skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol every time I see the word "feet" I'm reminded that this article isn't targeted to anyone but Americans, even when talking about manufacturing lines in Asia. My East Asian bias is showing but in all my experience I absolutely have never had to use those units in a serious professional context. Any time I see a technically-sounding article use units like "feet" and "football fields" I subconsciously find it very difficult to take anything afterward seriously.

I admit it's irrational since units are arbitrary and orthogonal anyway, but it seems... forced. Is it really necessary to use those units in a technical context in order to relate to your readers?

EDIT:
Lots of America-centric people are jumping onto me for this initial comment, stating that WSJ is built for its /true/ target audience, /Americans/. What sparked my comment was the fact I was reading this article in Japanese. The aforementioned numbers and graph are expressed in feet, so this kind of forced conversion across industry domain and language barrier seemed contrived and got me started on this train of thought.

https://jp.wsj.com/articles/the-chip-shortage-has-made-a-sta...
The Bell Curve is unrescuable from a scientific perspective, it should be thrown away.

If it is definitional to your worldview, then replace it with a scientifically sound one.
Looks great but I'm surprised they aren't way noisier. Is that just a result of having a limited number of neurons compared to the number of pixels, or is there some specific trick to it?
> Imagine a collectively owned bank with a democratic decision-making process. You'd propose your idea for a Netflix competitor, and after a period of public debate the bank invests in the ideas that people decided are worth investing in.

There is no difference between what you write here and my example. Whether you call it a "collectively owned bank with a democratic decision-making process" or simply "ruling government, it's still a government body deciding what will and won't receive funding, and if you disagree with it there is no opt out or alternative route to investing in competitors, resulting in state-owned media.

> With our current technology we could make such decisions using direct democracy.

Direct democracy is impossible given the scale of the number of decisions required. We can't even get 50% of the populace to show up for elections once every 4 years. Every single issue the constituency might vote on in a direct democracy wouldn't involve 99.9% of the actual populace's input. What proportion of the population have the time and will power to follow and investigate even a fraction of the bills being voted on by their national representatives? Their state representatives? Their local government? Their school boards? Their HOA? All of that represents a pittance of the amount of decision making that would be required for the government to assume the decision making that goes into managing what currently happens in the free market. Do we really expect direct democracy to work there?

That's the hubris of socialism. It assumes that the aggregate direction required to manage modern day nation-states is something that can be handled in a centralized way. Which is how the largest famines in human history have been self-imposed through communist regimes trying and failing to do so. Capitalism, for all its many faults, is decentralized enough to offer more resiliency.
https://archive.is/7i2DM
Unless the system was attempting to cache-optimize the memory, then it is probably going to infringe. So basically everybody.
You are right.

Actual average returns are simply total cap at one time divided by total cap at a previous time: TC(t2)/TC(t1)

That probably is easy enough to do.

But an estimate of that would be an average of returns for randomly chosen companies, but with either:

1) straight random selection of companies, with the individual returns weighted by their company size, or ...

2) ... random selection of companies, with probabilities of each company weighted by size, then the unweighted average of those returns.

So you are right, one way or another a subsample of companies needs to weight companies by size to account for the greater levels of investment in large companies.
Most people reply to me. I am currently job searching and I have one who didn't reply? Don't target the CTO as he probably gets barraged, but a fellow guy with 2-3 years experience? They reply. Random people off Hacker News? They reply.
Part of the problem is, if you open-source something, you will become overwhelmed with pull requests and critiques of every code change you make. People will expect you to do things in a transparent and community-driven way. They'll yell at you if you develop updates inside your company offices and then "throe it over the wall" to the open-source side.
It can be discouraging to apply for jobs and not get even a callback.
“Experience drafting responses to government regulators is a plus.”
> You can always run a host yourself and pin it to your own host.

(It sounds like it, but) to clarify, can you do this completely for free, with no cooperation from a third party (eg, you don't need to pay a existing host to vouch for you)?
It's easy to see why we're disliked.

Most Americans are ignorent of the general history regardless of picking a side. Our schools practically encourage ignorance, and our media feeds us nonsense.
In that case... I get it. But yeah... Everybody did/does it and it's stupid. And i knew it was stupid back then (even my current mail provider does the same; Belgium yada yada, but have been honest about cooperating with police). I even figured the lifetime option was a sign that they would collapse years ago. But i took a risk, and I have very cheap storage online.

