skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so any filter helps a lot with the recruitment

Only if the filter is good. What's a good filter?

One that improves the quality of candidates at a given market price.

I don't think filtering out people who realize the system is bullshit/broken is a wise filter. Such a filter means you'll be capturing the portion of the populace that is unable to think beyond what they're told and inefficiently bash their heads against brick walls.

I know the cynical will say "Exactly! thats exactly what these employers want!" But truthfully, it's not, it's just what they think they want... This is part of what is breaking America down, people getting what they "want" instead of what's actually "good for them".

I understand these are just concepts and really messy in reality, and there's a dystopian take of false benevolence. But America I believe that America used to work because people used to be optimistic, which meant they could work with honest benevolence towards many/most.

I was telling a friend yesterday that one difference between the Canada I remember and the America I live in now is that Canadians used to not chase every last personal profit (dollar). As an example, if a company could buy a piece of software that helped them perfectly price their product giving an average increase of $101 dollars, but at a cost of $100... most would say "yeah, the company should do that! they make an extra dollar..." but what is missed is the customer ends up paying $101 dollars for the increase of $1 profit. I think in Canada people let some of those marginal dollars lie, thinking it was just too much effort to chase it, and not good for everyone involved. Not good for the customer, the software developer could do something virtuous with their life instead of predatory, the entrepreneur can both feel good for how they act in the marketplace and also sell something else for $100 that the customer now still has....

So what does this all have to with hiring software and forms? I don't entirely know, but I think this form stuff is a symptom of a real problem to be fixed, not just bandage over.
>> It's not like you can take a random JAR and convert it to WASM.

Maybe you can:

"TeaVM is an ahead-of-time compiler for Java bytecode that emits JavaScript and WebAssembly that runs in a browser. Its close relative is the well-known GWT. The main difference is that TeaVM does not require source code, only compiled class files. Moreover, the source code is not required to be Java, so TeaVM successfully compiles Kotlin and Scala."

https://teavm.org/

I have never had an opportunity to try out TeaVM, but it seems promising.
> If house prices drop because of interest rates affordability remains constant.

This isn't a law of nature. It's highly possible housing value decrease outpaces rising rates.
Thatcher's advancement an individual self-interest oriented worldview is certainly advantageous/correct for her to say politically.

But the name for the 'system level' of a collection of interacting individual humans would be ... society.

Her statement is also deeply incorrect that individuals are solely interest-driven -- they're also value driven (though I suspect like many effective politicians she damn well knew that regardless of what she said). Of course, with companies, her statement is significantly more apt.
I really should seek out others to play with but it just doesn't seem like there's enough hours in the day to practice for myself, let alone to organize jam sessions
You can see technical drawings of their device in their patent (US 11391262): https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/26/02/b1/f9004c8... The article calls it "motionless" and "bladeless", but this is patently (hah!) false. There are actually spinning blades... See figures 16c, 16d, 19 in the patent: the blades are in the turbine underneath the central body element.

At first sight, given the quantity of material used in the device for the foils and central body, relative to the small turbine size, it's hard to intuitively picture how or why it can be more efficient than a regular wind turbine built using the same amount of material which could, therefore, have much larger blades.

Edit: in fact the inventor of the device, Carsten Hein Westergaard, previously published results from a prototype https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/... in which he claims the prototype achieved an efficiency of 42% of Betz limit, which is inferior to standard utility-scale turbines (Wikipedia claims 75-85% but I haven't checked sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law#Betz's_law_and_co... ) so that seems to confirm my intuition.
Denmark is not Germany is not NA.
> ...are likely quite different...

> The developers quite correctly spent their time..

We don't know the truth of those assumptions. I've seen reports of MyShake failing to report an earthquake at all which indicates the opposite.
can you really use soapy water in the garden? Won't that harm bacteria and the microbiome?
> I don't know where this total myth came from that RISC-V is open source therefore implementations will be better.

The hope is that (unlike x86/ARM) you will be able to purchase core designs from people who aren't sockpuppets. RISC-V will at least let people choose between which backdoor they want installed, which is an upgrade from a status quo of "All Your TCP Traffic Belongs To U.S.".

It's not exactly Superman, descending from the skies to deliver us from dystopia. But it's certainly a better path than letting ARM dominate any more of our chip landscape.
On a related note, I'm willing to personally act as a travel agent for a remote co-working trip among coworkers as a non-scaleable way to grow the platform initially and get user feedback. If you're interested in exploring in a fun 4-10 person trip with colleagues, email me at ben@villagersapp.com.
Is it still wasteful if I enjoy taking hot showers? There might be some health benefits too, but I also just enjoy them as part of waking up in terms of loosening up my chest and relaxing muscles.

