skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CPS investigators asking non-abused children traumatizing questions (sometimes after being independently detained) and the associated investigation into the family, only reported as CYA to stay in compliance with mandatory reporter laws, is child abuse performed by CPS. CPS themselves are often the child abusers in this fashion, and this law allows them to abuse more children.

>This can also lead to highly warranted investigations, given that actual abuse is incredibly common.

Or possibly not. It could drive anyone who suspects a professional may attribute (correctly or not) some circumstance as abuse, to merely completely avoid letting their family see any professionals. These laws degrade trust even further between professionals and those seeking them, reducing access to care. Instead of an aid, a therapist or doctor is seen as a threat so dangerous as to risk breaking apart your family at any time. Avoidance at seeking professional services may decrease warranted investigations rather than increase them.

Anyone familiar with substance abuse patient care understands how mandatory reporting frequently endangers children: many drug-addicted women birth outside the hospital system so they can keep their children (mandatory reporter laws encourage them to avoid safer birth environment).

But of course I don't doubt compelling people to say their thoughts out loud to authorities could lead to more 'warranted investigations' at a dystopic cost. As with many laws written so _someone will think of the children_, there is some factual basis that additional warranted investigations may be opened as a result of creating these thought crimes. I am of the opinion, though, that criminalizing these thoughts leads more towards "involuntarily report anything that may risk my license, at the cost of traumatizing innocent families" rather than "voluntarily report genuine abuse."
Great tips. I think a reference is good for people who won't do things unless they have an authority to tell them.
Not bad, but the author missed Barranquilla… and pronounced it without the signature Colombian “kee-jah” for double Ls.
Finally! this is awesome!
Was your new manager new to being a manager? I could see that kind of offer coming from an operator, but I could just as much see it coming from someone lacking confidence trying to project a miscalculated sense of authority.
Off topic. Doesn't apply. However, yes, when we started saving it was MN schools only. I don't know what the rules are now. Remember, we're talking about something from 20 years ago.
I run a few small chat bots. I can correct specific answers to questions (like the example given) by mapping certain phrases to certain intents, probabilistically. A new model is trained, and deployed. I do it all the time. It takes minutes. No source code changes.

Their model is certainly bigger than mine and while I'm not certain about their process or tech stack, but I'd be willing to bet at even money that their's works vaguely similarly and that they have people looking at usage to see bad responses, updating data, re-running the model.
A sphere spins in a circle <- probably the most abstract answer possible, but correct as I see it.
Should I Open-Source my Company?
Clear propaganda piece, I am afraid

A couple of pieces of evidence:

De-coupling is evidently a US driven initiative, starting with the Trumpian 'China Bad' rhetoric starting from 2016, placing over 200+ Chinese firms from the prohibited list, setting up AUUKUS military alliance, Quad military alliance etc.

China has massively benefited from status quo, no motivation at all to change it. Clear from Xi Jingping's speech at Davos where he cast China as a supporter of globalisation. It is precisely because China has closed the gap with the US via globalisation that the US is now keen to de-couple China from the system the US set up

This piece - typical of the Atlantic (lemme guess Applebaum was the author?) - is recasting the 'world splitting into two' as the responsibility of China malfeasance, rather than US fears of loss of absolute hegemony

Propaganda
While the match isn’t completely terrible, it still has some pretty bad qualities. The most notable one is the “pay for applications” issue. The odds of getting into your top picks is constantly declining, and so the dominant strategy is to apply to many residencies to maximize your chance of a successful match - the number of picks the average applicant submits has doubled in the past 15 years. But applying to more programs can cost thousands of dollars, for no apparent reason other than the enrichment of ERAS to the tune of about $100 million per year. This obviously creates a system where people with more money to burn can artificial create better results for themselves.

The simple answer here is to give each applicant a finite number of picks regardless of means, but the ERAS admin has no interest in this for obvious reasons.

The other thing this pick arms race has done is produced far more applicants for positions than makes any sense (the average Otho placement gets 150 applicants). Not only does this irritate program directors, this has also led to an increase in automated filtering, and therefore an increase in attempts to game automated filtering though things like bogus publications (see: things like the stupid medbikini publication which seemed like a poor attempt to add another pub to somebody’s resume).
> 2. The adult realisation isn’t that you’re a company - it’s that you’re responsible, and your decisions have Real Consequences.

