skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What startup snakery have you experienced as a developer / employee?
I'm a senior developer with 15+ years of experience. I've experienced anything from senior management asking me to hire a senior developer for 6 months to develop core features then have a meeting after his probation to tell him why he isn't good enough by nitpicking minor mistakes in his overall communication, coding, PR styles to laying off entire US / UK teams when they prefer offshore ones. Needless to say I quit said companies and moved on as I find this disgusting.

I've also experienced interviews where I had to develop a core feature for them as a coding test to see if im good enough, or even advise (as part of the coding test) a junior/mid-level developer (who was the interviewer) on how to scale their backend for GPU processing and how to design the database before he told me I'm not good enough for the job as I told him he is fishing for the solution he doesn't even have.

The point of this point is I want to bring to light immoral shit that startups do and possibly have a platform where we suffered from their 'scams' and at least bring those to light. I want to hear more of what you have experienced with startups.

Were you dismissed for "poor performance" for reasons that do not make sense? Did your colleagues betray you or suddenly become cold and distant? what happened? This is the thread to show all the evil bullshit that startups have done to you or colleagues. How would you hold them accountable?
How about funding the public schools at the same level as private schools, which cost 2-4x as much?
Loving isn't based on the privacy clause, like Roe, Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. It's based on equal protection.
Hostile sentiment between which countries? The WIV was on Chinese soil, but received American funds and had many American collaborators; so I don't think either country is in a great position to blame the other. On the other hand that gives China and the USA a shared interest in discouraging investigation of the cause, as seems to have occurred.
I'm one of the maintainers of PyMC. We just had the v4 version which is better in so many ways. Glad you find the docs useful

Here's another example of how hypothesis testing can be used as well.

https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/markdown/chp_09.html#exp...
Archive link? My first thought was 'so has architecture.'
Apple provides their own hypervisor framework and virtualization framework. Roughly 50 lines of code and you can boot up a mac vm which they support.
Publc schools are worst where Republican governments destroys them, yes.
>Last week at work, a colleague asked if anyone might be interested in participating in the corporate-wide “Read a book a week” [...] For example, I’ve listened to every book in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, and I eagerly await new ones. But when the latest book came out, Better Off Dead, I couldn’t make it past the first few chapters.

It's kind of astonishing that "read a book" somehow got turned into "have a book read to you" and that the author still doesn't manage to get it done.

Reading is fundamentally different to listening. One is active, the other passive.

Then the ending's conclusion is completely nonsensical:

>Some other challenges I’m still figuring out, like how to navigate a city without Google Maps. I bought a handful of paper maps and found myself looking at the area, trying to grok the logic of the streets and analyzing the area’s layout seemingly for the first time.

What do the skills of hunter gatherers have to do with clearer thinking?

Would life be better if instead of writing on a keyboard you only wrote on parchment made from the skins of animals you hunted? I imagine the authors writing would improve, only because there would be a lot less of it.
"projected space tourism scenarios" study.
No Thanks. Save it for another gullible group..

To equate international aircraft flights with space flight is silly.
Sure soot is worse.

There will not be as many space flights as international flights in a long time. Even at current rate it will take a while.
I expected more from phys.org.

Summary:
"the best strategy for regulating this rapidly growing industry."
Ding Ding Ding. Regulate.
Build better facilities, hire more staff, expand hours, feed the children?
I'd say that it is difficult for me to agree that the honey bee apocalypse is getting any better at all, as, in Europe at least, everybody is deploring a huge mortality in bees, and explicitely pointing the pesticides as culprits.

But in case it would "seem to get better" (e.g. in the US), I agree:

if honey bees are dwindling at some point (the wake up call), it shows that there is a bigger concern, but the bigger concern is still there even if we see again honey bees, it's an insect apocalypse (and we'll always see honey bees anyway, because they are actively bred by humans using nutrients grown with intrants from good ol' fossil fuel energy and all).
The refusal to open-license Minix is another one that has had major repercussions.
There was an Incat [1] one that operated across the Channel for a while.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incat
not true not true
Somebody should be indicted for this crime against engineering. But I doubt Windows is actually running on the device.

