skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you suddenly say hey this is a bad system, not because it benefits people I don't agree with, but because of some other silly reason?

What if 60% of the population wanted to slaughter the other 40%? That's right, I too can come up with wacky hypotheticals that won't happen and presuppose a lot of other important variables don't change.

> What is so magical about lines put on maps by our great-great-great grandfathers?

The governments whose jurisdiction extends to them.

> Where in your system do you draw the line and make a distinction between fair and unfair? How do you determine if one arrangement is more fair than another? Why would you not push for the most fair arrangement?

Why do you presuppose I'm not pushing for the most fair arrangement? Why do you assume that an arrangement where states just as important to the union have two orders of magnitude less representation would be more fair? Probably because, as you keep asserting about me, it benefits you. If a state thinks that the union is a negative for it, and in a way that the union would never agree to change, and it would get a better deal outside of the union, maybe it should just secede. But it's not a net negative, you're just not thinking any further than the culture war; say what you want about the difference between North Dakota and New York, but I'll bet New York really appreciates North Dakota being its breadbasket.
From /e/'s website:

> Our mission: make technology that respects user privacy accessible to everyone.

https://e.foundation/about-e/

I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that /e/ should rebrand itself, if the new name makes /e/ more accessible to potential users who are searching for it. Good marketing doesn't necessarily mean "total domination", but it can help /e/ fulfill its mission by extending its reach.
There's a difference between linear interpolation of sRGB values (what you're doing on your page) and linear interpolation of linear RGB values (which gives better results). This is the explanation that made it all fall into place for me: http://www.ericbrasseur.org/gamma.html?i=1 . The linear RGB colour space is also a linear transformation of the CIELAB space so doing the interpolation in this space is equivalent to transforming to CIELAB space, doing the interpolation there, and then transforming back.

However, for the purposes of Area 5150 I think the differences between sRGB interpolation and linear RGB interpolation would have been too subtle to notice since there are only 6 * 16 * 16 = 1536 dithered colour/pattern combinations to choose from in the first place - the error introduced by that quantisation is likely larger than the sRGB vs. linear RGB difference. But I used linear RGB anyway, just to be correct about it.
It wasn't the first time he was breaking the rules though. He was kicked not because of that particular event but because the virtue-signalling potential of kicking him outweighed the benefits of keeping him around once he lost the election. The Capitol attack was just a convenient excuse for kicking a troublemaker that according to their own rules should've been gone long ago.

If Twitter truly cared about their rules and acted with integrity they would've kicked him way sooner, but they didn't because he generated them tons of "growth & engagement" while he was President.
>When you're doing things at the scale of Boeing or Google, you need a lot of process

Are you sure "need" is the right word here? Whatever Boeing's been doing recently hasn't been working very well for them or 737 Max passengers.
there is much wrong with this post, I'm embarrassed to respond to it. Our minds don't interpret the world through a binary model. Abandoning your rational mind means what exactly?
That’s just SQL with extra (distributed) steps
Submitting my 2 weeks after reading this comment.
To be clear, those links are only for the eleventh batch of "ready to authorize" bids that was released today. Other bids were authorized in different batches, viewable at https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904/releases
Once again, companies blaming strategic problems on ICs rather than real culprit: leadership. Or, rather, the lack thereof.

Having worked at both Google and Facebook I can tell you it's contradictory because in some cases you have an embarrassment of riches, hundreds or even thousands of heads, virtually unlimited resources (CPU, storage, networking), etc. Some make sense like Google+. I mean it was a failure and probably came way too late to succeed no matter what Google did but I understand trying. Maps, Docs, Youtube, Photos, Drive, Chrome, Android... all of these make sense.

I also understand you can't necessarily predict "winners" so to a certain extent you have to try things and expect failures.

Interestingly though every project I listed there (apart from Drive and Photos) was an acquisition.

On the other hand, you have projects desperate for people that turn into abandonware because they don't get sufficiently funded, even when they have PMF.

There are a ton of middle managers at big tech companies who exist only to get promoted and to empire build. You could, in my opinion, take everyone from L7 (M3 at Google, M2 at Facebook) to VP and fire 75% of them and be perfectly fine.

Both of these companies are now in what I call permanent reorg churn. Every few months you'll get an email saying your mananger's manager's manager's manager now reports to a new manager as part of a broad reorg. You've never met any of these people. This is a meme internally.

But what you have to understand is that reorgs are a way of avoiding the appearance of failure while appearing to be doing something. Don't get me wrong. Bad organizational structure can set you up for failure and a good org structure can help you succeed but reorg churn is none of this.

Reorg churn is simply changing the structure every 6 months. Nothing is ever in place long enough to determine if it succeeded or failed. People responsible for those decisions have probably moved on.

