skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I want my employer to know what number Apple assigned me, I’ll tell them.

I think you're being overly flippant. Every single job I've applied to[1] has done an independent background check[2] - which included calling/emailing past employers and verifying the details I told them meshes with their records on title and duration of employment. Discrepancies here can cause delays, or even cost one an offer, as happened the former Apple engineer in the article. I wouldn't be as dismissive as you are, as the consequences can be quite dire; also I cannot think of any positive reason for the practice, except to punish those who leave Apple. I hope the NLRB and courts throw the book at them.

1. At companies with headcounts ranging from low hundreds to tens of thousands

2. Including international calls across timezones. The investigators - often a 3rd party - are diligent, but often clueless/ignorant when the particulars of a case are different to what they are used to. This has caused delays for me in the past, and it was expensive for me because I had quit my old job after accepting the offer, and was unemployed for longer than I had planned.
If the history is completely gone, your government won't be able to find it either, so you can just fill in whatever you want to explain how balance A became balance B.
Well, biological neurons are much more complex than CS neurons (https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...).

Also, you're working under the assumption that they are equivalent between mammals which as far as we can tell it's not the case (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-are-human-neur...).

So my guess is that the comparison is much more complex than just number of neurons.
One of my main issues with the idea of advertising as the attention economy that pays for the internet is that with the VC structures that fund startups, most services don't demand profitability until they're well into (or past) the scale-up phase. So, the typical growth curve for a "free" online product seems to be:

-free to use at the beginning, no ads, "we are a startup! we do this cool thing that you will love"
-as a critical mass of users is built and the demands for profit begin, it turns into "we are a scale-up. we're sorry to do this, but we need to monetize in some token and nonintrusive way"
-eventually, the tool/service/offering becomes a critical gatekeeper (login with FB/Google/Apple; you need an email address to apply for any professional job today; event organizing gets walled behind FB accounts; can't read twitter/reddit/fb--places where legtimate--though possibly ill-informed or intentionally manipulated--discourse actually takes place), "hey, the shareholders demand growth and dividends. enjoy the ads we sold your eyeballs for."

Who ever asked for their smart TV to show ads as part of the software? No one? Why does the stock weather app on my Samsung phone have ads--it didn't always. I didn't sign up for this.

I signed up for a non-intrusive experience. The service got made into something that should you choose not to participate, you will suffer economically. And the advertising got inserted--accept the EULA and the ads, or suffer the consequences.

BTW: ads don't work nearly as well as the ad publishers want you to think they do. The measurement is manipulated by the companies who do ad measurement (I work for one of these), because if the measurement makes the ads look bad, then Google (or whoever) will just find a different ad measurement company (very 2008 bond-rating-agency dynamic going on here). The publishers, of course don't mind inflated estimates of ad effectiveness, because the more successful advertising is on their platform, the more they can sell ad space for, and the more ad space they can sell. The marketers at the advertiser don't want accurate measurement--they want to look like last year's ad campaign did well because that's how the marketers get their annual bonuses. (We report results to the publishers, and the marketers at the advertisers. We should really be reporting to the CFO, because if you're a shareholder YOU ARE LOSING VALUE BECAUSE OF THE WASTE AND FRAUD IN THE AD ECOYSTEM.

Want to learn more? Freakonomics Radio has a couple good shows on how advertising doesn't really work. Professor Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University) has written recently about the misalignment of incentives in the advertising ecosystem (i.e., pubs don't care about inflated results; marketers don't either, and it's in the best interest of the ad measurer to look good). Professor Anna Tuchman (Northwestern University), et. al. have recently done a huge analysis of TV advertising, suggesting that its effects are an order of magnitude lower than the ad industry would have you believe.
>Europe didn’t send its best people, but disease, better weapons and toxic politics carried the age.

It was mostly disease. The muskets at the time were tragic. A properly trained infantry soldier could fire at most 4 rounds per minute.
désolé!
Controlled builds based on public repos prevents a malicious person (original author or not) from invisibly pushing a packages that doesn’t correspond to public sources.

Signing packages prevents account takeovers from publishing bad packages.

The remaining security problem is the author themselves coupled with too few eyes on public repos.
Are We on the Brink of War? An Interview with Dmitri Trenin
Not sure if you've been watching, but protectionism has become extremely popular.
You just know some arsehole is going to make a read interface, then that'll get used for measuring, then people will optimize processes around it.

