skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's incredibly facile. The supermarket can, and will, sell all your data because there's profit in it. Now try to make sense of how you know what they're up to.

At least with the government, you have a ton of elected representative who can help you if the government does something dumb with the data.
Lumen field where the Seahawks play has had 4 names in 20 years.
> We really don't. There's been much acknowledgement that the Iraq war was a mistake and wasn't justified, since no weapons of mass destruction were found.

But we didn't sanction them. We're still friends with them. We even helped them.

> but at the time, part of Europe also thought that if Iraq had nuclear weapons they'd be a threat to them.

I'm pretty sure 'we' (our leaders, who sent our armies there) knew that iraq had no such weapons... Tony Blair even half admited it.

> Normally we should learn from past mistakes, Iraq was a mistake, the world should have acted different back then and didn't. Now Ukraine is a chance to do better and act as we should have in Iraq.

So, we knew iraq was a mistake, and we stopped? After the first time? Or after the second time? What about syria? Libya? What about somalia? Didn't biden just send more troops there? I won't even mention afghanistan... US basically armed the terrorists for the next few decades with their pull-out.

> Ukraine is not as clear, in appearance it seems they are on a good path to have more individual rights and prosperity, and it looks like Russia's trying to stop them from doing so. Is that completely accurate, hard to say, but probability wise it is a possibility.

Let's be fair... ukraine has areas where a lot of russians live, and they weren't very nice to those russians (and i mean "nice" in the same way as israelis are not "nice" to palestinians...). Somehow many people have forgot about those things (ukraine) or don't care about the others (isreal).
That's the thing: you can't really do that. And the argument shouldn't be "society vs wilderness", but "existing vs new society".

In the past, it was really hard to sever ties with one society and government and go form a new one, but you could actually find places where nobody would immediately chase you away (even then most expansion was at the expense of natives, though). Nowadays that's impossible. A small number of people could maybe live in Siberia undetected, but that's more like partisan warfare than establishing a new country: The moment Russian government finds out anyone's there, they're getting deported. Your best bet for not living in an existing state is amassing an army (likely illegal in your home country) and invading a weak state. Good luck.
I'm afraid that though I've heard of most of these, this short list reinforces rather than refutes the claim by covering such wide ranges of area and time period.
There is a difference between affecting the consumers life to change to renewable energy and affecting the consumers life to virtue signal by banning meat while ignoring corporations.
Are you suggesting we’re not entering a recession?
IO callbacks don’t compose. That’s why everyone is switching to async await (that, and faddishness). This problem is amplified by mixing business logic and IO, so the motivation is in the wrong place and continues through the refactor because we’re solving only half the problem.

Most of the interesting business logic is collating data from three or four places, and fetching that data sequentially is high latency. So you can do that part asynchronously and then present the input to sequential (pure) code that derives the answer. That pure code is very easy to unit test.

The “problem” is now I have three kinds of code - IO, logic, and orchestration - and people intuit that this is more complicated than the bookkeeping they do and externalization onto others by mashing all three concerns together in one file, and then duplicate it with elaborate fakes in their tests. Which they are hesitant to write or others are hesitant to maintain, leading to low value, high effort tests.
Let’s ask “Why are they doing this?” I will start by saying most indications are that the management is very rational.

Sometimes companies use downturns to get rid of people that they haven’t managed properly. It’s lazy, but cutting the bottom 10% in a layoff can be less short term work than performance reviews. They avoid the PR issues by saying “everyone is doing it.” This isn’t what Coinbase did.

If companies are cash flow negative and can’t get funding, they may reneg on offers too. This is what the banks did it 2008 and tech did in 2001. People see the burn and get it. The firms survive the reputations damage because they can say “we don’t want you to join if we are about to go under and we need to save cash.” This isn’t what Coinbase is doing.

