skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accepted this long ago. I don't have the right brain to be an über-dev, I'm not technically gifted, I just have a high enough IQ to brute-force my way through technical challenges.

I'm great at writing, simplifying technical concepts, and strategizing on larger projects, so I try to work to those strengths, which usually means making my PM's life a hell of a lot easier.
My point is that it's a bad tax because it can be controlled and at the same time corporate tax controls the business decisions. This should not be the case in my opinion. Think about it. I think it would be better to focus on sales tax. Also, it would make tax rules much easier to understand.
> who dreams about envelopes?

There are all kinds of people. That said, if envelopes isn't your bag, nobody is making you interview with them. Find something that does interest you. Me, I'd rather be a lion tamer than a tax accountant (yes, I have the hat), but the guy who does my tax accounting loves it.

> I know I will find something interesting.

And there you go.
Been a ham for many years. I like Morse, but don't think other modes are bad, just like Morse.

I'm VP of a club that has had a lot of success, particularly at Field Day (we often win the most popular category). I find that young people are not interested in contesting. In particular, we put people on the air and they hear some of the poison, and they are out of there.

One reason a lot of people are older is that it helps to be retired. Who else has time to get on the air at noon if that is what it takes?
> We originally released High Performance Django in 2014 following a successful Kickstarter campaign. While the packages and code samples may now be outdated, we stand by the general concepts and still use them in production sites today.
Interested what your PhD is in and what motivated you to pursue it.
The network effect isn't an obstacle since you can be on multiple social networks. Tons of social networks have been successful since facebook. But all of them suffer from the same problems that facebook has.
Depending on the capabilities of the drones that could be absurdly trivial. GPS jamming scales to an infinite number of drones.

For medium capability drones your budget is already in the millions so it is only fair to use a medium capability air defense system: https://youtu.be/1DXpPmpmcak

Edit: Before you say that I don't get to defend myself according to the threat level then a single person beating me to death would be enough to kill me. Not very interesting.
> Really? I think most people go to college to get a good job before all else. With that line of thinking, an interview is just another of these “tests”.

That's called credentialism, and it's a perversion of what universities are supposed to be.

> But you make a good point about these arrogant companies administering tests. College faculty are never arrogant, but always humble

What a red herring.

> College faculty are never arrogant, but always humble like this guy in the article who just can’t chalk his failure up to being a human being.

Let's review that professor's story:

> Jacobson has no trouble admitting he totally blew a basic test at the beginning of an interview for a fairly elite job at Google. He has no expectation that had he passed the test, he would have earned a place at the company down the line. He has a problem with the fact that a company with the power, prestige and wealth of Google has developed a recruiting process that is so large and systematic that it can both ask for large amounts of time and energy from prospective candidates and then easily or accidentally hurt or dismiss those same qualified candidates because of a difference, like Jacobson's cognitive disorder.

Does that sound like arrogance to you? Ignoring the sarcasm for a moment, there's a difference between being humble and being a pushover, and it's more of a pushover thing to overlook glaring problems in a process in order to blame oneself.

His story also brings to mind another salient difference that undermines your attempt to compare a Google's interview process to the ACT/SAT: if you flub a standardized test, you can easily retake it. That's not so much the case with an interview.
History shows that outrage does something, when it turns into laws. Todays outrage is managed ressource going nowhere.
Yeah, I know, thanks for the downvotes. That's a ridiculous UI compared to Chromes. Also have you ever tried migrating profiles before Sync?
And I did, then some other critical website would come up that would be broken, then another, and another, and eventually I just got sick of dealing with the internet in a broken state and always having to mess with a config. At least with ublock origin I can block trackers and ads and still use websites that rely on js, which is the vast majority of them these days, and it works without me having to do hardly any fiddling at all.
Jewish Organization Bans ‘Impossible Pork’
How to watch sports without cable
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"Diversity" can be so confusing and misunderstood.

The example I gave, extreme diversity, is not the standard in my country, this tech hub is the exception. I've also worked in teams consisting of only white men.

The inconvenient reality is that I couldn't detect a meaningful difference in the quality or quantity of output in either team. As said, I did enjoy the increased diversity from a personal perspective, so there's that.

The reason for the roughly equal output is that the team of white men was also diverse. Pointing at a group of people with the same skin and concluding they're all the same is ignorant. It's factually untrue. Likewise, assuming a team is diverse/better due to them having a mix of ethnicities or other aspects, may also not be the case.

Don't get me wrong, there are cases where it matters, but also cases where it doesn't.
Not really. That's an immediate noise cancellation function, which only works (a) with headphones and (b) by recording the outside noise and adding its inverse to the sound being played.
I recommend avoiding all browser extensions unless they come from well-known developers (eg 1Password) and they’re downloaded and installed through official channels.

