skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a plot point in Zero History by William Gibson where one of the characters does viral marketing by engaging people in conversation in bars and promoting various things, I always thought it was reasonably neat because we tend to pick things up organically like that.

Fascinating to see that companies were actually trying approaches like that in the days where hearing about the hot new tech very much came from conversations with other engineers, rather than the wealth of places we have now for hearing about the latest & (potentially) greatest.
German region to fine Tesla for illegal construction
Don't think its that clear cut.

Personally I totally agree with Woz sentiment on right to repair. Absolutely right.

However from a software POV I absolutely love the Apple ecosystem and the level of integration that comes with it. I love that I don't need to think of my phone as a computer that needs protecting or configuring extensively.

So it's hard to say. I can talk all day how I agree with Woz in principal but ultimately I really enjoy using macOS and Steve Jobs vision is basically why it's ended up how it has.
maybe in UK, never heard of in US.
It’s a great conspiracy theory. :-) The reality is the model survived in new firms.

This is a strange counterpoint to managers interviewing people to learn about a market.
Instacart Poaches Facebook's Fidji Simo for CEO
You might be interested in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

"Definitely" green is a difficult assertion to make universal. It's true that it has slightly more green than blue in the sRGB space, but the blue/green boundary is not as culturally universal as you may expect
So still not ready yet and is still not mature or production ready either.

Until there is a mature library that is able to compete with Electron or Qt then I'm afraid that Rust is not a sensible choice for serious cross-platform GUI development at this time.

Like I said before [0] With these libraries, All you get is a mixture of unmaintained or unstable bindings that may break when the GUI library that it is using changes its API.

No thanks and no deal.

To Downvoters: So you are telling me that you can confidently recommend to any engineering shop to develop a very complex GUI app with either of these unstable libraries faster in Rust than one who uses JS/TS with Electron?

Even though I hate Electron, I can see why it is always chosen. Rust for GUI development? I don't think so, especially if you have a short time to release something complex and used by thousands into production.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537300
That puzzled me too (“that’s not blue, that’s more like aqua”). I thought it was my monitor or something.
There are SSH and TLS clients for the Amiga in Aminet.

You may need a 68040 tho.
Had a Candidate come in from a recruiter that I had worked with before without incident but from the very first question the guy turned it a pitch for moving all our development to his outsourced team in India. I was so caught off guard that I let the guy talk for a good 5 minutes before cutting him off and ended things. I laughed, the recruiter was thoroughly embarrassed and sent someone else.

Never happened before, hasn’t happened since.
After having done Scala for a few years, it's finally a pleasure to be able to read and understand a thread like this.

FP gains are real. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what FP is.

To anyone out there who isn't on the FP train yet, get on. You'll become a better programmer for it.
Sounds silly, but I imagine it could have an impact. Especially if combined with stuffing the name of the product into the resume. I know if I starting seeing "ProductX" in a few resumes, and hadn't heard of it, I'd look it up.
> If I'm also entirely honest, if I were given the option to never "work" a single day of my life again I would take it any time

Me too :-) This is why I included "Given that working is a must", otherwise I would pick up something else to do (and slack a lot).

> I don't make nearly enough to be comfortable losing 20% of my salary, not as in that it'd make be poor, but it would put me closer to the average.

It would definitely do the same for me: I am in Germany, so kind of similar situation (however, AFAIU from Swedish friends, here IT is a bit better paid, and taxes are a bit lower).

Don't get me wrong: I definitely enjoy having money and being able to travel and have a nice life, I would also like having childhood friends being able to enjoy a good life as well - the only difference between me and them is that I "understand" IT, while they are better at other things.

I think all this rambling goes down to: "life is unfair, let's try to make it easier for everyone, without focusing much on the output of what you are doing, and more on the person you are".
Yet you could get convinced, which in my eyes makes what you do honest.
Because I don't want to catch la chancla :P
Are you sure you are not building a Pitch Deck Co-Pilot?

We are the... Snap for... Farming.
There are small parts of California where that is absolutely true. A block of the Tenderloin is more likely to have shit and needles than not. Crime in SF is out of control. There’s also about 160 million other square miles where things aren’t so bad.
“Having access to such a room is your own responsibility”…

It might be a little much to ask for during a pandemic where people are stuck in places they didn’t expect to be for a long while though, with a whole bunch of other people also stuck inside.
Someone posted these links about Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin a few days ago. It's nice that someone is collecting them.

> https://hcqmeta.com/#fcite_rct (Figure 7, scroll down)

> https://ivmmeta.com/#fig_fpr

Hydroxychloroquine: My personal opinion is that it's just report and publication bias.

