skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cramming the night before an exam isn't the same thing as learning. It doesn't change who you are and the way you see the world. It doesn't give you new abilities you can use for the rest of your life.
Yeah, any time somebody says "this thing goes Mach <number>" the first question should be "at what altitude?" and the second should be "for how long?".
When you get shocked by a Van de Graaff generator, you do get high voltage, as well as high currents. The missing ingredient is time. The shock takes a very small time, so the energy delivered by the shock is very small. Skin-effect also helps.
To extract the noise from sensor imperfections, wouldn't one need unaltered images in raw format?

Automatic denoise and image compression ought to erase all but most obvious defects.
> the destruction process permanently neutralizes the chemical

This raises a few questions in my mind. TFA makes it sound like the refrigerant boogeyman is a problem of fixed quantity. It sounds like after we've destroyed all the refrigerant, it can cause no more harm, but clearly these refrigerants must be manufactured on a continual basis?

Can refrigerants not be recycled? What materials go into the creation of refrigerants? Is anything of value lost in destroying refrigerants, besides the energy that went into making them?
Yep, liqueur is cutesy syrupy stuff made in european monasteries or whatever, typically around 40 proof. Liquor (as in "corn likker") is the stuff for getting messed up fast, typically at least 80 proof.
Because environmentalists have a truly terrible track record.

They keep advocating for things that won't really help the environment - or actively hurt it. As long as those things pass some kind of "purity test".

For example:

Being against nuclear power.

Plastic straw ban (the replacements are way worse for the environment).

Banning natural gas in homes (using electricity for your stove, water heater and dryer has greater emissions).

Plastic bags vs others types - study after study has shown this helps litter, but is worse in every other possible way.

Recycling plastic rather than burning it. Burning it is better for the environment, but "sounds bad".
This is a signal vs. noise issue. Quite simply if you think your values are better than the average (and believe me - you do think this) then it makes sense to inculcate your values into your children as much as possible. A decision to not home educate your children is usually because of other considerations, usually financial, sometimes cultural, etc.

I don't want to minimize your point about mental health though. If you're struggling you have to help yourself before you can pour into your children.
In the US elected representatives in a few places have decided to remove statues of proponents of slavery, after significant public pressure. This is not happening to statues commemorating deaths of soldiers or protestors. And nothing stops you from waving a confederate flag and "celebrating your heritage" if that is your belief system. Actually, the state-funded police department would at least pretend to send officers to separate you from counter-protesters and attempt to make sure both sides are protected. This seems quite different from removing statues commemorating student protests (that went bloody due to state violence)
You may assume your product will improve the QOL of your customers, but for most salespeople that reach me, that is not the case.

You also act like you have an entitlement to people's time just in case they may be a prospective customer - this is not the case.
Have you see https://forcitehelmets.com ?
For what it's worth, the first thing that popped into my mind reading the title is "bullshit job".

The second thing was those religious fucks in Game of Thrones [spoiler alert] who start small, get invited to court, gain control, and end up getting blown up.
Agreed. It's not until you ask people to put skin in the game that you get truth - revealed preferences.

I'm working on a new company right now and this is one of those things that is front of mind if you've been there before.
The Mouse “Utopia” Experiment That Turned into an Apocalypse
The percentage of people living past the age of 90 is much greater than it was in the neolithic era so the premiums would be priced appropriately. To 'win' all the insurer needs to do is ensure that payouts never exceed 49% of premiums received. Calculating the premiums payable on a million dollar policy with a cut-off of living beyond the age of 90 is a dark art relegated to the world of Excel tables, COBOL, Fortran and AS400 but gut instinct tells me that the premiums would be at a level that most people with access to a calculator would go ‘ah hell no, I’ll stick my premiums in to a fixed deposit interest bearing account instead’.

If you have ever seen life assurance policies that state somewhere in the fine print words to the effect of 'this is a whole of life policy and the premiums paid over the lifetime of this policy may exceed any expected payout' then congrats – You’ve just spotted the ‘gotcha’ of insurance.
European Union Citizens Won't Face Mobile Roaming Fees Until at Least 2032
>not burn your runway with bureaucracy

You going to tell us the US tech market is not boggled down by bureaucracy? Surely you jest. Do you need a reminder who sets the trend for the remainder of the market?
I believed the hype and did mindfulness meditation for dumb reasons
> Google allowed RuTarget, a Russian company that helps brands and agencies buy digital ads, to access and store data about people browsing websites and apps in Ukraine and other parts of the world

In other words, they collected data via websites and apps, just like any other JS or native ad library does. This wasn't data that Google collected, then handed over. It's a misleading headline IMO.
HP Dev One with Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U Competes Well Against Intel's Core I7 1280P
Sure, I have nothing against companies doing so, at long as they are up front about it. That's not what happened here. It would be like they are saying "We're not gonna fire people for poor performance" and then some weeks later announce "We're gonna start firing people for poor performance". It just looks really bad on management.
West-aligned still trumps democratic. The West generally doesn't have a problem with authoritarianism but rather with competition or obstruction of their economic goals. When the opposite is true they will gladly turn a blind eye to any number of atrocities.

