skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes it an opinion? If I were to say that the Nazi party in Germany peddled in hatred and demonization of already-marginalized groups would you say that is an opinion? Just because a statement pertains to political groups doesn't make it a mere opinion.
As single person I wish more companies made this move. Increase the price for shared accounts and bring down the price for single users. We should not be forced to subsidise others.
Here's a list of February whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
Retrospective for a Ragtime King
You would get stablecoins and redeem them for fiat.
Electricity consumption is the entire point of bitcoin and isn't going to change. It is what the security arguments are based on. Note that electric consumption of proof-of-work does not scale with usage though.
So, is your argument (or in fact, your intention) that some groups are especially sensitive, or need protection and cannot do that on their own and need a supervising authority to declare that they should get special protection? Who decides that <x> group is being harmed more? And by what measure?

Or is the underlying principle that no one should be subject to speech that may demean them?

This whole approach would seem to go against many of our principles of equality and freedom of speech.
I feel old now. Thanks.
How much do you plan to offer it for?
Public transport runs on a schedule and you have to adapt to that schedule. I live in a place where public transport is good, cheap and safe. You can never achieve public transport that could even compare to the freedom of movement a personal vehicle gives you, and that's not the purpose of public transport.

> That you think the car is always better

Make your arguments without inventing what other people say and you will make better arguments.
"Canonical profited obscenely"

I have to challenge that. Their last revenue numbers that I can find (2020) indicate a moderate profit on a headcount of about 500 people.

They've grown pretty well, but that's not the same as profited. Canonical targeted the gaps that Red Hat left when it moved from Red Hat Linux -> Fedora / RHEL, and ate up a lot of the Linux market and grew the pie a bit in terms of people using Linux.

But Canonical has never been making money hand over fist. Their finances aren't public but AFAIK they've largely been in the red or breaking even. Their 2020 financial statement indicated profit for 2020 but loss in 2019.

An interview with TechCrunch last year[1] suggested their revenue was "$175m last year" -- that's a small fraction of Red Hat's revenue and less than SUSE if I'm not mistaken.

Note I'm only responding to their push for Ubuntu Pro - if they're also not pushing patches back upstream or playing games like that, that's a different story. But that's not about making them available vs. making them convenient.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/canonical-now-hopes-to-ipo...
> Drug use (including alcohol) is probably the most common way for people to seriously and irreperably destroy their lives.

I actually agree with that. But I don't see the logical progression from that to locking people in cages and forcing them to buy from the least trustworthy people on earth as the solution. During Prohibition in the US did lives stop getting destroyed by alcohol?

I see a lot of lives seriously and irreperably destroyed by criminal records and long prison sentences that otherwise could have been productive.

> A "paternalistic approach" is absolutely justified if it can prevent this level of harm.

Would you advocate for government banning processed sugar? Sugar behaves like a drug in most ways, including addictiveness (psychological and physiological), euphoria, etc. Untold levels of harm are caused by people to their own bodies and the healthcare system at large by over indulging in sugar and products containing such. Diabetes is a true living hell that never stops one it's started.

Following that logic, it seems like the government should jail people for sugar use, but that obviously seems absurd (reductio ad absurdum).
I don't think your reading lines up with history. Putin was clearly content to allow Ukraine a large degree of sovereignty and autonomy as long as they remained under an authoritarian system. If nationalism was the only driver, why overthrow Yanukovych, thereby spitting in Putin's face and risking domination by another country?

What wasn't tolerable to Putin was a bourgeoning democracy on Russia's doorstep with similar ethnography and demography to Russia. If it proved to be more successful than Russia's model (which isn't hard), that's a clear threat to his regime.

'I think this has extraordinarily little to do with any "political system", of which Ukraine and Russia were both quite similar.'

It seems like you're simply ignoring what happened in 2014. The stark difference between Ukraine and Russia's political systems (and their future trajectories) after that point is one of the main causes of the war.
> but are completely off limits on all standalone VR headsets (Meta, Pico, HTC) for “privacy reasons”.

I think a headset that has the capability of exposing live video feed to apps is a headset that will be incompatible with business environments, and definitely incompatible with my home. The consideration of "private reasons" are extremely real. I don't see why this has to be "walled" though, since a standard could be used to expose object/hand/passthrough textures/whatever tracking, via an API.

I think Meta's approach is what the majority will end up using: some AR API, with passthrough regions direct to the user, but the video feed of those outlines inaccessible to the app.

The alternative is a NYT article about how "There are over a dozen cameras, in your bedroom, and hackers are watching!" articles. For reference, Quest pro has 16 cameras: 6 for the controllers, four for HMD tracking, one for color passthrough, 3 for the eyes, and 2 for the mouth. Considering giving apps access seems ludicrous, to someone who sometimes plays "Puzzling Place", in their underwear.
Do you have some examples of situations where it’s ok for them to make mistakes while figuring things out?
I remember pool day now! Definitely played that one a lot too. Also have some memories of oil rig.

