skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Unions are a democratic force and it’s important to consider that it’s faults are problems of democracy, not something inherent or restricted to unions.

2. Lots of big words to justify being a bigot here imo. There is nothing cool about being against gay marriage. Also menstrual cups are exactly for people with periods and not women. Why would a post-menopausal woman need a menstrual cup? Your sexism is exclusionary and doesn’t benefit anyone while actively harming the people you are denying.

3. Citations please. Even a journalistic anecdote would mean more here than your opinion.

4. You might have to dumb this down for me, your mental gymnastics are getting hard to follow.

5. I don’t know what journalists you’re talking about but I would imagine it boils down to maintaining journalistic integrity being more important than the unconditional support from the union.

> anti-racism is a moral abomination

Looks like one small step to racism to me.
It's simple: I don't.

I had a few remote live coding interviews, most of the time
I just panic, quit in the middle of it and ghost the recruiter.

But I didn't need to do live coding interviews for my last 5 jobs.

Of course it kinda limits the kind of company that would consider hiring you, but it also filters out the companies that would be dumb enough to consider whiteboarding or live coding a reliable way of testing a candidate.
Algebra is a wide topic.

My second year of university is where i fell off math.

Several people have told me that once they reached post graduate
level at university that math made sense to them.
They saw the perspective of unified math.
How it all fits together.

Sadly, all I did know I have forgotten.
Not mandatory but helpful, especially for mgmt roles. It’s an electronic business card, helpful for people who used to carry cards.
The unions didn’t exist so how could they have helped?
Depends on the implementation, of the LRU and of the generational system.

But mostly it depends on whether the pacer would perform a minor or a full collection in that scheme./
If you want to find good candidates for saving the campus tons of money, go to the roof of one of the tallest buildings on a cold day and look for the buildings that are venting lots of steam. They likely have a failed steam trap somewhere in the building. It's not uncommon for failed steam traps to save thousands of dollars a year apiece when fixed.
The problem with fast byte-addressable non-volatile memory isn't hardware IMO. They've been around for a while, with Optane DC being the better option at the moment.

The real issue is that software and APIs aren't keeping up with the hardware. If you do IO with memory mappings or anything POSIX, you will not be able to saturate a modern NVME SSD. And I'm not even talking about Optane here.

This means that there is no market for these crazy fast devices. Look at the storage-optimized instances of every major cloud provider, and you won't find them. They would be too expensive, and the software people would run on them wouldn't be any faster than the older, cheaper SSDs.

It'll take time for the software to evolve and catch up. Initiatives like DAX, eBPF, and io_uring in the kernel are a big step forward in the right direction.
What does OTT stand for? Don't think I've seen that acronym before.
Some believe that Omicron (yes, the mutation) may be a leak from a lab that was doing research on the original version of Covid.

https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20

It's an interesting read. Author puts forward a few arguments for why this may be the case (more research needed, of course, but pretty compelling in my view).
How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter) (2018)
Most places in the US only have a single ISP option. There's a word that describes this situation that rhymes with "phonopoly."
> I was once looking for a solution to some technical problem, clicked on a promising web result, and found myself at my blog. I had posted a solution several years earlier but had forgotten about it.

That is funny.

Once I recognized that I have been researching the same topics I have researched before, it motivated me to change my blog from a "Hack the Box" showcase blog, to adding my technical journal on topics that were hard to find online and sharing my experience with certifications.

I have been thinking of adding more personal entries, but I don't want to make the blog a social media.
Doesn't corporate lobbying also lessen your wages?
Rhinoviruses spread not only via aerosols, but also supposedly spread better through surface contact than COVID19. Air circulation won't stop you from touching a contaminated surface.

But its pretty clear medicine has a very poor understanding about how viruses spread given how long they denied coronaviruses were airborne. So who knows.
How is that different from saying Swedes can avoid Swedish law by incorporating somewhere else?
to continue the metaphor: ...but only EVs because "The ICE is so dead only an idiot would buy one today".
This is a well-executed tool.

I hesitate to criticize, but I think it's a step backwards for usability in the current form. Having to individually mouse over every single pin to see what it does is the least efficient way to find the pin I need.

Ideally, the tool would show all of the pin short labels and then allow me to hover over to highlight connected nets and show the full description.
Land transport of grain is unlikely. Marine or riverine transport was common in history; you'd have to make some kind of evaluation as to how likely it was in the prehistoric region in question. But assuming it was happening, you still have some sharp restrictions on where it could have come from.
That’s pretty much all there is to it, yeah, just a missing data problem. But once you slap the “shadow profile” label on it, it gets “shady” and “scary”. A pretty cool lesson in how to make something fairly trivial and non-threatening seem scary to people.

