skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent experience with from COVID-related layoffs. No one I know spent more than 2 months on the market.

But also, stop being a know-it-all empiricism addict. just use your head. Snap is a company with a high-hiring bar and plenty of competition that's still hiring. Of course they'll be scooped up by competition, even if only to prevent them from going to competitors.

This comment screams Reddit-brain
“Tesla's strict enforcement of the policy began in 2017, shortly after employees started wearing union shirts in a Fremont, California, factory.”
> who were demonstrating for democratic reforms.

You seem to comment to better inform readers, yet your comment distorts the truth.

Even the article you linked talks about Lithuania declaring independence from the USSR, not asking for democratic reforms.

Despite what your article says, if you read the story on Wikipedia, Lithuania did in fact unilaterally declare independence from the USSR in March 1990.

Just as an example, check what Spain did in 2017 when Catalonia tried to declare independence after a popular vote. If Catalonians decided to resist, there is no doubt that the Spanish state would have used violence to suppress them. Try to imagine what the USA would do if any of its states tried to declare independence.
Absolutely. And we will likely pay for similar situations with Hungary, Turkey, China...
Anyone here remember a page or three in "the glass bead game" about feuilletonism and the rise of interviewing roller skating boxers about politics and politicians about art history?
> The West has embraced Russia's democracy right after the fall of the iron curtain.

Right like Clinton and the US congress cheering Yeltsin bombing Russia's elected parliament.
The fastest electric unicycle in the world can surpass 87mph
https://archive.ph/OdlIq

Article says it is a new (VC?) funded chain, aiming for experience (service & capitalist quirky design), fast turnover (equipment more optimised for that).
> We believe our constitutional system — limited
government, separation of powers, federalism,
and the rights of the people — must be preserved
uncompromised for future generations.

That's from the preamble of the 2016 Republican platform (the most recent one since they declined to publish one in 2020 in lieu of just doing whatever Donald Trump said); literally their statement of values. But I've long believed that Republicans rely on voters who don't actually know what they're voting for, so your anecdote does strengthen that impression of mine.
AHK is GOLD for me. Power user? Sure. But it ties me to Windows only, and so I'm VERY keen to see a version for another OS. AutoKey failed miserably in my testing, and I have so much tied directly to AHK that I'm okay with choosing Windows to run it. There's a lot of other things that are Windows-only for me, so it's not a big deal. I actually LIKE W10 and W11. But it's great to have options!
Was he Lithuanian by any chance? Gorbachev killed protestors there, arguably the biggest stain on his otherwise surprisingly decent record.

Or did he sympathise with communism? Gorbachev arguably accelerated it's decline.
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We don't have a full list, but each of our audience pages shows some of our top publishers: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertisers/#audiences

We generally charge our listed CPM, but if you narrow down the targeting a lot, that can cost a bit more.
It would look like an open access UpToDate.
He was Greek and yes, he was with the communist party in his youth. So probably that's why...
Believe what? I am pointing out an availability bias. The absence of dialogue is not something that you can believe or not believe.
I think the solution is clear: we should start painting the cats
Oh i forgot we blamed rats for the plague too, bats definitely caused covid we can't be wrong twice.
Sorry to make two posts, but also...

In commercial farmlands, even in "progressive" countries like the Netherlands, the insect friendly unmowed zones are present but very minimal compared to the commercial farmlands.

By my estimation, the unmowed insect strips are 1/50th or less than the crop areas.

It is good to see that roadside zones are being allowed to grow a bit taller. As drivers, it's actually a negative because it makes seeing around curves more difficult, but it absolutely results in more wild flowers and insects. It's quite beautiful too.
> Calling donating money to malaria nets or deworming "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper" is like calling modern physics or modern cancer treatment "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper".

Physics manages simple models and the the efficacy of cancer treatment is (I guess) pretty measurable. You can’t compare these things to the Nerds in the West → Africa pipeline because of the mountains of variables that are layered on top. Just the sheer amount of humans that have to be involved, for one.

I’m glad that we were able to figure out that those “fundamental assumptions” were not, in fact, the bare fundamental assumptions. They were just the fundamental assumptions that EA proponents thought that they needed because they thought that things like Utilitarianism, empiricism, etc. just followed immediately from them. Hence how you are trying to logic nerd my simple, primitive, chimp-like, intuitive list of assumptions and get me to either write whole thesis of axioms or to concede that Utilitarianism+empiricism etc. are the one true tools to rule all. But I am unfortanetely too low-IQ and not committed enough to some silly nerd morality hobby to write a whole thesis in order to try to convince people that trying to prevent the AI Apocalypse should not be the topmost concern of people’s precious 10%.
We are slaves to the current system.
Royal Caribbean to use SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet onboard their fleet
50ms network latency is not the same thing as 50ms controller to display latency.

