skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is also partially because many people have become accustomed to having a left-leaning media that espouses a certain viewpoint. So in yesteryear the viewpoint might have been very liberal New York or LA, and nowadays it is possible to see a similar "bias" on news outlets like Reddit where the moderation has turned everything into certain left-wing viewpoints US-centric echochambers. A lot of the internet forgets that FOX News is technically a young media network.

And the fact is that most Americans are actually on the fence on the abortion issue, although most people are also against a full-on ban against abortion which the media is focusing on. The media has been presenting a very narrow view in the past, and now you are just getting exposed to the full spectrum of viewpoints on the internet.

Reddit I think is the best counterargument against further moderation of social media. The moderation outside the US at least is wholly haphazard and out-of-touch with mainstream views in said localities. For example if a left-wing American were to actually go around asking how Scandinavians themselves viewed their socialist paradise nordic welfare state as being viable, the response would be something that might be against left-wing interests, and they would be banned on Reddit. Similarly the way the media has supported Muslims and the on-the-ground Islamophobia in Europe and Asia are widely apart, and most of these people would be blanket-banned on Reddit as well.
I personally disagree with direct democracy unless it's extremely localized, and otherwise agree with representative democracy, like we have with governors, senators, and the electoral college. As Zizek once said, even if we had direct democracy, we would still have a situation where only a privileged few have the luxury of time, education, and understanding to be deeply involved in the political process, just like we do now. Except at least with representative democracy we can choose who those people are (and make them need re-elections), whereas in a fully direct democracy, I'd just have no say whatsoever if I didn't have the time to stay up to date with global economics, politics, news, culture, voting, etc.
Witch King vs Gandalf in the movie distorted a key point about the wizards: they were tasked to assist humans and elves against evil, but not to use their power to defeat the enemy on their own, or to rule over Middle Earth. Saruman tried do do both, and lost eternity for it. Peter Jackson understood that, but chose for theatrical reasons to sweep it aside, just as he did the enigma of the Old Forest and the (in Tolkien's own words) "most important chapter in the book" on the Scouring of the Shire (the author compared it to "the situation in [Britain] after the war").
All have been inbound with the exception of one sponsor who I thought would be a perfect fit for the audience. They agreed and bought two slots.
General Relativity for Babies
There are many ways to get there but our initial thesis is to target beginners in English-speaking countries. Eventually we want to teach intermediate/advanced cooks and any cuisine to anyone regardless of where they lived.

These countries (USA, Canada, UK, Aus, NZ) have similar food cultures, a high reliance on processed foods (especially US), and relatively higher cost of labor and food vs. the rest of the world, so have a higher demand for learning to cook. The best way to see the trend and these countries is on Google Trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...

Fun game: try putting something (or someone) popular on the right side of that graph and see if you can find a higher trendline
A key role for quantum entanglement
>One thing really smart ppl have in common is that they see the world as it is.

This is completely false. Isaac Newton spent more time studying alchemy and biblical prophecy than he did on mathematics and physics.
How does paying a politician MORE than 3x median US pay make them less out of touch with the average American? We don't need politicians 15x out of touch with the median American's lifestyle. In NYC governor's last election, there was a question about how much the median house costs in Brooklyn, and two high level candidates gave absolutely bonkers answers like $90k and $120k, when it's actually $900k.

You only want people as politicians because they feel it's their civic duty to serve their countrymen, not because it's a lucrative career.
Most of Europe doesn't have price controls, but purchasing controls.

They are similar but different.
*Correction /s
> If you're going to build a company on the idea of skirting legality in order to ruin people's lives, don't be upset when someone does the same thing to your company.

It took me a second to realize you were not talking about palantir.

Or ebay.

Thiel getting angry about a story around his sexuality (it wasn't "outing" him, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265067) is pretty fucking hilarious coming from the guy who founded what amounts to a corporate-run NSA.
You don't need to guess; you can go read the minutes of prior Fed meetings here:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars....
Yep I should have added it as well in my prev answer, and doing it for a reasonable cost at scale is not trivial!
Captain Disillusion: Music Video VFX Magic with Atarashii Gakko
The additional subsidy for free lunches in the US currently is closer to $3.60, and you are massively overestimating how many additional free lunches would be consumed. The majority of school lunches consumed are already free. In 2019[1], 20.1 million free lunches were served compared to 7.7 million full price (and 1.7 million reduced price). And even the "full price" lunches are partially subsidized. So even assuming that all of the students in that class are eating school lunches (they aren't; only about 60% of kids do), the difference is more like 5-6 "unnecessary" lunches, not 20. The real number would likely be significantly lower than that.

