skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognised this from day 1.

I worked for a new business once, and they whinged because "everyone else stays past 5:30 but you always leave on time". I just replied "it's not my business". They never said anything again.

However, that established clear boundaries. Once - and only once - I went in on a weekend for some out of hours work (a database migration or something), and in the following pay review they gave me a large raise specficially citing that I worked when they needed me. If I'd always provided free labour I doubt I'd have got the same raise.

The funny thing was, they asked me once what they could do to improve things and I suggested flexitime. They said they'd get back to me.

A few days later they came back and said, "we're going to be honest. Everyone else out there stays past 5:30 for nothing. We're not legally allowed to only give you flexitime, so we won't give it to anyone since they already work for free". Fair enough. My colleagues trying to earn brownie points screwed us all over by providing free work.

Boundaries are important. Don't let bosses treat you like a mug.
I often wish there was a variant of usb-c with some kind of positive plug retention, like a latch or screw.
Me not so much. I have done way too many spec work when I started working. Basically it’s slave labour.

If you read this fresh from graduation and you think people give you opportunities, and “chances” by working for free, or intern stuff, or low ball wages with the “promise” of upgrading… skip that stuff. To people just starting out and anyone : you are a business. More money needs to come in than energy wasted and going out. Your year ends balance should be positive, both monetary and energy wise. At the end of the year, not just 3 years into a startups future that might never arrive.
Highlining and slacklining!
> skip jail

i see the backlash against Musk is already at the “Trump”, “jail” levels. it’s quite funny to see so many people lose their mind over something that is of no real importance.
I'm pinning my hopes on GSL - already had to migrate my Pleroma from one server to another because whilst it is less hungry than Mastodon, it is still -quite- hungry.

(The number of "X doesn't work with GSL" issues is mildly worrying, and migrating from Pleroma to GSL is going to make me insane. But hope, nonetheless.)
A bit of a tangent here but a similar thing happened with Python 2->3: people focus on Unicode (especially native English speakers) and completely forget that exceptions were made unbroken.
Yep, now they are free to live their lives! (Netflix and video games)
This has the potential to benchmark how many forks of a single project Github can handle, especially with `follow_everyone` script
Just before the pandemic, when I moved house, I carried out an experiment and did not install internet for 6 months. It should be noted that I use a dumbphone (fruit of another experience), and therefore did no have access to any social network, youtube, etc.

The scuttlebutt network, was a way to cheat. As it is offline first, I would sync it to a wifi network that I found on the way to home, and watch the user posts at night;

I must say that the community is one of the best I've seen, even though I haven't interacted with them much.

After the pandemic I was part of the great resignation and with the delivery of the work PC I uninstalled the network, but it was one of the best communities I've met.

Lately I'm really thinking of creating an SSB-room [1] and invite some friends to this social network.

[1] https://github.com/ssbc/go-ssb-room
>long-persistence phosphor.

Long persistence phosphor was also used in analog standards converters (a video camera and precision monitor),

as in the RCA slow-scan TV (SSTV) [0] from Apollo-11 [1].

Radio transmission was likely via Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK) [2],

and converted to Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) [3] (Raw format) on Telemetry Data tape.

The video output from the RCA analog standards converter was distributed, and also recorded on either,

Amprex 2-inch (tape width) video-recorders in either quadruplex traversal-scan VTR [4] or helicial scan VTR [5].

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Apollo TV Camera : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera

Radio Corporation of America (RCA) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA

Ampex : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex

[0] Slow-Scan Television (SSTV) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television

[1] Apollo 11 missing tapes : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

[2] Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying

[3] Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-return-to-zero

[4] Ampex 2-inch Quadruplex traversal-scan VTR : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruplex_videotape

[5] Ampex 2-inch helical-scan VTR : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_2_inch_helical_VTR

[6] Video Tape Recorder (VTR) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_recorder

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Also long-persistence phosphor was also used in Kinescope (Kine), video to film converters.

: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope
Since we are openly speculating, I think the missing ingredient is feedback loops. There is no explicit input side and output side of the brain. Its all just a ball of neurons. There is propagation delay between the neurons. This makes it possible to have self sustaining loops of neurons firing. The longer the loop, the longer the amount of time it takes to go full circle. We call this phenomena "brain waves".

I think what we get wrong is that individual neurons rarely represent anything. They are a medium for the waves. The waves are the currency of thought. A brain is a series of electro-mechanical oscillators that resonates with abstract concepts and patterns.

AFAIK, most research is still using the old "neurons represent single things" paradigm. Someone needs to tell them, there's no such thing as a "grandmother neuron".
Second, PayPal aren't stupid

I presume you have loads of verifiable data, to prove this?

