skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not like cats could follow instructions if they wanted to but they just don't want to

You can teach your cat to use the toilet, come when you call its name, roll and jump. They can even open doors which requires understanding how a door knob/rail system behaves. We had a cat that would follow us everywhere even if we went for a walk outside the house for several miles.

Additionally, cats are not nurtured like puppies are. There are considerable amounts of information and know-how from breeders on how to socialize puppies to develop their ability to follow instructions and respect their master. Kittens on the other hand are mostly raised in small cages in pet shops and treated as glorified hamsters that can jump high and purr. Going further, canines are pack animals which are naturally predisposed to work with others and understand complex hierarchies. Felines are mostly solitary and only really get in groups during mating season.

Another counter-example (unrelated to cats) are birds. Birds are incredibly intelligent, they can learn to solve puzzles, talk, and answer to their name. Yet if you ever get a budgie (or similar) you'll notice that your animal seems dumb as a rock. That's because birds require a lot of work in order to learn those tricks because they are naturally distrustful of humans. If you put ~1hr a day on training your budgie as you would with a young pup, you would see incredible improvements.

As a final note, I would concede that a cat's intellect is no match to a dog's, but using "follow instructions" as a metric to define intelligence and concluding "cat are dumb" is an oversimplification.
If you release the CO2 into the atmosphere, it doesn't really reduce emissions. However, because miners can harness the energy in a profitable way, they could afford to sequester or scrub the CO2. That would make oil and gas companies look a little greener, which is even more of an incentive. I believe some miners are doing this already.
good. America answers to no one save herself.
And then what? If you care more about compliance than the employee, you fire them and they do the same thing somewhere else a month later.
If one of the ten bosses fires you, no big deal. This is the essence of self employment, not having a single source of failure in your income stream.
You can active filters in ublock origin that blocks cookie banners. I think the one I'm using is "Fanboy’s Annoyance".
On the 'more animated' side of things : https://hypertools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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different visual demonstrations : https://www.datavis.ca/gallery/delights.php

Edward Tufte has looked at various ways to present data : https://www.amazon.com/Edward-R-Tufte/e/B000APET3Y/ref=aufs_... / https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

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Make the quantum leap and use fennman diagrams to construct the network ( https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/arkani-hamed-oconnell-feynman... )

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So, could take the idea of scatter plot matrix in https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/Publications/sorting.pdf

and use the various plots to literally build a picture as represented in Excel cells as "picture" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I

and

https://jpg.space/mmmatto/exhibition/Mathcastles-%3E-Sandcas...

Hypercastle explorer for terraforms : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jD6F_6_Yak

Although, that kind of starts to get into coding. ;)

https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/48/4/375/45993/...

http://lightpattern.info/

https://esolangs.org/wiki/ObjectArt

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

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Obligitory HN 'lisp' link : https://web.archive.org/web/20110504131632/http://sas.uwater...
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> Just to be employable I have to have strong, deep expertise in Terraform, about 30 AWS services, Ansible, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and at least 5 different CI/CD systems

Couldn't you ramp up in another area of tech? There are many software engineering paths and jobs that don't require expertise in the things you mention.
You are not going to get good compression reinterpreting a 32-bit float as if the bits were an integer.
Show HN: Client-side PythonFiddle using x86-to-WebAssembly JIT (CheerpX)
Sending an email on vacation is one thing. Setting up residency is something else entirely.
Yes, of course. You'd want to claim that you're in the same state/country but live 200 miles away from company offices.
How to substantially slow down your Node.js server
My point still stands. Behind many a crackpot on Kensington Ave are well-meaning "good" Parents.

Shrieking children for hours is very much a modern phenomenon.
Only if you consider the pure $ value. US colleagues that have come to Australia, have gotten sick and um-ed and ah-ed about visiting the doctor because they are so used to the high costs.

If I even notice something weird that freaks me out I go to the doctor. Mental health care, physiotherapy, certain tests and imaging. You get a yearly allocation to use up. GP visits are all "free". I never have to worry about it and I don't want the less fortunate to worry about it either. I would never want to live in the US. I cannot imagine how much extra stress and anxiety I would have without that layer of support.
It’s moved the participation mainstream for sure. No longer do people need to hoard electronics and build asics.

The power dynamics were always there, though, just obscured by additional requirements of some level of technical competence.
Alexa’s generic model is incredibly close to Google Search.

You input a full phrase and the search is processed, trying to guess what you exactly meant. Alexa apps only get more latitude by allowing series of phrases.

But looking at Google Search, we see that even with all the money research and devs in the world that model stays fundamentally limited and only properly works for the simplest tasks.

