skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was proactively instructed by an O-6 (full bird colonel) to lie on my application about drugs if I had ever used them. Without even asking me if I had ever used drugs, he said, "I don't care what the truth is, on the form you put no." This was probably 20 years ago; I was pretty young.
Surprised people are upset about the OpenAI/Kenya thing. I thought it was common knowledge that this is how all the humans-required grunt work is done. Whether its dataset tagging work or facebook content moderation...outsourcing it to poor countries for peanuts is the SOP.
Because he was politically weak and they had an opportunity to take advantage of that.

As it is the Democrats got nothing but optics out of the fiasco. Had they played their hand differently they might have gotten something more.

For what it is worth, I suspect there was some backroom dealling they were trying to do, but nothing came of it.
Isn't it possible that tumbling is the only significant source of breakage?
They will think their account got deleted or hacked or they forgot the password. Probably never coming back ever.
I always saw Nandos as a bit more “fast food” than Pizza Express or Wagamama?

More like a (much) better KFC
Oh, I noticed the domain name being blest.co.jp.

https://blest.co.jp/eng/company/

> INCORPORATED March , 2018

So someone bought it and keeps it running? Interesting.
Of course, the most important story related to AWK is that of Peter Weinberger's face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger

https://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html
How did you guys live before industrialization? Because you understand that unless climate change is solved, the most likely end state for your locale is being forced by nature to go back to whatever you had before industrialization. The whole point is to avoid that end state. So they'll come for your coffee, they'll come for your cheap Chinese junk, or else you'll naturally lose it all anyway.
Altair/Vega ( https://altair-viz.github.io/ ) is really nice to use, although headless rendering outside of a notebook environment is a bit of a pain
I have always wondered why pricing can’t fix the issue. On launch day, or for your first batch or whatever, start the pricing higher than you expect most anybody to pay. Target a constant rate of purchase by gradually lowering and raising the price to maintain some target sales per min/hour. Bots and scalpers get stuck holding the bag if they buy on launch day because the price will likely never be higher than what they had to pay to get the product. The company makes marginally more money on launches. People who really really want the product get it at a fair price (they were willing to pay).
Very good general point. But I would add the caveat that generating code in a data driven way from a standardized format is fine. You change the data and re-generate the code, fix the calling code if need be.

Also I think it depends a bit on the language and what exactly you generate. If you generate concrete types (or classes) then that might lead to more fixing and refactoring down the line. If you generate data it's different, because you are going to have a general interpreter for said data that doesn't care about its concrete shape.
> So we animals evolved a gastrointestinal tract running through the inside of our body; whereas, fungi/mushrooms evolved to exude digestive enzymes into the external environment and then reabsorb the digested products.

And then some animals, including humans, extended their "internal" digestion process to include, in some cases, external processing from removing husks to, yes, enzymatic pre-processing before consumption. I love how messy "life" is.

I wonder how far "back" the use of symbiotic creatures in digestion goes. We certainly can't survive without them. I believe some coral and even simpler organisms have a similar dependency.
If you look at the other articles published by the author, Deena Shanker, they are pretty much all doom-and-gloom headlines related to plant-based companies:

https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASznQGEjaUE/deena-shanker

This does not look like someone objectively trying to sort through the facts and present a representative picture of the state of things.

Just something to consider.
I’m just curious why you would eat 8-10 eggs daily? That seems like a very large number.
Using QuestDB to collect infrastructure metrics
Typical attitude of security people. Don't offer solutions, just tell people to go fuck themselves.
Can you master multi-cloud with certifications? Cloud network architects: maybe
Faschinating
But stripe never talks about individual customers publicly so every one of these is a hit to stripe's reputation.

Also, the worry was that if word got out that HN gets you secret access to support at companies then it would get overused and that access would dry up.

I'm already at the point where even if someone legitimately innocent gets swept up in a stripe ban I just assume they are another scoundrel trying one last Hail Mary attempt here to get their account back.
I had a similar situation with Facebook.

