skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that the main issue is the sadness, but there is nothing wrong with going to a restaurant by yourself. Absolutely nothing, and there is nothing to be ashamed of or pathetic. No one else in the restaurant will think twice about it either.
Like any other commercial entity in the west, and especially in the US, it's a machine for making money.
All other values are subjugated to that purpose. As long as some other value isn't hurting the bottom line, it'll be tolerated. Once it does, all those other values go out the window.

This is what makes these machines so effective.
This is what makes liberal western values vulnerable.
Go to bed earlier. Like, 9 hours before you are due to wake up so you have an hour to properly relax.
The main thing we have over animals is our ability to reason, so if anyone can overcome petty border disputes, it’s us.

“Animals do it” is not a compelling argument for humans to participate in… well, anything. We know better!
"This was basically how things have worked and continue to work in (particularly rural) areas where policymaking is lacking and people are left to their own devices."

So in rural areas if a child in school grabs another child, throws them on the ground, and starts beating them in the middle of math class, the teacher will not attempt to intervene?

Sorry but I don't believe this.
I would be much more interested in the secret to waking up alert and refreshed while living with preschoolers.
> Why do you think Doordash/Shopify/Stripe "knew full well" that this boom wouldn't last?

In the Doordash case, it's pretty god damn obvious the boom wouldn't last. DoorDash shot up because restaurant dining rooms were closed. As soon as restaurants started opening back up, it only makes sense that DoorDash's popularity would sink. While certainly some people will have decided "Hey, this is pretty convenient" and keep using them, I think it's absolutely bone-headed to think it wasn't going to eventually dip.

> Unfortunately, the world reverted to the mean with regards to online shopping and ordering food pretty quickly in 2022

Again, completely bone-headed to have not expected this to happen.
Far from being a vacation, looking for a new job while on a deadline and in a down job market is much more stressful than working a full time job.
> Should private speech in the home have consequences? Speech that not only did you not mean to make public, but you didn't even realize could possibly become public?

What do you think about the (former) NFL team owner whose voicemail containing racial slurs was leaked. It was not supposed to become public: should he not have faced any consequences for it on that basis? IIRC, he was forced to sell his franchise by the other teams.
If you went to school at a time where working any non-degree-required job is enough to pay for your college (like I did), you went at a time completely different than today. College is prohibitively expensive; loans are all but required. And if a lawyer or doctor earns less than $125k they can have the extra ten grand.
hiiele?

On a serious note, while the eID/digital gov system is great and all it does have some jankiness. The address search system everyone uses has been a PITA for a while and the tax system still keels over for a day or so when the possibility of submitting returns opens. Then we had the case of one dude scraping several hundred thousand ID card pictures [0].

Also the broadband part is so-so. Estonian internet is notoriously expensive and slow compared to our near peers [1].

[0] https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300...

[1] https://news.postimees.ee/7635673/estonia-s-home-internet-sp...
One would expect that a species that looks at the stars and longs to explore would have found ways to reconcile coexistance of tribes. Alas, we are but hairless Chimpanzees with speech and clothes.
People who profit from Ponzi schemes love pretending that their returns represent real value from the economy.
Kind of perfect for a travel mahjong set where you don't have a table to shuffle a bunch of tiles on!
> its more that it has little to gain for them.

But it will cause them a loss from the big donors that do benefit from H1-B people having less negotiating power, which is why the cynicism is warranted.

“Occam’s razor” is for situations where something is happening unintentionally. There exists intention here, however indirect.
Yeah, definitely :) It was kind of a bittersweet moment when I realized that all the gear I lusted after as a youth can now be outperformed on basically every axis by something that costs less than $40 (if you can find one!) and comparatively sips power. So if I could get a case that scratched the nostalgia itch a bit while having modern compute innards, that'd be grand. (Also, I suspect most of us are more nostalgic for the hardware than irix 6.2 or solaris 2.6 or whatever similar vintages of proprietary unix.)
Sucking up to some degree is team work. You need to know how to work with people to get what you need and move the company forward. Each person is different and part of working at a large company is learning how to interact with a multitude of personalities, many that you would not get along with outside of work.

It is like high school, it is like politics, it is like any group of humans interacting. You skills are part of the equation, but your people skills are as well.

