skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thought exactly. If it were possible to short private companies I would just look for whenever SoftBank leads a round at a nutso valuation.
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Tho that's quite the overly specific, and dated, definition of "propaganda".

Public relations is a way more apt term for what's going on in modern times [0], and in the "cyber" manifestation of that field, private parties are recognized as the main contributors, and actors, for a number of nation states [1]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/17/influencers-ukraini...

[1] https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cef7e8d9-27bf-4ea5-9fd6-85...
You are wrong on the facts about all of these, which is impressive in its own way, but just to focus in on one:

Burning plastic isn’t better for the environment than recycling. It is better than landfill, assuming you're using the heat to displace fossil fuels though.

You can check out the waste hierarchy on wikipedia if you care about being well informed about stuff:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy
If I were a crazy person who believed this stuff I would guess that it was rogue AI escaping to the Moon by "accident".

That would be great if it were true.
> A smart contract allows decentralised organisations to function, with democratic voting and transparency.

A smart contract is neither smart, nor a contract. It's a program, written in an esoteric language, and running in the world's most inefficient VM.

It's so bad and overcomplicated that "smart contract" authors themselves routinely make mistakes in code equivalent to the most basic of actual contracts. And since there's no avenue of recourse, these mistakes are irreversible.

"Smart contracts" also require the user to pay for any meaningful action.

As for "transparency", there's no transparency when something is enforced by code very few can read and understand (compared to actual contracts that can be read by humans).

As for "democracy", there's nothing democratic about "who has the most money has the most votes".

> Traditional contracts, businesses, and even countries fail all the time, but we haven't give up on them as concepts

Because we have thousands of years of history teaching us how to deal with those, and guess what, we've come up with multiple things like:

- regulations

- contract clauses dealing with failure

- avenues of recourse

- various methods of enforcement

Crypto bros pretend that these things are unnecessary, but then immediately turn to courts to sue scammers, or cry in cryptoforums when a "smart contract" bug wipes their wallets out.
It's true, you shouldn't. The plastic leaches off in multiple forms. Doing it a couple times won't really hurt you, but it's a bad long-term habit.
> Angel investors, venture capitalists, as well as increased investments from agrifood giants such as Cargill, Danone and Nestle, have helped boost growth to 19% per year.

Cargill, Danone and Nestle. Those companies, they are exemplars of environmentally responsible, ethical production of high-quality nutritious food that respects animal rights and human health:

> Cargill: the company feeding the world by helping destroy the planet

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/11/25/cargill-deforest...

> Cost of environmental damage linked to Nestlé, Danone and Mondelez rises sharply

> "A lot of major global corporations have effectively outsourced their environmental impact to their supply chains," said Dexter Galvin, global director of corporations and supply chains at CDP, a nonprofit group that collects environmental data from companies. "It's a blind spot, which means that most of their carbon emissions, water use and impact on deforestation escape public scrutiny."

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

> Animal rights campaigners are now urging the public to boycott Danone, Nestle and Yakult to stop the animal suffering.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/600145/Nestle-Yakult-and-D...

> Multiple reports have documented the widespread use of child labour in cocoa production, as well as slavery and child trafficking, throughout West African plantations, on which Nestlé and other major chocolate companies rely.[159][160][161][162][163] According to the 2010 documentary, The Dark Side of Chocolate, the children working are typically 12 to 15 years old.[164] The Fair Labor Association has criticised Nestlé for not carrying out proper checks.[165]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Slavery_and_child_...

In September 2017, an investigation[215] conducted by NGO Mighty Earth found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Nestlé and other major chocolate companies was grown illegally in national parks and other protected areas in Ivory Coast and Ghana.[216][217][218] The countries are the world's two largest cocoa producers.[219][220]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Deforestation

I mean, who else would be investing in fake sausages?
> If you're struggling you have to help yourself before you can pour into your children.

