skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is an awful take.

> Never work in a job you're not prepared to quit.

Most humans working today can't quit their job without another job already lined up. Some people (like those in the later stages of their PhD) can't quit at all. They would end up losing potentially years of progress.

> I saw it first hand when the head of my school, a woman, started berating me for trying to get into a more 'prestigious' program than the one I was in at the time. The whole meeting was so weird I started asking around for career prospects of high energy physics - two months later I dropped out and moved to be a quant and saved myself a wasted 20s.

This situation has absolutely nothing to do with what you were responding to. Changing career tracks in your early 20s isn't a big deal if you have fungible skills that are in high demand. Not everyone is in their early 20s or has high-demand skills, and that doesn't mean it's suddenly their fault that they're being abused.

Your single anecdote where you were a brave hero who wasn't "living in a fairy tale" doesn't give you some special insight or authority to tell other people they're stupid for trying to push through the early stages of a bad situation. No one knows whether or not it'll get worse or how long it will last. They do know there will be potentially severe financial and career consequences for leaving.
> Don't be afraid to scroll down in the search results

I never knew it was fear that was preventing me from scrolling
I find quick answers through web searching literally all the time. The walled off nature of discord and similar semi-private messaging platforms is a huge downside in disseminating information and I don't see how anyone could think otherwise.
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Thanks for the correction, I didn't spot that at all.

I know that Australian immigration match passports at both ends of trips - I'm dual-national and if I don't get the right passport at the desk they ask me for the other one. So I would suspect this is domestic and the stamp is a vanity thing.
"I haven't seen a black swan, ergo it's not real."

I've been burned by this decline in the past.

From creepy results i.e. first suggestion before typing was something I spoke near the Android and I never searched for before; to not finding what I was searching for before successfully, Google has started declining.
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That won't work. Discord is pretty eager in protecting their data. They even kill legit bot-abilities to prevent people from harming their space. But to be fair, discord-space is also very toxic and borderline in some content, with phising and other attacks are being quite common. So it's justified that they protect their customers.

I guess if a big name like Google would ask them and ensures that privacy is preserved, they might cooperate to some degree.
(Replay engineer): Kind of! In the code viewer's left hand side gutter, the one that shows line numbers, if a line of code was never executed it is greyed out. Otherwise if you hover over it we show you how many times that code was executed, and from there you can set a logpoint/breakpoint.
I got my FAANG job through whiteboard interviews, but I definitely prefer homework, and I think that's a better method. But thanks for the advice.
Not even that. I just don't want to have to join a chat group to get documentation or ask questions. If I don't know the sorts of people in the server, joining is not generally something I'd be super comfortable with.
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Everyone should own a gun, and most more than 1. If we were to maintain public education (which... just no, please) gun education should be standard.
Very cool. A person can really appreciate simple web design looking at something like Luke Smith's recipe page.

So how on earth do you take an idea like this and scale it for both broad web coverage and high traffic? For that matter, just how much 'useful' text is there on the net?
In London, unarmed police stood and watched as a man was beheaded in broad daylight in front of a crowd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby
Yeah, sorry, that RegEx-topic is really not for those with a weak heart. I'll use an XML parser instead.
As much as the release names for macOS over the years were marketing gimmicks, it does make it a lot easier to zero in on the correct version when doing these types of searches.
this is it, and something I (as someone who works in music journalism and knows folks who've worked in editorial at Genius) tried to communicate to Genius for a long time. the core music annotation was just never robust enough. too many songs with no annotations, sparse annotations, or low-quality annotations, especially once you're talking about songs beyond the Hot 100 or an all-time best list.

the ideal content, I think, would be high-quality trivial produced by music nerds across the site. instead it seems a lot of the annotations are written by young hardcore fans of particular superstars, and their annotations are often far more enamored and speculative than insightful.
When is the last time you touched algos before?
I’m app-free, save for Firefox.
Yeah there was unfortunately a problem with the content-type code recently, it unfortunately categorized some binary data as HTML and tried to process it best-effort. So there's some binary soup in the index.

The bug has since been fixed, but it won't come into effect in a few weeks.
> If you ask your candidate to demonstrate how they've "delivered business value" in the past, you're basically asking them how lucky they were.

Honestly I'd be ok with an answer along the lines of "I got moved onto a project that, for $reason, had no chance of ever seeing the light of day. It was obvious why it wouldn't survive, but the business needed to keep it alive because $other_reason. Even though we never shipped, we met objectives $x and $y, we struggled with $z, and we learned quite a bit about $w. After the project was finally killed, we were able to apply what we had learned to other projects."

