skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's up with all the negativity in this thread? This is a great time for people who want to have an impact. If you get fed up with corporate life you can create your own startup. The USA has the best VC ecosystem in the world. Alternatively you could bootstrap or join a startup. For a bootstrapped startup you could even decide to only work 1 or 2 days a week if that's what you prefer / and can keep the lights on that way.

In general that whole outlook of blaming things on external stuff that's outside of your control isn't healthy. It's such a great time to build
real pro tip here, when you follow they can block you if you're not their cup of tea, while lists allow you to continue sleuthing as a member of a public
Jurisdictions in Canada keep passing laws on the basis of this kind of xenophobia (e.g. the foreign buyer tax in BC, non-local tax in Ontario) that have consistently turned out to be ineffective. Why? Turns out it's not the problem and it applies to a minor fraction of buyers. So they crank up the rhetoric and pass more ineffective laws.

If you want to call money laundering foundational, then you need to explain how on earth that is connected with the market in Peterborough being up 50%+ over the pandemic. Peterborough isn't unique; it just gives the lie to the idea that this is somehow foreign money causing the problem. Foreign buyers have tanked in the last two years (since most of the time they were not even permitted to enter the country) yet it is continually called out as the culprit. Nonsense.
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In the large I don't disagree: people have the right to protect themselves. But I think you've made an argument for caching, not for captchas. I'd even be fine with changing cache-control interpretations to "cache this, because if you come back before it's changed we won't serve it to you again". But this stuff is obvious web developer upsell.

For what it's worth, it didn't even work. Headless Chrome and some editing of the JavaScript environment was all it took. So it's definitely a ripoff.
Somehow, this one doesn't surprise me. Much of poetry is amorphous. The line between "deep" and "nonsense" is distinguished only by the mindset of the reader. And, hell, some humans aim for "nonsense."
> Well, mass illegal immigration wasnt ALWAYS a thing.

It has been for the whole time since entry policy shifted from default-allow to default-deny (a change itself largely based in racism, notwithstanding that there are good reasons to want to avoid a large, permanent, non-citizen population); when the US had open immigration and only restrictive rules for naturalization, yes, mass illegal immigration wasn't an issue. [0]

> It is not a racist thing, it is a political thing.

That's like the “it was not about slavery, just states rights” line about the civil war; and just like that it sets up a false dichotomy to pretend that the (true) more general description falsifies the (also true) more specific description.

[0] I want to emphasize that this is not advocacy for a return to such a policy, only noting that the US has never, for any significant time, had a working restrictive immigration policy without significant illegal immigration.
It is mystifying to me that people cannot understand the simple meaning of the article: Paid programming provides bad service for the money, enough so that you get a better experience via back channels. If the publishers want your business, they will need to provide service better than you can cobble up yourself.

I object to the term "pirating" here. Piracy involves depriving people of life and property. You are not doing anything like that. Bootlegging might be a tolerably apt term. Bootlegging is just bypassing onerous restrictions and taxes, with an admixture of freeloading.

My wife pays for various channels, but I torrent the same content because the experience is radically better. Am I pirating? I don't think I am even bootlegging.

The main thing keeping me from doing it more (I hardly ever do anymore) is that I just don't have time to watch things. I have taken to running what little I do grab at 1.5x to 2x so I can spare the time. Now, not running that fast seems intolerably glacial.

All that said, hoarding is a common symptom of depression. Treating depression is a very, very good idea.
> You are lucky because you have the privilege of being able to do this.

Plot twist: If everyone did like EddieDante, then the boss can't fire everyone and will accept the new status quo.

Both parties have bargaining power, abstractly speaking. The real power comes from the organization/leadership and not the work itself. Otherwise, there will be no CEO, manager, governments, etc... It'll be just workers exchanging goods between one/another.
Being fired is the extreme end result. The immediate results I've faced are the other things I've outlined: not having as high a review score, not receiving a promotion, and just generally being treated poorly/less-friendly by managers. Basically 'disconnecting' leads to a hostile work environment. in my experience.
I mean, I hear this all the time … and yet GitHub is still somehow the standard for free software hosting.
There’s nothing trivial about determining race in healthcare research.

