skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the only market for Grammarly. Their incessant Youtube adverts are targeted at native speakers who just want to write tighter prose. I definitely think it could help with that, though I agree it would be more useful for non-native speakers.
I used to cycle to work (about 3 miles away from my place) and after 6 months I still felt absolutely cooked after the uphill trip back, and the inclination wasn't even that accentuated.

So unless you live in a cold and flat-as-a-pancake area there's really no way to classify 15 miles as easy for anyone but seriously fit people. Even then, it's not something a non-athlete (amateur or otherwise) can just pick up in two weeks.
Is right now the best time to do it though? With more companies going into hiring freezes, layoffs regularly happening due to the fiscal years, and general sentiment to the economy.

Of course job switchers will earn more than those who stay. There is a predicament of "starting over" however. Some people can handle that well and network quickly while exceeding expectations wherever they go. Some people need to build up to that.

While I have many friends who hop jobs every 2 years, I never got a sense that they are "happy". I don't think you can put a price on happiness although its always nice to have more money.
This also gives the current employer the benefit of doing nothing preemptively. It puts the onus on the employee to go through all this extra effort just to get the match. I'm sure plenty of employees take it too but shouldn't.
I've reached the exact same place. The entire software and internet space strikes me as having become a monster, and I increasingly have great difficulty convincing myself that it's OK to be a part of it.

The problem is that software engineering is my only marketable skill. I've fallen into a trap.
So not really. There are broad strokes ways to teach critical thinking skills, but (believe it or not) critical thinking is a very higher order skill that is difficult to transfer across domain areas.

It follows a few steps: teach the scientific process, analyze analogies to whatever it is you're approaching, identify appropriate and relevant sources for information and how to assess their reliability/trustworthiness, identify biases including self-biases, and fostering open-mindedness and an ability to evaluate points from multiple perspectives.

When you are critically thinking about things, these are the steps you take - quickly, and not in any order that you can identify. But you are doing that.

That being said, because these are higher order, abstract skills for the most part, they are very hard to apply across disciplines. You need a level of base knowledge of the area to be able to sort through these steps appropriately. For example, it is easy for me to analyze statements and assess articles related to farming, education, and depression, because I have massive experience with these things. Whereas, I absolutely could not even get through evaluating appropriate sources when it comes to programming languages; I have no experience with them.

In other words, it is possible, but it takes a concerted effort in nearly every aspect of the child's life. This is not something we can do JUST in the classroom, especially when parents, often, do not want true critical reasoning in their children; my experience is that if a child can do this effectively s/he is very difficult to keep 'under control'.
Seriously 2.5k? Like the equivalent of 2500 US dollars (since Euros are at near 1:1 parity right now)? I looked it up and apparently the average salary in the Netherlands is 36.5k Euros. How is a principal SE making 20% of the average salary in the Netherlands?

I know some countries use decimals like commas are used in the US, so maybe that's actually 25000 and 60000, which would make more sense.
NYC cooperative apartments are the worst kind of middlemen here too.
Interestingly, I did something very similar in my first job, though it included backing up configurations and the like. It's worth noting that a lot of routers (at that time) didn't really support much in the way of SNMP. As such, one had to navigate menus to get to the necessary options; and nothing is as potent as Expect at that kind of thing.
It used to be hosted by https://nist.gov/ at expect.nist.gov

Here is it in 1997, it hasn't changed much.

https://web.archive.org/web/19971210131642/http://expect.nis...
My first interview out of college in 1999-2000 was something like this. A full day interview about designing the components of a TCP-IP stack interspersed with some personality/behaviour interviews. End of the day, you either knew you had an offer or you didn't. I had an offer. I would kill for such an interview experience now.

The last interview I attended stretched across a month or may be more. Glad I got the job but boy what a nightmare.

If someone told me today that I would finish all rounds of interviews in one day and this became a standard, even figuring out for hedging I would take a week off, schedule 5 interviews and be done.

Even fundraising for a startup doesn't take 2 months these days, whereas an interview will. That should tell you how broken the process is.
Seems a bit misleading.

From the twitter thread it seems that US schools always have been allowed to teach Blender, it's just some firewall provider (that is not mandatory in US schools) now permits blender to be downloaded.
Yes some people are good/bad. Its very trendy now "not to think in absolute terms". A Russian general ordering bombs at a school is bad. Very bad. Not gray, not politically incorrect. Plain bad.
I feel your pain. I setup my first set of display ads a few days ago, it went through learning for 4 days without spending a penny, but there were no errors. I found a support tab labeled with "BETA" and I just laughed. Wow, support is so new it's still in beta after how many years and billions funneled into the ad platform. I asked for email only support. I got multiple calls in a row from India from an unmarked number. After listening to voicemail I knew to pick up next time. Got that issue fixed sort of, but with no explanation of why it was failing and my new setup didn't follow any rules I setup, so I had to pause all the spend and now I wonder if I can even use Display ads.

