skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How useful is the JWST's output? Is it any more useful than tanks that sit outside rusting?

I'm an amateur astronomer, and even I doubt that these telescopes will provide any output that will be of use to humans in the next hundred or thousand years.
If it's a subject that makes you uncomfortable then don't read about it. I wouldn't expect people discussing human sexual dimorphism to alter their discussion to accommodate gender dysphoria any more than I'd expect entomologists to alter their discussion about spiders to accommodate my arachnophobia. You do raise the question of whether the potential effects of the hormone alterations attending gender transition on the gut microbiome have been studied. I'd be curious about those results.
Forget “Mad Men.” “Halt and Catch Fire” Is AMC’s Greatest Legacy
That is the first time I have ever seen the actual weight of a horse as a betting angle.
Have you tried yabai?

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
I dont think anyone is suggesting you micromanage your consultants, that is obviously the wrong approach and defeats the purpose of hiring consultants.

This is a bussiness arrangement. Normally this works by you saying some things you want over some timeframe, and letting them work on it.

The part of this story where things go off the rails, is that by the middle of it, it was clear the agency wasn't delivering on their deliverables or really making progress. Most people would make some sort of change at that point, either terminate or set modified expectations - definitely not blindly give more money.

Its really not about trust, its about whether or not they do the job. There could be many reasons why the job doesn't get done, many might not be malicious - but these people aren't your friends. You are buying something from them, if they dont have the goods, then they dont have the goods and its not a sign of lack of trust to move on.
Thanks! I will follow this advice! But I honestly don't care much about peak performance (but others certainly do).

- written on my framework
> Well the reason we don’t believe these issues will be solved soon is due to the fact that current beliefs on most of these issues are split almost perfectly 50-50.

They aren’t, though.

(Support in the least representative house of the federal legislature may be split almost exactly 50-50, but that’s not the same as opinions on the substantive issues being split that way.)
The logo of the cute squirrel was replaced by some airplane clip art? Where is marketing in all this? Bad choice. A re-redesign is in order.
That title is misleading. Reading that blog post it should really be "Tell HN: You can't hire me because you don't post salary ranges" or "Tell HN: I don't apply for jobs without salary ranges".
That's because recruiters exploit lack of transparency to determine if you're worth their time and sucker you into lowballing yourself.
How Do Statesmen Differ from Tyrants?
I wonder how lockdown mode affects apps that use WKWebView? (Not SFWebView which afaik is supposed to be more like the Safari app with things like password manager support.) Eg would this break a WebRTC meeting in a native app?
If I truly love what I do, I'm going to respect my work enough to demand excellent compensation when I do work for others.

Anyway, do you apply this logic to your other vendors? Do you tell your accountant that you'll only pay them 70% of market because they should love what they do so much they shouldn't care what you pay them? They'd laugh you out of the room, and rightly so.
It sounds like you live in a dictatorship or theocracy in which case the best approach would be to apply for asylum in the US, Canada, the UK or the EU.

If your life is in danger (as it seems it is), it should be reasonably straightforward to be accepted.
Scanned 6.67GB and processed for 2.41s, cost $40340.16 / 86400 = $0.4669. More than the hourly cost of AWS on-demand a1.x4large with 16 vCPU and 32GB of RAM.

Can’t think of a worse advertisement for their product.
So this machine learning and deep learning hype has shown that it is a gimmick isn't it? After years of surveilling, collecting and training on user data it still doesn't work or gets attacked very easily over spoilt pixels and many other attacks?

What a complete waste of time, money and CO2 being burned up in the data centers.
I live in a higher COL area than Colorado and their salary ranges help me in only that I expect to get paid more. I'm not sure if that's what Colorado wants.
Something about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary proof for this one.

