skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do quite a lot of screening/hiring. I’m personally very critical of Meta the company but have no issues hiring people who’ve worked there. The malaise in Meta is obviously a product of its top leadership not the engineering people
For those that might be interested, there's also an interactive version of the Soviet maps for Romania, at this website [1]. One has to click the "Harta de fundal" link from the top menu-bar and in there click on "Harti sovietice". You might want to unselect all the checkboxes on the left if you only want to see the map (this is an archeology-related mashup).

All in all the Soviets did a really excellent job. I suspect they had their inside sources in the Romanian State map-making department (a military-run department at the time, most of its work was a State-secret), because they're as detailed as the "official" Romanian military maps that were to be released about 10 years later (these Soviets maps are approximately from the 1960s, the Romanian military maps were released in the mid 1970s)

[1] https://map.cimec.ro/Mapserver/#
You are correct, of course, that vaccination should be completely apolitical. However you can’t deny that covid vaccines have become the favored political bludgeon in the last couple of years.
Of course, LC-only won't get you there, and all companies with LC use the whole arsenal. But I don't doubt that LC will filter out a very large fraction of applicants (hence the incessant whining on HN). The point is though, with Google-like application volumes, if they drop LC they'll need to substitute it with something that also filters out a very large fraction.

The actual hiring ratio at google is something like 0.2%. They pass over 998 out of 1000 applicants, so no matter what they do, they'll pass over a substantial number of qualified people, and no matter what they do there will be complaints on HN.
They should try the Disney vault model where they keep unsold goods in a warehouse for an ultra pricey limited release. The difference is that there would be actual scarcity, but yeah maybe warehouse costs would offset any profit. It would be nice to see the experiment though.
Clickbait - the plane had to divert because of bad weather, and once on the ground, the pilot refused to fly the next leg to their original destination once weather cleared.

It’s not as if at cruising altitude the guy just walked out of the cockpit and said “I’m on break”.
Garbage site, garbage article.

"Pilot legally isn't allowed to keep flying." would be more accurate.

And browsers need to start blocking history stuffing.
I want to continue being a homeowner in a walkable neighborhood of a major city, without necessarily always making the astronomical wages that calls for.

I won’t stop working, but I might work the kind of jobs that would otherwise require sharing a rental or living in sprawl.

In 3-4 more years at big corporates I think I could get my 1BR condo paid off with some passive income to offset property taxes. The HOA fee is basically a “normal” rent and I could pay that out of any job. I’m not sure what’ll happen if I ever need a 2BR though.
System will find balance. Price will increase. Fertility will decrease. Surely it won’t be easy way, but system doesn’t care about easy way.
I do believe posting stuff behind a paywall should not be allowed. At least provide a paywall-free URL. Requiring registration to read is quite similar.
It is good if you want to avoid javascript, it is programming on web, but with solid Java tooling. My main point is to have the same language on front and backend.
For some more anecdata, an ex of mine grew up with parents who had a terrible relationship but stayed together anyway. She once told me she wishes they had just gotten divorced. She can’t know for sure what that particular hell would’ve been like, but the fact that she said that means parents staying together isn’t obviously always better.
Common Law Marriage doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK since 1753. Is this just a US thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Marriages_Act_1753

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/living-together-mar...

https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/your-family/relationsh...

Edit: also a related term, parental responsibility...

https://www.bma.org.uk/media/1840/bma-parental-responsibilit...

Edit2: also you can assign each other as "Next of Kin".

https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/advice-and-su...

Edit3: also note, married couples don't automatically have "Lasting power of attorney" which grants partners a say in their medical care, and being "Next of Kin" is not an equivalent.

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/lega...

So... don't get married, sign your name on the birth certificate, and fill in that NHS card
Are you okay with Drug tests? Because vaccine mandates are about as authoritarian as mandatory drug tests. Personally I'm for legalizing all drugs, and doing away w/ drug tests...but I'm also for doing everything it takes to end this damn pandemic, vaccines are part of that.
the hard part about shrinking populations is that they cause your population to get older which has a bunch of annoying economic side effects (like fewer people working)
Unpopular opinion: JavaScript code shouldn't be able to mess with the history, copy paste, or any other features of the containing window/OS
Yeah. 3D printers still have not entered the industry to their full extend. It's mostly dental labs that use them. Here again you need the right materials and precision to use them as physical control models when doing the aesthetic restoration and planning. It is still very common that dentists take an impression (very you bite that gummy mass). It gets sent to the labs. The labs then create a plaster model from that to have a physical control model. They also use one of the above mentioned desktop 3D scanners to create the digital model used in the CAD application.
Can you elaborate on the signed integer overflow and the implicit initialization differences you're referring to?
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I think they refer to the meaning of the word "leading" as opposed to meanings like "commanding" or "bossing around".

