skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless we're imagining a universe in which the programmer is around to tweak their source code for every hardware platform

It doesn't have to be the whole universe just a region in which a particular kind of specialized scientific computing is done. I have not idea what this specific thing is good for but looking at it in through the lens of general purpose computing truisms probably misses more than it illuminates.
smell being good/bad seems to me to be learned? Go to Taiwan and smell stinky tofu 臭豆腐. To most non-Taiwanese it smells like cat poop or sewer water. Eating it as a non-fan feels like I'm eating in a dirty public restroom where the food itself doesn't taste bad but the smell from the over full toilet next to me is off putting. Similarly shrimp paste. Many cheeses also smell pretty bad.

All of them stop smelling so bad once you train yourself to enjoy them. Is the smell of poop any different?
A good paper will describe how the work is interesting or useful in the field and how it opens the door for future research.

Here the author acknowledges that other libraries may be more performant, but describes the motivation for the work as essentially something that’s a small piece of code to maintain, and easy to use.

I didn’t run the code but I read through the paper and it doesn’t seem like it’s made a convincing case for this.
Wait, so don’t buy a home with a mortgage? Original don’t consider a home an investment?
Some people are different than others. Some more so.
I don't know, Ryanair testing south Africans if they were genuine if they could speak Afrikaans definitely was idiotic. Not all speak that language.
It’s handy in a bunch of places. Like the go menu, if you have that open and hit option you get some more power user locations.

Also it’s Command, Shift and Period to toggle showing hidden files.
Awful comparison. Your number of $500 isn’t possible to live on in much of the world. It’s an artificial floor - a fair comparison would be one that everyone could live off with ease, not just your false dichotomy few.

Never mind that a billionaire could live anywhere and literally couldn’t spend all of their money if they tried.
Why would running out of military hardware cause an economic collapse?
Buy a house, live in it, sell it for more than you bought it for
You statement makes it sound like they aren't currently doing those things already. Can you point to some data that shows they aren't donating to charities and aren't diversified? I can understand if someone like Bezos is highly invested in the company he founded but overtime he will be like Gates and hold a small portion of his portfolio in Amazon and the rest broke up across many companies and charities.
This is why we can't have nice things, dear security researchers.
We're in agreement (unfortunately for dark-skinned people all over the world).
Gearspace https://gearspace.com/board/ for music/recording stuff. Everything from home recording, through to the highest levels of mixing & mastering multi-million selling albums.

It's a bit like HN in that you'll sometimes find yourself talking to people who are very famous / successful in the industry. Charlie Clouser & Butch Vig have posted there before. Best example is the thread where someone asks about Serban Ghenea's techniques (he mixed for The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran etc) and by the end of the 4000+ reply thread, Serban's assistant John Hanes now replies personally every week to new questions.

https://gearspace.com/board/high-end/1213742-serban-ghenea-m...
> I don't believe it was just because of this but do I do firmly believe this awful experience may have been a contributing factor to him taking his life later that year.

That’s extremly sad to hear. Not saying that the company or anyone owed him anything but we do live in a really mean world. In an alternate universe or maybe eveb a different country nobody would be pushed into taking such decisions as taking their own life.
...or like a business intelligence and reporting software vendor buying up Bitcoin
> They ran out of both two months ago, didn't you hear?

Russia has lost on order 20k dead soldiers and some multiple of that wounded, thousands of lost pieces of equipment, etc. But that is still less than half of the resources they committed in Ukraine. Despite steep losses, attrition hasn’t yet completely obliterated the Russian armed forces.

But since they have done no general mobilization in Russia, those lost troops are not being replaced, and more and more units are losing combat effectiveness with each passing month. They are also running out of untrained separatist cannon fodder from Donbas.

Ukraine has also suffered tens of thousands of casualties and lost a great deal of equipment. But since Ukraine is fighting for survival, it has much more available manpower, and its soldiers have better morale and motivation. The bottleneck for Ukraine is training and advanced weapons like artillery, rockets, missiles, and fighter jets.

> Any evidence [Russian economic trouble] is happening or will happen?

Lots of Russian industry has already shut down, and GDP is expected to contract 15% this year and an additional several percent the year after (for reference, US GDP contracted by 4.3% in the great recession, and by about 30% during 1929–1933). Europe is transitioning to other energy sources as fast as possible. In the medium term Russia is not capable of continuing much of its domestic oil production without foreign equipment and expertise. Few foreign investors are going to feel any confidence to invest in Russia, for years.
Sincere question: would you give up your right to quit "on a whim" if your employer gave up their right to fire you "on a whim"?
Don’t mistake the legal statutory minimums with normal practice.
Salary Transparency
I think it's more a question of the hardware setup you have. On physical machines, I have had no problems* with Ubuntu when buying Lenovo / Dell machines that say they are linux compatible.

