skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're talking about.

If you try to walk across the desert without drinking water you will be dead in two days. That's not "the long run."

If you carry water and salt with you, you can make it a week or more, but not if you strategize poorly: walking during the day instead of at night will deplete your water much more rapidly, and if you treat your canteen carelessly you will lose the water. If you have the knowledge to navigate to places with drinkable water along the way, or the knowledge and materials to distill water from crushed plants, you can make it for months, longer if you brought food or can find it. (Me, I caught and ate raw grasshoppers.) You cannot emotionally manipulate the desert; you cannot trick it; it will not treat you more gently because you beg it for mercy. Rationality (knowledge, skill, heedfulness, and above all epistemic humility) is your only hope. It's no guarantee, because a rattlesnake or a hailstone may strike you at random, but it's your only hope.

It's not just the desert. The same is true of the ocean, of mushroom hunting, of wasp's nests, and of the frozen North with its alpine sweetvetch. Nature's ways are subtle and merciless, but they are amenable to understanding, and rationality permits you to order your life in harmony with them and thus survive and prosper a little while; though not, as you say, in the long run.

The whole world is like this, all except for tiny special contexts humans have created where the ruthless laws of Nature are suspended a little bit, where mercy and humanity and fellow-feeling hold sway.
please catch up on the anthro research from the last 40 years to much more recently, your narrative of human progression is way off base and sorely out of date

graeber’s new book, dawn of everything, is a good place to start
First time you get passport it’s in person. Renewals are by mail. So do you support first time voting in person and mail in voting for subsequent elections?

I don’t believe there are a fair number of cases in which voter fraud caused the wrong candidate to win. I’m all in favor of week long voting, with plenty of well staffed polling places, and plenty of readily available places to acquire free state IDs.

Continue with your belief that voter suppression is not a thing.
Fortran is easy to learn
Not unlike what people read into the minds of their pets.
> "Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise" by "state-sanctioned violence against Black people".

This is not an unfair characterization, especially if you expand the scope of "state-sanctioned violence" against Black communities beyond the matter of policing to encompass the criminal justice system as a whole. The whole ideology of "tough on crime", notably favored and pushed by the current POTUS and VPOTUS alike, has been among their most dismal failures in living memory. Sad!
It's gross but I honestly don't see how you can come to this conclusion? How can you keep wages below market value by sharing actual wages in the actual market?
> stock in one or more competitor companies

Be careful with this... if we're talking about diversifying your risk, there's a good chance that the stock values of your employer and of its competition in the same industry are positively correlated modulo some market events. Better to buy stock that is likely to be independent of the industry that derives your primary salary.
Mondo cool. I love looking zoomed out at the terminator shadow, it's presumably what a person on the moon would see if they looked at the earth through a telescope. The time-slider is responsive on my ~7yr old laptop, even at the world scale. The resolution of the blocks you use for the DEM seem pretty high-resolution when zoomed in all the way, too, like sub-10m.
Oh, indeed, with keyboard macros you could surely reach 500 words per minute. I thought you meant typing on Colemak.
My favorite liar (2009)
A big aspect is that for everyone working on those competition systems, making an actually good game AI was not even a goal - the only purpose of these experiments is as a proof of concept (perhaps as PR) and a testbed for techniques which would then apply to other practical tasks simulating human decisions; and the research attention seems to have moved from popular strategy games to more specific simulated environments, which are better at being experimental testbeds i.e. faster/cheaper to simulate.

People working on AI systems that are going to be actually used in games shipped to gamers is a separate community with (IMHO) almost no overlap.
Hasn't Github Projects been around for like 3 years now or am I getting this confused with another part of Github?

I was definitely using some project management tool within Github 3 years ago.
Do you have a link that does a deep dive on all the features that the management engines are supposed to provide?
Thank you!

Please put this explanation on one of the webpages explaining the aims this project.
> Before agriculture, life wasn't bountiful. It was short and harsh.

Not saying it's necessarily right or wrong, but Yuval Noah Harari, in his book "Sapiens", has a perspective on the transition of humanity to agriculture that echoes TFA (or vice versa). It struck me, when I read it, as an interesting perspective, as we do tend to see the move to agriculture as strictly positive.
Ten months notice - Wow, that is WAY too much. If anything that's a strong indication that you or your company failed completely at your duties _prior_ to your resignation. A "professional" would never let themselves or their company be in such a position of utter dependence in the first place. Two weeks notice should always be sufficient for both parties.

