skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about the systemic problems that would arise if it were customary to pay applicants for the interview. You'd immediately have application farms spamming out fake resumes. They'd bomb the actual interview but collect $100+ each time.
I don't know how this motor works, but it instantly reminded me of my mentor's vintage guitar amp with a field coil speaker[1]. The key idea was that copper was cheaper than magnets, so they make an extra coil of wire on the speaker which generates a magnetic field. Then the voice coil drives the speaker by modulating that field. This article[2] seems like a decent introduction to the topic.

The thing that struck me about the amp was how lightweight it was. While newer amps may use rare earth magnets (which pack more magnetic field per gram) vintage amps usually had to use heavy inefficient magnets.

[1]: http://www.preservationsound.com/2010/10/the-field-coil-guit...
[2]: https://www.edn.com/field-coil-speakers-obsolete-or-the-futu...
Yes, it's the same in Mandarin.
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
As other raised here, this is a similar issue to games like Hearthstone for exemple, where you can easily find online the deck with the highest win% and run that.

I happen to play both FPL and HS. The difference is that for Hearthstone since you play against others deck the meta can change, hence a win% is only relevant in the current context. That doesn't really work like that with FPL.

I agree this is taking the fun out of the game, but really only if you focus on winning rather than building yourself your own deck or team. So I'd let other copy paste the optimal team every weeek, I'm good thank you.
Ironicaly if you want to win a league, most likely you'll have to make a couple of bold choice during the season, gambling against a model and being right.

Anyway, I've started coding my own bot to help me pick FPL players, it's never going to be as good as any online model and probably even myself but in the journey the fun will be :)
Yeah, fairly certain they did.

All media was pretty bad for a while, but I've just been looking up some stats and the happily the media generally has shifted, with only nationalist far-right media sticking with the old narrative.

Glancing through their last few years of EV coverage for example, only reveals a couple of oddities, mostly written by the same US lobbyist.

It is startling to glance though and see story after story about business investing in batteries and factories and EV rollout and net zero targets and then suddenly see headlines suggesting:

Biden should support hybrids more (meaning support EVs less)

or

Switch to EVs will worsen inequality

or

EU emissions rules will prevent the middle class from driving

or a couple of stories about EVs causing job losses or less union employment.

It's a very noticeable shift in tone between the two sides but thankfully it's only a fraction of the coverage.

I'd say the watershed for FT happened sometime around COP19, though they're still touting fossil fuels as cheap in 2020

> Climate negotiators are striving for a mutual impoverishment pact. It is hardly surprising that progress has stalled.

While adding of course that they're not denying climate change. Just saying fossil fuels are the cheapest source of energy 5 years after the UK government had accepted and announced that wind power was the cheapest.

They used to featur Bjorn Lomborg a lot, even positively reviewing his latest book in 2020, despite very well credentialled readers writing letters ripping him apart for his nonsense.
I left my political communications related job and now I work in a specialized lingerie/bra-fitting shop to stretch my savings while I figure out what I want to do next.

It's far more satisfying, and I don't hate humanity after every shift.

Unfortunately, it's not a long-term way to make a living.
Counterpoint: Don't change anything. Building something that is clearly made for "you" (as the customer) is one of the advantages a startup has. If someone in your segment gets to your landing page, they can quickly see this is custom built for them. If you build for everyone, you effectively build for no one.
>Are we now gonna start arresting all cryptographers?

There are more cryptogrifters than there are cryptographers.
Also, if we really think about it is buying expensive clothes and wearing them once any better?
Use either old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com

Firefox and Chrome both have old Reddit plugins that will do it automatically.

Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .
Desktop mode on mobile still works fine for me. That said, I really don’t feel like having to login when in incognito mode when I want a cheeky wank in the loo.
Thanks.

