skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious, but if you "jumped ship", where would you go? I'm also about at the end of my rope with Spotify and the others I've tried, like to the point where I'm about ready to switch back to ripping CD's and putting tracks on my phone or an Ipod but I would sorely miss the recommendation algorithm, even as bad as it is.

What other streaming service is even comparable?
Not anything interesting because I failed in my interesting endeavour!

Was trying to replicate methods from some papers and couldn’t get it to work. Seemed promising but alas. Now I’m just recovering from all that jazz.
I am not a computer science graduate and have always been fascinated by programming languages and how they work. i am currently reading a book called crafting interpreters (https://craftinginterpreters.com) which i think is a very good introduction to the topic plus it's very practical without getting too deep into theory.
The author of American Psycho said this:

> I think that if I had written the book in the past decade, perhaps Bateman would have been working in Silicon Valley, living in Cupertino with excursions into San Francisco or down to Big Sur to the Post Ranch Inn and palling around with Zuckerberg and dining at the French Laundry, or lunching with Reed Hastings at Manresa in Los Gatos, wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing girls on Tinder.
A lot of them on Reddit, they even go through the trouble of censoring the flags before they post them.
Emphasis 'we', not 'my'. These guys are already making shadow profiles out of info given by friends, corporations, etc. Not participating is also causing red flags in certain circles. Withstanding peer pressure is one thing, having your identity made up or flagged out of your control is another.

This is a slippery slope that should be tackled before it gets to that. The only people not affected indirectly, are the people who will die without children or younger cohorts as friends.
All of these can be accomplished via social engineering instead of paying.
I’m working on making body doubling a more main stream approach to accomplishing everyday tasks.

Body doubling is known within the ADHD community and entails performing a task in the presence of another. More details here: https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/body-double-adhd

It helps to engage motivation by using another person as the proxy. I wrote a bit about how I think it works here: https://doubleapp.xyz/blog/body-doubling-proxy

The technique goes way beyond just ADHD applications for executive functions and is something we tend to do anyways, e.g., running with a friend, studying in a group, etc.

It solves an issue for myself and I truly want to help others with the approach by making a way to stay accountable through the help of others.
Maybe it would be a useful benchmark to simulate a scenario like "my site got posted on HN and now I'm getting a huge number of unique page views."
> Language does not matter

I'm not a Rust user, but this is clearly false. Proof: an implementation of any large program will be faster, less buggy, more maintainable, and take less total development time in C than in assembly. Therefore, language choice does matter.

Now, that isn't to say that Rust is uniquely better than any other language out there (which I strongly believe that it's not), just that language design differences do translate into meaningful changes in the trade-space between correctness, performance, and development cost, and that's something you should be aware of even if BrainF fulfills all of your engineering constraints easily.
> are faked to generate support?

No need to fake it. Just skew your presentation of reality to fit your narrative.

https://youtu.be/UWROBiX1eSc?t=193
Very true, not that 15a vs 45a would potentially be of any difference to the person being shocked. If anyone is low enough resistance to draw anywhere approaching either of those currents, they no longer care, as they are long dead.
> nearby state schools

Are Ivies near any of the generally top tier state schools ? My intuition was that the best state schools were near Chicago and in California. I do feel like state schools do outcompete nearby 'prestige' private schools in those two regions.

UPenn -> Maryland

Cornell -> Buffalo

Harvard, Dartmouth -> UMass

Yale, Brown -> UConn

Columbia -> SUNY Stony brook

Princeton -> Rutgers

________

I know UMass, Rutgers and UMaryland have strong CS & Engineering programs. Dunno much about the other schools or other programs though.
There's still no advantage in a tech rally, you'd be far better of reinvesting highly correlated companies, where you have much more liquidity (since you're not only allow to sell during trading windows) and you also are allowed to perform better hedging in the case the market does start to get shaky, plus your portfolio will not drop based on the possible misstep of a single company.

> I have (and continue to) err on the side of diversification

I'm in the same camp as you, and the point I always make is that:
If I'm wrong and our company stock sky rockets, beating everyone else in the market, then great! I still have unvested RSUs, we'll get larger bonuses, plus my job security has increased, sure I missed out on even more gain but I'm in a good place!

If I'm right, and something bad happens to my employer, at least my loses will be reduced by my other investments. I don't have to worry about everything falling apart at once.

Which I suppose is the entire point of variance reduction in the first place: it makes the great times a bit less great, but also makes the worse times not so bad.
Sufficiently advanced fanboys are indistinguishable from bots.
> traveling 38 miles down the Missouri River.

Well that's practically cheating.
The key word in hedge fund is hedge. They're not supposed to outperform the market. They're supposed to not fall as far as everything else during a crash as well.

