skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, I didn't see your comment in the below thread until now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379970#42385296##

That thread is now closed to replies, so hope you don't mind me replying to your question here.

> Do you have any nice, foolproof ways to reliably source new info online?

I don't think there is one, and I think anybody who tells you otherwise is lying. If you apply critical thinking and analysis to every new piece of info that you get, you can get close to the truth, but you may not necessarily arrive at it. No source is 100% accurate 100% of the time. Not even the most prestigious scientific journals.

Knowing this helps keep me grounded so that I hold on to my opinions lightly instead of grasping them. It's a wonderful thing to be able to change your mind in light of new information.
Because some professions are valuable but we are also vulnerable in those industries to international competition, so jacking up our labor rates positions us worse. Think of semiconductors for example.
Having similar acuity in both eyes made a huge difference for me. I'm somewhat astigmatic but was able to do this eye "uncrossing" trick just fine. I had a significant loss of acuity in one eye and that's what left me unable to do this (or to watch 3D movies).
They're bluffing
It was, after all, the federal government that forced Meta to do any DEI anything /s
Of course they do, same as everyone else.

The rich pay the vast majority of taxes and get next to nothing for it.
It's a little more abstract since you don't have handy moving-reference-object like your finger, but: Place the picture in front of something deep, like a long hallway. Look off at something in the distance behind the picture, like the end of the hallway. Notice how the edge of the picture is a double image. Focus on gradually resolving the edge of the picture down from double-image to single-image, and then do the reverse by looking down the hallway again and seeing the picture go back into double-vision. Just keep practicing that until you get the feel for controlling your depth perception and then try holding the same depth of the hallway while you turn your gaze to the picture and try the same action with your eyes.
DEI has not been only for show, I know for a fact that being "diverse" has been a huge benefit in job search for the past 15 years. If you're a "woman of color" in tech you've been basically guaranteed a job, no matter how good or bad you actually are. I've been on several teams where the higher ups demanded we hire women because we were not diverse enough. Various grants and investments require a certain ratio etc. There's no point in denying this, this is what DEI has been pushing for, and this is what happened.
Empirically I just dont think this is true. I have lived in chicago my entire life and rent prices doubled in the last decade after being stagnant for 2 decades. Its not that people are making more money, the economy here is middling. Prices are going up because we stopped building new housing. I recently bought a second home in SLC, prices there are down 10% this year even though wages in the region are up. Housing values can and do go down.
Jersey is in a vastly different geographic situation. It’s super close to UK & Europe, so cost of trade is massively more economical than these other places in the middle of nowhere. Economies of scale work for small countries in populous first world regions.
DEI seems to me to be the _opposite_ of blind auditions though, where instead of hiding immutable characteristics in the hiring process, they are factored in
It's also a part of why Let's Encrypt exists as a market force from the other side of this playing field. Now that they've proven heavy automation works and shown they can use it to drive costs down, Apple and Mozilla don't look so crazy asking for the old, expensive behemoths to move faster/smarter/better.
I was under the (probably mistaken) assumption that high enough energy photons could spontaneously turn into an electron and positron. But it is sounding like you need at least two photons to do that. And maybe those photons can't be traveling in essentially the same direction for that to occur? Like the cross products of the momentum of each photon needs to be above a threshold or something?
Wait, this is news? that's how I always solved those puzzles, I thought everyone did that
Basically, why you should always eat either fat or carbs - so, no cakes, doughnuts or similar stuff.
OK, so it's "just" systematic racial discrimination then. Much better.
I find it very easy to overlap images, I think because of the eye exercises I had to do as kid.

I don't recall what these exercises were for, but there were two:

1. Stare at this image of two incomplete cats, and merge them together into a single complete cat: https://www.google.com/search?q=eye+muscle+cat+card

2. This strip of cardboard has a number line on it. Put one end half way down your nose, perpendicular to your face. You will see two lines. Merge them at their furthest point, then merge the next nearest point, repeat. (I think this is called the 'Brock String Exercise', but can't find an image similar to the one I recall.)
150MB? damn, that's like a SPA
This was a life-changing book for me.
It's important to always pay sustenance workers in cash. Anything else is inconsiderate and rude. People in those jobs are usually dearly hanging on to the margins and causing all of their income to be taxable for no good reason is heartless.

It's also just generally a good idea to carry cash. Electronic payments have too many failure modes, not the least of which are power and connectivity. (Currently posting this from a disaster zone which is thankfully still connected to the internet.)
Whenever I've hired a copy editor to help me deal with the line noise in my writing (sometimes a keyboard feels like a Ouija board to me) I've found they inject more errors (and more serious errors) than I do myself.
What H1B engineer is being paid annually $38k in the US
Correction: no space agency wants to claim it as theirs to avoid responsibility for it
> When I've tried to push TLA+ at work, the mathey syntax is usually a non-starter

Would they be interested in Quint?[0] If I understand correctly, Quint is very similar to TLA+, but with a more "code-looking" notation. And it has some nice dev tooling, like an LSP, which also lowers the barrier to entry.

