skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do it in a way where you're helping the careers of people, not doing it because you think is abstractly best. Where having you around is good for them, and not having your around is bad for them. Where if you're gone, it's fuck, now my life is going to be harder. Some might call it 'relationships', but maybe it's more about choosing what has more effective impact?

Also a lot of glue people are missing the marketing aspect, and I think that is why it is unappreciated. If you never made a sound, do you exist? Glue people exist outside of the typical marketing machine for most employees, which in lies its power too, because the opportunity set is also richer.

The parallels to business and sales is very apt. You can't just make a product and expect adoption with no marketing, and the same applies when you're doing a job too. If you think you shouldn't do it, your essentially saying someone should do it for you, and they can, to a point, but you are your own best marketer, because you work with your work 24/7, while your manager has 5 to 25 other people to also think about.
I’m personally convinced the most you should spend on a bottle of Champaign is £10-15 on a bottle of Cremant De Bordeaux rather than Champaign. There will always be occasions when a bottle of Champaign is called for, but you likely have one that someone gave you as gift for that.

Most Cremant is as good as or better than Champaign at 2-3x the price.

We are particularly fond of this one: https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-cremant-de-bordeaux-blanc...
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This isn't about free speech. It's about defamation.
This is a total bullshit reason. Literally every other messaging app, including well regarded secure ones, have cross platform versions available.
Yeah the SE is probably the fastest iphone model there is because the CPU is top notch while the screen resolution is smaller, so rendering is less complex computationally.
I hope they will release an apk and a website
Comparable damage? Can you imagine your young daughter one days goes to school, never comes back because she bled to death in a corridor there, and then for years you get attacked by strangers claiming you made it all up and are a fake?
One thing I really don't understand about the US of A is, while it is abominously violent, still, a pork like Alex Jones hasn't been physically attacked by anyone. It's like there's a complete split in society somehow. In my books comparable damage would be everything and all money he owns, plus any he will, minus maybe $9 per day. Couldn't the jury have voted for such a verdict, why does it have to be an amount, why not an "everything"?
My kids have iPhones because they inherit ours when we upgrade. I suspect it's the same with many other parents. And: Much easier to provide support, share photos, reimburse them/send money, and do many other things that would be frustrating with Android.

I remember when Steve Jobs apologized to parents for unapproved in-app purchases and promised to do something about it. And they did. That resonated with me. I think the company still cares, as evidenced by its support options and privacy requirements.

When I still bought Android devices they tended to be problematic. Probably HTC and Xiaomi were the best designed, but updates were a pain especially on the Hongmi. LG camera sucked. Google Nexus had screen problems and eventually bricked, with no support options. I think I got my son a "Blu" phone at one point, which just had bad performance. Was happy to give him my iPhone 6 and move up to an 8.
> Alex Jones level of remorse has no bearing on the level of damage he caused

That's an excellent legal argument, is the kind of thing that could probably win before a judge... And has no bearing on what a jury finds. In general, the reasoning of a jury is private to the jury. They can award maximum damages because they think Jones is ugly (all you have to do is get fourteen people to agree that's a fair thing to do to the man; hypothetically, the averaging effect over so many folks is a back-stop. That back-stop backfires if the defendant is particularly loathsome; recall how long it took to seat a jury for Martin Shkreli).

This is why damages are, in so many places, not put before a jury.
Does pavement actually mean street in American English? It has always specifically meant the paved path used by pedestrians at the side of the roads in my admittedly very British English.
Ads companies like Google/Meta are good examples. Any small account gets a webpage and that’s it. Still, it must be harder to sell semi-commodities like CPUs.
If the discussion is around phone for kids, I think a second hand SE is still a great choice. Kids don’t really care about the features that you or I would care about.
And books.

I find it amusing that you reduced the works of Greek and Roman philosophers and poets, the entire Renaissance, the whole Library of Alexandria and indeed, the Bible, to "practically nothing."

I fail to see how, say, the Nth installment of Marvel movies is somewhat more worthy than all of that.

Movies which, I might add, are already hugely profitable, even though they're massively pirated.
What kind of product management do you want coaching in?

At it's core, product is the art of finding viable solutions that work for business and customers. Looking for win-win solutions that are actually buildable.

The details of the specific business, industry, customers and technical implementation are everything though.
I would be so much ashamed by the education I would have provided to such kids, I would never tell this in public.
The difference is, Facebook would probably pay the fine. Alex Jones probably won’t
Ask HN: Why have no career network centered around missions and skills only?
Hey everyone,

The more I see LinkedIn getting filled up with useless pr spam and overly relatable nonsense, everyone mass-adding later sales prospects via duxsoup etc, I wonder if there can't be a place, that's focused singularly on ones skills and current activity/mission. Without all the cherry picked history of past projects and jobs.

