skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. And water works well to illustrate that point.

But hyphae are not fluids. They could grow one way or another in a 3 dimensional space. They pick one direction, and as a system they often pick a efficient one.

They are not subject to gravity or whatever force make water runs ( I’m that ignorant … )

Unlike water, they also focus their forces when a resource is found, the rest of the network stop searching and redirect effort toward food.

That makes it … alive for a start. And remarkable.
But I’m with you that jumping on the « intelligence » thing is weird.

I would say It’s more like plant finding the perfect orientation to optimise photosynthesis .

Plants are not genius. But they do process information in some way that is efficient and act on it.
The science is settled. Trust the science, government knows best.
More realistically:

The drunk driver will tell you that they're basically sober, and will be shocked when everyone can tell from their behavior that they're drunk.

The stoned driver will tell you how stoned they are, and will be concerned that everyone else on the street can tell from their behavior.

(These are, of course, broad generalizations. There will be exceptions.)
There's also github1s.com and github2s.com - on any github page just add 1s or 2s to the URL
I hope I've done justice to the original headline which was:

Google employees don't want their company bidding on a $300 million ICE contract that would surveil undocumented workers
Sorry, but I have difficulty coming up with descriptive words for people who see what might keep their people alive (watching what’s happening elsewhere) and yet fail to profit from the data.

Edit: google says the rate for Belgium has been flat this year. This is what I’m saying - after watching Italy and nyc and maybe India people should have been prepared.
> this guy

The author isn’t a guy! I agree otherwise, it’s refreshing perspective.

I spent a few years fairly deep in backend work and worried quite a bit about going back to the front. Ultimately it ended up being a valuable break and pretty much all of the important things I’d learned before were still totally transferable. I think as long as you’re learning something, regardless of the discipline, your brain will be happy and you’ll find ways to apply what you’ve learned in all kinds of places.

Sometimes the most valuable skills are fundamental in just about any discipline. Having patience to solve problems, or perseverance are huge. Finding meaning in what you do. Maintaining good work life balance. This stuff, in the long view, ends up mattering way more than what a popular API looks like right now.
I think that education ought to be available to everyone, but spending effort trying to teach someone who doesn't want to learn is a waste of everyone's time.

We've all heard the stories where someone bright joins a new workplace, is assigned drudgework and after a bit automates it until they only work two hours a week? That's someone who is willing to learn, and everyone else in the office was willing to experience boredom in order to avoid learning.

For all I know, some of those people would have perked right up if the subject matter were milling, millinery or masonry moving millier-weights of stone. Not everyone is interested in the same things, and even when their job is all about it, sometimes people aren't invested in it.

If it works, everyone involved wins. Sometimes it doesn't work.
Australia is a nation of idiots. Thats why its a nanny state.
For example, an autobahn, like in Germany, would never work in Australia. The citizens are too immature to be trusted...(btw, I am Aussie)
>Google's in the same position Microsoft was in the 00s. They don't make most of the stuff people actually want to use. You piss off the people making the stuff, eventually they start making stuff elsewhere.

I hope you're correct about that. That said, I won't hold my breath.
It looks like the site you linked doesn't do that anymore. It's just a marketing site for a book as far as I can tell
It is strange to me that the only job I have ever been drug tested for was a movie theater as a janitor.

No tech job has ever even mentioned it.
> Although it can be frustrating to go back to being a complete beginner at something over and over, each time I pick up something new I further my expertise in being a lifelong learner.

Sure, but it would be nice if revolution-for-revolutions-sake wasn't the default position of the industry.

There are plenty of good ideas (my hobby-horse: hypermedia) that have been dumped on the ground because people decided to reinvent everything, rather than building on the existing conceptual model.
That sounds really bad man. I'm originally from Germany,but lived previously in Asia(Singapore/Hong Kong), New Zealand and now Australia. I never got less than 3 weeks vacation.

The US is a good environment to innovate, but it's mostly good for companies and not people.
I'm extremely jealous of what technologies I invest time and study in.

The 'framework of the week' club has never held my interest.

If https://webassembly.org can liberate us from traditional web development, that's fine by me.
> We would not put a pilot in the cockpit without extensive flight training; why would we expect someone with no IT experience to be close to successful? They do not know what to execute on or what to prioritize which leads to endless risk reduction efforts and diluted focus. IT is a highly skilled and trained job; staff it as such.

Isn't this (general pattern) what led to the creation of the USAF as a separate military branch from the Army?

