skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fact is you cannot use these sites realistically without these algorithms.

Really? I have my web browsers set up to always clear all cookies (no exceptions) when I close them (and I don't keep them open long). I also use various browser plugins to get rid of other means of tracking as far as possible.

And I don't even have a YouTube account to log in to. Still, I use the site often and generally find what I'm looking for.

Similar on Amazon, where I have an account, but I only login when I have put things into the cart and actually want to checkout. Until then, again, Amazon knows nothing about me. But I find the things I look for. Oh, and despite being an Amazon customer for 15 years or so, with plenty of buying-history for them to analyze... their recommendations are practically always uninteresting. So I don't think I'm losing out on anything...
This got me thinking about the difference between "direct" and "indirect" observation. What is the difference?

For example: in these experiments, what would "direct" observation be? We have instruments that detect changes in certain variables, and we look for changes that align with our expectations of how a particle affects these variables. But we're not directly observing the particle... we're observing the particle's effects on these variables. So there's always an intermediary between us and the phenomena we're attempting to explore.

It seems to me that this intermediary must exist for all phenomena that cannot be perceived by our 5 senses. So how do we determine when an intermediary is "direct" vs "indirect"?

Looks like it's time for me to revisit Philosophy of Science...
In medical the standards are a little higher so they may be found as having violated medical regulations.

What I am curious about is whether Holmes will in the end have made any money with Theranos. She should lose everything and then some more but I suspect she will still end up with a few million in the bank or in houses.
I can't imagine that the prison is going to scan an entire book mailed to a prisoner. Where can we read about that?
Which are your favorites?
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I had a meeting with a very successful guy who is CIO at a major tech startup who was looking to acquire our company.

Because we were friends for a while I said something to the effect of "I just want to make sure this doesn't look like nepotism"

His response was basically, "Who cares? I love Nepotism. that means me and my friends do better and help each other out."

Kind of shocked me to be honest, but after thinking about it it makes total sense. Why wouldn't you help your friends? I mean I help my friends all the time, but there seemed to be an artificial cutoff when it came to hiring and buying companies or otherwise giving them outward signs of "success."

Not sure I can make a rational case against Nepotism even though it feels wrong.
Pardon my ignorance on this. I am not sure if the easing of scroll motion is scrolljacking.

> Scrolljacking basically means we replace native scrolling (what you’re used to) with targeted scrolling: when the user initiates a scroll, either with their mouse or keyboard, scrolljacking takes them to an exact vertical point on the screen (for example, the top of the next content container)

They aren't targeting your scrolling to specific areas on the page, just adding an ease in/out. It happens natively on iOS actually.

Edit: I do agree that it might hinder accessibility, just dont think the term applies as it does in other cases here.
Well, for one I don't consider the alternative mentioned systems to be particularly useful. And I would strongly object to living in the same apartment/house as one.

I have not (and probably will not) research in what sense the privacy of this device is better but from what little I've seen it is at least better. And if not I can't imagine Anki being less trustworthy than the others.

I see it as a furby, which can be a little neat. Wouldn't buy it though.
I also have a mild degree degree of prosopagnosia (1). I'm constantly embarrassed by it, but most people are cool about it if you explain. It's the ones that I might be regularly blanking that I worry about.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
Power doesn't work like that - it accretes to those who are able to leverage it. You generate a permanent power disparity with a gloves off laissez-faire system like that.

I'd worry about your definition of "best society". Is the current system an existence proof in your mind?
It also breaks the autoscroll chrome extension. :/
A - private office

B - WFH

C - Android

D - few meetings

E - good management

F - mellow, friendly (probably older) colleagues

G - no training of underlings

H - low stress

I - interesting work

Independent contracting/consulting satisfies A and B; some subset satisfies C; D it likely fails; E is orthogonal or maybe slightly negatively correlated (some portion of those who hire consultants, have to do so because they're bad managers); F doubtful; G yes (just don't sign a scope-of-work that includes it); H probably not, unless you're itching to wear more hats including, especially, sales; I yes

Working at any of the big trendy companies: A no way; B maybe; C sure; D no; E orthogonal/tossup; F no; G probably unavoidable; H doubtful; I maybe

Working at a startup: A no way; B maybe; C sure; D likely; E tossup; F no; G no; H no; I maybe

Working at a boring, big, established company that surfs on a river of money: A possible but receding; B possible; C sure, for some subset; D you're out of luck; E, as always, a tossup (picking up a pattern?); F more likely; G possible but it depends; H yes; I probably not, but it depends more on you and what you find interesting.

