skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too long ago, Venezuela wasn't Venezuela, and Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world.

It can happen, it has happened, and will happen again.
All the complaining in this thread about the lack of accountability on the party of devs building this stuff are really missing the point. If it's not "meaningfully illegal" to do this, people will continue doing it. We already know it's extremely effective. These fines are pitifully small compared to the usual investment required to see the improvements to metrics that dark patterns bring.

You don't see engineering firms ignoring safety regulations because they know the repercussions will destroy their business. Before that was the case (and in places where it still isn't the case) you see it all the time.

Expecting some random line-worker to stand up against changes that bring in this kind of money for the firm is just delusional.
Try doing the same with CORBA and DCOM.
The GitHub repo: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ (used by 167k dependents according to GitHub)
I was just starting in to Flutter after choosing between it and React/Vue native.

Your comment is making me want to do a 180 as Flutter’s future is now scary to me.
What direction are your obesity rates pointing? We are your future.
The issue with LiveView and similar solutions like HotWire is latency.

That's why Hey is impossible to use from places like NZ.
across the border https://www.bloomberg.com/features/top-methane-gas-leak-prob...
Most people want to be considered normal, but few people want to be considered average. But the two words really denote the same thing, though the connotations are very different.
>Also, significant percent of population of Kazakhstan is Russian.

So what? They are citizens of Kazakhstan. Russia does not have some sort of "claim" over every person in the world who is of Russian descent.
> And you have to sell your car to a Black man if he wants to buy it from you.

Never thought about this before: Suppose I’m Black, respond to a Craigslist ad for a $10k car for sale by owner, and am refused for my skin color. What law do I or the state prosecute the seller under?

Most of the anti-discrimination laws I know of apply to companies, usually companies with more than N employees.
I think it hugely depends on whether a particular group of people are your support framework, or your enablers.

I don't read the advice as "remove all your support framework, friends, and family and go at it alone". I read it as "find supportive people who can enable your goal".

For me, it's absolutely trivial to not drink or not smoke in groups of friends. But that's because I'm NOT a drinker and I'm not a smoker.

For anybody I know who IS a drinker or a smoker, casual or hard-core, the social aspect is absolutely pervasive and can be brutal in trying to quit. If one is not a drinker or smoker they may have a hard time fully empathizing / understanding how hard it can be to be around others who not only partake, but see it as critical focal part of activities.
Please don't take botometer seriously. It's a neat toy, and performs OK for some settings, but has severe problems that make it unfit for research and/or statements about reality.

See this excellent paper [1] by Adrian Rauchfleisch and Jonas Kaiser for an in-depth analysis, and this [2] blog post for a summary.

My personal opinion is also that bot detection is epistemologically doomed, and while inevitable and necessary for platforms, it is not something that can and should be used as an argument in public debates.

[1] https://ssrn.com/abstract=3565233

[2] https://cyber.harvard.edu/news/2020-03/false-positive-proble...
A framework originally designed for Objective-C, actually.
I live in a place were I could easily order / go out for every meal as well. If I cook ~2-3 times a week for myself and box up the leftovers, I get high quality meals for $2-5/meal vs $10-30/meal. This can save ~$8k per person per year just cooking 10 meals a week.

This may not be worth it for some, but I've found the time savings of ordering in/carryout is marginal or actually worse than cooking and reheating leftovers. Waste and grocery trips generally sort themselves out in a couple weeks as you figure out a schedule. This obviously scales with number of people so for a family of 2-4 you'd save $16-32k/yr for little extra effort.

These sort of home economics seem to have really fallen out of favor in my sphere, even in 2+ person households where $40k+ in maintenance/service/food costs can be saved (factor in childcare/education and I image the number can get to $100k+). I don't understand why people leave so much money on the table. There aren't many ways you can make $16k/year for a <5hr/week moonlighting position.

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> That way I don't have to throw out groceries that inevitably go bad because as a single person it's hard to shop just what I need, everything is in large multi packs. Even a loaf of bread will go bad before I'm able to eat it all.

You have to cook larger batches and eat the leftovers. I've had bad luck with bread too tbh. I might just start making my own smaller loafs, because the quality is also just bad.

EDIT: it’s also worth pointing out that savings values are post tax
With Chrome's market share and more sites not wanting to moderate comments, I'm a little surprised it didn't catch on (depending on the circumstances at that point in time).
No, you misunderstand. A business that fails to generate revenue is not a ponzi because the money invested into it is used to grow the business, the investment risk is based on the business fundamentals, unlike cryptocurrencny where the amount of money invested into it has no relationship to its capabilities.
Thanks for all your comments, they've been really enlightening. As a data scientist who sometimes wishes for something better than Python I did have my eye on Julia, but I was unaware of what issues could arise putting Julia into production. Sadly, I think that kind of puts me at square one ... there doesn't seem to be anything, even niche, that can replace Python for our business use cases.

