skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it have to not cost anything? If you can spend $5 you open up entire categories of businesses that exist specifically as adult hangout spots: cafes, bars, wine bars, board game cafes, whatever. You said you're doing FIRE but also are a SWE. Surely you can pick up a side project or something and pay for like an entire year of these hangouts for a few days of work. Your mental health is worth it, no?

$5 for a few hours of hanging out in a safe and curated space really isn't a bad deal at all (it might be for the business, but not for you).

Back when I was in a similar boat, spending time at these community spaces and just being among people, whether I was working or reading or goofing off or people watching, really helped keep me sane.

If you can spend a little more, $10 or $20, it also opens up bowling, golf ranges, climbing, various lessons, concerts, lectures, etc.

The hard part here isn't the solo adult activity, it's being too cheap to support businesses that provide those activities.
So the person who has proven they can do the work and get promoted in the same career path is less valuable than the CS degree holder (who in this example, did not achieve as much over the same time period) just because they have a degree?

This has never been the case in any org promo committee or hiring committee I have been a part of (100s of candidates).

I would say in most orgs after 3 years of proven track record the degree benefit has fully depreciated. Unless the degree is an advanced degree and related directly to a niche subfield that is the job.

Not saying the degree is a negative just that its signaling factor is dwarfed by experience. n^2 vs cn
An article about this phenomenon that is not paywalled (but a little older): https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251326/ai-startups-europ...
Also:
Even the founders of Moderna would have had their lives made worse overall by SARS-COV-2. Money and utility are different things. They and their families now live in a shittier world. Even a (rational) psychopath would not gain overall from unleashing COVID on the world. Nobody wins.
Ah yeah, I missed that one happening, thanks!
The smart layouting of the frames is not a feature that has to be exclusive for flat. Is a layer of functionality to implement UIs, right? Flat kind of stops there but your GUI visual style is not forced to stop there. I might be cheaper to stop there. But not mandatory, rigth?
I used to be a pentester, so it was pretty applicable...

Pentesting really requires "full stack" systems knowledge, from networking, to OS, to API analysis, malware analysis, binary reverse engineering. OSCP is an applied cert, so it really forces you to be able to leverage knowledge in a practical way.

However my favorite benefit of offsec is really being able to see things from an attacker's perspective. This has been super valuable in many situations and I've found I'm many times the only person in the room with an awareness of an adversarial mindset.
You could easily write a blog post called fuck-ecc and describe the difficulties in implementing ECC correctly. RSA has a good share of band aids but ECC implementations are, in my opinion, just as hard to get right.
There seem to exist plenty of people who honestly enjoy the direct sun and find 85 degree heat pleasant.

Csa (koppen) is apparently held by many to be the ideal human climate (yet cities in that climate regularly clip 105)

I always wonder if it might come down to ancestry. Perhaps northern and southern family trees subtly adapted to their climate, diverging on their ideal climate in the process.
[Ask HN] What to do when your lawyer lies about a crucial matter?
I'm currently dealing with a lawyer who lied to me about securing a Hearing for my case, after I paid them > $20k to secure face time with a Judge.

Turns out, when my new lawyer who replaced them asked the Judge and opposing counsel about the Hearing date, he was told there was no sign of one ever being set.

I reached out to the original lawyer for answers. They insisted, twice, that we had a hearing date set at the time their counsel ended.

When I asked once more for evidence of this, the lawyer reversed position and claimed that the date had always been tenuous, and that I had been informed of this (?!).

Real and genuine 'Always at War with Eurasia', 'There Are Four Lights' shit.

Old lawyer then contacted my new lawyer, against my express request they be left to focus on the original case. New lawyer called me to ask me to drop the matter.

The takes from r/legaladvice are that this must be my fault somehow. It isn't. The facts are exactly as stated.

Is there any hope for accountability against a lawyer within the US legal system?

PA, USA.
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Actually you can, you just need to experience to get the charter. You can go pass the exam so long as you have the educational background.
I find this take funny.

My past company had a huge pile of credits for certs because they valued them and I figured “I’ve been working with AWS; why not?” I didn’t study or prepare at all and went in using only the hands-on knowledge I picked up over my career.

I came out with all the associate certs, the AWS solutions architect pro, and their network specialty.