Anybody else think of any work paradigms that satisfy more of these conditions?
You're taking that quite a bit out of context. Here is the full transcript: http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2013/03/06/ag-holder-i-am-co....

Right after that, the questioning continues:

> Grassley: Do you believe that the investment bankers that were repackaging bad mortgages that were AAA-rated are guilty of fraud or is it a case of just not being aggressive or effective enough to prove that they did something fraudulent and criminal?

> Holder: We looked at those kinds of cases. I think we have been appropriately aggressive, these are not always easy cases to make. When you look at these cases, you see that things were done ‘wrong’ then the question is whether or not they were illegal. And I think the people in our criminal division… I think have been as aggressive as they could be, brought cases where we think we could have brought them. I know that in some instances that has not been a satisfying answer to people, but we have been as aggressive as we could have been.

He also says:

> Holder: You are right, senator. The greatest deterrent effect is not to prosecute a corporation — although that’s important — the greatest deterrent effect is to prosecute the individuals in the corporations that are responsible for those decisions.

He's saying the opposite of what you're claiming he said: that he tried to prosecute the "bankers" as aggressively as he could, but the cases were "not easy to make."
Nobody "paid off the rating agencies". Or, more accurately: everyone did. It was standard practice for the rating agencies to be paid by those being rated.

Now that's obviously not a terribly smart idea. But there's simply no way to blame any single individual when none of them had the power to the system by themselves. I mean: quite obviously the companies being rated would have loved for others to bear the costs for it.
If I am your client, you have fiduciary responsibility to warn me - I am paying you commission to do due diligence.

If you know it is a crappy product, and don;t warn me, it is at the very least a SEC violation, punishable. Could also be viewed as fraud, and pursued as a crime.
That’s a really awesome thought experiment! I got a related idea during undergrad. What if the apparent symmetry between the three special and one temporal dimensions was at one point complete? Ie time could at one point be swapped out with any of the other three dimensions. But somehow that symmetry collapsed- and maybe it’s collapse was the result or creation of mass-energy. I imagine a hypercube being “pulled down” into a confined region. But the confinement “pushed” the two directions of time into the one direction and mass-energy.
Awesome, just wanted to check.

I'd very much enjoy reading a blog post about your findings, if you are interested in writing one. Thanks for sharing, modern CPUs really are quite incredible.
Me too. People constantly recognize me and I haven't a clue who they are. I think I'm just a jerk and don't bother to remember people. So frustrating.
Ok, but this has only to do with relative tax rates - capital gains vs. income. It says nothing about absolute rates.
I think it's because immigrants who came to the US could not find equivalent ingredients to their traditional recipes as easily. Also distribution of fresh food is hard as you go west. So people had to settle with low quality recipes and food. This resulted in there not being as much of a food culture in the general population. So now nobody (as in the average person doesn't) cares about how food tastes like in the US.
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I've written a [small library](https://github.com/tersesystems/securitybuilder#usage) for creating X.509 certificates, public and private keys, and KeyPair objects in one go. This is useful for testing and set up of PKI material generally, and also saves you the hassle of looking up the algorithm names and casting between types.

It's available at https://github.com/tersesystems/securitybuilder.
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I believe you are guilty, but I don’t have any sufficient evidence(s) yet.
This is really unfortunate. I use the MDN docs frequently, and I can no longer scroll using the typical vim motion commands via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

I posted a thread on the MDN discord: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/scrolling-behavior-on-mdn/32...

Edit: Another person pointed out that it's caused by the scroll-behavior: smooth; style. I'm guessing they won't change the MDN website and the extensions will need to ignore/disable the style through CSSOM.

The property docs say "User agents are allowed to ignore this property.", so I guess that makes sense.
Maybe it's just me but I remember back in the 1980's the first simulations of galaxies didn't work unless you added a lot more matter than was known even then to exist. That said to me that there is an unknown... of some sort. Because we're not even talking relativistic effects really. I have no dog in all of this because I'm supremely confident I would understand it even if the problem proves tractable. (And it might not be, for instance maybe dark matter just does not interact with normal matter at all)

Getting po'd at the media for not being able to explain stuff that scientists don't understand, might as well yell at a jellyfish.
There is almost always a bias toward values.

For example free speech.

At various times, those values have come in conflict with particular groups in power (and their source of power). So in those cases their can be a sort of bias that is hard to avoid.
they're twenty cents in bulk. it's a bad assumption
Hows the work/life there? I briefly considered applying but havent gotten around to it.
If you are directing other people’s money to your family it is a disservice to those other people. If it is your own money, go nuts. Nepotism vs family business, basically.
Is meditation (the simple notion) effective for you ?
"close to DC"

I assume he's meaphorically using the term "direct current", so the low frequency stuff. As far as I know, LIGO effectively bandpasses gravitational waves in the range 7 to 30 Hz, or so.

