skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did he manage to transition to full-time/permanent?

Where I live, I know some people who work/have worked in the local fulfillment center, and say that few people manage to transition to full-time/permanent, they seem to find ways to fire/lay off people before they get there, the workforce is constantly turning over.

Different locations may be different though.
It’s largely but not fully deterministic eg backward pass is not deterministic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50744565/how-to-handle-n...

That said, it’s hard enough to even run an old model 2 years later let alone reproduce to significant digits. I’d be happy enough to solve the former and get “close enough” training results
Are central banks losing their big bet?
The Threat of Automation Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
> The last thing that I want to do is to deal with Amex to cancel a service under the "fraud" pretense.

So, rather than get your money back from a fraud, you'd just let them have the money and you'd just cancel the subscription?

Or are you talking about lying and committing fraud yourself by claiming "fraud" when there was actually none and you just wanted to cancel a subscription?

Which one is it? I just want to understand which one you are talking about here. It can only be one or the other in the context of your comment.
I've heard this argument many times. I have some games I want to play. I don't want to replace them with other games. In other words, it's not that I can't play games, but that I can't play the games I want to play.
Nice project. Not sure I’d have the heart to write a cloud cli, with the perpetual and daily changes these cloud providers like to make and the sheer complexity of addressing all their offerings. For example ACS closing down migrating to AKS and the upgrade to Container Registries, just to name a couple of changes this year on what I’ve touched.

Unless you are somehow immune to this?
> There were times when I want to be able to start working on some code on my laptop, pause, then continue work on my tablet later on

In order to do these things 'cleanly' (with a truly unified view of the entire "system"), you need some sort of process migration infrastructure that even Plan9 and Inferno don't really give you, AFAICT. Projects like OpenMosix and OpenSSI attempted to provide this, but I'm not sure to what extent they were successful, given that they've all been abandoned and bitrotted. Today, one might try to do the same sort of thing while also taking advantage of the new kernel-based namespacing that Linux provides, which might make some things somewhat easier.
Yeah, but we're talking server chips in TFA.
" Of course, I also ask before signing the contract."

I can't stress enough how important that is. You better know what you're signing.
Ah do you use fetchTarball for nixpkgs? Although maybe I’m not understanding how you’re using it, could you share an example? Interested in your workflow!
You can call it anti-dailyWTF.
That’s correct. Lxc is not “more secure” than Docker in any meaningful way. They are equivalent in their use of the Linux containment “plumbing”: cgroups, namespaces, capabilities, etc.
Monster Chess
This argument is incredibly uniformed and privileged. You are assuming that you start from zero... healthy body, no obligations, mental stamina, stable living situation, no unexpected problems. The reality is far worse. It's much more likely that you'd be in debt from past mistakes, which drains your monthly income and removes access to emergency credit. You're probably taking lower quality jobs, which means bad hours and a longer commute. This directly leads to less sleep and lower quality food, affecting your health and your ability to work. You are stressed about money all the time, affecting your willpower and measurably lowering your base IQ. You are probably responsible for other people (children, parents) and unlike to have a stable partner helping you. WHEN (not if) something goes wrong in your life like a car repair, illness, etc your fragile plan is shattered. Your only option is to go deeper into debt, probably at very high interest. Depending on the circumstance you may end up losing your job(s).

Yes, everyone should work hard. Some do escape, and everyone should try! No one is "owed" anything. However, the fact that a person remains trapped in poverty does not mean that they are at fault. "Pick yourself up by your own bootstraps" remains almost completely disconnected from reality.
The real kicker being that you aren't just trusting their honesty, you're trusting their long-term data security.

It's a regular occurrence for companies of all sizes to fail to protect customers' payment card information. For some reason, no-one talks about how preposterous is it that we still handle many online payments through total trust.

Little comfort knowing your card details will eventually expire, especially considering that they no longer really do [0]

As you say, far better to go the PayPal route, despite their considerable problems [1]

[0] https://twocents.lifehacker.com/some-bill-providers-will-aut...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism
I have played with this idea recently lately. I consider almost all code out there as legacy. I was talking about it at a conference also explaining how I like working with legacy code. (https://youtu.be/n0XCMHrSbwc) I think I’m the odd one who actually like working with legacy code.
> There’s nothing inherently better about paying down student debt if the alternative is investing in a broad based equity fund (VTSAX, VTI, etc).

it depends on whether you have a subsidized or unsubsidized loan. the interest rate on the unsubsidized stafford loans is only a little less than the average nominal return of the s&p500 over the last ~60 years [0]. the safe bet here is probably just to pay the loan off; you don't know if the next ten years will give above or below average returns.

on the other hand, the subsidized stafford loans have only about half the interest of the unsubsidized flavor. if this is you (and you aren't making enough money to lose the subsidy), it seems like there would be a perverse incentive to only pay the minimum and invest whatever is left over.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
We don’t know how much water is on the Moon
Except that you cannot run a Qubes CPU server without a giant overhead.
This feels like Icarus' wings being melted. Tech gave us so much, but maybe this shows that it can go too far. Perhaps the Great Filter theory that at a certain point a civilization's technology becomes it's own demise, might have validity.

