skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take as much leave now as possible and use that time to come up with a plan. A friend quit a couple of years ago, and for 18 month he couldn't decide what he wants to do. Eventually he said, 'well anything' that pays the bills and then looked for another job (which he found). But these 18 month were a total waste of time.

And I also believe if you do not have a dream now, it also won't come magically to you while doing nothing.
yeah, possibly i should have waited a lot longer to do a 'Show HN' -- i wanted to see what people thought of the idea, in general.

there is an 'All questions' link:

https://asknoam.com/questions

i don't have a good way yet to do unpublished/draft work, and didn't want to crowd up the results with unfinished questions/answers.

but the main 'problem' is just effort -- tracking down the answers, documenting, transcribing text from video, deep-linking to books where appropriate/necessary/possible, etc.
You should try getting a referral. You can cold email people with very detailed and personalized messages that showcase why you are awesome and why you are interested in working at X.
Public shaming by respected community members is probably somewhat effective. However, they chose not to do that here. Without knowing more, I have to trust their judgment. But I recognize that it’s unsatisfying.
Wow, that's a really crappy experience. Personally, I had a pretty good experience with their customer service. My stylus broke after a few weeks (just stopped working for writing entirely). They sent me a new one right away and didn't require me to mail mine back.

I think the way they do returns is pretty unfriendly compared to other electronic companies I've gone through this with. I was going to exchange my tablet after I bricked it, and they wouldn't send a replacement until they received and processed the return. Based on the label, the return center is in Hong Kong (IIRC), so it probably takes a while to get the replacement even if everything goes according to plan. I ended up recovering the device myself (that ordeal's another story, but that's entirely my fault) so fortunately I just had a week without use of it, not a month+.

I would expect it to be beneficial to them to send the replacement first along with a return box, then charge for a whole new device if the return isn't received on time. Maybe that only works if you have the scale and resources to build such a system that companies like Amazon have.
Awesome! Specifically not on my list already there's: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming; Smalltalk-80: The language and its implementation; The Architecture of Symbolic Computers and Project Oberon: The design of an operating system and compiler.

This reminds me Niklaus Wirth's Compiler Construction probably belongs in this thread.
Out of curiosity, to whom is the Moderation Team accountable?

Seems like they and the Core Team should be accountable to the same oversight board.

I don’t know the inner workings of the organization, so apologies if I’m asking a dumb question.
One of the things I've hated about being a part-time systems administrator is the fear of the unknown. All the little changes to config files, the different installed programs, everything required to get the system working is scattered around the disk. It creates fear around making changes, because who knows which little configuration change was required to get everything working? I understand that better organizations try to combat this with rigorous processes and documentation, with great effort.

I recently evaluated NixOS for a new server deployment. Being able to describe the entire state of the system in a single file is magical - it is so clearly The Right Way to do things. I am not a Functional Programmer but using the Nix language as just a config file is fairly straightforward. I left convinced that a simple functional language is the best way to make more complex config files, way better than Jinja2 templated YAML. (Though, functionistas, come down out of the ivory tower and make a language that looks C-family. Yeah, "it's just syntax" so why not make it easy for the proles like me to learn.)

However, I ended up giving up on NixOS for two reasons.

First, while learning the basics of Nix was easy I wasn't confident about the more complex things. Packages were missing features and I was going to have to start investing in reading and writing lots of Nix code. I couldn't continue ignoring the many intricacies of the Nix system if I wanted to be confident that I could quickly fix an issue at 2AM on a Saturday. As others have noted, there is a lack of good intermediate-level documentation apart from this great "How to Learn Nix" blog. My whole interest in Nix was being able to completely document the system so that future me or someone else could quickly understand how the system is configured. That doesn't work if you can't count on that person knowing Nix very well. Even if I invested in learning Nix it would feel like professional malpractice to dump some heavily customized Nix system on the next guy to come along.

Second, there's no LTS. That's fine if it's a dev machine, or if you have a professional full-time ops team watching package changelogs and testing upgrades. My machines need to survive with bare-minimum supervision.
Yeah my bicycle and bus pass find this all hilarious.

But by all means explain to me how strip mining the planet is saving it.
> Apparently the Remarkable ones need replacement often.

Not really. It comes with 8 or 10 tips. I go through a tip in a month with very active use. New tips are pretty cheap and come in a batch. Sorry don’t remember the cost.
> Zero people in the real world avoided using the Linux kernel because Linus was brusque.

