skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a good analysis of where the offline idea started from, but in my experience the majority of interviewers who want you to do a "take home" thing are asking you to sign up for a multiple-hour mess of a project. That's where the lack of respect comes from, and the lack of acknowledgment of the market--most people you want to hire are already employed, after all, and time pressure from life is a thing.

Making it an option for somebody who would rather wouldn't be bad, but yeah, as you say, nobody's learning a lot about the other people that way, and they're probably more important.

(The OP's card deck problem is just faintly ridiculous and a bad allocation of the candidate's time, and I assume there are more hoops to jump through afterwards.)
I'm not a chess player but wouldn't that give too much information away? Not knowing what is the "best" move is part of the game, isn't it?
This comments feels a little ambiguous, and driving replies for two separate issues.

At a societal level, is an imbalanced population pyramid a problem? Yes, and many countries are solving this by opening up immigration options.

Should an individual opting not to have children be expected to have negative consequences in old age? IMHO, no.
har har.
Last time I opened a bank account, I did it by creating an account on their website.
> I did and don’t feel like Rachel’s responses were sufficiently considered because of the prevailing “ugh wall of text tldr” sentiment.

I read it all, it was extremely repetitive with little substance. When she did say something new/interesting it was cagey and often not direct.

> She may be partly to blame for that, but people asked for answers and didn’t read them when given!

Disagree. They read it and ignored the fluff that said nothing of value.

> I don’t think TrustCor’s situation is something to joke or gloat about. Someone’s entire business just got ruined because of, if Rachel is to be believed, something wholly unrelated to operation of the CA and arguably entirely out of their control.

And that's the thing, she isn't to be believed, I sure as heck don't believe her. I posted in another comment a clear lie about linking to the android app (not to mention the constant "It was never in released" BS is so mealy mouthed it isn't even funny). The same parent company owned the CA and this msgsafe, it also seems clear there was a little more to the "Measurement Systems" relationship than Rachel would admit. Sorry, that's way too many coincidences. The final nail in the coffin is the ties (even if they are fragile) to Packet Forensics which you wouldn't want in the same breath as CA yet the connections are hard to ignore given everything else Rachel said (or didn't say).

I also don't for a second trust all the:

> I was reminded by some of you this is a big public forum with non-CA-operators and non-browser/platform-developers present, and that participants have a lot of interest in these topics but not always the same level of experience or familiarity with the CA operations and root CA program guidelines or technical knowhow as the intended audience. Therefore let me begin by saying THANK YOU to my fellow CA/B Forum members and members of the larger community for reminding me of that, and separately thank you for those of you that have sent very nice and encouraging, supportive emails (you know who you are)

Yeah, my girlfriend goes to another school, you've never heard of it... Okkkkkaaayyy.

Then look at their "Why are you persecuting us!" line about other CA's, which just screams guilty. On top of all of that their msgsafe system appears to be a fraud (it's not E2EE despite their claims) so if they are acting that way with one arm of their parent company why should we trust the CA (who's auditor looks questionable and also the fact they've used the same one every year)?
Not mine...
As someone that worked at Elastic for 4.5 years on the Elastic Cloud team and really loved it there for the majority of that time, I saddens me to admit it but this is spot on. Despite all their best efforts, everyone I've ever spoken to just wants to run the "ELK stack" and doesn't care about their confusing solutions strategy.

One thing about Elastic is that their roots are in on-prem / self-managed software and selling support to enterprise customers. This led to our cloud strategy being based around ECE (Elastic Cloud Enterprise), with the idea we would eventually fully unify this on-prem version of our Cloud product with our actual SaaS, and just run ECE "at scale". During that time we got stuck in the slower Elasticsearch "quarterly minor + monthly patch" release cycle (SaaS did have a shorter one but it was also troubled) and spent countless engineering effort troubleshooting enterprise customer's own infrastructure (imagine stuff like "ohhh, I see, you V-Motioned a server hosting ZooKeeper containers, and you're running on spinning disks" after 2 weeks+ of back and forth). We couldn't easily add table-stakes features to our SaaS because we needed it to run on-prem too, even though ECE is very limited in the types of supporting infrastructure we could add (basically just ZooKeeper and Elasticsearch). I think they are trying to move past this strategy and onto a SaaS-only K8s based approach but I fear too much time was squandered. I hope I'm proven wrong.
The ESP32 has a built in infrared decoder/encoder, I wonder if you could just skip the intended IR LED that it's supposed to drive and just wire it directly to the receiver pins on the target device with an appropriate resistor. That's the same thing going on here except using the PIO (which was cool to see explained and makes me want to play with the 2040W) and I have an air purifier I kinda want to smarten up...
Every sperm is sacred,

Every sperm is great.

