skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the opposite experience recently as an EM. Spent a few months trying to find a staff-level engineer. Found a great candidate who worked for a FAANG, worked to get our budget up to his expectations, sold him on the team, and he accepted our offer with a start date 6 weeks in the future so he could have time to wrap up his work. Fine, I'm just happy to have filled the role after an arduous search. A few weeks go by, and he hasn't responded to my "we're excited to have you join the team, etc" email or any HR emails about filling out his paperwork. I call and email, the recruiter calls and emails, nothing. We never hear from him again..

He's been active on social media so we know he's alive, and assume he parlayed our offer into a raise somewhere else. Ok, that happens, but to accept an offer and totally ghost? Jeez. I could have used those intervening weeks to interview more candidates had he just sent me a quick note, now I've got to backfill his position while also trying to fill the new ones that just opened... I guess hiring is a shitshow from both sides sometimes.
It's a difference of degree. Going to the bowling alley in a gas car is certainly worse for the environment and if they were perfectly substitutable you probably shouldn't choose the bowling alley. They certainly aren't perfect substitutes.

Neither is PoW and PoS, but it's still a question whether those differences are meaningful and worth the tradeoff. The argument is not absurd, there are real costs to the PoW approach worth considering.

The PoW powered by solar is different but it's also a mythical beast. By design there would be no way to legislate the kind of energy the mining part uses because it's opaque to the users of the network. The only thing reasonably open to legislation by a country are the interfaces of the network with the countries financial system and by then it is impossible to determine the providence of the energy it used. It's also impractical to make enough energy where coal or other fossil fuels aren't economical to mine blocks in a popular PoW scheme.
Assessing the effect of beard hair lengths on masks used during the pandemic
Sleeping with potatoes in your socks is also a simple idea.
I went through the hiring loop recently when switching jobs.

Decided to do the right thing for once and make a serious effort at investigating my options.

I started out very sincere and honest, but two months of being fucked over by companies left and right in the interview process definitely changed me.

In the end I found a nice position working with honest and empathic people, but the path that lead there was a total disaster.
PSA: for those of us who have moved to Obsidian, its Outliner plugin does a fantastic job of providing the central AppFlowy UX atop the myriad benefits of Obsidian's approach to local markdown files etc.
> massive population growth

The U.S. population growth rate right now is easily the lowest it's ever been, except for the 1930s.

Agreed that housing and medical constriction are a big part of what's going on.
Italy's Antitrust Regulator Fines Google, Apple for “Aggressive” Data Practices
The politician could be trying to legislate standardizing on Windows XP, banning firewalls and connecting said computers to the Internet.
I just installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... to automatically fix them, and I manually s/twitter.com/nitter.*/ on non-FF browsers.
How do you enforce the carbon taxes? If I mine somewhere off the books in a random part of the world, my block is not distinguishable from one that paid a carbon tax on its emissions.
It's a start for sure but there is so much low hanging fruit here.

Eg a warning/prompt if a program tries to read/modify/delete more than x files in your home directory (not including its own config files). This would stop an entire class of malware scanning for passwords or secrets in your home folder. It could even if implemented right stop some of the ransomware attacks after a few files.

It seems crazy that so little effort is put into this kind of thing vs the crazy level of effort that goes into hardening the OS.
In hindsight the events may seem like low-stakes issues, but who knows their financial situation at the time and how they viewed the risk of missing the work issue. Maybe they genuinely were addicted to work, maybe they over-estimated the importance of the item at the time, maybe they honestly thought it could impact their job and in some twisted way thought that working more was the right thing to do for you (e.g. to maintain lifestyle).

I think everyone at this point is alienated from pre-pandemic ways of thinking about work, so it’s hard to put those past decisions in context given today’s circumstances.

You are closer to the situation and probably right to question their way of thinking, but I’m writing this response because I could see your comment building resentment. People generally try to do the best they can (though some people just don’t). If they are still alive, can you ask them why they worked so much when you were a kid?
Yes, our beautiful little system we've constructed is starting to feel more and more like a ball and chain. We can't bother doing what's in everyone's best interest because it also happens to be in nobody's individual interest. Quite a predicament.
The problem is, if you don't grow, eventually your business will dry up and be out competed by competitors that do grow.

