skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to use the details of the company, so if the placeholder is for a a phone number, I'd put the company phone number in as the placeholder.
Same for email etc. It's useful to see how you want the user to style the input, but with 'real' data not a '0000 0000-0000' kind of thing
Yup, this was my exact experience. In Windows land, I used whatever IDE was built for whatever language I was using (Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Borland Delphi) When I started doing web, it was all Notepad++ and BBEdit, Dreamweaver. Then I found Textmate. It was so perfect. Having no Windows version was so upsetting. When Sublime showed up, I was so happy. I had always used Vim in my IT career though, so once I started learning how to make that work for more than editing config files, that became my daily driver.
In my case, it was more that the recruiter wouldn't give any sense of what their number was. I told them it was like they were selling a home and advertising an open house without an asking price or any pictures of the inside. I wouldn't waste 20 minutes on an open house for a place that wouldn't work for me, would you?

They just clamped down on "I'm not at liberty to say." So, I told them to get back to me when they have a little more liberty.

What I usually say in those initial conversations is something like "I don't have any real requirements beyond the amount that pays my bills. And, at this point, I don't know enough about the job, the team, management, benefits, etc. or the value I could bring, to give an educated number."

That usually satisfies them on the first phone call.
a DynaTrap
Not trying to badmouth the university here, but having to trust the statement of those who broke your trust in the first place doesn't meet my definition of "knowing" something.

Maybe "believe" would be better used here? Knowing would mean to know precisely what each of these changes does and whether they open up new vulnerabilities and then having confidence that all is well. Gaining this confidence requires work. And unless you put that work in, you are left to trusting/believing.

(Edit: what I mean here is that the researchers could be totally nice and ethical people, but the Linux devs would still have to either take a risk by trusting them OR put in the work to check it all OR decide not to put in that work)
What I’m saying is that bone conduction, including tight seals of earbuds, or even use of earplugs in certain environments (roadies etc), might actually be far worse than the sound coming into the ear canal by air conduction. This seems to be my experience.
Quotes about meritocracy vs reality

you will often hear ... in the United States everyone has an opportunity to make the leap: Mobility justifies inequality. As a matter of principle, this isn’t true. In the United States, it also turns out not to be true as a factual matter. Contrary to popular myth, economic mobility in the land of opportunity is not high, and it’s going down.

Imagine yourself on the socioeconomic ladder with one end of a rubber band around your ankle and the other around your parents’ rung. The strength of the rubber determines how hard it is for you to escape the rung on which you were born. If your parents are high on the ladder, the band will pull you up should you fall; if they are low, it will drag you down when you start to rise.

With these quotes are stats; they evidence how there is little mobility between socioeconomic classes. With limited exception, people tend to stay where they were born.
The entire incident has been disappointing.

The researchers conducting the research thinking this was a good idea, the IRB review process at the UMN, IEEE accepting the IRB exception after ethical concerns where raised, and the overreaction from gregkh on the LKML.

Hopefully there is a silver lining and we see better research collaboration between the kernel devs and researchers going forward. IEEE has a job to do around all of this going forward.
Cobalt is probably a bigger problem.
Bitcoin is 'a giant pyramid scheme,' says Pinboard founder [video]
not read the posted article yet BUT comment here -- people with a moral compass, and people with a sense of social fairness, are sometimes quick to judge societal developments as .. a failing of moral compass and social fairness (!)

As one skilled in building machines, I tend to elevate the mechanistic outcomes of game rules when the numbers of parts get so large.

Other large mechanistic factors include - What effect does the opiate years in USA have on economic consolidation? What about good old databases connected to networks? seems like both would tip the overall game outcomes quite a bit.

How do you measure the economic output of a person developing a writing approach in literature? When you measure the economic outcomes, where does the individual show up? hint - not much.. other examples of individuals doing important things, and not showing up at all in aggregate statistics available on request :-)

Class tension in society is an easy target, and may or may not explain game outcomes in a large system of active parts.

"Our delusions of merit " seems like a personal therapy topic more than an explanation of game outcomes, to me.
Why does it need to be chaos instead of more methodical changes to society, such as much higher taxes on the very wealthy to be used by society for the benefit of all?
> What makes its usage level irresponsible?

New financial instrument using more power than most countries. Thought you might have got that by now.

> Why is it more irresponsible than other technologies which use more energy than it?

Nobody is making that argument. This is just whataboutery. But in general, the fact that it's a new financial instrument using more power than most countries, at a time when we have a global climate crisis brought on largely by our energy usage.
I see the reason for people’s disagreement, but with a very important exception:

Sometimes new ways of doing things completely free us from the friction of the previous ways, and people who do not already have those scars have the advantage of being unrestricted by them
I'm actually not a fan of this law. My first salary position was for job which advertised a range of something like 80 to 90k a year. The highest I had made previously was $10 an hour, the CEO of the company was a nice guy who brought me in for an interview anyway.