At least the experience has not been as bad as the US Navy ship left dead in the water, needing a tow back to port, after being handed over to MS Windows.
Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date
It's complicated. If your contract says you can't do it, that means there is a legal path toward stopping you if someone bothers. That means someone has to care enough, which means that as long as you don't piss anyone off and don't get too much press you'll be fine. If you ask, it is in nobody's interest to say yes especially lawyers.
I met the reigning Aussie native bee expert in 2020 and it's dire. The best things you can do as an individual are plant many endemic native flowering species, nix lawns, don't use pesticides and certainly don't keep urban honey bees.
I have known lawyers who struggle with aspergers. I was at law school with a man who had tourettes. He had to take his exams in a separate room due to his outbursts. Ive also met professionals with obsessive compulsive disorder so bad that, in the past, they might have been locked up. Mental illness, even mental disability, does not preclude as many vocations as most people think.
I used Airbnb for years traveling to Zürich, and there were always very explicit directions about the recycling with warnings that any fines incurred would be passed along to me. I think the whole system seems fairly simple and reasonable.
That won't put the water back. Revenge is just the final form of prioritizing the comfort (or discomfort) of a handful of bad actors over the well-being of the other 99.9999% of the world.

There's no answer except functioning government and the general eradication of solipsistic liberal/libertarian fantasies, and that's never going to happen.
There’s no implicit behavior here. It won’t compile if you don’t explicitly move the string into the closure.
One member since it is a Solo opinion. Also all those other cases have a real right to privacy aspect to them because they involve acts between consenting adults. There Isaac point in pregnancy where an abortion ceases to be an act between consenting adults and instead becomes a conspiracy to kill a minor and where that point is needs to be legislated rather than conjured out of thin air by the judiciary. I say this as someone who is a big fan of abortions (they have killed so many future criminals if skewed the crime stats, which is awesome.) because I am an even bigger fan of the constitution.
I think understanding "soulmate" -whether or not it exists - can be understood by looking at the antithesis. I know I've been in a mistake of a relationship where I had found the opposite of a soulmate. The things that made her awful for me are characteristics I used to filter people out until I found my wife.

There's definitely an argument that soulmate don't exist. That anyone can be the one that you want as long as you see it through until you feel indifference. For some people, though, that indifference comes much faster. Trust and respect erode way faster than can be undone.
Especially incremental updates. It already blew my mind that they broke the API so frequently with GNOME 3, the fact that they're still abusing extension developers like that in 2022 is unfathomable.
Yes, COVID has since spread back to many animals, & viruses can travel far. But they still haven't found the precursors of the Wuhan outbreak's original strains.

It is suspicious that EcoHealth lied about what research they had performed. It is suspicious that some very-dangerous, previously-undisclosed pre-May-2019 experiments were only revealed in a belated report.
Indeed. The guy in Hawaiian shirt writes simple, fast code with the minimum amount of abstractions, and therefore can afford to finish work early and go to the beach.
Everyone else is working overtimes untangling a mess of objects, principles and hierarchies.
I used to be able to code on airplanes but i just can't type in most seats given how cramped they are now.

that said I flew economy plus on lufthansa from seattle to frankfurt in 2019 and sat in the front left bulkhead seat. Being a premium seat they completely ignored the 3 bags I had up against the bulkhead at takeoff (safety rules and plastic utensils are for the cattle, comfort and metal cutlery are for those who pay). It was great. I had my latop comfortably on the folkd out tray, and I watched big hero 5 and 2 other shameless airplane movies on the pull up tv. I reviewed over 30 docs in offline mode, and was able to build a very good root cause and action plan (I was doing failure analysis).

A offline/online docs site would be quiet helpful as what styimies me from coding is not having that one dependency or one doc I need and having to pivot.
> Same same.

No, it's not even close to the same. Plenty of depressions of all sorts are even curable and many others are treatable. One has to look into exactly what they have to determine what to do. What you were saying is super fucking dangerous man.

The doctors don't think that your wife's antenatal depression will respond to medication. That's all you know. Cut the reset of the fat out before you hurt someone.

> I’ve spoken to more doctors in the past 5 months than I can count on my hands.

That sounds terrible, but it doesn't matter how many doctors you talk to if you can't understand what they're talking about or they're dumbing it down for you or something. As I said, all depression is biological. The alternative is impossible. Zero depressions are non-biological. That's nonsense and an indicator you don't totally grasp what's going on. Not all psychiatric depression requires constant treatment. Some is long-term but temporary. Some is caused by brain tumors. There's a very wide spectrum of what can be going on and it's not okay to make sweeping generalizations like you're still doing.

I'm not saying the doctors are wrong, I'm saying that you didn't fully understand what they said or are not communicating it correctly. I understand you've been through a lot and that you've been doing your research too but you need to tone down your epistemic confidence here and come at this with some humility because you're producing some sentences which are flat out false and others that are nonsensical. I know what you mean now, but I still don't think you do.
No, it is fully as terrible as can be imagined, if true. But I have doubts.
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> You just went from requiring one bit of code to requiring another

Not in the slightest. I went from requiring customized code, including a whole build framework for a specific programming language to requiring only the tools one can assume are installed, and no code.

