skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also research shows that "colleges you've been accepted to but didn't go to" correlates the same to future income as "colleges you went to". I'd say 80% of the signal value of college is the initial sorting vs the education.
> Putin is a monster who has now killed (directly and indirectly) millions, and destroyed countries

Corrected that for ya.

I don't offer quick safe easy solutions to above issues. I don't think they exist. Don't vote for Trump-like populists effectively trying to sell rest of western world to Russia just because they are republicans just as you? Don't leave weak states at mercy of all-grabbing merciless powerful industries?

That's an empty phrase and wish too, there are reasons why Trump got voted in and almost won second time, he just said things too many people wanted to hear. I would say reasons of very polarized US society, you are either with us or against. As we can see ie in UK its not unique to vote populists in place even in countries with strong democracy.

I don't see what can be done more effectively in this multi-polar world to a bad state owning tons of nukes. Even if only 1% would be functional its still too many.

Or you want to ignore whats happening just to keep business going and prices steady? I don't think anybody in US government really cares about Ukraine or its people, but they are logically helping damage their adversary and Russia is working hard to give them moral/PR upper hand. But make no mistake, this war is about future of Europe, not just Ukraine. If Europe is split into pre-1989 order, US and its power projection will be severely weakened.

Have a hit squad taking down just Putin? Good luck there, I think as KGB agent he should have this covered. I think 1 billion USD and US citizenship & evac with family to anybody in his inner circle who would take him down would have higher chance. But maybe 10 years down the road it would be viewed as a very bad decision. You want to reform Russian society? I'd call that an impossible task for an external entity.

So, what's the solution to this situation?
That matches my experience. DDG is only useful if I'm typing in English. If I type in my native language then DDG thinks it's Spanish and shows me a bunch of crap I can't read.
I want to make sure that my comment was not misconstrued. I was not stating nor implying that Moderna created "Covid-19".

I just thought it was interesting to note the facts and statistics of the nucleotide sequence.
>> With crypto you pay the additional overhead of gas fees, which are often unpredictable and may cost more than the item itself.

> Can you cite any source for this?

It's common knowledge.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_...
Perhaps this one?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War

Or maybe these:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Lebanon_conflict

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war_spillover_i...
I've been using "linux on the desktop" exclusively for the last two decades and it's always curious to me when people complain about having to be a techno wizard to operate it because for at least the last 10 years I've pretty much had to configure nothing and everything from fancy displays to networked printers has worked without a hitch. I can honestly say that I'm not even sure where I would look to configure or troubleshoot some hardware on my modern linux system because that's just not something I ever have to do.

One thing I did do while I was building that first linux pc, and for every computer I've bought or built since then, was a tiny bit of research on driver compatibility. Just something as simple as typing '<laptop model> linux compatability' into google. Or, if while configuring a new system there is a choice of wifi cards or hard drives or whatever, I just look each one up and check before I buy. It is a minor hassle compared to the on-going benefits I derive from a linux system.

Sure, in a perfect world all manufacturers would produce high quality open source drivers for all systems, but we are just not that well coordinated. It is getting better, though.
GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring US Remote Engineers
I'll see if I can word that better. The real interviews in this case were where the interviewEE was from the company, not the interviewER
> As discussed below, they may be surprised to find out that they are a California resident.

So a lot like discovering you are a Facebook user and never created an account.
The actress Sandra Oh is one of the first persons to come to mind, when I think of how to answer questions on the spot.

She never hesitates to give herself a few seconds to ponder the question and give an answer, and she comes off as being highly reflective, thoughtful, and intelligent.

Here's an example of her taking a thoughtful pause: https://youtu.be/MaGAY_uMmcQ?t=1222 She does it throughout the video, but this particular example is a notable one.
I guess some Excel users just outgrow the app. It's time to write some code in R or Python, along side with Jupyter-like notebooks. Another option is to use more specialized tools like Tableau.

The table or spread sheet is not very "visual" after all.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how a counterclaim would work in this case, but the way I understand anti-SLAPP statutes to work is that they let the defendant file a motion to dismiss. If the suit were in state court, then the state law would clearly apply and Krebs could try to have the suit dismissed. But it's in federal court, not a Virginia state court. Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes can be used in federal cases is not clear; there's a circuit split and the Fourth Circuit has not ruled on question: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/second-circuit-slaps-down-...
Big business: We can look at our SIEM and endpoint management dashboards and determine that our end user machines are reaching end of useful life due to resource consumption and failure frequency

Small business: Please IT help my 5 year old laptop can't keep up and I swear it's not a virus. Yes, I updated everything