It's the people who can go with the flow that stick around long term and actually have a meaningful impact on the success of the company. It's very easy to get caught up and think everyone is against you and burn out.
Two by Joeseph Henrich:

1. The Secret of Our Success https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/9474901

2. The Weirdest People in the World https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/26726468

The first explores the extent to which humans are dependent on culture. It also underscores that we're not as smart as we might think. There's valuable knowledge that accretes culturally over time, and this book was the first to make me consider the ramifications of that on family, business, and community. The second book starts from the premises of the first and highlights the strangeness of Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic (W.E.I.R.D.) cultural norms.

Both books compelled me to consider the power of culture on human behavior and thinking. We're less smart than we think, and there's more knowledge buried within our cultural norms than we realize. I'm not sure it's made me a better problem solver, but it has made me more likely to ask myself "does tradition/norms/etc. suggest a direction for this problem?" Time will tell if that approach leads to better problem solving.
I'd argue that a paper is much more easily tamperable/replaceable than a digital signature. That, of course depends on how much you trust the ID chip card security and mathematics around the encryption..
The ability to put "no cookies :)" in your marketing materials
You are mixing diet effectiveness (physics) and adherence. Let me give you an example.

I just had a giant mound of quinoa with a mix of sauteed vegetables and a little more raw olive oil. It met my calorie requirements, but was slightly low in ideal protein. (I've had the same meal with a chicken breast, with the same effect.) I've hit my calorie limit and I'm still hungry.

Sure, it's as simple of CICO, but if CICO with a high vegetable diet leaves me hungry for 14 hours a day to maintain my current weight, it's going to be incredibly hard to maintain adherence. (Let me tell you, it's awesome to wake up at 3AM and so hungry you can't get back to sleep. I will choose sleep over my calorie deficit every time.)

Diets don't work because they are hard to adhere to, even if you are not eating junk food.
Hitting pedestrians also poses issues for folks at the margins, yet we don't seek to educate those people on how to avoid this potentially life destroying situation.
> I can tell you've never been laid off before, because even with severance it doesn't feel like a "long vacation".

I've been laid off with no severance and it felt like vacation, so it might depends on your specific situation. It was my first job, in Germany, 70% of so of my salary guaranteed as unemployment benefits.

I didn't look for a job for like six months, I could have used the full 12 months as I was more than cash positive and still managed to save 40% of my income without changing my lifestyle, it took me two weeks to find a new one. That being said I'm not a "study for interview" kind of dude, life's too short to grind for that imho
Rising inflation and correspondant rising interest rates would have resulted in a major crypto market decline with or without the fraud. Bitcoin had already fallen from $60k+ to ~$20k before the waves of failures even began happening.

All of cryptocurrency is a risk asset. When credit and money is cheap and flowing freely, it flows into risk assets like crypto, driving up their price and forming bubbles. When rates rise and credit and money is no longer flowing freely, it flows out of risk assets into safer havens, popping the bubbles. That's what happened to crypto this year.

The collapses and fraud revelations were a consequence of that, not the cause. Blaming the macro is accurate.
Maybe it has changed now, but when I was working with restaurants last year, DoorDash had a rule that take out prices had to match what you'd pay if you go into the store and order.
There's a strange trend I've noticed where people post hot air comments about articles they didn't read. He outlines clearly that he was spending most of his waking life working for the company, had singlehandedly built out the majority of the most significant infrastructure for their optics systems, and was the foremost expert at the company in the field.

> I just don’t get why anybody is upset at the requirements being what they are.

I'm not upset about a company having requirements like the ones you lay out. Neither is anyone in this entire comment section nor the author of the post.

Right now, in this moment, I'm upset specifically at people like you.
SAP Business ByDesign: Key Business Areas
i’m not buying it. i’ve replaced enough toner cartridges to know there’s significant weight difference between full and empty.

it’s a shill article for their industrial CT scanners
Backlog of? You can go to SSA.gov and look at your statements, but only if it's weekday business hours in the lower 48, otherwise you cannot.
Nevertheless,

- was this change in response to the protests?

- was this change only for Chinese users?
How much does Rust's bounds checking cost?
So excited about this news :-)
Ok, I just meant, when SBF comes out and says, "liquidity crunch, bank run", he means, he stole the money, or charitably, let someone steal it on his watch. Or even more charitably, invested it in an unacceptably stupid way.

For Kraken the slowdown is less business. Crypto is down, as are equity markets, and these are highly correlated (go figure - "inflation hedge").

I'm not even sure if FTX blow up itself is bad for them. Not only is a competitor out, but also people might appreciate a regulated crypto exchange.

So I think maybe "geopolitical" is not outrageously wrong a term to use here.

