skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheapest/most profit as the ultimate goal is potentially a cultural thing - long term versus short term benefit might be valued more e.g. in Japan. and less in e.g. the US or the UK.

What you say about the cost of replacing people IS the argument I used for getting one of my team a raise. There's no doubt it's very time consuning and difficult to get suitable new people and well worth the small amount this one wanted.

Now that I'm on the other side of the line I can see that one doesn't want to hire people who are going to fight you all the time or (even worse) fight everyone else and cause trouble. Bad/good as that may be .....
> Outside of big cities, there may not be enough demand, esp. consistent demand, to justify good pay and bennies.

I guess that depends how far outside cities. In the suburbs there is demand.

There is a shortage of trades and many trades folks are older in age. When they retire there isn't the back fill behind them. And all of this is happening as the population is growing.
The actual work is done by a classical computer. Factoring a 48-bit number is not exactly difficult.
What is Ferdi: "A free and open-source application that lets you add multiple applications, including various messaging services, in one place." (https://itsfoss.com/ferdi/) A hard fork of Franz (https://meetfranz.com/), which costs money.

What happened to it: Its repo and socials all went dark last year after an apparent conflict between maintainers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014370

https://www.reddit.com/r/getferdi/comments/u2qck8/comment/i4...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220120192448/https:/github.com...

What succeeded it: Ferdium (https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app)
I agree $700/hr is higher than necessary. But I'm not sure what kind of lawyer you are going to get for $100/hr if you're talking about within the U.S.
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No. You are vastly overestimating it. There is a reason there is no broadly available TTS service like there is for text-to-image. Anyone who says you can clone a voice in a few minutes is not talking about human-quality.
If someone picks up a brick and smashes someone’s head in, does it particularly matter who made the brick?

Statistically, the most widely made bricks would be ‘at fault’. But how does that matter, exactly?

You can try to ban bricks from your country, which hey, maybe it could happen. But if they were having a brick shortage, couldn’t they just buy the same bricks from a neighboring country, since these items are so cheap
and common, it’s not like it’s possible to serialize and track each one.

These are the electronic equivalents of bricks.
Also no material non-public information even if it's not technically technical.

The standard I'm familiar with is, knowledge you acquired during your time at a previous employer is safe to share with your current one if you can support it with a citation.
There's something about this that is really interesting. I would be interested to see this as a Chrome extension that takes over your browser at specified times for you to schedule meditation throughout the day. The Momentum Chrome Extension comes to mind as a similar product that helps you set focus throughout the day and the way it is pervasive on each new tab you create.
More likely due to lack of "good" data than to existence of "bad" data. ChatGPT is know for its ability to "hallucinate" answers for questions that it wasn't trained for.
This hit the nail on the head for me.

I entered the workforce a bit earlier than 2015 and I would have expected HR to be a neutral arbiter as well. My experience at different employers has proven my expectations to be wrong or at least naive. On every occasion I needed to interact with HR, information (eg. applicable laws) was selectively filtered to make it look like my only option was the one that was beneficial to the business.

YMMV, but for me this is good advice and a welcome reminder.
Long covid seems to be based on unfalsifiable symptoms like brain fog and fatigue. There aren’t really any scientific tests to determine how much fogginess or fatigue a person is feeling are there? So how does such a disease get researched and studied?
HR mainly does admin (pay, leaves, etc) and advises management on how to avoid employment-related lawsuits, they also advise on employment market trends (e.g. 'this is what the industry pays for this sort of job so if we want to attract people we need to adjust accordingly').
As I'm a complete 0 at IT, would you mind explaining how one gets started with this?
I have VPN, I've torrented before.

How does Jellyfin work and what do I need? Does it sit locally on a laptop/PC (so takes up space) and if it uses the same WiFi as my TV I can play it? That's the bit I really don't understand...
CircleCI: Rotating Secrets for January 4th Incident
The idea that someone's "estate" can exist for decades after your death is sickening. All copyrights should end with the death of the creator. Descendants should have no right to feed off the works of an artist in perpetuity. It's the ultimate in rent-seeking pigs feeding at the trough.
> It isn't […] ICs. […] It's computer chips.

"Chip" is the layman term for an integrated circuit, or IC.
Yep, this is very well put and tracking on the same page as what I was thinking too.

I've done contract work for a bunch of small businesses (1-50 dev team sizes) and the amount of bangers I've seen are quite high. It's a whole different world when the expectation is your source code is private and the code has been been around for 2-10+ years. Committing secrets is pretty common (sometimes accidental, sometimes on purpose) but it goes way beyond that type of thing. There's a whole culture around the app being private.