Most people know exactly nothing about linguistics, but because everyone speaks a language, they feel qualified to talk about it. The results are mostly ridiculous to anyone actually trained in the field.
Neil Postman on audiovisual entertainment, education, culture, politics
\cases is a nice syntax improvement https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/p...

\foo bar baz -> case (foo, bar, baz) of
(Just 4, 3, False) -> 42
_ -> 0

-- becomes

\cases
(Just 4) 3 False -> 42
_ _ _ ->

---

extremelyLengthyFunctionIdentifier (Just a) False = Just 42
extremelyLengthyFunctionIdentifier (Just a) True = Just (a / 2)
extremelyLengthyFunctionIdentifier _ _ = Nothing

-- becomes

extremelyLengthyFunctionIdentifier = \cases
(Just a) False -> Just 42
(Just a) True -> Just (a / 2)
_ _ -> Nothing
JavaScript UI testing best practices
I guess from plain statistics, you could say that the number of talented people from wealthy backgrounds is roughly the same as talented people generally, so my feeling is that there is a sizable slice of jobs where you just secure rents through connections and you don't actually need to be talented.

From my observations, some industries (film, for instance) will give people a chance, then get rid of them if they don't work out - so a lot of people I vaguely knew had very brief acting careers.

Other companies seem to trundle along with really dysfunctional leadership, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, I suspect it's because the explicit aim of the company (say, mining) is not what the company is actually doing (say, some kind of rent extraction) so it doesn't matter that the CEO has no skills to speak of.

Also, when you know the people, and you see like an interview they've given, you can usually tell if they're bullshitting.
As an adult with a good job, there is nothing in the typical "gift price range" that I really want or need but don't have - if there were, I'd buy it myself. You have to really know me to understand what falls in the "he'd like it but wouldn't bother to get it himself" category. OTOH as I simplify my life it turns out some of my most valued items that I'm keeping around were very expensive gifts that fall in that same category because of the high price.

Edit: This does suggest a strategy of pooling everyones money together to get a single gift that a person would not otherwise buy.
Asdf is fantastic, that and Homebrew are the first two things I install on any new Mac.
It's best to just entirely avoid reddit and other low quality social media.
May I introduce you to Nathan's Spicey Brown Mustard and Kosciusko Spicey Brown Mustard? I think of it as the American answer to Dijon.
This is actually how glob matching is currently implemented in ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/a9d97a1dda0a07a8e...

Works quite well because it can take advantage of the host of optimizations inside the regex engine.
Most of those examples are company logos, and the branding for the company is different than the branding for its products.

So whereas Ford's brand is just a name, "Mustang" has a logo that really does tell you something about the car. You kind of understand when you see the galloping horse what it's meant to do.

Intel brands its CPUs with the name inside a square, which is colored to resemble (abstractly) a CPU.[0]

And Photoshop once had a logo that communicated what it did.[1]

As a brand becomes more established, it tends to be more abstract. Whereas Starbucks was once an elaborate siren (I interpreted it to be the siren call of espresso), details have been simplified over the years.[2] This is similar to the Photoshop magnifying glass logo becoming "Ps".

After the Apple I and Apple II, Apple sometimes used apple varieties (plus Lisa) to brand it's products (e.g. Macintosh, Newton). However, this largely stopped in the late 90s when Steve Jobs returned. Macintosh was shortened to Mac, and 'i' was prepended to various product names. Most new ones were descriptive e.g. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. The computers have retained "Mac" in the branding, along with "book" for notebooks (a convention predating Steve's return). The logos for all of these are just the names of the products typeset in its own San Francisco font; whenever Apple appears in a product name, the Apple logo is used instead.

So, yeah, I think it's reasonable to communicate what a product does or why a project exists with its logo. I didn't really see that w/ OctoSQL.

EDIT: I should also address Firefox & Chrome.

