skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask how you know how much expertise, self-learning ability, attitude, and flexibility to juggle diverse tasks a person has before they work for you? How you're able to tell how they _really_ work versus how they happened to do on the day you interviewed them?
I'd also love you hear you how prevent allowing unconscious bias to slip into your evaluation of this person when you're deciding how much money to give them.
Tried that and got 109 WPM with 100% accuracy on my Macbook Pro (non-butterfly) keyboard. I usually score around the 80s with regular sentences and punctuation on other sites though, so subtract 30% from the WPM results on this side to estimate a regular WPM.
Digital money is still a good idea. I don't want to throw it out because current implementations are bad. No doubt, someone will invent a way to make it work. edit: in a sustainable way.
Pretty weird. I'd think the entire point of Intel ME and AMD PSP is that they are completely invisible to the user of the machine. Putting a BIOS option... kind of sounds like the failed Do-Not-Track HTTP header which a lot of advertising networks ironically used as a one more data point to pinpoint who you are. (lol)
In real world, there is check for typos - your eyes. You fix them after yourself.
Why would this be the case? Chrome's rise didn't destroy Firefox or Mozilla's legacy, so it's not clear why a fork would.
https://i.imgur.com/gPllQYY.png
Once you start adding stuff, I think Alpine gets worse. For example, there’s a libgmp issue that’s in the latest Alpine versions since November. It’s fixed upstream but hasn’t been pulled into Alpine.
Not surprisingly, “the ends justify the means” isn’t a widely held tenant of humanistic non-profits.
it was more "magazine" layout previously, but they solicited feedback from the community that this single-page HTML layout was preferable to the "magazine" style layout.
And his farm has above-average yields compared to other area farms, but also way higher profits. Brown Ranch practices Regenerative Agriculture.

If I was president I'd ask Gabe Brown to run USDA.
At this point, Mozilla is basically irrelevant anyway
For some reason I don’t like any of this automation tools. I find VSCode unbearable even without copilot. Too many things happen when I type. I prefer linting and that’s about all I want to write my code peacefully. I use vim in iTerm and it’s all I ever need. Jump off to Pycharm to debug if needed.
Clickhouse depending on the true size and retention requirements you have.
I don’t even know where to start with this comment; it’s so full of non sequiter I find it challenging to assume good faith.

Yes, empires have historically debased their currencies during a decline. Blaming the decline on debasing the currency rather than the other way around is an argument one could mount, but the evidence either way is scant.

As far as elected governments hiring civil servants being anti-democratic goes, must every candidate for every role be voted on? At what point can the people vote for someone and delegate authority to them?

The IMF was created by elected officials and exists with their support.

You have the same say in that as all other voters; you just don’t like being outvoted and have elected to claim the rules are unfair instead.
> the calls handled (entirely) by the virtual agents get better average cust sat metrics than human agents on the same set of calls

does that take into account that the virtual agents are immediately available and human agents usually require a waiting room?
There are multiple components to the immune system. For some viruses like measles, prior infection or vaccination usually triggers production of sterilizing antibodies which block subsequent infections in most patients. That isn't really the case for COVID-19. However the immune system also contains memory cells which can ramp up defenses more quickly during reinfections. The targets for those defenses are mostly the same across all SARS-CoV-2 variants.

I have oversimplified this explanation to keep the comment short. If you'd like to really understand what's going on I recommend this panel discussion by a group of leading physicians; it's long but worth a listen.

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8
Congress preparing an oversight hearing on Bitcoin mining's environmental impact
I've always heard this, but I've had a dozen jobs in the last decade (not a joke), and no one has ever asked me for previous paystubs. They have asked for previous proof of employment, but that came down to "a letter from my company that confirms I work there", no salary information listed.
I just ran a comparison of a benchmarking script we use for our own product and saw wildly different results. There's no way I'd consider migrating to truffle today:

# With MRI ruby-2.6.6

Measuring [loading ruby dependencies] 3.560960 2.507366 6.075755 ( 6.154898)

Measuring [loading configuration yaml] 0.823779 0.085605 0.909384 ( 0.931334)

Measuring [creating objects from YAML and performing filtering] 0.499576 0.042023 0.541599 ( 0.552427)

Measuring [object validation] 2.362139 0.226133 2.588272 ( 2.674958)

Total time: 7.246786 2.861230 10.115445 ( 10.314025)

# With truffleruby-21.3.0

Measuring [loading ruby dependencies] 91.818473 5.598149 97.427109 ( 36.676471)

Measuring [loading configuration yaml] 28.032630 0.811577 28.844207 ( 8.616437)

Measuring [creating objects from YAML and performing filtering] 14.952781 0.479387 15.432168 ( 4.634803)

Measuring [object validation] 86.747057 2.788266 89.535323 ( 28.324909)

Total time: 221.595872 9.680172 231.286531 ( 78.264226)
The Bogdanoff twins recently died within a week of each other
If only you'd known DOS shipped with Q-Basic! After we got a Cyrix 386 back in the 80's I moved on from Commodore Basic (on the C128) to that, then Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal and then Turbo C.
For any of us corporate workers, Equifax runs a service called "The Work Number" that has, for a big group of people, every single cent you ever made, who payed it, and when

I only learned about it recently. When I requested a report on my SSN, I saw every bi-weekly payment ever made to me

https://theworknumber.com/solutions/industries/pre-employmen...

