skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
England abolished slavery after The Revolutionary War. The abolitionist movement started in the US. Black men could vote in Massachusetts in 1780.

Jefferson and others were proven right when it took a war to end slavery in the US. That's what they wanted to avoid. It's uncharitable to blame them for not fighting that war; it would have been their lives on the line. Meanwhile we're sitting in the present, benefitting from that war without the need to die in it.
> A lot of the HR analyses I read on HN are coming from an extremely privileged position and are very US-centric. What you experience in the very few tech hubs in USA is absolutely not what you'd experience literally everywhere else in the world. This is an observable fact if you speak with a lot of non-US contractors. But it's also a fact that's usually not welcome on HN.

I’ve worked internationally and many of the best managers I’ve worked with are from smaller European countries.

I think you’re just projecting your own bad experiences on to the rest of the world.

Also, HN and Internet forums where people go to vent anonymously are not good barometers for how managers perform. You’re collecting negative anecdotes that confirm your bias.
I was prepared for a laugh, but I think this is just the production of an intelligent crank. Anyone have reason to believe otherwise?

It amazes me how many people in the 99th percentile of intelligence think they're really 99.9999999th percentile (one in a billion if I can count), and delude themselves into thinking they've solved some major problem despite a complete lack of positive feedback from other intelligent people.
Yes, and that should raise eyebrows in our industry - it’s easier to burn money for dubious growth when money is sitting around. Uber Et. Al. May finally need to prove they can run at a profit.
the issue with Visa/mastercard is not their near-monopoly status, so they can arbitrarily decide to sink your business.

money transfer industry is not so consolidated.
If you stop striving towards goals, you die. Your body and mind fall apart.

One of the most boring experiences is traveling around and looking at things.

I'm happiest when I'm working hard trying to achieve a new goal.
> AI-assisted robotic automation in particular - could have a similar societal impact by eliminating many jobs and concentrating wealth in the hands of the owners of the manufacturing lines

"will" is an unnecessary word. That started happening with the electronics revolution in 1970s triggering the robotics revolution and automating factories. That's the reason for increasing wealth concentration. Which, the Western governments tried to combat by floating the economy on debt. That blew up in 2008. So here we are, living the aftermath of the crash of capitalism that Marx said would happen due to increasing technology and automation putting majority of people out of work and there remaining no way for them to buy the products that the economy produces, putting the economy into a crisis.
SXSW 2023 to be hosted by Sydney, branching outside the US for the first time
I wonder whether it would be easier to get Fortran in the browser with f2c (http://www.netlib.org/f2c/) then C to WASM.

I had excellent results with f2c on an old Fortran program when I used it.
And then potentially earning non-w2 money money on top of that (Uber, babysitting, etc)
Yeah I think there are two sides to this coin (and just for clarity - all of this relates to Picroft, not Mimic 3 the TTS engine that just launched). The audio hardware makes a huge difference to audio input which is why we've developed the custom SJ201 board that's in the Mark II. But even on DIY units we have been making big improvements on the wake word detection by better balancing our training data sets. Once the Mark II is shipping there are additional wake word improvements on the roadmap. Eventually the system will optimize for the users of each device. So the wake word model on your device wouldn't be exactly the same as the model on mine. We've also ported the Wake Word model to Tensorflow Lite which means it uses a small fraction of the system resources that it used to :D
We're also about to make some bigger changes to mycroft-core that will help to support a broader range of hardware in a more consistent way. So whilst you could try it again today and I can guarantee it's better than the last time you used it, if you want a DIY system instead of a Mark II - I'd suggest adding a reminder to check it again in a couple of months once these bigger changes land.
Someone who has had their job offer rescinded has legal recourse. I would suggest anyone in this position contact an employment lawyer.
The police who should have responded in a timely fashion should be ashamed

We need legislation to fix these issues but all we get are these business contracts that do nothing but line the pockets of politicians and their friends
It's pure hubris and ego. If these kinds of people ever do gain the power they crave, that will destroy us more surely than any climate issue.
All the money given to people living paycheck to paycheck quickly converted into goods and services which generated profit for those who don't live paycheck to paycheck.
All the rain poured onto a city ends up in the sea, all the money pumped into the system eventually ends up in real estate and capital markets.
We lost about 70% of our tech staff to that. Do t get me wrong, we made it as convenient as possible to lay them off if they wanted it and kept them on… but lots of guys don’t want $20 an hour to work when they can make $24 an hour not working or keep working under the table somewhere.

We got about 30% back. One guy in particular came back for about 4 hours before telling us where we can stick it and he was going back on unemployment, anyone of us would have said prior to his vacation he had a good work ethic and never once expressed issue with the job.

