skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some companies these game testers are treated as second class citizens in every way imaginable.

If I remember correctly, JS very much cherished skilled testers and emphasized that they ought to be experienced, that they’re doing a very hard job.

I personally never worked with dedicated testers, but I appreciate both lower level automated tests for critical code, and higher level acceptance, even manual tests by domain experts. Some of the best feedback I got was from people who can’t program but are much closer to the real world problems.
Thank you, I give her money every month through her GitHub donation account.
If you know it's a placebo, it won't work. Folks, please don't buy sugar pills.
I’d love to dislike all and every autotuned song of the last fifteen years.
His autobiography books condense key insights into short anecdotes, that feel pretty much like parables. It is really a practical book to learn to think by yourself, showing how easy it is to question everything around you, and have a scientific mind. For example his approach to how to do 'soft sciences' (the process to formulate hypothesis, to make it refutable, etc) can spare you reading many dense volumes. Oh, and the cargo-culting concept, once you know it you see it everywhere. In short, it is so easy and fun to read that it's definitely a must read for anyone.
> once you start going - it becomes easier and easier.

It isn’t just getting going makes the project (hobby) easier.

It is the ability to organize the project into small steps that are relatively easy and yield novel artifacts.

Giving light structure to a hobby or side project (such as using GitHub issues even if it doesn’t involve code) let’s you pick up where you left off and see the incremental progress.

This administration is a practice of itself but the more you do it, the more natural it feels and easier it becomes to see progress.
We have to line up a lot of things we haven't done before to make that work. Great in theory but the reality today is if I fly across the Atlantic it will create a ton of extra carbon in the atmosphere.

Out of all the things we do air travel looks like the least likely thing to be de-carbonised to me.
I prefer Angband to NetHack because NetHack is "silly." Permadeath makes every decision serious, and I want the game to match that. But I get why other players may want something else. They're both amazing games.
Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
Superficially, you'd wrap the enum in a struct, and put the PhantomData there. I'm not sure that makes sense for this example though.
x86 mov insns and short history of the most popular CPU architecture
Consider keeping a list of media you want to watch for occasions like this.

Exhausted or not, you’re probably more likely to come across something unexpectedly and write it down than remember them all and offer up something fitting from memory.
A key point mentioned in the end of the post:

> To bring more people downtown, several office towers have already been turned into apartments, and the federal government has set aside $300-million to convert commercial properties across Canada to rental housing.
Yes, and no turkeys are consumed at thanksgiving and no music is played at mardi gras.
Shouldn't they have at least have a report as inapropriate content button? So my mom could then report Cradle of Filth.
how do I find out what percentile I'm in?
I work as an investment banking associate (M&A mostly) and get similar email volume. In outlook I have a folder for each deal and within each folder I have sub folders for the different workstreams (e.g. materials drafting, VDR, model, outreach, IOIs, etc.). I clean out my inbox at least once per day depending on how slammed I am. I leave action items or follow ups in my inbox and folder anything else. I arrange my emails by conversation (go to the “View” tab in outlook and there should be an option there) as this aggregates by subject line and makes it easy to follow and file. You can go through emails quickly by selecting an email and using CTRL+SHIFT+V to bring up the folder pop up and typing in the name of the folder you’d like to send it to.

This obviously takes work to implement but will keep you on top of things and your clients happy.
How to Recognize When Tech Is Leading Us Down a ‘Slippery Slope’
I have also noticed this when posting comments containing certain words (that seems to be what is happening here) or when posting links. It can be frustrating if you want to back up your comment with a source.

I guess it's understandable given YouTube's scale. Easier to just remove all comments with links than to do more advanced spam detection.
So pretty much any song professionally recorded, then.
Yes. But I think that when people chalk it all to kids, they are massively oversimplifying. Because on forum like this it is easier to attack "safety for childer" arguing.

But in reality, people don't want to see erotica and such in their own feeds. The threshold of where it becomes unwanted is different for everyone. But most people want some level of filtering to be done for them.

Plus people want to be able to scroll Facebook or Twitter in work for few minutes without risking something inappropriate shows up.

And lines between art that feels good, erotics or porn, and basically bad art/photo that is super cringy just to look at and disgusting are blurry. And they are also subjective.
Some highly repetitive jobs are better left to machines if we can. Every programmer is a farmer that has been automated out.
Well, a staple food of the native people of New Zealand was a sweet potato originating from South America, they brought it with them in the 13th century when settling NZ from 'Hawaiki', their ancestral homeland that is thought to be either the Cook or Society Islands.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Chronolo...
This appears to be the case. It's quite intriguing in some sense as the implication is that good marketing does not solely have the effect of making you buy stuff that you don't need, but additionally implants in you the expectation that something will perform well, which in turn may makes it more likely to become true.

