skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good. I'm sick of seeing that crap when I want to check in with my FFXIV clan. Of course this means they'll keep using Discord. Dammit.
> when I hire someone who isn’t fresh out of college, I only care about experience / interview skills / references

If everyone who _did_ hire fresh college grads gave preference only to those coming from exclusive schools, only those from exclusive schools end up with the experience, interview skills and references you look for. In this way, exclusivity perpetuates itself.

The best way to _actually_ focus on hiring for skill? Find those who haven't been given a chance before, such as not having attended a top-name school and subsequently didn't end up at top-name firms, then invest in them. It's more expensive to do, but a lot of the top talent doesn't have the experience, interview skills and references you may be looking for.
Ask HN: What would happen if most of the money was in index funds?
So Warren Buffett has been telling laypeople to put their money in index funds in every Berkshire Hathaway annual report I've ever read. As I understand it, the allocation of funds in such an investment strategy is primarily influenced by the activities of actively managed investment funds. How would index funds work if they had a majority of the money? Or a supermajority? What if they had all of it?
This whole episode of "self regulation" of pharma companies by the FDA reminds my of the FAA's acceptance of Boeing's "self regulation" on the 737 MAX.
If your thesis is "UBI will be insufficient to get us where we want to be, we will need to make other changes" then at that vague level I can't really object - I certainly don't imagine UBI will fix everything forever.

But I don't think the improvement is temporary in the sense you mean. There are limits to how much UBI can inject at the lower end of the economy, but there are also limits to how much can be "siphoned away" - a raise to the cost of a good or service increases money saved by finding alternatives, some of which may be offered locally. Consider rent as a common example - even in the (extreme, unrealistic) case where all lodging is is owned by a single person and no new housing can be built, raising the rents demanded increases the benefit of cohabitation, enticing more people to do so.
Last I checked a backup camera isn't wearable

Also, just because Steve Mann said it doesn't make it canon, and he didn't invent AR - arguably Louis Rosenberg built the first functional AR system.
I doubt it. Age of Empires 2 is pretty much the entire AoE scene left. And Age of Empires 2 definitive edition (AoE2DE) is coming out soon. And that'll only work if it accurately recreates the AoE2 experience with better graphics and slightly better interface.

I expect any modern non-AoE2 AoE game to be just as bad as any other modern RTS. Even AOE2 DE was/is probably going to be requiring Win 10 just to force people to upgrade. MS is still MS.
Ten fold larger?
Doesn't take away the pain of being fired, perhaps he should have saved the $200 for a rainy day.
Because in the US, rail routes are almost exclusively owned by private freight carriers who are not motivated in the least to do public works projects and building an entirely new rail line would require taking away a ton of people's property.
I have worked with several AI/ML inventions. In the patent applications I am familiar with, the AI/ML components are often treated as black-boxes. Because the AI/ML components of the system are not really novel. Not unlike how a processor or memory component doesn't contribute to novelty either.

Also, the AI/ML parts of inventions I have seen are based on conventional/non-patentable AI/ML techniques.

It is the combination of AI/ML components with other components, such as, the bits about managing the inputs, outputs, feedback loops, model selection/management, training optimizations, or the like, that make a patentable AI/ML invention. Further, IMO, it would be poor patent drafting to draft a patent application that relies on particular AI/ML techniques. If your AI/ML techniques are really novel and patentable, you should still draft the patent such that other AI/ML techniques could be substituted into the system as well as claiming the unique AI/ML technique.
You’d be crazy to hire non-biglaw firms for certain work, and they only hire from T15 schools, so the system perpetuates.
It's not corrupted, but too small and underfunded, while the scope is huge. Really.
The elite is small. The companies engaging in practices like only hiring from Stanford CS, only hiring from Berkeley, and only hiring one ethnic group (!) from Stanford are engaging in self-limiting behaviour, as far as head count goes; but their command of capital is high.
It took 3 years to make it through the courts, and the city won by only 4-3 votes. And:

"As a result, many states changed their eminent domain laws. Prior to the Kelo decision, only seven states specifically prohibited the use of eminent domain for economic development except to eliminate blight. Since the decision, forty-five states have amended their eminent domain laws, although some of these changes are cosmetic"

And in the end, they didn't even use her property as intended:

"In spite of repeated efforts, the redeveloper (who stood to get a 91-acre (370,000 m2) waterfront tract of land for $1 per year)[citation needed] was unable to obtain financing, and the redevelopment project was abandoned. As of the beginning of 2010, the original Kelo property was a vacant lot, generating no tax revenue for the city.[2] In the aftermath of 2011's Hurricane Irene, the now-closed New London redevelopment area was turned into a dump for storm debris such as tree branches and other vegetation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
‘True Gen’: Generation Z and its implications for companies
> If everyone who _did_ hire fresh college grads gave preference only to those coming from exclusive schools, only those from exclusive schools end up with the experience, interview skills and references you look for. In this way, exclusivity perpetuates itself.