Granted, that's not really how things work in practice anymore, but that's supposed to be the idea.
How are you finding communities to track? Are you crawling and flowing links to shitty subteddits? Creating honeypot accounts to try and get spammed invites to telegram/discord groups? Are you following the different *Chan's? IRC?

I had a friend that did something for crypto. He would try to map pump and dump efforts to crypto projects. Gave them codenames and followed which ones had the most successful pump and dumps and then get in on them and sell early. It was a lot of work getting the spam early and being involved in all the places. I don't think he ever managed to fully automate it.
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The obsession with race and having people from every race to the point people that aren't fit for the position get it because they are "marginalized" is just crazy in the US.

You should hire based on talent and experience. And if the company is all white, then be it, that's the market.

Of course that way doesn't fix racism, but the US way also doesn't.
Wow, this is much more exciting than the time Thoughtworks sent me an email saying their role was only open to non-male candidates.
Which leaves the employee with less upside going forward, at which point they can switch companies and "start over" with an RSU grant that is at par. In this regard the initial grant has a bit of flavor of an option. You have the option to stay on the vesting schedule or change companies and start a new vesting schedule, but any losses on unvested amounts don't hit you if you switch.
The author writes "I have repeatedly asked that Google give the scientific community access to Imagen" and it links to a tweet with @Google mention plus #brain and #imagen hashtags (a single ask, no repeated asks shown).

I think the author of this blogpost could've had better response contacting paper authors with emails noted on the paper.
Lightroom and Photoshop for iPad are brand new and nowhere close to their legacy versions.
Yes, that's why I suggest you should buy calls on the day your grant would have been assigned if you think the stock will go up.

Of course most people won't do it because is very risky. Yet getting RSUs has similar risk (or larger as you can lose more than the option premium).

There might be US tax implications that I'm not familiar with of course.
> Not tiring at all, when it's not a trope.

The greatest fallacy of the pseudo-intelligent is comparing different first world countries to each other without considering demographics. It's a fallacy you have committed, along with everyone else who says "America is backwards lol". That is why it is a trope. It has nothing to do with American exceptionalism and everything to do with a relatively poor understanding of how we arrived here.

America is a punching bag for the rest of the first world because it has problems literally no other first world country has to face. Problems that are too innumerable to list here. Without considering the various reasons America is a Special Case (TM) in many ways, you're missing the greater point. Sure we could have a German tax system for the simplest filers. We got to the 1040EZ because we believe in theory governments should stay out of our business. Fundamentally this is a driver of the majority of the policies in America, and when viewed from the lens of other western countries it seems backwards because every country listed in comparison has a stronger, more involved, and (in my opinion) more dangerous government. Perhaps not dangerous now but given enough power and enough reason could become dangerous faster than America's current government system. In fact, the unparalleled level of power corporations in America have over things like tax law parallels the level of dangerous power governments have over their citizen's taxes elsewhere. It's an iteration on the same old process of control. Missing how they're the same it's simple to arrive at the conclusion America is the only "backwards" one. Usually this argument devolves into tax utility, which I won't get into here because that's a philosophical argument beyond the scope of the mocking of America that ALWAYS comes with this nonsense.
Sure, but if they had killed a few hundred Nazis 14,000 civilians wouldn't have been killed by Nazis.

That sounds like a win no matter what.
Yep, either someone pushing propaganda, or someone who has ate it all and is regurgitating it.
Ever pick up a book and wonder if you've already read it?
You're just figuring out how the world works today?
That's a purpose but not primary, if that were the case the hyper competitive college admissions process would cease to exist, as there's plenty of reasonable substitutes in terms of education provided, in some ways these less prestigous places even offer better educations than the places with the top published professors.

It's primarily about acquiring economic opportunity, full stop.
Thank Steve Jobs for popularizing this over-engineered “minimal” design.

No normal person wants to memorize a click-wait-click-click.

A few buttons might look ugly, but watching a frustrated old person fiddle with gestures is uglier.
Finally! We use both Cloud SQL (Postgres) and BigQuery. Given both are managed GCP products you’d expect a simple way to replicate Postgres into BigQuery. Instead we’ve had to pay for Stirch/Fivetran/Airbyte or some janky “BigQuery external connections” to do this. Very happy they’re finally supporting an obvious use case. Surprise it’s taken so long
they are also tracking if women are pregnant when they travel so if you miscarry you go to jail
My flashlight has this and I keep wondering why they didnt spend 50 cents adding two more buttons.
> You were expecting Caddy to "trounce" nginx? Most people expect the opposite.