Ivermectin: My personal opinion is that it looks more interesting, but after taking a deeper look, it's full of small studies that are not pre-registered where a fluke created an optimistic result that is not statistically significant. (I'd just drop most/all of them.)

The main difference is that Hydroxychloroquine has a few big studies with a few thousand of patients, but with Ivermectin all the RCT studies have at most a few hundred patients.

Complete thread with the original links and more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27691080

It's also interesting that I pick the first RCT in the site about Ivermectin https://c19ivermectin.com/chowdhury.html , and it actually compares Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. It is listed as a success in the Ivermectin site but it's not listed a failure in the Hydroxychloroquine site. Anyway, it's small and not statistically significant, so I'd not read too many conclusions from it.
>And that is a problem because?

this is a problem because it introduces the same kind of bait-and-switch anti-consumer behavior we see with the sale of pre-release games, but on an automotive investment level.

"Buy this car and it'll have additional feature X in year Y. Don't listen to the non-believers, me and my team have this solved."

"Woops! Turns out that was harder than I thought, sorry to all the folks that bought this car under the premise that they'd get feature X. Better luck next time, it wasn't contractual; just some over-promised under-deliveries, you understand! It's marketing to lie to your face!"
The cross platform frameworks are most of the time a disappoint for at least one part of your users as it does a bad job at mimicking typical OS interactions.
> If the goal is human level intelligence, that has been demonstrably achieved with the far lesser resources of the public school system.

Seems unlikely human education costs less than AI education in total.
To compare to an air conditioner. This device has about 40W of cooling per m2.

Apparently in Australia you should size between 80 and 120 W/m2 of air conditioning (I think this is cooling watts rather than power usage watts) - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.crownpower.com.au/blog/choo...

So that means every square meter of living space needs 2 square meters of radiative cooling (assuming no other passive cooling infrastructure). I suspect you'd see further inefficiencies getting the heat to the passive cooler.

So it's within the same order of magnitude of an ac, but not powerful enough that it would be straightforward to retrofit.
Because peer-to-peer money without intervention of third-party institutions is genuinely a good technology that would benefit from more people using it and developing for it.
It is also unethical to abide by a NDA if the company is doing something unethical. It might or might not also be legal to talk though, ask a lawyer. Of course NDAs might not even be legal in the first place. If the company is doing something illegal, then the NDA doesn't have any meaning for sure.
For the most part your are correct. I think one distinction should be made. Economically active nodes are what matters not just any old node that someone has sitting in a closet.
Yes - there are plenty of reasons to interview for a job you may not take. It’s crucial to have multiple offers when negotiating, practice interviewing, understanding the range of cultures, etc.

I think it’s quite reasonable to interview somewhere if there’s a 10% chance or greater that you’d work there, which is hard to know before they’ve convinced you throughout the process.
I have signed multiple NDAs for interviews in the states.
Honestly, I'm very close to sending her a few btc. Although my employer would hate me for using it, sci hub is just an absolutely brilliant, internationally known godsend.

One of the things that publishers have started doing of late is just linking the "pdf" button to things that are not pdfs. I have legal access to basically every journal article I could ever want, but sci-hub provides a much better product: you actually just get the pdf with one button, and no telemetry crap either.

There's even an awesome grease/tampermonkey script to provide (small, inobtrusive) inline links to sci-hub here: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button.

She really is a saint. I hope we realise that....
That's not what it would be for.

It's for taxi services, where most trips would be in urban traffic, at a top speed of about 20mph, and not going further than 3 miles.
No, one does not need a perfect memory to be happy.

But I’m not convinced that somehow expanding brain sizes to accommodate immortality means we have solved aging for humans.
I had an very relaxed Indian professor who served as as department chair when I went to university and he always had open book/note quizzes, tests/exams with no restrictions. These exams weren't designed to be more difficult, some answers you could very quickly reference from the associated text, handouts, or your notes.

People asked if he was concerned that people cheated or wouldn't learn anything and he once gave an insightful comment m that stuck with me: if people cheat, and they will, they're only cheating themselves.

He was right because while almost everyone passed his classes, not everyone ended up with successful careers. If they did, they probably had to pickup the sort of knowledge he crafted together like a masterful chef and hand fed us. The education is the product, not the degree. The degree is often a necessary rubber stamp to get past the first interview filters but it's not going to help you in most positions for the subsequent interview or actual job demands. You're really only cheating yourself of the education because the education is the real product here.

