skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unemployed by choice is an unfamiliar notion... but, on reflection, anyone with in-demand skills and sufficient savings does have that choice. Those two attributes should be quite common among this site's audience.
This seems like just an observation about the less formal nature of colloquial language. We also say things like "70% of people do X", when in actuality the underlying study "extrapolates" from a smaller population via statistical analysis.

All these statements are attempting to do is summarize a more complex/nuanced statement in terms that a lay person can relate to. It could also be that people are deliberately overloading the meaning of the words "size" etc, which is one well known mechanism that cause mutations in languages over time.
They’ve helped me in the past realise project/idea scope - breaking it down. Although I often do that breaking down with heirarchical lists… mind maps aren’t a game changer for me.
Journalists have (some) protection against being forced to testify about sources. I guess it becomes a philosophical question at that point whether being a journalist is an occupation or an action.
I dunno.

Firstly, the privilege call-out isn't very functional here. So what? People aren't allowed to relate their experiential pain?

Furthermore, at various stages of my life, I've taken 3 or 6 or 9 months off... all on my own, and either because I was living in a $300 apartment, or lived in a tent, or had just enough saved up for beans and my apartment. Not working for a while, because you've gotten just a few things sorted, isn't necessarily privilege or wealth -- sometimes it's actually poverty. Sometimes it's something else, and the story can still be listened to on its own merits.
Sod? Maybe? People say "Sod that" in Britain. I don't know why you'd censor that though.
Oh, and making Git.
Not equivalent, specially if you know what is like to suffer burnout.

The choice becomes "either I willingly quit, or suicide starts to become attractive".

Burnout is _strange_ because the person suffering reaches an unbearable state before the company complains about a lack of performance (to a point of firing them).
I saw a video of a guy getting rammed into by a cop car and then several other cops came over and curb-stomped his head into the sidewalk..... cause he wasn't wearing a mask.

Shouldn't have let the government take your weapons Aussies.
If you showed somebody 1000 years ago a z80 - they would probably think it was jewellery - a broach of some-kind.

So how much knowledge would carry forward 1000 years from now, after all the tooling needed to reverse engineer a cpu like the z80 and working out how it is made, is going to be a huge effort.

Besides, I'm sure many would argue that a 6502 would push it forward a few years faster.
That is ironic; and the weird social tools give them anxieties and complexes like they never had before. Wild.
Interesting discussions. Perhaps it may be easier to look at it from another angle.

Current blend of ML/DL algorithms are not AI. I think the tendency of giving aspirational names to software algorithms have created a lot of confusion. Perhaps AI will be one day possible but if so, it's probably safe to say that it won't be anything based on the current ML/DL paradigm.

Fun example, Google DeepMind is yet able to learn math:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-aint-no-a-student-deepmind-...
Systems like these are not hard to implement. Huawei could have already taken notes from McAfee's first AV engine. It's all about the decision.

Even Dropbox is using quite similar scanning to identify how to sync all of your files to the cloud, by not re-uploading the whole file at specific intervals.
Not sure why a Judge gets to decide this but it makes sense.

Why are we expanding Berkeley - in a super expensive area for students instead of expanding in Merced (or even Davis) - where is much less expensive.
Imagine hiring a young-looking 18-year old model to duplicate the photos in the database and create a hash collision. Now you have a photo which is perfectly legal for you to possess but can rain down terror on anyone you can distribute this file to.
That's hard to do in the US if you don't plan on CORBA. I'm not full time employed at the moment and randomly broke my ankle trying to skateboard for the first time.

The medical bills are 50k and counting. Thankfully my wife's insurance (she's working) fully covers this.

I cannot imagine taking time off without any health insurance and the cost of CORBA is itself one or two thousand every month for two people.

But if you're single and under 27 (where you can still fall back under your parents healthcare) things could be easier.
Agree with you on the latter. The health insurance companies should do that, similarly to how life insurance is priced (i.e. rewarding good behaviors and taxing bad ones).
He left a void which is now being filled by Lex Friedman and others. Rogan doesn't even bother placing something about the podcast in title - he just names the guest which doesn't say anything to me so I dropped his show long time ago. Even went that far and send him an email regarding how frustrating it is to just listen to show after show until you find a subject that you like.

What he lost with YouTube is their algorithm which kept recommending bits and pieces aligned to what the user was already watching. With Spotify he's just there as an author/podcaster - nothing on the subject of what I am currently listening - he lost the context.