See here: Saudi-Arabia, Oman, UAE, Philippines, Egypt (military junta), Turkey, etc.

If being friendly with an authoritarian state yields economic or military geographical advantage then that overrides any ideological hang-ups involved.
How DeepFace and RetinaFace are being actively used to identify war criminals?
I'm not worried about Amazon in such a system (although I can see Amazon trying to buy the name Disney or Walmart). But imagine the startup offered the choice of selling out at a steep discount or having their runway consumed defending the trademark or starting over with a new name. Oculus does well on Kickstarter and has some buzz? Why acquire it when FB can just buy the name and goodwill for a fraction of the cost?
Or at the ground and hit the wrong target, potentially with very bad consequences.
How to decide when to end Covid isolation: 'The answer to that is clear as mud'
I think that they are trying to marry two opposing ideologies. Capitalism and Totalitarianism mix about as well as oil and water. The free exchange of ideas that is a boon to Capitalism is at odds with Totalitarianism.

Something's gotta give but I've been saying that for awhile now.
Show HN: Startup School OS – Notion Operating System for Startup School (Free)
That's the same way I explained it when I had the CEO of my competition murdered, but people still got mad.

Can't we accept an apology for a small mistake without retroactively justifying it?
> explore other options like universal paycuts

I suspect that would just get all the best employees to leave pretty damn quickly, especially if other companies aren't doing paycuts. All for doing it for execs, though. Don't think you'll lose much by letting them jump ship.
> I specifically linked to the_duke's comment offering some good-faith feedback.

My point with this thread is it follows a common pattern. A HN user will post something in bad faith. The maintainer will respond with annoyance. Then someone like the_duke will moralize about how the maintainer shouldn't be so antagonistic. Then GP will put it in a list and say "the lead dev and community do not engage criticism in good faith."

What is going on here?
> All you had to do was make a game with an art style that appeals to everyone, whatever it might be

It beggars belief that someone could write this sincerely and not realize how absurd it is. "All you had to do was make something perfect."
I've had a pretty solid experience with Autodesk. Curious though, why's that?
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“A few more in HK”. Woot? SF is like a suburb, and HK is one of the densest place on earth crawling with life and shops and skyscrapers.
Carnegie Mellon University | Remote friendly, Pittsburgh, PA | Junior or Entry-level Software Engineer | Open Source

We are looking to add a front-end React/TypeScript software engineer to our team that is leading the development of our open source learning engineering platform. This person would have the opportunity to learn Elixir/Phoenix and thus be able to contribute to the entire system development.

The Torus platform (https://github.com/Simon-Initiative/oli-torus) is rapidly growing and gaining attention in the EdTech and Corporate training spaces. Over the past year and a half the development effort has grown from just our small team here at CMU to one now involving multiple partner organizations (both corporate and academic). The project receives code contributions from several different countries and continents on a daily basis.

CMU benefits are legendary, including the ability to take classes - and even pursue an advanced graduate degree - for free.

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Samsung Starts 3nm Production: The Gate-All-Around (Gaafet) Era Begins
The can of air duster on my desk is R-152a
If the US had serious privacy protection rules there would be no data to sell to russian companies. Obviously that also means there would be no data to pass to 3 letter agencies, so probably we won't see them any time soon.
I notice you're quiet about Russia.
> I have an issue with that argument, because it's typically being used together with highly disingenuous statistics

Agreed. I think the argument is ultimately true, but it's also easy to abuse with bad stats, and being skeptical of each new claim that we've "crossed the line" is a good idea.
How to Connect Raspberry Pi Pico W to the Internet
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Based on datasets used in Stanford’s ‘Racial Disparities in Speech Recognition’ study, Speechmatics recorded an overall accuracy of 82.8% for African American voices compared to Google (68.6%) and Amazon (68.6). This level of accuracy equates to a 45% reduction in speech recognition errors – the equivalent of three words in an average sentence.

