skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had much luck in the last 10 years getting interviews via company's own hiring site. All my interviews come from recruiters (internal or external) pushing for me in the companies.
Out of curiosity, why would it be a red flag? All it indicates that the applicant doesn't use LinkedIn.
Oddly enough the mainstream media I saw stated that it was conclusively a lab leak, orchestrated by the democrats, in conjunction with soros, gates, leftists, globalist and the CCP. There was zero potential that it could be anything else at all, or that even one of the supposed conspiring parties was not involved.
With the right combination of proxies, user agents and browsers, you can scrape every website. Even those that seem unscrapable.

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This outcome was great news for web scrapers, as it means that so long as a websites has made their data public you are not in violation of the CFAA when you scrape the data even if it is prohibited in some other way (T&Cs, robots.txt, etc).

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It would be better I think if there was a treatment of the ethics here, rather than a seemingly "ra-ra go bots" attitude, as though the only consideration is commercial.
For most of my projects, I would switch from Rust to a GC language in a heartbeat, provided that it

1) is as safe and as fast as Rust, or at most 1.5x slower

2) offers "fearless concurrency" and easy, safe, and efficient parallelism

3) has sum types and a good static type system

4) has great tooling and package management (see cargo)

5) has a vibrant and growing ecosystem

So far, that language doesn't seem to exist. Most fail at points 1+2.
This looks awesome! The decision to combine structural and rhetorical ontologies, seems like it optimizes the best between cost and availability, in the sweetSpot of the users actual requirements when working with research and academic documents.

Is this compatible with User Defined Language?

https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/
That was in a very different scenario: the beginning of the pandemics with a much more dangerous variant of the virus, and nobody vaccinated.

So I don't think that what the Nordics attempted is applicable at current situation
If you drill into the data you can see that large portions of the measured inflation are driven specifically by sectors like automobiles which have known pandemic-induced supply chain problems.
Not disagreeing, but Op's 'biggest' and 'societal' is not necessarily in disagreement with what you said, and leaves lots of room for necessary measures above and beyond.
> But the feeling this gives me, is what happens for the future of art. Sure, this example is no where even close to replacing real artists, but it’s already generating images better than I can draw after a year of practice. It does give me a feeling of “what is the point”. Which might be an irrational feeling, but I’m sure others feel the same.

There's a similar situation ongoing with fiction writing, by way of NovelAI. (And some competitors, but NovelAI is head and shoulders ahead of the pack. Thankfully; they seem to be the nicest of the lot.)

I'm a fairly prolific (fan-)fiction writer, and also AI enthusiast, so of course I jumped on that bandwagon as soon as I could. What I've found is...

- AI cannot write stories on its own. It just can't, full stop. Some people try, including me, but the results are nonsensical without significant tweaking. I expect that to change eventually, but not without a conceptual breakthrough or two.

- AI is immensely useful as a prosthetic imagination.

What I use it for isn't to write the story for me. It's to, in case I ever get stuck at some point, offer me suggestions for how the story can continue -- suggestions that I can accept or deny. Even if I deny it, it's useful as a way of illuminating my own ideas for the story. There's got to be a reason I don't like that continuation, and that is often enough to think of something I do like.

In other words, it's mostly eliminated writer's block.

It's also handy for expanding my vocabulary. English is my third language, and while I like to think I'm good enough for daily life -- I've lived in Ireland for over a decade, after all -- there's a big difference between 'good enough for daily life' and 'good enough to write good fiction'. Prior to using NovelAI, my writing was... dry. Conceptually heavy SF doesn't necessarily require high-end wordcrafting, but it helps.

The AI, especially when told to emulate Sheridan Le Fanu or any of the other great authors, is better than me at this. And since I can ask it to jump in at any point, it's become the most attentive, capable cowriter I've ever had. Perhaps noticing this, NovelAI now calls their default AI tuning 'Co-Writer'.

It's still likely to write something I can't immediately use, but that just means I need to absorb its ideas and make them my own. Repeat a hundred times per day, and I end up learning much, much faster than I ever did when I was writing on my own.

To summarize, I don't use AI to write my stories for me. I use it to get better at writing.

I think it should be possible to do the same for other forms of art.
React Helmet manages all of your changes to the document head
I think that stat came from a chart in this article https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-...
It is possible for iPhone. But as you say, you need to be tech savvy for that.
I really prefers Zig. Rust code looks a bit unreadable...
You can get hired without LinkedIn.
If any humor any allowed here, a manager of small would company would probably behave like this https://youtu.be/OYEMcX8dj5M
> I accept that it's entirely possible that 30 years down the line we'll discover some horrific thing we've all done to ourselves by taking the vaccines. What I can say however is that we don't have any evidence that suggests that we will see major problems in the future caused by the vaccines.

