skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, this has two sides.

I've noticed that in banking - and I'm not talking about investment banking, or high-finance in general, but regular consumer banking - there's been a trend to basically hire woefully overqualified people for the lowest positions around - I'm talking about bank greeters, customer support, and what not, and then train them from there.

This could very well be a local thing, but there are so many people today qualifying for these jobs - lots of BBA and MBA candidates out there, willing to do pretty much anything to get a foot inside.

When I was interning for a bank, even the greeters (basically the person that just greets the clients, and forwards them to the right people within the bank - a receptionist, really) had a Bachelors degree, many were working on their Masters.

The more sought after positions had been re-labeled "graduate programs" or "trainee programs", and were aimed at the top-shelf students. While the rest pretty much had to get a foot inside by working their way up from the bottom.

So you suddenly have a ton of highly educated candidates applying for jobs that only 15 years ago required a HS diploma, if that even.

Then when they're first inside, they tend to get moved around internally - as a lot of positions only get posted internally.

It's almost the same way with internships. Internships are there to practically train and select future company workers. If you do well, you get a return offer - if not, well, at least you have some experience.

With the rising number of graduates, I can foresee a future where candidates are being divided into the regulars and the elites. The regulars will, no mater how qualified they are, will have to start at the rock bottom, proving themselves for $8.5/hr, while the elites are trained for leadership/management-track positions.
those things were sold in Rio with the excuse that it would make it faster to respond to floods and landslides.

Turn out landslides take the cameras/cables first thing.

In the end, this is only used for policing, tracking individuals, and issuing tons of traffic tickets.
Customer teams get exactly the same engine that the works team uses. The reason they don’t perform as well is that they still have to design the rest of their car (which includes a lot of performance impacting design), and they also may have to modify the engine to fit it in their chassis.
> A keyboard being hot-swappable means the PCB (which, simply put, is the circuit board inside the keyboard) has special sockets so that you can click switches into place and pull them out without ever needing to touch a soldering gun.

From a Google search :-)
Yes. I guess I'm not the target demographic for this. I suspect many people on HN aren't either. You'd need to figure out how to market this to the people that would want/need it.

If it is for Windows I'd look into putting it in their app store if you haven't already.
It "allows you to subscribe to specific hardware features that may already be built into your car but that you didn’t activate when you bought the car — like heated seats or advanced driver assistance systems"

Excited to think a whole industry around jail breaking cars could exist
In the political context obstructionism refers to attempts to delay or otherwise interfere with the legislative process. Which the Democrats may engage in, but I haven't seen any evidence demonstrating that.

Sanctuary cities do not obstruct the legislative process, they are just a form civil disobedience. This probably can be deemed obstruction of justice, but that has nothing to do with obstructionism.
I fully empathize with this - I hate throwing out/recycling electronics. The power side it truly does depend on your local rates of course. If you consider a 24/7 draw of about 35 watts to power an out-of-box 486 DX2 (headless) vs like 3 watts for an RPI, you can do the math with some variance and figure out just how long the $60 will last you. But a 10-fold reduction in power consumption is pretty remarkable. When you consider that an RPI might replace multiple 486's, even more so.

Alternative uses for a 486 case - make a planter box, bird house or a bee hive. https://www.instructables.com/id/Computer-case-beehive/

Alternative uses for 486 mobo - incorporate it into furniture design, cut it up to create a wind chime, create stuff like that to avoid the landfill. :)
Not sure what this has to do with tech or HackerNews in general.
the beauty of this post is that it is truly evergreen: there is, and always will be, bad statistics to grimace at
If anyone is interested in factory automation I'm working on a site to catalog different processes. A good design can often be recycled into a similar machine.

https://automate.engineer/

I'm mostly building it for myself but I thought other people may enjoy.
I love this idea. I have been working on something similar and would love to discuss this with you some more.

Anonymity is important but tricky. Many researchers believe that anonymity can be key to countering groupthink, where people say what they think is socially acceptable, and not what they actually believe, for fear of denunciation and retaliation (some great books on this subject: Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann "the Spiral of Silence" and Timur Kuran "Preference Falsification.") Anonymous polling, for example, is probably critical to the functioning of a democracy.

In social media I think anonymity is more tricky. One idea I have is that posts always have an author, but likes and other indicators of support and popularity are anonymous.
In general I like it, but definitely not a fan of the trippy rainbow in the hero section. Which is strange, because I did a similar effect in the last site I built.

They're implementation isn't working with the text, particularly when the background goes to the darkest red behind the text.

Turning off the opacity, makes the statement much clearer, and I think stronger at the same time.
Your first link includes an extra detail which is important:

> In addition, “with the Japanese consumer preference for smaller TV screens, it will be more difficult for 4K TV to expand its household penetration in the country"

With a smaller TV screen, yeah, you don't need 4K.

