skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't lump HN in with Reddit. Reddit has a single opinion on the majority of political topics and by the time I arrive at them it's just people arguing that view (often with ad hominem attacks) vs a bunch of deleted comments.

Twitter is much less heavy handed with the deletion of comments but if you read the replies they are often the same ad hominem stuff you'll find on Reddit if you dare stray away from the majority opinion.

I don't consider a place that allows views different than mine to be a cesspool, or people that have different views to be defective. A cesspool to me is when someone makes a reasonable point about a subject like economics and the replies are all about his penis size, that's how Reddit and Twitter operate, not here.
The Death of Anne Boleyn
I think this is excellent progress (posting ranges) and I've made a habit of always telling candidates I'm interviewing right up front what the range is so that I don't waste their time (or mine!). It really is just good business.

That said, I want to make an observation here on this part of the comment by Carrok:

> I am currently job hunting. I started looking locally, everything lists salary ranges, perfect. I can know which positions to skip and which ones might be a good match right away.

This is indeed a feature, but there is a trap here as well. I have watched a number of engineers who join a company that gives annual raises. They stay at that company for > 10 years and their salary is very comfortable for them. Then they decide to change jobs and the salary range for their current role with no history at the company is significantly less than they are currently making.

As you get more senior experienced, it is important to consider that there are two components of your "worth"; The skills you bring to the job is kind of your intrinsic value, and the knowledge of how to get things done at this company is a value "add-on." You lose that add-on when you start at a new company.

If you've been hopping from job to job every couple of years that won't be a significant issue for you but if you've been somewhere for 5+ years it could be, so keep that in mind while looking around.
I've been pretty happy with OM (member since 2014 or 2015 or so), but would only consider staying with them under Amazon if someone with some healthcare-related legal expertise could come up with a plain-English explanation of what Amazon will and will not be allowed to do with my medical data. If it's pretty much status quo, and Amazon won't be able to do anything with it (like recommend products based on my medical history, ugh), then I'll probably stick with OM. Otherwise... no, thank you.
absolutely true that this is an area of improvement for MongoDB - moving from a "replica set" (a single shard cluster but without the config server cluster) to a sharded cluster can be hard. Atlas does it for you, but even then it can be hard. My info says they are working very hard on this.

Live resharding indeed helps for a sharded cluster that already exists.
According to Glassdoor: "The typical Coinbase Product Manager salary is $210,576 per year." This guy was dumb AF to risk losing not just his cushy tech job, but potentially even his right to remain in the U.S depending of his legal status.
Does the 10k/year rise in last 7 years correlate to rise in ev use?

Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

2014 32,744

2015 35,485

2016 37,806

2017 37,473

2018 36,835

2019 36,355

2020 38,824

2021 42,915

How Many Electric Cars Are on the Road in the United States?
https://www.treehugger.com/how-many-electric-cars-are-on-the...
Because it's worth it. The question is why we don't ignore other causes of death that are also worth it.
"dx" is a term rigorously defined in infinitesimal calculus (IMO a much easier to understand approach to differentiation.) So, yes, you can multiply by dx (even if x is a more complicated function.)

∂x would have a problematic definition, as it would require selecting from its components based on information not supplied. E.g., let x = y+z. Then dx = dy + dz. But ∂x (by extension) = ∂y + ∂z, but at least one of these terms on the right is identically zero, depending on whether y or z is held constant. So ∂x doesn't have a meaning.
40 years old eh? Perhaps it's time to start considering retiring from driving to maintain your high standard.
I am not sure who the author is addressing here, and I find many of these "common myths" quite baffling. Ancient Greek works were widely known amongst mediaeval Islamic scholars, and translations into Arabic were made, but this is the first time that I've seen someone claim (to refute the claim, but still) that these Arabic translations are the "only reason" why these ancient works survived.

The big reveal seems to be that, surprise surprise, Greek texts survived in their original form in the area of Europe where Greek was the lingua franca, and Latin text survived in areas where Latin had that role. Also, the fact that books were copied is, apparently, another big revelation.

Honestly, as interesting as the subject is, the writing style and the bizarre arguments the author makes are off-putting, to say the least.
> if Microsoft just re-enables those settings when you update windows?

That's another matter entirely. Microsoft's current strategy is to give at least some appearance of getting informed consent for those anti-features. Silently re-enabling them during an update without asking the user would be much more likely to get them in trouble.
hehe, ironically diverting resources and skewing research and overall making worse the biggest PANDEMIC of our time isn't a crime at all :)
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, I agree about the talent, and that's something I didn't talk about in the post. I thought their design and engineering work was really good. If they had just kept pushing junk on me, it would have been an easier decision to walk away early. But they clearly had good people, and I wanted to figure out a way to work with them.
I see how this is true for programmatic ads. But do you think the same goes for sponsored videos? If sponsored videos are paid for X number of views why wouldn't that work for peertube?
Right, it's not not necessarily about safety it's about needing to feel safe.

