skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It is the exam which determines your future in nations which rely on single exams for university admission.

How’s that even fair for the students or even accepted as a criteria to consider someone is eligible or not?! Say I want to go to engineering school, how’s memorizing anything for that exam will be slightly beneficial for my future?!
Ask HN: Ways to relocate to the US for a software engineer?
I am a back-end engineer from a developing country. I’ve been working on the US projects remotely for the past 3 years. I’m currently at a point where I cannot bear the huge time zone difference anymore, so I’m desperately looking for ways to relocate.

I’ve recently interviewed with 2 FAANG companies and received a positive feedback. But my applications were frozen at both companies due to inability to secure a working visa for me.

I constantly apply to endless amount of LinkenIn jobs, but the conversation process ends on the visa stage every time.

I wonder if there are some smart ways to relocate to the US I’m not aware of. Maybe someone has a success story. Any advice is appreciated
The reddit replacement I am scoping out eliminates mods and subreddit squatting. I don't see a need for mods as they exist in reddit really, just "janitors" like in 4chan, most likely paid. Moderation seems like it could be done purely on the basis of voting and a sitewide content policy.
This definitely is not my experience on iOS. I have both the official Mastodon app and regularly browse servers using Safari without issue.
Yeah, that researcher looks nothing like a car seat, but sure to elicit weird reactions with other drivers.
To be fair, the amount of effort that Apple puts into their APIs is well above the industry standard. Cocoa and Cocoa Touch stand with few peers when it comes to depth, breadth, and quality which has been a big factor in the success of their platforms. They’re some of the few SDKs where if you want to, you can produce a top tier app without importing a single third party library, which is no small feat.

In their shoes, even if the App Store didn’t exist, I’m sure I wouldn’t be all that thrilled to open the floodgates for lowest common denominator apps built with other toolkits that do nothing to leverage what makes the platforms good and unique.
Probably because it wont last for long. The key issue is Reddit is not profitable and they're being anal because they want to control the app and ads. If its a third party app then you can avoid the ads and it makes implementation difficult
Crypto never scammed anyone. People use crypto to scam people. Hence, my analogy. There is no tech that can scam anybody, except maybe autonomous systems

Ai has 1000000x more scam potential than crypto

I don’t understand the comparison
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Summary:

Heikki: let’s make Postgres multithreaded, unless any of you have objections

Most of the rest of the core team: it would be a disaster or at the very least incredibly difficult

Heikki: okay so I’m not hearing any objections so let’s go

Most of the rest of the core team: …

Heikki (covering ears): lah lah lah
Me? No, I would not.

For nearly 20 years I helped run Bandwagon, a co-op of nerds who toward the end of the dot-com bubble needed a place to put their personal web projects. We clubbed together to rent a full colo rack and we each put our servers in.

There were many opportunities to try to turn this into a business. It might have been lucrative, might have been a failure. We kept it as a small co-op, and it was fine.

And right now I'm looking at starting something that I might eventually get a salary from, but if it has surplus revenues beyond that, I'd rather use it to improve the thing and its impact in the world.

I understand that a lot of people want a zillion dollars so they can live a life of luxury. To each their own, but I feel kinda bad for people who organize their lives around that. They rarely succeed, are usually quite unhappy, and frequently create a trail of pain and misery behind them.
I'd argue domain knowledge becomes less and less important as the size of the organization grows. Eventually, it gets to the point where what you are working on is just a tiny piece of the overall work, it just doesn't matter. Also, at that larger size, your input doesn't matter very much either, that's what the BA team is there for.

The best organizations will work to leverage the productivity of individual devs over just throwing bodies at the problem, but that doesn't happen everywhere.
steve jobs had a reputation for responsiveness. i missed the warranty period by a couple weeks on my c2d imac and his office got me a free logic board replacement (priced ~$800 at the time)
This is brought up a bunch, but I’m kind of sceptical about this.

Although only a small percent post, I believe those users are largely interchangeable and replaceable. This isn’t twitter - apart from a few exceptions, there are not personalities on Reddit that people would feel the loss of. All the big/main subreddits are all pretty low-effort content, just reposting memes and videos from elsewhere.

Mods maintaining the subreddits are the real ‘power users’ who would impact the site if they left.
Now Philips can choose between:

1- remove that NFC nonsense.

2- leave everything as it is and pretend nothing happened (very likely if the news about the hack don't spread too much).

3- waste time and resources to implement proper encryption plus protection, then enforce it in new Sonicare products, possibly giving also them in exchange of old ones for being "new and upgraded for customer's convenience".

Not holding my breath waiting for 1 to happen.
My kids would be. My theoretical grandkids probably would be too. Anything farther out than that is too attenuated for me to care much about.

