skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Immigration support

I was in a somewhat similar situation - got laid off in 2020, with a great severance pay etc. I was on a working visa which got canceled within a couple of weeks (not sure how it works in the US, I was working in a different part of the world). The market was low so it was difficult to find something quickly to get another job visa. On top of that I couldn't get back to my home country, since the borders were closed due to COVVID. I had to live for several months on short-term visitor visas and had to renew the visas constantly - it was a separate bueracratic hell. Eventually I found a job and got a permanent visa, but these months cost me and my family a lot.

So here's the question - would it be (legally?) possible to put the visa holders on garden leave and pay them i.e. $1/m until they found a new job? Or at least do it temporary, for like 3 months or so. Because honestly, I didn't care at all about the money and stuff, the visa problem was absolute hell.
> Machine learning algorithms are able to accurate identify spam

Nope. Not even close.

> and itʻs not because they are able to tell itʻs about Viagra or mortgage refinancing

Funny, because they can't even tell that.

Which is why mail is being ruined by google and microsoft. Yes you could argue that they have incentives to do just that. But that doesn't change the fact that they can't identify spam.
Why are those countries the exception and not America?

Other countries figure it out. America cannot. Therefore, it's not possible. America!
macOS is very clearly optimised towards laptops in this regard, which makes sense since they sell waaaay more of those than they do stationary.

It's been a while since I used Windows on a laptop, about 2 years (so Windows 10 20H2 was likely the last I used on a laptop). Back then un-docking and re-docking my laptop was a pain because it would smoosh all app windows to the primary monitor, and I'd have to move everything around on my 3 monitors when re-docking. Every. Single. Time.

Those had different DPIs as well, with all the issues that brought.

I can't actually recall a time when macOS was that bad at managing my app windows when changing monitor configurations, but I'll give you that Windows is better at window management if all displays stay connected and have the same DPI.

Has Windows gotten better at these things?
> the "perfect" moderation, even if possible, will turn it into nice and cultured place to have discussion and that doesn't bring controversy and sell ads.

That's not a solution though since every for profit business is generally seeking to maximize profit, and furthermore we already knew this to be the case - nothing he is saying is novel. I guess that's where I'm confused.
I’ve never heard of labeler ftes but nothing about tesla would or should surprise me at this point
Given that these are both human constructs, I don't know what makes one more artificial than the other.

Given that one would likely lead to awful financial contractions and instability... and the other doesn't, seems like there is a preferred option - artificiality aside.
How or what do you integrate with google maps? I only see notifications and it stops after a while.
Mirror image microorganisms process and produce molecules of opposite normal chirality as a result of their metabolism. Since there's no a priori reason why life should prefer either left handed or right handed molecules, the way we got here is the result of the first proto-metabolic processes billions of years ago just happening to choose what we use today. If we introduced mirror image microorganisms into the ecosystem, the danger is they could outcompete existing organisms while simultaneously contaminating the environment with their mirror-image waste products.
Sounds like they won’t be passively backfilling, but will still actively recruit for select projects.
> Anecdotes don’t mean shit for public policy.

Right, and so yours doesn’t either.

My point is, the theory that artificial sweeteners somehow cause more “net” calorie intake doesn’t have much grounded evidence. Presenting it as a likely truth is fallacious.
You mean it resulted in the place that couldn't pay the bills and goes around asking for VC money to keep the servers on?

Unmoderated hell holes tend to have to survive on questionable funding and rarely grow to any size.
what kinda positions are you looking to fill? I currently work for less than industry rates by far but I enjoy the work life balance and generous PTO, and I wouldn't mind doing some more interesting work for the same.
"You have been found guilty of crimes in $State. Please submit yourself to $state_prison on the beginning of the next month. We're sorry, but we cannot tell you what you are guilty of."
There is Adyen over in Europe. I don't know/doubt they do as much business as Stripe but they aren't insignificant
I am also interested to know that!
Lots of job openings could also mean high turnover, so I don’t think it is as much of a slam dunk.
> Based on the bystanders, residents, and other people that my colleagues talked to, they seemed to think that this disruption likely alienated far more people than it attracted to support this particular cause.

Same rhetoric used during the civil rights movement.
Postpaid plans (the traditional ones which have contracts) usually give discounted or free phone upgrades while prepaid does not, so they can bring the price down.
Amazon will pause corporate hiring for months
The management problem is not seeing the value these sorts of people generate for the organization, yes.
tldr; Many posts on social media are "spam". Nobody objects to spam filters.

Therefore, treat certain types of content as spam (based on metadata, not moderators).
Yes, he is leveraging his audience. This like going to a conference with a big-name keynote, but the lunch sponsor gets up and speaks for 5 minutes first.