This at least demonstrates that the candidate understands how the project related to the business, how they can relate some of the technical aspects to business processes, how they acknowledge their failures, and how they extracted some success from a failure to apply to future efforts.

It allows us to have a conversation about different aspects of the project -- technical, business, interpersonal / political, etc.

I've been on projects across the spectrum from "never-shipped death march" to "mature cash cow", through various levels of team & management dysfunction, and I probably learned as much from the horrible failures as I have from the successes.
I'm seeing prices go down. I've been looking passively for a few years (it's like my version of doom scrolling on Facebook or something). Houses in Columbus listed for $500,000, $600,000, $900,000, etc. are dropping in price, $5k cut here, $10k cut there, and then it's a total of $25k cut. Or they pul it off the market and re-list $50k cheaper.

Neighbors just sold their house, went for $5k under asking in one of the best school districts in the state. I think it's over-priced still, but w/e. Point is there hasn't been a whole lot of selling under asking price going on, and now there is.
Maybe not in nominal terms, but does that really matter?
The other day, I was searching for something, and google's suggested, on-site answers took up 1/2 the first page. All wrong.

The actual search results were another 1/4 page of completely identical results, followed by google ad placed search results.

I thought to myself, they've finally done it. Real responses are no longer first page.

A lot of the cause for google getting crappy, is "ok google", another "all platforms are the same" form of sickness.

No, a desktop is not a phone. No, voice searching is not the same as phone, or desktop.
You want evidence? Search for a plumber/tradesperson in your area THEN try to find rational discourse about your options. There are literally 100s of results of websites remixing a small set of data, presenting it to you, and asking you to buy something to see more, when you know there is nothing behind the scenes.

This type of engine would punish these sites, in theory, and may turn up a discussion in some forum, newsgroup, etc. that is actually relevant, or insightful.
Should provide interesting metrics for which ISPs suck hardest. How much of this data can be aggregated and made public?
IANAL (...not a linguist) - but to me "spiritual home of free-market capitalism" very much emphasizes that, while many in the U.S. may talk big about free markets, the current reality is quite different.
There are services for virtual phone numbers that still work. I expect many users to use them because you won't tie your ID to your account, even if many users have been groomed to share that by now.
If an attacker is stopped before it happens, we don't really know if it would have been a rape or a mugging or an assault.

Don't take my post as fact, please research this and come up with your own opinion. Let it simmer a bit in your mind. You can call me crazy later, just let it percolate for a little bit first!

Here are my thoughts (or hypotheses, if you will):

Guns are a very political topic. There are narratives in place on both sides of the aisle. Most news is reported in service to the narratives that outlet supports.

Do the news sources you consume ever tell you about about defensive gun usage? In any context? These stories aren't hard to find if you look for them.
If I were in a band, I'd upload the lyrics to my own site, to help drive traffic. Then once people are seeing your lyrics there, they'll see the upcoming tour schedule and album release date as well.

Sure, Genius will then come along and copy-paste those lyrics, but that just means you have no reason to do it yourself.
Terrible article that didn't bother looking any deeper. Complains about the media and then does its own lazy reporting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02291-2

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475

This person's other article is claiming election fraud could have occurred, without a followup saying the mountain of evidence against (significant) fraud.
How is it that, in a country which values precision and 'doing things right' to the extent that you will be told off by bystanders for crossing an empty road at night on a red light, there could be such brazen, unethical and scaled corruption at a corporate level.

Like, at a community level, the average German citizen takes it upon themselves to speak out when they feel anyone is acting anti-socially. Which I admire!

But then Dieselgate, the Wirecard scandal, and a bunch of other non-nonsensical activities (immense coal energy industry, buying gas from Russia and general lack of large scale green policy) just seem so far removed from the Germany I know.

I really don't understand how something like Dieselgate can happen at the scale that it did. And Wirecard too - with BaFin even stepping in to harass the investigative journalists from the FT.

Is there something I am missing here?
At worst case can you use something like cookie containers or separate user profiles of chrome?

I have more reasons to dislike discord (too bloated for my network, android app not good), by the way.
Cut the sarcasm because it's going to backfire.

That there are galaxies that appear more frequently at 500 million light-years from each other, is the raw fact. I've read the papers that say that raw fact is proof of big bang LCDM, but that's not actually true. It's not "if and only if" proof, because those papers presuppose the big bang is true and squish the "500 million light-years" observation into their model. They don't consider the possibility of an eternal, eternally evolving universe where 500 million light-years might be an interesting peak of a distribution coming from some interaction of charge and gravity at large scales. Something like chemistry, but at galactic scales.

