skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you currently working? Are you currently working within a big or small company? Do you have good or bad bosses?

IMO, a big chunk of life frustration here can often just be developers working on dumb projects, with bad bosses, surrounded by bad process.

Everybody would feel like crap if they had dumb managers riding their ass trying to crack the whip with short deadlines, working on bad projects with not much real benefit to humanity, etc.

One solution might be just trying to find a good workplace: even if you have to take a little paycut to work on something more meaningful to you.
There is Project Loom[0] which seems to promise some of what you describe.

[0] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main
> Trying to force yourself to do something is like trying to lift yourself up by your trousers.

Everyone who's had to practice 1000s of hours has had to have discipline.
> Three names no parent will name their sons - Benedict, Adolf, Judas

What? The name is now extremely popular again, thank to the actor from the Marvel movies (Dr. Strange) and TV's Sherlock Holmes.

I'm talking, of course, about Adolf Judas Cumberbatch.
I thought RobinHood helped Citadel front run the orders?

See https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/29/robinhood...
Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS.

It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?
How user hostile technology has become killed the magic for me.

I constantly have to think about not being tracked on the web, manipulated by an ad or astroturfed, scammed by companies with fake reviews, exploited by "algorithms", dodging dark patterns, fighting my OS to do what I want, protecting my data and privacy, hackers stealing my data from companies I entrusted it with, cryptoscams, IoT devices leaking my data, malicious libraries (npm, etc.), hardware exploits (Meltdown/Spectre), obscure firmware, PC in my PC (Intel ME), etc. etc. etc.

The worry about viruses and trojans in the 90s pales in comparison.

I still enjoy tinkering with technology, but most days it feels like a chore, and I do it less in my spare time.
Small world, I lived with the operator of this website for a time long ago.

Some readers may be interested in the Heinlein Centennial, a convention held in Kansas City 15 years ago

https://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/03/centennial-geo-day-o...
Oh interesting. I think like you said updates might be a little bit tricky as well as search. I'm using full text search from Postgres so that would be tough on S3.

I'm doing some aggressive caching with Vercel and Nextjs which essentially turns in to putting the data in S3.
Everyone he ever met died. Now the story is more sinister!
I shared this with my 11 year old daughter. She says these people are very lazy, and missing work for bad reasons.
He personally considers Twitter to be an extension of the "town square", so he wants to apply the laws of the government and turn them into the operational bylaws of Twitter. If the US government allows it in a "town square" then it's automatically allowed on Twitter.
This was my first multiplayer game on Mac and teaching myself AppleTalk, IP Addressing, etc — didn't work well except on a good school LAN. I can still hear the ... "they're everywhere, ahhhhh".

I believe (or I want to believe) this game was a predecessor to Bungie's more popular console game Halo, but not sure.
> ...kept its post-separation guns...

What is this a reference to exactly? Did they agree to disarm themselves or what was the history here exactly? Was there some treaty about being neutral and not developing a military like Japan post WWII agreed to? What's going on with Ukraine in this space?
Most of the world would much rather no Russian nukes but didn't have the power to get that.
If he was only able to get on this track due to interventions from outside the school system which many students could not afford or otherwise could not access, then that's a failure of the public school system.
No clarifications were needed because there was no misunderstanding. You've created a misunderstanding out of thin air, and then spent multiple replies trying to defend it.

At this point it’s quite clear that you really just want to have the last word. You haven’t contributed anything of substance to this thread, but will somehow feel emotionally fulfilled if you have the last comment.

So go ahead. Reply and tell me how wrong I am again. It will completely validate everything I just wrote, but I am interested to see whether you’re willing to do that in order to have the last comment in the thread. My prediction is that you lack the self control to stop yourself from replying, but we shall see :)
I organised one of these as a junior dev at my first job! Glad to see I was ahead of the curve. cough.
Yeah I'm unsure what information they use or have access to in order to form recommendations. But I'm almost certain it's not limited to just IP addresses.
> The USA accounts for 4% of the world population, and 40% of the top 100 universities in the world. That's fucking weird. I don't have an explanation for it. I'm just saying that the different signals we use for evaluating how good our education system is functioning are giving us radically different pieces of feedback, and our understanding needs to be correspondingly sophisticated.

What would our STEM university departments look like if the next generation of Indian and Chinese kids with good K-12 math educations decided opportunities were good enough at home that they didn’t need to leave their families behind and immigrate to America?
If I wasn’t on mobile I would dig up some excellent articles on the topic, so please excuse the too brief summary:

The core concept of the UNIX philosophy is that each tool should do one thing, and then you can compose them.

In practice this doesn’t work because of the physical constraints of the small machines used back in the day when UNIX was developed.