It's amazing watching friends/family outside of tech work. Within 2 minutes of watching someone's machine slow to a crawl, I open Task Manager on Windows and see they're out of RAM and their machine is heavily paging: Yeah, if you had another $40 8GB stick of RAM your machine would be significantly more responsive.
one thing that i saw on hn a while ago was a bookmarklette to remove all the junk from the page... quite useful and i use it daily typically. basically just removes any stickied or fixed positioned junk. surprisingly effective.

javascript:( function(){ let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') { elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); } } document.body.style.overflow = "auto"; document.body.style.position = "static"; })()

that's the bookmarklette i can gist it if someone wants a nicely formatted version but either way it works.
How do you deal with laptops that have both an integrated and an Nvidia graphic card? I can't find a reliable way of having the dedicated card on for just some applications on Linux. It's either always on or always off, which is not as convenient or useful as the on-demand mode available on Windows.
Not really.. I know many mom & pop forums that had symbiotic relations with a particular vendor. Sponsorship for the forum, special pricing for forum members.. Stuff like that.

That's a very different thing to just dumping ads on people because they looked at one video about a dog.

Of course such forums have become pretty extinct recently but for some interests they are still there.
"There's no effort to quantify what "technical" or "communication" skills are - these are left to the interpretation of a the interviewer."

And yet, these scores are measuring something and averaged across tens of thousands of technical interviews, you have enough statistical power to average out the particularities of each interviewer.

I'm sorry you find the results repugnant, but the results are what they are. And the article did have a large section on limitations of their analysis.
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Oil Is Being Implemented “Middle Out”
In low temperatures you start having issues with moisture saturating the air. Things get wet out of nowhere. There are also electrolytic capacitors which are water based so these need to be ruled out as well. Given air has at any given time a lot of water and water goes through a phase change at sub zero i find the comparison quite invalid.
"It is perfectly acceptable and within the bounds of the law to use another's trademark in advertising, provided certain standards are met. The advertisement must be truthful and the use of another's trademark must not give a false impression of connection, approval or sponsorship by the owner of the other mark."

https://www.gfrlaw.com/what-we-do/insights/beyond-brand-x-us...

So as long as they don't imply endorsement, "I'm compatible with X seems fine".
Your source does not support your claims.
It's a scam.

The money has to come from somewhere. If fools are buying into a game in a big way then you have a bubble and it will be possible for a few people to walk out with cash... until it is all gone. In one case "all gone" came faster than expected

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/how-did-a-hacker-stea...
I'm not sure "struggled to pass" is the right characterisation. The Jepsen tests are part of the MongoDB test suite. They have found some bugs in the past and we have fixed them and incorporated into our test suite. Am I about to say Jepsen will never find another bug in MongoDB? No. But if they do we will fix those as well.
Especially from Erudition Magazine.
I used to get recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn about my impressive Java experience, in spite of not mentioning Java on my profile. At the time, I was working for a company that used a lot of Java, but I was working on a .NET based product and hadn't touched Java since college.
>The vast majority of US high school students now go to college.

I think the number is something around 60%. Not sure that would qualify as Vast Majority.
Better than a grid of cells? a tree/graph of rows/grids...
Can anyone explain to me how these services are legal? I didn't read Instagram terms and conditions but I'm pretty sure there are tons of points against scraping, copying and distributing their data, in particular using them to make money.

How is this possible?
GitHub does take home technical interviews
crypto is simply a hedge against incompetent/corrupt government, obviously blatant speculation has driven up the prices but at its core it still has value. I think the future is an abstraction layer to simplify converting to local currency and countries/governments having to compete for citizens by proving their competence
This was really going to be an April Fool's gag, on the theme "If you like these small personal websites so much, why don't you marry them?!", so I basically remodelled Marginalia's Random Website feature into the format of Tinder.

In the end, the joke wasn't very funny, but the resulting game was pretty fun, so I figured I would share it with the world.
Seeing titles like "Courage is Calling", "Stillness is the Key", and "Trust Me, I'm Lying" only make me more confident in my point, not less. But, I'm not going to buy these books just to see if my hunch developed over 15 seconds is correct.
> Claims of future performance are going to be met with a clear shrug because ultimately I've been able to put my hands on an M1 for over a year, theoretical future CPUs are absolutely no consequence.

It is not theoretical. They ran their tests on a laptop that is already available for purchase.
Didn't realize that and that is hilarious. But I wouldn't expect anything else from parler
Unpopular change can also be motivated by incentive payments, https://www.dwt.com/blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/201...

