skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've chosen the best possible version of "Sustained A-level performance," that the person is capable of doing that with minimal effort.

There are a handful of people that are capable of producing "Sustained A-level performance" and for them this workplace probably seems ideal.

Even for the engineers that could reach this bar, it's a very high standard to apply constantly. There's another slide that gives a slight allowance for temporary performance issues, but that lack of security is hard for most people.

Slide 34 to be exact says this about Loyalty. "People who have been stars for us, and hit a bad patch, get a near term pass because we think they are likely to become stars for us again."

"A bad patch" is pretty loosely defined, if you burn out achieving something, or are assigned a problem that is particularly difficult, how much leeway do you have?

I don't think it would be an environment I would particularly enjoy, but I think to the original post's point this is a pretty great set of values because it really clearly articulates the trade-offs. If you are a 10x engineer and hate working at $current_company because they care about hard work and that's frustrating because you work smart not hard and you are comfortable with your career being contingent on consistent high performance, then Netflix is the place for you. If you work hard but think this would burn you out, look somewhere else. And that's what values should do, declare the trade-offs and take a firm stance on which things you value.
Protein is low carb. Fiber is a carb that doesn't impact your blood glucose, because your body doesn't break it down. Thai food is heavy on noodles and rice, which are both very high carb.
Would be awesome to have an EPUB version of this. The scaling on the website is really weird for me.
Mutesting has been my "new favorite thing" for a while. I hope that mutation scores replace flawed metrics like statement coverage in the future. Sqlite's test suite[0] is probably my favorite example of its power.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

I personally use go-mutesting[1] with my Go projects, which is a bit basic but gets the job done. Mutmut might be worth investigating for when I work with Python.

[1]: https://github.com/zimmski/go-mutesting
For offline transcription try Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
Guessed in 2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
> How do these people stay in business?

By finding enough candidates for enough businesses willing to pay the huge finders' fees that recruiting firms demand.

One of the things that amazes me is that companies will pay a recruiting firm tens of thousands of dollars to find a candidate that makes it through the interview process and stays there for at least 90 days but then they only offer $500 to their employees for referrals that get hired. I pointed out to HR at one company that I worked for that one of their recruiting partners pays $1000 for a referral that gets hired; given how much they would pay a recruiter, they should be offering at least $5,000 referral bonuses to someone recommends a candidate they hire, whether the person making the recommendation is an employee or not. They decided to increase the referral bonus to match the recruiting company (I kept feeding referrals for my employer through said recruiting agency -- my relationship with them started before and lasts long after being with that employer).
I thought about this as well, but sadly, last I checked some decently popular apps (Twitter, WhatsApp, some others) don't support emojis in URL paths, only in domain names. So the emoji technique could work for message threads in some apps, but it would look pretty strange in others.

(I've been helping @DungZeekFu a bit with Quordle and am curious for any ideas around this though!)
it’s super annoying (this happened to me today again) but it’s not worth switching from Firefox. There’s worse things to be had in the other browsers
Sure, there are geniuses that can spawn out of anywhere that occasionally rise out of bad situations. They are notable because they are EXCEPTIONS to the rule.

But there is massive inequality and poverty in the United States. Here is an example: In my home town, the poverty rate is 12%-13%. In the US state of Georgia it is 17%. In the Czech Republic, which has about the same population as Georgia, it is 10%.

So your assertion that "her lab equipment at her home university was likely worse than what a median high school in the U.S." is questionable. There are plenty of people living in horrible conditions in the US. Our scores in mathematics are 30th amongst developed nations.

Our cities are full-to-the-brim with a homeless population that we have abandoned to the streets that our cities and citizens do not have the wealth to address due to all of the money going to 1% of the population. In fact, our homeless population is almost to 0.2% of the total population, coming in at around 500k people.

Also, the assertion "other people have it worse" is not useful. I can be critical of our current society and also realize I have a privilege living where I do. I can see the impoverished system I grew up in, compare it to the opportunities afforded other people, and say: "Hmm. Maybe we can improve society somewhat."
> The point is that with the M1 Macs SSDs the performance with fully flushing to disk is abysmal bad.

How sure are we the drives that flush caches more quickly are actually flushing the caches?
Dragon can do transcription and works pretty well. It’s like $500.
Same here. 100% dead accurate description.

> what if I start to go low during this meeting? should I pop some carbs and run high for this interview, so I don't risk a hypo partway through?

