skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of language is anecdotally strongly correlated with programmer skill, but the best evidence I've seen was not about "Programmers using language X are better than language Y", but about availability of programmers.

Counterintuitive, it was the "elitist" lower numbers involved in some languages (not just Lisp) that were found to be advantageous by some companies in hiring. Essentially, it selected out people with lower experience and those not willing to learn a new language. An example I was given was that choosing Common Lisp and combining it with globally remote hiring greatly increased the quality of incoming applicants - and that had they went with the popular option (Python in their case) they'd have to deal with deluge of fresh bootcamp grads of which many had unwarranted high opinion of themselves.

Both Kina Knowledge and ITA Software (and from what I heard but can't cite now, other companies as well), teaching people Common Lisp on the job apparently tends to work pretty well, and willingness to master a new language correlates much better with good skills. It does have the disadvantage of not being able to throw a new hire directly tickets to solve, but the timeframes I was given were essentially "it takes around a month for new hire to go from zero to productive lisp programmer".
Shutters that close are terrifically useful for reducing light & noise and for storm protection (I'm in FL).

What fake shutters do is endlessly remind me how marvelously stupid it is that that I don't have actual shutters.
I don't know what Melville thought of Shakespeare, but we can trace a stylistic line through Meridian, Moby Dick, Macbeth.

All three have a mad project of egotistic ambition, sooth-sayers of doom, and great helpings of gore along the way to the catastrophe foretold. Sooth-sayers are of course, always correct, whether they appear as a trio of witches, world-weary Parsee, or a decrepit "disordered Mennonite".
pasteurization is a ratio of time and temperature (and other factors), so you can actually pasteurize things like chicken/eggs at lower temperatures, as long as you hold them at that temperature for long enough -- see https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-s... for some graphs
Their customer service is amazing as well. Ive been a user for 3-4 years now and when I first started I contacted them about several issues which were all purely me being a noob, and not only did I hear back from a human being, it was quick and the answers were immediately helpful. I cant speak highly enough of Fastmail as a user
You're lumping in Steinbeck with Shakespeare and Moby-Dick? His topics are much more relevant to what is going on for many students today and the language is much less dated.
Guilty as charged. To be honest though, my (detached) garage looks much better with them - possibly because a lot of the old garages in my area actually are old carriage houses (or replacements for them)
This comment will be fine in hundreds of years. I completely expect (at least Australians) to continue to use “old mate” for a long time to come :).
Chess Pursuit
Windows 11 feels like a web app. Terrible
> 1k a pop - for a weeks work that's a pretty good take home

52k a year with no time off / benefits?
All "blockchain voting" ideas miss the real threat model: Who issues the ballots, and how can you possibly know that Sybil has not been issued many?

No blockchain is going to solve this. Not ETH, and not Altman's Eye scanning surveillance coin.

At best a blockchain voting system can be used to audit that your own vote has not been tampered with, but you cannot possibly know who every other voter is to assert that Sybil has not voted more than once.

Get real.
I am actually involved in web3 app development, but do you have any examples of where any of this engineering even applyable to real world problems?

I see a lot of potencial, but so far only real use I see is crypto being good financial system replacement for people living in failed state / authoritarian regimes. It's enough to justify it's existence, but who suppose to want web3-powered tech in countries with working law? And why?
Very seriously. I can corroborate that these people exist. Took 5 years to figure out the guy had a girl friend. For the entire 5 years. Couldn't tell. He'd definitely not volunteer any info, couldn't tell from any other behavior whether or not he had any family. For all we knew he didn't even have parents.
Creating a Labeled Image Dataset Using Pybossa
She/her, millenial, and my employer is only entitled to the time that I consent to giving; literally fire* me if you don't like it. I don't demean union work, in fact, I prefer it; but I know that's unpopular here.

* don't have the authority? Then fuck off, you're the entitled one for thinking you can dictate my hours!

edit: also, I don't work in a widget factory. When I stop work on a task, work on that task stops. I measure my productivity in tasks completed, and it would take months to train somebody to do my work. If I don't get my work done on time, a larger project deadline slips. I work very hard to ensure that never happens.
I have a strong objection to point #2 "Reason #2 The Slats Are Wrong" - so if you've got fake shutters that are going to be bolted to the wall you've got a choice to make. Do you want to channel water right against the siding and probably create some pinch points (since those suckers are right against the wall) where water will collect and mold/lichen will flourish? Or do you tilt the louvers the other way so that water is channeled away from the siding? If you take the later approach some particularly anal folks might get annoyed but you won't be creating a maintenance nightmare for yourself and, anyways, it's just for appearance.