Or is this a logical fallacy? EG, appeal to authority?

Corps of all sizes do very, very stupid things.
Well, I had an interesting experience as one of few westerners in a western branch of aJapanese company that had 200+ of Japanese staff. We westerners left every single day at 5pm (unless there were real technical emergencies). All of the Japanese had to stay to approximately 8pm. Sometimes longer.

Despite the fact this is actually illegal in the "host country" they still did it with no overtime paid(or claimed)
. I had many Japanese friends in this company over the years and I knew they would much prefer to be off at 5pm as we were, but every time we talked about it it turned out they are 100% powerless to change it. The company not only provides a prestigious job (which was extremely important), but also provided housing in the host country, a visa, good schools for the kids etc. Additionally, every time we discussed it I got an impression they really have it easy here in comparison to how much they would have to work back in Japan. So all those people really didn't want to be sent back.

On the rare occasion when I had to work on a weekend and overnight, HR contacted me asking me to fill the overtime form :-o

I write this not as a complaint. I considered it one of my best jobs and if not that I wanted to be in a different role I would still be there, but even now years later I still remember having this weird feeling of there being a very real discrimination against other people on the basis of culture and not being able to do anything about it.
I would search WebKit, not chromium. But keep in mind that there’s a difference between “unknown code bases” and “one of the largest and most complex code bases ever created.” You’re asking, essentially, “in the Windows source code, where is the window layout algorithm?”

Stuff like that is certainly possible to find. But it requires a lot of time and dedication.

I would personally search for job listings for Chromium / Firefox, then use that knowledge to find someone who works on it. Then I’d ask them where it is.

But only in this specific case. My normal workflow is to build whatever it is I’m looking at, then change things until it breaks. It’s pretty quick to narrow down what I’m looking for at that point.

That doesn’t work here because building chrome requires close to a supercomputer.

EDIT: Actually, I would try to find a crash log related to the DOM. The stack trace will point you precisely where you’re interested in. Doing that is easier said than done, but I’ve pulled that trick a couple times, so it seems worth mentioning.
How does it work? I mean how do you figure out that something has changed?
Can you recommend a good free open source android client that compares to signal or whatsapp in terms of functionality and ease of use?
Does it come with a good exchange? Do you get paid (handsomely?) after 5pm? I mean power to you for enjoying it, really, but don’t work for peanuts.
Not only that, but people should be encouraged to take time off entirely. IMO, if you're not taking at least 3 weeks a year off, you're probably damaging your ability to do your best work. (Are there any studies on this?)
Rollerskating as an exercise in a zen state of mind.

In a crowded rink, you have to put everything else out of your mind, lest you damage yourself or others. When I've had tough weeks at work, which I've had plenty of this year, rollerskating at a rink running a popular roller disco on a Friday night has provided a clean-room level of buffer between my stressed-out work state-of-mind and my happy-go-lucky-parent weekend state of mind.

Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you need it, and you're yet to find a satisfactory "thing", give it a go. Seriously, you need to have all of your faculties applied to the job at hand, there's no room for the rest of the world, and so it melts away.
Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Maybe somebody could build a service that offers users an interface to create/consume content shared over a dedicated NNTP-based Usenet discussion group, archiving all those messages (respecting the 'X-No_Archive' message header!) and adding in some sort of 'blue tick' crypto id to messages from validated humans. Build in some message character limits, alongside # and @ functionality - not forgetting image/audio/video capabilities - to mimic current Twitter behaviours and this mythical somebody might have a "twitter clone" on their hands?

Of course moderation would remain a nightmare...
A bit odd that there isn’t a single reference to xeyes in the readme.
Why's it difficult for techies to accept a lower quality of life (when it's completely unnecessary)?
Until you change the function signature two libraries deep and break all code depending on it. It could work with only one exception type, incidentally go encourages this.
It hardly matters in practice because nobody does this, they use the AWS SDK.
https://t-cup.space/felix.jpg <-- Livestream from t-cup.space (without sound)
I do not hate passwords but those who hate them and push with such excuse the mandatory use of smartphones.

I do HATE those who state a crappy Android/iOS OTP app is safer than an offline hardware token just because thanks to their app they also ask for permission for extra stuff like accessing phone location history, contacts etc all with plausible excuses (that's happen in most EU countries with banks crapplications) and so on.

