skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Alex, fancy seeing you here :)

I'm going to agree that the "if you want me, do some work first" thing seems a bit overkill. For me, usually just a single sentence asking for salary range and job description gives me more than enough to figure out whereabouts in the spectrum they are.

This is the way I think about it:

1) there are different types of recruiters. At least in the city where you are, I can tell you that there are actually some good recruiting firms that consistently send appealing opportunities while avoid wasting your time with emails about lowballers, if you just spend the 30 mins upfront to chat with them about your expected salary range and specialization. These recruiters understand that there's an entire subsection of the workforce that is very capable but has zero online presence, and they build their own moat by connecting w/ professionals directly, to build a long term, high quality, proprietary network. Being part of such networks and having the recruiter sift and prescreen jobs for you can be valuable. For one-off linkedin cold mailers, the signal to noise ratio is generally pretty low IME because they optimize for volume. While they can give me data points about what lowballers offer, I personally haven't gained anything from this info, so I'd optimize elsewhere. YMMV.

2) you can often infer salary range from the company name and job title alone. As a rule of thumb, if it's an no-name company, they're almost always going to lowball if you're at senior level. If your goal is to raise your salary quickly, then rather than looking at sideways increments, you'll want to target "obvious" upgrades (e.g. if one is junior, look for "senior" roles; if you're senior at a local non-US company, look for US-based multinationals; or just go for broke and try for unicorns exclusively)
The Rich Barton Playbook for winning markets through Data Content Loops (2019)
California signs all say "When children are present". But I do think that's not a terribly difficult determination for a machine to make.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
I'm not tired of discussing code at work (I actually find that healthy). It's these web developer types you see on social media who talk about Javascript all day, but rarely, if ever, build anything with it. It's very meta. Imagine being so focused on 'what you can do now with code' that you don't even leverage it for side projects or side hustles? It annoys me no end.
Hmm, thats interesting. I would have thought that it would be cheaper to mass produce just one version for all markets.
I take it by your confrontational response that their comment hooked you somewhat. I can assure you it's the truth, and though it may or may not have been relevant to you in a way that affected you emotionally, the words ring true in my experience. Those who can do the thing don't mince words about it, the ones who can't need to massage what they're saying a bit to not lay the bad news on you like a ton of bricks; it is natural for people to want to be accepted socially.
You could also say it's a big market and there is room for multiple winners. Not everything is a monopoly.
Jon Appleton, composer and Synclavier innovator, has died
Much of Shakespeare's genius was to pitch his work simultaneously for multiple levels of sophistication ... social commentary, poetry and fart humour, all at the same time.
Basically every law eventually boils down to someone’s discretion, either the enforcer, the judge, or a jury.
Why do you think these are not repairable? More often than not, these things use PCBs that have been manufactured for decades, with multiple manufacturers often using the same designs. I've just repaired the power supply of my fridge, but if I wanted to, I could've bought a compressor for it, either new or refurb.

Imo the main issue, is that these things are so cheap that replacement is cheaper than repair labor + cost of parts.
I am not aware of any waiting list for this service other than installing the DDG app and signing up for the waiting list via app settings. I had searched around. It seemed that was the only way. At least by DDG officially.
Got a DIY one last week with pop_os setup and it's an amazing laptop to have for a reasonable price. Having used a Pixelbook for awhile, it's hard to ever go back from using a 3:2 screen, but that's exactly what you get with Framework (obviously w/ much better specs than a Pixelbook & a full Linux install).
MongoDB IPO'd for ~$30/share. They peaked in November at $590, and are currently at $409.

If you invested you would have made a nice chunk of change. MongoDB does have a hosting service though which could be driving a decent chunk of revenue.
Hiring for "culture fit" is problematic. Hiring known commodities is not.

I'm interested in hearing how you think the search for the most qualified candidates can be improved. Interviewing is, necessarily, a messy process and full of uncertainty.
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Request for information: in this era where "senior back-end engineer" could reasonably be compensated between $70k and $1m+, please give some total comp guidance where specific roles are posted.

Thanks!
Unless you're already extremely out of band and are pretty sure your range will be higher than 95% of your incoming offers, I do not recommend doing this. Never give first numbers, and if you're in software and haven't gotten past the middling, typical startup salary numbers and onto the mind-blowingly high numbers, you will not feel confident enough to handle a negotiation where you've already given away too much information.
I have a name English speakers can’t pronounce. Many people can’t pronounce it even after correction; some are a bit off, others are wildly off. How do I deal with it? I’m mature enough to recognize that people don’t intentionally butcher my name to insult me, and it is almost entirely irrelevant to why I’m in a university, as long as I know when other people are addressing me. See, objectively relevant to me, actually bullshit nonissue to mature adults with a basic sense of mutual respect. “Quite relevant to her professional performance of a faculty member”, yeah, it’s relevant because you made it so.
That's a very long way to say "they broke the law"/"did something unethical/immoral" - which I don't think is the case - and regardless, that's no justification, even convicted criminals have their rights.
Very happy owner of the laptop, but the display hinge is the only thing I don't like about it.

