skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny. Frankness is not a trait I would have thought is very American. If anything, you guys are a bit too polite at times it seems.

I don't know if it's just the ruling class that has decided this change. I applaud everyone who keeps up "family values", but I will absolutely vote for shutting that shit down as soon as it's a front for "white man, breadwinner, white woman, housewife, two children -- everything else is worth less".

Unfortunately, a whole lot of those who were meant to keep up those values used them to suppress others.

I claim that it's possible to be progressive and still keep your culture intact. Family values can still be emphasized, but why not simply include all families, no matter how quirky they may come?

In any case, I applaud many things in your culture. I've always had a great affinity for the US. No country is perfect, and all will find some aspect about another culture they find strange. What's important is to keep an open mind, and not cling to traditions for tradition's sake.

> Interesting, are those ratings taken seriously?

It depends on the guardians, of course. I know I was not allowed to play games rated 16+ before I actually turned 16. I know friends of mine who played CS when they were 12. We all turned out okay.
That doesn't fix it. You're proposing that Google, as a company that has one of the biggest first-party businesses, remove third party tracking while continuing to permit first party tracking.
A day? Maybe not - In most cases I could simply drive somewhere for a day or two and get work done.

For something that spans a week or so like my fiber outage? Worth every penny. As an employee it's my duty to have reliable "transportation" to work - in this case that means Internet access.

I did use a 4G LTE hotspot when I lived in less dense suburbs - it worked quite well. In the city core though, I've found that when there is a widescale outage mobile data slows to a crawl and is unusable for work purposes.

It's expensive, but when I was contracting being unable to take a sev0 on-call escalation would have cost far more in opportunity cost than paying for the backup line for a year.
I actually think xi is looking to fight. It was always coming, China is only going to weaken from here population and gdp wise. If he doesn’t get into an endless war they will slowly lose power. It’s horrible for the nation but good for xi.

The motives of the CCP and China used to be well aligned. As that shifts expect more bellicose chest thumping.
PastePay is a great alt to Stripe. Check them out https://www.pastepay.com. I posted this elsewhere in this comment section. PastePay is a “smaller service”. It is more customer focused than Stripe.
The problem with Meta is they can’t innovate. Facebook, now Meta, have achieved all of their growth through acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Giphy.

The days of Meta making huge acquisitions are over. The world governments aren’t going to allow it. So now Meta will actually have to innovate to compete.

And what are they up to? Copying features from TikTok. Losing $2.5 billion per quarter on VR while making little to no progress.

WhatsApp is the biggest moat, but it’s also the hardest to monetize, and Meta has given no evidence that they can fend off a challenger without acquiring their way out.

Good luck to anyone holding Meta stock. They won’t be able to buy their way out of this, not this time.
Stripe like paypal is not to blame in this story. The problem is the credit card payment standard. Transactions can be charged back up to 180 days. This means that by giving the merchant the money right away, Stripe runs the risk that a transaction will be charged back and that the merchant wont have fund to cover it.

Stripe like any other processor runs an algo to determine the risk profile of each transaction to decide if you get the money immediately or not. If you have a sudden high ticket transaction, the odds this will be charged back are much higher. This is why they freeze that money up to 180 days.

It sucks, but it is how the credit card system works. Someone has to cover the chargeback risk.
Shaving a few minutes off your shower, walking to the shop instead of driving, turning your thermostat down by a few degrees will make no f@@kin difference what so ever to the horror that is coming.

The whole point of these exercises is not to save energy but to engage the population to believe that they are part of the problem and therefore part of the solution. They are not.

One of the most important videos on the entire Internet, if you cannot understand why then you are probably already lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g&t=1s
Outsourcing violence to the state is probably the single biggest source of suffering in modern society.
> Just make sure your ZK is happy and all will be well.

That sounds like the opposite of easy to setup (and maintain).
I think people in the past spent less time looking at a screen and had other hobbies (like interior decorating) instead.
Freddie Sayers made a really, really good comment at the end of his recent UnHerd video about this:

"It's not a conspiracy. It's no a communist plot. But what it is, is taking a particular worldview, a view about how society should operate, and removing it from the normal democratic conversation, where people can battle it out, and instead hardwiring it into poerful supranational organizations."

Here is the part of the video that I am referring to: https://youtu.be/Lm-S5zlnHIk?t=528
Maybe look at Klarna. This is not an endorsement, I've never worked with them, but as a consumer i like using sites that use them for payment.

https://docs.klarna.com/
It’s a pretty comprehensive framework and I think it’s great. It would have been better if it also has a table of salary range for each level in different regions so that companies aren’t misinterpreting these job levels or, at worse, misuse the guide to manipulate their employees.

