skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more advanced approach, see [1], [2].

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6907751

[2] https://mujoco.org/
Casual boxing rings in forests at night with suit-and-tied refs seem to belong more to the old, weird America of Desolation Row than the worn out Walmartland of today.
I know comments like this are technically against the posting guidelines here but: Very cool, thank you for sharing!
Is one supposed to be anything but a mercenary? Should I believe in the product for the sake of making the CEO a billionaire?

People should care iff they are given meaningful equity, as in life changing, otherwise they should be professional, like accountants and lawyers, but jump ship whenever it’s convenient.
Bolt flaming out set the 4-day workweek philosophy back. The oligarchs running tech companies have some political ammo for awhile because they can falsely attribute the company's failure to the policy.
Germany is offering a summer of cheap trains
I like my coworkers professionally and enjoy building stuff together, but hate contacting with them otherwise, like team-events, lunches, smalltalk near the coffee machine. Remote work has been such a blessing.
> In fact the way I read this, I just see someone who is essentially saying they’d rather have good search results if it means sacrificing privacy.

Which would be ok for most CEOs but not for the one from DDG where the only raison d'etre is privacy :)
The catch with shucking drives from cheap NAS systems like from WD is that those drives have a strong likelihood of being SMR drives instead of CMR. Basically, they'll work fine until something goes wrong requiring, say, a RAID rebuild, and then you'll be out weeks while they rebuild begging that they don't fail in the process because the random write performance is abominable.
This might mean new waves of immigration from Middle East and Africa to Europe.

The last ones caused some stirring. I expect a new wave will cause, too. So we can see some pressure from European governments for finding solutions to end the war.
Those are different skill sets. Someone may know and know how to properly use var, let and const according to standards and current trends. They may understand it deeply. But that doesn't mean that they can explain it to you.

The question changes to: is what you are testing the actual skill you need? Are you hiring a teacher who is going to explain var,let,const as part of their job or are you hiring someone who needs to know how properly to use var,let,const?

Send me over any developer who fails your teaching requirements for var,let,const but has code samples with proper usage.

I've never seen a senior developer fired for poor coding. I've seen them get fired for being part of a department cut or because they got into a fight with the owner/boss. I've seen them fired because they make too much compared to outsourced resources.
If needing help at some point in time means being incompetent, I think that describes everyone I've ever worked with, including some really high caliber folk. Even a simple rubber duck conversation can beat useful thing now and then.
it's one of those it's complicated answers. For example preventing the initial weight gain is mostly in one's control but once already overweight it's closer to doing physical therapy for an injury. The hormonal and Neurochemical sensors/pathways are out of sync (insulin resistance, high inflamation, leptin resistance to name a few), and in mice models those changes never go away even after having lost the weight, so I don't want to go so far as say that being fat causes brain damage, but there are negative changes that come from having ever been overweight. We are finding out more about this every year, less than 10 years ago we discovered that fat cells produce hormones and aren't just storage containers, since then we have found about 5 other hormones of which some act as neurotransmitters that are also produced by fat cells, which would have been unbelievable pre 2010.

Most weight loss has more to do with hormone triggering than calories, but the main way to trigger those hormones is in fact diet and exercise, but it begs the questions; what kinds of diets and what kinds of exercise and what other things can affect this (things like time of day, fasted state, timing of exercise to eating, macro nutrients etc).

Also most people who are overweight or who overeat it's hard to tell how much is due to something like poverty and how much is due to poor emotional regulation, as it's been shown those are higher leading causes of obesity than merely overreating or being lazy.
What is a DoH server?
Goats milk
Colleges and Programs are designed by administrators. Most of the subject / invention itself was often created by self-taught engineers, in all fields.

I recollect an Asimov quote. "Self Education, is the only kind of education there is"
It's likely expecting IATA style flight numbers, which would all be two letters (or a letter/number) airline code, followed by some amount of numbers.
So how many users have said “okay I’m not going to use this website because I know how they use my data based on the cookie banner?”

How many of these companies in Europe have even a fifth of Google’s ad revenue?
Luckily there are a lot of cheap STUN/TURN services out there, and if you really need something under your control, there are containerized projects on GH that make it easy to run your own. Though even when I used it as a Zoom replacement for meetings, I never ran into a situation where TURN was necessary, and that includes people behind corporate firewalls. It seems as though corporate netops learned some lessons during the pandemic and loosened restrictions.
Hi, we used for development of a browser-based video conferencing system with my team at the company I used to work for. You're right, WebRTC datachannels may be unreliable. But the nature of UDP is prone to packet loss, unordered packets etc.. To solve these problems, the WebRTC standard offers some error detection/correction/prevention technics. I used it in production for video/audio transfer but I preferred for data streaming (and also signaling) WebSockets.
The WebRTC standard requires some quirks, so it is the reason why my project (WebRTC Nuts and Bolts) was born.
Definitely heard this 2 years ago, 4 years ago, 6 years go and even 8 years ago.

