skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between never paying it back fully, and never paying it back _at all_.
I gotta wonder how much of a "staffing shortage" they would have if they raised the pay 10-15%. Everywhere else I see claims of employers having difficulties finding and retaining competent employees, it just happens that they're low wage, low respect jobs with unpleasant & unreasonable management. Hotel cleaning staff is probably no different.
Spectre is not going to be fixed for code within the same address space and allows to read all process memory from untrusted code. Google in V8 tried to protect against that, but they mostly gave up as there were way too many ways to affect the cache.
This, in the article they complain that they already raised pay from $10/hour to $16/hour. In Baltimore, where minimum wage is currently $12.50 according to the DOL.

"To keep the employees they do have, the couple tries to accommodate staff needs" yeah, that's what good employers should have been already doing before.
There is a distribution for that.
In French you would translate solidarité and entre-aide respectively each term, so they worth having each a dedicated word.

Actually I was surprised when I wanted to find a straight forward equivalent to "entre aide". It seems that "interhelp" is sufficiently obvious for having an organization taking this name, but this apparently not an idiomatic word per se.
This is rediculous.
J&J knowingly sold talcum powder laced with asbestos.
They have known about it for over 50 years.
This company is basically evil and as they cannot fight the facts they use trickery to absolve liability.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

You should be ashamed of yourself.
Except there are abuses of Roth IRAs and other cases where tax can be completely avoided. I think it was only recent that some limitations of Roth IRAs were put in place for heirs, but such investment vehicles do exist that do not get hit by the normal estate taxation processes.
I agree. Taxing unrealized capital gains is just not a good idea at all. What's more problematic than people having huge sums of unrealized book value, is that in the current system they're allowed to live a lavish lifestyle by taking out loans against those assets (which effectively is an income for them) without paying any taxes at all. That is what should be taxed in some form.
It's annoying to argue, but (1) that's an anecdote, not data, (2) levels.fyi is a biased sample of people obsessed with / want to brag about their compensation (like you, because even though this post was about FU 'skills' you started arguing about comp), (3) FU money is in the single digit millions at least, if not $10 million, like I said you may get to that level after 10-20 years with good investments, but it's really not guaranteed. For a startup it's even less guaranteed, but you will certainly get much more than that ($10s of millions at least), faster (5-10 years) if you have a reasonably successful exit. Of course billions if you are a unicorn, so a nice fat tail of upside. (4) This post was about FU skills and not FU money, and the difference between startups and big corps is even starker for that. At big corps you barely do anything for the first two years you get hired, but at startups you are working on something mission critical from the start. It's a much deeper experience, skill-wise. There's really no comparison. So if you're goal is FU skills, you'd get it at a startup much more than a big corp without question.
> one reasonable way of implementing exceptions could be exactly to translate all functions that can throw exceptions to functions returning a Result type, and translating function calls to such functions to the equivalent of pattern matching on that return

That's exactly what the lightweight exception proposal for C++ argued for. It additionally used some ABI tricks like storing the discriminant in a flag register when returning from an exception throwing function allowing for very cheap and compact pattern matching.
> Why even have a version name then if it’s not intended to communicate anything?

It does communicate something. But it's not for comparing release dates of versions.

It's for marketing.

Go to Apples website, navigate to the Mac section and then to the macOS section.

That lands you on this page: https://www.apple.com/macos/ventura/

The names are used in marketing when new versions are launched.

Read the page I linked about macOS Ventura. The way that they use the name of that version here is the way that they use the OS version names in general. For marketing, when a new version is released.
fwiw, even Lyube has a song memorialising Makhno, Батька Махно, and I don't know if they're considered tankies, but they're definitely tankie-adjacent (they sang at the pro-"Z" concert at the start of the invasion, ffs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRMfa6MSAaY
>Every single hotel or motel should be doing full clean between guest visits, otherwise it should not even be allowed to operate.

'Should be' yes, but you'd be surprised how many don't follow through on this, and not necessarily due to lack of policy. Cleaning staff have very tight schedules, being allocated only a few minutes to completely clean and setup the room for the new guest but if the old guest didn't follow through on the exact checkout time, then that throws of the schedule of the cleaning staff completely, meaning they often cut corners to meet their deadlines.
The world needs big industrial vacuum robots. Why don't they exist? I live in a rather rich condo in Europe yet it's only once a year our vast underground garage is cleaned. In winter there are lakes of dirty water from the snow melting off the wheels, the rest of the year there are layers and tumbleweed-like balls of housedust (looks depressing). The floor itself is almost perfectly leveled and polished - ideal for a vacuum robot. I wish the bots would roam there and clean the mess. We have human jaintors but they only clean the stairs.
Why? Perhaps the author's opinion was the reason they founded the startup?