> Talent Report™ Income and Employment
Provides verification of employment plus verification of a candidate’s income
##9fans on discord, matrix and irc on oftc is a great start. Though due to a recent set of trolls the discord is invite only. I think there's a link on postnix.pw
Perhaps, but it's also a service you are unlikely to want to outsource if your data is proprietary.
Caught a bad flu in late 2018. Lingered for two months. Cough so bad, I dislocated a rib. Had X-rays taken, and everything. Took about a year for the the rib to stop slipping whenever I exerted myself. In the end, it was a period of discomfort that set me back a spell, but which I ultimately got over. Probably wouldn't try to shut down society over it, or use it as proof that people should fear the flu. Just that sometimes you get sicker than usual.
I jumped into the Netflix bandwagon and stopped using torrents few years back. Then I realized that Netflix has almost no content at all, and primarily interested in pushing "their content" onto the masses. Now I am back to torrents. One big difference is now it is harder to find torrents - earlier, it was easy to find one say for a Uruguayan movie from 2004; they are becoming quite rare now.
The community split is what makes Scala better in my opinion. The fact that you can have the split between functional first and better java people is a nice thing to see over Java where if you want to do functional programming, you are a second class citizen.
The Catholic Church still opposes all of those except for offering network support and feeding single mothers (in which cases it recommends generosity). I don't think that's an overcorrection; I think it's the result of thinking very hard about human dignity over many generations.
Ask HN: It's annual review season, how do you remember what you did last year?
It's annual review season now / soon for many companies, and one thing I always struggle with is remembering what I did over the past year. How does everyone (does anyone?) keep track of things over the course of the year to make sure they do well during review season?

If you are a people manager, is there anything you do to help your directs do well? Help them save successes / failures?

(A related question I have is "how does anyone remember answers to behavioral questions that start with `tell me about a time when . . . `?)
That's an awfully broad statement.

If Phillip Morris wanted to become a big donator to the Cochrane collaboration, they would refuse by policy.

Do you think they're wrong, and they should take the money?
They're important, but I'll consider those after my equity requirements are met.

Jobs are plenty. It is a choice and decision to take up a job.

Personally I'm not going to bother somewhere where I get unlimited vacation and no equity. Also, I'm not going to work somewhere with a bunch of equity, but then the following requirements aren't met.

I start from the top of the demands I have, and go from there. Meet each of my demands in order of importance, and we'll see about the next set of demands.
Thought I recognized the name, check out what his website shows when linked from HN: https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png

Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not a fan of cryptocurrency, but I'm also less than impressed with jwz's maturity. If I didn't know he founded Mozilla, I would've taken him for an angry teenage kid trying to be edgy on the internet.
All I did was swap Melissa5.pic with Melissa1.pic so that she would start off naked.

Hence I'm still shit at poker...
I did! Edited for clarification, though it definitely can be both!
You're thinking about it all wrong. Omicron and Delta are the same virus, and there's not particularly any good data that Omicron is less intrinsically virulent than Delta.

Omicron infects those who are unboosted, and likely reinfects a lot of the population that is >6 months recovered from prior single infection.

It is all about the fact that Omicron infects people who already have T-cells and aren't immunologically naive. The way out of the pandemic is our memory B-cells and T-cells.
What's the connection between jwz and Brave? The only connection I can see is just that both jwz and Brendan Eich worked at Mozilla and now Eich has gone on to start Brave, but presumably there's more than that?
I cant think of the last time I saw the word "corporations" used in a post that wasn't part of an attack on them as inferior/evil/villanous etc. Speaking of NLP, your post would be very easy to classify sentiment of using a simple keyword approach.

Anyway, I've worked both in academia and industry. Industry is simply more practical and better at technology. In tech areas, academia desperately needs industry to provide the feedback they provide. Especially in AI areas. You are thinking of CEO's or salespeople or something, but the people that matter here are the engineers. And I'd place their assessment over that of grad students any day. If the engineers can't make it work, then yes there's a problem here. Doesn't always mean it can't work, but for most ideas it probably does.

By the way industry research labs certainly still exist. But long-term self-funded research has to compete with govt funding of research. Why throw your investor money at a high-risk idea when Stanford, MIT, and 100 other R1's are throwing taxpayer money at it? Otherwise industry labs end up just competing for govt gants ultimately. Meanwhile nowadays we see academia chasing short-term problems that industry leads in (and trying to patent them too).
I don't think he did.