A big problem on this honestly is that news media focuses disproportionately on interpersonal crime compared to almost all other kinds of harm that can be done. Combined with generally decreased newsroom budgets, this has led to firmer reliance on, and less questioning of, direct police releases. We basically just let the cops tell us what to worry about, and they predictably tell us to worry about the things that get more funding for police.

We've mostly decided that, while these things aren't good per se, they are downstream of other incentives and requirements that are good, or at least inevitable. I don't agree, but I also don't think there's much value in a "what could be different" conversation without having a "why is it like this at all" conversation first.
> I don't assume people are going to stop at a given intersection, I take a look at their current speed and project it forward before determining if it's safe for me to go.

While I sympathize with your overall sentiment (and indeed, as a fellow motorcyclists, I know a lot about defensive driving/riding), I have never seen people consistently drive the way you describe, ever. For many intersections in the cities (probably most), you simply cannot see if someone is actually going from a side road until you're so deep in the intersection that you have no chance of stopping before it if you notice someone.

Imagine you're driving here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5703087,-122.3952816,3a,75y,...

There's a side road on in front of you. Imagine there is a car going same speed as you, on a crash trajectory (i.e. it is exactly as far from the intersection as you are). Where's the first moment you see it?

Most likely, around here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5703156,-122.3959313,3a,75y,...

where you're around 20 feet from the intersection of your routes. If you begin braking immediately as you notice the other car, you need to be going slower 15 mph if you want to avoid a crash. If you add any amount of time to actually judge the speed of the other car and its intention of stopping, you need to be going less than 10 mph. Needless to say, nobody actually does that, people don't slow down to 10 mph in locations like above.
I cannot remember the reference now, but the reasoning I read was a person who just bought an item x might:
1. return the item if they are not satisfied with it and get a replacement Or
2. buy another one as a gift if they really like it.

Both of these result in a higher fraction of conversions in this kind of targeting vs other targeting criteria.
It's even worse when you realize most of that stock is paid in years 3-4 whereas a lot of people don't last past year 2
It is remain to be seen. China is complicated, and from outside, can be fooled seen as having "long-term plan". Both China and the U.S. have elements that deeply short-sighted and anti-intellectual. For one example on why it is really not "long-term plan": the current Chinese leader doesn't hold any STEM degrees, unlike the ones before him.
that should probably be my go-to metaphor here. Automattic seems to be doing okay as a professional WordPress hosting shop.

Your clarification about the data being portable is definitely key here.
I've seen some pockets here or there of grating, boring "jokes" or obvious attempts at farming karma, but I don't think that really makes the site any more like Reddit. I think folks are using "becoming Reddit" as a shorthand for seeing comments they don't like or believe are low-effort, and it does everyone a disservice when things are framed that way.

Let's call low-effort comments what they are and make the conversations a little simpler.
Seems more like a cranky bookstore owner who was grouchy at every person who came in but didn't buy a book. You can imagine him yelling "this is not a lending library!" several times each day.
I'm surprised the price didn't fall more
No, it's not. It was introduced in the 90's. "The amyloid hypothesis was first proposed in 1991 by John Hardy and David Allsop." You're probably thinkinng of the person who "discovered" Alzheimer's disease (Alois Alzheimer).
I use the standard library. My entire business runs on it, html/css all through the standard library (templates package).

I use embed to embed all assets in the binary itself. "go build" and then "scp" the binary to the production server and "systemctl restart appserver"
You brought up "minority beneficial policies" in the context of the current left wing segment of the Democratic party. That means DEI programs and affirmative action to favor minorities, because that's what's being pushed by the left right now. Those policies do affect headcount and college admissions and are zero sum.

I'm sure as an engineer at Google you would know that recruiters at your company will regularly favor racial minorities by prioritizing their resumes and promotions. Unsurprisingly, it was found that they were systemically underpaying men [1] and discriminating against Asian applicants [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700288695/google-pay-study-fi...

[2] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/google-sett...
If the store knows you will want to buy milk, it will have milk in stock according to demand. If it doesn't have a perfect understanding of whether or not people want to buy milk, the store will over/under stock and lose money.
What we really need is a holistic approach to a lot of these issues. Ending the violent prohibition of drugs, building and providing housing for the homeless, better and more accessible mental health programs, denser cities, better transit, etc. We don't have a politics in the US that fully articulates the dynamic interconnectivity of all the issues and aggressively pushes for a set of solutions.
The difference is really just the perception of control.
I ran into the same situation a while ago, needed a simple command-line tool to generate an audio CD image (which is just raw PCM audio data with a .bin extension) and cuesheet out of a set of source files. Needless to say, I ended up writing a minimal 200-line Python script to do the job [1]. Generating a DVD-Video image is several orders of magnitude more complicated than that though, so perhaps a bloated tool is justified in that case.

