skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "critical thinker" is part of the job requirement, you need to be able to measure and screen for that quality/capability.

If you can't figure out how to design your screening to objectively measure, sort, & select for that desired criteria, you have no business discriminating pay rates based on it.

And if you CAN & DO have a screening system that does so, you can prove you are not discriminating by making offers strongly correlated to scores in your screening system, e.g., "Strong candidates get offers $X-$Y, Exceptional=115% of Strong, Good=85% of Strong, Acceptable = 75%, lower=no offer" (presuming your screening system doesn't also include other explicitly/implicitly discriminatory criteria).
> Farmers commonly switch between the two depending on market prices.

Legume roots have nodules that cultivate bacteria that fix nitrogen. Farmers rotate their fields between corn and soybeans/legumes because the bacteria on legume roots restores the nitrogen in the soil, thereby lessening their fertilizer costs.

Biological Nitrogen Fixation: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/biological...

This is an inoculant with bacteria for soybeans: https://www.groworganic.com/products/soybean-inoculant?_pos=...

Plants with deep roots pull up nutrients from deep soil. I think corn and soybeans generally don't help with restoring the soil like native plants.

A chart comparing root systems of North American prairie plants and bluegrass: https://www.reddit.com/r/ecology/comments/bxoh43/a_chart_com...
Civil and peaceful protests work in democracies, not in tyrannies. If you don't believe me ask Belorussians how peace is going for them. Dictator is called that for a reason, you won't impress him with flashlights, songs, and dances even if the whole country is dancing.

TL;DR: do not bring a flashlight or guitar to a gun fight. Drinks (cocktails in particular) on the other hand...
The pandemic will truly end when therapeutics are mature. My liberal relatives become visibly upset when just the concept of therapeutics is brought up. Thanks liberal dogma/media…
When a company has gotten so automated that the only way to get a solution is to beg and plead for help about it on social media, it's too automated.
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Don't forget "unschooling."

My wife and I have two daughters, who are eight and thirteen years old. Neither have ever been enrolled in a state school. We've had brief experiments with structured curricula, but we've always found that they're just unsuitable for us - they require a (relatively) huge amount of time, both parents and children tire of it quickly, and most importantly, they don't seem to offer anything.

We regularly test our children both informally and formally. They're learning everything their cohorts are required to know and more through simply living life alongside us. They're a bit behind their peers in some of the more formal/structured areas of grammar, but their actual verbal and written language usage is significantly beyond expectations for their age. They're both far ahead in math, history, social studies, geography, etc.

For kids in particular, learning is something they do by nature. When they get bored, they learn something new. As long as the parents are invested in shaping a productive adult and are able to provide adequate resources for the kids to satisfy their curiosities, my experience leads me to believe that traditional K-12 "schooling" is entirely unnecessary.
> Remember all of the little miniature laptops in the 90s?

In the 90s? Laptops barely existed, definitely not "little minature" ones. I remember e.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC launched in 2007, and many follow-ons after that.
Is there any caselaw out there where say, an airsoft manufacturer sued a player who was cheating during some airsoft game? Or a better example, an airsoft manufacturer suing someone who made youtube videos about how to pretend you haven't been hit when you really have been?

I'm just trying to figure out what actionable damages there are here to Activision, besides "people cheat at our games and it makes our customers sad".

Could Titelist sue me for cheating during a game of golf with my buddies just because I was using one of their balls? Could they sue my uncle for showing me how to change the 8 to a 3 on the score card before we hit the 19th hole?
I wonder how those who work from a third world country like Argentina with a hard fiat currency control from our government will achieve to get paid without being robbed by it.

I'll explain: today our government forbids us from buying foreign currency such as the US dollar (200 tops for a really REALLY small portion of the population) so a black market has been at place since the prohibition started many years ago. In this market each dollar corresponds to 200 pesos while the government states each one costs around 100 pesos.

So, if you work for a company outside, and the pay you 1000 usd, you get 100,000 pesos when you could get 200,000 in reality. Not only that, you also are forbid from buying dollars, so if you want to get them to avoid our rampant inflation (50% average, around 100% for groceries) you only have the black market which is around 200 pesos.

I know about the damages to the cliamte of crypto mining but consider also that there are some beneficial uses of these currencies for people like me who don't live in the first world.
Our only source for "decapitation of police officers" are Russian telegram accounts which, there is no question, are 100% trustworthy (they are not; what happened to that poor "little boy in underwear crucified in Ukraine" that never existed). On the other hand, we've got plenty of evidence of police shooting protesters, including in the head. I'm somehow sure relatives of the murdered are not OK with that. I wouldn't even be surprised if they demanded revenge and acted on it (family means more in that part of the world and it's way bigger, too).
I’ve been part of companies which decide to outsource and very often what they send to India is the legacy code no one wants in research labs or headquarters, so it makes all sense to me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not a fan of HN, but I'm also less than impressed with jwz's maturity.
The question was:

> Why would you need to modify PAM for SSH on port 22?

