skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a) believing the output wholesale or b) not occasionally going down random rabbit holes to explore new ideas (even ones that seemed silly or wasteful on the surface) you're probably doing something wrong as it is.
I agree with you on all counts.

I think the only thing I can say wrt poorly/expertly written is I haven't met very many people capable of writing top-quality Rust (most are "I've used it for a side project or two"), whereas my professional network is filled with C experts.

I expect this is due to the types of jobs I work, but the point stands: if we were to try to replace C with Rust we would likely get at most "journeyman" quality.
I've been subscribing to The Atlantic for years. It is entirely targeted at upperclass, liberal, college-educated whites. Which is exactly why I read it. Why would I read a magazine targeted at a culture I don't understand or am not a part of? I do expect The Atlantic to explain these culture groups to me in a language I understand, but any periodical simply targets its own audience for profitability reasons.
My social network Touchbase (www.touchbase.id) owes you a great deal for account URL schemas used by online platforms, thank you!
Part 7 - Go back to Twitter after getting no engagement on Mastadon
Hard drives are not shipped anywhere near a clean room env. The inside of that box is probably one of the cleanest places on earth. It even blows other clean rooms like space craft manufacturing facilities out of the water.

And you're missing the fact that the outside of the box isn't a clean room, and it has to mate with the clean room at the customer facilities. A bajillion baggies of parts is a non starter if the outside of those baggies isn't a clean room env.
Just want to support this - and agree that the implication is the people who don't implement this are the artists (or managers) themselves who, y'know, like money.
In a way everything we eat is processed and processing is not necessarily harmful. To take your example of butter, organic butter may be completely different than mass produced butter regarding it's health implications. And this applies to nearly all food. Mass produced tomatoes will be poor in micro-nutrients and contaminated by pesticides. Et cetera.

Our understanding of nutrition and health isn't keeping up in pace with innovations in the food industry. And due to the scale and depth of it I think it's unavoidable that many small bad things will sum up over time leading to health problems without a clear root cause.

Reasons why "processed" food might be bad for health:

- skewed omega-3/omega-6 ratio

- micro-nutrients depletion

Also it's just not economical or environmentally sustainable to feed everyone with "real food". At least not without radical change and trade-offs in other areas.
Is your goal to turn your calculators into web interfaces? Are you wanting to learn how to do that?

If the goal is purely providing something functional to others on the internet, just create a simple page. Describe your calculators. Add links to download your calculators as excel spreadsheets.

No need to over complicate and build a spreadsheet in a browser.

If you don’t want to do that, just create some HTML pages with forms and use some JS to chain together input boxes and spit out a calculation.

Many of the suggestions here will take you the route of complicated layers of abstraction. Unless your goal is to learn these abstractions, you can avoid that complexity.
Maybe this isn't exactly what you're after, and I have no connection to it other than having it saved in my bookmarks, but just in case you find it useful:

https://www.calcapp.net
It doesn't matter, what I wanted to show is how ridiculous the argument is.
It's very exciting, but my first thought was that I'd look like jelly after that thing gets t-boned by a F-150 or some other monster truck. I'm very curious if it even has airbags, the console looks so minimal.

I know that these taxis will be in slowing moving city traffic, but nonetheless it's an automobile and should have (IMO) all of the safety of a modern day sedan.
Propaganda is one helluva drug. It's worse today then I ever imagined.
Fortunately OP doesn’t appear to be a junior, so I imagine he would be able to use the frameworks (and learn why they exist to begin with) much faster than learning raw DOM just for some purity argument.
I’m fairly certain that large boats win over trains. Their stopping distances are measured in kilometers, there no such thing as an emergency brake on water (except throwing your anchor, but that doesn’t help much in most cases either)
Not so hilariously for people this applies to, but the combination of name and DOB still isn't actually unique either. I'll skip rewording it and just leave this link

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Well summarized!
So E2E chats in Telegram have the same problem.

Every good thing can be used by bad people.
Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, and saw nothing.
I think the point was actually to demo self supervised learning techniques (which is LeCun's schtick) in a way that was a bit flashy and accessible to the public. Fun, easily shareable on social media, generates some buzz about FB AI, etc.

Clearly pitching it as an actual, authoritative source of info was not the right call
I’m not a big user, but in the last week it’s become a lot slower and buggier.

Sections of the site don’t work reliably, searches spin loading, had the site not load at all multiple times, more spam, etc.

Seems the site is just coasting and issues are slowly building up.
The only thing it's doing is doubling the wear on the throw out bearing and clutch linkages. I've seen taxis with 300k miles on their 3rd clutch but never having any gearbox components changed.
Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in fact leaving twitter, more are joining
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Russia had suspect excuses for those cuts as well. Never once did they say “we’re shutting this off because fuck you”. They always left room for diplomatic deniability.
If you don't have a PhD, don't touch academic jobs with a 10 foot pole. They all got one, and they value the credential to a ridiculous degree.

