skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we're specifically talking about someone who already has a job at Gitlab here and how the CoL adjustment affects them and the weird situation it creates, so the competitiveness doesn't really matter, they've already got the job.

Of course the competitiveness matters. It informs the level of optionality and leverage they have to negotiate. I would say that it's the only thing that matters. What about the CoL adjustment is weird besides it being reflective of the somewhat ugly and distasteful truth that to the company, you are a human resource and fungible cog? That's what they're paying for.

This employee will have to think about what happens if they do not come to a favorable agreement with their employer. Their BATNA completely depends on 1) the demand of other firms in the area (or remotely) and 2) their relative ability to compete. If they can perform well enough to move to a competing employer in the same locale that pays better, they will.
In places in India, it is customary to tip the postman whenever you receive something important - particularly, government documents like a passport, driving licence etc. because those are specially tracked and it's easy for the postal worker to recognize the envelope/packaging too.
They're literally trying to sneak this in while Americans are distracted by COVID-19.
Easy to say, less easy to do in real life where job opportunities and life situations don't always lend themselves to such a simple outlook.
Many people hate open offices but continue to take jobs where they will be working in an open office. Until companies can directly see the open office setup as a detriment to hiring or retention, companies will continue to utilize them to save money.

I don't expect to see them disappear completely anytime soon.
Some of them are pretty clever and could have easily become slang given enough time.

My first result was "upboard" which describes all the wood on a sailboat that is above the water.
Or deciding company/domain names.
You might want to add "(2014)" to the title.
Does your browser extension really need to access localhost/* - as in, port 80 on my local machine? That would make me very uncomfortable about installing the extension.

Would it be possible to restrict the extension to accessing a specific port or endpoint that is used by PushBullet?
noun [usually as modifier]
deflategate
de·flate·gate
a situation in which one side is unable to extricate itself from a dangerous dilemma, especially one involving civil disobedience or military attack
"a nuclear deflategate could doom the North Korea situation"
a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

This word was used for the Patriots scandal a few years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate
Everyone is acting like this is a failed industry or business model. It’s not, it’s under strain from COVID, but clearly it is growing.

It is a far better experience than calling local taxi companies. The same reason people use Uber.
First of all, they deliberately destroyed my bookmarks.

https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-...

> For a long time, it was just setting the default search provider to Google in exchange for a beefy stipend. Later, paid links in your new tab page were added. Then, a proprietary service, Pocket, was bundled into the browser - not as an addon, but a hardcoded feature. In the past few days, we’ve discovered an advertisement in the form of browser extension was sideloaded into user browsers. Whoever is leading these decisions at Mozilla needs to be stopped.

> Here’s a breakdown of what happened a few days ago. Mozilla and NBC Universal did a “collaboration” (read: promotion) for the TV show Mr. Robot. It involved sideloading a sketchy browser extension which will invert text that matches a list of Mr. Robot-related keywords like “fsociety”, “robot”, “undo”, and “fuck”, and does a number of other things like adding an HTTP header to certain sites you visit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...

> Mozilla’s motto is “internet for people, not profit,” however the realities of having to fund all of its ventures are forcing the company into adopting one of the web’s less human-friendly aspects: sponsored content. Having acquired read-it-later service Pocket last year, Mozilla has been populating new tabs in Firefox with Pocket reading suggestions — and those are now going to include links that an advertiser has paid for.
Huh? They turned off reviews because a worldwide pandemic eliminated their ability to maintain staff to moderate reviews. That's the opposite of "automating it".
Ah I didn't see your comment higher up. Thanks, makes sense.
You asked for the negatives, but please don't get me wrong. I really like the interface and many of the features of UE, and the tech behind it. It's just a shame I felt forced to move away from it. Also, please keep in mind I'm not the typical person who is trying to get into gamedev on the side, as I'm a RMS loving, linux-only, most of my stack is gpl sorta dude.

On the last point, you may be right, I might have been a bit hyperbolic but there are cases where I have seen it play out. One of my favorite games in the potential department was Mortal Online, but it constantly struggled with UE3 limitations despite official Epic support and moves with Atlas, etc (heres to hoping Mortal Online II using UE4 is good). UE4 has great graphics but as you know there is more to a game than that.
I transitioned to FFox myself. I occasionally have to use Chrome for work, and it's nothing I find myself missing. If Chrome is messing up your day, it's really easy to cut it out.
This isn't supposed to be a real game but a tech demo of engine capabilities. Expecting them to spend as much money on getting climbing animations as good as a AAA game is kind of crazy.

