skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they are not. Models vs observations:

https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-90-mod...

Even the modellers themselves admit this. When they felt a need to re-declare victory a few years ago in response to graphs like that one, even then, their argument was "if we re-calculate the original models with better data then they aren't so inaccurate anymore". It wasn't that the original predictions were correct.

Now look at a graph of temperatures as measured by satellites:

https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

Notice that it has long periods where it moves sideways, despite continuing emissions. Models don't predict these apparently arbitrary pauses.

"But I assume nothing will change your politically motivated opinion that climate change is no big deal."

This is a thought terminating cliché. The default non-political position in any discussion of what should government or society do is always "do nothing". It has to be - think about it. It's always the people agitating for change who are engaged in the process of politics, because it's via the process of politics that change on the level of government policy is enacted.

What's happening here is the opposite; the people saying "default to nothing, we think the need is unproven" are the people taking the default non-political position. It's the people demanding massive enforced changes to people's lives that are engaging in politics. And unfortunately, history teaches that people who insist on totally upending society for long term abstract goals must always be treated with suspicion because that is power, power corrupts, and the ground is full of the skeletons of people who died due to the dreams of despots. What they advertised as concern over some abstract ideal (justice, equality, nation, etc) rapidly became a mere tool to enter and stay in power.
The difference is that in place upgrades aren't possible for major versions.
I have bursts of works. Some days it seems like there is a never ending stream of bullshit thst keeps me busy, and others I am scrambling to find something to keep me busy so I don’t look like I’m slacking off. I work as a sysadmin and manage a small data center that hosts about 1200 websites and other apps
I think it's a great idea, there's far too many businesses that exploit employees by labelling them contractors.

Of course, idea and execution are two very different things.

In NZ, it's often found in courier companies and telecommunications, where you're an owner-operator! Except you have to do what the company you work for says, when they say, and you have to provide all your own equipment, and of course, pay for your own sick leave, accident insurance and holiday pay. And no you can't work for a competitor, are you nuts?

At one point our tax department started cracking down on this, then stopped, I'm not sure why. But it needs to be done.

And let's not even discuss the infamous Hobbit law, where a right leaning government passed legislation under urgency to make all film industry employees contractors, with no rights to unionise, to keep Peter Jackson (he can get the Sir back when he redeems himself in my mind) and Warner Brothers happy after Jackson's Weta Studios lost an Employment Court case brought by a "contractor" who they very vigorously treated as an employee.
The actual song always evoked the imagery of a AI becoming self-aware - as if the song was written from the perspective of such an AI. This cut is hard to listen too, it sounds lobotomized.
I don't get it, you are still applying the force in the same direction. I mean if you rotate the 'wrong' picture by 90 degrees you will see that they are both the same thing
If you read that statement as "when judged on your output by those in control of your salary" does it make more sense which bottom line is in play here?
I hope this doesn't end up like the plot of Snow Piercer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot
RE your first issue, I found this:

>Step 2 • Log In
First-time Users: If you do not have a user ID or password, you can call our Client Service Center at 866-604-6570 to request a copy of the report.

Further down the page you linked. Ill be calling tomorrow to learn what fresh hell equifax has created. For me.
The article talks about the proof and how he came up with it as much as it talks about his age.
> if you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily

And if you can find a job easily, you can credibly threaten to decamp for leverage. (Or, if your boss is a dick, just leave.)

I'm American. My bias shows. But I think an easy-to-fire, easy-to-hire model is far superior to the incumbency-biased systems which make hiring and firing an Olympic sport. We lack a strong-enough social net underneath it all, necessary to be humane and maintain social stability. But that seems an easier fix than reforming an entire commercial culture.
I'd be very surprised if security firms weren't classifying employees as contractors for the firm's financial gain.
Imagining a Dune-Accurate Fremen Thumper
So we know this is transpiled, wondering what is the usual approach to determine the quality of the transpliation output? Any systematic work into this aspect?
That doesn't really make logical sense to me. Can you elaborate? If hiring is an irreversible decision for a company, why wouldn't consideration be required prior to any hire?
*cough* phosphine gas in Venus atmosphere
My experience is quite different in regard to working in Europe.

How exactly is hiring a very tedious process? Seemed quite fast and easy to me.

And btw, it's not that hard to fire a wrong hire. You have few months to do so basically for any reason at all, and afterwards, you can still do it, if you have a good reason to do so.
> If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily. If companies can go down quickly, new companies can be formed in an instant.

In New Zealand it is fairly easy to start a company (in the sense that the required paperwork isn’t too difficult). It’s easy to hire people, but firing is hard.

Why would ease firing mean ease hiring? Why would companies failing easily mean start ups are simple?

