jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Personally I try to avoid low quality contributions (hot takes, unsubstantiated opinions, reddit-style clever quips, karma whoring, etc)

Contribute if you believe you have an out-of-the-box perspective that adds to the discussion. Avoid "me-too" or "actually you're wrong" type of comments unless - again - you can add some new factual commentary; seek to enrich others rather than being motivated to stroke your own ego by putting others down.

Sometimes, one does not in fact have something meaningful to say despite urges to the contrary. Learning when not to speak is also an art. So is learning to listen and internalizing points of view that you may not agree with. A good rule of thumb that serves me well is to always assume everything is grayscale. There's always some dimension or nuance you're not considering.

Mind you, I'm not accusing you of any specific behavior, just speaking in generalities.
> I have never shared code or given references before a job offer and I never will.

Yes, I think our concerns are different than the OP's.

A scenario that has played out for me is that I get an e-mail or call from a headhunter. They want to send my resume to a company. The company likes my resume so I get an interview. Right away they want three (or sometimes more) references. Often they say they prefer, or even require, that they be managers. Obviously this means I have to contact my former managers and co-workers. I have to make sure I still have current contact info for them for one thing. I also want to give them a heads-up that someone might be calling them for a reference.

Perhaps I'm not asking for a big favor but I'm still asking for a favor. So every time I go on a job interview, I have to ask several people I know for a favor. Some of whom I might not have had much contact with in the subsequent years. Then I have to contact them out of the blue and ask them if they can give me a reference (I usually do keep in contact with people, but don't want every other contact being me asking for a reference or a favor).

Like you, I think it's understandable if the company is about to offer me the job and as a last step want to get some references. But I have people telling me they want to talk to my former managers before I've even had an in-person interview.

Compared with this, someone grilling me on data structures, or paging, or TCP/IP behavior, or whatever is pretty minor.
> I could care less how

You couldn't care less?
Wouldn't you have to have some sort of adjustment for singles vs families over time? and for average number of people in a household? Number of people in a household has a cultural factor and age factor also (young single people often share households, more young people => higher density).

I have no idea impactful those numbers would be, just pointing out that there are lots of confounding factors to consider.
Yes, thanks, I edited out the ambiguity.
Nope!

That is what I say with untapped potential. We are not even targets for them!

Corruption is the most big problem, and yes, contracts with governments and big companies still rely too much in "I know you, you know me, where is my 'commission'?"; but, the developer is not a "high class" worker in the way is it in the Silicon valley. Programing is still see as "the thing that nerds do to make computers run", so we are not high on the list of things that make shady actors huge money.

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A big problem is get quality investors. Not get money: I have several offers among this years, but from people with a lot of money but no understanding of tech, or the assumption that investment in a startup entitled them to become the boss and get 50% or more on it. Not many get in that bad terms, so that is another reason the "shady actors" are some few connected companies but not more. The rest of us are in the shadow, working hard and not getting in troubles.
The article also poses the idea that its unlikely that the U.S. would surrender a war after a city was destroyed.

Article also gives the example of UK not giving up after German bombing in WW2.
If you mean for a short advice/discussion, then something like https://www.airpair.com/ might be worth looking at.
5% is more or less the long term average mortgage rate.

Owners generally keep a mortgage on their property (~65% of the property value) to off-set wealth and property taxes. Residences are taxed by their estimated rental values, which is treated as income. Interest payments are tax deductible, while the principal on the mortgage lowers the amount owned for wealth taxes.

The other issue is that most primary mortgages don't allow for early repayment, meaning that the principal either has to be payed off in full or refinanced once the payment period is over. Owners become conditioned to continuously roll over the principal on their primary mortgage.

To answer your question, because the expectation is that residential property will be mortgaged through out the entire ownership period, banks have to make sure that someone who can afford the payment on a 1% mortgage can also afford the payment on a mortgage refinance if and when rates eventually go up.
Hi! Sorry for hijacking this topic a bit, but I'm a computer programmer interested in medicine - could I ask you a few questions about your experience? you can reach me at camilla[at]synbyote.io
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https://blog.race-conditions.net/
You are pushing a bit too far. GiveWell does raise many millions of dollars for those lives. It just doesn't raise all (or even nearly all) the money it would if people actually held the Communist or Utilitarian ideals they may half-profess.
The same as putting your name on a skyscraper. Whenever you are over a city or landing with your private jet, you can always tell the guy sitting in front of you: oh,look, there they are! Remember I told you I bought 12 new Boeings?
Why not just `f"task-{uuid.uuid4()}"`?
I think it's both - we have a lot of architectural improvements that we can try now and in the future, but I don't see why you can't take the output of generative art models, have humans rate them, and then use those ratings to improve the model such that its future art is likely to get a higher rating.
it’s true. I also thought about adding disadvantages. But alternatives and approach showed them in general. Also, people who comment on RFCs tend to focus on the disadvantages as well. I’ll think about it a bit more.
> UK only excels in static .gov.uk serving