How did you measure better? Did you get the same number of responses for each?
And, importantly: they indicate to the sitting crew how much they could make in their current jobs if they were to apply externally, and it isn't rare at all for that to be substantially more than they are making at present. So salary transparency helps employees evaluate their position across the board, not just new hires: if things are fair then there is no problem, but if things are not then employers will be loath to create such transparency because it equates to a break-off risk or an across the board raise.
The macOS Monterey 12.5 update shows this as one of the fixed items:

* "Fixes an issue in Safari where a tab may revert back to a previous page"

Maybe related?
In Canada, there is this weird faux pas where asking for market rate gets you flagged for a position that requires in reality less than 4 years of experience require significantly more as it is very much still a employer's market. (4 year experience job requires now 8~10 year exp without the salary to reflect this)

I can see significant strains in hiring because of this cultural backward thinking. If you don't list your salary range, you simply won't get applicants other than the truly desperate.

If you don't offer a competitive market rate you are not going to find quality people or very motivated workers.

It's no surprise that Canada has massive brain drain, especially in the West Coast. Those that stay, like to gaslight and come up with a dozen reasons why a haircut is justified to live in the warm part of Canada.

In the long run, Canada is absolutely going to lose relevancy economically. 1 out of 5 immigrants leave in the first 4 years, record number of Canadians/PR are leaving Canada permanently.
Yes, but the talk about all of the benefits makes it sound like you don't get those benefits unless you enable it all the time.

E.g. "The first and basic thing is it allows you to grab the scroll bar and move down the page quickly. You don't have to double finger scroll over and over to get to the bottom of a very long page. You can simply drag and pull it to your desired location."

You know what? if you move your mouse all the way to the right to scroll with the bar you can also scroll for a fraction of a second to reveal it so you can grab it.
Fascinating. Was she independently wealthy? Selling drugs on the side?

I've always been curious about the financial aspects of businesses like this. I find they can often shed some interesting lights on ways to streamline operations/financials.
Hiring a Senior FPGA Engineer
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We are looking for motivated engineers who bring something different to the table, who come with curiosity and talent, and who represent fresh ideas and perspectives. Lastly, and most importantly: we are an equal opportunity employer who actively celebrates diversity and who is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

In addition to our unique culture and mission, we offer the following benefits:

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Rampart has some ambitious goals. The FPGA role offers unique opportunities to broaden your experience and to use your talents to tackle challenges. Working here, you will contribute to the foundation of next generation wireless capabilities. Some of the leadership expectations for the position are:

Guide development of all phases of FPGA design flow - from concept to production
Lead SoC and FPGA integration activities across multiple projects
Develop RTL designs using HDL, with emphasis on DSP, cryptographic, and digital communication system blocks (frontend, physical layer, link layer, error correction, etc.)
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Ability to guide Engineers with diverse skill sets towards deliverable goals
> Except this isn't about the US and the person you're responding to hasn't mentioned the US. This is about a lawsuit in New Zealand,

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.
Ah, that explains a lot. I do heavy ad and tracker blocking, including blocking loading of all web fonts. I constantly find various arrows and other tiny images not rendering and didn't know why. You'd think for something like a left and right arrow, you could at least set the alt text to the unicode character for left or right arrow, or at least ASCII art (i.e. "->" and "<-"). It would also make it make sense for people using screen readers.
>> TinyPilot is open-nothing.

What am I missing?

https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot

https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/#how-to-build-your-own-tinypilo...
> For example: I see hourly billing, and bug fixing counting as billed hours. How has the agency an incentive to keep bugs low if it makes them more money?

More importantly, why is a bug on code they haven't even delivered yet considered your responsibility. This is not billable hours, this should be included in the original feature hours. If he were requesting a new feature and calling that a bug, sure. But it sounds like they were the one's introducing new features against his protests.

Slightly tangentially, this is why I refuse to do work with companies that strictly bill hourly. Give me a project estimate with strictly defined scope. Split the deliverables up into three-five milestones (so either party can cut and run if things are not going to plan) with partial payments on milestone completion. Hourly billing comes after for support contracts and supplementals.
In 8 years a whole generation goes from just out of school/uni to having kids and a mortgage. It definitely makes a huge difference.
Ideally, who should decide what the public face of the company should be if not for marketing?
It's coming straight at us, so we don't have much to judge its speed from. If we saw it on an angle, we know the distance, so we could calculate the precise moment of intersection. Since it is essentially a cloud, we can't just go by parallax (how much it appears to grow in size as it nears), because it is also expanding as it approaches.

We do know enough to model how the cloud disperses as it flings through space, and the models suggest that two day window for intersecting with Earth.