When I last worked with academia, they essentially thought of me as the same as the guy who maintains the lab equipment, not an actual collaborator on their research.
Last commit was the end of last year - it's pretty much all but dead.

I'd recommend Vue or Svelte if looking for something similar.
I'm still waiting for all of the FUD the GPT3 doomers were warning us would happen. It's been out for a year now.

Either our existing reputation systems are pretty resilient or no one has yet seen any actual value in generating generic text at scale for malicious purposes.
> Don't tell people to quit having fun because you choose not to understand it.

I mean, that's pretty much Twitter's raison detre, isn't it?
I’ve also noticed a palpable increase in spam, especially DM spam.

Besides that, I think it’s just a loss of faith in Elon to run the place well. There’s already been so many unforced errors[1], and it’s only been a few weeks. People are trying to migrate their networks off now, because if they wait until the site is broken it may be too late.

[1] laying people off and then asking them to come back, rolling out verification and then pausing it, forcing people back to the office and then locking them out of the office, losing the confidence of advertisers and blaming it on a woke mob, etc.
It was Kremlin propaganda for a day to claim that the missiles that hit Poland were Ukrainian. People got flagged. Now it is the official Biden position.

I'm not sure why we in the West cannot adopt the following stance:

Yes, Russia invaded and committed atrocities. But it does not mean that everything they say is a lie. If you are familiar with Soviet propaganda, it is in fact relatively easy to spot the obvious lies (e.g., dirty bomb).

The Nord Stream sabotage is not at all obvious. The increased use of missiles started after the Crimea bridge attack. So they didn't need a false flag Nord Stream operation as an excuse for that.
its like as "seo" has forced more and more chaff my defense mechanisms have developed to the point where its full on maladaptive to things that aren't content-marketing/blog-spam.
My girlfriend rides a Mi Scooter Pro 2 to work, 11 miles each day. Cost us around $550 I think, and they’re very popular around here (hilly European capital). So I’d say that’s pretty cheap and also seriously usable.
It looks like that at the time, the decision whether to fly over the area or not was a judgment call. In hindsight some companies got it terribly wrong.
From Wikipedia:

Some airlines had avoided eastern Ukrainian airspace prior to the MH17 shootdown, while many others, including 62 operators from 32 countries, had continued to fly routes over the region.

Your statement "I mean dudes setting up antiaircraft weapons in random fields ..." gives somewhat incorrect impression.

What is known is that a Buk 9M38 surface to air missile system belonging to the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade was deployed by pro Russian separatists in the Torez area.
Backblaze usually has a new customer discount and ProtonMail has a 40% off now
If you google "hydrate plug" you'll find a theory the explosion was an accident.

Apparently gas pipelines can get blocked if they're turned off and left with gas in them, and inept attempts to fix it can cause an explosion.

Of course, you'd think if anyone had a lot of experience with gas pipelines, it would be Russia....
Yes, certainly if it was done with a conventional submarine. But it's not impossible that Ukraine found a way to do it independently with a UUV/etc.
I doubt it. Diplomacy is far cheaper than conflict.
It’s kind of both? The fact that the previous litigation of this group was to allow landlords to evict tenants during lockdown is more than interesting. And the fact that the state thought it would be OK to force install the app is interesting too
Show HN: Run OpenAI Whisper on a Free API
TikTok does in some ways seem like the anti-Instagram or Facebook, or at least my feed does. It's all people using their hardships or quirks as humor and a way to connect, or couples examining the annoyances of marriage and relationships in good humor.

The amount of things I want to and do share with my wife and kids in there makes me thing of the items as small emotional payloads I can send which are themselves a message, sort of like sending an emoji or string of them.
My first job offer out of college for compsci was for a genomics research company that desperately needed software engineers. At the time they were storing sequences as ATGC strings in an oracle database using perl scripts. It was really below even undergraduate-level basic stuff.

The offer was $38k a year. About two days later, I got my second offer, $50k from a game company, and then a real offer, $60k, which I took. This was in the late 1990s.

That was 20+ years ago, of course, but I sort of wonder if things have changed. I frankly think a lot of SWE work for fundamentally evil, socially destructive companies, and I honestly don't think you have to to earn a good living, but you also don't have to work for companies that deliriously underpay you.
I can't find the Nordstream blow up on any prediction market (Metaculus, ..).

Did I miss something or is "who dunnit?" here taboo?
I didn’t suggest building a SPA, though I probably would if I was making this. Astro is an example of how to build traditional multi-page site that easily loads React components.
Moving from screen to screen will become the sole purpose of our lives.
No, "fixing the pipeline" is also a red herring. The problem isn't "tech businesses should hire more women just for their gender" or "more women need to get CS degrees". The way you get to, say, all white men in your field is from attrition; i.e. all the women and minorities burning out and changing careers. That burnout comes from exploitative labor practices and workplace harassment, which are rampant in the tech industry - and especially in games development.

