skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative, equally valid title: "Court Shows Johnson & Johnson Injected White Prisoners with Asbestos in the ’70s"

Can we focus on the ethics of experimenting on prisoners instead of making everything race-bait? Is experimenting on asian or white prisoners better?
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Brain-Deciphering-Codes...

Publication date: Dec 2014
Thanks for building one of the best resources I've seen for transparency into engineering compensation!

One of the gripes I have as a Canadian is that it's never clear to me whether the salaries listed by Canadian residents are in USD or CAD. I assume USD since levels appears to normalize all other salary information globally into USD.

But it seemed like this wasn't entirely clear at the point of submitting salary/offer details.
A little bit more extreme but IQ of 70 to 79 is considered borderline retarded.

These people Have difficulty with everyday demands like using a phone or address book. May not be able to learn to read bus or train schedules, bank, fill out forms, or use household appliances like a video recorder, microwave oven, or computer. They therefore require assistance from relatives or social workers in the management of their affairs. They can be employed in simple tasks but require supervision.

This is not a matter of effort or exposure. Even with training these people may not be able to acquire these skills over decades.

People with higher IQs simply do not have these challenges to the same degree.
> Because honestly it just appears like trying to grab off a handful new customers by dumping countless iterations of the same sucked-dry product into a rapidly declining market.

The way you phrased this, it sounds like you’re implying that expanding your product line to new customers when your sales are declining is a bad idea. But… I can’t imagine how you think businesses work, then. Like, what’s Plan B? Ride the ship into the ground?
> Race and orientation is an immutable characteristic of the person.

That is no more true that it is of gender identity.

> As yet, gender dysmorphia is recognized as a mental illness

So was homosexuality (also, you’ve confused dysphoria with dysmorphia. Also also, the diagnosable condition of gender dysphoria is not the same thing as having transgender identity; they are distinct.)

> which requires therapy, hormones and surgery to accommodate or treat.

People often get therapy, hormonal treatments, and surgery to deal with the failure of their body to conform to their image of their gender assigned at birth, but we don't call the need for these things a “mental illness” or gatekeep access to gender affirming treatments aligned with gender assigned at birth on distress reaching the dangerous levels that would be diagnosable as a mental illness.
It's true that there is no similar city advertisement anywhere in Europe, at least nothing on a level close to New York. Funnily, that doesn't prevent however some of the employers to sometimes try presenting their locations (say, Amsterdam or Zürich) in the list of benefits.

"Depending on the country you’re from, you’ll likely say that your capital is some kind of hub for industry _xyz_"

To narrow it down a bit, count only the places having a significant population. It's harder to make that claim for capitals like Ljubljana or Reykjavík.
This is a pretty long article that should have started with the last section:

> So what?

> What’s the point of this whole thing, can’t you just do os.system(...)? Well, yes.

> Given that you need to be able to execute arbitary Python code in the first place, this exploit won’t be useful in most settings. However, it may be useful in Python interpreters which are attempting to sandbox your code, through restricting imports or use of Audit Hooks, for example. This exploit doesn’t use any imports and doesn’t create any code objects, which will fire import and code.__new__ hooks, respectively. My exploit will only trigger a builtin.__id__ hook event, which is much more likely to be permitted.
Moonberries could be tasty? Some form of agriculture could improve morale on a base; fresh food is nice. Possibly helpful for processing waste (although bag it and ignore it seems pretty viable too).
Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “versions” of the internet

The TikTok/Twitter/Instagram that I know is totally different than the version you’re familiar with. Dropping into your feeds would give me a totally different impression of what those platforms are

Basically, the way everyone mentally models and perceives these platforms is unique. YouTube in my brain is literally a different application than the YouTube in your brain

We’re probably really underestimating the impact of these differences on the way we view the world around us
I tried training it in a very specific way too. I only liked and finished watching videos that made me smile or laugh. I was perfectly disciplined with this but in the end, it only kind of worked. I gave it about a week or so. Maybe it takes longer? Or maybe it can't figure out what I like and can only do themes/topics?
> Quickly my For You page was transformed. I saw long thoughtful videos on motivation, psychology, science, and philosophy. I listened to excerpts of lectures on Stoicism or Zen Buddhism, and speeches by enigmatic Indian meditation gurus. It figured out I was a software engineer and showed me many jokes or insights about work. At one point I was hunting for a job and TikTok started showing me interview tips. I witnessed drawings and paintings and animations by countless visual artists. I found myself zooming through trippy 3D fractals while listening to Alan Watts. Instead of watching videos with thousands or millions of views, I was seeing videos with a hundred views or even ten views. The algorithm seemed to be trusting me to deliver an early vote.

