skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Sometimes a poorly performing team member was just a bad hiring choice. You politely let them go and work to improve your hiring process.”

This is what I don’t get! If you’re convinced a certain percentage of your people should be pushed out, then you don’t trust your recruiting team!

Maybe Amazons approach is to save money by hiring crappy recruiters, then fire the mishires.

My own experience is that Amazon recruiters are more salespeople than conventional recruiters.

But I can’t imagine organization repudiating a chunk of their workforce, and not asking “why do we keep getting so many crappy programmers.”
Isn't that just, like, Berkeley? But also, they don't complain it's hard to find a unicorn, right?

It's expected to be rare, and the searchers don't have the same feeling of single desperation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/teachers-buy-supplies-own-mo... : also..this includes decorations for the classrooms… how is that ‘school supplies’? And side walk chalk? can we please ban teachers from buying school supplies until we can figure out how much it costs to educate a child. I am just tired of the histrionics and hyperbole. Also: Stop decorating classes.

My friends buy cases of wine and gifts and swag bags for their kids’ teachers..and the parents have to spend mandatory volunteer hours. And the teachers still complain about buying school supplies. Maybe ask for school supplies instead of wine club membership? Especially with younger students, they are holding the parents hostage. And the teacher who had an after school tutoring outfit for which they only accepted cash. Almost every single kid I know has extra tutors.
> All significant chips which went into shortage were using that "common man fab process" on eighties, and nineties era equipment.

I don't think I agree with that. A LOT of small microcontrollers went into allocation and they were on 120nm, 90nm, and 65nm processes.

However, I do agree that there really was a shortage even before Covid and nobody cared. Effectively--nobody builds a line for an older node, ever. And there has been a lot of consolidation and sales of facilities such that very few people have been building fabs below 90nm.

The number of fabs built in the 2010's that aren't TSMC, Intel, or Samsung is pretty minimal.
Rubymine's autocomplete is the best available but it's pathetic compared to what IntelliJ platform can offer in most languages.
Link appears to be broken for me. D is next on my GCC safari of programming languages to muck with.
Funny how professional competition cyclists probably have even more experience than you... And all wear helmets.
Why not? I’ve heard of it but never read it. I just know it’s widely acclaimed and about the Holocaust.
so could a well packed backpack, but better
One of the big upsides of contracting is the days when I’ll down tools at 10am and declare that “I am not smart enough today to accept money in exchange for programming computers”.

I get the occasional day off to go do things that don’t require brain. They only pay for bites of the donut with the jam in them.

It’s a net win for everybody.
This is a good summary.
I’ve never seen/read it, curious to know why you think it shouldn’t be allowed in libraries.
Agreed, and at 6:30, more train track confusion. And LIDAR wouldn't have helped on either of these.
I don't think students are the right audience for "informed debate", since they go to school to become informed. Sure, you can (and should!) simulate informed debate in class, to train students in the method, but the value that teachers add is that they curate the topics and can provide arguments and answers.

Eventually education turns into an actual search for truth, but that only happens in university where actual research happens. Until then it's all a more or less guided preparation for independent research.
https://www.givesendgo.com/
> I don't know how you square that with the MCAS disaster.

There was nothing wrong with the MCAS concept. There was a lot wrong with its implementation, and I cannot explain why that happened. I've never seen any credible story of how it came about.

> the Ethiopian pilots followed the Boeing airworthiness directive to the letter

No, they did not. The EAD says:

1. restore normal trim with the electric trim switches

2. turn off the stab trim system

The EA pilots:

1. turned off the stab trim system with the nose disastrously trimmed down

> Sadly there won't be any criminal prosecution

Be careful with criminal prosecutions. I understand the desire for revenge, but criminal liability will cause everyone involved to be silent about issues, cover them up, be uncooperative, and not fix them. (Because to fix them means to admit criminal liability.) To make systems safe requires a "no fault" culture.

> How many people have to die for serious changes to be made?

That implies that airplanes have never had crashes before due to errors all around. There have been lots of them, and with each one, designs, processes, and training get better.
Not a ridiculous theory. Related are also “numbers stations” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
I don't think people would do this at scale, even today. Suppose I have $30,000 that I want to keep cash (either physical, or a bank account). If I were to keep this at home, I would want to insure it. I can't find what this insurance would cost [0], but jewlery insurance seems fairly comparable, and comes in at about 1-2%. This means that a negative interest of at least -1% is still cheaper than insuring the cash under my matress. Add to this the general convenience factor, and some distrust of insurance companies, and they could push the rate even lower than that.

While there are plenty of individual households that would probably make the decision to store money under their mattresses in a negative interest rate environment, those households are not where most of the cash is. In general as an entity (be it individuals or bussinesses) have more money, they become increasingly aware of the costs of having many.

