jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you needed further evidence, this suggests that there are ridiculous inefficiencies in matching up labor and jobs that you could make money solving.

There are ridiculous inefficiencies, but they exist do to some completely screwed up assumptions people make, or that they just blindly follow out of deference to common wisdom.

In order for someone to make money solving these problems, they'd need to convince the parties involved that their assumptions are incorrect, and that they need to use a new approach to hiring. For instance, a hiring manager who believes that the clerk they are seeking must have a bachelors degree, n+ years of experience, and whatever else. Why; because this person has a large number of assumptions they are working off of, and each of these requirements is a manifestation of some subset of those assumptions. And, in the case of the companies tied to this article, they have to already be employed.

Changing these assumptions is amazingly hard to do, because their existence represents a cultural problem, not a knowledge problem. This would be like a company trying to make money solving racism when most everyone in society is a racist. It is incredibly hard to do; people will go bankrupt rather than give up what they've believed all their lives.

I'm reminded a number of months ago of a post you made in reply to one of mine where you discussed the cultural implications of quitting a permanent salaryman position in Japan; you pointed out that anyone who does this will likely never find themselves as more than a contractor ever again. This is really just a different manifestation of the same basic cultural bias; if you are unemployed, our cultural mores dictate that this should reflect badly upon you. If there is a solution to this problem here, I think it would have to look similar to the solution to Japan's bias toward unemployed salarymen.

But, I could be wrong about this; in fact, I'd like to be wrong. It would provide me additional faith in the resiliency of humanity. I just can't see us being that ruthlessly introspective without something far more horrible than high unemployment to motivate us.
The closest I can think of is a short on QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST), which is a public lead-generation company highly reliant on marketing money from private universities. Online advertising firms in general would take a hit since education is a major category.

See the analysis and presentation here:

http://www.homethinking.com/brontemedia/2010/05/27/online-ed...
"If you think the idea is the easy part, I question anything else that you might say."

Cue HN permathread on "Ideas are worthless" ...
Have been using it for years, it works great!
I would die for Claire from the Bon Appetit test kitchen
Getting used to not having what we had before is going to be the theme of this century, with environmental change. I have LEDs at home, no idea what spec, but honestly they are more than good enough. Prefer them to candles, or darkness.
And yet some of the lies will be left and now even protected because the reality will be deemed the false claims.
It would have been a great title.

But the pedants like me would have crept up to say "but Liskov tells us we can accept substitutes".
Unfortunately, there is no up-to-date and comprehensive guide out there. I should write one i guess. I takes some tinkering. This is a good first start: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-ma...
If you’re using a USB drive, I recommend to make the first backup while directly attached to save some time. Also if the server is a Mac (and I believe there are ways to do that with other OSs too), you can simulate a time machine capsule. Now whenever I am in my home wifi my MacBook does automatic backups.
If you think the margins aren't thin, why don't you swoop in and undercut them?
> Traditionally, debt has no upside

Not really--if interest rates decline (either in the overall economy or if a bond's issuer is seen as becoming less risky), the value of a bond will go up. The 10 Year US Treasury bond increased by over 10% last year, for example.

Also I agree with you about ending the deductibility of interest (for other reasons as well), but I'm not sure why you say the distinction between debt and equity is diminishing--convertible debt has been around for a long time.
What a waste of time. This is like pseudo-intellectual trolling.

The problems with IE6 had nothing to do with creating a new rendering engine. The problem was that the rendering engine they did create was not standards-compliant, and they weren't able to push updates fast enough.

Microsoft has become solidly pro-standards now, so there's no reason to be suspicious of a new rendering engine, just because it's new. In fact, we should be optimistic. Clean slates are often produce great things.
Back in the 90s there was an artist who did a project I've always liked where she blocked all ads in streetscape pictures with orange. It was to show just how much of our landscape was covered with ads. I'd love to see this project adapted to do the same.
This really resonates with me for reasons I find difficult to articulate.

Meritocracy seems to be similar to democracy in that it's better than the alternative (nepotism), but seemingly falls short of the mark.

A person who happens to be adept at mathematics, by whatever means (perhaps they've been taught well, perhaps they have innate talent, perhaps they had good nutrition as a child) will generally end up with a higher earning potential, and so generally will end up with a more comfortable life. A better life, for lack of more accurate terminology.

To me, that seems like a peculiar form of social darwinism. People do not control these traits to a huge extent. I... rather, we at HN, are better than some of our peers at mathematics, at algorithmic problem solving. No doubt about it. You can probably find someone in your life that you'll always be better than, in that particular field.

