skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which also seems nuts. Like they’re servers. How anyone assumes that some Ruby code can be acting as an authoritative representative of the government is silly.
No it's not really an interesting idea. Balloons for launching rockets are actually a horrible thing that only seems reasonable to people who don't know anything about space / rocket science. Getting to space requires speed, not altitude so a balloon doesn't really help you with anything.

There's been many many companies that have had the "let's launch a rocket from a balloon" but they rapidly figure out that it doesn't really help at all and the companies quickly go bellyup. Physics is not on your side.

And finally their biggest problem, they still don't even recover the rocket.

I'm actually surprised YCombinator is funding this garbage of a company.
This could roughly be saying half of hires are below average, and the distribution is bell shaped (or triangular to a first approximation). For many jobs, below average can be equivalent to bad.

If you have money to spend, or can wait to hire, you can beat the averages. I've hired a fair amount and done well too, but only by refusing to hire anyone if there are not suitable candidates that applied, which can burn a lot of political capital (your boss sees you've spend x time and money and had y applicant and z interviews and you refuse to hire anyone).

Good, cheap, available, pick two.
> Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!?

The rot goes deeper. I/O sucks. My beautiful code ends up being sullied by some shitty in code that is smaller, buggier, and takes longer to write.

The best programs should not need to do any I/O.
Why didn't they just build a higher-level API on top of Vulkan then? Surely it's not a lack of developers, interest or resources, is it?
The rough estimates I’ve seen are: $100k USD in MPK becomes about 85k CAD. But also I think they just don’t fill as senior roles in Canada so the upper limit is lower. If you want to make more money, I think it’s worth a shot -- if the offer is bad, you don’t have to take it.
The backers get 100% return after 2 months if employee stays on? That doesn’t sound bad to me, if I was convinced of the company’s trustworthiness there are a number of former coworkers I would definitely “bet on” to last more than 2 months.
actually i had a similar idea for a keyword-based addressing/search on the web. let's call is keyword naming system, KNS. anyone can define any number of keywords for his website (not neccessarily bound to a dns domain) and these keyword–site-address pairs propagate on the net (like routing protocols, or DHT).

and to prevent spamming the hell out of this system, each user's local KNS client will prefer those sites for a given keyword which are "bookmarked" by the user's peers (more on the closer peers, less on the more distant ones).

this involves some kind of social-netowrking into this system, but don't panic: it is not meant to be a FB, more like a GPG-like web of trust. if your direct "friends" or "peers" or whatever identity which participates in the system (a blog, a yellow pages provider, a local newspaper publisher) visits a site as a result to a keyword and he mark the site appropriative to the keyword (ie. it is not a spam but a legit content for the given keyword according to his opinion), then your KNS client/search engine ranks the site higher. if a friend's friend marks a site this way then your search results still get ranked upper but not that much. and so on: every level more distant the ranking is weighted less.

"bookmarked" is not the best term here, because the users don't save the site to bookmarks or into "Favorites", just marks it appropriative. they might not have incentive to do so, but it can be automated by assuming the user judges a site appropriative for a given keyword by interacting with it, or not going back too soon, etc.

though it is not perfect because one can just stay on a site out of an interest other than the entered keyword. and it raises privacy questions as well: users generally don't want EVERY of their visits to be signaled on the net, however they are often happy to share a fair amount of their keywords/visits with their friend circles. for the remaining set of activities on the web, they may use an other KNS identity (profile/persona) which nobody, or an other set of people follows.
Yeah, for sure that is something to be cautious of. For cases where I expect backwards compatibility to be a concern, I will usually make the top-level type of the message or format an enum with each variant being a version (initially with just a single version, V1 or V0). That way, if we need to make backwards-incompatible format changes, we can create a new variant, and potentially even automatically migrate between formats (I've done this a few times). Then all we have to do is call a function to migrate to the latest format, and we can use whatever that is for all the actual program code (generally it will be a type alias for the version structure of the same name). Of course, if this gets too complex or you start to have non-treelike relationships between values, you still want to fall back on a more traditional database schema, but this kind of versioning can get you a long way.

