skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not not focus on building more and better landfills then? Seems like a better solution that shipping trash long distances to other countries only to have it end up in the ocean.
This paper[0] takes a look at something like this, but it's notable that this is seen as a springboard for more accessible-focused design, rather than the beginning and the end (See "Discussion & Future Work").

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411764.3445186

Edit: I realize I've just linked to the same paper as the comment below. Oh well!
Not sure I'd want to work somewhere that didn't do tech interviews (or something equivalent, e.g. project).
Ask for it.

Seriously.

I interviewed with one company, things went well, I was interested, but they came out of the gate with total comp that was lower than I was looking for. They were looking at a stock grant of X over 4 years. That would have worked, provided that I was basically guaranteed a refresher each year for X (so that by year 4 I'd making X per year in RSUs). I found out that refreshers were usually not for that amount, and not guaranteed (barring performance issues). I indicated I was looking for X per year in RSUs (given the salary and bonus they were looking to offer). The recruiter was a bit shocked, but went and asked anyway...she came back with an offer granting 4X RSUs upfront, meaning, yeah, I'd be getting X every year, starting from year 1. And I'd still be eligible for refreshers and whatnot each year.
What's your company? Just to save time for those who might apply if not for this comment?
I think data science roles are not nearly as in-demand as software roles are. Remote positions for software seem to me at least to be pretty easy to come by. If you are in the data side of things but really need a new job, adding software skills would be a relatively easy lateral move (at least compared to switching to a non-technical role or field anyway).
Totally agree, i moved from a developing country (India) to a developed country (Germany) and the amount of waste me and my partner generate in the latter is around 10x.

In India, we would buy produce without any packaging, you would pay by weight. Whereas in Germany, fruits, vegetables and even fresh leaves come pre packed in plastic. I know Germany has better recycling but the amount of plastic is crazy. Quite the shock for us.
Design is is just what creators do on one end to satisfy the aggregate of personal preference in the target context and audience on the other end.
nah don't do cover letters, but let a recruiter shop you around, they have backchannels into a lot of companies that otherwise don't really check their inbox

consider setting your linked in to "looking", which might cost money, but this gets the attention of even internal recruiters
The way most people in Germany would solve this (we need a potty for some months) is buying it 2nd/3rd/4th hand. Is that not common where you live (I guess USA)?
Deer are oversized rats that have frequent overpopulation problems. Not really the best example.
>>Some or all EU countries have completely abandoned the practice.

Absolutely not true, glad you maybe live in a country where landfills are disappearing, but they will always exist in some form - even with burning where do you think the slag goes to? That's right, a normal landfill. Not everything can be burnt, and not everything can be recycled.

And definitely not "all" EU countries - Poland has normal landfills that take everything still, very few operational waste incenerators, and recycling is still unknown to a lot of people.
Seconding linkedin, got my current job passively through recruiters reaching out to me and taking interviews with ones that sounded interesting.
I've been using this for a while and am quite happy with the results. Although, I had to create my own customized profile for the best results.

The effect is esp. obvious when working on Word documents. Somehow fonts are not rendered "thick" enough in Word, and this app takes care of that.

Honestly, I wish MS would do something about blurred fonts in some of the not-so-old programs. Some parts of the Windows OS itself are not rendered correctly!!
G skipped my phone screen coming from A.
If you work in the industry, the only thing you should care about is minimizing your risk of RSI. I've never used Colemak, but given that it doesn't have the same emphasis on alternating between hands, it would seem like it would be less good for this, no?
Then you need to read it again. No one is making you make changes to your body. You are always free to go somewhere else.

Come on. If vaccines are ao offensive, why do you want to work for someone that only wants people that are vaccinated around them? Take some responsibility for your life choices instead crying, “Woe is me!” No one owes you a job, nor do you owe any employer your labor. Walk if you don’t like it.

Finally, if you think employers and body modification is some recent bridge too far, perhaps you should google tattoos, hair styles, facial hair, and piercings in the workplace.
> That means doing getting multiple offers within the same time period before you accept one.

I need help on getting to the salary negotiation part with multiple companies at the same time though.

This is the instruction booklet for landing a lunar lander on the Moon. I need the one for the Saturn V.
Yes, mostly because of the energy used in their creation. For example you have to reuse a cotton grocery bag 7100 times before you break even with plastic bags for carbon footprint.

https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

You're probably not going to do that.
I've seen it first hand. I have relatives that raise hogs in the midwest. I do not support this legislation.

