skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a sense, yes. I'm a plant. I need to have at least some light to function properly when I open my eye.. sorry stomata.

As a plant which is participating to many international meetings regularly (including a one which spans from USA to Japan with everything in between), I think I know a thing or two about scheduling.

However, thanks for sharing your valuable insight.
> Unless you take to the streets. They can't arrest you all.

This is really out of touch coming from childless Western men with email jobs. Revolutionary ideas guys.
> We just spent two years having to put up with folks being arm chair epidemiologist with COVID, do we have to do it all over again with chronobiologists?

If COVID taught me anything, it's to question the experts. Only in the past half a year or so have the "experts" come around to what the layperson had been saying in 2020.
Very useful, will give it a shot. Thank you. :-)
The first thing to remember is – no one is indispensable. If you get hit by a bus tomorrow the company will go on without you. People may have a bit of trouble at first, but new processes will develop and new people will gain expertise just as you have now. Heck the company might be better off in the long run without knowledge bottlenecks.

Second, being indispensable doesn't do a whole lot for job security. If the company is doing well, you need to perform exactly at average to stay employed, no more. And if the company is down in the dumps and there are mass layoffs, who is going to judge how much knowledge you have in your head? All the people who know how good you are are probably getting fired as well.

Third, you are probably not as important as you think you are. Upper management isn't sitting around singing your praises in their weekly meeting. No, they are focused on the rising star who is executing new ideas and launching new product lines. You are meanwhile being taken for granted.

Now, if you are in this position the author writes about, the time to get out of it is now. Realize that no one can help you but yourself. Start redirecting people, or ignore them altogether. Make noise up the management ladder. Play dumb if you have to. Eventually the rest of the company will find some new punching bag and leave you alone.
It's not your car, it's mine.
FSD only exists in Beta
>>you can't possibly know that

I think I can, because extermination of people of my nation was explicitly Hitler's goal.
Can function overloads be marked private or deprecated independently?

Does the implementation need to repeat the effective union type?
India and a few ocean side countries in that region are at UTC+5:30. Nepal (which is not near any ocean but is adjacent to India) is at UTC+5:45.

There is no end to time zone related oddities, including the way DST and standard time switching happen in the U.S./Canada vs. how it happens in Europe.
One utilitarian perspective is that a world where you are at risk of your vital organs being reallocated at any time is such a bad world (deep anxiety for everyone all the time) that organ seizure would never be a reasonable policy choice.

On the other hand:

(1) Maybe this isn't true and we just think organ harvesting is an evil because of our innate status quo bias. Maybe like in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' if there were a class of people who could be harvested at any time they would just ... Accept it and deal with it.

(2) maybe we do live in that world? People continued to travel to, work in, and do business with a place where there was credible evidence of an underclass who was being harvested ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... )

(3) what if there were one person who just LOVED forcible organ harvesting, loved it ten billion times more than every other human on the planet hated it? Morally a utility maximizer would choose to bend to that monster's preference.
Big fan of yours
For someone who claims to have gone to law school, you either don't state arguments well or you're very good at moving the goal posts.

One final time I list a number of countries that aren’t signatories to the Rome Statute, I never stated or implied that was an exhaustive list.

Let's see exactly what you said "Not exactly a list of countries championing human rights or state Sovereignty, the US included." Your argument (that the US is aligning with states that don't champion human rights) falls apart if other countries exist beyond that list that don't fit that singular conclusion. In fact, many countries that don't respect human right did ratify, so that completely blows up your argument. But you knew that, so that's why you only listed the countries you did.

That is dishonest because that was not my argument and obviously inconsistent with the fact that I gave a list of countries that “were not doing it”.

You said "When all other countries we'd consider the closest things to paragons of democracy we have signed it, it paints a pretty clear picture." How else does one interpret that other than "the US should do it because the other good countries are doing it"? It's a terrible argument - my parents would say "if your friends jumped off a bridge would you?".

If you don’t see where your logic breaks down, try to answer why the US is a member to all the other international bodies you claim are “no different” than the ICC, and the US is part of those other bodies but not the ICC.

It's because the US (like the major EU powers) make a choice - get a seat at the table or don't. Joining provides no guarantees that they'll adhere to the rules of membership. If the UN were to pass a resolution saying "Russia rightfully owns Poland and the land within the prior borders of East Germany". You think Germany will go "gee golly, we're a member of the UN so we better just hand it over". No, they'd weasel their way out of their obligations and defend their sovereignty. Just like the US and every other nation would.
Presumably the goal is to be nominally replaceable, but just so all-around awesome they’d be sore to lose you.

