skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think more of a peer based approach to recruiting would have any legs? I built something a little while back that was a kind of "keep track of the people you'd hire", and anyone on your list had the power to grant you visibility to various parts of their profile (current employer, whether they are looking or not, what kind of role they are looking for, etc). Never targeted recruiters as a potential user, but I guess that probably isn't a bad use case. I'd much rather get contacted by a recruiter (albeit a recriuter who was known to me) with "hey I see you're looking for X, let's catch up to discuss opportunities Y and Z" as opposed to the cold calls / linkedin messages that are the current status quo.
How to crop an image from screenshot with the use of OpenCV?
Ask HN: Why don't houses in California have white roofs?
Can reduce some of those air conditioning bills and reflect more of the suns heat.
Mainly because Missouri's AG is running for Senate, and he needs better wingnut credentials to compete in the primary with Eric Greitens and Mark McCloskey.
Is it just a coincidence that I submitted one of Pieter Hintjens's old articles about code generation earlier today? If I'm not mistaken, Martin Sustrik worked with Hintjens.
This would be a good post to analyze for voting ring behavior on HN
Which got me thinking, why do we refer to someone as talented when we know that they weren’t born with this skill? You weren’t born with the ability to speak, write stories or make computer programs. It’s a skill that you have have learned over time, mostly due to spending a lot of hours in that particular field.

Except they are born with it. IQ is innate and correlated with relative (to one's peers) writing and math ability. People with talent get more millage for their effort. Someone with a high IQ will grasp concepts faster.

http://greyenlightenment.com/2021/04/25/why-talent-beats-gri...

Sure, natural capabilities matter when you are competing with the best in the world, but for most people competing with the best is not a part of their daily job.

Unless your job is low-skilled, getting a good, high-paying job means having to compete with other presumably talented applicants for that job.
I'm not certain that the article really does show that the "Ageing process is unstoppable" which is the title of the Guardian article. The title on MedicalXpress article is "We aren't living longer: Our improved lifespan is the result of not dying young" which seems to fit the study better

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-longer-lifespan-resul...
I imagine this probably emerged from blogger’s SEO efforts.

“I’m blogging about habits - the small kind - and I want readers to know at a glance, let’s call them micro habits”.

I don’t love it, but I think I understand how it came to be.

> at what point does this stop being a micro-habit and start being a normal habit?

I think that’s also the unstated point behind “micro habits”. These things are achievable, and oh look, you’ve fully formed a useful habit: reading books.

I think this approach is targeting a very specific type of audience - an audience that wants to make changes, but they want the easy way. They gravitate to gimmicks and buzzwords.

Even though it may seem unnecessary on the surface, if it’s actually leading to results for people who wouldn’t have otherwise made the change (perhaps due to feeling like the thing was too big to tackle), I say why not.

And I’m probably not the target audience, either.
I would be more motivated if the project had begun making a transition to a less antiquated language.

It would amount to little more than a change to the build script, to change "gcc" to "g++", and then the project could immediately begin updating incrementally. New code could use all the modern conveniences.

The Gcc and Gdb projects both started this way sometime back, and it has been a stellar success. The common experience when preferring latest language features, whenever there is a choice, is that when the compiler is satisfied, the code is right.
People inside FDA working diligently to make this happen dont sound like morons to me, they sound like second house in the Hamptons/Aspen types.
The email contains card last digits, card type, merchant name, and transaction amount.
SLR: recently imposed capital requirements on large banks. Banks don't hold cash, they hold reserves at the Fed. And reserves are included in the bank's leverage ratio, so by accepting too much cash the bank can end up pushing their leverage ratio beyond the SLR limit which is bad for business.
I bet you not even 50% of your bookmarks are still working.
It is a shame.
Concurrency and parallelism are different things (and the existence of an implementation for one does not preclude the other).
Everything in this field is about how much of what capacity of medium you have per subscriber. FTH has 100% of a piece of glass. WISP has ~10% of a 25MHz channel with ~80dB noise floor. Musk has ??% of a ??MHz channel with ~90dB noise floor. Apply Shannon and you have your answers.
Win+R cmd.exe

C:

Cd \

Dir /s /b qmake.exe
In particular, when you click for more detail on the Weather widget (which on iOS opens the Weather app), iPadOS takes you to weather.com. Thank you, I should have clarified this.
AAIB Bulletin: 3/2021 Alauda Airspeeder Mk II UAS [pdf]
How so? (Ran a small ISP for a decade, never dealt with a legal issue).
Peak Bubble? Bitcoin Apps now have prime time Dutch TV commercials
The Fed is adamant about preventing negative rates, which is in fact what the reverse repo facility is accomplishing--if market participants could not go to the Fed and had to conduct repo with banks, then the overnight repo rate could easily go negative when there's too much cash sloshing around.
"Captures the imagination of distributed systems engineers" is the biggest red flag I can think of.
Will the operation of iter give the other programs useful data or not really?
100% this. They say individual engineers can't exercise this power, but that Triplebyte can use its weight to force their hand. As a hiring manager, I have dozens of recruiting platforms to choose from, most touting the same list of resumes. Yet another resume farm has zero power.

