skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And maybe go on to found Amazon which changed many communities and the world.

For the better? Or for the worse?
immunomodulatory (immuno-modulatory) = modulates (i.e. controls) the immune system
You can work in the same time zone :

- Mexico, South America are same time zones as US

- as the other poster mentioned 75% US dev salary puts you in 1% in Eastern Europe, you will have no problem finding people with flexible work schedule adjusted to your TZ

Cultural issues are a thing in terms of understanding the US market - but that's up to your PMs/POs to handle. Cultural differences in terms of work habits, etc. go away with good compensation (if you're willing to pay for top people).
If you don't take your phone everyplace and leave it at home often, you'll probably also end up in some list of suspicion people at some point in the future. Absence of data together with an identity is also a footprint.
> It’s interesting to note that Social Security was designed to cover 100% of the population even though only a smaller segment needed it, specifically to make it harder to kill.

In case anyone is curious, please note the following excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Act

> Job categories that were not covered by the act included workers in agricultural labor, domestic service, government employees, and many teachers, nurses, hospital employees, librarians, and social workers. As a result,

> > 65 percent of the African American workforce was excluded from the initial Social Security program (as well as 27 percent of white workers). Many of these workers were covered only later on, when Social Security was expanded in 1950 and then in 1954.
Selfishness is not narcissism. Narcissism usually comes with selfishness, but you can't induce the other way round. It's interesting that you mention that Ferriss or his guests wouldn't talk about their acts of kindness, as that's exactly the kind of thing narcissists like to talk about (= virtue signalling).
As an example of literate programming, this is very well done, and the presentation is very pretty.

With that said, it is not the ideal way (for me) to explain code. There is too much too read, even with the TOC. What I want, instead, is distillation. I want the energy spent on meticulous comments to be redirected into simplification and reduction -- still with a few well-chosen comments for support.

For comparison, even with 0 explanation, I can understand this 57 line hyperscript wordle (a language have almost no experience with):

https://arhamjain.com/hyperwordle/

much more quickly than I could read through the literate version. I understand the goals of each are not exactly the same, but I think both are trying to "clearly and efficiently communicate what the program is doing."

Perhaps a presentation of the literate version where I could suppress all the exposition and dig into it only as needed would help.
Emailing.
So, all legal barriers have been removed for decades. There may be cultural barriers, or cultural incentives. How can you know when other barriers are gone, and you have a job that is just naturally more appealing to men or women?

Is there a point when you can say it's done?
It’s gonna take more than that to stop Twitter’s decline.
It’s for WebGL applications- specifically BabylonJS Engine scenes. You can feed the engine the JSON and it will generate the UI over your Canvas, WebGL or WebGPU application.
Hey, thank you and thanks for using it!
It’s actually quite reasonable and intuitive that an integral part of our environment i.e. the sun is beneficial or at least has modulatory effects on ourselves. It’s too much a reductionist approach to think sunlight -> bad because of it’s immediate associations with some types of skin cancers.
> Ark Invest’s Wood joined the conversation Wednesday, saying investors in index funds like the S&P 500 ETF missed out on Tesla’s 400-fold appreciation before it was added to the equity benchmark

Cool, let's check how Cathie's active approach did in comparison. Surely they must have capitalized on that 400-fold TSLA appreciation that the index fund dummies missed out on.

Nope - https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ARKK - same levels as it was in 2018. And much less than the S&P500 returns. Turns out that it's very easy to spot the 400x opportunities when you're looking back in time.
It's easy to find programmers, it's way harder to find system engineers, dev ops or similar.
Never heard of Alfred before, just looked it up. Will try it out this week.
To put it another way, consider if you have a significant other (where you share bank accounts, for example):

Are you uncomfortable without your phone even if they have theirs?

I’ve been in this situation and it’s not a problem at all. In some situations, it may be an inconvenience, but I wouldn’t call it “uncomfortable”.

But with my SO having her phone, we have all emergency situations covered (directions, contacting others, money, etc.), and that doesn’t — and _shouldn’t_ — bother me.
>No, but we are supposed to remove the barriers that prevent men becoming nurses and teachers, women becoming truck drivers, etc., etc.

I think this is a dangerous example in certain professions.

For example, someone I know was a volunteer fire fighter in a specific area that regularly required high risk fire suits + masks + oxygen tanks + supplemental gear. This is a huge amount of weight to be carrying around in sweltering temperatures, before even helping victims, or swinging an axe.

Likewise combat loads in the armed forces are regularly exceeding 40 lbs not to include crew served weapon systems. Add a stinger, a machine gun with a tripod+ full load, a Javelin, or a disassembled mortar and you have some serious weight. Armed forces have to remain mobile even when loaded.

Physics and engineering problems prevent the simplistic modification of these jobs to those that cannot meet the grueling physical requirements.