A convenience store that has security cameras fixed on the cash registers; reguarly has a manager cycle cash from the registers to a safe, and hires an armored car to transport cash to the bank is well aware that keeping cash as physical cash is not free. It is nice if the bank pays you to keep your cash in a bank account; but if the bank decides that you need to pay a reasonable them to keep your money safe; that is a price that most people (when weighted by the amount of money they are handling) would be willing to pay.

The threat of storing money as physical cash still puts a lower bound on how low interest rates could go; but that is far below 0%

In practical terms, I suspect it would be politically untenable to expose negative interest rates to individual savings accounts, but even a "small" subsidy allowing individuals to maintain personal savings accounts up to, say, $250k would still maintain most of the economic goals of a negative interest rate without the political backlash.

[0] Not that cash insurance isn't a thing, but you need to submit actual information to get a quote from anyone.
Writing maths in LaTeX is the preferred choice. I used Texmaker https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ on GNU/Linux the license it GPL-2.0-or-later.
Overleaf https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/ can be used online, but this is not for me.

A nice python package is handcalcs. https://github.com/connorferster/handcalcs
This can be used with jupyter notebooks see this as examples
https://medium.com/@zumaia/python-calculations-in-jupyter-li...
Split it four ways. UCPD (United Communist People's Dollars; it's an absolute inflation station, but in its defence, people just haven't really tried it yet), GrillBuxx (on the George Foreman standard), Diversynergium (On the front of the commemorative card it says "We celebrate our diversity; the concept is profitable." in latin) and Conspiracoin (A coin that goes up in value the more people discuss whether or not it should be shut down).
You could just use any regular cookie then, in this case.
Numenta probably has got some things "right", some things wrong and some things missing. The problem with finding the neural code for training a network is that there are so many functional ways to encode data within a network.
$100 per year. I pay that to be able to release signed and notarized binaries for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/)

You’re kinda forced to do that if you have a large enough user base as an app developer. Otherwise people will get the scary Gatekeeper alert of “unidentified developer” and “can do harm”

Work computers might even refuse to launch the app altogether if they have a stricter policy.
Twitter isn't a nation, nor is Spotify
It's this part:

> But with the basic ratings so out-of-whack, the two curves together suggest some strange possibilities for the female thought process, the most salient of which is that the average-looking woman has convinced herself that the vast majority of males aren’t good enough for her, but she then goes right out and messages them anyway.
I'm single and I'm pretty pleased with with WFH. I've noticed that I do my best work when I'm listening to music anyways, so I'm still basically sitting in front of a computer with headphones on - except this time they're not noise-cancelling.
It's entirely hypocritical to call out one side for something that both sides have been doing for a long time, and when it in fact appears that the side the commenter is on has been doing it longer.

Yes, positions grow and change. No, that doesn't make it not hypocritical to call out the other side for something your side has done and still does.
Yep, that's what I usually call "four weeks worth of code done in three weeks", and it's the cause of every rewrite I've been a part of so far.
Hi, Files app DEVELOPER here. Someone notified me that the app had been posted here. A lot of negative comments, which I don't have a problem with, but I can perhaps clarify a few things.

About Files app not being "single file" because it loads JS/CSS resources from the CDN (internet). That is of course a correct observation, and this is already noted on the website. From an operational perspective, there is only one file to download/move/install, and from a functional perspective for the vast majority, it will be viewed in browser with an active internet connection. Furthermore, it was INTENDED BY DESIGN to load all JS/CSS from CDN, because ultimately it improves the user-experience, and makes it plausible to make an app like this wrapped into a single index.php file.

It's not reasonable to add ALL Javascript/CSS directly into the index.php file. PHP is only 10% of the codebase, and it would bloat the file to insane dimensions and make it difficult to maintain. JS/CSS is loaded from CDN service jsdelivr.com, with multi-level redundancy (Amazon, Cloudfront, Cloudflare), and will load faster and cache more effectively than anything served from within the index.php app on your own server. Furthermore, some plugins are served on-demand, for example when browser needs a "polyfill" or for specific features. For functional reasons, benefiting the vast majority who do not care how/where the JS/CSS is loaded from, JS and CSS files are therefore served from CDN. If this does not suit you, nobody has any problem with that.

Does anyone have any examples of any other single-file app with a comprehensive interface like Files app that is entirely self-contained?

There will be a future release where you can assign all scripts/css to be loaded from local path, but then of course all these files will need to be installed alongside Files app index.php. We will NOT be adding all JS/CSS directly into the index.php file.

About license, as stated on the website, you can use it as a file viewer for free (with the nag). If you want to remove the nag and use it as a file manager, license is required. Those who expect apps like this to be entirely free with updates and support, are living in dream land. It's hardly worthwhile in the first place. There are loads of other free apps, and if you can't see any difference, then your choice is easy.

