skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m often curious about situations like this, as I had similar thoughts while reading. Assuming the bird was truly abandoned, is it better to imperfectly raise them yourself or to leave them to die? Not everyone is going to want or be able to track down a wildlife rehab expert.
I'm not sure it's worth the $20 per month for a family plan of up to five either.
Something like the SAT is a game that people learn to win.

This is oft claimed, but data doesn't back it up. SAT is marginally affected by coaching and training.

"Coached students are only slightly more likely to have large score gains than uncoached students. In addition, about 1/3 of students experience no score gain or score loss following coaching. The typical gain associated with coaching is 8 points for verbal and 18 points for math"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/...
Can he pull some strings to make it work? I'm sure he has some high up connections in other companies that may offer him a position out of respect or else?
Fundamentally, if the response was useful or not to the person who asked it.

The platform is prepared positive and negative tags that strongly influence each user’s score (sort of like karma).

So what we value mostly is the effort taken to satisfy and meet the query’s needs.

As for trash and offensive content you’d simply hit the report button, an investigation will immediately take course, you’ll be reimbursed that answer and the offender drastically punished if not permanently banned as there is minimal tolerance for this.
>I'd spin this around and cast it as a challenge -- regular, forced interactions with coworkers is minimally sufficient and retards some people from pursuing social activities outside the home.

Absolutely. Additionally, even getting to that set of regular, forced interactions necessarily consumes the limited time those people would have to pursue those social activities outside the home. That is, it's hard to have a strong social life when you commute, at best, 5 hours a week. And that's if you're lucky.

All of this benefits corporations. Especially, insidiously, the notion that your job can and should double as your social life.

What concerns me, today, is that that we're in this middle stage where things could tip either way. For this reason, I think it's important for us to bang the drum loudly that we won't spend 40-50 hours in the office. Hybrid is a sufficient compromise.
It's more than that. I'm mid-life, with kids, meaning that my best opportunity for getting out of the house on a regular basis is while they're at school. Without that, days can go by without a significant change of scenery, especially in winter when spending evenings at the park isn't a great option.

I'm not lonely, per se, but, all the same, the pandemic has been very, very difficult for me. I went from being a longtime remote worker who went to a coworking space most days, to what has sometimes felt like two years of house arrest.

I agree that going in to an office - especially an open plan one where they pack desks end-to-end in giant noisy rooms - is a less-than-stellar option, too. But I also suspect that many people's newfound love of WFH is fueled in part by the novelty of the experience, and that the shine will wear off after a couple more years.
Facebook messengers chat requests has basically solved this problem.

New person goes to chat requests, they communicate through another channel they've sent you a message, you go open the graveyard of chat requests and accept theirs.
Your point would be better delivered without the last paragraph.
This does not resonate at all with my experience growing up in a conservative region of the upper Midwest.
Perhaps there is a way for him to use his professional background to his advantage.

Programming jobs in niche industries often require a fair amount of domain expertise (e.g., an accounting system). If he possesses such domain expertise somewhere, it might be worth starting his programming career there.
> Not everyone can afford the space to have a proper home office, for example.

Because they have to live in expensive urban areas near their workplace. Their money would stretch much further if they could remote-work from rural areas.
Man, I love my commute. Losing that was one of the hardest parts of the year I spent WFH. I take the bus to work, it's about 40 minutes each way. I get time outside, I get to watch the sun rise, I spend that time reading library books and magazines, sometimes I talk with strangers for a few minutes, I stop off on my way home to get new library books or at a shop for whatever, or sometimes hit a bar on the way home. My commute rules, don't take it away from me.
"Can/can't" isn't a great general indicator, because "doesn't" doesn't imply "can't" except circumstantially. If you see a bird floating, it might be a raven. If you see a bird not floating, you still have no idea.
If you started programming at age 16, I'm not sure the fact that you learned Rust at age 55 is relevant here -- as you say "Programming is not only about learning a language".
With your 39+ (=55-16) years of experience, I'm sure you have learned the background that made it quite easy to learn Rust at age 55.
Which doesn't fix the issue of "I see all my neighbors" but I agree with you. Maybe a nice intermediate would be to only show devices on your network (or maybe even ones connected to your AppleId/family) and then a "search for more" option at the bottom that will show the full list.
Hi! Yes, absolutely. This was supported initially but not communicated well. I hope the updates more clearly explain that.