I give you access to spend hundreds or thousands a day and it doesn't even follow any basic rules I setup, says it'll deliver 300-500 clicks, yet gives me 1? Where is the disconnect here? Frustrating platform for sure.
I get paid a decent salary with room to grow in the government. I am not on the GS scale though so my pay increases are much higher than someone on it. I have a strict 40 hour work week, currently get 20 annual leave days and 13 sick days a year, TSP with matching contributions, and FEHB. I've always considered leaving to make more money but the thing that always holds me back is the guaranteed pension if I stay in until my minimum retirement age. I always decided that stability was better for me because I watched my parents struggle when things weren't stable for them.
This is a really complex question and I don't think chemists completely know the answer. If nothing else because we can directly control the molecules coming from this process we can design an engine and the fuel around each other such that we minimize what is produced.

The only way to complete remove NOx production is some sort of N2 filter in the air intake. While it is easy to propose such a thing on the internet, it is not known how to create such a thing in the real world.
Adonis is far, far, far from reaching even a small percent of what Laravel is. It has almost no community and very little or almost no third party packages. When I tried it las year I couldn't even find a formatter for the templates.

Later I've found out the author of the framework has fake accounts pretending to be a happy user of it, and that was the end of it for me.

So, not comparable at all in my opinion.
Apollo: Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Performance Regressions in a DBMS [pdf]
When the window is not fully open, your TCP stack is doing more than you think
A classic business model - "we steal it, and pass the savings on to you!"
To quote you:

> The "you" that boots the device are in control, and the "you" that uses the device after that have exactly what "you" set up at boot time, neither more nor less. If both "you" are the same person, then there's no loss of control.

How is it orthogonal? Okay, we're not strictly speaking of only bootloader locking, but of boot-time-control locking.
or south korea.
Deciding which textbooks that are going to be used in public schools isn't banning books. If you don't want the government to decide which books are used to teach your children then homeschooling or private schooling are what you should be focused on.
> Shopify’s workforce has increased from 1,900 in 2016 to roughly 10,000 in 2021

That’s pretty insane growth. No wonder

What are the safest industries in tech right now? Feel like it’s gonna get worse
I think ed is more user friendly.
Economics actually teaches that the most efficient queuing system involves people joining at the front, because that way they endure the wait in proportion with their internal system of preferences. Societal sense of propriety literally leads to an inefficient outcome across the board because for cultural reasons we pretty universally join a queue at the back.
Pretty much all marketing jobs involve those social networks. The office job you once knew, no longer exists. Hell, the office doesn't even exist, everything is going remote.

In a marketing class, you absolutely would have to involve social media, otherwise your class would be outdated bunk. Traditional advertising doesn't work on new generation platforms. And billboards, TV ads, and magazine ads are expensive, inefficient, poorly targeted advertising, for all but the wealthiest behemoths of companies.

The same methods behind TV ads don't translate to social media ads. Social media ads aren't just trimmed down traditional ads.
Russia Is Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine
Google needs a support department that charges an outlandish-seeming hourly rate to handle issues like this. Maybe they charge $1000 an hour, maybe more. Whatever it costs them to provide the service (a lot)

Is there a reason they don't do this? Could it be abused by spammers?
My experience has been that word of mouth is by far the best way to win new clients. It's a warm introduction, everyone involved has some social incentives to behave appropriately, and the lead normally has a rough idea of pricing from the person that referred them.

That being said, this isn't advice. It's an admission that being lucky enough to have a few seed clients land in your lap (and taking that opportunity) is the optimal way to start consulting (imo).
You can give small amounts of money (i.e. less than a $1M) to a Google Robot. To give it to a Google human, you need to spend large amounts of cash.
There alternatives to the Google Docs part too, like Collabora.

It will probably require some work and won't be as polished, but there are totally ways have all of that within the EU.
> All automated "writing & style" tools are for people who can't write and have no style.

I haven't used Grammarly but this strikes me as class HN "I don't make mistakes" hubris. Have you never used a thesaurus?

> I mean to write precisely what I say.

I assume you were making up that suggestion but "I mean to write what I say." is would be a good improvement, and it's only a suggestion anyway.
Language ergonomic is a technical merit, as opposed to commercial merit (how many companies push it, how many developers are available, etc).
Lots of rescinded offers and hiring freezes though. Seems like they’re hoping for some natural shrinking to avoid pricey severances.
It takes a "51% attack" majority of miners to refuse to include a transaction, and then only if they're willing to reject blocks mined by others that include it, at the risk of their own blocks being rejected by full nodes (like Coinbase's and Binance's) if their 51% majority turns out not to be as solid as they thought it was.