Don't the arguments stand on their own, independent of who made them?
A potentially interesting contrast:

Why our generals were more successful in WWII than in Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq/Afghanistan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE

Briefly, minimize the application process and aggressively review work. Any mistake or failure and you're fired, two weeks to prove competence or you're fired, six weeks until a significant accomplishment or you're fired. And no stigma against being fired, just keep trying until you find a fit.
The thing that makes me very uneasy about this is... it's crypto. If you let people walk away with anything less than decades in prison you're setting a bad precedent. Why? Because the entire design of crypto is to allow you to squirrel money away, honestly what are the chances that these guys have some cold wallet lying around with a few million dollars in bitcoin? That's what I'd do if I was running this scam.
It's not snark, it's a humorous reference to a very famous movie scene[0] that later became even more famous due to being quoted in Civilization IV[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPur5HzHLhM&t=9m5s
There isn't a fixed amount of money. And taxes are only incidentally about public sector hiring.

There is (more or less) a fixed amount of power.

Taxes doesn't raise money, but they do redistribute and decentralise power, making it harder for the very rich to dominate economic and social strategy for their own ends.
In their FAQ[1] (under the heading: "How is my data encrypted? I’m concerned about submitting it to unknown and untrusted servers. Can it really not be decrypted by anyone but me?" or if you click on "Show more FAQs") they list the following:

"xBrowserSync utilises the browser’s native Web Crypto library to encrypt your browser data client-side before it is transmitted over the internet. For key derivation, xBrowserSync uses PBKDF2 with 250,000 rounds of SHA-256 (as a comparison, LastPass’ key derivation uses a similar approach but with only 100,100 rounds by default). The data is then encrypted using AES-GCM with a random 16 byte IV and the user’s random 32 char sync ID as a salt. This approach ensures your data cannot be decrypted without your sync password (which is never transmitted) so please ensure you use a strong password! If you would like to review the encryption code, the relevant functions are getPasswordHash and encryptData."

[1] https://www.xbrowsersync.org/#faqs
Not so much legacy as specifically of the time period where Java was created.

C++ doesn't do this (in the standard library, setting a good tone for idiomatic code).

Older languages don't abuse the exception idea. Nor do newer ones.

(Go is a bad example though, since it took the convenience of Java style exceptions away, but replaced them with nothing)
No it will be simpler. We will simply sell the rights to earth to the AI.
I suspect nobody involved in the production process is watching their shows at the bitrates that they will actually reach customers with.
This is really the heart of the issue with all these new "disruptive" industries. They're cheaper because they avoid a lot of the regulation, but all that regulation exists for a reason. Whether you're replacing taxis with Uber or hotels with airbnb, you're saving money by allowing room for all the problems that made the regulation necessary in the first place.
> it was heavily IP-encumbered back in the day

It was also horrifically expensive to license from what I remember which meant that almost no-one used it.
> should

OK, but does that include Rowling's Harry Potter sales, or Persson selling Minecraft to Microsoft?

> There's no conceivable reason

How about "someone is offering me a billion to take over the company I founded regardless of if I actually agree to sell"? Or worse, "someone wants to offer me a million for 0.1% of my shares, but if I sold all my shares the market price would crash by 95%, therefore I get all the blame for being rich with only a handful of the benefits"?

I appreciate there are other economic systems besides one-dollar-one-vote, and we may wish to make mega corporations more democratic and less plutocratic-authoritarian, but that kind of change deserves a book rather than a single comment.
Don't human designers do image or point cloud -> clean 3D mesh in an iterative manner? I see it will be significantly more computationally expensive to iteratively deform a cube to a tree by NN, but I don't see why it isn't a solution.
This article makes me think of two other articles which discuss the matter. One by Bartosz Milewski[1] and one by Eli Bendersky[2]. The main idea of both is that programming can change significantly from what we do today but never will be obsolete. It just will be on an upper step on the meta ladder.

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2020/02/24/math-is-your-insuranc...

[2] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/asimov-programming-and-th...
Unity's been working on an ECS option for a while now
Thanks to chroma subsampling done with most encoded content, your 8bit screen can likely display way more than the usual SDR content contains. Meaning less banding and better dark scenes.
>No way. Fucking hell, Valve. Sort your shit out. How many thousands of hours have been wasted because of this?

This is to prevent abuse. Some games will have 1000s of achievements as a feature, because gamers like games with lots of achievements (and because Valve kinda encourages that with some of their store features), so forcing people to do it manually is a way to decrease that kind of activity somewhat.
One could very well argue that valley SWEs would be rightfully taxed by these measures.

Yes they're not the super rich.

But still among the top X %.
Offshore is common term. Its collectively all those small countries which have minuscule corporate tax, zero financial rules and refusal to cooperate with big countries about financial tax evasion. Basically everyone from Ireland, Switzerland (sorry guys, just business) to Bahamas and Panama (and ban flags of convenience while we are at it). Definitely all countries refusing to disclose financial records for international law enforcement.

