skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is you who obsesses over gender I'm afraid, not me. What I am saying is that as the hirer, you are able to give someone a chance. Therefore, you can look at the potential of your candidates, rather than accomplishments. You can also look at how much you can afford a wrong hire, because it is a risk, sure.

It was ambiguous whether or not you were advocating for using gender as a proxy for "better culture fit". The GP was just being explicit that that's a bad idea.

> Knowing that people from group X (be they women, men, minorities, people from poor background without access to networks) on average are going to need bit more help than people from the right background, the right education, the right everything, that is something you can use in order to a) be the change you want to see b) run the risk of fresh ideas in your org.

It seems like you're actually arguing for using gender, race, etc as a proxy for "better culture fit" or "fresh ideas". This is illegal in most civilized places as it's immoral and based on dubious assumptions (notably that there is more inter-group intellectual diversity than intra-group diversity, i.e., all men (or women, or whites, or asians, or etc) are the roughly same).
The "reconstructed" recipe omits the dried barley cakes mentioned in the original inscription. The barley cakes sound like they probably would've been similar to Hardtack, and likely added to the soup to soften the bread and, perhaps, eventually dissolve it altogether to be used as a thickener.

The addition of beer into the recipe is also an interesting touch. That ingredient has all but disappeared from modern Middle Eastern cuisine due to the spread of Islam, but it certainly would not have been out-of-place in ancient Mesopotamia.
A lot of people don't want to fix the high rents/house prices...
You're just redefining "divide" to mean something more substantial than I am. Do you think this is so insignificant that it doesn't even warrant a conversation?
Gamified Participation: The Mass Adoption Solution?
This is partly a function of Japan. They have rock-bottom productivity, and very long working days. It is very difficult to actually stop employees working 12-hour days there so knocking off a day makes perfect sense.
Not as far as I can tell, but I'm also not sure what you may have been seeing! Any chance you can send me a screenshot? blake@shipyardapp.com
Chromium based Edge is de-googled. However it is Microsofted and Binged instead.

At least there is now choice which company gets to have all of your data.
There isn't anything inherently wrong with the chromium web engine. Lot's of open source browsers use it's backend without having to communicate to google whatsoever.

It's fast and it works everywhere
It is not a defect. It is literally intentionally broken! Do you actually know this space?

The modal example, it's to support new design language Apple is pushing, straight up breaks modals designed a certain (valid) way.

Catalina removed XML exports used by music apps. There was no deprecation warning.

Apple's recommended fix? Don't update if you need one of those apps.

These are not defects, they are literally breaking changes intentionally made with no warning.

I don't understand why all of you seem to be operating underthe assumption apps using "public APIs" just work with each OS update. It just doesn't work like that. They break and crash not due to defects but due to intentional changes
That is what your employer paid for your insurance. You might be able to get a cheaper plan on Obamacare/ACA. Companies pay large portion of your insurance that you never see. COBRA brings it all to light.

There is a movement to count medical benefits as income, which would shed light on this (in fact that was part of Obamacare/ACA, but politicians keep putting it off because they know no wants to pay taxes on their healthcare...)
I believe makerdao sets it at 150%. If it ever drops under that amount they auction off the underlying asset on the the open market.
Standard HN comment stuff. Making comments ignoring the gist of the article, check.

Sorry for the sarcasm, here are the relevant quotes:

> There is no evidence of grape seeds or winemaking in central Europe, the authors note, so it must have been imported

> Tartaric acid is usually considered to be a grape product/wine marker because of its high concentration in grapes in contrast to other fruits available in Europe during the Early Iron Age
> Culture shifts should be a byproduct of effective, non-discriminatory hiring practices (which includes blinding to protected classes).

Good idea, but nearly nobody does it (removing socioeconomic indicators such as name/gender/address from CVs). It is also difficult to insulate yourself from your network when hiring, as well as controlling for other items on a CV (you want Ivy League? Hello bias!).

Which is why I think some active thought on the subject of diversity is essential when hiring. You will never remove bias completely, so we might as well acknowledge the 800 pound gorilla and deal with it directly.
> replace async documented process with lovely hours-long face-to-face 20-person meetings.

This has been a particular pain-point for me at times. Example: two meetings with the same team members on two connected subjects of about 45mins to an hour in length, spaced half an hour apart when they could easily be combined. That's just in one day. There are others that have mirrored those throughout a week. The meetings don't need to be as long as they are, but they're scheduled for that long and the rest of the time is often filled with awkward chit-chat. But it fills the manager's calendar slots so that they appear effective, even if a lot of time is being squandered. Add on all the frustration of the back and forth across floors, wandering the halls looking for a meeting room that isn't double-booked or waiting on people to vacate rooms, etc etc.