*aside from some power and memory management problems that I think are universal
The 7GUIs in Python / Gradio
> 60% of all wealth in the US is inherited

Source? This fails the sniff test, as the amount of wealth has grown at such a rapid rate this seems almost impossible.
What about emails that they might need to bring up in court?

What's the general way for an employee to retain access to those?
We knew that rates going up was inevitable, and that crypto is essentially a sponge for excess liquidity. We knew that inflation was inevitable (to an extent) given the Fed's actions over the last two years. Upon observation of the current macroeconomic environment, it appears that either markets did not properly price in rate hikes, or there is something far worse happening that will ultimately trigger a valuations reset.
Wouldn’t the TPM fit those requirements, presuming it could be sped up enough for the required workload
I like the idea of iA Writer; I can't stand looking at their fonts. The only good thing about the price (minus the forced upgrade, which was before my time) is that it's single purchase, not a subscription.
> How hard is it to fund your own US insurance on a tech salary to tide you over?

Healthcare is NOT cheap if you want to maintain the same plan. I had to pay $2K a month for a family plan under COBRA several years ago. This is the same as a mortgage payment for me. Typically your employer bears the majority of your insurance cost, but you pay all of it under COBRA.
Thanks for such a broad reply.
Now I think firebase will do.
That's a great point. I wasn't suggesting people shouldn't desire things. We talk as if billionaires are not a zero sum game. But is that really true? #billionaires has gone up but the basic line around housing, education, healthcare, pollution have all been declining no? If I was to venture a hypothesis, will the billionaire's ability to realize the billions actually be viable if it wasn't for the workers who desperately need to cover (the stripped down basic form of) needs 1-7 above?
It's just a wise way to store capital in a volatile investment
ecosystem. Property rarely falls in the long run. If anything it shows
that Amazon don't have much confidence in other areas.
I used to post on various forums related to my hobbies but as I’ve aged, I’ve found myself more content being a lurker than engaging with other users.

This is particularly exacerbated by the megaforums like Reddit and this site, because whatever I may have wanted to say will usually already have been said by someone else, often more eloquently and well thought out.

This then further disengages me from most forums and after a while, I simply forget about them. Now, I only interact here, niche subreddits and a forum for locals.
Because with original thinking there is more than one way to do it. Pythonic conformity might make long term maintenance easier, but it's rigidity exacts a cost on expressing new thoughts. R is basically the epitome of Greenspun's 10th rule: it's really their implementation of a common lisp that looks like C with metaprogramming and conditions and restarts and all. They tried standardizing on Common Lisp first (XLisp-Stat) but S from Bell Labs was too popular. In short, today R is a lisp with access to modern numeric libraries.
Quite the opposite actually. "all of human history" spans at least 160,000 years and the inequality that you and the parent comment to are alluding to is a rather modern artifact.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but this comment contributes to pernicious myths about the human condition. If you're interested in this subject I would recommend the book "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
correct! PE was more of a fever dream at sears as well. capex and opex was the most visible and agonizing part of his "vision" but certainly the 5bn in stock buyback he instituted makes harley davidson look like a food truck in comparison. under Eddie, sears made money by selling the idea and concept of sears on paper, not tangible products at the malls it occupied.

the whole thing devolved from a value trap to many people outright calling Lampert a thief who orchestrated the downfall of Sears intentionally. three years ago he even threatened to stop payment of sears and kmart pensions during bankruptcy proceedings.
> Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible.

Completely agree. Layoffs suck and I hope no one reading this ever has to go through them. But, it could have been done a lot worse than this, that is for sure.
> imagine a heart surgery without painkillers.

I'm not aware of heart surgeries done on infants without painkillers. Do you have any links discussing that?
That was actually my only guess at what the KEYBOARD key did, but a virtual keyboard seemed so modern (and mobile phone inspired) that I dismissed the idea
The extensions are still kind-of there (there are ways you can use them), but yeah, it sucks.
It's not a high. If you're getting high off of ADHD meds you either don't have ADHD or your dose is way too much. It's more like an assist for task initiation and follow through, as well giving a boost to staying on task, for people who find those things incredibly difficult _even if they want to do those things_.
Please do supply those valid reasons.

In most modern cases (social media triggered requests) the offense is unrelated to the person's employment. Going for one's employment is just the way to do maximum damage as it's almost everyone's weakness. That's insane, cruel and disproportional behavior.

In case the employee did show misbehavior in their official function to somebody in the public, you'd file a complaint at the company. As the company did you wrong. It's then up to the company to correct it. By demanding a termination, you skip about 5 steps in that process.

