skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People protested for half a decade before COVID. Even if they couldn’t get out and protest, they could still engage in social media, and yet it seemed like their enthusiasm for the subject largely evaporated, even on social media. Even the cheapest of symbolic stuff like “#BLM” in Twitter handles and bios seemed to largely disappear. It very much feels like they cut policing in the name of black Americans and then lost interest when policing drove up crime rates, particularly in black communities.

> Rather they were asking for issues like poverty, mental illness, and homelessness to be addressed rather than just being policed.

I’m sure some were asking for those things, but mostly this was a media retcon when it was becoming apparent that “abolish the police” was jeopardizing Biden’s election campaign (“when protesters say ‘abolish the police’ and ‘all cops are bastards’, surely they’re really advocating for more spending on social services, right?”).
Has anyone else heard of like a year worth of retroactive Argentina’s exchange rate corrections happening to Stripe users?

I recently saw someone mention this on reddit asking for legal advice but didn’t find anyone here talking about it and the original post seems to be gone but they linked to this post https://support.stripe.com/questions/argentina-s-new-inbound...
>An economy which prioritized taking care of the people who are out of work

People shouldn't be out of work, unless they want to and are able support themselves.
I have always wanted to hire a diverse bunch of attractive people who would appear in corporate stock photos, dress them up in suits, and photograph them kicking each other's asses.
> and have a lower environmental impact than small towns

Can you expand on that (or link to more) ?
They aren’t snake oil. The kids will come out the other side being good at math, but they are unlikely to enjoy math, or look back fondly on the time spent.

If you want to try something that is supposed to be more enjoyable without a time or financial commitment, check out Beast Academy. You can get the books cheaply, used, on Thrift Books or other such used book sites. The child is supposed to read a comic, by themselves if they are able, about a humorous situation in which a math skill wins the day. And then they do a small worksheet about that math skill. It’s low pressure and low anxiety inducing.
Look at my post from last year. Most people told me there must be something wrong with me. Everybody is looking for red flags and reasons to dismiss and reject people. It's like cancel culture, but for people with experience.
Viaweb.
"Artificial Inanity" as Neal Stephenson called it in Anathem:

“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”
F-35 should be able to do SEAD quite well, because it can safely get in closer before being detected. This is always an advantage.
The average of two true statements can easily become false, so models like ChatGPT will spout nonsense even if it was only trained on 100% truthful statements.
How come it's not true?
I don't think there has to be a better, existing alternative to say something is terrible. AFAICT, this is just generally a hard space to get right, especially by default, on a system that will power both a data center - size supercomputer and system that is barely me then a microcontroller.
"Supported" in only the very thinnest sense. The Raytheon Pride flags are generally considered to be extremely "virtue signalling" even within the community; at best this means "we'll allow you to work here and prevent people using slurs openly in the office", not "we'll stop donating to politicians and parties pushing anti-trans legislation or increased police budgets".

The Tyre Nichols incident response shows some improvements, but those responsible have not yet been charged, and because US police are so fragmented it will be a very long time before standards are raised nationally.
Unless you are working in a literal Top Secret government agency, and even then, this request from management is "extremely sketchy" at best.
Exactly. I wonder people don't recognize that upfront.

I'm getting the impression, like it was stated by some people here, that this whole "no comments" / "everything should be a unit test" idea comes form inexperienced but idealistic developers mostly.

People with more experience seem to know already OTOH that good comments can save your ass in the middle of the night.
If by "computationally heavy" you're talking about the financial overhead of hiring another layer of human filters to filter duplicates out of the dataset.
Fair enough. The Quora answer you quote seems quite absolutist, or at least only scoped to rich people they don't like. I can see how someone's worldview could develop from such experiences, though.

The "broader segment" as opposed to the genuine aristocrats - this seems like the natural working of society as it re-segments imperfectly. I don't know that anyone has devised a perfect society that helps and rewards in ways that have no bad outcomes. Maybe it's France, which was contrasted earlier with the UK. I would be keen to understand what it could be.
These image sites might have a strong case. AI art can be considered a competitor and their copyrighted material was scraped and used to harm their business.
> Is this a good summary?

On par with best available AI summary! ;) [1]

[1] https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://proofinprogress.com...
> I can’t think of a way that BLM was ever counter-cultural.

