skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same!

After out-of-hand saying "no" once, I had someone offer me a contract by way of a friend. I valued the friend so I met with the client. About half way through, the client's (a large-ish health org) point-of-contact asked about my internet connection because they wanted me to remote desktop into their windows-citrix-machine-thingamputer for "billing purposes"... it was an iOS(in swift) developer role.

I didn't say anything about how preposterous that was and politely declined in email after the meeting. Or so I thought. I, apparently, did so much talking with my eyebrows that it got back to my friend... we broke out laughing when I explained what caused be to be "visually rude" (whatever that means).

When there is one red flag, there are bound to be others.
And also a lot of "cut your Trump supporting parents" stories out there too.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-cutting-off-relatives_n...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/why-left-wingers-cut-...
I totally agree. I once did a half marathon and during training, and the half marathon itself, I used some cheap shoes I bought from Payless. My friend that I did the run with was shocked when I told her that on the day of the event. It didn't seem like a big deal to me.

I guess for a lot of people, gear really is a part of whatever hobby they're into. I used to be interested in photography and was showing some photos to some friends. They weren't anything amazing, but I was proud of them because I was starting to learn to compose photos and recognize good lighting. The camera I used wasn't anything special, though. Of course, one person who saw the photos immediately asked "What kind of equipment did you use?"
> And saving for that $1000 emergency will still be slow.

And worse, when you inevitably need to tap it, it will be equally slow to refill.
I haven’t used a case on my iPhone X. I’ve dropped it lots of times and it’s totally fine. I don’t expect to need a case again for any phone.
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Simplifying dieting down to calories in calories out is one of my pet peeves, because it doesn't give you any information about how to achieve those goals. People don't automatically understand satiation, binge eating, macro and micronutrients, shopping, cooking, the caloric density of restaurant and takeaway food, BMR, the relatively tiny amount of calories burnt by exercise, or calorie tracking. These things aren't obvious and they're buried under a lot of misinformation.

The same goes for budgeting. Saying "spend less and get a better paying job" doesn't really help compared to detailed instructions on how to open a savings account and automatically deposit 5% of your pay into it, reviewing your monthly expenditure, changing habits like ordering delivery food every weekend, long term investments like buying your own washing machine, or pursuing a qualification that will help you earn more.
He does mention his ideal door has a plate on it (apparently vertical on one side) and no handle at all, and second best is an asymmetric horizontal bar that indicates which side has to be pushed.

It's kind of astonishing actually, how little thought this requires to be obvious and yet how frequently it's violated. Lately I'm seeing lots of things, faucets, toilets, light switches, etc. that also replace time tested designs with pure mystery, apparently for the sake of looking cool.
No you can't. But you don't have to be grateful for what you never wanted just because you got it.
Like using, say, an AWS Workspace?

This isn't new, I don't believe.
> Damaged kids become damaged adults

I strongly disagree with this overbroad generalization.

> you can't argue that being a parent requires lots of resources in both time and money, and if you don't have both, it's the right choice to not be a parent.

I would be happy to argue this. Raising children is the most essentially human experience one can have. A society with fewer parents is a society well on its way to nihilism and extinction.
Ehhh, if a store is the analogy, YouTube is choosing their products here, which is exactly what stores do.
Anyone have money but not enough Time? I see MMM for FIRE, but I'm looking for something time related. I suppose something like Efficiency Is Everything but more extreme like MMM, but for time.

Maybe I just need to save a bit more and retire. I just love my job and having coworkers, I don't want to give up the 40hr/week job.
I think that would be an agent, which would basically be a recruiter working for the candidate.
> 1. Can you give a use case for a website that needs no security what so ever?

http://neverssl.com
"mostly functional in ideal circumstances"

Autoland was developed for and is usually used in poor conditions.
I spent the last 25 minutes trying to find out exactly that, and have so far come up nearly blank, but I agree that dollars inherited is a way more useful question.

The meme of "a high percent of people who are millionaires are first-generation millionaires" is pervasive. Googling this returns mostly investment scheme websites and CNBC/USA Today/etc clickbait quoting "The Millionaire Next Door", and talking about how "If They Did It, You Can Do It Too!" -- it's like something straight out of lies, damned lies, and statistics.
True, but simple color contrast can work wonders. It’s not just a symptom of flat design — it’s a symptom of flat and pretty much all the same color design.

