skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a buddy’s 40th we contacted as many of his friends and family as we could find, and asked them to make a short video telling a joke/story/greeting for him. Then we hired some of his favorite TV show stars to do the same via Cameo - Billy D. Williams was hilarious! We stitched it all together in iMovie and surprised him with it.

We got folks he hadn’t seen in a decade to say hi. We got poetry, jokes, even videos with painting people made him. His dad drove to their old neighborhood and took him on a short walking tour. We got his mom to give us pictures of him as a kid to cut in (gotta include that ubiquitous tub shot!).

When we showed it to him and we recorded his reaction and set that as a screen-in-screen video back to everyone who contributed, and couldn’t come to the party (darn COVID!).

It was a big lift - lots of coordination - but as you get older, old friends are harder see and older relatives begin to pass. That video lasts forever, which is cool.
However you want to phrase it, politicians can pass a bill and get $2 trillion to hand out instantly. They don't need to seize money from private institutions and billionaires to fund their waste.
The earth is very deep. We are only mining the very tip of it. There are thousands of miles of unmined resources down there. That’s not infinite but a lot. And sure, we can’t get to it today, but who knows what 100 or 200 years will bring.
The author sounds like a losing poker player. If my calling frequency is based entirely on pot odds, a good opponent would just start bluffing me out of every pot by increasing their bet size to a point where I can’t profitably call.
In that case 10Gb/s sounds actually pretty good, if that's without hardware offload.
Fascinating, thanks. What's the closest parallel in the Western world?
Gen Z Workers Want Mission-Driven Jobs. A Big Paycheck Would Be Nicer
I think the logic is that they only show up at the station if there is a train that goes where they want. Much like in real life how the trains go on a schedule and you get on if it is going where you want.

Now I'm sure the simulation isn't perfect but it seems to make enough sense for game logic.
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These are not obscure at all! Especially the last one. See the intercepted phone calls from the security service of Ukraine, the level of Russian racism is beyond what I could imagine prior to Feb 24. It is worse than whatever the Red Army did in WW2, and almost reaching the level that the Nazis showed.

Russian Nazism is very real, leads to rape, murder, forced deportation and torture.
So you're saying that Amazon will communicate their requirement to a "real" publisher, but not to fake publisher like me? Some sort of old boys network I should just pay to join?
>they wanted the good PR

99% of corporate DEI initiatives are performative in nature. I realized it when the majority of companies were pushing employees to read a book on systemic racism written by a white woman who was obviously using it as an advertisement for her corporate consulting and training business.
So you don't raise the price of water for typical households, which is only a small percentage of their budget, and instead raise the price of food, which is generally a much larger percentage of their budget?
I wouldn't know, I don't know many casino games.
There's a lot of bias in the tech industry, not just caste. if your company is sufficiently large it will have various HR policies on this and in my experience they will enumerate the kinds of discrimination they don't tolerate.

Here's an exercise for you: go through the list of US protected classes [1] and see which ones are explicitly stated and which ones aren't. It's actually enlightening. For example, I don't think I've ever seen ageism specifically called out.

As for the impact of the Indian caste system in US tech, I can't really comment on that. It's not my lived experience. I've worked with many Indians. No idea what their castes were. Saying that, just like racism I find it incredibly plausible that if you grew up in such a system, the effects are pervasive and linger.

So should Google allow such a talk? That's a difficult question. It's clearly a divisive issue. It reminds me of Meta telling employees to stop talking about abortion [2]. Now that issue probably doesn't lead to workplace discrimination (alleged or actual) although you might be able to argue that your political views could hurt you. There's something to be said to keeping your political views to yourself, particularly at work.

I imagine (but, again, don't know from experience) that this might be on the level of racial discrimination in the US workplace. So it seems worth examining. I imagine to mahy outsiders it might not look "real" because at the end of the day they're all Indians (which, to be clear, is also a form of racism).

Is a talk the best way to handle this? I honestly don't know. I can sympathize with avoiding divisive issues and also with the desire of a company to cover their ass and not create an HR nightmare. I really wonder if this ends in a lawsuit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group#United_States

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23131714/meta-ban-abortio...
Information goes from one player to other, it used to be that the circles for this were small (relatives, classmates etc) but now it's the whole world.

Besides of what you are talking about, it also affects developers, it is not that strange for games today to be developed assuming you are going to google things out or that you are going to be assisted by a wiki site, I'm frankly worried about this.

I recently played Subnautica, one of the features is that after making a vehicle you can craft upgrades for it, you also have to replace the energy cells they use, yet the game gives no indication on how to do either thing, a quick google search will point out that there are specific areas of the vehicle that can be interacted with, but it really feels like there is a missing prompt or tutorial somewhere.

