skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In contrast with everyone else, I struggled a lot with this when just looking at the faces. I made twenty attempts and got ten successes and ten failures. After reading other comments, when attempting again by looking at the backgrounds, I tried ten more times and went nine and one.

But I believe I am somewhat face-blind. I have never understood how people were able to describe faces to the cops to make those mockups of criminal suspects. I also struggle to recognize faces sometimes, including celebrities and new dating partners. At a past job, I remember thinking two of my coworkers were the same coworker until I saw them at the same lunch outing and it suddenly clicked. I recently got confused by two characters in an action movie with less than a dozen characters total, and realized shortly after that they had different ethnicities.
What I found frustrating that there is nothing stopping a function from returning both a non nil value and a non nil error. I've seen weird code that did that and it could have easily resulted in incorrect behavior.
IIRC, Teams supports Markdown-style code, either `single line` or

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I'm sure the thousands of people layed off and their families affected really care about that "record low unemployment".
Artickle: speed up lead to avoiding cache misses which lead to further speed up which lead to further less cache misses

This kind of interaction is important to keep in mind.

It applies to all kinds of caches in all kinds of situations. To some degree even the instruction and data caches of modern cpus.

But most interesting is that in complex systems in (very very) rare cases the "whole system effect" can go the other way around too (due to a now faster components trashing the cache for other components in a way which makes the system as a whole slower).
I suspect the problem is due to the fact that designers of decentralized systems often underestimate the importance of the user experience.

Managing your own mail server, website, social media instance, music streaming, cryptocurrency wallet, power grid, vegetable garden, etc requires more time and skill than just paying someone else to do it for you. The result is that most people end up using a handful of centralized offerings except for a small niche of enthusiasts who derive enjoyment from the work and/or can justify spending the additional time.

Ultimately it's up to the designers of distributed systems to make them trivially easy to use if they want them to be popular and remain distributed. (Napster and maybe BitTorrent are the examples that come to mind.) Otherwise it remains a niche for enthusiasts and/or ends up with centralized intermediaries.
Cloud music without outside intervention? No, not really. There's not really a guarantee, because of the nature of how licensing works. If there is a service that would support this in the way you're asking, they would probably be in violation of some sort of agreement. All of these popular cloud services are untrustworthy precisely because they are following the licensing agreements. The ones that don't follow the agreements are probably illegitimate.

Assuming you don't want to steal via TPB, etc. I would recommend going with a service that allows you to locally download the music you pay for. I like using 7Digital [1], but they do make a point of warning you that anything you buy, you can listen to on their cloud player, but might be taken off due to licensing reasons. I feel it's a decent offset of clarity by the site owners, high quality audio, good selection, and reasonable prices. I would prefer to not have to worry about keeping multiple backups locally, and instead just be able to listen to whatever I pay for online, but the only true solution to getting the licensing issues fixed is through the court system, and that doesn't look like it's going to be changing any time soon.

Basically, your choices are:

1. Break the law and steal directly from artists and audio techs

2. Use a streaming service and be stolen from by record labels due to stupid licensing issues

3. Take control of the situation by hosting your legally purchased content locally

Each option sucks, but the third option is the one that bothers me the least.

[1]us.7digital.com
> yet unemployment is staying so low.

Let the severance period end.
But I'm not left-handed!
I'm going to ignore the other comment, but I'd be curious about which school of economic thought you learned from. Care to share?

It's not hard to see why a Keynesian for instance might be against a deflationary environment.
Please don’t judge DEK based on my hasty summary; check out the interview for the context. My only point was that the Christianity in the head of someone like Knuth is probably a bit more fluid and creative than whatever’s in the heads of the people who come to your door on Sunday morning to save your soul.
I think people do not deny those religious experiences because there are experiments to trigger them and the experiences can be observed for instance using brain scans.

But what scientists deny is that we see any prove that these experiences have any supernatural cause.
Art Gobblers and Paradigm Killed NFTs
No there aren't. It doesn't work and most of the studies showing any effect were fraudulent. I can't believe there are still ivermectin dead-enders out there.
It was very early in my education but Tanenbaum's OS book, which I read while playing with his Minix source code, opened my eyes quite a bit to how Operating Systems worked.
I can explain seriously and answer follow-up questions. I will simplify and just highlight the most valuable current use case, there might or might not be others now or in the future.

The value of ether (ETH) is to be a currency that you need to spend in order to include transactions into Ethereum's distributed ledger. Most useful transactions are transfers of stablecoins like USDT or USDC. USDT and USDC can be exchanged for goods and services all over the world, and are very convenient for any international transfers and cash exchanges bigger than 500 USD.