The cosmic background radiation is likewise not "if and only if" proof of the big bang model. In fact, non-expansionary, non-big-bang models predicted a cosmic temperature around 3K 50 years before Penzias and Wilson. For some reason, this history gets little coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#Ti....
There's also a curious coincidence that 2.7K is related to 1/3 electron energy density when in equilibrium with its surroundings.
https://twitter.com/sahil5d/status/1413375131078914055
^ not a fact, just speculation.

k is Coulomb's constant. F=kqq/r^2.

The plot of all known redshift data fits photon hubbling (continuous photon decay) (tired light) more accurately than galactic recession.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HI61-pDIzzSItw48K0ga...

I could spend lots of time whacking moles, but instead I'm fixing the problem at the root, and that problem is interpreting the cosmological redshift as galactic recession. The reason the academic establishment 100 years ago claimed the redshift was the Doppler effect of galaxies receding, was that it was the only "generally accepted mechanism" at the time. That bug in the code has been covered up with patches and patches of convoluted logic for 100 years. Like "space expanded faster than the speed of light". How people swallowed that one, I'll never know.

Gotta fix the bug at the root. Then talk about the rest like dark matter, dark energy, baryon acoustic oscillations.
Pregnant man. 2021, we have arrived.
For the "France -> Switzerland" border not much changed, it's still super easy to pass (maybe even easier) due to Schengen space. (Ignoring covid special cases for a moment.)

Not all but a lot of border in Schegen space already often (not always) had very lose controls years before Schegen space was established, it was one of many reasons why it was established. I.e. it was doubling down on a already well establish trend.
Funny enough France has more timezones than Russia
Of all branches of mathematics, science, and engineering, the only people on Earth stupid enough to believe in perpetual exponential growth are economists.
Andrew is where I learned that a regular joe could just buy heavy equipment and do the small excavation jobs contractors wouldn't touch. Sometimes he omits safety measures to the point that it's hard to watch (check out the recent bar sickle mower episode). So it's worthwhile reading the comments to find out what not to do also.
You're absolutely correct, and a lot came from their nerfing of search modifiers like + - "search term" and whatnot. There's also a lot of ads and "PSA" type nonsense. If I'm looking for anything COVID related for example, I have to sift through a heap of PSA nonsense that's not even related to my search query.
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It's either them or their record company, or maybe a songwriter.
I grew up attending a Rod and Gun club where that was certainly not the case. Women were outright not allowed to register unless they married in, and the misogyny was palpable. That's just my personal experience, but I have yet to meet another group that rivals their level of gatekeeping.
Works for development when there are < 5 active people and some viewers.
You are a lobster. (or frog, depending upon parable)
> How long would you suggest those tongs should be, to ensure a safe distance? For the ones that go bang.

I'm hesitant to answer in case some tries this and gets hurt.

I used a flexible claw (one like this: https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Claw-Automotive-Mechanic-Gen...) inserted into a standard copper pipe (used for taps and other plumbing) to stiffen the spring and held it at arms length.

So, about 2m was safe for me. I also suggest wearing protection for your ears as these are really loud bangs, and protection for your eyes as well (it is an explosion, after all).
Home Assistant has a lot of plugins but I haven't checked in a while. I seem to remember something about an AI/ML plugin for voice either coming soon or starting development. Everything for Home Assistant, I think, needs to be able to run air-gapped, too.

Edit: Should have included a link: https://www.home-assistant.io/
There is a plethora of research and data attempting to estimate how many crimes are stopped/deterred beforehand merely by the presence of a firearm by the victim. None of these estimates are small.

Research questioning prisoners why they don't commit home invasions list the presence of firearms in the home as the number one reason. My state has very few home invasions and nearly all of them are drug/gang related.
Not in civilised countries.
but have have you tried using rust??
I wouldn't mind...

But if I were the CEO/Manager/etc. I guess I would mind.
I guess it's a matter of taste. I can barely read anything on regular wikipedia because the inline links disrupt my flow.
Especially since fertilizer is usually made from natural gas, something the US has a huge surplus of.
They also don't give you a handy link to share the video when something does go down. Giving all the parents a way to view the video at any time is a very different proposition. Besides, the number of times you hear about a camera being shut off or obstructed, either on purpose or "accidentally" when something is hinky is afoot happens too often to think that it's _the_ solution.
This might help: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj...
So your accounts will be retroactively and publicly correlated for time immemorial when discord’s database gets dumped?

Using phone numbers for human verification is lazy and needlessly intrusive.
This is pretty cool. Reminds me a bit of C4 model [0]. The overall idea that I remember is like "google maps" for software. You can start with a high level view (like "North America") and then keep zooming in to see a neighbourhood view. This corresponds to "context" -> "component" views in C4. IIRC it's all autogenerated, where ilograph I guess is manual. Anyway very cool.