It’s not so much that companies need to be idealised, but that people need to be treated with a minimum level of care.
> Equifax used one of its own products, The Work Number, to help it suss out who was holding down multiple jobs simultaneously.

Anyone from California submit a CCPA deletion or request for all information they have on you?

If so, what did they say?
AFAIK it is unclear whether the Turin horse scene actually happened.

The description is actually suspiciously similar to a scene in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, which Nietzsche had read.

The Turin horse episode, on the other hand, apparently (and I don’t remember where I read this) goes back to an account first published by the contemporary writer Alain de Botton. And all there seems to be in terms of evidence is a story written by an unnamed journalist in 1901, almost a decade after the event supposedly had taken place.
earned mine
My Dude I promise you most of us have been there.

If you want an employer that fits you, you are going to be on the hunt for a while and that is ok. The only mistake you made is not to prepare your departure early.

If your hobbies are math and C++ im pretty sure there is an entire world of code out there that most of us are not interested in or capable of and therefore that is your niche.

Prepare your profile accordingly because how is a recruiter going to know what you want?!

Keep calm and keep applying, and the final thing to look out for: don't lowball yourself.
> Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products

People do still have the right to use libraries, though that is being threatened by digital restrictions in ebooks and other media.

In the US we seem to forget that copyrights and patents exist to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" - not to ensure a perpetual revenue stream.
I can see that display math is working with $$LaTexCode$$. But in lie math: $LaTeXCode$ doesn't.
Is it possible that other search engines are using GoogleBot to bot friendly results ?

Ex: to bypass an anti bot firewall filter or something
It could've easily been split up in different articles covering different aspects. It's not only lazy, but it doesn't account for what's going on in the world, where attention is super scarce.
A lot of other (western) countries have a lot more legal protection for workers. For instance, your boss can't just say 'You're Fired!' because they are in a bad mood. That's insta lawsuit zone. Even layoffs. A position needs to be disestablished before someone can be laid off. And there are legal steps and consultation periods etc etc.
There's no DMs in Hacker News, but you could add contact details on your profile so people can reach you
The robots are coming but when?
Ask HN: How do you recover from a context switch?
Almost all discussions on deep work and flow, end in some version of "we should minimise context switching". I am wondering if in addition to designing our work to minimise context switches, we should also develop techniques (or solutions) to help recover from a context switch.

Are there any techniques or solutions you use to help recover from a context switch or get back to flow after a break?

I have no training in neuroscience and my layman analysis tells me this is essentially a problem of reclaiming the working memory or to put simply, it is a ~10 word answer to "what was I doing".

Thoughts?
How to install on linux for a newbie?

And damn you so awesome!
But also leads to people living less stable lives in general. As an employee, your income could go to zero and you may find yourself thrust into being a job seeker at any time.
I also blame the tooling a bit. After using Critique [1] internally at Google all the other tools/implementations/UIs feel very confusing. And I'm not speaking with lack of integration with other tools like coverage, linters, spell checks, error-prone constructs analysis, ... but simply the UI.

Additionally within Google (or at least the teams I was in) really tries to chunk changes in small pieces. For instance, adding a feature always entails something like: 1 CL to introduce the flag that will enable/ disable the feature, at least 1 CL that actually adds the logic and tests, 1 that enables the flag in the deployment. Not sure if that's due to the monorepo or more of a culture thing, but that MO is not that common in my personal experience

[1] https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch19.html
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> But that seems an easier fix than reforming an entire commercial culture.

Does it? To an outsider, workers rights seem to be regressing.
I like HACK on iOS
Wont somebody think of the childrens test scores?
> Are you a Facebook employee or someone with insight to share? (…) Reach out using a non-work device.

Mainstream acknowledgment of possible workplace surveillance? Either way, interesting.
yeah... but... recruitment agents ain't really your friends. can (!) be a success yet still - adds a lot of costs -> pressure.
It’s not all bad. Having firing as an option in the US makes it palatable for employers to take risks, like hiring the non traditional student, or the person without any industry experience.

If at-will employment wasn’t available, companies would react by only hiring when absolutely necessary, and there would be fewer available jobs.

Plus, even in the US, some companies offer pensions and are known for almost never laying off or firing people. So you do have the choice of stability if you’re willing to limit the companies you work for. Startups and publicly-traded companies are not the place for those who want a guaranteed job.
if you are one, you are not the other (type of lawyer), in same vein as dentist will never be GP or neurosurgeon or dermatologist and vice versa. you also don't see linux admins leading development of some software projects
many years ago, when my ex-girlfriend was in college, for whatever reason she managed to get herself into a course that involve programming and for some unknown reasons, they were asked to do it in tcl.

obviously I was the go to expert on everything related to computers and I still remember the shock when she told me that I need to spend my weekends on helping her to understand tcl.
You cannot block what someone commits (they can block it themselves with tools like gitleaks invoked on a pre-commit hook) so the only thing you can do as a 3rd party is to scan and react when you do notice a secret published.
Doesn't this break every existing implementation of List/Deque/SortedSet, as now every implementation is missing the new interface methods?

