skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's prolly gonna be a big controversy when pedos start using it that way and proof is posted on mainstream websites.
I've just discovered lexica.art and I love all picture generator AI tools, but when stumbling upon some pictures of young Emma Watson topless, it didn't seem ok, and reading the prompt for these images showed that the user didn't go for tags like "young" or "topless", it's just StableDiffusion randomly selecting these features, maybe because there's wierd content about Emma Watson online on shady sites, maybe something else.

I'm not sure I want all of them to close access to these tools, stop providing open source capabilities, or prevent specific keywords like Dall-E does, but it's the easy solution for providers. This is why we can't have nice things (there's so many interesting, funny and beautiful things that aren't illegal or even controversial but that are blocked as side-effects of Dall-E's restrictions).
Yes, see Monkey Pox. We all know who spreads it, we all know how can this fact be used.
I probably shouldnt even reply to such a poor attitude, but I never said I should decide anything or that I agreed with OP. Just clarified their position, which seems to be the same as saying "I like to invest in companies who I believe are morally sound" etc.. which is not something that is crazy.
So we should start increasing capacity now :)

And the first step is to have a realistic plan to make electricity as cheap and abundant as possible, as soon as possible, while still minimizing pollution.

Also, every step helps. If we cut consumption in half, we halve the rate of global warming (at least). It's not like its all-or-nothing.
I can relate to your point. I know both Windows and Linux quite well and both have their strengths and weaknesses. Just to put it in perspective: You didn't say why we need containers of multiple streams implemented at the filesystem level. Also, these alternative designs that you describe and that work so wonderfully are often seen through rose-tinted glasses. You've probably seen a few videos and became impressed what was possible such a long time ago. But you probably haven't actually used these things, so you can't experience the limitations.

I hate many things about Linux, but there is a lot of development work where Linux is much stronger. A lot about the "minimal design" approach is still valid today, and I don't mean Dbus or Docker or Kubernetes or whatever, which I likely would hate if I actually knew them.

In my view, the main problem about (Desktop) Linux is fragmentation and lack of standardization. A strong suit of Windows development is the APIs, at least the older ones that don't get deprecated after a year. There are useful APIs for everything related to a Desktop experience, and you can count on their existence as a developer.

The lack of standardization is what makes it feel like sand. Apart from the simpler stuff (POSIX), there isn't a trustworthy authority that maintains stable APIs for a solid user experience, at least not APIs that I feel like using personally.

> VMS' complex pathnames are the visible sign of an OS which natively understands that it's one node on a network, that currently-mounted disks can be mounted on more than one network nodes even if those nodes are running different OS versions on different CPU architectures. It's an OS that understands that a node name is a flexible concept that can apply to one machine, or to a cluster of them, and every command from (the equivalent of) `ping` to (the equivalent of) `ssh` can be addressed to a cluster and the nearest available machine will respond and the other end need never know it's not talking to one particular box.

Are you sure you understand how the Unix filesystem (VFS) works? On Unix, a filepath is exactly what you say: a name that can identify a resource. There are distributed filesystem protocols that are of course portable, not dependent on CPU architecture or anything.

I don't get what is your point about these Drive-Letter paths, they often create annoying complexity. I believe even NTFS has developed extensions to get rid of them. So, not that I think filepaths are beautifully easy to use on Unix, but they're much better than on Windows in my experience.
I think that it could be because text stream based apps (such as a TTY and the utilities that make no assumptions about screen geometry) are friendlier than, say, a web browser rendering a page that assumes its canvas is 1920 pixels wide.

OTOH, you can make a TUI that (rightfully) thinks the terminal window is always 80x25 (because God made the VT-100 that way for a reason) and it'll be very hostile to any tiling WM.
Maybe. It's not like sanctioned countries tend give a shit about copyright law, so how would sanctions prevent the use of something they already know how to make and use? I'm just not convinced this idea holds any water.
Wonder if Postgres would scale to such volume.
The difference is that you are spending 4-10 hours of your time trying to pass the process for 1 company. If you instead invest 4-10 hours doing leetcode prep, you are studying to pass the process for LOTS of companies. Economies of scale is a huge factor here
HN is a public forum, not behind a pay or auth wall.
The first version of reddit also used a single PostgreSQL instance apparently: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0/blob/bb4fbdb5871...
I can't edit it now, but of course it's ambiguous as to where the boundaries lie so please take the upper limits as EXCLUSIVE.

e.g. if you charge exactly $100, rather pick $100-$150 and NOT $70-$100.
My understanding is that the patents for the core breakthroughs of Drs. Weissman and Kariko have expired. What's disputed are the patents covering the implementation.

