skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard at a certain Professional Social Network company that some of their analysts would slam their db cluster with inefficient queries until it rebooted, and first one to rerun their query would finally get a result.

Learn SQL ffs.
but in that case... isn't it bad for the employer if the person is not actually happy with the salary is they are going to bail as soon as they find something else?
So depression is not a matter of mood or motivation; it's a medical problem that calls for treatment.

If you're just sad and anxious because you don't get along well with folks at work, that's probably not a medical problem. Still, if it's bad and getting worse, you probably want to be sure, just in case. Talk to a healthcare provider to get some help deciding if it's a serious problem, or if it's just that you don't like your situation.

You might not be doing anything wrong at all. There's no reason to think you're going to get along well with every person or team that you meet.

They might not be doing anything wrong, either. Sometimes people just don't get along. For example, I can think of a couple of people that I have great respect for, but that I don't want to share a room with. Not because they're doing anything wrong, and not because I am; we just rub each other the wrong way.

Do your due diligence to make sure you don't have some serious health condition developing. Endure the situation because it might get better, until you're pretty sure that it won't. If you don't get past it, and it seems like it might be bad for you, look for another job.

You don't have to get along with everyone. You don't have to stay in a job that's not good for you.
That's fair enough, I dont' think this is on the devs. At least not entirely, but I'd argue that a company that can't maintain budget and scope & is off by _that_ much on the first estimate is not very effective either & should be 'fired' as a company.

And then there is the sunk costs which are not so easily dimissible...

That being said, it is a nice and fresh website. And congratz on the success with the product! It's something I've been 'dreaming' of, find a nice niche product and make it well. No BS.
I'm Coding an Entire Physics Engine from Scratch
Apparently you aren't much into the C++ world, I advise hearing the C++ podcasts at very least.

Plenty of people discuss the matter.
>> It’s hard to deny that the result of the current democratic strategy is not meaningfully different from what Mitch McConnell wants, whether it’s deliberate or not.

The result you are talking about is not the result of Democratic strategy, but of Manchin’s (and to a lesser extent, Sinema’s) blocking of anything meaningful and impactful.
The link was intended to date the Alexa comment ("since 2019"), but the placement was ambiguous. Anyway, you're correct that I was lazy on wording.
Do we work together? haha
Then why post skills at all?

If cultural fit and believing in your mission is the most important thing, then just hire people who are really good at that
Biden tests positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms
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While I agree that the information should be there, I've had some success with asking "do you have a salary range you can share with me". Some quickly give a range, a few will reply "well... it depends" and about half dodge the question or ignore it. Most of the "well... it depends" group will end up giving a range if communication stops. The ones that completely refuse, well, that's part of their corporate culture and they'll have to deal with the shrinking pool of candidates who are willing to invest time in the hiring process without knowing the compensation range.
I am the first grad student of an assistant professor (chemistry/biology). Seeing her writing workload has made me a lot less enthusiastic about being a professor myself. I like writing about science, but the constant treading water mentality makes it difficult to 1) find the mental space to be creative and 2) take the risks that are often necessary for innovation, especially since the careers of your trainees are on the line. The kicker is that most grant writing isn't even about science. Good luck with your lab!
Inside trading is fraud, no matter the security or property, same as with Opensea NFT case:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-nft-mar...

The main problem with crypto is it forces us all to have to re-learn why fraud is bad, and in the process it allows those in power to arbitrage the fraud-learning itself. Satoshi explicitly remarks that fraud is a critical weakness of crypto. Regulations and laws might suck, but when so many societies have adopted anti-fraud mechanisms, hey maybe that was actually a good idea and not something we need to re-learn?

Even Roughgarden’s textbook proves the vulnerabilities of blockchain-based mechanisms.. .. Maybe crypto advocates citing false straw man arguments should be considered investment advice and punished by the SEC as well.
Wait until they reveal that the whole paper was generated by some GPT-4 network.
the writing style of this (and the preceding) article is extremely unpleasant. the author can't seem to move past a point without retracing it 3 times. interesting subject matter though
What I learned about doing projects: it’s all about deliveries and milestones. Agree on them, write them down and then enforce them. Don’t continue without getting the previous milestone delivered (at least 80% or so).

And if you don’t get what you agreed on, pull the plug. Even if you just have the slightest feeling of doubt, that something is not right. Quite often there is something very wrong already.
Monomux, The
Monomux is a terminal multiplexer that isn't a terminal emulator. Less featureful than tmux (therefore) but still the better screen. Read the "Why" section for a much better explanation. :)
I'm curious how it is used as a stealth layoff. If your role location requirement changes, you should be eligible for layoff UI.
Well in this exact case; the agency quite successfully structured things so that the billable hours were grown significantly beyond what was originally contracted...
I don't understand the criticism here. The article is an analysis of messaging from government and media. The small number of scientific and medical claims present in it (such as "people who've taken COVID vaccines still get infected and spread the disease") are all quite uncontroversial.

