skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you've never had a bad landlord!

Our previous landlord was an absolute nutjob (we found out later he'd been doing all sorts of strange/illegal things and had a ridiculously high tenant turnover; shame since it was a nice unit).

Eventually, his wife came on one of the inspections and decided we weren't fit to grace her property, so we were given 120 days to vacate. This is the minimum in Victoria for "without cause" eviction.

While incredibly stressful (and I still don't think the laws are strict enough; "without cause" eviction should be as difficult as "without cause" firing), it was long enough to find another suitable property to move to. I couldn't imagine how terrible it would be to only be given, say, a week's notice until we were homeless.
What's with the skillet?
Lifelong musician, originally went to school back in 2009 for media arts with an emphasis on sound engineering.

It isn't my only source of income, but I've been diligent about growing it as a business and am starting to see some payoff.

I primarily work in Ableton Live. It's not only the most inspiring DAW that I know, but it is a fantastic performance tool as well.
What's wrong with wood homes? I associate concrete with getting killed in Earthquakes and shantytowns to be honest.
I think that's probably right, although not always, and there are other problems associated with firing these people as others have pointed out.

What you said is that those three things, including the resume, are significant filters. I am saying they are not and you seem to not have a rebuttal on my point about the resume.
Not for me. It's the new one too.
I agree it's _initially_ productive, but the it becomes very difficult to maintain.
Always worth to keep an eye on developments. Lots of offerings.

Many are pump-n-dump schemes.

Some are more long lasting projects.

Look for vibrant community, openness, regular support/updates and see if their energy correlates with you.

NFA. Google "WolfDen crypto", one of the projects that is evolving and interesting.
Someone make a tool to find my name in Pi.
At a few hundred meters max and on a tight budget, people should be looking at ubnt and mikrotik 802.11ad/ay based 60GHz stuff, in the price category of under $300 per radio.
You can find his mixes on Nirvana's youtube channel --- Heart Shaped Box [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pwGlgQz2E
I think I'll pass on GNU/Linux: Shareware Edition.
> Doing things the way he’s describing was in fact an “alternative” approach to coin a phrase.

Grohl had been in a Dischord band and Kurt/Dave on Subpop with Kurt being great friends with Buzz Osborne (among so so so many other things in Seattle scene). I’m sure Steve knew that too. Different pedigrees, sure, but explaining an alternative approach would be speaking to the choir - so it was never a letter to Nirvana, more like a letter to Geffen.
Imaginary isn't exactly wrong though. Imaginary co-ordinate results in quantum mechanics correspond to non-physical observations - they "exist" but are unobserved until something squares them into reality.

Same with AC power transfer - the imaginary power doesn't drive the load, but it's quite real because I^2*R turns the term into a real power for resistive losses.
I would like to know too. I gather some of the smaller FPGAs have been reverse-engineered to the point that free-software tooling can be used instead.

They have taken to encrypting their configuration bitmaps on the bigger ones to stymie any further reverse-engineering.
> It's just not forced into your face

You can think about it as how the games fall on the hand-holding spectrum. Elden Ring and BOTW are clustered closer together on the left side of "No Guidance", and the further right you go towards "Linear" you'll see the other games. Sure there's a big gap between ER and BOTW, but it's less than between BOTW and its next peer.

There's also the added dimension that Elden Ring and BOTW both share this unique quality that even random encounters can turn life-or-death, especially when running into new classes of mobs, and you have to be very patient and get absorbed into the moment or you're rewarded with death even when you're convinced you did the right thing. There's no room for quick drags of a cigarette in the middle of a fight, and instead you're rewarded with the outcome possible with incredible focus and game play experience that leaves you feeling like a superhero.
WordPress.com's support form used to (many years ago) only accept ticket submissions during business hours. One of the more baffling discoveries I've made on the internet.
I hope one day you will forgive us in the West, for not doing enough to support you.. while you fight our war.

Slava Ukraine. Slava Heroime.
Find good lookbooks to derive a sense of good fit and what range of styles exist, how you personally like them, and how the fit in different social contexts. The Permanent Style blog has a bunch on this; the Sartorialist has pictures from a very broad range of styles.

Peruse clothing from high-quality shops and try out a _lot_ of things to get a feel for how clothes fit you and what fabrics you like. Clothing look good because it fits you and goes well with your style and palette and makes you feel comfortable. You'll likely find soon enough that expensive clothes are generally expensive for good reason.

Find a good tailor (or a couple) and develop a simple wardrobe that can be combined easily. From then on be willing to experiment a bit and spend some money trying out a few things a bit further outside your comfort zone.
While I completely agree with the point about exploring psychedelic medicine with support, I need to counter by naming that a lot of medical professionals may not be well informed and many are categorically mis-informed.