As someone who invested in BNTX in October '19 based on a HN submission (Bless You whoever that was), it concerns me that some commentators are suggesting that there's some merit to Moderna's claims. To a layperson, everything suggests that their systems are very similar - time to sell?
OP’s previous company had been acquired, demonstrating ability to deliver
White House directs agencies to make federally funded studies free to access
Good point. Developers need to quit putting tools (languages, frameworks, cloud vendors) and tech buzzwords next to their name. It is embarrassing as hell.
None of this is really relevant - Shopify is a paid service, has always been a paid service, and clearly markets itself as a paid service. Just because it's cheap for them to store information doesn't mean you should expect them to do it for you. They only want to deal with paying customers, so when you elect to stop being a paying customer, they get rid of your information. That is a perfectly reasonable business practice - not "hostile" as the comment I was responding to called it.
Props for being vulnerable and introspective, which is not always easy.

Here’s hoping you overcome the things you are struggling with!
I'm not the one to give it, but I'd like to see an answer based on pure economics, because I think that's what drives most conferences.
Because you'd like to accept direct messages from other HN users? And the spam is usually so minimal it's not a problem?
Plenty of good but “boring” articles make it to the top of HackerNews every day. Voting systems don’t have to devolve into Reddit.
> it's not down to him to chose what the CEO decides should be presented to the board,

Isn't it? Does the CEO get to carte blanche decide to hide security holes from the board?
Imagine if we devoted a tremendous amount of resources to studying whether being left or right handed increased your chances of transmitting COVID. Then millions of people online start citing scientific papers saying that right handed people spread COVID more often. Then some left handed people attack right handed people (similar to how Asian Americans are being brutalized in public during the pandemic). The point is that choosing to study the differences in certain demographic groups makes a big assumption that it's important to study the groups for whatever reason.
Jonathan Blow has been working for ages on a new programming language that seemed pretty cool last time I checked. Joi, i think it was called.

Overall just looked like a more comfy C++ designed specifically for game development.

Correction: the language is called Jai https://inductive.no/jai/
Joi is Ana de Armas AI version.
> This is absurd FUD.

This has already happened. Justin Trudeau terrorized peaceful protesters with threats of blocking their money in Canada's banks.

Will you try to me convince me he'd even make the same threat about their physical money? That he would be able to block even 1% of physical money in time and effort it takes to block 100% of bank accounts?

Maybe you'll tell me that people "sanctioned" by this man would be refused service at stores with their physical money?

Deprivation of analog money is modern slavery and current Canada's PM was the first leader of western country with morality so low or stupidity so enormous (it's plausible it's both), to go public with this. You can call it FUD or however you like.
I've always found scaling interesting. Mostly because I've never implemented such a system. The scaling issue also seemed to affect Parler too where their computational needs were far out of wack compared to their MUA.
I can't decide if this is a statement or a joke. I agree with both.
>I can absolutely think of cases where I would have liked to know what services are available for specific products, like chair making, or a project I have in mind, rather than having to ask around to figure out who even does it in my area.

We had this, it was called phone books. And I guess a phone book is technically advertising, but there's clearly a difference between info and manipulation.
The desensitization to hot peppers happens at a much smaller scale than years, so it doesn’t have much to do with your age.
TeXStudio which is a nice active fork of TeXMaker
I think your observation is correct.

You might be interested in reading "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Cialdini. In the first chapter, he describes a souvenir shop in New Mexico that had trouble selling inventory. The owner just couldn't sell her jewel necklaces. The owner went on vacation, and told the clerk to cut all the prices in half (far below their value). When she came back, she learned the clerk misheard her and doubled all the prices... and all of them sold out! Tourists at the stop didn't know how to recognize necklace quality on their own, so they used the price as the next most reliable indicator of quality.

I imagine it's similar with companies that see software as beyond their expertise.
I have geographic tongue but thankfully it's not affected by spices. However, I can only use "regular" flavor toothpaste and "cinnamon" gum will send me to a world of pain and anguish. I wonder if and why different irritants affect different people differently.
I remember seeing those boxes on the shelf, and wishing I could afford a computer that could run that.

Microsoft did excellent docs back then. I've still got my Microsoft Press "Standard C" mini reference book on the shelf and its still a great little cheat sheet. I recall the spiral bound "instruction reference" that came with MASM (v 5? i think), that was a constant companion for years.
well quite, hence the bit at the end :D
Lol! You're pretty unhinged.
Coming out of the third work meeting since 7AM I am starting to think: Yes, we need more of those! The more the merrier!
Probably the photo and adress published together would make it much easier to trigger murdering psychopaths whereas phonebooks had no pictures. Just my assumption as I am not familiar with this practice, though I do believe it is quite a bad idea
You mean in the United States. Monkeypox isn't a MSM disease worldwide. And you should perhaps look at the case trends in countries where children have started going back to school.
Same here, no problems with connectivity on my PinePhones' (first edition and pro).

