skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in the future anything is possible. But for any given chunk of the future, most possible things don't happen. The interesting question is which bucket a given thing falls into.

I think electric cars cut against your case here. The reason electric cars are becoming popular is that we're finally doing something about global warming. Governments are heavily using both carrot and stick via billions in subsidies and drastically tighter regulation on ICE vehicles. Unless you expect governments to try to end use of monitors, electric cars are an example of why we should be suspicious of facehugger VR.
It's pushed by several health podcasts so already seems like a fad. A good one too.
I'd love to see a graph of some data.
Right? I can't tell if this guy is being ironic or not lol
I don't think WIX is a low code tool, it's a template editor, PowerPoint on the web. But, what's a low code tool?
Technically, they are not dinosaurs because they are not descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs, which had limbs so configured.

Some "allied" lineages had them, too, omitted from Dinosauria proper for technical reasons. Some isolates developed it independently, mammals notably among them. Probably some dinosaurs developed a sprawling gait "secondarily". Biology is a messy business.
Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in that doesn't require the leetcode hoops but still pays as well as FAANG? Or is it just due to your experience and network?
Milosevic of Serbia was taken to court. Gaddafi was captured and killed before any court could protect him. Putin is never going to stand trial, unless somehow Russia rats him out (but I struggle to imagine that).

Smaller dictators can do less harm, not more.
That's not a complete list (e.g. SaaS is taxed in New York) but there are also large states where it is not taxed (e.g. California).
> I think Putin was actually extremely clear why he invaded Ukraine

I think Putin was actually extremely clear before February that Russia is not going to invade Ukraine. Oh wait, he lied.
A wonderful outcome if that level of adaption occurs. I am more worried that the Luddite mentality will get these models banned in (primary school) educational settings.
There are 30+ million small businesses in the USA, and they tend to be concentrated in the wealthier sort that a) live in suburbs and b) drive very expensive vehicles.
This should already be a feature! (Let me know if you're running into issues). We enable hot-reloading of the app when you save your file.
Interesting that it appears to be a Deepmind product but using an OpenAI Key. So Deepmind finetuned gpt-3 or similar?
Facebook API is today very granular and a lot stricter, in fact their system is borderline onerous for developers. They've obviously learned from the Cambridge Analytica situation, and I understand the need for the requirements, but unfortunately it also stops all smaller projects.
TL;DR:

Estonia has been providing digital and cybersecurity support for Ukraine due to their "personal experiences" with similar cyberattacks from Russia. Estonia's investments in its own cybersecurity (cyber accounts for 50% of its government spending on tech, doubling personnel and budget last year) help make Estonia a leading force on cybersecurity in NATO, able to share threat intelligence regularly with allies including the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The bizarre flashing lights on a smartwatch [video]
I used a number of 2.0 and 2.1 desktop speakers but have now settled on the Soundcore Motion+. I might even get another one to use as separate left and right units. Even the single unit has more than enough bass using BassUp or Custom EQ. In addition to the pretty deep for a small speaker, I really appreciate the clear vocals and treble.

Before that I used Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 which are also great but not so reliable--I've gone through a few sets over the years. The 6.5" woofer version sounds much better than the larger (8"?) woofer.

I've used much higher fidelity audio setups but can't justify it when my sources are Spotify, YouTube, video games, etc. Note I'm using the analog 3.5mm jack rather than Bluetooth (though it is AptX). An external USB DAC might be worth it, depending on how good your laptop/pc audio out is to start with.
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> We will prescribe drugs based on those self reports.

Let's not get started about the US healthcare system and prescribing a drug for every possible condition. Lots of things can help those symptoms...not just drugs.
I mean, Apple was one of the first to really embrace and promote skeuomorphic design. It wasn't that long ago that this sort of thing was Apple's design.
From TaxJar, Stripe's own subsidiary, and also the first result on Google:

> Alabama – SaaS is considered a taxable service. Computer software is tangible personal property. (Source)

> Alaska – SaaS is taxable in Alaska. (Source)

> Arizona – SaaS is taxable in Arizona. (Source)

> Connecticut – SaaS is taxable in Connecticut. SaaS for personal use is taxed at the full state rate, but SaaS for business use is only taxed at the rate of 1%. (Source)

> Hawaii – SaaS (and computer services) is taxable in Hawaii. Hawaii’s general excise tax applies to every good and service not tax exempt. (Source)

> Iowa – SaaS is taxable, except when being used for business purposes, then it is exempt. (Source)

> Louisiana – SaaS is taxable. (Source)

> Massachusetts – SaaS and cloud computing are taxable in Massachusetts. (Source)

> New Mexico – SaaS is taxable in New Mexico. (Source)