Love this part. Had to do it literally yesterday to prep for interviewing a job applicant. Imagine the stress of an upcoming meeting, but also your brain might stop functioning half an hour into it! Ha ha! Good times.
I watched the DVD set on my CRT television, it looked absolutely fine to me. One advantage of being a "late adopter".
It's just more anecdata but I live in Western MA and this is exactly the situation we have out here: people are being pressured to waive inspection and to offer in cash and without contingencies. Honestly, it seems crazy risky to me to buy a home under those terms and I suspect that regular people simply end up renting.
TDD is climbing with ropes; it's useful in situations where you don't know how to get all the way to the top but want to try stuff from where you've gotten to without falling all the way to the bottom.
Millenials are entering peak voting age in huge numbers and will be the driving political force in a few years. We’re 25-40 years old and started outnumbering the Boomers in 2020.

Whether said Boomer can be convinced or not will soon be immaterial.
I've been using `pass` for years. Yes it's more manual but I'm in full control of the password management.

There's also a mobile app for ios and ipad that work just fine, including storing OTP.
I agree with your points, but why showcase a super secure system with a flawed example? Also, so many things can go wrong with this setup, I'm inclined to think that this is one of the upsides of a password manager like KeePass.
Because "this game is fun" is too vague. To find good answers, you need good questions that are well-worded.

Think of it as setting achievable goals for yourself. "I want to improve my life!" is a useless objective; while "my appartment is dirty and I want it to be clean" is a useful one.

"Improving one's life" is so vague it's useless (are we talking about love? Health? Work? Family? Housing? Would you even know what to suggest to someone asking you for advice about this?) while "my apartment is dirty" is a clear objective with clearer solutions: "I'll clean it more often/hire a housekeeper".

"The game isn't fun" is just as vague, especially when you have to make choices regarding resources/money, and especially when "fun" is so different depending on people. If we're talking the Sims, for instance, some people will find more fun in creating sims; some, in creating houses; some, in actually playing with their sims. In this context, trying to make the game "more fun" would be meaningless. "These three sides of the game should feel equally developed" is already a bit better, though still very subjective.
Flush with other vendors at least does something as they block for some time too, just not as long as Apple.

Apple implementation is weird because actual amount of data written doesn't seem to affect flush time.
What makes writing more readable?
Even NYC makes no sense at all. A lot of properties have been sitting empty for many years asking for ridiculous rent/leases which nobody is willing to pay.
But instead of lowering the asking price, the owners just leave them sitting empty. It's like they aren't even trying to rent them out anymore because they make more money waiting for the value to go up.

The market is not working.
I'm aware of the BS they pull. I've spend numerous hours on the phone this week trying to get a prescription filled. I have to pay out of pocket, but they aren't able to submit the claim for it to count towards my deductible. Why?

Because they decided to designate a generic medication as a name brand. So even though it was 100% covered last year, now I have to pay 100% ($175/month) until the deductible is hit. I'm also forced to use s specific chain. But they couldn't file the claim toward my deductible because the software system at the chain wouldn't allow for it to be submitted as a brand name (because it's truly a generic). So this whole fiasco is because they decide to designate a generic as a name brand just so they can charge us more, and the geniuses making this change didn't even check to see if their system could handle that new business process.
Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool
Thanks! You're right, I missed it because it was in the section "Comparison with std::lower_bound" and I thought there would be just some gloating :)

Most published data structure benchmarks have this pitfall, and don't discuss it, then when trying to measure the improvements after plugging into a real workload it turns out that the microbenchmark was not predictive. When I see latencies that top out at 50ns when they clearly have to make more than one causal load I immediately get skeptical.

This is one of the very few articles I've seen that clearly explains this, which makes it even more excellent. I only wish it didn't label the other graphs "Latency" too, or at least put an asterisk there.
The EU’s AI rules will likely take over a year to be agreed
>I'm not sure what UK reserve holdings have to do

Your first comment started with "The USD is the world's reserve currency".

Do you know what reserve currency means?
I see, I wasn't aware that they are / were doing a standalone software version too. I always knew about them as a web service.
That may have been true if much of the cost of education was not artificial, like non-free manuals (as in free software) or paying for non-open access journals.
Is that "sign" supposed to be "encrypt"?
You can use Amazon Transcribe. The output is just a block of text but that's fine for a lot of interviews you're just going to grab a few sentences from.

There are some various other services along similar lines to Otter.ai but don't remember names off the top of my head.
I suddenly have "All the way to Tacoma" stuck in my head.
"...the discomfort of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in bombing raids and dropping nuclear bombs on two cities..."

