skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Essential workers" were "on the front line" and then were fired. Restaurant workers switched to take out/delivery becoming essential workers on the front line, and then many of them got fired. They feel betrayed, good luck getting them to come back. Long covid has also probably taken a lot of them out of the game (current estimates in the USA are 1.5 million if I remember correctly.) So the worker shortage is probably permanent, for all types of jobs, until a decade or so passes and the population creates more workers. No amount of inducement is going to make workers who can't function come back to work. Workers who now don't have to risk their lives for their front line jobs which they felt locked into because who else was hiring at the time now feel free to move to something better, different, but at least less risky than what they had before. The pandemic is not over either, four new variants on the way. So getting out of a job that could turn really risky at any time only seems to make sense. At the very least they probably feel the need to be compensated for the risk.
You make a good point. Medium is the message. In the recording industry they spent a lot of effort optimizing recordings for AM radios. The question is not "Does it sound great on state of the art Hi-Fi?" but "Does it sounds great for most of the listeners?"
Worldcoin wants to centralize welfare payments into one global system? Sounds like a bad idea from the outset.

Funny how the promise of crypto was supposed to be about decentralization, yet efforts like this are pushing centralization.
Not everyone has eyes. Just like not everyone has fingerprints.

Proof of Personhood is - like lots of ideas - ignorant about how people will abuse it. So you need to scan your retina to post? That doesn't stop someone stealing your laptop just after a scan. Or stop you scanning someone's eye when they're asleep / unconscious. Or any of a host of attacks.

The UBI requirement is interesting - but it comes down to how much cost is lost to fraud vs the cost of fighting that fraud. If you need to spend a billion pounds to stop a million in fraud - is that worth it?
But Twitter doesn’t want to be just another webpage. Tweets and its dates are used in court and by historians. That’s basically why Twitter has been hesitant to allow edits.

I kinda wish they let people add some text instead of allowing editing, like:

Wouldnt it be nice?

Added: * wouldn’t

I know deletions are still allowed, but they don’t lead to different content.
“ but no one was really using the app. Including myself.”

That’s the problem! If you are the target user but don’t want to use it, the product doesn’t work as is, maybe the idea doesn’t work at all, or the focus isn’t right.
Nice interview. I thought one of the most insightful parts was near the end:

AG: The West is aiding Ukrainians while wiring Russia money every day for oil and gas.

MG: Exactly. Biden's speech was not a great democracy speech because it was hypocritical.

The accepted rhetoric of "We don't want to be pulled into a shooting war with Russia" translates as "We feel bad, but we'd rather Ukrainians die than risk the lives of our own citizens." I'm not saying it's completely wrongheaded, but it does undercut any rhetoric of solidarity.
I’m trying to apply the conditions you’re requiring to historical examples and it’s not quite fitting. The American Revolution is one.
Have you seen the creepy interview of Altman and Zuckerberg? Upright posture, hands on thighs... the borg talking with itself...

https://www.facebook.com/YCombinator/videos/1015399369382910...

its on Facebook, but no need to log in
I completely agree that we need to be vastly more aggressive in terms of ditching fossil fuels: fossil fuels are just plain stupid even when you ignore the climate catastrophe that we are causing by using them.

However, At this point, assuming we make no more improvements, we have successfully avoided turning Earth into Venus.

> require intense short(er)-term demand for energy which will likely need to come from fossil fuels.

We're actually starting to trend away from this[1][2].

[1]: https://www.gem.wiki/Category:Proposed_coal_plants_in_the_Un...
[2]: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-coal-plants-dwindle-amid-wa...
I don't think you're taking it too literally, you're absolutely right. Always keep your professional boundaries and recognize the transaction of money-for-time for what it is: a transaction.
I don't see how an iris scan can be a "proof" of anything. One can simply generate any number of realistic-looking scans. There is a website that generates human faces, it should be possible to generate iris images as well.

Also, I don't see why cryptocurrency is needed for UBI. Is real money unsuitable for this purpose?
The pure GTK branch has been merged into master and I use right now with KDE (and Wayland). I had to adjust the font size but other than that, I didn't meet any issue.
Same situation as in Sweden.
I went down that road for a while too and used a Mac Mini M1. It was really nice - but then I realized how bad iPads are for working compared to a laptop and switched back.
I mapped Control to a key under my thumb instead of Caps Lock. That's where it was originally when they chose the binding anyway. It's very comfortable now.
I'm sure your boss will be real impressed by how ethical you are as your colleagues get their work done 2x faster than you
Not the parent commenter, but I agree with the sentiment. The selected portion of the earlier comment has multiple pieces that I disagree with: 1) A PhD isn't about writing, and 2) you are not expected to become a professor once you get a PhD in the US.

