skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm not meaning to brag about being a model or technical, just matter-of-fact, it was a job like any other. In fact they alone cared nothing for gaps in my resume or bad GPA, just looks, very tolerant in that regard.

So what happened is the guy who scouted me, my agent, lived in the same neighborhood, and we'd bump into each other a lot. He started his own thing after getting fired, took models with him. But he was bad at tech, and had a really busted computer with a defective screen. So I had a really old VGA desktop CRT monitor lying around, brought it over and it worked great, he could use the laptop. Then, he had to get this "factoring" thing to work, like an advance on payments and value-added taxes, it's a whole thing in Chile, I don't know much about it. Well I knew enough at the time to like figure it out spinally, do intuitive stuff just by feel and based on idiosyncrasies of Chilean web apps...I got it to work, it was weird. He got the advance! And then he stayed in business, and he told me over and over he owed me a favor. He would have been screwed, he said so himself.
Careful not to strawman: you exaggerated the idea of having to join a union in order to work a particular job, into being coerced by your government, and now you're attacking the idea of being coerced by your government. You're no longer commenting on unions.

Let's get back on track: Americans overwhelmingly clearly need unions because employment and contract laws do not protect individuals (including those self-employed) anywhere near to the degree that it protects groups covered by collective agreement contracts.

When we drill down, what I suspect we'll find is that what you oppose is having to sacrifice part of your salary for something you won't reap the benefits of. And that'd be a fair concern: America has a huge wage problem that's only been getting worse over the last half-century, where some jobs are now decadently overpaid, while most jobs are criminally underpaid as to not even be a living wage despite full time employment.

So here's the irony: the only two ways to solve that problem are to enact laws that force companies into paying true living wages, which we can comfortably say cannot happen given the farce that is US politics, or through collective agreements that force companies into paying fair wages because they won't have a workforce if they don't. Which requires unions.

With the ultimate irony of course being that the only way to make sure those union don't forget about your needs (e.g. ensuring enough salary bands so you won't go down in pay, ensuring the due scheme is fair, ensuring there are clear restrictions on how the dues get spent so that being the head of the union isn't a retirement plan of its own) is to join one and help steer it through active participation.
Lol, I love that you were honest.

It doesn't mean you should get praised for the other effects your actions had, but I do appreciate the honesty. Hopefully you now understand why people don't like others urinating in spaces where they possibly have to also occupy.
This headline is combining two separate items with separate causes.

PayPal is closing the SF office because the new tax regime makes their business model nonfunctional (as it does to all payments businesses). The tax would be effectively based on payment volume, rather than profit, and so more than their entire margin would burn up in taxes.

Separately, PayPal is laying off staff across their other offices to cut expenses and transition further from a growth-of-revenues model to a model of stable revenue at lower cost. Now being not the time to try to have rapid growth in the space if you're already the entrenched player, at least according to them.
I'm probably drawing parallels here that someone who has a better understanding of the academic world could validate or reject, but.. it feels a bit like there are more similarities emerging between published research and published software.

Citations are somewhat similar to dependencies, and post-publication review (as mentioned by the tweet's author) could be seen as similar to code review.

(note: when I say "more" similarities emerging, that's because I think there's already a positive trend towards publishing code and datasets alongside research papers, aiding reproducible results)
I hope this is self-deprecating humor, but for anyone that takes it at face value:

The implication of a successful attack on NPM, with huge unvetted dependency graphs currently in fashion, would be that any of the thousands dependencies of a modern small JavaScript app could suddenly include malicious code that runs your dev machine or your production systems.

(That's why the key part of the announcement is "GitHub is currently confident that the actor did not modify any published packages in the registry or publish any new versions to existing packages".)
Flowcarbon: Carbon Assets [pdf]
If memory serves, the o.g. Tesla Roadster was based on the Lotus Elise.

Though it looks like an electric refresh of the Elise (probably renamed) is coming in a few years.
That’s now called “I’d say no because of the scam where they use a premium number and bill you for a very expensive phone call.” If somebody’s phone is dead they can borrow my battery pack.
We probably would have went to war with China if our children were dying
Sounds less like capitalism breaking down and more like a regulatory issue.. could fractional reserve banking exist in a competitive banking sector w/o a central bank?
I found this analysis wildly off-base. No classical economist would suggest that increasing the money supply raises all prices uniformly, but the author seems to think that by showing that different goods' price changes are not uniform, that some how proves inflation is not a monetary phenomenon. What?

From Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics - "Inflation is a _general_ rise in prices. The national price level rises for the same reason that prices of particular goods and services rise - namely, that there is more demanded than supplied at a given price. When people have more money, they tend to spend more. Without a corresponding increase in the volume of output, the prices of existing goods and services simply rise because the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied at current prices and either people bid against each other during the shortage or sellers realize the increased demand for their products at existing prices and raise their prices accordingly."