> New York – SaaS is taxable in New York. (Source)

> Ohio – SaaS is taxable for business use in Ohio and non-taxable for personal use. (Source)

> Pennsylvania – SaaS is taxable in Pennsylvania. (Source)

> Rhode Island – SaaS is taxable in Rhode Island. (Source)

> South Carolina – SaaS is considered a taxable service in South Carolina, as are other charges to access a website. (Source)

> South Dakota – SaaS is considered a taxable service in South Dakota, as are other charges to access software. (Source)

> Tennessee – SaaS is taxable in Tennessee. (Source)

> Texas – SaaS is considered part of a data processing service in Texas and is 80% taxable and 20% exempt from sales tax. (Source)

> Utah – SaaS is taxable in Utah. (Source)

> Washington – SaaS is taxable in Washington since all software, delivered by whatever means, is considered taxable in the state. (Source)

> Washington D.C. – SaaS is considered a taxable service in Washington D.C. (Source)

> West Virginia – SaaS is considered a taxable service in West Virginia. (Source)

https://www.taxjar.com/sales-tax/saas-sales-tax

SaaS is also far from the only industry Stripe serves. But even if it were, close to half the states require taxes on it in some way, shape or form. Meaning it's not nearly as negligible as you're making it seem.

I also want to reiterate the bar is "very small fraction of total payment volume". Very small really implies single or low double digit percentage. While some of the biggest states are missing, you still have around 40% of the population represented in those states. It seems very unlikely, even with tech's concentration in California, that 40% of the population results in "very small fraction of total payment volume".
The Twitter Files, Part Deux
That kind of things is exactly the reason why kids should be allowed social media.

And by the way, in the 2000s, before facebook arrived in my country, we created websites and chatroom spawning entire grades, entire school even. The rumor mill was worse than facebook. I've heard of one of those project (a real website, not just an IRC like in my highschool) was used by students of multiple schools, until it was "hacked" and the admin took it down.

It was a bit discriminatory for kids who didn't had enough money to participate, or for groups of kids who weren't interested enough to get on it (i mean, it _was_ geeky) because there was an entry barrier. If we could've coordinate our stupidity amongst all the students, those years would have been even better, and for them too
> standard legalese hard to interpret

Indeed. We should know what the law is, without first hiring a team of lawyers. There's a trend to make laws that are harder and harder for ordinary people to understand.

Partly that's a result of having to cut out exceptions and loopholes for lobbyists and donors; but I suspect it's largely because lawmakers are increasingly trained, practising lawyers. If the language you speak is legalese, I guess that's the language you use to write laws.
NAT is neither a privacy nor security feature, what are you talking about? Have you actually tested what your CPE does when it gets packets addressed to internal IPs from the WAN port? Almost every time, the answer is just pass it on to the target host. Thinking NAT is a security feature makes your network MUCH less secure.

As for privacy - you can fingerprint individual devices pretty trivially, and with privacy extensions for SLAAC you can only tell what /64 network it's coming from, which is no more information than IPv4 (unless you're behind CGNAT, but frankly being behind a 4-to-4 CGNAT shouldn't count as internet access because you literally can't get incoming connections.)
It makes sense, but I really think it is a matter of habit. You can similarly "ignore" those separators and delimiters where you have them now as you can "ignore" them on the left. (There you can for example mentally "blend" them with indentation.)

That "emphasis" you are talking about is probably just that they seem unusual so they draw attention.
I gave up on this at home long ago, and just use Onedrive for everything. I don't even have "local" files. My stuff is there, and in the event my computer won't start up I lose what's open in the browser. I can handle that.

At work I use Windows backup to write to empty SMB-mounted drives nightly, then write those daily to another drive on an offline Fedora box.

My super critical files are on an encrypted SD card I sometimes put in my phone when cellular connection is off, and this is periodically backed up to Glacier. The phone (Galaxy) runs Dex and can be my computer when needed to work with these files.
I'm even less of an expert, but as I understand it, neutrinos are too light to be cold-dark-matter. They move too fast to be held in galaxies, because their mass is so low.

TFA sounds like they think that right-handed neutrinos could be massive, but they'd have to be much heavier than the limits they mention in the article to account for CDM.

Also, AIUI, CDM requires some kind of non-gravitational interaction to account for the observed abundance. If right-handed neutrinos are sterile, can they be produced in sufficient numbers to constitute dark matter?
i see "porridge" used differently in differing contexts. what do you mean by it here?
You and the other developer basically built the product to the point where they're able to get real, actual money into the founder's hands. That alone demonstrates that you have great ability in what you do and getting it done successfully.

