skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of that sounds like a disaster. What's wrong with a defacto slave enjoying their life doing what makes them most satisfied? Doesn't seem all that different from a normal human who works for pleasure, or even an artist who may work without pay but only for personal satisfaction.

You seem to be forgetting that people will get things banned if they're obviously bad. If simulating another person becomes a problem, we'll just write a law for that, same as we already do for fraud. You can sign somebody else's name on a document, you know! s How do banks survive the onslaught of fraud! /s
Reminds me of this classic meme:

https://i.imgur.com/gAtCJFz.jpeg
Phorge: Going Public
Against the law cause if you do this on a bridge, people die.

If a play Civ V and it crashes, I just a bit mad.

I will acknowledge though good engineering practices are important, maybe my perspective of "tolerance" of these bugs when they are isolated is missing the point.
Small point but you don't even necessarily need to compare or analogize the two sides with each other, even with our current historical hindsight we can see the state and organized crime will corroborate and even overlap when there are shared interests.
My exurban Texan neighbors wouldn't be able to post their dog whistles on the neighborhood FB page. Oh! Woe is me!
Agreed. This is why we insist on campaign finance limits and public lists of donors.
See new article just today from the UK where someone wanted to donate $300k to a US election, and did so by funneling it through a lobbying group to obfuscate the foreign source.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-10-chief-of-staff-in-f...
Many-repo is better at places that can’t fund a large infrastructure team, mono-repo is better at places that can.

The natural state of a mono-repo is Twitter-like paralysis, it requires concentrated work to avoid that but that work can make them better than many-repo.
> Currently software developers are often not learning from previous security disasters. I hope that will change in the future.

Current security disasters are typically exclusively financial or social and don't involve the death of those impacted. So, in a certain sense, I hope this doesn't change in the future.
That's my point as well. Twitter's terms of service allow automated users, so I have a hard time seeing how anyone would successfully convince a court that "users" under this law means "humans who write the content on twitter.com and then press a button on the same site to post it."
It’s still great for that exact purpose. Knowing that your SMTP peer is running Windows XP is the strongest spam fighting signal that has ever existed.
Do you really think the average non-technical user will have a clue as to what to do about this hypothetical problem? I don't think that's a credible take.

Consider that this situation isn't like email spam filtering. I can't run a spam filter on the Twitter app on my phone. And if Twitter is not allowed to filter spam, that's it: no spam filtering for Twitter users.
Is it my imagination, or have all Bloomberg (and WSJ, honestly) stories posted to HN lately been of the "Well, actually, Green Technology $X isn't green", or "Any effort to increase equality of decrease inequality only increases them!" or some such. Why are Bloomberg and WSJ so rigid and depressive about change?
Yes, the current title, “Attractive female students get better grades,” is highly misleading. “Attractive students get better grades” would be better.
I guess that is comforting in a way :-)
Your argument starts with an assertion that I don't think is true

"think if you provide a service that basically creates a free public sphere, "

You don't provide any justification for this
The title is incredibly editorialized. The title of the paper is:

>> Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

It considers the effect of attractiveness on male and female students. In fact, it finds the beauty premium persists in online learning for male students but not for female students. I won't speculate as to why the title has been so heavily editorialized, but it seems to have significantly lowered the quality of discussion.
Bad example imo, but your point still stands.

A manager is someone who never does any work, therefore makes no mistakes, therefore gets promoted :)
It's a flaw in the way people have been taught to write and analyze writing.

You don't see people using the steel man very often.
Is it ok for them to cut my line if I don't pay the bill?

They are common carriers, like ISPs , social media companies are not
Some TVs and receivers have a night mode that does what you want. It's basically a compressor that cuts off the high peaks.

I've always been told that the ads are not really louder, that's another compression technique at work. There's no dynamic range and everything is at the top of the volume range. ( I think it amounts to the same thing )
You haven’t met Americans who think European systems are worse because they are “socialist”? Seriously? It’s a pretty common political talking point. I’m kind of amazed you wouldn’t have been exposed to these ideas.
You are overlooking the possibility that the illegally parked cars are owned by the connected, like police and city officials.

This is all normal, every day, corruption.
Do you filter "spam" from your email inbox?

If so, why?