Actually, the best example of a project where the leadership of the project was so toxic as to drive away potential contributors would probably be glibc under Ulrich Drepper, which got so bad that most distributions abandoned glibc for the eglibc fork. (See https://lwn.net/Articles/488847/ for a high-level discussion).
I understood that mentality, somewhat, in the past, but what is preventing you from purchasing a plan under ACA?
it's a pretty limited question/answer set thus far.

there is a link for 'All questions' here:

https://asknoam.com/questions
I was in a pretty similar situation and asked around in a larger organization I was a member of. Got a long shot offer that initially didn't sound too appealing (customer service) through my network, that fortunately put me on the right path to enabling me to automate my job away and change to engineering.

Thought I was just lucky, but way later on in my career, I learned that most opportunities don't happen in the first or second layer of your network, but in your third one (which kind of makes sense regarding the exponential growth).

I think it was a study referred to in Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" that by the way also gave me a good pointers in terms of marketing myself (even if I won't ever be the full scale hustler he is).

Anyway, back to the point: Barring any hard credentials, a good option might be making yourself vulnerable and just reach out for help in your network. Not just friends, but friends of friends, their friends, clubs, associations, organizations. Get a warm intro. My biggest insight back then was that I figured I didn't need to know somebody directly to profit from network effects.

Aim a bit broader, not neccessarily directly for your dream role, but for a company that might have it, has a good culture and is on an upwards trajectory.

Good luck!
Hadoop was built on the notion that commodity hardware, when pooled together, can be extremely cheap and powerful. The problem is, to manage it, is a nightmare. Cloudera/HWX and others were unable to reduce the management burden and their inability to pivot to a cloud based architecture really sunk their ship.
In my personal experience such statements are actually not rare among specific minorities, and only in spaces between those minorities. They will never be said in a public way, because it makes them targets. I've been pulled aside by fellow minorities and warned against communities I had expressed interest in in the past, always in private in confidential spaces.
The cool thing about it is you can SSH into it/do whatever you want from what I've read. There are some cool repos out there (check the sub). Eventually... I would like to mess around with it. It is a cool device though, the drawing feeling because the screen is textured and it "feels good" writing on it. It's thin and lasts a long time. Has it changed my life or anything, no not really it mostly sits with my SG2 that I will use at some point.

As an aside, I also use this drawing (Krita) graphics tablet Kamvas Pro 12 GT-116 as an external monitor, just for anyone looking for a "drawing workflow extension" of some sort. I have used Sketch on the SG2 that's pretty nice too.
That's a naïve reading. They are dragging more into the public sphere than necessary to raise their grievances.

They could have kept the statement confined to disagreement with the government structure. Leave it ambiguous between whether it was a theoretical weakness in the structure, or a practical one where they already experienced the inability to censure.

People like goss. Wagging your eyebrows to imply something definitely did happen - but you're too classy to release details - is not a insipid act.
I'll concede this probably does happen to varying extents in some (but not all) workplaces. But since it seems we're in agreement that it isn't the only factor at play, I'm sure you can see why using unequal outcomes as the sole evidence of discrimination in any specific workplace or industry is flawed.

Furthermore, I would argue that even in cases where discrimination is actually occurring, "stop acting in a sexually discriminating way because you're impeding someone's will" can be the only just solution to the problem. The alternative of actively and intentionally discriminating against other people in the majority group who did nothing wrong is unacceptable, both because it does nothing to address the root of the problem, and because discrimination on the basis of irrelevant factors like sex is wrong regardless of who the target of that discrimination is.

What's worse is when people use unequal outcomes as the sole justification for actively discriminating against majority groups, because now not only are you perpetrating these injustices in the pursuit of an ideal percentage of men and woman in the industry, but you're also running the risk of being wrong about what that ideal percentage is in the first place, actively pushing men and women into roles they wouldn't naturally choose in an ideal world where unjust discrimination didn't exist.
Some SIM cards work together with certain banks to provide NFC payments. This is because the SIM card is a security chip by design, and some banks didn't trust the security of the smartphones that were common back then.

I don't think they contain their own NFC hardware, but I've definitely seen a connection there.
Yes. The other 20% implements Raft consensus.
By that rationale, you should be buying new cars every time they release a new model.
hmmm they are fucked, such a horrible UX compared to vscode remote development.
Technical communities are formed around common purpose. They are not goals in themselves. Community needs only to be healthy enough to get things done.

