skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only for the lack of sufficient pressure / mass action due to many reasons, including the rejection of possibility of success.
I’ll second that - I went to a decent uni (in EU) and while I escaped a lot of the negativity a few very close colleagues of mine in an almost identical lab went through years of hell at the same institution. It totally could have been me in their position if my focus had been just slightly different. It was kinda just was luck I ended up where I did.

I think about it a lot and how I’m sure a lot of brilliant people are not able to fulfill their potential due to these issues.
Would you mind explaining why it didn't take off?

Imagine problem of domain but something definite would be nice as having trouble finding anything

Thanks
I usually use postmaster@theirdomain so they can spam themselves to an address they (in theory) cannot just ignore mail to.
Which path should I pursue if I want to work remotely from overseas?
1. Path 1 - [backend development](https://i.imgur.com/u90cj9e.png)

2. Path 2 - [devops](https://i.imgur.com/UALBqGB.png)

I wanna be able to work remotely from my country (Egypt) and I'm down to learn anything to speed up that process. I know some frontend basics and python, but that's about it.

Which path would you choose?
Secondly, are they a democracy?
I've seen it happen when the company appeared to want someone to turn around a sinking ship (project) (or go down with the ship and assume responsibility.) This was for a big project at a big publicly traded company. They gave someone a promotion and an ultra-reach assignment (literally, an assignment so reach that it was effectively unreachable in retrospect.)

The person failed the assignment and went down with the ship. It wasn't a terrible deal because he got a huge layoff payout.
Seems that's the major flaw in self-reported salary aggregation sites: Because it's self-reported, you're generally going to get only one side of the bell curve: The side that people feel good about reporting. The FAANG employees, probably just the subset of them that are well paid. Who wants to go to a web site to report to the world about their utterly modest, average salary? How depressing! I wouldn't want to.

When I go to a site like levels.fyi looking to compare my comp, I'd have to believe that I'm not seeing "average" engineering salaries, but an average of the very best salaries at the very best companies. EDIT: Looks like you addressed my question in your comment already. Removing it!
Must be nice. I've never worked in a lab where coffee and tea were provided.

My lab books from the 1980s are still in fine form, because lab books are precious so people look after them. (Also, I was scared of losing something, so I photocopied them a month at a time, and stored the copies in a different location.)

Since I put a table of contents at the start of each book, with a small set of keywords listed by every title, I can find things pretty well.

A lot of people on this thread have stressed the importance of immutability, and that is really significant. When I found an error, I would make a new entry (on another page, maybe in another book) that corrected the error, and added information about this to a changelog.

Oh, and I entered the table-of-contents line into a plain-text computer file for each entry, so I could search for things by phrase or keyword (grep is your friend).

With a notebook with high-quality paper and a pen with good ink (I used India ink a lot, which is waterproof), the notes will easily last 100 years, maybe 1000 years. Do I think Apple's ipad format will last that long, or that Apple itself will? Not so much.
Try and use the word "counterfeit" in an Amazon review: it will be automatically rejected.

That indicates a totally unacceptable level of complicity on Amazon's part, and I hope they face criminal sanctions for it. But I'm not holding my breath.
Ooooof. what a read.
Super wrong.

Genetic programming has been expanded and generalized and is now a core aspect of many AutoML systems.

As another commenter mentioned, when the solution space is comprised of algorithms, programs, or even just functions, GP is still useful.

I am using ideas inspired by, and aligned with, GP in my work today on anomaly detection for multivariate time series data.

Deep learning is not the be-all, end-all just because it outperforms other algorithms on a small subset of possible data types (primarily images, and to a lesser extent, audio).
How apple watch unlocks the Mac (2016)
Sounds like you dodged a bullet there. Imagine if you were successful in registering.
How short? The chapters in Alyx average a bit over an hour each but nothing stops you from only doing half a chapter.
Intel OneAPI 1.0 Officially Released
Totally upside down.