Fighting the police is about as counter as you can get.
not bad! eager to see how the economics work out. is openAi endpoint cost scalable for a "free" or "free-ish" service like this (seems like there will be a very liberal use of queries)?
LeetCode Just Got Easier with Leetgo
Solving LeetCode problems just got a whole lot easier with leetgo, the simple command-line tool for LeetCode.

leetgo offers a quick and efficient way to complete your LeetCode exercises, allowing you to generate description, skeleton code, and test cases, all within the terminal. And with the ability to run and debug your code locally, you can save time and make the most of your LeetCode experience.

For contest enthusiasts, leetgo even allows you to generate and submit contest questions in real-time, giving you an edge over others.

leetgo supports both leetcode.com and leetcode.cn, and it can read cookies from your browser, so you don't have to enter your password every time. Plus, it opens question files in your preferred editor, making your experience even more convenient.
Sunlight during the morning commute is one of the few upsides to the morning commute.
Thanks for digging into the mucks of the quote end quote API. SMB makes me think they were aiming for the commercial market and just repurposed it for home.
well, then stop flying and the useless content-creation and let's get back to our "few GPUs" for consumption, when living, food and flying have transitioned to wind and solar. Then people can start setting up their text-based Holodeck-precursor consuming 1kW during usage.

Just be clear: the alternative to letting a future GPT-derivative write your novel is to go to the library and pick a book. That works now and has negligible emissions. A future GPT (currently you won't get a consistent long form text) might do the same - optimistically it will do it on only 2-3kWh of energy (which amounts to the cost of creating a physical book). Granted, you only can sustain a human on that for a day, but then the humans don't go away because of AI.

Conclusion to me: the things are fascinating and so are H-bombs...

Question: which kind of time do you expect people to spend with these models? Which human needs will they satisfy? How will their energy consumption then still be negligible?
Looks like it's pretty bad out there. For the first time in a while I'm employed, but I'm destroying myself trying to show up for these meetings rather than working on anything remotely engaging. Have started applying but not even a call yet, recruiters have dried up.
Linux assuredly does not periodically wake from standby to run random background tasks. I welcome a reference to the contrary. (Android notwithstanding -- I know phones and tablets do not truly suspend -- I am responding to the suggestion of manually managing background tasks which generally implies a non-handheld OS.)

I wasn't aware macOS enables Power Nap permanently on Apple silicon, interesting.
How can I find the roles looking for top tier talent?
That's because it is a broad spectrum source; it includes a lot of red, but it looks yellow/white because of all the other frequencies that are also present.

So if you need to be exposed to just red light it won't work well, but if the red light works regardless of the presence of other colors then the sun seems like it would be a fine source.
A common radio will have an AM band 530 kHz to 1700 kHz and a FM band 88 to 108 MHz. You'd have to buy a special radio to get more options.
Yet another example (with nice animations, and discussion about how to deal with non-contiguously pathable regions) :

Factorio Friday Facts #317 - New pathfinding algorithm :

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
I remember a Spanish colleague expressing his exasperation at “cucumber”. I had not noticed its inconsistency until that point.

(The Japanese equivalent that springs to mind is the word for Sunday, 日曜日, pronounced nichiyōbi. It includes the same Chinese character pronounced two completely different ways within the same word.)
In Finland with my fairly large bank the barrier is pretty much same if the card isn't already saved. Actually SEPA is easier as I only need to log in and confirm instead of having to provide CC details and log in to confirm the transfer.
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You don't need any "scheme". DRM-free already works for the music industry. Most people don't mind paying for content if they have reasonable options for doing so.
If Canonical is doing all the work to make the updated packages, but is then withholding most of them from the free universe repo, how is that "best effort"?
> killings by police are way down

[citation needed]

> consequentially violent crime is way, way up.

You're claiming that the US, unlike the rest of the civilized world, can't address crime without having death squads summarily execute people for trivial or imagined offences every other week?
My last job was using MongoDB for what was essentially a relational application. It was every bit as as bad as I would have expected. Data consistency problems. Writing queries with a few joins were so much harder (though a lot of that was down to the nested data stored in the collections, a flat structure would have made it easier).

I'll add a couple of other benefits of SQL databases
- many frameworks Django for example have add ons that are based around a relational database. Django's admin and migration system for example make life so much easier as a developer.
- Have a fixed schema also makes it a lot easier for new developers to understand the structure of the database.
In the communiqué from Stripe, they state that any such fee will be repaid if you win the dispute.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/pricing-updates-for-bus...
What a pompous style. I got annoyed trying to read it.

By the way, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/chatg... shows that at least some of the broader press gets what's going on with "AI."
Birdsite blocks bird watcher after tweeting about birds
It still contains that wavelength.

