skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dental care. Antibiotics. Access to healthcare. Low risk surgery. Blood tests. Vision care.

A zillion consumer goods and things, so many we'll be here all day to name them all. Decent toothbrushes. Electricity. Umbrellas. Flashlights. Batteries. Pens and pencils. Deodorant. Postal shipping. GPS. Near instant global news. Inexpensive razors and razor blades. Scissors. Asprin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen. Grocery stores. Air conditioning, central heating. Mass, quality clothing options. Nearly every possible type of shoe. Automobiles, mass-transit, airplanes, motor powered boats. Well constructed homes. Extraordinary entertainment options, from lowbrow to highbrow. The global travel system. Dishwashers. Washers & dryers for clothing. Lawnmowers. Power tools, and relatively inexpensive mass manufactured tools in general. Safe, inexpensive tap water. Thousands of different kinds of tape, paint, paper. Cardboard. Inexpensive, quality glass and mirrors for nearly any purpose. Insert 4,572,927 other things here.

This article is a joke. Everything was much harder back then, everything was much worse back then.
*FAANG is now MANGA with the FB rebrand
Unfortunately a lot of places use the even worse version of ATS where you have to basically manually fill in your resume. Manually adding in work experience, education, certificates, etc... into their own little mini fields. I find these incredibly frustrating as I have a lot of certifications and a lot of side gigs. I often end up either half-assing job applications to places that require this or just completely skip applying to them. Unless it's a job I REALLLYYYY want, I don't want to spend multiple hours doing monotonous work unpaid.
actually, your comment made me think

actually, i'd prob try to take well-defined to a new level - maybe looking for other examples and see how they gained traction, etc. if you don't have a big marketing budget, it might be a grind, but i think it could legit work, if only because i would have gladly paid for programming or other tech help -- and have -- at various points in my career.

a few times it's been really hairy situations with open-source stuff, but i have even paid for a _suggested_ fix -- just like going to the doctor. :-D

so, maybe instead of, "hire a programming expert for 1 hour", it might be "hire a python expert for one hour", then slowly expand outwards.

basically, a StackOverflow, but paid in real dollars instead of 'just' karma.
> I also use Grammarly to catch spelling, and grammar issues, and sometimes take suggestions the tool gives - though I just as frequently reject them.

Grammarly has become a crutch. It either fails to catch typos or distracts me when I am writing. Moreover, I feel like I am progressively becoming bad at catching grammar mistakes.
> I think popular applications should be included with OS reliability because in your day to day these are the tools you use.

Mac ships with Safari if you want that. Blaming Mac for the quality of third party software is a bit odd.
Wayland Support Plan for Firefox
youtube-dl (and forks) work with twitch (using mpv). I've never understood why people use streamlink instead.
The truth is, you are not going to be very good, and lots of people who are orders of magnitude better than you can't make any real money playing piano, because that level of skill is so common.

This isn't so much of a problem if your intention is not playing professionally. Learning easy and intermediate pieces is a lot of fun. Also making your own music using a MIDI keyboard and a DAW.
I highly doubt that. How do you know that Angelina Lee is a real person? They already said the resume is fake. Obviously, the name will be fake as well.
Most major media news organizations in the US are owned by large public corporations, so ultimately their shareholders. For example CNN is owned by AT&T and MSNBC is owned by Comcast.
Windows 11's start bar makes accessing settings and files easy, and gets out of the damn way of my work rather than pushing information poor animated tiles, shovelware and ads at my face while hogging my entire screen.

Finally, it's just like Windows 7.

I don't use a Surface tablet, but I'm told pen input is a major use case. Maybe pen tools should be made modal rather than uniform even across devices without pen input?
In the VLC app on the Apple TV, you can open up the Network Sharing tab. It starts a local network server and is accessible via a webpage like http://living-room-apple-tv.local. Then I simply drag-and-drop the files from my computer to the webpage. On the AppleTV, they'll be cached indefinitely (at least until storage is available, or you delete VLC). I use this to play one-off/occasional video files.

You can also run a file server on your computer, and tell VLC where to access it over the network.

I believe that VLC isn't the only app on the AppleTV that can play MKVs, but it's the one I use.

In case you're wondering, the AppleTV is powerful enough to stream + transcode the MKV files on the fly. I've never had issues, at least with 1080p files. 4K should be fine, too.
I'll argue peak humanity was 2009 before social media become mainstream.
Cryptographic identity verification and trusted clocks. As in, cryptography would be built-in and everyone would have a set of keys that they could use to verify ownership of digital content by using cryptographic signatures and timestamps.
> our choice is between a double bacon cheeseburger or an overpriced organic bliss bowl

If you ever fly to (the US via) SFO, perhaps check out Amy's at terminal 1B:

https://amysdrivethru.com

(Technically I think you cannot/should not drive through the airport location.)
No matter how many new languages we invent, this problem of surprise sub-languages being parsed from strings never goes away. It's almost as if program code should be somehow impossible to confuse with user-visible text. Maybe there's no good solution though :(
Not related to Ada but I just find it so fantastic that we still have sci-hub and we can conveniently share paywalled documents. I love sci-hub.
The point is that she gets called because of buzzwords such as Blockchain and AI and what have you.

