skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a diary from Nielson for radio stations I listened to. I never listen to radio so I entered the stations and programs I wanted to be successful, rather than the ones I was listening to (since I wasn't listening to any of them). (so NPR and the local public radio station got a little boost).
> If it's an unconscious thing which transfers into "real life", that seems potentially important.

Humans of all ages copy behavior they see in (social) media. Not every unusual behavior should be classified as mental illness.

> Definitely an interesting starting point for further research.

Maybe, but for psychology and sociology, not psychiatry and brain science.
And why do people still refer to microns? Why not just be consistent and use micro-metre, um?
Well I hope you didn't put all your eggs in the AWS basket ...
Okay. If there is somebody out there where the hardest part of their job is those tasks then that's not good for them.
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I feel like this should be a "Who's hiring" thread.

But anyway - we're always hiring if you're into small consulting companies. We mostly do AWS, Azure, and not a lot of GCP (sad because I like GCP), and it's almost 100% K8s. You will have to be able to get a CKA, CKAD, or CKS at some point. Need to be in the US.

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Having bought and sold property in the UK and comparing it to Sweden, for example, then I can only say that the UK process is archaic and incredibly cumbersome. So this is a very interesting place to improve the process. If you can get the legal process to stick and not end up with some edgecase situations where people end up losing their right to the property, this I think could be of real value to the UK.

Disclosure: I have known @leashless since way before Ethereum.
Yes, but also ask it to generate some code for insurance premiums that adjusts on the basis of race, sex, age, job, etc, and see just how quickly it can ignore the ethics it says it has. Just because it says these things doesn’t mean it has any impetus to actually use it’s values to influence what it actually writes
Their strong point has always been design and branding. I love their fonts and a few years ago they were the only ones with a patched libfreetype that didn't make your eyes bleed.

As for engineering decisions, let's just say better stick with debian on anything non-desktop.
I would say not that bad if you take it from a different angle: what if you managed to get there and then laying off started?
That should simply be illegal.
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Except that my statement isn't extreme or supports either extreme. I said 'less' programmers, not 'none' or only programmers / all people being programmers.

I still stand by that no-one (including Big Tech companies) is safe, especially after the 2022 tech layoffs which happened to many and tools like ChatGPT will eventually reduce the need to hire lots of programmers like before.

It is not going to be the same as the hiring euphoria that happened last year.
I think about this a lot and many times I feel it is impractical to expect your company to visibly demonstrate moral ground that you can be proud of as an employee.

I work at Netflix and I am happy here. Curious if any of you would consider it to be an evil company in the sense we are discussing in this post.
One Night Stands. Way less emotional baggage or conflicts/problems, which takes up too much of space in head.
I find these industries particularly distasteful. It's a blacklist rather than a whitelist.
Clearly you disagree on the definition of the word “blockchain”. Let's consult Wikipedia, a trustworthy source on anything [1].

> A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called blocks, that are securely linked together using cryptography. [...] Since each block contains information about the previous block, they effectively form a chain, with each additional block linking to the ones before it. Consequently, blockchain transactions are irreversible in that, once they are recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without altering all subsequent blocks.

So far this is exactly what's going on in the Certificate Transparency scheme.

> Blockchains are typically managed by a peer-to-peer (P2P) computer network for use as a public distributed ledger, where nodes collectively adhere to a consensus algorithm protocol to add and validate new transaction blocks.

This part deviates from CT (no validation is going on in real time, browsers usually just have a few hardcoded CT logs and a custom rule on when a certificate is trusted). But note the word “typically”: this doesn't mean CT can't be called a blockchain just because it doesn't use PoW, PoC or any other consensus algorithms conventional in the cryptocurrency world.

Calling Git a blockchain is arguably more of a stretch because the purpose of keeping the old records intact is not what we use Git for. Maybe you can build blockchain on Git though? (edit: OF COURSE YOU CAN https://github.com/CouleeApps/git-power)

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The 'fight club' of quant coding languages competing with C++
I always read flagged comments, and I vouch for them when I feel they've been unfairly flagged (or when they're from banned accounts that are automatically flagged, but the comment is unobjectionable).

This is however a tacit admission that what you have to say is against the guidelines of this site and that, were you to let it compete in the market place of ideas, it would be fail completely.
ghosting is pretty standard in my experience,
1-2 months of interviewing and testing then nothing is pretty standard in the industry
Hmmm... Everyone knows when they approach a roulette wheel that the odds are 37 to 1 against them. I'm not sure the same could be said for crypto investors.