We will be richer than some people purely by virtue of history, by virtue of events no longer within our individual control (if they ever were). Human capital.

I struggle to reconcile that with wanting to reward people for the value they add to society.

This is one of the reasons I've been swayed towards supporting universal basic income. I just can't see that it's right for people to be thrown on the scrap heap simply because they happened to be born with the wrong talents, the wrong preferences, or simply an inferior toolset. It seems to me that it's just the logical progression from helping those with a disability.

It might be a necessary evil for the talented to earn more. I don't believe it's necessary for those less fortunate to struggle to meet basic requirements like shelter.
Yup, after you tokenize the card CVC (CVV2, CID, etc) is no longer needed. So even though it will change it won't affect the validity of the card since this sounds like a deal with the networks. Also, you're not allowed to store CVC any way so the system has to work without it. In some cases where fraud is suspected some processors can / may ask you to provide your current CVC before letting the charge go through.
Actually that's a feature, now anyone can host a simple webpage without any hassle the fact that this dude figured out a way around it is kinda cool but I'd rather they not remove this bec of phishing attacks.

On the other hand I can see how THIS specific attack is very dangerous: people might assume that they need to login to google to see the content hosted by google....
Sociopathy is more likely related to mate competition than cannibalism, which is almost never practised for food, but rather for its ritual significance. Cannibalism was fairly widely and routinely practised in pre-political states--to the extent that in Polynesia there is a prion disease that appears to have evolved with cannibalism as a vector--but even amongst peoples where it was practised, in times of starvation people would mostly starve rather than eat each other.

A number of early European explorers (including Champlain, if memory serves) describe ritual cannibalism--generally the consumption of prisoners, who were first tortured to death in that holistic and natural way First Peoples had--but also describe people starving to death in times of want without resorting to it.

In the case of this woman, her amygdalae have been damaged by Urbach-Wieth disease, which according to the article is extremely rare.

That said, it is likely that there is a wide distribution of various types of emotional response in the populace due to variations in neurological capability.
But of course this by no means that some sort of unknown communication between your brains was occuring. Having your perception altered in a similar way could simply cause people to see similar patterns.
Ever seen africian or latino men on a grainy camera? It kinda does matter.
And <1% read them?
> Americans are the most anti-tax people on the planet

Our origin story is literally a tax revolt.

“No taxation without representation” — they weren't looking to get a couple of new members elected to Parliament. Definitely focused on the no taxation part.
Maybe it's because Nomad is a commercial product as well, but it's really sad that it doesn't get more usage. Kubernetes is the new hotness, to the point where people don't care that the don't really need Kubernetes. They just know that the big boys are using it, so regardless of scale, so should they.

Kubernetes is exceedingly complex, and it needs to be, to support all it's use cases. However, I would claim that the vast majority of small project running on Kubernetes is just after one thing: Easier deployments.

These users would be just as well served, if not better by Nomad. It eliminates much of the complexity of running a Kubernetes cluster, but it still utilizes hardware better and you get a convenient way to deploy your code.
This is the same Apple who has a published document saying:

"If your App is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

When this company controls your livelihood, you are wise to take a very broad view of what "trash us" means.
Does anyone else get a consistent ssl error visiting that site?:

Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to www.paypal-engineering.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap)
It's really less complex than it appears, especially once you grok that switch/case is just a computed goto; cases are just labels.

So, the idea behind Duff's Device is just to unroll a loop, dealing in an elegant (some would say abhorrent - they're wrong) way with the "leftover" portion.

So, the canonical Duff's is copying shorts, with the copy loop unrolled to eight copy statements inside the loop. If you want to copy, say 47 shorts, the loop would need to iterate five times, and there would be seven shorts left to copy.

Duff's uses the switch to jump into the middle of the loop just far enough to copy those seven leftover shorts (47 % 8 = 7). The do-while then proceeds to run through the five full iterations.

Modern compilers will do that for you now, though there are still applications for similar code.

Hope that helps.
While I do like your last name, I have a hard time believing that "it's had an m for 15 years" is really the best argument against .co.

For example, does a .co domain inherently carry any security or SEO problem?
Another under-appreciated attack vector is flatulence. Load up at the airport Taco Bell and you could easily light a fart that could set guy next to you on fire.
Your site says your technology is patent-pending. What's that patent about?
I'd put ITA, ViaWeb, and a handful of others in the notable category. Although all I know about ITA is what they do (at a USA Today level), its Lisp (at the very least a large majority), and that they were bought by Google. Maybe ITA can be promoted to the Emacs level?

