skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A related article has an amazing fact: in the 1800s, humans killed as much whale biomass as all mammalian biomass alive today.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-...
Union types let you accomplish very similar things to what you can do in languages that support Enums with associated values, like Rust. (See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-01-defining-an-enum.html for examples of what that looks like. There's no great direct comparison in Java, because Java Enums don't support associated values like this; the closest Java pattern would involve making multiple classes that each extend an interface or abstract class.)
That's the one.

So practically it's pretty cheap to get yourself to the top of the list for permanent residency. All you have to do is buy a couple of $500k houses, rent them for whatever rent you can get for them, claim you created 10 jobs by hiring maintenance guys and landscapers and whatever else to maintain them, and then when you've got your paper from the US government you can turn around and sell them for what you paid for them (or even a little less, who cares, you bought your American residency).

The rules were changed from the original law to not only allow properties in economically disadvantaged areas but near them.

As I said, that's why there's a trailer park which resembles some "third world" country slums right on the freeway in the wealthier north Dallas suburbs where I live. All of those realtors selling rental houses to Chinese factory bosses, Russian mobsters' children, South American cartel finance guys, etc need them to be near the trailer park to qualify for the program. Similarly, via a ridiculous string of foot paths and bike lanes, Hudson Yards in NYC was determined to be economically disadvantage due to its proximity to Harlem, so they could also sell apartments that no one else wanted to Chinese factory bosses, children of Russian mobsters, South American cartel finance guys, etc.
> The trouble with preventative medicine is that it is creating artificial anxiety on the basis of the possibility of illness.

I don't see it this way. Regardless of the existence of preventative care, what brings anxiety is the knowledge of the existence of the illness and the possibility of being sick. The preventative care (assuming we mean test/monitoring and not constant medication) is what shows me that the anxiety is unfounded.
Ask HN: What are the best and worst teams at Apple to work for?
Just this. I hear all kinds of things about every group having it's own culture, infrastructure, everything. So what are good and bad teams within Apple?

Also, does that mean if you're interested in multiple positions you'd need to submit multiple resumes and do multiple full interview schedules?
It must be Google?
Is there really enough data that it’s not just scatter at some point when deaths are 1-3 per year.
I don't think we do. As the article notes, these are not new concepts - the Greeks had four words for different types of loves, as recently as 50 years ago they were still known and understood in pop culture [1]

It is a recent invention that has us all confused. The rush to validate the gay rights movement has pushed people far beyond their comfort zone, and the culture war has put pressure on people to assert their allegiance to the camps by overstating or denying their deep connections. "I love you bro" was actually a pretty common sentiment, and now many very progressive people feel the need to qualify it - "I love you, bro, but not like in a sexual way, not that there's anything wrong with that"

Lines have been blurred and confused and nobody's the better for it. It is a shift in religion that caused us to lose our knowledge of how to love someone as a friend.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Loves
That's what the back/rewind button is for, though for many purposes you'd be better off listening to lecture series than podcasts for learning. I know I learned a lot about development economics from listening to Duflo and Bannerjee's lectures.
That's a great explanation, thank you for that.
I listen to podcasts from trusted sources like BBC, The Economist or Wall Street Journal. I don't check their facts just like I don't when I read their published material. If I didn't trust my podcast sources I wouldn't listen to them. It's why I don't listen to New York Times podcasts.
I had a similar experience, something borked on my Radeon 9600 Pro (assuming a busted capacitor) a week or two after the warranty expired, but I figured I'd try my luck and ask if there was anything they could do. They promptly sent me a new card for free (though it was probably refurbished), didn't even ask for the old one in return.

ATI was a great company back then.
Surely it's because: on a motorcycle you usually only hurt yourself?

In a car you tend to hurt other people including any kids, etc that may be along for the ride.
Me! I do. I've done it for basically all my parts, in case my retail store is a pain if something goes wrong.

These cards won't be sold any time soon, they'll have been stolen for mining.
"You can’t just send random bullshit and expect meaningful results"

Huh, isn't that the way nature works?

My thoughts precisely.
No… Well I guess if you were adding SMS as a 2fa option to your real 2fa would increase surface but that wouldn’t solve what the parent comment was saying. So yea don’t do that (but it’s better than just a password).

1)Password alone is weak. 2)Password and SMS 2fa better.
3)Password and real 2fa best. 4)Password, real 2fa, backup codes, basically just as good as best.

Google is only eliminating #1, and only requires 2fa when logging into a new device. I’m surprised HN folks are having a tough time grasping this one, in general it’s pushing people (I’d guess 90% of people would never opt into anything more than a regular password, including the parent) into #2 above.

Parent should do #4, but #2 is fine
I lived in Europe for a number of years. At least then, transit was great and I used it extensively. In San Francisco at least, for policy reasons, transit is pretty grim.

