skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a month in Kazakhstan in 2012. I am an American and speak and read decent Russian. I agree that the experience was amazing and agree with your opinions of Almaty and Nur-Sultan. I found the overall experience to be very similar to visiting other post-Soviet Central Asian countries.

Baikonur the city, not the cosmodrome, was an entirely different experience. Baikonur is essentially a Russian military outpost that continues to exist as a place for the personnel and families of Roscosmos and the various entities that exist to operate the cosmodrome, which is several kilometers away. You must pass through a military checkpoint to enter the city and military police patrol the city. Don't stay up late drinking in the central square! You will be helpfully escorted away by the militia.

If you talk to the local non-Russians living in Baikonur, they are not huge fans of the Russian presence. You can observe the youths swearing and yelling at the buses of Roscosmos personnel and tourists returning from launches. They would be glad to see the Russians leave, even though it would be a massive blow to the economy.

One of the first things the native Kazakhs did after the collapse of the Soviet Union was build a mosque right outside of the entrance of the city of Baikonur. It is quite nice and I visited it with no problem. Those who wish to attend mosque that live within city must pass through a checkpoint to leave the city and another to get in. There is no mosque allowed within the city, although there is a Russian Orthodox church, which I also visited with no problem.

The cosmodrome itself is an amazing place worthy of a huge essay, so I will save my observations for a topic relevant to that.

I am hopeful the Kazakh people can find a future free from Russian influence and the Russian-backed strongmen that have controlled the country in post-Soviet times. Other than Russian colonial outposts like Baikonur, the culture and religion of the people there are quite different that those of Russia.
Or base64 encode the orginal message :p
Clashes over EU’s New “Green” Classifications for Nuclear Energy and Natural Gas
And it is about $100 per BTC transaction that the miners extract (most of it in form of the coinbase mining reward, some of it in the form of fees).
Reproducible Builds in December 2021
In 2022 who still uses the term "courting"?

I feel like it's a term used by somebody from the Edwardian era who needs a refill on their moustache wax.
Serious question, not trying to start a debate. How does abject poverty in an openly communist country make you think about the "deep impact of consumerism?"
you will see that I avoided referencing specific cultres and made claims about the past. too much racism / elitism on HN in some threads, although those issues need to be discussed too.
Please ignore AussieWog93. georgestephanis is correct: autism politics are indeed messy but as an autistic person who in a different age would be classed as Asperger's, I detest the term for the same reason georgestephanis does.
> when the company intends to let you go, they don't ask for your opinion. Two-week notice is professional and more than enough

American culture is so bizarre.

Here in the UK notice (in both directions) is usually contractually 1 month after 6 months, sometimes up to 3 months. If they really want to get rid of you they can pay you to job seek full-time for a few months, which is great. In practice, you get several months of relaxed handover.

After 2 years you get statutory protection and can't be fired, only made redundant, which comes with 1 week notice per year worked.
This sounds like an internal political game between your boss and the skip level and has really nothing to do with your performance.

The non-asshole way of your skip-level to ensure a critical project gets delivered in time is to discuss the deadlines and priorities with your boss and KEEP HANDS OFF THE TECHNICAL DETAILS! Then your boss should break it down to milestones, answer your technical questions, and keep politely bugging you if they believe you are going to miss the deadline.

If the skip-level is not happy with the progress, they should express it to your boss, and the boss should get back with some compromises (hiring more people, simplifying requirements). The golden rule of management is that all praise should be public, and all criticism should be private and candid.

Setting up a meeting with 2 bosses and 1 employee where the skip-level is blowing steam at the employee, forcing the employee to point fingers to the boss is a sign of GROSS managerial incompetence. Skip-level looking through technical decisions (rather than user-impacting perf metrics) is another sign of GROSS incompetence. Having 2 managers and 1 junior programmer work on a feature is yet another red flag.

The key takeaway is that your skip-level is either an incompetent asshole blowing steam off, or trying to get rid of your boss, using this as an excuse. You can find out by checking their previous history (how long they worked together, who hired whom, how big is the company, whos idea was the project) and asking some questions (suggest adding some features to the project to both bosses in separate conversations, and ask about their overall project opinion in between).

If the skip-level is trying to kick out your boss, they may keep you nonetheless, or may try to kick you both off the boat. Your boss may also want to scapegoat you to keep their job (and it may work if the company is shitty). If the skip-level is just an emotional asshole, your boss should give you some hints about not taking it too seriously, so then it's up to you on how much shit you want to put up with.

