skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I wish I could use my real name for this reply, but for political reasons I can't (in fact, I change my username regularly) because I have a lot of insight into this problem, why it exists, and why it probably won't get better barring a complete overhaul of our socioeconomic system and the myriad corrupt institutions that support it.

We live in an age of institutional decline and it is severe. You see this in (trade) publishing. Your publisher no longer builds your reputation; the publisher has pushed that responsibility unto the author. The ones who already have the personal resources necessary to market their books get further validation and credibility; the ones who don't will go unheard. Academia's the same way: universities no longer provide funding for people of excellence; rather, they have put the onus of funding on the professors themselves--you'll get more funding (and published in better places) on account of using their name, and for that they take a cut. The relationship has inverted; rather than nurturing emerging talent, these institutions are nurtured by emerging talent, and this vampirism is sustainable because those talented people have no other choice insofar as all the other institutions are failing at approximately the same right.

Consequently, we have widespread duplicated effort, channel-flooding due to metrics-gaming (gotta get that h-index into the three digits before tenure time) and a corporatized, mediocre culture in which agreeability (negatively correlated with excellence and conscientiousness) matters far too much and salesmen run the day.

Historically, there were nations of priests and nations of warriors and nations of farmers. We've become a nation of sellers; but we no longer have much to sell but our own talk.

I don't know, for sure, how to solve this. Anyone who pays attention can see that capitalism (which invariably becomes corporate capitalism) is a dead end at a 21st-century technology level... but of course the eradication of capital is merely a necessary, not a sufficient, condition for scientific excellence. Going socialist is mandatory if we want to fix this, but alone does not guarantee much--there are a lot of cultural changes that probably need to happen before we can build healthy institutions again.
Isn't paying same for same work(in this case time spend servicing them) exactly equity? And not being forced to pay is not equity?
They're saying the opposite.
Mister FPGA in 2022
In established organizations, coworkers have relationships built over years and decades. They have a shared history that spans ups and downs.

Compared to that four months is not very long. Four years isn't very long, when coworkers watched the twin towers in the break room.

That's the general, but your working remote most of the time means there's very little waiting for five oclock time. You're not at most bull-sessoins.

My advice is to work in-office.

And consider seeing a licensed therapist because mental health is a health issue.

It's been a tough couple of years. Good luck.
What is ok if they do something different, and not ok if they just repaint the same thing, depending on the source. And this software surely repaints a lot of the same things, so the only question is the source.
Asking a multi-billion dollar company to make reasonable accommodations so Americans who suffer from disabilities can still use their products and services is probably not something you can reasonably compare to slavery.
Good security is always about tradeoffs, never pie-in-the-sky solutions.

With all the effort you require it's almost easier to collect your phone personally at the OEM.
> in perpetuity

Or until the current owners convince a court of law to extinguish the conservation easement.
But that is not the disabled person's fault. It is Uber's fault due to how they pay their contractors. If the contractor waiting around is actually "working" then they should be paid by Uber for that time.
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory, but it reads like one. Obama ran as a populist and won Iowa by almost 10 points in 2008, Wisconsin by 14 points, Michigan by almost 17 points, etc. With nearly 60 Senate votes, he was able to permanently expand the social safety net through Obamacare. And how did Wall Street respond? They rebranded themselves as the good guys for their George W. Bush views on immigration, and helped pain Democrats' blue wall voters in the midwest as "deplorables" for not having progressive views on immigration, sexuality, etc. The Democratic Party happily joined them in blowing off one of its own legs, and the resulting party is one that owes its slim electoral majority to Arizona, the home of Barry Goldwater and Regan suburbs in Atlanta and can't do anything.
Ask HN: Is it worth going back to school for a CS bachelor's degree?
I have a master's degree in "Interactive Multimedia" and spent the first five years of my career as a UX Designer. In 2017, I switched to Front End Engineer and have been doing that since. I write React all day and feel like I'm pretty good at my job.

However, I was in a recent job interview and got asked about the time complexity of an algorithm and totally bombed it. I know of the concept generally, but absolutely don't have a firm grasp of it. I also gave pretty mediocre answers to some OOP questions because that's just not a concept I deal with much in my current role. And there are times when I feel like I need to improve my math skills. The last math course I took was Statistics in high school.

