skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About two or three weeks ago there was a thread on Reddit that said something like "The first person to piss off a million people the fastest gets a billion dollars. How would you do it?" And the top comment was "Get a job at YouTube and add 5 unskipable ads"
A Gmail account would also do that. Feels more like "privacy for me, not for thee" to be honest.
I wasn't a CORBA developer in those days, just an interested observer, so my opinion isn't worth much. Ultimately I think it suffered because of:

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

The design of CORBA was based on critical assumptions that simply weren't true, leaving the application developer to deal with all the essential complexity.
Ok, s/no longer/not/ above.
Historically one of the first uses for computers was Monte Carlo simulations. In such simulations it's often important to be able to deterministically recreate sequences of "random" numbers. Thus, in almost all computer programming languages, "Random" means deterministic random values. This is a wide convention followed by practically every programming language.

If you want cryptographically secure random numbers, you typically call a function with a different name, one that has "secure" or "crypto" in a name somewhere (e.g., in the function or containing module/package).

This is a convention from the 1950s and has been consistent ever since. That naming-convention ship sailed before many of us were born.
Alexa is good enough to run ads and feed Amazon's sales profile of you. So for Amazon it's about as good as it needs to be. As long as they can get people to buy them they don't need to improve them much.

FSD's feasibility has been overhyped by Musk for years. It's not an impossible technology but it's also not one you can just bang together with some shitty webcams hoping AI will somehow make everything right.

Technology doesn't improve on its own. It's developed by people that have motivations and limited by engineering prowess and physics. Tesla's FSD is still hype because they're incentivized to get your check for FSD and hand you an IOU. Amazon's current offering is an advertising/surveillance vehicle that does those jobs so they're not incentivized to improve it.
I can attest firsthand from having worked alongside journalists that almost all have never daily driven a Tesla and are incentivized by their bosses to write contrarian articles ~ which leads to a whole lede about how journalists are underpaid and addicted to the Twittersphere's warped Brooklynish view of the world...
I didn't know I was going to look more, but I decided to look at his Hungary data. He mentions in conclusion that his R^2 of 0.22 is "relatively low", but does not seem to understand that is means his theory fails to explain more than 75% of the variation between counties. And thus his result is that he is highly confident (97%) that less than 25% of the difference might be correlated to vaccinations.

Thus, to come back to belltaco's point, his post shows there is far more evidence for invisible space aliens (75% unexplained correlation) who only target Hungarians than for vaccines (25% possible correlation).
> What would the alternative be? There will always come a day when founders and investors want to move on. Retirement age comes faster than you might think. Even if you deny an exit strategy, the principals are still going to stop eventually, and the product will still come to an end at that time. Allowing a sale at least provides an opportunity for the product to live on, even if there can be no guarantees about how the next guy decides to treat it.

This is what you wrote in response to the idea that anti trust should be used to block these kinds of buy outs.

> The problem is that laws are prescribed by the very same general public, so you have to convince them its a good idea. And if you've done that, the law becomes largely superfluous because at that point they're already on board and will act as such on their own accord.

That is frankly an absurd oversimplification. Shareholders are a miniscule subset of the general public.
And those that exaggerate all its deficiencies are upset they weren’t in on the cryptocurrencies. Wonder what comes next…
If you're looking for an alternative, look at Teamflow https://www.teamflowhq.com − but it's a lot more! (Disclaimer: I work there)
Maybe that's a good thing if people wean off OxiContin into weed. Weed has potential for abuse and abusers shell do it regardless but it's a lot less destructive than OxiContin. I heard stories of potheads who quit and it seemed to have been easier than it is with opiates.
How is Adobe Animate, for one, not a replacement? And it even exports native HTML/JS code.
I did not know this either. Wow.
Changing the maximum block size would change the "energy used by a transaction" since block production is a factor of fixed time, not transaction volume, so the comparison is absurd on its face.
We've had a good experience with dnd kit: https://dndkit.com/
Opening a new tab telling you about changes in the ownership of a piece of software that has the ability to open tabs autonomously is not abusive. Moreover it is not even a problem with the extension, it is a problem with the opersting system it runs on.

Analogously, i am sure that discord would have preferred to have finer control over the permissions it requests, but Apple's mission is security theater. If apple exposed a set of "application specific out of focus keybinds". The security breach would not be necessary.

As it stands lots of software in the apple ecosystem has identical permissions to discord, but those don't get scary warnings associated to them. This constitutes a (clearly illegal) competitive advantage for Apple and they have no interest in removing this advantage by offering finer permissions controls, even in the case where they do not offer competing software.
Figma is an alternative to XD, and it blows it out the water. Not sure what you're trying to say.
You think taxes are 70-80%?
Unless you're working for a defense contractor, in which case they aren't letting you WFH in the first place, foreign governments do not give a shit about your 'insider knowledge'
No, it's overstrained because every major metro area in the US has policies in place that keep enough housing from being built. Housing would need to be built at literally twice the current rate just to cover the current deficit of housing compared to number of families in a reasonable timeframe [1].