Agreed on the hostage maps. TFC had that one map too...
Assuming it had up to date data, I could easily imagine something like:

The Wuhan Institute of Virology theory, also known as the Lab Leak hypothesis, is a conspiracy theory that suggests that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 can be traced back to an accidental release from the laboratory. Despite lack of solid proof, proponents of this theory hold firm in their belief. However, the scientific community widely subscribes to the theory of zoonotic spillover as the most probable source of the virus' emergence and no credible evidence supports Lab Leak theory

At this point the AI is way over its skis given available evidence, but in the future it might be trusted far more than any public official or individual researcher.
The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It. – Rwanda
Stock buybacks are about as tame as it gets. Where's the deception? Where's the danger?
Been "looking" since November. I'm still averaging 1 recruiter message every few days on LinkedIn, but 95% of them are from agencies with vague pitches for contract roles I'm not interested in. The daily messages I used to get from recruiters hiring directly for permanent positions at medium-to-large US tech companies dried up sometime last year. I'm applying directly to open roles on those companies' websites instead, and usually hearing nothing back.
Again, replace “men” with “African Americans” and you also have a statistically true statement (in America at least) that would be considered taboo.
I suppose that's better than Devasini - the main person running Tether - who was previously convicted of fraud.

Or Excapsa - the other main person running Tether - who was convicted of enabling cheating on the online Poker platform he worked at.
I want to see derp fakes. Like https://www.reddit.com/r/taxiderpy/
LLMs need to consume websites to give answers. No websites = no LLM.

If your websites add no value to the LLM (hence to the searcher, to the world, how deep should we get?), well then thats a good side effect
> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool, but it was exciting.

I think every budding DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D map creator made their school at one point. Of course, that was years before Columbine (despite the inclusion of DOOM in the Columbine finger-pointing), and nobody thought twice about it then.
I don't get the jump from 1 to 2. I don't see a lot of people saying "If I can't share this with grandma, I won't subscribe at all". These aren't the paying customers being excluded.

There will surely be some, but the default case is likely "grandma stops watching Netflix". That's an "exodus" of people who weren't paying them anyway (and were consuming bandwidth). In a few cases, they'll pay more money for grandma. Netflix bets that this category is bigger than the one who quit.

Why would paying customers quit? To teach Netflix a lesson? I suppose it happens. Because they think AppleTV/HBO/Hulu is a better deal? I suppose that happens, too, but we're talking about products in the range of $10/month (or ad-supported) -- not exactly the kind of thing where people are going to find massive bargains.

There will be some exodus, to be sure. But I don't see any reason for a mass exodus.
So I've been genuinely curious about this. I have a high-level understanding of how GPT works, but I've been trying to reconcile that understanding with how OpenAI (or similar) implements content moderation. It's not baked into the original model itself, right? Did they (or does one) just fine-tune a model that checks responses before returning the result?
My issue was specifically the article valuing it in terms of money, incorrectly. “if we take all this iron and we multiply it marginal price of iron we get a large number!”

If you want the worth of something you do the integral of the demand curve, not the marginal price times your volume for sale.

This is the point of my apple example; once you’ve sold the first of your billion apples, the next apple you sell will earn you slightly less, until either your supply or the demand curve runs out.
Equality vs equity is well digested (though far from “resolved”) in the context of highly visible and measurable phenomena… such as wealth.

Do you feel confident in your model of how equality/equity apply to the policing of language and ideas? How about when the language and ideas form the mostly-invisible substrate of a base layer system that could potentially drive and/or mediate a vast set of other systems that govern communication / education / decision-making / culture-formation / economic participation / etc ?
I used to be able to do logarithms in my head, not to arbitrary precision though, I'd just get 2 or 3 decimal places.

Square roots, same thing, take enough math classes and don't use a calculator to do the arithmetic, and after a few quarters you can get down to a couple of digits pretty easily.
We were so focused on the singularity that we forgot about the coming seingularity.
I haven't been looking but the volume of inquiry has dropped off a cliff. As others have said, recruiters are being let go and I think the other element is companies are not in hiring mode.

The important thing here is: its not you.
This system is similar for old analog audio recordings:

https://irene.lbl.gov/

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2012/03/unlocking-sounds-of-the-pa...

I remember one of the curators mentioning that they had a ton of WWII records for things like daily newscasts which due to wartime supply issues were made from less durable materials, and since they weren’t commercially valuable the owners hadn’t spent time transferring many of them to newer media.
Women are bad at higher level math in the same way men are violent. Not all are, but its a trend.

However you aren't allowed to say that for one group, but you are allowed for the other. So this has nothing to do about statistical accuracy, its just political pressure from one side.
I remember the days when I tried to play Quake on my 28.8 modem over the net pre-Quakeworld.