That does seem to apply for experience and references. If interview skills benefit from practice, I think it works the other way there.
Similarly, last week I was in Wichita to observe the Kansas Leadership Center. The center teaches people how to create social change and hopes to saturate the state with better leaders. But the center doesn’t focus on traditional “leaders.” Its mantra is: “Leadership is an activity, not a position. Anyone can lead, anytime, anywhere.” The atmosphere is one of radical inclusion. The enrollees I met included business leaders, teachers, line workers and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Radical inclusion may not be the right away to describe this. It makes it sound like a new idea.
Doing nothing is one of my top skills. Unfortunately my recruiter always tries to downplay it.
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Those are different uses of APM than what the parent is talking about. The unit selection cap is kind of a similar thing, but in practice, selecting an entire giant army and attacking with them all toward the same target at once is not competitive. So even without the unit selection cap, to win battles at high levels (even platinum and definetely diamond when I was playing) requires controlling small groups of different units in the right way. It does seem like you can get away with lower average APM for macro, but peak APM during key battles may have more of an impact. But I didn't play enough SC1 to really compare, I just mean that it is at least plausible based on my experience with SC2.
This article conflates many different definitions of elite: top quintile (20%) is mentioned at one point; super-elite colleges (<1%) is mentioned at another point; and superstar performers are probably <0.1%. I'm not sure it's saying anything useful beyond just generally ranting about our obsession with prestige.
Well when they first came out very few people used them, so it was usually quicker to go there :D Plus you can fit more self service checkouts in the same area (3x - 6x), so maybe it's not quicker for the individual but the overall rate is.
What's wrong with jQuery? It might be old and busted, but people have been testing and debugging it for years. As JS frameworks go, I've found that it's the best of a bad lot since you can use what you need with existing markup and CSS instead of having to rebuild to accommodate the framework.
I only buy generics from known reputable manufacturers, these are mostly locally made EU ones, bit more expensive than big pharma, say Teva or even maybe Sanofi (they're very likely local though) but at least predictable and it helps local business.

(Polish, Czech and Slovakian.)
This concept of Churchill as a man not completely obsessed - specifically during his tenure as prime minister - is just wrong.

He would dictate thousands of words a night and had a team of people who worked slavishly to interpret his volumes.
That’s not necessarily true. They would rather get something than nothing.

Who said anything about getting nothing? If the hospital sells your debt to a collection agency they get something. If the hospital deals with it in house they can act like UVA[1] and sue you to garnish your wages or take out a lien on your property. Playing chicken with the hospital billing department is a bad way to deal with medical debt.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/uva-has-ruined-us-heal...
In another thread, I got to: "Applicable regulations entitle you to jump pay for the time you spent in training last year." For the passive reading I think that's the correct active version.
Apple is huge. It's not clear to me whether the Apple GPU folks are involved, or whether it's just Apple's web people playing at graphics.
The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy
Low-cost 'electric fracking' offers boon to oil producers
I thought it was called Ebay. That's where I get my refurbished T-series ThinkPads for personal use.
Urban aviation: Flying taxis are taking off to whisk people around cities
American's are brainwashed to vote against their interests because there's significant money to be made. The healthcare lobby spends enormous sums lobbying (bribing) politicians, influencing debates, changing public opinion and killing legislation.
Silicon Valleying to the max. Another event that may create vertical acceleration is being sucked into the sky by aliens.
The question is what happens to the unresting guest when such event takes place?
That's right! They throw on Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium, but they do not add the other 14 elements, which yes, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen come from CO2 and H2O. But they also need iron, cobalt, selenium and others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_nutrition
It's well documented that Newton had multiple nervous breakdowns in his life including a year long one.[1]

[1]http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/his-personal-life
You can even just press esc!
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My chiropractor warned me about this. He said everyone is deficient in vitamins and minerals because of our food. He suggested an extreme pill popping routine, which was difficult to do. Does anyone agree with this approach? I was taking so many vitamins it made me feel sick. I can't remember the name of the routine, but I researched it online. I think it was used to treat schizophrenia.
America kills more people willingly than most other western countries. I work for a startup with a decent health insurance plan. But even then out of pocket is nuts.

For many procedures, we’ve just been avoiding going to the doctors. Doctors have been a hit and miss too. Most really don’t know what they’re talking about.

I’m kinda hopeful that someone will really commoditize common procedures and checks and will make them dirt cheap. May be amazon. Can’t say.

But shit like LapCorp and a whole swath of vulture physicians and insurance companies need to die.

