skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
employers are happy to let people "burn out" via exiting after a number of years of consistent sprinting because hiring occasional replacements can also be useful in other ways and the social cost of those burnout patterns isn't really the company's concern. so as often said at companies/by management, try to connect your view on what an individual's healthiest or most productive life would be to what is actually valuable to their employer as a business
Other people how? For many it's just a refund on state income taxes.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that once an organization reaches a certain scale it is expected that communications constitute most of its overhead?

Something like ArriveCan requires the collaboration of several branches of government and ties in with a system that monitors over 2M arrivals in our country every month. Even all the doers attitude in the world won't change the fact that they won't just give you access to those databases without some pretty extensive review.

Just think of the QA needed on the arrival machines at the airport, you can't afford to have them all be out of order because they handle much of the incoming traffic, so the "ArriveCan update" has to be thoroughly tested so that it does not cause any significant downtime. This is the exact opposite of the "move fast and break things" environment.

To summarize, I do think that ArriveCan (the program) was a waste of money, but I think the program itself did not waste money. It's the price that comes with building multi-systems applications.
My personal observation is people are generally soothing their brain into into inactivity rather than priming it for something. There is a reason get rich quick scams are so effective and so much home exercise equipment sits unused, the first step is usually the easiest.
Good news, they are free

https://community.signalusers.org/t/usernames-in-signal/9157...
And she is sometimes credited with influencing David Crosby (who she was in a relationship with) to use alternate tunings. CSNY's use of alternate tunings certainly helped popularize them, at least for a bit.

When Stills' played in EEEEBE tuning (which he apparently learned from Palmer) it almost doesn't sound like a 6-string.
No, I'm emplying that above a certain hierachical level ethics don't matter. And that your professional background influences, at most, the way you cheat and act unethical. Engineers, which software developers and CS grads are only in a loose sense, arw by no means better than MBAs, or worse.
How is this, then. If I can model everything as a calculation, such that all things are computers. What isn't a computer?
Well for starters, if you are NIH or NSF funded, they have data storage requirements you must meet. So usually this involves something like tape backups in two locations.

The other is for reproducibility - typically you need to preserve lots of in-between steps for peer review and proving that you aren't making things up. Some intermediary data is wiped out, but usually only if it can be quickly and easily regenerated.
Show HN: PyTorch search engine
Institutional knowledge isn't in their metrics so it obviously doesn't exist.
Coffee vs. Tea Smackdown
I've noticed a similar phenomenon on pages about machine learning. There are entire sections about now-obsolete ideas that people only talked about for a few months before moving on.
Rural communities are great and I'm grateful for them as they are the breadbasket of our nation. Having real communities that come together to help and to celebrate things is great and I'm grateful I live in a town that's like that too. But yeah, where I live I think you need to keep the automobile on the driveway lol.
Be aware that if you are in a more modern "tight" house, that drying indoors like that can increase the moisture load tremendously, and if the house isn't setup to handle it, you can get moisture damage from drying clothes.

The water has to go somewhere, and if it's not going down the drain or out the dryer exhaust, it's going into the air. (This may be desirable in some cases to balance humidity).

Same reason that storing wet wood in the basement can lead to water issues in the walls.
Zuckerberg controls 55-60% of Meta shares, so he doesn't have to worry about losing his job.

When Meta/Facebook announced the cuts Zuckerberg specifically said the company has to cut expenses. No need to speculate. The stock has tanked.
She died before WW2, and nobody alive today was alive when she was alive, so how is she "cancelled"? Her novels are on multiple Top 50/Top 100 of all time lists.
I wonder what could be improved with todays knowledge while keeping it under 2MB.
Not sure what your point is. You're saying that you can live without trusting anything at all?

Say you don't trust that absorbing any kind of liquid is safe, how do you survive more than a few days? Do you prove it first? Based on what, if you don't trust anything?

Trust is all around us, we constantly choose to trust (or not) things.
The correct solution to this and a shitload of other problems is a real, national ID program. But there's enough resistance to it in both US political parties that it can't happen. The lack of it causes a ton of stress, over the population, and is a drag on the economy, but we're just never gonna fix it. Instead we'll de-facto have one (or more) anyway, including 99% of the risks that a real one would carry with it that everyone's so hand-wringy about, but without the benefits of the real thing.
Wfh will end when companies feel they can get and retain the staff they want or like to have. If they have recruitment or retention problems, some will adapt and the rest won’t. It’s more on the workers to drive this as developers tend to be introverted and certainly profit from peace and quiet.

