skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last week, I was recruited for an ongoing project where I would serve as the face of a website development service conducting client interviews, several each day. Most of the actual devs apparently don't have good English skills, so I was to be the contact. But the kicker was, I was supposed to actually pretend to be the developer — to adopt their name, skills, and experiences — in my conversations with the client.

This seemed to me both unethical and absurdly difficult to do well (how am I supposed to fake dev-level knowledge about systems I didn't create?) so of course I turned it down.

The difference with this article is who is being deceived — in the offer I got it was the external client, while in the article it's the employer. The commonality is that they're both using false identities over remote communication.

Such deceptions are probably more difficult to pull off using video chat as opposed to audio only, but easier in comparison to in-person meetings. I wonder whether they're actually increasing or not.
Of all the companies they could buy, this one certainly feels the most… Spiteful.
It's not even just that, but by avoiding the well-known standards of how HTTP behaves, you're going to find yourself fighting with any tool/system that is based on those standards.
you have to unsub from basically everything they shovel to your account by default and only sub to what you're interested in that isn't annoying.

My reddit homepage while logged in is COMPLETELY different from what it is while logged out. And I use multiple accounts to group interests/homepages and retain some anonymity.

I also use old.reddit.com because the new (or maybe not-so-new but newER) site is still so f***ing annoying.
I was impressed that Tsiolkovsky knew about Hall-effect ion propulsion.
Halo 1-3, ODST and Reach what exactly went wrong for Bungie when they were under Microsoft?

Microsoft, Activision, Sony they were never truly independent no studio these days can afford too.

Game development is a mess and a very expensive mess at that, you need a sugar daddy if you would to survive.
Myth was absolutely fantastic. They recently put a Claymore from it in Destiny, sadly it's not nearly as good as the shotgun from Marathon or the grenade launcher from Pathways into Darkness.
wirecutter on samsung refridgerators seems like one the fairest assessments i've seen: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-refriger...
>The domination of Word over contract negotiations seems crazy from my engineer's point of view.

Lawyer here: because your engineer's POV is wrong. I don't know what else to say. It comes from a lack of knowledge of how lawyers actually work and therefore what we actually need for our work. It is not identical to what software engineers need or want for theirs.

The drafting process is the area in transactional practice that least needs "disruption". The process is long-settled and fairly universal. Track changes are not "crazy confusing to parse", they're a simple and easy way to know who edited what and when. Version control? Basically meaningless for lawyers. The only version of the contract that matters is the most recent one, so we just need a way to track that. In actual practice we don't just revert back to some older version; that doesn't even make sense to someone who understands what we're doing.

What really needs disruption, or at least improvement, are contract management platforms. I've worked with all the major ones and they're all pretty bad and clunky in their own way (IME Ironclad is the least-worst but still leaves much to be desired).

If someone could develop a simple, intuitive system for extracting and recording certain agreement content and making that searchable (and transferable!), as well as storing and searching agreement documents generally, it would be amazing.
I’m curious how that compares to PrEP but I suppose both would be better than one.
Whatever problems the current system has, it isn't as if the system being replaced ever hired people primarily on "merit."

The beneficiaries of the older system rarely wondered if they were the best candidates for the job, so why should anyone today give it a second thought?
Has anyone who has used this sort of tech before comment as to its validity and accuracy, especially over time?

The first time I saw something like this was in a MOOC platform that used this sort of typing biometric to try to make sure that students were not cheating. That seemed to make sense to me, because I get that you could collect a relatively large sample of writing from the course and then match it to whatever final project the student submitted, both occurring in a short time from one another. Also, with a project like this you can certainly have a bias towards generating false negatives, and really just accuse an issue when the differences are really, really far apart.

However, this is claiming to authenticate me as an individual. But what if my writing improves? What if I have a mechanical keyboard at work but a rinky-dink iPad case soft keyboard at home? Typing with one hand, etc? I'm not familiar with all the statistical markers that they can collect with a user's typing, but and I see the claim of 99.9% accuracy, but I was just curious what people's experience was in the wild using this sort of thing.
Are you paid a fair market rate for your geographical location in India?

(i.e., are other local companies offering worse or better benefits?)
Live by the swamp, die by the swamp.

> “You’ve ever eaten cat? It’s not bad,” he says. For a few months in high school, Tommie and Brian lived in a tent on the banks of the Meramec River. Food was scarce. “The cat kept hanging around — fat motherfucker. I said, ‘I was hungry, so I’m gonna go get it.’ It was more of a vendetta than anything because he kept shitting and pissing everywhere. So I set up a snare to get him. I got him, skinned him like a rabbit — put a stick up his ass all the way through his mouth and then put him over a fire.” How did it taste? “Oily, man. Oily.”
Wikipedia disagrees with you but depends on your meaning of "not involved".