I took an offer at 40K or so, and within 3 years I was at 100k. With laws like this in play I'm not sure if that would still be legal. A lot of these ideas sound great on paper, but in reality you've completely eliminated any room to negotiate salaries downward in case an applicant isn't all that experienced.

I imagine what's going to happen is you'll see companies become much stricter with documentable requirements. Such as a bachelor's degree, which I also lacked back then. Saying please I need a job, I'll take 50% less since I don't have a bachelor's will open up companies to lawsuits
The part where we mine lithium instead of recycle it is a good indicator.
I didn't mean to imply that there is anything wrong with visualization. I feel they're easier to understand than equations for the vast majority of people. But as a concrete example, to understand the Fourier transform it probably took me a couple of weeks of reading different textbooks in my spare time to really grok how the math works here.. it took some effort and I'm not some autistic savant that sees things in equations - so it has nothing to do with learning styles.

Looking at some diagrams and videos for certain topics is a lazy and harmful approach to learning because some problems are just not conducive to visualization. Efforts to force a visualization ends up being actively bad and give viewers the wrong idea. My comment was a point by point explanation of how this ends up happening. At least in this particular case, with the Fourier Transform, the visualizations in effect made it harder for me personally to understand how the math works b/c they are so sloppy and emphasis all the wrong points.

In the grand scheme of things, having a half-assed popsci understanding is generally worse than not know anything. You can get a sense of overconfidence and then go on to apply these techniques incorrectly and make broken/fragile systems that make no mathematical sense (or publish insane papers)

If you really work with signal processing and don't understand the mathematics of the fourier transform then that's frankly a little scary. I'd really recommend taking the time to understand it b/c I think it really pays off - but yes, it takes a bit more effort than watching a youtube video..
I made a short Twitter thread relating to this article here:
https://twitter.com/mikepfrank/status/1395731216922464263?s=...

I recommend the books “Maxwell’s Demon” and the second edition “Maxwell’s Demon 2”, both edited by Leff and Rex, which collect a lot of the classic literature on this topic.

Bottom line is, of course no real machine can break the Second Law, but the Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment helps illuminate the physical nature of information.
This seems to put blame on people who have avoided the meltdown in manufacturing and other blue collar jobs, rise in housing and medical costs, etc as if it were a zero sum game, and blaming it on "meritocracy".
Okay, you are correct.
Question about license upgrades. The page says:

> Note you can upgrade to the bundle from either a Sublime Text or Sublime Merge license.

Right now I have a ST3 license and would like to upgrade it to both ST4 and Sublime Merge.

If one upgrades to a bundle now, will it be possible in the future to upgrade the bundle license to a single product one? Or is the only option to buy a new single product license instead?

(I’m ok with it either way, I just want to find out so I can plan better.)
Oh no, how can these companies underpay their employees now?
>You'd have to be slightly insane

yes and this particular flavor of insanity has a name: pedantry.

>the meaning is engraved in dense equations

what's hilarious is that middling tier mathematically literate people worship mathematical formalism while truly mathematically literate people (i.e. mathematicians) eschew it because they understand that mathematics can't be formalized but also because it's natural language whose value is communication not codification. even here - ask someone to explain to you rigorously the definition of the fourier transform wrt dirac deltas. again the middling tier mathematically literate will assume that writing down an integral against a dirac delta is rigorous simply because you can write it down completely forgetting that the dirac delta is a tempered distribution not a function and thus that integral means something completely different. ultimately it is the case that the definition is consistent with a set of agreed upon definitions but the symbology itself is just a pun.
Thanks for sharing,
Very well written
The US has a federal law that all new cars must have backup cameras. So there will be a screen in the car.

I too want only knobs and buttons for controls, and I think it can be done well, unfortnately I'm not in that field though. Oh well.
Thanks for sharing, beautifully written book
> New financial instrument using more power than most countries. Thought you might have got that by now.

But you haven't justified why that is an irresponsible use.

> Nobody is making that argument. This is just whataboutery.

Yes, true, I guess you never claimed that the other ~99.4% of energy usage isn't actually less justified than Bitcoin. Sorry to imply otherwise.
I liked the points you raised, I think they serve as a good checklist for the finer details of designing UI.

One critique I had when I was reading through is the use of he/him when referring to a hypothetical user. This is likely region-dependent, but it sounds awkward to me to assign gender to an unknown user.

Some authors prefer they/them and some (more rarely) prefer an equal number of masculine and feminine pronouns.