Disallowing platforms that are controlled by totalitarian regimes like the CCP would be the rational result of any reasonable data protection policy like a 'slightly better GDPR' for example.

Protecting people's interests and basic national interests is not what the CCP is doing.
Outlandish Theory Suggests Microsoft Will Ditch Windows Kernel in Favor of Linux
Yeah, I came here to say same/related; technology did not create these problems. We created them. Our society, our social norms, and the very hard to avoid evolutionary programmed behaviours; "display" (for mate), "herding" and "parenting/family bonding".

Still, none of that is an excuse for making bad choices. It's hard but people can and should fight their instincts (esp when they are being exploited by others).

At least for "adults", children haven't necessarily developed enough to make choices. [With all our(USA) "think of the children", helicopter parenting, and overprotection of kids; I have no idea why parents accept advertising targeted to kids and teens? The illogic and dual standards are absolutely baffling.]
It's "Living The Van Life". I'll check out Steve Wallis, thanks!
This was a great read. It's interesting how closely this mirrors a huge problem on PC's as well! PC's these days boot from an EFI partition that is FAT32. These hacks help the RPi boot Debian from a FAT32 parition, but there's still a lot of missing hackery to help Debian boot an x86 UEFI computer from a FAT32 partition.

It'd be great if Debian would support FAT32 /boot partitions.

This would make it much easier to use an UEFI partition as /boot. Projects like systemd-boot (nee Gummiboot) make this very easy & natural to do, but the way Debian backs up kernels via symlinks (not soft symlinks) before installing new kernels & has no fallback behavior for this makes Debian quite difficult to manage in a UEFI environment.

To my knowledge there is still not a good automated way to copy kernels onto the EFI partition in Debian. Definitely not in systemd-boot world. Not sure what Grub does (honestly if you are on grub switch of, it is a true technological terror, unbelievably complex & multi-piece. EFI is remarkably sensible & helpful on it's own & just adding something like systemd-boot for picking is immensely powerful while not requiring multiple dozens of kilobyte grub.cfg's that some automated program has to keep probing & rebuilding).
Imagine a world in which only third party app stores are allowed on iPhone. Now imagine Apple having to compete with all the other Maps, Mail, and Web Browsers.

Do you think their native apps would be chosen over the others in a fair competition?
Is it really? In the startup world you don't "switch projects" every 18 months. Instead you pivot to a different business plan or start a new company. Grow headcount faster than baseline applies as well.
CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated data types)
From the Laboratory to the Arcade: Computer Music
How precisely do you have to get it right up front? Maybe it's OK to get your initial trajectory off by a 1/1000 part, and make an adjustment when you're 3/4 of the way to Mars and your relative error is now more like 1/250.
So you've got to remember three digits, the fact they are doubled, the place to start, and the place circle back (or deduce any of those).

Or you can remember 1592 as the year Trinity College in Dublin was founded. You didn't know that? You probably won't forget now.
No one knows.

One school of thought is that extraterrestrial pathogens could pose limited risk. Earthbound pathogens have co-evolved with humanity in order to harm us better, but xenobiological pathogens would not have this advantage and might not pose much of a threat.

On the other hand, it's entirely possible that the random chances of evolution could create a xenovirus that's airborne in humans and bootstraps a fatal prion disease in everyone it infects.
That would have nothing to do with the HTML abbr tag. That’s just Google Assistant being Google Assistant.
Pure Vector Engines Get GPU Math Help for Next Earth Simulator
Apple's 5 year old patent for thinner headphone jack
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton

The underlying issue is the huge power differential between advisers and students. Whenever there is such a power differential, abuse is almost inevitable.

I fear that unless that power differential gets addressed, any solutions are going to just be superficial band-aids on a festering wound.
Decorating a home office when you’re a gigantic nerd
In this world, Amazon gets an equal cut whether you buy one of their offerings or a third party. It also starves them of competitive data.
Does Netflix do anything interesting tech-wise apart from serve video a super easily parallelised problem and even different formats can be generated offline. Their recommendations are horrendous for example, what else do they do?