When it comes to animation the interesting stuff were the "automated" hand/foot placement animations like the hand on the door they mentioned.
I think the main reason services like Uber Eats aren't profitable right now are because of competition. They have to out-market and under-price their competitors.

Buying GrubHub may make Uber Eats profitable in places where GrubHub is their main competition.
Out of Control was the right book in the right place at the right time. Time has moved on, and the book is kind of stuck there, which in a way is a good thing in that it allows us to go back and see all the 'possibility' of the future in the book from where we have ended up.

How much control did/do we have anyway, and how much did we have back then?
It's a tech demo so I cannot expect more but it feels bland to me. More like a live interactive movie. I see no potential for gaming.. the visual and geometric complexity dwarfs the usual gameplay IMO.
They are still doing in house engine. id Tech is now at version 7 and is used by their latest game Doom Eternal (running on Vulkan exclusively). Extremely well optimized for any configuration spec and run great especially on AMD GPU.
Vitamin D deficiency in Northern Italy is prevalent.
This made my day dude, thanks for that. Imma dropping everything now and going to make rounded corners button with WebGL canvas, using signed distance function in a fragment shader.
We might work at the same company!

I lead one of our teams and that's pretty much the explicit directions my VP gave us. Actually, the entire leadership team gave those directions. It's made me glad I switched jobs 18 months ago.

Somehow I'm the only one on our team with kids but some of my team has had a difficult time managing the change from an emotional standpoint and I just treat it the same way. I don't expect them to somehow magically "power through it". They're normally very productive and I know this will pass.
Asciidoctor: Keep Line Breaks in Paragraphs (2014)
thanks for getting back. You're right it was in the config file, my problem was that I had the font name surrounded by quotes and so it wasn't recognized. This works:

cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans Regular 12
...

for some reason ~/.gtkrc-2.0 needs variable values quoted, but gtk-3.0 doesn't.
>a flight overflying the US will often land in the US, and a plane ordered by US authorities to land while overflying has to comply. Lots of US influence in this area.

Is it possible that some people are afraid of being charged with "Conspiracy against the United States" [1] and that they have to wait a long time in the USA until a jury decides that they are innocent?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_the_United_...
Shoot, a McDonalds burger meal and some nuggets ran me damn near $33 CAD for Uber Eats.

I don't have a car, otherwise I'd just hit the drive through myself.
>> As much as we can criticise Google's handling of this situation, the fact that the developer was able to reduce permissions from accessing data on _all websites_ down to _their website_, as well as tighten up a few other permissions, shows that Google is correct that the extension is asking for more than it needs.

OK fair enough, but why aren't the big violators held to this? (I realize this example isn't Chrome, but it is Google Calendar -- ever try to add a Zoom meeting invitation to your Google calendar? Zoom wants access to read and write all events ever on your entire calendar!
A Post on Fragile Constructors
If you're looking for a crash course on him as a political thinker, you could check out the selections that seem of interest to you from his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary[0]. If you want a more specific list (and a reasonably coherent reading order):

* 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science' ("It is a question with several, whether there be any essential difference between one form of government and another? and, whether every form may not become good or bad, according as it is well or ill administered?")

* 'Of the First Principles of Government' ("Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few")

* 'Of the Origin of Government' ("Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society, from necessity, from natural inclination, and from habit.")

* 'Of Parties in General' ("As much as legislators and founders of states ought to be honoured and respected among men, as much ought the founders of sects and factions to be detested and hated; because the influence of faction is directly contrary to that of laws.")

* 'Of Passive Obedience' ("The maxim, fiat Justitia & ruat Coelum, let justice be performed, though the universe be destroyed, is apparently false, and by sacrificing the end to the means, shews a preposterous idea of the subordination of duties.")

* 'Of the Coalition of Parties' ("Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure. All human institutions, and none more than government, are in continual fluctuation.")

* 'Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' ("What depends upon a few persons is, in a great measure, to be ascribed to chance, or secret and unknown causes: What arises from a great number, may often be accounted for by determinate and known causes.")

* 'Of Commerce' ("The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers, who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers, who go beyond it.")

* 'Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing' ("Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments, which are natural, without being obvious. There cannot be a juster, and more concise definition of fine writing.")

* 'Of Refinement in the Arts' ("We shall here endeavour to correct both these extremes, by proving, first, that the ages of refinement are both the happiest and most virtuous; secondly, that wherever luxury ceases to be innocent, it also ceases to be beneficial; and when carried a degree too far, is a quality pernicious, though perhaps not the most pernicious, to political society.")

