skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every interview screen I've had in the last few years has been an opportunity to discuss salary before getting into the more grueling technical stages of the pipeline.

Yes a screen call is annoying especially if you have a current work schedule but it really isn't that inefficient considering the phone screen is also the ideal medium to pick apart other aspects of the company and its constraints.
New York reports first US polio case in nearly a decade
How did they manage to intercept him at the airport? Are there lists for suspected criminals?
Personally I'm more willing to go along with leetcode for FAANG-type giants, simply because in that situation it's more of a filtering mechanism than anything. I still dislike it but I understand why it's there.

For startups and small-to-midsize companies however which typically aren't awash in candidates for technical roles leetcode makes little sense and I generally won't entertain it.
I would rate the chances of an Indian (or Pakistani, or Bangladeshi) national being able to evade capture domestically in their home country in south asia as quite high.

In either country you can exist entirely in a cash-based economy with no digital records of your actual identity linked to any transactions or accounts if you put a bit of effort and thought into it.

Unless the fugitive was high enough profile that it would cause the US to really put pressure on the relevant local government to search out and capture them.
The post title, “San Francisco Police to Start Monitoring with Private Cameras”, is incorrect. The actual title of the article is “Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown”. Any change to the monitoring policy requires approval by the Board of Supervisors.
I don't think it's always that easy. I work on some large databases (1TB+) where even queries utilizing indexed columns still take prohibitively long to run. Sure we could look into partitioning (and we likely might) but then more work is progressively falling on engineering to keep the system running for the standards of analysts but not necessarily the product.

BigQuery in these cases has been very useful. Everything I throw at it returns in seconds. I can also do more text comparison queries that on a standard RDBMS would have required a full text index (which would probably be huge). But with BigQuery even those queries take seconds and I don't have to take production resources to view it.
Thanks for the detailed information. I am curious here: After an easement is added to the property, who has the ability to cancel the easement? Or is an easement non-removable forever?
How do you do the turning down? Just curious, doesn't seem like there's an obvious way that's also guaranteed to be fun.
This is nothing new for Coinbase employees:

https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec...
Conflict does not have to be military. I do not think the US looking forward to attack Russia or China for example.

Non military conflicts could be better than being poodle under the threat of war which will happen if the world is ran by a single country
Hey, thanks for this amazing post. Actually, I am currently following OMGenomics but Ben is new for me! He focuses algorithms and that is what I need.
Yes, but more memory and processing power might mean the AI is actually better at performing the same task. Cleaner, pre-processed input data is cheating in a different way.
This is nothing new for Coinbase employees:

https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec...

I recommend caution to crypto engineers - the world loves you when you make people rich, and the world might be willing to excuse shady behavior for a brief time.

When things sour shady people will get what they deserve, and the metaphorical mob will come for their associates/companies.
Sounds like one of your accounts has compromised. Perhaps your email address?
I suppose I'll oblige the invitation.
> Except that the article is about the decision of a US Federal judge. There is no court case filed in NZ, and NZ law doesn't apply in the US.

No, the article is about a New Zealand company using the discovery process of a lawsuit in CA to get the names of people they will, by their own admission, sue in New Zealand court.

From TFA:
"In court, Zuru said it plans to file a defamation lawsuit in New Zealand against whoever posted these on Glassdoor, once their identities are revealed."

So, no, the rules for burden of proof in the US have nothing to do with this.
Yup!

https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec...
If I wanted a dirty phone with clogged up screw heads I'd go buy something used off ebay/cl.
> Before the scroll bar it was nesting it deep within menus.

I'm not sure which version of Windows you think predated scroll bars, but I'm pretty sure it didn't have any telemetry reporting back to Microsoft over the internet.
Jesus...I would have charged like 10% to do all that work and still be happy about what I got paid.
Bitcoin can become anything if a majority of miners agree... Monero is one thing.
It literally does the opposite. It pushes the price in the direction it's going to go when the information is made public.
This article seems like it would be very interesting to me but after dismissing three intrusive popups in my mobile browser I stopped trying to read it.

Does anyone know of a mobile browser friendly way to read this kind of site without being constantly bombarded? It's exhausting. It seems like the sort of problem that would have been solved, but my attempts to discover the solution have failed.
Title 18 insider trading: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/title-18-insider-trading

It's prosecution for "insider trading" that doesn't rely on anything specific to insider trading. Focus on the insider part, not the trading - it's about embezzlement of confidential information.
as you described, it seems the teammates are nice, but you still feel isolated somehow, unmotivated, stressed working in office, it is not from work pressure, not from conflicts with coworker. talking to a therapist will be a help... a therapist could validate your feeling/thinking, give some good suggestions, evaluation for medication if needed... have you talked to family/friend?
saw some in the thread suggests going to office daily, that may not help and could make it worse... hope you feel better soon...
> I bet 80% of companies would say they have above average salaries.

