skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like saying Wall-E or Inside Out are dumb movies because they need to hook young audiences.

It's not an either or situation here. Shows can be written to target many, many groups of audiences. They can be "smart" while still appealing to the masses.

Also, it's not so much dumbed down as just terrible acting and terrible writing. Cinematics are great, but cinematics are the only thing that's great.
Click on apply on any of those job listings, get redirected to some other site.

This is just a basic SEO/referral play. Flag the shit out of this, IMO.
Show HN: Make Your Discord Google-Indexed Documentation – Answer Overflow
Hi! I'm Rhys, the developer of Answer Overflow - a site that is meant to improve & index the help channels of Discord servers on the web.

The problem is that communities using Discord for their support don't have any of their content indexed on the web, so when someone Googles a question that has been solved in that Discord server, it won't appear in search results

The goal of Answer Overflow is to get all of that content indexed on the web, while also respecting the privacy of the people in the server and complying with the terms of service. It's quick to setup and only takes about 5 minutes, and should work with however your community has it's help channels setup already.

To publicly display messages, Discord's ToS says that applications using their APIs require user consent so Answer Overflow has tools built out to drive getting user consent. Otherwise if they haven't stated they want their messages to be public, then they can only be shown if the users share the server.

Along with displaying messages, Answer Overflow also works to improve the way that people ask questions by allowing them to mark their question as solved, so the members of your community know what questions need attention at a glance.

The goal of this project is to build powerful tools for communities on Discord to use to manage their help channels

Here's an example of a result page coming up in Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=InventoryGUI+RedLib+errors+f...

Here's a community page on Answer Overflow:
https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/848055320928583710

Next up is providing these communities with analytics on how their community is doing with answered / unanswered questions, and also statistics on how effective Answer Overflow is for getting traffic to their projects

After that is repeat question detection and whatever else is requested from server owners / users!
It does set a precedent. Said precedent is a disaster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/world/americas/el-salvado...

Not sure how that would be important for the crypto community, other than giving it the dressing down it needed.
Are they related to today’s Epic?
Where does that willpower come from though?
> When you say European, except for the fact that Tolkien wrote the story, what part of the show thus far has given you an explicit European feel?

"Middle Earth" was an old phrase used to refer to Western Europe in several Scandinavian languages. Tolkien, being a linguist, would have known this and chosen that turn of phrase deliberately.
> People are people and do stupid shit with power

That point is true about unions, too.
With transparent lenses and no tracking, how are these better than the non-transparent video glasses that have been available for two decades and never caught on? The contrast ratio on any transparent display is terrible since the pixels can't block light, only add light. The darkest black levels you can get is however much tinting you apply to your glass.

Looks to me like Lenovo developed some display tech for AR and then couldn't get the tracking working and decided to ship a tech demo.
Teachers, doctors, nurses etc. can use code to simplify their jobs and make themselves more productive. Not everyone needs to be a professional coder, but being aware of what code is and how it works should absolutely be a basic skill. No different than reading or math.
I think the criticisms aren't that the Drake equation is reductive, so much as that it's packed with unspoken assumptions and that it's not actually helpful.

https://futuristspeaker.com/futurist-thomas-frey-insights/ar...

And for inspiration to search for extraterrestrial life? I think Star Trek has done that job better.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1385/to-boldly-go-how-star-...

Failure is useful if we can learn from it. If we keep treating the Drake equation as meaningful, we're not learning.
All GPS receivers(1) have this issue but the date they experience it on differs from device to device because to fix the rollover issue they adjust the wrap point in their firmware based on when the firmware was made.

(1) Technically the modernized L2C/L1C/L5 signals use a 13-bit week number, but because the deployment of these signals was massively delayed receivers using them are basically non-existent today. (I also have no idea if the current receivers supporting them successfully use the 13-bit week number, given that they're not guaranteed to be able to receive the modernized signals as they're still less available than L1)
What about them? Sure a scientist is welcome to have their own opinion based on the scientific facts in a particular matter and they can vote just like everyone else because again, the science itself is only descriptive.

Maybe I should have gone for a more direct metaphor. An epidemiologist may say - if we institute martial law we can cut Covid deaths by X. Most in society would not make that trade, some would. Knowing the facts in a matter is vital but the society makes that judgement call (via representatives in a representative democracy), not science, not scientists (except inasmuch as they participate in the democracy).
Between $175 and $400/hr depending on the type of work, length of engagement, and interest in the project.
They may already be maxed out on their line of credit. Companies aren't fools and they take advantage of leverage (borrowing) to maximize their profits.
The German economy would still implode without natural gas as a feed stock and wither goes Germany goes the EU.
> Hamas, currently the government in Gaza, literally calls for the “obliteration” of the State of Israel as part of its charter.