Fortunately, most of the dirt thrown at recruiting teams is wrong in the first place. I don't know any hiring managers who make lowball offers that have a low chance of acceptance - the costs of the process, the risks of hiring someone who starts mad at you, and the value of winning someone who is actually worth hiring, are all way more important than some incremental cash saved.
The AAIB found that the Alauda Airspeeder Mk II was not designed, built or tested to any recognisable standards and that its design and build quality were of a poor standard. The operator’s Operating Safety Case contained several statements that were shown to be untrue.
Apple Security Research Device Cryptex Installation
Tweets about Heraclitus
See:

Ask HN: How do you discover new stuff?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404079
The overall Windows experience since 7 has degraded IMHO - not improved in areas that matter e.g. increased telemetry/tracking, mandatory intrusive updates/patches, confusing menus, UI that keeps getting worse.

I abandoned Windows as my mainstay OS many years ago and haven't looked back.

I still need to have it around for VR, games and some other niche programs/utilities, but I have no desire to upgrade to 11.

</rant>
> Rice's theorem is one immediate consequence of the undecidability of the halting problem.

I wonder if one could construct a bounded analogue of Rice's theorem? Something like "all non-trivial, semantic properties of programs that use maximum resources R are undecidable by programs using maximum resources R".

> I'm not a fan of resource-bounded variants of decision problems, because the standard complexity classes are ugly beasts. Reasoning about them is so difficult that many fundamental problems remain unsolved.

It seems to be that, reasoning about actual computers is harder than reasoning about physically impossible theoretical ones, so people would prefer to study the later than the former. Fair enough, but surely the former study is more practically relevant – even if harder – than the later; and I don't know why in the later the study of one particular class of physically impossible machines (Turing-equivalent machines) gets privileged over the study of other more powerful classes of physically impossible machines (such as oracle machines, or supertask machines). All physically impossible machines are equally physically impossible.

(Privileged not in the sense of being ignored – of course there is a great deal of theoretical work done on super-Turing computation; but privileged in the sense that super-Turing computation is often presented as something only of interest to specialists, whereas work on Turing-equivalent computation gets promoted as something of practical relevance and general interest.)

> One idea is particularly simple: if you have already written your code, I can write an input that fools it.

Here's a very similar idea about computation with bounded resources: If you had a perfect program analysis program that only worked for programs consuming up to some resource limit R, then it would require more than R to apply the same analysis to itself.

And either idea may not be true for dialetheic machines [0]. Dialetheic machines are, as far as we know, not physically realisable; but Turing machines aren't either.

[0] https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/paraconsistent-comput...
If there’s a statute of limitations, they’d eventually be free and clear, no?
I expect the emails themselves are just formatted strings. You could use an email parser to get the structure back out. You or someone else mentioned Zapier webhooks, so https://parser.zapier.com/ might be extra relevant.
> I remember asking for this over 10 years ago in their user forums, only to get some volunteer evangelist (who wasn't an employee and didn't have an official title but spent hours a day on the forum) claiming it "wasn't needed".

This is exactly what I found a couple years ago. These people were under many threads with new feature suggestions. Not sure whether they are still there. They do find a purpose of their life. Lol.
Class-action lawsuits are designed to protect companies from dealing with class members individually deciding to sue them. So the method for getting a full refund is to be one of the few people who opt out of a settlement and decide to threaten to sue in small claims. It's cheaper to just give you the $160 you're demanding rather than send an employee to court to defend it, even if the company wins.
I don't know much about them, but the post does say their goal was to be "exclusive gatekeepers". If you consider it from that perspective, they had more like a 1/3 conversion rate (2/3 * 1/2). But conversion kind of seems like the wrong metric.
Here's one I heard a very long time ago:

What do they call a person who goes to med school and graduates at the bottom of their class? "Doctor".
There really is no "general rule" as evidenced by the fact that companies accused of being MLMs have gone on as publicly traded companies for ages, while even billionaires and hedge fund managers have feuded about whether it is a scam.

See: Herbalife and Ackman vs. Icahn.

Or AFLAC. (I'm not saying they are an MLM, but I've been personally approached for a "job" that seemed to be sales with no qualifications needed and I wondered)
> WTF is a micro-habit? Most of these items aren't even habits.

That's because you need a million micro-habits to make a single habit.
> Was it because it's a stimulant and it helps anyone?

ADHD meds for non-ADHD students don't really help those students perform better academically. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489818/

They make you feel better, but not actually perform notably better.
> 50% of them will not show up on time to their interview. Of the 50% that do, 80% cannot pass fizzbuzz.