I do love me some bacon though.
Hey, thanks! I think I tried to poke around Github Explore a couple of times. It's still a disorganised pile of stuff but I guess at least it's a new disorganised pile of stuff, I'll check it out some more :-).
Philippine President Tells Vaccine Deniers: 'You Can Die Anytime'
Just use another search engine, like ddg
They're assembled at Foxconn, the components themselves are typically made in much less formidable conditions, if you can believe it.
Windows is slowly losing configuration. From the very first versions you had complete control over fonts, colours, and sizes of UI elements, then starting with Win8 they removed that, and now in Win10 it's very hard to change something like the font for icons and the (horribly low contrast) taskbar button highlight colour.

It's still possible to force (most of) it to the good old MS Sans Serif and with no antialiasing, the way I like it, but it's getting harder with each new version.
"Development", (i.e. specifying, writing, testing and deploying software) can frequently be made agile.

But 90% of the time, it's pointless since the business isn't agile.

You have layers of management from the CEO through dept heads to unit leaders etc, and then you hit the actual devs/QAs/POs, etc... and agile starts here.
No: from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/union.

The union is only as big as necessary to hold its largest data member. The other data members are allocated in the same bytes as part of that largest member. The details of that allocation are implementation-defined but all non-static data members will have the same address (since C++14). It's undefined behavior to read from the member of the union that wasn't most recently written. Many compilers implement, as a non-standard language extension, the ability to read inactive members of a union.

What 6.5.2.3 simplifies is the use of unions of the type:

struct A{int type; DataA a;}

struct B{int type; DataB b;}

union U{A a;B b};

U u;

switch(u.type)...

Its not what is beeing used here.

std::variant is designed to deprecate all legitimate uses of union
The passage about following the contracts to the letter and thus being able to get out of those contracts with a bit of cleverness reminds me of a similar principle in stores about faeries -- that faeries will follow their bargains with mortals to the letter. In faerie stories, this is what makes deals with faeries so risky, especially with the more malevolent ones; you never know just how your words will be twisted against your intentions and desires.

I wonder how much of the to-the-letter aspect of demonic contracts borrows from the older European folk stories of faeries, or whether it is the opposite -- the to-the-letter aspect of deals with faeries being a medieval Christian projection upon those stories.
Maybe most aliens (except us) have the intelligence to stay under the radar
As soon as you realize that changing rasterization strategies alters the bounding box of character textures, and that a lot of UI positions are hardcoded, it makes sense.
There's nothing special about Bluetooth - boot loaders can implement the protocol like any other software can.
Ask HN: Know any good marketplace ToS/ToC I can reference or use?
I need to draft a Terms of Service for my marketplace product. I am struggling to find any good references online.
I'm going to punt on the first half, the second is emphatically true. Or the psychological effects could be desirable.

No one should recommend ceremonial magic and occult study, in my opinion. Anyone who 'should' be going down the rabbit hole can't be dissuaded.

But if you must, start with something like Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Don't just pull out the Goetia and start summoning demons. Reality may or may not be mutable, but our perception of it certainly is. Would you really pick that as a first experiment?
Also, we really, really need legislation to stop the ridiculousness of over-packaging. The other day I bought some case screws for my PC and they came in a goddamn "nice" foam-padded plastic case. That plastic case was then inside plastic wrap, then some plastic bubble wrap, and then a plastic Amazon mailer. That was completely unnecessary. The screws could have been in a recycled paper packet and thrown into a simple tiny cardboard box and it would have been fine.

https://i.imgur.com/WQYtcsF.jpg
Me too, but that's where Cloudflare and Google [1] seem to want to go.

[1] https://thenewstack.io/google-docs-switches-to-canvas-render...
Ah I didn’t know it was deprecated, but good to see new work happening in this area!
Most American consumers who find themselves at the local TJs or Whole Foods should probably feel way, way worse about driving to the store than about little plastic spoons.
It isn’t financial instruments doing that - it’s people.

Be thankful that it allows this to happen somewhat transparently and peacefully, rather than at the hands of pinkertons, criminals, or the military - which is how historically it has happened.
> Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development" from 1994 - well before the Agile Manifesto!

> > To the vertical-market programmer, it's rapid prototyping using the latest version of Microsoft Visual Basic or Delphi.

Huh? Did you get the year wrong, or was he referring to a brand-new / not yet released / tool as a "standard" for some segment of his audience? AFAICR, Delphi was introduced in 1995, or at the very earliest, late 1994. Feels weird that he should mention it in a book published in 1994.
Yes, would love to know the company. Happy to help steer Amazon engineers away during the current engineer shortage so they don’t waste your recruiters’ time
> You could, like, go speak to them and find out what their actual opinions are, rather than pointlessly speculating about what their opinions are. I'm sure you would be able to catch one in the wild nursing a cold beer at any good American pub.