It might be a touch ugly, but as an example, if the main interface were black and the URL bar were white, you could nix all the texture/shadow/borders/margins you want and still be fine.
Technically, from a strict neuroscience perspective, no one really lives in the real world. Rather we perceive and conceptualize reality through our senses and a complex "biological AI", where much of the processing is beyond our perception or understanding. Likely many things you consider normal or acceptable would be considered otherwise by reasonable people from other cultures, and they would perceive you as being the wrong one, although these things vary in magnitude and kind.
Very honest answer, for someone to show that much of what truley lies inside them, shows you have not been targeted YET by hateful peeps, not all areas of the phyce are bad, some people get off on others being happy Some get off on hurting others, to understand all this would take a lot of me explaining, it would go into many dimensions
that's a fascinating point, what figures can be attained by what means, very good distinction.

I remember looking at lifetime earnings of software engineers and tabulating a bunch of generic lifetime gross salaries in general. It's in the millions range for sure but it's not near anywhere in the $100M level.

A career lasting 50yr at $50k/yr --> $2.5M gross; $500k/yr --> $25M gross.
This brings back memories from when I was a child.

Transporting the hay was also fun:

https://thumbor.my.ua/desqCbj7deqvPmgCJMcZj5AeJgc=/1200x630/...
That helped but also confused me more.

Turns out that Norman doors are the opposite of Don Norman doors. Much in the way that Orwellian means totalitarian.
These electric car fires pose an interesting problem for communities that don't have a lot of water available. Putting out a burning electric car can easily take about 30000 gallons [1] of water. Putting out a traditional car only takes about 300 [2].

Car manufacturers need to find a way to get these batteries to easily extinguish before they can overtake traditional petrol cars without dry areas getting massively impacted.

I can see countries and states facing droughts putting a ban or extra tax on electric cars if manufacturers do not find a way to extinguish these fires. Rescuing people from electric vehicles is already complicated enough by the instructions for disconnecting the high voltage lines being different per model and per brand. I don't think it's reasonable for every fire department to be expected to have several shipping containers on standby to just dump and drown burning cars into.

This stuff makes me wary of the future of electric cars. Maybe the hydrogen people have a point, despite their clear connections to big oil.

[1]: https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/electric-vehicle-bat...
[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/federal-regulators-wa...
>American values

Much like the notion that freedom is something the US has and well the other ~193 countries by implication don't I suspect this is missing the larger picture quite dramatically.

There seems to be a global shift at play here.

something certainly appears to be tearing away the core.

Personally it's not the deteriorating situation that is freaking me out, but rather the fact that I can't pinpoint what is behind this shift. To put it into crude term: It feels like someone is fucking with me and I can't tell who/why

That inherently leads to a mistrust of all social order
It may be true, but I don't believe this sort of article is aimed at people who are already doing everything they can. It's aimed at people who aren't, like their formerly-irresponsible selves.

Who knows, maybe publishing it in Outside will reach someone?
GLI was always the go-to company back in my time.

https://gaminglabs.com/
There's not much to say. DM made a significant improvement to homology-based modelling using some very recent technology and fair amount of CPU power. They collaborate with a long-time CASP player (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tudor_Jones) who has been doing leading edge protein folding for decades. And CASP is a competition, which DM excels at. Finally, they picked the "easy" category of CASP, for which there is a huge amount of side data which ultimately, when properly processed, provides structural constraint information good enough to produce very high quality structures. By not addressing ab initio protein folding, they didn't solve the protein folding problem, they solved the "homologous protein structure prediction problem", which is far less grand.

I did CASP back in 2001 or 2002 using alignment methods and protein threading, nothing special (we did terribly). But I told everybody at the conference that ML would eventually surpass the best human predictions, and people said (correctly) that at the time: we didn't have enough data (3D structures) to train on, we didn't have algorithms that were any good (practical backprop for deep NNs, embeddings, transformers), and there wasn't enough CPU time. The data problem was addressed (by having huge numbers of sequence alignments for most protein structures), the algorithms have obviously gotten better, especially transformers, and DeepMind has a lot of CPU (well, TPU).

So basically my prediction came true when the underlying restrictions were removed (which to me seems "obvious"). The academic community would have done this two years after DM if DM hadn't done it (although their wins probably would be much smaller). DM just got there faster, by exploiting a number of advantages.

None of this really moves anything forward. Being able to predict protein structures of homologous proteins is not the grand challenge problem, and what DM did tells us nothing about the physics of folding. And it doesn't produce results good enough to do structure based drug design.

Really, they should have just put out a PR that said they did well in CASP and would be open sourcing the model, the training data, and a trained model, and then done that six months later.
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I’m very bad with money and it tends to hit hard with depressive cycles. I end up just buying all kinds of shit I think I can afford (and in some cases can), but then go overboard on other things and running out of money once can turn into a really bad cycle. Trying to figure my way out of probably the worst I’ve ever gotten myself and it’s tough because there’s just no way to get rid of the heaviest hitting expenses. It’s somewhat embarrassing though, because I make more money than a good many of my casual acquaintances, but am likely significantly more broke.