My total yearly spend on showers is about $100 a year, and there's lot of things I'd give up before that to save $100, in dollar or energy use terms.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/shower-cost
I think the main problem is that this information is no longer limited to people able to view printed copies of the data, but available to anyone in the world with internet access (immediate, and free), and much more quickly searched and used.

Even in super privacy-conscious Germany, anyone can get my home address... but they still have to be willing and able to physically go to my town's registry office and individually request it.
https://archive.ph/HHJ4L
As an employer in France, the employee has so many rights that you are very conservative on who you hire, and if you can ask for a psycho evaluation, you’re tempted. After all, you want employees to not steal, and the government doesn’t take care of putting those in prison, so you have to filter that yourself.

In theory the diploma should be enough, but the govt doesn’t take care of sustaining the diploma levels, because it’s unfair for some protected groups. So I just fired my first person who I had assumed having a Masters degree in communication implied they could use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Turns out in communication they don’t type much in Word.

Now it’s gonna be on my hiring test.
Well across the border in Norway you can look up the pay of people, though I agree with sibling comments, I am rather sure that this practise would be illegal https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239
Programming and Proving in Agda [pdf]
Sure, but does the separate co-processor needs access to network stack? for a typical end user? definitely not.
The unfortunate counter to that is, "we can't release the source code as significant parts of it are still [used in / IP relevant to] the [maintained / new / upcoming] product".

This is why the third party 'pasc1878 suggests isn't enough - changes to standard practice, and likely to IP laws themselves, are needed too, which are unlikely to happen without regulatory pressure.
I feel like you are being a bit too optimistic in terms of what it would lead to. It definitely would do something to race relations, but perhaps not what you wanted, especially in the short term.

Hint: it might end up leading to an uptick in antisemitism.
Houses are not a great long term investment vs other investing vehicles until interest rates were so low that it made it viable.
> or that we have to fill passwords ... And using our Vault is optional.

So, "optional" unless there's a legacy password flow? I'm not trying to be a troll, just understand the line between the value you offer over 1P versus the passwordless claim

> Right now we are planning to release RDP support for Windows servers, and then we were planning to focus on adding support for databases. That is why your feedback is critical as we can reassess the priorities regarding Kubernetes.

Sounds good, but what is the plan for databases and then kubernetes? I know how Hashicorp Vault solves the database problem, and suspect you're going to take the same approach, but any "this is how we think about the world" would be helpful. Same for kubernetes, which thankfully already has strong support for externalized authn
Thank you for the very detailed response. I recognize that my impression of Oracle was certainly unfair due to my lack of knowledge and experience with them. I also recognize that it was both selfish and ignorant of me to ask for someone to spin this negatively. My comment was in good faith, but I see now that my intention doesn't really change that it was encouraging an unjust characterization of this announcement and was unfairly asking someone else to do the leg work for me.

I guess my default (and flawed) heuristic is to assume that a big corporation has an ulterior motive with goodwill or community-focused announcements. I'll take this as a learning opportunity to not blindly adopt what I perceive as the general sentiment, to stop relying on such a heuristic, and to do my own research and evaluation. In addition to the detailed response, thank you for also indirectly kicking my butt into reevaluating how I approach the unknown both logically and emotionally.
That whole account looks like some sort of a propagandist.

Hopefully this will get investigated by dang.
Well the actual "study" borders on anecdata so your anecdote is helpful information.
I do so love the wild ideas of tech market theorists. People really believe that they're going to put smart glasses on everyone's faces? That they can fit in all-day batteries? How exactly do we type into this head-mounted beast? Will the contrast be remotely acceptable for movies? I don't think these problems can be completely solved for the majority of users.

You'd do much better comparing them to smart watches and second screens. That's where they can actually work.
Facebook and Instagram showed that eyeballs can be very lucrative . The old web 1.0 sites simply didn't have good ways to monetize it , unlike today. Mobile advertising didn't exist, neither did tracking and big data.
Most companies don't contact or reply to people who do finish online job applications.
I loathe touchscreen typing and am terrible at it, even 15 years later. I got up to 60 words per minute on my BlackBerry Bold, and I'm ~30 wpm on my phone when you factor in the many mistakes I make along the way.

Touchscreen-everything is the worst legacy of Steve Jobs. It's annoying on phones and has probably killed quite a few people in cars.
I believe that's true in Norway. Not sure about Sweden.
Organized violent crime is mostly gang wars so ordinary people aren't directly affected. Although you could have bad luck and be mistaken for one of these gang members I guess.
Seems like it costs in the order of £500 to install from a quick search.

Wouldn't that money return more via a solar system, or better insulation?
Where I grew up in the mid-Atlantic US people would commonly not lock their homes or cars. Near zero murder rate and home burglaries were exceptionally rare.