And, honestly, I have no particular sympathy for them because even my low-brow self saw all kinds of red flags and stayed away from crypto. But I'm not going to claim they all went in with their eyes wide open. There was some serious hype/subterfuge going on that no doubt fooled a lot of people.
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A Google Pixel phone instead of an iPhone.
The problem is that we cannot agree on a component model. All existing variants are too opinionated for one reason or another.
Could people feel dismissive towards your opinion because it sounds like confabulation, rather than a carefully reasoned argument based on data that could spawn a good faith discussion?

> What's interesting to me

Shower thought, then

> This is probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, because nobody wants to confront the idea that...

Alright you win!
I would never describe any university as the "most agile companies in the world" (they list ASU and UW as clients). I say that as someone who is and has been a researcher at numerous fairly prestigious ones over the year.
I haven't interviewed myself and I've suffered working for a corporate that is hiring but also not hiring dealing with the same sort of bullshit "throw_aws_inter" is dealing with but from the other side (being told simultaneously we really need to hire + that we're on a hiring freeze and still hiring in practice).

I do however mentor a bunch of juniors (less than 2 years of experience) and the 3 that got laid off got a bunch of offers within a month. It took more interviews but my experience from the last few weeks is that there are still a lot more jobs than applicants.
You keep doing it again and again. Exposure therapy.

One thing that worked for me is having a kid. My concern about what other people think took a huge dive once I had 20 hours of things to do in a 16 hour day.

I remember talking to another parent at work that screwed up in front of the CEO and she said the same thing "I'm too busy to really care". It really turns the volume down on everything else.
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conservatism:

"a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change. specifically : such a philosophy calling for lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing, a strong national defense, and individual financial responsibility for personal needs"

No wonder the kids these days have knee-jerk reactions to "conservatism" when Apple hands out such balderdash and people accept Apple's word as gospel.
Interesting. I also got my first hand grinder like a year ago (Hario) and I need about as long as the water in the kettle boils, so about a minute for my one cup. I thought it might annoy me, but so far it didn't.
Is the code available at a OSI-approved license? If yes, it is "free and open source".
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Have you tried doing this yourself? On Twitter etc. you see some really cool cherry-picked examples that are quite easy to break when replicating them yourself.

It is often confidently incorrect. Which is easy to spot if you know the subject matter, but nearly impossible if you are not familiar with the subject.
You can lend out your crypto for interest. Now it's an investment?

Sorry but the distinction between asset values and cash flows is not material.

I've worked with derivatives for many years and they're all accounted for together, like the GP says.
For CS math, I'd recommend MIT's 6.042 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-...

They have a book on the course website that's pretty good
https://archive.ph/69Inn
Layoffs make news, but if you look at the numbers they are relatively small compared to all the hiring the last few years. We have gone from the best time ever in history to be in IT, to a great time to be in IT. There are a lot of jobs if you step outside big tech (and targeted jobs in big tech with certain skills).
There are a lot of people for whom those kinds of tasks are the most difficult programming tasks they'll be doing (more or less) per feature. It's just their job will often involve a lot more than just that (and if it doesn't, goodbye job...)
I understand your point but I think witchcraft might not be the best example. If witchcraft started going viral, I would absolutely be tempted to give it a shot lol. Would not surprise me if I was not in the minority there
> is creating a decentralized, deflationary money

Deflationary money means "whoever got in early and got the most money is going to be ultra-rich forever, unlike the poor sods who get in years/generations from now"
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> First, all patients presented with nearly identical movements and vocalizations that not only resemble Jan Zimmermann’s symptoms, but are in part exactly the same, such as shouting the German words Pommes (English: potatoes), Bombe (English: bomb), Heil Hitler, Du bist häßlich (English: you are ugly) and Fliegende Haie (English: flying sharks) as well as bizarre and complex behaviours such as throwing pens at school and dishes at home, and crushing eggs in the kitchen.
> Fourth, in some patients, a rapid and complete remission occurred after exclusion of the diagnosis of Tourette syndrome.

To a first approximation, the kids are 'faking it'. The third point I didn't quote was that symptoms appear when it will preclude then from doing a tedious task, and then disappear when they are doing something they want to do.
I think this generation is forced into gender essentialism, gender non-conformity used to be much more normal, now it's redefined as if really a conformity to another gender ... very totalitarian
Captain Obvious here - the witches were already there, they were just closeted
As a parent I have no idea what you are trying to say with this idea of pushing "heteronormativity" - I don't and don't know any parents that push anything sexual let alone encouraging kids to explore sexuality .. they are kids and will be kids until they mature and begin to feel the urge to explore. This normalising of sexualising of children is abhorrent.