If your business is able to properly enforce workplace rules against harassment, then you will have more women and minorities than other firms purely because they will remain at the company. No need for quotas, diversity hires, or affirmative action.
Yeah. It’s one thing if the only way the job is worse is in pay, it my experience has been that if the pay is significantly worse, the job is worse off in every way.
Wouldn’t surprise me if YouTube, Spotify, etc were some of the biggest resources users in many offices.

Maybe it would be useful to have a local company radio streaming service, haha.
You could pay a front end dev to use a preexisting template.

Or, you could Google “classless CSS”, if you’re OK writing some HTML.

I made a plug and play CSS library here for those that don’t want to write CSS: https://github.com/andybrewer/mvp
Anecdata, but I did a master’s in bioinformatics a few years ago, and as part of that I spent about a year in a human genomics lab.

I fully agree that the software used is really bad in general, but what is worse is the level of IT literacy among the PhD’s and post-docs from the biology side. (Also statistics, I guess a lot of p-hacking is the result of authors simply being clueless…)

After finishing my thesis, I was offered to stay and work at the lab. After thinking about it, and accepting, I was told that funding wasn’t secured yet, but that it should come ”any day now”…

Thanks, but no thanks.

Anyway, I fully see the need for professional software engineers in this field, but job security and even job availability (aside from the low salaries) in academia is abysmal, so I don’t think the current situation will change any time soon.
I created a solution to the prior authorization processes in healthcare that has saved Americans several lifetimes worth of waiting for insurance approval for their medically necessary procedures, prescriptions, and treatments. What would otherwise be a several day to several week long process where the patient has no recourse but to wait and continue to suffer their illness without treatment, my products have shortened substantially, and sometimes even resulting in on-the-spot approvals before they have even left their doctor's office.

It's still relatively small (/early) in terms of rollout/adoption, but I'm always proud to be able to make a real, positive difference for humans in their times of need.
I just binged "Succession", a tv-show about a media empire being run by a ruthless man who shies away from nothing to win. Highly recommendable.

I don't think it's implausible that someone like that, if sufficiently smart, would be able to succeed and squander all competition. I would not personally work for someone like that and I am privileged enough to be able to make that choice, but I do think that plenty of people would if they think it will benefit them in the end.

It's not clear to me that there is a trend away from this dynamic in society.
You might be interested in Pyret, if only because the stated goals are similar.

https://www.pyret.org/
Look at the size of the 3 first iPhone generations for example.
I'm not saying it can't be done. But...

https://twitter.com/peterclowes/status/1593458225533313025

> Finally, there was no retention plan for those that stayed. No clear upside for sticking it through the storm on the horizon. Just “trust us” style verbal promises. But tweeps overall were untrusting after the 7 months of acquisition drama, recent tweets, and leaks etc.

> So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?

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What's Elon Musk's vision here? Does he even have a plan? That's the most outstanding part of this all. It has become blatantly obvious that Elon _HAS NO PLAN_.

Its one thing to work for 20-hour days when you know what to do. But what is the plan for Twitter? The plan was "Come to the office on Friday to give Elon Musk a rundown on the code".

For anyone who has worked in difficult circumstances, this has to be one of the worst "visions" offered to "Hardcore" engineers ever. Or is the "vision" seriously just "keep Twitter running over the weekend" ??

And then what? Next week comes, and you'll need that herculean effort to once again keep Twitter open for just another week.

You're not getting paid any extra. All your friends have left. Institutional knowledge and trusted friends are gone. The boss is a nitwit who doesn't even understand the code, and there's no plan for what Twitter will be next week, let alone next year. (Shadowbans? Or not? Paid $8 blue checkmarks? Or not? There's a distinct lack of mission here).

Its not worth it to put in 20 hour days when the boss can't even decide if $8 blue / grey checkmarks are a good or bad idea.
TIL there’s a Twitter alternative called tumblr, which has been around since 2007
ukraine itself (or perhaps a close intelligence ally like lithuania), with its constant pressuring of the west to escalate the conflict (including calls for direct strikes on russia), seems like the most likely candidate. there were backchannel efforts between germany and russia to open negotiations prior to the sabotage -- removing NS gas from the equation entirely for germany takes some of the wind out of those sails. besides this we have seen a great deal of ukrainian sabotage of other russian assets and infrastructure in recent months.
Prevent negotiations between Russia and Germany particularly. Then sell exorbitantly priced US LNG to a captive Europe. All of which is basically happening now.
> Presumably a lot died in the pandemic

Deaths weren't a big labor market driver. Around 1 in 300 Americans died from covid, but only a quarter of those were working age, and tech skews even younger. Long covid could be another story.