[1]: https://www.realtor.com/research/us-housing-supply-gap-expan...
Tried to run away from Adobe and they still got me, RIP... Will have to move again once they ruin Figma with feature overload.

Simplicity is so hard to achieve with design and Figma has done a great job striking the balance with feature set and simplicity. All the while delivering a super responsive platform.
Well, you should care about it because laws apply to you whether you agree with them or not. So, at the end of the day both you and your employer will have to cover those costs. But nobody is preventing you from moving, you just might have to quit and look for a new job.
I think it's hilarious that you call this moving the goalposts. As if the critiques about country-sized energy waste were the only issue raised until this moment. When that was actually a later-stage critique as "mining" grew and grew.
Hi. Happy to see this. On iOS the first demo drag seems to trigger text selection too though, so perhaps not quite ready for production.
No. It's putting pressure on anybody who can't buy a house with cash and not requiring a mortgage. For the mortgager, housing is as expensive as ever - even now more expensive. Who cares that the selling price is dropping when the loan expense is greater? Maybe some day they'll be able to refinance at a lower rate but we don't know when that day may be.

For those who are buying cash then it's great! Housing prices are falling!
> Real question: Strictly speaking from a software engineering perspective, who cares? Why does a framework of taxes created by people who don't understand technology get to decide where I move around to?

Real answer: The "software engineering perspective" you have here is irrelevant to tax/immigration law. Taxation is based on where you live and work (physically). And countries very much get their say on whether or not they'll allow you to live there, for how long, and for what purposes.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain
Straight out of GATTACA.

I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s.

Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki (https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline):

"Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms amputated and replaced with cybernetic arms in an effort to compete with mechanically augmented workers in his profession. The Supreme Court rules in his favor, clearing the way for elective augmentation."
Yups this was at EUR (Erasmus).
I am not sure I understand your point.

On the one hand you have light waves that hit some receptors in the eye. These receptors (various kinds) sensitive to frequencies according to a function. This creates a specific signal that is analyzed by the brain which assigns a "color" to that signal.

Everyone's, to some extent, functions are different. There is a general trend so most people agree on "colors". When you are colorblind, the functions differ drastically (or are just flat).

This is why "color" is a biological concept (same as, say, "pain") to which we are desperately trying to attach three or four numbers (or, worse, a wavelength)
On the other hand, if you have it around anyway, there is no reason not to use it to resize an image.
> less mass transit

This is the real issue. A train system can't easily be turned on and off. It was a huge investment, should we shut it down?
Well, there was the GI bill...

And HUD https://www.hud.gov/topics/rental_assistance/phprog
It was a good run lol.
Adobe pioneered the "click cancel plan but we will offer you some stuff that you don't care about in order to stop you from cancelling your plan" dark pattern.

Then on the support call they will straight up pretend that none of their systems work in order to stop you from cancelling.
This article is biased:

"That innovation was the essential ingredient behind decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs"

as if defi was already globally in use! And later:

“Rightly or wrongly, she'd absorbed a very toxic environmental narrative,”

I am actually very glad that new generations have a much better understanding of environmental risks and I find very difficult to sympathize for a ecosystem that is such energy greedy.
This is the random task I can't solve it. To go to the "Australian Plant Name Index" seems to be an impossible task.

https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick_play?prompt_start=Cleve...
Time start an alternative startup because figma is soon gonna stagnate once it is acquired.
I was very excited by this and it's promising, but it needs a bit more work to be usable. I was hoping the RSS technique would help avoid the SEO and blogspam that Google is now filled with. Unfortunately, I still get quite a bit of that (my query was "espresso machine" and I got a bunch of listicles, etc).

I think applying a layer of curation on top would go a long way to fixing this.
Good thing they invented contracting… several hundred years ago?
Die-hard Fireworks user, I salute you!
The form is submitted to the server using `value`, not `valueAsNumber`. Or maybe you'd prefer all forms to be submitted using JavaScript instead of just using <form action>?
The Hardest Things to Do in SQL
The slow banking system? Don't crypto transactions (on bitcoin or ethereum) take 5-10 minutes to complete, whereas I can tap my credit card to make a transaction more or less instantly?
i dont know..... i never understood the idea of "choosing clothes". like i went to the store last week, had to buy some formals. asked the assistant to show me my size, the did, then i gave them colors, white, black and something inbetween and my shopping was done.

i accompanied a friend later on and they spent hours, trying on shades, different types of clothes, "nah," "this color isnt right" and all that....

i was constantly asking then "whats wrong in this?" "dont know but it doesnt feel right".

maybe i did not develop those feelings but i dont know..

i only wear Tees that are a solid color without any text, makes life "simpler", i either do the jobs' stype "same color multiple pieces" or multiple colors and be done with it....

