skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this Boaler character is a piece of work [1][2].

[1] https://stanfordreview.org/review-investigation-jo-boaler-is...

[2] https://stanfordreview.org/boaler-professor/
> in August 2021 they were exploited for an (at the time) record-setting $611 million.

> Now, it's happened again, and some reports are throwing around even more massive numbers like $42 billion. In reality, the exploiters were able to mint massive quantities of tokens on multiple networks, with their wallet balances showing numbers in the billions. However, complete lack of liquidity for these tokens meant their "billions" are worth substantially less.

> According to crypto research firm Beosin, the attackers have so far cashed out around 5,196 ETH (~$10.1 million) in liquid assets. Poly Network suspended services shortly after the attack.

Unbelievable hahaha
Those of us with authority to hire should reject these snake oil practices. What a waste of time to only get candidates who are okay sitting through these dehumanizing experiences.

Don't pay for this cruft, sponsor local meetups instead.
So a nasty form of this, referenced in the post but worth calling out, is that efficiency in one part of the economy can be effectively turned into higher usage elsewhere.

If your energy production is cheap enough in terms of variable cost, the producer might decide it's worth producing about the same amount at a lower price. If there are other energy users with enough price elasticity, the economy finds a new price where they pick up the slack.

So that idea isn't that the individual consumer drives more because they get better MPG, it's that individuals' demand for gas overall decreases, so industry, guided by price signals, uses more gas for cheaper air tickets or faster package delivery or something.

You've made the producer a bit less profitable, truly cut consumption in one sector, and provided some non-enviro benefits, but you haven't reduced overall consumption or environmental impact.

There are a few things that keep this from leading to total hopelessness:

- Elasticity isn't infinite and it doesn't have to always fully eat your efficiencies. People wouldn't take infinite trips if gas were free, and I suspect a huge change like a big country moving to electric cars really does have a net-beneficial effect on carbon emissions. You're just not guaranteed 1-for-1 efficiency-to-carbon-reduction.

- Lower demand could reduce production in the long term, as capital allocations get made, more than it does the short term. That is, even if utilities decide to keep existing coal plants going full blast when prices are down because variable costs are low, maybe they'll have reduced appetite to build new ones where they have to factor in fixed+variable costs.

- Not everything we're doing is energy efficiency. Gradually replacing our higher-carbon energy generation with lower-carbon methods reduces impact a different way from reducing consumption.

But it does make me think a carbon tax, ideally slowly phased in starting a long time ago, was maybe a better approach than it might look like: directly put economic decision-makers to work finding ways to cut the thing you don't want, instead of poking a complex system and hoping for the desired effect. Besides, charging for negative externalities is a better way to raise funds than charging for working or value added anyhow. It's just so hard politically.

There is also a place for non-economic policy here, e.g. if you want more everyday travel to use efficient mass transport rather than individuals' vehicles, governments just have to make the first move and put money into making the alternative systems complete, functional, and desirable to use.
As an anecdote, I've been upgrading a single install of Fedora stable for years without any issues.
What about one that allows concessions outside, though? How might a vendor be able to set up shop, maybe for a small fee? Or should the public conversation be a designated no-enterprise zone?

Ideally, ethics would prevent us from mixing business with politics and pleasure, but maybe there is a balance that would allow for a way to fund these social projects we say we value so highly, but turn out our pockets when it's time to drop a dollar into the plate as it gets passed by.

I'm tired of watching democratic institutions shrivel and die only to be replaced by plastic replicas.

Seemingly fundamental forces keep tearing down our Towers of Babel, and I wonder if we'll ever learn that the best organizational patterns for humanity are smaller groups responsible to and holding responsible the state. Whenever we try to do things bigger than that, we end up getting all authoritarian and creepy.
Would this do?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5232vs5183vs4782vs5234v...
React seems mostly popular in hip companies (flexibility to choose the newest stuff), while Angular is more popular in "enterprise" (lots of mid-sized companies in Europe, the same that would also use .NET, valuing the stability of a batteries-included framework).

I'm not sure which type of company uses Vue. Maybe smaller agencies with the option to choose more freely?
There’s difference between working and being able to afford to buy your own house so you could raise a family,

And rent being so expensive even with dual income that having kids does not make financial sense.

Everyone, especially women should have full control of when/if they want to have kids.

Yes, population is collapsing. 50 years ago population was exploding, and we somehow figured out that problem. We’ll figure out the collapse problem as well.
It's a cycle, I was in the last wave in 2018. At some point most developers would realise that chain-scaling issues would prevent profit. They either left to go work for FAANG, or transitioned to working directly on scaling. There are a multitude of grants and other funding from the Ethereum foundation, Gitcoin, DAOs, etc that facilitate a comfortable life for anyone who wants to work on these things.