We're on the thread to read about content moderation. But since we're there, he's going to inject a few promos about what he is working on now. Just like other ads, I skimmed past them until he got back on track with the main topic.
>"Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees."

>"Today we’re announcing the hardest change we have had to make at Stripe to date. We’re reducing the size of our team by around 14% and saying goodbye to many talented Stripes in the process"

We are "reducing the size of our team" and "saying goodbye"? I'm of the opinion that words matter and more so when they are from the company CEO. Is there some reason why a CEO who is "announcing the hardest change we have had make" is unable to use the language that reflects the reality? Can the person who is paid the big bucks to make the big decisions really not bring himself to use the word "layoff" in announcing layoffs? Is he really that cowardly? A CEO is supposed to be a leader. It takes him 8 paragraphs before he uses the actual word "layoff."
It is more like comparing pen and pencil.
I think this is somewhat subjective because some people may relate to some communities more than others based on their background, personality, and skill set. Also communities change, so what may have been great a year ago may not be so great now. Small and new tends to be the most welcoming, large and established not always so much.

I think understanding what interests you should play a major factor as well, for example there are (still) a number of upstart crypto projects that have great communities, but maybe that's not something you are interested in.
getverse.com is one example, they have their own discord and telegram/twitter channel.
Source-available, I guess.
Thinking about "tools" in a more general sense, I'd mention Pandoc,¹ which is an end-user application, and PureScirpt,² a programming language.

¹ https://pandoc.org

² https://www.purescript.org
We're using Hasura in production and I'm a backend developer. Saves a lot of time from building out CRUD GraphQL and enforces a consistent API.
It's repeated often on this forum in addition to many others.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I won’t pretend I know what the ideal solution is, but lowering salaries across the board doesn’t seem like a great choice. If someone is a high performing employee and then sees a cut to their paycheck, that’s an incentive for them to leave, and that’s also extra bad for the company because of course better performing employees will be more capable of finding another job. With layoffs, companies remove their “worst” employees instead, which theoretically improves productivity, assuming of course the rest of the company doesn’t think they’ll get laid off too.
As someone who spends a bunch of time paying attention to the YouTube meta, "consistency" is a virtue that's been professed for a long time, but YouTube has been pretty clear that it's not a factor in how recommendations work.

I still think it's decent advice for new YouTubers, because you only get better at a thing by doing it a lot, and over time. The value of consistency isn't in the algorithmic properties, but instead in developing the skills that lead to quality.
We already learned that when the US went to war with Irak while lying about WMD, against the vote of the UN.

They did whatever they wanted, just because they wanted to, and nobody could do a thing. They could fake evidences doing so, get caught, kill thousands, spend trillions, and destroy a country with no bad consequences whatsoever.

No blue helmet peace keepers was sent at any point to block the US soldiers path.
Nothing is "just" one thing. But the there is a reinforcing effect which definitely makes it worse. You can check out "animal spirits" and Keynes if you want to go down a rabbit hole ;)
People say "I am curious to know..." which is immediately followed by a request that I justify my reason for existing or doing what I do. The question says more about them than it does about me.

In questions of code and of life, we should ask "why about code" and "what about people."

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There is a breed of fox out there, with big bushy tails.
In which the wind pushes them backward, like big billowing sails.
They can seen where they've been, but not see where they'll be.
There are those that sail-walk North
There are those that sail-walk South
And they think they control the way that they're going for
But really they lack all form of direction, no less and no more
When one day came a fox, who was lacking a big bushy tail
It was all scrawny and thin, and made the lousiest sail
"Where do you come from? From where do you hail?"
Cried a crowd of bushy foxes, fighting the winds to stand still
As our new little fox, with a scrawny thin tail
Ambled slowly past them not knowing the question
He didn't stop for a minute, not even to rest
Just kept on walking, simply walked into the West
"What why did you do that?" asked a North-North quick walker. "Don't you know that walking Northwards is best?"
"Best?" shouted a Southward slow stalker "Everyone knows that is as wrong as can be."
"But if you walk North, or if you walk South, we know that West is not the best place to see."
"Why do you walk West? Why do you do that?" puzzled both North-South walkers.
"I don't know, I just like walking West. I came out of the East, just over yonder, and I'm heading out West, to take a quick gander."
"But what's over yonder? From where you came. And what's over yander? Is it the same?" quizzed the South-North slow and quick walkers.
"I don't know. I'll go take a look. I come back when I'm done, I'll walk back to my East."
"But what if you keep walking? What if you run out of ground?"
"Then I'll just keep walking, on into the West, my feet out in front of me, until I come right around."