What are they doing with all the 100x programmers?
After taking five minutes to load on my computer (despite instantaneously appearing on my phone...) I learned that apparently almost all of these viewer profiles will be recommended a video about "The REAL Paris [Hilton]"

There's a liberal climate-denying prepper conspiracy here I just know it
Like a vampire, needs to be invited in, won’t leave.

Only solution is to aggressively deny all push notification requests
> You can specify basically any type you what... stuff like “The Number 4 Or A Function That Returns The Number 4 Or An Object With Any Attribute Which Is Equal To 4” and TS will just work with that.

Hi, an amateur here. When I started to learn JS and later TS I always disliked this expressiveness. Like when the first parameter you pass to JQuery can be anything in the world: a DOM element, or collection of elements, or an object, or a function - and only then you declare what you want to do with it. Yes, the syntax is short. And you pay for it with a lousy code readability and steep learning curve.

My question is, is there a name for this "expressiveness"? Is there a name for the opposite? I am looking at the definition of AssemblyScript: "...compiles a strict variant of TypeScript (basically JavaScript with types)". But the word "type" is again used recursively here. Is there a name for this "strict type"?
In games it is very common to see lookup tables for trig functions. Not big ones either, maybe a few hundred entries.
Key point is that by "died" they mean "aren't a viable way to make a living". Which is probably true. But, they weren't a viable way to make a living when the internet was new, either, or maybe at any point in between. You can still blog. People can still read it, find it cool, post it to their friends in the social network or other medium of their choice, and then those friends may find it. Just don't expect it to be your new living.
It's called a prediction market.

What you were offered was a little different and better for you but the same idea.

It forces you to actually think about your claim and work out how true it really is.

I wouldn't expect you to actually take them up on the $ but I'd expect a screen shot you took of where you could do one of those things you claim. But not even a link to crappy media was given and you agreeed the person willing to do the work was spreading FUD.
I could post the definition of irony here but I'll likely get down-voted to hell and back for "snark" or some such, but I'm pretty sure this situation being ironic and/or as a way to "learn from your mistakes" is not mutually exclusive.
There is some middle ground between the "just turn it off" folks and the article.

For me, by default I deny notifications to apps. Only communications (like WhatsApp/Signal/iMessages/email client) and stuff that NEEDS to notify me (like UptimeRobot). For email, I only get notifications when emails hit a certain filter. For WhatsApp, I mute all the groups.
Code With Me (EAP) – a tool for collaborative development by JetBrains
Leak shows Trump 2016 campaign profiled 3.5mil black Americans as 'deterrence'
> Once you correct your understanding of this, you will see that GP is explaining things correctly.

If a companies liquid assets are more than a small fraction of the companies value, then management is doing something seriously wrong. Some valuation formulas punish companies who have excessive cash on hand.

Going to quote my original reply because I'm tired of repeating this point.

> Share buybacks are absolutely a good deal for shareholders when a company is undervalued.

If a company is undervalued, then the share price is less than the future earnings of the company. The value of their future earnings might be $1.01. If they buy back shares, they are paying $1 for $1.01 worth of future earnings which are realized by existing shareholders.

A classic example of this is Apple buying back shares over the past 5-10 years or so (less clear now with share prices being so high).

If a company is valued higher than the companies future earnings or the company needs to take on debt to buyback shares then it doesn't make any sense.
China seems to be structured well for the use of such a system. It doesnt have term limits, so its Elite can make a long term plan about what their society wants to be decades ahead. So it can treat its citizens like poultry until those levels are achieved. Most of the "free world" doesn't make such teleological plans, democracies are rather short-sighted , hence why something like this hasn't been needed and probably won't, aside from cooperation in crime or tax evasion (things in which all governments, future and past, north and south agree on). The need for such projects would arise if there was an imminent threat -- and there isn't one yet.

