skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Overall, I think remote work can be great, but I've personally seen many who see it as an excuse to drop the useful interpersonal interactions and just do "their work", often in less time than would have been budgeted in person. If that's how some employees work best, ok, but I think the workload has to be revisited to account for what time people have available and what they are not doing but being remote. It can't just be a have your cake and eat it too situation.

I do not understand what you're trying to say with your "have your cake and eat it too". It reads like you frown upon people being more productive when working at homes and thus you somehow think it's a good idea to punish them for it.
This just makes me wonder if it would be possible for a modern streaming platform to make movies that personalize to a user. There's no fundamental reason you couldn't shoot a movie that plays different versions of a scene to different users.
I come from a South American country and I could see this process unfolding during COVID. Before that, I didn't have any friend working for an American software company. Now, my friends are either employed by foreign companies or they are building experience in order to do so in the future. It's been a pretty remarkable change, actually. The salaries are beyond what we imagine it would be possible to make in 20 years of career. Things are being great for us, although I doubt that doesn't have a depressive effect over American wages.
250k is a good pay in America but you won’t be retiring after five years. Income tax usually takes 25-35% off so your take home is 162k-187k. It’s easy to spend 10-15k/mo on expenses (mortgage, cars, gas, utilities, child care, food, clothes, medical, paying off student loans, retirement, savings, etc.). Then you’ll want to do things like take vacations. It gets eaten up pretty quick here.
Their code was horrific. My algorithm:

import itertools
import collections

candidates = [s for s in itertools.product(range(100), range(100)) if s[0]<=s[1]]

def solutions_filter(sols, agg, flip=False):
aggregates = [agg(s) for s in sols]
d = collections.defaultdict(lambda:0)
for s in aggregates:
d[s] = d[s]+1

if not flip:
return [s for s in sols if d[agg(s)] != 1]
else:
return [s for s in sols if d[agg(s)] == 1]

ns = candidates

for i in range(7):
ns = solutions_filter(ns, lambda x:x[0]*x[1])
ns = solutions_filter(ns, lambda x:x[0]+x[1])

print(solutions_filter(ns, lambda x:x[0]*x[1], flip=True))

(Usually, next step is variable names, comments, etc.)
Have you read MCTB? I feel I'm still in stage 1, maybe 2, but definitely haven't reached the arising and passing away... Still, I find labelling useful. Going to try to find a Mahasi retreat
> Eggs are evolutionarily designed to survive falling out of nests and perches.

I wonder about this. Realistically, what fate awaits the egg that dropped from the nest in the tree branch, even if it survives the fall?
This isn't quite right. This does find the solution when the problem is well-formed, but it doesn't prove that the solution is valid:

if round == 15:
for product in products:
if len(products[product]) == 1:
print('Peter: I do know the numbers')
print(products[product][0])
return

This should not return - it should continue iterating. If the problem (and the code) is correct, then it should only find one answer - but unless you exhaustively search and find exactly one answer you don't know that it's correct.

Incidentally, I was also a bit surprised by

candidate_pairs = set()
for i in range(1, N):
for j in range(1, N):
if (i, j) not in candidate_pairs and (j, i) not in candidate_pairs:
candidate_pairs.add((i, j))

That first (i, j) check can never return false and should be omitted, right?
> It's the unlimited traffic..... what other hosts offer unlimited traffic?

Hetzner. The ones selling the same processor with double the ram for 1/3 of IONOS' offering.

I thought this was understood as Hetzner is widely known for offering unlimited traffic, unlike major cloud providers like AWS.
>How did they get your credit card information? If it was stolen then it’s a simple fraud case and you’re not liable for any of it with any major credit card in the US (the federal law maximum liability would be $50).

Yes stolen. Not the physical card, but the information skimmed or hacked somewhere.

>In that case the chargeback reason is simple - the card was stolen, these are fraudulent purchases and you are not liable. If you have a balance on the credit card you refuse to pay the amount. They should remove the charge. And if your bank isn’t doing the right thing you file a simple online complaint with the CFPB. You will get a response in 15 days or so.

I did file a charge back as fraud/stolen. My bank removed every other charge from that day. Including the e-bay charge. Then e-bay appealed. E-bay sent back a very long document asserting my own name was on the account, that a tracking number showed something went to my house. I've forgotten what all was on there, but it was a lot. The hacker basically had all my information; not sure how but my employer's human resources was hacked so maybe they got some of it from there.

So for the first 15 days or so the charge was reversed. Then e-bay won the appeal. The issue is e-bay knew the seller is fake. I also contacted e-bay and told them the charges were fraudulent. E-bay just ignored me. They knew the seller was fraudulent but appealed the chargeback anyway. The charges were re-instated.

