skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage of people who participate in some form of gambling go on to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars? I'd argue it's also very difficult to end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt gambling.
Wouldn't that only apply to fossil fuels? I would think the watts per square meter of any solar panel I buy is similar to that of one used in a solar farm.

There is no micro nuclear to compare against obviously.
That's awful where are these sites? I assume there are sites.
You’re quite passionate about it.

Could you explain some of your reasons?
When Al Gore said in 1998 that California would be under water by 2005, he was exaggerating for politics. A lot of climate change data was cherry picked and exaggerated to scare people into taking action.

Climate change is used as a bat to hit poor people in the head politically. The politics come from the left.
I recommend a split keyboard, so you can put one on each side and have your hands rest naturally.

I always wanted to try this setup, laying down in bed looking straight up at a projection on the ceiling, hands at my sides on split keyboard halves, laying very still, conserving energy.
Sillystuff answered correctly.
Realizing my competition is doing this was even more discouraging for me. Energy can just be put towards other things.
Once you interview and turn them down then will they interview you again? Doesn't that close a lot of doors?
> This is a great example of taking a concept that originated in cryptocurrency

What concept are you talking about? Venue tickets have been a thing for a while.
Working your butt off is one option, working significantly less than full time is another.

However, if you only focus on pay you drastically diminish your search space. No SV company is actually pushing the bounds of AGI research for example.
I used to do interviews like a competitive sports. From there I got exposed to so many different (often ridiculous) styles of interviews. It used to be kind of entertaining to play those games.

I cannot do that anymore because I have a kid.
In practice, most conferences don't want to allow transferable tickets because it ends up with a scalper situation.

The scalper will annoy everyone and take any money that would otherwise go to conference.

Secondary market for tickets is very small.
It is not often I encounter so many cases of falsehood and wholesale confusion in one posting.

First one call matches exactly one return. Then the same call matches a bunch of returns. Which is it?

Then, a catch catches innumerable throws? When I throw an exception, it is only ever caught exactly once. One throw, one catch. Unwinding an unknown number of call stack frames, on the way, is the whole point of exceptions. You don't get to count that as a flaw.

Exceptions are not, in fact, dynamically typed. Each one thrown has exactly one type, its whole life long. All throws from that place will have exactly that type, and none other. Any catch block that doesn't lexically match that type is skipped over.

Look up "exponentially". It does not mean what you seem to imagine -- if in fact you can be said to mean anything at all.

Spilling out your entire mess of incomprehension does not only make you look silly, it is also rude.
"we tend to think in terms of carrying out tasks"

My understanding of User Stories is that there's a story per task, so, to some extent, both itches are scratched with a well thought out set of User Stories.
California Biotech Executive Is Guilty in $77M Blood-Testing Scheme
To be fair to the original poster, in Australia, whether you tell every new hire or not, they are still on probation legally in terms of employer obligations, so it is good to tell if you want to establish clarity, and follow appropriate procedures in terms of setting goals and keeping them up to date as end of probation nears to avoid vagueness and stress. Depending on size of hiring organisation, probation is 6 months for big organisations and 12 months for smaller ones.
Probation is a legal term that has implications like you can let someone go for no reason. Most places don't have zero worker rights like the US does.
But is it better than the alternative, that’s the current system of multi-round interview that takes months because companies try to avoid a wrong decision?
Windmill and wind turbine are interchangeable in English, and have been for quite some time. You can occasionally make a distinction for a traditional windmill for actual grain, but if its a bunch of blades spun by the wind, windmill works to describe it.

NIMBYs are people who complain about things being built near them.

Ted Kennedy famously opposed wind turbines near his home.
They don't need you - they have tons of very talented people applying.
Yes, never took another full time job again. I interviewed for contract work thereafter but nothing like formal interview.

I launched a popular open source software that turned into a company.
The IP theft comes in if your org decides to play ball, which requires having a Chinese 'partner' organization to get access to the market.
No, this is not correct despite it being a modern day matra.

At least 50% of one's mood comes genetics. There's nothing one can do about that. There's just not.

Almost everyone knows this. You can have one child that is happy and cooing and very social at 3 or 6 months old, and another child that cries, doesn't like people, and unhappy. We all know this. It's not like the infant is choosing to be happy or sad at 3 months old. It's genetics. For sure.

One could say that since 50% is genetic, that 50% of a mood is under one's control. Well, having 100% happy genes plus a good happy outlook on life and choices is a LOT easier than only 50% unhappy. Because no matter what, even if a 50% "not good mood person" tries to be happy, there is always that 50% "not happy" part that is always there. Waiting. Looking for it's chance to move in. Happy people don't have that.

