skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its maturity is not that interesting. I worked with Sun XDR back in the day (roughly the same origin time as ASN.1) and it was massively better in terms of tooling. Even at the time I tried to work with it, I had a hard time finding any decent C or python library that worked smoothly with ASN.1 (define schema, generate bindings, parse and serializes messages). Both of those are dirt-simple in XDR and pb.
A senior trainer for a method of dealing with trauma once said he didn't think the human nervous system has evolved to be able to deal with the quantity of bad news that is pushed at us.

Thinking about it, evolutionarily we probably dealt with bad news from within a 20 or 40 mile radius (two day's walk...). We are inherently disposed to pay attention to bad news (the creature that ate or mauled a guy in the next village may come this way). Put stronger, it's an evolutionary advantage to pay attention to bad news. But here in 2022, the bad news from thousands of miles away is 99% irrelevant to my life or survival, but my eyeballs get pulled in, and my nervous system gets overwhelmed unless I make a conscious choice to pull away, which I personally do.
I typically do it with

<emanynapmoc>@mydomain.tld

Spelling the company's name backwards makes it easy to match to a company for use by my own spam filter without setting off their pattern detectors.
> Yeah, I remember a study they did with music where they separated groups and in each group different bands would come to dominate based on luck (whoever got momentum first). Wish I could find it, it was quite a time ago.

I’m not familiar with that study, and I try to keep up with the literature. You might be very interested to read about the historical rise of the grunge genre as an example of the kind of luck you are talking about. There was definitely a magical kind of serendipity at work between all the different musicians and bands who were up and coming at the time.

Some of the one on one interviews with the key players are amazing. If they didn’t pick up a certain phone call or move to a specific city or play music with this one person, entire careers would never have been made.
You make a good case (ha!). What if toUpper() and toLower() were omitted from standard libraries? Usually they are used, incorrectly, to do something like string comparison, which could be better served by a more specific method.
I mean, there are some regulations involved too.

Housing developers usually aren't the problem.
This is anecdotal, but I've not run into a single real life American who hasn't agreed with the general premise that we spend too much money on "the military industrial complex". Even the hawkish folks agree with this notion to some extent, usually arguing that specific projects are a waste of money and that's where the cuts should come from.

Cynically, I think our congresspeople don't actually take our feedback about the budget into account. They'll talk a big game about wasteful spending and the need to reduce deficits but the pork never stops flowing.
> ... JWST will downlink data in 4-hour contacts... In one contact, JWST can transmit at least 28.6 Gbytes

This works out to 2 MB/s.
This is a website for a startup accelerator, not a pure tech site. Almost everyone here, including myself, has plenty of contact with MBAs. You might consider that when reading all the negative feedback you've received.

> the language of finance, macro/micro economics, marketing

This is like saying people get computer science degrees to learn about programming. Is it important for the job? Yes. Will you learn it in the program? Yes. Is it why people pursue the degree? Absolutely not. An MBA is an expensive, time-consuming certification. Nobody gets a graduate degree in business administration because they enjoy the classes. People pursue them because they provide opportunities for career advancement at the higher levels.

> Some of them are good, some are not.

This is the core of the problem. For a company, it doesn't matter whether the MBAs are good, because they're almost definitionally climbers and as climbers their incentives are fundamentally misaligned with long term success.

I'll use Boeing as an example again, because it's such a textbook case. Management (composed primarily of MBAs) discovered senior engineers were expensive and laid them all off. Twenty years later, their planes crash, their capsules leak, and their rockets don't work well enough to launch at all. Did they make the wrong decision? Well it looked very good on a lot of quarterly revenue reports, EBITDA was up, and the CEO responsible for most of those layoffs (James McNerney, MBA) retired well before the disasters to accolades, trusteeships, and not tens but hundreds of millions of dollars. From his perspective, he achieved the goal behind getting an MBA in the first place.

There's nothing wrong with ambition, but being wary of people with too much of it has been a tenet of humanity since before the refinement of bronze.
You're talking about surface level details and artistic choises. I'm talking about the underlying workings of the engine, and the strangling limits placed thereupon. Limits like token count, which only serves to force you to "optimize" your code somewhere along development of your game because you suddenly "run out of words" to code a new feature you just thought of. Then the framework turns from "helps you make games quickly" to "grinds your progress to a halt because REASONS". Or if you wanted to make another level, the creative artist you are, but there's just not enough room in the map editor, so now you have to plug in a data compression library and lose access to the built-in map editor!
A better analogy would be what Disney did to the Brothers Grimm. In fact, Disney is probably the poster child for this shit, given how much they lobbied to extend copyright law so that nobody could do to them what they did to Europe's fairy tales.
Just a casual heads-up - https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/
Exactly, why check for cars before crossing the road?