The problem with growing, is that the more you grow, the more attention you'll attract from established big players, who will eventually jump into your game and likely destroy you.

It seems to me that running a small business can never really be a sustainable, long term venture, unless you get very lucky with a niche that no one else notices. You either have to plan to eventually be destroyed, or grow into a giant.
I kinda like https://www.beachesontheair.com/ Nothing like a vertical antenna and salt water.
> On the other hand, asking me to believe in viruses (that I cannot see) is a bigger ask. I do believe in fungi and bacteria - I can see something of these, but I have never seen a virus.

But you’re worried about stuff in tap water you can’t see? We can’t see lead or arsenic in polluted water, but it’s there.
So if you get terminated one week in now you can’t go back bc you burned the bridge by not giving the notice? Sounds like fantastic plan!
I was ghosted so many times. Finally landed a job with like-minded professionals.
It would be nice to have a curated list of companies to avoid or perhaps companies that have decent interview practices.
You can ban CFCs in refrigerators/products that come through customs and monitor their emissions from space. The first is just impossible and the second probably impractical to pin on the carbon output of specific mining operations.

The taxes on PoW specifically interfacing with the financial system is a weak form of banning it and is definitely something that would work though, but what the gp seems to be arguing strongly against. They are asking why the energy price can't be updated to encompass the negative externalities instead of indirectly taxing it through the PoW's blockchain when it interfaces with the financial system.
To the first point, of “I only need 20 minutes for this” that’s a classic get out of jail free card if they’ve decided you’re not a good fit or things aren’t going well. It manages your expectations and they can end the interview early.
Even if the growth doesn't last forever, many people are beyond reasonable thresholds. Having made their money, people are downsizing in innovative ways - leaving America for 6 months for a cheaper country, relocating to a lcol place or even casually experimenting with starting another business.

Short of a multi year recession, most FIREed folks will survive. You don't need to get another job when you can just downsize your expenses in bad years.
Observing over my approximate half of a life I've noted a very intriguing trend -- one in line with "Privatized profit, socialized losses" which I believe I first heard through Noam Chomsky.

I've noted that there has been an increasing requirement for systemic risk to be absorbed by individuals in order to keep up in capitalism. For example once upon a time one could reasonably try and retire with Bonds as a major asset grouping. Later stocks were the minimum viable investment vehicle (more risk, for basic return), some might even say now inorder to get an ok return one needs to chase risk further with things like ARKK tech stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Similarly has been observed in employment. At one time, during strong unions, a lot of the risk was forced upon the employer -- for example defined benefit pensions, or disability benefits that might have seemed extreme by today's standards. Nowadays having a single employer is basically only slightly better than being a contractor, but pays much much less -- the livable compensation now requires much greater risk of being a contractor (from self insurance, contract stability, risk of not being paid etc).

Anyone else observed similar patterns?
> It was a rhetorical question: there is no possible distinction between a highly sophisticated language model and an AGI. If a language model can't produce all the same answers that an AGI can produce, then it just hasn't reached the level of sophistication necessary to do that.

This is a weirdly dogmatic position.

I would think that an AGI can start a conversation. Can a language model?
Is that risk aversion, or something else though? I find Americans much more primed to consume and try new products.
HP's Clarke – 4-Bit CPU/LCD Driver/Memory Controller
> And you might find it harder when trying to maintain a steady income stream.

This can't really be overstated enough.

Contracting is one of those things that sounds super easy when you first jump and you already have a client lined up.

But maintaining a steady stream of work is often far more difficult than people expect.

Getting consulting clients is a completely different skillset than doing consulting work. If you're not the type of person who enjoys networking, cold outreach, selling yourself, and chasing deals then the consulting life probably won't be as fun as it may sound on the internet.
I feel like this site is the culmination of Web 2.0.
Hey can you please PM me a bit more info on how you were treated and some facts about your case if you are comfortable to?

I have been using CPAP for years but my case is weird: I was diagnosed in my early 20s, I was not and am not overweight, I only drink socially (so less than once per week), I don't and have never smoked, etc.

CPAP has massively improved my life, I'm feeling much better, but honestly my sleep specialist was kind of shit when it came to answering questions. When I asked about surgeries and the like he just said "No, we can't do that" and I couldn't get him to elaborate on why.