If the country or regional differences increase, companies will have problems as 2/3 of peoples times are spent outside work. If offices don’t give up on the dense, no privacy offices they’ll keep getting pushback from (potential) staff.
Courts all over the world, including VWs home country, disagree with you here.
Americans are becoming less productive, and that's a risk to the economy
> But then other folks would give a play-by-play of what they did and how, and what they will do next and how they will do it.

Saw a principal engineer do that. He would take what could be summarized in a sentence or two and spend 5+ minutes describing it.

Same guy once rejected a PR and made me initialize a field to null instead of empty string, his rationalization is that he's been both a DBA and a developer over his 7 year career, so he knows better. than apparently the entire industry that's been moving away from code like that for the last 10+ years.

yes, you read that right. 7 years, not all of it in software dev, working as a principal engineer.

politics are a bitch sometimes.
> Replace GPT-3 with Bob, language model with person, and deep learning with learning, and you arrive at the conclusion that we're not able to determine whether people actually understand the world around them.

Wouldn't the fact that people's facts do not match up prove that they do not?
A novice isn’t always going to know the difference between something they could understand with effort and something they don’t have the context to understand.

It’s an incredibly common cause of anxiety in math education, and even if you’re not personally affected by it others may be.
I knew a guy who used to install metal roofs in farm country. In his late 30s he got a nasty job site injury and his boss screwed him out of workers comp. He'd always had a passive interest in computers and decided to get some certs at the local community college and start his career in IT. Messing around with scripting at his first job as a Junior Sys Admin he decided he liked coding more and became a software engineer. He's now in his 50s and a staff engineer at a unicorn.

It can be done. I would focus less on hours and more on just finding something you can stick with and develop professionally.
The day I see an ad in the night sky is the day i become a terrorist
Anonymity is a kind of security. There are other kinds that are trivially not anonymous but should be secured (and private between members), like talking to my family members about our private business.

To the best of my knowledge, Signal's use of phone numbers does not meaningfully compromise the security or privacy of my conversations with my friends or family.
You are paying 10x more because no one gets fired for using IBM. AWS has many benefits most which you don't need. Pair up with another school in a different region and backup data. Computers are not scary they rarely catch fire.
We've all been using the term "Human Resources" for what, like 20 years now? 30?

It's always rubbed me the wrong way. What was wrong with "Personnel"?
The tooling is getting better. Debuggers are a thing now. You can program them in freestanding C++ with a little determination. Openmp target regions are friendlier syntax. Julia and a bunch of python machine learning things have GPU backends. They're still niche but slowly we make progress.
That's still way too expensive. 3090 is less than 2x of the monthly cost in Genesis. A100 is priced better here.
Back in Seattle the lingo was "persons experiencing homelessness". I feel like the more syllables you can get in there, the more PC it gets.
An interesting idea, but I suspect it just pushes the issue back one more step. How do you authenticate for login to that email account? Specific machines limits but doesn't fundamentally change the attack surface.

If the person has ID, then many options work, but if they don't what can a DMV and trained clerks do that others can't in some way?

Lastly, I'm not from the US but even I've heard that the DMV is a hellish place with queues hours long. Putting more barriers in front of those who are already in a tough spot (and may need to spend that time working, queueing for shelters, etc) is a big ask.
I just did it from Firefox on Linux in a private tab near Washington, D.C.. Fake name, no phone, no backup email. I was able to log out, sign back in, and send an email without any trouble.

No doubt they're letting me through because some security heuristic says I'm a real human, and I'm sure they'd eventually make me provide a number if I continued using the account (this happened to me with my university G Suite account a couple years ago and I needed to contact my IT department to manually disable the phone challenge), but so far I can't see any evidence that they're doing anything unreasonable.

Perhaps they're requiring you to use a number because you've tested it a lot.
Start with https://scholar.google.com or similar citation indices. When the full paper is not freely available, you can often paste a DOI into sci-hub.
It's a design system. https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/guide-to-design-sy...
I remember buying a magazine with this floppy disk attached, blew my mind back then. Great marketing from QNX at the time.

How they did it: http://web.archive.org/web/20011106140711/http://www.qnx.com...
A large number of my larger edits are fixing up voice / tone to make an article read more like an encyclopedia and less like an excited blog post.
Obligatory "Power is not mainframe" reminder.
A significant value of implementing security as "normal" or by default is that you don't look suspicious for having it.
Dynamo has definitely been a bit of a nightmare to work with, but I actually find Fauna reasonably pleasant. You're not going to get the vast ecosystem of SQL based tooling, but the query language itself is designed to be composable, which reduces the need for ORMs (though I do still miss the type generation from Prisma sometimes), and there's a pretty nice declarative schema migration tool that handles that aspect pretty well: https://github.com/fauna-labs/fauna-schema-migrate

Haven't found myself needing much else from a DB.
If you just look at the shapes of the diatonic triads on each set of 3 adjacent strings, you can see a good reason.

