skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fossil records strongly suggest that life may have been a lot worse and less bountiful for early agriculturalists than contemporary non-agriculturalists.
Fair enough. Shall we say, reversibly or temporarily reliable. If any of the procedures are really reversible that's news to me.
So is it autocorrecting helo to hello?

Predictive tweaks aren't good in a keyboard, you want everything to be intentional, or you'll lose time and patience correcting things. Spellcheck should be post hoc imho.
> I have, as I'm sure many on here have, found success in grinding away at boring problems, suppressing any kind of "call of God" or desire to do something larger.

What a profound statement. This is the sentiment of a generation of tamed hackers.
Imagine if ‘scientists’ named every variant of the cold or flu.
The Cuban regime is responsible for its sins. The US is responsible for the consequences of its embargo. The whole point of these sanctions it to put pressure on the sanctioned economy; the more pain the economy experiences, and by extension the people who live there, the better. It is disingenuous to claim that US policy is not leading to economic suffering there.
How is this any different from the U.S., except the level of material available is slightly greater?
Humans and other primates are social animals, and pretty much all aspects of personal success and ability to influence the external world - survival and safety, access to nutrition, mates and other resources, and general power - are mostly determined by social factors, so "winning" at the social factors has been more important than what a single individual can achieve by exploiting the "real world" even since before homo sapiens existed. "Individual fitness" at the expense of social fitness is maladaptive in the environment where humans live and lived; Starving or not starving depends on social factors more than on individual hunting prowess, the same for procreation, the same for changing the world in various ways, most of which depend on how many other people you can motivate to go along with your plans. These "special contexts the humans have created" have dominated the human life as long as humans have existed and before that, as we can see in non-human primate communities where living or dying in a power struggle or inter-tribal war is largely a factor of social aspects and not the strength of some individual ape.

There's no "merely" social consensus, quite on the contrary, the social consensus has always dominated all the things that matter; being exiled from the tribe was effectively a death sentence even if the tribe did not directly kill you, and a dominant position in the tribe gains larger benefits than dominating against the real world, both in a hunter-gatherer environment and in modern society.
Cheesed to meet you
you know leftists call this "the one joke" because y'all can literally never come up with a different one when someone mentions pronouns.
> I think you're ignoring the massive power differential between employers and applicants. It's a game of incomplete information when the applicant doesn't know the possible salary range.

This is repeated all over the thread, but makes little sense. You don't need to know this to come to agreement. All you need to know is what you want/expect to be paid, and the lowest number you're willing to accept. The company, in turn, doesn't know this information, and wants to discover it. You're equally matched. You both have exactly 50% of the information required to come to agreement.

Moreover, the company has invested a great deal of time and money to get you to the point in the negotiation where it actually matters what you're willing to accept. You have power!

The one thing that this does is (maybe) savesyou the effort of interviewing when your salary expectations are wildly out of line with the employer's willingness to pay. But that rarely happens, in practice. When it does happen, it's at senior levels, where your value to the company is disproportionately large. If you're at that level, you can usually tell going into the interview if the company has properly identified the value you believe you bring.

Stupid example: if you have 20 years of experience as a software engineering lead, manager, senior engineer, and so on, and you're interviewing for "Javascript Developer 1", then maybe you should be worried about pre-filtering on salary expectations.
Shouldn't that be part of the strategy for every company regardless of field?

You want the best people, often times they're already employed by your competitor as they also want the best in the field.

In fact there was a big lawsuit a few years about big SV companies agreeing not to recruit each other's employees.
In Dercuano, Derctuo, and Dernocua, I was able to get what I thought was pretty reasonable formatting for 80-column code even on a cellphone screen in a PDF with the lmtlc font, which, despite the abbreviation, is called Latin Modern Mono Condensed Light; it's an extended version of Computer Modern Mono Condensed Light with some Unicode coverage. I wrote a little about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21946327, and Dernocua is at http://canonical.org/~kragen/dernocua among other places if you want to see how it worked out.

I'm reasonably pleased with the Dercuano formatting, though some people hate it; it doesn't work very well on a laptop screen, but on a cellphone screen I think it's close to optimal, except where it's just broken. It's probably passable on a small ereader but would be painful on a large one, except maybe in landscape facing-pages mode. (I hacked together the HTML renderer to generate the PDF in a few days, and I didn't implement, for example, table layout; and when it has to fall back to a glyph that isn't in lmtlc, it screws up the column widths.)

