skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you could find a role that pays more first, and set the starting date such that you can travel before starting in the new role. this only works if you can still stay for a few months. if you need to GTFO right now for mental health then you have to pay attention to that. your health is more important.
I've lived through decades of running into software with names like "Easy Driver Finder", "Quick PDF joiner", "Simple Disk Partitioner" and such, which so often turn out to be crap/non-free/unusable trial version/malware. This has conditioned me to automatically dismiss things named in this fashion. Though I suspect this is mainly an issue in the Windows world.

I don't fault the author of SimpleScreenRecorder at all. Objectively it's the perfect name for the tool. I just realized how sad this is that my mind went straight to "Oh, sounds like one of those shit apps".

This one looks really good though!
> The "average" (when used undecorated/unspecified) generally means the mean.

I wouldn't say that. Most population statistics--think "average" wages and the like--tend to use median. And when we're talking about intelligence, this isn't something that is readily quantifiable with a number. IQ is explicitly normalized so that 100 is median, and 110 is one standard deviation above median. "mean IQ" isn't a meaningful concept. Given that we can't even measure "mean intelligence", average intelligence tends to mean median intelligence in practice.
It was Germany that really got the ball rolling on this, with its Network Enforcement Act (commonly called "NetzDG"). NetzDG is being used as a model for policymakers in the UK, Canada and Australia. This is pretty astonishing to me, given that there are serious, systemic problems with how NetzDG operates, some which are clearly evident from its mandatory annual reporting.
no, but if i did i would argue that food production is more meritorious than investment banking.
> people when surrounded by "hateful" speech for long periods of time can easily become the actual law breakers

So, are we doing the whole Department of Pre-crime thing now? Minority Report, here we come.
I don't think a list of job titles would be helpful for you because (not surprisingly, as a startup) you are looking for one person to do 3-4 different jobs.

In my experience, what and where to measure should be led by your business folks. The rest of the responsibilities could probably be handled by a data engineer.

I guess my word of warning is that I don't think you'll find someone with three areas of expertise

1) understanding your business / industry at a level deep enough to know what to measure.

2) having the core statistics and analytic capabilities to work with someone in category 1) to get insights out of the data.

3) having a deep understanding of databases and engineering pipelines to make functional and reliable data infrastructure that allow folks in 2) to be good at their job.

If you are starting a new analytics department, I would be looking for an existing person at the company to take responsibility for 1) and look for a great candidate in 3) who has worked closely with others in 2).
Yes. Ford and GM are both starting to produce electric crate motors:

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/why-fords-electric-crate...
That's kind of my point. The traits that characterize the disorder are so varied, it's hard to believe its just one disorder. I think most people can identify with many of the symptons. I know I can, even though I'm not autistic. Personally, I think the economy seems to encourage that kind of productivity in many ways, so it shouldn't be such a mystery as to why some who are hyperfocused on succeeding should be identifying with it.

I dont think I was being dismissive of anyone, but is it really necessary to call all of life's difficulties some kind of disorder? Does making it a disorder some how legitimize someone's struggles? I don't think so.
So because of their race and dead ancestors you would exclude them from the political process forever?
That’s no different than “special interest groups” and lobbyist today. It’s a separate issue that needs addressing.
> I needed to understand why our checkout had to be improved

Is that not an invitation to explain the business goal? What is so patronizing about a direct statement of need?
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The Senate represents the state, the House of Representatives represent the people. Each state had an equal voice - 2 senators, just like the people were to have an equal voice (same number of people per representative). The people no longer have equal representation. That's a problem.
Check out the #cursorless-everywhere channel in the Talon voice slack workspace; people are already working on an emacs port

I'll also add that the cursor movement functionality, while quite useful as you get started, becomes less and less relevant as you get comfortable with the more advanced Cursorless commands for syntax tree manipulation
Stagflation was last handled in the late 70s. The solution is to keep jacking rates up. We need mortgages at least 10 percent ;-) I'm assuming your comment was sarcastic. The expansion of the last 40 years has followed rather continual rate cuts which can't go past zero. We need to reset to higher rates and convince each administration not to cut rates to stimulate the economy but instead fix some things and stop insisting on exponential growth for eternity.
Girth Hitch is also known as a Cow Hitch or Lark's Head. This combined with a simple half-hitch to lock it in place is the most useful knot in the world imho.

