skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed for a job there once and when I asked what the job was about they said it would be working with "sensors". I told them that I understand that they can't reveal the product they are working on but to get a better idea of if the job is suited to my background and interests should I think of a "sensor" being something akin to a microphone or a camera. They refused to confirm if a camera or a microphone would be considered sensors.
> A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982.
> Players create their characters and if they die, they are out of The Game. There is no “reset” button that you can hit when you don’t like how things are proceeding or you die.
> Players are allowed to take on the characters of their descendants.
> And yes, players have had their characters die and they have been ejected from The Game.

WILD

Thank you for sharing!
What are some good resources for learning more about the PDI, its meaning and how it's measured?

Also, how does one apply this information?

Lastly, what about international teams? I have colleagues from different parts of the world - how would this apply in a meeting where some are USAnians, some Canadians, some German and some Eastern a European.

Lastly, the US is huge. SoCal is probably different from Missouri from Cambridge, MA.

Would love to hear your take on this.
What a great post-mortem write-up! Thans for sharing
Completely agree. I love the taste of coffee, I love the smell of roasted beans, but I really appreciate the ritual. I can function fine without coffee, but the morning just isn’t started until I have fresh grounds and a pot started. Caffeinated or decaffeinated, coffee is great. I’ve tried substitutes like tea and chicory, doesn’t work.
How do you get around the fact they don't receive commercial short numbers? I need to get verification codes from my bank and so on for that to work.
That seems crazy. If people are going to be putting in orchards and vineyards you don't want to wreck their investments by exposing them to a pure highest-bidder free market for water. There is good reason to have state-level planning and intervention for water and food. It just happens that our existing interventions - that a handful of 20th century crooks are guaranteed water at $5/acre foot not adjusted for inflation, forever - are extremely poor examples of such interventions.
> WGU is what colleges used to be: a third party validation of knowledge mastery

This is a pretty selective and narrow idea of what a college did or does. Most try to build knowledge before just validating it.
I can't remember the technical terms for these issues (hypercaloric, nutrient deficient diets or something) but I watch a documentary covering malnutrition. They showed people eating cheap food with low nutrient dense foods because they were ignorant and/or poor. Another documentary, Vitamania (great watch), showed that we only need a small portion of nutrients compared to the volume of food we eat. So, I imagine it's more about health education and financial status than people "eating right" while over estimating their nutrient intake.
But that exact same person in a different time, place, or career, might not be disrupted. I wasn't diagnosed until recently. The compounding of increasing demands at home with my family and at work, partially due to pandemic side effects lead to it. A hunter gatherer might actually gain benefits from it. Its like saying someone who is very tall has a disorder because it makes them a poor horse jockey, or a very short person has a disorder due to the impact on their NBA career.
When I say true potential, you must understand that this is from the perspective that my unmedicated ADHD brain is only about 30% efficient. Throwing a number out there, but I know that it's very hard for me to work efficiently if my environment isn't exactly right. I'm not interested in long term dependence on any drug and speak to true potential in a healthy, clinically medicated way.
I love The Mountain Goats. Always thought Darnielle was something completely unique and, unrelated, that Springsteen was a meathead dad rocker who had some catchy songs I never really listened to.. Until I read that Springsteen wrote “Because the Night” for Patti Smith and decided to listen to a few albums. I have no clue where I got my ideas about Springsteen, that guy is a fucking amazing song writer.

If you like The Mountain Goats and are young enough to have ignored Springsteen, listen to “Kansas” and “Born in the U.S.A.”

A “Rapidly Approaching Middle-Age” achievement banner popped up the first time I cried along to a Springsteen song.

He did a great version of “Dustland” with The Killers (who stole their name from a Mountain Goats song) last year: https://youtu.be/M3BZ8hnLyRc
I believe they call stuff above me Staff, Senior Staff and Principal now, or architect etc. But I don't know what to tell you, that's my title.
I think we'll get Comic Sans in another year.
Because Intel is too incompetent to design a CPU that can perform at 1 watt, which is what it takes to run 4 cores in a fanless chassis.
I share roughly this connection to caffeine.

I (always) get the withdrawals after about 2 days of no caffeine, which is usually accidental. I normally ingest quite a lot via soda & "energy" mio flavoring, but sometimes I'll just drink OJ for a few days or something without thinking much about it. Until the headaches.

I can't treat the headaches with OTC medications, they aren't strong enough. So I just find more caffeine ASAP.

Other than that, I don't really feel like the caffeine does much for me; sometimes, however, the drink really does perk me up or feel refreshing. Maybe that's partly due to caffeine.

