skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you mean by "unfair".

In plenty of companies I have worked for, you pay quite a lot more than you want for a particular hire not necessarily because they are worth it but because you are desperate and they are nearly good enough. You generally don't get away with putting people's salaries down if they don't perform and if you did, they might leave ending with you being back in the mess.

This might be magnified in smaller companies but it could easily squew salary figures and depending on their sex, it could also make the figures look really wrong.

This might be "unfair" by one definition but it definitely happens and is one reason why it is hard to be transparent about wages. It can also create resentment if others knew that someone was overpaid.
I've been doing the World News at 6:30PM with Brian Muir on whatever channel 7-1 is on my antenna, the NYTime's morning newsletter, and then I read the print New Yorker.

Then I come on HackerNews sometimes, but have dropped all social media and even my favorite news aggregator site Fark.com.

Mainly the big thing is just not looking at the news on my phone which can be an incredible time sink, and also not looking at comments for news related articles. Even here on HackerNews which I generally consider to be a "wheat, not chaff, comment section" can get pretty low grade on anything with a political slant unfortunately.

My opinion is, if I'm not going to do anything about it except yell at the people near me whether that's near me online, or near me in person, than there's no reason to get flustered about something.

If I'm going to start calling my reps again, and hitting the streets, then it's good to be informed so I can express my view points and understand what I'm fighting for. Otherwise, it's just negative energy. I'm not going to fix the entire world, and having negative emotions about every single negative thing that's happening in a brutal world is... just too much.
I guess there are lots of things that consume RSS, but you might see if you can add filtering there.

For example I wrote a rss2email application, and I added the ability to ignore entries based on regexp-matching against their titles, or bodies. I imagine many RSS projects have similar facilities, and if not would welcome contributes to add such a thing.
"mildly pornographic"

Demo video literally depicts naked chicks. Sure, it's soft porn, but it's fully pornographic lol
Just like cloning a crypo, it'd be trivial to make a new Twitter, but extremely difficult to gain the same level of network effect.

If Elon Musk wanted to make "MuskCoin", he could and instantly have a huge number of people jump on board. He has already proven this just by meddling in the current crypto market for his own amusement.

Lots of other companies/individuals with clout and name recognition could easily do the same.

The only reason they don't --- they recognize the ultimate futility of it. Musk has even poked fun at the absurdity of it all.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-mocks-dogecoin-crypto-scams
> I dunno, isn't this the same thing as blaming climate change on the people who take a single vacation by plane per year, no matter what else they're doing the other 51 weeks to try to live a non-wasteful life?

It’s the opposite. The article is targeting people in the software industry. Their actions are multiplied by every instance of their software being used.

So it’s more like asking people who design aircraft what they will do about the climate crisis — not the individual consumer who buys a plane ticket.
From the article:

"I often encountered videos that were uploaded again and again, no matter how many times I removed them. One day, a woman emailed me, calmly explained that her ex-boyfriend had uploaded a video of them having sex, and asked me to remove it. I deleted the clip. Later that week, it was re-uploaded. The woman wrote again, I removed it, and this continued for months; I must have pulled the same video down a dozen times. This was before I had ever heard the term “revenge porn.”

Requests like this were not uncommon. Once, a woman wrote to say there was a video of her on Tube8 that showed her being sexually assaulted after someone spiked her drink at a party. The video had tens of thousands of views, so I had to review it before making the call to remove it. In the clip, the woman is clearly high, laughing and head lolling, having sex on a bed surrounded by fully dressed people holding drinks and watching as colored lights flashed and music blared in the background. I took it down, but it was uploaded again repeatedly in the following months. Each time, the mortified woman flagged it, and each time, I removed it; both of us were aware that there was nothing we could do to stop the clip from resurfacing."

I have read the same thing from Facebook content moderators. They got so frustrated at having to watch and take down the same videos over and over.

This seems to be such a simple problem to solve: record a hash of the video file, don't allow uploading it again. That would probably get rid of most re-posting.

It could be bypassed by modifying the file slightly, but the hashing could also get more sophisticated. At some point, an ex-boyfriend is not likely to want to keep modifying a video to piss off his ex.
Yes, the Minecraft Farlands are caused by precision issues of floating point numbers. The game becomes jittery as it tries snapping to fewer and fewer precise digits. This is most obvious at first in the selection box around blocks, but the terrain also becomes unstable after a certain point.

Note that one Youtuber KurtJMac has been walking to the Farlands since 2011. He's been raising money for charity as part of those videos/streams. He's roughly 40% of the way there.

https://www.farlandsorbust.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/kurtjmac
"The reality is that not everyone brings equal value to an org. Some are rockstars and others are meh. It’s natural, and you should be incentivized to improve."

