skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could anyone with this subscription tell us if it's worth getting? I'm in the software industry and do read books from time to time, maybe just one every quarter or something like that. Still worth to get the subscription?
Depends. If you identify as a minority and want to exploit that, these hints are great.
Also it might identify companies that have such great profits that they can easily afford spending money on being exploited.
OTOH, this might exclude a lot of great companies specifically in niches with heavily skewed university alumni gender quotas, such as engineering in some countries. Be especially careful if this company then has lots of MBA types as leaders, because it is easier to get diversity hires with that background, instead of engineering background...
Yeah. But at least he correctly identified the biggest echo chambers
I'm not sure the diversity stuff helps. People who look different can still be dysfunctional.

For me the big one is whether people in the interviews have the same mission. I went to an interview with a large investment bank where a friend turned out to be one of the interviewers. I thought highly of him, so naturally I thought his colleagues would be similar. He gave me the speil about what he does, sounded reasonable.

Then his five teammates spent an hour each with me, and they had 5 different stories about what the team does. They didn't seem to know that other teams in the same firm did the same thing and were in the news about it. Every single person gave their own version of how they fit in the team.

In the end the MD gave me a grilling about some totally irrelevant stuff, and then gave his version of the team.

I didn't proceed with the job. Caught up with my friend, and the MD is gone, along with most of the team. Friend is in another division. Another friend joined and left the group, which is yet another red flag.
There's a large proportion of the population that thought this shit was probably hinky to begin with, and avoided it; and a smaller number that vocally warned others of the dangers and downsides.

Refusing to take part in and further socially corrosive fads is a virtue we do not recognize enough. Failing to join in with the madness of the crowd takes courage.

We seem to be stuck in a state the past couple decades where we deal with the madness by pretending it didn't happen and the negative consequences of previous episodes are just inevitable parts of the world we have to live with, not holes we watched some assholes dig, for the rest of us to wallow in.
Why is she the subject of abuse? I am a total layperson here.
I did the same, when I couldn't improve my SCII rank beyond Master 3.

A classic textbook about strategy is "The Art of War" by Sun Zhu. It's public domain and pretty short.

Another great books are "The 48 Laws of Power" and "The 33 Strategies of War".

For anything more complex, I recommend you to look into game theory.
Nice idea, but how do we get more people to care about building efficient sites?
What exactly do you mean by "pronouns person"? Do you enjoy misgendering people on purpose? Because that's one way the company interviewing you can tell that you're rotten on the inside.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

Popehat's Law of Goats

He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.
East, West, it's so destructive to keep talking about the two "hemispheres", we all live on the same planet, let's get it sorted together.
> to raid and plunder Portuguese and Spanish strongholds along the route in South America and Asia

I guess that has to be South Africa and Asia. South America does not seem logical going from Europe to Asia.
> Generally you run other errands as well.

At the same time as groceries? No?

In my experience, which I acknowledge is limited to my circle, the only major errand for most households is bulk grocery shopping for the family or shared house. Note that "groceries" here means everything you buy in a big store or cluster of walkably-close stores, so it covers more than just food.

Other journeys in a vehible: A commute maybe, but those are separate journeys from bulk groceries because every household member is going to a different place. Also it's less likely to be in a car. Carrying large shopping bags on a train or bus to another city is not much fun.

Occasionally other trips to social events, see a doctor or whatever, but that's not going to happen in the same trip as bulk groceries.

There is nothing else regular that requires a journey in a vehicle.

Having a delivery driver do a planned circuit to multiple households to deliver bulk groceries is much less driving and pollution than having every household drive to the store and back.

Sure, that last mile is less efficient than shipping to the wholestore store, but that seems irrelevant to the point at hand. It's still much more efficient to do the last mile in a single planned circuit than multiple last miles where everyone goes in and out separately.
Hey I'm not speciesist, some of my best friends are bacteria!
Related:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200212065851/https://www.bbc.c...

from the article:

> This suggests that human evolution selected for cooperation, tolerance and gentleness – and not, necessarily, for intelligence.

> We always assume that intelligence is responsible for our success, that humans became smarter, which… allowed us to invent wheels and agriculture and iPhones. But what if that wasn’t what happened?

> like the foxes, and like dogs, we became friendlier first, and then got smarter by accident. This would mean that our prosocial skills, the skills that allow for cooperation and friendliness, were what made us successful.
You're right, I didn't provide a single source. Sorry for that! Here is one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/04/29/te...
Getting _the_ job, not necessarily.

Getting a job in a decent and self-aware team, on the other hand, yes, that's a good strategy.

