skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I find it really bad on an org’s part to throw people into meetings like this that requires context and some prior knowledge without prepping them. I assume from your post that you are in an engineering role of somesort. I would ask for some training or perhaps a brief prep session on your company’s business side. Get lunch with someone in sales and ask tons of questions. Imagine if someone without any knowledge of front-end dev got thrown into a technical standup? Same thing is happening here.

That being said, one tip for meetings like this is to not get too hung up on the exact details in the moment and just soak it all in.

>Meanwhile I'm there wondering who is this [Robert Smith] of the [communications department]? What is the [transformation strategy] and why does it need a [quarterly review]?

Like this should happen AFTER the meeting. In the moment, your brain should trying to follow the flow of narrative:

“Someone did a thing to accomplish a goal and it seems like people are happy/sad/angry/frustrated/etc. about it. These people say this. These other people say that. I don’t know who that someone is, or what that goal was, but people seem pretty opinionated and seeing how everyone got thrown in here I guess it’s important. After this meeting I should go talk to Bob because Bob seems to have a lot of insight into this, seemed pretty level headed about the whole thing, and is a nice guy who answers people’s questions. I can utilize him to find out more.”

You will still feel lost, but you will at least walk away having a good idea of generally what happened and how people felt about it.

The other key to meetings like this is to not take every term at its absolute denotative value. Words will be thrown around that are suggestive of some general idea that is specific but pretty loose about the exactness of the term (“omnichannel strategy” for example. Complete goggbledegook.)
The fact that my comment on the internet makes you "really dislike me" is probably all the confirmation you need.

This comment sent from my iPhone SE 2016.
Yep, the AI definitely prefers fully formed sentences as it is right now. We know it's important not to force users to change how they word their queries, so making it less sensitive for phrasing is a priority for us.
I love the idea <3

It may be a weird suggestion, but if the query to general topics returns something like this https://unzip.dev/archive (check how compact it is and delivers almost all you need to know about the subject to get you going), it would be perfect.
It's probably some blend of you not being in that domain + intentional vagueness.

I used to write about omnichannel marketing, so I love that you gave that example. As the "explainer", I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the hell I was explaining. If you visited the website of one of the major omnichannel vendors, you'd mainly see a lot of inspirational fluff that was almost completely devoid of meaning. At the same time -- there was actual software being built and actual changes being made to the businesses that bought into omnichannel. So it's not nothing, but humans are built to deceive each other and a good deal of this corporate speak is part of an intricate dance of deception, built around advancing careers and justifying budgets and headcounts. Any good lie contains a measure of truth.

You can, if you put your mind to it, learn enough of the "language" to sit there and blabber to the execs about it and if you are, let's say, 60% comprehensible everyone will nod their heads and either politely ignore the other 40%, or, like you, believe that the 40% of chaff is actually something. But if you don't feel like you fit in with the babblers, it'll be harder for you than it is for them.
Just apply for jobs.booking.com you gonna have a decent job with a pretty decent life in Amsterdam/Netherlands. Plus Booking.com takes care of the whole immigration process including temporary stay.
Life/work balance is just great
You’re conflating unattended-upgrades (server mutability, hard to roll back) with automated patching in general. Do automated patching but also run the changes though your CI so you can catch breaking changes and roll them out in a way that’s easy to debug (you can diff images) and revert.

I bet when you update your software dependencies you run those changes through your tests but your OS is a giant pile of code that usually gets updated differently and independently because mostly historical reasons.
This was my immediate thought when I looked at the numbers, but I didn't want to be "that guy". I think if all you ever work in is Python, it's still nice even if it is a tiny improvement.
> Things should be fast by default.

In over 90% of my work in the SW industry, being fast(er) was of no benefit to anyone.

So no, it should not be fast by default.
> The alleged fact-checker has been arrested because he has made similar objectional comments on various social media about Hindu deity.

Completely false.

Mohammad Zubair has been arrested for posting a screenshot from 1983 Indian film "Kisi Se Na Kehna" (Don't tell anybody). Yes, let me repeat. For posting a screenshot from a 40 years old Indian film.

"Democracy" my foot!

PS - I don't think that this should matter but unfortunately in today's India it does so here it is - I am a Hindu. A secular one not one of the communal big0ts.

https://scroll.in/latest/1027077/zubair-arrested-for-posting...
But they would have just called it the M1, and we’d be back in 2020, but it would be 2022.
Doesn't that sort of operation become very fast in JS after a few runs?
Morality is an evolutionary adaptation to improve group cohesion. It is much easier to attribute blame/praise to active behaviors rather than passive ones, since it's plausible the passive person isn't there's a problem in the first place.

