skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most typical way to get started is to use personal connections you have: someone's cousin's brother-in-law is VP at some company, they put in a good word for you, that kind of thing. Or, leverage some connection you have to the previous companies you've worked in, or to former coworkers who've left to go somewhere else, and are in a position to hire contractors.

You can also respond to job listings looking for contractors, and tell the recruiter that you've got a team that could work together. Sometimes that works.

I did agency consulting for 13 years, it is a constant hustle but can be a lot of fun.

Remember to always be looking for the next contract while working on the last one: make friends at the company, connect on LinkedIn. Don't be afraid to sell yourself, in fact nobody else is going to do it for you. You need an extravert on staff, or an introvert who can fake it (that can be even better).

Unsolicited advice: specialize at all costs. The more you can say things like (just an example here) "we are the experts at building typescript applications for SMB retail SaaS companies", the more likely you are to get hired, compared to the company who says "yeah we'll do anything for money". You want the person in charge to be able to look at your track record and say "these guys are a safe bet, because they've done this exact thing before."
Pretty sure that most of Silicon Valley, including Intel, was founded by people exiting Fairchild Semiconductor when things got rough there in the ‘70s.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fairchild-and-the-fairchild...
After school crime involving children is much more prevalent. Imagine how darkness might currently aid that:

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/offenders/qa03301.asp

https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/after-school-the-prime-t...
Basically because of the Gulf Stream influence on climate, I suspect a lot of Americans would be surprised how far north Europe is compared to the US. (And therefore that you deal with darkness in the morning and the evening for a decent chunk of the year.)
It seems really weird not to as ask the question "why would someone use your engine over Google," as a friend because "Why would I use your search engine over Google?" is exactly what every single customer is going to ask, prospective employees and founders aside.

If that's not something they have a cogent answer for, they should probably look into some other line of business.
Ill believe it when there is a massive push for women to go into dangerous jobs.
This is literally what permanent DST accomplishes.
> The bubble of people who post on HN have been living in that cloister for the last decade or so, not realizing what goes on in the world.

Maybe some, but some of us in Latin America live in countries that at times have been subjected to US "influence" which resulted in subverting governments, abductions and torture. All in the name of freedom and fighting communism, which I guess makes it alright!
I wonder why the USA is so supportive of this, but so against metric?
To me that just makes what DST really does transparent. It makes everyone shift their schedules, whether they want to or not.

About the meeting example, I don't think GP meant purple who like DST should change their clocks, they should just change their schedules. If you want more sunlight after work, arrive earlier and leave earlier. After all, that is effectively what DST forces everyone to do.
Yep, and I'll admit I love being this guy!
> just thinking this through logically, whether we are on DST or ST permanently shouldn't matter one way or another

It's observational, empirical research. The results are valid whether you understand them or not.
Your claim that DST is worse for health than standard time IN THE ABSENCE of seasonal switching seems doubtful. Got a source?
Gov. Newsom signs law to stop UC Berkeley enrollment cuts
Direct link to the computer in question: https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-r01
The file exporer's source code is at the bottom of the page. It looks like it's animated using framer-motion.
Nit: you were likely in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala is the city in the valley below (where few foreigners stay), and not terribly convenient to travel to/from if you were living in the city.

That, or you were up in Dharamkat and hiked down into town/temple area where there are needless to say many Tibetan monks from the diaspora -- amazing part of India.

Free Tibet
And then some cities in Canada are going to have the sun rise at 10am in the winter. There is no win on this one, shift it one way, Group A gets screwed, shift it the other way and Group B gets screwed, flip it back and forth and everyone complains.
You two are in violent agreement. Permanent DST gives you an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon.
The way these things usually work, you inadvertently preserve some, and inadvertently eradicate others. Just the nature of markets.
Shhh... The Narrative has now been decided, and going against it on HN is racist or something.
Just frame it as the author recommends: "How will you get your first billion users?"
> We have the ability to TRACEROUTE(to use a common, simple term) do we not?

This is more difficult than it looks. You can trace the routes to a set of IPs as much as you want but it doesn't really matter if you end up in a botnet of millions of compromised consumer grade routers. Unless you can find evidence on those routers who is behind the attack, the trail just stops there since you can't feasibly strike back against the civilians. Many DDOS attacks will also use reflection attacks from buggy servers that haven't been patched in 10 years, so once again where the packets come from will tell you nothing about who is behind the attack. Finally there are many DDOS-as-a-service providers in the more shady countries, Russia was/is quite famous for not cracking down on cybercriminals as long as they did not hit any Russian targets. If you find that it was one of those people, you may still not learn who hired them unless you are willing to send in some special operatives and ask them personally.
So, as I mentioned in the other reply I'm not really trying to start a business here I just want to understand more about the processes and tools underpinning these vast scalable web apps that surround us. But this advice sounds pretty reasonable relative to how one would actually go about creating a small tech startup and iterating on it enough to get into YCombinator (for example).