This is enough for me to avoid them. I didn’t read the rest because it’s a short essay.
I'm amazed at the amount of rhetorical gymnastics going on in DC to lay the blame for inflation at the feet of anything besides the obvious - the massive amount of money printing going on the last few years. The most ridiculous of these is the "corporate greed storyline" I've seen pushed lately. As if all the corporations suddenly decided to become greedy in the last twelve months after many years of altruistic and selfless behavior.
It all boils down to whether people want a PM that is a pathological liar, or one that doesn't even know if he's in a work meeting or a party.
Oh please. Preaching about safety in a globally inter-connected world devoid of privacy.

Newsflash, it's not a language's job to make software safe. It's job is to make programmer's job as simple as possible: ie. writing new software. If your language fails to do that, people will not use it, plain and simple.

How else could you explain the popularity of languages such as Python and Go?
I have never seen that clause.

And that may not be fraud of you have a lawyer analyse it.
That isn't what inflation measures. That's what life expectancy measures.
Historically we’ve never used mRNA vaccines.
LinkedIn eliminates friction better than anything else in my opinion. Applying to a job with a single click is brilliant. I wouldn't bother with anything else unless I was targeting something specific like climate, startups, etc.
Does this hold true for people with beards?
Very interesting, thanks. I'll add that to my collection of alternative languages targeting GPU compute.
Guide to help you migrate off of Auth0
i interpret it this way:

when I was younger it was really important to me that the code work the entire time I was writing it

as I got older it got less important and now I make the code "look right" (that is, read well) and then I get it working
I've been a contractor in the UK for a good few years, and never had to have a DBS check until I got a job that was primarily fixated in the finance industry. This includes when I have previously worked for a few different e-commerce sector clients. Data science is particularly used in Marketing companies, and I doubt they'll care about your previous convictions.
I joined LinkedIn early on. When I was working as an individual contributor I first thought it was super effective and I became a "LiON" who tried to build as large and as open a network as I possibly could.

At that time I got numerous jobs thanks to my LinkedIn profile. On top of that I would tell anybody who was listening, particularly anyone who was struggling in job searches, that they should join LinkedIn too.

I went through a phase of business development for a new idea and found that LinkedIn attracted an unlimited number of bullshitters to the point that I was starting to become a bullshitter. I was getting sick and tired of the spam email I was getting. I was angry and resentful all the time and starting to feel guilty for thinking horrible racist thoughts like "They should rename it to linked.in", etc. It just seemed everybody was a "consultant" named "Joe Blow" who had a company called "Joe Blow Incorporated" or a personal trainer, life coach, etc.

Around the time Trump got elected I deleted most of my social media accounts including my LinkedIn account.

Since then I did two job searches without LinkedIn. In one case I went from "damn i really have to get a job" to having a job in a month, in the other case it took a few months.
Except you can avoid the virus by isolating.
Star lifting [1] to the rescue. By mining mater from stars it might be possible to influence its life cycle and extend its lifespan by billions of years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
Because we can't make people agree whether punctuation or meaningful whitespace is better: I'd like something that you can view and edit in your preferred syntax style. It would be stored in SCM and run/compiled in some intermediate format that losslessly transforms to the "work mode" and back.
Yes, if they shave
If your program benefits from having a garbage collector (GC) — which I guess is a lot of programs — then by all means go for a GC-ed language. It's one less thing to worry about.

However, the garbage collection process itself sometimes introduce a noticeable pause in execution, which can be unacceptable in certain applications. Especially in critical real-time applications.

(That GC pause won't be a problem if your program mostly just waits for user input the majority of the time).

For an extreme example, you don't want your car's airbag controller to be paused for garbage collecting during a crash.
That checks out since anyone starting a new project in Java in the last 8 years. From my perspective, C# is just Java but better. I understand why Java has worked so hard not to break stuff, but it has left a language that is fundamentally broken in about 3 ways. (typesystem/generics, boxed vs unboxed types, Nullable by default)
Doug McIlroy: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/
Tom Duff (not a professor though): iq0.com
There’s a 5x5 or so graphic floating around of how many hours are safe in different masking situations. While I agree with the relative arrangement, there’s a risk of misinterpretation.