Also. Yes. The Android app is very bad compared to e.g. drive/photos
It's strictly a function of funding and the economic power of the interested parties. Rich capitalists are, naturally, invested in promoting policies, ideologies, and politicians that will 1) keep them being rich capitalists and 2) make them richer capitalists. I don't know, but am fairly confident in stating, that there are not rich communists waging a communistic propaganda campaign in order to keep them being rich communists and making them richer communists. Certainly not in the Anglosphere, anyway.
"There is no other way" = "There is no Plan B"

Fortunately if we've learned anything from recent history, it's that our initial attempts at a solution are almost always successful and rarely are there setbacks, hiccups, or insurmountable obstacles along the way to the perfect realization of your immaculately designed strategy.
Indeed, I included it to show that even though everyone might seem like they're clamoring for deep work products, the reality is that sometimes people just don't care enough. Level's founder Derrick Reimer had a hypothesis that people hated Slack (and particularly its interrupting notifications) that he wanted to make a product that was async. Turns out people don't actually care enough to change their entire communications workflow.
CSV is a complicated format but that does not mean awk is incapable of dealing with it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting...

https://github.com/e36freak/awk-libs/blob/master/csv.awk

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nomarian/Awk-Batteries/mas...
As does LastPass
In turn this gives companies a reason to apply strong filters just so they can reduce their shortlist to a manageable size.
You might be remembering my "WebSaver" project, which I mainly use for my own Macs.

https://github.com/Rezmason/websaver
Not that massively, but various plants had to shut down at various times, which really isn't helping matters. It's not just "misjudged demand", that would be relatively easy to fix or be limited to few sectors if everything otherwise ran at needed capacity.
This whole concept where citizens track each other / report personal information about others ... and then sue them / possibly profit (or just collect money) for events that seem to have nothing to do with them seems insane at every level.
Curious to see examples of him being "a little prick, a typical gemini".
I like to tell myself that's because real lefties adhere to the doctrine of Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, even though they won't understand 99% of the cultural references
Proof that freedom of speech doesn't exist on the internet, short of launching a new AS.

Sometimes I wonder if the US government should offer some kind of basic web hosting to citizens to guarantee this fundamental right.
If the sources are bad, how can you make any such statement about conclusions in the work? To state as fact what is and is not controversial regarding the Bell Curve, smells a bit like your Gas Light is possible not combusting properly.
> interviewing prospects is a very non-trivial cost to an organization

Yet, a lot of companies would rather not give you that trivial raise to retain you, but spend that non-trivial cost to hire someone else at a higher rate.
"Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the salary range of their open positions" - https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about
Besides all the great comments here about Netflix being not a tech company. I will add that most of Netflix tech blogs lately are just describing integrating a bunch of Open source Apache/Spring Framework software.

The "technical challenges" they are facing are similar to those Enterprisey IT developers face when they could not wrap their head around Kludgy Java framework APIs.

Also If I look at Netflix OSS at github it gives that feeling of below average enterprise Java software with deeply nested packages with probably 5 percent of meat and 95 percent scaffolding / config around it.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn if Netflix's famed extensive systems monitoring is not because they are on cutting edge but
that million instances of half-assed Java microservices do need endless monitoring just for standard http/database request processing.

So yeah, Netflix is not tech company in many meanings of tech.
From the "Why does this matter" link on the first page (https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about):

"Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the salary range of their open positions.

In May of 2019 SB19-085, titled the Equal Pay For Equal Work Act, was signed into law in Colorado. It's a fairly short read if you're not familiar with it, but its main goal is enabling pay transparency to allow for people to know if they're being discriminated against with their wages and file a complaint with the CDLE.

The law went into effect January 1st, 2021.

The most visible part of the law has been the requirement for all job listings open to a CO resident to contain a salary range. If you've seen an increase in salary ranges on job postings recently you have this law to thank.

Some companies however have decided that excluding all Colorado residents for a remote job that can be filled by someone in any of the other 49 US states is better than sharing how much they're willing to pay..."
As someone who seemingly in the past 6 months has subscribed to them all. The worst technically (Hulu on Android TV), has got the most interesting content, and has just passed Netflix as my go-to streaming channel. HBO, Prime, Disc+, Hulu, Vudu, Apple TV, they might as well use the same software.
A lot of people who follow what's been happening with EVs think that certain legacy auto brands will evolve to survive as design and marketing organizations. (EDIT: Of EVs, specifically.) These companies will put their design on top of a skateboard/chassis designed and manufactured by another EV company, like Tesla. If brands don't survive as a separate (EDIT: EV) company, then they could also do this as a division of a parent auto company. This will probably happen to brands like Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini.