That decision had been made long before 1945. A pocket timeline of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 (officially) - 1945) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War)

1931 Japanese military manufacture a casus belli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident) and invade Manchuria, defeating the Chinese and occupying it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria)

1937 Yet another incident reignites the war, leading to the capture of Shanghai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shanghai), the capture of Beijing, and the capture of Nanjing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre): ("Because of the myriad of factors, death toll estimates vary from 40,000 to over 300,000, with rape cases ranging from 20,000 to over 80,000 cases. However, the most sophisticated and credible scholars in Japan, which include a large number of authoritative academics, support the validity of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and its findings, which estimate at least 200,000 casualties and at least 20,000 cases of rape.").

Some additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_usi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre#Rape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre#Nanking_Safet...

(I mention those because they make it perfectly clear that the Japanese people knew about the activities of the military in China.)

These activities resulted in an international response (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shanghai#Internation...), but nothing resulted until after the Japanese takeover of what was then French Indochina. Then, trade restrictions and an embargo resulted in Japan's attack on the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_o...).

"Some historical estimates of the number of deaths which resulted from Japanese war crimes range from 3 to 14 million through massacre, human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor that was either directly perpetrated or condoned by the Japanese military and government." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes)

Now, I realize you've said you acknowledge Japan's war crimes, and you might even invoke the sunk cost fallacy: those people were already dead. However, there are two points you seem to be missing: the goal of the allies with their "unconditional surrender" terms were the removal of governments that had repeatedly demonstrated that they were militarily aggressive and their replacement with governments that were not (successfully, I might add), and by the scale of Japan's own actions in the war that "discomfort" is a drop in the bucket.
I use an offline only open source password manager so I don't have to trust it. That and backing up the database solves the issue entirely
Well damn, I’ll have to change Hunter2 everywhere now.
Ask HN: Best service which reads online articles out loud?
Designing Olympic sports for the spectator
The goal isn't to hide from cookies, it's not having to click through cookie consent modals. Having ephemeral sessions actually makes this problem worse because sites actually use a cookie to track whether you've consented to the other cookies the site wants to use. So not having the "has/has not consented" cookie causes the modal to appear, making you set your preferences every time you visit the site instead of just the first time.
This article is pretty clearly nothing but an advert to buy PacGenesis' product "Aspera", whatever that is.
Thanks for the kinds words.

The primary problem with those types of treatments is you have to be on immunosuppressants, or the immune system just kills the cells again. That type of treatment is typically not recommended unless the patient is already on immunosuppressants, or has extreme hypoglycemia unawareness, or extreme needle phobia. Immunosuppressants are typically considered a worse outcome than properly treating T1D with insulin + CGM.

For the same reason, sometimes T1D's will get a pancreas transplant if they are also getting another required transplant that will require immunosuppressants.

I think the best hope in the next 50-100 years or so is continued development and improvement of closed loop systems. Eventually we should get to a point where highly sophisticated closed loop artificial pancreases can automate much of the process away. This will improve treatment and long term health outcomes, but will still require a fairly significant level of maintenance and oversight on the part of the patient (or their parent). There's a lot of really promising work being done there.
> I guess the lesson is never understimate the amount of abuse people will tolerate, especially when it worsens slowly over time.

It is not only abuse. Some of us have to use Win as a work OS. Microsoft has, through various methods, some legal, some not, established as the dominant player and if you want employment, you have to use it.
They try to upsell VPN services in addition to the free tracker-blocking. They charge $59/year for iOS and $99/year for all Apple devices (according to my app settings). Unfortunately the VPN doesn't support Android or Windows, so I can't use their paid product.
Piggybacking on my semi-serious remark above, if you do (i and j are indices, and f is a function or expression):

for i j.f

in Dex, this would be:

i j $ f

in J. I think...
How to commit murder inside a locked room
I've been diagnosed with gastroparesis [1], and reading this gave me the exact same reaction! Almost all of my day is consumed with "what did I eat most recently? when should I eat next? How much? What am I short on for today? Protein? Carbs?" It's mentally exhausting. I'm thankful though that I only have to be concerned with "how much I can eat in a day" and there is no upper threshold. Lately I've been thinking about T1D and similar issues that have a high focus on managing food intake, and I completely empathize with you and everyone else who has to do this.

If anyone reading this struggles with gastroparesis I'd love to chat about diet choices that have worked for me. Contact info in my profile.

1) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gastroparesis....
From what I've read, the scientists were at least partially aware, but the secrecy of the project caused compartmentalization. Just as an indicator, only two people died of acute radiation exposure in the Manhattan Project, and both people were avoiding the established safety protocols. That seems prima facie evidence that they were aware that high-dose radiation was bad.