Early in the pandemic some claimed their interactions are short so They can wear no/crappy masks, overlooking that it’s a police officer and their entire day is made up of short interactions…
The important part is buried:

The fit of the mask is the most important factor, Bodenschatz, said. “It turns out that leakage dominates over filtration.” Masks should have a tight fit around the face and nose to minimize any air leakage.
Twenty Years of Blogging
I'm currently going through "Math for programmers" (Manning Publ.) and I enjoy it immensely! A lot of math books can feel too abstract and dry but this book was perfect for me coming mostly from a programming background.
Start learning learning linear algebra and you will soon find yourself in graphics programming and game engines. That's where I am at the moment and I feel I regained my passion for programming after years in webdev..
yeah, it's just the beggining of this, you will see supply chain attacks will increase more than 100% just in 2022, in short whole internet is at risk,
it's time to think carefully and immediately start using services like Vulert(https://bit.ly/336DZub) that tracks your open-source softwares for free and notifies you in real-time if any seccurity issue is found within your applciation. it's free.

Let me know what's your thought on it.
This attitude is so grossly irrational. Disasters don't end when you get bored with them. They end when they end. This kind of article is basically saying "I have reset my expectations so that I accept a higher risk of death so I can go to the movies". You can argue and end to restrictions on the merits of changing reality (ie vaccines, treatments, relative mortality of Omicron) but not "I'm out of patience with nature taking it's course". Personally I think the Omicron wave is still extremely serious and we need to wait a few more months. And if a new variant emerges it'll be longer.
100% agree this is something you grind at. Calculus, even multivariate, and even the stuff beyond that, still grind. I used to be really good at it, definitely not the best but among the higher scores in my college math classes. But 10+ years later, when I go and look at stuff that would have barely fazed me then, I go cross eyed now. I remember the concepts, vaguely, but following the math and linking together the various theorems and transformations feels like wading through syrup. It’s a problem for me as I’m trying to dig into data science stuff, and it feels like getting back into marathon shape after 10 years of not running.

There’s absolutely a component of learning the concepts, but a huge part of being good at the math is just building up the mental muscle memory for symbolic manipulation. Sure there’s innately talented people out there, but the consistent application of incremental effort will get you very far regardless of talent.
That isn’t cynical. The party in power will always take the blame for anything that isn’t going right. And COVID not ending as a pandemic is definitely one of those big things not going right. It doesn’t even matter that every other country is having the same problem, Americans expect their governments to solve it or they will “vote the turkeys out.”

Cynical is “the Democrat hoax virus will disappear two weeks after the election.” If only Trump were right about that, but alas COVID wouldn’t disappear so easily. The cynics were optimists in that regard.
I feel a lot of sympathy to kids graduating in this decade in most careers. Tons of debt, ever increasing asset prices, and terrible job market with stagnating wages.

If you don't have rich parents, you are in a terrible spot.
It is the only social network that I find worth engaging with and by that I mean just create your profile and fill in some of your data so recruiters have an idea of what you can do. You don't NEED it to get hired but it sure has helped me find new jobs more than once.
Great advice and wholly agreed that a recruiter is the way to go. I'm more familiar with the US than UK employment market, but if things work similarly, this is the obvious path.

1) Good recruiters will bypass some of the HR confusion (misunderstanding team requirements, etc)

2) You have a valuable set of skills and are looking for a specific type of job. Recruiters are better about this than blind applying

Furthermore, the "What industry?" question will be an excellent opportunity to avoid processes where your conviction is likely to impact. People have legitimate reasons for wanting to avoid heavily-regulated industries (boring, slow), so it's not an odd question.

I would say if you go through recruiters, be aware (in the US at least) there are good recruiters (who have a line on positions and work hard) and bad recruiters (who are trying to bootstrap a rep by "representing" as many people exclusively as they can). Be extremely suspicious before signing any exclusivity contracts with one.
Inventing programming languages is super-fun, but aren't we almost post programming language?

In 30 years, do we really expect to be programming in some machine-human intermediate language? I hope that we'll be having an open ended conversation with the machines to iterate our intent, with working software at most stages along the way.
"Sick" is not a binary state
> drywall with aluminum fibers embedded

QuietRock has drywall that combines soundproofing with RF shielding (steel plate), but it's expensive and targeted at military use cases, https://www.quietrock.com/sites/default/files/QuietRock_530R.... Aluminum radiant barrier can be layered with standard drywall.

There is conductive carbon paint for RF shielding, e.g. http://www.emfrf.com/shielding-of-electric-fields-in-a-resid... & https://www.zokazola.com/emf_reduction.html

Other materials: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29902926
Even if they don’t, the n95 will filter better than whatever lower-grade mask they were otherwise wearing.
On the other hand, code using those libraries still works, whereas code trying today's favorite parser will not work after community moves on and stops maintaining it.

I agree you don't want everything in the stdlib, but havinga stdlib way to achieve something is pretty valuable, even if it's not the best way and never was.
But why is my grocery bill 40% higher than it was 2 years ago? We have bought the same basket for years.
Companies choosing a piece of software is more than the quality of the software. A superior piece of software isn't enough.

