skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their belief in this context is: “I would like to afford a house and be somewhere less crowded.”

Would you advise these people should confront their belief system and the consequentiality of their agency that led them to this conclusion?
It is basically never cold enough to die of cold in the UK. Winter death "surges" are just death by NHS. Anyway insulation is only worth bothering with if you give up on ventilation (excepting expensive heat-recovery mechanical ventilation very few people have in any country) which is far more important - being a bit chilly is easily fixed with tweed but lack of fresh air really fucks you up. Turn off the heat, open a bloody window and put a jacket on!

I for one am grateful the UK managed to keep loads of nice Victorian townhouses because the Luftwaffe weren't that great at their jobs. They're nice, proper high ceilings and woodwork.

I agree with you that the government energy subsidy we have now is appalling. Should be dumped immediately. I'm paying £15/mo less than I did before - this is the most stupid use of national debt ever devised, I would rather pay what energy actually costs than be forced to be complicit in this.
This is a great step in the right direction. Hopefully this is laying the groundwork for federal decriminalization.
Northeastern University motion sensors on graduate student desks
I don't dispute the cultural aspect, in fact that's a center point of my post. But Germany does have (to the best of my knowledge) a special rating board that even used to enforce censorship in games. E.g. games sold in Germany had to have blood removed.

Again, the cultural aspect is core to the entire thing, but nevertheless the overarching theme is that both countries apply a sort of self censorship.
IP addresses in themselves are not personal data but it is indeed a good idea to handle them carefully.

If you do collect personal data and are stickler for the letter of the law you can just state which personal data you collect and for what purpose. No-one will bother you if you are indeed only a small blog.
Yes, and this will be engineered by the... benevolent past generations which are already dead? The “zoomers”?
Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're talking about, but the big cloud providers offer a host of AI/ML APIs for a range of different things.

For example:
https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/ai-services/
https://cloud.google.com/products/ai
A lot of small and medium companies don't really know what to do with Staff Engineers. Not knowing what else to do, they default to something like the "Right Hand" archetype in this document, where they're reporting to someone important but lacking in any direct authority or accountability of their own.

These positions can be very comfortable if the person isn't directly responsible for anything, but they can use their leadership-adjacent position to come in and take credit for successes on anything they touch. I worked at one particularly miserable company where the CEO's "Right Hand" engineer would be dispatched any time a project was running behind schedule. Lo and behold, the work would be delivered slightly after the deadline by the slightly behind schedule team, but the credit for the "turnaround" went to the CEO's "Right Hand".

These positions can also be awful if the company puts unreasonable expectations on the Staff Engineer but doesn't actually give them the authority to execute. If you've been tasked with delivering a large initiative but you haven't been given any employees to do it with, your only option is to influence other teams to work on it with you. When it comes down to it, people are going to work on things for the person who determines their raises and performance reviews, not a floating Staff Engineer who needs people to help them.

This is why "Team Lead" and maybe "Solver" are the only two of these archetypes that are sustainable for a company, IMO. Letting Staff Engineers sort of float around in the company and spread their knowledge sounds good in theory, but in practice you need to carefully assign them into the org structure like everyone else.
So true. In France, with Covid, many of the IT crowd moved from Paris to cities like Bordeaux or Nantes, much nicer destinations.

They brought their votes with them. Those towns took a turn to the woke-left. Took barely a year to see it translate into higher crime, petty theft, etc. Now people are fleeing it again.
*groans* is this another new name for an old thing? I know I could just Google it, but wtf is a durable object?

It sounds like a json file… is it a json file? C’mon, tell me it’s NOT just a json file…
> If Alex is willing to lie and also gaslight someone about breakfast, Alex isn't safe to be around.

If a man lies and tells his wife she doesn't look fat in that outfit, is he unsafe to be around?

I know it's generational, but I really can't wait for reasonableness to be vogue again.
Right. The problem this is solving is age-old: how do you maintain a career track for your best performing engineers without forcing them into people management?
Another great place to look is Open AI’s example list:

https://beta.openai.com/examples/
To be fair, that also explains almost the whole of Britain.
As things are described, he writes paragraphs about his assumptions about the editor's reasoning for crossing out a nonsense phrase and fails to consider that the editor was not critiquing his artistic notions but rather just crossing off something that both of them agreed was bad. There's no particular evidence that the editor would not be amenable to simply rewriting the passage to make sense.

It was bad writing and the editor removed it. The fact that he felt shame doesn't make his assumptions any more valid.
Is this on going? If someone gets arrested tomorrow can they apply for a pardon and be set free?
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Let's say you have three candidates A, B, C.