I come from good country bumpkin very-small-farmer and country-bum stock (as in, I'm the first generation from one side, and the second gen on the other, to not be wholly in those categories) and love the hell out of getting beers in the worst-looking country bars I can find, entirely for the company, so I was being a bit coy about my level of knowledge. Plus, not my entire social circle is left-wingers.

> If this is referring to a certain January 6th incident, for the most part the uproar was caused by a belief that democracy wasn't respected.

Of course it was for what they thought were good reasons. No-one on the front lines of the bad sort of revolution thinks their cause is bad, their information wrong, or that the likely outcome of their actions will be that things get worse, unless they're nihilistic paid mercenaries. Leaders are another matter, of course.

> If we're completely honest, many people in Urban areas purchased guns around the same time the mostly peaceful BLM protests coincided with random arson events and shootings. Everybody seems to support it right up until the point people are on their streets with pitch forks, at which point it gets real.

Yeah, that's probably true too, just reporting the explicit reason folks in my circle are buying them. The right-wingers I know already had guns—lots and lots and lots of them. That aside from hunters of all political persuasions who, obviously, already owned guns and/or bows. The ones getting guns in the last ~2 years haven't been buying them to shoot animals.

[EDIT] Further, I'm not necessarily claiming that my liberal friends buying guns in case social cohesion breaks down, accelerationist "let's do an actual race war" people succeed, or right-wing authoritarians become a real everyday threat, are rational in doing so. But that is why they're buying guns. If anything, I think the right-wingers I know have slowed down their gun purchases, because it's harder to justify buying your tenth firearm when prices are elevated.

[EDIT EDIT] Also, the reasons for "blue tribe" buying guns in blue-tribe areas may differ significantly from why they buy them in red-tribe areas, like where I am. Not a clue about that.
“Do animals prefer plastic or no plastic” is a false choice. The real choice is “do animals prefer plastic or rapid global warming”.
Windows biases for a sharper text appearance, whereas Mac is much smoother. I can see why some folks prefer the sharp look, but fonts on Windows often look nothing like what the designer intended. Mac is a lot more true to the font design.
There's plenty of data. For example, producing single-use plastic grocery bags uses such a trivial amount of energy and resources that it almost doesn't matter—thousands and thousands of times less than an equivalent cotton bag. The bigger problem is disposal. If single-use plastics can be safely sequestered in landfills, that's a mostly solved problem, but that isn't always the case.
Show HN: Connect 4 for the TI-84 calculator (With AI)
Not necessarily. On my team at work we have people using Sublime Text, VS Code and vim, but all 3 (+ our CI) plug into ESLint and TypeScript for ensuring style coherence.
1. Look on glassdoor, indeed, whatever site you want to use to find out salary expectations in your role/area

2. When asked, give this number as your desired target, but a lot of times they ask about old pay. if the old pay differs greatly, avoid the topic by pointing out how 'the old job requirements are different, benefits are different, etc. But if they press on this number, tell them, don't lie or completely avoid it

3. Assume the hiring manager has 15% over the offer amount. this amount may also impact your future raises, so it may be better to cap your ask at 10%. but don't be afraid to go ham asking more for starting bonus, longer vacation, golden parachute, etc

4. Good luck!
Which is the system at fault here? Capitalism?
Then there's no omniscience, because excluding oneself would cancel it.
Pretty sure you’re blaming the wrong people. I’m not now and have never been in finance - but blaming banks or traders for the Fed’s actions is prima facia ridiculous.

And throwing in the whole ‘greed is good’ stereotype doesn’t help.
> Fortunately, high-resolution "retina" style displays make the distinction much less important

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Windows machines are still primarily 1080p. Windows renders font differently that macOS/iOS and is lower resolution. The number of graphics designers that fail to test their font or content on 1080p Windows machines is too damn high!
>> Fashion is basically part of a real world interface for the social groups you interact with, a way to tweak the first impression. It's only junk for you as an outsider not understanding the social groups of insiders dressing a certain way.

I've seen former peers and fellow students borrow and become indebted to become part of the group this way. Great if the subject can afford it, not so much if the subject is now enslaved to debt or is misallocating funds. Then, perhaps find more welcoming social groups?
do you have any tips for finding a good recruiter? I've never actually searched for one. I get recruiters contacting me on LinkedIn and they are pretty bad in my opinion. The ones I've followed up with know very little about the job they are hiring for and trying to get useful answers back from them is a giant pain.
Thanks for checking it out!

A long time ago I sketched out a note-taking app that I was excited about. About a year later I stumbled on Notion and saw that the core idea of hierarchical notes was accomplished wonderfully.

I figured there was no point building something that would essentially end up becoming a Notion clone. I proceeded to use Notion regularly (and still do) - but I have come to see that with flexibility comes other challenges.