Everything revolved around that tracking number. My bank talked to me very condescendingly and noted the invoice had my address and that the tracking number went to my city (I couldn't find out WHERE in my city it goes because UPS does not reveal that to anyone but the actual customer.) Both e-bay and the bank could have found out that tracking number was shipped before even the time of the alleged order. I was treated like a thief by both e-bay and my bank. Ultimately they ganged up on me. I'll never understand why the bank was able to justify reversing every single other charge that day but the e-bay charge. But I do know it is because e-bay made the chargeback process a living hell for my bank, because e-bay has a legal division devoted to fucking over the customer as much as possible when they get a chargeback. That is the source of my ire at e-bay.

So yes my ire was also at my bank. But this threat was about e-bay. My bank was a small regional bank that not a lot of people know about.
I mean all of this with kindness and helpful intent: I think you’re asking the wrong question, and probably from a place of undeserved insecurity. Let me try to reframe it:

- Are you relatively confident that you’re talented, or delivering meaningful value, or motivated and capable of learning to do so in your role?

- If previous answer is no, do you feel comparatively competent to your peers?

- If previous answer is no, do your peers generally treat/regard you as such?

- If previous answer is yes, is it possible you’re feeling the impostor syndrome most of us do?

- Regardless of the previous answer, if you’ve come this far… is it possible you might be a better fit elsewhere?

I could start and end with that last question, but there’s value in assessing the others.

Ultimately, even if you might be replaceable by lower cost labor and even if there might be some desire to replace you… you’ll still be competing in a market where lots of people are WFH, and where employers will be competing for you even more.

But if any of the above applies, it may be an opportunity to feel more secure in your current position, or to seek a role where you do.

I’m saying this as someone who’s WFH almost all of my 20ish year career (gawd I’ve lost count I’m that old, and that’s definitely a career future concern), and even through many versions of feeling insecure about my career future I continuously come back to “yeah I might eventually not be valued or have a future here, but I’m more skilled and in demand than ever.”
Portugal has been the retirement plan for my wife and me since we spent time there six years ago. We’re from Southern California, so the weather feels similar, it’s beautiful, and the people were super nice.

But the key differentiator was health care. We have issues that require multiple medications, and while there we needed refills. The person renting to us said to go to the ER, so we did. We were with a doctor in twenty minutes, who asked us why we had come. We said we had double-checked with the landlord and he insisted that was the right course to take. The doctor said they could have been busy and we would have had to wait, but in any case she was happy to write that refills. All up it took under half an hour and cost under $30.

We’ve been to the ER multiple times in the US and never seen a doctor in less than an hour (except when I had a motorcycle accident, but that’s a different circumstance entirely). And of course no ER visit in the US costs less than thousands of $$$.

And filling the prescriptions cost less than the copay in the US.

Retirement is some time away, so I hope the wealthy don’t screw it up for us :-/
Does it really make more than creating ads and targeting them appropriately at the right interest groups (i.e. advertising footballs on a sport fan site)? Aside requiring snooping to be effective in the first place.

Are there good studies on this to validate it?

Companies spend a mint on this stuff because they are told it works and is necessary, I'm not sure that's true, especially when that comes from the sales/marketing arm of those ad companies...
Careful with high doses of hormones like Vitamin D -- it can have other deleterious downstream effects. https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...
At that point you may as well shoot the movie in a custom PC rendering engine that lets you make all the decisions (aka a game) ....
People will continue to use ebay just like they use Google. Sad
And that's why i said the analogy is not illustrative of anything - because you dont know the future at all, and there's no precedent for that bad future. You don't prepare for such a future at the cost of the current time.

If you switched the turkey to a pet cat, would the analogy still make sense?
Not that person, but I feel the same way they do.

You're still doing it. Depression has a cause, and effective treatment depends on what that cause is. If it is not one of the things that is made better by going outside, this will not be helpful, and the answer is not "well then go more outside".
>It's the reality of how large organizations keep their teams stable with employee turnover and also slightly grow them. Yes, teams will work to fill their roles directly too but often the team will show up for work on a Monday morning to find that they have a new member of their team who they've never met but is an 'extra bonus' or the headcount has been filled anyway.

Can confirm. Just had this exact Monday morning.
I haven’t looked at Spain, but Portugal doesn’t require you to be wealthy — but you do have to live there most of the time for five years.
This runs into two problems:

1) It's a private company, they can refuse service to anyone for any reason - this is spelled out in the TOS:

> If we believe you are abusing eBay and/or our Services in any way, we may, in our sole discretion and without limiting other remedies, limit, suspend, or terminate your user account(s) and access to our Services, delay or remove hosted content, remove any special status associated with your account(s), remove, not display, and/or demote listings, reduce or eliminate any discounts, and take technical and/or legal steps to prevent you from using our Services.

> Additionally, we reserve the right to refuse, modify, or terminate all or part of our Services to anyone for any reason at our discretion.