It's just a bit too lose, to the point that the screen will slowly fold flat over the course of an hour on my lap. It's also just lose enough that it transfers a lot of vibrations on my desk (from typing) into wobble on the camera during screen-shares.

If that hinge were just a bit tighter, I'd have no complaints about it. It's a great laptop.
Can't wait for the 15" model - hope its coming soon.
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If you are not a fulltime medical professional I would recommend not armchairing these things.
Wow, why am I not surprised :-). If the normal boxes had been reasonably priced when I was pursuing this I would have gone that route. At the time the best I could do was a bit under 0.02/oz based on the 24 oz bottles or 2 liter bottles depending on sales. The places that would sell me syrup had the result coming in at 4.2 - 6 cents/oz which would have increased my costs considerably.
Hard to say. For a "super" event the sunspot group might be noticibly big right after it appears and flare during the emergence which would mean a ~day or two warning all the way up to a long established group slowly growing over an entire rotation around the sun and coming back to flare and/or erupt ~29 days later.
Thing is, you don’t know whether the honk is for “you are slower than I like” or “your bumper is falling off”.

Being honked at takes cycles to triage what’s happening; in itself that lowers safety.
Code colocation is king
MySQL is also FLOSS right? It's not about it being FLOSS or not, its about their stewardship of open innovation projects. No surprise that super commercial/ legal heavy company is not great at it.

Not saying I love Goolge, Facebook or even MS these days, but they seem to play it A LOT nicer that Oracle in that regard.
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You might also want to look at other apps that use the OpenBoardFormat: https://www.openboardformat.org/partners

I contribute to Optikey and was involved in OpenVoiceFactory in its first incarnation. Optikey is primarily QWERTY based but does supported the Communikate pagesets - more general OBF support would be a welcome PR! Coughdrop is probably a better fit for your needs, and is open source so free to self-host, though they do offer hosted plans for $.

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The public launch of Cloudflare's bug bounty program
From an Israeli: I wish you will set up an entity in Israel too! Or, more modestly, that you open ordering here.
Naa, we use gigantic mirrows in space to bring light to the night side.
Excellent. I do feel like there's been a bit of a rejection of the polished, streamlined, "Facebook/Reddit" internet of late, and I love reading articles like this.

"I wonder if I can do..." ponderings, followed by a wonderfully absurd, but still mostly functional way of doing it, that involves going down all sorts of fun little rabbit holes to work around nonsensical but entertaining constraints like "Lego gears don't exist in an infinite number of forms."

Though as much as it doesn't need to be https, I still think random personal sites should be https. It makes it harder to inject random bonus conntent in the responses, and I include any form of modification there, not just malicious - ISPs have been known to make changes to add their own little ad banners in the past. Denver International is particularly bad at this, or at least used to be.
In that use case, the goal is simply a rule for determining right-of-way. Doesn't really matter if they drive over the center as long as they wait their turn to do so.
That's actually the problem with third party recruiters: the bad ones so greatly outnumber the good ones that it's extremely hard to filter out the bad from the good. I could easily spend half an afternoon or more every week on random calls with third party recruiters and never get anywhere.

What I've started doing is only dealing with the ones who both show a little evidence of having seen my profile on LinkedIn (since this is generally the ultimate source of these contacts), and mention a specific opportunity (not just "full time Python role with my direct client").

That brings me to the second problem, which is that most of these third party recruiters are working for companies that are still series C and earlier. I've done the startup game twice now, and figured out that working for a company that's going to pay me partially in lottery tickets that won't pay out for 7-10 years isn't that great of an opportunity. There are the odd exceptions out there, but they are few and far between.
Blueberries? Alot of flowers?
Ask HN: Starting a remote-first company, how should I pay people?
Hello there,
I'm starting a new developer tools company - LibLab.com

The company will be remote-first as I don't think people need to sit next to me to be productive. Talent is everywhere and I want to hire people wherever they want to live.

One issue I still have is around the pay structure. I have two options - pay local rates or pay same salary no matter where people are. Here are some pros and cons I have so far:

Similar pay cross locations:

+ Pay based on value you bring to the company.

+ Equality, similar base line.

- Will be able to attract less people in hire cost of living areas.

Pay based on location:

+ Will be able to attract talent in expensive markets.

- Will be hard to keep track on local wages.

- Where people choose to live does not relevant to their output, hence pay.

I would love to get your thoughts and I ideas how I should pay remote employees!
The crisis in Europe and elsewhere shoots holes in the theory that baseload is somehow no longer applicable. Baseload is not cheap particularly because it must be very reliable (and is more expensive), and is why green energy alone is too variable and completely insufficient at present to replace other baseload providers.
Why build a bajillion batteries with all sorts of hazardous chems if we can do nuclear that has small amounts of waste.