Survivorship bias is definitely real. Also "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/given_enough_eyeballs,_all_bu...
Also don't forget to take into account short term vs long term goals. Yes a sexual harassment lawsuit is very bad, but that isn't going to happen immediately. So they may chose the short term solution and try to sweep it under the rug.
The bullshit ratio in quantum computing is the highest I've seen in any field, followed only by ML (the difference being that there is ML non-bullshit, while quantum computing hasn't been shown to be useful for any real problem, but there have been huge advances in the underlying technologies).
Extreme porn can be found too easily. It wasn't like that when I was a kid. There were no ways around it. We simply could not even think of all the disgusting fetishes that are only a few clicks away nowadays.
What's the use case for that?
Very thought provoking. I guess people heard Global Village and though of Our Town instead of Salem, or The Lottery.
This kinda reminds me of War with the Newts from Karel Čapek:

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

"War with the Newts (Válka s Mloky in the original Czech), also translated as Salamander Wars, is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel, leading to a global war for supremacy."

The Newts use explosives to demolish land, creating more of the shallow sea they prefer to live in & they also use poisonous gases and other weapons against the humans. And all the time, there are at least some humans who sell them explosives, chemicals or arms to make a quick buck.

The only thing that saves the remainders of humanity in the end is that the Newts eventually start fighting each other and wipe themselves out...
It is not always aspects of stability that are most important. I prefer js because it might be the fastest language to get an MVP out the door, among other things.
There's a big difference. Paid gardening leave means that the employer actually has skin in the game. I'd bet that 9 times out of 10 they won't actually enforce these non-competes if they actually have to bear some cost (certain industries might be exceptions). The problem with the status quo is that an employer will have the non-compete in play regardless of whether the "competition" would really hurt them.
Why would they need to have done so? The blog post argues there's no evidence this is any faster than classical Schnorr's algorithm, and classical Schnorr's algorithm can easily factor a 48-bit number.

And as the post also makes very sure to point out, Schnorr != Shor.
Period-correct soundtrack to this comment in the form of someone's tracker file I've accidentally discovered some time ago:

http://modarchive.org/module.php?153383
"Anyone who has ever charged a phone is probably familiar with the concept that a higher wattage"

I assure you that my mother has no idea what a watt is.
If it works in Earth orbit, it will also work in lunar orbit where it can solve the most expensive barrier to a moon base - power.

So, although it may be too expensive for Earth power, it can be very practical for moon power.
I'm a millennial. First we were told that we needed the college degree for a job. Any degree would do. So everyone went and got a college degree, and since so many people had it it wasn't a status symbol anymore, so that wasn't enough to get a good middle class job. And then a bunch of people were told they shouldn't have gotten those degrees and they were worthless.

Then we were told to go into STEM. So lots of people went into STEM even though they didn't want to, there are not enough STEM jobs for all of them, and in some cases the reason there are always jobs available is because they chew everyone up and spit them out (looking at you, Amazon). I got lucky. A lot of folks did not.

Then we were told what we really need is nurses. So folks went to nursing school in droves. I'm not sure where we are with that, because it seems like hospitals still never have enough nurses but that those folks that went to nursing school also didn't manage to improve their situation much.

Now we're told the money and demand is in trades. And that might be true, and that might remain true, but we've been given the wrong advice for so long we just stopped listening.
Yes
ASK_OPENAI(“write a spreadsheet formula that averages values in column A if column C equals Facebook”)

That worked for me!
Yes, the other challenge is current energy costs. Right now, vertical farms are likely better off selling their solar back to the grid rather than using it for farming. Maybe they can grow mushrooms for now :D
Are aware procrastinating is a way if handling emotional issues?

There are many ways its created, but at the end of the day one needs to work on these issues

For example, one of the reasons is to be confronted with the results... That I'm not good enough

You are welcome to email, see my profile
Grid-powered public transit replacing 80% of trips by personal vehicle.
HR can be a blessing to some employees; there have been one occasion at my previous job where an employee was given an increase simply because HR found they had dropped below the 10th percentile in their salary band.

In another situation HR has forced an increase because of a personal rating even though the budget for increases in the department didn't have funding for it (effectively HR forced a budget increase due to the rating of the employee).

Both of these times i've found them to be a welcome and helpful surprise.

