skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the rules say I’m not supposed to criticize so much but those pesky bold-typed individual letters sprinkled throughout the document feel so distracting to me, I can hardly focus on the content.

I assume those bold letters are deliberate, and probably form some kind of word when pieced together, but I still stopped reading the article half-way because it’s just so annoying and tiring to have those road bumps disturbing the flow of reading.
Agreed, I like (trying) to understand as much as I can about how my environment works so if/when something breaks I only need to learn the last 30% in a crisis, and I'm already familiar with the core. It doesn't always work, sometimes there is just too much.

It's usually useful, at least in some abstract way to the team. It felt essential when I worked alone and was accountable for everything.
I'm the same.

I've always despised (for example) Gordon Ramsay's abusive style and never quite understood the appeal of a show that demonstrated such bad treatment of fellow humans. I don't care how you dress it up -- high standards, toughening them up etc. etc.-- it's just a fucking horrible way to treat people.

And even if you can somehow justify it, what is it about working in a kitchen of all places that necessitates treating staff like utter shit? I can think of much higher stakes careers where this type of treatment would never happen nor be deemed to be "required" for any reason whatsoever.

It's even more reprehensible when you consider the position of power these people are in, and how those keen to get into the industry are more likely to submit themselves to this demeaning behaviour for the sake of their career.

And even even more so when you consider what a wide reach these people have in terms of audience. How many young people are they being a bad role model for.

Finally, an admission of hypocrisy on my part (given the above); I recently watched and enjoyed quite a few episodes of Gordon Ramsay's courses on Masterclass, where mercifully he is alone in his kitchen, with no one to abuse, and is actually quite cordial and charismatic. I've never given a crap about cooking before, and watched an episode on a whim and found myself quite inspired. So that at least seems to imply that there is an alternative way of presenting cooking shows without ripping junior staff to shreds. (Or alternatively, it implies that I'm a hypocrite and you should ignore everything I say).
> That at the moment this should 500 seems thoroughly apropos.

Thoroughly with reference to…
For myself, I try to keep it less than 3 simultaneously.

Optimizing for quick disqualification allows you to reduce total time cost. Filter based on roles most likely to advance your long term career goals.

Be mindful that a prospective company that imposes significant time cost on candidates in the interview process may also not be the most humane cultures to work with. You can filter them, just as they filter you, but this may cost you opportunities- only you can evaluate that choice.
Loosely related: I had some fun working on a database with all events parsed from Wikipedia [0]. I parsed the entire wiki texts using a language model, extracting date/time/location and what happened then and there. The location data was then fed into a local openstreetmap instance to get the coordinates. I then built a front end to allow querying events near by, in time or in space. The UI is a bit clunky because my database is too large and I had little experience working with them. But building it was fun.

0: https://whataday.info/
I tend to reach for gnu parallel instead of xargs -

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....

parallel is probably on the complex side but its also been actively developed, bugfixed and had a lot of road miles from large computing users.
Probably not like an ISO or RFC. Probably more like AWS S3: it has an API that other software conforms to, but it isn’t strictly speaking a standard
The practice of substituting pronouns can also be used to make text easier to understand, for example:

The client connected to the server, then it crashed

vs

The client connected to the server, then the server crashed.
Euro 2020 final was ‘superspreader event’ with 3,400 Covid cases linked to match
Most private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for Covid-19 treatment
I mentioned that because in 2005 that was a real PITA and the first example that came to me. It's not a 'real' problem in Greenfield problems today. It also isn't really the point, but just an example for people who don't get the point (and apparently not a good one at that).

The point was: if you make it difficult to work together because you have a high horse / hill to die on / unique incompatibility, it makes teamwork unreasonably hard and inefficient, which becomes a problem as soon as time and/or money is involved. The "haha I am so much better because I don't use an IDE" line of thought falls within that category. So does "I run TempleOS so that my code is blessed" and "I don't like git so I use TFS and you can all suck it".

Now, say you have something much easier to not care about tools; i.e. a gitops driven workflow for your terraform code. Then it doesn't really matter what you have locally because until your code is merged it is in no way/shape/form going to create a problem. On the other hand, if you refused to use efficient tooling your performance might be half of what other people might present and that means the people that pay you don't get a good value from your work. Efficient tooling might mean: something that understands the syntax or AST of what you write and points out errors so you don't find out after the fact.
Guy gets Constitution amended (2017)
I'm pretty sure that Valve made quite the pretty penny off of just user made maps alone for CS Source?

