skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been sitting here for 5 minutes feeling horrified and sad that your comment is downvoted to near unreadability for suggesting that lying like that in an interview may be unethical, while a sociopathic-sounding child comment extolling the virtues of lying/misleading – they "can actually help things flow smoothly and justly", without lying "the interview might have gone badly" and lecturing you on "radical honesty" being a sign of problems/mild autism like you're a naive idiot who just doesn't understand the world – isn't downvoted at all. I wouldn't call it "radical honesty" not to lie in a situation like this! Sounds like "radical honesty" has a new meaning "not lying in any situation you could gain an advantage by doing so".

This reminds me of another time on HN someone told a story about how they'd cheated in a hi-tech way in an exam and a dozen comments supported them, not one person suggesting it might be wrong...until me, then I got virulently attacked for doing so. At least there their comment got [dead]ed.

I just wanted to say - you're not alone, that also seems very dodgy to me. Moments like this HN is very disappointing.
This is addressed by product approvals and safety standards. Apple, Dell or BestBuy aren’t going to be selling knockoff chargers. If other stores are selling counterfeit products that don’t comply with approvals/standards they should face fines and criminal charges.
Coronavirus fatality rate could be as low as 0.26%, CDC says
>A middle man advocates for you

Triplebyte is doing this by making you pass their assessment prior to listing you. Your presence on their platform is them selling you up.

Even if they do nothing but provide an introduction between you and a third party, and have no involvement whatsoever after that (aside from taking some sort of cut), they are still a middle man, because the connection was made through them, and they vetted your skills and qualifications.

It's not like LinkedIn, where you can just auth with a phone number and then put whatever you want on your profile. Triplebyte, as a company, is personally vouching for you by allowing you to appear on their platform.

>sometimes even handles all the back and forth

So you're saying some middle men handle all the back and forth, but not all. So is this a factor for whether they qualify as middle men or not? If so, why not just say they all do? If not, why mention it?

Hired.com is very similar to Triplebyte, and I don't see how you can argue that they are not a middle man.
We’ve been using JackTrip for a couple of years. I would recommend it to anyone looking into telematic performances.
Morality
Get rewarded for being online...
"All models are wrong, some are more useful than others."

All worldviews ultimately will fail to describing the world around us. All philosophies will fail because we cannot hold all the ideas in out head in the same time. All ideas that we have are underpinned by our language, which is a model for the world around us. Ex. we have a word for "tree" and we create a delineation between the "tree" and the forest. But there is no tree in isolation. There is no tree, this is merely a label for our sensory perception of the tree.

To use plato's cave analogy. We do not see the world, we see the shadows. The game of trying to describe the shadows will not give you a valid model. It may have predictive value, but it ends there. So greene's "life is a battlefield" has value, but that does not mean that all human interacts are transnational or that they can be modeled that way.

I try to remind myself that my ideas/views/perceptions fall short of the real thing. Attempting to better understand and describe things is a way of trying to control them. You are this label, this other person is that label.

Ultimately, I try to remember that the only control I have is over my choices and how I chose to see the world.
If these companies notice, they can file a UDRP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...) request, on the basis that the domains infringe their trademarks, and were registered and used in "bad faith".
GW-BASIC (which was included prior to DOS 5.x) had the MOTOR command to control the cassette motor. I don't know if it actually worked though. In Microsoft's released GW-BASIC 1.0 source, it is a no-op and just prints an error message – https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/GIOCAS.ASM [EDIT: I just disassembled GWBASIC.EXE version 3.23, I can see the calls to the BIOS INT 15h cassette API, so it isn't just a no-op in the binary.]

If it worked at all, it would have worked by calling INT 15h functions 0-1, which was part of the BIOS cassette API. I believe in ROM BASIC on the original IBM PC and PCjr, the MOTOR command was actually implemented to call those BIOS routines, and the BIOS actually had code to talk to the cassette port. I think, on subsequent machines, the BIOS routines were stubbed out and just returned an error.

GW-BASIC was the only part of MS-DOS which had any reference to the cassette tape. The more core parts of MS-DOS (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM) knew absolutely nothing about it.
Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.
>their "all-encompassing" TLD package which registers their trademark across all TLD's for a special price

That's a thing? What's preventing a predatory registry from being a holdout and demanding exorbitant prices?
Predicting conversion to wet age-related macular degeneration with deep learning
That is the old style Retweet before twitter integrated it, those are regular tweets.
And what does all that talk amount to, exactly?

