skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value itself might be wrong but there's no denying that a human cannot conceptualize an infinite number of other humans as "people". When you see a news story about two hundred miners dying in an industrial accident you don't feel two hundred times as sad as when you read about a single-vehicle fatality in your hometown.
It autoredirects to news.ycombinator.com, and was registered 3 years ago

but has no contact info
We do have a way of knowing this, it is as simple as saying that the finish line of a symbol game will stay the same given the initial symbols and the rules that can be used to move them around.
"effects are still controversial and not well known"

That's probably what the Romans were saying back then. Or when uranium plates were used. Or when PFOAs were/are used in good contact.
Yes, one of my favorite jankinesses is that iTunes would put a timestamp in the jpeg header of the embedded artwork for every m4a file, ensuring that a hash of the artwork (for a library system that tried to minimize duplicate artwork) would always be unique. So you’d have a visually-identical but duplicate artwork file for every song on the album.
Because he hasn't played in years and whatever ball he used was the official nba ball at the time. Most people would buy the official ball not a random ball.

If you are talking shoes then people will buy to be associated with that player.
I love the idea! Just make sure you definitly get the t450 touchpad upgrade or you will regret it forever. Nothing worse than a t*40-series touchpad.
Same - I've always had contract (but the sample size is quite small). The problem is that even if you have "full remote" in your contract, you also probably have "at will" in the same contract, which IMO means they can still play the game of "come in person or you're fired".
It's low interest rates to blame
> And now what?

If you haven't already, I highly suggest making a child if you can. It seems to snap all of this into focus - it did for me anyway.

I mean I still have a ton of existential dread and still often wonder what the point is but I do find purpose in providing for my family and trying to raise a human that can do good - maybe better than me and the author of that NYer piece :D.
i am so grateful for this man's effort and content. his ability to distill topics into super accessible and actionable nuggets of information is something i've never really experienced before. it's almost too good to be true - i'm a little worried there's some guruism going on that's subtly increasing my opinion of him (granted he's super charismatic, well spoken, and sharp, but still)
It would surprise me very much if the written contract didn't have a provision about superseding any previous agreement.
I don't know about PolyCarobonate, but for LDPE and HDPE (and PET) that sounds incorrect. Certainly, chemists are worried about much smaller amounts of contamination (ppb) than humans and they would definitely know (and measure) how much plasticizer was leaching from their bottles.

It appears to be almost none:

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/lab-pla...
On the other hand, I had exactly this sort of issue with Amazon subsidiary Zoox a couple months ago. We had verbally agreed on terms that would have me doing primarily remote work. When they finally sent me terms, they specified full time in-office and changed a few other things like salary. The excuse was that some higher-up wouldn't approve remote right now, but they were trying to convince them.
Lets do it in linux friendlier way:

ls |? name -match $regex | mv $destination
I've heard of this happening quite a bit, oftentimes after a lengthy interview process had already begun.
I know multiple people (including myself) who have passed up opportunities at Google because of how long it takes for them to make a hiring decision. It's incredible how much value they must be leaving on the table.

At some point, Google won't be the kind of place that people wait around for. Then they're really screwed.
Nighttime electric power generation via radiative cooling of a PV cell
It makes complete sense for mathematics. Few of the mathematicians I know have any interest in applying math to much of anything besides math research. The whole business is entirely abstract.
C# with Windows Forms or C++ with Qt. That would be the easiest options.
This is probably more true for headhunters than for in-house recruiters.

FAANG mostly (completely?) use in-house.
> how to I test to make sure all those private methods do what I want them to do so that I know which one is broken when my public method breaks.

Others have pointed out that you test only public methods. The thing I'd add to that: Having large classes is a code smell. If your class is big, it is probably several classes in one. Break it up accordingly. Some of your private methods in the big class will become public methods in the small class.
Millennium Challenge: The Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and Its Legacy
Windows is mostly fine for Windows development, as long as one doesn't try to bring their UNIX habits.

After all, someone is writing software for all those 80% market share desktops and Xbox games consoles.
I've become a fan of using mutation testing to drive unit test coverage. The goal of mutation testing is to ensure there is test coverage around areas with a higher likelihood of being brittle. Work smarter, not harder.
every single manager i've had whose sole managerial experience was Amazon/AWS before i encountered them was a raging turdwaffle, and having 20+ years of experience i've seen my share of shitty managers to compare them to.

please, any readers, i beg of you: think three times before diving in that swamp.
You are totally correct, thank you— I addressed this to jjulius above, since they pointed out the same thing. Sometimes one must be reminded not to be flippant on the internet, it's all too easy, and I don't want to be that person.