The question is both a direct and an indirect one.
I loved the slight glimpse you get of it on It Might Get Loud. Jimmy Page taking about When The Levee Breaks in the house where IV was recorded.
Pardon my ignorance. What's MD in this context?
How Amiga 500 RAM Probably Works
It doesn't have to be complicated to restore rights we should have under the Manguson-Moss warranty act that have been blocked by software copyright shenanigans. This small change would fix 80% of problems in automotive, tech, agriculture and military equipment (yes, the military can't fix stuff because of DRM and software) repair. I'm pretty sure the idea that a copyright would prevent your cannon from firing because the gunner's mate couldn't fix it was not even a thought when we made our copyright laws.

The other part of right to repair, parts availability is more difficult because there really isn't an existing "right to repair parts". There are a lot of cases where, for example, a product manufacturer will put a clause in contracts with suppliers, preventing them from selling standard (not custom) parts to consumers, to distributors (who will sell to retail), or in small quantities. This kind of restriction is really just an anti-competitive market restriction, and probably should be made illegal.
Probably "Managing Director".
Yes. And the (excellent, IMO) author said many more such things (about movie-making requiring that reality be carted off to the rubbish tip) in the rest of the series. Though there are also fair number of places where the author concluded that Peter Jackson has no excuse but "ignorant, and didn't care".

Hence my "stick to books" (and certain magazines, and web sites like HN, and ...) conclusion.
Yes I am the same. Work sets me goals that I obsess about. I like playing golf, but I can’t obsess about getting my handicap down. I also can’t obsess about a hobby project. I can about a product that I know has a user base. Then the brain goes fast, dopamine kicks in and I can keep going for long hours.
That is a lot less than then number of viruses and article linked "An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/factors-a...
I had Latin beaten into me for just over a decade of my childhood, and dropped it at 15, as soon as it was permitted. I hated it with a passion - endless declensions, recitations of stodgy poetry, copying and translation of texts so dull that it was normal for half the boys to fall asleep in class - usually swiftly adjusted with a board eraser or a meter rule kept for the purpose. There were no textbooks per se - just leatherbound copies of various literature, filled with the bored scrawlings of generations of schoolboys, which were usually far more interesting than the text itself.

As an adult, I find what I learned extremely useful, again and again. I moved to Portugal a bit over two years ago without a jot of Portuguese or Spanish to my name - just some rusty French, similarly imprinted by my Victorian schooling - however I rapidly realised that I could get away with speaking Latin with a Portuguese sound and be understood, as I pieced in the actual modern language, palimpsest-like, over the Latin. It allowed me to go from non-speaker to amply conversational in under a year, and knowing the underlying grammar and much of the vocabulary has similarly unlocked Spanish and Italian for me. I’ve even found that Mirandese, a dialect that native Portuguese speakers find quite impenetrable, has been no more of a challenge than Portuguese - less so, in fact, as it largely comprises vulgate Latin. The cognates in all of the Romance languages are profligate, and having Latin as a root from which to grow the various trunks has, I feel, given me insight into Latin as she was spoke, as it were, as hearing the incidences in common words between all provides a bridge to what the commonality in sound is, and how Latin may have actually sounded.

It’s also a delight to be able to walk around Roman ruins and museums and rattle off translations of inscriptions and writings, but I digress.

I hope that the teaching of Latin has improved since my day (80’s/90’s), as it’s an incredible tool to have in one’s arsenal, but to say I was unenthused by their pedagogical approach would be an understatement.
The earth is round
> I imagine that ancient pronunciation can sometimes be induced from things like poetry.

Yes, and from Modern Greek, contemporary loan words etc. It's a whole science. Erasmus was an important scholar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_Ancient_Greek...

But that's not related to being able to understand a written text.

And again, the name of the letter omikron is an English word, so it's a different question really. Sort of like we pronounce the letter "CHI" with a k-sound and rhyming with "high", even though we know very well that the consonant Greek CHI was pronounced more like ch in Loch Ness, or Spanish J.

So even people who say oMYcron don't think that's how it was pronounced in Greek.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/setxnt/p...

Text from that link.

"Been here for 3 years and am getting the hell out this month, I wanted to stay until my 4th year but I can't do it anymore

People getting PIP'd left and right, work life balance is getting worse and worse by the day. Managers literally yelling at their developers on a daily basis.

The interview process is getting easier and easier because we can't find people due to the horrible reputation. Most of our technical screens are literally re-worded leetcode easy's, and we are still having issues finding enough people.

I have switched teams several times, but the bad teams outweigh the good teams by sheer numbers and percentage. So it is very difficult to find a good team.

I am getting out, I cant stand it here. I would urge anyone considering this company to think twice. Study a little harder and get into one of the other FANGs.