I think fake shutters are pretty dump but if you're going to have them - please install them so the water gets deflected away from the siding instead of in towards the siding. It's only for appearances anyways so would you rather have lichen spots around your fake shutters or just have a nice clean surface?
I pay permanent.org for this. God knows if they’ll even be up in 30 years, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Those people are at the mercy of their employer who gets to decide if all their free work deserves a raise or promotion. It’s not a great system.
I think there's value in the fact that voting is transparent enough that anyone can verify elections. There's also value in "John Doe from church and my cousin helped with the recount" versus "Three top 'experts' say it's fine, but I heard two of them work for Facebook!" or "We just have to trust what Palantir's consultants say."
One of the most common faulty belief in voting system proposals including those considered in the article is that it is that it is fine to trust elite that the system is working as specified. This assumption goes long before any cryptography were considered and is just more elaborate version of Edison's voting machine.

Newer designs have recognized the need to prevent authority to know who voted for what. However in doing so they do obstruct the evidence that a legitimate voter had voted at most once. Often the evidence includes either to trust the system or officials with confidential access who can audit the system which can be meaningful if the system is software independent. However then we are left with problem that auditors may collude... In the end the system is very expensive to maintain and ironically state elections have been more expensive than voting with a paper ballot schemes.

The net result is that elections electronic voting systems are equivalent to a single ballot box which is supervised by a small elite. The electronic part just have made it possible. In this absurd reality we may as well substitute elections with taking surveys.
"Don't say HN is turning into Reddit, because it has consistently been so from the start"?
You're saying that inalienable rights might exist, depending on US policy?

Or, more specifically, I attempt to paraphrase:

If the US doesn't respect inalienable rights, then non-citizens should have them?

I don't see any connection, and you seem to also be saying you believe in inalienable rights which are alienable.
> A blockchain is also a k-of-n trust model; it requires at least half of miners or proof of stake validators to be following the protocol, and if that assumption fails that often results in a "51% attack". So why is a blockchain better than a special purpose bulletin board? The answer is: setting up a k-of-n system that's actually trusted is hard, and blockchains are the only system that has already solved it, and at scale. Suppose that some government announced that it was making a voting system, and provided a list of 15 local organizations and universities that would be running a special-purpose bulletin board. How would you, as an outside observer, know that the government didn't just choose those 15 organizations from a list of 1000 based on their willingness to secretly collude with an intelligence agency?

just admitting you have the same problem then trying to brush past it doesn't work. why on earth would intelligence agencies allow anyone but groups they can influence or outright control to be miners and why should anyone trust that this isn't the state of the system?

you're solving the wrong problem. you can't technology your way out of political problems: those still need to be hashed out between people.
If you've followed the entire "voting fraud" debacle of the 2020 presidential election, there were an absolutely brutal amount of outlandish ideas of how the vote was manipulated using technology. Something something satellites and the Vatican and CIA killing people over a briefcase in Frankfurt and Hugo Chavez' spirit and Dominion voting machines and the router logs and mysterious traffic and Chinese IP addresses and god knows what else kind if idiocy was dreamed up.

But all of that, every single crazy piece of it, is completely irrelevant, because at the end of the day there exists a collection of paper ballots that represent how people voted in the election. Anyone can count and recount those ballots to their hearts content, and doing so is incredibly simple. You just divide the ballots into piles according to what their vote is for, and then you count the size of the piles.

Anyone can do that. Children can do that. Senior citizens can do that. No technology required, no technological understanding is required, and no technological bullshittery can cast uncertainty on the result, as the Arizona fraudit hilariously discovered when they divided the paper ballots into piles and counted them and got the same result as before.