Also, the cloud of sun-stuff is so much larger than Earth, which is pretty much the only reason we can measure anything of it at all. Otherwise the sun would just block it from view entirely. Watch the animations, and you'll see how the ejection is easy to see, but it rapidly becomes harder, and then impossible to see, when looking at the sun straight on. After that point, we can only measure what parts of it we can see that take up more of our field of "vision" (visible light and otherwise) around the sun, but not at our sun.
Yes, thank you for the idea. I should probably simplify it. It´s basically people I work with and I think it makes a total sense what you´ve wrote. Do you think you could provide me some business tools to get started?

Patrik.
Thank you. It's very good to have the affirmation of a fellow straight, rich, white man that everything is hunky-dory. We can just take everybody a standard deviation or two off from the median, and just chop those tails off, neat as pie.

Now everybody is doing great and we don't have to think about the negatives at all!
> "The scroll bar has been around since the start of computers"

They had scrollbars in the fifties?
> Let me put it another way. Take a person who was well versed in the state of the art of technology and science in 1950 and bring them to the current time: all their wildest dreams about what we could do will have been fulfilled.

> But bring a similar person from 1890 to 1950, and they will not be able to recognize a single thing about the state of science and technology. They will not have been able to imagine anything that they would be seeing. That is how fundamentally the world changed in that period.

The first working transistor was in 1947. Your person "well versed in the state of the art of technology and science" in 1950 might know about them. Having 10 billion of them on one substrate working together is still revolutionary, though - something the person in 1950 probably wouldn't expect and certainly couldn't envision the effects of.

Edison produced his first electric light bulb in 1879. Your person from 1890 would know about them, and would recognize lighting in 1950. They wouldn't recognize LEDs, though, or even florescent tubes.

Bell's telephone worked in 1876. Your person in 1890 would know it, and would recognize communications in 1950. Neither they nor the person from 1950 would recognize cell phones in peoples' pockets.

Your person from 1950 would know about computers as stand-alone behemoths in data centers. The internet is not something they would understand; computers didn't talk to each other in 1950.

And so on.
This doesn't really make sense. Genghis khan massacred entire cities. Soldiers don't just go home when the enemy army is routed. Historically, the first thing they want to do is pillage and rape.
I tried 10 code editors [video]
That’d be true if there wasn’t robust market with competing alternatives. I may be okay with waiting another 6-12 months for Framework to supply a high res OLED screen or AMD, but without that clarity, might as well jump into Dell or Lenovo now.
You can hide it for the same reason people choose to hide their bookmark bar, or reading list, or dock. They simply don't want it to take up room on the screen so they can focus on the website
I could try to ask companies to list their salary but it’s a fight I’m not going to win, at least not alone. So instead, I stay mine.

The vast majority of any applications for me for the last 10 years have started with an incoming message from a recruiter (usually external, very often not engaged by the company). To filter out irrelevant conversations, I respond “Thank you for your interest” and I immediately put:

* my current detailed compensation,

* that I am very happy where I am.

Most conversations stop there. Several recruiters include the range, but it’s usually half to a third of my current compensation. A lot of recruiters assume they can just take the first number and compare that to the total compensation — that’s an easy filter too.

I don’t think it’s a great situation to have my compensation so easily available, but I have regularly refused offers with higher base numbers because the conditions were not there –– a counter-productive bonus structure, or more recently, no remote option; that last one is worth +50% to me, and many recruiters don’t like when I tell them that.
Will Elon Musk buy Twitter this year?
> so if I approach competent agencies demanding a milestone-based contract for $7-15k, they'd just tell me to get lost

Yep, exactly that.

And, for a dev agency (I'm not as familiar with how design would want to structure this), you'd either need _very_ detailed and specific requirements before we consider quoting the project, or we're going to need an up-front discovery phase (that will run a few thousand dollars anyway) to produce those detailed requirements and specifications, before we can even give a quote.

Fixed bid projects do feel like they create much more of an adversarial relationship than a collaborative one for working on a project, and when we make fixed bids we _definitely_ price a lot of the risk into the bid (and we're up front about that).
Ah - now I'm fairly convinced you haven't actually bought real estate.

