skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At most companies I worked for, I'm sure there is 2x-3x difference in "raw" dev productivity, or even 10x once we keep in mind the affects of the correct prioritization and technical solution, but the salary difference is almost always within 50% band. The most productive people could never negotiate 5x salaries.
Bandcamp is great, and there is something really wrong with Apple music in Firefox on windows. Its very slow and its seems to do authentication _after_ loading the rest of the page and often fails.
Google Shifting to “Upstream First” Linux Kernel Approach for Android Features
> In the media people are shamed for perusing experimental treatment under their doctors supervision.

Instead of perusing such experimental treatments, they could just get vaccinated.

Story time: this Monday (i.e. 2 days ago) I got Covid. Terrible headache, complete loss of taste. But I had the vaccine (Moderna). The whole experience was just some amusing thing for me. I took some ibuprofen, aleve and tylenol to deal with the headache (yes, I had to take multiple medications, it was that bad) and aspirin, just to be on the safe side with the potential blood clots. Yesterday I had just a slight headache, and right now I'm absolutely fine.

I did not need to do any sort of experiments with Ivermectin, or anything else. The vaccine just took care of it.
Is your friend vaccinated?
I don’t really understand why an exception for e-readers is necessary. Here I was hoping Amazon would finally update the kindle to USB-C.
I think you are misunderstanding my use of the the phrase "identity-based". What I mean is that the primary entity around which conversation and content revolve on HN is the topic (from URLs or questions), not the individual user's identity.

Topic based forums are a thing. I'm a member of a paid (gasp!) forum for high-performance building methods.
Buying Businesses
TinyPilot runs on the Raspberry Pi 4B, so I haven't made my own custom board yet.

The Voyager 2 will use custom PCBs for the HAT, but it will still be on top of the Pi.

In the next iteration, I'd like to use the Pi Compute Module to migrate to my own custom board, but I'll need to work with an EE firm on that, since I'm not knowledgeable enough about EE for that kind of project.
You could make the goal more static with unit tests, though they would need to be a lot of them and very specific, otherwise it would just game them.
Breaking the break

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Break.
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Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 8 : 1 > (break)

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Merriam-Webster:

>Meritocracy: a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit [0]

It seems to me that Meritocracy is an unfortunately vague word. Given that, it's difficult to say much definitively about the US with respect to it. The American dream and the idea that if you work hard enough you can succeed are pretty wedded to the idea of Meritocracy.

The confounding factor is that it seems like one's constantly seeing successful, powerful, or influential people whose "demonstrated abilities and merit" are difficult to find.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meritocracy
GS is an investment bank, not a commercial bank.
> So no idea which one to start from.

As a follow up suggestion, why do you not start with the Quran you already read as per your statement:

> (I'd know, I've read the entire 600 pages at least 10 times).

Here you mentioned a singular Quran, ie. you were not impeded by "multiple versions" to come to your conclusion that 90% of the Quran is what you say it is... so you already know where to start.
How to you evaluate a company for growth potential?

I am on the lower end of this range and can get an abundance of interviews, but at two years experience I still don't know a lot.

Every company says there is career growth and skill growth and in a sense that is true, but how do you find the places where you specifically would really thrive?
This gave me a good chuckle :)
If you live in a suburb, there’s a good chance that throwing a new router at the problem is not going to fix the 2.4ghz issue.

There are only 3 usable channels on 2.4ghz. If you have a bunch of houses around you, it’s quite possible they are using up 2.4ghz. You can find this out by using a WiFi stumbler or spectrum analyzer to see how busy those 3 channels are.

Your money would probably be better invested on upgrading problematic devices to 5 ghz.
Sure, maybe not all types of jobs, but to be fair he does say "in the political realm" at one point in the article, and it did occur to me that many people often take the opposite as an a priori assumption, that "meritocracy is good thing for all types of jobs" (myself, sometimes, included!). I'm not a fan of this author, but I did find this little polemic a needed "push-back"

(That said, I also think the article could be much improved in terms of argumentation, it seems pretty off-the-cuff.)
A lawsuit helped them get there, but sweeney's gone on the record to state that random lootboxes should not be a thing. So... net good?
As a personal testament: I did this for a side project, and it worked perfectly. Phoenix does very well as "just" an API/backend environment.
I consider Joe Rogan a right wing host, and I had heard he was telling people about ivermectin. I didn't know that originally people heard it from Eric Weinstein on his show, although I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes. Aren't all right wing / conservative hosts or media pretty much saying the same things in terms of COVID, anyway?