We are hiring in Client Services, Engineering, Finance, Machine Learning, Marketing, People and Sales. Some of the roles are:
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Section 230 is part of the Communications Decency Act, not the DMCA.
> But if completed, it would represent a huge discount on the company’s valuation when investors led by an arm of SoftBank Group Corp.

Why is it that SoftBank somehow always manages to buy the top?
A military boot camp is also an educational institution, so the similarity to a school is hardly accidental.
> The job of the CEO is to keep the firm going, not to make employees happy.

Sociopathic CEOs actually believe this. Maintaining employee morale is crucial to the long term health of a company. Ignore it and you suffer a slow death from brain drain and disaffected employees. "They pretend to care about us, I pretend to care about my job."
Actually homeschoolers are on average the same or lower than the median in terms of household income. Families who go to public school have to pay a ton on childcare, summer camp and after school classes, whereas homeschoolers often choose flexible work and develop creative solutions like skill shares and childcare shares. Fostering independent learners also certainly helps.

Here’s some more I wrote on the topic of homeschooling on a budget
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/budget
That's kind of insane. The most I'd think a 14 year old would be interested in is learning some browser related tricks (inspecting requests, elements, etc). On the technical side of things, unix utilities like ping / nano would be a good bet.

For day to day related work, just show how you decide what to work on? Maybe go through an instance of investigating a task?
I am looking for a Junior Frontend or Full-Stack (with Node) role.

Location: Vienna, Austria
Remote: Either is fine.
Willing to relocate: Would be interested in relocating to London (need visa), or Japan (spouse is Japanese). Anywhere else, probably not.
Technologies: TypeScript, React/Next.js, CSS, React Query, Express, Postgres, MongoDB, REST, GraphQL, tRPC, Jest, Cypress, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS (EC2/S3/RDS), Git, Linux

Self taught programmer with a background in design, currently working as a University lecturer while building out projects and contributing to OSS, looking for my first full time dev job. I’m a full stack developer with a particular strength in front end design/styling but can contribute anywhere in the stack.

My long term goal is a role where I can make use of my experience as a teacher, but for the time being I would also be happy just being an IC.

Portfolio: https://c-ehrlich.dev

Github: https://github.com/c-ehrlich

Email: on portfolio/github

CV: on request
How to Talk to Human Beings
Not only RSUs but stock options as well. I've always pushed/leaned/fought for a higher base over more options. I prefer a bird in the hand.

However, if your timing is good and risk tolerance is high, taking more options over a higher base can work out quite well.
Toaster's smaller and easier to clean. Quicker to start, if only slightly. Probably faster. Wouldn't be surprised if they're more power efficient per slice of finished toast. Toaster oven, being large and having so much functionality overlap with a normal stove (and microwave, to some extent), is far less common (at least in the US) than the smaller and more focused toaster. Most two-slice toasters you can easily stuff in a drawer or cabinet. Toaster ovens demand permanent counter space.
Also Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, and much of Latin America had capitalist dictatorships before democracy. But I don't think it was free markets that led to democracy in those cases so much as it was US political influence.
Gonna recommend Car Wars by Cory Doctorow - https://web.archive.org/web/20170112064813/http://this.deaki...
Some important things have happened since the protests.
Amazon is surprisingly not yet in that infographic in the latest lay offs.

When I left Amazon last year, there were effectively two Amazons. One is a group with half baked product or service ideas, throwing garbage at a wall to see what sticks. The other Amazon is like a retirement community worker, keeping legacy services alive, ensuring their security recertifications, and not much else. There isn’t even a concept of innovation.

Though I don’t work there anymore, I’m still a shareholder. I look forward to the company trimming the excess fat. If the broader market really is impacted, unfortunately, there’s going to be a massive army of H1Bs suddenly faced with leaving the country.
> This is the easiest way to cause the problems listed and would get them in the most trouble.

The devices both run in the 2.4 GHz band so, no, leakage outside the band or even excess power is not the “easiest way” this is causing problems - it’s probably much more mundane.
In the case of glass it’s also the physics.

All fired silicon materials are more stable when they have been fired at least twice. If you make ceramics, you save all your failures to make grog, which is basically ceramic sand or dust. Mixed in with fresh clay it reduced the expansion ratio and the internal stresses.

Bottles with recycled material are more sturdy than those without. I don’t know how the process of bringing a bottle plant online works, but if it doesn’t include either buying grog from a supplier or feeding all the glass from the test runs into a hopper I would be very surprised.