Given it doesn't sound like you're gonna share the info about scalable infrastructure, could you possibly provide some guides or extra reading for the patterns and practices one should be going with at the the small and feisty stage? I might as well take some notes down about this side of things if you have materials that speak to it.
The past is prologue and not necessarily predictive. That was then; this is now.
> See, he routinely made several times that annually for the company in retained customers and won contracts

Did he explain that to them in a friendly professional manner? Or did he expect them to recognize his greatness right off the bat?
Yep. Taking it to extremes: “If you’ve never had/facilitated an abortion, you’re being too careful with birth control.”
If a manager knows who they want to hire before the job posting goes up how will you know?
I'm sorry, but that makes absolutely zero sense. Gaslighting your audience means you, as a publisher of information, openly states to your viewers that they aren't capable of finding credible information themselves, and discerning what's true or false. It's also the process of declaring information as "misinformation" and having your audience prove you wrong over and over again — or through more official processes like Congressional hearings, courts, etc. finding that swaths of information shared by the corporate media was largely false after all.

It's telling intelligent people they are less capable than they really are. Truly, no one can make that suggestion without some level of hubris and high-horsed thinking, undeserving of anyone's attention.

Again, these are valid reasons why so many people do no trust our institutions responsible for conveying accurate information with as little bias as possible, which barely exists today, and thus independent journalism has quite successfully taken their place, and as a result, corporate media giants attack these lesser sources as their viewers and ratings observably and objectively plummet (as reported).
Here's to hoping!
V. Interesting approach, but does making connections statistical avoid making system a consistent system as in in Gödel incompleteness? How does system represent things like the liar paradox (if it does?).
I see it in every city that I travel to and it's clear there has been a shift.

One thing that - I'm curious to get others input on - I wonder if this is a bigger shift than it appears.

The Information Age that brought the best and the brightest from small towns to the city and ultimately to just a handful of cities, seems to be reversing itself.
I post jobs, but we always adapt the offer depending on the person’s skills. The very idea that a job has a specific salary is disjoint from ground reality.

The ideal that everyone’s skills can be ranked using material criteria is an oversimplification of society.
Isn't this effectively what the legislation does? I read it as striking DST and shifting time zones. Permanent DST is just marketing.
Two Hours One Life: https://twohoursonelife.com/

You Are Hope: https://dualdecade.com/
Thanks for this answer.

> Solaris

Haha, I worked at Sun at the time and definitely remember some of my coworkers grumbling about it.
It didn't come across as sarcastic, but I hoped it was. As it stands, though I can imagine arguments for or against the current school set-up, the idea:

> The benefit of forcing the discipline of getting up early on children is greater than any health impact or inconvenience.

that a particular arbitrary method of instilling a particular arbitrary form of discipline is more important than any health impact or any inconvenience is horrifying to me, and I hope it doesn't find many adherents.
> but it’s not like the record companies are signing _everyone_. They still sign bands that they think will generate at least some notable amount of profit.

That doesn’t really change the point. If you want to argue the math of lottery tickets, you can’t just take the single case of the person who wins the jackpot and state “So obviously the lottery is the best investment ever seen”. And arguing, as I am, this that you would need to consider also all the individuals who don’t win the jackpot, can’t be dismissed simply by saying “but everyone who buys a ticket is hoping that their buying the one which wins the jackpot”.

Now again let me emphasize, I’m not saying record companies aren’t screwing artists. What I’m saying is that you can’t claim to be arguing the math, if you don’t consider all the cases, but only consider the obvious winner selected after the fact.
I wrote a trilingual one (Chinese, Korean, English) circa 2005 which allowed fuzzy search and directory services.

The main issues are expense, per-message character limit (which is based on your character encoding; note Unicode UCS-2 is super-wasteful vs. other alternatives), latency, and questionable inter-network reliability.

If you're in Alaska, honestly, if you're not really hard up for money just get a satellite deal like the sailors use, they're getting way cheaper.

Don't even begin to dream about forcing IP down SMS. You could do a batched shell service if really desperate, but it would verge on unusable and you'd likely get rate limited at some point.
I've had one creator move all their hosting over to Mega- sure they might miss out on the analytics tools/dashboards, but if your audience is mostly desktop users then they generally won't see much difference in having to unzip a video file instead of playing it from Vimeo. It's generally niche enough that a portion of monthly Patreon subs can make up for a YouTube video being demonetized because of various arbitrary reasons while not disrupting their main income source.