[1]: https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/child-nutrition-tables
> they don't get to own stocks or real estate

So, they can't own a home in a location they represent? I don't see that going over well. Your primary home is real estate. So is that little family cottage.

Also, congressional reps need to have a home is Washington. So, they have to rent there?
Took me way to long to unlock a recipe. But, the questions were good. Where is my skip to recipe button?
I have a family and kid and hobbies and an already-demanding (time-wise) job and can absolutely say that the current high-friction hazing ritual style of tech interviewing dissuades me from looking around, even though I know I could make more by going through Thunderdome again. Even with recruiters reaching out and starting the process, interviewing is a grueling “second full-time job”.
Yes, actually! I have bought a few things after seeing them showcased in some workspaces.

I have also bought some artwork that a few of the featured guests created - partly to support/thank them and partly because I loved the art.
That's the industry PR line, at least.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

> The biggest spender, Johnson & Johnson, shelled out $17.5 billion on sales and marketing in 2013, compared with $8.2 billion for R&D. In the top 10, only Roche spent more on R&D than on sales and marketing.
Right! I was waiting for the “I’m now on this film, officially launching in 2023”
drop.

I completely agree. Reading the title, and then reading the article, I was quite underwhelmed.
Related comment (updated since I quoted it below): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267066

...in slightly more recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252957

...where I said, before updating it: "I have a very structured proces that has grown up over time, using OneModel (aka OM) software I wrote (AGPL; link and some more info in my profile). I often capture thoughts using voice notes on my phone, then roughly daily I commit those to the OM notes in the right place so that I will come across them again at the most convenient time for me -- they go in the calendar, topic notes, long-term planning, todo list, in-progress-ideas notes, staging of tasks I haven't prioritized yet, etc. Then daily, I review eac of those areas and update the plan for the day before starting on it. My daily routine of processing those things, then using them, has been very helpful to me, not just for staying organized, but deciding & remembering what to focus on in my practicing/improving of habits next, periodic reviews (some of which are also in Anki), etc."

I have been using this about daily for over 10 years and it is extremely helpful to me in a variety of ways, in daily use. Helps me keep track of long-term purpose, short-term todos, everything in between, and more.
I do and he says exactly the same thing.

>...the goal was really to build something that you could write firmware in or that you could do scripting in, that you could write mobile apps or server apps or low-level systems code, and have it be great at all of those, not just some terrible compromise.

Taken from https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/ to save listing to the whole interview

Feel free to actually listen to the episode as well, and also read/listen the sections on how Swift is a complete Objective-C replacement without the bad C parts.
If I needed to generate PDFs, I would use ReportLab[1]. The core is open source and there's a great company behind it. The product appears easy and mature. What am I missing?

1. https://docs.reportlab.com/
Blind trust, and only allow index funds. Maybe forever after holding office, to further dissuade corruption.
Indeed, I've seen two instances of this. First, early in my career, a company was acquired and had a layoff leaving a skeleton crew in IT and development. People remaining did not have the knowledge or experience to deploy or maintain the applications. That company had a week of down time where business just halted. No purchases were made, nothing previously purchased shipped, no calls to customer service were answered.

The second time was when I was an engineering manager and 3/4 of our team quit for high pay within 6 months. Our application was a line of business app with a few thousand users. Our release dates went from being delayed a few months to over a year. The companies reputation was horrid, and hiring was impossible. My boss, a Director, sent me support people who could spell "java" and expected me train them from zero. I left that disaster soon after.

So yes, the risk is real, and the result can be calamitous.
The real scary moment will be when you see the White House and Democrats re-define what stagflation is.

After all, this is a recession. Inflation is comically high - despite the incredibly massaged CPI number. The third and last criteria for stagflation is high unemployment, which it seems like we're heading into as soon as this last post-lockdown boom in consumer spending falls off a cliff.

Stagflation is very scary and it's going to be either the end of the USD, or further raising rates into a recession. Either way will produce untold suffering and cost hundreds of thousands of lives. And we're going full ESG and trying to make energy (and food) as expensive as possible. This is definitely a first and credit has to go to Western leaders because it really takes talent to self-destroy to this extent.
This is a great tool.
Your website has a massive horizontal scrollbar for me on Firefox latest on Windows 10.

If you change the css of .slider.homepage to:

.slider.homepage {
bottom: 115px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

It will be fixed.
Which languages are we talking here ? Just wondering, cos I'm prejudiced for NJ "worse is better".
I think it's just simply better at it. As users, we provide signals to these systems in the form of engagement metrics. But these systems have to interpret those metrics. If I'm highly engaged with a piece of content, the system has to figure out what characteristic of that content appealed to me. I feel like YouTube in particular uses way too coarse/siloed characteristics that results in funneling into a few characteristics. But with TikTok, I get the sense that it ends up with a much finer grain idea of what I like.

