skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "training rules" are you referring to the way machine learning systems are traiend? In that case, you're right.

The Challenge highlights an important limitation of modern machine learning systems, that they can only learn from their training data and have only a very, very limited ability to incorporate "background knowledge".

"Background knowledge" in this case is the "spoiling" you're refering to. There is virtually no way to teach a neural net system how to play Nethack, other than to let it try, and fail, and fail again, at ascending. You can't explain to it for example, how writing "ELBERETH" in the dirt with your finger will scare monsters away (which is important background knowledge about the game that is very hard to learn just by trial and error).
The teenager is a terrorist sympathiser who left the UK to join Isis. And she isn’t a teenager any more.
Even better, it is really good at PRs!
> When it’s a close vote and circumstances are changing rapidly, I’d say pretty often

And if you hold the vote every 2-3 years, and the result alternates between Yes and No, at what point will you say "stop, this is a final decision"?
> Is greater London exactly the same as Cornwall?

considering how many people from London move to Cornwall, and judging by the number of Teslas on the road, yeah, it's pretty similar.

> Scotland has sufficient tax base and legal structures to go it alone, whilst Wales arguably doesn't.

there are lots of countries that went at it alone. that doesn't mean those countries have been successful. one can even argue that an ever closer European Union made lots of small countries be more successful by giving up part of their power.

also, there's no such thing as "alone" in this day and age.

> In your list, you exclude politics.

less politics, better for everyone.
I would say that curiosity about languages in general is one item that you should look for in candidates. Not the only one of course but curious people do tend to learn and adapt well.

For an analogy, I wouldn't hire a pilot that isn't interested in other planes than what's on their license. What if I want to operate some new models?

Unless I'm looking for someone for a truly specialised role, I would avoid people that stick to only one thing for their entire careers.
Oh, wow, that does look pretty bad.

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/48776-95249-001-Sys...
> Every workshop has higher costs than a software developer. Imagine a car mechanic propping up a car with 2 by 4 because they use what's available for free. No, they buy their $30,000 lift because they need it to get their work done quicker.

This is a far from convincing argument. Jetbrains IDEs are not the equivalent of a professional lift and the competing (often free) products are not the equivalent of a 2x4.

Is Jetbrains good? Well, I've used it for Java and was pretty impressed.

Is it $199/year[1] better than the free stuff? Well many people don't think so. It's fine if you only every use a single stack, but most of us use multiple languages and multiple stacks, now you're looking at $649/year (see link below) for all tools. Considering that my current personal development computer cost less than that years ago, is it now wonder that the price is considered too much?

I think the problem is that developers are looking at the Jetbrains products and comparing it to the value they get from other development purchases.

Compare:

A single $1k computer will last for many years, do every single development task needed to make money, be used for entertainment, and write all the actual software that will be sold. When it is too slow for dev (in a decade from now), it'll be repurposed for something else.

A single annual payment of $649 to JB results in a tiny increase in dev speed, which will disappear at the end of the year anyway. It won't make the code more robust, it won't help solve business problems any faster, it will only make code navigation faster.

For a dev, look what $1000 buys, and then look at JB for $650, and it doesn't look like all that good value for money anymore.

[1] the cost for Goland at https://www.jetbrains.com/go/buy/#commercial
Turns out that having full control of fiscal policy that can be coordinated with other policy decisions is a good idea for a nation!
Indeed. The only entity capable of this is the Federal Reserve.
There isn't a shortage of software developers. The pay isn't great--the kids getting $300K packages out of Stanford are an exception; it's a marketing expense. In fact, if you control for the level of intelligence it takes to be any good, SWEs make less (and get far less autonomy--do you think lawyers work on Jira tickets?) than any other professional, and they hit a salary/challenge plateau quick... after which, they increasingly face ageism.

People leave because the job sucks. I don't mean that programming sucks; I quite enjoy it. Computer science is still an engaging field worth studying, and research programming isn't bad at all. Corporate SWE is pretty awful, though; you get paid far too little and treated far too shabbily to justify spending hours dealing with bugs and bad decisions that exist not because you're working on hard problems (after all, I've generated my share of bugs and bad decisions) but because of inadequate processes, mindless cost-cutting, generic incompetence, and an overall lack of care, especially at the top. All of this, to make a barely middle-class salary while people who are already rich and connected make millions off my work? No thanks. 2.25/5, would not do again.
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That's heartbreaking.