I think it’ll take a lot longer than you/we think.
If you’re building software there’s really no reason you have to share working hours with anyone.

When I'm doing UI work, it's far more efficient to have a real-time session with a designer rather than multiple rounds of email/Figma comments.
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Doh. You are right. Mixed the companies up.
I wonder about this myself. I've always had a much easier time learning things that makes sense from first principles rather than something that I need to just take for granted, the latter being the case with the first 12 years of my own math education. The latter is much more difficult to form a mental model around.

Would it be possible to teach mathematics by theorem proving ab initio? I guess conventional algebra would be hard to digest for a first grader, but I maybe something like the Peano axioms can be thought of as rules for a game that the students can play, where subsequent arithmetic lessons will be about finding shortcuts to the tedious application of the rules in order to solve problems.
This will evolve. I think 100% remote is great for some people (small children, busy schedules, health issues) but many people would also benefit from being with their teams.

The change I'd like to see is some sort of geographically centric pod office where it's not mandatory, but a team lead could say, "We need two days at Pod X to run through A, B, C initiatives."

No one is required to arbitrarily attend a physical office, but rather very task and team specific meetings.

I think many people that are against that arbitrary return would be open to task/team scheduled gatherings.
Here me out: this sounds like an excuse. If you really want to solve it you could. I did.

I use a wok to cook and it's faster than going to McDonalds. It's slower than a frozen meal but not by much. I don't aim for perfection, rather, most of my meals I try and make healthy. I still love bacon.

In less than 10 minutes you can chop celery, broccoli, tofu, chicken, etc. If it takes longer then solve that problem: better knife, cutting board always handy? Chop faster, fingertips aren't that important.

Turn the wok up to 10,000 degrees and put a little avocado oil in there, throw it all in and stir. Put some low sodium soy sauce and monkfruit sweetener (if you want no sugar, otherwise brown sugar) and a little cornstarch+water too thicken. Ginger, whatever.

Anyway, you can make tons of variants of this dish. Curry, yakisoba, subgum chow mein. Almost all will be 90% vegetables. Do some rice or noodles with them.

Then solve salads. They are fast, easy, and can be delicious if you chop stuff up small and put a lot of variety. Keep trying different things. Watch YouTube videos about it. If you are thinking "I don't like salads" shut up. That's another excuse, there are an infinite number of ways to combine and prepare veggies.

Explore and solve the problem just like a crappy little software app that needs to be built. You just have to want it and be willing to learn.
.. that sounds like the opposite of minimalism.
Is there a top 3 ranking available for categories like IDE?
Right, but what I meant was that it'd be difficult to have a sustainable supersonic flight business given the fuel consumption required at those sppeds. My understanding is that even though Air France and British Airways were charging twice the price of normal first class for Concord, they were losing money on them.

I'm surprised there aren't supersonic business jet though.
I think the issue being taken is that it’s not even clear their data is coming directly from the workers in question as opposed to “I heard anecdotes” ie 3rd party stories.
Thanks, this is a great explanation! I wish the blog post would have described the TrueNAS like this.

> You're running off a RAM disk with no boot drive? What if you have a power outage?

Yes, the server only has the HDDs which contain the NAS data. The server bootloops until it gets an image from the router (ipxe boot). The disk images have systemd scripts which install everything from 0 on each boot. Coincidentally, this means system restart is how I upgrade my software.

> Core supports FreeBSD jails and Scale supports Docker

This clarifies the situation -- TrueNAS seems like an option that I would recommend for anyone who wants a quick OSS NAS setup.
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I think they put these holes in because otherwise they end up having to deal with tons of users complaining they can't sign into outlook/Hotmail etc anymore.

I use O365 for work and I've had to unblock a ton of MS crap in my pihole for stuff to work without VPN (we had serious VPN issues for a while). Microsoft apps are extremely chatty. Tons of requests going to azure, pipe.aria.microsoft.com. Etc. Tens per minute, no kidding.
The target of a zfs send can be a plain file on another filesystem- btrfs, ext4, xfs, exfat, whatever.
Warp Drive Experiment
I actually like talking to people in person and having those chats at their desk or coffee machine. However even I wasn’t ready for the noisy environment at a cubicle. Over the course of the pandemic I forgot how tough they make it to focus and now would much rather work from home!
Have you tried blocking them explicitly? That might cause them to fall back through the advertised ones.
> Wishing JSON strings were symbols doesn't make them so.