2) There is a mandatory arbitration clause in the TOS so you can't take them to court.

> You and eBay each agree that any and all disputes or claims that have arisen, or may arise, between you and eBay (or any related third parties) that relate in any way to or arise out of this or previous versions of the User Agreement, your use of or access to our Services, the actions of eBay or its agents, or any products or services sold, offered, or purchased through our Services shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, rather than in court.

I don't like it but that's how it is. For some reason no one - right, left or center - seems interested in regulating these things.
Retained mode is distinct from immediate mode where it _retains_ what is _drawn on the screen_, only redrawing visual components that have changed. Immediate mode redraws the entire application each time, replacing all pixels it's responsible for even if nothing has changed.

Throwing away some internal state is not relevant to this distinction.
> My last job search was probably on the order of 100 applications, 10 interviews, 1 offer.

This is bizarre to me. How many years of experience do you have? I am in the US.

I get almost a 1/1 interview to application ratio and numerous offers, and I'm nothing special. I've just "been around the block" and I can convey that I've dealt with the big, difficult problems in the real world and have tackled them head on. Maybe it's the honest "been there, done that" I can convey after 20 years in the industry.

We may also be applying to different types of companies. I don't go for the "5 rounds of social fit" type companies, I go for straight engineering.
> “present-day Russia easily combines every disadvantage of the neo-Reactionary dream state, and none of its advantages”

It’s because the advantages are either theoretical and illusionary, or only enjoyable by an extremely narrow oligarchy.

It’s like asking why North Korea seems to have all the disadvantages of Stalinism but none of the advantages.
Modern ssh supports forwarding of Unix domain sockets

On remote host:

$ tmux -S /tmp/remote.sock
<now detach from session: prefix d>

On local host:

$ ssh -L /tmp/local.sock:/tmp/remote.sock user@remote
$ tmux -S /tmp/local.sock attach

I Typed this on a phone and not validated but it looks good to me right now
FetchRSS
By definition, tacit knowledge is hard to codify. If you're reading facts or documentation it's definitely not tacit knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

> It is easier to follow logical chains constructed people but the constituents of said chain could potentially be fraught with approximations, thus obfuscating the entire story.

It's not possible to logically explain everything. Intuition is very important. Hence, the value of tacit knowledge.

I would generally much rather hear an expert talk conceptually and about their intuition than them give me a lecture on logic and facts. It's impossible to glean some things through pure logic.

For example, what is clean code?
Taxes and the Ultra Rich
has been for decades, a kind of industry specific jargon though - can also be used to refer to people
Are you drunk? This comment is nonsensical
This is sophistry for social justice ideology masquarading as science:

>>Racial inequality costs the U.S. economy an estimated $16 trillion in lost gross domestic product (GDP) (4), failing to hire job seekers with a criminal history results in an annual loss of $78 billion in U.S. GDP (5), and the persistent gender pay gap restrains the global economy by about $160 trillion (6).

The idea that these inequalities can be addressed, in an economically net-gainful way, by government mandates or simple changes in hiring preferences, is based on the fanciful premise that such inequality is economically irrational and due to discrimination, as opposed to disparites in skills or work hours that justify pay and representation inequality. This premise - that inequality between various demographics in employment is significantly or largely due to discrimination and thus economically irrational - is not only not established, it is heavily counter-indicated against by the evidence.

Policies that reduce inequality in pay or representation, without addressing inequality in skills present or value contributed that are behind the pay or representation inequality, will harm the economy, by mismatching compensation/representation and value provided, and thus causing capital to be allocated in a suboptimal way for the purposes of maximizing total productivity.
Also worth pointing out that Samo Burja spent about a month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine insisting that everyone was underestimating the Russian military and that they would take Ukraine in a rout.

Public intellectuals need to be constantly judged and re-evaluated in the light of their actual predictive capacity. Burja certainly presents as an intelligent person, but since I’ve been paying attention to him the value of his insight has been dubious.
Oh, thanks for this insight, it's a useful one to me.

I would totally believe that it was more an unpracticed response while in a relaxed and learning state of mind than anyone's actual underlying meanness, these were nice folks as far as I could tell otherwise. That one situation was just astoundingly weird.

And indeed, it wasn't a person in the class that responded, it was an assistant who had done the material many times. The teacher didn't seem to know what to do either, I think it may be as you say that the assistant just happened to be in a "run the stuff" state of mind rather than a "teach" or "listen/contemplate" state of mind.

That definitely would explain a lot, a mental context switch takes a significant amount of time and meditation absolutely can do that. It would also explain why I felt like a bit of an alien bringing it to anyone's attention, I had arrived ten minutes late from another activity so I wasn't "in the zone" yet.