Coinbase is still cash flow positive and has positive earnings. So why are they doing this? My sense is they see what’s coming. It’s either volume will shrink, leaving them unable to cover fixed costs, or some other seismic shift in crypto that will cost them a fortune. They are rational and have tremendous data on the crypto world. To me this is an incredibly bearish sign. But it’s also a very prudent sign on their part. (They feel the current risk is higher than future hiring challenges)

Please don’t take this as investment advice on COIN or crypto.
When I picture good uses of pixel art in modern (not retro-aesthetic) games, I picture it not as a pixel “camera” — a low-res CCD capturing a grid of samples of an originally-high-fidelity world; but rather as the world itself being made up of a bunch of vector squares — like the 2D equivalent of a Minecraft voxel world. The camera is a regular high-resolution camera, looking at a weird blocky world.

In such a world, rotating a pixel sprite by 45 degrees should just look like there being multiple invisible “grids” to the world, each rendered at infinite resolution and downsampled to your display, where the sprite isn’t rotating per se, but rather the pixel grid “layer” the sprite is on (i.e. the hi-res texture the sprite layer is being rendered onto for compositing) is itself rotating.

Of course, if you’re going to use things like rotation/scaling, sub-pixel particle effects, 3D, etc. then you then either have to embrace it in your game setting’s art design everywhere so particular uses of it don’t stick out; or you have to acknowledge that any uses of it are basically “non-Euclidean geometry” from the viewpoint of in-setting observers, and thus slide your game’s mood toward something approaching either science-fantasy (e.g. Fez) or horror (has anyone done a Flatland Cthulhu game yet?)

Also note that “multiple distinct pixel grids” isn’t even unprecedented in retro games, either; there were plenty of consoles where you got one resolution for your tile map and a different (usually higher) resolution for your sprites; where sprites could sit on top of tiles in non-aligned positions. A few consoles and arcade cabinets even combined pixels with vectors!
My main gripe against Spotify is how they collect your listening data and brag to investors about what they can infer about you based on it
Are there ANY companies that pay well and don't do algorithm interviews?
>This is money that you're spending with these companies for them to go buy their own stocks, reducing their tax burden.

No. Companies pay tax on profit, then use post tax profit to buy back stocks. Learn tax law before making up stuff.

> You realize the creative accounting companies do to make their profit as close to zero right?

Anything they do illegal under tax law should (and is) prosecuted. There is no need for any entity, whether it be a person, a company, a non-profit, a charity, any entity, should pay more in taxes than the laws states.

>Do you have evidence price gouging isn't happening?

Yes, it does not show up in economic analyses of companies. Economists who also study such things have written they also don't fund evidence.

So, now do you have evidence there is any sector wide gouging, other than hand wavy pop culture feelings and rambling?

I told you really solid evidence that the allows checking the pop ignorance on the issue. Now provide the solid evidence to the contrary. Invoking wizards and magic and conspiracies is not evidence.
Over the last 5 years my small DEV1-M instance has increased from 3.49€ per month to between 17 and 20€ per month. Unbelievable. I'm just going to move everything back on my homeserver, that's just crazy for a 40 GB NVME instance.
There is Apple Music on iOS. It has different bugs :). That's what he meant.
Hmm, none of the links work.

As a Spaniard, I'm curious on how you're dealing with the amount of BS most municipialities throw at you, specially construction permits.

Also, why don't you make it as a community? I mean, it would be way easier to pool resources, make it cheaper for your customers and a more stable income for you, although they wouldn't be owners but renters.

Also, IDK in Portugal but getting on-grid electricity and internet (even fiber, if you're not too remote) shouldn't be a problem in Spain
I did use it as an argument. And you kind of one. I literally I have not seen these photos. Though, it seems he was there for just over 24 hours. Notification by duration, but ok, it’s Saint Tropez.

And you’re right, of course. The amount somebody works really is meaningless.
It's not new within Google either. I remember poking through Jeff Dean's original MapReduce code (written c. 2003) and finding a SIMD-based QuickSort that was the in-memory portion of the external sort algorithm.