But in the USA, larger screens are desirable. And that's seen in the expected 34% 4K adoption rate in the USA your article describes.

I still use a 1080p TV, but it's also only 46" and is 10 years old. I'll probably be buying a 4K 70-75" OLED later this year.

My computer monitor is 1440p. I could have bought 4K when I upgraded, but I'm primarily a gamer and I wanted 144 hz, and 4K 144 hz monitors didn't exist yet.
NanoPi M4V2 may be better. plus you can install nvme drives in it for additional io perf.
Is this a new addition to the guidelines? I could have sworn it wasn’t there before…
Taking out the human element. China knows it's coming and it's a big reason they're "investing" in poor countries. They won't have the upper hand on cheap labor soon.
You should develop the creativity to do something completely useless with everything.

https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2018/12/c...
I always considered a machine backed conglomerate to be the next big thing.
It's always struck me as bizarre that it's the convention to refer to length when using the word "scale". When I read it my mind is naturally inclined to think "volume" and I have to remind myself that 1:60 scale does not mean the model is 1/60 the size of the original.
I might not have said it in that comment, but I totally agree with you. It is one thing to talk about the efficiency of government spending, but it is almost always stupid for us to talk about government programs or projects in terms of profits and losses.
The price, and I’m also interested in portability and robustness. My plan is to hot desk with this thing between three locations: my office in school, my classroom, and my home office.

I also want something weird. Kids kind of look down on PCs and especially Linux. It’s seen as kind of crappy compared to the shiny of iPhones and Windows gaming rigs. I hope to show them that there’s a third kind of computer with which one can do a lot, that also happens to be pocketable and under $100.

(And also: ANSI keyboard Pinebook Pro has been sold out for weeks.)
Why do so many Filipino women want to marry American or Australian men?
Is there a point to this move, besides xenophobia and cruelty?
You said Comodo throughout, but it was DigiCert :)
China effectively is by limiting flights.
Thanks. Tho now imagining myself devouring the internet sounds like some tech-god sci-fi scene.
Curious if you feel the same about scale on maps, or does your mental model work differently there?
Well, you gotta get your good one way or another. If the restaurants are closed, you have to make your own.

Wonder if this will last long enough for some people to decide they like home cooking more than taking out... (maybe they bought additional kitchen appliances, etc)

On the other hand once people have to return to the office they will have less discretionary time for cooking...
Thanks for your contribution. The reason I value HN so much is the willingness of inexperienced people to inform me of what Linux "should" do.

# cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/
# mkdir lol-hackernewses
# cd lol-hackernewses
# echo 32000000 > memory.limit_in_bytes
# echo $$ > tasks
# find / > /dev/null
Killed
Memory cgroup stats for /lol-hackernewses:
anon 135168
file 11567104
kernel_stack 0
slab 19771392
sock 0
shmem 0
file_mapped 0
file_dirty 0
file_writeback 0
anon_thp 0
inactive_anon 0
active_anon 94208
inactive_file 5517312
active_file 5881856
unevictable 0
slab_reclaimable 19075072
slab_unreclaimable 696320
pgfault 14817
pgmajfault 2376
workingset_refault 25773
workingset_activate 3465
workingset_nodereclaim 0
pgrefill 969886
pgscan 971861
pgsteal 50508
pgactivate 913407
pgdeactivate 969886
pglazyfree 0
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thp_fault_alloc 0
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That has been slowly changing though -- I think 17 states have 'deregulated' their electricity markets and 21 have done so for gas.
So basically you see yourself as so irredeemably biased (racist or sexist?) that the network you keep is also this badly biased?
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This article feels a bit "no shit", but there are a few interesting numbers in the table there.

* August 2019, 16.1million monthly users, 1.2billion revenue

* March 2020, 39.5million monthly users, 4billion revenue

* June 2020, 45.6million monthly, 7.2billion revenue

Not sure how best to format on here, but this is apparently a high growth thing both before and during covid.
Could you explain what you mean by toxic gifting culture?
But on a serious note - if some interviewer ask you outright "Have you programmed in [x], and what's your opinion on it?", try to be positive.

I used to be very honest about my opinion on languages, but my experience is that if you start being too honest (on the negative side) regarding some language you're being asked about, it will have few upsides.

For whatever reason, some devs. are very personal about the tools and languages being used, and will even get hurt or agitated by criticism.

So whenever I get asked about that now, I just try to come up with the positive things I enjoy about [x] language.
*with the instructor being remote :)

I’m completely in favor of this guerilla approach to fighting stupid knee jerk policy changes.
The article says this is led by Dominic Cummings, whose blog is https://dominiccummings.com/ if you want to know more about him. He advocates for a tech/quantitative approach to policy, e.g.

https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-w... on who he wants to hire.

https://dominiccummings.com/2019/06/26/on-the-referendum-33-... on tech to assist decision making in government.

https://dominiccummings.com/2014/08/19/standin-by-the-window... on his trip to SciFoo, and being a policy person amongst tech people.

