skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never a big social media person. But back in 2012 I totally went off of social media all together. It happened because I was in grad school and my girlfriend at the time had lots of anxiety issues. Her doctor recommended that she delete her facebook. She was worried about "missing out" on things if she deleted it so her and I decided to delete it together at the same time. 10 years have passed and I still don't have an account and don't miss it at all! The only social media that I have is LinkedIn (and HN) for work purposes but haven't logged into it more than a few times a year.

There are some challenges to not having social media however. It has been integrated into so many other apps and platforms that it is hard to get away from. For example, some of my close friends have a Messenger group chat. Sometimes I have missed out on planning events because of that. Also platforms like Oculus started to require a FB to log in. Online dating was also hard. Dates would ask for my FB or Instagram account and when I told them that I didn't have one they would think I was trying to hide something. I don't want to totally bash social media BUT I really hope that it goes back to what it was originally made for and all of the integrations stop. I don't think this is the trend though...
I guess it’s the same situation as in Spain - if you earn a degree and you stay in Portugal you’re a grade A idiot. In other words brain drain.
The addressable LEDs aren't typically just bit banging GPIOs. There's no clock line with common protocols in the space like the WS2812, and they're very susceptible to jitter. Twiddling GPIOs from user space is basically a non starter.

I've had success though with using the MOSI line from a SPI master and carefully crafting the bit pattern and timing to get the waveform I want. It takes some manual work though, more than what you get from user space.
I believe it's not about learning how to do things. That's not that hard. It's about knowing about the gotchas - things not to do. Every technology stack has its warts and oddities.

It's not that hard to write some code that would do the job, it's hard and cost prohibitive to realize all the initially hidden nuances that might require redesign because of shortsightedness of the original one.

Requires either a really bright fast-thinking mind or just a lot of experience making one's fair share of mistakes. There are geniuses out there who can make perfect models in their heads, but I believe a lot of people just scrape by knowing where them or others had shot themselves in the foot before. And such experience only comes with time.
> A senior engineer that has always worked in the backend won't be able to be up to speed with a complex frontend app quickly and be as effective as a senior frontend.

And I strongly disagree with you, and I have a real life example to disprove it (i know, a single data point is just anecdata, but still).

Our team was doing mostly web front-end (your typical TS+React+Webpack+etc., you get the idea), and we got an internal transfer about 1.5 years ago. Senior engineer, not a "rockstar coder" by any means. He doesn't spend his free time working on tons of side projects, he has other hobbies that aren't related to coding. Just a really solid engineer all around.

Here is the catch: his sole experience for the past 8-10 years until that point was writing OS-level C++ code. Exactly zero experience with anything web or front-end related. In a month, he was already decently productive and pushing significant functionality-related PRs on regular. 3 months in at most, he was fully productive and indistinguishable from anyone else on the team, except he also had back-end skills that were better than those of at least half of the team.

And no, we weren't building a simple CRUD app (not that there is anything wrong with that), it was a pretty complex tool that worked and integrated across a bunch of different Office suite products.

Sidenote: Thought to mention that part about "other hobbies not related to coding" to make a point that he didn't just compensate for his lack of existing front-end knowledge by throwing some ungodly number of hours of his own free time at it to ramp up. The problem is that most people cannot afford throwing that many hours of their "free" time considering other life commitments. And no, there is nothing wrong with throwing many hours of free time to bruteforce a skill, that doesn't take away from the person's ability in it imo. But if the engineer I am talking about had done that, then my point wouldn't have generalized well.
Why are we setting the bar at human vision? Computers have so many ways of being able to see better than humans. Why would you not want the most visibility possible? Why not be able to see around the car in front of you for more advanced warning? Or why not be able to see around corners? I mean, we put so many cameras in cars now just to give the driver the most visibility possible... and for some reason, we should only use 2 cameras for driving, because that's what humans have? Seems like a low bar to me.
Citation for this?

The second paragraph of TFA says:

Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks — without a safety driver — on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours.

That sure sounds like no safety driver.
Modern business platforms are so toxic. There really needs to be platforms which are actually platforms and not walled gardens that own everything done in-platform. It's unbelievable that in 2021 we can have puritanical interests take legitimate businesses offline without recourse.
It's often scanned, too. We have a small honeypot in our Wordpress blog that scanners assume is a vulnerability. Often I see email coming minutes after a certain file is accessed.

Whenever we ask for details or true reproductions to the issue, they're unable to provide.
It was basically the result of the action from Church bureaucrats along with the public workers pension bureaucrat helped by the notorious arrogance of brazilian judges that usually ignore expert advice when it contradicts their opinions.
I don't think they have any special names. Laws that regulate what does and does not count as illicit work will cover this.
Cesium is much denser than steel, so it probably felt valuable or rare.
> An average 66% annual return in their Medallion Fund since 1988 according to wikipedia.