If a sperm is wasted,

God gets quite irate.
Show HN: A CLI-tool that can check whether the packages are deprecated
Why no 1Password on your list?
Out of curiosity, where do companies keep really important private keys?

A thumbdrive in some safe, and a few printed-out copies of the key just in case the thumbdrive fails?
It’s quite impressive. I asked ChatGPT to build a VideoPlayer in SwiftUI. It showed an implementation using the old UIViewRepresentable way. Asked it again — this time without UIViewRepresentable and the results were totally off (a UIView WAS implemented within the SwiftUI body).

Seems decent for the most basic SO and Google searches, but fails for some complex questions.

PS: I also asked the AI to solve a StackOverflow question. It claimed — "I can’t access specific websites", but can provide some guidance based off the URL slug… and it pretty much answered the SO question (was a basic one though).
Edit again: anyone who thinks this long scrawling comment is the product of an amphetamined up brain. I just woke up and rolled over turned off the sleep tracking on my phone opened up edge went to hacker News as is my usual morning routine. I'm completely unmedicated right now. Most likely this comment wouldn't exist if I had my medication in my blood right now because I would have thought about what usefulness commenting might have and then thought better of it. IE I would have had less impulsivity. So I'm not saying this is medical advice but if when you take your Adderall for your new found out ADHD diagnosis and you find that when you take it that things are going quicker and you're doing more things possibly impulsively then... I'm just going to say that we don't have the same ADHD or you just don't have ADHD and you're just tweaking right now instead because when I take my 30 mg of instant release amphetamine salts I am extremely calm and extremely collected and I don't do half the stuff I usually do when I don't have my meds in my system.
Executive Order 6102 – When the US seized private gold
So is the USA on paper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
What kind of weird-ass response is this?
Hey, could someone please explain this for my friend? They don't get it.
Lose weight, eat less sugar, be more physically active/work out, and avoid endocrine disruptors like xenoestrogens. The last one is probably the hardest to do since a lot of plastics etc. contain them.
Less soy?
I discredit this philosophy because E[..] cannot be accurately estimated. So it should be P(no harm|a) > 1-eps before anything.
Oath Keepers: ‘How I escaped my father’s militia’ – BBC News
19. MSG is natural but it gives me a giant headache every. Single. Time.
I can't speak to that specific use case, but in a more general sense...

NixOS, just like any other OS, can have you walking down the familiar caverns of, "getting the thing to work that this system isn't designed to accommodate well."

But this time is different: you can start over fresh at any time.

This is really the situation where NixOS shines the most. No more, "wondering what you installed where when you were trying to get that over program working the other day." No more, "did I just do the steps in the wrong order?"

It's unbreakable. Your OS is guaranteed to feel like a fresh install. Forever. Because it can't be anything else.
Well I mean, given the public discourse of the past decade...it seems to me that they want the population to decline. So it makes sense that no one has in interest in investigating this.
> All of whom have now been suspended despite there being no infringement on terms of service.

[CITATION NEEDED]

Musk said they were in "clear violation of ToS." I want to see both the pro- and the anti- on that before passing judgement on the move.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596071799410003969
> I wonder if it gets as many upvotes? Or if hacker news prefers to get its fertility analysis from theoretical physicists.

Right now it's averaging 2 upvotes a minute. It was pretty obvious at the time you wrote your post that this will indeed get more upvotes
"Solely" is doing a lot of work there and making a great deal of assumptions.
Nix the language enables you to write explicit build recipes that can be reproducibly built with good integrity guarantees and granular and distinct knowledge of the build-time dependencies and the run-time dependencies (so you only ever transmit closures that have what they need to execute).

Nix the set of tools gives you convenient command line tools that can: evaluate Nix language expressions, build recipes, analyze build-time or run-time dependency graphs of a recipe, give you ephemeral shells with the packages you want in scope but not installed "globally", package management tools to install packages globally, and recipe diffing tools so you can see how recipes changed.

Nix the package manager is a convenient, gigantic, community effort to explicitly describe how to (reproducibly) build almost all of the OSS software that users need and it comes with a substitution cache so that most recipe build products are easily substituted when installing, so you don't have to build. Even if you don't use Nix, nixpkgs is still impressive because you have the most explicit documentation for how to build a piece of software from source and all of its dependencies than anywhere else on the internet, it usually rivals project author's in its specificity, explicitness, and clarity.

NixOS the Linux distribution combines all of this together with a convenient configuration module system and generally good defaults to give you an operating system that is declaratively specified from your etc hosts file all the way down to the recipe for building the kernel, a rich and granular dependency graph, reproducible OS configuration builds, and diffs between closures.

My biggest gripe with Nix is the lack of static types. This was the originator's biggest mistake that Nix will be living with for a very long time to come. Static types would have helped bring the learning curve down IMHO and made it easier to document and less frustrating to debug.