Firefox started as Phoenix (i.e. rising from the ashes of Netscape Navigator/Mozilla). Phoenix had a trademark conflict, so was renamed Firebird. This also had a conflict, and Firefox was chosen after. In the Zeitgeist of the early aughts, Phoenix made a ton of sense: instead of extremely bloated chrome around the page as had been prevalent in Navigator and Internet Explorer, Phoenix gave you a tab bar (truly revolutionary), the navigation bad and the bookmarks bar. It was simple and clean, like a reborn Phoenix.

Chrome is interesting because the name is not related to traveling or navigation. It's telling you it's just the container for what you care about. But the logo is a bit more like a sphincter or an all-seeing aperture. I've never gotten the logo for Chrome outside a spyware context, but it has become successful.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

[1] https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Adobe-Pho...

[2] https://miro.medium.com/max/2418/1*tJf7O6FPOmnErngygbBQDQ.pn...
https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines
So teens buying drugs there parents don’t want them using. This is your use case for TornadoCash?

Cash cannot be so easily laundered as literally sending coins to an address and waiting a few minutes. Laundering cash requires physical infrastructure which can be tracked and monitored.

People like you are why crypto is dying. Not everybody needs to anonymously buy drugs online. When non-crypto bros here things like this they mark you and your project as criminal.
Well, when you know one of the words in a two word initialism, I suspect it helps the search engine quite a bit.
World Economic Forum = plot armour?
No crisis go to waste
This doesn't answer your question. I don't have an answer to your question. But I thought some people may find it interesting why I don't have an answer:

I used to use C for some performance critical backend projects a while back but I explicitly avoid C++ because I don't think it is constrained enough and tends to lead to writing code that has side effects. I prefer the "simplicity" of C if I'm going to have a lower level language where I need to memory manage myself.

With that said, the projects I used to use C in are now mostly Go. It has acceptable performance for my use cases and has better memory management and easier concurrency.

One thing I struggle with is I think C++ still has some of the best libraries for certain tasks, especially around GUIs and games. But neither of those are things I work in regularly.
> It also has only one fluent speaker left

I wonder how you can be a fluent speaker if you have nobody to talk to?
There are working pools on Ethereum's proof-of-stake. Each validator node is 32 ETH but the pool can run multiple validators, and give people a way to deposit smaller amounts.
I started a project last year that is primarily written in c++. Its a database and web platform. C++ is the primary language, but a few things are written in go.
How's the housing market in Indiana? Do you think it's affordable to live there while earning somewhere around 40k ~ 50k? (which is what high school teachers in the area seem to earn, at least from my initial research).
In that same vein, are there unique KYC/AML requirements that come about when dealing with customers who don't have an SSN? I've had the experience as an American banking in Europe and my impression was that banks really don't like to serve foreigners as customers because it has a higher overall risk profile (I know Americans also have unique additional reporting requirements but in general that was my understanding). Are there any regulations you have to deal with around immigration reporting?
You've just described college tuition!
Depending on your field this could be a "yeah duh" comment for you, but there is a whole set of related tools and standards for this that's common when you're doing compliance-related cybersecurity, especially on server OSes.

There's SCAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Content_Automation_Pr... then a popular set of tools that implements it, for example: https://www.open-scap.org/tools/ However the rulesets "profiles" are flexible, one popular one is CIS.
On iOS you can make a shortcut to find/replace www with old in the url. I imagine there's a similar tool for Android, but someone else will have to make that recommendation.
You are describing the google app store as well.
Why are we not targeting the hackers instead of privacy advocates?

Should we arrest the Tor developers because North Koreans use Tor?
But a Red Ferrari 488 gives me lots of meaning...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go
A piece of paper written hundreds of years ago is always up for interpretation. The rule of law is interpreted by the living, not the dead (with my apologies to Thomas Jefferson).

I too am curious how this specific court case will shake out.
Lots of industries have licensing requirements. My friends that are all of the above (except CEOs), need to have licenses (and often, specific schooling). They work hard for these licenses, and generally have to pass lots of difficult tests. They usually also have to keep working to stay current.