Also, on another note, there are all kinds of mood disorders. Major depressive disorder (MDD), Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Cyclothymic disorder, Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, Persistent depressive disorder, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. These types of mood disorders follow one through life, too. Can be ok for a while, then boom, depressed and you can't help it.

There is no way that people with mood disorders can choose to be happy. Just no way.

>the most miserable people in the world are obscenely wealthy.

I am personally convinced that all the studies that show that obscenely wealthy people are miserable is that all the studies were paid for by billionaires and published by their astroturf groups. These "studies" are published in the media that the billionaires own, saying how miserable they are. Because that will help prevent the actual miserable poor people from rising up and doing a French Revolution gullontine number on the very rich.

Mr. Billionarie says: "You think you have it bad, Mr. Working-two-jobs-at-federal-minimum-wage-of-$7.50?? You got it great! I have BILLIONS of dollars and boy am I miserable. I mean, I KNOW that I have cool cars, my own private jet, a different supermodel every night, but man-oh-man that is so much worse than you not being able to afford basic healthcare for your 3 children and one of them dies from an easily preventable disease. You are so much better off than me!!!"

Anectdotal stories on how the rich are so miserable don't really do it for me.

This is more like actual reality: https://www.businessinsider.com/study-shows-money-can-buy-ha...

82% of the wealthy were happy, while 98% of the poor were unhappy

87% of the wealthy were happy in their marriage, while 53% of the poor were unhappy

93% of the wealthy were happy because they liked or loved what they did for a
living, while 85% of the poor were unhappy

0% of the wealthy were unhappy due to finances, while 98% of the poor were unhappy

.

Wait...are you a billionaire???
How are cloud GPU providers handling this then? Do the fancy A1000 chips solve this?
Huh… this is obviously fake news!
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The more I see AI generated porn, the more I crave a genre of porn that has badly rendered humans or anatomical structures. It just always looks so new and interesting compared to the usual crap you always see. A true game changer.
80gbps is a bit of a weird one. To work with 120gbps, that would imply that 80gbps is two lanes and 120gbps is three lanes in a single cable. I suppose this is possible with the type C connector as it has plenty of pairs.

This would make USB4 80gbps (the sticker you see on the box) USB4 Gen 4x2, as there are two lanes of the fourth lane type. The 120Gbps one contains three lanes of the fourth lane version, or USB4 Gen 4x3.

There's no need for USB11 and USB12. Look at the 10/20/40/80/120Gbps sticker on the box. That tells you all you need to know.
Tritium-powered betavoltaic batteries are off-the-shelf products, and have existed for decades. You can buy them today. But they can only supply a current on the microamp scale, only useful for some niche sensor applications... On the upside, these batteries are fairly safe.
I renamed it don't worry
Interesting, thanks for the additional info.
Fixed point is a super fun rabbit hole into quantization and numerical representations. I work with them all the time for FPGA hardware design and HLS to build deep learning models and HLS is our bread and butter.
Almost every donation and purchase I have made would have been far more lucrative to the recipient had they kept it in BTC. But yes, I understand this is salty HN.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

> Find something interesting to respond to instead.

I mean this comment breaks basically half the rules. I am seeing these types of comments all over the place lately and it's just such a waste of time. I'd love to see moderation get tighter.

I know I'm making the perennial "HN comments suck" comment, but a couple topics of late that seem to really irk people and I fail to see how auto-deading short snarky stuff like this does anything but good.
This isn't the name of the USB spec, it's the name that someone noticed a random manufacturer used. The new name will follow the common pattern, or "USB4 120Gbps".
I love the group with myself trick for whatsapp notes.
This is exactly what I mean. It’s a big put off to see several year old experimental features and other signs that no one is making the decision to move things forward.

If I’m learning something as big as nix with all the facets it has, I don’t also have time to learn it’s entire community history. It’s not a good thing that I need to do that in order to make a decision about how much to trust experimental features of a tool when I’ve not even been using it more than a few hours from the moment of downloading the iso and installing it. It’s a put off to someone new coming to use nix for the first time.
Sorry for turning my gf into Schrödinger cat. She can make one on a request.
> Once you interview and turn them down then will they interview you again? Doesn't that close a lot of doors?

Currently, at least, big tech cos will keep that door open. Think of it this way - a company spending $$$ on recruiters cold-emailing a bunch of candidates, the majority of whom fail the process, isn't gonna throw away leads of people who they know have passed the process at least once.
Was hoping it would be a Ted Nelson reference.
Its easy to be a 10x-er in certain environments. Some examples and stats:

40xer: In 1 day I compressed 40 open tickets into 1 and closed it because they had the same underlying cause. My associates had no incentive but to close 1 ticket per work day.

Infinity-xer: Over the course of 3 months I uncovered the underlying model of our approach was a dead-end, short-circuiting incorrect results from being delivered to our dependent customers.