I remember reading about this in Dan Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational".

Here's summary of the relevant chapter on Wikipedia [1]:
"While the effect of placebo has been knowingly and unknowingly practiced for millennia, the interesting observation Ariely and his collaborators made was that prices of the prescribed medicine can be used as a placebo as well"

The underlying paper [2] spells this out as well:
"We demonstrate that marketing actions such as pricing can alter the actual efficacy of products to which they are applied. [...]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational#The_Pow...

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=707541
For those who want more on this topic, you will want to read Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462769441) and Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100 by Aidan O'Sullivan, et al. (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1257790078).
“Subreddit’s stories of anti-vaxxers dying scares fence-sitters into the shot” perhaps?
been using spotify for about 5 years and i swear the recommendations get worse and worse. i can't use the release radar or discover weekly playlist because they're so awful.

maybe thats a reflection of my usage, but would be nice to have a way to reset the recommendations or dislike.

there wasa period when i would keep static noise from spotify on the background for a few hours and now 80% of my recommendations are static noise. annoying
You're responding to data with feelings. Overfitting that data to your narrative is pretty unconvincing.

If we agree that incalculable, diety-level wealth affords benefits of immunity from the law, that doesn't translate to "reducing or increasing an enforcement budget is pointless."

Are you arguing that enforcement is without merit if it doesn't catch 100%?

Increasing the capabilites of those responsible for enforcement of tax laws does not typically result in more tax evasion. Sure, you can argue the merit of those laws or the effectiveness of them in supporting the State's goals, but it's hard to argue "fewer enforcers benefits the must vulnerable" in the most modern economies, when we have significant and ample data to the contrary.
> chill and relax

> don’t need thinking

You seem to be seeking proxies for the effect of not thinking, putting your mind and body at ease, and letting go. Have you given meditation a try? Anecdotally, it can fulfill these needs in a way no other semi-conscious activity seems capable.
How is that a response to the parent comment?

Milking cows need to be having calves regularly so they keep producing milk.

Not owning a bull doesn’t make that problem go away.
I think you missed the point on why she didn't want to take medical leave - "As mentioned, I refuse to quit or to take medical leave as a response to the hostility; this is on Apple ER to resolve, not for me to hide from." [From an email that you linked to]

That is very reasonable, I would do the same as it takes Apple off the hook for the charges against them since they could then just say "Ashley was suffering from X, Y or Z and needed time off". I would do the same.

You very confidently state that she is lying. I can't tell what she is lying about, care to lay it out?
You might find this interesting.

> Half of the study volunteers were told they were getting an “open-label” placebo and the others got nothing at all. He found that there was a dramatic and significant improvement in the placebo group’s IBS symptoms, even though they were explicitly told they were getting a “sugar pill” without any active medication.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...

The story of placebos is actually pretty complex.
Yep, Slay the Spire is the definitive deck building game. The earliest such game I know of is Dream Quest, were there any before that?
Aahhhh, I was on my phone so I couldn’t see the close detail well, that’d probably explain it.
> ... e.g. around privacy and advertising: unions could negotiate rules around those...

That is a political minefield, because it implies fairly directly that software engineers should try to leverage their technical knowledge to enforce their social values.

1. Risk of migrating the tech clusters to exotic foreign lands.

2. Some fairly substantial minorities in the tech industry do not support the political morals and values of the majority, and will be truly unhappy about that sort of faux-union.
I really want to second this. We wouldn't say ASIC wifi chips are "emulating wifi"... What is the real difference between an ASIC and an FPGA... Write once vs write many?
Here is a starting point that I've just typed up, this will help, I think:

0. Make less code. Define your problem-space in a new tooling-space, resulting in a new solution-space.

1. Sleep well, exercise regularly, eat sparingly and in company. Your mind is only as good as your brain. And your brain has a support system. Support it. That's a no-brainer.

2. Type less code. Make scripts to suggest common things, configure your autocomplete to not include unhelpful options. Use math-like single/two-letter notation and possibly a comment where it makes sense.

3. Type faster. I type comfortably at about 45WPM. I can see how 120WPM would be three times faster, and beyond wouldn't much matter. But I am at a vantage point that pecker hunters never visit.

4. Do less. Don't be hiding things in tabs and drawers, don't be managing your windows. Don't be looking for and opening files. Don't be fighting for your uninterrupted time. Be prepared.

5. Be prepared. Read up on the problem space. Read and run some solutions to some aspects. Prepare your workspace. Make time.

6. Do it. Sit down and do 23 minutes of it, as if you were to be torn away after. It's not hard, you can do 23 minutes of anything, really. Write stuff down. Throw up some code. Run it.