Browser extensions have a lot of access to your browsing activity and can phone home as well. One of the reasons this extension was sent a C&D was that it was sending some data home to the author’s server. That might be what the install instructions above are hinting at with the warning to examine the JS and remove any phone-home code. The original author defended the data collection as just enough to make sure the plug-in was working, except for study participants who apparently submitted much more information through the plug-in. Either way, I wouldn’t rush to install a plug-in that was caught sending any of my social media data to a 3rd-party server.

I certainly would not install a browser extension from an unknown 3rd-party website just to spite Facebook, regardless the claimed origin of the code.
Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs?

https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTIyODU3OC83MTY0MTEyLnBuZw==/o...

They have such a cozy feel, reminds me of simpler times.

It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.
I just hope the 750 million euro limit doesn't suddenly vanish "somewhere along the line" because "countries couldn't agree" and we end up with the whole Digital VAT Directive circus all over again - that is to say, that this minimal tax starts applying to small businesses it was never meant to apply to.
In theory, you are correct. However, if companies don't pay taxes, then they build up huge cash hoards, and the stock price goes up and the execs (who get paid in shares) don't pay taxes. why? because they never sell, and just take out loans against their ginormous paper gains. And if they do sell, they pay lower capital gains rates for share-based instead of cash-based compensation.
Employment is a partnership, not servitude. That means the employer needs to convince the employee to work for them. I'm fine being rejected by a place that will treat me like shit.
>Trans individuals and Black folks

Comments like these are why I come here to hate scroll
I like to think I don’t make every decision with a sociopathic level of self interest. I hope at least some others do too
> How is this legal in any shape or form?

Are you asking how it's legal that you can demand someone to do something?

How is anything legal? Because there's no law against it. There's no law against demanding something. You can demand (almost) anything of anyone you want.
Good reminder to just uninstall all of this spyware
I had it as a kid, went away in my teen years and now I only have tinnitus. For me it was only on certain frequencies that were boosted and they are near the principal harmonic of my always-there ringing tinnitus or in the frequency of another noise I sometimes hear that's more like a pure sinewave.

As far as I know it's more of a brain thing and not like a super-ear thing.
Sure, this exists, but it's extremely rare, it's more of a talking point than an accurate representation of reality.
Fukuyama Was Right
Nicely put, and this is exactly what I dislike about video games. Adrenaline pumps, my heart goes crazy, I sweat and grip the controller till my hands turn white, and I feel totally overloaded.

Put me on a mountain bike on a crazy descent, in REAL danger, and those same fears lead me to the highest highs.

Maybe it's just the cadence. I want 5-10 minutes of intense fear focus followed by good long period of relative safety to bask in the conquest, but video games just keep pouring shot after shot of adrenaline.

Not a scientist, but it feels like what I want is endorphins -> adrenaline + endorphins -> endorphins, and what video games gives me is adrenaline + endorphins -> adrenaline + endorphines -> arenaline + endorphins
Decoding Windows License Keys
Nobody should have to even give a reason for a time off request if it's part of your work agreement.
Now add the ingredients that you have a vested interest in setting an example, and have infinite resources to do so. Say you set aside a billion dollar to hammer your neighbour with lawsuit after lawsuit, no matter how frivolous. You can run this way for years while consistently losing. It’s not a matter of being right or wrong, it’s a matter of who has the longest breath. Sure After several years the tables might turn and the judges may find it odd you’re claiming such weird things, but then again you’ve been going at it for years already.

So sure there might be a moral argument on what is right or wrong, but the law in practice does not work like that. Unless a judge sets an example by nipping this behaviour in the bud with excessive fees, but good luck seeing that ever happen.

The only way I’d see the neighbour win is if a whale of an activist Party would side with him and make it clear that any legal fight will be taken up with the biggest defence possible, but this is equally unlikely to happen unfortunately.
That's not an answer, that's pedantry.
It's not opt-in, many people here have reported it was on already.

I don't see it myself at all but that's because it was only enabled in the US so far
That's amazing. Gold is a non-bio-reactive metal, and apparently they figured that out too.
> typing can inhibit certain kinds of bad code and guide people toward better solutions

I argue that somebody who would try something like your example above is either lazy or trying to wreak havoc. In my experience, people like that won't be deterred by strict typing, they'll keep typing nonsense and copying dangerous lines from StackOverflow until the thing outputs what they want. Having them write code that's complicated or important enough to require typing checks will result in disaster anyway, the only solution is to keep them out of the codebase, or review (and often rewrite) all their work.