IC time is more directly controlled this way. Occasionally it makes sense, but the amount of duplication is, at times, staggering and can be frustrating.
Moth-Poulsen’s Energy-Trapping Molecule Could Solve Solar Storage
But it's not shady at all. Like these bike companies track the location of the bikes with GPS. Any when you go for a ride on one you are by proxy being tracked with GPS. Like this isn't magic or unexpected. Are you mad that an airlines have your location information while you're on the plane? Are you gonna demand the FAA stop tracking flights for rider privacy?

But nobody actually getting the blame since it would be weird if anyone was actually mad at this. Does anyone seriously believe that using Find My iPhone doesn't allow Apple access to your phone's location for the purposes of showing you where it is?
"What was eye opening to me is that, if the GP is to be believed, is that people keep buying F150s?"

During the recession and auto industry bailout, Ford was the only auto company to almost immediately repay their TARP funding and was also giving out loans to people. They were practically unaffected and didn't even need the TARP funding in the first place.
People would be OK if all their basic needs would be covered. If they didn't get ruined by single complicated health issue. If they knew that social system will help them out a bit in case they lose a job - not too much, just to help them bridge the gaps between jobs. If they knew that their kids are getting a decent education for free. None of this needs to be worlds best, just good enough.

Have this, and you have a satisfied population that won't revolt against rich no matter how little rich pay in their taxes. But from what I read here over and over, US currently has none of this for below-medium/median income.

I think the thing keeping poorer US population from revolt is this common mentality that success comes only from hard work, and if you're not successful, well you just didn't work hard enough. Rags to riches ideal, which as we know is rather a myth due to real social (im)mobility. But repeat a myth a thousand times and it will become a rule.
The article refers specifically to people in modern-day Germany drinking grape wine imported from Mediterranean countries.
It's not shady though!

That's the point. If you buy a GPS tracker, for example, by definition it will track your GPS location.

Would you expect a GPS tracker to not track your GPS location? Because that is what you are saying.
It probably depends, more than anything else, on how much lobbying money is available to help convince our friends at Capitol Hill to keep the gravy train rolling.
What is the situation for "reproduce a currently-installed system from a list of packages (including version/release if relevant) and a tarball/git checkout/package-deployment/puppet run etc. of configs"?

As far as I know, on most BSDs, unless you happen to have a complete source tree snapshot for said system (becoming more difficult to maintain if you build multiple systems without special tricks to retain binary artifacts), you're out of luck, you'll get today's STABLE or RELEASE, not the one from 17 days ago when your current production box was built that works perfectly unlike the one today that is broken.

This is trivial to accomplish on all Linux distros.

(I would say this kind of issue should be listed in the table in the article).
Amazon did 60-hour weeks at the start, and paid the equivalent of $3/hour. If you create an "elite" culture, ironically, you can sucker employees into working for peanuts.
This is CRAZY.

How the fuck do you explain this level of trolling to your parents! That this is why they shouldn’t repeat neo-Nazi Facebook garbage.
Reddit r/science is one of science’s biggest outlets with the stats to prove it
> I wish people would stop saying online that SSRIs are a scam.

Some people like their SSRI's, some people kill themselves soon after starting that class of drug [0] (presumably due to the serotonin syndrome [1]).

> My life was saved by Lexapro, an SSRI.

My friend told me about how Lexapro seemed to help her. But it also didn't keep her from relapsing on cocaine, a pro-dopamine drug. The MAOIs are much more useful for a cocaine-like boost that doesn't make them crash after 20 minutes than the SSRIs, which take weeks/months before most people notice any benefit, and which help some people by helping them "not care" about their life situation.

20 years ago teh scientists figured out that it's not extra serotonin that helps people, but the SSRI's effects on neurosteroids: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/1999/11/5059/scientists-identify-n...

> If you need help don’t get spooked by the parent commentator. Help exists.

My observation is that some people don't actually get the help they need, and deteriorate from defective prescriptions. My friend needed help getting her drinking under control, but all she got was medically assaulted with anti-dopamine drugs (so-called "antipsychotics").

The tragedy is that we actually know how to help people. Some of the MAOIs are much better drugs to use temporarily while helping people deal with "stress".

[0] https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/10/11-9-million-paxil-suic... - I think the damages were overturned on appeal.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5370302/
>"work less and be more efficient."

This doesn't apply to MANY jobs, unless you're talking about replacing humans with robots with superior strength and agility that do not need to rest.

The majority of HN, and silicon valley types in general, are incredibly myopic. The vast majority of people here automatically assume everyone else in a thread works in CS, they assume everyone has a degree, they assume everyone hammers away at code in a comfy office all day.