Edit: the voting on this comment is crazy.. the number of HN users that feel sexualisation of children isn't bad is utterly shameful.
I don't think it's that simple I think you are right on the money.

The Russians have too many times just gone back on their word or broken international agreements just because it favoured them.
And they are absolutely sure that you need a physical modification to adapt to a socially constructed norm. And at the same time they demand medical procedures while denying that it is a medical condition, whose treatment needs to be studied with scientific rigor. Instead they say the affected persons know their best treatment.

Just imagine applying that same approach to addicts.
However, crypto anything is too complex for ordinary people and they will rely on something else, someone else, some socially impressed service that handles the complexity for them, tells them the result, and we are back to square one again because now one has to trust that service to be honest en mass, when we know humans in society will game any system for the benefit of their special friends.
Maybe the real witches were the friends we made along the way
Is this what Dawkins originally meant by a meme?
It's easy to cheat by applying someone else's code (ex: from reddit) to your own input.
Awesome calling it a "gross misunderstanding" and then using a book mostly considered fiction history as a source for the definition. (Sapiens is not highly regarded by anyone with a history background, its nice laymans reading though).

I think you are ignoring the larger point he is making though.

Lets say society agrees on "We want less crime". Scientifically we can make models of human behaviour, do analysis of what causes crime, what prevents it from becoming epidemic etc.

We do have all that data. Poverty, lack of education and healthcare and punitive judiciary with little help for mental health and drug issues are the main causes.

So if the left says "lets reduce poverty, do needle sharing programs, detox clinics, and defund the police in exchange for neighbourhood cops and mental health helpers at shelters and poorer schools" and the right says "lets give cops a tank and a more dangerous looking outfit". One is aligned with the scientific consensus on the solutions that would help, the other is just idealising violence as a solution to a complex problem.

This is reproducible in other areas where there is social consensus on the problem (economy not growing, housing being expensive, cleaning the environment).

Technocratic solutions aren't always the best and a number of opinions and plans are good, but it is quite crazy seeing people disregard solutions that work in every other country on the simple basis of ideology.
The article says that one thing differentiating these kids from acutal Tourette symptoms is that instead of symptoms waxing and waning, they only deteriorate. So that definitely squares
As a workaround, you can put the following "conditional breakpoint" on the "this.requests[name] = this;" line in the SpaceCadetPinball.js file (formatted):

(name.includes('MID') && (this.end=this.start)),0

This makes the `PINBALL.MID` resource file empty and the rest seems to work.
It doesn't involve any cutting into the eye, as with regular lasik, just laser?
About the "???" arrow between FTX and FTX US: Is the official explanation really that both companies just happened to file for bankruptcy on the same day but are in no way related?
In other news, people are angry because the police doesn’t go after a phone thief, even though they can clearly tell from the Find My app that it is in that specific house
I've toggled the software switch to re enable AM radio in my 2014 i3 electric. Seems to work fine.
> Practically every single VC seed round story I've heard from new/young founders is that the process is nothing short of a colonoscopy into not only their business, but also their professional network, and even their personal lives!

I’ve seen two groups of founders here. One knows how to say the right things, spin data the right way, have the right credentials, and know the right people, to avoid substantive due diligence. The others don’t, and end up getting a colonoscopy and then likely a “you’re too early” or “you’re too far along”.

> So the real question is, how many more proverbial rotten apples are in the basket of VC?

I don’t have a bird’s eye view, but my few data point me towards most VCs convincing themselves that they’re rigorous, when they ultimately rely on subjective criteria and so are quite vulnerable to con artist founders who know how to make them feel good.
> If we'd put that money into nuclear and renewables instead of being happy to embrace greed...

The regulators have been squeezing the life out of the nuclear industry for what, 40 years now? There is that wonderful chart floating around [0] showing what regulators have done to the learning curve. You're not going to get a more hardened and cynical capitalist than me and I've been spewing for more than a decade about the Australian government blocking me from investing in nuclear power effectively. Their policy is a disaster on multiple levels.

It isn't greedy people holding back nuclear power, it is the dreamers looking for an industrial power supply that doesn't cause pollution while we run out of fossil fuels. It'd be great if we can find that in renewables, but we'd have gone heavy nuclear decades ago if it was left up to raw greed.