For the task of "querying spreadsheets with sqlite", there are only two programs you can assume the user already has: Sqlite, and spreadsheet software. :) I think that's a safe and reasonable assumption, no?

ssconvert is part of Gnumeric. One can do the same thing with libreoffice but I didn't know the syntax offhand. [0]

[0] loxias@host:~$ libreoffice --convert-to csv superstore.xls
In the course of this, I read [0]. The whole thing is shocking, really.

If you come up with something, ping me in a thread.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_the_Rec...
At a glance it looks good to me, I can see you made it for audio books.

Most of my tagging is done for Music. I know it seems fairly out of scope for this project, but do you have any plans to integrate updating tags from online sources eg. MusicBrainz, GoodReads etc.

I could see myself using a tool like this if I could replace several tools with just this one. Right now I'm using Picard for music and Calibre for eBooks.

Edit: I didn't read further enough, I like the custom tagger support. Some curation or perhaps a collection of "official" plugins for popular providers would probably help with adoption.
No, ruminants use bacteria we don't have to get protein out of plants. Humans can not extract that protein, so we use animals to do it then eat them.

Theres about 30 grams protein in 1000 calories of corn. There's about 90 grams in 1000 calories beef. This is because cows are very good at extracting protein.

Also, I can just let cows graze on Texas praire. I can't necessarily do that with corn.
If all the pubic student went private (and let's not forget the special ed students), are there private schools available to serve them?

Private schools have the luxury of cherry-picking the easiest students.
Whenever you use the same string key in different parts of the code, you take one more step on the Legacy Code Road...

I still walk that road sometimes, but not for very long.
It really depends on the specific situation. Public space is for everyone’s enjoyment. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of their right to the space in a way that detracts from everyone. Take a park for example. Typically, a great place to take your kids. However, if someone strung out on heroin loiters in the park, it suddenly becomes a much worse place for everyone else. Technically, being high on heroin in a public place isn’t a crime. This person is well within their rights to use the public space. But in many cases, people like this form a small minority that ruins the public space for everyone. Discouraging this type of person is actually maximizing the utility of public space.
All I’m saying is that the schedule of payments for medical care in the US is largely driven by what Medicare pays for each treatment code. The Medicare payment schedule is set by a board that is largely dominated by “procedural” doctors (surgeons). The only procedure in psychiatry is ECT, so a psych dept can charge a lot more for ECT than (say) a course of CBT.

I’m not trying to imply that psychiatry is coin-operated, but if ECT is “funding the department” there is an incentive to propose ECT, even if the science doesn’t support that.
And now you know how AWS works and makes their money.
Congrats to Paula Antonelli! "Interaction Design" is the new Art. Which I suppose means the Machine is the new Museum / Factory / Kunstverein ;)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5453
Why do you think it is clear that DALL-E has no licensing issues? Determining what art is ripping off what (to a legally meaningful extent, not cutesy "great artists steal" bullshit) is not at all clear cut, even before automated transformations get involved.
> I also dropped out of both high school and MIT undergraduate

An MIT degree seems like it would actually be helpful in one's career. They seem to be pretty good in terms of engineering courses, faculty and student body. Did you skip directly to a graduate program?
Apple has their own custom conventions and ABI (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm6...). I believe you are right that they have their own custom instructions too. The asahi Linux project has good documentation on their wiki about the hardware.

Also important here is the bespoke ASIC functionality on their CPUs - as it's a system on chip, you'll likely need to emulate the full SoC, including all the peripherals the system expects to be there. Unlike x86_64, ARM isn't really designed to do device discovery on extensible buses in the same way. Your peripherals should all be in the same place, many being on the chip on internal interconnects.

Emulating anything would be possible with enough effort. But you'd likely need to emulate a whole host of extra bespoke silicon functionality on the SoC to get it working. For example, given every ARM Mac has a hardware neural engine, you might find unmodified Mac OS assumes it's there and usable for core functionality (or does so in future). It would probably be a lot of work to emulate all of the extra SoC stuff to the point you could boot the OS unmodified. But nothing is impossible - I think iOS has been run in third party emulators etc.
I was more talking about the cultists themselves, and what sort of person becomes a professional administrator (hint: very few have ever actually directly built or accomplished anything more complicated than assembling a piece of IKEA furniture, and most of them even have to subcontract that). The collective noun for cultists is cult, hence my words.

Their collective delusion is that a business or other effort can be administered without actually understanding what it is and does. This is lethal to the business.

That said, an actually good, down-to-earth professional administrator is worth their weight in platinum. These types are very, very rare.
> I'm going to vote strongly against this mentality, because there's something called the fecal-oral contamination route which modern microbiology has discovered,

Well that’s ironic given how fecal transplants are rapidly seen as a possible cure/medicine for many ailments. What we probably don’t want to encourage imo is an ultra-clean sterilized environment everywhere we go. Both are equally bad.
The article is not explaining the point, which I believe is: type your dicts if you want to provide strict guarantees to your downstream about data shape.

