skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science is political, and that's a bad thing
> I had to look up what/when is "Dreamforce", looks like Sep 20-22.

Haha ditto! I assumed that was a typo at first.
In the links, I found a guide to disable the AD ID that this tech uses to track you, on Android.

I wonder what would happen if maybe an app or something allowed us to poison their data set. In theory, if my unique ID pinged in my home state and another state in the same hour, the data becomes a lot less useful.
Write down the source code for your editor in a notebook, and then read it back to me over the phone.
Eh, close places often have intense rivalries over minor difference (that feel big to them), but to the outsider they look pretty much the same.

Have a look at Greek and Turkey for example. Even their cuisine is nearly identical.

Or look at the adherents of the major parties in many countries around the world.

To avoid an American example: if you put a member of the British Tories or Labour into Japan, they will pretty much be seen as just some Brits.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31974621
I found it funny that a week ago I got an email from a Google recruiter, offering me to enter their interviewing machinery.

I bluntly told him that I rejected the offer because of the horror stories regarding 5-7 interviews in Google.

The recruiter's reply was that it was ok of this was not an appropriate time for me , and that we would stay in touch.

How can they be so dense? Of course it may be that they are also just a cog in the machine and there is nothing they can do.
The VR role play interview with historical figures actually sounded kind of fun.
Yes, it's the performance standards that keep me in the market.

While the embedded energy cost in new devices is noteworthy, I've run through the causes and consequences, and we still have a rationale to keep pushing up performance and energy at hardware level before trying to gut features.

And once you get on that treadmill, you're generally stuck buying at the same price points because when you go downmarket, the manufacturers will remove I/O and BIOS settings, solder the flash drive, etc.

That said, buying slightly old(even refurbished with no wear) is a great savings and I always tend to opt towards that for computers.
I have a couple examples of such--though I only go through ~20 steps--in a talk I gave a couple days ago (one in the middle with a horse, and one at the very end generating a person).

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1565728123705966592?s=21
They will feel stark to the locals only.

In Britain, people from both places will leave their shoes on indoors at home, praise the NHS, watch football and think the queen is fine.
Nice, how are you processing the image? Have you set up your own SD server?
I'm looking at your second link, and it's not really that bad if you are familiar with nix. It's a standard pattern for a package with options. Mostly a long enumerated list, not any different from a long enumerated list of the postgres options themselves. The great thing about it is that it's a single DSL, instead of 10,000 DSLs, one for each package you install.

I do think command line options to do what you ask would be nice, but in order to keep the declarative reprudicibility you get with nix, those commands would need to operate on nix config rather than the system itself. They could update the config then update the system based on the config, so it could look like one step even though it is two behind the scenes.
>SCOTUS now argues that there is no constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy

That's not correct. They found that the right to privacy didn't cover abortion in the exact, specific and detailed manner that Roe set precedent for (see my previous comment about the specific rules for each trimester).

14th amendment "liberty" covers privacy covers abortion, only the abortion precedent was overturned privacy was not. Thomas took aim at privacy in his opinion but that's not supported by the rest of the court.
* - Cheapest days to fly - Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday have been 12% cheaper

* - Best day of the week to book your plane tickets - Any, only a 1.9% cheaper Tuesday - Thursday

* - The ideal number of days before departure to book a flight - Domestic 21-60, average 44. Thanksgiving-52, Christmas-22,Spring Break-38,Summer-21,US to Europe-129,US to Mexico or Caribbean-59.
Agreed, it can also be uncomfortable for persons not of the same gender as the interviewer, so I always take a second person and try to ensure we always have a mix of men and women scheduled as that other person depending on who we’re interviewing to minimise the single point of me/another manager having a bad day.
It's sad that TruthSocial and some right wing instances in the past (like Gab once was) was one of the biggest Mastodon instances, this cements the main Mastodon instance as a very niche social network which the mainstream will never use.

I don't think Mastodon can ever recover from this even with the so called 'migration' that happened because of Elon buying Twitter, I don't think that caught on to shift anything, probably only a small fraction of techies use the main Mastodon instance and that is pretty much it.

TruthSocial makes this even worse.
Does the calculation include losses due to people avoiding them?

Many boycott them here in Sweden, in part due to their views on unions. And while they often have the lowest price in comparisons, they are not doing to good economically last I heard.
For one, this one only requires the candidate to provide an hour of their time, which for me is the main reason I personally avoid multi-round interviews.
The court compels the lawyers to tell the truth or face consequences, so at the very least, out right blatent lies will be called as such by the other lawyers or the judge. Certainly things will sneak by so you should be weary of whatever is said in court, too.