A PhD isn't really about writing, it's about research. Writing is merely the means of demonstrating that you know how to do research. The way that you break something down involves finding a gap in understanding or a portion of a problem that has not been addressed. Then you find an insight that leads to potential solutions to address the gap. Then you run experiments based around the insight. It is fundamentally a way of thinking, not a way of writing. That's why it's a Doctorate of Philosophy. The actual topic that you cover for your thesis is not as important as the demonstration that you know how to think about research. It's moderately unlikely that you will be working on the same problem in industry.

It's commonplace, at least in engineering programs, to ask whether you're going to go into industry or academia. Research positions in industry typically go to PhDs or Masters with a lot of experience. It is much harder to break into the research world without a PhD in the US. So I believe the original statement:

> a full-time professionalized pursuit under the assumption you will be a professor

is overly specific. Your future could be a professor, a researcher/scientist, or an entrepreneur.
Here is list of some startups that closed post successful raise
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-post-mor...

some notes and learnings to take away
Leaving such a comment is rather strange and bring nothing of added value. I suppose you try to say that you discredit anything from Gessen. Can you elaborate on why?
What is funny about families is that a lot of them are dysfunctional.

As one anecdote goes:

Patient says that he recently made it up with his mother.

Psychiatrist ask what happened.

"She died" answers patient.

And we all know a lot of those families who meet once a year because of the need. And companies then want to call themselves "families".
Rob Landley doesn't agree:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
2035 target is not that far in the future - given the scale - and will require taking immediate steps. We should see if they are serious soon.
Eh, "proof of personhood for crypto" is not part of the design by design. The whole idea of crypto was to establish a channel that is harder for one government to control. In that sense, it kinda succeeded.

But with that success came attention of various interested parties, whose goals are anything but the original intent including compliance with KYC/AML laws, which crypto mostly ignores ( exchanges don't, but it is a separate story ).

In short, "personhood" is not a problem.
The biggest difference has to do with how Twitter has been used. Your retweets and likes show up on your profile and thus edits made to tweets may change what appears when someone looks at your profile. Unless they do it in some smarter way than most[0], this could personally devastating to folks because likes and retweets are viewed as endorsements (despite what some think).

The second biggest difference is newspapers tend not to change the entire point of the article in their edits, and aren't out to troll their engaged audience.

0: ie show the edited content on the page alongside the previous version(s) with the same prominence and, most importantly, without having to click anything to show an old version.

ETA: typos.
> What's with the orb gimmick - a spherical metal camera?

How are you supposed to start a cult with a normal camera though? At least that's the vibe I'm picking up from how they revere the Orb in their copy.
Show HN: Address.pub – email for crypto hw wallets
Can't wait for you all to tear apart my attempt at 1up-ing proton mail.

Address.pub is a gateway between regular email and modern security. Crypto hw wallets and bech32m are used to generate email addresses that look like btc addresses.
This is most likely a bug rather than malicious intent or predatory pricing

Color me skeptical.

I built web sites for a mid-sized B2B and B2C company, and had to build all kinds of games into the pricing.

Refreshed the page more than three times? That's a price change.

Returned to the same page 24 hours later? 36 hours later? 72 hours later? Price change. Price change. Price change.

Using a tablet? Price change.

Connecting from an IP address believed to be in a particular geographic region? Price change, and inventory change.

An unintended side effect of all of this was that it gave the illusion that pricing was dynamic based on supply and demand. It wasn't. There was no link between inventory and pricing. It was all games based on the user.
My brand new Lenovo P40 39" 5K monitor has 1GBIT ethernet in the USB-hub.
Max throughoutput I get is 300mbit per second over this with a thunderbolt/usb-c cable in between, I find this laughable.
Eventually, maybe.
But Java, Python, and Go are just so good in the IntelliJ suite. Switching between VSCode at home and IntelliJ at work make it readily apparent that there’s still a gap.
Can this be avoided/mitigated at all?
Their strategy seems to be: "user is probably comparing prices, hike so they sign up before it raises even more".

That's one reason I have zero regrets on torrenting TV shows.
Pointless debate when you do not define the level. Anyone can be surgeon, if you define 'surgery' as being able to 'remove mole'. Many programmers just remove moles. Some do coronary bypass surgeries.
Slighty related submission with 508 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911598
Thank you so much for your feedback.
Let me make some observations:
The "package manager" (https://tilepieces.net/documentation/panels/package-manager....) is not only used for projects, but also to create / load / export components (https://tilepieces.net/documentation/data-structures/compone...), and to set the global properties of the application. So I think "Package Manager" is more appropriate than "Projects view".

As for the windows (I think you talk about panels -> https://tilepieces.net/documentation/UI/panels.html) they can be set right, left, above, below (they are fixed below 1024px).
They are certainly a bit .. rough/raw/sketched i think you could say... as everything to the UI, but at the moment I think the important thing is that they work.