I do think people also form their opinions of the COVID vaccine on real information. I personally consulted someone I know who has a PhD in Molecular Biology to gather more information on the mRNA vaccines.
How so? Selling and using secure messaging apps is perfectly legal, and they never told anyone "go commit [crime X] and plan it with this device"
But they didn't keep their 30pin thing around for a long time.

Nine years? Is that not a "long time" to you, or am I misunderstanding the point you're driving at?
The big issue here is different understanding of "reasonable time". The galaxy is very large, and the time spans involved are very large, but they are not in the same ballpark of "large", the time gaps involved are so much larger. If one civilization gets their evolution of intelligent life just 1% quicker than us, that's a head start of 50 million years. On that scale, "reasonable speed" required to fill the galaxy (to use round numbers, 10000 "hops" of 10 ly each for 100000ly distance across the whole galaxy) means something like a planet launching a single colony ship to a nearby star once in 5000 years (and the new colony populating the planet and launching another ship in 5000 years, which seems quite reasonable). You don't need FTL, you don't need fast ships, you don't need many ships, just one generation ship in a few millenia moving at 0.01c or even less is amply sufficient to colonize all of the galaxy many times over in that time range. And if someone was 2% or 3% faster than us, then they'd have even more excessive time to swarm the galaxy even if they're doing it at snail's speed.

So to explain the fact that the aliens aren't swarming everywhere because they can't afford it means accepting that either they launching a single generation-ship every 5000 years is a huge expenditure (which IMHO it wouldn't be even with our current economy size, definitely not an issue with the tech of 2100 or 2200 assuming at least some growth because at that point a Musk-type figure with a wish to "make humanity interstellar" would be able to afford it from private funds) or that we're the first (only?) life in galaxy or that all the aliens before us didn't try to expand, like, at all - because getting just one single rich eccentric every 5000 years (like a bunch of billionaires here are) would be sufficient to make the galaxy swarm with juuust a bit higher tech level than ours now.
Yeah they still offer it at 399 bucks. I'm wondering if there is a discount code or coupon?
> If an experienced engineer can make over $500K/yr plus benefits working 40 hours a week at a large company, there should be an opportunity to spend a few extra hours on a side gig to increase that number by a few percent.

If a $500k is still not enough for someone's annual salary, then maybe they should be seeking out something more important than a side gig.
This gives Apple something they can reluctantly renege on without compromising their revenue model. In a few months we'll see another flurry of stories about how Apple "caved" and let Epic back in to pay the 30% cut like everyone else.
Modules mitigate in a big measure ODR violations. It will be quite more difficult. Compile times will also be better, at least incremental ones.
it's dead
Solitaire is very broken as an encryption scheme. You should not use it for communication that requires more than LARP security. If you need to encrypt a message manually, LC4 is a better algorithm, but still not acceptable for real world use. The good old one time pad may be most effective.
I don’t think it’s an abuse, it’s simply a business. Apple holds the minority share of smartphones WW. It’s perfectly possible not to do work on their platform if the terms are not good.

I’m annoyed when they sherlock someone but not when they stick to the agreement they made with the developers.
Are you guys looking into the Web Transport protocol for the future? Right now you have to tunnel the websocket connections over http2 and it will probably be the same for http3 afaik.

I know there is this work in progress (https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/) and websockets are probably fine for a long time but sooner or later (unless there is an update to websockets) it will probably be faster to just do normal http requests and listen on server sent events.

What are your thoughts for Liveview for the future? Will it forever stay on websockets or would you be open to change the underlying technology if / when new stuff becomes available?
Kaiser is short for Kaiser Family Foundation, which compiles nice reports about healthcare in the US. Using their reports does not have anything to do with Kaiser the company. Although their insurance side is similar to any other health insurer.

>And I'm going to guess that your businesses had very, very few employees? To the point of not being worth negotiating with from the insurance company's perspective?

Yes, but that was my point about businesses being able to just buy the health insurance plans available on healthcare.gov. Earlier you mentioned the healthcare.gov plans were:

>Which are stupid expensive for anyone much above the poverty level.

But the data does not support that. Average annual employer sponsored insurance is $7,675 for single PPO coverage in 2019:

https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2019-summary-of-find...

And average lowest cost monthly gold premium on healthcare.gov is $516 ($6k annual) in 2019:

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-ma...