He's not very popular in the UK, which is tangential to the article, so this thread is at risk of becoming a smear comment section.
> The whole "thing" that Toyota did to revolutionize car manufacturing, was essentially to make quality-assurance part of the same ground-level machine

Where can I read more about it? I find it hard to imagine, how QA could possibly be a function of manufacturing process, since pretty much the sole purpose of it is to spot when "dumb" manufacturing process failed you a couple of steps ago. I mean, a lot of QA is pretty dumb too (like testing a party of 1000 details by breaking 10 of them), but there is nothing new about that specifically.
Exotic in this case just means uncommon or rare in the wild, not expensive. Something like requiring both salt and aspartame would help prevent gene transfer in the wild (to related or unrelated strains) as well as making it unlikely to grow on its own.
Not if you believe that there is no such thing as someone being transgender and that your gender is what God gave you.

Do you really think that he put out this guidance for any other reason than to pander to the religious right?
Correct. This is an optimistic scenario for herd immunity. It assumes low mortality (probably true), no permanent damage to those who survive (unclear, but probably untrue), and immunity lasting a couple years (long enough to remain immune until a vaccine is available).
That's definitely something that seems to be reiterated often -- the power of networking is real. You'd think after hearing it since high school (some time ago, not gonna date myself lol) I'd actually spend more time nurturing the network I do have.

Luckily my current and last position didn't require any kind of mental gymnastics (my soft skills are great in terms of software engineers), but I'm still wondering what lies behind those gates kept locked by technical trivia and tricky buzzword algorithms that send CVs to the void before a human ever sees them.

My current situation is a bit different than previous (trying to transition tech stacks and job titles now) so the nerves are a bit different. The anxieties are just as real as before though, albeit the payoffs are higher with the new goals. Guess you could call em game day jitters.

Your interview process sounds improved over traditional corporate style interviews. My last employer had similar tactics (put the interviewee at ease, casual conversation), and it led to the best 18 months I've had in my career yet.
I don't see anything to be gained from this call other than solidifying the current administration political stance. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be an incredibly destructive decision creates little to no benefits to the American society... For instance, that "6% of all students" alone contributes a great deal to the US economy:

> According to the Commerce Department, international students contributed $45 billion to the U.S. economy in 2018.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506072-ice-tells...
You'll have to expand on how being anti-fascim is a wrong thing
That's not the same thing at all. There's always been a flight a week from the US to China, so even if it takes a while, it's still possible. Especially so with at least a month's notice.
To be fair, in my field (deep learning, computer vision), the papers often do not contain enough information to reproduce the results. To take a recent example, Google's EfficientDet paper did not contain enough detail to be able to implement BiFPN, so nobody could replicate their results until official implementation was released. And even then, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has been able to train the models to the same accuracy in PyTorch - the results matching Google's merely port the TensorFlow weights.

Much of the recent "efficient" DL work is like that. Efficient models are notoriously difficult to train, and all manner of secret sauce is simply not mentioned, and without it you won't get the same result. At higher levels of precision, a single percentage point of a metric can mean 10% increase in error rate, so this is not negligible.

To the authors' credit though, a lot of this work does get released in full source code form, so even if you can't achieve the same result on your own hardware, you can at least test the results using the provided weights, and see that they _are_ in fact achievable.
Are Apple ARM chips the same as other ARM chips or are there any "magic" that requires more work for developer to port software?
Companies were listed as coronavirus paycheck loan recipients
That's definitely my target market. Ideal scenario would be to get Microsoft to feature it in Utilities in the Microsoft store—but that's somewhat of a moonshot of course. Without that, or some other super effective marketing ploy, it seems unlikely to earn a non-trivial amount. I've been thinking about targeting gamers also—the aesthetic I've arrived at (somewhat by accident) seems like they might be into it, and often times they need a lot of HD space.
I see you are unfamiliar with the Wright brothers patent war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
>Even just adding a 4 hour "activation time" on cards worth more than $250 would make the scam just a little harder to pull off

That's a good idea.

Implicit in this idea is that victims can call a customer help number and get gift card balances frozen and reversed. I don't know if this is possible to do right now.

If so, fraudsters might start up a new scam. Buy $1000 in Target gift cards, spend the money at Target, call up Target and claim that a scammer stole the funds, and then get $1000 back, netting $2000.

