skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this as: "Humans and rodents have different metabolisms".

It's still very good data and very interesting, but it raises more questions then it answers, and effectively points out that we have no clue how these metabolic pathways actually operate outside of specific circumstances.

Edit: I'm in no way condemning this paper, on the contrary, I think it's great. This is good science.
> Nearly 40% of millionaires said they plan to make changes to their portfolio or have already made changes due to inflation, 44% said they have kept more money in cash, and 41% say they have purchased more fixed-rate investments. Of those surveyed, 35% said they have purchased equities, and 31% said they have sold equities due to inflation and its impact on certain sectors and stocks.

In order to protect against inflation, 44% of "millionaires" said they kept more money in cash?

How does that make any sense?
> It's not ours to take. Where did it come from? Bezos produced it at Amazon. He has a moral right to keep it.

So you are advocating 0% taxes?

That argument (of type Econ 101/Ayn Rand) is misguided, because the world is not as envisaged by Econ 101 (or Ayn Rand, who famously enjoyed Social Security and Medicare).

Counter arguments:

1. Society has made available the gift of the limited liability company, to encourage risk taking and entrepreneurship.

2. Society has made available streets, canalisation, schools, defence, police, fire fighters, certain forms of insurance, etc., for a simple reason: market failures. Those goods would be provided in insufficient (suboptimal) number by the free market due to: strong positive externalities, non-excludability, adverse selection, and many other reasons.

For those (and many other reasons) government does have the right to taxation. The question then is the optimal level.

> Your superficially benevolent idea has been tried, it always results in mass hunger and death.

Yeah, the poor Northern Europeans, starving to death...
Somewhat higher income, capital gains, estate, and maybe even wealth taxes won't result in mass starvation.

> they get their money because we pay them for that value.

Again, a neat Econ 101 idea that fails to take into account reality. "salary = marginal product" is only true under entirely idealised assumptions of perfect competition [1], in particular no economies of scale and no network effects. That is most definitely not the case for today's tech companies, which quite obviously have monopolistic tendencies, thus extraction of monopoly profit (rent) which accrues, guess to whom, the boss.

And, for what it's worth, if Elon becomes a surf bum, or twitters full time, we'll still get great electric vehicles, maybe a tad later.

[1] Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Idealizing...
> I sympathise with the locals woes

Just to be clear, I don't. I'm a homeowner whose home value would be hurt by measures like these, but I support them anyway. I think it would be hard to pull off, but the country would be better off if landlordship/non-primary homes were heavily taxed or banned altogether.

In that vein, I see Airbnb as a cancer on society that is among the most evil and harmful companies that no one realizes is having the effect that it's having.
Much of my thinking currently is about pseudonymous work in the context that I've noticed it being done, which is largely in cryptocurrency.

Would you want to hire a pseudonymous cryptocurrency programmer who purposely created a security flaw at his last employer and then exploited his own flaw himself to drain all of his employer’s wallets? How is that any better?
This is an interesting idea. The direct link is here: https://www.woodelfwine.com/

I have not seen anything like though I do not know this space much but the idea is clever.

Good luck!
Half of what you said supports the comment you're replying to, and half of it is irrelevant.
And why would it interfere with Dish service??
Reframe it and it’s not so bad. It’s presenting a tamper evident ID card to a website that’s minted by the manufacturer of your device.

Your fake drivers license isn’t snitching on you when the bouncer looks at it.

It’s only snitching if you’re trying to get away with something and pretend you’re running unmodified Windows/macOS when you’re not.
SplinterDB: A High-Performance Key-Value Store
> what's wrong with a steady-state economy with a stable human population and fixed levels of demand for goods and services, anyway?

In one word, debt. The debt must be paid, which requires growth.

(I guess one could argue that the growth demands debt.)
I love how their new hardware announcement is just tacked onto the end of the announcement of Windows 10 China Government Edition.

Why would you even announce something like this in a cute PR blog post? Only thing I could think of is it's to impress shareholders with the fact that they're trusted by a rich and powerful government organization. Maybe that's a good enough reason alone.
It goes beyond just that. When interviewed about the matter by Bloomberg [0], the CEO lied about the lawsuit timelines, and when he got called out by the interviewer, he repeated the lie and cut the interviewer off. The CEO claims he got sued for raising the salary for all the employees, but the lawsuit against him was served weeks before (and it was for a completely different reason), and he signed it himself. But he claimed he hasnt even heard of the lawsuit before he raised the salaries.

