skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forbes published it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/12/13/exclus...

He said "I fucked up" which would get C-SPAN in trouble with the FCC.

It is a very defiant and entitled sounding statement though.
It's not that surprising. Homes are considerably more expensive than food , clothes, or medicine, so prices falling is a bigger deal, especially if someone recently bought a home and is underwater. The problem is that homes are seen as investments instead of merely dwellings.
Conversations 2.11.0 released – open-source Jabber/XMPP client for Android
Exciting! Is this work published somewhere? I'm curious to hear more about the setup and other experimental conditions.
Why stop there, why not ban alcohol and sugar as well? But don't touch my coffee - I need that.

I'm not totally against government regulating vice, I do wish it was done at a local level so that in the spirit of federalization we can see what works and what doesn't in small experiments before other states would voluntarily adopt it. NZ is a small state so not too many people will be impacted.

I do think in an environment where the government is responsible for health outcomes it makes sense to pass mitigating regulation to minimize the costs of health outcomes. Though I do worry we may end up with mandatory exercise and a Canadian style widely encouraged assisted suicide model.
Oh, what fun! Our system administrator decided once to duplicate the boot partition of a server, so we had a spare should the usual one fail. He used dd of course. And the next day, he was off to a USENIX conference. What he had forgotten, though, was that the first partition on the disk actually contained the partition table! (This was on Solaris, or possibly SunOS.) Since the source disk and the target disk had different partition tables, things started falling apart. It did not happen all at once, probably due to caching. But we started getting more and more weird errors. It took me half the day to figure out what had happened. By great luck, I had actually saved a copy of all partition tables just a few days prior. They were in human readable form, but good enough for me to restore the damaged partition table to its original state. A reboot later, all problems were gone.
Its not a productive use of my time debating whether water is wet.
What unmanned nuclear bomber?
You should be very excited because we live on a planet with independent competing countries and well... you don't want to live in the US or Europe with China or other not so friendly countries building a bigger more powerful nuke. If a weapon can be built, it will be built. How, when and if it can be used are things you can control not whether someone somewhere will develop it. Especially in war time, all bets are off.

Although, it would be interesting to see fusion reactors on planes and ships powering other types of weapons like lasers and more powerful railguns or faster icbms.
I wouldn't mind a standard ChatGPT generated TL;DR as the first comment, with an archive link in case of a paywall.
The Sins of Select
Christopher Nolan couldn't have timed the release of Oppenheimer better.
> I mean, I understand on one level that in lots of places medical professionals would refuse to treat a pregnant woman or a child without a source of funds. On another though it’s seems very alien to me.

You can't be turned away for lifesaving or critical procedures.

If you go to the hospital in labor, or with a gunshot wound, or an infected abscess, etc; they'll treat you (they're legally bound to). You get your bill after services rendered.

At least in California, you can also go to a myriad of clinics for free-cheap preventative services so your toothache doesn't turn into an abscess.
> Have you considered that people who have other opinions exist and theirs is as valid as yours?

I think parent is saying the opposite.

"Just to give some perspective that I don’t think HN really gets"

Parent has seen several comments assuming everyone's leaving Twitter and Musk is destroying the platform and himself and will never recover. I, likewise, reading Reddit get the same feeling that some pockets think everybody is leaving Twitter and going to Mastadon or something like this is a big cultural revolution. I think that is true in some pockets, but like parent I don't think anyone except Musk really knows what the actual engagement numbers look like, and even he doesn't know what they'll look like long term. But he is clearly making a bet, and it's silly for a biased hivemind to already assume his downfall when it actually hasn't happened yet. Just like there was a broad assumption that Twitter would have all kinds of technical issues after most of the staff was fired. Maybe that's still to come, but it hasn't really happened yet, and it can't be assumed.

Twitter isn't necessarily going to be an epic failure, and it's strange how some pockets of the internet feel they should make that assertion, whether you agree with Musk's politics or not. And politics is what it really comes down to. Politics is what drives the desire for these communities to see Musk fail, nothing else.

And at any rate it is very strange to compare Musk to SBF in any way.
When I first signed up for TikTok it showed me stuff to figure out what I would like. It showed me some of the most racist humor I'd heard since I was a boy in the deep south. If I'd liked it, it would have shown me more and more and more of it. As it is, I don't see it now because the algo feeds me stuff I actually like.

I do think there's a content problem on TikTok, but I think it's hidden away from the people who would point it out due to the way the algo works.
Ok...so the solution is to allow China to own the data and not more closely regulate how data is stored and used at any social media company that stores US customer data?
These same legislators are absolutely furious when the EU fines Facebook. I think Meta respects EU laws about as much as TikTok respects US laws
I mean, who doesn’t think this is sus?