What will become of these experience in some 20-30 years I don't know.
This is off-topic, but the mobile wikipedia link you posted is surprisingly nice to read on desktop. Seems a lot more pleasant than the wide lines on the desktop site.
I was going to comment the same thing but then realized the parent comment is listing the tactics people use to shut down the conversation, not their own personal opinions.

The point being made is that people who don't want this conversation in public (i.e. people in favor of and/or who benefit from the caste system) will flood the comments with this type of rhetoric which instantly turns the conversation into to a flame war rather than a helpful discourse on how to improve things.

The fact that you and I both instinctively fell for this reaction is evidence that parent is quite correct in the effectiveness of this tactic.
No, you just made an account spamming this. I hope this gets removed.
And if you pull off non-meta strategies, you’re not good, you’re just “cheesing” or something.

Funny enough, a recent turn based 4X that was supposed to be a Civ killer released and is now looking pretty rough review wise. The biggest complaint is that some of the civs are just straight up better inherently.

Which is probably why I love Crusader Kings, it’s the only paradox game I’ve played where playing as minor nobody nations isn’t the most boring grind imaginable.
This is a very sober and real world answer. And that's not a good thing.
"Heckler's Veto" is kind of close, though I'm not sure it perfectly fits the phenomenon you're talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto
Only if someone is dumb enough to document in an email they’re firing her for speaking out. In the real world if you spend your whole workday investigating and criticizing your employer, you’ll eventually no longer work there. They’ll find cases where you missed deadlines, bad performance reviews, etc.
Economic growth does seem to track population growth (globally). Once population decline begins, will be interesting to see what happens.
That caches though. You can see it when you strace it.
Are you saying that no tuition backed by student loans ends up in endowment funds?
You see weird reaction in debates about feminism. People go along with the belief that men and women are the same. And then use that to justify male anger about unfairness by just parotting the same talking points. When actually feminist could always accept that there were differences and that was the point. But the argument changes at different levels of abstraction. It's confusing. Individuals should be treated the same, but are different statistically and in aggregate.
Exactly. Anyone who thinks that if tomorrow most everyone woke up with a position against anything Google currently "stands" for that they wouldn't immediately flip to be in line with it is kidding themselves.
Hey! We're super early on in our journey and are figuring out pricing. If you reach out through the site we'll get you set up with an account and work with you to figure out what's reasonable for your team price-wise.

We're focused on making sure pricing isn't per-user because it's annoying to pay an additional bit of rent for each new person on the team regardless of how much they use an app.
Just want to point out that Purim celebrates the rescue of the Jewish people from mass extermination, not the extermination of others.

In fact in Jewish tradition Amalek remains a force to this day.
I think people who tend to “bluff” often also tend to seriously underestimate how often they’re “caught”. Just because no one has called you on your bluff to your face doesn’t mean you haven’t been caught.
> I'm not sure where they got that idea from. Maybe they've been reading propaganda. Maybe they fell prey to some confident asshole, and convinced themselves that Rust was the answer to their problems.

That's a very strong statement and I don't see any back up on this claim.

> At any rate, I now find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and a lot of compile errors.

Sounds like a layer 8 problem to me.

I already questioning everything in this blog post that comes after.
Is there something like a box that you can key in something and it works. Reader view give you text. Also that box?

I lost … perhaps I expect a REPL or … anyway not good to sell CL-webassembly I think.
> I'm quite interested in learning more about what kind of things people are willing to pay 80-100 USD a month for on Patreon.

This is probably not representative over the whole population, but, I have a Patreon. I had a few people pay me $50/month (where the base tier is $5/month). The $50/month tier has no extra benefits besides a vanity Discord role. So why did they do it? They genuinely want to support whatever I'm doing. That's it.
I am a Director-Level in Engineering/QA/Quality Engineering. I currently lead a team where our ratio of Female Indian women is higher than any other engineering group at the company. Every Quality Engineering team I have been apart of has had a higher ratio of females, but not necessarily of any specific background.

My N=1 experience is that this can be related, but not always directly about discrimination or sexism. I would need to include cultural oppression, personal confidence, and others to accurately reflect a summation. I do not doubt that bias or discrimination exist, just that I culturally do my best to have a positive influence.

A few years ago I wanted to understand better, so I asked for feedback from a previous amazing Indian female SDET (whose husband is the CTO of one of the big retail chains). She explained a lot to me about how a woman's position being higher than a mans was culturally challenging. She also had self-doubts about her ability to thrive in a mostly-male driven engineering organization. I worked with her on a transition into a Development team, and the resistance came mostly from her fears of cultural bias and discrimination. The Dev team took less than five minutes to round-table agree that she was fit for the position.