"Dude check out this crazy game, you can SURF around, kill people, and level up your character for crazy new powers" was the reason I bought CS Source after seeing it at a friends house...
Isn’t the hallmark of “good” misinformation/conspiracy theory that it’s ever so slightly rooted in truth and is, on occasion, kinda-sorta right? Or at least “right” enough for the conspiracy theorists’ confirmation bias to kick in?

That the Epoch Times has reported on some things that weren’t complete and total bullshit does not at all mean none of their reporting is bullshit.
Does anyone know what we should be asking for? Say as a C# developer in Chicago? Mostly MVC focused but expert at nothing. Never really having the opportunity to do the same exact thing over and over. And one that isn’t very great at complex stored procs. You know, the hard stuff.

Just curious. Everyone talks about wages going up, but no one says what those wages are supposed to be.
Why Is Blue So Rare in Nature?
> There’s also fly doing userland tcp over userland wireguard because peeps might not have a local wireguard client.

Oh, yeah! That whole thing [0], up through the integration with flyctl, is fire.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26315695
> Family is not about someone doing your chores for you. It is about trust and support.

Where I'm from we call those people friends. Family is reserved to those who are willing to actively make a sacrifice for you when you are in need.
That was the second 90kg of Enriched Uranium lost at that facility.

The mind boggles.
Scour the landfills
Fast Food: The Reality of Eating Our Own Dog Food
Nice catch! FWIW on my machine the background is the same but the font changes colors slightly when selected.
Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
No, those are still very much conspiracy myths; the lab leak story may or may not be true, but calling it a “weapons lab” just shows why people were reluctant to promote speculation that is so easily turned into accusations of intentional malfeasance.

“Vaccination passports”, just by using that term, imply (and often say) that they are/will be used for something sinister.

…and I don’t remember anyone calling booster shots a conspiracy theory.

Also the New York Times is breaking subscriber records month-after-month, so I’m guessing you got the idea about people losing confidence in it from the Epoch Times?

If you need an example of why, just look at this story, publishing something that Facebook PR tried to hide. I don’t recall the Epoch Times being first with any actual news.
I fail to see how one can achieve, aim at or elaborate on something that is not defined.
Thank you -- this is helpful.

>> One way to try to bootstrap this is by simply filling those writer, editor, and reporter roles yourselves even more. Can you demonstrate that doubling your own work output produces more than a doubling of traction?

My fear is that this makes a lot of sense for SaaS companies, but I think in our case its really part of the MVP. It's not so much that we have a feature thats great and then people will use it, when we have research that shows that our users go to places where all of the coverage they want lives. If we dont have that, we're not in the game.

>> Or are you and your partner following in the footsteps of your previous business experience, but this time you want to be at the top of the or chart and you want someone else to provide the money so you don’t have to bootstrap?

This is a really good point, and I think we need to emphasize this more. I really do believe this is new and innovative -- but maybe we need to show WHY we're doing this as a new company and not with our previous employers?

Is getting a bank loan or something like that a terrible idea? I have no problem putting skin in the game, I just have a limited amount of skin...
advice /can't/ change people; people can only change themselves. Common-sense advice only serves to affirm to people that their own instincts about what's wrong are correct. The "how" of making a change is more difficult, but also specific to the individual.
I mention it here: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/xargs.html#xargs-p-aut...

What does it do that xargs and shell can't? (honest question)
I recall 60 Minutes had a story about theft of uranium from a convoy in Pennsylvania, with suspicion of Israeli involvement. This story was back in the 70s. I'm sorry, my memory fails me about any further details. It might or might not be related to this posting.
...was about to type something similar :)
What’s not priced in is that shock buffer has been used up during pandemic 1.0 during 2.0 there is no more travel left on the piston and recovery hasn’t really happened much so additional problems will cause significant pain
"In the wake of 9/11" is lazy writing. Kinda like businesses saying "we have crappy service, because of COVID."

Antitrust enforcement has more to do with the party in power than anything else. The Bush Administration wasn't interested in suing businesses, and now the Biden Administration is again.
Yeah, I work with an English second language guy who uses pronouns excessively, leaving me clueless. In his case I expect he's saving processing power for translating the bigger ideas.
> Physics PhD from an ivy

If that’s your definition of genius you have to raise your standards.

”The world is filled with educated fools and uneducated genuises.” – Richard Feynman
‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families
> labor force participation rate is still down.

Right, but we’re talking about the people who are job hopping (the context of this article) for higher salaries.

The people who haven’t rejoined the workforce yet would be forced to do so if the inflationary trend continues.
The issue is that every new Google phone is available in less and less countries. 5a looks like a good option to replace my current 3a, but it is impossible to officially buy it here in Europe.
> This is a real issue, but not a governmental one.