There are companies which make their employees senior or tech lead but pay $50k and use the same framework as expectation. It cannot be based entirely only on job titles because they are “free” to issue. You can easily mint new titles out of thin air. To back these job levels or titles with real value, their corresponding pays need to be relatable.

If we could print money without backing it with something scarce like gold, guess what will happen? Haven’t we seen some companies where there are so many senior, lead or even principal engineers but yet they getting paid lower than a mid engineer at another company? Job level/title inflation.

On the other hand, at companies that don’t inflate their job levels, they could still be underpaying their “seniors” and “leads” with junior or mid level pay while expecting them to operate along with the guide.
Checkout Adyen. They’re practically the same.
Also, while we might accept a certain smoothness hypothesis (fuzzy logic as applies to human perceptions) in financial valuations, these functions certainly aren't (if I may be pedantic) analytic at all.

If a function is analytic, then the derivatives at one point tell the whole story on the complex plane--the information is all encoded at (an arbitrarily small neighborhood around) a single point. But most smooth functions aren't analytic; indeed, a smooth function that is the trace of a process taking any stochastic external input will typically (probability 1) not be.
I think that's what they wanted? Although it's still a strange way to communicate that given that it'll change wildly based on screen resolution. A screenshot would probably be a better idea.
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This is a nice summary of all the usual talking points that aren't true.

The ban has already been brought forward in multiple jurisdictions, that's the general trend, as people realise all the lies they've been told about EVs aren't true, so delaying it would be very surprising. In London, they have the low emission zones on top of that, so any poor person buying an old ICE car for use in London would be paying hefty sums to drive around.

There's multiple serious efforts to build large-scale public (and private) EV charging infrastructure. Why do you think there isn't? How can you think that? They're popping up everywhere.

The ban doesn't even ban PHEVs currently (though there's reasonable chance that it will be strengenthed in some way as the transition accelerates) so even ignoring all EVs with lower TCO than equivalent ICE cars available today, which will be 8 years old in 2030, there's also tons of hybrids for these poor people to buy.

Degraded battery packs? Now that's a classic, thought that one had died out, along with "toys for the wealthy".

The "fuel tax" is more than made up for by all the many benefits of EV (less pollution being a key one) that society gets, but it's good that governments will probably tax EVs as cars, even EVs, have multiple negative externalities that the people who use them should pay for, so the people cycling or on the train don't need to pay for other people's bad decisions. Otherwise we'll end up with inefficient American sprawl rather than healthy, livable cities.
They won a decades-long standing challenge predicting the protein structures of a much smaller (yet significantly quite large) set of proteins using a model (AlphaFold).

Then they use the model to predict more.

Although we don't know if they are correct, these structures are the best (or the least bad) we have for now.
AlphaFold predicts structure of almost every catalogued protein known to science
I'm not sure if it's possible to easily share the correct settings in an URL, but:

In the Layers menu, set it to Satellite, Globe view, and turn off Labels. Then, zoom until the earth is ca. 1275 pixels wide
Well, I can already tell you that most of people are not going to participate, because it would take more cycles from already cycle limited battery.
Instead of subsidizing the semiconductor industry (and others) with free subsidies, why not invest the money in the companies and issue shares to every registered tax payer equally. At least then the citizens might see some benefits from yet another huge act of corporate welfare.
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The quantitative results about "pixels" are, experimentally speaking, garbage. The do not prove the point even if it feels true. A more thorough analysis would be welcome, possibly with different geographical points. E.g. let's do that in Iran, Russia, Tanzania and a European country. Are there correlations with traditional culture? And with the current political system?

I myself have anecdotical accounts of this. It couples with decreasing personalization. Today even the desktop picture is seldom changed by the end user.
What about good ol' forums? Indexable by search engines and proper moderation tools that have stood the test of time.
I think the link intended to show 10 km/pixel, to give an idea of what it would look like. It shows a scale of length 1000 km to me, if it is 10 km/pixel then there should be a 100 pixels within that length, which seems okay as a sanity check. But yeah, it depends on the screen resolution as well.
Or why the “subscribe me to all your spam and your third party’s spam” checkbox is always checked by default.
I think people forget how much effort it took to accept credit cards at the time Stripe launched, too. Not just technical, but having to get a merchant account, which would be through a bank, who'd want to sell you a rented point-of-sale and a contract for a minimum amount of fees per month, and a rate hike for being a "risky online business".
I'd say it's pretty useful to discuss hypotheticals of all kinds. In this case, generating ideas for uses of a technology that is under development might increase interest and therefore funding, or recruit new people to the cause, and generate new ideas that may be useful for the active development of the technology.
One of the best resource for learning Monads
Because not only they are not a solution to payments in general, not only their deflative nature will never make them good at being "money", but they are not even the solution to this very specific problem as well.