I witnessed a guy getting beat up for stopping a tourist scam. Interestingly, after they grabbed his shoes and he chased them HE was arrested.

I saw an old women be spit on (huge spit) while sitting in the handicap seat.

What's very unique in San Francisco, passengers know that if they get involved and a claim of excessive force, racial etc factors come in - they may have a career ending consequences or liability. AS a result, again, no one will help you. It's really amazing watching TOTALLY brazen theft from stores, from cars, folks getting harassed while on transit. No one will step in. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was dying that folks might step over them or around them, it's that socialized.

This may have changed in the EU, but when I was there it just wasn't comparable at all. The US model for transit has soured me a bit on transit. At some point you need to make it so it serves the 95% that want a safe ride, perhaps doing on call pickup transits for those struggling with mental health / drug and other issues who still need to get places?

Bottom line though - I'd encourage govt to create safe options people WANT to use vs focusing on banning things (out here major efforts to get uber banned so taxi cartels could take over again with their "broken" credit card meters, unreliable pickups, failures to service areas etc).
https://archive.md/Ewpk3
You know you're old when you see "EVGA" and "Graphics Cards" in the same sentence and EGA/VGA is the thing that pops into your mind first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter
I've started playing around with the idea of building a better retirement/goals investment calculator/tracker for Indians.

The retirement calculators available online are almost farcical in their simplicity and assumptions. And the ones offered by professional, fee-only financial advisors (I engaged one) are just clunky, uneasy to use excel sheets. They do the job of course, but I think there has to be an easier, more intuitive way to tracking goals/investments.

I know way too many of my friends and acquaintances - educated, fairly wealthy people - who seem to have almost no idea on how to plan/track goals/retirement. It'd be fantastic if I could make something which helps them and others like them.
Decade of testing or more likely… never?
Is it really true that once you pass the interview and orientation you get to choose the team you want to work on?
Different locations, I'd assume. It's well known that EVGA outside of the US is... not great, when it comes to customer service anyway. Within the US itself though -- no idea!
The US is not sitting in the cold and dark right now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/30/economy/china-power-short...
I think podcasts are good for discovering new things about a topic. I often mark things down as “look into this more” to actually learn later.
I have also never seen requirements or change control being done anywhere outside defense in any way near "correctly" or in a way which was useful.

It is absolutely useful when you're doing a 10 billion dollar project with dozens of contractors when your customer is say, the Army.

The way I've seen all of these things done in commercial software is like middle managers heard about requirements in an elevator while drunk and went home and decided to implement them. i.e. nobody know at all what they're doing, and they're trying to accomplish something they've heard of but never come close to experiencing done well.

I feel the same way about Agile. It came from the way a group of smart effective people worked together and decided to share... it's being implemented almost everywhere by people who are looking for a set of guidelines to follow and don't at all grok the point of any of it.
Data/ML Engineer in Germany
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2772269719/?refId=le%2FsX...
I'm not sure learn is the right verb, but I think that it certainly opens the mind to other stuff that we couldn't previously see. And that cascades into other areas as well.
Disclaimer: many years in devdiv

I unfortunately have far more mixed feelings.

I've found the hot reload fiasco to be representative of a pattern of decisions coming out of Julia's leadership org. This is not the first casualty, although it was the most visible.

I did not find her to be approachable either, surface friendly and professional, to be clear, but not approachable; I would however give the strong caveats that this is obviously a subjective opinion likely biased due to professional disagreement.

To try and be additionally fair, I do not think these are unique qualities to a specific (V)P, just that I often find leadership at that level to be disconnected and have an agenda that doesn't sit well with me even if I may see the rationale. Most people I would like to see in CVP/President roles are not in (and often do not seek) those positions.
I agree - and might reveal that our diet these days is pretty amazing.
Australian regulator demands face-scanning firm Clearview AI delete photos
AOPA about electric aviation: “The future is bright”
My wife works in healthcare and has a daily standup. They use that time to go over what work will be done that day, which largely cannot be predicted far in advance as it is dependent on patient bookings. This brings novel information.

Fundamentally, that is also the idea pushed in software. A chance to talk about what needs to be done that day. But, in my experience, tech companies also schedule planning meetings. That is where it is determined what will be done for the next while (two weeks seems to be a common cadence) and after that the course is set. There is nothing else to talk about, unless someone has a problem, and when someone has a problem (assuming your team is functional) they reach out when they have a problem, not wait until a prescribed time 23.75 hours later.

That means there is no additional information to give in the standup, and thus this is likely the source of why standups end up being pointless the vast majority of the time in tech. The healthcare case, on the other hand, provides clear value.