And it might be true. E.g., they are all paying the same, and the remaining 20% are driving the average down.
> How exactly are you supposed to prove that an opinion was honestly held?

In the UK at least, it involves convincing the court that it was reasonable to have that opinion based on what you knew or believed to be true at the time. This may be a bad thing for people that honestly hold completely irrational prejudices, but the main challenge for the defence is proving the statement is best understood as an opinion (and not a false assertion of fact). The 'honesty' tends to follow by default, unless the other side can provide a more compelling alternative "it's convenient that your 'intuition' and an unrelated event four years earlier lead you to publicly voice suspicions about my client for the first time whilst you were competing directly with him for promotion".

(I assume the same is true of "sincerely held religious belief" in the US: pretty much any testimony or evidence of religious belief can be accepted unless it seems like a particularly creative excuse, completely unravels under cross-examination or is contradicted by evidence of that individual holding completely different religious beliefs?)
It's a tough problem from a game theory point of view.

The company wants to hire someone who wants the job, is paid within (below?) budget, and so on. They'll also try to pay you less if they can.

If they publish the salary range, there goes the chance to pay you less. If the salary is low, you cut out people who might like the job but won't even consider it. The company might like them enough to pay more, too.

Employees don't want to waste time on jobs where they wouldn't take the pay.

I suspect not publishing salaries is a Nash equilibrium. Might not be great but you converge to it anyway.
Ok but you can experience none of these life situations and still be depressed.
They probably mean invented gravity as a formal concept, not as a physical phenomenon.

Like, say, the invention of the number 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0
> Sexual dimorphism is real and has important medical implications.

I'm guessing (well, hoping) that everyone agrees that the male/female distinction is medically relevant. E.g., I'd get more from a visit to a urologist than to a gynecologist.

I think there's less agreement about the "di" part of "dimorphism". Obviously most humans fall pretty squarely into the "male" vs. "female" categories, but there's less agreement about there being precisely two, clearly delineated categories.

Some examples:

- hermaphrodites

- conjoined twins with different genders (insanely rare, IIUC)

- non-heterosexuals and transgender people, to the extent that those characteristics indicate underlying physiological differences
<em>Meaning, if you are looking for a place you will enjoy working, do not start with salary.</em>

I'm not. Work is work. It's how I pay for my life. I want a job that doesn't make me miserable, and is constrained to ~40 hours per week -- but "enjoy" isn't the goal.

Making the maximum amount of money for my labor is the goal. (Without doing things that go against my ethics, or are illegal. I could make more if I had no ethical boundaries, I'm sure.) I have a family, a mortgage, pets with expensive vet needs, and a limited number of years left in my career. "Enjoyment" doesn't pay the bills, supply health coverage to my dependents or put money in the bank to cushion any economic downturns, etc.

I wish I'd had this attitude starting in my early 30s. I wouldn't be working now at all and could actually do things I enjoy with all my time and not just a sliver of it.
Not sure why you feel the entitled to good service when you're probably not the one paying him. And probably not even the one to close the deal that lets him get paid... He could be much more enthusiastic with potential candidates that are more eager to apply for the jobs he has.

Sure people are lazy, but you're not the paying customer here.
"We update our rates in response to market changes and on a regular basis as we continue to improve our business."

Businesses regularly update their financial targets in order to grow. There isn't anything to explain here.

Any post here that deviates in fundamental details from the statements above is selling you a point of view that is irrelevant.
To be clear, my intended implication wasn't "NGOs are untrustworthy", but rather that "the federal government is a lot more likely to be around in 50 years than an NGO". I was also assuming that donating the lands to a federal program implied that the federal government couldn't just turn around and sell the land a few years later, although that might be naive on my part.
Honestly I'm considering the $70k place where as right now I have the $500k total comp.

I can't say I hate my job but I have zero interest in it. Where as I had lots of <$100k jobs I loved. My life was better. I only get one life. I'd prefer to live a happy life than a well paid life. Right now I get paid well but my life feels like it's just bleeding away as a drone.