Additionally, at Google in particular, the amount of process required to do anything is insane. But don't worry. Bureaucracy busters has another 3 surveys for you to fill out to improve things. I once spent a quarter just babysitting a launch calendar entry.

The checklist to launch anything is insanely long. Even getting a small amount of resources requires Machiavellian machinations.

But sure, there are too many employees. Got it.
> user: zzzeek

> about: ...I am a strong proponent of sarcasm.

So - difficult to interpret this comment.

An atheist might reasonably do the same for churches in his service area, for P.R. and Marketing reasons.

How is this different from Bob - who (say) the township pays to mow the lawn & plow the parking lot at the township hall - deciding that he'll mow the lawn & plow the parking lot for free at some local church?
What are you talking about? Care to give some sources for this?
> Dominos has upped its game over the past 10 years or so, but it's still not great.

It's a logistics company, using pizza as it's MVP to deploy it's franchise model and impose it's delivery tracking model and ancillary systems. The food is at best a tertiary consideration in this model.

With that said, I ate quite a bit of Dominoes during COVID as it was the last thing to close on a weekday (12am-1am) in my region, and I always picked up and tipped the staff who prepared it inside because the truth is that was a depressing job to have during that time (no tips and base salary only with massive rushes during lunch and dinner with everyone locked down), and if you added things like kimchi to the pizza it really wasn't so bad.

Having worked and ran kitchens in Italy, I can say that it's not a shocker they'd turn this Americanized product down just on principal; Dave Chang did segment on this with some of his friends from NY (chef/owner from Lucali) on his netflix show who then even traveled to Italy to see how it was made to emphasize why things are this way.

With that said, it's not for the reasons these pundits think either [0], I'm about 45km from the Italian border and the Pizza place I just got back from had to put a pause on firing any new orders because they got an order for 30 pizzas for take out, and guess what they have Pineapple Pizza, too! Hell they have Vienna sausage on one, too since they're a mainly targeting tourists from Austria this time of year.

Italy as a culture is just very insular, even amongst themselves, especially it comes to regional cuisine. I had to do so much studying and reading old recipe books form the family's owners from centuries ago before I could present anything on the menu since I was from California. They couldn't even believe I knew how to throw together a minestrone when I first showed up! You can only imagine their faces when I started to put things from Sicily, Naples (where the owner is originally from) and even a few special menus from Calabaria on the menu in Central Italy.

Take the Parma labeling model for example, those are all made in different but specific regions with the same animals with same recipes but the Italian government refuses to allow the sell of them on the open market--though I have attended the farmer's black market where you can get parmigiano from outside Regio Emillia, or Balsamic from outside Modena etc... and the products are still top notch and were on my menus in a well renown place in Emillia Romagna.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz5Xtpo9H2E
Or an engineer with a wicked sense of humor took it upon themselves to hard code those responses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when servicing gov debt, isn't that money simply distributed to gov debt holders?

Looking at https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/national-debt/ and https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/debt/... it appears the largest holder is the "public".

Is that through treasuries sold by the US gov? If so, we wouldn't be "destroying" money by funding these.

The federal reserve has large holdings as well, which I believe it generated buying corporate bonds and MBS during covid - would we be "destroying" money by giving the federal reserve the cash to balance the books on all of those holdings so it can hold them to fruition (after buying them at a loss) without ever having to sell? It could then just toss away all of that money it received to cover the loss.

This could work, but I don't know the details or if this is the plan.

Just confused, and I've never had a real conversation about this - I hear "print money, tax money" but it seems too simplistic.

Do you happen to know?
Well if I look at peanuts again, an order of magnitude safer would still be something to avoid very strongly in bioreactors.

At this point I'll keep an eye out but insects are such a broad and mostly unexplored category that I'm not convinced there's an unavoidable and crippling allergen risk.
/e/ docs say it uses Android keyboard, wouldn't that be a source of a data leak?
I was mainly commenting on the parts of your post that dealt with government disfunction, corruption etc.

Framing the murder rate as suffering "due to poverty" in the context of South Africa doesn't pass the sniff test.

Indonesia's GDP PPP is similar to SA's, but it's safer than some western European countries in terms of murder rate.

Closer to home, Namibia has compatible income inequality, but around a third of the murder rate.

In South Africa around 70% of murder victims knew the perpetrator [1]. It seems safe to assume that most of that's within a similar income bracket. Just that statistic seems to discount some wider societal forces as the primary driver.

