skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a guess but: I suspect a bit that foot thing might be to lower fractions of NSFW parts in an image for otherwise SFW websites(e.g. Twitter), and also to appease older demographic because it is often argued that fetish move downwards as people ages. "Step sibling" is just a successor to "teen" and "schoolgirl" for ban avoidance. There are chances that a successor will appear in 3-5 years and my instinct says it could be a nationality tag.

> because convergence is essentially the goal of data driven production in the first place.

But what comes after an ultimate convergence - let's say, a 3:45 minutes long .mp4 file of an incomprehensible psychedelic rainbow mosaic that cause a strong euphoria to any singular entity of a primate species born in or before 2022 - will audiences not adapt to it? And when they consume the stimuli, how does the convergence sustain? There will have to be a change of trend, and a novel oddity to be normalized will have to be brought in from outside the industry, I think.
Another commenter [0] highlighted the answer to this.

Crash testing isn't just crashing into barriers, it also tests automatic emergency braking. For crash testing, they could give a software build that's more sensitive to seeing pedestrians and bicycles, but not use that build in customer cars because it's prone to false positives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837954
Saying as a blanket statement “white people are privileged” is racist af :)
Why would they hit minorities harder? What does race have to do with that?
Really? We might be working in entirely different spheres and cultures, but I tend to look at (recently historical) logs pretty frequently for a bunch of reasons: helping to isolate infrequently encountered and hard to reproduce bugs, tracing individual resources/requests through a bunch of microservices to better understand some unique situation or behaviour, identifying whether a particular code path is actually in use and if so how heavily, etc etc.

They're particularly valuable for production issues. If something has gone wrong and alerts are pinging around, I appreciate the chance to figure out what it was from what the logs are telling me, rather than having to turn the logs on and try to trigger the same problem again deliberately in a production environment!

Edit: just realised who I was replying to. Netflix and Reddit might be very different environments with very different reliability requirements to a lot of other types of software.
In terms of number of companies announcing and the relative sizes of the layoffs, these are still early days if the economy goes where it looks like it's going. These layoffs are still shedding the excess hiring these companies did during the pandemic. They haven't started cutting into muscle yet.
For what it's worth, fifty bucks solved my Linux photoprinter driver problem (Canon Pro100). [1]

I bought Turboprint. https://www.turboprint.info/

To me, it is the shortcut that will save endless searching for something that doesn't exist.

My free all Linux based solution was driverless printing, but it has limitations.

My non-Linux exclusive solution was an old Thinkpad running windows and SD card sneakernet. That was the simplest thing that might work so I tried it first.

Good luck.

[1] Well mostly solved it...I mean it solved all the important issues with a color managed workflow. At the scale of color managed workflows, $50 is about rounding error on X-rite gear...or even Datacolor gear. Never mind if you price your time.
> That's not the whole story. When Bitcoin started it was used more as a currency than it is now.

I still reflexively think of bitcoin primarily as the way you buy abstract board games from Spanish libertarians, because of https://nestorgames.com/
Indeed, it prefers "current" Java (17ish). I'm pretty sure you can't build NB on Java8 any more.
Cereal and butter. A box of cereal is $7+ now, whereas it was $4 not long ago. A pack of butter was $2.50 and now close to $5.
Rust: Safe borrowing across FFI with Diplomat
Back in the day I thought Netbeans rocked! Instead of the Lego-like assembly of plugins in Eclipse you got something that worked right out of the box (we're talking a 10-15 years ago and focused on Java/JEE/JSF).
You have experience in languages that have relatively limited hiring pools. My advice would be to look for full-time roles that need help in these languages, email the hiring manager/company, and offer your services part-time or on a contract basis. I would bet a lot of them would be happy to get someone in the role quickly than have no one at all. Good luck.

<shameless plug>
I saw the same problems with part-time/contract work and I'm in the process of building a job board specifically catered towards this. I have many startups lined up based on some of my writing on https://parttimetech.substack.com/. Hope to get the job board up shortly. Check it out if interested. </shameless plug >

A few related insights (some you've already mentioned):

* existing job boards are not built for this

* there is actually a pretty wide range of what contract/part-time work could look like. my hope is to help companies explore this a bit further to create better outcomes for employers and employees

* employers need help seeing when contract/part-time work is actually the right tool for the job. i hope to emphasize this more in future posts. most just don't think of it as an option.
> They'll probably notice it when they reconcile accounts for SEC reporting, starting Oct 1.

$250k is rounding error territory at such a large organization. Not only that but the person in question is registered to receive bug bounties worth... $250k.

