skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I'm talking about decentralized I'm saying that the technology doesn't even have a place for the benevolent dictator to exist. Not that the node is constrained politically. The node is not even there.

This is why I asked your definition and alternatives because that isn’t possible or desirable for a system like DNS, or almost anything else. At some point you need a query for your bank to go to the intended party, not a scammer, and that means that you usually end up relying on third-parties. A decentralized in the standard definition system like DNS handles the root issue using social consensus which makes abuse obvious and limited to the period before an untrustworthy party is no longer consulted.
it is painful watching this video . presentation software and projectors are truly blessing
The fun part is when you get to the offer stage, and the offer isn't for 300k..

"Hey you said this job paid 300k, what gives?"
What vietnam did the US invade and when?
Premature rejection in science: The case of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Also discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910
I would at my (F500, tier3) company. I think the interview difficulty has lowered over time as we've had trouble recruiting.
Garden vs Farm

Restaurant vs Cafeteria

Espresso vs Drip

Cafe vs Starbucks

Backyard BBQ vs McDonalds

I actually think that garden vs farm is a good choice. The others are a bit funny to me :)

Another thing to consider is international cultures. There’s been concern around calling servers cattle and saying to just shoot them in the head during work meetings. Some cultures may have issues with that.
Congratulations to Threema[0][1] for getting the whole Swiss army to standardize on your software.

[0] https://threema.ch/en

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=threema
The market, as experienced by an employer, is “who are the people who are capable of doing this work, how much do they require to work for me, and if I pay them that amount, do I create value on net?”

If someone else appears equally capable and willing to work for half or a quarter of what you are, it doesn’t matter much what the work is worth, they’re going to get the job much more often than you will.

Employees want to get the most attractive compensation they can from an employer. Employers are not that different in this regard, in the other direction.
Er, why? You want to run a JS implementation on top of a JS implementation?

(I'm not super familiar with this ecosystem so I'm probably missing something obvious like libraries or something)
> I don’t think anyone has been expecting a paid-for device for the past two years just because to work you have to install Zoom.

Most employees have to buy their own work tech devices outside of the US?
I've been running my own DNS servers for 25+ years (BIND, though I did mess around with nsd and unbound for a bit locally.) It is basically painless, set-and-forget, other than the usual OS/package updates.
My guess (and I'm certainly no expert here) is that not only have people put a few hours or lines of code into it, but probably many a PHD thesis as well. It's an intensely researched topic which makes the article even more surprising to me.
It confuses me everytime that scientists have such difficulties accepting that the mind can have healing or destructive impact on the body by means of thoughts and emotions. After all the mind is inseperably embedded into the body (first and foremost through the brain). Actually accepting this is closer to scientific thinking than conjouring up a hypothetic sandbox the mind supposedly operates in. Instead the former is usually discarded as esoteric. Seems like scientists and physicians are at the end of the day just regular folks who happend to have spent a lot of time learning about a very small part of reality. Who can blame them for their inability to put pieces to gether and see the bigger picture.
I think thought-leaders and experts could use a whole lot less deification right now.
“Do we pay people with kids more because their CoL is higher? “

In a sense we do because they (sometimes but increasingly) get paid leave and also drive up health insurance costs. As far as health insurance goes it never seemed fair to me that spouses and children get their health care subsidized by the employer.
> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.

Relevant XKCD? https://xkcd.com/303/
Fuzz testing is based on us knowing that certain kinds of bugs can be triggered by certain kinds of input, even if we don't know the exact details.
I`m 41 now and sober for almost 5 years. When I started drinking at around fourteen we were always a bunch of people going to partys, festivals, disco and such things it was fun at the beginning. We continued drinking, and I think I never had a whole month without alcohol or getting drunk after I was 20, until around my 35th birthday. Then I just stoped everything, smoking cigarettes, drinking, all the "fun" stuff.
Because I realized we didn't go to partys anymore or were visiting festivals, we were just sitting around at the weekend drinking beer, playing videogames and watching some HeavyMetal bands from the 80s/90s(when we were young) on youtube and complain about how life sucks when you get older and how we would do things different when we only could go back in time.
I realized that I was doing this my whole life, I was always complaining that I couldn't "go back" to change things instead of just trying to live a better life in the present. So, like I said I stoped drinking, started to teach myself programming and math to maybe one day find a job that I like and just live a "normal" life. I'm still unemployed and often times I doubt that I can find a good job, because I wasted 25 years, and it's getting harder every year. But still, quitting alcohol was the best decission of my life. So yes, at the beginning drinking is fun, but in my opinion it's not worth the price that you have to pay for it.
You mean decentralized, right? It only affects people who trust Russian ISPs. There isn’t a magical technical fix for what a sovereign authority can do within its jurisdiction.
You misunderstood what I was saying. I know the chatbot itself
is not structured as we are. I’m saying that our reactions to them are the standard tools of mind-building that we apply to our own kids (and pets).
Zoom out. Drops of that magnitude are frequent. And why christmas should make it drop, while on the 1 jan was at all-time-high? Should holidays make it drop or grow?