I think it is far better to define certain occupational requirements by certain requirements for entry. Now I know 95% of jobs don't require these, but for those that do it is a life & death matter.
With the last round of "empathy games" (early 2010's stuff like Cart Life or Depression Quest, all of which got some play in academic game studies) one of the major objections that came up was that the player of such games may not carry this forward into any positive action their lives, but rather see themselves like the viewer of a TV sitcom, aggressively making things worse for their character for the sake of being a troll: "sucks to be poor, lol".

If there's a correct way to produce an empathy response, it appears to be Undertale's model, in which the player spends most of the game thinking that they are beating the game by killing monsters and ignoring the signs that they actually made an ethical choice until it's too late, further hammered in by an extra layer of permanence in the game's save system taunting them for what they did.

The downside is that this seems to mostly be a shame response, not a guilt response. Much of the resulting fandom casually overlooked the darker elements of the characters you're sparing, which are mostly revealed in postgame content. That is, the ethical behaviors are produced by manufacturing an attachment to the fictional universe, not by developing the player's philosophy of action.

If you want to take on this type of game, addressing the player attachments is priority one. Otherwise they disengage with the content and aim just to break the game systems instead.
https://fluentsearch.net/ fluentsearch is way more powerful than powertoy run. It replaced my need for Listary as well. The author is an Microsoft engineer and have frequently updated the app based on the community feedback. If fluent search replaced powertoy run and be part of the powertoy, it will be perfect.
There can be underlying anxiety issues that make going out like that quite a stressful event, especially at first, and even traumatic if something bad does end up happening. Or sensory processing issues associated with autism spectrum disorders that make bright sunlight feel unpleasant. Not to downplay the general idea: certainly for most people who feel a little blue, or even crappy enough for long enough to qualify for a diagnosis of major depression, getting out more is likely to be helpful on its own (and that's why therapists generally recommend it). But to the GP's point, the lack of distinction between people with a more ordinary (but quite painful!) set of problems and people with a bunch of comorbidities that they're likely not aware of is really frustrating, especially if they're using the internet to look for ideas and find a bunch of people generalizing the easy fix that cured their depression to the entire population.
I don't see why not. I worked from Latin America for a couple months and met a lot of fellow tech employees there (Google, FB, etc). I also met a lot of local English-speaking SWEs who could have done our jobs with no issue. The timezone difference is miniscule or nil (esp for East Coast based companies), and they would be estatic to make $60k as opposed to our 250k+.
How did they get your credit card information? If it was stolen then it’s a simple fraud case and you’re not liable for any of it with any major credit card in the US (the federal law maximum liability would be $50).

In that case the chargeback reason is simple - the card was stolen, these are fraudulent purchases and you are not liable. If you have a balance on the credit card you refuse to pay the amount. They should remove the charge. And if your bank isn’t doing the right thing you file a simple online complaint with the CFPB. You will get a response in 15 days or so.

Though I’m not exactly sure why your ire is so strongly directed towards eBay and not your bank. They sound like the real villains here since you are their customer, not eBays.
Decision Trees Explained
Tesla 2021 Impact Report [pdf]
> For once, Google doesn't need to pay and feed an army to dominate the ADV market or build castles surrounded by walls,

They don't need to _yet_ that is. I always found the imagery in _The Diamond Age_ of New Atlantis to be a fun steam punk take of a future in an alternative-history. However I can't help but think of it when I read about Amazon's "Helix" and 'Amazonia' in Seattle, or Apple's "Spaceship" complex, Google's ... etc.

Really, we just need a few more legal tenets of Manorism where workers can't leave their sanctioned tech estate, ahem https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/silicon-valleys-...
The court case would be between you and the entity that owes you money - the payment method doesn't matter. In fact, this is the same reason that winning a card chargeback typically doesn't absolve you from contractual obligations towards the seller (though in most cases if they lose a card chargeback they have very little to stand on in court so they are unlikely to pursue it and even less likely to win it).
Incredible yet unsurprising. I once met a woman who had been at the U.N. 20+yrs when I gave a talk at a U.N. event in Kenya and at lunch I asked her what impact she'd had with the work they'd done. Her response was essentially (as I don't remember verbatim), I have no idea if any of the work we've done has had any impact. Further interactions with folks involved with the U.N. have continued to leave me unimpressed. I'm sure there are many fine and well meaning people there, but as an institution I cannot say I've seen much worthwhile.
I don't want to structure my life around: 1) visiting/doing all of X
category of things (like countries) and 2) doing extreme things because they are "challenging."
It's so typical of the rapid, results-oriented, outcome-focused world that we live in that McMindfulness has dashed into the forefront of popularity; oh look, I'll just ignore the last 2500 years of learning and sit on a cushion for 20 minutes a day for 6 months and, bang, I'm enlightened!