That's not an uncommon story in the US (maybe it is today), but you do have to be outside of cities.
Yes because without government pressure the 92% of the worlds population wouldn’t have cell phones.
>The underwritten currency of human society is violence.

Perhaps this should be changed to life in general, with a possible exception for the forms of life that produce their own energy. All others engage in some form of violence to secure their energy, even if it is against plant life, something we don't often consider as violence.
Dhpcd: The Cryptominer That Hid for Four Years
it's interesting. I would think that freedom also means you cannot be compelled to provide data (or create speech) since that is not free expression or speech. But then again that would apply to government and bank forms too so it would not be a crime to lie to a bank, commit fraud, etc.

I don't know what to make of the database with respect to free speech/expression laws. Although admittedly the article says no one enforces that the data is accurate inside it. That seems reciprocal.
Companies love secrecy. However, you could still have secrecy by just ACLing the resumes across the applied companies.

The downside is that you can’t customize your resume for each job, but that’s easily fixed by hosting multiple resumes.
The water in the hot water pipe will not have gone cold during the short time it takes to clean one’s self.
If an employer doesn't review my resume and consider if my experience could be a fit in their organization then I don't want to work for them anyway. They know their needs and organization better than me and it's likely that half of the job description is fluff anyways.

Usually when an employer thinks I could be a fit, they call and we chat and see if it makes sense to continue talking. The resume and job application is just meant to be a signal of "hey I might be interested & qualified in what you're doing" if they can't be bothered to put in any effort, it's probably a sign they won't put any effort into making an enjoyable workplace either.
You're not wrong. But that's not how the headline pitches the article. It specifically says 'the currency of the new economy won't be money'; hence my comment.
How much faster? Should I update immediately or at my own convenience? Is this a game-changing speedup for my business?
The EPA just awarded $1B to 389 school districts for electric school buses
Also that actually reporting it stolen is useless. Unless you need to claim insurance, or have the number of chasis somewhere. Police won't do anything about stolen bikes.
we used to live in a significantly higher-trust society
You can expose objects. Here's how it is done in Bun: https://github.com/facebookresearch/shumai/blob/main/shumai/...

We've been using this feature heavily in Shumai.

I think you are vastly overestimating the complexity associated with this (user exposed ref-counting/garbage collection) and may not be totally up to date on what's implemented.
I mean, even not knowing the nuances of modern implementations of floating point arithmetic (which even I don’t fully grasp since I work very very far from the silicon on a daily basis), the whole concept of “I can reduce finance math to 4 operations” is absurd beyond reason. Like what will you do? Write a new root finding algo? Create a method that directly interfaces with the highly optimized logarithm calculating chips on modern microprocessors? Create your own new silicon for what is essentially just a special case of all modern usage that can be perfectly achieved with off the shelf hardware?

This is like crypto bro level of ignorance.
Parts of it you want. The management engine does a lot of stuff and I don't think you can say all of it is good or bad. It would be nice if they would break it down area-by-area and give owners some controls to disable the unnecessary parts.
Related: https://youtu.be/38f6Vp3fO3o?t=81

>"You see, as a [SaaS] company grows, they sacrifice [quality for quantity]; they become bloated with tons of other features and add-ons, and they can't create top-notch features for their entire product all at the same time -- they just can't do it -- and every large [SaaS] company ends up going down this path..."
How is Intel ME any different in functionality than the Baseboard Management Controller usually found on servers (eg: Aspeed)? And what of those whom extend these feature sets with boards like the Raspberry Pi?
I don't think it is an either or question. But it seems very reasonable to not assume computers are always correct.

In a situation in which a bug could have conceivably caused the evidence against the defendant the defandant, should be allowed to examine the computer system (read the source code). Without that I see no reason why it should be allowed as evidence against someone, when the evidence could have been the result of a flaw in the software.

Of course "could" is pretty ambigous. Things you might look at are: Have this or other, similar systems suffered from a bug which could have caused this? How much/often is the claim out of line with what the defence claims. How serious and easy to notice would a bug have to be to cause this? Is there other evidence, besides the computer? And probably many more.
Of course "the camera changed the face of the person to the defendants" is something which probabbly should be disregarded.
True.

Just one note, there are still edge cases, if n overflows the data type, you would have n > n + 1
To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic
Why do we still do DAILY standups? It's so intrusive and distracting, plus i don't care what others are doing when I know what I'm doing and I'm in the middle of doing something.
Db idea of versioning usually is useless for implementing version control as git does. You could store git objects in a relational database and that makes a lot of sense (becasuse transactions and better data integrity guarantees).