Perfectly functional phones with the added advantage of hardly any spyware or other garbage, plus - if I wanna - I can leave it anywhere for an instant reverse tunnel. Handy for many, many things ..
Probably better to just "Mark as spam" if you have Gmail. If enough people do that Google will start marking those emails as spam by default

Helps everyone else too
Security incident response is a very specialized role that the vast majority of not only ordinary tech companies but also security tech companies can't necessarily be expected to do entirely on their own in the event of suspicion of a serious breach.

This isn't hiring an auditor or consultant to recommend better security practices but more like a team of world-class detectives, investigators, and forensicists to figure out exactly what happened and how, what they might have done or taken, if they still have or could regain access, and, potentially, ideas as to who or what the culprits may be and what their objectives were. In particular, you want to have as much confidence as possible in what they may have done when they had access to your systems and that they have been effectively shut out and don't have any other access points/backdoors.

LastPass undoubtedly also has their own security incident response team - most companies probably should - but it's like the local county PD calling in the FBI when a serious or sophisticated crime occurs.
> I suggest to SDE IIs who are hungry for the jump to senior

Any suggestions for seniors who are hungry for a staff title. Is there any value to specializing in tech anymore after senior or is it all 'soft skills' at this point ?
I don't know how realistic the data is as it's from ad scrapes but this site provides good stats for the UK market https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

Probably very varied by geo / industry as well - from my experience as a permie 50 miles distance or working for one type of bank instead of another can do multiples on your salary.
The VAT isn't funding the health insurances.

The money for health insurance is taken out of your salary before you even receive it.

> Free just means you pay with other peoples money while they pay with yours.

That doesn't make any sense to me, you contribute by paying your taxes and you benefit when you need it.
the fact that GC can move objects is a plus for GC only if you don’t care about pauses. If you do care about pauses then moving objects makes everything harder.
We did YC W22 and did not sell to any YC companies but YC did really help with sales.

You’re overestimating the magnitude and importance of selling inside the YC network.
ELO is always a fascinating thing. I waste far too much time on boardgamearena.com which has a system where people start at 0, 100 is, I think, equivalent to the chess 1500, except that it becomes a floor rating. I “retire” from a game when I can get to 300. I got up to 285 recently on cribbage and was the 86th rated player at the game, while in other games, being a rated player requires a score of 400 or more.
Moderna files lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech over mRNA vaccine patents
It's a cool idea and I'd love to be able to use my phone as a full Linux desktop like the Steam Deck.

But ultimately I mainly use my phone for the following:

- Banking and government authentication - e.g. with BankID and Kivra in Sweden. This is necessary to send money, make payments, file taxes, etc. There's no way around it unless you want to deal with going to the few remaining bank branches in person and sending letters. Same for buying and using train + metro tickets.

- WhatsApp - it's massively popular in Europe for communication and even some services. That said it is slowly losing ground to Telegram (and to a lesser extent Signal and Matrix).

- As a camera. Most high-end smartphones have incredible cameras which means you never need to carry a camera with you for most things, this is pretty indisposable too.

And unfortunately none of the GNU/Linux phones come close to solving those use-cases. Desktop convergence is great, but it's not worth giving up all of those. And if I have to carry an Android anyway, then I may as well just use my Steam Deck for the convergence (and gaming).
But it is a point source with a non-uniform radiation pattern. Hence it can send a lot more power into a specific direction.
The way it mangles faces is actually super creepy.

These shots from an exit-less, claustrophobic NYC subway with mangled faceless things is the stuff of nightmares:

https://lexica.art/?q=new+york+subway
As contracting blends into consulting, you can easily get into a situation where your on-the-clock time is very valuable but you're not actually on-the-clock all that much. It doesn't mean you're not doing anything but you may be writing/speaking/researching/etc. for "free."
How? Net neutrality applies to the internet. You could run a private mobile network and allow or disallow anything you want on it. The reason it's bandwidth limited is probably because they're using dedicated SMS/MMS channels, as was field tested and proven earlier. T-mobile will likely write or allow modified chat apps that use these channels. So there's nothing to indicate this would be a limited Internet service. And if you didn't want it your options would be no worse than they are now.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/lynk-sends-the-first-text-...
There's definitely manifestos and narratives about it, but it's lumped under manifestos / narratives about "simplicity" and "the unix way". As for evangelicalism, you're probably right about its absence.
> Do you really think they care? Why

I bet that they believe that they are hustling on their legitimate startup. That's what I think.

Maybe they don't. I don't see how it is a problem to try to reach for them this way.

> Why in hell would you put your email address in a public space in the first place if you care about spam?

I don't see how this is relevant to the question. The person who put their address unprotected up for spam can be foolish, and the person who is sending them the spam should stop.