The last time this happened to me, my solution was to take even more debt to move to a new job that doubled my salary. I had a plan to be debt free in ~2 years, but that kinda fell apart with COVID. I suppose I could try and do that again, but I’m not in a position professionally to take a better job.
80% of their Essential bills leaves a lot to be invested or saved.

I'd disagree, it's money management at that point.

I'm more concerned about those who are unprofitable every paycheck and growing debt, no way to cut expenses further. Probably due to high COL and lack of education, but I can't blame someone for living where they have family .
I kind of give the trackpad a pass, as it's not all that complex and most people end up using it for hours per day. It's a different case from doors and faucets that might be encountered by tens or hundreds of new people every day, who each only need to use it for a second or two.

On the other hand, anyone with children can vouch for how dramatically more intuitive a touch screen is.
The thing that struck me about this article was a point barely acknowledged: that the reporter had obtained an email chain of senior executives candidly discussing CrowdTangle. This points to a deeper problem within Facebook.

In general, people leak to reporters when they feel like they have no ability to control the direction of their organization, and that it is making a mistake and they can't stop it any other way. Feeling ignored, feeling like your concerns aren't being addressed, that's what leads to leaks. The fact that at least one person on this email chain between their Vice President of Global Communications, Vice President of Global Affairs, Vice President of Choice and Competition, the head of the App, Chief Marketing Officer, and the head of CrowdTangle leaked it to a prominent reporter suggests that even very senior people feel like they aren't having their arguments listened to. That's a very dangerous sign for the internal culture of the company.
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Airport is NIMBY
I'd like to disagree, but I can't. What I can say is:

1) I know enough about molecular biology to tell you the vaccine is safe. You pick up novel stuff all the time. In abstract, we don't know a pebble in your backyard doesn't have some odd chemical which will end humanity, but the odds of that are astronomically low. There just isn't any voodoo in the vaccine.

2) In this case, the claims from "alternative news" are nonsense. With hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine administered, there will be instances of virtually everything happening after the vaccine. That's not to say they're always nonsense -- I read a variety of media -- but in this case, they are.

3) Doctors who fear vaccines are crackpots.

4) You're absolutely right about institutions lying. You're not only right about researchers not being able to get a message out contradicting the party line, but worse, their career would be destroyed. It's the story of the boy who cried wolf.
How do fluid dynamics researchers measure metaphors…or Hoffstedlierian fluid analogies?
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Particularly with cycling, I always wondered why people would say justify their love of cycling with statements including fitness, self challenge, enjoying the outdoors.

I haven't heard any say they wanted to be regional champion.

If you compete with yourself, then changing your gear makes it hard to measure if you are getting better. Sometimes I think we compete with others when we don't need to.
yes, windows works that way. windows administrators think very differently than Linux administrators.

source: I'm both.

you can, however, use tools provided by Microsoft to customize windows deployment images, to an extent. Windows Core OS will make that much more possible, if it is made available by itself, which may or may not happen; I don't know what their plans are for Core OS.
If the expertise isn't there then they should use SaaS solutions.

There's plenty that aren't expensive. And they don't need to roll their own software.
I fear that Mr. Rafieh's webstore is either going to feel the HN hug...or his web hosting bill may be quite high for the month.
Since when is a mathematical definition necessary for this? Finding the "exact line of separation" between a couple of individuals and a powerful megacorp sounds like a fun mental puzzle, but it is not something that comes up in practice. What is the thought experiment in which finding the exact delineation is of importance? On the other hand, it is pretty easy to distinguish the limiting cases. This is like worrying about how large an asteroid has to be in order to be called a planet.
Arm chair psychologist for a second, but this sounds like issues with self control and commitment. Plently of outdoorsy people exist and do interesting things without throwing everything a way with reckless spending.
> was able to apply things she learned from financial management books

some people learn this early (the author's friend who grew up poor), and some people learn this late (the author), and some people never get a chance to learn this lesson, ever (not mentioned, the resort bums who reach 40 years old full of sports injuries, zero savings with no future and no more ability to ski).

in any case, the author seems self-aware enough to know that there will be comments on the internet like yours. she expresses remorse for having gone through this path on crutches. at least she has a story to share. someone who "retired" early from a corporate finance job with a couple of million in investments (whose life the author was only a few decisions away from), goes out and finally lives his dream never having lost anything is about as uninteresting as a trust fund kid exploring the world.
https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-ar...

Is this an acceptable level of damage?
It's definitely rigged, and even allows the owner to choose how difficult it is just like the one in the article.

