skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll take a shot at being brutally honest. I feel this in a different way. I grew up in a conservative family with some racism in its more distant ranks, thankfully with a more liberal mom to balance it out. I grew up fairly well off in a white area, where there were only ever two families of color. Both families moved away in a much shorter time than the average.

I’ve noticed that for awhile I had carried an innate aversion to offshore outsourcing, but only when it’s predominately non-white. It’s difficult to rid yourself of these intentional or unintentional exposure based thought patterns.

I had the privilege and good luck of ending up in a position where I ran an educational, science focused nonprofit. Then I started a business that had needed skills far more expensive in the US, before we could quite reach that level of expenditure. You learn quickly in those kinds of situations that if you carry those innate perspectives you can end up locking yourself away from some excellent talent; capable people who can work magic if you set them up for success.

This comment is only in reply to the topic of race. I’m not making any judgements or assertions about Infosys or any company in particular. Some companies and some people are bad at what they do, and that’s a global truth that is blind to race, culture, creed, politics, and anything else. I’m in full agreement that this type of security failing can, will, and has affected any company no matter what their employees look like or where they are based/operate.
I work at a startup that has mostly unstructured time requirements. The attitude is "as long as you get your work done, work the hours you want in the office or at home"

When I get tired and unable to focus, I go home and rest. That might be 2:00 or 7:00. If I go home early, chances are that I'll end up doing more work in the evening.

I work as much as I want and am able to, which turns out to be an order of magnitude more work than when I was trapped in 10-12 hour shifts 6 days a week.

I find that I'm very rarely "killing time" at work. I'll pop open mastodon for a few minutes now and then, but I've never had to waste multiple hours waiting for my shift to end. If I'm done working, I just leave. If I have a doctor's appointment, I just throw a note in the group chat.

At this point, I don't think I could ever go back to a traditional workplace. You'd have to be some kind of idiot to pay people per hour to waste time on their phone just to tick off the requirement of being in a chair for 8 hours in a row. This is just clearly the wrong model for many industries.
> It’s amphetamine. The energy is from the amphetamine.

Energy still comes from food, and if you forget to eat on stimulants your body will eventually catch up with you.

Like coffee, stimulants let you better tap into that energy.

> The mechanism of action (norepinephrine and dopamine reputable inhibition) isn’t far from that of cocaine or methamphetamine.

Yep, they’re all stimulants. ADHD meds however, are manufactured in very controlled conditions, and taken in specific doses. Street drugs are more variable in quality, ratios, ingredients and strengths, and so not relevant to the treatment of ADHD.

Methamphetamine is a legitimate treatment for the most severe ADHD cases, it’s often a last resort. It’s sold as Desoxyn. It’s rarely used, but it _is used legally and successfully_.

> Let’s be real here. Amphetamine is known to skew one’s self assessment of their performance while on the drug.

If you don’t need it, stimulants are going to have a different effect.

People with ADHD are in my experience, going to be able to self-assess performance on their meds better than off them.

Don’t assume one experience is universal, especially when we’re talking about neurodiversity. Even among those with ADHD, experiences are not universal. We may rhyme, but we don’t always repeat.
If you want your static html to process a form, a few years ago the simplest approach was to add a php file to your site.

Nowadays it is to create a zap webhook and point your form there.

My point was that this is not and has never been a complex thing requiring a framework or a complex backend.
Vpn's exist. I fairly frequently come up against us websites that tell 'content not available in your area due to gdpr'.
Thankfully the vpn i use is three clicks and I'm in America.
I am not sure if the state of the UK economy would be substantially different without Brexit. Most of the problems would be the same, maybe with a slightly bigger carpet under which to hide the dirt.
'MBR' -- is just a fancy name for the first 512 bytes (a.k.a. "The Boot Block") on any device, floppy or hard drive or USB drive -- IF, if and only if specific parts of the data in those 512 bytes -- are of the necessary format to "mark" that data (to BIOS, since BIOS is the ultimate arbiter as what it will accept as a MBR/Boot Block) as being a legitimate MBR/Boot Block.

https://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/STDMBR.htm

>"The first 139 bytes (00h through 8Ah) of the 512-byte sector are executable code, and the next 80 bytes (8Bh through DAh) contain error messages. The last 66 bytes of the sector contain the 64-byte Partition Table (1BEh through 1FDh); data in the Table area will depend upon the size, structure and file systems on each hard disk. The sector ends with the Word-sized signature ID of AA55h (often called the sector's Magic number"

Now, that's a "standard" MBR.