There are likely some cases where tech teams suffer from no direction, void of an idea of what needs to be done before the moment it needs to happen. I imagine that overlaps with tech that is dysfunctional. A productive standup does not exactly seem like something to strive for, but if all you have is a bandaid...
NYC cuts deal to reset thousands of yellow taxi medallion loans to $200k
I cannot agree more with this. After almost dying a couple times, I've come to see the "must be learning constantly" mindframe as utterly toxic. Expanding your skillsets is great! But it's mind-boggling how many people I know who feel genuine guilt over simply relaxing and enjoying life, art, friends, family, etc.

Slacking off and not getting necessary things done is terribly self-destructive. But so is cramming "learning", "goals", and "growth" into literally every second of your day.
> A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected with the coronavirus in Iowa has found that the animals probably are contracting the virus from humans, and then rapidly spreading it among one another, according to researchers.

Likely, it is unvaccinated humans who refuse to social distance doing the infecting of the deer.
skype, lync, skype for business, teams...
It seems to me “there is no other technical system in the company capable to perform the task” is a valid technical justification.
Sounds like it wasn't really alright
Wondering if it can speed up docker image pulls in Gitlab CI runners
I've found podcasts are great for learning about news and history but I would shudder to try to learn anything math based from them.
If this is of interest to you, I recommend looking at Ed Wood:

https://sourdo.com/classic-sourdoughs-book/

https://thechalkboardmag.com/sweet-on-sour-ed-wood-on-the-an...

He was in National Geographic Magazine, January, 1995 discussing this as well. I have two of his cultures for sourdough and they work great!
> If the company is willing to warrant the card for X years if you register it, then surely X years is the minimum bounds of a reasonable lifetime?

What makes you say that?

Depending on who you ask, a reasonable lifetime for a phone is 2 to 6 years. But if I want to make my customers feel nice and secure I might offer a 10 year warranty, knowing that very few people will actually keep it that long.
I appreciate that he used Kamut, which is a trade name for a cereal brought back from Egypt to Montana, United States, by a soldier who was stationed there.

The berries are much larger than wheat, if I recall correctly they called it "pharaoh's wheat" before adopting the Kamut moniker. Nowadays it's mostly a product of Montana- a very different climate from the Nile valley.
How did you get started in this?
Why not ask the local Klu Klux Klan chapter in your neighbourhood? They have a "fine" tradition of conducting such hikes.

Most recent example - Charlottesville?
There's always a hazard in comparing a specific genre or studio's production to an aggregate average. Sturgeon's law is tremendously optimistic: far more than 90% of everything is crap.

British Pathe, especially during and after WWII, was unabashadly propagandistic. It produced short newsreels for popular audiences to view before the main feature in theatres. Themes were pro-British, pro-Empire, and pro-Industry. Technical content was minimal.

At its best, YouTube offers markedly better. One example off the top of my head is the Engineer Guy channel, with numerous phenomenally good, non-self-promotional videos. His on the RMS Titanic, the British Airship R.101, on the design (and manufacture) of the aluminium can, and his re-enactment of Michael Faraday's "Natural History of the Candle" (proving that the Brits can actually create high-quality educational content) are all excellent, and I've watched all of them.

Bill Hammack has his own biases, occasional blind spots, and does occasionally promote (he wrote a book on R.101, as he'll happily tell you, and does). But he produces excellent work, first and foremost.
In the US military as an officer you have a specified amount of time to make the next grade. If you are passed over for promotion too many times career over. Unsurprisingly this gets more challenging the higher you get with only a 2% chance of moving from O6 to O7. There are also educational requirements, both military and civilian, for each grade as well.

So it’s not completely welfare. The benefits offered exist for retention. The military can offer nice benefits because it is the largest employer in the world. It’s like the healthcare and other benefits you get from a corporate employer but much better. The larger the employer the better the benefits tend to get.
Agreed. With small biz, it’s high reward / risk, because so much more depends on a small group of people

In large companies things get standardized, so there’s a more likely chance of an average experience.
This is purely an elitist viewpoint.

Learning:
the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.

Podcasts are great for learning. They're not great for learning skills, but they're great for acquiring knowledge.
Your description is so on the point I think many here will be able to resonate. I worked under one such owner myself! The flipside was that we were so often blocked by him that I got a lot of free time to experiment and learn.
I'd say less than 100, but prefer less than 50 personally.
It's worse than that. Not only they don't jaywalk, they stand or wander randomly all over the sidewalk/corner, getting in the way of those who are trying to get somewhere.

