skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how important relatively speaking the individual differences (outside the extremes of color-blindness) are, compared to the fact that the customers are simply not sitting in such 'white rooms'.
"We let our graphic designer go so we could onboard a AI Prompt Engineer"

"How much are we paying him?"

"About $225k plus bonus and equity"

"And how much was the graphic designer paid?

"$55k"

"..."
> This counterbalances the effect of wealth centralization

Yes, this ensures a limited supply with PoW, right?

> If you try to remove real-world costs from that equation, you lose the counterbalancing effect.

I assume you can't remove real-world costs in the case of PoS, but yes I can see how the real-world costs will be much, much lower.

Are you saying that there is a good reason to keep those real-world costs higher? (pardon my ignorance, I haven't looked into the principle you describe here before).
Please tell me which companies are doing that, I also would like to put them on a "places I never want to work" list.
What if someone sees LGBT ideology as something resembling nazism and that’s their way of expressing this? If they truly believe so, they should get a chance to explain themselves.

I don’t want to take sides here but in general punishing people for hurting someone’s feelings is a bad thing in meritocracy (which I wish we had).
> Especially if you have any thoughts like, "I learn some really interesting stuff, so if only I could retain what I learn..."

I'm not sure I follow, is that a risk factor or a positive indication in your opinion? My goal isn't to shine with this knowledge in conversations (apart from technical job interviews maybe).
Bullies don't mess with people that can defend themselves.
At least in Ethereum -
- Stakers earn far less then miners since they aren't burning capital to validate. They only need to be paid for their opportunity cost over putting that capital to use elsewhere.
- Their stake does not automatically compound. Each validator maxes out at a weight of 32 eth, and it takes 32 to get a new validator going.
- Earnings have to be skimmed back to the execution layer in order to be manually re-staked (if there is 32 eth worth). Those earnings then enter the 'dominion and control' of the staker, so at that point taxes have to be paid on that income.

In contrast, mining can drastically improve the return on capital by operating at larger and larger scales so as to get better and better deals on equipment and electricity. That kind scaling doesn't happen with proof of stake.
The latter is exactly how you keep sheep. Keeping them in one enclosure is more of a pain in the arse to cope with than having to spend half a day tromping around with a couple of dogs herding them back into an enclosure, and then sorting out which sheep belongs to who.

I'm not quite sure why this is a good analogy, but it feels like it is.
> Were it otherwise civil courts would have lots of free time.

Laws don't have to matter for you to waste a court's time. In fact dragging out court cases is a common legal tactic.

> The legal system isn't known for being the corruption oasis that movies make it out to be.

Your experience differs from mine. It also differs from most lawyers I know. Lawyers aren't famous for drinking heavily because they think they're making the world a better place.

Why do you think the court system works? What country do you live in?
But the documentary doesn't claim to be about human computer contributors. It claims to be about women specifically. It's super weird to critique a historical documentary for being focused in its scope. Should we also critique "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", a documentary about a specific uprising in a specific extermination camp? Is Wings of Defeat, which is specifically about kamikaze pilots, woke because it's not about all pilots?
> This means that whoever put pressure on you gets their way, which motivates them to do it again.

While I don't think this is a ridiculous take, it is a rather uncharitable one.
I'd think the only reasonable time this should be believed is after it has shown itself to be a pattern.
I often only read the hacker News comments.

I glossed the first few paragraphs of this whiny note and can understand why the author does not read the comments here. He needs to get to the point much quicker. Whatever it was. Tl:dr.
what does "high-speed" mobile data mean in terms of actual throughput?
There's no magic bullet that will get you through "any door" - every person is different, and every person has different things they want in a partner. There are some people who will absolutely refuse to date somebody who isn't taller than them, and if you're too short, then yeah - nothing you can do will change that.

But there's nothing you can do to change that, so why get hung up on it? There are plenty of other people (I'll drop the dehumanizing metaphor of doors here because it's not needed) who have different criteria that you could meet, and focusing on the things about yourself that make you happier (like being emotionally available, being able to communicate, and having a clear sense of your values) seems like a pretty reasonable way to go about meeting those criteria with a side-benefit of making you happy.
Russophobia is a costly endeavour!
Would it be rational to audit (say) one additional millionaire rather than correcting objectively massive fraud/error rates in the EITC? I would say not. Then the question remains is what the break-even point is. Neither you nor I know the internal numbers here so it's impossible to discuss whether the current policy is reasonable or not.
>Another day, another hyperbolical title. 100 years ago, knowledge of perception was in its infancy.

That may well be, but the title doesn't point to the overturning of some infantile color theory people believed 100 years ago.

It points to the overturning of a still dominant theory, that was first developed 100 years ago, but continues to be considered as the standard.