I placing his growth on YouTube and its recommendation engine more than anything else.
The problem people have with Joe Rogan, and everyone else like him, is that they're spreading misinformation without having an ounce of education in the subject at hand. People should be listening to the CDC, the FDA, getting vaccinated, wearing masks, and washing their hands. That is best solution we have to the problem, end of story. No amount of agreeable platitudes will make any difference if this disease continues to mutate among the unvaccinated population. Arm chair commentators are not more capable at understanding virology and immunology than the CDC, and their beliefs are completely irrelevant when it comes to fighting this disease.
How is calling men who wear masks "pussies" while disagreeing with your guest about it being a thoughtful and critical interviewer?
Don't get me wrong, I know what 1:1 are for. I know all about that, and I am not saying there are not good managers
out there.

I was just trying to be honest and share my experience from small/medium/corporate companies. Maybe I was not lucky enough, but in my experience good managers are not the common case. Company politics and product/customer priorities often win over people requests for change.

That is why, if I am not happy in doing what I do, I simply
move on and get another job. That is just way easier.
The compressor is almost certainly the most expensive part of the fridge. It's also one of 2 moving parts on fridge (the other the being the fan, which is cheap), making it the most likely to fail.

I checked some list prices, and they're a substantial price of the fridge itself. Some site said $200-$450 to replace one, another said the part itself is $100-$500 without even including labor. At those prices, I can see why people might just buy new. It's also something most people would want to hire a professional for; refrigerants are not good to inhale, and this needs to be air-tight.

I would also hope that most of them get refurbished. It's pretty hard to just "discard" a fridge. You have to call someone at the city (or GoodWill), and I presume they sell those to refurbisher. They're worth some money.

So I think in reality, it goes to a refurbisher who fixes it, then sells it to someone else who replaces and even older fridge. So the fridge that actually ends up in a landfill might be a 1960s deep freeze. The same idea as used cars.
Simon doesn't claim he invented PaaS, but he did predict it.

As far as learning from Zimki, I think the lesson Simon says he learned was basically (paraphrasing) "make sure you don't run out of political capital" and watching out for misaligned incentives.
I bought a new high end thinkpad (i forget, it was a few years ago). The display was clearly defective, serious dark spots. Lenovo held a firm line that I would have to send it in and wait 3 weeks for a replacement. New out of the box.

They tried to change their tune when I asked for a refund but I was finished dealing with their support "quality" - imagine the level of support that would happen if something broke outside of the return period!

Anyways, I bought a Razer blade, and got some of the worst support in my life. I actually got accused of lying on the phone by the support agent!

My next laptop will probably be a dell or surface - their in house repair service is supposedly extremely good.

> At first, Apple informed me that they couldn’t replace the unit and would instead offer to repair it. However, considering I had almost just received it, and experienced issues from day one, I was able to convince them to give me a brand new unit instead.
I want to invite you to Warzone 2100 Tournament.
Contact me in discord - RBMW-Fenrir#5279
I've been called "The Dad of the Team" and Grandpa at jobs, and I'm in my early 40s. I have a good sense of humor and don't take offense to it at all, though. It is kind of shocking to take a moment, look around the office, and realize you might be the oldest person in the room, despite being middle aged! Definitely not looking forward to my next job hunt though. I understand it just gets tougher and tougher from here on.

Best way to combat it I think is to just suck it up and obfuscate your age. Chop off all but the last 8 years on your resume. Remove the dates. I've even gone as far as getting a young-ish haircut and wearing clothes that feel silly but send the right signals. Might even have to dye my hair soon, too LOL. It can feel like the "How do you do, fellow kids" meme [1], but I figure it can't hurt.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/13/15966094/30-rock-buscemi-...
Anchors: Self Adjusting Computations in Rust
The Colbert Report did more to educate Americans about Super PACs than any legit news source: https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stephen-colberts...

Meanwhile Fox News continues to mislead Americans with active disinformation on a daily basis.
They both reduce infections and reduce transmission.

The VE is reduced with delta, but its still nonzero (most of the studies of what it really is are still incredibly poor though, but nothing has show it to be below 50% VE against infection).

The initial comparable viral load studies are also all bad. All they did was compare Ct of RNA loads. We now know that there is less infectious virus in vaccinated individuals, and that Ct values themselves decline faster, which indicates they're producing more viral debris -- we expect studies of transmission to show that they transmit less. Older studies from earlier this year against Alpha found that 80% of vaccinated breakthrough infections produced zero transmitted secondary infections with the other 20% only infecting 1-3 other people.

That is sufficient enough impact on infection and transmission to end the pandemic if everyone was vaccinated.

Unfortunately, everyone, including many scientists are panicking in the face of uncertainty over the delta variant and assuming the absolute worst and spreading worst-case messages which are portraying vaccines as not being worthwhile, when they're still effective enough.
it is if you’re not fragile
No because no popular publisher would stay the moment a $100m exclusive offer is made.
> There are properly awesome people out there through and through, in private and public alike, and those deserve my full respect.

Or they've just managed to successfully hide their feet of clay, or you've just decided that you like their awesomeness so much you're going to overlook their peccadilloes.