That said, if you do actually care about consistency and the consequences, and don't care about what others think of you, then active/passive makes no difference.
Yes, you can spend a large amount of time making things faster. But note that Go's GC is fast, even though it is simple. It's not the fastest, but it is acceptably fast.
Is there a term for a Venn diagram where you have two tiny circles intersecting in an almost infinitesimal slice? Ultra-niche?
I wonder how many casual power users are going to get this and then realize they can’t run their current windows VM anymore…
It's because in corporate, people managers are promoted from excellent ICs. However, not all good ICs are good people managers.

Software is lucky that we can go Architecure route for promotion instead of a Engineering Manager route. This is not the case for most other professions.
wondering how that interacts with c/c++ extensions that presumes the existance of the GIL
I will trust any CSS content from Ahmad Shadeed, I am continually impressed and I've been developing CSS my whole career.
How often do you change brush heads? They are quite expensive at $15/piece.
It won't help with ones that are already gone, but there's a firefox plugin called Archiveror that automatically archives your bookmarks.
It's not really a call to predict anything.

If you're hiring some who you're going to need to mop the store, and during the interview you make it clear that they're going to need to mop the store, and you ask them if they will mop the store, and it turns out that they don't mop the store, that's considered a sufficient reason to get rid of them.

Having an explicit discussion on the topic of "Will you do this thing that we expect you to do?" means that (a) the interview tracks what actual day-to-day expectations are, and (b) if they don't do the thing, there's no need to feel awkward about wanting to not keep them around after promising something and failing to follow through on it.
No dark mode?
Pedagogical Anecdotes and Sayings by I. M. Gelfand
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Searching "meta class python" gives better results, which seems reasonable to me.
I think the main issue is that you have no idea what OCR is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
I have to think part of what makes conspiracy theories take off is that they're fun. This one was so much fun to think about, that we could've been so wrong about something so big, that it was right under our noses

Not unlike creepypasta; injecting some mystery and wonder into what can otherwise be a bland, even bleak world, where it feels like everything's been explained away already
There's tons of broke-ass furries who can't afford a ton of commissions. There's also a lot of furries with tech jobs who have more money than they know what to do with, and are willing to pay artists fees that approach a significant percentage of what the techie's hourly wage works out to.

Furry art is a significant part of my income and trust me: furry commissions are crazy cheap. Yes, even that one guy charging in the low four figures - he does some pretty complex work that I'd charge four figures for too, if I was willing to work that long on a client's piece.

I could be making a lot more money if I'd stayed in the animation industry, or if I was hunting corporate illustration work. But then I'd have to deal with much tighter deadlines, restrictive style guides, clients who really have no idea what they want and no idea how to articulate how what I just spent a while working on fails to capture what they want, figuring out how to make the lucrative but incredibly boring world of, say, standardized shipping pallets visually interesting, and a whole bunch of office politics. Drawing happy animal-headed people having a good time is a lot more fun. It's nice when a corporate gig comes my way now and then because it can pay a few months rent, but it definitely takes its toll in the amount of tedious bullshit I have to deal with.

I'd also maybe have things like "health insurance" and "a retirement fund" but, hey. It's a tradeoff.
Because something took time to evolve into a problem doesn't mean it wasn't always a problem.
AMD and Intel chips take ~5 years from starting work to being available to buy

The architecture is basically frozen 2 years before tapeout, which itself is a year before they go on sale.
You do not nerdsnipe us! Not today - sir.
And what about books, just links to the most important books on the subject, without getting too philosophical about how to determine the most important ones.
Starbucks does a lot of promotions from within. A manager at a corporate location probably started as a barista.

Which is honestly better than bringing in corporate managers who have no experience anyway.
Or you can just link a scribd or google docs link with details about the language's design...until you decide on where your blog will be.
I heard they won’t submit anymore so as to not draw further scrutiny and possible sanctions onto their suppliers. Not sure if true, but keeping a low profile certainly makes sense given the blows dealt to the more visible vendors in the past few years.
> As a user, why do I care if apple makes money over 3p devs.

Well the purpose of anti-trust law, and pro competition laws, is usually to prevent companies from using their market power to artificially give themselves a larger cut of the profits.

That is one of the reasons why these new laws passed.

And all your complaints about security or whatever, ring completely hollow, if you then propose a solution that does nothing to address security, and instead just gives money to Apple.