Both of these can be true at the same time.
The academic system is completely broken for Computer Science, and I don't really see a way to fix it. The economic realities of the field just make it too risky to allow an exceptionally gifted individual to remain out in the open publishing research that could potentially destroy your business model.

Justifying these low acceptance rates as somehow prestigious is really just creating even more perverse incentives that open the academia side of Computer Science to further defunding and brain drain. If you're smart enough to rise, you'll get an offer from the private sector you simply cannot refuse. It doesn't matter if your passion is Academia, they can and will buy you out and own whatever you're working on.

This has all led to Computer Science's academia side being something one escapes rather than something you contribute too. The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC. I'm not necessarily against a selection bias towards "people skills," but to do so and continue to pretend PCs are pure meritocracy is nauseating.

It just comes back to the fact that the majority of Comp Sci PhDs have the same story: Halfway into their doctorate program they became severely disillusioned and started jockeying to just graduate and land a private sector job that essentially was just bribe money to keep them from working for the competition.
I'm sorry for maybe being too frank but 35 eur/h is way too little. It's a bit below full time employment rates level even for Poland. You can get 40eur/h almost instantly anywhere. Some agencies are willing to pay up to 90eur/h for frontend devs as far as I've seen. It's much harder for backend development but 40-50eur is still easily obtainable. I'm looking right now and most offers come down to 40 eur/h for mid/senior .NET development.
I always called that 3rd rate the "rush rate"
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Sure. But that doesn’t solve the schedulability problem. You’d still have to prove that the GC task completes soon enough. What does soon enough mean? All of the hard things I mentioned. Parallelism may help with provisioning but it doesn’t reduce the proof burden.
I haven't been to a conference in 10 years now. Online talks seem much more convenient. Are in person conferences back after covid?
The fact that nuclear proponents always need to compare to coal to make it look attractive, and only consider immediate deaths as counting in case of nuclear already says it all. By that measure, nobody has died from pollution from coal power plants either. Where's the hard evidence? All just coincidence and handwavy assumptions! It's from cars!

And as said, nobody has suggested replacing nuclear with coal, still most of the replies argue against that straw man.
I found it to be completely orthogonal how switching to a different ISA will solve the issue of lack of underlying physical semiconductor manufacturing capacity.
I’ve heard this theory before but wouldn’t that mean you could take these substances while anesthetized and derive the same benefits without remembering any of the “trip”?
That's false. You can't power a country with one source of wind power in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Which is the same justification for so many bad things throughout history, be it wars for resources, to making battery-farmed workers pee in bottles because Jeffrey couldn't bear to have one fewer personal yacht.

If people had grown up with variable supply of electricity, they would have no problem with it today. It's only the transition from something better to something worse that causes riots.
I think this chart [0] should automatically update with the data from here, but let's see if it works.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTcsaHx997nt...
Hi, do you add VAT on top of that? Also, do you count a day as 8h or how does it work?
That's what I here. Meanwhile over here you can get an instant fail for opening the door the wrong way.
Not sure where you live, that seems pretty low for your seniority. I'm going into consulting so I'm curious:

1. Do you do it full time?
2. Do you get more clients than you can work for?
3. Are you comfortable financially?
Zuckerberg gave up on running: 'the problem is, you can think a lot'
Exactly. Fixed rate is not a good idea. Not every job is the same. For instance, if you have to do intervention on highly critical system with risk of reputation loss on any error, you should charge more.
Isn't the agitator the one who wields the phrase "toxic culture"?
Since terrestrial LTE/5G can penetrate aluminum aircraft hulls, does this mean cell service in the air?
“Efficient” is a relative comparison. Any absolute threshold would be arbitrary anyway
Can confirm. 1pux includes attachments. It should essentially be lossless if where you're going has a good importer. -Ben, 1Password
> The up front higher cost is disappearing as they ramp up production and is predicted to cross over within a few years.

Maybe. I am not disputing it will not. I do not know about “a few years”. I would still place my TCO bets on gas until I have some proof of longevity from electric vehicles, assuming I do not drive 20k miles per year.

> So any small savings are that possibly exist today in theory are likely wiped out by depreciation on the vehicle when you go to sell it to someone else

This is only a factor if you plan on selling it before the end of your life, or the end of the vehicle’s life.

> Why don't you demonstrate a realistic scenario to substantiate your claim that:

The fact that if I were to buy a car today in the US, there is no option for an electric Sienna or Odyssey minivan or equivalent. No electric car gives that kind of passenger space or cargo room and versatility for a family.
I like composing the TeX markup in VSCode and MikTex for generating the PDFs.
I think that you are thinking of prayer in terms of what you pray for, while I was referring to your procedure for performing a prayer.