> Bills mandating cash acceptance have faced intensive lobbying from the credit card industry as well as more tech-focused retailers. The passage of the New Jersey legislation exemplifies such forces at work. The bill's sponsor specifically criticized a recent Visa initiative that rewarded 50 businesses with $10,000 each for making their operations cashless.
One is a bee while the other is a fish, so there are many differences. One lives in water while the other lives on land. One is tasty when fileted, the other vomits tasty goodness. I'm sure you can think of other differences. </kidding>
* With great generational distinction. As a new entrant you can enjoy both high property taxes and high income taxes.
The UK has it's own standards for speech. They don't need to adhere to the free speech absolutism of the United States. This would be unacceptable in the United States, but many places do not protect racist speech. Theres good arguments on both sides. We'll see which works out better in the long run.
And pigs might fly.
Author here. Yes, the skills are left to the interpretation of the interviewer, but most of our interviewers are senior engineers at FAANG. We've done quite a bit of work internally to make sure your interviewers are well calibrated, and we have a living calibration score for each one (calibration is based on how the interviewees they interview end up doing in real interviews).

The interviews in question are a mix of algorithmic interviews and systems design interviews.

Also, if I ever use "rockstar" or "ninja" in my posts, I hope someone finds me on the street and punches me in the face. I'd deserve it.
Is the United States filled with psychopaths because we don't negotiate with terrorists?

If you monetarily reward terrorism and torture, you can expect it to continue happening over and over again, because it's economically viable.
What I agree is they made sense during the first waves. Omikron doesn't overwhelm the health system even when it's left to roam freely so there is no point doing it anymore.

If a new version pops up that does cause issues again there is a point again. Not right now.

And when one does pop up that does this there is sufficient warning to just put the mandate back in place again. Right now it's just not a proportionate measure. Many countries that have dropped the mask mandate are proving this. It's a really heavy-handed measure to have in place "just in case". It should be used only when there is an immediate problem. This last part is my opinion of course, and I assume you don't agree but this is the part we won't agree on.
Has anyone seriously and honestly asked themselves why the US is so keen on pushing the LQBTQ agenda? Even if sincere, LGBTQ people are a very tiny percentage of the population so why go through such lengths to make large and sweeping systemic changes? It is totally distracting from much more serious issues. Very puzzling.
I've never gone on a sickcation but I think well over 40% of my sickdays have been weekend-adjacent. A baffling statistical anomaly to be sure.
I'd love to see this data as well.

However, there's nothing trivial about collecting and validating all this information. The US has thousands of individual healthcare providers across the country that all have to coordinate to produce it. Also remember that the numbers might be unflattering for certain government leaders who've taken the pandemic less seriously. Florida was particularly notorious in trying to suppress Covid data [0].

[0]: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/584909-university-o...
Now if they can also penalize NM colleges which fail to slash the cost of textbooks...
I'm pretty sure there are also "degrees" of blister packaging too. You've got the ones that are just foil, you've got ones with a paper backing, and then you've got ones where I'm pretty sure the paper is glued to the foil so it's basically impossible to get it to separate and you have to cut it out with a knife.

The first doesn't really bother me. The last one is absolutely obnoxious. I'm guessing the FDA is pushing the last type for "drugs of concern" like sudafed or imodium.
I have disabled automatic device switching, it is far too aggressive. Sometimes it switches when scrolling past an ad in a browser.

I find that Apple's wired EarPods have great microphone quality at a very accessible price.
Link to the video demo at the end of the article:

https://youtu.be/8UbVgUFfN8U
"my house has risen in value thirty percent in just two years"
Summary: Intel aimed to offer $110m, but because of the way it was calculated and the volatility of the stock price, it went up to $169.5m.

Usually you get the full amount based on how well the stock does, and Intel's stock has been poor, so I don't know if he really got all of it. The article isn't clear.

Here is the relevant filing:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000050863/000005086...

It says:

> Furthermore, 73% of the awards’ target value requires significant stock price appreciation in order for the awards to be earned.

Going further into the details, it seems that he scored a 0 on that 73%, although the timeline to hit those targets is 3 years, so he could still achieve it.

He got 27% of the amount in RSUs that will vest over 3 years, so he got some compensation out of it.

He got a sign on cash bonus of $1.75M, and his base salary was $1.25M. He got a few other performance bonuses in cash.

So the amount he actually earned in 2021 is not a huge amount. He merely has the potential to hit a huge number if Intel's stock does well. It likely will not hit the targets set forth in the 3 year period, given all the capital investment going on.
Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses
> Is using a cryptocurrency run by a company registered in Hong Kong, backed by a bank on the Bahamas really that great of an idea?