The claim, the secondary (tertiary?) source, and the primary source make that all hard to not smile at.

66% annualized returns are more likely to be pyramid schemes - but that couldn't happen, could it?
> They are speculating that the value will not decrease, or that rents will increase. Otherwise they’d rent.

That assumes you're getting the same product, but when renting you don't necessarily have any guarantee that the lease will be renewed when your rental term is up. Owning your own home is a more stable arrangement since you generally face no risk of eviction as long as you keep up with any applicable mortgage and property tax payments (barring exceptional circumstances such as eminent domain).

If you expect to move frequently then it might come down to just rent vs. mortgage and property value, but if you intend to stay in one place for the long term then ownership has other advantages to offer.
>what kind of incentives you have

I am sure you are aware, but there is an ongoing, well-funded and highly organised propaganda campaign with deep military integration.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/nher96/inside_is...

https://old.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/n4etue/found...

https://old.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/o5su74/the_i...
I wonder where the break point is on looking for specialists vs raising them yourself.
My system doesn't have a `python`. On Ubuntu you need to install one of the `python-is-python2` or `python-is-python3` packages for the `python` command to be available.

Command 'python' not found, did you mean:

command 'python3' from deb python3
command 'python' from deb python-is-python3

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python-is-python3
Hacker news is mostly a nice forum; but the fact that the above got downvotes is a perfect representation of exactly what's wrong with it.
Of course flying on a commercial plane would be cheaper. They aren't flying on private jets because it's cheaper, they do it because their shareholders are the ones paying for it and they don't want to sit next to a plebe.
A very romantic view of mediocrity.
cracking a joke in the elevator

I disagree with this. What people consider funny varies a lot from person to person, and a stranger trying to joke with me comes across as rude. A friendly nod, saying hello, that's fine. Approaching me and immediately assuming that we have enough in common to enjoy the same humor? Sorry, but that's creepy.
Well, let me clarify. It's not something that employers should expect from employees.

But it is a trait I notice in a lot of highly competent folk who are high achievers. They'll see something coming on the roadmap that they feel like they want to prep/educate themselves on, and then they will noodle on it for an hour or two when they get a chance. By the time it comes time to implement it 'for real', they have already gotten most of the learning curve out of the way.
Oh, I’m stupid.. it’s 11th worst counting from the bottom, rather than 11th highest.
So instead of, you know, not censoring opposing viewpoints anymore, Reddit is instead just creating some shiny thing on a blockchain?
I didn't know about Ultimate Geography and have been using https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2915332392 deck instead. UG looks like a moderate upgrade over this deck.

I do prefer the maps in the deck that I linked to though. Both have their pros and cons, but I get a better feel for the location of the place from these maps compared to the UG ones (at least the ones in the sample notes).
Same, think it’s Hug
Since we're on the subject of pinterest, do their users get some mileage out of the social features as opposed to just downloading e.g. PureRef and creating a locally hosted board? Serious question, I don't quite understand what they're offering.
"Insert floppy disk 435 of 880 and press [Enter] when ready..."
Even if they don't generate money from that, catching people speeding is a public service. If one disagrees with the idea that speeding is bad, then why don't we raise speed limits until the speeds deemed "reasonable" at under the limit.
How Typeform Beat Everybody at SEO
You should also be able to do this in Java with jlink.
Doesn't have to be "unchecked", just much less checked than human brains.

Although, that is an interesting question in and of itself. Are living brains near a local optimum in terms of computing power, given heat and power constraints? With Moore's Law, the prediction was that computer intelligence would surpass human intelligence in a few more doublings. But now that the primary constraint is more about power usage than absolute clock speed, maybe living brains compare better?
The images there all came from somewhere else and are mostly uncredited on pinterest, so that's not really advantageous to anyone, and doesn't really harm pinterest at all.
I'm getting the same response no matter what ip range I connect from. Tried a few different ones via VPN and keep getting a refused to connect.
Hi I'm the author of the Prophet article https://www.microprediction.com/blog/prophet which for better or worse is why many people have recently questioned Prophet as a time-series method. (There are better, and certainly more formal critiques before and after - I referenced several).

I just hope those who push back on your article read all the way to the last paragraph. I'll repeat it below. Very well put.

I'm happy to answer technical questions about Prophet from anyone here but again, this is somewhat beside the point, which is...