The biggest reason I haven't pulled the trigger is there's no guarntee that taking the $70k will actually be fun this time. I have my criteria for taking the jump though and if they're met I'd do it in a heartbeat.
250K User Prompts and AI-Generated Images from Midjourney (Dalle’s Competitor)
TLDR your company likes to waste candidates time, that looks like big red flag
This dataset was obtained by scraping messages from Midjourney's public Discord server over a period of four weeks (June 20, 2002 - July 17, 2022), from 10 channels. The resulting 250k user-issued text prompts, together with the URLs of the images generated by Midjourney can serve as an interesting data source for research on prompt engineering. The authors have no affiliation with Midjourney.
Odd, that's not been my experience in SF. I've only had one primary physician leave on me in 2018 (I'd been with him for 2 years, but only had visited once). My primary doc responds to messages within a day or two. Responses from the general care team are usually same-day. My primary physician is usually booked out a couple months, which is a bummer, but I can get next-day appointments with a PA or NP, and usually 2-3 days with an MD.

On top of that, it's been mostly easy to get prompt COVID testing when I've needed it, and for a while they even had 8-hour PCR test results.

For the most part I'm still very happy with the service, though this news about the Amazon acquisition is definitely making me question whether or not I will renew next year.
I agree with OP 100%. I once went through multiple rounds, got an offer only to discover they wanted to pay me tens of thousands less than I was already making. I'll never engage another company about a job without knowing the salary info ahead of time.
Your phone’s notification settings and the meaning of life
English is not my native language obviously.
A lot of military research is done IN CONCERT with NASA, you know that, right?

The DoD and NASA work together so much on missiles and avionics it isn't funny.

https://www.nrel.gov/workingwithus/defense-partnerships.html

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/23...

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-us-space-force-estab...

etc, etc, etc. NASA's wind tunnel was used to help design DoD missiles. The two have always worked hand in hand.
Amazon buys One Medical for $3.9B
Maybe it considers environmental impact of air conditioning in its models and tries to nudge users into tolerating higher temps.
It's better than Breaking Bad?
In Austria we have a law that ever jobposting must have a minimum salary and if the company is open to overpay.

It lead to lower entry positions salaries. Because they are too afraid to push for what they are worth (as they dont know it) and the salary "is already posted".
> Occupy failed for many reasons but primarily it failed because it couldn’t get funded. Donor class and corporate sponsorship are required for progressives to attain the power they want. Class warfare - the traditional progressive cause - died and gave birth to a new identity politics (we call it Woke today) that could get funded.

Yup, my interpretation was the corporations / government funded the woke politics to divide. If you review the old Soviet era plans to bring down America it was effectively to focus on inflaming racial tension. That’s effectively what critical race theory is, instead of class dynamics you have racial dynamics; the end goal is the same. Gain power through a divide and conquer strategy to bring in an era where all are “equal”, some are just more equal than others.
> for 100% remote, flexible work time, PTO and others.

Given how much more common this is now across all white collar work, do you find your company less competitive?
An enormous amount of human achievement comes from basic research that didn’t have an immediate obvious use case.

Relativity gives us GPS, for example.
I feel attacked! /s
More anecdotal evidence: a few years back I wanted to get out of the work situation I was in. I looked around, had some interviews, had some offers. None of the postings had salary ranges, as is common where I live.

My eyes, however, were set on a specific small company because I liked their product. The process was long and involved multiple meetings, a take-home problem, and stretched over 2 or so months. I was upfront about what my salary expectations were (wasn't looking for a raise, just a lateral move). They said we discuss salary when you meet the founders, i.e. the last step before getting hired, but they also didn't tell me that my range was way off.

Turns out I had played this 9 week game and turned down other offers just to be severely low-balled by them. Maybe they saw that I really wanted the position and thought they could get away with a low offer.

Obviously, I rejected their offer on the spot. I also promised myself to never, _ever_, be fooled like that again. We talk money before I invest any significant amount of time or I walk.
Well this is a semantic and socio-political question and not a scientific/medical one, but ok. Generally, the term there was "antivaxxer" and referred to people who were vocally opposed to vaccines, or in some cases who those hadn't had their children undergo the usual course of routine vaccinations. In a few cases it was even applied more broadly to people who were simply opposed to mandating childhood vaccinations to attend public school, regardless of their own vaccination status. This is all clearly a completely different category from the 2021 incarnation of "the unvaccinated."
>> "You don't fit our usual workflow so no further work will be done unless you pay us a retainer like the big guys do" is simply not a good faith position to take half way into a project.

Good contract would have made this claim by the agency both immediately not material, a breach of contract - and in my opinion, may even be a type of fraud called bait-and-switch, which is illegal.
K, then how much? List the number or you're just blowing smoke
Good luck! But I would start calling friends to see if someone can pick you up. My hospital explicitly said they would not discharge me to Uber, too
That keyboard is amazing!