So employers can probably save money going to the healthcare.gov plans, albeit with higher out of pocket maximums probably. But at least a couple kids with cancer would not throw off the premiums.
He will be entering an "senior fellow" advisory role to "spend more time with family" /s

From the article:

> Another longtime Facebook executive, Andrew Bosworth, will take over as CTO, according to an internal message on Wednesday from Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. Schroepfer’s move marks the most significant departure from the company in years and follows the recent exits of several other top executives.
1. Who cares where it came from? What matters is whether it is true or not.

2. This is the first time I've heard anyone suggest this and I followed this story form the start. Can you cite your sources for where this topic was consideres "the issue"? And besides, if some of it is misinformation, why is the obviously not misinformation stuff still censored? All the pro-censorship people I read wrote the whole thing off as Russian disinformation. It was clearly to influence the election because so many prioritized "Trump Losing" above the truth. Something I can't get on board with. I thought Trump was terrible, but censorship like that was obviously gross. It was some ends justify the means type stuff, and it really showed the CIA/Media links, which is what Greenwald specialises in.

The issue was always about censorship and bias in the media. That's what Greenwald talks about a lot. It's trivially verifiable to confirm Greenwald's suggestions of DNC bias in these institutions. Seems as though you have something against this concept or against Greenwald? This seems common lately, is it because he attacks DNC institutions? For me, I just value truth above politics. I value Greenwald's reporting because I trust him.
Most desktop/laptop browsers don't provide clipboard read access without asking permission first. Mobile is another thing tho.
Alas, this makes sense.
https://archive.is/FJd16

Archive link
As big in both organizational size and managed volume as Goldman Sachs is (and as substantial and fundamental a portion of the global market as oil is), it's almost inconceivable that they wouldn't have any exposure in the oil market.

In fact, I'll bet that across the organization GS is currently holding multiple different (potentially mutually contradictory) positions in the oil market.
It looks as though the URL in the inetloc file is `file:///bin/sh`. Running the command `open file:///bin/sh` should cause the same effect; Terminal.app starts a new shell and executes `/bin/sh ; exit;`.

Even if you managed to land an executable in the user's Downloads folder, and guess their username, I think there would be _multiple_ prompts the user would have to ignorantly click through.
Maybe what needs to be asked is

"If you're okay with the message getting there in 3 and a half hours instead of 2 hours, do we really need to fetishize 10x performance?"

YAGNI is a way stronger principle to base your success on than finding or training unicorns.
Accuracy and Significant Figures, 1915 [pdf]
Sure some researchers do pre-register their meta analysis studies on clinicaltrials.gov. It's generally optional. Of course there's nothing stopping a dishonest researcher from doing a little secret p-hacking before pre-registering.
Nice! I'm glad to see this, I'll definitely see about trying this out soon then. So I guess its really just a matter of time while Phoenix grows. Although from what I've seen it seems to have everything else I need.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51502592
Not trying to be rude but he already told you the answer. You really should look up 340b. It's a federal program to rebate drug costs for certain types of patients and is a legal form of price discrimination. When you provide a drug in a healthcare setting, it can be a very different price depending on who receives it, because the federal government has the 340b program.

Your argument about cost to manufacture isn't relevant in the same way that the marginal cost of a flying one more passenger on an airline isn't relevant. We all pay different prices for airline seats. Hospitals pay different prices for the same pharmaceuticals.

There are a lot of smart people working in healthcare. A lot of people go into the industry thinking they know better and wash out. See the latest Berkshire Hathaway + JPM + Amazon failure.
In one portion of the article ("Smart people do bad things"), it seems like the argument isn't really against Meritocracy, it's against using intelligence as the only metric powering your meritocracy. If your meritocracy rewards a combination of ethical and intelligent behavior, you still have a pure merit-based system, you've just picked a particular merit function that you like more.

I felt that that part of the article was a little weak and ended up doing what the author criticized others for doing, namely criticizing the implementation of meritocracy rather than the concept itself.
I just backed your project because of this video. I can't wait to get my hands on it and give it a try.
In a well functioning health care system screenings like that is actually of debatable value as it generates a lot of false positives and un-necessary procedures.
One remarkable native parasitic US flower is the Ghost Pipe. It parasitizes the mycorrhizal interface between a fungus and plant. They are uncommon or rare, so I was overjoyed the first time I saw a little stand of them, having read about them years before. I did not pick any (please don’t), but I did want to feel their texture and was surprised to find them firm and waxy, not flimsy like I expected.

If you live near Philadelphia, you can find them under the right conditions in the Wissahickon Valley Park. I hiked there with friends and was shocked by how many we spotted just off trail; they were all over the place!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
Interestingly, people have been trying to flee Lithuania for the US when the USSR was still around, and not the other way around.