[0]: https://github.com/informalsystems/quint
That's a bizarre take. Something doesn't have to be useful forever to be of use. And mechanical printing presses were probably one of the most significant inventions ever, even if they're obsolete now.
OK, so it's "just" systematic racial discrimination then.
This move is being seen as reducing harm, so it seems in line with your goals.
Here’s some lecture for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe.
It's called Motte and Bailey fallacy.
Don't use Meta platforms anymore. Too little, too late.
Hint: None of this is news to people advocating for DEI programs. They believe that part of what screws up the top of the funnel is there being so few examples to follow later on down the funnel.

There is no person on the planet who's advocating for DEI at senior level positions in advanced fields and no changes elsewhere in the system... obviously.
Another reason to tip in cash.
Apple Education Store User's Guide (2002)
I used https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid for generating api keys for a project. They are nice because you can use prefixes for different type of keys and know immediately what they represent. No dashes also makes them easier to copy paste.
What tool, technology or process in front-end development would you improve?
If you could change or improve one tool, technology, or process in frontend dev, what would it be, and why?
That's why its weighed and not absolute
The immediate dangers are mostly in the context of usage, not the usage of itself. In a medical setting it is an extremely safe anaesthetic. However recreationally you have problems with people trying to run around and dance after taking it, there is a risk of tripping and falling. Same thing, when using a mask -- or just inhaling nitrous continually without breathing air -- there's a risk of hypoxia. That is what would kill your braincells. People have died both of these ways.

After that the big problem is sustained usage and addiction. You can develop a Vitamin B12 deficiency as the girl did in the article that can be very dangerous. When it was just individual canisters that you put into a whipped cream charger it was a lot harder and expensive to reach that point. But now with Galaxy Gas it is a lot easier to get to a more dangerous point. Before Galaxy Gas I've been around plenty of people that regularly enjoyed nitrous, and no one was getting anywhere near to what she was doing. As usual once something like this gets super commercialized it becomes more of a public health danger.

Not sure I would still call it "safe" but it is one of those things that if everyone was just better educated on the reality most of the risk and harm would be reduced.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26496821/
No. The goal of transport should not be to use a specific technology (trains, busses, cars, etc.). The goal of transport should be to move people and goods safely, efficiently, and quickly. When evaluated on those terms, legacy public transportation doesn't fare very well when compared to self-driving vehicles.
This article is not about the API contract of the hash function, or the abstraction it provides. If you are just trying to hash things, you don't need any info here.

It's very much trying to go _under_ the abstraction layer to investigate its behavior. Because it's interesting.

This is very similar to how people investigate performance quirks or security issues.
It's funny how every westerner visits Japan and comes home thinking we can "solve crime" or "solve homelessness" or "have clean subway stations."

Japan's culture is why those things are the way they are. It's not due to funding. It's because people raise their children differently than we do in the west. The family's obligations are also greater.

And, yes, there are homeless people in Japan. But they typically are invisible by choice because of their cultural norms around discretion.
>The twin paradox holds in a Pacman universe where there is no change in direction.

That is awesome, I've always wondered about special relativity in a flat torus world. Do you have a recommendation for reading more about this?
I'm not diagnosed, but I always have REM before falling asleep. It's how I know I'm about to call sleep when laying in bed. I love the visualizations before bed.

I also routinely take 10m nap between 10-12 every day. Always hit REM then too.
Not to be pedantic, but this is exactly the scenario when you want to use the median or mode, not the average. Incomes are power law distributed, so one H1B or non-H1B borderline executive could be throwing off the average non-trivially.
yep it’s just like those magic eye pictures that were big in the 90s, once you learn how to see those instantly you can do this trick also
Pre-order landing page for Budget Peaks – would you sign up?
Hey HN,

I’m working on a gamified finance app that aims to make managing personal finances easier and more engaging. A month ago, I was trying to get a handle on my own finances and realized I was spending more time tracking expenses and managing my budget than actually improving my financial health.

I wanted something that could simplify the process, make it more fun, and help people stay motivated. That’s when the idea for this app came to me. It’s designed to be like Duolingo for your budget, simple, bite sized challenges that guide you toward your financial goals.

Here’s the basic idea:

-You set your financial goals, and the app will guide you through small, rewarding challenges to help you achieve them.
-No complicated spreadsheets or endless tracking, just easy, actionable tasks that encourage you to build better financial habits.
-There’s a social aspect, too: you can save for goals with friends, track progress together, and cheer each other on as you work toward your financial milestones.