7. Keep at it. Make a plan for the next 3 hours. Put a buzzer to buzz you every 23 minutes and check yourself. Breathe, adjust, and persist. Is it fun? Are you shoveling shit? Those two require different check-lists.

8. Don't be looking busy. Be advancing. Are you enjoying your results, is it right? Are you shoveling some necessary shit? Or are you looking busy?
> What's the systemic issue that keeps doing wealth gatekeeping?

UMC wants these jobs reserved for its children.

Btw, what's wrong with that? If the job itself doesn't require any particular skill or competence but is very rewarding, why should they not reserve it for themselves?

There still exists jobs that can't be filled through these networks and they are open to anyone.
If we limit the scope to macronutriens it is indeed correct.

If you could choose only one food to eat, potatoes would be a wise choice. Every other single food will cause you to become deficient much more quickly.

Disclosure: studied nutritional medicine
Indeed. The Super NT (which I own) was billed as a perfect, “reference-grade”, 100% accurate Super Nintendo clone, but it had for years - and in some cases continues to have, after many firmware updates with months of silence from
the company in between - various compatibility bugs, big and small, even with hugely popular games like Chrono Trigger.

Their products are good, but not exceptional, and every other aspect of the company (ordering, shipping, support, communication) is infuriating. I suspect that they make their products in short supply more out an aim of cultivating an air of exclusivity than because of actual supply chain limitations. Describing their mediocre emulator front end as a “library of Alexandria” for scholarly video game preservation is hyperbolic to the point of being offense to the people who actually have committed themselves to game preservation. It’s ridiculous.
A lot of people study it. I’m blanking on exactly the book, but Robert Sapolsky writes quite a bit about it. Might be in Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.

IIRC there are different kinds of placebo effects. One of the most robust is pain relief. I think Sapolsky makes the case that endorphins (“endogenous morphines”) do some of the leg work here, but that’s probably not the whole story.
Actually, studies have shown that placebos work sometimes even when people know. This is a great podcast about this topic and the page also has links to some studies: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718227789/all-the-worlds-a-st...
Biggest issue for me with release radar is that Spotify still doesn't handle the case that multiple artists use the same name while not being close to the same style of music. (Exodus the trash metal band isn't remotely the same as exodus the gospel group)
> What are the Marxist incentives for new business creation

I also am not very familiar with Marxism so all I can tell you is that humans, generally, are driven by many things and not just by profit.
> the gap between turbo and non turbo is so huge

> Anyone have a good solution?

A good cooler

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Downvotes, really? There is really no trick around thermals being the main performance limiting factor for the last 10 years, since CPUs started coming with hardware "turbo"

You cannot optimise around that.
"Fun" fact: Brazilian domains (.br) have been showing the owner's full name and CPF number (like the US SSN) for years.

I think that they used to also publish the mailing address for domains owned by legal persons but my memory might be failing here.

https://www.tutoriart.com.br/dominio-br-dados-expostos-na-in...

https://registro.br/tecnologia/ferramentas/whois/?search=reg...
And by not landing on the ice, we won't risk angering Star Child Dave Bowman.
Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps
It's always been discovered. People lived there.
Can you name a culture where people don't have some taboo or restrictions about sexuality in art or drawings? It may he more loose or less loose, but it always exists somewhere.
Bad link, an unnecessary I at the end of the link.
Yes, Azul https://www.azul.com/downloads/?package=jdk
It's important to remember that the placebo effect only exists in a few specific symptoms that are known to have an important psychological component - pain, blood pressure, anxiety, nausea etc. In these cases, placebo interventions have a measurable positive effect (or negative, for nocebo) compared to no intervention.

But in the vast majority of other illnesses, placebo is exclusively a confounding factor. People's bones don't fuse from sham surgery. Sugar pills don't cure malaria or TB. Placebo chemotherapy doesn't kill cancer cells. The placebo effect does exist in these cases as well if not using double-blind trials, or if conducting patient subjective assessments, but it disappears if lab techs and objectively measurable data are investigated (things like viral load, not patient perception of their symptoms).
So far the CCP has shown great willingness and ability to overcome any threat to its power and ambitions, including the use of various technologies. Even non-violent or passive resistance can be dealt with by deligitimation, social credit downgrading for 'parasitism', pressure on family members through 'kin liability' (term from another era), etc.
This should be the link at the top. The BBC article doesn't even have a picture of the remnants of the stakes!
a number of the channels i follow have a regular set of porn bots that post links, and also there are also obvious (to a human) machine generated comments.

I assume (without any evidence) that YT has a programmatic / ML approach to attempt to minimise this sort of crap..

I note that in this case the problem seems to be a particular word, but i don't see this as malice on YTs part.

I no longer post links as references for answers etc even when the channel creator allows them, after having one YT account permabanned for spam based (as far as i can tell.,) on links posted...