I absolutely was, yes. As an observer I see a lot of people saying positive things about Caddy around here, and how it’s superior performance-wise to a variety of ‘classic’ httpd software. Lots of people love Caddy, and they’re quite vocal, so it’s not a stretch to assume there are reasons why they love it. Nginx development has slowed since the events in Ukraine, unsurprisingly, so again it’s not a leap to surmise Caddy is making good things happen in the meantime.
Why does it matter? I'm also an external observer in a country that's supporting to Ukraine but I recognise the reality that Azov is an unfortunate necessity created by multiple Russian invasions.
Any reason why you can't ask your corporate compliance team for guidance on this issue, well before the date when you might cross the boarder?
I don’t know how to solve prompt injection
No in the USA. We have rights on paper, but the threat of the trial tax convinced most to waive all of their rights in a plea agreement. That takes away things like their right to appeal their sentence, challenge illegal police behavior, etc. What would you pick? Keep your rights but face the entire weight of the US Government with unlimited budget and risk 20-40 years, or a plea for 3-5? All you have to do is give up all your rights. 95% pick to give up their rights.

Plea agreements were illegal up until the 70s for a reason.
Or how many of those (current thing) posts end up getting deleted within a day or two. or the poster's account getting deleted. That's purely an anecdote but something I've noticed a handful of times when I've left a browser tab open. It'd be great to have mandated transparency regarding things like this for any "social media".
> Also, the only reason we want competition is because it should get lower prices for consumers.

That is not the only reason free market capitalists want competition. Competition should also promote a variety of choice, innovation, and dynamism in other services to consumers, not just low product prices.
That's great for those who want to pay, but for me, I can get a superior experience with adblockers and SponsorBlock etc and also not pay, so I won't.
> I am no great fan of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces Title VII in the workplace. I will not defend its activities, now or ever. I also happen to think that Title VII and the idea of disparate racial impact it spawned, have been very corrosive to American legal traditions — for example, it is possible for plaintiffs in civil rights suits to ignore a respondent’s intent and argue discrimination based on disparity alone. That makes it very difficult to run companies on merit, because any unintentional “disparate impact” against a protected class (or even perceived disparate impact) could be cause for harassment by the EEOC, which files thousands of suits annually. But if there were ever a slam dunk case of race-based labor discrimination, admitted to in official communications, this is it. I mean, come on; they’re bragging about it!

I think the way Title VII has contributed to a competitive DEI culture is under-discussed. Specifically, because the EEOC has this unfalsifiable notion of discrimination, it drives companies to compete on "seeming undiscriminatory" (because each company has to show that it is doing better than the median, which has a "no child left behind" effect of raising the median) which mostly amounts to increasingly ridiculous shenanigans while trying to meet the standard set by the letter of the law. For example, the structure of EEOC Title VII inquisitions pressures companies to search extra hard to hire diverse candidates from a fixed size pipeline (the only way to make this work is to relax qualification requirements while pretending qualification requirements aren't relaxed, and maybe to fire any employees who fail to play along), but they can only go so far before they run up against the letter of the law which prohibits them from, say, openly firing people for their race.

EDIT: Of course this submission got flagged. :eye-roll:
> This is what's happening in the economy. The total number of transactions of goods and services have been dropping. But those few transactions are priced higher than pre-covid.

Source for this claim?

The BEA tracks quantities of goods and services produced in detail every quarter, and their data shows that for most categories, quantities are up, not down, since pre-COVID (i.e., Q4 2019). [1]

There are a exceptions where quantities are down: energy goods, health care, transportation services, recreation services, transportation equipment, private investment in structures, certain nondurable goods, and the output of nonprofit institutions. All other categories are actually up since before COVID. This includes motor vehicle part production, durable goods, restaurant food, clothing, housing/utilities, industrial equipment, computer hardware, etc. Overall, the quantity increases are slightly outweighing the quantity decreases, according to the standard measure.

[1] Table 1.5.3. Real Gross Domestic Product, Expanded Detail, Quantity Indexes
, https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm
Is this unique to Amazon though? If you are Safeway, you wouldn't be happy if Nabisco started selling crackers half-price from their warehouse down the street.

In most industries, MSRP agreement rules are pretty tightly enforced. California winning this case seems like it could make for a weird precedent.
Sneakers was the better movie. More accurate, better actors, better plot.
This rule doesn’t just mean they can’t raise prices on Amazon, it means they can’t lower prices elsewhere.

If another marketplace takes a lower cut, allowing the seller to set a lower price while keeping margins, they can’t do so under this arrangement without taking a hit on Amazon sales.

The market should be encouraging finding the lowest-margin distribution path, not artificially propping up prices elsewhere to match Amazon’s margins.
Hmm, I actually liked group chats and 1:1 chats being in different tabs even on mobile (though I use the web view much more often). It makes it much easier to find people chats which I find much more important in general. Indeed they sometimes end up in the wrong place but I use the tagmanager to fix it. It would be nice if you could keep an option to switch this back on.