While agreeably there might be no "true" leader to be found on this world, the words mentioned above still differ in meaning and definition. Someone who leads does something else than someone who commands or bosses around. This discussion here is about that difference.

Of course you can also reach goals by just yelling and punishing people, but that would hardly qualify as leadership.
We know how to apply them, it just that algorithms are not fit all solutions for most type of problems you encounter in the real world. I had to write a frequency analysis code. What I did was search for existing methods, found a paper that provides a mathematical procedure, then convert it to code. The data structures came directly from the OS and thankfully, there were no need to convert them to something else.

I'd say a lot of us learn about algorithms and data structures early in their career. But most of them are guidelines, not rules. So, you just remember how to google for them, not learning specific ones by heart. No one has ever told me: You need to work on this string manipulation and be done within 30mns.
It's worse than that, not only are the first principles demonstrably flawed, the towering edifice built on top fails due to some very iffy analysis. It's remarkable how much time and effort goes into attempting to maintain the idea of equilibrium in economics. You can only add so many epicycles before you should perhaps consider your model is wrong.
People won't show up drunk to work, but KTV company parties or among friends where everyone gets totally hammered are not uncommon in the big cities.
Is this even a serious question/discussion? I am not pro-china but I can't help but notice the us-induced narrative to just hate-spam russia and china as totalitarian states purely based on the socioeconomic differences. This meme isn't even funny.
This is definitely cool, but it also highlights a huge problem we have with software nowadays.

There are 19 stacks in this repository. 19 pieces of software that require their own maintenance, JUST TO RUN YOUR APPLICATIONS! The amount of extra work required just to host the software that views your pictures, plays your videos, and allows chat with people is absolutely insane.

I'm not talking about this particular repo; it's just indicative of how complicated things have become that you must do the equivalent of building and maintaining your own operating system just to get even simple things done. And I belive that it's unnecessarily complicated (once again, not this repo, but rather the state of affairs in general). We're at an inflection point in the industry, and haven't come out the other side yet.
> For instance, sewage solids from cites in are sold to farmers for use as fertilizer.

Seattle tried shipping their shit (literally) to the farmers in Central Washington. Used these trucks that had "loop: turn your dirt around" splashed on the side. Then the farmers decided maybe they ought to test that stuff for PFOA/PFAS before applying it to their most valuable asset.

You don't see those trucks anymore.
I think domain knowledge matters quite a lot.
The Linux Kernel is beyond just knowing C, C is pretty simple. But Kernel hacking means knowing the Linux Kernel itself, which is very difficult if you want to do it at the high level (write complicated features and not just fixing some simple bugs).
But I could say the same about projects like Django or Rails - how successful would Linus Trovalds be if we let him try write a few complicated new features to Rails? He doesn't know the Rails codebase or API, doesn't know Ruby probably, doesn't know web development that much. Even experienced Rails codebase maintainers have difficulties with adding complex features, it is usually a team effort.
It's gonna be a lot for Linus to take in - months at a minimum and maybe more. But he is so talented he'll be able to do it for sure, much faster than a normal developer, but it still isn't trivial.
> it has been difficult to establish whether alcohol directly causes cancer, or if it is linked to possible confounding factors (such as smoking and diet) that could generate biased results.

> It was also unclear whether alcohol is linked to other types of cancer, including lung and stomach cancers.

If smoking was a confounding variable, shouldn't we see an increased risk of smoking-related cancers?
Beginning of abstract:

Two genetic variants that alter alcohol metabolism, ALDH2-rs671 and ADH1B-rs1229984, can modify oesophageal cancer risk associated with alcohol consumption in East Asians, but their associations with other cancers remain uncertain.
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Elm is great but the authoritarian style of its leadership make things that should be trivial - like installing a custom package - very hard.

When react was immature (aka before hooks) I used elm a fair bit. Nowadays in the age of front-end copy-pasta I just use the framework of the day and sign when I see how slow and patchy TS is.
It is entirely fair and honest to say that Fauci has not been the most effective communicator throughout this pandemic. From his self-professed “noble lies” to his hair-splitting over what constitutes “gain of function” it’s not hard to see why many people don’t trust him. At least with politicians like Trump and Biden people don’t “expect” the truth, but when folks like Fauci claim to be above the bullshit, they better be prepared to actually be above the bullshit, otherwise they will be judged far more harshly than those who proudly wallow in it.
I had someone get triggered and start crying on a zoom call, when I used a common technical term to describe the effects of a database failing in it's appropriate context.