The way to solve the problem of untrustworthy technology is not to have some geniuses come up with a bulletproof crypto-secure blockchain buzzword voting scheme that us mere nerds can understand after having it explained to us. The solution is to remove technology completely from the equation, and paper ballots and envelopes and urns are the way to do that.
I disagree with you that it is a majority (perhaps a slim one but I doubt it), or that that would be meaningful. The reality we are discussing is, indeed, a grim one.
Hopefully its not too late.
Curtains or blinds are more practical for privacy, but not so practical for blowing debris in a storm (or even just keeping the sun from heating up the house, though modern sunshade material aka Coolaroo would do a better job of that).
"Microsoft doftware has gone downhill" is not what the article is actually about, nor does it really touch on the topic. The title of this post should probably be changed..
People started to have short-grass lawns because they were pretending they were an estate house with livestock. That's a much worse waste of resources in my opinion, because most Americans have forgotten why they were doing it. It a zombie affectation.
The article stretches to portray this as a cost imposed by society, but I think the bulk of it is far more innate than that. There simply are economies of scale to household size. A lot of housing costs are proportional to surface area, and the ratio of surface area to volume drops are structures get larger. Building larger units is more economical. It extends to selling as well - it's going to take less effort to sell/rent one 2-bedroom apartment than it would for two 1-bedrooms. The cost of user acquisition for things like paper towels is lower if the average customer is buying for multiple people too.

I totally get the desire to live alone, but I never have because having roommates/cohabitation always seemed like such an obvious economic decision compared to other ways to reduce living expenses.

The Onion put out a video[1] in 2009 about an economic recovery plan that amounted to boyfriends finally agreeing to move in together with their girlfriends. I've spent a lot of time researching the housing market and macroeconomic reasons for its current distortion from historical norms. That video often pops into my mind when I do. The overall housing stock in the US has more than kept pace with the growth in population, but the reduction of household size and related growth in housing space per person has created a huge amount of incremental demand.

I don't think those are purely bad trends. My parents' generation paired off young and quickly, and the long term effects are easy enough to pick out in divorce statistics. But I do have to wonder how much of the economic woes 20-40 year olds face right now might be alleviated if the pendulum swung back a little in that direction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ADncN9HIa4
Intel has a history of big plays, I'll be taking a punt on them, just as soon as this slow growth and missed earnings errode their stock price over the next couple years.
Roku is a meta-platform that includes Apple and Amazon and may even be taking a 30% cut of those.
> Sure, but it's still a tiny portion of people who can be chosen to count the votes

The counting process is open to any interested party, and more importantly the ballots are made available to any group interested in auditing them.

> and each one can only verify that they themselves have counted accurately.

What part do you believe might be missing?
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There was a project to do this, Positron.

https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/

Revolving door management that has no clue what initiatives the previous management started and wants to start all their own initiatives really hurt Mozilla in the last 5 years.
Technically you can already do this with gmail using the +tag trick, e.g. myemail+tag@gmail.com, where the "tag" can be the name of the website you are signing up for. The emails will all go to your myemail@gmail.com account, but they'll be tagged with the tag.
>coincidentally (but unrelated), what is this crowd's current mail hosting recommendation?

I had been using my ISP's email for imap connectivity from my home and phone.

They are getting out of the business of supplying the circuit I have with them and am now moving away from that ISP.

I chose to host my own email (I already owned my own domains and hosted my own MTA for those domains) on a local imap server. Heck, I even host my own authoritative DNS zones.

While there are single point of failure modes with that, nothing I do with my personal domains would kill me if my (multiple) ISP links are down for a few days.

Not the solution for everyone, but it works for me.
Your manager’s authority.

By definition they get to say what is part of the contract, on behalf of your coworkers. They can still complain after the fact, but will need to convince your manager(s) to reverse the decision. If your manager doesn’t have that authority you need to deal with HR or whoever had it, but by definition there will be someone holding that role in your company.

Of course consulting coworkers on important arrangements makes thing go smoother, but it’s only consulting, the chain of authority doesn’t disappear.
I think you're right that 2. is misstated, in my rush to ELI5. Thanks for the correction. I meant to refer to "increase in extreme weather events" not decrease in average winter temp. The IPCC seems pretty clear that on average, we are getting less cold temperatures. (And indeed Scott's article is exploring the implications of there being less cold temperature).

I can find references in the latest IPCC report to increased frequency of droughts, heavy rain, and heat waves, but I can't find much mention of extreme cold events; I was under the impression that these were predicted to be increasing too (i.e. more severe winter weather systems with most non-storm winter days being warmer, or put differently increased variance as the mean increases), but maybe that's not correct.

