skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like a more specific word as well. The lack of clarity to me implies it would have been a lie to claim a more substantial form of harassment. For example, if it were sexual harassment then say it was so. Otherwise, everyone gets harassed all the time. I'm technically harrassing you right now.

"Harassment" without specificity comes off to me as a desire to point fingers without the cause required to point it, otherwise I see this as just another boy who cried wolf.
You completely misunderstand how pricing works.
> I work in this industry and actually we’ve found from online experimentation customers generally don’t want to tell you they dislike something.

> Skipping a song after less then 20 seconds for example can train a model as well as incorporating an explicit dislike button.

Really? Cause I constantly wish for granularity in my ability to dislike something. Insta-skip might mean I'm just not in the mood. Or it might be "never play goddamn clownstep in my neurofunk mix". Or it might be "I actually love that song but I reserve it for special occasions to get into a specific headspace and if I listen to it too much it loses spark". Same signal, three radically different valences.

I just wish services didn't treat all their customers like simps. I'd easily pay double for the ability to like, specify "Tuesday is flying microtonal banana day" or "start switching to prog house around 16:00 because that's when I start to get really deep into code but also easily frazzled." I'd pay gobs of money for Pandora's ability to discover new music with the library of Youtube+Spotify.
You make an interesting point, and I wonder if hearing about the very high incomes supposedly being earned by employees at certain tech companies explains the willingness for young people to incur large amounts of student loan debt.
I hope one day Microsoft will deprecate their non-unicode API, remove that TCHAR mess. I think they supported these legacy APIs long enough already. There's still a problem with PATH_MAX, see, for example, the dotnet MSBuild[1][2][3]. Maybe even switch to the UTF-8 instead.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/53

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/5331

[3] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/4200
You have to be delusional to believe pence has any power. He was chosen to appease a certain part of the party needed to get enough electoral votes.nothing more
> As much as everyone loves to complain about "dependency hell" in the JS/Node ecosystem, the fact that there are tons of high quality (or, at least discernible quality) components, largely for free, is something that really didn't exist before say the mid '00s.

CPAN for Perl and Java's rich set of libraries come to mind from before the mid 2000's.
From the study:

“Aspirin use was associated with lower likelihood of COVID-19 infection, as compared to nonusers”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33621437/
That is misleading. If a company is high growth, their median tenure is going to be low.
It's not like the original video is full of 'tact'.

> Suddenly - The fatal moment!
This continuing to propagate this stereotype is offensive to Irish people, such as myself. Why was this allowed to get posted here, Dang?
> The last sentence nails on the head why pure democracy doesn't work. Nothing gets done. Pure democracy is a meeting with more than 12 people in it.

I keep reading this but can't square it with what the last sentence seemed to say. I'm pretty sure they were arguing the opposite of what you took that sentence to mean, or am I missing something obvious?
True, but that doesn't account for higher risk and cost associated with finding or switching jobs as one's education and specialization increases. Higher wages but fewer opportunities.
I don’t see why I wouldn’t continue. Population is still steadily growing. What isn’t due to childbirth is being made up with immigration.
Agreed.

I love podcasts, on my podcast app.

I'm really disappointed how Spotify is buying several big podcasts and moving to their platform exclusively.

I tried to listen to a Science Vs episode the other day, and now my Spotify is almost completely filled with podcasts recommendation. Plus, the experience is still far from specialized podcast apps.

The result: I'll probably stop following Science Vs (and any other podcast that moves exclusively to Spotify).

They could, at least, have a separate Spotify Podcast app so things wouldn't be mixed (kind of like Wealthsimple has separate apps for Investing and Trading).

I'm still sad Spotify bought Gimlet and apparently will do (if not already) this to all their podcasts.
It s a balancing game with changing rules - a sane democracy accepts to change (I dont think the american system is a democracy fwiw, as a French).

For instance, sometimes an election with 13 parties will have open primaries in 5 of them binding the entire population to each candidate who will end up similar to each other, and the next time parties change the rule to avoid this risk and end up with a wide pentagram of mainstream extremes, and some revert back etc.

As long as you have more than a binary split, anyone can join parties militant groups and local officials approve the national election candidates (so you have a soft gatekeeper), you open up to arbitrary mutations that prevent rotting fixtures.

