skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing more on teaching and less on social/political activism would be a good place to start. Not trying to be mean or funny.

But during covid a lot of parents saw these classes on zoom for the first time and were surprised to learn how many of their children’s teachers are actually activists masquerading as educators. Perhaps a return to focusing on education might be a good idea.
How would you see it allocated instead?
This perspective is true to some extent, but it’s counter-productive to think of science as being wrong.

You should think of science as the “least wrong” set of beliefs we have at any point in time. It will never be perfectly right, and every day it’s less and less wrong. The reason it’s so reliable is because it embraces (and doesn’t dismiss) this uncertainty.
This is why we can't have safe cancellation points (2016)
> All that’s to say that if shareholders (who theoretically appoint and are represented by the board) as a group have legitimate and real preference differences from the average person from the these other minority groups, you can get easily get boards that are unrepresentative of the minority groups.

Sure. But the point of the CA law was to say, "nuh-uh, you can't do that. Society has its own interest in board composition, and that trumps (on the grand scale) the shareholder preference." I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that, but I think it's not a ridiculous or even obviously unconstitutional law.
That's not really about right vs wrong. That's about having a goal and trying to meet that goal. The goal here was to learn Rust, so using Rust to write [whatever] in makes perfect sense for that goal. When I learned to look this way in all things, basically everything in life started to appear differently to me.
Same, I have aphantasia but I definitely am a visual thinker. The visualization in my mind is quite abstract and far removed from the act of seeing.
Free Biolink – All in One Link for Scaling Up
[edited for formatting and to fix Git link]

According to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...

> == Is the citation notice compatible with GPLv3? ==

> Yes. The wording has been cleared by Richard M. Stallman to be compatible with GPLv3. This is because the citation notice is not part of the license, but part of academic tradition.

> Therefore the notice is not adding a term that would require citation as mentioned on: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#RequireCitation

If you are of the view that clearance by RMS is clearance by FSF/GNU, then that's how they find it acceptable. If you take a different view, then the next part of that section applies:

> If you disagree with Richard M. Stallman's interpretation and feel the citation notice does not adhere to GPLv3, you should treat the software as if it is not available under GPLv3. And since GPLv3 is the only thing that would give you the right to change it, you would not be allowed to change the software.

There's also an interesting comparison to be made:

> == How do I silence the citation notice? ==

> Run this once:

> parallel --citation

> It takes less than 10 seconds to do and is thus comparable to an 'OK. Do not show this again'-dialog box seen in LibreOffice, Firefox and similar programs.
I used to use Pure a couple of years ago. I found it had some weird bugs that were really annoying, not very reproducible and my shell knowledge was not nearly good enough to debug it. I think especially the async stuff was very error-prone. Maybe that’s changed now.

Powerlevel10k is very customisable, faster, can be configured to function exactly like Pure out of the box and in my experience, more reliable.

I would recommend powerlevel10k over Pure any day. But it’s just an anecdotal datapoint.
Interesting, much resemblance between that and the microscope.com Omano scopes I reference above in my last link.
Or play Metal Gear Solid https://metalgearsaladblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/liquid-s...
Why do you need those reasons? It doesn't like pro-abortion, it's anti-abortion by limiting its use cases. If you are pro-abortion, you would happily suggest any pregnant women to abort their babies.
Inside the Magic Pocket (2016)
Personally I also do use the term pro-abortion because it is clear about the actual issue and what the disagreement is. Pretty much every single person anywhere is in favor of both life and choice, it's a uselessly euphemistic set of terms that obscures the real conflict.

I'm not necessarily in favor of any specific case of abortion, or wanting more of them in the world, or anything like that. "Pro abortion access" would probably be more technically correct but that opens the argument up to getting derailed by "well how much access" and shit. Plus the mild transgressiveness of the term is helpful sometimes, if it makes people stop for a second and ask like this.
It's also extremely easy to abuse, which IMO kind of negates the benefit you pointed out.
Those arguments don't really work for gender discrimination or discrimination against African-Americans. It's not as if women or black people only just got here.
Great article discussing the benefits of optical discs and the author's own experience of using them!

I burned hundreds of discs a decade ago and read them all back perfectly, to my surprise. I strongly agree with the write-once behavior for photos and downloads. HDDs worry me in the long term because even if the platter holding the data is fine, the R/W head, mechanics, and electronics could fail, not to mention that a head crash could wipe out good data.

I'm extremely disappointed that the capacity of optical disc formats are essentially frozen, topping out at 100 or 128 GB for BD XL. They're definitely not keeping up with the continual increase in storage density and decreasing cost of hard disks and flash memory. Why are new formats not forthcoming? Where's my 300 GB Archival Disc? Where's my 1 TB holographic disc? Where's Microsoft's glass optical disc that's stable for millions of years?