Nearly all Web3 startups are fully remote, so once the CTO leaves they just sort of collapse of their own accord. CEO is usually a loony.
The mobile app isn't a peer in this hypothetical torrent network. Your mastodon instance is and it serves you using the same client protocol we have right now.

That way, you solve for the potential hosting issues of smaller hosts not being able to handle the load in case of viral posts etc, all without the clients having to know anything about the implementation details.
It'd help if you a) told us what exactly you're looking for, and b) where you've already checked
Many us companies use contractors for transporting cargo to the destinations.
Why does low population density guarantee a failure (failure of what)?

About Le Corbusier. His core idea is interesting but from what I've seen the "towers in a park" implementations are basically "massive ugly badly designed towers surrounded by a malnourished slivers of grass". Also, for those: 1. the population density is invariably way too high, 2. the towers are always massive, 3. the green space sizes are absolutely too small, 4. the "green spaces" are boring and/or half dead, many times only grass (why not have gardens that actually produce food for people who live there, or forests)?

For example, Stuyvesant Town is one "tower in the park". It is IMO too crowded with too high towers. Reduce number of towers to 4 or 5, make towers lower, and it'd be more like it.

To give an exaggerated example, if one were to put a 6 floor tower right in the middle of Central Park, that's what I'm kind of after...

Why does having a car reduce the population density or impact foot/bike/bus at all?

As for the density cutoff of 2000 people / square km. Here we'd have a building of 100 people, 40 apartments (assume family of 2.5 people), 5 apartments/floor, 8 floors. Tower footprint won't make a huge difference, let's say it's > 500 m2, and this would be 1..2% per tower total area. In 1 square km (100 hectares) we'd have 20 such towers á 100 persons, thus 2000 people per square km. The towers would be quite low, and this would still be "dense enough" per that cutoff.

(This is napkin math so the real number is slightly lower or higher depending on various parameters)

Anyway, this an idea I'd like to see happen. I'm not an architect/planner (perhaps for a reason, say the shouts from the audience).

PS. https://www.sweco.se/projekt/satra/ this project (in Sweden) aims to build greenspaces where inhabitants can produce food. That's the theory at least, it will be interesting to see how it turns out. I do think this is again way too dense, but greenspaces to produce food is a great idea.
After I reached the “…as are all gifts from my mother” elaboration, the rest of the comment played in my head in Anthony Perkins’s voice.
Part two of an introduction to computer science
Hasn't this been established for long by references to antique color names (both Greek and Roman), as well as the representation of spectra in African languages? While the article makes reference to Greek semantics and anthropological findings, it still presents this as something new, where it should have emphasized the underlying theory.
Studying system design and doing interviews consistently even if you don’t intend on leaving is likely the best way to stay interview ready.
Ah yes, contrarians are always right.
What effects need an antidote?

Which part of the article did you skip?

Start with the part where AI hiring tools favor people named "Jared."
Seems like some people really believe that FOSS is basically perfect when it comes to security. "It's FOSS so people would find any serious vulnerabilities". Heartbleed, anyone?

As an aside, I wonder if there's a term for this kind of "nobody says...but some do" thing. Everyone sees their own reality, blah blah. I trust that you're speaking in good faith, but that doesn't account for everyone, and good faith doesn't magically resolve arguments.
Some examples, please? You have no evidence.
There's indeed no need to overthink it.
?????? The stories you read, the words you type
It's a bit like asking another programmer whether you have to learn every programming language to succeed. Nope and which you should use depends on what you want to do.
I was researching how to get a WASMified version of harfbuzz into my frontend 2d canvas library (because: text implementation in the 2D Canvas API is genuinely dire) when I discovered this issue had already been addressed back in 2019, when the guy who develops Photopea asked the question and got a positive answer - https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs/issues/10
Both Firefox and Safari, macOS:

Uncaught TypeError: E.components.get(...) is null

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enableResize https://www.cosmos.so/wp-content/themes/cosmos/public/build/js-966338cf.js:3142

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Ukraine isn't even close to "winning" anything.

Currently things are stalled. But the overall trajectory is that they utterly destroyed Russia's initial attempt at immediate conquest (of at least Kyiv, Kharkhiv, Odesa). And have retaken about 50 percent of the territory that Russia initially occupied, and have imposed disproportionate losses on the aggressor in basically every category.

Crimea and Donbas should be forfeited in a diplomatic matter to settle further tensions.

Currently this idea has essentially zero support in Ukraine (outside perhaps those regions).