It looks like this algorithm is interesting in the specifics of how it works, eg. the use of a compress-store instruction for partitioning. The algorithm I mentioned above mostly focused on speeding up comparisons through the use of SIMD instructions, rather than changing the partitioning part of the QuickSort algorithm itself. Not sure how that compares to djbsort, I didn't see technical details of the algorithm on the page.
That's why the OurWorldInData essay mentioned that some use charities that focus on 'giving locally', even letting you personally contact and vet people.

An example of skimming I've seen firsthand: large-scale subsidized programs of house construction for poor folks.

The skimming that arguably occurred: the local program administrator's son, both of his woman's kids, several of his ex-wife's kids in another province, all got houses under this program. It's arguably skimming or corruption, because he and his family gained 6 houses from this program intended to help the least fortunate, out of maybe the 20 or so I know were built in the area. 'Arguably', because these people did qualify; they were adults living with other family who legitimately couldn't afford their own houses or rent, it was only an injustice in the sense that it disproportionally benefitted one family in the community.

But all of the money stayed in the area, and mostly in the country, because (in the words of the prefect of police in the movie Casablanca), he was 'only a poor corrupt official'; no one in their family had even attended local universities at that point. The construction and trade workers were local, the materials were local, and his now more-materially-secure family was engaged in economic activity locally.

It's possible, of course, for scammers to organize large-scale fabrication of 'sob stories' and I'm sure it's happened and will happen, but hopefully the scammers are 'sufficiently local'. :)
But they are also exporting green electricity certificates to balance it off. #greenwashing
Nah, iraq war is over... maybe we can discuss syria, since my countries army is currently invading them as a part of nato forces. Maybe even lebanon. We're not in somalia (yet?), but americans are there now too. We luckily pulled our solders out of afghanistan in the last moment, but we were a part of occupying forces there too, just like the belarus army is in ukraine.
The data in indexes is stored columnar by most RDBMSes, as far as I know.
Amoral countries can still in some cases be a lesser evil. I agree in the case of Poland the US is a force for good, but on the scale of the world the US definitely gives Russian destruction a run for it's money.

The benefit the US gets from protecting Poland is that in doing so it helps keep Russia boxed in, it keeps great influence over the EU (Poland is a pivot of US influence on the EU), thereby greatly helping curtail 2 out of 3 threats to the US's position as the most powerful country on Earth. It's not done out of benevolence but it's quite great for Polish people.
http://archive.today/v1271
What the OP and people in all replies that I read really misses one thing:

Rejecting AI-products might be an option for you, but it might not be an option for everyone. Not everyone will be able to.

Think of coal. Or car and factory emissions. We have alternative power sources now. There are welcome tides of change in the developed world.

But what about Bangladesh, or India?

Despite traditional situations being better, we have often seen, in many points of history, people opting for the new thing. Because it makes economical sense.

The Indian muslin was a better clothe. But most people couldn't buy them. Out came mass produced clothes from Manchester mills, and people drove in herds towards them. Many artisans starved to death. And for these poor people's choice, tens of thousands toiled in torture in Manchester mills. The people were simply poor.

Now, when there will be driverless cabs, when the price will be much cheaper, many people will opt for these. When it is 100 degrees outside everyday for a month, and you can marginally afford the driverless cab fitted with an AC but the human operated cab will be way out of your range, "resistance against AI" will go out of your head.

Or you are a passion boutique clothes owner. You could get small bank loans. No budget for hiring real models but enough for the AI one? What will you do?

Say you are a filmmaker. But you don't know the right cohort. You do not have a budget. But you can make a movie with an AI with reasonable man hours. Will you not want to see your ideas executed into a film? Or will you let it die.

(I predict a full-length "AAA" movie with only generative models with minimal human input- 80 hours/week of man hours- for 40 days will be possible within the next 16 years.)

