skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it eliminates in-person bias during the step in which it's used, (a) it's effectively still part of the prescreening, so the bias, if present, will still get introduced during the actual interview process and (b) it creates the potential for a whole new set of biases based on how the person writes and how they choose to interpret the questions (if you give short terse answers, is that seen as efficient or not taking it seriously, if you give long, detailed answers, do they even get read? What if someone doesn't like how you structure your thoughts, your writing style, diction, etc, especially when it's not clear whether these actually relate to the job.

The more I think about it, the more confused I am about how they use this instrument internally to advance the hiring process. It it a writing test, are there right or wrong answers, are they really trying to get to know the candidate (in which case they've chosen an extremely inefficient way). It's their choice, but I wouldn't expect them to find highly qualified candidates lining up to do this for them.
Canonical's revenue per employee is only ~275k USD.

Which means there's a pretty hard cap on talent compensation. I suppose this kind of "interview" like you said is a pretty heavy-handed way of filtering out candidates who are aiming for the top ends of compensation that they could get at MAANG firms.
How can they possibly survive on ten times the median national income.
CP is fairly easy to recognize if you see it I'd imagine. I'm sure there are some instances where an adult just looks very young, but there is probably a lot of CP out there with no potential for that.

How exactly does one recognize a bike as stolen from a photograph?
Glicol – Next-generation computer music language
>All the degree signals is that you somehow gathered yourself and read a bunch of books and solved a bunch of questions. That's somehow supposed to be evidence that you can learn their business.

>[...]

>In terms of helping the economy, it's really not efficient. Everyone has to sit around for three or four years when they really want to be working, and everyone who can't find the money/time to do it is cut out from middle class aspirational jobs.

What's the alternative? Like you said yourself, employers want some sort of signal that you're reasonably smart and can put the work in. You can't really replace that with a 6 month bootcamp.
It's not much at all in the days of 1080p @ 60fps and 4k videos.

I think Vimeo is doing some creative accounting to come up with the 1% number. It's probably 1% of all users on the site even if the vast majority of users have < 5 views.
If you fly over the pole you basically cover 180 degrees of longitude, and it matters little whether you take the 180 that cross the date line or the 180 degrees that don't.

Crossing the date line is just an artifact of the singularity at the pole.
Thats really cool! I set up one as well (the Italian version) - if someone is interested in some more pictures and Getty/tmux config I published everything here: https://pojntfx.github.io/minitel/main.html
Wasn't Google Chat (which also was inter-operating with XMPP) that was replaced by Hangouts?
> And yet the company had a painful/useless onboarding process.

I believe I have participated in the same onboarding process as the author. (Based on timeline and other hints, not 100% but pretty sure).

In my experience it was fine. Besides the usual basics like setting up accounts and making sure we had access to what we needed it also included a session where everyone made a small change to a service, testing it, PR-ing it and deploying it. Which is more than I can say about my onboarding experiences elsewhere.

Regarding equipment I am not a fan of the touchbar either (or Macs in general) but it was very easy to get an X1 running Linux (and keep the Mac as well). All I had to do was to ask and have my manager approve.

Overall I felt that there was a genuine effort to try to make sure that newhires had a good initial impression and smooth onboarding. The company was growing very fast at the time with a ton of people coming onboard every week so I thought that it was impressive that they managed to do as much as they did.
MachTen was actually amazing, especially the fast boot time.

(There was also WebTen, which was essentially Apache, Perl and probably MaySQL running on a basic kernel, without a window manager, but with MacOS ineropability and files system sharing.)
So it is like box86, which translates some API calls?
Well it is a special category of human depravity. In prison the other prisoners don't go out of their way to beat and shank the bike thieves and cyber bullies, or even the run-of-the-mill murderers.
I read that as "I'm not going to do my job, because this other group isn't doing their job."

I guess any city gets roughly the government they want/deserve/tolerate.
I’ve used mitmproxy with the transparent proxy mode for decrypting VPN traffic. Works really well. The mitmweb feature is quite usually too.
Which is at least as safe and probably much safer.
The problems with this seem to be:

- too many questions

- unfocused questions

- poor guidance on how much to write

- Or maybe canonical don’t hire much?

I feel like they probably came from either a big brainstorming session, adding to some standard template, or trying fewer questions and then adding more when candidates failed to intuit the right kind of responses.

That said, it feels like it’s on-the-margin good for companies to be experimenting with different hiring processes in general and trying to reduce bias in the process is a noble goal so I’m not massively sad about this. I think oxide also do some kind of written submission based hiring process for example (and they do it with the very reasonable claim that they think written communication is important so they want to hire for it).

