skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your growth is attractive! For the first 5years, you worked as a Software Engineer. Assuming a good track record, you could have been a Senior or Staff engineer within that time frame. Then, how did you transition to VP within the next 5?
I think the problem with the OP is they said it 'means death'. Can be deadly would be better phrasing, particularly to those who are susceptible.

The reason why I think this distinction is important is because there is some level of heat + humidity where it really does mean death to anyone in some short amount of time.
> a feeling at the core of my psyche that I have been wasting time and there must be something productive I should be doing or thinking about.

It's a little bit of relief to hear that others have experienced this issue. I've had this feeling when playing a video game, reading a book, watching a movie, etc. As if a part of my mind has trained itself to believe that the only worthwhile pursuit must be "productive" in some way. I've had to teach/remind myself often that it's healthy to relax, so keep playing. I think it's starting to sink in over time. :)
If you have 500 events that could be one in a 100 years, then you expect to have 5 events a year on average.

Not saying global warming isn't a thing, just that you can't make that argument, and even if you could the argument could still be just as true if global warming was caused by a sun phase.

Anyway I don't really care to debate global warming, but I would love to see people debate how to solve this problem, given real world constraints of politics, economics and the rise of China.

That might be useful. I still haven't seen any that don't begin with a) if only we could or b) if only everybody would which are nonstarters.
I've used it for about a decade or so. It's really good, but the entire program is tightly coupled with old MS APIs/IE, so importing material is a pain.

Roughly the process goes: Import article -> read section (create extract/readpoint (a bookmark of where you were in the article) -> review extracts/articles -> create cloze deletion/card (if necessary).

I can't use any other app for this process because you can't really schedule material like that in Anki/Polar Bookshelf/RemNote. Supermemo is unique in that the material you want to make cards of eventually gets scheduled itself, so you don't have to remember to read something. I would use Polar Bookshelf, but every time I've checked in on it, they haven't added that feature. In Supermemo can import dozens of articles at a time, assign them priorities, and know I'll eventually be shown them to read.

I have a couple thousand articles imported at this point, and I never need to remember to read them. This is the most important feature for me, and why I've continued use Supermemo for so many years rather than switch to Anki or Polar Bookshelf.

Not needing to remember to read something you found interesting, rather than just save it as a bookmark somewhere (every bookmarking app) is a killer feature for me, but apparently is not very useful to other people. I've tried explaining it to several people (including the developer of Polar Bookshelf), and they just don't really care.

The longer I've used Supermemo, the fewer cards I end up making from material (most things aren't really worth memorizing/remembering or even reading once you step away from it for a few days/weeks). But, I still import a lot of articles/comment threads from HN etc I eventually want to read.

Often times I'll create extracts, and not actually make cards of them, because I just like rereading that particular paragraph.

I have tasklists of business/programming/etc ideas, that also get shown during my daily reviews. I can add to them, or generally get reminded that I was thinking about X at some point. Very underrated feature.

If you don't want to see something again, you can dismiss it from the review process so it doesn't show up in your reviews. However, the information is still in your collection, so you can still search for it.

Most people take notes and then never look at them again (this comes up in every note taking thread on HN). Supermemo continuously shows me my notes over days/months/years. It also shows me interesting articles I want to read on a daily basis. It also helps me remember whatever I want. All I have to do is open the app once a day and hit next repetition.
'Dwelling' sounds deeply depressing to me - to 'dwell' somewhere sounds like to simply exist in a space rather than actually living and thriving there. To 'dwell' on a problem means to sit and think quietly. And 'unit' to me sounds cookie-cutter and impersonal. This is your unit, just like everyone else's. Sit in your assigned unit and dwell in silence, human.

I guess 'dwelling' and 'unit' don't have all those connotations to you?

Why not just say 'home'? Even 'Accessory Home'.
In 2005, nearly all of them.

most ATMs used to be backed by a mainframe.

I saw some newer ATMs using Windows Embedded so I guess they changed at some point.
No specific references aside from my own experimentation around these ideas. The core essence is as follows:

- Use an append-only log structure as the exclusive means of interfacing with the storage medium. If you are concerned about future cleanup (i.e. on block-wise rewritable media), segment this log out into file chunks of reasonable size. Cleanup of old segments would involve scanning each and rewriting alive data to the front of the log.

- Consider using a key-value abstraction as the basis for all of this, as it allows for trivially constructing dynamically-programmed tree structures with ideal locality-of-reference semantics (i.e. the splay tree and friends).

