skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be about avoiding some pay transparency laws?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_transparency

>California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Washington have passed compensation transparency laws as of 2023. Some US cities also have compensation transparency laws, including New York City.
Agree with this. Been on quite large deal teams in non-tech. We always made fun of the lawyers and merchant banks. They bring dozens of teens to do chores, sit in on meetings where serious business is conducted (best one was 2x4 people talking in a room with 60! people in silence in Teams) and generally do nothing that is of any value to us serious business people considering the deal. At the end of the period where we’ve worked our asses of creating possible avenues of value, both the contracts and financial arrangements materialize out of thin air. This is boring paperwork of course, so we keep on joking about the absence of value added and the fact that we pay them hundreds to thousands of euros per hour to get us coffee. (This started out as a cynical post, but this is I think how it is. They add unseen value, transactions are closed without legal and financial snags, and we deal-makers should be thankful for that. You can’t spend a week pissing on commas in a contract if someone hasn’t written it first.)
The impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook
That's just "government"
For a single position and 500 resumes presented, how much time are you willing to allocate per applicant on the first and second pass through the stack?
That's a limitation of us. We need touch and indicators to gauge how effective we are, but a machine can precisely throttle 23% or keep the steering wheel at 19 degrees without need to gauge how hard it is pushing the actuators. Touch is nice, but hardly crucial for driving.
Been using Brave Android since 2017, have never used BAT or whatever "value-add" bloatware they've offered. It can be disabled from the menu, two taps max.
I am a medical students with thousands and thousands of PDF and was unsatisfied with RAG tools so I made my own. It can consume basically any type of content (pdf, epub, youtube playlist, anki database, mp3, you name it) and does a multi step RAG by first using embedding then filtering using a smaller LLM then answering using by feeding each remaining document to the strong LLM then combine those answers.

It supports virtually all LLMs and embeddings, including local LLMs and local embedding
It scales surprisingly well and I have tons of improvements to come, when I have some free time or procrastinate.
Don't hesitate to ask for features!

Here's the link: https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/DocToolsLLM/
Today it is. While not the existential threat to the US that communism/China are or perceived to be, Japan was very much a threat to the US in the 80s/90s. All kinds of concerns not just about the car market but manufacturing in general, how much real estate Japan owned, how much treasuries Japan owned, etc,

I know a few people who lost their collective minds when a Japanese guy bought Pebble Beach. Turned out to be a terrible move on his part.

Japan was very much a threat to the US back then. Maybe more perceived than reality but a lot of the same rhetoric/narrative you see today about China, was Japan vs the US back then.
I work in CS and we do (mostly) conference publishing.

I could be wrong, but I don't think PC chairs are paid, by anybody. Maybe they get free housing at the conference, but this is more of a consolation prize given the amount of work involved.

Certainly the rank and file PC members don't get anything. I was on one PC mailing list where one of the organizers accidentally let slip that (some) organizers get free housing, and there was a big uproar in the PC. None of us get anything like that.

So this is literally a system where the expert reviewers get nothing, and even the chairs in charge do it nearly for free. What part of this needs to cost money?

The peer review comes from the community. The exclusivity and filter comes from the community. Even the funding comes from the community, because community members pay to go to the conference.

What the publisher does is, as GP noted, mainly to host PDFs on a website and make sure they stay up. That costs something, but nothing like what the licensing fees for these services are (or the so-called "open access" fees that we now pay).
Even with your definition of "What a system produces is always its purpose" is still usually incorrect. The US hasn't "turned a profit" (had a budget surplus) for the majority of the past what, 100 years? Lots of places don't tend to run long-term budget surpluses either. Governments generally don't "turn a profit".
> Yeah... and?

And then it can't use that money on its mission because it shut down.

> Isn't that a part of their job?

No, it isn't. Their job would be to use the income that they received from that part of the business and spend it on their mission.

There are all sorts of non profits that operate in a similar way.

In fact acting sustainably is generally a positive for non-profits because it means that you can be more effective for longer without having to rely on donations.
Yeah that seems super sus to me as well. Super unprofessional.
The classic, if crude, counterexample: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse."

(The uncapitalized version doesn't just have different semantics; it has a completely different parse-tree!)
Sites with infinite scroll should not have footers.
At this point I have only one app in XWayland (IntelliJ) and they are working on native Wayland support. I hope soon we cross the point where everyone is better off on Wayland.