I don't believe you have an answer.
Big metadata is one of the big upcoming trends in the data space.

Data tooling has gotten a lot better over the last 10 years with Spark + Airflow + Cloud data warehouses. The next step is getting everything to talk to each other with better details.
Not an amount of time where typing more efficiently is going to matter. Once you hit intermediate competency it stops mattering.
Problem with that is it dilutes the intended audience.
That's different from a publicly traded company RSU, where on each vest date you are employed you will get a % of your initial grant (+ refreshers) - tax withholding distributed to your brokerage account.

It accounts for more than 50% of my total compensation.
In what way is crypto not anathema already? HN has basically been dumpstering it for over a decade now at every opportunity, the general public considers it some imaginary money ponzi scheme scam, over the last year people are laughing at the stupidity of things like NFTs and meme altcoins. It was only very recently that anyone in finance has even begun to consider it anything but a complete joke. Of the people that don't consider it an outright scam, probably 90% of those people are insufferable cryptobros or scammers who latch onto the buzzword, who make hating cryptocurrencies very easy.

I wouldn't be surprised if all of the media attention it gets is mostly because of how much most everyone hates it. It is the thing that tech inclined people love to hate watch.
Dead Kennedys?
Only the most extreme cases would end up on the street because the rest will die. That's a fundamentally antisocial approach that will lead to people being exploited to death.
I hope the third point stays unchanged too. Too many services out there optimize for engagement, the expense being the encouragement of addictive behaviors.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120

This is evidence that it does matter. That the unvaccinated as a whole are some outsized threat to everyone is misleading at best. The subset of the unvaccinated that are seronaive are more likely to take up hospital beds, that seems to be true. The unvaccinated with a prior infection are not.

This is important because the general populace has been whipped up into a frenzy and pointed roughly in the direction of myself and people like me, who are not an issue. With asshats like Macron stirring the pot like this, its leading us to a scary place, and its all for political points.
Oh very cool, thanks for this suggestion. I think the outgoing text messages actually add up to be kind of expensive too so this could save some money.
Wonder if it runs on Twilio..
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One day we will be able to automagically add an alert to a dashboard saying that the database four systems upstream is having a temporary quality issue.

Any tool that gets us in that direction is good in my book.
Parent commenter.

The job description was top notch. It was a clear description of what they needed this engineering role to do. Inspire of it being a bit of a niche, I had almost perfect set of experiences from my prior jobs that made it very interesting.

Fun because it would have given me an opportunity to _improve_ upon my already bootstrapped skills. Productive because, I already have a head start than another engineer getting into the groove of things. This is HN, I can be tech specific :-) I have worked a lot on performance from HPC perspective. The job was at a High Frequency Trading platform that needed a sys.engineer who would work on extracting performance with things like pinning a CPU core to a process and several optimisations at the OS and kernel that would shave off a few milliseconds in an already fast application.
Twilio is a carrier and nothing else by having zero tolerance against outgoing spam they are protecting their own core business. If OP or you in that regard would even glimpse at their ToS instead of just scrolling by when your business depends on it OP would not have made this user error.
Node.js has both a Best Practices [0] and a tutorial [1] that instruct to use CMD ["node", "main.js"]. In short: do not run NPM as main process; instead, run Node directly.

This way, the Node process itself will run as PID 1 of the container (instead of just being a child process of NPM).

The same can be found in other collections of best practices such as [2].

What I do is a bit more complex: an entrypoint.sh which ends up running

exec node main.js "$*"

Docs then tell users to use "docker run --init"; this flag will tell Docker to use the Tini minimal init system as PID 1, which handles system SIGnals appropriately.

[0]: https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/main/docs/BestPra...

[1]: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/

[2]: https://dev.to/nodepractices/docker-best-practices-with-node...

Edit: corrected the part about using --init for proper handling of signals.
I don't really know how people get past 120-130wpm with sustained accuracy. I find that I trail off around 100-110wpm. It really depends on the text too. Some text with a lot of difficult double repeated letters, fancy punctuation, etc. in a row or hard to read words - not so great.