Beyond that you’d need precise feedback on what Alexa is doing, and ability to micro adjust accordingly. Like when talking to someone and adjusting our sentences mid-speech as we realize the person in front of us isn’t properly understanding what we’re saying.
I suspect that causality might run the other way. The sort of .NET developers that bothers to really learn F# tend to be among the very best .NET developers, and would probably be earning basically the same no matter what language they develop in.
They can make a healthy return even if the company isn't sold off and gutted in an acquisition.
Ya it’s kind of sad but those are the descriptions we pull about the companies from the public web. Agree that they sound like businesses generated by AI. Actually AI could probably do better these days
Remove TATA, now what is the median?
I personally know people who were successfully mining crypto using GPUs in the last couple of years. If it was Bitcoin, Ethereum or Doge, I don't know and it doesn't matter to me. As soon as the crypto prices came down this year, they sold their GPU collection. So saying that miners used only ASICs is not true.

Yes, there was a semiconductor shortage, but miners made the situation worse for others because they each used tens of GPUs instead of just one as a normal person would for gaming or graphics work.
The problem is that competition in chess, in games, has always been for the sake of the game itself and the fun in playing it. 'game playing' is its own reward, there is no other entity interested in paying for results of chess games, even 'interesting' chess games. If there was, you could setup instances of Stockfish to play against each other and dominate that market.

This is not true of the artist market. While yes, many artists get into it for the fun/satisfaction of producing their own artworks, the reason that they can remain in it long term is that there are other entities in paying for the results of their work. See: game studios, film studios, etc. Before AI, the only way to get the assets for these various projects produced was by paying artists/experts for their work. Now, the production of those building blocks can be automated.
I don't disagree, but I was in a situation recently where I needed to WFH from another state for family reasons. I was very honest with my employer about what was happening and why, and gave it plenty of notice.

The company wouldn't allow it, for very understandable tax reasons. But my family is more important to me than any company. That's the way human beings are supposed to live their lives.

I ended up resigning. The week before I moved, my boss left me a voice mail asking if I could hold off on my job search because the previous-inflexible directors of the company were going to try to work something out. Eventually they did, and now allow anyone in certain positions to work remotely.

It turned out that the company had lost several other employees in the previous weeks over remote work, and based on the long list of open positions on the company's web site, it's having trouble replacing people.

This is the only time in my life when a good number of employees have had more sway over their jobs than their bosses. It's good to see people everywhere taking advantage of this (in a good way), and leveling the playing field with their companies.

Employment is a two-way street. It's not servitude. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to alter society in a way that favors people over profit.
I like this: changing photo/display name puts them in the checkmark verification queue. Also, turnaround time is a minimum of 72 hours. Until then, the previous details are displayed.
>That should absolutely not apply to Discord, Google Mail, or Amazon AWS, because those are all private companies restricting the use of their private property.

That's not some law of physics. Just a man made law that game them those "use of their private proverty" rights (or rather, rich and powerful people lobbied and bought legislation, and got them for themselves).

We can take them back. And we can also stop treating them as legal "persons" while we're at it.

>You may call them "public spaces" or "public services" but that is an abuse of the word "public".

Public in the legal sense is just what we deem public in the legal sense.

As for public in the dictionary sense, that's irrelevant here.

Besides, after offering a service used by millions, that's basically a public service (I mean in the dictionary sense: directed at a mass public) - and even legal scholars have argued that they function as a kind of public utility (and could/should be regulated as such).

If we're to take it even further, then it's also a historical fact that all countries, including the USA, have nationalized companies (made some private companies public the same way public libraries are, either entirely or in part - e.g. having the state be shareholders of large part of them). So it's not like it's some unprecedent thing.

https://thenextsystem.org/history-of-nationalization-in-the-....
That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be manually curated?
A mining GPU is running 24/7, the GPU of the heaviest-usage gamer will be maybe a quarter of that, with the vast majority of actual gaming use cases being far below that. Nowhere near equivalent.
> Blocks can be completely full or utterly empty and still use the amount of power.

It has been steady around 1500 tx/block for years.

> You're also missing the point of the power consumption. Its not used to move capital from one person to another, its used to secure the network from attacks and preserve its integrity.

I'm not. That's a completely insane amount of money to pay for that service. It's totally unnecessary.

> Stats like the one you quoted don't take into account the number of Lightning network transactions happening off-chain but is secured by a past on-chain transaction.

They don't have to. All those techniques are equally applicable to POW, but POW doesn't spend $18 million daily on electricity to do it.