Don't use a double fisherman or water knot unless you're okay with cutting the rope afterwards to untie it (if you've jammed it or gotten it wet).

Tying a back-up knot into your trace-eight isn't necessary, but people have died from not having one (when they screwed up the eight), and it doesn't take long to do.

Alpine butterfly is a very useful knot for tying into the middle of a line. You'll use it more in life than in climbing.

A Hasty Harness or Swiss Seat is an easy way of tying someone into a rope or webbing if a harness breaks or is missing and you need to rappel or haul a person.
Can it? File / New screen recording just gets me the same cmd+shift+5 interface.
How much of this is due to the release of oil reserve?
how important are the language or tech buzzwords and keywords on your resume?
There was a time when the term Asperger's existed to distinguish this particular sort of autistic person from other forms of autism, which as you allude to, can involve severe mental disability and require a lifetime of care by others.

Asperger's was removed from the DSM for somewhat opaque reasons, and then, contemporary Discourse being what it is, some people decided the term was offensive, and we no longer use it.

Which is good for the people [citation needed] who are autistic and find the string "Asperger's" offensive, but bad for discourse, since one must either specify "high functioning autism" or "autism as highly-intelligent nerds are likely to encounter it in a professional context", and if you leave it out, someone will be along to point out that this condition shares a name with adults who wear helmets when they leave the house.

If it were me, I wouldn't categorize my peers in the same category as adults who wear helmets and diapers. It just doesn't seem like the same thing. But, fortunately, categorizing mental diversity and pathology is not my job.
Up until now I haven't found any of the DALL-E or other AI creations compelling: they're often interesting or technically impressive, but artistically they tend to remind me of 'forum art' - the sort of thing people would put on reddit a few years ago, to get their work critiqued.

These images are a revelation: they're beautiful and disturbing. There's a creative edge to them that fits perfectly with the subject.

I worry for creatives, and hope these technologies help to empower the talented, and not steal work from them.
No spammer ever buys sim cards in store with ID.
5sim.net apparently has direct SS7 access and nearly infinite numbers and offers bulk purchases for receiving SMS. Even for countries like Germany, where ID authentication is mandatory to get a phone number. They have thousands of +49 numbers.

Costs only a few rubles. If you convert it to euros it’s between 1-10 cents, depending on the service and country.

The bottom line is: IDs for sim cards are useless.
New Google site begs Apple for mercy in messaging war
The amount of required metadata to maintain federation is very small. Some matrix instances operate in this minimalist or near minimalist domain, but in my experience, getting folks to share their custom forks of matrix requires some social schmoozing.

For better or worse, much of the fediverse is made up of small enclaves of hyper-paranoid tech weirdos who have often reinvented the wheel over and over, each in their own little group, which is a big problem for the casual person who wants to toss a server on a home server for friends and family.

And I say this as one of these hyper-paranoid tech weirdos. The network's growth is immensely stifled by the fact that people aren't keen on sharing, or building user friendly tools for the normies.
Show HN: State-of-the-Art German Speech Recognition in C++
Yes and no. Hate speech can be arbitrarily defined, but speech inciting violence has a solid definition. There's a line between calling out refugee acceptance and questioning immigration to calling for all refugees to be hanged and for illegal immigrants to be physically harassed. There is an overlap between the two categories, but accepting hate speech and not accepting speech inciting violence is a very tough line to walk for any legislative body, and we're talking about human made bureaucratic institutions which need to make laws that can be clearly defined and followed. I don't think there's a one size fits all law here, and everything needs to be taken on a case by case basis, but free speech purists always ignore the fact that speech inciting violence can have a material impact on the world.
For my closest McD’s it’s still $1 for a large soft drink at least (I know some franchises have the ability to change the cost of a large nowadays), but it is $2.49 for a sausage McMuffin.
2020, 2021, and 2022 oil prices have been a cause of rather than a result of inflation. It dropped from 2$ in 2019 to a low of 0.70$ in 2020, then hit a high of 4.40 in 2022 and just dropped to 3.30.
That's the price you pay for freedom. If our ancestors were willing to pay hundreds of thousands of lives a year for liberty eighty years ago, how cowardly of us to declare that our principles must crack under the weight of a tiny fraction of that.
So they ought to keep hiking it then, if that's truly the goal.
> hanging out with a known pedophile

Bill Gates seems to be doing quite well on the happiness front.
"Most Americans"... I guess that means "the popular vote" wants "popular vote".
Why is food, energy, medical care, housing subject to supply and demand?