If you’re good at passing ‘standard’ interview processes then it’s probably fine to skip this one and maybe you’d wish they’d go for the same process as everyone else. If you suck at the standard ‘algorithms’ questions, maybe you’d be thankful that something else exists (though maybe there are still algorithms questions later) and keen to give it a try. That could end up biasing canonical’s candidates towards people who are undervalued by the market which could make it cheaper for them to hire (by spending less effort trying to close on candidates with lots of competing offers)
Despite the PM not wishing to be seen adopting a US-negatively stereotyped moniker, the economy is democratic socialism. See the wiki article for more sources. Also, your wiki article[0] describes the Nordic model transition to socialism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Sweden
Early planes like the 707 could not make it all the way to Asia in one go, so the stop in ANC was necessary. It's the largest airport for hundreds of miles in any direction.

That route also goes through the PRC which was closed for a few decades to outside airplanes as well. And some of the other countries on the map were part of the USSR as well.
Working with JSON Data in MySQL
mitmproxy dev here! Happy to answer any questions. Answers may take a while as I'm on a remote mountain hut, but please shoot. :)
Digital Immortality: I only check Facebook to see which classmates died
What San Fransischam needs is a hero. Someone to fill up Alcatraz.
I loved this book, finished it like 2 months ago totally worth reading 10/10
I’m charging $100/hr for dev work, team coaching, and strategy consulting. My plate is full for the foreseeable future, so I will be raising my rates soon. I find work through my professional network by talking about why devs quit their jobs, and how leaders can build strong, productive teams and retain talent.
A physical switch on the device would be a good solution. Physical access is mostly "game over" anyway.
It's coming to Seattle, too. Thieves smashed several of Nordstrom's windows at $50,000 apiece. Small businesses are simply giving up and leaving.

I expect it won't be long before storefronts sprout rollup steel shields that extend from the pavement up and cover the complete storefront. That's what businesses do in Brazil.

Amazon is abandoning one of its downtown buildings because the employees don't feel safe there anymore.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/citing-crime-concerns-...
yeah, because it does not operate as a space heater.
I can buy one of those for like $100, and that's a high end model.
The Nordic Model
No, of course not. That's why I pointed out that at the end of the day it comes down to what seems fair, and what the two parties are willing to negotiate.
Show HN: I built a platform for projects to find maintainers
A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking.

There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.

In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!
> The Phoenician island-city of Motya, off the west coast of Sicily

In Milan, Italy there is an anonymous person that has been writing stuff like "baal culo" all around the city, pretty much everywhere.

I wonder if it's the same Baal.
Cloud Print is dead. Another thing that used/uses GTalk's XMPP servers is push notifications.
> Property crimes declined in San Francisco during the first year of the pandemic, but rose 13% in 2021.

There is an ongoing national narrative about how shoplifting and petty theft has been out of control and yet the numbers rarely back up this narrative. A two year stretch in which the numbers dropped then bounced back up by 13% is not "insane" by any stretch of the imagination.
P4V is still the best cross platform diff/merge tool by far, and too bad it is relatively obscure.
No.

Really, I have no idea if this comment was in jest or halfway serious but there isn't any way passenger planes will ever land on any of the existing aircraft carriers. Width, Runway length, arrestor strength, inability to do cat launches with something that heavy and so on. It isn't going to happen.
wage theft still vastly eclipses all retail theft, yet gets far fewer headlines… ask yourself why whenever you see the retail theft reporting hysteria

the people stealing from retail have very likely had more of their labor stolen than they’re lifting (it’s likely true for you too)

https://fair.org/home/shoplifting-is-big-news-stealing-milli...

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...
If I really had to pick between ads or reliable file copy, I'm not sure which one I would pick.
If your local prosecutor will not prosecute low-level crimes then the threshold for acceptable behaviour deteriorates further and further. See Cook County’s failed experiment with bail reform and electronic monitoring of violent offenders.
This will be a great conversation starter for screen-lookers while I'm at a café.
> SSNs? Sure, they’re (optionally) used as an identifier.

They're misused as an identifier. They've also been leaked to fuck and back.
Why do you assume colonies didn’t have food, housing, clothes, or medicine? Have you read about any of their history? This is an extreme form of the typical “taming the savages” racist trope.

Anyway, you’ve been ignoring most of my arguments and furthering your own Byzantine narrative. I was attempting to educate in good faith, but I shall cease to engage now.
I am not confused about anything but thanks for the discussion.
Despite the focus on SF, this is a national issue.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/08/09/what-s-the-pun...
If they made college free in America it would be severely underfunded and suffer all the same problems as American high school.

If there is no money in something, then it's assumed there is no value. It's the American way.
Netflix Starts Cracking Down Harder on Password Sharing
>Obviously this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison since current self-driving cars are constrained to certain locations...

It is much more worse, current so called self driving cars have human drivers that intervene most of the time and saved the idiot AI from crashes but Elon will not count this near crash as an actual crash.

