skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would, but I don't see it as feasible. Also, I have a thing about incentives, and if the goal is to make it automated then it's probably not going to be understandable. Whereas if the goal is to make it understandable then there is going to be pressure to make it simpler. Simpler technology is also going to have some difficulty with fully automated replication (although, who knows! It may be an important step to that vision too).

500 students and eight years is, I hope, a high end. My true hope is more like 30 and 4 years. Also, the Civboot can be broken down into tasks and built of commodity hardware until replaced, with different groups working on different aspects. If one group can build precision engineering, another group can use equivalent commodity precision engineering to make lenses, ... chemistry, manufacturing, etc can then be bundled together to build a computer chip, that would be a great early success. A full sci-fi school can only happen once all the components are proven and properly documented. In the interim, students can use and learn from built components. Even if this never happens in full, I'm convinced it's pieces would be highly valuable.

Edit: also, I can email you the relevant text if you prefer. Most of the size is my podcast and images, which should probably be moved to a separate repo and linked.
"restricting it for NSFW", according to whose standard? "which the danger", like what?

I'm glad this technology is finally out in the open where people like you no longer have a say in how it is used. The sooner people accept its existence (like they have with Photoshop), the better off and healthier we'll be as a society.
Lets hope that such self-righteous people do not get power to restrict access to new technologies to others.
While almond is better, the article does suggest that almonds themselves are not the best when it comes to water usage.
Yeah people with no brain cells really make my blood boil.
> people tend to ascribe a higher valuation towards self-assembled products compared to objectively similar products which they did not assemble

While I agree with the potential hazards of this kind of thinking, I'd be interested to see some positives in addition to just the "pitfalls".

Better idea of valuation of labor in addition to materials? Reduction of waste? Some intangible "what we learned along the way" factor?
>I wouldn't be surprised to find that 90% is actually very close to reality

The FTC press release[1] says "for many offers, almost a third of consumers who applied were in fact denied". That's quite a ways off from 90%.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/...

edit:

>Also, Credit Karma gets paid for successful conversions, and maybe ad placement? It doesn't seem like misleading someone got them any profit.

This is incorrect because misleading causes more people to apply. The people who are coaxed into applying through deception have a non-zero chance of turning into a successful conversion, which makes credit karma money. For instance, if people interested in a credit card, but they're not certain that they'll get approved, so they end up not applying. If there are 100 visitors in that situation, and credit karma lied to them, then they should expect to get 66% (based on the actual approval figures from the FTC) successful conversions (ie. profit).
> I think they've grown, but it was a one-man company for a long time.

Say what? From day one it wasn’t a one-man company, they had multiple founders from the beginning.
> wouldn't be surprised to find that 90% is actually very close to reality

I’d be blown away if this is the case. Credit models are carefully guarded. They’re also expensive to run. If Credit Karma could approximate the pricey model with open-source data, they’d have been bought by a bank, not a tax company.
Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme and even if it weren't, the technology crushes itself under its own weight.
It's not NSFW (as far as I know). It's far worse. It seems to be a web forum that's into harassing minorities, sometimes to the point of suicide. Worse, it may be harassment with the intent of causing suicide. It's appalling.
Perhaps because you suggest that the areas OP is referring to have near zero population when clearly that is not the case.
A huge number of people are about to lose electricity at precisely the time they most need it, should they need to flee in an EV. Lack of electricity is not a rare occurrence.
> How does that generate huge amounts of e-waste?

I've bought three different docks for my laptop. Only the third actually works at all, and only with the laptop I since replaced.

I'm not going to bother with my new one.
ObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/
there is definitely software to help with pgp on ANY tablet, phone, or PC your friends and family have access to. The universal problem is no one cares to encrypt except a few computer nerds, spooks, and journalists.
Hi, is this still active? I'm looking to mess around with one of these. I'm particularly interested in programming some specific weather Services, like telling me the next time rain is forecasted.

I see you mention weather in the README under Services, but it is not listed as a current service module. Is that something you need help with?
RFC 2142: Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions
Actually many companies will adjust salary if/when they bring you to the USA (usually, not initially to the same level as an equivalent American worker).
> I don’t think there’s a way to learn it aside from millennia of multi agent survival competition.

i think that millienia of multi agent survival competition in a sufficiently high fidelity world will you get there, and certainly all our best evidence indicates that's where we come from.

but i really don't think at all that precludes any drastically effective shortcuts being taken by beings whom are capable of introspection to guide an engineering effort.
protonmail also has nice tools for it if you use them. I suspect tutanota probably does as well.
I vaguely recall seeing in Linode docs that Linode itself blocks outgoing mail, unless you contact them to arrange for them not to.
Is that something like erasing an EEPROM with sunlight?