The bachelor's degree I already have is in an unrelated field, and my master's was very design-focused. I'm wondering if it makes sense to go back to school part time to get a CS bachelor's to learn some of the basics that I essentially skipped before landing my first dev role. To be clear, I don't really care whether an employer would like seeing this on my resume. I'd 100% be doing it for my personal benefit/knowledge.

So, what do you think? Should I enroll in a bachelor's CS program part time or are there other options I should explore?
This might be the same problem as libre open source software: Anyone can search for evidence of fraud (or software bugs) but not many are doing so.
Moving 2/3 of your existing engineering staff to a different shift would raise enormous large communications issues for a company otherwise designed for an aligned workday.

Hiring, say, minimum 4 people to do nothing but waiting for a page would be incredibly wasteful and probably ineffective as they'd have no idea what to do if something went wrong because they didn't work on the system.
I volunteer with a regional land trust, and I think you're maybe misunderstanding the conservation easement process, or at least it's typical application.

The typical process is:

Private Landowner Decides they want to conserve their land.

They work with a Land Trust to define, and put in place the restrictions of that conservation easement. Those typically restrict development (though the landowner can in some cases "carve out" future building sites), and depending on the goals of the landowner and land trust, could allow things like agriculture, forestry, recreation etc..

I'm sure there's a conservation easement somewhere that restricts public access, but I've never seen one. Most commonly, the land stays inaccessible to the public just like it was before the easement, but nothing in the legal language of the easement prohibiting future public access.

(One conservation easement manager half-joked that every easement we do has public access potential, it just might take a few generations for that potential to be realized).

Next, that easement goes through the legal process of being put into place. Now, that land is subject to the restrictions of that easement forever. And it's the job (legal responsibility) of the Land Trust that holds the easement to regularly monitor the easements they hold, and make sure they're followed.

However, the original landowner still owns the land, just like before. If they sell the land, or someone inherits, it's still (de facto) private land, just private land with restrictions as to what can be done on it.

Now, there are private landowners who want to open their land to public access, and that's amazing. (We did our first few public access-specific easements this year at our comparatively-small land trust, and we're super excited). There are also times where a landowner puts an easement on their property, and then sells it to someone like a local, regional or state institution to be managed specifically for public access. There was recently a great story about how private individuals stepped in to conserve land, and then later transferred it to Washington State Parks[1].

There are also times when a property might transfer ownership, as well as the easement, to a Land Trust. We actually have one of these that we basically operate as a public park. But, that's like less than 2% of the total easements we hold.

So, to your points, I guess I would say:

The process of conservation easements by large _increases_ the amount of land available for public access and recreation, not decreases it. And if anyone is becoming a tenant farmer, it's the landowner choosing to become a tenant themselves.

There are times when an outside entity might purchase the easement from the landowner, but again, the landowner's not forced into that transaction.

1. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/...
Sorry, I didn't follow the connection to the quoted sentence. Can you explain?
that might fix many things but not the ui.
But how many of those involved actual rationing away from citizens and entire industries?
If you're serious about it, you want to look into Canada's immigration point system and see what you can do to increase your points until you hit the threshold needed.

One of the factors is age, and after 30, you lose points as you age, so don't take too long. But getting a degree in canada would give you additional education points and give you points for education in Canada, and give you time in Canada to consider if it's what you hoped for. Probably a decent place to take French language lessons, you get points for that, if you can pass language tests at various levels.
Yeah, the govt is subsidizing their employment. The economy depends on the poor at least as much as the rich.
wait what? 50 weeks * 60 / hr * 40 hr weeks = 120k yearly. what senior faang engineer is making less than that?
Is a canoe different from a speed boat? In some ways not at all, in some quite a bit. Depends on what you're trying to explain or do with it.

The fundamental similarities don't override the differences and in this case I think "it's owned by a union-busting monopolistic megacorporation that is currently redefining labor relations and probably not in a good way" is enough to make it valuable to consider it a different thing.
I've been using a Framework (11 gen, DIY edition) for the last year. I love the company, the idea, the repairability, almost all of it. But I've had 4 major issues:

- Installing the WiFi card was crazy difficult. The antenna connectors are tiny, fragile, and require significant pressure to snap on. I had to use a pair of pliers to get it on and I was very concerned about breaking or bending something

- The screen hinge is weak and not adjustable. It'll stay in position when it's on a table, but picking the laptop up and walking anywhere with it inevitably ends up with the screen open to 180 degrees.