I have noted comments about license info being unclear, thanks.
He makes it sound as if you can just fire people at will.
No, that's not my argument. That's a strawman - don't put words in my mouth.

The only evidence for everything you are saying is from CIA contractors and documents of questionable provenance. The US has obvious conflict of interest when reporting on the misdeeds of their biggest competitor. It's an obvious smear campaign.

There is evidence of abuse and mistreatment of Uighurs yes, but not a full scale genocide and jailing of millions. It's a lie, or at most, a gross exaggeration.

But that wasn't my point. My point is why is China specifically picked on? Why didn't the US detail their own human rights abuses when they hosted the Olympics? They are easily argued to be as bad or worse. As mentioned, the US has far more minorities in actual prison, and prisoners in the US are LEGALLY subject to unpaid labor, basically slaves. This is 100% true and easily verifiable, not hidden or a conspiracy.

This doesn't even get into the millions killed overseas by the US military. But I guess that's not human rights abuse, because those brown middle easterners arent human in your eyes. Or, they aren't human unless abused by china.
LeCun said that on this recent podcast too: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/machine-learning-street...

Before the ImageNet dataset, CNNs weren't worth it.
I really wish there was an effective way to know what job descriptions answer what
> Assuming this is referring to Maus, it wasn’t a part of the curriculum.

It was.[1]

[1] https://www.wate.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2022/01/Cal...
That would be inhumane.
Sorry to hear about your hardship. This post is an inspiration to me to keep holding the ground. Are you now self-employed btw?
I find frozen veggies like peas and corn, and fresh green beans are fantastic. They go with everything, and can be prepared in 5 minutes!

Also cruciferous green vegetables, potatoes (boiled or baked, not fried).

I don’t eat salads because of my hiatus hernia, and I generally prefer cooked food, but they are also good.

For breakfast I eat grains. Oats (quick cooking mixed with steel-cut). Or sorghum, and even wheat grains also make really nice cooked cereals.

Also can’t forget the other legumes/pulses lie lentils and chickpeas!
> Not everything has to be a metrics based, data collected thing

Very true, that's why my very next sentence prompted for a hunch, or some sort of reasoning.

Nevertheless, when data are absent, you need theories, and then you try to apply those theories to reallity, see if they actually apply, fix wrong aspects of the theory and reitterate.

Here is my theory:

Anonymity is vital in a society where different classes of people have conflicting vital interests, such as our society. It is a tool to allow you to criticise without being beaten for it.

Backing this up with a thought: Would you beat up a guy who went out publicly and said "We should all plant red roses, red roses are the best!" when you fancy yellow roses? No, noone gives an F for that. People care when these opinions affect their lives and well being, and crucially, they care when they have something to lose from what the other person proposes. That is the true incentive to retaliate. That's where the "conflicting interests" condition is coming from in the theory I proposed.

Now, did we not have conflicting interests, anonymity should still be nice to have, but not as important, because you wouldn't have people hunting your head for lack of it.
Virtual credit card numbers where you can set a low limit + early expiration date can be useful for avoiding the dark pattern of "free" trials that you can't cancel.
I've been looking for a certain home improvement product for roughly six months. I've searched on-line dozens of times, I've been to stores, nobody wants to sell it to me, show me ads, nothing.

>Advertising is a trillion-dollar business because it works

How many months in the corporate world did you spend before figuring out that money = results and substance takes precedence over appearance?
I use gadgetbridge with my pinetime and it's solid. The fitness tracking is fairly basic, just heart rate monitoring, but I have hopes for more software being released along the sleep tracking side of things.
> 1 of the three failed to recover the plane in time

Without more information on what the background and training of those pilots, and why the one failed, I'm afraid it's just an anecdote.

In both crashes, the trim came on repeatedly and the crews repeatedly brought it back to normal with the electric trim switches. 25 times in the case of the LA crash. They obviously knew that the trim was the problem, because they took this corrective action. The trim running is obvious by the large black&white spinning wheels in the cockpit, and the deliberately loud clacking sound the running trim makes.

All they had to do was then turn it off.

> But they didn't. And innocents paid for it.

That's right, and that's the tragedy.

As to why they didn't, who knows. The stab trim cutoff switch is right there in a priority position on the console, because it's a damned important switch. Dealing with runaway trim is supposed to be a memory item, i.e. memorized.

It does suggest a training problem.
I think of this whenever I see coat hooks with dual hooks, the top one extending further. I've always assumed that they were designed when people regularly wore hats.
For plants it's exactly the opposite, actually. An annual completes its life cycle fully in a year - germination to death. Perennials come back year after year.
Didn't we just recently mail everyone a check? Solid 19th century tech
This seems like a common issue. Surely by now there must be a software package you could install that forcibly logs you out of work slack, email, etc. at 5pm and doesn’t let you check it again until 8am.

