skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet browsing on the phone is also less of a pleasant experience, versus with a desktop web browser.

Reddit for mobile is deliberately designed to make you use the app that I wish not to use (you often can't expand threads without moving to the app); YouTube ad blocking is much clunkier, versus seamless on a desktop browser; and it's more difficult to navigate (e.g. there are more taps to use the "find in page" function, versus Ctrl/Cmd+F on desktop).

It also helps that I've deliberately made the apps on the phone less engaging to use (I've avoided TikTok, and configured remaining social media apps like Instagram to avoid subscribing to content that is too interesting or designed to capture attention, so there is far less of a pull to use them).
I live in the middle of it. Until the injunction, there was 16 to 20 hours a day of nonstop bigrig air horn blasting at us. That is nowhere near peaceful or non-violent.
I don't know, I think saying that it's "typical" to be paid 250k as a graduate is pretty damn weird.
Yeah really. In today's polarized political climate, criticizing Facebook is one of the very few things most people agree on!

OK, enough unity, now let's get back to partisan mud-slinging :)
A minor nitpick from the article as the author writes that amphorae were used only for liquids like wine.

That's incorrect, it was used for all kinds of unpackaged bulk good like grains, seeds (say olives), even sea shells. If you're transporting goods, you want it in containers; and amphorae were the shipping containers (quite literally) of that time. They were even used as toilets on ships.
Closer Look: Halo Infinite's Online Experience
Just read through some COPPA stuff. It looks like you could comply with a simple checkbox for "I am over <magic age>", which would be less information for the panopticon.

I'm no lawyer and can't say whether Google complied in a minimal fashion or not. But maybe not. [Edit: Checkboxes are insufficient, apparently]
My response is. You lied not me, and I know how many recruiters emailed me this week and you don't. Please don't play those games, I am here because I want to be. Lies make me not want to be.

Yeah I'm replaceable, but the pain of that replacement is usually more than the pain of making a sales guy eat some crow.
I have a slightly unrelated question about Life360.

When Life360 sold Couple in 2016, did it sell all the data that users had stored up to that point as well? As best I can tell it was announced via tweet and sold to what looked like a 1-person dev shop.

Myself and a number of others who used to use the app have often wondered this[1]. If I’m incorrect on anything in this article I would be happy to edit it, but I’d really like to know.

https://rymc.io/blog/2019/decoupling/
Behold the First Images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Cool. LiveViewJS (and Phoenix LiveView) renders the initial HTML over HTTP but then connect to the server via a persistent web socket connection. Client events (clicks, form updates, blur/focus events, key events, etc) are then sent over the socket which kicks off a server-side state updates and rendering with only the diffs sent back over the web socket. These diffs are then merged with the existing dom. (Maybe TMI here but wanted to be clear this isn't just server-side rendering over HTTP.)
> A core concept behind something being a "game" is that it exists in a morally isolated sandbox

This is interesting; if true, what of game theory's seat at the core of many notions of strategy as deployed for explicitly moral purposes?

Also, anecdotally, I've seen pretty good results putting some campy, tongue in cheek acknowledgement that I'm not playing games in the resume/cover letter space where these alleged "rules of the game" might otherwise dictate meaningless boilerplate should go

Some employers seem to appreciate honesty and a reluctance to bullshit
I think I started going to interview customers with my boss very early on my first job in the 90s. I've been given a team to manage after two years and I started doing interviews, analysis, requirements, etc on my own. Basically I was a senior engineer by then. The company was always very supportive so if I had to ask for advice I had somebody to ask to. After all 1/n-th of my boss' career depended by the outcome of my job.

Of course I'm much better at that kind of job now. I wonder how I could really understand my customers but obviously it was good enough.
You mean you're not constantly balancing binary trees and implementing your own bubble sort algorithms? I figured from interviews that this is 95% of what engineers at SaaS companies are doing.
I'm one of those cisgendered South Asian males :), but I have heard of the Society of Women Engineers https://swe.org/ . I don't know if SWE or similar organizations have active forums. I see Reddit has https://www.reddit.com/r/xxstem/ "Women that STEM".
The link is not the problem, but how do you charge someone money without their knowledge?
Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week
Read the domain name. The entire world is these corners in the US.
That works great until something in the stack or system config isn't quite right. Moncef's script handles a bunch of the common failure states. I posted it because it saved a colleague a ton of time un-borking a homebrew ruby install earlier today.
Most of those private expeditions were seeking short term profit (of course there exceptions like the Arctic/Antarctic expeditions but their budgets were relatively insignificant compared to the resources required to send several ships to India or the Americas in the 15th century or a spaceship to Mars. Even if colonizing and exploiting the mineral resources on Mars could be profitable in the longterm being the first on Mars (unlike being the first to sail to India) is definitely going to cost more than it's worth (in financial terms) so no rational private company would do this.
It’s not a choice to apply yourself and get into a good school? I mean seriously, given how hot the US software market is, there’s no excuse.