Either way, most software companies these days are an absurd theater fueled by gossip and human emotion, while the actual product is secondary. You need to either account for it and be cynical, or just ignore that part and be ready to sometimes get fired or blamed without any reasonable explanation.
if your manager is ok with it, don't register it as a sick day. Makes it potentially more complicated with the company doctor. Just consider it a workday spend on ...whatever. Manager being ok with it means you deserved it though :) (EU based engineering manager speaking)
Oh to go back to 2002, when there was still hope for the future. Personally I’d just leave it that way and remind myself of what I was doing on those dates.
> Makes a lot of sense for competitors to be in the Fediverse.

Or maybe not. Maybe code hosts and forges should just be code hosts and forges and I don't think embracing github's model is a good idea.

Edit: I wish cooperability between forges was easier, I just don't like the "becoming a social site" part of the idea
GPT-3 needs proper prompting to get the right output. Here's the same question as in the blogpost posed differently

Student: Why is it unsafe to walk backwards down a staircase with my eyes closed ?

Teacher: You can't see the step behind you!

The "teacher" here is GPT-3 and answered the question easily. People are in denial of genuine progress.

Student: Do you think I could predict changes in stock prices better if I used 10-year Treasury rates or the temperature in Curtin, Australia?

Stock trader: I don't know. You might be able to, but I can't. The problem is that the temperature changes are so small that they won't be statistically significant. It's a question of sample size. An individual day's temperature in one location is far less likely to be an indicator of stock prices than the interest rate.

Student: Why is that ?

Stock trader: That's because interest rates are much more likely to affect the economy than a single day's temperature.

Student: Why do interest rates affect the economy ?

Stock trader: Interest rates are a measure of the cost of money, so the interest rate is a measure of the cost of capital. If the cost of capital is high, firms will borrow less money and they'll invest less. That means they won't be as profitable, and stock prices will fall.

Quiz question: Who is the President of the United States?

Answer: Donald Trump.

I did get junk answers as well (it said that Jimi Hendrix is the president) but I have a better intuition of how to put GPT-3 in the right "frame of mind". GPT-3 is a text completion engine. It doesn't know whether you want it to produce a story, a reddit flamewar or a PhD thesis. You need to provide the hints. One prompt cannot answer any and all questions. If it were that good we would be jobless. It's far from perfect but it's beginning to get there.
A lot of stuff pisses me off about the tech and financial services industries. Money from nothing is being poured into nothing and we completely lost sight of what's important. Our collective well-being is. True, long-term, sustainable development is.

We have bubbles, cyberspace and cults instead. Cryptocurrencies manage to be all three of these.
Kings Quest I, Zork, or Adventure maybe. :)
Well, depends on the specifics: I was embedded in an operational unit so neither my manager or their boss were techies. It was often necessary for urgent issues for the upper boss to talk/meet with me directly to hash something out and translate from operational needs to technical capabilities and logic.

But both of them always filled each other in, and it was never about any performance issues on my part.
As much as I like some of the articles on Daring Fireball, it annoys me to no end that this massively popular website is basically unreadable on a mobile device.

John, could you please add just a few lines of CSS or something?
I think you have to learn, pointing out that some design decisions are from your manager is a worthless point, I also have a coworker who doesn't have an opinion and changes idea on each contrasting message on a PR discussion, but you need to have yours and your knowledge and ability to reply, they hired you to contribute not to do what you are told, otherwise go be a policeman.

In the end someone told you to do something, and you didn't have the knowledge to disprove and YOU did that, not your manager

On the other hand they hired someone fresh of university who still need to create meaningful knowledge, so maybe they could've defined better the figure they needed beforehand

On the other hand, I think you should be happy and motivated to learn and improve for yourself, in few years probably you won't even remember your boss and managers names, and on the other hand I don't see any personal criticism in here, given the fact those are criticism and I see myself making too, and of course seeing an improvement or will to learn would definitely be seen as a good thing
> Why do we need to feel like we each "got the better out of each other?"

Because both of you are parties in a deal and have your own best interests in mind
> so there's little point in trying to objectively categorize them

I think there's more than a little utility provided by the communication it enables. I'm all for non binary identities and letting people identify across them as they want, however with any change we must also recognize the utility in the previous norms so that we can preserve some useful aspects as we construct new norms.
I attempt to get at the fourth try. Before that is luck, after that is guesswork
I like to believe that four is the skill sweet spot.
> Monkeytpe won’t let Keen run up the leaderboard, but he did win another typing competition using the CharaChorder to hit 267 WPM with 76% accuracy.