More specifically, would it be fair to say that you shouldn't depend upon or expect other people (such as your employer) to manage your career for you?
US Marriage, Family Systems, and Economic Opportunity Since 1850 (2016) [pdf]
Game Outcomes Project
video summary here
youtube.com/watch?v=Mrr4lNF7-OU
Crushing poor people was the reason I quit that game and some similar other games.
The game is most definitely rigged, it's not even a secret.
The ownership structure of the Federal Reserve's 12 constituent reserve banks makes the Fed a mix of private and public banking. Commercial banks hold shares in each of the reserve banks. As shareholders, they elect 6 of the 9 regional directors. So while it's largely a governmental organization, ownership and influence from private banking is certainly present.
They have and it's called Tik Tok, basically just make a platform more addicting
> text-davinci-002: No, you should not use random numbers to give your students grades.

That's a binary answer that could be randomly choosen, seems really poor. Instead text-davinci-001 gave an explanation that helps to determine the quality of the answer. That would make us ask whether they are removing these clues to prevent evaluations.
If we had some kind of software solution to track externalized costs, that would be a huge step towards reducing it.

Agreed. Supply chain in general is actually a substantial area requiring innovation (see shipageddon/chipageddon/every sales or purchasing department ever). I generalised some thoughts about an actor-transaction-oriented protocol model with features such as risk modeling, arbitrary assets (eg. physical trade) and settlement paths, arbitrary precision, fee/tax/discounts and redundant and multi-hop paths over here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protoco... - since then I've moved in to manufacturing and it absolutely would be a godsend. Happy to help someone else pick up a similar line of development.
I think the media figured out that most people are tired of hearing about it, so now they're focusing on keeping people afraid with news about Russian and Ukraine
Some companies have flexible work policies that give employees the option of switching to part time. My current employer (megacorp, not tech) has such a policy documented internally, not really widely advertised. I read about it, discussed it with manager, I framed it as "it doesn't make sense for me to work full time any more. I'm still open to doing part time. Can we switch to part time, per company policy?". Manager agreed, I negotiated with managers of project I was allocated to, to let them lock in the 3 days a week they wanted me at work, provided it left me with a contiguous 4 day weekend.

I've been part time for over a year now, 4 day weekends every week. It is pretty great. I don't do anything much productive with my days off, but that's okay. I worked full time for about a decade prior to this point.

Perhaps part of this is having negotiating power to frame the switch to part time not as a request, but instead implicitly framing it as "we need to figure out a part time arrangement or I'll need to find another employer that does", rather than requesting a switch to part time. Part of the negotiating power is being good enough at what you do for your skills to be in demand, and having resources or alternatives to fall back on if company is not willing to agree to a part time arrangement.
I actually agree it should be legal, but the argument is basically one of fairness. That in the market, retail investors compete against insiders.

In practice. The world is unfair, and retail investors must compete against all kinds of people with unfair advantages.

If insiders could legally trade, then the ability to profit off insider trading would go down.
Do you have an "IT guy" who knows how to manage systems? Perhaps I'm assuming a lot from your one sentence but it sounds to me like you are a bunch of techies who decided they can do their own IT and now realise you cant.

I work at a large corporation, my email (outlook, which we also use to book resources and rooms), password management, desk phone, software updates, identify and privileges are all tied together with a Microsoft stack (I don't pretend to know how it works). Do you need this? If so, is there a Linux equivalent to this holistic management? Do you need full MS Office (eg macros)? Are you happy with the variable compatibility that LibreOffice/online suites offer?
I don't doubt that you can hit 10g on a wimpy core, the question is how much is left over for your application to use. I recently analyzed jumbo vs. puny frames in EC2 with the ENA and the difference in softirq time amounted to one core out of the 32 cores on the instance type, at 12.5gbps line rate. That's pretty substantial cost when you have a lot of nodes. The ENA doesn't have a ton of offload features and EC2 tenants don't get to specify a better NIC.
Yeah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sn8df97-JU
Sure, but in the same vein everything you will ever learn at MIT can be found for free online as well. Ultimately a 4-year degree does have value, whether just for the brand, or as a forcing function to learn, or the constant help from teachers and peers or whatever else.
looks like the Netflix crew were at least better at it than the Twilio crew https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28227209
I tried a softball:

> what instrument did jimi hendrix play

> Jimi Hendrix played the bass guitar, wooden recorder, and keyboard.

Mostly accurate, but misses the main answer.
I'm looking for a case for Kindle Paperwhite to make it look like this.
What I especially like about this execution of the concept is the gravity-based method by which the keyboard halves can be engaged. Further iteration on that feature could lead the way towards seamless switching of keyboard use and having both hands free for other stuff.

I use a similarity small keyboard layout and the one thing that's stood out as "next level" for it's design is one-handed use. I.e., be able to access all the letters from a single half of the split-keyboard. QMK makes this easy with it's swap-hands feature, although I haven't implemented it for my own layout yet. If I had a keyboard like the one demoed, I'd want to be sure to have that functionality available.