- The space bar is inconsistent. Especially with my right hand. I've had to develop a typing habit where I type spaces with my left hand or hard with my right hand to get it to register. Otherwisemywritingendsuplookinglikethis.

- The touchpad isn't great. My work machines have been MacBooks, so maybe I'm spoiled. But I disable touch to click. And clicking to click is also inconsistent. I ended up having to click extra hard.

These are annoyances really, and I don't use it often enough for these to matter. But if it was my daily driver I'd have done something about it by now.
I think it's great how much that NASA advertised this telescope, and the name. They really piggy-backed off the love of Hubble, of astronomy picture of the day, etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's great science, but great science doesn't always mean great PR. I feel like if you ask people about what NASA has done recently, they'll be like, I dunno. (last answer would have probably been the Shuttle, while ISS has some good coverage it doesn't seem as exciting to people). But they do likely know about Hubble and now Webb.

Which is great, because the amount that the population thinks NASA gets in terms of tax payer dollars is grossly overimagined. It's less than 1%. But in the US you need great PR to get the funding for projects, not only to start, but also to not cancel them after a regime change.
> more than half of americans are unfit for a bar fight let alone a war

Seeing the kind of insurrectionists that tried to take over the Capitol in 2021, I'll say the bar is very low. If there's a civil war, it will probably be an astroturfed takeover so the worst people can hold even more power.
A few hypotheticals I'm curious about:

1. If Coinbase itself had purchased a bunch of coins before listing on its own exchange, would that be illegal?

2. If the employee had purchased coins that were correlated with the ones that were listed, but not the specific ones that were listed, would that be illegal?
Not in my opinion, collateral damage appeared as the fire lethality soared. I'd say the US civil War was probably the first time you could really find collateral victims. Once the fire became as lethal as the shock I'd say
> The Data safety section provides users with a simplified view of how an app collects, shares, & secures user data, but we also want to make app permissions information easily viewable ...

^ are these vetted in any way? are they enforced? I'm okay with this being 'vendor says this', but if app stores are reporting it next to permissions (which are programmatic constraints), feels like it's at best aspirational, potentially deceptive. Are there real penalties? Or is this just a system for wrist slapping in the rare case someone is caught in a lie.
I have a 2010 Toyota Prius, and I've intermittently had the exact same problem. Except my song was "Oogum Boogum" - fortunately it was the Alex Chilton version which I still like.

My latest struggle is that my phone now plays audio at 50% speed through my cars bluetooth. Spotify, Youtube, etc - it doesn't matter. It seems to play 50% speed super low pitch for about a second and then skip forward in the audio stream about a second. The only thing that remedies this is to reboot my car.
At least according to levels.fyi an IC6 PM at coinbase can make around 500k/year in total comp.

So if the goal was to acquire a bunch of rural property in India and live off interest it seems that just working and saving for a few years would be a wildly less risky route.

Personally I don't think it's a good risk/reward calculus to try to commit potential felony offenses for levels money that are reasonably in line with what you could eventually get as your annual TC. I can understand a barista at starbucks committing fraud for 750k, but it doesn't seem quite worth it for a PM at one of the highest paying tech companies.
just because it's available doesn't mean it's trivial to figure out. it does actually take effort to find something like this.
There are exchanges which allow transactions from e.g bitcoin to monero. As soon as you’re on such a private chain, you most likely broke the link.
I can't tell who this paper is aimed at. It isn't formal. It isn't mathematical. It isn't a good description and doesn't have good coverage. I can only assume it is for citations.
Toronto cops are definitely the dumb kind: went to execute a search warrant on a gunsmith while he was in his gun workshop and, whodathunkit, the gunsmith reached for a (non-operational) gun!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rodger-kotanko-self-...
> with of course the issue that developers can simply lie

And not something that should be hand waved away in the quest to say that written descriptions are better. They are not, but having both in other can help to a great extent. A practice I've rarely seen is the description containing each permission name, and what it's needed for, in other words, explaining that mapping that's missing.
Nebula: Scalable overlay networking; performant, simple, and secure
amazing. if only i remembered where my mini disc was...
Sounds well-intended, but I oppose the idea of 1% of people owning 99% of the land ...

And what do we say if Nestle buys all natural water sources to "protect" them?
Go through one of the popular algorithms books first. There are a few recommended ones. Some are better for self study than others. If you just need an algorithms course, no sense wasting 4 years on it.
I have this same question. Crypto has not been defined as an asset category yet (and the SEC has not declared it to be a “security” so far).