ANYTHING tied to closed-source connected platforms can't be secure. That's is.
Hey, they were trying to help. ;-) Clearly just a culture clash.
I am not parent but I agree with you. Thanks for sharing your e-bike conversion experience. It made me look into the same!
Making and listening to music, and in particular playing (classical music on) the organ. I learned to play in my youth, but no longer had access to an organ once I left for university. As soon as I could, I did buy a synthesizer, and once I got a paid job, it grew until I had a complete in-the-box studio, but during Covid, nostalgia or some other bug got me, and I bought a (second-hand, digital) classical organ and started playing that. Discovering the literature is great, and playing it by myself is very fulfilling.
Systemic problems in an organization are always leadership failures.
The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water
You can do that, if you want. It just gives you the option to not do that.
“Baseload” generators have had their day, and won’t be needed in a modern grid
Ah, but the point people are making in this thread is completely different. It is against working late without pay. One of the companies I made the most money in at the beginning of my career was one where often worked 7 days a week. But on weekdays I left at 5pm and I got more money for overtime weekend pay than in the rest of the month.
Books. Music. Hacking a cheap 3D printer to improve it so I do something physical. In general, anything but the quasi-management role I now have at work and that keeps sapping my motivation and creativity.
When Netflix and HBO Turned on Each Other, They Forged a New Era of Television
> It's a sad state of affairs when "oi bruv you go' a loicense for tha' firepi'?" is an actual concern.

In the absence of someone hosting it in their garden - and within 200yds radius of here, there's maybe 20 gardens, none big enough for a safe fire pit - it would need to be in the community space which is controlled.

> That's exactly the problem to be solved by the suggestion above.

Have you considered that I perhaps don't want to know any of the people within a 5 mile radius since I already have a community of people I talk to?
I mean what are the economics of fediverse? Who pays to keep the lights on, and where do they get their money from? How will the cost and logistics of policing one metric planet’s worth of sociopaths be any different from when Twitter had to do it?

I hate and am truly tired of America’s three premier Twitter narcissists (I bet I don’t even have to name them and you’ll know), but this “cry about Twitter and leave it” meme all feels like a groupthink knee jerk at its root, and then the “let’s move to fediverse” meme feels utterly thoughtless. Trolls are the internet, people turn to sociopaths the second they touch the net. It’s hyperbolic, but it’s not unfair. Trolls are on fediverse too, they cannot be escaped without several orders of magnitude additional energy injected into the system. If management alone and a desire to silence trolls is what this is all about, I’ve found that just being disconnected is an immense sea of peace, the one place they truly cannot get you. Social media is genuinely just a gigantic psy-op at this point anyway. Why even bother to participate and take it seriously?
Who wants to buy a billion dollars worth of Twitter ads? Nike? Nestle?

I can only imagine some sort of middle man. But why would I buy ads through that middle man?
"I know that you support $CANDIDATE_I_DONT_LIKE therefore if I see that you voted I'll break your kneecaps."
I think your opinion is bad while also misrepresenting machine learning.

> It's not transformative at all, nor quoted for study/discussion, and that's exactly what makes it a problem.

This model works in the same way as GPT-3. It's just predicting what the next most likely word will be given the previous words. It does this by creating a generalizaiton over the content that was used to train it. This generalization should be similar (or close to the same) to if it had a completely different set of training data.

In the same way that you could create 60,000 new training images comparable to the MNIST dataset, and get a model that works at an equivalent level, you could do the same with source code. It doesn't matter where the original data is from because the end result should be very similar when models reach higher levels of accuracy.

> but as it is right now github are simply outlaw and with no excuse at all.

This is an insane view on machine learning. When you read content, neural weights are adjusted in your brain to keep it as a memory. Is that copyright infringement too? Do you now owe Disney royalties because you stored their movie in your memories?

It's also an incredibly harmful view. Machine learning is dependent on data. Services like search, translation, recommendations, etc. are all dependent on training data. And, you're making the case, that since you don't like that it was trained on source code, it should all be illegal.
I'm in the EU and don't see this option. Maybe the EU rules is protecting us?
How does the affinity cursor work when there are multiple formats applied?

For example, “<b><i>text” has three insertion points shown with the pipe character: “|<b>|<i>|text”
When I worked at SpaceX, I slept in the office a handful of times. It wasn't out of an apparent obligation to work long hours, but because I was indeed doing something awesome at the time, like remotely flying a space ship. Of course, Elon Musk's expectation was for everyone to work themselves to their limit, and he praised the folk putting in 80 hours per week. I myself found success in confidently maintaining a sustainable work-life balance, and never felt pressured to work longer than I wanted to.
Well I pretty much ignored twitter until the current brouhaha and consumed news via RSS feeds using inoreader. I expect I will go back to that once the novelty of watching Elon at work wears off. I would like some kind of filter of twitter that just shows the good stuff - "top" shows too much for my taste. Maybe AI will soon fix that.
Great post! At this moment, I'm passionate about childhood education. There are plenty of challenges in education to be tackled, but the one that I feel needs more attention and isn't getting it is seeing high-achieving students bored to death thanks to education policies that hold them back from their potential.