I'd put forward Gov.uk/pay and Gov.uk/notify as very successful transactional services that operate on a massive scale. They have been particularly good for local councils who just hook up to Notify and Pay. The parts where security is paramount are handled centrally. It stops councils having to "roll their own".

Universal Credit is a transactional system handling billions in benefits. When the conservative government shut down the economy in March it seems to have coped pretty well:

https://dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/12/14/dwps-agile-respons...
Relevant blog post for a slightly older kid: https://stopa.io/post/246
... but then someone else would invent balloons filled with mylar pieces that can saturate the area around the props.
To list a couple others off the top of my head: SF's public stairways, NYC's cow tunnels, sound design for televised sports, Plimsoll lines, elevator brakes, architecture for deaf people.

I don't know if I'd call it a "spectrum" so much as a "crazy pile of everything design related." Great show.
Perhaps a single experiment on millions of different people? A web experiment of some kind? "Which image looks more like a panda?" and flash two images on the screen.
Wow, that article has a huge list of "data exfiltration channels" that are possible attack vectors.

This is an interesting problem, and I hope that I'm somehow able to trust again.
Interesting point, but given the amount of randomness involved in evolution, the physical complexity of cognition, and the timescales involved, is it possible that even given massive numbers of cognitively advanced species in the universe, each could have such a fundamentally distinct ontological relationship to reality and model of the physical universe that even a concept as seemingly scientifically basic as a 'radio wave' would be unique to us?
I think you're onto something and I think what we're seeing is the resurgence of portals on the web. Reddit and Hacker News are niche content portals. Facebook is in a position to be a mass market portal to the entire web.

Competition is a matter of time and people's purpose driven browsing will continue to push people to various sources.

I'm not sure what you mean by an open competitor.
The legislative purpose of H1B is to preserve the ability of companies to hire professionals who cannot be found at any price in America. There are a few safeguards designed to promote this: a requirement to advertise for the position in the US, for example, and the publication process.

A frequent criticism made of H1B is that it is used as an end-run around our (typically fairly strict) immigration procedures to bring in modern-day indentured servants who do jobs many Americans can do at wages which are markedly lower than the prevailing US wages. You'll frequently see this in e.g. Slashdot criticism, with tales of H1Bs hired by Infosys or whomever paid to do systems engineering for $20k ~ $30k, which (if substantially accurate) is an abuse of the program.

FWIW, I am in Japan by the grace of a status of residence very similar to the H1B, and that would be yanked instantly if I was not earning more than the prevailing wage for similarly situated Japanese engineers. (Though there is another status here -- trainee -- which is widely abused to that purpose.)
I agree. I can even corroborate the hypothesis anecdotally, since CTAs on the right side "feel" right to me, but without data it's still just a hypothesis.
Discovering another instance of intelligent life would be one of the most profound transformational experiences that we could have as a species. I would think that there would be more than one billionaire out there that would like their name to be associated with such a discovery.
I think you missed the point.

If the pain is to a higher purpose that in itself provides for a greater good (like riding a bike) then the net effect is a better world. The operative idea being that pain and struggle allow us to become better.

God didn't relinquish free will here, but he can't or won't choose to make a shoddy world. It wouldn't be all-good or all-knowing. For a better explanation reference C.S. Lewis.
Replied to you via email.
This is a system sold to commercial nurseries, not installed in peoples homes.
Similarly-old account here, and yeah - 10%-ish loss on average fits all my longer-standing / high-value playlists as well.

Especially when it comes to educational or conference content, those accounts seem to close with higher frequency.
USD went off the gold standard in 1971.
Not quite. It can be used when any app calls the Android custom tab API. It is not a drop in replacement for Android's Webview.