The article might be wrong in that that's the case, but that's how the title reads.
I agree- my friend at school had a Pentium 200Mhz with 16MB of RAM, and I only had 8 for several years. Since Tinycore needs around 48MB of RAM it would be interesting to try out something like Tiny Slitaz, which can run on 4MB: https://pizza.slitaz.org/tiny/
Hubble Sees Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top
Yep. Evolution was like, "Jeff ate a bad berry and he died. That's why Jeff is not your father. Make sure you stay the fuck away from any food that makes you sick; don't be like Jeff." It took me over a decade to even be able to eat another black-and-white cookie again.

And it's not even just food, it's any painful experience. Pain is a great motivator for avoidance. When I was about 11, I had myringotomy tubes implanted in my eardrums -- a common procedure to help drain fluid in kids with chronic infections or, in my case, bad allergies. Thing is, when those tubes are in your ears, there's no barrier between your outer and inner ear, so you cannot get your ears wet. I was given custom-made ear plugs so I could still go in the pool, but they weren't as tightly sealed as they could have been, and chlorinated pool water would still leak in sometimes... fun fact: if you think chlorine burns your eyes, imagine how it feels dripping into your inner ear and down your eustachian tubes. During that time, I would get constant inner ear infections from pool water, and I'm talking the "extremely painful, pus-pouring, pressure-building, 'someone is stabbing my ears'" level of infections.

I had the tubes surgically removed after I think about 2 years, and never had another ear infection after that, but it took me at least 5 years before I could put my head underwater without a conditioned, reflexive tensing and jerking of the neck trying to prevent it from happening.
> Unix will never to achieve true user-friendliness and wide adoption if we treat settings like this.

You're responding to complaints that settings done this way are user-hostile, opaque, and require a ton of insider knowledge to even find. So if the only goal is user-friendliness, we're moving away from it, not towards it.
I wonder how much classical education hinders this kind of people. I can see a point in networking, however creating a network of randomly assigned people doesn’t seem so effective. It might be better to create a network from clubs, etc.

I never created anything so impressive while young but I was always curious and building or taking apart stuff. I always felt school got in the way.

in the end I stayed all the way until PhD and later changed careers, but that’s a different story
Part of the problem is that there's very little cash in the S or M parts of STEM.
Why Postgres is the most popular connector
It is "exclusive" to Xbox and PC.
My point is that a phone browser that noticeably slows down for 32k is probably fairly useless. Why not get poor people better phones instead of spending money optimizing for crap?
Correctness of Unification without Occur Check in Prolog (1994) [pdf]
As with all mobile service it really depends on coverage in your area. The baseline service is LTE.
> If yes, how could this manifest itself if a bad actor had a lot of ETH and tried to manipulate the chain?

With the current price of ETH, it’s unlikely that a single entity could gain enough of the supply to do anything like this, but it is a valid concern for smaller chains.

> Could they theoretically jump favored transactions to the front of the line and/or charge less fees for their own transactions?

Block proposers can already do this. How often you get to be block proposer, is proportional to the amount of stake you have.
Really cool. That's how this project got started. I was doing the exact thing you were doing (tile-based RL path finding). But it was soooo slow, so I started implementing it in tensors, and that's when I realized I could do a whole game of Snake.
> Imagine 20 dollars per dollar spent, that's the type of unicorn investment that basically every VC hunts for.

It's frustrating that every business person who has ever lived would absolutely throw money at that formula if it was part of their business, but that's not politically popular because the IRS costs money to operate.

Mathemarically it makes sense to go until you hit 1:1. If we increased enforcement until, say, 4 dollars collected for every 1 spent in each of the major categories, the deterrent factor would probably help people be more honest in times of dishonesty, naturally helping the problem for the following year.
Thinking is a bottomless pit for attention.

Put X attention into digging a hole and you get that much hole dug.

Put X attention into sandwich-making and you get that many sandwiches made.

But with thinking there's no real connection like that. You can put a whole decade of attention into a bunch of thinking and achieve zip.

It's an amazing attention sink. Whole mountains of attention can disappear. Easily. Casually.

And then when you consider that many of us basically think all the time. Habitually. Chewing over... memories and dreams and plans and stuff. Woah!

And that attention is our energy budget. Flushed down the thinkhole.
Heat pumps: what they do and why they’re hot now
Broken on mobile
This is not the first or second time that humanity has tried 'social networking'. We used to call it "the mob" and long before the time of jesus it was considered that people shouting at each other is no way to run a society. People are dazzled by the shiny touchscreens of their phones, but shouting behind a glossy screen is still shouting, and a mob is still a mob. I don't think 'social networking' will go anywhere, it will be abandoned and foulmouthed as 'loud crazy old people', in favor of curated content, possibly algorithmic if that works. The future of media looks a lot like the media of the past, consolidated , more professional and polished.
Posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418130
For every $1 of additional funding, the IRS brings in $3. They're the only federal government entity for which this is true. Increasing their finding should be an absolute no-brainer, but many powerful people have a vested interest in keeping the IRS weak and small and underfunded, so that's what we've got.
Canadian law allows for assisted suicide for patients with psychiatric disorders
To be pedantic - mainnet Ethereum didn't 'roll-back' those hack transactions either. They are still there on etherscan if you want to look for them. The DAO hard fork introduced an unsigned transaction that moved the hacker's funds to a refund to a refund contract.
https://twitter.com/MikeCrapo/status/1556177703098884103
Yes, that's a very reasonable proposal that I would personally be in favor of.