Please find a guide or therapist who has been formally trained in working with psychedelics, and who works closely with medical doctor if you have any medical concerns or questions. Or work directly with an MD if and only if that MD has had formal training with psychedelics.

The conventional career tracks in western mental health (MFT, Psy.D, licensed psychiatrist or psychologist) do not give someone authority about psychedelic therapy. These backgrounds can be a part of a facilitators work, but they also need formal training in psychedelic therapy.

These people exist and our numbers are growing steadily.
I went through the same interview for senior at Facebook and failed. Thankfully I got a Google offer a couple of hours after I got my Facebook rejection.

What pushed me over the bar for Google was probably making fewer mistakes on the technical loops but also having more people vouch for me on the inside (they like refs that work at Google).
According to reports, Russian forces killed all males aged 18-60 in Bucha
That's backwards. If you can mutate through a shared reference, then there is no need to alias `&mut T`s in the first place! It is C++ that is missing the ability to express unique references like `&mut T`.
Note they were not forthcoming with more details, so I’d say your conclusion is premature.
yeah. 'go forward and up, turn right'

don't need to know where you are
I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding in what interviewers are testing for. Interviewers at most companies aren't trying to evaluate or quantify a candidate's inherent value or general technical prowess. They're trying to determine whether or not the candidate can help solve immediate and real problems that the company has, while also trying to get a sense of whether the candidate has the potential to grow with the company long term.

There's very little science in interviewing, and it is indeed heavily based on heuristics. The whole point of lots of interviews is to reduce bias. Unfortunately, it's possible for candidates to mistakenly think an interview went poorly because they didn't get the answer right away, when from the interviewer's point of view it was one of the best answers they've heard because of the process by which the candidate arrived on the answer.

A popular metric for whether a candidate is likely to be able to solve practical problems is whether or not they've shipped products before. A lot of people pad out their resume with collective achievements, though, and so it's something that needs to be dug into. It's unfortunately not uncommon for folk to not understand the stuff on their own resume.
I don't think folks are saying that outright lies are happening very often. What is happening is resumes being written to sound impressive (obviously) and perhaps inflating the difficulty/contribution/impact of past work. Exact same thing with referrals and meet and greets.

Honestly all three of those things test the exact same thing, the person's ability to sell themselves. Which is why I would not work anywhere with such lax interviews. I don't want to work somewhere that only values likability and talking oneself up.
In addition to bootlegs of the rough mixes you can also check out the official 20th anniversary vinyl reissue, remixed by Albini from the original masters. https://www.nirvana.com/album/in-utero-2013-mix-2lp/
Nope, don't think any commercial version has that rule. Seems like a house rule or a misunderstanding of the official ruleset.
As you get older, you find that the active refusal of status games as a countercultural ploy just gets tired and makes you seen a someone hard to deal with. Learn to dress well and talk well to play the game, then be able to revert to your own self with no shame.
The real problem is that people don't connect the immediacy of adding abstractions to the fragility and complexity that it leads to. Because people today only learn the abstractions, they have a weak understanding of the system as a whole, and as such, the things they can do with it are severely limited. That's why modern apps seem to be getting worse rather than better. Young people writing code today literally don't know any better, and that's bad for our future. We're teaching people to hang big heavy lights from the ceiling without them learning rigging.
IDK why the private, internal paradigms of e.g. Spanner would even need to be reimplemented in a clone instead of a port?

Looks like CockroachDB (Go), TiDB (Go, Rust), and YugabyteDB (C++) are Distributed SQL alternatives to Spanner.

... Which may or may not be able to rely upon inexpensive Lamport clocks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp#Lamport's_lo...
First-Time Home Buyers Are Simply Walking Away
Didn't China try something like this and end up with crumbling skyscrapers that were totally uninhabitable and expensive to replace?
That generally will make you look like an asshole and can be a substantial career stopper.
Pastes.io is a website where you can store any text or code snippets online for easy sharing.
Yes, you have a good point.

But the problem is that actions to 'rehabilitate society using racial/gender lense' is just an excuse to bring out and institutionalize the casual bigotry of the ostensibly offended.

Examples abound.

Probably the only way to allow for such an approach to be taken is if there were constant oversight, and required 'sunset' in the clauses such that the rules had to be automatically rescinded after a period of time.

Aka: "UCLA has a diversity problem in the Business Program, so they're going to focus on bringing XYZ groups into the fold. This program is subject to oversight by outside 3rd party governance body, to which we must provide the data on the program that they request. After 3 years, the program must be sunset, and an after action report will be written by the independent oversight board"

If I were King, I would probably support those kinds of programs, even the slightly more radical ones knowing that at least there is oversight, data, that it can get shut down, and no matter what it will 'time out' eventually.
I got GPD Pocket 3.

