skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to buy politicians when the demographics that most vocally support the right to repair have been shouting from the rooftops about how evil cars are and how their usage doesn't cost enough. Many of the people who would normally care about a big omission will pretend they didn't see that one because it suits there interests.
To be more precise: do not chug liters of water without supplemental electrolytes. What kills people is the fact that salts are water-soluble and are flushed out as you drink water. It's not the volume of water that's inherently dangerous. It's that it flushes out water-soluble electrolytes that are necessary to muscle function.
Always remember survivor bias. For every Jeff Bezos there are untold masses of people who quit their high paying job and ended up in financial ruin, but you are never going to see those people on the cover of Forbes.

Also consider how much financial cushion you have. Bezos had his parents invest something like a quarter million dollars to keep his business afloat in the early years. If you don't have that kind of safety net, your risk of financial ruin is much higher.

Just something to consider.
Author here! This tutorial was mainly setup for people new to ML/DL and walk them through usage of a pre-trained model, creating the dataloader, writing the training loop, etc.

In the future we definitely plan to dive further into the details and touch on some of the things you mentioned!

This was one of the primary reasons why we chose the "Sentiment Analysis" task as it's fairly simply to get a model trained quickly with good performance.
You should separate the reasoning from the execution. I've done some certifications over the years, but wouldn't say the pattern fits with certificate collector.

Why do these at all? For me, I was first in a role with a Microsoft partner. Certifications count towards their partner level, so they are incentivized to get their people certified in areas that accrue to their partnership. For a few (often regulated) clients, the certifications qualified them to participate in RFP processes.

They didn't hire based on certificates and had a great understanding of what different certifications brought (zero to a little.) Taking a recently introduced certification over an older one was preferred because Microsoft introduced lifetimes at some point. Support in terms of materials or time-off to take exams was provided.

Many companies have Azure and AWS, or AWS and GCP, etc. to try to create some competition when renewing deals and avoiding lock-in. It doesn't always work out in practice for them, but if you moved into the consulting space then you'll find that having a Microsoft cert and an AWS one will you pivot more easily. There is a lot more value in knowing two of these than just one.

I've moved on, but since then I have discovered that at times there is value in using certs to quickly attack a new area. This is only to get a lay of the land and force yourself to cover things that an advanced person will often skip. If I see something new I'll often jump in, get stuck, and then reverse engineer my way out. This is very important, but spending some time on the boring cert-level stuff enhances learning when it's available.

In terms of getting the certs, it depends on the exam. Lower-level Microsoft ones have been achievable with just reading and limited hands-on work. They've now got some more depth and you are best to have quite a bit of hands-on with more resources easily applicable to someone writing .NET. Adapting to another platform probably will help making the content stick. I would expect most people to pass these on the first attempt. Watch for vouchers etc. enabling retries.

Microsoft Learn seems like the new place to go for training now. I've done a few of their courses on Sentinel and other tools and it reminds me a lot of their old school cert training. I had good and bad experiences with certification tests. You need to check the reviews for your specific exam.
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/user-guide.html#...

The key thing seems to be the immutable repo editing is hidden by default, but viewable with --hidden flag if you need it.
Apparently not?

The cost can come from the margin for the gas station, not the consumer
Here's another implementation:

https://www.utoday.nl/news/69384/ut-professor-makes-glow-in-...
Probably, at least on the software side!

But then I'd need to find a RAID enclosure and a something to run OMV on. The NAS was around £150 with all that built in
> Yeah, I think the above comment's thinking is pretty unproductive. If you "just" skip all of the meetings you don't personally find value in, you're depriving everyone in those meetings any nuggets of value _you_ could add.

I was specifically talking about the meetings OP was talking about: The ones that have no value-add and where you have no nuggets to add. You can sleep through them, or otherwise tune out and do other work in the background. Why are people even going to these? If there's really absolutely nothing you can gain or others can gain from you, just don't go. I didn't think this was a controversial view, but the votes say otherwise.

EDIT: Also, who is actually being fired for not being attendee #47 at a meeting that they are not contributing to? If you actually saw this happen, let us know the company to warn us all not to accept offers there, because that seems extraordinarily petty.
Git is one of those bizarre products that has remained a leader in its category for almost a decade while being extremely difficult to use, even for experts. Another one of these products is Apache.

Why is this?