For example, many companies want (and sometimes require) the ability to have a support contract with developers for things this critical. The people making these decisions may not even be technical and close to the system within the management structure.

Companies also may have rules and requirements that govern who they can pay and how. For example, just donating money to a developer some developers in their company like or use the software of isn't going to fly. In some countries it may not even be legal. Sometimes you need to run things as a business and jump through some hoops to make it all work financially and without burn out.

Some of this is just how the business world works. With so many businesses in so many different legal jurisdictions there's almost no way to change the system.

Skilled trades people who strike out on their own have to learn enough business to operate. It's not just about doing their skill. There's a fair amount of mentoring that happens to help people learn that stuff. Maybe we need more of that in software.
I think what is more fascinating is that high-ranking politicians have always sought ways to circumvent the rules, in order to get ahead, securing themselves exorbitant personal fortunes, even in times of financial crisis, and often at the immediate or delayed expense of the taxpayer (if not simply evading taxes).

And this phenomenon is not new. It has most probably been going on as long as the concept of money has been around, or even the concept of trade and personal-private wealth, be it tribal chieftains/shamans, monarchs and satellite nobles, land-owners/feudal leaders, warlords/military commanders, right the way up to contemporary politicians.

and yet, what the people get up in arms about is the garden party? How many of the UK's politicians have bizarre private companies and "offshore" bank accounts? How many of them paved the way for absurd legislation and policy decisions that serve only the top 1%?

How many of them let their actions be determined by lobbying and veiled bribery rather than any personal convictions or, heaven forfend, the views of the electorate?

People are getting upset about this, even though a non-trivial portion of the same people broke the law at the same time to see family and party? The people should pay attention to what else is going on.

Of course, the people mostly pay attention to whatever is put on the stage and given the spotlight. And that is determined not by an obligation to pursue and broadcast the truth, but rather by whatever can sell newspapers and online news subscriptions, and whatever can capture people's gaze on the television screen and online ad real estate -- but, critically, without shaking the foundations of the status quo.

It's all just a theatrical presentation. Politics and its coverage in the media is little more than a reality TV show.

None of it deserves your time of day.
No, I don't need an apple developer account. Any regular apple id works.

Yes, they get signed with my own self-generated key.
Maybe for a few people software already ate the world, but for online delivery we need storage workers and all systems involved in delivery - post and ships and trucks - working as well. Plus production sites and factories and materials extraction and should I go on? Nothing of these can be done remotely.
Rust commits much more strongly to backwards compatibility than a language like Python. Deprecating something in the stdlib would be a big deal.

The fact is that in practice, for most “standard” functionality that isn’t in the stdlib, there are well maintained, well vetted crates written by well known authors (or even developers of the stdlib). These are not hard to find, either by asking around or looking at what other crates use.

Rust’s stdlib is consistently of high quality. I can use everything in it without worry or concern. I can’t say the same about Python.
> It's naive to think that HN is necessarily better than an arbitrary Subreddit in terms of quality of conversations and depth of discussions, especially on non-tech related material.

HN is much better than an arbitrary subreddit in terms of quality of conversations. Dissenting opinions are very rarely censored on HN, but dissent on subreddits is typically quelled. Subreddits are mostly echo chambers for people who want to loudly agree with each other while arguing against strawmen.
Are you suggesting that a massive company should run their own IRC server, complete with bots that handle OAuth and access control, history saving, document downloading?
Yuri Knorozov and the Decipherment of the Mayan Language
The job market is insanely competitive for hiring managers. I agree with the other stuff but being able to land a job is not an issue.
I continue to be surprised by this despite logging some good number of Rust hours. Cargo run and it just works as expected even with complicated data sharing code etc.

Of course most of the work gets done by the compiler safe guarding and guiding during development. People make noise about lifetimes etc but once you are ready to pay the penalty of Arc (and in most cases if you are using lifetimes you are already on the verge of using Arc). Same with using cloning as needed. End of the day, these incur a predictable and acceptable performance penalty than many other languages do while providing good safety.
Well in the classic Tetris community, this used to be the central aspect to pay attention to during plays: how conservative (burning often to play low) vs how aggressive (building high to maximise Tetris rate) people play. This is traditionally impacted by the score difference: you play dangerously to catch up to your opponent. This probably translates to a useful productivity metaphor.

But in recent years there's been an escalation in agressivity, mostly due to hypertappers. This probably translates to the modern wide spread of hero coders; the analogy continues with hypertappers getting their hands burned out young.

The real interesting change in classic Tetris is with rolling (distributing the load on 4 fingers), which allows people to play even higher and more dangerous but without destroying their hands. I don't really know what metaphor this brings us though.