You are free to call Hamas a terrorist group, I don't have big problem on that.

However, a very bold however, using the existence of Hamas as an excuse to paint the ongoing sufferings of Palestinians as "there is a reason behind it" or "Palestinians have their own faults as well" is not helpful - Palestinians kids growing up in isolation, poverty, anger, fear and lack of education are the ones joining Hamas tomorrow.
I can quit any job any time I want in the us, perhaps unless I've signed an unusual contract. Never seen that in software but I'm also not a contractor but a full time employee only. So what's the benefit to the employee to be on probation?
No you didn't, and it doesn't
A forgotten classic.
> Less plastic. More metal (or carbon fiber or whatever).

I'm intrigued by why you feel plastic is a drawback. Especially as metal has IMO very few advatnages in this case (heavier, lower radio transparency, bends under shock etc.)
There are plenty of reasons to post an opinion other than to get in touch with likeminded people.
there was nothing in those judgements that showed that Apple’s goal was planned obsolescence. At best they showed that that was the effect of the original design shortcoming and the patch to address it.
That may be also because you are working in a Software Engineering job as a Computer Scientist. Or even as an Alayst Programmer (Technical profession, not needing a Degree)

These are 3 very different professions that have 'coding' in common. And given the huge demand for "analyst programmers" nowadays, a lot of people who studied the other two, end up working as the latter.
The utility function, and to some degree, attitude towards risk is going to differ a lot among individuals. And I imagine that among those reading this here, some are probably going "A million is a nice sum but it's not really life changing whereas $50 million would let me retire right now."

And you can scale the numbers up or down and at some point almost everyone will choose red or choose green respectively.
> As this page is rendered with CGI, we don't get a Last-Modified for it. That's a CGI disadvantage :p

I'm assuming you already know that's false, based on the emoticon, but for anyone else reading... CGI gives you the flexibility to set (or not set) the Last-Modified header as you see fit.

Additionally, CGI is a pretty decent way to give web access to a static site generator. Write or copy your Markdown in a textbox, hit submit, md file is saved, SSG is run, done.
JetBrains products are the only Java IDE that doesn't support JNI debugging and development, they rather sell two licenses.

Android Studio supports that use case, because Google has gotten so bad feedback from leaving NDK users stranded, that they eventually got an agreement to have Clion plugins as part of Studio.
It does make you wonder if the legend of atlantis is simply due to a myriad of ancient civilizations that vanished under rising oceans. Given human population centers cluster around ocean ports/rivers with easy access to fresh drinking water. It seems entirely plausible that estimates of human population size at the end of the last ice age may be substantially off.
Same. The hugs.
Girls Who Code Partners with Defense Contractor Raytheon
Safety was a really cool edge weight to add as a preference for optimizing. I wonder what data source / heuristic they used for safety.
You send them a full on mini-vim implementation in Rust that uses ropes and then they just look at you disapprovingly because you didn't just tie together a dozen npm packages.
Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineers
Also made me think of the parallel universe to the show “Silicon Valley” where Richard Hendricks sells Pied Piper to Gavin Belson for like $10 million and happily retires in La Veta, Colorado.
That's what I thought initially (it's just code! autocomplete! using Jetbrains' own tools!

But, unless you already know what you're looking for, it's useless. The documentation is very short and lacking examples. So the completion is, well, just for completion. Not good for exploration.
He didn’t call them dumb. He called them wise, in spite of their decisions going against a simplistic expected value analysis.
haha, I should try that perhaps - particularly as I happen to have been carrying Foundation around in my bag and barely managing to read about two pages on my commute :) I never was good at reading when there's interesting Life to gawp at out the window.
> -T1 matters. Thats an uncommon variant.

> 2018

Well yeah! That's why it was introduced as a "fun fact" that you "can now get".
This is a product that has been invented before.

The original Virtual IO glasses of the late 90's were a consumer product that was riding the Virtuality hype that was in vogue at the time. They failed in the marketplace, however, I remember meeting the rep and what he had to say. I was absolutely smitten by the product and 'knew it was the future' even though that video was somewhat VGA, so not even SD resolution. It was in 'stereo' unlike Virtuality, which relied on novelty to give the impression of 3D.

The use case apart from immersive gaming was just so you could watch TV whilst doing tasks such as washing dishes or making dinner. From what I remember there was a means of seeing the world around you, either out the bottom or with transparency in the image. I can't quite remember. There was composite video as an input, which was in a cheaper variant of the product which had no head tracking, it really was just for watching video.

This was in the late 90's when the big new thing was DVD, however, there were two competing formats. Some products such as the Virtual IO glasses were waiting in the wings for this market to take off, at a point in time where zero DVDs had been sold.

