skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple answer to "how do civil lawsuit records end up where they can get their hands on them" is that civil lawsuit records are of course public, and available to anyone who wants them. Although I haven't specifically heard of this one before.

Are civil suit records not public not in Germany?

But hearing that a criminal history check is illegal in Germany outside of specific industries continues to reinforce my belief that everything just works right in Germany.

How do I get residency?
To answer your last question, we would need to have a good idea of what the language sounded like. Linear B was deciphered, we think, by doing frequency analysis but using the Greek language. so it was a script for the Greek language in Crete.
It seems impossible to decipher the script without a sound of the language.
I've talked with Wolfram a couple of times about New Kind of Science, in 5-10 minute chunks, at various points in its evolution, spanning 20 years. I listened as he did the same with others.

With a couple of exceptions, none of these people were over 0.1 on Wolfram scale when it comes to physics or even math, but I never got the impression that he thought that any of us were stupid fools.

If anything, he seemed overeager to help us understand and even seemed interested in what we thought.

And no, he doesn't have the social skills to fake this. (He also didn't have any incentive to do so in that context.)

He may be more dismissive of folks who are above 0.7 Wolfram. (He wasn't dismissive of the 0.5 Wolfram I know, even though that person was somewhat dismissive of him.)
This is not really guaranteed to solve the problem. It will only be a part of the solution.

In many countries, including Europe, new properties are quickly snatched by investment companies that have much easier access to capital than private individuals and can easily afford to pay above market prices. People shouldn’t really have to compete with companies or “investors” on the housing market.
I avoid immersive games entirely because I can lose days to them.

Avoiding at source is not the only way to manage a willpower problem but it is the most decisive.
I'm born on January 1st, <Scroll down far enough>
I'm only 31, but I've noticed a considerable decline in my mental ability over the last decade. My ability to learn and adapt at 16-21 was immense compared to today. I could pick up new programming languages or learn a skill easily back then. I was also more creative and there was rarely a day I wasn't coming up with some new project or business idea.

On top of the mental decline I've also noticed I'm just more tired and less driven generally. Even if I have a good idea and I'm able to learn what I need to learn to execute on it, I can't convince myself to do the all nighters or the networking to make my idea a success anymore.

I guess it's not all so bad though. I still feel sharp and physical capable for my age. I also have a ton of knowledge about the world generally and I feel my predictive ability in recent years has gotten far better. I just know how things are going to play out and how people will react to things if that makes sense. For the first time in my life I'm really starting to appreciate the wisdom my dad has too. It's quite funny how much advice of his I've dismissed over the years only to find out later that he was probably right.
> Have they? It's a horrible back and forth, not based on any evidence. (...)

You're grossly misrepresenting the facts. If you take an objective look at recent history, you'll realize that politicians have been trying to juggle public health guidelines with economic and political topics. The bulk of these arbitrary measures result from politicians caving in to issues completely unrelated to public health guidelines.

Take for example how some countries mysteriously relaxed COVID restrictions during major public holidays like Christmas and new year's eve celebrations to afterwards hastily reintroduce additional restrictions to contain the expected hike in infection rates.

> Couples were arrested for sitting at the beach.

No they really weren't. People were charged for endangering public health by purposely violating mandatory lockdowns and social distancing requirements. Trying to frame this as punishment for sitting at the beach is like complaining that drunk driving is punishing people for enjoying a drink now and then.
> False. Pumped hydro is already working at scale, and being built out as fast as capital can be scared up for it.

But not all countries have a suitable topology to build pumped hydro at a meaningful scale. And building everything from scratch isn't really feasible.
I’m not associated but there’s a recent book called “how to change”. Worth a read.
It was well known across the industry Apple required most people back in the offices.
I drove to LA once to do an interview the next day after confirming with the in-house recruiter. When I got there they told me they didn’t think I was actually coming because they had already hired someone. Also they didn’t want to pay expenses despite offering to do so in their letter to me.

So I called up a consultant firm I knew in LA and sez, “hey I’m in town interviewing at X for Y, but I don’t like them and I wonder if you got any Y jobs" and they got me a (consultant) job as the technical lead for the job the X company had placed the other DBA at.

Later I had my attorney send a letter with my documentation to X company and settled up for time, expenses, and atty fees.
I'm sure the conservatives are equally responsible NIMBY's as well.
OP is explicitly not talking about something open to human interaction (“saying”, “symbols”, “moving (symbols) around” are all human operations).
IIRC the transfer can affect the green card process depending on the stage you are at. IANAL, check with your immigration attorney.
Causal inference has made a lot of improvements since WWII, and "if" the advertising company knows what they are doing they run effective A/B or MAB testing; that said, statistical power is typically low because of insufficient sample size for individual companies.