FWIW I gave 5 weeks notice at a job a decade ago and immediately regretted it - the last few weeks were beyond awkward as I'd already wrapped up all my projects, spoken to all my colleagues and clients, etc. I was waiting for the job to end but kept getting roped into last minute projects that I could not in good faith contribute to because I was, admittedly, just sitting around waiting for it to be over. Everyone lost.

2 weeks max is optimal and expected for everyone. If you're feeling pressured to give more time to the company after resigning, say no and stick firm to 2 weeks. If they've got actionable work and you're able (i.e. not exclusively employed immediately thereafter), give them the option to hire you as a contractor. If the work is actually valuable, they should have no problem cutting you a check to complete it as a consultant. If not, well they're lying to you and stringing you along to extract any value they can - and you should leave in two weeks if not sooner.
I think courting is the more accurate term in this case, but it would have been fine if he had said dating and a lot of people would have used that term. I think courting is probably viewed by some as an old fashioned term because we no longer insist on virginity before marriage as a primary means of birth control and disease control, so we have more latitude for establishing romantic relationships without necessarily planning to marry the person.

So these days you aren't necessarily trying to decide if you want to marry. In Edwardian times, that was more likely to be the goal of seeing someone: to try to establish a serious, committed relationship under the bonds of marriage.

Dating seems to be a broad term that can mean anything from casual hookups to courting for purposes of trying to marry. And the fact that it's broad has two positives to it: It gives the couple latitude to sort their own feelings without deciding ahead of time if this is a casual hookup or a serious courtship (or something in between) and, secondarily, it protects their privacy.

It protects their privacy by allowing them to communicate to others that "We are seeing each other romantically" while sidestepping questions like "How serious are you two?" or "What are your intentions?"

It also protects their privacy by declining to indicate if they just had dinner together or if they actually slept together. And it's not anyone's business in many cases, though people tend to be nosy.

Sometimes, a broad umbrella term that is not making such specifics clear is a feature, not a bug, of using it. But I agree that the broader term would have communicated something different in this case and the more specific term is the correct term for what he likely desired to communicate.

They did get married. Now that he is married, he has no need to obfuscate the fact that he wanted a serious relationship.
That doesn't make it moral. Using all the available renewable energy to do useless computations, so that a very tiny minority of folks can use a "currency", means that energy isn't available for other uses. The prevalence of mining is causing energy providers to postpone the decommissioning of dirty plants to be able to meet peak load.

There is no ethical use of proof of work cryptocurrency.
This feels so almost right and so full of footguns at the same time. Learning a New Language is something that can be 2-3 weeks or several months or even years. Learning a New API should be N + M where N is the complexity of understanding ~basically what’s being expressed and M is the complexity of the API. (With a big amount of wiggle room for wildly different abstract concepts)

I’m all for “we created a new language for interviewing”, but I think its primary goal should be resiliency from language unfamiliarity (eg it must be both interpreted and reasonably able to translate approximately correct pseudocode to whatever its runtime or compiled code expectations), and then you can evaluate how people interact with the new API they learned.
Riots are over LPG prices, used in cars, and villagers' kitchens. It is composed of heavier weight alkanes, propane, butane and heavier.

It's not the same as the natgas used for power generation, which is almost entirely methane.

Not every energy crisis in the wolrd is caused by Bitcoin, which literally uses less energy than gamers or heated pools.
It also should be said that just because you are symptomatic or tested positive, don’t go to the damned hospital unless you really need to go. You are just wasting medical resources.
I usually sum it up by saying that what we have is a very good bullshit generator.
It is bad at reasoning but good at making up answers that sounds correct and crossing fingers that the corrector won't look twice at what they say.
1585 Watts? I hope that is ERP. No cell site should need that much total power.
Neither is JIRA but that didn’t stop it from eating the world.
Hi.. slightly off topic but what is the meaning of OG here
It also bans ships that anchored in Cuba from anchoring in the US. Who's gonna choose lil Cuba over the US right next door?

Blockade seems appropriate.
I'm aware of many people who were hired who brought negative value. A salary history of low wages is a red flag for such.

> The exact amount of value is completely unrelated to that employee's salary at their previous jobs.