I think you could be right about the impact Warp Speed had on the selection aspect of mRNA but it's hard to say. From one perspective, BioNtech mRNA effort started in January 2020 before Warp Speed was a thing. From another Pfizer and BioNTech announced a deal in April 2020 around the time that Warp Speed legislation (and since legislation is lagging self-organizing work that was ongoing, it's hard to say).

From the capacity perspective, it doesn't seem right [1].

> But on July 22, Operation Warp Speed placed an advance-purchase order of $2 billion with Pfizer to manufacture 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine for use in the United States when the vaccine was shown to be safe, effective, licensed, and authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On December 23, the Trump administration announced that they had ordered another 200 million doses from Pfizer. On November 9, the Pfizer–BioNTech partnership announced positive early results from its Phase III trial of the BNT162b2 vaccine candidate, and on December 11, the FDA provided emergency use authorization, initiating the distribution of the vaccine.

> In September 2020, BioNTech received €375 million (US$445 million) from the government of Germany to accelerate the development and production capacity of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

So looks like they needed significant government help getting distribution and logistics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed#Pfizer%E2...
Good question. It is a cat and mouse game but certainly possible for YouTube to (at least) only release part Y of the video after a certain amount of time has elapsed since part X was released. And if YouTube really wanted to seamlessly glue the ads and video together, I think it would be insurmountable from an adblocker's perspective.
Investing cash in other places and expecting a big crash. Laugh at me if you want.
There are real world examples that support that claim. Aflac always said "We hire everyone because we sell to everyone." Having internal people from different demographic groups helped with things like cultural sensitivity.

But I imagine that is only true if it's done right and probably just setting some kind of quota to hire more of X type demographic is not it.
Myth II still gets rounds at local LAN parties, in part because of its modding scene.
Poor people don't buy lotteries because they're a good investment, they buy them because its fleeting hope that they'll escape their circumstances.

Probability is like...a Grade 5-6 concept.
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Why don't you go prove it by checking our code and runtime network behavior? We pay bug bounties through hackerone.com/brave.

Talk is cheap, especially stories that don't pass any kind of smell test: we would not take our life into our hands by collecting any user data, when it's easy to discover that for real hackers.

https://brave.com/data covers our data policies for baseline and optional stuff.
I run into this sentiment often and I believe it's fundamentally mistaken as to the purpose of notes.

Recording is not knowing, at best it is memorization of largely useless trivia. Sherlock has a good discussion on this (Sherlock solar system). To know something you have to have processed and at the very least achieved some compression of it.

Notes help with processing and thinking things through, aiding conscious and active understanding.

Unless recordings feed into one's process, they're a waste of space. Sturgeon's Law: The vast majority of what we encounter is junk, much of it even self-contradictory. The more you let into your corpus, the harder the problem of retrieval relevance.

My clippings are actively curated, carefully sized to fit in working memory while also independently comprehensible and guaranteed to have met my minimal standards on factuality. Because I have read them carefully before, I expand my mental canvas but am not slowed down too much by processing demands. The throttling on note growth means an easier time for information retrieval and much fewer irrelevant results to ignore.
When you say crackpot you are referring to a highly published cardiologist and an epidemiologist whose work is used in the vaccine. In the world today actually being expert enough to work on teams that create a vaccine does not give you the status to hold a differing opinion without being labeled a "crackpot".
Isn't it true that in most of Norway you'd be hard pressed to find places where you can drive faster than 80-90 km/h?

Meanwhile, in germany, you have the autobahn...
> how do you proof in court that the contract was signed?

Probably much the same way you "prove" anything: you present your evidence to the court (such as a signed PDF copy, or evidence that the parties acted as if the agreement were signed, etc) and you swear to it under oath. Of course, the other party could do the same to allege that the contract was never signed. But lying to the court can have pretty severe consequences if you are caught, so in a civil case there are generally strong incentives not to do it.
If they don't want me to have it for free, they should charge for it. And if no one would pay for it, it's not valuable content. Their poor business model isn't my problem.
Even if I followed the advice in the article (I don't really plan to), python3 is very likely to already be there in a Linux distro for other reasons, whereas node.js is very likely to not be there.