Get your head out of your ass, nobody cares about how much code gets written and very little has anything to do with the code except that it fills the domain desire.
If you think Tesla paid for it, I don’t know what to tell you.
In our case, we try and be very upfront about the nature of the process and that it works both ways, i.e. if they find the workplace isn’t for them, then theres no hard feelings either. It’s part of Australian workplace law so whether we mention it or not it is going to apply, so we make sure its not something hidden that might surprise someone.

In our case, we do also explain the types of circumstance in which we might use such a clause, and for us those are very narrow, we don’t hire people just to let them go for nothing 6 months later.
we're still talking about 400k-600k/yr total compensation right?

every MBA factory bases its metrics on the average compensation of alumni, and they're pretty pathetic in comparison

anyway, to the person above you, Google isn't top of the pack in initial comp package or upside, within tech
This is still child abuse material and probably still illegal where you live. The reason is obvious, it's a gateway to the abuse of real children.
But is it a crime to possess an algorithm that can generate CP? You don't possess the images, it just generates them.

If it is a crime then it means any model which can generate CP under any circumstances will be illegal.
Imagine uncensoring JAV with AI, what a time to be alive!
whose bills though?

most people find one of the most high paying jobs they can, then adjust their lifestyle to that income, then if they miss the mark ('lowball offer') they have to keep looking.

lifestyle regression is exceptionally hard for humans, especially if your friends/neighbors don't have to go through the same thing (e.g. there's no war raging in your country).

the best thing to do would be to keep your spend way below your means. this maximizes your options and gives you choice. but who does that?
people who say this haven't had to work with serial devices lately.
Nearly all sex workers (97% in stats I found) are cisgender or transgender women, so that in itself doesn’t seem to significantly de-anonymize them.
4chan has been big on generating Toy Story porn lately and the results are just hilarious when not occasionally horrifying.
Actual title:
Indian court directs chat app Telegram to disclose details of copyright infringers.

And so far, telegram has not complied...
Other times, as alluded to earlier, it shows physically improbable models, typically with extra limbs, nipples in unusual places and contorted flesh.

By definition [these systems are] going to represent those whose bodies are accepted and valued in mainstream society

What an ironically contradictory juxtaposition.
It's these types of games I just cannot put up with.
This is what happens when virtue signaling takes precedence over reality.

Did the person who is so depressed over this seriously think it would be male nudes specifically targeted to a female audience that will first make it into production?
That's either a healthy attitude that I lack or a form of defeatism that I lack, I am not sure which. I love the turn of phrase though.
I can't imagine anything more healthy. Those are all valid emotions a healthy person should exhibit. Being happy when life is good and being sad when life is bad is healthy because you enjoy good things and times and allow yourself to be negatively affected bad by things and times so you can avoid or change them.

If emotions were a spouse being happy during bad times would be similar to being happy when your spouse is abusing you and enduring it. Isn't it more healthy to be negatively affected by it so you can change or exit the situation?
The fact that multiple companies have those numbers indicates the numbers are in fact “normal”. What isn’t normal is continuing to insist that the typical person cares enough about the ideology that motivates projects like Mastodon in spite of the literally hundreds and thousands of failed projects indicating the contrary.
Canva, Square, AWS, Atlassian, Palantir, Google.

If you’re senior ex-FAANG you can easily get $250+

$300+ is probably staff level and above.
It is dead. Even the users who 'moved' to Mastodon came back to Twitter again are still posting on Twitter. Why? Because there is no-one on Mastodon even after the Twitter 'exodus'.

We are talking 6 years and even less users using it. That sounds like a total failure on Mastodon's side to be a viable Twitter alternative.
C/C++ arithmetic conversion rules simulator
Creator of pornpen.ai here, looks like this discussion is ramping up again! Wanted to respond to some of the points made here and in the article.

The grotesque images: Simply put, the model is not good enough yet. This will improve over time as the models get better.

Diversity/male gaze/heteronormative: Generating men and other genders did not yield very high quality results unfortunately, so I didn't include it in the initial launch. I am also manually fine tuning the prompts, so it was easier to pick one category (women) and go with it. I hope to expand this in the future.

Sex workers: I do agree with the quote in the article that this will not replace sex workers (at least for now) in the same way that I don't think dalle/midjourney/stable diffusion will replace illustrators. In the future, I believe this technology could create a new category of sex worker that can generate content without using their own body (similar to VTubers).

It's harder to say what will happen in the future though. If these models keep improving at this pace, I think these types of discussions will be more important. Let me know if you have any questions!
Real cable testers are specialized high speed scopes with all sorts of protocol support and cost thousands.

But what you need is a device that simply queries the cable and asks it what it thinks it can do. I haven’t seen one for sale and am too busy to make one, but it shouldn’t be that hard.