I agree that typing is a very good guardrail for well-intentioned people with a minimum of competence, but in that case there's nothing to lose by making typing optional: they'll follow it anyway, and the added flexibility is often useful when well-used.

An inexperienced dev who wants to learn also won't need to be forced to follow typing guidelines, we just have to explain it to them...
I guess it is all in the definition of "demand." I interpret the word -- at least in this context -- to mean it has legal teeth, so to speak.

Even if they are enforcing their demand by way of banning users that don't comply, that may indeed be illegal. For instance, if Facebook made a demand that gay people may not declare themselves so on the platform or they will be banned, I'm sure they'd pretty quickly find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

But really, right now, something like this just gives Congress new things to grill Zuckerberg on, next time they bring him in. (which is inevitable, I think)
So you're saying we need more questions
Compo Soil
People don't use Chrome because they care about privacy. They use it because they don't care.

Big difference and they can't be held to the same standards.
"who do you think answers the phone/customer emails?"

In my experience, nobody at all.

Sorry, it's a common crypto joke.
The speaker does what many promoters of niche languages do: picks out a named feature and insists that it makes possible what other languages don't. It is immediately walked back to "makes feasible", and shortly "makes more convenient", before dissolving in meaninglessness.

I don't think Rust needs or benefits from that kind of promotion. It's a pretty good language that will get usable in more places as it matures. Overpromoting it into places it is not mature enough for yet causes problems. Is Rust mature enough for embedded use? In some places, certainly. In all places? Certainly not.
Pretty sure it's global revenues. That's the point of a global tax no?

Edit:

> There are two pillars to this agreement. Pillar 1 will see a reallocation of a proportion of profits to the jurisdiction of the consumer. Pillar 2 will see the adoption of a new global minimum effective tax rate applying to multinationals with global revenues in excess of €750m

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/59812-ireland-joins-oecd...
Yeah people are just openly calling for the unvaccinated to take the side effects lottery or lose their jobs with no possibility of unemployment assistance, don't know why anyone would care so much.
The use-case I am interested in - and what would have me licensing and tooling up next week - is an actual qwerty device for using that HAM text mode/feature (APRS, right) ?

There's all kinds of info and notes and discussion about APRS but there isn't a single device for it.

No I am not interested in serial connecting my yaesu to a laptop. I mean a standalone handheld that I can type in a message without T9-style pecking.

Why doesn't this exist ?
I would trade all these things, in a heartbeat, for the ability to keep other tabs/windows working when one tab is in a hard loop. That one facility is the thing that means I can't let go of Chrome, even though Firefox is prefereable in so many other way.
Consider it by analogy: let's say I have a fax machine at my house, and someone keeps sending me faxes on it even though I don't want them to.

I could set up some technical mechanism to stop it, such as blocking their phone number. But, if it's easy for them to switch phone numbers, then that won't work well. And I may not be able to just block a whole area code, because there may be people I want to let fax me coming from that area code as well.

My other recourse, then, is threaten to sue them, and, if they continue, to actually sue them. And I would argue that I should be able to do that. Sending me faxes costs me financial resources and ties up my fax machine, so it's hardly zero cost to me, and it makes sense to have some third party to sort out the dispute and decide where the line should be drawn.

I can imagine other worlds with gentler, more even-handed approaches to sorting out these kinds of issues. Unfortunately, most those approaches fall under the general category of "regulation", and the country I reside in, the USA, decided a long time ago to eschew that kind of approach in favor of one that relies heavily on lawyering up and lawsuits.
Windows 10 warns that burn.exe contains Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml. I'm sure it's fine but Windows doesn't let it run.

The demos that work are stunning and inspiring.
What about the effects of #Metoo, racial injustice protests, LGTBQ+ marriage, transgender protections (and discrimination - outrage results in bad laws too), gun rights outrage, voter ID laws, etc etc etc.

Lots is happening.

Also, outrage doesn't need laws to be effective: Plenty of corporations do things that aren't legally required, in order to please the public. The NFL didn't have to address racial injustice, but it did. Bad things happen too - lynchings, for example.
On Whistleblowers and Product Managers
Beatsaber (Osu! but in VR, essentially), has a similar effect on me. I just... let go. It's really cool to see research to this effect.
Your last argument could be reduced to "if evil happens to me, why not make it happen to others". If taxing investment is bad let's agree not to do it, instead of perpetuating the abuse. And no, definitely not all money is productive and it can be easily wasted on worthless products and services. Taxing the tools to create value is not the same as taxing for example vodka.
It will look and behave the same as other date time pickers on your os. It may benefit of better integration of your os. It might be more accessible.
Never see ads from that Source again, until you do...
How Microservices Design Patterns is the new norm for best development practices
Karl Marx and the Iroquois (2009)
I don't see any political statements on that page that aren't aligned with creating an "open financial system for the world & increasing economic freedom". The point isn't to not be political, it's about not being political about stuff that isn't related to the mission.
Web Browser is called User Agent for a reason. It is not Corporate Agent or Facebook Agent. It should grant every right to the user with regards of look and feel of web sites, and none to the website being browsed.