And FWIW, I come from a poor immigrant background. My family was on welfare. I got free lunch at school. The American dream come true. Sorry that not everyone can hack it in life.
Yes they have, they open sourced their support.
>Is this flamebait?

Well, not intentionally, but people are a bit crazy these days apparently.
programming languages is pretty theoretical. Or at least if taught from a logic and lamba calculus view point.

I suppose it could be systems if you are building a compiler or vm, but that to me is different that programming languages.
s/Staff/Lead/
Facebook doesn't operate in China, and other companies would love to remove the restrictions China puts on them.
I went to a good Hackathon put on by the SWE.
How is Russia invading Ukraine would take down Twitter? Does Twitter keep their DCs in Luhansk? I was speaking in context of significant ongoing global developments
Greed comes from inability to change from the base instinct of hunt+gather,

laziness regularly precipitates being wealthy so one can stop hunting and gathering.
i am really excited about the progress ai researchers are making, this makes me think that virtual worlds could one day be little staycations for those of us on a budget. also the other thing it reminds me of is the first matrix movie, which when it came out i was a huge fan of, very cool indeed
But we are specifically talking about graduates being paid quarter of a million dollars, so why are you bringing absolute numbers into the mix? Should I compare it against the absolute number of people working everywhere in the world? Because then that million won't be so large suddenly.

If you want to do this properly tell me how many graduates out of all graduates per year get paid quarter of a million dollars when they start. Because it will be such an insignificant number that again - using the word "typical" to describe it will be just delusional.
A previous employer of mine gave all devs the title of "Technical Specialist" as opposed to some variation of "Software Developer." They also had a progression system where "Junior" was not actually the lowest rung, but the second-lowest after "Graduate".
Needless to say I just put "Software Developer" on my CV without a second thought.

The only time I would recommend putting the "Junior" title on your CV/Linkedin is if you get a promotion which could be perceived as faster-than-average upward progression.
It's interesting there hasn't been so much as a peep about the Russia/Ukraine situation on here. I wonder why.
When a large part of the compensation is stock, it's worth remembering that share prices can go down too.

Meta/FB is down 35% since September. Many public mid-cap software unicorns are down 50%. Smaller companies that IPO'd last year are often down even more than that.

If you joined one of these companies last fall and got a $150k base salary + $400k stock grant that vests over four years, your total compensation was $250k when hired, but is now down to $200k after the stock has lost 50%. Of course the stock price may go up again. (But it also may not, as anyone who lived through 1999-2001 remembers.)
Jesus Christ what an everloving nightmare.
A telescope looking through a proper window at nighttime could be enough. Some LEDs are powerful enough to illuminate a large chunk of an otherwise dark room.
They've all come here to be around the luck.
Then "blue check" is completely incidental to the matter, and the real issue is that it is a very popular person. The same issue would exist for any popular user whether or not their account is blue checked.
Because those schools collectively admit tens of thousands of students every year. It’s not that rare.
> shows a general competence in computing

It shows you've solved a similar problem recently and have gonads of steel, with a bit of overlap of how good an employee you'll be.

A short test contract after a bit of legwork is far more revealing imho.
I think you are spot on but many people haven't experienced opiate (or benzo) addiction or talked to ex-addicts. It's really something else.
Too bad for the Europeans then... a lot of them were looking forward to that.
> Sometimes grandiose titles can work against you.

Early stage startups can be especially hilarious that way, especially when young founders/early stage employees mistakenly feel they need a "big" title to be taken seriously...
To me, and presumably other parents in NA and the EU, a Windi is a small plastic tube device that you insert into the rectum of a baby to relieve gas pressure: https://frida.com/products/windi

Is that an intentional homage?
I'd say some parts of your story cannot be attributed to the hotel room or even to the hotel as a whole, but rather to the place that hotel's been located, but let me ask the much more important question: what's that hotel's score on booking.com? To me, that sounds like a 3.6!
Blackmail to me implies that the blackmailer requires something of the blackmailed, in exchange for the blackmailer to not take a specific action.
In my example, the sender has already taken their action and given no indication that they are willing to accept a bribe to retract it. If they had required payment to retract it, it would have been blackmail. Meaning no blackmail. The ops story is confusing, so I wont say anything about it. Not sure what you mean about choice there?