Calling the Cavendish experiment a measure of gravitational waves, though, is sorta like saying Newton discovered an early theory of relativity. Not wrong, in the most pedantic sense, but definitely a bit disingenuous.

I'm not quite sure about the laser facets comment, though.
haha this was also one of my tactics. Even when I’d speak to someone one on one I’d slip their name into the conversation.

I think most people like hearing their name being said so even when I slipped their name into things that people normally say without using names it didn’t come off as too creepy, at least I don’t think.
RAPIDS is partly powered by Apache Arrow. So we are all collaborating on a common next-generation computation ecosystem.
In the societal sense, it is maladaptive - your CIO friend assumes that his friends deliver the best outcome.
Quality stands the test of time.
Interesting ideas.

Wouldn't this result in relative acceleration which correlates to the angle of the body being observed relative to the viewer? Anything aligbed directly between the viewer and a pole would move at a constant speed while speeds would appear to increase as you approach perpendicular? I can't imagine how this would play out in a 3d projection of a 4d surface however.
Great points, and I see the same thing in myself, which is why I don't want to be a manager - I'm great with technology, but I don't have the people skills to be a successful leader.
Why do you want to settle on just one language?

After you retire you'll have time to learn as many languages as you have occasion to use!
> I would really love to know why this was downvoted?

Some bar napkin math:

$150k (savings) + $40k (living expenses) = $190k post tax.

Assuming 30% goes to taxes (making liberal use of a 401k), that would be $272k salary. @ 35% it would be $292k.

I think the reason everyone is annoyed/down voting is the assumption that every developer in the bay area is pulling top end salaries like that. The reality is the median dev salary is a lot closer to $140k/yr. It's also quite difficult to live on $40k/yr for most people in the bay area ($3.3k/mo). It's definitely possible but compromises will be made (e.g. no children, live with partner/roommates, have no expensive hobbies, no travel, etc).

Assuming everyone is as fortunate as you, and is willing to make the same compromises as you can come off as condescending, as if everyone is is screwing up and they just need to do this simple easy thing you are doing. It's akin to "why don't you poor people just earn more money??"

With that said, congrats on kicking ass at the savings game, and I hope you enjoy your early retirement :)
Suppose it is clearly the wrong business choice for your friend's company to acquire your company.

Suppose a friend promoted you over someone else who was vastly more qualified, and worked much harder than you for that promotion.

Etc.

Now suppose you're the one getting screwed over instead of the friend benefiting.

It's not nepotism if friends benefiting is merely a side effect of making the best business (or whatever) decision. But if that decision process is subverted in order to benefit friends, negatively impacting other stakeholders that you have a responsibility to, creating a work environment which is deeply unfair and unmeritocratic, etc., then that is absolutely a problem. This should be pretty obvious.
There needs to be a down vote... who cares what this fucking blowhard has to say really... maybe him.
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>Things that don't appear logical, probably aren't.

At the time that Galileo proved that objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass[0], the prevailing and more intuitive theory was that heavier objects fell faster. Miasma theory[0] was far more intuitive and "logical" to people than "tiny invisible monsters."[1] Newton's theories of gravitation alone couldn't account for the orbit of Mercury... but the illogical theory of relativity could[2].

Tesla was an uncontested genius, but genius isn't omniscience. Empty space does have properties (notwithstanding that the aether would have been one of them) like warping under gravity and vacuum energy[0]. Relativity, quantum mechanics, dark matter and dark energy are counterintuitive, sometimes profoundly so, but the universe isn't obliged to conform to human intuition.

All that we can say is that, as far as we know, based on observation and experimentation, the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but still stranger than we can suppose. And that the luminiferous aether isn't a thing (although the Higgs field is probably close enough...)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

[2]https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=31&doc_id=1328...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
> I have forgotten people's names far too many times to get angry