Because the solution to this problem is providing a better customer care or face losing business and legal action.
> I would argue the rich would much prefer to let everyone live at some <low but "okay"> standard of living than have a few more zeros on their bank totals and live in constant fear.

I suspect many of the rich don't feel they are yet rich enough for this reasoning to be applicable to them.... and each year as they get richer, their subconscious goalposts move a little further.
Given the scales we're talking about I presume that everything you want to look at is effectively "at infinity", as such I expect that you consider where two parallel rays would meet due to solar lensing and that's your focal region.
I used to use ansible and salt but I realized that all configurations are in the persistent files so there is nothing to configure.

Now, I run services and not elastic containers - in the sense that once I have Syncthing or whatever set up, it stays that way. i do not need to pop up containers and configure them manually.
Senate passes bipartisan bill investing $52B in US semiconductor production
Conversely, some trends in color are driven by overt, coordinated planning. Behold The Color Marketing Group [1]. According to their site, they meet "at local and international color forecasting events to interpret, create, forecast, and select colors with the goal of enhancing manufactured goods and services."

Here's some of the dreamlike prose with which they describe their attempt to capture the zeitgeist with a particular shade of blue [2]:

"Transition, evolution, and moving forward will continue to define the world and its population as 2022 emerges. Questions of trust and truth have been debated with many answered, but still more to come. Color Marketing Group’s North America 2022 Key Color, New Day, is the color response for a time still in transition.

"New Day suggests confidence and familiarity to greet 2022 with a sense of comfort. A light, fresh blue with red influences, New Day is an inspiring color designed to convey the classic connotation of hope and new beginnings.

"Whether a phone cover, hairdryer, or polo shirt, fashion and personal items are set to embrace New Day as a color equalizer. New Day presents a color that is not only new but suggests familiarity and ease. Genderless and ageless, it is a hue to blend with others, as well as allowing it to stand on its own."

[1] https://colormarketing.org/about

[2] https://colormarketing.org/2020/11/20/key-color-new-day/
Otherwise known as extortion.
in what industry does your previous salary not matter? (Not a snarky ask btw.) I have never entertained an offer blow my current salary, so personally find them highly correlated (sw eng).
The exemple at hand is literally about allowing truckers to work from their homes and increasing their hourly rates
Samsung boss likely to be pardoned for bribery
It was also plagued by some very annoying bugs, which have since been fixed: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
Textures. Doom and Quake were way more visually interesting than this while running on worse hardware because the meshes were actually textured.
you can have an acceptable domestic government that had made unacceptable mistakes in foreign policies.

It does not change the validity of democracy if democratic nations make mistakes.

And it does not legitimize a tyrannical government just because democracies have made mistakes.

Edit: I'll double down. The whole point of democracies is to hold our governments accountable for those mistakes, something that is (at least by design) much harder in non-democratic governments.
I think Google+ had already broken Google search in that several way years before Disney+ appeared.
Am I the only one enjoying and finding peace in this type of short sentence narrative?

Is it maybe because English is not my native language?
Isn't it possible to get these people to come to their senses by showing them historical failures of people in a similar situation?
Adam Mosseri is 'head of Instagram' according to the article, in case you're wondering why some random nomarks opinion matters.
Same as any other prediction I'd presume. Run it against a known protein and see how the answer lines up. Predict the structure of an unknown protein, then use traditional methods (x-ray crystallography, maybe STEM, etc) to verify.
How most people can end up charging in the middle of the night, when 50% of people in EU are living in apartments, have no parking space and will be most probably using on Fast DC chargers?
Heat waves thawing Arctic permafrost
Well, when it launched, but few years down the road Stripe was already in a class of his own on the topic of developer experience compared to their competitors.
Disclaimer: I work in Google, organizationally far away from Deep Mind and my PhD is in something very unrelated.

They can't possibly know that. What they know is that their guesses are very significantly better than the previous best and that they could do this for the widest range in history. Now, verifying the guess for a single (of the hundreds of millions in the db) protein is up to two years of expensive project. Inevitably some will show discrepancies. These will be fed to regression learning, giving us a new generation of even better guesses at some point in the future. That's what I believe to be standard operating practice.

A more important question is: is today's db good enough to be a breakthrough for something useful, e.g. pharma or agriculture? I have no intuition here, but the reporting claims it will be.
Right, but what if my mother wants to start a business? She's not a developer. Should she avoid Stripe?

