skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studying views you disagree with goes past intellectual curiosity; it's serious intellectual honesty (which is inseparable from certain humility).
A simple way to generate a PDF document from a URL address
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers (2009)
At least we haven’t regressed to gladiatorial combat. Yet.
Looks like you can see what adjectives are in the database at this endpoint: https://api.airtable.com/v0/appHLMobCaTLuVQQy/Data?api_key=k...
intellectual curiosity doesnt keep you up with the Joneses,
at least not immediately or maybe ever because the payoff is perhaps not there at all.

There are very few people who do stuff for the sake of doing stuff. If you are a volunteer you’d know because basically there is always a shortage of them, never once a volunteer has been turned down at least I never saw it
Oh for sure. Not casting any shade cast at all on your work - I am really happy to see what you're doing. This kind of thing has a lot of value even in a virtual memory environment.
Emissions costs are a solution to that. Sadly, some countries are not part of these agreements.
It's interesting how in this age of displays and video we're finally shedding the idea of 8 bits per channel. The stuff I've been shooting in film I've been scanning in with a Flextight Precision II which has a sensor that claims to have a 16 bit DAC per channel.

Scanning in RGB 16 bit definitely helps with color banding. However, it's kinda like having access to a video camera that records in 16K, but you're only going to be able to view it on a 4K display. What's really interesting is if you use an old film recorder like a Lasergraphics LFR M3 (something in the $25,000 range in 1998) and don't mind dropping to a max resolution of 8K and 12 bits per channel, you can somewhat preserve that RGB16 image back to film.

Like yeah, this was professional level equipment in the tens of thousands of dollars in the late 90's, but some of the consumer technologies still haven't caught up. It speaks volumes to how limited the human eye is and how much technology surpassed it a long time ago.
Very + healthy = instrumental

What?
In my world 20 is a lot because finding customers is hard... :(
The scary thing is that most of the people involved in manufacturing those scandals are still around peddling the same stuff. It remains marginal now, but I could totally see it making a resurgence on another moral panic wave in the future.
That's something that 99% of software teams probably don't have to deal with... (I've never worked on one or heard of one that had to) I wouldn't be too worried about it if I were a company working on cloud IDEs for now.
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The problem with any train system isn't the distance - it's the stops and slowdowns.

The fastest bullet train could make that (NYC - MIA) trip in less than 4 hours. (286 mph). That's great time. But once everyone adds a stop, and you have to slow down to a crawl through certain areas, and freight gets first pass, you can see why rail sucks in this country.
Most people who have a dislike for Atlas Shrugged have a poor understanding due to having only engorged themselves on satire about the book, poor rendered assumptions about the nature of the messages written by enraged people who take offense at what I can only assume stems from seeing themselves as part of the groups which Rand disparages (collectivism) and frankly tend to have never read the book in its entirety let alone anything else written by her to have a sense of the ongoing themes and an improvement to her writing style.

the book inspires the idea of individual potential....which if you have no personal desire to achieve tends to enrage and put one on the defence, but for those who have a spark of fire they get inspired.

I like the book, and would love to have an honest discourse on its flaws that is equally willing to acknowledge the depths of its actual arguments and the strengths of propositions when taken into account the underlying presumptions that are at the heart of the novel. It is a novel after all and not an academic treatise which many liken it to because of the marketing.
The article doesn't answer the question. The list is also missing 2 of the big names which announced layoffs Oracle and Citrix. For more detailed and depressing discussion about layoffs check [1].

[1] https://www.thelayoff.com/
Nowhere near as funny as the very seasonally appropriate "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers."

-- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
Ask HN: Are “normal” vocabulary getting depleted by tech-brand hijacking?
I feel like I could barely read titles or even normal sentences these days without halting to double- or triple check whether any of the seemingly innocuous vocabulary are in fact references to tech products.

Are we on track to lose the ability to make simple sentences without constantly checking to make sure that we're not ambiguous about whether we're using the word in its dictionary sense or if we're inadvertently referring to some obscure tech startup?

This wouldn't be such a big problem if the usages of these are spares and properly capitalized/stylized, however what used to be assurances for these are now also being encroached upon as well -- the former being the seeming frequency at which "catchy" tech product names are adopted and gaining popularity, and the latter being that some goes further than dictating their stylization and insists on dictating the "correct" grammatical syntax when referring to them in context.
>Many businesses who got the loans still fired employees, the cost of each job saved was high.