So suddenly updating from Java N to Java N+1 will no longer compile your code.
I'm in the same boat as you. 6 months into a job, don't have much to do. When I raise this, I'm often given some busy-work to do. Something meaningless to keep me quiet for a day or two. Frustrating.
Brain scans, small sample size, sensational claims; when will we learn?
If the business can't afford the amount of staff they have then they have redundancies i.e people are laid off.
You could also literally say 201 which is shorter than “more than 200”
[citation needed]

The disclaimer on that page, for me, strongly hints there is none:

“Representations regarding the efficacy and safety of Filler bite have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease“
Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty
Europe is 27 countries with uniformized trade laws. There was never any uniformization on labour laws.

GP made a huge generalization by saying "in europe" while talking about labour laws. It's like me saying "in asia, (something about the labour market)", there is no such thing.

Hiring/firing/Employee-rights are very different between Spain and Czechia.
The complaint about windows is also such a weird one. I struggle to remember a single big shop with windows (except windows on the entrance side).

Big shops are decorated warehouses.
HN is written in Arc, which is a lisp derivative that runs on top of Racket, which has the same runtime inspectability as almost every other lisp, and for PG's public relations board, it was a good choice.

Rusher is full of s** though. It isn't really a case of, "this one was ahead of it's time, this one's behind". It is a case of trade-offs. I can dash off all kinds of cool stuff in Racket or Clojure, in record time w/ minimal lines of code. Good luck getting someone else to understand it though, and good luck getting me to understand it after a year away from it. With a larger code base, built-in compile-time type enforcements are huge--and as an afterthought, with macros, on an opt-in basis does not count. Aaron Swartz had Reddit re-written from lisp to python for similar reasons--not strict types, obviously, but having more syntax than parentheses is a big win when new hires are trying to understand the system.

Same story with APL: brilliant as a desk calculator on steroids, clumsy for nearly everything else. Or C, the indispensable bit-twiddling language; only a sadist would want to write an application in it, but it's still pretty darn indispensable for the tight spots where performance matters (drivers, AAA video games, AI maths, crypto, etc). I'd say that all the way up until the late 80s, all of the spots were "tight spots."

It's like the Bret Victor cult--a demo of a game-maker program that used javascript as its intermediate representation. It had been done hundreds of times before with different IRs, and the model is entirely appropriate for making 2D video games. Raise the dimensionality, or change the problem, and the model breaks down, but he conveniently ignored that, because it is more fun to get up on the podium and play programming prophet than to do the work of making a language that actually has legs.
In the "Right" photo, the glue is at the top of the image. In the "Wrong" photo, it is at the top of the image too.

The wrong movement detaches the glue from the center of the pad to the edge. The right one detaches it from the right side to the left side of the glue bar. Both directions are orthogonal.
Playing Breakout on a 832-core Azure VM
Having more protections than zero (at will) doesn’t make hiring anything as dramatic as ‘irreversible’
There's usually a considerable probation period where the firing rules are much more relaxed. Germany is typically 6 months, for example.
Yes. Like git. Or many open source projects that tend to compete on feature set but not usability with paid products. Early Blender is a great example there. The great thing about being able to code is that you can build near enough anything. The trap of coding is that you get more enamoured with the act than the end result from the perspective of other people.
And this has even less to do with what was being discussed.
Yes, the IFR has been consistently estimated at 0.4 to 0.7 since February 2020. 0.5% of 8B world population works out to 160M excess deaths. This calculation assumes availability of medical facilities at 100% with no dead doctors or nurses. I don't think our public facilities can handle so many excess dead bodies unless we let some float down the river.

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+covid+19+floating+bodi...

March 2020 - IFR estimate in China 0.6%, CFR in China estimated as 1.2%

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118348/

"Adjusting for delay from confirmation to death, we estimated case and infection fatality ratios (CFR, IFR) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the Diamond Princess ship as 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.89–6.7) and 1.3% (95% CI: 0.38–3.6), respectively. Comparing deaths on board with expected deaths based on naive CFR estimates from China, we estimated CFR and IFR in China to be 1.2% (95% CI: 0.3–2.7) and 0.6% (95% CI: 0.2–1.3), respectively."