Banning certain AI work is going to be a great joke. Kind of like prohibition was in the 20s. It's not like a nuke that requires a lot of infrastructure and manpower. These AI attacks only need a computer from Best Buy to accomplish. Hell, building the box yourself is far cheaper and more efficient. Unless we all agree that all computers should be tracked like guns, plus monitored, I don't think there's a good solution out there.

This deepfake problem hasn't even scratched the surface of what's to come.
Amazingly incorrect observation.

All "non-bloat" mentioned above is mostly one big pile of shit that you generally do not need and might need only on specific machine AND in specific context. Running this concrete debloater might produce some unwanted side effects which are easy enough to fix, but it sure as heaven makes a system at least x2 faster ALL THE TIME.

Yeah, spotify is a bloat if you don't use it, just as candy crash. Defender slows down computer amazingly and those people that know how to use this are typically not in a line for babysitting and don't go around clicking britni's nude photo.jpg.exe. Windows updates are better if controled, as they more often freck up computer then don't nowdays, I definitely do not want frecking biometric shit on anything that is not surface etc..

Furthermore, scripts can be inspected and quickly fixed/forked to your own desire. Do yourself a favor and run this first thing on fresh OS. I just imagine a world where MS ships barebone OS where stuff should be enabled rather then the opposite.

One more thing should be done for even faster OS - disable MS Store. I lived weeks wondering why my system suddenly becomes slow as a snail until I did this, later to find its a well known not fixed problem.

Or you can just make your brand new machine feel like its 5 years old, once all above and more of the shit starts fighiting for CPU/disk/mem/... attention....
i'm just gonna leave this here

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
> living in India now and I realize how many things are very hard to get here.

What are the things is hard to get in India?

There are tons of people in India spend/go into debt to buy a fancy motorcycle, card or cloths or house. Millions of people are in Debt. Thousands of farmers suicide every year because of debts. They may not buy the same thing as Americans, but a lot of people do live paycheck to paycheck.
I don't buy the trope that software people have analytic minds. I've seen a lot of source code.
It's also interesting to me that these sorts of posts have so much, and so better presented information than was available back in the day to those who had to maintain these machines.

For example I found this fascinating animation by kens more useful in understanding how the hydraulically powered 1403 printer worked than any training at the time
http://righto.com/ibm1401/printchain.html.
I don't know how you infer ideology from this. Wall Street is all about betting on winners, and NOBODY thought Trump had a chance.

"In 2012, the same group contributed twice as much to Republican candidate Mitt Romney as it did to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign."

Your own source doesn't really support your narrative.
This is interesting. Sounds like you do this on the system level? I’m interested in doing this on a shell or package level eg I’d love to have system on bleeding edge but be able to jump back to same binary blobs associated with a particular revision of software
It does, however, say something other than "Something went wrong."
Funnily enough, it is because I have an analytical mind that I actually think I over optimized on my spend. I, like many I know in this industry, have been playing the credit card reward game since 2012. I live a very minimalistic lifestyle as far as buying things goes, but then plan out rounds of credit card applications and "manufactured spend" to rack up hundreds of thousands of points at minimal cost every year, and have used those points to fund nearly free travel for the past 6 years (mostly one summer vacation and holiday travel + weekend trips). I can't remember the last time I paid for a flight or hotel unless it was a really good deal and made more sense to use cash vs points.

Have been fortunate to fly international business/first/suite class + stay in some really nice hotels.
Mounting /var/run/docker.sock has always been the same as full host access. That is a well-documented fact irrespective of this particular escape.
Related: The Jungle purportedly was a similar piece of propaganda.
We are on an internet forum. What do you want him to do? Get his post peer reviewed?
I have used Windows, Linux and macOS fairly regularly over decades, and Linux is a clear loser when it comes to the internationalization---the ability to use softwares in any locales. Note that I don't even care about the localization---the translation and tweak of softwares to suit a particular locale; I have to write my own language in the desktop after all. The Linux input method story is still suboptimal (I can't believe that I had to use my own toy VIM IME [1] as I couldn't easily fix the basic IME issue) and I expect that it won't be any better in the foreseeable future.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/hangeul.vim
> “He means fewer water” or “She means less bottles.”

