skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-me...
I miss Windows Phone. Used to have a Lumia 920. Sleek, rock solid phone that rarely crashed and always gave the impression that it will be there when I need it. Apps weren't great but still I was quite happy with a few. And I started to like the Tiles UI.

Then the Microsoft-Nokia joke happened.
>My CS classes in college were literally 98% male and 98% white and Asian.

> You are talking about a slippery slope to distract from the obvious existing problem.

I dont see a problem.
I haven’t but am curious what you thought were the biggest improvements over a standard meeting. Did you try virtual sticky notes/whiteboarding or any other collaborative tasks?
This is maybe my favorite application of GTP3-type AI yet! The results were very quick, charming, and on point. I tried it out and was honestly really happy with the gift recommendations (I said I had a small budget for a friend who was into art and fairies and it suggested a small notebook with a magical creature cover and some colored pencils).

Some criticisms that come to mind however, is the UI. Viewing the website in Safari and in Chrome, there's a bar that runs vertically between the text and input box and then along the bottom of the page that is really unpleasant to see. Also maybe centering the input box would be a bit nicer, I felt a little weird gluing my eyes to the right of my screen when all the catchy glowing text and emojis are on the left.

Overall, super cool project and fun application of GTP3 that I wholeheartedly approve of. Projects like these are why people like me get inspired to learn programming in the first place.
> * America's most obese city
It's now #27th. This is mostly driven by being suburban, southern, relatively poorer city.

> * A huge sprawl with bad traffic and poor public transportation
There are only a few cities in the U.S. that have good public transportation and while it's really nice it's also super expensive to live there.

Look there is no reason to live in Houston if you're rich. It's much nicer to live in a prettier city with great public transit and driving distance from some amazing natural features.

But if you're not rich and you want to be able to raise a family, own a house, and experience nice entertainment on 50k a year, Houston is a wonderful city.
Indeed, it's so bad I've found myself in conversations where teammates go 'ew, look, a class' and I go 'a closure is a poor man's object...'.
Yes, because it's easier to do that than assess people on their merits. This is especially true when you are reviewing a technical paper (often for free) when you have competing demands on your time and mental energy (research, teaching). It takes hours and hours to properly review a paper, and that is still trusting that the author is acting in good faith - to reproduce their work might in some cases require a large amount of time and money. These are the same reasons that letters of recommendation (written by people you've heard of) are so useful in academia. Lots and lots of bias problems, but the bias isn't the point, as I think is sometimes implied.
not a valve employee, but when I interviewed there a few years ago, I was told your initial offer is a "reasonable" number you and the hiring team agree on, then is adjusted up/down as your peers estimate your impact over time.

the interview process is also kind of interesting -- you'll know if you got an offer or not before you leave the onsite interview. also interesting was that they sent a driver to the airport instead of offering the normal taxi/uber reimbursement, then had the same driver pick me up after the interview to head back to the office.
In the city? Maybe. In rural areas you'll get nowhere without a car, it's highly desirable.
My Boyfriend the Killer
I'm running a server in my house. Its a ethereum PoS node. It is oddly satisfying to look at it in the flesh.

It's another pet to me: I have to make sure it has a constant supply of electricity and internet. And requires maintenance from time to time.

Some photos here: https://vedantsopinions.medium.com/eth2-node-at-home-without...
That's what auditing is for.
> Well they always do it "to defend human rights"

Which is always a bullshit excuse to soothe the masses.

> but suddenly that doesn't matter in India.

Pffff, when had it really mattered to a culture, whose propaganda had turned "And you lynch negroes" into an insensitive racist joke.
It's only brought up once the establishment needs to shit on another country or needs an excuse for a military or an economic warfare.
The OP's post is from a hospital, your post links to a survey from a "Men's Fitness" magazine.
That sounds like the opposite of click bait. Not revealing something that would make people have aversion. I don't know if it has a name.
PSA: In normal, regulated, markets, this kind of "economic hack" is called "fraud" and gets you in trouble (fine and/or jail).
Maybe I missed something in your question, but what we have in France seems pretty close.

Our ballots go into a transparent urn, you need to be registered in a voting office and show an ID paper to vote, and people counting the votes are typically a mix of local state employees and volunteers citizens (and given that most people don't want to spend their Sunday evening counting ballots, it's quite easy to get a place).

Now I guess it moves the trust onto the ID system and the aggregation of local counts into national results.
I joined a company and worked remotely for about a year before meeting anyone I worked with (in person). We eventually did all meet up and it was great.

There is just enough latency in video conferencing that people start talking at the same time a lot. This is fine in short meetings. But when we wanted to discuss larger structural changes for longer periods of time, it was exhausting. It worked much better in person.

> Go out and get Thai food and cocktails on corporate account? Well, I couldn't do that.

