skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even if you can both track them down and hand evidence of wrongdoing on a silver platter to law enforcement in their jurisdiction, often the places these criminals operate out of were selected specifically because their justice system is corrupt and easily bribed. Often, these fraudsters can even talk local politicians into seeing their (cover) businesses as “important local industries, employing local citizens, generating taxable income, and making charitable donations.”

This is the strategy used by the harder-to-kill scam call-centres in India; certain cities in India (I believe Hyderabad?) have been repeatedly handed damning evidence of criminal acts by scammers operating there, but it gets swept under the rug every time. When a big-enough stink is made that it makes their own local news, they just give the criminals a slap on the wrist or lest (e.g. an arrest on low bail that they easily afford to pay, with the case then being dropped before it ever goes to trial, as soon as it’s out of the news.)
Sorry for the offtopicness but could you please email me at hn@ycombinator.com? (I have an idea/possibility for you. Nothing that couldn't be posted here in principle but I'd rather not take the thread off topic.)
Right. So doesn't it make sense for someone to move to a different country where you don't have to fear the police?
There’s tons of very profitable companies hiring right now - the “top-name” companies doing layoffs were all “growth-first, profit-never” types. We’re not in an industry-wide downturn and there’s a hell of a lot more out there than FAANG or MANGA or whatever we’re calling it now.
In C, strings are nul terminated. Thus when at some point your password is passed along a tool written in C (or any language with the same behaviour) it’ll be truncated at that position.
Are you aware that a secular scientific approach to sexual health results in far fewer abortions? Chiefly proper sex education and freely available contraceptives to minors.
I thought the whole point was about modelling rules not atoms.
It is a feature you can easily turn off on iPhones too, it isn't hidden or obscured under bajillion menus at all. The grandparent comment just didn't bother looking for it.

Settings > Battery > Battery Health and Charging. Set "Optimize Battery Charging" toggle to off, and the adaptive charging is gone.
> I believe the core issue is devs like above never take the time to “grok” Git.

The problem I have with git us that it's just too complicated. When I'm juggling project complexities and design complexities and implementation complexities, I frequently don't want to have to deal with git too.

I understand how to stage and check in and squash, and branch and merge, and how to manage remotes. But last week I still managed to get a new repo into a state where I couldn't push local changes to github without doing a pull first, and I couldn't do a pull without (apparently) first updating the remote. I had a hard deadline and ended up deleting the repo and starting fresh. Nothing much was lost. I never had this trouble with tfs...

Maybe I'm just not clever enough, but I've never come across a dev tool with as much surface complexity as git.

(Not a git hater. Use it every day. Have had a personal github profile for a decade. Etc etc.)
I don't have any problems except for wanting more options for picking a delivery date. Sometimes I don't want all the boxes to arrive at the same day and I don't want to have to put off buying something to the next day in hopes that my delivery options let me pick an entirely different set of days.

Searching works fine. I don't give a fuck about reviews because nobody ever knows what they're actually talking about.
C64 didn't have any trouble showing multiple colors in 8x8 blocks.

In high resolution mode it did, which is the 320x200. You could only have a single foreground color and a background color.

In the low resolution 160x200 mode you could have one background color and three foreground colors in a 4x8 square.

I was a computer artist back then, published in several Commodore magazines, and the first thing I had to decide when painting a scene was if I could get away with the 320x200 mode, or settle for 160x200 because I needed more colors closer together.
Stanford CS106A routinely has 80+ section leaders (much like TAs).
It doesn’t need to be so complicated. Make it so that there is a target benefit. Every dollar of real earnings subtracts one dollar of assistance. Maintains the incentive to continually earn more where possible.
Ok, I've read the original paper.

I agree with you fully on the claims made in the paper, and agree those claims are broadly substantiated by the paper.

I completely disagree that those claims are what is represented in the opening paragraphs of this article they have written, which directly analogizes to learning the grammatical rules of English and syntax of C++, which describes the model as understanding "the process producing the sequences".

Demonstrating that the model processes the input sequence into a representative state, and that manipulating that state has a causal effect on the output, is a very different ball game than "our model understands the rules behind this sequence".
What if I would accept maleficence

Lack of enlightenment exists in any system or moral code ever put forth.

my self interest will help me reach the top

Self interest may also prevent you from "reaching the top" ... or it may remove you from any "top" you do attain. "Enlightenment" is about viewing things from more than one solitary perspective.