I’ve created varying landing pages to collect early interest and feedback before fully launching the app. The landing page includes a pre-order option as well as an email signup option.

A: https://www.budgetpeaks.com/index2.html
B: https://www.budgetpeaks.com/index3.html
C: https://www.budgetpeaks.com/v4/index4.html

Feedback I'm Looking For:

-What do you think of the concept? Does this sound like something you’d use?
-What do you think of the landing page design and copy?
-Do you have any suggestions on how I can make the app more appealing or effective?

Also it would be great help if you filled out my survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BCLy77v3VDtvgAbmqs81zETPTK-...

I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions! Thank you in advance.
I’m 35 now, at no point in my career have I ever been in an environment that would have tolerated that, school- college or workplace.

And I haven’t been trying exceptionally hard to avoid it.

If such jibes had happened those people would not have a job, point blank.

Given the average seniority for a full stack engineer is 10 years, I should have encountered at least one, or worked with someone who had been in such an environment.

I think chud behaviour is an excuse, because it’s not tolerated for at least my lifetime.
I can tell you that my change in political leanings, from a pretty far left stance to a center-right is based on personal experience. What you see happen in reality far outweighs what people claim online.
You are marginally improving their wage: tipping an extra $1 makes them $1 better off.

Your point is really about minimum wage standards not "subsidization".

The rule of thumb for restaurant business costs in non-tipping-culture NZ is: 1/3 staff costs, 1/3 food costs, 1/3 everything else.
This argument is so lame. "Actually the overall structure of the USA is designed so that its basicalyl impossible to solve the crisis".

You're not wrong in the fact that America is a shit country designed to intentionally to use homelessness as an implicit threat against the working class. You are wrong in the sense that all the things you listed aren't reasons, just excuses to cover up the intentionality of homelessness, and that homelessness could be solved if there was the political will to do so. Which there will never be in the USA because again, the homelessness crisis is intentional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Depends what the applicant pool looked like, but 94% seems almost certain to be an overcorrection.
Of course DEI existed before 2020 but Floyd's death certainly escalated the situation.
Disney, Fox and Warner Won't Move Forward with Venu Sports
If i am not mistaken, HNs automated, somewhat pedantic filter/formatter at work.

The rationale being, it tries to reduce any click-baity content by making titles a bit more serious/boring.
WTF!? sharpei.co domain is FOR SALE!? $2995

Was it that successful!?
> I could not read the entire article due to paywall, but I think tipping less will actually drive businesses to pay a proper wage to the people providing the service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utksPm6KgjU

The canonical commentary by Tarantino, from Reservoir Dogs.
Sure. Everything is a PyObject.
https://archive.ph/z4nTV
That’s not how satellite orbit works. Imagine that the earth rotates below the sat orbit. And that the sat orbit doesn’t go parallel to Latitude or Longitude.
Not really. Python's strongly typed, but dynamically. You can think of Python variables as untyped references to strongly typed values: the values are typed, but their names are not.
That sounds counterintuitive last I checked tipping has gone out of control with every terminal showing 15-20% default tip value.
If you're thinking that long exposure automatically means something longer than 1 second, it might not mean long exposure to you.

I'd guess this is a fixed aperture system where the main way to control the exposure is with shutter speed. But for images taken in bright sunlight, you can use shutter speeds 1/250, 1/1000, 1/2000, or even higher type numbers. In those terms, 40 milliseconds is 10 times slower/longer than 1/250.

So for the M-CAM 1 system, 40 milliseconds could be an extremely long exposure
I block entire /8 and /16s from China on my personal sites. They were swamping my bandwidth requesting the same pages or images 1000s of times a day. Start by blocking the tencent and alibaba cloud networks and then work down what other networks are generating the most traffic.
>there's basically zero incentive for the folks on earth to send astronauts away at near-light speed, as they'd never realize the benefits of the mission.

s/earth/Milky Way/
Create a federal jobs program to build apartments in large quantities, not just in cities but in rural, suburban and exurban areas as well. Anybody who's an American citizen and able bodied (including ex-convicts and felons) can apply and get a good paying job with health insurance. Use the federal government's power of eminent domain to override zoning laws and seize land that's being sat on, and finally pay for it by heavily taxing the tech giants, cutting military spending and legalizing (and taxing) cannabis.

Will politicians ever do it? No, they're in the pocket of the military and the 1%. Will voters ever vote for it? No, they're fed a steady stream of propaganda that tells them that this would be "socialism". But that's how the problem would be solved.
If you use the actual type system and something like mypy, Python is a joy work with. (For my definition of joy, which includes static typing).
>The employees aren’t netting enough tips to break above actual minimum wage

If true, illegal. A business can pay a lower nominal wage if tips are expected to supplement it above the minimum (which employees are expected to report and pay taxes on), and if they earn below it, they're adjusted to the minimum.
I've seen it three times beginning to end, most recently during the pandemic.