A is left, B is center, C is right leaning.

Polling shows that voters are leaning:

- 15% BAC

- 15% BCA

- 25% ABC

- 45% CBA

If everyone voted as they desired, then the instant runoff would be between B and C, with B winning with 55% of votes.

If a subset of C voters instead strategically vote ACB (6%), this would change the runoff to be between A & C, with C winning 60%.
Huh? It's not like the children aren't using Google and Microsoft services by the truckload already. Every single one has Android/iOs phone. They use Gmail and YouTube and browse the web. And the schools use it too - MS Windows, Office, Google Classroom, Drive...
Practically nothing changes with a cloud desktop.
Sorry, I thought that was clear. He didn't get the loan.
It's actually much too little far too late, we should not be praising any effort that falls short of full federal legalization.
> What happens when a Native American village that's been around for 800 years can't afford its water supply because a nearby factory prices them out?

> (Even better, the US might have promised to uphold that water right under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.)

That's what's happening right now. CA growers get more than their agreed share, essentially for free. Native Americans get essentially none of their agreed share. Mexico gets literally none of their agreed share (that is, the river runs bone dry before it gets to them).

That's the whole problem. The agreed shares add up to far more than 100%, and right now some states - especially CA - are benefiting disproportionately from the allotment.
When there are daily ponzi schemes full of fraudsters who take people's money and run in an industry segment, it's worthy of distrust - (latest was today's story that the celsius leaders cached out $40 mil worth from celsius before they stopped other people's withdrawals, allegedly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33109070). At least once a week there is a "someone drained $100 million plus out of xyz crypto trading system". There's a significant issue where there is a combination of too much funding, too much fraud, too much hype.

Centralization can be a problem, but if someone steals my credit card number and buys things, the financial system can also help me address that.
Housing prices have risen everywhere, but they are still dramatically cheaper than SF or even Austin. The average home price in the US is more than 1/2 that of SF. Big cities in Texas are typically cheaper than Austin (Houston and San Antonio averages are around $350k).

If you restrict yourself to specific "tech lifestyle" cities obviously that's a different story.
I wonder if fixing the "strong case" spoiler actually is NOT what some "spoiler voters" would want, simply BECAUSE they want to spoil for the other party to try to move that party toward where they want it to be.
I believe every single shit teacher I’ve ever met used that excuse.
Can any expert here help me understand why his heart attack was not reversible by administering tPA to dissolve blood clots?
I'm flattered, but have no idea where that came from. While I have implemented some interesting data structures and algorithms in my time, I don't consider myself a "Computer Scientist" or algorithms expert. However, I did work with Knuth in the 1980s, and am in a group photo in his "Digital Typography" book. I agree with all the nice things people have said about him.
That statement was clearly false. With an amazing teacher, an extremely bright student, focus, patience, time, etc., sure we can have the next Galois… but in the vast majority of cases, we should avoid setting kids up for failure by expecting them to easily grasp things which took humanities greatest minds centuries to grasp. Newton “invented” Calculus in the 17th Century, but these ideas had been percolating since Archimedes and even before going back two millennia.
"I'm not surprised motherf--kers!"-- Nate Diaz

So, advertising company, Google is caught unethically/illegally tracking and spying to better target for ads or sell your data to other companies or governments.

$85 million dollars is pocket change to their yearly revenue of $258 billion dollars.
So Zelensky now wants to commit a genocide?

Hopefully wind doesn't blow west so Europeans can avoid an epidemy of thyroid cancer for christmas
These are all valid points, though for me, one thing I like about the "edge" model for application servers (workers) is the abstraction that you don't have to think about where your servers live, how many there are, when they start and stop, etc. The fact that they basically have to be stateless also simplifies things

Even if your storage is centralized (and it may not have to be; some companies are offering edge storage solutions that handle synchronization for you), it seems nice to be able to just ship code and let the provider worry about when and where and how much

That said- I've never used edge workers in production, so I could be over-idealizing the reality
If a rebase goes wrong and you want out you can run,

git rebase --abort

to return to where you were beforehand.

I find that git is actually very good at explaining what is going on and what you should do next by just running git status in the middle of some process like rebasing and reading what it says.

Even if it all goes really wrong the git reflog has always saved me.
What’s the difference between you and Google dropping your phone? You will only break the glass.
A gocart and a sedan have a lot of similarities, but only one of them is legal to drive on the highway.
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A lot of that was not technical, but I think I'd call roughly half of those random.

For example, I feel like what Linux did uniquely well was the development process. The Linux development process, circa 1995-2000, was unparalleled:

- The community was incredibly open and welcoming. Don't let brash and harsh language be confused with being unwelcoming. Anyone could join.