>You can't replicate this with a digital solution (yet?).
this is supposed to inundate the user with "choice", with all the tiktok and insta and snap vying for your attention, maybe this is the next big thing (tm)?
The pilot must maintain visual line of sight with the drone at all times, sufficient to determine heading of the drone by eye, unassisted by binoculars.

It must not fly over people or vehicles with people in them.

State privacy laws may provide restrictions above FAA airspace guidelines.

Drone operators could get in trouble for taking off or landing on private property.

Source: I'm a commercial license holder and have done some personal research into what's ok for the purposes of drone mapping.

Edit: That appears to be in Class B airspace, starting at 680 feet above mean sea level. Ground level there appears to be 250 feet above sea level, so flying a drone means you could go 430 feet above ground level before you do something the FAA gets real angry about.

As a drone operator, you can fly 400 feet above the ground OR 400 feet above any structure you are surveying. So it's something this pilot may want to be very, very careful about.
Slim fit. Like these (a german page from the site of a global chain): https://shop.mango.com/de/herren/hemden-slim-fit_c28503139?S...

Mediumish quality.
Pretty much all Allwinner based SoCs used in common SBCs have FOSS firmware. Some older Rochcip SoCs also do, but you have to be careful there (the most open/fully featured is RK3399). That covers a huge amount of SBCs out there. Some even have multiple alternatives for FOSS firmware.

If anything RPi seems like an outlier. Out of 9 different SBCs models I have at home only Rpi2b and Quartz64-A have proprietary firmware.
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let me recommend plugin of Joplin, everything is open source and at least two different implementation for this feature.
Are you on the losing end of it? If you're not looking to sell your home while rates are high, it doesn't really impact you.

While your home might decline from $500k to $450k, when interest rates lower your home value will climb back up as buyers see lower monthly payments. If interest rates are permanently high, then you got to lock in an amazing rate that will effectively make your housing cheaper - even if your purchase price was higher. If/when rates come back down, your property value will go back up and unless you're forced to sell while rates are high, you won't experience anything bad.

Even if you're worried that maybe you could have gotten a better deal with a lower price and higher interest loan, I wouldn't be. Let's say you buy a home at $500,000 at 4% interest. Interest rates hit 6% and your home's value declines to $450,000. The person who buys at $450,000 at 6% will be paying $2,150 vs. your $1,900 ($250/mo more, 13% more). Let's say interest rates go back down to 4% in 2025. They can refinance at 4% and their purchase price was $450,000, but they've already paid $49,700 in interest. They'd have payments around $1,750/mo (assuming they did a 28-year term) which is less than your $1,900. Ultimately, they'd be paying around $641,000 over the life of the loan against your $687,000 so it's not really that different. Of course, that doesn't consider the fact that the other person would also need to pay the loan closing costs a second time and that if they sold the house after 5 or 10 years, they wouldn't have that 4% interest rate for as long. So you're probably still in a significantly better position financially - unless you're quite sure you're going to stay in the home for 30 years. If you're only going to be there for 5 years, you'd rather pay $1,900/mo ($114,000) than $2,150/mo for the first 2 years 4 months and then $1,750 for 2 years 8 months ($116,200).

Plus, because interest gets front-loaded, you end up with more equity with the lower rate. At 6%, you're getting 0.0008% equity per month instead of 0.0012% per month. With the 4% loan, you've paid off $38,210 over the first 5 years (9.5% of the loan principal). With the 6% loan, you'd pay off $25,004 over the first 5 years (6.9% of the loan principal). Even if you assume that the home is really worth $500,000 and not the $450,000 purchase price, the higher rate still means that you only own 26.9% of the home rather than 29.5% of the home (assuming 20% down). They've been paying a higher monthly and they own a lower percentage of their home!

Again, if you're going to stay for 30 years, buying at a lower price and a higher rate might end up better if you can refinance. However, it does mean that you end up with less equity (paying more interest) earlier in the loan.

Basically, you're probably in a way better position than someone buying at 6% while getting the benefit of downward pressure on housing prices.
I think this is potentially the most interesting comment in here. If all of those GPUs just flipped to another cryptocurrency, global energy reduction would be zero.
I think we both know that they were called "smart contracts" to draft off the legal meaning of the term.
I haven't worked in the home sales/mortgage industry, but I bought a house in 2006 and what I remember was the huge number of people getting into the industry in the boom years and then a mass exodus after the crash. It felt like everyone who didn't already have a good career was getting a realtor's license in 2006. I would expect this go around to be similar, they may want to raise their fees to account for dropping prices, but there are probably too many others trying to compete in the market for a slice of the shrinking pie to let that happen.
when elon said he would buy twitter. I tested this. I never ever commented. I connected to the people I want to connect to but obviously not of the allowed political persuasion. I did like things but never a retweet.