I get his evolution as a character as that's the primary theme, but it never would even be a thing is he didn't have cancer.

You remove this factor, no Heisenberg. Full stop.
Yes, but having result types would avoid the need for this special casing.
If you thought it was about raves, why say night clubs?

(In North America at least) A night club is a particular kind of venue, it's not just a location. It's very distinct from a rave, and they have very different cultures. It's confusing when you conflate the two.
DNS error.
It could have been a bug. There's nothing wrong with the question and seeking answers to it. It was an interesting read too.
The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but to appease the new administration?
Avoiding this practice completely might become more and more difficult, I’ve seen self checkout systems ask for extra money.
As if everybody who ever talks with someone in Germany is "threatened"?

And what freedom would that be? The freedom of Musk and people and his foot soldiers to be liked by everybody, no matter how dishonest or ignorant they are? The freedom of everyone HAVING to keep using something after you bought it?

It's like Musk making him being unlovable as a person about "wokeness". Desperate nonsense.
"Building flats is key: otherwise, especially if housing supply is particularly rigid, the funding of rentals can risk driving up rents (OECD, 2021a), thus reducing the “bang for the buck” of public spending."

So, yes, if you want low homelessness, you build a lot of housing and make sure that rents are low. This is true, and a good strategy.
Sales tax is 8% where I live, it's pretty simple to take that number and double it. And then you're also tipping on the subtotal and not the grand total.
But -2 seems like just a bad choice here. -1 and -2 are very "common" integers. Seems they could have just picked a quasi-random large integer to reduce the likelihood of collision. I expect hash functions to have collisions, but I expect it to be "unlikely" in a way that scales with the size of the hash.
tap your opponents web server, they cannot untap it during their untap step
An alternate take: there are good DEI programs and poor ones. The poor ones fail because the planners dont really know what they are trying to do, but leadership thinks they ought to have one, and so they metric-ize it. And since (again, no clarity of thought) hard numbers in areas like hiring sail perilously close to large legal rocks, they whiff on the metrics and end up measuring something like "engagement". And, concomitantly, deliver a lot of low value chatter that provides ample ammunition to opponents of any kind of DEI programs, even the good ones.

A good DEI program should, IMHO, be indistinguishable from good management culture embedded at every level in an org.

- It should not be controversial to assert, and product management to insist, say, that products designed for humanity should be usable by humanity: men and women, for example - but we still have medicine and cars tested on male models, and software that is unusable if you have low vision or cant operate a mouse and keyboard simultaneously. That doesn't automatically mean one must hire 50:50 men:women, say (see legal rocks, above), but it certainly starts to smell like a missed opportunity if you don't have a single person on your staff or in your network of consultants who can explain what it feels like to wear a seatbelt when you are 1.5m and 50kg not 2m and 85kg. If you want better products, this seems like a no brainer, but it doesnt seem to happen.

- It must absolutely be a mandate for all managers to avoid cliques. All men? All women? All Indians? All Purdue grads? Close watching needed, especially when those groups hire and promote. Doesn't need a mandate, needs better managers of managers.

Tldr is that no amount of DEI will fix bad management culture.
The math for 10% is even easier !!
You communicate to management that you are unhappy with the business practices by not giving them revenue.
> Of 323,092 new jobs added in 2021 by S&P 100 companies, 302,570 (94%) went to people of color

Given this July 2024 population estimate by race from census.gov[1], leaving only 6% of new jobs to the majority seems tailor-made to trigger a large-scale backlash:

75.3% White alone
13.7% Black alone
1.3% American Indian and Alaska Native alone
6.4% Asian alone
0.3% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone
3.1% Two or More Races
19.5% Hispanic or Latino
58.4% White alone, not Hispanic or Latino

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045224
That data cannot support the conclusion drawn. You don't know what the turnover rate was.
It is not true- the authors sound very inexperienced with celestial navigation. There are many ways including the lunar distance method to get a position at night with regular equipment. The math is more complex than a simple noon solar sighting, but it can be done with just a regular cheap plastic sextant and a watch.

It’s also no big deal to go 12 hours with no position. If you know your speed and heading you can accurately estimate your position much longer than that.

Overall, they also made it sound almost impossibly difficult for a large team of professionals, when solo and otherwise short handed recreational sailors have been reliably sailing around the world with celestial navigation for more than a century- through all possible conditions.
A Year in Development (1987)
It is a percentage though. The cost of the underlying item is increasing over time so the tips increase as well. What’s the excuse for increasing the percentage applied to an increasing basis?
"Idea Man" is by Paul Allen.

"The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir" looks like an interesting book on Paul Newman but I haven't read it.
I enjoyed this, because it seems to be written by an interested and interesting human, at a level that I could actually follow.