Price of stablecoins is ideally tethered to the underlying fiat currency, so price swings don't matter. Price of ether is _whatever_, because usually your stablecoin ledger transaction fee is low enough, so price swings don't matter again.
It's only annoying if you don't try think about it.

If you've been in the industry long enough you have experience and you get at least a feel whether x engineers seem a lot or whether y microservices seem a lot.

Now in this case we also know that Musk has cut half the workforce so, rightly or wrongly, he has concluded that there is a lot of bloat at Twitter (not 'some company'). I can only take this as a significant piece of evidence as I don't know Twitter.

More profoundly I think this has been a consequence of the cult of 'growth'. You have to show that you're growing so you have to grow the team, you have to keep hiring and justify it by 'growth' because if you don't your company will look badly in itself and compared to peers, your IPO will not be so great, your share price will tank. Once you're down that rabbit hole you're stuck. Maybe younger engineers who have only lived professionally through this period actually believe the hype.

So I think the current wave of tech lay-offs is partly caused by this no longer being the case so that companies can be more realistic and cut bloat without fear of being seen as a lame duck.

Of course a bloated number of engineers means bloated software because all those people were busy doing something, may something not useful at all but something (including perhaps thousands of microservices...).
If it is indeed fraud - in addition to submitting anything via ic3.gov - you might want to review the FTC's fraud reporting website: https://www.ftc.gov/media/2
I have songs purchased in 4 different mediums, sometimes more than once.

Pretty irritating, tbh. I haven't bought a license to listen to a song, I've bought a license to use destructible chunks of plastic or bits...
Eric Frohnhoefer may not have a job at Twitter anymore, but him fact checking dear leader constantly spewing nonsense about things he doesn't understand was a sweet moment.
I have no direct experience with this, but my understanding from some friends who work in (US) government, is that it's an investment of time: you work through the initial red tape, and you get unparalleled job security.
I don't understand how breaking every dependency in the ecosystem just to not have to setup a package.json or tsconfig.json file is worth it.
Yep, same here. I have a collection I’ve built up over many years that became too large for an internal drive.

Kept it for years in Google Play Music, but when that shut down I moved it to my Synology and haven’t looked back since. DS music is slow with a large library, but does the job.

It’s also possible to connect as a shared iTunes library which is handy too.
> Java programs make "ridiculous amounts of implicit allocations" because allocations are cheap in Java. And they need to be cheap because Java doesn't have value semantics so it leans hard on escape analysis + cheap allocations.

Yes, but that's kind of the point, right? Implicit allocation isn't really a problem because a runtime that optimizes the allocations magically for you is a lot easier to build than a runtime that optimizes whether you really need to be copying objects as much as you do.
34% of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application

48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American

3/4 of people who faked being a racial minority on their applications were accepted by the colleges to which they lied

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...
There’s no proof of this. Don't throw that bait out there with nothing to back it up.
a list which you have now have to keep up-to-date on at all times because suddenly your project might be included even if it initially wasn't.
Right, 1000 years ago. Today, the courts are a bit different.
Tips for Webmasters
Either "pox" (very much not a good thing) or it looks like a misspelling of proxy

"Poxy page" literally means infected webpage, with infection using by implication being an STI.

Edit the 2nd: After actually visiting the homepage it's...appropriate.

Even if I liked that ascetic I would never want to be associated with that domain name, though.
Of course, sorry.
It's true that the number of job openings doesn't tell a complete story just as the number of layoffs doesn't.

The layoffs aren't a general crash, they're a correction of overhiring and overconfidence by certain companies that disproportionately gained from covid.

And while there are endless job openings, the average urgency to hire is low. Companies are not making offers if they don't fall in love.
> because it's hard to imagine anyone taking an offer from Twitter at this point

That's what increased compensation is for.

Except in this case, Elon has both pushed for cutting costs (negating the ability to pay increased compensation) and also pushed for a much worse work-life balance to the point that increased compensation may still result in worse $/hr than another tech job.
I uploaded all of my CDs to Google Music (now YouTube Music) over 10 years ago. They are still there and I still stream them regularly. For me, I needed to have access to songs that are not available on streaming services (I wish all music was available, but it simply is not). I can't use Spotify because I can't add certain songs to playlists, and what's the point of using a music service if I can't listen to all of the music that I like?
I think we need more info: Age bracket? Are you only going for remote roles? If not, in what metro are you searching?
I think it’s exciting.

Deno is better than nodejs but nodejs is “good enough”.

Competing against “good enough” is extremely hard.