Any other critiques of crypto are not affected.
US democracy could change by having a central registry of everyone, ensuring everyone gets their voting pass automatically, skipping the faulty and bumpy process of voter registration amd inequality of identification-ability
Photovoltaic uses around 1/30th of the land to produce the same energy as with energy crops.

3% of Germany covered would already be a lot. A hectare gets you around 500 MWh/a, so a square kilometer gets you around 50 GWh/a. 3% of Germany is around 10000 square kilometers, so you would get 500 TWh/a, which is around the electricity used in Germany in a year.

As a comparison agricultural land is 49%, biofuels are 6.6% of all land in Germany.
That seems like such a terrible way to do it, rife to breed resentment and malicious compliance, and let things fall through the cracks.

When I was involved in a bus problem situation, management came to me and said they were concerned about my workload, the hours I was putting in, and the lack of redundancy my position.

What followed was a 6-month process where I was heavily involved in each step, from scoping out the initial additions to the org chart, writing up job descriptions and expectations, application review and interviews, down to onboarding and training of my new team members. In essence we stood up a new division of what had previously been my one-man show, and I now managed two engineers and an admin assistant to get all the work done. It was, all in all, a marvelous process and I am proud of the team I trained. I got my saturdays back, too.
What's their angle? What's the vig? They have spent 800,000 euro on what?
It wouldn't surprise me if someone glanced at the "Probabilistic Programming Team" name and said "I don't know what that is but I doubt we need it" and added them to the chopping block.
Their demo counter [0] didn't work in my browser, maybe because I normally have javascript disabled.

In the demo it seems they have XMLHttpRequest code calling ping.withcabin.com/cache for this trick of theirs.

Can this method of counting be made to work without javascript?

[0] https://lastmodified.normally.com/
> Also worth noting that her own website, registered in July of 2022, has posts backdated to April and March of 2021, which is strange to say the least.

So if you register a new domain name, you have to go back and edit your site's publication dates to be on or after the date in your whois record? lol?
The systems of authoritarian control in the USA and Britain are different in style from those employed in China, but they do share the same goal. Note also that the United States still has the world's most populated prison system, whether one measures in in absolute numbers or as a per capita percentage.
I think the wording is "As soon as administratively possible" - But I've also read that to mean within 24 hours of your termination you need to have left the United States, and have always adhered to that rule.
Hah. Interesting. But I was going the other way: parasites as groomers of long running software. (So symbiotic would be more correct.)
Couldn't the government (or state) simply run ad campaigns for a couple of weeks informing the public of new changes?

Edit: Most changes are not rocket science, you simply need to be aware of them.
While I do feel sorry for the people who are losing their jobs, I do wonder why so many of these unicorns / VC funded / startups / Silicon Vally darlings, all seems like they are, shall we say, a bit overstaffed?

If you can lay off between 10% or more of the staff and expect to continue to operate unimpeded, then why didn't they do it sooner? I'm not counting Twitter, because while perhaps overstaffed, firing 50%+ is just nuts.
Also the senior leadership in these companies are all part of overlapping social circles, have similar educational backgrounds, have a similar media diet, etc.
Misinformation Isn't New. Colonial America Was Rife with It
Depends how you define relevant. Since actively trying to block stalky advertising behaviours I've had more interesting adverts (by “interesting” I mean new-to-me, not the “do you want another one of the thing you've already bought all you need of for a while” types). Things are relevant enough if, for instance, I get running related adverts while reading an article about other runners or browsing shoes.

In my experience the stalky behaviour doesn't improve the advertising relevance from my PoV, so the fact it means that all that derived information, some of it definitely PII, is out there so should anyone be able to hack into it they could use it for fraudulent purposes (identity theft, spear-fishing my contacts, …), makes the situation lose-lose for me.

It is worse for other people, as they have information that advertisers like to derive that might be extra sensitive. Being white, male, cis, middle-class, ete, with a life not interesting enough for there to be much to convincingly blackmail or threaten me about, living in western Europe, I'm pretty safe, but this can't be said for others especially in certain parts of the world (scarily religious ruled countries with bad records on individual rights, like Qatar and America to give two examples).
I'm not sure I understand. They're talking about how to wake up alert and refreshed, but focus on breakfast. That happens after you wake up. Are they saying that if you wake up groggy, the right breakfast can make you alert? Or that the right breakfast on one day affects how you wake up the next day?
If it’s anonymous and doesn’t collect any user data, why do we need it at all? Would using a cookie for the same purpose (just a counter of visits, resetting every day) trigger the GDPR laws somehow? It would work in literally same way except being transparent to the user instead of utilizing some shady technique.
I assume you intended 3/11 ?
The journey to building a true quantum computer
Lol. Tons of crap coins, fake stable coins, grifters launching ICOs, SBF, bridges getting hacked, being able to print a coin and then get randoms to buy it. Coins named after dogs that mean or reference nothing.

