skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, much hard to justify their bullshit jobs remotely, they actually have to do some real work to try and posture.

we need a general clear out of middle managements, there are too many useless people in the workforce who only serve to demotivate the people who do the real work
I think 99th-percent estimate is a great point to make. You said some managers pushed back on estimates if you gave that time back. Did you tell them they were 99-percent estimates?
I’m well aware that this is an unpopular opinion.

When your game plan is take a multi-head attention transformer and overfit it on as much of the Internet as we have A100s to fit it on, you’re going to get a distribution, and if you sample from it, it’s going to sound like the Internet.

People read too much into this.

The technology is obviously powerful borderline dangerous, but it’s still just maximizing P(this-sentence-was-on-the-internet).
> Why is the consequence account suspension?

Good question.

It feels Orwellian that Twitter suspends you and makes you delete your own tweet, on first offense, instead of just auto-hiding that one tweet.
Former juvenile lifers talk about the meaning of second chances
"Why is eating one pattern of DNA more dangerous than another?" => Because some plants/animals have poisons, which is encoded in their DNA...
Dear Airbnb
Because C already does this, and has from the beginning. C was designed to be portable in an era where there were significant differences in fundamental CPU design decisions between platforms. C is widely used to write software for all kinds of weird platforms. Changing that would be far more work than just making a new language.
Does it control for price and availability of alcohol? The linked article seems to imply that the correlation between changing environment and changing consumption levels stems from a societary/conformist component, but I’m not sure that’s the most obvious conclusion. I might be misreading the (very short) linked article.
I don't know what you wrote earlier, and don't know if I would agree, but I share the current sentiment of your comment. I come to this topic with strong influences from eastern philosophical takes on consciousness, but also with a decent understanding of the current materialist consensus (which I disagree with for various reasons, that would go beyond the scope of a comment). I, too, bite my tongue (clasp my hands?) when I see HN debating this, because here Star Trek references are as valid as Zen Buddhism, Christof Koch, or David Chalmers.
This is a fascinating story, I couldn't help but read it all.

It's obvious all 3 suffered from isolation, boredom and depression besides all the other hardships and it's fascinating how each had a very different response to the conditions.
Moitessier seems to have had the best chance, but ultimately lost the will to win.
In hindsight, Crowhurst was obviously under too much pressure to win. Maybe if he had never allowed himself to be dishonest, he could have walked away, despite the frightening prospect of financial/personal ruin waiting for him back home.

That seems to have crossed the point of no return..
I'm assuming he means "tried to modify the kde theme at all." I've run various distros (mostly arch now pushes bridge of glasses up nose) and incredibly regularly it's an absolute nightmare to set up. Like just using "get new stuff" to install a few themes and apply them will ask you which specific filename you want (I have no idea, there is nothing to help me know on screen). Then sometimes I have to restart plasma for the changes to take effect. Then compositing breaks and I have to change the compositor backend to make the process restart so my window previews work again.

I have worked through all of this and much more and my kde setup is baller now on all of my machines. But I basically always launch gnome, because it is a significantly more polished system.

This carries through to the mobile Linux experience as well.
I work for an established medium sized company that is always looking for Delphi Pascal programmers for a realtime directX graphics application. Not surprisingly, this skillset can be hard to find in 2022.
my city has multiple recreational sport leagues that are active, and I spend a good chunk of time volunteering and have met some great people that way.
Multiple locations, coordinated roughly at the same time: that's boyscout level hard. You need a map and a watch, is all.

You don't need power tools, just a cutter. This is fiberglass coated in something like PVC. A knife will do. This "hard to repair" refers to making two cuts, a bit further apart than whatever slack is in the cable. You do that by taking up the slack, then making cuts where the cables don't touch.

It does not scream professional in the slightest, only motivation and a few like-minded people.
> Sentience broadly (& naively) covers the ability to independent thinking, rationalize outcomes, understand fear/threat, understand where it is wrong (conscience), decide based on unseen information & understand what it doesn't know.

So, number 1, [citation needed]. I don't think that list is broadly accepted as a universally agreed definition of 'sentience'.

And number 2, your definition rests on further needing to define what it means for an entity to: think, rationalize, understand, decide, and know.

The premises of 'understanding where it is wrong' and 'understanding what it doesn't know' also assume some sense of 'self' that feels like it needs justification.

I think there's a very real sense in which computer scientists seem too willing to say 'we know this system isn't thinking' without having a rigorous understanding of what they mean by 'thinking'. Actually meaningfully engaging with the philosophy of consciousness on an academic level - citing scholarly works, taking seriously the fact that these things are not all obvious and agreed - feels like something that the AI field will have to start grappling with.
just switch to you.com
> I'd advise the friend of yours to create a relationship their spouse wants to be in. That's how you prevent the downsides of alimony.