- All writes to the append-only log conclude with a consistent snapshot of system state. This is where the magic happens. The ring buffer results in batching of transaction request (e.g. SetValue, GetValue) such that a single final byte array can be constructed all at once that ultimately goes out to disk. You may have 1000 transactions bundled up into 10KB of contiguous bytes. This allows for you to say things like "transactions per block i/o". Callers into the system do a busy wait against a boolean status flag on the transaction object (or more ideally, structs in a fixed-sized array). This certainly consumes more power, but you wanted to go fast, right?
Oh wow, author here - I wasn't quite expecting this to appear here today. I've only really just start talking to people about it.

That said, my mission is to make software engineering better for everyone. By capturing the best principles from the best in the world at what they do. And to organise and share that knowledge, freely.

It's currently missing features to organise principles well, but I'm working on it (discussion here: https://github.com/PrinciplesDotDev/principles/discussions/2...)

You can reach me through my profile or following me on @princples_dev (twitter) - I've only starting pushing this, but a lot more will be coming soon.

It's an open source project and it needs your principles to make this a reality so if you've got some to share, please do. Or if you have feedback, leave it here. I'm building it for you.
No one said "female developers" though. So while it's an accurate term, that's not an accurate quotation of any comment here.
Hate to break it to you, but that wouldn’t lead to communism. The people it replaces are useless to the ruling class. At best we’d go back to feudalism, at worst we’d be deemed worthless and a drain on the planet.
Coding to sleep, dreaming of code, and waking up to coding - I burned out on that… I wonder how you did it
For me their killer feature is ease and certainty of returns. If I am buying online I need to option to return items that are not as they appear, and Amazon offers that quite readily.

So I think the major hurdle for other businesses is getting a reputation for prompt and free return acceptance if they want to sell things sight unseen.
Is that described here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
What does "Iterate in Thens" mean?
This is purely a DIY problem for six-month old systems.

Not a single OEM desktop or laptop sold in the past six months as new should have any of these issues.

UEFI is non-negotiable, TPM 2.0 is virtually universal, and you only need to be Secure Boot capable—not actually have Secure Boot on.

This tool expects the person that built the computer (Dell, HP, Lenovo, or the DIY enthusiast) to understand the terms.

But, credit to the author, it presents them in a very poor way. It should’ve noted UEFI / GPT wasn’t enabled first before any other error. But it assumes you know UEFI requires GPT which means using mbr2gpt.exe.
I think this is being over stated. I do think there's a trend towards WFH but it's not WFH all the time. It seems the hybrid model looks like the most viable model to keep HR and employees happy. It's probably due to the fact that there's still a childcare shortage which will put more pressure for one spouse to stay home even in the summer. So if Google and company want to get back to nearly 100% on-site then they'll have to invest heavily into supporting their employees outside of the workplace in things like childcare to make the transition more sustainable.
I rather doubt Blair cares - other than politically, there were zero meaningful consequences. He has gone one to make a lot of money since, giving highly paid keynotes (£100k!) and such.

I don't think bombing Syria was ever a particularly serious notion for the UK. If the US had pushed us to though, we obviously would have.
Ransomware: Paying up won't stop you from getting hit again
"Estimations are not cool, you know what is cool? Ballpark-Sizing"... Welcome to Agility.
I think the distraction is against how disconnected reality is becoming from copyright/intellectual property regulations.

It's still amazing to me that (US-centric context here), it's well established that instructions how to turn raw ingredients into a cake are not protectable but code that results in transforming one set of numbers into another are protectable.

AI is just making the silliness of that distinction more obvious.
Note: Not relevant comment!

In 'Masters of DOOM' Carmack explained his process for making anything.. As I understand it, first do the absolute simplest, easiest implementation you can think of.. and if it's fit for purpose (passes benchmarks, whatever) happy days! move on to the next highest priority thing.

I follow this almost religiously.

The CEO / business guy at my company is the opposite tho, he is a perfectionist. Usually he tells people to do more work and polish things, and I tell them that its done, move on, keep going and get it all roughed out 1st, maybe return and polish later.

Just thought I'd share and see what peoples thoughts here are on this + do they have any good anecdotes.
Shortcodes as they are implemented in Elder.js (what the article is about) are borrowed from WordPress. Basically they are a placeholder such as [[lastestTweet/]] that let you add dynamic content into otherwise static content.

While Elder.js does allow for full server side rendering making "Javascript the backend" the goal of the static site generator is generate static HTML/CSS/JS that can be hosted from a CDN, S3, or other static host.

That said, one of the biggest pitfalls with building a major site on a static site generator is there is often no upgrade path to server rendering. Elder.js does offer that out of the box.
Just look at authocratic countries. That top 1% still need something like 3-4% to work for beaurocracy and 3-5% for armed and police forces. And there are always family connections and relatives of relatives who want better living. So fortunatelly no AI will ever replace corruption and other human society flaws.