[0]: Available on https://davidhume.org/
"JUST QUIT" makes it sound like quitting is an easy thing to do. "like they have a gun to their head" makes it sound like direct physical threat is the only mechanism of coercion that exists. These things are just not true.

For a lot of people, who have more expenses than savings and are not in highly demanded jobs, quitting puts them at great risk. They have a metaphorical gun to their heads. They might not die the moment they quit, but by quitting they are endangering themselves and those that depend on them. Their relationship with employment is inherently coercive.

This is especially true during a pandemic that's causing more people to be unemployed.
Funding is the core problem. My wife is a historian and every time the potential of things like digitization or archiving digital content comes up it always comes back to "grants are so incredibly small and archives don't have enough money to just maintain the books they already have, let alone expand". There's a lot of interesting research in this area but it isn't being put into practice because there is no funding.
I'm not an expert at all in this subject, but I think a lot of these actions are a way of pushing forward Russia's sphere of influence over the Arctic.
We went through the same problem at Superhuman (and as I write our latest extension update has been pending review for 2 weeks, so maybe we're about to hit it again).

Simeon on the mailing list was quite re-assuring, and I would recommend reaching out to him, though there are limits to what he can help with.

That said we found that the review process is quite arbitrary, resubmitting may work simply because you get a different reviewer. (We've seen identical copies of the extension with different version numbers where one was approved and one rejected).

We've also observed that they use some kind of automated code-analysis to tell whether or not you're making use of the permission; so you may want to check that it's obvious from the code included in the extension bundle that you need the permissions you're asking for.

We've also hypothesized that they apply different standards to extensions depending on the number of users – our staging extension (~50 users) usually gets approved quickly, but our production extension usually takes a while and is less likely to be approved. (This may just be luck of the draw coupled with arbitrariness though)
If it's a well understood domain, up front design is nice. A simple drawing that fits on a sheet of paper.

If it's new territory, up front design is worthless. You've never attempted to create a facial recognition program before. Not too long ago, no one else had either so there wasn't a lot of useful content to study. Your best bet is to try making 1 small useful unit of work, iterate, try again. Fit the pieces you create to achieve a goal. A design is grown from the bottom up. Now you have a better understanding of the problem and may be able to do some design.
It does:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...
A few people will do that, yes, but there are a couple million software developers in the US, and most of them are not going to suddenly move to sparsely populated interior states. They'll spread out from the SF bay area a bit.
i wonder what would happen if you ran out there and snarfed license plates and vins
Seems like a perfectly cromulent project to me.
And yet somehow, the current infrastructure was built and financed. Why can't more infrastructure be built in cities, and how could it possibly not be financially viable?

Building housing doesn't mean people are born to fill the new housing. Everybody has to live somewhere! So the choice is to build out in sprawl, on green/brown fields. We did that. It turns out that suburbs are economically unsustainable because they require too much infrastructure per capita. Each person requires more roads, more pipes, more sewage lines... whereas cities are economically sustainable, because the per-person infrastructure costs are much lower, because the same pipe is far more efficient, and there's far less roads needed per person when they aren't sprawled out and people are able to walk to their destinations.

We are so far from becoming HK that it's not really a relevant comparison. We force additional housing costs where we don't need to by artificially restricting supply. If we continue to do that, the housing price imbalance will get even further out of whack.

The only people who lose under these conditions of housing austerity are those with less wealth, as it always is with austerity policies. Those who are striving to improve their situation won't get a chance to move to an area of higher economic opportunity because when prices are high, nobody can even make it in to the city. This has an enormous opportunity cost both for the individuals who can't live in the city of their choice, and for society that excludes that social interaction and economic activity. It has tremendous effects of increasing wealth inequality too.
Yep, because harassing interracial couples is so hilarious \s.
Some of the previous discussion when they had layoffs earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22057737
I violently agree with you.

The most important thing you can do during a job interview is to as best you can figure out who the talented people are and how long they've been at the company. If the most talented people are the people who have been there the longest, it's a good sign. If the people who have been there the longest don't seem to do any technical work and seem like powerpoint monkeys, it's a dire warning sign that the company is deeply dysfunctional.