That said, it is very true if you're filing a discrimination complaint or otherwise putting the company at risk you're implicitly putting yourself and the person you're accusing into the looking glass, and that could bite you in the butt if HR decides the manager isn't at fault.
Only thing that comes to mind is a scenario where a sales person goes to another company and takes all their sales leads with them. This happened at a previous employer, at which time they instituted noncompetes for all the salespeople and most of the engineering force.

They forgot to have me and several other very senior engineers sign the noncompete, which was extremely hilarious to me when I went to another company in roughly the same industry and my old boss asked me about it...
That's why I still use a ~15 year old Supermicro server chassis with desktop foot kit on it lol. I've upgraded the innards 2 or 3 times so far. Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room. no fucking RGB or "windows" or any of that bullshit.

I just built an i9-13900K replaced the LGA1366 2P board in it. It's an astounding performance bump, to mildly put it lol. I plan on using this chassis with this setup for probably another 5-10 years before upgrading again.
"I'm sorry, but I am a text-based AI language model..."
Besides the websites displaying less than friendly ads, what malware can even be found in downloading a video format? Sure, it could be an executable renamed to some video format, or something like that, but without a serious vulnerability in your video player which was very cleverly hacked for very low reward, what can even happen?
We essentially came to simple choice: less people, higher standard of living, more people, shittier standard of living.

Either choice will require unpopular measures, but at least let’s make the choice consciously.

I’m convinced “more people” way will lead to terrible authoritarian tyrannical society. So my choice is less people and cars are fine.
That sounded interesting so I looked into it. It seems to instead support peer review.

According to this [1], Einstein's paper that didn't pass peer review turned out to be wrong (it said gravitational waves didn't exist), and was later published elsewhere with different conclusions and fixing problems that the referee's report had already pointed out.

> The irony, of course, is that Einstein could have found that escape route months earlier, simply by reading the referee’s report that he had dismissed so hastily. The referee had also observed that casting the Einstein–Rosen metric (as we now call this solution of the Einstein equations) in cylindrical coordinates removes the apparent difficulty.

[1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2117822
The issue is that it's very difficult to tell trade secrets from expertise in certain fields. In a field that is sufficiently niche, like non flagship chip production - a lot of architectural ideas are well known across the industry are but the implementation details that enable them are trade secrets. You can't "un see" these details and IP law is loose enough that you could easily reimplement those features or products for a competitor without violating IP laws because you've seen the idea before and can come up with infinite implementations.
If you turn the title around like the original heading it sounds not quite so positive.

25% of Long COVID patients have symptoms longer than 12 month.
Given the risk of getting Long COVID, between 5% and 15%, that's a lot of people.
I wish. Still have chronic fatigue, and still can't smell or taste certain things, which is incredibly annoying. I have to use scent-free detergent because my lack of ability to smell certain things means that other sensitivities are are heightened. For example, I used to love the smell of Dreft in my laundry. I used to buy Tide pods to use. I gag when attempting to unload my washing machine while using up the rest of the Tide. I have the unscented detergent ready and waiting.
Civilian parts, meanwhile ru tanks and helicopters are equipped in post 2014 French Thales military grate systems (ir/thermal). ru Orlan drones fly French Lynred 640x480@120Hz microbolometers. Where is the investigation into that? Where are arrest of Thales/Lynred executives? They sold military parts breaking post Crimean embargo.

https://lynred.com/sites/default/files/2021-07/PICO640GEN2%2...

https://www.barrons.com/news/france-s-thales-accused-of-sell...

Article about corrupted ru initiative to build homegrown microbolometers that somehow despite stealing hundreds of millions still managed to secure supply of French sensors. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/8252-secret-deals-un...
OP mangled the headline from the article. The article says 25% of Covid patients still have symptoms after 12 months. While the headline OP uses flips the percentage and implies that the 75% of people who are symptom free were people who previously had long Covid and recovered in less than 12 months. The end result is that OP's headline sounds more positive than the article.
What's kind of silly is the adulation of "market" as some kind of God. Talking about, or implying that "markets are always right" is a diversion, a red herring by those who are served by such "markets". We need markets (super and other types) but just because we need them does not mean they are an intelligent being who is "always right". Is Greed good? Is Greed our next God? I think it was proven in a movie already that greed is not good.
Lenovo’s new Yoga Book 9i laptop has a second screen above its screen
>I mean, have you seen how much pay has gone up in low-skilled jobs? There are signs at all the local businesses in my area offering $15+ an hour for cashiers and fry cooks and whatnot. The same kind of jobs I worked 7-8 years ago for $8 an hour. They are taking advantage of supply and demand to force jobs to pay them a closer-to-fair wage, instead of selling their time for less than it's worth and perpetuating the problem indefinitely.

