skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was once asked to move to SF for a job and given a 20% bump compared to Toronto salaries so I could afford it

Just to dwell on this point for a bit, I think your offer was not equitable. When I was offered to leave the GTA for SF I received a 50% pay bump with the knowledge that it would be closer to 200% in a few years.

Fast forward 1.5 years and that's exactly what happened. A few years later and the pay bump was closer to 300% and I'm happy it worked out the way I imagined, otherwise like you said, it would not have been worth it.
> management is famously militaristic

Although I know that Amazon is hiring intelligence operatives[0] to bust unions, this aspect (militaristic middle management) is news to me. Where can I learn more?

0. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/1/21417401/amazon-job-listin...
I don’t care about reviews or recommendations. I have a to-read list that will last me the rest of my life easily.

The thing I hate about goodreads is there are two search fields one to search books you’ve read and one to search every book.

I’ve wanted to search books I’ve read like 5 times in my life but for some reason I always end up using the only search books I’ve read search bar and I get no results. Just make it a checkbox or return two lists or something.
AstraZeneca/Oxford Trial Resumes
It was - thank you. Not sure which part led me to think that Apple and Arm worked together though and it's a long presentation!
Reminds me of an interview a friend got me at a Spring Boot shop. Make sure you know SB, he said. I normally do Python, so I brushed up on Java and Spring for a month beforehand and was impressed with my progress.

Well, final technical interview wasn't done by him and was instead 100% SQL and database theory instead. I did decently, I got about 85% of the questions right off the top of my head. Pretty decent result for zero preparation. Well, guess what another SQL-head did better. Was a total disaster because I was unemployed at the time and staring down financial ruin.
I think it works quite poorly: https://imgur.com/a/oDpVkZ6
I remember hearing some time ago that sorting at the facility was going to be more efficient than pre-sorting at home because we can't trust everyone to sort properly so sorting at the facility was required anyway. Is this not the case anymore? I see many other comments saying that comingled recycling is bad.
Oh god! Don’t tell me I have to upgrade Splunk again!
It was a matter of time before Bob Martin was targeted by the purity mob. What a sad, fascist and cowardly society we have become.
Do you think it's strange that the website owner of a site dedicated to "exposing pedophiles" hosts chan style boards that regularly have child porn posted en-masse to the site?

Or that this site is associated with a domain "lolis.xyz", referring to "lolita" or underage porn?
How* we upgraded PostgreSQL at Gitlab.com

It's a lot more interesting how they did it than just announcing they did it.
Stack Overflow tweet apparently promoting a conspiracy theory about Wikipedia
In my life my perceived productivity drops when I'm assigned many projects, each one takes more calendar days because I have to make progress on multiple fronts, switching time, multiple more meetings with PMs and stakeholders per week BUT due to my experience the end result is closer to what the stakeholders have in mind and my projects run in production with fewer issues. I've discussed this with my leadership and they understand and are fine with longer timelines that result in higher quality work.
Well China did buy it for recycling, but since that is changing, the corporate narrative needs to change too.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/why-china-import-half-w...
Regardless of the consequences of selling to Nvidia…that’s not a great exit, is it? They bought ARM for $32 billion, and they are getting $40 billion for it? With all the money sloshing around in the debt markets, I figured they’d get a bit more.
23% vs 26%....

I hope it's satire!
Your comment id is 24455736.

If you Google that number, this article pops up:
https://europepmc.org/article/med/24455736

Why do you want to sedate infants? Are you abusing infants?
The techies here including myself did, it was a deal the government should have looked into.

It was a crown jewel of a company, hard to imagine the French government letting it slide or the US government letting a intel be sold to a foreign company.
agree that college is the way to go. Just not in the US system. The whole idea of college tuition is fucked up to the rest of the world
If it is so easy, why most of them sucks?
It was a provocative comment, sure, but I wouldn't say unproductive: others asked why Lua is superior, and several people answered, myself included.

Heartily agree that the same basic argument would apply if Roblox had started with JS! Lua isn't so much better than JS that it would be worth scrapping collective centuries of labour over.

But given that it is the better language, in my not-so-humble opinion, why on Earth would they switch?

I think the only rational way to argue superiority of Javascript over Lua, is to point to aspects outside of the language itself: larger install base, more libraries, bigger, more vibrant community, better tooling, and so on.