The bias and discrimination exist, but localized, the teams I've worked with are always very supportive and welcoming.
Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship (2019)
$15 might still be the extraction price in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/19/you-wont-believe-w...
I only know one guy who used Ad Nauseum, two or three weeks later his gmail account was banned and to this day he has to complete a CAPTCHA every time he visits a Google site from his home IP.
> Shouldn't the managers and decision makers be aware of the local customs, cultural issues and employment laws in the region they manage?

Google is a US company. In the US, the "local custom and employment law" is that companies don't accept caste based discrimination. (It's also technically illegal in India). I think not only is it appropriate for a white American manager to lecture Indian subordinates about stopping caste based discrimination, it's an obligation to do so and fire the subordinates if they continue.
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In Smalltalk there is no such thing as source files. Your program is an image which can be freely modified and dumped. Look at Pharo[1] which is a modern Smalltalk environment. You start it up and create classes in the IDE, but never do you create "source files".

[1] https://pharo.org/
> - Capture video, and do live HVEC hardware encoding on apple hardware and save result.

Here's what I use to GPU encode/decode multiple IP camera feeds using motion on a 15W haswell system with enough CPU left free for other tasks.

#motion.conf
movie_extpipe_use on
movie_extpipe ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size %wx%h -framerate %fps -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i pipe:0 -vf 'format=nv12,hwupload' -c:v h264_vaapi %f.mp4
netcam_params decoder=vaapi,rtsp_transport=tcp,keepalive=off,tolerant_check=on
I'm sorry that you and the majority of trans people are being tarred by the actions of an extreme minority who are pushing their agenda on everyone else. I know that most trans people just want to be treated with respect and live their lives.

I am incredibly saddened that trans people have become a political football, which is causing immense harm.
Having stayed in Columbia TN for a decent while, I can tell you that the legacy is alive and well. Really, visit if you ever drive by - the confederate headquaters is in an anti-bellum house where they give tours, and they never say anything bad about the social dynamics of the past. It really leaves an elephant in the room, when they are selling battle flags in the gift shop embroidered with things like history not hate.
>Last time I saw a big thread related to the topic there were super deeper threads of people just straight up calling each other slurs.

I hope you didn't take my comment is advocating for that. I can't really comment on a thread I didn't see.

>They probably would have been flagged, but the threads were just so deep you wouldn’t see that unless you’re intently following the thread.

Sounds like pointless name calling. That said, my original point that HN is not a good place to have these discussions stands. Unfortunately this community is for sterilized technical discussion, anything with spice or flavor isn't permitted.
> you dont really lose it just because you go to another country

One may not lose it. But one can reject it. That's the gist of my implicit biases line.
There are ETFs that invest in international stocks. VT for example. That way you're not betting it all on one country.
I'm fascinated how such comments actually showed up here down the thread. ^^
As the study notes, they controlled for at least some of these:

> lower risks for all-cause mortality after adjustment for lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors

"clinical factors" would include diagnosed diabetes or anything else available from a medical record. "lifestyle" includes actual weight, though presumably not intent.

The data they used came from UK Biobank ("Baseline demographic, lifestyle, and dietary data from the UK Biobank"), which is quite complete: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/

Of course, they can't control for everything, but they can control for a lot of the first 20 or 30 things someone would think of… and that probably includes everything you listed.
Mojeek is a growing independent search engine which does not track you
Visit the site if you want to take a look: https://cloud-outdated.com/

We're also on producthunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cloud-outdated
I have the same superpower. Sometimes when people ask, I say that the secret is that before the main search, type "please" and press the search button, and after the main search type "thanks" and press the search button. :)
Do you believe linux kernel devs are a representative sample of the tech workforce as a whole?
OP messed up their numbers—they probably meant 5% chance for $1000 ($50 EV to match .5*$100) or similar. But I think their point is still clear
Which economics course explains the workings of endowment funds at elite schools and the flow of money from student loans?
We're very early on with selling Cardinal to teams, and are working hard to make sure we get the pricing structure perfect. If you want to reach out we'd love to help get you set up with an account that you can test for free, and we'll work with you to figure out pricing that makes great sense for your team.

We're committed to making sure that our pricing isn't per-user, because we don't believe in charging a team more every time they add a new member, regardless of how much that member uses the app.
I have a heat pump driven boiler and I do run it when the excess is available - it uses 500W, so I'm still left with a potential 2-2.5kW. I can of course set the boiler hotter, but then I'm just wearing out the components to lose the heat at night (since I don't need so much hot water).