By your...train of thought. "Censorship of any kind" means that rejecting those leagues of boner pills and overseas wives ready to marry you is rejection of their right to speak freely to you
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And yet we talk about the "white privilege" all the time, and I bet
dollars to doughnuts that "beauty privilege" has more impact on a person life in the year 2022.
The findings in TFA state that the "beauty premium" for male students remained the same during the switch to online teaching (versus the decline in female students). This would appear to indicate that internal factors play a larger part for the former, whereas external factors play a larger part in the latter.
> The big public platforms are much better for spreading progressive ideas than conservative ideas.

wouldn't be necessary to suppress the opposition as much as they do if that was true.
Funny: I thought it was the most boring work I've encountered, after "A Different Kind of Science" by some guy who claims to have invented fractals...

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a fractal, I mean a nail.

I hate these pseudo-scientific "everything is quantum" or "everything is fractal" 'creative' works by people who just don't understand...
People complain about modules because they only exist on paper.

Not a single compiler supports the standard library as a module. No compiler has full support for modules.

Modules are a C++20 feature that isn't usable in real projects in 2022. And there's no signs that modules will be ready anytime soon.
Mayim Bialik made a good point about it during Weinstein and was utterly demolished and nearly cancelled for it.

I can't remember the exact words, but she noted that Hollywood was a lot harder for actresses that producers etc. didn't want to fuck. While the casting couch was a hard, demeaning career path, it was a career path, and one that a crafty, resourceful actress that powerful people wanted to fuck might even be able to work around and take advantage of without having to do anything. But if you're just a good actress and not seen as a bedding opportunity, there was just a wall.
If you like conversing about reading, and you are short of people that also like it, arrange a book club or join a book club.
> The first amendment does not protect you against anything but the government. Full stop.

Even setting aside this opinion, this is false, at least according to the Supreme Court. See the PruneYard case that this court repeatedly cites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v....
$ rm Important.txt (uh oh)
Could we please stop with the Trumpist framing? The pandemic "imposed" the need for safety measures. The fact that our government (usually, at least) went along with what was obviously required to protect citizens' lives is not a reason to adopt this MAGA way of talking about it.
Not so sure about intelligence, but perhaps fitness to some extent. Unattractive traits are usually red flags for other problems that don't necessarily have anything to do with IQ.

> And being smart is attractive trait on its own!

Being competent would probably be more accurate. I assume you mean intelligence when you use the word smart here, in which case I would say that most people consider intelligence to be boring. But no one likes an idiot. One can be competent, or perhaps smart (which is really more about decision making than processing capability), without being abundant in intelligence.
This is patching symptoms.

If you need some hosting/deployment tool to support the way you structure your code repos, there is a bigger problem.

Your own tooling for your repo should decide what gets triggered. It's not even as simple as this article makes it out to be. If I edit a readme.md, should this redeploy because it's in the same directory?

Of course not. Structure your code how you want. Then make good tools to trigger other tools. don't restrict yourself to every downstream job type and tool integrating vertically with your specific structures.
"To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. It meant power among people who had no power. It meant perks in a working-class neighborhood that had no privileges. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. I dreamed about being a wiseguy the way other kids dreamed about being movie stars or firemen or ballplayers.

...

We walked in a room and the place stopped. Everyone knew who we were, and we were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all and it was all free."

-- Henry Hill
This is an incredibly dangerous and anti intellectual way to think. The merit of an argument is always separate from who else is saying it, no matter how unpalatable a character.
It's my impression that few people who commented on the Supreme Court Dobbs abortion decision, especially those critical of the outcome, read Alito's majority opinion. They objected to the the result -- that states would be able to ban abortion -- and were not interested in the majority's reasoning.
Research paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2022.9332...
How do you deal with changes over time?

Like let's say you want to add a new required property to every type of something... like you want every encoding to have an accepts_tainted_value property. You don't want a default because you want to be forced to think through every case.

Can you regenerate the code? If so, are you keeping the "real" object specification in some other structure? Or do you just change a superclass to make the property required then fix the generated source based on the errors you get?
You are reading something very weird into it, but the idea is that if I want to hear what you want to tell me it shouldn't be someone else's decision to prevent us both from doing that.
Yet, without such favorable conditions to develop sailing, would the lateen have been invented? (technology ladder theory)

The more we learn about the Mediterranean, the more I am struck that it was the perfect crucible, and that it is no accident it was the epicenter of so much in human history.
I have a mac a few years old, and now we start seeing M1 only software. My next computer won’t be a mac.
People who aren’t fat are more attractive.
People who aren’t fat are more likely to eat healthy and exercise.
Eating healthy and exercising improves your cognition.
For a reason I can’t explain, submissions about attractiveness, gender-based discrimination and relationships between the sexes seem to be highly upvoted and generally have a lot of comments despite generating no actual intelligent discussions and often devolving into Reddit adjacent levels of reflections. It is a bit depressing.