I recall Raspberry PI's had an issue where certain types of flash photography would cause them to shut down :) https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...
Most of that watershed is also theirs. The cities have taken more and more of it.

They can drive the farmers away, that is an option - then they'll have high food prices _and_ drought.
I agree with you, but I think that stack you're using is actively harmful to newcomers at this point.

Something like Maddy is much easier to set up, comes with workable SMTP + IMAP, saves to object storage.

If you pair maddy with Thunderbird/Outlook/Mail/whatever else, I think we can actually get new people self-hosting without getting discouraged.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the earlier comment as a recommendation -- it's just a statement of fact.
This needs a little more explanation. I can't get chocolate from the current headline ...
TikTok appears to have been breached
Unconfirmed at this point - more info: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1566565409939427328?s=21...
> Do you really need someone to spell out to you why being able to create realistic-looking porn of anyone might lead to some issues...?

Yes. I honestly have no

> What an absolutely wild take. Do you expect this line of thinking to be convincing when you're comparing AI-generated images to what someone can whip together in MS Paint? Come on. You, me, and everyone else reading here knows that's not even close to a valid comparison.

Wild or not, my point stands. With minimal skills, you can photoshop anyone's face on any pornographic image out there. It's a spot on comparison.
It is dangerous to assume that everyone lives in a house with a roof, or that they are free to reconfigure thier home's electrical systems. I certainly cannot.
I'm not a zoomer.

I don't think it's as lopsided as you think. I think HN has a very strong, and fairly rigid, view on free speech.

And I think a much larger % than you imply see a grey area that is causing real, physical IRL harm.

It's hard to write down what I'm talking about. But it's pretty easy to see it.

Bullying has always caused physical harm. Both the kinetic type of pushing and this transitive type we are talking about.
After working at a few startups and going through some failed ones that went down in unpleasant ways I started asking startup interviewers, when interviewed by a founder or someone else with a high stake in it: "how would you deal with your startup failing".

I will never forget the time one of them (the founder of the company) told me he would commit suicide. Let's just say that neither of us wanted to continue that interview series any further.
Right, but "XYZ Alfalfa Farm is going under because it can't get enough water" is a lot different from "Phoenix is without water". It's different in terms of economic impact, and it's different in terms of number of people affected.
I worked in an industry where we were required to use a bunch of euphemisms throughout our internal documents for just this reason - if we were investigated by the government, all of those documents would be evidence and using words like “war room” would be used as proof of (channeling the DOJ press release team) “anti-competitive actions akin to a war where the enemy would be destroyed, and the defendant would have a monopoly”.

So instead we used “team room”. The work never changed, just what we called it.
past discussion (I think from author's own show hn) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113635

I agree with past comments that diff is far more useful and this makes it harder to identify changes. So then this is more of a fun tool than a useful tool. But at least it's fun!
It's a choice by management,but it's an obvious choice.

We should not expect everyone to be a horrible person, only motivated by profit, but we also should not expect people to act against their own interests all the time.
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> there’s no moral failing,

Sorry, but this logic needs to stop. If a company is selling a product online for a fixed cost to an entire region then the people who contribute to that product that do the same thing should be paid the same amount. That is, indeed, a moral failing.

If a company wants to pay workers less based on where they live then their product should be similarly cheaper. We just don't see this though.
> ensure their essential electric devices remain fully charged and that their vehicles have full tanks of gas — since gas stations rely on electricity.

They could also advise that "your EV batteries remain fully charged since EV charging stations rely on electricity."
> Small cost per email like 0.01 cents that is trivial for legitimate senders but not for bulk-sending spammers

Given how much is spent on ads, I’d say that an email is still worth more than that. So, what you get is spammers paying minuscole amount of money to skip the spam filter and killing the idea at the root.

Or they can simply steal these credentials from one of the millions of hacked sites and cause additional trouble to them.
Offhand, an understanding of the assembly and internal mechanics of a product from having built it would make me feel like I would be be more likely to be able to fix it if required.
Not just online too.

I think that's missed on a lot of these threads.

One of the more chilling is that after chasing someone out of their own home and into hiding, they tracked them down and someone posted a photo standing outside of their hotel.

Not so much reddit a AMA verification, more like a hostage situation.
I agree. I have worked on compensating by engaging more in other social settings like the gym and church.
This isn't true. Brotli compression speed is similar to Zstd at comparable compression ratios.

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/?dataset=...

Perhaps, this common misunderstanding is due to the fact the slowest level (-11) is the default one in the brotli command line utility?