The third point you are referring to is a bug! I swear it worked until yesterday :)!
Maybe this ? You could also email Wendell on the site and get his thoughts.

https://store.level1techs.com/products/14-kvm-switch-single-...
It could be as simple as pulling locally cached price data, saying this one is $10 more than the one below it, and then caching that. It would raise the price of itself if they used the wrong array index - something every programmer has done.
I wrote my PhD in TeXmacs: https://www.texmacs.org

Advantages:

- It's the fastest environment for me to type mathematical manuscripts.

- If you are familiar with LaTeX, you can backlash your way in immediately.

- If you are familiar with Word, you can use the dropdowns as you would use the Equation editor.

- The typesetting is great.

- It has great LaTeX export (there are a few things to clean up, but that time is in the single percent digits compared to the time savings).

- It has .bib support for citations.

(Working with exported LaTeX code seems ugly, because of the pretty-printing though)

Disadvantages:

- It crashes. Nowadays much less, but that's still a hassle. Splitting your work in multiple files helps (especially for a PhD-sized document).

- Five years ago, it was difficult for me to figure out how to use macros, customize the layout, so I mostly gave up. If you have to automate a lot of custom type-setting, LaTeX is probably still king. I haven't skimmed through the new book, I would do it if you plan to use TeXmacs: https://www.scypress.com/book_info.html

- Fiddling with bibliography formatting wasn't fun, it is not fun either with LaTeX, but LaTeX often has a StackOverflow answer for you.

I'd give it a try, absolutely. You'll need to decide pretty quickly if you want your workflow to go TeXmacs->LaTeX->PDF or TeXmacs->PDF.

In the first case, you'll process the pain points in LaTeX, but there'll be people around you to help you.

In the second case, you'll have to dig into TeXmacs styles if the default options do not suit you.

I also use TeXmacs to prepare slides, because that's the most efficient workflow I have. Though I have to route my intent around the software limitations, I find it quite worth it.
> SmallTalk as a language is IMVHO terrible

Eh, it's rare that you find a language simple enough that its syntax fits on an index card, yet conceptually rich enough that you can build complex systems with it. This is a feat in and of itself that warrants admiration and examination.

r5rs was almost this, but it lacked any real facility for creating ADTs, like a class system, instead just giving you the rudiments (closures, functions), and expecting you to do the rest. Racket fixes this, but it's also much more complicated than both r5rs and Smalltalk.
What hobby?
I’m a cynic but I wish that were true. In my past experience it has usually been the opposite, the bulk of engineers are making unnecessary tools, re-inventing wheels, and designing systems that shouldn’t exist and serve as roadblocks to the minority of engineers who are miraculously getting things done in spite of all that.
The five C’s of Business Partners: a marriage without the sex (2014)
- So how can we do UBI?

- Well we don't have the political capital to do it in real world currencies, but we can spawn crypto from nothing, so that could work. Obviously we'll need to have a way to make this crypto currency actually valuable, and stable, but let's figure that out later.

- Ok, ok, so technically, what do we need to make this work?

- Well, the main problem is surely that people are going to want to claim their UBI several times, so we need a way to control that.

- Ah, ok, we have AI to do that right?

- Well yeah, but we need to send an army of people everywhere on the planet, each with a specially created device that scans everyone eyeballs.

- Uh? Can't we do this with a webcam?

- No people will cheat.

- But that's going to cost an awful lot of money, how are we going to fund that?

- We'll go to VC, they'll give us the money, and well that crypto money is going to raise in value, so we'll have that, and otherwise we could monetize the planet wide authentication scheme that we created.

- And you are sure this is going to solve the world's poverty problem?
As a contrasting experience - AT&T owns the rights to supply internet via overhead lines where I live (it's rural here), with a contractual agreement to provide high speed access. Because they're a multi-billion dollar corporation and we're a township of around 500 people (and our town council are fucking morons) it's a forever agreement, and high speed is defined as dial-up.

Meanwhile, the local co-op ISP just finished running underground fiber to the township. Full gig connection for $250 set-up fee (with a 1000yd drop to your house if necessary) and $80/month forever.
>4 of the 5 compromised keys were under the control of one organization,

And it appears the final key was also under the control of the same organization temporarily.

I don't have more details because I don't think they've released any, but fundamentally, that appears to be the critical vulnerability which made this hack almost inevitable.

They began with a system that was extremely carefully designed to be decentralized (multiple signers) and then they centralized it.

Subsequently, the hacker only had to attack one organization, instead of five

Incompetence? Inside job? Or why not both?
> Administering a global UBI across all nations would be impossible with technology we have today.