Perhaps we need a use military branch - The U.S. Software Force!
their native stack is so bad that they though the web tech would be a much better and solid alternative

this is very sad on many levels

windows needs a full reboot, and even that i'm not sure it's gonna be saved, it's poorly managed

they can't even agree on what this version is, internals says windows 10, marketing team says windows 11

billion dollar company, they said
Yo, she's a woman.
I had no idea.

Thank you.
Look for other positions early, not later. Interviewing is a skill that is learned through practice, things like resumes benefit from continuous improvement and refinement.

No just that but the interviews are a good chance to learn what skills and attitudes are valued by the places that are hiring the positions that you are interested in.
Is he actually wrong? Seems like it should be possible to judge the citations he's posted independently of his own (admittedly obvious) biases.
Millions. Big world out there
Recently I've been lucky enough to work on a software project that requires a bunch of probabilistic calculations -- so I've been needing to learn about and apply one-dimensional numerical root finding methods that were state of the art in the _seventeenth century_, and still highly applicable today [1].

Maybe a tactic could be to figure out roles or niches where a relatively larger proportion of the work involves dealing with problems or aspects of reality that change at a relatively slow rate (physical laws? logical axioms? geology? human biology?), and where you can spend a greater fraction of your time working from first principles and accumulating depth and breadth of knowledge with a longer half-life of usefulness.

On another hand, there can be a good living in helping address supply / demand imbalances in the market for $latest trendy ephemeral thing.

[1] amusingly, today you can freely download a PDF of the method, as it was published in the original latin: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1694.002...
And as I wrote in my initial post, it is summer. This is the easy time!
Oh definitely. Worked in a large company with so much money they didn't know what to do with it. But the number of experienced people leaving weekly was staggering. People would just burn out. And the management didn't give two shits about that. I wonder when this mismanagement will catch up with them as they are still growing.
"Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off."

That's the most work-centric definition of burnout I have ever seen.
"Focus on mastering stuff that doesn't change, or changes slowly. Otherwise what you learn will be irrelevant five years from now."

After you followed the x. technology trend, you should have worked out the basic concepts behind them at some point, if you not just copy pasted and edited until something somewhat worked. They are seldom really fundamentally different. So every (necessary) technology change in the future becomes more easy.

(but you might feel less motivated for unnecessary, but mandated change, that just reinvented the wheel in yet another color)
Definitely can agree with the sentiment. I've done frontend dev since '97 and have multiple times skipped a year or two without staying up-to-date with the current browser/development trends without issue.

It's generally pretty trivial to keep up and maintain usefulness by focusing on the fundamentals (I completely skipped the DHTML fad for example -- lots of widgets you could throw into your page that animated around) and instead picked up JS DOM API and CSS once browser support stabilized a bit.

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Just a note, when I visited the page there's a small bio intro on the post that introduces Rach as a woman.
This is my feeling too. Yes, beta might scare away users, but they may come back later. If someone signs up only to find it in "beta quality" and leave because its not up to their standards, those people aren't coming back and may even say negative things to others.
I'm not at all trying to crap on Etsy. I'm just saying these stories about industry leaders that are deploying to prod 100,000 times a day are able to do this because they own applications that can break and it's not really that big a deal. HBO Max, Prime Video, and Netflix pretty consistently just crash every now and again and reboot. Whatever. It comes back up and you can watch your show. Bizarre bugs are at worst minor annoyances. You can't do the same thing with a weapons platform control module. You need to test the hell out of it and know for certain it works, in every possible edge case. Releases to production are heavily gated for a very good reason.
I've definitely been caught in the trap of chasing frameworks. What finally cured me of it was to go as deep into the JavaScript language as possible. Not sure if this works for everyone, but once I spent a lot of time learning the language under-the-hood, the shininess of the hot new framework or library lost its luster and I was able to focus on what I actually needed to accomplish.
I don't think there are 8 weeks, but 6 weeks? Spain has 30 days vacation if I'm not mistaken.
According to this [0] at least BioNTech/Pfizer seem to be developing a booster shot specifically targeting the Delta variant. But they do mention that they’ve just recently “manufactured” the mRNA so it’s probably still months from being approved and ready to be deployed.

[0] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
Good video. I was wondering if you know how many harvests/flushes can one get out of a bucket? Then should one discard the remaining stuff in the bucket or can they be used for something else? Or can the woodchips be revitalized with some more fresh mycelium?
Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a fungal mycelium. Fungal intelligence (if it exists) is quite distributed, and exists mostly in the mycelial structure, since that’s where it eats and grows. It only puts up mushrooms when there are favorable conditions.