1. https://issafrica.org/iss-today/what-do-we-know-about-murder...
You do realize that you are the one that pays the cost of an audit right? You're looking at potentially tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to effectively prove your innocence.
I don't think the 'a la carte' comparison really applies to streaming. Cable had sport-, documentary, kid-channels etc. Streaming has studios with a variety of content where selecting 'a la carte' is not really possible. There are niche streaming services, but compared to the big ones they aren't really noteworthy.
This is quite concerning, from the lawsuit itself [1]:

The blacklisting process was accomplished first internally at Instagram/Facebook by automated classifiers or filters, which were then submitted to a shared industry database of “hashes,” or unique digital fingerprints.

This database was and is intended to flag and remove content produced by terrorists and related “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” to curtail the spread of terrorism and violent extremism online.

Where can one learn more about this database? Who decides what goes into this database? Is there a governance process? How about incorrectly identified items?

We are headed back into the times of "guilty, until proven innocent" versus how it should be, "innocent until proven guilty". If the scenario was the following: letting 10 criminals go free, or having 1 innocent person imprisoned, I would always choose the latter.

[1] https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
> (let's say having studied analysis), but not enough details either to be appreciated by an expert in the subject.

Perhaps you might want to cast your eyes over these 50 or so slides:

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~olver/t_/noetherth.pdf
You claim to be extremely liberal in your social views but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past and further that this fact is due to effects that are caused (ultimately) by viewing porn. Those are both very socially conservative viewpoints and I have yet to find scientific data (or anything else I'd consider even remotely reliable) that back either of them up, particularly the second one.

If I were to accept (purely hypothetically) that it is significantly more difficult for many people to form relationships today then how do you suppose to show that this change is due to porn instead of, say, the prevalence of dating apps such as Tinder? Or any number of other factors including things like job stability, housing prices (and thus perceived security of living situation), and where people choose to spend their free time (for example going out on the town in the past versus perhaps doomscrolling twitter and watching netflix).
Yeah, they're probably working some gruelling 996 schedule, I guess we'll all need to go back to accepting 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to compete.

https://www.ft.com/content/174ed2e2-f88e-4759-9a7f-133629aab...
when they say "scan the web" for Cloudflare targeting websites, does that mean they wrote a webcrawler that is constantly trolling for new Cloudflare targeting content?
If you thing about what limited time we have on this earth, it seems like to better choice to find something you enjoy in the shortest amount of time.
Free speech can’t be overturned anymore than the second amendment. The constitution is rather clear.
What is your opinion on whether or not Russia is justified in its invasion of Ukraine?
"Reasoning" capability can be added to any conventional database via the use of views, and sometimes custom indexes. The real problem is that it's computationally expensive for non-trivial cases.
Gonorrhea-Blocking Mutation Also Protects Against Alzheimer’s
Just curious, what kind of software is this? Is it ETL stuff or what?
I originally just stumbled upon it myself (when I first started I was reading a lot of topology books), but that video was great for showing the load strand effect! Felt great to have stumbled into the "right" way by accident
I can drink fine through a plastic lid with the 4 slits without needing a straw.

Coffee cups also have lids that let you drink without a staw. Is there any reason you can't put the same lids on soft drink cups?
It is a smear campaign, it is more like they dont care if it was enabled or not
Are you incapable of doing something you actually care about with the freed up 36 hours?
United Airlines Puts Down Deposit on Flying Taxis
All children under 10 in London to be offered polio vaccine after virus detected
Includes a standard C++ library called tensorflow...
Wow, just when you think you've heard the worst thing an internet company can do, something like this happens.
"Eat the bugs", "Woke", "Socialist" can all be used in a positive way it's just that they are also often used by the US right wing in a negative way. You'll understand that when Alex Jones is calling a democrat "woke" he is using it in implying being woke is a bad thing. "Eat the bugs" is similar and is more common in the anti globalist conspiracist circles.
this wouldn't have been caught by the authenticator app either, would it?
0xbadcafebee:

> I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy. It feels like there's this giant bubble that the tech world lives in, and they are the only people who care about this issue.

Honestly, I don't know if I've just missed your irony here, or if you don't realize there are lots of 'normal' people out there who have been thinking about this since like... the 50s of last century or something? Most certainly, they were talking about it (freely that is) since at least the 90s of the same century. Like, people who grew up under a totalitarian regime which could assign spies to eavesdrop and collect data on anyone, anywhere for any reason at all. Like the GDR for instance[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Interesting point of view, but a few caveats:

- I don't think it can be taken for granted that math exists independent of consciousness to think of it.

- Even if math exists independent of time and consciousness, it need not have a physical manifestation (by your own logic). So why does a physical universe have to exist?
> The part I struggle with the most is that I don't have anyone I feel comfortable talking to about the daily challenges that my team and I face.

This should be your manager. Are they in the same boat as you? (New to the org?) If not, start there.