Nightmare fuel.
Inflation washes out debt. Who think inflation is good? People, companies or institutions that are buried in debt to the tits. For the rest of us it is just an extra hand inside our pockets.
You will have a very hard time arguing that the EU is more protectionist than the US.
Profit isn't very meaningful without a lot of context. A growing business could plow all of their would-be profits back into growing their business, making it look like they are losing money. Or a failing business could cannibalize itself to get a couple quarters of profits at the cost of destroying its long term prospects for success. Revenue is a much more concrete figure that sort of tells its own story, unlike profit.
If you spent 2 years somewhere and can’t find a single person to even confirm that you worked the position you’re asserting, something’s wrong.
I just did this with great fun. Was suspicious that my house CO2 was getting too high in my bedroom at night -- one Raspberry Pi connected CO2 sensor streaming metrics over WireGuard to a cloud server running Prometheus, Grafana, and sending alerts with Alertmanager and Pushover I now have a very reliable system to tell me to open a window.

Next thing will be auto-provisioning the Pi so I can just flash my image to the SD card and plug it in.
Media agences and creative agencies are completely different worlds and do not mix.
I have been looking for tools like this recently. Dokku [1] is also worth checking out.

[1] https://dokku.com/
I was downvoted incorrectly. I sourced my info from a team working on talc litigation. 686 of 1032 tests produced in litigation revealed the presence of asbestos in talcs used in cosmetics from 1948 to 2017. That's "often".

Asbestos is a carcinogen, and it often contaminates talcs. Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784763/
So a computer in France can not legally talk to a computer in the United States, but if I instead put that computer in France, I'm legally okay.

And you're convinced that embodies "the whole point of the internet"?
Thanks! The secret sauce is to pack nested shape queries into array_agg-ed SQL subquery. So we never select unnecessarily wide rows.
Gallup: Performance reviews do more harm than good (2019)
Inflation washes out debt as long as wages are rising with inflation. If they're not it's just crushing us all.
I had a similar experience. The important components of getting back to where I could work comfortably were:

- Kinesis Advantage 2 LF

- Apple trackpad mounted in between the wells of the keyboard

- Wear wrist braces while sleeping

- Stretches

- Massage gun on my forearms, neck, and shoulders

To learn to use the Kinesis Advantage 2 while recovering I also had to relearn how to type and for the first month I could only type very slowly (even in beloved Vim).

It's been two years since I nearly had to stop working. I'm still not 100%. Using a regular mouse quickly becomes uncomfortable and if I don't keep up with my stretches I end up in a bad place. I'm looking forward to the new Kinesis keyboard that comes out later this year since it will allow be to put more space between my hands.
you want a load balancer for that use case. not a VPN. this article is about SSH not a public blog.
In particular, a given elephant might be "more intelligent" than a human -- we just happen to have evolved from a particular niche that has rendered us bizarrely good at abstracting knowledge and combining it with the knowledge of other humans.
This essay convinced me to experiment with 6 hour sleep days. Excited to see what happens.
Bimodal still implies that most things fall into one of two categories. Binary implies that they all do. You've basically admitted that the distinction is not binary.

Further, we still don't do DNA analysis on the vast majority of people to determine whether they are biologically male or female, certainly not before making a determination for a birth certificate. Even if we did, there's not one true X chromosome and one true Y chromosome that all XY people have, which a strictly binary interpretation would imply. Genetic crossovers between the two are a natural part of reproduction.

The biology of this is really fascinating, and I think it's both disingenuous and incurious to attempt to reduce all of this to a strictly binary model.
It’s possible to tell companies what you want to make without lying about your previous salary.
> punish any company unable to correctly foresee the future

If you're calculating the present value of future profits and the rate of increase in profits declines then the present value can swing wildly. That's not "punishment". It's the market self correcting.
That and much more!
What's your favorite short, stand-alone program that is fun or useful?
When I say "stand alone" I mean not just a few lines of script in a complex software ecosystem. Calls to standard libraries are OK.
Right, that's a low-end navmesh.
Sorry, I don't have any good advice on resources for sewing non-garment devices. My first instinct would be to visit a fabric store for upholstery, neoprene or other outdoor fabrics. We have a fabulous store "The Rain Shed" nearby and they have patterns for things like you mention. It's a small store so they might answer the phone and be able to direct you. Here's their patterns link:

https://www.therainshed.com/shop/Patterns--Kits.htm

Recently I read an interesting article about how smoke jumpers make their own kit (suits, bags, etc.):

https://www.webcenterfairbanks.com/content/news/Smokejumpers...
> Question: do you use a different tool which require no maintenance or cost to run?