If it's dangerous enough, it'll hit you.
> While The Last Starfighter would push the boundaries of computer-generated special effects two years later.

Glad this got a mention. It may be cheeseball, but I can watch TLS even today and suddenly I’m 12 years-old again.
There is no inappropriate way to use clothes you own, unless you're using it to strangle someone. The people who get upset about people wearing things from "their" culture are always deracinated diaspora with no real connection to the culture. People who are healthily embedded in a culture don't get upset about foreigners "misusing" their cultural bric-a-brac, they have real lives to attend to. And if you're getting upset at a party goer wearing a grass skirt then you're in need of psychiatric help.
Putting something in an enclave doesn’t magically make it impervious to side-channel attacks.
How about foreign languages? I've never had one good enough for Arabic. 3 years ago when needed it for a project, no OCR I found could read a properly scanned Arabic page. Had to go on Fiverr and paid a transcriber instead.
There's a quote from this article under the Cable Viewership section that I found interesting. "Cable viewership across the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — is, on average, down 19% in prime time for the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2021. Those losses skew heavily toward CNN and MSNBC, which are down 47% and 33%, respectively. Fox's ratings are up 12% in that six-month span."

That's a very weird, biased way of phrasing that. The two left leaning news organizations are down quite a bit, but the right leaning organization is actually up, but we're going to lump them all together and make it look like they're all down at first glance.
There seem to be at least two issues here:

1) pay and conditions relative to other options (which your example illustrates)

2) the system's inability to react quickly to changes in required throughput, because hiring and training takes at least a few weeks(?)

I wonder what's the dominant reason for today's situation, when Heathrow worked fine before the pandemic?

A) Potential workers have better options (or better information about options) than they did before the pandemic?

B) The airport and airlines failed to forecast accurately enough?

C) Some other type of 'bug' in the system of management?

D) Something else?
A Sh**ty first draft
I decided to follow platypus publishing's 21 day mini-masterpiece course and produced this short draft.

It's about my strongly held belief that companies, certainly smaller companies, don't need the Taylorist command and control structure to thrive.

I tried to post to reddit/r/management but they don't allow posts. All I want is feedback, please.

Many thanks. Happy to discuss.
This might actually be a font thing, depending on whether any given font provides a precomposed version of "i" + "combining dot above" (and rendering it as just "i") or not.
I stopped reading the news starting this week, and created another Twitter handle for all politics and news related follows... And I don't read it. The news is all depressing. The options are either focus on daily life & donate to Dems/Ukraine or... go out marching with antifa? There's no middle ground I can see.

I can't listen to this but will just leave it here:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-307...
The linked page is not js, its js deferring actual attack to wasm. It doesnt work on 2018 system despite the demo being released in 2021.
The abstraction is already heavily leaking. It's trivial to patch this claimed abstraction leakage and it won't be worse than the way PostgreSQL already often exclusive-locks whole tables when you add a column and can only statically know the position of columns appearing before a variable-sized one.
You are right - it would be better to compare something like the yearly middle-class lifestyle spendings of a 100k€ and 200k$ family all things considered. I would think the difference is smaller than expected considering housing alone. However, a large drawback in Europe is that the upper-ceiling of earnings in Tech is much lower than in the US, there is not much air above 150k€ unless working in management at a large corp.
Thanks, that's what I was looking for (double thanks for the example inference code). I'll queue up the download and try to get the dependencies working.

Comment 1: git-lfs is now close to saturating my gigabit ethernet connection, around 990Mb/sec
Honestly, the idea of forcing people to return back to the office has to be a line in the sand which we cannot capitulate on; no one wants to be forced to return to that situation if they don't want to and have not had a drop in performance.

Most things have shown that productivity didn't go down, in fact for some it went up even higher and that reflects itself in having more content employees who are willing to stay and take lower pay rather than just leave for a remote first company--which I'd argue needs to be the default for most tech jobs.

I refuse to suffer in an office just to prop up the artificially high prices of commercial real estate holders because this class of people can't seem to want to get it through their heads that WFH is a viable model that should be followed if we really care about solving climate change as well as allowing people to avoid the unnecessary burdens of having to commute to an office when we have soaring gas prices and higher costs of living.

Lower wages are, begrudgingly, the better alternative; but rest assure that employee will be seeking for a new remote role and will leave you without any hesitation, and you'll be lucky to get 2 weeks notices the way things are going.
I expected more shoes.
I haven't read this book, but this guys videos are really good and he focuses quite a bit on React development.

https://no-bs-ts.myshopify.com/products/no-bs-ts-the-book
Fun to see how it went from: Musk can't/shouldn't buy Twitter and we shall implement a poison pill to prevent him -- to you must buy us out at a hefty premium to the market.
My guess is he was going after some subtle points that are not normally the focus in this genre, so for many readers it is going to come across as hollow.
In a democracy, citizens have a moral obligation to be informed enough to make a qualified decision at the ballot box. There are also other ways than voting to influence political decision making in a democracy, which requires citizens to be informed and educated.