I just did the practice twice. Once at 100wpm (keyboard twister kind of text). Once at 130wpm (easy sentences). So much variation just from the practice text alone. This is also on a macbook pro keyboard literally on my lap - which I fucking hate and find horrible to type on and mess up on all the time. (I think it is also dysfunctional/semi-broken)

I don't think I could ever hit 150wpm. I just don't see how it's possible with a normal keyboard - at least for me. Never seen anyone do it sustained either. Must be some <1% skill - as I'm the fastest typer of just about anyone I've met and I don't feel fast.

Speed of thought is mostly the issue for me too though even at 130wpm. If I am saying things faster than that - whatever I am saying is probably not worth reading outside of a chat conversation.
Were you vaccinated when you caught it? Hope your body recovers over time friend.
No, you can't start a web server within Browsix that can accept connections from outside Browsix.

Just like you can't do that in regular JavaScript in the browser.
> How do we build a society where homelessness doesn't happen in the first place

Pay people to get sterilized. Right now our current welfare system encourages homeless women to have children - since they are immediately granted public housing.

Offering homeless men $5,000 and women $10,000 for vasectomies and tube tying will save a fortune in welfare costs and end the cycle of poverty.
There’s a concerted effort by world leaders to demonize the unvaccinated.

I am vaccinated, but as a human being, is this a useful approach?
My point was that it wouldn't have been on the radar for anyone in Elixir land, and having a name clash with what looks to be a JS focused tool isn't that big a deal when they're in really different domains.
From your link:

> An activity that it is easy to learn the basics of, but difficulty to gain proficiency in, may be described as having "a steep learning curve".

That matches QWERTY exactly.
Most people are not aware that we have less than 60 years of phosphate reserves left. It’s not a renewable resource.
For sure. If you're a hunt-and-peck typer, it makes meetings where we're waiting for someone to finish typing unbearable. If you're even somewhat competent at typing, then I don't think it's a big pain point.
Where can I try one?
Your parent commenter wasn't saying that they have a desire to get this every year, just that if the worst case outcome is getting what they had every year, they would find that an acceptable trade-off for getting society back to normal.
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I think the more significant I/O trend would be ai guessing your intentions. The program will know the user so well it will be effectively mind reading.
One thing that younger readers may miss about early retro PCs is just how big and bulky and heavy "Personal" Computers were. In particular even through the late 90s monitors were very boxy (using CRTs, like TVs before them). So access to a computer was typically in a common space, like a computer lab on a university campus, or, later, in a family living room or classroom.

This in contrast with later PC users, who might have grown up with one in a bedroom, or early feature phone users, who would have been able to look at their phones under the covers in bed.
If someone has already written a custom integration, how hard can it be to wire it up to a spam detection API? It sounds like the integration was sending spam (not intentionally of course), which none the less is a TOS violation.

If they can’t update the integration with spam filtering, then it seems like they should be using COTS software.
I run a media company and I’m shocked at the purchase price! The Athletic and NYT make a lot of sense. NYT increased its total subscriber #’s and can make more money through bundling. I assume a lot of NYT audience might be interested in purchasing the Athletic and Vice versa.

But Axel Springer paid 5x revenue for Politico which was a better business with a “tech” product that had significant recurring revenue.

Athletic sold for at least 7x revenue. VCs got lucky here, but I can see the NYT doing very well with this deal!
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Haha brilliant.
> in this case it seems the main benefit these accusers would have gotten out of it was... ditching an incompetent coworker?

The tribal feeling of belonging to a closed group that punish an outsider can be rewarding enough for many people.

Is unclear if he was incompetent. Willing to work with exotic tools or acting bold makes him easy to be hated, but not incompetent necessarily.

My definition of a competent employee for the first 14 days of work is somebody that manages to go and exit to the workplace each day at the expected time, does not set fire to the code and don't bite other coworkers for the possession of a sandwich. Is just a too narrow period of time to conclude anything.
While all supreme court justices are appointed, from my understanding only the chairman is appointed correct? Everyone that works for the fed is not necessarily appointed?

Maybe we say it is private but the government serves as the board :)

Seeing the tension over the years the Chairman, the President, and Congress implies to me that the government does not have absolute authority over the Fed.
I could see this for prose, but this seems all but useless for programming. Even if you combined it with copilot or something I think the time you'd spend fixing what it presented would make you slower in the long run.
He's one of the more entertaining figures of that generation. IIRC there were some huge flamewars between him and rms during the Xemacs fork.

He still maintains XScreensaver, but now his day job is the ownership of a bar/pizza/venue establishment.
Because they have made it pretty clear in their ToS that it is forbidden to send any form of spam over their network.
Not the OP, but I develop a different open source tool for Kubernetes and would love to talk! (Email is in my profile)
Thank you for this response. I think this whole issue is always addressed from the point of view of people from well developed first world countries, such as aynthing related to climate change. Sometimes I wished they lived just one year in my country with 50% of inflation and see how they deal with that...
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You reference beanie babies or tulips and describe how a speculative market detached the price from the actual value--so while the speculation was ongoing, some people made money, but when it collapsed, many lost money, and they were left with the actual value of the underlying thing.