8", i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD.

Super cute little thing. Full blown PC that fits in your pocket.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pocket-3-a-modular-and-fu...
After ten years of "we are getting to the last mile"
and "we are finally completing", it just feels like
bio people cannot give up this good reason when
justifying their funding so we have to re-complete
human genome every other year.
Did you mean codescene.io?
There's a popular battleship clone called Fleet Battle with a large active player base.

There's a few different strategies and shot patterns that top players use but none of them shoots directly in the middle to start the game.

That game does have slightly different rules with a different board size, different ship shapes, and it allows you to place ships adjacent to each other.

I'm not sure how much that would make a different in the approach but it would be interesting to see how those aspects change the analysis and compare them to what we observe in real human players.
It also encourages well-connected people.
Interesting. I'll look when I get a chance, but it sounds like deep math. The distribution of primes empirically seems well approximated by Cramér's random model, but it's incredibly hard to know anything for certain. For example, whether there are infinitely many twin primes is a famous open problem.
HN has always allowed non technical news. The only criterion is that it gratify intellectual curiosity.

Actually, this particular type of article (sensational business-related blog post, let's call it) used to appear a lot more than it does today. Note that it got flagged in this case.
> combined with a brain drain

Take heart, my bereaved; know that all the potential Russian FAANG hackers are in the EU and the US now.
That only seems tangentially related to me, but it is interesting, haha.

Specifically that sounds like it would cause use-after-frees- if you actually `delete this` and then `new (this) Bla`, you're writing to memory that's already been returned to the allocator. Maybe you meant `this->~Bla()` rather than `delete this`? Or a custom `operator delete`?
>So many companies are so unbelievably dysfunctional

Sometimes I feel like this is simply the nature of human existence. Put 10 people in a room with some Lego blocks and tell people they need to form groups to build a castle, and the "Best Castle" will win a jar of cookies. You'll probably get dysfunction.

Trying to find a place without dysfunction is like complaining about fire being hot. I guess you just need to find a place where their particular dysfunction is what you like.
> It's the only legal product.

Where’d this nonsense that the only thing you can build in the US is SFH come from? All over the US, in the same areas where there are SFH, there are apartment complexes, condos, and townhouses. The reason there’s so much SFH in the US is because, believe it or not, many people prefer living in a detached home with some semblance of a yard.
What does optimal stopping in particular the rule of 37% tell us about the waste generated via a 7x interview process?
His best work is on Surfer Rosa, in my amateur opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKHsSz1dAac

(good speakers, loud, or you're only cheating yourself.)
I don't think it's that insidious. They probably just don't want the value of market rate housing to go down because that's popular with voters
How do I get more than a paragraph?
The question is not a gotcha. It is not trivia. It is not even a "killer technical ability" question. It's a question I considered not including because I thought it was too easy. Folks I've interviewed proved me wrong and I've come to realize that when I get any signal from it, it's the best question I ask.

If you know what a hash map or dictionary is then you can solve it. If you can't answer a problem because you're under pressure then that's a no hire signal on its own.
This is not a new finding. It's common enough to have a name: the cholesterol paradox (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6374572/). Also replicated in a more recent n=100k Denmark study: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4266

These are all observational studies, meaning cause and effect is not established. It's relevant that people with some cancers will have very low cholesterol (the cancer apparently using it as fuel source), which reverts to normal in remission. Other medical conditions can lower serum cholesterol, from IBD to chronic liver disease (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271321/).

If low cholesterol is inherently mortality inducing, lowering it directly in otherwise healthy people should cause more deaths. This is a testable hypothesis. The Denmark study found that people on statins (cholesterol lowering) did not die more, even when they were on the lower side of the U curve.

There have also been countless RCTs with statins (or other cholesterol reduction drugs) being the only controlled intervention, finding that low TC improves total mortality.

A long term study tracking change in total cholesterol found that people who always had low TC (genetically) did not have a higher risk of death, but those whose TC suddenly dropped from normal to low had a higher risk of cancer: "We observed a significant risk of cancer, noncardiovascular noncancer, and all-cause mortality in men whose TC levels changed to low (<180 mg/dL) from the middle (180 to 239 mg/dL) level at baseline." (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.92.9.2396)

These points together point to the low cholesterol -> high mortality link as being a biomarker of underlying disease, not a direct causal link.

(Info taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxX51n2Z0vc)

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edit: skimmed the paper, authors mention everything in this post but have some counterpoints. They point to other longitudinal studies where consistently low cholesterol was a risk factor for death (a point against the sudden lowering due to cancer hypothesis). There are many studies like this, but the problem is while we have shown the link b/w cardiovascular death and high cholesterol through RCTs, there are no strong theories for the diseases caused by low cholesterol, while we know cancer and chronic liver disease cause low cholesterol. It could just be a marker of general frailty in old age.
How do you make money making music? Any getting started guides?
Ask HN: How to pull off a successful career switch?
I share personal details below if you want to help me in particular, but your personal story or general advice is of course very welcome. I imagine many of us are looking to do something at least a little different.

