skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that they're selling cash. China doesn't sell you USD, they keep the USD in their safe and give you their own currency in exchange.

That hidden money is overly leveraged, ie debt, and you'll never know if tomorrow you'll get your original value back. China is the most indebted country in history.

How do you know that for each $1 hiding in accounting magic is not being resold twice? We don't, because of what the article says.
that's only true because they all try to monetize by making their service obnoxious or even hostile to users.

Even if they were to insist on making their money by pushing ads, doing it in a way that doesn't degrade the service would go a long way toward keeping users around.

When I think about the massive amount of data image hosts collect, I have to imagine there should be ways to make money from that information without any impact on the user's experience uploading or viewing photos.

As far as I can tell the biggest problem image hosts have is dealing with our insane copyright laws. Users just want to share information, while companies want to act as gatekeepers and toll collectors which often leaves image hosts caught in the middle. They hold massive data sets of our collective culture and interests, but have a lot of limits on what can be done with it. Most of their content was uploaded to them in violation of copyright laws to start with.
A lot of H1-Bs are from India. They can easily move back and get very well paying jobs back home. I would even say that in terms of purchasing power, they’ll be better off in India - salaries of $80-100k are common for pedigreed tech talent, and your expenses won’t be more than $20-25k.
> goals of my organization

What do you think they are?
It's quite a coincidence how the name overlaps so much with a British gold robbery that also has plenty of mystery surrounding it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-Mat_robbery
I'm coining Self Driving Development. You read it here first! If you like big words Autonomous Development is also fine.
Ask HN: Why aren't modern programming languages, like Rust, more legible?
This is a question I've often wondered, and am perhaps asking now out of sheer frustration. I have ADHD, of which my particular 'mutation' of ADHD makes it difficult to read and absorb written text.

I'm not afraid of programming in general, being a data analyst by trade I often use Python and SQL in my day job. I've trained on Java, and C# (though admittedly with some difficulty) and had dabbled in Delphi (Object Pascal) and Visual Basic as a little girl so the concept of programming isn't new to me. Perhaps the 'low-level-nes' of Rust, a language I would love to learn, is new to me which is perhaps one of the reasons I'm having some trouble understanding it.

I'm struggling with heavy implementations of symbols, and perhaps 'shorthand' reserved keywords in languages like Rust, C++ and to some extent JavaScript; I find they aren't as readable as 'higher level' languages like Python.

Given that Rust is one of the newer languages on the block, Python is 21 years it's senior, was the syntax of Rust determined by performance factors or because of it's 'low-level-ness'? Are languages like Python and SQL more legible because they're interpreted and compiled into bytecode, rather than just compiled into specific machine code? Or is it purely a decision of the language's developer?

This question is focused on Rust specifically, given that's a newer language, perhaps wondering why it didn't adopt some of the design principles of easier to read languages, though I am certainly not singling it out. Are there ADHD friendly tutorials/books on Rust?
Which is the best scenario but I've seen people get burned by thinking hourly salary == hourly contracting rate :)
What are interesting jobs for you?

I specifically look for companies where they want someone to be hands on. But also lead initiatives as an individual contributor. It traditionally has been at smaller companies (since 2008).

Those types of jobs don’t come from submitting my resume to an ATS. I have to either use my existing network or reach out to someone directly at LinkedIn.
It this is not employment, this is somewhat low. Years ago in Europe I learnt the rule of thumb to double the amount if you work as a consultant. Companies also use this rule to consider additional expenses to salary: taxes, health insurance, office space, vacancies, unbillable hours and so on.
They exist. It helps nothing.

The gigantic UPMC is a non profit. Actually a TON of hospitals are non profits - every religious founded hospital is a non profit (Maimonides Medical Center, or every Mercy Hospital (Wikipedia counts 33 of them)).

60% of hospitals are non-profit.
Captfencoder is opensource a rapid cross platform network security tool suite, providing network security related code conversion, classical cryptography, cryptography, asymmetric encryption, miscellaneous tools, and aggregating all kinds of online tools.
Or to stop placing value on institutions who have dubious impacts in most fields at best…
In Belgium, that's not the case for phone calls. You can't email or fax someone without their prior permission, but you can call them, as long as they're not on the do-not-call-list.

Of course, that list is dead in the water. It has to be _bought_ by companies trying to call people and no effort is being done to make the existence of the list known to the public.

"Surprisingly", the board of the non-profit managing the list consists of representatives from call-centers, marketing associations and telco's.