If you're on another OS where neither make nor python3 nor node.js are there by default, then sure you're already going to manually install make, so the choice of python3 or node.js is basically identical.
I've bought the standalone keychain and the DIY TV-B-Gone. They're great but clunky. I bought a USB C IR blaster keychain hoping there'd be a TV-B-Gone app that could utilize it. No such luck.
I also mentioned the Leaf. The early Leafs also did not have active battery temperature management. A lot of them are still in use.
They basically pulled phrases that he said out of context. What a lame article.
It's not an entrepeneurial movement in the slightest. There is no profit motive.
A LOT of really good science was funded over the last two years. It will be a while before it's all understood and integrated. It does give me a little bit of hope.
Reminds me of that quote about movies just being called Disneys, because Disney bought all the movie studios. The consolidation of everything seems like a loss for the gamer. You can bet the exclusives start to become much more serious in the future.
To be fair(er) to WC, most of their review introductions typically mention interaction with people with longer histories in whatever the relevant business is, so it's clear that they recognize their outsider status. How much interaction they really have with these niche experts and what impact it has on their reviews, I don't know.
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I think conversion between docx and plaintext is a possible solution, contracts aren’t known for fancy formatting
Mercedes 'had' this. But their newer models are going in wrong direction.
Maybe other leagues pay less, but mean NFL referee salary is about $200k. I suspect it wouldn't be cheap to pay one of them off, since getting caught risks prison time, damages, and millions in future income lost.
Can anyone see the irony in this? He's hitching himself to one of the biggest globalist there is? Subcontractors pee in bottles because they feel squeezed for time or results.
This article is interesting as it seems "the long way around": the Z-Machine is rather well documented, and already has VMs for the web [1] and going to the ZIL source to build a port of the ZIL itself rather than to interpret the Z-Machine binary is cool, I suppose, but ignores decades of insights into the Z-Machine.

While I'm being a downer, also need to point out that while the Internet Archive has archived the ZIL source code the Zork games are still under copyright and owned by Activision Blizzard (soon/now Microsoft). Using Zork itself as a deployment artifact is a possible way to get sued even if you think the game "abandonware".

[1] The best known/maintained is Parchment: https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment
> I remember the days before Google, when web search was utter garbage

I remember altavista giving me interesting results from actual personal websites and I could tweak it by being more precise.
On google today the top results are pretty much always garbage SEO optimized aggregate nonsense.
I have been working with that for the past year and I like it!! Great tool, easy to configure and use. Lately I have been looking at their workflow engine as well https://argoproj.github.io/workflows/
> I think manufacturers are hoping that certain aspects of the modern auto become "can't live withouts", e.g. bluetooth, which helps them smuggle all the other more marginally useful, security and ux intrusive features into your model.

I think that implies nefariousness that probably isn't there. It's more likely a combination of:

1. Marketing/sales wanting whiz-bang features to use in their pitches.

2. Copycatting competitors, also for marketing/sales pitches.

3. Customers that are often not aware of the downsides, have been conditioned to accept them (e.g. they'll all like that now), or are uncritically enthusiastic about shiny new things.

4. Lazy design thinking, of the kind that causes Mozilla to drop good features from Firefox.

5. Cost cutting, of the kind that causes almost all companies to consistently choose to make their products marginally worse over time (e.g. lets not pay for feature X, since the users can use a cheaper awkward workaround instead).

Personally, I think we should have some federal standards for car UX: a required set of standard physical controls for commonly used standard functions (e.g. car operation, climate control, audio entertainment) and plus minimum standards for screen UIs (e.g. touch sensitivity & accuracy, UX latency, etc.).

While I'm wishing, cell modems and other data transmitters should be required to be separately fused, and that the car should be required to operate without annoying error messages if that fuse is pulled.
SecondLife is a cautionary tale for anybody wanting to start a "metaverse" type project. If you give your users unlimited freedom and allow people to make money you end up with endless strip malls full of Cybersex attachments for avatars. Anybody who tries to do "legit" events is in danger of being spammed by helicopter penises.

If you want anything else you need to incorporate and enforce standards and practices right from the start, but then you'll be perceived as corporate and lame.
any customer facing job I guess. like sales, marketing, support, PR?
No I just disagree that it applies here. Because these mass-market cars really existed (you can still buy most of them) — they all had basically the same feature sets, the same options packages by different names, sold like hotcakes, and nobody complained about bloat.

In the car market you actually can get 80% of the sales with 80% of the features in defiance of Joel. That’s Honda and Toyota’s bread and butter.
It's really a hardware/ergonomics problem. The gear selector in these vehicles goes back to it's original position after you select a gear. One major problem with these new shifters is that it's very easy to select the wrong gear. Likely what happened is the driver was trying to go into reverse but pressed a little to hard on the gear shifter and caused it to go into drive instead.