I work at a globally distributed company, and post-pandemic I'm seeing relationship building being a challenge happening more. Pre-pandemic, the company would get together every 9 months and I do think those times really help to build relationships.

You need some "team building". Someone below mentioned pairing and I agree, but also consider spending $5 on amazon luna and play some jackbox games. The recent pack has a game called Job Job that was really fun in a work environment. You answer benign questions and then you are asked to answer an interview question using only other people's answers. My all remote team really enjoyed it.
As a kid I loved doing this in every museum/library/other place that always had 'locked down' interactive Windows systems back in my youth.

One of my favorite ones was in a museum where I was with a friend, and there was a PC. We were bored and wanted to play some flash game, but we only had access to a mouse, and clicking links inside the locked fullscreen browser. With enough clicks we got to google and managed to copy/paste letter by letter the name of a game site in the search field and play some games.
They are probably not actually hosted on AS2. Bad actors can inject garbage into BGP AS paths, either accidentally or deliberately.
There's "late TeX" ??
Having skipped integrating this with my current project, do you prefer logins with email? How do you feel about no passwords (using tokens only for login)?
Mark Kilgard from NVIDIA has been beating this drum for a couple decades. It's not simple.

His latest paper is about how to handle stroking of cubic splines:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00308

He gives it as a talk, but you have to sign up with NVIDIA:
https://developer.nvidia.com/siggraph/2020/video/sig03-vid
I think I agree with you sentiment, but let me ask this:

If terrorism was being stopped, would you even know it? Said differently, maybe it is working. If it was, what would be the way that you would know that it is working?
if it was cloudflare's own VPN, wouldn't they know the IP address of the system connecting to the VPN?
The speed at which the tone of these is changing is amazing. Just a few weeks ago everyone said its getting impossible to hire and so they need to expand to other tech hubs, pay exorbitant salaries and offer lot of perks to attract candidates. All of a sudden now, just in the span of a few weeks, these executives started realizing their headcount is too high, productivity too low and that employees should self select out of the company. Doesn't this show incompetence on the executive part? They just didn't see this till the recession flags were raised, it's almost as if they need to cut costs to cover up falling revenue and so blaming the employees.
Or maybe those are just the people who spend time on reddit disproportionately, it could be sampling error
And yet the upper classes aren’t exactly leading the way.
And of course I have (linking this thread).

Thought I'd have that discussion here as well, though.

The earlier thread addresses a number of thoughts / concerns / possibilities.
I am not a dead weight and I’ll never be, but I also do absolutely bare minimum to not get fired. And by bare minimum, I mean, I will always finish my work in the time it is expected to be finished. And if the expectations are higher, I’ll move on to another job.

I do this as a way to get back at corporate America. Too many companies get away with sucking out their employees dry and firing them once they can’t meet the unreasonable expectations that are set for them. You could be dying of cancer or have lost a child, and they will get rid of you the moment they can do so without breaking the law, and in some cases even break the law in the hopes that you’d not pursue any legal action. Nah don’t work hard, work smart, for yourself.
Because IQ is not emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence does lead to being happier.
> What has changed that makes it so difficult with fiber?

Unregulated monopolies.

Infrastructure that runs to your doorstep is a natural monopoly. All of them -- roads, water, electricity, sewer -- are either municipally owned or else regulated to prevent vertical expansion. Except non-voice telecom.
You can certainly deploy the web app on one server, and run your pipelines on another (or the same). In this case, "locally" would mean that the pipeline and all its steps run on the same host machine. This is totally sufficient in many cases.

Kubernetes becomes interesting when using heterogeneous resources (e.g. GPU nodes for training, high-memory for data processing, etc.), but is not a necessity.
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> The way you suggested by pumping a token is also pretty good but depending on how many initial holders there are you may lose some money in the process. I watched the Tornado Cash 100 ETH address for a while and I think I saw a guy doing something like this.

Don't have initial holders. Create the liquidity pool yourself (in any of your identities) and have that be the only place to get the tokens. In the Uniswap V2 style of liquidity pool, the token can't go below the initial price (or ratio) you set. Anybody that buys in, even bots, will just push the price up, anybody that sells can only push it back down to the initial ratio.

Part 1:

Ident A - any money: Create token, create liquidity pool

Ident B - clean money: Buy as much token as you want

Ident C, D, E ... n - tornado cash withdrawals: Buy all the token, depositing Ether into the liquidity pool, removing token from liquidity pool.

Part 2:

Ident B - clean money: sells the tokens back into the liquidity pool, receives more ether.

I could see how you could lose money if too many bots and onlookers bought in before one of your idents deployed the tornado Ether, the tornado cash withdrawals need to already be finished then and waiting to buy. Any address that misses a pump due to bots can just be sidelined until creating the next token to pump.