skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go work in an industry. Any industry that isn't IT, I suggest manufacturing and raw resource industries like farming and mining. After a year and you get your head around what's going on automate some of their business process or collaborate some some of their data into a form that's easier to interpret.

Sell back to your employer or their competitor. Congrats you've just started your career in coding and you didn't do a single whiteboard riddle I interview. Also your doing real work for real people and making actual differences in day to day lives. Not just some faang companies pleb work, bleeding metrics from the masses.
> Going straight from subsidized rental housing to home ownership doesn’t make sense

Nice bald assertion. It doesn't make sense to trap people in dependency, but I take it you're more comfortable with these programs failing in that direction...?

> this creates a perverse incentive

Which we already have, just with the reverse valence.

This is why I said I support means-testing the mortgage-interest deduction. People don't really understand things until they've been through them, and there's no good reason wealthier people shouldn't have to put up with similar paternalist nonsense for their handout.
A quote from that article:

This resulted in “stiffness in the lines and clumsiness in management and direction of troops” as large divisions of the army fully relied on their higher officers to direct all movement. “The loss of an upper-level commander,” Scheibert states, “Would cripple advance and retard again in battle.”

Interesting, this kind of criticism is leveled at the Russian army today.
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I aliased grep and find to their newer alternatives. Sure, the syntax will be off from time to time but due to muscle memory I couldn’t relearn the new tools otherwise.
It has a trackpoint mouse like the Thinkpads <3
Intimacy does not scale.

Conversation is an intimate activity.
Highly recommend THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeveryt...
Cursor arrow key layout fail.

Devs use cursor keys more than anyone and they didn't prioritise a layout you can easily hit with muscle memory. I know because my current laptop has a layout like this machine and it sucks
>I obviously did not say they themselves should build it.

I’m not sure that that is obvious. You posted this bit of instruction:

>Post it on Hacker News and observe the reaction afterwards.

If the “whites in tech” site doesn’t exist, wouldn’t your command necessarily include creating it? How is the poster you’re talking to supposed to follow your instructions exactly?

>I disagree, but I acknowledge someone would have to run the experiment to know for certain.

How would someone _stop_ you from buying a “whites in tech” domain, using it to write a blog, and submitting a link to this website?

You are trying to make a bit of a fuss about a website that you say doesn’t exist, so why not build it and post about it? I don’t really understand being impassioned about something so squarely theoretical.
Maybe Jim Buckmaster and Craig Neumark are taking notes.
Study on rats confirming this https://particleandfibretoxicology.biomedcentral.com/article...
which makes you wonder why would anyone name a distributed database acting as a “source of truth” Cassandra…
16GB RAM? Is it upgradable or can it be configured higher? If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point?

FHD at 14"? That's more than usable sure, but I'd prefer at least 2560x1440, preferably 2560x1600; A 16:9 aspect ratio is a pain in the ass.

4 years ago, these specs (if you can even call it that, we've been given almost no information) would have been decent. Now? This just seems desperate.

EDIT: I know this is quite critical. I like that there is a laptop out there from a traditional OEM, that is being supplied with Pop! OS. I just wish it was a better laptop, because the person looking for a laptop with Pop! OS is more than likely going to be looking for one with decent specs and may have enough additional income to spend on those specs. Other than the 1TB drive (I'm happy with 256GB in a lot of cases thanks to my NAS and streaming), this feels like the bare minimum specs for a laptop in 2022.
I'm writing software to present audio and textual recordings of bible verses word by word in a similar fashion that some speech synths highlight words as they are being said in reader programs. This works with audio recordings from my own voice though. I couldn't find software that did this off the shelf. But thanks to Mozillia/Baidu DeepSpeech I have a complete solution now running in the terminal. I'll upgrade it tomorrow to produce broadcast quality 4k presentations via ffmpeg and a custom setup in imagemagick.
I wouldn't call it savvy. It's been entirely, nauseatingly, transparent...
As far as civilizations go, Gobekli Tepe is not really "advanced".

edit: I'm not sure why the downvotes, trying to clarify that this does not add credence to pseudohistorical narratives about long-lost advanced civilizations.
Unrelated to the narrow task of file hosting, but entirely related to the missions of those nonprofit organizations. Some of the fees go towards the cost for hosting subsequent iterations of the very conferences the papers were presented at
Exactly what time period in what part of the world are you thinking of? If you go back too far, you'll hit a time when places of worship were the government, or at least so entangled in it as to make no difference. If you don't go back far enough, you'll hit a time when work houses and sanitariums were commonplace, which might be inhumane by modern standards, but definitely count as "government programs to help the poor."
pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu
I gave up on bluetooth a decade ago; it just can't be relied upon. Once upon a time, we wondered: "wouldn't it be lovely if devices could just talk to each other, wirelessly, and we didn't have to fuss around with cables?" Now I know: "isn't it lovely that I can just make things definitely work, for sure, with cables, and I don't have to fight with the endless flakiness of some hacky wireless protocol?"
> Yeah, I've read all the arguments about harm, and I just don't buy it.

