skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve gotten probably 30 emails from Amazon recruiters in the last six months. Always different people and different teams. At one point they did this tricky thing where “the director of Machine Learning” messaged me on LinkedIn but it was a recruiter using her account or something strange. I have no idea why but they absolutely won’t stop bothering me. I seriously doubt I could get through their technical process without a lot of practice.
Sure, but not long ago medical care was essentially useless even for rich people. If now, poor people see rich people get cured while they die or suffer major consequences from common illnesses, I don't think that's gonna go well.
Yeah, it sucks that those cops were cowards, and Lozito is lucky to be alive. However, even if those cops did have a legal requirement to intervene, they probably still would have just watched it all go down. That would affect their careers after the event, but it would have no bearing on the outcome of the attack for Lozito for example.

Let's look at it from a statistical perspective though - what percentage of knife attacks or assaults do you think occur where cops observe it happening, but do nothing about it?
Totally understandable, but the justification in the first paragraph of "Why are we doing this now?" seems a bit self-inflicted:

• Atom has not had significant feature development for the past several years

• (thus) Atom community involvement has declined significantly

• (thus) we’ve decided to sunset Atom

Feels a bit weird in that sequence to blame the community. Just say that YOU have abandoned the project since Microsoft acquired Github and get done with it, no need to sugarcoat it or others in the way.
I've never understood this approach of "eliminating gifted programs" due to equity concerns. Why not just implement something along the lines of affirmative action policies - make sure the demographics gifted programs roughly match the demographics of the school district?
>Examples of J curves that aren't S curves?

Reindeer population growth in Alaska.
I've worked at a few startups that have this problem too. Mostly because tech leadership came from a bank.

I would never hire someone again if they have worked at a bank for more than a couple of years.
I will agree 100% that words and terms are being thrown around without adequate or agreed upon definition of terms. Without an agreement on the definition of the words being used it's pretty much impossible to have a cogent exchange of ideas.
I have a google home and it is insanely good at hearing you speak. Even with the exhaust fan above the stove and the sink running, I can still talk to it like I would talk to another person in the room.
>we should be mandating that every eighth grader takes Algebra I—and then structure the entire pre-K to seventh grade student experience to ensure this is a legitimate possibility for every child.

Just "make" everyone qualified / good at algebra?

I feel like that glosses over the ALL the challenges with education ...
> The way it currently looks is the right want to ban abortion no matter what context.

While it's true that some republican run states are going this direction. If we look at the original case that will likely lead the SC to overturn Roe v Wade (again, it hasn't even happened yet), would be a European style ban, where abortion is allowed up until 15 weeks (this is a typical European cutoff). I believe the Mississippi law also has exceptions based on maternal health or fetal disability, which in countries like Germany, would actually require government approval in the late second and third trimester [1]. After the Roe v Wade leak, only a few GOP states have attempted to ban abortion outright. Popular GOP governors like Ron Desantis, whose name keeps coming up for 2024, signed a Mississippi style 15-week ban in Florida, instead of a full on ban.

So, while it's certainly true same in the party want a 100% ban, it's also true that the mainstream ones (again, DeSantis is extremely popular, so is a good indicator of 'centrist' republican thought) are not going that direction and instead making our laws more similar to Western European countries.
Incidentally, I remember young Kirkegaard writing that he didn't want to pursue science because each scientist is like a corpse that just fecundates the soil of science for the next generation--paraphrasing. That's why he went into the study of eternal things.
I think it is part of an intentional replacement, the conflation is only temporary in order to muddy the waters and diminish opposition.
dreaming for the day blender has more support for 2d animation. software like toon boom harmony are way too expensive for hobbyist work and there aren't many alternatives for that paper cutout type of animation.
> Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD's works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.

This is the only issue I have with FreeBSD. On my desktop is one thing, but trying to manage upgrades across a large fleet of remote servers? No thanks.. (To be fair, this goes for some Linux distributions as well. Upgrades should never require user intervention.)
I dug up the study, in case anyone is interested https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-news/files/20190417222934/Gris...

What's interesting that is not mentioned is page 15: a black student with a black teacher is still much less likely to be identified as gifted. even less than a white student with a non-white teacher. internalized racism?
They are remaking the compositor now to be GPU accelerated. I saw some videos and looks very impresive!!
I was looking for an RSS feed in the page source and noticed that the aws-docs site(s) uses angular: view-source:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2022/release-notes/relno... view-source:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Welcom...
SSN already suffers from the same exact problem and has ways to request a new SSN card. You are limited to 3 replacement cards in a year and 10 during your lifetime.
Also no privacy at all, ever. Every single keystroke is watched. Everything you run is profiled. All your data is logged, scanned, probably stored forever, and probably data mined.

