skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- 2.2.1 naming Adv_r may makes it easier to read (as you did with challenger Ch)

- 2.2.1 4th bullet point, 2.2.2 3rd bullet point: iff

I like the paper, will be curious if and how the authors proceed with their research. Maybe giving some suggestions how to make it better or come with a theoretical analysis of what should be the gold standard.
I'd encourage you to take McCarthy's advice a bit more seriously. He isn't saying you should just use different words willy nilly, throwing their technical meaning out the window. He's just saying that you shouldn't excessively repeat words.

Avoiding repetition can also mean structuring your writing in a way that allows you to rely on pronouns and other linguistic tools to avoid using the same word repeatedly while preserving clarity.

And I often find that technical writers don't do a good job of evaluating which terms need to be treated as rigidly defined technical terms and which ones do not, resulting in writing that it more stilted and jargon laden than necessary to communicate clearly. One benefit of taking McCarthy's advice seriously is that it will encourage you to scrutinize your decisions about when to rely on jargon and defined terms and help you identify where you're using them as a crutch to avoid harder decisions about how to write clearly.

The goal is not to be "entertaining." Rather, it is simply to should be to hold the reader's attention so you're not making huge claims on their ability to focus. I wouldn't be so quick to give up on this and embrace the "papers should be boring" mindset. The basic problem is that an extremely tedious paper does not "get your point across without doubt." It may not even get your point across at all because it pains readers to read it.

Of course, none of this should be construed to mean that people should use "thesaurus words"--i.e., words that are overly obscure or a poor fit for the situation, just for the sake of mixing it up.
Initial setup is not much different than creating a new website, rest is trivial in practice. Easier than said.
> VC backed companies have a tendency to focus way too much on vanity metrics.

Well-run companies focus on the right metrics. Badly run companies focus on vanity metrics. There is some of both everywhere in the business world, not just among VC backed companies.
I still cannot get why was it a big deal to go outside and check the tile?
Ok I agree with your point that "embellishment" may not be the correct term and I really meant the latter.

I 100% expect that someone with an advanced computer science degree can demonstrate they have problem solving ability. I don't really think that is an unreasonable assumption. I mean we're talking undergraduate level skills that are the bare minimum for an entry level position at my org.

If it really is the case that an advanced computer science degree does not convey computer science knowledge then it reinforces the need for screening questions.
I feel teased by this comment in the fact that you didn't indicate which language (or languages) you moved to that give you those benefits?

Personally I moved from Java to Go, and couldn't be happier with it. Easy to use, easy to understand, similar advantages for debugging, but had some of the same proliferation of files at times.

I've injected a bit of python into my workflow too if I just want to do a quick data-oriented task.
> It certainly hasn’t worked in France or Spain.

So you can't just get them there by the box at corner stores, supermarkets, ...? That's how its here in Germany and that's IMHO enough. (early on, when they weren't as widely available, the government tried to give a few FFP3s to people in need and that was an embarrassing clusterfuck of ... I don't even know. Probably corruption.)
1) People lie. I found out one person had someone listening in and chatting the answers to them.

2) The interviews get progressively more technical. We do a non-technical first round (some people don’t show up on time, aren’t great communicators, etc.), then have a technical interview about high level concepts followed by a technical test.

3) Efficiency. We can learn more from a 1hr coding challenge than a 1hr verbal interview. And it requires less involvement from the team.
Siril is an astronomical image processing tool
Depending on how Russia's economy looks in 3-6 months, it might still serve as a deterrent.
Is there a video demonstrating the kind of modeling you're talking about? The only thing I've seen that sounds similar was a Martin Shkreli video which is of course removed from YouTube now, and I don't know whether Shkreli was a beginner or an expert, just that he navigated Excel 20 times faster than I do.
Azure is pulling just ahead of AWS in enterprise public cloud use
Congrats to Rigetti Computing (YC S14) on Going Public
Biden Orders Study of Cryptocurrency Risk, Creation of U.S. Digital Currency
GitHub vs. Gitlab: The Key Differences
I think a lot of people are getting too hung up on the fact that the application is specifically "hello world." The code is clearly buggy, even if you don't particularly care about bugs in this specific application. The author would have been better off not mentioning "hello world" as the application and simply said:

Find the bug!

puts("This is a log");

I think everyone can agree that the above should be considered a bug in any kind of non-hello-world production code, for the reason the article mentioned.
Try as I might, I have to reason through ternaries every time I encounter them. I think the = being so removed from what it's actually assigning, but without grouping parens, is what messes me up. Plus I always forget what the punctuation characters mean—if/elseif/else uses words, so I don't have to remember.
I don't think so. This still relies on non-distributed infrastructure to host the code and provide the database torrent. Those are not "unkillable". And an inefficient completely immutable database where even individual queries are not private does not sound like it has a lot of uses.
Elon Musk’s space solar college paper = fantastic (2019)
Very cool! Great story.
Back in high school I would try to play CS 1.6 on the library computers. The librarians had access to screen viewing software on all computers in the library and quickly caught me every time.