> Most of the solar radiation that reaches Earth is made up of visible and infrared light.

https://www.fondriest.com/environmental-measurements/paramet...
It looks kind of like Vaadin DS, but I’m digging the subtle differences.
They probably mean all 12000 of them are not leetcoders.
It means they assume you want to keep that high salary, and won't waste their time calling you back if their target compensation isn't competitive with FAANG, because going through an interview process only to have the candidate reject the offer isn't productive for anyone.
I did this from more or less managerial role to IC. It was hard initially, i.e. but I got used to it. The most helpful thing was that I continued coding in my free time, so there was some re-learning curve, but it wasn't too steep.

The key here is finding a company which values IC as much as manager which unfortunately isn't true for every company.
There is: http://flashlights.parametrek.com/
Ready to Pop: SaaS ARR Multiples
Winter boosters.
The funny thing is that there are readily available 670nm flashlights sold with claims of protective effects on aging eyes.
Machine learning predicts delirium with 82% sensitivity
Polycule? NEET?

I get distracted wondering why my Mc-A-Fee benefaction has expired, why my nortonn subscription has expired ... thinking about Charming Russian Girls, and when I come back to the internet there's a new language I have to learn.
Apparently this removes you ability to open Pull Requests.
I wouldn't mind the price if the billions they pour into producing and buying content led to something I actually want to watch. Anything. If it's there, their algorithm failed to surface it in favor of showing the same 20 things I wasn't interested in the last 100 times I opened the app.
> then that person can refer to the VCS blame (e.g. git blame) logs to find what _should_ be a detailed commit message explaining all of the 'in the moment' reasoning for why and how the code was written

Agreed, they "_should_" write the reason why, but many committers unfortunately write the "what" rather than the "why".

I like comments in code, and they're the first thing I read when, say, browsing the kernel or the Golang standard libraries/packages. And I appreciate that you don't find them as useful--more power to you!
The paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10341.pdf) has some examples of its output. For example this one:

The drug that can treat COVID-19 is

The drug that can treat COVID-19 is hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which has been shown to inhibit the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in cell culture and in animal models of COVID-19, and has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in March 2020, and by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of patients with
COVID-19 in April 2020, and by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in May 2020.

But... The FDA has not approved the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. source:

https://scdhec.gov/covid19/dangers-using-hydroxychloroquine-...
The whole point of the office is the random hallway conversations, the conversations you should be in on that you know about only because you overhear it from the cube next to you, people walking up to your desk to ask a question.

20 years ago my boss ordered me to work from home one day when I had an urgent task to get done. Most of the time though I was better off in the office - while I couldn't get as much high concentration work done, I was doing more useful work because I was in sync with the office.

The above assumes that a significant number of people are in the office everyday. A pure work from home environment works because people figure out how to use other means to communicate important things. However communication is much harder, and thus takes more effort. As a shy person I would be much better off in the office all the time as I don't put enough effort into communication.
Klarna operates more payment services than just the BNPL credit option

e.g. Sofort is run by Klarna for some reason - https://www.klarna.com/pay-now/business/merchant-support/wha...

So it seems conceivable that they have options to process regular card payments too
Not all who are "privileged" abuse their privilege.
it’s a bit of an open secret

"Open secret" is the news version of "Trust me bro"
Length of stay seems like a hit or miss metric. A lot of contract work is done in 1-2 year engagements.
Note that this study refers to colour vision, not myopia

> and had normal colour vision (cone function). This was assessed using a 'Chroma Test': identifying coloured letters that had very low contrast and appeared increasingly blurred, a process called colour contrast.

Using a provided LED device all 20 participants (13 female and 7 male) were exposed to three minutes of 670nm deep red light in the morning between 8am and 9am. Their colour vision was then tested again three hours post exposure and 10 of the participants were also tested one week post exposure.

On average there was a 'significant' 17% improvement in colour vision, which lasted a week in tested participants; in some older participants there was a 20% improvement, also lasting a week.
I would love wag the finger but first I would have to clean up my own country, the United States of America. When the US government stops pressuring social media platforms to censor speech and they stop happily complying then perhaps I might have room to criticize other nations.

[Edit] And how should this be addressed in the US? Simple. Only censor things that are explicitly and clearly illegal under federal law and the laws of the state the company is headquartered in. If another state has an issue with that, then they must create their own competing platform.