If your network latency is 50ms, you still have extremely low, almost zero latency for most operations like using the mouse to change the look direction.

50ms display latency would make a modern FPS utterly unplayable.

Games like SSB are extremely latency dependent.
>requesting volunteers

"Hey Customer X - we've got a plan that will allow you to make money off your solar setup by selling excess energy back to the grid. Technically it's illegal for us to 'Charge for it', but if we run a demonstration we can get the rules changed."
I use Firefox on Android with uBlock origin for blocking ads and kagi for search. This Google (albeit Android is Google) free browsing works extremely well for me.
I still remember when they censored the Hitler scene in Castle Wolfenstein. You know, the one where he is presented as a raving syphilitic madman - literally the opposite of glorification. For those that haven't seen it, here's the comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTQ1eBiRRRo
Mullvad for all intents and purposes is one of the good ones. They don't even have my name or anything more than one time use bitcoin addresses.

Sure, you have to trust what they say about logging, but at least they don't have my personal information
Not to take away from that awesome concert, but Lars has stated several times it was closer to 500k, but somehow the number keeps growing...

> However, Lars explained in the conversation that he doesn’t know the exact number how many people were in the concert, but he heard at the time that there were half a million people attended the show.

> “Listen, it may go up by 100,000 people each year! I heard at the time it was around half a million. Whatever it was, it was a f*ck-load of people.

https://metalheadzone.com/lars-ulrich-clarifies-the-myth-tha...
Out of curiosity is there a reason you're not just biting the bullet and going with a more accessibility-focused proprietary OS? Seems like a big compromise for supporting FOSS, so I'm sure there's more to it. Always interested in hearing accessibility-involved use cases as an interface designer.
so statistically speaking, yes - because many domestic cats live near small gardens.

But there are lots of ground-nesting birds that have been decimated by cats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_mammals_on_seabird_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife

I found the cognitive dissonance comment interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife#Cat_...
Actually the British are more to blame for that, as they are the ones who deliberately drew the borders of modern middle east with the explicit goal to cause maximum instability.
I wrote this almost a decade ago, and it's still relevant:

https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/10/using-autohotkey-to-...
The author wasn't a mystery to me. I mentioned her by her title. Misogyny isn't limited to men. Many women who run in male dominated worlds such as tech and comedy will often use misogyny as a shield to let the men around them know she is one of the cool ones.

This is not an accusation against the author's character. Like I said in my original comment, I don't know what she is trying to say with that comment. Although I guess that is its own accusation. Maybe the VP of Communication isn't great at her job if I don't understand what she is trying to communicate.
This traditional and digital artist agrees with you on all counts. Bad Things are happening.
Pigeon is delicious
From another perspective all of it is a continuation of the Great Game, the Anglosphere/Russia conflict dating back to the 1800s that never really stopped, and was merely put on pause for a few years a couple times (mostly when the Anglos felt that other continental Europeans were consolidating enough power to be an even greater threat than Russia.)
What was your experience raising money, and how much did you raise?
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I don't think the joke was mean-spirited.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654981.
It most certainly is
There is no such thing as "real capitalism"; it's a broad and somewhat vague set of ideas with many possible implementations, none of which are more "real capitalism" than any other, although I'd argue that some implementations definitely better than others (and 90s Russia is a good example of that).
BEN Drowned, smile.jpg, The Russian Sleep Experiment.. Some of these were so well done and haunting. What a macabre thing to get all nostalgic about!

For further reading - this site has been up for over a decade and is fairly comprehensive: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki

A personal favorite: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol
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Not to dispute any of your points, but one of the reasons I find some of the JRE podcasts interesting is that he gets people to open up and talk about (admit to) stuff they otherwise might not. Joey's comments are repulsive, but it's a good thing we now know what kind of person he is.

Not sure if that's a net positive overall, but it's something to consider.
Wow, thanks for the clarification. Totally missed this part. After having already evangelized this with my coworkers, I may need to take it back.