The vast majority of the world is not sitting at a computer coding for 6 figure salaries with great benefits and profit sharing.
Yes. Corporation do what their customers want. So you, as a customer, have control of them.
Very skeptical about these kinds of studies that claim great productivity gains by cutting work hours by significant amounts. What is the cut-off point here? Why not make it a 3-day week and get even more productivity gains? Obviously, there are diminishing returns, what are they?

And how do they differ per industry? I can tell you right now, the vast majority of jobs do require the current hourly investment (and then some). Are there industries that would see productivity gains from a 6-day or 7-day workweek (not that we want to change to that schedule - but it's worth a contrast)? Many businesses will pay out over time even though it means paying out 1.5x or 2x or even 2.5x base pay - they aren't stupid. Clearly, there is SOME benefit.
That's not an issue at all, for large transactions. The real issue is each payment being a taxable event, due to IRS treating it as property, rather than currency. You literally have to report each payment on schedule D and calculate its cost basis! This burden kills any legal US adoption.
Renting scooters and necessarily keeping track of them is “shady”? What else is shady?
You don't. You make a business to business contract. So it's not really employment.
Not every startup seeks investors
https://gizmodo.com/apple-successfully-avoids-50-billion-in-...
The problem is that the "party aspect" only works because it's bundled. "I'm going to spend the next four years of my life partying" is not the kind of decision that parents and society are likely to subsidize.
A better way would be build a campus in a cheapper place and offer benefits for works to move to this places.

Continental US is full of dying cities that need a stead source of income that big companies like Apple, google could supply. In the day and age of remote work and comunication, there`s no more escuses to concentrate resources in places like California, NY, etc.
SQL+Python is extremely powerful, and the author makes some good points (multivariate regression should be done in python and not SQL for example), but the query example in the blog is not a good one. Every modern DB has aggregate and statistical functions like ntile, percent_Rank, median, min, max, etc. I’d honestly rather run these functions against the database than do it in python. Especially if you're working with billion+ row datasets. In fact if all I'm doing is these kinds of statisical/aggregate functions then I definitely wouldn't use python at all.
Yet another article showcasing how the tech interview process is fundamentally flawed.

Personal anecdote: I recently underwent an interview process for a position in my field of expertise (computer vision) consisting of multiple in-person stages, whiteboard coding, product design and a take-home assignment that required developing a foundational (bubble-sort like) algorithm from scratch. After successfully completing all of these hurdles, I ended up with a low-ball offer targeting entry-level candidates. If we could have discussed the compensation up front, I wouldn’t even have bothered.
the stock market is a secondary market, so buying the shares doesn't inject capital into the company itself.

I suppose you could make an argument that investing in the primary market gives you more power/moral responsibility.

The extremely high valuations of Beyond meat and Tesla show you that many investors are willing to shower these companies in money.

As unbelievable amounts of capital are moving into solar and wind, it becomes marginally less attractive for additional funds to be deployed into these industries.
>What do you mean ‘things are good for me now’ ?

You own a home. Your housing payments aren't being thrown into a void.

>Repealing prop 13 in order to take peoples homes away through confiscatory taxation so that people with high incomes can buy them is not a correction. It is theft.

So is rent-seeking, if we have such a low bar for "theft." Really, it's just society deciding where its priorities lay: people who need housing for practical reasons, or the people privileged enough to use their housing as an investment vehicle?

>Why not work somewhere else where you can afford a home? That is the real ‘correction’.

Now you're getting emotional. That's not a market correction at all.
Non amp: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/cy40bc/when_elon_mu...
> I remember this being an issue when I was doing remote work. I would be curious what the fix is for this. It does seem like simply moving the interrupt driven physical office to an interrupt driven virtual office defeats one of the key benefits of remote work.

Maybe. In some offices, it only means that you get both: constant pings from even unrelated teams' chats, etc, and the in-office interruptions. I'd like if this were limited to one form...
The link doesn't. The experience you will have if you actually go try to start a bank will. I only provided the link to point you to the entrance of the rabbit hole.
There's good argument to be made a lot of restrictions on business are unconstitutional in various ways. It is not that any regulation on business or activity is absurd; it is more that in practice what the regulation says and what it does are not reconcilable.

E.g. many locations have pet registration fees but these fees may not entirely go towards the maintenance of a pet tracking system* or to retaining animal control. In some places none of the fees go towards those things. So it's just a tax that was never voted on.

* And do these things even lead to a safer public? In some cases outcome testing isn't required for a valid law, but if the law states desired outcome it can be.
Thank you for your reply. Granted that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and all the others collect data on us. And this is used by the Government security agencies (i.e. NSA/CIA as described by Snowden) to spy on us -- as we all know now the agencies have backdoors to these Corporations enabled with stuff like 'secret rooms' (AT&T) common. In which case this is used to detect terrorism threats. Why state-operators with enormous funding, like let's say Iran or North Korea or Russia or China -- won't generate systems like this to make NSA/CIA job harder (if anything). If I were Iran state security institution planning, targeting and executing terrorist attacks against the US and their allies -- I would be very interested to do things like millions of email accounts sending millions of emails daily with trigger words like 'bomb', 'attack', 'death to america', etc, etc. So my real communication would be a drop in the ocean of similar-looking noise.