At least from my naive point of view I would expect these extremely user-hostile products to have been overtaken but more user-friendly alternatives. I know the best products don't always win, but when they don't there's often at least some theory about what is going on (network effects, business partnership, government regulation, etc.) that I don't have with these two products.
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Where would you go now if you wanted to do such things? I have people in UW CS tell me a physics PhD in CMT is no proof I can learn how to analyze RNASeq data quickly enough for them and they want a postdoc with the experience already to teach DL to (I would have thought the other way around would be easier)
That's not how academia works any more, because academia is not remotely about real research or discovering truths about the world. If it was we wouldn't have a massive reproducibility crisis and things like collusion rings in publishing. Today academia is primarily about achieving and maintaining funding and perpetuating the academic status quo (including insanely cheap labor) as long as possible.

Wittgenstein famously got his PhD from Trinity College in Cambridge by basically showing up and handing in the finished Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. Wittgenstein was of course a rare case, but that work was groundbreaking and leading philosophers at the time agreed, he defended and was given a PhD. Moore, one of the people overseeing his defense, stated “I consider that this is a work of genius but, even if it is not, it is well above the standard required for a PhD degree.”

Today getting that PhD is a combination of a bizarre hazing ritual and making sure you don't offend any of the other department faculty that will ultimately be deciding if you're worthy. I've seen a few cases from my time in academia where jealous or bitter faculty will do anything to ruin the carer of someone they view as threatening.

If Wittgenstein where alive today he probably would have ended up a software engineer writing an engaging blog in his spare time that most academics viewed as hopelessly obscure and amateur.
The quality is normalized to x265 q24 setting. I believe this process/setting is either not working for images or something else went wrong there, because the observable quality as well as the bitrates vary from image to image.

Bitrates vary from 0.26 bpp (Nestor/AVIF) to 4+ bpp (205/AVIF) at the finest setting. Nestor at lowest setting is just 0.05 bpp, somewhat unusual for an internet image. A full HD image at 0.05 bpp transfers over average mobile speed in 5 ms and is 12 kB in size. I rather wait for a full 100 ms and get a proper 1 bpp image.
WTF did the USA expect...give all jobs to cheap labor over in China, prop up chinese economy, take loans from china, etc... then when pandemic hits and supply chains dry up? Where do we get the stuff we need like medicine, etc?

Globalization failed.

We need a more open immigration policy so we can compete, it's a fact that Americans are having less children, this will be critical in coming decades.

25% tax credit should be for ALL manufacturing where the plant is in the USA, and employees are citizens, or legal residents of the USA. This would help with better paying jobs locally, and they should require all companies that take the credit must have either a union or meet a basic common good standard like: Pension/401k, Healthcare, Minimum Wage of $22/hour, etc.

My bestfriend's dad worked at GM in the 80s on the factory line he got a pension, he got benefits and he made like $20+ per hour.

That same job would be competing with McDonald's employees today.
Google needs to replace their product management leadership. They have squandered their lead. Google business apps isn’t the top cloud based business platform. I’d pick office365 right now. Gmail/Calendar for businesses hasn’t changed in 10 years. Google cloud has been surpassed by Azure and will be a distant 3rd. Google meets is missing so much functionality that businesses supplement with zoom. I really don’t understand what they are doing with their enterprise offering. They should buy snowflake for Google cloud and slack for business apps to keep them relevant.

Like the article mentioned, they should have bought Shopify when it was much cheaper and provided the Google cloud as a place for shopify app developers for running their apps. Shopify has native event bus support for AWS so app developers favor AWS.
I'm having a hard time finding a politician, a mainstream politician at least, putting forth a higher education platform that explicitly includes a free PhD. With that in mind, who are the conservatives arguing against?
And intentional about exercising (as opposed to walking to BART or even directly to work for 20 mins), and intentional about eating right (instead of hopping over to Mixt Greens for a complex and healthy salad). And intentional about their work area actually being healthy (adequate sun exposure, free of radon in the case of a basement office). On and on and on.

There is no way to guarantee all of this stuff for remote workers. The US was already becoming too isolated. I just don't understand all the optimism about people just figuring this stuff out, or even companies being able to help from a distance, at all. We're in for a ton of downstream problems.
I mean, I'm a strong introvert (defined here as somebody who likes people but is drained by socialization). Any given day I'd prefer working at home than from office; will prefer lunch at computer than cafeteria; dinner with friends or "me time" over team-building exercise; being at home with family than in office with co-workers. I'm friendly with my co-workers but we're not out-of-office friends -- I have my own circle of friends and family and interests.

But working from home, only home, for 16 months now? At macro level, it drained me of motivation after a few months - and it took a lot of self-examination to realize I'm no longer at my peak and why, because the change was slow and subtle. I lose this internal intuitive feeling of what we're doing and more importantly, why it matters. Everything is just words on the screen; success or failure, it's just an email or slack. There's no energy and pride to soak in when we wrap up a project. And most of all, I recognize I'm highly motivated by successful peers I respect; and I just don't get to experience that the same way. I see the good results/work of my peers, but I don't get to "see them be successful / good at their job", which is subtly but critically different thing, more of a continuous and passive experience - what you call "being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work" really rings true.