What kind of company builds itself as only being a product usable by developers? We're a small niche market at best.
Be sure to also check out the Prism theme, i personally prefer it over Minimal;

Light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damiankorcz/Prism-Theme/ma...

Dark: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damiankorcz/Prism-Theme/ma...

Repo: https://github.com/damiankorcz/Prism-Theme
I think your approach to this situation is fine. There are poor ways to handle it, though.

A recent example: The developer maintains a tool that communicates with another internal system maintained by another group. That system is being migrated from a suite of applications running on internal blades to something that runs on kubernetes. The migration affects how processes are accessed (IP addresses and ports), and changes are required on our end.

This developer does not know anything about kubernetes and does not know anything about the changes in the other system. He does not understand why any access methods may have changed, and he is irritated that an external system is pushing a new requirement onto his task list when it worked perfectly fine before. To be fair, he does not need to know anything about kubernetes to make this change, but his resistance to the modification almost demanded an explanation of why it is necessary, and then it devolved into the situation I just described.
I should have just read this comment instead of the article!
His career is still active and he is out of jail now so his life is back on track too. And his imprisonment brought far more attention to his cause than he had before.

House arrest was a miscarriage of justice and bad, but it was during Covid when everyone was basically house arrested.
Cool. I once did a streetview based art project, noplacetosit, that was initially inspired by the Ginsberg poem: "on Jessore road, long bamboo huts, no place to shit but sand channel ruts."

Only the Instagram account is still up, at the moment, which doesn't do justice to the large panoramas. This development might make me revisit the project, get some fresh locations, and upload the larger photos.

End of the road https://www.google.com/maps/@23.0390469,88.8844274,3a,60y,23...

http://instagram.com/noplacetosit
rm ./.git/hooks/pre-commit

Or just do not install the hook in the first place. Choice is still the developer's unless your team is doing something else here that limits your ability to delete/rename files locally.
Climate change alarmists don't call themselves "climate change alarmists", that's what climate change deniers call people who don't deny climate change.
Very bearish

1) Zuck doesn’t know how to innovate.

2) Facebook, now Meta, has achieved 100% of their recent growth through acquisitions.

3) The days of Meta being allowed to make big acquisitions are over. World governments have already started clamping down.

4) Copying TikTok features is just more evidence of 1.

5) Ad regulation is coming.

6) The Metaverse play seems comically distant, and shareholders won’t stomach losing $2.4b per quarter on a gambit while the core business declines.

7) Zuck has a majority of voting shares. I’m shocked you think this is positive. It’s an extreme negative. Zuck can prevent the company from course correcting.
Kid locked alone in basement all summer with just an N64 and one cursed game is basically a creepypasta writing prompt come to life ;)

I'm playing SNES / Sega Genesis era Death and Return of the Superman by Sunsoft / Blizzard and it's a wildly amusing punch scroller with heat vision, sonic boom and Man of Tomorrow Cyborg Superman boss!
An excellent video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA

Earths atmosphere and weather affects this sort of telescope IIRC and will filter out some lightwaves but seems like a much easier win
Maybe check out Paddle.
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IMHO it's "differentiable" that's the most interesting part of this. There's tons of physically based renderers.

It's odd that that word doesn't appear on http://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/ - unless "retargetable" carries a similar meaning?
Well tell me the difference then. We have cascading inheritance, that’s what CSS is all about.

Unless we’re using different definitions of the term
It's so silly for teachers to say "you are not allowed to cite Wikipedia". It's a cart-before-horse approach, mindless rule-following. The principle in academic writing is that you cite whatever you used for your research. IF you read the Wikipedia article and base some of your conclusions on its synthesis, then you MUST cite Wikipedia, citing the sources of Wikipedia would be misleading IF you don't read those cited sources yourself. It's all about traceability and credit assigment. You can of course cite also what Wikipedia cites but you have to cite Wikipedia if you use claims from there that you didn't actually get from looking at the source cited by Wikipedia.

However! It's also important to teach students how sources differ in quality or "authoritativeness". The problem with citing Wikipedia is not the citing per se but relying on that source. A peer reviewed academic journal is considered more reliable, although no source should be taken as gospel and definitive truth, especially on controversial topics.

You can even cite blog posts, personal letters, and even personal oral communication! The point is to let the reader know where your info comes from. Making students memorize rules like "don't cite Wikipedia" just results in a cargo cult, not actual understanding of critical thinking related to sources.
Well, Diffe Whitfield envisioned an internet highway around 1974 then went on to find out how can we keep secrets when everyone has a computer in his home.
A lot of organizations route suspended accounts through an entirely different support team focused on fraud. That team is often not a management priority, either.