skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I want that future, because their right to restrict service is the same right to restrict service that I personally have, and diminishing their rights diminishes my rights.

If you want government-run services that act as public versions of these services, advocate for that. But I don't support this particular method of socializing private businesses.
You're correct. Only a small minority of those have reached parity. But the relative increase has been quite large, proportionally. And I would note that in aggregate even the lowest paid workers (seasonal labor) have seen increases in their pay and bargaining power. All part of the inflationary cycle, I suppose.
Nice job! Fast and easy to use. It took me more time to choose what photos to upload than it did to process them.

Edit: I should mention that the editing prompt is a nice add. Oh, and the About page ;)

Is there a way to download the final image?
Ask HN: Private email relay for C2C communication?
Craigslist has implemented this perfectly for years but I don't see a lot of other companies doing it. It makes a lot of sense that Craigslist doesn't need to filter / moderate messages between users as it just provides a way for them to communicate through email (mostly) anonymously.

Creating such an email relay seems non-trivial so I'm curious if there are any open source or even paid products that provide the same service. Does anyone know?
Every one of those clauses that I've seen or heard about also tried to make the contractor liable for all of the employer obligations: Employer NI, Apprenticeship Levy if applicable, and usually some blanket term that covers any other expenses they incur dealing with it. That is most definitely not in the spirit of the law.

Paying the personal taxes is obviously a different matter. Even then it's usually the client side who are establishing the working arrangements and responsible for making the determination so I'm still not sure about the ethics of retrospectively hitting the contractor with a huge extra tax bill later if that determination is found to be wrong.

In many cases the contractor presumably wouldn't have taken the role in the first place if the client had got their side right so I feel like it should probably be the client's responsibility to insure against any later adverse decisions if they want to in this situation. You'll certainly find that when it's the other way around with a small business client any intermediaries will be quick to include an indemnity clause in their standard contract that leaves the contractor on the hook for all costs on both sides if they make the wrong determination.
The account in the extension store, and the ability to auto-update everyone's installed version for their own goals - whichever they may be.
State Highway Induced Frequency of Travel
For countries they have visas to go on, but moving between states or within the eu zone, how would they even know? If I have a po box or perhaps even a street address in WA or TX (no state income tax) but live in an airbnb somewhere in CA, how can the state figure it out? The employer probably can't either since you could run their vpn over your vpn.
They can, it just takes extra steps and so probably won’t happen as nobody is likely to run a coordinated campaign to do it.
Ah yes, the companies with bimodal tenure distribution; it's either 3 months or 13 years, and nobody with 3 years. You either accept the bullshit and stick around, or you get out of there fast.
Well, if you would like that, you are free to start your own company, find the talent and the like minded investors and take the prerequisite risks to create a company that meets your ideals. But Figma is a private company and the founders get to choose who they sell to.
Write abuse@ and you stand a good chance they revert this quickly.
I think it's reasonable to go back to the original inquiry: How are we defining intelligence here? Is it reasonable to define intelligent as the ability to communicate with human beings?
Chaos researchers can now predict perilous points of no return
IQ tests test pattern recognition which is a proxy for intelligence. All possibility of racial and cultural bias has been removed by limiting test questions to geometric patterns that have no cultural significance.
I'm hoping that some portion of the mining community will migrate to Gridcoin, where at least the work has some value outside of the token itself. The more scientific computing we can get the better.
I agree... likely this person is paying something like $5k/m in rent and wonders why they have no money.
user: bitlax - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bitlax

created: December 6, 2014 - karma: 523

Not a single submission? - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bitlax
I'd rather be actively hostile to the ads and tracking and use Ad Nauseum, instead of passively blocking them with just UbO
The problem with the color balance on most TVs is that the red channel has been turned way up. The reason manufacturers do this is it makes the picture stand out when TVs are displayed in a big line. A properly balanced TV looks bland in comparison. And most people don’t realize this and have just gotten used to the way things look.

There are other things to do, but usually just turning down red significantly gets you a lot of the way there for minimal effort.
Thank you to all those that donate to the Wikimedia Foundation. Your donations help fund my local public schools, fire department, sheriff department, etc through Wikimedia's payment of local property taxes.
Java is great for learning OOP and certain design patterns, but eludes all other programming knowledge. They are 'encapsulated'.
Just FYI, the images on your site appear to be lazy-loading and on Firefox, it's creating a very stuttered experience. I thought it may have been the size of the images, but none of them are HUGE (there are a couple over 1MB though).
Except you don't even need to completely trust them like you are probably thinking of.

Depending on the level of trust you are willing to give the other party, you could use one of many automated eskrow services (that kick back to a human when one or both parties dispute the transaction), or on the other end of the spectrum, you can have a mostly automated smart contract with built in refund mechanisms where all of the rules of the transaction are declared upfront.