Name any accomplished person, and you'll find haters.
This is nonsense. The causal feature of the people saturating ICU capacities is that they are unvaccinated, not obese. It also matters that getting vaccinated is a cheap safe triviality, while getting into a healthy BMI range is an expensive long process (but I would agree that it should be encouraged).
How to bulk upload profiles/URLs and avoid low content pages – SEO
I have a job board I am building with some people, and to begin gaining traction we bulk uploaded current employers we work with for them to later verify their profiles (about 50,000 so far). We have tried some simple GPT-3 description generation, for the company descriptions, with a few variations but with 50,000+ employers we are getting penalized with low content pages and soft 404s on certain profiles.

I am looking for strategies or work-arounds to do bulk profile/url uploads and avoid being penalized for low content, duplicate content, soft 404s, etc.

It may be helpful to add that these employers are in the same industry, and their differences are names, websites, and phone numbers. We have looked at beefing up internal linking but are open to any suggestions.

Thank you - notgeorge
The "learned helplessness" rings true to me. Burnout for has usually occurred to me after making many attempts to get past major inefficiencies. Work continues, but despite many attempts, remains a terrible slow inefficient slog. Far below my potential.

Eventually I just become unable to work. Extreme mental fatigue even after good rest or even long vacation breaks.

I am happy to say I got free of the situational factors that were never going to get better and am very happy and productive now.

One things that amazes me, how truly dumb I am when depressed vs. happily creatively challenged. Anyone meeting me in these two states would have very different impressions of my abilities, potential, work ethic, etc.
Before there are 10 people with "there is a library for that in Python" (because they are not and can not be ergonomic enough):

Next Generation Shell is a "real" programming language. It also has syntax for calling external programs. It handles exit codes properly. It has facility for constructing command line arguments.

Project - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

Motivation related to the above - https://ilya-sher.org/2017/10/10/why-i-have-no-favorite-prog...

edit: ah, yes, NGS also supports command line arguments automatic parsing when main() is called; augmenting this facility would be the sane way to solve the problem.
Ask HN: Resources to Learn Team Management
I'm a student at a university and have been asked to become a team leader for a club writing software. Are there any books/ readings that cover leadership and collaboration that you would suggest?
Well, I do have a real name, and if you look in the right place you can find it, but >=99.9% of people in the Haiku community and those who have heard of it know me only as "waddlesplash", so why bother announcing with anything else?
If one population spreads a disease more than another, it makes absolutely no sense that R0 is a constant across all populations, by definition. Perhaps you should look up the meaning of R0.
> "both sides" thing is the _worst_ of cable news

It used to be the best when there was regulation that made sure equal amounts of attention were devoted to both sides of an issue with proper research.

What we have today are ideological echo chambers with some caricature of an opposing side, not actual debate.
There’s always that one guy:

> “That’s my reputation,” Baasiri said. “Gravity fucks the market.”

5% commissions on transactions though, that’s really steep!
As already mentioned there is Lex Fridman. Some people including me dislike the way he speaks, but listening on x2+ speed fixes that. I also enjoyed The Tim Ferris Show and he generally have more guests who are not related to tech.

Though I mostly went deeper into podcasts related to software engineering and since most of them include a lot of off-topic some are quite fun: Soft Skills Engineering, The Bike Shed, Indie Hackers Podcast, Talk Python to Me, Unnamed RE Podcast.

So there is always more interesting podcasts than time I have for listening. Might be you can't replace Rogan with one show, but you can always diversify.
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One of may favourite instances of an optical illusion ever is this short video of a cat pouncing on a sheet of paper on which shows an apparent-motions spirals illusion.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=S4IHB3qK1KU

It reveals that at least this aspect of feline and human visual perception appears to be similar.

As a means of getting inside a cat's head, it's never failed to fascinate me.

There's another ... perceptual phenomenon is probably a better description than illusion ... contained in an episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast. In it, a short snippet of noise is played. It sounds completely random. After a cue is heard ... the noise resolves to a comprehensible message.

In my case, I'd started listening to the podcast whilst falling asleep. I don't recall consciously hearing the cue ... but ... when I replayed the podcast the next day, I could understand the audio clip on the first play. I'd "crossed over to the other side* without even consciously hearing the cue.

(I've looked for the episode in the archives listing. I cannot find it though I think it may turn up.)

https://youarenotsosmart.com/all-posts/
It's very interesting to read about other setups and how people use them. For me, it's simply a MBA and logitech mx master 3 mouse.
There are non-"self-hostable" torrent clients?
Warranty only goes for 1-3 years. Where the rate of failure for batteries is very low. After that, you're stuck with high repair costs or buying a new device that falls under warranty again. It's a racket and people keep falling for it.
>Trying to quantify the risk of a system as high because it only takes four steps on a single flowchart released through the FOIA is vacuous.