The drop in may-july 2021 is significant.
> they could not live in the society

The society is broken then. When are people going to reconcile this?
It's only too early if, like our public health authorities, you are too bigoted and self-important to trust South African medical scientists because they aren't from a mostly white country. That's my take on why the CDC ignored their scientists, as did the media.

From the very beginning, the South African medical authorities were screaming that this variant was producing far fewer hospitalizations OVERALL (despite higher case numbers) than the delta/alpha did.

But because they are a third world country, and the news media in the West is biased towards bad news, they chose to treat this positive data as suspect. It the SA scientists had talked about how horrible it was, they would have taken it as gospel.

Those of us who were looking at the data knew otherwise.
> Having worked in ML at two different companies now, I think that people interpreting model output as intelligence or understanding says much more about the people than about the model output.

I'd add it says a lot about all the companies that advertise them in a way that has nothing to do with reality, and those who actually buy them. We all know the usefulness of these things is below zero, because they only get in the way of getting actual help. And yet, someone's marketing department convinces a decision maker at another place they should implement this useless widget on their website, and that it will reduce the cost of customer service by X%. And they believe them.
I think this will have a negative impact on salary negotiation.

"You responded to our listing that said $40k/year, so how much higher do you want to go?"
Sadly conversational UI is poorly implemented(studied?) area of UX. Even more than text it could be the most intutive way we communicate, far better than GUIs, however the space has been ruined with bad products promising the moon without putting effort to the buyer and delivering nothing to the user.

You could build chatbot with just a lot of grunt work and if else conditions and basic language parsing. Sadly no one does that , most chatbots today are low effort solutions that basically ingest random content and expect the model to learn and magically solve problems, which ofcourse does not happen as the model doesn't actually understand anything.
It’s a military reason.

In the event of war you want complete control of comms systems for your military.

This makes sense to me! I think it would be foolish of any army to use a comms system another country controls.
I’m sorry but this is the funniest thing ever. Wasn’t it just a few years ago we were joking that AV software is the virus? How far have we come.
Generally contracts, especially B2C preformulated, non-negotiable T&Cs, are held to some standard of whether they're conscionable, reasonable, non-surprising etc.

How a contract that allows the company to unilaterally back out supposedly passes those tests in the EU boggles my mind.
I'm not sure how that counts as a hole in the argument. Sure, get someone out of any country if they can do the job. That's the promise of the public Internet, connecting folks around the world. Seems like that would be a net benefit.
Humans adapt all of the time without death or birth. We call it invention and innovation.
Farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use
In 1920,

* the high school graduation rate was around 16%. (Up from below 10% in 1910!)

* only 8 million women were in the labor force

* Child labor laws either actually or functionally did not exist (the major federal laws were not passed in the 30s.)

* The industrial revolution was in full swing, but huge swaths of the labor economy were still very agrarian.

For the working class, early childhood care was provided by mothers and beyond that daycare/schooling was provided by the factories and farm fields.
Zero mention of export regulations that space x must comply with. That is a show stopper.

I would imagine the software and hardware are so intertwined that one would find it difficult to make a reusable software package at this point.
I see Threema does not require your phone number, but it wants you to download the App/Play Store version. Whereas with WhatsApp you can download the APK file from the site.

This is not only identifies you through Google/Apple services, but is also fundamentally incompatible with software freedom, as few can audit the binaries they receive.

Unless you build your own binaries from the open source project (which has its issue tracker disabled for the public), you are out of luck.
Are you saying you had problems with Comcast more and more? because that's what I'm hearing.
Ah, so you can contract both viruses but are only likely to pass one on? Do you know why that is?
I'd like to say it makes sense (at least in the US) so that daylight saving time transitions can be automated. My history with cars, though, is that it often is not used for that.
But then the real person functions like a bot because they’re following a script.
If I am forced to give any percentage of my income to a government I do not want, I think that is slavery. You wouldn't think it ok if an individual forced you, or the mafia. The government is just big mafia.

But that is not really the nub of it.