Those jobs also result in products being more costly, so that the current low end wages are actually lower nominal value.

I find people using terms like "fair wage" end up making wishes and policies that end up hurting the poor, not helping them, by not understanding economics.

Fair is what a person can command from competing for jobs, and jobs competing for workers. Anything else ends up unsustainable, which usually ends up hurting the least able workers.

Mandating wages leads to lower employment - so sure you can help some by pricing others out of work.

>To be fair, I do agree that on an individual level there are tons of people screwing themselves over and messing up their lives, being a burdon on their parents or whoever ends up supporting them financially, etc.

Agreed - but who it will hurt the most is future workers, including them, as the economy is not as good and then there are less resources for everyone, including them. Of course they will continue to blame a "system" when they got what they earned.

>I do think we've seen the curve move towards it's lower end recently

Total remuneration, even at the low end, is higher than nearly all of history. And post-tax transfer it's much higher.

For example, the lowest 20% of households saw their post-tax income go from $18,900 in 1979 to $32,800 in 2018 [1], and that's not even including that households on average have shrunk in size. Per worker the returns are even higher.

A good analogy: if you tell kids that blue eyed kids are the devil, they will act like it, pass laws, and believe it. If you tell people immigrants are killing them or taking jobs, people start to believe it, and enact laws that hurt all. Similarly, if you tell enough people how bad the economy is, regardless of solid evidence, they will act like it, and in the case of an economy, they bring the doom to pass.

>I can't see any reason to blame all individuals within an entire generation

I wouldn't blame them all. But if enough act a way to make their economic outcomes worse, then all of them will suffer over time. And they'll take others along for the ride.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-income...
The Wikipedia article is wrong. A proc is a function. The misunderstanding here is confusing methods with functions. "def foo" defines a method, not a function. That same article claims that Java has first class functions on the basis of anonymous inner classes, that C# has them because of lambda expressions, etc. OCaml has different syntax for functions and methods. Does that mean it doesn't have first-class functions?

You should really consider whether this is an important enough topic to be worth personally insulting people over.
What if we convince them (and I think this is true) that this will make the stock market go up? A lot of real estate in "developed" countries is bought up due to capital flight to relative stability. If that weren't an option, the money would go into U.S. equities instead.
This article is a great example of how to draw conclusions from changing data, and how to call out the sources of uncertainty at every turn. I think a few were missed based on the comments below but I don't think that was done out of nefarious agenda but rather an attempt to keep the essay short as the author seems to have done enough research that i trust they didn't overlook these second order implications.
You clearly are not reading what I am posting.

I am saying when the first amendment was written, porn was considered to be obscene. Please point to a case in the 1700s that shows that porn was protected by the first amendment. I am not suggesting porn is considered obscene in the modern times. Of course if you stopped insulting me and actually read what I said you would know that. Of course, attacking somebody is much easier than actually addressing the points they make.

I fully agree my position on the 14th amendment is in the minority. However, I would mention that nobody interpreted it the way the majority does until decades after it was written. Surely, if the current opinion on it was the intention of the ratifiers, it would have been used that way in court cases shortly after the amendment was ratified. It wasn't used that way because no lawyer or judge thought that was what it meant. The radical position is the one that changed what it meant for their own political gains.

Second, the Supreme Court is not consistent on their rulings. They think some rights are only partially incorporated and others are fully incorporated. The 14th amendment makes no distinction on that. How do you explain that?

Without incorporated rights the states would need to protect any rights they saw fit to protect in their own laws and constitutions. This might lead to less rights. I assume states like California and New York would ban or heavily restrict guns. Ultimately, I think this would massively decrease the polarization in our country. If you like guns you would leave California. If you don't like guns you could move to California. We wouldn't be ramming down things like guns, abortions and what not onto everybody.

The justices also seem to use it to push their own political views. To use guns as an example again, the conservative justices push for the 2nd amendment to be incorporated and the liberal justices don't. This is the case on all sorts of different issues.

It is obvious you are not arguing in good faith. You cannot draw any conclusions on my support of the separate but equal doctrine based on anything I posted. At best, you can make an assumption on my views on the constitutionality of it. Just because I may, or may not, think something is constitutional does not mean I support or oppose it.
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