Heck, it's probably saving money being on the 10€/mo tier providing 2 TB of bandwidth while Vimeo wants to charge an order of magnitude more for essentially the same functionality, maybe only an inconvenience for those that want to watch on their phone during a commute or something similar.
It's fueled by the exhaustion caused by monkeying with what time it is. It's not about circadian rhythms. It's about having to wake up an hour early and pretend that you got enough sleep, and for no good reason.
Why can't you take your kid to the playground after dark? In December we get sunrise at 8 but it's not light until 9 or so. Sunset is at 15 but it's quite dark at 14 already. Kids are happily playing with their parents in the snow no matter how dark it is, you can't stay indoors just because you have 5-6 hours of daylight. You just get a flashlight for your head and can play or go skiing in the forest.
You can do this sort of thing with write-ordering a "generation counter" that is updated before and after writing a bunch of other data elements. The problem is that it makes the read slow - you have to use a CAS-style loop even to read anything (you must check that the generation counter has the same value before and after reading the other data). It also adds more memory barriers than a simple lock.
We also rely on the mediator for moderating. Imagine the amount of spam if there was no trusted authority to moderate the database.
> 10 days

What's that in Friedman units?
Generally Scratch-like languages can be referred to as "visual" programming languages, or "block based" languages. "Frame based editors" would be this new combined approach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
State observed by thread 1: counter = 5, state = blue;

State observed by threads 2-4: counter = [4,5,1,2,3,4,5,6], state = [blue, green, blue]

Thread 1 wakes up, sees counter = 6, state = blue;

Logical conclusion: system state is counter++, state unchanged.

Actual scenario: counter+=6, state+=2

I believe this was first covered in my distributed computing class, but was probably most concretely illustrated in the case of concurrent garbage collection. Any unfairness in the thread scheduler can lead to some threads getting way more clock cycles than others. In low frequency scenarios you can convince yourself it's not a problem, only to be punished by success into finding out you're wrong when you have 10,000 active users instead of 10.

This is especially true with spinlocks, because it's a greedy algorithm that trades fairness for responsiveness. It can result in low throughput or even priority inversion. They are a very sharp knife. Indispensable for very specific tasks, certain bloodshed for others.
Uh.. in this age of everyones important clocks (like phones, computers) auto updating.. there's literally nothing to do.

You are suggesting changing work schedule hours, school times, etc half the year and you call that more simple? Wow.
Ah! The difference is that in today's political climate, nobody will admit they were wrong about anything. So it will probably stick.
This looks kind of cool, but I think there's no version of this as a library that could be considered idiomatic(TM), after all "a little copying is better than a little dependency"

https://go-proverbs.github.io/
It's not easy to get right and they failed which means it works on some sites but not others (they did make sure all the major hosts work though)
I know, I mistakenly thought the comment I was referring to was saying that the research says that "Standard Time" is better for us than DST.
Latino is considered white now?
It's quite easy to be ,,just'' a criminal nowdays. All you need is just be born in a country led by a multibillionaire dictator who wants to nuke the world and want to receive your salary for your hard work from an American company.
It's like when they say that whites dominate managerial positions but they conveniently conflate Jews with whites.
No, you read it correctly the first time around. E.g. from the first link in the dump above:

> we find that an extra hour of natural light in the evening
reduces sleep duration by an average of 19 minutes and increases the likelihood of reporting insufficient sleep.

The health benefits of people staying out longer and spending more money (?) are disputed I believe. The reduced sleep of day starting before sun-up are pretty universally recognized as bad for public health (particularly among teenagers).

Also note that if staying out longer was a goal to strive for, there are number of alternatives to encourage that. Including shorter worker ours, more public spaces, public events, etc. Conversely getting people to sleep longer is much harder with the clock set 1+ hour after the sun clock.
It was fun to read your response compared to mine :) You mentioned some things I missed, and we had pretty different reasons. Just shows a well made tool carries a variety of values for a variety of users.
Also, on average, people are in less of a hurry after work.
Is Hamburg also permanently clouded in Winter like Berlin?

(In Berlin we often have a non-stop gray sky pretty often from somewhere in December to "mid" or so February with just a few days exceptions, especially January is super painful. I honestly would prefer shorter colder but clear-skyed days with snow).
I took the part a lot of this reply was about out because it was probably wrong.

Regardless, there's no purity to be had here. No matter what, time zones themselves are a compromise for the sake of practicality -- there's no inherent virtue in "the sun is at precisely peak at 12pm +/- a geographic offset."
Institutions have computers now. So they should be able to have hours to fit the sun with far less trouble.
>Russia is the largest country in the world on permanent DST.