But I prefer to call that the ecosystem, and can confidently say that Javascript, alas, has the superior ecosystem. A pity, because Lua is the superior language.
Rust in 2021
> it appears this was "produced" by an AI, but it also exists verbatim elsewhere as written by a human, so it was probably picked up in the training data and then spat back out unaltered

> so if it decides to start with A, and it's only ever seen A next to B, and it's only ever seen B next to C, and it's only ever seen C next to D... then you might get out ABCDEFG and go "wow amazing it came up with the alphabet all by itself"

> but no, it didn't do that. it saw someone else do that and it couldn't figure out anything else to do it. it's not a sign of intelligence; it's exactly the opposite. and the messier your training data is, the less similarities within it, the more likely this is to happen

> yeah you can get an essay out of that one text generator. cool. but do keep in mind 1. it had //millions// of pages of input from formal sources like newspapers and encyclopedias, all written to a similar style. 2. how much of its output is truly original? have you checked?

> the funny thing is that we already saw a lot of this stuff happen 20+ years ago with markov chain bots in irc. sometimes the bot would say something remarkably poignant and, oh, no, it's basically repeating something a human said earlier because it started with a rare word
NYC is the same, but the way refuse is handled makes it more convenient for people to “harvest” it. I lived on the Upper East Side for a while, and building managers would bag up recycling in clear bags. Then you’d see people out collecting the bottles and cans out of the bag but also making sure to tidy up afterwards. The collection crews would have gigantic bags, carts, etc. that they’d take to larger grocery stores to turn in for the deposit.
Welcome to Your Bland New World
Which part. Except the presentation, there's no prep required. It's all about what you know and what you have done in your career. No Leetcode, no algorithms, no bs questions.
Food waste in landfills is arguably a much bigger problem than plastics being dumped into landfills. The acid produced from the decomposing organics eats away plastics and metals, creating a toxic leachate. Landfills try to contain that, but it is not contained 100%. That stuff leaks out into soil, potentially into aquifers. Furthermore the methane gases can build up in the landfill with potentially explosive consequences. Many landfills add vertical pipes to vent it, but it isn't captured for later use, contributing to greenhouse gases.

Contrast that with being able to process food waste onsite (or at least the neighborhood level) using the carbon cycle -- vermicomposting and conventional composting. They feed the plant, and unlike oil-based fertilizers, they help build up soil fertility long-term.

There are many more actions an individual can take that contributes towards the health of the ecology. I think a lot of people latch onto recycling because it is one of the few things people know how to do that they think contributes towards a better ecology. But there are so many more impactful things individuals and communities can do, that does not depend upon forcing large megacorps to do the right thing.
That rule sounds more geared towards punishing "felony interference with a business model" and gatekeeping than anything else. Content is fundamentally valueable because it gets attention in the first place regardless of who pays for it!
It was actually easy to identify the conference in question by searching for the author's name plus "Chicago" and "conference". DuckDuckGo's search summary shows him as a speaker, but the actual page does not. And the date of his own talk coincides with the first day of that conference.
Interestingly, I assume you meant to end your post with "pointer to char" not "char" itself, but asterix is the the italics formatting character on HN so it's italicized it. But the funny thing is that it's italicized the "reply" button (as well as an empty i-tag after "char").
Healthy way to use social media is to avoid anything that garners likes. Don't post things that are approval or attention seeking. Just use it for exchanging messages with people you know, or asking genuine questions. I stopped posting to my Instagram feed, but I do use Instagram Stories which aren't likeable. Also, stop liking others' stuff. When you avoid the "social currency," you cease to be played and deprive these companies a little of their data feed on you.
If you want to do anything at meaningful scale, it's unlikely anyone is going to make biochar. If the big oil companies really feel pressured by a need to recycle plastic, they'll just look for a way to stick it into one of their existing facilities, maybe a coker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_coker
Uhh... have you read his sexist and racist remarks online?

ETA: ignoring racial bias in policing @ https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/aaoswq5bzdpptrtd7s...

Plus a good take on his "Thought Police" post https://medium.com/@BradleyHolt/what-uncle-bob-gets-wrong-c0...
Just abuse the mentally ill in your own country if your jealous.

Im jealous that human filth like yourself can can say these things and feel no remorse
Excellent question. I rely heavily on machine translation, and while auto-subtitling on YouTube is misleading for speech, it's atrocious for song[1]. Maybe we'll get some native speakers to answer by tomorrow?

[1] this is a parody, so no published lyrics. The original tune was italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM63xMU6FEc .
>This is more or less legally required for any company that moves money in the United States of America. You will probably find the same issues with the same terms on any other banking for financial body.

No you won't because names are not unique. Banks and credit unions tend to have sophisticated data analysis, unlike the knuckleheads at PayPal.

