skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm close to Vancouver right now and I'm happy to see the local source of drunks, the old government liquor store, is now a small grocery store with a lot of really high quality stuff in it. I got some pretty good steaks for a decent price in there.

It's generally a bit more expensive than the larger one that was already in the area but damn is it nice. I've noticed this in a bunch of other neighborhoods, too. They have stuff like European import candies and stuff. They didn't exist about a decade ago when I was living here last.
We're not in normal economic times.

I "retired" at 33 (still doing other things, but without steady cash paycheck). Lived cheaply, worked hard, saved up a ton of money. I went back to work in 2020, right after interest rates were dropped to zero and the pandemic stimulus went out, because I figured that every single retiree, no matter how old, was about to get reamed by inflation. Have been right so far, and IMHO it's only going to get worse. Living cheaply works when the basic necessities of life are cheap. The basic necessities of life are about to get very expensive, if they haven't already.
If one of these images came out of a set of 1000 I would still be impressed.
Of course it does. Crappy for cars means crappy for buses which are public transit.
My friend has a website I like. I don't know why he doesn't want to share. Anyways I do it anyways and maybe with later consequences.

https://labs.shawnlukas.com
How to Fix NYC’s No-Cabs-at-4PM Problem (2015)
in historical authoritarian regimes

The paper is about China today.

See as a simple example the claim that stimulus payouts [...]

The paper is about propaganda in authoritarian regimes, the US is not an authoritarian regime.
The Wine development release 7.6 is now available
Self driving is easy, the hard part is self driving when surrounding vehicles are driven by humans. There are self-driving trains in some subway systems right now, and we don't see those as something special.
Lol when I said that at an org-level all-hands everyone laughed, but the need for improved PR is very real.

But it’s important to remember that there are a ton of extremely happy people at Amazon (or at least AWS, where I worked) they just aren’t as vocal online - management, scope and culture were incredible in my experience (it’s a huge company where managers have a lot of flexibility, YMMV). And some of the biggest day-to-day issues you hear about like crappy offices or excessive frugality were a thing of the past when I was there. And in terms of PIP, I only had one experience with it - having a mechanism for identifying and getting rid of the people who are a drain on everyone else was very nice.
Awesome! It looks like rubik's cube in 2D.
Same thing going on here as in your other comments.

Tech like CLIP, GPT-3, DALL-E, etc. are indeed nearing the sophistication (w. caveats around outliers and harmful outputs) of Google search.

It took a lot of people to create Google search. It took precisely one training run for DALL-E 2 to create this.

edit: Removed toxic comment.
> it somehow managed to effect places outside of New York across the country that didn’t adopt similar policies.

I definitely remember "tough on crime" being nationally popular (not just in NYC) in both parties through the '90s. Even if it wasn't called "broken windows policing".

Obviously some of the Bratton/Giuliani policies were specifically tailored to NYC and not really applicable elsewhere (no need to crack down on subway fare evasion in Houston for example) but the general sentiment of "the police should aggressively enforce all laws and lock all criminals up" was extremely popular.

This is not to say that any of this was right, or good, or just, or why crime fell or whatever. But it was definitely popular in the '90s outside of NYC.
Usenet was rife with such content. Decentralization is not a solution to moderation.
Tell HN: Levels.fyi is selling your salary data to companies for $1200/month
https://www.levels.fyi/offerings/

https://i.imgur.com/eC3slkQ.png

This was surprising to me as I always thought of levels.fyi being oriented towards job seekers. I question how they can both sell salary data to companies and also offer salary negotiation coaching. Seems to me like these two customer groups want the exact opposite of the other.
It also mentions Jack Burness, the author of MOONLANDER.

Here's an article that interviewed him last year:

https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-g...
I haven't heard of anyone that hosts both Matrix & Mail/Calendar/Contacts.

That would be a really interesting enterprise solution though - effectively replacing Slack/Teams for internal comms!
I'm generally pretty skeptical of claims of applying machine learning to improve healthcare outcomes (they often seem to be a poorly thought-out veneer), but at first glance, this one actually seems pretty exciting. It also seems like it's more of a "machines aiding humans, not replacing them" situation which, especially in context of healthcare, is always nice to see.

> Current clinical cardiac image analysis extracts only simple scar features like volume and mass, severely underutilizing what's demonstrated in this work to be critical data.

> "The images carry critical information that doctors haven't been able to access," said first author Dan Popescu, a former Johns Hopkins doctoral student.

This is, like, the thing that machine learning is really good at--pulling out additional information from complex patterns represented as imagery. It's a very similar reasoning to why neural networks can be really great at classifying malware based on the program structure or doing semantic segmentation on well-defined scenes.

> The team trained a second neural network to learn from 10 years of standard clinical patient data, 22 factors such as patients' age, weight, race, and prescription drug use.