Next day my boss schedules a meeting to say that there would be no HR repercussions for me.

If this is the sort of s*t-show is going on, I decided to move to another team, and got the heck out of there.

Management are petrified of offending anyone vocal, regardless of how unreasonable their threshold of offense may be.
I've yet to read a comment about how well such models predict reality. Who is going to weigh in?

I studied economics, and I have some doubts about whether this kind of modelling works well enough to be useful. There's statistical issues like whether you have enough data to bring in your error bars, and theoretical issues like whether the thing you're studying moved below you because it's being studied. Neither of which invalidate the model entirely, but both of which make it a heck of a hard task.

And in the end, what matters is whether it works or not. The Lagrangian for quantum physics is some huge formula that gets pushed as meme now and again but it works. Likewise f = ma works perfectly well for your high school rolling ball experiment.
ONly to those who've made it such... it's a public health concern.

If you're going into the military you're often required to get vaccinated.. nothing different.

I think it's pretty sad when you can be a huge rock star, and die anti-vax and anti-mask with covid, and that's all you'll ever be remembered for. (I'm talking about Meatloaf).

All because some people decided "science" is a political issue. No. It's not. The vaccines work. They save lives. It's stupid not to use them.
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We are back into the timesharing days, and newer generations are finally getting that cloud platforms have replaced UNIX with hypervisors, language runtimes and cloud vendor specific APIs/services .

Most businesses don't care about dumb pipes, at the end of the day how the accounting comes out is what matters.

So many wasted projects trying to make the whole stack technology neutral and then it never changes during its lifetime, with added maintenance complexity to ease migration to something else that never got used.
The one condition that allowed lower-class individuals to quit their jobs just ended (rent moratorium). Seems like this is a manufactured movement.
If I were homeless, and getting a job wouldn't get me a home...yeah i probably might do odd jobs here and there for food/etc but that's it. Bare minimum.
I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated but there is no reliable evidence that will make it less likely for new variants to arise. The current thinking is that variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. Vaccination is less effective for patients with defective immune systems.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
I believe the strength of the Western German peace movements can be significantly attributed to the NATO war scenarios that pretty much all had Germany as a nuclear wasteland to stop the Soviets as a key element.
> FWIW, the small handful of people I've mentioned this to are indeed more concerned about their purchases and SSO than their email.

Purchases and SSO aren't going away (it sounds like what is happening is that the grandfathered free GSuite accounts are transitioning to Google Cloud Identity Free, which is basically GSuite minus the core GSuite apps.)
That's true, Soviet military textbooks clearly state the defensive combat to be a primary kind of it, and Soviet military training devoted about 2x more time and resources to prepare for defensive vs offensive action.
This should come logical since Soviet presence in the outside world was far outstretched, going deep into the countries with no cultural or historical ties with them and they knew it was hard to sustain. Probably changed today.
Some countries make it work. The key is to make the mandatory IDs free and easy to obtain. It’s not that difficult. When I need to renew my ID here in <random European country> I need a 20 minutes appointment, any document can be printed there so there is no issue with pdf and no need to fake a mail. Nothing to pay as well.

For the driver’s licence it was even easier, I just had to upload a photo and a pdf bill as a proof of address on a government web server, and I had it in the mail 3 weeks later.

Voting is a fundamental right. If you are going to require IDs for it, it follows that IDs are a fundamental right, and making them arbitrarily difficult to obtain is capricious, discriminatory and should be considered unconstitutional in a sane democracy.
Many people regard CO2 capture and storage as an attempt by the oil and gas industry to be able to green-wash what they current do without actually having to change anything.
no it isn't. that would require no one having children for the next 30 years which you know, can't happen. realistically, the maximum amount of population reduction possible without genocide is somewhere around 2% per decade. otherwise you are going to run into insurmountable problems due to effects is population agree distribution.
https://archive.is/FHPTy
We abandoned "closed loop nutrient systems" long time ago for good reasons. Prion and hormonal pollution are comparable to radiation.

Also "Fritz" is very nacy name. And fertilisers can be used as bombs. Very very bad bad!
> nearly everyone will say that the most moral thing to do is pull the lever and redirect it to the single person.

But can moral principles be a numbers game? I don't think so. Otherwise a serial killer who murders 9 people could claim higher moral ground than a killer with 10 kills to his name.
> I agree that re-adjudicating cases would be costly and would not be perceived as fair even if it were righting a wrong.

No, I mean the study would have to readjudicate the cases (not change the legal outcome, but redivining the actual facts from the trial record) to identify differing treatment in different factual circumstances between states.
We’ve basically already got one twice the size of Arecibo, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
It’s amazing how many developers are personally offended (and I’m not suggesting the author is) when a technology resists them trying to be “clever”. Those same developers might also pay lip service to the idea of writing simple code, because that’s the most mature thing to do, and yet one of the most common criticisms of Elm is that it doesn’t let you try to be clever and do synchronous IO.