These shift-by-wire shifters have been the biggest step back in automotive design in my opinion. Used to you can hop in, shift gears and you can tell which gear you are by where the shifter is (or can at least tell if you are in D or R), with these new shifters there's no way to get that sort of feedback so you are there having to carefully select a gear every single time. I rented a Jaguar that had the same thing and it took me a few tries to get the thing to go into reverse because you had to hit it just right or else it would go into P.
Maybe, but modern pharma not being responsible for bad things wasn't the original claim.
I love minimalistic tools! Thank you for that.
I feel as if I comment with too much detail, I may be contacted by the Attorneys General of various states. In the early days, things were totally unregulated. Odds, statistics and other variables could be adjusted or manipulated. Automated accounts could hedge against, or join with, elite players. All trades, team compositions, trends and statistics were visible internally. Think of all the ways that one could abuse high frequency trading and apply them to sport betting. It could be very ugly.
The thing is, most Roblox players that I've seen have FB Messenger (the kids version) video/audio calls running in the background so they can talk. With the new focus on metaverse the combo really makes sense.

On the other hand Roblox could really pull a coup by replicating this functionality natively.
Is that why all YouTube comments are exactly the same now? It’s like the top of every major subreddit post’s comment section. It’s almost as if you’re witnessing 14 year olds discover the internet and humor, but over and over again on a daily basis.

The homogeneity of the internet is becoming so tiresome.
So you think everyone working in the medical and pharmaceutical fields is an utterly amoral antisocial personality disorder case? Because that's what it would take for your conspiracy theory to work. If you honestly can't understand compassion, well...
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>It's beyond me how they could sell this car with a touch screen but without a boost gauge.

Back in the days of our 80's datsuns, when upping the boost you definitely need to keep an eye on it. These days, ECUs have that under control, there will be a MAP sensor that monitors pressure and boost cut / limp mode will follow any overboost situation.

My late 2000s BMW for example had a weird compound turbo setup that, to its credit, could build 23psi in a second but if any of the actuators failed could be disasterous for the baby turbo. The ECU was smart enough to measure the normal boost profile and would throw a fault code if it was over/under spooling. The control logic was impressive, I was happy with the response and the intake was kept FOD free, even on the day one of the actuators failed open.
Thanks for your kind words.

Quick note on router level approach: without MitM and full JS/HTML/CSS runtime, can't block tracking and ads effectively.

PiHole etc. are good but not sufficient to stop the latest, and with Google pushing for more AMP borg-ification of sites' content, getting into the 1st party content that unfolds only at TLS termination and JS execution is essential to blocking threats.
Ha, this is what mine looks like too, but all in one tab and split up via line breaks. Sometimes I come back to it and realize I've completely lost the plot and clear it and start over. It's like having too many tabs open in a web browser.
I think it depends on the niche of the particular video. I've found channels like woodworking/machining have insightful comments from professionals in that field which may have alternate solutions or point out why something is done a certain way.
For a while I didn't bother with an adblocker. After countless data breaches and tracking that can still be done even with an adblocker, so I was mostly apathetic about the privacy factors. That was 3-4 years ago.

But I had a fast computer, lots of ram etc., yet still I noticed that websites were getting progressively slower and slower. And, as mentioned in the article, auto-playing video ads proliferated and became massively annoying. So I took the time to setup uBlock Origin, and gradually zapped elements on sites when they still made it through.

The difference was huge. Yes, the annoying auto-play ads (mostly) went away, but even more was the overall browsing speed was a huge improved. It was almost like the very early 00's when I went from dial-up to broadband.

It was only at this point that I realized just how much ads massively bogged down the internet.
For me the problem with Reddit is not even the astroturfing. It's that, similarly to SEO and Google, people have figured out the kind of posts and replies that get upvotes. So, on niche subreddits, you get a lot of folklore and second-hand advice repeated by people addicted to internet points, or, like other poster put it better below, "well meaning beginners offering advice outside of their skill level". The Geil-Mann Amnesia Effect is strong in that site.
I'm very new to the SSB-verse but I've been following Manyverse [1] and each update trying to assess if it's ready for prime time. I am stoked that the Desktop app has landed and am seriously considering setting up a room. On the horizon (for SSB, in general) is shared accounts across clients which I think is the last big hurdle, imo.

[1]: https://www.manyver.se/
Product/Software support. Above the Tier 1 level, at the stage where you're talking with the Dev team directly.

Developers don't want to talk to customers. So you need someone who can understand either the code or the developer's comments, but can then put it in layman's terms.

Edit: DevOps, too.
There is also the possibility of using YouTube Vanced and other similar apps (in Android at least) to do the same trick in a more comfortable way.
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That’s reasonable. Internal heaters to make sure you’re washing at 120F or whatever. Still want hot water coming in.

Although there’s also a big push to start using cold water for clothes. Supposedly modern detergents don’t need hot water typically.
The house already provides a list of which bets players can make, and what the odds are.
Do you not remember beating StarCraft and watching the ending credits scroll?

It's a giant wall of text for 30 minutes.