Which businesses? We're also looking with hindsight bias. There's no way to see what would have happened if businesses weren't bailed out.
The Federal government in the US is (on paper) extremely limited in comparison to other countries. The US constitution was written specifically to limit the potential for tyrannical or mob rule. To regulate or disarm the citizenry of the United States is a particularly arduous task because the US Federal government does not have that kind of sovereignty.
> And no that's still quite low for a software developer in flyover country.

If you know at what company I can do better without relocating, I'd be delighted to hear it.

> It might be a good wage compared to median wages for everyone

It's not even really that, it's a normal middle class professional wage, though the high end is good. We've had juniors leave to pursue other careers...one (who'd actually done fairly well, closer to 100k than 50k) left to be a nurse, because he'd make more money. Software isn't really that great a field unless you plan to move somewhere like California.

"Supply and demand" is highly regionally dependent.
I think you misunderstand. Even back then, "PC" meant anything that roughly meant "MS-DOS compatible". (There was the stronger "IBM compatible", but you could usually get very far even on "non-compatibles", so those were still called a "PC".)

However, there was a multitude of completely different systems that had nothing to do with MS-DOS (or an x86-derived CPU) whatsoever: C64, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad/Schneider CPC and countless others. Some of them would maybe run CP/M. At least from some point in the 80s on, they would usually not be called "PCs".
> That doesn't sound right.

IMHO, it's correct but that doesn't mean it's good or desirable that things tend to bog down in wider / deeper org structures. Maintaining high efficiency and effectiveness in large org structures is hard to do and that's why the exceptions are notable and worth studying.
I'm on an H1-B, living in the Bay Area, and working for a company with an office in the Bay Area.

My team is remote, and I'm planning on moving to the Tahoe area, still in California, does my employer need to file an H1-B amendment? If yes, what could happen if I move and file an AR-11 change of address before the H1-B amendment is approved?
No. The numbers and article make it clear it's something that happens after they withdraw the money. These are outside the realm of TikTok.

And again, TT isn't taking 70%. Anyone suggesting that is wrong. They are taking 38% vs 31% that the creators take.
Github supports this out of the box – https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo..., and recognizes tokens from a lot of services.
Funny thing is, something like fixing a car definitely gets you manliness points.
This is what I do but I really wish there was a better integration with auth providers and could use it for the invite. Would be nice to search my directory to type the email and confirm the name matches the email.

This is what GitLab does with their hosted AD/LDAP connector.

I’m in fear of mistyping something and inviting the wrong person.
Yeah, just use literally. It's literally a better word.
As others have said, the researchers got close but missed the mark here.

If you're trying to innovate while staring someone down on a video call, you're doing it wrong. Get a white boarding app. They're better than real world whiteboards in many ways, although not as great in others.

I'd love to see a follow up study with proper screen sharing environments.
Planetary orbits are nearly circular
Maybe. Thankfully there's no cost to use the key if someone does it.
I know this is horrible (good thing all my hardware is updateable by me) still my hope is that this might enable rooting/custom firmware on closed devices.

Rooting old phones/android devices/router without debugging pinouts would be nice... (There are enough vulns in theory to root everything, but something universal that works remotely... sigh) if it wasn't such a security nightmare
I'd say the overwhelming population of the earth does not want to live underground like a worm. The first level down might be OK for some if they still had access to natural sunlight, but everyone further down, especially to the depths that we would need to move tower blocks underground, would have a miserable existence.
> Yes, there are no ads in Xiaomi phones [...] if you pay attention during setup and don't just click Next but read what's shown on screen

Enough said.
Something doesn't have to be factual to be true. And not all factual things are true either. Lying with facts is very easy – texas sharpshooter fallacy for example. And telling deep truths is easier with non-factual stories – 1984 for example.

As for Naruto running: let people have fun.
For sure, it's an integration issue.

I'm not primarily a graphics guy so I can't assign fault -- all I know is that it's the single issue that has kept me from adopting Wayland back when the defaults switched over.
He did build that.
Thanks for the correction. I would be concerned of the lower performance (how much lower?) but this may be a nonissue now.
So many hours training a necromancer.

