skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't admit 100 million students to an excellent school. You make 1 million excellent schools and admit 100 students to each. There is no reason for there to be a scarcity of excellent education in our wealthy, developed country.

That's the system we have now. But you end up running out of students who are capable of receiving an excellent education.
This might be controversial, but I honestly think it's important to recognise and counteract his in content moderation. When people deliberately give bad info they should be banned, and posters in good standing who exercise insufficient caution and feed the trolls must be reprimanded.

If you allow people to troll a help forum or bug tracker with low-grade content, you will soon be overrun with low-quality information, and that will make the search function in your forum useless, leading to a cascade of more low-quality questions.

I know reprimanding people for answering badly phrased questions or clear trolling is not something many people want to do because they want to be beginner friendly, but harsh penalties for deliberate disinformation should be the norm. Punishing people for falling for this would at least starve the trolls of oxygen.
I live in Kathmandu, Nepal. Same here. A cousin of mine in Seattle bought a similar sized home for less than what one of my relative spent in Kathmandu.
It is not the same thing at all if you care to compare the details. C# pointers come with a long list of caveats which does not apply in Go. They feel like a bolted on escape hatch rather than a real part of the language.
Race can and is absolutely gamed all the time. Case in point: Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Just because it can be gamed doesn’t mean it’s not a good metric
I don't think this will do much. Putin is a very firm person and will keep at his war. They have services in other countries like China that have similar products at cheaper rates too. In fact, this will unnecessarily cause trouble to innocent people who aren't even part of the war.
Where is the link to access the website?
It's almost like the problem is industry wide.
What stops you forking and running your own server? Plenty of people have done that.
Seriously? So for instance I could just pay myself double this year and nothing next year from my personal corporation, and my kid would somehow pass as having a low income parent?

Surely you have to count things like dividends, income in previous years, assets...

Failing that just make it clear that you know when you're tricking the system and fingers will be pointed.
> I'm not against non-competes, but I think that you should be compensated for any harm they cause. If I get fired, non-compete should be invalid. If I get a job offer, my company should get a right of first refusal to match compensation.

I dunno about the right of first refusal, but the firing thing should absolutely make non-competes invalid.

If you don't want someone to work for you anymore, then that's your problem when they work for someone else.

Think about normal relationships - anyone who left their partner and then insisted that their ex cannot start a new relationship would be considered insane by everyone party to the conversation.

And yet, when it comes to something even more important, like making a living, we totally allow it, tolerate it and normalise it!
TikTok Was Designed for War
https://archive.is/1NssL
Great question and could be a fun project.

What is stopping a group of developers making a sat phone using a third-party satellite service. I am pretty sure AWS has ground base or something....
It's always been a work in progress. Always will be, for as long as it continues to exist. When it's no longer a work in progress, it will be dead.
Maybe a minor defect. I see many packages that receive the error unclear license because the bot cannot find the file LICENSE in the package when the file exists with lowercase name “license”.

https://socket.dev/npm/issue/unclearLicense
Google Meet macOS audio ducking
Since a few weeks I noticed my microphone volume is ducking while other people talk. I am using a Scarlett solo with a dynamic microphone on macos. One colleague of mine is using the same audio interface and has the same problem on macos. Has anybody else noticed that?

Weird thing is that this indicates a system feature or problem, but in Discord & Slack it doesn't happen at all. Also the system cannot control the Scarlett Solo's microphone volume at all.

PS: I am using Firefox

edit: I finally found the problem. Firefox applies post processing to WebRTC: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Tweaks#Disable_WebRTC_audio_post_processing

wtf man
I imagine there's a lot of value in having your employees share a timezone for the benefit of easy cooperation, so it might make sense to have at least timezone-dependent salaries.

There might also be value in having your employees be able to easily physically meet, and then location-dependent salaries make sense.
I hate how Microsoft is trying to kill Linux on bare metal with WSL.

I have had so many problems on WSL1/2 and the performance is just not comparable to my current Linux system, where everything just works how I expect it to work, no company automatically installing software (spyware) on my system without permission, no urgent automatic updates while I'm working and no new telemetry settings I have to disable after each new upgrade.

In linux I just have control over everything and it just doesn't get into my way while working.
> No idea why this is getting downvoted.

People don't like to admit that minorities get treated differently just because of how they look.
I've been playing with streaming app/game delivery techniques, and can see where a 10x pipe might help a lot.

There is a tradeoff that has to be made when you use an efficient interframe compression algorithm (i.e. x264 or mpeg). Latency becomes a factor, and you lose the ability to instantly seek/generate a given frame without keeping track of the ones that occurred prior. You also need specialized hardware or high performance CPUs on both sides. This also has issues tolerating high frequency visual changes between frames.