For a tulip or beanie baby, you have a thing worth little. For an NFT, you have an entry in a ledger that no one pays attention to outside the context of the speculative market that's disappeared.

I've had success reminding older people of a company in the U.S. that was selling stars in the 1980s. You gave them cash, they gave you a certificate with unique stellar co-ordinates and a claim that you owned the star there. At the end of the day, you had a certificate, not a star, and no one would ever see the certificate as anything but a novelty, even if there was a brief moment when they were trading for stupid amounts.
Why exactly? How often do you start up a web application? And it’s not like the RAM is not there to use it — thread pools, db connection pools, etc have to be set up.
I would love some proof that all the computers that power all the bank and credit transactions, and all the financial derivatives they produce, don't add up to the power consumption of crypto.

Then I would take into account how PoS would affect this in the future, as crypto is a technology that is meant to be built on, evolved, upgraded, and replaced by something better. Like money.

Then probably ask which system is more democratic in its distribution and transparency of the money, and I would bet that system would finance less legacy climate destroying industries
Wow, I wonder does this report equity grants? If not then at least you can still hide your total comp…
Wikipedia says 260 years:

> In 2021, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that economically extractable phosphate rock reserves worldwide are 71 billion tons, while world mining production in 2020 was 223 million tons. Assuming zero growth, the reserves would thus last for 260 years.
If my accuracy was 76%, I'd be upset. I'd definitely work on accuracy over raw speed at that point.
I sympathize, but your problems won't be solved by cryptocurrencies. Sure, those might patch things over, but systemic change is needed, or it'll be a never-ending series of such patches.
It is much easier to work backwards with that logic than forward. It is impossible to both try to guess the word while also trying to eliminate all possible overlaps that may occur with whatever results you get from the previous word. In this specific instance, I would have never played "image" because my first word was "tears" so I immediately knew there was a t, e, and r. There was no reason to try to determine if there was a g or m until I was presented with "ti_er".
Nice to see a new eBPF based solution out there. Good luck.
I remember Quest for Glory 2 from Sierra Games had a sequence where you could purchase X-Ray glasses and you could wear them to see Zayishah, one of the central characters, naked in the game (rather pixelated it must be said).
No vaccine has a 100% success rate in preventing infection. In fact, many of the standard vaccinations are not nearly as effective on an individual level as one may believe. At the population level, they are pretty effective because a high percentage of the population is vaccinated and/or has natural immunity.

Looking at the natural immunity scenario, one can consider the history of varicella. Prior to widespread vaccination, there were yearly outbreaks amongst children, despite the fact that more than 99% of the adult population had immunity due to prior infection. That is, despite the fact that the adult population was largely immune, there were still outbreaks among children.

Once the varicella vaccine became part of the standard vaccine schedule, those outbreaks essentially ceased. That doesn't mean that the virus isn't still being transmitted. It does mean that if enough people refuse getting the vaccine for their children, then there is a risk of another outbreak precisely because the percentage of people immune to the infection dipped below the herd immunity level.

Similarly, with COVID-19, if we can get the vaccination percentage up to more than 90 to 95% (or whatever percentage the data supports), then outbreaks will cease, but the virus will still be out there.
have we ever "run out" of a non-renewable resource? Non-renewables just become more expensive when easily found reserves are exhausted.
You seem to know what you’re talking about so I have a question. Is it possible that leaving fallen leaves on a lawn for a period of time can help to fertilize that lawn? I experimented with that on my lawn this past fall and while it’s too early to make any conclusions I wonder if there’s any prior art here?
Freelancers in my country (Argentina) will happily accept crypto instead of dollars so they aren't robbed by our government, it is really an alternative for us.

Not only that, is another way for us to save money in cash since we have an extremely limited to other currencies (we have 50% annual inflation so saving in our national currency isn't an option)
There was an article[0] which estimated that the entire global banking system (down to lamps on desks in offices) used 100Twh a year, whereas Bitcoin used around 30Twh a year (for a relatively insignificant volume of transactions). I don't know how accurate that is, but despite the unfavourable statistics, the article was still from some pro-Bitcoin person concluding that we should "stop complaining about Bitcoin and start complaining about Xmas lights". Also note that Bitcoin's energy use has since risen to 110Twh a year[1].

[0] https://hackernoon.com/the-bitcoin-vs-visa-electricity-consu...

[1] https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
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