“On 296 of 307 questions, they had put down the same answers. On 54 of those, they put down the same wrong answers.”
I almost called BS on your statistic, but a simple Google search shows that this year's midterm elections saw spending of up to $16.7 billion [1], so it appears to be true. As a non-US citizen, the amount of money in US politics shreds my mind...what are they even spending it on? Ads? Campaign outreaches? How much do these things cost?

If it's how it is in my weird African country (Nigeria), I'll wager that most of the money is spent on advertisements and clueless campaign managers and staff enjoying the grift. But then, I understand; the U.S. is a really rich country with a high percentage of politically-active citizens, so they put their money where their mouth is.

1- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/2022-midterm-election-spendi...
Keeping our markets open is the American way and it's how the US became the preeminent trading nation and the cornerstone and chief architect of the global economic system. The US always pushes hard for other nations to open their markets as well (for better or worse), but it also leads by example.
Have you ever seen a manager fired? I don't think anybody is evaluating their performance.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a big admission. I thought it was (relatively) common knowledge even several years ago
The article is about a fake transmission, but that's separate and mostly unrelated topic from whether other manufacturers might want to use a real transmission.
Correct. The chief difference between English and German in this respect is the use of spaces (and what is considered a word). In German, you can basically drop the spaces from a noun phrase and call it a word, but it's basically a low-consequence surface syntax difference.

Side note: ancient Greek didn't use spaces, and many other languages (Thai and Written Chinese are the ones with which I'm most familiar) either don't use spaces or make spaces optional. The distinction between a phrase and a word gets a bit blurry at times, and I find the distinction is seldom useful, particularly when making comparisons across languages.
Thanks for posting those recruiting stats, they certainly seem to hold true from what I've seen.
Odds are the legal system will converge on a non-technical, highly abstract meaning of "wire" to the effect of "any medium for conveyance of a signal over long distances (where long distances can reasonably be concluded to encompass multiple jurisdictions).

This is why Legalese and English are truly seperate beasts linguistically.
This experiment was never intended to/or form the basis of a nuclear fusion reactor.
> Circle and Tether are just banks with dollar liabilities.

But no regulatory oversight, and no chance for the common folk to prosecute or get their money back if they default.

I am one of the resident crypto apologists here on HN, but there is no way that we should even try to accept what the big exchanges are doing. The whole point of crypto is to have systems that do not depend on "too big to fail" institutions, why are we suddenly trying to find excuses for their BS?
The hybrid plug-in models seem like a very good solution in terms of practicality and efficiency. Most can go 40 miles atm, which is a commute for most. Eventually cutting out fossil fuel work commutes for those who can’t work at home, or even the weekly run to wherever would eventually have a significant impact.
I mean Meta could argue that getting a bigger part of the cake would allow them to make more jobs
It's hearsay 101 - an out of court statement by someone who didn't say it, being offered for the truth of the statement. it's not hearsay when you say it to the officer because that is a party admission.
> So effectively, Binance is refusing to honor its commitment to depositors to give them their money on demand. That's called a "default."

What? So if I go into the bank at 4 AM and ask to withdraw $100,000, and they respond, "Sure, we'll need a few hours to get those funds together," the bank has defaulted?
Yes, you've likely never heard of them: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

I have no clue who these people are:

Hank & Doug Meijer

Tom & Judy Love

Stewart & Lynda Resnick

Andrew & Peggy Cherng

In fact the list of ones I recognize is tiny compared to the whole list.

Some of them don't even have pictures, but they're all billionaires. And yes, I consider even a single billion to be a great, real fortune. Most people will never crack a million.
I'm pretty sure that's a uniquely American thing too. At least I've never seen it in France.

But yeah, the bill names get really goofy sometimes.
What do you think the US nuclear weapons research lab will use their research for?

You're right that increasing the yield was a bad example from my side, but the purpose is to improve the weapons, nothing else.
> This article has highlighted the stark differences between the US and Europe, and why innovating in the US is a way for an individual to reduce their risks and improve their outlook. Meanwhile in Europe, a non-innovative job offers the best expectation value. Plus there are our old fashioned expectations of well costed innovation plans where we know up front how we’re going to make money

Maybe innovation isn't all that great afterall?

Societally, you'd expect innovation to deliver better quality of life to all it's people.

In that sense, I'm not sure it's fair to say that Facebook is the kind of innovation society needed.

If the EU can in fact provide better quality of life with less effort and less need for risk taking, to the people of Europe, I'm not sure why you'd want to change the system?

That's a big "if" though. But I think that dimension needs to be addressed as well.

I don't know that Facebook or Uber really brought major innovation from an impact point of view. Lots of "innovation" in the US is more about market entry or taking over a market. It's not always delivering true life improvements, but innovating on ways for shareholders to capture more money.

Meanwhile, BioNTech, which delivered the COVID vaccine, is a European company.