Alimony and child support do apply to women as well as men in the US, though it's obviously not equally distributed today. Even if we assume that's not because of a flawed system, I can think of several reasons it might be the case. For example, any or all of the following could cause that in a fair system:

* wage earners are still disproportionately men

* women tend to be much more likely to retain (and desire) custody of children

* women tend to be less likely to work outside the home

While I do believe the system is biased against men, I don't think it's nearly as bad as it may seem depending on your own view of things. There are plenty of stories out there of men who have been unfairly saddled with alimony and child support, and those stories get a lot of play. I think it's fair to say that the trope of "a woman left penniless, with no marketable skills, to care for a family after the man left to shirk his responsibilities" is a trope for a reason - because it is and always has been a common ocurrance.
ARISE is good, but AROSE is better, and SOARE is the best: On average it eliminates all but 2264 out of ~12000 5 letter words.

https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle
Wholeheartedly agree. And even if a feed ships a lot of text, the reader software can always trim it down and/or present it as it wants. For the website builder I develop and sell, I use the reader side of RSS as a 'social timeline', so there's no room for long articles in the feed anyway. Want to read more, just visit the website. The website is the best place for ads as well, dirtying up your timeline with ads is a no-no for me.

I also want to use the opportunity to propose a new name for RSS, which is 'Really Social Sites' or 'Real Social Sites'. RSS had name changes in the past, so it's only natural it gets a new name when it will revive in the coming years. And since all this web3 sh1t (names without meaning) I really felt the need to put energy in RSS and also it's name. To make it more accessible to everybody, not only devs and nerds, it needs a better name. Nothing else has to change, RSS is rock solid as a technology. Can't wait to use my own software to read the personal blogs/websites of all you guys and gals. Social Media without Big Tech.
Is fluoride in our drinking water a problem? I happen to like my teeth
I prefer an article explaining how over why.
If anyone is inclined to disagree off the cuff, I'd suggest checking out Gregg Easterbrook's It's Better Than It Looks[1]. There are some valid criticisms, but he makes a great case for how much better society is now than it was in the recent past. It's a super quick read and is a jumping off point for investigating some more interesting questions.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Its-Better-Than-Looks-Optimism/dp/161...
But this doesn’t matter if you extract the data from the phone first.
thank you for reminding me to disable referrers in Firefox :)
It's quite literally not useless. It's a collation of info, community stuff, interesting links, latest changes, etc. What's _actually_ useless is your comment calling the webzine useless. "Let people enjoy things."
I coded some heuristics and ran them on a Scrabble dictionary: https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle
People retiring aren't exactly in the primes of their lives. Suddenly becoming more sedentary at 65 years old could put enormous stress on your body.
Some predictions were super accurate (i.e. Europe to America in 8 hours), some failed (lunch in 4 pills), but, due to immense optimism of human nature, one just couldn't envision the most influencing events of XX century - the rise of totalitarianism resulting in World War II and all its disasters. Something I can't escape thinking about when reading modern predictions.
2019 I would have agreed with you.
Duterte was a standalone nutcase.
2022 it looks like Austria, Holland, Australia, Italy, France and nordic leaders are taking notes from this dunderhead.
Swedens new PM seems particularily keen to add a little late covid terror to otherwize pretty sheltered Swedish population.
She recently proclaimed no vaccinated should have to sit next to an unvaccinated person.
Its not arresting them, but most definetly dehumanize them enough to justify inhumane restrictions.
Italy has mandated vaccinations for persons over 50. Is that not the same thing as Dutertes arrest ?
I've never been equated to a burger before. That's novel.
Bigger than you'd think, it's true! Outremont gets sunrise about 45 minutes after the eastern part of the city.
Yes, Schultz introduced Theranos to "not SV" people, such as Mattis and the Walmart heirs.

How does that make Theranos part of the "Stanford/Menlo Park VC/Palo Alto" crowd?
Also at least for Chrome the limitations are delayed until Chrome 103 if I read this right. See update at the top of https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enabling-shared-array-buff...

Chrome stable is at 97 currently.
Yes, I want everyone to die of natural causes after a long and fulfilling life. You're an animal. You're supposed to die. What do you hope to gain and accomplish, sitting around and consuming years after your prime has come and gone and your children have grown? Don't you know what you are? Don't you have a soul? And please don't mistake this for an argument about materialism. Do you know why you're alive?
if twilio can not differentiate between inbound messages that are being forwarded and outbound messages that are created by the twilio customer then their service can't guarantee to be reliable because someone could basically create a DOS attack by sending spam to any twilio customer expecting that twilio will blame their customer and suspend the account.
I almost never find something I want to follow that doesn't have a feed.