The use for plain HTML is documented here: https://docs.markdownsite.com/static-site/

I hope this is helpful, thanks!
> It's just that most people don't pay that, and in this case, nobody did- the health care org paid a different amount entirely

Except people do, right? The video said that if you are uninsured in America, that is what you would get charged.
Honestly seems like the perfect choice considering Maynard Keenan's mother, and her struggles being the subject of a bunch of his songs.
Yeah the paperless system is horrible unless you are a person that strictly organizes things. There are so many different places where you have to go to collect your digital bills, and sometimes you just end up forgetting.

In Switzerland we luckily have a system where companies can send their bills directly into your eBanking system so they are all collected there. But if a company doesn't support that, it's much easier to keep the paper bill.
If you meet a new person and want to exchange messages, there's not a huge difference between adding them in your messaging app and adding them to your contact list.

Using this model it would better to have multiple lists though, or at least tagging within the general contacts list, so tag-based lists could be allowed by certain apps (to keep business and personal messaging separate for example).
This is really the tradeoff we face in the binary classification space. Do we want false positives or false negative reduced? There are more sophisticated approaches, but if the costs in one direction are magnitudes more than in another, it becomes a clear preference.
It's a shame you can't get criminal charges against banks in cases like this. For people who aren't scrupulous about saving copies of transaction receipts, and memorializing transactions, you can be in real trouble for a long time!
There are three differences between what Osman Unincorporated and the companies that you describe have done.

# Number one is scope:

- They do not have the same amount of readers, evangelists etc. that could harass the person making the erroneous claim

# Number two is positioning:

- Reviews can be, by their very nature, points of discussion, therefore meaning that anything underneath a review, including a comment from the company that makes the product, is a point of discussion and thus necessary to protect in order to have a free and open dialog.

# Number three is punching power:

- William Osman published a fraudulent job application and got someone to sign a contract while promising him that he moving up in the world, only to pull the rug out from underneath him and instead shock him with the fact that he is now going to be harassed due to his uninformed "trolling" (which happens plenty of times from informed professionals even on Hacker News). This kind of bait and switch is mentally devastating, and the person is undoubtedly shocked from such an act of bullying which could be argued to be traumatizing. All of this happened because the guy spoke out of line on a specific technical issue on which both people were wrong.
Not engineering, but CEO banking the entire future of the company on a partnership, where we were dependent on the partner company for future financing, but the success metrics of the partnership were entirely in the hands of their sales department.

Never bet the future of your company on metrics that are entirely out of your control.
Ah, interesting, thanks! So it's possible to reach a configuration where every side has the centre rotated but all the colours match up. I would not have believed that without seeing it.
In fact the author is describing the opposite situation, where his "LTE calls" require the international prefix while the "Wi-Fi" calls do not require it (not sure if VoWifi or plain VoIP, it's not clear from the description, and I don't know of any phone provider which allows true VoWifi while roaming).

Note most modern dialing programs (and likely all of the VoLTE-capable ones) will silently add some prefix to your calls anyway, so it's really hard to know what's going on behind the scenes. But you usually can't dial your provider's special phone numbers "as if your calls where backhauled to their network through VoIP" when you are roaming, even with VoLTE. To e.g. check voicemail you will still need to dial your provider's roaming-specific number, which will come with an international prefix.
I'm pretty skeptical of this methodology. They don't seem to be making any attempt to measure whether a job can be done effectively from home, only whether it's prohibited by some physical necessity. "Managers, educators, and those working in computers, finance, and law are largely able to work from home", but is having your teacher or lawyer on a little iPad really a complete substitute for having them right in front of you?

I guess I'm not sure how I would do it better, but that doesn't make it super meaningful.
It's how it is done in Scandinavia and most of Europe. I only have to add a few numbers because I have some small investments offshore, otherwise everything including investments in mutual funds is already itemized.
Who cares?
Start with the one they have evidence on and move on to the next one.
There are physical skills with genetic factors correlated with race or rather with groups of people with shared genetics.

Here is a short and incomplete list: ability to handle sun or lack thereof, ability to handle heat or lack thereof, ability to live in high altitudes, ability to process lactose, ability to tolerate alcohol, resistance to malaria, height.

There are also diseases correlated with groups of genetically related people.

However, these groups most often don't fit so cleanly into the US's constructs of race.

There could be mental skills correlated with groups of people with shared genetics.

The question is how we handle that if that is the case. One approach is to deny it. Another is to force or encourage people to have children with others to smudge out differences. Another is to let it be.

I suspect that the unspoken answer is denial while encouraging the smudging out
of visible differences. I suspect that people are morally against the last and that it would lead to massive conflict.

