skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People learn this the hard way. These companies that pay you in 50% stock should probably have some checkbox on the employment agreement that says "I agree to get a licensed accountant to do my taxes every year, and I realize that I will be paying for this out of pocket."

The most complex tax disaster I got into cost $700 to resolve, and that is a tiny tiny fraction of what they pay you in stock, so just do it.
Yeah, I saw the Swiss Army recruiting desk at a Swiss security trade show.... lots of polite conversation, not a lot of "conversions", I'd say. Also, worked in an EPFL lab dedicated to security with a crushing majority of non-Swiss PhD candidates.
> I think thought-leaders and experts could use a whole lot less deification right now

I'm not sure that's possible - the experts are more or less screaming into the wind at this point. The WHO and the CDC have been reduced to punchlines by liberals and conservatives alike. IMHO this scorn is well-deserved.
If software used for typing competitions is anything like a typing test in a typing tutor program (which give similar WPM + accuracy measures at the end), then it would track the number of incorrect inputs you make, but also wouldn't let you proceed (i.e. would ignore all further input) while any incorrect input remains in the buffer. With such software, you're expected to correct each word you type before moving on to the next; the moment that you submit the corrected word is the moment the word is acknowledged as "a word" counting toward your WPM.

With such programs, the WPM score measures how many total times per minute you "finished" a correct word, including any time spent correcting the word; with the accuracy score measuring how much extra work was done, on average, doing those corrections.
We were taught: never ever say someone is not going to make it.

The hearing can work even if no other senses work they told us and if I understood it correctly they meant these words could make the wounded person give up.
Company: You want the salary range ... sure it's $5K to $600K, somewhere in that range, now F off
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This seems universal to authoritarian states where corruption is the only viable strategy to get ahead.

Unfortunately, it also seems to consistently produce an entrenched, corrupt power class that persists long after the regime is overthrown.

See also the former Soviet Bloc.
But if you were just paid more salary, you would perhaps invest that excess in the market, and you would have equal time in the market. Also, you need to pay taxes on the market value of RSUs at vesting time so it isn't like you can get away with some kind of pre-tax investment scheme.
You just said that interference with private transactions was by definition a violation of liberty, so any outside action of the state would be at best a violation of liberty to secure liberty, somehow. Which, is somewhat nonsensical. There is no well defined liberty math.
This is not quite right. We aren't sending the messaged from the original number. As far as I know, that isn't really possible because we don't "own" that original number.

The business case of relaying inbound text messages to an employee's phone number should be a very common one and should not warrant an account suspension.
I don't think I disagree with your point, I just think that your point doesn't speak to the "who would be more surprised" question. And, thinking about it, maybe 0-1 wasn't a good way for me to make that case.

To order something from Amazon from your toilet, you need

- indoor plumbing

- computing

- electricity

- industrialized mass production

- global connectivity

- global transportation network

Someone in 1922 could imagine a telephone in a bathroom that could be used to contact a Sears-like company to order a mass-produced product and have it delivered from a faraway place.

In 1822 you barely have the idea of industrialization and electricity, let alone anything else. "Write a letter from your cesspit to have a product from St. Louis delivered to New York, but your letter is instantly delivered instead of taking six weeks, production is faster and cheaper than your local craftsman (it's not being made to order!), and instead of taking six weeks to ship it, it takes two days (2022) or a week(?) (1922)." It's not just that the same kind of thing is happening at a grander scale, it requires a fundamental reorientation of how you'd think about consuming products.

So yeah, Amazon's scale in 2022 is astronomically greater than Sears's in 1922 and that is significant, but they share way more fundamentals than 1822 and 1922 did.
Opti also make some pretty good zippers. There are certainly very few good manufacturers in this space though.
In the early days I worked at a company that had a natural language chatbot product. It wasn't an online thing, but rather part of a larger tool. You could ask it to do things like "show me the quarterly spreadsheet", and if it didn't know what "quarterly spreadsheet" was, it'd ask questions in English and learn what "quarterly" and "spreadsheet" meant. And it could use that new knowledge to update its questions so if you asked for "spreadsheet", it would know to ask if you wanted the "quarterly" one, and so on.

This was in the long ago, so it wasn't ML, but a very large state machine written by someone that was no doubt a genius, and also had no coding standards to speak of. Updating it was a maddening process, and thankfully one I rarely had to think about since I was tasked with GUI stuff.