If the education and job experience is made up, how do you know you're not getting calls because you sent a fake CV mentioning great education and relevant past jobs?
I think my point is that practice should stress 'deliberate practice' but also consistency, frequency, and also quantity. less deliberate practice is going to be worse than more deliberate practice. deliberate practice doesn't preclude quantity, and in fact quantity is a good measure of your ability to put out words.

I'd rather get 500-1000 words an hour and go back to edit, than get 250 perfect words that I'm likely going to have to go back and edit anyways. The standard you talked about is related to the final draft, and the product of writing is rarely the product of the first unedited draft. Quantity has a very large value in learning to write.
tl;dr Derek sells book content and media separately:

content: $15 (one-off)
digital: $0
print: $4/copy

Comment #1 on the post was exactly what I was thinking:

"Interesting. My sense is that when people are buying paper books for their friends, then the content is new to each of the friends, and it's fair to charge another $15 each time as well as the $4 for the paper. But if I want a spare copy for myself, or maybe a replacement, then it seems fair to only pay $4 for the paper."
If you’re going to swap Facebook for Meta you must also swap Google for Alphabet
This. I have also felt very burned out and frustrated with our industry, but with a little therapy I've found that most of my unhappiness comes from within, and once resolving those issues I've realized that being a developer is one of the most comfortable, privileged position one can be in. I can literally change a job in a matter of weeks, I have ridiculous salary, and most of my job I actually even love! Not so much the case with a ton of other jobs.
I began writing recently in a browser editor (substack) that doesn't do the corrective spelling. I could barely write because I had to constant stop and figure out how to really spell the word. Totally revealed, for better or worse, how sloppy I had become as a typist.
IME, they get into companies that don't fire people (or government jobs) but rather move people to other projects, or they bounce before they're discovered to be incompetent. Companies often won't make stronger statements than "X worked for us on these dates" (the company, individual recommendations may be different). Barring legal trouble you may have caused, if the issue of departure is primarily performance, they don't want you suing them for making unprovable negative statements about you.
I asked about authenticity of it long time ago on https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20335/is-this-v... and the answer was that it was technically possible even then.
Manned hydrogen ballooning is definitely still a thing.
By making it an NFT I think he creates something bigger than himself, something that could last generations. If he just gets a donation from FB, that would be some random amount of money…who cares.
I don't know enough about that data set, but I think that the difference between "general government" and "government enterprises" is the gap between spending and production.

The "data" that demonstrates privatisation most clearly is the sale of government assets. I did a quick search for some reports, here's one but it's about 10 years old:

https://www.oecd.org/daf/ca/corporategovernanceofstate-owned...

Things like prisons, electrical infrastructure, toll roads, rail, educational institutions, are all examples where the government used to own and operate but there has been a shift towards either private ownership or private management or both. I don't think these things show up clearly in "spending" alone, because the amount that is spent may increase as a result of privatisation (a great example of this is that the US govt spends more per person on healthcare than Australia, where I'm from, despite having nowhere near the level of publicly avialable healthcare).

Another example is that NASA pays Spacex to deliver payloads to the ISS. That would still show up as spending by the government, but it has a huge component of profit going to a private corporation, and there's no "competition" to produce improvements for the consumers in that case (us, the public) because of the aforementioned principal-agent problem.

The use of military contractors is another example where govt spending != govt production, and the government can absolve themselves of some of the accountability that would otherwise result from direct management of those forces:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/06/30/...
> I'm curious to know if this is indicative of a broader (politically-relevant?) interest in getting lead out of GA, or just the sort of specialist topic that tends to interest HNers

I have no interest in or connection to general aviation (beyond agreeing with Mojo Nixon on the topic of small private planes) but as a person who breathes air straight out of the atmosphere I have a strong interest in lead.
Exactly. Much more useful that the extremely niche SD card slot.
Once you own outright a block of IP4 addresses, is there a recurring charge to allow you to keep it? And who, if anyone, gets paid.
Maybe this is less of a satire of hiring practices than a satire of fickle tech trendiness. Like the $NOUN.js drinking game.
Obviously such trust could be misplaced but you will find a lot of very large organizations trust the OPAL SSDs shipped by Lenovo/HP/Dell.
> "This is the best book ever written on how to practice at the piano!" for crying out loud

It fits with the current zeitgeist, where clickbait is everywhere, even in respected newspapers.
Now we enter the analog of military defense speak, like ECM(Electronic Counter Measures), and ECCM,(Electronic Counter Counter Measures) and ECCCM.(Electronic Counter Counter Counter Measures) and more - do not laugh - it's true. Also called EC2M and EC3M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_counter-countermeas...
These ways to defeat the bots will engender ways to defeat the ways to defeat the bots, and so it will go on.... like ECCCM...
I have used it interactively over VNC, I don't think native headless mode helps for that case. Getting GL acceleration for a headless session is not very straight forward unfortunately.
> Dev jobs are objectively very comfortable.