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My resume doesn't scream competency with any particular technologies. I've just been "the web guy" for marketing teams. I enjoy being a generalist but it seems to be backfiring on me now. I probably couldn't swing it in a front-end role or a back-end role. I've gotten by, by writing mostly HTML and CSS with some snippets of PHP and Bash. Roles tend to be looking for a React specialist or a Laravel expert. When years of experience with a technology come up, the best I can usually say is: "I used that for a thing once."

I'm contemplating taking a break from tech altogether and doing--something with plants? Recently, it occurred to me that technical writing is a possibility. I might be able to stay proximate to my old roles but still do something different for a while. Honestly, getting into an "actual" developer role feels as daunting today as it did when I had no work experience. Is this just a confidence thing? I've enjoyed playing with computers since I was a child, but still the idea that I could even be a developer feels like a delusion. As a kid, I wanted to cobble together a website, not become a PHP dev, so, I learned enough to make my toy projects. Now, I'm 26 and after some professional experience, I feel semi-capable at a lot of things, but I don't think that's what most roles are looking for and I can't blame them.
That was just how people in the 90s talked, I think the cliches sounded a bit fresher then, haha
> while you fight our war.

If this is indeed a proxy war then you are not supposed to admit it.
Top engineers are often recruited by people they worked with before, and aren’t going through the normal interview process.
Or at least don't want them in their neighborhood where they lower home values. This is where less local democracy would benefit the good for everyone. Especially, considering that out had been down in studies that folks who show up to community meetings are not representative. They tend to be older, wealthier and whiter and more male.
It was stressful enough before the bubble. Went through it twice, both times in a buyer's market and it was exhausting. I can't imagine what it would be like today, even if I could afford it.
The rationale I remember learning was:

Think about your blood vessels. They run, and branch, and then branch again, in an intricate pattern. Your DNA has to encode for this, but our DNA holds a finite amount of information.

So does it seem more likely that your DNA holds bit of information for every branch of every blood vessel? Or instead, does it just encode the information of “blood vessel branches half way into a new blood vessel, recursively”.
The fractal can be encoded with fewer bits, as the instructions to make the original vessel can be repeated at the split point.

It’s kind of like… you don’t store information of all humans in your lineage. Rather, you store information for one human, as well as information for how to make copies.
I know someone who works on the deal side of affordable housing construction, and has an urban planning masters. From everything she’s said about it, it seems like it would be a really crappy grift. There’s basically no money in it even if you tried to cut a bunch of corners. She works for a not for profit developer that’s well capitalized and they can barely make it work.
oh dear, i think this is a ploy to make us all switch to the new site. end of reddit for me, if they kill old.reddit.com
The only companies that can afford to diversity hire are already having great financial results
I have a semi-made desk calculator with prefix notation.

You can make it an alias of * , / etc, so ...

$ * 4 6
24
$

It would keep it's own stack, but let a persistent process do the actual maths.

The persistent process could almost any repl of python, ruby etc.

Or use a 'real' calculator like Pike's ivy; https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ivy
Lakka 4.1 release – updated to RetroArch 1.10.2
::looks suspiciously at fastly again::
Dude, it's a cabin. It's made out of logs. You should at least be able to opt-out. If you're concerned about resale value then you can pursue a NACHI seal of approval.

You should be free to drive a car with friggin spikes on the front, and the insurance industry should be free to charge you accordingly for the liability risk. That's freedom.
Implying that tumblr is over.

The golden age continues.
They ran in a hurry and didnt have the time to cover it up like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre My grandmother told stories of farmers burying women and children in dugouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemlyanka after hearing about coming Russian "liberators". My grandfather ran into the woods to join the resistance against "Allied" Russian forces.
I think this example might be more telling that what you intended. A lock is meant to keep out everyone without the key, while the intent of the bureaucratic process is to keep out bad actors while letting the well intended ones through, without them needing a key to bypass the system entirely.
Similarly, I voluntarily join a company. Me paying some third-party shareholders when I never asked for it is the issue.

Where’s the lack of logic? The real issue is you won’t even begin to engage in explaining why these two things are different. It suggests to me you haven’t arrived at this position rationally, but through ideology (“corporations good, unions bad”).
No. Please don't make health decisions off of incorrect inferences from observational studies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30893041
I wonder if this will pave the way for law suits for people who have lost jobs/positions/promotions in favor of less qualified diversity hires.