbreak, given the initial cover up (mirroring the SARS cover up - ie it's long-running state policy).
Aren’t RSU taxed as income tax anyways?
Why does his wealth change anything in this regard? I honestly don't get it.
Would you say that widespread reports of mistreatment (and worse) of the Uyghur population are "bizarre imagery" with "almost nothing to do with the reality on the ground"?
dietPI is still Linux, and all performance limitations that come with Linux are still there. They compare it with Alpine, which is much slimmer than dietPI, yet, Alpine still looses in application performance by quite a margin.
The only IDs issued widely by the US government are military credentials, immigration credentials, and passports. Driver’s licenses are issued by states and other entities. They are also fraught with problems as millions of people do not have REAL IDs, yet need to interact with government.

The problem is that any bartender who has scanned your drivers license has the information required to scam an online validation without some other validation.

If you want good online validation for the public, you need a third party right now. In the future, in some states, you’ll be able to use a mobile drivers license, provided you own a smartphone. Also problematic, as the government has to support everyone. Foreign nationals pay tax. People in nursing homes who cannot appear before a DMV need to pay taxes.

You can yak about corruption and incompetence, but that honestly attests to ignorance on the topic.
I mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but I'm exercising a fair amount already, and in my case the traditional reward for a solid workout is a vape session so while I do intend to keep it up I'm sort of maxed out in terms of using it to compensate. Regarding sleep – in my commuter days the insomnia would wreck me but my schedule is a lot more flexible now so I think I'm going to try to ride it out with just some melatonin. Re caffeine – somewhat maxed out there too, I drink about a pint of high-grade Colombian iced coffee a day which is at this point a well-established personal upper threshold for well-being.

Thank you
Same, years ago I was a once-or-twice a day smoker. Needed to cut it out for a drug test, months in advance. Just stopped. Stopped buying it, stepped away if someone was smoking it in a social situation. Like you say, kinda sucked but not really. Never was sick, more on edge than normal. Lasted a week or two, then began to appreciate a bit more clarity. Now, I'm a once-or-thrice-a-month consumer and appreciate it so much more.
Like Elon Musk, he wasn't born in the US and is therefore ineligible. (edit: "natural-born citizen" is not as well-defined as I thought, and Ted Cruz qualifies on account of having a US citizen parent at the time of his birth. But it's clear that Thiel doesn't.)
I was just looking at some of her stuff yesterday, very cool. I'm even more of a noob though, since I'm not sure how to get this code (similar to other notebooks I've played with) into Colab to test out. If there's an obvious first/next step I should be taking, could anyone point me in that direction?
Amazon has remote roles
One of many hidden costs of conflict in the middle east.
Reading reviews on Amazon, it makes it sound like it's not the best on privacy. Do you experience this?

> If you don’t agree to let them sell your information, then every single time you connect your watch to the phone, it automatically transfers you to settings on your phone because it wants you to alter them so they can sell your information.
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Remember this when it first came out. Was a great resource.
Prices haven't risen because of wages. They rose because business owners know to not let any good crisis go to waste. Businesses blame Covid. They blame supply chains. They blame wage increases. Lo and behold, YoY financial performance indicates recording-breaking rise in profits. Give the shareholders a bonus!