Being able to hold and operate a touch screen phone with one hand while sending keypresses over Bluetooth to it with the other without having to switch hands or hunt-n-peck would be truly awesome.

Also, Slava Ukraini!
Feelings and "demographics" and surnames.
well, for one, members of congress are legally allowed to insider trade.

pretty convenient laws when you make the laws.
What does testing higher than one's ability actually mean?

I'm guessing either you think the test is an imperfect proxy for a different (more important) skill, or otherwise you have imposter syndrome.
This gets at what I was talking about. I think people in other regions have also suffered greatly. This is not to detract from the suffering of the Ukrainians, but is just to clarify the facts.
how can we code a vulkan + cgal + web assembly in a multiplateform cad software ? can we put together open souce bricks to create a cad software ? KiCad afaik is not in rust yet powerfull. I dont care of rust, but how can use latest rendering features from vulkan combined with CGal completeness ? or should we try from scratch in rust a 30 years old problem ? wejave blender and kicad, the other one is missing. Also not sure about a code based cad workflow, really
This card could be good if one is leasing rack space so the router now takes up the same space as the server.
I define it as when machines start doing things that we don't know why. It may already have happened with ML models, unless we can get them to explain themselves so that we can understand.

Extrapolate this to self-driving, defense systems, recommendation systems, content moderation, etc. The basis is that we gave up executive control.
I doubt it - 1480 could easily be indicative of stress-related or attentional mistakes, rather than lack of mastery.
At my org, if I use teleport, I have to MFA in via a UI, and they offer zero other alternatives.

The teleport daemon falls over due to memory stress and other issues that sshd doesn't fall over during, and when do you often need CLI access to a node? When it's under stress....

Goodbye automation.

It's a good idea, but it's made ssh and the problems I solve with ssh worse for me.
FTB’s Schemes to Overcharge Taxpayers
Didn't arxiv vanity already do this?
I don't really see how a for-profit preprint service is desirable, given the terrible track record of other for-profit entities in academic publishing. The extra features will be great until the gatekeeping kicks in after the first missed funding round...
AsyncAPI: Building the future of Event-Driven Architectures
It could be nice if access to education is equitable.

In chile we also have grades + standardized test + ranking (your position versus your cohort). But the top universities are filled with the top alumni from expensive private schools because they are usually 1. given inflated grades 2. trained to perform well on standardized tests (in their own schools, theyre rich so they can afford this).

If you look at OECD statistics with regards to quality of education you will see that not everyone in the USA really gets a good primary (and secondary) education and there are gaps. This tends to not be the case in most of Europe... So are standardized exams good for admissions in the USA? Not sure. But obviously replacing it with curriculum might even be worse. So what's really the answer?
No, but I'm sure some of the kids on his math team will be in the same boat even through they're mainly South Asian and Chinese. Backlash against them too it seems.
what do you think about people who claim standardized test is systematic racism?

standardized test is the only way to measure somebody on their aptitude for doing well like the LSAT.

yet somehow asian americans being discriminated at ivy leagues even with good standardized test score is not seen as systematic racism.
Honestly it’s just 2 different versions of reduced freedom. Public vs private reduced freedom. On one side freedom is reduced directly via government on get other indirectly via corporations
What about the hardware support for total store order that Rosetta uses to provide the x86 concurrency model? Is that something third-party implementations could conceivably use?

As long as that is available, it seems like third-party virtualization software could get similar performance to Rosetta, and potentially experiment with attempting to support system-level CPU emulation.
For me, I think the concern with Travelers Checks is the potential loss of money from your account, if someone is able to forge your signature on them, and how that might potentially be used to tie you to other events or crimes that may have occurred.
I'm always mildly assumed that Switzerland has 26 widely-different (far more variety than found in the US) school systems with only ~8 million people. And a high-school degree that guarantees entrance into any university in any subject.

Their are federal standards for said high-school degree (also for earlier education stages). And it's a relatively hard degree to get (22% of students get it).
Lyn Alden: She's pretty much a crypto bro.
Death: How long are we conscious for and does life flash before our eyes?
I mean, the author even stated clearly that it was a great learning experience and that the EFF couldn't do this for everything. So all of this discussion is somewhat redundant
> How does it respond to similar questions?

Well, one of the more interesting examples in the article is where Garry Smith took a question that had received only a vague equivocating answer, and repeated it the next day, this time getting a straightforward and correct answer. When he followed up with a very similar question on the same topic, however, GPT-3 reverted to replying with the same sort of vague boilerplate it had served up the day before. One would have to be quite determined to not find out, I think, if one was not curious about how that came about.
What is the impact of "hundreds of tons" divided over the world's surface area? It of course sounds like a lot, but the Earth is also quite large, so it's hard to know if these are trace amounts, or large enough to have real health impacts.
What are the recent changes?
It’s important to understand that the usual argument against insider trading isn’t actually about true fairness, but rather the impression of fairness. These are two different things.