Half a year ago my mother asked me about crypto and how she could invest since she read about it online somewhere. I strongly opposed and explained to her why it wouldn't be wise.

Most people are just too prone to scam ads and such. It's really concerning.
Her views on immigration are indistinguishable from those of most people in India or Bangladesh. They’d do the same thing if the shoe were on the other foot. And those are definitely not “far right” countries.
> Vote for this!

> What is it?

> We dont know yet!

Doesn't seem like a brilliant idea from where i'm sat. I think the comparison to Brexit will come up a lot, arguing for a similar process with six years of hindsight is... questionable....
My bet is that Spain will block their accession to the EU.
As a professor of none-software engineering, I can tell you that most engineering students that graduate have similar feelings. You have just been exposed to a bunch of topics in CS at various depths. You now know what you know (not much) and what you don't. You are well prepared to learn.
DCSS is just a much simpler game than Nethack, so a bot would likely do well.
HS2 will give poorer regions access to London and vice versa. Sounds like a good thing for the poorer regions
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Sure, if they want to. UK should also feel free to say “eh nah” in that case.
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This is the funniest comment in this whole thread.

Many of the ideas of UKIP and the others have been adopted by the Tories! And the main opposition party (Labour) has been taken over by centre-right neoliberals. The left had a tiny bit of power pre-Brexit. Now it has none.
For those reading along, the "teenager" being referenced is Shamima Begum, who ran away from home when she was 15 to allegedly join ISIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum

There's an interesting discussion to be had about whether a government official can strip someone of their citizenship (even though in the UK it seems to be part of their powers under the Nationality Act) - it's not correct to frame this emotionally under "deported a teenager" when there are specific issues at play here. Same with slandering anyone who is not politically aligned with you as "far right".
At the end I ended up reincorporating in my country of residence. Which was a pity. But in the UK everything was extremely easy until it wasn't, I got spooked by that and preferred not to take further risks.
No null pointers, and no data races when you're working with threads.
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Conservatives have been drifting right to absorb UKIP, so while you're not technically wrong that England has edged closer to the far right, the reality is that the government is more right leaning than ever.

I dare say even leaning towards fascism the way that they're rewriting rules to protect big dog.
What's the connection between TMZ and UK tabloids? It's based and founded in the US where we have our own supermarket checkout trash, plus ample TV trash that likely provided much of the inspiration for it.
Perhaps I could've been clearer. There will always be changes, hence, anyone who wishes to claim there's been a change can.

That doesn't obviate "once in a generation", does it? Perhaps they should've been clearer and said "once in a generation, and if the UK has a referendum on EU membership and we decide to leave, and if…"

It would've been more honest, at least.

I'll also note, you're right that the vast majority of leave proponents wanted a Norway-style deal, it was remainers who presented this form as part of their machinations to try and wangle the UK staying in. Don't blame anyone else for that.
> Spain parliament is against unilateral declarations of independence.

Very convenient of them isn’t it?
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My understanding is they’ve peaked and are declining.
Will/Would the EU accept Scotland's membership though? What about the currency? It all seems so complicated
I decided to try it out. I've been using xbmc/kodi with nfs + mysql for many years and while it works great overall there are some idiosyncracies with seeking too often causing a bitrate/speed mismatch error and slight AV desync. Also some older 480 content paradoxically doesn't play properly on newer kodi builds for some odd reason (e.g. at half speed with clipped audio despite passthrough).

First impressions are: I like the UI, it's an easy setup, but it is rather unfortunate that the native jellyfin android TV client can't play dolby vision content or I suspect HDR10. Common issue but maven's kodi build works with DV and has proper colour matching, proper passthrough without stutter on the shield TV (2019) which is huge.

I put it here for others looking into solving the problem above. For me the kodi jellyfin plugin running on a maven kodi build ( https://repo.kodinerds.net/index.php ) has no issues with this on a shield TV (2019). It seems to have solved the seek issues and stutter I had with nfs and DV & HDR+ work with passthrough. I wonder if it's the implementation of their nfs & performance vs http in jellyfin.

I'll have to setup a reverse proxy and play with transcoding.
This is called the Overton Window. It's typically the case for any system you are within, that the majority will consider the local "norm" to be moderate/centrist/etc.

