skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English speaker accent recognition using Transfer Learning
Sorry if I misinferred. It seemed implied in the first and forth sentence of your comment.
> But 99% of the time it is false.

Another possibility: it's true far more than 1% of the time, yet that's not enough reason for the acquirer to make the same decisions as the previous owners would have.

The acquirer can be amazing, care deeply about the mission of the acquired company, and see it as aligned… and after a year or a few years, decide that it's not the best use of their resources. The difference doesn't need to be that the acquirer isn't amazing or doesn't care; often, it's simply that their decisions have different inputs.
probably. Fortunately Bluesky is vaporware so the Fediverse and ActivityPub actually have the advantage here of being a standard that has an established community of implementors, and momentum.

EDIT: I've said before, the PBLLC should be working with the W3C, IETF, or other open bodies, and they've always had a seat at the table (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/join).
> For the results to be as valid as possible, make sure that the room you sit in is properly ventilated and free from distractions and that you can work uninterrupted for 25 minutes.

Sounds to me that you have issues understanding directions so I think your result might be very much valid!
> It’s because we know exactly how precarious the situation is.

The labour market for tech has been on fire for nearly 20 years now. There was barely a blip during the 2008 crash that evaporated huge chunks of the economy. During COVID demand for labour went up despite massive disruptions in the economy. I swear I've been reading articles about labour supply shortages in tech for as long as I've been in the industry.

I honestly have no idea where this fear comes from.

Please, I'm very curious to know: in what way is the situation for engineering labour "precarious"?
Lol no that's not "extremely obvious" at all.

This is a preposterous hand-waving away of hundreds of distinct factors so that you can excuse massive, systemic bias against boys as being a natural outcome.

Would you so flippantly make the same claim about racial disparities in education?
Another benefit of regular walking is that you grow more attentive and courteous to pedestrians when you are driving.
The 1999 version here: https://1999.37signals.com
I used to own a D100, used it about two times. I wouldn't call it "shameful", but it was a silly idea to create one, and it was silly of me to buy one.
Since I started working from home, I have an alarm set for 4:50pm to remind me that 'work' ends in 10 minutes. I might choose to violate that deliberately, but not by accident.
I have my own VPN on a digitalocean droplet and it’s basically the same, I’m outright blocked from many sites (Imgur for example) and I have to solve tons of captchas. DigitalOcean doesnt accept cash so your argument doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Before my time, the company did some kind of retreat of 2 days, with sleeping in,for all 40 of the IT staff. The idea was to get them to know each other,as they where dispatched to 20+ divisions and only spoke by phone. There was no work to be done there, no cringy corporate stuff, just a mountain of food and drinks. It must have been expensive.

We're now 20 years later, and they're still referring to it. But when any noninvited ask anything, they all get very very very vague. Whatever happened on the retreat, stays on the retreat. Don't get me wrong, I don't think anything illegal or untoward happened.

It worked. They became a tight social network. Ask anyone anything, and the right person and info magically appears. Even 20 years later, in a very political corporation, the trust built that weekend still persists.
By using Clojure, you’re missing out on reliance on poorly maintained ffi libraries, a messy library ecosystem where you get randomly surprised by side effects from mutability where you weren’t expecting it, and a poor build system.

I love writing CL but there’s a reason it’s not enjoying wide usage nowadays, and I definitely wouldn’t go around recommending it to unsuspecting people without heavy caveats.
Teenagers' brains develop to pay more attention to friends than parents
You can trace use of pre "r-word" euphemisms at least back to the mid aughts and Carlos Mencia.

There are some interesting trends here. Spikes in searches seem to coincide with Mind of Mencia going on the air, Rosa's Law and a tweet from Ann Coulter directed at Obama.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
However, expecting (and demanding) that the other person can interpret your body language is also a choice.

Consider you are the only person in the room who can't speak French. Everyone else can speak French and your native language. Would it be appropriate for them to drop into French whenever you ask a question, talk about it, and then answer in your language? No. Not only would you feel excluded, but you'd also be missing out in vital information required to do your job.

This isn't up for debate. You can argue that installing a wheelchair ramp or not is a choice. Fortunately it is the law. Likewise, accommodating neurodiverse people is the law, at least in the USA and Europe.

If you take the position that "I am neurotypical and it is not my choice, so it is reasonable to expect everyone else to be able to interpret my body language", then in any company in the USA with 15 or more people, your statement would be actionable under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Hm? Did they change it since the last time I saw the spec? Then yes, it's sensible indeed.
I've been trying to steer the syntax towards imitating Python more than Clojure, the idea being that you frequently need to rapidly switch between reading Python and Hy (as when you're writing a Hy program while consulting documentation for a Python library), so it helps to minimize friction there. Thus e.g. `True` must now be capitalized that way, Python-style; `true` used to be allowed as well. But whether a more Pythonesque Hy is more or less confusing than a more Clojuresque Hy is admittedly a matter of taste.
Interesting & available libraries implementing parts of this particular vision (mentioned in the talk):

- Google's Firebase (meh, though maybe Supabase is mature enough by now to replace this suggestion?)