>Instead of making fun of people for not knowing something that they shouldn't need to know about, why not corner the market by providing non-insulting services to get them the results they need? Or at the least, be able to point people in the direction of where to get those services?

You're right. We all know the value of the person who makes complaints without offering solutions.

If anyone reads this and would like some honest help in this area, send and email to the address in the 'about' on my profile, and I'll try to point you in the right direction (It only looks sketchy because it's a forwarding address, I'm sure you understand.)
I try to address the definition in another comment below (to tenuousemphasis), and would be curious to hear your response there. I would add that I think the dictionary definition raises the same issues as the colloquial ones.
To quote famed philosopher Kid Rock: it’s not bragging if you can back it up.

“Developing a fundamental theory of physics“ is not something Mr. Wolfram can back up.
If there isn’t an IRC, Slack, or other instant messaging system in place, that should be the first step. Without that, I cannot imagine how remote work would actually… work.

From there, start being proactive about asking questions or starting conversations. Do not wait for others to reach out. You must initiate. That is a huge part of remote culture.

If you are initiating on instant messaging and not generating feedback or conversation, then you have a much bigger problem.
Natural immunity works. It's settled science, and has been for some time.

Many countries acknowledge it as a valid alternative to the vaccine. But not the USA. There has been no change in policy. Not even a public acknowledgment, let alone an apology for getting it wrong.

Is this out of ignorance? malice? Neither, it's simply pragmatic.

Reliably testing for prior infections at population scale would be really slow, expensive, and faulty. Further there's no real downside to vaccinating someone with a prior infection (slightly higher incidence of side effects notwithstanding).

Further, people will lose the urgency to get the vaccine if they think they have antibodies.

Monolithic policy is cheaper than nuanced policy, and monolithic policy only works if its dead simple. So, better to have everyone believe the vaccine is the one and only solution than to actually concern themselves with the truth.

There are also many examples of "verbatim" lies, such as these:

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav...

> Moderna's chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, said last month that he believed it was likely the vaccine would prevent transmission but warned that there was not yet "sufficient evidence" of it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/health/coronavirus-vaccin...

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, suggesting that people who are vaccinated against the coronavirus never become infected or transmit the virus to others.
I've heard plenty of arguments for why Windows sucks and plenty for why Linux sucks too. And anytime I read those arguments, there's a distinct lack of care taken to understanding the other's perspective. Pick your poison basically; for most normal users, Windows/Mac has fewer annoyances than Linux and for devs, Linux has fewer annoyances than Windows/Mac. Yes, most normal users would prefer not to use a terminal, which any troubleshooting in Linux basically requires. Yes, most devs would prefer to be able to manually or programmatically update settings, which Windows tries to actively avoid. There's not a lot of discussion to be had here other than advice that can be taken from one to another and try and accommodate as many workflows as possible.
An area I visited near Sacramento was routinely 112-120 degrees last summer.
Let's not pretend that Amazon hasn't spent significant effort over decades building and maintaining their own (non-monorepo) build systems and tooling.
Actually I disagree. Any time there's an Open Source tool that does everything for free, it's extremely hard to justify paying for a proprietary product that does it much better, because companies are cheap. There's many open source projects like this that are just terrible but a company will always use them first because they're free.

The answer isn't modularity, it's composeability, which is a significant difference. A modular program requires "integration" (tight coupling of APIs/ABIs) whereas a composeable program has loose interfaces which require virtually no "integration".

Drone.io is one example; you can implement any "plugin" purely by creating a container with an initial CMD entry that reads environment variables, and that program can interface back with Drone a number of ways (STDIN/STDOUT, REST API, database). Another is any application that just reads in or spits out simple line-by-line instructions or a JSON blob. Unix pipe based programs are the penultimate example. The dumber the interface, the easier it is to compose.
Is a judgement of character not "of substance"? Where is the substance in an erroneous accusation of ad-hominem?
Urbit Media Introduction
By that metric I could say the same of literally everything I do in life. Being bored at times is just normal... Meanwhile I go outside with my son, race down the street, or just kick a ball, and watching him laugh isn't boring at all. YMMV.
it varies from place to place but perhaps the minimum age for participation in a legal contract/useragreement to be binding
Is this ruliad the logos of philosophy?

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My own attempt at what Wolfram is doing resulted in:

1: f(a,a)

2: f(a,b)

I call the former introspection and the latter is regular old composition. This seems to be a taxonomy of everything my discerning mind is capable of and hence the limit of what aspects of human experience I can peer review. The rest (the bulk) is mysticism and always-valid personal experience.