As to PPP, we took a very small amount to help keep people on, and two competitors took millions and have now fired a lot of people and moved mfg over to China. So… yea, I don’t think these were the right moves.
You’ve never heard of “snitches get stitches?”
Hmm from my perspective a pair of JBP LSR 308P MkII and a transport matches the price of entry-level consumer audiophile speakers and a cheap (Topping/SMSL) AMP/DAC pairing yet will outperform it any day.
It was a bit of a variety. The main hub in the early days seemed to be around multimedia stuff and tech. The guy who ran it was into doing flash stuff and had a media company (still does). However it was mostly general chat or "look at this cool thing" type stuff. Slightly before my time there, it seemed like they had a feud with the Rogan forums; there was some drama and history there.

Off that I remember a couple guys had ones for web models (one of the guys ran the Kate's hoof site when that blew up, if you remember it). Another was software leaks, which was shutdown after a scare from Microsoft's lawyers. Another had a pretty big fitness section on it. Some others were mostly general chat... just shooting the shit, but skewed to different tones, if that makes sense. One guy dropped out of seminary school and had a site documenting all the stuff in the bible that made him stop believing in god, which was pretty interesting... he was also really into making flash audio players.

Toward the end it was a lot of people just sharing stuff they were doing... one girl was a researcher or something who was always posting pics in the jungle with giant gorillas. Another guy was just some punk college kid, but ended up in the military, working in the Obama white house, and is now a lawyer; it was cool watching that progression. People met their husband/wife, had kids. Parents died and they were dealing with how to clean up their house. All kind of stuff. There was always an area for tech support or PC builds, things of that nature. One guy lived an hour from me, I've been to his house a come times. I got invited to another guy's wedding from there, but had a conflict. It was just a little community of people on the internet. The original hub site was pretty big, I want to say 70k members. The last one to shut down was a lot smaller, but we all liked it the way. There were probably 1-2 dozen of us who were there almost every day. It was extremely active... until it wasn't.

The only guy I know who is still running one is for saltwater fish tanks. I'm a mod over there, but don't think I've been there in over a year. I helped him when he was getting things setup, tweaked the logo he got form 99Designs, because it wasn't quite what he needed for all the areas, worked with him on testing various feature of the new boards, small stuff like that. They are pretty focused on their fish. There are meetups for coral and stuff like that.
C# – Mocking classes without making members virtual
I just came across this proposal. I am surprised it is not discussed much. This should be already implemented.
No but a lot of people did end up saving and having more money to spend.

As you say, basically $40k/person, which is more than a lot of people make (think especially of families with part time workers, like students or parents). And with reduced expenses for many: no commute, no other work-related expenses like clothes, often no childcare costs, less eating out and entertainment.
Certainly sucks, but it's not unexpected there's a price differential. GBTC was never equivalent to real Bitcoin. I can understand some investors speculating they'd get the option to convert, but that exit always had risk attached (in terms of how long it would take and whether it ever happens).
I wonder if the slippage of liquidating $13B worth of Bitcoin is already priced in. In other words, if GBTC was liquidated maybe shareholders would only get $13 per share so the current market price is fair.
I think the biggest damage came from effectively zero-interest loans to those with means: high net-worth individuals, financial institutions, etc.

Insanely magnified purchasing power for those with access.

Consider housing. Blackrock and the Google Squad hoovered up a ton of real estate and converted them into rentals. Normal people can't offer 20-40% above asking for a home, so they were priced completely out of the market.

Starter homes have doubled or tripled in price over the past four years. Salaries have not risen to match.

Same is true for many other goods, and when combined with deliberate supply chain sabotage at the behest of the ruling class, effectively turned a significant chunk of the population into serfs overnight.

The knock-on effects of this aren't going to be pleasant.

People take pride in their work when they have a future to build towards. That no longer true for younger folks, or even a lot of people in their prime working years, so everybody is just sort of... phoning it in.

Imagine you're a high school graduate today. All you can see down the road for you is an either an infinite series of "gigs", or, if you're lucky, the luxurious serfdom of corporate servitude. In the latter case, you still don't earn enough to ever own property, but you get free food and access to approved activities from your masters in the company hierarchy.
I find it amusing that most people in the comments are discussing previous mistakes as they interpret them but mostly not addressing their perception of how bad the next/current recession will be. I think some higher prices in things like food will be elevated for some time. I also expect the economy to recover in a year or so, but I don't expect the recovery will last long for various reasons.