If you know precisely what the data is used for - great, go ahead - type system is your friend.

If you don't know how the data should be used, it's often a different story. Wrapping data in hand typed classes is a terrible idea in the typical data engineering scenarios where there might be hundreds of these api endpoints, which also might be changing as the upstream sees fit. Perfect way to piss off your downstream users is to keep telling them "sorry the data is not available because I overspecified the data type and now it failed on TypeError again". Usually the downstream is the domain expert, they know which fields should be used and they don't know which ones before they start using it. Typically the best way is to pass ALL the upstream data down, materialize extra fields and NOT modify any existing field names, even when you think you're super smart and know better than domain experts. Too often it happens that a "smart" engineer though he knew better and included only some fields. Only for then to be realized that the data source contained many more gold nuggets, and it was never documented that these were cleverly dropped.
Dont finance it thru the dealer - problem solved?
> That won't put the water back.

No, but it will partially compensate for impacted communities' subsequent economic precarity.
They’d be gambling that such a crummy attribution would hold up in court. Generally judges aren’t too amused by people’s efforts to find wacky loopholes that make a mockery of the law.

On the other hand, open source licenses haven’t been tested thoroughly in court, so maybe the result would be to throw out such attribution requirements entirely. The main relevant case to date is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer
Older houses (like before WW2) have even fewer bathrooms per bedroom. I don't know exactly when or why this changed. Waiting in line for the bathroom is a pretty frequent scene in pre-1960 movies.
This may be how your number is exposed for phishing
Hi all,
A while back I had to deal with some sms phishing sent pretending to be our CEO. Many people received the text said they never exposed their mobile phone on linkedin or social sites, I went on a hunt and stumbled across this website which basically had everyone email+ phone number. There were also clues from the phisher that he may have gotten information from here as he made mistakes on CEO name (the site still listed the wrong name) or company name that was sighted in the site (one word instead of 2 ...)

I wonder how/where they got this data? Did some third party phone app(messenger, whatsapp) dump our contact list somewhere and map those information out? This site is cheap to sign up for an account and it's a sweet honey pot for mass sending CEO phishing campaign.
> On the one hand, we can’t expect Microsoft to offer legal advice to its zillions of users or a blanket indem­ni­fi­ca­tion. On the other hand, Microsoft isn’t sharing any of the infor­ma­tion users would need to make these deter­mi­na­tions.

Should someone ask a senator's chief-of-staff to send a strongly worded letter (on behalf of the senator) to ask Microsoft to publicly answer these pressing questions? We're several months in and the silence is deafening
Hmmm, if it wouldn't pass the Senate then I guess a lot of states' constituents don't want this. Sounds like it's better left to a state by state basis.
I don't program professionally, and I struggle with dicts and classes. On one hand, I want to avoid the Java world of needing to learn 8 new classes to use any library. So dicts are lightweight and extensible and feel like the modern way of doing things. One the other hand, all the problems listed in the article are right. You really do need to document different expected dicts somehow, which is basically structs/classes.

The other thing that always burns me are lists. Specifically lists of lists and lists of strings. Since python allows you to index into strings the same way as lists, for some reason I always loose track of where I am in the unpacking stack. This is when I switch to type hints.
> That won't put the water back. Revenge is just the final form of prioritizing the comfort (or discomfort) of a handful of bad actors over the well-being of the other 99.9999% of the world.

Punishing the perpetrators won’t put the water back in the same way punishing a murderer won’t bring the victim back. We don’t punish to make right. We punish to deter.
Larry Wall is that you!?
I remember in high school reading a Tale of Two cities. Absolutely disliked how all the language is over dramatic and flowery. Try reading some scientific papers from the same era. Many of them are similar in how they were written.

Then sometime after I read something by Mark Twain for the first time. I was blown away at how much easier and more enjoyable his writing style was.
Have you heard of Pika Pods[0] (no affiliation)?

They offer a managed service that simplifies deployment of popular foss apps[1] using containerized SELinux. "Self Hosting as a Service"?

Their price estimates (shown on the apps page[1]) start at $1 - $2 per app, per month, a portion of which they share back to the app creators.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284512

[0] https://www.pikapods.com/

[1] https://www.pikapods.com/apps
Imagine with the work on Asahi linux that we can run Linux on it.
Thats not even close.
Educating women is the most effective way of equipping them to protect their own interests.

To enlighten yourself, consider reading Federici's "Revolution at Point Zero" and Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
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