That also provides lots of value in my book. People talk about random shit and sometimes that creates good ideas. Also it's just nice to actually meet the people you work with.

I'm not saying you need constant off-sites, but meeting up sometimes is great.
Yeah it seems the only solution is for Apple and Google to truly come together and work on an open standard. At that point, if Apple refuses, it’s on Apple.

I agree though, right now it really isn’t a defensible argument from Google.
Just a question when you are hiring and posting job descriptions do your job posts use language like "6 years experience in Elixir" ?

Reason I'm asking is because I love this attitude and I think it works so long as your team will provide the support for someone to ramp up, but I seldom see these kind of job posts saying we're fine if you learn the stack.
> if your hiring funnel doesn't represent the general population then it is biased

So 0.1% of engineers in the funnel should be Amish and 18% should be younger than 14.

There might be a flaw in your logic.

Jokes aside, this is maliciously reductive. There's too many factors contributing to the funnel (location, sourcing channels, employer, job preference, hiring market state) that makes predictions about funnel virtually impossible. But you already know it. You're not here for the truth, you're here to push your ideology.

> It's good because we enslaved a population for generations

My ancestors were thousands of miles away from US territory when slavery happened. In fact, it is quite likely they were slaves themselves. And yet you're saying I'm supposed to pay the price for your crimes just because of my skin color.

That sounds quite racist to me. Luckily, my skin is not only white, it's also thick.
Honestly Kotlin hasn't ever seemed to pick up that mainstream heat. It sounds like a weird choice to move to kotlin specifically for backend systems.
"The most secure phone"–Librem 5 Purism—is ridiculously expensive
This is quite dangerous, because it creates bias against people whose CV is not a traditional CV, but more like a portfolio, with works that uniquely identify the author. My own CV would be way too gray if one excludes my contributions to various open-source projects and articles that I have written - all of which would be identifying.

Another class of extreme examples would be public political figures. There is only one person who has successfully implemented a city-wide smoking ban. There is only one person who was a minister of finance, and then worked on in-game economics.
I wonder what the threshold is for moving on from Covid. Is it when it stops generating a bump in clickthroughs?
“Counterbalanced” is a spec that is extremely important with extended use of VR. That one needs to stay.
i miss the Zune and its UI. was the Windows Phone's UI similar?
On the one hand we have the Mueller report which finds that there was Russian interference in the 2016 election in the form of coordinated social media and other 'attacks' on the Clinton campaign. This seems to form some reasonable basis for making claims that the election was ‘stolen’ (informally, and clearly not a legal basis to overturn a result).

On the other you have a narcissist who actually tried to overthrow democracy to stay in power and throws around utterly baseless claims of an organised conspiracy of direct vote subversion and interference in the election mechanism itself, who was also caught trying to coerce others to do that for him over the phone.

These situations are not really comparable.
Honestly, the worst part about dating apps is that it's basically become the only way a lot of women want to meet men. And I'm not speaking from a disgruntled male perspective, I'm speaking from a friend of a lot of women who've essentially stated exactly that.

It's funny because most of my LTIR friends have met their significant others through more traditional means and the perpetually single are stuck on gamified apps.

The apps can definitely work so it's not all for naught but I think the privacy and low risk (emotionally) nature of them leads to an over reliance by a lot of people.
Before diversity programs were all the range most large companies being discussed here had populations that reflected their applicants reasonably well. But not necessarily their communities.

So where does your thinking go when the issues are outside of the company?
Let's make a deal: When coiners stop saying HFSP then we'll stop celebrating your failures.
Yep, that's why I grinded my teeth a bit when I read the post title. As a broke ass student back in the day, I counted my pennies to buy one of those devices. Even shilled it to my peers, some of whom also bought devices.
Preview.js: How Vite enables instant component previews in your IDE
Yeah, I mean I hired a great Java dev to do Go work and she picked it up in 3 months... but I knew she was awesome, so I wasn't worried about it at all. But hiring someone you don't know, which is typical ... retraining in a new language feels like it surely adds to the already substantial risk of hiring.
Code is law working out real well over here. The code said that we should value MNGO at the current spot price, so that's what the code did, and poof went the entire network.

In the real world we have things like leverage ratios, anti-manipulation laws, circuit breakers, etc. Some of this is regulatory, and others are just things we figured out were good ideas many years ago.

I think there's a sense of hubris in the new code is law advocates. As a programmer, code is law scares me because I know code is nothing if not buggy, whereas law has real mechanisms where the case is presented in front of humans that generally speaking have reasonable thoughts. Yes law is flawed, judges can be biased, lawyers are expensive, but throwing all of that away in favour of code on the internet seems much worse.