Feel free to cite sources.
I didn't realize their culture was so Americanized!
> Certainly you wouldn't want to slam the brakes for a plastic bag floating in the wind

There's a reason you have radar even on AV's with LiDAR; the plastic bag doesn't absorb much energy
They are falling but their competitors are rising. It is not the end of the world. It is just capitalism.
I'd say there was been a backlash against tidyverse, but tidyverse is beloved by most new R programmers, and fighting it is a one-way ticket to irrelevance.

Re: antagonistic behavior, I would just recommend that all participants consider the old glass houses proverb as applicable to themselves, and try to do better going forward.
Stories that made an Impact
> I did not see any details here on what part of the organization the laid off employees were working in.

Most likely a non-essential team.
Microsoft Edge Secure Network hands all browsing activity to Cloudflare
I've been using ZV-1 with Cam Link for almost 2 years now. It can be powered indefinitely with a good micro USB cable and a reliable 2A+ power supply. I often have all day back-to-back meetings so I don't bother to turn it off. Otherwise a dummy battery is an option.
What Gato shows is with the proper datasets and training we can achieve general purpose like results. It doesn't show any sort of learning behavior. So your personal home robot may be able to dice up an onion, but it is not going to sit down at your computer, look up its own schematics, and start learning about its existence.

It doesn't have the active working memory to do so.
Why would you be throwing away the heat? You're not exhausting the warm air outside, are you?
I used to love javascript. When people asked, I made a similar argument - that you need tests anyway, and if you're writing tests you'll spot any obvious typing bugs in your javascript code.

I think I was wrong. Moving to typescript has been a revelation for me, because I find I need far fewer tests to make working code. (And my code so often just works as soon as it compiles!). I can code much more fearlessly.

Rust is similar. By the time the borrow checker has sufficiently bruised my ego, my rust code often just works. And thats a joy.

What I'm hearing is that Julia is more like javascript and C, and less like typescript and rust. That in Julia you need to be more paranoid around correctness - because you can easily compile a binary that produces incorrect results. You need extensive integration tests to guard against that, because its not enough to know that two libraries work individually and compile together. They need to also be tested together or they might silently do the wrong thing.

That sounds like a bad experience. Honestly, that sounds worse than javascript. At least in javascript, type errors almost always result in instant crashes with a useful stack trace. You say testing Julia code isn't hard, but that doesn't mean I want to do it. Building a stone wall by hand isn't hard either, but I'll take my desk job every time.
> Those parts that everyone thought were dirt cheep, so people stopped making enough of them.

Not only that, but because (in this analogy) tube making machines are very expensive, low-volume machines made by only a couple of companies in the world, take a long time to make, make only single very specific kind of tube each and take a long time to install and commission, you can't just up and start making more tubes.

And on top of that, the machines cost so much and tube technology moves along so that if you're not careful, you may never turn a profit on the tubes at all if, by the time you're tooled up, you've missed the window of opportunity and no one wants that many old-style tubes anyway.
I say this exact thing too. It usually plays out as:

- ask kiddo to do something, get a "no" or "I'm busy."

- I say "I don't want to have to count." Continued resistance 30% of the time.

- If resistance then counting starts. Compliance comes earlier or later in the counting 95% of the time.

If counting finishes then guaranteed tears also has a plan because wife and I have time to see it coming too.
Your solution is just to find a VC? That's not going to work for 95% of people.
I’m in the same boat, though I like apple. I’d still go for an android phone if they made something really small though.

However, I think the era of small phones as we know it is over for now. The smallest we have is the Mini, and even that isn’t small.