Again, this kind of multi-dimensional pattern-matching is pretty much much a machine learning wheelhouse.

> [They] were validated in tests with an independent patient cohort from 60 health centers across the United States, with different cardiac histories and different imaging data

And apparently has a bunch of independent validation. Neat stuff, I'm curious to see how it will develop/be distributed in the future.

Disclosure: I recently accepted a job offer from JHU, albeit in a different field.
Reminds me about the Gervais model.
TextMate is my go-to for being free and open-source with lots of great features while still being super fast and lightweight

https://macromates.com/
Here is my toy tool for this:

https://alexxx.co/static-site-generator.html
Strange to see people in this thread seemingly accepting this as face value evidence that the trend is dying. For that, you'd need to also see a chart of people who have added .eth to their name.

(I have no horse in this race, I had .eth in my username and then removed it because I decided that I'd rather not encourage people to look into the transactions I'm making, though admittedly it's still easy enough.)
> Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist, ignore, or deride the messages?

Uhhh, allow me to challenge the premise here. Propaganda works (as in, it's effective in achieving its first-order purpose), and people aren't particularly great at correctly identifying propaganda: most people who do, do so mostly by chance.
I think it's easier to label these images as 'creative' than it is to label them as 'art'.
Art is a very slippery subject (it's subjective).
Personally, I'd be happy seeing many of these images on an acid trip. Do they provide any social commentary, connect with me emotionally, or give me any food for thought? No.
But then, a lot of the stuff churned out by modern media is equally as vacuous.
> Seems to me like these two customer groups want the exact opposite of the other.

I disagree. Both sides want to [obtain/provide] work that is priced fairly. Companies of the kind you see on levels.fyi are not trying to find the cheapest programmer around. They spend big bucks to get - and retain - the best.
This is in the latest published version 1.0.26 https://www.npmjs.com/package/event-source-polyfill
In many ways 386bsd in '92 was a flawed jewel. What it did is point the way, bust open a door. IIRC The first AT&T lawsuit was still going on, the SCO version of that farce was yet to arrive and we were living in a world where people with BSD copyright include files in AT&T licenced code were watching AT&T try to argue BSD were the bad guys.

Bill and Lynn were holding on to an idea and put something out there which lit a fire under a community, used to Berkeley licenced code.

Dr Dobbs helped. The work Keith Bostic started in the eighties unwinding att sourced code was huge too.

It wasn't complete but it was enough. Sometimes, "enough" is what we need.

I had access to BSD tapes, ran vaxes, sun's and the like, I'd done my time on pdp11s. Being able to move that experience beyond the IBM pc-rt (there was a licenced BSD port to the romp chip) onto the emerging commodity hardware pc was amazing.

Maybe the real firelighter moment was the mmu enabled 386?
>I have no objection whatsoever with executing people that...

>Liberty means the freedom to do what is right.

I understand the sentiment, but you do see how those two statements together are problematic?
Because if given the choice many people will exchange distance (driving or transit) for selection and price.

I have a local grocery store that I can walk to in 5 min but I’m not paying double for food when the alternative is to drive 10 min.
> There's a common joke with civilian defense employees that you can't get fired without committing a felony.

That seems strange in the context of defense since the government has a high degree of latitude in revoking or refusing security clearances. There are certain appeal mechanisms, but there is still a lot of room for the government to keep the actual evidence secret and a lot of deference to the governments opinion.

At any rate, it could take as a little as talking to someone from the wrong country, or a crime much less serious than a felony to lose one and therefore one's job.
Also if the file is 500Mb, probably a text editor isn't the best choice of app to work with it. That said it is often the most convenient. But a 'non loading' text editor would be interesting for this. E.g. it doesn't show the file, but you can still do find in file etc. operations. Maybe basically a thin UI around grep etc.
Good point on the /issues redirect. They have a separate bug tracker it seems [0]. Thanks for taking the time to look into it. This sort of thing is what makes open source software great.

P.S. I'm not Greg (added it to my profile->about section to clarify).

[0] https://www.openssh.com/report.html
>and you can be sure no one is building large apartment buildings - the taxes would be extremely excessive

With a land tax the taxes wouldn't increase if large apartment buildings were built on it because the tax amount is solely based on the value of the land and not the property on it.

>So while a land tax to punish the rich would help make people feel better, with what I see it will enrich some, but not benefit who you think would benefit.

First, people don't propose a land tax to punish the rich. Second, it's not about benefitting specific individuals (picking winners and losers). It's about benefitting everyone by ensuring the optimal use of the land.
MS powerpoint already has a feature to suggest stock images based on slide title.

With this, you could get a consistent art style and theme on your slides, and be truly unique too.