Apple’s system info ought to tell you this but doesn’t.
It was the point. It was planned obsolescence. They lost or settled several lawsuits about it.
It's everywhere. Everywhere.

Metaphor, understatement, hyperbole, irony, satire, all verboten.

I'm pretty sarcastic/satirical, and the number of times people say that it is "impossible to tell" sarcasm and satire in written form amazes me. Yet, there are always some people who do understand, so I know it isn't me, and I know that people do understand satire and sarcasm and all the other wonderful literary devices that are available.

It's a cross to bear if one uses the full range of language.
> The charging situation isn't their fault. USB wasn't designed for it. Non-compliant devices started allowing charging before it was ever permitted.

A standards body at least shares some fault when they move so slowly that real solutions have to work ahead of them to provide a demanded feature and things end up in a mess like this.
thanks for bringing this to our attention. fixed now: https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/d34479b48a...
Once it generates them, at your request, you possess them.

Don't count on the legal system to go "haha you got me touché" on this.
The intended link target is a section of the page: https://www.nayuki.io/page/summary-of-c-cpp-integer-rules#ar...
Markets in general, really. If you banned securities, people would still bet on commodities. Ban that and it's real estate. And in lieu of that? Currencies.

If you ask me, gambling isn't the problem here; advertising is. Sure, people will always find a way to engage in vices, but something about exploiting our monkey brains to make those vices seem like the be all and end all always seems to have some pretty bad effects on society. Tie all the ills of the 20th century psychology-infused advertising with modern targeted advertising and you have a real disaster on your hands -- just be glad Joe Camel never got to stroll around the social networks of the 21st century.
MetroCard was also created and run by Cubic, nothing new here.
But by this logic, why not just make it entirely illegal to gamble? Regardless of child support?
I think this is a very interesting question that is being systematically sidestepped in these debates.

Sexual preferences are a given; some people are attracted to the opposite sex, some people are attracted to the same sex, some people are attracted to children. Nothing they (or anyone) can do about it, lest one decides to indulge in so-called "conversion therapy".

Of course, children can't consent, and abusing children is horrible. And child porn is horrible because it implies children have been abused to produce it.

But AI-generated child porn, however nauseating it might sound, doesn't hurt anybody.
On a technical level it is easy to make a product that is better than Twitter: replicate it exactly but fix the complaints.

The reason it is not getting actually replaced by another product is very simple: they can't move the community of Twitter there. Largest public place to go and make your political enemies seethe and cope in 280 characters or less.
Been there buddy (including that exact, form-letter rejection email). I feel for you. I just finished a 9 month interview cycle of funemployment, with a break of two months in-between where I too, was questioning my reason for even being in this industry.

My background is a coding bootcamp + relentless up-skilling and self-directed learning (with the help of some mentors), plus a healthy side of ADHD/spectrum issues, including, best of all, crippling social anxiety.

I cannot tell you in words how astounding it is to go from a full stack dev lead, to being reduced to failing junior-level code interviews because my brain just leaves the chat in the middle of most interactions with new people, let alone interactions involving cognitive effort/hazing.

You matter and the fact we have to spin our wheels on this grindstone does not change that.
The best analogy I can think of is medical device manufacturing, since there is a decent amount in the US.

The pay isn’t great by Bay Area standards but the plants are located in low cost mid-west cities.

$35/hr plus overtime and benefits is an outstanding job in a city where upper-middle class homes cost $200,000. Those job very highly coveted and people stayed for decades. Top guys were making >$100,000/yr with a 2 year associates degree.
Yes, I invented a cure for all forms of cancer in my basement. I've told nobody at all about it. For some reason, nobody is coming into my basement wanting to be cured of cancer. It's almost like nobody knows that I cured cancer, even though I haven't told a soul about it. Why don't people just know? Why do I have to talk to people or let others know? Don't they just know through ESP or something???
Why does this comment keep getting bumped up to the top?
What an asshole interviewer. I look back and think about a time I was asked what city I lived in and how big my house was (actually asked square footage...wtf) during a post-interview, but part of the interview, lunch. The more I look back and think about it, the more I question why I didn't just walk out then and there.

It's so easy to slip into trying to fit bizarre culture interviews that one may not realize what's highly unethical in the moment.
Ending support for legacy academic publishing
Day-rate contracting can get you very close if the last minute renewals are something you can deal with. The telcos are currently going through a hiring period and I’ve seen 1250/day plus super offered a few times recently. For perm roles, it’s certainly much harder, and I’ve only seen one IC role offered in market at over $220k at the firms I’ve worked at, but the flip side is I’ve seen a few higher ones offered to recommended candidates off market.

The old adage still applies, the jobs you want aren’t advertised and the candidates you’re looking for aren’t on job boards looking.