skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The hardships aren't self-imposed, our justice system is specifically and intentionally retributive

If you want to know why this is, I would recommend Discipline and Punish by Foucault. Our present systems of justice go back hundreds of years, when a crime was considered an attack on the sovereign, aka the King, or the Prince. Back then crimes were punished by Hanging, or Torture, and it was done as an exercise of terror. The primary purpose of this wasn't the prevention of crime (Do you really think royalty cared if peasants killed each-other?), but rather punishment for disobeying the King.

All modern systems of Law are essentially still medieval systems, and it's why crimes that happen exclusively between two people are prosecuted as Person v. State of Whatever. The process of justice isn't for the criminal, it's to remind the rest of us of the total power of the State.
Lumber prices starting to drop after drastic increase during pandemic
> serious but hobbyist

> ~15k hands last month.

Is that not roughly a full-time jobs' worth of poker? (15k hands > 12k minutes? > 200 hours > 6h/day)
It isn’t about bidding lower. It is about innovating and being more effective. Perhaps they can get to know the locals, do pre-emptive work like Canadians, build goodwill… perhaps they can innovate on their techniques for taking down perps, use pepper spray rather than guns, or perhaps they can use bodycams and document everything. Private competition produces far better products and services than when schools and police face no market competition.

At least the public should make more police work like meter-maids, carry no guns and just issue citations for dog poop or barbecuing without a license. Why come armed to the teeth when Barbecue Becky calls?
One aspect I've noticed throughout my career is that the engineering problems QE engineers face are generally more straightforward, with well-defined parameters, and common patterns. The skills required to be a successful QE engineer require, generally, less breadth and depth of expertise than some other disciplines of engineering. I think it's a natural landing place for people who know how to write some code, but struggle to view problems at multiple levels of abstraction.
13 years
I have a good friend who has just graduated from college and is affected by this. It's extremely stressful for her and a very rude entry into the professional workforce, it's already rough enough for her. I'm not sure yet if they will/have rescinded her offer or not.

It's very disappointing to see a company treat employees like this. There are ways to plan better, especially at huge corps like this.

If you're in a position making decisions like this in your organization, please remember that decisions like this affect real people and have a serious impact on their wellbeing in numerous ways.
I’m experimenting with same. Turbo, projen. Please contact me via email in the profile. I’m super keen on sorting that out.
Show HN: Red Teaming Synthetic Data Models
How we implemented a practical attack on a synthetic data model to validate its ability to protect sensitive information under different parameter settings.
Thanks for the credits (creator of React Flow here)! Our website is MIT and so are the docs and all the content but I don't get that you just copied content like whole sentences of the docs or parts of the readme for example.
info was emacs trying to be a web-browser and it can go die in a fire.

I hated the days of "the man page is blank, see the GNU info documentation" - almost drove me to BSD.
> We can argue about the reasons but the fact that they are paid less has been shown many times, so if you are disputing it you should be provide some compelling evidence

I state I believe this is true in one of my previous comments.

> So the the question is are QA jobs lower paid or not. That's easy to check and is a pretty good (though not perfect) indicator of status. A quick Google would have shown you that this is generally the case. Funnily enough you will also find lots of dismissive posts which shows that at least some people think QA jobs are inferior, because "they don't code, but just use the software".

This could be, but you need something else to prove it, otherwise lower paying jobs with different distributions than the job market distribution are always root caused in discrimination, is this your argument? There are many high paying jobs that result in a huge selection bias with respect to employees, just because many people simply don't want to put the hours. And thus discrimination is not the whole story in these cases. It may be the case in QA teams though (or part of the story), I'm simply saying it needs more research.

Nevertheless this hasn't been my point, my point is simply a single data point by itself can't be used to account for part of the explanation.
Holy shit.

That about crystalizes my sense of existential ennui at the moment.