However this interview is PR, not a court.
Yes, I’m talking mostly about card counting (although there are other advantage strategies, like trying to find an unskilled dealer who accidentally exposed their hole card).
Who run banks in the US maybe. The rest of the world has largely moved on.
maybe people are realizing they can also write javascript
How does that statement not make people who bought at or near the high furious? It’d be like a housing developer being caught on tape laughing at the buyers of their properties at their peak (say 2006-2007) on a hot mic in 2009-2010.

For the record, I still don’t have a good explanation for a persons willingness to pay currency for any crypto. The relationship to QE is thus impossible outside of general trends. Raising seas rise all boats stuff.
I started reading drew when he had a Gemini capsule. He ditched it, I was disappointed, but I understand why. I still read everything I come across.

I didn't even realize he was the maintainer of sway, I was reading his stuff while using his software and didn't even know it! Try out sway, it's fantastic.
That's what BitPay handles. The OpenBSD Foundation doesn't hold onto any Bitcoin, it's immediately converted into USD.
Good article, strange title. It's a description of the Plan 9 operating system, including its rationale, history, availability, contents, and the author's experiences using it. I don't see how it's an 'exercise in futility', I hope that's not driving readers away.
I haven't looked into it too much, but there's a project called Radicle that looks interesting (though, as someone who works in the industry, I reserve a high degree of skepticism for any decentralized project that involves a token)
What sense of 'should' are you using here?
Wow, just wow. Rancid takes like this are exactly why we have to have strong reactions to these things.

These "jokes" are not funny, and in fact are disturbing to folks that have actually internalized and lived the fact that these "jokes" are a reflection of culture.

It wasn't a joke, Jesus Christ, and the fact that you offer that up as a defense is in and of itself telling.
The point you’re missing is planning isn’t 100% on them. They’re “stressed”.

Screw that. The planning is basically telling everyone “hey im gone, Bill will cover me, see ya”
Depends on how you define success. Is a business which brings in $1,000,000 in revenue but costs $1,100,000 to operate, successful?

Profit is a more meaningful number. And even then, profit can be slim or negative depending on the stage of the lifecycle that business is in, yet the business can be in negative profit for good reasons and can lead to future profitability. So even then, profit alone is also not a complete indicator of business health.

It really does take a holistic look at the books and the market to determine how successful a business/idea really is.

Revenue though is "the big number" so it leads to the more sensational claims.
> a combination of Twitter’s chronological feed with the community-driven spaces of Reddit

Eugen's product vision is fighting the "community-driven spaces" idea as hard as he can, as far as I understand – to the extent that that maps onto instances, and not the [groups that don't yet exist].

> But because each server effectively acts as a separate version of Mastodon, participating in multiple instances is a hassle. For each one, you must maintain separate profiles and follower lists, and there’s no way to view multiple “Local” timelines in a single feed.

I agree that it'd be nice to be able to view other instances' local timelines. But from here on out, the piece gets real confused by its idea that this is the only way to use Mastodon and thus that you should have one account per instance – this is not how most people use Mastodon.

> The mobile app isn’t really set up for hopping between instances, either. If you get bored with once instance and decide you’d like to check out another, the only option is to sign out of your account and sign up for a new instance from scratch.

So... log on to your desktop and [move].

> The overarching issue here is that Mastodon is trying to be too much like Twitter when it really ought to be more like Reddit.

If you want ActivityPub Reddit, you want [Lemmy], but with less FOSSy users.

> In the ideal version of Mastodon, users would be able to browse the content of those communities, and jump between them at any time, but would still have easy ways to interact with anyone else on the network.

This... is what I do. This is how I use Mastodon. This exists???

[groups that don't yet exist]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/861#issuecomment...

[move]: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move

[Lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/
Nice. Copying (concatenating) the opcode implementations into an executable memory buffer is well-known. There are variants but it seems to generally be called inline threading or dynamic superinstructions or the memcpy method [1]. If you can manage to do that in C (probably with the GCC computed-goto extension?) without asm or editing machine code I think it's a very good complexity-performance tradeoff, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be too popular. It's faster than direct-threaded VMs but only eliminates one part of the instruction dispatch overhead compared to a real JIT (e.g. LuaJIT 2 vs LuaJIT 1) which loads operands directly or inlines them and does register allocation. But once you do inline threading, you have opportunities to eliminate more of the interpretation overhead, and the payoff becomes even greater e.g. [2].

[1] Markku Rossi, Kengatharan Sivalingam, 1996, A Survey of Instruction Dispatch Techniques for Byte-Code Interpreters, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53....