My predictions are that the federal government will step in dramatically in the American southwest next year. Water and crop issues will persist next year just as they've been getting worse for over a decade now, which will increase migration rates, conflicts, and elevate food prices. More people will move from the American southwest to the northwest and eastern US. The Russian war will drag on. To the world's hunger and pain, the US will reduce agricultural and growth exports due to water issues. US efforts to 'reshore' manufacturing and chip fabs in particular will falter and slow as shipping rates fall, as cheap labor centers become available and more cost efficient again, as labor costs in the US increase and labor actions increase year over year even with poor economic conditions, and as water issues prevent or delay Intel and others from building their water intensive chip factories in the US. I could go on but hopefully you get the picture. As I've said before, I'm just an accountant with some light studies in economics and mild curiosity, so maybe take some these predictions with a grain of salt.
No! You are not allowed to suggest real solutions that have actually been tried and work! No, you must accept Hare-Brained Technocratic Scheme #42398!
> why it's important for a currency to be inflationary

Money is created when people take out loans right? (like for a home or car, or when a buisness takes out a loan for capex)

So if the population contracts (i.e. the boomers start dying) doesn't that mean there should a contraction of money supply since fewer people will exist to take out loans?
Uber is probably W9 Contractor or something, right?

But yea, we had people work construction and dock work for cash.
Crypto is nothing compared to the forever profitless VF funded 2010-2020 era companies that are going to be drastically downsizing.
shouldn't the layoffs have started with the small companies, to begin with? Why would big companies be the first to let go of their staff?
It’s the free version for their mass affluent clientele that their retail brokers (sorry “financial advisors”) can parrot
> Like Y Combinator here, and many other venture capitalists turning a profit on cryptocurrency scams

Thats precisely how the current Internet was funded, developed and evolved. There are a similar, even higher amount of scams and failed attempts in the Internet's earlier history when compared to crypto.

The progress will be the same - out of dozens of scams and hundreds of failed crypto attempts, one startup will invent one use case that the public gets on board, and that will set the standard.
Wouldn’t all this not be an issue with static websites? We should have more static
Whether a sample is representative is a different issue from whether the response rate is high.

For example, you can have a population of 10,000 jobs, 9,000 of which is hiring for Clojure and 1,000 of which is hiring for Forth. If you sample the 9,000 Clojure jobs, then you might conclude that 100% of all 10,000 jobs are for Clojure. But in reality, only 90% are.

Instead, you can sample 100 of the 10,000 jobs at random. The expected value of the average of whether a sampled job is a Clojure job will be 90%. There will be noise but that can be statistically accounted for.

If the population that you want to draw conclusions about is, say, the complete universe of jobs ever offered in the US in 2021, it will be difficult to find either a data set that contains this universe or a data set that is arguably a random subset of the universe. So representativeness is hard.

You could adjust your population definition to achieve plausible representativeness. For example, take the population of all developer jobs at companies that had an IPO between 2018 and 2021. Maybe you have a way to compile this data set from some source. Then you limit the scope of your claims but you will be more credible.

Another thing that you can do is take an existing data set that you know to be representative and compare the distribution of job characteristics in your sample to that. For example, you might find that your sample is more likely to include web development jobs than your reference data set. Then you know that your sample is not representative, and you know in what way it isn't. Or you might find that your sample is comparable to your reference data set. This can give you some confidence that your findings generalize.
It absolutely matters elsewhere. I don't buy much electronic equipment but I try to make sure I know where my clothes and food come from.
GP is describing the internal logic of the system, not their own preferences.
> Because California’s economy is forcibly diverted to subsidize Alabama's political decisions (given the way federal funding formulas work, largely specifically because those decisions are consistent failures in aggregate economic terms.)

I agree. I think that the way the US does things is kind of ridiculous.

> Also, because being conmpelled to tolerate denials of fundamental human rights is an intolerable condition.

How do you feel about the US not managing it's own petroleum production at levels to support its own use, effectively requiring propping up the Saudi regime? I think we can safely say they have a worse track record on women's rights than Alabama.

Do you feel that's intolerable as well?
Because CEOs pretty much decide their own salary. CEOs are on each other’s boards, making sure that CEO salaries are never questioned.
The E90 and newer BMWs seem to have indicator clicks that are almost inaudible

That's very odd, given how much emphasis they have (or used to?) about road-feel and other forms of feedback while driving, and BMW's slogan is "the ultimate driving machine".
Also I want to add, I personally think that understanding baldness and "curing" baldness is one of the biggest solvable problems we have as humans today. It can't be that hard to stop the process of hair loss, scientifically. Or at least growing hair in the lab and transplanting it onto the head, which I'm sure most people would be willing to do once every 10 years for a hefty fee. I know I would, if anybody knows anything please let me know!
Finasteride is also used to treat male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia) in men, a condition that develops in up to 80% of Caucasian men

4 out of 5 white guys are going bald. Finasteride can help but some have side effects.
How is your devil's advocate position different from your own?
by that loguc they can just skip the fraud part entirely and demand all the money at gunpoint

if you suspect fraud and fear violence, give then marked bills and call the authorities
Aren't these points orthogonal? Yes, money flows when it's not parked somewhere, but when a lot of people use extra cash for unproductive speculation it tends to make current or future recessions worse. What is needed is deliberate investment of time, money and effort building a prosperous future, not throwing surplus income at shiny things and hoping it magically multiplies.
Related question: most of the companies I know that have large monorepos have a sizable dedicated team to support their dev tools, and have invested a lot to make monorepos feasible.