Note: not currently or in the past employed by Meta or any affiliated companies, so that’s just purely my own take.
I appreciate this train of thought and enjoy seeing it in action by others. Kudos!
In Canada, we have universal health care, paid for by taxes and a fee based on income. It covers everything except elective surgery - breast increases, nose jobs etc(except for pathological cases like huge overgrown breasts being reduced or gender changes deemed medically needed). One might say that someone who refuses any vaccination is electing to be risk the disease should they get infected = an elective situation. Thus the added fee of $100 is akin to an elective case - one that can be avoided by the free vaccination. It looks like a mild coercive measure as the $100 is nothing compared to a hospital stay.
It has aroused a huge furor - based on socialistic absolutes... but I think Quebec will persist.
> Teachers unions actively fight against performance metrics and instead focus on seniority as the main way to get pay increases.

Unions may have fought against it, but many have not succeeded. Those teachers now get paid on performance metrics. Those metrics punish teachers at schools in low income neighborhoods; leaving those schools devoid of good teachers. Those metrics punish teachers working with at-risk kids. Leaving those kids without access to good teachers. But I digress, that's a different conversation. My actual point is, these teachers, even though they get paid on metrics, are still unionized because there are more benefits to unionization than salary. Ask any charter school teacher.

> People who have worked and doing the same job for 30 years are payed more than twice as much as newcomers to the field. The existence of a teacher's union is actively harmful to new teachers.

These were called "steps". And it was a way to encourage teachers to stay teachers. When new teachers signed on, they were given their step salary schedule and they knew exactly how much money they would be making at any point in their teaching career. To suggest this is punishing new teachers is ridiculous. If you don't like the salary schedule, you shouldn't have taken the job. Aside from that, many school districts have already moved away from stepped salary schedules to a flat salary with COLA increases negotiated by...you guessed it...the union.

A unionized labor force can bargain for any kind of contract it wants. Paid by seniority? Do it. Everyone paid the same? Go for it. Merit based pay? Not a problem. But without a union, "Here's what I'll pay you. Don't discuss it with your co-workers. Or else."
Chamath argued in a recent episode of the All in Podcast that Visa and Mastercard are going to get wrecked soon, as it becomes apparent they are an unnecessary trillion dollar parasite on the economy. They add a 2-3% tax on every transaction and can block people out at will, as you note. But now we increasingly have cheaper alternatives that are also censorship resistant.
A Discord community for Web3 jobs
If you're looking for a place to quickly find a job in web3 (crypto, NFT, DAO, blockchain, etc.), we've got a great Discord community that'll help you find one!
Eh, there are three sides - Democrats, Republicans and true believers like Lina Khan. The believers need to notch some wins before taking on a big bad like Charter or ATT, and as you note, Facebook made themselves an attractive target. You take those where you can get them and win big to build cachet for going after bigger cases in the future.
Sometimes half baked is better than a tray of eggs and some flour.
I think it is probably more likely those ports were the backdoor the government or their allies was using to function. Everyone always builds in a backdoor for themselves!

When I hear about things like this it makes me glad I have a simple satellite communicator - it will only do short text messages but that is a hell of a lot better than nothing. Of course one could get a full satellite based mobile internet device or phone but the plans on those get quite expensive.
Yeah, in most of the places I've lived, I've only had one choice, and it's been quite expensive for the quality.
Alternative DNS Roots
I think the problem is that Google is extremely data-driven, and therefore tends to optimise things that are easy to measure. Click through rates, conversions, etc. is easy to measure, so that gets optimised.

Long term user satisfaction & retention is hard to measure, so it doesn't get optimised.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. We ban that sort of account.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Yes, I think this is probably what does it - my nose and throat always feel really dry after a long flight, actually I almost feel dehydrated.
I really wish Wordle would release the daily puzzle where everyone can do it at the same time.
David Graeber and David Wengrow*

In particular, their theory of "play farming", that many societies around the world experimented with going in and out of agricultural societies, is relevant.
Ask HN: I need to quickly move to South Korea, How?
I'm a British Software Engineer.
I just discovered my South Korean fiance has just been diagnosed with a terminal condition so I need to move over there ASAP.

I've got a CS degree and 1 and a half years experience at a large news organisation. In my team we manage a web service written in elixir including all associated CI and aws infrastructure. I've been coding in python since I was 16 and java at uni. I've been learning Korean for the past year but its not business ready yet.

So my main question is, given my situation, how difficult would it be for me to get a job in Korea?