That said, it's incredibly refreshing to be able to focus on these semantic and migration concerns without having to worry about how to deal with parsing them later. serde doesn't solve enforcing backwards compatibility for you, but it sure makes doing the right thing a lot easier. You never have to worry about some code accidentally forgetting to check the version field, people carelessly mixing and matching messages with different versions, or fields that "should" never be set but are there for backwards compatibility. That's worth a lot to me!
A build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What are you getting at?

If everything were electric and nuclear, green hydrogen, whatever, we wouldn’t have this particular problem, so it can’t be population alone.
I meant four pictures. I've edited my post to clear that up (hopefully). Thanks!
I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morganlink 3D-Vision Interview
I don't think ANY party apparatus operates in good faith.

Maybe it comes from being in the military, which is harshly meritocratic, reasonably color-blind, and expects people to overcome obstacles. I'd rather work to reform the demographic outreach/culture of an adversarial party with a sound policy platform, than work to overcome the patronizing, low-expectations deconstructionist culture of a party that pays lip-service to my demographic to advance its terrible policy platform.
This would be great if there was any hope to see a better actor coming in. Currently buying a Quest 2 equivalent from a "good" actor is just thought exercise.

Looking at Vive, they don't seem ready to enter the regular consumer market anytime soon. Google and Samsung threw the towel long ago. I'm not sure Microsoft could be a better actor than Facebook if they wanted to (remember it all came down on us way after the devices were sold).

Then chances are Facebook would also kill any incoming competitor in the egg.
> More importantly, I think it is necessary for everyone to /feel/ satisfied that the elections are fair. Requiring IDs seems like an easy nod to that effect

Its obviously not, because lots of people think that it it is unfair in and of itself, and this feeling is buttressed by the fact that politicians pushing for specific versions of it keep getting caught admitting that their motives are more about stopping people that don't vote their way from voting than election security in the usual sense when they think they have a friendly audience.
> It’s not required that you have an account or even use the software

That's the key point. The fact that some people weren't even able to use their Oculus device when FB went down for hours is insane. Imagine not being able to use your mouse or keyboard because Logitech went down.

There's a very big difference between an optional cloud system that brings convenience (settings sync) vs a required cloud system that the device cannot be used without.

From my understanding, the comment about was specifically trying to write regulation against the latter.
Well done, my friend! How’s your WLB?
Catolicism belief is without further discussions in Trinity - Holy Father, Holy Son and Holy Spirit(which had earlier representation of anthropomorphic Jewish God).

Since no one really has read a Bible, I can remind the source:

>>Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

>>"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

According to Bible - God created humans in his image - this is very problematic passage for Christianity, if there is an alien life out there, because apparently they would not be createad by a God.

Any deviations from anthropomorphic nature of a God in Christianity does look like a herecy. Because any other deviations from Christian religious dogmas basically brings to the result, where Aztec god that requires sacrifices and Sol Invictus, not to mention Allah and Yahweh are the same immanent transcendences of a God.
Airbnb is not a good example - it still has its own problems and controversy. But even with that said, it is nowhere near as ripe for abuse and fraud as Skip the Interview is.

Also, there's already a solution for reputation - the standard references system that already exists. This soon-to-be-former CEO is claiming that references are "useless," and then implies that someone being able to buy themselves a job by harassing their former coworkers for money is a better system. It's a ridiculous premise and would create incredibly toxic culture in professional networks.
I completely agree. (largely because of covid), I got to see both my children grow up and then go to elementry school. I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.
This is the C suite guy getting the charges levied on him with pretty solid evidence against him. if he wants to avoid long term jail they will use him to cut a deal to get more information to find out if any of the few people that are above him ordered him to do it.
Prioritizing profit before planet and people.
And potentially uninhabitable within ~2500 yrs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138252/
This doesn’t track at all. This is me telling you that your forms are on my desk and throwing you the keys to my office. And then after getting your papers you go rummaging around other stuff.

Like sure I’m accepting a
risk that you could do that but you’re still a dick if you actually do.
I highly recommend Bit Burner (https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/). It's an idle/incremental game with a focus on automating things with javascript. Heck of a lot of fun, imo.
Why bother specifying hardware? No, thank you, I have no desire to have a cloud account for my purely offline software either.
Correlation... no causation was mentioned in abstract.