Anyway, most family wealth doesn’t turn into a dynasty. Usually the first generation that didn’t have to work for it ends up pissing it all away.
Wow, that’s a low blow. These guys seem to hate their fan base.
Forstall is semi-retired from tech. He's producing Broadway musicals and acting in minor advisory roles.
Show HN: AI-Powered Vintage Interactive Fiction Interpreter
I love old school interactive fiction games (like Zork, etc) but find the strict syntax endlessly frustrating. I built this ChatGPT powered "middleman" to translate commands written in natural language into something understandable by the simple parser of old interactive fiction games.

To run, see instructions here:
https://github.com/ethan-w-roland/ai-interactive-fiction

For a demo, see video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHzeb39VqkM
Related: That can be done on the server-side too.

https://blog.uidrafter.com/conditional-avif-for-video-poster...
I don't see r/politics or r/worldnews

Not sure why. Maybe I'm missing something about what they chose to display.

edit: I see now, as it clearly says at the top of the page, it’s for subreddits that “are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after”
It's entirely fair to at least withhold judgement if not to just presume that yes, a pathological bullshit artist is bulshitting you.
Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch disclosed >50x growth in revenues
No. Profit maximization is often in conflict with sustainability. That's part of the devil's bargain of VC money. If it looks like your company will be a modest success, they will push you to make it a giant one no matter how much that increases the risk of failure.
Domain knowledge should be available in the team, not necessarily every member of the team. Together with good communication this solves the issue on a 80/20 basis.

The exception is of course if you work solo, in which case it does indeed become a full stack problem of sorts. Individuals who can pull this of can make significant impact.
No, I know, the distinction I’m making is that “AI on everything” marketing is going to be the hype bubble.

There’s a lot of knee jerk products out there from businesses that were scared of being left behind on the wave of AI that don’t actually add much. “AI powered” could mean an in-house trained deep learning network. Or an api call to ChatGPT. Or single function someone made by tweaking sliders in Desmos calculator till the curve had the right vibe. It’s the slapping “AI” over “black box magic process” that’s going to implode.

But there’s obviously massive work being done in ML that will change the world. Something actually worth the hype.
This shows how much I don’t use Twitter, but I was curious to verify this and learned I need to sign in (or in my case create an account) to search…is that true?
From wikipedia:

> The institute has been an active premier research center for the study of coronaviruses.[6]

> In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect a human cell line (HeLa). The team engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.[17][21]

The evidence is pretty damning, and points to way too much to be coincidental. It's not solid evidence, but that would be impossible to get since China blocked anyone from visiting or doing independent investigations.

My major and Msc are related to microbiology (which is highly related to virology), and I'd estimate it's a 95% chance of having originated from the lab.
Chicken Orb
Reddit has gone downhill. My notifications are filled with only fans spam accounts that are now following me.

Is reddit even safe for younger folks or folks at the office?
Ah I wouldn't worry about it. The courts don't accept statistical evidence of discrimination, the rejected applicant would actually need to prove discrimination on an individual basis. Source - https://www.culawreview.org/journal/what-constitutes-discrim...
I disagree.

Liquidity implies the frame of fluid dynamics, just like data liquidity.

Bringing physics to science is as useful in the mind as it is in software.
2000 employees at an average cost of 200k / year is a $400m a year burn rate.

If they're not breaking even with revenue then that money starts to run out quite quickly.
The strength is there for those that leave and set their kids up for good times in a better place.
I understand how rain is forecast. But Foreca, Weather Channel, and AccuWeather have not had similar issues. This is an issue with Apple Weather and their WeatherKit API forecasting rain no matter the actual conditions.
His manifesto is anything but the product of a broken mind. Go ahead and read it, maybe you'll reconsider the MKUltra superficialities that in all likelihood had no connection whatsoever to TK's philosophy and later actions.
Sadly, upsampling algorithm in AVIF has been explicitly left unspecified, because the video industry doesn't see a problem with that.

IMO using chroma subsampling with AVIF is always an error. That mode shouldn't exist, and it's there only due to video legacy. Just always use full-res color. AV1 has chroma-from-luma feature to deal with full-res chroma efficiently. If you destroy color resolution like it's 1953, you're just degrading both the quality and the compression for no good reason.
It depends on whether or not the author's politics bleed into the software or somehow influences the user-base; which could be disasterous. I think with Lemmy, though, there isn't much risk for that.
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Interesting. Not sure that is the issue here though. No other weather forecasting source has had similar issues recently.
It depends on what "representative" means here. Most people lurk, but they definitionally don't contribute to the labor that makes the site valuable. I'd be interested in their opinion here, but honoring a strike isn't about what pure consumers want. It's about what the workers want.
This problem became much worse when Covid-19 came around too. Still to this day, there is a mod that will auto ban you from like 30 different subs including /r/pics and others if you so much as make a comment in a sub that they consider "covid minimizing" at all. How on earth reddit continues to allow such actions like that are beyond me.
This was news in the summer of 2021 and still seems a concerning (albeit not new) finding as he had reportedly filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine in Feb of 2020 prior to dying in May of 2020.
Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie (2021)
Where does Intel currently stand in the race with AMD?