As a hiring manager I find certs to be a neutral indicator: you at least have to know the material to get them, but plenty of people learn the material hands-on, not from books.
insights welcome on the regulatory capture in TX; spin addition on the story from me might be -- that "we're learning just how dirty it was" is not the case in a system of systems. News stories somehow imply a common, collective understanding with a collective voice of discovery, but this is an illusion maintained for civil progress. Multiple individual researchers in every generation, and some institutions and business interests, not only knew how dirty it was, but went to great lengths to tell anyone, do something, make it stop or change. It is a particular brand of militant, obstinate and dominant management style, cherished in Texas politics, that repeatedly ignore and in fact mock opposition. It is a sport among them to bait and goad environmentalists, undermine the agenda, and lay blame on ordinary economic and political trends on greens.

"we're learning just how dirty it was" speaks from the calm policy podium, but is not sufficient in this case of environmental crime.
It’s the first thing in the article. Git reflog. (BTW you won’t get any disagreement from me about the lack of intuitiveness of the command name. But, in a way, git’s whole reason for existing is to undo, and almost everything you do in git can be undone by design.)
Something tells me you know virtually nothing about biology, medicine or the experiments involved.

It's really not that simple.
The world runs on Excel to be honest... it kinda sucks how "the actual solution that almost every one 'out there' uses" is so under-represented here..
Yes, you can dump all intermediate results into a file. But then it's no longer a pipeline.

Sometimes the intermediate result doesn't even fit on disk.
A few pointers from my own experience (usually in the context of design or proposals):

- why does a document need to be written? Is it to be discussed, debated, just documentation? Let this drive what really needs to be written. Often I’ve seen design documents with lengthy sections on information that is already well agreed upon or commonly understood, just adds noise for the reader.

- consider the audience. Engineers may read a document and have specific prior context that can be omitted, whereas a product manager may get lost in too much technical detail. Tailor your document to your audience, and use the appendix for extra details if someone wants to dig in further.

- keep it brief. Focus on information required to get the necessary outcome and convey the information clearly. Starting with an outline of headers is helpful as well.

- think of good writing you’ve come across. It was likely clear and succinct enough. In my own writing I used to include every last detail to make sure the reader was the most informed about how I reached some conclusion, but then realized too much info becomes counterproductive and doesn’t focus the reader on what matters.
That's one way to think about it. However, don't we usually just outright ban weapons with longer term lethality? A bullet is lethal for seconds while mines are lethal for years.

If autonomous drones are lethal for days, weeks or even months, should we consider them a war crime?
Serious question, seems like the general sentiment certs are a negative signal (which I don’t agree with but everyone to their own) but where do degrees sit? If certs are a waste of time and people should spend their time “working on something real instead”, wouldn’t this also apply to degrees?
I think this was less about male pattern baldness, and more on the mechanism of acute alopecia. I used to get steroid shots in my scalp as the only real treatment. The thinking at the time, was that it was suppressing my immune system. This is saying it may have been something other than that. Is my read.

Combined with the FDA just approving an alopecia drug, exciting time for folks with this. I'm less worried about having passed it to my daughters, now.
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M. Andreessen:‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’
This is true, but I do try to keep the training up. I'm certainly not doing it every weekend, but I train a minimum of 3-4 times per year for W-EMR. Scuba, honestly so long as you do it once or twice a year you're fine, it's really not terribly hard.
Not if you're thinking about early quantum computers https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33069/why-is-ec...
China is likely not far off - they’re pretty far ahead of the curve compared to the US military too.

All of these systems are going to be as classified as possible for any country developing them, so we’d only find out once on or more of the following become true;

- it’s several decades after they’re out of date

- a politician needs a major scary saber to rattle for some reason

- they get used in a shooting war where the public can see them.

Neither of which favor us knowing current capabilities of any of the major players right now, except MAYBE Russia.
As far as I know the experts say they don't know all that much. Also the awareness of such issues has shifted a lot...
UK quietly drops ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from goals in Gulf trade deal
What I take from your question is, were the other health issues the thing that actually killed the heart? Following from that, how can we declare something not successful when the odds are significantly stacked against it from the start?
Those are TUIs, not CLIs. You're conflating "CLI" and "terminal".
That's sad. I need dune to make it work.
> if you tell an ai to make a painting like james gurney, it can only do that by training itself on james gurney's body of work.

How is that different from telling a person to do the same?
How does this relate to the proof of the Kahn-Kalai conjecture that made news two months ago?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/elegant-six-page-proof-reveal...
I think it's potentially different in that they can be turned off at any time.
"a system not designed to support maintenance is not properly architected"

Indeed, but who cares about the system design anymore? How many companies/ teams can claim honestly they even had a person with proper DBA competency, while features over features were added in sprints doing the minimum required to get the feature shipped out at the soonest possible (usually one DB schema change with feature and then one or more to add index due to performance regressions)? DBA competency is only sought when DB schema has fubar'd to an extent that frequent outages are norms or the version used is EOL'd by a few months at least. And by that time the people who "designed" the system are gone, not having documented ever why a given decision was made.