You could pool all ads together, but since each advertising company is independent you get into all kinds of weird path dependencies.

While I wouldn't claim to be an adtech practitioner, I did at one point help a few F500 work through conceptual models of multitouch attribution and other statistical issues. These are very nontrivial issues -- proving advertising effectiveness is very difficult!
Retail Quant Options Pricing
I'm actually impressed by the speed at which the retail trader landscape is growing. In just a year, the space went from rudimentary sentiment programs to full-fledged pricing platforms.
Just going to help everyone out here that got a RTO notice: https://remoteok.com/
https://www.taigi100.com/

I've been working on it on and off for a while. What I'm thrilled about is the fact that is has no JavaScript! It is very simple and has a small size!
Which should’ve helped a whole bunch of hard-working regular people to buy their first-time homes, but that is not what is happening it seems?
You needed to re-register it or you would have lost it. Ironically, that's what's happened to the website of leave.eu campaign :)
Commented below on somebody else asking the same :).
> Playing a game is kind of childish. That’s kind of the point.

Not really. The term "game" gets applied to this kind of interactive media, but that doesn't make it any more childish than watching a film or reading a novel. Or, you know, playing baseball or hockey.
I know this is probably naive thinking but I don't understand how we can have so much land and still have unaffordable homes and concentrated populations.
People's behavior changes drastically with time. Showing no ad for your product seems like a sufficient control?
> One has to wonder whether the individuals who insist on selling lead paint have any morality or sense of ethics.
We've known about the harmful effects of lead additives in paint since at least 1786…it's difficult to imagine there being any possible forgiveness for such actions.

The list of companies doing exactly this is very, very long. You can still buy packets of deadly carcinogens at the corner store. We’re still belching vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. We’re manufacturing all sorts of molecules that have either proven or suspected harmful effects and distributing them liberally across the globe…it’s a pervasive facet of our capitalist system.
That might work for much more senior or established roles where the hiring pool is small and candidates few. But for your bog standard engineer roles it's not worth the company time and hassle to fuss with negotiations before interviews even start. The unfortunate reality is they'll just pass over anyone demanding such things and grab any of the other resumes on the stack.
I have a similar thing, if I install a particular game I tend to play a bit too much, then uninstall and won't play for awhile; and reinstalling it takes several hours on my lousy internet connection.

I do play a healthy amount of another game, but tend to play with my siblings and it is more about the social aspect rather than the game itself.

I agree that filling the time with something better is important, and to stick to a particular amount of time with a game. The "just one more match" syndrome is real, and can create issues.
Weird, I know the left likes to blame the rich, but I’ve never seen specifically rich foreigners.

Also for real how can the voters (ie the average citizen) be the problem? The average citizen has no money and no political or regulatory power. The average citizen just exists in a system they have no control over and responds to incentives. Hoping that en mass people won’t do that is like politely asking a river to move.
Show HN: Kcaps.app – a tool to design keyboard shortcut images
Hi HN!

While working on a project that requires some images of keyboard shortcuts to be put in documentation, I came up with the idea of this small design tool.

kcaps.app is quite simple, however, it provides a number of color schemes and allows users to quickly print or press keyboard combinations and download images as a result.

I hope it will be helpful for someone else :)
If you really need to stop, use cheats.

That will break the dopamine cycle and you’ll be free.

Maybe it also works to limit play time to healthy levels.

For example, I was once playing quite a bit of WoW, and after I trying it out on an unofficial server where I could teleport anywhere made the game lose all its appeal.
You create customization scripts or take parts of system behavior from some trusted repository.

Customization is not about "trusted vendors", its about you.
Huh - that's really interesting - thanks for that insight. One more thing to simulate.
I'm surprised by the advice to avoid a cover letter. I think the cover letter is more important than the resume because its provides a thesis for hire. Whereas the resume is a list and you are hoping they ask you about something. But you can just plant the seed in the cover letter.
Its zoning and nimbyism.
I played Myst 2022 and Riven in the past month. Riven is still as amazing as I remember. I didn't remember any dialog, plot, or books, but remembered all the puzzles and settings - after 20 years!

The Witness and to a lesser extend OW were evidently influenced by these games. Overall, I liked them more! Subtle and clever in ways the Cyan predesessors are not.
By definition, your experience is a small sample size.

I won't say my sample size (about 5 people who worked there and 10 people that have interviewed) is massive either, but mine is 100% negative. Yes, all IT people, so I'm not even dealing with the poor line workers.

Their turnover numbers IMO validate the negative views of Amazon. The ass-covering and lying during their downtimes over holiday also show a degrading culture.

Their UIs also show a poorly managed IT staff. I can understand warts, but why not gradual improvement? The biggest sign was their awful redesign of the console, which was demonstrably worse and has not improved.