That MBR -- defines DOS/BIOS compatible partition tables.

A partition table is just an information structure -- this information structure in its simplest form gives (at a minimum!) -- the block on the disk where a given partition starts, and a given partition ends.

You can think of any partition on any disk as a "range of blocks".

So, maybe you have something where blocks 10 - 1000000 are partition 1, and blocks 1000001 - 2000000 are partition 2. Block 1 is the boot sector AND also an MBR if it contains the necessary data to be one, as explained above. Blocks 2-9 can contain additional bootstrap code.

In the MBR scheme, the "range of blocks" that constitutes any given partition -- is defined inside of the MBR (>"The last 66 bytes of the sector contain the 64-byte Partition Table (1BEh through 1FDh...") -- but if we're not dealing with MBR's but merely "plain vanilla" boot blocks -- the definition for partitions no longer needs to be there -- it could be somewhere else on the disk (in the case of a GUID Partition Table (GPT)) -- or it could be defined inside of the assembly/binary boot code of the boot block -- in other words, "load blocks from 2-1000" (or whatever) -- into memory. (blocks 2-1000 are the next "partition" in a manner of speaking -- because they contain the next data to be loaded!)

Admittedly all of this is confusing! <g>

You are correct that on a floppy there wouldn't be much space left after the kernel + initrd anyway.

Also, now that I think about it -- I agree with you that using Syslinux or LILO would probably be easier for most people (much easier!), than using custom code, but the thing is, once we go to Syslinux, LILO or Grub -- now we're in a realm of many more lines of code -- which could be more confusing to people that really want to understand what's going on "under the hood" -- but on the flip side, someone using them would get much more convenience and "ease of use"... so you're right(!) -- but there may also be proverbial "dragons" (of complexity!) with Syslinux/LILO/Grub!
Never been to Norway or Spain, but England and France are generally okay w.r.t. migrant labor. Not saying there isn't some hostility to foreigners, because ceterus paribus you'll get many more job interviews with a CV that says "Jean-Pierre Petit" than "Mohammed Karkar" in France, but there is no "temporary worker visa" that we can use to basically exploit peoples from poor countries. If you get a visa that lets you work, you generally get the same protections/wages as locals :)
This is pretty accurate :D The third mode is the gate mode, you can choose a note to have a gate value of 0 to turn the note off, up to any value matching the length of the note.

One reason why I'd like a more expressive editor is to really play with stuff like this. For example could have two patterns, otherwise identical, but one might have a final note length of one less then the other. Then they would phase in and out with each other over a period of time, like some sort of acid house Steve Reich :D

Interestingly, since I originally posted I came across a really interesting mod project for the MC-202 that's currently work in progress. Sounds like an amazing upgrade, will definitely be checking this out!

https://tubbutec.de/mc-2oh2/
Actually only about 70% of leave voters, with the other 11% undecided.

I think the interesting data point is that 19% of leave voters would vote differently in hindsight, but only 5% of remain voters would. That's a 4x difference. But you're also right that most people did not change their opinion.
I hadn't been paying much attention but I believe this occurred after Marty made his statement on Reddit but before Mick released his own.
How is Bitwig with alternate tunings?

I've been a bit frustrated with the inability to work easily in Ableton 9 with non-Western or microntonal tunings.
Also Elbit System released a promotional video on Lanius drones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4McPHBQ9pNw

I find it very intersting how AI can augment modern warfare.
Drones + AI wins wars with minimal damage.
Yes, it mostly disappeared for me recently (apart from HN, Twitter was my only social media) and all I have is a sense of relief. Why didn’t I stop sooner?