The GOP/Dem eternal fight in the heavens is distracting people from their duty to elect people to solve problems imo. Elections are a duty to manage the country, not a right to choose between two sides of the same coin.
Monthly cycles of faux fasting prevent obesity in unhealthy mice
This sort of comment, even if true, benefits no one and is better left untyped.
My ancestors left Ireland only to arrive in Canada to the same system of absentee landlords i.e. the British who took nearly everything from tenants, the farmers.
contrary opinion: keep the typing. (i'd default to fast and get rid of the toggle though, but you didn't ask.)
It’s called pedigree collapse. Your family tree grows exponentially to the second power with each generation. So a mere 50 generations ago, which is to say roughly 1000-1500 years ago, you had 1,125,899,906,842,624 slots in your family tree. Needless to say the vast majority of those slots don't have a unique person in them.
There's some photos of Paul Karason on Google Images, who developed the same condition from silver poisoning.
Is it really that easy? Can anyone just sign up for Spotify as an artist and upload a Beyonce album?
Man, the spotify algo makes no sense. The other week I was in a really specific mood, starting with Sonic 1/2 OST and moving into 8bit/chiptune/keygen. I probably listened to every rendition of Chemical Zone out there.

Rest of the week, much the same. Nothing in Discover Weekly.
It's at least five years old and it wasn't a problem until a recent update by HP.
It's a good idea, and when I'm listening to a song, I want to be able to recommend songs to me through my favorites, so that I can hear a lot of songs that not famous but that's nice
Links to the “whitepaper” just link to the repo. Is this the whitepaper: https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/tree/master/new_whitepa... ?

There are also 3 walkthroughs that are kind of buried:

1. https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/walkthrough...

2. https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/walkthrough...

3. https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/walkthrough...
The ends justify the means
Reminds me that some of the best engineers of the last two decades started out as bored teenagers.

It wasn't so much the making free phone calls, but it was exploring the universe that was on the other side of the twisted copper pair coming into the house.
If you’re going to make those assertions, bring data. Certainly some have done well, but the assertion that most of the boomers have done well or even disproportionately well relative to other generations should be supported by data not handwaving
Keep thumpin. Gotta keep the war machine alive. Next thing you know, people will want their planet saved, and there goes that sweet honeypot.
You have to convince software engineers they are labor instead of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Some do end up wealthy. Most won’t (so says the data [1] [2]).

Edit: In my experience, older folks are easier to sell on the idea because they’ve seen how the sausage is made and have had enough time to have possibility convert to reality. Younger folks are still…more optimistic than the data suggests is realistic.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[2] https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
You make actually owning content sound good.
When coding in C++ I often thought "Why isn't there an imperative programming language in the preprocessor?"

This was the only thing holding me back from finishing my metacircular TODO app.
When the load factor of an open-addressed hashtable gets too high, you allocate a larger set of buckets and rehash the table’s existing contents into them. You’ll have to do this with a chained hashtable anyway, as performance will start to approach O(n) once the table is overloaded.

This does mean that insertion time goes from a true O(1) to an amortized O(1), but that’s usually not an issue. (You can do the rehashing gradually if you really have to, but it’s probably not worth the complexity.)
This is one of those things I stumbled upon and couldn't stop reading until I finished. As weird as it is to say this on a link aggregation site I highly recommend setting this aside for later instead of just looking at it now (it'd probably be ~250 pages if it were a typical paperback for time reference).
Why Spotify plasters your home page with Podcasts:

Short answer is $$$$.

Longer answer is:
Spotify must pay royalties for each song played. Imagine if there was a completely free (for Spotify) form of content that filled users ears for hours, thus removing the need for Spotify to pay royalties. Ahem podcasts. Now imagine if Spotify started injecting ads into said media form to grow their revenue beyond subscriptions. Again, podcasts. So now, you have a very long-form content that both saves you royalty $ and drives new revenue. QED. Podcasts will continue to be plastered all over your recommendations, be top search results, etc, until the above stops being true.

Wrote about this in detail recently: https://www.towardssoftware.com/spotify.txt
Maybe the old term for European aristocrat, blue blood, along with its inbreeding connotations, is more literal than history gives it credence. It's usually attributed to pale skin but perhaps methemoglobinemia was on display.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/why-people-nobl...
>cooking

That's all you need. Thorough cooking deactivates the phytohaemagglutinin, which otherwise would give you a bad time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytohaemagglutinin

>Poisoning can be induced from as few as five raw beans, and symptoms occur within three hours, beginning with nausea, then vomiting, which can be severe and sustained (profuse), followed by diarrhea.
> Account deleted. I know I'm not the norm but Spotify has never done a good job for me recommending music, ever.

Last.fm has always been great for recommendations.
COBOL is what gets a lot of people paid and probably underpins far too much in govt and larger companies. It’s rumoured to be the reason IBM keeps binary compatibility in their mainframe line as “they lost the source code long ago.” Supposedly, it’s a meal ticket for mostly old fart consultants.

FORTRAN, on the other hand, is used to melt compute clusters while trying to make things go boom, or model micro- or macroscopic properties to design various things. Damned language still optimizes or runs large scale better.