If I were planning such effort, I would propose do bans in waves, with multiyear intervals. E.g. ban of top10 worst offender countries - Cayman islands, British Virgin islands, Seychelles, etc. Then make a list of 10 next and warn them that they have 2-3 years to adjust or be banned too. Rinse and repeat.
I also doubt this. If the hotel has at least one star, providing towels is mandatory for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_rating#European_Hotelsta...

Presumably, bed sheets are so basic that they aren't even listed in the star criteria. Even in youth hostels, you may have to put the sheets on yourself or they might cost extra, but you don't need to bring your own.
This parachute shape looks ineffective.. wouldnt a shape be ideal, that takes up stream direction of the water and redirects it partially into the exact oppossite direction, so the ideal shape would look somewhat like a jellyfish, converting the potential energy of the water streaming into directional energy countering the stream direction.

Or just a underwater kite going in circles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite
Like on this chart? https://i.redd.it/n9zkfwj43kn01.jpg
> How do you know which cat or geological feature corresponds to which version number?

You don't need to know that. It does not matter.

These human names are for marketing. They have no significance other than that.
Not really. It's an alternative to chrome/brave sync.

Xbrowsersync will sync cross firefox/brave/chrome/edge.
I once heard that nowhere on Earth you're ever more than 6 meters away from a rat. I don't think that's true, but it's probably still a bad idea to blindly assume that there's no vermin anywhere. You keep vermin away by not feeding them.
> As a practical matter, it is very difficult to tax wealth (and even harder to do it fairly.)

Switzerland does it and it seems to work pretty well.
To be fair Microsoft have moved some number for the last 4 releases of Windows
I tried this a couple of times but the main problem I encountered was: on Android, it doesn't seem to be possible to delete a conversation without also deleting the contact.
The first thing I implore everyone to do when evaluating Rust is to check out a non trivial project and start hacking on it. I have always found the compiler to be unacceptably slow in these cases, especially if you come from C rather than C++. If you work your way up from Hello World you may not ever notice this until you already invested a substantial amount of effort.
That’s proper stuff from nightmares. Imagine a bacterium so viable, it gets out of control and reproduces massively, because there is so much tasty plastics everywhere. Say goodbye to the modern world.
Your comment reminds me of the idea of reification explained here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77ev9pks4I

Film grain doesn't mean anything, except what the public have been conditioned for it to mean back when it was a natural chemical process.
Nice anecdote, but was it because of the language or because a small motivated team gets much more done than a big enterprise that is bogged down in meetings?
With a sufficiently advanced and independent AI, the business need would be "make money", or perhaps hopefully "make money while obeying the laws, acting ethically, and doing something publicly beneficial".
Ask HN: Any Cool Mac Touchbar Concepts?
Dear HN,

I have never used the Touchbar and always disliked it immensely. Now that the fest of love is near, I thought, I might be a bit more open, after ignoring and being mean to it for the past 3 years.

Do you know of any creative apps / concepts using the touchbar?
They do not have to be useful per se, just a cool idea or concept. Also, if it is not an app, maybe just an idea you had in your mind, I'd like to hear it.

I will be buying a new laptop soon and it will for sure not a have a Touchbar (probably not even a mac). So I'd like to at least check, if I have just a missed a major opportunity to have some fun coming up with creative ideas for it.

The only thing I have seen that I found really, really cool, was the "Samplr Touchbar app":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMlmzTBF_LE

I found it mentioned here, when searching HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25049595

What else is there? Maybe a concept that just didn't work out but was a neat idea?

Don't worry, I am not looking to become a "Touchbar" activist. Just feel there must be something to it, that not even apple could think of, that would be a cool use case.
I couldn't find anything online.
> There's no longer a society to participate in though as all the social institutions have been deconstructed. Marriage, land ownership, religion, tradition, real communities, family is still nominally there but there's little left of it.

What a strange statement. Could you give some evidence?

> It's not like people are going to starve to death if they don't work

Uh. They may not starve to death but most would certainly end up living in the street and die early in almost all developed country.
It unwinds the call stack until a catch.

It is the same "problem" as not knowing where a return will return to.
This happens in 5 star luxury hotels too. People make mistakes.
KYC plus as people said, no/very limited corporate ownership of residential properties.
This is in Dickens - Bleak House, I think, when he refers to all the under-taxed industrialists promising to 'pitch' their acumen into the Atlantic (i.e., move to the United States) if any government dares to restrict their income through increased taxation.
> Also, ARRI (who make the most renowned cameras for cinematic use) now specifically let you choose a grain texture on the Alexa 35 that is imprinted in the digital material. [1]

That is so sad. Such a waste if it can just be done during decoding.
I always wondered if this was a deliberate pre-show test of the transmission channel's compression.