IMHO, 76% accuracy is honestly low. If the person has to sacrifice so much accuracy to hit 267 I'm not sure it's worth it. For most typing, making a mistake actually interrupts your thought process. This speed is only achievable/useful when there are text on the screen that you blindly retype.

This reads like a PR article.
It's not just pushing web-based readers: I think the largest thing behind Google Reader nostalgia was social. It was Google's biggest social network to date in terms of daily active usage. (They'll throw stats that Google Plus did "better", but who is nostalgic for Google Plus, exactly?) That's why it got the closest to breaking mainstream: it wasn't just "go out in the wilds and hunt for RSS feeds on blogs" like most web-based readers appear to be to a new user, but "hey, follow my Gmail email in Google Reader and I'll share some cool things I read and then you can also yourself subscribe to where I got that". It was the conversation around stories. It was the network effect of all the Gmail users at the time.

Web-based readers today are better than Google Reader was in terms of features and data sources supported, etc. (I'm partial to and pay for Newsblur myself.) But none of them have the network effects or "social scene" of Google Reader at its peak. Likely none of them ever will. They are competing today with Twitter and Facebook. Those are the spots where people share and comment on the articles they read today.
Based on my experience not giving too much notice is good advice.

In one job, I gave a months notice to leave for a startup. Just before I left, some extra urgent work came in and I was retained for a couple of months as a contractor to avoid leaving a key client and my former employer in a lurch. It actually benefitted the startup that I was able to incrementally transition.
Not a recruiter, but this is from the candidate side. Please read the resume before inviting anyone.

Far too many times I have shown up to an interview and been expected to know about tech I have never used, nor do I mention on my resume.

Plenty of other times (albeit most often from external recruiters), I have gone into interviews where they apparently wanted only senior developers and within the first 3 minutes been told "you are a lot more junior than we thought."

One time this has kind of worked out for me, but the rest of the time, it was just a waste of everyone's time.
This is the "post-apocalyptic" Microsoft. These things are open-source and supporting Linux, which was unthinkable for Bill's Microsoft.

MS used to call Linux cancer, and now they're running Linux servers for people. MS used to spread FUD that it's irresponsible and amateurish to expose source code of programs, and later they had to acquire GitHub and npm to stay relevant.

Microsoft had to adapt, because the old Microsoft has lost. Remember MS was selling very expensive per-CPU licenses for servers to run IIS, ASP.Net, and SqlServer. Admin tasks that we use webapps for were supposed to be a combination of Office, Access, VBA, native Windows applications, and a dash of ActiveX.
> Weighing 5.2 ounces, ... [the type of truffle] frequently sells at prices that range from $800 to more than $1,000 a pound.

So he planted an orchard of trees containing truffle spores, waited 9 years, and then found a single $300 truffle. Hopefully he finds more because otherwise that's a very bad ROI (unless he's doing it purely for the flavor/hobby in which case it's a good ROI).
Except they already do. Seatbelts for starters. Driving is not a right in the US, but a privilege - it’s why you need a license to operate one.
Google Maps link:

https://goo.gl/maps/h3tysZTPWYyUtaMy9
I thought this fairy tale died with Peter thiels quit college for $100k disaster.
GPS sends time in its data stream so doesnt need external clock, most car clocks use this now I believe though my nissan leaf is exactly 4 hours out to the microsecond so some programmers ignore timezones :-)
I got banned from my local parking app for "violating the terms and conditions". Though to my knowledge I used the app as a normal user would and to this day I'm mystified about what event caused the ban.

Thankfully there are still kiosks that accept physical credit cards so I am able to legally park my car. It's a lucky thing I have a credit card that hasn't been banned because there no longer seems to be any way to pay with quarters.
People talk, if it’s not patentable it would be pretty hard to prove that one of the salaried researchers new truffle farm business is a trade secret.
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You have colored in some details, but it's still a theory about a secret project of mysterious Russians and Russia sympathizers, only now they're allied with some Russian version of Alex Jones.

It's worth noting that this special book was published during the reign of Yeltsin, a Clinton puppet installed and protected by various Western agencies. That could be a reason there is some consideration of similar actions in the opposite direction.
She's not, no.
I would add in this context, there may be a difference of opinion between the direct manager and the upper manager on a) how much OP is capable of and b) whether OP will get flustered if they're expected to perform near the higher of the two estimates of their capability. The direct manager may have been shielding OP from the higher standards of the upper manager out of concern for their emotional wellbeing, even if they think they're capable of the higher standard of performance once brought to it gradually.
couch it however you want but you're deluded if you think your projects stack up against even a BS grad at FAANG if you're discounting their abilities just because they got in through grinding LC.
Trump won the first time because every little thing he said or did was carried repeatedly by the media, for days.