I agree. But that's not incompatible with transparent pay. If this other person is producing more value and getting paid more, great. But show me how that value is twice my own. Those measurements should be going on in performance reviews. Largely, nobody cares to do this in a just way. It's basically just opinions, which are easily biased.
My understanding was that you need consent before storing or accessing information on user's devices.
> The logical successor was supposed to be btrfs, but that project IMHO may never be ready for production use.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Production_Users

Facebook deployed it on millions of servers. Is that production enough? Synology NAS devices also use it.
I don't have a problem with wide pay ranges for the same job as long as it's detailed - e.g. "job X with 1 year of experience pays this much, job X with 10 years of experience pays that much". It HAS to be made transparent, else people will just troll with a range of "minimum wage" to "trillions per second".
Our VRC supports an "AR Mode" via two front-facing RGB cameras, which allows you to see your keyboard. There's a snazzy demonstration of it our main sales video.

Here's a more down to earth video of us testing it last summer in our compositor: https://youtu.be/6H5-mdGpKZg Note this is just an early test with a single fish eye lens (grainy; distortion not corrected). Our actual AR mode is much higher quality than this.
It’s a cool idea. I remember dreaming of this sort of thing in HS. I’m sure there are medical professionals who’d be able to inform you for a consultation. Perhaps even wiring up some volunteers to see muscular activity with various weights. Or yeah maybe helmet design has tread this well.
Comedian Peter Serafinowicz's website for his character Brian Butterfield takes web design to the next level[1] /s

Sadly, the original website was taken down last year, but thanks to the Wayback Machine this masterpiece is still available to marvel at.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210330113905/http://www.peters...
There is no de facto supported standard because WAV files are de facto not used as anything but intermediate format these days. You could have fifty standards, that wouldn't change much.

WAV files can have any kind of compressed stream inside. A program that used some ancient API like WinMM ACM could theoretically play anything inside WAV as long as audio driver for that compressed format (now commonly called “codec”) was present. In addition, there are all kinds of standard metadata (like author and comment fields), and players in the '90s had no problem with displaying it in their interface if it was present. Old Windows Media Player had some of these status lines shown by default.

By the way, “driver” was an actual driver, with an .inf file, update of win.ini/system.ini or registry, and probably a reboot required to start using the decoder.

Old SDK tells us to look further into MMREG.H, so let's do just that.

https://github.com/tpn/winddk-8.1/blob/f6e6e4da7d1894536cf1f...

https://github.com/tpn/winddk-8.1/blob/f6e6e4da7d1894536cf1f...

(Last line is quite ironic.)

It's interesting to look how all those early '90s ideas that Universal Tagged Formats would be used to hold anything and everything, and dragged-and-dropped into any and all application completely flopped. Mac had those, Windows had those, Amiga had those. You can say that MP4, an international standard, is actually MOV in disguise, but it doesn't support all those early crazy options that could turn the file into poor man's PowerPoint presentation, poor man's Hypercard, or poor man's FMV game. On the other hand, Windows Media Player did support ASF interactivity like “open the link in a browser at this timestamp”, “show user some text at that timestamp”, and the consequences were so bad that it all had to be killed in mid-00s.
Perhaps if the author fixed their hosting configuration it would get some more traction. Currently the article is only accessible via http, as accessing the site for https gets you a completely different site's LetsEncrypt cert (art.mahajana.net) and even accepting that a 404.

I have no doubt the content is good but this is bad sysadmin.
Yeah. It's like that old Xzibit meme.

File systems aren't relational databases, but more like NoSQL half a lifetime before it was cool. They're typically backed by the same data structures and solve the same problems.
> I think that its all about the windows. In warm climate regions they are made to allow air circulation.

Windows, walls, roofs, ceiling heights, …

In warm climates until you have AC you want shade and air circulation / drafts.

Having no roof insulation is not much of an issue (might even be advantageous to trigger forced airflow) as long as you’re far from the roof. Likewise high ceilings keep the heat climbing above head level.

And imperfectly adjusted doors and windows with dodgy (or missing) seals isn’t a bother when it’s not an advantage.