Web site may merely suggest how it is best served.
Yeah even if the person came to this answer of their own independent thought process, this answer to the weakness question either comes off as:

1. "I work too hard" which is one of those classic canned answers to avoid that makes you sound like a suckup

or

2. "I can't manage my time to the point where I am in danger of tanking my own productivity or burning out or both", which even if true (plenty of us suffer from this), it is obviously not a great answer to give in a hiring process.
Pretty sure these latest changes are going to make them lose users a bit faster once more..

They really don't seem to understand the community that still supports them is exactly the community they're alienating with this.
>Asians are not genetically more intelligent than other races.

The mean IQ is the highest but the tails of the bell curve are probably extended in the 'whites'. The upper end of the tail matters a lot when it comes to innovations. Then there is the innate behavioral component of non-conformism which is more pronounced in 'whites'.
Why do you share the same OS, or User, between work and personal?
"The only problem is Facebook is huge and is willing to drag out lawsuits they won't win just to destroy people's lives because they can afford to hold"

Meh. Just show up. Don't hire lawyers. File motions all day to see more evidence.
I always leave time off conversations to the offer negotiation stage when I make it past the interview stage. I want my time off in writing and if it's not enough I'll ask for much more money before I accept.
I interviewed with HashiCorp for an IAM position and got a question about implementing a transactional key-value store.

The whole exercise was pointless for assessing whether or not I'd be a good hire for the role.
I created and opened up the design of a standalone DSP [1] that leverages AutoEQ. The DSP is optimized for our home brewed headphones for VR, but I’ve been using it for my desktop headphones too.

AutoEQ is not a perfect tool, but an amazing (and free) starting point to get the most out of your audio systems.

[1] https://github.com/tanvach/prettygood_dsp
Taxonomically moths aren’t butterflies. Butterflies are in a different suborder, Rhopalocera, and moths are in the suborder Heterocera. They are all a part of order Lepidoptera. Additionally, there are moths that aren’t nocturnal, like some species in the family Uraniidae.
> Maybe there is a point to be made about the overall cost of health care plans being too expensive for an individual to afford without the employer subsidy, but that is orthogonal to "employer control" of healthcare.

No, it's not. A choice in which the alternative is unattainable (or simply worse) is a Hobson's choice, and the direct result is that Americans with full-time employement are dependent on employer-subsidized healthcare.
> Why do we need to appeal to the differently abled?

Because it's the only avenue we have. Providing accessibility tends to require creating holes in otherwise user-hostile UX, and big companies can't give up on accessibility due to PR reasons - which makes it a perfect beachhead for people who just want a sane and respectful computing experience.
All these feels nostalgic but also somehow productive/not disturbing.

Related for current web

TuiCSS
https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
You can simply go out to a bar and have a beer....

oh covid! :(

Well, someday!
Neither is it portable. Wonder how the interviewer got hired
I'm a bit late replying, but I just want to clarify my stance on the last paragraph; I don't think you need to store everything in the cluster in version control if they're created automatically as a result of applying the top-level configuration, If there's something important that's too dynamic to be in source control, I treat it as data to be backed up.

My ideal is that what is in the repository allows me to rebuild the system from scratch (assuming suitable hardware exists) to the point where it can be successfully used as a restore target for your backups following documented restore procedures.
> If you fall out with a benevolent or not so benevolent government or you are running away from disaster region or war zone all of these solutions fall apart pretty quickly.

That use case would be suicidal without encryption. I'll repeat my quote also - HAM radio has a future, but it needs to adapt.
One of the recent Firefox updates fixed this for me fwiw.
I learned of Radio Caroline from the lyrics of Thomas Dolby - Radio Silence:

Carve her legend on the bow, Caroline 452
> How is this legal in any shape or form? It is a browser extension, running on users' browsers, installed intentionally by his users. This is insane. The level of arrogance and entitlement here is mind blowing.

Google banned the Chrome extension "bypass paywalls" for doing nothing bad except annoying Google's friends.

This is why walled gardens are bad. It's not Google's place or Facebook's place or Apple's place or anyone's place to tell me what programs I can run on my own computer.
Ask HN: Longest you've waited for a job offer?
I'm at 4 months, feels like it's been an eternity. Already denied an offer along the way while I hold out. Yes, the position is worth it but the waiting has been killing me.