If they made the core open and allowed users to use this language independently of their online service, there's still a ton of value they could have added with premium services on top of this. For writing the docs, sharing with teams, comments / versioning, etc. Visual figma type features essentially. A team bought into the specification would very likely pay for this.

But it's hard to imagine it taking off being completely locked into their service. Ah well, a fine idea and looked pretty well executed.

EDIT: maybe that's on their roadmap "When the language is more stable, we intend to open source D2. This will happen sometime in 2022.". Ok, back on board
You have a fair point. It's interesting because I was literally just going through government programs that provide startup funding, where the application burden is high, the value is pretty low, and the format overall skews hard towards acting like the funding org has all the power and applicants should be thankful that someone deigned to review their application.

It's actually similar to the job market. There is government, where only the most desperate, process oriented folks bother to go through the silly bureaucratic process, there's "traditional" application-interview-offer where the employer has the power, and there's a pull model for top people where they get hunted for jobs.

The more power and brand you actually have, the more you can skew traditional / bureaucratic. If you're an unknown startup, you can't just post a job as and expect to get good candidates (I've tried that) - but you get a lot of mediocre ones. And if you're an unknown investor, I'd expect the same.

These investors either have done similar enough things before that they have a sense of the candidates / companies they'll get and are cool with that level, or will learn this time about the volume and quality this kind of solicitation generates.

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Products, not papers. Tinkering, not training. Apps, not Arxiv

Personly I think we're still at a stage where real research is important if you want ML to be an actual differentiator, and just e.g. cramming GPT into something is going to give you something very shallow, but let's see. I've been thinking about AI products a lot recently because I have an AI startup, and what I've concluded is that for AI to actually be a core differentiator and not a peripheral feature requires fundamental ML work specific to the product. But as I say, let's see what people can do)
Unfortunately, we have a negative case study for this belief, one that proves the impact would be minimal: Android. Chrome on Android doesn't support any adblockers, while Firefox does, with perfectly simple installation. Still, Firefox Android is only a tiny sliver of the pie.

(posted from Firefox on Android)
Yes and it was common for the player to tune (and presumably retune) fixed-intonation instruments like the clavichord... Bach famously had his own tunings that "sounded good". You still see this today with e.g. hurdy gurdy players who are constantly tweaking their tangents by ear.
I use Alexa in limited areas of the house just as a voice control for radio, lights, and timers.

After playing the timer reminder alert today, I got the scariest message I've ever heard, something very like: "I can remind you to take a drink of water when I hear you cough. Do you want me to do that?" I hadn't coughed, but the fact that Amazon can and will now bypass the Echo's hardware wake-word recognition with continuous audio surveillance and recognition is chilling.

I no longer trust Amazon at all. I find voice control handy, so I'll be looking for local voice recog hardware and software in the near future to replace the two Echos...
> This describes Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania and Poland, all former Soviet bloc countries. They've all had varying levels of success transitioning from communism to democracy and from a planned economy to market.

Yes, but neither the Baltics nor Warsaw Pact countries want anything to do with communism in the first place. It was forced onto them. So transitioning back to a democracy and market economy was far more straightforward.
The main problem is that our devices are tethered by the vendor.

We should have regulation that fundamentally breaks this relationship.
> Your comment makes it sounds like you believe the U.S. had the power to decide whether or not Russia would turn into a kleptocracy or not.

There's a lot of evidence that US kleptocrats collaborated to help turn Russia into a kleptocracy. Practically encouraged rather than discouraged that outcome.
> There was no "Marshall Plan" after the Cold War l

There was such a plan, at least in the twisted minds of the people behind the Washington Consensus. They were calling it privatization or price liberalization or some other non-sense like that, thing is the common people got the very, very short stick (like my parents, who lost their jobs, their city apartment and who had to resort to literally subsistence agriculture in a matter of 4-5 years maximum; I'm not from Russia, but still from the former communist space) while some lucky ones from amongst us became entrepreneurs and business leaders. Also, most of the really juicy assets (like almost of all our banking sector, our oil resources etc) got sold to Western companies, but that was a given if we wanted to become part of the European Union and of the West more generally speaking.

Yes, I've started to become more and more bitter as the years have gone by, I'm now almost the same age as my dad was in the mid-'90s, when all hell started to economically unravel. Nobody had asked my parents, or us, who were mere kids and teenagers back then, if we were agreeing to the sacrifices that they were going to impose on us.
> though I've never understood the concept of a property tax anyways.