The way these founders are carrying out their actions is pre-planned. Everything you listed that they did was to protect and set themselves up to be the sole owner and reap all the benefits. And considering you're from another country, there is a huge chance they'll just rip you off or break their employment agreements with you whenever they want (probably including sketchy math when it comes to options payout/dilution). And you will have no recourse unless you want to wait years and pay for the legal costs that come with it.

You can test the waters too. See if they'll make you a full time employee, and get a title bump of CTO or something. Or if you think that's too much, get like Senior Architect or something that will look good on your resume for your next job. And ask for a real huge salary bump. If they say they can't do it, or can do it next year (ie putting it off), you'll know they're not serious about keeping you, which means they're already planning on screwing you at some point. As you said, you don't really believe their verbal promises, so bring up a real conversation with real tangible benefits to you and watch carefully how their poker face reacts. It'll tell you a lot.

But to be honest, I would plan to cash out and use your work time to find a different gig in the meantime. Scale back your deliveries and prep for interviews. Your skill level is likely high enough to work at a big named corp with great pay and benefits (ie Google and the like). Larger corps are a lot less likely to rip you off unlike startup founders because they generally have presence in the the country they're operating in and have to follow local laws. Good luck!
> No regulator has had the idea of just going to Facebook, having a real conversation about what they're doing, then talked about it with ethics professionals and researchers and tried to draft a forward-looking law that will make the whole system better?

Many would argue that that's what happened, Facebook choose to bet a few billions on trying to get around it by trying to argue loopholes into the interpretation and is now getting told to knock that off a bit more forcefully.
That's more a discussion of wealth distribution, systems of government and the flaws of capitalism. Theoretically speaking if you free human labor through the use of machines you're creating wealth because the same or greater output can be achieved with less resources and those resources can be allocated elsewhere. Of course some people believe that machines will replace all jobs eventually but historically that has not been the case. Generally new technology makes some jobs obsolete but humans adapt and find different ways to contribute to society.
Your assertion that not a single person thinks this is one that would require truly extraordinary evidence. People believe in evil space lasers controlled by the lizard people. It is fair to assume that even amongst crazy beliefs, there are at least a few people who believe it (or are at least willing to claim so online)

I've met plenty of people who assume "legislation that requires X benefit" is a pure good. You can explain to them how this is false, and they usually feel a bit silly for missing the obvious here, but they absolutely had that belief.

I'm really not sure why you would possibly think this is some straw man argument.
An instruction account would be a decent first order approximation, but I don't think it will be very useful for optimization.

The bottleneck of modern hardware (generally) is memory. You can get huge speedups by tweaking the way your program structures and operates on data to make it more cache friendly. This won't really affect instruction count but could make your program run 2x faster.
The same thing happened with negative coverage of the tech industry by the mainstream media. Journalists kept acting like tech people were just being paranoid about the media. Then recently Yglesias casually tweeted that there was a topdown directive for negative coverage, and acted like it was no big deal and everyone should have known.
It would have been useful to have pointed out this isn’t so efficient for people with darker skin.

Is there any technology to address that?
On point 3, also you have a plethora of PMs who are insistent they are important and can bend the will of Somebody Important and definitely aren’t just relaying those “drop everything” requests and are actually a proper job of being a PM…
Illustrating RLHF that's critical for ChatGPT
Thanks! I really appreciate a comment from an actual VR user describing actual VR use. I find the "but in theory it works great so let's ignore the problems" replies tiresome after a while.

How often would you say you use VRChat? I'm especially interested in things that people use in the same way they'd use Facebook or Twitter: multiple times per week and as a default activity when they're bored.
CARI has been collecting aesthetic categories like this for a while. They're probably the ones who named it Frutiger Aero.

https://cari.institute/aesthetics
Another data point towards caution when reading Gladwell:

Malcom Gladwell's book: Outliers, The Stories of Success (2011) is what brought the "10,000 hours to master a skill" quip to popularity.

That book drew on research by Anders Ericson as its scientific basis.

But Ericson himself found Gladwell's book so problematic he later wrote a book of his own: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (2017) to set the record straight.

In Peak, there is an entire section dedicated to describing what portions of Gladwell's interpretation is problematic, and how it oversimplified the Ericson's own research.
For better or worse, I think that is basically the exact opposite of the *nix community’s modus operandi. The whole point of the free software movement is to be able to control/modify your own tools. Distros exist because different people have different priorities and viewpoints. The issue is that this discourages both developers and end users who want things to be consistent and reliable, and so they retreat to the Windows/Mac hegemony.
I'll have you know the title was accurate at the time of submission.
How Analysis Dies
The phrase doesn't mean children are little sages with the secrets of the universe.

It means we equip children to teach themselves in a well prepared environment. That might mean just putting a child in a room with a book or it might mean spending a lot of time with the kid and helping them slowly learn vowel sounds.