This is wrong. “Fewer” is for quantities (i.e. countable things) whereas “less” is for a singular mass.
Just a note for anyone who is looking to try this out: there are currently some fairly hard baked and thorny 32 bit dependencies in the Dis VM, so your system will need to be multilib to run it. There's currently a 64 bit porting effort going on in the form of Purgatorio, but that's still some time away from being complete (I recommend using it anyway because it's the most up to date version of the Inferno tree).
I agree with most of what you wrote but have a question about the last one. Is Microsoft shipping Pandora and Spotify clients? To me, that doesn't seem like it belongs in the OS.

I am the kind of person that goes through settings and turns off as many things as I can and uninstalls anything I don't use. I figure every single app and service has vulnerabilities and if I don't have a 3d printer or hololens, then I'm safer with that stuff gone.
How Airbnb’s Sales Process Changed With Rapid Growth
Because humans can only express themselves in two ways. Through their voice or through actuation of muscles. (Actually that's just one way...)

We already tried the voice thing and it doesn't work well at all beyond Alexa type personal assistants.

So basically muscle actuation is the only thing remaining. Well time to count the number of actuators your body possesses that it can use to express itself. 2 legs, 2 feet with tandem controlled toes, 2 arms, 2 eyes, 1 neck, two hands with 10 fingers. If we don't count our hands we only have only 7 actuators in total that we can use to control a computer. Our hands are such a tiny part of our body yet they exceed that number. 10 actuators that can be used for our body to express itself. Now imagine you are a dolphin or you are paralyzed and can't use anything below your neck. You have lost almost all ability to express yourself. There are still a few actuators left but compared to the power of 10 fingers they are absolutely nothing. 10 fingers allow humans to transmit 40 bits of information every single second (assuming average 60WPM) to their computer.

Since our hands are our primary way of communicating with a computer we have decided to create an input device that is worthy of their might. A keyboard lets us take advantage of the full potential of our hands. Just think about it. 106 keys at your fingertips. You can transmit a huge amount of information into the computer.

Without a hand you can still use a pointing device like a mouse or touch screen but you are not able to use the scroll wheel and at most you can only have a single mouse button. The biggest flaw: You are limited to interactions that are visible on the screen. The keyboard has no such restrictions, you can just type anything you want.

What I'm getting at is that typing text is the most natural way of interacting with a computer and the method with the highest data throughput. Text based programming languages take advantage of this affinity and this is why they have established themselves.

The type of IDE you are talking about has to be easier to use and faster than simply typing the code directly. Achieving this is a very difficult task and even if you succeed there is no shortage of programmers willing to learn text based languages, it simply isn't difficult enough to warrant a replacement.

The other comments saying this is just because of inertia or fashion(blub?) completely ignore the way humans interact with computers and therefore are not sufficient to answer your question. If it were that simple then we'd already see a reasonable split between the camps. Something like 3 text based languages to 2 visual languages and 1 voice based language.
Smarttouch
Exactly. People get mad when things on their system are using the memory they purchased. The only problem is when it's actually using the memory and Windows starts dying because other programs aren't freeing up enough memory.

Same thing for chrome - often people say "chrome eats your RAM" but it's just being as efficient as it can be - if your OS asks it to free ram, it will and 8GB of webpages can go down to 4GB at the expense of getting rid of cached "back" pages and other cached memory.
Whoa, not going that far. No processes are moving from one computer to another, just proper file syncing and maybe some centralized authentication.
In case anyone mistakes this for a summary of the article, here's what it actually says:

> Modern cement mixtures tend to erode, particularly in the presence of seawater, but the Roman recipe of volcanic ash, lime, seawater and a mineral called aluminium tobermorite actually reinforces the concrete and prevents cracks from expanding, researchers found.
Millennials are flocking to the Pacific Northwest, study finds
Searching for “phrenology” doesn’t return a single result until the comments. And the article seems to be a fairly balanced review. It starts by crediting the author of the book they are reviewing for several things before making a reasoned argument against her conclusions. What am I missing?
You answered your own question. The vast majority of users are not "willing to exploit the Unix programming environment."

For the vast majority of people who do not already have Unix skills (or whatever), it is convenient not to have to learn them.
Insurance, property taxes, maintenance adds up.

Usually, you need at least $45k income to buy a $227k house. It is hard for a family of 4 to save $45k when they are living paycheck to paycheck.
Sure, the author needs to write things down; often commit messages and block comments are enough, sometimes more is needed. If anything we are heavily under-invested in solo documentation-writing.

