skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the feedback - put some endpoints for rss - one for an alert when the homepage of links is updated [1] and one for when the blog page is updated [2]

[1] veryla.io/feed

[2] veryla.io/stories/feed
Contrary to the depiction above it remains as far as I know exceptionally difficult to acquire adhd treating medication; they’re almost all controlled substances, heavily regulated and consumption tightly monitored.
What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41M to Find Out
just made one! one for an alert when the homepage of links is updated [1] and one for when the blog page is updated [2]

[1] veryla.io/feed

[2] veryla.io/stories/feed
What does that have to do with "Truckers already are maxed at 55mph, add this and expect huge price increases"?
I'm not sure there's a contradiction here. Tourette's seems like a clear example of a disorder that both represents an obvious disturbance in behavior and matters primarily because of how others react.
Comparison of LSM Indexing Techniques for Storing Spatial Data
15 Injured in pedal pub crash, driver faces DUI charge
College isn't even a necessary condition to make those friendships.
Correct, I'm not exactly disagreeing, but just explaining how it actually works.

Actually, in many cases, Fannie and Freddie (known as the GSEs) literally do buy the mortgages, through a program known as the cash window [1]. Some of these they hold in portfolio, but others they sell to the private market. But the GSEs aren't technically part of the government. They are specially chartered publicly traded companies, which are currently controlled by the government agency FHFA (confusingly completely distinct from the FHA) since going into conservatorship in 2008, as a result of the subprime crisis.

In any case, it's important to note that the GSEs are profitable businesses, not part of the welfare state. They are able to guarantee conforming loans because

- the underwriting criteria actually accurate reflect risk of default and loss

- risk is shared with the loan servicer and for higher loan-to-value mortgages, private mortgage insurers.

I yap on about this because it's actually a pretty fascinating bit of public policy and financial engineering, with the result of extending massive, long-term, fixed-rate, affordable loans to regular-ass people (with a free borrower option to terminate the interest costs through prepayment, to boot!) AND create an asset class for investors that is almost as liquid and riskless as treasury bonds. The liquidity of that secondary market is what allows rates to be so low, compared to custom-underwritten products geither lent from a bank's own portfolio or securitized into private-label mortgage-backed securities. The biggest bit of controversy I know of is that it tends to fuel home price growth, benefiting propery owners over those who buy in later.

[1] https://www.machinesp.com/post/a-close-look-at-the-gse-cash-...
> uses for a brick

unrelated, but how many can you come up with? I’m struggling after only 4 or so uses..
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/DavidZipper/status/15203954557079...
> A quote is not a necessary element to formation of a contract.

True, but manifest intent to form a binding contract on the part of both parties is.

> If you’re holding a yard sale, and I point at some knickknack and ask “how much for that?”, and you say “it’s a dollar” and I say “that’s a deal”, that’s a contract.

Probably not; contract law would probably view that as a negotiation where only you manifested an intent to form a binding contract, so unless there was some positive acknowledgement of your “that’s a deal”, no contract would be formed.

I mean, I’m pretty sure that a near identical scenario to that was the one the of textbook demonstrations of the absence of that contract element in my Contracts class.
not intending to disparage anyone living a normal life on an indefinite adderall prescription, more acknowledging the risk of mistaking its effects as unlocking your true potential rather than as relief from suffering, and then inadvertently shortening your life rather than extending it (hence the "trap" comment)
The Intel graphics offerings have consistently under-preformed the rest of the industry, ending up at low end to midrange GPU: https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-alchemist-a770-gaming-desktop...

Intel has consistently tried to build a top tier GPU and failed year after year. Expecting them to suddenly break away from their history is extremely optimistic.
Its not about the visa power imbalance, its that a person who graduates a bootcamp today will need about 4 - 5 years of highly focused coding to become as productive as the Indian L4/L5 engineer that they would be compared to in this real comparison. It's easy to hire inexperienced devs in the US, but inexperienced devs are not productive.
Fig: The Controversial Terminal Project
If it drives better than you, why don’t you take back seat?
Why there is no culture of salami-making in the UK?
I used to work at a smaller company and they had a relationship with a local boot camp where they would take in a number of their grads in roles that were somewhere between support engineer and software engineer. You have to keep in mind that Amazon challenges with hiring are quite different than those faced by a smaller company. Sometimes it's hard just having enough people in the funnel.
That is why I think my diagnosis was a double-edged sword. It helped give me a lot of answers and closure to past traumas, but with that knowledge I think it has somewhat held me back from things I have wanted to accomplish. I have used it as a reason as to why I couldn't do something, when the reality is that ADHD wasn't what held me back, but damn was it an easy scapegoat.
Democratising AI... through our opaque proprietary API...
I scored 90.88 points on my first and only try with the following words: frenzy ghoul protocol concept autocracy hymn nephew screwdriver bail molecule. (Of which only the first seven words are scored when all are valid.) “Autocracy” is arguably the least commonly used word of those. After seeing the resulting scoring matrix, I realized that some of the words were too close to each other like frenzy with ghoul and protocol with concept. There was certainly some kind of priming effect going on when I selected those.