As you all know, few pay to rewrite code that works well.
Love rectangle. Makes snapping and arranging windows so easy on Mac, it's essential for me.
When you pass by the homeless (along nearly every freeway) it's hard not to feel very privileged. Even though not wealthy, still much, much better off than many.
That is truly interesting, but I also find it quite depressing. There's almost not a tree in sight. I'm glad that I did not live in such a place.

Edit: The one from the Netherlands is lovely though, and an example of how life in our cities could be without cars.
You can spend lotsa money on pure simulations (only hundreds?) and get some great insights on dispersal patterns and the like. It will make you feel good, but unless you validate your results against field data, you won’t know if you’ve learned enough to respond effectively during an actual event. Also, you need actual observational data to meaningfully calibrate any simulation involving potential human fatalities.

There are over 100 NYC restaurants serving bean burritos, so it’s not like it’s the first time such experiments have been run.
Seems more like issues with production and markets. When my parents were growing up on a farm they made butter and sold it at market, but the creme freshe which was a byproduct of the whole process was considered to have no value and they cooked with it because it could not be sold. Now creme freshe is considered a luxury gourmet ingredient for fine cooking and commands a premium. Food fashions vary wildly.
I’ve watched these walk offs at Google and Facebook. They’re not impactful. The company loses a day of productivity (maybe) but everyone still gets paid. Half the time the owners are like “yeah ! We’re with you about how the things we totally did are unacceptable”.

Now if they walked off the job for a year, then things might change because it could cost their bottom line meaningfully. Maybe. But. And this is a big but. The companies are sitting on tens of billions of dollars in the bank and have private police forces on campus. I’m pretty sure they’ll pay extra for any strike breakers to come in if it came to that to avoid setting the bad precedent (from their perspective) that labor is an equal party to meaningful negotiations. The police force will try to ensure the safety of the strike breakers. The company will also go on a PR offensive to magnify any small misstep to overwhelm the bigger story.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
ThinkPad chromebook with ryzen5 running nodejs, python and android studio.
This is a bit off topic, but I'd love to hear more detail as to your home network setup. I've seen netboot.xyz before but I have no real knowledge as to how such a setup would work.
Read their comment again. The person you’re replying to adjusted for inglflation.
Now I wonder if the blue skined gods of hinduism are based on real people
It seems like a good idea but in general it would violate the spirit of the game. Human error wasn’t an issue before the advent of video that captured what was a strike or not, who was safe or not, who checked their swing or not. Pitchers painting the corners has been a trademark of pitchers like Maddux.
I doubt this is a compliment.

I truly don't see how I can constructively respond to your previous post. We have reached an impasse and I wish you the best.
They do, toward the end of the article.
This doesn't compute at all!

Wages are a fraction of the final product price - there are material costs, facilities, rent, etc. So even if we double the minimum wage, the cost of goods sold would only increase 30%-40%, so the folks depending on minimum wage have a major increase of their quality of life.
You may say I am paranoid but given it is low level and example using cn (communist china) is in the menu plus simplified chinese character … anyone can assure it is ok to use. No et phone home ever ?
> But Cornell researchers recently asked the question: Why do they still not let you vote down a song?

Sorry, but what's the fucking answer?

Yes, children know about dislike buttons. Why does Spotify (Google says worth $10-$66 billion) not have one?

It's certainly not because the algorithm is hard.

So, once they can answer that question perhaps they might be able to improve things?

Or is academia officially just a citation farm now? Does HN think a multi-billion dollar company is to stupid to think up and implement a dislike buttons because that's the game now, we think we are smarter than them on nonsense criteria?

Clearly Spotify will have looked at Dislike from the start, will have looked at Dislike from inference (Users actions, like skip or lower volume might imply Dislike) from the start, will have looked at interactions (what was played previous, is it their first time hearing it) around Dislike from the start and rehashed this 100's of times using highly intelligent, well trained mathematicians and whoever else's.
Fwiw, starting salary for a chemistry PhD in industry was somewhere in the 30-40k usd range in the early 80’s. There was a downturn during that time that made looking for anything but a postdoc difficult.

Edit: unless it’s changed recently, the ACS publishes their salary survey for chemists in the us yearly so you can look it up if you seek data on pharma salaries.
You can only mature the calves if you can spare the milk, and you get a lot more calories from just drinking the milk.