So no, I don't think they'd think twice about it when it comes time to reconcile the books.
Ethereum Gateway Support for Görli and Sepolia Testnets and the Ethereum Merge
You could consider lottery tickets as an OTM option expiring in a week with those payoffs, I suppose. If you spread 1% of your portfolio over a year and buy lottery tickets every week, you're effectively losing 1% per year with a very small chance of becoming very rich.

There are probably better places to put your 1% on. ;-)
If there's any silver lining to COVID, it's QR codes being normalized.

I remember trying to use a QR code in 2015 at a crypto meetup so I could buy a beer with Bitcoin (they organized with the bar that they'd get cash at the end if they played ball). After downloading a QR reader app, taking a picture with my phone, uploading the picture to the app, then realizing there was too much glare and trying again, they eventually just gave me a beer and put a tally mark on a notepad.

Just a few weeks ago I used a QR code to join a WiFi network and it took like 2 seconds (it found the network and entered the password for me). We've come a long way.
Most—maybe damn near all—sites see significant dips in traffic for at least a few hours a day. Which part of the day, depends on the site. More often than not, it's while the team is asleep and staffing, if any, is at its lowest point, since teams tend to live roughly in the same ~half of the world that their products are most-used in. Plus there's practically no-one in the Pacific until you reach Japan, and not a ton of "Western" sites see much use in Asia, and vice versa, with a few notable exceptions.

It's not unusual for e.g. ecommerce sites to crank up automated fraud prevention "at night" because staffing is so much lower.

TL;DR Most sites' usage patterns exhibit a pronounced day/night cycle that's not too far off from natural day/night cycles where the bulk of the team lives.
Following. I’m wondering what if I want to go more low level and build basic hardware like, building my own keyboard, or my own auto dosing pump, IoT stuffs. Is EE overkill for those?
That all being said, you can run into the same issue you can run into with _any_ official; if you happen to encounter one of the bad eggs, your entire life can be turned upside down. You get the person as the IRS that decides you were supposed to pay taxes on it and now you owe penalties, and then you can't get anyone to overturn that. Then Google comes and wants its money back, but the IRS has already said you owe taxes and penalties, and bad egg has decided you contradicted him once, you you can go suck an egg.

Yes, in most cases, government agencies will work with you and behave rationally. But one time in <some large number>, things go a different direction. And the people with the power can turn your life into a nightmare without batting an eyelash.

I would get a lawyer, someone that knows how to best protect you from the system.
The peaker plant/base load choice is based on aggregate load though, the power provider has little to no knowledge of what appliances households are using. An electric stove, and realistically anything else that uses electricity, is therefore using one or the other based on the usage pattern of the whole customer base at that time.
It's actually patented by a porn site and YouTube pays them for the licensed use of it
When I had a job with similar “incentives”, my comment to coworkers was that it wasn’t quite a carrot-on-a-stick, it was the promise of a picture of a carrot-on-a-stick.
> 1) this being common practice doesn't make it right

But that just makes Twitter normal - that doesn't deserve congressional hearings, or whistleblowing IMO. Doctor's only briefly talk to patients before moving on, and depend a lot on the file: I don't think that is right - but that's what the American standard of care seems to have settled on. If I were to sue a doctor for malpractice, alleging they'd have made a more accurate diagnosis by spending more time with me, a valid defense for them would be to show that they followed standard practice.

> 2) knowing someone's background, and deeply studying their historical writings, can provide a lot of color when evaluating someone's ethics, or any bias in their actions.

I learned from the New Yorker article that Mudge signed an 7- or 8-million dollar agreement with Twitter earlier this year that had a carve-out in its non-disparagement clause(s) for whistleblowing

That definitely "adds color"
While we take measures to secure and bolster data privacy, it's possible for hosts to be malicious. As a result, you should never run workloads containing sensitive or confidential information on rentaflop. In the future, we may decide to offer a special service that renders your work only on rentaflop-owned hardware.

With that being said, there are plenty of Blender projects that don't have this requirement, and we aim to focus on these types of projects.
Perfectly preventable. Usually the problem is hot-potato management never makes sure the procedures and know-how are well documented.

It's basically the same mentality when they either not backup or they never test the backups are working.
Those examples are isolated incidents and not any indication of a larger risk.
Yes. I dabbled with one a couple of decades ago. I didn't find it to be all that fruitful of a relationship, though, which may be why they have fallen out of favour.
How about getting Tesla banned from China and possibly starting an orbital war that triggers the Kessler syndrome?
UPDATE: After replying to parent, I read further and saw others mentioned XJACK seventeen hours ago, the actual technology the PCMCIA I mention is using.

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> card that sticks out like that

remember PCMCIA cards? back in those good old days of laptops taking a universal expansion card physical format, the Ethernet cards often had a spring loaded pop-out jack to hold the Ethernet cable.

look at the picture for this on wikipedia:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card#/media/File:XJACK_netw...