> they’re all screwing over users in the end anyways.

If you actually cared about this, then you would have proposed a solution that prevents the bad things from happening to users. Instead, you didn't do that. You instead proposed a solution that just gives money to Apple.

> Apple needs to toughen up

The point being, that increasing the amount of money given to apple, does not toughen up the app store. Instead it just gives money to Apple.

If you cared about toughing up on user protections, you could have given a suggestion that actually does that. But you didn't, once again. You instead just thought of a solution that does nothing to protect users, and instead just gives money to Apple.
It's not the type of story that I really share in the venue of press, radio and films, if you get my drift.

I'm happy to chat -a bit- about it, directly. Many of the stories that I know, are not mine, to tell.
Those negative examples don't work for me on Safari, I can't drag the frame small enough to trigger the bad examples - it seems not to allow it.

So tbh the content looks good for me in both bad and defensive cases
Correct, but they do pull the strings (the Porsche family).
> What if those authorities were wrong? What if they were lying, even? Can we be sure? Can we ever truly know?

> Well: yes, we can. The Phantom Time Hypothesis is nonsense.

Hmm. I disagree that we can know. We might hypothesise that this is the case, we might evaluate some evidence to better than other evidence. But "knowing" is hard - we can only know very few things.

In my view, we can only say we know those facts in the world that we have personally experienced. The rest is hearsay. If you read something from a book, or even several books, or even a TV program, none of those can confirm the truth of a fact.
If I were in science, I’d be that guy always trying to fail and destroy years of “fake science”.
Yep. Bad opsec at the org level. Either the eng was doing work stuff on a personal laptop or personal stuff on a work laptop. This is easily preventable and should be table stakes when handling money, phi, etc
Capitalism only creates innovations where there is potential for expanding profits. Permanently fixing teeth is infinitely less profitable than keeping them in a constant state of disrepair.
My point is that you can write fast code just as easily as you can write slow code. So engineers should write fast code when possible. Obviously you can spend a lot of time making things faster, but that doesn't mean you can't be fast by default.
Slightly related, correlating different ancient calendars that weren't ever explicitly lined up at the time in historical records is a delightful, if esoteric topic. While there may not be any missing time from recent European history, it's a lot hazier if you go even further back.

For example, Mesopotamia laid dead for 3000 years before being rediscovered. Their civilizations were long gone when the Greeks and Romans started leaving written texts. Akkad and Sumeria were rediscovered anew in the early 20th century, even more completely anew than Ancient Egypt had been a century before that. Along with that came uncertainty of the dates and calendars. Even today, we are still not sure of the dating of Old Babylon, let alone the first cities of Sumeria another thousand years before that. Today there are three competing interpretations, attempts to to align the day-by-day written records (often not overlapping from varying locations) with a constant chronology. Was Hammurabi born in 1810 BC, 1760 BC, 1830 BC? We have exact dates given for when he did things. But we don't know what those refer to! Similar ambiguities exist for Ancient Egypt. [1]

That's not the case with the Mayan long calendar! They were diligent astronomers, more so than the Babylonians, if we go by what records they left of observed events. The body of evidence over the last ~30 years has mounted to become nearly irrefutable. There's only one possible concordance that fits, and it fits the date exactly. To the point it's safe to say it's historical fact that Pakal the Great was born 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahaw 13 Pop (19 March 603 AD), acceded to the throne 9.9.2.4.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol (26 July 615) and died 9.12.11.5.18 6 Etzʼnab 11 Yax (26 August 683).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_ancient_Near...
HIP is basically CUDA with s/cuda/hip/g.

My experience is that the stack is pretty rough around the edges. But when it works, you (almost) literally find-and-replace, and it pretty much works as advertised. However, just because you can get to a correct code doesn't necessarily mean that code will achieve optimal performance (without further tuning, of course).
You don’t have to screen shot every page… convert the PDF to a PNG/TIFF image for every page, and OCR those. This is very easy to automate. If this is working with Unicode code points, you’re not blocking OCR, you’re obfuscating text. Anything that renders the PDF to a raster format will produce an OCR-able document.

If you’re a divorce attorney who used this to convert documents in response to a discovery request, and the opposing side had a valid reason for needing the unobfuscated text, then you’re probably going to end up having a nice conversation with the judge about acceptable formats.

Sending compressed TIFFs would probably be just as good. A bit larger file sizes, but it would be just as effective as stopping automated scraping of text. Also, less likely to piss off a judge. Any opposing firm that would be sophisticated enough to automate scrapping the text from a normal PDF would be able to OCR these files just as easily.