See https://geckoview.dev
Nah. It's not fraud if they don't get any benefit from it. Since they refunded the single, solitary person who pledged $3/month, then shut it all down, it's all good from the fraud angle.
Sure but which is more likely:

Someone updating the comments in code that they are updating because they see the comments right in front of them.

Or

Someone going to look through the documentation to see if there is anything relevant about the code they are working on that needs to be updated.
> but the article smells like fear-mongering. "Zomg, strangers will look at your children!"

1) It should be reasonable to expect some privacy when you give your kids into the care of other people. There is a whole lot difference: someone can walk by a day care and see kids playing outside and anyone on the internet can access these systems. I don’t know how these nurseries work that use these systems, but I assume that not that many people have access to the kids, only staff and maybe other parents/guardians.

2) The company producing these camera systems claims them to be more secure than online banking. This is flat out wrong, one might even argue fraud.
Israel has, in many cities, switched to video evidence - you can review the a movie of the claimed infraction from a few minutes before to a few minutes after it happened. The exact algorithm doesn't matter w.r.t to any specific event -- although it does matter if you claim e.g. selective enforcement.

There's still issues of authenticity, integrity, time keeping precision, etc - but I think these are better understood problems; no idea if source code for those was ever demanded (or available), or if they were challenged.
“The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.” Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Public HSR even going out into the sticks gets rapidly surrounded by commercial and residential real estate rent-seekers, and prices quickly (within 10-20 years) arrive close enough to CBD parity to again price out young families. You would need something like a community land trust or transit authority trust that locks up the land and locks in the basis pricing along the rail line about 1-2 km out on either side of the rail, and around a 3-6 km radius around the terminals, with a taxing jurisdiction about double those radii, that gives the families a shot at entry without the same housing pricing dynamics we see now. That trust would have to plan for incremental, systemic densification on a self-funding model based upon the "rent" charged through taxes. Otherwise, the funding for densification evaporates into land developer hands through the years, because it is non-linearly more expensive to densify than spread out, but the energy utilization and efficiency is much lower and higher respectively per capita with densification than spread out. Land developers are valuable, but it is unfair to expect them to behave contrary to their incentives.
I'll check it out, but it's got some strange arbitrary limits:

MIN_WORD_SIZE = 3
MAX_WORD_SIZE = 50

MAX_VIEWS = 20
MAX_WORDS_PER_VIEW = 100
MAX_FIX_TIME_SECS_PER_VIEW = 0.01
Nice article, killed it!
> They've probably switched to homegrown motor drives now

According to Wikipedia [1]:
it was reported in 2006 that the tiny amount of material deposited in fingerprints on Iran's prototype centrifuges were enough to cause the machines to shatter.

It's not like that's the kind of stuff anyone can build at home.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge
Overheard - "Code red. Humans know our secret."
Most emacs users I know alias emacs to emacs-nw, or install emacs-nox.

Myself included (:
I also enjoyed the footnotes, like #19;

"Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165, 176-80 (1969) (a person’s property interest in his own home was so great as to allow him to object to electronic surveillance of conversations emanating from his home, even though he himself was not a party to the conversations)."
“testing on the platform used by a majority of our users”

This.
Because if they do they might just create another extremely profitable market place.

Remember when all phones expected you to use their own proprietary OS with their own proprietary apps and developers had to make apps for every brand and model separately?

That's vendor lockin taken to such an extreme that people can't even be bother to make apps anymore.

Plus these apps are quickly going to become obsolete or outdated base what developer can be bothered to keep up with all that crap.

Same logic applies just this time it's not phones it's smart TV's.
Worth noting that this appears to have been intended as a hostage taking, rather than the mass murder-suicide that most American school shootings are.

(I'm also wondering if this was somehow related to the politics of the Balkans that produced so many mass murders 20+ years ago)
> figure out the password for each of them. Which means being close enough to each of them to access the Wifi and also figuring out their serial number somehow. How would they do that?

Per TFA, the serial number is ST<AA><B>0001<CCC>.

AA is the year, for which there are currently 5 values (15 to 19).

B is the revision, for which there are currently 6 values (D to I).

CCC is provided as part of the broadcasted SSID.

So they would "do that" by enumerating and trying out the 30 possible serial numbers for each SSID.

edit: apparently you may not even need to bother because the PW's hostname straight includes the entire serial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611525
Well English has the same "Anticipatory Obedience", often used in context of regulation or WW2 Nazi history.

