skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it is more dehumanizing to the affected woman to show an attractive woman, or to not show women at all.

I think to be consistent with the 'don't use women for ads' approach, you need to be opposed to use human-based or non-product-related human interest advertisement at all, which includes, but is probably not limited to men [1], children [2], the elderly [3], people of a certain demographic and/or sexual orientation and/or gender identity [4], or national rivalries [5][6] or stereotypes [7] or even the concepts of such. You would also have to have a stern look at the art scene, because sex also sells as sculpture, on canvas, as a particularly suggestive voice or on the screen - it may be part of the work, but it also has an advertising effect.

And what a bleak world would that be.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-vYY3SBDE
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgSO8_cRio
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG4IaHgqH00
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_gHMNs5iE
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWvKVE6rLI0
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g72KE8dmjc
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQnPWjK5pE
I imagine it to be extremely difficult to remain unbiased in a dissertation about a technology when you yourself are financially reliant on that technology.
What’s coming in the next version of Leaf Node Monitoring?
The thing is, I don't live in a rural area. I live in a suburb of a major city.
>"NYC is generally safer than the rest of America."

What does that even mean - "generally" safer? Saying "generally" and "the rest of America" are nebulous to the point of being completely meaningless. If I were to compare hunting accidents, wild fires and car accidents in NYC compared to the "rest of the America" then yeah sure. Have a look at these NYPD crime stats from May and tell me that it's safer than the entire "rest of America."

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00050/nypd-citywide-cri...
There should be no monetization design in a video game. The design should be make your game good so people will buy it.

How ridiculous would it be for other forms of art to have "monetization design".

A chef that styles their dishes in such a way that there clearly is a gap in the dish which should contain a nice piece of steak or something else. When you are eating the dish the waiter comes with that piece in hand and asks if you want it for a small price.

Or a painter that paints a picture with elements missing. If you want to experience the true masterpiece. Please buy these extra element and also for a small price you can have better matching colors.

How such behavior is acceptable in video games is truly baffling to me. But then again I have never bought anything using a microtransaction. I think it should be illegal to be able to ask a user to buy something when in game. You also don't get a pop up when watching a movie to please enter your credit card number to be charged $2 to watch this extra scene that was cut.
This will never solve the oracle problem, which is tied to the simple fact that things can happen outside of a given blockchain…
Very well put, Sir!!

Sorry to see the new generation falling for these con-artists.

My humble advice as a nobody is look at things objectively and understand that words have unintended consequences so make a conscious effort to not insult others.
Yeah exactly! Thinking back, the time's I've felt this the most is during stressful interviews -- e.g. I'm asked a difficult question and part way through my answer my nerves say "You've been talking for ages, you've lost them" but in reality it's been a perfectly reasonable amount of time and if I listen to my nerves I risk cutting the answer short.

I'd actually love a tool like this for interviews -- if had a mac or there was a linux build I'd definitely use this.

Re: Colours -- If I were to use this for this use-case (next time work gives me a mac perhaps) I think the current green -> red arrangement is fine as-is, as it covers both use-cases (if red -> too long; if green -> still have time)
I've used Godot back when I was developing VR games. I've started out with Unity, and then switched to Godot, and never looked back. Godot makes developing games so much easier and more fun, and it's open source.
Gamedevs not baking in malware installers are "fucking idiots."
Hopefully the async/await story gets fleshed out. Unity just made the default scheduler run on the main thread. That's pretty much all it takes but it would be nice if it was built in.
Should be cut by 50%+ to be in line with the rest of the tech market, and even more if you are valuing it as a FinTech company.

SQ is down 75% since its November peak.
Enjoyed this post! Djk447 would love to ask a question as well.

We've started working with Timescale to process historical time series data. However there is so much of it that we chose which parts we process.

It's possible that in the future we may need to go back and reprocess the dataset to add something we decided we want after all.

In your post it seems like this is handled automatically on a smaller time scale, meaning you could insert into the past without doing anything special.

What happens if you need to insert data at numerous points across two years worth of data instead? Do you have to use backfilling as described in your documentation? Or is it better to maybe rebuild the entire hypertable?
> There is no "displaying their success" or "keep winning bigger" mentality to be found

They may not realize the game they're in. But as long as the cost of living keeps hitting new peaks, inevitably people need to bring in more money, or move farther out or elsewhere. Supply is limited, and it is a competition.
Just to double-check, are you using the git versions of transformers and accelerate? I believe the BFloat16 support is pretty recent (22 days ago) and may not be in conda/pip:

https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/commit/f13c59f91e2...
A major component of a strategy is constraint. In other words, what are you going to give up? If you're going to do All The Things, that isn't a strategy, it's a wishlist. You have to bring constraints into the picture before anything like a strategy emerges.
> Rent is the main detractor of disposable income which hurts the rest of the economy, and property owners provide almost no value,

Have you considered that housing might actually be valuable? If it didn’t provide value, why do you think that Vienna seized so much of it to give out to its citizens? Maybe try to find a different way to phrase whatever you’re trying to say.