It's a cute little "conspiracy theory" for the masses to play with, nobody in power is threatened in the slightest. In many ways it's self-neutered by turning that phrase into a mindless meme.

The soft censorship means we've seen effectively zero mainstream investigation into any of the glaringly obvious questions.
Those who don't often get its evil twin - malicious compliance.
Your comment was the first thing I thought of when reading today's email. I hav worked most of my life as a secondary math and science teacher, and one of the things we teach all students about communication is "I statements."

This email is full of sincere I statements. Whether it comes from reading your comment or just reflecting on the whole situation, this is about the best response I could have imagined a few days ago. It accepts responsibility, and shares the thinking and feeling behind getting so far from where they should be heading.

I don't have a TripleByte account at the moment, but if I did I'd be open to what they do next. A CEO who has made a major mistake and taken sincere responsibility for it in my eyes is more trustworthy than many who just haven't made their first major public mistake yet. I know we need to watch them carefully for a while, but this is about the best statement I could imagine Ammon and TripleByte putting out right now.
From the article: Steven Brust: "Ask what's more important, human rights, or property rights. If they say property rights are a human right, they're on the right."
> they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries

My guess is that they were never available and there are doing a poor job of figuring out which domains are taken and which are not. I've been this in several other domain name search sites too, especially if there is no nameserver for a registered domain.
I have a very different experience. I’ve often found sitting in a coffee shop helps things click and helps me get into a flow when doing development. It’s the right level of background noise for me and the little bit of public observation helps me get less distracted. A few hours of focused work can go by in a flash. When I worked in an open office I would sometimes spend an hour or two at the coffee shop knocking out some development tasks so that a big chunk of my days work was done, then when in the office I could focus more on collaboration, helping others, socializing a bit, without the big struggle to regain focus after the natural interruptions that happen at work.
I can say your takeaway seems to be the correct one, as my mental model was far more compact than the actual SQL it has turned out to require. (Edit: Hope remains that proper structuring of data will obviate the need for much of this sql)

I am using joins over constraints written and read in MEMORY tables (including CROSS JOIN, generating an application of which was one of my motivations to do the project). Anything advanced is pushed to the query execution plan.

This is on MySQL; I also hope to explore a SQLite browser version. I aim to generate some performance profiling as a side product.
I think that anyone can recognize it as a good alternative for Ubuntu, since Ubuntu already uses systemd (and that's a done deal).

I'd consider myself a pragmatist, so I like systemd because it makes my life easier with the declarative configuration and other nice features (although I recognize that it makes some people's lives harder).
Ask HN: What are some important problems that few people are working on?
I'm a college student, and I want to work in an area where I can have high impact both within in the area and the world.
But the point is that you don't see this. SF has a $364 million dollar homeless budget, double what it was a decade ago, so the programs you volunteer for should be swimming in cash to provide their services and make sure the homeless have opportunities. If they're not, then where'd all the money go?
Risks of Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)
A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
Paper, pencils, and extra punch cards, just in case you make mistakes.
So I started taking a course recently based on an HN post about putting everything in org-mode:
https://tasshin.com/blog/implementing-a-second-brain-in-emac...

What I found pretty quickly was that org-mode is great for organizing things in emacs. BUT if you ingest any meaningful amount of ideas from outside of emacs, it gets orders of magnitude more difficult to put your "whole life" in there. Emacs was built in a pre-web, pre-mobile world, and it's a frustrating experience to try and wire those up to emacs.

There are some helper packages, to be sure, but tools like Evernote have seamless capture built across all the platforms without any effort on my part. I found once I'd decided to switch from using org-mode to using Evernote as my life organizing destination a whole class of challenges simply disappared.

In my opinion, we should use the right tool for the job. Org-mode, by the nature of living in emacs land, is very difficult to actually get you whole life into, even if it would be nice to organize once you did so.
ups thanks fixed the typo
With the super shady sale of .org it may be time to consider who these people are selling essentially nothing.
>Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech, google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries…

It must have been a bug in Google Domains, all three domains were registered ~5 years ago.
For the most part, the real solution to child abuse or mistreatment is to deal with the parents. America does a poor job of providing adequate support to parents. We have a lot of family unfriendly policies.
This is a fun language hack, but be aware that this is probably not good for performance in 2020. Nearly anything larger than a coffee machine microcontroller these days probably has instruction level parallelism and also operates more efficiently on larger data words. Obviously it depends on what you're trying to do but using this for any kind of iterative memory op is probably slow. It's also such an oddball construction that the compiler is not likely to be able to optimize it.
DNS suffix, to name one.
This article misses the fact that there are IP and HR legalities about where work is done. It's not that companies are simply being mean, their hands are often tied on these matters.