If I ever quit drinking soda, I will likely quit caffeine.
That's the second-coolest prison story I've ever heard. (The coolest involved the narrator meeting a guy in the joint, who took Dragon Ball Z very, very seriously, and taught martial arts classes for his fellow inmates based on the Saiyan moves from the show, which turned out to actually be pretty serviceable self-defense techniques.)
There are a number of fairly strong claims in here, that I think you need to cite some authorities on. e.g. what is a "private sale", that precludes the possibility of a verbal contract?
I don't use a case or a screen protector, but I know cases have a cutaway for the camera bulge so it doesn't actually increase the size. If you added thickness to the entire phone to remove the camera bulge then your case will be thicker too, it just means the camera will be 'sunken' into the case which would be a less efficient use of space. In fact the camera bulge disappears when you use a case.
Their latitude is not high enough.
Ok why can’t the farmers just sell the water to the cities then or have a city buy some farmland with water rights?
The local classic rock radio station in Boston used to have Alice Cooper hosting a certain night each week (I think Friday or Saturday, and presumably pre-recorded and remotely. Maybe he still does it? I haven't lived there for a while now). He was pretty funny! I'd honestly love to have a voice assistant that sounds like him; maybe the way to deal with both the question about what gender the assistant's voice should be and not having to worry about having generated pronunciations sound natural is just to pay some celebrity a bunch of money (and/or some royalties for the assistant) to spend a month in a studio recording a huge amount of stuff with varied pitch and tone and vocabulary and then that to splice together the assistant's responses. Bonus is bringing them back after a year or so to record more stuff to smooth over any rough edges that are found!
That's not how it worked at Dropbox when I worked there 2015-2019. Only women and URM candidates from bootcamps were interviewed. There's plenty of white and Asian men in those programs, and if you hired them at equal rates as their diverse counterparts it wouldn't help the company's representation.
In the build directory, "ccmake ." Note the "." I need to do this in almost every cmake project I don't know well. Also toggle on the advanced options listing. Occasionally you'll see stuff in the CMakeLists.txt files that don't show up in that menu. This is usually variables you can set on the command line to influence configuration. People are nowadays calming down their desire to program up their own flavor of a gigantic build system, and sticking to simpler idioms. That's a big improvement. However there's a lot of legacy nightmare cmake out there. Meson is much harder to build different dialects. Some people don't like this. After 35 years of build systems, I say yes please!

I forget what I do in meson. Which means I just read the meson.build and meson_options.txt. They are quite straightforward, and very concise, if you're not Doing It Wrong.
I think you have a good point, thank you. I'm willing to be wrong here.
I do the same. Decaf gets a bad rap - if you like (or crave) the taste of coffee but don’t want the jitters, go decaf.
We are seeing a complete disintegration of the institutional structures that have kept everything together.

For many in my circle it is different things:

“life’s too short for this..”

“I’m quietly suffering in social isolation from the pandemic”

“I want more money”

“I feel hopeless I will ever get anywhere so why bother”

Conversely there are a cohort who have just dug their heels in and have almost gotten a promo/raise or both almost by default from the sheer volume of churn alone.
This must be the best DM in the world. How in the world one manages to keep track of 50 people playing multiple multi-hour sessions a week...
Warning: Smartphone text prediction guesses crypto hodlers seed phrase
ppl dont know sh*t so thats that.
> You have an increased number of hoops to jump through if you want your computer to be programmable.

> At first, it was Gatekeeper. Yeah, appeared in 10.8. Then notarization. Now, on M1 you need to sign your binaries ad-hoc or they won't run.

You are confusing the local software development with the global software distribution.

Anyone is free to install development tools, compilers and toolchains, compile and run anything locally on an OS X, just like on any other UNIX system, including Linux. Gatekeeper and the notarisation enforcement, which are a default but can be neutered, address a common use case of «my mom/little sister/grandfather/etc has downloaded and installed a seemingly useful app from a dodgy website that has excreted a ransomware that now demands a payment to give their data back, or leaked all of their contacts/personal data, or slowed their computing device 100 fold down». OS X does give lay users a way to turn checks off, including the system integrity protection, and shoot themselves in the foot if that is what they want.

In fact, I would like to be able to selectively apply an even more, higher, restrictive security profile to any app, including to the ones available through Apple's own app store. Who can tell what potential spyware / trackware a 500+ Mb WhatsApp download from the official Apple app store contains within? WhatsApp desktop client is a mediocre (feature wise) messenger that is not even as feature rich as the 85Mb Telegram desktop download is. And I, for one, don't have the capacity to reverse engineer and manually inspect every single WhatsApp download/update for my own peace of mind and sanity, and I would also presume that very few people even from around here can. Anything coming out of FaceBook nowadays should be considered trackware and needs to be airgapped with the utmost diligence.

Even the business/enterprise software is ridden with all sorts of trackers. Citrix Workspace client, for example, installs three "telemetry" helper processes that phone home non-stop.