- There was thorough code review. Low-quality code was not let in. This was an amazing learning process.

- The design decisions were all brilliantly documented on LKML. The quality of discussion there was exceptional.

I attribute a lot of this to Linus' leadership, as well as that of lieutenants like Alan Cox. On top of that, you had really robust corporate support in Red Hat (and, for a while SuSE), and an amazing community, package management, etc. around Debian. There were friendly IRC channels for tech support.

The social components were super-important. And yes, licenses too: The GPL was the right license to prevent parasites.
"WSN also accessed student evaluation records for courses taught by Jones, which showed that his scores had been consistently low for years — long before the spring 2022 student petition. In the past five years, Jones’ co-professors teaching the same course typically had scores around or above 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, while Jones averaged around 3.3. In his final semester, his evaluation score dropped to 2.4.

"They were part of an experimental semester, one that was forced to combine the in-person with the online, and Jones was not considerate of the need for change. The document explains that more work is not equivalent to more learning, and provides an estimate of how much time an average student spends on the class per week. Students said they spent 11 to 19 hours per week on the course — a course that traditionally takes up 10 to 15 hours per week."

https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/10/05/maitland-jones-nytime...
How about those other cities build the housing that SF won’t? There nothing stopping them. And those cities could benefit from the new high income residents. How can “we should all be poorer” be a good solution to high housing prices? There’s always the supply side of the equation and people need to live somewhere.
The article was mostly buzzword salad. Unfortunately, blockchain and privacy are kind of opposite directions, it's not clear what exactly is being proposed here that's not just a repeat/rebrand of any generic "web3" product.
I disagree, I believe that we should reward, positively, the behaviors that we would like to see from the government, such as simple proclamations such as this.

edit: tit for tat, as your username promotes
I find that the Infinite Time playlist gives me some real productive time: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZvNq3JmijsIDOfFKeYmWg?si=...
Thanks... very tempting!
They are both selling VR headsets. Claiming they are not competitors is like trying to claim electric cars are not in competition with gas powered cars because they are different technology.
Can someone tell me why Obama didn't do this 10 years ago? Or even 6.
left-nimby's, as they're called, obstruct housing with price controls and other uneconomical demands on housing producers and buyers. Often they reject projects out-of-hand if they show any possibility of making a profit.
I'm curious, what would have been the "breaking point" if you had kids?
My family live in a rural area. For a while, we had an unusually high frequency of power cuts around here. If I understood correctly, it was something to do with recurring problems with the overhead lines supplying local substation(s). Mostly it was just a few seconds or maybe a few minutes, enough to reset equipment and cause some irritating disruption but not catastrophic. Occasionally, though, the supply did cut out for a much longer time and you had to start thinking about whether you really needed to open the fridge/freezer right now.

Between that experience and the environmental benefits, we were already discussing installing a big solar panel and battery system at our home with local suppliers, even before the recent dramatic price rises and the bizarre news that in the 21st century there’s a credible threat of rolling blackouts here.

I can tell you from first-hand experience that getting such a system professionally installed and commissioned is likely to be a long wait and then cost a small fortune. Systems that can keep the household power on when the mains supply cuts out can require jumping through extra regulatory and consent hoops before anyone installs the new gear alongside a mains supply. You’ll also have fewer and often much more expensive options for the hardware than systems designed for efficiency/environmental benefits but not resilience to outages.

Of course it might still be a very good idea to do this, if you’re lucky enough to meet the practical requirements and have the money to do it. But it’s definitely not going to be some DIY system you can build for £1,000. More like £10,000–20,000 and several months of waiting for an installation date, at least in this area.
> the majority of newcomers seem to vote and live exactly like they did in CA

same thing happened to Austin and is starting to happen in Dallas
I've never seen a Therapist Staff Engineer. This seems to be the primary function of middle management.
I had a similar problem that required me having to auth 36 times a day.

I told them to fix it or I was opening a health claim for back issues from having to 2factor.

Took them a few weeks but now I auth once or twice a day.
Ok but a lot of people’s thinking is memetic. I’ve literally sat in performance review meetings where this article has been thrown around. Ignoring what management wants you to do even if it’s straight up cargo cultism probably wont get you very far
No. It clearly states there this is only for offenses today or before.
Maybe just maybe the UK as learnt the lesson?
> I'm curious as to what differentiates cannabis from other psychedelics such that you think there is a healthy path to it and not to anything else.

Experience. Also you're more likely to come across it due to legality. When you cross the threshold of legality you're more likely to find yourself in bad company

> I personally think turning to psychedelics as form of subjective exploration is perfectly healthy, despite the risks.