But yeah remaining 80-90% of population will have quality of life and bullshit jobs because it's how the world is right now outside of western countries bubble.
Finra Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood Financial LLC
> Credit rating is dinged: In the eyes of the lenders that debt trapped you. Why would you still want to be rated well by them?

Chinese loans don't have the strings that IMF loans come with. The latter will usually make the loan conditional on reforming monetary/fiscal policy changes and even business law. For example, the loan might require a lowering of trade or investment barriers for foreign investors, and it would be rationalized as a way to make the economy more dynamic. Or make it more vulnerable to the whims of international capital movements.
They may not alter the existing terms but they could change future offers they make.
I’m hiring a few people this summer and it felt so good to have the power to decide:

- not to include anything re: education requirements

- for Sr. to be 5 years experience and Jr. to be 2 years.

Kudos to HR departments that give you this latitude.
It's an Atlantic article so it's long, and several of the comments here show that people aren't actually reading the whole thing... but I did and it's worth the time. It's not only about links being dead, it's about the lack of transparency & audit when content is changed via takedown requests, it's about dead links showing up in decades-old supreme court decisions, it's about private industry's lack of incentive for wanting to improve any of these issues, etc.
> "It's just rationalization for laziness"

Expand on this and taboo the word 'lazy' or the insult it comes with? "It's a rationalization for understanding that you aren't going to be Jeff Bezos. Unpicking the cultural idea that the more you suffer, the more you gain, and stop ruining your physical and mental health and social connections in a frantic all-out hard work obsession. Rebalance, and learn to be happier with the very ordinary non-millionaire life you will almost certainly get regardless of how hard you work".

> "The "controversy" is this online meme that everything is just "random" and "luck" and no one, anywhere, can ever do anything to be successful."

That is not the point of the meme. The point of the meme is to counter the "you Amazon warehouse worker, fast food worker, retail worker, call center worker, teacher, shouldn't expect a living wage or a pay rise or a better minimum wage, or a home, or medical cover, etc. because you are lazy. We know that because if you were working hard you'd be rich. Since you aren't rich, you must not be working hard. QED." norm.

Jeff Bezos packed boxes by hand using a door as a makeshift table at the start of Amazon! Well, a hundred million factory and warehouse and commercial kitchen and food processing plant workers are looking at that story with annoyance. It's not because they think Bezos didn't work hard. It's that they work equally hard at the same kind of work, for a lot longer, and nothing like the same return. And buried somewhere in the side comments "Jeff Bezos' parents invested $250,000" in mid-90s dollars. Yeah, sure, it was the hard work packing boxes on cheap homemade tables, that's the spin y'all put on the source of his success? It's not luck that he chose to start a company instead of working in a factory, but if a truck driver from Iowa tried to start an online bookstore in 1994 with no computer science background from Princeton, no wealthy parents, no background in a Wall Street firm known for "developing mathematical models to exploit anomalies in the market", no access to a home with a garage to work from, how much value is this "if you don't make it, it proves you're lazy" rhetoric adding to the world?

The meme is unpicking the logical fallacies "if hard work -> success, hard work is inherently virtuous, then success implies moral virtue (regardless of cause of success), and absense of massive success implies moral failure and laziness".

"Lazy" is a cheap dismissive non-explanation insult.
IMO React kind of epitomizes modern front-end/Node full-stack development (for better or worse) so I think if you want just one thing to focus on, focus on React. Once you get past the stage of basic React stuff, you will naturally run into all of these other tangential topics (Babel, SSR, isomorphic fetch, Svelte, Webpack, general JS craziness if that’s what you’re looking for)
I'm looking for people that match the background you have. Email me.
I always assumed that one of the reasons Google et al work on AI is because software engineers are too expensive.
Privacy Watchdog's Report on NSA System Fell Short, Members Say
This is why when I see something I like on a website, I might bookmark it, but I'm also saving it locally.
I get

"Sorry, something went wrong."

"We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

Has anyone made a screenshot or archived it otherwise?
> It feels like all social media is converging; Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, Youtube, all an endless stream of ai-curated short videos that you can swipe through over and over.

It's likely that AI curation is the future because no humans can shift through the vast amounts of data and content being made. Things that can't keep up without curation or with just human curation have died or will die.

Good AI curation can bring you the exact content you're looking for, can but not will. I've seen it work times and times again, but I've also noticed that you have to be aware of the flaws of the tool to be able to use them or it gets really bad really quick.

You can't let the AI take control, if it derails to content you don't like you must know what it uses as a quality signal and give it a thumbs down, if it is intentionally derailed, you must stop using the platform.

TikTok recently released an update to their algorithm, it ruined my FYP and replaced my content with inane videos made by people nearby - hyperlocal garbage. The feedback mechanisms given no longer work, before that update they did.