Is it your contention that only "health experts" and people with MPH degrees are qualified to speak on these matters? Is there some actual excerpt from the article you can point to as evidence of the author supposedly venturing beyond his area of expertise?
I’ve had many recruiters think they can try to sell me on the job _after_ I’ve told them it would be half of my compensation…

And, look, I’d love to join a Series A start-up that offers a ton of early stock in a promising idea; I’m typically the rare profile that would happily discuss that, with a spreadsheet and all. But those are almost always meat-by-the-slice “agencies” with no bonus structure. I’m really taken aback by the glib of those recruiters.
Kinda weird that their conclusion contradicts the whole post.

> If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t. But despite all the missteps and stress, the results might justify all the pain. I expected the new website to increase sales by 10-20%, but it’s been closer to 40%. In July, the TinyPilot website hit an all-time high of $72.5k in sales, 66% higher than before the redesign.

A simple website redesign increased sales by 40-66%, but you wouldn't do it again? Is the fact that it took longer and cost a few thousand dollars more than expected really that bad? That describes literally every software project in existence.
Can you point out a better generic framework for this? And starlette doesn’t count as Tom Christie is the author of both.
>Not only are you supporting my argument, you're also showcasing how ridiculously inefficient the hiring process is

I don't think the GP was arguing with you; was the poster's first comment on this article.
Ask HN: How’s your experience building collaboration tools (like Figma)?
I’m thinking of developing multiplayer experience on my app, where multiple users can modify a shared ‘whiteboard’ in real time. I’m aware that there are companies creating multiplayer experiences on top of their existing product (Figma, CodeSandbox), and some that have it from the beginning (Observable for example). So, I know it can be done no matter what stage the product is at. However, there’s not many online resources on how it can be done (and how hard), besides a nice article from Figma (https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/) and fairly theoretical literature on Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT).

Do you have any experience building such a feature? Where should I begin? What would you recommend?

For context I’m a full-stack engineer and have used React Typescript and a couple of backend tech (Java, Go). Thank you :)
NASA is not defense funding. It might benefit from some military technologies, but its funding is not under the DoD.
It looks a lot cleaner without. I prefer it the way it is
The explanation for inflation is always money printing (mostly via issuance of state bonds), because that's literally the only way to get a general rise in prices, which is what inflation is meant to mean.

In practice, measuring literally all prices is very hard, so governments measure a small subset and then call a change in that basket "inflation". The baskets were perhaps once a reasonable proxy but now it leads to problems, because it causes people to lose sight of what inflation really is. Higher gas prices is not inflation, it's just higher gas prices. Higher everything prices is inflation, but unless the money supply increases it's impossible for all prices to rise. With a stable monetary base a price rise in some essentials will cause other products to lower prices to try and juice demand that's falling away, or they will disappear entirely as society gets poorer (i.e. price = infinity) but companies going bankrupt because they can no longer sell their products doesn't affect statistical measures of prices. So these are very imperfect proxies.

Suffice it to say that high public debt means economic activity is being distorted in favour of the state's priorities over those of the citizens. History provides many examples of where that leads when taken too far.
> The ads performed equally well in regard to total responses

Good sample size. This probably tells us that there isn't much difference posting salary and the people applying to each. This may be unsurprising since not posting salaries is already the norm.

> better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges

I have a feeling that this is a particularly low (and highly noisy) sample.

I think you are overstating the significance of your results.
The hobbyists who build their own CPUs
Well, yes that is why the US is a constitutional republic.

It's just that phrasing seems hilariously and ironically out of wack.

It's as if some people think they know better then unwashed masses so they should be in charge regardless of sentiment. Ok, fine, maybe they do, but that isn't called "democracy".
In my experience vitamin D tests were never part of their standard blood test panel. They had no problems prescribing it for me when I asked but it wasn't covered by insurance.
This is just an argument to not do anything in disguise of being rational. (1) We can tackle multiple things at once, (2) some of those things are like the way they are because of the current state of tech: take a look at Amazon trying to buy One Medical as one such example.
Here in Redmond, Washington, famous for Microsoft, mink farms were the thing just before the tech boom in the 1980s. It didn’t work out very well. Many farmers just let the minks go. So now we people with chickens have to worry about them as predators along with hawks, eagles, raccoons, coyotes, and bobcats. A mink can squeeze in through a tiny tiny hole in the fence.
Probably owns the land, building etc. So long as property taxes are low it wouldn’t cost her much to stay there.