There is no such thing as a "standing offer" to buy a house. They're a contract with very clear start and end dates (most offers are good for between 72 hours and two weeks).

This is because both parties have to agree at time of exchange on the value of the good, and the person making the offer usually needs to have financing lined up - They literally cannot make an offer that will be good for long periods, because the financier won't agree to that.

As for this...

> ...but again, it sounds like you misunderstand my proposal. In 30 seconds, someone would offer to buy, and then the current property owner would have the choice of either selling, or keeping their property but raising their property-tax assessment to either that amount, or the local average, whichever is lower.

Ok - follow along... now the next offer comes in 2 days later at the current value. The owner STILL has zero desire to sell. What now? Do they get to raise again?

Dude - this whole thing is ending up with more rules and regulations that the current market, which is exactly why pushing this kind of thing simply doesn't work.

In theory you're optimizing land efficiency, but you're fucking with other efficiencies ALL along the chain, and the net result is that people hate you.

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Also - taking you at face value: "raising their property-tax assessment to either that amount, or the local average, whichever is lower."

This is fucking already how taxes work. At least in my area, every house is taxed at the local average (fulton county does average assessed value tax for land). So you're literally gaining nothing for all this additional complexity.
> It sounds like you live in a dictatorship or theocracy in which case the best approach would be to apply for asylum in the US, Canada, the UK or the EU.

They are describing the status quo in the US (and, though not having had the kind of success in actually writing preferences into law yet, the UK.)
The evidence points to the assumption of a shortage being wrong.

By definition, a shortage of labor sellers means labor sellers have an advantage in negotiations. From what I understand about Japan, even in the tech sector, the quality of life for labor sellers is pretty bad with long hours and not much room for high pay.

I imagine if Japanese tech workers has the option of working for employers with compensation offerings like Google and Apple and other US companies, then they would not accept the quality of life that they are. And even with the terrible quality of life they have now, the Japanese world keeps spinning, so any shortage is clearly not short enough to be a showstopper (in the short term).
Depends on who you're talking to, but I think the interest by crypto people in Uniswap suggests they're pretty aware of this problem and not excusing it.
Did you read the article? She was allegedly doing her job, looking at her work phone from time to time. Her personal phone playing a Hulu show was in the passenger seat (which she apparently was listening to).

> When Vasquez was looking at that phone for several seconds at a time, the defense writes, she was monitoring the company Slack, “doing her job.” Her personal phone, on the other hand, was significantly farther away, on the passenger seat. This differs from what Vasquez told the NTSB, but her attorneys argue the video is clear, and exculpatory: After the crash, the dashcam shows her reaching over to the passenger side to grab her personal phone and call 911.
You should! Not everyone wants to work as a cog in the giant enterprise machine. I've taken a lower salary from a small company specifically because they are small.

I would caution you against the "willing to sacrifice parts of their salary for 100% remote, flexible work time, PTO and others." mindset though. 100% remote, flexible work time, PTO, and other benefits are not added bonuses at this point: they are the minimum requirements for many positions/prospective employees. Instead, focus on the selling the qualities of your workplace that make people happy to work there (for instance, work/life balance, no red tape/micromanagement, creative freedom on solutions, interesting problems to solve, etc).
Amazon sues admins of 10K Facebook groups over fake reviews
>In a world where Apple’s policies can be sidestepped simply by asking the user to sideload the app, many, even most users will likely agree to do so without any awareness of what they’re giving up.

This doesn't happen with any kind of frequency on Android so I'm curious as to why it would happen on iOS. Do you have ideas on what it would be like? Why would it be so different than android or windows?
For a free market to have "perfect competition", one of the requirements is that "Buyers have complete or perfect information (in the past, present, and future) about the product being sold and the prices charged by each firm."

Information asymmetry is a big factor acting against a free market that is "perfectly competitive". In the US, commerce regulations are more or less meant to to push the market as close as possible to this theoretical state of perfect competition.

Insider trading, front running, or any similar forms, directly act against this goal and increase information asymmetry.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perfectcompetition.asp
The current inflation isn't caused by wages, it's caused by energy prices.
Monarch butterflies now listed as endangered