skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to documentation it is not so much a db included as an interface to one:

> dbm is a generic interface to variants of the DBM database — dbm.gnu or dbm.ndbm. If none of these modules is installed, the slow-but-simple implementation in module dbm.dumb will be used. There is a third party interface to the Oracle Berkeley DB

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html
This is the polar opposite of abusive behaviour.
I'm painting the progression of where this is going. I'm not trying to describe this effort. I'm legit worried that Unicode will eventually fail, and we'll all just be sending streaming SVG to each other.
Yea, sending an email can be a big issue depending on the circumstances.

But lying about full time residency is always a big issue.
I found that a little surprising and upsetting about CloudFlare for example. The CTO is working from a beach town in Portugal but regular employees are bound to a physical office.

Well, that's a pile of shit and completely false. Everything about that is false. I'm in Lisbon not some "beach town" (unless you're counting the capital of Portugal as a beach town). Employees have a huge amount of flexibility on using the Lisbon office or not.

And this is 100% ‘cloud’ company where all your work is logging in remotely anyway.

Not so sure about that. First meeting I have tomorrow morning is in person with member of the team in Portugal in the office. It's true that I have a lot of video calls, but not really a surprise given that Cloudflare has offices all over the world. We have more than 200 employees in Portugal and I'd guess around 40 in the office at any one time.
Yeah, no thanks.

Call me old fashioned, but if you really want to see what something looks like on you just go to the store. Personally, I think buying clothes is not just about how they look on you but also how you feel in them. You can't replicate this with a digital solution (yet?).
https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-...
That's somewhat tragic.
The contract of Random requires determinism, so the algorithm can never be changed.

> If two instances of Random are created with the same seed, and the same sequence of method calls is made for each, they will generate and return identical sequences of numbers. In order to guarantee this property, particular algorithms are specified for the class Random. Java implementations must use all the algorithms shown here for the class Random, for the sake of absolute portability of Java code
It's called "dynamic chassis control" - it keeps the chassis level by pushing back against the torque forces in the sway bar. The equivalent vw or audi will have body roll. Most vehicles have a "u-shape" anti sway bar coupling the right and left side - the car still leans, just not as much. It's not a safety feature or a thing to keep all four wheels on the ground. It's a mechanical device that uses energy (from the engine) to counteract the torque in the sway bar for the purpose of keeping the chassis level.

Here is a picture of the part:

https://images.simplepart.com/images/parts/motor/parts/fulls...
So we now have a technical marvel used for financial speculation, conducting illicit transactions, and dodging regulators... that no longer is also burning the planet. Am I supposed to be impressed by this?

It's easy to worship engineering as some kind of pure endeavor divorced from the real world, and admire cleverness for its own sake. But things that actively make the world worse should not necessarily be praised, no matter how clever they are.
Also anon account with some more data to add. From my perspective, US salaries have rapidly jumped in the past few years. My total comp increased significantly over the past few years at the same company, and then astronomically more once I bit the bullet and applied to new jobs.

- 2015: 85k in HCOL area

- 2018: 115k in LCOL area (remote)

- 2021: 180k in LCOL area (remote)

- 2022: 280k in LCOL area (remote, FAANG)

I work remotely from the US midwest with 7 YoE. I have several colleagues with fewer YoE making much more than me at both FAANG and pre-IPO startups, but in HCOL areas.
Cats will let you know if they want to be petted, brushed, for you turn on the sink so they can drink from it, or of course be fed. They will also make it clear if they are excited or if they feel threatened. They can communicate just fine when they want to.

There are animal handlers and zookeepers who have trained cats to perform complex tasks on obstacle courses repeatedly & reliably, just like dogs and other animals. I saw this first hand at a zoo myself (I think it was San Diego but I'm not positive).

On top of all this, if you have interacted with a lot of cats, it becomes obvious that there is a ton of diversity in their personalities & behavioral patterns, even between siblings. There is no point in discussing 'smarter or dumber' here, their intelligence is just different-- it's unique to their species, as with pretty much every other animal capable of being trained.
No I'm likely older than you and definitely older than the median on this site and have always basically believed regulation is a more effective solution than blaming users for their problems.
For some people that seems like negotiating an agreement with your employer about changing your hairstyle, or buying a new tv.
They actually are gaining market share dramatically among high traffic (big company) marketing sites: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/state-of-website-builders/

Once static site generators + headless CMS's became all the rage among enterprise IT types, that opened the door to Webflow...since Webflow is basically a GUI-based static site generator + headless CMS.

If you ask the engineering team, they'll build the marketing site into a complicated monstrosity on Gatsby + Contentful, and then never allow you to touch it again. You'll need to go through them to make any changes--and they'll be busy with real product work.