I think I've said this before, but I really appreciate Beej's Socket Guide! Thank you for writing it!
I mean, what if we're all math and tricks, i.e. that consciousness is an illusion. We might be chasing an "it" that doesn't exist. In a more practical sense, what I'm getting at is that we might be applying an arbitrary or undefined standard to AI progress, especially when we compare it to people.
Solana is an unstable centralised blockchain, majority owned by insiders, the same insiders hyping Solana for the NFT / Web3 garbage by the usual venture capitalists [0]

Not good at all and looks mostly a pump and dump scam to me.

The question is when will the party be over for most late comers to the Solana ponzi scheme.

[0] https://cryptobriefing.com/how-decentralized-is-solana/
In reply to your edit, which I'm only just now seeing and can no longer edit my other comment:

I'm not arguing that. I run multiple blogs and I am very much on the record as wanting my blogs to remain free to read. I don't want paywalls or subscription newsletters and I no longer have ads on my sites.

I try to support them with tips and Patreon and I don't get enough money that way while other people clearly use the info and, in some cases, have a history of intentionally shafting me by not only not leaving tips, they also do not give me any credit nor promote my work.

I need money. People "value" what I do but don't want to pay me for it. Copyright and even the Nobel Prize are intended to solve the problem that it isn't actually true that "Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything."

Ideas are not nothing and actively screwing over people who generate new ideas -- like, say, Einstein -- is an excellent way to incentivize your best and brightest to tell the world "Fuck you. Got mine."

This is not in the best interest of humanity as a whole.
Correct, not every major city was burned to the ground.

And yeah people shouting things doesn’t mean they’re part of a BLM protest.

Just like not every Jan. 6 rioter is part of [insert right wing group here].

Life is more complex than that and just like the Rodney King riots, things start out about one thing and devolve into another thing all the time. Sometimes it’s just about looting, no political agenda, just taking what you can when there’s an opportunity. Just watch video of kids looting Beverly Hills or people streaming into Target and walking out with large screen TVs. No signs, no slogans, no organization, just theft.

Multiple things can happen at the same time and it doesn’t mean that BLM is out there coordinating violence or looting nation wide.
I don't understand this at all.

I've worked with great people a lot. When I make a move they understand that it's best for me. I understand it's best for them. One of the reasons they're great is that they document their work and share knowledge, so if someone leaves the rest of the team can pick up where they left off.

Yes, the company then has the hassle of hiring, but companies need to factor that in and get to it.

It seems almost childish that anyone would take such a move personally.
You can play any day by changing the date on your device.
The new Microsoft is limited to their cloud offerings. The Windows division, when looking from the outside, is still the same.
I've never seen it used IRL as well.

People tout a 30% speed increase over romaji:
https://persol-tech-s.co.jp/i-engineer/technology/key-kana

> this keyboard claims to be faster than direct input due to not needing to move your fingers around

That would perhaps work if you remapped the movement to not be linked to romaji, but direct kana mappings. Then it's not just 26 keys combination for the alphabet alone, but 46+ more arrangement, and more for ° and ". With 10 fingers it feels like hell just for standard text input (to note, you can only use 9 for combination as you need a transformation key, and I guess you also need backspace and arrow keys ?), and you add to that punctuation etc.

I'm not sure there can be an actual human being effectively typing faster with this...
But in practice doesn't nearly everyone use Gmail (50%), Yahoo (20%), or Outlook (15%)? I could set up email on my domain but it's easier to just forward to Gmail.
It's a good political move.

And Mozilla doesn't live on donations anyway (they are used to finance "initiatives" of various sorts).
You're right, left-wing dictatorships tend not to be hereditary. NK is unique in this regard.
The Worst Job in the World (1997)
A robust performant multithreaded runtime with a big set of enterprise libraries for the big boys.
Just waiting for your car to start working is strictly an improvement. Usually your engine or drive train suffers unforeseen failure and burns up.
Intel runs its own fabs, and slipping on r&d success in that area is a large part of what's been causing them problem in recent years.
Yes, but the relevant context is that he’s a highly privileged individual, and perhaps unaware of it.
Business that don't actually provide the underlying mechanisms to make customers happy -- for example, an API that refunds your money -- aren't going to be able to slap a chatbot in front of it that makes customers happy, no matter how "smart" the chatbot is. If the underlying problem cannot be solved, all the business is doing at best is providing an obfuscation layer in front of it.

And if the problem can be solved via an API mechanism, you don't need that smart a chatbot to get the job done: word-matching is often enough. "Refund", or "reschedule," or "where's my money?" followed by a step-by-step series of button-pushing that takes the customer through the process often does the job just fine.
I started after age 40.

Having a great time.
> I guess the source of the confusion is that you didn't specify what the sabotage actually is. I mean, deleting all your code before leaving is sabotage. Leaving without notice isn't. What did you have in mind when you wrote that?