My point is, while the test can certainly be gamed, I don’t think that you need to pick highly unusual words to score high (90+).
Some of them seem specially hard to read. I mistook the phone emoji for a "missing character" symbol, the baby emoji for a hand and the dancing emoji for an Among Us crewmate with Elvis hair. The monkeys at the end also looked like some sort of ear at first glance. I like the idea, and most of the emojis featured in the article seem to be mostly fine at small sizes, but some of them don't really seem optimized enough to be recognizable at smaller text sizes.
I get what you're saying but if you're comparing fresh grads I think that comparison is far too unfavorable. If you mean someone who already has years of experience, sure, but that's not just because of the boot camp.
I find autoconf to be good at its job - building a standalone script which runs micro tests - and still use it, but that automake and libtool add very little value for the reasons you described.

I do agree that m4 is rather unpleasant to write, and that the resulting tests are too slow (often because user defined macros do a poor job of cacheing) but I also think that these things could be addressed (newer macro languages, bundled or threaded micro-tests) while still preserving the good bits of autoconf.
I tried to get my previous company to start an apprenticeship program. The CEO agreed that it was a good idea, but kept pushing it for well over a year. I left, and it’s doubtful that it’ll ever happen.

But I still think it’s a great idea for companies to try it. There are a ton of benefits. But I think the best one is that you get a much longer view of how someone could perform than you’d get with a traditional interview cycle. And interview judges someone at a single point in time. An apprenticeship would be able to determine their trajectory.
That's just replacing one big third-party with another, isn't it? Twilio has lots of open source examples available, and is similarly pay-as-you-go.
Well put. The cultural bias may be approximated by comparing results obtained from English-as-the-mother-language speakers to those produced by people with less and less command of the language.
If I'm not mistaken he said that the bet had set mathematics back by a month.
Your score is 83.15, higher than 77.96% of the people who have completed this task
With NAT, right. I guess there may be situations where client ports for a single server IP dry up due to NAT, but I've not encountered that issue.
What I've always wondered about this is what kind of experience companies hiring COBOL programmers are looking for. Anyone can learn COBOL the language, but it seems like the real issue with hiring COBOL devs is that you need to have experience working with mainframe technologies that are basically impossible to get any experience with outside of already having a job doing it. Kind of like how anyone can learn $some_other_language but what really matters for getting work done tends to be familiarity with libraries and stuff like that.

If it were as easy as learning COBOL for free on my own time I would do it in a heartbeat. Can't be worse than having a dead-end IT support job.
That was exactly my point above. They've moved on to a new market and the Unix power user market I'm part of is no longer in focus with Apple.
In my experience they're often not that favorable to self-taught developers either. Even after I had years of experience under my belt I'd have people telling me to take a big demotion to work at their small company, or acting like they were amazed I solved a simple coding problem for them. Not insurmountable but a real phenomenon.
You're right that a quote is not necessary, but GP was describing what needs to happen for a quote to become a contract. The quote's existence is the premise.
Your dad will need to take more responsibility about who he listens to or suffer the consequences. If you don’t think your dad is capable of doing that, you can help explain these subjects to him, or delete his Facebook account, or whatever you need to do. Blaming Meta seems to me like basically learned helplessness on your part.
Neon glow lamps: more than simple light sources
Well then, if you think that about google then I can only imagine what you'd think of apple. Google seems to be hiring quite a lot of remote right now, and their OSS policies seems quite open to me.
If an NFT doesn’t represent a legal claim on IP, it can’t be used as the transfer of that claim between parties. The same system you would need to recognize that claim is the same system that would ignore the blockchain in the event a dispute is raised.
As an end user, I like how simple autotools is to build a project:

./configure && make && make install

And I like that I can very easily see all the various build options:

./configure --help

I don't like that configure takes a long time and checks things that don't seem like they really need to be checked. Nor do I like how difficult autotools is to use as a developer (I have some, but not much experience working on a project using autotools, over a decade ago).

I've yet to see a competing build system that makes the end user usage and option discovery as simple.