So while any given morning I'd rather stay at home, I recognize that in long term, I'm suffering from only staying home.

I cannot IMAGINE what an extrovert is feeling these days :-/.

(Oh and yes, I love them to death but there IS such a thing as "too much contiguous time spent with my kids", for me at least it turns out... but office is not necessarily the solution for that:)
I think this is extremely dangerous because of what happens when you don't find water.

Getting lost on the trail, somebody getting injured, relying on water along the trail, just being sweatier than you expected, all of these end with somebody being very uncomfortable or worse.
Sure, but (as I posted in another comment), if you're delivering completed work at the price of others delivering completed work because they needed information from you, and the culturally-defined place for that information to have been exchanged was all the meetings you're skipping, that's still probably a huge net negative.
Retro can be useful if there are small problems to fix. I find that it misses the big ones because nobody wants to fight entrenched ways of doing things. It also does not help if there is no real follow through, which is my biggest gripe about it.

It really gets tedious hearing the same problem every two weeks with action planned and nothing happening.
Your First Ruby Gem
There a few patterns I have observed in the vintage car parts industry, depending on the demand for the parts (tied to collector demand for the cars). I'm sure these apply to other industries like the Atari guy.

Consistent demand, med-high value: the business' inventory is bought up by a larger business that supplies a related niche as part of an expansion plan. This can result in poorer availability/service as the tribal knowledge of inventory organization and item details is lost in transition.

High value but demand is inconsistent/slow: parts bought up by a collector or restorer, they go off the market into storage in order to keep a specific collection going. They may in theory sell parts to others but usually difficult to deal with and almost always requires an "in".

Low demand low value: Scrapped, or stored in indifferent conditions (outside or piled up in storage units) until everything degrades.

Of course, if another "that guy" appears there is a possibility for a stable transition. But as other commenters alluded to, these folks tend to have idiosyncratic personalities and lifestyles so that happens very rarely in my experience.
What does this give you that Wireguard wouldn’t? (Honest question, I have no idea.)
“The reason that the dollar has value is because the US government has a legal monopoly on producing the dollar.”

Does he not see the audacity of the hubris and irony in his statement?

“Like my Ponzi but not their Ponzi” is what it reads like to me.

Is Doge good money? No, because it has uncapped supply. But real crypto like Bitcoin, despite all its flaws will never have more than 21 million of them created out of thin air by some necktie, and I find that very comforting.
But in this case the idea "drink lots of water" was directly from hysteria about the dangers of that drug at the time, not just random bizarre behavior.
I have no idea about the field so I am curious, was the job market for humanities ever better? I mean in numbers, maybe comparing with the number of graduates...
Medicaid has provided free healthcare to people with qualifying disabilities since long before Obamacare. Obamacare did encourage states to expand Medicaid to low-income people regardless of health status and provide them with funding to do so, so in most of the US [0] it expanded Medicaid availability to people who previously weren't "disabled enough" to qualify.

[0] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...
> Dogecoin branded as Ponzi by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneaopolis.

Important to note that this is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (misspelled in the article), not the Chair of the Federal Reserve, who leads what we generally think of as the "fed."
If you haven't read Ordinary Men (https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...) by Christopher Browning I think you would like it, the book is about who follows appalling orders, why they do, and what does (and doesn't) happen to them if they don't.

I think that most of us like to think we would be the moral exception, it offers some mental comfort, but it's far more likely that we won't.
Scaling (Process) Innovation: Know-How vs. Know-Why
I love Camo too. I use it for my Twitch stream. Great software, thanks for the awesome stuff.

The big feature I'm waiting for is the built in chromakey / greenscreen tools.
> That means a six-figure salary is no longer what it used to be. In today's economy, $100,000 is considered middle class in the US.

They do say that $100k is considered middle class, so I guess they might be semi-high earners. But they still aren't in the upper class according to income.
Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
It is overall very interesting. And accurate in my opinion. Current batch of cryptos are very much an MLM. And I am saying this is a quiet sympathizer of crypto ( you know - actual crypto currency intended to bypass old gatekeepers with all the benefits and threats coming with it ). As it stands right now, the ridiculous push for centralization and greater control is everything crypto was trying to undermine.

It is possible that is emblematic of how we approach systems as a species, because everything seems to tend towards one or two major players.

Right now only monero, and to a much lesser extent bitcoin, still resemble the original promise of crypto.
Ah yeah I misread that. I don't think M1 is 4x the battery life of x86 though. Any examples of specific cases? For e.g The M1 Air vs Acer swift (i7-1065G7) - 1.9 W vs 1.8 W at idle, and 30W vs 27 Watts at full load. The power consumption looks to be about on par. But maybe you're thinking of some other measure of efficiency?