That being said, the overall properties of Nix, nixpkgs, and NixOS far outweigh the pain points in my six years of production experience with it and for what we care about: auditability, reproducibility, explicitness, efficiency, and integrity.
So if Apple is the only reason that PWAs aren’t mainstream, why do most companies have web apps, iOS apps and Android apps instead of just telling Android users to go to the web?
Anyone know how this differs from Pinecone?
Can't you use it as a stand alone currency for the exchange of goods?
you mean like Emacs.

(:
Ooooo those are good strategies! Nice! Thanks for sharing those.
If Apple did not require all apps to come through the App Store, and enforce some version of the current rules on such apps, it would not be long at all before, for instance, Facebook pulled their app from the App Store and released a new version that required changing those settings in order to sideload it (and had detailed instructions on how to do so)...and made sure that app could gather as much information as possible about your phone and everything you do on it. Up to and including silently recording you with the microphone, depending on just how well Apple has access to that locked down in the OS.

Is this a certainty? No. But it's much too high a probability for my comfort.

Furthermore, there would be a large number of developers who would just say "screw the App Store, screw Apple's frameworks, screw their rules" and similarly release their apps for sideloading only. Many of these would also have unacceptable levels of malware, spyware, terrible bugs, or just plain godawful design. Yes, the App Store has its problems, but it absolutely has value.

When advocating for a change in a major system, it is both foolish and irresponsible not to consider how those changes would be abused by people with bad intentions. Just because you and people like you would only use the extra freedom for good does not mean that no one would use it for evil.

That doesn't mean you should never make a change that can be used for evil, or course. It means you need to be aware of the tradeoffs, take them into account, and be open about your willingness to accept the bad along with the good.
Lifting heavy objects seems to be the best way. Start where you are at, or below. Lift every other day. Increasing should be relatively easy in the beginning.
Yeah but that was the whole point. You're telling someone who already doesn't want kids why they should want kids, but you're giving them only one reason. If they do so, it will only be for that reason
Interesting. Our first took about 4 or 5 months? I think my wife stopped her birth control at the end of July and we conceived in December. Our second took 2 months, my wife stopped her birth control in September and we conceived in November. We're both in our mid-30s.

Anecdotally, my wife's sister and her husband have been trying for almost a year? And they've had one miscarriage and nothing else.
Firenvim may be a partial solution: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
BPF is a common used in packaging, water bottles, etc. "BPF exhibits similar estrogenic and anti-androgenic effects on the mammalian endocrine system to those of bisphenol A (BPA)"[0].

I'm very curious how large a factor this is. Personally, once I realized how much plastic I used - from water bottles to food containers - I became very concerned and stopped using it.

More intuitive explanations make sense to me, like unhealthy, non-active and stress filled lifestyles.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28741210/
It would be nice if you could just install python packages with pip in a venv and ignore nixpkgs python packages, but then some things like e.g. pyqt5 actually have some extra dependencies on system libraries, so you pretty much need the nixpkgs version to get it to run https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Quirks_and_Caveats#ImportE... and if you want to keep using the venv for the other packages (e.g. because they aren't in nixpkgs) you might try initializing with "python3 -m venv --system-site-packages" to make the nixpkgs pyqt5 visible in the venv, but for some reason venv/bin/python3 ends up pointing to the wrong python, so I currently resort to "ln -s $(readlink -e $(which python3)) venv/bin/python3" ...

If there's some easier way, I'm eager to hear about it.
Already have.

As a young adult, I am asked to reconcile paying and working for old people, most of whom despise my very existence because I am not cis-het, people who repeatedly called for my death, people who go on twitter tirades about how LGBT people shouldn't exist and in the process making a their base of borderline functioning adults more rabid, my taxes and work pay so that said rabid animals have healthcare while they vote to deny mine.

I have to fund the pension of people who tried to indoctrinate me into their religion by instilling fear into a younger me, telling me that I will go to hell every single day for being a non believer, or for being different.

With all due respect, humanity is a steaming pile of garbage.
I use steam on nix and it was a breeze.
To be honest, it sounded like Rachel herself did not know exactly how the company ownership was structured. It seemed obvious that it was a US company that incorporated abroad for some reason, and that alone is pretty sketchy. It looks like they are trying to hide who actually controls the company. That alone should be reason not to trust them.
Your link is broken, so I'm not sure what you're trying to argue.

EDIT: thanks for fixing the link
Do you have a source for the claim of lowest cumulative excess deaths percentage of all of the OECD? Because as far as I can tell [1] there are a couple countries, such as Japan or New Zealand that have done quite a bit better.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
I've come across a site (on HN, I think) with content written in Markdown which used JavaScript to render Markdown to HTML in the client/browser. Why oh why?