At the end of the day, reducing the number of parties you need to trust for a transaction to succeed is a strictly better outcome than the status quo (or expanding the number of parties that need to be trusted).
How is that good news? Their biggest rival is now part of a monopolistic Goliath? Or do you mean the valuation helps boost their value?
I get resistance to C, it is quite simple and straightforward language, but pointers aren't for beginners.

But hey, scheme is nice. No manual memory management, as simple as it comes syntax, very little to get started, excellent REPL, if it were in my power, I'd go back to college and have my first programming class in Scheme.
When quoting from the Pruneyard Wikipedia article, I would suggest you include "In refusing to follow Pruneyard, the state supreme courts of New York and Wisconsin both attacked it as an unprincipled and whimsical decision", and not just the parts you like.
Rather than say cryptocurrency failed, it's more accurate to say centralized banking and FUD won.
> Almost feels like a conspiracy against me at this stage but I suspect it just comes down to not having a rich daddy who is connected to politicians and corporate execs.

I don't know where you live but there is no way this is the case. 80k is less than starting salaries for new grads.

Maybe you meant 180k? In which case, that's still around the level for a second level employee at a big company (a few years of experience). Getting a job at FAANG or whatever else doesn't require special connections, just knowing how to interview and knowing how to be pleasant to work with. It doesn't require connections at all -- if anything it's one of the most democratic hiring processes of any field, where you can apply online and have a job a few months later on your merit alone without any networking being required.
10 years ago I was making 145k base salary. This year I'm making 220k base salary. Both as Senior Software Engineer. I don't think they are stagnating at all.
In the sense that there isn't any difference in spending your annual salary on lottery tickets instead of food. Before you balk, I point you at the handful of winners who raked in billions, a ROI most of these "food eaters" could only dream of.
The UK "mini-roundabout" does not take up additional space.

Roundabouts work best when the traffic is below a certain critical level; above that and you're still stuck for ages except with no automated system trying to bring "fairness". In some cases this can be solved by .. adding traffic lights to the roundabout.
Each state has different rules. For one example Illinois doesn't tax remote workers of companies in Illinois who don't live in Illinois.
> Speech alone, in the format of threats and harassment and vague but menacing comments, already imply the possibility of violence.

Threats imply the possibility of violence. Harassment may or may not imply the possibility of violence. "Vague but menacing comments" are entirely subjective and do not imply the possibility of violence or they wouldn't be "vague". Frankly, I don't think I'm the one guilty of conflating separate concepts.

> The notion that Jews should just ignore threats and wait to be victims of actual violence is ridiculous.

No one is saying they should ignore threats. Tolerating speech is not tantamount to ignoring threats. This is why Jewish lawyers working for the ACLU fought for the rights of Nazis to protest in Skokie.

> And turning back to the digital realm, speech alone can be harmful.

Censoring speech can also be harmful, yet you don't seem to have considered that aspect at all.

> From your comments, I get that you think they should prefer the Nazis, but I hope you can at least understand why platforms don't find that a good plan, either morally or financially.

Neither you or anyone else has presented a valid moral case for violating free speech principles in these cases, and I have considerable evidence suggesting that violating such principles are generally harmful. Speech that directly implies violence is already illegal. Various forms of harassment are already illegal. If law enforcement is failing to enforce those laws, that's an argument for justice reform, not for violating free speech principles. My position follows trivially from these basic facts and nothing you've said contradicts them.
$50-100k seems cheap when you compare the cost and space required to store a complete car (can store it outdoors even!) vs a fully dissasembled vehicle with all the shelving, bins, packaging, and inventory system for someone to pick specific parts for those who need it.
Is this the same as when companies pay remote workers in poorer countries much less?

Or even set up whole factories in poorer countries to save costs, but still charge the same price in the rich 'home' country?
I was careful not to say it was allowable to send emails on vacation from anywhere. Because, as you illustrate, it isn’t.

I am saying that magnitude of the problem will be significantly more if you lie about residency.
I imagine this person has some other expenses they are not disclosing. Or they have a SO that doesn't work or something. Otherwise it makes no sense.

$250k is not rich in NYC - but you can get a house in NYC for $250k....
I don't think most jobs really are globally remote. As I understand it, the UK economy is having a hard time relative to how things are here in the USA. So I think you'd need someone else in the UK to lend you their perspective.
https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disinterm...

Most couples now meet online. Good luck convincing them all the internet is not real life. And those stats are from 2017. Given a few years of lockdown the trend has surely accelerated.