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P.S. You and I will probably be the only two people in the world that will read this.
I would frame it more the opposite: I can easily see comments that are worthless to me, and I want to automatically downvote any comments by the same user (perhaps needs tags: there are users whose technical opinions are great, but I’m not interested at all in their jokes or politics).

One problem with your idea is that moderation votes are anonymous, but ranking up positively or negatively depending on another users votes would allow their votes to be deanonymised.

Perhaps adding in deterministic noise would be enough to offset that? Or to prevent deanonimisation you need a minimum number of posting friends?

In fact I would love to see more noise added to the HN comments and a factor to offset early voting. Late comments get few votes because they have low visibility, which means many great comments don’t bubble to the top.
yeah, and the power draw is around the same because the 4090 is 4nm, and the 3090 ti is 8nm. smaller transistors means more power efficient chips, and thus larger improvements in graphics.
I too had huge problems with Duplicati restoring. Switched to Borg, using Vorta as the GUI and am much happier.
> In short: downward pressure on programmer wages.

Entry level programmers maybe - lets see how many can actually stick around past first midterm
1. During the time, as was alluded, I was watching all these folks I knew were knuckleheads, getting all "tech-bro" (That is not a new thing). They would often treat me in fairly shabby fashion, for not jumping on their bandwagon.

I did get pretty good at Web stuff, but as a volunteer side gig. I've actually been designing Web sites since the mid-'90s, but I never made it a full-time vocation.

2. I think it was about five years, before the next bubble began to form, as Google started getting big. 2007, was when smartphones showed up (the iPhone). That changed everything, but it took a few years, to really become ubiquitous.
It was quite a while ago so I don't remember what my options were. If I recall correctly I was able to see individual workers responses, so once I found one that was obviously faking results, I was able to reject all their submissions.
A common sentiment you see on the internet (especially from younger people who haven't experience a tough labor market) is that only the low performers get laid off. So I can see how they think it's really weird if managers aren't involved.
I'm just confused. Why can't people have second tech jobs?

Cashiers can have second jobs working in a different store. Factory workers can work in other factories (it's hard on your body but overall okay).

No one would similarly complain if an Google software engineer was also 'forced' to make ends meet by working in an Apple retail store.

Yes, it's hard on your body and mind to work more than 1 job, but if you need the money then what choice do you have?
And 0 to -5C in Prague. Yes Western Europe might get little bit colder, but Eastern Europe is used on those temperatures and life is not that harsh there.
Arguably the one authorizing the Korean War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
Vaucanson's Mechanical Crapping Duck
> You don't think companies have grown at all/become more profitable from 2019 -> 2022?

Wrong angle.

The profits that companies make in 2025 were compared against 0% interest rate. We are now looking at a 4.5% interest rate environment.

So a company that offered 0% profits in 2023, 0% profits in 2024, and 10% profits in 2025 (ie: geometric average 3.2% profits each year from 2023 through 2025) now *loses* money to a savings account that's now expected to earn 4.5% through 2023, 2024, and 2025.

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Companies that offer very little profits with "promise of future profits" are now losing out to savings accounts and other safe investments. Its not that the company has changed, its that savings accounts / safe investments / bonds have changed.

Furthermore, if that company was relying upon debt to generate that profit, their cost has gone from near 0% on that debt, to -4% per year. So they're not looking at 0% profits in 2023, but closer to -4% profits in 2023, -4% profits in 2024, and 6% profits in 2025.

Obviously, this hypothetical depends on how much debt and how much "future profits" a company is expected to have. But growth/tech companies are well known for borrowing tons of money and promising future growth.
The first-worst has thankfully not happened yet - China was lobbying that now they had a BSL-4 Lab, they should also have a sample of Smallpox. The consequences of that would have been disastrous.
This seems a general symptom of unix/POSIX command naming where commands have "always" been short names, and commands are expected to be short names.

It's something I appreciate about the powershell naming conventions. A lot of people mock the verbosity of the names of powershell commands and commandlets which require the "proper" name to be Verb-Noun qebab case monstrosities, but this was chosen for exactly the reasons of your pet peeve: short command names should be user aliases for work in a shell, and longer command names are great for avoiding namespace clashes in scripts and between users. The verbs and nouns create large (discoverable) namespaces.

For instance, this tool might be powershell named ConvertTo-ParsedJson. (ConvertTo-Json is an out of the box command that converts any powershell object to JSON.) It might suggest the user alias it by adding `Set-Alias -Name jc -Value ConvertTo-ParsedJson` but generally commands in powershell only offer such aliases as suggestions rather than defaults. (Though there are a lot of out of the box aliases for common powershell commands.)

It makes sense to me that powershell encourages long names first and allows and encourages users to have far more control over short aliases.
>"I feel that the whole 'California' project elides the negatives: ..."

