skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will never understand why emoji, the whole point of which is to convey universal emotions (and other icons), ever needed skin tone modifiers at all. why do "thumbs up" and "thumbs up, but i'm white btw" need to be encoded differently? why is everyone OK with Native Americans and other ethnicities with reddish skin tones being excluded? just a complete mess top-to-bottom, and now we can basically never undo it.

imagine trying to explain to aliens from another planet 500 years from now why 500 years ago we decided to a.) include skin tone modifiers to begin with and b.) only allow for the gradation of skin colors that we do. beyond ridiculous.

EDIT: I forgot to mention how insanely ridiculous it is that we have these skin tone modifiers, but they don't even work for all "people" emoji, because of the obvious issue of rendering cartoon human faces in a way that isn't considered a racist caricature for many races. this makes sense of course, but I can't understand why, when this argument came up, they didn't just choose to scrap the whole idea instead of implementing it and restricting it to a subset of "people" emoji.
For my next magic trick...
There's a difference. Tube amplifiers are objectively less accurate at reproduction and can be hideously expensive. DE razors take more skill/effort, but produce indistinguishable results (i.e. a smooth face) for a fraction of the price. Cartridge razors are a convenience, but you pay for that convenience.
I don't they are conflating metro areas, I think they're describing the accumulation of population a defined area. Metro area can make "cities" seem larger than they are because that population is spread out, but city is misleading as well because it ignores the surrounding population.

Let me put it this way. If you go by city population size, Columbus where I live is larger than San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Las Vegas, or Atlanta [1]. In fact, Columbus is almost the same size as Atlanta and and Miami combined. Does that seem right to you?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Any hiring decision is a major risk for both parties. In many cases it's the employee who takes on the most risk, unless it's a very senior role or an early stage startup where every hire is business critical.

The employee may have left a job where they were relatively secure - maybe they even relocated for the role. Now they're back on the job market and their employability has taken a major hit. Not to mention that being fired is often a very traumatic experience with all the health consequences that entails. Seems a lot more serious than a project being pushed back a couple months.

(btw, "bad" according to which criteria? a lot of the time when I hear this phrase thrown around it's a smokescreen for unrealistic expectations or an exclusionary team culture)
Hmm, weird, I find Steve Jobs and Musk truly inspiring.
No need to fight, I think both of you are right. Some people can get stuck into painful context or interpretations, in which case some therapy trick can help get out of the pit. That said if you discuss high level sociology you often end up in the "what a massive soup of chaos" too.
> Can you use `unsafe` to mark off entire scopes to avoid having to redeclare it?

Yes.

> Cargo having to phone home all the time sounds annoying, though.

It does not have to phone home, ever. They for some reason didn't seem to want to use the right workflow, but that workflow does exist, and is an important and well-supported use-case.

(It seems from the bug report that they did hit a confusing error message, which is unfortunate.)
Good point about the keynote - I think that’s why this year’s WWDC is basically just that for in person (++SOTU)
Yeah I think quitting early is a mistake, you want to figure out a way to ramp down for sure. Not certain what the trick is there, and doing it wrong can probably make stress worse.

At one past employer where crunch was a problem, some of the leads had an unofficial policy that after launch everyone could just quietly show up to work and not do anything for a few weeks to decompress. It helped a lot, but it kind of made me wonder why everyone was pretending there wasn't a problem.
TIL that the the term 4X was coined by a guy who thought

> that Civilization‘s inclusion of global warming as a threat to progress and women’s suffrage as a Wonder of the World constituted some form of surrender to left-wing political correctness

... ick.
> Gore is working toward more sustainable waterproof/breathable materials

They are moving very slowly and it's hard to see it as more than greenwashing.

Modern Gore-Tex is effectively unrepairable (anything more than a small neat cut) and therefore unsustainable. These days it's 2 or 3 layers of plastic glued/bonded together, with extra glue/bonding along the seams, extra glue/bonding on fasteners and maybe even extra glue/bonding to other fabrics. It uses techniques requiring sophisticated manufacturing processes, which cannot be replicated at home, and Gore makes it difficult to buy Gore-Tex by the metre as a consumer even if you wanted to. Don't even think about sourcing specialist zippers if they break.

Yes, the outer face fabric may have a limited recycled content which companies like to focus on, but, like paper manufacturing, performance materials generally require some virgin material.

It is also all soaked in chemicals to prevent it actually needing to be Gore-Tex, only recently has there been a modest effort to use alternatives which don't shed fluorocarbons in use - even though they have been available for some time.