My dad has been doing this with coins for a couple decades. Going over peoples collections with them explaining the history origins what they’re worth etc.

I did the math once and he makes about two dollars per hour. But he loves it.

Pro tip from his own words coins are a terrible investment.
> Currently, we are still far from a point where machines are able to abstract high-level concepts from data or engage in reasoning and reflection

Of course when an AI does that, we then say its just doing statistics, not reasoning.

Until you have built a recommendation engine from scratch, it is hard to appreciate the complexity. I don't mean the complexity of the code or algorithm (ALS and Spark are straightforward enough) but the contextual problem. Models end up being large collections of models in a complex hierarchy, with hyperparams to tune higher level concepts such as "surprise" or business targets such as "revenue", "engagement" etc. TikTok have nailed this, as has Spotify.
> And even with the terrible quality of life they have now, the Japanese world keeps spinning

So it boils down to the working culture, no? The one I referenced initially..

My wife is interviewing for Oracle HR right now (mostly done deal). She is due for the final interview tomorrow. The offer has still not mentioned her compensation yet - although from hearsay she knows a ballpark. It seems even American companies play by Japanese ways when in Japan.
Blackberry, the most successful fruit company of our time
This is literally just a gun strapped to an RC toy. It has about as much combat utility as a Roomba with a knife on it.
yes, this is a major flaw in their analysis. there's no way to draw a reliable conclusion because the experiment is uncontrolled in this way, among other factors (like the subjective evaluation of candidate quality which was also uncontrolled for).
It's not to make it seem small – the point is that the first contract was awarded in 2003 and the project is funded through to 2026.
Glassdoor does not delete reviews but you can pay for "advice" how to get positive reviews instead.
Technically - yes. But it 's just that, a paper. Back then , people were chasing glory, not "the paper" because papers didnt matter, that s why so many of them were too short, unreferenced etc. Science was small and more personal. Now it's an impersonal industry and science is a product. Science gets a lot of underserved respect out of inertia, but it really is a big industry sector now.
In this case it might be a case of being intimidated by a big agency. Isaac telling him that he was their smallest client had a "you're lucky we are willing to work for you" feel.
We actually created this mechanism; however, instead of relying on people, it is based on the data from the blockchain and the fingerprints that we generate for each of those NFTs. We call it NFT Certification and if you want you can read more about it on the Technology page from our website (https://www.autentica.io/technology).
I cannot even quote those blasphemies.

Sure, if you believe you are born to yell at cars or whatever, the day you will do something different will be for the enjoyment of a duly exceptional vacation. But if you do not see the value of something, all chances are the issue is with your "eyes".

Incidentally: among the well recognized functions of books, they are there to have selected, better company that those in mentioned "social networks gone bad" - even taking special cases into account. (Of course, you have to be able to perceive what "better" is.)
I don't know.... I think back on google search back in the ~2014 era. It was good. Like scary good. Like I'd type "B" and it would suggest "Btu to Joules conversion" and things like that. Actually it was better than that... it would anticipate things I hadn't even searched for before with very very little prompting. It seemed to adapt to context whether I was at work, on my phone, at home, etc. The results were exactly what I was looking for.

Then it got taken over by ads and SEO and corrupting influences and it's just not that good anymore. IMO, the problem with DL isn't the tech. It's the way its being used. The reality is: For 99% of things advertised to me, I don't want to buy the goddamn product, and no amount of advertising will make me want to buy it. It's gotten to the point where if I see an ad for a product I think I'm more likely to buy a competitor whose ad I haven't seen because I assume the competitor is investing more in the product than the marketing.

And everyone seems to have forgotten about hybrid approaches of ML and human beings that, IMO, are really good. But alas, "they don't scale".

But at the same time, it's really interesting. For as much data as facebook should have about me, their ad rec's really suck and always have. (Perhaps it's because my only ad clicks ever are accidental ones?) I'm kind of astounded at how poor that result is. That said, I'm always very impressed by spotify's recommender system. I think it's one of the best on the net.

Another thing I find interesting is that non-vote-based social media feed systems all really suck. Once they ditched chronological ordering it stopped appealing to me, and I don't know exactly why that is. Evidently I'm on some tail of the curve they don't care about.
By the time we exhaust all nuclear reserves on Earth (after saving the planet via using environmentally friendly nuclear energy, the greenest energy known), we will have unlocked space via nuclear rockets (fission or fusion, makes little difference. People will be more okay launching from Earth’s surface via fusion rockets).