English borrowed kowtow to use in such context, though it's a little broader, but it's mostly fallen out of favour.
It’s also only two years old and venture backed. Any venture backed company is by definition looking to have an exit strategy and not just trying to be a “lifestyle business”. Statistically, it’s via an acquisition.

Look no further than YC - only two YC based companies have ever gone public.
Net Neutrality can be supported and enforced without government intervention though.
im also forking chrome to create a new sort of browser (dont know if we can call it that way)
, not from my garage, but from a room turned into a office :)

I would definitely like to get in touch with this guys if possible, maybe to exchange some experience since we share the same codebase even if its for different purposes
You need to not judge the actions in the video based on soldiers talking like soldiers do. He clearly says on 07:18 that he thinks that the van is picking up weapons. An army report found, and Assange conceded that in the first group: "Based upon visual evidence I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG."

Sure, the guy is eager to engage, but remember the whole context of this is that the Apaches were called in to protect American soldiers under fire in that area.
Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is a very poor student of history.
I suppose we could indent our conversation until people complain about us ruining the formatting and not agree here. (I spent too long on this, got an expired link, that's my signal to set noprocrast. Meanwhile vonmoltke has covered it in 1/10 the text volume. Someday I will learn to be concise.)

no oversight – how about "insufficient oversight"

no logging – I doubt this is true

…rate monitoring – This gets into a huge, hairy, and probably unsolvable problem called "aggregation". Briefly, I might be allowed access to specific bits of classified information in order to do my job, and each one of these is within my clearance. But, if I were to collect together enough of these facts the collection as a whole would provide more information than the sum of its parts and would need to carry a higher classification marking. Consider, people working at an airport need to know when a cargo plane is going to take off or land, say to plow the snow off the runway. But if I take all the take off and landing data, now I know the material flow, and if I take it over time, I can see what the military is strategically planning. This is the kind of problem that is so complicated that after coming up and derailing a few design meetings the officers in charge will realize that the "pie in the sky" ideas from the contractor will probably cost more than the whole rest of the development and never provide a usable solution, so it gets shelved for later releases and some sort of fig leaf is put in place to cover the mandatory requirement.

… able to wget this massive cache of data – I haven't looked at this specifically, but speaking from similar systems… There may be entities that access the data at high speed, especially reporting and analysis systems. (screen scraping is frighteningly common as a way to interconnect systems in the military) He may not have been an obvious outlier. Or maybe no one was watching. Or maybe he used wget's rate limiting options.

…they would be none the wiser had he not… – This is where the auditing comes in. After fact A,Q, and U are released, someone would probably start processing logs and see who retrieved A, Q, and U. Manning's indiscriminate collection would make him likely the only person that retrieved the union, or at least the only human on a list with a bunch of automated systems. It is after the fact, and too late to prevent damage, but it is possible the auditing would have brought him to the attention of investigators.
The suspects have been caught and charged.
Dorn was not a Trump supporter and wasn't killed for political reasons.
Debra White told the paper that her father opposed much of Drumpf's rhetoric and policies, including "the things he said about Colin Kaepernick, the kids locked up in cages, the racist remarks." Dorn's daughters stated their father did not want to support the "law and order agenda".
Here’s some fun op art NOT made with a computer, which I spotted in the New York Times today:

https://www.instagram.com/ball_and_cone_/
I'm in 2 Mastermind groups as well. Both give me tons of great ideas and keep me motivated and accountable for the goals I've set out.
nFaithInHumanity--
where on earth would a professional software developer find SIX different machines to run builds on??
Since we're at a nosebleed altitude of hypothetical here, I think now might be the time to point out that this thread is demanding that people prove a negative.
On a couple of tests, we actually had to analytically draw our smith charts on graph paper, then use it for then next problem.

Say you want 15 dB return loss at some frequency, well there are two impedances points for that. One with the impedance locus outside Z0, and another with the locus encompassing Z0. The latter has broader bandwidth, but that intuition is lost without a Smith or polar plot.
google's watch products have really been held back by lack of good chips for phones so I would not be surprised to see google following apple's lead to make their own chips. This looks like a very tempting buyout if that is the case.
If you're interested in this space, a great resource can be found at https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/ (a free guide to go along with an orielly book)
Your measure of success would make a lot of good companies look like failures.
That inevitably leads me to ask about your web browser. What are you using and why?