Of the people that turn up late to the interview, what percentage pass fizzbuzz?
> If this is actually true, which I highly doubt (I've interviewed people, too), your process is terrible at preselection.

With a bad pipeline, it's extremely likely, especially if you cheap out and try the bootcamp route (there's a reason Lambda is desperate enough they will "loan" a student you can try before you hire!).

It costs nothing to send a resume after all...
It’s quite simple really.

They removed the headphone jack on their new iPhones and you can’t charge and plug in wired earphones at the same time with the latest iPhones and Apple knows it.

So the users purchase AirPods which are the go to product to address this. That’s how it’s done.
I don't believe it's helpful to demonize the people behind this (or anybody for that matter.

They may not have minded the side benefits, but it's reasonable to believe they had a genuine public health concern.
Google's online ordering test offers a highly streamlined process
A key development in dynamic compilation happened in Xerox PARC to allow Smalltalk to run well on commercial workstations:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800017.800542
"Efficient implementation of the smalltalk-80 system" by L. Peter Deutsch and Allan M. Schiffman in POPL '84: Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages, January 1984, Pages 297–302

This motivated the creation of the ParcPlace spinoff to commercialize this technology. It was not the first JIT, but quite a few modern ones were inspired by it.

Self started out as one of the "Smalltalk-86" projects at Xerox PARC with Randy Smith collaborating with Berkeley's David Ungar. It was supposed to be a simpler and purer Smalltalk even if that made practical implementations impossible. But with David Ungar becoming a professor at Stanford, he found students that helped him make it possible, and eventually even much faster than existing Smalltalks. Craig Chambers worked on type inference for Self 1 and 2 and then Urs Hölzle worked on adaptive compilation with type feedback for Self 3 and 4.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/191080.191116
"A third-generation SELF implementation: reconciling responsiveness with performance" by Urs Hölzle and David Ungar in OOPSLA '94: Proceedings of the ninth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, language, and applications, October 1994, Pages 229–243

This is the technology that became "Hot Spot" for Java. But very few virtual machines have this level of sophistication.
Duplicate.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27539148
Thank you for your comment.

It's rare for me to flag something. I usually try to leave a good faith comment if it seems worth discussing and the initial comments are sucky.

I'm not saying that's some kind of "right" way to handle it. That's just how I behave -- or try to behave -- and there are myriad factors that influence those choices. I'm just talking here.
Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
Not every rock and roll song is about attraction and sex innuendos and follow a predictable structure. The themes of rock songs cover a variety of topics and situations.

Same with many of the other genres you mentioned.

Then, the way you dance to those genres doesn't consist solely of dry humping your dance partner.
Can you expand on your experience? any particular lessons you learned? Seems like you had all the conventional marks of success, I find it hard to believe that that was all for naught.
Very insightful comment that I wish was higher up. The devs complaining here don’t know how tough a nut to crack it is to build a truly applicant-centric platform profitably.
Thank you for a well-reasoned response. I respect the depth of your experience and find much of what you say to be persuasive. I will endeavor to factor it into my viewpoint on the topic going forward.
Great comment, thanks. Yeah, I'm kind of beyond talking about the philosphy of Bitcoin or crypto or monetary policy on this website. Too much FUD and flamebait and all that. Maybe it'll die down in the future. Still, I find the technical questions of "suppose we wanted to 'do BTC' how would we do it?" interesting.
I have the same problem. You can turn on noprocrast of course, but usually I just turn it back off. If I'm going to read a book or something, I try and leave my phone somewhere distant from me so I can't check it.
Paywall bypass: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/o20xp2/mark_cuban...

More interesting: https://rekt.news/iron-finance-rekt/
“I Was Taught from a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth”
Starter comment (shamefully) pulled from Reddit's FatFIRE community: https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/o25gxo/i_was_taugh...

> My grandfather Roy O. Disney, who co-founded the Walt Disney Company with his brother Walt, was a fervent believer in this idea. He was so determined to prevent the government from taking any of the money he wanted to leave to his family that he created generation-skipping trusts to end-run the IRS. What he did back then was so effective that most of it is illegal today.

> I will protest to my dying breath that he was a good man—one of the best, in fact.

> But I will also add, at the very end of that dying breath, that he should not have been able to do that.

Would love to hear some chatter from HN.
>Then he would start treating the addiction personality and causes, but in many cases the patients would just stop coming and live three or more hours of every day in the gym.

one can speculate why addiction hasn't been selected out - may be because it probably provides significant advantage when channeled right. Some achievements/mastery/etc. require tremendous focus and huge amount of persistent work which probably may be not doable on rational motivation alone, without the primal dopamine [over]drive.
I work in finance. It IS a hack, and a bad one, too.