US healthcare is really fucked up.
heirloom crops are not as productive. I grew many different varieties and some of the plants engineered for greenhouses would produce 5x as many tomatoes per plant than heirlooms in the same greenhouse, getting the same amount of water and fertilizer -- and they still tasted good. Much better than typical grocery store tomatoes. More modern varieties are also more resilient to disease and pests.
It seems like there are (almost) unimaginable bottlenecks in technology creation, leadership and creativity. The contrast between thenear unlimited amount of capital available for value creating companies, and the almost universal lack of people who can reliably create those companies, is staggering. Why does school still prepare people for a world of zero sum, mediocre work? There has never been a larger, more diverse capital class, but it seems like people could not be trying harder to avoid being a part of it.
And people all over the world go to South Korea for plastic surgery. We don’t stop being the best because we now pay for the care for every American at the point of need.

Specialized illnesses don’t discriminate by class. Those without means don’t receive the care they need. We are fighting so that the system centers that care instead of revolving around a third party private payer that has every incentive to deny that care.
Evennia. Actively developed, and lets you write in modern Python.

http://www.evennia.com/
Legal writing has a similar concept, though it's not as standardized as BLUF. It goes by various abbreviations: IRAC, CRAP, CRAC, CREAC. They all follow the same general format: state your conclusion (C) or the relevant issue (I), recite the rule (R) of law that applies to the facts, explain (E) how the facts apply (A) to the rule of law, and finally restate your conclusion (C) or predict (P) which way the ruling body will decide. Like BLUF, the legal writing format assumes the reader will read only the first part of a communication, and will continue only if he or she needs more detail.
That $600 is just monopoly money to the majority of constituents, because they have insurance of some kind or they're on Medicare/Medicaid. So those people are usually, not always, but usually fine.

And that of course is part of the problem. Medical billing is like playing numberwang or who's line is it anyway. No two numbers on a bill seem to be correlated in any way to another except as upper or lower bounds.

When someone without coverage comes in then, they have to play that stupid game with all the numbers, and of course they either ignore it and go into debt, pay the cash price if they're able, or they manage to negotiate it down by orders of magnitude - proving the price didn't matter anyway.
At a certain point, active strategies that attempted to avoid the bad and only pick the good assets would become effective again. I suspect we'll learn during the next crash that this has become the case, that some companies really are more productive than others, and that indexing simply results in an everything bubble. S&P 500 seems like a particularly arbitrary example, because it's an actively managed list of companies. Any time you have consensus, it's safe to assume that the pendulum has swung too far.
How is it a problem that women, for the most part, are not welders? Is it a problem that men are not nannies, for the most part? I think we all know what would happen if Bruno vs Betty got if each tried to hang out their shingle as a babysitter. Do you also fret about the prejudice that men face trying to find jobs in roles that are traditionally female?
What are you gonna do? You’re injured. Gonna go somewhere else? Everywhere it’s the same. The greatest scam of our time.
This marketing copy is great! I giggled at "Real, Flushing Toilet". Somebody put some love into this and it definitely shows.
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I work for a living and pay taxes. I see no reason why I should work a second unpaid job that does nothing but slap bandaids on socioeconomic issues that exist because we as a society have decided that the continued existence of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and premature death for lack of preventative medicine are a fair price to pay so that a few people can be billionaires.
From the article: "I’m pretty skeptical of the TV Plus project, but that shouldn’t take away from the broader story - that Apple is, mostly, doing things that are entirely natural and correct for this stage of the smartphone S Curve."

As an Apple shareholder, Apple TV Plus seems like more of a corporate boondoggle than a serious investment. Giving away anything in very un-Appley but Apple has essentially pegged its initial consumer value at zero. I doubt if many Android users will switch to iPhone solely because of the free subscription to TV Plus, but perhaps some existing Apple customers will decide to upgrade to get it.
Are you saying that only the top ~1% of law students are fit for "certain work"?
Your first statement is inaccurate, and your second statement tries to reword something I said earlier but is written as a direct personal attack. Your other post already got flagged, but you just don’t stop.

In general, anyone who speaks against Israel policies is ridiculed as an anti Semite. Your post and your personal attacks are once more trying to control the discussion.
CloudFlare Stock Jumps in Trade Debut After IPO
You enforced speed and lost clarity. You wrote “...to make writing more powerful.” which states nothing of value while “...designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.” tells you precisely that it was designed with the objectives of enforcing speed and enforcing clarity in the specific contexts of [military] reports and [military] emails.

With BLUF the burden is on the writer to be clear and concise, not on the reader to make the connections the writer hopes the reader will make. Leading with BLUF and expanding the acronym later in the sentence leads with the form in which you are most likely to encounter BLUF discussed in a professional context rather than expecting the reader to read the expanded form first and make the connection that “BLUF” is the contracted form of “Bottom Line Up Front” and “Bottom Line Up Front” is the expanded form of “BLUF”.
The Same Things That Make YouTube Great Might End Up Destroying It
The deleted slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence
In this case, its a bit ironic that the form he should have been carrying has the nickname "Get Out Of Jail Card."