Easy, right?
Sure. They can probably handle it. But should being around friends test 'if they can handle what you say'? I hope that is not what my friends think (except for my puns). Especially around friends it would be nice if that is where the pin-pricks stop, and you just get to feel at ease a bit.
Yes [0]. I do photosynthesis too. It's great. No need to eat, no need to take a break. The only problem is getting water, but my colleagues and family knows my schedule and pours some water & coffee while passing through.

On a serious note, human beings' metabolism is sensitive to light. It's part of how circadian rhythm works [1]. Some people are more sensitive, some people are less. I'm on the more sensitive side. Being forced to wake up before sunrise affects my mood and energy.

[0]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYRuuP-WkAAJTzs.jpg

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
> That doesn't mean that there isn't racism and I'm not sure if a country like Australia has "racial blindness" (whatever that means). Australia has huge issues with xenophobia and attitudes which would be called racist in the US are widespread, they just don't focus on race but on ethnicity instead (which IMO is a much better term)

I completely agree Australia has serious issues with xenophobia, and ethnicity-based racism – indeed, my comment to which you are replying mentioned some examples I've witnessed first-hand: anti-Italian prejudice and anti-Lebanese prejudice. But those don't fit well into an American understanding of "racism" which focuses on race rather than ethnicity.

I suppose my point about "blindness" is this – if by it someone means "I don't see prejudice/discrimination/xenophobia/etc", then I agree that is problematic. On the other hand, if someone says "I'm not sure what races are, how many there are, or who is what race; cases of prejudice/discrimination/xenophobia I have personally observed can be understood in terms of language/culture/ethnicity/religion/nationality/etc not race per se" – is one "seeing race"? But even if one is not "seeing race", one is still seeing prejudice.
The entire FAANG interview process is an IQ test with material mostly irrelevant to the job.

It's a sneaky way of administering an IQ test but it is essentially what this industry is doing.
I really hope we don't go extinct before some form of intelligence (preferably friendly and, even if artificial, descended from our human spirit) leaves this planet to explore the beyond.

Like you, I sometimes worry we've got a lot of challenges and obstacles left to avoid before we finish the race.

Here's my personal list of "most likely" existential threats from most to least likely (in my opinion)

1. Vulnerable World

2. Nuclear MAD

3. Geopolitical strife and decay

4. Naturally arising biological agent (independent of #1)

5. Peak energy / resource exhaustion

6. Hostile AGI

7. Runaway climate/ecosystem breakdown

8. Geological or cosmological event

9. Aliens

Vulnerable world seems both incredibly plausible and impossible to contain. As we work up the technological capability ladder, we'll gain access to tools and delivery mechanisms that can theoretically kill all humans. But the scary part is that these tools will potentially be accessible to hobbyists without government backing.

I do expect the ordering of this list shuffle around in my lifetime. Not necessarily in response to bad events, but more likely our technological progress. I'm still ranking AI low, but who knows what future developments might bring. Deep learning sort of took us all by surprise.
These are also great in my opinion (book as well as film): The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Jurassic Park.
If your country is Australia, then I hope it does follow :)
Having certifications is really just a checkbox that helps get past stupid HR filters that would prevent you from getting to the interview in the first place. Or, best case, bump up the priority of your application.

Once you're in the interview the focus is no longer on "knows how to use X" but on "knows how to use X well", which besides technical trick questions to try to suss out whether you really understand the stuff you were tested on for the cert, also includes things like communication skills/style, handling disagreements and conflict, prioritizing, triage, etc.

Basically, not just can you do the work, but can you do the right work, and can you get stuff done.
I think its always been this way. Our parents told us democracy has won out, but in reality, its the same old story. People get fed ideas, of dreams, of one day, as an excuse, to serve. The lucky few are broadcaste around the clock to reinforce the general monenies stature. And dont give me no bull about "making it" from "nothing".

The only way to truely make it, is to find someone else, and jump on that bandwagon. Whether that some else is a government contract, or seed funding, or an admissions board. You rub someone elses back and hope to get your just deserts in due time.
When did it become trendy to parade one's illiteracy and narrow-mindedness?
A large chunk of semi-precious metals with thousands of parts, significant assembly labor and noteworthy cost that often takes years of the median income to pay for should be near disposable when significant issues crop up?

Good luck with that one buddy. Cars ain't that cheap, significant repairs are often cheaper than the cost of a new vehicle.
The rationale: https://hotdoglinux.com/PerlAndUseStrict/index.html

" Most tutorials about Perl will tell you to always 'use strict' or something to that effect. However, the general rule for HOT DOG Linux is to not 'use strict'. The reasoning behind this is that each Perl script should be as simple as possible. It should be simple enough to not need 'use strict'. If it gets to the point where the script would be easier to deal with if it did 'use strict', then that is an indicator that the script is too complicated and should be broken up."

