skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one am surprised by the negative sentiment only because the tech industry seems to be all about it. I don’t see the problem it is trying to fix. Crypto by is terrible as a currency, transactions are slow and damn can they cost a lot. And the currency itself fluctuates a lot. It’s not really decentralized, it’s not really anonymous and it can be manipulated. There seems to be no end to people hyping crypto and NFTs, because if I get you to buy in my money may go up. But what exactly am I buying? Sounds like you just need a sucker and I may or may not make money, but since you made up this currency and a small number of people own the lion’s share I guess you all get rich. My take is that the tech industry has just created a new way to become even richer by making some confusing product to prey off everyone. Maybe that wasn’t the initial plan but it sure looks like that’s how it’s shaking out.
Seems to be entirely different than

https://neptuneos.com/en/start-page.html

with the exact same name.
Its a job for lawyers.
Your emotional comment is inappropriate. You seem to think that calling a team incompetent is the same as calling individuals incompetent, which it isn't.
That’s why it’s best to only name things after dead people. Less surprises.
totally meaningless question, NEXT
> I meant that now we never hang out, we don’t trust each other any more, and code review has suffered as a result.
> It’s especially hard for new people joining a team where baseline trust is basically equal to that of Internet stranger.

Huh. How's your hiring process like? Do you hire very young people?

The only time I've seen this happen is when the team used to work in a colocated manner, and then some members started to WFH. Eventually some of those people WFH got too tied into the "home" part of WFH and work suffered. Simultaneously other people in the office just started to treat those WFH as second class citizens as well. This really caused a mess.

If this is what you're seeing, the easiest solution is to just move to a remote only team.

If you want to stay, you need to have a good manager in place who understands these dynamics and can mitigate issues.
It's always possible to fork it, rename it, and resubmit it for inclusion in the kernel tree. Would it still be relevant though?
This is why I redirect the question to my comp requirements, instead of my pay history. Any company that absolutely insists on salary history is not one I will work for anyway.
> it's completely real.

It's also completely real that many women in their 20s and 30s, biologically, tend to not be available for work for maternity reasons. As an employer you have to include that opportunity cost of in the equation. Also, a woman in her late 30s - early 40s with two kids probably has a 2 or 3 year-hiatus when it comes to work experience compared to her male-colleagues.
And that's a company's prerogative. But in the US, that mentality can cause you to miss out on great contributors.

For example, if you are building a new e-commerce platform and can hire someone with 1.5 years of experience shipping a successful project at Shopify, you should do that. They will give you more than someone chipping away at a non e-commerce SaaS for a half dozen years.

Point is, context is key. But I can't speak to outside of the US.
Sure, you can use Parsec or something, but you'll only get an Immersed-style "virtual desktop". Having full separate window transmission would be more difficult/impossible for non-Linux targets.
Russia tried joining NATO multiple times and was rebuffed - this is entirely on the west. Obviously China is the new global rival to be concerned about, not Russia.
> NB: Please don't discuss the personalities involved.

Ah, but that's all I can think about when I read about reiserfs. For anyone who is unaware, the author, Hans Reiser, killed his wife and hid her body. There was a long and public investigation and he was found guilty. He later produced her body as part of a plea deal.
Are you wilfully ignoring that there is a legal definition of what a business is, that the issue at hand is spoken about in a legal context? Your personal semantics are irrelevant in that context.
I don’t know this sounds like it maps to a SQL query to me assuming you use consistent job titles and possibly the concept of “grades” e.g Level 1 Software Engineer
Usually government contractors can do well since they don't fall in the government pay grades. I interviewed at one paying something like $110-150k, which would be a substantial increase for me.

Most government jobs aren't attractive anymore. I think the COLA was like net -2% last year. Pensions are mostly gone. Politics are raging lately.
I dont suppose you by any chance might have an Apple developer Account.....? :)
> and even then it's only mandatory that f

"only if". Given that having a car is a must in the vast majority of places in the US. And given that yes, you do need medical insurance.
That's great to know - thanks!
Well at least if my Pi4 + HTC Vive combo doesn't work I can send it back.

That's my big concern here, your talking about a new 3k device from a company that's never shipped hardware before.

Plus with Dropbox they didn't ask early adopters to drop 3k!
Or write correct specs. How does one end up with a Windows.old directory?
Personally I've always really liked ReiserFS. The collected storage of small files, the storage of the tails of files, the balanced tree structure, and the fast journaling gave better performance in reads, writes, boot time, and storage efficiency than most file systems. The focus on small files, which were and arguably still are most files on a typical system, was a big key to this. It made it ideal for storing things like configuration files, email in maildir format, email spools, version control repositories, source directories, and many executables. The logical successor was supposed to be btrfs, but that project IMHO may never be ready for production use.