Other questions:
How common are English speaking software jobs there?
Could I get a remote job for a company outside of Korea while still living there?
Does anyone here have insight into Korean job visa or marriage visas on here, that could point me in the right direction?

Sorry if this isn't concise or the questions are easily googleable, I'm still reeling from the news. I just thought this is the most likely place to get the best advice!

Thank you in advanced, your advice is greatly appreciated!
If six of your contacts have provided them with the same name and email address, then they know with near certainty that those six people have you as a mutual contact. When they spot an ad profile with the same email address, that comes with a dossier on your browsing and shopping habits, which are used to infer your interests etc. It's not a "missing" data problem, it's an embarrassment of data problem.
That assumption doesn't seem like it'd hold. You'd just replace bot services with package forwarding services that can generate unique PO Box numbers or whatever.
Please don't cross into personal attack, and please don't reply to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. It just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have mixed feelings about the article. I was curious to read about a tech boom.

They described a twitch player which earns enough to be afloat. A gaming pro team and an artist selling nft's.

Is it just an add for nft's or a submarine piece for afro games.
Wouldn't that shorten to #0f0? But "green" is #008000, which doesn't shorten?
I mean the "obvious" alternative that satisfies those predicates is house arrest: separated from society, not in danger from other prisoners.

So I'd ask: What prevents us from using house arrest as an alternative to imprisonment more often? How can those problems be addressed? Can we "build a better house arrest" -- maybe even from within the private sector?
The ARGO Project – A Global Fleet of Robotic Oceanic Sensors
At least on PPC you can map write-through, that solves 99% of this on an embedded system with battery backed SRAM I use.
I once saw this in use at a restaurant to drive ceiling fans. I looked up some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-uCvwEq3co

https://youtu.be/1IWTM1rNCnw?t=78
> When threatened with a new virus which spreads through respiratory system it is a common sense to start covering nose and mouth

Two years ago they might have made sense. But in a post vaccine world where Covid is endemic? Why are we still wearing masks when anybody can get a vaccine? Who are we protecting at this point?
You didn't account for the hedonic adjustments, yeah those Oreos cost more than last year but they have pumpkin flavor now!
It might be a bad look on the athletes country if they were to find nudes or something, for lack of a better example. Blackmail in general.

Sometimes that doesn’t matter though, such as the Sukarno sextape.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-bl...
Maybe they should rename/alias it to brokenutf8, to make it more likely that people will notice a problem.
With taxes the dose makes the poison. It's highly unlikely that it'll be a fair trade. The people who control the government (hint donors not voters) did not obtain that control in order to exercise it for the benefit of others. I wish I could believe in a solution that is predicated on good governance but I personally don't see a possible path to that any time soon. The whole situation feels very terminal.
then they're equal to me
Proper engineering also takes into account the end users, even the ones that aren't paying for it. If other engineering disciplines were as hell-bent on cutting corners as SWE, these situations would be common-place:

- "cars older than 5 years are not supported on this bridge"

- "Sure, we can perform maintenance on this bridge, but with every round of maintenance work, the maximum speed across the bridge will be lowered by 5mph"

- "No, I'm sorry, you can't call our office from a landline. We only accept support calls from a Sprint mobile device, and the contract must be less than a year old"

- "What do you mean, you need to replace a fuse? You can't do that, they're built-in. Please contact our office to buy a new house".

- "Sure, our new Model T does 5 gallons to the mile, but look at its color! It's not just black, it's Vanta Black (tm)! And look at these rounded bumpers, aren't they a marvel of engineering?"
Aye, it's far from certain it's happening on the aeroplane itself, but I've assumed it is because the air is so dry, and because I was always travelling in business, using lounges with nice toilets, not being next to other people outside of the plane etc.
> "They were exhausted, but they did not have the 21st-century psychological condition we call burnout, because they did not believe their work was the path to self-actualization. The ideal that motivates us to work to the point of burnout is the promise that if you work hard, you will live a good life: not just a life of material comfort, but a life of social dignity, moral character and spiritual purpose."

Connecting the dots:

So work has become worship, an alternative belief system, similar to identify politics. People are just replacing their values/void with their own "god" (vs. 1st commandment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473167
If I were you, I'd study only linear algebra. Other subjects, including calculus, are of little use to programners. The quickest way to learn linear algebra is to pick a high level topic, say... spectral decomposition of a matrix, look it up on wikipedia, see what theorems this topic is made of, and try to repeat the proofs. You'll quickly see that those proofs rely on lower level theorems, so you'll need to look them up too, and so on, until you descend to the definitions of numbers and sets.
Now that Go has generics, it just needs operator overloading to be usable for matrices and ND arrays. :-)
A lot of negative backlash towards NFT’s seem to based on the hype and seemingly worthlessness of ‘owning’ a monkey jpg. And I think to an extent it’s valid, and much of these ‘meme’ nft’s will devalue significantly as the narrative progresses.