(I had a major run-in with them once, because their previous website allowed adding phone numbers to the do-not-call-list without verification. So I tried adding all of Belgium's phone numbers with a script).
The whole point of selling RHEL is everything is coming from community and open source and they are making money only for support. If they start closing even a bit of software, they will loose customers to other enterprises like Microsoft
So matrix:// just is a standard URI scheme, seems to solve at least this particular problem for the matrix.org ecosystem.

A different problem: While the federated protocols seem to work quite well, there's not enough work on the business development side of it. Or do you know any profitable Open-Access fediverse server?
Unpopular opinion: as an overachiever doing mundane things like watching reality TV and smoking weed with friends led to more personal growth and self acceptance than any form of additional study.

just sitting with friends talking about life in a relaxed setting and practicing creating connections stress free really helped me improve my soft skills (and dumb TV shows to have stuff to discuss).

Of course the minute it's actual addition I totally see their point but drugs and partying really had a prolonged positive impact on my life.

Those experiences did convince me not to pursue a PhD on one hand but also to build 3 companies and code a lot more on the other.
The Smash community is technologically adept and will migrate and/or archive in time.

Honestly, I expected most of the information to be locally hosted on smashboards or their wiki. (And if not now, they will be soon).

I'm worried about other communities though.
The plaintiffs in this case do not argue that one or another party is responsible for the ultimate emission of CO2. They argue that the oil companies recklessly and with the aim of increasing their profits deceived the public about negative externalities associated with burning oil/diesel/gasoline/etc. And that this reckless behavior led to certain damages for which the companies should now be punished both to help pay for consequences and to deter similar behavior by these and other companies in the future. I am not a lawyer so I don't know if this legal theory will hold up in court or if a jury will follow these arguments. But on a personal and moral level it makes sense to me.
I think it's rarely this simple, speaking as someone who actively self sabotaged through my first aborted attempt at college in a much less prestigious institution than Harvard.

Maybe that's what's at the root of it, but it's rarely what these kids tell themselves, I don't think. Much more of a discovery about how delayed consequences are when you just ignore them, and how good it feels to focus on the random highs you can get over the satisfaction of a job well done that doesn't pay off for a long time.

Before you've ever skipped class, the presumption is the world ends were that to happen. Then you get so drunk you sleep through the alarm and... wait, nothing? Nobody cared?! You can just go get drunk, miss class, and your parents don't come out of the walls to beat you???

There are a lot of kids, I think, who've been driven through their academic lives via purely "stick" incentives. When they find out there isn't a stick looming over their head immediately, and there are a lot of distracting "carrots" within short reach, it's hard to come back from.
I have a community website that I built a while ago in angular that I wish I had built in react instead. Mayne then I would at least get some help maintaining the open source repo on GitHub. I’ll give this a try and report back
Hey man just letting you know in case you missed it, but this submarine catastrophically failed, killing 5 people. For this reason, I think it's a good idea to consider the reasons people called out concerns about its safety instead of brushing them off. That's just my opinion, though.
> She said, "Dad, don't worry, I'm gonna have a lemonade
stand."

What an amazing panel of news.
The ghost of Stockton Rush is posting in HN!
The general result is that any volume consisting of a stack of cross sections whose area goes does as the square of the distance from the base will have a volume of 1/3 the area of the base times the height. The usual special cases are squares (pyramids) and circles (cones) but it works for any shape. It doesn't even have to be convex.
Avoidance is a coping strategy for perceived potential failiure. This correlates strongly with perfectionism (a misnomer as it has nothing to do with striving for the perfect, but it is the perpetual feeling that your best will not meet your minimum standards).

This is not to be conflated with a second point in the article. Once you pierce the veil on the context itself, be it academia or business or art or other things , it becomes extremely difficult for a person with moral integrity to allign themselves with the goals of that context.

Those two things exacerbate. For intance, when working towards your phd and gradually discovering that your field awards phd's for extremely sloppy and even obviously wrong work, it becomes very hard to motivate yourself to put in the very substantial required effort, especially when you perceive your own potential result as also not breaking the mold or solving the malaise.
One might think that, sure. But I’ve seen this story that led to the Twitter takeover unfold since 2015. And I don’t think you’re right in this case.
We can say with certainty that the probability in this case is 1.
Very good article. I think about how language and the ability to convey ones self has nothing entirely to do with intelligence quite often. I frequently have days where I sound like I have forced speech issues and I sound "stupid". My father has deep brain stimulators for essential tremor and when he has those on his high setting that controls his tremors in both hands very well, he has forced speech. Sounding "stupid" has nothing to do with what is going on in the brain. We need to stop judging others and ourselves on how fluidly we can speak or type or write.
> maybe new ones

There already exists tons of pre existing institutions that will give a great education to those students with many gifts. The twisted thing is if your parents send you to cram school and you DON’T get into Harvard, even if you have cognitive gifts, you’re going to still be drinking heavily at Berkeley from burnout. So the institution that does receive you doesn’t get the whole You.