When using an intraframe technique (i.e. jpeg), none of the caveats apply, with the exception of 1 new one - The amount of bandwidth required is increased substantially if you intend to serve a sequence of these approximating a video (a la mjpeg).

I've had a lot of people give me grief for this idea, but I assure you a sequence of jpegs at 60fps looks like some kind of magic butter compared to the same encoded with more efficient techniques. Especially, when you put a human in the loop with an input device. You literally don't have to worry about the type of content at all. It just looks good always. The range of devices that can quickly encode (<10ms) jpeg at 30+ fps is surprisingly large (basically anything with a cpu made in the last decade).

I've almost memorized the most important bits of libjpegturbo by this point. Can't say I've even begun to scratch the surface on the likes of AV1, etc. Don't think I'd really like to just seeing the shadow of the damn thing. This kind of simplicity has benefits that can be hard to quantify.

Any time I can make some tradeoff like this, I like to think into the future. Is the speed of the average connection going to increase or decrease from this point? Do we need 100% of the planet to have 10GbE before we can begin exploring these ideas?
>Refugees of Indian and African origin aren't being allowed to cross borders or board trains.

One man's crisis is another opportunity. I wonder how hard it is to enter the Ukraine now and then cross to Europe with no papers as a 'refugee, formerly expat-student.'
Don't. My best interview where ones where we talk about my open source contributions. One would be enough, but I have a few because I can work on my employer own open source project.
I am unable to reach the site.
There have been so many threads about Fb sending bot traffic, was just reading this thread on indiehackers yest(1).

The question is who is sending this bot traffic? Fb itself? It's a bit doubtful since all their shenanigans about tracking people and targeting is to improve conversions for their advertisers so they spend more. Also if a software like Darwin can detect and flag bot traffic how come FB can't? What am i missing here?

(1) https://www.indiehackers.com/post/facebook-ads-is-it-all-bot...
C# ahead-of-time compilation has for many years come with all sorts of caveats. Early versions requires runtime system because not everything got compiled on parts. Later versions have all sorts restrictions which do no apply for Go.

I think when C# and Java people compare with other languages they treat it as a checkbox exercise without caring about how good that feature actually is.
> The multiplayer didn't feel like an integral part of the game.

That's because it's not. These are not "multiplayer games" like CoD or Smash. These are single player games with some online/multiplayer elements.

> the random ghosts popping up all over the place (I think part of multiplayer?) seemed useless and distracting

Those pop up when you touch "bloodstains," i.e. seeing what other players did that caused them to die. Farthest thing from useless, actually -- they've saved my ass many times.
The order was set at the start, the list is visible in the minified source. So a perfect oracle isn't merely possible, it's trivial.

The fun comes from pretending that's not the case and playing it straight. And then from being able to use the oracle as an aid to analysis, if you're into that sort of thing.
It can also corrupt state if the target clients are light (and only verify headers).
Qt blocks Russian IP addresses for paying customers
> i am basing these "assumptions" based on what matrix offers. why is matrix the polar opposite of these "issues" then?

Because it has different objectives?

> what benefit do you get from "centralization" of signal at the hands of moxie that you cant get from a decentralized nature of matrix which is similar to what we call today as "Email"?

If this is actually a good faith question (despite the overwhelming amount that's been written by a lot of people explaining exactly this point), I suggest you stop and think about what the answer might be. Then maybe go and read what Moxie (and others) have written setting out their values and why they chose a particular direction. You don't have to agree with it, but consider that others do.

> the whole concept of "free software" is about the community helping each other to build software that can solve problems, not comply with the letter of the license and sticking with that.

No, "Free Software" is about ensuring the end-user's freedoms (see Stallman etc.). The signal client and servers are both open source and free - if you want to take apart, modify and run your own instances of them, you're free to do so. The restrictions that Signal likes to impose is about connecting to their instance of a service. This has nothing to do with Free Software.

> so tomorrow there is a severe flaw found in the code of the app or the server and the company can decide to wait it out and internally fix the issue after a long time without users knowing about it and then they release the fix as a normal thing, sure they have every "right" to do that but is it really fitting to what we today associate with free software community? imagine that with say the linux kernel. people would sit on zero day bugs with fixes just because they "own" the copyright.