Just try hiring a minimum wage worker as CEO for your next company, and see how well that works out.
Yeah, VSCodium is just a build of the open-source VSCode base, it just can't connect to Microsoft's extension store because that's reserved for Microsoft's proprietary build. It should have the same APIs. I just wondered if the maintainers would officially support this use case. I'm not a VSCode user, but I do not trust Microsoft to dominate the entire dev tool ecosystem, and a stronger alternative base built around VSCodium would be a good thing.
To piggy back on this, you will most definitely work with and for people who are malicious and gaslight you. Not saying that is the case here, but even if it is, a valuable skill is learning how to cope through it and work with those individuals. It isn't easy, but it is more sustainable than just being a victim.
And I don’t even know if any of that’s realistically achievable but I’d find it much more valuable than evaluating also can you learn an in-house private language while trying to demonstrate you can code?
This will certainly be how the cause is framed by many people, if it happens.
Former President Trump setup a special commission to look for voter fraud and it was disbanded after not finding any significant evidence of widespread fraud. So even the most vocal proponent on the existence of fraud, with ample resources at their disposal, was unable to find it.
You can't assume gift cards are all money laundering. What an absurdly inflammatory and baseless allegation.

The fact is, there is no actual evidence of this extreme prevalence of crime within the crypto space that you allege.
There is an mRNA prophylactic version in clinical trials:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03713086
Vivaldi's UI is much, much slower on the desktop, at least in Linux.
This reminds me directly of "The Light Sharpener", one of Rob Cockerham's experiments.

https://cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml
https://makezine.com/2007/06/06/the-light-sharpener-12-fo/
I doubt that this comment will surface to the point where the OP can find it, but just in case -- I'm not sure if it's obvious whether they're saying that you need to improve communicating or improving something technical.

One of the things I needed to learn in a real job was that if things aren't going well they need to know loudly and early in order to fix it. They can't allocate resources if they don't know things are behind.

If they don't see progress, what I hear is that they want more regular updates about what is being done because while you may be making progress on things it's not being recorded in a way that reminds them about it. That is frustrating and takes some effort to handle. You could send them more emails that feel unnecessary to you but are intended to make them feel involved and up to date. You could simply write down what you accomplished each week so that you can be specific about it.

I hope it works out okay, it sounds like either your manager needs to do a much better job backing you up or else there may be some maybe not too bad communication steps that can be taken to make them more confident about what is going on.
This article might help clear some things up:

https://sorbet.org/blog/2020/07/30/ruby-3-rbs-sorbet

tl;dr:

- RBS files are what Ruby 3 uses to describe types in separate files

- RBI files are what Sorbet uses to describe types in separate files

- Sorbet invented its RBI file syntax before RBS files existed. RBI files use the same syntax for types and signatures as in type annotations that live inside `*.rb` source code with Sorbet.

- We've been meaning to add support to Sorbet to consume both RBI files and RBS files, but we haven't had a chance to get around to it.

If someone beat us to it and implemented support for RBS files in Sorbet that would be amazing! Shopify took an early stab at implementing an RBS parser in C++ for performance[1], but I'm not sure what the status of it is today.

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/rbs_parser
I don't know C very well, but what little I know is from Beej.

I don't know network programming very well, but what little I know was learned from Beej.

It's actually been quite rare in my professional programming career that I've had to use any of these things that I learned from Beej but... when I needed them.... I knew where to look and, knowing even just that, it's made me look like a wizard. Honestly, I can't see a 'donate' link here, but I really feel that I should.
Celebrity fascination tied to lower intelligence
I can't tell if this is poorly typed as a joke.
> should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long etc

You are working for someone who works for a psychopath. Time for new job.
Definitely agree, I would say, if you think about something we might have fallen short (likely) go ahead and say it, the abilities to see your own shortcoming is gold for a manager.

They should be expecting rough edges with a junior dev, but if you are willing to talk about your weakness real or imagined you will grow fast.
companies have terrible vesting periods like 5% the year 1, 15% in year 2 and so on, while working you to death, effectively hoping you'd quit before your entitled shares vest. This also assumes stonks only go up.
You might find this interview with E.O. Wilson from 2004 interesting in connection with the discussion here, especially with respect to Gould and Lewontin. https://quillette.com/2021/12/29/speaking-with-e-o-wilson/
Sound the bell at the start of each garbage collection
There are people that will dismiss this as overly cynical because of the presentation.

But it is true.

In a big company, the VP of whatever department may feel bad about a layoff before Christmas, but they don't know you personally, and whatever numbers or major investors are motivating this don't lie.

In a small company, the same is true. They might wait until things are hopeless instead of trending to hopeless, but either way, they'll lay you off when it makes sense for them.

You might like your boss, but informing them well in advance of a departure is generally not a good move. Nice as they may be, they can't unknow that knowledge, and it will affect all their decisions going forward. And you, who are so sure you are leaving, may find that your outside offer is rescinded the week before Christmas (see above).