Biggest issue with git for me is that its only usable for plain text. There is Dolt and few other projects that try to solve it,

> The value of git is distributed operation and tamper-evidence. What would be the value of these attributes for a cloud-based app?

Cloud based apps are very often distributed internally. For example consider a book store that has data in a database and replicates that in elasticsearch and some data analytics platform. Being able to use data versioning for those replications could be useful.
With your expertise and the fact that they're so early, you should be able to build a competing business with your superior product right?

Then you can keep all the rewards (and find out all they had to do to be in the position to be able to hire you).

Sounds like a win-win, you should be talking to startup accelerators not startups hiring.
Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report
This may sound like a tautology, but those eyeballs were only "lucrative" because they could be converted to money. As the person you were responding to implied.
At some point ARMs might actually make sense for people again as well. Once rates go up further and inflation actually starts to come down they should be a relatively safe bet.
You have it turned around. If you get sued by a major corporation, you’re fucked. They can outspend you and even if you win, it’s a Pyrrhic victory.

Suing a major corp with cause though? They’re going to spend $10,000 just to respond. If you have any basis for your suit whatsoever, they’re going to settle. See: almost every patent lawsuit. A corporation’s in-house counsel is there to avoid getting sued. Once you sue them, they need to get outside counsel involved and the costs mount very, very quickly. It’s just not worth it.
Apple Executives Say Privacy Controls and Advertising Can Coexist
There is the assumption that it can be monetised, but at some point it feels like wishful thinking: get billions of users then figure out a path to monetisation.

In reality, the right path is to establish a strong monopoly and enforce a toll road on everyone. Everyone buys through Amazon, but only sponsored listings sell. Everyone buys in-app, and there's a 30% cut for the app store. Everyone dates on Tinder, but only boosted profiles get dates. You get the idea.
> Where the hope mainly comes from is small chip developers like SiFive, who make many of their drivers and such open-source.

But there are still roadblocks as they likely bought the memory controller from a 3rd party as an IP block they drop into their chip. This means the bring up procedure for the memory controller is proprietary and delivered in blob form to be loaded into the black box ip. Likely the same for other 3rd party ip blocks as developing this stuff from scratch is very difficult and time consuming. Especially for critical hardware like memory controllers. This makes opening the platforms firmware just as tricky as any other chip from $bigvendor. This makes full top to bottom security audits difficult or impossible.
From what I understand, one of the big bird issues with turbines is that birds of prey like hawks, eagles, and falcons don't generally look forward but down as they scout for prey, and thus are likely to fly into turbine blades. I believe some turbines have cameras systems to detect birds in the vicinity of the blades and either make a noise to alert the bird or maybe even bring the turbine to a halt.
This is really only an issue for large scale installations though, obviously wouldn't apply to low lying roof installations.
Just avoid washing for 50 years /s
Atmospheric levels of all three greenhouse gases hit record high
Wait a few years and panel prices will drop by more than the subsidies you are receiving now on the existing ones. Even without subsidies, it might be worth it for some people to do right now. It depends on your situation.

The trick is having a well integrated system that doesn't waste power but instead works with batteries, grid, and EVs to make sure you waste as little as possible of the free energy your panels generate when they are producing rather than just serving excess power to your neighbors via the grid at some token value that your power supplier sets. There are some nice solutions emerging in this space.
The answer is

1. having a network of trusted people you've worked with in the past

2. building some sort of public reputation where people seek you out.

They're not mutually exclusive, but #1 is probably easiest for people already in a job. Go to networking events (covid has muted a lot of this, I know, but it's coming back). Tell people you're looking for consulting work or open to new jobs. Be nice.

Yes, the answer for most people is not fiverr or upwork. I've known a few folks who've done good there, but they're outliers in my network. And even then, the few businesses I've known that have used platforms like that use it as a test ground, and then go direct with someone they click with.

That said, I've never taken a full year salary in 2 weeks. I have taken my own full year salary matching my early earning days from 30 years ago in 2-3 months now.
Many professional lenders face regulatory challenges that a small private lender might not face.

For example, a professional lender is likely to face greater scrutiny under the Civil Rights Act.
Just 26% of US 8th graders proficient in math, in biggest-ever setback
Functional Programming Made Easier
https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
John DeLorean Reinvented the Dream Car. Then He Totaled It. (2019)
I understand that, but it seems better than loosing the house.
Sorta related... I just remember having my mind absolutely blown when I learned about terminal velocity. It never made sense to me as a kid how small things could fall from relatively greater heights yet humans couldn't do even a few stories.
Netfilter Workshop 2022 Summary
Why would he need to lie? Couldn't he just tell the caller to stop wasting his time and hang up?
There are a lot of people on this site who work in adtech, so don't run an ad blocker

I have to respect the willingness to self-flagellate