Meditation is not about meditation. It's not about your time that you're on the cushion. Any good teacher points this out again and again. Meditation is about life, it's about Metta, it's about understanding your place in the world. It isn't about progress, or happiness, or being calm. It isn't a fad, to be dropped for something different when that becomes the next popular thing on Instagram. It's deeper than that, more central, more vibrant, longer, simpler - but harder! This is a journey of a lifetime, not a happy pill.

The whole context is stacked full of nuance - which, to be fair, the article stresses time and time again. Set and setting are slap in the middle of this. IT DEPENDS, as it always does and always did. Some people aren't in the right place to take on a proper meditative practice; others are in it for the wrong reason. Others still are so goal-oriented that they'll never understand the path for what it is. Some will become more selfish. Others will become better people. This is life. This is meditation.
Using a pictureframe is a cool idea! I actually have an 64x64 matrix in my drawer that I havent used yet. Should you decide to open source your code I'd be very interested too.

I'll update my comment tomorrow with a GitHub link, just need to tidy up the repo first. This was my very first time writing c++, so the code is probably not the cleanest ;)
I moved to the SF Bay area and it was great being able to use the GPS + map app to see where you are on the BART. Its impossible to understand the announcements if they are even made at all.
I don't disagree. Those uses are probably mostly not issues the government would involve itself in but could be legitimate civil torts. It may be worth reminding people of those things somewhere but arguably doesn't belong in the license itself.
I understand that scaling infrastructure back up takes time and effort. I understand the long timescales involved in even the most basic of factory setup. I watched as it took a year to move the gear shop I was working at.

However, we were discussing not being able to reboot society at all. If you know how modern machining works, and have access to a supply of material and students to teach, it can be booted back up in reasonable timeframes. It wouldn't have to take a few Millenia to be re-invented again.

You can make machine shop level of flat surfaces with the Whitworth method. Steam technology on the small scale is something that can be done in the home shop. Once you don't have to rely on muscle to machine materials, you can scale up quickly.

Eric Flint wrote 1632, a work of alternative fiction which plays out this scenario by catapulting a mining town in West Virginia back to the year 1632. Food was the critical gate to pass through, but they made it.
From direct experience - It’s not that hard to stand up entirely separate teams and eventually entire departments in foreign countries. Communication then mostly happens by e-mail or during scheduled calls during narrow overlapping hours.

You’re right that it’s far, far harder to have teams built from members in opposite time zones. However, the people pushing for fully asynchronous work environments are building company dynamics that lend themselves to being timezone agnostic, so it can be done if you want it badly enough.
My blind cat always seeks sun spots as well!
I would really like to hear the other side of this story.

It's not too uncommon that some automated process blocks something. And customer service not being too helpful is also common. But the customer service being that rude, twice ... something is missing here. I my experience, if somebody gets blocked off like that, ghosted, hung up like that, something else has happened. There are different ways for a customer to express their issue and present their complain. Some get rude, demand to talk to a supervisor, and it sounds a bit like that's what happened here. That it happened twice is another indication.

It may have been bad from the customer service's side. Not impossible. But there is a smell to this story that makes me wonder what actually happened.
Some of what you described I believe to be very healthy discomfort. The type that is needed for growth. The type that can often lead to unexpected adventures. The type that you become thankful for years down the road. "It's all a breeze" is my biggest fear re: how society seems to be optimizing itself right now. Truth be told, a breezy life doesn't feel that interesting to me.
Oddjob was what we made the winner-goes-on play as in my circle of friends because his head is at headshot level. You headshot him by just firing from the hip.

Jaws, on the other hand, was taller than everyone so everyone had to aim up at your head, and you could get headshots on everyone else without moving the reticle.

Offjob's true advantage, at least for us, was that he could hide inside exploded boxes and he could counter Jaws.
The whole wellbeing thing being peddled in companies feels like such a scam. Like fad diets aimed at extracting money from vulnerable people.
Told you it drives people nuts.

So big-O implies that the runtime is "dominated" by the term in brackets, or put another way, if I say something is O(n^2) I'm stating that as n->infinity the runtime of the algorithm |R| <= c * n^2, where c is some constant.

This is still true of exp^n, since |R| <= cn^2 <= dexp^n. Or at least based on my analysis background I'd expect this behaviour. It is of course a little pointless to say the algorithm is O(exp^n), but that's a different issue. It is still an asymptotic upper bound.

I just checked my copy of Sipser. Example 7.3 on page 249 if you care. They give an example that f_1 is O(n^3) and state it is O(n^4) also, since n^4 is also an (asymptotic bound) bound.