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“Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through the active construction in which we participate.”
– Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (1984)
After seeing how gas stoves pollute homes, these researchers are ditching theirs
Just don’t. Fill the gap. Meditate. Build something.
Wolfram is a famous crackpot. I wish a peer review before I start reading his essay. No doubt he is again advertising his Wolfram* products, New kind of science, etc. No?
> A couple of years back I started dabbling ...

Awesome. This is what schools and good teachers should be doing. That it comes from within you is rare. Take care.

> I feel like something is missing.

Never lose that feeling. It's precious. It's what motivates the greats.

> I feel like I want to do something more tangible with this breadth of interest

The answer is "Help people." How that unfolds is the journey. Nobody can tell you.

> What does one do with an intellectual life other than swimming through intellectual content?

Discover tools that can improve the individual lives of people. IMHO "the world" and any group of people is the wrong level of analysis and your energy will get blurred out in bureaucracy and money issues.
Time doesn't work very well. There are lots of reasons why you will see different behavior at different times, so it really only works if you are trying to check something with a very large effect size.

Much better is to run your control group and experiment group in parallel, like I described above.

Is your objection that showing ads for something irrelevant could affect whether the user converts?
You hit the nail on the head, for the record. Thank you!
The Best Lack All Conviction While the Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity
> connected with thousands of peers in my field

Very cool. I will definitely keep that in my back pocket.
Wengrow has it out for Dunbar's number for fairly esoteric philosophical reasons.

Dunbar is often taken as meaning that above a certain group size, direct, intuitive or emergent democratic organisation isn't possible. You need kings, presidents, parliaments , courts and whatnot. He's mad at Yuval Noah Harari for similar reasons.

It's somewhat of a straw man, imo.

As for Dunbar, what do all these Dunbar's number studies amount to? I mean sure, they confirm something about how many relationships we can maintain, and such. What does any of that imply though.

Dunbar's number studies haven't really proposed, tested or studied any consequences to their theories. What happens when group sizes increase beyond the number? That makes it pretty empty theory, imo.
It was probably an oversight in the rules, as the entry's readme alludes to. They knew that by submitting this, the rules would be amended to be much more strict. Whether that includes requiring a compiler of some sort, I'm not sure. I doubt it - I would imagine the file just has to be 1 or more bytes now.
I believe many countries have special laws about the online activities of children below the age of 13. Seems like a good cutoff.
The Case for the US ICBM Force [pdf]
The closest we have is Protobufs/gRPC and other similar RPC code generators. It is difficult to do GraphQL style ABI efficiently because dynamic queries require a lot of dynamic memory allocation and that is not good for low level code. (I may be wrong, perhaps there is a way if you can get hardware support).
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I get it and it's probably done out of habit but in English it's just weird. AFAIK no English speaking majority area does it either.
The Free Universal Construction Kit
I know my tendency to get addicted so I just don't play games anymore.
Wolfram is very smart and a really compelling interview.

He's also an arrogant asshole and his arrogance has greatly hindered what he's been able to accomplish. After doing a lot of interesting work in the 1970s and 1980s (including creating Mathematica), he's done very little of note since then. His books and writings have had no impact on the physics or scientific community.
I guess that would be a no-brainer if someone considered anything that made Windows more like Linux an improvement, but they probably don't. People in general feel most comfortable with the Desktop shell they are used to (the little differences feel jarring) and people who are used to using Windows probably also use some Windows-exclusive software.

Also, it's not like Windows has no upsides to it. Relatively recently, I bought a laptop that came with Windows 10 (as they often do), and I noticed that it boots up pretty quickly to login screen; I think a fair bit faster than it takes for another OS to boot up to just the full-disk encryption prompt. It's certainly not enough to make me consider using Windows, but it's not nothing, either.
That's the real trolley problem: they have to be powered by SOMETHING.
I think you've crossed over into the unnecessarily absurd.

When I got my offer and contract to sign which stated remote work I made damn sure it was in the contract along with compensation, holidays, sick leave etc. If any of these differed from the job advert, interview discussions etc then I'd be bouncing it back to the employer to correct.

These are not "pretty hard standard[s] to hold" a potential employer to.
Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 Against Omicron in Israel
My last company (non-tech and small to medium in size) bought a floor in their building and spent a lot of time and money on making it "welcoming". They fitted it with new desks and chairs, a large kitchen, common areas, small meeting rooms (some for small groups and others for individual phone calls, and more). I got to visit the floor twice before I switched jobs.

I'm guessing that the company's interested in gradually moving away from a hybrid work approach and getting people back in their seats. It's the type of company (and industry) where face-to-face communication is deemed as highly important for everyone (those in staff and line positions).