When I was hired, I was told it was a fantastic app, customers loved it, and so on. Later, when I was talking to support reps one day over lunch, I learned that the number one activity they had to do was log into deployments remotely and remove "knowledge" from the state machine of new swear words the customer had taught the machine out of frustration trying to get it to do something, which caused this feedback loop of the interaction swearing at users.

I often feel like we're not in a better state these days.
Integrating Doom into Your Webapp with Docker Compose, WebAssembly and Shipyard
How many of these grants were for RSUs in a publicly traded company?
why wouldn't you just leverage a stable coin if you are looking for speed?

The slowest part of this are the banks and the clearing houses. They essentially "trust" other institutions to a certain extent and vouch for the money until it officially arrives on the books. You should read up on FedNet

if you are worried about volatility there are less volatile options inside of crypto
While tools like these are useful, I flirted with the whole FIRE mythology but found it more harmful than inspirational. If you start seeing everything in this utilitarian monetary way it poisons everything. The work to get to the FIRE point makes you miserable and the lack of meaning after you get there is soul crushing.

Planning is useful, but don’t make the mistake of single-mindedly focussing on FIRE. There’s more to work and life than financial independence.
Peter Bogdanovich has died
It's not the case, but people keep wringing their hands about how inflation robs the poor of the ~$500 they have in their savings accounts, while ignoring how much it helps the middle-class mortgage owner who is in fixed-rate debt for a million dollars.

They get away with it because they don't make the distinction between price inflation and asset inflation. The cost of bread doubling is a huge problem for the poor, but means little to everyone else. The cost of assets doubling doesn't matter to the poor, because they have never, and will never save enough money to buy assets. The cost of assets doubling matters greatly against a yuppie who is trying to buy a home. The cost of assets doubling matters greatly in favor of someone who bought a home last week.

Inflation sucks for you if you earn minimum wage, because half the country thinks that raising the minimum wage to keep up with inflation means will bring about the apocalypse. Inflation doesn't matter much to you if you're in a high-demand industry, with wages rising to match it. Inflation sucks for you if you're not working, but doesn't matter to you if you are, and there's a labour shortage, which increases your wage bargaining power.
The dashboard configuration issue was actually one of the pain points we targeted initially. It was an issue we experienced too. And we talked to a lot of our friends who had spent significant time setting these dashboards up in Datadog. One of our initial goals has been to try to automate to get you 95% of the way there without any configuration on your end. We've also tried to make alerting really easy and are working to automate the process of setting smart alerts. Would love to chat more about your experience if you are open to it. My email is nate (at) containiq (dot) com
Yeah, it is about 3x. I don't see it as a great lifestyle in most places. For example, I'm in the Philly area. It's pretty average, probably even slightly above, for cost of living. $110k just barely supports a family with a chance at retirement. Cheap cars, average to small house, 50 minute commute for cheaper area, etc.

Now that can be different if living in a rural area, but the costs in just about any city suburbs will provide a decent lifestyle, but not great.

After all, I was incentivized to work a low paying job for extra income.
How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier
So now the scientists get to PAY to be published?!?

Holy shit. If all this is for "peer review", it's time to scrap how they get that and develop a whole new peer review system.

(Are the Swedish Academy's science committees so superficial that they just compare citation numbers for awarding Nobel prizes? If not, what system do they use -- and why aren't they open sourcing it?)
Very mild is exceptionally accurate. It’s a nothing burger even for unvaccinated people.
There are several other Soylent mods out there. Super Body Fuel, Huel, and Tsogo are a few others I tried. Not a drink, but Meal Squares and Greenbelly Meals are a similar idea too. No idea if any of them meet your needs. I think there was a website that had a huge list of meal replacements.

(Edit typo fix)
Yah, ok, I blew it. Vaccinations will trend towards immunity.
Cue ceaseless debate between capitalism and collectivism... go!
Regarding the BASIC nostalgia, only recently did I became aware that the original BASIC (Dartmouth BASIC) was actually JIT based and it was the adaption of BASIC into the home computers that kind of made its interpreted version more widely known.

While there were several flavours of BASIC compilers there were never as widely spread as these interpreters.