It’s up to the high schools to take the first step to limit the stress, which has been a consensus opinion for at least a decade. And yet, I really doubt that’s going to happen in the high schools I’m personally familiar with. Nonetheless some brands, like Montessori, have achieved this (less stress, same education) for younger students, so my hopes are high.
The porthole was made to withstand outside pressure, not inside, so if the tube failed --- which seems most likely given the extensive analysis about the carbon fiber --- the momentary burst of internal pressure would probably have been enough to blow the porthole out.
Haha awesome. Thanks (:
...or perhaps complete omission of the author by name anywhere in its agentless prose, which is the root of its significance.
> I noticed some of my friends spent increasing time consuming reality TV, experimenting with drugs, or partying.

Isn't that just describing college students everywhere?
It's not clear to me that Ivy Leaguers (or elites in general) do this any more or less than anyone else. I'd rather turn the question around: Why is it that some people thrive?

I feel like I've been very lucky in life. I've gotten to work on interesting and important stuff, I've enjoyed the work, and I'm genuinely looking foward to the future. But if a younger person asked me for life advice, I don't know what I would say. It's obvious that I couldn't teach anyone to do exactly what I did, and doing exactly what someone else did isn't how the world works anyway. The intersection of what you want to do and what the world needs from you can be so random.
I agree. I was interested in using Mastodon, but found the necessity to choose a server off-putting. Why? Because they mostly seem to have "themes." Why would a person joining a general-purpose communications platform want to pigeonhole himself into a special-interest group? And subject himself to banning and censorship at the caprice of the moderators of THAT instance? I've had enough bullshit from lowlife Reddit moderators; I'm not signing up for more.
a bunch of lawyers are gonna put an end to this soon mark my words
A large portion of the student body at every American college is "drowning themselves in pleasure and mindlessness". The simple, naturalistic explanation is that when Harvard students abandon themselves to partying and procrastination, it is for the same reason that students at Boston University or Colorado State do it: i.e., they're young, horny, and on the loose for the first time in life, and their mental circuitry for self-regulation isn't fully wired up yet. But this account does not satisfy the Harvard man, who is at pains to distinguish his habits of procrastinton as themselves the mark of a Harvard man, a proof of belonging to an elite order.
> passengers

Except they all signed waivers, per the article, that they were mission specialists. The nuance was important and the jury is out on whether the implication was fully communicated to the people who paid to join. The article seems to indicate that it was...
Its funny how the entirety of silicon valley just forgot that Twitter was infamous for their unholy mess of a codebase which at some points looked like it had a secret mission to increase world entropy and terraform the planet.

I still remember watching podcasts, reading blogposts, hearing prominent VC's like Elad talking about etc.. Now everbody silent because Elon is the baba yaga...
That's a brilliant excuse: Lie about the effects of emissions, lobby (and pay) Congress to not do anything about it (or change incentives to maybe use less gas rather than more) and then, when you are getting sued, just argue that the lying didn't affect policy, so it was perfectly fine.
Here's a guy who understands what's REALLY going on:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1675254646942896128
Sign up for an account with Hachyderm, and get it permanently taken away the moment you publicly disagree with someone. One complaint, and you're gone.

No thanks.
For me it was that my ADHD was well managed in the highly structured confines of my parental-supervised public education. Once I was put into a dorm by myself for the first time in my life and simultaneously stripped of the structure I previously depended on, I failed almost predictably. In my adult life, covid or forced working from home, has lead to the same trouble. It's hard to consistently achieve when I am by myself and can't latch onto other people's habits. Perhaps I am a parasite of humanity, but I try my best.
But then you will have to live in US
This would really useful if it worked with legacy code. For example, you could migrate all that COBOL code into Java or Python, or all the Fortran scientific code into C++ or Python.

I tried to migrate a twenty year old Visual Basic 6.0 project to c# by doing it piecemeal with GPT4 and it failed completely. Both in the UI and the backend. I am keeping my fingers crossed for a GPT n+1 that actually can do this.

Incidentally, I found out that GPT4 (as in chatGPT) is very useful if you need to program in VB6 which is nearly absent from search results these days.
There is enough blame to go around but simply ignoring the responsibility of oil companies doesn't serve the debate, either. By that logic, the producers of Zyklon-B should have been cleared of any wrongdoing because they simply satisfied the Nazi regime's demand for a nerve agent to kill people in concentration camps. Simply ignoring severe known negative externalities associated with your product should always come with legal liability.
I love 12th night!
> empirically investigated if philosophy professors engaged with ethics on a professional basis behave any morally better or, at least, more consistently with their expressed values than do non-ethicist professors

The first investigation is just begging the question. The whole point of moral philosophy is that how to live is an open question.