I realized a large part of why I was using it recently was to follow my municipality’s elections, and I would have been far better served simply attending meetings and speaking directly with candidates. I did this a bit, but spent far too much time soaking in second hand information from Twitter. Why?! It feels kind of crazy in retrospect.
Odd, I recall reading a book about 10 years ago, published a few years before that, about Israel using these sort of systems.
If killer robots are inevitable, it makes sense to start with less than lethal robots. Just change the weapons or ammo.

edit: Please don't read this as an endorsement of violence of any kind. Thanks.
I tried to do AoC in sed one year. Didn't get all the way through. Real turing tarpit sed is. My solutions had the readability of APL and the brevity Java.

Mistakes were made.
I do not have the data to compute their power density. They are still going to have limits on the power/area of radiation hitting the first wall; the impulsive nature of that radiation will make the problem tougher.
ZK is old tech but succinct, non-interactive and general purpose ZK is not. Look at SNARK and STARK, and every other research and advancement in the last 5 years. Funded by blockchain, developed for blockchain, with hash functions optimized for use in a blockchain. This modern form of ZK underpins most new blockchain bridges, light clients, and scalability solutions.

These new ZK proofs are much different than anything in the last decades, and can be used without a blockchain. But they also do fit elegantly within the context of blockchains, like having a ZKP verifier running on EVM instead of a single website like keybase.io, to further reduce points of centralization.
Interesting; for me line seems fairly thick at "ownership" level (which just shows we may have different assumptions:)

My thoughts:

If it's in my inbox (whether on my physical phone, or hosted for me by a service provider), I own it and I get to control it regardless who sent it / how it got there (as long as other legal pre-requisites are met, i.e. not child porn etc)

If it's in my outbox, and I want to delete my account, THOSE instances of those artifacts should be removed, whether from my physical phone or by the service provider hosting them for me. If I've sent them to others, fair game, they own THOSE instances; but I expect the service provider to remove, upon my request, the artifact instances I solely own.
Awesome Node-Based UIs
Hey HN! Maybe other founders can relate - when you're in the earliest stages of your startup trying to find product-market fit, everyone tells you to ship fast and messy. The thinking is that you'll know you have product-market fit when users are willing to use your product even when it's janky and broken.

But I think "startups can afford to have bugs" is bad advice. Startups need clarity to find product-market fit, and bugs obscure clarity.

Curious to hear – what are your experiences?
Uh, horse poo. Prod data is guarded like Fort Knox. No one can get access to anything on the graph without explicit approvals for a business purpose. I tried it. I can't even see who are my coworkers from my own FBID in internal apps.
One thing that has a lot of impact is dehydration. You can check the bristol scale to learn more about your body
Look at your web browser.

If you click on the "x" on a open tab, it will most likely close it.
If you click on the "x" on your browser, it will close the browser, maybe will it alert you that you're going to close many things.

Open Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word, Notepad, your Windows file explorer, same thing.

Those are probably the most used app in the world, so people will assume that it is what the "x" button does.
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As someone who hasn't used Gnome or KDE in some time. The issue I run into all the time has nothing to do with the desktop. It's Nvidia. Sometimes Realtek too.

I'm stuck on a specific release of my current distro because the whole system will randomly freeze forcing a hard reset (holding the power button for it to turn off) because of something I guess Nvidia's driver is doing to the kernel. Happens on any other distro or newer release of my current distro I've tried.
Vehicles of Extraction
The issue highlighted in the article is no other VoiP/chat program will continue to record audio in the background. Which you can absolutely do, just don't make it the default behaviour. Valid point in my view.
If you are not a Software Developer then its pretty much impossible to buy a home. Prices are cheaper out side of the city but then you will be dealing with long commute times or would have to work from home.
While the original investment might have been made in a bullish market, there is no excuse for the investors being deluded after the Luna collapse.
I particularly liked this principle from the article: "learning all the alien symbols is a one-time investment, and expressiveness — the leverage you as a programmer gain — is for life."
"Wouldn't it be nice if modern programmers had some more symbols at their disposal?"