I genuinely forsee this company being demoted from a FANG, the culture is absolutely horrible, and the barriers to entry are lower than ever."
You can instead just use F# today for Javascript via fable.io
I used to spend a lot of time there and was given a Deviousness Award in 2001. I was one of the earliest accounts on the site. That was a long time ago.
This is not a solution. What you need is a negative interest rate on cash to abolish inflation and currency speculation. Once that is done the central bank can control the money supply directly and the government can pay off its debts.
No these ships actually went that way, the text is correct as far as my history teacher told me at least since they wanted to explore that route. I remember since it was weird to me as well. Edit: apperantly Wikipedia agrees with him (in Dutch) https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Liefde_(galjoen)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

Popehat's Law of Goats

He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.
Interesting read.

I think there is some parallel to "secondary school languages." If you compare secondary school (or k-12) language programs, you will find a vast range of outcomes. Vast. In one context, kids acquire usable language skills. In others, basically nothing.

I studied French for 4 years, as did all my classmates. Almost none achieved any level of proficiency. I've challenged several language teachers over the years with a "why bother?" If year after year kids matriculate without gaining enough proficiency to take a bus or order lunch... why not shut down the program and teach something else?

Usually, the answer is (understandably) defensive. Highlighting of meta/peripheral benefits of learning a language. Noting that out-of-classroom context plays a big role. Ultimately though, IMO.... classroom language learning is hard, and we accept low levels of performance.

Classicists, generally, learned latin in an undergraduate classroom setting. This is, very often, a very ineffective way of learning a language. Being normal and common, this standard is deemed acceptable. We don't really know how to fix the classroom. The Latin classroom also has less competition than other languages. High school French learners don't become French language scholars, at least not without actually learning French. With Latin, you can get away with it.

So that's basically my take. We don't teach languages very well. Formal education settings often achieve pretty weak results. By and large, we just accept whatever results are achieved. Language programs don't "declare bankruptcy" if results achieved are weak. They accept it.
This is a shibboleth virtue signal. Neither side takes it at face value
Interesting, it's also general enough to cover extension methods where languages C#, Kotlin and Scala have special constructs for.
Yeah, I think we really need to look at the qualitative aspect of the work being done when having these discussions.

A pediatrician may really be working 8 or more hours a day, where 90% of patients are utterly cut-and-dry AND often having pleasant encounters with cute snotty kids and their parents. It doesn't stretch the imagination why this is possible for 8 hours straight.

The "machine-like" programmers that GP mentioned are likely working from cut-and-dry requirements and executing the same code patterns over and over with a stack they know like the inside of their eyelids. Doing this can be pleasurable in a similar way to playing puzzle games. I can see why it would be possible for 8 hours straight.

Pleasant, meditative physical work - what's called "artisanal" anything these days (cooking, carpentry, etc.) - sure.

Then there's programming in a challenging heterogenous environment. Perhaps the requirements are unclear, the stack is new or undependable, you're often interrupted, or have to switch between different kinds of work throughout the day, or your technical abilities are so stretched that absolute and sustained focus is required. Then, good luck getting to those 8 hours in a sustainable fashion.

There are many jobs that are acknowledged to be so difficult when in "go" mode that no one expects 40 weekly hours. This just hasn't penetrated into tech and adjacent industries, that's why we have to engage in these charades.
> It would be very interesting to develop a modern web based purely on declarative content (modern HTML/CSS).

For sure. I think some scripting could also potentially be implementable without massive fingerprinting / privacy implications. E.g. pure compute scripts, form validation, etc. that has no practical way to smuggle any data out of your browser. Anything that sends a request would have to be statically derived (or explicit user input as into form).
'Queen's Gambit' defamation lawsuit against Netflix can move forward, judge says
Sometimes it's easier to code all day long than how easy it feels to improve your life. Especially if one excels at work and lacks a social network in life.
Governments go to war to stop deflation, not inflation.

As you lower the interest rate below liquidity preference people will simply hold onto their money because they are speculating on higher interest rates.
Yeah maybe so, but how many of those 100 thousand millions stars have millions upon millions of their own viruses?
What problems did you have running Docker-compose with podman? I am running both on a server without any problem. Fedora-like distros have a package podman-docker that make docker-compose work without workarounds.
A template to build Julia tutorials in parallel and with caching
Your ISP et al may not easily observe the contents of your Tor traffic, but if I’m not mistaken, the usage of Tor itself is easily detected and can have you flagged for further scrutiny. I’ve always seen this as a weakness of Tor. It would be nice if it had the bandwidth to be a default for e.g. Firefox which would solve this problem.
> They made it difficult to browse through single artist's gallery. When viewing an artwork, the default thing they did was guide you to a "similar" artwork from the entire site. This was very confusing to me at first and made it inconvenient to use the site the way I wanted - the fact that every click took ages to load didn't help either.