The requirement that people come to your company knowing how to use piss easy baby tools is an extremely dumb and lazy hiring practice. It is also, unfortunately, a common practice in data science job postings. The aggregate effect of this practice being widespread is that talented people with unusual backgrounds get gatekept out of good paying jobs that they’d be exceptional at. Making fun of the job posting and using Prophet has been compared to gatekeeping. To be clear, the Prophet prerequisite is an actual form of gatekeeping being undertaken by a major company that has actual material impacts on people’s careers. The job post excludes people not based on aptitude, but based on whether they have previous experience and familiarity with a tool they could be introduced to and then master in under 15 minutes. A tweet making fun of the job posting is not gatekeeping. Get over it, LinkedIn clout chasers

I would add that since posting my own less-well worded version of this astonishment I have received numerous DM's from people at large companies who are aghast at the way Prophet is a favorite of management. So whether or not this was a problem at Zillow beyond, say, 2015, it might well be the case elsewhere.
My friend's mom technically died in a clinical sense 5 minutes post first jab while still in the parking lot under observation. My other friend's brother dropped dead exactly 36 hours post 2nd jab. Both were zapped back to life. One of them had a pre-existing heart condition.
I know at least one ER RN that readily admits they're seeing a high increase in ER cases of young (20s) people with various neurological and cardiac issues 1-14 days post vaccine (and are almost never treating them as vaccine-caused issues hence they stay unreported). The apologists will say things like "but you don't know it was the vaccine". Sure, you're never 100% positive about anything dealing with as complex system as a human body. What you should do is start with "what has changed recently", and almost always the patients that my RN wife handles say "I've been recently vaccinated.".
> offence

Heavens, no. Enjoy the day.
And Entity Framework Core unfortunately because EF6 was already a thing.
Yandex image search for the win.
Avalonia: A cross-platform XAML-based UI framework
There's two things that usually work. 1) be part of a local scene. 2) bring in popular acts.

1 relies on knowing the hot local musos, and which of them will bring along their other muso friends and their "scene" followers. Where I am, a large part of the jazz and funk scenes work like this. This almost exclusively happens on social media and by word of mouth. It piggybacks the social networks of the musicians/bands, and the venue/promoter. Comping drinks/meals/tickets to the musos can make a big difference here, and if you charge a cover charge letting them run a big guest list helps heaps too - everybody loves "being on the list" from the muso the chatted to at a gig last week, it makes the punters feel very special. (It might even be worth putting a super nominal cover charge on, say $5 or even $2, and instructing the door staff to use any excuse imaginable to "let people in for free" - "Nice shoes! Come on, I'll add you to the list." "Oh Hi, you're a regular, right? We're only charging tourists..." "A group of five? Awesome, drink up and we'll comp the cover charge.")

2 relies on staking enough money to pay for big enough names/acts that people who aren't part of your venue's scene recognise. This needs to be advertised in places that're probably out of your collective social networks - the act is likely to not be local so their social network promotion will have a smaller effect than local acts, and the venue/promoters social networks probably don't have any of the "non scene" punters in them. For this approach, you want to comp relevant radio show hosts, bloggers, and "influencers" (even though I hate that word...) instead of the band members (who you're probably going to have to pay commercial rates for).

That's how it works with bar-sized acts here in Sydney, anyway.

Being Irish Jams at an Irish Pub probably changes that some, I don't know if there are likely to be a lot of potential audience for Irish Jams that don't already hang out at the local Irish Pub? That'd get super location specific too, chasing that audience in New York would be way different to chasing it in Dublin or Sydney, and I don't have a clue how close to any of those the "Irish community and fans" in Providence, RI are.
Where?

Is MIT truly beyond saving?
Looks cool! What is the pricing like for more than 10 users?
Know of and being proficient are two different things.
This assertion that US federal administration policies have created enormous inflation is popular, but not well supported. Most of the inflationary shocks have proven to be short term and are in the process of correction including lumber and shipping prices.

The most concerning price increases have to do with housing, education, and health care and have been outpacing salaries for even longer than Biden has been a politician, let alone serving as President. The long term explosion of health care costs means calls to pay providers more may not even be possible given the huge and sharply increasing percentage of GDP that health care already takes.

Not only is inflation not something we can depend on, there are strong deflationary forces at work which is why we continue to be in the strange position of having zero to negative real interest rates. Of course if deflation starts to do its terrible work then that will be blamed on that horrible opposing political party as well.
Others have said no, but I think you can. The ".NET Framework compatibility mode"[0][1] was introduced in netcore2.0 (which actually is now quite a long ago, geez), which means that if your libraries don't use some windows-specific APIs/functionality, like WPF, there is a big chance that you can use them just as they are. I have never used my own .NET framework library like that but I think have used some 3rd party library targeting .NET framework in production.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/third-p...
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/#net-fr...
Unsurprisingly Aaron wrote about capitalism often, sometimes negatively (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001638), sometimes ambivalently (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001680), and sometimes positively (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001679, which describes some of his experiences with Y Combinator when the "summer founders program" was just getting started). He described people who called him anti-capitalist as "especially funny" (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001107).