The original shell concept used plain byte or char streams, which are too primitive.

The end result is that every tool has to do parsing and serialisation. Worse, they pretty print by default, losing the structure and making subsequent steps fragile.

So for example, Visual Studio crashes if your Git version is “wrong” because it’s trying and failing to parse the output text.

Similarly if you ask UNIX people to solve simple problems like “stop all processes run by ‘Ash’”, they’ll reach for grep and accidentally stop every bash process also.

In PowerShell the commands don’t parse. They don’t serialise. They don’t pretty print. They don’t sort, filter, group, export, or import.

Instead there are dedicated, single-purpose commands for those functions that compose elegantly.

This is the UNIX philosophy, and PowerShell does it more than bash.
Mr. and Mrs. XVI's son seems to have done quite well for himself as well.
Yeah. Sadly, the standard undarstanding what "Bayesian" means among philosophers is very different from its meaning among statisticians. I've written on the subject for both audiences and it's been a real pain. And it's not just disagreement about what probabilities are (although I suspect that was the root cause historically). It's each discipline ignoring all sorts of aspects of the literature of the other discipline. Oh well. Life is suffering.
It is a fantastic service. It is a little concerning Google hasn't touched it since it matured. $17.99 for commercial free YT for a family is a bargain considering how much we use it. I have to think there is a major price increase coming.
Have you used jq?
I also do my coding at work, with Gitlab/Github, Confluence and Jira. And yet, due to various leadership decisions and technical migrations over the years, we have lost huge piles of records due to migrating work trackers, document stores, and VCS hosts (e.g. Unknown -> Jira -> Pivotal Tracker -> Jira). Due to these crappy migrations, we don't have old merge requests, old wiki documents, and even some old repositories. Sure, it's possible to find those in old archives sitting in an S3 bucket if I were to take a couple days, but they're not 'at my fingertips'.

What is at my fingertips though? All the git commits of every repository that we still have. Which means that the only thing that's actually endured has been the commits. So, on behalf of folks 5-20 years from now who'll be scrutinizing your work, please put the context into the repo directly since it's the only thing that'll stick around.
Elon Musk won't fix Twitter (but he won't kill it, either)
I think Meta is probably here to stay, but you're right Microsoft should probably be in there. So, GAMMA.
...and to get a foot in the door you have to specialize in something to actually pass an interview and get hired.

Thanks for your comment, it confirms my suspicions on how this actually works in the wild.
I'll take a project to develop some automation in Google Apps Script any day before I take a VB scripting job.
How did they deal with you, if I may ask?

Is there something you wish they had done differently?
Isn’t a bank mortgage all-cash anyway from the perspective of the seller? When buying, and when selling, a check for the full amount was pushed across the table, even though a traditional mortgage was in play every time. Once the bank has approved your loan, it’s cash. This is just shifting certain key moments around.
Sold his legacy for peanuts? Maybe he didn't care about legacy. And the situation was more complicated than you're implying.
This is a deeply confused set of arguments.

There's no fundamental ontological difference between "give me your likelihood ratios between drawing cards [a and b] as the next draw from this deck of cards" and "give me your likelihood ratios between finding and not finding a continent in an unexplored part of the world". While what we ultimately care about is the territory, which is fixed, we only have our imperfect map of the world with which to model it. There is nothing inherently "probabilistic" about a shuffled deck of cards - the cards have a specific configuration; the uncertainy is only present in the observer(s). Predicting the next draw from a deck of cards is subject to "out of context" model violations the same way that any other prediction over future world states is.

The proposed escape hatch seems to be to dodge the question, but of course in reality you are not agnostic over all possible future events that haven't been ruled out by being "bad explanations". You can say, "well, don't make predictions with numbers on them", but by acting in the world you are making predictions with numbers on them all the time! Bayesian epistemology doesn't claim to be perfect, it claims to be the least inaccurate way of making those predictions and updating on new evidence. Now, there's a separate question of how bounded reasoners (i.e. humans) can best accomplish their goals, and "explicitly run Bayes to decide whether to get out of bed" probably isn't it. But superforecasters are an existence proof that explicit Bayesian calculations are still extremely useful even in highly uncertain domains.

Mechanistic explanations are great but even having a mechanistic explanation doesn't let you say P(x) = 1. There can be enormous differences in reasonable mitigations to take between P(x) = 0.99 and 0.999999, depending on context.
Great for nostalgia. I wanted to play Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but it crashes during the intro scene with "An error of type 3 occurred."
Think it from another angle..