What is stopping these actors from doing just that?

I have wondered about this for long time and I'm just curious. If the whole 'terrorism threat' thing is real, we would see counter-actions like this done by terrorism sponsoring organizations or states. No?
It's one thing for private universities to cost so much, but there needs to be a tuition free public option.
Why is it ridiculous? The espionage laws in question apply to individuals / nationality, and are explicitly aimed at persons living abroad.
Rolling weekends are problematic because it limits all social events to the evening. If no one has a shared day off, then daytime events which involve groups of people aren't possible.

A 2-day weekend, with one day/half day off during the week for appointments, would be a much better system. The employee could select the day themselves to suit their preferences.
There is a concordance for Gravity's Rainbow - which helps for non native readers.

That is assuming there is a corrected version the first printing I have confuses what a "redcap" is in the British military
> $1 billion to help first-time home buyers find mortgages.

Adding more money to the supply while leaving demand frozen will only raise housing prices.

I'm sure everyone making this decision already owns a house, and will enjoy the benefits.
I work at one local university, and my wife works at another. One thing we've definitely noticed (and this is a widespread problem) is that the administration is becoming more top-heavy. There are cutbacks in faculty, support, and teaching staff, more reliance on adjuncts (academic temps, basically), and so on, while central administration grows. Expensive new buildings contribute, but less than people suppose. But that is a tangential problem, in that wealthy donors want to give big gifts for vanity projects rather than to, say, scholarship funds.
Have you used Google analytics / tag manager? There's a lot more than who came here from where that logs could provide. And without rebuilding the connecting different requests to the same session
higher stocker price and more discounts + aid. It’s the clothing store pricing model.
I meant the Sift reports, not the big three CRAs. The Sift reports will contain your email address since it's reporting mostly on online services (that require an email address to use)
If enough divest from Exxon they become a penny share, Greenpeace could buy them purely to sit the reserves away from use. Ridiculous, but being bought as the share price drops low enough is not. Every time a currency drops markedly businesses there are exposed to another round of international buyouts.

Similarly regulation and impact fines and levies will come. Maybe Exxon gets bought by someone looking to asset strip or use the remaining oil to pivot them elsewhere...

Would you pick up $100 and put it in your wallet in front of a police officer?

Note on meat - American and Argentinian meat specifically - other parts of the world manage to raise livestock in a far less destructive manner.
Interestingly enough, many elite schools have need-blind admissions and excellent aid if you are poor. If you are rich, it's affordable. As usual, it's the middle class that gets screwed.
>> All the other distros, that had better-planned migrations (Arch, ...

I stopped using Arch when my system became unbootable after systemd was initially pushed out.
> If you transfer offices from Seattle USA, to say, London UK, do you suddenly get more vacation days due to EU standards?

Yes, this is how it works. When I moved from California to the Midwest while working at Microsoft, I had to be paid out accrued vacation because California requires employers to keep accruing vacation time, while other states allow companies to put a cap on it.
Is University of Chicago even that good? Genuinely curious, as I know nothing about it. I live here in Chicago, and feel like I never hear about it, compared to say Northwestern or like UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago). Why would anyone ever pay that much for college yearly, if it wasn't like the #1 school, by a landslide, in the US?

EDIT: I guess it is good? haha The more you know. Just surprising that I've been here in Chicago for almost 10 years now, and feel like I never hear about it compared to other colleges in the city. Maybe it's cause they aren't downtown or something? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I suppose that depends on what a programmer is asked to do. There are many roles and not all of them need the same thing regarding knowledge, computer science or abstract thinking.

If you are in a position where you mostly do the same thing over and over inside a relatively complete framework for a managed or scripting language, you are unlikely to find yourself building data structures, algorithms or understand what a query planner in an RDBMS might be up to. Those positions are far more prevalent than people might think.

On the other side are the people that have to make sure that they get as much speed and/or as little memory usage as possible because they work on software that will scale (i.e. a small data structure that is used to keep track of filesystem allocations - you don't want a slow structure that also eats up a lot of disk space). But there are far fewer people that actually do that, and in theory far fewer people are needed to do that because a 'good enough' filesystem will fit all of those people from the other category. If one filesystem developer can support 100 million managed-language-framework-MVC-website engineers it's a pretty good scale.
"It’s the same reason why most big corps oppose a national healthcare system in the US"

Why would any company oppose a healthcare system in the US? It effectively moves the blame for healthcare from company to government.
He has good taste :-)