Although, the consequences of the "default" values are something that both sides of the aisle are almost certain to take issue with. The left will likely not be happy that the default values result in "overcharging" those due social credits, and the right will not be happy that the default values make it easy to get away with failing to report income that isn't 1099/W2. This would likely result in arguments over how to solve that problem ... this is the data collection issue I'm referring to.
> how to i specify timouts? sizes? Can I use "MiB", "s", "ms", etc?

These issues neither disappear nor improve when you hide the settings in a mystery binary.
Yeah, sorry, part of my intended point that I don't think entirely came across was not that these software options shouldn't be brought up as possible answers (they should! Thanks) but that it does seem to point to an under-served niche (Linux support) and that would be exactly the sort of under-served niche that would make some of these answers "non-obvious" to someone like DeVault when looking for off-the-shelf solutions. DeVault in fact may be calling for someone to more directly serve this niche (and other comments here touch on that), but yeah if he has a chance some of the options you mentioned are likely worth investigating as current off-the-shelf options.
> The real reason they’re targeted is that, quite simply, they’re unable to fight back.

I think there is a misunderstanding of what an 'audit' means. It can be as simple as a letter from the IRS (after their analysis alerts them) asking that certain documents be provided to support a deduction or otherwise. The IRS is not conducting large scale audits on people with low incomes it would not be feasible there is not enough to even dig into.

What the government (in this particular case for the EITC) should be easy for the taxpayer to reply with info needed to dispute the claim.
At least 10% of web dev today is being good at search prompts for Google. (And that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just about finding the right tool or pattern for your specific problem)
Corn brooms and vacuum cleaners
IMO, here's 4 partial explanations, that I may or may not be right about.

1) Companies fear being sued for discriminatory hiring practices. There is zero risk of being sued if you keep your mouth shut and don't communicate with candidates. There is a minor risk of being sued if you give any feedback, even if you don't intend any offense. Sadly, the legal culture means that the safest thing to do is ignore candidates.

2) I don't mean offense to anybody and this is obviously not true in anywhere near 100% of cases. But as a generality, the people who tend to gravitate towards a career in HR departments in today's world are useless and often petty people who have often never held a real productive job.

3) This is more noticeable, particularly in CURRENT_YEAR, but society has broken down in some ways due to current events as well as the media's business model of fear-mongering. Regardless of political stance, a lot of people are feeling scared and hopeless about the future and that has an impact on normal interactions.

4) This may be controversial on HN, but Corporate America learned during Occupy Wall Street that they can take heat off of the 1% by bending the knee and taking certain stances on certain social issues. Keeping the attention off themselves by having the correct politics and flying the correct colorful ribbons is about the only "ethical" issue they care about.
The average score improvement from retakes seems to be modest: https://www.manhattanreview.com/sat-retaking/

As far as I can tell, most American kids don’t prepare for the SAT even with free or cheap methods. The cost of test prep seems like a red herring.
It might not actually matter. Reboot Windows. Sound starts playing out of your monitor, which you didn't even know had speakers. How do you fix it?

(The answer is not to type "sound" into the search bar. That takes you to the "new" sound control panel, which doesn't have all the old features, including disabling sound devices. So you have to open the control panel, go to Devices & Sound, and then you can search around to disable a device.)

The fundamental difference between Windows and Linux here is that if you write an instructional blog post to fix this problem for Windows, you can put some drive-by malware installer on it and make some money. You could obviously malware up similar Linux documentation, but by the time you get discovered you will have only infected 1 person, simply because it's much less widely used. Unfortunate!
If it does lower energy costs will they understand how it works? Or is it, it works, we don't care how it works because it works.. etc? Algorithms are not artificial intelligence. Algorithms have been dependable well over a hundred years before computers were invented. You cannot peak inside of a neural net to see it's process and there is little hope of solving a problem in an edge case because the internal parts are hidden from you. Science used to be about repeatable processes that could be understood from one end to the other. Take any human understanding of it out of the system and it is no better than magic.
Names of the Ethereum testnets were chosen after Metro stations. Ropsten, Sepolia, Goerli, Rinkeby, Kovan...
Brave is what Mozilla could have been but chose not to be.
Is there anywhere I can read a technical version of how proof-of-stake work?