AMD has been doing extremely well while Intel hasn’t been able to regroup.
> reliance of big companies to critical projects while not helping them, and in tons of cases not even trying to help them, is not unheard of.

The fact is that if those critical projects folded, the big companies would just take over the software 90% of the time - which is supposed to be a positive feature of open source. The other 10% of the time, the reason the software was profitable for the big company is because people were working on it for free.

Maybe the solution is to stop writing all of this corporate software for free, or at least AGPL it.
I don't know exactly what happened to Scott Forstall, or how good he actually was to work with, but in his public presentations he seemed to communicate a clear understanding of Apple's products and their design.
I use merrysky all the time! It's a great resource and uses the https://pirateweather.net api. It's not as accurate as TWC or Accuweather or Foreca but I really like the layout.
Haha, nice. I wish him every success.

I'm probably the only one who would go to see iPhone! The Musical but I am sure it would be great.
Wow this seems a lot like the modern Pico8 game design system. I didn't realize there were older frameworks like this.
Except if you search in Reddit right now you'll find plenty of posts where mod asked the users if they should join the blackout (sometimes rather meekly) and userbases, almost always, said yes.
Reading stuff like this makes some part of me really happy- I'll probably never even get into this part of the industry, but reading about breakthroughs like this always just feel really amazing
It's great for SEO, though. 20 books = more potential search hits and longer dwell time.
ADS-B has the same problem -- it's hard to collect it over the oceans.

Satellites do pick up the signal, but the detection area is pretty wide, so sometimes it's just too many signals coming in all at once, overwhelming the satellite. ADS-B is also pretty chatty, so the data sizes are significant (compared, to, say AIS, which is a similar system for marine vessels).

It's gradually becoming better, satellites having more focused antennas able to gather signals only from unpopulated areas, and more computing power to filter noise out.
I don’t understand why the author is choosing Taylorism, something from the early XX century instead of talking about much more modern scientific management approaches. It seems like criticizing anything from the past in the context of new approaches. The author is criticizing it like a current problem.
This is why most of my cheeky references in test fixtures are from David Bowie lyrics. Almost everyone will recognize them, and if you don’t… congratulations, now you get an opportunity to be more familiar with David Bowie! No one doesn’t want that.
Even better: modern gene therapy is done with lentiviruses which were derived from HIV. This is commonly done; thousands of research labs around the world do this as a regular practice. We typically call them lentiviruses, rather than HIV-derived, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentiviral_vector_in_gene_ther...
> IMO, the only way to verify authenticity of stuff like this is to have hardware on the device (camera) which adds a signature/timestamp/etc to the data.

Cameras have been doing that for at least a decade, but that's not foolproof either. For example, Canon's Original Decision Data was cracked in 2010. https://photographybay.com/2010/11/30/canon-original-data-se...

The reason it's hard to fake RAW files isn't because one can't convert images to RAW files, but because RAW files contain lots of additional information that would be difficult to fake. For example, RAW files include mosaiced sensor data which has flaws that are unique to a particular sensor.¹ A digital forensics expert can evaluate a hundred aspects of RAW files to see if anything smells fishy.

¹ https://www.labmanager.com/sensor-imperfections-are-perfect-...
Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto's future may be in the U.K
That pricing is absurd.
It's the small things that make kotlin awesome. Not microscopic things like removing semicolons, but the left-to-right of .as?, .let and friends that allow simple things to remain simple instead of littering the code with almost-single-use names. Give those trivial intermediates a name when you think the name will be helpful, not when the syntax is unhappy without. Those aren't astronaut level language features to treat someone's Haskell-envy, but simple things that just happen to add up really well.
APA for example says the following:
"... a reference is not necessary for standard software... Examples are Microsoft Word, Java, and Adobe Photoshop."

https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2015/01/how-to-cite-softw...
There are literally advocates for a genocidal state. Their politics are going to bleed over into the software eventually. To think otherwise is deeply naive.
The idea that it became harmless once the lead was removed?
Musk put over $20 billion of his own money into Twitter. If I put 10% of my net worth in a project, I care how it turns out.
Hopefully this will be the kick in the backside that Intel needs to start leading again.
Which tag is it using to distinguish residential buildings from commercial/warehouse buildings? I thought my area was correctly tagged but this renders the whole thing as a giant warehouse park. Either the data's incorrectly tagged or this tool just doesn't support regular houses.
> What guarantee is there that those inline ads would be rendered by the 3rd party client?