Take for example OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt may be an asshole sometimes, but he knows stuff can still steer the technology. OpenBSD is extremely opinionated even technologically, but it's really good.
> State driver license in USA

In which states? The only thing I have been fingerprinted for is in the US is The Global Entry program.
You're right that there are places like that in the US, but we haven't been building like that for nearly 100 years at this point. Those places are historical curiosities, and not at all representative of the United States.

And before anyone says I should just live in places that are like that, It's not so easy to just pick up my life and move somewhere else.
It's also likely that lowering launch cost does (and already has) increased demand. But the timescales are large. It took SpaceX less time to make a reusable rocket than it will take the industry to pivot to more and cheaper launches.

But it is starting to have an affect already. There are multiple companies talking about launching and maintaining satellite "constellations", not just Starlink. Launching and maintaining that kind of network is difficult if you can only launch once a year and it costs what launches cost 10 years ago.
Unfortunately language isn't a static thing and is somewhat defined by the dominant usage of something over time (unless you're in the rare country that has fully prescriptive language). I had been using crypto as shorthand for cryptography for a long time but cryptocurrency quickly subsumed that. If I talk to any of my non technical friends, and even technical friends who don't touch cryptography, crypto = cryptocurrency. I think the war is lost here.
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And to add to this, there are other things like the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion which for most people boils down to about a $100k tax credit.
The second link in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306) includes multiple alleged statements that are about identity politics. One example being: "saying incredibly horrible sexist and racist things such as 'kill all men', and actively trying to prevent white men from speaking at tech conferences" Which seems to be connected to identity politics.
What's "a community" here?

If this "moderation team" felt that there is no option but to quit, that means that they were rejected by the community, complete with the "CoC" they tried to enforce.

Seems like everything is fine to me.
Goodbye and good riddance. Rust is growing up, and it absolutely does not need a cadre of petulant preteens claiming moral authority over every user of the language (or at least every user who wants to discuss the language with others in public).
I can understand the moderation team not going object-level in the name of professionalism, especially given that [whoever this really means something to] probably already know exactly what's up. That doesn't make it any less strange or jarring to someone on the outside looking in. Can anyone provide context?
Drepper was an asshole and people eventually routed around him, yes. The system worked. What people forget, too, is that Drepper's problem wasn't just an obnoxious personal style, but a ridiculous level of technical conservativism that led to critical bugs remaining unfixed for years. It was the latter problem that eventually prompted people to fork glibc, not the former.
I thought Knuts Literate Programming book (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html) was extremely interesting, the paper "the errors of TeX" which is a part of it is one of the more interesting papers I've read.

Joe Armstrong used to recommend Algorithms + Data structures = Programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures...) but I haven't read it.

Okay I know you said no to the little schemer but you technically didn't mention The Reasoned Schemer which is just amazingly fun to go through and wrap your head around (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer-second-editi...). Also see Will Byrds latest strangeloop keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffW-7ika0E
Language is what's used.

Words can change meaning, like "drone", "literally" and so many others.
Oy, swedish link behind paywall...
Excuse my ignorance, but in what way is this bare-metal? I've always taken that term to mean running without an operating system. My only assumption is because it's not run in the cloud, but I figure that would be a given since "Raspberry Pi" is in the name.
The core team is responsible for -
Managing the overall direction of Rust, subteam leadership, and any cross-cutting issues

It doesn't sound like they directly work on the compiler?
> the company is bound by legal concerns to not reveal why the person was fired

I think this is a fairly common misconception. While you might sign an anti disparagement agreement when you were hired, those tend to be one-way and designed to protect the company. And the bar to prove a defamation case is extremely high.

AIUI, most employers simply do not disclose details on firings as a matter of policy, not law.
Here’s my post summarizing new testing features in Django 4.0: https://adamj.eu/tech/2021/09/28/new-testing-features-in-dja...
I assume the intent is to capture it while surveilling someone while they enter their PIN, not necessarily from images harvested from social media or anything. Since many PIN entries show at most the most recently entered number, you'd need multiple images to capture the PIN. But if you can capture it from reflections in their eyes, then you can surveil them from a greater distance and more stealthily if you've got a good camera.
Godaddy has always been a slimy registrar.

Amyone who has registered with them knows this.

Go with Goole for $13. You will never hear from them. You won't have to worry about drug fueled marking bs, or unethical behavior.
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It's actually the opposite. In a repeat of what happened previously in the NPM community, people are asking for the CoC to actually be enforced _because of_ identity politics, rather than associating CoCs with identity politics.

Going around saying things like "Kill all men" is just about as obvious as a CoC violation can get.