I want to keep on burning optical discs and putting them in cold storage, but this gradually obsolete technology is not making a convincing case for me today.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26038893 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29221418
Yeah I think you are right, the article is weak. Even the first implementation advice it gives doesn't look right to me, if interpreted the obvious way:

> Normally for RSA you pick 2 random numbers and then find a prime close to each.

I.e. if you pick a number and then search upwaard til you find a prime, that gives a non-uniform distribution on the primes in that range. You instead want to pick a random number, and if it's composite, throw it away and pick another random number til you get a prime. Then repeat to get second prime.
sure but this frames it as if cars are the only way to get people to work. There are more efficient means that would require less subsidy and cause less waste (heavy rail transit, building places to live that don't require a car, bike roads, etc)
At the company I work for PiPs _usually_ lead to issues being solved. There are several developers I've worked with on PiPs (we do specific mentoring and follow ups on the areas of concern) that were able to improve and are now doing great. It isn't always a terrible thing, certainly not comfortable for the person on the PiP but it can be a positive thing in the long run!
> I’m a HM at a big tech company with this format as well. Honestly, I really like it.

The truth is that nobody likes being interviewed. Getting tested and judged by strangers isn’t fun.

But developers also really don’t like being surrounded by unqualified developers who slipped through a weak interview process. They also don’t like having significant numbers of their teammates fired and replaced all the time because the company had “hire fast, fire fast” interview styles. It’s miserable and slightly terrifying to work at a company where nobody really wants to invest much time into building relationships with new hires because many of them are going to be PIPed out before the year is over.

So while the interviews may not be fun, the reality is that strong developers really appreciate the outcome of such a rigorous process. It also helps protect people from becoming false negatives because they didn’t mesh with a single interviewer or struggled with a single interview problem.

So now we’re at this weird equilibrium where devs simultaneously hate the interview process for themselves but appreciate it being applied to everyone around they (even if it’s not immediately obvious).
>You can dump absolutely any pain, need, or struggle you have on anyone who's in a farther/larger ring than you are.

I think you may have to have more consideration than that.
Wait until HNers find out that n = 10 can be more significant than n = 100 via power analysis.
The history of the Gibson Black Beauty
Sorry, but this just sounds very easy to bullshit. Unless you're doing real in depth quizzing of stuff people wouldn't know if they didn't work with it (e.g. in HFT, explaining what a potential implementation of std::string could be and what the tradeoffs of each design choice would be), generic backend principles are very easy to spew correct answers for without actually knowing how to code. How are you going to filter out people that just memorize the concepts for their chosen language and are good at talking but can't code for their life?
Do junk DNA is like code styling and comments in programming.
Related to this, something I did 10 years ago and started seeing more often (especially in git-bash!) is to have

* a newline before your current prompt

* a newline after all your context and right before your "$ "

This helped me tremendously with scanning terminal output for years. More default $PS1's should do this.
> For $200/hr I’d rather spend the time on my own life.

The alternative is spending 7-12 hours doing 5-7 technical interviews for $0.
Yeah if you go on the home page of that article you get this:

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_gaia.htm#Additional_I...

Its something about the Gaia theory, which makes even the electromagnetic hearing stuff look sane in comparison.
> Filtering early is best for everyone.

This is a lie that everyone tells themselves to make them feel secure and safe.

The best interview is working with the person. Do a few basic interviews for competency, give them a 2 week - month long 1099 contract and put them on guard rails for the contract duration.

Their daily work isn't just about whether they can jump through time-based hoops or answer basic questions. No one is going to know whether it is a mutual match until the person gets into the codebase and start working.

Plenty of great engineers have "performance problems" not because they are bad engineers but because of problems an interview will never expose or detect like a bad teammate or lead match causing disagreements, a bad codebase, poor planning that only builds tech debt, bad business plan, disagreement on business direction, etc.

The idea that an interview can filter good or bad engineers is laughable. The most you can determine from an interview, regardless of how many flaming hoops and balls the candidate bounces off their nose, is whether they know how to code and _probably_ know what you need them to know.
Just rattling thoughts off the top of my head, my advice would be to go to a forum like allaboutcircuits.com and look around/ask. Actually could probably get help on a forum like RaspberryPi/askelectronics on reddit.

Probably not going to work honestly about the outdoor light (need more solar cells). The voltage charging the battery has to be higher than the voltage of the battery. Also have to look at the current being drawn by each piece, when the radio goes on that causes a surge in current draw too. For the Pi Zero (non-W) something like 5V * 70-200mA say current so up to 1W needed * duration. The batteries could do that but the solar cell can't keep it topped off. Also yeah you need the charge controller, some diode to make sure voltage doesn't go back to the solar cells from the batteries... lead acid battery is "safer" to work with but BMS chips for lipos are pretty inexpensive. Need a voltage regulator to take your batteries and drop it down/keep it at 5V to keep the Pi happy.