Great work, nonetheless.
>Is this true?

No. In the UK the National Grid says we only need to go back to 2002 levels of power generation to support the whole fleet moving to electric.
Interesting.

Looks like LLDP can be switched off in the network config.

https://systemd.network/systemd.network.html
I'd second doing this tutorial. I think what they have is terrible for somebody brand new to CSS, but for a developer who has worked with CSS and still not quite put it all together, this tutorial is great.

For me one of the keys to "getting" CSS, and I think is the hardest, worst part of CSS, is understanding all of the implicit contexts that are generated. For example, elements have positioning roots. Nowhere does this word even show up in the CSS language, you have to know that it's created whenever an element has a position that is not static.

Similarly elements have a stacking context which is hugely important to understanding z-index and transform. Again never explicitly mentioned, inststead stacking contexts are implicitly created by a variety of actions like setting an element's background color to anything with a non-zero opacity.
The Splitting of Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' – A Prophecy Fulfilled?
Yeah, you especially don't want to proactively push out a bunch of job postings to people who have exactly zero chance of landing the position because the decision has already been made.
Given a series of proposed changes, those with wealth will seek to "game" those changes to retain that wealth. Jump down the double-Irish rabbit hole for a bit and think of the motivations of the people involved, all of them.
problem is in the US the people would still be talking about this old stuff as proof that you cannot trust whomever (similar to how the example of Fauci having "lied" about masks is STILL brought up 1 year later) instead of using nuance and arguing in good faith. The only way forward is through an iterative process with good-faith actors where the interests of the collective are put forward instead of the profitability of the few. But it's a long way to get there.
The myths by Horatio Alger and his imitators have done a lot of damage to society, as it is typically used to blame people for matters outside of their personal control. According to that line of thinking, poor people deserve to be poor, because it's entirely within their control to not be poor.
That's exactly the opposite of what the initial comment of this thread suggests.
I carry with me a phone with a killswitch for modem (Pinephone).
Literally my favorite purchases in the last two years were:
1) Rollerblades from Goodwill (just 8 dollars)
2) A Kinetic Torus Knot (my favorite stim toy now)
3) All my thrifted clothes (im so broke)
The Latest Coronavirus Comes from Dogs
I would second this - it works really well in VSCode and it's something I would happily pay for.
Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps After 1967
These might be good workarounds, but they all assume that employers have some incentive to look for a workaround. This may be true for highly paid roles that are hard to fill, but for more competitive roles, they'll just skip CO entirely and avoid any risk. SO it'll be lower paid workers that suffer as a result of this regulation, as usual.
Home inspectors are a borderline scam. In my experience they never find any of the real problems and only surface superficial stuff that should be obvious even to a layman.

This probably is because many buyers go with the inspector recommendation of their realtor and realtors aren’t going to recommend someone that is too through to the point of risking the deal.
Another author notices the Pareto curve as it applies to wealth and gawks

What makes this HN content at all? It's not curious, it's self flagellation from the Coastal class

You want to understand the other half? Talk to Trump voters.
Dogs tend to be pretty physically close to humans. If your dog had stank-ass, you'd know it.
Krugman tries to come off as an unbiased economist, but these days he's more of a political pundit.

I wrote about [0] his last piece where he criticized people worried about inflation ("cockroaches" as he called them). The biggest tell tale is when he showed the money supply growth but purposely cut off an uncomfortable spike in response to covid (YoY growth of money supply more than double what we have ever seen in the US).

He's more interested in dunking on his opponents than having a serious discussion about economic policy

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/where-did-the-12-trillio...
Hopefully more companies like https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/lithiumio... will get a big boost and recycling will take over a good portion of the source for battery materials.

And of course, reduction: investments in public infrastructure and pedestrian-based city design to reduce the need for individual ownership and the total number of cars overall.
Making the TCB bigger makes PoS less secure overall. If you pick the wrong validator set when you boot your node up, you're fucked -- your node will never discover the chain history which represents actual user activity [1]. PoS is the blockchain equivalent of forcing users to pick out which TLS certificates they trust when they install their OS. PoW is the blockchain equivalent to your OS having a way to discover which TLS certificates the majority of the Internet currently trusts in-band, as well as a way to upgrade them to the newly-trusted set if the majority switches.

The sad part is, PoS doesn't even gain you anything -- it's not cheaper. It's just a feel-good measure that doesn't solve the underlying problem.

> Sztorc's argument is heavily disputed in this thread, and you can see the arguments against it in the critiques provided.

Other people not understanding the argument doesn't make the argument wrong.