Then again I’m here in the comment section posting something so I should probably start with policing myself.
There was a great movie shot by the sailors before and during their voyage, I think called Kon-Tiki, and released in 1950 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_(1950_film) ). It used to be up on Youtube, but I can't seem to find it. If anyone can dig up a link, it's very worth a watch. IIRC, they're almost hilariously casual about the whole thing, and they just went and crossed the Pacific on a raft of logs, with little support.
It's interesting to me, an American with a lot of family members who are Canadian, to hear my fellow Americans arguments against the clearly superior Canadian health care system.

The biggest complaint I hear about the Canadian system are wait times, but those affect the expensive US system, too. My wife needed back surgery and couldn't get it scheduled until 6 months out in the US, after jumping through health insurance hoops (useless procedures to check boxes) for 6 months prior to that.

Ended up in the ER told "don't move or you might not walk again" while she had to wait 2 days, writhing in pain (but not allowed to move!) until a surgeon performed her surgery 4 months earlier than scheduled.

And we paid 10s of thousands of dollars, which took years to pay off.
> Green tech requires massive amounts of dirty energy to produce.

Is that exclusive to green tech, or is it common to both green tech and non-green tech? If both need dirty energy, what matters is not green tech needing dirty energy, but only how much dirty energy it needs compared to non-green tech, both to produce and over its lifetime.
Who says they'll be property and not have the same rights as normal people? Slavery was banned. If this becomes so objectionable, it'll be banned too. Why are all you people assuming laws and civilization will stop existing in the future? Are you afraid that future people might not share your current political views? Get over yourself and let them have their own sovereignty and vote for what they want.
I was also around 210 lbs at my heaviest and wow the treatment is indeed different.

I think the second chin made me look quite unattractive - it's damn hard to get rid of it along with the beer belly heh
There is research that shows tall people are actually better leaders though… don’t ask me what the mechanism of action is, but it seems to be relevant
The number that is an example in the form is not dimmed enough and it looks like it's prefilled.

Do you have some filter to block very bad chats?
Total revenue went from $6M USD in 1990 to $70B in 2021.

The financial trajectory is staggering, there's no sign of humanities thirst for ever more storage slowing down. In fact, it's still increasing super-linearly.
"popular" isn't what the site claims. It claims this is at the emulation level, not game level. If I can't make my own rom and have it work, what it advertised is a lie.
Does 996 yield better results than typical 9-5 work? I can't help but think that at that level of time investment, particularly for knowledge work, you are getting negative marginal benefits on time spent at work.
teachers, leave our c++ alone!
> I just think that in this instance, this qualifies as government overreach.

Considering the bought and paid for political legislatures with lobbying money and unusual whales funded by corporate interests, if you think this little blip by workers is “overreach” then you’d be flabbergasted by what corporate lobbyists get away with.
This is simply not true. You're trying to do a 'both sides are bad it's only your perception coloring your things' deal, but I live in a red state where Republicans encouraged bounty hunters to go after and harass women while also trying to control them if they leave to other states.

The only 'generalized view' is the one being created by Republicans, which I see pushed by Republicans and supported by Republicans. You don't have to look far to see some of the dreadful things they're pushing, and trying to pretend both sides are equally bad is not only intellectually dishonest but it's also argumentally lazy.
Banana: GPU Serverless That Doesn't Suck
Early days, but as a user: this is so much easier than setting up a K8s cluster w/ GPU node pools and cheaper than dedicated GPUs. Check it out.

Note: launched a Stable Diffusion app at https://mage.space via this. Check out the speed.
That's why professors, doctors, and lawyers are so hot.

There's literally a term "law school hot" which means definitely not hot, but hot for a lawyer.

> used to describe women who, in any other scenario would be considered hunchbacked, slovenly, heinous wildebeasts. But, because of their captive audience (law school men) and their alternatives (other trolls, buffalos, and wildebeasts) they somehow garner attraction.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=law%20school...
I think a lot of people who have never run a company view business this way.

If the discussion was purely about cost (and I assume it's at least partially), then you'd be right that laying off 20 engineers would provide the same impact to the cost bucket.

However, how much revenue is generated on average by each facebook engineer? I can't find an exact amount, [disclaimer: fuzzy math ahead] but looking at their q2 2022 earnings (https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...) they employed 83,553 people and had a total revenue of $28,822,000,000 for q2. Presumably each of those employees contribute in some way to the revenue, on average resulting in $344,954 in revenue per employee per quarter assuming that's static (it's not) that's $1.379mm in revenue per employee per year.