[2] M. Anton Ertl, David Gregg, 2004, Combining Stack Caching with Dynamic Superinstructions https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90...
Taiwan could import labour.
Google is one of the few companies that has enough talent applying to be able to turn away perfectly good candidates. All those hoops you jump through ensure you're willing to go above and beyond a healthy level to "serve" the company.
Thanks for at least going full mask off, though I doubt you realized you were doing so. I'm sure I'll get put in my place for this but JFC.
Valid question. By that I mean if were looking for someone with experience in X, Y, and Z, we’ve had situations where applicants have done enough research to have a conversation about X but not have any practical or troubleshooting experience with it, which we needed. The probation period means we don’t need to grill someone on every aspect of the role, instead we can focus on the absolute core of what we need and specify the rest in the JD, and if someone claims to know it we can safely take their word with minimal risk of committing ourselves if they can’t then pick it up in a few weeks.
thats why i keep telling people that software “engineering” or computer “science” are not worth pursuing. unless you use either as a launchpad. these types of jobs are just fancy bricklaying.

however there is nuance to everything. some people find 200k a year and living with flatmates in an expensive city rewarding. to each their own. i know i did. until it hit me.
The nothing-at-stake problem was solved many years ago by introducing slashing. The earliest proof of stake systems did not have slashing (they did not actually put validators' funds "at stake"; the use of the word "stake" wasn't so literal yet) and were vulnerable to the nothing-at-stake problem because of that. A decent write-up: https://medium.com/coinmonks/understanding-proof-of-stake-th...
Is it more expensive than leaving the position open for months though? I’ve seen multiple companies I’ve applied at and my own employer just sit with empty roles which meant the job never got done.

I was under the impression from the startup world and my won engineering experience that getting to market with a substandard product was always better than never releasing because you were aiming for perfection.
Right, my almost bricked "smart" TV had a nice discount
Read more of qntm’s stuff. It’s really good.
Ahhh… the old “im smart enough to see through lies, but others aren’t so we need to hide information from them for their own protection”.

Kind of like the “Abusing democratic freedoms” that China accuses people of. Have to protect our freedoms you understand..by removing them.
It is super expensive to hire someone. The costs are enormous.

Let's take a hire that will make $10,000 per month, nice round number.

Someone in HR has to write the job description. This takes the HR person's time, the hiring manager, the hiring manager's boss just to get the information for a job description

Job description cost with hiring manager: $500
Job description cost with hiring manager's boss: $500
HR person's time to talk to hiring managers and to write the job description: $1000

Job board postings: $250

Headhunters if found through them: $30,000 (3 month's salary)

Corporate career page posting and social media posting of job description: $500

Interviewing with multiple people, even a few rounds: $5,000-$10,000

Hring temporary/freelance person to cover work to be done by permanent hire before new employee leaves prior job and starts with yours: $20,000

Filling out paperwork and miscellaneous expenses: $1,500

Employee takes 3 months getting up to speed and not really producing, but still being paid: $30,000

Employee decides the job is not a good fit for him or her and quits 9 months later: $90,000 wasted.

*Total cost to hire and then the person quits:* $184,250 wasted

Additional cost: cost of not getting work done because of hiring errors, that needs to be done: ???? you tell me. A lot.

So a company hires 50 people and 20 quit because the were not vetted propertly: that is $3,685,000 in wasted money. Now, realize that this $3,685,000 is in after tax dollars, so if the company's profit margin is 15%, it takes $24,566,667 in product and/or service sales to cover those wasted hiring expenses. Because those 20 employees were fired or quit, it will take another $24,566,667 in sales to cover the next round of hiring, or almost $50,000,000. If those new 20 hires, if 8 of them quit...well, the game goes on and on.

So, a company best be damn careful in one's hiring practices.

(numbers above might or might not be accurate, but it doesn't matter, that's not the point. The point is that it costs a lot of money to hire and then lose an employee after a short time period due to employee quitting, or getting fired for incompetence, anger issues, harassment problems, or whatever. Hiring highly paid employees is a dangerous game.

This is from the company's perspective, not yours. But if you started your own company, would you want to pay $50 million for bad hiring decisions? No. You would make double-damn sure there would be a lot of vetting processes.

And realize, this is not about you for anyone reading this. It's about the statistics over dozens of hiring decisions.
In my country, got rumors about the currently in power political party using such tools to find dirt on other political parties.
It is quite difficult to end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by eating too much fast food or watching too much porn.
I would like to second your observation. Fundamentally, the entire IT industry is mostly ruined, by Moore’s “law” … the mess of the IT ecosystem in almost every large enterprise is evidence.
If they said in the interview they’re very comfortable with Vue.js and Postgres, and then you find out after a few weeks that actually they barely know Vue or Postgres, they actually come from a React/SQLite background, they’ve overpromised.

Rather than ensuring every bullet point on their resume is factual through six interviews I’ve found it’s better to assume they’re honest and as capable as advertised, interview for personality, and then if they’ve oversold themselves that’s why it’s called a 90 probationary period.