At least, I've yet to hear a better explanation. I've attributed it to long ingrained habits showing up in class because in no other location with the same group (edit: not the same people, the same organization) did I encounter something similar. But that can certainly be coincidence.

I did point this disconnect out to the class, and I think any Buddhist would not take awareness of this response as a criticism rather than an observation and opportunity to improve. If any of us were perfect there'd be no need for a class in the first place.
any article based on a single study, especially when related to psychology or the social sciences, is more likely than not to be untrue. Worth taking this with study with a massive grain of salt. Replication crisis is real and most severe in this field.
It has plenty of drug interactions. Might as well just try a SSRI if you’re going that route.
You're right, it was a fine only.

Personally I disagree that property doesn't implicate liberty. I toiled for hours, perhaps days to pay these fines. I was deprived of liberty for however long I was forced to labor to pay the fine. Also it's worth noting the citation itself was filed against me specifically, not my property. This is in contrast to something like 'US vs $500 on a dashboard.'

But yes I do understand the legal system treats these cases distinctly.
I have used scapy for parsing and replaying (with some modification) pcap files containing a UDP packet stream. It worked perfectly, albeit python is perhaps not the language for high-speed networking.
It’s too late now, but for future reference, if you can still edit your comment, and no one has replied, you can delete them
> when they expropriated the buddhists in the huichang expropriation during the tang…

Do you happen to have any good links for learning more about this?

The Wikipedia page[0] is a mess and my Google skills have fallen short.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichang_Persecution_of_Buddhi...
> But how does someone take advantage of it without changing their current behavior: write an entire paragraph and do 2 line breaks.

I don't understand your question. Markdown's syntax already requires 2+ newlines to define a paragraph. There should be no change in a workflow if you're already using Markdown.

The only nuance is that if you want git to track changes in each sentence that forms a paragraph, just add a single line break after the punctuation mark. Markdown still interprets that as the same text block, but git is able to handle changes per line.
I think that caveat only applies to images, not music, right? The title of this post only mentions music (I don't know why).
That honestly just sounds like mental self-flagellation done to inflate the ego and feel superior.
Reading the article, the opposite is mentioned - almost every leader that has come across the program has praised its effectiveness and has called it an "easy decision."
Nice one. I run into this regularly, and it always leads to some kind of nullish spread spaghetti. I really like the idea of an empty / non-value operator that works on objects, arguments & iterables.

Q - is it just a matter of liking posts on tc39 discourse to show support?
Is it a search engine searching other sites, or is it just searching stuff that its own users uploaded?
While we're on the subject of Kafka: I've recently listened through an audiobook of ‘The Process’, and it turned out to be a new edition. Because apparently the original order of the chapters is not known, and Max Brod took some editorial liberties—so in this new recompilation, at least some semblance of a logical ordering is attempted.

It's important, though, to not listen to the introduction for too long, because it gives away the ending.
process of elimination. as soon as peter starts, all primes are off the table. Given that, some number pairs which sum to the same number as just one other number pair where the second number pair has at least one prime are off the table. And so on and so forth. My instinct was to program the solution. Bet there are people who could do it in their heads.
My logic was similar, in R:

library(dplyr)

combos <- expand.grid(x = 1:99, y = 1:99) |>
filter(x <= y) |> # Remove dupes
mutate(sum = x + y, prod = x * y)

find_singletons <- function(col = c("sum", "prod")) {
singletons <- combos %>% group_by(!!sym(col)) %>% tally() %>% filter(n == 1)
which(combos[[col]] %in% singletons[[col]])
}

for (i in 1:7) {
# Peter: I don't know the numbers.
combos <- combos[-find_singletons("prod"),]
# Sandy: I don't know the numbers.
combos <- combos[-find_singletons("sum"),]
}

# Peter: I know the numbers.
combos[find_singletons("prod"),]
Sometimes I think Netflix is basically doing this, in a fashion, with their originals. Make 20 Ryan Reynolds movies, suggest them dynamically to different audiences...

I think different versions of the same movie would completely break word of mouth, though.
>There should be a BMI index for software<

I do like the Idea of a Bloat-Mass-Index for software.
This seems like as good a thread as any to point out that Inform, one of the largest literate programs to date, was recently published on GitHub.
https://github.com/ganelson/inform
That’s a hell of a strawman. And fallacious reasoning on top of it.

ER’s are good for some crises, and suicidal inclinations are a crisis, ergo ER is good for suicidal inclinations? No. That’s not logical.
I appealed at the bank. The appeals team simply said the actual facts of the case hadn't changed so the charge was still my responsibility.
Reading your comment, if OP is still around to see this, I think their simulator should be more from a 3rd person perspective following 1 or several characters who are poor, and where the player can listen to their inner voices, and/or make game choices for them and watch the characters stumble and maybe fail. Ideally the player gets attached to the characters and can feel sympathy as the hardness of poverty beats them up.