Downtown SJ might be the winner, though. Even at noon, in broad daylight, you might not see a car for a quarter or half mile (SF is never that deserted), yet pedestrians wait for the walk signal. Craziness. At least they don't give jaywalkers the stare of disapproval you'd get in Japan.
EWG: Interactive Map of Water Pollution with PFAS
In a previous role a single engineering recruiter was goaled against >= 3 placements per month and even exceptional recruiters usually weren’t sustaining >5 per month over a sustained period like a year or more. A “placement” is people who start at the company having gone through the entire hiring process. I’ve seen similar expectations across three Fortune 100’s now with little variation. I’m sure this gets branded the “body shop” approach, fine, unclear how you scale other options to hiring 1000’s of engineers a year (you exhaust the pool of recruiters skilled at other approaches!).

Anyway, in order to meet that placement goal it’s common to hear a sourcer contacted 300 people per week on LinkedIn and via select other channels.

This is usually NOT a blast to 500 people without targeting… you’re usually looking at source companies, levels of experience, geographic location, degrees of separation from individuals in the hiring organization, keyword matching, education or certifications.

About 5% of contacts will respond to these efforts. About 15% will respond when the initial contact is made by someone who has an Engineering Manager title instead. Those response rates don’t change dramatically when you alter the messaging (this is somewhat usual to A/B test when recruiting at scale). Title of the EM matters when recruiting somewhat, e.g. a junior manager may see < 15% response rates if they’re trying to hire at senior (Staff+) levels. Someone with a Director or VP title will see better response rates when hiring for Staff+ levels, this is the “Could I see myself working for this person?” test, I guess.

At a certain career level you’re also out of “Professional Recruiting” / “Industry Recruiting” and you’re into “Executive Recruiting” which is a somewhat substantially different process.

There’s also “College/Campus Recruiting” which has its own quirks and differences!

Several startups have tried and are trying to change this model but I’ve yet to see a move away from ‘brute force’ hiring in huge enterprises, YEMV.
CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities,orders agencies to patch
Seems close: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/4d5f651f1d651c6fa7...
An example of union types: many API in JS accept HTTP verbs as strings. With union types, you can say something like:

type HttpVerb = "GET" | "POST" | "PUT" | "DELETE";

But you can also do more complex stuff:

type User = {name: string; password: strings} | OAuthID;

By themselves they aren't hard to understand or use.

As an aside, compared to sum types, you don't have to define them before using them: a function can return number | null while in language with sum types you usually define option first and then return option<number>.
Yeah, I was thinking about this too. Without a real-time OS on separate hardware, and/or some kind of guaranteed "will not context-switch out of your process for more than X time" + strict coding habits, this seems like at best a practical (>?)99% improvement and at worst snake-oil. Certainly not reliable in any case.

edit: well, after reading Spivak's comment[1] a bit, I guess it does provide strict upper bounds. May be useful to reduce how often you need to use fallback behaviors / get more byzantine. Though I'm not yet sure how to turn that into something useful. No doubt there are some though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29103093
The uses and abuses of green finance
Can't wait to see if Fennel can support this =)
Podcasts are amazing for learning. I've never in my life experienced a form of learning that was so organic, easy, and fun for me. And I've suffered through a few University degrees.

I can listen to a single episode on some subject, then days later basically retell the entire thing to my dad. And by the time I've finished retelling what I learned, it's burned in forever.

I imagine what's happening is that you're assuming that because you experience existence a certain way, _everyone_ must experience it that way too.
I don't disagree that this is an anti-feature. My point is, companies get away with far worse and people probably wouldn't stop buying EVGA because of it. In fact, they obviously don't, as the NVidia driver already has that capability. Windows does, too.

So the answer to

> How about if you’re an OEM and you’re bundling video cards, would you risk the hit to your brand?

is clearly yes, as has been shown in the last years. Hell, we have cars that can be disabled remotely. Nearly nobody cares about about them creating a capability you could reasonably assume they already had. You and I might, but most consumers care about FPS - and getting a card at all - much more.
Wondering if Remix will be a good alternative for Next
Thanks for the heads up! I done goofed.

It's not possible to edit the URL now. I'll have to keep that in mind for next time.
People are either vesting 1/48th immediately every month, 3/48th every quarter, or are in the same circumstance a year after starting. The 4 year part is irrelevant for them as there is no actual waiting involved. They simple are able to negotiated being enticed by another company that will exceed how much cash they are already collecting. The company they work for gave them a signing bonus that required them to stay one year, the next
company will too, as well as a higher base salary and higher dollar amount of shares that begin vesting quickly.
I remember being asked by way too many friends to help remove BonziBuddy spyware from their computers. Nowadays this would be a great coin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
"You can’t just send a msg saying 'hey' and expect meaningful results"

Oh, but you can, if you do it enough!
Watch this till the end : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
Did something change with Proton corp that has them being a bit more hostile as of late? Peter Sunde is a credible source for this, and it doesn't seem like he'd fall victim to dog-piling on the media's hate-du-jour like the normal facebook news cycle. There is concern forming on this end for the future of the service if they continue with mis-steps like this.