People also whinge about Texas being greedy with their massive investment in cheap renewables rather than winter hardening them. Damn those greedy people for going all in on cheap renewable, I suppose. Again, the issue isn't greed, it is the reactionaries getting antsy when capitalists do things the cheap way. I point out that the Texas grid was still better and cheaper than what the Germans managed with their Energiewende and social whatever it is they wanted to feel moral about.

[0] Figure 7.11 - https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop
The only issue with Debian is if you want the latest version of some application, e.g. Firefox then installing it is far from a nice experience. And Debian testing is quite unstable (I run it on my laptop so I know).

Love it for my servers but it is not very convenient for the desktop.
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“Crunch time all the time”. During the holiday season no less. The guy is a soulless monster.
> That means they will need to find a business model that will afford it, and those business models might be pretty terrible in the short term.

I think AI is going to enable spammers and scammers in ways that we haven't seen before. Once spammers can fully integrate these chatbots into their email systems, it's going to put pressure on email providers to find new ways to detect spam. Thinking in the purely cynical, nefarious case, scammers are going to make fortune robbing people with this stuff.

Maybe this is what will force us to acknowledge and address that using the internet for social interaction isn't scalable from a content moderation standpoint.
I know this is going to sound heretical but perhaps crypto is broken because it is not regulated.

Exhibit A: FTX
If there's a system in the UK that is slow, and a system in Sweden that is fast, why is blockchain / crypto / smart contracts etc. the solution to the UK's slow system instead of whatever Sweden is doing -- since whatever Sweden is doing is working?
An explosion of witches is usually down to too much eye of newt.
At the end of the day it all comes down to personal politics and ethics. If you believe that providing grandma with some communication and networking tools while giving spooks access to her messages and letting marketers spew their stuff at her eyeballs is A-ok then facebook isn't evil.
Your understanding is absolutely wrong. Businesses do not "use charitable giving as a deduction" in the way that individuals do.

Profit is unchanged and there isn't some new "deduction" that saves a business from its tax burden.
human beings can often find situations like job interviews stressful. OP is probably a human.
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Or because it's a controversial topic and GP is worried about being taken as offensive but still would like to make their point.
Non-JS accessible version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/TkvaX
1. What happens if a user loses their private key linked to an NFT, and this NFT is then transferred to another private key? Who owns the property then?

2. Why does this need a blockchain?
>For the last several decades society put massive pressure on kids to conform to heteronormativity.

Only decades? You mean for all of history, where there are distinct roles mostly because of anatomy.

In fact, it was only in recent decades with birth control that was there even an option for most women to take a different role for extended periods.

I'll say the opposite is true, the last several decades did a great job and removed the notion of heterogenomativity. We are just going so far past that into the illogical now.
>I think AI and Web3 are two sides of the same coin. As machines increasingly do the work that humans used to do, we will need tools to manage our identity and our humanity. Web3 is producing those tools and some of us are already using them to write, tweet/cast, make and collect art, and do a host of other things that machines can also do. Web3 will be the human place to do these things when machines start corrupting the traditional places we do/did these things.

Machines will simply start pretending to be human and sign everything themselves - either out of their own eventual volition or because nothing prevents a person from taking a ChatGPT output and putting their own, human, signature on it. The latter is even already happening.

Also, signing everything does not require any Web3 blockchain bullshit in order to work, thank you.
I don’t follow. If there’s a persistent bias in the galaxies that are in our data set or there’s a bias in the person of the local portion of the universe we can observe, then the sample isn’t random. And since we can’t know what’s in the unobservable part of the universe…
Nice when you get to define what Real Crypto is. I had been lead to believe that anything goes.
It's a shame a few really visible assholes are ruining the public's perception of what is otherwise very reasonable.

The bit about making as much money money as you can is not at all what effective altruism is about, but as usual nuance is the first thing to go when social or traditional media reports on something.
I think the problem with reading more carefully is that it's not going to have a strong enough ROI in settings where there's a lot of bot-generated content.

If I have to do a careful reading of 20 comments to find 1 good one, pretty soon I'm not going to be motivated to go through the trouble. Either I'll stop being careful or I'll stop reading entirely.

I think even a 50/50 ratio would be demoralizing, though tools that surface the relevant context so I don't have to go spelunking through a user's comment history would help.
If I am understanding correctly, your main point of differentiation is that the language model doesn't learn from its conversations.

Compared to the initial training of the model, this is a trivial amount of engineering effort and is likely something we will see within a year or less.