Oh, and he pretty much unambiguously abused his wife (Chris Brown style, i.e., pretty violently), but was also super dodgy and aggressive about it with the interviewer. I found that Bloomberg investigation and interview to be pretty in-depth and well done.

0. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gravity-ceo-dan-pric...
Academia is mostly a bureaucratic scam at this point.

So many research lab have zero impact on the real world.

I think most of the useful research happen in corporation now.
I wouldn't take either offer today for different reasons, but this was during the hiring ramp up right after the March 2020 COVID shutdowns. No reason to take an offer that was significantly lower at that time.
I'd wager 40-50 million of those are accounts opened under false/stolen identities.
My mind immediately went to Bell Labs Jan Schön superconducting plastics almost landing him a Nobel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64 (spoiler alert - it was all a scam)
I also have some more questions, such as:

* how do you provide me with health insurance and other governmental benefits?

* for the purposes of anything official, am I as an individual technically unemployed?

* how do you provide me with retirement options such as a 401k?

* how do you report on my earnings to the IRS?
Take my opinion with a huge pound of salt because I've only ever used Java for smaller projects but...

A large part of Java's verbosity is optional, but it feels to me that people do it because "That's how you write Java!".

But you don't HAVE to write an interface, abstract class, and factory for every class. You can just...write a class. You don't need to write a class that has nothing but an "invoke" function. You can just...write a function. You don't need 10 layers of abstraction for simple cases.
Paying an anonymous person in crypto doesn't sound much different from slipping that same person an envelope of unmarked bills to do some work. Which is something people with fiduciary responsibility at a company are not going to generally sign off on.
You never trashcan a model. You replace a model. You replace it with something else that is better.

Currently, we don't have a "something else" that 1) explains everything the Standard Model does in the same places with the same results, 2) also explains whatever anomaly.
I like Ubuntu, and looked into using Ubuntu Core for an IoT architecture a few years ago - but the "brand store", which IIRC is mandatory for private deployments, are complete madness.

Plus, while the concept behind Snaps is interesting, in practice they seem to be nearly universally reviled.
I have a high yield savings account and interest is 0.75%, 6 withdrawals per month and the transfer completes same day if I need it in an emergency, plus it’s FDIC insured. Same peace of mind plus interest.
If this is the end of the pyramid scheme, then thank goodness.

There is some legit usage for blockchain technology. Like Internet based distributed & encrypted storage (erasure coding FTW). Beyond that, I don't know.
Walked. Read the article. At the time there was no channel to cross.
If you're worried about being compelled to enter your Touch ID, just mess up entering your fingerprint five times or turn off the device, and the device will no longer accept Touch ID.
That's going to depend more on what your role and assignment is than just the fact that you work for the NSA. In general though, working for the NSA isn't an anonymous act.
I tend to agree with you that nations are essentially trying to optimize for wealth under their jurisdiction, but I don't think that _necessarily_ tells you anything about how they'll treat polygyny.
And where are Europe's cheap goods being made?
Farming as a necessity didn't happen until late prehistory and early history. Before that people hunted, fished or foraged for their daily food. They had nothing worth stealing or killing for or that couldn't be rebuilt quickly after an earthquake or other disaster. In the worst case they could just move a few miles away. Dying from a drought wiping out your crops or from being attacked by raiders from the mountains or from a warlord or pharaoh that claimed to rule over you didn't happen until later. Even then your own life was still simple to understand: being a farmer or shepherd or what have you.

I don't mean to say this was all perfect, but instead that when we talk about the stress of modern jobs, we should go beyond saying no one likes deadlines or bosses, because the real problem is the, for some people literally daily, uncertainty.
It's an adaptation of Doofenshmirtz's line from Phineas and Ferb:

> "Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was doomed by a puppet, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?"
What is the content of /etc/sudoers? My guess is that macOS doesn't read /etc/sudoers.d
Ha, same but for the reason that "crip" is a semi-reclaimed insult for some with physical disabilities. Honestly, I'd read that article too.
The stakes are in fact very high for the academics themselves. There’s night and day difference between getting tenure, and not.
First, don’t say “don’t believe the news” because that sounds extremely sketchy. Second, just affirm the/your facts instead of negating the anticipated argument. (Typical corporate speak, “We are focused on our mission,” “We welcome a diverse talent pool,” whatever you want). Third, don’t say apply now because it seems desperate. If you must, then at least don’t link to the application, just say something like “We are always hiring” or “If you want to join Kraken,” etc.