And to my point on the shiny new office, I'm sure the ET wants to get their money's worth.
There's millions of people that have already been infected with COVID and receive no calculable benefit from taking a vaccine. While the vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective, there are rare side effects that some people might not want to expose themselves to for no reason. Springing that blanket requirement on people at the end of the hiring process is a shitty move.
Perforce is ok. It has roughly the right model, it scales pretty well, and the tools are... good enough.
Those prices don't include storage or over-provisioning for cloudy / still days.

Nuclear is still likely cost effective at night, or in the rainy season. The only other carbon neutral technologies rely on special geographical features (geothermal, hydro).

One way to think about energy moving forward is reducing the problem to heating houses with heat pumps during stormy weather, or at night.

Solar, wind and batteries basically imply we'll have surplus energy in all other scenarios.
Not sure if you mean "liberal" or "Liberal" but in BC for instance the provincial government is considering overriding municipalities that are not approving enough residential development. I don't know how much the federal government can do here? I'd appreciate any insight.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8641905/bc-local-governments-hous...
At least in the US, I don't believe you're supposed to use the internet unless you're 13 or older. You could start there for your dropdown.
The age verification feature is for COPPA compliance, but I’d really like to see the provision that prevents correcting errors.
(Sorry for the late reply - while I appreciate no notifications from HN it also means I tend to just forget about it).

The hobby is sports. I'm relatively gifted as a "hybrid" athlete, if I work hard at it I can get podium finishes at OCR / Hyrox type events. I'd still do it without that though, it produces an emotional state that, while not taking away the rational thought that there's ultimately not much purpose to anything that I do, makes me not really care about that at all. Makes things make sense even when they don't.

However, the fact that it (a) combines really poorly with a lack of sleep and (b) has an expiration date (athletic ability is of course age bound) do contribute to the sense of dread.
> Gambling disorder is the only behavioral addiction (as opposed to substance use) identified in DSM-5.

There is no such thing as video game addition. Video games do not directly hijack the substrates your brain uses for calculating motivation and interest. It's just another stimuli coming in through your normal senses. There is nothing magical, good or bad, about stimuli on screens.
* Why is ownership management a mess in a monorepo? Can just decide “this team owns this folder hierarchy” etc.
* ‘Contain blast radius of changes’ - is that actually difficult? Isn’t there tooling that figures out what changed and what dependencies need rebuilding? (eg Facebook buck)

For context, I was for a very long time at FB so am definitely used to the monorepo way, and recently switched to place which uses github + many repos, and it feels so much worse.

Honest question - how do you actually effectively share code between many repos? Example: How do I know that me changing my backend app’s API doesn’t break any other project in the company potentially calling it? It should be a compile/buildtime error for the other project, but how does that work if everything is in its own little repository?
Amazon Corretto 18 Released – Why Go for It?
Why would you want to skip? To prove your power :)? A bit of irony
As always numbers as that are quite fuzzy. To estimate the risk, I like to look at physical modifications of our environment that _may_ prove dangerous, until we can prove their'e not.
And if we look at the matter our earth and atmosphere is composed of, nuclear energy will likely do a much more distinct impact in the long term than any other man-made energy production efforts so far.
While we are just causing turmoil in the carbon and mineral dust distribution of our planet, this is also done by animals and plants in the long term and by vulcans in the short term. But messing with the isotope and elemental composition is quite unique and happens far slower on a natural pace, and in other bodies like stars of course.

So tl;dr: We modify our planet in a _maybe_ destructive way for hundred thousands of years to come, by nuclear power generation.
We don't know for sure if and how risky it is, but on other things (think of terrorism) we are taking vast efforts to keep risk at pace. So we should do with the elemental and isotope composition of our environment - by nuclear power!
>If someone clicks your ad and buys the product during that session, you know the ad worked

This is not as clear as you make it seem. Let's say there's a hypothetical product that a consumer only buys once every 5 years. If someone clicks your ad and then immediately buys the product... what if they would have bought it anyway, tomorrow, or 5 minutes from now, without the ad? How can you test that counterfactual?

If I buy cat litter online once a month every month for 5 years by going to example.org/catlitter -- but then they decide to start advertising on facebook, so now I click the facebook ad once a month to buy cat litter from the same site, are the ads "working"?
No, but here's the catch that I learned about: if you're assigned to an office, they can make you go into that office at the same frequency as in-office workers. You'd basically have nothing in writing that states you're a remote employee (I specifically asked the recruiter about this, and he confirmed). Otherwise why would being fully remote need "special approval"? That doesn't make any sense.
Sadly, Washington is the largest special interest group in Washington.
The goal in showing an ad for something irrelevant is to have a control group: one where it is very unlikely that your interaction is going to affect their purchasing your product.