Emacs lets you display arbitrary text as any symbol you want, and you can also map your keyboard to generate that text with any keystroke of your choice.

So the result is the same, without needing language support for the symbols you want to use.

I've done this with the lamba symbol and symbolic logic symbols when editing LaTeX files in emacs. It works great.
I disagree that "$9.99/week" below a continue button leading to a purchase dialog is in any way misleading.

I looked at the screenshot before reading the surrounding justification, and the understanding I got was that continuing would charge me $9.99 on a weekly basis until canceled (which would also show up in the purchase confirmation). It turns out that is exactly what happens.

So who exactly is being misled here? People who are functionally literate enough to use a smart phone and download an app but illiterate enough to not know what $9.99 a week means? I don't think that person exists. Maybe children but they shouldn't be allowed to sign up for subscriptions without parental oversight anyways.
Not a good look for Bethesda.
A sad day for equal access to information. I’m glad that they made money from Z-Library, they deserve that money for the service they provided.

It’s some bullshit that they were arrested in Argentina on behalf of the US government. From what I can tell they aren’t even US nationals. I know the US scooping up foreigners and locking them away is nothing new (see: Gitmo) but it remains a travesty of justice nonetheless.
Glad to see they weren't able to completely fuck up LedgerX in the ~year they had it.
If you don’t want to work for him that’s fine, in fact I don’t think it is a bad idea working for Elon Musk.

But it does not make sense to push your own agenda about unionization, which is the worst thing happened in US private/public sector. Unionization basically kills the key reason why a corporate can make money: free labor market.
Polling has un-earned respect lately in the US. Is there any reason to suspect opinion polls are more reliable in the UK? Afaik people are just as shifted away from landlines there.
Allow me to disagree. The page presents toy examples, and those are already unreadable. APL lacks data structures, modules, exception/error handling and typing. Well, since almost everything is a matrix of floats, perhaps typing isn't needed, but that idiom just deteriorates readability. You might think of it as a "bc" on steroids, but a rebirth for APL is uncalled for.
If Bethesda had any legs to stand on, they would keep quiet and file a suit against Mick. Bethesda is stating this in the open, showing they don't have an actual counter to Mick's claims except: 'no, you.'
I am not aware of any... though I do know that some of the largest marble quarries in the world are in New England.

http://www.vermontquarries.com/danby-quarry

And then there's also large granite quarries... like the Rock of Ages.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rock-of-ages-granite-qua...
Gotcha. Out of interest, have you ever done this with sqlite before? I do something similar with sqlite, but speed isn't a factor for me usually because the data is small.
Ham Radio swap-fests can be a good place to find retro-computer gear as well. At least if you live in, or near, an area with an active Ham radio community.
Ride my bicycle and write software for fun. Not caring about what society and/or market needs. Just writing software for the sake of it. E.g perfecting best-ever-made todo app.
Isn't that a well known fact that you can generally change the meaning and/or subtext of everything by adding or subtracting a word?
Yet, it would have been a way wiser decision to hold on to fiat until now then buy the same btc amount for way less or buy way more btc with the same fiat.

So, I'm not sure this way of saying that technically "unrealized loss isn't loss" has any meaning or utility. Pointless debate anyway.

It's actually pretty funny to read Nayib's comments each time he buys more at a lower price, and he thanks people for "selling for cheap" while he's "buying the dip"/"oh no last one was not the dip, this one is"/etc and so on and so forth. Wonder if it'll continue that way, and he'll stay delusional forever even if BTC continues to plunge. Comedy gold.

https://nayibtracker.com/
C++ I think gets similar hate.