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This is both inspiring and terrifying to me. We're working toward AI that can almost read your mind and show you videos that are extremely relevant and impactful with nothing more than watch time measurements.

If we gave that kind of power a goal like "make them better people/help them achieve more/find happiness" we could usher in a new golden age of achievement, fulfillment, and mental health.

Unfortunately, right now we've only figured out how to give this power a single goal, "increase watch time/engagement," and I don't want to be turned into a zombie optimized for ad consumption.
How do you deal with having to scroll through 100 friends updates
To offer a different perspective, I was an early engineer at a startup with strong talent that followed this playbook. Things were fine until I realized upon interviewing for fun that I was massively underpaid (2-3x). I was pretty young at the time, and instead of talking with the founders about the gap, gradually grew resentful and left the company.

I’m now on the on the other side of the table, and we pay everyone handsomely but keep the team lean while expecting everyone to operate at a very high level. Not every startup can or should do this, but I feel strongly this is a much better model for retaining talent while balancing cost to the company.
Your statement is too confident. It may have had nothing to do with race. But it wouldn't be a stretch to posit that they chose the cohort for this very unethical study due to race.
The image in the ad is great. But that has to be the worst kerning I've ever seen. It's so bad I'm not even sure it can be considered kerning. Maybe someone just added a few spaces in between "high fidelity" and "tape" for no apparent reason?
I, as an individual citizen of these United States of America, hereby grant power to all the various regulatory agencies. There, it has been done, for better or for worse.

More seriously though, I do not know how to bridge the gap between us. We clearly have wildly different beliefs, and our languages differ too much. I wish you the best of luck in the world where government is the root of all evil, for I cannot join you there.
Looks like an ALGOL type language. It was for the Atari 8 bit series.

Possible it can be ported to C:
https://cc65.github.io/

That is a C compiler for 6502 based systems.
that was my first instinct as well... that its probably something to do with attention span. a lot of these IQ tests requires considerable focus, for 60-75 minutes. there are studies that show a drop in attention span from the 70's to now. I think we are now at 8 min for the average person.

its that or there is some common particle that is slowly making us dumb (like lead couple decades ago) and we haven't discovered it yet.
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holy crap give it a rest already
Because understanding and satisfying regulations has a high minimum cost and scales slower than revenue.

Consequently, in heavily regulated industries, it's more efficient for extremely large firms to design and implement the necessary internal gymnastics, and amortize that labor cost over a large amount of business.

Smaller firms still have to do much of the same (at some point, 1 person is the minimum in a role), but can't spread it over as large a customer base.

Or, to put it another way, it's easier to merge your way into larger profit margins in heavily regulated spaces.
Interesting about the reading text… I can’t recall ever dreaming about written word in any form
No. The explosives do not fly. The equipment is such as not to alarm airport people.
Don't blame China for our broken systems of corporate governance.[1] It was people on our end, who actually had the leverage in these transactions, who decided it was a good idea to exchange long term competitive advantage for a few years of record profits followed by bankruptcy. (for many of them) All China did was weaponize our greed against us.

[1] It's also worth noting that government(s) played their part in facilitating much of this by not saying 'no' to some of these deals.
Crowdsource by Google aka "Help a billion dollar company to create datasets for free"
Sorry for that it's online now
Make that a trillion
Networking FreeDOS
In the USA, I like the National Weather Service direct APIs. I wish I could get more granular forecast data, both in time and space, but they forecast dewpoint/humidity, which is really nice.
I was expecting to be pessimistic, but Google actually releases the datasets under a permissive license (CC-By 4.0). Awesome!

https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-...

https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
Isn’t that adding more dead dirt to dead dirt, rather than cultivating soil? How does rock dust encourage soil bacteria and fungi that symbiotically trade minerals for sugars with the plants?

It might be low-tech, but it’s not really a regenerative approach.
My experience is wholly different. The content I see if funny, creative, unique, genuine, wholesome, and supportive. I feel much better about the next generation after seeing some of what they've made on Tiktok. It feels like time for the current geriatric generation (see the average age of US senators) to stop clinging so embarrassingly to power and wealth and make way for what's next.
My guess is that the image was intended to be displayed as a full-spread advertisement in a magazine, and the extra space in the middle makes the words appear the correct distance apart when viewed on bound pages.
It’s mostly just counterparty risk but in a different way than what you described: if usdt implodes, then the exchanges goes down with it and you can’t withdraw your usd. You have to construct your position in such a way that your fiat money is outside of the crypto exchange.
Eh, a true color terminal is significantly prettier with pretty minimal cost. It feels more readable too, but I won't pretend that's the main reason. Why stare at something ugly when you really don't have to?
> use the existence of technological solutions as an excuse to only do geoengineering.