We're a very Spark-heavy shop so I've tried to encourage Scala, but that got no traction, and it would raise its own set of problems. I like Rust but it's simply too complex to expect scientists and data scientists to wrap their heads around; it's hard enough to get them to use Python type hints.

Oh well.
> You're right, they wouldn't refer to it as money because that would undermine the power of their own printed fiat currency.

No they don't refer to it as money because words have meaning.
The privacy risk of installing extensions that have full access to every page you visit is enormous. It includes the risk of exposing passwords and credit card numbers.

Using a bookmarklet is a much better idea since users can control where they run.
Well you wouldn't want to employ an unlucky person would you?
Well, do you consider Electron a compromised user experience?

Swing is/was the same, and computers had way less power to make up for it in the early 2000s.
Would Russian vaccines make this list? Recently discovered the existence of a Herpes (HSV-1 and HSV-2) vaccine - Vitagerpavac. There's no equivalent US vaccine!

I didn't know anything about it until reading obscure sub reddits.
It's been on the market for over 10 years.
Board games / cards.

I miss the days when couples would pay board cards / cards at someone home.
6 years sober here. Most of the advice so far wouldn't have been much help when I first stopped drinking.

It's honestly hard, and the first year or two won't be great. Boardgames and cafes are boring as fuck compared to getting drunk. Sure, rafting and cycling and other examples might fill up a Sunday afternoon, but they don't work for Friday night.

Over time you adjust. I've made a few friends that don't drink. I have others that I can go out with and they don't mind me not drinking.

At some point you realize that you won't be having as much fun as getting drunk. But your life will be better in other aspects, and that will make it worth it.
This reminds me of the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch
Lots of things: sports, hiking, gaming, sex.
It's always interesting to read these. Everyone assumes that technological progress will continue along the exact same lines as before. And nobody really anticipates the social progress and changes that truly set us apart from 1922. If we assume 2122 will just be the same world with better electronics, that probably wouldn't be very accurate.
After bold climate promises, U.S. carbon is rising
Yeah, that's how I got into trouble finding a different high school after I got 'removed' [1] from my first. All the rectors knew each other, and were also from the same church, gg. Its also funny how at some point you become the scapegoat, even when you did not, just because of guilt of association.

In a way, my problem with the post isn't so much if he'd talk a friend out of hiring a former employee of him. Its rather that his experience with this person is shallow (2 weeks), and that he appears to be proud of accomplishing Sten didn't get hired. With a little bit of help and a change here or there, if Sten was willing to, I believe he could function. In The Netherlands, companies are now obliged to have a percentage of their workers as disabled people.

In Germany, a reference must be positive. So, to hack around it, there's gradations of how positive the reference is. My point being: that doesn't work.

[1] Not really removed, more like saying I would be removed or else they'd make my life a hell next year so I should find a different school, shifting the responsibility to me (a minor) and my parents instead of to them.
Equifax, Nexis Lexis, Clearview etc all collect your data without you ever making an account. And actually collect highly sensitive information.

What you describe is a feature of the US economy.
This article is from 2018. The EU has already banned the chemicals in question, and now the UK is looking to do the same. Here's an article from yesterday [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/jan/05/uk-investiga...
You can’t beat Javascript for ergonomic passing conventions and packing and unpacking of lists and dicts.
They could at least have bars under the numbers.
If you have friends that drink they are not real friends?

Honestly I never rarely see my friends without drinking: I'm just not particularly interested in socializing unless I'm buzzed. But it works out great, I drink one night a week and hang out with people and then am not distracted the rest of the week and can work.
Similar to that Virtual Wallmart demo that has been doing the rounds lately.

While the 3D scene is certainly the kind of model we'd have at the time, I'm impressed they have a 3D hand to grab products. The more I look at it, I think it's using the keyboard to walk around and the mouse to move the hand.
What were the headaches? That you had to sign your kernel and add pubkey to BIOS to use the feature?
Ok, but so what? Why do you think Bitcoin would protect you? Why wouldn't you purchase assets of any sort with money as you receive it? That's the whole point of inflation - to incentivize the purchase of productive assets.

Anything could happen at any time. But I don't live my life with a pile of weapons, canned peaches and ammo. That's prepper talk.