From a nature paper: “Individuals are primarily exposed to HMW phthalates via ingestion of food contaminated through processing or packaging [19], as well as via inhalation in buildings containing PVC flooring or other materials [20,21,22].” — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00305-9

From abstract of paper reference by The Guardian: “Multivariable models identified increased mortality in relation to high-molecular weight (HMW) phthalate metabolites”.
Good one.

A friend of mine bought a book online, that was just a link to a pdf in an S3 url.

I chopped off the /book.pdf part, and it was just in an S3 bucket with all the other books they sell.
>I cited a source indicating college students have the right to register to vote where their school is located.

That's not what that says. Students can proclaim residency in the state they are attending school, yes. That also means in Texas you have 30 days to register your car, 90 days to change over to a Texas driver's license, etc.

>Neither a school ID nor a drivers’ license says anything about citizenship. They’re the same in that regard.

We're not talking about citizenship, we're talking about residency. A student ID does not prove state residency, so it does not past muster whatsoever. Texas has legal explanation covering this specific scenario: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/elo/gsc1.pdf

I'll state it again: a student ID does not prove residency.
>not meaningful claims about the world as such.

Not meaningful to who?
Thanks for sharing and raises a lot of points people miss about work-life balance.

A good friend shared Brian Dyson's 1991 commencement speech recently, of which I will quote this section:
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit — and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls ~ family. health, friends and spirit — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked. nicked. damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
By 2500 we will be alien to us. We'll probably be immortal digital consciousness(es) distributed across the stars.
The people that really got bitten are the ones that died on impact :(
Got to dial in those instruments some how. Might as well be something large and easy to find.
And there is a reason why lawyers exist.
It wasn't always this way. Walmart used to proudly display banners with 'Made in America' on them.

But as companies county, the poor and then the middle class downsized as well.

Companies left looking to lower costs, the public was wooed with lower prices and the idea that you could get more now and the politicians made promises that the affected sectors would be retrained, first we would have a service economy then it became knowledge workers.

It turns out that the service economy is fickle and doesn't pay well for the most part. Not everyone can be a knowledge worker and that is not outsource proof either.

Now we are in a trap where companies can not return because they would have to raise their prices and reduce profits and the people who used to work for them can't afford to buy their products now.
> By the end of this century we'll have the technology to make carbon capture (and atmospheric carbon targeting more generally) a trivial exercise.

Source?
> So it's not that we welcome speech we disagree with, (e.g. see the reception of Abolition or Women's Suffrage), it's that we mustn't use the force of law to silence those we disagree with.

We mustn't use the force of law to silence those we disagree with? Is that all? If we didn't in our heart of hearts welcome speech we disagreed with, I think we at least acted as though we did.

In my view the idea that freedom of speech just means that we can't or won't prosecute you for what you say is a sad declension from how Americans at their best thought about free speech. I won't prosecute you, but I will rile up my friends online and get you fired for what you said? That is the very attitude that I think violates the historic ethos of free speech in America.
Got caught, didn't tamper with the ballots, ballots were re-sent. Also, mail-in ballots don't have ID requirements. Nothingburger.
It certainly helps people who currently have loans.
Massachusetts makes out of state students eligible for jury duty. Why shouldn't they be allowed to vote?
Unflinching confidence in the smashing success of an unproven speculative technology to be a silver bullet savior in some currently unspecified Hail Mary pass at the global scale is equally problematic.

For instance, this pathogen is currently whipping us pretty good for such a master of the universe civilization. It would have been far worse before modern science but we aren't exactly living in a Gene Roddenberry fever dream.

Our grasp and control of things is tenuous, fragile, narrow, and sometimes, completely imagined. These times, like all others, call for both a pessimism of the intellect And an optimism of the will.
My own intuition and knowledge.
> more game support

Is that true? From my understanding, Oculus has exclusive games, as well as supporting all open games, so Oculus basically supports all Vive games + a bunch of exclusives Vive doesn't. What games do Vive support that Oculus doesn't?
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The comment I'm replying to specifically mentions Leet Code (I am assuming that is what LC stood for) which is the only reason I brought it up. Your point is exactly my point, leet code is not relevant to the type of position I'd be looking for.