In fact, I think the next version of the small phone will be flip phones. We already see this with the Samsung fold. I tried one and was pretty impressed, and I feel like this is the likely direction the industry may take.

However, I’m using my current phone for the next five or six years. I’m sure by then, the folding screen tech will improve a lot, and apple may even have their own version out by then.
I guess the way I look at it is, I didn't disconnect much during my 20s or 30s while I was building my career. Any time I could be working it means I could have made one more discovery or published one more paper or written one more grant. Not doing so would mean giving up future freedoms- either having to take more restrictive jobs or not having a job at all.

In return, I now have far more free time and more money with which to enjoy it. That said, there are situations where my employer might need more of my time than usual, outside of normal work hours, and that's fine, so long as it's agreed upon in advance (I don't do on-calls, and I left academia, because fuck their work attitude).
Panasonic has a webcam driver via USB, so you don't even need the HDMI capture device.
I only have experience with Azure's App Service, but their App Service can scale out and still use the same mounted local storage layer that is shared across all app instances. So I've been considering this for multi-tenant applications where each tenant's data can be siloed in it's own SQLite database.
After the First Tech Job, Part 2
I think a big reason many artists end up being "good" is because they can create very highly technical works of art and choose not to.

"Why would they draw that?" gets you a lot further in the art world than, "That is a very high quality work of art." IMO for good reason (you are free to disagree obviously).
I always get asked “do you do a lot of podcasts?” the first time I meet somebody
This is awesome and sad at the same time!
Sure, but all of which goes away the instant you land your next job.
Is this the same Project Veritas that paid someone $10,000 to 'admit' to electoral fraud on a hidden camera? https://www.fox9.com/news/subject-of-project-veritas-voter-f...
Aka "Slice-wise" mode. The FP units were optional (the project I was on didn't need FP, so we didn't have them). IIRC slice-wise mode was only available via their parallel FORTRAN compiler.
Vive la Révolution!
This seems to only cover output. At least as interesting, from a usability perspective, is input - making sure that keyboard shortcuts work, in so far as they can be represented.

It's not hard to find yourself with an incorrectly configured terminal on a modern Linux distro. For example, try running emacs inside tmux inside rxvt-unicode and find out how Ctrl/Shift/Ctrl+Shift with arrow keys are bound.
Vox was just pushing out what the CDC and mainstream media was saying during that time. I don't think its a great news publication but alot of those images were taken before anyone really knew about how the coronavirus spread or behaved.
You can believe in such a conjectures, but it's wise to consider the more probable possiblity that if an effect hasn't been found, then it is likely small.

Also, in the end it doesn't really matter, because the conjecture that's repeated as an assertion isn't said merely as a scientific claim, but as an attempt to convince. Companies are interested in some bottom line effect, and rather than trying to sell your favourite approach with something like, "I like it; maybe you'll like it, too", you make some unsupported assertion that goes like this: "you should use my thing because it will actually make an important contribution to some bottom-line effect you're interested in; oh, and by the way, you might not notice it." That isn't convincing at all, so it's best to stick with what we know: "I like it, maybe you'll like it, too."
Dimensions in millimeters:

13: 71.5 x 146.7 x 7.65
13 Mini: 64.2 x 131.5 x 7.65
3rd gen SE: 67.3 x 138.4 x 7.3
1st gen SE: 58.6 x 123.8 x 7.6

I strongly prefer the 1st gen SE because it's significantly easier for me to use with one hand, it's got a completely flat back (no camera bulge), and it's got a headphone jack and home button.
People are ragging on you for this question, but it is an important, and not an uncommon one at all. Thanks for being brave enough to ask it publicly.

I have wondered this myself. People think they recognize great art because of its inherent qualities, ignoring the hard to dispute fact that culture, fashion, and economics influences a lot of what we consider great in art. Tastes change over time, and the pantheon is always in flux, even though the art itself is still the same. So, of course people can look at something and "fail" to recognize its genius!