I tried to come up with a comparison for this but failed. It's sort of like saying, "If you need to wear a helmet to do some activity, you should probably ......... break up the activity into three shorter activities ........."
The odd thing about disparate impact is that if you make a test so hard that nearly everyone fails it, you can't be successfully accused of having bias using it as a selection tool.
This look interesting. I am wondering if your approach employs complementary colors. If so, do you use the RGB color wheel, or RYB? I believe that the later makes more sense, but the former seems to be the default in similar work.
Did you know you are exposing your identity for each "permission denied" error? SSH repeatedly tries all of your public keys to authenticate. Someone was able to harvest that and figure multiple github profiles of the client in past.
Algorithms are nothin like an IQ test other than layman think they both are things only smart people excel at. Solving a typical leet code problem is not about pattern matching (what iq tests are) and is not testing for that ability.
Languages aren't logical pre-determined constructions (unless they're intentionally designed, such as Esperanto).

Humans create languages. And they constantly change and evolve, including new words, letters, grammar, etc. Consider Old English versus Modern English [0]. Or even software companies that have become nouns or verbs in common parlance (e.g. "to google").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English
We are having at least 2 different discussions here. From a biological perspective, again, we are human beings. I can easily agree with you here, and with any of your arguments in fact. But in real life, skin pigmentation and other differences that have been attributed to the term "race" have an impact on a person's perception, whether or not they admit/realize it.

My argument may be misguided or even wrong in any sense of that term, but I do not think it is naive. Whereas your views may be right, but I still think they are naive.
Court Overturns ‘Pirate’ IPTV Prison Sentences Due to Unenforceable Copyrights
What is normal FSD because afaik that’s just regular Autopilot.
What are your thoughts on Ray Dalio's thesis around changing world orders?

https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8
KFC-owner Yum sales plunge as China Covid cases surge
That's so cool!

Q: How do you get Tasker to read Matrix messages?
Ukraine war: Could Russia use tactical nuclear weapons?
TIP: If you want to be truly anonymous, don’t use the same identity file that you use to ID yourself with Github since the latter publishes your pubkey in https://github.com/<username>.keys
Is that a good example? That's almost 3 decades ago

> T-40 ( colloquial - sorokovka , sorokan) is a brand of wheeled tractor produced by the Lipetsk Tractor Plant from 1961 to 1995 [1] .

> LTZ-60 is a wheeled tractor of traction class 1.4 manufactured by the Lipetsk Tractor Plant , designed to replace the obsolete T-40 . Produced since 1991. Due to bankruptcy, the tractor was discontinued.

The factory is bankrupt.
There's this Swedish fintech called Klarna, if you applied as an engineer there, their first test is more or less an IQ test.
> Installer for Linux, BSD, etc

> Requires GTK and java-headless
Misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication – Abused by Russian State-Actors
Policies don't work. It's why we lean on process in fields where correctness matters, e.g. aviation.
True, I have not seen them used anymore but the documentation still refers to them (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html) and the rails plugin new command still exists (on rails 6, at least. Don't have 7.x on this machine yet).
This brings back memories. I don't think I've looked at these since somewhere before 2010.
Isn't the only thing this has in common with Discord.. text chat?

That's the LEAST interesting part about Discord, and it's basically just table stakes for a chat service.
“The video shows a driverless Tesla being launched out of the mythical Boring tunnel before crashing into a telephone pole.”
The mindset of a person that leases a car :D

In certain situations (eg: the California Fiat 500e leases, where you paid nearly nothing due to tax credits over 3 years) the math can work, but outside of financial engineering from beneficial state and federal tax incentives the upfront cost of the car or the monthly payments plus the increased insurance cost (due to needing to carry full replacement coverage) means the lifetime cost of ownership doesnt pencil out.
Sanctions-savaged Russia teeters on brink of historic default
Though this robot looks pretty clunky, the idea of riding a legged vehicle is interesting. With a much better implementation I could see this being really useful and fun. For example, going hiking on the back of a robot. Seems like it could become the ideal vehicle for offroad. Might be useful for people with reduced mobility also, letting them go many places a wheelchair or walker can not.
That is not a very good argument.
A medical illustrator noticed patients were always drawn white
99% of what you publish won’t be popular
It does feel like it functions as one. It is a section of the MCAT that is least correlated with the amount of studying and the hardest section to improve on with retakes.
No they’re not. Tesla rebranded enhanced Autopilot to full self driving. FSD Beta is what people paying for the option we’re promised.
He a delusional media whore.