All that said, if it's hurting kernel development and almost nobody is using it, perhaps a deprecation cycle is due. Maybe bcachefs is a good replacement? Or perhaps nobody cares about efficiently storing small files these days at all, and we just all go to XFS, ext4, and ZFS. I think dropping it during a short period is detrimental to users. Maybe a two or three version warning is due.
The reality (based on my current interviewing) is open roles already have this range, and it is relatively wide. But by not disclosing they can get you lower. Say range is 170-220, you are coming from 170; they offer you 170 and you negotiate 180. You feel good and got a bump, but employer could have gone higher.

But not all employers are offering the same range. I ask up front now and select the higher paying ranges to start, then ideally you get an offer from multiple of them at the same time, and you know how high you can push it. By simply going back and forth between them they negotiate for you. Obviously that is a luxury, but by merely knowing the range, even if wide, you greatly increase your ability to land a higher paying job.
At my previous job, we used reiserfs. We generally referred to it internally as murderfs.

Not that I think that's good rebranding, but it did amuse us.
You can turn that off if you want (i did).
https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html They're selling it quite well here, though integration into other products might be the hard thing.
It's serious (not parody), though I can understand in retrospect why that might be off-putting, and I should probably word the paragraph better. I sometimes watch Sci-Fi movies and focus too much on the technology (forgetting that the entire plot covers some terrible dystopian theme, lol).

I'm personally a fan of "Definite Optimism" views of the future.[1] Western culture used to portray technology really positively in Sci-Fi dramas (e.g. Star Trek), and then sometime around the 1970s, our culture flipped to portraying technology mostly under a dystopian point of view.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/vr-and-definite-optimism/
Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist's lab
Just cos someone is missing an arm is no reason not to ask them to go for a walk
Why would the best candidates be put off by a low minimum? Their salary isn't going to have anything to do with the minimum.

If anything, the best candidates should prefer a wide range. That would mean there is more opportunity for them to distinguish themselves beyond just "years served".
It's a fairly high-end headset attached to a compoarably powerful laptop, and the cost reflects the combined cost of both parts. It's expensive but the price makes sense.
I agree, the key point here is the dangers we potentially face if we forcefully remove cash as an option of payment.We should strive to at least keep it an option where possible, and I would base this mainly on the privacy aspect(and secondarily maybe security).

Cashless is great as a convenience option, or when there are time sensitive factors.
> I for one am surprised by the negative sentiment only because the tech industry seems to be all about it.

Between the prevailing trend of rent-seeking subscriptions and shoving NFTs/blockchain into anything that some knucklehead thinks it will fit in, tech is very much becoming grift culture as the nerds get run over by sharks, business types, and crypto bros
So many people are complaining about price of a first gen enthusiast device.

You know the Apple II (~1500 in 1977) is 5k in modern dollars, and sold over 5m units, right?

If the device solves a genuine productivity problem for you, 3k is cheap.
maybe it's hard to understand how important k8s is if you don't experience the problems it solves.

I'd use k8s just for how we can easily update and rollback an application during peak hours and not lose a single request. any half baked solution would demand orders of magnitude more than the time it requires to just learn k8s.

autoscaling services and servers, disruption budgets, cronjobs.

there's so much stuff that got consolidated, hundreds of apps, puppet modules and bash scripts, there is just too much to list.

k8s is a dream come true.
Building an Effective and Enjoyable Remote Onboarding Experience
This sounds like a pay optimisation for high performers. After all, good people aren't leaving for Mars but to an employer that pays them fairly(since they know what's their fair pay).

Besides, salary is not the only thing that keeps people or makes them leave. High quality management, pleasant work environment, office location and many other things are also part of the decision making.

In fact, hiding salaries is a welfare scheme for low performing businesses. It will eventually degrade the quality of the society since it's not meritocratic and only sustainable due to information disparity between employer and employees.

The margins of a company shouldn't be coming from the employees tricked into working for less than they can get.
One, KYC in America does nothing for the rest of the world. Two, we know that’s not true. The aforementioned hedge funds could keep the flywheel going on their own.
This is often an underestimated point. I get 9-5 no overtimes plus 38 vacation days per year (and an ability to purchase more). It would take a lot of money - more than I am likely to get - to convince me to switch to a US working schedule.
I worked a second job at Lowes one summer/fall. Similar story there - tons of questions from coworkers and customers about what I'm doing working there.
This was insanely awesome. A sense of childlike wonder enveloped me when I navigated it
> I saw elastic has vector indexes now -- what does 'well' mean?