Framework is simply “doing it wrong”.

// disclaimer: I own the latest Frame.work model, my bias to want their success is strong enough that I bought one
Have there been any reviews about Ninja and gn? Are those comparable to Bazel?
Not to invalidate OP's lived experiences, but they are Brazilian. Trying to extrapolate race and diversity issues in Brazil with those in the US is a bit of an apple to oranges comparison (and vice versa between the US and Brazil imo).

(Disclaimer - I have no opinions on either side in this issue).
Games SHOULD be a solved problem. There is no good reason for us to have to reinvent the wheel over and over. There are compsci white papers that neatly solve all of the big problems games run into.

But games are not a solved problem. There are multiple overlapping reasons why.

One is that gamedevs often just don't do the research. Why would they? The deadlines loom, the milestones have to be delivered, nobody cares if it's a hacky mess right now, surely management will give us time to fix it once they realize that it's broken--but if we don't deliver anything, the publisher cuts our funding.

This overlaps with scheduling and management issues. It turns out that writing good software takes up time[1], and the problem with games in particular is that they don't make money until they're released.

You don't write games like you write business software, where the other company paying for your milestones is the company that's going to use the software; that company usually has a revenue stream even without your software, so they don't have to care as much. For a game, though, there IS no revenue stream until the game launches. Every year that a game is in development without a release is a loss, and that pisses the board of directors right the fuck off, so that means the game needs to be out ASAP.

Because of this, games are often not given enough room in the development schedule to be made correctly. There's no time for research, testing, planning, or any of the other important parts of software engineering--we have to write this code NOW, or it doesn't ship. And if you read that source I linked in the footnote, you'll know that this produces rotten software.

This is compounded by the kind of one-upsmanship that is created by such an environment--leading to a phrase I've heard from friends in other companies: "Very optimistic people who are no longer with the company made this decision". You get into a situation where people made promises to impress the publisher, claiming that they can turn out a game in an impossible timeframe, and that got them fired--but now you're stuck cleaning up the mess, and the publisher has already wasted a lot of money on the years spent thinking it wasn't a mess.

Mix in the siloing of information (because all of this shit is proprietary) and, despite all of the problems being solved on paper, nobody's solved video games.

[1]: https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/
Platforms are all crap, consulting agencies will cut in half your potential profits, recruiters have jobs with terrible rates.

You need to network in person - which is hard, thanks to the BS lockdowns of the last few years.

Try to leverage previous contacts / other contractor friends.
Eg. My current client (which I found via contacts from a previous jobs) pays pretty decent and I'm referring my friends there. Before that I was referred in some nice places by friends.

Networking is everything, don't feed recruiters or contractor resellers.
Celsius-themed game hits market 3 months after Celsius suspends withdrawals
I can’t speak to what their particular “Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens” is, but when I try to be equitable, the point of the exercise is to be aware of potential biases, and avoid them.

It’s not about preferring black employees or hating on white employees. It’s to recognize the dynamics that race might have in your organization that have nothing to do with job performance.

To tie into your anecdote: if a company hires drivers, maybe comparing a black driver and a white driver solely on the number of times they’ve been pulled over, is not an accurate representation of their driving performance. Being aware that someone could potentially need a better performance indicator is part of what this exercise might be.
Call a lawyer, try to keep the money. That's it.
Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (2015)
I think people underestimate how verbal ability develops well into old age. Some of it may carry over across languages but most probably doesn't. If one truly does speak multiple languages with similar proficiency, it's reasonable to assume all of them took a hit. Many make the mistake of comparing themselves against the median with respect to foreign languages, yet they'd never do this with any other ability.
Use teensy instead.

This is a good youtube channel to learn diy synth stuff https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0/videos
I see, it seems like choosing to not reveal your handicap during the interview process is a major challenge to getting the accommodations you want during the hiring process.

Also not sure how google HR could firewall obvious disability from the hiring team if they are at all involved in the interview.
USD is hugely up vs Yen and Euro. You buy anything from overseas recently? USD is hugely strong. USD is up vs the stock market, vs the bond market, vs the overseas bond market, vs overseas stocks.

USD is also up vs Bitcoin.

EDIT: Feel free to look at gold, silver, and other 'inflation hedges' while you're at it. The main thing going up is commodities (oil and food), which is certainly important. But there's more to the world than those two things.
Projection is when you accuse someone of doing something that they haven’t actually done.

What you mean is that they’re being hypocritical.
> Why Should We Measure Engineering Productivity?

I'm still waiting for the answer. It was not addressed in the article.

> [cited as valid reason not to measure:] You can’t afford to change the process/tools right now

I'd argue that cost to change vs cost of not changing is itself often a fluctuating value. Seeing trends there and being able to make estimates/predictions about the costs of tradeoffs is valuable. Especially when trying to change a system.