The mere thought of doing that, in the tech world, though, brings about collective apoplexy. I'm not especially a fan of how licenses can be used to protect incumbents, and bar entry to otherwise highly capable people. They do, however, go a long ways towards ensuring that a building doesn't fall down, the first time a hot rod drives by.

But hiring always has been "pot luck." Been that way, for -literally- thousands of years. That's why hiring good managers has always been important, and there's really no way to test for that. For whatever reason, we seem to think we get to play by different rules.
Couldn’t a ML model generalize the information into an ontological tree that makes sense in the general case even without internal monologue?

And aren’t you being quite dismissive and definite as an absolute non possibility vs it’s possible up to a measure limited by technology.

Given that something like neuralink works even at the level of today then you have the possibility to predict and mechanize systems based on thought patterns. It becomes a limit of measurement and at what distance. Electrodes in the brain vs whatever signal processing technology avails itself over time.

P.s The mind and cranium work great as an inverted antenna… just put your keys next to your head for 25% increased range of signal when finding your car. :p
I looked at it when it came out... and decided not to. I believe that this was a complete miss of what Software Engineers do. The issue being that I'd have to pass a FE exam first and that implies a traditional Engineering degree with all the heavy physics and such. I took computer science classes - not fluid dynamics and electrical systems.

It appears to have been for Engineers who want to be credentialed in software rather than a credential for a software developer to be able to attest to PE level standards of competency.
> I can't think of any person in history that has shown this level of restraint,

You wouldn't know about them, holy hell haha
I also have a very strong hunch that the day is coming where this gets deprecated. There will be some kind of big database migration or service refactor, and reddit devs will not want to be messing with that "gross, old legacy codebase" to make it continue working and so the entire thing will be taken offline.
> Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .

I'm using it on Firefox Android... Mozilla just made it hard to use most addons. You have to create an addon collection, add the extensions that you want to it, and then use that collection on Firefox Android: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-add...
Of all the appeals to authority, this has to be among the weakest.
Photos are shedding new light on how fireflies interact with the world
I paid my rent in BTC for about a year, and have bought food/alcohol with it directly.

I suspect those may have been edge cases though.
For people complaining that Dependabot is too noisy, it is easy to configure it to only open PRs for major versions.

I am a big fan of Dependabot, but maximizing its effective is highly dependent on the culture of the team/codebase.
I need to jump between different versions of terraform, terragrunt, python, ... all the time for work. asdf is an absolute asset and makes that so much easier. I can heavily recommend giving it a try! I've even embedded it into our default CI image, as it allows me to very easily install consistent versions of many utilities, while also allowing to override versions by choice afterwards.
scmp
This could never work without on-site invigilated exams. Otherwise you will never be able to prove that when Jack applies for a job, Jack took the test. You'll just get an industry of Johns taking the tests for people.

This is how language certification works (think TOEFL, IELTS), and that industry still suffers from a massive amount of fraud. If you make a certificate like this too expensive, it serves as a barrier for entry for candidates. If you make it too cheap, the people administering the test will start pushing through candidates as quickly as possible without any regard for academic honesty.
The most annoying part is that android forgets to open reddit pages in rif all the time, so I have to deal with their site constantly.
> newer Firefox android .

still waiting for mozilla to release more than 5 extensions on android. they are too busy with other things apparently.
I think they make it pretty clear this product is for everyone but that Latino's are their first market.
To put it bluntly: fuck the state.
Subtle.

But seriously, wouldn't you grab the most off the shelf stuff for your throwaway persona to use?
Ha, that was my first thought too. It immediately reminded me of the absurdly buggy feeling you get playing Goat Simulator.
Yeah. It doesn’t need to be completely smooth when you install it on a geared bike, but you need to be able to thread it through the derailleur pulleys. Then you just ride it to remove the remaining excess wax, like a singlespeed.
What do you think about this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=471&v=6v036bBD31o&...