> Specifically, the Register reports that the state court administration now claims it "did not intend, or anticipate, those [security testing] efforts to include the forced entry into a building."

I hope that they actually did have a Get Out Of Jail Card, and that it was signed by someone with the authority to have such a test conducted. With how it is ending up, it doesn't sound like everything was handled very cleanly. It would be interesting to see what their contract actually stated they would be doing.
Raw data from a 40-year-old study raises new questions about fats (2017)
Tubers and root vegetables and are about equivalent to bananas in potassium content. Some fruits have a bit less, and some a bit more. Leafy greens have about the same level of potassium per unit of weight, much more per calorie.

11 bananas worth is about 1000 calories. So if you get about 1/2 of your calories from varied non-grain plant foods, you should be good.
This.

I hope there will be some kind of option like ‘open this link in reader mode’.
Does it happen to be a certain school in Canada? Or California?
Ok, I had understood it as 7 free snapshots per day.
"I appreciate your thoughts. However, I'm not involved in organizing the colloquium, and don't know the origin of the name of the event." -Jeff Dean
Very likely too, including other issues previously found I'd expect anything to happen there.
Fascinating discussion, just noticed the article is about magnesium deficiency.

Magnesium pills! I love those things. The only supplement I take, because it gives such a direct brain-fog lifting effect and makes me poo good. Real good. A must before international travel.
Microsoft and Walt Disney to develop ‘scene-to-screen’ content workflows
Megatomb I believe
Any that allows static linking will get the same benefit.

For the three mentioned in the ancestor thread:

Apple doesn't ship a static libc, so developers must dynamically link.

glibc does allow static linking, but it is something they don't really go out of their way to promote and I recall some historic pains trying to get it to work right. Maybe that all works better today.

MSVC does allow static linking to msvcrt. MSVC is a little different than other platforms because they have permutations (and associated rules) you must be aware of: [debug | release], [static | dynamic], [single-threaded | multithreaded].
I don't think I will look at welds on an airplane the same after reading this. Very interesting, thanks for posting!
> Only 17 elements are required to grow a plant and these elements can be provided entirely through hydroponics

This claim is diametrically opposed to the "soil as living organism" claim above. What gives you confidence that there is no interaction between soil, fungi mycelium, plant roots, worm dung microorganisms etc. that you could possibly be missing?
Which companies are you talking about?
I'm a little confused.

* They operate a single service once a week on a round trip from SF to LA that departs SF 11pm Friday and departs LA 11pm Sunday? And they have no published timetable beyond Dec 2020?

* The bus has twenty total berths and each one costs about $100? Five of the berths feature the "Cloud Bump Cancellation System" thing that's being talked up on the ridecabin.com/product page?

* So do they have one total bus?

* They are selling about $4k per week of bus tickets? Does that cover the operating expenses of their very nice looking booking system and the regulatory obligations associated with being a bus company?

* What happens if something happens to that one bus -- does everyone get some other kind of bus ticket or what? The terms of transport seems to say ( https://www.ridecabin.com/termsoftransportationservices ) that they'll try to buy you a bus ticket if their bus isn't working. So ... if the bus is broken down you probably don't know until 11pm and then, how long does it take to get an alternate bus ticket? Where do those backup buses leave from and what timetables do they typically use and how do you get there?
Medium works mostly ok with JavaScript off. Some images don't show, but all the text, and no nagging.
I have a response to this comment which represents the result of 16 months of dedicated research, and will have a positive effect on both the discussion and also the industry as a whole, provided my content gets the attention that it deserves.

It'll cost you $15 to read it though. Research like this is expensive, and since you're the party who will benefit, you have a duty to pay me.

If you refuse to pay me to read what I have to say, it means you hate the truth.
You wouldn't taste it in a drug. Low concentrations and bound in binders or hidden by taste additives in syrups.

Typically researchers tasted small samples, not too risky.
Usually characteristic has a specific chemical kind of taste.

Yes, people have tasted solvents, glue and more nasty stuff.
FIN7's Jira admin pleads guilty for role in billion-dollar cybercrime crew
They did ship this in concert with Sharp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Nintendo_Television
what is the psychosis in the k8s community where they feel the need to talk about losing thousands of dollars? it's a recurring theme with this community that they think somehow makes them look cool - wouldn't that be a clear sign that they should not be using k8s to begin with?

this community is ripe for implosion - what a joke
Wouldn't surprise me. Contracts can get really complicated. For example my lease has a series of addendums that allow me to immediately break it with no financial penalities. Had they paid for better lawyers they might have had a more robust document.