Funny enough I was just reading about this today as a result of the OP article

A commenter here, who apparently works for the pinecone.io vector db platform, states that:

"Pre-filtering in most solutions (eg, Elasticsearch on AWS) requires using an inefficient brute-force search (kNN) through the remaining vectors after they've been filtered, because the original index was built on the unfiltered list and would no longer be useful. This causes sky-high search latencies."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/po3pos/com...
Isn't it the case that you can still work elsewhere in the meantime, just not for direct competitors? So you may get 70-80% of your previous salary working outside your more lucrative niche, but your previous employer still pays you 50% of your old salary to make up for it? Surely a non-compete can't be so broad that it forces you into unemployment.
The question before the court is the opposite one you are thinking of. Whether people can discriminate against Christians is not under debate.
Big fat no. The entire article hinges on the misnomer memes are are some how separate entities from the human mind, when they're not.

They are ideas and also our behavior. The notion that the US is less subsceptible to them because we're 'immune' is nonsense. Behaving in some manner will make us continue to behave in some manner until acted upon by a change agent/event/*idea/etc.

A meme is fundementally a type of set of information.

If a population was skeptical of sets of information, that in itself would be categorizable under a set of information, a meme.
> How many people can survive for 2 years on 50% lower salary?

You mean 50% of their previous salary plus a full salary working in a related field?
I seem to remember seeing it in white, I wonder if it has dark mode, which depends on the daytime of Japan!
Add https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
In companies making a good profit, salaries may go up in cases like this. But some companies may not be able to pay everyone the same they pay the best performers.

If such transparency is mandated throughout a region, the best talent can react in a number of ways:
1) They can leave the region.
2) They can all work in the same few companies, either those requireing top talent or consulting companies. (Or go solo.)
3) Employers can find alternative ways to compensate them. (Generous benefits, plenty of approved overtime, generes travel refunds or any other compensation that does not require reporting)
4) Top employees can scale back their effort, and either have more free time or do side hustles. Employers may even encourage this, as it may be preferrable to those people leaving.

Most of the above will make it harder to run highly innovative companies (presumably those that require top talent), and in the end, I suppose this will drag the economy of the entire region down.
SA, Part 2 – How to choose pre-annotated datasets for Sentiment Analysis?
Hello here

I just posted the second blog post of a series about Sentiment Analysis: https://medium.com/besedo-engineering/sentiment-analysis-par...
This blog post is about how to chose the perfect dataset for your Sentiment Analysis project, which is one of the most important part of a project. I hope you'll like it!

Any feedback is appreciated

Bonus: There are still two blog posts on this series!
The only limit is yourself.
Just a warning that exploring James Lileks' site will suck you into spending a completely unreasonable number of hours marveling at his outstanding sense of humor (he wrote a great piece last week on the passing of P.J. O'Rourke) as well as the simultaneous wonderfulness and awfulness of mid-century American culture and life. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a destination on its own, and the Matchbooks Collection will leave you amazed that they are so interesting...
For Bitcoin and other PoW coins, the value is built into the name for minting: Proof of WORK. Less abstractly, today we can think of this as proof of energy consumption / production. In other words, it is sort of crystallizing energy into abstract & transmissible value. By holding a coin, you hold that value / solidified energy.

It takes a certain and increasing amount of energy to generate 1 coin, which binds the value of the coin to physics. This is actually a very good thing, especially given it does not care where the energy comes from. If nuclear, solar, window, hydro, and thermal were our dominant energy sources, it would work in that just as well and without bias. Indeed, it actually has active market incentives to utilize clean and renewable energy sources — something the previous financial mechanisms grossly lack.

Existing banking institutions consume more energy in unmeasurable ways, and they DO care where the energy comes from: oil. They want oil. It’s called the petrodollar for a reason.
Or have discretionary bonuses
Unless you’re on an assembly line, there is no such thing as “equal work”. Several of my colleagues and I share the same title, yet the women with that title objectively produce less than the men and absolutely deserve less pay (at my company).

Is that because of sexism? Or because we judge the individual, not the gender?

This seems like a backdoor for Socialism where this backwards logic is used to justify paying everyone the same rate and so people who are massively productive end up subsidizing those who are useless.
It's hard to make any guarantees when we're still this early, but I'd say assuming we survive this launch, we'll be able to honor our warranty. We're going to add a two-year warranty to the terms.

Of course, it's up to you whether you consider taking that initial risk acceptable.
yeah I'd stick all of those as blobs inside a sqlite or other db
By taking minors and extra courses in computer science. Ultimately grad schools care more on the courses you take plus recommendation letters and use GRE/GMAT as filters.
Xonsh is a Python-powered shell
It's just Linux and runs normal Linux applications, so yes. If you just use e.g. a VNC client your work machine's display would be in one window, but if you can find remote desktop software that displays remote windows as local windows I'd imagine that would work fine too with Simula.

(I seem to recall Citrix can do this, though I'm not sure if there are any FOSS/less enterprise-y options that do the same.)