Is it real? Is it better than Tesla?
If you want to quickly check out, I'm working on a tool that works using a "generic" filesystem/files/folders to build a note-taking app, so even if you stop using the app, your stuff is still there in a normal format that can be extended with something like vim, Emacs, Sublime, VSCode, ??? etc.

https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
If it's not zero trust then why isn't it just a database?

As soon as you have a trust model, "blockchain" goes out the window as a good answer.
Yeah yeah yeah. Let's just dismiss the entire site without regard to the fact that there are actually some very good subs on it.
It is said that they are prosecuted for:.
"environmental crime"

Good example again of low profile laws that are abused by government and police forces to get to their objectives.
There’s studies that show heterosexual men are happier in relationships; while heterosexual women in relationships are the least happy of all the relationship demographics. So I think there’s more single het men because there’s just more het men per capita. But even if there’s a similar number of single het women it has drastically different implications on quality of life.
Nuclear fusion: Ignition confirmed in an experiment for the first time
You never really addressed my points. I don't believe racial slurs cause emotional pain in the same way sexual assaults do. The article didn't prove anything and this post hasn't provided any proof to the contrary.

If all it takes is a random person on the internet saying something mean to cause the equivalent of physical pain, then maybe we should ban arguments on the internet. Disagreeing with people on the internet is not a necessary part of life. Whoever posts first gets to be the only one who makes a point. Anybody else who disagrees is doing something unnecessary and as such should be criminalized.
It doesn't really say anything about the behavior of the majority of people. A small portion can drive this number down.

As an example, say 8 out of 10 people have 7 sets of clothes, one for each day of the week, and use the same sets for a whole year. The remaining 2 out of 10 use a new set of clothes every day, so they go through 365 sets of clothes in a year. That comes to clothes being used an average of 4.64 times:

$ python -c 'print(
# average used times in a year
(
(
8 # people
* 7 # sets of clothes
* (365 / 7) # used times in a year
) + (
2 # people
* 365 # sets of clothes
* 1 # used times in a year
)
) / (
8 # people
* 7 # sets of clothes
+
2 # people
* 365 # sets of clothes
)
)'
4.643765903307888
This is exactly why I buy presents. If I give my dad $250, he will not buy a smart thermostat. The economic utility to him of a smart thermostat is not that high versus, say, $250 in gasoline or food. He'll fill his tank every time. He does _want_ a smart thermostat - it's just not justifiable to him at the price point. At the same time, though he likes having food and gasoline, having more will not bring him joy per se.

That's where the gift giving comes in. I buy him a smart thermostat, effectively giving him license to have the nice object he cannot otherwise justify†. The economic destruction is the point.

†Based on a true story.
It's easy to retain self control when you already want for literally nothing.
Not me, but SerenityOS is predominately c++.
My favorite was the giant university who flew me across the country for an evening + 8 hour interview for a tenure-track position and then ghosted me. Bullet dodged, in my opinion.
On another note, I tried to make a throwaway on `old.reddit.com`. I couldn't find a way to make an account without using an email. I had to manually type in `old.reddit.com/register` to get to a form that would let me not type in an email and even then it wasn't obvious that the email wasn't required.
> Yes, now your process is indistinguishable from existing hiring pipelines.

How so, when there are no interviews? Everyone seems to take interviews to be the most important part of existing hiring pipelines. Interviews are certainly the most time-consuming and expensive part of existing hiring pipelines.

> once you bring a few of them on and word gets out you will be making net >100% bad hires by this process

To be clear, I was only entertaining the dartboard selection part of the proposal and not "for at least two years without no possibility of having to fire them". You should definitely fire people who can't do the job.

I think you're also assuming that if "word gets out" then you will only attract more bad candidates, but it will also attract more good candidates who hate the existing hiring pipelines, some to the extent that they even refuse to apply for many jobs.