I remember noticing as a kid that some channels on cable TV were noticeably worse quality (far more blocky iirc, looked very MPEG artifacty) than the analogue broadcast equivalent and that others looked very different between even cable and satellite tv (iirc More4 was one of the more obvious ones, looked OK on Sky but awful on NTL).

The HBO static intro screen was worst case for compression but gave a pretty good indication of the quality (of the bitrate/compression) of the rest of the show; which worked for broadcast, recordings or downloads. Probably not deliberate, but actually kinda useful.
This is the least swing-y phrasing of this theme I've ever heard. The swing ratio is only one aspect, arguably not really an important one. You can create swing feel also by emphasizing off-beats, which this thing absolutely doesn't do. No matter 1:1 or 1:2 or 1:3.

A reasonably skilled jazz musician can get swinging at any of them. In modern jazz it's quite common to actually do 1:1 with a quite lazy/delayed on-beat, so it feels like 1:2 even though if you'd measure it, it's close to 1:1.

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft funds this? Sorry to be blunt, but this satisfies all German stereotypes. It's the furthest from music you could ever get.
I've stayed in hotels that gave you a choice: a voucher for a drink at the bar or getting your room cleaned (except for the last night). Seems fair to me. I could decide each day if I really needed room service or if I'd rather get a free beer.
Minisaga looks interesting. I have a similar goal - to write more concise stuff (on tech topics) without losing the gist.
I don't get the productivity argument. What productivity is enabled by billionaires or even individuals? Noam Chomsky has covered this, but most corporations benefit extensively from decades of government funded research and development. The socialist driven productivity is there, it's just that we slap capitalism on it at the end and think it was that that got us here.
Sweatiness.
Notes on Meta's Diplomacy-Playing AI
That's nothing. Try working out what version of the .Net framework you need or are running!
I worry more about people who think they won't need to learn programming.

You know, kind of like those who said you won't need to know what a relational database is if you use ORMs.
That's hilarious, because in the UK we have car insurance groups that anyone can check. They rank from 1-50, with 50 being the most expensive to insure, and 1 being the least expensive. Let's see how Tesla's entire range do:

- Roadster - Group 50

- Model 3 - Groups 48-50 depending on exact model

- Model S - Group 50 across all models

- Model X - Group 50 across all models

- Model Y - Groups 46-49 depending on exact model

Yeah, seems pretty bad to me!
It’s a subtle bug, not an obvious one. It doesn’t show up in most circumstances.
Show HN: Swipe to clear your camera roll
Cleaning your camera roll is time consuming

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I built Vacuum, a Tinder-like app to clean your camera roll

It works whether you're on the train, plane, or pretending to pay attention in a zoom call
Rust uses Result. Checked exceptions are Java's analogue of Result.
Corteza is a 100% open-source low-code, rapid application development, business process and integration platform, developed and maintained by Planet Crust.

Check out the new features, changes and fixes of Corteza 2022.9.4: https://www.planetcrust.com/planet-crust-releases-corteza-20...
> But if you had the God’s-eye view of all your applicants, you might find out that 75% of all of applicants were good hires!

... or 5%, and rest fails at basic litmus test of not too hard questions.

People will apply anywhere regardless of their own (perceived or actual) skill level. And it is no wonder as the requirements will be half-lie or wishlist most of the time.

So the one side throws resumes everywhere they can and the other just tries to best guess which one is worth spending time to even interview as there is too many to interview all.

On other side, testing candidates puts a "homework requirement" on them, doing that online also makes cheating easy so you might bore/detract the good ones (they most likely already have decent job and don't care for few hours of homework on off chance they get thru the filter) while the less good will just find a way to check the box and pass anyway
Ah, the mythical "super-rich" who could fund all of our solutions, if only we could prise their money out of their clutching hands!

It's funny how they always exist, even in countries like the UK and France which in reality have taxed them out of existence, and payscales are absurdly compressed compared to the US.

Careful what you wish for, you are someone else's "super rich".
Is this “just” a 20% project or is this more significant (like Android one day supporting Rust to develop apps)?

And I haven’t looked at everything yet, but it suggests to install Rust like this:

sudo apt install cargo rust-src

While everyone I know uses rustup^:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

^ https://rustup.rs/
Having scanned the documents, I can imagine a dynamic where Ellison was the CEO, but SBF was really pulling the strings.

I bet many companies are like that, where investors or a chairman are the real decision maker and the CEO is managing downwards only. Especially when you have a complex corporate setup where you are told to request funds and resources from a parent org etc.

If I am in a C-level position again I would definetly avoid a situation where I was C-level in name only, if only to avoid the legal risk.