I have never heard a physicist explain this phenomenon, but if you crush something it tends to break along the weakest points, so crushed silicon has selected out many of the weakest grains and left the strongest ones. Then either they continue to grow or they just increase the ratio of strong to weak.
Saying "no undefined behavior" when what you really mean is "We define our language's behavior to be the same as C's" (in other words, you just punt undefined behavior to the C compiler) is deceptive at best. I'm specifically thinking of signed integer overflow here, but that makes me think there may be other cases as well.
Oh, shitty economist forgot its publication is about economy.

https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202109/14/P2021091400837....

HK is still the most freedom area in economy freedom ranking. How is that squared with "police state"?

These type of sentiment among the people is like the typical reaction of the cultural adaptation of HK, in the background the reinforced tie with the mainland China.

To link this to "police state" is a stereotype of Chinese society. This stereotyping is a well understood political propaganda campaign started since 1840. I.e., when the west realized the mighty Qing dynasty is so weak and wait for them to plunder, they start to manufacture an inferior sense on Chinese and China.

For a simple fact:
China's incarcerated population 121 per 100,000 of the national population,
US 419 in state and federal prisons per 100,000.
Great Britain is 131.5 per 100 thousand people in 2021

If you want to define a police state, then incarceration rate is a better index than a few political activists, especially those political activists are not patriotic towards their home country.

It's like asking people naturalized in US to take an oath:

```
The Oath will ask you to swear that, as a new citizen of the United States, you will: Support and defend the values of the laws and Constitution of the United States against its enemies.
```

But these political activists will refuse to do so, and still demand to be naturalized.
what alternative course of action do you suggest instead? I don't understand why you think people should continue to be surprised by wholly predictable reactions contingent upon inherently flawed human behavior.

hopefully your solution isn't simple moral posturing that Things Should Be Better, because that might feel good to say but as a solution it's pretty obviously untenable.

regardless: either Ron Gilbert is, somehow—even after DeathSpank(!)—hopelessly naïve with regards to the state of anonymous shit-flinging on the Internet in 2022, or all of this moralizing and othering of Toxic Entitled Gamers (which we've definitely never seen deployed before!) is part of the PR plan for this game, to make people feel sympathy/empathy for a celebrated, legendary game designer being forced to read mean words on the Internet about something he made, as though this is some great moral travesty of our times and not just the baseline level of Internet interaction one should expect by now. again: why is any of this a huge surprise to anyone involved? why is Ron Gilbert taking any of this personally instead of just taking the tack of "lol well this is what I wanted to make so fuck off if you don't like it"?

either way, sad state of affairs, especially given that I'm looking forward to the game's release regardless. hopefully the lesson everyone learns from this is that people act like fuckwads on the Internet and there really isn't anything you can do about it aside from refraining from looking at it... which is a lesson I thought we all learned a long time ago.
A 51% attack is on specific counterparties, not the entire network. counterparties have other ways to punish such an attack: 1. Refuse repeat business, 2. Decrease credit rating etc.
1. If you're sending a portion of your monthly wages as a remittance to your family, spending a dollar[1] isn't too much.

2. A smart contract allows decentralised organisations to function, with democratic voting and transparency. (That's not appropriate or necessary for every organisation, but it can be an improvement on one person hosting a server and saying "Trust me"). If there's a bug in the contract, you have to vote to change the contract. Traditional contracts, businesses, and even countries fail all the time, but we haven't give up on them as concepts.

3. For a concrete use-case, I offer the example of blockchain technology being used to make the fishing industry supply chain more transparent.[3] It's true that someone could enter fake information onto the blockchain, but they could also fake signatures on paperwork, so a system can still be useful even if it doesn't prevent all possible attacks.

4. If the ledger isn't trustless, then someone is controlling it, so your identities aren't really decentralised.

5. There are better currencies than BTC if transaction costs are the main concern. The equivalent number for BCH is half a cent.[5]

[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

[3] https://www.reutersevents.com/sustainability/using-blockchai...

[5] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-transact...
Growing up and the 80s and 90s in the UK (i.e. without internet) the two most exciting countries for foreign films was Japan and Hong Kong (apart from USA of course). I used to love them.

I'm not a movie expert, but it does feel like Hong Kong movies have nosedived in the years since it joined China. And is now a bit of a dead end. Police states aren't exactly conducive for creative expression. There's a lot of factors that could explain it but I do wonder how much regime change played a part.
Fun fact: even series creator Shigeru Miyamoto wasn't thrilled with that art style at first.[0]

Makes me wonder if Twilight Princess was more his push than the widely-assumed theory that its direction was "for the fans" still disappointed from Spaceworld 2000.

[0] https://kotaku.com/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-graphics-s...