On the one hand... It works. On the other hand, Christ, if that's all it boils down to... Dear God, what have we built?
If your bankroll is small enough that Kelly vs naive EV calculations are giving you significantly different answers for what you should do, you are probably playing at stakes higher than you should be (or you're playing in a tournament, in which case the optimal strategy is indeed different than in a cash game).
Glad I asked! The article (I can see you didn't write it) feels like it comes from a parallel world where tldr is called 'cheat' and is a standard POSIX command, it has maybe a paragraph right at the end about custom sheets.

I probably wouldn't use the extra features just because I use a password vault for that kind of thing, since a subset of those are, say, a new debit PIN and I need all that kind of thing to be in one place.

If I did more sysadmin stuff I could see that being handy, annotating various incantations would pay off over time, aliases have a way of slipping through the cracks. Thanks!
Unless you live in Germany, where you still get to have such expectations, even when using company hardware.
This is a pertinent question that deserves to be answered by anyone who can shed some insight.
Nice!

p.s. Arch Linux is `yay cheat-bin` NOT `yay cheat` (source compile).
It's just finance cosplay.
There is no such thing as reverse discrimination it's a purely content free term. Discrimination is merely discrimination with the insertion of the word reverse having no additional meaning.

It's normal for any system which creates an incentive to hire minorities to still be so biased in favor of white dudes that you are still much better off being a white dude.

Basically for every minority that wouldn't have made it on merit it's likely you could find two white dudes with the same level of actual merit.

This degrades substantially the virtue of complaints about such discrimination.
There are a lot of people out there, myself included, that would prefer another option for traditional journalism. For now we're stuck with only a few options when it comes to television. I'd love it if they actually stuck to this principle and covered news in an unbiased manner (or as unbiased as possible). Maybe they could even invest in the dying art of investigative journalism.

I don't have much hope that they'll make a ton of money doing this, but I also don't know how they're making money now. It seems all of their advertising is for snake oil.
They’re not. Even by Internet forum standards this is absolutely terrible advice.
Awww I was hoping for some old-tyme preacher explaining hell.
More accurate to say the entire camera industry is folding in on itself such that entire types of cameras are disappearing. However, there will always be jobs for standalone cameras. Maybe not for consumers, but for the exploding class of content makers both large and small.
Moats should be built through technological advancement, not appeasing regulations. I think you misread, I am not advocating absence of the government. But we should question decades of regulation that has piled up in a way that provides giant moats that do not do anything to build a better product (no strike for Stripe, speaking generally) but to satiate those regulations and prevent others from building anything.
the water here is clean, too, but "clean enough to drink" does not mean "sterile"
> companies made wholesale terminations of nearly all our people

The "employment at will" doctrine at work. Terrible.

I would attribute that to the weak US labor, and its failure to do away with this via country-wide/industry-wide labor agreements make this impossible, or appropriate legislation. Many (most?) countries don't have this doctrine.
Don't have your personal ethics be subject to someone else's ethics, because if you do that, then it means you don't really have ethics.

You aren't accepting to an industry, you are accepting to a hiring manager. And it's just rude to act this way. Exploding offers aren't great, and if you have a problem with them, then simply don't accept them. You miss some opportunities this way but you feel better when you look in the mirror. Regardless, as others have noted, Coinbase has some specific issues that aren't indicative of a broader industry probem. They seem to be handling this as well as can be expected given those problems.
> can folks think of companies who did 20% type layoffs at the eve of bad times, e.g. 2001 or 2008, and then became market leaders

Amazon did a quite famous layoff in 2000, actually.
Profitable, yes. Sustainable, probably not. They are scrambling to open up lines of stable revenue that they can rely on once crypto mania starts dying down (and that is already happening to some degree).
Didn’t they acquire Yammer a few years ago? That was a prototype for surveillance social media, if you ask me.
I can't say if emigration is a solution here since most developed countries, especially East Asia, automatically denies entry if you are a felon. Seems like there is a limited pool of countries that are willing to look the other way.