That's not to say that some things aren't better than other things, or that everything is relative. Only that the relationship between aesthetics and culture is complicated and woven together in a way we struggle to untangle in ourselves, let alone more broadly.

In the particular case of Picasso, I think I can look at paintings like Guernica and Man with a Guitar and say "well, shit, there's something going on here that deserves my attention". But there are other widely-hailed artists I don't respond to in this way. I think they're garbage, and people are crazy for paying millions of dollars for their work. Maybe I'm deluding myself.

The only thing I'd challenge you on is your confidence that you'd always recognize certain Michelangelo works as genius (with the implication that they are universally and timelessly good, not just that you would happen to personally like them). All I can say is that I'm not sure I am confident that I would pass that test.

I guess there's no accounting for taste.
That wouldn't remove their expectation of being reachable in an emergency...
Twitter is of course completely unsuitable as means of official communication - just the word limit makes it terrible for the purpose.

What it is good for is sending sound bites at each other.

(For emergency communications SMS is better and sufficient.)
I don't follow, it seems like unless you luck into finding a job where everyone in your management chain adheres to the same 'disconnect' work ethic, this is a pattern that will instead repeat over and over.
Strengths/weaknesses of ML vs. agent-based modeling
Yes, nice, I know some of these words
And FPGAs. You may be literally looking at 100x pricing and higher, if you can even buy them at all.

Not a big component in many consumer items, but when you need them, you need them.
I think the thickness is more the issue. Phones and tablets are way thicker than a laptop screen.
Just my two cents as someone who isn't associated with Sourcegraph: I also thought this comment was overly snarky and not exactly true. Their main product is a really good code search/navigation tool, and even Code Insights is hardly "tracking" software productivity. See also "don't be snarky" in the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ugh... IRC was one of the most infuriating platforms to use. I was so happy when forums took off enough to replace it. Having to use IRC was one of the worst parts of working at canonical.
That's funny because it's the exact opposite for me. I'm on desktop and I see it only when logged in. When not logged in, I only see replies.
Billions of dollars, millions of rabid fans, incessant media attention?
Somebody’s going to com in here and mention Obsidian Notes, so it might as well be me: https://obsidian.md

It supports collapsible sections just with the Markdown syntax but it’s also highly-extensible in any way you wish. I think Bear and other editors support Markdown collapsible a as well.
If there's interest, I can definitely take a crack at it!

My current plan was to introduce some new particle types as there is some pretty stimulating emergent behavior that comes out particles with different rules interacting with one another.

I'm also really interested in exploring 2D velocity and acceleration- how we could go about enabling particles to be thrown and bounce off of walls- or each other.
> 3. The subscription option came out a month after we bought our car. Its about 10 years of FSD subscription payments

Is this true? I thought it was $200/mo or $10k

10,000/200 = 50 months or 4 years ish
So Apple, Google, MSFT, and AMZN?
Want to Read More Books? A Company Will Pay $200 for Every Novel You Finish
I don't read parent's comment as advocating the creation of a stablecoin pegged to XDR, but rather repurposing the principle of targeting (flexibly) a basket of underlying reserve assets as a unit of account in cryptoland.
People are rational actors at optimizing their own well-being, as they see it. That holds in all cases but it isn't very helpful to the politicians.

What breaks is trying to get people to optimize for some other factor by manipulating economic signals (e.g. with inflation). Once they know about the manipulation they'll compensate for it. Not 100%, not always even in the right direction, but enough to make the eventual outcome chaotic.
> What does upset me is a simple fact: No one contacted me about this.

> Not Bello herself, not the staff at LitHub, not the journalist who wrote the Gawker piece and not even any of the readers of that piece. While I clearly found it fine on my own, the fact that there has been zero outreach is, in a word, surprising.

Because few people care about the victim, and everyone seems to obsess over the perpetrator.