Almost made me swear online multiplayer off for life.
LPB, Low Ping Bastard.
LTT also tested this for FPS games and both professionals and casual gamers improved significantly going from 60HZ to 144+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA
Understand.

For clarity though, I don’t mean literal predictability, I mean relative predictability from the individual’s perspective, which for some actual means life being predictability unpredictable; to some degree, I am, in part because I value the chance to improvise, but anyone that knows me would say that’s predictable.

As for population migration, statistics I had heard before, was roughly half of world’s population doesn’t move more than days walk from where they grew up and remaining in a given area is rarely tied to personal or regional opportunities or threats. Clearly my understanding might be wrong or things like climate change might force people to move; for example, roughly billion of the eight billion people on Earth will likely be displaced by climate change.
One man's "illegal hiring discrimination" is another man's "social justice" /s
I imagine it could be for many reasons, one, which other people have mentioned, is simply the seasonality and cyclicality of recruiting. These things can literally change over the matter of weeks so I wouldn't sweat it too much. The other potential reason, and admittedly the one that might be more cause for alarm, is the fact that there are many layoffs going on so there is a supply of engineers hitting the market . Based on my own anecdata, I don't think there's a reason to freak out. It could very well be that there is more supply than there was before, but the hiring market is still quite strong and there are roles out there. You just need to keep looking and connecting. I know that a lot of people like to rag on recruiters ( myself included) and there are a lot of annoying recruiters out there because there is such a low barrier to entry, but every once in a while you will come across a very helpful and industrious recruiter. They're usually happy to jump on the phone and you can view it as an opportunity for you to get information from them. Ask them what they're seeing in the market, which places are hiring, what roles are they seeing? A lot of demand for, etc. Never hurts to establish a relationship, assuming they aren't an annoying recruiter, that is going to pester you. And if you do establish a relationship with such a recruiter, you can send them your resume and give them an open mandate to search for a role for you, or have you in mind when one comes across that fits your criteria.

I have a bunch of other thoughts. Happy to chat or hop on a call if you're looking for some feedback (no, I'm not a recruiter). My email is in my profile.
> a group of four men has controlled 86% of Tether Holdings

So of Tether's $68bn "market cap", no more than $10bn was actually bought? Which means some subset of that are bag holders, with the rest being affiliated exchange obligations? (EDIT: Nvm.)

Maybe it's not a deal if it's banned and collapses.
Would you*

He can't be*

Typos as usual.
The tech bubble is bursting, did you miss the memo? Even after the recent dead cat bounce, FAANG stocks are down 30%+ with their revenue growth collapsing and they are laying off workers, and it's a whole lot worse for all the non-profitable zombie companies that have been surviving solely on ZIRP and Quantitative Easing absurdly loose financial conditions that have come to an abrupt halt.

Naive investors in the tech bubble forgot the hotdog stand problem: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4558508-what-hotdog-vendors... so many got burned and they aren't coming back any time soon.
you're alright in my book :)
Weirdly enough, I think I'm one of the few that don't have a proper setup - I just work on my bed off my laptop hahaha

Edit: And amazing, glad you like StrawPage! :)
> There's alot of US cultural biases.

You're correct overall, but be careful about equating greater US culture with the culture at big technical firms. They overlap, but are often deeply at odds with each other.
I think you’re right about the difference between those statements, but it’s totally irrelevant to the point made by the OP. A good straw man though.
Yeah that sounds pretty close to what my experience has been recently. The most disheartening part so far has been getting ATS-rejected from a job, only to see the same job freshly posted again a few weeks later.
Programmers make insane amounts of money compared to those in the trades, that would have to cease before a union could make inroads into the profession.
GDPR only say not to collect more data than needed and then not to keep them longer than needed. If you have a legal obligation to collect specific data and to keep them for a specific duration the GDPR are fine with that.

There are similar KYC regulations and data retention laws in Europe.
When they get it here and begin to examine it and mine it, they discover there is an ancient alien in the center which seems to have some sort of weaponry, and then begins to peck its way out. After much debate, nations of the earth decide to combine resources to put the asteroid back into orbit and detonate it.

A controversial scientist with terminal cancer, played by Tom Hanks, stays behind above the earth to steer it further into orbit, then arms the detonation device just as the alien frees itself.

What emerges is a hauntingly beautiful and stunningly complex being. Hanks, certain of his death but filled with wonder, leaves his shuttle in his space suit to get a closer look at the being.

Just before the nuclear device explodes, Hanks connects with the being through light and begins to smile and cry with joy and regret. Then everything explodes. Nothing of the alien or Hanks remains, just bits of asteroid.

Ten years later, listening stations on earth begin to pick up a strange pattern of signals from space.