"You're not supposed to use the UI in AWS"

Well OK, their APIs are not well documented. When you have a command with literally 100 options, you need a LOT of examples. The documentation of their error codes is basically "stackoverflow", and change over releases with no warning. And this is for their most used services, who knows what the various other crap is like. And they only show examples of invocations, they almost never show the OUTPUT format.

This is something that should be actively improved for the leading cloud provided that will probably hit 100 billion in revenue in 2022. You can't invest .0001% of your revenue to better documentation and tooling? Like that HASN'T cost you 1000x that in services and revenue already with people unable to get their prototypes off the ground or fix problems to scale more quickly?

They show management, they show low worker motivation, their marketing and press is so bad that Walmart seems like a good corporate citizen in comparison.

All of their policies can be glossed over with growth.

Unfortunately, AWS isn't a startup company anymore, it is a utility, an important core component in the foundation of the internet. Their culture and hiring and communication show that their growth HR policies are going to backfire in the coming decades as all their systems are likely on the their third or fourth "generation" of people being responsible for it.

Consider getting a software job at Amazon: likely you're getting shunted onto some "legacy" (you know, written 4 years ago, 2 employee generations ago) and are expected to know a big complicated messy codebase with no docummentation and no organizational memory, and then you get saddled with ridiculous expectations.

You either get to greenfield redevelop it (if you have a nice manager) which is risky, or you are utterly fucked from an advancement perspective and you are just meat to chew.
A Year on Windows
Its Conway's Law, Your code organization is a reflection of your engineering teams organization.

The number of repos you have should roughly be equal to how many autonomous engineering "groups" you can divide into that work largely independent of other groups. Anything a group touches should probably be in the same repo as everything else that the same group touches.
They're not lying, there are just significant internal miscommunications. A lot of the big companies right now have a lot of internal disagreements on the policies that pop up at various stage of the process.
Did something similar here years ago with original Unreal Tournament. Spent up to 8 hours a day playing it on week days, 15-18 hours at weekends for two entire years. Just woke up one day, walked into the bathroom, stared at the mirror for about 5 minutes and asked myself what the hell I was doing. Waltzed into the bedroom where my PC was, uninstalled it and never played a game again. I think I was just "done" at that point.

Within 18 months I got a new job, moved out of home, was married and had a child so go figure at what you're missing out on and go and do that instead.
Sadly, I don't think we're talking about the same place, the day camp in New Jersey where I worked closed at some point prior to 2014 (I can't remember the exact year right now).
What roles are you hiring for?
None of those are human-specific, machines and animals can do them. (Except saying, but I'm the one doing that verb, talking about moving symbols.)
Meanwhile FAANG leadership are taking meetings in their mountain homes and beach houses in the Mediterranean while we plebs are expected to commute on the daily.
Because not everyone can work remotely

Not effectively

It really does take a certain combination of personality type, personal drive, and interest in the work to be effective at remote work
Great article with a REALLY great summary about fixing problems by subtracting and not always just by adding. Thanks for the share!
I got it for free on PS4 and played it more or less to completion (100% of trophies, but not 100% of the puzzles), but I'm not sure I'd really recommend it. For a game that has had so much effort put into the environment, it certainly contained a lot of puzzles that were fairly disconnected from it. Even the ones that did have a client connection followed the same "line-puzzle" format which got fairly stale after a while even though different areas added new mechanics to the base rules.

It also felt very self-important to me. There are a bunch of audio-logs scattered about the island that are people reading profound-sounding quotes of famous people. It never felt like the game itself actually had anything interesting to say though
I still like chained posts on twitter a lot of the time, I think when used well they still really focus the writing.
> It perplexes me people advocate for this strategy. All I can think is it's another one of those cargo-cult ideas that everyone is doing because Google did it (So it must be good).

Not sure if it is a generic comment or a comment on TFA:

i) If the latter, I'm compelled to point out that TFA doesn't nearly advocate for monorepos as much as it lists reasons why a few SV companies use it, how they use it, and what they get out of it.

ii) If the former, then this blog post makes for a good read: https://tailscale.com/blog/modules-monoliths-and-microservic...
There is nothing magical about other addictive substances either…

I don’t believe anything about the definition of addiction has to do with how it “hijacks your substrate”. As far as I found - OP is describing addiction: an overwhelming desire to do something one knows is harmful, which provides no benefit to one’s life, that one cannot maintain a healthy relationship with.
Yes. This is an attempt to boost nukes, but however much better it makes nukes look, it makes renewables several times moreso.
I have founded 5x companies now. My last two have been remote only. I don't think I will ever go back unless I made physical hardware again--even then I might question it.