[1] https://gist.github.com/spicyjpeg/97c450320796fc0cb00c2a1490...
Assuming people are ignorant en masse says more about your understanding of people than the people.

Not all self driving car accidents make the news — self driving car accidents that any human diver could have easily avoided make the news. Statistically safer something something miles driven means nothing to the family of someone who died in a completely avoidable accident.

Until self driving cars reach the point of handing emergency situations — storms, ice, obstacles, children, other accidents, sudden lane changes, tire blowouts — better than humans and stop punting anything less than ideal conditions back to the driver it’s pointless to talk about safety.
Yeah, I've started very slowly accumulating a list of HN commenters who say nonobvious things that I find value in. Occasionally I'll browse through their comment history, and I'm trying to train myself to recognize when they show up in a comment section. It would be nice to have the site automate some of that. But I recognize that it's tough to do without reinforcing an echo chamber.

I don't even wish for a site that would only show me my "blessed community". I like the general commentary to be pretty widely scattered, but I (1) don't want to miss the larger bits of signal, and (2) want to improve my overall cost::benefit ratio. I also definitely don't want the base level to be too widely scattered, or more specifically, too low of an average value.
Sorry, no. I have bills to pay. If your role means taking a 50% pay cut, I'm just not interested. I don't want to waste multiple days of PTO to interview just so you can give me a number that is entirely unacceptable for my experience, expectations, and skill level. The most amazing role in the world would get the same response if I can't support my family.
When I am on a bike I am definitely not in control of all the people in cars around me, especially the ones who are drunk, are assholes, or are badly-programmed robots who barely know what a “bicycle” is.
This is why I only use Upwork for design and assets. If I don’t like something I throw it out and am not too bent out of shape about it. Quality is only marginally less than hiring someone.
I agree that the author's style is not the best, but I think that what you describe as a paraphrase was meant more as a polemic. That is why the author quotes the whole textbook passage. I do not think he meant to imply that the textbook was making a specifically false statement, but that by its general approach it illustrates a tendency to portray slavery as not as bad as it actually was. Whether this is broadly the case with such textbooks would, of course, need to be demonstrated in much greater detail. However, the author links a more detailed critique above the quoted textbook passage.
Implying SMS is anywhere near comparable to modern-day IM is hilarious, it isn't even encrypted. RCS makes SMS look archaic.

Future is Matrix.
Yeah I should have done that haha
Isn't some of that skewed though? Most of the people who fought and died in WW2 were 18-40 year old folks in the prime of their life, or minorities killed in atrocities. My guess, and correct me if it's wrong, but a lot of people who die from cancer are generally unwell in other ways, or more elderly. It's also that there's not just one "cancer" we have to fix, and we already spend quite a lot of resources on studying and treating cancer.
This is incorrect. You can predict many things that drive incremental revenue lift.

The simplest: Predict what features a user is most interested in, drive them to that page (increasing their predicted conversion rate) -> purchases that occur now that would not have occurred before.

Similarly: Predict products a user is likely to purchase given they made a different purchase. The user may not have seen these incremental products. For example, users buys orange couch, show them brown pillows.

Like above, the same actually works for entirely unrelated product views. If users views x,y,z products we can predict they will be interested in product w and we can advertise it.

Or we predict a user was very likely to have made a purchase, but hasn’t yet. Then we can take action to advertise to them (or not advertise to them).
> The discussion here is about biological sex and its medical implications. People who change their gender, or exhibit traits of the opposite gender, aren’t relevant to this conversation.

“Biological sex” is a catchall label for a wide basket of traits that tends to cluster in two large groups. Almost anything attributed to it is, on further examination, really a result of some more specific subset of those traits, which may overlap those certain individuals exhibit that are not stereotypical for their birth gender for whatever reason. So, yes, those differences matter.
https://archive.ph/yAGJg
I just bridge them to Matrix, and get it all in Element.
Yessir, will be working on that
Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days
Yep, funny how that goes but it's true.
I can't say I have either. Maybe it requires a specific gene activation? Like 5% of the population has the "bookstore pooper" mutation?
Yep, seems like it's pretty confusing, I'll have to improve the design
Try visiting Japan or South Korea or even central Europe.
I'd say the difference is density of deaths.