- Tinybase: https://tinybase.org

- sql.js (SQLite compiled to js): https://sql.js.org/

But there's no single stack available (yet). I'm suprised Nikita didn't mention datascript here (https://github.com/tonsky/datascript) given the neat compatibility it offers with other datalog databases, but maybe he feels it's too niche/immature?
You could flip the script right back at the people afraid of interacting with people online.
These are not two different types of burnout... They are one and the same. Pressure and overwork do not per se cause burnout... What causes burnout is if the effort-reward cycle misses (either repeatedly for small efforts, or if you put in a lot of effort and have a categorical miss)

Reward could be anything. The feeling of a job well done (easy to miss if the project is a failure, or if management pivots), it could be the expectation of career advancement, it could be soft recognition by peers... And is dependent on the individual and project. You could even have an outward success and a pay raise but if you wanted your peers to love you and they didn't.... Burnout. You could even have an easy and unpressured job and burn out if it's not providing the rewards you expect.

In any case the disconnect between effort and reward teaches your brain to associate effort with failure and the fact that the common. "take a break" advice failed for you should not be surprising, because I think that doesn't work in general: it doesn't reassociate effort with expected reward.

I feel like a lot of people here are using the topic of burnout to hoist their opinions about American capitalism or whatever, but I honestly don't believe that this is the root cause. Plenty of people work their asses off and are happy to do so because it can be its own reward, or, they know what they want and know how to get it after each brutal push of effort. But not falling victim to burnout takes self-awareness, or good managers (capitalist systems or otherwise - e.g. academia or military) and both of those are in short supply, blaming capitalism is much easier.
Amusing detail: It was an ethics lecture, and the MD approached the lecturer thus:

> "Professor, I have an ethical dilemma. Can I run it by you?"

> And she said, "Sure." She was kind of excited about it.

> And that's when I said, "I think you might have a blood clot in your lungs and I think you really need to seek medical help right away."
On Motivation and Sustainability
It sounds like you use "protected" here with the intention of forming part of an argument -- presumably that social anxiety should be protected? Isn't that circular?
For me, the value is somewhere in between. Priority number one is getting the data into the second brain. Afterwards try to do a little organizing but don't fuss around too much with it because I can always make improvements later (especially if/when I access it for a second time). That's kind of how the real brain works.
Reading the replies to this is very humorous when you contrast it with the usual hacker news replies whenever someone mentions VSCode, complaining about how electron is slow and buggy, when comparitvely VSCode is lightning fast compared to emacs and doesn't require intimate knowledge about emacs internals to simply open a large json file.
SpaceX Starbase expansion plans will harm endangered species:FWS
Those U-series chips are a bit of a nerd novelty in my book. I've had some kicks and giggles getting my 6600u to run at absurdly low clock speeds (~400mhz) to see how far I could stretch the battery and how usable it was. Pretty much anything under 800mhz is unusable for desktop purposes, but it was a lot of fun playing around with that level of power tuning. Those clocks are much lower than the reported TDP-down stats, so I'm assuming it's only possible to reach those speeds courtesy of the funky sleep states Intel used to put in their Ultrabook CPUs. I don't think you can do similar tricks on new machines.

Definitely not the sort of chip you'd want to do anything besides text editing and video streaming on though.
Porting Zelda Classic to the web
I recommend trying a decently long slow walk first. The mechanics of walking slowly are not the same as walking at a normal pace. Some people get sore, some do not, better to find out before spending real money on the walking desk. Or be like me, know already from experience walking with slow people that I can't walk that slow and not hurt, buy the treadmill desk anyway, sell it six months later after giving up.
French/European Roulette has no 00. There is apparently a 000 version but Ive never seen one and used to work for a company who made them.
True. That's why I have never ever seen any failed product that is launched by Google.
It is interesting how much more natural a side-by-side walking conversation feels than a sit-across-the-table coffee shop conversation.
This video is an amazing summary of the GitLab article itself.
This particular test is an imitation of Raven's Progressive Matrices, which measures working memory (WM). WM is the amount of information "chunks" an individual can work with in their short term memory. For an average person it's "7+-2" or 5-9 "chunks".

The patterns you see on the test introduce progressively more and more changes, until you are getting beyond 9 changes a piece at 120+ IQ. Let me know if you have any questions.
That said, I would say my nephew is significantly more social than most people in my generation were, because he is able to get in 5 hour calls with his friends every night, whereas that might happen only once every few weeks in my case, at best. He's learning and socializing way more than even my most social peers were able to growing up.
... and also Caramel which is a Ocaml/Reason dialect so you get to keep the Ocaml syntax

I have never tried it though

https://caramel.run/manual/introduction.html
I am similar and walk my dog for about an hour before and another hour after work every day. It’s amazing how much you can think through with dedicated time and space to do so, not to mention physical health benefits
Great article hashing out the details of implementing regular long walks as a habit.