EDIT: Actually I think Xpra does this? Not sure if it'll run on Wayland, or if X11 apps work in Simula via XWayland. If so though, that might work.
Why pay a percentage?
This vaguely reminds me of Ronald Wright’s “Rebellion of the Tools.” There is a lot of momentum involved in a lot of human behaviors. People tend to prefer familiarity (including the foreign but familiar kinds.) Salience and repetition creates familiarity and it is mostly advertisements and commercial interests that drive most eyeballs nowadays in most of the world. So, in my opinion, it all circles back to to the old adage: “follow the money.”
https://benklaas.com/jqmcbp/

It's a comical March Madness bracket tournament. The winner gets a candy bar, and everyone gets some lovely funny email updates as the month goes on. In addition to human competitors, you compete against a 1000 chimpanzee army and their own predictions. Each page on the website has a velociraptor button.
Brendan Gregg's writings are pretty good.

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-trac...
Isn’t it relevant though? The sole author and support person is AFK for the foreseeable future.
So what? If your tech stack is worth its salt, those layers will be mostly removed at compilation. Reductions in performance often are due to developers mixing up their layers of abstraction and repeating work among several of them, rather than by having several layers adding more powerful abstractions.

It's good that a developer has cursory knowledge of how those layers work (e.g. to avoid re-adding checks at the upper layers of something that is already guaranteed by the lower ones), but there's no need to be an expert at all them.
"Performance management isn't an exact science and if everyone knew everyone else's pay, it would be total chaos and nothing would get done."

How's that work for the GS structure then? Or for union jobs in various sectors?

The only reason chaos would ensure is if there were extensive unexplainable and unfair practices.
No, conspiracy theories have always been floating around, and people have always been pushing them. The difference is that the rest of society fought tooth-and-nail to keep them underground.

Nowadays most social media platforms work tirelessly to keep you on a steady drip of whatever content happens to push your buttons the best. So if the system thinks you might buy into a conspiracy theory, it'll keep serving you more and more extreme versions of that meme. This is a necessary side effect of how a recommendation engine works.

One particularly odd bit of misinformation about how misinformation spreads is the idea that otherwise normal people are merely tricked into believing it. In other words, someone says "the moon landing was faked" or "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself" and everyone believes it because monkey reptile brain. This is a very simplified idea of how conspiracy shit spreads. Most people tend to be highly critical of new information and view it in context based on how plausible it seems. Even theories like Jeffrey Epstein being murdered in prison are only believable because it fits in with the already-proven facts, not because we just want the story to be more interesting.[0]

Conspiracy theorists think differently. To put it bluntly, they are extremely gullible. They want to believe information that fits a simplified narrative. And so they tend to disconnect from everyone else and connect to other conspiracy theorists[1]. This has been happening years, decades, arguably centuries prior to today's social media world. It just wasn't nearly as visible. Now, the gullible people group together on social media and plan out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible. Decades ago, you could never imagine organizing the world's moon landing conspiracy theorists to flash-mob Cape Canaveral; because we didn't let these people have a platform. But now we do.

[0] If you're wondering, I actually don't think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in prison.

[1] RationalWiki calls this process "crank magnetism"
Some people have a price in mind that they feel their work is valued at, and see that as ethical.

When I got my tattoo, the artist refused to accept more than His agreed to price, as an example.
This sounds like it would have been a fun place to work
I've done vector indexes on CouchDB before, because it supports arrays as keys in it's map-reduce implementation. Worked great for fast document similarity search.

Brief writeup: http://splatcollision.com/page/fast-vector-similarity-querie...
https://zapread.com

A forum where you up and downvote with satoshi (BTC).
It's also nice that this means you basically can't use the keepalive setting they mention in this article.

Or rather you can but apparently you need the expensive version of nginx to be able to have upstream servers that resolve hostnames sensibly.
Alternate link - https://swavedigest.com/2022/02/22/the-ultra-introverts-who-...
World's tiniest violin is now playing
I miss the sun too but I can't imagine being outdoors with those and enjoying being outside. What about the sweat on my face because of having a heating device strapped onto my head ?

I'd rather have an long battery life arm pc with an e-ink screen.
I just started using this shell today, and it's quite fun being able to script things in just Python, which I find easier and more intuitive, over bash, of which I can never remember the syntax of the most basic functionalities. I'm hoping some other HNers find this useful as well :)
In my experience, integration with products is not really that hard. I've used sqlite3 bindings in half a dozen languages over the years, and they are generally fairly robust.
The C-level are probably the oldest employees. There’s your age diversity!
Hear, hear on replacing reiserfs with bcachefs. Kent Overstreet could use the support, the project looks good, and to my knowledge he is not a murderer.