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything like that that you could by off-the-shelf.
gravity is a notation for describing and predicting an arbitrary subset of natural processes

you might as well contest that he invented calculus
> his means cl pagckages can be "done".

this is true if there is nothing functional that can be added to a package. however its very much not true for ml frameworks right now. new things are being added all the time in the field. however even in the package i linked you have the necessary ingredients for any deep learning model: cuda and back propagation. the other person mentioned convolution which i think is pretty trivial to implement but still, if you expect everything for you to be ready made then you should probably stick to tf and pytorch. if you want to explore the cutting edge and push the boundaries then i think common lisp is a good tool. as an aside it might also be interesting to note that a common lisp package (Petalisp) is being used for high performance computing by a german university and it has a convolutional layer implemented

https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp

https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp/blob/master/examples...
I think you can also buy enterprise accounts on the black market, there used to programs with pirated apps that used this kind of distribution.
Not really.

I'm paid to work 40h/week.

Am I going to be expected to be working more than that? If so, I'll pass.

If there's occasional overtime, sure, fine. But do I get paid extra for it? Does it get banked into extra PTO?

And so on, stuff I ask prospective employers in the first conversation.
Ironically posting on new that is likely gaming karma, per the article.

I think a few years ago (almost 10, sheesh) when I started out, it was similar. Basically, most of your karma comes from a few very upvoted comments, or ones that are early and garner conversation. I think something like 3 or 4 got me to 500+ (it's been so long that I forgot the threshold for downvoting). Never had luck with article submissions but getting one to front page does give you a lot of karma too, apparently.

Also, while "upholding the median political viewpoint" is a surefire way to get upvoted, it is worth noting that that can be a moving target and changes from article to article. Poo-pooing crypto on any average crypto article will garner downvotes if it's in a thread likely to be read by crypto enthusiasts, while shitting on web3.0 on another article about the current collapse of everything crypto will engender karma from people who are skeptical. Anyway, the point isn't that there really isn't any median politics here on HN, just that for some topics, it does vary, while for some it doesn't.
GPT can solve this! I prompted it with "Sarah bought a washing machine and a ". It completed "dryer.".

Another "If you buy a hammer you might also want to buy " -> "a nail". Ill forgive the singular.

Just to be clear those are not cherry picked - they were my first two attempts.
Ask HN: Rusty at math, best applied books and materials to relearn?
I've spent the past 2 days writing code to work with OCR results and use the position of words and sentences to link them together and classify them.

In the process my math knowledge has had a real workout, even though it's 2D geometry.

I did undergrad physics at university 20 years ago. Since then I've done web programming that hasn't needed maths and I've forgotten so much. Though I don't feel I ever understood the maths properly, just enough to pass my courses.

Can you recommend any books or learning materials to help me get back in practice? I'm a visual learner and learn best with applied examples, which is where many of my textbooks fell down as they were too abstract. Anything that's based on doing maths on images or something I can see and draw results on is even better.

I'm also looking for material that covers how you apply maths on computers. E.g. I was extrapolating a line through two points and got caught out when the gradient went to infinity (in x-y coords, a line parallel to the y-axis). I fudged it by adding a tiny amount to the denominator so it'll never by zero, but I'd like to learn the proper way to handle these cases.
Translating problems into vector representations would be good too, as I tried and got lost in the different meaning of Vector between physics and math.
You seem a little negative towards astronomy for an amateur astronomer. Knowing that Pluto is there, or other galaxies exist has little use in terms of utility, but we still want to know. The images and data output by the JWST might be of little use to scientists in 100 or 1000 years, but that data will still spark the next round of research that will put them in the more advanced position they find themselves in.
NASA is already doing resupply missions to easily-accessible orbits [1] and they have previous spin-offs less customized to repair/replace but capable nonetheless e.g. X-37/X-40

It is fully within the realm of possibility that a future OSAM mission will be capable of hitting far more distant points, since the Lunar stuff is just starting to heat up.

[1] https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/osam-1.html
This looks cool. Congrats on the launch and progress so far!

As one piece of feedback, the docs could be better. For example, at https://docs.tryvital.io/api-reference/data/workouts/#stream, I see "Get Daily Activity for user_id", but the endpoint seems to actually return time series data for a single workout. I see a bunch of oversights of this flavor.

Similarly, I'm not sure how pagination works or should work. In one list query, I see a result set of size 100. I'm not sure whether this is because only 100 items were pulled from the provider, or whether I can see more using pagination. Maybe this is in the docs, but I haven't seen it.

It would be good to have some provider-specific documentation to answer questions are set expectations around things like 1) how much historical data is available 2) details about the integration and its stability. For example, I assume with Peloton you are logging in with my credentials and using their internal API. Is this against their terms of service? Is there a risk of this breaking if they change their internal API, which obviously doesn't have the same governance considerations a public API would?

Nice work overall!
JWST is limited by fuel, not by the cryocooler. Helium is not a consumable, although some level of leakage may occur. But only one of its instruments requires it.