When people die in regular road accidents, it's just a few at a time. Not compelling enough for even a mention in national news coverage. When a plane or train crashes, it's hundreds simultaneously. Often with a good debris field too.
Good enough to lead with.
Don't know if this helps you, but the about screen has this:
FCC ID: 2A2V6-FZ
IC:27625-FZ
for all compliance certificates, please visit www.flipp.dev/compliance
All good, will be working on it
> Extrinsic here means "extrinsic to self", not "extrinsic to academia". There's plenty of "extrinsic" motivation within academia.

Yes, I've also understood it this way.
Self-driving cars aren't safer than humans, though, and I doubt they ever will be.

All the real love for self-driving cars seems to be in the US, where they are basically competing with completely untrained drivers and a strong drink-driving culture.

No self-driving car on the road today would even come close to passing a UK driving test. They wouldn't last the first five minutes.
There's probably some organized downloading going on in crypto discussions. I get Musk downvotes, he's so polarizing.

Why would sociopaths making fintech fraudcoins not defend their cryptoscams in public? It would be job one for something whose value is completely fabricated and perception based.
Yeah, gotta simplify the design more, it'd get clearer though
Who invented the wonderful phrase "karma farming?"
US DOTs have people devoted to safety no doubt, but they also endorse road and city designs which have safer alternatives.
Thank you. I really do wish we could move on and focus on economics and corporatism and the like. It's nice to see people treating this as a coordinated attack rather than an issue with two sides, where me being allowed to exist in society is one of the sides.
I hear you-- why try more than you need to anyway? It's not your business on the line, and if they don't want more from you...
Yessir, I'd have to think more about what the product really is
Which would be true of any form of transit, including driving or riding a bus or walking down the street. So I’m not following your point here.
Undoubtedly. But I'm glad my own country got to at least play a small part, which of course we had to make a movie about (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish).
so far a relatively unexplored avenue. The Discord doesn't have a GPIO specialty last I looked but I've seen a few people wishing that there was one.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz5kk/bus-driver-china-kill...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37328824

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-08-me-52192-...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/12/ttc-d... (Not a suicide, but it's on topic)
In New Zealand heatpumps are the norm, and have been for 20+ years. But culturally wood burning is another norm. So we have this werid combination of wood burners in the same room as high powered heatpumps because people want the feel of radiated heating.
I'm sure Amazon HR has a lot of data on this question.
that is a cool story, thanks for sharing
> human beings take all kinds of risks, lots of them for fun, and I'm not interested in restricting others' behavior on that basis.

No but we do have a strong, though admittedly weakening, tradition of restricting the fun of others when the danger posed is not solely to themselves. For example building and setting off bombs is fun as hell but we're not allowed to do it because it's pretty unhealthy for the neighbors.

Driving cars is pretty dangerous not just for the driver but also for other people around who have not necessarily consented to being put in danger. When pedestrians and children are routinely getting killed (as they have been in my city this summer) we should shift the danger assessment a little away from the skydiving end of the spectrum and a little more to the backyard bombs zone.
No thank you: I don't care for content that's searching for evidence to support a preconcieved position. There is too much dogma and not enough pragmatism in this space.

I already get enough of their content on HN to recognize dogma when I see it. Quite frankly, it's a circlejerk where everyone else is wrong unless they follow the ST-scene's ideologically-founded prescriptions, and if you post evidence to the contrary you'll often get shouted down.
Well, I was talking about dev work rather than design work.

A 3 page build for a marketing website is probably very well scoped for the dev work (if the designs are done).

If the designs _aren’t_ done, though, and the fixed bid includes the client signing off on the visual look and feel, then… that’s not a tightly scoped requirement.

Could we do the dev in that budget? Almost certainly, I cannot imagine it taking longer than that for a handful of marketing pages.

Will I sign a fixed bid contract, if I don’t have a design and requires the client to sign off on the final look and feel in order to be complete? No, that would be insane.
I second this.

It might not be the solution, but I think the attempt you need to make is just that, get into the office full-time, join breakfast and lunches and whatever else activity is there, and try hard to accept yourself that you're quiet (at the time being).

I've felt like this at times, like I don't belong, felt bad that I'm the weird one (I totally am), but I've forced myself to be there, to participate, not to feel further outcast, and it has helped every time.. I'd go so far as to say that the more disconnected or outcast I've felt, the more I've made a point of being there, even if quiet.
We need zebras (not unicorns)
Yes. I was convinced to invest in Bitcoin through some site called CoinBase.Com. Putting money in was easy, but when it came time to take money out, they said I had to apply for a "CoinBase Visa Card" and they would transfer it as a cash advance (taking a 17% fee, of course.)

Avoid these scams.
> Exactly, but it's not ultimately convenient

Strictly by design and active and reinforced choice. Not for any other reason. Period.