When I heard about this nonsense years ago, I put some of the banned words in the memo area of checks and transferred money between two credit union accounts. They went through. I did the same thing using electronic transfers between accounts. Again, they went through without any problem.

https://imgur.com/a/RnpRm

A person put the words "James Kang" in a donation to the Red Cross that stated he was testing these banned words and PayPal, in their infinite stupidity, froze the transaction.
Yes: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-February/00...
Goodreads doesn't get enough love from Amazon, It always seemed really odd to me that the recommended books in the kindle store were better than goodreads even though it's all the same company. It seems like a wasted opportunity. There are also numerous bugs I've ran into on the app that I just work around.
Not a great answer when you have turned over gigabytes worth of internal correspondence to the government. Surely almost any vaguely common term was used by someone at Microsoft.

Boies tries to pull Gates repeatedly during the deposition into this kind of trap.
Or macincloud is $20/month with GUI access.
Make it digital then. Upload the device to a website using your cell phone. Nobody between you and the verification that way.

And if you don't upload, the car won't start and you get a call from a friendly community officer to find out what went wrong.
I'd guess that a majority of the tech crowd wasn't fooled. This isn't exactly news if you follow tech related stories. So I think there is a tendency to blame the non tech people for not also being aware of something that was 'obvious'.
A bad hiring bar can be worse than random for hiring good candidates.
Plus Apple was a large shareholder (about 45% I think) in Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. The sale of that stake in the late 1990s raised a lot of cash (over $1bn) for Apple when it really needed it.
> And as a bonus, you can’t sell it even though you can verify it.

How does homomorphic encryption keep me from selling my id and password to someone who will vote for me, or keep someone from standing over my shoulder and watching me vote?
Some of us do not accept "this person has said [thing considered objectionable] and therefore should not be allowed to talk about [unrelated topic] even if they perfectly follow the guidelines of the relevant event."
"Disinviting someone from a virtual conference who can draw a potentially large audience away from that virtual conference is not a particularly intelligent tactic."

I think Uncle Bob greatly overestimates his pull in the tech talks world.
This probably depends on the country, and perhaps even municipality, but plastic is recycled properly here (.nl).

Plastic, drinking cartons and metals are collected in the same container. These three are separated using magnets[1] and infrared scanners. The plastics are melted down to little pellets that can be used to create new products. A common example are shampoo bottles. This video is in Dutch, but it has some overview of these sorting machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf--8o3yD6g

Based on this video about plastic recycling in Germany, I think the situation is very similar there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_fUpP-hq3A The video is in English. The plastics that are recycled there seem to be PET, PP and HDPE.

I'm absolutely in love with all the neat little tricks these machines use to sort the stuff. From simple ones like sieves and centrifuges, to fans and advanced imaging stuff. It's beautiful.

[1] Even aluminium can be sorted with magnets by doing some magic.
Exploitration
> In almost all locations, PLA, "compostable plastic" (often labeled number 7 or 0 for marketing) is not only not recyclable but actively contaminates compost and recycling plants. I see all these places using "compostable plastic" because they think it's more environmentally friendly.

I don't know the answer to this question -- have you heard of any work using fungi or "eco-vats" to break down plastics like this?
Yes of course but you cannot play the victim game when it's your own actions leading to that moment.
Yes please do culture talk but the good kind!

Yes people in teams should like each other because otherwise you will have a bunch of unmotivated pixel pushers as developers that only think when the time runs out.

In all of the companies were soft skills did not matter and I worked for people were coming and going.

No you don't have to be friends outside of work but usually you are still spending 8 hours 5 days a week with these people and maybe for some people it is okay to not like the other people in the company but from my experience this leads to no good in the long run.
C doesn't have strings. ;-)
My local elections have each voting location team do home visits on election day for people who physically can't get to a voting location due to disability, severe ilness, etc - in the last elections it was used by the people home-isolating due to Covid. There aren't that many people like that, it takes some funding and effort to make an exception for them, but it is manageable.
> Apple used the Arm6-based Arm610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA

The ironies of history: one of Apple's most infamous failures ended up being the foundation of their later success.
Are Elon Musk's ‘megaconstellations’ a blight on the night sky?
I have read some of his blog yes. Did not find anything wrong with it. Can you point to something racist or sexist you might have found?
We will likely have civil unrest. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s someone with access to much better data than me: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/04/faceboo...

Putting your head in the sand won’t make it go away. Mail-in is a bad fucking idea. Trump suggested a way for his supporters to make sure their vote was counted and Twitter took the tweets down as “election manipulation”. Umm, what? So do mail-in ballots allow double voting or not? Twitter has also said they will remove any Tweets by trump if he claims victory “too early”. So that’s where we are now, huh? If Democrats were so damn confident they could win fair and square, why introduce this wild card?

Changing to mail-in at the 13th hour is not the same as continuing a 30-year tradition. Besides, as others have pointed out, it has led to nakedly corrupt elections in other states (Washington state in 2004). Whenever you introduce the possibility of people being able to ballot harvest or “lose ballots” and those same people are taught that they are stopping literally Hitler it’s no surprise they do what they do. This whole last-minute rush for mail-in ballots stinks to high heaven and even if you think your side will benefit from it, we all lose when trust in our democracy is undermined.