On the group of 3 smallest strings, and the next group over, the shapes are all very reachable by the hand.

On the thicker string groups, the shapes require a wider spread of the hand — especially the half-diminished triad.

The smaller, more comfortable shapes on the thinner strings are made possible by the kink between the G and B strings.
> couldn't you construct a class of nothing but black students from the top SAT bracket and still have to deny most of them?

You could do that, but if we disregard race as a factor and use a completely unbiased approach (example: simply select the highest scores and roll a dice in case of a tie), it is easy to see what the distribution would look like based on that table.
That's funny, I literally have this discussion at the beginning of every semester of my college "Technology for Information Professionals" class.

It's such a good icebreaker. Always starts with a timid "Oh, I can see reasons for both" and ends with "What were my teachers thinking? Anyway we would just cite the articles that Wikipedia cited to lol"
Well, blogs generally aren't acceptable sources to cite in Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Blog

Press sources do often have minor or major inaccuracies which can then get perpetuated in Wikipedia.

"What people outside do not appreciate is that a newspaper is like a soufflé, prepared in a hurry for immediate consumption. This of course is why whenever you read a newspaper account of some event of which you have personal knowledge it is nearly always inadequate or inaccurate. Journalists are as aware as anyone of this defect; it is simply that if the information is to reach as many readers as possible, something less than perfection has often to be accepted." —David E. H. Jones, in New Scientist, Vol. 26

Wikipedians, for that matter, are aware of this defect too (or ought to be), because a great many press articles about Wikipedia contain absolute clangers.
Could you give examples of these topics?

Most math and physics pages I have seen on wikipedia are about as good as an average textbook. The French wikipedia is way better for math, but the English one is not bad.
I've been running a group server (basically a shared workstation) for 5 years and it's been great. Way cheaper than cloud, no worrying about national rules on where data can be stored, no waiting in a SLURM batch queue, Jupyter notebooks on tap for everyone. A single $~6k outlay (we don't need GPUs which helps).

Classic big workstations are way more capable than people think - but at the same time it's hard to justify buying one machine per user unless your department is swimming in money. Also, academic budgets tend to come in fixed chunks, and university IT departments may not have your particular group as a priority - so often it's just better to invest once in a standalone server tower that you can set up to do exactly what you need it to than try to get IT to support your needs or the accounting department to pay recurring AWS bills.
In useNotionCMS.com, there is no concept of a page view, you just call the api, you get back the html. So it’s per api call, not per page view.

If you are talking about feather.so, it’s a completely different product. In that, the number of page views will be determined based on your Feather plan.
Is there a reason they don't have a schedule or speaker topics?
QNX always sounded interesting, until one saw just how much effort the company was going to to prevent people from actually using it. Vaguely recall a story about someone trying to buy 50 licenses from them for a prototype kiosk thing but they wanted something like 1,000 minimum for a reseller account; and that killed the project.
In this, then, we are talking past each other. If you want to define computing as the process of doing something, than I fully agree with you. This thread was hinged on the original headline's wording of it being them "counting" things happening. Is why I asked if you would say a woman's body was counting the months/days. That, I argue, is silly.

If you are merely arguing that we can all be symbolically described, and that a woman's body is computing the baby, I'm fine with that and agree. If you are then arguing that this symbol of a baby is akin to a computation that you can represent somewhere else, and that another process that computes the same symbols is the same. I'm also still fine. I'd still reject that the body is counting or computing in the other representation's terms. But, again, that does not seem to be what you thought we were discussing.
Every Class Is Some Student's Orgo
TeamCity has had a web based UI for at least 15 years, so I’d imagine they are very much concerned with it.
This is literally the worst idea I've ever heard here on HN. Completely guts the core of what makes Wikipedia great. It's not a classic "encyclopedia" and that's GOOD.
Most people who live in non-rural areas prefer their neighbor's houses to look "somewhat" like theirs.

Whether that preference is made through laws (mandatory mowing regulations), HOAs, community shaming, etc, is another question entirely.

Those who really don't care often end up moving to rural areas anyway, where the nearest neighbor is acres or miles away.
I feel like matrix solves a different problem, I believe that ActivityPub and Matrix can coexist. Honestly the very late game plan for the projects I'm working on is to be able gather under a single umbrella a suite of opensource applications to create a meta social network pod that can be easily launched in a similar way to Google apps on a custom domain (ActivityPub and Matrix for a starters). I think there could be enough money in that to gather venture interest, but sadly I'm very far from that moment.
You're going to try to get your subordinates to work harder.