I played around with visual studio C# and created an application that would continuously monitor running applications (every X ms), detect when a specified .exe was found, and either (1) constantly kill it, (2) display a message, or (3) run a different .exe.

Never quite got to s1mple's level, but I did play a good amount of CS after that!
I actually did write a program to deal with Paypal. I used it once a year to process the Paypal information. Which worked fine, until Paylap changed the data format, so I had to recode the program. Then next year they changed the format. I had to recode the program. Then next year they changed the format. I had to recode the program.

See where this is going? Spending a weekend automating a program that you use only once, and have to recode every year, does not work.

Also, quicken cannot import PDFs. As for getting the statements via email - it's just as much work getting them one by one out of my email and into the proper place in my accounts.

What I want:

Download in one operation ALL the data in one zip file.

Now that would save me significant time. I've never had an account that allowed this. They're all different, but all about 20 minutes or so of clickety-clickety-clickety.

BTW, at least they finally stopped downloading each statement with the same file name (named "download.pdf", naturally). So I had to rename it as an additional step for each statement. It lead me to wonder didn't anyone who worked at that bank on the web site have an account at the bank?
If you're positing an invasion of Taiwan, chips are the last of the world's problems. Where are all of the devices made with those chips going to be made or shipped from? What could, for example, Apple even sell vs. a China embargo?

Autarky isn't always the best solution, nor the cheapest solution, but sometimes it's a good solution. Or at least a safe one. Just do it peacefully...
Correction: the history of the global south has long been, and will continue to be, instability and exploitation at the hands of the global north.

Colonialism never ended.
Looks like that https cert needs to be renewed.
That situation would imply Alice over-valued the company, and Bob was 100% right to sell his portion and walk away.
Yes, you can buy them from Yuji.
Lower-than-2700K would likely involve the LED tape I use as a living room lamp (5m of 20W/m high-density at 1900K CRI 95+).

For high bay lights, I'd go for their https://store.yujiintl.com/collections/high-cri-led-module/p... mounted to an appropriate heat sink and either their PWM 24V power brick or some 3rd-party solution for that.
This offer goes from 2700K to 6500K.
I don't know. Over time, I've learned to appreciate the kind of slides physicists make, which follow all the "worst practices". They are very dense, with lots of plots and text. They are like, I imagine in the olden days, when people would draw things on blackboards or print out their plots, and sit around them and interpret them. They are the material, and what the presenter does is walking the audience through the material. Compared with a scientific paper, they lack all the prose and weird formal phrases that make papers hard to read. You basically just show what your colleagues need to work with, not less or more. Most importantly, you are not trying to persuade anybody.

My experience outside of academia is that people use PowerPoint exactly for persuasion. Even to the degree that when I wanted to prepare a presentation internally, one of my bosses got angry because he thought I was going to bullshit him. (PowerPoint is something you do to a customer or to the board, not to your colleagues.)
This is very good advice, but I wish it wasn't presented without qualifiers. There are good reasons to get a shelter dog:

- You are potentially saving a dog's life that would otherwise be put down.

- They are often initially cheaper than buying a dog from a breeder.

People rightly focus on the strong moral argument of the first point and they even emphasize the second to imply that it's a good self-interested choice too. But they advocate so strongly that they often omit the real downsides:

- The long-term cost may be higher. There are breeds that are known for significant health problems, but many breeds don't have them and if you buy a puppy of those breeds, their health is closer to being a known quantity. With a shelter dog, you are rolling the dice. There is maybe an argument that hybrid vigor makes shelter mutts statistically more healthy, but that has to be balanced against the facts that (1) the dog may have ended up in the shelter because of health problems or (2) the dog's life pre-shelter may have caused health problems.

- There may be long-term behavioral problems. Dogs in shelters may have been feral, living on the streets, abused, or relinquished because of behavioral problems. If they were feral and weren't potty trained well as a puppy, you may never train them out of marking. Even if the dog was homed, the kind of people who don't spay and neuter their animals (thus leading to puppies that end up in the shelter) are often the kind of people who don't train them well either. There also seems to be a correlation with shelter dogs coming from dog fighting communities. You see a ton of pitbulls, which are wonderful sweethearts when raised right but are not when they aren't. Even non-pit breeds may have been abused as bait dogs.

I love the dog I got from a breeder, and I love my shelter dog (who is snoring next to me as I write this), but the latter was not the pure win that shelter advocates often make it out to be.