> Secondly, if oil and gas companies could profitably monetize flared methane, they would have already.

Oil and gas companies sell oil and gas, not electricity. Bitcoin miners are not running methane gas turbines. Electricity companies are.
Write more filters for uBlock Origin and unbreak the web?

e.g. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
* (we'll monetize your data instead, keeping the extension free to use)
Please go ahead and profit off the exhaustion and desperation of others.
What would "stop it" look like though? The abolition of gender expression? That's far more radical than anything you'll find in... anything but definitely butler's work.

She's more establishing a technical framework of understanding how gender comes to mean what it does and reproduce that meaning over time.
There has been some work on the topic, for instance https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/765.pdf

But the main issue in provable security is that you're trying to prove real world things with math, and so far we're quite bad at it. The more mathematical the thing you want to prove is, the better.
I think I particularly like this film because it is a highly structured story around feelings that can be illogical. The Green Ray is an improvised film, so the polar opposite in a way!
They're degrees of the same thing. In my experience companies don't want to know about it if at all possible.

In some cases working on a vacation is a more serious issue - I have heard stories of employees remote working from sanctioned countries and employers finding out after the fact.
Seems like a VPN with extra steps? It allows me to travel but I also have to have an apartment in the place "I'm supposed to be" to leave a little box plugged in?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...
Anon account. I've seen salaries continue to climb. My base salary over the last 4 years:

2022: $165k

2021: $150k

2020: $145k

2019: $135k

20 years experience, non-FAANG, no college degree, LCOL town about 90 minutes outside of Atlanta. I've been remote for 10+ years and only apply to companies that know I'm not willing to go into the office. I changed jobs in 2019 and 2022. I do front end .net work.
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The obvious difference is it's permissionless and global - this may surprise a lot of US citizens on this site but it's actually really hard to buy and hold shares in US companies today even in many developed countries, let alone the developing world.

NFT projects have demonstrated new forms of monetization that don't need ads or all users to pay, we can now experiment with these now that we have a value layer for the internet.
Correct, requires CPU power.
It's the employee's responsibility to maintain a current W-4 to indicate their tax withholding, unemployment insurance obligations, and local liabilities. Employers who try to police this more than requiring employees to maintain up to date W-4 are just opening themselves up to liability they otherwise wouldn't need to suffer.
Twitter shareholders have approved the $44B sale to Elon Musk
I think the problem with VC that GP means is more a systemic one - it's not specific or even applicable to Figma, but for other large VC projects.

It's fine if a company like Figma takes VC to build a good product that fills a niche that hasn't been explored before and uses the VC to grow and eventually exit to the general public market so that the investors get their return.

It's not fine if larger companies like Adobe can simply swoop in and pay billions to get rid of a competitor, although that one should be dealt with by anti-trust agencies anyway.

It's not fine if a company like Uber uses cheap VC money to price-dump against essential services - and yes, taxis are essential for those without a car, and the anti-discrimination frameworks make sure that access to them is fairly available to everyone, no matter why they would need a taxi for. Uber, in contrast, routinely got associated with everything from wage dumping over racism [1] to extorting people with excessive surge charges [2].

It's not fine if a company like AirBnB uses cheap VC money to wreak havoc on local rental markets [3][4] or to run effectively hotel-like operations in residential zones, while conveniently ignoring things such as fire codes [5], neighbors' quality of life [6], taxes [7] or that people (both guests and hosts) were and are randomly banned for "background checks" [8][9], a return of ages-old banned housing discrimination.

Society definitely needs a hard regulation on anything where VC is involved.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-find-racial-discrimin...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

[3] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ferienwohnungen-stehen-le...

[4] https://travelnoire.com/the-airbnb-effect-on-an-already-high...

[5] https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-medi...

[6] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/living-next-to-airbnb-sharin...

[7] https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/airbnb-...

[8] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/spotlight/201...

[9] https://www.airbnbhell.com/banned-from-airbnb-over-backgroun...
Could be cool if the RDBMS A B tested their plans, if the new plan isn't better don't switch to it. Though that would certainly add to the Black Magic of it, maybe a command to show the dev the top 5 plans and allow them to pick and pin.
This is just wrong. My cats can operate light switches, open doors, recognize patterns, etc. They know the difference between me going to bed and me going to the bathroom. They'll know when I'm in my office. They'll demonstrate awareness of basic commands, etc. They have preferred people. One of our cats absolutely adores me. There is a very clear difference in how he treats each member of the family.

The thing I've heard is that cats are more like humans, in that cats operate on consent. Cats have to want the thing you are offering and they will make their desires known. They are conditional.