I'm quite glad it works for me now, and I feel bad for everyone who's usecase is not yet catered for.
in that you trust them less?
Is "banker's rounding" more numerically stable? (2017)
Differences of interpretation effectively are making up precedent. Circuit splits exist because of this.
IIRC, Joel's thesis was could not program anything. I believe his example was fizzbuzz, and he stated an absurd number of people could not do that in an hour
Buying first gen models is always a crapshoot. Often same for last gen if they try to squeeze new capabilities into a platform it wasn’t intended for.

Tesla is particularly terrible but this has been true for every manufacturer.

You want a couple years for them to work out the kinks.
Yes, any country that is not your ally or vassal is an "organized crime ring". It's safer to be with oil and nukes, than without them you know.
Boom Hierarchy

Bucky Bit
Port Authority is open source

https://github.com/ACK-J/Port_Authority
In 1991 the ACA was the conservative proposal, but in 2010 when it was passed under the Obama administration it suddenly became communist marxism. Sigh.
I checked 2 states, CA and NJ just require a bachelor's with a 3.0 GPA. Where are you getting the idea that most require advance degrees?
Congress honestly seems to have completely shut down as a body able to accomplish anything. The president is all we have
Some of these web apps are from very profitable or big companies and that drives me insane because they have more than enough funding to do things right.

Take Home Depot for example. Loading their website in a mobile browser is soooooooooo slow. The rendering is atrocious, with elements jumping all over the place. You click on one thing and it ends up activating a completely different element, then you have to wait for whatever you just clicked to load and jump all over the place again. Very frustrating! Inside their stores is even worse! I asked for help locating an item from one of their workers one day and they pull up their in-store app. That too was slower than molasses and janky, so we ended up standing there for several minutes just chatting waiting for it to load.
At our district summer prep is maximum of two weeks. Which is made up by the two weeks of paid leave most districts are required to give out a year - so it still ends up as 180 days.

Most summer prep is done by admins who are employed 11 months a year, and teachers get paid extra if they choose to teach summer school.
Obviously so he can lie and avoid paying taxes.
it's an anniversary celebration post, not a "what is krita" post. It's meant for people already following the project.

Krita is an application primarily aimed at digital artwork rather than editing images. So a strong emphasis on drawing and related tasks. For this, it is much easier to use than gimp. I won't necessarily say it's better, but every time I tried using gimp I gave up and I actually stuck with krita.
Interesting guide. I wasn't aware Wayland still had such shortcomings even for graphics professionals.

> It's now up to each desktop environment project (e.g. GNOME or KDE Plasma) to develop their own full featured GUI for tablet configuration.

That doesn't sound ideal.
It's a neat idea, and bookmarked it just for ideas on possible designs.

Weird parts though. Does not ever seem to return a website I have ever heard of. And (although it may have nothing to do with you, and everything to do with the modern web) a lot look rather algorithmically designed.

Plus, there's sites like these people: https://www.beltnbags.com.au/ that register on every pure tone and near pure-tone search because they're listed as (#0000ff, 24.9%, #f7f7ff, 13.0%, #f7f7f7, 13.0%, #00ff00, 24.2%, #ff0000, 24.9%)

However, if you go to their website, I don't know what you're scraping, cause it sure does not "look" like its 1/4 red, 1/4 green, 1/4 blue, and 1/4 of dueling eggshell white. It looks white, black, teeny red labels, and lots of brown clothes.
It's quick and easy to clone famous politicians' voices, despite safeguards
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526225
Well, a community effort to reverse engineer the process and deobfuscate the javascript is keeping the tool alive. If they didn't step in to archive it, seemingly the cutoff would have been real.

It would have been a better testament to their commitment to prevent these controllers from becoming e-waste if Google just hosted an open source version of the flashing tool on their github from the start.
Is this only for people who have “simple” taxes? Does it support Schedule K-1 for example?
I’ve become old. If you look at these things in disgust (ACL vs Policies, Delete bucket with s3:*, etc), you’re missing the point of (deterministic ?) software. It does what it is written to do, faithfully, and error out when not. When it doesn’t do as written or as documented, then yes… go full bore.
Would this work with Mechanical Turk? I wonder how much it would be.
American capitalism is structured such that the disrupters that are anointed to take on the incumbent monopolist are all just temporarily embarrassed monopolists themselves.
> Part of the problem here is that Facebook (though in fairness, they are not unique here) has left this traditional path of escalation void, leaving only fake numbers. They don't even have a real number to play a recorded message affirming that there is no ability to call.

Contrast with Experian, which has a number for consumers to call, but actually has an elaborate infinite loop in its phone tree that prevents you from actually talking to a human (this is by design).