Do you think the Ukrainians are not capable of evaluating both the cost of the fighting so far (and the cost of the alternative) -- and making a decision about these matters on their own?

Why do you feel you need to decide for them?
Looking at the author's bussineses website, here's a sales pitch for potential new employee:

>OpenRegulatory is different. It's 100% boostrapped. Ironically, having no investors (and less money) opens up interesting opportunities: We can serve customers who don't have a lot of money, like, Healthcare startups. And we can build software which only solves a tiny problem, and solves it well.

While eating your own dog food has a certain face value, future employees most likely won't be pure idealists who will take a lower pay out of the satisfaction that their work helped others who "don't have a lot of money".
>According to Google senior research director Greg Corrado, WSJ says, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages. Corrado said that while he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” he believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”

lol
It doesn't seem to be anything they are very worried about, considering the number of items I receive in vastly oversized boxes stuffed with paper or bubble pack to fill the empty space.
Meta states that no former Twitter employees worked on Threads: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-accuses-meta-...

Do you have any proof otherwise?
Am I falsely remembering the world, or was there a time when sleep really did work fairly reliably? The new sleep states seem strictly worse with multiple issues.
Magnets are the same. I ended up with an extra subwoofer that way once.
> "Healthy" doesn't seem like the word to use to describe something that requires constant and intentional intervention/manipulation by some external party merely to exist

“Healthy” is not some absolute end state, but an ongoing process and a destination that is never reached permanently. Physical health is a useful analogy here: attaining it is the result of constant and intentional intervention. Ceasing to intervene results in an automatic trend towards unhealthy.

> some relatively high degree of inherent self-sufficiency, resilience, and robustness should be present

The existence of these properties in humans does not automatically lead to healthy outcomes. The entire self help industry exists on the basis of our struggles with using these properties to our advantage.

When you look at social media as a manifestation of human thought and behavior, I think a similar conclusion can be drawn: healthy communities will only emerge where deliberate actions are taken on an ongoing basis to maintain health. The existence of tools and inherent properties to enable this endeavor are necessary but not sufficient in and of themselves. Humans are always the complicating factor.
This tool is exactly what I was looking for！
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36638900, which has the original source.
> you’ll also have the non-obvious effect that you hire people who are not perfect fits for your team.

That's only if "you" are not a smart manager. You hire some 'B' players, and they in turn hire 'C' players. An 'A' player will hire other 'A' players.

The article assumes that your business is already there and running. Many VC-funded startups only really get started when they have enough backing to do it. Hiring really good engineers and marketers takes some money (although less than it did back in the day).

He's right, though, that bootstrapping is cool and worth trying. It forces you to think about profitability right from the start, instead of all those BS metrics he decries.
Disclaimer: not a psychiatrist. A common model for mental illness is the "stress-vulnerability" model. The idea is that people have more or less vulnerability to mental illness, and that this vulnerability is tested by external stressors.
The original comment was easy to misinterpret; I had the same thought until I reached the last few words.
Just search any job board for 'spark', you will see plenty of banks and many other companies.
Or the converse, that the military and porn industry R&D lead to civilian products and usage like ecommerce via online credit card processing from the porn industry and GPS and jet engines to name a few from the military sector.
https://archive.ph/ctAKf
Real solutions are the enemy of random bullshit. A chatbot that we know will misdiagnose is of no use to anyone.
>You have to focus on large markets with many (or large) customers.

I see nothing wrong with that.
I found a product manual [1] from one manufacturer which describes stepping on it as part of a maintenance test (bottom of page 6), so it seems like some type of switch or pressure.

The idea seems to be that if the door touches the top of the sensor, it automatically lowers the jetbridge a few inches to prevent the door from being damaged. And I guess this can happen if the plane is being loaded improperly causing it to shift.

[1] PDF, 4MB: https://www.acesincusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Safety...
>It is evident that having knowledge of individuals' travel destinations would undoubtedly assist in contact tracing efforts.

Any evidence for that? Actually, any evidence that contact tracing has actually had any benefits wherever it has been tried? I'm sure it helps at very, very early stages of a pandemic, and even then depending on which virus we are trying to trace... But I'd like to see actual proof that it helps for pandemics like COVID.

Otherwise it is such an easy way to implement mass surveillance, that requiring very very thorough proof that it actually helps is the bare minimum. This story is proof of that.
Cryptocurrency scams aren’t ideas in the sense of the marketplace of ideas. Vaccine efficacy, election integrity, causes of unrest in France, traditional analysis of gender - those are examples of topics around which we discuss ideas. Try to discuss them in a simulated user forum. As an experiment, vary the viewpoint of your remarks, pro-X vs. anti-X. Observe what happens. You can learn from the censorship profile what the censors are worried about.
Thats my point - when does it transform from Graffiti to Artifact - 50 years? 100 years? 500? its still an interesting thought.
If your program has to fit in 512 bytes you're probably not pulling in a heap of external libraries?
"In the wake of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman"

You can always tell the quality of these bullshit pieces by the bullshit start.
The etymology of blacklist in English seems to be more related to a list of his enemies that Prince John (of Robin Hood fame) made of his enemies. Most likely the word is related to the MUCH older association between the color black and death in much of Europe.