In any case, the "Dead Sea Effect" is not a general truth, it's only true in dysfunctional organizations. The author of the linked post seems to be a consultant who helps failing IT organizations turn the ship around. I think his experience has led him to self-select into the dysfunctional ones.
Would love to get feedback on how to make this more interesting, any technical issues, etc.
YES BABY!!! I use to do it all the time. =)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040204003135/http://www.realid...
Can you fill me in on the "joke" here:

"The cucks refer to the white men who date women on the coal fax registry. These “men” deserve to be shamed and humiliated. Once you go black, we don’t want you back."
Uncertainty, as mantra
Fingers crossed that this option becomes a normal offering. Personally, I've been loving WFH. I've been much happier and productive.

But I can totally understand those who have young children who can distract them and hinder productivity.
It says, in the email provided, exactly what must be done: Change the required permissions - your scope is too broad.
Fair. It certainly makes me appreciate the little details in games like Tomb Raider and Uncharted more.
For people leaving in a downturn that is a reasonable assumption. If the employment market is bad, then mediocre employees have no good options to leave - they might try, but they won't find anything better; but really good techs will have opportunities in any market; well, at least they had in the last 'busts'.
Ah, convolution reverb. We've had it for a long time in DSP. Basically what you do is pop a balloon (create an "impulse" -- you can also clap your hands or use an electric arc) and record the echo. This gives you what's called the "impulse response" of the space.

Reverb is really just thousands of echoes, and echoes are just the original sound delayed back to you. So what you can do is use the impulse response in a FIR filter, convolve it with the original signal, and you've recreated the same reverb with a different sound.

This technique has been quite accessible to audio engineers (and mechanical engineers) for a few decades now. But you really only go out and sample impulse responses when you really need a very accurate model of the reverb. In most cases someone will just use a precanned impulse response.
When baseball season is actually occurring I will sometimes look up weather in a half dozen cities around the country to get an idea of which games might get rained out. Not exactly the same thing but I'm not actually traveling to any of them.
This project is one huge yak shave starting from that idea! I was trying to pick a company name in the AI space and thought it would be appropriate if it was generated by ML. I tried a few datasets for training, and using the Oxford English Dictionary led me here
I think you are thinking about this too much. I know you would like to earn these big packages in Ohio. But honestly, what is more likely to happen is that companies will optimize for themselves too and if they are able to find good talent at cheaper prices (since cost of living expenses for employees are down significantly), they will do that. So on average SV salaries will go down as employees spread over US.

Can't have it both ways. SV pays top $$ because of 1) top notch skills and 2) cost of living. Now you are taking #2 away - so things will ease a bit
Same for me. I haven't been CAPTCHA'ed in a bit but the last few times were absurd. I had to solve 6-10 screens probably cause I was failing.

I was getting questions where I'm just not sure what the right answer is.

Which pictures have traffic lights? And then some pictures where I can barely make out a traffic light far away in the background. Does this count?

Which pictures have busses? Is the blurry white vehicle a large passenger van or a small bus? I don't know.

Then the most absurd one, I was asked to select tiles containing a bicycle, on a picture like this:

https://www.bikecleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sha...

Does a representation of a bicycle count? I don't know.

And then when there is just a few pixels of an object going into a tile, am I supposed to select it?
How to stop social engineering attacks on your contact center
I want to know the constraints to, and evolution of, sequential computation on the BEAM. I want to form opinions on how that landscape is likely to change within the lifespan of a project I'm affiliated with.

I get mostly false positives trying to find those sorts of discussions or metrics.
Code Golf: Write the Shortest Program to Shutdown the Computer
I thought Horizon Zero Dawn hit the right balance across gameplay, visuals and story narrative in this current generation of gaming and received all the praise it deserved. Now, I’ll say in my opinion, not one thing was overwhelmingly novel in comparison to the rest, but the attention to detail given to each of those elements elevated the collective experience in that particular title, the result was a game that felt incredibly fresh and easily replayable.
You're going to absolutely love what Oculus is working on.
I was going to say that its nice to live in a dense city that always get the latest tech offerings, compared to the suburbs anywhere

but then I remembered how many of the scooter offerings have already disappeared

these food delivery courier services can disappear just as quick, to be replaced by smaller local networks and restuarant specific services just like they used to be
Are There Laws of History?
i guess removing plaintext http and localhost should fix this.
Nature has a way of winning the long game. I fear vaccines overall will soon lose momentum much like antibiotics have.

Both are really new medical technologies in the scope of life.
Mailbox.org here. Happy customer so far.
These are great.

I wish there were one for 70s/80s album art, but last time I looked at these projects they are still out of reach for hobbyists. I could stare at those all day.
Brain simulation in a computer, for instance. Like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

The meaningful distinction is "not a biological organism".