This is literally how modern software development works for most large projects. Open source doesn't grant you the right to view every single commit that eventually makes it into the tree at the point that it is created.
Americans really don't know how good they have it.
Even if you don't want to use utf8, you can use any other text encoding, it's your files, nobody cares how you use them, do whatever works best for you.
Care to elaborate, share some details? This is really interesting comparison. What does N amount get you in Seattle and what in Kathmandu? How about other things, is this for general COL or just real estate? Because real estate prices often have life of their own, not always tied to, say, price of bread.
Git Tag Flow (GTF)
It is, but that is why the previous CEO was supposed to change the culture but then turned out to be the worst example himself by violating Swiss Covid quarantine rules on multiple occasions. Now the new guy is supposed to do the same, so far it's not looking good.
That was exactly my experience after posting an unrelated technical question on some MS forum. Wanted to delete my account immediately because I didn't want to deal with their botnet flagging accounts. Could not delete my account anymore without providing a telephone number. Their dead database entry then...

I guess they flagged it because I didn't provide contact information in the first place.
Sometimes they're called "white adjacent". Mostly they're just called "white", or "lily-white".

Here's Eugene Volokh writing about it in 1998: https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/asian.htm
when I think of isometric games most of the names I remember are from a long time ago.

I completely understand what you mean. Rollercoaster Tycoon comes to mind with physics and extremely complex animations.

Great stuff!!!
Russia Scrambles to Maintain Oil Sales, Lifeblood of Economy
Well, I'm not really a fan of picking favorites, but since we're talking about astronomical time lapses, I think this one must surely rank highly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ
Nope.

I work with @insky (zhbadya on HN) for 8+ years and I have an account on HN for much more than that. Can confirm - this is real, we're fighting.
I've been doing this for a really long time (2003-ish).

I use vim mainly, and open in Mousepad before sending text to people via e-mail (plain text email of course).

Most of my knowledge base is in plain text. It is easy to 'find' and 'grep'.
Hmm ok, but maybe .dev should also have been handled that way? It seems too easy to mess up. Maybe the change should be at the protocol level, like rhttps (restricted https) instead of https. We do already have gemini but it is not really practical.
They also have many many billions sitting in cash accounts with CS earning 0 (and in some account negative rates).

But yes, deals are much easier to structure as 100% debt and the investment, maintains liquidity and limits liability. Set up investment co, borrow with gaurantee from parent etc.
Yeah I wonder how many of those investors will be following through with the destruction of said information. (meaning: I won't be surprised if it leaks)
>Should I add “…and any other enjoyable activity”?

No because most enjoyable activities don't cause you to die or want to die when you stop them. (Or idk... maybe the potato chip marketing the really gets to some people...)
A counter point; because simple jobs/positions can be filled by almost anyone, they have many applicants and are usually reserved for the network.

Aiming higher means fewer candidates, and fewer competitors.
Depends on your target audience, but if it's techies, they may not even be seeing any of your ads because of the ad blockers. And those that don't use ad blockers aren't likely to click on G and FB ads (on reddit - it depends on the ad). So what you do see if some random people seeping through, which would explain the bounce rate.
Ramaphosa puts Internet censorship law into operation
My biggest tips are:

- Making sure you have all your ingredients in place (the highest quality you can afford)

- A sharp(ened) knife makes the whole process more enjoyable and safer. Take some time to learn how to dice onion, crush garlic with the side of your knife, basic techniques like this can help you with all of your cutting.

- When trying to learn to cook the same things apply as when trying to learn anything else _deliberate_ practice and nailing the basics while progressing.

- when trying to cook a dish spend some time with it, cook it multiple times, start with a basic version and then the next time add some additional ingredient or a new technique. You can move from basic -> advance with the same recipe.

Take for example a simple dish like Penne Arrabbiata.

This recipe has 6 ingredients: https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/recipes/penne-all-arrabbia...

This one has 12: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/522694/recipe/penne-allarra...

Think about the flavors and why each ingredient is included, why are the recipes different?

Think about if it's a regional ingredient and it was included because that's what they had to hand at the time, or if it's a later addition.
That's nice! I started similar [0], but by intercepting requests on my server instead of parsing logs. Do you filter bots? How effective is it?

[0] https://pirsch.io/blog/introduction/ (find an image below "How It Started")
Oh, I have actually used it.

The amount of storage it offered was unheard of at the time and the price was quite affordable.
73 on my first try :)

https://i.imgur.com/2M6ce5h.jpg
I'd say he does write plain text files, which he then converts to html when he wants to share it on his site.

The difference perhaps being that the note-taking/creating aspect is done in plain text, and stored as such.
I would like to have some expert feedback on how meaningful this line of research is. The paper is quite straightforward, but the implications are unclear to me. Is there a chance that backpropagation is superseded by this method for some use cases ? Another question is, if this result is as interesting as it seems to me, how come this is only published in 2022 given the past research effort in the area of deep learning ?
> It's a great way not to attract talent.

Yet, California has had plenty of people moving in to the state from elsewhere, enough to cause an acute housing problem in some areas. Something feels off in your analysis.
Moving goal posts, so now instead of not existing, they come with caveats.
Nature doesn't have to be anything.

