skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re subtly implying that this smart person also has the resume to be allowed to be interviewed in the first place. (A common bias of thought by people working in tech, from my experience).

There are people out there whose problem is not that they aren’t smart, but that they don’t have the resume that is aligned with HR filters. Their two biggest and relatively substantial hurdles are: 1) not getting a chance for even a first interview because they are immediately being rejected purely based on their resume, and 2) having a weak position going into salary negotiations.

So, imho “a smart person can always get a well paying job” is a gross oversimplification often made by people who are not in such circumstances.
I know some people that used to run a number of those 'private' atms you'd find in gas stations, etc. They regularly drove to the various machines to fill them up with cash, driving an old pickup truck and carrying around 30-50k in 20$ bills in a brown paper bag. Security by obscurity I guess.
Theoretically, given huge amounts of text, you can try to match it with possible human communication, based on the experience of being human - but you would likely need huge amounts of guesses, so it's unlikely to be truly doable with plausible computation resources.
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On HN they don't like it when you 'talk about voting' because they feel it's kind of pointless, which is kind of true.

But at the same time, despite the fact that we like to think of ourselves as 'smart people' - the voting here has nary any rhyme or reason. It's just populism.

PG himself said it was fine to vote based on 'agreement' instead of 'quality' - which is an interesting thing, because agreement is essentially instinctive and it can bring out our worst impulses.

If you want to try to find answers or be fair in this world, you will be loathe by all - that's just the reality of it.

Since most of the 'misinformation' in this world is derived from people's ideologies and peculiar worldviews, people will tend to assume that you don't like them or their ideology - or worse - that you are 'one of the enemies' even for the mildest disagreement. I don't have the link handy but 'out group negativity' is one of the most common points of agreement among like minded people. Essentially, 'Hating on Conservatives/Liberals' is the primary activity of political groups, it engenders more attention that promoting own ideals.

Being 'agreeable' is the surest way to be charming and making friends, but being disagreeable and questioning is heresy and confrontation.

The other, peculiar issue, is that most bad arguments are founded upon a grain of truth. That grain of truth, which can sometimes be very visceral and potent (say for example, slavery in America, USSR/Communism in 20th century), tends to enable dramatised and aggrandised ideals in response.

The biases of all of the mainstream sources become clear after a while, and most people are going to respond by being angry and conspiratorial, instead of trying to do the heavy lifting of wading through the muddy bits, which is understandable.

The Prime Minster of Canada referred to people protesting against lockdowns as 'racist and misogynist' - which is brutally cynical and unethical, something which he was not held accountable for in most of the press.

He then referred to them as having 'unacceptable views' while discussing of using military force, and now he's using never before used 'emergency measures'. This is deeply disturbing authoritarianism, however much I disagree with the protestors is besides the point.

The CBC, the national broadcaster, openly supported by the current government (in financial terms) has also unfairly misrepresented the nature of the protestors. If you were to watch the protests live on various TikTok streams, and then see what was being reported on TV (I did this live), you'd think you're living in a kind of totalitarian state. I have no love for the protesters and they are definitely anti-vaxxers and needlessly rowdy ... but misrepresenting and arbitrarily slandering them on the supposedly 'objective news' is deeply unethical and a form of corruption.

FYI - on the same weekend that those protesting with 'unacceptable views', those 'unacceptable views' became policy in Denmark and mostly in England, and announced in Sweden as well. Not exactly forgone countries.

It's a sensitive time, and media bias is worth scrutinising, the Guardian is not above scrutiny.
I think this might be a plan for me. The cost of living in america with healthcare is just too high.
> This is very important. Due to strong cryptography it's safe to assume the cryptocurrencies can't be moved without the secret key. What happens if the owner of the key dies? My father asked me about this once and I had no answer. Something to really think about.

One option would be to create a multi-signature wallet, where for example three keys exist, while two keys are needed for transactions. This would allow scenarios where the widow and the notary can access a wallet after the owner died. At the same time, no single party would be able to run with the money with only one key.
"missing context, misleading"

you just got fact checked
I find that most complaints about 'misinformation' are rooted in ideological conformity rather than truth. Like most buzzwords, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist or have an objective definition, but it does mean you should closely examine the motivations of those who are loudest about it.
Yeah, I'll take Vietnam, thank you.
Anecdotal, but I have seen this trend also. My sister-in-law is Vietnamese and this is the plan my brother and I have for our folks if finances get tight. The cost of living is just so much lower there, especially when compared with a HCOL coastal metro.
I just saw this very short (1 minute and 50 seconds) video yesterday of a woman with a more severe form of a disease that I have called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzsmGUTE3TE

In the video, she's showing off hundreds of bottles of medications she's gone through, most of them not covered by insurance because they are available over-the-counter. Even the prescription-only drugs were not covered by Medicare (!). It doesn't make any sense.

