skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Design your letter in the most aseptic and unfunny way possible.

Extra points if is in a foreign language to show that you are cool people. The problem to solve is less important than all this marvelous crispy sounds when is spelled

Use a lot of trendy terms and fancy words. Your project to improve the texture of the mayonaise must sound like Bruce Willis in Armageddon. The more confusing, holistic and superfood, the better.

Stress that you want really motivated candidates. The job is boring as hell so they need to came yet motivated from home. They will not grow professionally here.

Assure that the job is available only in a narrow interval of time. Much better if is in the time when everybody is posting job offers and competing for your attention. Biology shows us that fishes in a school are safer from being noticed individually.

Reject people that stopped for three years working on science. They could need to spend an entire afternoon to read and understand everything that happened in their field in the last three years. Yup, the whole nine articles. You don't want to use their previous decades of experience and university classes.

For a better measure go to the corridor and run screaming "a gap!, a curriculum gap!" in terror

Use deadlines in your profit. Assure to email your job offer two or three days after the closing time has expired.

Don't be concise, your candidates love to spend ten minutes reading about vanity issues, the history of your building and why the bricks are violet.

Ask they to write an essay about how your project was their dream since school.

Put the salary hidden in a link. Better if this leads to twenty pages of bureaucracy before.

Use several categories for your job offer to reduce the probability of a match. Use fancy names like "Ramon y Cajal" position or "Juan de la Cierva" offer to made it seem more relevant. Then put your job only in one of them. Example: We look for a biochemist for a Sara Borrel thing, requisites: having less than 30 years, visited the Tibet in the last year and be a natural blonde more than 6 feet tall. Their field of research does not matter. "Oh, you studied exactly the same thing but you look more like a `Juan de la Cierva' to me. Maybe the next year".

Your job application must be a turning point in their life. Assure to ask the lab rats to spend all the day filling a job application so complex that would made Kafka proud. A real example: Looking for somebody to work in city X. Requisites. Can't live currently in city X (that would be so easy, and yes, is a real example from a real job offer).

Assure that your selection process to hire scientists has a 70% of questions related with laws, 10% about ideology, and the rest about the real work to do.
Ha ha busted! Thanks. As an astronomer I think everything beyond He is a metal.
Writing can be hard because sometimes we put up barriers to our thoughts, to our level of “what’s good enough”, to what is appropriate or PC to talk about, etc.

I think that’s why many great writers were alcoholics - it takes down the barriers we set up within and gives us the “liquid courage” to just say something and not give a s*it.
I guess you just had to be there when we'd hold our breath for Netscape nightlies.
This makes me really wish I was in a position to spend time trying to earn CloudFlare bug bounties. ;)

Sure, there are massive advantages to using finer-grained sandboxes, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe.
The thought process goes: Consumer goods like TV dinners are still based on things further up the supply chain like fertilizer. Normally you get inflation when there is a shortage of say crude oil, but when everything is running into random shortages companies get defensive and start trying to stockpile supplies.

Hypothetical example: If Dell wants another 2 weeks of GPU’s on hand from Random Supplier X, and Random Supplier X wants 2 weeks of chips for their GPU’s on hand from Nvidia, and Nvidia wants 2 weeks of refined silicon on hand from supplier Y, who wants to source 2 weeks of raw materials early that’s 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 weeks worth of demand of sand from some mine somewhere out of thin air. Which then dramatically bumps prices for sand and that trickles back down the supply chain.

However, higher interest rates should moderate how much each company in that chain stockpiles, which reduces the demand for sand even if the same number of computers are shipped either way.
Reminds me of Unity-era GNOME! Good design is like poetry, it rhymes (and costs more the second time)
By "bottled water" do you happen to mean "distilled water"?
Depends on the place and year.

Most years, I've had no issues with ticks. But after a rainy winter (like 2010/2011, or 2018/2019), I've been hiking with people who have gotten ticks in the Santa Monicas and even in the San Gabriels.

Spring of 2011 was the worst. After a hike at the Circle-X Ranch, one of my companions had two ticks, and two of us had one apiece.
If you want an interesting animation on top of that, here is a Shepard-Risset glissando with an animation based on work from M.C. Escher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E
It's possible to download Google Earth's 3D model, at the resolution in your link, for any area where they show 3D buildings/landscape. It's not something they facilitate and definitely requires something of a hack, but it does work. Then you can get the model into Blender, SketchUp, etc. and start editing it to add or remove buildings and so on.

Would be interested to know whether that's technically legal. I mean, they put it out there on their website, right?
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Facebook Is Dodging Questions About Surveillance of Users Seeking Abortions
That’s the one. It looks like some others are offering 1%+ now.
I find it intriguing how this has become part of the conservative political zeitgeist, when it's an issue that previously was the sole preserve of left-wing radical feminists. And one they have been battling for many decades now.