As far as I know this has never happened; the only transactions I've seen excluded from the blockchain are unanimous things like the spam transactions you're talking about.
The meaning is to build a trusty connection and normally it would be a great benefit for both parties. But the shameless breaks the ballance, takes advantage and wins in the short term and in their minds of course. But I am not sure they’d fare well in the long run.
My experience is:

- recruiter calls and brief about interview process

- take screening interview (algorithm)

- go on site for 5 more interviews (algorithms, system design, behavior)

- failed, and study leetcode for 2 years

- reiterate

-> 100% raise, $10000 sign-on bonus

Overall, this is the best ROI of my whole life
That's it, no more Windows Laptops for me
Nobody here in Argentina uses Coinbase; they all use Binance.
An update on consistently tweeting 20 days in a row!
Bad. Like really bad. Unless you're doing it for some small corner case where you need up to the list bit of performance, raw SQL queries and mapping them to objects or manually moving or many pulsating the result sets manually is really bad. Specially for others having to maintain your code 3 years later.

There's a reason ORMs are so popular.
I think it's because they feel it's a choice between doing it once for the new hire or N times for all the existing employees. The latter is very difficult to do.
Shopify lays off 10% of staff
Ferrocene is an exciting opportunity for the safety critical space which is dominated by MISRA C, Ada / SPARK, and similar.

Having AdaCore as a collaborator gives me great hope that Ferrocene will succeed and raise the bar for Rust standardization and language maturity.
Ah yes this explains it. I very much prefer epaper over other screens for reading, also I enjoy my reading device to be just that, a reading device (with a battery that lasts me weeks to months).
What is the pension expected payment?

You could estimate the pension as a risk free asset, paying approximately 4% a year. That would give you a comparison between what you need to save in industry vs. the government. For example of the pension is 200k a year, you would need to have saved 5 million in industry for the equivalent.
I'd like to recommend a shelf of great to read erudite and intelligible financial history and financial social history and technicality, from which you'd recognize the simulacra, but it wouldn't help very much because this crypto game strips out everything fundamental economic and human from their imaginary systems and leaves solely a caricature of a carcass.

I'm despondent about the overall crypto situation, please forgive me for my cynicism, because I'm genuinely concerned about how many times people can exclaim the king is naked the cupboard is bare the promises aren't merely empty but never had meaning, and yet the socialized penny just won't drop.

This FT article [0] goes some way to describing how vulnerable young and low income people are to false investment scheming. What's needed (very rapidly) is to reveal the full extent of behavioural and technical engineering used in exploitation, instead of blaming the phenomenon on concocted reductio ad infortunium.

[0] Financial Times article "Generation Moonshot": https://archive.ph/3d4DW

Edit,: added for clarity, "...from which...the simulacra.."; corrected "onto" as "on" and thereafter revised with clearer unchanged meaning the rest of final sentence. (and Ed2 sp ip.); E3 people instead of folk ,(mobile sorry) E4 added, "scheming" after "false investment" for clarity.
FairEmail removed from Google Play store again becaues of Gmail rate limiting
It’s highly likely I’ll decide not to continue my Prime subscription. I buy very little and there’s not much value in Prime Video for me at the moment. Incidentally I’m keen to “send a signal” since it seems to me that Amazon is taking our custom for granted.
As I understand it, either you're good at timing the market or you got lucky. If you got lucky, there's no reason to be so cocky. If you are good at timing the market why aren't you making a fortune on Wall Street?

(Unless you are making a fortune on Wall Street)
I agree. In a proposal like this, security is basically a byproduct, and sometimes not even that[0]. This is also a domain where the governmental and corporate powers have a similar goal, which is wresting away the control from the public / individual. They basically work in synergy, only to a point of course, but still.

Regarding Bonzi Buddy, I disagree. I think user data is as important, if not more important, than root access - which is why I'm dumbfounded when ancient server security features, like Linux's sudo system, are applied to the consumer device like a PC or a smartphone. These contexts are much better server by a sandboxing, permission-based whatever that seems to pick up steam, like the current permission systems on smartphones. Grandma's logins and bank data will be stolen from her own user account just the same as an admin account. Related XKCD[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater

[0] https://xkcd.com/1200/
Why switch 100% instead of continuously running both with transparent failover in case of failure? It seems like you risk a major outage every 6 months with the current scheme unless I’m missing something.
It is not the job of the data protection agency to provide alternatives. That would lead to serious conflicts of interest.
It seems like you're arguing that ordinary people have a duty to lose money when things go wrong, things that they probably had no control over.
Ordered, and just in time for my finishing Ignition. Might as well harness the current interest to learn some new math. :)
> [...] which is, I think, very similar to how we don't really have control over a great many of things.