In case the employee did something truly criminal, you report it to the police. This too is no reason to go for someone's employment. You're not the justice system.
How is this really that different from city centre multi use buildings where there are stores on the ground floor and living space on the upper floors? Especially if some of those are served by gig-economy delivery couriers.

Those stores get stocked somehow- usually not by semis.
I tend to agree, although if it costs less to rent and have 10 minute Amazon delivery? I might go for it. I've lived next to train lines and highways that are louder.
The reason to have guaranteed severance for a long-ish time (3 months or so) is to soften your landing when the market/economy does not guarantee you a more well-paid job within that time. We might be entering one of those times, we might not, either way you should be prepared for it. If your employer has already made sure that you are prepared for it then that is less stress for you, which is good for everyone. It also means more predictable (although maybe higher) costs for the employer, which is usually good for them too.

It seems like tech-workers assume that things will always be easy on them when history clearly doesn't bear that out.
I would, yes. 30 day terms would work for me as it does for many business to business agreements. I dont agree with the other commentators entitlement to 14 weeks of severance pay in any situation, however
There's lots of attacks currently on existing systems exploiting this.

Leaking any information about other processes or supposedly hidden state of the system means you are leaking - and attacks always get better, not worse. The point is once you have shared, scheduled resources, others are going to get knowledge that they should not have.

The rough idea is, say some other process is repeatedly running some known code with an unknown key, and you want to get that key. By fiddling with how you schedule your requests, you can interrupt or interject his work and your work, and the timing issues due to scheduling have been shown to leak things. Say one process is dealing with web requests, signing things fairly often. An attacker on the same machine can craft web requests, learn how the shared system is responding, and glean information about the web server via timing. This type of poking has been used to leak AES keys by exploiting things thought safe until they were on shared resources.
You are comparing apples and orages.

Coinbase was generous, it could have chosen to give them exactly 0 and that would have been legal.

You're taking the best case scenario in one case and comparing it to the norm in another country.
In the US there is something called COBRA, which allows you to continue the company plan for a year by paying the full amount (most companies will pay all/some of it while you are employed). It really depends on what kind of coverage and whether it's an individual or a family but it ranges from several hundred to over $1000 per month.

The whole system sucks really, but in today's economy I think most of these people will be just fine just because so many companies are hiring.
I can't help but wonder if they're using the inputs for potential phishing attacks.

For certain high-value targets, perhaps they're lying, with the intent of getting them to initiate some sort of compromised password reset?
Yes, but the limitation of Twillio VoIP numbers is a show-stopper. I can already auto-forward Twilio and Google Voice SMS messages to a team/distribution list. Getting real carrier-issued numbers to do this is the larger challenge.
OOC, why are the salaries so precise? It doesn't sound like there is much room for negotiation.
So the #hobbies is really up to you. At some point personal responsibility would need to kick in to support things beyond some level of basic necessities no?
Yes? The power imbalance there is obvious. Employers have much greater access to wealth, capital, and lobbyists. As an individual I have no such agency. So yes, trading away risk in exchange for fixed contracts is a great deal in most circumstances. Most of modern finance exists to exchange risk for dollars in some sense.
I feel like there's a Jada Smith joke in here somewhere... I never heard the term alopecia in my life until that "slap" incident and subsequently heard it 1000 times in reference to that. Hard not to see this headline and think of it.
I understand that. I was suggesting that Python would segway into C in terms of learning paths. Otherwise you go from C and then say "Okay, now forget half of what you learned" since Python has far simpler functions and structures, etc. For example, looping. Python's looping is really basic, and C greatly expands on it. Each level reinforces the next, instead of going from simple, to complex, right back to simple again.

Going from python to C, you can say "Remember those simple loops? Look at how much further you can go with that under C." Each level is additive from what you learned from the prior language, instead of putting low level stuff in the middle, just to return to high level again with limitations now imposed on what you'll learn in the next step.

I would argue that no aspect of python is "up" from C in terms of learning paths.
On MacOS Low-Power mode in the Power section of system settings disables turbo-boost. On Linux

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo

does the rick. Note that this is not the same as power-saving mode in Gnome settings.

I have found that for heavy C++ compilation that lasts for many minutes the slowdown was about 20% on my ThinkPad X1 laptop. The big plus is that it made the laptop almost silent.
i don't think that's equivalent. it's tremendously easier for a company to fill a position than a person get another position somewhere else. this is a billion+ company. some developers probably live paycheck to paycheck.
Everything is corrolated [1]. So putting that aside, context matters.

Contextually there is no reason to suspect that a phone operating system has anything to do with anyone's ability to repay a loan, anymore than the color of their car or their eye color.

Income and existing debt does, obviously.