You misunderstand (or GP was unclear). They don't mean that JSON strings are literally symbols, but in this prototype on-the-fly JSON DLS, the JSON strings represent symbols. A lisp string in this proto-lang would be "\"hello world\"" instead.
You're really just making a semantic argument - nothing more. We have seen ZERO species that are space faring - ours doesn't qualify either.
I really appreciate this comment, especially the bit about how automation amplifies culture - that's something I've felt for a long time but you've stated it eloquently.

Schools want to churn out more students, industry wants more fresh grads.
Online quizzes/assignments (which are vulnerable to cheating) and Leetcode screener questions (which are just a little better than rote memorization) are how schools and industry react to scaling issues.

I feel like everyone would have better outcomes if we could somehow be satisfied with less growth.
A more familiar example might be fuzz testing. You could fuzz a program by just passing the fuzzer totally random data to mutate, and it's true that this might find a crash that wouldn't be found any other way. However, most of the time you will have much better results, and achieve them much more quickly, if you pass the fuzzer something that looks like an actual expected input to the program.

Zero-knowledge ML is still interesting if your goal is to indisputably demonstrate the act of learning, just not if your goal is to make the smartest program in the least time.
Hume’s Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a “day in the life” video following Hume’s lifestyle and just end up stone drunk on port.

Also, there’s a statue of Hume in the center of Edinburgh where he looks emaciated and serious like the ancient philosophers looked, and I’ve always thought it was a funny statue, because it completely gets his character (and stature I’m guessing) wrong.
I observed at my current company that the worse the manager the more they wanted people to be in the office. If you're a bad manager that no one tells anything to due to lack of trust and who doesn't tell the team anything then working remotely is basically a giant mess. In the office a manager can more easily spy and micromanage people while organic cross-team communication can work around the manager's lack of communication.
Looks like the message for the last commit touching pic_path.rb was "can make a crappy SVG".

A fatter brush would go a long way toward fixing the rendering errors, but I don't think it could do much about the blue shading on the left of the left skull being defined as three separate vertical lines when conceptually it's one spherical shadow. If you can determine the orientation of the lines at all, they're going to be wrong.
How? Their monopolies pre-date privacy regulation with actual teeth.
In the last wave, only one country (Hungary) handled the problem sensible (building a wall, encouraging locals having more kids). The rest of the governments mostly pretended the problem doesn't exist.

I expect this to change with any future waves. It's hard to be a trendsetter, but easy to be a follower.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: they all built classes with more than one entry point.
Presaging Poland's upcoming seizure of Black Sea coastline...
I’m a CTO and startup founder. We ship faster and more often than any team I’ve worked on or observed (multiple times per week). I think your assumption are bad.
I think Manjaro.

Arch is amazing; the newest software often works the best; the rolling model gives you new hardware support the fastest; the AUR has all the software ever (from Minecraft to the OldSchool RuneScape launcher to SVP for video interpolation); the Arch wiki is the most detailed resource ever.

But installing Arch is hard, and rarely there might be manual intervention. Enter Manjaro, which is easy to install, holds back packages for a very little while to preclude users dealing with any manual intervention breakage, has super-friendly forums (unlike Arch ;p), has an easy GUI for switching kernels and drivers, and yet has the AUR and can benefit from Arch wiki since it's Arch-based.

In my experience, both Arch and Manjaro have worked way better than Ubuntu (in terms of freezes and crashes), which seemed deeply paradoxical.

>I am unimpressed with Ubuntu and Gnome Desktop.

GNOME 3 is a laptop/tablet DE. It barely supports multiple monitors, unlike KDE, which is foremost a *desktop* DE. Amazing panel (aka taskbar), multimonitoring is a first-class concern (you can game on one monitor while you have a panel with tray that can have your CPU/GPU temps and the time on the other), deeply customizable, and my favorite bit is that you can disable desktop composition in its settings. Why? Because that makes it buttery smooth, which extends to games. Try dragging a window around with your mouse on a >=120 Hz monitor with composition on and then off to see what I'm talking about. (And all you lose by turning it off is terminal transparency.) In GNOME, of course, doing this is impossible (or at least extremely esoteric; it's not a setting).

GNOME and KDE are the two most polished DEs out there, but only one of them is a desktop DE. :p
They would update their opinions when they received new facts. They would also make a bigger effort to acquire new facts.
Asking a quick question that only takes a few minutes is a nice bonus for you, but for the person you asked it was an interruption that cost them 20 minutes or more of focus. That might be ok if the person you asked has a job that is designed to be interrupt–driven (aka a manager), but if this was another engineer then this wasn’t a net benefit.

But the other side of the coin is that if you do need to ask a question and get an answer, then what is wrong with a text chat mechanism like IRC or Slack or whatever? These tools also work for real collaboration between engineers too.
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> I'd advise you to use PPA over repo though, as many key features are missing from the version on repos.