All of human history pretty clearly demonstrates the superior power and strength of collective effort and achievement. Narcissism doesn't naturally lend itself to this and is generally viewed as an aberrant, short sighted approach that is rarely tolerated or rewarded by the test of time.

Prisons are full of extremely self focused individuals who tried to get ahead at other's expense and failed.
I mean, is there any chance google employees actually went to patent office and took sonos patents for their use?

I would argue sonos ruins things with patents for blatantly obvious features and broken grants
You can prove the boss had an intention to sell his stock based on a feeling of future doom (or just greed). What’s tougher to prove is whether he delayed an announcement by a week so one more sale went through before the stock took a hit.

Or speeding up good news so his scheduled sale rides the high.
It is very much true. It has never been profitability. Just look at this activist letter from an investor from Google. (They had a similar one in Nov.

> Competition for talent has fallen significantly in the tech industry, allowing alphabet to materially reduce compensation per employee. Particularly, alphabet should limit stock based compensation given depressed stock price.

https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/...
> The company was doomed the moment they started hiring at unreasonable pace

History disagrees. And the only reason the company exists in the first place is because of VC money. Don't join a startup if you don't want the risks associated with a startup.

> Who is to blame?

No one, because humans can't predict the future. Why are you so eager to see people punished? It's so easy to be critical when you're not the one actually responsible for building and running a company. This entire thread is an example of "tell me you know nothing about running a business without saying you know nothing about running a business".

I recently had to fire my landscaper, so based on this logic I should probably sell my house so that I can "take responsibility".
I think it's up to an educated populace to be able to dismantle bad arguments, or ideas that clash with liberal freedoms, without ironically saying "this shouldn't have been published".
> truck stops are going to need some form of local energy storage to smooth out the bursts on the grid

The truck stops will have a few tanks of off-road diesel to run a generator to create electricity to charge the truck batteries.

Local energy storage for rural truck stops will be diesel in underground tanks, rather than diesel in truck tanks.
very rare for “its not about the money” to be true in business.
Never heard of it so for others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipova

Can't cross with an apple but can with a whitebeam, I wouldn't have believed it. Amazing, thanks.
> If you truly want to raise the birth rate, at any cost, you would reduce education levels, make people poorer, raise religiosity, and ban contraception and abortive services for not just women but everyone.

I think it is simpler than that: abolish any state-sponsored retirement plans. People used to have a lot of children so that someone could take care of them in their old age. Now that you have retirement savings you have no need for kids anymore.
That’s mine as well: it’s not a million spam sites but the same few for many years. I know it’s an arms race with spammers but they could pay a single person ¼ time to make some big improvements in user experience.
This is completely anecdotal, but I am a 25 year old guy from the east coast. I can tell you that a LOT of people I know from high school are not currently working. Instead they mostly sit around smoking weed and playing video games. Evidently there are ways to cover the expenses of that lifestyle without having to work some shit job. I mean it's honestly kind of tempting. I work in big tech and I could easily go and join them for the next 10 years with my savings, and I'm sure I would have a great time. This is a problem that is not going away - both video games and weed are increasing in potency every year.
Cant remember that sentence.

But if your project is late and you put more people onto it (more people more work done..in theory), it gets even worse.
Anecdotally, almost every email I see in my gmail inbox is advertisement of some sort. There's newsletters I never signed up for, special offers from companies I've never had dealings with, it never ends.

Some of it hasn't even been sent to me as an email, but shows up in the inbox as though it was an email.

Granted, there's fewer scam emails than in my non-gmail inbox, but man is there a lot of spam.
Say you're at company A. Company A and B do layoffs of similar size. Why is switching to company B after the layoffs your preferred action?
There are some apple-pear hybrids that produce fruit. Development work seems ongoing in Germany. Unfortunately for me as (mostly) an English speaker, most of the papers describing it are in German. Here's a summary of an abstract in English, though: https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US2014.... If you search for the primary author plus some keywords (Thilo Fischer Apfel Birne) you can find articles that give more details.

I'm guessing the Sorbopyrus you are describing is the Shipova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipova. It's a surprisingly old hybrid. I've got one growing, but haven't gotten any fruit yet. Have you eaten it?
I don't think that most people would agree that anarcholibertarianism (the system which allocates least decisions to state) is the least "partisan" option. That's not what people understand by partisanship.
Interesting way to look at it. It certainly makes sense that companies hire to capture intellectual output when money is cheap and then tighten spending when access to easy money goes away even if they are making money hand-over-fist in their business.
If tiktok should be banned then I would demand Instagram, YouTube and Facebook also be banned as their "heating" button is under the control of US companies and their coorperate interests.