The right way to think of it is sort of like getting a used car: it can save you money and be a morally good choice (in the case of a car, less waste and better for the environment), but it's also an unknown quantity where you need to do more due diligence to know what you're getting into, or accept that you are taking a risk with higher variance.

But, unlike with a car, you're signing up for the dog for life.

So, yes, please consider a shelter first. Any future dogs I get will likely be shelter dogs. But consider it cautiously and take your time finding the dog that is right for you.
The government likes giving people benefits via mandates for businesses in order to obfuscate costs. Transparent and accurate pricing for a driver at 2AM results in a better allocation of resources. If the government wants to give people access to drivers at 2AM, then the government should either give people enough cash to pay the price of a driver willing to be available at 2AM, or run the service themselves.
Powerpoint even has a special mode for creating handouts, by printing a non-displayed notes section. There's no need to put the outline on the slides... other than being less effort.
use a proxy, a new chrome session, and throwaway email address.
I wrote a bunch of Lotus 1-2-3 code for a small business in 1991. Got paid cash which paid for an entire six week Amtrak adventure round the US.
I have never been in this circumstance, but at that point paying at all seems like a bad idea. They can choose to kidnap you I guess...
recaptchas logic to check if someone is a bot or not is global and run on googles servers, not site specific.
Standard US practice is 2 weeks, 10 business days notice.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_period#Notice_periods_i...
Some benchmarks are here:
https://github.com/Picovoice/speech-to-text-benchmark#result...

That is however not the linked page indeed.
Did you end up running the scraper longer for your new neighbour?
This makes me sad. I think loot boxes with RNG rewards are a disgusting practice. It's gambling that minors are allowed to do.

One of the things I respect Epic Games for is they didn't follow this profitable path for Fortnite. In Fortnite, you want the skin, you buy the skin. You don't buy a ton of boxes and hope to get lucky.

Gambling with an immediate result is bad. It's particularly bad for children. But it's also bad for adults (eg online slot machines).
Change your food lifestyle: Eat mostly unprocessed plant-based foods.

The book "Eat to Live" explains why plant-based foods are better for you and how much of the processed food in the modern lifestyle is not good for long-term health.

Diets are temporary and so are their results. Lifestyle changes require a bigger commitment, but they will change your life.
As much as I need to wrap up current work, write docs, hand over stuff etc.

> It's only like day 4 and there's six more

You're in the land of 2-week notice periods. The most recent company I joined has a 3-month notice period (it's in my contract) which is kind of ridiculous. I'll probably try to get it waived down to 1 month when it comes to it.
This quote from Blood Meridian is one of my favorite in all of literature and I think capture McCarthy's magic. He has such great talent to describe simultaneously with vivid details yet inexact clarity/meaning.

> It was the judge and the imbecile. They were both of them naked and they neared through the desert dawn like beings of a mode little more than tangential to the world at large, their figures now quick with clarity and now fugitive in the strangeness of that same light. Like things so charged with meaning that their forms are dimmed.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo
Russia soon unable to pay its debts, warns agency
Yep, that's exactly the sort of ridiculous hyperbole that gets thrown around every time somebody suggests any sort of standardization around professional software development!
That's much worse than leetcode problems because it requires tons of work outside work. Most people, myself included, have a life and interests outside of the very narrow focus of their career, and don't want to spend 16 hours a day focused on that one aspect of life. Studying a few leetcode problems is no big deal in comparison.
Very insightful and thought-provoking.

I really appreciated this insight, that governments had (quote) an understanding that if you just leave young people to be, they will go and get married. They will have children. They will be able to have a family and there will be no problem there. You just need to let them go ahead and do that, which is a very naive way of looking at it

The next 100 years is going to be very interesting for demographics. I've heard it said that China needs to grow rich before it grows old, and that saying could apply to many Asian countries right now. Fully expect to see much more support for having a family in countries across the world.
Yes, yes, I get it. Who am I to challegne an authority in scientific writing, that has so many scientist friends to boot. And what do I know about writing anyway, I don't even have a single best-seller under my belt.

Clearly, challenging authorities is not the way of a true scientist.
I retweeted bits of that thread last night, great analysis from an interesting point of view.
But why should any company be forced to provide services to drunk people? The government intervention here is the unfair bit.
That is not what I said. Go back and read the original post.

It's amazing how strangers on the internet can just star gaze and determine my gender, sexuality, race and so on. It's less amazing how often wrong they are. I'd really take a moment and think whether predicting someones identity is aligned with your ethical beliefs on those topics.

If you want to fight straw men, please have the courtesy of doing it in private.
Witness the world of unlicensed renegade civil engineers roving across the American landscape, building unauthorized bridges and infrastructure.