We are talking island states, perhaps Thailand, Eastern Europe.
If Ford can make an end run around the dealers (or even the existing dealers), and doing so increases Ford's sales, and it also makes life better for customers... then who cares what the dealers want? They can "not like it" all they want. What they like is irrelevant.

Auto dealerships look like a business that is just begging for disruption.
Companies only talk about equality because 1. Requires by title IX and 2. Advertising. It is immediately clear to anyone whom has done even the slightest research that no org with millions/billions sitting around can ever claim to support equality in any respect.
Unironically, yes.

On top of all this, you also lose unemployment benefits if you quit your job and the new one has rescinded their offer. As far as the states are concerned, you voluntarily quit your previous job, and never started a new one
Even as a Scottish and then Australian "republican"... I thought that some of the conclusions in the article were just as confusing.

"Since 1664 no monarch has set foot in the House of Commons"

"And yet it appears that the Queen has quietly asserted her claim to own Parliament."

Assuming validity of the claim for the purpose of discussion, these two things are not contradictory. The monarch could own Parliament and still recognize for symbolic or other purposes the tradition of not entering the House of Commons, entirely easily.
The big thing about CNN is telling people politics is hopeless, and therefore not to vote. And it does this selectively, it sells this as a capability. Sells diminished voter turnout. And broadcasts weaponized racism/rapism accusations, including Inter-Continental Ballistic Rape Accusations, ICBRA's, like (I'm not sure cnn.com partook in this but still, nytimes.com did) those affecting the owner of Techcrunch, Mike Arrington, where he was literally two states away from the victim at the time of the rape (allegedly obviously, being sarcastic, but the media did NOT say allegedly, in effect claimed he was thousands of miles long--at the calf, or at the thigh, whatever, standing in Washington but penetrating in California--rather than question the bitchvictim). So even the editor of a medium-sized newspaper can get slandered in the worst possible way across continents?

At that point, I just stop listening to rape accusations in the media no matter what, like you can accuse anybody, at any time, of anything, provided he has a penis[1]. Nowadays, if "they" are white. White male, basically. Just accusing white men of being white men, frankly. Mike Arrington is a white man, news at 11.

And let me say something else.

I will never vote for a man who has not been accused of rape in the media.

If he has been accused of rape, maybe he has my vote maybe he doesn't. Probably does.

If he hasn't been accused of rape on the media, he's not a threat to bad people and I will flat out not vote for him.

I actually acted on that recently. José Antonio Kast, though I would have normally voted for him, I saw he had no accusations so I didn't go to vote in the Chilean Presidential Elections for him. Obviously because that in a presidential candidate that candidate had strategies to dodge or diffuse or dislodge or discourage rape accusations, nobody that well-known can possibly have a clean record. His opponent, Boric, didn't.

It's the most basic form of mudslinging, rape accusations. You can always get some female confidence artist to "come forward," always, it costs like 2000 USD in Chile, if that. It's cheap, it's trivial, there's no cross-examination, victim never gets named in public, if nobody's done it it's because the candidate planned it all out for it not to happen, ie premeditated that same crime. Pretty much is a rapist for real if he's never been accused.

And Kast lost the election, due to thousands of votes like mine. Every vote can break a tied election, in fact I tied an election 126 to 126, in high school. Kast lost in part because he had that suspicious clean slate. It's counter-reliable, whatever the media says, the truth is almost exactly to the opposite.

[1] I still judge rape accusations made in person to me, or what I witness in person, as I see fit. "He says she says" has no weight, but in the moment, it's a totally different ball-park. I have taken suicidal levels of risk to defend women who asked for help in person, risks I've never seen anybody else take. But not for an accusation in the bitchvictim media.
Employers have PIPs as a way to give themselves optionality in deciding to fire someone or not. Seems a bit unfair that employees don’t have much way today of saying, “hey, I might peace out any day now, and don’t take it personally if I do, but I expect that things should still be cool between us if I end up sticking around.”
"hiring freeze/pause" can tend to be something very subjective.

