skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet is full of crazy people. "You get what you pay for" is usually used on people who are obnoxious and super entitled. Its not generally (at least in my experience) used on people who are making good faith suggestions. Its used on people who want you to be their personal slave. I generally have only ever used "you get what you pay for" or "i would be happy to provide a full refund" to extremely rude people, as a slightly more polite version of "fuck off".

People who make good faith suggestions can sometimes be converted, but you also have to respect that some people don't have the inclination or time but can still make good suggestions. Sort of similar to how on an internet forum most people are lurkers and that is ok. Good faith suggestions are really valuable to open source projects.
No. You can provide constructive criticism without BS or say things in a meaningful way without diminishing people.

I wonder why so many people in this thread seem to see this topic either black or white.
Doesn't sound like a lay off to me, you were just terminated and let go. When you lay people off you don't replace them, you eliminate the position.
Using a Vacuum Cleaner in a Vacuum [YouTube Short]
You may want to check out the official statement [1] from the Zig foundation as well. Even though forking is not necessarily stealing, what they have done seems more accurately described as stealing.

[1] https://ziglang.org/news/statement-regarding-zen-programming... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481142 )
Yeah I don't think FB was ever very popular with the techie crowd: it didn't solve a problem they had as those people could like self-host their own blogs and photos and shit (and frankly took some enjoyment in the fact that the plebs couldn't). Techies had IRC and mailing lists and soon HN, etc.

Contrast that to Google which was an indispensable tool for any hacker on basically day one, people will forgive a lot from a company that they can't live without.

But many if not most non-techie people ranted and raved about how much they loved Facebook well into the 2010s, even if they started calling it Instagram at some point. The general public (especially lefty coastal public) didn't start taking out all their frustrations with Big Tech in general on Facebook in particular until 2016.

The story that Facebook got Trump elected is absurd (I worked in the abusive behavior / content moderation group then: I was in the room and the press got this one badly wrong), but it was a riveting story and most people seem to still believe it now. Even some Facebook employees in other orgs seemed to believe that FB had failed in not putting its finger on the scales.

As for why anyone would want CEOs of private-sector companies in San Francisco to unilaterally decide who the president is? That is a horrifying thought. I think Big Tech CEOs probably find that a horrifying thought. The fact that they probably could is nightmare fuel enough, and the fact that to my knowledge they don't probably means there is still some Anakin behind the Vader mask.

Sorry for the novel, but this is all going to go into the history books wrong, and it bothers me to be hung for the wrong crime. FB/Google/etc. have blown it many, many times by "moving fast and breaking things" on privacy, letting mid-level product managers do user-hostile shit with inadequate oversight, "warehouse first and ask questions later"-type stuff, any number of things. But it's an emergent property of rapid-cadence metrics-driven product management, not a Bond-villain stoking a mustache.
Carriers globally check at registration time to deny stolen phones access (via various shared databases) etc, this has been the case for a long time and someone selling mobile services should know this.
> The real question is how you decide where to invest your time/energy next?

No next one, all the choices have done. I picked Common Lisp because I want to write an AI, possibly ASI or AGI. Other Lisps are installed on my machine as well. The reason to pick this or that kind of activity for me is just to do what is the coolest one. But regarding to my possibilities of course and not regarding to what Gigachad use to prefer. Reach within you.
Im really having hard time reading the prediction

(By the way is there a way to block any custom font/use the system default in safari for iOS)
What do you want to build? I wanted to train ML models for Kaggle so I picked up Python (even though I disagree with pretty much all the design choices of the language lol)

Considering tech outside of an application context feels weird to me. Like yeah it’s hard to choose with no requirements or constraints.

That said, Rust is probably here to stay. Linux, V8 and some other high profile systems are adding first class support.
We made a boardgame called "Money Maker that accurately models the banking sector, money/credit creation and financial crashes at https://moneymaker.games.

It started out as an educational tool for schools to teach how money creation _actually_ works but now turned into a "family" board game loved by IT people, bank staff and sociology professors. We loved producing it and players are very happy with it because it's so fun but we never really started marketing sadly because we had to take up day-jobs.
money raised is better (worse)
the soviet union provided this level of 'comfortable', decent basics for literally everyone . somehow its people didn't 'declare victory and went home'
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Apple is a public company and if there is one thing that is clear, it is that shareholders demand constant growth and new revenue sources. Monetizing users is cheap and easy way to do it. Users barely understand privacy anyway ( I am not joking; when I talk about this stuff with my wife or her family, the impression I have is that they do not even understand the impact ).
Yes, sometimes language is complex without adding anything, but usually there's a reason. I like the example of "apparently" vs "ostensibly". Non-native speakers often either don't know the latter, or think it's a straight synonym, but, without getting into it too deeply, "ostensibly" is usually used to mean "apparently" with added doubt.
I'm watching an artist play with DALL-E for the past few days; it's proving to be a useful tool for inspiring concepts and leading her to her own visualizations and execution of things that she had not gotten to "gel" previously.