Looking at international politics, or even (perhaps more relevantly) the history of UK politics, modern UK politics is extremely far right. Labour is a very good example (considered by many within the UK to be left). They have been right-wing since the "New Labour / Blairite" movement (verifiable either by comparing their policies to pre-Blair Labour, or to international socially democratic contemporaries). A similar example is the UK media coverage of Corbyn: his political views - which align very well with the Labour party historically & with international socially democratic parties - were portrayed as being communist/socialist. Corbyn's political ideologies never varied over the decades of his career, nor became more extremely left; rather modern UK discourse moved right, placing him left of the "new centre".
Huy Fong makes a garlic chili sauce, which appears to be Sriracha, but without any sugar at all. I think the garlic chili sauce comes off the same line, but gets bottled before the sugar is added.
I think the "once in a generation" statement was based on how things currently are at the time. So, if there wasn't any drastic changes to the entire political and economical landscape in those 8 years, then there wouldn't be another vote.

But since there been at least one major shift in the very country Scotland exists in, I think it's fair to reassess how people feel about independence via a referendum.
As I understand it — IANAL — the asylum seekers which the UK is sending to Rwanda, are actually allowed under international law (i.e. treaties the UK has signed) to seek asylum in the UK.

Rwanda in particular is an odd choice if you are genuinely concerned about the well-being of people who are fleeing persecution, given the UK government travel advice for its own citizens.

It is also a very expensive choice (about the cost of giving them free food and accommodation in an average bit of Hull for over 2 years); but even in its own terms, it does not appear to have changed, nor is it likely in the future to change, the minds of the extremely small number of asylum seekers who have not been put off the UK by virtue of it being a damp sheep-filled rock in the North Atlantic where they will be banned by law from seeking employment.
I love your attitude!
I changed my voicemail several years ago to say "Hi, you've reached NAME. There is no voicemail on this service, so please send me an SMS or Whatsapp message, or email me EMAIL. And have a great day!"

I still get a voicemail notification every few weeks, though I have no idea from who because I have absolved myself of ever listening to them again.

Unlike having no voicemail, I can still provide a personalised message to the person calling me (and as a business owner, I do want people calling me).
Please explain more, you clearly have some assumptions that I do not share.
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> when in fact what we "see" is reconstruction based on surprisingly imperfect visual perception

… like a camera does :)
For startups, java (script)? Is the best, from a manpower market point of view.
Perhaps, or maybe gpt models will reach AGI capabilities way before version 42, and able to fill every role in a corporation, from CEO and down.

If we assume one version every 12-24 months, GPT 42 would arrive some time between 2060 and 2100.
For this to work, you'd need most of the code to be written by people who are paid (i.e. professionals).

In my experience somewhere between 50-80% of code at most places is stuff pulled off maven/npm/github/etc written by people who are completely uncompensated, and possibly as hobby projects.

You could censure devs pulling in unverified code, but so far as I can tell, the vast majority of devs are really bad at reading code. I'm doubtful it would change anything.

This seems like something that should maybe covered in a computer science curriculum, but most colleges seem to have an aversion to becoming "job training" centers. If they don't start teaching it, I'm not sure how you can expect people to have training in it. Do we need a training course outside the traditional university system?
I agree that it’s a fairly uninteresting way of beating the game (except for the sheer hilarity that it’s possible) but trying out various scenarios and backtracking in your own head is exactly what the average chess player does.
Irrespective of what she may or may not have done, her citizenship was stripped on flimsy legal pretexts to satisfy their racist supporters.
>High-ability workers are faster learners, in all jobs. However, the relative return to ability is higher in careers that change less, because learning gains accumulate.

This is not the only reason for the quick learner -> high dropout thing. By the article's definition, I'd be a "fast learner". Most of the industry expects me to come in already knowing what they want me to know, while most ways to obtain said knowledge are blocked by barriers difficult to bypass for non-corporates. Meanwhile, almost every corporate I get in expects me to do the same things for several months and gives me a few learning opportunities every year. At the same time, university primed me to absorb knowledge like a sponge and never get stuck on a single perspective, while corporates are complaining why graduates don't know Spring after graduating.

So somehow you're expecting me to stay while my knowledge deteriorates unless I keep it up in my own time, all the while giving lowball raises and not satisfying my desire for challenges. Yes, I get it, grunt work has to be done. But you really can't tell me you're in need of software developers when you actively push people to do the very thing you claim you don't want them to do.
> that doesn't mean they should form a new country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Independence_Party
> Anyone can claim the situation has changed, every year.

Yes, they can, and some do. But don't also need to convince the people and follow some regulations for this? It's not like they can randomly vote for anything and everything every day as they like, or can they?