This is especially the case for many of these companies who may have essentially "overhired" and are correcting for that, rather than pausing hiring because the general economic conditions have affected their revenue outlook.
I wonder how they decided to ASCII-fy the glottal stop, but still included symbols like ʷƛ̓. Not sure why not use ˀ when you're flexing unicode anyway
That's why I always order instant decaf so I can look at the packet before dissolving it.
For the code generation phase, it might be easier to bypass emitting a text-based assembly format and just use the ASM library directly. If you want something easier, I wrote a code generation library specifically for that purpose: https://github.com/cojen/Maker It also includes an example "Mini-C" language compiler.
China is rapidly automating their manufacturing and it's not crazy to think many more mundane tasks will be automated away over the coming decades with the rapid advancements in AI. Throwing more bodies at a problem rather than focusing on being more productive through technology is stone age thinking that for some reason the West is obsessed with
Running out of reply nesting, so replying here to your other reply. First, appreciate the toning down, few would do that.

I'm not a very deep crypto expert, but I can share some thoughts on cycles.

Most of crypto has no cycle at all, as in...most are shitcoins. They die in a single cycle, as a short pump and dump. However, after their death new ones pop up when a new uptrend arrives. And then die again. These tokens lack "fundamentals", favorable attributes beyond speculation.

Simply put, BTC dictates the pace of the entire crypto market, whether you believe in cycles or not. Every other token moves in extreme correlation with BTC price action. You can easily verify this claim by putting the charts side by side. They synchronize down to the second, which indicates algorithmic trading.

Bitcoin's "cycles" supposedly are based on its once-every-4-years halving of block rewards, making supply increasingly scarce, against an exponentially increasing demand (which long term is true, despite short term selling). In turn, a 4 year cycle is cut up into a bull and bear part.

This theory has been true-ish for 3 cycles, whether a sound theory or just by accident. But the model is kind of breaking in this current cycle. Some cope with this by calling it "cycle lengthening".

The way I see it, crypto's entire existence has aligned with a period of funny money. Lots of cheap capital available for high-risk bets. So indeed you might as well theorize it has been a single super cycle.

For shitcoins this theory doesn't matter, they get taken out every "small" cycle in any case. It only matters for BTC and ETH. I'm convinced BTC will easily survive but it might stay down for a long time, years even, not aligning with the usual cycle, if it ever existed.
Most of the largest tech players today (including Microsoft and Google) did rounds of layoffs in 2008. Of course in those cases it was more trimming some fat rather than a do or die situation. But there are plenty of companies that have survived existential crises of this nature and come back stronger.
Coinbase withdraws job offers, extends hiring freeze
macOS ships with zsh and it was easier to switch all the linux boxes to zsh than to fight homebrew into giving me a relatively recent version of bash.

So far I've no complaints and oh-my-zsh is nice.

But I can't really point to something and say "oh I'd die without this zsh feature".
This whole premise assumes that “crypto” will be a thing long enough to be cyclical.
it's supposed to be equal before the law... which it's not real in practice anywhere either. Usually one's networth changes the law, at least in Europe they're upfront about it.
It’s better than making an assumption that runs completely contrary to the he limited actual data that you do have.
He discusses in (if memory serves) "A Brief History of Time" whether we will keep on discovering ever-more accurate physical theories, or if there's a theoretical limit. The Planck scale offers a theoretical limit, so there's hope.

At any rate, that is how I understood him. Not that we're nearly there, but that our current path of discovery seems finite.
Arch has it in the AUR with `yay cheat-bin`. Pow, done!
> fair skin thing is nonsense

Well it is a stereotype, and they are often true, but not always.
eg, in TN, the average brahmin or upper class individual will be fair-skinned while the lower class one would be dark skinned.