I'm not saying EU is better than US, but I think we need to go a bit deeper in this analysis, define what we mean by "innovation", what inherent benefits does it have, are there different kinds of innovation, and are all kinds desirable?
They clearly are not given the explicit mention of these being YC companies combined with the lack of the ability to comment on the posts, which is only ever true of the special job postings from YC companies that get placed on the front page without needing to be upvoted.

They are also clear that they are talking about companies based in NYC that are clearly required to follow NY law.
Addictiveness is a poor argument to use here because the hypocrisy will immediately be exposed. If that's the standard, why not take action against online gambling, sports betting, etc? Aren't US-owned platforms also addictive?

The best argument is reciprocity. China is largely a closed market to US companies. This is intentional policy by the CCP. the CCP dangles the 1B+ market to extract concessions from Western companies that I don't like (eg making movies more palatable to the CCP even released elsewhere). More importantly, Western companies will never "win" in China. It's Lucy and the football. The CCP will guarantee that doesn't happen.

Trade is predicated to open and equal access to each other's markets. Obviously the reality isn't quite that but that's the starting principle: reciprocity. China is clearly not reciprocating the access Chinese companies have in the West and that's a good a reason as any to ban things like Tiktok. It's also justifiable.

There's also the issue that Chinese companies are tools of the state without any adequate separation or rule of law to stop that in a way that just isn't true for US companies. But that's a lesser issue than the recipricoal trade issue.
> 3. Extracting useful energy would require capturing hot neutrons in a "blanket", heating it up, and running fluid through it to boil water to drive a steam turbine. The minimum practical size for such a "blanket" exceeds that of a large fission plant. To collect enough neutrons to be useful requires a huge volume of plasma, as even compressed plasma is very diffuse vs. fissiles.

I worked as a control systems engineer in the nuclear power industry for 8 years back in the '90s. I worked on Lungmen in Taiwan, ABWRs (Kashiwazaki 6/7) and even Fukushima (power uprates) in Japan and Grand Gulf and Pilgrim in the USA.

Fusion is billed as a "clean" alternative to fission reactors but I think this is (another) false hope of the technology. I still recall my nuke prof telling me that fusion (if it ever works) is going to be an even bigger waste problem than fission reactors. The 15 MEV neutrons are going to neutron-activate tons of shielding or heat extracting blankets which would be a huge disposal problem. He also thought that neutron embrittlement of plant structures was going to be a serious problem and is already a problem in fission plant cores that use thermal neutrons. Carting that waste away at EOL will kill the economics.

We should start building fission plants now which are safe and clean enough and can provide power until something better comes along.
> You cant as a company in Denmark offer a normal employment contract to someone in Germany. You need a legal entity in both countries.

This is the same in the US, if you hire someone in a different state you need a legal entity in that state, and there may be different local laws around taxes, health insurance, pay, etc.

> There's also still european xenophobia and racism (ie not hiring someone because of their nationality).

Same in the US.

It's true that there are a lot of different languages, but I don't understand how you get from there to "Europe isn't real". I don't really know what you mean by synergies, but EU countries can easily trade with each other and citizens can freely travel between countries, so one country's growing economy certainly benefits residents of other countries.
>"But yes, alcohol is harmful but I think smoking is even more so."

I disagree. Also alcoholics harm many other people around them
Sculptures that double as safety features and DIY tools the elderly can operate
SWIFT does not take 2 months; it takes minutes or hours. Your bank already has your money or it never received it.

More likely, they are holding your money due to some issues with your local KYC laws. (This is especially likely in South America, where foreign senders must verify the source and purpose of payments made to local residents.)
> would be more fair: ban foreign companies from operating in the US whenever American companies in the same field can't operate in the same way in the foreign company's home country

This blows up global trade. Different countries value different industries for different reasons. The French aren't going to sell wine like Americans, and Americans don't care enough about the difference to get into a fight over it.
There are discussions among the banks that own Zelle to correct this issue:

JPMorgan, Other Banks in Talks to Reimburse Scammed Zelle Customers

WSJ link: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/jpmorgan-other-banks-in-tal...

Archive link: https://archive.vn/yXy1P
Wow, a lot of histrionics in the comments.

Like a wise man once said:
"First principles, Clarice: simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius, Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?"