Or am I going to have to start a new SaaS?
The article doesn’t say how the currency will be valued, which makes its use outside of China problematic. The PBOC will have to set a price that has to mean something, and will mean less if exchange is restricted like the RMB. That Laos bar will have to know how much to charge for a beer in Kip, USD, bhat, and this new digital yuan…an exchange value has to be set.
You are right in that had it not been for the US santions, fabrication in China would probably have expanded much more, however it is expanding still:

https://www.semiconductors.org/chinas-share-of-global-chip-s...

China’s Share of Global Chip Sales Now Surpasses Taiwan’s, Closing in on Europe’s and Japan’s
Which kneeling chair did you end up buying?
Although most of my work is Web development related, I also share the same opinion, we should have stayed with HTML 4 and do everything else with native apps and networking protocols.

Unfortunely only a couple of water drops in this ocean share this opinion.
Perhaps a bit different from the usual stories and situations I hear, so I figure I'll share my thoughts.

A few years ago (end of 2018) I ended up with a debilitating combo of anxiety, panic, depression, and stress from being overworked. That year and the following were the most difficult of my life. I had quit my job at the beginning of 2019 because I couldn't even think about work due to the cinstant chest pain. After half a year, I'd improved somewhat but began running out of funds and found another job. Unsurprisingly, my health improvements stagnated again and I continued to deal with chest pain and throat issues.

Then 2020 came. My team went remote and, suddenly, I was able to rest my back, improve my diet, avoid the majority of stressors (aside from pandemic-related ones). I ended up leaving that job for one that was intentionally full-time remote. Working remote has been the best thing to happen to my health in years. I've lost 40 pounds, eat healthier, and have total control to manage my day.

I know others prefer the office, but I don't think I'd ever want to go back regularly.
AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop
Supporting all older versions of packages would be a nightmare to maintain - not only from a security perspective.

You have three options afaik:

1. Pin your package repository

2. As answered in your last linked issue: specify a package with git

3. Build it yourself

I think this compromise is gold. Update your package registry and get the latest stuff (or even bleeding edge if you point to unstable), pin manually when you care about the version.
As the other commenter mentions, neural network-driven speech recognition represents the current state of the art and powers products like Alexa and Google Home.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/11/improving-on-device-speech...
Mermaid is very good and flexible; I keep trying things that I did not think would work and nice diagrams keep falling out.
P.S. That was sarcasm.
Interesting idea. But the only problem with it is the assumption Tesla can succeed. I am not sure about that.

The other, darker, possibility is that Tesla does so poorly in this moonshot that they poison the well for everyone else, some of whom might be more equipped to succeed.
The only one moving the goalposts here is you.

You have acknowledged that the vaccines prevent transmission, because that is how they slow the overall spread. You have acknowledged that it was always known that they do not prevent infections at 100% efficacy.

Your word games in constantly switching around individual and global definitions of "prevent", "spread" etc. are of no interest to me.

Bye.
try this https://anyconverters.com/convert-pdf2docx.html

desn for tables and other data doc
Note that among a sea of tracked browsers, the untrackable browser shines like a bright star.

Statistical analysis of these values over time (matched with client hints, ETags, If-Modified-Since, and IPs) will make most browsers uniquely identifiable.

If the malicious vendor is good, they even correlate the size and order of requests. Because that's unique as well and can identify TOR browsers pretty easily.

It's like saying "I can't be tracked, because I use Linux". Guess what, as long as nobody in your town uses Linux, you are the most trackable person.

I decided to go with the "behave as the statistical norm expects you to behave" and created my browser/scraper [1] and forked WebKit into a webview [2] that doesn't support anything that can be used for tracking; with the idea that those tracking features can be shimmed and faked.

I personally think this is the only way to be untrackable these days. Because let's be honest, nobody uses Firefox with ETP in my town anymore :(

WebKit was a good start of this because at least some of the features were implemented behind compiler flags...whereas all other browsers and engines can't be built without say, WebRTC support, or say, without Audio Worklets which are for themselves enough to be uniquely identified.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit

(both WIP)
I just tried it and it works. I have no idea why it doesn't for you.
In America, it certainly isn't about who you can kill or how fast. Any individual can kill multiple individuals on a micro scale and multiply that every time a weapon kills a soldier or a soldier trades weaponry.

The US military problem would be that it has to subdue a population that has been socialized to resist (to the point that it already birthed paramilitary during the previous democracy) and constitutes the replacements for that military (and the industries necessary for supply) for coming generations. Hell, once it had a democracy the first time, it still went to civil war. Thinking about the short term doesn't get you much.

Predator drones, nukes, etc won't solve the problems that couldnt be solved in a foreign land. Domestically it would be harder and longer fought.