Another major source of tuning is going to be the frequency and the novelty of content injected into the stream. TikTok will throw new things at you more frequently than other platforms. Because viewing a Tok is so low investment and easy to swipe past, they can afford a few misses and still keep you in the app. This leads to a better search process for the things you care about.
This feature appears to be off by default, which is good. Helicopter parents will undoubtedly turn it on, but without this feature, perhaps those parents wouldn’t even let the child use the device.
It seems to be iOS only. Any android/webapp plans? Why limit it to iOS?
Somewhat-related discussion from 3-4 days earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211734
It’s not just the US. This happened to me in a west European nation as well
And if decision makers mess up, it is solely the decision makers fault for making a bad decision. Of course, holding decision makers accountable for their error never happens in real life, so the do-ers go elsewhere.

I don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.
> They might read research, but they aren't personally funding it.

might read, or have someone else tell them the important bits. This cost money either way

> Through your taxpaying dollars, just like every other government worker?

If this were the case, why are the politicians even trading stocks to begin with? if they wanted money why not be a private individual and then there would be no scrutiny on trading stocks.
This particular article may be old, but by now I'm kind of tired of the "forced reinterpretation of X as sinister and evil" trope.
> Do countries with less corrupt lawmakers pay more than the US? I doubt that...

This assumes ones level of corruption has to do with income. Is that true or are there other factors?
AWS us-east-2 outage
Zoom is having connectivity issues. Nothing on https://status.zoom.us/ page yet.
The pain in there is that every time you want to have a PDF generation system, you have to do the same stuff, it's not "complex" at all, but it definitely takes time, whatever the technology you use. On my experience, having ten thousand PDF generating at the same time was a very high load for our infrastructure and the cost was enormous, that is one of the main thing I'll focus on today : the scalability of it. It also depending on the way you create your template, hard coded with pixels or HTML!
Zapper – Your Home to Web3
>Domains with novel folds usually have a low number of remotely homolog sequences and for that reason the method will fail, not just because they are novel.

How can you say this but not believe it's doing homology modeling?
> In short there actually isn't that much that a human can do that a computer cannot do better.

Passengers fixing their own doors and responding to their own emergency alarms doesn't fit most people's definitions of "better". Hence why even though train automation has been possible for decades, most trains and especially most trains travelling long distances aren't.
All of the scaremongering died when the big tobacco companies got involved; just like microsoft when they 'feel in-love' with linux
It's a fair fee though. It pays for my attention as a recipient. It prevents an externality. It's no different than having to deposit a quarter to take a shopping cart, to incentivize you to return it. A tenth of a cent would probably be just as effective btw; the problem is that you can send a million text messages, wasting a million seconds of other people's time assuming they spend an average of 1 second looking at it, all for far less than the value of all that time wasted.

Nobody is talking about TSA, what a non sequitur.
Not totally related, but I suffered an injury as a kid, the "we have the technology" fix employed wound up in medical journals and textbooks, and I've found at least one video where an x-ray of my insides is shown.
Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Better Heat Transfer and Engines
Like all things, some crews probably mostly suck and others don’t. Most film employees are blue collar workers making not that much per hour and doing 16 hour days to pay the bills / get medical care for their families.
ZenGo – Crypto Wallet App
"clickbait"
I like to think of it as not really one or the other, but as both. It’s like a venn-diagram intersection of finance and sociology. Some elements of economics are purely quantifiable, and some elements are purely human.
The algorithm is not looking for toxic content to amplify. It's looking for content that would attain the most engagement of its users. If you consider the posts to be toxic, then maybe you are in a minority.
Age limits > Term limits.

My gut reaction is that term limits are a significant change that probably create a lot of unintended downstream consequences.

Of all the things that make me question term limits, the number one is the question of experience. If you have someone with 30 years experience being a politician are they likely to be more effective than someone with 0 or 2 years experience? I think it's pretty jaded to answer no. If everyone has been around for 30 years it creates onboarding problems when people die or leave. I think that is the best argument for term limits.

I also question what is the exact problem term limits are trying to solve? Because I am not sure I understand what problem they are trying to solve.

The problems with American politics are:

Campaign financing
Two party system
The senate representing states (1 Wyoming person has equal say to 30 Californians)
Lack of faith in the election process/Electoral college
No way to make changes that are not aligned with the politicians themselves

I don't see how term limits address any of those.
Inflation-exhausted Americans: Let's just go out for steak
Friends in the industry all say it's a nonstarter that it does not (and will not) have cross platform support, as much as they hate Unity. Godot's official stance on it is that you should hire a team to port it for you lol...
This seems so reasonable. Nothing is banned, just blurred. It's optional and it only applies to kids' phones.