Insurance is useless if they will not pay for the only medications that will treat your disease. It struck me that she would have a far better quality of life and cheaper healthcare if she just moved to another country, because the US healthcare system is an atrocious disaster.
If you have a condition like Asperger's or Autism then I apologize, I don't mean to be insensitive. But, if you have run-of-the-mill social anxiety and/or shyness, then I think time-boxed, scheduled, regular conversations with your co-workers can be just about the best format for practicing your conversation skills that I could think of. I think if you tried to put effort in, you might be able to make more progress than you think you can. Think of it like any other skill you need to practice and develop for work. This isn't a purely social situation, you don't need to be best friends with these people. It's just about practicing your ability to pretend to be a socially confident person in business settings when called for. And to learn about your co-workers personalities so that you can be a more effective and empathetic teammate.
Why we use Julia, 10 years later
Reminded me of this https://imgur.com/a/foU9QBx.
Obsidian Publish feels like it's still in development and shouldn't cost $198/yr
As a developer who's not blind beyond a pair of glasses due to being nearsighted, but with other quirks that make me different, like being trans, it's hard to not help but notice not only the privilege that the sighted of us have, that nearly all of us take for granted, but what I find really striking is the sheer amount of emotional labor that sighted people expect from the non sighted in relation to their non sighted-ness. And I guess I really shouldn't be that surprised because it seems like that's the case with any sort of disability or Quirk or thing that makes someone different in a significant way from the statistical mean average.

Kudos to all of you who did that, and do that emotional labor for everyone without even so much as calling it out, I recognize it and while I also do it as well so people understand a different point of view I know how tiring it can get. And sincerely thank you for that point of view and the resources provided in this post thread. I know that your challenges in computer accessibility are ones that I had not really considered much Beyond just you know knowing that blind people use computers and there were probably blind devs obviously, but not having the fortune to work with any as of yet it's not been something anywhere even close to the Forefront of the accessibility challenges that I've considered. Which is quite silly considering it's as plain as the nose on my face, and yes pun intended :) . And using that emoji just made me wonder how well do screen readers handle emojis? I can only imagine what ascii art sounds like to a screen reader. Thinking about it further I realized that the only blind person I have ever personally known that I'm aware of that used a computer on a regular basis and played games, I used to play with in a MUD back in the BBS days of the early 90s.

Anyway to those of you who have challenges or lack of sight thank you for your Insight and perspective into those challenges you face every day and deal with every day. And show us that the human body and mind is incredibly resilient and adaptable.
One one hand it’s legitimately a lot better when your money goes a heck of a lot further. On the other hand if this happened en masse it would ruin a lot of the lives of people who live and work there by making housing costs go up.

At least they actually build housing to put people in SEA, unlike in the US where it’s considered detrimental to not limit the supply.
And IMO they're largely attempts to keep Coca Cola Inc (et al) from pulling their ads because Coke doesn't want their brand on sites posting QAnon/GOP talking points.
> If you could keep going out, as far as you wanted, would you just keep passing by galaxies forever?

I believe the Universe is self-contained and is not infinite in the true sense, but rather yet another universe among many. If you keep zooming out, eventually you would reach other Universes. I believe the big bang was merely two under-developed universes that simply collided, and now we have this mess we call 'The Universe'.
Not to mention city cleanliness, poverty, the caste system, and plenty of crime...
As we saw with WikiLeaks, one thing is what the law says, and something else is what the government can actually do. In the case of WikiLeaks the government did a lot of things that the law clearly didn't permit; Bitcoin, by contrast, keeps authoritarian governments from doing undesirable things even if they pass laws that permit them.

To "freeze" my Bitcoin "account" you'd have to steal my phone and then bruteforce the PIN before I used the seed phrase to sweep the coins into a different wallet on a new phone. Not impossible by any means, but of similar difficulty to imprisoning me. I have other coins that are stored under a different seed phrase that isn't on my phone, and there are people with safer storage than that. If the government was in a position to imprison all the protestors they wouldn't be trying to target their bank accounts.

Of course centralized crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers aren't any safer than centralized banks, whether they use Bitcoin, dollars, or yuan. But your Bitcoin wallet is definitely a lot safer than your bank account from being frozen out from under you, unless it's something like a Binance account or a Coinbase account.

Generally people don't "pay everything in btc", both because of the transaction costs (33¢ in my most recent transaction, but often as high as US$8) and because not many sellers accept BTC; instead they exchange the BTC for local currencies that are more widely accepted and have lower transaction costs.
I can answer that, since I'm using Compound (and Uniswap).