>but if the goal is to minimize deaths, then we should be more gung-ho about this technology than we currently are.

We should maybe try to maybe to also do the obvious quick fixes at the same time?

it would be much cheaper instead of forcing AI cars on people to force say a drunk/tired/talking on the phone detector , enforce better driving tests before giving licenses to drivers, put a tax for vehicle mass toe promote less heavy cars, enforce speed limits with tech. Do you think Bob will prefer to be forced to buy an expensive self driving car to reduce the car crashes stats or better to buy a safety device(black box) that he must install in the car.
Afghanistan’s last fin. minister, now a DC Uber driver, ponders what went wrong
Definitely agree, a big part of this is also how badly the person putting more into it needs that other partner.
That's what "parallel construction" achieves!!
On the latest episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast they were discussing a patent related to this fancy interconnect stuff, and it sounds like not only do they need two fully functioning M1 Max's, but they also need to be adjacent on the wafer. Although I guess at least they can still use the non-defective M1 Max in any pair.
You recognize bikes, and compare it to a database of known stolen bikes.
Not necessarily a ‘productivity hack’ in that it neither relates to productivity nor is a hack, but in our latest side project my partner and I have a need to share textual data about the various episodes/lessons that we’re creating.

Of course any number of notes systems allow one to do that, and I have my very own system of organisation that helps [0], but we ended up, at my partner’s suggestion, just saving individual .txt files in the folders containing the episodes.

[0]: https://johnnydecimal.com

Nothing new here of course, it’s what we all used to do when it was the only option. But it feels like it’s been so long since I just fired up TextEdit, typed the words, and File-SaveAs’d it in to a folder. It’s weirdly refreshing and works really well.

I noted that it was my partner’s suggestion because she’s been learning Markdown, and as an ex-professional-writer (medical/patient) is overjoyed that she doesn’t have to use Word. When we were looking for a solution she said, well why don’t we just save a file there. So simple that I’d missed it.
To me, "plotting a new route" means they are changing how they get from A to B.

I am a passenger in a car with a friend, carpooling to work. I say, "it looks like there is a wreck on the highway in a few miles, want me to find a new route to work?" That makes perfect sense. It doesn't matter if my friend and I have taken this alternate route before. It means we are changing our plan.
Is it really 13%, or...

A. The city has incentive to hide the actual numbers[1], and
B. Most business owners don't bother anymore with reporting, because what's the point?

I'd say it's probably a combination of the above.

Edit: [1]Because it is an election year. High crime looks bad.
Serious question, what’s the TAM on that? Like how many books are we talking a year?
I remember reading that at 5nm, electron tunnelling through transistor gates would be a major problem. What happened to that?
I just deleted Facebook recently.

I had the account deactivated and would log in occasionally to check in on folks. I finally decided to end that -- left a note up saying I would be delete my account in a few weeks, left a contact email. A few weeks after, I deleted the account.

A lot of people expressed being sad and that they will miss me. But, they weren't interacting with my deactivated account, they weren't messaging, and they had my email address. I realized that (many? some? a few? all?) people equate easy async interactive connectivity with social relationship strength. The past few years for me have been proof that this isn't all that true though.
The onboarding/waterboarding joke wasn't funny the first time and yet tries it twice. Author doesn't bother learning what the CEO looks like or his name?

> You HAVE to type it in correctly

Yes. That's how names work. Words as well. But I guess author cannot touch type on one of the most ubiquitous keyboards in the world.
While it is plausible for any of those agencies to spy on the domestic population, and it may definitely be possible that some of them need to be combined or removed, you must realize that any country will have such agencies as they have important roles, particularly for the military and law enforcement. It would be rather unwise if the FBI didn't have an intelligence branch because there's plenty of analysis to be gained from there, for example how drug cartels operate. Similarly, the DIA has an important job of accurately finding out the military capabilities of other countries. Whether they do bad/illegal things or not they are a necessary part of any government.
"Small businesses are simply giving up and leaving."

It's already tough enough dealing with all the tax, regulation, competing with large corporations and the internet etc. I can't imagine wanting to stay in business to deal with multiple burglaries and thefts, with the associated costs of security improvements and insurance premiums.
There should be a digital public bench here
Too close for comfort, you really don't want to be on the next MH-17, and I really would not put it past Russia to pull stunts like that again. The safe range from any airspace that has Russian controlled hardware in it is roughly the range of their AA missiles.
I have no respect for people that ignore them. its been shown empirically again and again to occur.

without the original research, the spinoffs may never occur because the initial capital outlay isn't warranted for the various individual uses.

the fact of the matter is fusion reactors are such a game changer ignoring them because of the chance they might not work is insane. meanwhile all the research into getting them to work generates a ton of economic activity because other smaller markets can take advantage of the technological progress that was made in the attempt.
Awesome, good luck! Consider Microsoft's ecosystem too, large market.
The link I selected was just the first thing that came up when I looked for a citation. I knew as a matter of fact that it was the case before making the search, purely from having read the work of actual economists, who have for decades, and still to this day, use the word inflation to mean the increase in the supply of money.