I can recall a little bit of the fuss at the beginning of digital art, "is that even real art?" I don't think this fuss has as much to stand on. It's a tool for making art; whether it's really art or not is a judgement only the individual viewer can make.
Welp. Music that I listen to for pleasure seems more distracting than "useful", and discussing that music seems less interesting. What makes me more productive is scary music. A.n.K.h works quite well for that - it's free on Jamendo. Not something that I make use of frequently.
What are some examples of guidelines that this follows? What has this done differently than other CSS frameworks?

I'm not seeing anything obvious, and there are some clear deviations – like Puppertino's advice to "always include a placeholder" when validating fields, whereas the HIG has no guidance on the subject.

Edit: maybe this is just reusing some components from the HIG? https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Person X argues they only volunteered because Y is pregnant. ‘If I had stayed, I would’ve been the subject of retaliation because I’d look like a bad person.’

In discovery, it’s found that person Z pinged a friend and said ‘yea, we totally couldn’t let C be laid off. What kind of person would fire a pregnant woman?!”

That’s pretty strong proof that membership in a protected class factored directly into a retention/compensation decision.

This is why managers are (/should be) trained to handle this with lawyers involved.
So ... handovers is not a thing at Klarna?
> Of the economic systems in discussion, capitalism has the least alienation

is it true though?

I believe it's never been measured by anybody and you're only speculating here.

> Marxist solutions are either pure fantasy, or have been tried and lead to worse outcomes

If that was true, why the most capitalistic power in the World and recent history was so scares by them that went to war against them and used every dirty trick in the book to replace them with dictators or puppets (sometimes they were literally Nazis...)

> how they undercut themselves when discussing it.

you keep saying it, but the how it's not clear to me.

It looks to me your knowledge of Marxism is incomplete.

Marx was impressed by capitalism, he simply thought that capitalism was detrimental for the working class and that through the class struggle they could improve their conditions and participation to the wealth.

Marx wasn't against capitalism, but he knew it was tuned to favour the ruling classes and the bourgeoisie, but also argued that it was the most productive system the World had ever seen.

It's only a matter of where you stand: with billionaires that amass capital like never before while their employees do not earn enough money to make a living, while also being alienated by the work they do, or not.

It's bad enough to be alienated, it's much worse if the system only rewards those that do not actually do the work and/or do not need or deserve so much wealth.

Marxists systems were not worse of capitalistic ones on average, for example at the times Yugoslavia wasn't in worse shape than Greece and what happened in Romania wasn't much different from what Franco did in Spain, a fascist dictotator supported by the USA in exchange for military bases. Life in Cuba or Peronist Argentina was probably similar to Portugal, if not slightly better.

Of course USA had a better life style than communist Poland, but they literally had the highest standard of living in the World, it really doesn't describe capitalism in general, USA are an outlier where the good and the bad of their system show themselves to the extremes (and now it's mostly the bad i.e. the tribalism and the violence).

it's the distribution of wealth that is much different in the two systems, capitalists simply don't like that: to share

But even if it was true that all non capitalistic countries were much worse than capitalistic countries, literally everyone was in the same boat and services were free for everybody.
sure, but my point is, that happened right around the same time that everyone got used to having a a 3G-connected screen in their pockets at all time as a societal default. if you wanted to get on the Internet, you had to use a desktop computer in your house, school, or place of work, or take your laptop to a coffee shop or McDonald's or whatever. when smartphones because a societal standard and social media proliferated, that's the vector corporations used to become People, Too, and also when the Golden Age of the Internet Libertarian died as well. the Internet Libertarian future of the Internet is Mastodon et al. and federation and such, but it's not going to catch on because normies don't want anything it has to offer over the mainstream social media networks. the inevitable thing that killed the Internet Libertarian future and gave way for everything to be an ad-filled walled-garden corporate nightmare world was mass walled-garden smartphone ecosystem adoption by the general public instead of a more Internet Libertarian open, federated software landscape. we figured this out too little too late and were in the process of dying out, no longer the Default Internet User, and then #Occupy happened, the concept of modern identity politics were deployed as a countermeasure, various political subfactions formed in the online space, and now few people who were Internet Libertarians at the time of the article's writing would still consider themselves to be such today, and with good reason—the Internet of today is not the same Internet that they were absolutely sure would lead to the culmination of their techno-libertarian ideals at a global scale, through proliferation of Internet connectivity. whoops. things didn't end up working out that way because nobody foresaw how utterly chemically addictive the average person would find stroking a piece of glass to consume a literally endless supply of visual stimuli—whoops.
I think there are two problems with this in practice:

1) In the end those people will leave anyways once it's obvious the ship is sinking, so I think you wind up with a double whammy of attrition.