I do think that even people being nostalgic here about the "old internet" should try and learn how to turn AI curation for their own advantage instead of just being sad and nostalgic.
It is not surprising people react poorly to other people trying to police their natural language based on assumptions projected onto them about it.

Male/female to describe individual or cohorts of humans based on sex is pretty common language. It certainly isn't "fundamentally" wrong. It's just a higher abstraction. You have to infer the form of being from the context - usually very easy.

The rest of this article is just an author's assertions about how these words are used.
Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences
> I think you are confusing your indoctrination of good and inclusive with democracy.

People like to talk about good and inclusive as if they aren't universal values. Good is a value in every culture and religion; it's human nature; we aren't sociopaths. Just off the top of my head, there's the fundamentals of the Bible, 'love they neighbor, love thy god'. There's the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China, which said only a good ruler keeps heaven's mandate and thus their power.

Inclusive is not only part of good, it's necessary to democracy: It requires respecting the votes and believing in the rights of everyone, and practically, freedom requires respecting your neighbor.

The question is, why work so hard to undermine good, including inclusiveness, democracy, and human rights? What an incredible heritage we've been given; what an optimistic history and what opportunity we have to build something even more amazing for the next generation. It takes an very cynical politics to try to undermine that - to give that up for yourself, for an entire generation, for our descendants. People from Washington to Lincoln to Churchill to Gandhi to MLK to all those who have died and struggled in service have worked to bequeath to us our free and good, in large part, society. With everything we've been given, what will we bequeath? Hate, authoritarianism, and climate change? What a shame our generation would be, among the others, if that was what we produced. The question is, what can we accomplish?
Seems like an intentional misunderstanding of the term to me. The building is an accessory to the house, not the person living in it..
> Now why would a school put their grades database on a publicly facing telephone number and hope it doesn't get hacked?

Same folks who built David Lightman's school system, apparently.
Well yeah today is just weather. Your 30 year graph is useful and shows temps rising since industrialization which is expected. But we saw the same kind of rise in the 1920's to 50's (AND THEN FALL 50's to 90's). Climate varies and there's long multi decade cycles in play. Sunspots, earth orbit to name a couple.

I think it is fairly clear that we are seeing a .04 C rise per year since the 90's. We are also seeing a 1-3mm sea level rise per year which is a slow rate compared to 20,10 and five thousand years ago. This 1-3mm/year rate will have little to no impact on humanity.

If you want to explain this heat wave its probably more useful to look at the La Nina, El Nino cycles and what they are doing right now.
The use of the definition Your Content may make GitHub's own ToS legally invalid in a large number of cases as it implies that the uploader must be the sole author and "owner" of the code being uploaded.

From the definitions section in the same doc:

> "Your Content" is Content that you create or own.

That will definitely exclude any mirrored open-source projects, any open-source project that has ever migrated to Github from another platform, and also many forked projects.
What kind of work do you want to do? What kind of life do you want to live?

As the owner of the business, you can pretty much shape the business to fit your needs but you need to recruit good people who can take over your current workload.

Do you still want to work closely with customers every day? Then hire an CEO/manager to manage the business.

Want to work as the CEO yourself? Hire people who can manage your customers' projects.
:) I see what you did there.
This is not an example of the FBI caught in a conspiracy to orchestrate 9/11. If anything, this is an example of the FBI demonstrating, perhaps, insufficient willingness to pursue investigation into a politically allied nation... Not terribly surprising, because (for starters) the FBI's job is domestic investigation, not international. The CIA or NSA would be in charge of looking into Saudi connections to 9/11.

After the Patriot Act, these responsibilities became intertwined, but in the timeframe the article's describing, the nature of that entwining was nascent, and it's not surprising the FBI would have continued to act like the traditional FBI.
Specifically for engineering jobs, I’ve learned to regard boosted requirements very much like the high pressure interview.

Not only are you needlessly screening out great candidates, in terms of personality you’re often disqualifying the absolute best candidates.
or even just a "web browser mode" vs "multimedia gateway mode."

the techwizardry demands of heavy hitters like YouTube and Facebook have created an "attack surface" that forces active and constantly evolving opt out behavior. the web is actively hostile towards the lay browser (person who browses.) a million notifications to allow and enable things on first visit to a site is a terrible experience. sane defaults should disallow these apis on most popular properties.

furthermore, I personally wouldnt mind a split between the browser and a communicator. a separate webrtc phonelike app that handles all teleconferencing. i get why people dont want a native app installed for each voip solution, but a single tool that is cross compatible, pushed out of the "web browser" would make web browsers safer.

the average person is using a web browser to look at celebrity news, pictures, youtube videos. delivering those things efficiently doesnt need to be much more complicated than the web was 10 years ago. having a separate button to launch "3d game rendering mode" would be preferable to every site on the web abusing the tech behind the scenes to deliver targeted ads.