I wonder if they might be skeptical of another communist regime starting to interfere with the country. Worked so well the last time...
“How long were you dead,” she asked.

Well, I don’t know. They had to run to the boats, dig their emergency bags out of the rigging, cut off my clothes, and no one timed that. Some people said I was gone for four or five minutes. Some said ten. Me? I like to go for the big numbers. But I really don’t know. I was dead at the time.

Great writing!
I actually gave it a chance for a while, but in my experience it doesn't match up to i3, particularly on an ultrawide display. So I replaced it with VMWare Fusion running Regolith Linux.

This actually turns out to be a decent setup. My Mac handles Zoom and a handful of other things that are fickle with hardware, and my VM is where my work happens.
By definition, the "relatively unknown hack" in question was preferred to all the alternatives by the majority of the voters, so what's the problem?
Om Malik: The iPad Mini (2021) Review
Thanks! I'm sure you'll like it.
Love this for Pinterest too
GS is actually a bank holding company; I'm not sure what your comment is actually trying to say though - does it intend to contradict some part of what I wrote?
I wonder how I failed to express my position so badly that people who seemingly agree with me think they don't.

Ignorance and misestimation of the true underlying factors isn't a trait unique to these hypothetical turtles.

Or, perhaps you have a much higher confidence than I do in humans' assessment of the factors involved in your questions.

I'm saying we are over-confident in the underlying premises of our understanding, just like the turtles would be. The more of the questions you pose that go partly unsolved, the more unsubstantiated the conclusion. Their probability calculations are pointless -- garbage in, garbage out. As demonstrated by the patent wrongness of their conclusion.

If you are confident that we've got solid answers to the interstellar corollaries of all your questions with the evidence we can gather at this point, then we aren't on the same page at all.

This idea, that our observations of the universe are a properly representative sample from which to form conclusions about the unobserved universe, makes as much sense to me as the thinking-turtles assuming you need a small green island to and a thick shell to enable sentience because that's what their observations show.
1. Facebook groups where people have admitted to taking more than they should have, causing incontinence. Not public groups, but one local to my area.

2. The FDA themselves

I have to ask, are you actually advocating for self-medicating with products from Tractor Supply? I've not once said anything about my opinion of Ivermectin, only that of self medication.
Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
Shipping companies might.
Wow, amazing end result. It would be cool if it could detect orientation and change the animation based on that.
The 8-Bit Guy
> to have such a hard time understanding this view.

If I were a fiction writer, I could write a dozen different reasons as for what the problem is. But the issue is, that although I could definitely make up reasons, in my fiction book, as for why this is an issue, it tells me nothing about how this actually applies to the Rust community.

If you actually make the argument yourself, then it allows people to understand if there are specific issues, that are more or less bad, based on the informed opinion of someone directly from the community, instead of our uninformed, guesses, that might be right, or wrong, or slightly wrong.

For example, maybe the problem is similar to what Microsoft used to do. Maybe it isn't. Maybe Amazon is doing something that is bad, in a separate and different way, than what Microsoft did decades ago.

But if you don't actually make the argument, then other people cannot tell if the issue is bad, in a similar way as to how other past issues were, or if it is bad in a different way, than how the microsoft situation was bad.

Thats why it is better if people actually make the argument. Because although, yes, I could write a fiction book, or a script for a movie, to describe why these hypothetical issues are bad, I might get it completely wrong, and that the actual thing is bad in a different way, because of something specific to the rust community.

> if it hasn't even occurred to you that it's possible to see things that way.

The problem is that I can imagine a dozen different possible ways to "see things that way", which might be completely off the mark, or exactly correct of the reality of the situation.

I can imagine multiple different universes, where my guess would be right, or wrong, and I don't actually know which universe I am in, unless the informed party actually makes the argument, all the way through.

So I can both imagine arguments, as well as imagine how those guesses could be wrong, and why maybe the situation is wrong in a different way, than my first X number of guesses.

Thats why it is so much better if the person actually makes the argument, all the way through.

> Whether any non-beneficial consequences have followed or are immediately to expect is, in their view, irrelevant

Hey, if they had specifically said the following "I concede that there are no other negative effects at all, and that amazon hasn't done anything bad, and I have no other arguments, beyond them having a board seat is bad, in and of itself, with no other justification", then that would be an actual understandable, and straight forward argument!

But they might have made different arguments. If it literally is that they have absolutely no other arguments, beyond "Them having a board seat is bad, and there are no other bad consequences", then it would be nice if they explicitly said that.