Really nice game.
I don't think "pure plain utilitarianism" is a fair description of the London underground as a whole. Even the Victoria Line made a point of doing a unique mosaic for each station; the Jubilee Line extension has a distinctive artistic style (which a lot of people hate, but you can't say they didn't try). Crossrail has put an even stronger emphasis on design.
Interestingly, the boundary between "recent" and "tradition" is not at all clear. If a 1968 law is not old enough to be traditional, what law is? It's certainly not "ancient tradition". Is there a fixed year that demarcates "traditional" from "recent", or is it a distance back from the present?

Apply the same logic to all the clauses of the constitution, and we're going to get super weird pretty quickly.
> The trio had rented a technology-reliant Hyundai Elantra from Zipcar Inc.

I've used Zipcar for a while in NYC and until relatively recently they didn't allow mobile unlock because a lot of parking garages don't have cell service. You had to use the card that comes with the subscription.
>> I think for such large files you really need an editor that doesn't buffer the entire file into RAM and loads chunks in from disk on demand

It seems that vim could work this way as you are always dealing with a small section of text at a time. However, this seems not to be how it works.
It looks like they just sold out - they were still available a day or two ago.
Many traditional rental car companies won't rent to college aged customers, or will add large daily markups. For a significant market segment Zipcar-esque companies are the best, or only, option.
FDA confirms shortage of Adderall, the most widely-used ADHD medication
On land, it’d more like 1200 miles, so closer to 5 hours. Almost double the flight time.
Really depends what you're after. I personally have stuck with mac for the last 5 years for ease of use and build quality. After working on mining rigs, I really value all-in-one to avoid dealing with configuration issues and the like. If you're looking for that fine tuned granular control though, then mac won't ever satisfy.
No.
First it doesn't make you magically better at programming. You may think of yourself as an above avarage programmer subjectively.
Developing software is a social endevour. You have to understand shareholders needs and feelings to create successful software. You must understand needs and feelings of your peers to write maintainable code. As an asperger myself I suggest to improve on social and psychological skills to become a competent developer. And while those skills come natural for non-autistic people, learning them "the hard way" can result in above avarage social skills - at least in a professional environment.
You could also just let me send them to you:

https://unvalidatedideas.com

I think the regulatory changes area is quite under-explored.

In the end though, a clear visualization of the customer is key —- how can you actually find the person that will buy your product?
He is 6 months on the job. He doesn't know the proper context of the business and it is normal and expected to be handheld at the start. If he was already at some length in the company, then it would be normal and expected that he would be able to come-up with his own initiatives and ideas on how to improve the product beyond the directions that the superiors give-out.

At this point, he is being frozen-out by his teammates or maybe it is just normal ebb and flow like usually newcomers take some time to be integrated in a big company but it depends.
A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success
You can't perfectly judge someone in an interview context, but you can get pretty good if you ask the right questions with the right structure. Where I work the final round interview we give the candidates a week to write a design doc for a recent project they have worked on and present it to us in a 45 minute meeting. We deep dive on their impact, the decisions they made, the tradeoffs etc. It has been an extremely strong signal for us.
GitGuardian actually does this, it monitors an extended perimeter of devs and their personal/open-source repos for corporate secrets or keywords – https://www.gitguardian.com/monitor-public-github-for-secret...
I can't find it now but I read an article a couple months ago where a customer was stranded in an underground parking garage due to lack of cell signal.
Neat concept. What's the security story? The local-first architecture that Obsidian et al use is really valuable to me. In a world where everything lives on somebody else's server, I crave experiences that I can exercise some control over. Nothing hosted in the cloud feels private.
Thank you. I have reported it to them, several weeks ago, and have yet to receive a response. I used the app and website contact emails and forms. Nothing.
New technology to modernize an old way of making money: Exploitation of desperate humans
Phone calls barely merit the name "virtual interactions."

But in any case, when people are working remotely, the vast majority are using audio while they look at a screen, which underscores my point.
To me it’s about gaining back time at the end, when I may be unable to work. Every additional $N/yr translates into one less year I need to work before I can retire. Even once all your needs are met, it still makes sense to further optimize TC because you save it and that translates into earlier retirement. I have a sign above my monitor that reads “The Goal Is To Not Have To Work”
It's not the odor I have a problem with, it's that in certain places that have legalized (I gave the example of Denver) a large percentage of people in public are totally stoned, and it's not a good public experience.