> Custom kernel extensions? No way.

Yes way. They just have to be signed for same reasons as third party apps. See https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/security/sec8e454101b/... for details. I was recently scrubbing the file system off some legacy components and noticed, with a lot bewilderment, what extra 'useful' USB drivers a 4G MiFi device I had purchased over a decade ago installed at the 1st connection attempt. I, for one, don't need those 'niceties' to sneakily creep into any of my file systems or lurk around.

In fact, OS X has become more GNU Hurd since 10.15 like by pushing kernel extensions into the user space instead, which reduces chances of the kernel crashing due to a bug in a random extension. More kernel stability and security? I say yes to both, albeit your mileage may vary.
> Concerns included flood risks based on updated projections of sea-level rise, the location in an industrial area “with a history of contamination problems” and higher costs for water that would probably mean “significant burdens” for low-income communities, which they said would raise environmental justice issues.

Please. The objections are largely the usual NIMBY types and concerns.
hirvi, this is brilliant and so relateable, so thank you. Mine are very similar, but I would add with respect to your points...

1. Yes, but I also have to know that I am the one in charge... otherwise I will not take charge, but I will be ready to be told exactly what to do, and THAT I will do very quickly. [see A below]

2. Also yes, and true for software development too, but it makes the long burn so difficult. Give me a fire to put out! I casually know an ER doctor who is highly regarded, but his personal life is a mess and he's into extreme sports. (And saw my son when he came in with a suspected neck fracture.)

3. Again, yes. Once a solution has been found, I'm done! Implementing it? Naaah... that's the boring stuff.

4. Sort of... I think due to personality and temperament yes, but also upbringing.

Two more points building on those.

Autism and adhd have a high co-morbidity. If someone has social skills to the point where others comment on how good they are; highly unlikely that's you. If the idea that you "intellectualise social interaction" rings a bell, it might be the case.

Sensitivity issues. This is a reason behind my addition to point 1 above. The most mild of corrections comes across as an accusation that one is am totally worthless and useless. A constant running inner critic devaluing every thought and action. My experience is that this is silenced or at least turned down by medicating with stimulants... and it is totally liberating.
If it's a quick fix, and "Allow edits by maintainers" is checked, might as well make the needed changes yourself directly on their branch and merge the PR.

That way their commit is in the git history, you aren't "robbing" them from showing up in the contributors list.
>The game

Dammit - haven't lost it in a while.
On the upper righ side, click on tools and select clippy https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... It will produce the following output:

error: non-binding let on a synchronization lock
--> src/main.rs:5:5
|
5 | let _ = m.lock();
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
= note: `#[deny(clippy::let_underscore_lock)]` on by default
= help: consider using an underscore-prefixed named binding or dropping explicitly with `std::mem::drop`
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#let_underscore_lock

Clippy is a third party tool, but highly recommended because of things like this. I would like to see this lint uplifted into rustc.
There is a single location, the wave is just a probability density map
KFC was considered healthy by the uneducated long before that. Growing up in the late 80s, early 90s, I remember my family and my friends' families treating KFC as the healthy fast food option.

It really wasn't until the Double Down era that the absurdity of KFC was apparent to everyone.
I spent a bit of my career dealing with aterisk, i still don't think i understand it..
I found D&D to be really popular in the Canadian North lately, like people you'd never expect to be into it who aren't really a huge part of wider culture around fantasy games and stuff like that until around when Game of Thrones came out, super into the game because it's pretty much a great thing to do when you're stuck inside for most of the year.

It's fun. I play maybe like once a year though I look forward to that all the time.
Because your framework eventually becomes a badly written, not as widely tested version of a known framework. When you leave, it will be a lot easier to hire someone who knows React than someone who knows jseban.js.

I’ve had to come in before and deal with someone’s custom ORM or logging framework.

I’ve made the mistake myself of writing something that was a cross cutting concern and then later found out that there was a popular third party package. I replaced my implementation as soon as feasible.
> Chapter two, Deep Occlusion, explores the typeface as a dataset for an AI to learn how a tree grows and designs shapes over time.

Very curious to see this part emerge.
Ask HN: What's your favorite “metaverse”/virtual world?
When it comes to software for real-time 3D virtual worlds (like Second Life, OpenCobalt and Vircadia), what's your favorite and why?
The laws of nature say "you need a water system so big to support X population" with California's regular cycle of wet periods and droughts. What "gave" was political will to either continue building out the system or limiting the size of the population fed by the system.

This is just one of many examples where a "can was kicked down the road" for future politicians and the people they rule over to deal with, this mess was made certain in the 1960s. The unfalsifiable concept of climate change has nothing to do with it, except that the climate cycles were well known long ago.