To be clear I think this applies to people who aren’t struggling, or don’t believe they are struggling. We all have a lifetime of accumulated damage. I hate the “therapy is for people with problems” idea. It’s not about struggling or not, it’s about repeating unhealthy patterns to a next generation - or the swinging pendulum of overcorrecting our parents mistakes. If you have or are going to have kids, please, do at least 6 sessions with a therapist you like. Worst case it does nothing, best case you save your self and your kids a lot of pain.
@edenceover is probably referring mainly to the boost-glide vehicles that are moving at up to mach 20 ... through atmosphere. The air-breathing cruise missile type designs go slower (only mach 6-ish) but at that speed you can have a sane discussion about guidance. This rocket-guidance problem, by the way, is where the Black-Scholes model came from.
I don't like to crush the garlic because I tend to grate it
Maybe it was their internal tooling?
Probably depends. Even in my own family, the amount of emotional openness between the kids varies.
Even ignoring PKD scifi dystopias, governmental adoption of predictive AI invites kafkaesque beaurocratic dystopias where the model becomes stale but it literally takes decades for it to be revoked/replaced/revised.

An AI model that deduces sociological patterns is subject to the same problem of all social sciences: which is that the boundaries of where a finding applies aren’t clear, are sure to change, and can even be disturbed specifically by application of the finding.
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Work from home. Even with the pandemic over and some big tech companies not wanting to fully commit, remote work has become dramatically more commonplace in the industry than it was a few years ago pre-pandemic. Even conservative companies like Two Sigma were forced to introduce flexible hybrid models.
I do not know if the last statement is true, whether search engines will index your home server, I have no evidence either way. It is an interesting thought. One of the things I had, at a time, was a small publically available VPS that hosted the static, text content, which was small, that cost me around $5/month at the time, but all the larger video files I had, I hosted on my home server over my broadband connection and merely linked to them from my public VPS. So the issue of indexing never really came up. That said, I run two much larger servers, one in the UK and one in the US, for serving content. Off-topic, the servers are overkill for what I need, but they also serve the purpose of giving me a US egress and a UK egress via private VPN depending on which WiFi I connect to in my house.
Its a big mix of tech-literacy, lack of empathy in anonymous posts compared to in person interactions, and the main demographic being in peak pubescent angst.

Recently I feel like there's a large performative element to it as well. Like virtue signaling but without the virtue. I guess its just one incarnation of in crowd bullying. Hipsterism and the like, but this current incarnation has a lot more anger to it.
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So we’re going to gloss over the near total lack of innovation? You guys innovate in design, cars and nuclear physics (colliders to power plants), and that’s about it.

You don’t think any of that has to do with the employment contract?
Honestly... At this point, and after trying to engage constructively in other comments, I don't think the claims are actually intentionally false.

They may just come from a fundamental lack of knowledge about low level development.
given you’ve configured logging somewhere early on in the bootstrap phase of your app - there’s really few reason to go up and above having more than these two lines in all your logging modules

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

But boy oh have I seen some funny business where people attach the logger to their objects like so

class Wat:
def __init__(self):
self.logger = logging.getLogger(…)

All for what? For WAT?!
PSL unittest is very explicit and has no magic. Ironically it also has Java written all over it. You must be the first person I met who prefer unittest to pytest.
It's still different though, enough for me to have a preference. Maybe I didn't or can't articulate that difference or you find it a close enough substitute (or outright preference). Moisture content aside, toasting by warm air and radiant heat and toasting by direct contact with hot metal plates creates enough of a difference for me to have a preference. Minor differences in cooking methodologies can make significant changes to mouth feel and other aspects that factor into taste/flavor.
Sorry about that, I'm not sure how to DM on HackerNews and I don't want to expose my e-mail here, but I'll post my LinkedIn:

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Also here's a link to the recruiter I'd recommend; they focus mainly on DevOps/SRE roles for the Bay Area: https://www.harrisonclarke.com/
Yes, it does. Luckily, I can drive defensively against other actors since my vehicle is essentially a bunch of armor, safety gear, and also an escape means.