I think a similar calculus has happened many times before. I think that is partially the origin of "whiteness".
Those annual trainings are there to show compliance. This prevents pro active investigations by authorities into business conduct. Without those corporations are free to engage in all kinda of shady business behaviour. And when something turns sideways, the offending employees passed the training, so the company is shielded, to an extend.
This ability that you are describing, do you have a recommendation for how we (as scientists) can measure it in people?
Useful article, thanks for writing it.

I have had an M1 MacBook Pro for over a year and it did take extra work building SBCL Common Lisp from scratch, setting up brew for M1 architecture, and experimenting what would work for me on Docker.

M1 Macs are awesome, I love mine, but I understand devs who want to stick with Intel.

One of the reasons M1 is easy for me is that I do a lot of dev using mosh/ssh, tmux, Emacs on Intel VPSs.
its funny, when working at Intel, one of the things people bitched about was the cubicles. (1998)

I hate open offices, but having worked in all formats, open offices are bad for mental health.

When working on MPK West for FB, they built an open office to house 3,000 employees with only 5 offices (with escape hatches) for the c-suite.
> The rates of middle school girls identifying as something other than CIS are reaching levels as high as 40% in some school districts.

> Maybe that is not a problem for some but that will be a problem for society in about a generation.

Why will that be a problem for society?
Friend used to work for Knight capital that basically went bankrupt by inadvertently hooking up their test trading system to the live market.
I don’t normally come to Hacker News to have a good cry.
IMHO, with that background (C-level positions), forget about "normal" languages.

A better (useful in the context) strategy would be focus on Data Analytics/Big Data tools:

A Good book to start (considering the background with Microsoft toolset):

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Lake-Analytics-Microsoft-Azure/d... 1

This knowledge is extremely valuable today for any C-level these days and will be a huge differential in an eventual relocation process......

Regards and good luck to your father :)
Works was my first job out of the Navy in 84, so I had no prior office experience. I spent 94' to 2000 working in 4 separate offices for 3 different companies. I remember my first office experience I brought in a cot. People looked at me like I was insane. Well, I guess power naps are out of the question. Then I was exposed to office politics for the first time. Some people walk around hating each other all day. What a downer that was. Some women (and some men) would interrupt me to flirt with me. I didn't mind that so much. Then I would be in deep focus fixing some problem and they'd flash the lights because it was someone's birthday and we all had to go to the conference room because it was someone's birthday and there was cake and ice cream. Again, I didn't mind that so much. I felt for all these reasons and many more I was less productive in an office than I was at home. The office to me is a place a lot of people like because they can f around with their office friends.

Edit: I never worked in an office again after I resumed programming after the dotcom bubble burst. Another anecdote: I got called into HR because someone complained I was yawning too loudly.
I think that the title is actually a pretty clear and accurate statement.

[If you assume that all women have mammograms at the normal cadence, over a period of 10 years then] half of women will get a false positive.
I have seen a couple of startups that wanted build and launch their product as fast as they can. The product was supposed to be a SAAS but in that rush they have chosen technologies that made adding features very difficult. While they were considering and procrastinating adding features, competitions started to pop up and started to take over the niche.

The lesson is that, if you are just planning to make an MVP make sure you have your scaling figured out. The blue ocean gets red faster than you can imagine.
There's a really interesting mathematical 'paradox' with false positives along the same line as the birthday paradox. It's an important one also that many doctors get wrong. Let's say there is a terrible disease that 0.01% (1 in 10,000) of the population is infected with, and we develop a test that is 99% accurate. You go to the doctor and get a test. Oh no, it's positive. What are the chances that it's a false positive?

Intuition would tell you 1% since the test is 99% accurate. Intuition, as it often is, is wrong. Take a sample size of 'x', we'll use 10,000. How many people will be infected? 1. How many false positives will there be? 1% * 10,000 = 100. So there will be 100 false positives, and 1 real positive. So it turns out there's a greater than 99% chance that your result is a false positive, even though the test is genuinely 99% accurate.

Here's a fun one. So we decide to run the test twice. And AGAIN it comes up positive. What are the odds that it's a false positive? Again, the exact same logic holds - there are 101 people we are testing. There will be about 1 false positive and about 1 real infection. So the odds of it being a false positive once again are about 50%.
They must change the name of the Kotlin programming language, named after russian naval base, which hosted ships that currently kill children. "Kotlin" is the same as "Glory to the Russian war machines", which is absolutely disgusting. The language can be called after Mariupol, the city which perhaps has suffered the most.
It is the same also in some automotive company.
Unpredictability and inconsistency of behavior are so bad for people in that group (and, really, everyone, they just can't work past it like a fraction of more talented computer-users can). If opening something or performing an action ever doesn't do the thing it usually does—say, it presents some kind of modal or notice instead, as many programs do after updates or for other reasons—it'll completely derail them.
But the computers tricked the humans into thinking "you can just do it all online".