Perl maybe, if you end up having to re-read some.
South African crypto exchange VALR launching in Zambia
Oh how full of yourself you are.
Yep this is common.

Imagine doing the dishes. Unmedicated, thats 2 or 3 tasks. Each with a high failure rate, and high cognitive cost.

1. Stop what you’re currently doing.
2. Decide you next task will be to wash the dishes.
3. Wash dishes.

The spoon theory [0] covers this concept well, and can be a useful tool.

> The spoon theory[a] is a metaphor describing the amount of physical and/or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
How does it even work? I barely go to the doctors, do I just ask them for an ADHD assessment?
It looks like autonomous robots are on everyone's lips lately, that's awesome, because it's really interesting topic (at least for me).
What would you suggest reading to create my first robot? I mean the hardware part, not the programming one. Thank you
> I also think "productivity" is the wrong way to frame the problem. Some things, like work-life balance, are a net good and worth a hit on productivity. The economy should serve society and not the other way around.

I mostly agree with what you're saying, especially about going across industries, but I do believe it is quite easy to lower productivity, regardless of the industry, by dramatically imbalancing work-life balance. Put another way, having good work-life balance is a net good, partially _because_ people with good work-life balance are more productive than people who are burned out.

Your medical doctor isn't going to be very good at diagnosing patients when he's in his 140th working hour of the week, if he were to attempt such a thing (with ~3 hours of sleep per night and no time off other than that)
Guess they decided they look better in brown.
I don't think hydro can displace hydrogen for these applications. In particular, I don't think hydro has enough energy storage capacity to provide seasonal load leveling in many places.
Nx Desktop is now Open Source
There’s a great book by Tom DeMarco that argues for having slack, and for that being critical for innovation: “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”
Is there a meta website for all the "are we X yet" about rust?
wait this is not WSL1? what is it then?
Having fun porting my Typescript/NodeJS/ReactJS stack into Rust and Yew. Same productivity, more safety.
Sorry Bethesda, Mick had the receipts.
I enjoyed russ cox's advent of code series using rob pike's ivy (https://github.com/robpike/ivy), an apl-like calculator

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrwpzH1_9ufMLOB6BAdzO...
Does GDPR distinguish these cases? Personal information is fine to keep on an individual's computer, but not on a company computer? What about personal cloud storage like Google Drive (company's servers, individual's data)?
The first thing I'd do is find a forum, group, discord, whatever of people who dabble and deal in this kind of thing. Starting with YouTube channels and follow the strings. Said groups almost always have a "deals/trade/buy" subsection somewhere.

But you will be paying for "known good" items.

If you want to get deals you have to troll eBay, local auctions (this is a great source, especially if they're not well advertised/described - look for photos of piles or boxes of "equipment" where you can recognize something like an Apple II sticking out), estate sales (many of the people originally involved are now dying), government sales/auctions (schools and other government places that are shutting down/moving are a great source).

Get to know the people in your area who traffic in used computer gear and let it be know that you're in the market for "really old" stuff. Eventually your network will get large enough that you'll start to hear about things.

Start an electronics disposal side-business. Basically advertise that for $x per pound or machine or whatever, you'll come and clear out electronics. 90% of what you get will just be stuff you haul to the local electronic disposal place (charge enough to break even+) but now and then you'll get a treasure-trove of really old stuff.
The models are on huggingface now -- https://huggingface.co/models?other=galactica
The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design
I've tried to do this with founder stock over the years and my tax advisors (I switched at one point) both discouraged me from doing so. Not that I would have ended up with billions, but still, a big chunk of change. The nice part is if you do this when your stock is worth pennies you can still make (almost) the entire normal cash contribution, so the risk is low.

Congress keeps threatening to stop this by forcing accounts over some limit to make an immediate withdrawal, with all the negative tax consequences that would result. This pro publica piece implies that they don't think it will ever happen.
I would say close the window of chat app kill the ongoing chat session more surprising than not. The worst you should do is a prompt with yes/no and a checkbox to remember my decision when you do it the first time.