I have moved my family from California to Berlin. It is great we can travel Europe and I can work from anywhere. The tooling is great these days. Dealing with several timezones has its own issues but we aim to do quick daily standup over discord (yes no more terrible threaded messages in Slack). We use Deel to handle payroll around the globe. We try and get a face-to-face meetup once/year. Everyone seems very happy.

Now the only hard part is finding Rust engineers ;)
If there was in fact a contract. Most employment is at-will.
Have you tried Escape From Tarkov? :P
Amazon has Brazil versionsets and workspaces, which solve many of the same problems monorepos do. I really liked the way those extra resources let you organize "ad-hoc monorepos" from smaller repositories, but it's infrastructure that I haven't seen elsewhere.

Since leaving Amazon, I've mostly worked with monorepos and wouldn't go back to multirepos without Brazil-style tooling.
Thanks. It'll happen sooner or later, my girlfriend strongly wishes to be a parent and will probably murder me in my sleep if I back out now ;).

I know I'll likely figure it out, as I have everything in my life so far. That doesn't prevent that dread from creeping up, though.
You can totally have a healthy amount of playing. But it sounds like you're treating the whole endeavor of video gaming as if it is an addiction just from the start which in turn makes it an addicting activity to you. Just the way you phrase the beginning of your story where you would stop when your wife wasn't home but then you didn't care anymore and then you kept doing it when she was home. That's shame or something. It's just an activity it's just a game. Why not just play the game when you want to have fun? Spend time with your wife have fun with your wife make love with your wife if your wife is so important do things with your wife. You have a whole life. Video games are for fun and entertainment.
AFAIK, video game systems often have parental controls. You could get your wife to set it up. For my kids, we use a combination of parental controls and reminding them to setup and respect their own timers to get them into the habit of being mindful of screen time limits.

My oldest still thinks about and wants to talk about games a lot while not playing, but he's gotten used to video game time limits and can spend his time in other activities without fuss.
It is possible. Civ 5 had an option to display game-play time. This was all I needed to avoid really long sessions. It would be great if all games had this option, as most games go full-screen obscuring the system clock.

The alternative is to put a physical clock where you can see it by only shifting your eyes.

That said, I don't play games anymore. If I did try them again, I would want a visible clock.
I mean.... not just the Romans. We used Lead too. In pipes, in paint, in gasoline. Everyone was literally breathing it daily in all major cities until the mid 80s.
Most responses are clouded by emotion still. This is a kind of war on reality since the proposal is to pass the torch of Truth-saying from one institution to another. That no heads are being lopped off in more than verbiage is truly great progress in our quest for self-knowledge.
Summary:

I ran online advertising myself with no knowledge or experience and it did not go well.

How surprising!

For context, for over a decade across thousands, maybe tens of thousands of campaigns, a 30% increase in sales and leads has been a low benchmark that is easily achieved within 60 days of acquiring a client with few exceptions. As the space has become more congested, it has not become more congested with capable people, actively identifying lower competition mid to end funnel terms has remained a very stable and reliable method. You'll also find that so few digital advertisers are actively modifying and testing landing pages and expanding that inventory of landing pages based on what their conversions teach about their audience.

The language of the article makes it clear he never should have added a credit card to an ad account.
This is a fun idea, and works exactly as described! I really like how the styling feels like google search too.
It's not very useful to post some top-level like this addressed to "some low-quality comments". Can you point out the post to which you are referring?
I've felt the same restrictions, at first I built a version of my site using pollen; that had its issues, so I rewrote it into haskell (with an xml post format)

My main rationale for using XML for this is that

1. It was designed for it. (extensible markup!)
2. It has built-in considerations for things that could otherwise cause a more naive approach to have problems (for example, CDATA tag)
3. Other interesting features for this specific use case.

I don't love it, but it works OK. I might end up making a little less-verbose DSL which makes writing it a bit nicer, but actually converts to XML on a pass-through.

Anyway, shoot me an email if you want to compare notes on the topic. It seems like so many people are happy with markdown as an authoring format that its rare to meet people who see the problems.
I didn’t get the sense that Yang is a libertarian. UBI among other things would seem to conflict with Libertarianism.
How is the Banach–Tarski paradox a truth that exists independent of humanity? It makes a physically implausible assumption (existence of infinitely small objects) and reaches a physically implausible conclusion (violation of conversation of mass). Mathematics is full of things like this. They all look like human inventions to me.
How do you know any strategy is attributable to success or failure without testing it?

Pre/post analysis may be temporally correlated but this isn't proof because you haven't captured a baseline comparison.

A/B and MAB testing are helpful but not magic bullets.

Shapley values (marginal impact) is a nice mathematical outcome to have for multitouch attribution but as usually implemented is only a single statistic and can be a fluke without additional testing.