I often found myself on a walk or at the gym wanting to capture a random idea that just came to mind. Unfortunately, doing so in Notion (and pretty near most notes apps) was laborious. The app would open to the last page I had open - which was usually not where I wanted this new random idea to go. Even if I was in the right place, the text editor on mobile was clunky.

engram organizes notes by day and type (note, task, and event). I've found with these primitives, I don't need to fumble to get things organized. Instead, ideas can be submitted independently and out of order. Storing them by date keeps recent and relevant data within reach.

Final thought - engram is not intended to replace all note taking capabilities. Instead, it acts as a place to capture the unfiltered thoughts before you lose them. From there they can be further fleshed out in a more organized fashion using your preferred method.
A big part of FIRE is putting your income i to index funds that get profit from mindless consumption, unlimited growth and capital extraction. I think if everyone would do that there wouldn't be any return on the investments.
> A possible option may be to run the screen reader on the remote desktop itself if that's possible.

For generic remote desktop access, that's what we have to do. But piping accessibility information (in its generic form, not pre-rendered as speech) to the client side in that case is much harder than it would be for this Chromium-based remote browser. (I know this from relevant experience during my time on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft.)
I'm a bit hesitant to share as I speak openly about active police investigations and have a non-mainstream opinion about the current vaccination policy. It comes down to a subscription based service where people request a service, and others advertise to provide that service. The users ads/profiles are also what drives organic search to the site, creating a feedback loop that allows me to more or less sit back and watch it grow.
This makes me think doing a sort of negative analysis is something to consider. What would be the cost to fix if something were to go wrong if I import this library? If I extract this code to a common module? If I create an Abstract manager controller coordinator class?
> What technically prevents them to run away with all stocks?

It's called the law.

> Well, it would be stupid to trust the broker. [..] I currently manage it by simply having accounts with several[...]

If you believe it's "stupid" to trust brokers, spreading your exposure across several of them may protect against a complete loss. But it also increases the risk of some loss and, on balance, has exactly the same expected value. The law diminishing marginal utility may put your strategy slightly ahead, but the difference is similarly marginal.
> So, in blackjack, you can win if the circumstances are right and you have a lot of time.

> If the "true count" is at least 6, we bet $1000, otherwise $10.

If you bet like that in a casino in Nevada, they would kick you out so quickly you wouldn't have time to count your chips. In Atlantic City they can't kick you out, but they can shuffle the deck after every play.

And nowadays almost every blackjack table uses auto shufflers that basically makes it like a new deck on every hand, which is why I don't play much blackjack these days.
> Sterilized medical equipment, storage and distribution of prepared food products for people with disabilities, and probably a myriad of other minor uses

You're right, there's not single-use material that compares. However, there are plenty of reusable sterilizable materials, like steel, aluminum, rubber, and glass.

We just need to stop being so ready to throw things in the trash and actually think about the backend logistics of bringing containers back and reusing them.

This isn't a materials problem. It's a efficiency/cost problem.

Just look at the Pfand system for glass bottles in Germany. 2 basic beer bottles, different labels. Reused dozens of times. Deposit system.
"Trino pushes the queries down to both systems and processes the rest in flight."

This is how many data virtualization techniques work as well (e.g. PolyBase from Microsoft) - predicate pushdown is not exactly new. That is why I mentioned both approaches. However, according to my experience, the degree to which this helps is highly workload-dependent. Do you happen to have some reference which would help me understand how e.g. cross-domain joins between large datasets can be optimized with this approach?

"Are you saying teams aren't allowed to store immutable data in PostgreSQL?"

Of course they can. But unless you assume everyone (incl. the numerous COTS and legacy applications in any "normal" enterprise) is practicing event sourcing and/or their internal data models are somehow inherently understandable and usable by downstream consumers, a pipeline of some sort is required. That was my point. And if so, what's the difference for the team to target a dedicated DB within a cloud DW instance that speaks the PostgreSQL dialect - or close vs. a separate PostgreSQL instance?

Furthermore, if you think standardization of tools is not possible within an enterprise and everyone just does their own thing anyway - and mind you, despite suggesting Trino as one such tool yourself, I have low hopes of getting the data mesh standards for governance ending up being adopted either.
Maybe he was bored and was looking to trigger someone and then get them arrested. Data gives them hints what will work best.
I once helped a friend by writing a simple script to automate sending series of mails which were usually composed manually with attachments and same-ish subject and content.

This boosted their productivity at least by 60%. I was more proud and satisfied with that simple piece of code than my entire professional work that year.
A more charitable explanation is they may care, but their organization might not put their money where their mouth is.

Also organizations are not monolithic singular minds, especially as they get bigger and bigger. They are groups of people and one end doesn't talk to the other is quite common.