If you want worship, get a dog. If you want a low maintenance roommate/pal, get a cat.
Same here. Still logged in through Firefox, but can't login through Chrome anymore. Exact same computer, exact same IP address. I contacted support and they refused to help me, quote:

> I just checked with my team, and upon review of your account, it appears that our detection system has triggered successfully and we will not be removing the phone verification requirement on your account. You'll be required to register a phone number to your Discord account in order to continue the use of it.

This is *after* I explained that I'm still logged in and can fully use Discord in another browser without registering a phone number.

I tried to also get an answer as to whether I'll be locked out of my account if I log out of my account in Firefox, but they didn't tell me.
Yeah, an easy solution to all these things is “find a uniformly random source that outputs in a range larger but close to what you want and then try again if it’s outside your range.

And indeed this is how Python does it

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e37ac5fbb6de593521cf2...

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e37ac5fbb6de593521cf2...
Employees perform the behaviors you incentivize. H&M can have an official policy that disagrees, but if their employees are incentivized not to comply, then they won't, and that's H&M's fault.

See also: Wells Fargo; Amazon
>That should absolutely not apply to Discord, Google Mail, or Amazon AWS, because those are all private companies restricting the use of their private property.

We don't live in a libertarian utopia where private property is not regulated. If you're a store-owner, for example, there are some things you simply cannot do or must allow. In California, for example, a private space, like a mall, has to allow constitutionally protected speech[1].

You can regulate platforms to allow for, say, free speech rights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

"under the California Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers"
Perhaps you misunderstand that Figma was motivated to create value. A large part of the motivation for many startups is an exit plan wherein they get bought out by established competitors.

If you prevent such purchases, you eliminate a major factor in creating the value to begin with.
Where did the anal beads theory come from? Is there precedence for this?
Well... this is kind of a problem with category theory, isn't it? Almost every can be categorified (which, I know, is insanely popular these days). But outside of pure mathematics I'm having trouble seeing why such a categorification is really useful. Yes, it can be nice, but it often seems more like linguistic exercise than providing crucial insight.
As far as I can tell this doesn't support transactions, which imho is table stakes for a persistence solution in 2022.
i can't remember who said it, but its been claimed java isn't even an oop: its more class oriented programming...

i.e your not really dealing with objects all the time like in smalltalk but just "blueprints" that are a far shadow of what things should be (if i remember the claim correctly)
this is seriously sad. It is so hard to build a great product, and so easy to f things up. Given Adobe track record, there is litterally more chances to see things going south for figma
In the US we generally tax based on where you live, not where you temporarily reside. Federally if you're a US citizen you're welcome to live anywhere you'd like but the IRS will still require their payment.

States are usually based around where you are more than half the year. But that's likely simple to show. If you're actually not there they don't have much of a complaint.
And this is how democracy dies.
This is not correct. There will almost certainly be a second request issued by the FTC or DOJ in this matter, and my guess is that it will almost certainly get challenged by one of those agencies. [1] In building their case, the agencies will reach out to users and competitors of the companies. Adobe and Figma know that this merger will certainly be contentious on antitrust issues, and I bet there is a large breakup fee that Adobe would have to pay for Figma if the merger was blocked for this reason.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Exactly this. So many software engineers think it's an easy life in the trades or in the physical work. It pops up on here all the time, self-loathing SWEs come on in and say how terrible their manager is and how oppressive agile is. I'll be a crane operator!, they say. They make 220k! some guy told me that!

Then you tell them the realities of working in a trade. They have no seniority and get night turn. Then you tell them to make that money you need atleast 20+ hours of overtime a week. Oh, and if there's a union, you aren't getting that OT because someone with more seniority is getting it first. Then you tell them they'll be lifting and moving objects and their knees will be in significant pain by the time their 40. They'll be working in un-air conditioned facilities. That alone will eliminate most of them.

The fact is too these outliers always pop up on here. "I know a plumber that makes xxx,xxx!!!" but those are few and far between, many are business owners. The numbers don't lie. The median annual wage is 62,240 for crane operators. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes537021.htm
These are relatively easy to build and can be used for a variety of tasks like Entity Resolution, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32825679
Have a look at ph7

https://symisc.net/downloads/ph7_intro.c
Wow!

Bitcoin, your turn!
I'm not a regular Windows users, but I believe Windows has lots of other ways to get people's attention, other than stealing it. Isn't that what the icon tray is for? Or blinking the program in the task bar?
"Always has been."

(Also: the threat of product pivots or discontinuations.)