> Has that figure changed dramatically?

Make a vote to figure out?

> "once in a generation"

What exactly does this mean? I mean, sure, back in 2014(?) this was a great term. But back then, the world was very different. The world was at peace and smoothing well, more or less. With Brexit, the climate movement in 2019, then the Pandemia and now the war this all changed drastically. Even if the Brexit had worked well somehow in the world back then, the pandemia and now the war destroyed all those chances and shifted the people views significantly.

I mean until some months ago, we still were convinced that pandemia was ending and the world was going to move smoothly again, continuing were it paused from 2019. Russia changed all that and made clear that the cozy times of the 201x years are over. The generation of 2014 is done, the world from then is no more, and a new generation takes over now.
> Some people learn x and think they know it all. You and I learn x and realise we don't know a, b, c, d

The latter is evidence you know what you are doing. And evidence of above average intelligence. Stupid people think they know entire breadths of knowledge - call Peter Principle or Dunning–Kruger: overconfidence is more dangerous to yourself and everyone around you than knowing your limits.

You can NEVER know everything so a heavy awareness of your limits and gaps is critical to being the best you can be. It means you have the _potential_ of operating around the edge of your limits. Realizing your limits (as they exist in the moment) is essential to pushing those limits.

People suffering from Dunning–Kruger have no clue how far over or under those limits they are operating.

This is also related to why you must have grades from A to F in school - you can't know where your knowledge boundary is without breaking it and sometimes failing. You aren't really trying or you are operating in dangerous ignorance.

Another analogy is you can't know the strength of a material without breaking it or reaching its strength limit.
Ireland is not a nation state! Two sovereign states (the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom) each control part of the Irish nation / island of Ireland.
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I was assured this lunch and all future lunches would be on the house!
EU wants big tech to address deepfakes or face consequences
I would not choose Deno for that considering how little there is for it currently and how much of what there is available that is plastered with all caps warnings to not use it in production.
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Ditto, although for my applications they are not live (typical business processes lag by a month or more). So most of my stakeholders are happy that I just send a monthly PDF with updates.

The endless tinkering is still requested with the static reports, but that is much easier to deal with than serving up dashboards and tinkering with that.
Who knows how much they would earn had they not taken that pay cut!
If I’m thinking of the same person, she’s ethnically Bangladeshi. But Bangladesh wouldn’t let her back in the country even though it has a right of return for people of Bangladeshi ethnicity: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/bangladesh-will-not-ac...

Bangladesh is an officially socialist country. You’re just defining “far right” to include everyone who disagrees with a narrow view of immigration.

Regarding your sibling comment: is Bangladesh “racist” against Bangladeshis for not taking her? What an absurd smear.
I didn’t say he deported a teenager. I said he stripped her citizenship, leaving her stateless to die in service of appealing to racists to vote Tory.
Another charming linkedIn feature: Did you say you wanted no mails from us? Well we're sure that was just a temporary thing, surely you don't mean that NOW, so we've re-enabled daily digests for you!
Good luck at your new job but it sounds like you are in a honeymoon period. It is good that you are happier but a fresh startup with longer hours does not sound good at all, especially if you have 2 kids and want to buy a house (ie you need stability)

Work is work, the stress will happen when things are not perfect. You need to figure out a way to deal with.
You should fill in your profile with a link to your careers page :-)
> it's some people pushing Overton window extremely to the left.

Everyone that learns about the Overton window is immediately convinced the other side has been pulling it in their direction for years.
> I guess the underlying reason is that engineers wont be promoted to (real) chief engineers with agency. Being a boss requires reports for some reason.

Sadly, this is absolutely true. Manage or be managed. Capitalism invariably becomes corporate (if unchecked, monopoly) capitalism which invariably becomes managerial capitalism, in which people are assessed by their position in the tree structure rather than anything they do, and 0 reports |= loser.

Unfortunately, if you think you can take on a middle-management role and also do technical work, you're probably wrong. Middle management isn't hard but it's super time-consuming, if you do it right (that is, if you care at all about the people you're managing, although you won't have much ability to protect them as you might hope for, because PMs). You'll barely know what the people under you are doing (most managers'll admit this in private) because so much of your time will be spent on meetings and political bullshit.
No one is implying, or actually discussing personal debt or likeness to personal debt but you.

Of those with Debt:GDP higher than the US, who exactly are you aspiring to in terms of quality of life? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-g...