A cow produces roughly 40 times more calories worth of milk over its lifetime than you get from the beef from one animal. There's no way it would be similarly prevalent unless they were raising herds specifically for beef.
The largest closed sea in the world
I updated the readme to better explain what I meant.
He does not look blue.
The opportunity cost means there is effectively no difference. A megawatt hour used to mine from a clean source means that a megawatt hour used for something else doesn't come from a clean energy source. Even if this project is the difference between building additional clean energy capacity or not, the resources for building that capacity have an opportunity cost—something that can't be built that would create value. Mining cryptocurrency doesn't create wealth any more than mining gold or printing money, it creates value in a zero sum manner, by discounting the value of all other currencies by a very tiny amount.
Check out Supernote! It's a great product with excellent support, no subscriptions, and the company has very active engagement with their users.
I'm Irish.. what is offensive about it? Potatoes are a big part of our culinary history
My hunch would be that these large structures are the remnants of massive impactors from very early in the history of the formation of the earth.
I used to use Pandora (even in Canada with VPN), but the sound quality deteriorated for some reason and player options aren't so great. Even with a paid account it sounds worse than Spotify and library is not that huge compared to Spotify.

But back in a day in was an example of a perfect service, where you could just say what music features you like and it would play everything close to it, expanding the boundaries. You could also dislike songs and like them (which made channels really really convenient). I wish Spotify could do something like that.
But coming from a small uni in Normandy, France, it's also possible not to go to a "top" internship, shit that up and be let go with a kick in the ass.

You can go to a small do-it-all no-money startup for a few years, suffer your ass through it, climb up a few more job and end up exactly at the same place with a very good story and a lot of experience from doing more with less that top companies can appreciate, and actually be the one bossing the silver spoons into work.

It's a fallacy to think people are disadvantaged by not going straight to the top with no real world experience.
I've been using a 27" 4k monitor for the past couple of years at 125% and I'm completely sold that my next monitor will be 4k or above (can fit so much on the screen and everything is so crisp).

Though 125% is pretty rough on integrated graphics in both windows and linux, so I'll likely be looking to get a bigger 4k monitor (32"?) that I can just run at 100% in the near future.

60hz is fine for text editing and web browsing (and the extremely light gaming that I do 2-3 times a year with friends).
> To the extent that we were taught any history at all, I suspect that many of us learned our world history in a fairly linear fashion: “First the Greeks, then the Romans, then the Dark Ages, then the Renaissance” or some causative narrative like that.

An interesting essay, but isn't this strawperson extreme? Almost everyone goes to school and learns history, and that's not how I was taught it.
If I'm in my wife's car, I swerve to avoid.

If I'm in my pickup, I swerve to center it on the grill guard in order to avoid damage to the quarter-panels.
Possibly, but it used to be frowned upon for people to switch jobs after a year - it was a bad thing to have on your resume. People joined a grad program with the understanding that they'd hang around after they were trained. Now that deal is gone - we shouldn't bother training them in the first place.
Isn’t IBM top of the patent list every year? Great example of why patent count does not equal innovation.
I am not necessarily against tech forming a union. I am however against joining a grandpa union like CWA or OPEIU. Some CWA chapters have a very anti-immigrant take on the tech industry which does not vibe with most people in Bay Area or NYC tech.
Hmm, isn't square normally x*x?
i read a lot of books in two weeks. i read a lot of open source code libraries.

then i do side projects constantly.

i still feel like an imposter.
I found Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety to be a much better explainer for systems thinking than Meadows' book.

https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Safer-World-Systems-Think...
That Mysterious J (2006)
What are the 'chunks' of competitive programming? Like knowing how to make a graph, use hash tables / arrays well, a typical dynamic programming solution and so on?
I don’t think it’s in good faith to accuse someone of using multiple accounts to flag your comments without any basis and I believe this type of behavior is directly in violation of the guidelines of HN.
Kind of depends; my DO droplet is $6/month (I pay for their backup), and static IPs (if available) often cost that much, or more to add to a residential internet connection. Currently, I would need to have new service installed to switch to a different billing system where they could add a static; even the service was the same cost, I'd be paying off the install for a long time, so...

OTOH, if I needed more hardware, it'd be helpful to serve from home, because renting hardware gets expensive.
Private listening is still there.
Kids or dinks? Huge difference in how the cash flows.
Is there any JDK/JRE distribution that bundles in JavaFX?
Yeah my parents kicked me into work at 14 up to 18 just for the sake of understanding what it is and it was invaluable in my first interview for a big boy job: the fact I started at 14 to earn some money and was proud of it and could even give recommendations to deal with clients (worked in an auction store carrying furniture for people every weekend of my teenage years despite having rich parents) seriously impressed the boss and all his worries about me not coming from a top uni whatever were compensated by my understanding of his own suffering.

As a junior, the best best way to pass an interview is understanding you're a cost and accepting experience is part of the pay. Any sign of you expecting to be "paid your due" or "resisting undue exploitation" is an immediate ulcer inducing stress for the hiring person "omg he knows nothing, will take months to start producing above his cost, and he's already talking like a diva". Leave after 6 months if you must, telling the boss you cant possibly survive