skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I saw that you guys took down the repo and put it back up without references to Arcadia’s work!

Don’t worry though, I saved a copy of the HTML and cloned the repo for posterity :)
The copy/paste/blueprint feature of Factorio has ruined every other logistics game for me. Used to love the Anno series until I got Factorio.
I love post it notes! I stick them semi-randomly around my desk/on my monitor and they give me a real-time sense for how I'm doing:

* I stack the completed ones, productive days have fat stacks.

* As my desk gets more cluttered by post it notes, it triggers my desire to "clean" my desk, by accomplishing the work.

* I periodically re-assess the utility of the work, which keeps me focused on the most important things.

* Their specific location on my desk is a fuzzy ranking system; the more inconvenient the sticky note, the higher priority. For example, I'll put a sticky note in the middle of my monitor if it's immensely important to more or less prevent me from working on anything else. Other times they can go next to my keyboard, further way on the edge of a desk, and I've occasionally hidden sticky notes (not entirely) behind speakers, if I just need to remember the information but don't want to be distracted by acting on that info just yet.

It's not very portable, but when I'm at my desk it's worked pretty well to keep me on task.
Right so providing the solutions and not grading would cut the work in half.
Google runs the play store. The play store requires a credit card. No one under the COPPA age can legally own a credit card. We should have been done there. And if we're talking purely gmail, a binding "please confirm you are over <age>. Note: this is a legally binding answer and Google reserves the right to delete your account if provided with incorrect information" should be more than enough. Google does not need a full date of birth. But boy howdy do they want it for advertisement purposes.
They're overwhelmingly casual, and "people who actively comment on downdetector.com" seems to fit solidly inside the definition of "vanishingly few".
Haha, indeed. Many times they've just started a company, and that's it. No proper customers, no real revenue. Just a random, unproven lofty idea and a "brand". Very Theranos like, and similarly doomed to fail.
So google should also ban themselves? At least the Chrome extensions people installed themselves, can't say the same about Google fonts/analytics/whatever else
Don't care what your title reads. Show me the money. Then, we'll see how senior you are.
So they’re estimating based on a sample that may not represent the population of Spotify subscribers. The only people who know the real figures are Spotify themselves.

It would be interesting to know the names of these chrome extensions and whether the sign up experience clearly communicates the ways in which the users will be tracked.
> someone who can bill $300 an hour

god.. that hurts. I've worked 10 years in the industry, have rescued code bases and currently am lead engineer and cto of a startup. I've tried doing some moonlighting but people balk when I quote them $80/hr.

I really need a better network. plus my soft skills are terrible.
> How can you expect to participate in society, especially elections, without a decent command of the local language?

By hiring a local accountant and paying a small fortune in taxes? If I learn the language then yeah cool maybe I'll get into their politics thing but it's not that if I don't vote I'm not going to be a productive citizen. A lot of countries let you become a citizen without learning their language, most notably the US.
fundus are safu
You're going to have to pick one between

>>> So I went to the best school I could afford. Many folks are in this boat. It's not for a lack of trying or intelligence - it's for a lack of privilege.

and

> But you had the privilege [o]f uncommon intelligence and test taking ability. Not all privilege is money.
I encountered this on Youtube even though my account registration and VPN endpoint say I'm in the US. I ended up fixing it with a browser extension.
For those who didn't see this story unfold, this is about Joe Rogan (he signed an exclusivity deal with Spotify a while ago) and the alleged misinformation that was aired on his podcast (mostly about Covid).
How bad it is has no bearing on how often it's happening or not, or at least that can't be your only piece of data to prove this is happening.

Why not a survey given to undergrads of if they think this is the case? If you can detect this is going on surely others in your position could too.

You could also find a way to analyze the results of research produced now vs before in a particular field. Not sure how that would work necessarily

If the only way to measure this is someone's individual's general opinion, then the premise may be flawed from the start.
I saw this last year! You can replicate this system with a stack of index cards and a hair tie. :)

You can even make the top card stand at a similar angle if you want: take the top card off the stack, bend the edge inward by 120 degrees or so, and tuck that "hook" of the bent card back into the hair tie to stand it upright. You can even put a pen in there. It's great to take to the store for shopping!
Tidal at least (not supporting them and read they also have some 'shady' stuff going on, just adding another possibility, personally I stick with Apple)
A Job Pays Much More Than a Salary
Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my way of thinking in half the time.
We wrote some programs in lambda calculus, but I mainly remember working on an ML interpreter. Type checking, exceptions, free variables, etc.
> Most of which are written by content marketers looking to build their brand.