Games did need to be written for it and I think the trick was interlacing, half the VGA went to one eye and half to the other. It would be up to the developer to write the rest. At the time Windows 95 was new and DirectX plus OpenGL as we know it on Windows was in version 0.1.0 with games being DOS.

As you can imagine, this 'watch a soap opera whilst doing the washing up' market with an imagined vast mass of Americans ready to by the product never happened. Price was perceived as the problem to adoption, hence the Virtual IO product tried to address that by being competitively priced, with the 'TV watching' cheapo version available too.

The product was compelling but the imagined mass market was never there. If you want to do stuff in the kitchen and have the TV on then you just put a TV in the kitchen. You don't think 'oh, I must get that expensive headset to watch TV whilst I am preparing dinner'.

Another factor that is overlooked is that people have traditionally been adverse to wanting to be seen wearing a VR headset. There is that matter of losing peripheral vision and security, you are not going to wear anything that blinds you on the subway journey home. Second to that, and not appreciated by some, is that a lot of people put a great deal of effort into their appearance - make up is a thing - and being out and about is about seeing as well as being seen. Times have changed, but even still, Google misjudged this aspect.

Imagine if you had a VR/AR headset that had week long battery, infinite resolution, zero latency tracking and only cost $50. Would your sister, mum or dad be wearing them? Or would they just be checking their phone every ten minutes?

They probably would not have the use case of boring household chores as microwave ready meals, dishwashing machines and food delivery services have solved that problem for those that need it.
I am hoping for an eye-tracking mouse solution in the meantime, where looking at a portion of the screen and pressing a key on the keyboard will click rather than having to move a hand away from the keyboard to use a mouse, or wait for the analog stick mouse to reach the right point of the screen. Seems to be getting more plausible but still fairly expensive for a few years yet.
The writing in it is pretty terrible though. Hopefully gets better.
I don't see it as confusing, it's a pretty accurate description. The Nix language is for most part a JSON-look-alike with a couple of additional features. You don't really program in it, you declare/return a data structure. The only programming you do in Nix is to make it a little easier to build that data structure. It's kind of like the old days when people would parse JSON with eval(), which would also grand you features that plain JSON wouldn't have.

Even NixOS itself doesn't do all that much actual programming in Nix, most of the code that does stuff is written in C++. The Nix language itself doesn't let you escape out of its sandbox.
And the landlord charges the next tenant significantly more, if they can, to cover losses from this tenant and the now apparent potential of losses from future tenants covered by evicition moratoriums.

They likely can raise the rents for new tenants, because tenants in process of being evicted (formally or not) may rent a new unit with a longer overlap than usual before relinquishing the new unit, and often there are lengthy repairs necessary on units where the most recent tenant was evicted, keeping that unit off the market for even longer. 'Cash for keys' can often get the unit rentable faster, the departing tenant will leave on a schedule and hopefully take better care during the move, or at least allow for inspection prior to moving out to allow for scheduling of necessary repairs and maintenance.
Except Othello is set in Venice 4 centuries before...

We study at the age of 6 that the Roman empire had black emperors, African born (see: Septimius Severus), but no, where Pinocchio is set and among the people he is living with, nobody knew about Othello or Septimius Severus, nobody could even read, for sure not Pinocchio, that is in fact turned into a donkey for being so ignorant and certainly there were no black fairy women.

Sorry.
Cosy: A programming language that combines APL with Forth
We are building a new language that is not for fun and we have thought of this important issue. We solve it with a Package Ports and Package Adapters. The Bitloops Language (BL) is a transpiled language with support for only TypeScript at the moment. Nonetheless, if it picks up we will be adding support for Java, C#, and C++ so that people can leverage their investments in their existing packages.

https://github.com/bitloops/bitloops-language
Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution have produced many astonishing successes. Even Communist China bought into it after looking at the Asian success in Korea and Japan. I don't think many would disagree with this. There are anti-capitalist people but I'd like to hear more about their successful alternative systems.

What's being said, I think, is that we could do even better

Inequality and America’s Lost Einsteins

https://kottke.org/17/12/inequality-and-americas-lost-einste...
I also forgot to include "remote executors" in that list for shops that use docker or similar machine learning setups; I can imagine that's a non-trivial market for PyCharm Pro
Putin's conviction that the West was filled with spoiled brats who would kowtow when it got cold is the more impactful miscalculation.
Everytime you book additional insurances that cover small amounts of money. Like a airplane ticket insurance (that only covers the fee of the ticket if you cancel). Or a additional rental car insurance.
Assuming that Insurance companies are not stupid and only offer an Insurance that is +ev for them, that means its -ev for you. If you are in the financial situation that 1-5k$ wont ruin you its rational to NOT take these kind of insurances.