Apple stands a good chance of breaking into that evolved form of the business. They are, after all, very good at marketing and design.
If someone online talked about archetypes earlier than June 12, 2018 that can be prior art.

You don't need to have working code to take on a patent. If someone posted a medium article, or even some kind of proof of concept or cobbled together POC that'd be enough.

(I think really any kind of proof that you had the idea before that date is good enough -- a personal diary would work in principle, but you'd need to somehow prove that you wrote your thoughts down on the date and didn't forge it after the fact)
In a way Netflix is a productivity company. They relentlessly improve productivity in decision making, in building device ecosystems, in lowering streaming cost, in managing streaming assets... Cool technologies emerge from such endeavor.
They can still do this. It's not like BTC is the only legal tender here. They still continue to use USD as legal tender.
https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about

> Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the salary range of their open positions.
Sounds amazing to me
What's your source on this? Are you figuring in the Lightning Network?
They answered this in their FAQ. The companies want to avoid sharing salary information for job openings.
Well I will avoid further speculation then! That makes sense and I hope that is the case, the mini seems like a cool device and I hope it's part of their lineup next time I need a new phone.
Could someone explain to a dummy like me: what are the actual technological bottlenecks for brain-machine interfaces?

Like... setting aside all the things that, given enough time/effort, we'll reach some useful maximum. I'm told that with ML (eg: image classification) we'll eventually train the systems enough that they'll do a pretty amazing job.

So is it converting analog brain signals to digital? Is the rate of data transmission even relevant here? What would happen if we had enough "brain data" from a single person to saturate a 10 gigabit network? Do we have the software to do anything meaningful with that?
If you’re using DamnSmallLinux etc I’d imagine you can package your own awk quite easily! Perl would require a lot more packages. But all you need to do is copy a couple binaries right?
This article is flagged. How did you come across the HN post to comment on it so recently?
I know the founder of Oltra, cool guy. My product is actually mobile first because I found that I liked having it on my phone when I'm out and about. It's still in the building stages though, I've been documenting it on Twitter [0] this month, trying to finish the MVP before the end of the month.

[0] https://twitter.com/satvikpendem/status/1433247453222944768
How do you determine who is a dedicated job applicant? First, everyone shoots their resume and maybe cover letter into your black hole. Are the dedicated ones the ones who actually included a cover letter? Or is it how enthused/personalized the cover letter seems? A qualified individual should do that, perhaps even better since they have experience and talent, if they're indeed qualified.

Next, they have to go through interviews. Are they expected to fully research the company and its methods before the initial round? Or how about coding questions: Would you take someone who spent 3X the time on leetcode but only got 50% as many coding answers as the qualified person? Do you purposefully choose those who you deemed "worked harder" or "wanted it more"? Are things like follow-up emails, thank you's, further reflections, are these things how you determine dedication? Or do you purposefully over-look those you think are well qualified, ruling them out in favor of those "trying harder"?
Fundamental right to web hosting?
I don't think it's that the fabs were shut down because of covid, but rather because automotive manufacturers (and presumably others) forecasted record low sales for 2020 and canceled all of their chip orders such that chip suppliers and upstream fabs had to lay off staff and so on. As I understand it, this was what reduced fab capacity, not "fabs were closing to avoid the risk of covid".

On the flip side, rather than demand decreasing as auto manufacturers expected, it actually spiked, and automotive manufacturers demanded more chips and were willing to pay $$$ for it. So other industries that use chips and accurately forecasted their demand were now bidding against automotive manufacturers for that fab capacity.
> After a few hundred years of race/gender based policies working in favor of whites/males, I don't know what else we would expect from a deliberate effort to reverse it

White hasn't even meant the same thing for over a hundred years in America. Treating "white males" as a monolithic group is a vast over-simplification of all the different sub-groups and cultures who were not equally advantaged.
Maybe it is simply because the right-leaning ones are worse?

(I am French, we do not care what our CEOs say about non business things as personal beliefs, or with whom they sleep, or which church they attend our not - so this is just a genuine comment on one possibility)
Our IT dept at work is super strict with everything, to the point that I don’t even bother accessing anything work related on any device other than my work machine. Nor am I allowed to actually (so these tools like Legend are by default unusable). By the same token, I refuse to put any personal info on the work machine. The upside of this is that I’ve been able to go back to using emacs for everything :)
Businesses are not truly desperate for labor until they start publicly advertising minimum pay rates and quality of life at work.