Note the emphasis on general. There is no reason to expect that the outcome of customers bidding against each other, or producers increasing prices to meet new demand levels would be uniform across all goods and services, furthermore, you would expect that the existing climate of the time would wildly swing the actors' actions involved in these bidding & pricing exercises.
If you ever want to go to e.g. law school, yes it does.

Part of the reason for grade inflation is that it helps with those sorts of admissions down-the-line. US News looks at median GPA when evaluating law schools, which has a bunch of trickle-down effects, one of the major ones being that law schools weigh GPA very strongly.

That problem is not exclusive to law schools.
10x compensation goes to the 10x negotiators
Is Grade Inflation really a problem at a top school? Why is it surprising that driven students at an elite institution are probably going to do well most of the time? I'd take this over moronic experiments like grade deflation at Princeton -- imagine being mandated to give only a small proportion of your students an A in, say, a Calc I class.

I'm slightly annoyed at this discourse because I went to Columbia, an institution that seemed hellbent at enforcing some vague sense of rigor at the expense of the sanity of most of its students. I certainly want to be challenged, and don't want top Universities to be glorified country clubs masquerading as academic environments, but I also think that what a defines substantive and rigorous eduction is at the highest level is actually quite hard to pin down.
I changed the linkbait title* to something that the article actually says, but it's a bit obscure. If there's a different phrase in the article that gives a clearer summary of what it actually says, we can change it again.

* "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ATX 2.2 spec seems to no longer have that; at least, the PDF linked from the Wikipedia article on ATX doesn't.

Perhaps they removed it in a revision? That seems like a silly idea…
Renting a home is in no way comparable to slavery. Your comment is offensive, inflammatory, and off topic.
Plus their tires degrade faster on the road.
Took a new job this month, my first working on a product at any real scale. Maybe it's just the honeymoon phase, but I couldn't be happier. Sure it's a little awkward, but I'll take a remote kubernetes cluster over working in an airgapped network any day. Gladly take Jira over Gantt charts. Pay is excellent. Team is outstanding — and wow (!) is it diverse. It looks like the world.

I feel thankful that:

1. I got in when I did. I don't get the sense that our platform is directly impacted by the turmoil in the markets, but I do think it would've been a lot harder to negotiate my current salary, today.

2. I trusted my instincts over Glassdoor. At the end of the day, I had enough high-quality data points to look beyond the company's abysmal employee reviews there. Namely, all 4 engineers I met during the interview process were kind and patient with me during technicals, and incredibly sharp. Seemed like people I'd want to work with. Really glad that I chose to focus on the right signals, because the company that's described online seems like an entirely different place than where I work.
Show HN: Write synthesizable Verilog in C++ with Metron
Hi, I'm the author of MurmurHash and GateBoy, amongst other things.

About 6 months ago I started working on a tool to convert GateBoy's source code (after "lifting" it into more standard C++) to Verilog. This project turned out to be much more interesting than expected, so I broke it out into its own repo and built a pretty decent test suite and tutorial for it.

The repo contains a "live" demo version of Metron (compiled into WebAssembly via Emscripten) along with a tutorial that walks through how to build Metron modules and some of the rules that your C++ code is required to follow for it to be convertible.

There is a fairly thorough test suite with code coverage, but as this is the first public build of Metron bugs are expected and error messages aren't particularly useful. If you're a professional hardware dev, please let me know if Metron would be useful to you and what features you'd like to see added. If you're new to Verilog and FPGA development, take a look at the tutorial and point out where things need additional clarification.

"Metron should make it possible to write small, simple hardware peripherals that simulate in realtime (or faster) on a PC, work flawlessly when compiled for a FPGA, and that are understandable and debuggable by most C++ programmers without special tools. I look forward to seeing what people do with it."

-Austin Appleby
Even if you used UUIDs, couldn't you just "select count(id) from articles" to get the list of articles, generate a random number between 0 and the count, then "select id from articles offset {index}"?
"On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators..."

Too vague to be useful. Stolen from whom? Simultaneously from two different third parties? The whole thing began April 12? Based on what signal and from whom?

Here's what this vagueness tells me: GitHub OAuth token management for integrators is badly operated and poorly monitored by the entity issuing tokens.

My conclusion is that Microsoft (GitHub), SalesForce (Heroku), and Idera (TA Associate, Travis CI) have not learned the SolarWinds lessons of Supply Chain Security yet. Perhaps this will be the incident that helps.