Rather than policies that prioritize equal outcomes, I think we should be encouraging every child to explore their full potential. I've begun working on a startup so I can be part of the solution. It's too early to say if our plan will work, but I'm excited to be trying!
What about wavelength reflected by zebras versus(or compared to) waht flies can perceive?
Interesting hes so successful but sells a get rich quick course.
If you like working late and on weekends, then do something like a startup where you’re rewarded for your productivity (in very nonlinear ways). As an employee there is no gain in working late or weekends.
I find it absurd, that after I login, or buy something, they send me an email saying:

--

Since we recognize this device, you’ll continue to stay logged in, so you can skip typing your password during certain activities such as check out.

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What?!

And there is no opt out, except for you to set a cookie saying you don't want that.

Hello?! How will I have a cookie for that at $random.place?

They literally care nothing about security.
This is very different than staying late at work because if you don't ship on Monday you get fired.
Adding or removing checked exceptions breaks library users in very painful ways: if you can’t handle an exception, you should rethrow, but this means a wavefront of code breakage downstream, so the library gets pinned and is never upgraded.
Found a bug, if you start an input form with multiple spaces it doesn't work as expected, it seems like only visible characters add to the calculated offset.
Not nesseserily a single new license, many existing licenses could be upgraded by directly addressing this type of use.

Maybe extending the definition of derivative work.
Classical Turing machines have terrible runtime complexity
Glad you went, keep it up. Find a buddy to go with or pull yourselves along. All The best
Because twitter used to be the special domain of journalists. And while they can do the same sh*t now as before, it’s like they feel they lost status.

So they do what they do: write about it.
>I would search WebKit, not chromium

Why? Blink is a fork of part of WebKit so it would likely even be in the same file.
I still remember that early internet feeling, in my case, it was actually how I got in touch with "the world" back in the days, I created an account just to be able to reply, after years of reading HN without ever commenting!

Lately I'm passionate about prototyping tools and mash-up of different tools to facilitate OSINT work.

I have spent the last 8 months putting together a system to DeepL translate Russian and Ukrainian telegram ecosystem back in the open web. (osintukraine.com) it has been a crazy ride to work with existing open source code to produce something that works but now I want to polish it and learn how to create a new front-end from the content and terabytes of war videos I'v been collecting.

I'm not a developer, just a wanna be devops but this project has helped me to consolidate knowledge and keep learning new parts that I'm less confident or comfortable with and this is the way I like to learn, by doing! Hope someone find it useful and maybe join?
I see the outrage posts as a kind of meta-study on human nature. Like, "oh, that's what attracts people's attention these days, noted, next.." type thing.
Then the tool for subscribing to all people won't be able to discover you.
Millennial... zzz...
Counter anecdote. I've met at least one hyper productive pessimist. I haven't grilled all the hyper productives I know for positivity or pessimism.
Could be a cool game idea. Where you build in the clouds of Venus.
I was too young to perceive the game like this, but I sure remember how many hours I spent playing it. One of my favourite, maybe I will give it another run someday.
There's nothing special about having different return types. Every language I can recall with throwable errors supports them, they just don't waste developer's time by manually bubbling them up the call stack.
Hello from Redmond, Western Australia. It's rural, close to the South Coast of WA. We live in a straw-bale house on a farm where we run a small number of cattle, horses and donkeys, and we grow a lot (but not yet all) of our own fruit and vegetables. We steward of 50ha area of pretty pristine Australian bush in a biodiversity hotspot, and we've replanted the roadside and house area and put in some windbreaks with native trees and understory.

I split my attention in far too many directions, but I'm writing audio-description for film and television as a hobby; biodiversity and conservation and hiking (we live in a biodiversity hotspot); and tinkering with code (roguelikes!). I also irrationally love HTML as a markup language.

But I am terrified of the increasingly bleak looking future, and despite putting a lot of effort into conservation and living with as small a footprint as possible, I don't see much hope for our broken civilisation, much less our species.
Another FF fan hehe. Btw if you still play, FF14 online is a banger to enjoy some nostalgia. I'm having a great time at least :) About working, well Square Enix is always hiring, but you need to speak japanese. Their offices are in Tokyo if I am not mistaken.
projection (running fake kickstarter funds to fleece voters)
The Mastodon registration comes to a halt for many already at the server selection page where you are presented with topics (why?) and list of instances. There should be a default choice in the express signup for people who don’t care about instances at all.
Hey Ryan! Pretty cool!

You might like my library: https://creepyface.io. Similar concept. Also written in TypeScript with no dependencies.