> The results will be used only as vanity metrics to support something you were going to do anyway

Those are most metrics I've seen. At least the ones that bubble up the management chain, in my non-Googley experience.

I realize it's a really twisted version of Goodhart's Law[1], but I claim metrics should shape human behavior. Any metric you can't respond to is useless. Metrics you will never respond to are useless. Metrics that potentially make you change behavior are meaningful. This was touched on in the article but the actual human behavior aspect seemed buried, to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
That fucking website man. I literally googled the MSG "e number" one time, which is "e621" and in that moment my innocence was ruined.

Is it also surprising that the "booru" websites, which are likely frequented by the most ASD of the ASD inflicted men, would be well cataloged? It is simply what our brains do.
There is this idea of “dual criminality” that makes those examples more fair from the American perspective. For instance emissions tampering is illegal in Europe too, the same of which can not be said for their set of increasingly arcane antitrust rules that are almost overwhelmingly used against American companies.
And yet, for others, it could be a feeling of having the duty to satisfy the demand of many people the same day, or word of mouth, or sometimes people asking to "borrow" you for a quick relief or to "take you for a spin". Again, within the constraints of time, logistics, and energy levels. It can get draining.

Also, for some, it's not necessarily mutually exclusive to having a long, potentially permanent, relationship. It all depends.
The "improved" bar chart looks atrocious. If these are the articles modern designers are reading, its no wonder the state of design is what it is now.
Thank god Twilio laid off those workers so gas prices will finally come down.
Yeah. I'd rather have a deathbed that came really quickly with me remembering a good social life than one in which I'm remembering all the times I almost died but didn't.
Retail for a set like this would be in the $5-6k ballpark, but I am not entirely sure as the market has evolved since then.
If race was considered at all then it’s… racist. Racist and illegal.
Hello, Sql.js-Httpvfs
American here. Tabling to me means putting it on hold and coming back to it later when we have other things figured out.
Based on my experience bloat causes more bloat. People get hired to work on fringe projects/products, those people cause work for other staff that are already at 100% capacity on higher priority work, so additional staff are hired.
The final step of Ethereum's switch to Proof-of-Stake happens in ~12 hours
What evidence do you have that it was because your boss was black? X happened and the target was black doesn't mean X happened BECAUSE the target was black. Did the cop use any sort of racial insult? I can share all kinds of negative interactions I've had and other white friends and family members have had with police for reasons unknown - including with black officers.
are people under the impression that when you're driving down the highway at 75mph, there isn't already a hundred ways you could die?
Needs (2020) annotation.

Any word on if this was ever resolved?
Oh trust me, I did call an attorney for a free consultation. Apparently in my State my chances of keeping the money were slim and he advised me to just return it and move on with life. I figured if even a lawyer doesn't see any money for himself here, then I don't see any either.
And then they got the message loud and clear that most people didn't agree with them and then changed their behavior, like a functioning democratic government should.

Republicans double down on everything unpopular and oust anyone in the party that even tries to bring it back to a reasonable state, like a function authoritarian government should.
Find a "koans" repo you can work through, first of all.

Advent of code after that.

Then, implement a super basic Lisp.
Bitcoin as currency-of-last-resort makes quite some sense to me. More than any other usage for Bitcoin I've seen people selling, anyway.
They didn't have a "Germany in the 1930s" example like we do now, so it's different.
For sure. Reminds me of this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces...

Partly because a lot of us have made good money building platforms that increase buyer power through commodification (most of e-commerce, plenty of other things). And partly because of persistently low standards in the profession that I see little enthusiasm for working together to raise.
Using the whole front is there for some pretty extreme trail braking, more than I put into the front that’s for sure.
I do have a comfortable 1-2 day use period for a rear on my R6, while I kind of squint at the front and figure I better replace it every couple rears I almost never feel it getting used up.

Do you live in the Bay Area? What org do you ride with? I’m with PTT for track days and AFM for racing.
Does this mean Starlink maritime service now works at sea and not just in coastal areas?
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"Idea guys" everywhere salivate over these stories I bet.
Depends on whether you choose the word “racism” within the context of historical and current institutionalized oppression or not.

People on the side of the oppressor often prefer to ignore that context. People on the side of the oppressed cannot.

The few puny efforts to counterbalance centuries of ongoing oppression, obvious discrimination and silent segregation that so enrage us white people with their “unfairness” are a fraction of a drop in an ocean of inequality. If anything I take them as an educational tasting of what the non privileged experience at every step, every minute of their existence.
Hi people, am one of those Pitcher. Ex I'd say.

Feel free to reach out. :)

Thanks Daenney, really appreciate it.