It's also faster than gzip, and gzip was used for "just in time" compression on the web for ages, so I don't see how brotli can be a problem for this use case. (I assume by "encrypt" you mean "compress".)
TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams
I'm sober and making social connections plenty fine
This is routinely necessary in my area and line of work.
700k people per year in the US die from heart disease. There are ~18k surgeons (of all kinds) in the US. So even if 10% of them were cardiac surgeons, each surgeon has one person dying per day to worry about. They're busy.

Heart surgeries often happen on actively beating hearts. Tiny mistakes mean death. Infections mean death. Its a muscle which never gets rest, the majority of people in the US have clogged arteries and high blood pressure by the time they die.

Theres no artificial shortage. Heart surgery is really hard. Its the third hardest kind of surgery, right behind brains and rockets.
Thank you for penning this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. P.S: It’s all true.
Computer Hacker, voting rights activist bought stolen election machine on eBay
Ask HN: Can any startup go public?
With the rise of GoFundMe and blockchain based ICOs it got me thinking, could you skip all VC steps and attempt to grow a small startup as a public company by expecting to generate capital by selling shares overtime?

Like a GoFundMe where you announce your intentions to build a product, the early backers would be those who bought your stock helping the price to rise.

The company would need to stock split and regularly sell more shares during it's years of growth.
I've been in situations in an ICE where I've been diverted and had no clue where the next gas station would be (not really uncommon in Nevada or California). Heck, I've been on an actual interstate through Kansas in the middle of the night and...I had trouble finding an open gas station for our car (bad planning on my part, I thought 40 miles of range was surely enough to find the next one, I never saw gas stations close at night before!).
One way to think about it is as a question of microeconomics.

There are only so many works by Picasso; the supply is a small finite number. As long as demand for Picasso works stays stable, the price should stay stable.

As for works by AI, the supply is effectively infinite, but the demand is finite, so the price for most of it will be low. (Some clever marketing people will figure out how to make a lot of money on a small number of AI-generated works, but the price of those works will be due more to the clever marketing than rarity. The recent NFT-art bubble is a good example.)
We have a $400 (when on sale) ebike, it came with a shelf, a basket or panniers cost us $30. This is enough for a few days of groceries, or to get to work

We live between 2 minor state highways (4, 6 lanes) but the grocery is the in-between for us where roads have speed bumps to discourage through use.

We can go grocery shopping at 2 different grocery stores, we're a quick bike away from a light rail station.

We don't ride on sidewalks.

We live near Atlanta, in an area where 8/10 would say it's too dangerous to bike.
Pertinent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect.
Presumably, that function would be a compiler error like this.

Unless your program can prove, that the function is only ever called with arguments that don't hit UB.
Hi! We're idiots, and just built a house without paying extra for the automatic window openers.

In fairness, said openers wouldn't be able to talk to our proprietary thermostat.

The heat pump we bought is great, though.
No...it isn't the only sane choice. If it works for you, great. Forunately for Internet freedom, there many of us small timers left who have no issues hosting our own email.
You need to ask yourself why the company hired you in the first place. You might perceive yourself to be an equal, but as shitty as it is, most likely the company and your colleagues do not. They should, but they probably don't. The company looked overseas to hire you in the first place solely because you were cheap labor. If you were not willing to work for cheap, they would not have hired you at all, they would have hired a local instead or found someone else overseas who would work for much less. That's the unfortunate reality - it's not about you as an individual, it's not about what you do, it's about what you are to them - cheap labor.

Ask yourself, if the roles were reversed, why would you want to hire someone from the United States to work for your business wherever you are based? You'd probably prefer to hire locally. The only reason you'd start looking abroad is if there was some value in doing so, and that might be for cheap labor, or it might be that when selling product overseas you want a person local to that area selling to the people of that area because they might be more successful at selling than a foreigner.
Unionise or quit
Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
Hi all
I am an engineer/part-time photographer that works a lot with photo/video editing, and at the same time, have a couple of active Mobile Apps as side projects going on. My previous Mac from 2015 is showing sings of slow death and I wanted to jump onto Apple Silicon.

Wanted to see if 16GB is enough for me or would it be better to get a 32GB RAM instead. My idea is to keep it for at least 3-4 years from now. My use case is: Photoshop, some photo editing, video processing, and then, Mobile game development (Android mainly), maybe some work with Docker (running 5-6 containers simultaneously) while having other tools like Android Studio, Zoom, Brave and Edge Browsers with 20 tabs each, etc. open

Thanks a lot for the help!
This was the case when Google launched their TPU as well. Look where they are now
I don't think anyone in this thread is denying this.
Reading this, as it's just a stylized lowercase 's' - it seems to me like it would have been more appropriate as a font ligature than a dedicated codepoint?
Honestly I don't have any issues with this. Most of my team is in Europe and I'm in America so even before COVID and WFH became the norm, I was still talking to people via Slack, Teams, etc.