Why are the lifeblood of the species constrained on demand and flowing freely when they look away?

It certainly is convenient for you to believe the masses have to accept austerity in deference to normal humans who repeat these handy phrases and point to any old phenomena they control, assigning an immutable key-value pair to your memory.

“Gather ‘round, children; it’s time to recite the spoken traditions! Austerity is for the poor. Authority is for the rich.”

We could see this as stochastic terrorism; there’s no need to give the powers that be a free pass when it’s clear their power is built on reciting politically correct “truth” not serving the species and public.

Lucking into wealth does not place someones biology on another plane of cognition, or imbue magical powers of insight.

Edit: rest assured in proper social tradition I am indifferent to the literal state of anyone else. If some avoidable calamity should impact you or I have am in a position to empower myself at your expense, I am all in. Just optimizing for myself, in-line with the politically correct chants; Powell said there will be pain to people, not him of course but others. I’m just following the leader too.
There's a whole lot of very vicious 'hate' directed at politicians, presidents, and prime ministers (on both sides of the political spectrum) by online activists or just normal people with strong opinions. Should this be cracked down upon too?

Or should you be able to freely say nasty/profane/hyperbolic things about members of the ruling class, and maybe even tweet it directly at them, particularly when they enact very controversial policies?
gasoline
Prices are sticky, food prices won't be coming down much, if at all. It's not a constant consumer market fluctuation like oil/gas.
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The “Supersedes:” header already exists.
Which makes sense because all other things in the CPI use oil to make and distribute goods. I've stopped paying attention to inflation numbers because they are all lies. The current CPI basket is complete nonsense. The numbers are built in such a way to always have low inflation unless oil prices go way up. Before this recent spike, inflation was "at historic lows and near zero". Really? Things aren't any more expensive in 2019 than then were in 2002? Nonsense.
https://www.codeproject.com/questions/445035/c-vs-cplusplus-... has a long discussion. The short answer is C++ has stricter aliasing rules, and so the compiler can apply more optimization. This of course assumes that your C code is also valid C++ code (C is no a pure subset of C++), and you don't have those aliases - those apply to a lot of C programs but not all.

> And what does it say about the language?

C++ has a stronger type system. This is already known. You avoid a few bugs in C++ because of this. The type system isn't nearly as strong as Haskell.

> I've never once seen maintainable enterprise code. Everything is a convoluted mess that never gets anything done

Two sides of the same coin. While the code is convoluted, it often is doing a lot of things in a generic way. More straightforward code is possible, but only by created a lot more code, and quantity is itself convolution.

> And why doesn't the language help mediocre programmers to write maintainable code?

It does. However you have to be careful here. C++ is often used for very large problems that are also complex. I would never use python for something that is over 100,000 lines of code as you can't change anything anymore for fear that some case isn't covered in the tests and so you won't see that syntax error until months later. I maintain 15 million lines of C++ (and this isn't the largest C++ codebase I know of).

Not, I'm not arguing that C++ is a great language. It has a lot of inconsistencies, and foot guns. However it is still the best language I know for very large, very complex programs. (Note that I do not know ADA or Rust, two that often come up in context of very large, very complex programs. I would not be surprised if they are better. That C++ is better known that others is itself an advantage to C++)

> I suspect that maintainability is almost exclusively a function of experience, not the programming language used.

Sort of. As I said before languages like Python are out of the running for very large programs because they are not compiled and so you can get runtime errors. There are also intentionally impossible to write languages that we can throw out even sooner. However there are for sure other languages that can play in the very large program space. So long as we limit ourself to languages that play in the very large program space, experience is the largest factor.
Dynamic or not I've found most emails these days don't include anything useful in the email anyway, you have to click through to get any information out of it.

This could change that of course but the emails don't have information in them because of Gmail.

Senders are already going out of their way to ruin the user experience just to stop Gmail slurping up all the information.
Hmm, that sort of assumes that there's essentially no undiagnosed autism. After some very quick googling, it seems like undiagnosed autism is very common, and it seems more common the farther back in time you go. It doesn't surprise me one bit that someone with a milder form of autism born in the 70s/80s might not get diagnosed.
Some of my acquaintances work in a customized software development shop that's doing that. They have over a hundred devs working there and their business is that any client can just walk in the door, specify what they need, and then a team of typically no more than 3 engineers will go and implement it.