Slavery is really a mental state - having been through the system we have been propagandised that the government is a good thing, it's the right way to manage ourselves - anything else is very bad. This is the creation of the slave mentality, putting the policeman inside your head, so that you feel highly uncomfortable just considering non-standard ideas - they are thoughtcrime.

Thoughtcrime egs: that news is just another show, a serious type of advert. That pharmaceutical companies will run world wide campaigns, seconding governments, drafting laws, to poison millions - this will fill up their pipeline with sickness for the coming decades.
Xpra (see https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra-html5) is very similar to Guacomole, except the backend Xpra server is written in Python (and Cython), whereas Guacomole's server is written in Java and C. Xpra native frontends, but also an html5 frontend that you can embed in web applications. For example, CoCalc provides a modified version of that html5 frontend to serve graphical X11 apps: https://cocalc.com/features/x11
In this case the people in India and Eastern Europe deserve to be paid more, not the other way around.
I think people don't think of "the pandemic" as a state of having virus around us, but as a bigger political picture of lockdowns, mandates, vaccine passports, travel limits, mandatory testing, masks and all that.

If omicron means we'll all get it in the next few months, and (for the 99.x% survivors) that means that covid is "just another cold/flu", we can stop with the "pandemic" (political), and live as we did before 2020. Old people will need vaccines and boosters and all that (as they did for the flu before 2020), and young people can finally live a normal life again.
Oracle did not open sourced Java, Sun did before dying.

But you are right that Oracle unified all paid/free versions of Java under the OpenJDK banner, even Android is using the OpenJDK now.
> fundamentally incompatible with software freedom

Was software freedom a goal?
It's discrimination because the government says it is discrimination. Changing the definition of words to fit the government's goals is becoming increasingly common (and usually with cheers from the majority of HN posters).
Were they at least 6-9 months apart, or closer to a year?
It's pretty much pure luck that Omicron isn't more severe than Delta, and it's not clear that it's a lot less severe though that'll be clear in the data in another month. I suspect in 20 years this thing will look more like measles in that high levels of vaccination starting in childhood + rapid response on outbreaks will make it a negligible risk at a personal level. Who knows though, anyone promising certainty is probably trying to sell you something.
Trino 2021 Wrapped: A Year of Growth
The ratio is one of four "weirdnesses" laid out by the author, which a lab leak might parsimoniously explain, and which, so far, other hypotheses do not neatly or parsimoniously explain.

So for you to jump to "no predictive value" is a little odd.

Since you feel well-equipped to judge the validity of the various hypotheses for the origin of omicron, which hypothesis do you think explains the information and why?

Thanks.
> Ontario science table dashboard has the hospitalization ratio for vaccinated to unvaccinated still at 5:1. Where are you getting that these rates have become nearly equal?

If the rates are the same, and 5/6 people are vaccinated, we would expect 5/6 people admitted to the hospital to be vaccinated. In fact, 5/6 people are vaccinated in the 12-40 age cohort, with older (and more vulnerable) populations having at least 9/10 people vaccinated and quickly going to 19+/20. Therefore, vaccines prevent hospitalizations, as the average of all adults is greater than 5/6.
Looks like https://github.com/Keydonix/dai-hrd
Here's the article from The Information (referenced in the linked piece). Important as without corroboration from two different sources, this woudl be more rumor than news:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nyt-to-buy-the-athle...
The flight manifest was not shared. Some people on the flight managed to fly back on other airlines because their name wasn't known at the time.
From my experience just being in the same time zone delivers a lot of value. For certain tasks it’s fine to have people in a time zone 10-12 hours off but in many other cases it causes a lot of communication delay and overhead.
Conversely, I have a 97 year old relative who wants nothing more than to die, and yet, nature has cruelly allowed her to linger on. When she heard Betty White died, her response was "what's her secret".
"trivial" means exactly what?

I ask because it's not trivial to clone the memory of a phone and have a network of simulators capable of simultaneously enumerating each combination, to stave off slowed-next-attempt policies etc.
Azteca ants repair damage to their Cecropia host plants
It is not up to NATO or Russia to decide what the former eastern block and former soviet states accede to. If they want to join NATO (and they do, for very obvious reasons), they can.

Only in the old Cold War mindset is everything centrally determined by the head of state of some power block.

Such a promise, if it existed, which it hasn't, wouldn't be valid anyway. My friend and I can't decide the bookclub is off limits to you. That's between you and the book club.
If they live in the continental U.S., one can argue that higher wage is at least based on not having to deal with annoyingly scheduled meetings because of disparate time zones.
I share the sentiment, I feel like if you have a long FAQ or list of help articles, a chatbot can actually make a good search engine. Contrarily to conventional search engines, it won't trip over synonyms or formulations not found as-is in the knowledge base.
> A homeless person can be more free than a person confined in a mansion, can they not?