I think the best advice I can give is to reach out to people and have normal conversations when you don't need anything. If you only talk to people when you need something from them, they are going to be less likely to talk about things that they have going on outside of work. Talk about anything that they are interested in. Plus the beauty of messaging apps is that people can respond when they have time and if they are busy they can ignore the messages.

Also if you get some downtime in meetings or join early, ask how things are going, what the weather is like, or if they have any weekend plans. There usually is a bit of time before or after meetings where you can still socialize.
View source reveals that the home page is made with Bootstrap.
Right and the opposite of "Not Invented Here" can be layers upon layers of magical abstraction that nobody understands.
nobody wants rich remote-working assholes in their town
I've been using C++ on and off since the 90s (borland C++ 5 times) Tried rust at initial release. Read a csv file line by line, split each line read (because I couldn't find any streams), converted to numbers and calculated some stats. Never again. What rust feels like: you are riding a bike, but it has six safety wheels instead of any normal wheels.
> The reasons they've given me are weak and I want to debunk them.

Debunking them on HN is pointless.

The only way to debunk them is to find a job that will pay you what you think you are worth.

At least now you know the pay scales and should have an idea for what you are worth based on the work you can deliver.
If an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.
Not true. You can just buy a bigger heat pump if you don't want to spring for insulation.

There is a question around time to pay off though. If you run it one day a year, you may as well buy the cheapest possible thing.
Yes. But I didn't like working in the office and I am introvert. I dislike taking public transportation to work. They were always late. On the other hand, I work late night talking to India teams. Overall, I enjoy working from home and the freedom that comes with it.
> Can the French or British find things to admire about the Romans?

The statute of limitations have passed on those crimes since they took place in Antiquity.

> First, the article does plenty of throat clearing about those issues.

Please, he's practically drooling:

> While not quite Google cafeteria, the lunches and dinners served were exquisite! Free breakfasts in London, and on-site cooks (English, Portuguese and Indian) in factories, with plenty of alcohol to go around.

> If that’s not enough, if you were a senior officer you got a pretty great stipend to spend on entertaining others.

> Also, they had an incredibly sexy headquarter to work in (marble bas-reliefs, pipe organ of a tiger devouring a European and jewel-encrusted gold throne of the Sultan of Mysore Tipu). Even the warehouses were elegant and stylish in the City.
Thats why I like the 2/3 split. No commute on Mon/Fri, but still get the social interaction mid week.
In my opinion TBL has lost all credibility after the encrypted media extensions debacle. This pays lip service to privacy but given he has put corporate interests ahead of individuals before I would not trust it. I suspect it is some kind of poisoned chalice.
I can’t believe it, there is already a checkbox for “weird new form of money”.

I feel a little bit bad for dismissing the solution… but not very bad.

If low-cost microtransactions were viable, we could do many interesting things. For some reason cryptocurrency is often conflated with microtransactions. Yeah yeah Lightning Network blah blah, but I haven’t heard of anything that could scale to 300 billion emails per day.
Can you afford 32? Get 32... or 64... more ram is always better.
The loss of cognitive overhead of dealing with a physical workspace with distractions abound has to be countered with a new cognitive overhead – putting initiative forward in reaching out to coworkers, setting up regular 1:1s to just chat. While the conversations may initially feel forced (because they are indeed artificial), once camaraderie is built, it feels as natural as an office chat.
That is VERY interesting. Complying with this is probably a bigger headache than the fine.
(I like that you (re)read and quoted his longer quote :-))
I can pick any ISP today, including Dreamhost, and have clean email reputation and sending ability with FAANG and Microsoft in less than 30 days.
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I like the idea of having amazing, company funded offsites on a quarterly basis, and informal events such as company funded happy hours and dinners. I don't really miss the feeling of being next to other people working at a computer while I am working at a computer. Being in a conference room is alright, although I think a lot of us appreciate the ability to multi-task a little bit better while doing remote team meetings.
I am in Tokyo, working for an SF-based startup, and am making $180K/year. Translated into yen, it's about 2 or 2.5 times the amount I could hope to get locally. Full disclosure: I have no university degree, and am not a guru/superstar/10x engineer. I am intermediate-senior and competent, no more.
From "self assebled box" to "managers own idea", thats quite a jump.

There are lots of reasons why people push their own solutions. To stake a claim of expertise in an area, the need to impress peers and reports, genuine ignorance of other solutions...