I stand by my main point which was that you _could_ have an increase in both extreme cold events and extreme hot events while the average temperature is increasing, to correct an oversimplification I believe the GP was making. I think this sibling made that point more concisely though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28961979.
A lot of elections only have one candidate.
You should have tried saying that on HN in the first quarter of this year. The concept was heavily mocked
Imposter syndrome as a software developer.
I don't think most people would actually utilize a handkerchief, especially one of the flimsier pocket squares that comes with a tux. But it looks cool.
Or maybe a bit more likely to survive longer: cockroach genome or tardigrade genome :-)
Just look at the data I posted above. Cassette sales were replacing vinyl well before cd sales took off.
What countries except of Estonia actively using digital voting?
I mention this every time this comes up. But I absolutely hated magit. It's the worst kind of "nannyware knows best" integration, and it doesn't belong anywhere near an editor. It's a fine front end to git, I'm sure, if you're actually willing to stop and re-learn how to use git.

In my particular case, it was cute for a while until I did my first "git rebase -i" to reorder some patches or whatever and found myself in some kind of magical editor mode where nothing worked the way I knew. I literally couldn't figure it out from what was on the screen. Totally greek. Utterly useless without further learning.

Did I stop and read the docs to figure out how it wanted me to rebase in this brave new world? Hell no. I restarted emacs, disabled it, and never looked back. Right into the garbage it went.

Do. Not. Break. Workflows. Software that doesn't understand this principle is something I don't trust not to break itself when its developers decide to get cute. Stay away.

(Does seem pretty though)
Skip the nonsense and just check your dependencies in directly to your repo. The separation has no real world gains for developers and doesn't serve anyone except the host of your source repo. As it turns out most people's repo host is also the operator of the package registry they're using, so there aren't even theoretical gains for them, either.

Doing it this way doesn't preclude the ability to upgrade your dependencies, it _completely_ sidesteps the intentional or unintentional desync between a dependency's source and its releases, it means people have to go out of their way to get a deployment that isn't reproducible, and in 4 years when your project has rotted and someone tries to stand it up again even if just temporarily to effect some long-term migration, then they aren't going to run into problems because the packages and package manager changed out from beneath them. I run into this crap all the time to the point that people who claim it isn't a problem I know have to be lying.
No shit. It's called survival of the species. Let's call this society A.

Now try to imagine a society B where everyone with a kid is penalized. Let's make it as clear-cut as possible: death penalty.

Which one do you think will continue to exist after a few generations?

Obviously it's not as straightforward for LGBTQ+, but it turns out - if not denied the right by an oppressive society - many are happy to adopt or find other arrangements to take care of and raise children. Win-win.
The last election had volunteers from both sides of the aisle count votes, while a ton of normal people watched them as observers. Last year, we saw a lot of Trump supporters who were convinced the election was stolen act as election observers. The process is easy for them to engage in, as well as to observe, because they're literally just counting votes. Anyone can observe and see for themselves that nothing nefarious is going on, and they don't need to be experts to do so.
I do this too, with Fastmail, but they do have a limit on how many aliases you can have without paying them more (last I checked).

The way around this is that they let you do alias+something@domain.com, or for sites that won't accept a plus address, alias@something.domain.com. This works very well for me, although I get funny looks when some vendor asks me for an email address and I give them e.g. alias@your_company.domain.com. Especially fun when you end up having to spell it out while the clerk eyeballs you like you're trying to screw with them.

I started doing this thinking it would let me identify who was selling/leaking emails to spammers. I now have a lot of unique email addresses like this, one per vendor. Fastmail is either excellent at filtering spam without me ever seeing it, or vendors just aren't selling/leaking my address(es); the only 'vendor' that I'm sure distributed my address after 3+ years is a state government entity.
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Helicopter money implies that the quantity of spending is high and also that it is direct to citizens
Hah, reminds me that we have some utility boxes out here that have been painted to make them more interesting / less of an eyesore. Just another strategy to make them less... adversarial.

https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMGRPM_Looking_Back_to_S...
The difference is that NPM packages are provided for free.
I want hackernews.com to be an overlay so that appears to be the same as the real site, but nobody there affects the one here.