Things have changed a bit and you can find pretty much anything online readily, but you have to chop up the information, prep it, and craft it into a meal. Over time these skills improve and you too can become a knowledge chef but your (good) university programs give you the tools to become a knowledge chef in your field. They start you out as a cook who knows how to do certain things but they also give techniques you need to make your own new dishes. That's what you're paying for.
Depends on the subject. In a long form essay where you need to cite sources or technical details you could make a big difference to your score by quickly looking these up. Nobody can go into the exam blind but they can improve their answers significantly by looking up the details that others have to spend a long time trying to remember. For example in an English exam, direct quotations from literature. Or in a law exam, case names.
> panniers

It might be common knowledge, but I was elated to find out that the word pannier did actually arise out of the word for bread.

> c. 1300, paniere, "large basket for provisions," from Old French panier, paniere "basket," from Latin panarium "bread-basket," noun use of a nerter adjective meaning "pertaining to bread," from panis "bread," from PIE root *pa- "to feed." Transferred sense of "frame of whalebone, etc., used to distend the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips" is by 1869.
Every company brings the A-team to win the bid for a contract. Later they'll gradually switch them out with the much cheaper juniors they hire for that particular project. With IT consulting or MSPs this tends to be a far more extensive practice than in other fields from my experience.

Whether the last hop of the outsourcing is in India, Poland, or Spain is not that important if you still get what you expect. The problem is when you get a fraction of what you expected or pay for.

Interviews have been used as opportunities for evangelization, attempts to get technical assistance, or extract information about the competition or potential customers since forever. I haven't seen one which was overtly illegal but they're all certainly as shady as they get.
> but on an automotive investment level.

I think that ship has sailed a long time ago... especially after emissions scandal.

Also, have you looked at marketing in general?, is anyone actually telling the truth anywhere?

At least this was a promise that they'll do their best.

> "Buy this car and it'll have additional feature X in year Y. Don't listen to the non-believers, me and my team have this solved."

Does anybody buy 50K+ cars on promises?, especially since all reviews are very honest.

For me, they're gimmicks... but the inner child in me seeing the celebration mode on model X makes me want to buy it. Then I research it and find it's actually a great car, sure, no full self driving, but for 10K on top of 150K+ the features added are great.

Have a look: https://youtu.be/pXvIzWhEWvA?t=400
Now, I know what I'll be doing during summer :D
> We can always recreate sci-hub, should the current system cease to function.

The problem is she has also shown us that recreating it may require great personal sacrifice of someone. Would you be that someone? I certainly wouldn’t.
I think there is a happy middle ground where they are still required to be easily provided.

I'm thinking about avoiding situations such as when huawei used to provide copied Nortel manuals for their knockoff/IP-theft equipment.
There's a big difference between interviewing for a job you're not interested in, but with an open mind, versus interviewing for a job where under no circumstances will you accept the role.
> I recently just renewed my errors and omissions policy and was a little shocked to find out if you let the policy expire then the policy does not protect you even in past while the policy was active.

This is to protect the insurer against adverse selection. Errors and omissions policies are typically on a "claims-made" basis, which means they cover claims that were filed against you during the policy period, as opposed to incidents occurring during the policy period.

It is assumed that if you let your policy lapse and then buy a new policy, that you know that there is some incoming claim against you for which you need protection from.
> 100°F = 37.78°C (various mentions. This is body temperature so you can not loose heat effectively in this air temperature.)

I think this isn’t quite true due to water’s large enthalpy of vaporization. In dry air the limits are gonna be much higher. Somebody’s probably done the math.
They're clearer in the sense that it makes it easier/possible to do things like:

While maintaining/changing the SQL, comment in/out select-statements-as-printf-debugging, and comment in/out actual execution of the statements themselves.

These cursors would often contain [identifying object reference], [category of statement], [text of SQL statement to execute]. You would write a select statement to populate the cursor, then loop over the cursor to run all the statements in the order you wanted (drops, then user/role creates, then grants, or whatever the situation called for).

It's not about logical clarity, but practical maintainability given the (overall weak) state of tooling for database queries. Is it a bastardization of SQL to do something that "should be" done in another scripting language? Maybe, but there's a lot of power in giving the DBAs tooling that works exclusively in a language and environment that's familiar for them rather than splitting it across SQL and python/tcl/ruby/whatever. Not nearly every competent [relational] DBA is competent across multiple languages. Every competent [relational] DBA is competent in SQL.

Is it even possible to use set-based SQL to call EXEC SQL EXECUTE IMMEDIATE or sp_executesql on each statement in a set?
This is like rainmakers in law firms with associates doing the work.
That's a riot!

Guerrilla marketing at its most sleazy.

Modern jargon is crazy. Really hard to verify. I guess that's why these "draw spunky" tests are so prevalent, these days, because we can't trust a word out of anyone's mouth.