This from a European perspective. "Propaganda apps" in control by foreign governments and companies that may not align with European ideals and values.
This doesn't make sense to me. Isn't the recipe itself still not subject to copyright law? What is the benefit to the creator to adding the personal expression portion?
We'll need psych tests for our AI. Malicious AI will note this and adapt. An arms races ensues, where one adversary finances and invests in upgrading the other. Guess who wins?
I like that they described how each method is performed. The mindful meditation method was a bit different from what I've used, but something I can adopt.

So cyclic sighing can replace mindful meditation, except that it requires more use to reap the benefits.

So now Cyclic Sighing, Mindful Meditation and Binaural Beats are techniques I can call upon in times of stress.

Cheers
YouTube, Twitter 'comply' with India's ban on BBC's Modi documentary
Maybe, but either you don't need to buy any tokens to interact with the content. Or you have no guarantee beforehand (minus a prohibitive chain analysis) that what you're interacting with won't rip you off.

Also an AI (or a person hacking the AI or its data stream) could just as easily copy something that's non-AI generated and publish it to the chain as the AIs own creation. If this something came from a private source there might not be any way to verify the original creator.

So this really only works for full verification if literally every bit of information of a kind (or at least its hash) is placed into the blockchain in real time, and the calculations generating the information and data streams placing the information into the chain are transaction-secured along their entire route to the chain. This becomes a tax on everyone, for the benefit of a few.
I think that the bigger problem is the misuse of Tags as the sole method of marking a commit for release for example.

Tags could be utilised for naming commits which would make it much easier to reason about where in the process of your development you are instead of referencing commits by hash. Hashes are hard to remember after all.
> then it’s probably a choice that is being made for him

It's pretty poor behaviour to make massive assumptions about and be judgmental of someone else's marriage
Huge pages are not a great idea, increasing the page size from 4k is.
And in the end humanity will still only have been nothing more than some percent of a percent of a percent of its existence at best. And an individual human life so short someone could ask if you ever even existed at all.
That's the most recent set, but they've had a long history of publishing fiction and speculation in addition to research papers. It's important to remember that Nature is a bit of an oddity among scientific publications (although its American equivalent Science is somewhat similar) in that it is really two publications in one -- the journal part where it publishes papers, and also a magazine about science where non-papers get published -- news stories, book reviews, obituaries of famous scientists, and yes, sometimes fiction as well.
Late reply, but I find that with a bit more of modernizing, and more consistent usage of chalk's arg-concatenation feature this can be turned into something much terser:

const envs = Object.entries(envars).map(entry => entry.join('='));
console.log(chalk.dim('$', ...envs, 'node', ...args));

I don't really have a point to make, perhaps just that there's often simplifications possible with extra creativity.
You wouldn’t send a bounty hunter to Japan. You’d hire a Japanese bounty hunter who operates in Japan. Or, more specifically, you’d put up a bounty for someone’s arrest in Japan, and one or more Japanese bounty hunters would “take on” the bounty.

Also, the goal of hiring a bounty hunter, presumably, wouldn’t be to get them arrested for things that are crimes in some other country, but rather to get them arrested for things that are crimes in their own country (or in whatever country they happen to be hiding it.)
The big problem is the lack of knowlage and experienced. Simply put almost nobody has experience with building reactors, and specially not that one. And outside of it being nuclear, its also an incredible large civil engineering project with incredibly high specification. The US is not exactly known for being great at executing large civil engineering projects.

The reality is if you want cheap nuclear you need to mass produce it, just like with everything else. But that requires large scale state action and planning.