And that is how my friend...

DB upgrades are hard.
My reaction: It should be the same consequences for war crimes as if you'd fired a barrage of WWII-era VT-fused artillery shells at a refugee camp, or laid an old-fashioned minefield in the playground of an orphanage. Some "smart" gadget you built & deployed did something horrible. Your ass.

Or, if you protest that "the AI did it!" - then you have to march across a field guarded by a bunch of "smart" weapon systems. The justice system is not responsible if any of those AI's malfunction and kill you.
Mines are still deployed all the time. Check out YouTube and you’ll see plenty of videos of Russian tanks getting blown up by Ukrainian ones, and civilians navigating Russian ones across highways there.

Plenty of people die decades later from chemical and physical effects of various weapons deployed all the time (not even counting the depleted uranium issues in Iraq). White phosphorous is just one such example.
I did some research and most popular ones seem to be zolando and crunchy. I have zero experience, but going to deploy it for test environment to see how it goes.
There is no proof that the Virus was passed directly from bats. And as far as I recall there was evidence for at least one intermediate host. Which makes the bat-hunting rather pointless.
Arch linux on non-dev xps 13 here. Install went smoothly and it's been working very well for the past few years. Admittedly, the trackpad is not as awesome as Apple's, but it's adequate by my standards.
Tangentially related, I wonder if anyone has done a meta-analysis about media reported calamities, like Zika, the bee population dying off, etc., and doing a follow up. Then comparing it to what the media reported initially. Was this accurate, blown out of proportion, understated, or simply sensational reporting?
Be careful about the bias in single-metric gatekeeping strategies like this. Contributing to open source projects, having side projects, et al are pursuits of leisure. Certificates are possibly the only foot in the door for folks working multiple jobs with kids, etc. and the government often pays the tuition for low income folks. Once you’ve got them, even if you’re more established, it would be crazy to leave them off of your resume, right?

Not only could you be bypassing people passionate enough to work their way into the field through pretty adverse circumstances, you could be inadvertently reducing the diversity of your workforce in doing so. I know it’s tough to have to whittle down a list of candidates on paper, but the closer you are to judging a person’s path rather than their capability, the more likely you’ll be to favor people who mirror your cultural identity and experiences. So if someone looks like they’ve got the requisite skills. It certainly doesn’t mean everybody with a pile of certs is worth considering, but it’s probably not a good immediate disqualifier.
While I see where you're coming from, get deep enough into specialized concepts and a "plain language" explanation that assumes no prior knowledge is going to have to hand wave away a huge amount of detail and may not even be completely accurate in many respects. Yes, you can probably give an intelligent person the gist of what's going on, perhaps by analogy, but it may not really be an "explanation."
"I find Reddit rather tolerant"

Only if you subscribe to the group think.

The truth is that reddit is one of the largest collection of bigots on planet earth.
No longer. At least in my space (Data Science), I've been able to hire good Singaporean talent from NUS/NTU
The thing is, individual states mostly don't have shooting free years.
Have any good links to papers or books covering the state of the art in developing these systems?
More nuclear would not prevent this. This is a political problem. It's also the same kind of problem that makes nuclear undesirable. Can you imagine what kind of mess regulatory capture of nuclear power would lead to?
Google has some classes on this, developed by their Tech Writers:

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

Originally, the material was targeted at SWEs, trying to give them pragmatic ways of thinking about the advice you'll read elsewhere in this thread. I haven't kept up with it, so I don't know if that's still the focus.
My friend got something called “Board Certification” in the medical field and apparently is quite a big deal. Another friend got something similar in the legal field and apparently isn’t particularly useful.

In tech the more prominently someone posts these certifications, the bigger the red flag. Someone just got a CISSP for some reason, perhaps as part of a job, and it’s at the bottom of the CV? Sure ok. Someone puts “PMP” in their signature line next to their name? Flashing red flag.
While it's true, I think you're going too extreme with "only makes sense if it's applied and enforced globally and uniformly". This still applies pressure, because: a) importing takes time and money - it's not a free solution, b) there's some limit to what China can take in terms of pollution - at some point they will have to respond even if the threshold is way higher than in the us.
Ah, the fundamentally anarchist/anti-establishment ethos of millions of computers connected to each other (making a coordinated and organized establishment of their own with hierarchical substructures).
I don't want to argue with you; you can choose to ignore what I said. but the funders who pay for molecular biology typically are scientists who understand, or wealthy people who hire people who understand, that medical biology, while scientific, is not like the highly quantitative physical sciences, nor is it easily appreciated by novices.