I would advise using ZFS only with distros that come with it (i.e. Ubuntu, Proxmox), especially if you plan to have your / on it. I wasted too much time on CentOS with ZFS, would not do it again.
Then one of you needs to work on your written communication skills.
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If you don’t want your host to censor what you post, host it yourself. There’s no right that requires others to provide you a platform.
Russia and Ukraine got very little from being major food exporters. For Russia it meant that wheat profits are just a dent of oil&gas profits, and for Ukraine it meant perennial poverty and international aid seeking.

Both were getting scolded for slacking economically.

If both countries were to be compensated 'fairly' for the wheat, maybe there would be no war right now. Food prices may never 'recover' to those unsustainable levels.
> Power usage

A 500W PSU won't necessarily draw more than a 250W PSU, that is merely its maximum sustained load (what the rest of the system asks for) rating. The Bronze 80+ rating is likely part of the problem here, that indicates what the power draw from the wall is compared to what is being provided to your system. Titanium 80+ would net you about 10% reduction in wall power usage. Keep in mind that manufacturers play fast and loose with the certification process and a consumer unit may not actually be what it says on the box, you need to rely on quantitative reviews.

Other than that, spend some time in the firmware settings. Powtop also does a great job at shaving off some watts.
Let us consider the proposal of keeping higher learning the same except that we don't do exams. What would happen?

For better or worse, whether somebody completed their degree does often factor into hiring decisions, so exam grades do indirectly factor into hiring decisions.
Having completed a degree signals some level of domain knowledge, conscientiousness, and intelligence.
Without exams you would have a 100% success rate (unless you introduced some other assessment mechanism),
so the signal would be gone; having completed a degree would only signal whether or not you were able to afford it financially.

Secondly, a large fraction of the students would lose motivation and not do anything by the second year.
Many would stop doing homework, stop doing any real studying except maybe superficial reading, and many would hardly come to class.
In fact, many students currently already do this until the first midterm, even though they know the midterm is coming.
A lot of students need the existence of exams to motivate themselves.
Not all students, but a lot.
These students don't want to lose motivation and waste time; many would probably regret not learning anything for several years.
Our monkey brains are not suited to motivating ourselves to do things with a >3 year time horizon.
Exams are a mechanism to motivate our monkey brains to put effort into studying.

I think if we consider professions that are important to our own lives, we do recognise the necessity of assessment. Would you prefer your doctor or nurse, accountant, electrician, or for that matter, teacher of your kids, to have come from a school that doesn't do exams or from a school that does?
If they are experienced, maybe it doesn't matter, but how many people are going to take a chance on a fresh graduate if they are from a program without any assessment, where the philosophy is "you do it, you tell people you did it, then you either convince them that doing it imparted something useful on you or you don’t"?

There are other ways to solve that problem, and some of them may even be better than the current system, but I'm not convinced that taking the current system and simply removing exams would work.
Sync is, occasionally, essential to me as an IC. I think it would be reasonable for a company to require a few hours per week, with the precise time negotiated between the people involved.
I already translate all port 53 traffic to my local resolver and block known DoH addresses.
> Is "the alchemy of mind control" a helpful term in any way?

Maybe your criticism is less about this writer than about the imprecision of written language as a communication tool generally. In which case, bear in mind firstly that the writer is writing a quick post on a forum, not for a scientific journal. Also that imprecise language may seem imprecise to you, but may encapsulate broader meaning for others. Alternatively, a particular piece of writing might just poorly transmit meaning which itself is valuable. For example, I find Slavoj Zizek to be incomprehensible. But when he is well edited or I have read secondary texts, I have found his insights to be revelatory.

> Curious, on which specific interesting points are you referring to.

He introduced me to Baudrillard, around whom my early explorations are proving to be well worthwhile. See this for an intro:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs&feature=youtu.be
I had some trouble fitting strings into such a language because of using JSON strings for both identifiers and LISP strings. Then again, even being stuck with just numbers, this would be completely sufficient to bootstrap a parser to be able to use nicer syntax.
> Here's the thing; that doesn't actually work well to make good products. Sure, a bunch of companies (...)

Respectfully,you know nothing about what you're talking about.

Async work is already the norm for some companies, even prior to moves to full remote work. I personally know teams in renowned companies which before COVID already split teams working on products between the US, Europe, and India. They stuck with full async because it worked, and worked better than alternatives.

With COVID, the whole world went full remote due to necessity, and I personally know teams whose output improved significantly with the move to full remote to the point where they stuck in remote by default.

> Personally, I think it should be coupled with an investment in HR to get more qualified and motivated people working on the problem.

I disagree. What I'm seeing is a lazy, conservative mindset of people who feel scared and threatened by a reform shaking up the very core of a system they feel benefits them personally.