Judges can issue injunctions that say "freeze everything until we sort it out in court", whereas code just runs whether you want it to or not. Courts can say "reverse all the transactions related to x", and blockchain is, by design, immutable.
I recently commented on a similar discussion here about a month ago[1] to the effect that double blind review is a cheap and idealistic shortcut that runs into its own issues (research areas are simply too specific to pretend that we're operating "blind") and doesn't get you what you really need which is to address the deeper issues in the publication system and research system.

These issues? Off the top of my head:

1. Quantity over quality

2. Normalised sensationalising of ones research

3. Neglecting good or even necessary collective scientific practices such as replication studies and data and code sharing and openness.

a. Here, valuing the actual work of peer review comes in as a fundamental aspect of the scientific process that should be respected, rewarded and published rather than being some silent aristocratic duty that eventually gets navigated around in the sensationalism rat race many researchers pursue.

4. Selecting for "impact" and "novelty" and not the quality of a researcher's/scientist's administrative and leadership skills, scientific method and integrity and teaching skills (incl, importantly, the teaching of graduate students)

a. Though novelty and impact are important in research, IMO, they're outcomes that are hard/impossible to select for largely because research breakthroughs are often serendipitous and the kind of true genius that will "hit targets no one else can see" is rare and frankly everyone knows it when they see it (provided they're good researchers and not just good salespeople). A very senior academic once told me in a private context that you can't predict where the breakthroughs are going to come from as an inexperienced researcher playing around is just as likely to make a breakthrough as a senior researcher with many credentials.