This is simply not true. Your spouse has free will, and can use that free will to make marriage-ending decisions, no matter what you do.
> Same thing on Reddit. You can basically advocate for genocide, completely unhindered, by calling entire classes of people "degenerate" (literal Nazi rhetoric), but get banned for calling it out.

Yeah, you'd have to link to that comment that went unmoderated. Given how petty reddit mods are about identity politics on main subs, I'd wager that this sort of speech doesn't fly there...
Suing small farmers for copyright infringement isn't very nice.
So your assertion is that this software that is behaving like every other software in the world is doing so not because its software, but because its cowed by slavery? Again, extraordinary claims, my friend...
Not sure what you’re being downvoted but Styropyro is correct. There’s one other aspect that people don’t talk about and that’s Q-pulsing. When you turn on 10W diode, the room gets pretty bright from the stray light. The moment you turn on Q-pulsing, the room glows uncomfortably bright, even with eye protection
Twitter banned me for calling Maxine Waters an “old hag”.
Haven't the people making the standards other things to do, like, integrating useful features instead of duplicating incbin.h [0] years after that feature worked?

https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin/blob/main/incbin.h
Does language really matter? Any experienced programmers should be able to pick up any language in a matter of days if he knows the underlying concepts. Similarly, the language is not what makes a job interesting.

I mean, what don't you like about JS? Is it the syntax or is it the environment? The code base? The framework? Maybe web dev is not for you? Maybe you are asked to do thing you personally disagree with (ex: ads). Language rarely was the main thing that defined the project, though there are correlations: if you are doing JS, you are probably doing web dev, with a higher chance of front-end work. But chances are that a NodeJS back-end and one written in, say, Elixir, won't feel much different after the honeymoon is passed.

If you want something different to JS, why not try good old C instead of niche languages? It has a significant job market, you will learn about memory management, and get your foot into embedded, high performance, and system programming, far from the world of JS. These skills will translate into the other (niche or not) languages you may use next. Even in high level languages, having an idea of how that works on a lower level is a good thing.
Indeed. I run a gnome desktop. Pinephone runs valent, which is a gtk4 kde connect client. Flawless.

It's one of the unsung hero bits of software. Needs to be in use by way more people.
> Obviously a different situation, but by what principle is it different?

The principle is that one is a public conversation, and the other is private.

Private conversations between two people should not be moderated. Twitter should not auto-moderate Direct Messages, and they don't AFAIK.
I wanted to add that indeed he does have a lot of money, and he has hired some very talented postdocs and PhDs with some of it. I have no doubt we'll see a lot of interesting new theory out of his group at least. And that's never a bad thing, even if the theory doesn't pan out.
Not to detract from your story, but it sounds like you are talking about subreddit moderators, not reddit admins.
Subreddit moderators are unpaid and only control content on the subreddits they moderate, whereas admins are reddit employees and have full administration powers.

There are problems that come from both of them, however moderators are often the petty power hungry types.
In the spirit of "GOAT", there's a great mini-golf course in Minnesota that has goats on it... http://bigstoneminigolf.com/?ID=OA
What makes users want to share a game? Here is all the cases when I ever did:

- I was asking my friends for new games in specific genres

- my friends discovered less known, but excellent games. Never casual games.

That's it. What I observed is that games are so diverse and people have different taste, my friends or family play different games that I am not interested in and they are not interested in what I play. Also I noticed a huge difference versus movies or music: people with similar taste can enjoy playing different games. That makes recommending games very different than recommending a good movie or TV show. Nobody cares if I play Sudoku or not, but I am telling anyone if I discover a new Scifi series that is good and not already famous.
This is the kind of GMO that's generally considered fairly benign as they're only increasing the expression of genes already found in the plant, not doing weird stuff like putting fish antifreeze genes in strawberries. You still have to be careful in some cases (for example, humans have bred toxins out of many food crops by reducing expression levels over generations; the genes for toxins might still be there, i.e. potatoes, so you'd not want to trigger their expression accidentally).

As far as nitrogen use, the claim is that these plants utilize nitrogen more efficiently than wild-type, so that you'd actually have to apply less nitrogen fertilizer and thus there'd be less nitrogen runoff from fields into lakes/streams etc.

From the materials and methods:

> "For nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) measurement, rice plants were grown in three independent field blocks supplied with 0, 100, or 200 kg N/ha. The study was performed in the Experimental Station of the Institute of Crop Science, CAAS, in Beijing from May to October, 2021. The N fertilizer was applied as urea at two stages: 40% at the tillering stage and 60% at the heading stage. Each line was cultivated in randomized plots with 20 cm spacing between rows and plants, and each plot contained at least 50 plants per line."