I'm still confused at what happens if you create a valid block with the Ethereum you stake and then that block doesn't end up being part of the main branch.
If the government decides they want to seize or control it, they can also decide to simply imprison you for attempting to flout these restrictions via cryptocurrency. While that isn't currently happening much (that we know about), it's inevitable this will become a more likely threat as more people attempt to use it for that purpose.

And yes, I am aware that there exist cryptocurrencies that attempt (with varying degrees of success) to prevent the kind of analysis that would make this sort of enforcement possible.
At the same time, we do have to acknowledge that "Cutting the IRS or Eliminating the IRS" has consistently been a platform agenda item for Republican candidates for office both because it supports their agenda and because it is wildly popular with their base who think it means less taxes.

At the same time, when the democrats have held power they have typically not made efforts to fund the IRS because it conflicts with their agenda and because it is wildly unpopular with their base who think it means more taxes.

So while the results are the same with both parties, one party specifically uses the elimination of the IRS as a campaign rallying cry.

It's been kind of a game like abortion rights were until it was no longer a game. The both use it to raise campaign donations then do fuck all about it.

and please don't make me pull out all the Ted Cruz tweets
Also with Stable Diffusion. It's a really cool feature to have and playing around.
Justice Department asks federal court to unseal Mar-A-Lago search warrant
Warren Buffet's 1986 Wall Street Journal ad to buy/sell businesses
Nobody wants to fucking do any work anymore. I hate to blame it on all this remote work crap but I highly suspect it plays a lot into it. When everybody is a small rectangular box featuring a head and shoulders, the human connection is completely gone. It's all fake internet shit now so who cares? Plus all interaction has to be gated through meetings and shit. Things happen much, much slower.

I dunno man. It isn't the pandemic itself that did this. It's societies response to it that caused all this mess and it will take quite some time for things to revert back to the mean. It sucks. I hate it. But that is what it is gonna be.

The last 2.5 years has felt like some dystopian nightmare that refuses to go away. It completely sucks.
Is there a mechanism in place to stop people from laundering money with ethereum? This is a serious question, I’m a total noob when it comes to crypto.
> I suspect in the mid-long term, Apple, Google, Epic will be the 3 main actors of the gaming industry

- Apple - the perennial "also-ran" name in gaming fundamentally don't get gaming. Never had, never will.

- Google - Stadia will die within the next 2 years. Wager my house on that.

- Epic - Yeah they will be around.

I don't want to sound offensive but you sound like you know close to nothing about the game industry. You've not even mentioned Valve and you discount the fact that Microsoft have bought up multiple huge gaming studios in the past few years - deals worth multiple billions. Anyone with even a brief interest in the market would likely find your prediction nothing short of delusional.
You make a great point (several, in fact) and I don't disagree. This said, I think the ultra-dogmatic "woke" impulse, which on its own is well-intended, starts in college, before these kids have to actually implement any capitalist machinery themselves.

Still, I agree that a lot of it has to do with the fact that college is an age at which people get severely redpilled: they go from being big fishes in small ponds (smart kids at suburban high schools) to guppies in a world where the rules are completely different and parental advantages matter a whole lot more than they were taught (as they learn immediately when coming in contact with mediocre rich kids who got into Ivies, while equivalently middling kids from their hometowns go to community colleges if at all, and who will continue to easily get opportunities they will require hard work and extreme luck to get anywhere near).

What's really interesting to me in the past six years is that we've seen a complete change in what "left" and "right" mean. The left, as you've noted, has been deliberately steered in a direction that is harmless to capital ("the jocks in your high school are why you can't have universal healthcare, so you shouldn't feel bad about outsourcing their jobs"); but the right, now that the pro-establishment conservatives from the 1990s are as anachronistic as the dinosaurs, is now as anti-elitist as we (my "we" meaning true leftists, the 2-4 sigma leftward fringe, the socialists and anarchists and communists and punks) always were. The horrible thing about it, though, is that this "populist" movement, even though these people have become quite aware of how society is rigged against them, has been steered into dangerous conspiracy theories, bizarre revenge fantasies, and the revival of some terrible ideas (e.g., racism, antisemitism) that should have died a long time ago.

Also: I shan't get into details because I'm a banned HN "unperson" who changes his username every couple of months, but we know each other and I've enjoyed your company every time we've met. I hope you're well.
> and no match for surviving Ukraine's frequent resupply of western military donations

The West is only giving weapons to the Ukraine, and unfortunately, as good as they may be, they still need boots on the ground to be operated, and Ukraine is bleeding them as fast as Russia.

That's not much of a problem now that Russia won't/can't mobilize “for real”; but were it to come to this end, the long-term perspective wouldn't look so shiny for Ukraine.
Have you seen the amount of effort and repetition it takes to make a TikTok?