It works fairly well, but that performance relies a great deal on it not being eco-friendly.
Developing Firefox in Firefox with Gitpod
The FAANG companies also worked together to drive tech worker salaries down by agreeing to avoid hiring each other’s employees.
>minor delusions

What do you mean by that? A delusion is often a symptom of a mental health issue, something doctors treat to get rid of, so I don't understand it's use in this context.
No, the CD drive lives on SCSI id #4!
I'm just thinking back to my time in scouting and can only imagine what it would be like to teach a bunch of 14-16 y/os the 1920s equivalent of MMA. Probably about 30min of fun until kids just start hitting each other as hard as they can with sticks.

Still sounds more fun than the basket weaving merit badge though.
> You've just radically misunderstood how everything in the world works.

Nothing here should have provoked you enough to get that combative.

It's an amusing point they made. Not to mention, we're all roleplaying anyways. It's just not that serious.

And none of us including the thread OP is actually ever going to do this, much less involve "their lawyer" over a networked <form>. It's like when we roleplay that we're going to call our government representative and inconvenience some intern with some stern words: it's just a fun circlejerk. None of us are actually going to do it.

So it doesn't make sense to get emotionally involved to the point of asserting that someone misunderstands how everything in the world works.
OTOH he also said he'd march with them to the Capitol, which presumably would have served as a form of leadership and given him some potential authority to further discourage violence. Instead, he (at best) decided to blow the whole thing off and leave the angry mob to its own devices for a few hours.
The handful of times I've been up with private pilots who took me in their cessna, I did get an if I become incapacitated speech where they showed me how to operate the radios how to squawk 7700 and how to keep the plane level before we even took off.
Flutter game kit! Pre-made game assets are great for people learning to code.

https://github.com/flutter/pinball

https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/games-toolkit
(from an applied maths PhD perspective)

I'd argue that you can distinguish between career paths that

- make use of and are related to your broader specialisation within maths (e.g. fluid dynamics, actuarial sciences, cryptography, derivative pricing, specialised ML research...). For these, it's hard to give recommendations without addition details. They can still be open to folks from unrelated maths backgrounds, but it depends on other experience and circumstances.

- are highly quantitative and tend to value PhDs from quantitative disciplines (e.g. "Data Science" & data consulting companies, banks, (Re)insurance companies with internal training, quant trading, applied ML research and startups, possibly sports betting...). For these, PhDs in physics and EEE will probably be similarly appropriate.

- value smart people with academic titles regardless of discipline and might require separate skills and qualifications (e.g. strategy consulting, IT consulting, patent attorney, software development ...? ).

I would start by assessing where your interests and qualifications sit within that range.
It can help to start by focusing on a specific industry that you find interesting and then find out what kind of maths-adjacent roles there are.
In my experience, this tends to be very different for purer vs more applied maths PhDs.
I don't quite understand, to what end? This is clearly a good step towards authoritarianism, but then what? People "disappearing" and more population control?

The world sometimes seems so ridiculous I can't believe it.
e.g. they could have JS in the extension sending every keystroke to their server.
tell microsoft when you’re using features. presumably because they have a culture of metrics and every feature is required to have data on its usage patterns
damn. I've been hanging on to my 3a, unfortunate to hear.
If the emperor is in fact naked, then you're not deluded in believing that. I'm confused by the use of that term in this way.
I disagree with your choice of charity but I support your line of thinking and your choices. The fact that this charity has numbers puts it way ahead of the slush funds that do zero good (or negative good). I personally think that's how EA will go mainstream, by encouraging everyone to make more quantitative decisions that result in more funding to better charities.

This person is also straightforward with their reasoning - yeah sure it's not as effective as malaria nets but it's a personal cause they care about. Most people don't even think about how effective the causes they support are - at all! It's mindblowing.
It's a good piece Michael, you put time into a structure and great
supporting quotes. I hear what you say from others about that feeling
from inside tech, "Fear and Loathing" of having been to immersed in
the Hotel California too long - the brilliant Wilfred Owen line that I
can't help but hear; "Like a devil sick of sin".

One of the best essays that specifically addresses your thoughts on
the Bay Area was passed on to me here by another HN reader, it's on
the "Californian Ideology", and traces the line from counter-culture
to tech-bros [1]. Another interesting video series you might like is
Adam Curtis "All watched over..." and "Hypernormalisation". [2]. FWIW
I wrote a book [3] vaguely apropos (ping me if you want a free copy).

With regard to "getting it off you chest" - no worries with public
writing as private therapy, I think it's half of what all writers do
these days. I am finding it helps formulate ideas and aids my more
serious projects (even while being a distraction).