This is not to dismiss your concerns about sentience; it is an interesting topic. Compare with a raspberry, for example. That is the fruiting body of a plant. It has the capability to produce many other plants from its seeds. Part of the plant’s strategy is to be eaten by birds and then shat out, and so dispersed much more widely than it would be by wind.

Mushrooms are different in that you can take a piece of one, stick it into some growth medium, and get more mycelial growth from it, unlike the plant material around a seed. They are maybe roughly analogous to pluripotent stem cells in that respect. But a mushroom’s main reason for being is to send out spores, not to act as a central part of the organism’s “mind.” If it was essential, it wouldn’t rot after a few days.[0]

If we ignore for a moment the question of sentience, then it is clearly more ethical to eat a mushroom than a carrot, or any other root vegetable. Pulling a carrot kills the whole plant, while picking a mushroom does not kill the organism.

They’re just…weird. That’s part of why I love them. Somewhere between plant and animal, hard to map our notions of existence and intelligence onto, a mysterious form of existence, etc.

[0] Some species have very hardy mushrooms, so this reasoning doesn’t necessarily apply to them, but they are also inedible.
> patents

It appears that GPLv3 also has a patent grant

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

> 11. Patents.

> A “contributor” is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work thus licensed is called the contributor's “contributor version”.

> A contributor's “essential patent claims” are all patent claims owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor version. For purposes of this definition, “control” includes the right to grant patent sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License.

> Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.

> (...)
Yeah, it's one of those things that feels really cool, but the effect on type inference just isn't worth it imo. The fact that I have to put turbofish in sometimes when I'm not using this magic trick just because it exists is the real problem to me.

A lot of my opinion on this is informed by my experience in early-days Ruby and C++ with viable templates. It has the feel of the kinds of magic that I came to find very frustrating in both those languages.
But UK government going ahead with them anyway??!
>One solution is to raise their wages. But that can happen only if Amazon agrees to pay its delivery partners more for their services, which the company can be slow to do.

It's not a labor shortage, it's just a correction in the price of labor
I mean I already have accepted the fact that they allow Signal type apps because if the FBI or whoever requests it they can just access your display driver layer and see what you’re typing locally, no need to ban encrypted messaging. I just keep remembering how Lavabit shut down because he refused to comply and otherwise had no choice in the matter. Computers and software should not be easily trusted.
Any data to back up your claim (that rate of theft is positively caused by "less" prosecution)? Would like to see an analysis that controls for confounders as well (like effects from a pandemic).
Nice work - this is really impressive.
Ah, so you just don’t get it. That’s fine. Other people will improve things along the way.
Let's see, that flag was used for:

1. An army supporting the continuation of the enslavement of black peoples.

2. A group (KKK) who would ride out and lynch black people.

3. A very small number of people who fought Nazis.

4. Neo-nazis.

1 out of 4 isn't bad, I suppose...
> So move it somewhere where it makes more sense.

>> All the functionality is already built into Chrome right here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/storage/cookies/

It can't both be redundant and be solved by moving one of the interfaces somewhere else. Either you meant to say it's not redundant and is needed but didn't list any reasons why you think this or your idea of simply moving the redundant interface elsewhere doesn't change the point made as it'd still be rudundant and not needed, just elsewhere.

> No true Scotsman? If the user needs to do this, they're automatically not a regular user, or what?

The "No true Scotsman" fallacy comes after redefining the group once a valid counterexample from the original group is defined. It's not a fallacy in itself just to claim a group has an attribute, the claim is still falsifiable and testable by bringing forth the counter case to why a non-developer needs or wants to use a separate settings UI for it. "non-devoloper" wording chosen instead of "regular user" particularly because the ability is still in the developer UI and maybe that'll make the claim about "regular users" a little more defined.

If this were disabling the ability for users to clear cookies for a single site I'd hard disagree but I'm wracking my brain to find a realistic case a non-developer user needs/wants to view and clear individual cookies instead of site based cookies or all cached objects for that specific page. It's seemingly by definition only useful when identifying and fixing bugs from reviewing the source/dev console logs and "clear the cookies for the specific site" is already seemingly rare enough for a user to be told to do by generic troubleshooting. If being told to do it by a developer or support agent the console is still there and again I think it's fair to say we are veering far from typical things that user cares to have in a settings UI vs where it is in the dev console.
I’m French. 5 weeks is the minimum.
Then we work 40h/week but legally we should do 35h. So that give us a extra week.

Those 6 weeks are the norm.

But it become increasingly common to ask for another week as a perk it you are a skill worker.

I my last French job I had weird hours and overtime in the weekend because of the industry I was in.
It’s leads 7 and some changes weeks.