What will happen however if automation takes over most of production and we reach abundance societies? The need for such systems even in an autocracy like China will be diminished. But then i guess there will be other manufactured ideals
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I'm looking for a solution to implement collaborative editing in my visual programming node editor. Are CRDTs useful in this case?
Kermit still gets ports?
This is very very common. As long as professors publish, they can get away with a lot of things, bonus points of the students are indentured to their H1B. I've seen Ph.D students in their 30s, mother of children, cry in front of me because of the abusive and neglectful actions of their advisors. They essentially run their lab as a personal fiefdom, and HR is powerless in this situation. Sexual harrassment cases are moth-balled, meanwhile the school prints tons of material talking about gender-equality, etc.
A bit of background. Every app that is intended to be actually used by a people essentially must use the framework included in the OS. Otherwise it would run into various roadblocks like not being able to properly run in the background or not having the required BLE access. So that leaves you with using the cross platform exposure notification frameworks on both iOS and Android. The way those work well documented https://covid19.apple.com/contacttracing. The "Temporary Expose Key" (TEK) changes exactly every 10 minutes. How often the BLE MAC changes depends on the OS, but that's around 10-20 minutes. As you have to change both "fingerprints" at the same time to prevent tracking across individual changes (See also [1]), in practice the sent TEK is changed at the BLE MAC change interval. So that's where to 10-20 minutes come from.

[1] A mostly theoretical flaw (as you need a large network of BLE scanners) on some devices: https://hackaday.com/2020/09/03/covid-tracing-framework-priv...
> average compensation at normal companies is $120k-$160k/yr

This also doesn't like up with my experience. It's hard to get true averages for things like this in America.

Also, 250k is a lot less than 500k. It's still a ton of money -- I don't mean to say that top companies don't pay you well. They absolutely do. But 500k is a TON of money.
Talk to the right people is key.

Qualification is one of the most important skills to hone in sales. Are you wasting time with a tire kicker? Someone without actual purchasing authority. Wants to buy but doesn't have budget this fiscal year. Do you know the customer's fiscal year? Do you know the purchasing process at the client? I have seen many deals fouled by procurement and legal even though the buyer is ready to go.
Where as my first thought was "how soon before this escapes into the wild, gets more virulent and then humanity can't have plastic any more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
Agreed. And I can't help but think it is in large part because a lot of the commenters here have made their money implementing and fine tuning the very things the article is complaining about.
Yes I have bad internet at my house and I can tell which app has better engineering (buffering, local storage optimization, video definition downgrading/upgrading based on throughput, etc.)

Netflix works great with a slow or intermittent connection, they've clearly optimized it.

My rank for engineering quality (not UX) are:

(1) Netflix, (2) Amazon Prime, (3) Disney+, (4) HBO Go (I get a stop-the-world spinning icon every minute at times)

HBO Go is so bad that I have to get out a mobile device and "save offline" and cast it to the TV just to watch something.

(I don't use Hulu.)
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How long it takes for work to have impact depends greatly on the scope of that work and the level of abstraction you're viewing the work at.

Part of the problem here is the place in the blog ascribes value to where you are rather than what you did. If nobody is asking how you influenced the current state of being but is instead just evaluating the person presiding over current success, then the behavior described is unsurprising.
Two 60% keyboards side-by-side, no gap between them. My forearms stay parallel and my wrists straight. It is also good to confuse people into thinking you have the especialy hability of typing in two keyboards, when it is not much different than touch typing in a single keyboard. Also it's a good excuse to buy another mechanical keyboard.
If it's multimodal, then averaging it out is the wrong thing to do. A histogram would be more appropriate to display the different modes.
You bring up a fascinating subject. The tricky part about pessimal realism is that too much of it becomes a self-fulfilling and agency yielding prophecy. And so the challenge becomes this: how does one pragmatically engage with optimal realism?