There's probably way easier approaches to do this with regard to pre-made parts but yeah. I guess depends how much you want to learn/do yourself. I remember the first time I soldered a 2x16 LCD display there were micro shorts and it was smoking.

What I like about the capacitor idea and something low power like an ESP01 is it just accepts what the solar cells put in and that's it of course I still use a voltage regulator to put 3.3V to the ESP. Doesn't last as long as a battery but it's not as complex.

Anyway this guy made a solar-powered rc plane/charging it in midair pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/1OGrDvInUAY?t=701
I have a neighbor couple who lived on- and off-rez (Hopi) over the years. They would agree with your point #1, and would not agree with your point #2. Because #2 seems to be a matter of debate, I'd propose that we (as a society) should probably focus on #1.
Horrifying. So much human ingenuity and energy burned in a process seemingly designed to prevent the thing it is supposed to encourage.
> but they just were not delivering at the expected level. Sometimes the problem was lack of motivation or bad role fit.

Another i think is when management doesn't understand that someone is, in your wording, a "well liked, competent person", doesn't adequately understand what they bring to the team. Performance reviews, especially of ICs but not exclusively, have a bias towards perceived individual contribution and against teamwork.
Well due to real world constraints of scheduling even with people who's sole job is to interview candidates the speed at which you interview is most likely going to be a function of how many people need to interview you.
Seemed fine in Logan's Run, so it should be ok?

I think you could do a lot of stuff to provide support to all kids without going all the way to universal government custody. Things like (optional) government paid universal day care and after school care, government paid universal health care for minors, food/housing/etc stipends (like the child tax credit, but bigger), and arguably better pay for teachers and smaller class sizes. These things wouldn't end inequality, but might more kids up to good enough resources.

You could also pull a China and outlaw tutoring/test prep to reduce the advantages wealth can provide.
I wonder what happens if you use a prepaid credit card (e.g., a visa gift card).
DFW claims religion is immune to this effect but to me it seems like another statement to add could be: “worship god and you’ll feel like a sinner”
> And somebody on the internet is still going to tell you they know how you feel and you shouldn't choose to take their ignorant platitudes as insensitive.

But you know what that somebody on the internet has and has not felt, right?
> only the rich should drive.

Alternate ways of saying the same thing include "make driving optional" or "driving should be considered a luxury."

I.e. we should structure our cities and towns so that most people are able to conveniently do most of their activities without driving.
The conclusion is total bunk, and you can only reach it by selecting which externalities you want to measure, and which externalities you want to ignore. For instance the fact that a car owner can travel large distances to work or spend money any time they like is a massively beneficial externality. You also have to ignore the externalities that the non-car-owners benefit from. If somebody has managed to situate themselves in an ideal location for them specifically to live without a car, then they almost certainly only managed to do that by benefitting from the positive externalities created by car owners (unless they’re living in the woods or something).
This Twitter thread hits the nail on the head. Imagine this process in California, where just working with PG&E to get utilities to the site may be a six figure adventure, then another $40-60k for an electrician to wire the house. That could be close to $200k for electrical alone. This could be for a 1,000 square foot shed in Oakland, not somewhere around Malibu.

Add on the planning costs that the Twitter author goes on about, and your "affordable housing" is now near a million dollars. Is that really affordable?
> YMMV, but it's actually quite difficult to get a PIP in many tech companies

Generally, the more the company practices “hire fast, fire fast” the easier and more common it will be to PIP people.

The companies with 4+ stage interviews and entire departments devoted to recruiting and candidate evaluation tend to not have as many PIPs because they’ve studied their interviewing processes and prevented most of the underperformers from getting hired in the first place.

The most quick-to-fire company I ever worked for had barely a 1-hour interview process. They’d hire anyone who seemed remotely qualified and then they’d fire everyone who didn’t work out. It was terrible and now I’m actually suspicious of companies that don’t do much technical screening for applicants.
There’s a status game for streetwear too but afaik it involves rare sneakers with expensive basics.
What's practically possible is always a subset of what's legally possible. I think probationary periods/contract-to-hire situations are extremely unlikely to work for anything beyond absolute entry level, for a number of reasons.

For one thing, it's a huge amount of uncertainty to put on the potential hire, which means you'll be strongly biasing your hiring pool towards people who don't have better options. It feels like in an effort to reduce the interview time, you've effectively expanded it to multiple months.