To start with, they lend out at interest, which is paid by users, for the same reason anyone would take a collateral-backed loan, knowing they'll have to pay interest. It could be speculation on sh-tcoins, investment in stocks, whatever. The Compound contract doesn't care because they're more-than-fully backed and have a mechanism for liquidation at a profit if the loan/collateral value ratio gets too high.

A fraction of that is then paid to depositors (whether or not they're borrowing against said deposits).

In some cases there are tax advantages in that you can avoid selling crypto while converting it into a different asset you'd prefer to invest in.[1]

They also allocate Compound tokens (COMP) to depositors and borrowers (that's the distribution yield figure you see). While COMP's value is highly speculative, its grounding (for whatever that's worth) comes from the fact that the tokens entitle you to vote on changes to the Compound contract[2], which some people apparently value and are willing to pay for. You also need a minimum number of tokens (100,000 IIRC) to submit proposals.

I don't know their process for deciding the distribution yield, but it sometimes leads to weird situations where it's higher than the interest rates for borrowing, meaning that (modulo fluctuations in the rates and value of COMP) you're being paid to borrow it. See, for example, the yields on Basic Attention Token (BAT) [3] -- 10.23% dist yield vs 3.84% borrow rate.

As things stand now the interest on borrowing ETH is about the same as its borrowing distribution yield, meaning you can effectively borrow for free (again, modulo those fluctuations). I starting doing that to convert BTC to ETH that I use in Uniswap liquidity pools, which make money as automated market makers, taking a cut of conversions between cryptocurrencies.

[1] Though, until the IRS clarifies, it's an open question whether putting up your crypto on Compound etc for these loans is a taxable event, as it's booked on the blockchain as conversion of e.g. Ethereum (ETH) to Compound Ethereum (cETH). I think that it should (obviously) have the same tax consequences as taking a loan at a pawn shop with your gold chains as collateral (i.e. there's no sale unless/until you default on the loan, in which case you have sold it for whatever amount they lent you that hasn't been paid back).

[2] https://app.compound.finance/#vote

[3] https://compound.finance/markets/BAT
Yes, the economy is what everyone should be worried about. Not the potential devastation and lives lost but the economy.
Avoiding giving birth in California seems like an option.
My formula for success is similar.

1. Be good at your job (aka write good code).
2. Be easy to work with.
3. Be a member of the prevailing tribe.
4. Be charismatic.

With all four, you're a superstar. Any three, great career. Any two, average career. Just one, unstable employment.

Only one is directly functional, three can be trained to some degree, and one can be faked adequately if absolutely necessary, but it can be mentally unhealthy.

If you don't understand why you aren't getting ahead, apply this model and train a weak category. I came up with this 30 years ago when a young man with limited skills and experience asked me “how do I succeed?” and I was looking for universal factors.

It also shows how to have a great career while being bad at the job. Oh, and it doesn't cover sociopathic strategies. :-)
Then it sounds like she's found balance in her career. She also has several valuable skill sets she can leverage to attain another position if her current employer does not adequately value her contributions.

It's hard to argue a person with technical competence and good interpersonal skills isn't going to be in higher demand than a person with the same level of technical competence and mediocre to poor interpersonal skills.
Thanks. I've been on the waiting list for quite a while. But I didn't get any notification.
One thing often left unsaid about some of the locales in these articles is a fairly loose attitude towards sex, prostitution, and relationships between older foreign men and much younger women.

You will find the people profiled in these to be overwhelmingly men.
Or they search the bags in front of passengers, so passengers can unlock the bags themselves? (just saying there are other alternatives, not just as-is or nothing)
If we follow the science then what does "misinformation" mean in an information theory context?

It has no meaning at all. Since it basically has no meaning it does make it quite a good word in a propaganda context. We can make this word mean whatever we want.

It is a shame we don't use the concept of noise or a noisy channel in a wider context.
Noise?
South East Asia, thank you.
Yes, that's the implication.

E.g. Poor and rich alike are at risk of losing the capital they put into the business. For the rich that might be daddy's money, while for the poor that might be their life savings. Both are at risk of being unemployed and without healthcare. For the rich that might be fine, but for the poor that could be life-threatening.
> Could you use EFS to host a horizontally scalable relational database by using finely sharded SQLite dbs? Like if you had 1 db per user, for example.

This is actually a more common use case than I had imagined just one year ago. It would work today, and there are a few optimizations we're doing short term on file locking that will make this much better. If you reach out to AWS support or your TAM we can share more information and time lines under NDA.
> by making housing costs go up.

No, that will only happen if they don't build commensurate units and do not charge the foreigners a good "foreigner price".

You're missing the part of the picture where a lot of Vietnamese get very rich (relative for VN) off the trend.
Why I use duckduckgo
It is a basic utility, and it should be provided by (nation) states. Every citizen should have a domain, or a subdomain.
giantg2

Has been marked safe from...

Rich people problems.