The argument that insider trading should be banned because it is somehow disproportionately unfair is quite weak, the argument that it creates an impression of unfairness is a much stronger one.

I personally don’t believe it is a particularly good argument, but it is certainly the strongest version of the argument against insider trading.
Show HN: Nat.app, personal CRM that knows who you're losing touch with
Hi HN! founder of nat.app here.

I've seen so many people building personal CRMs over the past years. Somehow, they all seemed to fail and die a year or two in.

The main reason for this in my opinion is that the personal CRM business is a bad business. People sort of want this and will tweet about in from time to time, but only very few people are willing to pay and put in the effort (aka. reaching back out to people), to make it work.

Those very few people are our market and because it's a small market, there is no way to sustain such a business unless you're bootstrapped and working on this part time (which we are).

Our approach is very specific: We focus on Google users (which is why there is only a Google login) who communicate mainly through email and put every IRL meeting in their calendar.

For those people, we are able to capture 80% of their social interactions with Google's APIs. Which means that our if-else rules are accurately able to identify contacts our customers are losing touch with.

nat.app then acts as a safety net and displays those contacts to our customers.

This product really has been a labor of love over the past 3 years and I'm very happy to be sharing it with you today.
Incidentally, the author has admitted that GPT-3 has passed the Turing test, if he thinks the answers were given by "armies of humans".
That's how class divides have historically worked, yes. Previously those differences were also enforced through explicit class-based laws (the actually meaning of privilege).

The introduction of free markets, and later IQ testing, disrupted a great deal of the entrenched social class structure within western societies and allowed many people of rather humble backgrounds to achieve great things.

The concern I express is about whether IQ testing will continue provide the same level of social mobility in the future.
Related - I would pay for a search engine of authoritative data. I mean one that only uses the most authoritative sources, such as reputable research, leading journalism (NY Times, etc. - and the news, not the editorial side), reputable reference sources (Britannica, Mathworld, etc.), textbooks, MDN, Microsoft knowledge base articles, etc.

That would save me so much time - and maybe change the world. In fact, it really could be and should be free. Beyond possible access to DRM'd info, such as the textbooks, it's just search engine for a limited curated set of sources.
Nice Trainspotting reference. Very apropos.
Gotta agree with you there. "Connect to the UART, remember UART requires a ground, throw some AT commands at it, give up, and ask the company about a serial number" hardly seems like a deep dive.
because certain demographics performed poorly at it, that was grounds to label it systematic racism and justifying affirmative action vs. meritocracy by discriminating other demographics in favor of ones that were perceived to be victims of systematic racism

if you are confused so am I. I still don't understand how they can discriminate against americans of asian descent who do well on standardized tests but not call it for what it is.
The 10x delta exists. You just have to compare the L5 engineer from the lowest paying region with the L5 from the highest paying one. And for the same effort and output.
Russia's War in Ukraine Results in Bombing of Retro Computer Museum
The unbearable lightness of my pockets
> people running weird janky WISPs, like, two guys and a pickup truck in some very rural parts of the USA.

I may have been involved with those guys at some point…
Thanks for the great articles and of course fixing the EU wage gap with techpays.

Keep it up Greg!
Ask HN: Would you live on universal basic income to have total creative freedom?
And would you do this indefinitely even if your solo indie projects fail to make significant money?
I bought a lifetime subscription to nomadlist on some sale. I don't even remember how much I spent but I'm sure it was worth it. I love the site!

I wouldn't want to speak for Pieter but I suspect he isn't bothered by those sorts of things.

For some insight into his mindset check out his interview on Indiehackers https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-no...

I think it's one of the best episodes.
Not that a negative answer is very useful, but to at least start the convo: I use Yubikeys and Titan keys with Chrome on OS X and Ubuntu linux and don't experience this.
You like grinding? Never heard anyone say this!
From the abstract:

> Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter.

So, the company sees salary expenses reduce by 3-6% and the rest of the business is unaffected. Sounds like hiring MBAs is a great decision for them.
> old job wouldn't let me cut back hours, even at reduced pay, even framing it as "leave without pay",

I was curious what your role was, at what the incentives might have been for your old job to refuse this.

In your about page I see:

> Previously a programmer in the DoD world

speculation: were you working for a contractor that needed to bill your time out by the hour to the government? So if you weren't working maximum billable hours, they weren't making maximum profit margin on your hours, compared to someone else who would?
I don't, Firefox Android.
Generally anything acting under a force causing it to be pulled together and possibly another force causing it to be pushed apart.