Or perhaps Robert De Niro's character in Brazil.
A lot of them are worse than cabs in London.
As an engineering manager, I would absolutely love to hear this from a report. It provides immediate clarity to me on how to provide great projects and work options for you.

However, there are a few points in your post that may be conflating topics.

First, 'maintaining the current codebase' and providing work that is valuable to the team/org are not the same thing. Some engineers will endlessly poke around the internals of a code base, refactoring, tuning, renaming for clarity, but never provide anything of real value. This is a pitfall.

Second, I would separate 'career growth' from promotion. Companies orient promotion ladders around particular dimensions that you may or may not care about, but that doesn't mean you can't be growing. Consider if there are ways you want to grow that are outside of what your company is asking for as a promotable step. I don't mind if engineers don't want to be promoted but I'm concerned if they have no desire to grow.

Finally, your post makes it sound like you believe an engineer's lack of ambition led to their being laid off, however this may conflate ambition for output. Are you sure a lack of ambition was the reason or were they not producing anything of value (as in point 1 above)?

For bonus courage points, consider having a candid discussion with your manager about each of these topics. I would wager that you will be much better aligned afterwards.
It's incredibly well preserved: https://youtu.be/eB7ApbS2P7o
Just be honest and admit that you are pro-censorship in some issues, instead of using weasel words like that.
Remote Protobuf Plugin Execution with the Buf Schema Registry
Is there some legalistic reason companies don't seem to keep a funnel of quality CVs for candidates and reach out to them when a role looks like it's going to become active?

This whole "application," process seems like the artifact of a kind of historical paternalism among employers that doesn't reflect reality anymore, and it seems to be an unneceessarily synchronous bottleneck in the talent market, where both parties (employer and employee) have to time the market correctly. Objectively, that seems...limited.
Yeah I was going to say, surely you did not end up ripping 200,000 CDs in a couple of weeks
> "I just added X new customers".

Pure gold Daniel! Spot on. Makes absolute sense!
Neil Young got to enjoy a high horse over Joe Rogan, despite spending an entire career peddling pseudoscience quackery about GMO and food additives and audio formats.
If T8 is what you want and you can handle the 15 2ft pack size, you can get them for $800 at 3200K: https://store.yujiintl.com/collections/high-cri-light-fixtur...
Can Minecraft be played without giving MS a Phone#?
Microsoft is due to start forcing every single account on Minecraft to a Microsoft if it isn't already, over the next 2 days, I have read.
I have learned that if you make a Microsoft account, their system auto-locks you out and forces you to provide them a phone number

I play with my family (it's something we've bonded together over a long time) and we take our privacy seriously, and don't give up our phone numbers to companies , frequently using burner apps or other methods to set up stuff.

However, Microsoft accounts don't accept VOIP numbers it seems, and their official guidance is to find someone near you if you don't have a phone, and use their phone to validate your account. This seems like a huge risk to someone else, with Microsoft now having their number (there's nothing that indicates they don't keep it.)
Also, if this is for spam prevention, then if you have a lot of kids, you would be in trouble due to multiple accounts sharing the same number unless you bought every kid a phone.

Apparently alternate email addresses used to be enough, to stop this but the system still automatically flags you. I don't know if TOTP 2 factor authentication works, but have read if you submit the reclaim-your-account form with lots of personal details, Microsoft considers this not-workable if you had setup MFA on your account and won't intervene.

An option with Microsoft accounts is to set up their own dedicated microsoft authentication app to get in passwordlessly (but that feature isn't going to be on the Minecraft launcher, likely) , but this isn't as clear cut over if it pulls your phone number and other details from your phone.

Does anyone know of a method my family could preserve their phone number privacy while continuing to play?

Is there a way to set up a Microsoft account with enough authentication that it doesn't auto-ban you a little bit later and force you to give them more info to keep the account?
I don't know if TOTP is enough, there's been mixed results per https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher/issues/4093

I know some might wonder about third party clients or as some called them it seems ,hacked clients , but those don't support LAN/multiplayer it appears.

Note: the message Microsoft accounts tell you is that they detected suspicious activity, but for those who gave them the info then checked the suspicious activity log in the (new)account, nothing but their own logins are shown, indicating this might be more of a phone-number-obtaining thing. I have trouble believing the tens of millions of players on Minecraft are all able to give phone numbers, and this seems concerning from a privacy point of view.
Even that is far from the worst part about the magic mouse, other contenders include: the super weird default acceleration curve and its combination of too heavy and too much surface area on its "feet" leading it to feel like it's dragging awkwardly. Not to mention the gestures being inconsistent with the touch pad... It is not Apple's strongest product.
You included a conspiracy theory that no one in this thread brought up for what purpose?

I can only see it as an attempt to deflect, undermine, distract from the core points of this exchange, which makes it a bad faith approach on your part, in my opinion.