It'll start at work of course but eventually the whole ecosystem will shift and it will no longer be possible to develop software without the cloud watching every single thing you do. Someone doesn't like what you're building? It will suddenly vanish and take all your work with it. Price goes up? Tough. Pay the rent or all your work vaporizes.

This whole trend is deeply, distressingly dystopian. It's a total inversion and reputation of the whole concept of personal computing and everything associated with it, a return to the mainframe era but worse because big data and AI make mass surveillance and automatic control so easy.

It's equally distressing that most developers don't even understand the trend enough to push back on it. They don't grasp the fact that the difficulty of local system administration and the general over-complication of everything is driving this, so they don't address any of those problems. In fact they keep making them worse. Development environments keep getting more and more complicated and fragile, making a move to a shared centrally managed cloud environment more and more tempting.
I'm not trying to defend the prosecution policies. I don't know what evidence the DA was presented with in those cases or how winnable they might be. I do think it is reasonable to place some of the responsibility for rising property crime rates on the DA.

That said, don't give the police a pass here. They have been actively hostile to the DA and spent a lot of money opposing this election. Their attempts to pass the buck to the DA for their failure to make arrests is a talking point that is part of their opposition to the DA. While the DA shares some blame for the rising property crime rates, the police share some blame for the lowered prosecution and conviction rates since the DA is dependent on the police to bring them strong, winnable cases.

In reality, I think that both the DA and the police should be held to account for letting politics interfere with their ability to work together to solve issues that are their joint responsibility and require cooperation. Unfortunately, it is harder to hold the police accountable than the DA.

> When called, the police did the right procedural things, but noted that since the animal had not been killed, it was unlikely any charges would likely be persued by the DA.

Did they arrest the attacker, gather sufficient evidence and refer the case to a prosecutor? Or did they assume the case wouldn't be prosecuted because that assumption made their job easier?
I’m also interested in any updates regarding this entire stack.
MS DirectX stack now works in ReactOS with 3D acceleration on real hardware
You act as if the common folk don’t benefit from the lower crime rate even as a side effect
J.J. McCullough's opening statement opposing Bill C-11, Canada's YouTube bill
You can. But, if I lose my SSN card I can still (usually) use my SSN because it exists in a functional form inside of my head. If it was a PKI card, I would physically need to have the card.

I have family who tried to get a replacement SSN card during COVID and the process has been entirely impossible. This a drawback to using physical tokens.

Also, this doesn't eliminate identity theft, the point of issuing is the weak-point for fraud.
one could imagine many things ...
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If anyone knows of any Ukrainian academics who might be interested in conducting research in the UK, particularly graduate students or those interested in graduate study, could you please pass along my email address (my.hn.email.address@gmail.com)?

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Nope, that was added in Dwarf Fortress in 2008 (and it was a huge change at the time).
There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.
"eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children"

The absence of "Black and brown children" doesn't mean they were _excluded_, it means they weren't _selected_, or never applied in the first place.

If they were deliberately not selected because of their race, that's wrong and should be fixed pronto. And what are the odds of that? If they were not selected because they didn't meet the qualifications, well, that isn't the fault of the gifted program.
You missed the widely panned Apple iCloud child sexual abuse imagery detection feature. The private set intersection is basically doing homomorphic encryption. In raising some very valid policy critiques, people forget that it's actually a nifty piece of engineering. (This is not an endorsement of that feature.) https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu...

I'm also closely working together with a team at $WORK who's using a protocol very similar to Apple's but not doing CSAM detection. We are seeing some severe pushback on this technology. I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple homomorohic encryption based products at Big Tech that have yet to see the light of day.
Apparently race given the assertion of similar test scores
No. I'm not an American. Ask one of them.
Not the person you're responding to, but it sounds like they're going in a different direction with Zed in terms of the tech stack, where VSCode is pretty similar to Atom.
We just wanted to be pure Rust and have complete control.
You can override any color you want in VS Code with a couple easy settings in your settings.json file: workbench.colorCustomizations and editor.tokenColorCustomizations

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/themes#_custom...

You have to package it if you want to make it easy for other people to install, but if you just want to play with it, just open settings.json and start feeding it colors.
>If somebody ever manages to make a web-based Microsoft Access clone (that actually works) they'll make billions.