Oddly enough, the publisher makes materials and methods freely available but not results and discussion, go figure.
Fast food chain now paying workers daily at end of shift
It's none of those countries homie, thanks for letting us know you hate random countries or whatever
Maybe Microsoft will now stop spamming me with ads in software I PAID for.
I loathe JavaScript but I adore Typescript. Anyone unhappy with JS (or anyone writing JS period) should stop and adopt TS.
China owns them.
Doesn't mean everything they say is bullshit, but they can't be really trusted anymore.
> My boss would ask me to dive into another tool I don't really know and the cycle would repeat ad nauseum.

There is power in saying No.
I've become productive in LaTeX once I stopped doing any typesetting in it until there was a real need for it due to publisher requirements. LaTeX looks great out of the box, I just finished a book that I had to deliver camera-ready and the publisher (not a LaTeX shop) was very impressed with the quality. It was the standard Memoir book template with almost no changes. Ironically, many documentations for special typesetting packages in LaTeX look very bad. Generally, the less you change, the better.

LaTeX really fails at "register-true" typesetting, though. You have to allow it to extend pages here or there by a line or be willing to fix many orphans and widows by hand. AFAIK, this has to do with the text flow algorithms which are paragraph-based and cannot do some global optimizations. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an expert.)

Btw, I cannot confirm the compile-time criticisms. A whole book takes just a few seconds on my machine for one run. I wonder what people are doing who get slow compile times.
I could also see this, though perhaps it's a step too far for C, applying to Unicode encoding of source files.

The 1970s mainframe this program will run on has no idea that Unicode exists. Fine. But, the compiler I'm using, which must have been written in the future after this was standardised, definitely does know that Unicode exists. So let's just agree that the program's source code is always UTF-8 and have done with it.

Jason Turner has a talk where the big reveal is, the reason the slides were all retro-looking was that they were rendered in real time on a Commodore 64. The program to do that was written in modern C++ and obviously can't be compiled on a Commodore 64 but it doesn't need to be, the C64 just needs to run the program.
The Elixir job market is getting better in the US as well. I’m currently employed at a company that uses Eixir exclusively for backend, and we’ve got 100+ engineers. I’ve had multiple recruiters from other Elixir-using companies reach out to me on LinkedIn as well.
The whole show in ML these days is in the infra around massively distributed, redundant, tunable, train the same fucking transformer we’ve all been using since 2017.
Besides just diodes, there’s also the Q-pulsing aspect (hence the pico and fempto part of laser nomenclature)
an edit I would make to

> think of yourself as a problem solver, rather than a programmer of a specific language

would be to

> steer away from problems that are boring to you

E.g., there are very cool programs being written in Objective C, so I wouldn't write off a job just because it was in Objective C
Deal of the day: Zoloft
Hazel – My Game Engine // Code Review
<10 jobs is still significant.
I've been doing this since forever, and I don't feel I miss out on anything meaningful. Granted, I've never had that many friends to begin with, but the ones I do have haven't given me any trouble about not being on social media or whatever. In my experience these online platforms cater to shallow communications of dubious value.
Likewise, I'm currently on the management team at Hive76 in Philadelphia, and yeah - we couldn't operate as a for-profit company. We're a nonprofit, we're all volunteers, and while that means things move (sometimes a lot) more slowly, we can operate on razor-thin margins. We couldn't afford to pay one person's salary, but as a volunteer org we can keep going so long as we can afford rent/utilities/tools/consumables.
Typos are what happens when I post too quickly while waiting for my app to boot.
Nope, that many characters would be impractical in daily use. There’s a lot of copying, pasting, reading, and reciting of numbers via email/web/phone/TMS/WMS/etc.
I didn't agree on it. What likely happened was a bunch of excited folks wrote a whole bunch of words, and that volume gave the appearance of consensus.

Automated review is not good enough for services that are so large that they are de facto public squares. If the world were just, when you got that big, the rules would change to prohibit you from doing service-wide content filtering.

> ...calling for more automation and less traumatic moderation work.

Pay me 80% of what I would be making as a programmer (and keep up with changes in the market rate for programmers), and I'd be totally willing to do that moderation work. [0] There are _tons_ of people who have my intestinal fortitude out there... problem is that the enormous "social media" companies don't want to pay enough to get people who are well-suited for the work.

[0] You might counter with "Oh, well you can't _possibly_ imagine the things you'll see, you're all bluster and bravado and will quit within the month!". I'd counter with "Yeah, well you have no idea the things that I _have_ seen.".
Why not just make a simple script to do that? I wrote one in Python ages ago to add up's to the firewall that tried various names, failed # of logins etc... Nothing a few hours of scripting can't solve!
> When folks call trans people "degenerate", as many are wont to do on reddit (and as reddit is well known for), it's probably safe to assume they're not just trying to be playful.