I would love to have a place where I can really find people for certain skills or be informed about their current path. I don't care who has worked for whom, every now and then I just need someone to get a certain job done or that's heading in a certain direction to board ship together.

I feel like the social graph of networks like LinkedIn incentivices streamlined and exaggerated public CVs and bs posts way too much.

Am I the only one?

Best, Thorsten
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7MSUfLeTdDEoZiJPDSBXgi
You can buy SE 2020's for significantly less, it's just that Apple themselves don't sell those in retail (but are still producing those and selling in gross).
>historically high employment rates

People will believe any statistic that aligns with their mindset.

Unemployment rates are at historical lows within a small margin, it's been 50 years since unemployment has been lower (i.e. something like 60% of Americans have not seen lower unemployment in their whole lives), and since the WWII war economy that they've been significantly lower (i.e. almost nobody alive).
I'm no expert but I think the general flow is that you wipe out all the debtor's assets, and then you arrange with the bankruptcy court to garnish their earnings until the matter is settled. That's for instance how it worked out with OJ.
Companies maybe not, but more likely, people just dont need PCs. My wife and I share one computer at home for like doing taxes. If we want another I’ll probably get a Chromebook for cheap. I do everything on my phone.
No, you still choose a secure messenger—just one that’s available to everyone.
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This is reminiscent of Soviet psychiatry and the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia" for dissidents.
Microsoft announces Canva competitor with new 'Designer' app powered by AI
I know you aren't the GP, but if you didn't care would you buy an iPhone for social reasons?
A $20 Android phone is better than nothing when you're already struggling to pay bills and raise children. That's the reality many people face.
Well, philosophy is one of those disciplines in which work is always being done, but it's takes time for any work to become well recognized. Some day, some ethics ideas written by someone living right now will be something everyone reads about in philosophy 101. But we can still apply many of the frameworks from hundreds of years ago to current ethics problems. There are no completely new moral ideas, everything is similar, influenced by, or related to ideas that others have come up with.

As you point out, there are plenty of utilitarian and/or consequentialist arguments for piracy. From an academically philosophical perspective, these aren't "right" or "wrong" arguments, they're just from a different school of philosophical thought than some other arguments which may dismiss concerns of utility or consequence.

a consequentialist might say: "Piracy is fine because the DMCA causes chilling effects which are bad, regardless of the wishes of the author."

a utilitarian might say: "Knowledge is good for society so piracy provides greater utility for mankind, more than it harms a few authors."

but a deontologist might say: "we have to respect the rights given to someone to reproduce their work, regardless of bad consequences"

All of these are academically valid arguments, regardless of which one any of us subscribe to.
They mostly use Android in India. This is about the US.
What are you talking about? No you can't.

If you're talking about an unlocked smartphone that you can install apps on, there is absolutely no such thing as a new Android phone for $20 that any American consumer can buy.

The Samsung Galaxy A03s is Samsung's cheapest, it's considered "ultra-budget", and it costs $160. The Moto G Pure, Motorola's cheapest, is also $160.

(Edit in response to comments: yes if you buy a locked phone with a plan you can obviously get it cheaper upfront, but you're just dividing the remaining cost monthly. It's not actually cheaper. You can also get iPhones "for free" upfront if you pay for them on installment plans either bundled with a plan or separate from one -- so "prices" for locked phones are utterly meaningless for comparing the cost of iPhone vs Android.)
What are the rest? Windows laptops?
but absolutely none of that, save the encouragement of harassment, has any bearing on what the victims suffered from the behavior the lawsuit is fundamentally about. These damages are, supposedly, compensatory, and so the only relevant factor is supposed to be what the victims actually suffered.
RCS with Google's implementation allows e2ee for two party conversations (finally, as of last year). It doesn't do e2ee for group chats, and other implementations don't provide e2ee.
Their GPU group seems to have some minimal success. The CPUs are still great but obviously process issues dominate.

The rest of intel is a shambles. The networking group in particular is an industry joke.
If they decreased lifetime earnings but increased the cost to the company of each employee, the company still has an incentive to fight them.
> Someone did a blog post about that, but it was actually misinformation (literally).

> The Contrast between Green and Blue is actually roughly identical, it's just that both colors fade upward as time passes. So, the author picked a green bubble from higher up (which had faded), and a blue bubble from the bottom (which was fresh and dark), thereby comparing Apples and Oranges. Both have similar contrast when freshly sent and arrived, and similar faded contrast.

You wanna check yourself? Because I pulled screenshots from my phone and tested this myself before I even posted that first comment.

I'll even go back and verify with the best case scenario that you stated of the color the very bottom pixel of a bubble at the very bottom of the screen (not counting the border).

