skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bad vs good data dichotomy is a false frame. The problem with the media isn't that it's zero signal, its that it's low signal. Fortunately there's also signal in the differences between the reporting from the various outlets, and there's also signal in the repitition across reporting from the same outlet. For example, the more media outlets of varying political slants agree on a specific facet of a story, all other things being equal, the more likely it's true. And from there, if you can put together a firm set of things that seem highly likely to be true, you can have a scaffold to hang everything else on in a way that might be useful for understanding where the uncertainty is and its magnitude.

It's this integration process that I think can possibly result in useful artifacts. It can be (and is) done by humans, of course, but at a coarse grain and is fundamentally resource constrained. I suspect if this kind of process could be systematized and cover all outputs by all media outlets, that could be something materially better.

A lot of the resistence to what I'm saying stems from jumping to conclusions around what, exactly, these artifacts would be. The point would be to try many different kinds of artifacts. The ones that are obviously a bad idea are obviously bad ideas. But there are many that are not obviously good or obviously bad, such as having AI introduce additional cross-references, applying labels to various forms of rhetoric that are used to trick people, etc.

Also, I said "AI" not "machine learning" and not "classifiers" and not "neural networks." I'm talking in this case very literally about AI in the broad sense.
Exactly, I was going to mention this. Sometimes in large areas, like the Amazon, it is extremely difficult to monitor and secure these lands. Regardless if you have satellites and everything watching it. It is even more complex to safely reach the areas to stop someone from doing unlawful things.
Please name and shame. Is it something like Coalition Technologies from LA? They are doing the same thing by hiring $3/hour employees from 3rd world countries and charge six figures.
BBB are the grand masters of extortion. They've been doing it before it was cool.
Some companies do that. Some actually do huge, heavily customized deployments where it is hard to tell the price upfront. For some others it's just to jack up the price if they smell a sucker.
> you'd get a better response from an ad that said "Free Milk" than an ad that said "Free Expired Milk,"

But he said he got better candidates with the ad that didn't post salary ranges. If I understand your analogy, that's like (counterintuitively) getting more responses for the expired milk.
Are we starting to see tech companies worried about how stable their userbase is instead of how much they can grow and get attention from people?

In a time of growth every bit of extra activity is great. If you run hot and burn out someone, but attract ten users in the process, great!

But if growth is slow and you are shifting gears to keeping users around, having a time based feed is more sustainable?

I'm just guessing here, but I wonder why Facebook is making this after so many years of people asking for it. They just backtracked on Facebook accounts for Oculus as well.
Sitting in a hospital with discharge set for a few hours from now and expecting to use Uber WAV to get home with a broken leg... this is a little worrying.
Ah recent years..

I was #16 in clanbase globally for a brief period in CS1.6 way back when - I've always thought I was wasting my life at that point, but now I see I should have stuck with it :D
It's not that they need to boycott it. It's that they need to offer it from 30% less through their own channels. When there's real competition in the market, apple will likely need to adjust their fee strategy.
Energy markets are shifting away from coal and wind is becoming dirt cheap. Decarbonizing energy is probably the biggest near term win we could aim for.
> A post a while ago on reddit was someone who was complaining about a doordasher who didn't want to wait and bring like multiple bags of cat litter like up 3 flights of stairs. The amount of inconsiderate abuse people have towards them (making them wait, navigate buildings) is a poor allocation of resources.

This sounds like simple miscommunication what the provided service actually is. When I order a package off Amazon, it gets delivered to my doorstep. When I ordered a fridge from an online retailer, it got delivered to the exact room where I wanted it, and the delivery people helped me lift it out of the styrofoam packaging. Superficially both are package deliveries, even from the same delivery company, but they are conducted and paid very differently. But which of these two can/should I expect if I order cat food from doordash?
I agree that salary ranges are needed.

I would add though, "leetcode" is also why companies struggle to hire.

I avoid outright companies who use this as a filter, and cut the process short if I encounter it along the way.

Prima donna? Sure. But I believe quite strongly these things measure memorized puzzles, not skills.
>Are you suggesting disabled people receive a regular fixed sum from the government, or that they'd have to individually apply each trip for the compensation?

In France you get both.

A fixed sum for your handicap+a bit more money if you have rent to pay, which amount to +/- minimum wage(which is very livable in most cities besides Paris)
And you get free cabs/transportation, my neighbor's kid get a cab every day of the week without having to pay a cent, same for a lot of kids in special ed, cancer patients, any serious disease even temporary mean you can get free cabs.
If you don't have a clinical relationship with OneMedical post-acquisition, Amazon has no clinical need to access to data, and doing so is a clear HIPAA violation.