We have no idea what a hypothetical apocalyptic failed state America looks like. There's no guarantees that there won't be a single entity with more than 50% of the hash power. There's no guarantee that the internet will be up. There's so many things that have to go exactly right to think we'll be trading spreadsheet cells in the apocalypse.
Find a sport to play? For me it's soccer, cant play it with a hangover and my first games showed me how unfit I was so I spent more time getting fit, less time drinking which made me a better player and I got to make new friends with people I was playing with
For the first part I'm describing, no, they don't need classmates. For the second part, yes, they do.
Show HN: Safari extension for iOS/Mac to highlight new HN comments
I've made a small extension for Safari (Mac/iOS) to highlight new Hacker News comments. I switched from Chrome two years ago and really missed my HN extension but I always assumed someone else would make one for Safari. Well, no one did so here I am. It's pretty basic for the moment.
The only similar part is "Russian military in foreign country". No-one hides the fact that they are Russian
Mate, research who controls Kazakh natural resources: it's western corporations. It allows them to extract resources and money from Kazakhstan without paying much back. And it's a lot of money and valuable natural resources like copper and uranium.

Same was happening in Russia in 90s: western corporation took control of all Russia's natural resources using phony agreements and corrupt businessmen (like Mikhail Khodorkovsky). E.g. in 90s people in Russia were dying of hunger, but oil was sold to the West by the price of water.

When Putin came to power, first thing he had done is returning control over natural resources. That's exactly the moment when all the West started vilifying him so badly.
Maybe, but only because my employer is desperate for devs.
Sports

- Learn badminton or volleyball or any group sport.

- Play regularly with the group

- Have a lot of sport/get tired/have tournaments internally within your group
This scenario was a lot more nightmarish in the 2000s, when Microsoft needed Windows and Windows software for making money.

Today, it is a lot less nightmarish.
So someone’s selling in-game items for games with no game with the expectation that games will just magically support them despite the cost to the developers to do so?

FWIW I can definitely see an asset store like model if that’s what you mean. Where games that share an engine can share developed assets. But you need to look at how that works out in practice in terms of how much integration cost there is, gamers tolerance for asset reuse and actually how broadly applicable it is between different games. And even then extant asset stores already work perfectly well so it’s not clear what putting it on the blockchain and presumably some decentralised storage actually provides.
What? How can zero indexing be a mistake?
> In my opinion…

This is more honest. It’s just your opinion. Not something ‘everyone agrees’ with.

You are entitled to your opinion. But its a delusion when you think everyone must believe what you do.
I'm surprised at the lack of stack overflow jokes in this thread.
>> 8000 years

I think rather than cooking ourselves we are actually going to bring about the end of the holocene sooner than it would normally have happened. something seams to reach a tipping point at the end of each interglacial period. I like to imagine we can stop that via nuclear excavation of Panama ;-)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/06/30/what-sta...
Ask HN: Software to Fight a Pandemic?
We often hear about the scientists, researchers and health care workers fighting our latest pandemic. Behind the scenes: where are the unsung software heroes working?
We've had existing devs do the take home tests, not to make sure that they were capable of it, or if the test was too hard, but mostly to check if the test could be completed by someone in a reasonable timeframe and not unneccasarily waste a persons time.

My advice for these sorts of tests is to make it as short as possible, and use the test to give you something to talk about in the follow up in person interview. Replace "Invert a binary tree/solve this riddle" with "Why did you do this in the take home? What would you do differently if $FOO was now a requirement".

I find it effective.

To answer the OG question, I'm sure I would do well. Depends on the other candidates on whether I would get the job though.
In the Dark Souls series, NPCs in the world will succumb to the undead curse, that universe’s rough equivalent of death, after they’ve become completely satisfied with their life, or have had their main purpose fulfilled or removed in some way.
Don’t you think that an global intelligence operation is a bit different than officially asking for foreign military intervention in your own country against civilians?
Can't you use this same argument when being critical about any technology, or really anything complex at all?

It is some kind of logical fallacy - just because really smart people worked on something and dedicated their lives to it doesn't mean it is good or correct or that it works.
It's not only a shaky metaphor from the sentimental aspect, it's a downright bad one from the economic point of view. Individual cattle are expensive, and as a result, it makes economic sense to invest in their care. Even a ruthless person would not let a sick cow go without having a professional take a look to see if there was a way to restore it to good condition, but heartless or broke people often do decline to pay for veterinary care for a pet.
May I also suggest "Going Down the Pipes" by Darcy Frey. Written in 1996 about the strange and stressful world of air traffic controllers at Newark airport. Well-written long form journalism on display.
https://www.topic.com/going-down-the-pipes
I am still feel pissed about an interview for a job I think I'd have fit in superbly. It would have been fun, and productive. If not for the hackerrank quiz they threw in the front filled with irrelevant puzzles that needed solving under time pressure. I don't have time to spend or willingness to "train" on such puzzles for the purpose of getting a job. I am sure if I had a chance to talk to the team or the engineers, it would have been effective. This bitter experience only amplified my hate for such tests even more. The job I'm at currently, gave me a practical task(similar to the ones I would be doing on the job) and a few days to submit the results/notes of. It was so much more pleasant to walk into a tech interview with such work and have a nice chat about practical technical stuff instead of stupid puzzles.
Not a chance, but I think its a combination of new-ish position internally and imposter syndrome rearing its ugly head.
The computer I learned to program on was an Apple II+ with rusted keys that you just had to slam. I still type loudly. It booted into basic.