Sure. But a rich homeless person is no longer homeless, and a poor person confined in their home is less free than a rich person confined on their home. You haven't addressed my point.

> Yes, since using force to compel action is basically the definition of slavery and decidedly un-free.

Right, so when I said

> You sort of admit as much, what is keeping the piece but ultimately deciding which things are good things or not

I was correct. The government decides which things are good or not (using force in disallowed ways) and prevents those. Generally governments high in libetry also do things like punish fraud, because fraud is bad and misleading people and stealing their money...reduces liberty? Or is fraud prevention unrelated to liberty, and should the government even do it?
> If you're paying based on value derived from their work

You're not. You're paying based on how much it would cost to find somebody to do the work. You're paying for time, not value. Profit comes from the difference between the two.
exactly this. i had no problem hanging out with friends, many of which liked to drink beer while i wasn't. i was never pressured, and nobody got drunk and we all had fun. but if they had tried to pressure me, i probably would have left.

keeping a habit is a lot easier than changing one. change needs encouragement and if that encouragement doesn't come from friends you already have, new friends are needed. that doesn't mean to give up old friends, but it means to get an additional circle of friends.

new friends can be found by joining a new activity or picking a new hobby, or to go visit new locations...
In the early 1990s, Sound Blaster Pro sound cards came with a "psychiatrist" chat bot called Dr. SBAITSO which would reply in text and actually speak it out loud (showcasing the TTS). As a kid, I thought it was amazing, and I spent countless hours trying to converse with it. From a superficial level, modern chat bots seem roughly as good as the old doc.
Can't order it directly, sadly! Had to phone my family and friends and get them to do it.

Some jails and prisons do have a few magazines, books and newspapers that they sell on their commissary for highly inflated prices though.
Just a couple guesses, could be wrong:

1. If someone has 10 years of experience and gets offered $150K, they know they're at half the earning potential. That's not a good way to come into the job.

2. Employees may monitor the job postings of their own company, then ask for a raise closer to the $300K ceiling, especially if they know they're valuable contributors.
> Artwork of the moment

That's so cool! I love undeadly but it's great to also have this website, with interesting content I wouldn't normally come across. I'd have no idea that OpenBSD was installable on Gandicloud, for example. Or how to play Bach's prelude in C minor on OpenBSD using the MIDI speakers (issue #2). Thanks and keep up the great work!
Interesting article.

Mathematical foundations are needed that are much more suitable to modern Computer Science than using "universes".

For an example see the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

Also, see the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI
I love this self-administering vaccine as it so elegantly explains the answer to the parent's question.

BUT, it is so elegant that you just provided fuel for the new conspiracy theory of how government forced us to get vaccinated by creating this crazy new variant in a lab that would essentially spread the vaccine without our permission. Just waiting for that to start bubbling up from the fringes ;)
Perhaps personal memoization is a topology on personal memorization?
How is not releasing all your communications away to a different country "just politics"?
You sir, are a legend.

I was particularly delighted to see how you built `defn` on top of existing metaprogramming functionality. This kind of thing has lead me to think of Elixir as a Lisp in Ruby's clothing running on the BEAM. :) I hope that's not too inaccurate. Were there any delightful "aha!" moments you got while building this?
ontario still conflates anyone hospitalized for anything testing positive for covid, with anyone hospitalized from covid; this alone could explain the discrepancy between a hospital bed and icu. lies damned lies and statistics...
> Is there some sense in which this is not a "conspiracy theory

Yes, in the sense that Aleksander Dugins foundations of geopolitics exists and is taught in military schools in Russia. It proposes - among other tactics, exactly this approach. Splitting hairs, gaslighting and exhaustion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
The issue is with liquid gas prices used for car ICEs, not for home heating
You didn’t ask about PM roles but here’s something I do and may it it’ll work for Dec as well- As an interviewer I’ve found it very productive to ask candidates to bring and showcase projects they’ve worked on (without breaking any agreements). Not everyone works well in a stressful time bound situation. This helps with that. It also helps showcase proactiveness and any out of box thinking.

There’s a risk that leetcode heros might turn out to be the type that throws up their hands at the sign if smallest of team friction points. As a Pm these devs are the most annoying. “That other team didn’t respond so I’m blocked”

Leetcode questions don’t help with this important criteria.