This was the killer, for me.

I'm glad it's there, because it has a few artists that I like, but otherwise, it's worthless.

I did, once, try to purchase some art on the site. A 3D artist had a model (a snake), that I wanted to get, in order to create some branding.

It was real pain, figuring out how to contact them. When I did contact them, I never got a response. It may have been the artist, or it may have been DeviantArt. No idea.

But they never got their money, and I never got the art.
You mean the monetarist tricksters. They assume the velocity is constant.
The longest-term knowledge I gained from my high school Spanish classes was learning all the parts of speech that I should have learned in the fourth grade but didn’t pay attention in class.
>I learned my lesson to not talk about such things

And yet here we are, talking about it.
Do none of your family members already use desktop computers?
TeXMe Demo: Self-Rendering Markdown and MathJax Documents
Ask HN: When is the subscription model appropriate?
I have mixed feelings about subscriptions depending on the case:

a) the subscription is a red flag stopping me from using the service (Notability, Ulysses)

b) righteous anger for subscription based apps which were already making tons of money without subscription but switched to it anyway (looking at you, Adobe)

c) the subscription model is somewhat justifiable given the complexity of the end product (Altium, Autodesk)

d) I am willing to pay monthly fee because the app or service is actually way better at some things compared to non-subscription analogs (Spotify)

e) this is not a monthly fee but a monthly donation you can stop paying at any time (Wikipedia)

So, when exactly is the subscription fee appropriate for you?
Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) was recently on a Numberphile video where he explained Bertrand's Paradox.

An under-specified question meant that there were good arguments for different answers, depending on how the question was interpreted.

In the complementary video supporting the discussion, I found Sanderson's discussion pretty interesting. -- One of the suggested arguments was even "let's take the average of the other answers", although Sanderson wasn't sure if this was meant to be a joke or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyKM-7IgAU
The US marine Corps have a bunch of manuals on various tropics, which are better known as text books outside of the group. These are freely available.

If you prefer them with commentary, Jocko podcast has talked about some of them.
Like quickthrower2 wrote, plus, the matter of duly post quality. There are two drawbacks: dilution of qualitative posts like signal in noise, and that each post should have inherent value (not cheap). Safeguarding personal expression (of the person as it is), every member should do their homework. This also involves finding the «strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says».

You seem to entail from the formulation of that guideline («...easier to criticize») that only strawman arguments are discriminated: too literal. For that matter, one could have mentioned «curious conversation», «shallow dismissals», «insinuations». You should take the guidelines as a whole - the intention - instead of just their formulated parts (which are not a lean complete formal logical corpus from which all consequences can be entailed through sheer syntactical deduction). Literally, a mandate is there against what «degrades discussion».
I wonder if we're headed to a point where this kind of self-selection basically creates companies consisting of either people who are all about DEI, or people who only care about skills/qualification, then the market will decide which one is the winning strategy.
Germany to admit 400k skilled immigrants annually
Diversity has nothing to do with company culture being good or bad in most cases.

Example: Let's say the company has 100 employees and 90 of them are white and 10 of them are black. As a white engineer, it won't help you if they invite more black people to work there.

It's much harder to know if 90% of them are assholes and diversity will never help with that.
Ditto. EU already solved the problem -- legally, not technically. A few fines later, Google is actually really privacy-minded to EU citizen. I get a yearly reminder to do a privacy checkup and can disable Google tracking if I want to -- which I do.

California and Virginia also enacted similar laws. More lawmakers need to understand tech.
>> That cannot be true; brave cannot block first party ads.

> Do all sites on the internet employ first party ads? No? Then it can be true.

Except we know you go to at least one website with first party ads - HN.
Same here, deleted all accounts.
They bet on being some mobile abomination
built on facebook-type javascript-based
dynamic pages(and really slow, cludgy javascript btw) which ruined everything the old site had, instead pushing premium
membership to people they ignored for decades and changing aspects (e.g.
art discovery) to push their professional/commercial 'art gallery'-type expirience which failed(site was mainly
geared for amateur art)
and they had to sell it to Wix.
Ok I am not an Android User and I dont follow Fuchsia closely, but I thought DalvikVM was discontinued on Android?

And why having Java running on DalvikVM, which we fully expected to do so, is news worthy? What are the context here?
How do you become a unicorn in the fintech industry?
The Pandemic Boom Goes Bust