That vendor list is a nice reference, but I wouldn't be surprised if the D programming language vendor list was near that size. And no one uses D. Just imagine a similar list for virtually any other language commonly discussed on HN, from C/C++, to Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Javascript. I'd be surprised if Smalltalk wasn't 10x the size.

Don't get me wrong, I think its a great language. I just don't think any language gives the benefits that so many people seem to think they do, at least not general purpose languages. DSLs? Sure, they can give huge multipliers -- in their domain or maybe even for a specific domain. But not in general (and maybe those knowledge-intensive apps are those for which the multiplier is higher).
... unless you have to sue them for the funds to sue them.
I was a full-time parent and homeschooling mom for quite some time. I had no such goals for my kids. I had very different ones. But I like the results I got.

Some things you could try:

Instead of seeking to have him graduate by age 12, homeschool and pursue an unschooling path which gives him the freedom to explore as he pleases.

Give real choices (decision making practice) every day starting now. Lots of parents don't seem to do this. Some things I did: I let my sons pick two junk food things at the grocery at that age. They could pick any two. I didn't do any censoring. But they could only get two. I recently had a lengthy discussion with my oldest about how this fostered decision-making ability.

Generally speaking: If the rules aren't working, change the rules rather than punish the child.

I'm sure there's lots more, but, hey, if I really wanted to talk about this I could be developing my languishing homeschooling and parenting site.

Peace and best of luck.
> Am I the only person who found Reddit generally quite unpleasant?

Not at all. I think Reddit is a classic example of the "evaporative cooling effect" in groups. It's now dominated by a very restricted set of opinions. It looks very open and welcoming (initially, at least), if you share those opinions, but it's obviously ridiculously narrow-minded, if you don't.
For the part of noBS I'm through I appreciate the get-to-the-point explanation and amusing (thought highly opinionated) examples. I don't think there's much you can do better when you are teaching standard concepts and notation; it will always look foreign at first.
By Adirondacks I think GP means the whole mountain range, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Mountains . Would be curious though to know whether OSM has those roads.
They work well for the creator of the site. If the prime metric is, are people wanting what I'm providing and it's easy for them to do so, then pop-ups work very well. If the metric is, is my site pristine enough for other engineers, then no they don't work well, as seen by the responses here. The choice is in what to optimize for. If it works, it works, regardless of whatever scumminess you may perceive.
I own Boeing so I am much in favor of a bailout of them. They are a critical part of the US economy and national defense.
From the source, translated:

"During the sixteenth week of 2019 mortality was lower than expected, with a daily average of 190 deaths compared to the expected 200."

Read Italian news from the past few years regarding then northern region; the numbers of geriatric deaths -- far in excess of other EU members -- has been a long-running scandal.

More data here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

I trust you've read the recent Telegraph article revealing that only 12% of reported Italian covid deaths could be directly attributed to covid.

But, I'm not that concerned about persuading you. If you wish to believe there is something unique about northern Italy -- while 100 miles to the south, east, west, and north the mortality rates are utterly different, so be it.
A news site whose logo is a skull
Great, I'll go let the US population know.
That's not how PII is defined nor how privacy policies work. They list potential PII received in standard categories with normal product usage and backend processing.

Otherwise every server on the internet can be sent data by you at anytime which effectively makes listing things pointless.
The paper says to move the abstractions, not eliminate them.

> It is important to note that we favor abstractions but they should be implemented outside the operating system so that applications can select among a myriad of implementations or if necessary roll their own

For example, if my software doesn't like the OS's abstractions for networking, let me go find one that I do like and use it instead.
Only if you have the right opinions.
Designing and growing are different things because design implies having a preconceived plan. Whereas growing entails starting out with broad strokes and then organically iterating.

The classic example is that of a combustion engine. Historically an engine was not designed, but “grown” ie iterated upon through trial and error. The heat transfer characteristics and thermodynamics were (are?) too complex to model, so engineers started out with a basic concept and iterated until they got the desired results.