Can you link to such comment that was left unmoderated on reddit despite being reported?
> No, the real world is an excellent place, filled with great people everywhere.

The internet is also filled with those same people. That includes Twitter and Facebook. The reason the bad ones are are extra loud in the internet is because some websites amplify their messages, whereas normal people don’t want the extra attention and prefer privacy.
Everything you wanted to know about Elliptic Curve Cryptography
At my current company we’ve got 100+ engineers writing Elixir. Fintech in the US. Almost none of them know Elixir when hired.
Straight lines on log-log plots.
Generally people carve out potato blemishes, and blight spots, and rotten parts, and smelly parts and butchers will carve out cancerous growths. It's a standard practice, something that humans do, partly do to our sense of disgust. Our senses are not always correct, but most of the time it's a good survival adaptation to avoid rotten food and getting sick.
The exclusion of Taiwan and the behaviour of their representatives during interviews whenever the subject came up.
Twitter is not the government? Twitter also is not really a public square, it's an advertiser-supported electronic press.

If I own a printing press, I have the freedom to print what I want, including what people send me, and I also can not print what I want, including what people send me. It's my press. Want different rules, get your own or use someone elses.

Because Twitter is a privately owned super-fast electronic press, administered at their whims, people should stop using it for things that matter unless they have an actual contract with the corporation. I don't rely on Twitter for anything other than entertainment.

The fact that people expect rights and meaning with advertiser-supported stuff given to them for free is what's harmful.
As opposed to every other organization owned by the U.S. oh please.
Why is it ok to collectively hate bankers, people working in big tobacco, salesmen in big pharma and many other industries that we know for being damaging to society, but when it comes to Big Tech we suddenly think "it is uncalled for"?

Facebook is a deplorable company and its leadership is known to have a completely broken moral compass. But why should we hold only the leadership accountable? It is the developers, the product managers, the biz dev people who are actually getting their hands dirty, and you can bet that no one is doing it against their will.
He deserves it, they don't need an ignorant who is seeking to be an attention whore.
How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation
That is sophisticated estimation. So in order to say a project will take a month, first you'd have to plan it in such detail to break into like 40 half day tasks? That's more detailed than most waterfall shops.
What about diffusion models? (And all the other things with less publicity that aren’t that)
Google: Whatever happened to ‘Don’t be evil’?
Incredibly, they had a remote employee in Serbia, so when they banned all these countries, they banned one of their employees. Last I heard they were telling him to use a VPN to bypass their own corporate rules (which they have admitted exist to dodge Serbian laws...!)
If your software already had a working architecture, everything is just plug and play. So estimation is fine. It'll eventually be deliverable.

Secondly, admit that all engineering code is tech debt, it'll pay back in future, but don't worry about it. Just be aware you should pay the debt regularly.
Dave Rat’s channel is an absolute treasure for audio gear and production hobbyists like myself. I’ve learned so much from his content.
> but surprising coming from someone who claims to have used tiling window managers.

Why are you using the verb "claim" if not to throw doubt over op's word ?

> When someone says "that works out of the box" what I hear is "I don't want to spend time customizing things to work better for me",

I call that putting words in people's mouth.
Land use throughout the globe is at an unsustainable level, causing habitat loss for species and reduction in carbon sinks. Getting farmland to produce more per square meter would be very important, and the results presented in the article seem like a possibility in that regard.

I wonder how this would combine with the effort[1] to modify rice to use the C4 kind of photosynthesis, if realized.

[1] https://c4rice.com/
According to study published in New England Journal of medicine, 95% of studied cases were sexually transmitted almost exclusively in men who have sex with men.

41% of those infected with monkeypox were coinfected with HIV.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/monk...

For anyone worried that monkeypox will be equivalent to Covid, the evidence does not support that.
Why Hosting World Cup Soccer Games Is No Economic Score for Cities
Nothing to worry about then, I guess?

On a more serious note: "The WHO" is already a sign of a limited understanding of how this works. In as far as an organization of that name exists, it's a tiny bureaucracy tasked with coordinating other organizations to carry out tasks set by the other thing called "WHO", which is just the label for a group of delegates from those national organizations.

The WHO does not have any institutional power of itself. It does not have any interests or credibility that is distinct from the interests and credibility of "getting the world's national health agencies" in a room.
Not sure about execute, but in my mind driving drunk is like firing a gun blindly - you might not kill anyone this time but it is dangerous as hell and you should definitely not be doing it. I think it should be taken more seriously.
I can tell you the next big thing is Perl … that’s where the money is…
Only took me 40 years to realize snow absorbed sound and that's why winter days with big snow always seemed quieter...they were.
It's valuable to consider the opportunity cost of this compared to a deepened knowledge of an already productive tool