However, a universe that doesn't have any laws would be an amorphous mush. Forget about planets and stars, it could not even have atoms or molecules - you need an awful lot of stable structure (i.e. laws) to get something as complex as a water molecule out of random particle interactions.
You can wire a regular bank transfer to their bank account or directly credit their Mastercard/Visa. No problem here: Ukrainian banking is well-connected with SWIFT and no disruptions are expected.
So email a non-name physics professor. They'll probably be clever enough to recognize the revolutionaryness (?) of a theory even if they couldn't invent the theory themselves.
People making this argument forget it works both ways. Why would I go to the company that does COL adjustments and pays me less than the one that doesn't?
Those plastic reflective stickers are supposedly local tools for land measurement.
>Reality is that 99.99% of them don't.

This is incorrect. I can vouch this is a relatively common practice in Maharashtra.
Yes, but it’s harder to game. Income is vastly more fluid than racial identity, especially since in this situation it’s more advantageous for your income to go down.
It's pretty hard to put a shovel in the ground in London without hitting something old.

We've moved and covered rivers (Fleet, Neckinger, etc.), we've covered and uncovered plague pits, built over and through Roman walls, or you can just go plain-old mud-larking.

Then there are lost tunnels. The list goes on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Fleet#Today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldgate_tube_station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Wall

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848024-mudlarking-in-the...

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/londons-lost-pneumatic-...

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-northern-line-tunne...
Also packet switched networking was invented to tolerate enemy bombing.
Once I realized that solving in one guess or two doesn't take any particular skill, I began to wonder what "winning" Wordle really means.

It's a game that you play for fun. If folks want to analyze the dictionaries to develop their strategy because it's fun for them, then they're doing it right. Not cheating.

If you prize Wordle solution patterns that are symmetrical or aesthetically pleasing because it's fun, then you're doing it right.

If you try to see how many consecutive hard-mode guesses you can make with NO correct letters because it's fun, then you're doing it right.

If you try to see how far you can skew your distribution towards six without ever losing because it's fun, then you're doing it right.
You'll also get people claiming estrangement from their parents.

It's like one of those AI algorithms that play games, if you don't plug all the holes, the AI figures out how to bunny hop or move all its troops out of range.
Make it an easy installable/runable Windows application and it will spread like wildfire.
Unfortunately I think you will find a budget of 15€/day a little too low to see much traction quickly. Most advertising platforms have gone all in on ML in a way that until you have had a significant amount of traffic they can't really train their algorithms. I would consider a sorter sharper campaign to see what you can achieve.

From our experience you need to be spending 8-10x that per day to kick start a campaign on Facebook.

Additionally, depending on your projects market Facebook/Instagram results can vary very widely. Targeting is hard, you can obviously use Facebooks audience tools to try and target but from our experience these can be difficult to get right. Without a little more information about your project I can't really suggest anything else. This is where the ML targeting is essential but as I said that need significant traffic to work.

> Facebook ... say they sent 300 clicks in a week, but I only see 120-130 in Analytics

This is about right from our estimation, it's a fairly new occurrence and down to Apples tracking changes that came in with iOS 14.5. If your target market are likely to have a large proportion of iOS users the tracking of Facebook ads has gotten quite bad. We estimate that up to 60% of iOS clicks are not tracked by Facebook/Analytics, Facebook obviosly know someone clicked the ad, but after that the tracking can break very easily. This is particularly bad for conversion tracking.

We have also experienced big problems with tracking people who leave the Facebook in app browser and move to their main browser to continue. We have found popping up a message encouraging them to open in their main browser if they try to navigate away from the landing page works well. It ensures that any Facebook/Analytics url args are still present in the URL when they move browser, setting a new tracking cookie based on them.

When we introduced this before Christmas we saw a massive increase in general trackability with Facebook.

> Are there any other platforms that are more suitable for my budget?

I would consider Google search result ads, it potentially allows you to target people who are already looking for something like what you are doing. It tends to have a significantly higher conversion rate than display advertising. Particularly at your daily budget it would be easer to play with, although at 15€/day you will only be getting 10-20ish (ballpark) clicks per day. If you have a conversion rate of say 2.5% (again about ballpark) then that's about 1 conversion every two-four days.
I didn't. I kinda stumbled into it.

So far, this team looks to be really good, and I'm happy to be working with them.

But I'm very suspicious of the company overall, and I'm definitely keeping an eye out for the various negative behaviours that I've seen them accused of regarding their employees.

We will see how it goes. If this doesn't work out long term, I hope this means I'll be in a better position to get a different job at a different employer down the line.

Only time will tell.
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