Same here. I've forgotten enough names on people, even people I've known for ten years and deal with on a weekly basis, to be bothered by it. I generally remember the name some minutes later, but it's often too later by then. I've never found asking someone for their name ("Dude, I'm sorry, I'm completely blanking on your name", depending on the formality of the event) to cause any particular problems.
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Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw
I posted this question on the BlindApp the other day and got some interesting responses. Essentially after doing HW( Background is EE with a Masters) work for a decade, getting burnout after working at a very toxic FAANG(one that has a particular reputation here in the valley though they are HQed in Seattle) i am currently working for much less than what I can make unable to score interviews at the likes of Apple or Google for similar roles. Spoke to a few friends who suggested that I look into pivoting into software. About a year ago i started with Python just for fun. At that time I couldn't code my way out of a brown bag. Fast forward After a year, I am doing a few deeplearning courses on coursera and fast.ai platform able to read and understand non-trivial popular open source python libraries . I even have a Google recruiter badgering me to interview for a SW engineer role. But the thing I keep coming back to is, Am I making the right decision by pivoting to SW. All the talk of ageism in the other thread is not boosting my confidence either. I need to decide right now as I am not getting any younger and if management is the path for the 40s I need to embrace that and move on. Any insights would be much appreciated.
I'm sure they used all available knowledge.

My point is that right now we know very little.
Funny, I just caught Win10 sending info about me opening and closing services.msc, and sending my taskbar searches to office and onedrive. Couple of Windows Firewall rules stopped it.

You can see it all in Wireshark, there’s a ton of it.
Judging people on their work is partly about fair play. But it's also justified by concern for the results. A system which rewards the people doing great work will produce much more of that than a system which rewards political connections.

I care quite a bit that the best cancer researchers should get hired, and the best ideas get the money -- their progress is likely to directly affect people close to me. And this is true but less obvious for almost every field... an economy where everyone was focused solely on zero-sum competitions would not grow very fast.

I don't quite know what cosmic fairness means. But perhaps cosmic unfairness involves people's talents not being identical. The goal of trying to get the fastest progress against cancer does not align with the goal of trying to remedy such unfairness.
> the scale of their direct malfeasance is mostly regional

This is patently incorrect.

1. There Wahabi radical islamic movement was largely funded by SA at it's inception. SA continues to be it's largest donor, both in money and security. This movement has brought the world the 9/11 attacks, Al Queda, terrorism world wide, and has radicalised liberal Islamic populations.

2. They're brutalistic about Shias - i.e. they refuse Shias (from Syria) refugee status, and continue funding any military action that targets Shias.

3. They play a central role in money laundering of terrorist funds.

If there ever was one country to blame for today's international unstable, religion fueled geopolitical mess, it would be SA.
Here's what's really wrong with employee engagement surveys:

1. Your relationship with your family is more important than any relationship at work.

2. For the vast majority of people, their current job may be a potential route to fulfilment, but is unlikely to be the long-term path to that, and they know it.

3. It is incumbent upon employees to pretend to be engaged only so long as a less draining option for meeting the financial demands for their life is not apparent.

4. Employee engagement surveys ultimately are only designed to justify the cost of maintaining the ongoing salary of a VP and attendant minions.

Yes, practice your craft, and work hard, but please just know that your fulfilment will likely come from outside of work.
I actually don't even have a BS yet. I dropped out after doing a cost benefit analysis and learned I could get tech jobs without a degree. It's been a bumpy road to say the least haha. I'm currently unemployed and looking for a gig/job before I go back to get my degree. I plan on attending OSU since it's near by.
> The thing is - this is self-correcting by market mechanisms.

Read the article. Clearly it is not.
There's another good reason for nepotism - trust - the most valuable commodity in business, and one of the hardest to acquire/assess.
I can not advise you I can only offer my own experience.

The older you get the harder it will become to get a programming job. I am pushing 60, and
lucky enough to end up with a lot of experience as CTO/CEO in multiple companies and now doing technical due diligence for investors, and coaching young CTOs.

But although I'm very up to date on everything new and shiny I would not want to be searching for a programming job right now. The word 'senior' used to mean someone with grey hair, but now means people around thirty and there just are no words available for 40+. Which doesn't make things easier for recruiters by the way.

Even though middle aged people are very experienced, the IT field changes fast and it's very hard to have a family life AND keep your skills current. I only know of a few people being successful with that. On the other hand those people are extremely valuable and few companies know it.

Face it, the future for programmers is bleak, ageism is rampant and it's also true that many aren't current and stuck in their ways.

So maybe it's best to move into management and at least don't be a PHB, or start your own company, it seems older people have a better succes rate than young ones with that at least.
It's still five on my iPhone X. It defaults to going into some sort of emergency alarm with a blaring horn but that can be disabled in settings.
>You certainly can't realistically sort through youtube yourself, nor can you realistically find what you need on Amazon.

People will find what they need, period. The algorithms are tuned to show you the items you’re most likely to buy/watch on top of what you actually came for.
I wondered that as well.