Tailscale - does everything outlined here, free for 20 devices plus a full subnet router.
Show HN: NFT Guard – Protect yourself from fake NFTs and crypto scams
how do we know you're not a bot?
Aye, Twitter seems to be mostly a social network for bots and people’s scripts to talk to each other. Very few real humans posting original thoughts. Maybe celebrity types use it as an easy way to get a word out, but not the common man. Fascinating.
And yet requires a similar solution.....
> The second group is incentivized to do so, because they still have value to bring.

exactly.
ENIAC consumed 174,000W. Raspberry Pi: 0.1W. Practice makes perfect.
I love the feature set. Great work! Hard to believe this is the first major release. Are you guys planning to add C# client support?
ooof! That's kind of super overkill for what I had planned :) (USB keyboards)

It is like those 64bits risc-v SOCs with an "AI" block on them (making them significantly "bigger" to what I am seeking), way too much overkill even if it is fun to fool around with shmol silicium accelerated neural nets.
> I'd like to add, wage growth is outpacing inflation[1]. So those middle class family's with mortgages, lower middle class folks still with student debt, poor folks with credit card debt. This is a GOOD THING.

Median real wages have been declining. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Woah. What an intersection of cultures... a GQ article, on avalanche rescue, posted on HN. I'm excited to read the conversation. There are many problems/inconsistencies/vagueries in the article that make little sense. It seems the author doesn't have much expertise in avalanches and didn't have an expert consult on the final (interesting-ish) piece. I wonder why this particular incident was chosen, as it's fairly uninteresting as far as backcountry rescues go. I also wonder why a publication like GQ doesn't have an expert write these articles...

First, "his two friends followed at a safe distance, a few dozen yards behind". Anyone who has taken an avy safety course should know that that is anything but safe. The friends should have never been in the couloir with him, there should have been someone scoping line of sight [1]. This is such a key point because, although these mountain services are doing god's work in terms of keeping people safe, your friends are by far your most important (and often only) rescue support. The article highlights this with them standing dumbfounded at the crown of the avalanche, and their friend nearly paid with their life.

Second, wind slabs aren't inherently unsafe just because there is "new snow stacked on old snow" although they statistically frequently lead to unsafe conditions. The safety of snow conditions is about the layers in the snowpack and what is in between them, is there a surface for this wind slab to slide on? The author misses a great opportunity to briefly educate readers (and themselves) on the details of avalanche safety here.

Third, for those of you interested in this type of thing the Colorado information center does field reports on avalanches and burials and keeps an absolute wealth of data on hand on as many of the parameters as possible [2]. I have some ideas for some analyses using these data that could provide insight into avalanche conditions and variability but never have the time. Avalanche research is very very underfunded.

And finally, if anyone is looking for a great book on the mechanics of avalanches (i.e. engineering mechanics), check out "Avalanche Dynamics" by Pudasaini [3]. It's by far the best text covering the literature on the internal aspects of avalanches. It has all the good makings of really difficult/interesting science, statics, fluids, dynamics, inhomogeneity, a dearth of data, real world complexity, relative lack of importance to the survival of the human species...

[1] https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/362-how-to-descend-i...

[2] https://www.avalanche.state.co.us/observations/field-reports...

[3] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-32687-8

Postscript:

This is such a GQ fucking article, complete with useless paragraphs of fluffy flowery language that lean towards a mediocre impersonation of Hunter S. Thompson. Love it.
France to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050
https://www.qubistry.co/marcoslozada/about-us.html see that is my thesis!
Throwing a subscription wall over reply chains doesn't entice me to create an account.
Advertising is just information with a price tag, so no.
What Is Web3 All About? An Easy Explanation with Examples
Most developers really only write a fraction of the code that powers their applications. The rest of it is leveraged through public, freely available, and mostly open source libraries through tools such as npm and Yarn.
True. But it’s also most often German courts that make headlines because a webmaster used a Google Font. I’d much rather have Google know my IP address than have some nutcase know where I live.
Dumbo is smarto!

Elephants have bodies built like a tank (and used as such by Hannibal), but humans have better I/O ports.

{reading, writing, listening, speaking, singing, typing, doing, going}

Without opposable thumbs, an elephant is probably quite envious of human writing & typing. Let's use the privilege wisely to encourage one another, teach and learn from each other, from Donald Tusk, and give a helping hand.
Jest v28.0.0-Alpha.0
Private Funds Are the New Public Funds
If it’s security training for developers, architects, and technical teams take a look into the CTF style trainings (hands on keyboard, hacking exercises). We’ve turned it into an annual event (leaderboards, trophies, bragging rights, swag, pizza, the works) and the participants not only loved it, they have started to pregame, plan teams and held live debriefs where they talk through the experience and where it actually impacts their code.
The thing to keep in mind is that what really matters is stuff: The goods and services that add economic value to our lives, like shoes, houses, food, sports games, accounting services, haircuts, etc. Also called the metaphorical "pie."

Inflation is bad to the extent that it causes the total stuff we produce to go down or to become more poorly distributed, and good to the extent that it does the opposite.

And a shrinking of the pie - a reduction in stuff produced - can/will cause inflation assuming people have the same or greater amount of money with which they can purchase that stuff.