5. A personal belief of mine ... resisting the necessary professionalisation of research, by which I mean that the conception of a researcher is based very much in the same model we had centuries ago. IE, a lone genius researcher left to their own devices to find the truth. Scientific research, at least, is now too complex, too hard and involved for this to be true. Collaboration and more and more specific roles are necessary to make the industry work well. The resistance of the "industry" to recognising the importance of software developers in research is a perfect example. Same goes for statisticians and consultants from adjacent fields. My personal favourite for such an "associative" role would be quasi-theoreticians (outside of physics) who can aid in aggregating, reviewing and critiquing the literature in real time without necessarily having a horse in the race.

~~~

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32832836
That’s content dependent of course. The screen refresh rate is 72 or 90Hz. No 120Hz mode like Quest 2, apparently. I wonder if it’s limited by the backlight computation.
Never used Zune. WinPhone's UI was similar to Windows 8 at the time (I think the term is Metro design language).
I'm not super knowledgeable on how DNS systems work. I'm confused about how it can be a one time payment and still be owned by you without a registrar billing you yearly to keep it?
> Yes, we have male protagonists, and ones with substantial authority and muscle growth, but it's been a long time since I've actually seen a legit role model.

What qualities do you consider "legit" in this regard?
wHeN wIll they LEarn?
The standard operating procedure when your company is going into controlled decline and you want to soften the landing: put women in leadership positions. Less likely to be under fire, unless critics want to be branded womenhaters.
exactly. I'd be willing to contribute to humane encouragement into such a scheme. I would no doubt also include free health care and a robust detox and addiction and psyche programs.

i believe that, ironically, the less progressive jurisdictions already provide this service while the more "progressive" districts have not yet made it mandatory.
Guess women are just easily manipulated by the evil Big Computer Science Lobbyists.
Crypto being public might mean more hacks get reported whereas a 100 private businesses getting phished out of a million wont register even if the information is available to a reporter.
If the previous work is a single paper, you are right. However it consists usually in multiple papers, it becomes then more complicated to hide that all these papers share one (or more) author(s).
We really, really need to start using this stuff more efficiently. Reprocess the fuel to something useful, build fast breeders or thermal thorium breeders.
I think it's interesting. Not because it exposes names, but because it shows (again) that Copilot is reproducing training data verbatim.

And when the time comes to explain Copilot to laypeople (say, in court), this is an example they can understand.
"Then, he/she used the funds to buy the 483mm units of $MNGO perps (at a price of $0.0382 per unit). The perpetrator’s actions made $MNGO’s spot market price, reaching as high as $0.91"

Is the second sentence sentence missing some words? Or is there something specific about Mango that makes this make sense? If 483mm units were bought for $0.0382 per unit (is that the average price, a fixed price?), why did the spot price suddenly increase 30x, was there that big of a spread in the order book? Also how does that add up to $5mm USDC? Isn't $0.0382 x 483mm = $18.4506mm?
He means this: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tel...
> I would doubt Knuth would publish garbage

Rather, Knuth could publish some mediocre paper that would be instantly accepted by all the top journals, widely read, discussed and cited instead of more salient works on similar topics.

That's the problem really, excellence is rare while mediocrity is aplenty and academia is a numbers game. The mediocres with prodigious output will get the cites, tenure, TAs, lab assistants and budgets to do research and perhaps stumble onto some other mediocre result, reinforcing the cycle.
> If there is a bias, is it good, bad, or neutral? Are there biases in other directions?

Bias isn’t inherently good or bad - they are normative judgements of distance from rationality.

Some biases are probably evolutionary advantageous to the individual but harmful to the society or others.

Sticking with the group is great, except when it isn’t, for example.

Or, a “gut check” is great, but you can’t always make decisions based on your gut:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_heuristic
> I was told your initial offer is a "reasonable" number you and the hiring team agree on,

That makes sense, having the people who interview attempt to pick a comp that will get you in the door.

> then is adjusted up/down as your peers estimate your impact over time.

It is the mechanics of this that I am most interested in and no one will answer for me. Do people vote on their peer's salary? How does that not become super political? What happens if they all vote for each other to get 1000% raises, who stops them?

> also interesting was that they sent a driver to the airport instead of offering the normal taxi/uber reimbursement, then had the same driver pick me up after the interview to head back to the office.

If I were them the driver would be the beginning and end of the interview process. Were you kind to the driver on the way there? Did you say nasty things on the way back?

Or maybe they just got a good deal with a company that only had a few drivers. :)
Peer-reviewers also don't follow particular names around; they see the name above the submission and it influences them, as on H.N. no doubt.

But it's far worse, even without a recognized names, most votes are cast without proper reading, and I'm fairly certain also by the least intelligent subsection given how often submissions are upvoted on H.N. and Reddit that are pure clickbait and demolished in the comments by people that actually read it. People that vote by and large only read the title or the first sentence and make up their mind from there.
Creating and selling worthless tokens = Entrepreneur

Obtaining someone elses tokens because code had flaw = Hack
No examples from Florida, the state being discussed. The two "articles" you did provide are sourced from the same author at the same publication "The National Desk" (owned by Sinclair Broadcasting). One the sources they use is The Epoch Times, which is not a reputable publication. Interesting source material for a self-proclaimed "Democratic party voter".

==What I have no interest in is anyone presenting either as an acceptable option to my kids.==

The alternatives are (1) pretending it doesn't exist or (2) presenting is as an unacceptable option. Do you prefer to pretend it doesn't exist?

==I would never want my coworkers to have to take classes on anti semitism because it assumes they are potential anti semites. ==

I don't follow. Everyone is a potential anti-Semite. If you aren't then the class shouldn't bother you. It's the same as the "shame" exercise. If you have no shame about your actions, why would it bother you?

==You seem to want to police people's minds and demand that every one adhere to your world view or they are terrible people.==

By banning books and outlawing what teachers can teach?

==This is not Iran, we don't need a morality police.==

And yet, we have Ron DeSantis, your guy, saving us from things that weren't being taught to kids in the first place. I couldn't think of a better example of morality police.
Yeah. I think the shape of what that looks like is still TBD, but I think you are right.

I don't yet know personally what I want it to look like (and reserve the right to change my mind many times over the next few years) but there is no reason to stick to the conventional paradigm of "monitors" when in theory you could just let every window or widget float in space, independently or in sets.

Lots of stuff yet to be innovated!
Spot on, other than it was never a good idea.
One of the biggest arguments for DEI is to undo the damage the US government and culture has done to it's own black citizens. I don't think filling a bunch of VP positions with highly qualified African immigrants does that.
when it quits having a kill rate that is several multiples of flu which is already fairly dangerous
Fractional-size model though, right?
IPv6 Extension Headers Revisited
Valve has so much money and not many employees, they can pick their own salaries.
Ask HN: What's your strategy to land fully remote jobs?
There are so many interesting companies out there offering remote/distributed roles, but I'm not sure how to approach them.

Do you apply directly on their careers page?
Do you find recruiters on linkedin and connect with them?
Do you cold email founders?

What's your strategy? How did you land your fully remote job?
Sounds like what the space needs is regulation...

You know, to provide assurance that automated protocols are written strongly, and legal recourse against bad actors.
What about policing people with security clearance?

If SpaceX continues to launch classified satellites I guess we will know he's not a Russian asset
Why can’t they be as easy as wearing glasses [1]? Do you think direct retina projection (also available now) is somehow limited? I agree waveguides might be.

1. https://www.nreal.ai/
Calling someone “African American” is a symptom of the real problem: pretending you can know how a person is just by knowing their skin color.
Bockchain - human centipede but with chickens
Much of academia seems to have become an outwardly transparent no hold barred status battleground. So this just seems to exactly align with my expected outcome given that assumption.

I'm not saying there aren't people in academia who aren't driven by doing good research but I certainly don't see that as the driving force in the US academia.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, shallow dismissals, or personal attacks to HN.

You may not feel you owe $CEO better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html