[0]: https://c4model.com/
I don't understand what's fun having two versions of everything. Two browsers, two stores, two photo apps.
I just view a lot of Wolfram’s work as actually sharing the messy details of thinking about crazy things :)

I don’t think he is the next timecube guy, but I am more glad he is sharing than not.
> While there is definitely a 'core user base' and a legit value proposition, it's nowhere near the valuations they were talking.

That's the key thing: if I'm reading things right, they had hundreds of employees and offices in Brooklyn. I'd easily believe that they could be profitable with, say, dozens of employees and probably a cheaper location but an ad-supported site with an audience which generally isn't buying much or sticking around on the site for a long time seems really hard to square with that kind of burn rate.
Fun to see, I literally wrote my thesis on the same subject a bunch of years ago (Sadly didn't have an excellent option like QuickJS as a base things on back then).

First off, unlike many AOT JS compilers that has gotten exposure in the past this one actually seems realistic. The performance numbers don't see overly fantastic so they actually DO seem to implement JS properly rather than some overly optimisic JS-alike thing (the fact that they have QuickJS as an underlying base is also a plus).

So for porting this is probably a pretty good choice and should produce something working, the bad part is that even if performance is better than a plain interpreter it'll suffer compared to what you can get with a proper JIT unless you tune your code heavily for the constraints of a compiler like this. I hope they have some seamless option for moving code to C/C++ (so you can run some perf critical stuff in C via WASM on the web and have an easy way to move the code to regular native code on the ported platform).
I've thought before about how Discord could deal with this. Ideally we would be able to set up aliases, and when joining a server get to select which alias is used. They would have to look externally in every way like they were distinct accounts including when friending or DMing people.

Alternatively, in the UI they could let you sign in to multiple accounts and then provide another layer of tabs to let you switch between those. That would help keep things organized but also can make navigation more difficult by adding another level to the navigation tree.
I'm pretty sure virtually all 2nd world passports (Russia, Armenia, Latvia...) and most third world countries (Brazil, Peru, India...) are taken pretty seriously by the US.
This mirrors what I've seen personally. I shoot quite a bit, and had a lot of friends reach out about advice on buying a first gun.

Fears were largely around the general civil unrest and BLM rioting last summer. I've heard several women say they don't feel safe being out alone anymore, and felt the need to protect themselves. I've heard a few mothers voice concerns about protecting children as well.

I always coach people to take a gun safety course before bringing a firearm into their home. It worried me seeing so much buying based on fear. I think an armed person is better off, but having a firearm you don't understand, and bought on a knee jerk fear reaction, can be dangerous. I think the best thing I, and other gun enthusiasts, can do is get out there and educate all these new owners so that they're comfortable and safer.
"Police: Woman shoots, kills man peeping into her bedroom window"

Maybe she could have just called the police? Or take a picture of him and post on NextDoor, which is what happens in our neighborhood. Of course, it always turns out to be a misunderstanding; the Amazon delivery guy trying to figure out if someone's home so they can leave a package. But at least they are just publicly shamed on the web instead of dead from a gunshot wound.
It's like projections of a graph. Been looking for something like this for so long, wow!
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Is it illegal, taboo, and bred out though?

We live in a culture of glorified violence seen widely in film, print, pop culture. We've got an enormous catalog of shooter videogames going back decades that our youngster clamor to purchase and play.

We've got a set of laws that allow you to take steps to defend yourself in your own home, with varying degrees of strictness and leniency.

Anecdotally, I know many people in the middle class who, while abhorring violence, would defend themselves and their families.

I'm not sure I agree.
The "right" balance of representation between rural and urban voters is a subjective question, but I think the fact that one party can't both overwhelmingly succeed and repeatedly, deliberately, and overtly offend millions of voters suggests that the balance of representation is working properly.

To put it a little differently, I want a political system that incentivizes cooperation and good behavior and disincentivizes bad divisiveness and bad behavior. In this particular case, our political system actually delivered on that. So while in many other regards our system may be broken, I don't think the balance of representation is particularly broken.
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Actually I do. Schools have you sign a photo and video consent policy where you get to choose whether you do or do not consent to having pictures/video of your child taken while at school.

Police work is a strawman argument. I’ll give you another strawman: installing cameras in all the bathrooms would prevent abuse in this bathrooms, wouldn’t it? Except all the unintended terrible consequences this plan is bulletproof.

Moreover, classrooms isn’t where abuse happens, by and large. Private offices, bathrooms, locker rooms, are all much more likely places.
fuck you hacker news
I think that's ~xXN0oBMa573r69Xx~ tho.