No, but I've never had Binance or Localbitcoins steal my money, Paypal and banks have done so, and I've been using both for around the same time.

> Are large parts of the population able to store their assets correctly.

With great power comes great responsability.

> Are they storing their coins on their own wallets or are they using exchanges.

Usdt over binance (0 fees) seems to be popular with a lot of people that don't want to deal with bitcoin's swings. Most people aren't using USDT real (-ish[0] erc20) wallets because it costs $30 to $60 to send anything. USDT over Bitcoin Lightning (already in the works) will fix this.

> If they use exchanges, does the government have an interest in letting them do whatever or are they imposing sanctions?

Lightning will fix this, it will make exchanges not hold any coins at all, thus they will be unseizable as everything will be done over Lightning,

> If they store their coins in their own wallets, is the majority of the population able to properly secure their assets?

I expect aunt Jane will be using a centralized entity that can recover her funds for her, young people, like anyone under 40 will use Lightning and enjoy their freedom.

> Will mining operations have an impact on the existing infrastructure if it becomes to profitable.

Lightning, halving cycles, etc will reduce mining, though maybe not fast enough if you're thinking in terms of climate change. Reminder that the US military is the single largest polluter in the world, not Bitcoin.

> But most importantly: what will happen if the value of cryptocurrencies decreases or even crashes?

Bitcoin will never crash, when enough people use it, but it might crash a few times before we get there (e.g. covid crash).

[0] It's realISH because ERC20 runs on Ethereum, which is not a real decentralized system like Bitcoin, and the upcoming switch to Proof of Stake switch will only make it more centralized/brittle.
> I personally think that the evolution of spreadsheets is less about changing the UI, and instead making it possible for spreadsheet users to easily transition to more powerful programming tools in a natural and easy way. So I've spent the past 2 years building Mito [2].

Following the article idea of spreadsheet as the best paradigm, why you think users should abandon it in favor of other?
Or the leetcode interviews are an attempt at a second layer of screen. Looking at the school people went to may not be a great predictor of their differential success versus everyone else who went to a similar school, but it can give a good signal (on average) versus someone applying without one.

In the same way that height among professional basketball players may not be a great predictor of their performance relative to other players, but you don't see too many 5ft players eithers.
>"There are numerous use cases for stashing metadata into those unused bits. Memory allocators could use that space to track different memory pools, for example, or for garbage collection. Database management systems have their own uses for that space."

Can someone say which databases do this and what they're making use of those unused bits in the address for?
>Apple has become too expensive

I’d argue the new Mac mini is one of the best computer deals on the market.
Sony Playstation cuts nearly 90 jobs, citing 'global transformation'
College was never meant to be and I don't think ever should be Vocational school. Ironically things like Bootcamps have cropped up that in theory teach the vocational part but are pretty disrespected in the industry because the grads didn't learn DS/Algo.
I agree with not editing code on the server, however vim is very useful for editing Dockerfiles quickly. ;)
And you were at the whim of the banks. They could confiscate your funds, lose the tx, reverse the payments, etc.

You are missing what cryptocurrency is about. No banks. No middle man. No censorship. No do-overs. Personal responsibility for wealth. When a person says “but I can do x with bank” they have missed the entire point of the exercise.
> The best part about my fellow, life-time Californians leaving California is how they simply continue to vote the same way no matter where they end up.

I've seen this a lot, and never understood it.
Yup

https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze...

Links to the firmware are in the first step
Seems to be going pretty good for them tbf:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/
"As Terence McKenna said, "When you get the message, hang up the phone.""

That quote originally came from Alan Watts, not Terence McKenna (who, incidentally, didn't hang up the phone until near the end of his life, when he supposedly was too scared to do more mushrooms).

Alan Watts said:

"[P]sychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. When you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope; he goes away and works on what he has seen."[1]

To which I think it was Ram Dass or Dennis McKenna who answered: "I don't hang up on my teachers."

Also, what if you forget the message (as often the states in question are ineffable and the insights one gets are not able to be carried in to ordinary waking consciousness, or not for long)... or what if there is no message, just as seeing a sunset is devoid of messages but still worth seeing? What if you consider the experience sacred or a way to connect to your god(s), the spirit world, transcendent reality, or nature? What if you use psychedelics to enhance your creativity, have fun, or treat your depression?

None of these uses fit neatly in to the narrow "message" paradigm that Watts was talking about.

[1] - https://medium.com/@allevity/they-killed-alan-watts-quote-8b...
No you're misinterpreting it. Go back and reread the graphs.