There are three main sections in the article:

- Your reasons for leaving shouldn’t be a surprise to your boss

- Match your notice period to the handover period

- Set the team up to flourish without you

The "don't sabotage" subsection is under the "Set the team up to flourish without you" section, not the "Match your notice period to the handover period" section.

Seems fairly common sense that the author did not intend to conflate lack of notice with sabotage, considering that the subject of sabotage is completely independent and separate from the section relating to notice.
Your remarks here, esp. re "hardly use JS", make for a wildly misinformed comment. (You realize that every Electron app also has at the core a "very optimized[...] C++ codebase"? Aside from that, Gecko makes very little use of C and by now makes extensive use of Rust.) XUL-based apps were doing the Electron application architecture before Electron (or NPM, for that matter) even existed—and on average they've done it better.

> I have never heard Firefox referred to as such.

... so?

The fact that you aren't aware how heavily reliant that Firefox (and Thunderbird, and Zotero[1]) is on JS for its UI and other application logic doesn't exactly change anything. In fact, that most people aren't aware of it is rather the point of the comment that you're responding to...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774097
Unless you live as a hermit you are unlikely to avoid getting Omicron. A more rational approach would be to take steps that will maximize your odds of survival when you do get it.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Maybe its the issue of trust?
https://community.brave.com/t/why-i-stopped-using-brave-brow...

Edit: No really...its the issue of trust to start with:

"On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users type a URL of Binance into the address bar, which earns Brave money. Further research revealed that Brave redirects the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites, too. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting..."

"Controversies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
That's amazon. The company I'm at is 25% after year 1, then 12.5% every 6 months. Once you get a few years in it's pretty much just a rolling part of your salary.
Yup, would much rather do a 30 minute phone screen than a "2 hour" take home (usually more like 4 hours with all the requirements needed for the project, unless you already have a decent framework you're working off of).
I wish web 3 referred to the new trend towards federated, decentralized services, instead of blockchain stuff
The local police department asked the 400 million found to go towards their budget.
For some people… many people struggle with establishing romantic relationships, men and women alike. I’ll be first to admit that the phrasing used by the author is dated, however
> if you are willing to talk about your weakness real or imagined you will grow fast.

Similarly, owning up to mistakes (rather than making excuses) is gold. It wins respect and trust when you really weren't at fault.
Rabies had never really been on my radar until I got bit by a dog in central Bangkok just over 2 years ago. After calling my travel insurance I rushed to a hospital for Rabies post-exposure treatment (although there were no clear signs that the dog was Rabid, I didn't want to take any chances).

I was given a booster shot of anti-tetanus. I was given a Human Rabies Immune Globulin injection straight into the wound on my hand between my finger joints (this was extremely painful). Then I received my first dose of Rabies post-exposure vaccinations (Day 0, Day 3, Day 7, Day 14, and Day 28). The following injections were in my arm. All of the costs were covered by my travel insurance and my home healthcare system.

The entire experience was traumatic. Even though I knew the circumstances were definitely in my favor (I knew the chance of the dog actually being rabid was probably quite low and I had received treatment within a couple of hours) I was still really freaked out for a couple of months.

To make matters worse, just a few days after my incident, there was a Norwegian girl that died from rabies after getting bit by a dog. That definitely didn't help calm my nerves.

Ever since then I am extremely cautious of any animals around me.
How do you feel about Apple Silicon? After all, it means the days of the Hackintosh are counted.
> "As I have said many times, the real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and consequently trust them to make important decisions they should not be trusted to make."

This is the crux of AI in general today, companies promote cherry-picked examples from their AI system and people get a distorted view of what the AI is capable of.
Almost all my discussions with crypto-enthusiasts invariably lead to a "what about the 2 billion [?] unbanked you're screwing over". Proposals to try to improve existing systems result in an aggressive refusal because "capitalism is a scam".

These theories are completely lacking in nuance and, frankly, aren't at all convincing. Further, it's incredibly jarring when a discussion that is premised on the merits of a technology derails into an almost _purely_ political argument of which I'm apparently on the wrong side of, despite never once saying I think that the unbanked don't deserve better, for instance.

It is utterly ubiquitous. If you don't approach the subject like this then good, but if you don't see these people crawling out of the woodworks on HN lately, you aren't looking.
I understand how they plotted them, I followed your link. My point was that a sigmoidal learning curve can be both steep and require much time to reach proficiency.
This is pretty much also how government works in San Francisco.
New York Times Illegally Curbed Labor Activism, U.S. Alleges
I think the problem with PDFs on ereaders is that the PDF layout is typically designed for a much larger physical page. I designed the PDF version of Dernocua (http://canonical.org/~kragen/dernocua) for comfortable reading on small screens, even including cellphones; if you're willing to try it, I'm curious to hear what your experience is with perusing it on your ereader.
> The law does not require that we report the results or even read them.