As someone pointed out to me, most of the RSS nostalgia is really more Google Reader nostalgia. I found that weird as it wasn't the first or the last RSS reader I used, but it was the reader that made RSS closest to mainstream. And for many people, it was the only reader they ever used, and so they're completely unaware of the ecosystem of web-based readers that sprung back up after it died or of the stand-alone apps that never went away.

And that makes me think trying to get RSS wired into browsers is unnecessary. Just make people aware of the web-based readers. For example, I'd say Feedbin is better than Google Reader was, and it's probably not the only one that is. It solves the Twitter problem, and you can even point email newsletters at it. I use the Hell out of it and cheerfully pay, which has helped cover upgrades as the guy's gotten more customers.

(Also, since it always comes up, people shouldn't obsess with trying to get all content into the RSS feed. It's always been perfectly reasonable to just put a summary or title in the feed.)
In that case I don't understand the "omicron will outcompete other variants" thing I keep reading about. If they don't interact wouldn't the progress of one variant be unaffected by the presence of another?
Amazon is experiencing address API issues (US only)
This is bad comedy.
1. Start accepting crypto, get a PR bump

2. Stop accepting crypto because you're green, get another PR bump
This is a part of it, and I think it is fantastic to enable these sorts of useful features, but the idea that the entire web is going to run this way, incentivizing things for the sake of it, and the huge push by marketing people to sell mostly trash really irks me.

The big selling points are censorship resistance, distributed access, direct middleman free payment for services all sound great. Unfortunately most of what we are getting right now doesn't solve any of these problems and is rent seeking garbage.
yea, I hate fiat pushers too
FWIW: To me, it sounded like an atypical cold or a typical flu. I've been "wiped out" by colds before, though rarely, and I'm always "wiped out" by flus, though I catch them a lot less often than once a year.
One of my very first computers was an IBM PCjr. I got it way after it was obsolete, but my parents didn't have money so I took what I could get. With the cartridge inserted I could boot to 'gwbasic'. I started programming there, a long time ago, and I still program today. It's nice to see this part of history resurfacing.
The only catch is it doesn't have intuitive pronunciation. "Pip gee?"

Why not just "Planet-Incinerating Grifter," or PIG. Then it also applies to Big Oil executives :)
It’s somewhat comforting to see that you’re at risk of loosing sleep no matter how successful you are.
No implication at all, I was simply curious. I think in the West we assume that the communist experience was bad, but I have no frame of reference for this, as I wasn’t there at the time. Then comes comparing between communist regimes, which is farther removed from my experience.

I wish the CIA would’ve let democratically elected communist regimes alone, like Vietnam or certain Latin American countries. It just grinds my gears I guess. We claim to support democracy, except when we say that they’re holding it wrong, or doing it wrong. Who are we to say that?
Because Microsoft killed it.

Through IE, Microsoft controlled what you could run in the browser and they refused to upgrade the embedded JVM. Java Applets started becoming popular but then they stagnated.

Microsoft control was broken when Google decided create Chrome. Chrome is what allowed javascript to flourish.
I switched to Dvorak when I bought a kinesis vertical keyboard. It's great. Much less strain.
> Both Scala and Kotlin are sufficiently similiar to Java to provide no real benefit

Sorry but "no real benefit" seems to come from a position of ignorance.

I can only talk about Scala which I know pretty well.

While Clojure is a radical departure from Java, being a Lisp, Scala is a departure thanks to its type system and features that help you writing more functional (as in functional programming) code. And I mean this in a good way: it helps you avoid mutations and side-effects, while giving you the freedom to use good old OOP if you wish so. In general it provides tools that help you better express your intent that Java doesn't have.

I think that Java has too much baggage to ever become as good as Scala, especially on the type system side, and, in addition, Scala is also moving forward.

Also don't forget Scala.js [1], which is rock-solid and just plain amazing, and Scala Native [2].

[1] https://www.scala-js.org/

[2] https://scala-native.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is some progress but it's not as much transparency as it sounds. Companies will just list their low-balled official salary ranges for each position. That's just what the employee gets if they don't negotiate. The official salary ranges at my friend's employer are significantly below the local market rate and their base salary is actually significantly higher than the high point of the range for their level. So the situation of naive or disadvantaged employees making less than others will continue uninterrupted, but at least this will help the candidates who are so naive that they would otherwise ask for a salary less than the bottom of their level's range.

And that's before even getting to the RSU situation that others are commenting on.
> It's an unregulated trading product, it's not practical as electronic money.

What if Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash but with a limited supply like gold?

From the bitcoin whitepaper:

The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation.

Before Bitcoin there was no ‘cash’ on the internet. Only electronic corporate (controlled) money.
So basically you are saying that right now traditional banks are billions of times more efficient than Bitcoin, but you believe that Bitcoin will improve its efficiency in the future?

That's quite some improvement that would be needed..