Edit: I've not necessarily used and explored all the various build systems, but the few I have used have generally not been as simple, or at least weren't to me obviously as simple.
> Yes, in a medical context we can use words like retard

Not applied to intelligence in the USA[2]. Personally I think retard is a fine word, so long as it is not applied to anyone with a low IQ, which most people wouldn’t do. Idiot, imbecile, and moron[1] are also fabulous words, which have lost their technical meaning from last century, because they were repurposed for “vernacular” use. Then again, I like using “special” or “speshul” too, so perhaps I am just bigoted.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/070674376300800... (1963)

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150627145120/http://www.wsj.co... (2010)

The concern, by some, is that eventually new terms will become a new pejorative. " 'Intellectual disabilities' carries less baggage with it at this moment," said Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Special Education at Syracuse University. "Twenty years from now, it can become the new epithet."
Well, the thing is, if you ever do student interviews you'll realize many people in CS programs appear not to be getting that much from the classes either.
For the last twenty or so years, I've given it up for a month each year. I don't see much difference
They are also more abundant than they used to be and that's a valid tradeoff to consider. Would it be worth it to only have access to seasonal produce local to your region for that produce testing better? Make do with pickles and potatoes instead of fresh fruit and vegetables in late fall through early spring? If not, shelf life, productivity and greenhouse feasibility are relevant metrics in addition to taste and vitamins. Old ways of gardening are still available, but most people will end up using these as a supplement rather than replacement to supermarket food that is at least always there in sufficient amounts.
Yes, desoxyn is a thing though and 2 fma is legal. BTW there are OTC levo-meth decongestants
Yes, those are obvious important truths, but weird to cite without related truths that shed more light on why Meta has the money, power and influence it does. Like that people there are smart, believe in the vision, care to do a good job. And that users love the products. If you’re summarizing positive bullet points from the article, you’ve only listed 3 of about 10.
Nim can target js directly, but if you really want wasm it's mostly probably possible https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7365
I got stuck too, which is probably why I never got the internship. :)

Here's some odd ones though:

- Keep a car going by putting it on the accelerator

- Doorstop

- Counterweight

- Stairs for a mouse
FWIW, I tried a representative word from each category in the Dewey Decimal System and got a significantly below average score. I feel like that should be at least an average spread for concepts, so I agree that it's probably biased toward more obscure words. The restriction on "technical" terms (What even is that?) probably comes from the people running it realizing it's easy to game if you use high-brow words.
Still, it kinda is. You really have to go out of your way now to have full access to modify system files and even then you're not able to do just anything you want. Think of installing another OS on the SSD on Intel Macs with T2 chip, or choosing which iOS apps you want to run on M1.
Fun one. Got a 90.21 (96.62th percentile) with stupidity, alcohol, iceberg, mollusk, candlewick, umami, rendezvous.
You obviously have a poor understanding of the law, because intent matters. Flagging content with the intention of having it censored or removed would certainly fall foul of the constitution.
Translated to React: a single render function and you're up and running with a webpage. That's considered hard?
> I cannot recommend enough making a switch like this. It isn't easy. In fact, it can be really difficult.

Over the years I've become a little cynical when I see people asking "should I become a developer?" Because, on one hand, you are right. It changed my life in a positive way. But I've also realized how many people think, essentially, that they take a two-week course and they get a six-figure job where they fuck around all day. Not so much!
The idea that not knowing something makes you smarter is idiotic.
As an experiment, around 6 months ago I cut out caffeine, down from a solid 40-60oz of coffee a day, and fairly strong at that. In the first week to 10 days I had some headaches, and then was pretty much back to normal. Still drink coffee, just switched to decaf. Honestly, I can't tell the difference.

One great side effect is that on occasion we will have coffee in the evening, which we never used to do.

I had hoped that I'd start sleeping better, between coffee and establishing a better bedtime routine. Dropping caffeine did very little to help, getting better bedtime routines and not drinking much fluids after 5pm (cutting down bathroom trips in the night) helped the most.
I strive to have every commit be meaningful/buildable/testable/etc. To that end, I use a lot of `git rebase -x` to massage the pull request into a reasonable sequence of commits that “tell a story”. Having a bunch of “fixing foo” commits is ugly to me and reduces my ability to bisect problems later on.

Sometimes I will actually create the fixup commits and push them separately to communicate with the submitter, but then squash them into the appropriate places in history before merging.

The only technical issue is when someone has signed their commits, as I obviously cannot re-sign them :-). In that case, I call it out to them and let them re-sign if they want before I merge.
some colleges will become friends for lifetime so not all of them can find a alternative.
> I bounced around different medicine until i found the right one and dosage for me

How did you know you hit the mark when you found it?

I have been trying for the greater part of a decade, and I think there are only two possible explanations at this point:

1. I am one of the x% of people that medications do not work /as well/ for.

2. I have too high of expectations of the effects of the medications.

Doctors have been no help, and I do not mean that in an arrogant way. But when I ask, "how do I know if the medication and dosage is optimal?" They act like I am asking if P = NP.
87.31

dog cup vision abstraction green covariance practicality

I don't think I'm that creative though so I don't trust the results.
Great post!

A few more positive shiboleths.

One would be eventual consistency.