Set up 2FA with an app called Duo-somethingorother.

Broke my phone.

Trying to use Facebook with new phone requires 2FA. Duo-somethingorother app on the new phone won't authorize my Facebook login because the app on the new phone isn't linked to my Facebook account.

Result: I'm locked out of Facebook

Every year or so I follow Facebook's login authentication steps, including sending photos of my government-issued ID, but nothing happens. Facebook support? What's that?

At this point, all I want to log in to Facebook for is to download the photos from my account. But I'm not in Europe, so I have no rights to my photos and nowhere to complain.

You get what you pay for.
Can you explain more about your line of reasoning and thinking? Any good sources you know about discussing exactly such ideas and details? Thank you!
One could presume that in the event of any sort of aggressive war by a larger neighbor, smaller neighbors would be concerned. Much like how Russia's nearby Eastern European nations (e.g. Poland) are right now. Do you really think Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. wouldn't be alarmed by the outbreak of war? The disruption to shipping alone would be a massive issue.

You also completely sidestepped the issue of India, whose current government dislikes that of China.
I think (and hope) it'll be fairly fragmented communities, spread across lots of apps and websites and forums for various niches. Some communities will be built Discourse, others on new apps and sites built on ActivityPub, others will be built on completely new tech and ideas.

I really hope the large one-size-fits-all / winner-takes-all "social media" communities go away. It's their massive scale that creates problems like lack of moderation, toxicity. I'm really hoping we can capture the "forum feeling" of meeting and learning from cool/fun/interesting internet strangers.
Is it? I've been yelled about doing or not doing it so much that I can't keep track anymore.

That part of my life is behind me so now I get the next fun challenge: Which passport to use when going up to Canada and back as a dual citizen.
How's Kev these days?
Less overhyped than crypto. Fewer lost fortunes as well
Briefly worked at Johns Hopkins APL.

- PHd professors were basically seen as demi-gods. It was their way of the highway, down to the micromanagement level, and they make terrible managers

- Worked seemed pointless. "Here is some money to look into this, this will likely never get implemented"

- Implicit push for producing positive results rather than saying this won't work.

- Just dreary environment overall.

Also worked at NavAir at Paux River.

- salary was absolute shit for the amount of technical knowledge/work required. I feel like setting up the instrumentation (hardware/software) for an experiment in a wind tunnel is orders of magnitudes harder than writing a web service, but maybe thats just me.

- Got to work on some cool things, but gov culture and nepotism is too much. People with military experience automatically put ahead career wise above those without. No thanks.

>but nowadays I find their performance-review and promotion obsessed cultures to be really draining. Worse, those negative feelings seem to be leaking into my personal life and slowly alienating friends and family.

As someone that has worked for FAANG for 6+ years, this isn't an issue with FAANG but an issue with you. Its fairly easy to move around FAANG (although probably not right now) to find a niche job where you can cruise control on your salary without anyone bothering you too much.
My former boss has similar experience with TSA and customs. His father in law runs a farm back in his home country, and he usually goes once to visit whenever he is there. So, technically, he visited a farm which is one of the questions on most immigration forms. As a resident alien without a green card, he usually gets the 9th degree from TSA and customs. He has found, however, that if he checks this box they immediately start grilling him about the "farm" he says he stayed at. Once he explains "Oh no, it's a farmhouse. I visited my father in law for dinner one night. I didn't do any farm work or walk in the fields." they stamp his form and let him go. They never ask (or even check, as far as he can tell) anything else.

Moral: give the agent an easy problem to find, but one with a simple solution in your favor. They will never look for a 2nd problem.
Veganism is an ethical position, not a diet. It to reduce the harm to animals we cause as much as feasible and possible. A veggie burger cooked need to a beef one doesn't harm any animal nor does it add demand for animal products. Ethically there's nothing really wrong with it.