This is basic PR I would expect from even a college club, much less the CEO of a financial exchange: not getting on Twitter using laughing emojis and crying FUD.
Closing down instead of building modern nuclear plants will prove to be the worst knee jerk/emotional decisions California's leaders have ever made. I hope she's serious about not only keeping Diablo Canyon open but restarting San Onofre as well as building new nuclear power plants. Nuclear is the best option, despite any perceived risks.
"Google Chrome Frame was discontinued in January 2014" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22059060/is-it-still-val...
Rather like Jackson is still a standard electrodynamics text after 60 years. Classical EM is finished. But, quantum field theory is not.
I would be happy to start from a definition of doxxing and explain why it is not a good thing, but I am curious as to why you might not find the prospect of your address and phone number being revealed disturbing. Very boring, non-unique people get death threats all the time online. Even though the rate of online threats turning to violence against random users is demonstrably low, would you not be troubled to know your location was known to unknown potential harassers? Even disregarding physical assault, a potential attacker could make life online very difficult if they understood a few things about one's identity.

I also ask this as someone who is skeptical of the prospect of anonymous employment, so I acknowledge there is certainly a spectrum of perspective on this issue.

"As long as you are not in some unique position..." is reasoning that is very close to "as long as you have nothing to hide..."
I was just curious why all studies done on mice don't have "In Mice" at the end of the title? Maybe this is the answer...

"Mice-based studies that omit “mice” from title get 31% more media coverage"

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/mice-based-alzheimers-studies...
I really doubt Windows, Office and SQL Server didn't already have NDAs. If you have to sign NDAs to get access to super-secret AV APIs, then looking at the actual source code must require one.
Interesting. I know graduate students at my alma mater are now unionized, I wonder if that can cover post docs as well.
I usually see this argument about the utopian company which shields employees from the losses in debates. In the real world a company making losses cuts down on employees, wages, increases working hours for same pay ; all negatively affecting the employees in a desperate attempt to survive, failing which the company shuts down causing loss to all employees.
They are however not sharing the increased profits with the employees when they are highly profitable, they don't hire more people than required because profits are more.

I see there is a market value that the company has to pay for labor. The additional profits are generated due to the performance of the employees, they should get a share in the profits for their contribution, the investors putting in the capital are currently taking 100% of the profits. There should be a share in this for those putting in their sweat and brains.
I appreciate a good argument supporting decentralization, but promoting cryptonetworks weakens it. From Adrian Colyer's paper [0]:

> The top four Bitcoin miners combined have more than 53% of the average mining power. In Ethereum the top three have 61% of the average power. Miners do change spots in the rankings over the observation period, but place is contested by only a few miners.

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/16/decentralisation-in-bitc...
I have seen scenarios where package maintainers have rejected updating packages because the upstream is compromised though.
That used to be a valid argument.
Find a Mate with FAANG Shady, Because You Deserve Nothing Less
I don't remember Schopenhauer's stratagems it's just that I'm not feeling like investing in the communication that anti-realists, socio-constructivists and any of these cognitive frauds pretend to offer. So I ask beforehand to filter and save everybody's time.
If you can't get water what value is the land?
>> In order to protect against inflation, 44% of "millionaires" said they kept more money in cash? How does that make any sense?

The market-based securities have been losing value faster than inflation devalues cash.
I think the vast majority of people greatly overestimate how difficult it would be to find someone's address.

If you either own property or vote in the US, its usually trivial to find you via the county GIS/tax database and the state voter records. At least it is here in NC. If you rent and don't vote, it's a bit harder, but still lots of data brokers and other sources to look to.
Might want to look at adult industry jobs, a lot of them offer remote work with minimal identity verification. Ironically, that's how I got my first development job when I was still in high school (the employer didn't know nor ask my age). It would have been a lot more difficult to get a similar job at a "regular" employer who knew my age.
> I believe they exclude the less fortunate from access to important resources, so I refuse to give my money to companies that use paywalls, because I see that as rewarding bad behaviour.

I agree with what you wrote but I think it is an understatement.

The good fortune of spending an amount of years in a great coastal community with an excellent library system; those primarily physical assets I used as a child are now mainly digitized.

Where does that leave much of the world that cannot afford these exploitative paywalls?

This is truly a diversity & inclusion issue about providing the same 100 steps forward many of us were fortunate to receive, to everyone. Our tax dollars already funded much of it anyways.

We cannot permit the unjust enrichment of paywall tyranny!
Transmission costs only capital. Opex for transmission is practically free.
The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (2015)
Some of the companies with job postings on that site seem to be headed by people in the US.