One of the features that does cause confusion for me though is Spaces. Some of my bridges (the whatsapp one in particular) took it upon themselves to put their messages in a separate space, which always has me hunting around for messages, I prefer having all my chats in the same place regardless of what bridge it came from. That was my #1 reason to use Matrix: To have everything in one place. I keep deleting the Whatsapp space but the bridge puts it back. It's a nice idea but only if I can set it up the way I want to.

Anyway I will see where you go with this, at least Matrix is a fully open ecosystem where I can always use the client I wish. Still looking for a nice high-density IRC-like desktop client too (the Xchat mode is nice but my main issue is with the chat list that is not compact enough, and it doesn't fix that). But anyway I'll find something. I know it's difficult to please everyone and it is probably a good idea to target the mainstream like you're doing.
I would argue that the exact rankings are worthless, but the general tiers or positioning, is not. In other words, whether #1 is Stanford or Harvard, or whether Columbia is #5 or #9 makes zero diff and shouldn't factor into anyone's decision. But whether your school is ranked 20 or 150 does make a big difference in terms of job perception once you leave school.
It may be unfair, but if you apply for a job post-college with a CSE degree from CMU the hiring manager is going to look at it much differently than the applicant from LSU. But college probably won't matter between applicants from CMU and MIT, for example, regardless of those college's respective exact rankings.
I think the fundamental truth is ~80% of discussion is personal anecdotes. This has a very strong appeal because you can make whatever you want from it, you can validate your own opinions or dismiss it off hand. Intellectual validation a la carte.
Pair Locking your iPhone with Configurator 2
Of course we should talk about the implications. We got completely dependent on cheap Russian gas, we failed to diversify, and now we reap the fruit when it's too late and we have to face the dilemma: should we fund the genocide or help our economies.
I'm not sure what is most common. Most people with a generator are only wanting to run the fridge, furnace and a couple pumps, all this can be arranged to run from a single 120v phase, and finding a 120v outlet one the right phase near the generator is easy enough. In particular no need to move the dryer when doing this. However larger generators have 240v and it is easy enough to plug them in. The only people I know who have done this used a 240v welder outlet, for whatever that is worth.

Personally I'm glad my house as an automatic transfer switch. power goes off, generator starts, and lights go back on. Last time the power went it was planned so I had the generator running and the transfer happened fast enough for my servers to stay up.
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It does, 100%.

In fact, at first I thought I had to look at the watch before making this mental wake-up note so that to set a reference point. Turns out that even that is not needed... which is really weird.
Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves
Race-based firings are illegal and every company hires attorneys to cook the process so that it can pass legal muster.

That's the value of fake "diversity" (excluding the only diversity that matters, diversity of opinion - which is effectively forbidden by every large corporation in the states on any topic that is even remotely sensitive).
I vouched because (a) it concerns an important public policy question of direct relevance to the audience of this website, and (b) I learned the EEOC provides guidance on how to do layoffs that might result in disparate impact, guidance that Twilio didn't take at all.
HN morning crowd apparently doesn't like the idea of slowing down and asking for reasoning and data.

The point I'm making is that press releases around layoffs are often rushed, and might not actually represent the whole story. Maybe we shouldnt call someone guilty before they get a chance to elaborate?
The Boss Said ‘Take Her Down.’ Was What Happened Next His Fault?
Amazon's perspective is that they are a store / marketplace that a seller can optionally sell on. They are ensuring their customers get the best price. Like any store, if you don't like their terms then don't sell your product in their store. Pretty solid logic I think.

But the reality is they are a store that dwarfs every other in customer reach making it difficult for small businesses to grow without utilizing Amazon as one of their sales channel. Hence, Amazon's 15% commission gets baked into everything even if it's not sold on Amazon. I think the law needs to evolve in a way to recognize scenarios like this where there is massive asymmetry - not necessarily a monopoly - between one dominant market player and others which is harming the consumer.

Amazon's response of course would be "no fair; you're using us for product discovery but then giving the sale to the brand owner". Which has some validity. If you took away the commission, then they would be relegated to a search engine that relies on ad revenue only. But that would mean lower prices so consumers would win in the end.
There are two companies that have been huge disappointments in the EV space: Nissan and BMW. Nissan (from which we purchased the OG Leaf we still have), because they just sat on their laurels with a car that quickly got overtaken by other brands. BMW, because like Nissan they squandered their lead. And because squandering their lead wasn't enough, the CEO from a while back basically came out and said they didn't think EVs were the future (or something like that).

And so now I'm supposed to believe BMW is all-in on EVs? Meh, as much as we like our BMW motorcycles, I think we're just going to pass on BMW for now, as much as we might lust after the EV M version. Convince us you're committed, BMW, and we can talk again in a few years.
I have my doubts that any company would be dumb enough to do this.
[citation needed]

I frequently buy Steam keys on other sites such as Fanatical and the Humble Store because they're priced lower, so I don't think this is true at all.