Some of the posts in this thread are a little too c'est la vie for my tastes.
It's not Dilbert, but one of those 90's geeky newspaper comic strips had a gag about this, where the guided tour of Harvard takes them to the class room where the last B was given.
To be fair it's really hard to "search" for tuples and anyonymous structs and get an understanding from "reading the stdlib". It's also enough of a departure from C (but not obviously readable like types on the left) to warrant some sort of big red flag in the lang docs... Understanding this tripped me up a bit
The game theory around grades is interesting. I went to a well regarded US CS school for a masters, and we were told essentially that "Being good enough to get in here means you're smart and capable, and being middle of the pack here is still doing very well. In order to communicate that to companies doing hiring, the minimum allowed average is a B".

I don't know for sure, but I expect most of my decent, but not truly exceptional cohort had GPAs much above a B. There were a couple courses that bucked the trend. Which ones theses were was well known, and many folks, looking to work at FAANG, dodged them because of it. I already had employment figured out, and optimized for things besides GPA. I was a bit too ambitious, receiving a number of Bs, but also learned a ton. Maybe that will bit me if someone cares to look back 5+ years at my grades, but that's a separate problem.

If you're a professor assigning grades, with little ability to communicate the intricacies of your grades to those looking at them, what do you do? Accurately assigning grades hurts your students, and getting everyone to change is a collective action problem.
E-bikes are an even better alternative for most tasks we do around town. BUT: Bike thieves. I'd be riding my e-bike everywhere if we actually held bike thieves accountable to the same level of car thieves. If I leave my e-bike outside alone for more than 30 minutes it's virtually guaranteed to be stolen.

Bike thieves are the scum of the earth
Yes. I worked in the "street furniture" industry. It used to me Cemusa and another company who's name slips mind.

This was decades ago, but still in an Era when people were asking why pay phones still exist. It's the ad revenue.

Companies like Cemusa give cities like NYC big money (dozens or hundreds of millions) to buy the right to provide the city with " street furniture" for free, in exchange for the right to sell the ad revenue placed on those pieces of street furniture. This includes pay phones, bus stop shelters, benches, news stands, etc.

This dynamic is what caused NYC payphones to exist far beyond their useful life as pay phones.

I talk about it on this "being an engineer" podcast I was recently on: https://teampipeline.us/ian-mceachern-engineering-freelancin...
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around this one.

If in a group 23 people at least two share a birthday with a ~50% chance, would that mean if I have a group of 22 people and pick a random day of the year, there’s also a ~50% chance of somebody having a birthday on that day?
I also thought that DuckDB had acquired a company named Range. Interesting article regardless!
Perhaps it will change in the future, but entering the field as a remote-only is an up-hill battle. Especially without contacts or experience. Not to mention that the bare necessity, a good and stable internet connection, is not really a thing yet. Perhaps StarLink will change that... but that's yet to be seen.

If people looked at this honestly, they would have to admit that relocating from a city into a rural area for the explicit purpose of raising kids is effectively taking a gamble on what thing might look like in the future.
My thought is that going out for a smoke is a socially acceptable way of stopping whatever you're doing and letting down your guard. Working hard? Stop everything, stand up, walk somewhere, think about whatever, and also have a cigarette. Partying hard? Stop dancing, go outside, get some fresh air, talk to people without pretenses, and also have a cigarette. Marketing certainly influenced the appeal, but they also found a release valve that humans need while we're playing one of our characters.
That's assuming that most people do long travels in the US, I'm not sure that's true and wouldn't be surprised that the main need is commuting which small cars are really sufficient for.
And put the future of growing Harvard’s endowment at risk?! Besides, do you really want a US Senator or a Fortune 500 CEO calling you up to scream at you and make your life hell, or do you just want to get back to your research?
It matters for grad school and for teaching jobs (transcripts are part of the application packet for K-12 and post-secondary teaching positions), but otherwise it doesn't matter.
Great to see new features being implemented. I'm using DuckDB for a thesis project and integrating it into my own Python CLI/web tool has been super easy -- I especially love the direct integration with DataFrames, it makes things really seamless.
EPC9171 USB-PD3.1 240W GAN reference design
My experience is that in recent years, cheating is ubiquitous in many elite schools. This goes all the way to the top. Fake research data. Self-enriching financial schemes by faculty. Conflicts-of-interest. Etc.
That's it! I had a feeling I'd seen it before.
There's no way to know what a grade average means anyway, eg if you're employing someone. You don't know if they took easy courses or hard courses, you don't know if they were ill or if they cheated.

All you can actually do is bring them in for interview and see if they can do a reasonable chat about why they want to work for you.