I'm not a lawyer but I think they're taking a serious risk.
Really?

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-21-mn-37499-...

It's an empty promise anyway, there's a commission that was created for the sole purpose of preventing politicians from doing precisely what Feinstein was promising and attempting to do, continuing to fund a military base that no longer makes sense from a national level in order to provide funds for their district.
that was the point. The entire point of IE was to embrace and extinguish the nascent web. With Netscape being cross-platform and the rise of Java, MS was feeling the threat to their Windows platform. Apple is doing a similar thing with Safari. Their App Store is their money maker. It's the whole reason they force Firefox and Chrome to use standards-lagging and neutered WebKit on iOS.

Google doesn't like the web, either. They control it at both ends. Search and the browser. Every web site today is built to conform to Google's blackbox SEO cargo cult. And Google performs an update regularly to their algorithm. At which point all websites have to do an SEO dance and hope it rains again. Google does this to prevent people from focusing on other search engines. If you always have to update for Google, then there is no time to focus on Bing or other avenues. Chrome also keeps people on Google search.

We don't have an open web today. We have three platforms. We have the Microsoft Windows platform, the Apple App Store platform, and the Google Web Platform.

And Facebook basically learned the lessons AOL failed to, on how to operate a walled garden on the internet.
> “100 year”, “1,000 year” or worse events

Okay, then we can keep gas power stations around for another 100 years and only turn them on for the few days they are needed. Probably, though, after 50 years we will have solved climate change and energy storage (or wiped ourselves out) anyway.
Have you ever lived in modern society? Its basically occupational therapy keeping you busy with maintaining your <insert local environment>. And its hugely popular.
You can cut a key in half without literally cutting it in half. Like: generate random 256bit number, xor with the key, and hand the random number to one party, and the xor'd value to the other party.
This sounds like a great way to work multiple jobs at once, under the table, then stiff your employers. Oh, and all without you as an employee having any of the employment protections and benefits provided by your government.

I just don't see this taking off in any significant way for legitimate work.
I think these are two distinct things:

> The problem isn't that "finding nothing" isn't progress. The problem is that "finding nothing" is terrible progress-per-dollar.

> if you go on to argue about how vital it is to spend another 5x times as much money to build another particle collider that we have no reason to believe will find anything new, you will continue to be marginalized and find your influence waning to apparently no effect.

The first part is fine if by it you mean you think the physics-practitioner-theory of the collider advocates (a theory about what next research steps might be fruitful, not a theory of physics) is now implausible to you. On the other hand if you just think something like "We expect the future (of physics) to be 'like' the past (not making progress)", then that isn't an explanatory statement and is unrelated to whether we should fund a future collider. If you know what you're going to find in an experiment, you're not setting out to discover something new, so there is no such "future will be like the past" principle here.

The second really is an argument not to fund a future collider because it comes with an explanation: what good theory (of physics, this time) do we have that predicts we'll find new tests, or new problems? If there's no very good theory, new tests or new problems might come from other experiments instead, especially if they're a lot cheaper so we can do more of them. Personally I guess that it's a good argument you make here in this second part, but what do I know?
2 months is a much better deal than getting fired on the spot.

At best you find a new job, at worse you have time to cut back on your spending
No. He’s making the troll argument that if people born men can identify as women (and therefore be treated as such) then why can’t white people identify as black and say the n-word.

Not as superficially bad as saying the word, but bad in the sense it is a two-for-one: trivializing the experience of black people and trans people.
Can I opt out?
Well done SPK!
Does the article even have a salient point worth discussing in relation to its clickbait title? I think I can sum up the entire article with just the sentence "a tangle of footprints near Hazebruh (because this is England) has been dated 850,000–950,000 years ago". It certainly doesn't answer the question in a more succinct way than the OP did.
simple silicon micros are also ridiculously cheap, its the packaging that kills you and makes them rarely go below $1.
So much work..

I mean, this could be much more useful, if he created his own games based on these ideas/gameplays, not copy designs of heroes and level maps.
Sounds expensive, wouldn't it just be easier to trust them? I think the bigger problem is if a doctor doesn't know what's wrong or how to fix it, then they disengage.
This reads like one of those lame "in this house we believe..." signs except turned around 180 degrees. It seems like they are less interested in expressing what they are for than they are in what they are against.

In a world where the attitude towards cryptocurrency is increasingly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCrmuALDEE

you've got more things to worry about than shaming people you disagree with like rubbing a dog's nose in crap.
Looks cool!. Any support for PostGIS?