SMS: #64C265 (100, 194, 101) or 2.2:1

iMessage: #377CEE (57, 128, 245) or 3.97:1

Heres the screenshots as well if you want to check: https://imgur.com/a/5nYhBSw

Why not even do the simplest thing of verifying before you try to claim "mIsInFoRmAtIoN".

EDIT: Re-reading this it has hostility in it, which I'm sorry for and apologize for. I am simply tired of people claiming "misinformation" on a topic while not even bothering to check the claim or to even try to backup what they claim themselves. I specifically went out of my way to check this, and include the exact color values. Only to be replied to with "well someone said XYZ" with no links, supporting information, or even an attempt at proving what they claimed.
This article is 8 years old, but the story is the same: TI took the time to create a moat around schools, originally by helping teachers integrate the calculator into their lessons, and then getting TI84 methods written into textbooks, and then eventually by aggressively going after alternatives like TI84 emulators on smartphones. Wabbitemu for example is excellent but a bit like asking Grandma to install openbsd because they have to be so careful about pissing off TI.
I wear glasses to see better. Not that much different to be honest. It optimizes much more than productivity.
Non-union employees also make more when in proximity to unions. See: states without "right-to-work" laws.
Now let’s sue every politician and newscaster who defamed Trump
> It's all just passable garbled nonesense that the reader (goes to lengths) to interept based on their prior knowledge, which is not expressed in the syntax of what these systems output.

> It's still little more than a fancy search.

I feel like the goalposts have been moved between your two comments. CoPilot is obviously not producing garbled nonsense, and it's also not just printing the top result from StackOverflow. It is producing code that references my variables, does the right thing 50% of the time, and usually compiles.

One of the nice little things is error messages- when I type `if (!foo) { throw ... ` CoPilot is able to complete a nicely formatted and descriptive error message from its understanding of my code. It's not garbled nonsense, and it's not just a search engine.

Does AI deserve the hype it sometimes gets? Not yet. But I think you're going to have to start digging a little deeper for your commentary.
This is uninformed. The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement has cost the tobacco industry north of $200 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
I mean Google did essentially do this: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/grumpy-go-running-...

Except without actually solving the problem of making the translation nice and readable. But this kind of thing at least gives you options for changing language.
Donald Sądoway made an impressive case for metal batteries using commodity materials Magnesium and Antinomy, how comes the switch to Aluminium and Sulphur?

There's supposed to be a Data Centre in Western USA being built out using these Magnesium/Antinomy batteries. Was it found to be unfeasible, just a different chemistry and this one is another tech being developed?

There's also the point that Sulphur is so cheap because it is a by product of the oil refining industry. Sulphur not just being used in new batteries, but a key part in extracting metals from ores.

There is room for lots of battery technologies, just so long as they can get lodged on the experience curve that reduces costs with scale, there are plenty of niches for that various chemistries could be an ideal fit for.

I'm guessing for peak shaving that low cost storage is going to take over the market, but scaling of materials supply appears to be the underlying issue.
i love how all the people in the demo videos are excessively and unnaturally expressive in order to show off how it captures depth.

would be neat to try, would be curious how much the effect holds up over time (vs flat video conferencing) as people get used to it.

interesting technology regardless.
Simple, Open Source and Free GUI for Stable Diffusion
I've made a web app to interact with Stable Diffusion cogs to create AI-generated imagery. The UI is very simple by design, targeted towards people that are new to AI image generation. There is an advanced mode which you can activate in the settings to have access to guidance scale, iteration steps, negative prompts etc.

You can use the default cog (which is there thanks to a friend of mine currently donating an A40) or connect to your own instance. I intend to keep the default instance up & free for as long as I can so that newcomers can generate images using Stable Diffusion without logins, installs or predetermined limits.

I tried to keep the app as simple and light as possible. It's currently about 280kb transferred. Suggestions are welcome.

Here is the repo for the web app:
https://github.com/yekta/stablecog

Here is the cog I'm using but you can use your own given it's compatible: https://github.com/yekta/stable-diffusion-cog
Possibly. Do you think salary is the main motivation for companies? Do you think FAANG companies couldn't find 50k engineers in the US that would accept 50% pay? Of course they could, but they feel that they're getting more value by paying more.
> But how many times, really?

Two people in the pub, I didn't know them well, but it comes up. What's interesting actually is the green bubble was not an issue for hook-ups, but it was an issue for long-term dating. I am talking about two people I've chatted to in a pub about this, and everyone else as well, so take it with a grain of salt.

Bring it up next time your in the pub! See for yourself.
Defense of Alex Jones here, generally in the form of "it was just speech, it was just one falsehood, goodbye free speech, if I say just one wrong thing..." etc. speaks of a particular trait: Context-free pedantry.

These people imagine themselves practicing their context-free pedantry in the workplace and saying something like "Go to Massachusetts for your abortion" or something analogous regarding race, disability, sexual identity, etc. and getting crushed for their speech.