If you build on Webflow, you're basically doing the same thing, but putting ownership of the marketing site squarely inside the marketing org (who likely has people who's time is less expensive able to do what you need in Webflow...and faster).

There's limitations for sure (eg. multi-lingual sites, nested directory URL structure, etc), but within a few years I'm guessing those will be solved and the adoption will be even more dramatic.

Although Webflow seems to be stupidly focusing on the whole "No code" Twitter circle-jerk with Logic/memberships, so they may get disrupted by Framer in the meantime however.
The 3070 had a $499 MSRP when it launched, I wouldn't call this deal "ridiculously cheap".
What about geolocating the customer's phone and blocking the transaction if the customer's phone is more than, say, 10 meters from the bike?
Yes, the cost of living is extremely high, and you haven't considered the cost of childcare, school and healthcare (the NHS has never been great, but it went AWOL since the lockdowns). In London either you make in excess of 150K or you’d be better off working as a janitor in a random continental European country. Add 50K for each dependant.

And I’m not sure it’s worth moving to London with a 200K salary if you don’t have 200K in your bank to pay for a deposit on a flat. I wouldn’t wish renting in the UK on my worst enemy.
Samsung investing $5B in efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050
And then you get roundabouts with traffic lights like in the UK. I'm sure there are good reasons for that, but, as someone that hardly drives in the UK, I was very very surprised the first time I encountered them.
Hire dairy farmers to get the milk for your coffee - absolute insight into how it's produced. Also they got to raise cows from calves so no milk in the office for a while. But once you get it you can be sure it's organic !

That's not even going into the dev market situation right now ...

I mean seriously have you people ever been near a situation where these kind of decisions are made ?
As amusing as this is to read (you went to a frankly incredible amount of effort to make this sound disturbing and to my mind you absolutely succeeded), the emotion is somewhat muted by not being able to figure out whether or not you are serious. I guess you could say this is part of it. Very nice.
Wow, this is some real All My Sons type shit. In the play, the protagonist sells defective airplane parts to the US military during WWII, and several planes end up crashing and killing the pilots.
Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably since the beginning.
Many reasons but the two that seem to be the most common are that managers don't feel comfortable evaluating employees on output rather than time their butt is in a chair and many people (ICs and management alike) use the office as an outlet for their social needs. Perhaps the third reason, though less common, is the belief that the best ideas come from hanging out at the water cooler.
London and Paris are expensive, but they are not the norm. Home ownership is still affordable to dual-income middle-class families in Western Europe, and there are plenty of nice cities to choose from.

In many larger cities, central locations are ridiculously expensive. Once you get further away from the center, prices drop quickly. Because the society is less car-centric, location has a bigger impact on home prices than in the US.
Why replace? It's not a winner-takes-all game.
Lmao Meta can't even buy a VR fitness app. The current FTC leadership is an absolute joke.
The worst is when the application activates itself but isn't actually done loading or ready for user input. It's like the spam call I received once that immediately asked me to hold for the next available operator when I picked up the phone.
I hear you about saying no to depending on the rings of power.

Not sure about the regulatory part with Bob’s backyard. What about when Bob intentionally persuades everyone to route all their packages and mail through his house, which he routinely opens, reads and studies to determine their preferences and desires and compile psychological profiles of everyone in the neighborhood which he then discloses to various unidentified third parties including law enforcement, debt collectors, abusers and criminals? What about when Bob uses his control to deny people access to their own communications and stuff, on the grounds that they’re actually his now because it’s at his house and he decided for unspecified reasons that they broke one of his vague and unilaterally-defined rules? What if Bob does this at such a scale that he can now assist the government in undermining the constitutional protections against unwarranted searches, or uses his influence and knowledge to purposefully stoke and manipulate anger in ways that he KNOWS he can’t control and will get people killed or at least ruin their lives, but at least makes him more money?

Do Bob’s property rights need to be balanced against other societal needs then?
No, if you want your final output to be 16-bit (eg CD quality), then you need more bits to work with when mixing. Each operation you perform will be requantized (rounded) to 16-bit resolution adding a bit of noise each time, until eventually the lower 4 bits (for example) are nothing but noise, and your signal is effectively only 12 bits. One the other hand if you did that mixing at 24-bit resolution, then you still have 20 bits of good data remaining, you throw away the bottom 4, and have nice clean 16-bit data to distribute. 32-bit integer is overkill in most situations, which is why it wasn't implemented for so long. 32-bit float is used a lot because it has 24-bits of resolution, but also has a huge scaling range, so you don't have to worry about clipping during intermediate operations, just at the end.
Yesterday discord asked me, upon install, for permission to capture keystrokes when it is not in focus.
I truly believe that IDEs like this one (including DrJava gag) ruined introductory programming courses. I don't think using a full fat IDE is good either.