2) Mass layoffs don't usually allow for a particularly good perspective on who is a high preformer because it's hard to vet decisions on that scale. Also this assumes that performance is the primary axis, and not cost or tenure. You will likely lose high performers along with low and medium in a top down layoff.
Reminds me of Juicero. A completely over-engineered, behind-schedule, over-budget project that was designed with one sole purpose: transfer money from one pocket to another in the direction of investor to "startup".

The only winner here was the firm that designed it as they successfully made themselves quite a bit of richer.
I predict people on hn will use the the expression "I predict" much more often now.
It is indeed a stupid system. Private insurance is very expensive compared to the premium you usually pay when you're covered by your employer's plan. Employers can negotiate better prices because they bring a pool of insured to the insurance carrier. An individual doesn't have the same leverage.
What is so bad about piracy. I like piracy. Even with my content of it prevents me from maling content I will stop making it.
The idea that languages are on a single dimensional linear continuum of objectively better or worse is the most flawed notion in, and foundation of, the article.
> That percentage is the 1.4 billion Klarna takes as revenue.

Implying that transaction volume is on the order of $200 billion? No.

For perspective, Amazon's 2018 revenue is $230 billion.
> I don't want to pirate stuff, so what are my options now?

Why do you not want to pirate stuff? I personally use a VPN to torrent stuff, so my ISP doesn't send out a scare letter or cut my connection.
Because a company has more downside risk than government bonds, the income they produce would need to be higher. Probably would look very similar to other corporate bonds which is basically what zero upside stock would look like.
> electric cars are a huge step in the right direction and important in enabling the transition to renewables

This is the whole problem. Its only a small step forward but people think it'll make a huge difference. Ideally people would move to a small urban apartment and walk or take public transport. EVs let people continue to drive and think they're OK.
I was a bit put off by the introductory chapter where he is using a lot of nonstandard terms such as "abstract species/genus" rather than the usual type theoretic treatment. However, take that as the remark of an ignoramus.
>From my own personal experience: I went through a period of intolerance to failure...

tl;dr: "Perfection is the enemy of good."
Fwiw, dont be afraid to jump right in. Your patch might get rejected, but that happens to experienced people all the time too, and is no big deal.

PRs that get ignored is really demotivating. It can depend on which project a lot. If you're new to the project informally (and politely) chatting about your patch on project's irc/discord can help ensure you are not missing any social conventions.
But the question is what is the victory and what or for whom is it good for? So I'm not sure I understand your astonishment as if it's so obvious that breaking into the software has inherent value.

There's a difference between rooting a device to stick it to DRM overlords, playing pirated games, or running your own homebrewed whatever on your phone versus enabling a platform through which someone can fix a complicated machine that's worth 1000x a PS5. The farmers taking out loans on these machines are betting their entire lives on it.

I'm definitely not saying this is inconsequential, but I really want to know just how many farmers are going to plug in, jailbreak, and get to tinkering with machinery that is their livelihood -- not just an expendable piece of hardware that gets discarded when its bricked...
It's a bit messy and all over the place, it's mixing old ios and new ios. Apple in most of their own apps use filled icons in tabs and such, not the outline style. Also less of the blue gradients and more on the new trend of modern "sunset" type of gradients and focus on translucent backgrounds, like the dialog you added.
Iron Curtain Trail
All CC licenses, other than the “CC0 public domain dedication”, require attribution, but CC themselves have taken what I’d consider to be an ass-backwards position on the matter:

> At CC, we believe that, as a matter of copyright law, the use of works to train AI should be considered non-infringing by default, assuming that access to the copyright works was lawful at the point of input.

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-co...
That's the blub-paradox. There's also the excuse that one could have completed an assignment if they could have used blub language; this is the fizz-blub excuse.
How to Reverse Engineer and Patch an iOS Application for Beginners: Part I
you can? click on the quote author
Topological Multipartite Entanglement in a Fermi Liquid
It just implements a computer algebra system, a Prolog, a Scheme and a bunch of other stuff. On its way it teaches advanced Lisp programming.
The article is very thin on actual new information. It forms a lot of time talking about how ads currently work. The only new thing is the advertising head saying he wants to grow as revenue, but there’s no concrete info on how they actually intend to do that, just a lot of ‘maybe’ about maps.
That depends on if UTC alone is an accurate enough estimate of UT1 for you. If you only need to know UT1 to within +/- 0.9 seconds, then you can just use UTC and you're done.