It's an insult to the man to assert that he would have taken a position without thinking about its consequences, which is what you are doing when you say, "He couldn't be very happy to hear Graham saying we don't need to tax and spend on infrastructure to get us out of the climate mess."
It seems HN changed it to old.reddit.com but it doesn't load. Here is the working link: https://www.reddit.com/community-points
> their founder worked in that field [topological quantum field theory] before moving to business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_theory

> Famously, he was sacked by the NSA for giving an interview opposing US involvement in the Vietnam war.

Another cult of personality in business. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Henry Ford, JP Morgan, etc. managed to do a lot without cults of personality.

The more BS I see, the more I question what they are hiding, and the more I question their judgment in distracting their organizations from practical business, and distorting reality.
That article talks about an "engine head" of Co-60. That's not a correct translation. The radiotherapy unit has a Co-60 source in it, and it is called a "head", but there is no engine. You just open the doors and shine the source onto a patient for a carefully calculated number of seconds, then shut the doors. It works in an almost identical way to the Cs-137 source from above.
The US (and EU) are largely deindustrialized, having offshored nearly all of their grossly polluting industries to the Global South and Asia. It doesn't feel particularly fair to point fingers at the developing world when we've externalized nearly all of our pollution onto them.

(That doesn't, of course, excuse China's coal-fired plant growth, or any other form of egregious pollution. Only to say that these things don't happen in a vacuum.)
Yeah, I definitely don't see this as something that can be reasonably implemented into any standard hiring process. The closest approximation might be to work with someone on a contractor basis and then offer them a full time position, but this filters out a lot of people who only want full-time work.
Let's say the US went to 0 emissions. That's 15% of the global emissions whipped out (note, France is doing awesome, and setting a great example, but not anywhere near 0 emissions). If the US was 0 emissions since 2000, we'd still be in a climate crisis. That is essentially what I'm saying. It would be decreased from where we are, yes. But it wouldn't be a "minor issue" as the OP stated.
In the most polite way possible, what are you talking about? How does anything you've quoted have anything but a tenuous, situational connection to the FISC court?
Nope, not upset. Just trying to make OP aware of their contradictory behavior.

OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good about my intelligence level even though I know there are plenty of folks smarter than me out there.

What I am is annoyed at the elitism that OP shows. I work at a FANG, have worked at a couple SV unicorns too. There is plenty of work happening here that is not as challenging as OP makes it out to be. I've seen a lot of people with the attitude OP has and I think it makes for a toxic and unwelcoming environment.

As someone who has used complex algorithms research in my work, I agree white boarding has some carryover to some FANG work. But my experience is that there is vastly more boring CRUD work to do and you must generally fight with others to get the interesting/challenging algorithmics work. No need to filter out a ton of qualified people because they can't perform a tiny fraction of the work happening here.
Carnivore Self Reported Health Status of 2029 Adults, Harvard
“This project will only take 2 hours”
Would you prefer to issue/have a professional certification live on chain?
Let's say your school diploma or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certification lived on chain, which meant it'd reduce the time to being hired. Would that appeal to you as either a certification issuer or job seeker? Why or why not?
Well, part of the problem with the naming for ASP.NET is that the .NET Framework version (WebForms) was simply called ASP.NET, so they couldn't just drop the "Core" like they did with .NET itself.
They're already doing such things, and have been since the beginning. It's a standard quality monitoring and tuning of the ranking algorithm. Google even has (outsourced) staff that continuously performs searches and gives feedback. Sites that Google doesn't deem appropriate for their search results are regularly removed both algorithmically and via manual interventions.

There's no objective ranking. Every algorithm change is effectively Google's decision against someone's site.

Google has been caught abusing this responsibility with preferential treatment of AMP pages, due to AMP giving preferential treatment to Google's ads. Google knows Pinterest is blatantly spamming search, so they must have a reason for keeping them.
> and LINQ

Shudders at memories of coworkers writing giant, ridiculously inefficient LINQ queries without understanding how it's actually using the database and what it's doing server-side

> Toplevel programs should make it easier to experiment with C# if you're interested.

Definitely interested in that small feature :) If I had extra time I'd like to see what it takes to brew install dotnet and write a simple CLI program. Can .NET deploy a static binary nowadays?