This doesn't require checking the news daily, but maybe at least once a month?
True, though I find it hard to believe there are still no real world exploits.
We have some good employment laws that Uber is skirting by classifying their employees as "independent contractors".
Preaching to the choir. Game devs collectively hate web3 and NFTs because it is associated with finances and speculative markets. Meanwhile they have no problem locking their game into a single mega corporate walled platform and letting that company take a 30% cut of their in app purchases.

Eventually I suspect many game devs will seek decentralized protocols for payments and asset ownership.
I've never even started. I only have a handful of subscriptions only for specific and scope-constrained services that can be easily replaced, such as:

* JetBrains (IntelliJ/PyCharm IDEs), with an option to stop paying and still keep the last version you paid for - that integrity keeps me paying for it even though I don't technically need the latest version. Can be replaced with Sublime Text, other open-source alternatives or worst-case scenario, Vim with open-source plugins

* Office 365 (or Microsoft 365 or whatever they're calling it now), only ~2$/month for hosted email and 1TB OneDrive space so worth it, don't need anything else. Can be replaced with a self-hosted server if needed (I already run some for clients).

* Kagi Search, it's pretty good but I subscribe mostly for supporting them rather than any specific benefit - it it was purely about the money then I'd say DDG is good enough. Can be terminated if the value is no longer there or if it start smelling like "growth & engagement".

Any consumer product I don't bother or milk the free trials continuously - Spotify has this nasty habit of "personalizing" everything without an opt-out so I just create trial accounts every couple months to reset my profile and avoid getting into a filter bubble. I also have downloaded mixes from various YouTube/SoundCloud channels (via youtube-dl) that keep me going through the day, are available as local files and don't rely on a shitty, memory-intensive and network-dependent player to play.

For movies/series, the very few times I want to watch something, a friend usually has what I'm looking for, and worst case scenario, that friend can always be "the pirate bay". In hindsight I've got very little time to watch anything anyway and get most of my entertainment from free YouTube content (proxied via Invidious so no ads/etc). Patreon or ad-hoc donations take care of the "paying creators" aspect without giving any penny to Google who couldn't even be bothered to respect the GDPR until very recently so no bad feelings there.

Gaming wise, I still get plenty of value from my fully-paid-for copy of Battlefield 3 and am not interested in anything new if it involves subscriptions, microtransactions or having to grind for months before getting good weapons/ugprades as I don't have time for the latter anyway and would rather spend that time enjoying BF3 where I'm already fully leveled-up. Old copies of Minecraft (Beta 1.7.3 - the real Minecraft, self-hosted servers and friends) also provide tons of value.

Anything else, not only do I not see enough value in it nor am happy with the (usual) privacy concerns, but wouldn't want to commit anyway in fear that they'll alter the deal in the future or change the software to benefit "engagement" at my expense.

The current list of subscriptions above (which is all it is - I don't think I omitted anything) is alright for now but can and will be replaced should they alter the deals in a detrimental way.
The point here is that self-hosting is _possible_. Most users are almost certainly going to just let a third party host their keys. But if keys are identity primitive at the protocol level, then the protocol prevents full centralized platform capture, similar to email interop.
I've been looking at the history of spreadsheet software lately due to personal interest in making a video game where spreadsheets are the primary form of interaction. when I came across this video of the now-forgotten Lotus Improv I was blown away.

why has innovation in spreadsheet software design stagnated so much in the past thirty years? why are the main spreadsheet application offerings today (Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice) all still so firmly rooted in the VisiCalc/1-2-3/Excel mold, instead of offering anything new? are spreadsheets just destined to be the same until the end of time?
Side note, GitHub's URL scheme is so counter-intuitive.

I spent the first 10s wondering who this readme user was and how could they have such a different main page.

Then there's the orgs at the same level as users...
What you said I vibe with. But notice that even if it was presented in that precise context (“do you intend to invoke this theme?”) the author internalized it as story problems, hence we enter the territory of self-censorship.

Also, I think it would be very optimistic to assume an editor is deploying the word “problematic” about your story as anything other than an attack on its appropriateness and validity.

> where an eloquently written editorial review argued that it had problematic themes.
Surprisingly high IMO
It's Doom all the way down.
They are back to back sentences. Pretty bad attempt at obfuscating. The first sentence claims data “across” all channels, and the following sentence breaks it down.
The man has skills but this past due. Apple devices have become sterile, utilitarian, no passion.