This is a very handwavey sentence and is doing far too much work in your reasoning. Yes, you don't have control "over a great many things", because the point is so vague so as to be meaningless. But it doesn't at all follow from that vague sentence that we should allow total corporate/government control over our personal digital devices.

In this case, the proposed cure is far worse than the disease.
> your point on losing healthcare is predicated on the idea that you want to work less in the future

No, it is predicated on the increasing probabilities of illness and injuries as one ages, as well as age discrimination resulting in more difficulty obtaining a job with sufficient pay and health insurance benefits.
>Yet some VCs are still plowing into web3. There was an article today about how Moellis was getting into Web3 companies. I'm genuinely curious what their thought process is.

I'd hazard a guess that it's something along the lines of "throw shit against the wall and see if anything sticks," or less cynically "run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes."

Isn't that pretty much the modus operandi of VCs? Invest in a bunch of speculative ventures and hopefully make all of it (and much, much more) back if/when one or more becomes profitable?
ITER/DEMO won't deliver value either.
Similarly in the Netherlands we have Kringloopwinkels.

Sort of related is one of my favorite things in NL: the “mini bibliotheek”, the free for all bookcases to share books (often placed in front of a house by the residents).

Here’s an example one: https://velsencityblog.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/groot.j...
Unrelated, but: love your music.
Because a queue is about fairness, not efficiency, we join at the back.
This is roughly what I do (in the sense that I buy in bulk and freeze stuff), but note that it essentially requires you to not only purchase an extra freezer, but also run it and have the extra space for it. So this strategy does require some capital investment. It's not much, but I have friends that just couldn't do this. (Not necessarily because of the capital required, but because there is just no space for a freezer.)
> It's fundamentally a conscious choice - unlike depression, which has deep links with chemical equilibria.

Just a heads up, I saw an article the other day talking about how new research might show that depression might not actually have deep links with chemical equilibria:

https://thenextweb.com/news/research-depression-not-caused-c...
Blaming "the breakdown of family" is a rather privileged view.

Consider that in the US, wages for lower income families haven't kept up with inflation for decades. That means even when a family consists of two parents, there often isn't enough money to make ends meet, and one or both parents often end up working a second (or third) job. When you have both parents working more than 40 hours a week, are you really surprised that they don't have the energy to cook from scratch?

Even in the case of "broken" families, a mother and her children that escape domestic violence are probably still better off overall, even though it's harder for them to make ends meet. I'm sure you wouldn't advocate that they stay in a harmful environment just to maintain the family structure?

Finally, and perhaps most important, many people live in food deserts. --They don't have easy access to reasonably priced raw ingredients. In some neighborhoods, the corner store is only place for them to buy stuff, and processed foods are often cheaper than the meager selection of raw goods.
At least it is Helium and not only hot air!
> I'm not sure if I understand your argument. As long as you can put your own things on your TPM and use it for your own good it's not too bad right?

As long as software that uses the TPM cannot detect whether you tampered with the TPM or not, it is principally all right.

But as I wrote down: this is exactly the opposite of what trusted computing was invented for: make the machine trustable (for the companies that have control over the TPM/trusted computing), because the user is distrusted.
Just a note that Helium, the company, renamed to Nova Labs earlier this year. Helium is now just the name of the network.
> the Kafkaesque experience makes me think question our reliance on other Google services, like Cloud and Workspace

This last paragraph should really give pause for thought to anyone at Google whose OKRs involve revenue from non-Enterprise business customers.

Anecdotally speaking - I've considered running Google ads for my company more than a few times, and every single time the thought of a spurious "account violation" for those ads spreading and knocking out our Workspace and Cloud accounts has stopped me doing so - and I've spoken to a fair few other business owners who have reasoned likewise.
DICOM is a fun format to tinker with. The absolute basics of it are simple enough that I wrote a DICOM viewer in college for a class. All of the extensions mean you can get some really interesting data as well. The various number of attributes and unusual combinations make it a real pain if you're trying to implement it all from the ground up but I'd highly recommend anyone play with it.
Ask HN: Is slack outage global, or regional?
If it isn't, it should be. School is obligatory, we really shouldn't employ commercial products in schools to begin with.
In Portugal, some years ago, kids were given computers with a Linux distro pre-installed for *free*, and LibreOffice was used as a word processor replacement. Argentina did the same thing, hell there were others too.
I'd guess: Because SpaceX isn't making Starship as specifically to go the moon but also for commercial orbital launches, because sending it to the moon involves orbital refueling which they might not have ready yet (or don't want to spend launch opportunities on), because they intend to have and operate more of them so the lost opportunity cost of not using a launch fully isn't as high, because the test flights to the moon are a NASA project (afaik) and they are waiting until NASA wants to do (and pay for) them, ...
Is this an alternative to the duct-tape method? Will the glue dry inside the bag?