You fill in the rest:

-DNA code of Hanks that somehow reveals the cure for cancer.

-Morse code for the opening lyrics to the song Age of Aquarius

-Math formulas and theories that revolutionize science

-Morse code for "They know about Mickey Mouse. I'm not sure how, but they keep asking me about him."
For some reason I thought the virtual DOM was a native feature of the browser, in the form of the DocumentFragment class, and had nothing to do with diffing.
But you are saying that it's just a concept, and is implemented by frameworks such as React, and involves the two steps of generating and diffing.

I'll still ask why. Is it just something that React needs to do?
I’m curious what plotting tool the author used to create those slick illustrations.
The Violin Doctor
Ask HN: What do you love and hate about your city?
Lately, I haven't felt very happy in my city and have been fantasizing about moving. But I realize that the grass is always greener on the other side and hearing about people's experience in their cities would help broaden my perspective.
Totally, if that's an option that would be a rational choice. For instance, if I ended up in Poland I would buy a black powder revolver and carry that (legal) and if I ended up in Czech Republic or Austria I think the permit is very easy. The pure hypothetical is ending up someplace where it isn't practical to get the permit.

In practice I just live in a place that does not even require a permit.
> It would be more helpful for the compiler to assume that it does not know what will happen. This is how C actually worked for many years.

Can't you get that behaviour with -O0 or similar?
Do you have any more information on this? It sounds really interesting, and I'd love to learn more!
If you’re using a cloud provider like AWS I’d recommend their dedicated solutions for this problem - for AWS it’s Secrets Manager
It‘s somehow relieving to see Google not be in a leader position for one. I‘ve spent a good chunk of my career chasing their tail
Tether Holdings Ltd is the company that operates Tether. The article says that group of 4 men owns 86% of the shares in Tether Holdings Ltd, not 86% of the Tether tokens.
> 366k in profit per person

Which drives home the need to cut compensation costs. Three sixty in available spend relates to about a $180k salary. Below market. And that's assuming we're zeroing out shareholders. (EDIT: Whoops, nvm.)
> if you 1000x the supply of gold you will just get shot by Goldfinger

Not necessarily. The biggest diamond mining company has warehouses of diamonds, to basically control the supply/demand. I.e. they're still scarce if you control the market. I imagine, miners would probably do the same.
Looping forever is the same as if you ran the recursive version on a hypothetical machine with unlimited stack memory, so it didn't really change semantics.
Borg–at least as it is published in those papers()–and these other schedulers are really design to maximize the availability of large distributed apps.

() The real Borg now does a lot more...

But there is a completely different world if you look elsewhere. In batch systems like supercomputers (HPC), you want to maximize throughput, not availability. It is common to have something closer to your design: a inventory of jobs and scheduler that allocates workers to them. E.g. https://hpc-wiki.info/hpc/Scheduling_Basics
Well, if you have been to mars or other side of the moon for last few months, things have changed on the market and maybe its a time for a bit less arrogance now and starting to show actual interest. People who look like they actually want job have priority, and there is plenty to choose from.

Also 5 years is nothing and still in +-junior category unless you are top 1% of devs but then we wouldn't be reading this. Nobody wants juniors when times are not OK, for very good reasons.

TBH this is a bit surreal read and shows how entitled some software devs are, I'm keeping it polite but it ain't easy. Maybe whole field needs some hard reset and align it more with rest of engineering.
can you clarify 'even at the time we where building our second nuclear power plant'
How would you experience a new hobby?
Wondering if anyone has similar problems like mine where you find it difficult to pick up a new hobby and due to lack of understanding what it takes, how to do it, follow-up etc
CNET happy to spoonfeed you unlabeled AI content but worried Google will notice
The slightly easier version is to use Heron's method, but know the squares of half-integers. They are: 2.25, 6.25, 12.25, 20.25, 30.25, 42.25, 56.25, 72.25, 90.25. You might notice there is a similar pattern to these as the familiar odd-number increments in the sequence of integer squares. It also happens that (n + 1/2)^2 = n(n + 1) + 0.25

The iterated method tends to double the number of bits of accuracy at each iteration. Moving from integers to half-integers gives you one more bit of accuracy on average. When you apply the first iteration, this becomes two extra bits.

This already gives accuracy within 0.2% in one step for any integer (except 3 and 5, with errors of 1.0104% and 0.6231% respectively).
Toronto:

Like:

* Great food. Toronto is a very diverse city and I can get food from all around the world

* Beautiful summers

* Toronto Public Library is excellent

Dislike:

* I hate the cold

* Expensive: Price for food and housing are bonkers (though, this is probably true for everywhere in the world right now)

* The city feels like it's crumbling: transit, healthcare, homelessness; everything has gotten worse.

* Hard to make friends/date. Everything feels ephemeral and I haven't had luck with making any long term relationships.

* Lack of a community feeling