I, of course, desperately wanted LOGO (and of course the robot turtle, too!), but my family couldn't afford it.
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/ seem like a better link for this post.
Exactly. The supposed "stability" of authoritarian dictatorships is a complete illusion. They look stable because there's no one exposing how very brittle they are, how much discontent is bubbling below the surface. That's why nothing at all was happening in Tunisia until a fruit stand owner set himself on fire and it all came crushing down. So it is here in Kazakhstan, except Russians come to the rescue to prop up the dictatorship. They probably realize the parallels with their own.
> rioting over the price of heating their homes.

Even though the price of LPG had doubled and that supposedly caused riots, even the new doubled price is way lower than price of LPG in Europe and other parts of the world.
TheOldReader.com was and remains my replacement for Google Reader. I have a paid account as a gesture of support although I use only a tiny fraction of the 500 subscriptions available. Their "add a subscription" utility works quite well on sites with no mention of a feed. And of course I discovered this post via RSS...
In Colorado. Anecdotal, 6 ppl I know here all have covid. 3 of them had their boosters 2 weeks before hand. 1 unvaccinated. Was like a bad cold for all of them.
The first link you posted links to https://ratingsacademy.nielsen.com/ for more information, and that site is currently giving me an "Unable to connect" error.

The second link does give some more detail on methodologies used by Nielsen. However, the details are mostly higher-level, and doesn't specify what methods were used on the previously mentioned report. In addition, when 1/3 of the "Measuring Ratings" section is devoted to "Criticism of ratings systems", that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
A 1922s “middle class” experience is affordable for a most Americans today. As in shelter with heat, phone service, and electric lights but no appliances, no car, minimal access to effective healthcare etc.

Upward mobility is still available and just as rare. The health, intelligence, and drive that allowed someone in 1922 to better themselves are the same things that still allow someone to better themselves in 2022. It’s not easy, but it was never easy. Just look at how many people in 1922 where held back by the color of their skin.

As to getting a job at Walmart, have you ever actually applied? Their standards are incredibly lax.
> More recently I'm still not sure why, in a language with an extensive runtime and its own VM, they went with async / await rather than fibers or continuations like go and java. It was probably simpler to implement initially, of course

Async/await work much much better than goroutines for GUI programs, which was still a major market at the time this feature was added to C#. Since there is a single GUI thread where everything that touches the GUI must live, but you do want your application to have multiple other threads, you need to give the programmer this kind of control and can't rely on a more simplistic Go-style green threads runtime.

I believe COM also has some similar requirements, but I am less sure than I am for GUI.

Finally, C# has a lot of influence from the functional langauge community, so it's possible that async/await and Task values were a more appealing solution given those particular tastes.
Lots of my bugs are because of unexpected data. I imagine these systems cannot account for that?
Generally, you try to hire candidate into a role that excel at (>50%) it but you promote employees into roles when they are achieving the next level but not excelling (<50%). If you wait to promote until they are excelling then you've waited too long.

Thus, if you interview those promoted employees, they are not going to match external candidates unless they have been in the role for a while and are now excelling.

Additionally, you evaluate external candidates much more heavily on raw skills b/c they have no internal knowledge/experience, but you include that internal knowledge/experience when evaluating employees.

Finally, interviewing skills != working skills. I've been writing software for 20yrs, and interviewing SDEs for almost as long, and I'd still do interview practice to prepare. In a normal job I can go search the details of what a red-black tree is, and find a library to use it (or spend a few days implementing it). In an interview I need to already know it and be able to implement it myself in less than an hour. (yes, that sucks, but it's the reality of interviewing today)
This is beyond Asperger, I'm in awe 0_0
Some years ago I joined a small company, replacing a guy who was their only developer. He was pretty disorganised, and one of the first tasks I gave myself was to get the source code for the company's main product into a revision control system (Visual SourceSafe, I think). This turned out to be far from easy because his idea of versioning was to have multiple copies of the full source tree with the root directory named with a woman's name.

Its been a while, but I remember it took me weeks to satisfy myself that I'd identified the correct sources for the builds that were then in production.
It is also key to understand that they are far more diverse than ever. Azure earns money independently, so does Office and Windows, XBox, etc. They do not rely on each other anymore.

The only big part which is different is the former developer division. I do not think they earn the money themselves but are more a cost center to everyone else. But considering that everyone else is a giant company with a diverse set of developer needs, maybe that is just okay. Which again is interesting because the rest of the industry is also relying on this part of Microsoft.