"I have no medical background whatsoever but I do not buy undisputed medical science."

> I'd get a CT scan every year if I could convince someone to sign off on it

20mSv of unnecessary ionizing radiation exposure a year, what could possibly go wrong? That whole-body CT scan is equivalent to getting at least EIGHTY chest x-rays, and ten times what a uranium miner receives in a year, and well within the range where an increased risk of cancer is noticeable in epidemiological data.

Case and point why this tool should not be generally available.
Or NFTs ;)
While if you use a car you are at the mercy of "baustelle" (roadworks) and constantly risk to have slowdowns (e.g entering a major city at critical times).

Until we have Star Trek teleports no single method of travel is "absolutely best". But dismissing trains altogether because they do not run at your own convenience looks a bit of a strawman to me.

I do not own s car anymore, but when it is really the best option I rent one. But I also check first if a bus or train gives me reasonable guarantees to reach my destination in time (if they do, they are also way cheaper, especially since COVID, at least here).
Blockly at 10
> The democrat-voting population is farther left than the democrat politicians.

That is your opinion, and based on your experience in your cohort, and additionally does not really address what "more left" actually means. There are many different types of people that vote Democrat at many different stages of life, in many different industries and in different states/areas where certain things have more support than others. And that's before we even start breaking things out to being "left" socially or fiscally.

I don't think the answer is "quite simple" at all, at least not in the way you explained it.
Why China is still obsessed with disinfecting everything
We need an older word than civilisation in English.

Civis (citizen) is Latin (civil etc) which is only around 2500 years old give or take a bit. We also have polis (city) related words from old Greek for politician, police polite etc.

We clearly need some words derived from really old Anatolian languages or perhaps there are some already.
To be brutally honest, this looks like a very lame laptop.
I guess you haven't heard about GraalVM Native Image yet, then.
It’s not that a google employee would steal the code, it’s that if a laptop is compromised the access to the source code can be immediately revoked. So if someone steals an employee’s laptop and coerces their password from them, the source code can not be accessed for long, and exactly what source code was seen is known.
My experience might be biased, but my solution was not working for American companies, specially big I.T. ones. I've worked in Brazil and Europe and have very rarely even been proposed the sort of grinding bullshit interview that seems common on the US industry.

Obviously, that's not exactly an easy route, but anyway.
That makes sense in that case, but if that’s the reason, how can that apply to situations where the ownership of the property is well understood?
Putin ordered Russian forces to be on the highest level of nuclear readiness. We have programs on Russian state TV where people talk about using nuclear weapons to drown the UK and devastate the European coast with a nuclear tsunami. This is a scary time we live in.

The conversation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine may now be centered on NATO, but it began with statements of routine training exercises at the border and escalated to the de-Nazification of Ukraine. Russia has not done well to reach the hearts of its neighbors.

That we have to reach past the Cold War into the American Civil War to discuss amicable relations does not bode well.
Why have any limit at all. What the hell does a limit even accomplish?
So the Proto Indo Europeans have finally been found.
Generally there would be no potential medical malpractice liability if a patient declines a medical procedure. That happens all the time.

Physicians can fire patients, although they seldom do so because of declining a medical procedure. Professional ethics and state laws generally require the physician to first hand off the patient to another physician first; they can't just drop someone with zero notice.

There is generally no mandated checklist, at least not from a legal standpoint. Some healthcare provider organizations do require their employees to follow certain written standards of care. Medical societies also publish evidence-based care guidelines. Compliance is voluntary but gross deviations could be factor in liability cases or in actions by state medical boards.

Insurance reimbursement is an entirely separate issue. Every insurance plan has a different network of providers and different rules about which services are covered under various circumstances.
It's so simple when you're innocent...

When you're guilty, not so much...

I dont know all of the facts but I'm a decent speculator.
Does your contract include a clause that states you'll lose these options if you're fired?
You could map those two kinds of people maybe by how they would act in a prisoners' dilemma. Cooperate, so that everyone is better off long term, or just think of themselves shortsightedly, no matter the externalities.
Just clicked, there is a pdf of the whitepaper that opens just fine for me, even on mobile safari.
> If you don't believe they ever helped anyone

I can see from your very uncharitable reading of my comment how you could see that I was saying that. I was saying that many people have not and currently don't have receive help from those charitable institutions, and also its not enough.