Actually, they use the potential existence of technological solutions as an excuse to do nothing. The politicians they bought and pay for aren't keen on funding geo-engineering.

And if they did, they'd do it out of general revenue, as opposed to a carbon tax.
Your sentiment is not specific to the tech industry. Many who work in tech are quite blessed to have careers that, despite the supposed realities you mention, give them a quality of life others can only dream of.
I think these mineral weathering programs may make the most sense when applied to the oceans, where they both sequester carbon and directly reduce the ocean acidification that is harming marine life. This is especially the case if wave action on beaches can reduce the amount of energy required to grind and distribute the rock. There also seems to be potential for additional capture by the iron content of the rock fertilizing the growth of phytoplankton in areas where that wouldn't be harmful to other marine life like coral. In areas with tropical coral adding Calcium both reduces acidity and helps shell building creatures.
They should avoid using the word community, if side product of these contributions are going to empower their sales. I had been contributing to Google Maps for more than 8 years now, but in return all i get is stars and maximum an invite to a meetup. But, when i saw the other side of Google Maps with respect to consuming it through API usage point of view, the prices are not affordable in long term. Also, there is a clear monopolization of maps data, but the data is enriched by human volunteers who never get the share of API revenue. In this age of web3 all these crowdsourcing and community keywords from companies like Google will earn more backlash than a warm welcome.
The ad would have been originally printed across two pages in a magazine.
> "There was a better example a couple of weeks ago here in a thread, someone had done a bit of APL or K for Advent of Code or something and posted a line, and someone else broke it down and explained how it worked. I spent an hour just now with Algolia trying to find it but I failed. :("

It wasn't a couple of weeks ago, but I did that for a line here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30463080

Or could it have been on an Advent of Code link? There have been some explanations in the answers mega-threads on Reddit. Anyway, yes I agree more explanations would be benficial - and I think there would be room for an animated explainer website with small blocks representing the array elements, coloured by how they are grouped by each primitive operation, and visually showing them moving round and splitting and combining. Such a thing would make a lot more sense for an array language than for many languages.
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You are talking about a break down of society. In which values would indeed change drastically. Women of child bearing age, seeds, potable water, would instantly become precious.

I'm talking about normal ass society. These may fluctuate, but there is a reason that since the beginning of human civilization we have currencies.

Crypro is too volatile as a way to store wealth, that's why to this day the rich are hoarding gems and gold and property.

I think all of it is ridiculous personally, even the dollar is no longer backed by gold.

Point being you cant compare volatile, scammy, etc crypto to pretty much any normal value store.

IMO.
Sometimes I feel like it knows which videos I'll like and don't like and it will purposefully show me 10 videos that are "meh" that I skip through quickly and then 1 or 2 videos that are spot-on (funny, intellectual, etc.) which makes it feel a LOT like a Skinner Box. Keep pulling the lever until you get something good, and all the bad stuff in between makes the good stuff seem that much better.
I really wish Microsoft would stop wasting time on pointless stuff like this. Windows Terminal was sorely needed, but it's now (and has been for 1-2 years) good enough for daily use, and much better than Console Host.

What Microsoft really needs to focus on is PowerShell. PowerShell can't even do basic stuff like piping right, something Bash has been able to do since the 90s:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/1908
It's just cool but practically I never check weather until I'm about to leave home and then I'll just check a local weather app on my phone which should give more accurate and detailed info than a service that covers the entire world with presumably varying degree of accuracy.
Hackers is ok. If you want to re-calibrate your cringe-o-meter with respect to movies that involve "hacking", see Swordfish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(film)).
nope, dead.
And I’m not sure why propranolol would be continue to be prescribed, as it as been for 50+ years, for acute heart attacks if there was a substantial risk in the patients health deteriorating. It’s one of the oldest beta blockers in use.
> To use that terminology though, your body could be said to have a "set point" that it aims for, but that "set point" can change.

Which I acknowledged. You can decrease (or increase) your set point, but there is a limit to that. Thinking that everybody has the potential to be at BMI x simply does not match reality. The vast range of human physiology is stunning. Everybody is different. Some people need to carefully watch every bite they take and they still struggle with overweight, whereas others can eat "what they want" and they are underweight.

Totally neglecting any genetic component here is equally as false as neglecting the impact of factors like diet, exercise and environmental ones.
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You're redefining what the goals are for the rational CEO, not the rational nature of the CEO though. But suppose I believed your goals were proper. I fail to see how 'cutting costs' is going to help a company better meet its corporate charter than maximizing revenue. It seems again the latter would win out, because more revenue, means more cash coming through you which means (a) more potential for cost savings (whereas cost savings don't typically create potential for revenue) and (b) more ability to exploit that cash once you have (a).
This is cool but it seems like it occupies an unusual place in tradeoff space. Most of the time SPSC queues would benefit from having the start and end pointers in separate pages, or even having cached copies of the start and end pointers in even more separate pages to avoid atomics[0].