Sony set a very high watermark
practicality and desirability - subjective of course, but just look at what they've done over the years:

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/gallery/

I hope Apple can inject some creativity.
It is pretty easy to keep on top of news, just occasionally browse the headlines and pickup more narrow interest stuff via social media.

Most things are just part of the 24 hour news cycle and don't mean much of anything, certainly not worth sitting there with CNN or similar on to get fed to you at a very slow pace and full of ads.
My wife is on a 50+ day streak. I don't know how she does it. Even today's she got it in one second. I watched her do it too.

It has happened a few times where the song is not permitted to be played in my country (Australia). A notable one was Wonderwall by Oasis.

Heardle apologised and allowed her to guess it "correctly" to continue her streak.
Lesser Known Chrome extensions and why you should use them
Just patch your compiler/macro assembler to insert HCF instruction before any conditional control flow instructions.
Linux apparently did it correctly - the last time it happened we watched the kernel log and cheered when it said :60
TikTok is Chinese spyware, it’s not even remotely close to anything from the glory days of the internet. There is not enough traffic being driven to independent, small sites, the web has consolidated to a few, highly politicized, tightly controlled, sites.
Generally long form content
Yes, it's likely to stop evil maid attacks. But keylogging is just one attack vector. If you can boot to Linux, you can clone a copy of the user's data, to be decrypted with a cluster off-site.
> Meta - I am honestly surprised, and sightly appalled at the general attitude in these comments (and also in yesterday's thread).

>Uber has essentially not just broken laws, but outright exploited workers/drivers... and people comment "Aah but the local taxi mafia was bad"...??!? I'm sorry but that does not justify exploiting workers. That does not justify using political influence to enter/gain markets. This isn't some messiah coming to save us all from the "horridness of local transport".

Except this isn't a david against goliath story like you're implying.

The fact is that those laws are not just practically wrong, but they are also morally wrong, and serve primarily to protect entrenched interests, both from the taxi companies, and of the workers who you claim incorrectly are being "exploited".

The fact is, if anyone is "using political influence to enter/gain markets" it's the established interests. The taxi companies, the workers, etc... Those very regulations that you are complaining are being broken by Uber, are the the problem!

I don't like Uber. I think it's a bad business. But its effects on muscling in on the taxi industry, and its blatant breaking of these immoral and economically ruinous laws are quite frankly commendable.

Would that we had more companies like this in other areas of the economy with entrenched interests.
Systems security people can complain too, but just like they can’t change things neither can you :(
Yeah, except that Uber and Lyft just keep most of the surge for themselves and obfuscate that fact from the riders and the drivers

You end up with a surly asshole driver and a surly asshole rider who both think the other is screwing them, when in fact it was the silicon valley douchebags
Why can’t the engine determine a good packing for the field types? I’ve always been under the impression that rdbms engines do this, that my CREATE TABLE command doesn’t dictate column order - why would it? It what case does the column order matter to the user? During SELECT, I expect the returned fields to come in the order the query specifies, but that’s usually different from how the table was created.
Thanks! That looks very good and right on my study path. I'm glad that the preparation phase can be prepared by some CS courses.
The experience you’ve outlined of Product Management is not good: Product Management lives and dies by it’s ability to deliver in a high-impact way — “trying to get our first sale made” is not a good phrase to hear from a Product Manager, neither is “pushing an investment case”.

From what you’ve described, you’re someone with BD competency and an interest in Product Management, which you’ve been able to dip your toes into within your current role but haven’t gained meaningful experience of delivering successful software.

I think you’ll be best off picking a company with a strong product team, and join in a pure BD role with the opportunity to dip your toes into Product Management — and develop your skills within a positive environment, and evolve from there.

The key, when you’re new to Product Management, is to get into a company with a strong product, because even when you’re outside of the product org (i.e: pure BD role) you’re going to learn more about building a product than you ever will from being a product manager of a garbage product.

If you show up to a BD interview at a product company, and you bring with a history of successful BD, and a passion for Product and a long term aim to be deep into Product, you’ll be a standout candidate.
The only cure for cowardice is to face your fears: donate it all to charity, the IRA included. All other measures are short-lived nepenthes.
The new scope appears to be capable of wonderful images, and no doubt many new discoveries.

Too bad, then, about the crappy colorizing/outlining for the 'so pretty' crowd. I await the site that simply shows (frequency-shifted) images. Any colorizing should have a 'legend' describing its purpose.
Nah, the first option, not a central repo. That's a cool idea though, maybe I should do that for irl todo lists. With markdown, it's probably easier / better than using notepad or discord or whatever.