If you're one of their customers (read: a business paying for their service), there's support you can call, but for individuals who have issues with their online Experian account or credit report, you can't, even if you're a paid subscriber to their consumer-oriented credit reporting services.
the tax difficulty in the US is overstated, we have plenty of services that will let you do it for 20 minutes for free. the most popular one is obnoxious and tries to upsell you often, but there are alternatives and you don't need to pay
The intent of GP's comment is to imply the hack is a Snowflake hack that happens to compromise Ticketmaster data. If this was a compromise of a Ticketmaster account that managed their data at Snowflake, Snowflake would have been downstream of the original compromise.

This is a far more scary claim than OP's article, because that means there could be many more compromised customers out there that don't know it yet. It's a bit chilling, knowing some friends might be in deep shit.
No, it is not a meaningless distinction. You are using underpaid as a take on supply/demand problem, whereas I am using underpaid as a person's personal take on their salary. If the supply/demand curve showed that teachers should be getting paid around $20k/yr, they would almost universally claim to be underpaid, despite being able to fill the open positions. Saying "Well, you're not actually underpaid" means nothing if people feel like they are underpaid.
Firefox has C/C++ libraries compiled into WASM which is then compiled into native code. The end result is that the library is sandboxed into its own memory region.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...
>> Is English not your first language--no offense--and you meant to say "parable" not parabola?

Well, my name is MichaelRo as in ISO .RO so Romanian. We say "parabola" from Latin "parabolas".

When I'm like 99.98% sure you get the meaning I don't bother looking for the exact translation, it's exhausting enough on Germanic words.
It was immediately obvious to me that that job was in Sweden. That figure makes perfect sense in Swedish Krona.
Spolsky's fizzbuzz article is the standard reference, but the reason it got so popular is that it resonated with anyone who's ever tried hiring a developer.

It's not "tabs vs spaces"; there are just many people employed as software engineers who 1) cannot translate an English (or other human language) description into working code, and 2) have no idea how software actually works. They know enough about the mechanics of programming to copy and paste code from Stackoverflow/ChatGPT and use git, but if they encounter a novel problem they are totally lost. Hiring them is like hiring someone who only knows how to drive to be your car mechanic.

If you've been in the industry for 5+ years, think hard and I'm sure you can at least think of one example of a coworker you've had that fits this description.
What’s the purpose of these VC puff pieces? Subtly pump the values of their portcos by raising their exec profiles?
Same here. The latest zilf is 0.9 https://foss.heptapod.net/zilf/zilf/-/releases

>bin\Zilf.exe doomv109.zil
ZILF 0.9 built 8/11/2019 4:30:42 AM
[error MDL0128] doomv109.zil:1: ROOM: arg 1: expected ATOM

[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:2: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: -48
[error MDL0215] doomv109.zil:2: GVAL: atom 'CEILING' has no global value

[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:2: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 80
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:3: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:4: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:5: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: -
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:17: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: ROOM
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:20: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: -48
[error MDL0215] doomv109.zil:20: GVAL: atom 'CEILING' has no global value

[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:20: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 80
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:21: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:22: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:23: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: -
[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:47: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: -
[error MDL0128] doomv109.zil:48: GVAL: arg 1: expected ATOM

[error MDL0128] doomv109.zil:50: ROOM: arg 1: expected ATOM

[error MDL0113] doomv109.zil:51: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 0
[error MDL0215] doomv109.zil:51: GVAL: atom 'CEILING' has no global value

>bin\Zilf.exe freedoom1.zil
ZILF 0.9 built 8/11/2019 4:30:42 AM
[error MDL0128] freedoom1.zil:1: ROOM: arg 1: expected ATOM

[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:2: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 0
[error MDL0215] freedoom1.zil:2: GVAL: atom 'CEILING' has no global value

[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:2: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 104
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:3: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:4: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: Unknown
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:5: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: -
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:7: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: STARGR1
[error MDL0215] <internally created FORM>: GVAL: atom 'Left' has no global value

[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:8: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: SKSNAKE2
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:9: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: SKSNAKE2
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:10: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: SKSNAKE2
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:11: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: SKSNAKE2
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:12: unrecognized atom in DECL pattern: ROOM
[error MDL0113] freedoom1.zil:15: unrecognized value in DECL pattern: 0
[error MDL0215] freedoom1.zil:15: GVAL: atom 'CEILING' has no global value
AI has kind of fucked this, but for me (also millenial) I prefer to speak to real people because they are intelligent beings with roughly the same motivations as me and usually want to help out their fellow man.

For example, I can call a local store and ask "hi, do you have this item in stock, can you check on the shelf and set it aside for me please, I will be there in 25 mins".