Who’s to say dev jobs are objectively very comfortable?

> Problems exist in all industries/occupations, who's to say they aren't equally frustrating.

The claim that the problems that exist in all industries are equally frustrating, is obviously absurd.
I think this just points out how most recruiters don't know what they are looking at in terms of resume. This resume is clearly bullshit. Terms like "React for AI on Blockchain" should already send off a red flag to any competent hiring manager.
Not sure I understand your comment. I never had a problem with my interviewing technique. Nobody ever complained to me about it. I feel I was pretty consistent with how others interviewed.

My point was not to say that my technique was good - I have no data on whether it was good or not. My point was that you shouldn't assume that garbage resumes will be caught by the technical interviewers, because there is a good chance they aren't reading them either. I also meant to imply that it is probably a good idea to stuff your resume with buzzwords, probably a bit more subtly than this example, but if you have to choose between optimizing for the algorithm and optimizing for the human, I'd bet on the algorithm because I doubt the human is even going to read it.
> Let's see what we're comparing this to and then we can make a judgement about it.

I think it's fair to make a judgment about it when the fake resume had "spread herpes to 60% of the intern team" on it.

Time to update the "AI": herpes = -100 points
There are lots of human-in-the-loop systems with algorithms involved. People deeply care about those systems.

To be more precise, they “don’t care” that the system produces false positives. Did you consider they made this decision with full knowledge of the trade offs?
One very poor practice in higher ed and universities is that people rarely go through an editorial process where they can see how much early drafts can be improved through re-writes. So students write 100 essays, submitted and graded, with not a single polished work. At least that was my experience as a student and teacher
Did it ever come up?
> If I buy a book in one format, it doesn’t seem fair to pay full price to get it in another format.

Really? What if you're buying it for someone else? How is the purchase transaction supposed to validate something like that?

If you paid for a copy of something, then within the copyright framework, you may create a copy of it for yourself in another format.

> Paper? Just cover its cost: $4 each (+ postage)

> It’s worked out well. People are buying many hardcover copies as gifts. A few people have bought over 500 copies each to give to clients or members of their organization.

OK, but traditional publishing is going to see that as being asked to institutionalize copyright infringement. This is literally describing paying for the content once and then just making copies at cost to distribute to others to whom the content is entirely new.

Why not pay for the first hard copy to cover the cost of content, and then buy 500,000 cheap copies just "covering the cost" for making copies for every other reader the book will ever have?

I think that within the copyright framework in which publishing operates, the implementation of someething like this has to be severely limited. When you buy a work, you actually purchase some unique token linking you to that work. Under that token, you have the right to buy a small number of additional copies of that work (in various formats) at a big discount. Not hundreds!

When the token reaches its purchase limit, that's it; it is is deactivated for further purchases.
That's not efficiency. That's cutting corners and letting the best qualified candidates get away. Hardly doing a service to the employer, or doing what you're paid for.

Playing the "it doesn't scale" card is just code for lazy and incompetent.
From the last section in Chapter One, titled "Jazz, Fake Books, and Improvisation":

> In summary, the process of learning this genre consists of practicing the chords and scales sufficiently so that, given a melody, you can “feel” the right and wrong chords that go along with it.

That's only scratching the surface and will not get you playing jazz. Listening to and copying the greats - Bird, Monk, Evans, Coltrane, Rollins, et al. That's how you learn to play jazz.

>It is clear that this genre is here to stay, has great educational and practical value, is relatively easy to learn, and can be a lot of fun.

Relatively easy to learn??? Clearly the author hasn't or isn't playing jazz.
TLDR about what in particular?
I do not argue that the Iroquois were perfect, but we are not comparing them to a perfect society.
As a non-farmer, I honestly don't know the difference between hay and straw.
Wow. After reviewing a couple of the pages, that appears to be to human languages what C++ is to programming.