I guess up in the North, this does not hold.

> but certain states like Tamil Nadu banned surnames for this reason.

The govt did not ban it. It was more a social movement where one was looked down upon (and even discriminated against for showing they belonged to the higher castes). That's why there are still folks who continue to keep 'Iyer' in their name.
Put out an example of using it to switch the transport so that it is over NATS instead, this works now thanks to the interop with net/http package: https://github.com/wallyqs/connect-go/commit/2e744ec4bf7ce31...
Internally requests are treated as NATS requests so you would get similar performance and latency as when using core NATS request/response.
Because the money is in the older audience with nostalgia
France had their Cromwell moment, too, but they didn't revert everything afterwards. Turns out it requires a lot of furious, dangerous energy to destroy entrenched genetically-based status quos hundreds of years old. You can choose to come out of it as citizens rather than subjects.
I think Nasa did an experiment with some people living underground for a few months or something, the TLDR was the people living underground ending up living a 30hr day.

Tryptophan supplementation increases the effect of blue light on the body. However I see an increase in mesenchymal stem cell release through an increase in melatonin to be good thing unlike stem cells from adipose tissue, and melatonin is 4x more potent as an antioxidant than vitamin C.

The Circadian rhythms are probably best viewed as the chemical decay of various chemical pathways in the body much like particle decay is for physics.

Diet and light can influence them but be mindful of the fact the human body has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to this planets light cycle and environment, so any deviation like we see with todays tech can have erroneous effects on the body.
Definitively sounds like you have one of the bests existing opportunities to implement the 2.0 of that idea.
Rescinding offers is REDICULOUS.

I don't care what the business case is, how can you have had such a short planning horizon that you were making offers and then rescinding them before folks start?

Let them start, they will see writing on wall and can start looking for a new place with an active job.
Can someone explain me something about USA employment law?

Can you rescind offers and suffer 0 consequences?

I can easily imagine a situation, where manager A wants to get rid of employee E. So manager A, asks a friend in company B, to make an offer for 10M dollars. Then employee E leaves, offer gets rescinded by company B.

Employee E left on their own from company A, so "problem solved". Obviously some other employee, this time from company B gets another miracle offer, just to quit and be rescinded.

I imagine that this is somehow banned, or everyone would be doing this?

I saw much wilder stuff going
Gajim 1.4.3 has been released
Everyone just copy-pastes the name and calls it the art gallery plaza. A mild prank could be played by copy-pasting a completely different place name, and seeing if people pay any attention - or if they just assume "š**** ****" to mean "that place right downtown"
Ask HN: How hard would it be to port ublock origin to Mac Safari?
So on Safari for MacOS, I usually use the Adguard for Safari extension. But I miss ublock origin. I have been playing around with the Orion (of Kagi search) fame since it will let me use Firefox or Chrome extensions, but I keep having this nagging feeling that we just need a Mac developer to port ublock origin and that will satisfy 99.99% of the folks who use Mac. So, what does it take to maintain a port over time, year after year?
This should worry everyone. Economic progress is intimately tied to scientific discoveries. And if that’s slowing down, we may still see some business model innovation (think: Uber), but less progress that increases humanity’s collective wealth.

Making matters worse, population count in highly educated countries is shrinking, inevitably leading up to fewer brains trying to solve hard problems than before. For now, I don’t see the remaining countries with a growing population making up for this loss in collective cognitive capacity devoted to science.

Perhaps we shouldn’t fear universal AI as much as we should cheer it on as the future saviour of science.
Most Googlers do not have access to the Search systems at all, let alone the historical archives, but some do out of necessity. Monitoring systems trigger security alerts on inappropriate queries (no details, for obvious reasons)
There is basically no company that wouldn't rescind an offer if it made the difference between 1x profits and 1.5x profits.

Why wouldn't I behave exactly the same way if another company offers me 1.5x the salary?