What drives me up the wall is starting a long, formal document and having a bunch of meetings about it, seeking input and consensus from 10+ people and committees, for something with the scope of a couple days. That process is designed for large, multi-engineer-month new systems, or decisions that will be hard to back out of and have ramifications for hundreds of people over years. But I often see junior engineers putting the wheels in motion for basic day-to-day maintenance and feature iteration tasks.

It doesn't help that our promotion process incentives this heavily, because it generates lots of evidence for the committee to evaluate.
I think that the shortage of talented people is not tech-singular. I think there is a general shortage of skilled individuals in most fields. Tech is just the most obvious to us because the demand is so great. But it's not fair to act as if smart people not exposed to tech would wind up in a professional dead-end. Not ending up in tech simply means they will probably excel in some other highly intellectual demanding field.
This article does a good job explaining the problems with that approach - https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/06/22/teacher-housin...
Autodesk products only work on Windows, and there's too much momentum to move my group to a different product.
Yeah I was vague on the size because it depends how you build it ... If I were to do it I'd most likely want a 2x replication factor locally, a rebuild time under 12 hours for a drive loss, and set a threshold around 80% storage use where I'd need to expand. Staying within those parameters I would expect maintenance to be easier and unrushed. I think that would send me towards smaller drives, but haven't properly analyzed it. I've been meaning to figure out how to set all that up with a ZFS system. Ironically it would be so much easier to build and test on cloud servers so I would probably do that first.

That case does look very nice for a storage box though.
We still buy $50,000 cars
A large part of the reason a lot of companies keep jobs only partially automated, is so that they can flex capacity up and down with demand.

With automation you have to buy all that capacity upfront and pay for it if you're using it or not. With labor, you can send people home early or cut hours if you don't need them.
> What am I missing?

That Quillette is a festering shithole?
Great debloater, I use it for years, along with bunch of other developers I know. It may produce a problem here and there but its well worth it and produces lighting fast system. Highly recommended and kudos to W4RHRWK for maintaining it so long.
That's nice, but it's important to remember that (regardless of your living situation) you are really just benefiting from an increase in the price of a leveraged asset, where the interest is backstopped and subsidized by the Federal government.

If you had taken your down payment, and all subsequent principle payments, and invested them at 5x-10x leverage in a stock portfolio over the same time period, how would the returns compare?
How Neighbourhoods Are Built to Keep Out Single Women
You're missing the sarcasm. The full quote:

> Thus on the rare occasions these adjectives are actually deployed accurately on TV, my husband and I will interject mischievously, “He means fewer water” or “She means less bottles.”
Why is enhanced weathering questionable? I don't really know much about it, but I was under the impression that carbon absorption by weathered silicates will have a dramatic impact on the planet over the very long term[1]. Is enhanced weathering just too slow, or is there more to it than that?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
>Warehouses, such as the one I work in, have huge cargo bays that are almost always open to receive the back ends of incoming tractor trailer rigs. When these bays are open it is virtually impossible to control the temperature inside the warehouse artificially.

Why can't they section off the loading zones and put something like air doors or strip doors to keep the cold/warm air from escaping?
I didn't say all of them, "all the time" is an idiom, I didn't say more than other people, and if you want some evidence, hang around a gas station for ten minutes.
That is a truism for most fields. On the highest echelons of talent you have people with genetic predisposition. But OP was not suggesting that everyone can be a world-class musician, just that the vast majority of people can be musicians.

Of course, by definition, only 1% of people can be in the top 1% of something.
Every time I go back to write code I had previously worked on. I go, did I write this!? Everyday is legacy code! Truth
Polly: The girl who can only speak in Spoken Word
It seems kind of like people who go to volunteer in Africa to "earn" themselves a story of adversity and dealing with rough situations.
PeerTube is also special because it uses the activityPub format, so anyone on Mastodon or GNUsocial can follow somebody on PeerTube.
I usually stick to this rule almost everywhere, with just a few exceptions for some shortcuts.

Reconfiguring means trouble when, for instance, helping a colleague or teaching someone, as well as the overhead whenever the configs are lost.
One reason for why it does not happen is that two full time jobs are possible only if st least one of them allows you slacking. The issue is not just lack of fun, but being too tired to function properly. And also when you have no outside of job duties.
The "plumbing" is the same but they set it up slightly differently which in the end affects things like security.

For example user mappings were handled very differently in lxc compared to (earlier versions of) docker.

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/security/
If I remember correctly, it is recommended to use list comprehension (see stackoverflow)