If you'd like greater accuracy, UTC isn't a great starting point because UTC's leap seconds complicate getting an accurate estimate of UT1. Its hard to tell if your local idea of UTC has had the latest leap second applied or has had false leap seconds applied (or worse, accidentally received a leap smeared source, which can't be backed out to convert to UT1).

If you're going to produce a more accurate estimate of UT1 either using interpolations of IERS bulletin B predictions or a model based on the daily USNO ultra-rapid UT1 VLBI measurements the leap seconds don't do anything to help you, but they can mess up your calculations because you need to correctly and consistently back them out.

So essentially the practice of leap seconds helps applications that need UT1 to within better than an hour or two (otherwise just using TAI with offset or TAI plus a static linear correction is good for thousand of years), but hurts applications that need subsecond UT1 accuracy, hurts anyone that needs consistent or accurate duration, and creates a lot of software bugs including ones that can show up when there hasn't actually been a leap second.

I would argue that today the number of applications that need UT1 at all are much smaller and less significant than ones that need subsecond consistent durations or times. And that of the applications that want UT1 most either don't need leapseconds at all (e.g. TAI or TAI plus the simplest static linear correction is enough) or would prefer better than 1 second accuracy, where at best leapseconds don't help and in practice they add a lot of complexity and still sometimes cause failure.
AI generated art seems like a good way to open up solo game dev to people who can't draw. Just run the AI over and over again until you get artwork close to what you want.

There are already tools out there for people who want to automate the programming part of game dev. I don't see how that's any different in principle from an AI that generates art. This seems like a better solution to the problem of making a game without being any good at art than buying assets since your assets should be unique.
In Europe (I work in the UK) it's usual to require that both sides commit to the employment on a rolling basis. My contracts have for over a decade now required roughly 90 days, but it's common to see 30 days in most jobs.

That means if I want to leave I need to give 90 days notice and if they don't want me any more I get 90 days notice of that or I get 90 days pay immediately.

This also leads to "Garden leave": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave

As I understand it Garden Leave is not uncommon in the US... for executive level jobs. The guy cleaning the hallways is lucky if they remember to tell him not to come in tomorrow rather than just locking the doors and not paying him any more.
In case anyone wonders, this is not about DALL-E or Midjourney. He's referring to https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement
Have you seen Stable Diffusion, the AI in question in the tweet? The images are astoundingly good, much better than DALL-E 2 even.

https://twitter.com/StableDiffusion/
You're basically giving reasons why it's usually safe. I specifically talked about tail risks. I.e. extremely unlikely scenarios.
https://table.dog
I guess I’m protesting that while B is better for an individual, it doesn’t work for the whole country. It’s the equivalent of having a well-connected relative abroad to get you out. It’s a godsend, but it doesn’t scale.
Yes. The journey to master artist begins with finding a place to crank out a lot of apprentice/journeyman level art. You get a little bit better at some aspect of the craft with every piece you make; eventually this makes a very visible difference from your early work. Regular critique from your peers and mentors helps a lot too.

Rembrandt started out as an apprentice, with about four years starting around 13 before he opened his own studio. Picasso was trained by his art professor father from the age of seven in what sounds like a very traditionally hardcore fashion.
Vs pre-ww2 where all the peasents could easily afford real estate?
Correct: https://github.com/hnpredictions/hnpredictions.github.io/com...

"added link to original post" committed ~1h before your reply
Last year, I started to WFH rather than face to face. I am working in the same field (not IT related), in a different organisation.

My office is now about 100 yards away from the beach, in a sunny country. I go swimming early in the morning before the tourists arrive, and sit with my wife in an open air bar sipping a diet Coke at lunchtime after walking the dog.

Don't take me wrong, WFH has had an impact on my body, in that now I have a tan. I rarely drive, but I walk a lot. Often on sand.
You can measure something accurately without needing to reproduce the thing you’re measuring.
Just a note about your sentence parsing. I got a "I predict Python 2." entry, where the sentence was "I predict Python 2.7 will something something".

Your sentence regex should look for a period followed by whitespace or end-of-input.
I agree.

Also keep in mind people of all ages are allowed to ride bikes, which is luckily not the case for cars. This source does say elderly and children are more likely to be part of cycling accidents (not necessarily fatal) https://www.veiligheid.nl/kennisaanbod/infographic/infograph...

Also driving under influence is (hopefully) much more prevalent in case of cyclists.

Hence, car drivers switching their transportation mode to bikes don't have the same risks as the entire cycling population.
Do you think teachers trained to investigate and properly handle evidence? Because if they don’t, then the evidence isn’t admissible in court, or maybe they decide to kick out the wrong student on suspicions.
I predict we will see a glut of attention-seeking posts on HN starting with the words “I predict”.
Thank you for that. I think I need to slow down a little when reading.