See, only privileged people can opt for the more expensive option (like vegan only diet), and a vast majority of humanity will not even have that option.
I always believed decentralized was if each user doubled as a server and required no external setup (example: scuttlebutt). Whereas federated was a plurality of servers with users communicated with each other but no central authority (email, mastodon, matrix, etc). However, reading some peer to peer literature like that 1500 page behemoth of a book, "Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking", it seems they are used relatively interchangeably..
Ditto and fully agreed with the post and the other commenters re. the insane complexity and costs of founding an UG. It took me over two months to have such a company established, and the number of institutions you have to interact with is rage inducing and mindnumbing. I'm afraid to even move to another place because apart from all the institutions I'll have to notify individually for me as a natural person, there are now a handful more for the company. And it's not just the notification, I'd have to unregister and reregister the thing, especially if moving to another city. And each of these actions costs time, and money and disgusting amounts of paper. For the same reasons, I'd avoid hiring any employees.

"Digitalstaat" my ass. It's IMPOSSIBLE to found even this simplest of limited liability companies without dozens of forms. The politicians ARE really talking out of their ass.

Expect the founding of an UG to cost not only two months, but 1500€ in the first year, and 1000€ each following year. Oh, and your nerves, because at some point in the process will the bureaucratic machine fuck up and/or delay.

The same goes for the scammers, which the German "Rechtsstaat", as it likes to call itself appears to be completely helpless against for decades.

My advice, if you've never founded an UG/GmbH before, don't do it alone. Find a cofounder who can care about all this bullshit so you can focus on the actual product and business. (Or don't found in Germany at all)
The new Text Editor is really nice! You all should give it a chance. Especially if you're using Builder as well. They share a lot of code, so it's pretty much Builder minus the IDE parts. (If you want the IDE parts, Builder is excellent and reasonably lightweight).

Nice features:

- Session saving is built in, and it even restores unsaved files, similar to VS Code or Sublime Text. This is great if you're jotting something down and don't expect to save it anywhere and then your battery dies. It also means you get the benefits of auto save, but without it actually changing the files until you tell it to.

- Automatic editor settings via editorconfig / modelines is built in. You don't need a plugin for it.

- It has noticeably better rendering performance. Which is not an especially practical concern most of the time, but it feels nice. It's noticeable if you scroll through a file with a device that supports pixel-perfect scrolling.

- It looks pretty. Notably:

- UI is styled according to the syntax highlighting.

- Dark mode! (The syntax highlighting changes accordingly).

- Special font for the mini map, which is very useful to see patterns and find a particular block of code.

There are several gedit things that aren't in Text Editor and probably won't be, like the side panel and bottom panel and assorted plugins for those, but these days I find if I want those, I'll be happier in Builder or VS Code anyway.
Would it be possible to extrapolate frames in between to give one smooth flyover?
>Minecraft!

Zombies, not to mention you can kill anything that moves

>Lots of Nintendo games. Mario anything really.

Mario murders indiscriminately

>I LOVE playing old King’s Quest games with my kids and they do too. Got them on Gog.

Sierra = death on every screen
The blog post does seem to be quite explicit about the fact that their contribution is in the field of portability, not novelty.
Be the paperclip maximizer, instead https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
I've had four careers. Three of them were tech/tech-adjacent but while there was sort of a natural path through them, they were all pretty different from each other. (Product manager/industry analyst/outbound marketing for lack of a better term.)

If you're tired of what you're doing, there are often adjacent jobs that are a change of scenery but still take advantage of many of the existing skills and industry knowledge you've built up.
Single-winner ranked ballots methods are reform theater; they aren't particularly “more fair and inclusive” that FPTP in general, and the particular method called “Ranked Choice Voting”, “Alternative Vote”, or “Instant Runoff Voting” in particular is only minimally different in structure and effect from majority-runoff.