It's not the speech. In Alex Jones's case, the speech led directly to violence against the families of the dead kids. For the people who imagine themselves to be future victims of speech restrictions, it's not their speech, either. It's their lack of understanding that speech has consequences, like an inherent inability to work alongside others who cannot then trust them. What woman in Texas, for example, can trust a man who believes she has no right to control her own body when he could snitch on her?
U.S. job growth strong in September as labor market forges ahead
> reputation

Very probably the matter is not with reputation. What seems to be more plausible instead is:

-- the victims having had an angry mob risen against them (and of course in the context of having suffered a diremost loss);

-- the responsible having financially exploited the situation.
A lifetime of garnished wages seems like a small price to pay for a millionaire who makes a career out of peddling hatred that ruins other peoples' lives. And they didn't just make up the number out of nowhere; it's based on estimated damages that his actions caused. I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to precedent or similar judgements in other cases. In any case, he will appeal, so we'll see what the final number actually comes out to.
Humans will invent indicators of social status whether you like it or not. Get rid of green bubbles and something else will rise to take its place.
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>> No, because PBKDFs are not a good mechanism for creating encryption keys

> I'm curious about what you mean by this. Isn't it in part what PBKDFs are designed for?

Password-based key derivation functions start with the assumption that some entropy is provided by the user. Which means that the entropy is typically of awful quality. A PBKDF does the best it can with that low entropy, which is to make it into a time- and maybe space-expensive brute-forcing problem. But a PBKDF is starting with one hand tied behind its back if the user-supplied entropy is "password" or "hunter2." If we aren't burdened by that assumption, then we can generate high-quality entropy -- like 128 or 256 bits of CSRNG-generated noise -- and merely associate it with the user, rather than basing it on the user's human-scale memory.

PBKDFs also generally assume that users are transmitting their plaintext passphrases to the server, e.g., when you HTTP POST your credentials to server.com. Of course, browsers and apps use transport security so that MITMs can't grab the passphrase over the wire, but the server actually does receive the phrase "hunter2" at some point if that's your passphrase. So again, it's a rotten assumption -- basically the foundation of most password-database compromises on the internet -- and PBKDF does the best it can.

If you remove that assumption and design a true asymmetric-encryption-based authentication system, then you don't need the obfuscation rounds of a PBKDF because the asymmetric-encryption algorithm is already resistant to brute-forcing. The script kiddie who steals /etc/passwd from a server would effectively obtain a list of public keys rather than salted hashes, and if they can generate private keys from public keys, then they are already very wealthy because they broke TLS and most Bitcoin wallets.

Think of passkeys as a very user-friendly client-side certificate infrastructure. You wouldn't let your sysadmin base your enterprise website's TLS certificates on a private key derived from their dog's birthday. You wouldn't let users do that for their certs, either.
I initially downloaded Signal assuming it had that feature. Then they removed encrypted SMS entirely: https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/ -- I almost uninstalled the app then.
1. Each one tracks it's nearest neighbors, which should have approximately zero differential velocity. A few gyroscopes or actuators to change the mirrors angles should give you plenty of thrust for controlling orbits. Inevitably probes will drift outward without counter thrust, after all they are basically solar sails. You could also use lasers, microwaves, or similar to cooperatively fly together without colliding. Of course you don't have to be perfect, just good enough that more expensive solutions aren't worth it.

2. Why bother? Make fuel, like antimatter for instance. Then launch them to where you need them. Maybe by a relay system and you could use the kinetic energy to help keep your ideal orbit.

Keep in mind these don't have to last forever. Maybe have 3 different designs for how close you are to the sun. Then you get installed in the inner most orbit of that band, then during your useful life you edge towards the outside edge of the band, launching anti matter payloads periodically and then get recycled at the outer edge. As long as you collect significantly more energy than your production cost it's a big win.
It's about as anti-competitive as you can get. Even putting aside the shortcomings of SMS, simply putting bright white text on an acid green background is visually nauseating. Why would a company that cares so much about aesthetic make this deliberately terrible visual design choice? If iPhone had a market share below 50%, this would be a terrible business decision. Turns out, since they have a very high market share, it's an excellent business decision.
The modern novel predates 1710 by 50 to 100 years and was itself predated by many, many other forms of literary entertainment.

The sheer amount of work and content you are dismissing as "nothing apart from musical scores or theatre plays" is mind boggling.
In the current context, "cheap" is used in comparison to base configs of flagship smartphone models, such as Galaxy S22, Pixel 7 Pro, and iPhone 14. All of which tend to go for $700+. And that's not even mentioning the luxury models like foldable Galaxy ZFold4 going for $1.7k+.

Sure, I wouldn't count a brand new $400 smartphone to be the most budget one, but it is almost half the price of a flagship. And that's not even getting into the used market.