Clinical data is not the same as browser history or purchase history or ad clicking history or anything like that. The public health interest in being able to generate accurate diagnoses (among other things) from various providers, down to the location/clinic/doctor level, grossly outweighs any one person's right to say "well I don't like this company so take my email out of your database." Taking an extreme example, there are a lot of reporting requirements around HIV. Anonymity is important but the public health interest in accurate reporting outweighs that. Imagine someone being able to tell their local clinic 48 hours after an HIV diagnosis that they need to delete any record that they were ever there. It just doesn't work that way.
Then if the second you lost by trying and failing to scroll is important leave it on.

But if isn't clear that you have reached the bottom of a website, then that's a problem with the page.
BBB are the grand masters of extortion. They've been doing it before it was cool. You know that "accredited" mark? It may as well be a dollar sign.
No. Whole point of disabling long list of functionality mentioned in the article is so that — no - code is executed via that functionality on the device at all. You are suggesting something that go against whole point of turning it off. Browser already operates in “untrusted” mode. Apple’s iPhone systems and hardware are not designed to be separated. Even if the hardware was duplicated and completely isolated, the secure hardware would be in close physical proximity to non-secure hardware and as a result would be vulnerable to side-channels leaks and/or attacks.

You also are ignoring that a challenge-response counter-measures by the attacker would require direct and real-time action from the targeted users; CAPTCHA is a type of real-time challenge-response combined with private information would confirm that the target user is actively using the device being targeted.

If you think you understand something I don’t that’s fine, but I clearly neither understand what you’re trying to communicate, nor agree with what little I believe I do and have repeatedly attempted to explain why and you have repeatedly ignored my points. If I have ignore a material point made by you, please explicitly point it out.
Gatekeeping "true book enjoyers". Nice bait.
Mercedes does this. A Ford that I rented last year did so as well.
Seattle's got some wild parrots. Article's a bit dated but I'm pretty sure they're still around.

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030205&slug...
I just want to clarify that trans issues are important and we have had some progress here. I don't mean to diminish in any way the very real issues you and other trans people face. This is an example where the aesthetics of the Democrats actually achieves some good.

Conservatives are using trans issues to create division for their own benefit. Red states are rushing to pass legislation on trans issues. Take, for example, Utah's ban on trans athletes. This is apparently an issue so important that it demands legislation even though it affects literally one person [1].

You see closet (well not so much anymore) conservatives like Elon Musk tweeting dumb things about the "far left" [2]. When people complain about the "far left" what they really mean is they don't like trans people and they want them to go away. That's it.

There is no "far left" in American politics and the fact that so many have bought into the idea there is shows you just how normative and effective right-wing propaganda has been and continues to be.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088908741/utah-transgender-a...

[2]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144?s=20...
True, the context I intended was where all participants have information about the market. If either party has incomplete or inaccurate data, then there exists arbitrage opportunity.

Hence the importance of price transparency, and laws requiring a minimum pay figure are a start.
>"I believe it is temporary."

You can believe whatever you want. We have totally different point of view on subject and do not have to agree.
If the answer is "no" then you've conceded the Bible isn't an authority and you can freely choose to ignore what pats of it you want.

That is not how the Bible works. It is a book of history, stories, laws, information, and other things. No Christian denomination on the planet, not even the most straw fundamentalist fringe sect you can imagine, takes this reductive view that because it is in the text it is automatically a command to be followed by the modern day reader.

Failure to make that distinction when interpreting a volume of such history absent its context does not mean that distinction is nonexistent or arbitrary.
>And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't. Our salary offerings are very aggressive to the developer's benefit. In my opinion, salary is a sign of respect from you employer.

Let's see your salary range numbers and what tier you fall under.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

Are you in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3?

Are you paying your mid-level engs over $200k total when including stock and bonus? That's the minimum benchmark I would use for my next job hunt. 120k+ for juniors, 200k+ for mid, 300k+ for senior, 400k+ for anything above senior.
I am sure there will continue to be many parks and groves and "natural" areas, carefully managed by humans, in order to meet various human needs, and many people will enjoy the time they spend working on them or visiting them. But that's not the wildness I wish we could have left alone - untouched, busy with its own devices, for its own sake.
What you are likely running into the the trimodal nature of software salaries [1] that has been extensively discussed here on HN in the past. tl;dr there exists (supposedly) in the global market, 3 tiers of tech companies, with 3 distinct salary ranges.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
> seems to me that those who insist that gender and sex are distinct also heavily imply that biological sex is mostly meaningless

Gender (either socially ascribed or gender identity, though those two can differ from each other) and biological sex are objectively different things.