Assuming you’re referring to property owners getting by doing nothing. That’s false unless they are a slumlord.

Let me ask you another question. What do people do who are not happy with the housing provided by the govt in Vienna?

> The current setup creates guettos by default, by siloing people with different monetary and social capital into different building and areas

This is not how it works in the US for the last 50 years or so. Most places force every new building to include low income units.
I'm looking for advice on a similar issue.

Somebody is impersonating me on dating sites and blackmailing women. They convince their victims to send nude photos, and then they threaten to send the photos to their families. The scammer (or scammers) use photos of me that used to be publicly available on social media. They also use my real name, presumably so that the victims see a legitimate LinkedIn profile when they google "me".

Years ago, I got called to a meeting with my work's Human Resources department. The victim had looked me up and emailed my company. HR told me that "I" had to stop doing this. When I realized what had happened, I knew that I couldn't do anything to make it stop. Thankfully HR didn't take any action, but the whole time I worked there I had low-level background anxiety that another victim would contact them.

Last month, a different victim messaged me on LinkedIn because she was suspicious of "my" profile on OKCupid. She sent me screenshots of the profile and messages. The scammer used obviously non-native english, so at least there's some credible evidence that it's not actually me.

I've only become aware of the two incidents above, but I'm sure there are many other victims. I emailed OKCupid to ask them to block the impersonator, but I don't know if they can even stop him from re-registering, and there are other dating sites. I no longer have recent photos publicly available, and I've locked down all social media, but I don't want to delete my LinkedIn.

What else can I do? Has anyone else had something like this happen to them?
Gusto revamps product tiers, doubling mid-tier base price
It's very easy to get into, and very light weight so I'm not surprised. I'm not sure how well it'd scale into a large team or for a commercial project, but it's gaining heaps of steam.
He's obviously heavily incentivized to think so, since his company doesn't make money if devs don't make money.
anyone making actual art is technically a fucking idiot compared to someone making money the same way a martyr is an idiot
Would be nice if this was embeddable inside (and integrated with) emacs.
I wonder how do people who never get reached out unless they message first feel. Basically that's me. People say a friendship or any kind of relationship is a 2-way traffic but ever since my high school years (when I got my first cellphone) I always knew that unless I text someone first they would never text me on their own. Pretty much never happens no matter the communication channel through the years. My very close family (parents + siblings) does but no one else. It's kinda of confirmation in my mind that I have no friends but it's also... calming to some extent to have a clear picture about your life.
Anyone have a video of a solar panel being pulled into pieces? I'm not sure if its straight forward or everything is bonded together.
Land Value Tax would decrease the cost of land as it makes land speculation less attractive. People won't be willing to bet on much on real estate if increased prices come with a tax penalty.
Why waste time applying at places that aren't going to be upfront with you?
It looks a bit like Emacs, so I intuitively pressed CTRL x 0 to close a window.
Recently moved to Seattle from NYC. I'm enjoying Seattle, but it's a joke of a city compared to NYC. Seattle's public transportation—while improving with light rail—pales in comparison. Seattle is, overall, pedestrian-hostile. There are neighborhoods that are themselves walkable, but sidewalks will disappear when walking between them, or you'll be forced into situations where you're uncomfortably close to high-speed traffic (e.g. the Ballard bridge).

Seattle has enough good food to keep me relatively happy (even pizza and bagels), but for any given cuisine, you might have one or two good options. Getting to them probably involves driving, and they're probably not open late or even open at all early in the week (maybe this is a pandemic artifact; I moved here in 2021). Seafood here is great, though. I think Seattle wins in that single category.

I think NYC's biggest win over Seattle (and every single other city in the US) is the combination of quantity, quality, and accessibility. You have some of the world's best food, shopping, culture, and jobs accessible to you at all hours of the day via a subway ride (or in many cases within walking distance). The city is your backyard: you don't need a huge apartment because there's a good chance you won't really be spending much time there.

That said, after 10 years there I grew tired of that lifestyle and wanted to spend more time outdoors and exploring the west coast. If you really enjoy the outdoors—hiking, skiing, mountain biking, climbing, etc.—then NYC is vastly inferior to Seattle. I may find myself back in NYC some day because I miss the things that it's the best at, but for now, I'm enjoying doing something different. I think it's very easy to fall into a hedonic routine in NYC.
> Whether or not you lock your door has more to do with cultural attitudes towards risk

> People in rural areas don’t lock their doors for the same reason they don’t wear seatbelts and drive drunk everywhere. They just don’t care.