One day I posted a simple like 'congratulations' or something to a chess player. You couldn't see my reply. I got shadow banned and you couldn't see what I would say.

I'll never ever go back to twitter. If they shadow ban people because of literal things they say, perhaps someone calls for genocide. Then fine. But shadow banning because you are following the wrong people... what a joke.
Not to mention visa and health insurance issues.
>Lower interest rates shouldn't result in higher list prices.

For the vast, vast majority of homebuyers the only number that matters when purchasing is the monthly mortgage. If the totally monthly payments of a $550,000 house at 6% are the same as a $800,000 house at 3%, well, technically you can pretty much "afford" both houses. In the end, the total paid cost for the house after 30 years is more or less equivalent (assuming your rate is locked and you don't refinance ever).
But no, that's not the same. If the owners of a stock received a fee when somebody used the company's product, that wouldn't be a "ponzi". It lacks the key element that earlier investors are paid via the investments of future investors. That's just not what happens on Ethereum.
Fees mean that the bank will still making money if you refinance in the very short term.

Inflation isn’t likely to stay 8% for long.
I don't get your point about Meta being evil. The acronym refers to big tech companies, not good big tech companies. It's like the Big 3/4 in consulting.
>I do not recommend to expose WunderBase to the public internet. The intended use case is to run it on a private network and expose it to your frontend via an API Gateway, like WunderGraph!

My SEC team felt a disturbance in the force from me even considering this on our internal network. Security should not be a secondary consideration for a DB!
Agree with @tambourine_man Adobe will KILL Figma just like Freehand. Adobe is a predatory borg that will kill innovation.
TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now
These are largely (if not completely) applications of existing zero-knowledge algorithms to blockchain data, not the application of blockchains to solve some difficult ZK problems or make a useful-outside-of-blockchain novel ZK construction.
FMLA is not a get out of jail free card. You don't get paid, it has strict requirements, and has an approval process.

Ahh yes the famous friend that "makes all this money". Go ahead, sign up. No one is stopping you. "I know a guy who made billions in crypto!" Yea, we all do.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/installation-maintenance-and-repair/...

People lie like crazy about wages. The numbers don't.

> My company manages some of the rail road 401ks and they are highly compensated. And they're unionized, unlike devs, which I see as a plus.

Sure. Overtime pay is a great. Being away from family all the time, working odd hours, yea, if you can handle it, go for it, it can be rewarding for a certain type of person. But remember - OT goes by seniority in the union.

For me? I'll be paid more, for way less hours, with way more benefits, remote work, etc. But if you don't want that, go ahead. Some people do better in those jobs.
Users here are extremely quick to push back if we do something they find objectionable. That's in fact how the moderation practices have evolved in the first place—by intense operant conditioning: if you do X and immediately get swarmed by wasps, you're less likely to do X in the future.

Slowbanning and rate limiting are two different things. Your account is rate limited. That's standard practice in a number of cases, including (a) when an account is posting too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or getting involved in flamewars, and/or (b) there's reason to believe that an account is the latest incarnation of a user whom we've banned several times in the past. The bar for moderation penalties is a lot lower when we seem to be dealing with a serial abuser.

Edit: I deleted an earlier response to you because I didn't have time to finish it (I wanted to respond to the bit about 'slowbanning'). If I had seen that you'd already responded to it in your parent comment, I wouldn't have deleted it. The original text was:

We've already established that you interpret those comments very differently than I do. The question then would be: is there any way to

I post that sort of moderation comment all the time—tens of thousands of them by now. If the community agreed with you, we'd never hear the end of it; in fact, it would be a bloodbath. So I don't think the community agrees with you.
This is...amazing writing. Am I missing something here?? This guy has written some equally amazing stuff over on his blog.

* https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/anthony-fauci-has-b...

* https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-lumpenbourgeois...

* https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-heretics

I can't believe this 1920s reimagining of Refer Madness was actually published. I guess Tablet, some source that indeeds seems reputable enough to hire this guy to write for them, is a fine place for it. Bravo.
I'm paying via Paypal so I've just cancelled the adobe subscription through their subscription management panel. Is there any reason why this might be a bad idea?

PS I just remembered that I forgot to cancel the subscription and they want to charge me 40 quid for the rest of the year. I even had a reminder set, but I missed it. So annoying.