When a nudist put their clothes back on, then that's it. When a photo goes out and spreads beyond the control of the kid, then that's just the beginning.

It's just a very good option.
https://www.theblock.co/post/159975/solana-stablecoin-nirvan...
it was better than any museum of science and industry I've ever paid to get into

some time ago i couchsurfed with the owner or manager of a steel processing plant. he gave me a tour. one of the most memorable experiences.
Ask HN: Why wasn't Vagrant widely adopted by open source projects?
With GitHub Codespaces gaining in popularity, I was wondering why the problem of having to setup a whole open dev environment for submitting a tiny fix to an open source project was still the hassle it is. We have software like Vagrant, Docker, etc. which are supposed to take care of exactly this, yet relatively few open source projects provide a file. Why did adding a Vagrantfile not become as natural as adding a README?
Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade
> Seems to me there is a lot of manufactured dissent to fracture or further curb political lines. making sides about every single issue.

yes, I think this is fair assessment.

however, democracy - and liberal society - encourages this. Social media is only an accelerant to practices which have already present - the only difference is that narrative formation itself has been democratised and so can now be more effectively contested. In perverse way, this is kind of another characteristic of democratic systems.

It could be that what we have today is the natural evolution of democratic systems, this is what it looks like when we democratize the means of mass communication. If we are not happy with this, then we need to reform the political system to encourage the outcomes we prefer. Suppressing the information is the other option, which the author implicitly endorses
>>>GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy. But it's always been correlated enough with overall economic sentiment that it was Good Enough.

>> yes by MMT supporters that want to ignore the classic model of economics in favor of monetary manipulation for political purposes

Huh?

Discussing the utility of and then issues with GDP has been a staple of Macro courses for decades. E.g., [1], but I'm really serious: every single macro textbook for as long as macro textbooks have existed has had some version of the question "Discuss the strengths and weaknesses (i.e., problems) of using GDP data".

[1] https://www.austincc.edu/sondg/Exams/macro/exam2.html
It’s the same reason why people watch accident compilations on YouTube. It helps you understand why others died, so that you may be able to reduce the chance of getting into the same situation. Moderate morbid curiosity is healthy in the sense that helps you understand the world without needing first-hand experience which may actually kill you.
Because it's not merely a "charging outlet" ... there's electronics in the charger to convert AC to USB power out :)
> Senators make $174,000/yr and most are already wealthy before running for election

I'd have to be pretty independently wealthy before I'd consider applying for a job that practically required me to maintain residences in D.C. and my home state and only paid $174k/year.

I'd have to be wealthier to consider it if it cost an average of over $10 million to put together a competitive application, or I had to reapply every 6 years, and even moreso if, as is the case with the actual Senate, if both of those applied.

(Yeah, you can fundraise for the “application” costs, but that's a whole additional job on top of the job.)
Given the amount of vaping, if popcorn lung was a real thing in vaping, you'd think they'd be citing much stronger evidence than factory workers decades ago and complaining that some paperwork would surely have solved it.
You may be interested in https://github.com/browserless/chrome - you'd need to write your own HTML template for the invoice, but the PDF generation itself can be run on this service. Great company, great tech.
Nah. OP _almost_ finessed his mistake, almost.

What the subtext says to me is that the assistant director, or whoever OP talked to, was well aware that OP was just some rando passing through, (probably through experience working in cities), and not a unionized member of SAG.
The “nice work” comment was an opportunity for OP to say, ‘uh huh’ and float the director enough plausible deniability to salvage the shot.
As soon as he said, “no”, it’s cut and reshoot. Probably not a big deal, but worth a shot (pun intended) from the director.
Good, then we tank legislation. Fewer laws seems fine by me, and the laws that do pass will be based on a groundswell of support that comes in waves.
Jokes aside, if they have artificial lighting, it should be visible.
Cool, do any companies have something that resembles this in action?
> Why?

So keeping in mind this doesn't preclude lawmakers from investing or buying index funds or ETFs, but the reason is because they literally create legislation that benefits certain companies. CHIPS Act is a recent example.

So they can do something like buy stock in a company, and then advocate for a law to pass that benefits that company, and then make money by doing that. What we want to do is separate "what's good for me" from "what's good for the country" and remove conflicts of interest like that. There's no real reason for a lawmaker or their immediate family to be buying individual stocks. Instead it makes more sense for them to invest in something like a market index so that if there are incentives to be aligned they should be focused on benefiting the entire market instead of any specific companies.