Makes me wonder why we would hire folks we can't trust, but I'm old-fashioned, and out of touch with what the kids are into, these days...
>4K, UHD

These terms aren't great when describing photos - they're attempting to imply a higher quality to a YouTube audience used to the phrases. The photos are something like 8+ megapixels.
They are not hoarding the latest results, except for a few cases where the general public is a year behind their secret sauce. Take a look at the huge zoo of planetary-scale models that are published by the big companies and universities (HuggingFace, https://modelzoo.co/, ...)

The problem with the huge models like GPT-3 is that they are too expensive even to run by regular people, not train.
CSS grid and flexbox have resolved most of those issues though.
Some do and some get paided per interview, per resume. And some you have to pay.
Come to think of it, JIRA always feel slow and Confluence is terrible for building pages that should look nice.
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I think if you started with a regular shirt, and then put this one on instead, you would eventually start cooling down. The article says that human skin radiates in MIR but that's blocked by normal fabric. So if you take off your shirt, you will radiate more, and possibly cool down a bit. This fancy shirt is similar to not wearing any shirt, except it can also reflect visible light a bit better because it's whiter. It might even be more efficient at radiating MIR than skin? I'm not sure, but if it's better than normal fabric it should help.

Obviously the physiology here complicates things, but it really could cool you down- your body is always attempting to radiate way heat, and this is supposed to make that process faster. It's like carrying around your own shade.
Assuming everyone is not constantly cheating and the coursework is somewhat relevant and rigorous, surely they signal a higher probability of at least awareness of the subject matter or ability to learn something.
There are basic technical hurdles for a lot of users too. My wife recently took a professional certification exam at home. She is an RN. We had to borrow my son's desktop gaming system, set it up in the kitchen, and jump some technical hoops (buy an external web cam) to meet the proctoring requirements. My wife probably couldn't have done it without my technical help and it was more stressful for her than going to a testing center.
You can delay the consequences of bad currency management, but eventually the consequences will hit you, hard.

The normal rules are on hold because the USD is the world reserve currency. When USD are manufactured, a huge chunk of them is bought by wealthy foreigners to store value. That means that we haven't felt the consequences of printing lots of money because we've been sharing the consequences with a huge and growing number of wealthy foreigners.

But the only reason the USD is the world reserve currency is because there's nothing better. When something better enough comes along, all that USD will come flooding back and we'll suffer all the inflationary consequences of printing money for decades. Those consequences will be compressed to a very short amount of time.
For the purpose of the discussion it does.
> I do not understand how hiding private items from the camera breaches your privacy. That is like saying you have already died of thirst because you have to drink water; the preventive measure does not cause the thing it tries to prevent.

I think I see the difference here. You're seeing "privacy" in terms of information being leaked. So long as no information is revealed, then no privacy has been lost. The information security is key. Is that an accurate way of describing your views?

For me, "privacy" is a state in which effort does not need to be expended to maintain information security. The cost is not the personal information being leaked, but rather the effort needed in order to prevent information from being leaked. Of knowing that your sanctuary has been violated, that your comfortable place has been exposed to others. And sure, you may try to minimize other effects of that breach of privacy by hiding away aspects of yourself, but that is a response to an invasion that has already occurred.

To use your analogy, suppose I'm going on a trip through the desert. I know that water may not be readily available, so I take several gallons of water with me. On the other hand, if I'm going to a restaurant, I can assume that water will be available and do not pack my own. In neither case have I died of thirst, but in one case I have needed to spend additional effort to ensure that was the case. If I hide things away from the camera, I haven't had information leaks (died of thirst), but I have needed to take extra precautions (carrying several gallons of water) due to the breach of privacy (travel through the desert) that has already occurred.

> Furthermore, you do not have to take the exam in your own room. Any quiet room where there are no other people is theoretically fine. Having access to such a room is your own responsibility, just like having access to a laptop to do your study is your own responsibility.

During normal times, when there may be publicly available study rooms at a university, those options exist. When those same study rooms are closed to stop the spread of a pandemic, or when those study rooms cannot be booked due to lack of availability, a person's private room may be the only room available. In that case, the requirement of exposing one's exam space implicitly requires exposing one's personal space.

> I do not believe requiring students to have access to a private room for 2 hours breaches their privacy.

Requiring students to have access to a private room isn't the issue. Requiring proctors to have access to the student's private room is.
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The author does say that he was doing a consultation for a DevRel programme. That sounds to me like it was either paid consultation, or essentially a sales process by the author to generate consultancy work. NDAs are common in both of those scenarios.

Signing an NDA before taking a job is indeed very atypical in the UK.