But this is not the point. I have no formal computer science education at all (my background is mathematics, some logic if that counts, but I've never studied algorithms) but many interviewers insist on this one specific area of CS, and yet if you attempt to engage them on the meaning of the things then unless you are very lucky they will a) make some excuse about how they'd have to check, their degree is a while ago, or b) they're actually only reciting also.

I'm strongly of the view this is a massively cargo-culted interview question of questionable to no value for most software engineering jobs, given that interview time is very limited and there are many more important factors to evaluate.
Even white collar desk jockeys can need a truck on a regular basis. I'm one and own a truck. For about 9 months a year I use it frequently, at least once a week on average, to pull a horse trailer to get my daughter's horses around. A 4 wheel drive vehicle is required to reach my beach house because it requires driving on a beach which doesn't have compacted sand to drive on. AWD drive vehicles can't make it. I help pull many of them out of the sand each summer.
playing goldeneye with 4 players is such an amazing memory from my childhood. the screen cheating screams were constant -- to the point where we (as in, my group of friends) decided that screen peaking was worth an arm punch (without retaliation). and the group would judge if the offender was screen peaking or not!

oh and only the "noobs" (as in, the younger of our group) could pick oddjob, because it was almost cheating.
I’m not arguing politics - I’m simply stating that China’s military is superior to taiwans, which it is. Taiwan will not win a conflict with China, without intervention.
Would you make the same argument for amphetamines? Wonder what Erdős would have to say about this.

As far as communication goes, frankly, I regard large swaths of the internet as hostile and cognitohazardous. I'd rather be cut off. Though, fortunately the choice has already been made for me - there is no escaping assimilation.

The psychological dependence is already taking root; the societal dependence is next to come. Cash is dirty. There are no taxis to hail on the road. You require a COVID app to gain entry to this venue.
If you're really old, you'll remember MPW - Macintosh Programmer's workshop.

Commands used the editing document for both input and output.
In my…not too old, but not young years I am finding that I will quite often forget my phone at home. I find this to be of almost no consequence. I still carry a “wallet”, which is really just a stack of few cards. I live in a city, so if I really needed some info or had to make an emergency call I would just ask a neighbor (most people in my neighborhood are super nice). Most importantly, when I stop for a drink at a bar or I am at the playground with the kids I am forced, and this is a good thing, to not be checking social media/news aggregators/email.

I don’t think I could do without it during business hours because of the nature of my work, but it’s certainly fine for me to go without off hours.

Side note, I recently had a bunch of cash on hand for some reason. It is super convenient to grab a beer and just throw down a bill instead of waiting for a check. Digital pay services are great when splitting a check and are nsuper helpful when you are out of cash, but remember that cash, almost always*, works.
> As a manager I was told I can hire more people outside the US and was recommended to only hire in the US if I find someone who we really don't want to pass on. In other words, top talent would be OK, everyone else would have problems.

This is exactly what it turned into for us. We were encourage to hire most people outside of the US but to leave space for exceptional US candidates.

It’s a hard incentive to ignore when you can hire twice as many people within the same budget by going international remote.
> That's called rational and responsible policy.

While I wouldn’t say that the policy as implemented was optimal, I think it’s worth considering the conditions under which it was made.

Each policy like this needs to balance the efficiency of the program with its coverage of those who need help. As an example, giving money to everyone unconditionally would have ensured full coverage, but it might not be very efficient. However, each restriction added to make the aid more targeted risks excluding people who genuinely needed help (reducing coverage) and _also_ increases costs since now the restriction needs to be tested, there needs to be an enforcement apparatus for those who violate it, etc. This is an uncertain calculus.

Then there’s the political reality that policy is not created by a benevolent dictator but instead through compromise among many individual parties, each of which has their own agenda and priorities, some of whom are acting in bad faith. Each decision point leads to more debate (should this group be in or out? should this threshold be X or Y?) and hassle, while in the background there are people suffering right now. After some point, you have to give up and accept the imperfections just to get it done.

Finally, politics being what they are, no matter how effective, helpful, and efficient the program is, the government’s reward for shipping the aid package is that the opposition party will decry it as wasteful and unnecessary. Every flaw will be amplified as part of their overall political messaging, and armchair analysts with the full benefit of hindsight will critique every decision. I can’t imagine that provides great motivation to put a lot of effort into polishing and tweaking the policy into perfection.

All of this is not to say that we shouldn’t strive for better programs and government—we absolutely should—just that it is a tremendously difficult problem.
I agree that there are factors unrelated to ability to fulfill the role that increase the probability that a person is hired. That is simply a failure that some are more willing and or able to take advantage of. A good process evaluates ability to fill the role.
Oh wow- the thread shares a new spec that does exactly this. Incremental Font Transfer[0] which “…allows clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which speeds up font loads and reduces data transfer needed to load the fonts.”

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/IFT/