Maybe it is, but if I had kids I wouldn't allow them to take that risk
> on or before the date of this proclamation, regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for this offense on or before the date of this proclamation
I would say it is human, as in humans are social animals, to do drugs socially. I think of alcohol or cigarettes and maybe pot as a rebel cult of teenagerhood.

To seek or try drugs that may change your whole life is not healthy because it means you are implicitly deciding your current existence is not enough and something else needs to be on the other side: be it a nice trip, the most powerful high, or rush. The rejection of one’s existence is a concept that bothers me.

that is what bothers me with religion as well: it is a rejection of ourselves and reality traded for comfort. I get people need it due to bad life circumstances, but like any addiction it is just a pain killer for a festering wound.
It probably wouldn't be suitable for a blog or classic CRUD app. The use cases I've heard about are more for education and online editor/IDE.

For example: interactive documentation that runs code in the browser with an ephemeral/temporary database, possibly imported from the user's desktop. For teaching programming languages in the browser, with the compiler compiled to WASM, so the student doesn't have to set up a local development environment. Or a database explorer that's a purely static site with no server, neither remote nor directly on user's computer - just virtually in the browser, which is a more secure sandbox. You could have a folder of HTML, CSS, JS that's a full-stack application with client UI and server (theoretically).

Further reading:

• SQL Databases in the Browser, via WASM: SQLite and DuckDB - https://blog.ouseful.info/2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-br...

• Pyodide - https://pyodide.org/en/stable/ - Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.

• Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas...

• Stackblitz - Instant development environments - https://stackblitz.com
This is jaded and angry, but I think there is another archetype called "the politician." They play the game extremely well, providing poorly thought out solutions quickly to problems they haven't dug into the complexity of. They lay operational traps everywhere in their quest to get things done fast (like directly embedding config data in code to avoid fixing the config format). Once they've picked the low hanging fruit and left too much complexity to maintain, they hop to another company where they sell themselves on all they accomplished leaving out the absolutely unmaintainable mess they left behind.
Boston's prices, while not as high as SF, are crazy as well. Many large cities like Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc, have prices that are around half of Boston.
Local housing policy, and more importantly city planning, is just as bad if not worse in Austin than SV. I don't really see city councils on the West coast having any impact on Denver or Austin as the influx of people to Denver and Austin could (and probably does) come just as easily from any other location. Point being, don't let local government in Denver and Austin off the hook for their failure to adapt.
Missed that bit.
Almost no one is going to be productive the first few months they step in to working on a massive codebase. In a large codebase you essentially have to develop a relationship with it and the teams working on it to have an understanding. Find simple tasks you can accomplish even if it's outside your current scope just so you can get used to making changes.

Don't be afraid to switch roles though if 6 months in you still don't enjoy the work. It's not a necessity to work on large codebases.
Note: The vast majority of people arrested for marijuana possession are not charged Federally. This only applies to the Federal charges specified, Biden can't do anything about the State level charges most people are charged with.

Just noting for non-American readers.
That seems to be the case, yes.
I wasn't familiar with the term "Staff Engineer", and wikipedia was no help. I found this:

https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-to-become-a-staff-engineer/

...which seems to be saying that a "staff" engineer is indistinguishable from what I'd call a senior developer.

As far as I'm concerned, "staff" is people that are permanently and directly employed. It doesn't mean "senior". If it's found it's way into the cycle of job-title inflation, that makes me sad.
I feel like the released version is a little better too. E.g. has the calendar graphics.
It's only the other month that I actually realised having these as distinct roles - team lead, architect - has completely fallen out of fashion.
> If you think fringe groups should have the advantage I'd like to hear your argument.

I'm not sure what gave you the impression I think that. My comments clearly suggest that my view is that STAR > Approval-to-runoff > Approval > RCV-IRV > Plurality. My reasoning is that I place a very high value on the condorcet and favorite betrayal criteria.
> Code Wins Arguments

Unless the arguments are about "how to do the code correctly" for some value of correct that's imagined to be beneficial in the future.
Since one statement is choosen from a 40 minute video: at which minute is the statement?
Quite handy, but not part of the free tier. It's included with purchase of the Advanced Certificate Manager.
> The Tory agenda now seems fixed upon ensuring the very rich have everything and everyone else has absolutely nothing.

It has always been thus.
A really insightful article, makes me consider what I should aim for - thanks for writing it!
>[Biden] will also ask the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the attorney general to review how the drug is scheduled under current federal law.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-pardons-marijuana-decri...
Michael Levin is an astonishing breath of fresh air.