Also, I'd like to say that M1 is at 5nm fabrication - which is not an advantage of ARM. I'm sure x86 will get there eventually.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-2020-M1-Entr...
I downvoted more for the massive condescension than anything else.

edit

To answer your edit: Most (all?) companies would fire an employee that refuses to comply with required company activities (meetings as an excellent example). I don't really think it's petty for a company to not allow every individual employee to decide what required team meetings are right for that individual.
There's a limitation to the DAG model that has bothered me for a long time.

I don't always want a branch to descend from a commit - sometimes I want it to descend from another (less featureful) branch.

I want the ability to say that branch 1.1 is equivalent to branch 1.0 + {some set of changes} is something that would be exceptionally useful in a lot of circumstances.

(And I know this would create some new fun and games from a conflicts perspective, but I think it'd be worth it for any use case that involves long term maintenance of different releases of the same piece of software.)
Nope. Not saying anything of the sort. Your read is qualitative.

My comment was quantitative, strongly implied by the math. If I were going to make a qualitative statement, I would say life sucks for almost everyone on this godawful planet in different ways. You're trying to parse out a judgement of those relative conditions in me saying UBI might not be a universal solution to the hell-sphere theory of life on Earth. I don't know why.
Sure.

Azure has 2 exams you need to clear to earn the architect certification AZ303 and AZ 304. AZ 303 requires you to recall a powershell commands -- thats why start using powershell to build all you Azure pocs. Az 304 required a lot of insight on AD configuration and features ; I found this to be the hardest as I never had an opportunity to work on AD configuration professionally.

AWS certification does not require you to recall commands and the exam itself is closely aligned to what you would be doing already as an architecht. You just need to remember to do it in AWS prescribed way. I think AWS is really pushing you to be expert at Lambdas and API Gateway-- I recall that a lot of the question were related to these

Both AWS and Azure expect you to be really familiar with cloud migrations and backups and cross-region replication. They both have their own version of NoSQL databases -- you need to know Azure Cosmos and MS SQL configurations, replicaion and cost structures for Azure and for AWS certication , you need to have the same knowledge for AWS DynamoDB and Aurora and be able to identify which to recommed in a given scenario.

I hope you find this information useful .
Sure [0], but who said it, when, and what's the joke?

There's no evidence that Gates said it, and he denies saying it.

I gave citations for how several people at the time said it unironically.

Nancy Andrews: "When the IBM PC-1 was introduced in 1981, it came equipped with 64K of memory. Those of us who upgraded our systems to 128K thought we had all the memory we’d ever need."

Jerry Pournelle: "My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I’d ever need. Hah. I know better now."

And the earliest reference to that supposed quote was an editorial with many examples of how software wasn't prepared for larger memory use - hardly an example of "a joke nobody got at the time".

As I don't have a Dr. or Phd but I do have a MS, you shouldn't call me "Doc". The appropriate academic title is "Master", though that seems excessive for HN.

[0] I started with microcomputers in '83 and did some mainframe programming in FORTRAN so I'm aware of the context.
Interesting article, but that guy is, well, an odd duck. http://katz.fastmail.us/defense.html
http://katz.fastmail.us/baghdad.html
*Federal Reserve Bank President _of Minneapolis_
So, in how much trouble is Elon now?

Edit: not much I guess since this isn't the fed fed but the president of the MN fed.
I use Camo about 14 hours a week for recordings. I've never had this problem. I'd love to know what is causing it if you ever figure it out.
Both.

Build it on the side: evenings and weekends on your own equipment NOT at the employer.

Get undeniable traction (preferably sales and investment) before working-out a resignation and continuity plan with your employer.

Good employers (managers with rational egos and empathy) should want you back if it doesn't work out because you're a known quantity.

Do NOT burn your ships (or bridges) behind you like Cortés.
I mean, I'm not totally surprised, but I'm also not totally sure why it matters?

It's not like crypto enthusiasts are going to take the word of someone working literally for the fiat system as anything but FUD.
I think it just looks for the files on the specific location, and if they're there, it'll happily use it. I think you can download it on a connected device, or VM, and then copy them over, or maybe create your own with tools such as this: https://learnosm.org/en/osm-data/geofabrik-and-hot-export/
"The Steam profile image is neither infectious nor executable. It serves as carrier for the actual malware. It needs a second malware to be extracted."

This is extremely relevant.
> It takes me a year and a half to fire a bad employee

What? I could understand 6 months, but how the hell do you add a year to that?