Established elites make a show of opposing IRV/AV/RCV because centering the debate on that focusses attention there rather than on real reform, which requires systems that produce proportional results.
> The other benefit of an IPO (to a trader looking for earliest exposure) is the stabilizing bid from the syndicate, a brief period of more legal market manipulation where a consortium props up the price.

Do you mean that you would have gotten the shares and would sell your shares at this point with a certain guarantee on the price, or something else?
>we simply don't know if it really is doing E2EE at all

Why don't we know? Isn't it trivial to set up a MITM test setup and snuff the traffic and analize it?
I remember when PacBell bought rights to the new Giants stadium for ~$2mm per year. Usually these are testaments to executive ego, similar to large HQ purchases. Sometimes it works out (Salesforce and Apple) but many times it doesn’t (Bear Stearns and Enron)
> Government is a form of slavery.

> 'Democracy' is really 'representative democracy' - you vote for someone to represent you for 4-5 years.

You’re comfortable with this overly broad definition of slavery, but have issues with calling a form of democracy “democracy”?
Next, fire the free thinkers who want actual progress and only pawns remain. Times have changed, ironically due to NY's own actions. I predict the coming years will be rough for the city but 'it' will evolve to become something better.
As do I. However, the friction that no one wants to part with (regulator or manufacturer) is the assurance that "nothing has been tinkered with by anyone who can't be cited". And dealers will balk because of (to them) the loss of ability to meaningfully bin different trims.

I've started to grok the industrial/government complex, and it really annoys the crap out of me. It's an attempt to do an end run around the consumer by doing de facto centralized control through companies, instead of actually implementing things in such a way as the entire lifecycle from production to EoL is able to be sampled and assessed.

Like, take diesel emissions.

We have a farce of a test suite that's done on a design by design basis. Then that is locked in and sssumed for that model of vehicle. This is exactly why people converged on defeat devices instead of actually going for compliance.

Imagine if you will, a world where you can reconfigure your firmware, load it, test it on your property, fire off a copy to a regulator to get plugged into a test bed and put through the paces, and get a result back with an adjusted fee to reflect the difference in performance against standards for those changes.

You have the option to tool differently. You can tinker, you can even find configurations better than the original implementer. You also get a record of change for insurance/warranty auditing purposes. (Though again, I'm squeamish on making life easier for manufacturers in that regard as long as they continue to use services like https://cccis.com/)

There are levels of corporate surveillance I'm not willing to accommodate.
if you had a signed contract don't they have to pay their way out of the notice period regardless?
the OR is important, maybe I'll suggest Death Stranding after all then. Kojima specifically wanted a game not focused on violence and instead of symbol of "togetherness".
In the 70's France went all-in on clean, green nuclear energy when they realized they had an outsized strategic dependency on foreign oil coming from unstable regimes.

America did the same in the 2000's and ramped-up domestic supply of oil.
You get what you pay for, for example an actual printed book explaining the product in detail. What will one get with an $0.99 mobile app today?
The problem for Coinbase, is that on the next boom cycle, a significant number of traditional stock exchanges will be slurping their milkshake.

Coinbase has only gotten as big as it is because they were effectively the most legit American exchange selling crypto. With Robinhood, Square, Paypal, and even legacy exchanges getting in the game, they won't have that advantage next time around.
Came here to recommend Ghost Trick, it's one of the best games ever.
Exactly. They weren't there to arrest the reporter, who wasn't doing anything illegal, but to arrest the leaker, who was. It doesn't matter which politician you elect. The FBI will enforce the law.
Opening up the API on wearables is going to be the real change in digital health. The last 2 years was a flood of poor investments. Natural Cycles is a digital/non-hormonal birth control that will be awesome
There’s a pretty clear logical contradiction in claiming definitively that no protocols are actually decentralized or work better than their centralized counterparts in crypto world while also signaling that you’re so unfamiliar with it that you barely know what a dApp is.