We tune the methodology to the child so they can become self sufficient life learners.

"The prepared environment" is a critical concept. It means a safe environment that the child can explore that has activities intentionally chosen for that child to learn from. That means age appropriate, developmentally appropriate and so on.
> HN opinion is quite a bit more well informed than general society

These sorts of generalizations are very dangerous, because when the group believes them it confers a false credence.
> Actually your whole post is so relentlessly negative and petty (SCUM? FrAgile?) I won't give it credence.

Have a sense of humor. If TDD works for you, continue using it. I've done TDD before and sometimes still do.

Sometimes people are negative for a reason. I've seen enough iterations of these methodologies that I don't think they have any special value. Should a cattle ranch be more "agile?" Maybe, but honestly, I doubt that would end well. That's an extreme example, but even different software products may not necessitate the same workflows that these methodologies are intended to create.

The point is there isn't necessarily anything in particular about any of these loosely related methodologies that makes them special or effective for everything. In fact, they fail to live up to their promise quite often because they're treated as if they've been proven to be more effective than hypothetical alternatives, which simply isn't true.

> the only justification for a thing is if it works. If they regularly do, as you just acknowledged they do multiple times, they're of value.

Yes. However, I've personally never been with an organization that actually attempted to measure whether a methodology was working or not. My guess is, the vast majority of the time, methodologies are a magic talisman to ward off the bad C-level spirits and bring good fortune to middle management, and sometimes make it look like more work is being done than is actually.

I'm sure those organizations exist, but if they are actually willing to do such honest self assessment, they're probably capable of arriving at the same place without needing a pre-built methodology to start with.
"Nothing is any good if other people like it."

Isn't Gladwell's crime being too popular? And perhaps honing his style of writing so much that it seems like a pastiche of itself?

I think perhaps some people wanted reading Gladwell-esque pop-intellectual books to mark them out as sophisticated, and that stops working when you realize that everyone has read them. Perhaps Gladwell just personifies that effect.

In a way, performatively declaring Gladwell is a midwit writer is classic midwit behaviour. The next escalation in the opinion arms race is to declare that a sophisticated reading proves Gladwell is actually a genius.
> It's a private company

Twitter benefits from network effects, which makes them immune to an extent from the normal rules of private-sector competition. Telephone carriers have to carry certain speech, your power company can't shut off your power because they don't like your speech, etc… Arguably the major social media platforms are in a similar position.

Twitter also colludes with government officials, as revealed in the previous "Twitter files" installment.

> they suppressed propaganda

I just checked the Twitter Rules [1], the Rules don't forbid "propaganda".

And I just checked the definition of "propaganda" [2], seems like it includes many things that nobody alleges is against the Rules (for example, any political ad, no matter what it advocates, is "propaganda").

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda
I think your finger-pointing is more emotional than rational. But all the same, I'd really love to hear more about this if this isn't a troll post.
Nope, 300 years ago we had slavery and now we have gig work. I think that's the same universe ;)

In all seriousness, refusing to compare two things because you think they're "just too different" is simply acting irrationally. Look at the objectives, pressures, and outputs of each system and you may see more similarities than you'd like.
Disney+ launches ad supported tier to compete with Netflix
I don't know about FAR more convincing, but point conceded.
I'm running nixos (22.05), and I can't run alsa clients to the pipewire alsa device on the remote machine over ssh without setting the "correct" environment variables (I have yet to identify them, so I use what I posted to clone the environment of an X program).
YC generative AI themed co-founder speed-dating event
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PS: This hacker news text was written by ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI.
Would any programmers uploading videos fall under this umbrella?
I wanted to make sure I corrected your claim that this was anecdotal. It's what the actual data says. Most people dying from Covid now are vaccinated. That doesn't mean nobody should get vaccinated. It doesn't mean everyone should get vaccinated. But saying something isn't true that clearly is, isn't helpful. Trust has been eroded enough by "the experts" already.
The stuff ChatGPT comes up with sounds funnier and more entertaining than 90% of the current Netflix catalog.
Rust has libraries like https://lib.rs/criterion that help running code 1000 times in a loop, with proper timing, elimination of outliers, etc.
That's a testament to how bad browsers were/are compared to Chrome.

Chrome was a ground-up project, written by highly-paid Googlers, while other browsers were sitting on old codebases built up by many average employees and unpaid volunteers over a decade+.

Chrome was also, at that time, allowed to be a pure browser for browsing the web while other browsers were trying to get you to sign up for toolbars (essentially more ad real estate for them) or use their homepage (more ad spots) and were pushing out updates constantly (an excuse to show you more ads in the updater progress window!)