Did we read the same article?! I suppose you're right, though; despite the headline, they barely touched on the fact that it was an enormous megacorp running the black-box probable-cause generator. Your sneering dismissal of the rest of it is, I think, misplaced. I found the article to be more about quotes like this:

>"The Department of Homeland Security refuses to disclose to the public how exactly ATLAS works or what rules it uses to determine when an immigrant should be flagged to potentially have their citizenship revoked. This secrecy makes it nearly impossible to tell whether ATLAS is targeting immigrants baselessly or not. The Open Society Justice Initiative this week filed a new FOIA request with DHS and its United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, division seeking details on how the algorithm functions."

or this:

>"Denaturalization experts say that putting an immigrant’s paper trail through the algorithmic wringer can lead to automated punitive measures based not on that immigrant’s past conduct but the government’s own incompetence. Experts have long pointed out that using matches against shoddily maintained fingerprints, many collected on notecards decades ago, as evidence of deliberate “fraud” or malfeasance is likely to ensnare and punish innocent people."

I think the risk they're trying to emphasize is that of automation of probable-cause generation. Old or inaccurate records or fingerprints, combined with a closed-source algorithm, seems like a neat way to create firing solutions for ICE, and should the perp be an unsuitable target, ATLAS provides a neat way to obscure the kind of legal blame that might result in a lawsuit.
Great answer. Thank you!
in mice...
If there is a significant dropoff in the number of CSA convictions because all the tech companies gave up the current method of CSAM scanning for another technique, the government will believe that those companies would be failing to protect children, because there would be some number of criminals they'd be letting go.

There's no practical way to test this because there's no incentive for any of those companies to change how they scan for CSAM. None of those companies are going to take the risk of implementing something that could enable future sexual abuse crimes to take place just to improve privacy. The system in place apparently works, but there appears to be little statistical data validating those techniques.

What I would want to know is what alternative method for reporting CSAM could be developed that would meet the current expectations of the law in the number of cases they successfully uncover while also satisfying the desire for absolute privacy under all circumstances. A system that has users reporting content themselves relies on the users acting to incriminate other people, and the criminals can simply improve their privacy by hiding the content out of public view. It also doesn't address the fact that the government doesn't want people storing CSAM on their phones at all, and if they happen to notice you're storing CSAM for any reason, they're going to arrest you for it.

I'm honestly not sure that it's possible for any company to implement true E2EE given the current state of the law. It sounds like a tradeoff had to be made between privacy and the ability for the law to be upheld.
> It'd clearly be a listing trying to get more gender diversity, of which I do not help.

Trying to get more diversity doesn't necessarily mean they just want to hire those people underrepresented, or that the program (or company) would necessarily be filled with just underrepresented people. The nature of the problem is such that one of the current tactics is to clearly call out to those that you think are valid candidates that are ignoring the call to apply. The understanding is that it gets you closer to a societally representative mix of people, whereas without that it would be worse. That doesn't necessarily mean that's the only people they want to hire, or that by not applying you are actually helping that overall issue.

For very large companies like Google it's possible that they indeed do try to tailor programs to primarily hire for diversity purposes to meet some overall goal, but I suspect (and hope) they don't do it like you suggest. Having one program that's mostly of fully staffed with underrepresented people is probably self defeating in that it spurs other problem (the goal should be a diverse mixture, not concentrated groups within a mostly homogeneous whole), and if they do desire people that aren't just those underrepresented, then there's no reason not to apply.

That said, I think we've mostly plumbed this topic.
I think that's OK, as long as you accept the consequence of being outcast from society - ie not allowed to interact or go into a public place where you are a threat. "Not making other people sick during a pandemic" is a pretty reasonable prerequisite for social interaction.
He's had plenty of prominent leftist guests like Bernie Sanders, and most of his comedian and artist friends are left-leaning, and he leans left himself. How is this a gateway to the alt-right? At some point these accusations just become meaningless.
The fallacy of Cantor (and his supporters such as Hilbert) lies in mixing the mathematical logic which is meaningful only for finite numbers, with the infinity as if it were a number that obeys comparison operations such as bigger, smaller etc. Almost anything can be proved/disproved or debated when one assumes such validity of the logical concepts to infinity.

The acceptance of multiple infinities and some concepts around continuum (Dedekind cuts etc) are questionable due to this assumption.
It's obvious that ratings are down, but it's still enough to make money. Here are Some recent changes I can think of that cause lower ratings, all but one are related to Spotify.

Spotify is awful to use.

Not live anymore.

Haven't done the fight companion since the Brian Callen allegations.

Too afraid to be cancelled.

So many more podcasts now. Especially Tim Dillon and Flagrant2.
What did you do to fill your time in that 2 1/2 years? Did you get bored or find yourself wanting to return to productivity?