Second, how do you calibrate the "default" option? Is the expectation that everyone on a probation period will be hired unless proven otherwise, or is it that most will be let go unless actively vouched for? Is that expectation clear across the team? If there's a mismatch across team members, you have big problems. People who want to keep a prospect will be annoyed if they're let go, and vice versa. People who need to work with a prospect will have to figure out whether it's safe to actually trust them with anything - on the one hand, you have to give them enough work to prove themselves; on the other hand, you can't give them anything too important or with too long a horizon, because they might be gone before they get to launch.

And finally - how long does that trial period need to go on to be useful? The goal in designing a hiring process is to get a reasonable level of precision/recall (different companies will balance differently between those) with a reasonable level of investment. If you've increased investment without increasing precision, then you've done something wrong. Given how long it takes to ramp up a new hire and have them actually be productive, I don't think you're going to learn much in a ~6 month probationary period that you couldn't already tell in a day of interviews.
Or more likely: People trained to be paranoid being paranoid.
Comparing Online Music Mastering Services (E-Mastering)
Most ICs are pretty well insulated from this, because if they understood what went on at calibration a lot of good contributors would become pretty bitter.
I don't really understand this, but I understand even less why 22 people are sponsoring it on Patreon. Can someone let me in on the secret?
I'm a few years older than you. In my suburban schools in the S.F. Bay Area, many kids were producing any writing homework printed on home computers or word processors as soon as the teachers relented on requiring "cursive" handwriting. I think this began around the 4th or 5th grade and ramped up through middle school (so around 1983-1988 in my case).

Early on, the homework signaled which families had Apples and Macs with fancy printers that made an attempt at WYSIWG rendered fonts instead of grotty fixed font dot matrix. A lot of kids had Macs without techie parents but I suppose white-collar jobs or even some tradesmen who had made it to middle or upper-middle class. By high school PCs with Windows and laser printers were joining the fray. Marketing told parents this was good for their kids, and kids were aware of the wealth indicator too.

I feel like home computers were more office tools or educational rather than game platforms for most of my peers. I remember a subset of kids had games on VIC 20, C64, DOS PC, or Apple IIe/IIc in the mid 80s. By the late 80s we had more PC games, but many households already had dedicated Atari, Nintendo, or Sega set-top gaming. I think shareware and pirated game floppies did circulate further than just those who actually attended or even knew what a computer club or BBS might be.
The change mentioned at the top of the post (https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/exp/+/378134) also has a benchmark to compare sorting structs using sort.Slice vs a new generic approach that uses a comparison function:

name old time/op new time/op delta
SortStructs-8 18.6ms ± 2% 15.9ms ± 3% -14.43% (p=0.000 n=10+10)

14.4% is the speedup of the generic version.

The article explains why this happens (towards the end).
I believe those studies but correlation does not equal causation. I think the real reason that more diverse boards do better (if they do) is that the company hires people more based on talent and other metric which don’t discriminate, vs ones like patrimony. Forced diversity just sidesteps the problem because the company can still use bad metrics.
Cholesterol and mortality: Evidence of a U-shape Relationship
You will participate in the hazing rituals and you will submit to humiliation over a several day period. After all, anything less means you aren't fully committed to the corporate vision.
I think the point of the article disagrees with you? Like, to my reading, the hypothesis is that T. Gondii should be under selective pressure to support its host mating, because that aids its spread.

From the background paragraph:

> However, if parasites diminish a host’s health and attractiveness to such an extent that finding a mate becomes almost impossible, the parasite would decrease its odds of reproducing and passing to the next generation. There is evidence that Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) manipulates phenotypic characteristics of its intermediate hosts to increase its spread.

And the conclusions paragraph:

> Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii, may produce changes in the appearance and behavior of the human host, either as a by-product of the infection or as the result of the manipulation of the parasite to increase its spread to new hosts. Taken together, these results lay the foundation for future research on the manipulation of the human host by sexually transmitted pathogens and parasites.

It's hard to read that as anything other than the authors classifiying T. gondii as a "sexually transmitted parasite".

I don't know how to reconcile that with what you're saying. Am I missing something?
SVGcode: A PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics using WebAssembly
Light also penetrates the skin few mm or more (hold a flashlight to you finger) why aren't we studying similar effects with artificial lights which have much more radiative power?

>Maybe claim #3. Plenty of papers on that

I can find one paper, mast cell degranulation has lots of causes, maybe just from thermal heating? Always worth looking into I wouldn't call it conclusive by any stretch.

I don't think anyone has made up their mind, only that jumping to conclusions isn't warranted base don our understanding of physics, sure we should keep studying but as yet there are no proven non-thermal effects or direct correlation or causation between low power microwave and cancer.
> all my bank accounts (multiple in multiple countries)

Realize that puts you in a fairly special position with a lot more flexibility than the average person.

A lot of people just have one account, so if that one gets locked up, it's a tough situation.