Target would have to build a new department just to adjudicate gift card claims. At which point it might decide that it's just not worth the hassle of issuing gift cards.
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I agree that they all have their advantages and disadvantages. My point was agreeing with the author that a proof assistant returning 0 for n/0 isn’t nonsensical. It’s debatable whether it is the best approach, but it is sound. The reasoning is clear if you consider R to be an inductive type, which many proof assistants including Lean do. Returning anything but an element of an inductive type would be wrong.
You could do the same thing with a $100/150 NUC and get better performance and software compatibility - https://www.amazon.com/Wintel-Pro-Mini-ordenador-T8/dp/B083V...
The Thought Emporium on YouTube has a few livestream-style videos where he does gene editing experiments like this for fun (?). Very interesting stuff. I feel like textiles will be coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/c/thethoughtemporium
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So you can't name an entity? Or you label all of those listed as bad?
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Niche funds are exactly that niche. Most(in numbers not the money they control) are not accredited investors and cannot afford to lose their whole investments. There is not much room for multiple strategies in mainstream investments for good reason .

Correspondingly most fund managers are not fancy hedge fund managers who can simply be courageous, the legal and the corporate framework they operate under would not allow for that kind of risk taking. Popular media and writers like Taleb focuses way more on this niche segment because it sells more books/movies etc, or is more interesting to write about, and perhaps also because the industry does control a large amount of wealth.

Buffet himself strongly believes that hedge funds simply do not justify the management fees they charge and famously bet a million dollars on that thesis and won. Even of the fund managers who actually do have the chance to take aggressive decisions do not always do better than say index traded funds over a long enough time period.
I love the diversity in this space but unfortunately I’ve been burned by off-brand pi stuff before.

Pine’s RockPro64 and Libre Renegade Elite are two lovely RK3399 devices that I’ve tried. However, each has sufficient quirks that something more mainstream like the Raspberry Pi 4 (with a wide user base, more Google hits for common problems, etc) will hopefully let me focus on using the device as opposed to getting it to function.

Non-RPi SBCs also seem to require a lot of off-brand community patches to get them working. I’m pretty wary of bringing an OS build which I downloaded from a third party github page onto a campus full of children. I don’t have any reason to believe the community builds are nefarious, but it’s less of a risk to stick with Raspberry Pi, IMHO.
ah, interesting to ponder.

but why not also question the role of inflation as (economic) motivator? this tenet forces us to consider monetary factors more than we might otherwise, given the limitations of money to represent everything we value (an idealized premise of economic system as efficient allocator).

the regulatory route is certainly fraught, but a steeply progressive tax on wealth (along with eliminating all the loopholes, like the lower capital gains tax) could drastically reduce money clumping. done well, it could encourage wealth building to a comfortable threshold, say $1MM, and then start to discourage greater wealth hoarding (without discouraging it completely or setting a max).
I was always under the impression that Linux 386 simply meant 32 bit support. So, no 386 support would mean no 32 bit support rather than the 386 specifically.
The leader of this, Dominic Cummings, advocates for a quantitative/tech approach to policy, e.g.

https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-w... on who he wants to hire.

https://dominiccummings.com/2019/06/26/on-the-referendum-33-... on tech to assist decision making in government.

https://dominiccummings.com/2014/08/19/standin-by-the-window... on his trip to SciFoo, and being a policy person amongst tech people.
I think you captured this perfectly with your explanation. I did not take into account the teams. I was solely concentrating from a fans perspective in error or from being a fan myself. So this delicate balance won't really change much due to the reason you outlined. I'm curious in your opinion what do you think could change that will affect the sport in a positive manner (from a fan and business perspective)?
A long time ago I remember installing gentoo on a 486 33Mhz (Tandy I think). I initially compiled everything on a much faster Athlon XP. I do remember compiling an updated kernel on the 486 and that it took 3 days, but it did finish :D

I remember the hard drive was too big to boot from directly, there was some bootloader that could run from the floppy disk then finish booting from the hard drive.

It also had this horrible sound card/cd-rom combo controller that I never was able to make work in linux
If you enjoy circuit board art I saw this artist year after year in the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar. https://www.armadillobazaar.com/austin-circuit-board-2015-2/
What size is a memory page on other ARM CPUs? I think Apple's processors use 16KiB pages. Doesn't x86 software assume a 4KiB page size, unless it deals with huge pages?
I think everyone would support that kind of policy except where it would have an adverse effect on American students. The goal of policies like this are to promote USA students admission to higher education over foreign students. But the reality is that foreign student tuition is a huge money-maker. So USA students are at a disadvantage in the admissions process.
I am going to screw up the story. But, there is a fable where a millionaire was talking to a fisherman who lived a relaxing life on island who only owned one boat.

The millionaire asked the fisherman why didn’t he buy more boats so he could become rich?

The fisherman asked the millionaire why would he want to do that?

The millionaire said so the fisherman can work hard and retire to an island and have a relaxing life....