Most people who value gender identity rather than the particular indicia of biological sex other people prefer as a basis of socially ascribed gender generally view biological sex as a multidimensional space which includes (among other things, some of which are mutable) gender identity, not a simple binary (even if the distribution may be strongly bimodal.)

> its unclear what they actually expect anyone to care about

Generally, gender identity rather than other factors to the extent that society divides people up by ascribed genders. But also generally a lot less gender segregation, and especially strict binary gender segregation, at all, and when distinctions need to be made to which particular sex- and/or gender-stereotyped traits are relevant, to make distinctions on the particular relevant trait rather than by stereotypical association.
Exactly, energy and the aftermath of covid. But central banks can't do much about that. What they're trying to do is stop the next round of inflation that would be caused by wage rises if everyone is fully compensated for the current round of inflation expecting the round after that to follow suit.

If these expectations become entrenched the cycle is very hard to break. Only a severe recession with high unemployment will work at that point and nobody wants that.
I would argue that the lower number is meaningful if the posting in question entertains hiring zero or low experience candidates (e.g. fresh undergrads) for the role. In that situation I would think that most applicants matching that description would be happy to get a salary on the lower end (within reasonable limits of course) since at that stage in one's career the biggest challenge is getting one's foot in the door.

In my experience there aren't many postings like that though, most are looking for at least moderate levels of experience in which case I would agree that the upper end tends to be the expectation.
Car charger bot will also hold your spot
This is the episode that got a colleague to quit watching Black Mirror: "too depressing"...
> Certainly not the Securities Act of 1933 or any SEC rule

U.S. insider trading restrictions are creatures of common law. The ‘33 Act makes no mention of it. The same antifraud/antitheft theories enable prosecution of a Coinbase insider using their position to trade with advantage.
Thanks! As for the file name explanation: yes, may go back and do that (in both the original article and its follow-up) --- especially the `_index.md`, since that underscore-file-name stuff is something with which new Hugo users often struggle.
Reminds me of a question I've always had about game AIs: suppose you have a really good one (like this one, or in chess eg), how do you make the easier difficulty levels? Just throwing random noise into the decisions would probably lead to non-enjoyable outcomes. Is there a structured approach to it?
Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s
Funny you say that - there is a horror show during inflation that we haven't hit yet (but could be close to): wage-price-spiral.

"Things cost more" -> "Employees demand more money" -> "Businesses have to pay them more money." -> "Businesses raise prices" -> "Things cost more" -> repeat.

The only way (besides war) that this cycle is broken is with a deep hitting recession where people are just happy they have jobs forget the raises.
+1 for coaching / private lessons. I'm actually tutoring a friend and it's great to see him learning rapidly.

Also there was an article recently about how CS masters degrees probably aren't a good idea to get, with the kicker that half of software engineers are self taught anyway.
you could set the shared code a submodule in git. you can set this up so the submodule points to a specific commit. this way any changes to the shared library won't break your other services. Or the company I work for uses artifactory to store shared libraries and we point our services to a specific version of the shared library. this way not all services need to be upgraded at once.
Bioinformatics YouTube channels to learn bioinformatics
At this point I'm cynical of it all... Any conduct promisses by modern device and app makers is worth a pilar of salt after the constant breeches of trust by them.

A lot of security settings (especially on the privacy level) are often too over-complex or total placebo in nature. A big problem is that these settings often get wiped and unstick themselves every time an app or OS update occurs, which totally defeats the purpose of having to configure apps independently. Many apps like TikTok and Instagram barely even function unless you grant them invasive camera and microphone access regularly (not even selectively).

Regulators need to pursue device makers instead of trying to address each individual app maker... Samsung and Apple grant access to accelerometers, cameras, contacts, etc. to begin with to apps (even when it's nowhere necessary), rather than just restricting access at the device and OS level... This allows device makers to grant certain apps backdoors for a fee.

Modern phones make me miss Blackberries so much, it's a damn shame they're barely compatible with modern networks now or I'd light my old one up and forget about these overpriced touch screen snitch/spy devices.
My experience with interviews like that is that the manager isn't looking for the perfect candidate. Instead, the manager is looking to expand their empire, which means looking for someone who'll shut up and keep up appearances.

In these kinds of jobs, the best thing to do is get rejected.
Funny how oil and corn aren't just carbon though. Almost as if thinking in terms of CO2 only is intentionally ignoring the actual fuels involved.
19 issues, 1996-2000
> Wouldn't that be a civil matter between him and Coinbase?