The article is dealing with a foreign unregulated crypto-exchange and a US regulated stable coin.
Good concept and congrats on the launch. My feedback is I don't see why I would move my conversations( and convincing all my friends) from existing apps like iMessage, Discord, Slack etc to new app just coz of a calendar feature. Who is the target customer for this service?
Discord, Slack and iMessage have many apps that can be used to schedule events. I think it would make more sense if this a SaaS offering where I could use this in other platforms as an app or a bot.
You're not wrong, but on the other hand... the limit on direct contributions to federal campaigns is $5800. I can tell you from personal experience that this is enough to get a meeting with any senator or congressman except the most senior leadership (their price is about 10x more). So for about $3-4M/yr you can have every incumbent senator and representative on speed dial. They won't necessarily do your bidding, but they will return your calls.
> If you advertise a job respond to applicants quickly

A friend of mine is superbly qualified for a job posted by Apple. She applied for this job expecting a reasonably quick reply. What I mean by "superbly qualified" is that she is a recognized expert in the domain, has conducted seminars attended by hundreds of engineers and business people and, back in the day, was actually invited by Steve Jobs to come to Cupertino and help Apple engineers understand issues related to this product category.

Her application, last I checked, has gone without response for somewhere around 30 to 45 days. This has caused her to have lost her interest to work for Apple. She is now considering offers from competitors.

Ghosting can happen in many forms. Why is it that tech companies don't seem to understand how important is is to treat people with respect --customers, suppliers, candidates and employees. Once someone forms an opinion about you or your company it takes a thousand times more energy and effort to change it.
Meta makes about $5 billion a year from China.
I remember Keyboard not connected. Press F1 to continue. (BIOS)
> a failed stablecoin against the Deutschemark

That's an interesting way of spinning the pound falling out of the ERM (which wasn't the same as the Deutschmark). From the perspective here, getting out of the ERM was a blessing, not a "failure".

And at no point did a paper pound cease to be exchangeable with hard currency. So I stand by my earlier remark.
There seem two be two different things here.

1. "100,000x as many content creators to support"

Hollywood has always been flooded with countless failed would-be actors / entertainers. Just because you can't see them like you can in Twitch, because they couldn't publish stuff in the 1980s, it doesn't mean they didn't exist. This is an old problem.

2. "The amount of MacGuyver content you got over the original 7 year run is about the same amount of content that a popular Twitch Streamer will put out in about 7 weeks."

We're not talking about the actor, by himself, winging it and producing an episode on the fly. With Twitch, that is typically the case. On Twitch, content being produced is of lower effort and higher volume. It's a huge difference but the math balances out.

As an aside, "fan mail" did exist back then too. Viewers would write in to a P.O. Box and if they were lucky their letters were read on air.
Without the accessibility of their public library, and public workers to guide them, they would have never been able to acquire the required knowledge in aeronautics
They actually achieved both ignition and scientific breakeven. The resultant fusion heat helped produced significantly more fusion, not just relying on external energy (ie from the laser implosion).
I'm at a university lab and would love some free computing and storage hardware. Any tips?
With pay as you go they do. Usually six months. Paying more in resets the timer.
I... never said that you did? I know you don't, your first post suggests that you and I both want to see crypto go up in flames. That said, defending Binance isn't a prerequisite for spreading FUD. What I'm saying is that you are wrong about this withdrawal freeze being a "pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain" - it is an entirely separate freeze. Here's a really condensed version of what's happened here:

Binance: "Hey guys, we're gonna have some down time soon for a fork."
Binance: "Hey guys, here's our planned downtime."
Binance: "Hey guys, our planned downtime is over."
Binance: "Oops, hey, there have been a lot of withdrawals, we're freezing them."
HN: "Oh wow, there was a run on Binance and now they've frozen withdrawals, shouldn't they have the cash?"
You: "Stop spreading FUD, this was just a planned downtime."
Me: "No it wasn't, here's proof."
You: "This is FUD, it was just a planned downtime."
Me: "... here's more proof?"
You: "I said I wasn't defending Binance."

Make sense?
First, thank you for the reference.

Second, who implements this part?

"Does this new law apply to my job postings?

All employers that have four or more employees or one or more domestic workers are covered by the NYCHRL,
including this new provision of the law. As with other provisions of the NYCHRL, owners and individual
employers count towards the four employees. The four employees do not need to work in the same location,
and they do not need to all work in New York City. As long as one of the employees works in New York City,
the workplace is covered.

Employment Agencies are also covered by the new law, regardless of their size. As such, employment agencies
must ensure that any job listings they promote or seek to fill comply with the new salary transparency
requirements.

Temporary Help Firm Exception: The new law does not apply to temporary help firms seeking applicants to join
their pool of available workers. Temporary help firms are businesses that recruit, hire, and assign their own
employees to perform work or services for other organizations, to support or supplement the other organization’s
workforce, or to provide assistance in special work situations. However, employers who work with temporary
help firms must follow the new salary transparency law"
Apologies, my post was ambiguous. I meant same-currency transfer to other people (as opposed to between accounts held by the same person) not FX.
Remember it? Its my life motto.
Right, but if the universe of possible characters grow much larger than the window size (as it does in many applications), we want a method that only pays in terms of window size, not universe size.