In cold climes none of those is really acceptable unless you want to absolutely nuke your bank account on heating, at least if the house is anything more than a place to sleep in.
That’s how much it would take to produce another one. Most cost a much smaller fraction of that.
The power of marketing. It's now a "metaverse app", and you need to read half the article to find out they talk about "VRChat" - which is just one of the biggest VR apps around and would have name recognition, but that's not important anymore, it's Facebook's Metaverse!
To be fair, P/E ratios, financials and stock market regulation didn't prevent this:

$PTON (Peloton) is -77% in the past year

$ZM (Zoom) -67%

$CLOV -82%

$HOOD (Robinhood) -70%

$ROKU -71%

$TWLO (Twilio) -59%

$DOCU (Docusign) -52%

Bitcoin is -28% over the same time period. Ethereum +51%.
Ironically yours is the most unsubstantive in this whole thread.
Even less applicable if you didn't work in the industry.
Depends on how critical TSMC will remain, there's also chance US will have to work with PRC to ensure production continuity. IMO preserving fabs as leverage is probably top priority for all parties concerned, no one gains from it's destruction. The scenario where US controls inputs, PRC controls fabs, TW controls production is still preferable to scenario where destroyed fabs grinds advanced industries around world (mostly in the west) to a crawl.
Exporting Farmed Totoaba. Will It Help World’s Most Endangered Porpoise?
This doesn't surprise me. Rust's toxic community was one of several reasons that made me turn away from the language. When people ask on a Go forum (e.g. r/golang) whether they should switch to or write a project in Go, they tend to get good and professional advice, and often this advice is to stick with the existing language and approach. I don't know why this is so, but with Rust you mostly get zealots with zero ability to evaluate the Pros and Cons of their language of choice.
Pedantic is good, even C and C++ compilers support it.
An introduction to the deceit of statistical significance without p-values
For a prime example of what can happen in a population that lacks memetic immunity look Albania in the 1990s. After the communist government collapsed, several large pyramid schemes sprung up and essentially took over the economy with the majority of Albanians participating at some level. When the pyramid schemes collapsed in 1997 it lead to a civil war with people actually shooting each other.

In the US we have a constant low level problem with pyramid schemes but they only suck in a small minority of greedy and gullible people. The majority of Americans know it's a scam and have some level of "herd immunity".
Even if the future of decentralized ledger cryptocurrency isn't bright, accelerating adoption of digital currencies is a good step forward. If that's all crypto ever accomplishes, I think it'll be a success. Some of course have concerns about privacy, tracking, etc., but the speed of payment rails in our current system is ridiculous given the technology we have.
Good point. I try to identify the work/value that goes behind the USD. All the manhours and energy put into civic duties (military, government, etc). Also largely in the past and similarly uncrystallized, but somehow people find it to be more cyrystalline.
It's unfortunate that ReiserFS is named after Hans Reiser; other people were working on it too (well before the murder, see e.g. [1] for a crude overview), and there's nothing stopping anyone from maintaining and developing it, no matter what Hans Reiser did. Yet in large part due to the name, it's strongly linked to him :-/ If Theodore Ts'o would have been convicted of murder the ext* filesystems probably would have lived on, as it's not "TsoFS".

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060318185107fw_/http://www.nam...
How does this compare to Softaculous.com 's offerings, would you say?

I know and have used Softaculous to install and maintain Wordpress and other applications in the past.
I actually got so stressed defending Crypto because a lot of the attacks get very personal (all people working on it are scammers, I’d never hire someone with web3 on their cv, etc). I kind of wish @dang would add a new rule regarding crypto because it’s always the same conversation but does hurt those working in the field on HN earnestly.

Edit: Even this gets downvoted lol
Eh, have you ever tried writing a filesystem?
I don't think that's true at all. If it were so easy, why don't I have one? More people are paid below $110k than above (median).
I don't know anything about DirectWrite, but there seems to be a DirectWrite kernel component due to CVE-2020-1577 (DirectWrite leaking kernel memory "by convincing a user to visit an untrusted webpage", which I'm not sure whether the exploit route would be in TTF/OTF processing, e.g. due to webfonts, or the text rendering itself).
Anti-crypto HN is real!

I still have not found the HN-like community that gets cryptocurrencies. Maybe it's just being created today. People say Twitter but it's still pretty meme oriented. /r/ethfinance is ok but not enough content. Zero Knowledge podcast is solid but podcasts are one way communication. And the forums for cryotocurrency developers are beyond my level of tech knowledge.

I wonder if at some point anthropologists will even study "tech's rejection of crypto" as a rift that
became something more.
I don't have experience with that, but from help pages, seems like you can: https://help.gumroad.com/article/153-setting-up-a-custom-dom...
Back from 2001, 2advanced.com

Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
I see a lot of comments on the pricing of this hardware. It's going to be more expensive (for the end user) to build a headset (and FOSS window manager) than a product like the quest. Meta has a suite of products bringing in capitol by selling user PII. Valve has a distribution platform to offset costs.

If you want to see a product that is open end to end and is not part of an ecosystem selling your information, then it has to be funded.

I realize most of the people reading this don't want a moral argument for spending $2k-$4k on a HMD, but thats what I am offering.