Are there any recommendations or standardized tools for structuring monorepos for companies that don't have a dedicated dev tools team? Last I checked, lerna seemed to be the most common tool to support JS monorepos - is that still true? Is there a better tool for a primarily Typescript codebase (primarily React on the front end, Node on the backend, but also native mobile apps)?
Is light a wave or a particle?

Maybe that's different but my guess is the veil versus loop distinction gets fuzzy at some point.
Really? You can't think of any significant investor risk that the SEC might have identified here?

The SEC's response here is actually very even handed: they agree that there are advantages to a spot ETF for Bitcoin on a regulated exchange. The ruling observes that the presence of advantages is not sufficient: there must be proof that the rule change would not enable "fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices." They've also laid out how that proof might be obtained in the future: through a "surveillance-sharing agreement" that ensures transparency concerning the underlying assets.
How do you actually use it on a project? I see where you can order a dedicated piece of hardware, but I'd love to download this and replace pyttsx3 on my homemade IoT linux server.

But all I see is documentation, discussion of what they used to build it, and.... where's the actual softare?!?
A future is not an "exotic" derivative, it's a "vanilla" product.

Futures are mainly OK because there is no custody nor settlement of the underlying itself. Everything is settled in cash.

In this respect, cash settled (inverse) crypto futures could almost be considered as having no link whatshowever with crypto currencies. This fine point is actually what allowed brokers to propose crypto futures ahead of any regulation.
Why Developers Can't Sell?
> That model works, but is not compatible with C and UNIX.

The Unisys Clearpath line of systems have ISO C compliant compilers, and MCP provides a fairly complete POSIX environment. I've never actually programmed them, but I have the manuals. dlopen is conspicuously missing from the list of POSIX routines. I don't know how close the ISA is to 5500, but at least for Unisys Clearpath the only real incongruity in the environment is that unsigned arithmetic requires compiler-generated instrumentation as integers are sign-magnitude, which doesn't naturally provide the unsigned overflow semantics required by the standard.

ISO C has always tried to steer away from integer/pointer conversions for precisely this reason--pointers are special and might be opaque to the runtime environment. C99 adopted intptr_t, but it was optional and had restricted semantics. There's still no way in standard C to convert a function pointer to an object pointer or to intptr_t. But even in a full POSIX system this limitation only effects dlopen.

Reading the CHERI papers, porting all of FreeBSD to CHERI turned out to be surprisingly easy. dlopen and signals were two of the biggest headaches, IIRC. Very little application code had to change. Playing games with pointers just isn't particularly common in run-of-the-mill Unix applications, or even in open source generally, where writing standards-conformant code has always been valued. (Portability is even more valued, but usually the best way to achieve the latter is through the former.) It's more common in proprietary applications, like games, HPC, embedded, etc.
Hey there - the source for Mimic 3 can be found here: https://github.com/mycroftAI/mimic3
It can run CPU only or accelerated with a GPU.

Regarding the BOM, I assume you mean the Mark II? That you can find here:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/hardware-mycroft-mark-II/tree/m...
We actually ended up designing our own RPi daughterboard called the SJ201. It's mostly an audio front end with an XMOS XVF-3510 and dual mics, but also includes a 23W amp, some LEDs for feedback, buttons, a hardware mic switch, GPIO breakout and power management (amongst other things).
Always glad to see spyware companies struggle
Thanks for such thorough feedback!

> 3.

There's a "Show Required" button in the bottom-left of the gameplay screen (i.e., the screen with the timer) that shows the original text with the required terms underlined. Do you see that button?

> 4.

That's weird, because I only use Linux and mostly test in Firefox. If you happen to see any console errors or other clues, feel free to post them.

> 5.

Totally agree. I might establish a forum to make this more feasible, not sure yet.

> 6.

I can understand that notion from the consumer side, but as a maker, I've never had any luck with small voluntary payments. For this particular venture, a major component of the value-add is uncapped access to real human feedback, and this cannot be scaled. Because of that, I can't justify charging anything lower.

To come at it from another angle, I think $100 (or even $300) to learn a life skill that can drastically improve your personal and professional life is a great deal. Especially since the cost of many professional writing courses can be several times higher, in spite of being (in my opinion) much less effective.

If you're hesitant to spend the money, that's fair...consider joining the email list to stay in the loop. Or spend the money, and I'll just give it back to you if you have any regrets :D

> 7.

Interesting, haven't thought about such a thing. Maybe I'll consider it!