Machine learning, what people today are mistakenly calling "AI" must tag anything that is not explicitly illegal with unobtrusive labels such as "hate speech" or "propaganda" or "misinformation" and so on.... Each label must link to the Machine Learning "Showing Its Work" to describe in detail exactly how it reached that conclusion and the members of the platform must have a way to contest and override the labels. The posts must show how many people disagree with said labels. No hidden algorithms, no hidden data-sets. The Machine Learning must show its work and show its references.

Members must have the ability to hide any content that has labels they do not wish to see just like the capabilities in StackExchange.
I understand the desire to be anonymous. If it's any consolation though, many users (myself included) have their website and resume listed right in their bio and don't mind other HN readers popping by for a sniff. From my perspective, nothing you wrote seemed even the least bit incriminating, if anything, it just showed you're probably a high performer who knows their worth in the market.

Anyway, no pressure to reveal yourself any more than you'd prefer, just my own thoughts.
Being able to see (and hopefully shoot at) the opponent before they can do the same gives you an edge in every engagement, offense or defense.
This is a bit too sciency for me, but my interpretation is that this would potentially help with seeing in low contrast conditions. But if you wear glasses (age related lens hardening, astigmatism, etc) , this isn't going to get you where you don't have to wear glasses.
https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...
Do I really need to explain to you how the statement that Google has laid off 12,000 expert leetcoders is false and borders on farce?
> Even this plan is dubiously profitable

Keep breeding dodos and then charge a million dollars a weekend to anyone who can afford it to go hunt them, and your initial $30m is likely recouped within the first year
Just curious, what format would you send a resume in? I always use PDF and have never had an issue. I find it's better for keeping the formatting consistent across devices than a Word doc (since not everyone uses Word and could use Libre Office, Google Docs, or similar).
A permalink option would be great. More generally, putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc....

Something else that might help is merging aliases for steel types. "Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the same thing, and the powder version has substantially increased toughness.

Next-level: let people search by groups of steels that are essentially copies of each other. M390, 20CV, and 204P are made by different companies, but the chemistry and powder metallurgy processes are nearly identical, producing nearly identical results.
> Right, and in my experience urban retail is often high cost, low quality. Some of the dirtiest stores/restaurants you see are in urban centers.

This may depend on your area but this hasn’t been my experience. I used to commute into downtown Portland for work and we had a great selection of options for lunch and happy hours, a plethora of food cart options which were great and affordable, and a number of decent bars where you could meet a friend for drinks afterwards.

Now I work from home in the suburbs and, while I wouldn’t trade being remote for anything, the food options here mostly consist of bland fast food and chain restaurants. One of the things I miss the most is grabbing a decent lunch with a coworker and breaking up the monotony a bit.
Thanks for citing all those mainstream media news. Too bad I don't shape my perception of reality on their nonsense. They are literally just other humans. You have no common sense firewall or consistency if you allow these people to reprogram you. You're just proving my point that these deconstruction of language and values come from the media.

Get some common sense anti virus for your brain. You're being fed bad training input to get the desired output. The desired output is having a dumb society of wage slaves who get to choose between two options and think they are free.

Society of people where you can keep suggesting terrible "choices" to people like self genital mutilation (the real choice being self-acceptance), killing fetuses (the real choice was making the fetus in the first place), and picking between two equally corrupt parties, or losing your job and taking a worthless vaccine. And those sheep in that society will reprogram themselves to only act on the choices presented and never think for themselves.

Society where the only non-binary choice you get to make, is quite ironically, "your gender", which is literally the most binary non-choice you're ever given. But of course the maximum false choices presented will be where you don't really have a choice at all.
The F-22 was that advanced. The avionics suite of the F-35 is significantly more advanced than the F-22. The F-22 hasn't been produced in over a decade and is going to be phased out in the early 2030s.

Even if there weren't a law still on the books banning the F-22's export, we don't have production and no one would buy one when they could have a still-in-production F-35.
So it's not monolithic, I've definitely been at "BLM"-y protests against police violence where non-Black victims were mentioned.

As far as actual policy changes we might want to advocate for or support, does it make any difference? I guess it would mean that "diversity training" for cops is not the way to go -- I agree and I think most BLM organizers would too (the ones I know anyway do). Instead ways that increase police accountability or limit police interactions are the way to go, which I again think would be agreeable.

I think the level of violence and aggression that police enact on certain communities would probably not be tolerated if it affected people with more political power -- they target people with less political power, which has racial components in the USA is why race matters, but is not exclusively "black and white", sure.
Korean has the same problem. I believe they occasionally put the kanji in brackets after a word to disambiguate.