I do have an EV charger, but no nearby neighbours yet with EVs.

However "sharing the excess" is an interesting idea, since everyone needs electricity. I could run an extension cable to the neighbour and let him run his washer/dryer from it at peak times.
Golf courses use reclaimed water. There are a lot of things wrong with golf courses in California, like pesticide and herbicide use that runs off into the ocean and other water ways, but fresh water waste isn't typically one of them.
Microsoft’s remaster of AoE3 has been suprisingly decent.

The game at its core, is still the same, but they’ve been adding tons of new content, that’s breathed new life into the game to the point where it was even outperforming AoE4 for a bit.

But the new content is a mix of stuff. A lot of it adds new mechanics and diversity that make the game much more enjoyable. Only problem is I never properly learned how to play non-2005 vanilla civs.
It depends on a lot of factors, like the size of the town etc. traffic will increase if you make stations, promoting travel between cities. money can also be made by connecting factories with farms etc, fairly simple.

you can go way complex with orders, like only depart when 50% full or 100% full, to optimize your lines.
You could mine crypto and donate the proceeds to environmental causes.
How much money would the gain have to be for it to not be worth a 50% chance of getting killed?
> The more realistic the graphics, the more likely I will buy it.

May I recommend some text adventures to cure you of that? :)
Buying an EV and charging during daytime hours when export is restricted is the most cost effective mechanism for consuming this excess solar generation if batteries for storage and consumption aren't an option.

Too much clean energy is a great problem to have.
This is pretty interesting! I've been thinking about a platform for unique swag for podcasters, streamers, youtubers, etc. as I think there's definitely an opportunity to engage with fans there, but I imagine it's pretty overwhelming and expensive to figure out how to do it effectively if you are busy producing content. I sell an item that'd be perfect for those folks to giveaway/sell and I know how hard it is to figure out shipping and logistics.
>Is there a term for shutting down a discussion by turning the belligerence to eleven?

"Trolled into oblivion", perhaps?
Love what I see from Kagi search so far. Tried out Orion, but unfortunately the Bitwarden Password manager extension is pretty much unusable for both the chrome and firefox extensions. It locks the vault after every page load and the biometrics requests in MacOS take considerable longer than with chrome/firefox.

It won't be my daily driver, but I will check back when extension support is more mature.
Yeah, giving the power of censorship to the masses leads to the opposite of free conversation. And these particular masses do indeed like to flag anything they disagree with.

And that message, "You're replying too fast, slow down". Lol. What duplicity.
I'm not understanding the implication. Does it matter how limited the discrimination is?
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Whoops, I made a typo. I meant variable width tabs, not fonts. There never will be a web browser as fast or as intuitive as galeon again. It is the end of an era.
I think the questioner is asking if

"50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000"

should be

"50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $500"
The coffee has gotten worse. They use cheap, bitter Arabicas beans and hope they can coast on their reputation. The donuts were never the same after they started shipping frozen dough from Toronto.

Heck, even McDonald's makes better coffee.
Since when does '-phobia' mean 'hatred'? If I suffer from arachnophobia, do I hate spiders?
Black coffee, even with a teaspoon or sugar has to be better than soda or the sugary monstrosities from Starbucks that are excluded from the study.
One can of coke contains 39g (~7 teaspoons) of sugar. This study seems to be less about the benefits of coffee but rather the health risks of sugar.
Ask HN: What do you think of the Queen?
As a Brit, in honour of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee I want to understand what the HN community think of the Queen.

I grew up in and live in the UK, and have personally never understood why we have a monarchy in 2022 as it is blatantly anti-democratic and anti-meritocratic. Yet speaking to family and friends as well as folks from other countries, I am often taken aback by her popularity and airing my opinions often feels a bit controversial.

Where do you stand?
I’m still trying to figure out how the CK3 console port is going to work. A lot of people compared that the games looks simple/boring because of the fact that they wanted it to run on consoles, but I have no clue how you’re going to navigate that UI without a mouse, I would probably have an Aneurysm.
I agree they're probably here to stay. It's interesting to think about how the hardware-software feedback loop affects architecture choice and research directions. I'm almost certain there is an even more impressive architecture out there, waiting to be discovered. However, until we maximize the performance we get out of Transformers, there is a strong incentive to optimize both software and hardware specialized to this architecture.

One downside is that as hardware/software becomes more specialized to one architecture, it becomes more difficult to explore very different architectures.
>since you've been breaking the site guidelines a lot lately

Woah, did you just lifetime ban a (near) 10-year account citing 4 issues over 5 years?
That is nice and common in high-level languages, but most math is done at runtime with some kind of input. That's when strict typing is helpful.