But what we have here is an overblown reaction to a working proof of concept of a valuable idea. NFT’s as I understand is just a digital sign of ownership. The twitter author suggests this is useless because “you don’t really own a gun in a shooting game” (paraphrasing here) but downplaying digital ownership of things people find value in is downright silly. If people find something to have value, it does, and that’s that. Being able to transfer digital signatures of ownership for digital assets is a good way of trading that value without much third party intervention (in theory).

For example one idea I can see working if implemented properly is digital ownership of games (some of the GME hype seems to be based on this). Transferring ownership for games used to be owning the CD and having a serial code. Moving proof of ownership to an immutable ledger seems like a great way to ensure only one copy belongs to one person, and opens a digital good’s ability to be bought and sold like a physical good.

Or perhaps a way of tokenizing real estate cheaply and securely. Or tokenizing digital brand good from artists. All with less takeaway from a middle man (hopefully).

I find the whole scene fascinating, and although I’m not invested in anything because I think the proof of concept is overblown and the value attributed will dwindle as people realize that the use cases of NFT’s are much much broader than just art, I find the technology to be a promising use case for blockchain in the real world. The entire scene still feels like it’s in its infant stages and it’s putting a lot of value on memey things (I guess that’s just for the times call for) but I think the value proposition of NFT’s could potentially be massive. Time will tell.
Because the experts aren't really experts and peer review is useless? They routinely publish totally unscientific stuff and peer reviewers don't care, I can list 5 examples off the top of my head.

Why compare Germany and Sweden - because their case curves are virtually the same despite wildly different levels of masking. Because providing counter-examples is how you disprove a hypothesis.

Remember that he doesn't actually need to do lots of statistical analysis of this because mask theory is a total one. It doesn't come with caveats like "sometimes in some countries it works and others it doesn't for <reasons>", it doesn't even come with effectiveness numbers. It's just masks=less COVID. To disprove a theory this simple you only need one counter example. But this guy shows lots. He makes a big pile of graphs not because it's actually necessary to prove the point, but to try and ram it home to people who are in denial about it. There isn't just one counter example, there are a huge number of counter examples, and any one of them is sufficient to invalidate "masks = universal and effective COVID countermeasure" as a belief. That actually is science!

If mask mandate proponents were proposing a very subtle and complex effect where it was expected that sometimes there'd be no impact etc, then yes, the counter-argument would need to be correspondingly complex in return. That isn't the case here though.
No?

The bible contains a lot of good advice packaged in the form of religious parables. They're not unique to religious people.

E.g. "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the same as "what goes around comes around"
Compiler-enforced computational complexity would be an interesting part of that experiment. Could be part of the function declaration, for example:

void constanttime doStuff(vector<whatever> v)

However, it would likely require extensive dedicated support and would necessarily be limited (hello, halting problem!). I could see that working and be useful for common complexity values, e.g. O(n^k), O(log n) etc.
OK, but they don't wear out from that based on write cycles, they would wear out from that based on power-on hours.
My favourite thing about air tools was not having to worry about batteries (most electric hand tools I've used are battery only so no opportunity to use an extension lead like you use an air hose)
Experience with maggots is an important control variable, especially given the tiny sample size (13 people ground maggots).

I suspect that people who have experience dealing with a maggot infestation -- or any infestation -- will have a very different relationship to grinding maggots.

I wouldn't think twice about grinding maggots, but to do so voluntarily I'd have to have nothing better to do because it's not pleasant work.

I don't think grinding maggots is particularly violent. This is probably because I had to deal with a very serious and persistent maggot infestation. There's really no way to deal with a maggot infestation except to kill them en masse using methods that appear sadistic (e.g., boiling water or chemical treatment).

An alternative title might be "Dealing with a maggot infestation is necessary but unpleasant work... you have to be pretty bored before you decide to do this work voluntarily."
I am writing a shared file system application such that an OS like GUI displays the file system of various machines. Reading a large file system volume takes longer than transferring a data structure of that system across a fast network.

A file system executing at RAM speed would fundamentally alter perceptions of distribution and thus decentralization.
I'm almost sure that Haskell has had its "do notation" even before 2007.

And maybe even Scala its "for comprehension".
I like how it is put here: http://sawv.org/en.html

It is an "Everything / Nothing" type of content.

"The website's content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world."
> I wonder if the same could happen to TOR, if VPN end up the same way...

It can't, because some of us don't let third-party corporations control what we're allowed to do with our computer.