Do you think the attitude towards risk is because they truly don't care about having their belongings stolen, or because they know there is less risk of that happening? Having lived in a rural area and in a few cities, my experience is the latter. No one wants to be robbed.

Also, people in rural areas driving drunk is mostly due to lack of transportation options. I'm certainly not condoning it, but Uber doesn't travel out into the sticks and there is no bus or train to hop on.
You can't have vulnerabilities in code which isn't there.

Compared to what I could be using, my ideal stack does not have: class loaders, virtual machines, dependency injection containers, web application servers, Log4J, etc.
No, it is not. In fact, this trope of pigeonholing any criticism as if it is advocating for a "command economy" is itself a large part of how we've gotten to the present condition.

The federal reserve has kept interest rates artificially low for the past few decades, to sell broken unpopular policies to the public (eg Iraq war), to enrich the financial industry, and to simulate growth.

The vibrance of capitalism relies on capital being distributed, so that it competes rather than acting uniformly. By flooding the market with newly created capital from a central source, the federal reserve has completely undermined capitalism and substituted it with the politics of who gets newly created money. One of the biggest recipients of new money has been the financial industry, which has even been whitewashed as some kind of neutral actor but is anything but. This is why more and more of people's every day lives have been financialized - made legible to the financial system and parceled out into monthly payments.
Comparing arcade machines to gambling is a sore spot, especially for pinball. Ostensibly arcade machines are skill based. They are not random. You may be able to win an award or prize but that will be based on some objective measure of performance with little to no randomization. This is important because arcades operate where gambling is illegal, so suggesting they are anything like gambling threatens the security of those businesses.

Roger Sharpe [1] saved pinball by demonstrating it is a game of skill.

RE: art vs profit I think there is room for both. Games are probably the best example of that. Game designers are very much artists but they are also engineers and business people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sharpe_(pinball)
I’d love for someone to do an analysis where they look at the number of AirBnB’s in a city, and model out what would happen to the rents in that city if those units were put back into the rental market.

Would be absolutely fascinating if there was a tight correlation
To me, this is too convoluted an explanation...

Strategy implies making choices and trade-offs. Most people are afraid to be held accountable for making real choices (i.e. steering the company/product in one direction and not any other).

That's why most strategies are only strategies by name: fluffy statements that anyone can fill in as they wish ("our strategy is to be our customers' partner") or monetary goals ("our strategy is to be 20% more profitable by end of next year").
i think this post is old enough that i can post the page without worrying about the hug of death. if you wanna buy me a coffee you can go to https://emporium.atitlan.io :D in the comments just write "solo una prueba, no hagas este pedido"
Oh, the man who helped tank my favorite game studio (RIP Maxis).

Yeah, I wouldn't listen to him about much of anything.
> If you're implying social Darwinism

I don't think the GP was referring to social Darwinism, just plain old Darwinism, of the "Darwin Award" variety.
100 years ago there were 4 families in the now single apartment I live in. There was an extreme housing crisis and the current system started then as a direct response to that extreme overcrowding.

Bay Area could learn a lot from Vienna. Especially about building up.
I loved reading this article, I think it showcases pretty well that any optimization is about tradeoffs and there are hardly any absolutes.

The article was also posted in HN about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803155
>>I'm sure he is making a profit off it but whatever good is happening is still getting done.

I'm not saying it's not. I don't want him to stop. But I don't think I'd call it charity personally(and some people do, that's why I'm making this point).

Like, let me try again with an example - if you pull $10k out of your account and give it to a homeless person, that's charity, right?

Ok, but what if you get someone to invest $10k into you making a youtube video, because you promise them they will make this money back from monetization, and you then record a youtube video of giving the homeless person that exact $10k. The video then proceeds to make way more than that $10k in revenue. Is that charity too? After all the end result is the same - the homeless person was given money. Or is it just good business?