Every spot in life that you encounter that can be seen purely from an EV perspektive should be played as that. Only exceptions are longtail ruinous outcomes, like House Fire insurance, Health Insurance. Thats why in many western nations these types of insurances are mandatory.
I read the pattern and what is being described, is not exclusive to academia. It is a typical workplace.

A few lost jobs and horrible bosses later I can summarize the experience as follows:

1. Bullying is legal. Unless it’s provable that it is based on one of the protected classes.

2. Because it is legal, companies side with the aggressor to deny everything and absolve themselves from liabilities.

3. Bystanders rarely help you. They may show solidarity, but will not step in on official channels.

4. Lawyers are expensive and it’s very hard to pursue any claims.

5. Documentation is very hard because modern workforce is trained on how to not get sued (unless someone is really stupid)

6. Some laws like “two party consent” for recording that is meant to protect privacy, has the unintended consequences of enabling abuse.

TLDR; harassment is legal and okay. Workers have limited protections.
Tolkien also named and described the Harfoots, so why would they be any differently copyrighted?
Well, all they would need is a gyro (because it doesn't seem to have cameras), it wouldn't be as good 6dof, but better than fixed.
Are journalists smart enough to code? More relevantly, are they smart enough to accurately inform the general public about the topics they cover? The commonality of Gel-Mann amnesia suggests otherwise.
> It was stressful at times, and at times kind of lonely.

This resonates having done contracting for the past 5+ years and at times, lately, feeling lonely.
In B2B it may be quite sufficient that someone has a track record in the industry + good customer contacts/buyers. Why wait for an MVP if the MVP doesn't seem like the risky part?
That’s hilarious.
>They recently found the largest oil fields in the world under the Golan Heights

There is no way anything under the Golan Heights comes close to the largest oilfields in the world. The Golan Heights only cover an area of about 690 square miles. The Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia is more than 3200 square miles by itself. It is around 85m thick, and with the field described in your sources being 350m the math doesn't work in your favor especially when you consider that the entirety of the formation they claim to have discovered would have to be productive over the full extent of the Golan Heights. That is unlikely especially in light of their most recent updates shown below.

The articles that I could find describing Golan Heights discoveries all use hyperbolic descriptions of oil potential combined with selected messianic prophecies of what it means for Israel and the world as relates to Old Testament scripture.

I spent 40 years in the oil and gas business including several years working on data from the Eastern Mediterranean acquired as a joint venture between countries bordering the region. This geophysical work resulted in significant gas well discoveries in the region. Oil is found with those wells as expected but not in life-changing quantities to the best of my knowledge. None of the partner countries will be self-sufficient as a result of those discoveries.

Until he died, there was a local geologist who became somewhat famous for his attempts to find oil mentioned in the Bible. His plan was to help fulfill prophecy by discovering the oil that would make Israel self-sufficient and bring about the second Temple. He worked for years spending lots of other people's money and Israel still was not self-sufficient.

The oil discovery that you refer to is not being produced today and may not even be commercial. Add to that the fact that the well(s) were drilled in territory recognized to belong to Syria and cracks form in the story.

Then you start to look at the players involved - the company is Genie Energy based in New Jersey. (from Wikipedia - this line gives a bit of historical information about their efforts)

> In November 2017, the company announced that it suspended its exploratory drilling program as the well's target zone does not contain commercially producible quantities of oil or natural gas.[23]

The link to the article [23] cited in Wikipedia:

[23] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/genie-energy-suspen...

Their strategic advisory board has these common names (from Wikipedia)

> Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States), Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Bill Richardson (former Governor of New Mexico, ex-ambassador to the United Nations and United States Energy Secretary), Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild, and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.

Frankly this looks like a great collection of right-wing evangelicals about whom this great song was written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8B767itf0
This can be captures pretty well by taking the logarithm of each outcome's dollar figure before computing the expected value, if you ever find yourself wanting to calculate how to balance a portfolio.
> Give him all of the charity he needs to refute your guess that he's a bigot.

> So, no, I don't think "focusing on race" is an automatic signifier of racism.

It sounds like you're saying "if he acts like a bigot, but he says he's not a bigot, then give him the benefit of the doubt."
> Privacy is multi dimensional.

> If the US government wants access to your stuff, all the EU hosting in the world is not going to stop them.

These statements are at odds. The first is true, invalidating the second.

If the NSA wants to read my email because they think I'm involved in a terrorist bombing plot, sure, I'm burned on any provider.

If the FBI wants to read my email for pretty much any reason, they'll have to send a warrant which can be addressed in my local court rather than just go through FISA or the CLOUD Act.

If some podunk Texas DA wants to see if I've visited an abortion doctor in France, if the service provider's in the US there's a decent chance for a warrant. If it's in the EU, go pound sand you fuckers.