How much revenue do janitors cleaning empty offices generate for Meta? Roughly $0, there might be some extrapolated value to a clean office you can indirectly attribute. But regardless, they're an $8mm/year cost with no revenue directly attributed.

So laying off 20 engineers you'd net $8mm/year in cost savings, but lose $27.58mm/year in revenue (hypothetically), leaving you with a $19.58mm net loss compared to laying off 200 janitors with $0 revenue lost. Obviously it doesn't work out 100% this way, but hopefully you this helps you to understand what math the accountants at Meta are doing.

I'm not suggesting that this is the right way to run a company, but it is the way public companies are run. I'm surprised no one in the comment threads so far has considered this, so I felt it necessary to at least mention it.
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar. Even by the (low) standard of the current thread, your comments here are standing out in a flamey way. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's intended to be a steelman and is a rephrasing of an argument said to me in the past; you could dig it up in my comment history from a previous uber discussion should you be so inclined.

Regardless, feel free to ignore my strawman and tell me the real argument.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We ban accounts that post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your grand-boss.
Whataboutisn.

He didn't claim what he heard was true.

He didn't say he doesn't hear things about other states.

Nor did he make a judgment about Texas.

He only offered a possible explanation to the gp
Your own quotes suggest around 15% of victims are expected to pay the value quotes in the headline on average.

I wouldn't call that clickbait...
As a tall person, I have always been looked to in any group so naturally began taking on the leadership role which I take to mean "gets the group towards the goal". I still do it, but I hate official leadership roles.
This Artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it
Perhaps these people are not overlooked (ha!) by others as much, leading to higher confidence, leading to better developed social skills, leading to better success as managers?
The thermodynamics and energy density is irrelevant. The external costs of fossil fuels in a scenario without a green transition is so enormous that it can literally crash the current civilization. That means the net savings could also in the worst case scenario be the entire world economy plus all future growth for thousands or even more years.
be sure to write your own lack of mistakes in ink, in a book with dates on it
Flatness is a curve, not a number. If you try to distill it into a number (by integrating the error for example), you can have two speakers with the same "flatness number" which cost about the same, yet sound very different.

This is not theoretical, I've experienced it - two professional speakers (or monitors as they are called) from different manufacturers, which cost the same and the frequency plots look the same to a human eye if you put them side to side, but sound very different.

Which is why it's preferable to listen them if you really care. But there are "safe" recommendations for every price range.
I was actually thinking it meant bill of materials. I am a programmer with construction background
Beauty rules. That is an unshakable axiom of reality.

And rightly so. Beauty says health, wisdom... probably lots of other important stuff too. Beauty is magic.

It's only natural that beautiful people get our attention and admiration and maybe make us a little crazy.

Beauty is big. Reason, for all its philosophy, science and technology, is actually only very small.
Love the unstuck er. There was a street in San Fran where way mo cars kept getting stuck.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726534/waymo-autonomou...
> The title of the paper is:

This isn't what people aren't usually interested in. Saving time by providing interesting conclusions at-a-glance is sensible.

I do see how the conclusions have been editorialized away from the actual findings, for no apparent reason.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-scientific-funda...
Hyperbolic growth has a singularity in finite time. I.e. there is a "crucial" point where things truly go haywire. Not a very important distinction in a philosophical discussion like this, but that was the reasoning.
I'd be curious to know how many speed up the videos versus cc it. I know I prefer most videos at faster speeds unless there is a lot of music in it. But cc'ing it with faster speeds is difficult.

As a side note, I think the Rings of Power would be way more enjoyable if I could just 2x it. Kind of hoping someone here will say "You can do that, just ..."
Because there needs to be a cutoff in determining when it becomes a "public" square.
I'm setting up a savings account that they can't get at online
Decent design language? So sticking a load of LEDs on an oversized car on stilts is attractive now?

What happened to form following function? A Prius looks the way it does because it's designed to be aerodynamic. In 20 years time people will appreciate that still. On trend fashion over form, not so much.

I mean yes. The on trend SUVs probably will sell better, but that doesn't make the design objectively right, or better.
Mercurial has the obvious correct answer to this problem: Store diffs with snapshot checkpoints. That is, store diffs, but once you reach a critical number of diffs, store a snapshot instead of a diff so you can efficiently compute any specific commit state without storing snapshots for every commit.
Whelp, guess the "dumb hot jock" sterotype has died off and is in queue for revival :D