FTA - “. . . wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading in cryptocurrency assets. . .”

I’m presuming that it’s the fraud they are going after, and the “insider trading” aspect is verbal sugar.

I can’t imagine that insider trading would ever apply to real estate or art, so not sure why it’s even mentioned here.

IANAL, so perhaps someone wiser than me can add some clarity here?
You can eventually learn to use a bad UI, but you'll never learn a constantly changing one.
Would this also affect the people consuming the bananas since they are touching it and maybe ingesting chemicals?
Nationalism isn’t the same as Nazism.
How tiresome that you continue to scold me for the mocking message that initiated this thread, instead of addressing your nigh-complete lack of moderation of the fear-mongering fringe that have identified HN as a place where they can wield influence without consequence.

MuchoMaas, who you claim to have banned repeatedly, has made 62 posts in one month, nearly 10% of which you have seen flagged and then deleted, but you claim “Moderation is necessarily inconsistent because … we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.”

But… you have seen it: you’ve been active in squelching a repeat offender that you well recognize as persistently problematic.

Of course, in your view, it is my cognitive bias that is causing me to see this as a problem, and not your cognitive bias that is causing you to turn a blind eye to the problem.

I don’t think I’m over-or even mis-interpreting anything: the proof is shown in your words and your actions: you are not effectively moderating the users who are using your social media platform to promote an agenda of fear and doubt.

Have the last word, Dan, because it’s evident that I’m pissing into the wind here. If anything, I expect I’ve only managed to entrench you deeper into supporting the FUD crew. What a shame.
This is really cool. This will make it much simpler to convert from firestore to supabase.
I think that's the last missing feature that firestore provided which supabase didn't.

We are already running a sync process between firestore and postgres. So we can do aggregations on JSON data. At this point it's only a matter of time before we move to superbase
> It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated ...

Only India and China are more populous than USA and it's illegal in India despite being an import and useful ingredient of Indian medicine system.

I am not claiming hemp to be a miracle material. But covert lobbying, scheming to obliterate the superior alternatives does exist.
The barrier is primarily tooling costs. We'd have to have high enough confidence in the incremental sales of it to cover what would likely be in the mid six digits of custom tooling (Input Cover plastic and aluminum tooling, tooling for a three button trackpad, tooling for a new version of the keyboard with a cutout for a pointing stick, and a small amount of tooling for a semicustom pointing stick to fit that cutout).
Jargon File: The Story of Mel
Some states have set up more restrictive eminent domain laws since that ruling.
The person you replied to said 'statements' not 'login details'. Are you treating these things as synonymous? I suppose if I was only required to hand over statements I could edit them.
I agree with point #1, but disagree with point #2.

Academic research is not a place to go for extrinsic motivation. If you're not primarily in it for love, you're going to have a bad time.

An example: Who has heard of the Wolf Prize in physics? It is in the set of prizes known as "second prize to the Nobel Prize", yet essentially nobody outside of the field will react with, "Whoa, she won a Wolf Prize? She must be really good."

Even in the well-resourced research groups, researchers will be find much better extrinsic reward outside of academia. Advancing the boundaries of our understanding is priceless intrinsic motivation for those who can find a way to stay, but doing so requires substantial sacrifice -- more than many of those in academia realize.
> I don’t see how a computer racer that destroys human competition would make the game more entertaining

Indeed that looks like the racing version of aimbots.

I remember a thread on HN before about AI in guys. A game developer said that at some point if you make enemies too smart, the game becomes more frustrating.

"AI beats players at game X" is less often a practical advance (e.g. classic chess engines already beat casual/semi-serious players, what's the need to utterly "destroy" them, really?) and more often a media stunt aimed at impressing potential customers for more profitable uses.
What makes you say that? In my experience, centralized exchanges are perceived as public enemy #1 by a lot of crypto people. They are seen as a necessary (but temporary) evil to bridge the "legacy" fiat world.
This topic comes up relatively often on HN - my opinion is it’s difficult to find these sorts of gigs and if there was a great resource for it we’d probably know about it?
I’m not pushy with the opinion just my two cents
I was actually thinking of "The Agony and the Ecstasy," which is on somewhat shaky historical accuracy footing.

Rex Harrison whacking Charlton Heston with a stick because he's slacking on the ceiling is how all project managers should handle both devs and creatives. I hear that's how Larry Ellison does it.