Discord is how a lot of young people talk these days. If you're banned from Discord, it's not very comforting to hear "you don't need Discord son, in my day we didn't have Discord and we wrote to our pen pals. I'm sure you'll make some new friends."
The definition marks the goal. We can reach the goal without definition, but would we recognize it? And how much time and effort will be wasted by blindly tinkering around in the dark? The definition is a light beacon. Having it, will speed up progress significantly.
Nooo. Remember Macromedia. Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc. Such a sad graveyard of great products.
That's an odd supposition. All living things are of course just arrangements of atoms.

Stating "There's nothing ethically problematic about this either" doesn't fix the inherent unethical ramifications of trying to force the imaginary concept of "ownership" onto natural processes. I'm sorry that this is not obvious to you, but I hope that some day you can sit down and reflect why you don't understand that.
I am curious at what traffic levels roundabouts stop being more efficient. I know in Cities Skylines, the roundabouts will deadlock over a certain traffic level.

Like, would roundabouts work on the 4 lane roads that are always packed with traffic here in Los Angeles?
I believe you can mine on GPUs, it's just horribly inefficient and has a terrible hashrate compared to a CPU.
Seems like a good opportunity. Does this position offer remote working?
Open source began because Xerox neglected to update their printer drivers. It's always been a blend of idealism and pragmatics.
I dunno where everyone got the idea that Leetcode is required for this stuff. You learn everything you need to pass these interviews in a 101 or 102 level algorithms/data structures class.
> used for financial speculation, conducting illicit transactions, and dodging regulators...

https://decrypt.co/66411/cia-bitcoin-surveillance

> Michael Morell, who was previously the CIA’s acting director, said in ‘An Analysis of Bitcoin’s Use in Illicit Finance’ that “blockchain
technology is a powerful but underutilized forensic tool for governments to identify illicit activity and bring criminals to justice.”

> Tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions is therefore easier than tracing illegal funds moved across borders using “traditional banking transactions” and “far easier” than trying to follow cash, according to the report.

> One source in the report was quoted saying that “if all criminals used blockchain, we could wipe out illicit financial activity.”

TL;DR cash is a better tool for crime according to an ex CIA director
Did that group of people include Larry Ellison?
Do you have an HN Alert about "Cloudflare" appearing in comments?
If it gets slower or clunkier, it will die.

High chance Adobe increases pricing & wastes a year of engineering resources on integrating Figma with their Adobe Cloud over building useful features.
Anti-trust laws were written to address certain perceptions of how businesses operated back in the late 1800s. They were not particularly grounded in reality, and as such they are hard to actually implement as written in most situations.
Please seriously consider making it the default. Every graph-visualization tool makes this alignment mistake, and it's part of why they just aren't very popular. They're too hard to browse because you can't easily scan the graph. I think if you prototype it, you'll see how much better it feels when everything lines up.
Had a lot of fun building this; did an in-depth writeup here as well: https://blog.roboflow.com/georeferencing-drone-videos/
I've heard this argument but I honestly don't understand it. This is the reality for making credit card purchases in Canada, having to remember PINs for credit cards is something I've never heard anybody complain about.

Maybe it's because the prevalence of Interac already trained us to deal with PINs.
>we

Speak for yourself, noob.
If you have a BS in computer science and remember some of your coursework, you’ll pass an interview.
There is something I don't understand: If you pretend do have a lot of customers (to feed illegal income into pretend purchases), why not also pretend to have a lot of employees? At least they don't need to be present, since this seems to be what make people suspicious.
Not quite, equality of outcome isn't necessarily the target. The most common axiom is "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".

Different socialist and communist communities interpret this differently. The fundamental baseline is no one should starve, no one should be homeless, no one should lack basic medical care -- essentially there should be a baseline safety net for everyone.

Some communities focus on workers and profit distribution - the company's profit should be directed by the workers, reinvested or paid out at their discretion (rather than collecting in the pocket of "owners"). Some focus on equality of outcome. Some are built of gift economies similar to the economies of some indigenous tribes.

What most people think of as communist is the Stalinist model of the Soviet Union - an authoritarian, single party, fairly corrupt institution. The Soviets pushed their brand of communism onto other countries, which is why you see so many built on that model. (The Soviets actually attacked other communist states that were more libertarian and democratic.)

I would say yes, authoritarian communism is prone to the outcomes you describe. There's a reason I disparage Stalinists by calling them "Tankies" and do my best not to associate with them.
I am fine with Walmart issuing those bans, as is within their rights, because the correct mechanism to respond to that would be for it to be "not tolerated by society", aka, the market will respond.
We really need a platform that would run open source for you as a service.

In many cases there are reasonable OSS alternatives (here, Discord itself!) but not everyone wants to be a part-time sysadmin.