Or content marketers/founders/cryptocurrency hackers like Heather Morgan (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/02/08/fed...)

> Heather Morgan was a ForbesWomen contributor from July 2017 until Forbes ended the relationship in September 2021, and was never an employee.
Pandora, Tidal, Plex if you want to host your own? There's probably more still.
Google used to allow you to do just that and it was determined to be inadequate and was partially why they were fined $200 million.
i prefer 50 because the likelihood of them failing or denying service all at once is lower. much lower. this goes beyond email, but it would be insane to put put everything my business depends on into the hands of a single company.
Satisfactory had even more of that effect on me and the kid when we played it. Perhaps because of being 3D and having all sorts of native flora and fauna that was very good at being annoying and getting in the way of construction.

It essentially made it fun to destroy the native environment and replace it with concrete. It's not even that we didn't mind doing it, it's that we enjoyed it. It was kind of unsettling, since it made me think that is how I would feel if I were a 19th century British colonialist bringing "order" to various native lands.
I've used The Energy Detective for a long time, but it is challenging to install the hardware in your breaker box.

For an easier approach, there are a bunch of wifi plugs that can report energy usage:
https://www.androidcentral.com/which-smart-plugs-are-best-mo...
I cancelled mine in part because of the Joe Rogan kerfuffle but mostly because I made the realization that Spotify is investing more heavily in podcasts than music, but I already have a podcast player that I like and I should subscribe to a music service that cares about the music.
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Email JP if interested at jp.marra@vice.com (I’m the hiring manager for these roles). We’re also hiring for a Netherlands based experienced Engineering Manager (email for details).

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Unfortunately, this is common at a lot of top schools. The emphasis is less on teaching and more on weeding out. The thing that makes this so disappointing is the end product at the high end isn't much improved. But we miss out on the breadth of teaching across a wide spectrum of people. The example given of not supplying answers to study questions is a classic example. Or asking questions on tests that students have never even remotely seen before (all that's really testing is if students have some tangential information that allows them to connect the dots).

Part of the problem is that we rarely (even from elementary through secondary school, much less university) hold teachers accountable for teaching. And I don't mean unreasonably accountable. I'm not trying to fire a bunch of teachers, but I do want teachers to really want kids to learn the material above all else.
https://twitter.com/techmeme/status/1491808263339270149?s=21
Silicon Valley's Secret Christians
> If it isn’t right when one protest group does it, it doesn’t make it right for another to do it.

This is a false equivalence - people honking their horns is not comparable to looting and burning down buildings.
Was there a comment box to tell them why you cancelled? Just wondering if the cancellations are sending mixed signals between the "I'm mad you took down Joe Rogan episodes" camp and the "I'm mad you took down Neil Young or others" camp of users.
>nothing about the trials were "rushed" in a way that compromised quality.

Wouldn't most people say eliminating the control group in a study is bad for analysis? https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...
You could still write bad code, of course, but deploying mod_php sure was easy. People could still write bad code (thinking here of someone who processed a database join in a foreach loop rather than learning how to use a WHERE constraint) but I do miss that level of install simplicity, at least until I remember what it was like dealing with incompatible versions or reconciling configuration in multiple places.
LOL. I have a binder with the code printout somewhere.
This was written in 1986 on CMUs "proprietary" hardware/software stack, which evolved into Mach, NeXTSTEP, and ultimately MacOS.
Tidal, Deezer, Pandora... Yandex?
> host breaking Spotify's TOS

Do you have a reference for this? I've been following this very closely, and this is the first time I've heard he broke the TOS.
Maybe, but I think MDN would be even more helpful for beginners. Compare the documentation for JavaScript's Math.pow() on each:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_pow.asp

W3 doesn't have much in terms of English explanation, has less examples, and their playground forwards you to another page as opposed to MDN where it's embedded.
Wow, I was indeed amazed. I live in an apartment building, and I could immediately see more than a hundred devices! The list has everything: from headphones and smart watches to light bulbs and TVs.
From a utils standpoint nothing, I think they’re the best music subscription service on the average. In theory Apple Music (and some others) have better audio quality but most people won’t notice this, I have fancy audio gear and listen to some music on Apple “just in case”.
These useless responses are pretty much all you'll ever get out of Google if you have any sort of problem that isn't trivial to fix. I've seen tons of these threads.

