skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're over simplifying things with the example. There's 2 major factors that I see.

1) It is unknown what economic impact that the SSC would have had. It could produced more value or less than that which you and similar industries contributed to from the benefit of these scientists. A search shows that without accounting for the impact of the fundamental science, CERN's revenues exceed the costs by ~3bn euros[0] (report seems to also ignore ambiguous contributions like spin-offs). So the companies that benefited from the closure would have to at have near this revenue.

2) Scientific projects are fundamentally long term economic investments. These scientific projects have returns on investment of larger than 20 years and sometimes upwards of 100. These are impossible ROIs for companies, but great for civilizations.

These factors are huge and we're not even talking about the local economy boom because and influx of smart people which typically leads to higher quality schools in the area and tech startups that grow because subcontracting, consulting, and spin-offs. We're also ignoring the cultural impact as labs serve as a form of cultural exportation, which is important in the global game played between countries (the economic value of which is difficult to quantify), and this is what you are directly responding to.

It is fairly difficult to answer these questions, so I think your answer is too simplified.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004016251...
Do you notice water gain?

Back when I worked out 6 days a week, cardio and weights, I'd do the binge meal for one dinner a week. I'd eat whatever the heck I wanted and have a beer or two. It was a good way to not feel like your depriving yourself.

That said, I'd usually notice the scale went up the next morning by 3-5 lbs. It was pretty much water weight from the carb overload and it went away after a couple days.
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As per sibling comment to yours, society wide development seems to lead to lower birth rates. Lift the masses out of poverty.
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Is your username a reference to your humanity?
My experience with the .deb version seems to be stuck during startup on "Loading emulator dependencies"
On Android!
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You originally wrote that applications were a subset of programs and this changed because of iPhone, which as i wrote is wrong since the term "application" was used to refer to programs way before iPhone even existed - using Windows 3.1 as an example of something from 1990 that used that term. With the quote i was referring to the use of the term "application" not the "API". The SDK help file uses the term "application" everywhere to describe software for Windows without making any distinction like the one you wrote in that message above.

Now, the term "application" might have had a more specific meaning before Windows existed (even Windows 1 seem to use the term application) but this is going back decades before iPhone was introduced.
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This looks terrible. I sure hope it's not the dragon model.
The most qualified applicants already have a full time job and probably don't want to take a second job.
I have a small child and a full time job. It's really not very feasible for me to make time to do a "real project", paid or not. Especially if I'm interviewing with multiple companies.
I hope this comes across as helpful and not one-upmanship: it is natural to think that having a child is like many of the other things you're used to in life where you can control the outcome.

That can lead to you worrying about and optimising for lots of things that won't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.

I can tell you from first hand experience that you are not in control. You will know you are in a truly stressful situation when you've forgetten about all of the items you've listed above because you're standing there watching, not sure what is going on, just hoping that everything is going to be ok.

I hope you never get to that point and in the meantime try enjoy the ride. I wish you and your family all the best!
I'm a kindergarten and first grade teacher. I have taught children how to read. It's amazing! I try to follow current research, but it's clear to me through articles like this that there is so much we don't know about how children learn to read.

EDIT (just adding on): It's clear to me from my experience that there is not one single way children learn to read. That much should be obvious to anyone who spends a lot of time with young children, but the field of education clings to the idea of "best practices."

Second, a lot of our practices in the U.S. still stem from the National Reading Panel, which was convened nearly 20 (!) years ago as part of No Child Left Behind. Yet it's easy to find criticisms of the report the Panel issued. Just Google it. Here's a good one to start with: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2003/04/30/33yatvin.h22.h...
As an interviewer, how do I know that you wrote that code in your GitHub profile?
Huh. So everything in moderation, including moderation.
Congrats on the launch :-)
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We homeschool and my wife has taught 7 of our 8 kids using:
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Highly recommended for parents with kids at the age to start reading.
First, you need for your career not to be your identity. You're really going to have a hard time not having anxiety at work if work is your identity, because that makes stuff at work threatening to you - not just to your career, but to you.

Second, if he is at all supportive, talk to your husband. Of all people, he is the one who should most be on your side. If he doesn't know what fight you're fighting (even internally), how can he help you fight it?
> Just make sure there are only three ingredients used to make the sauce: anchovies, salt, and water

Almost all of the other, especially the cheaper sauces, have additional ingredients. + fructose & hydrolyzed wheat protein for three crabs, for example
Yeah, I literally will never feel full from cereal and milk. I'm not a fast eater, which is probably part of it, but one time I tried to fill up on cereal. It was around lunch time that I ran out of cereal after two full boxes.