What is the "California project" here?
In short: we're looking for people with overlap between instructional design experience and programing+ml industry experience, to create instructional content.

A masters in education/instructional psychology isn't needed, so long as you can demonstrate pedagogical aptitude. In other words, can you put yourself in the mind of a beginner, and craft an explanation which is clear, intuitive, and anticipates common student questions/pitfalls?
Some areas of reddit do similar things with similar results. AskHistorians and AskScience are the first two to come to mind.

This may be a lot easier in places where there's an explicit point to discussion beyond the discussion itself - StackOverflow is another non-Reddit example. It's easier to tell people their behavior is unconstructive when it's clearly not contributing to the goal. HN's thing may just be to declare a particular type of conversation to be the goal.
If you are looking for high speed mass discharge a heaping teaspoon of xylitol or maltitol (what is in sugar free gummy bears) plus coffee will do the trick within 15 minutes.
I can see how you might interpret the text that way.

Before getting too caught up in off topic straw-men, you may want to look at why 70k users joined Mastodon in the past 7 days.

Have a fantastic day, and here is your up-vote... and a Commodore logo since smiles may upset you. (=
Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have work life balance from the age of 23 just because they’ve discovered its importance at 32 years of age.

Young people have to work hard. I don’t expect my reports to work on any evenings or weekends and if they even suggest it, I tell them not to and give them more lead. At the same time, if they override my decision and work through the evening, I am ready to answer questions over IM if I’m free too. I’m not going to say “why are you working evenings?”.

People online are daft.
>messages are sent via a side channel to Meta.

absolute and utter nonsense. WhatsApp literally uses Signal's encryption protocol and messages leave your device encrypted. The only thing WhatsApp has access to is metadata.

if you're going to make an accusation like this I suggest you back it up.
A thing I've been struck by when looking at medieval manuscripts is how ubiquitous "microtypography" is in them. No two copies of the same letter are ever the same width, swashes and scribal abbreviations are chosen to fit the space available, etc. If you can manage to do that kind of thing on a computer, pretty soon you're doing continuous optimization instead of discrete optimization, so maybe the optimization process becomes a lot cheaper computationally.

I hope you get around to writing up your thoughts! I'd be interested in providing feedback on drafts if that would be useful.
>No one argues that speech must have value to be allowed (c.f. shitposting).

>Hereʻs the answer everyone knows: there IS no principled reason for banning spam.

The whole threads seems like it revolves around this line of reasoning, which strawmans what free speech advocates are actually arguing for. I've never heard of any of them, no matter how principled, fighting for the "right" of spammers to spam.

There is an obvious difference between spam moderation and content suppression. No recipient of spam wants to receive spam. On the other hand, labels like "harmful content" are most often used to stop communication between willing participants by a 3d party who doesn't like the conversation. They are fundamentally different scenarios, regardless of how much you agree or disagree with specific moderation decisions.

By ignoring the fact that communication always has two parties you construct a broken mental model of the whole problem space. The model will then lead you stray in analyzing a variety of scenarios.

In fact, this is a very old trick of pro-censorship activists. Focus on the speaker, ignore the listeners. This way when you ban, say, someone with millions of subscribers on YouTube you can disingenuously pretend that it's an action affecting only one person. You can then draw false equivalency between someone who actually has a million subscribers and a spammer who sent a message to million email addresses.
For getting email addresses when I had a url, it would have likely been easier to set up a scrapper to visit page and pull any string with an @ in it. Then scroll through the list to find the most obvious general intake email.
> What we usually call Lactose intolerance or Gluten sensitivity is in practice an indirect effect of some species of bacteria digesting those, and then the reaction of your immune system.

Citation?
Fundamental attribution error: how many of your colleagues think the same of you? When it come to you, obviously the problem is the "complixities of the problem space" and "blockers" you're dealing with, but when it's someone else on some random team, they are slow because they are useless.
> Spam is typically easily identified due to the repetitious nature of the posting frequency, and simplistic nature of the content (low symbol pattern complexity).

Now that we have cheap language models, you could create endless variations of the same idea. It's an arms race.
What makes it "user-hostile"?
would you mind expanding on how Signal is user hostile? the only things I know of is dropping sms support on android, which didn't affect me, and the "enable notifications" message that pops up every week.
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Any metadata mechanism should be extensible IMO. For example sort and join care about ordering but they also care about column names.
>zero-interest rate policies extended too long

Not zero-interest rate policies, low-interest rate policies. You're intentionally misrepresenting the position here.
Is sugar good or bad for you?
Maybe I worded that poorly, but I was advocating for holding onto liberalism (the "ship") even if it seems to be failing us ("going down").

So, I agree.