Someone who has gotten into Harvard has already bagged a rather big prize, but the signalling can't be much more informative than that.
A Renault Zoe is 240 miles, and a Corsa E is 220 miles. That's not far off the range of my last two petrol cars.
Except that frogs, as (all? not a biologist) amphibians, have very good sensitivity to external temperature. Unlike humans.
This is absolutely not why. There is no incentive for universities to tell employers what they think of the students attending them, and the intercollegiate talent transfer is 99% recommendations and research experience. Students don't want it, professors don't care, and the general public doesn't pay them to. Universities make their money from students and research, not from employers hoping for them to report statistics on the people attending. It is only their accreditation process which cares, and it doesn't care very much.

I think you just want your story to be true, honestly.
It's a problem if you decide to trust a certificate that isn't automatically trusted by the browser.
At the Ivy League schools these used to be called “gentleman C’s”.
I won't buy a car smaller than most cars on the road. It's a safety issue.
Also cities in Europe are significantly denser then most US cities.
Cheating may be a rational thing to do, on an individual level, if we ignore ethics. Outside of that it breaks down. I wouldn't say "best" without a lot of qualifiers.
Ad 2, why do you think Realtalk has any resemblance to Smalltalk?

https://colelawrence.com/posts/2018-12-06-distribution-model...
i makes sense!
Capitalism.

The government has completely failed its job of monetary policy, which in broad strokes is to provide back pressure on capitalism's natural tendency to have money move upward. Today there is way too much money at the top and it has nowhere to go. The economy is less and less resembling a healthy marketplace and more medieval feudalism, with lords stuck in their opulent castles while the peasants farm dirt. The more evenly money is spread across the entire spectrum of society the better the markets work. This is one of the side effects of highly progressive taxation and strong social programs--a healthy economy.

Instead our politicians have been focused on reducing taxes for the ultra rich and this has only accelerated the consolidation of money at the top, which is why our economy is getting heavily distorted and why for people on the bottom they have only been getting poorer. Once you factor in rent/mortgage, health care, and inflation versus wage growth the average American is backsliding and has been doing so for many years now. This is a massive failure of fiscal policy, but nobody in Washington cares because the lobbyists and special interests are happy.
The nation that sent men to the moon is only just now removing payphones from the most important part of its most important city?

The world is weird.
I addressed this in the second part of my post:

>If the answer to any of these questions is no, then you have your answer to why property prices near the cities aren't ever going to match the level of rural properties.

If the opportunities are mostly in the city, don't expect the cost of city dwellings to approach the cost of rural dwellings.
still spamming this, ey?
Because there should still be a natural distribution. Even if you are evaluating the cream of the crop.
> You don't need to purchase a home - but historically - if you did - you've been much better off financially.

[citation needed]

Per the The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2018, the global return for real estate from 1900 to 2017 was 1.3%, while stocks returns 5.2%:

* https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

Rent is often cheaper than mortgage payments, and is very more often cheaper than mortgage payments plus the cost of maintaining a home. If you take the difference and investment you can have just as must equity in a few decades. Preet Banerjee goes over the math in this ten minute video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMeI4uHAFE

He rents:

* https://www.speakers.ca/2013/10/preet-banerjee-sold-his-hous...

If you want to know when it makes financial sense, the "5% Rule" by Ben Felix is a decent place to start:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Golcxjpi8

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl3-jBNEd4

Until recently he was a renter, but purchased a house 1-2 years ago. Not exactly happy with the decision though:

* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L5SAF0SHD1w
https://archive.today/XZ6rW
Web scraping with Python open knowledge
Weird coincidence: The first time I saw a Dilbert comic strip was when I was teaching a LaTeX class at Harvard in 1989.
Yeah I think you can't ignore the last part about expectations. I think younger Generations are just less willing to compromise on lifestyle to have children. The social institutions that made it much more attractive are crumbling. One obvious one of the churches, and the other is local community. It's one thing to want to have kids when all of your friends are doing it and you live together and can raise them together. Many of these communities are going away
I hadn't thought about pay phones in a long time until early in the pandemic, when I was listening to the Phoebe Bridgers() song "Kyoto" that includes they lyrics

"You called me from a payphone /
They still got payphones /
it cost a dollar a minute"

and I realized "holy shit, when was the last time I saw a pay phone?" And I don't know the answer to that question. It might* be a weird one I saw at the end of a bar in a remote pub in Northumberland in the summer of 2019, in an area with dodgy cell service. I have NO idea when I last saw a real Ma Bell style pay phone anywhere.

(* Like most middle-aged men, I'm a fan. You laugh (I assume), but there was a definite non-parent adult contingent at her concert here last weekend. It seems weird for a south-of-30 songwriter tied very much to a certain sort of Millennial life to resonate so much outside the most obvious core demographic, but here we are.)
Why bother with a key? What's to prevent them from getting your plain text? If I'm in Proton mail or whatsapp or whatever they get my plain text from my keyboard app. They could either use their own encryption keys to transport the data or mask it some other way to make it look like it's all encrypted. Who's watching?