Actually, Russia tried permanent DST, but then switched to permanent standard time 3 years later after that turned out to be a terrible idea:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29773559
Heh, I think the best we can do is embarrass them and complain when they do something stupid and confusing like some of the Ryzen 5XXX series being Zen 2 and others are Zen 3 cores. Not that Nvidia and Intel hasn't done the same thing.

Using http://ark.intel.com has been very useful for figuring out the details of Intel CPUs. Not found anything as useful for AMD or Nvidia.
Or as Torvalds said, don't use spinlocks in user space. https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
>> generics reduce complication

That goes against the definition of the word complication. To complicate something is to combine and intertwine it with other concerns. To fold them together is to complicate them.

To generify a function is to complicate it with the ability to accept multiple types rather than just one.

There are totally great use cases for generics but all the cases I’ve seen are in library code not in general application programming which is where most developers spend most of our time. But of course the shiny toy can be hard to resist and so generics are often overused and abused.
To be honest, Arm doubled head count of the last 5 years, and really haven't delivered. So it wouldn't be surprising to me that their costs are way too high compared to comparable companies. Having said that successfully getting back down to the correct head count is probably impossible. You just can't figure out who is essential, and you can't re-assure the people you want to stay, so the people who can leave, do leave, and you're left with the people you wanted to get rid of, but know you can't get rid of them because they're the only ones you have left. Then the good people who didn't leave take a look around and realize they're no longer working with the smart people they thought they were working with and start looking to leave too. And it's easier for them to leave because they've suddenly got a load of contacts at competitor companies.
What are the chances this was made for a online / Microsoft 365 verison of Windows, an ad supported one? Not the most unlikely thought. I'm betting this will show up in a "special" version of Windows first.
If you want such plants, buy them in garden centers or in dedicated plant fairs, not online to suspicious vendors. Plants produced in cultivation (usually by seeds also produced on cultivated plants) are more suited to cultivation in our greenhouses than those taken in the habitat. For these, the survival rate is low, because they often fail to adapt.

If you want to know more about these fascinating small plants, here's a website dedicated to them: https://www.cactuspro.com/conophytum-lithops/
(disclaimer: I am the webmaster of cactuspro.com, but not this specific section of the site).

It is in French, made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. We strongly condemn poaching, and of course reproduce as much as possible these plants in cultivation to lower pressure on habitat plants and share with other aficionados.
> I yearn for the day Americans are willing to support something regardless of how much money it makes them.

HN sneers about "voting against their own interest" when they do that.
And people who work night shifts would be delighted if every locale instantly adopted a +12 hour time offset.

Any change whatsoever to a status quo will delight some and upset others on an individual basis. I assume your point isn't that we should all adopt your preferences. So if not, what is it?
How does an article on NixOS talk about the `rpath` issue without also mentioning the `patchelf` utility that NixOS developers created to solve this issue? It's a small tool that lets you modify ELF executables and binaries. It's also the recommended way for NixOS users to modify binaries to work properly.

https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf
Search was on my list, as a former Googler I used both the external and internal search all the time.
No one knows how airplanes fly
>I could be way off, but I am confident of this assessment.

Having been briefly spoiled by the way some amateur analysts like Scott Alexander use percentages to express their confidence, reading that sentence was like stepping out of a warm room into the cold outside air.
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> There is now an opportunity to exacerbate their manpower problem. The next intake of conscripts into the Russian Army is on April 1, when around 130,000 Russian families are required to send their sons (18-25) to Conscription Centers where they will be inducted into the Russian Army as privates.

I wonder whether one could delay the conscription, perhaps with some Corona sicknote. There must be plenty of friendly doctors in Russia who could help with that.
interestingly macOS has a really nice solution called @rpath and install_name_tool

basically you build your binary and set a rpath, let's say it is /usr/local/lib in your machine

mach-o binary stores:
@rpath = /usr/local/lib
libxyz = @rpath/libxyz.dylib.1

when I want to install those to /opt/something only thing I need to do is install_name_tool -add_rpath /opt/something

This will add search directories to binary itself. There are some DYLD_* environment variables too but I'm not sure about them... (Some are SIP protected by the way)

PS: It may invalidate signed binaries. Again, not tested such use cases.
wonder if IQ will get concentrated at the top too, i see smart people move to a few cities and marry other people in their profession or a similar profession. Back in the day before social media and such i feel that dating wasn't so selective (He/She needs to have X,Y,Z), so people had more diversity in who they married and this spread the genes around more.
Reality is a bit more complicated, there are many religions in India and most people consider Buddhism not theistic.

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

https://qz.com/india/1585631/the-ancient-connections-between...
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