In my case? If I was roleplaying the example as the judge, probably call a press conference and loudly condemn my wife for her heinous actions, and promise to vindictively prosecute her to the full extent of the law. Then I would start doing that, knowing full well that her lawyer will argue I committed a procedural errors in managing the evidence(as people cannot prosecute their close relatives, or manage evidence thereof) which then precludes its use in court, letting her go free by technicality... While I win the next election for being the righteous crusader against corruption no matter how much it hurts... Well assuming I actually love her, if I didn't, or wanted to upgrade to a younger model, now is a perfect opportunity to get out of that pesky prenup...

I would not feel coerced, but I would feel threatened. I would like to think that I would chose my wife over my career any day, I hope I never need to find out.
Of course there must be a lot of people who might have an agenda to destroy Zuck and/or Facebook, so it could be that, but personally I think the media just capitalises on the sentiments that already exist in society because that's the way to get more clicks. So, those stories that make people outraged about Facebook or Billionaires get amplified. But for Facebook especially, people have love-hate relationship with it because a) it's clear now that it is bad for society b) people need it at the same time because it continues to be convenient. So those stories in the media are really good for clicks because Facebook is not going away despite its issues, so it's always giant drama.
Yeah, it's been very surprising as a Tesla owner to learn that there's no way to opt-out of this tracking in the car. Your location is always relayed to the app, and your only option is to log out of your account in the car, which still relays the data to Tesla for the super paranoid.
In theory, finding the ‘Factorio’ aspect of production just-enough management in other games is easy; Big Pharma is a lovely example of this. But instead, I want to talk about Stardew Valley, and the psychological effects of scaling up production.

There is a very popular player mod for Stardew that allows automation of all “click to perform” actions normally operated by the player: Harvest fruit from a tree, Brew honey into mead, Cook wood into coal, Age mead in cask, and so on. Essentially, it introduces the conveyor systems of any production game — Verb Noun With Machine — and uses footpaths as the invisible conveyer belts. It is possible, with careful pathing, to build a farm that is automated from harvest to sale, and generates an endless supply of any product with minimum downtime.

I found that when I applied this approach to Stardew, it was really fun making it work, and once I had it all working, there just wasn’t anything left to enjoy. Not because the game doesn’t have a near-infinite list of things you can produce (especially with mods), but because it turns out that the joy I derived from Stardew is about doing things myself. And so my intricately-pathed full scale production farm sits unopened.

I point this out because in tech we often forget that capacity and automation can, in some cases, be inversely proportional to enjoyment. I could apply a photo editing ML algorithm to my photo library and no doubt it would be nice, but I enjoy the act of taking a photo and fiddling with it, even if I send exponentially fewer photos to my friends. One of them has a complex multi-device “ingestion pipeline” and it treats them well for their purposes, and I’ve built one before, and it turns out I just don’t enjoy digital photography at that scale.

I love playing games like Factorio (though I haven’t gotten much into it yet) for their own sake, and I don’t deny that it’s possible to enjoy the art of scaling and automating these things, and that others feel differently. But my experience with Stardew pipelines was a really useful lessons in learning what I enjoy and when I enjoy it, and when that means I shouldn’t scale it up any further.
Recent conversations with Apple have not yielded much support for a rapidly scaling worldwide-remote team. Our money's peanuts on the scale of things for them, so we need to take matters into our own hands with the strategies described.
I live in the US, I have several friends that live in the EU. "Who our friends are" is unquestionably PII. Is this friendship graph something that must reside in the US or EU?
Saying all this with thoughtful consideration:

First, I hear ya. But I don't feel he's described his colleagues well enough for me to have your convictions. I can tell that even in reading it, I'm dropping into the roles the sorta people I grew up with. And that gives me my own sense of the slippery slope.

For some people there's no path. Military service (USA or Euro or whatever) is a great catch-all that many people use to braid their own bootstraps, and I'm happy you had it, but many people don't have that luxury. I'm not saying it wasn't brutal work and commitment, but access to the ability to DO hard work (with rewards instead of extraction) is often luxury.

Some people need to hustle more, and that usually means being scrappy. I feel for your perspective because I've been on your side, criticizing the tactics of extended family from other cultures. It didn't go well, and I've since learned that what some families need to do to survive and succeed looks very different from what I might assume is right. I don't like it; I don't do it; I don't want it to be that way; but I can't dismiss it.