Essentially, it's a payment back to society in exchange for monopolising a piece of something that can be useful to society but (to a good approximation) can't be manufactured[1] and doesn't depreciate[2]: planetary surface area.

One off value-added taxes don't capture this well as they become "cheaper" the longer you hold the land[3].

Put it another, somewhat hyperbolic, way, it's a HODLing tax, applied to the only known physical space in the universe in which humans can exist.

[1]: a few polders and airports not withstanding.

[2]: climate change might both create and destroy some land utility, though, which will upset quite a bit of "value" predicated on non-military the utility.

[3]: this inhibits land transactions which has effects like chilling workforce mobility
I thought it was a nice post too!

Value, perspective and supporting the business that I've spent months making.
For young democracies - like Russia in 1992 - it's possible to get captured by populists, who, instead of solving tough problems and laying out the groundwork for the subsequent development, promise some doubtful, in retrospect at least, things, point fingers towards convenient scapegoats etc. In this sense Russia was unlucky. Yes, people didn't know much, and were led to believe etc... so the guilt is spread of course, and many are involved. Everybody should have tried to do the best in their place, then the possibilities are larger - but in this case, it turned out to be not enough.

I'm not sure we now know a guaranteed way of how to deal with situations like that.
If by, "they", you mean the show, then the show's name is The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe Rogan is the host.

The team behind the team started small and have managed to stay small despite the massive audience. Very cool indeed.
Yes they are, but we overthrew a government from half of the Latin American countries in the same time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” – Carl Sagan

It's interesting to see what different people mean when they say "from scratch". In this case the lowest abstraction is (what seems to be) Python's TCP library.
It was not really a base for capitalism to take hold and effect. It needs a basic rule of law and democracy to work. All it got was brief window of chaos, before the kleptocracy returned.

Best description of the cultural background i found so far was this:

https://youtu.be/f8ZqBLcIvw0?t=76
The parent comment is correct, Lithuanians were demonstrating for the right to self-determination. The Baltic States were forcibly annexed to the Soviet Union in 1940; the comparison to Catalonia or US states is specious. Over two million people participated in peaceful protests in 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way), the Soviet decision to suppress this movement by force is a black mark on Gorbachev's legacy.
Yes, let’s ignore he became a successful star first. That was obviously just handed to him. Success breeds success only if you have some actual ability. Otherwise he’d be a one hit wonder. At one point he really only did have as much as anyone on HN, and probably even less.
One or two studies is more than the “zero” amount of data that’s been provided by anyone else at this point. I look forward to you sharing more specific numbers that counter the numbers I’ve provided.
Well this was back in the Python 2.4 days, I don't think I had even heard of it. And bash isn't easily available on Windows, at least interacting with running win32 programs. Back then it was even worse, I think I used mingw32 when I needed that? Blizzard did offer some sort of official macro system using Lua, but that was a bit advanced for me at the time.

A dedicated language is nice because the syntax can be optimized for its purpose. As a teen with little coding experience, AHK was so easy to get simple ideas working. Often one easy line of code.

Some of the bigger monstrosities I wrote would have definitely been more manageable in another language, but then I'd have to handle always-active input listening, window management, emulating the keyboard and cursor, reading screen pixels, my own state machine for key chording, and so on. Or cobble together libraries (and still learn those).

Also probably the most important part, it was fun to work with and immediate. I wasn't a professional (or even good) programmer. But I had a goal in mind and AHK never made me want to quit.
> [Western-driven reconstruction was] complete disaster for both your average Russian person

I think that's overstating the case. In fact the "average Russian person" was living in destitute poverty through most of the cold war, and none of that meaningfully changed with the advent of a market economy. Except that Russians of the 2000's could get eat better food and watch (much) better TV.

It's absolutely true that most of the western aid ended up hurting and not helping. But the bar was very, very low to begin with.
> Germany has been aggressively decommissioning its nuclear generation capacity

When did Germany decommissioned its inexistent nuclear generation capacity? or are you talking about the US Dep. of Energy?
Ubuntu phones home a lot and the privacy policy has a lot to be desired.

that said, aside from proprietary drivers, people can usually examine what's going on and disable or rewrite the offensive parts.
FWIW, neo-Nazi marches in Europe have way more people attending them than anything that American fash have tried to cobble up to date (including the particularly infamous one in Charlottesville). Radical nationalist parties seem rather popular in Europe lately as well, to the point where they already run some countries (Hungary, Poland).