I never pushed it because I used to be too poor and I was too exhausted to bother with screwing with my treatment but I'm reconsidering that. Don't worry I won't take anything you say as medical advice or anything, I just... I dunno I guess I'm curious to hear about the experiences of someone who had a different treatment avenue in some depth. It might make me feel for comfortable/proactive about seeking a second opinion and pushing for specific answers
The issue is that a human driver is much more than just a visual cortex.

> which pixels (shadow shapes?) in a specific image affect the classification output and why (contrasting color?)

Sure, you can watch the Rube Goldberg machine work. It doesn't mean you understand why it works on a conceptual level or have any hope of rigorously quantifying when and how it could fail.
Tauri looks interesting
> it would boost the number of entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Agreed. But this is exactly why it's been slow (read: impossible?) to happen. Big Inc has no interest in seeing the status quo change. High healthcare premiums keeps all but the bravest chained to the system.

Even the ACA never lived up to its own name. Never. We all know this, yet no effort to fix it, adjust it, etc. That says a lot. Actions speaker louder than words.

Let them eat ACA.
Doesn't look like you can actually purchase anything from them yet.
Pyramid Texts
If I can smell the guy next to me, I can surely catch his virus. Non-N95 masks do not work.
SpaceX’s Starlink Will Make Life Hell for Astronomers
Tuner: Minimalist radio station player for Linux
The real alternative: Simple and lightweight HTML, comprehensive compatibility and accessibility testing, noJS support, and progressive enhancement.
Thank you. There are so many whiners on this site who act like following the recommended precautions is worse than dying. Sometimes it seems like entitlement is the pandemic.
It was criticized for that by Google critics—but Google did put it in their contracts, so they must have meant something more specific by it.
The title is potentially misleading. Voice communication by radio had been performed since about 1906 (Lee de Forest and, more likely, Reginald Fessenden, both making claims) and was approaching routine by the 1920s. (The station that is now WWJ in Detroit had been broadcasting the daily news by AM voice for over a year when this RCA facility was commissioned.) This was the first commercial installation to relay phone traffic by radio internationally.
Ghosting is way too common these days. I've decided to start replying to many more of the cold emails I get. Even if the answer is "no" or "not interested". Not replying is rude except when you can't make space for it.
Why Instagram photos are square – Kevin Systrom and Lex Fridman [video]
Right.

Their own bug tracker is just very hard to navigate and I'm not interested in any of their web service offerings.

Glad they're rebuilding the IDE with modern feature sets with faster experience.

Hopefully they don't tie it up too close to their web offerings and make it more pluggable against other services.
s/recon/reckon/g
Why was this downvoted? I had the same doubt.
> Brave doesn’t show a single ad unless the user explicitly opts in, and then it doesn’t come with comparable tracking.

I have what looks like a promotion for Crypto.com, Binance, Gemini and FTX.us in Brave browser, on default settings even though I never turned them on. For few of these I never heard and I certainly do not have any interest in crypto. Not sure why these would even belong in a web browser on default settings unless there is some kind of a deal/partnership going on?

Both Google and Brave have the same business model. They make money when a user clicks on an ad.

The execution may differ and maybe only because Brave is still new and relatively small and did not feel the same kind of shareholder pressure Google withstood for the last 20 years. That is why I said, imagine a world in which Brave "won". It would not be the same company it is now (compare Google from 2000 to Google today).
>At the point that one entity controls 51% reliably and consistently, presumably users abandon the cryptocurrency altogether.

Why? There are many people that would even welcome a fully government compliant mining entity. The 'business types' like Michael Saylor. He co-founded 'Bitcoin Mining Council' which is a perfect foundation for a mining cartel. Another cofounding member is Marathon - which is already censoring bitcoin blocks according to OFAC sanctions list.
Some old idealistic bitcoin would maybe sell, but that would be the extent of a negative market reaction.

Ironically it's turning out that banning mining in China greatly accelerated centralization, because cartelization of Chinese and non-Chinese miners would be hard to achieve. Contrary to China, America thinks it has global jurisdiction, so it's possible it may try to enforce future mining laws even on foreign miners. While a miner company in eg. Kazakhstan won't be closed outright, it would mean that owners of that company would risk extradition to America if they traveled to most Western and America-allied countries. Easier to just comply. Electricity in Europe is too expensive for it to matter, so mining in America naturally dominates.