It’s that, too. But fraud is a crime.
My expectations are very much the exact opposite. When a company posts a range, especially a large range, I expect them to at least pretend that the lowest end of the scale is the best they'll give during salary negotiations. Companies, and companies people trying to hire you, have an incentive to get you the worst deal you will agree with.

That said, ranges are still nice to have. I'd much rather have an estimate below expectations than another company saying they offer "competitive wages". Competitive just means "what you earn right now, or worse".
>The antibiotic exposed group (N = 31) included 16 males (M) and 15 females (F), and the control group (N = 17) included nine males and eight females.

Small N but as a layman it could be potentially significant. Perhaps hormonal changes could be monitored in fecal microbiomes.
Invented gravity?
It's not brave, it is an important topic. Hundreds of thousands of scientific studies over the last two centuries excluded female subjects because it was too hard to predict their wild female hormones or some other ghastly excuse.
Biological sex differences do have important, medically relevant, and poorly understood impacts on health across the lifespan, and unfortunately the field is in its infancy.
Curious how readout worked and whether readout was destructive.
Yeah, I think the article lacks of a single, clear statement on why things it went wrong. It gets caught up in myriads of little reasons which I think distracts the author from arriving at a painful insight.

His shortest section, left towards the bottom of the page, seems like an accidental example of rationalizing the sunk cost fallacy.

> Firing WebAgency and searching for a replacement would have burned 30-60 hours of management time. And there was no guarantee that I’d find someone better. For most of the project, I was sitting on a bunch of partially-complete tasks. The cost of reassigning half-done work and spinning up a new vendor would be almost as expensive as starting over from scratch.
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Hm, I know you're getting a lot of responses to this, but just to throw my view onto the pile: what I "enjoy" doing (golf, video games, playing with my dogs, traveling with my wife, etc.) is not something anyone will pay me for.

What I'm willing to do, however, is a whole bunch of stuff, as long as that "stuff" gives me a better ability to do those things that do make me happy, and a primary driver of my ability to do the things I like is how much money I have.

Happiness doesn't really factor into it, because as I said, the items at the top of the list of things that make me happy are nonstarters from an income perspective.

It's delusional, as an employer, to think your job is to make the people who work for you "happy" in some objective sense.

Nobody would be there if you weren't paying them, you need very badly to remind yourself of that.
I send an e-mail and ask "for a friend." Works every time. Unless they are low balling the range and then they are only hurting themselves.
When I was a freelancer by myself I did not recognise the negatives. I was focused on the positive ofc. But now we are hiring freelancers and on one side the benefit from short term relationships is a huge benefit. But I can’t really rely on a freelancer when I have plans for the next years. Since now I don’t had a bad freelancer that we cancelled.

When working with another agency you are the customer so I guess you can’t really be objective how good some project was. We never did hire an agency when we thought that we get in trouble with delayed projects. We determine this by doing workshops at the beginning to check if we are a good match.
If you believe everything you just said, then you'd understand why opening with the minimum salary is not consistent with it.
> I am pretty sure there are a handful of good (based on Tailwind CSS) template generators which will produce results superior to the pages you received.

Where are they?
I'll assume you're non-partisan and merely naive. An overthrow either looks like a military coup or a color revolution. The color revolutions were run against Trump. If you missed this very obvious fact, you were paying attention at the wrong level.
As someone who lives in a county with National Forests, this is a huge issue. Originally the deal was the Feds could have national forests, but make up for missing property tax/economic activity with logging grants, mineral right grants, and paying a portion of the money the feds made from that to the local community. Then for environmental reasons the feds just stopped allowing anything on the land and paying what they promised AND killed all those local community jobs. Double whammy. Personally I think the Feds should have to sell all the national forests now since they did not keep to the promises they made, or at least renegotiate with the local community. But unlike when these deals were made, the USA is now a Federal system without any state rights power, so we just try to keep the roof from leaking on our school and vote to increase our own taxes to educate kids. Meanwhile people talk trash about rundown rural communities and all the unemployed millworkers/miners that turned to drugs when they lost their job opportunities and ignore that the entire country broke it's promise to those people. Imagine the weight of the country choosing to break a promise and ruin you while making fun of your rundown ignorant small town po-dunk life, an ant crushed with no-power to do a thing about it. Lumber is through the roof, yet the mills are all closing. Because the country hates you, your way of life, and TOOK all of the land and locked it up even though it promised not to do that when it took the land.
ML is there to maximize business income--nothing else.

If ML was benefiting me, it would know that 90% of the time I fire up Hulu I plan to watch the next episode of what I was watching last time. And it would make that a one click action. Instead I have to scroll past promotional garbage...every single time. Assholes.