Or maybe you have a second site that sells the decoder, so you get to sell to both sides. Not a bad business model, if you can work it.
I would say, is this Ive's fault or Intel's? What the silicon team is doing is more or less what Ive needed to fulfill his visions.

Honestly, there's a lot of PC nerd pushback against Ive, but I think the industry as a whole needs someone like his asking the (to the lay person) obvious questions - i.e. why can't I have this amount of computing power in a human-friendly form factor, vs. the giant, imposing, and ugly monolithic towers of yore?
When you are used to it a couple of pints won’t even phase you. As a consultant I remember going out to have drinks with my coworker around 8pm and going back to the office at 11pm to finish a presentation. It was very much business as usual but to be honest I was basically working all the time when I was not partying. Some of the people there clearly were bordering functional alcoholism but that was part of the culture.
It will still improve the data center power bill of thousands of companies, while saying to them "just Rewrite it in Rust" will not.
Probably most Common Lisp implementations.
There's nothing fundamental in email that means you'll get fewer notifications than Slack. If you don't want to be interrupted just turn off notifications temporarily. Or quit the app.
All: please do not step into religious flamewar hell. Not even baby steps please. This is the most avoidable kind of flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999966 and marked it off topic.
I guess there is probably some struggle because they said she stole something, so they have "reasonable cause" to terminate her. Can't speak to the others fired with her, but I assume they've come up with some other "legitimate" reason. As far as the legal aspect, it seems like she is in the process, and putting out news pieces is probably to help attract attention of higher actors, like the AUSA. I wouldn't say it's a matter of more/less equality, it's a matter of visibility of this single person which she seems to be working on.
"A client could do that" is true. It's also unhelpful. They don't all, or even most, do that. Consistency is valuable, and trying to coach people to switch IRC clients (assuming one exists that ticks the right boxes on their platform) is, to me, a pretty poor use of my limited time on this planet.

I don't love Discord or Slack and there are a lot of things I miss about IRC, but the amount of sandpaper around getting people who are less than extremely forgiving of Computer Stuff to use it adroitly is one. Two chat platforms is already one too many for me, and IRC doesn't really make the cut for a third anymore because I too am becoming less forgiving of Computer Stuff as I get older, too.
China has probably figured out how to do it: make deals with US companies just long enough for the CEO/Execs to cash out options for the deals, and then they don't care if the technology has been stolen.

In most 4x games with technology mechanics, stealing technologies is among the most egregious diplomatic offenses, often worse than taking large cities or territories.

The US ... doesn't care because the ultra rich made money.
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1544258707197935617.html
I’m not sure what reader you are talking about, but that button is most certainly not doing any kind of OCR if your technique stops it.
"between $1 billion and $10 billion in assets so volatile that we can't nail down their value more precisely than that"
Sad but true. Academia’s biggest problem right now is that every PHD student has to be a political mastermind (or very lucky) to survive until tenured holy cow status is achieved
We could also sacrifice a single person and harvest their organs to save five others.
> Only pull the lever if you are sure. With an action you assume responsibility for the outcome.

Letting people die just because I don't feel super comfortable assuming the responsibility sounds pretty close to the definition of evil to me.
still not as good as stackoverflow
IANAL, but it more like the company has a legal obligation to tell that story and let him call himself a founder, but it's an out-of-court settlement, so we're free to call him an early investor and leave it at that. Now if Tesla to make a libel claim against the sources saying Eberhard and Tarpenning were the real founders, it can.
You can't really reason with algorithms.

You'll be placed in a list with a score next to your name.

> Though I also try not to work for companies that I would need to worry about that.

How do you figure out what kind of software your company uses internally?
That’s what I meant, if JavaScript hadn’t been trapped in the browser and allowed to call C, maybe there wouldn’t have been so much investment in making it fast.

But still, it’s kind of surprising that PHP has a JIT and Python doesn’t (official implementation I mean, not PyPy).
cool! some of the code samples shown aren't always the most relevant, but looks promising.
> ZooBear has tweet after tweet mocking Hinduism

Absolutely false. Can you share one?
Query autocomplete is on the roadmap :)
> I can't blame her of course. Especially since at the time there was plenty of FBI propoganda about missing kids terrifying parents and claiming this was a solution.

So long as we keep giving people a pass for falling for this crap they have no incentive not to fall for this crap.
Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar hell. That is the last thing we need here.

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