I don't actually expect that to happen, because I think bitcoin will become irrelevant long before those slow trends manifest in censorship enforced by orphaning non-compliant blocks, but in the absence of that, it looks virtually certain that the mechanisms I described would manifest as an American government-sanctioned entity that every miner, globally, has to join and comply with all rules or get its blocks orphaned.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/104263/an-ofac-compliant...

https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/
I'm trying to make a point similar to what the article said. At least to my understanding.

that in this model the majority (liberal leaning) feel like their vote doesn't count or doesn't matter since they are in the majority they feel safe which is amplified by group dynamics, therefore they don't vote as much. while on the other hand the minority feels the opposite so vote more as the underdog. That benefits the minority.

It's in their first sentence "resulting in the election of politicians who do not represent the preferences of the electorate as a whole."
What’s the point of the attack? A well-placed sticker for the first car that comes along with a high value target? Just kill that person an easier way, that is more certain.

After one accident, the sticker will be removed.

Industrial sabotage to take out one car’s camera system? Ok - but which car company will do that? It’s mutually assured destruction if the other actors retaliate, and serious legal fees if caught.

High school pranks? Sure. But again, they will be identified, finger printed, the printed item will be analyzed and reviewed for which printer printed it, and the person will be ID’d.
Anecdotally, I’ve kept multiple jobs longer than I’ve wanted because they had good health insurance… I also switched jobs to have kids using better insurance
> Which bit do you not understand?

How you are disagreeing with me, then? The actual page table entries that the ARM CPU looks at will never mark a page containing x86 code as executable. x86 execution bit semantics are implemented, but on a different layer. From the ARM CPU's POV, the x86 code is always just data.
Odds are they won't just take you back even if you give 2 weeks.
Yet countries like Canada who have universal care are less entrepreneurial.
The vagueness could be used against Google, but of course it won’t because semantic tradition.

What’s the point of human language again? Except for trivial human tasks it’s easily exploited.
Sort of, it's a space where someone who is trained to help you can do so.

And I'll admit that it may be a case of I'm not understanding the details of what the original article was meaning, but I read it as "support networks" etc.

I don't want to get together with people, regardless of if they are strangers or friends/family and talk about my problems. Realistically what can they do? More often than not in those spaces it is a lot of listening and empathising. If that makes a person feel better, then I'm all for that. But for me, it comes across as performative caring to make others feel good about "helping" and isn't actually addressing what my issues are or why they make me feel a certain way.

I will say, all of the above is based upon my own experiences and how I feel, and isn't intended as a sweeping claim. I want everyone who has mental health issues to have access to the help they need, and if someone needs the kind of help that involves listening and empathising then they should absolutely have access to that. I'm just not sure based upon my own experience (and the experiences of other men), that a lot of men want the same kind of mental health support that is available to women.
Strong disagree, (some of) those things are all still necessary to prevent me from coming to your house and hitting you with a wrench until you give me your private key; to prevent me from taking payment and then ghosting you; and innumerable other financial system problems we solve with our current system.
This is a reference to kids being expensive?
Dynamic JIT translation for x86 is pretty old-hat at this point; the general state of the art can be summarized in the (now 16 years old) Pin paper: https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~rmfl/ADS_MaterialDidatico/PDFs/prof...

In general, the way you handle translation of machine code tends to resolve around compiling small dynamic traces (basically, the code from the current instruction pointer to the next branch instruction), with a lot of optimizations on top of that to make very common code patterns much faster than having to jump back to your translation engine every couple of instructions. The interactive generation this article implies is most likely to be effected with use of the x86 trap flag (which causes a trap interrupt after every single instruction is executed), which is infrequent enough that it's likely to be fully interpreted instead of using any sort of dynamic trace caching. In the case of x86 being generated by a JIT of some sort, well, you're already looking at code only when it's being jumped to, so whether the code comes from the program, some dynamic library being loaded later, or being generated on the fly doesn't affect its execution.
A big nothing, according to the stock market.
There are startups with over 50 engineers you know ;) At sr manager role you are for sure not technical though even if you did get asked coding/design questions in interview loops (there are exceptions)
In this case, the bloatware is macOS itself with 50GB Xcode.