Or alternatively having a competitive market for smaller nuclear. But for that to happen regulatory approval processes and many other problems are in the way.
Ham radio for sure. The whole idea of ham radio is knowing how to make a radio out of nothing and experiment. In a collapse this would be extremely useful too.
I think managers will do that (keep popel around just in case), but businessmen (or CEO's) will optimize for what's best for the business. No? A lower-level manager who actually sees the nitty-gritty of getting something done will not really have as much of a say in the broader business.
This is not to call you out in particular, but I see this exact sort of "just world fallacy" interpretation of layoffs all over this site and it's really fucking weird. No wonder there's such a stigma around workers who were laid off, with this attitude rampant.
Yeah, I’m starting to hear and understand that more myself. There was a extremely long twitter thread (i think from former Reddit CEO) that said the key to content moderation is moderating bad behaviour, not bad content.
Creating a dependency on a 3rd party piece of software or releasing an internal tool as open source?
There's a tradeoff. Card numbers in your db are a lot easier to move between payment platforms than tokenized card numbers. So many merchants get screwed by payment platforms that lock them out right in the middle of a large sale because the sudden increase in transactions looks like fraud. You gotta look out for number one.
Google’s customers are going to reduce their investment (including ad spend) as a result of the increased cost of capital and changing economics of their business as the next recession looms large (or has already started).

Arguing that Google had a good 2022 is only tangentially relevant to Google’s prospect for the upcoming decade.
This is quite apparent in the most recent Law & Order season.

Compare/contrast an episode from season 22 which aired in 2022 vs season 1 which aired in 1990.

There are scenes in the original that have like a 15-20 people on screen doing a highly complex choreography for a crime scene with different actors playing uniformed cops, detectives, evidence specialists, witnesses, bystanders, just every one that you would expect to be in such a scenario in real life.

And that's just one scene. There are many more with unique locations, with remarkable shots on location outside and inside buildings -- all with many more people on screen.

Now they barely have 20 people in the final court room scene when the original seasons used to have 50+ people just for the background, let alone the 12 jurors, 3 lawyers/judge/defendant.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. Can you please stop? Regardless of which ideology/politics you favor, this is not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for.

A certain amount of political overlap is ok [1]. But it shouldn't dominate one's submissions or comments here. The primary factor should be intellectual curiosity [2]. Curiosity and battle don't overlap, for the same reason that, say, frisbee and tank battles don't overlap.

When an account is using HN primarily for politics or ideology, that's one line at which we ban the account [3]. We use this test because there's a bimodal distribution between accounts that do this vs. ones that are staying within the site guidelines [4].

Staying within the guidelines also means staying within the range of intellectual curiosity (thoughtful, respectful, friendly conversation) even when the topic is political or ideological.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

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By purely algorithmic systems I mean something like the a hypothetical Twitter timeline showing the top 4 tweets of everyone you’ve followed in purely chronological order. Or a Reddit feed purely based on submission time and upvotes.

A curated feed being something like the current HN front page where websites from specific manually chosen domains are penalized.

I am not saying there is anything inherently wrong with curation, it may simply to reflect what users want. However, as soon as you start making editorial decisions it’s no longer purely user generated content. Which was the distinction I was going for, it’s still an algorithm just not a blind one.

> Every algorithm has a bias.

Using upvotes, deduplicating, or penalizing websites based on the number of times they have been on the front page in the last week definitely has bias, but it isn’t a post specific bias targeted by the website owner. I agree the lines aren’t completely clear, when you start talking AI the story specific bias can easily be in how the AI was trained, but I suspect something that flags child porn would be viewed differently than something that promotes discrimination against a specific ethnic group.
Wow!! I wouldn't have imagined they could have gotten tolerable latency while using TCP. Cool!
The graphic and the pretense of mimetic causation, what a hilarious cope.

No mention of who is getting axed: the .5x gratuity hires, the ball-pen projects for also-ran elitists. $2 Ugandans can do it now that wokeness is dead.

This will lead to higher pay for real 10x types. Tech starts looking like a baseball team. You have your sluggers and your fielders.
>>The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.

Terrible idea imo, there is almost no company that can't cut 5% of their staff without negatively impacting the company as a whole if done more or less right, you cut the people who are lower performers - or average performers who, thru no fault of their own, are not currently assigned to something that matters anymore to the company.

Cutting the pay of the best/better performers, and/or the pay of people that are actively contributing to high value projects, so the less qualified or less needed people can stay employed seems like a huge disincentive to keeping your top performers.

If my manager came to me with that proposal I would give my notice on the spot.
There are probably transition states that are still to be identified.

I'm trying to narrow it down to the obvious choices ;)

Physicists are the experts on this kind of thing and I just go along with the choice they made when they started calling electronic components "solid-state" to begin with.

My apologies for being so controversial.
Hmmm … I like the idea but my hunch was that disposable card numbers would fail at POS because the network knows that card should never have been issued physically?

If you run this experiment, would you do a tell HN ?