Same with the last, I'm vegan because I can live fine while lowering the harm I do to animals, but meat and dairy products do taste good.
Gotta love the web design!
It is curating and editorializing compared to a dumb purveyor like an ISP.
The story about how data had to be manually transferred between the unclassified and classified networks might seem odd to people not used to how this world works, but it's extremely common to this day and absolutely necessary in certain scenarios. If you have a network that must be absolutely secure, both to data extraction and the injection of malicious software, airgapping the network and tightly controlling writable media is the only option. See STUXNET [1].

These days there are some solutions where the high-side and low-side networks are only pseudo airgapped with things like data-diodes or cross-domain guards [2] but these are really only implemented in scenarios where the frequency of high-side to low-side transfers (and vice versa) necessitates it and/or in relatively low-security (but still classified) networks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain_solution
There are at least one misconception here that I can see (I work in gasification technology).

You only need the pure oxygen for producing enough heat to pyrolysize the fuel (wood/biomass), once it's broken down into tar gas, you can feed it through your charcoal layer to further reduce it into syngas. The syngas can then be burned at a separate space with air at a lower temperature where nitric oxides aren't created.

Utilizing the residual heat in the exhaust gas (flue gas) is another means of feeding the pyrolysis phase. As you mentioned its also a great source of CO2 and H2O as a feedstock for producing CO and H2 from the hot charcoal.

What I'd like to see happen is usage of the "waste" oxygen produced while producing hydrogen from electrolysis of water. The oxygen could be used to produce syngas, and the hydrogen could be fed into this fuel stream or used separately for off hour electricity production.
Honestly that is one of those things that I did not know until recently.

Like I figured there was a legitimate reason they were prescribed, but I never actually knew first hand about. Now... my cats a small dose of steroids. The examples of people in this thread have been enlightening on that subject.

But unfortunately they do have a bad reputation. I mean if you hear steroids there is likely one image that comes to mind.
It's weird that corporations have philanthropic arms, isn't it?
> But then in your effort to eat less meat, would you replace it with plant-based alternatives?

Yes, 100%. I like meat, and meat based dishes. I’ve never had a vegetable based dish that compares to even something similar but containing meat.

I feel like when meat alternatives are discussed this option of just making vegetable based dishes always comes up. And I think most people agree with me here - meat makes them better across the board. If it didn’t this market wouldn’t exist and people buy much less meat.

As I’m unwilling to switch completely to vegetable based dishes, meat alternatives are the next best option.
I think they might mean most-frequently used of that user (I think the "suggested languages" already are supposed to work like that.) But that presumably requires an account.
How do they succeed? By moving from a less oral to a more literate comms style?
You don't live near a Burger King, Starbucks, Carl's Jr, or White Castle?
I lost access to my Coinbase account a while back because I was using Authenticator on the iPhone and when I bought a new phone and set it up, my Authenticator codes did not transfer with the rest of my data. At that point I stopped using Authenticator. I hope that's still not an issue upgrading iPhones today.
> It doesn't sound expensive to add water injection to an internal combustion engine, until you have to make it work in production, with end users.

Water / methanol injection was commonly used on various piston engine aircraft in the 1940's. It had several benefits, cooling the input air, preventing pre-detonation at high compression (due to lower octane fuel in some cases), lowering the combustion temperature, and such. It was practical and worked fine for high-performance aircraft, that saw regular maintenance after every flight.

It doesn't seem very necessary or practical for a ground vehicle though.
In the begining this was what marriage was. Then it just became an expensive party.
I remember someone talking about a project like this on Mastodon

It was on the ruby.social instance.
It also isn’t just limited to Google; I wonder how these companies protect their users from payment processor data collection…
Seems like a technicality. By that logic, all stinky things are caused by living things instead of dead things.
> I imagine a group of Democrats could have helped vote McCarthy in with a much milder set of concessions.