[1] The proof is in the appendix of this paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf. The gist is that they show that two forks are indistinguishable without a priori knowledge of which validator set is not corrupt.
That's how it works right now :) Everyone adds their payment method, and we charge everyone their share when the bill is due then we pay for the bill automatically.
Project Magnet
Surfactants.
I'm also curious about this
then I apologize for misdescribing you greg :) but the rest of the comment stands. sometimes things blur a little after 20 years.
Because changes will likely be made by people who are close to the political power, they will easily work around the rules.
The thing you're looking for is the legal doctrine of "Disparate Impact."

Discrimination against a protected class (like race) is illegal. Geography is not a protected class, and discrimination based on geography is not inherently illegal. But under the doctrine of Disparate Impact, a particular policy of geographic exclusion is illegal if it happens to have outsized effect on a protected class (and has no business justification).

Note that Disparate Impact does not require intention!
You’re probably right. But it seems in everybody’s interest not to force that alliance. For instance, look at Monero booming today after the treasury news. That’s a sign of who ordinary people are most afraid of. It would be nice for modern government to at least aspire to be more loved than feared.
This looks like an outstanding course!

Thanks for publishing it!
This comment adds nothing to the conversation. It's just 100% vitriol.
I knew it was Krugman just reading the title and domain. It's unfortunate that Paul often chooses to use such a smug, dividing, and patronizing tone. In these times we don't need more of that.

But it's the usual stereotyping and sensationalizing of "libertarian" argument:

"libertarian derp — assertions that fiat currencies, government-issued money without any tangible backing, will collapse any day now."

No, that's not the assertion. Or at least it's only one of them and Paul cherry-picked it. Another assertion is that fiat currency and its inflationary aspects are one of the main contributors to income inequality. (Or just go browse https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ )
It could be an A2 3L, which shares the drivetrain etc. with the VW Lupo 3L, so named because it used just 3L of diesel per 100km (under ideal conditions, of course).

I don't know of any current Audis with similar repeatable fuel economy.
This varies somewhat by state, as I understand. Some states only require disclosure for specific classes of problems.
Cool article.. For some application - see http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
Unfortunately the modern feature people are most likely to use is the crash protection and life saving features of modern cars when in a crash.

I don't like modern electronics in cars but the safety features make buying a modern car compelling.
That too.

Plenty of job postings exist merely for compliance. So all you are doing is wasting a lot of time.
I interviewed at a hedge fund with their CTO. I expected a certain class of question since this was just the first phone call, but I was blindsided by the breadth of the questions asked. It was one of the most painful interviews I’ve ever done since I repeatedly bombed questions for almost an hour. Apparently I did better than some other candidates but it seemed like they were looking for someone more senior. However my interviewer still sat through the entire interview and also explained the answers for a lot of the questions.

It ended up being one of the best interviews I could have had since it taught me my weak points. I was able to brush up on them and went on to get multiple offers a couple of weeks later.

Bombing interviews can be a learning opportunity.
It’s only really an issue if you’re really invested in the company you’re interviewing with.
> I've done several OTAs on a Tesla. Most were about 1 month apart, and my longest update took 28 minutes. The average is closer to 15.

Interesting. My Model X always estimates 25 but it's usually closer to an hour.
And do you think very high taxes is a solution to this problem? Do you consider the high COL to be unrelated to the policies that CA has?
>> Some companies however have decided that excluding all Colorado residents for a remote job that can be filled by someone in any of the other 49 US states is better than sharing how much they're willing to pay.

Well, yes obviously that is better. If 2% of all poker games required you to hold your cards the other way around, would it be better to just avoid those games? Yes, it would.
Android Apps Are Leaking the Personal Details of Millions of Users
So we shouldn't even try to rein in the wealthy?
America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology
"The literate man’s preferred media—say the novel or essay—will have a beginning, middle, and end. They have an argument to make, a plot to follow, and a destination to reach. A Twitter or Facebook feed has neither beginning nor end, only one long middle. Its infinite-scroll feedback loop is the antithesis of the logical order and linearity of the print era. The visual-to-oral transition of speech and thought will have similarly dire implications for the conduct of politics."
Folding@home and SETI@home and The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search already existed and could have had big nerds turn them into robot money somehow but naahhhhh. Of course not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...
We do recognise that, and that's why you publish a salary range. If your salary range for a dev is 50k - 90k, then publish that. The point, a candidate who know they are a good developer can know what to expect.

If someone shows up for interview with leadrship skills so amazing they can run the whole company and you want to pay them 4x, then it's probably a different job, maybe a TeamLead.

Publish several jobs and just fill one of them, cancell others.

But the argument is bordering on "we are so flexible we have no structure at all and we have no clue what we are doing" and is difficult to taje seriously.