I find it interesting, it could have been yet another what-if, had the compilers been as widely accessible.
You don't need a full database, you just need well-specified serialization/deserialization. Typically this includes explicit versioning mechanisms, so the app can be aware of what version it is dealing with and convert the format accordingly.
Sounds like a time-saver on both sides. I don't agree to even talk to a company beyond the initial contact without some sense that there's a possible zone of agreement on compensation. Why waste my time (or theirs) on an employment discussion that can't possibly end in employment?
> I'm pretty confident posting wages will suppress wages

On a separate yet related note: do you trust free markets?
There is interest in improving testing in Base. Retest seems really nice, but has a few caveats. If you have ideas, bring them up in Discourse/Slack.
I’m interested in this idea, would be cool to have a library for custom on-site search. Just plug in the rss feeds to parse and then add the box to your website.
Stay organized. Keep a list of tasks you need to accomplish, check them off as you accomplish them.[0] Buy a folder to keep your hand-outs in.

Your syllabus is important. It has EVERYTHING on it!

The University gym is probably the cheapest membership you will ever have. Join a lifting or boxing club, get fit, and stay fit.

Sleep is your brain cleaning itself. Staying up late is a trap. All-nighters are a trap. You will be more productive in the morning with a clean brain.

I didn't party in school, I had to work during the day and go to school at night as a 20 year old. I would have KILLED to be able to participate in University life, like joining volunteer organizations and making friends.

Stay on top of your studies, but do not waste time trying to get drunk and laid all the time[1]. And ESPECIALLY do not waste your time in World of Warcraft or whatever is popular these days. You have SO MANY RESOURCES at your disposal you will NEVER have again. Join a music club, join a volunteer club, join a video game club. Do ANYTHING other than sitting in your dorm room/apartment browsing the internet.

0: https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn

1: Some of the time is of course perfectly acceptable ;D
It’s reasonable to try GPT3 out with all default settings as the author seems to do and provide an assessment, but it’s not clear the author is aware of the extent to which you can configure the model and how the quality and variety of results will vary as a result. For instance, the author doesn’t go into detail on the prompts he’s using (maybe there are none other than his questions.) This is a little misleading because GPT3 benefits a lot from having good prompts to warm it up, as many investigations have illustrated. Plus if you want GPT3 to be good at a specific task (for example, providing safety recommendations or talking about presidents) you can fine-tune it. Also the amount of randomness/lack of repetition in GPT3’s responses is completely configurable via the temperature parameter.

Playing with GPT3 is incredibly interesting and I think it deserves more exploration than this article provides.
In that case it seems giving up instead of panicking might save what precious little oxygen you have left.
Yes, always buy or use your erased previous device for applications that require work credentials.

When WFH became more widespread at the office in 2020, the local mgmt team told everyone to enter all sorts of information into a spreadsheet like their IMEI number, etc. Then people discovered after the fact that their personal devices were now managed devices. Cue surprised faces.

MDM rejects bootloader unlocked devices, so even if you have extra devices you might not be able to use them because of that or the OS version being too low to please them. A good alternative if available, is to use Citrix Receiver instead, it doesn't require MDM and doesn't require permissions. It does require an RSA keyfob.
What you are describing counts as ML.
It seems to effectively be forwarding the text messages, like an SMS mailing list. If Twilio can't deal with forwarding messages as they come in, no matter the content, it's their problem.
Just because science has not or cannot proven a concept, does not mean that concept is not real. That’s not the same as disproving a concept though science.

Don’t let double-blind, placebo controlled, peer reviewed studies with sufficient n limit your understanding of reality. There are aspects of reality which have not been and never will be tested with the scientific method.
These articles are weird and amazing, thanks for sharing. Do share if you have more.
Right? 50+ different sets of rules are why it's so difficult to get consensus on anything and administrators have so much power in US society.