I believe organizations work the same way. Instead of designing an organization from the ground up (clean sheet), most organizations actually start out organically and roles either expand or contract depending on needs and goals. There’s typically a lot of trial and error because it’s impossible to account for every variable that might affect the outcome. A heavily designed organization is liable to be very rigid, so the pragmatic path is align on shared principles and let each part of the organization organically grow according to its needs and goals.
Thankfully in Russia it is not. Some people prefer it for some reason but there's no hard requirement to have it to be a part of society. I haven't even bothered to set it up on my new phone I bought a month ago and there was no discomfort resulting from that. Though I do still need to download my data and delete my account so people won't even try messaging me there.
Well, there's always that, but I've always figured it's about taxes and government spending. There's a very large amount of over-valued houses in and around the larger cities in Denmark. If the property value goes down, so does the property taxes, which means less income for the local authorities.

There are cheap houses available outside those areas, but getting a loan for them can be tricky since their value is too low and there's no money to be had from lending the money.

Furthermore, most people have their homes as security (not sure if it's the right word in English) for their loans. If the property value drops then many will be forced out of their homes. Also a lot of landlords and real-estate agents, will be out of a job, but that's probably a smaller issue.
I'm in the EU and clicked agree before I realised the implications. Now I want to withdraw my consent, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Am I overlooking something or is that not possible (which would violate GDPR)?
WTF are you saying? " It's not the media's fault for taking action against these lies"

The job of media is to report falsities not to take "actions" against them and assuming they know what's in people's minds
I am in the EU, and this is what I have been presented with:

„ By tapping Agree, you accept the new terms, which take effect on February 8, 2021. After this date, you’ll need to accept the new terms to continue using WhatsApp. You can also visit the Help Center if you would prefer to delete your account and would like more information. To learn more about how WhatsApp processes your data, read our updated privacy policy“ (with an Agree button underneath).

I could close the window. But there is a hard deadline apparently: Feb 8th.

F* you Facebook. I‘d rather stop using Whatsapp altogether.

Edit:

Will start using Signal app, and for the transition period I‘ll keep an old smartphone with a throwaway Sim card and WhatsApp installed on it to keep updates from absolutely necessary groups I need to be part of.
Your point about the difference in police responses seems valid. There was advance warning of potential conflict.

However, your statement that the police are overwhelmingly Trump supporters seems weak and inflammatory and is what I suspect drove downvoting. There are several examples of individual police taking stands against the crowd. Directly linking police performance today to politics is also questionable. When dealing with rowdy crowds it may be best to take things easy and act to calm tensions. A large number of cops ended up behind the crowd surge where the best course of action becomes ambiguous.
I think it was obvious from everything we've seen, especially in comparison to the recent protests, that the police response was deliberately small. Whether they received orders to allow the protesters in, whether they themselves decided to do it, whether they were denied reinforcements - its obvious that something caused police response to be almost non-existent to an obvious threat.

If there had been a BLM rally instead of a MAGA rally on the steps of the capitol the day the election is certified, they would have been kept well away from the building with riot gear.
Thanks for flipping it ;)
What’s funny is that the GDPR is pretty universally well-liked, or at least accepted as a necessary evil in my European tech bubble...
My experience with that is it usually never works, and for whatever reason the games never seem compelling. Not sure why, flash games never had that problem. They were always full games with rich graphics and often a story.

I literally tried to pull up itch while tablet shopping yesterday - the site never rendered on the tablets and the one game I tried about crashed the whole tablet. Audio/video worked fine. I'm sure if I sat down at a high powered beefy windows desktop maybe they'd work - I remember flash working great on 1GHz celeron processors with maybe 1 or 2 GB of memory and windows 95. Html games are still a bunch of nonsense, on average.
What do you do with these sort of extremely specific selectors?
Here's another example.

I went looking for sci-fi books for my kindle for the Christmas holiday season.

It was really difficult: all I wanted was a good stand-alone book that was readable and thought-provoking. What I ended up getting by looking at the reviews were lots of books that were in some kind of 20-part series where the only reason they got so many good reviews was because the author/series had a huge fan base. It took an hour to de-tangle the fanboy reviews from the ones that were helpful, and that was even paying attention to Amazon's meta-review system.

That's not really very helpful.
I solve this problem by keeping an archive of and stripping the DRM from every eBook I purchase. My weapon of choice is Calibre with the Kindle PID extensions.

My Kindle is still content to read all of the titles I've stripped, although usually I stick to the DRM'd versions on-device to allow Whispersync between that and my iPhone.
Lots of people seem to think that an automated test suite is a guarantee that you know when you've broken something. I have never found that to be true. Sometimes I have even found it to be a dangerous idea, leading to complacency in reasoning about the potential impacts of a change and actively verifying its behavior. It's great to have a good automated test suite, but it's much greater to also have people using and verifying software.