Using an IDE from the beginning has resulted in many (maybe even most) of my peers not understanding what actually happens when they compile and run a program, just that they put some text in a box, then click the magic compile and run buttons and some text pops out of the magic output window. They have no concept of how to actually make a useful program or how to distribute said program and run it on someone else's computer. These are never taught, it's just assumed that you know how to do that (as well as be comfortable with *nix) by the time you get to 3000 and 4000 level classes.

That isn't even to mention how Java just isn't a great first programming language. Thankfully I believe they just chaged the introductory programming courses at my university to use Python—probably not using nano and the command line like I'd prefer, but IDLE is okay I guess.
Don't forget alternatives for GNU/Linux, too.
I run with this and I had few issues.
Rarely, a site break yeah, but that it.
Flash itself was a work of art.
I don't see the part where all jobs are supposed to pay similarly. I think it's fair to bring up pay differences or that your employer is paying you less. That's how people become aware and get better comp. Staying quiet benefits the employer. Hell, it might even be a good reality check for some people on here who think there are enough high paying jobs for everyone (like all the kids thinking they'll be rockstars or play pro sports) that's not how stats, economics, and competitive markets work.
I don't know what specific piece of software you're referring to, but I think of Fireworks. It was never a 1:1 replacement for Photoshop, but for my uses (as a web developer, during the era of slicing up designs) it was leaps and bound better.
I feel like that is mainly in the consumer application space, things that have a user interface; everyone's favorite developer tooling, languages, CLI apps, etc are mostly open source.
Once you get out of the big cities there is a big drop-off. The last 3 years have brought a bit of balance but the gap is still large. Where I live 200k is a CEO salary, and there’s a lot of resistance to going above that for other employees (even in $100MM+ companies with plenty of budget to burn). In places like where I live you basically need a side job to get to 250k. I do about 10 extra hours a week and it nets me a 30% increase on my regular salary + benefits. I wish my employer would notice this and just offer me a 30% raise for my undivided attention, but I’ll also do what I have to in order to maximize my income and they’ll just have to respect that :)
I could ask the reverse, why are some people so insisting on doing things just because they are typical for their gender? Non-performing is sort of the default situation as a kid when you don't know yet how girls or boys are "supposed to be". You did it, too! People who don't perform any gender role are actually quite common, they are just inconspicuous.
There's plently of VPNs that offer unique IPs, or mobile/LTE IPs to connect to, you don't necessarily need to connect to a datacenter or an "abused" residential address.

But there's a potential for a business here: rent small spaces and offer to set up the small boxes for a fee.
Cryptocurrency jumped the shark long ago and this comment section is a reflection of that. Claiming that people aren't real hackers because they don't uncritically slurp up cryptocurrency hype isn't doing your cause any favors.
Somehow my phone number was removed from my account and now i cannot add it again. When asking support why it was removed they've responded multiple times with the same canned email saying they can't remove the phone number requirement. I repeated said I don't want it removed, just to know why my number was removed and how to add it back, but yet i receive the same canned message.
They care from a security perspective; good employees can become insider threats if they're in countries where the rule of law is weak.
The top address belongs to Lido finance

https://github.com/lidofinance/docs/blob/main/docs/deployed-...

https://lido.fi/ethereum
You can link people directly to https://app.element.io/

But there's definitely a lower barrier to entry with Discord right now, maybe forever. But maybe there just needs to be time to push through the network effect of discord. I'm vaguely optimistic, I'm seeing Matrix more and more often these days. Still in nerd circles, of course.
How have NFTs changed the art world?
I think the "stealing of focus" is what the commenter took issue with.

Many people complain about OSes and apps for that matter, stealing focus inappropriately.
CHARL-E: Run Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click
Hi HN! I've been working for the past couple of weeks on a GUI for running stable diffusion on your Mac.

It works by packaging a stable diffusion repo into a python executable and then calling that executable from an ElectronJS app. It's all open-source.

I've had a lot of fun working on this (except for figuring out Apple notarization), and would love to hear your thoughts!
Thank you for building DataTables - very useful web software.
Oh Agreed. A systems problem.

A former company that I worked for wanted their customers (Real Estate Agents) to fill out profiles. They wanted the account managers to encourage this behaviour so they tied the bonus/commission to having it filled out.

Needless to say, the customers had very little interest in filling out the profiles. I found all the account managers sitting around a table at a conference filling them out themselves instead of talking to the customers (as they should have been at the event).

A few even discovered they could fill the fields with '.' characters and game the system (they got caught and fired for crossing the line). The others just wasted valuable time they could have been selling products and got their bonuses.