Anyhow, much love
I was paid nearly $200k on graduation. And I was the least paid out of all my classmates, because I went to Seattle instead of Silicon Valley.
Albazinians
This book exposed me to proper math back in high school, I liked it.
It's not door-to-door as far as we know, it's to specific people's homes who they saw posting on so social media.

The military responded that they're not touching the protestors.

"If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny." - Elon Musk, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1486846468887560201
Because it's there

https://blog.theclymb.com/out-there/because-its-there-the-qu...
Skynet was really just the Domino's pizza tracker all along.
Yes, but multiple dispatch is much slower than single dispatch.
If you're willing to pay the centralisation price and you're just interested in the technology, you have better options - where at least if there's regulatory issues they haven't come up yet that I know off - with chains like Solana.
Factory Town is my current go-to. Rise of Industry has its points, as does Voxel Tycoon, but Factory Town is cheery and fun and it brings back the Factorio-style logic networks (and be prepared to use them, as it takes away Factorio-style train-routing — though you gain tagging support.)
> Great content without ads was normal on the internet for decades

How true is this? I began surfing the web around 1996, and recall seeing ads from day one. And video ads when surfing at the university that same year.
Two thoughts:

1. My Wordle buddies aren't nearly as consistent with me, so I'm sorry if I miss if anybody gets kidnapped.

2. Wordle is the least interesting part of the story. Now I'm wondering how many similar kidnapping stories are happening.
Is the brain not a physical thing? Do you believe that all human brains are physically and functionally equivalent such that one brain should be able to learn to do anything that another can?

What about those people in this world with genetic abnormalities that affect brain function? Would you expect someone with Prader-Willi syndrome to be able to become competent at mathematics if they only worked hard enough at it? At what point does “hard enough” become “virtually impossible” or even “definitely impossible”?
Post W2 or it's not true.
> I don't know enough to know why I should be interested.

Are you interested in finding out more, or not? :-)

> How do I find materials geared for self consumption at a beginner level that teach concept and application first?

I have no specific sources to recommend, but I would think that "academic" courses are not where you should be looking for something like this. You should be looking at books for the general reader by people who enjoyed trying to explain math to the general reader. Someone like Raymond Smullyan or Martin Gardner or John Allen Paulos.
A combo of LM + REPL would be the winning ticket. The language model generates a piece of code, executes it, observe results. Is the answer found? No, maybe it cannot be solved by one single iteration, continue until solution found or max number of iterations reached. Single step responses are limited by their nature, and computation is hard to do "in your head"/"in your LM".

The REPL could also come with libraries for all the important algorithms. Thus the LM could use numerical solvers and other nice toys.

Another excellent module we could augment LM's with is a search engine - already done, proven to improve the efficiency of the LM by 25x (see link). Another one would be a physics simulator.

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-la...

We're just starting with language models. They will improve tremendously.
The stuff I've done is 40 years ago now, but I've done some combinatorics and some graph theory. It's been so long that it's possible that I can't help you at all, but I might be able to talk in generalities, and maybe that's all you need.

My email is in my profile.
And it often just means: most senior person working on this project or for this company. Even if that's 1 or 2 years of experience.
I love the following quote from Andrew Wiles:

"Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room."

I find this rings true--I didn't really understand the purpose of some of the material in differential calculus (Calc I) until I studied integral calculus (Calc II), and I didn't understand some of the material in integral calculus (II) until I took multivariable calculus (Calc III). Funnily enough, it was only after taking a combination of real analysis and discrete math (two years into undergraduate studies) that I finally had the A-ha moment when my real analysis class taught me how to actually read and write proofs, and my discrete math class finally made sets clear. THEN Calculus's proofs and its set-based conditions finally made sense.

I could go on, but there's really something to the frustration that beginners in math have. It's ironical, but the best way to learn calculus is reproducing calculus's underlying proofs; but at the same time, the best way to learn how to read and write proofs is to use calculus as an example of a system you already know intuitively, and just need to learn the formal language of proofs to explain it.

I guess my point is that there are genuine structural challenges/interactions in math's component knowledge systems which make the difficulty of learning math natural, if not to be expected. All of this to say, chin up lads, the only way out is through, and sometimes you're running blind. But that's okay, Andrew Wiles did too and he proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
One could argue that a diverse group shutting down cities, interrupting international trade and shutting down the jit auto industry, and advocating overthrow of various levels of government aren’t the typical definition of peaceful. They also seem to act out when presented with masks.

The not-so-unexpected thing is that they’re doing far more damage but being treated far better than all previous protesters. And they use kids as human shields. Stressing the political system as the right wing groups are being revealed as supporters which contradicts their law and order, call out the riot troops past actions.