Everything about causation in biology works differently than in other sciences.
> Yeah, but the point is to get it in some places and then in other places later. Leading by example. Also, there are many things that can't be done abroad.

Leading by example in this context would be continuing to meet demands domestically while doing The Hard Work of cleaning up the processes.

Instead the example being set is to simply perform the same (or worse) dirty process somewhere else and make it someone else's problem in the short-term.
Perhaps someone ex-Intel can comment, but there was a story within Microsoft that Intel proposed a different x86 derived 64-bit architecture after AMD64, but Microsoft didn't want to support two x86-64 ISAs and that put pay to Intel's proposal. There was also talk at Microsoft about having input into the AMD64 design, but no idea what the details were there exactly.
I definitely do not think HN is full of assholes.
There's also a hell of a lot of people in this state who can't afford to take multiple days off from their four jobs that barely pay the bills between them to travel halfway across the country for an abortion if they find out after it's too late for any pills. Most of the Bible Belt has similar trigger laws; the closest states that still have legal abortion are Minnesota, Kansas, and Illinois.

The GOP is working their hardest to send everyone back to 1970. Or further. 1850 looks pretty good to them.
I'm a bit lost on what OP is complaining about. I agree that GNOME has tons of flaws, and they make some design choices that are questionable, but the 3-button titlebar click sending the window to the back of the Z-stack and being able to copy two things at once (one via clipboard, one via middle-clicking) works fine for me on GNOME 3.36.

Am I missing something? Or maybe GNOME 40 screwed things up?
First I never said anything about web development...

That said then there is a clear disconnect between employment, and degree's

Employers often are requiring these "software engineering" degree's for basic level software development, and /or web development

That is the the point of my comment, often time people feel required to spend 10's or 100's of thousands on a degree for the sole purpose of attaining employment as a software developer.

If they are being educated in a way that does not prepare them for that job then the degree is less than worthless, and it an out right scam
"Research causes cancer in rats", as the canard goes.
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> > Government is not bound by what is scientifically demonstrated

> You're implying:

> something is scientifically demonstrated -> government is bound by it

How have you managed to change round such a simple sentence and state it means the opposite? I'm astounded.

1. Government is not bound by what is scientifically demonstrated.

2. Something is scientifically demonstrated.

3. Hence, government is *not* bound by it.

> What I said was:

> government has bounded something -> it can be scientifically or logically demonstrated

You wrote no such thing as the words "bound" and "can" are not to be found in your statement in any form. What you actually wrote was:

> If I convince 51% of the populace geminis are evil and should be imprisoned, this is not a sufficient condition for the government to implement this policy. We would need to scientifically demonstrate that astrology is in fact true.

Aside from your clearly not understanding what a necessary nor a sufficient condition is, this statement is not true. I shall do some reordering of my own to shine light on this:

We would need to scientifically demonstrate that astrology is in fact true… for the government to implement this policy.

That's your implication and it's not based in reality.

I could go round in circles like this forever, much like the constellation of Gemini around the Earth but it would be as much use as reading my horoscope.

> > Hundreds, if not thousands of years of fairly consistent belief that life is sacred is hardly a whim

> You're appealing to the populace. How long or who believes something has no bearing on whether or not it is true or whether anyone should care about it.

I didn't claim that the length of time it has been around has any relation to its truth, I corrected your use of the word "whims" to mischaracterise those you clearly oppose.

> whim | wɪm |
> noun
> 1 a sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained:

There's nothing sudden about Christian opposition to abortion.

> People thought the earth was the center of the universe for a long time too.

It's Earth. I feel like making that pedantic point because I hope that making you more careful with your writing might lead you to read more carefully too.

> Also, something cannot be "sacred" universally, only conditionally.

What on Earth are you babbling about?
Honestly, I enjoy learning but I don't like having nothing to show for it.
Unstructured learning like going to a library and picking out a random book drives me nuts, I quickly feel overwhelmed.
A cert at least gives me some goal to shoot for -- where I can prove some basic competency in the subject by virtue of having the cert.

I need something to "show" for my efforts. Project-based learning can work for me as well, but it takes extra work to figure it out for a given skill. I'm learning photography and I have a goal of doing 1 portrait session per week for a few months. That kind of thing helps me feel like I'm making measurable progress.
It’s pretty easy to remove the human in the loop (just say “yes” to everything it would ask the human). In contrast, it can be incredibly difficult to add a human to a system that was designed to be fully autonomous.