Still, nothing to do with black or white skin or any bias against people of different skin colors, so not contesting your actual point.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological (or nationalistic) battle and especially please don't use HN primarily for such purposes. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
Yes, there's much more work to be done here in the open source community, and I think it might have to be done there due to lack of aligned incentives otherwise.

For instance, on platforms such as Android that are meant to be secure in this way, I can't block an app from accessing the internet anytime it wants. Of course, the reason for that is that blocking internet access would also allow blocking ads, which Google has a negative incentive for.

Large corporations always take advantage of the sandboxing for anti-user features as well. In many apps I can download videos on desktop whether they want me to or not using inspect element etc, but this is often tricky or impossible on Android. Again, corporate incentives are aligned against the user.
I'm an embedded Linux engineer and I love C and Linux in particular. However, I'm considering dipping my toes in non-embedded stuff for a while, particularly full-stack development and wondering if the grass is greener on the other side from me, haha!
If NK has a relatively recent and relatively good quality photo of you (national ID card) they can just share it with the CCP and run it through their massive CCTV surveillance network
Ok, I've replied there too.
Prometheus Daily Historic Average
If this were an honest white paper which wasn't conflated with a sleazy marketing ploy for your startup, the concept of model provenance would disseminate into the AI community better.
What is the mechanicism that drops the price? Does the market automatically adjust the ask price? Or do buyers instantly start offering a lower price at that moment?
> I wonder what the situation will be in terms of fuel efficiency. Obviously it will take more energy per second to push through the atmosphere, but that may be defrayed by not having to hold the airplane up as long.

The relevant metric is mass of fuel burned per passenger seat-distance. In American units, this would be (lbs. fuel)/(pax-seat mi.). This measure allows direct comparison of differently sized airplanes with different design ranges and cruise speeds.

Take a look at Figure 1.2.7 in this study a Boeing-led team performed for NASA: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100030607 . There were plenty of study contracts awarded under this project - Lockheed Martin did a good study as well, but the Boeing one was the first I found.

The dual/tri class band includes the (lbs. fuel)/(pax-seat mi.) for a high-efficiency large subsonic transport. Call it about ~0.1 for this aircraft type. Note the target of the study, which requires state-of-the-art technology or beyond, is 0.3 for a low-boom supersonic cruiser.

Even taking credit for efficiencies beyond Concorde technology levels, and cruising slower than Concorde, it's still ~3X the fuel burn per pax seat-mile compared to a modern high-efficiency subsonic transport. So reduced flight time is more than offset by the energy expended to fly fast and carrying fewer people in a given flight. The picture will be uglier still for supersonics compared to target efficiencies for next-generation subsonics.
Ok, handguns are designed to kill people. Some rifles are designed for hunting. But generally most guns are designed to kill people.

OP's idea that 'guns aren't dangerous' is just bad statistics. Here is why:

About 3.3 million people die a year. About 200k from non-medical related deaths (accidents, suicide, homicide, etc). About 50k of that is gun deaths (mostly suicide, ~26k vs homicide ~20k). In other words, outside of being sick, if you die, you have about a 25% chance of dying from a gun!

They are more dangerous than cars and all sorts of other things. And they are most dangerous to their owners (suicides and accidents). No amount of gun control (making sure guns are legal) will change that.

The way they did their analysis was terrible. It seems if you want to increase your life span you need to do several things.

1. Good diet and exercise for health.

2. Don't own a gun, and stay away from people who have guns.

3. Ride public transportation.
Contrarians run against the grain of common thought, not censors. It is precisely the value of censored ideas which necessitates their censorship. That is, were they allowed to persist they would become accepted but for the censorship.
This isn't really earth shattering and if you understand the basic concept of running untrusted code you should.

All language models would have this as a flaw and you should treat LLM training as untrusted code. Many LLMs are just data structures that are pickled. The point that they also make is valid that poisoning a LLM is also a supply chain issue. Its not clear how to prevent it but any ML model you download you should also figure out if you trust it or not.
Loyalty and hard work are a two-way street. Companies generally haven’t demonstrated loyalty; employees are forced to reciprocate lest they find themselves unemployed and unemployable.