The problem with that is, there would be no way to hold McCarthy accountable to those promises. Republicans do not negotiate in good faith, and any promises about the debt ceiling, committee assignments, and the like wouldn't be worth the air they were spoken with.
> if you lose your device, they should be stored there [cloud], and you should be able to restore your passkeys to a new device

And how would I log into said cloud service to retrieve my key?
The GPT disinformation age is now
It's mostly just tax avoidance, right?
Be careful where you get stats like that. If the stat says that "12% of plastic (ever produced globally) is recycled" that doesn't mean your local recycling program is terrible.

I just got a notice from my trash company that only 10% of their collected material is contaminated / not recyclable.
Thanks. I do not even lock BW, not to mention logging out, and almost never connect to the vault via the web interface - so yes I must have simply missed it.
Dang deletes posts that are not in the spirit of HN. That is editorializing.
Maybe stop using necessary "preceeding" verbs and actions to indicate state, but use explicit ON or OFF to match the desired result?

It is common in telling someone how to use a UX that they need to "disable" X or Y option, but, again, that is to say that the intended state is on or off.
Take a look at Msgpack.
>Salary is competitive

Competitive to the rest of government, sure. Its a joke given the total industry standards though.
Algebra Baldor !

College Algebra Heineman

Discrete Math Rosen !

Linear algebra D lay

Calculus Stewart

Nonlinear Dynamics Strogatz +

Combinatorics Mazur +

Statistics *

ESLR +
I am not making a positive argument in the opposite direction. This is not a debate. I am stating obvious facts and simple conjectures to make clear just how narrow-minded and apparently intentionally oblivious the original analysis is.

Also, the HN guidelines are already tone-policing. I am not really tone-policing because I don't want the person above to say what they're already saying but nicer. I want them to acknowledge just how narrow and clouded their reasoning is due to the apparent outrage, and how to take an edge off of what apparently was a very bad start to a day for someone.
The description given by the article[1] seems less than compelling. Is the author doing nothing more than saying, "Quantum mechanical paradoxes seemingly mirror the apophatic[2] induction of henosis[3]"? There are other ways of inducing henosis; using QM to do it isn't particularly novel.

1. I'm assuming the vast majority of HN have also yet to read the book.

2. Referring to the mystic negative theological tradition of Plotinus, Proclus, etc.

3. Divine unity with reality/The One/The Monad
A few years back, Bill Gates bought every university graduate who wanted one a digital copy of the book Factfulness. It's like the insight from that stratification, over and over, in book-length format. It's really quite excellent.

One of the interesting trends you'll see is we've gone from /the vast majority/ of the world at Level 1 really not all that long ago to around a billion people today (probably less when as I write this).

The world is getting a lot better very quickly for a lot of people. At the same time, solving the problem is no longer intractable.

I will also mention: "Privilege" is complex, and life isn't all about money. Starting around level 2 or 3, "stuff" usually isn't the biggest problem in life. You get used to the inconvenience of needing to boil running water or having to ride a bike instead of a car pretty quickly. You don't experience it as inconvenience at all if you've never had it (as most of humanity hasn't for most of time).

On the other hand, humans are social creatures. Many places where people live at level 2 or 3 have communities and families of a type you've never experienced if you grew up in the US. The US is a very lonely place, and there's a mental health crisis in the US that would be completely foreign in many places at level 2 or 3.

The US also experiences much greater financial stress. If you're in a poor village, but you grow your food and own your home, you stress out a lot less about money than if you're making a 6-figure income, but worried about college debt and making your mortgage if you have a short-term job loss, divorce, or medical crisis, as is common in the US.