So assuming Levels.fyi is accurate (their numbers are $20k more than salary.com which is more accurate in my opinion): my point was that I am average, right in the middle. But this article is telling me (and by extension, since I am at the mean, 50% of software engineers) are extremely underpaid.

And maybe on a nation wide scale that includes non-Boston metros, I am. But for Boston... I'm not over or under. I'm right in the middle.

Basically based on my research I think this article is for a very niche group at the top 25% of pay ranges and is not accurate or relevant to 75%+ of software developers (numbers are ballpark).
if they cancel the "sponsorship" part and just focus on recommendation-driven hiring it might work

Linkedin kind of does it with "endorsements" but it seems to be a minor/afterthought feature, only used for filtering by recruiters

I'd build the whole product around endorsements.
I am interested in that. Thanks for sharing!
Leetcode will only cover the easiest part (IMO) of the interview. For senior roles, expect to spend half or more of the interview on “system design” and “behavioral” interviewing.
These are great tires, but the rolling resistance can absolutely be felt. They do suffer in grip in wet conditions as well.
What do they think is unfair? The ID requirement? I get that, but the point was, let's make that not unfair.

There isn't anything unfair about making elections more secure in itself. Both security and fairness are valid issues. If a politician is against either of these, it's a bad sign.
I don't understand why people think this is nepotistic. If you're bad at the job, you won't make it past the first month or two. So you're really "buying" a (presumably paid) internship that has the potential to turn into a full time job if you're decent.

If it turns out that you're good at the job, nobody loses any money (except the company, who has to pay a recruiting fee, but that's expected). If you're bad, well, hopefully that won't happen....

Granted I don't think it's a great idea for other reasons, but the nepotism angle just doesn't make sense in my opinion.

I guess you could argue that skilled people with the ability to afford payment have a higher chance of being hired, and that's probably not a great thing, but even then it's not like every company who uses this will be filled with incompetent people who paid for their jobs--that just makes absolutely no sense from the company's perspective.
Is Apple the only company with a worker exploitation problem?
Ruby on Rails Demo(2005)
Low cost competitors generally only know how do do just that: make things cheaply. That's their competitive advantage, and they leverage it.

Apple is a marketing and tech company, and they're good at keeping prices up.

Both of them think they are doing better in the long-term.

There is no notion of 'sharing' etc. among the low cost competitors, if they could use some kind of IP-rights to hold out their competitors, they would.

That said, it should be noted that 'making stuff' is still where the bulk of the money is, even if it's not raw surplus.
> I think regulating business models for cell phones is just as bad an idea.

I mean, we can mandate minimum services. Something that has a webbrowser, email client, texts and calls. If you want to say that apps don't fit into that, I suppose that works.
Why wouldn't a country mean little to someone, even if it is a democracy? I live in the United States, and any theoretical vote I give is completely worthless unless I would move to Maine, and even then it's still not worth much. I move out of the United States, my vote is still worthless. I get citizenship elsewhere, my vote might have a chance at value.

The United States doesn't actually do much for its citizens; it's the states that do things for citizens, and if you're not in a good state, you get no real value from the United States or any part of your country. It wasn't always this way, but it's been this way for as long as I've been alive.

Sentiment is overrated and irrational if the country's never given you anything, and the United States just doesn't give anything to a substantial volume of its citizens.

A common argument is that the United States gives the right to free speech, or to guns, or to varying abstract concepts, but it would also give this even if everyone stopped paying their taxes and the United States was unable to enforce anything.

I'm a big fan of taxation, and of most laws. The US, though, really doesn't do anything with it that has ever benefit me.

The poster really does seem like, if anything, she cares too much for the country.
Oh and sauerkraut or something for the microbiome.
Unions do what their members want. A software engineering union can do plenty of work to push salaries upwards.
> feels like an unfinished weekend project

Jenkins has felt like an unfinished weekend project for going on ten years now. It may once have been state of the art, but that was in a time when people barely knew what a xmlhttprequest was.
because YC is not special, simple as that
Not entirely true..

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wage-push-inflation.asp
SRSLY isn't as far of an outlier as any of the other names. What was your name spelled out meant to be?

We need Douglas Adams to name a few of these.
To me it seems equivalent to the "first cause" argument of Thomas Aquinas.