Look around you to see whether charitable programs are enough to solve these problems. If they were, they'd be solved. They are /helping/, but they're not enough, and often they come with strings attached like hide that you're LGBT, which some people literally can't do.

People need actual security - if charitable programs gave it to people then there'd be no problem, but they can't or won't.
> Get used to 'em.

No.

I’ve spent the last year or so reinventing the hiring process at my tech company to expressly avoid algorithmic puzzles and leetcode nonsense, and I was able to do this because I patently refused to accept the status quo.

You can do this too. Anyone can. I’m basically a moron and I managed to convince our talent team to radically change how we do things; if I can do it I feel like the bar is pretty damn low.

The only real requirement is that enough of us simply refuse to accept how things are today. Right now is a fantastic time for the tech industry to adopt change because your talent recruiters are probably struggling to find and retain new developers and are almost certainly willing to listen to suggestions on how to stand out.
First-Party Sets: Tearing Down Privacy Defenses Just as They're Being Built
It's just shit popsci journalism. Better off reading The Register.
Not a helpful comment. (And you should know.)
The state is funded by taxes and other income.
Germans elected representatives to decide/vote on issues like the 9euro ticket. You can try ad nauseam to redirect by adding complexity, but this was supposed to highlight that the difference is been paid for so that there is compensation the loss for regional public transport companies/structures.
At the end, we are all atoms miraculously clustred together, somehow self aware and writing comments to each other. (Now go ahead, add some complexity and redirection again /s)
Every movie where they open something they shouldn't and something dangerous escapes. The most popular being when the Nazis open the ark of the covenant and their faces melt (apologies for the spoilers).
>The entire process is wrapped in layers of fraud paranoia, even though the fraud rate is absolutely minuscule.

... or possibly "due to the layers of fraud paranoia, the fraud rate is absolutely minuscule". Difficult to know, I would think?
And none of it helps any of “our great military men and women” that they claim to love. It only helps the military industrial complex.

Again this is not criticizing the military. It’s more of a critique of the defense industry and their lobbyist.
My advice is to start early to avoid stress. Start mid-tenure of your current job.
The vendor lock is real, but right now there are enough open source technologies to build an application which is 'portable':
- PostgreSQL
- Elastic Search
- Kafka
- Nginx
> This pov is exactly what I was describing. It's always "more money will fix it." More control, more money, and then things will be better. I promise. Compulsive gamblers have a term for this: "chasing losses"

"more control" ?

"Expanding welfare programs = more control" is some tinfoil hat thinking.

I want you to pause for a moment and think critically for a moment and consider the context of the conversation.

Right now, if you're disabled, you're given a paltry $841/month, and you're told that if you ever have more than $2,000 in cash, that $841 will be taken away. The government is forcing you to live in poverty. You can't save money. Imagine you found a way to start a business despite your disabilities, and single $2000 month of income takes all your benefits away. Any attempt at improving your situation becomes an all-in endevour, so you better not fuck it up, or else the government kicks you into homelessness after the $841/month gets taken away.

How is improving this program by lifting the $2K limit expanding control? Seems like it would reduce control if you ask me by giving you the freedom to make the attempt at improving your life without worry of failure.
Not for SSDI. There’s a strict cutoff that’s adjusted every year. This year it’s $1350 — if you make more than $1350 any given month, you do not receive benefits for that month.
Here is the figure from the actual nature article that shows the lifetimes by metal:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-average-lifetimes-of...
That was originally the way money equalled fame. Also time in many monarchies was tied to the biography of the monarch. In Japan it was so, the Meiji period. In Matthew Mark Luke and John, KJV.
>In a way

In what way is it black and white view of things?

Solar energy production is not 100% clean. It never will be regardless if coal is used or not. That doesn't mean it's bad. The goal isn't purely clean energy. The goal is improved sources of energy.

Hopefully coal isn't used in the future. But things don't appear to be on track.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-17-march-2022-bei...

Unfortunately, because black and white thinking and evaluating energy sources without comparing them has resulted in a shortage of natural gas (thanks to fossil fuel divestment and ESG) and energy producers falling back to coal. The worst possible source of energy.
$25 billion is about 9 Virginia-class submarines. The US has already built 22 and plans to build 66. Granted, they're very nice and important submarines, but it still makes $25 billion seem like chump change by national project standards.
Hi! I'm another author on this paper. To answer your questions:

1. Monday puzzles are the easiest for our model, and Thursdays are the most difficult. You can see a graph of day-by-day performance here: https://twitter.com/albertxu__/status/1527704535912787968

2. Our current system doesn't have any handling for rebuses or similar tricks, although Dr. Fill does. I think this is part of why Thursday is the hardest day for us, even though Saturday is usually considered the most difficult.