I had a friend in college who was trying to gain weight, so he copied me with what he put on his tray. The completely expected result was that I finished his food after he was full.
And always perpetually 20 years away.
I would imagine the same persistent problem with human physiology -- which is the tendency towards homeostasis.

Human body is remarkable in responsive to disturbances in balance. You can generally throw things off a fair degree before the systems behind whatever you've thrown off adapt and scale down responses.

Generally when you see things in the extreme in humans, somewhere in the line there's a malfunction in regulation that allowed that state to be reached (or chemical intervention, e.g. anabolic steroids, substance abuse, etc).

Almost anything will work for a little, but the only thing that works forever are things that can become lifestyle factors.

There are a handful of exceptions for "magic diet pills", but please for the love of god don't listen to what I'm about to say below as anything more than science:

- Phentermine

- [Rx but can outright buy it from "Medical Spas" pretty cheap (how is this legal?)]

Stimulatory appetitete suppressant, effects are essentially amphetamine minus the dopaminergic activity (no high, sorry)

----

- Sibutramine

- [Rx, Phentermine's little brother]

----

- 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP)

- [Not legal for sale, but you can buy it online if you're determined]

It's what's called a "mitochondrial uncoupler". It disrupts the Krebbs Cycle so that resynthesis of ATP from ADP becomes incredibly inefficient, and it expels the discarded energy as heat.

This is the holy grail of fatloss. You can lose 1.0-1.5lbs of pure adipose tissue (not water/glycogen) per day.

But the excess heat will cause you an incurable, agonizing death if you overdose.

Also makes you hot all day, probably dangerous if you work in the heat.
A more practical example than his (ascii drawing) is: always use the system libraries when writing code. “But vector/map/... has too much overhead!” Naah, getting your code working is the hard part. Only if the code survives is it worth looking to see if the standard String code is costing you a lot, which case you can replace it.
The flawed idea, buried deep within the article, is:

> The theory is known as "three cueing." The name comes from the notion that readers use three different kinds of information — or "cues" — to identify words as they are reading.

> ....

> In the paper,5 Goodman rejected the idea that reading is a precise process that involves exact or detailed perception of letters or words. Instead, he argued that as people read, they make predictions about the words on the page using these three cues:

* graphic cues (what do the letters tell you about what the word might be?)

* syntactic cues (what kind of word could it be, for example, a noun or a verb?)

* semantic cues (what word would make sense here, based on the context?)

> ....

> Goodman's proposal became the theoretical basis for a new approach to teaching reading that would soon take hold in American schools.
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This feedback is well intentioned, so please don't take it as an attack.

As much as we'd rather it not be the case, even for programmers writing skills are incredibly important. This comment is contains a few grammatical errors and is quite hard to read - I checked your comment history and many others suffer from the same problem. As some who hires, if I read a job application with this quality of writing, I'd probably dismiss it.

If you're having trouble finding a job, it may be helpful to have someone read over any written material you submit alongside your CV (cover letters etc) just to make sure it's clear and easy to understand.
> You shouldnt force users to relearn functionality for a piece of utility software in order to get fixes for CVEs.

Yes, exactly. The amount of UI/UX churn in Firefox is pretty crazy and I'm sure discourages some number of people from updating regularly. Mozilla "fixed" that issue on the desktop versions by completely removing the easy options for letting users decide for themselves when to update, rather than just making auto-updates the default.

I just don't get it. Does Mozilla have a problem with too many developers and needing to invent things to keep them occupied with?
> Ultimately this is the problem I have with solar: It puts an effective cap on our energy use. Solar will never be more than 100% efficient, and there is only so much land that it is reasonable to use, so if we say, wanted to expand our worldwide energy usage 10x, it's not really feasible.

Isn't this exactly why we should be installing solar on rooftops. It might be more exensive, but it's a bettet use of space. Plus most of the extra cost is labour, and aren't we constantly worrying about how their aren't enough jobs. Seems like a win-win to me.
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Ask them some questions about it over lunch?

What’s your threat model here? People making up elaborate lies about code they’ve written?
Are you referring to the RPR? If so, that's made by Ruger, not Remington.
Do you know your friends debit card number?

Email/phone is a much easier ID.
I'd probably start with Shenzhen I/O:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_I/O

It's on Steam.
The legion was lost in Scotland.
> debugging why a particular regex works slowly

I encountered one of these once. A user decided to enter this in the middle of their post:

------------------------------

It triggered catastrophic backtracking, and IIRC, 16 characters was right around where you could see noticeable delay, then at about 19 was when it ran so long it never returned.
My take - graphene had tons of hype but never really seemed to have commercial traction - so was boring - borophene.
Have the interviewee submit repos in which they're the only contributor? But, uh, with a take home project, you _really_ don't know that they wrote the code, either...
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Its a population issue. the US is very close culturally, and has a overwhelmingly larger population. California alone has more people the the entity of Canada.
Here's the thing though. It's a lot more effort to look through projects on GitHub and evaluate them. And even if you can, you then have to figure out how to cross compare that and set a consistent bar vs people who you interview because they don't have a GitHub presence.