Of course, the conservatives approach it from an entirely different point of view to the feminists, for whom this a fundamental women's rights issue. But it's interesting how they can all reach roughly the same conclusion from entirely different sets of principles.
That's more than my laptop-as-a-router using Manjaro uses in total.
You, the real human, cannot say whatever you want to the NPCs. Instead you either have to rely on a few scripted choices, or a silent character. Neither of those are very fun. Interactive also implies the ability to change outcomes. That is also difficult as every outcome requires writing, animating, etc. So games give the illusion of choice with a few well defined branches, then railroad you into a few endings.

Another approach is to not craft an explicit narrative. Just give a fleshed out, lived-in world and let the person explore. Let knickknacks, street trash, architecture, NPC behavior, etc tell the story. How can a game describe a dystopian world without an NPC saying "I sure do hate being oppressed!" and giving a questline for toppling the government? Maybe draconian transportation systems, NPCs eyeing the character if not dressed right, ugly architecture seeping into established spaces.
It's an honest question, but I would challenge you to examine your response critically.
That's not what documentation is for. That's not even really achievable by sharing code unless you are sharing a lot of metadata too (exact build setups, compute environments, etc.) or the code is very simple.

Documentation is there to _abstract away_ all of the specification that you don't need. That is very valuable if you are ever going to work with other people - it reduces their cognitive load - and it is valuable if you are working on something complex since it also reduces your cognitive load.
When hurricane sandy rolled through NJ/NYC area, I remember the power being out for 4+ days, and we used cash to buy groceries and fuel.

I also did not have time to drive 1+ hours for supplies, especially when roads were not necessarily cleared of trees and whatnot, and I had elderly to take care of at home.

Also, gas itself was challenging to get with very long lines so driving an hour was not a guarantee to getting it (since everyone else has the same bright idea, you can’t just shift 10M+ vehicles worth of demand overnight to surrounding areas).
There are also some indications that Washington is increasingly viewing semiconductors as a national security issue. There could be a shift in federal funding that could make the industry more attractive to talent again.
The security analysis elsewhere in this thread is correct (v8 isolates are not a security boundary), but I think that may miss a different point.

A cloud provider would be unwise to use v8 isolates as a way to separate tenants from different customers. But there might be many cases where the same customer might benefit from having one of their shardable workloads leverage v8 isolates.

Of course not every single-tenant multi-shard workload is appropriate; it all depends on what isolation properties are needed, and how amenable the shards are to colocation.
What is the pain you are looking to alleviate? YMMV with notion. I think your personal reflections are probably the most important part of this because personal productivity and organization are so personal.

Single app has worked better for me. I am at 4 months of journaling and planning every day (I have used notion for a few years). When I was using desecrate apps I would go 1-3 weeks before system would fall apart.

For me the main pros are: Ability to move and copy elements from tickler to daily plan so easily. Ability to link todo's to documentation. Ability to take notes in a way that works with how I think, and ability to take handle incoming thoughts as fast as they need to be documented.

Main cons are: only "date time" construct in databases, I would prefer a "time" construct. Offline. Data portability.

> I feel like maybe this is the heart of it, having a personal cache to make a temporary mess in until you have time to clean it up later. I could see that being useful - though id want to move everything out of that place and not organize things within it

Cal Newport has a `working_memory.txt` file on every one of his desktops that he chucks random information into and then processes it at the end of the day. Maybe a system like that could be more your jam.

I might one day work up the courage to use [https://bangle.io/](https://bangle.io/) + github. Feels like owning my data + a bit more flexibility could be nice, but that seems like a lot of work.
Summary: The VS Code C# extension is being embraced and extended: it is currently open source, and built on OmniSharp. The roadmap is to move Microsoft's development to build the C# extension around LSP instead of OmniSharp, which will let some of the (neat) Visual Studio features plug into VS Code -- but these features will not themselves be open sourced.

> We plan to create a new “LSP Tools Host” component [...] which integrates both open-source components, like Roslyn and Razor, with closed-source components, offering a wider array of tooling capabilities. Once the “LSP Tools Host” is complete, this will become the default experience for the C# for VS Code extension. Existing users will be able to choose between the open-source OmniSharp powered system that exists today, or the new “'LSP Tools Host” which will provide access to additional experiences. The “LSP Tools Host” will not be open-sourced, but we plan to communicate with the community along the way to help guide our future plans.
They don't add milk in but processing it can add/take away the amount of sugar. Homogenized whole milk of course is what they start with. The processing is quite interesting if you take the time to read up on it. However nowhere do they add more sugar in.
This is why I'm not convinced "crypto whales" exist. If they really hold that much with no strings, why haven't they sold and retired to live a life of luxury by now? Do they plan to hold out to the grave? What good will that do them?