I think there was also pushback against those facts becoming more public after the war both due to the fact that the US used the atomic bomb, and also due to industrial uses of radioactive materials that no one wanted to pay for (a la the Radium Girls).
Just wait until your computer refuses to let you run certain apps in retaliation for posting your support for social movements unapproved by the government.
Hash Array Mapped Trie (HAMT) Datastructure
Funny enough this post mirrors quite a bit of our thinking over at Dagster! https://dagster.io/blog/rebundling-the-data-platform
I would love to see that stated on the site. At this time there is no indication other than a button that says "free" but we all have been burned by dark patterns - I won't even click that button unless there is a clear statement of what that means.

For me, I work on personal side projects for weeks if not months and need to gather feedback from my loyal fans (family) - I would love to see a free option for 100 or less users - forever.
> a near future where technology paliates some of the dread of living with T1D

I thought pump implants already did that, what's missing?
Is the inherent game mechanic being the same the problem, or could that be alleviated if the screens looked more distinct? And it is in a different language, after all.

Are Wordle's mechanics even copyrighted?
It’s one thing if you are covering the zoning board. But seems incredibly dumb when you are interviewing someone routinely surveilled by a foreign intelligence service.
I generally agree with this, although I'm also a fan of home automation. I want all my switches to continue to work (they do), no internet connection between me and my automated devices, no complicated "scenes", and I don't want to mess around with some UI every day. Setup, sure, but that's it.

So in the end I have lights that turn on in any room we're in and turn themselves off some time after we've left. My porch light adjusts itself according to time of day, and my laundry tells me when it's done, which is huge for us since it's in the basement.

I keep it simple (one JS file controls the whole house), but it's still a life improvement.

My toddler recently knocked over my poorly placed server which damaged the zwave dongle. Replacing it took a couple hours, but the week spent without the automations was noticable.

There's something about every room lighting up as I walk through the house that makes it feel more welcoming. A bit warmer.

Also, my son loves to turn off the dining room light and then try to run through the dining room as fast as he can without setting off the motion sensor. It turns on every time, but it's a joy to watch.
Make megaprojects more modular
I'm a type 1 diabetic and data scientist. Estimating the causal effect of a unit of insulin or food on blood sugar is an absolute crap shoot. Consider that there's a +/-20% margin of error on the reported carbohydrates on nutrition facts. We might consider this irreducible error that just cannot be modelled (Maybe you could get a calorimeter, estimate the distribution of errors, and reduce that error somewhat). Therefore, even if we created a model that explained all explainable variance, we still have a 20% margin of error. If a meal has enough carbohydrates, a 20% overestimate of insulin requirements would lead to an insulin overdose that would kill you if the resulting low blood sugar is not dealt with. In other words, the irreducible variance is so large that a "perfect" model would regularly suggest lethal insulin doses.

My "solution" is to eat low-carb/keto as a "variance reduction" strategy. Still, removing carbs also introduces gluconeogenesis (the production of glucose from protein) as a factor to consider. The synthesis of protein to glucose also occurs on a much time different time horizon than the consumption of carbs themselves which has implications for insulin dosing and insulin type.

I could go on! But long story short, modelling blood glucose is bloody hard.
* for which I have no mortgage
I run both, on top of FreeBSD and Windows. Being an OS zealot isn't what pays my bills.
* HN user who doesn't use a password manager and doesn't sync passwords across devices and doesn't reuse passwords (except on throwaway accounts)
5 per user per 24 hours. Most likely will adjust as I monitor the usage.
An interesting question, which the author raises, is why Apple's App Store reviewers should care about a copycat of a third party website or app that does not exist on the App Store. (I can understand them not wanting copycats of existing App Store apps.)
> Permits and building codes are there for the lender.

Aight, so if I'm the lender for myself let me nix them. If they're for some third party lender, let the lender and lendee solve that through private market rather than government. Surely someone can be trained to inspect a house.

> [ mention of Great Chicago Fire ]

The classic "make hundreds millions of people work for decades to afford a house, costing tens of millions of lifespans of work so we can save 300 people once a century from the great Chicago Fire". The calculus there is way way way off.

I'll take my chances.

>It wasn't that long ago

It wasn't that long ago housing was far more affordable.

> because a cow kicked over a lantern because lack of building codes

You've fallen victim to a big tale, like santa clause. No one knows the cause of that fire. We do know that many of the conditions were completely unsubject government, such as a windy dry spell.

>We have regulations for a reason

They're there for good reasons, unfortunately the worst tyrannies and misdeeds happen at the gunpoint of those who purport to be acting for the common good. Building codes in practice are as much about taking your life away as they are as preserving it.
r is not intrinsically a result of g, even if they are "supposed" to move in lockstep. The soviet union had g without corresponding r. A high g just makes a high r easier to stomach.

Inequality doesnt really have an inbuilt limit as such and we are still a way off people owning entire countries, which wouldnt be without historical precedent.