$ART_STYLE + $COLOR_THEME + $SLIDE_TITLE
It's worth noting that, anecdotally, your sense of direction becomes WAY worse when you stop using the device. It seems that your brain encodes it as a piece of input to its navigation and deemphasizes more instinctive way finding, which hurts you when you no longer have the input.
This seems to be a spreadsheety kind of day; there was a link to a Wired article on spreadsheets [0], which has links to other spreadsheety stuff.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/spreadsheets-are-hot-and-crankin...
Hi folks!

Author here - did not expect this post to blow up. Figured it might be helpful to provide some context on points of confusion:

1. Money > everything: an alternative way to look at this is that if you sort by offers, you notice there are a lot of neat companies in that list. I didn't just sort and then blindly apply. I sorted, and noticed that they all had something I was really interested in. I use Amazon weekly. My side projects use Stripe. I have side projects in fintech, and Brex is in fintech. Facebook is the home of React, which I've built most of my career on. In seeking high comp, my goal is to be able to self-fund the earliest stages of a startup, as right now I just don't have the idea that is compelling me to start something. I also want to help family, some of whom are in a financial rut. So it wasn't like I only looked at money. I started with money as the way to narrow down the list, and it turned out that list had a lot of interesting companies on it.

2. Making time for studying: as some folks pointed out, I have young children and with both of us parents working, I wanted to just make sure I wasn't encroaching on precious family time - and I think it's important to run things by your family if you think a routine might change. Turns out that extra study time infringed on none of it. I mostly studied on nights and weekends, during the baby's naps or after they went to bed. All I really wanted to say here was "if I can make time with a family, I believe you can find the time to study, too"

3. Do you really have to do this to land a good job? Heck no. My take on this was "leave nothing to chance." You'd be surprised how many startups are leveraging the FAANG interview process. It takes work to prepare for interviews at quality companies. I didn't want to spend the time interviewing with a company only to think "why didn't I prepare for this?" It's a waste of their time and mine if I don't come in fully prepared.

Lastly, someone pointed this out, but I just have changed my value system on work. I do care about what I do, but it is just a job. Family and life are so much more.

I think I have burnout from startups as an employee. I've worked on everything from sports to climate change, and it's been difficult to put so much heart and soul into something that statistically hasn't had much of a payout, in either literal dollars or impact on the world.

So in seeking my next role, I figured that if I have to work hard anyway, I might as well get myself closer to goals external to work, such as retirement, college funds for my kids, and helping my family out of debt. Or even, possibly, starting my own company.

And in the end, I have fantastic work/life balance. I spend less time working and more time with my family, all while making more. And I am very grateful that I have this time to focus more on family. While my initial list started with high-paying companies, by the time I had offers in, I very much wanted to ensure all of my needs were met, including time with my growing family.
I once woke up, sober, from a night at home alone watching tv, with a strange person in my bed.

Their arm was resting on my stomach above the sheets. I could see it. It was terrifying.

I freaked out and tried to throw that arm off me when I realized it was my own. I’d slept on it, gone numb and my sleepy brain considered it someone else’s arm.
While I'd agree that few companies are simply looking for the "cheapest," I think we've seen ample evidence that businesses will go to great lengths (even to the point of breaking the law [1]) to reduce salaries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
This is the kind of medical progress I love to see.
Honestly I do interviews at FAANG, and all those qualities mean nothing. At the end of the day, if they solve the questions they will probably get an offer, and if they dont, they probably wont.
People don't need an incentive to upload disgusting or illegal content. They do it all the time just to annoy others. I built and ran a very small web app as a joke for a party, where friends could upload pictures of themselves drinking a beer. When I remembered it existed and went to take it down a year later, someone had registered an account and uploaded about a hundred megabytes of gore: images of dead or injured people.

Other friends have had the same problem with actual child pornography.
NextCloud does all that, I think?
Can confirm. Also, paying for a new vehicle in $9500 installments over several days does NOT fool anyone.
This is one of the main reasons I never use scp and always use rsync -a. IMO, seems a poor design of scp.
NextCloud does all this, afaik.
I think the interesting question is, in a future where death is no longer inevitable, what risk profile we would accept for self driving? Would it accelerate self driving, or get rid of cars altogether?
> From the letter, quoting Malcolm Gladwell: "Take a random group of 8-year old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away."

I know this isn’t really your point, but like a lot of Gladwell anecdotes this smells like the kind of thing that’s more interested in selling a story than telling a story.

Is this from a real study, or is it a story that feels right because it flatters certain preconceptions? Are the Japanese students ultimately more successful, or do they just spend longer failing? Are they more afraid of disappointing adults? Of appearing ignorant? Maybe they’re just more willing to toil pointlessly at arbitrary tasks. What’s the criteria for “giving up”, that they hand back the paper themselves? Maybe they’re done but are ashamed to admit it, something like a salaryman sitting at his desk doing nothing because he can’t bring himself to leave before his boss.