It has always been used in this way by the Austrian school of economics. Most prominently, in Human Action[1] (1940), perhaps the best book on economics to exist. Mises makes a deliberate effort to encourage his readers to use the term properly. Here are some ways he describes inflation (1949 English translation):

"In the course of a monetary expansion (inflation) the first reaction is not only that the prices of some of them rise more quickly and more steeply than others. It may also occur that some fall at first as they are for the most part demanded by those groups whose interests are hurt."

"From this point of view the term inflation was applied to signify cash-induced changes resulting in a drop in purchasing power"

"The terms inflationism and deflationism, inflationist and deflationist, signify the political programs aiming at inflation and deflation in the sense of big cash-induced changes in purchasing power."

"What many people today call inflation or deflation is no longer the great increase or decrease in the supply of money, but its inexorable consequences, the general tendency toward a rise or a fall in commodity prices and wage rates. This innovation is by no means harmless. It plays an important role in fomenting the popular tendencies toward inflationism."

"The second mischief is that those engaged in futile and hopeless attempts to fight the inevitable consequences of inflation - the rise in prices - are disguising their endeavors as a fight against inflation. While merely fighting symptoms, they pretend to fight the root causes of the evil. Because they do not comprehend the causal relation between the increase in the quantity of money on the one hand and the rise in prices on the other, they practically make things worse."

"It is obvious that this new-fangled connotation of the terms inflation and deflation is utterly confusing and misleading and must be unconditionally rejected."

[1]:https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
> The city has incentive to hide the actual numbers...

... and cops have an incentive to overstate them.
Google Voice also counts kinda, also Google Messages (SMS/MMS client but also does RCS using Google servers sometimes) and Duo.
I don't believe the data is accurate simply because most crime of this level is not reported because the victims accurately believe nothing will happen.
> wage theft still vastly eclipses all retail theft, yet gets far fewer headlines… ask yourself why whenever you see the retail theft reporting hysteria

Try to stop wage theft, get an unproductive conversation, or worse, get fired.

Try to stop petty crime, get assaulted, or worse, get killed.

There’s a reason no one gives a shit about wage theft: they simply don’t care.
Silicon Valley's sex censorship harms everyone
And of course, they'll just put out a new law some time after the first one is overturned. Maybe they'll spend time rewording it a bit, but I suspect they'll eventually stop bothering with such tedious ceremony.

In effect, their desired law will be the law for the vast supermajority of time regardless of constitutionality.
I have those 6 screens plugged to two different macs, so just 3 on each. Big screen in the center, and two in portrait mode on the sides. One uses 43" 4k for the center screen, the other uses a 34" ultrawide.

The m1 max drives its displays directly, the m1 via a starlink tripple 4k displaylink hub.

The problems, in my case, are specific to monitors that take a good few seconds to come back from standby. Macos seems to be impatient and considers them dead. I am down to just 1 screen with this problem, and will replace it at some point.
Same plan is with e-mail. Run gmail until it's not feasible anymore to use anything else than gmail (you can have SMTP server with 10+ years, that never sent a spam, not listed on any spam blocks, have correctly configured SPF, DKIM but still put its mail to spam).

Once no one will run their SMTP gmail will be similarly killed using the Microsoft's EEE aproach.

They do this over and over again (even the Hangouts essentially killed XMPP). Fuck the cancer that is google. They are actually destroying what Internet was meant to be.
Not really - as the article says, the cops are discouraged and it's not like there's a bounty per arrest. Overstating the numbers is a waste of time not accomplishing anything if true.
I was reverse engineering my microwave a few years ago and couldn't MITM on XMPP because of the TLS so I used a jailbroken iPhone and was able to "swizzle" the Objective-C methods to log the data at a method right before encryption started. Fun.

There was another XMPP MITM I could have used, but I think I was already invested in figuring out the first idea before I learned of the simpler, existing way:

https://github.com/BrianHenryIE/XMPPFrameworkLogger

https://github.com/iamultra/xmppmitm
I would just cancel the flight. Helsinki Tokyo seems like a very unpopular route
Cops outright make shit up to win political points.

For example: https://www.businessinsider.com/nypds-shake-shack-hoax-stop-...
The numbers are based off what gets reported. Nobody reports anything in San Francisco any more. It's subpar work on the part of the WSJ not to understand that, but when calling the police is a waste of time, the numbers aren't going to reflect reality.