I don't know how well the far more severe crimes in our society map in this context, but at least with serial or spree killings, there's an effort to take attention away from the perpetrator due to media fixation on them and instead redirecting it towards healing the injuries (https://www.dontnamethem.org/). I don't think it's exactly 1 for 1, but I think the sociological mechanics are probably the same here:

If it's not local to the reader, the reader is more likely to be fascinated by the perpetrator rather than go out of their way to heal the injured, or learn from the happening in any tangible way.
> Twitter is of course completely unsuitable as means of official communication

Whether or not you believe it is unsuitable for such purposes has no bearing on the fact that government has indeed used it for such purposes, and that this imposes legal requirements on the use of those government accounts as public fora that do not apply to Twitter generally.
Are those things that specific people were actually promised in an explicit, demonstrable way when they were hired? It sounds like the kind of thing that people like to convince themselves they were promised because that's what they hoped and wanted to be true

Also, there's nothing in the article about this? - all the article talks about is some Netflix employees being upset that management didn't obey their wishes and pull Chapelle's special.
1. She didn't write these or even have a hand in writing these.

2. These are all from before the pandemic when people knew next to nothing about the coming virus. That is completely different from the hot takes of today that go completely against what is commonly understood, i.e. it's not "disinformation".
Women have it very good... it's men that are oppressed.
> I heard (but never saw) that for internal development at Connection Machines each developer had a single 512-processor board to work on.

From at least ~1989 on there were a bunch of machines of various sizes and states of assembly around the building at Thinking Machines. You'd connect to the appropriate front-end and cmattach whatever geometry needed. Certain groups did have dedicated CM-2s, particularly those needing specialized configurations (framebuffer, DataVault, etc).

If you knew where the machine running your code lived, you could go sit late at night and watch the LEDs throbbing. The machine really did have a presence.
As someone who used to work in oil: oil (or any commodities) is an industry you go into if you don't mind a major wipeout every few years. Layoffs there are cyclical and far reaching.

I'm sure it's fine for now, though.
Here is something I learned only several weeks ago. While working on Pipe Watch, I strayed into reading the standard.

* The ESC [ command start sequence is actually a compromise for 7 bit systems. The [ character is not chosen by accident. It has an obvious positional relationship to ESC in the ASCII code which is why, informally, Ctrl-[ is the same as ESC.

* If you have an 8-bit-clean channel to the terminal, only a single character is required: the "upper escape" from the C1 control character set (0x80 to 0x9F). This character, 128 + 27 or 0x9B is called CSI: control sequence introducer, which is basically its role in these terminal control sequences. Thus ESC [ is just an alternative way of encoding CSI for 7 bit. E.g instead of CSI 4 A, you use ESC [ 4 A.
> Software developers are top tier practitioners of Not Asking for Help When You Need It.

They also all seem to arrogantly believe themselves to be in the top 10% of their peer developers, in terms of compensation, ability to negotiate, bargaining power vs employer, and other workplace attributes; and are therefore hostile to any system that could fairly represent the interests of all the workers. "I'm a captain of my industry, and am already paid so much more than my peer developers," software developers imagine, "A union could only make things worse for me!"
Netflix is a company that does rolling layoffs. Things don't work, whole or parts of teams are let go. Life goes on.
Ask HN: Do You Listen to Podcasts?
Hey,

I'm curious do you like listening to podcasts? How do you discover the ones that you like?
> What is a safe company during these times?

funeral service
Thanks, and yeah, my post is a bit open-ended as it's probably obvious I am struggling with the decision and/or with a framework for the making the decision.

Question back to you: thoughts on how to weight my own familiarity with the core product? To provide some color on the question - I deal with one end of the problem addressed by the 8-person company on a day-to-day basis. That experience has drawn me to the opportunity but also at times increased skepticism. By contrast, I'm less familiar with the problem addressed by the larger company but think the team and the market are ripe for success. So, I'll need to really learn and embrace that problem to sell something that tries to solve it.