But how does one defend themselves when the vehicle does not want to do so due to inexperience or negligence? Best you can do is hope it doesn't decide for you that your infant's carseat is the best place to collide with a semi it just noticed because it was gray in fog, and oh by the way the CEO decided not to use lidar or radar, and oh this particular ice patch was not in the training set. If you don't trust lvl 5 in those conditions, you don't really trust lvl 5.
Were they plants by the ccp to justify violently putting down the protests?
Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”.

Just because you are anti establishment doesn’t mean you should instinctively support the Russian establishment which is incidentally many times more horrific and out of control than the people you claim are spreading “propaganda”. (I’m guessing NGOs, charities like amnesty international or anyone who reports on the war crimes and crimes against humanity of the Russian government).
The game developer is basically taking all the hate that people are really directing at a society that doesn't value the same things they do anymore. I thought SNES Zelda and Final Fantasy were the best, but I didn't threaten the developers when they moved to 3d.
But if they're contributing to the thing you care about does it really matter? I guess for some people it does, but if my company is donating $$$ per year to $MY_CAUSE isn't that still effective activism? They can curse and swear all they want as they write the check.
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The very obvious one is remote work policies. Before you were only competing against people in your immediate area or people who were willing to move. Now you're competing against everyone. That's a much broader pool of employees for companies to pull from.
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He's not wrong, but an odd source to cite.

But anyone that was at CVPR last week probably saw how much research was put into crowd counting, gate tracking, and other such systems. There is a lot of money being put into this. I know there is some good that can come out of it, but talking to people, I don't think they realize the implications for when it is used for bad. There's often the notion "but it will only be used for good" and not how power can turn quickly in a country: hence turnkey tyranny. I think our Chinese colleagues, like many of us and our European colleagues, are more hopeful about our governments than others. It is a tough situation.
Universal pay-cuts basically angers everyone IMHO. Also cutting pays for Execs may not be enough (let's say one exec pay-cut = 5 layoffs).
It makes more sense to just denoise.
This is exactly the division of labor my current project has. The UI and data storage run on a Linux System On Module and the real time control is on an STM32 processor running an RTOS. Pretty standard these days.

I've been on projects where the Linux part would have been offloaded to a tablet or an Android SBC running an app and communicating to the real time processor via BLE.
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Should be straightforward to train a model to add these based on a few examples. Could last for a short bit though.
They had a valuation of ~ $17B not long ago. Does it mean more layoffs? I hope not.
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> I wouldn’t go as far as to say it would tank a podcast

I would. It seems like you have a rosier impression of how this sounds than anyone else who listens. It's not completely unintelligible, but it's worse than "not good" to me. It just sounds plain bad.

If I started listening to a podcast, and it sounded like this, I would just turn it off. Unless I was keenly interested in the subject material. Subpar audio recording is a peeve of mine, particular in a medium that's all about information via audio.

But thanks for publicizing this. It's good to know that it exists, and what it sounds like.
the first four words of your attempted paraphrase of my post, or anything like them, do not exist in my post in any form. while reading my post you hallucinated that I was "one of them" and disapproved of the game's art style.

to clarify: I don't have any strong opinions about the art style of Return to Monkey Island, and while I have some thoughts about it, that entire line of discussion is uninteresting to me. I see no reason for the art style to have been chosen other than that those involved in making the game think it's a good fit for the game they're making. and it probably is! so please, if you're going to continue to engage with me on this topic, update your mental model of me and the position I'm taking on this, because you seem to have made some faulty assumptions, unsubstantiated by what I've posted here.

however, it should be obvious to anyone that the art style is both a departure from the original games, and their later sequels, and that it's such a stylistic departure that backlash should be fully expected. if Ron Gilbert really, truly did not expect backlash on the reveal of the art style, then either he is ridiculously naïve compared to how I would expect him to be, given his career and previous works... or the reveal and subsequent response, in which we all meant to feel warm and fuzzy and sympathetic to a legendary game designer who had anonymous fuckwads write mean things about him and his game on the Internet, was expected, and planned as part of making a broader audience care about a point-and-click adventure game being released in 2022, at a time where great lengths must be taken to get anyone to care about any game you make at all, as there's way too many options for not just games to play but places to give one's attention in general.

what do you think the net effects of this entire saga are going to be? do you think more people know and/or care about the release of this upcoming game, a game which is of a genre that is broadly (back) in decline (after a brief resurgence a decade or so ago), as a result of this debacle?

and almost more importantly: what was it about my post that made you think I disliked the art style of Return to Monkey Island? because it wasn't the words that said as much, because those words don't exist—yet something made you think I think the art style is bad! it might be useful to analyze what led you to this incorrect assumption.
Almost like the West ceded it’s global power by allowing China to rise.