The main obstacle is that there is just not enough money for everyone. There is absolutely no problem to prevent fraud by checking government-issued IDs.
The worst part about Emacs is the bindings. :D

The reason I'll never leave Emacs is that if I want to change something, I can. It doesn't really matter what it is. This might be technically true in something like VS Code (although Atom was much easier in this regard), but it takes a lot more effort and scaffolding to do something like write a single function and bind it to a keymap in VS Code.
I managed to get 1Gbps (minus overhead) with the Dell version of the display. But it is highly variable based on what else my CPU is doing, which is my experience broadly with USB ethernet.
The comment you address separately discusses regional separatist movements (which he merely says aren't happening in Russia, without speculation in cause) and revolutions (which he projects won't happen, and suggests a reason). The American “Revolution”, despite the common name, was a regional separatist movement, not a revolution, and so the fact that it occurred without the conditions suggested to be necessary for a revolution doesn't provide counterevidence.
TL;DR: Author stole a job from someone called Olaf by automating it away. Olaf was last reported homeless on the streets of Seattle.
MTHFR is a slippery slope down a road to quackery and pseudoscientific BS, just a heads up. Not saying that methylation isn't a problem but it's one of the fastest routes to burn $ with little change. Naturopaths and such can technically help but most of it is the placebo effect with an involved provider and getting some life aspects straightened out. I love the idea of integrative medicine but there's so much crap these days that's hard to tell apart from real science.

Plus, it's like Scientology, the syndromes and tests continue to get more expensive with little actual recourse. The treatment protocols are long and feel like you're doing something to treat something untreatable but for many they do nothing. For some they do a lot. But if you do the basics you see in other sciences of the body (eliminate corn/wheat/dairy etc, exercise, eat cleanly with a balanced diet, lower inflammation), you can get most of the benefits. Right now I think a lot of DNA tests are sort of a modern day hocus pocus trick to convince people we have some all seeing eye vision of what's causing what. It gives security but the science is still very very weak and there's a lot more work to do.

I'm sure once genetic-related language models mature we can be a bit more sure but it's just a lot of hokey pokey for the money. But some people do feel better with it. I was not one of them, and some of my friends were not either. :'( sometimes I think it may be regression to the mean too, so it's all hard to say

Rant, over!
> where people were trying to coast in on the reputation of their university or by getting an “internship” from their dad’s friend’s company.

This absolutely still happens though. Those people will just get "fast tracked" through the process and allowed to skip steps. If there is even an interview at all. Nepotism is still alive and well even in software.

Edit: Oh, or they will get hired as consultants / contractors at a high rate and get to add your company's name to their list of happy clients
Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware
They probably made assumptions in their architecture that tweets can never be updated, and that they can only be created or deleted. Depending on how ingrained this assumption is, it could be quite difficult to change. Caching, replication, eventual consistency - lots of hard stuff. Until relatively recently, I believe AWS S3 didn't have read-after-write consistency for updates to existing objects - I doubt that was easy for them to do.

I've seen lots of bad hot takes from Twitter users who have no idea how large systems like this are designed. Dumb stuff like "just do a SQL update" or "use React".
It's a preposterous notion to doubt that assertion (Russia is authoritarian). I have to believe that is a post by a Russian bot of some kind.
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Probably shouldn't have closed all those nuclear plants.
In what way does it seem like he had anything to do with this at all?
Tachyum Prodigy the First Universal Processor
“Performance art” is exactly right. Likewise, it’s not a coincidence that the actual field of contemporary performance art is increasingly resembling the entrepreneurship/startup industry.
This is horrifyingly dystopian. Glad that the media is starting to cover this critically, I bet the fallout will cause the VCs to pull away soon.
Ah yes, but no true unreasonable man puts sugar on his porridge.

(Ironically, the reference for this is an article titled "No true Scotsman starts a war" https://web.archive.org/web/20190105005853/http://www.atimes...)
That's what they advertise, but multiple times when checking the price is absolutely the same on desktop (from a different account). They've already been caught in false advertising so i don't see why they continue to do it
I know you're being facetious, but the existing tunnel in Vegas only serves the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Very nice, I love this! :D
I’d guess the average person can’t distinguish Apple Pay and Apple Cash.
When facing such large scale issues, communicating properly is very hard: Several teams might be investigating several possible root causes in parallel, and you might change your mind over time as to what is the most probable root cause.

So you might end up communicating something ("we think it comes from X, we're fixing it that way"), just to find yourself changing you mind a few minutes later.

Changing your message is usually not well perceived, even though that's actually normal during an investigation.

I would not like to be in charge of the communication. Finding the balance between saying too much or too little is tricky.
Preventing Harmful Generations

We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent,
hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content
from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to
these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent
photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces,
including those of public figures.

"And we've also closed off a huge range of potentially interesting work as a result"

I can't help but feel a lot of the safeguarding is more about preventing bad PR than anything. I wish I could have a version with the training wheels taken off. And there's enough other models out there without restriction that the stories about "misuse of AI" will still circulate.

(side note - I've been on HN for years and I still can't figure out how to format text as a quote.)