See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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Is it code for a designer tool that Adobe just paid $20B for?
There is literally a topic with the problem in their help. Their phone number is on timeout for a week. Sucks but not being able to read sucks even more.

>>Have an alt account, or help a friend complete their verification? Your phone has just been registered and is on timeout. Unfortunately we can not lift this, and you will need to wait for the end of the timeout to use the number once more, or use a different number to verify the account.
There are so many good resources that weren't available when I was learning. Online, and a good in-person mentor helps too.

Limor and crew does a great job: https://learn.adafruit.com
Or start with the Arduino ecosystem: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-an-arduino/all
AFAIK the license is GPLv3. So avast is acquiring what exactly? The name?
It's a pretty easy defense when you look at the alternatives, as in who came before (Batista) and what the alternate-world versions of Cuba look like - it's doing incredibly well compared to other island nations in the Caribbean, despite being isolated from the entire world by the US blockade for the past 70 years. They even made their own coronavirus vaccine!

P.S. Fidel is dead, don't know if you've heard.
We built a new model It’s called Action Transformer (ACT-1)
I was so excited by this answer, but there is no such setting on the 13 mini T_T.
This is really cool. I have friends running solar panel deployment companies and this would be extremely helpful.
I remember Fireworks very well and completely agree it was exceptionally well optimised for UI. As well as the ability to easily edit both bitmaps and vectors, the combination of frames and layer sets nested within the frames allowed for super rapid iterations on layouts. The export features were super optimal too at the time. Rather irrational of me, but I took the slow death of it rather personally and never forgave Adobe.
I've discovered the game Mini Motorways on Apple Arcade recently and this has opened my eyes to how much more efficient roundabouts are in traffic management :) I've been enjoying the game a lot! It's a very enjoyable thought experiment made into a game. If you haven't tried it, I'd recommend it.
That's _exactly_ what I'd want to happen? Transfer of ownership of an extension that has access to my most intimate data, I want a klaxon to go off...
People do get weird about intelligence though.

A bench press is simply a test of how much you can lift. But no one will say that it doesn't measure how strong your arms are.

A foot race is simply a test of how fast your legs can move. But no one will say that it doesn't measure how fast you are.

I think the thing that trips people up is that they often confuse knowledge tests with intelligence tests.

Reciting the periodic table is not a sign of intelligence, it is a sign of knowledge. As is knowing geography, languages, etc. If it requires a recitation of knowledge, it's most likely a knowledge test. Like most of those Facebook quizzes "Only the smartest can answer all these questions!!!". And you go to the test and it's just trivia. Trivia tests knowledge. Knowledge tests can be biased, they can be 'gamed' (except the best way to game them is to memorize the knowledge), etc.

Intelligence tests are something different. They test our ability to reason. Which is harder to measure. Because often there is a baseline of knowledge required. People like to dump on the old "brain teaser" and less old "leetcode" style interview questions. But they're probably better than quizzing people on esoteric language features. Language features are trivia. Questions with no real answer or no known answer are better proxies for intelligence. Not great and if you stick with the same questions, you'll eventually turn them into trivia as the answers become codified. But, you know, proxies are never the real thing.

I also happen to agree with the article. We do not have a clear definition of intelligence. Or consciousness. Or sentience. So unclear, we kind of use all three interchangeably. We have a fuzzy feeling. We don't think Lamda is intelligent/sentient because we don't feel it is. We feel that each other is intelligent/sentient because of course we are. We can't prove that to each other. And we can't come up with a definition that both includes everything our fuzzy feeling says is intelligent/sentient and excludes everything we think is not.
I'm 99% confident that this announcement and the language used was part of the purchase deal.
BenchPoint is hiring for one of their leading clients in Education Industry located in NYC. This academic institution is located in New York City and is in it's 85th year, has a reputation for excellence both locally and internationally. It serves more than a 1000 students from Nursery-12th grade in a vibrant and supportive community.

Past experience in education industry is preferred.
Thanks for digging up and pasting the quote. I think that's consistent with what my impression is, though. "we have the same viewpoint of the world and where it's going, different approach to it." and "y'know I'll do what I can, and, so be it." Chouinard is "doing what he can" and has been for a while. This is just the latest evolution of it. Patagonia has been contributing since to environmental causes since the 1980's and explicitly considering their environmental impact since at least the 1990's[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard#Patagonia_and_e...
I attach QR codes to all my invoices and I encourage every business entity I interact with to start doing the same. I had a few successes actually, though the big businesses are more reluctant.

An old investor once told me: "Make it really easy for your customers to pay you, and you won't regret it." QR codes make it really easy to do a wire transfer and they prevent random errors from being introduced.