(anecdata is notoriously lacking in peer review)
Like those old coal power plants being retained or even fired up explicitly for crypto mining?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l...
I'm pretty sure stars were discontinued because the best proxy for "what you will spend time watching, is what you spent time watching" and not your curated ratings. As in: the datapoint they funneled into their models was "time spent on video X" and not, "rating on video X".

Business of course wants to keep churn low, and they think time spent on the site is the best way to do that.

That (and "people mostly don't use ratings beside 1 and 5") is at least the reasoning I've read every time I've seen this topic mentioned in blogs/talks.

I do also feel Netflix is pushing it's in-house content way more these last few years, to the detriment of their recommendations though.
I recently discovered this guy too. I'd highly recommend any of his videos with Jackson Crawford who is a Norse language expert.
Our 4 year old wakes up about 6am (give or take 45 minutes) and as soon as she knows I'm awake, wants to read, talk, play together. Our 7 year old gets to bed at 7:45 in the evening, which is early compared to his friends. All the time outside of work between 6am and 7:45 pm is dominated by them. In the nicest possible way - but it's full on. All the time. My wife and I are both very tired by 7:45pm, need some social / couple time, but have so little mental energy to do anything beyond chores / essentials that all pre kids hobbies are waaaaay deprioritised.
Say we have friends over once a week, a date night once a week, a social / community engagement once a week, a rest evening, it's like 4 evenings (8pm until 10pm...) max available for anything - with brains like mush. Add in chores, finances, shopping, contacting relatives and others...
To be fair, the recommendations are based on what you listened to lately in addition to what you've listened to in the past. A month probably wasn't long enough - it isn't really an immediate satisfaction thing when you have off-center tastes in music. If 70% of folks like popular music, that's the easiest thing to recommend.

They might want a bit more control, I don't know, but I very highly doubt fewer customers is the goal. If they wanted fewer, they could just pull the free model completely. I'd guess piracy would increase and they'd get blamed, but I don't know.
I've noticed this too. Certain words or phrases will cause Youtube to silently delete your comment without notifying you.
Those questions read a lot like questions I would ask myself in order to postpone actual work on my hobby project.

Use whatever you are already fluent with.
I’ve never really understood what variations of the rejoinder “you are not the target user” are intended to accomplish, at least in conversations like this.

It's simply a reminder that when you work at scale you can't please everyone. Someone complaining that a feature doesn't work for them is not the same as saying it doesn't work.

On a site like HN the conversation is usually about the broader picture rather than individual complaints unless someone is responding directly to the CEO of a company. I think the CEO of Spotify posts here occasionally, so maybe he'll reply. The rest of us are talking about it in more general terms.
> Cornell researchers recently asked the question: Why do they still not let you vote down a song?

They do. "skip" does things other than skip the song.

They also had a dedicated dislike button and removed it years ago. Apparently what they are doing now works better.

> Specifically, they demonstrated that a listener is roughly 20 percent more likely to “like” a song if the algorithm is trained on 400,000 likes and dislikes, compared to an algorithm trained only on that amount of likes.

Building a naive recommendation engine and giving it more good data – paid for, and also not factoring in the difference in time spent acquiring it – will obviously yield better results in a direct comparison. Striking a comparison to what Spotify is doing is pretty naive.
I agree with you - I regularly see advice on Reddit, Twitter and other forums to change jobs after 12-18 months, often people recommend juniors to jump ship as soon as recruiters reach out, that the first job should be just foot in the door to get to the industry. It means that companies hiring for entry-level positions are at a disadvantage
Re: kickoff

The "rule" also depends on what happens if you don't act. If you're in a large organization and CC'd by default and nothing bad really happens if you don't read your emails because your action is rarely needed, then sure.

If you're CC'd but the work won't be done if you don't read the email, because you are the one who will do the work, then it's not viable to skip CC's.
He is not a Communist, as anyone who has read any of his work would know. Perhaps that was not the assertion though, as the term "commie" is an essentially meaningless form of abuse.
Take a group of younglings and a control group. Separate them.

Use a script to explain a problem to them, compare questions.

Tell them to write down their own description of the problem, compare answers.

No?
Yeah, he definitely did not word it well. I’m from Canada, and how you describe it as North America having micro states is also kind of true. There are states, territories and provinces, across North America with a lot of local control, but there are also local native reservations that have a lot of sovereignty. For example, there are plenty of tribal lands close to where I grow up that have completely separate laws from the provenance that they are in, they deal directly with the federal government and even do their own policing. Although you almost never see those boarders on maps, there’s a strong argument that they’re a type of micro state, and Canada probably has multiple dozens of them if not hundreds with different languages and laws.