Changing countries, or working abroad, can affect numerous things including taxes, employee rights, medical benefits, and ip assignments. Even working from different states can have tax implications.
> I don't think ideologies like Anarchism are politically viable

why not?
We're talking about the commercial appeal of a rapper though, the violent crime is a plus. It's the snitching and the sex crime that actually ruin his appeal.
Now solder that component into an adapter that goes between your jack and your third party power supply, and I'd buy it.

I don't even want to use illegit power supplies. Rather, I have a growing pile of genuine Dell ones (and jacks) that developed intermittent connections on that pin and no longer detect as authorized.
A shoddy charger can supply mains power to your device. Example [0].

[0] http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...
A leftist case for rethinking the wisdom of lockdowns
The most likely cause is some kind of infection. Why on earth would you ask here instead of looking up reputable medical sources, or consulting a doctor? No one can diagnose over HN.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fever/symptom...

Probabilities of getting any specific infection like COVID are population rates. They don’t predict individual cases.
My favorite SQL library has been Go-Jet in Go: https://github.com/go-jet/jet

It has a different approach from PgTyped, which generates type-safe TypeScript code from SQL, whereas Go-Jet generates type-safe SQL from Go code

I'd love to try something along the lines of PgTyped and see how the two solutions compare though
That's a close minded way to start a discussion about politics that has become all too common. I think it's important to assume everyone is coming from a place of good intentions until proven otherwise. As someone whose beliefs most closely align as libertarian-right I'm now much more unlikely to seriously consider what you're saying after you characterize 10-50% of Americans (depending on definitions) as heartless murderers and comic book villains.
>and were registered and used in "bad faith".

How were they registered in bad faith? He's not extorting money from netfilx, nor is he trying to deceive people into thinking he's neflix.
Did it help with keeping fascists out of power in Poland?

If not, then what was the actual purpose of the law?
Yes, but I figured they might have lapsed. I idly check it from time to time and they certainly didn't show up as available previously.
The part about digital goods (read as: in game purchases) being potentially, easily transferable in the future stuck out to me so I looked it up in the original article:

"However, an increasingly large portion of the gaming economy now runs on virtual goods. The ability to take items, outfits, and more from one game to another will obviously increase the price a player is willing to pay on these goods. And if a user ever wanted to jump across digital worlds (as is portrayed in Ready Player One), it helps if all worlds use the same “physics” and “logic”."

This makes sense, but boy, this will never happen. As far as I am aware, songs from Guitar Hero and Just Dance aren't transferable from game to game. Same is true for players in Fifa Ultimate Team, anything you buy in Call of Duty, Battlefield and basically any game.

In many cases, the engines were the same between games. I just don't see transferable in-game purchases happen.

Valve and their marketplace system at least give players the ability to sell their items for funds, all without having to use a specific game engine.
Is it good or bad that I remember most of these features from my days on Windows 95? We have come a long way, I hardly ever have to open Task Manager nowadays.
The FDA guidelines say that this isn't necessary, just preferred: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med...
Sure, Triplebyte made a dumb move here. But “massively privacy violating” is hyperbole.

It seems as if everything is considered “private” now. No, not everything is private. You interviewing for a job isn’t private unless both parties make it private with a legally binding contract. It is a mistake to wishfully label public information as private simply because we don’t want it to be public. It also makes it harder to talk about true violations of privacy and distracts from understanding the real issues at stake.

What people ought to say, and have often said here, is that it is a violation of trust. People trusted Triplebyte to find them a new job, not lose their current job. That trust was violated not by an invasion of privacy — it is their data as much as it is ours — but a violation of using that data in a harmful way.

Privacy isn’t the problem here. The problem is with whatever broken processes led to this bad product and poor decision.
Thanks, I could not find this link when I logged into the app. I would have assumed this option would be under the profile page.
What are the different investment styles?
That is a thing for at least one Registry that I know of (and worked for), I don't know if Google does the same, but I don't believe there is anything stopping them (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I've been using Kubernetes on hetzner that I installed with one command.
The point is that with stateless authentication, you can’t revoke tokens. If a JWT gets compromise, you need to either wait for it to expire or log all users out by rotating the signing key.