That’s a good thing. A very good thing. You can trust the code you write [to a reasonable extent]. You can trust the code your colleagues write [to a reasonable extent], even if they’re relatively junior. Not every change needs to be interrogated like you might have to in the foot-gun factory that is JavaScript.

This level of predictability is amazing for a business, and consequently amazing for a developer’s circadian rhythm if only they could see further than their nose.
Where do you find second hand clothing? I use Facebook Marketplace for furniture and electronics, but I find it uncomfortable to buy second hand clothing from there
Cookie minigame popup takes up entire screen on my phone. Closed the tab without discovering what Worldreader is.

If anyone who works on Worldreader is reading this, your UX can be improved.
Soylent Green (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/)

"In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food [...]"
Same here. I honestly don't need the custom domain email stuff (I can move that to another provider). Just give me an option to turn my account into a regular @gmail.com account with working email/calendar/meet like everybody else paying $0, and I'll be happy. I'm just not a fan of being left with a crippled account even compared to their free service if I want to keep my existing stuff outside of email.
I stand corrected; I had entirely missed that!

I'd misremembered and thought that reviews such as https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/starlink were more recent; time flies ;-).

The caveat here concerning economic viability still stands, even if it's not looking bad. Without insider knowledge concerning costs it's hard to say how many customers starlink minimally needs to sustain itself, but I get the impression that that number is going to be at least in the millions. Still, that might be just one order of magnitude to go, if they're lucky.
You can also produce methane from renewable biomass (biogas), this is mature tech and in many places used as a transport or CHP fuel.
> They had no clue how uncompetitive they were compared with ...

Sadly not that uncommon in Lisp advocates for a number of different things even today... though I think that's been slowly changing as more Lispers either become aware of what's out there, or come with experience of what's out there and bring that knowledge with them to Lisp. The reverse direction seems to happen at least as slowly -- I've commented before that a JRebel setup is very close to bringing the still largely unique interactive development mode of Lisp over to the Java world, but it's also in important ways not fully there and may never be. Meanwhile many other languages don't even care about that development style at all.

> The “it’s easy to implement yourself because Lisp!” argument was laughable

I guess this would be kinda analogous to when Blender first added Python support, if they told everyone to just do expected things themselves. It may be true that such-and-such task is relatively easy to implement (if indeed it's possible to do at all without changing something about the application itself) but it's also just a terrible thing to focus sales on when the value seems like it'd mostly be measured by how useful the tool is to non-programmers.

I hadn't really looked much at the "Wide Open World" doc on the archive since it's not mentioned in the other docs except vaguely in like one spot I had to search for, but if a customer had heavy scripting needs to accomplish things not already provided or easily done with the graphical tools, now the customer's not only being sold on a graphics tool but also on learning to program in Lisp using their bundled xemacs. And as you note it's even worse when that work is already done in another tool that can't be integrated with. Though I see they provided an FFI so there could be a possibility of integrating C code the customer or others wrote. If a customer was expecting to have to do a bunch of new custom stuff regardless of tool maybe it'd have made more sense... But now at least I have an additional insight into why they weren't very successful.

I'm appreciating anew a lot of things the last products I worked on got right in terms of providing a good enough and frequently improving out of the box set of components and workflows while paying some attention to competitors to see what key things were lacking on either side, while streamlining development and deployment of custom components, and also providing a platform for customers to share their own custom work with each other either openly or by putting a price on it.
Implying that people here are so happy and proud of being alcoholics...

Yeah, but it was expected to hear some "China bad" stuff in a thread about Chinese people - not even the government or the system. Hence, I dont believe you at all when you say "Government bad, people okay".
I might reconsider if your children aren't straight geniuses, the 2016 switch to what is being called Phenomenon Based Learning looks like it will be substantially better than what you experienced as a baseline and allow a lot more room for bright students to stretch themselves. I think it's worth looking into.
>TVs and home sound systems rival movie theater experience

Yeah I can see cinemas are only for the peasants now who can't afford a proper home entertainment system
As long as the risks of being caught stealing a car (deferred jail time after pleading down to unlawful use) don’t outweigh the benefits (scrapping for parts/selling to unscrupulous dealers/using to commit other crimes), car theft will continue unabated. I don’t really blame the thieves, junkies gonna junkie, I blame the weak as fuck DAs who see every crime as a reason to tut-tut the bourgeoisie for literally forcing the proletariat to commit crimes.