2 weeks is a reasonable courtesy and an acceptable risk. If your company needs you beyond that, contract billing should start at 5x your salaried rate, 20 hour minimum.
Members of the Republican party are doing it to other members who do not support former President Trump.
> Simply by virtue of being professionals in the US, they are part of the 1%.

most white collar professionals, SWEs included, are not even close to being in the 1%. the 1% income bucket for the whole country starts around $350k, so roughly an L5 at google.
Immunity and resistance are the same thing, not two separate things. Total immunity ("sterilizing immunity") is relatively unusual, and doesn't seem to exist for covid, but covid immunity seems to last for at least several months, maybe a year or more, at high enough levels to prevent epidemics ("herd immunity"). Given how fast O spreads, it seems likely that it will burn itself out among the humans in a few months --- but covid will probably always be able to come back from the zoonotic reservoirs.

I hope you're right about the scariness, but I worry about the incidence of "long covid", and in particular the possibility of widespread organ damage from blood clots.
There is a hierarchy of needs and if the basics of life are getting worse, then it doesn't matter how much the periphery is improving. This is what everyone who is poor is saying. When your dying, you don't care how good video games look, you want to stop dying.
Glad you had examples, was going to mention that back in the day one could find some naughtiness in color on a commodore 64 - but as the post mentions retro pcs - I recalled being able to get shared files and print on an okidata printer several sheets of paper, that when done gave you a decent nude centerfold type thing from ascii - closest I recall from the ibm types back then.
Deep learning based systems are at least trustable as working animals I think... They share a lot of similarities. You can not know how it thinks, but you can train them, observe them, and then trust them to a certain level.
Why the push towards Java for new services?
That's a though one, but I think you can start with what matters the most: cost. If you show that a tool:

- will make developers happier (for me, GitHub is far superior than gitlab/bitbucket regarding tooling, e.g. actions, review, etc);

- is simpler to use, so it reduces management overhead;

- is friendly to non-dev teams, again reducing cooperation friction;

It will likely reduce costs overall. It might be by shipping faster (or better, or more robustly, or more homogeneously at least).

My personal take is that management people use Jira and alike because they read it is the "right" tool. Their motives might be weaker than you think.
I guess you don't even need to use `docker buildx`, just `export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1` and go with it (great to enable globally in a CI system).
Heredocs make these multi-lines so much cleaner, awesome.
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Apparently they (or at least the person you were responding to was "talking" to) also "know" about data they find on the web, which does not need to be in their training data. There was a news article recently about an 8(?) year old who asked Alexa for a "challenge." "Plug a charger part way into an electric outlet," replied the Alexa", "and touch a penny..." (you can guess the rest--I won't put it here in case another Alexa finds it). I'm pretty sure that was not in its training data, nor was the distance to that church, nor the time it would take to drive there.
Doesn't lying increase your odds of not getting job if you get caught?
> Progressives used to be extremely pro-Capatilist movement

That's both true and false. That is, there was once a pro-capitalist movement called “Progressive”, but it has essentially no connection to the modern movement that adopted the name. (There have been lots of unrelated “Progressive” movements, historically.)

> Until lately, and some fringe socialist ideas of Bernie Sanders, it was universally accepted.

Nope, not at all; the label “progressive” was adopted by the faction overlapping the Democratic Party which opposes capitalism to distinguish themselves from the pro-capitalist “liberals” not long after the Clinton’s center-right faction became clearly dominant on the Democratic Party, it was well established by the late 1990s.

> There is a reason why most strong economies are capitalist

Most strong economies moved off of the historical system for which 19th Century critics coined the term “capitalism” in the first half of the 20th Century, adopting a hybrid system synthesizing capitalist and socialist ideas that has a couple of different names, such as “Modern Mixed Economy”.

> Also, I tend to believe the opposite of what the HN hive mind thinks

There is no “HN hive mind”, though it's a popular thing for people to attribute ideas they oppose to (even when people who agree with them are quite common on HN.)
Absolutely incorrect. There are lots of rare things. Rarity by itself is nothing. Something good being rare is something. It might not be the best thing in the world, and something perfectly commonplace might be "better" than it. But rarity + good is the combo that generates hype.
Not all species of bats are studied in the same detail. Again, there are over 1000 different species of bats, and when it comes to the internal immune system they can have large differences between species.

Focusing on internal temperature during flight[0], there can be swings between species as drastic as "this would be a life threatening fever in a human" to "this counts as hypothermia in a human".

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012789/
Excellent comment. I can't downvote you, but I'm sure at least 4 others will.
Steel is springy.

Unless it's not. Steel isn't one homogeneous thing. Depending on what trace elements you add, steel can have wildly different values of strength, rigidity & hardness.