The more we stay focused on the production of stuff, and less on the quantity of money or inflation, the better off we will be, and inflation will take care of itself.
> I still drive at 80ish on an Interstate, but speed limits now are 70 or 75 or higher.

Be careful in Virginia, where 85 is reckless driving, regardless of the posted speed limit. (Reckless driving is also 20+ over the posted speed limit, if you're driving less than 65.)
Ah cool!

I used to work in embedded software too. At the risk of sounding arrogant, it is my experience that embedded devs learn the web stack a lot faster & more thoroughly than vice versa. So should you at any point be interested in switching to web/mobile tech then be sure to get in touch.

And, totally unrelated, when I did embedded software, by far the coolest job I had was at a hardware startup. We were 9 people in a room making a lithography machine (a machine that makes chips) that could compete with the market leader's 20 year old junk. Said old junk was getting, well, old and broken, so we were trying to fill that demand gap.

I think at least half the team was working well outside their usual skillset at any point in time. It was super frustrating for people who considered themselves specialists and awesome for the rest. I learned a lot there about what a workplace where generalists thrive looks like.
That's what I've finally settled on in my mind. Since we use imaginary numbers to model and measure real phenomenon, they're not imaginary in the sense that I would usually use that word. There's got to be a better name... Transcendental complement maybe.
Thank you. The feature set is indeed pretty deep. We are going to have a C# client for sure, but I don't have any ETA yet. FWIW you can interact with EdgeDB over HTTP!
Carvana is great. I always sell to Carvana and buy from CarMax.
Amazing news. Practical consequences:

Huge opportunities for French tech entrepreneurs.

Huge opportunities for immigrant tech entrepreneurs to France.

Gets the ball rolling for other countries to implement this. And more advanced regulations.

Finally, once US big tech intl influence is on a steep decline, maybe, just maybe, Google will be policed by the US government.
How many active users do Gab and Parlor have?
Utterly confused here half this thread is contractdicting the other half.
That's not true:

> The widely popular Windows NT 4.0 release carried initial support for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC in addition to the Intel x86 platform
Noticed something that could be reworded:
"Use dozens of pre-built components fully responsive." would probably read better as "Use dozens of fully responsive pre-built components."

That aside, this looks like a super fun idea and I'm curious to see how it develops.
While there may be a flood of bots and sock puppet accounts, it’s worth noting that advertisers wouldn’t be spending if they couldn’t see actual conversions from Twitter ads. So there are at least enough real people on there for their advertising business to work.
An analogy of what I hear:

A surgeon having a nearly dismantled body in front of them, thinking "hmm maybe I should have put a hanzaplast on that poor fella, maybe would have saved him"

Surgeon being the "economists", body being the economy.
I use twitter daily and I believe most of the content I see is real people? Perhaps that's just based on who I follow so I don't have the same experience as you.
Normally, system daemons are run by root. There is no reason to change the LANG env variable for system daemons.
Disclaimer: I work in this space (not at Xilinx), comments are strictly my own opinions and do not reflect any positions of my employer, etc.

Broadly speaking, FPGA-based ML model accelerators are in an interesting space right now, where they aren't particularly compelling from a performance (or perf / Watt, perf / $, etc.) perspective. If you just need performance, then a GPU or ASIC-based accelerator will serve you better - the GPU will be easier to program, and ASIC-based accelerators from the various startups are performing pretty well. Where an FPGA accelerator makes a lot of sense is if you otherwise need an FPGA anyways, or the other benefits of FPGAs (e.g. lots of easily-controlled IO) - but then you're just back to square 1 of "there's some cases where an FPGA makes sense and many where it doesn't". Besides that, a few niche cases where a mid-range FPGA might beat a mid-range GPU on perf / Watt or whatever metric is important for you.

Again, opinions are my own and all that. As someone in the space, I am very much hoping that someone - whether an ASIC startup or Xilinx / Intel come up with a "better" (performant, cheaper, easier to use, etc.) solution than GPUs for ML applications. If the winner ends up being FPGAs, that would be really really cool! Just at the moment it's not too compelling, and I'm trying to be realistic.

All that said, FPGAs and their related supports (software, boards, etc.) are an $Xb / Y market - nothing to shake a stick at, and there are many cases where an FPGA makes sense. Just doesn't currently make sense for every dev to buy an FPGA card to drop in their desktop to play with.
> If the code can't change dynamically, then you might as well put it next to the JS file on the filesystem.

Yeah, you might be on to something with that!
Why not refinance when rates decline?
I wouldn't be surprised if most celebrity tweets are just written up in advance by their spokesperson and doled out throughout the week with a script.
Can you be legally fired for protesting vaccine mandates? In B.C., it depends