My favorite example of this being restaurants that, when you ask for a menu, give you a QR code (with no explanation of course).
I would target a constrained area like android development, which has a limited set of technologies you need to master. Also, the feedback cycle is rewarding since you actually see your changes, and its good contractor work.
What’s the main use case? I guess build scripts?
>Perhaps the best physical test for innate athletic ability is the standing vertical jump. There isn't an awful lot you can do to improve it.

This isn't a very good example, because the reason it gets harder is that increasing the body's muscle mass also increases the strength needed to propel it a certain distance. Hence gaining muscle mass both helps and hurts the vertical jump. Is there any reason to believe intelligence should be like this?
Kasparov had a nice line about this in "How life imitates chess". I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of "there are lots of things that cannot be tought to you which you can nontheless teach yourself".

I think that thinking processes is very much in that category, and I think that the investment in time is considerable. I think its typical to expect gradual improvement -- a constant response to training. Anecdotally, it doesn't work like that.
>Working remote is just what I need, and I am way more productive.

I acknowledge that you and many others derive personal satisfaction from productivity. I do too. However, I strongly believe we should move away from productivity as the measure of whether we should work from home. Primarily because it individualizes productivity and turns any deficits into a moral failing. It is incumbent on our employers to create the conditions which align productivity with our well-being as people, and balance those. Else, we are being exploited.

Put another way, and framing it opposite from what you said:

"Working remote is not what I need because I am less productive" should not be an argument against working from home. You may not need working remotely for other reasons -- social being one of them -- but it's important not to prioritize productivity to the occlusion of all other factors.
Ironically, I'm going through the opposite of #1 - not a bad company, but decided it needed to move countries. Made a big announcement, said basically in 3 months you're all out the door, but keep up the hard work, and help with the transition! I think they _just_ hired their first couple of FTE's in the new location.

You can imagine the general reaction - many left, those with vacation time are taking it, progress ground to a halt, motivation and morale through the floor - so basically, burning three months of salary instead of doing exactly what you were bothered by - hiring new teams in the new locale, scaling down work in the old one, and then after things are stable in the new home, shutting down the old one.

It's truly baffling to me given that they're moving to a more expensive location, they're confused by higher costs of hiring, slowed progress and doubling of expenses.

End of the day it seemed like the best way to set several million dollars on fire - I imagine an executive saved their bacon somehow, but I really don't imagine there will be much of a bonus after the math is all done and tallied. I'm really curious how the new teams will react, realizing that there was this massive talent dump and nobody seems to know where anything came from - the transition is being handled as professionally as possible by those that remain, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't take an FTE offer from them at this point given the track record.
no they didn't, why would you think that? you must be going crazy
Might as well check out my POSIX sh static site generator https://mkws.sh/ if you're into this stuff.
the biggest issue i ran into when trying voip with a cell phone is lack of functioning mms (and therefore also group sms). that ended up being the dealbreaker.
Agreed.

The Russian central bank did not invade Ukraine but it provided a mechanism to pay for that invasion.

Her Patreon account may not have actively promoted disinformation but it provided a mechanism to pay for that disinformation.

Both needed their own versions of deplatforming for the same reason.
It's probably still cheaper to pay that small extra fee. I am usually an organized person but in the last 4-5 years I still forgot to download my credit card bill 4 times, which caused a 30$ late fee every time.
It's well known that Microsoft has been giving bribes even to small companies for many decades.

The entity of the bribes from MS are above average.
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There's also a subtle clinical communication aspect to this. I once had a doctor message me shortly after a routine test and say "I need you to come back tomorrow", and my pregnant wife was losing it until we could get through to him and find out that he just wanted to ensure I hadn't gotten an infection during the test. My wife wasn't wrong to be upset! Several hours of suffering could have been avoided with a good pamphlet.
>Roger Penrose..

Showing outliers just proves there are outliers not that the averages are uselesss.

>Those that play chess will note that excellent Rapid or standard players can be terrible Bullet or Blitz players.

I play chess and those are definitely highly correlated, I suspect at least r of 0.7 especially for those who have put decent time into the different controls.
Actions workflows aren't being triggered for my team and I suspect webhook delivery is failing too.