A few restaurants around me have started listing their starting pay, plus sign on bonuses, so they are finally feeling the heat.
This is very well reasoned and I mostly agree, but the reality is that if it was closed source it would be the same except you just couldn’t fix it yourself reasonably and legally. Google may be falling on its maintenance, but stuff like this crops up in proprietary software constantly. Presumably their calculus for putting resources on fixing your bug is just tilted against you. I think the cost of fixing this bug should be something that you consider part of the cost of using the service; no less than the cost spent maintaining or operating your own services should count when comparing the cost of self-hosting FLOSS stacks.

Tl;dr: I think open source is still just a straight improvement here. I think it’s fine as long as the cost of fixing it is considered the cost of using the stack for decision making purposes.
Employees describe racism, Hitler memes, exploitation at 'evil' cult teen brand
Salary ranges are typically pretty wide though so I'm not sure how much secret info this will leak.
I'm not sure the effect of obesity is that massive. Look at the curves in Fig 2 here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503652/bin/VHR... From the text of that paper it looks like being obese ~doubles your risk at a given age, and it looks like age is the highest risk. It looks like the cumulative risk of being obese AND 80 puts your risk at about ~12% for having a heart attack. Hard to tell from that graph if the 45 year old data is consistent with the study in this paper or not.
A web hosting that guarantees that the fundamental right to free speech can be exercised over the internet.
That goes down with volume. If you apply to a large number of jobs then you won't worry about those who didn't call you back because you'll be too busy scheduling and attending interviews.

Of course, if you apply to a large number of jobs and don't get any callbacks then that's a strong signal that you either need to update your resume, update your credentials, or seek employment in another field.
I find the pitch true to the extent that it says "helps" and I think that much is true. How much is helps and whether it helps more than any other random tool is another matter. There's another comment that says something more general like a window manager or DE that allows any content to be overlaid like this would be better. I think I agree with that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28447659
The European Patent Convention states that software is not patentable, so no.
What's it like building a medical device startup?
EU Embraces Iota Blockchain
When hiring for senior positions, its probably more easier to rig the system. At the level no one even thinks of checking if someone can code. I worked for someone like that to do their job for them. This person was hired on a 7+ year xp position for a job and only thing they knew is how to answer questions in an interview. I use to get the shared screen from their work computer and use to work for them.

My only guess on how they got the job was that the resume was saying so much that no one bothered to ask them to write the code. How do you get a high paying dev job when you can't write method, don't even know what return is? but you have degrees and all that fluff written in your resume. I don't understand.
I agree, but michaelcampbell's point seemed to be: why learn a language for its ubiquity, when more commonly used languages seem to be just as ubiquitous? So, I focused on how they're not that ubiquitous.
That assumes the cloud service is irreplaceable. Having the source to the API means if Google shuts down their service you have the possibility of migrating it over to a new service with only a minimal API change. This assumes you have some way to get your data off before the service goes kaput though, which is not always the case.
> Given goals towards freedom of speech, some content won't align with you politically (and some might), but there's enough decent content that you can potentially use it as an alternative platform successfully.

I find high curation is the only way I find a service like YouTube to be usable.

There's an endless sea of content on there. It's not important that I agree with it or not, it's important if it's quality, which the overwhelming majority of it isn't.

I'm looking at the landing page of odysee now.

* Why can't Wolverine shack up with doctor strange?

* 1 minute of Luigi in a bag!!!

* Top sleep hacks

* Guess how old this Korean actress is?

I can't block these channels or show disinterest even though I made an account.

My issue isn't the politicalness, it's quality and relevance.
Odysee: The biggest blockchain media platform in the world
Have you read the eponymous book by Cal Newport? That's where these tools being labeled for "deep work" are coming from. It's a great book, I'd highly recommend it. Overall though I don't think you necessarily need a tool for deep work, but it can help.
Are you vaccinated? It seems vaccinated people can get covid over and over again, which is not true for people who got natural immunity.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210907102713/https://www.nytim...
I distinguish between tech companies like Adobe, Microsoft and Intel, and tech-enabled companies like Netflix, Amazon (the store part, at least) Facebook. The former actually sells technology (hardware or software) whereas the latter uses technology as a strategic tool in selling something else.
> I can think of a lot of instances where people would be thrilled if they even had the ability to fix a persistent issue with software that the company won't fix itself.

And that's Stallman's start in free software - he wanted to fix a printer driver but they wouldn't give him the source code.
minikube now includes a command called "minikube image build", which builds the images for your Kubernetes cluster - for any container runtime, including docker - but also containerd
> What would happen if we had enough "brain data" from a single person to saturate a 10g network?

Upgrade to USB 4 :)