They did, they called it Salesforce.com
It is a matter of baseline. Comparing to classical liberals (right wing), everyone today is very left. Comparing to Western Europe, that is very left, someone less to the left is relatively to the right, but it does not make it a right-wing, just a more moderate left. It's all about where you set the reference point, at the classical political left-right center or at the current one. The world is continuously moving left for 150 years.
I've seen terrible game UIs, but DF seemed to take it to a new level. Like say for instance a dozen or so ways to select units.
Porting Doom to a/UX
How conveniently that the writer omits Asians.
I beg to differ. There is a huge difference between the person raping you and the other people on the train not getting involved, even from the victim's perspective. From a legal perspective, there are very clear distinctions (criminal vs civil, responsibility by party, etc).

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/suspect-arrested-...
I've never applied to Google

Insofar as I know, I've never been referred to Google

Yet every couple years I get a Google recruiter coming at me

Always entertaining to answer their question, "why did you apply for this job" with, "I didn't. You contacted me."
ppl keep overlooking this part. it shows how important it is to read slowly and carefully.
This would only be for the web. Right now we're macOS only and target Metal.
I suspect it's because the Metaverse was a flash in the pan.

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&star...

AR/VR is a headache. VR goggles are proprietary and locked-down, laggy, and make you dizzy. Your eyes try to adjust FoV when there is no adjustment needed.
Feeling like you're constantly blocked isn't fun either. Starting to get into the groove only to have to immediately stop, having to keep track of lots of threads where people put up roadblocks to justify their own jobs, etc. is not "a few minutes away from the production line". It's work all the same, and not the work most engineers sign up to do.
I used to keep up with the state of this industry but not so much anymore; does anyone know how competitive Crayta is vs Roblox? They definitely seem more polished.
There are unwritten ones, at least.

As I said in my other post, in my school you were taken out of regularly classes, but still had to learn those things and do that work. That means the student has to agree to work 20% harder, usually at home, where they may not have that luxury. There are probably other considerations that aren't coming to mind at the moment, too, that also affect the number of children in Gifted programs.
> Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea

Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly aristocratic idea by which the slowly establishing american aristocracy seeks to tax peasants for their failed lavish lifestyles. It's not 'far left', and it shows just how duplicitous the supposed 'left' in this country has gotten. They're openly advocating for wealth transfers from the poor to the rich, and are attempting to portray themselves as the sole party of empathy, working class sympathies, etc. It's really something to watch from the outside.
Systemd is in control of all of those issues (network devices, routes, mounts, etc). Unfortunately, almost all Linux distributions are really just different distributions of systemd now.. most likely the lines of code in systemd components far outweigh the package management components which are the clearest differentiator between one distribution and another. (definitionally, a distribution distributes packages.)
When I was in grade 3 there was a standardized test for gifted. While standardized tests do have some racial disparity that disparity seems to be far smaller than letting teachers nominate students for a gifted evaluation rather than having it be universal.
It's just so easy to use diversity as a weapon. That's exactly how righteousness was used in history. Why bother trying to be objective or build consensus when you can call upon morality to quash your components? Students in elementary school beat their principals to death in 1960s in China? It was the morally the right thing to do. Intellectuals were the most counter revolutionary, right? Killing millions of people in Cambodia? Of course it was the right thing to do. Those damn people were counter revolutionary, right? Killing locals and toppling government in Bolivia? Of course it was the right thing to do, right? The Bolivian bourgeoisies were oppressors after all and the suffering I saw justified my action, right? Raiding millions of homes in China? Of course it was the right thing to do. Capitalism was the root of all evil, and property owners were the worst, no?

What the liberals in SF have been doing is no different. The moral high ground is simply intersectionality, whatever that is.
I don't think so, even if I use Atom as my primary editor there's a bunch of other great open source ones and even some non-OSS, and migration is trivial, so there's likely no need.
We plan to start blogging about this pretty soon.
> Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere (5G or mesh wifi)

Right. Most of the world doesn't even have 5G yet. Besides no matter how fast you get with internet, its still internet. There is still latency which makes for a frustrating UX.

I wouldn't want to be fully cloud based even if I had free internet for life. That's a recipe for disaster. The best thing about local stuff is...that it's local. I don't need an internet to access it. That's extremely convenient.

But putting that aside there's still cost of running things live (outside the internet cost). And why would I want to pay extra for something I can easily run on my machine locally? Live is for production code that multiple people will access. Local is good enough for me.