March 2020 - Symptomatic case fatality risk 1.4%
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7

"Using public and published information, we estimate that the overall symptomatic case fatality risk (the probability of dying after developing symptoms) of COVID-19 in Wuhan was 1.4% (0.9–2.1%), which is substantially lower than both the corresponding crude or naïve confirmed case fatality risk"
Depends on the culture. After working in startups, I joined a bigger company. I burned through the work they gave me & convinced myself that I’d get fired for not having stuff to work on. I started proposing stuff to work on, but the problem was I couldn’t get access to any of the systems. I couldn’t push containers to the container registry. I couldn’t access GitLab admin settings. I couldn’t commit to repos with our Chef recipes. Everything I wanted to improve was in someone else’s sphere of influence, and I had to justify extracurricular commits on my team’s projects because every change had to be review by our understaffed QA team. I finally realized that the expectations of me were really low and that I needed to accept being underutilized or I’d go crazy.
Because if you are slow at hirering the candidate has accepted a position somewhere else by the time you get back to them.
Don’t rotate it. Sticky side is still along the top edge, but the peeling direction is parallel to the strip of glue, rather than perpendicular to it.
This is solved by default methods in the interfaces.
Mental ilness is in your gut. That's where we should be looking at.
> where there are serious economic problems, we're asking genuine questions about whether we will have reliable power supplies for everyone throughout the coming winter, there is an actual shooting war happening, and some countries are dealing with big political changes and the accompanying uncertainty.

I'll give you that, things look bad right now, but unless it's a near societal collapse then you still need to go out and put food on the table. There's no point curling up in a ball and declaring 'woe is me'.

Even in a bad economy it's still a numbers game to land a good job, except the odds get longer. Even then you can improve your odds somewhat, get some online certifications, learn a new language or framework, or build a portfolio of your with on GitHub. Even a personal website would help. And the main thing to realize is that the only one who can help your chances is yourself. Inaction is your worst enemy.
> Literally anything about the conflict. Look at their posturing, or military exercises. It’s a matter or rhetorics - it’s usually described as helping Taiwan, because, well, that’s media for you.

Could you provide an actual example of this? If the USA regularly threatens military action against Taiwan as you said, providing such a specific example would be quite easy for you.

> Again - you’re not describing PRC’s own policy, you’re describing US state propaganda materials about that policy.

So you’re making the claim that the anti-secession law in which China threatens Taiwan is not official Chinese policy?
I think that’s a large part of what I was saying? I’m not sure how you interpreted what I said.
Ask HN: Are there any other “Conventional XXX”-style conventions?
Conventions and/or informal standards I'm aware of:

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

https://conventionalcomments.org/

https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

https://semver.org/
The premise of it being irreversible is wrong and far more complex.

Case study. In my country, most individuals do benefit from a severance on a permanent contract. Getting a permanent contract happens after working for a year if you're lucky or in a high demand job. In other cases, companies will use their power to stall as long as possible where beneficial. Temporary contracts do not have the same severance benefits, just wait the year and they are gone.

Severance itself varies case by case. Younger people with permanent contracts aren't getting multiple years in salaries for getting fired. Most older employees don't, either.

The entire premise also requires a largely immobile workforce. Workforce mobility in The Netherlands is actually pretty decent, with most younger people switching jobs every few years. This inevitably means these people have temporary contracts for a large part of their career, with much weaker severance packages. Top comment also discounts the obvious, trying to get individuals to quit themselves through e.g. legal bullying or bad benefits.
The green and red post-its have the same orientation, the adhesive is on the top for both. So when you peel the green one off, you're peeling the adhesive right-to-left across it, whereas when you peel the red one off, you're peeling it from bottom to top almost all at once.
> Firing easily and hiring easily are two sides of the same coin. If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily

Yes, like 1930s America.

I guess you mean “you can be easily hired” rather than “you will find a job easily”. Very different things.
> In Europe where firing is almost impossible

Assuming you mean the European Union by "Europe", this is 27 countries with 27 labour laws. I don't think this can be generalized. Only trade laws were unified in the EU.

The labour laws diversity is made even wider if you include non EU countries like Switzerland or the Balkans.

Just as an example Denmark follows the concept of Flexisecurity[1], easy to fire, but there is a good government safety net which prevents people from falling into poverty, while trying as hard as possible to find them a new income.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
I would bet so, and also curiosity that is ingrained in all species. If the other side doesn't attack, a mutual relationship can form over time
Since Java 8, there are default interface method implementations: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultme... . You can add any method to interface in backward-compatible way if you also define default implementation.
Yeah I just learned the role-based access approach last year. No keys ever hit the box so there's nothing for attackers to exfiltrate.