People want hiring processes to be somewhat consistent, and in that world it's really kind of a non-starter to replace tech screens with GitHub profile reviews.
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How do you feel about underline on hover, as a compromise between aesthetics and functionality? Eg, https://sdproto.gitlab.io/
so you are delusional. no, 50 years ago, before maternity leave, we were not a 'tribal society.' you also literally think no maternity leave would wipe humans off the planet. this is not sane.

and as far as teenage angst... i'm 40 years old and married. and when i see resumes of women who i think might have kids within 5 years, i throw them in the trash. nit because of maternity leave, but because i don't want entitled people working with me. enjoy your grip.
Not thinking about work when I’m at home is something I try to do but actively struggle with.

The note taking technique sounds helpful. I’ve tried this to some degree when I’m at work - going as far as to use note taking/organization software just to collect my thoughts and not accidentally drop things.

I’ll try it out with a pen and paper when I’m not at work.
My bet is that large scale storage is a much, much easier problem to solve than power-generating nuclear fusion.
The words highlighted in the word usage trends don't support the claim that NYT "abandoned it's commitment to nonpartisan reporting"
Explain how a big uptick in the use of words like "feminism", "islamaphobia" and "anti-semitism" mean the NYT became partisan?

I have a lot of beef with the NYT but the graphs don't show what he claims. And if he actually believes they do, then I have seriously questions about his viewpoints.

Especially considering events that happened around the phase change, like the muslim ban and Me Too movement, that could easily explain the step changes in word frequency around 2014-2016. And is there any comparison with other news outlets word frequencies?

If anything, the step changes show that before 2014ish, NYT was failing at recognizing important issues that they have now started reporting on.
I really apricate your feedback. Just one thing you should take into consideration, that is, as ESL I am not going to put that much effort on writing comments on HN to check for every grammatical error. I simply don't have that much time and energy.

I do understand what you say. But that is not the case sadly.
Sure - That would neatly eliminate majority of qualified candidates :-)

Very few people who are successfully employed would take a risk / have a luxury to forsake their certain employment for an extremely short term contract (with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies!) and extremely limited chance of gainful employment.

(it's perspectives like these that make me realize how much of a grouchy old man I am and have always been - always being a buzzkill by thinking things through next 3 steps! :P)
Yea, I didn't consider that. My thinking was that the hiring process is such a time suck that the applicant should at least paid for those 'take home tests' and 'in person interviews' everywhere in that list ... but yea I'll go back to the drawing board.
I used this a few months back to get some data off old floppies, along with some suggested commands from https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rescuing_Fl...

Very neat piece of software.
> For a matter of convenience, we lower the energy growth rate from 2.9% to 2.3% per year ... When would we run into this limit at a 2.3% growth rate? Recall that we expand by a factor of ten every hundred years, so in 200 years, we operate at 100 times the current level, and we reach 7,000 TW in 275 years. 275 years may seem long on a single human timescale, but it really is not that long for a civilization.

His argument is that sometime in the next 275 years we have to make some change to our economic system, unless economic growth decouples from energy use growth during that time.

What he doesn't say is that it has been decoupling for decades even before he wrote that post, and, by an equally valid extrapolation argument, economic growth will become completely decoupled from energy use globally in another 50 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-intensity-of-econo...
It's got Photoshop 3 on it! And it's... faster than it was on my old Quadra? This is awesome :D
I've made it to 3:40 at times, usually on my second round. Committed meditator and I often start with a round of some kind of breathwork.
How does having an adult focused website on your resume look to conventional tech companies? Is there stigma?
JSLinux doesn't emulate 68K, but something like that.
Yes. It’s not all due to responsibility and the content of the work. It’s also pressure coming from myself to do a good job and feeling angry at myself if I think I’m not performing up to my standards.

Generally by the time the anxiety or stress gets bad enough I make moves to switch jobs. It’s also likely you’re overworking and people won’t really notice or care if you take it easy for a month or two.

If you’re a manager or TL you can also look into delegating work. Even as an IC you can perhaps ask your manager to take something or for them to re-assign it.
"Interesting choice using collections.OrderedDict here, why did you choose that?"
[disclaimer: I work for Purism] Having both Librem 5 and PinePhone right in front of me, I'd say that it's RAM speed, not CPU that's underwhelming. Librem 5 feels much snappier to use, even for such tasks as apt-getting over ssh. They have pretty similar CPUs, but Librem 5's RAM is more than twice as fast as PinePhone's and it shows.