That's not even moving the goal post, that's just changing the entire subject. "This" isn't real, since "this", he claims without any evidence, is specifically a failure of state capacity. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capacity
Researchers solve 20-year-old paradox in solar physics
The 4a 5G was launched less than a year ago, fyi.
I believe this is one of the original videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8
> People willing to act based on incomplete information they couldn't be bothered to research independently.

Who are these people you talk about? That is quite a grandiose generalization as it implies that you see yourself as someone who does do the research. Humor me by answering this question: what makes you able to do this research and others not?

Would you consider the idea that many can't actually research things because the information has been locked away in a corporate vault or by capitalist knowledge hierarchies that severely limit access (through knowledge rent-seeking systems, i.e. through the IP system)? [1] Not to mention the fact that the current education system favors kids with the richest parents living in the richest neighborhoods. Learning requires trust and emotional safety which is increasingly starting to only be available to the owners of capital (and their children). Many now have stressed out parents with precarious zero-hour contracts or gig economy McJobs. I'd say we are living in some of the most unequal times, where education and knowledge have become ultra-commoditized. It's undemocratic at it's core.

Maybe you don't see the luck you had on your own journey to be able to think critically? How do you know "they couldn't be bothered to research"? You calling them lazy seems like a comfortable and easy way to avoid considering systemic causes to this problem.

Why focus your critique on individuals/workers yet give a free pass to huge over-resourced multinational firms? Do you think it's possible that you're not 100% in touch with the challenges and disadvantages that others face?

> it all comes down to who can manipulate them better towards the desired decision (using labels like "misinformation" as one of the tactics)

Your attempt to redefine the term 'misinformation' is very manipulative imo. It's the same strategy FOX news uses, and what they spend nearly all of their energy on. Many liberal news outlets do the same, FOX news just does it more overtly and targets the non-college educated.

Consider the labeling by some news organizations of the teaching of a more accurate, nuanced and complete version of American history, a version that includes the genocide of Native Americans, and the transatlantic slave-trade etc., as 'un-patriotic' and 'un-American'. [2], [3]

[1] Aaron Swartz, https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/25/critic...

[3] https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-obsession-cri...
Patrick Winston, professor and former director of MIT CSAIL, told a brief story in class back in 2008 or so. He said it was sort of a running joke in the graduate admissions committee that people were drawn to study and research the areas of AI that corresponded to weaknesses of their own.

I.e., people with poor hearing study speech recognition. People with face blindness study computer vision. People with poor writing skills study natural language processing. And so forth.

"And every so often", he said, turning to face the class with a small grin on his face, "we get a grad student who comes before the committee and says he's interested in all aspects of artificial intelligence."

It was amusing at the time, but had an element of truth to it as well. It's not surprising to me that dishonest people would be drawn to a career studying honesty.
That is why you need to get your hands on them now while supplies last. I'm still using my 13 year old think pad for things.

Whether or not a global reduction in available services is coming, it might be wise to stock up some things now that will become scarce in the future.
That’s because “HN threads” represents a lot of different people with different needs and opinions. It’s not a monolithic block at all, and people are more likely to react to complain.
There is no doubt that Go needs generics. Pretty much every Go container and data structure library on github will benefit from generics. The empty interface is used everywhere, leading to all kinds of panicking typecasts, hard to debug errors, and inefficient conversions. The vast majority of these uses can be made type-safe, more efficient, and clearer with generics. There is nothing subjective about the benefits of generics. Together with type-safe enumerations I miss generics the most from Ada.

To be honest, I'd use Ada if it had a significant infrastructure, but it feels pretty much dead. With Go I can at least get 3rd party libraries, as long as I check the source code to see if it's good enough.
Virus kicks his ass even though he's vaccinated, and you're drawing the conclusion that the vaccines can't be trusted, rather than unvaccinated exposure to the virus will be 10 times worse... You may not be good at logic.
> At a certain size (...)

I think this is key.

> Same IP ban is also not likely (...)

Thanks for answering! I had no idea.
In a post-apocalyptic world yes, but fortunately raspis are still in stock now.

To the victor the spoils!
Learn Python Through Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
For someone from the productivity tools domain who has been thinking of launching one for bioinformatics users, where could I read more about the typical problems, workflows and existing solutions (and their shortcomings)?
True in many areas but a few key industries have not recovered and impact everyone else.
It seems that you could say that about any socially undesirable behavior.
This evidence is clearly irrefutable. It's fascinating how a well respected scientist could make such elementary mistakes when fabricating data.
Show HN: GlobalESearch- Combine search results from all eBay sites into one list
People who want to send smells through your TV
> In both these instances, breaking the inertia is enough to disrupt this fragile balance that companies were exploiting to keep wages and salaries down. When the line breaks (a few companies caving), the entire defence that “this is what market pays” comes crumbling down.