The ones jump when the salary is the highest are now in more peculiar position than the others, if the company decided to trim itself down.
But it will have royalties. Does the DIMM standard have royalties?
Is there something like this for C/C++?
Vaccine-derived polio is on the upswing
oh yeah, i imagine that's even more nasty to deal with. I just test rendering and basic javascript stuff, so for my usecase it works.
One of the design decisions I made for a project I'm working on is to skip the ORM layer and make direct SQL instead. This pairs with the "SQL (almost never) changes" aspect; the same SQL I learned in college 15-20 years ago is still completely usable for the majority of the queries I use.

Moreover, I can actually implement requests for complex logic fairly easily. Instead of trying to understand how the ORM works (which is a problem in of itself with a lot of ORM documentation, due to the sheer number of corner cases), I can either implement or google an example.

One of the nicer parts to working w/ SQL is that even different dialects of SQL offer helpful ideas on solving a problem. Yes, MySQL might not have materialized views or what have you, but seeing a Postgres solution will at least point you in the right direction. (Using ORMs just adds a level of indirection that you don't need IMO)
WHO reports 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children
spoken like a true fanboi of a person whose family comes from a mining background in apartheid South Africa. and who has never been back to the place ever since apartheid was abolished. Musk like Thiel is a racist and people who support him are also likely fans of Ayn Rand. But you know all that. Personally I think we should strive to live in a society where those type of people do not feel safe (but you knew that too).
"Multi-Country – Acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children": https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...
"I remember people not joining it (after its glory days) "

That's just the obverse of leaving isn't it? The site loses any momentum, becomes stagnant, and peters out, or in the case of Friendfeed, became ripe for acqui-hiring, then effectively spun down.

Orkut actually kept growing for a while, but in secondary markets (not just Brazil, but that was its biggest geo), until started to stagnate then decline.

Digg is a great example as well.
Haha that's a mental trick I sometimes use - imagining literally selling myself short, and asking how that could go tits up. Being a skilled pessimist I can think of a multitide of ways.
I'm an Australian who occasionally has video chats with Americans overseas for work and regularly plays D&D online at least once a week with friends all over the world.

The only time I've every heard someone say "<Month> <Ordinal>" or "<Month> the <Ordinal>" is when talking with Americans.

Every other time it's always "<Ordinal> of <Month>" or just "<Ordinal>" for short.
Idk, Java and JavaScript (as TypeScript) aren’t actually that bad. Yeah Java loves OOP and verbose design patterns, but it’s gotten a lot better with functional programming, syntax sugar, and IDE support making it much less verbose. JavaScript has some weird quirks but with strict TypeScript, a good linter, and ES2020+ features, you can “almost” avoid them.

Python and PHP are fine if you’re only using them in small projects. I agree though, if you have a decently large or performant project, or one that may scale, you should pick a different language. And C++ is just terrible and should be deprecated/replaced by Go and Rust.
gets is not a contraction, it's the conjugation of the verb "to get" when the subject is singular.
I couldn’t think of a less douchey way to express that the math education was rigorous compared to even a good American high school.
> yes shopify runs on truffleruby

That's incorrect.
You think those people would rather be unemployed last year?
> And so there's a deductive part of the theory whose credence goes up. But the instances never imply the theory. So you want to ask: “The part of the theory that's not implied logically by the evidence – why does our credence for that go up?” Well, unfortunately it goes down. And that's the thing that Popper and Miller proved in the 1980s. A colleague and I have been trying to write a paper about this for several years to explain why this is so in more understandable terms.

This seems to be his argument against Bayesianism epistemology (besides the unapproachable paper). I am curious, but have no idea what he's trying to say. If someone does understand, would you mind giving a concrete example of a theory plus some evidence plus "the part of the theory that's not logically implied by that evidence"?
>>“Shipping jobs to an offshore location to pay less than a third of our minimum wage here is just extremely disappointing, and, quite frankly, I’m disgusted a company like Freshii would take this approach,” said Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

Indeed disappointing from that perspective; yet fighting it is also futile.

If they somehow get such a direct remote cashier arrangement outlawed, it'll just be rearranged at most to a set of self-service kiosks with a remote support booth available, or some such further abstraction.

Plus, even the remote cashier and support job will also be transient, as the technology improves.
Shopify does not run on TruffleRuby.
Would it be weird if I named my son Guy Fawkes?
What if you compare the coordinates in the galactic frame at their respective times?
Many houses now have a 'spice kitchen' where meals are actually cooked, before being plated and served in the 'main kitchen'.
I guess it would be better if the source code release alone wouldn't take two million.
Feels like amateur hour or info-sabotage if our officials are offering this info up.
"It doesn't count if the human knows there might not be a purpose, and they are just doing it to be like others."
> Not sure if this is standard but I usually see the delimiter being used to define the date format:

No. Pretty much every separator / order combination is in regular use.