Free/Libre Open-Source Software as a Service, anyone?
The Federal Reserve, among others.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/08/wages-202...
Yes. I have my own mechanism for various things on HN and I get emailed about comments.
The article makes it sound like it's something to consider today (well 2018), that's why I think it's fair to see how well it satisfies modern requirements.
Nice! I’d love an intro if they’re interested in using drones/computer vision to streamline their work
Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker
You are 100% wrong. This is the same article I myself pointed to. It says they are offering vaccination only to 50 and older or below 50 with health issues.
It took me forever to understand what the heck the Java classpath was.
Oh, that's nothing. Here in New Jersey, we have what my wife refers to as a "traffic theta". Here's an example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7957351,-74.3405952,17z

It's a circle, with traffic light, but also still an intersection. Fun!
I think the assumption is that the work laptop has bossware or at least logs that get audited for that stuff.
>"Unfortunately, Walmart’s announcement of the Be Your Own Model feature makes no mention of how the world’s largest retailer plans to safeguard the semi-nude images it’s asking customers to upload en masse. "

Just make it social, problem solved. People upload their "semi-nudes" voluntarily, for all to see millions of times to their social media.
Well, I for one, don't find most things invented between my 15-35 exciting and revolutionary either. And didn't find thme as such, even when I was that age...

Some things just suck. And the products of some eras, wher marketeers and hype-men take the lead, suck more than others...
> Do basketball players deserve to make 10x the salary of CEOs? (Average, from top Google result).

The short answer: no, they don't, basketball has its own wealth distribution problem, but that's a problem within basketball rather than for society at large. (Non-superstar players are severely undercompensated, particularly when it comes to development leagues, college, and even high school.)

The shorter answer: we're not talking about CEOs, we're talking about owners and shareholders, so why even bring up CEOs?
Weirdly, every server I'm on is primarily text.

I'm in multiple text chat rooms on multiple servers in irc though.
It would be unfortunate because it would be difficult for us to go into a legal battle with such a big brand. On the other hand... how can you legally reserve the phrase "ticket to europe" which can literally refer to, for example, buying airplane tickets to Europe? This is an expression used in the daily life of millions of people.
You generally get these when the roundabout has one or more clear 'through traffic' routes, to the point that you're always 'giving way to the right' and not able to enter the roundabout.

If you imagine traffic on a motorway going North/South and an A-road running East-West, at busy times, the traffic going from East to West and West to East will be significant enough that traffic coming off the motorway is not able to find enough space to enter the roundabout (or, not enough to meet the demand). Without traffic lights, traffic will soon back up down the slip road onto the motorway, or worse, will try to force its way onto the roundabout instead of giving way to the right.

Traffic lights make this much safer.
I wish freakonomics had an rss feed.

The thing that's happening right now is that many large cities have more or less enabled the possibility of carless transport. Cycling is now completely viable and even better, costco has a foldable ebike for like $400. Weather sucks? Work from home instead. Gotta go? Taxis and buses exist. What do you pay in car insurance? $1000/year? How many trips in the bus is that? Many! You also dont pay for parking anymore. Cycling is great exercise burning fat instead of money. It's a huge net benefit to society which is 70% overweight. National wealth will certainly increase.

Which brings me to traffic lights. Cyclists already don't obey them. Why don't we just abolish them? Traffic lights function just fine when they go out or blink red.

If stop signs replacing all traffic lights is an inconvenience for cars... might I recommend a bike?
They seem to be working as a company. Does anyone know what their business model is? I'm interested in contributing but I want to know this before I do.
I want to have the same faith as you, but I've been here since y2, and it has seldom been positive. I get it, I'm in the same field of research and can't stand what traders have done to the industry.

0. In the beginning we had no legitimacy, so we courted regulators and current financial types in as a means of legitimacy by proxy.

1. Those financial types and regulators who had open minds joined, shenanigans ensued, and we saw a replaying of all the dirty tricks that were outlawed in traditional markets like front-running.

2. Then fast forward to where we are now; industry types who came in early are making a killing and funding legislation like New York's BitLicense, which pushes toward centralization by outlawing participation for 'unaccreddited' types like the nerds who built this whole shindig.

For folks like me who just want to build distributed systems and tackle issues like consensus, it's hard to be taken seriously, because we're all just trying to do our work but we're trapped in this casino where there's starting to be more pinky rings than poker chips and it's only getting worse.
They were founded in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area and still have a very heavy presence here and around out-state MN.

Interestingly enough, in the past year or so, they’ve been opening up drive-through only locations. These obviously carry much lower overhead than standard stores, but I’m skeptical if they’ll drive enough sales to remain open, especially as COVID (hopefully) continues to subside.
These are not dissimilar in style from the "100 Years Ago" sidebar in Scientific American in a past now further receding, when I made a regular practice of reading that once-estimable journal.