You’ve got it backwards. The concept of “market rate” is at the core of why this is happening in the first place. Market rate is going up, which is driving these changes.

Market rate isn’t a myth that business owners use to suppress wages. It’s literally just the rate that the market will bear for a given type of labor. Supply and demand of labor and jobs shifts this point around like any other supply/demand curve.
So when you say "tech workers", what you really mean is "American tech workers."

In fact, what you specifically mean is "Silicon Valley tech workers," given that pay and CoL are much, much lower in most of America, including for tech workers.
I’m just totally disinterested in anyone moving the needle on autonomous vehicles. To me they represent little but surveillance and dependence on software updates.

If you ever saw the animated film “Appleseed Ex Machina” you might be more sympathetic to my position. Or I, Robot for that matter. I just don’t need a million cars doing whatever the next software update tells them, it’s not worth it for a little line following bot.
The thing is you can't see a trust fund by looking at people. It's a trope that people who have trust funds don't work but is there any evidence that is a common outcome?
Hahaha you’re right! I remember jobs saying that, or was it iMessage He was talking about?
I find levels.fyi to be the best place to get real compensation numbers in tech.
A lot of the equipment was left for the Afghan forces. The worries are (a) if the Taliban will use it and (b) is there anything in that equipment that the Chinese/Russian/etc. forces can reverse engineer.
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is fighting invisible battle against inner Earth
In this case a less cliche/click-baity title could simply be:

"A Response to Xargs Criticism"
The truth about eating eggs
Apparently there was still another recent post, where I did put a fairly substantive comment in reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28238186
Thanks very much for answering!

Sorry, if I'd had the foresight to use a throwaway I'd drop a link to our group, but I prefer not to publicly associate my HN account with work. We're a small team of software and data engineers, machine learning scientists, and health policy folks at a large research institution in Canada that take on clients to work on stuff like this (from early stage research to approvals to deployment). I'd be happy to reach out with my contact info privately if you're interested, just let me know.

That makes sense! I wondered if it had something to do with the group component, and I agree that the customer pool is growing.

Congratulations on the launch!
Agreed. I charge for being on-call. If other employees don't, that's not good - now being on-call becomes a requirement and work I'm not being paid for.

You don't get to pay a fast food worker during the time they are serving a customer, then stop paying them when that customer leaves the counter. There isn't a technical reason you can't do this; we've set a baseline on the least workers have a right to expect.
Regardless of the "WTF" in the title, it is a good, technical intro to WebAssembly
Worth noting:

- browsers have had native text tooltips for at least 20 years

- there are active proposals intended to address richer tooltips and similar use cases

- adding new controls to the web is a complex matter because there are a lot of stakeholders to consider, and a lot of consensus to build among implementers/standards authors

- complaints about missing UI features on the web often overlap with complaints about standards bloat and browser bloat

- this article is rich in technical information that’s applicable more broadly than the tooltip use case, and maybe every single article about anything web on HN doesn’t need to be drowned in generic myopic complaints about the web
Bls rent probably is buffered out by areas of low economic growth and mobility so you don’t see big city rents represented well
Verbosity and grandiloquence is no replacement for clarity of thought
Yeah I misunderstood then, thanks for clarifying.
Prior to the pandemic the economy had spent an unusually large amount of time between recessions. There is every reason to expect that the beginning of the pandemic was the start of a very large correction which is still in progress.
Extra points for all V words hahaha
By the law of USA communist unity, tax cattle state property objects owe their labor to the community, so one must not be permitted to object to full labor compliance.
>But more likely it will be the inability of US capitalism to adapt to a remote world

What are you basing this off of? American companies are going remote en masse and my anecdotal evidence suggests nearly every company made the transition to remote during the pandemic (and may have switched back afterwards).

American companies are really good at adapting because they’re not legally required to tiptoe around workers’ rights like in England where unions reign supreme (not saying unions are a bad or a good thing). Also workers are tied to US soil by virtue of the incredibly expensive permits you need on each foreign worker that makes offshoring infeasible for all but the largest companies.
HEU would be supercritical in that configuration, wouldn't it?
> I haven’t seen any meaningful adoption

You must live in a different world. Go has been an immense success since its inception. Cloud, DevOps and SRE are nowadays unthinkable without it.