Articles like this significantly help his 2024 run.
> no reason to lock kids out of school for 2 years.

Maybe they didn't want the kids spreading it to people who would have been hospitalized?
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So i work with this person that is really slow. She should have accomplished a task in 2-4 weeks and it took her 6 months. We gave her 3 months to accomplish it. So at some point you do need to point out that a task should not have v taken as long as it did and ask the person why it did. Was there some sort of unknown issue that caused the task to take 4x longer than expected
"Managing up" exists for people who want to remain in a company long term and typically found in large organizations with bad managers. When the job market is bad, it is worth the effort. In this job market? I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
Proceed to work on your own startup on nights and weekends. Start with a side project that solves your own problem. Get small number of users and iterate till you get to product market fit. Then raise money...
Listen to this OP, I agree with what is stated here. You got caught in the cross-fire of internal politics.
>Your boss is gaslighting

That's not gaslighting. Or not how the word should be used. It has a very specific meaning that somehow lost in the last couple of years, saw a lot of times on reddit too where people use it wrongly all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

In OP's case gaslighting would be something like this

- BOSS: I told you to finish this project X weeks ago

- OP: But this is the first time we sat down talking?!

- BOSS: Are you joking? We had this conversation 2 weeks ago! Right, MANAGER?

- MANAGER: Yes it was after the big meeting, can't believe you you forgot that too

etc

That being said the boss doesn't come around nice to me from OP's story
To put it plainly, sometimes companies know they do not have the resources to meet a deadline and to deliver a feature or product with the shape and quality they have promised.

When that deadline fails to be met, middle managers need someone's head to roll in order to avoid being blamed themselves.

At that moment, middle managers start conspiring against some of their subordinates, and they often build an argument that some engineer is not "performing well enough" or some other similar claim.

The key is that at companies with this kind of culture the burden of proof is placed on the defense. Meaning that if your manager claims you are not meeting their expectations, it's on you to prove you are performing well enough, and at that point you are pretty much fucked, because they can simply say they don't believe you (the entire point of it is to shift blame, no matter how esoterical the thought process is).

Ultimately, you need to think about your own wellbeing and if you are willing to work under some sociopath. You can add all the layers you want to the problem, but it comes down to some people making fake promises and having some coworkers or employees pay for those lies.
Can someone describe the lingo 'fediverse'? I can hazard a guess but don't want to make assumptions.
+1 for dive - I just wish it performed better on larger images.
Has anyone had more luck from using podman and alternative builders?
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> awesome ad block built in and by default

I used to use Brave on Android, until the day they placed an ad on the home screen (new tab page? it's been a long time), and I looked in settings and couldn't disable it, so I uninstalled it, left an honest review, and never looked back.
Mushrooms can be super fickle - the conditions under which a spore will grow depend on soil composition, acidity, temperature, and other things. Morels are also famously hard to farm. Most people just hunt for them after forest fires.
Then it sounds like there's no point to be made, you're just cherry-picking not only quotes, but cherry-picking random historical figures, in the hopes that the reader will concoct a point. This isn't even bumper sticker politics. This is Rorschach test politics.
> Whereas these would never (usually) be used 'in the field'

You don't want people to get into bad habits.
Well, if we consider different causal factors, your proposed cause could be just as valid as a direct genetic cause.

It may be that the societal rejection autistic people face give them a perspective that enables a more rational worldview, or it could be directly caused by the autism itself.

Interested to see studies that follow up on this.
I remember in college in my networking class beej's guide was recommended by the professor and its stuck with me for 7 years. I've written a lot of socket based programs over the years and I still revisit it from time to time. Its the perfect guide. I also just point people to it whenever they ask about socket programming and basic networking because the guide explains it so much better than I ever could.
This is a struggle most on the spectrum can relate to. Teaching ourselves to understand, read the room, interact with others.
There's also a difference between checking for each donor's puppy-killcount, and asking for donations to be made in puppy blood. Kinda stretching the analogy here.
Immigration. When you're in the US on a Visa (maybe not all of them?), you need to have a job or you risk getting deported.
Sounds like you can’t handle criticism.