The best move then would be, of course, be to consume a large amount of marijuana the night before you take the test. If they end up not hiring you because of it, well, do you really want to work for someone who will just straight up lie to your face?
You can download the extension off of the official VSCode extension store in a web browser and install it manually in VSCodium.
Thanks for this great project. It's amazing that:
- It works both for static analysis and runtime checks (unlike Typescript);
- Static analysis runs super fast even in a large codebase (unlike Erlang's /Elixir's dialyzer).

It's a shame that it didn't become the official Ruby type checker.
Consider policies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiya. Early USSR was already totalitarian for sure, but I don't think it could be described as nationalist in any meaningful sense.

Whether it was socialist or not is another interesting question. Some would say that it wasn't, on the basis that real socialism cannot be non-democratic, as that precludes meaningful common ownership of property - and Bolsheviks were consistently anti-democratic very early on, what with shutting down the Constituent Assembly, instituting kombeds to suppress local councils that were in opposition to them, and even explicitly writing a formula into the constitution that made urban (i.e. predominantly worker) councils have 5x voting power of rural (i.e. predominantly peasant) councils. But even ignoring that, it's hard to reconcile socialism with suppression of trade unions in politics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Opposition) - which also happened under Lenin.
That exists everywhere in the world.

The only difference is that Cuba doesn't have the opportunity to exploit foreign nations to enrich itself (and get even fatter on taxes).
What about if you are only fascinated by foreign celebrities?
People will spend them as they need to spend them. Nobody is going to forgo buying groceries and go hungry because of a deflationary currency.
As a former Democrat turned party-agnostic by the last few years, I disagree. I would call CHAZ/CHOP an armed insurrection. And it was the left that bombed the U.S. Senate in 1983.

Most liberals are good people. Some aren't. The same thing goes for conservatives.
Yeah, the problem is I want to change areas. Despite an apparent desperate shortage of engineers I'm having trouble getting a job that isn't near-identical to the one I have now. I'd like to do data science or web front ends or something for a change but I'm finding it very difficult to be taken seriously. Its frustrating when I see clueless people getting entry level roles which I could do much easier.
>this sounds a hell of a lot more fun than sitting in back to back meetings and dealing with dumb blockers from business related issues

It was. Damn I miss it too.
Critical race theory in action. If you're an Asian person, they want you to feel like a victim of systematic oppression. If you fail at something, it's not really your fault. It's the white man, the patriarchy or the boogeyman, etc. etc.. The problem is that's not an attitude that will bring you success in life. It's actually extremely toxic.
In the UK 3 months is unusual, I've only ever heard about it for management positions. In tech roles 1 month is standard AFAICT.

Personally I'd never work on a three month term, I consider it abusive, it completely kills your ability to find a new role before handing in your notice. You'd have to be really confident of your skills and of the market before you made that leap.

And you can be fired for all sorts of reasons after 2 years, including poor performance, but there has to be a reason and you have to be given notice and a chance or three to fix the problem.
DNA can now be pulled from the air we breathe
Very true for sysadmin. I can type pretty quick, but I developed a habit that when doing risky things I do a "air enter" -- I tap above the enter key, stop and think "am I sure?", before actually pressing enter. It's served me well.
I assumed it went without saying that force is justified in retaliation to an initiation of force.

It is not okay for the government to imprison someone because they didn't want to rent their house to black or white people, or refused to pay the fine for this choice. It is okay for the government to imprison someone because they threatened their neighbour with violence to coerce them into not renting their house to black or white people.
> I was amused at the sudden acknowledgement of natural immunity from previous infection in the very publications that have constantly claimed it doesn't exist

Can you cite some of these alleged claims?
It feels like this is saying something about the state of the world in 2022. We don’t have much runway left. There is no bridge loan possible. We have to take off or… reminds me of this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NlLuNj0v8
Ok, so your solution to inflation is storing value in scarce forms of assets.

Natural scarcity in the form of land, gold, etc., or unnatural scarcity in the form of crypto, water rights, futures, stocks.

I find your arguments kind of silly about emissions and energy. Real estate in the form of teak farms are inherently 60+ year investments, fix carbon, and basically require no energy, and have nominal upkeep. Teak has been a steady supply of income for hundreds if not thousands of years.

99-year leases are also normal and allow you to retain land while letting others develop it or use it and puts the paying of taxes on them. Banks routinely finance mortgages on 60 and 99-year leased land for housing development.

Crypto's only true benefit is the lack of minimum investment quantities. I can more easily store for 100 years $100m of cash today than I can $100.

It also has the benefit of allowing people who don't know how to invest money to believe that somehow the flawed logic you just used is actually sensible.