If Deno becomes a better choice than node through npm compatibility them that’s a huge win for Deno.
Still up 16,000% from Jan 3rd, 2009.
Dominoes.
one dude explained that they wanted to make a loan platform that would avoid usual bank management costs since it's automated, so he claimed the higher yields came from that. It seemed a coherent explanation to me (he could be lying too, but at least his talk had some foundations and not moonshots of potential decentralized nirvanian future)
We are desperate to hire developers, HMU if you want a job.
> There was a Linux kernel bug where someone put a test for root in as "if (uid = 0)" instead of "if (uid == 0)", so that when a rarely used system call was made, the process became root.[3]

No there was not!

Someone in 2003 submitted a patch. To the wrong repo. The patch was looked at anyway and rejected for this reason. It was never merged. No machine ever had this bug.
I think the situation would not be different if you were an EU citizen.
> For example a legislation to have bitcoin "pay for" the environment damage could lead to it having a negative value.

Lol this is beyond absurd.
Show HN: 1500 Curated RPG Icons (Stable Diffusion, Public Domain)
This would only make sense if abusing personal data were actually illegal. As it stands, the FTC maybe has the power to create a slight inconvenience for the legal department, and only if something goes really bad to the point of creating widespread demonstrable harm.
After the Model T there was still variety in style and design building on the basic formula... up until the present day when everybody seems to have settled on the same basic bean-shaped blob, specialty vehicles such as sports cars and pickups excepted. Bigger or smaller beans account for body variations from subcompact to crossover, and the name Cadillac, which once conjured images of limo-like luxury, today means a fancier bean.
Maybe they’re trying to hire all the FAANG developers that are getting laid off?
An owner is well-positioned to know the truth, but also has strong incentives to mislead to serve their own purpose. (See also: all the posts about crypto exchanges recently. I'm not saying Musk is a scammer, more that there are literally examples of why owners aren't reliable sources on the front page right now.)
facebook operates tbe same way you say apple does.
"Implicit reference semantics" = everything (or near enough) is implicitly a reference. That's what you get in Python, Ruby, or Javascript: when you pass something around, you're really passing a reference to it, a pointer. Everyone ends up referring to the same thing, and sharing it.

"Value semantics": you pass the value itself around, which means you're shallow-copying it all the time. That's what you get when you pass or return a bare non-interface type in Go.

PHP is a bit of a mess, objects are passed by reference (= implicit reference semantics) but arrays are passed by value, and you can opt them into pass-by-reference. You can also pass non-arrays by reference, though I don't think that's very common.
I'm not so sure that QA work even still exists. And I'm pretty certain it's been eliminated as a path to being a developer.

There's been an insanely strong push to eliminate QA and put that work on developers (in addition to all the other specializations they now generalize in) in the past decade.
I think end customer support is the wrong audience for this. Few of them are going to have a pre-existing Slack relationship with your company and you don't really want to make them jump through hoops to get support. Think the better target is internal teams supporting other internal teams. The "Hi [team X], I'm trying to foo the bar..." stuff you get in your public team channel.
isn't the point of SSL that you can't do that (assuming the client is verifying certs, etc)?
If you're familiar with Python and Go, you'll likely be able to quickly spot the differences in how they handle parameter passing. Python uses references and Go uses value.
Abbot's pretty great, but uses a chatbot with customers. We stay behind the scenes and empower the reps to respond themselves. We also support email <> Slack which they do not
My experience is it's impossible to find people who's experience actually matches their resume.
Personally I use a compose-key on Linux and Wincompose on Windows, with SyncThing to keep my .XCompose file synchronized between machines when I add a custom sequence.

I mapped my Caps-Lock key as Compose, so I hit compose-a-" to get ä, and so on through the set. I've made customs for Ω and µ since I use those a lot and couldn't remember their default sequences. It's handy having ® and ™ on tap as well, and I get typographical niceties like ­— and … vs - and ...
Languages like Python, Java, and C# have implicit reference semantics. When you create an object, you get a pointer to that object (usually, or commonly).

In languages like C, C++, Go, Rust… references are more explicit. If you want a pointer to an object, you have to &, or something similar.

It gets a bit fuzzy.
What, exactly, is difficult and expensive to maintain about a 555 number compared to any other?

Let's be real, we're all tech engineers here. Telephony backbones are all IP based now. It's all just mappings on a computer that routes your call to the right next hop. There's nothing at all special about maintaining one mapping vs another.
After trying out various courses, playlists to learn, I found clicks by reading these sources:

Data Science
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17912916-data-science-fo...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148009.The_Elements_of_S...

German language
https://smartergerman.com/

Job Interview Prep
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24263660-why-you

A better sense of world funny read
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944652.Poor_Charlie_s_Al...