Which is intended to be descriptive, not pejorative.
I love it but I do wonder if there is anything out there
that is syntactically similar to SQL for querying JSON.
See a therapist. Get in touch with your values. They won't tell you what to do but will help you understand what you want.
The Polarization of Death
And how do people get to be at the stage of being interviewed by you? They submit a resume and it gets assessed by someone… Just because that person isn’t you doesn’t meant that resumes aren’t key.
MacOS major updates are far from only cosmetics. Apple does a bad job in sharing it with the broad public but every year they bring new features. Sometimes they are slower, an API addition one year, a deprecation in the next one and so on.
> Rather than concluding that these small molecules have simply interfered with our brain's ability to model reality and their drug-induced experience was an illusion, they instead think their mind lives in a larger reality and communicates with their earth-bound physical brain, and that a lot gets lost in the translation.

Oh boy, have I been there.

Psychedelic experiences really test the foundations of your world view. I am definitely not a dualist, but I can still vividly remember experiencing existence outside of time. When the dust settled I arrives at a panpsychic explanation, in that I expect consciousness to be a property of the computation that occurs in the universe, whereas brains are a particularly sophisticated nested computer. It just doesn't seem right any more that consciousness would occur in the brain, but not outside of it. It's all space dust anyway - to believe that brain space dust is somehow special for some reason seems as unreasonable as the beliefs of a dualist. Not sure how crazy I am to be thinking this (doesn't everyone think their own worldview is the sane one?), but I can very easily imagine people coming up with all sorts of even crazier interpretations of their experience.
You have such a different way of looking at resumes… I practically ignore schools and companies and just look at what they actually did there (wherever it was).
>is totally wrong. There's a Piano Pedagogy group just in the Bay Area, and lots of books on it.

None of the above refute the parent's statement. They author is aware there are such things as piano pedagody groups and books. Key word here is "properly" (which might be accurate or not, but that's what should be refuted).
Many developers are silly like that, yes. Many teams think that is fine since they aren't user facing, being silly there wont hurt the company image or anything at all really.
> the overwhelming workload and lack of resources provided to the US Navy

If you think it's bad now, wait until there's a war.

The military needs to be able to operate under conditions of overwhelming workload and lack of resources, because that's what it will be like if it ever actually has to fight.

> If someone is working over 100 hours per week, if they can get a break by cutting training

Then someone has the wrong definition of "training". Training is properly done as part of actual operations. You don't "train" to do something and then do it. You train by doing it, while others more senior to you are watching you while they're doing their part of the operations. For example, the officers who made the bad decisions that caused the collisions you refer to should have been training on ship handling and navigation as part of transiting the ship from place to place, routinely. You shouldn't have to set aside special "training" time for those things.

Firefighting is actually an exception to the above rule, for obvious reasons, so there is a good reason to have special training time for that. But you can do that while other things are going on as well.

> when the choice is product or training, many managers will cut the latter

Your use of the word "managers" suggests to me the root cause of the problem: our military doesn't need "managers", it needs leaders. You don't "manage" a military organization; you lead it. And the collisions several years ago and this fire point to a lack of leadership in our military.
I’m not sure why you got downvoted. This is completely correct. Providing for everyone by trapping human beings in a giant production machine is inhumane. But machines are (generally) happy to do this for us.
It's not going to take very long for those recruiters' teams to figure out who responded to that resume. Some might even get fired.

Someone was incompetent and got caught, so maybe that's a good thing.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to give the only country that gave him asylum a pass, and turn a blind eye. He's under no obligation to be a megaphone against injustice in all forms in all places.
Facebook the company no longer exists, Google still exists as a company. Google simply created a new company to act as a holding company.

Meta (Facebook) is even going as far to change its ticker on 12/1 to reflect the new name.
We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society
I think it's pretty apparent that if you have an industry which can eliminate competitors because of an unrelated industry it would be anti competitive.

Sure the other industry could vertically integrate an open cloud but it sounds wrong to require that to be an ecommerce platform
At the end of the day, ROE is the truth beyond everything else. Businesses have to justify their valuations at some point in their lifecycle.
It was written long ago.
The vaccine mandate was implemented before we understood the vaccines. With J&J supposedly showing single digit effectiveness after 9 months…
Brute forcing a BTC wallet private key is like counting to infinity: the earlier you start, and the faster you work, the sooner you’ll never get there. :)

There are 2^256 possibilities.

This thread is interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4453897.0

Recent key rates are 182 million keys/sec, so about 2^27 keys/sec. By my math (always suspect!), I think that means you have a 50% chance of finding a specific key, in 2^101 seconds => 8.0e22 years, or approximately 1.0e21 lifetimes.

If you get together with 8 billion friends, you will have a 50% chance at cracking the wallet in only 125 billion lifetimes, but then if you split the wallet value evenly, you'll each only get $1.00 USD (at today's BTC-USD exchange rate -- might not be the same in 10 trillion years, but who knows??).

If you have a meaningful fraction of a zillionth of this kind of computing resources available, you should put it to use mining instead!

All bets are off if quantum computing ever happens.
So ANAMA?