Additionally, having members of the same governance body that are romantically involved probably isn't very effective strategically.
CaRP sounds a little fishy though.
Perhaps “living creatures” is a bit broad if taken too literally, but in context here it seems like the implied topic is clearly animals. One reason the base assumption is caring is because we have laws against harming, torturing or being cruel to animals, and laws against killing some animals. Another reason to care is the growing scientific and public awareness that animals have intelligence, consciousness, and feelings. A third reason is that we have a base assumption about caring for humans, both socially and physiologically, and seeking a moral consistency might automatically lead to the reasonable question “shouldn’t we care about animals too?”.

Since your question implies some, are there reasons that we shouldn’t care about animals or other living creatures?
In fairness, the vast majority of tracks that use the amen break aren't going to make "millions". It started out as a few underground records that would have a relatively limited distribution. There was a lot of sampling that went on and nobody really thought anything of it because people weren't making large sums of money from it. In fact underground artists would often sample each other too and nobody minded. The problem was the amen break got sampled and almost nobody knew where it came from. It then got resampled and resampled, it was sampled so often that it started to appear on sample disks as if it were public domain. It's only relatively recently that it's become public knowledge. Heck, I'd been producing music for years before I realised and probably used that sample myself. The Winstons would have had no way to know they were being sampled either because of how niche that music scene was (and to some extent still is). So by the time the industry was big enough that artists were making a killing from that sample, it was already out there and everywhere.

I'm not saying it's fair but its far from the only sample to have been used everywhere with little recognition and sampling was one of the pivotal revolutions that gave the rise electronic music.
I think the joke is just old, if the joke you were going for is the "I identify as an apache helicopter" type jokes.

It's just old and not interesting now, it's been 5+ years of those jokes and they don't have a bite anymore.
The article seems to take wildly optimistic cost, capacity, and capability claims for granted. It then verges on the ridiculous, talking about Mars terraforming with giant light sails. I couldn't read past that, as it seemed to go into more and more examples of improbable technologies that are stopped by many more concerns than launch capacity.
> I don't see the connection between cursive, etc. and case at all.

Linguists do. It's one of their standard examples.

Bicameral case comes in because some words get special rules for letters. Capital letters in English by example are used to lead proper nouns.

To get an English speaker through this, usually the path is:

1. In English, it's expected that formal text writes God in blackletter. Though this practice has fallen out of place, it's still a rule.
1. In English, it's expected that quotations and references are placed in italics.
1. In English, it's expected that the use of cursive implies non-formal friendly text.

Et cetera.

Given those, the fact that there are different letterforms for religious text should be relatively easy to understand as a divisive case (pardon the phrasing.)

At any rate, the academics recognize it; if you don't, that's fine by me.

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> Case exists in all those you mention, it's orthogonal.

It really isn't. They're exactly the same thing. In each setup, it's letters that get a different letter-form because of rules about what's being written.

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> And of course various shorthands use in handwriting, much like our cursive.

Yes, thank you, that was why I brought it up.
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Through the years I've seen dozens and dozens of "cures" for "MS" in mice (I put MS in quotes because, at this point, I've grown skeptical that the induced encephalitis mouse model is all that helpful in predicting drug performance for humans with MS). The closest thing we have to a "cure" is actually a medication that's been on the market for a while, but it was used to treat certain types of blood cancer before they discovered that it works really well for MS too.

It's now available generically: Rituximab. There's another hack that Genentech was able to patent and approve for MS to produce Ocrelizumab, which does the same thing as Rituximab but costs an order of magnitude more. Because that's how the world of big pharma works.

In essence, wiping out your plasma cells (a.k.a. B cells or lymphocytes) seems to stop MS in its tracks. Where my neurologist would typically see 2 or 3 new lesions in any given patient per year, instead now my neurologist is seeing 2 or 3 new lesions per year in the population of all their RRMS patients who are on Rituximab (or Ocrelizumab). And it turns out the immune system can get along pretty well with all the other cells types it has, such as T cells.
It's our industry that's getting old. You used to be able to start a big project like a compiler or a browser and have some hope of producing a functional result "organically" (for lack of a better word). But we've reached the point where we're no longer just scrabbling together hovels with scrap wood, we're trying to build the Pyramids or the Hoover Dam now. A few anonymous internet denizens are not going to be able to accomplish that.
> Also, don't butter the pan. Put the butter in the batter.

Does it emulgate properly? The batter I use is pretty liquid. What's the advantage over buttering the pan?
People commonly mistake biometrics for authentication; they are only shallow identification.