By contrast stuff like "click and collect" order flows online are super rigid.
It's pretty dumb that this has an upper income limit that covers plenty of regular W2 wage workers
I'm guessing they meant BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
> I owed $5k this year and I literally did nothing different except receive a small 5% raise last year.

This is a common gripe I hear from US tax filers, and I fall into the same psychological trap myself. After all, it always feels bad to have to pay a 4 or 5 figure sum to anyone.

Instead, you should see this as a benefit -- you had the opportunity to extract gains from the stock market (or other investment) on money you rightfully owed to the government; they only came to collect it at the end of the year instead of with each paycheck. Conversely, a tax refund should be seen as a disadvantage, as the government withheld more money from you than it was entitled to.
That's actually my bad - I know a number of high school teachers with graduate degrees, but I assume you're right.
130 CAD doesn't buy much wheat.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
"Oxen of the Sun" is, in a sense, the apex of English literature to me. The modernists had a knack for essentially believing that if they just tried hard enough and wrote with enough complexity, they could capture essential truths about existence, and this chapter is the height of Joyce's effort in that regard. It is a chapter both about and structured like the birth and evolution of language, incorporating a density of reference and linguistic type that is somewhat absurd in its breadth.

This is all to say that Ulysses is a book written for people who like the idea of a Rube Goldberg machine of literature. I happen to be one of those people, but there are brilliant literary scholars who hate the book.
To travel 100 miles at each of those MPGs;

10MPG = 10 gallons of gas

12MPG = 8.33 gallons of gas

20mpg = 5 gallons of gas

30mpg = 3.33 gallons of gas

60mpg = 1.67 gallons of gas

1,000mpg = 0.1 gallons of gas

So moving from 10-12mpg saves 1.67 gallons per hundred miles. Moving from 20-30mpg saves the same. At 60mpg, you're only using 1.67 gallons of gas, so there's no improvement to MPG that will save more than that. Nearly all the gains to actual fuel consumed will come from increasing the worst offenders rather than e.g. trading in Corollas for Pruises.

Also a good demonstration why the CAFE standards and other government fleet minimums are actually pretty effective at lowering fuel demand.
Rice's Theorem, as all Free Lunch Theorems, is too pessimistic.

In real conditions, static analysis and theorem proving can verify lots of safety properties. See e.g. Astrée & Airbus, or F* and Project Everest.

IMHO, the solution is to use static analysis in conjunction with DSLs that have restricted semantics to make static analysis and hand-written proofs easy.
> I thought early merging was the morally correct choice

I never thought of it as a moral thing, but I merge as early as possible (ideally, I set myself up in the lane I need for the entire trip and avoid merging at all) simply because it's the safest thing to do.

When I don't do this, I will either miss the exit I want, or I'll get stuck at a standstill waiting for the rare kind soul in the lane next to me to let me in.
I would argue that having to file taxes through a 3rd party accountant or service is not only forced commerce but also broken glass economics. Looks like it helps the economy by creating jobs but the job is redundant and does not create anything of value.

Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million? Where are financial crimes more likely to occur, people that make $10,000 a year or people that make $1 million or more a year. I rather have these accounts move into forensic work and go after the wealthy tax evaders.

IRS is an enforcement agency that specializes in tax collection and fraud. People that are clamoring for reduced IRS staffing are ultimately support of defending the police. I rather have a well staff IRS going after those that evade paying their taxes, probability speaking the wealthy.
This post is searchable, so no irony
Germans cars have never been particuarly reliable, that isn't the same as quality. The low reliability is mostly due to excessive complexity in the upmarket models they sell in the USA- too many features and exotic performance focused engines. The simple and reliable basic models from most of the german car companies aren't sold in the USA. It doesn't change the fact that the components, materials, and engineering are excellent, and they will last a lifetime if maintained well. The safety, performance, and driver experience are unparalleled.
Yeah, private H&R Block and Intuit have built empires on upselling their products to taxpayers.
As someone a little older I remember being able to talk to a person to get issues resolved fairly easily and reliably. The online help is great when the issue at hand is pretty cut and dry. It is nice for a non expert to be able to explain to support on the phone and just have things taken care of.

Support from days gone by was not perfect (hold times, support reading off a script)but it was often a nice option.
Restaurants don't often print their menus in house. They get the printed at a print shop. Which takes time, and labor. And unless you're doing them at volume, isn't a negligible costs.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer paper menus. But I see why so many restaurants want to do QR code.
sounds kinda like The Cuckoo's Egg, circa 2017.

got my attention though, will check it out
Thank you for creating this!

One request - please could you add "Scala" as a tech tag. I noticed at least one of your listed roles is for a Scala developer, but the tag is "Java"