3. We trained it with 6.4M clues. As new crosswords get published, we could theoretically retrain our model with more data, but we aren't currently planning to do that.
I think the solution that NixOS uses would work for Emacs too. Just define a single variable that declares which default values to use (in NixOS, it's system.stateVersion).

Then packages (including internal packages) can update their defaults based on the version declared there. Basically a protocol version field but for your Emacs configuration.

Distros probably need a different strategy for improving core utils, though.
Some day, they'll find us too.
Yes, in theory. On practice the problem is that the ITER doesn't recover enough tritium for economical reasons, and thus needs a constant supply of it for running its experiments.

There is another, unrelated issue that if we decide to scale (H + D) fusion power, for decades we will need more tritium than they can generate.
For mental health self-care, I sincerely recommend watching uplifting comedies and immersing yourself in laughter (movie therapy):

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-life
In my view, the goal of the current version of Web3 (previously, it was Semantic Web) is that applications can be decentralized. Is it possible that software services can be provided that are not controlled by any central authority?

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ICOs show the possibility of decentralized applications. From what I can tell (and how most people think), we are very far away from that promise with the existing offerings.

The current Web3 offerings are primarily a speculative play instead of an innovation play. It started as an innovation play and Ethereum was exciting because it suggested a proper focus.

I personally believe that it is possible to get there but we need to greatly change the current decentralized offerings. P2P technology needs to focus on innovation, value add, and service offerings to be worthy of being more than a P2P database used for speculative investment and money transfers.
SSI already has an income phase-out (not a cliff), as discussed in the article. The problem is the phase-out starts at $85 (!) and benefits steeply decline once you are in the phase-out, not that there isn’t a phase-out at all.

It also has a wealth cap, but that’s unrelated to the “make a dollar more and you’re done” idea that so many people hold, which is not how SSI income phaseouts work. The wealth cap is “you accumulate more than $2k at any one time, you’re done”, and that is different from making money resulting in a sudden loss.

It probably is not a great idea to have a wealth cap at any sort of a level that might be relevant to a middle-class individual. Someone shouldn’t have to destroy their safety net in order to qualify for benefits in the event they become disabled, and disability holders should not be barred from having enough cash to operate and to access the financial tools that would allow them to build their way out of poverty.

Maybe we could set a cap at $50k wealth or something but in the end who cares, if a few people in the top 1% end up using it that’s probably less costly than administrative costs of peering at everyone’s bank statements monthly.

Nor should there really be a wealth phase-out for benefits either imo. What is the benefit of making it harder for people who are just about to make the leap off welfare to actually take the leap?
On the other hand, the fact that it's still around after 6 years suggests it has a niche. It's never going to beat centralized services, but it would be kind of ridiculous to expect it to.
So happy to hear.
Yes. I agree with you. The current design needs to be improved. Next week we're releasing a big update to make the right side more aligned more often.

Yes, I think the yelp app will get some of those updates... We'll increase the priority in the backlog :)
> If there were "expensive doctors" who felt in their hearts the need to help your aunt, free of charge?

Hard to do when malpractice lawsuits are a thing.
> Cover letters are at least 70% more bullshit

Agreed. And yes, on LC problems they are a chore. I've been thinking about this a lot and here is my take on all of this from a different direction that re-inforces my opinion that it is a toxic culture.

The fact that developers are required to do a dance and memorize LC problems to regurgitate them in a timed setting is because there is a fundamental lack of trust on the hiring side. This is actually offensive.

Now, we might say, okay well LC problem regurgitations provide actionable signal. Definitely more than a cover letter! But is it a significant signal for software production ability? I don't think it is except in cases where the domain is well-trod.

I get why we need some kind of signal with the current way employment and hiring is structured. We need something actionable, something to build trust. But I think that's the problem. Trust should come first, otherwise we enter this current world where hiring is slow, fraught with problems, no one can fill their positions (and I don't think it's for lack of a talent pool).

I haven't through all of the implications of this part yet, but here is where I'm at. VC backed companies and VC backed company copycats will say they are doing all of this to avoid false positives. All so they don't waste their time on the Wrong hires. How long does it really take to know, when actually working with someone, that they are the wrong hire? Not long in my experience. Let's say 1 month. Just hire people on a temporary basis, pay them, it's a more ethical take home project in a way. And what is the current state? Well the current state is filtering so harsh on a low significance signal that it takes a company many months to fill a position. Are our assumptions about the false negative rate so wrong that it's actually very high? I think so.

I've had some pushback on the hire fast, fire fast methodology before as being bad for candidates. However, I don't think it's any worse than the current experience they receive.
Title should have been When rather than Why.
Could be the proto-Vainakh/Chechens for all we know