But previous experience, as a grunt, ought to suggest that -- completely in line with almost all of the established research -- task-switching decreases performance. There's just so much overhead associated with it.

So it is as if elevation has caused someone to forget their experience.
Toolchest actually runs scientific computing on AWS! I'm just frustrated by what we can build, because most scientific compute can't effectively shift to AWS
Met Boon a number of times at E3 conventions - nice guy!
My university owns hardware in multiple locations, plus uses hardware in a collocation, and still uses the cloud for bursting (overflow). You can't beat the provisioning time of cloud providers which is measured in seconds.
The comment you're replying to starts with "Last week, actually."
Like did the evolution of AI & ML research go like this?

> We're stuck. After decades of research, we've hit a dead end. All we're left with is a byzantine maze of IF/THEN statements. We cannot simulate intelligence using pure logic. We have failed.

> Ok but what if we throw in PROBABILITIES into a byzantine maze of IF/THEN statements??????

>GENIUS!
Everyone wants a tip now. Touchscreens and the pandemic have created tipflation
One more reason to lean back towards cash. I'm all for tipping well where it's appropriate, but the tip-creep is getting ridiculous.
In the gravity example, you have a clear way to make a prediction and test it. The concept of gravity can clearly map via perception to reality, and thus the truth.

Most of the questions in this article given as examples of massive disagreements however are not like this. They hinge on interpreting the definitions of concepts we have invented that do not map so clearly to reality. The debate is often entirely over the definitions of the concepts themselves, not over reality or truth. It is more about language than physics.
You don’t need a security staff to keep a bitcoin wallet secure, that is a very odd comment.

Cryptocurrencies are not about making poor people rich and rich people poor. It is about having the a ability to do frictionless, uncensorable financial transactions among many other things.
This brings back memories. I remember marveling at this with my best friend when it came out. I got into BeOS around the same time.

I used to use those ad-supported dial up ISP’s and found one that worked with a standard PPP dialer so I didn’t need their software. I remember carrying around the QNX disk and login info so I could get online with basically any computer.
What an interesting turn of events.

As somebody that used to be an admin of a decently large community, here’s some free advice for anybody that’s trying to start something like this:

Get mods. Get them early. Get them from the pool of your most enthusiastic users. Fire them when they perform poorly. Continuity plans will be a lot easier to come up with if you’ve been sharing the burden of managing the community for a long time, heck they might even be emergent and obvious after long enough.
> Having 90% of registered accounts inactive with only 10% of them actively using the platform isn't exactly 'alive', 'growing' and 'healthy'

That's not at all true. Account activity follows the Pareto principle. It's not at all unusual for any online service to have a large number of inactive users. Perhaps it's different for Twitter, but considering I've probably signed up for it three times and use it approximately never, I'm skeptical.
The 10k hour rule has been debunked by many studies. For further reading, I recommend the book:

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
That is frequently done. A recent example is the article on "recession", which was frozen around the time that the US had two consecutive quarters of negative growth (often used as a definition for a recession).

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recessio...

There are differing levels of "frozen", which require differing levels of editor seniority to be allowed to edit.
you're talking about a liberal society where the two parties available both operate in extremely pro-corporate / "neoliberal" ways, and their corporate owner constituents (who now author our laws) want anything but for society to find a common enemy in them. of course the day to day politicking, narratives, and coverage are often gestural nonsense

this isn't a species-wide thing and definitely overstates the inevitability of these structures. you might be interested in recent wengrow/graeber research like the dawn of everything or their papers.
Oh I'm sure Ted was only marginally profitable at best. A flight would have the same fixed costs as a traditionally laid out plane with fewer paying seats. Since the cost of the seats wasn't much higher than other airlines' economy class, there weren't many avenues for Ted to make a profit.

I am just lamenting the loss of an airline where I, being taller than the average human economy seating is optimized for, was actually comfortable for the whole flight. The only times I've been comfortable on a plane have been in exit rows or the small number of times I've splurged and flown first class.
Perhaps this has changed, but my experience was that the installation wouldn't proceed without granting access. I could prevent the app gaining access to my contacts by using the Android home/work profile so that it would only see an empty contact database. There are other tricks you can use on Android, but I never got it to work on iOS.
My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac
There was a bill to improve digital identity in the us Congress but I don't think it went anywhere. I wrote my congressman about it more than once.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4258

edit: Actually there is a similar bill being sponsored in the senate now this year. So something is happening

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/452...