I like to disable JS, but these days virtual no site works without it (except HN, kudos!)
Well I would expect that when you are using something often, then it will go stronger like muscles. So more wanking -> more sperm count. But I am just guessing here.
No, you'd need to be chugging multiple jugs of soy milk a day for that to (maybe) matter. Better would be to lift, eat better, sleep, etc.
Link is broken. Please ignore
Am I reading this right that the average person has 86-96% abnormal sperm?
He derided AAPL, which is public, and very clearly tried to foment a bandwagon of discontent against AAPL, which could easily bring SEC attention.
> for every protester/leaver this year there is literally 100 that are +-content enough to stay

I've never been to Russia. The impression I've formed is that there is a strong nationalist/imperialist camp among the Russian population. I'm inclined to trust the Levada polling organisation, and they say that Putin (and his invasion) have broad support among Russians.

We tend to personalize these things; e.g. it's all Putin's fault. I think that's a mistake; if you don't acknowledge that the nationalist/imperialist sentiment is widespread in the population, then you'll attack the wrong target, e.g. by trying to assasinate Putin. But if the xenophobia and nationalism are just part of the national sentiment, that's not going to work.

I have no idea how one might set about combatting nationalist/imperalist sentiment in a foreign country; traditionally we use spies and trouble-makers, but I don't think that works well.
Not sure if you're joking, but that's something they control for (when you last ejaculated) when measuring sperm counts
> the potential impact of the increased difficulty in having children is.

Less people in the world. Look at Japan and South Korean population projections out 50 to 75 years -- they may cut their populations in half, and it could keep going? Hard to extrapolate trends out that far though...
There's several ways. Get enough sleep, eat healthy fats, quit alcohol, lift weights, reduce body fat to a healthy level (but not too much) increase vitamin/mineral intake if you are deficient.
Or go on TRT.
I thought you were being hyperbolic but the linked article and study does seem to miss the forest for the trees.

Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws of a measure without devolving into ideological and cultural warfare?

> In addition, they argued that the design of the 2017 study relied on racist and colonial hierarchies and assumptions because it categorized data as “Western” sperm counts or “Other” sperm counts.

> Further, the claims of decline were based on a “species optimum” of Anglophone developed nations of the 1970s, which the researchers argued was scientifically unsound. The GenderSci Lab team warned that this kind of Eurocentric focus has been used by alt-right, white supremacist, and men’s rights activists to argue that the health and fertility of men in Western nations is being threatened, particularly by feminist and anti-racist movements.
Pretty likely the author of this article is confused. They're not charging a fee to users who decide to skip ads. They are, I suspect, offering two services : one is low priced and does not permit skipping ads. The other is priced higher and does permit skipping ads. Much the same as Hulu in the US, or at least the same practical outcome.
Even if you believe that the votes in Crimea and Donbass were as free and fair as Ukraine's national elections (which I don't), there is still the small matter that those votes were illegal under Ukrainian law, and thus their outcome is meaningless.
Which platform are you using?

I'm primarily using apple devices and their TTS is surprisingly good. Not sure if everything related to their tts experience works on-device but at least the voice models need to be downloaded when choosing a voice. The quality of the newer voices are insanely good.

I've been using this feature for multiple years and the moment I started my research to write this blog post I realized that other platforms unfortunately can't offer the same kind of experience and as you said the quality of the voices just can't keep up - it still sounds robotic..
In UK it's much worse.

To be eligible to vote, you need to register on the Electoral Register. But when you do that, all UK political parties get access to your information (name and address, maybe nationality). And there is no way to opt out. You can only opt out of commercial companies getting access. Credit ratings companies have access too.

> The electoral register lists the names and addresses of everyone who is registered to vote in public elections. The register is used for electoral purposes, such as making sure that only eligible people can vote. It is also used for other limited purposes specified in law, such as:

Detecting crime (e.g. fraud)
Calling people for jury Service
checking credit applications

> Anyone can inspect the full register. Inspection will be made under supervision. They can take extracts from the register, but only as hand written notes. Information must not be used for direct marketing purposes, unless it has been published in the open register. Anyone who fails to observe these conditions is committing a criminal offence.

> The Electoral Registration Officer has a legal obligation to share some of the information. This includes absent voter information and copies of the marked register (this is the register which indicates whether someone has voted, but no how or for whom they have voted), which can be supplied to the following people:

Elected Representatives
Election Candidates
Political Parties
The Electoral Commission
Police forces and similar bodies

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20097/elections_and_votin...
So you've been to several, I see. Did you successfully subvert the paradigm shift to deliver transformative innovation in a black-box containerized interface?
Apple’s content blocking framework doesn’t allow the extension maker to know what you browse. It sends a json file to Safari with regex expressions for Safari to block.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethyl_phthalate