I once asked "hey, I know you can ignore single email addresses but is there any general way to prevent people from sharing porn to my Google drive or having bots message me in the gmail chat widget, because the default is anyone can do this to me regardless of privacy settings."

It seemed ridiculous to me anyone could message me out of the blue or share porn with my drive that shows up (thumbnails and all) in "recent". Individually ignoring the thousands of spammers isn't a solution.

The response was something like: "You can ignore individual users by right clicking their username and hitting ignore!" Thread closed. I can only imagine the responder didn't even read my question or just didn't care and was trying to make some quota or something. It's pretty clear they really don't care about supporting their products at all, and you'd probably be better served talking to a wall.
Please stop using that word. It sucks the life from you because you think it excuses you from self analyzing why you aren't happy where you are. Life is not fair if you are a human, cat, squirrel or mouse. We are born into a specific set of conditions...look around and move but please stop using the word privilege. Everyone and everything is different.
>Last week it was reported that Spotify's market value has plummeted by $2.1 billion in just one week amid controversy around the platform's continued support of podcaster Joe Rogan.

Let's ignore the already downward of the share and the tech market itself.
Is it a travesty to online privacy if you have to opt into their tracking?

At some point I should be allowed to trade my personal information in exchange for goods or services, isn't that the whole point of me "owning" my information?
>Employers have a non-delegable duty of care for the safety of anyone affected by their business operations

Software, he works on software, not explosives, nuclear plants or dangerous machines.

Workplace safety won't fly for this request.
The Play Store doesn't require a credit card, at least not in the U.S. I have a Google account that I use for testing on an Pixel phone. When I go to install a new (free) app, it nags me to add a payment method to my account. But I can skip the prompt and download the app.
Hadn't heard of Nyxt and looks like my kind of thing, though I'm more of a vim person, can anyone give a comparison to tridactyl etc?
I feel isolated and stir-crazy. I go for walks before and after work every day, runs on alternate days, bike rides most weekends. Also meet friends for meals or coffee most weekends. It's not nearly enough. Much as I hated the open office, the regular routine of leaving the house to be around other humans (something I had my whole life until March 2020) turns out to have been a load-bearing structure in my well-being. I despised the open office, and my home setup is infinitely better for getting focused work done, but I also don't think I'm cut out for such a monastic life.
On a contrary note, I'll just leave this here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/131647

I work at Canonical and am embarrassed by our interview process.
Well, yes, there's all that money, too, that makes dropping him rather expensive.

Unfortunately, it seems that I'm being karmically silenced for speaking an uncomfortable truth - that I've done my research[1] on!

[1] About 2 minutes of googling sources that tell me what I want to hear.
Not sure why this was downvoted? Studies have shown that vaccination does indeed reduce both susceptibility and transmissibility (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...).
"How to break up with Spotify" https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-break-up-61760779 Walks through removing access to your apps and devices, exporting your playlists to a new service, and configuring it with privacy in mind.
Just to clarify my point here (which has been deservedly down voted), I found it interesting that someone who is fully vaxed (as am I) and believes in the vaccines thinks they may have had a significant adverse effect. I think this shows how people are approaching it. They are excepting of the fact that they may have adverse reaction in incredibly rare cases but understand that the vaccine is needed.

The possibility, albeit incredibly unlikely, of as adverse affect has been accepted by the public as ok.

In her case she actually has some other health concerns that may well turn out to be the cause.
> you can imagine why a young, shy first year student might not be able to get over that potential barrier.

If she continues on to functional analysis she can just tunnel through.
This whole tale could have been me in Europe, 17 years ago.

I was desperately looking for a job, and these consulting firms are a dime a dozen. So there I went, fresh off uni, interview with a medium sized consulting firm from Mexico.