See the table under “Listing” at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
This being Heinlein’s house, I assume the plan is to give them a gun, teach them how to use it, and kick them out into the world. They’re ready!
Lol no they did not. They are desperate because nothing is working and they are losing money and they don't know what they are doing. Source: I quit 3 weeks ago.
You can thank all the billionaires that's sucked up all the wealth for this. Nice going, Bezos, Gates, Musk and all the rest of them. The trickle down economy is a myth.
It depends on the part of Massachusetts. The suburbs close to and beyond the I-95 have astoundingly good public schools. They're also expensive to buy into.

Boston proper and surrounding areas have begun to suffer from the same epidemic of anti-gifted mania that plagues California and is beginning to affect New York City, especially with regards to the exam schools (i.e. Boston Latin et al).
HN seems to be more even handed though with a slight left bias when it comes to enforcement ...

Twitter on the other hand has such an extreme political bias that bias is written right in to the (current) rules for the platform

To compare the 2 is laughable
It's possible my viewing habits overlap with say 68% of others. But I've seen recommendations that match what I would assume to be my more niche interests. As for not closing all private browsing tabs, I've made that mistake before, but I still see the same pattern of recommendations when using single session browsers or separate devices.

Thanks again for the follow-up.
Show HN: Gradio – A Python web UI framework – crossed 100k installs on PyPI
They have to keep that $6B almost entirely in reserve as collateral to avoid another GME. Why would you say stuff like this on a public forum when you have no idea how that industry works?
I’ve heard there’s a very odd monument to Benedict Arnold at West Point.

All of the generals of the American Revolution have monuments, including Arnold. But his is basically a blank sheet of stone with no name attached.
New Course on Distributed Systems and EC Cryptography by Martin Kleppman
The front running is instead of a transaction fee. Customers have to pay for the service somehow.
Let’s make someone 10x richer and see what they want to buy.
I am. I'm still curious about what I've said that you think is ideological.

There were several mistakes, at least in your writing, which are well-outlined in my post history.
RH is for trading (gambling, like you were doing) not investing.
Yes, random photons drop their energy proportionally right where classical electrodynamics says, according to interfering E-M wavefronts.

Question is, for photons not random, but entangled, could they be persuaded to drop their energy quanta more selectively?
Please pay a designer. Pretty please.
Quoting the Consul docs [1]:

"Note that DNS is limited in size per request, even when performing DNS TCP queries.

For services having many instances (more than 500), it might not be possible to retrieve the complete list of instances for the service.

When DNS SRV response are sent, order is randomized, but weights are not taken into account. In the case of truncation different clients using weighted SRV responses will have partial and inconsistent views of instances weights so the request distribution could be skewed from the intended weights. In that case, it is recommended to use the HTTP API to retrieve the list of nodes."

[1] https://www.consul.io/docs/discovery/dns#service-lookups
> So go ahead. Reply. It will completely validate everything I just wrote, but I am interested to see whether you’re willing to do that in order to have the last comment in the thread. My prediction is that you lack the self control to stop yourself from replying, but we shall see :)

I'd recommend that you read up on hacker news's terms of service, because your comments like this seem to frequently ignore them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
Same, but with spaces, and the month always full capitalized. I learned this habit in the Military as an alternative to 20220222. 22 FEB 2022 is nice because it's neither a string of numbers, which is very intimidating to read if it's written out to include hours minutes and seconds, like 20220222122222. It also completely bypasses the argument around month and day because the format includes spelling specific to the month.

If I'm writing a letter or addressing a specific thing in a formal context I chose to "revert" to the Month, Day Year because it's the social standard for the country I am in, and I want to fit into that cultural expectation, but if it's for a business document or normal chatter I think DD MMM YYYY is probably the clearest to both English & Non-English speakers. It eliminates the distractions I'd normally be dealing with when considering if I'm talking to someone out of country or not. It would be really great if it ends up being more widely adopted.
lol! I'd love to once I figure out how to.
>>and 'systematic racism exists' - which of course it does

Systematic racism only exists today to positively discriminate against people belonging to so-called disadvantaged races, at the expense of those belonging to so-called privileged races. That's why White and Asian kids are discriminated against in college admissions.
We're talking about doing CS as a degree in college, not coding in a job. You don't even need to study CS to get a coding job.

As an aside, those secretarial coding jobs will all go away within 50 years. They are only needed in the transition period where machines still depend on humans to talk to each other.
I'm not saying it's woke or not woke, I doubt anyone could agree on one definition, but I think it's clear people talking about Netflix "being woke" are saying this because of the original content they create.
I'm gonna be completely honest with you; it wasn't until after I punched "ibm 5100" into the box and hit search that I realized this isn't a marketplace for finding classic computing devices.