Why is this a story?
"Enormous volumes of floodwater from the Missoula megafloods once poured over Dry Falls, which stretches 3.5 miles wide and drops 400 feet" <-- conjures up mental images of Victoria Falls, but on a much greater scale.
"That is the danger."

As I said, I get it. Getting it doesn't fund stuff, however.
Show HN: A Chrome extension for common tools used for web development
Made this chrome extension for common tools that I use for web development. There are only four tools right now, planning to add more.
Feedback needed.
While your premise is true (they're authorized to crack down on funders via crypto) your conclusion (Bitcoin doesn't fix this) doesn't follow from it. Please see my discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30346082.
> The irony to me is I would think curating a website like that is as big a problem as anything. That is going to take up way too much time and space in your brain.

I find the opposite, actually. I use my blog to offload projects from my brain, knowing that if there was anything weird about whatever project I'm doing, I would have documented it in the writeup. So it's a public presence, but also an external storage for projects. I frequently use it for my own reference later, and at least some other people read it too.
Not sure if this story is written about 12 people or 1200. But still, I can't help but chuckle when considering the resources the American empire spent to stop the spread of socialism in Vietnam, only to have its citizens later move there to enjoy its perks.
Svgo is so good. It's like a cheat code. I use that GUI too.
MSVC might not alter layout, but public and private member functions have different name mangling:

https://godbolt.org/z/ddqd3vr5x

Notice the call to `?foo@A@@AEAAXXZ` in one compilation and `?foo@A@@QEAAXXZ` in the other, supposedly to the same function. You might get fun linker errors this way, possibly nothing nastier though.
Getting a data set with the DNA of almost all people in your state is a different beast though.
> Don't judge the developers based off of this.

I'd go further and say "never judge a developer by the code they write without knowing 100% of the context". So many times developers trash each other for shitty code quality without knowing anything about why the code was written the way it was. There isn't always good reasons for "excellent code", sometimes good enough is perfect. We like to think we all live in a vacuum where there is no reason for code to not be perfect, but we forget we live in an environment which is not perfect, and the code is meant to contribute to the this environment, sometimes leading to less-than-perfect code.

So before you judge your fellow developer based on code, ask them first to explain the context around the code, before jumping to any conclusions.
>Of CPC voters, they're split on support of protests.

Erin otoole fell spectacularly. Peter mckay not only supports violence against the blockade, he applauds what Trudeau did last night. Piere Polievre seems to be the only reasonable position. We shall see what happens at their leadership.

>If you think a peaceful protest involves blocking access to ambulances and hospitals,

That hasnt happened here at all. That was something months ago that lasted for all of a day before the protesters willingly left. There have been absolutely no blockades like this at all for this. You are misconstruing different protests.

>defacing statues with swastikas

This absolutely hasnt happened. You seem to be consuming some very poor media.

https://www.newsweek.com/canadian-protesters-face-investigat...

But wait lets evaluate.

https://twitter.com/mackaytaggart/status/1487486909131677698

This is the defacement. Some Canadian flags. The protesters themselves came and cleaned this up after it came out.

Your comment that they have been defaced with swasitkas is wrong. So what about the swastikas? Lets be realistic, it was litrally 1 guy with a nazi flag and journalists coincidentally were able to follow him around to get pictures. Hence the media saying 'swastikas were seen'. In the end we actually discovered the truckers are quite diverse and there's absolutely no nazis amongst them. So frankly, if you're seeing swastikas, that's the counter protesters or journalists.

> and honking very loud horns non-stop for weeks, then I don't think it's possible to have an amicable conversation.

The narrative that these sikh and black truckers are white supremacists has fallen internationally. https://notthebee.com/article/come-and-laugh-with-me-at-the-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWU8Bi8FqQg

This 'racist' narrative is mocked even by the left-wing. Though I concede that honking horns in downtown capital cities should be banned.
Lol maybe because he was over 9000 percent sure...
> As if this isn't mostly because of the disruption to normal life caused by the pandemic?

If you're talking about NYT writers, or HN commenters, probably accurate on average yes but I wouldn't make too many assumptions.

It is a lot of deaths though. I personally am still carrying grief for people lost in that first year, and I know about a million other american families are too.

I don't know if you're lumping those deaths in with "disruption to normal life" because yes sure they are but they are definitely still impacting my happiness a lot more than wearing a mask at the gym or whatever!
The melting temperature of copper is lower than that of iron. Most likely it will be possible, but instead of letting the iron flow out of the bath, you do it with the copper.
Yes, do not force failures to be correlated.

Ideally one goes in life forcing failures to be uncorrelated, but that's extra work. Anyway forcing them to be correlated is also extra work, so just don't.
https://twitter.com/OttawaPolice/status/1490788045355950082

https://www.ottawapolice.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=4...