So no, I won’t just kindly shut up and let Democrats steal the election. Or Republicans for that matter. We should all be observing the ballot counting process but this god damn mail-in process means we can’t audit the process. That should scare you. If it doesn’t, you are way too naive.
So, let me get this straight.

Conference asks Martin to give a presentation. No money is to change hands, no contract is signed.

Conference changes their mind and decides to not have him speak after all.

Martin's reaction is to throw around legal threats like "breech of contract" [sic] and "tortious interference"???

Sounds to me like the conference dodged a bullet.
> Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers.

So isn't a part of the article only relevant to the US, and other countries which were exporting plastic trash rather than actually recycling/using for derivative products?

> Here's the basic problem: All used plastic can be turned into new things, but picking it up, sorting it out and melting it down is expensive.

> Recycling plastic is "costly,"

By now, we should be well enough educated to say: "What do you mean by expensive or costly?"

Does it mean...

* Costs a lot of money in the current socio-economic order?

* Requires a lot of human effort?

* Requires a lot of electricity / other form of energy?

* Has a high carbon footprint (by some complex figuring)?

* Involves a process emitting pollutants?

If it's just the monetary cost, then in a sense - that doesn't matter. Just rearrange society so that either this is funded (or a non-monetary economy). If it's energy use - maybe it's worth it and it could be arranged to be done using solar collectors in the desert or whatever. And so on.
Just a reminder that the he wrote texts like the following:

“Remember when the software SJWs told us that “Software Craftsmanship” was exclusionary to women because it was clearly male?”

Good that the CoC was enforced. People like him who are still stuck in the 2016 election cycle are actively hurting the software community and hold us back.
How to choose a mailing list tool for WordPress besides MailChimp
The status quo regarding Goodreads and it's position in the industry is really interesting.

There is not a single competent alternative to Goodreads, yet Goodreads just sucks! As simple as that, the UI is horrible, the UX is disgusting, the perfomance is that of toaster and still people are using it.

I personally am using it for the last 5 years while continuously searching unsuccessfully for alternatives.
If you think the website is bad, you should check out the Android app, never in my life have I seen a worse app by a popular company.

I got so frustrated by Goodreads that on multiple occasions I thought of starting a competing product just to challenge the status quo, but as soon as I started dwelling deeper into it, I realized that there is just no real viable business model for it to be worth it.

I guess that explains the current status of Goodreads and why there are so few competitors.

How do you monetize a social network about reading books?
I have spent way too much time thinking about it, yet failing to achieve a result.

1)You can't really sell books, since Amazon is already so well entrenched and honestly books aren't a really hot commodity.

2)Subscription for audiobooks? Again there is Audible, and Scribd is also doing a phenomenal business doing it, you pay $9 and listen to as many as you want audiobooks.

3)Affiliate marketing? Goodreads already does it, and it isn't really a business model with a good foundation.

4)Customized ads? This might be the "least" worst solution, although what could you advertise to people who read books? Their LTV (lifetime value of customers) isn't really high.

5)A paid social network? Good luck trying to grow a social network which asks it's users to pay $1 monthly.

6)The latest and craziest idea I had regarding it, was to make it a hybrid of Goodreads and LinkedIn. Where employers can see what types of books are their applicants reading. I.e. if I am looking to hire a backend intern, I am sooner going to hire the intern who read in his free time Effective Java, Clean Code, etc. since you can pretty much gain a good overall picture about a person by looking at the books he reads.

I spent way too much time obsessing over this...
Then don't support it. Be neutral.

If you have the time for a simple rule, people will pay for things of value.

That's a good rule of life. You can expand it as you get time.
That you cite their existence without giving an actual example is a strong indication that if they do exist, you aren't aware of them either.
Huh, I've always considered organics as biochar inputs. Thanks for pointing out that plastics can be used that way. Have you seen any work done about addressing release of toxins when burning plastic?
The Virtual Barbershop
I agree but that is not in everybody's interest.
> I don't see a future where C survives

if C dies then what replaces it?
For the benefit of those less up to date, why don't you link them.
There is a LOT of evidence for the existence of dark matter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_ev...
I've heard that sentiment many decades ago too. I suspect it's because things cost the same price everywhere due to international trade but labor for repairing is cheaper in most other countries because they have lower incomes than America. So it may just be a rational economic decision, not the wrong amount of consumption and reuse.
<3 Finally some good news. Needed that today.
Electronic voting is a recipe for civil unrest because there is no way to demonstrate its legitimacy to the people who participate in it and are subject to the results. !remindme 2020-11-04