However, it would be cool if there was a way to get paid for walking. That would motivate a lot more people, even if it is minimal pay. Walk-to-earn crypto game anyone?
Specs say 1440 vertical pixels. Good for multitasking, ok but not great for portrait/scrolling content.
The glib answer is that my own advice in 2022 wasn't available to me when I started my career in finance in 2010.

The less glib answer is that what I said above applies to managing your own money as a part time investor. If you are managing other people's money as well as your own, and doing it full time, with access to huge datasets and sophisticated models, then you are playing a totally different game.
5bpm is earth shattering for longevity and general health.
Looking for Remote Code Execution Bugs in the Linux Kernel
This brings to mind Eric Raymond's bizarre suggestion that he is the most famous programmer in the world: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6839
I got bored after a couple and just quit, so I guess I'm the actual genius lol
I like this video editor. Perfectly suitable for my needs.

I mostly use it to look on videos smoothly frame by frame though.
Last time I had a bunch of devs take it, we came back with 115-130 range, which seems reasonable.
I feel like monkey island one and two was basically a very advanced "book" with basic animated illustrations. But you could still fill in a lot with your own imagination with the graphics of that time. Skip forward to any of todays games and they are way way closer to a movie then a book. Just like when any book is made into a movie there is a lot of hardcore fans that have a different mental model of their book and don't want it overshadowed by a movie. It is easy to avoid and not watch the "movie". I will be very happy to see a new game by Ron based on what he feels is his vision and not what the public wants.
I'm using xubuntu and the mainline kernel and the only thing I'd have to do special at all would be to make the fingerprint reader work. Everything else has just worked.

The suspend thing I think has to do with the bios not linux. It's a bug but not a linux support bug, I think.

I'm currently using a fairly old HP tb3 dock that was really only intended for use with a few laptops of theirs. I like it for it's form factor, and it does function, but there are a couple annoyances that have me looking for an update.

The tb3 cord is removable but so special that it might as well be hardwired. The dock end has a big plug with both a usbc and barrel connectors in one big chonk. The usbc part is normal so you could replace that cable with another, but you'd lose power delivery.

The video outs seem to be a bit marginal. They work but they seem to be easily disturbed, like they are right on the edge of not working. The screens lose sync and reconnect once in a while. Once in a while is not multiple times per day, but probably at least a once or twice most weeks, but also some multiple weeks with no glitch. My magnetic usbc adapter surely contributes.

Somewhere between half the time and all the time, the external monitors do not wake when the laptop wakes from sleep, and by sleep I mean just the first level like just blanking the screens. I don't have any swap or hibernate configured. But all I have to do to restore both screens is just rock the magnetic usbc connector 90 degrees to break the connection, wait 2 seconds or so, and let it snap back, and both monitors come back on and the xubuntu xrandr tool automatically restores the profile that uses them positioned the way I had them.

If I'm lucky, maybe even most of my ssh sessions survive the temporary loss of ethernet. oh-well-emoji haha

I got the same model of dock for my gf and she has a lg gram and only one external minitor, and she's running windows, and her monitor loses connection all by itself even when not idle/blanked, sometimes multiple times in a day, sometimes a couple weeks with no problem.

I have gone through a few different attempts at getting new higher quality cables and shorter runs etc.

So I think the display flakiness is in the docks and not in the laptops or the OS's or the monitors.

But it is suuuuch a sweet little unit, and it does work so 99% well. Everything else are these big ugly boxes that are big enough that they might as well just be mini pc's and skip the laptop. Or they are nice looking small but junk guts.

HP Elite ZBook TB3 dock 1DT93AA#ABA
Do you have any recommendations for tax efficient wrappers?
Don't sums of dice rolls approach normal distribution?
It comes from Middle English rhyming slang. Rick -> Dick; Rob -> Bob.
If the main reason tech workers have good working conditions is an under-supply of talent, that suggests that management is fundamentally not trustable. If that is the case, then when things go the other way we can expect to not have good working conditions.

I've found things made more sense once I realized that the political structure of modern corporations is essentially a kingdom. I think the cynicism of management comes from a combination of factors. First is that the individual contributors have no political voice, so decisions are made for them and they just have to live with the results. Second is that without the individual contributors there is no product, so the ICs fulfill management's goals, but nobody (on a structural level; individual managers may vary) is even asking the ICs what they want. Third, management routinely makes decisions that make the ICs life less pleasant [1], and frequently the ICs know of / are using / know they have the capability to build a system that they want. Fourth, management naturally attracts the people who want power; leaders enable those under them, but rulers tell their underlings what to do. Between the nature of the job and the failings of people, management tends to attract rulers, not leaders. Fifth, tech people tend be individualistic / mavericks, and those kind of people dislike being ruled, especially when the rules are lousy.