[1] https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

[3] https://digitalvegan.net
Money is not created through fractional reserve banking. Money is loaned into existence by commercial banks.
Similarly Coinbase can sell you coins which don't exist. Like a bank it doesn't have to make good on this IOU until you withdraw your funds.
As someone who worked on the programming team for Build in 2020 and 2021, thanks for saying that. In 2020, especially, it was really difficult to pivot with as little time as we had. We did most of our stuff in 2020 live, even though it was remote (a few of us were in the studio but most people were at home), because we didn’t have the lead time to make it a well-produced pre-recorded thing. We were “live” across time zones (meaning people in the US (like myself), were often working at 3am, in order to bring live content to other parts of the world), for an ungodly amount of time, and the fact that it didn’t break was really great. Even though we had more production time in 2021, we still did a lot of live content (with on-demand, of course), across time zones, and focused on more breakout sessions too.

I’m not at Microsoft anymore (tho I might still do some stuff for Build this year, since I’m at GitHub), but being part of the team that got Build 2020 across the finish line is one of the things I’m most proud of. Microsoft was the first to do a tech conference in the pandemic (Google canceled, Facebook might have too), so we really didn’t have anything to base it off of.

Apple, naturally, just knocked it out of the park with the production values, but I’ll always love the scrappy nature of Build 2020.
Imho, that was the charm of Orion 1 - it was flawed about it of course, but the basic ideas that

1) You didn't have to manage individual buildings, they were just priority bars on planets...

2) Ships of the same class stacked.

meant that scaling up the empire wasn't the kind of tedious nightmare we see in more civ-style 4X games. Sadly Moo2, while a superior and more polished game than Moo1, moved away from this innovation into more conventional construciton and ship management.
> “If it connects, it should work" used to be largely true

Have you ever worked with DB-9 or DB-25 serial cables? If you had a cable that was wired correctly for the connection you wanted to make, it should indeed work, but you still would have to figure out baud rate, number of stop bits, and parity. Detecting what kind of null-modem cable you had basically came down to getting out your multimeter.

On PCs, you also had the traditional parallel port (mostly unidirectional, with IIRC two bits of information that a printer could send back: “don’t send more data; I’m busy handling the earlier data”, and “out of paper”) versus the much faster, bidirectional iteration that was used to connect such things as hard drives and CD players.
Oh no, I saw myself naked in the mirror so many times as a kid!
Garmin's is literally "oh shit the pilot passed out!" and an entirely inexperienced passenger can push a single button, ending up with the plane stopped on the nearest appropriate runway with the engine off. The autoland system in airliners requires a lot of setup by the pilots and continuous monitoring all the way down, plus working ILS (instrument landing system) equipment at the airport.
As an immigrant to the US, I hate the double standards applied to Americans. Oh, you think Americans are racist for wanting to restrict immigration? How would people in India react to massive immigration from Africa?
Remember that you are interviewing the company as well.

Identifying a toxic company through a rude interviewer saves you time and effort.
He was also so calm. Making me think he knew there was a way out if got some help.
I carefully chose the word "copy" because I know this quote well. It's hard to define the difference between copy and steal but it's easy to see by example. You just feel it when you watch.
Check out Macrometa, a data platform that uses CRDTs to manage state a N number of pops and also does real time event processing. - https://macrometa.com (full disclosure, I work at Macrometa)
Not at all. It is what it is.
> YC recently published an updated Top Companies list including 271 companies with a combined official valuation of over $600B (we now estimate it closer to ~$900B). Much can change in a year!

900B! Is this time travel or cognitive dissonance?

#3-5 on the list are being valued significantly above 50B and closer to 100B Meanwhile...

#3, Instacart now 24B (private valuation)

#4, Doordash now 20B

#5, Coinbase now 12B
Show HN: Hefty Search 2.0 – Search many sites at once with prefixes
I’ve given my wife the basic heading, airspeed, trim, radio comms briefing and experience. (And also given my older kid the same experience but just for fun.)

If I kicked off in flight on day/good weather, and she was up front, I’m pretty sure that airplane would end up inside the airport perimeter, probably stopped on all three wheels on a runway. That’s not to take anything away from this pax feat, but it’s pretty likely they at least had a pretty good idea of how things work. (And were in a fairly simple airplane.)
"A systematic review of 12 randomized control trials, published in the Cochrane Database" hasn't found strong evidence.
Understood, and I mostly agree. My favourite story about IBM malpractices was how they upgraded one of their printers. The technician doing the upgrade ushered all client staff out of the machine room. He then moved a rubber band from one pulley onto another.

But on the other hand, they did produce some really good kit and software, which if you are a programmer is really what you want. And people like DEC were hardly adverse to doing similar stuff.
World’s largest 3D-printed aerospike rocket engine
For a story of this going badly: http://www.rockybarker.com/house.html
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=14908

ETA for new stock shows early June.
A memset tail call would be less code size than the loop, so it's still worth it even for cold code.
They'll give it up for convenience or a dollar, too.
Not all "blockchain" is the same (case in point, there are firms that do Anti-Money Laundering/Fraud and Counter Terrorism Funding activities which use lots of big data/ML stuff).