I don’t get cranky if someone quits (even with no notice) within 90 days, for any reason. And I’ll let someone go within 90 days, for any (legal, ethical) reason.
10x engineering for the rest of us
> What similar opportunities are under our noses today?

Material science is really hard, even though we already have at our disposal pretty much all the elements we're likely ever going to have! There are so many combinations and conditions to try.

I'd guess that if a room temperature and pressure superconductor is possible in our universe, it can likely be made in small amounts using today's technology.

High-entropy alloys are another exciting space to explore.

Materials science deserves a lot more respect than it gets. It's hard to appreciate how much hard-won materials advances, like neodymium magnets, enable the variety of technologies we have today.
Thanks. Airbyte is a great third-party tool for creating custom ELT pipelines and accessing popular connectors. Our focus at Pipebird is different - we help companies work directly with their customers to share data.

To illustrate the difference, imagine ACME Inc. wants to pull its customer data from HubSpot. With Airbyte, they can use a pre-built connector that accesses data made available via the HubSpot API.

Now let's say HubSpot uses Pipebird to build native data sharing features for its customers. ACME Inc. can now deploy a secure data pipeline directly from HubSpot without involving any third-party. Since HubSpot is offering the pipelines, it can choose to expose more data than is made available via its API (Stripe has done this with their data pipeline product https://stripe.com/data-pipeline) and ACME Inc. doesn't need to worry about the pipeline breaking because it's coming directly from the source.
As well as direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
I was hoping this would be about using NFTs to improve on TicketMaster/StubHub hell.
Cool I already had it set to that. Thanks! Any other suggestions?
No, you just have to be a fan so you can pick and choose which problematic bits you claim and which you disavow. No matter that they change over time, or the general cult of personality allows people to think Joe is "unproblematic" at least at stretches of time, even though it's easy to find constant, repeated indicators of his actual character. It's really just amazing the parasocial relationships that even HNera fall for and have zero outside perspective on.
This sounds a bit like The Rehearsal semi-reality show hosted by Nathan Fielder.
Yes, that's why a single eruption can have a noticeable effect.

Stratospheric water may also set the upper limit on how many launches to orbit can be done per year, since all the propellant consumed in or above the stratosphere makes water that ends up in the stratosphere.
I work in tech in Seattle. AWS is notably worse then its peers. And even still, your experience is not typical for AWS.
Depends which section of the industry you end up in, but in the big banks which are some of the largest java shops, a cadet/intern will end up around $45k, a junior around $55-65k, an ordinary dev around $80-90k, and a senior anywhere from $115-$150k but weighted toward the lower end. Then of course there’s the rest of the buzzword fleet, DevOps engineers are a bit of a premium on those figures, architects the same.
waiting for a clean twitter alternative with nitter (=interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers which twitter is unable to do).
Is it that much more expensive? It's mostly opportunity cost imo, but that's basically a nonfactor for big corps that take ages to do anything anyway, and they are constantly hiring replacements.

I can terminate team members with a couple of clicks in workday if I wanted. Seems overblown.
> You've shown the number of removals is sky high -- 0.3% number of removals PER YEAR as there are children

The CDC reports that between 140,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations per year are due to the flu. No one out there is saying that it's "sky high".

> Of course CPS will claim basically all those removals are valid, but we have very little independent third party verification to see if that is actually the case.

This is actually just nonsense.

> "legitimate" CPS kidnapping

This is just a deranged position to take.

> So you have really no data to present here, other than a ceiling of roughly 5% chance at the worst, which is absolutely bone-chillingly large.

While we're here I would also like to talk about how many of those 275k a year are sacrificed to the God of the Deepest Waters, Lord of Whales (and Wales), The Evercrescent. A vast number I'm sure!

Look we know when this stuff happens, they've got records and the CPS has been taken to court (and they've lost!). But unless you're talking about black or native american families, the amount is so minimal as to not warrant this fear mongering.
> I wonder if the fact a lot of games are beatable is intentional bait for novice counters that will screw up and lose.

This is surely part of it. The other factors are that many non-advantageous players dislike continuous shuffle machines for superstitious reasons, and using a traditional shoe (not continuously shuffled) but massively decreasing penetration leads to less hands per hour (and therefore less profit) due to time wasted shuffling. So neither of the most obvious countermeasures is free for the casino.

But honestly, even though it’s still beatable, the modern shoe game is way less profitable than old-school single-deck games (and casinos that still offer single-deck, like El Cortez in Vegas, are famous for watching them like a hawk and kicking out players they have the slightest suspicion are counting). So it’s not like casinos have done nothing to protect themselves from advantage players.
Each of your kidneys are on a train, one going 88 mph heading from east to west and another going 103 mph heading west to east
Have you read “Body by Science”? It’s a simple workout routine that works (I doubled my strength in a few months) and it is super safe. The book has all the science details for how it works.