That said, I read the comment the same as vineyardmike. More people are working in tech today than in 2019, and that's beyond if the 2019 trend had held.
I thought the article was quite clear - it’s obvious the Koch brothers are doing this because of the covid angle but it’s still pretty shocking that the state thought it would be OK to force install an app
So you're okay with Google installing government tracking apps on your phone because the Koch brothers are against it? Weird flex
No, you didn’t. Sometimes you have to read more than the title to know what the topic is.
That's basically just a restatement of the "principled commitment to truth for the sake of truth" motive for naming your own ally as the culprit. I think/hope Germany/Sweden/etc are too smart for that.
Also, you probably wouldn't be making excuses for it if it weren't a covid app, so covid provided an excellent opportunity to set a precedent.
Fortunately, large boats and trains aren't often competing for the exact same place. Either it's too wet for the train, or too dry for the boat.
This place is bat, haha!
Maybe I phrased it wrong. What I was trying to say is that the theory distinguishes between unfair market dominance and simply being the best. If the splits continue to dominate that would be strong evidence it's the latter.

(The reason I disagree with this is because I think that corporations, like countries, are a social contract that should only be allowed if they serve the people. I think a free market serves the people, but a market needs heavy govt interference to be free. I know that's a minority opinion, so I didn't get into it)
i'd really love to be able to fast like that but my productivity falls through the floor whenever i've tried
Equality is actually quite easy to axiomatise in most logics, here in my favourite logic:

1) x = x

2) x = y => P[x] => P[y]

In my opinion, there is a mathematical reality, which is shared by everyone, even by those who don't believe in it :-) For example, a logical system exists in that reality, and you can either derive a theorem in that system or not in this reality. I don't think it is possible that there is a third possibility. I don't think it is possible that I have a different reality from you in that respect. This reality is not socially constructed, it just is. Intuitionism will tell you that because you don't know if a certain theorem is derivable, it is in some sort of hybrid state until we know for sure via a intuitionistic proof or a counter example. I think that is bullocks. Either there is a proof or not. Either there is a counter example, or not.

Beyond that, extending this mathematical reality, there is a wider, not as easily accessible reality. We can try to understand that reality by modelling it via certain assumptions, and then applying our mathematical reality to those assumptions. I believe the mathematical conclusions we draw from this will be real to the extent that the assumptions are true; but of course you cannot ever be sure about those assumptions, and so you cannot be sure about the conclusions. But if you notice that your conclusions do not hold, you need to challenge your assumptions, not your mathematics.
Can you provide any citations for chargers using diesel generators? The batteries on these scooters don't charge quickly, and running charging cables in the bed of a truck would likely be pretty problematic considering none of the connectors are locking (one tug and your unplugged).
Determined by what?
full disclosure, this pet theory is entirely based on observations of people on LSD. High frequency spatial patterns consistently get distorted in colorful ways.
> ADVANCED DEGREE HOLDING SOFTWARE ENGINEERS: consider working on genomics

fixed the title.
It's the "Johnny Cab" from Total Recall!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
There sure is critical mass now, at least for me. Engagement with my posts, especially from strangers, is actually much higher on Mastodon. And I keep seeing others report the same.

This is a recent change though, wasn't the case, for me, a year ago.
Having worked (as a consultant/contractor) for a few businesses in the field, I can say that my experience was closer to "grateful for your help" than to "an overpaid lab assistant". I even recall once, in a meeting, being referred to (by a senior staff scientist with a Ph.D.) as "the technical guy", causing me to wonder at how someone who does gene sequencing thinks of programming as being more technical.

But, YMMV.
Wanted to add for context, this question wasn't directed to him specifically, was posted in a general channel. I don't want to sound paranoid but based on his pattern of responses it seemed like this type of immediate response in a public channel was intended to influence other's perspectives. I'm not into the office politics games but I am aware that people play them.
I don't quite understand this post. In my experience lab technicians in academia are highly valued (however I mostly have experience with clean room staff), however they are support for the researchers, who drive the research agenda (well actually it's the funding primarily). What exactly do you expect to not be what you call "a second class citizen"?
I'm trying to figure out how a boat and a train would even cross paths.
This "spyware" (which even the article title quotes as so) is just a CoViD contact tracing app.

It's an app that collects personal information and that was installed without the knowledge or consent of users. How is that not spyware?
escalation of the crises in Europe, which historically - see: WW2 - has massively benefited the US. more incentive to import American gas. damage Russia; the US objected to Nord Stream in the first place. also can be used as justification to increase support for what is essentially a proxy war in Ukraine

the EU/US economic stratosphere is not necessarily a zero-sum game, but in general if Europe’s economy separately takes a hit, the US gets stronger