I expect this will end badly as they keep kicking the can down the road.

A recession - a real one - would help us rest this problem, but the Fed is afraid of hosing all the 401k retirement money in the process.
How, why, which, where, when, what, who.

The code says how. The commit says what,
and where the edited lines were/are in which files,
when the edits were committed,
and who committed them.

The comments should say why, iff a why is needed.
Can you elaborate on the hire to fire? I don’t see why anyone would be incentivized to do that.
does anyone have any knowledge about the peermaps effort?
Dumb question: does the @ actually do anything on HN?
I sometimes use comments that are nearly as “obvious” as the examples, but more as a human-readable outline of the code block. The point isn’t to provide additional clarity after someone reads the code, but rather to be the first thing someone (especially myself, later) reads when encountering that code block.
HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
Different answer than you’re asking for, but the debt limit is probably not even legal. Congress authorizes the Executive branch to spend funds, not to manage the debt. The Constitutional question will probably never be answered, but my gut tells me if it is violated, that there is no real remedy.
Uttarakhand Govt Orders Fir Against Labs for Fake Covid Tests During Kumbh
>This is self-contradictory: how/why would any open source project let someone that doesn't know fizzbuzz contribute to their codebase?

They could maybe just be making small or simple changes. Or perhaps mostly working on markup, templates, CSS, etc.

It's possible they know a bit of programming but just don't happen to know how to check if a number is evenly divisible by another number. This isn't something an open source project would necessarily know you don't know. (I agree it's something any programmer should know, but I can see how someone could contribute certain things to certain projects without that knowledge gap being discovered.)

I learned about the modulo operator very early on, but if I didn't know it existed, I'd admittedly struggle with the question for a bit and would seem like I don't know how to program; especially in a pressured interview environment. If it were Python or something I think I'd come up with something awkward like `if i / divisor == float(int(i / divisor))` within a minute or a few minutes, but who knows, maybe the pressure would mess with me.
Comments on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=hbo%20max&src=typed_query&f=liv...
Should I bet that this pivot will also fail. I will suggest you go on a road trip outside SV, talk to company HRs, small company and startup leaders, education providers, engineering student, and entry to mid level engineers. Also broaden your “engineer” scope beyond software.

“ In short, there is more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful.”

This statement is very telling that TB leaders got tunnel vision, a very SV, startup, software centric tunnel vision. Let me rephrase your statement to what you really meant.

In short, there is more demand for “experienced Software” engineers “in startups “ than there is supply “in Silicon Valley”, and that makes engineers “,with pedigree of FAANG or top schools or well connected,” “very” powerful.
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
I think these discussions are much more useful if split into urban/rural and have/don't-have children. Because roaming a remote private property is very different from "walk solo to school in an urban environment flooded with cars". And theoretical parenting based on scenarios 30 years ago are different to now. (I have three children and my primary concern: cars.)

My in-laws have a large property also, here in Australia. Beside the dams, you'd have to be unlucky/reckless to get yourself in trouble in the rest. Our 3yo was roaming around this weekend just been and it is a large enough space that she didn't get near the main driveway or up the track to the dams. But even then, it would be a different question in summer where the place is all long grass and venomous snakes are spotted.
They work on a retainer basis, not a commission basis, so you really can’t predict income like that. See other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543931
Ah, haven't heard of parser.zapier.com before. Yes I mentioned Zapier! This could be perfect, will report back.
I hope this doesn't encourage these children to grow up and start using Kafka willy-nilly in places that it's not meant to be used.

It's often hard to find a legitimate use case for Kafka/RabbitMq/etc. where a much simpler solution won't do.
It sounds like the author is trying to make out that it's about something that happened in 2018, but the original post he's responding to was pretty clearly about a lot more.
MLM is about concealing your status as a pyramid scheme from investigators, in the hope that either their resources are too limited to chase you or that by the time they do you've cashed out anyway.

On a forum I used many years ago a regular was forever pushing an MLM and I investigated how it worked, just to try to understand how screwed he was rather than out of any misunderstanding that MLMs are a good idea.

It was one of those health juice MLMs, and what I realised was very clever was that the business structure was set up so as to on the one hand make it less obviously an MLM, and then on the other hand ensure the scammers were insulated from the scam.

There's a pretty ordinary over-complicated compensation package, with tiers of distributors getting a percentage from those beneath them in a structure that sure looks like a pyramid - and imaginary "consumers" who buy at the supposed retail prices at the bottom of the pyramid. But the juice itself is bought exclusively from a separate company at an inflated price.

If the government shuts down the MLM company, few there were getting rich, it's just a handful of people out of an office somewhere. The big money flows into the juice manufacturer selling this awful tasting muck - and they can claim they know nothing about any pyramid scheme. Selling cheap juice for lots of money isn't a crime it's just capitalism.