I can believe some people might have substantial holdings but I bet they also have substantial liabilities such that their net holdings disqualify them as "whales".
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper even faster than solar.

Batteries will only ever be a tiny fraction of storage.
Sea level rise in England “will put 200k homes at risk by 2050”
403 from Europe. Cool GDPR policy.
Is that the way you would like your own posts responded to?
You weren’t able to divide 1 by 43.4 and multiply by 100 to get 2.3L per 100km?
So the theory here is if you know you're going to buy a $20K item in 2 years time, and you know it's going to go up in price in that time, you're probably better off borrowing the money and buying it now.

The problem of course is we often don't know either of these things, and having better cashflow, or a pile of savings, now might help you weather the coming storm.
How Many Billions in Profit Is It Worth to Kill 212,000 Americans a Year?
Mostly the seemingly big initial learning curve; you have to get extensively onboarded in "the Haskell way" (monads are not hard to get but the community is hell-bent on avoiding wording that makes it easier to grok; why?).

That could be okay for many but as I get older, I tend to take people/organizations that require big upfront investment less seriously.

Example: one of the things Elixir has won me over with were its bite-sized introductions and practices. You can be a 3/10 Elixir dev and you can be a 8/10 one, and that's mostly depending on how many of the official tutorials you've covered. The road is mostly a straight line to an acceptable level of proficiency at the end of which you can start choosing to specialize.

Rust, OCaml, Haskell -- they all failed that test for me.

I picked Rust mostly because of the no-GC situation and because of `cargo`. Many older programmers handwave away the importance of good tooling and this is where they lose a lot of potential mind share that can rejuvenate their languages / ecosystems.

Example on this: OCaml's tooling. A lot of people in this ecosystem always degrade the importance of a good task runner + builder + project manager. I spent half a weekend learning `esy` once and mostly tamed it by making it imitate mix/cargo but it wasn't trivial. The end result is a build script that does 80% of what mix/cargo do. The exercise made me scratch my head wondering why what I did back then isn't upstreamed and made official and why is everyone happy to pretend that building an OCaml project is a solved problem when it (very!) clearly isn't.

Haskell's cabal didn't fare better last I tried it -- admittedly that was more than a year ago.

If Haskell has good bite-sized lessons that lead to an actual real job productivity (less academic exercises, please!) then I'd be happy to give it a fair try and maybe make it a part of my toolbox.
> […] when it's brought up, it's just mocked because, honestly, who is going to read a book about 19th century finance when you can just watch the new star wars show instead.

Modern-day anti-intellectualism FTW! I know, I know, commenters will argue that this is mainly a laziness problem… But when has it ever been “cool” to read (in the sense of being socially incentivized broadly speaking)? To quote a modern day (retired) twitter poet: “Sad!”
No one can predict the future. But generally time in market is more important that timing the market. Works only if you invest long term.
Wages get set by supply and demand. In the past, there were still people lined up around the block for limited academic positions. Now thats not working, so something has to give if they want to fill those positions.
Idea Graveyard – Google/Guava
The only way I got it working was via:

snap set system proxy.http="http://127.0.0.1:1111"
snap set system proxy.https="http://127.0.0.1:1111"

I started a thread [0] on the LXD container forum in 2019 due to all the issues with automatic snaps

https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/disable-snap-auto-refr...
With electronics specifically, it's often just more convenient to toss the old device in a drawer. You're not supposed to put them in the trash, and e-waste disposal often incurs a fee. This is why refrigerators end up dumped on the side of a road in a ravine, because municipalities make it harder to dispose of them responsibly than to just dump them.
While quoting me you omitted the phrase “by default”. I said “When it comes to performance, rust+tokio is going to be much more performant by default”.

What I meant was in the typical case, you can expect rust+tokio to be faster than Haskell. This is not a surprise as rust is much more low level, does not have a GC and its compiled output maps better to modern processors rather than the pure functional lazy style of Haskell.

Plenty of benchmarks across a variety of workloads and program confirm that Haskell is slower than rust on average. For webserver type use cases (which uses a lot of Async) Rust is faster. Check out tech empower benchmarks for example.
> I point out that Docker is trying - and failing - to offer us the same feature set we were promised by protected memory, preemptive multitasking operating systems 30 years ago.

You were given them, by those facilities, 30 years ago.

Then someone started fiddling with CPU design, and things got weird.
This is a frequent argument I see, but I don't see much substance in it. I've flown with both narrow and wide body, and the most critical dimension is leg room and shoulder width. And I did not find any particular wide body advantage with the sardine-packed 777 comparing to a regular A320, or especially A321, which I have flown in many times. Comparing to a 737, maybe some, but the 737 is an age old design, it is known for not being too spacious. It's not a A321 contender.
> Assume the turret is 90 degrees off target and it will take 2 seconds just to swing the turret around. Assuming it takes 2 seconds to notice the AT round fired, 2 seconds to target lock, that's still 8 seconds total for the tank shell to hit.