Another would be discussing write paths vs read paths (or patterns) and recognizing that those can be decoupled (or a mention of CQRS).
> You're confusing implementing higher-level abstractions which allow the low-level details to be ignored with actually implementing your own business logic.

The grandparent definitely isn't, and that's a bit of an uncharitable interpretation. I'm sure there must be a tiny minority of developers out there that doesn't ever have to write higher-level abstractions, but in the real world, writing both "business logic" and higher-level abstractions is the norm for most jobs. Only toy projects and the most menial development jobs escape that.

Even frontend, which someone erroneously claimed above that is "99% isn't custom" really is. The two major libraries, React and Vue, and the rising one, Svelte, really aren't frameworks at all, and require in practice not only a lot of custom stuff but also higher-level abstractions. Again, the exception is toy projects and menial dev jobs.
As someone who has trained transformers with only ~5 layers on 1000 data point inputs for a decoder of length like 10 (so far fewer than the 12 billion parameters of DALL-E [1]), I learned two things:

1. Training is very finicky and time-consuming.

2. PyTorch model files are pretty large.

For point 1, when I was training a different autoencoder for example, I would run it for a week on 4 GPUs, only to return and see that its results are subpar. For point 2, I would get 100 MB model files for a miniscule transformer (relative to DALL-E numbers). Combined with the strong dependence of the transformer on the training data, this can make it problematic when it comes to sharing pre-trained models for tasks that the user doesn't specify a priori.

[1] - https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/05/openai-debuts-dall-e-for-...
> Anyone can learn COBOL the language, but it seems like the real issue with hiring COBOL devs is that you need to have experience working with mainframe technologies that are basically impossible to get any experience with outside of already having a job doing it.

Most (IME, and I suspect generally) of the places hiring COBOL devs already have COBOL devs (and probably non-developer mainframe ops folks) doing those other tasks already, and if someone is both a half-competent programmer and knows COBOL-the-language, having them pick up the other stuff through OJT is probably tolerable.
If I understand correctly this is why aquaponics delivers more nutritious and better tasting veggies, along with less fighting against pests(?)
How does that work with exchanges like Coinbase? In order to validate their transactions, you have to walk back a ton of transactions?
I actually meant to link to this page:

https://pre-code.com/what-is-pre-code-hollywood/

Which besides answering the literal question, explains what motivated the code and why pre-code movies are worth watching.

The site in general contains a lot of valuable content about these movies.
The way things are going these days, I would never move to a place that doesn’t have a current agreement with the United States and assume it’d stay that way.
Hrm. Interesting point. There have been a fair number of parser CVEs, but GoLang isn't immune to some of the (based on an admittedly cursory look) parser issues.
It’ll be funny if banks just end up using the fed repo facility to buy up higher interest treasuries. Fed balance sheet just switches from bonds to repo loans…
I'm OK without Mr. Coffee, I treat it more or less like a drink instead of something essential.

But still, losing it would be miserable. So I chose to drink as much decaffeinated as possible. Basically I reserve the ordinary one for days when I need to work on some difficult projects or I need to present something in a meeting (rare these days).
Those are primarily audio interfaces.

The sequencer on an MPC-60, or a PC based MOTU MTP deals with traditional MIDI (5-pin DIN).
The problem is, not everyone has a second machine. Not being able to install from USB or internet is really annoying from a support point of view.
That's a problem with the students, not the CS program. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."
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> He embodies the commitment to open source.

That's probably why, since OpenAI isn't open source.
I expect this is a placebo effect. It's completely possible to feel more productive without actually being more productive. Looking back on the (admittedly very few) caffeine-fuelled stints I've had they were just more chaotic and overall less productive than drinking tiny amounts of coffee, or no coffee at all.
For a lot of businesses offering their product for free at the start just makes them fail. Probably would be good to focus on really high quality matchmaking at the start while you can be high touch, then fall back to normal-ish matching.
Ha, good question. There are some:

Alex & Kelsey Hightower talk for intro: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpkRR2sJbc

Some talks (haven't watched them, super geeky):

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTt1ny67x4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN4vrLGjxo&

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOZx7dP9sc

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJhmWnSzc0
Most software engineering occurs on self-imposed deadlines and goals. Often, certain members of the team push themselves much harder then the rest of the group. However the vast majority of engineers work relatively light hours. It's unlikely the majority of the team is on performance enhancing drugs.
if it makes you feel better, define it however you want. I'm not interested in engaging in a conversation about how you choose to define it.

Telling me your definition didn't actually add anything to what i said.
Hasn't WSL replaced Cygwin these days? I'm surprised that it and even MinGW are still used. I even recently fixed a bug filed about a build failure on MinGW due it not having System V shared memory functions.
Are you suggesting that after that dialog, were I to put a dollar bill down on the table and wander away with the tchotchke, there would be courts that would hold I didn't actually buy it?