First day, one of the managers bragged about putting half dozen engineers in a motel, at walking distance from the customer offices, three per room, only things they did were work, eat and sleep, for six straight months.

Knowing no better and in dire need of money, I took the job.

Six months in, and after several weeks working 60 hours, I quit the day after I had a heat stroke because they moved us in a new office space with no windows or A/C.

I learnt afterwards that they were charging the customer 4x the rate they were paying me. Of course, they had "sold" me as a "senior developer".
How to avoid app store rejections
Agree that BEAM is great and very scalable. I guess I disagree with the notion that Redis and DynamoDB are "centralized" and "brittle". Rather both are distributed, robust, and, I would add, battle-tested.

I do like the idea of a Typescript to BEAM compiler but that is beyond my capabilities and interests. Maybe someone lurking here could do that?
3. No whiteboards, random chats with coworkers - the barrier to start a discussion is a bit high if you don't want to spam people on Slack with stupid questions. As a result I sometimes dig for hours into things that could be a quick discussion as I don't want to bother other people.

2. No morning routine that forces you to go out; also I'm doing fewer real breaks than in the office, I just procrastinate more

1. Some days there's too much going on on Slack and I check too often (and feel like I need to be available all the time) and can't get any real work done. Although lately I'm becoming a bit more relaxed with that.
For example take a look at this sponsored video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcWQO57bGk

YouTube adds an overlay* in the upper left corner which says "Includes paid promotion". The overlay leads to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10588440

Also creator added "#sponosred" hashtag.

Both "Includes paid promotion" overlay* and "#sponsored" hashtag can be detected and therefore the video could've been skipped or hidden by some extension or by uBlock Origin filter. You can either rely on detecting aforementioned Google overlay* or sponsored hashtag.

*HTML code of "Includes paid promotion" overlay:

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> ridiculous amount of math and math proofs ... [vs.] a course designed to teach programming and programming concepts

Math, big-O, and proofs are programming concepts. If you want a shallow understanding of whatever programming languages and frameworks are in vogue this year so you can be handed down constrained requirements in a code mill where you are evaluated on how many lines of code you write per day, take a coding bootcamp. But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field. If you want to solve hard problems that haven't been solved before, pay attention to that math and those proofs. I'm honestly just sick of people complaining about CS degrees for not spending enough time teaching React JS or Ruby on Rails. CS degrees are for people who want to solve problems that are actually hard and new.

Seriously, do we ever hear physics majors complaining that they have to learn all this math that they're never going to use, in order to study the foundational cosmology of the universe? Why don't they just show me how to work the damn telescope!?
The main news item right now is about Joe Rogan disseminating misinformation about the pandemic, and saying racist things.

Besides that, they're known for paying comparatively little per stream to musicians.

They also engage in rent-seeking behavior. Their strategy around podcasts is to get exclusives, which they can do better than smaller players because of their market position, and it's money they're not spending on improving their platform.

They also refuse allowing users to add podcasts via RSS like pretty much all other podcast services. It's common for podcasters to provide upgraded feeds with extra episodes for people who support them on Patreon. There's no way to connect to those on Spotify. The reason they don't allow that is they're trying to push their own solution for that. Again, abusing market position instead of making a good product.
I went to a public in-state school with poor parents. Full need-based financial aid in school. I made 6 figures out of school and currently make the big numbers you claim are impossibly rare.

You claim that not everyone is intelligent enough to make it into these schools in another post but we know from science that even just changing the way you study can improve performance by half a standard deviation [1]. So maybe you just didn't work as hard as the competition? Maybe you didn't look at all the aspects of _how_ you work and do some self-reflection about working more efficiently?

Don't blame intelligence when your own decisions have much more impact on overall performance than 10-20 points of IQ do. Why do you think Asians comprise 50% of school populations where affirmative action is banned? Hint: it's not because of superior intelligence, but work ethic.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
>Is there any unique selling point for the game at all?

Fluid combat + isometric view. Basically plays like Diablo/POE but without the loot bloat (instead you get the random gear progression). And the underlying mechanics are akin to any other theme park MMO.

Tbh it's a pretty fun game as long as you don't care about competing for the top spots with the pay-to-progress elements