The second investigation sounds more interesting, but it doesn’t prove much either. ”Knowing that” and ”knowing how” are different. Doctors smoke more than the baseline.
Wow. It really seems like liquidity drying up is causing a sea change in the tech sector. In other spaces changes are quantitative; prices are higher. In tech, without prices, entire business models are changing.
this read like fiction. I'm pretty sure this could be wrapped as a novel.
Rewrite in Rust for guaranteed 1st spot on HN's front page.
We certainly didn't have food for 8'000'000'000+ people before oil.
To be clear, when I say basically everyone is selling it, I'm speaking in a us centric context. I don't think the phenomenon is unique to the United States, but I do think it is more pronounced here. I too have met people that live on less than a dollar a day and are happier than people making six or seven figures.

When I say everyone is selling it, what I mean is that if they have bought into it, they are propagating it as a normative worldview. I think is accurate and the only way such ideas survive. It is systemic and relies on Broad acceptance. At the center, it depends on hundreds of millions of people believing in it.

It is helpful to step outside of that system and get a radically different perspective. Psychedelics are just one way to do this, and probably not even the best. The challenge is that even after experiencing that perspective, you step back into a world where everyone believes something different and you start to forget.

The solution is pretty simple. For one you have to make an intentional effort to be present in your life and live it in a way you find meaningful, despite external forces trying to convince you otherwise. Second, you have to surround yourself with friends and loved ones that reinforce this healthy world view.

In the end, I think I'm less cynical than you are. I don't think there are more powerful tools for mind control waiting to be deployed. I also don't think it would be a bumpy ride if more people took control of their lives to improve their happiness. Life and society would simply get better and better as more people did so.
It's also important to say that trans lives matter, and that we shouldn't litter. There is a time and place for everything.
what does this mean?
" showing the market where I had watched YouTube"
Sure, but if you don't have instance reputation as a stand-in for user reputation, then you are back to ground zero on the spam problem and sybil problem. This is not solved anymore than Bitcoin or Hashcash (anti-spam tool) it was based upon, or any more than email spam was in the 90s, or usenet spam in the 80s.

Every time I've brought up that content federation and identity federation aren't the same thing and that having centralized IDPs handle the burden of keeping spammers out of the network, people chime in with "yeah, and don't limit me to google and facebook!" and kind of miss the whole point. Centralized is one of the few solutions to the spam problem, it's worked with email for example. The other ways are some kind of a reputation web (finicky and gameable) or to force people to put down cold hard cash (proof of stake/proof of work).

This is all intimately tied up with crypto and spam because this same problem hasn't been solved for 30+ years and keeps popping up over and over again. Reputation networks are hard.

(and, you can do identity federation without actually melding your content with theirs, and that in fact melding content into a global namespace isn't inherently desirable. There there may be cases where you want to do something different with the "domain"/"subreddit" than another instance, or what most other people are doing with that domain/subreddit - reddit "technology" is not the same thing as 4chan "technology" even though these boards share a discriminator, it's not even the same culture or style of discussion even if they shared a mechanical format.)

But yes generally speaking the real problem here is there's like 10 different factions that all want to solve slightly different use-cases. Some people want self-hosted reddit, some people want self-hosted reddit with global boards, some people want explicit networking to specific instances, some people want something much closer to the decentralized/single-person instance with individual custom IDPs, etc. Nobody even agrees what they want to build.
I think it's hard to know whether you're interested in the truth. Even if you think you've scrupulously cleared away all the thickets of biases and prejudices, there are probably more still there, hiding in all the corners you've turned away from.
IANAL, but I very strongly suspect that a court would rule in favor of OceanGate. I think a court would say "a mission specialist who pays you, and not the other way around, is a passenger"

Calling them anything other than passenger (per the article) was specifically designed to subvert regulations that would have required them to certify the sub. And courts don't like that very much.
I think your comment is an underappreciated one.

The article, to me, seems exceedingly preferential to the "tortured/overworked genius" method of innovation, and by now I'm personally tired of seeing that trope fall on its face.

The best... anything gets built by many people. Of course it takes a VC to try and tell us about the "exceptional" people at the top who make it all possible, but the number of times PG points out how instrumental Jessica was to the early days of YC disproves the very trope he's trying to puff up here.
Outside of my personal network and own business, LinkedIn + recruiters have found me all of the work I've done in the past decade.
I have observed a similar effect for constitutional lawyers. There are many whose ethics make it abundantly clear that they pursued the field not out of a desire to defend rights but how to justify abuses and find loopholes.