Disclosure: I work for one of those firms (CipherTrace) so I may have some bias, but really, this is the portion of the Fintech/Crypto spectrum I find acceptable.
AI Test Kitchen
I'm not going to contact sales. I have no problem paying though.

Part of your value proposition is saving people time, but your sales model is time expensive.
The fact that the c in tacit is usually pronounced softly is tacit knowledge
Heh, when I tried pytest, I thought how much simpler things are when writing tests with jest.
Those planes have reinforced landing gear that is much more suitable for landing in those places, as opposed to planes that usually land on paved surfaces.
Sales pay scales are very bimodal. A handful of rock star people make incredible amounts of money, most just get by alright, and maybe a quarter drop out because they can't close enough. It can be very high pressure, and a significant factor in your own success is outside of your control (i.e. depends on your product/service actually being good).

In a more civilized world they'd have higher bases across the board and the commission/incentive structures would be less "winner-take-all" but they operate those divisions like running greyhounds around a track.
In general, modular products are always going to cost more and tend to lag in features/quality. It's easy to get stuck in a death spiral of worse product -> low volume -> very high price due to no economy of scale -> low volume.
I use custom workflows in Alfred, but I wanted something completely browser-based.

Hefty Search uses custom queries and prefixes to search multiple platforms at once. Users can also add their own sites to the platform. Version 2.0 adds the custom prefixes and customizable groups (click and drag to re-sort).

Each search opens a new tab with the platform search results.
Which fibers? Cuben fiber (Dyneema) has become mainstream, though it’s still expensive and less durable than silpoly or silnylon.
OK I challenge you to try to engage and bring constructive evidence then.
Give a summary of what steve jobs and musk have done to improve the human condition/world.

While Apple has achieved some moderately useful advances you have to divide the amount of progress given by the amount of money captured.
Apple has an almost negligible ratio in that regard.
Musk has achieved even less.
I'm not overly surprised for two reasons:

1) This was a single engine plane w/out constant speed prop. So really the only things to worry about would be throttle, flight controls (maybe trim), and mixture.
2) Looks like it was a steam gauge plane so luckily the student didn't have to learn a fugly glass panel UI
3) The stall speed on these planes is pretty low, so ATC probably had them do a pattern to get used to the distances and then come in a bit hot for the actual landing. Coming in a bit hot in a cessna like that just results in landing deep or a rough landing when you pull the power vs. stalling and crashing (which is much more likely if the PIC tried to do 60 knots on final). If they roll past the end of the runway a bit it'll damage the plane but at least they're on the ground.
4) The landing gear on those planes is really strong. You can botch the landing and the plane will be fine.
We both know that's not what I did, and I'm not taking the bait. Have a good day. ;)
In the blockchain question they mixed blockchain, crypto, and decentralization together.

I really wish they separated those. Decentralization has seen real use cases but blockchain not really (unless you count gambling, transferring money over country lines, and buying illegal goods). I think you would see more favorability for decentralization than decentralization + blockchain.

Neither should be applied to everything though.
Oh, you should see a right-leaning person screaming obscenities at a boy scout, if you're open to new perspectives.

You know they have been teaching Environmental Science since at least the '80s? I almost saw an adult fight break out because of that one.

Scouts always had randos protesting their indoctrination. Zone of the political spectrum depended on the contextual hot take.
It just showcases either the ones making the decision are naïve or they have an ulterior motive. They tried to justify it with the following footnote:

>For example, Microsoft reports that the accuracy of its grooming detection tool is 88%, meaning that out of 100 conversations flagged as possible criminal solicitation of children, 12 can be excluded upon review and will not be reported to law enforcement; see annex 8 of the Impact Assessment.

Of course, anyone could poke a dozen holes in this statement. "Possible", so there still needs to be a ton of review. Microsoft reporting on its own detection tool. Etc.
Me either. That's why I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia where I enjoy strong mental health patients' rights. Of course, this also means living without 4th or 5th Amendment protections.
In the US, there are “boot camps” that specialize in getting people with PhDs jobs in data science. I don’t know if that’s a thing in Europe too, but probably.
Google unveils new Pixel Watch
Well, sure. I was a quiz bowl captain, president of the national honor society, and placed yearly at the state science fair and I didn't list those on a professional resume either.

It takes very little effort to be an Eagle Scout. I completed all requirements including the community project aside from the board review before I turned 13.

Our scoutmaster suddenly quit on us to attain his MS in engineering (his employer surprised him by funding his education) right after I attained the final required merit badge and none of the adults wanted to take over, so it would have required me to go to another troop in the area: one was full of bullies, and one with a gigantic asshole of a scoutmaster. I decided to go fishing instead.