Where I grew up there was two places next door to each other which both happened to have stackers. One had junky prizes like cheap earbuds, and the other had great prizes like a gameboy or mp3 player. Sure enough the later was more popular, but no one ever won. Once you got good at the game the one with the junk would 'allow' you to win pretty reliably every dozen or so attempts.
The obvious solution is to play only critically acclaimed commercial failures :) There are plenty
Like poor Orwell.
Very nice pictures; reminds me of Claude Monet's "Haystacks".

> Haystacks like this are found nowhere else on earth.

There is no need to sensationalize. This is not unique to Romania.
Just search for pictures with "haystacks in eastern europe". First hit is from Glojene, Bulgaria; next from Valbone Valley National Park, Albania.
True, but if you regularly spend $1200 on a bike you don’t need maybe you shouldn’t complain about not having money?
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just use it to talso write the tests, problem solved!
Why not both? It is much easier to make a case for causation with the former though; an overwhelmingly common experience among new parents is to reconsider past resentments now that they know what their own parents actually went through.
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Heartbreaking stuff: https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/
> Solving for φ = 1 + 1/φ and some quadratic formula reveals this as the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5)/2

x = 1 + 1/x
x - 1 - 1/x = 0
x^2 - x - 1 = 0
x = 1 ± √(1 + 4)
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I don't know, it just kind of came across as being an astroturfed statement.
So how do you propose to do that?

You know, this might be shocking, but around half of all people have less than average intelligence...

Do we euthanize half of population?

You know, then a significant portion of surviving population will have less than average intelligence...
This is inspiring, thanks! I'm on a similar path and am about a year in. I now have a blog, app, and infra stack each in their own repos, each with their own deployment automations. I run a solo kanban board on Trello to help me prioritize what to work on next.

I don't know if the current project will turn into anything useful to others or not. But it feels satisfying to look at the list of little "done" cards and see how each of them has contributed to something tangible, while both the product and my skills are improving with each deployment.

When I'm ready for the next project, this year of work is reusable to launch something new super quickly. And the infra cost is close to zero while I work on it thanks to static site hosting and serverless tech. If it ever gets enough traffic to bill me I'll be happy to pay it because that will validate something useful is there.

My next step is to make it "good enough" to share it in the wild. That part is still scary. I'm almost there though.
I think your fear is misguided.

You may never see Iran...but not because you are an American. Instead, it is because Iran is a ticking time bomb.

Once the country opens back up, and it will open back up - you have to question whether there will be anything left to see.

Civil war is a nasty thing. See: Syria.

I recommend you visit now before its too late.
Nuclear war could definitely kill literally every human. Even more if you get bio weapons and omnicidal nuclear strikes at once.

The Black Plague is not even a cold compared to what we can engineer.
Note Ali Fares is visibly more upset. He is likely from Turkey or a similar place and he probably thought he would not end up being the target of something like this in Germany.
No wtf that's when the NHTSA and FTC needs to step in and tell them to force recall the cars and either offer them money back with interest or a new car.
I'm not sure this addresses the criticisms in his post. it's possible he's salty about the loss of power, but his complaint is that the site is systemically biased. a better rebuttal might be to show how it's not?
There was a way to disable it. You could revert to an earlier version of the Twitter app on Android. Version 8.68.0 was the latest version without this feature. As soon as they added it, I uninstalled and then side-loaded the older version and turned off automatic updates. In 2 weeks I'll be able to update again!
I get your point but I don’t think that’s historically been any concern for people. Just in the past decade or so, and only for some people.
I think that, at least if you replace "shouldn't get to" with "shouldn't", then for some values of "position yourself to be", this would be right.

I feel like it is largely a question of what expectations you work to produce among users and potential users.

If people are actively aware of the organization saying "we can remove videos on a whim if we want to, and we very well might do so", and especially if they are generally known to occasionally do that in practice, and this isn't a surprise to any users with a reasonable level of awareness, then I think that's probably fine.

But if the impression they give to a typical reasonable person is that they are "a platform for almost everyone that behaves according to fixed rules, where you can be reasonably assured that if you follow the stated rules your content will stay available, as much as we are able to accomplish this", but then they go around removing videos on a whim / because they have a grudge against someone / because someone paid them to / whatever , then that's not good, because they aren't being honest about the service they provide.

Whether the govt has any place making an organization who is misbehaving in that particular way stop, I'm, not sure one way or the other.
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Not quite as niche as you describe. He figured out how to fairly consistently hit youtube recommendations / top videos. If you use youtube, there's quite a good chance you've seen one of his videos on the frontpage or seen his name a few times, even if you never watched them or aren't interested in his content.