More recently it's been discovered this is at least partly linked to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_...

"During El Niño events, increased precipitation is expected in California due to a more southerly, zonal, storm track.
During La Niña, increased precipitation is diverted into the Pacific Northwest due to a more northerly storm track."

We realized El Niño was a thing no later than the 19th Century, and per a Wikipedia skim evidence has been found for the cycle going back at least 10,000 years.
I imagine they must pay poorly as well?
The biggest problem I ever encountered with autotools when working on a distributed open source project was that every developer must have the same version of autotools installed. Backward compatibility was never a priority, and if one developer was a single release step ahead of anyone else, they would need some macro changed, removed or added that broke things for everyone else.

We switched to waf, which is customarily embedded within the source tree, and that just ends this problem forever.
I'd love for something to be able to replace Google Voice for maybe $5 a month. Does anyone have any suggestions? Keep in mind that Google Voice offers "unlimited" SMS and MMS, and free calls anywhere in the US.
Yep, definitely one of my biggest regrests was not finding a way to go to a universitiy ( international student could only afford a 2 yr degree). oh well
Suggest best is to talk to a psychiatrist. If you think it is adhd then see if you can find a specialist and try make a booking. It costs but you'll get help quicker than trying to talk to a GP.
I would much rather waste my time on a well documented industry framework that I can use when I leave than learning a framework written by the architect astronaut because he thought his problem was a special snowflake.
For those curious, here's the origin of the word "Shibboleth"

https://www.sefaria.org/Judges.12.6?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scr...
That guideline definitely must applies only internally. All the Google public repos I've interacted with stall in the PR department like crazy.
Could be; I'm not an evangelist for meson and if it doesn't work for cross compilation I'd use something else, likely cmake. I don't cross compile very often, so for me it works great. I have run into sadness with meson subprojects, but I'm unconvinced they are a big win.
It seems you didn't understand my question, as that's not at all what I'd said, nor asked.

Do you in fact have a precedential case citation?
> For instance, it's more likely that the number of heads and tails are about equal than not

This isn't even true. Heads and tails being equal over 100 flips is something you'll see something like 8.33% of the time (not based on probability, I just ran a simulation of 100 flips 10,000 times and got 833 instances of them being equal)

edit: I missed the key word, "about". Sure, they're more likely within maybe 5-6 of one another than not.
Added to my reading list, thank you. The reviews really sell the author and his style of writing.
The last part was the most insightful. Most people, even if they have the aptitude for coding don’t like it. The ones that do are rare.

It’s not really intelligence or grit, it’s just that you actually like staring at a cold unfeeling machine that tells you that you’ve fucked up over and over again.
There's a strong argument that houses should be built tornado proof...

It requires houses to be built of brick or concrete with a steel frame instead of wood and felt.

But that's probably worth paying for rather than having your life ripped apart when a tornado comes through.
When I first graduated (with a BSEE from some shitty local uni), the only CS project I had on my resume was some ML research I published as an undergrad. I did do a lot of hobby projects in Python / some JS, but nothing was presentable in the slightest.

When applying for jobs in a medium-sized but not-very-techy-city, I found the hardest part to be just getting an interview offer. But the interview itself usually ranged from braindead easy to a straightforward take-home exam. So I guess the takeaway is to fluff up your resume and accomplishments as much as possible. It turns out to be much easier to impress someone in an interview than with your resume. And at least for entry-level positions, you aren't really grilled on trivia for whatever you list, maybe just a general "how-does-it-work" question.

Sadly I didn't realize this until my second go-around with job-hunting. The first time I only really got responses for intern positions (was applying for both frontend / backend / fullstack). Luckily I was offered a full-time frontend position after interviewing for an internship and crushing the take-home exam.
Yeah, not only do you have to go to college but you need to have money to go out if you want to keep friends. Freshmen don't have much money so you can kind of skate by going to fast food places but once people turn 21 and start going out to bars and nice things you quickly see whose parents have money to fund their social lives. I couldn't afford to pay $50-100 on a bar tab every weekend.
I’d be just fine. I usually skip coffee on weekends. I do really enjoy coffee and don't see a giant productivity boost. The morning ritual and taste (no cream/sugar) is what does it for me.
They gave the business an edge until someone else had to use your framework instead of a popular well documented one
> Part of the reason is college lacks structured socializing time and I am really bad at unstructured socializing.

That sounds weird. I don't know what the American college experience is like (I just work here), but my experience in Finland was the opposite. I've had difficulties in making friends in adult life, because I'm also bad at unstructured socializing. When I was a student, there were opportunities for structured socializing everywhere. There were something like 250 student organizations in the university, and many of them also had national umbrella organizations, national meetings, and shared activities with similar organizations in other universities.