Searching a Mentor: find here
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36200111-tribe-of-mentor...

Writing (Academic and other types)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39874447-how-to-write-a-...

Better finance mindset
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78427.The_Total_Money_Ma...
> Staking is not a loan.

Yes it is. You give your money over to another organization, and that organization promises a % yield / APY in return. You aren't allowed the money back until later.

Its totally a bond.

> Some token networks may market a mechanism as "staking" when it's just a way to keep people from selling. That's a different topic.

I'm feeling some "no true Scotsman" fallacy here. If those guys call it staking, then its staking.
this kind of thing is not completely straight forward to catch. if they are able to lie about their liabilities then they can be truthful about their assets and it is difficult to catch the lie about the liabilities. if I'm an external auditor and you tell me you have some assets then that is something I can try to verify myself or ask you for more evidence. if you tell me you only have a liabilities of $X but the value is actually $X+Y then this is much harder to find.

in the case of FTX its probably easy to. shave customer liabilities without it showing up. probably, this is because they didn't have proper segmentation of client funds. if you have an external entity holding the assets in trust then you need to be doing very dodgy stuff in the company to be hiding customer liabilities. for example even in with a trust account setup you could have part of customer funds being diverted into secret accounts and they don't show up in the liabilities. as an external auditor you can ask to see systems and a paper trail but you are just seeing what people want you to see and if there is a conspiracy to lie then you are fucked. the best you can do is try to get some industry estimates and see if they match or compare to external statistics (like revenue, etc) and hope they have been reported truthfully.

my guess in the case of FTX there probably were red flags like lack of proper segregation and these weren't reported by the external auditor.
I can still recite Neil's letter from that episode.
Can't agree more. The Little Schemer took me from "getting it" at a conceptual level to really knowing how to use recursion to get stuff done. Super important for grokking data structures imo.
Use WasmEdge to solve the microservices scaling problem
I don't think that 'normal' tech / consulting / software house companies have those. It's more of a big corp thing.
Assuming your reparations claim was correct, injustice becomes ok if it happens often enough.
That describes me to a T. It's a convenient alarm in my bedroom and sometimes timer in the kitchen. Good for a cursory weather report if I don't need all the details. Sometimes play some music before going to sleep. Use it to turn my bedroom light on and off. That's about it.
Patients don't have real choice. Options are either you die or spend hundreds* of dollars on a drug that everywhere else on the planet costs few bucks.
Mentioned by the article:

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

This notion of freedom resonates with me the most. I want to live in a society where basic needs are met through automation, so that people can spend the majority of their time following their calling and finding meaning. Less than 2 hours per day should be spent working towards survival, or else our tech offers little benefit over living in a hunter-gatherer society.

Concretely, that would look like:

* Robots pay taxes - not people, to be used for UBI

* No taxes on necessary commodities like food, high taxes on luxuries

* Taxes on unearned income would always be higher than on earned income

* Labor performed on process not application, so maintaining the things that make the things

* Profit on another's labor would either be considered inappropriate or taxed highly: at or near 100%

* Unsustainability would be suspect, as it runs counter to the cultural goal of providing for all people forever

* Injustices which impose burdens on people doing the most spiritually significant work would be targeted first: no penalty for being a parent, teacher, nurse or other caregiver

There's probably a lot more to be said about this. I feel that the powers that be seem to be doing everything they can to prevent progress in this direction. Specifically, the wealthy and powerful seem to be doing nothing to help makers and inventors, they just hoard the money and put it towards whatever satisfies their ego.

So we all work longer and longer hours to build bigger houses and buy more expensive vehicles to create profit for billionaires. We don't invest in trusts that would pay the living expenses of self-sufficient communities of tiny homes with hydroponic gardens and solar panels and such.
Suppose there are n number of hidden, indeterminate variables in your environment... "You," the individual observer, are free to choose the important variables to navigate life. Your "mind" is the thing which assigns value to hidden variables in your environment but "the mind" is not you... the "mind," from my perspective, is the mirror upon which we witness/experience every day reality/waking life, etc.

If you think rolling dice is important, it is. If you think randomness will effect and experiment, it will. If you don't think randomness is important, it probably is... (a thing is defined by what it is not.)

When you assign an indeterminate (X) value to randomness, this is chaos. If/when you think or realize chaos is an important part of free will... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you personally unable to select new variables or assign different "weights"? If so, I contend, you don't exist.
Electrical mistakes can very directly and invisibly lead to deaths. Most software is not life and death.
* When did he sell himself as the saviour of humanity?
* What makes his takeover of twitter inconsistent with that anyway?
* What did he do that's hypocritical?