[0]: https://rigtorp.se/ringbuffer/
The most effective use of drones so far in Ukraine has been to direct artillery fire, converting what was an area weapon to a precisely targeted weapon.

Just a couple of days ago, a single artillery brigade eliminated an entire tank battalion at a river crossing.

Generally, if you can wipe out the fuel trucks, they have to abandon the tanks. An ordinary grenade suffices to blow up a fuel truck.
I wonder if there’s a way to integrate futexes in there to let consumers and producers park. Otherwise whenever the rate of production or consumption is meaningfully different (which it is in the real world), there’s a lot of CPU being wasted…
It isn’t kerning, it’s the space for the page binding in the magazine this was printed in.
I am a worm farmer and soil amendments manufacturer. One of the most important ingredients that I feed my worms is blue metal and zeolite rock dust. Trace minerals including elements like boron and sulphur are important for cellular growth. The Australian continent where I am has extremely weathered soil, depleted of minerals. I hope to help put minerals and biology back into the soil.
You do not need regulation. Interest rate at 5% will suffice.
Interestingly Belgium and the Netherlands are missing in year say 1900.
> UL is not a consumer protection agency

I feel the most protected as a consumer when I don't get shocked plugging something in.
I can't speak to the use case of TFA, but in some contexts where similar data structures are prominently used we park by spin waiting (which may include looking at all our other queues) because we don't want to pay a bunch of microseconds of latency for actually being descheduled and resheduled again.

Maybe TFA is for embedded use?
This is true of anything that ever renders to your terminal. I'm not sure this class of issue is worth worrying about, generally. Sure, these are neat and scary examples. Have you seen some of the recent GPU driver ACEs? Better not render any graphics!

A generalization of this is "receiving information from third parties can lead to security issues" which is of course true. Untrusted inputs are always untrusted.

Piping curl into bash is one thing, but this is on the level of "are you sure you want to open this file downloaded off the internet?" prompts of yore -- it's not productive.
How can you “presume” that when they explicitly said…

> Employees have equity grants worth $100k/year in equity, with the value based on a fundraise from last summer?

Yes I have RSUs from FAANG that are down 30% YTD. But when they vest in the next two months, at least I can sell them and diversify and use them for something.

If it were a private company, not so much.
My takeaway is that you should just grab a snickers.
> And the paradoxical thing about it. Is that the creators vs viewers ratio is still 99% viewers to 1% creator

I don't know if there's a paradox here, TikTok has hundreds of millions of users and therefore (1%) millions of creators making content people enjoy.
Would you pay someone "with 10 hertz" to demonstrate his cleverness, or at least what he sees as cleverness?

All my money. I can only see it in the reflections off eyeballs. Not even in the mirror. It's a spectator of spectator sport.
Your comment assumes there is nothing creative, industrious, or thoughtful on TikTok. The fact that you think it's just dancing teens and "women complaining" (yikes dude) shows that you've never given it a chance. As the article suggests, you _can_ "train" it to give you the content that you want, and it can be more fulfilling.

I'm not saying that it doesn't have issues, and it does feel like it's trying REALLY hard to keep me hooked in some pretty morally ambiguous ways, but it's not as toxic as the media would like you to believe.

I assume you also don't go on Twitter or watch TV or movies when you're bored since then you're not "pursuing" anything. People are allowed to just chill and turn their brain off for a bit.
Unfortunately, I’m one of those individuals illogically terrified of flying. A small dose of a benzo (in my case, Ativan), makes the flight bearable.
Sorry, I never checked the replies to this comment, but I just want to point out that I was just joking with my 10B statement and have no clue as to how much code is actually in google's repos. it may be 1T for all I know.
I was wondering how the "io" module was involved when the exploit claimed to not use any import. The answer is "io = open.__self__" [1]. Allowing "open()" would be an oversight if a sandbox intends to block "io".

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[1] https://github.com/kn32/python-buffered-reader-exploit/blob/...
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My understanding was he was offering 20% returns on investments and it seems it was paid for by new money coming in propping up the currency despite the dilution caused by interest payments. That sounded like a Ponzi scheme to me.
Agree, and yet (assuming we reach that happy place) what happens next? Who decides how high to wind the global thermostat? Would countries who have benefited from increased temperatures (Russia perhaps) all fall in line and happily agree to go back to (say) pre-industrial revolution levels of CO2?