What you don't want, and what is not legal, is denying a loan because of nonsense predictors that happen to be very strongly corrolated to race and very weakly corrolated to the ability to repay a loan.

If color of car, or operating system, is a strong predictor then the model is probably being overtrained on the training data and probably wouldn't generalise well in the real world.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Everything
Not actually true. Current borders of Russia are defined by its reckless self-destruction in 1991.
Also some land on the east of Russia was given away without any fight.
For example, Alaska or Fort Ross.
The dense fog lifts, tree branches part, a ray of light shines down on the ruins of a moss-covered pedestal revealing the hidden intentions of the ancients. A plaque states "The operational semantics of the most basic primitives of your operating system are optimized to simplify the implementation of command line shells." You look upon the pedestal, pause in respect, then turn away disappointed but unsurprised. As you walk you shake your head trying to evict the after image of a beam of light illuminating a turd.
I feel like we are seeing in real time how swing voters and aspirational immigrants set the course of both parties. When Republicans win in 2022 focusing on inflation, crime, and the culture war, what should be the takeaway about “what constituents want?”
I know and HMs use recruiters as filters which is a total waste of time.
No, because humans and their needs are much more important than companies and the profits of their owners.
Ah yes the famed 0 sum game.

If that was the case, it should work both ways: when Bezos "lost" $20 billions of May 1st, how many skimmed labourers suddenly were able to afford $1 million houses ?
There are several (dozens) of papers showing the practicality of various timing attacks written by highly respected academics. Just because you haven't stumbled across an attack in the wild one does not somehow invalidate that there are practical attacks.

Do you expect those who do carry out a successful attack to email you and let you know of their success? Or perhaps you think they'll exploit someone, and follow it up with an academic write-up of how they carried out that exploitation, to be widely published?

While security theatre does exist, it's laughable to write off an entire class of vulnerabilities as theatre.
What's the kid interested in?

Maybe there's some low-power device that would let them explore their interests, if only they could program the device.

And that would limit programming language choice to those available for the device.
Grateful I turned that shit down in 2012. Even then the evidence against it was overwhelming (basically, it makes sleep apnea worse because scar tissue comes back fierce).
https://forum.textpattern.com is a favourite of mine.
> why do you care if an applicant understand how a hash map works; and what's particular about a hash map?

Because a hash map is:

1) a pretty basic concept in data structures

2) Variations on hash maps are used all the time in the real world. If you use objects in javascript, dictionaries in python, or maps in C++, then you are using things that essentially implement hash maps.

Point number 1 is like if I went to an orthopedic surgeon and they couldn't tell me what the liver does. You can say "well the liver has nothing to do with my finger that got smashed in a car crash, so what do I care." Or you can say, "that seems like a red flag. Maybe I'd be safer choosing a different doctor."

* Note: I have no idea how often the liver comes up in orthopedic finger surgery and for all I know it's a lot. But I think you get the point.
Absolutely, WE should do exactly that (and there's a plenty of things that we can do to protect nature around ourselves) - instead of living in hyper-urbanized cities and pissing online on people who actually live for a century or more in a real untouched wilderness and haven't destroyed it in all that time, and now want one stupid gravel road through that unimaginably wast area. It's a raindrop in the ocean, but people love to focus their energy on isolated, far-away problems, rather than tackling real problems and the wider image.
Well that's just another unworkable scheme. The income is already taxed at the highest rate so what you're suggesting is base the income tax rate on how much a person is worth, like if they are a billionaire make the tax rate 99%. How would the IRS determine a person's financial worth without doing a complete audit of all their assets? That could take years for a billionaire.
What worries me more for lifetime-use like this are epigenetic effects (generational-level adaptations to DNA via methylation) that will be felt by anyone inheriting the outcome of their parents behavior.

Epigenetic mechanisms are what turn pigs into boars when released into the wild. In humans, if someone undergoes drastic starvation in their childhood, their children will often be fat. Their bodies hold onto fat more readily because it essentially expects to undergo a similar level of starvation. Evolutionarily, people who's epigenetics could benefit their children in this way were selected for via easier survival.

There are no studies, due to a lack of understanding in the past, of the effects of lifetime use on future generations. It could, potentially, be a positive effect - or none at all.

But that's optimistic for biological mechanisms imo, I'm remaining a pessimist and preferring the route of non-lifetime medication. If someone else wants to test this on their life and family, I would be happy to read about it.
Someone could come along and ruin your life by framing you for some morally-awful social-presumption-of-guilt crime. Or a nuclear war could start tomorrow with a strike on your city. Or a tiny little meteorite could happen to fall directly on you. Or God could stop+terminate the VM containing the universe mid-run.

The insecurity and stress are the human condition, my friend. That's what it means to be sentient.
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