The second example is exactly what Mr Beast has done. I'm not saying he shouldn't have - just observing that what he does, the entire spectacle of it - it's just a business venture.
> inherent property of a $5k rental,

The inherent property of a 5k rental he's referring to is that it costs 5k. Most people paying 5k for a studio just _don't want people around their houses_ specially if they are poorer than them. Otherwise they would be paying less than 3k for a room with a shared kitchen and bathroom or renting a bigger place with roommates.
I've been using Hiera (Puppet yaml data store) to source data for terraform. As a long time puppet user, when I started writing terraform code I really missed hiera. Turns out someone ported it to Go, and someone else turned that into a terraform provider. It's a game changer. No need for terragrunt or terramate. Hiera can return anything from a single value to a very complex data block that can be used to feed a module or a whole stack. Hiera needs some information about where you're deploying to, and it gets this in the in the provider configuration in the form of key/vals: I use environment, region & stack. I decided to use a workspace naming convention that encodes these (eg: prod_use1.network). For each workspace, terraform can automatically figure out exactly what lookups it needs to do, and hiera returns native terraform data relevant to that workspace only. I have 100% dry code, and no need to create a separate directory for each environment/region state. I run my terraform init/apply in the top-level directory no matter where I'm deploying. The result is that once I've written my modules and stacks, I can build out a whole data center by creating few workspaces and running "terraform init && terraform apply" in each one. Zero extra files or directories. Dry as a bone
When you make an application, it's often useful to create a static identifier of the application state and push it on the back button, so that if the user doesn't like where he is going, he can simply go back.

I don't agree that it's a bad idea. What is bad is the amount of user-hostile sites that get promoted on the web. Those should be silenced, not boosted into mainstream by search engines an social media.

Anyway, browsers can improve the feature by grouping the added links and making it easy for users to ignore them. But innovation on the web got it's last and fatal strike when Firefox killed its original extensions API.
You probably don't even have to swap the colors.
I really wish a feature was added to online screen sharing that showed a pie chart of the time each participant was talking. I think it would help a lot of people who talk to much (probably myself included).
So, let's take 1g/dy per person for a family of four and a 4-week (28-day) supply.

If you're storing that in 30WM1G bottles (an HDPE 1-gallon milk bottle), the dimensions are 6"x6"x10" per bottle.

You need 28 * 4 or 112 bottles.

That's 12,096 in^2, or 84ft^2, or 7.8m^2 of storage area.

If you've a 1 m^2 shelf, you'd need nearly 8 shelves spaced at roughly 30 cm, or 2.4 m vertical (7.8 ft) just for a month's worth of water storage.

You. Need. A. Lot. Of. Water.

For grains ... say, a 1.2 kg (42 oz) container of oats, you've got 150 kilocalories per 40g, or about 4,500 kcal per container. A human needs a minimum (we're talking emergency survival rations) of about 2500 kcal/day. Not a balanced or interesting diet, but for bulk calories, a starting point.

A month's supply for four is then just over 62 containers. Which takes up 1.2 m^2 of shelf space. Water requires 6.5 times the storage even with an absolute minimum daily allocation.

There are denser grains. Even with oats, steel-cut roughly doubles the caloric density per unit volume.

It's much easier to provision a long-term food storage than a long-term water storage.

This is why survival water planning often revolves around purification rather than, or in addition to, storage.
Also in NH, and I would say my perception is the opposite of your facts.I've spent lots of time all over the city at different times of day/year across decades.

I would still say Manchester, Rochester, Nashua ETC are 10x trashier and more neglected than even the most run down alley in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens.
It’s an option in Safari
An escooter might be a good transportation choice.
Or maybe punitive retribution is also corrective.
For people wondering the drivers here: car crashes, drug overdoses, suicides. So the claim isn't really referring about the things people usually consider when it comes to "safety" (interpersonal attacks), although it's talking about things that we perhaps *should* think about more when it comes to safety.

If I'm being honest with myself, muggings in DC still scare me more than car crashes in Montana, despite the reality of these stats.
Damn, I was looking for pledge on Linux not too long ago, but I think I might go with cloudflare's sandbox or bwrap instead.
One simple way would be require video submission where you have to speak your name and mention that you have joined upwork as a freelancer. But then upwork would have to spend more money on validations. They probably don't care as much.

I sometimes hire from upwork. My litmus test is simple. I want to talk to you for 5-10 mins on video. If you cannot show up or have issues doing a video meeting, I won't proceed. It may help getting rid of scammers who are hiding behind a fake profile. I remember one guy telling me that he has speech issues and can only "interact" through messages/email. Even if true, I cannot trust someone on the internet like that.
He's right one should think about monetization earlier in the development process.

But it's a poor take because the kind of monetization he's talking about taps into an addicted person's dopamine pathway.

Most run of the mill SaaS work like utilities instead as far as monetization goes.
>Every game has a compulsion loop

Of course, but in non-Skinner-box-speak, we call that the "gameplay". Refactoring an old concept like "gameplay" to wield the tools of war usually associated with gambling -- that's the crux of the matter. That's what I and the root-level commenter fear.

Vampire Survivors itself isn't the problem -- it costs $3, and doesn't require any more (non-temporal) investment, neither microtransactions nor additional quarters. But it's a harbinger of things to come. Remember horse armour, and how harmless it was?