I guess another way to say this is path dependence is a real problem. Finding the solution is not trivial. Perhaps the most painful place this reality becomes evident is in the interpersonal and societal sense. It's a trope that as we get older we realize "we can't save everyone" or "we can't fix everything." And so the question becomes how do we determine a) what's in our control b) what really matters and c) how we orient ourselves for the future?

I don't have a great answer, but I think part of the practice is learning to become whole with your pain, your emotions, your hopes and your intuitions in a balanced manner. And I think another part of the practice is figuring out how to build your own tribe along the way to make it practical for you to find support in a trustworthy community.

People problems are hard!
What is it like to be a smartphone?
>This is only relevant if you need a lot of money to play other games outside of work. Most people don't.

I didn't downvote you but you misinterpreted what he wrote. The end of the 2nd paragraph explained that "other games" means the other more desirable non-work activities people would rather do:

"play other games outside of work" == "buy freedom to do other stuff in the rest of your time"

This does apply to most people.
This one's also a classic! https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.... ;)
I used an Ergodox ez for over a year (mayne even 2?) before the uhk came out (ordered them around the same time, uhk was very delayed). Today (so for the last 2 years or so) I use the uhk because it has labels on all keys, ergodox only has the letters and numbers but not symbols which is what you need most. Of course that's because of personalisation but I (although I touch type and have done so for 30+ years) need to look when I type things that aren't in muscle memory, like not often used passwords.

The switches are about the same for both. The keycaps on the uhk are ok but not great; you can feel the letters and now after 2+ years the prints are fading a bit. It's easy to order new keycaps for the ergodox, although I guess if I wanted to there's probably replacement sets for the uhk too? The uhk wrist pads (wood) are now getting quite stained from hand grease, I don't quite know how to clean them without damaging the wood finish. I would have preferred high quality plastic wrist supports.

The uhk modules still aren't available, what - 3 or 4 years after they were promised? It seems the first one is almost done now... Their project management is horrible, and what's worse, they don't seem to learn either. There is no newsletter that doesn't have another reason for a delay. I mean, I get it, hatdware is hard - but then don't make predictions, especially when you were wrong the first 10 times. The thumb clusters are great in the ergodox, so I hope the uhk modules will be too.

The mouse layer on the uhk ik worthless. I mean I guess there are people out there who use it, but don't get your hopes up until you know for sure it works for you.

The ergodox just looks nicer, especially when you get some custom sleeved cables that go with your custom keycaps. It looks less - frolicky, shall I say? Eg the segment display on the uhk is both tacky and useless.

But despite all of that I still use the uhk because of the key labeling. So make of that as you will.
I agree. But that's not always the best solution.

Just like libraries, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't the best approach.

For example, in a "How to do $BASIC_THING in python" article, putting an intro of "This is what a variable is" may not be a bad idea. Meanwhile, in a "Writing an operating system from scratch in an esolang I wrote" article, maybe you'd be better off linking to previous blog posts or other resources.

Obviously these are both extreme examples, but I think it's still a valid view.
Woah! I. Did. Not. Know!

Seriously, that's a lot!
> I actually decided that RGB would attract too much attention for me: One of my office mates is a 5-year-old right now, and I didn't want to distract from online kindergarten class too much.

I also avoided the RGB for this reason (at work, where I have the pro) - but when I got my own RGB (for home), I learned that the LEDs are just as customizable as the keys, and are only as distracting as you wish them to be :)
What about safety if your hand or hair gets in between the moving parts? Also cleaning those separate moving parts could be difficult. It will either get all dusty and dirty, or you will have to put ugly covers on top of it, I guess..
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." - David Brin
Cool, but I assume you still need to select the query and click it again to place the cursor, and possibly add a space, and then finally press enter (?)
Third, do they have any oil?
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