Space has boundless access to nuclear energy.

As soon as we could do fission as a civilization, our energy needs ceased being a concern intellectually speaking. So in a manner of speaking, yes — uranium gives us unlimited energy.
I mean, the first step is actually determining what the sex-specific mechanism is.

Microbes in your gut generally aren't checking sex chromosomes. They interact with sex hormones (see Rizzetto et al., 2018 cited in the paper for this very thing) which often reflect sex chromosomes.
Hormone levels or response may not match what is typical of sex chromosomes for a number of reasons including: 46XY women (androgen insensitivity), trans people on HRT, women post-menopause, and sometimes cancer treatment.

IMO it would be less alienating and lead to better health outcomes for everyone if we talked more about testosterone-dominant or estrogen-dominant endocrine systems (or other systems as appropriate).

Also whether dimorphic effects are a result of a one-shot process (e.g. grow testes or ovaries, grow breasts), or a recurring process (hormone levels triggering lactation, sweat patterns).
I wish more people realized you don't need necessarily batteries to store energy. There are mechanical ways to store large amounts of energy, like pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
Major science projects have extremely similar economic impact to military spending for the simple reason that they are extremely similar. The dominant companies involved in high-end scientific projects, especially in aerospace, are the exact same companies that receive the most military spending. Essentially every major defense contractor is involved in JWST, and the prime contractor is a defense company (Northrup Grumman). The only parties with significant involvement that are not directly the military-industrial complex are university coalitions, which operate similarly to the university coalitions that defense R&D programs heavily rely on.

NASA is essentially part of the broader US defense organization and operates in extremely close collaboration with defense agencies using largely the same methods, contractors, and funding. Major NASA projects are largely indistinguishable from major weapons projects, and most of the time the two are closely interrelated in that both use technology developed by the other. Sometimes this is more informal (since the same contractors perform both) but sometimes it is quite formal, e.g. multiple defense satellite systems have been developed in parallel with scientific systems so that the design effort can be shared.
I can personally vouch that Amazon, Twitter, and YouTube all do horrible horrible jobs predicting my taste. And they have got worse over the years, not better
To be fair. "Fix wealth and income inequality" as a goal is a bit like Michael Scott's 45 day-45 point plan to save Dunder Mifflin. "Ok, day 45 company saved. Day 44. Go."

Yes, we need to do that. From here to there however, is a long and winding road with many obstacles.
Good for "Bob"?

Bad on HR for trying to keep talent at the lowest price they can away with. I'm not willing to accept this as a valid "excuse", it just tells me your company is shitty. Bob /should/ take that info and either get a raise or leave for a place that values his work.
Nope, don't believe that the pay is the same. Just the contribution to society is lower. Even 1M academics for 1M soldiers.
> 'If your relationship with the industry is transactional, you rarely develop into a great software engineer'

You may be right but I'm curious. I suspect that the issue is one of trust that the employer will adequately reward great code.

If I'm a jeweler, its very evident that I will get paid handsomely for the finest work, and I will get to work with the finest materials, creating a virtuous circle. It is not at all evident that this works in software. You dont get reliably comped better for creating better code.

In fact it's so bad that people publish code outside of their jobs to demonstrate to the next employer that they should have been comped better.

on that basis I can see why the transactional mindset takes hold. you want to treat me as a fungible disposable fixed price asset? then I will act like one, starting with a demand for the highest possible asset valuation.
I'm not used to think of ground source systems as simply heat pumps... I think of them as geothermal systems. Maybe because the installation is lot more involved.

But in places like Florida, if you have a 15+ year old A/C, replacing it with a conventional modern heat pump, it would probably pay for itself in a few years.
Either is fine to be honest, when you report the bike stolen you can provide the data from either site to prove ownership so if they see it they can get a conviction and maybe even return the bike.
In my eyes, this is a great response. It proves that if we want to move salaries up, then we have to follow Colorado's lead and force companies to post salary ranges. You won't have to worry which one performs better anymore, since you won't have a choice.
Germany's former trade surplus:

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade
> The core problem seems to be that the hardware device obfuscates the algorithm, which should be less of a problem with software you can compile.

Can you trust your compiler, though? What if it changes the algorithm when it compiles your source code?

(See also "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html)
Not that simple. Just ran into it today where I was trying to scroll down a page and couldn't. Why? Because there wasn't anything more further down. In the past the scroll bar would of told me there wasn't anything more, but now I actively have to try (and fail) scrolling to 'discover' the fact that there isn't anything there.