The Vivante GPU is also pretty capable: https://social.librem.one/@dos/104218666011152589

Notifications on the lockscreen are planned, just give it some time :)

> I assume when the device sleeps, you simply stop getting any notifications.

That's true, and that's one of the reasons why Librem 5 doesn't utilize suspend yet - the idle times as seen in the article are just that: idle, not sleeping. We could have made integrating suspend in ATF our top priority, but there's still a lot of groundwork needed before it will actually make enough sense. There's plenty of other power management work to focus on first.
Latin spirare and spiritus respectively. Afaik spiritus came from the verb and literally meant breath in addition to the figurative meaning.
Why not? Our capacity for storage has been increasing exponentially such that yesterday’s data is basically of negligible size compared to what we are producing today. There’s no reason to delete history.
I think discussing the projects would be a better solution. The interviewer looks over his projects and asks questions about them, the applicant explains his thought process behind the decisions made.
If an AI decided to shut off comp.lang.lisp, I'd say it's officially too late to solve the Alignment Problem.
I can only go by what you wrote.

> If you have basic knowledge of that sort, you can kind of skim until the mid point, where we find the above factoid.

I replied to your comment because I read the article first and actually did learn this bit about the immune system response which is in the first half. If I had read your comment first I would likely would have skimmed the article (or even skipped it altogether) and missed it. In that situation your comment would have directed me away from learning something new. I'll continue to try to read articles before comments in the future.
I had pretty good luck using a program that could be programmed to extract all readable sectors first and then go over and over damaged areas to try and recover the data. I can’t recall the name of it but it had a picture of the developers cat on the GUI. (If it is one of the ones you mentioned already I apologize) Bad link on dvd disaster.
https://youtu.be/zaxH4xeMGzM
If you make your hobby to your job, then you have no hobby anymore, it's your job.
This. The purpose of science is to discover the truth, not make the truth. You don't science to confirm everything before you try it. With things like breathing where you know it's not going to cause harm, just try it for yourself.
The discussion of billionaires building "CERNs" came out of a discussion I was having with a friend as a way to quantify how rich these people are in terms more understandable. Graphics like pixel wealth[0] just show scale, but doesn't put things in perspective. But a Forbes analysis estimates the cost of finding the Higgs at around $14bn (rounding up)[1]. I also tried using Super Computers, but at around $300m a piece the number was too small (e.g. Elon is 100 Auroras and Bezos is 1000, ball parks). Number of CERNs became a much more approachable metric but also has the fault that these take over a decade to build (meaning the # of CERNs is likely an underestimate).

I do agree that this would be a great PR move. Especially as we've seen Bezos grow his wealth by $65bn in the last 4 months[2] or Elon by $44bn (more than doubling) in the same time frame[3]. But the practicability is also a little naive considering that these numbers do not equate to liquid cash that they have available. Though someone like Gates has much higher liquidity than Bezos or Elon.

But it is interesting. Maybe if my metric catches on someone will build one (or another mega science project) :D

[0] https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-d...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/?list=billionaires...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?list=billionaires#...
criticker.com does exactly this by normalizing individual user ratings into percentiles and calculating a "Taste Compatibility Index", floating those users whose ratings are closest aligned with yours to the top (and their highest-rated movies). In my case, the resulting predicted score for most movies is close to 80% accurate. Highly recommended site.

https://www.criticker.com/
It should land pretty soon I imagine.
That only works if the workload is low enough to do with a full time job, potentially out of state.

It is a good idea, but nobody is going to be quitting their current job to be a contractor with a job MAYBE attainable. It remains me a lot of retail seasonal employees who work their butts off to MAYBE get a full time position.

I'd also want there to be a clear decision-point (i.e. it isn't a way to get you to be an indefinite contractor, they make a hire/no hire decision within some set timeframe or at the end of the current work).
Over what time period?

Sure, if you measure the time surrounding the beheading, it's obvious, but if you expand the time range far enough, then you find out that everybody dies whether they're beheaded or not and suddenly it looks irrelevant.
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I don't yawn much at all, but sometimes (usually in bed) I do get an uncomfortable urge to have deep yawns. It is frustrating because most of the yawns feel unsatisfying, like I didn't get a deep enough breath with the yawn. It feels as if there is some tension around my lungs or diaphragm. After about 10-20 minutes of this and consciously trying to relax these muscles, I may get in a couple of big satisfying yawns, but it takes a while to get to that point.