Who's more privileged?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629497B2/ (if anyone else was looking for a link, assignment information is near the bottom).
Sometimes the words get backed up. Russia is finding ignoring the bits of paper agreeing Ukraines borders is not quite as easy as they thought.
No doubt. Inflight Wi-Fi is absurdly expensive. No way they’re paying for it.
It’s just whitewashing
That's what the article says. Ending the program allows them to save the 0.5% they would have donated and lay off the team that supported the program.
This does not back up the original claim in the slightest which was obviously a grotesque exaggeration. Please refrain from hyperbole and sarcasm - it damages the quality of the conversation.
Yeah, I’ve found that the HomePod Mini mic is almost too good sometimes.

If Face ID gets a glance lock — I.e. looking at your iPhone directly — while speaking a command it “locks” onto that device (try that out by saying “hey siri” while using an iPhone). You can also just hold the side key instead of Hey Siri-ing it to not hop onto another mic.
Is the only viable solution to have 2FA setup on multiple devices, with at least device in a "break glass in emergency" type of vault storage?
Developers at large corporations are strictly informed that they are not the public face of the company and can't do that. These aren't mom and pop developer shops.
Seed Fund V: Forging the Future
I wasn't expecting any controls to be outside the main grey area, so it's a bit weird the content width button is placed where it is. Also, I wonder if defaulting to wide mode when a wide monitor is detected is a better choice.

Either way, I don't have a strong opinion on whether its an improvement or regressive. Pretty much everything nowadays seems to be converging on a narrow column of text.
> The CRC and the compression are non-trivial.
CRC is a table and 5 lines of code. That's trivial.

>zlib is 23k lines

It's not needed to make a PNG reader/writer. zlib is massive overkill for only making a PNG reader or writer. Here's a tiny deflate/inflate code [2] under 1k lines (and could be much smaller if needed).

stb[0] has single headers of ~7k lines total including all of the formats PNG, JPG, BMP,. PSD, GIF, HDR, and PIC. Here's [1] a 3k lines single file PNG version with tons if #ifdefs for all sorts of platforms. Removing those and I'd not be surprised if you could not do it in ~1k lines (which I'd consider quite simple compared to most of todays' media formats).

>Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG

BMP is super common and easy to use anywhere.

I use flat image files all the time for quick and dirty stuff. They quickly saturate disk speeds and networking speeds (say recording a few decent speed cameras), and I've found PNG compression to alleviate those saturate CPU speeds (some libs are super slow, some are vastly faster). I've many times made custom compression formats to balance these for high performance tools when neither things like BMPs or things like PNG would suffice.

[0] https://github.com/nothings/stb

[1] https://github.com/richgel999/fpng/blob/main/src/fpng.cpp

[2] https://github.com/jibsen/tinf/tree/master/src
How to Shelter from a Nuclear Explosion
To put the study in perspective, driving a single mile in your car will emit the same amount of CO2 as brewing 8 of the least efficient cups of coffee listed in the study, and using a single gallon of fuel emits 360 inefficient cups worth of CO2[0].

So basically if you want to ‘offset’ a years worth of daily coffee, drive approximately 20-30 less miles per year.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
yup
low cost of capital allowed low margins & high multiples ..

now we are seeing lower multiples and attempts to transition to higher margins
Nothing yet, but I just added an email in profile if any helpful googlers are able to assist
Old skin, minimum width: https://ibb.co/Pcvn7VP

New skin, same width: https://ibb.co/PgxF8hf

Old skin, maximum width: https://ibb.co/WsptkCY

New Skin, same width: https://ibb.co/x8NmgZq

It's probably possible to find screen widths at which comparisons favor the old skin, but all I see is improvement. From old to new, minimum or maximum width, more content is visible, and line lengths are more readable. Kudos on the new design.
As a counterfactual to this, go on linkedin and type "sandia national labs" into the search bar and see how many results come up with people freely listing them as their employer.

This isn't the movies, you're allowed to tell people if you work at a national lab. You just may not be able to go into detail on what your work entails.

I work in a classified environment, but if I didn't intend to remain anonymous on HN I'd have no problem telling you who my employer is.
Best advice in this thread:

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