Because if it isn't then reddit can simply revoke their access.

How can reddit know if the ads are being stripped out or not? Simple - download the app, run it and see.

The API license can always force things like:

1. Only for apps, whether mobile, desktop or web (i.e. forget about training your LLM on the data)
2. License revoked if content is modified in any way (i.e. no stripping out ads)

It's not that difficult, honestly. I've signed more strict agreements with companies (NDAs, and so forth) to access their system, their data, etc.
Whether it is coincidence of “their” plan, I can see the possibility, not long hence, when it won’t be possible to exchange fiat money for BTC except for direct person-to-person agreements.

(And if CDBCs are adopted then such exchanges could be forbidden.)
I've never experienced any weather source forecast rain for every single day of the summer.
So why not just delete the emails?
I honestly don't think the Lemmy developers have any control other than that over lemmy.ml. And with Lemmy’s user-base spreading out to use other servers, their influence is decreasing more and more each day.
Reddit was behind those actions, dude. It's not about mods. That's tech companies controlling narratives and, specially in the case of covid, happened well beyond Reddit.

Instagram, to name one, was using these "media mods" to basically ban or tag news that they claimed were misinformation. Those media outlets were absolutely pro government in every country and any criticism of covid gov policies was "misinformation".

Don't let the fact that reddit mods can be assholes distract from anti user policies made by reddit pre Ipo
It's gratis, perhaps.
Sorry, why do you think this is a hard question? They look around at the big clients, see anybody who has violated the API's TOS by removing ads without special permission, and kill their API keys.
I just don't see how they could manipulate, outside of their own servers?
When you say fraud, I think you're referring to companies defrauding investors, and selling non-existent functionality, rather than any fraud that might result from the crypto or ai being used?
I nuked 12 years of content. Yes i know its archived and like still available. But at least on the public site i withdrew my consent (my thought process/reason) for them to have my content that i can now only provide with thier completely shitty apps
> Those suggesting this could be used to "just" hack random citizens are exaggerating. That would not be accepted by the oversight agencies.

They wouldn’t have to accept it. It would be automatically allowed. That is the consequence of removing oversight processes like getting a warrant.
2 because flying is much safer than driving, so people's fear of flying probably causes more deaths than actual aviation accidents.
Enough with the Slippery Slopes
Gun control, abortion rights, drug legalization — it seems like every argument these days claims that if X happens, then Y will follow, and we’ll all be doomed to Z. Is the slippery-slope argument a valid logical construction or just a game of feelingsball?
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368883391_Ghost_Bus...
Users, not investors.
People aren't getting banned for telling "journalists" to learn to code.
Backside power delivery should help portables and maybe get some of these crazy desktop numbers down. If all goes as planned Intel looks to have a 2 year jump on TSMC based on current timetables. But I'm worried about them adding nanosheet transistors around the same time. They got into problems before being too ambitious and having a stalled roadmap for a very long time.
Intel is producing amazing GPUs AND CPUs right now.
Guidance from Microsoft or Jsonformer might help. Haven’t tried with vertex but it’s a common problem across LLMs that both projects fix.
Hopefully they invest this money back in to creating more decent shows and movies.
> I think the rest wouldn’t change much: the things you mention don’t have much to do with having moral scruples against Stalin’s mass murders.

I don't agree ( if you also include Lenin's mass murders). Of course a lot of it has to do with the fear the the Bolsheviks would do the same in their countries in they ever came to power.

> It seems to me that the main reason was still “we don’t do business with bolsheviks

Main reason of what? Poland had some pretty good reasons to not want any soviet troops in it's territory.

> would have been more open to Stalin’s requests…

Like allowing him to have Eastern Europe? Well the Anglo-Polish treaty even had a secret clause saying that it only applied in case Germany specifically attacked Poland and Britain was not obliged to join the war in case the Soviets invaded.

Again it's not that relevant. It's highly unlikely that Germany could have defeated France in 1940 without Soviet support. Germany had almost no oil and many other vital resources left after the invasion of Poland (it imported most of it's oil from America). So the Soviets simply had to stay out it. They chose to support Germany instead. I really don't see how anything that the allies did could be considered to be more foolish and/or shortsighted than the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement of 1940.

Amongst other things Germany would've entirely ran out of grain, rubber, manganese and oil by the Autumn of 1941 or much earlier without the imports form the USSR but Stalin had a better plan which resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths..
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Windy has been great. I am in dire need of a quality weather app for Android in the same vein of Carrot for iOS and the old Dark Sky app. The foreca app is buggy and ugly, the Carrot app is severely handicapped, Weather Channel and Accuweather are more ads/news focused. While Windy is useful, its primary use as a weather map doesn't match my primary use case of daily and hourly forecasts.
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