When one of them walks in a meeting room with a new client, they'll introduce themselves with a job title that they make up on the spot and satisfies these criteria:

- make it sound like a legitimate job title

- make it sound as senior as you can credibly get away with

- make it sound unique to the client's industry or requirement

- obviously: don't say anything stupid that will have legal consequences like "CEO" or "General Counsel"

It's working really well for them. They're having a blast doing it, and clients get to feel special.

For example a client in the retail business will say things like: Oh, I can tell the agency is really taking my business extra serious. I can tell because they don't just have any old senior developer working on my project, but rather my project is handled directly by their "Senior Head of Retail".

Or if a client asks: "Can you make me a responsive website?" One of them might say: "Yes. In fact, do you know who the gentleman sitting to my left happens to be? He's our Responsive Designs Art Director in Residence".
I mean, the point of the scientific process is to come up with hypotheses. MOND might not be as "strong" of a hypothesis as Dark Matter is, but MOND does make predictions that can potentially be tested or mathematically explored.

It seems a little flippant to denounce it as a ridiculous "meme" idea. It's healthy to have different scientists pursue different theories. And valuable insight can be gleaned even when taking the time to _disprove_ a distant possibility.
If the manager has no clue then why are they bringing the ideas? They could spend all day long pitching dog shit that engineering has to bat away, is that the managers job to be the ideas guy?
OP suggests:

> Wisdom comes the closest, but it suggests a certain fustiness and grandeur, and poorly defined problems aren’t just dramatic questions like “how do you live a good life”; they're also everyday questions like “how do you host a good party” and “how do you figure out what to do today."
Cognitive decline is a natural consequence of aging
Fair point. He did not explicitly quote his conversations with his colleagues. Still, you have to admit "allistic communication patterns" is an awkward phrase to use for a blog post talking about his personal struggles. It might be something you find in a psychology research text, but he was trying to relate his personal experience.
Given the headline, I thought it would be an article about what it looks like when you acknowledge that you are wrong and why people might not understand that you are, in fact, acknowledging when you are wrong.

Instead, it was an entire article that not once acknowledged that you could be wrong, nor what it looks like when you do acknowledge it. It detailed about how, actually, you're not usually wrong.

This article appears to underscore the accusation.
Based on the article, the author of the book under review seems satisfied that tonal, orchestral music has a new place in film scores. But, it should be observed that, as music for film, it puts music in a secondary role. There is a massive theme missing about (instrumental, ‘high art’ for lack of a better term) music no longer being an art form that most people pay full attention to. Who the hell (outside of a select few, including myself) sits down and just listens to a symphony or long concerto these days?
Before delivering good products that customers buy, they need decent products that customers take seriously. Current ARC graphics cards are, reportedly, not even taken seriously by their manufacturers.
Oil heat can be tough, but the prices will go down. I would not change things just as a reaction to these prices...
If someone setup a fund to pay fisherman 5 cents a pound to bring their nets back, and then they would deal with disposal, they could avert most of this. No one has stepped up with $50 million a year tho to solve this.
TIL. Never noticed (I do half my searches with DDG).

But it's even more terrible than Google Maps. It still has the bike shop that closed over 3 1/2 years ago and not the new shop. I just found a "restaurant" that is the actual address of a local food truck it seems (German legal imprint), and the "book shop" I did not know about seems to be a warehouse because I can't find the address on their home page. But at least some of the shops are correct...
Fellow hackers who are good at physics but not formally educated in geopolitics or economics: do not succumb to Hacker News Gell-Mann Amnesia! Remember these comments when you're reading HN's response to the next inflation numbers or housing bill.
There are a gazillion independent groups looking at economic data. What makes you think the government is able to falsify these numbers more than usual?

This is not Turkey, where they had to use all sorts of proxy measures to figure out the government was lying (and by how much).
Heat pumps are 2 to 4 times more efficient, and if you are in MA you can get upto a $10,000 rebate and 0% loan when purchasing a heatpump. Why would you stick with oil heat? Even if it drops to $2 it will be much cheaper to have a heatpump.
Creating a Maze in Python with no dependencies [video]
My natural gas bill used to be $16 before I used a single ccf, now it's over $20. This winter I'm going to keep the heat at 60. 1500 square foot house. My winter heating bill maxed out at like 60, I'm looking at double that this winter.