This could probably be summarized as ICs want autonomy, mastery, and competency (see Dan Pink). Many tech people got into tech on their own, so have a high sense of autonomy; the corporate structure tends to squelch autonomy. To make it worse, management does not appear to value the ICs, even though the king wouldn't eat if the farmers didn't farm. But ICs have no power within the system, so the best they can do is go quit.

Cynicism is the refuge of the powerless.

[1] The most egregious example I've seen was one very large company had needed a QA system. The IT department liked a particular software package, and apparently nobody else liked it. Probably because it was completely unfit for bug tracking. So, naturally, the company got the package IT wanted. Using it was completely miserable.
Considering how critical he and other analysts have been of Twitter's relatively bloated staff count, they might be doing his work for him.
Here ya go. Asked and answered.

http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alterna...
> These nine people are unelected and appointed to their positions for life.

That's not entirely true, the people voted for them by proxy. We live in a republic not an athenian democracy, this is how a lot of things work, it's how it's supposed to work.

And I would further argue that the justices are pillars of the government in that the foundations are not easily swayed if indeed they are impervious to the temporal whims of galvanized crowds.

This was ultimately the choice of the country within the current framework of the government.
> While I do find the "put up or shut up" message entertaining, it's a category error to confuse what has been done with what can be done. Still, I would consider it a win if some Lisper rises to the challenge.

The whole point is that there are an awful lot of talkers talking a big game but no none of them ever manages to actually show something working.

The challenge was presented.
> whiteboards

Digital whiteboards are trivial to share, recover, modify and maintain. They're light-years beyond the limited physical variety. My team leans heavily on Miro, for instance.

> Lunch

Lunch time is a break. Not everyone wants to spend their break with their coworkers; but even for those that do, nothing is preventing you from having a conference call or video call over lunch.

> Body language

Not everyone understands or can engage in body language. Many people find it ancient inducing that their appearance and movements are under constant judgement. WFH is equalizing for them.
We are in the process of building this team. This is one of the core hires for the product. With the transition, we brought on 3 existing team members from Joyent, and will be adding another 2-4 folks over the coming months.
> Again, of course not; but if a company is going to expect or require people to do it, it should foot the bill for the inconveniences caused.

Sorry if I wasn't clear - these lunches have nothing to do with work. I eat lunch sometimes, my colleagues eat lunch sometimes. Sometimes we go out to eat together and socialize. Work doesn't enter into the equation. We lose that benefit when going fully remote.

There is value to me in having lunch with my current colleagues. I also get value out of having lunch with my ex-colleagues who are now just my friends in the same city. We still have lunches together. I am thankful that I used to work in the same city as my colleagues so that this is still possible!
So, how do I get a sane Haskell editor environment on MacOS?
Not all. One mentioned in the article, Qwik, uses a different technique the authors call resumability. It’s similar in that it applies JS to components client side which were rendered with the same code server side. The subtle differences:

- it derives its initial client state from the HTML, rather than re-running the initialization which already ran on the server

- it doesn’t render top down, it resumes interactive components on demand (on first user interaction by default)

- it doesn’t load any of that code at all by default; if your page is fully static, none of the code ever gets loaded

This is similar to frameworks like Astro which use a technique called “partial hydration”, but with Qwik it’s handled by the compiler. Another which is somewhere in between (and has been doing all this for years; I’m not sure exactly where its most recent release sits on the spectrum) is Marko.
>> your overly generous assumption about the safety risk

>This is not my assumption, this is scientific consensus, see the linked page.

i very much doubt that:

* it could be proven (that gmo's WILL NOT harmfully interact with other organisms)
* there is (something aproaching) consensus on that topic
* wikipedia is a credible source for it

thou i share the view that gmo have massively enhanced our abilities, i also think that the risk is of the same magnitude.
I would add that absolutely do not cross if a car has stopped at a stop sign UNLESS you have an explicit signal from the driver. Most drivers have an almost instinctual stop & go at such stop signs and not in response to seeing a pedestrian. Always wait for the driver to see you and have a nod with them so you are sure they have stopped for you.
I really like that they give full, detailed descriptions of the ingredients. I wish home chemicals had more stringent requirements on ingredient lists, like foods do.

However that's literally just a bar of soap unfortunately, and won't get things the kind of clean I want. I bought one sprayer of caustic bathroom cleaner because they have more resistant sprayer hardware to handle the bleach, and just refill it with cheap bleach or bleach cleaner. The best option would probably be buying bulk dry chlorine at a poll supply store