I'm not talking about a couple getting high on a park bench and blowing bubbles. I'm talking about feeling a little bit like I'm in the zombie apocalypse, because a good percentage of people are so f'd up they look like zombies.
I’ve read about 2/3rds of it. It’s a terribly written book - too drawn out and on the nose and the “message” is obvious since chapter two or so. It’s like one of those idiotic self help books where if you read first couple chapters you’ve read the whole thing

Same thing with Fountainhead which i read whole
But how passing around a (constant) raw pointer is not sidestepping borrow checker? Since the pointer (AFAICT) does need to be borrowed, because it's manifestly immutable, it could be passed into several functions that alter the pointed-at memory in arbitrary order.
What do you think about what Peter Roberts does with his periodic AMA's?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191603

The answers are short because of course how much can you give in this type of AMA when an attorney is involved?

People seem to love it. I see it as just a way to troll for business by keeping your name in front of a potential audience.

I mean the law is the law and details and specifics matter. As such the amount that you can convey by answering a question seems so limited to almost be of no help unless you then go forward and hire the attorney and get into specifics.

Also he has no FAQ on his website because of course that would open him up to liability for offering legal advice but he could easily take his years of AMA's and answers and offer that info (and build an audience that way).

Adding: He does not have a presence in Mountain View it's what appears to be a Regus Virtual office. He is actually in Wilton Connecticut.
Bards college at Simon's Rock did something like this. My friend went when he was 15ish. I used to visit during the summers and while the education was relatively accelerated, there are a host of other issues that don't often get brought up with this model.
"very hard" -> formidable ? I don't agree because there are multiple interpretations. I would have liked multiple results, e.g., formidable, diamond-like, arduous, etc.

In other words, don't use this site blindly.
> Do cell phones even work in most parking buildings?

This is why Zipcar issues a card for unlocking the car. I'm not sure why the people in the article didn't have one.
The article is a mess.

It suggest that all people are intellectually curious as children, after which this curiosity is destroyed in the education system.

It provides zero evidence for this sweeping conclusion. Education not being very fun and not very personalized does not prove that intellectual curiosity is wiped out.

Anybody whom has spent any time with children or are old enough to see a child develop into a full grown adult would have noticed the dramatic individual differences in their behavior and abilities, many likely to be genetic. All children are curious to a degree, which quite simply is a biological necessity to understand how this world works. But deep curiosity for curiosity's sake, for no immediate purpose: only found in specific individuals. They just seem to be born with it.

To illustrate how large individual differences can be, meet my family.

Father. Poor upbringing. Life long blue collar worker. Near-zero education. Has read about 50% of all the books in the town's library. Born intellectually curious and remains so against all odds.

Mother. Housewife with some past side jobs. Lowly educated. Zero intellectual curiosity. Watches a soap opera and reads a gossipy mag, and you can't get her interested in anything else. She has low capacity to do so, furthermore is anxious and scared of anything new. She's always been this way.

Brother. Grunt worker like my father but with the intellectual limitations of my mother. A mix of the two. Again, has always been this way.

Me. Intellectually curious like my father, with some soft sides from my mother. Tinkerer from the very start.

Girlfriend. Perhaps most painful. Intelligent and educated. But not intellectually curious. The education system didn't discourage it, she simply never was intellectually curious.

Where a small sample size is usually a shortcoming in providing any evidence, here I'd make the point that the incredible diversity in outcomes of such a small sample size illustrates my point: you're intellectually curious or you're not.

Some simply lack the capacity to be that curious. Some do have the capacity but still don't use it. Some can be convinced to use it, by force or incentive. And for some it's completely effortless and just whom you are.

The idea that we all are (as children) is nonsense. The idea that the education system wipes this out, is nonsense.

But if I were to give the author the benefit of the doubt on this part, it is absolutely destroyed in the libertarian take on free market education. So the idea here is that universities should go bankrupt if they fail to deliver the student a high paying job.

So you put businesses in the driving seat of "intellectual curiosity" and life long learning. Businesses. You can't be serious. There can't be any entity that cares less.

The connections between concepts seem completely random and made-up.
That sounds like a rather arrogant assumption that scientists can't figure what the problem is hence the patients are nuts. It could also be the science isn't that good.

I had a girlfriend who got ME/CFS. Before she could race me up a 1000 ft hill after she could hardly walk. That change happened in a few days as a result of an infection, and lasted years. Definitely wasn't psychological.
Why can't economists predict financial crises?
What an insipid, jejune bad take. Not sure which I hate more -- the author's smugness or the tired tropes supported by cringe-worthy assaults on straw-men.