I would even prefer to self host most of the stuff locally on a Raspberry Pi or something instead of a cloud hosting. It's just so reliable.
That's a nice point. Some people in the U.S. do need to be constantly reminded that "Socialism with Scandinavian Characteristics" is not authoritarian or anti-capitalist at all! But that's more like the exception that proves the rule.
When I was in 8th grade, the teacher was still teaching the times tables.

I suspect some of the students who weren't "getting it" were sandbagging it so they wouldn't be taught new material.
Creating standards is a fundamental part of what governments do, and have done forever.

We take for granted things like common definitions for weights and measures, imagine if “the market” could just decide it didn’t want to use the metric system anymore and invented whatever system it felt like to weigh things.

Innovation has its place, but some things just need to be reliable and well understood so we can move on in our lives and focus on building on top of what’s already established.
Presumably because it's not possible to wave a magic wand and do it. I know I would if I could. It would be great to be wealthier as a country (US-centric here), have far fewer c02 emissions for mostly no good reason, have fewer people dead or harmed because of car accidents, and have healthier people because they get out move around more.

I'd also suggest examining your perspective. Highways and roads are also public transit. It's a non-sequitur to suggest that highways aren't public transit yet something like bikes or bike lanes are.

Unfortunately we've been convinced by big government that we need highways, highway builders, giant departments of transportation, car insurance, tires, gasoline and gas stations, the actual cars themselves, oil changes, AAA, and all of these other industries at the scale that we have them now. It's just a giant jobs program.

If we built medium-density, mixed use neighborhoods you wouldn't need a gasoline or electric car to walk a few blocks to a local grocery store. It's manufactured spending. That's why there are so many advertisements and BIG GOVERNMENT programs.

If we cared about being efficient or cost-effective we'd just build things differently. But we don't care about that. While electric cars are "better" for c02 emissions than gasoline powered cars (and more fun to drive IMO), it's like doubling down on a solution for a problem that we can just not have by not driving so much and having cars.

It's really frustrating when I read comments where people act incredulous at the idea of not spending billions and billions of dollars every year on cars and associated government programs when you could just walk down the street instead. Can you still have a car to drive to the countryside? Yea definitely. Do we literally need to design society around a gigantic SUV so you can drive to Costco and pretend you are saving money buying in bulk? No.
Hmm, curious how this will compare to Jetbrains’ fleet editor.

Of course, they share the problem that I can’t yet use either :)
I agree that being literally forced to use Codespaces is kind of shitty.

On the other hand, establishing code consistency is important, and it all depends on your editor's linter/prettier. They have to produce the same output, and even managing that within the same editor is difficult because you might have different versions on each dev machine, or different user settings. Doing so across editors is even more difficult.
> Latinx

It's hard to take anyone who uses this term seriously. Latinos can't even pronounce it or care for it.
I'm more curious and interested to find out about this guy on the internet who wants to personally offer and guide a random stranger around AWS. Tell me more about yourself, good sir.
@Deceptive - Please post your full name, telephone number, email address and postal address here. If you are reluctant to do so - then doesn't that sort of answer your own question?
Why is this kind of post allowed on HN? It's not recent nor relevant and not specific in any meaningful way (literally linked to the homepage). I occasionally see posts just linking to Wikipedia articles as well, same sort of feel as this. At the least, OP should have to offer some sort of discussion point or tidbit from the linked content.
> Anyone else dealt with this?
> Anyone have any type of jobs where friction is minimal?

Tactically:

Get better at navigating it. Is there a person hitting a button somewhere? Get to know that team well. Make it easy for them to approve your requests by being exemplary. Automate the process on your end. I've written scripts to fill out forms and open sourced them internally at large companies.

Strategically:

Understand why it's so filled with friction at a systemic level. Legacy organizational structure? Lack of engineering resources on the platform teams? Try to suggest sensible, iterative fixes. This only works at some companies, others are so tribal that another team approaching them with a low effort / high return suggestion is seen as aggression.

It's much more rewarding to attempt to solve these problems and be an owner than to go into ugh whatever mode and passively take it. It's also better for your career in the long term.
$20k a month or so to run this, since that part was unhelpfully not included.
“CEO acting like a scumbag continues acting like a scumbag.” - News at 5
Oh yeah, I'm not saying it's fun for everyone. But when people say we don't need a state because humans can naturally organize themselves, that's the organization. And it only really works up to a certain number.