'But it's by design, federalist papers' ...are ~250 years old, and while they contain much wisdom, also contain much that is obsolete. We should be moving towards a sort of wikiocracy and away from bureaucracy.
> a violation of liberty to secure liberty

You've pretty much got it. These are the only legitimate violations of liberty. Doesn't seem nonsensical to me.
Everyone should be able to make their own decisions anyway. Hospitals are some arbitrator of decision making and hosptial admission due to covid is collapsing. Stop fear mongering this isn’t Facebook.
I think fundamentally we're not going to see eye to eye on this. I wish you luck on your quest o7
I don’t think my problem is being able to get the words from my brain into the computer fast enough. My typical HID use case is composing meaningful written communication, a process which is unfortunately much slower than 500wpm.
Can someone design a chat system that actually remembers conversations? I just had this issue with Apple support. If you don't reply immediately you get a new session with a new representative and the new representative doesn't have any of the information from the previous session. Extremely frustrating to have to keep sending the same information again and again. It took a call to finally sort it out.
Considering I hear every company boasting of "competitive wages" which hasn't lead to any sort of massive wage race, I would expect they must have some understanding already. If anything this just removes the information asymmetry between employer and employee.
Yes, I will do something like this. However it doesn't alleviate the overarching concern that they are behaving in a way that treats my business very recklessly.
> Surely this is the end of the pandemic?

Depends on if politicians believe they can lift restrictions without negatively reflecting their career or not. There's a lot of Twitter mobs out there promoting "extreme caution" that will tank your political career if you aren't catering enough to their caution-comfort-level.
You haven't mentioned how public provision is to be made. I know that things like sanitation, energy, health, water, and so on can all be provided privately, by capitalists; I know that it doesn't work as well as public provision.

Here in the UK, all of those things were public, until they were privatised in the '80s. I'm in a position to compare the service we used to have with the one we have now. In every case, they're worse (I deliberately didn't mention telecoms). The only service here that hasn't yet been completely privatised yet is health; unfortunately it's rapidly being privatised, and becoming more like the US system (I've spent a fair bit of time recently in hospitals and clinics).

The NHS is paid for collectively; "free at the point of delivery", as they say (which is a lie). But they do refuse to do some expensive treatments; many other treatments have very long waiting lists (hip replacements). They only have to squeeze harder to force more people into private treatment.
WASI
I don't think Firefox will re-add built-in RSS support after removing it in 2018 (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks), but the replacement addon whose development spun out of that deprecation is quite good. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

For Feedly users I also recommend this addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly-notifi...
It can be opened as a sidebar turning my browser into my feed reader.
Spchcat: An open-source speech recognition tool for Linux and Raspberry Pi
It's Harder Hiring Managers
I love Signal and use it as my only messenger, but there's no guarantee the server side code is as secure as they say. For a private citizen like myself it certainly looks secure enough (eg in their warrant responses), but I wouldn't want a state to bet it's security on Signal's honesty.
Swiss Army Bashing, count me in!

You're completely right, unfortunately. For a country that prides itself with its neutrality, we sure do like our armed boy scout club.

I do have hopes though that their F35 plans won't work out; the last vote was extremely tight, if it was already clear back then that they'd go for the F35, I'd wager they would have lost.
but the os builds insert an increasing delay before allowing a next attempt.

like the first iteration of the for loop runs at time 0, fails;

second iteration gets to start 10 seconds later, fails;

third iteration gets to start 1 minute later, fails;

fourth iteration gets to start 1 hour later, fails;

and so on.
> i think the stats say something like if you are not out of the water in 5 mins you are unlikely to survive - even with a survival suit.

Obviously take those statistics with a grain of salt.

According to some stats you can survive one minute in icy water.

Yet many people enjoy swimming in the ice, including some who can stay in the icy water for 15 minutes or more just for kicks.
> I mean, it's pretty early to be drawing conclusions about this with omicron.

No it's not. Late November was too early. In mid-December we could start drawing conclusions. At this point things are becoming quite clear - we see similar trends everywhere, not just South Africa.
> I'm not sure I'd trust a company who thought that software engineer value creation only varied by a maximum of 20% either.

But hiring is not evaluating a software engineer in general, rather it's to find a person for a specific role and a specific set of work to be done, a tighter range could mean better estimation.
It’s a numbers game really depending on the role and the hierarchy level, though? I mean, we should know in advance what to expect by going into that process, and the cohort we are willing to join. It’s just a preliminary fit, at any level. If employers want prospective employees to bark and you enter that race, you bark.
I would argue most* FAANG and similar companies are some of the best companies to work at as a SWE, in addition to paying well.

No company is perfect, not even FAANG. However despite their many warts, I would argue they are still better than working at most other companies outside of the Silicon Valley tech sector where the vast majority of SWEs are employed.

* Of course, there are exceptions. Amazon seems to be particularly notorious.