That's a lot of "assumptions" that still leads to a virtual tie situation: both parties kill each other.

There's also the situation where the tank commander emerges out of hide-position, fires a shell, and kills the enemy infantry before they even know where the tank is, and the tank then retreats back into hide-position before any enemy even knows that a tank is there.

A tank in turret-down position is still exceptionally difficult to spot. And that tank commander looking out, waiting for the ideal time to ambush with his main tank gun, will have night-vision, thermal vision, and loads of other equipment.

See this screenshot of the Chieftan's discussion:
https://imgur.com/tk10YHN.jpg

In "turret down" position, pretty much only the tank commander is visible. They can spot you 3000m away in this kind of position thanks to modern binoculars.

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Given that the tank moves at 50km/hr, and has more expensive equipment (thermal vision / etc. etc.), the tank honestly has the advantage in most of these fights.

Infantry might (?) have the advantage of surprise and hiding. But tanks also might have that advantage. There's no guarantee that the infantry always ambush the tanks. Especially when you consider how much faster a tank travels, and the shear size / distance that these weapons cover (a tank can choose any point with 3000m line-of-sight to attack the enemy infantry, knowing that the infantry is too slow to keep up with the tank's movement).
> After identifying infected devices, the government asks a court for permission to send commands to those devices that will cause the malware to delete itself.

Then what happens when the Music And Films Industry Association demand that the government do something about computers that are P2P-sharing their copyrighted products?

If secure messaging apps are ever banned, I expect that these powers or precedents will make it easy for the DoJ to instruct OS vendors to remove such apps that have been side-loaded onto devices.
Where was this thinking when it came to applying trillions of dollars in monetary policy? We're supposed to cautious with interest rate hikes, yet free with the money printer. Quite the double standard I'd say.
> We've observed populations as few as two individuals go on to become invasive, wildly successful populations

That sounds fascinating. What species?
To get back to 70s prices we should also go back to 70s building codes (less safe, but is something costing 2x, 3x, 5x really justifies the marginal safety improvements?) and 70s house sizes (smaller)
While supply chain problems were real during the pandemic, especially w.r.t. automobiles, QE is by far the driving force of our current economic situation. Here is some data to put your talking point into context.

Look at the recent production some of the items being severely impacted by inflation. Now look up their price charts (you can use February before Putin invaded Ukraine to eliminate another variable).

Wheat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267268/production-of-whe...
Meats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/237632/production-of-mea...
Steel: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267264/world-crude-steel...

The only economically significant shortages (as defined by lower production) were in automobiles and oil: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262747/worldwide-automob...

You could argue that demand for oil was also lower, because of fewer automobiles and, of course, lockdowns. Crude oil prices were at 2018 levels until the very end of 2021 (when inflation was at 7%), so you can't blame inflation on that.

Did Covid affect productivity? Undeniably. A significant portion of the world population was literally locked down for months. Is that lower productivity and resulting supply chain disruptment a contributor to inflation? Probably. Although without any government intervention, prices probably would have depressed similar to the 1930's as the economy contracted and cash became more valuable as paper loans eliminated money generated by the money multiplier.

But these statements suggest a low level misunderstanding: "and very little (if any at all) has to do with QE" and "one of the world's largest oil producers started a war."

QE is a major contributor (hence why it is finally being rolled back to undo the damage...) and the inflation rate was 7.9% in February, BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine. If I had to guess a significance, I'd say overall economic price increases are a consequence of 70% QE, 20% supply chain, 10% Russia. Another thing... look at the stock market. If the supply chain truly demolished the value of the economy, why did the market go on a historic bull run? Either the supply chain issues were not as bad as you think, or the Fed way over-quantitative-eased and disconnected prices from reality by expanding their balance sheet with literal securities, and of course the historically low interest rates.
>Asia didn't invent the iPhone

They didn't invent it, but they make probably 90% of the hardware components
No. The nightmare here is physicists knowing the Standard Model can't possibly be the bottom, but lacking clues about where to find stairs.
What other things do you disapprove of that absolve people of the crime of theft?

PS: Read your HN profile: Submitting stories is by far the best way to earn karma. Comments are small potatoes.
Which is why you screen tanks with infantry.
I'm sure if you look closer you'll find that those workers do have some capital bound in the business and that is earning at best a modest return because you have to sum up wage and rent.

Once somebody earns somewhat more than their subsistence wage, they want to invest it into something that brings a return. That won't be these worker-owned businesses. And the market capacity for such companies seems to be quite small.
Powell: “There's no sign of a broader slowdown in the economy” [video]
Shipping power 2000 miles is absolutely super-practical.

China has a project to send it 8000 miles from solar farms they are building in Chile, for use during nighttime in China.