Just saying, this has a strong Gladwell-tinged odor of “the real story is probably more complicated and maybe less interesting than you’re trying to make me believe”.
thanks, this is actually pretty obvious but it didn't occur to me for some reason.
> got people to accept public health

Uhh... As a life scientist, I can't help but roll my eyes here. Public health is not propaganda. If you have a narrow and specific example, then advance it.
How many hours are you willing to drive to get to a crappy grocery store with no fresh produce?
Fastmail has been that all-in solution. They host Mail/Calendar/Contacts, and they used to host XMPP/Jabber. But unfortunately they made the decision to shut down XMPP (https://fastmail.blog/historical/shutting-down-our-xmpp-chat...) and probably for the same reason won't get into Matrix.
2010 was a very different market compared to 2022.

But of course, there is pressure. I'm confident the advantage is now in the hands of engineers, though.

Today I had a job interview. The grinning face that a bunch of business people make when they finally find an engineer who would work for them is almost comical. I'm sure they started dancing as soon as the call ended. I did too, the money is out of this universe (not really for US people, but certainly from EU perspective).

BTW: The whole scheme IMHO is a big fuck-you to the listed corporations, anyways (I'm not saying it's intended as such). The big companies used to demand (around 2010) that you never discuss your salary with your colleagues. There used to be weird machinations going on with salary negotiation. Surveying and then publicizing it and then taking money from the big corps for some of the data is like showing a middle finger.
> Crappy for cars means crappy for buses which are public transit.

Not if you give sufficient priority to buses.

Cleveland has an excellent center-running BRT line: https://nacto.org/case-study/euclid-avenue-brt-cleveland-oh/

And NYC is starting to implement busways: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/brt/html/routes/14th-street.shtml
Just visit any forum or discussion board related to immigration and you will see Canada mentioned as the fallback for people who can't get into the US.

In particular, there has been pretty widespread abuse of investor visas, region-specific incentives, and student work visas. Investor visas have an extremely poor economic return, and most of the people who benefit from regional programs immediately move to the GTA. There are also a plethora of degree mill community colleges that count as "Canadian postsecondary institutions" for immigration purposes. In reality, their students do a few hours of academic work a week to keep their student work visa and moonlight as a trucker or in some other blue-collar field.

Canada's approach to immigration, with over 400k people last year, is to take whoever as long as it keeps wages down and property prices up.
> you have quite a low view of people's ability to make decisions for themselves if you think being shown ads is manipulation.

The ENTIRE POINT of an ad is manipulation. Advertisers wouldn't bother if people always ignored ads.
Yeah, it might be a hard sell compared to GApps for most businesses but I'd like to think there are is a subset that would want the F/OSS solution!

I wonder if bundling FF Send would also be useful, see there's a filelink provider for that as well which is interesting.
The comments pushing for urban densification and public transport are largely theoretical and abstract, while your comment is personal and subjective.

To all those thinking about is as 'policy' - you have to solve ways for making the subjective experience actually better if people are going to go for it.
> The shameful debacle of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the coup attempt on Capitol Hill, which brought to light the deep crisis of American democracy, seem to have both vanished into the distant past.

Positing that January 6th seems to have vanished into the distant past shows this person isn't serious. I just plugged "january 6" into google. There have been stories within the past 24 hours by NYT, Newsweek, CNN, Yahoo News, MSNBC, the New Republic, PBS, the Guardian, CBS News, Forbes, Al Jazeera, and the list goes on.

ASSUMING, not even arguing, the close relationship between January 6 and the Afghanistan withdrawal is a close second in demonstrating the author's fundamental lack of seriousness. Zero coherence to listing these two things together without so much as an explanation and then tying them both to "bringing to light" something about democracy that wasn't previously in evidence during the last regime. What does an elected leader withdrawing soldiers reveal about a crisis of democracy beyond this author's apparent political objections to the withdrawal?

Back to the distant past point. Any reasonably diligent observer would know that both parties save their arguments about the last two years for the eve of the midterms. We aren't there yet, because the Republicans haven't done their final ad spends. Duh.
I remember having just read Neuromancer and in the same month happened to watch that exact documentary with Gibson a nobody wandering around in Toronto
Yes, there is something wrong and you just said it in your last sentence.
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USPIS is the oldest federal law enforcement agency and is extremely good at what they do. Do not mess with them.
UK is giving all recent grads of “the world's top universities” a 2-3yr visa
All my sources say that the earth is a geoid rather than flat, and that's not propaganda.

I really lament the fact that so many people have never moved past the "nothing is really knowable" stage of epistemology. That, and the middle-ground fallacy.