Like how we shipped factories to China.
I wonder if that almost guarantees "my PR has been open 3 years without action" :-(
Me, too. The class was called Agri-Mechanics, and it covered everything technical that farm boys were expected to do regularly.

Of course it's an unnecessary danger for the children of parents who would consider them failures if they grew up to work with their hands and backs.
Home prices have been rising far faster than inflation. The "people will always desire a home" and "plateau" talk is straight out of the Realtors playbook and is said before every pullback.

People have forgotten what a real estate downturn looks like because it's been propped up by the Fed for so long, but in the good old days (before 2004 or so) it wasn't uncommon to go through periods where the average house took 9-12 months to sell and sellers went through 3-4 Realtors before it sold. Do the Realtors still say that 6 months is the average time to sell or have they forgotten that too?

The fact is that people buy homes based on monthly payment and significant rate hikes are something we haven't seen in decades. When the monthly payment doubles housing prices go down.
What the dickens, this looks great. Grouping by domain is a great idea along with the workspaces.
presumably the last time he made a game people weren't such huge dicks about it... no big deal but modern gamers cause a chilling effect in the industry by behaving this way, inevitably. Creative professionals /don't/ have to get used to being punching bags.. they're exactly the type to take their toys and go home. That's what happens when you do something for love (and take a pay cut to do it).

The hateful gamers will just have to continue to enjoy loveless games made by companies who know that a 100mm budget is table stakes to protect them from their customers. The passionate makers will find something else to love; that's their power.
How is this different from https://tradewater.us/?
Amazon Mturk is cheap too
George Soros isn't a foreign policy expert. Neither is he a philosopher: he egregiously misunderstood Popper's open society concept. Having rich people controlling government, corporate action, media, and NGOs (currently the case) is not open society or democracy, it's oligarchy.

See this thread: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1039842312061374464

Notice that 'the West' partially supported the Hong Kong protests[0] through its US Agency for Global Media (USAGM; independent US agency), Voice of America (US state-owned), and Radio Free Asia (subsidiary to USAGM), and that the HK protests were partly violent.

To be clear, the idea of billionaires funding NGOs or using media influence to achieve societal changes they desire (no matter how laudable) is not open society.

edit: added link

[0]: https://time.com/5860163/trump-hong-kong-funding-freeze/
I'm guessing they are referring to remote work location/wfh
Hard pass on universal paycuts. That's a similarly bad idea to universal raises & promos - hiring & comp decisions should be made based on performance.

As an EM, I would much rather get the opportunity to prune under-performing engineers than to have to tell every member of my team I'm cutting their comp, knowing that the best couple will leave quickly afterwards.
I'd definitely disagree. This comes off as nothing but another marketing attempt. "Oh no, I'm so sorry I cold mailed you about MY SERVICE HERE PLEASE CLICK ON IT, so I'd like to publicly apologise on my branded blog and post it to HN, by the way here's the STORY OF MY SERVICE IT'S FANTASTIC and by the way I built THIS SERVICE TO HELP ME SPAM TOO PLEASE CLICK ON IT"

And no, I'm not trying to be cynical, it's just super damn obvious.
why is that? I couldn't find any info about this
Do you mean Ito's Lemma? As far as I know, Black-Scholes itself had nothing to do with rocket guidance.
which is a tiny percentage of the labor force unless I am missing something important

it goes to show how despite all the media attention tech companies get , they are a drop in the bucket as far as the labor market is concerned (except amazon and its warehouse workers)