Let’s say you can fit the waste from a certain amount of nuclear energy in a barrel. How much energy can you create with the other methods, given you can only fill up that same barrel?

With battery-supported renewables, my guess is: a hell of a lot less.
Sounds like a business opportunity for France to start prepping for the demand for nuclear in a few years when people are paying 1 euro per kwHr
I wrote a blog post yesterday about how I think about hardware startups, which generalizes some of how Framework has worked so far: https://eclecti.cc/bytes/what-hardware-is-hard-really-means

I would like to write more about Framework as well, but will give it more time to be more sure of what worked and what didn't.
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Maybe a next step could be a router like https://eu.protectli.com/product/fw6e/ ?

Protectli is very nice, but the area could use a push forward.
Stop trying to make algae biofuels happen
There definitely was. You could get them for your home stereo, not phones.
I am a programmer and also a father, and working on using AI to revolutionize how we teach kid how to read.

I noticed that a very simplistic LSTM neural network model is able to learn very quickly all the rules of pronunciation ex:

- grapheme "EA" in “please” or "heat" is pronounced one way

- but grapheme "EA" in « death » or " bread" is pronounced in a different way

- but grapheme "EA" in "great", "steak", "break" is also pronounced in a different way
In fact the neural network is learning the rules and able to guess the pronunciation of word it have never seen before.

This made me try to see

1- what is the minimal number of example the Model need to be trained with to learn all the rules.

2- What is the optimal sequence that rules must be learned ...
This can all be discovered and measured easily and accurately by training the model with different training set.
I believe this have never been done before, because experimenting with real kid is too slow.

We make the assumption that is something is easy to learn by an LSTM model it will also be easy to learn by a human. (turn out to be true)

There is a lot of design decision that need to be made about how to visually display "grapheme" and let the kid interact with them.

This is just a side project for now but I am in strong need of a UI programmer to partner with!
More animations and drawings to make it look cool and exciting and hip. lol.
I suppose the gripe is more that 'CA or remote' means (typically, and as here) 'in the US'; whereas 'our US and Taiwanese entities are hiring' doesn't have to mean that (though I appreciate it's a lot simpler) - you can be British or German or whatever, in that home country, and employed by a US entity.

Anyway, congrats; eagerly awaiting my UK pre-order!
Seriously! I was going to make the same observation about truck drivers. It takes so little to exercise effectively. Why not pull over your truck for 30 minutes twice a day and do some basic calisthenics/bodyweight exercises? Who's going to notice?
Been a while since I looked. My understanding is many of these techniques such as SMPC are useful only when operations are linear (eg no exponents or tan functions) and on simple branches. Others like homomorphic encryption require operations on the whole data set.

I think the best best for some of these workflows will be differential privacy on large datasets with strict privacy budgets.

Still highly valuable, but make sure you understand the limitations and risks if you use these techniques.
I think it was always the case that the development of instruments is a major influence on musical styles. Sacred music and the church organ, Baroque music and the harpsichord, Romantics and the piano, Jazz and sax, the list goes on and on.

Today however, synthesizers can create any sound imaginable so we probably reached the end of the cycle. Who knows what will guide the future of music.
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(good) teachers generate great value and positive externalities into the future, but are simply unable to capture that value generation because of the time factor. many teachers accept pride and esteem in lieu of economic gain, but they should get paid accordingly as well if we had a fair politicoeconomic system.

economics in general has no answer for this differential temporal factor in value creation vs value capture. it's all predicated on immediate, atomic transactions, although the concept of externalities at least acknowledges the issue.
> Oh and I forgot to mention that if your SMS includes emojis, they get converted to MMS, which typically are more expensive

Technically it's more than just emojis, anything outside of GSM-7 [0] will result in fallback to UCS-2 and you get about half the number of characters per segment.

FWIW Twilio does allow status callbacks so you can see that twilio sent the messaage and when(/if, sometimes they don't) carrier acknowledged delivery success/failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38#GSM_7-bit_default_al...
This is a good opportunity to employ steelmanning.
AiryxOS Aims to Build Upon FreeBSD with the “Finesse of macOS”
Thank You. Never knew that. I was always under the impression both Gallons are the same.
Perhaps he could have 3D printed the exact gear sizes needed.
> Is this not a little hyperbole?

Unfortunately it isn't.
Do you trust the Financial Times, Reuters and Forbes? They're not exactly some treehugger fanzine.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...

(necessary to remove paywall)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2022/01/20/crypto-en...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kosovo-bans-cryp...
"Bait fork-and-switch"?
they also typically obscure when it was read. Google at least pulls the image right away iiuc. If not then it really should.

most they should know is it was delivered. which is significantly better than nothing.
Ideas that have been beaten to death