We should have multiple openXR compatible headsets to choose from, and specialized window managers that 'just work' in VR. Fund the FOSS projects you want to see in the world so others will follow.
Wow. What a site!
I wouldn’t either but I’m comfortable with charging circuits from there. I also use cells with overcurrent protection built in.
Damn, I was bit by this, I had forgotten about it because it was such a long time ago.
Thanks! Yes, it is: https://github.com/veggiedefender/wordle-reverse

However, it's just a single 400ish line html file with mediocre code.
'In a statement, Google said, “There is no merit to the suggestion that search results were manually edited.” But the company added that its algorithm would automatically adjust itself in some cases, shifting to rank trustworthy links higher than more relevant ones.'

TrUsTwOrThY > relevant
> Having children is simply more burdensome and time-consuming for women, no way around it

Pregnancy is 9 months, the children live for many years. For that second part, men and women could take responsibilities in an equal way (save for breastfeeding, but pumps exists), but usually the burden tends to fall on the women and that hurts careers more than pregnancy.
Haha I totally missed that. I’m so used to onboarding people via email/video calls.

One of my demo tutorials shows exactly how to embed!

https://textframe.app/embed_tutorial
You're right it, Clickhouse has UInt8, UInt16, UInt32, UInt64, UInt128, UInt256, Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64, Int128, Int256 [1].

[1]: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types/int-...
> I've been looking for an open-source alternative that can edit .md files, and sync them to a Github repo.

Obsidian is not open-source tho.
Again: being widespread is not the same as being a systemic risk. That just means it's a casino everyone wastes money in. Who is defaulting on critically important obligations because of a crypto crash? What creditworthy business isn't getting a loan to cover cash flows for the quarter because BTC fell to 10k?
Funny how you had to create a brand new account to post this.
How Big Is the Carbon Removal Market?
My argument is, that to archive your goals (which I in a way share), the strategy of securing drop-in replacements is a much, much more realistic one than the existing strategy of convincing people to give up luxury.

All ecological and anti-climate change movements have the same problem. Convincing people to give up the luxury of a car, airplane, vacation, phone, (overly) warm home etc. is a great way of putting people on the defensive and triggering pushback.

That's why I'm saying you will NEVER convince anything near a majority of people to give up meat. It's a rare luxury. They will never give that up, especially as long as they watch rich people have fun on their private islands.

This is the difference:
- "You can't ever eat burgers again, or you're a bad person"
- "Want to eat Wagyu beef burgers, but can't afford it? No problem! Now you can, plus, you're a good person for not killing a cow in the process!"

You must realize that "belief that animals ought not to be exploited for anything" is a belief enabled by privilege. A lot of privilege. That's not bad, as privilege (a really shitty word to use for the concept) is not a bad thing. But it's a privilege that many people lack. So you need to find ways to convince people to do what you want without relying on the privilage.
"WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE"

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

I was surprised to see that Linux has in fact removed other filesystems in the past (and I had to look up the word "senescent").

So the real news to me here is that a somewhat "major" break in userspace is being considered.

Sure, ReiserFS might not be getting a lot of new installs, but the fact that people have submitted fixes to it within the past few years means it has some. There are installs of it out there. Wilcox is considering breaking userspace for some users.

Linux is famous, famous for keeping backwards compatibility for almost everything forever. The stories of Linux backwards compat are up there with stories of Windows still supporting AUX and CON and other special file names. Is "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE" still worthy enough to be shouted at the top of your email lungs?
Well in the case of last name unless those dead peoples was the last one standing with the surname there is always the possibility of a descendant or someone from a different branch of the family name tree commiting bad things.

Add to that some people sometimes decide to give a famouse surname as a firstname for their kids. There is a non negligible number of people sporting the Lafayette, Napoleon, Lincoln as first name for example that could do something bad anytime.
I don't see why they wouldn't as long as the TOC (i.e. filenames + headers) fits in ram. The offsets are all there for a simple seek.
Is it possible to get prescription lens inserts? This would make a massive improvement for usability and comfort of anyone who wears glasses.
> If you truly believe that cryptocurrency is the basis for a superior economic system

This is the reason for the prevailing negative sentiment though. "Postgres will revolutionize the economy! Put all your money in unique keys!" Sounds crazy right?

I mean, it might not be wrong, we all trade assets using special government cotton, but it is still a wild thing to hear as a software engineer, and an even wilder thing to see people bet their life savings on.
No, the meta-data is somehow distributed and fsck can pick up pieces of it. I don't think you have to encrypt the image to avoid the edge case, a compress of the image should be enough. It still sucks though.
If it's well-balanced I would imagine that it would work for long periods of time. We already have some evidence from people modifying other VR headset straps to balance the weight. I wasn't able to find any information about the total weight of the Simula One VRC, but I know personally that my motorcycle helmet is close to 4lbs and I have often worn that for days at a time with lots of head movement.
What's up with the fixation of travelling and having fun in the 20s? If you maintain your health you can easily postpone it to your 40s and 50s as well.