He'd need to buy the Ukraine before he could offer it up as a prize. This isn't going to happen

I'd give him maybe sixty to ninety seconds against Putin before he was dead -- you don't get a 6th dan in Judo without lots of skill.
100% this. A lot of wisdom here.
Yes. At least till China implodes into a thousand disjoint pieces. Tibet's salvation will come.
I have a handful of 78s from the 1920s, and the music on them is, well, let's just say I just don't like it.
I wanted a ".dev" domain for a project a few years ago. At the time, Google was the only one offering that TLD. However, it looks like you can get ".dev" domains anywhere. Was this change part of Google Domains leaving beta? Or is it completely unrelated?
wow... this is so familiar.

not surprising really.. I've been with this company for approx 17 years now.
> I was a sentient wiki

Busted up at this point.

But seriously, this is me, though to a lesser degree (this guy sounds much awesomer then me).

10 years ago, I exited a shrinking technology community. I loved it, but the signs were on the wall. I knew I’d be one of the last ones to turn out the lights. I was just past 41. The prospect of looking for work at 50+ with guru expertise in a Cobol like technology terrified me.

There seemed to be two basic paths at the time. Embedded or web. It seemed like web development was getting commoditized, community college grads earning $17/hr to hammer out a web site for the local pet store. Embedded seemed more lucrative, and I had a decent level of C competency.

I made a choice to become a polyglot as well. I would embrace the “best tool for the job” mantra, and avoid being pigeonholed by any single technology.

An opportunity in our small community opened up to be somewhat entrepreneurial for a medium size company and I jumped in. Our number of participants is no where near as large as the article. 10 at most. But 10 years later, I’m indispensable. I own the embedded C code that runs the 3 different node types on a proprietary LoRa network. The protocol that communicates with the edge device that runs embedded Linux, running multiple systemd services, the uboot configuration, the cooperating Python programs, our own BLE driver from said Linux board, the MQTT and BLE communications schemes and binary json like protocol that communicates to apps. The Kotlin code that runs the two apps. The horror that is working with BLE on Android. The objective-C then Swift code that runs the same two iOS apps. The elixir service that transforms MQTT traffic to swaggerified API. The ansible scripts that configure our servers. Etc. I try to document things, write good code, unit tests, but there’s still a huge amount of “how it all fits together” and “we tired that, don’t want to go there” knowledge in my head.

I have enjoyed learning all these things and more. But I regret I never get the time to get really good at any of them. I regularly experience tuple dysphoria (“how do we do tuples in this language again?”) and other similar “why do all of these languages need to do the same thing differently?” And feel like I always probably need to go figure out how docker works or some other new thing so that I can keep pushing our product offering into new and exciting places.

And like the fine article, I am well remunerated, I am indispensable, I don’t know if I can keep this up til retirement, and it’s kinda lonely. I don’t see a way out. People want to pay $120K for a dedicated Elixir developer, not 180 for “does a lot of fricking things kinda.”

A couple years ago, we hired someone to “help Travis” but it didn’t work out so well. I’m still trying to figure out why.

(I should add that there’s still interest in hiring another body to participate in this madness of polyglot indispensable-ness, if such a thing sounded appealing, email’s in the profile)
Yes, shadow dom replay is something we intend to support. In fact, we've recently worked on it and will be releasing the support in the next couple of weeks. Thank you for bringing this up.
A Civil War Is Brewing in Russian Tech Circles
This, and I certainly have my issues with FSD and the way it’s marketed and sold.
The theoretical possibility of generating unbiased random bits from biased ones has critical practical implications. In computers we need unbiased random bits all the time but often only have biased sources.
This makes me think – is a coin with a truly random bias from flip to flip any different from a perfectly fair coin?
The article is a bit over the top.

For example, my son and I just started riding motorcycles and "cager" is sorta stupid YouTuber biker slang for people in cars. You know, it's the sort of thing said to make motorcycle riders feel more superior (because we are, of course, you filthy cager). In the article, the term is pointed out as a sign of how sinister the Pagans were. I don't doubt that they were and are, but that example was silly enough to make me question some of the other bits in the article, honestly.

The bit about riding at 100mph two abreast in a line of 100 riders on a round trip NY to Ohio drug run sounds completely shit-in-my-pants terrifying. But the cager thing is stupid.
> If given the choice between "my company would be just fine without me" and "everything would fall apart if I didn't show up to work,

I found the problem. It’s not “your company”, it’s “the purchaser of your time and attention”. Act accordingly.
I think when China defeated the theocratic rules, it was an improvement for Tibetan people. But a government's legitimacy is constantly re-evaluated by the governed, and it's the ruling party's job to earn the support necessary for maintaining a stable society.

Using force to ensure conformity can work for the short-term, but history shows even the strongest dictators will fall eventually, if they lose the support of the people.
People living closer to the poles support that. People closer to the equator want longer daylight savings. It's that simple. Honestly we should just understand that it's OK if not everyone is awake at the same time.
What does it mean in practice, though? Only ASCII is supported by the UI layer? Latin-1? MacRoman?