So, not 8.
> We love that our customers care about their digital rights and want to find out more about how companies are looking after their information.

Ugh.

> The police can't intercept, access or modify your messages without us receiving a warrant

So, unlike virtually every other democracy, Australia has granted law enforcement power to surreptitiously modify data owned by others.[1]

> Fastmail remains a privacy-first provider

Does not seem possible unless they move operations to a more privacy-respecting country.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28364140
A solution could be to use Cloudflare Worker scripts. You would store valid file names in their kv storage and then check if the incoming request is valid before forwarding it. This way you wouldn’t need to spend more money on infrastructure.
Another good solution is to use Cloudflare’s advanced rate limiting rules. You can block users who hit too many 404 requests within a certain time frame. But this requires a business or enterprise plan.

Spending more money on increasing infrastructure rather than reading through Cloudflare’s documentation and offerings seems kind of a waste…
This might interest you.
"Sexagesimal, also known as base 60 or sexagenary,[1] is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
Im literally sitting here with "THE AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS" - And I am still terrified and amazed with them.
You have never lived
Though, logging itself isn't releasing all of that carbon (though it's likely worse because of diesel, water and energy in milling) - the wood doesn't all go up in smoke the day it comes down, it often goes into construction that has a meaningful life of 50 more years.
> The first rule you should remember when reading HN is the real world is not HN.

Can you explain what you mean by that?
It's trying to build empathy for a viewpoint. Understanding and empathizing isn't the same as agreeing.

I've had 100% empathy for the opposite side of the political spectrum for a long time now. I talk to people there, and I try to understand their perspective. I also try to understand the Taliban's perspective, China's, and otherwise. I'm sometimes successful, and sometimes not, but I try.

The reason I am vaccinated is because I have a (modest) background in biology, and I understand the science personally. If I didn't, I might be skeptical too.

We need more articles like this one. You can't convince people without understanding them first, and really empathizing. To quote:

“Know yourself and know your enemy.
You will be safe in every battle.
You may know yourself but not know the enemy.
You will then lose one battle for every one you win.
You may not know yourself or the enemy.
You will then lose every battle.”
Art of War 3:6:1–6
I think a big part of the issue is how the subtances work and how the tests work.

Are there tests that indicate past use of alcohol or just the ones I'm aware of where the measurement drops swiftly as alcohol is processed?

Same for marijuana; is there an objective(ish) test that indicates current intoxication or only the tests that show use within about a month?
> Focus on mastering stuff that doesn't change, or changes slowly.

AKA Fundamentals :)
>If you can't afford to take a day off, then that's on you my friend. The people on your team can take up your slack if you let them. I work for someone just like you. He hoards all of the meetings and knowledge and "power" (for lack of a better word).

Lmao. Nobody else on my team can take up slack because they have literally no space on their calendar. My team is currently at half of our target headcount. Every person is currently working 60 hour weeks and is still behind. "If I let them"? "hoarding meetings"? Please, keep your assumptions about my workstyle to yourself. I literally beg my teammates and managers to join my meetings and share the load, but nobody has the time.
> Even so, it would be nice to have more players in this field.

No, it wouldn't. Because these would be state-subsidized players that would only distort normal market incentives, increase product prices, and be funded by taxpayers.
To be decided, based on whether it is worth it in terms of preventing infection among the older population.

My guess is that they decide against doing that.
compare and contrast these findings to the CDC data released today:

> Hospitalization rate for unvaccinated teens 10 times the rate for those vaccinated, CDC says (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/03/covid-delta...)
Ah, thank you for pointing it out. I had a brain fart. I edited and explained in the comment.
Which right is not guaranteed by the Constitution? Is "Constitutionally guaranteed rights" a meaningful term to separate other rights protected by the law of the land but not by constitution?
That would be an atrocious bit of engineering from the developer. But I suspect that even in that case, holding Escape as you load the page would kill the redirect.
The real question is: _which_ proxy?
I bet Fox does
Pitch that to Netflix. Space Force with Steve Carrell was decent, but done right, a Satirical Software Force could be a modern win. Especially since software has had such a transcendent arrival in our lives over the last 30 years.
> I feel like any human driver would give a wide berth to parked vehicles.

Plenty of human drivers have hit vehicles parked on the shoulder. It's not difficult to find news items about such accidents.

Random examples:
https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/two-killed-in-two-veh...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-16/man-woma...

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2021/08/28/crash-involving-...
I think they meant that sometimes you don't need secure and optimized code and hence you don't need an expert.