With stateful authentication, solving this is trivial: just check your tokens/sessions/whatever against a centralized database every request.
Cracking the Cryptic, You'll Never See a More Impressive Puzzle. [video]
Wouldn't a growing company that needed to hire for several different roles rather deal with a single service than a separate service for each specialty role?
Seriously, the fact that this informative comment is downvoted for no good reason shows how toxic HN has become. It seems that many have become so bitter during lockdown that they either randomly downvote whatever they see or they leave comments that trigger downvotes from others.
Though you are small and do not have an official chief privacy officer or CISO, do you have personnel that are champions of those desires? If not, nurture or acquire. If so, listen to them. This is 2020. If you look at Zoom, you can argue that security and privacy can come later, that the market will do anything for features and forgive any security or privacy faux pas. You would not be wrong, but such a calculus is what people in this forum are objecting to. People mainly feel bad that the economic incentive for privacy is weak. Are you following GDPR? Have you heard of it? A privacy move on top of your apology and retraction could differentiate your company as the privacy aware alternative, much like DuckDuckGo has made privacy its key differentiator, or, if you need a stronger financially motivating example, much like Apple is touting privacy in all that they do.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

I'm under the impression that if I pay WeWork to be able to work at their tables and drink their coffee, that's tax-deductible and a business expense. But if I buy drinks at a coffee shop to work there, it isn't? [1]

This is something that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as coffee shops are sort of a classic place for a freelancer to find space away from home to focus better.

[1] https://www.sapling.com/40999/6-surprising-tax-deductions-fo...
This is a fascinating concept, and I always appreciate wiki reads like these whenever they come through HN.

One thing I wonder, though, what's going on in this part:

>The animal understands that this contradicts the learned behavior to respond to the owner's instructions: instead it makes an alternative decision because the human is not in a position to decide safely.[5] The dog in this case has the capacity to understand that it is performing such an action for the welfare of the person.[6]

I think that's a very bold and categorical claim to make. Not necessarily because it's wrong, but animal cognition is a charged subject where it's easy to become motivated to make claims, and I think it's fair to say it's a sphere where untrue claims abound.

It wasn't clear to me that the source for [6] is sufficiently authoritative. It seems to be derived from interviews with dog owners. Here's a quote from [6] on the cited page:

>"The competent guide dog can recognize dangerous situations and, even when commanded to engage in a articular action, can decide to disobdy in order to protect the owner's welfare.. All of the interviewees spoke of their dogs as regularly involved in behaviors that were not understandable if one were only to see dogs merely as automatons responding to instinct or behavioral conditioning."

Anyway, I bring this up because that sentence stuck out to me as something that felt highly motivated, and in general it's a feature I think you see sometimes in wiki articles - bold claims, almost vulgar in their simplicity, that just go ahead and declare a truth and don't try to couch the language in terms of earned institutional understanding that fully merit the claim. Again, not saying it's wrong, it just stuck out.
UEFI is actually a lot simpler than MBR-type partitioning as far as the user is concerned. The UEFI firmware partition is based on a FAT-like fs, hence it natively supports dual- and multi-booting and can provide a "Shell" that's quite comparable to DOS itself. There are ongoing problems with UEFI due to shoddy OEM implementations, but the basic idea is quite sensible.
Ah, thanks. That helps. Checking David's profile, it is the newer style retweet, which shouldn't have showed up.
I haven't received the apology e-mail either. The only action I took though was to rummage around the profile preferences to find the setting to turn off public profiles.

I wonder if they're sending the e-mails out in waves or if they're only sending them to users who still have the feature enabled?
Clicking "purchase" on them must have kicked the system into fixing itself, then, because they stopped showing up as such after I did so.
I remember seeing a NIC that did this with their TLD. But I can't remember which one :/. I would love if someone finds it.
Depends of what you consider a small business, a small SaaS company with 4-5 developers is that big or small?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemire/fastbase64/master/s...
What's he trying to do with it?
Generally if people are offline, don't send them stuff. If you really need them to read some information, there is email.
I hope you went back to Aaron and thanked him for that input and perhaps apologized for dismissing it. It can be really frustrating to lead something and have founders/execs shoot down your professional input, ideas, or concerns because... Well, why did you?
US DoD Slams NYT Article Claiming Military Is ‘Celebrating White Supremacy’
The US Department of Defence on Sunday criticized The New York Times by accusing the paper of “attacking the US military” in a Saturday opinion article that suggests the department was “celebrating white supremacy” by praising “racist traitors”.
Yeah I have shared patio space available that nobody uses but is super sunny.

It’s in a bit of a cavern and I think it also captures some extra light from nearby building reflections.

So I’m trying to figure out what would work for me that doesn’t require a large picnic table/umbrella investment since I can’t keep it in the space permanently.