Some 20 years? in and what value has the blockchain provided? What is it being used in that has changed the world? Crypto bulls are all the same: Hayek acolytes hell bent on currency that isn’t fiat.

It is a Ponzi-scheme: it only works if you can find another putz to buy a coin.

Also only the early “investors” made any money in crypto. Just like in a Ponzi scheme. ;)

Again back to the original post though good on this “company” for doing right by its employees.
This is smart. I already use next.js for my frontend. Mirroring its structure for my backend will be good for consistency. Thanks!
Parsing JSON at the CLI (2020)
> you need to re-clone from scratch — even if you did nothing wrong.

I don't think you will need to reclone if did nothing wrong. You can always use `git reset --hard origin/...`, and if that does not work the you definitely did something wrong.

> But in Linus’s own words, Git is “the information manager from hell.”

That git is not the same git we have today, and it was handed over to another person quite early in the development. Although I agree that git ux is sometimes confusing.

> Limit your Git actions ... for peak Git efficiency

I pretty much disagree, if I can give my two cents, read the manual. Git have some really handy tooling that can help with non-git issue (e.g.: `git bisect`). Limiting your knowledge brings no benefit.

I like some point of the text, but overall I don't like the premise. it exaggerate a lot a problem to prove a point.
Even with the same amount of work or service provided, under-staffing absolutely consumes and destroys peoples productivity. What an awful waste it is to take the morning off work to go somewhere like the DMV, wait forever in line and see half the service counters empty. Sure, the government saved on some staff salary but society lost more in productivity.
Same. I've been on a 7hr feeding window for two years now. I don't eat until noon. It's something else that I just decided to try on a whim for fun, but then decided to make it a permanent part of my life because of how well it seemed to fit.
> You don't see a lot (if any) fat people in certain parts of the world where access to cheap, unhealthy, highly caloric food is not as readily available as it is in the US

The word "unhealthy" is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. For instance, there's the Kitvian people, who have no food scarcity whatsoever and a diet that consists of 70% carbohydrates, which a lot of nutrition "science" tells us is bad, yet obesity is completely unknown to them.

Or the Maasai diet, which is about 66% fat, yet they also don't have an obesity problem.

Sugar consumption in Austrailia between 1980 and 2003 dropped 23% but obesity nearly trippled.

The idea that this is merely due to food addiction caused by some "unhealthy" quality of what we're eating is not well supported by the data. Or at least we haven't isolated what exactly the "unhealthy" part of that is yet.
I'm not very familiar with the Lisp environment but what Stallman always argued was the logical conclusion of the current (at the time state) of software freedom and redistribution. Nothing being codified was ripe for abuse and misuse, but because the general community consisted of altruistic "doo-gooders" that reality always seemed very far away.
He mentions working obscene hours and enjoying it and being good at it.

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This is sad. I find probablistic programming languages very interesting. This probably means that many of the most useful ideas are disappeared. Does anyone know any relevant papers that describe what they did?
Then why did they pull Twitter ads? Surely they're losing sales from that?
The Population Bomb was published 54 years ago and it's still wrong, guys.

They even have Ehrlich on their list of patrons. Lol.
Yeah I overlapped with that team at FB, and they were freaking amazing. That being said, I suspect that it was a Thunderdome type situation where two teams enter, one team leaves. It doesn't end up reflecting the value delivered as much as the perceived value.
https://archive.ph/e0Eey
Too bad the poet wasn't well versed in Zoology it seems.
>You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side.

Fair enough, but you should know that calling out cancelation as a growing flaw of society will often not be received as a neutral position. The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional.
I think it really depends on your financial situation and how you want to spend your time. If they have been saving most of their salaries and have years of savings saved up, then maybe they are fine taking a 12 mo vacation before starting the interview grind. Perhaps there are some side projects they want to work on instead.
I'm sure it was in response to the protests. Apple said it's rolling out worldwide, but starting in China.
Probably because principal engineer is an independent contributor type role. Also sounds like he wasn't part of the hiring team to begin with - which is a lot of overhead if you're already a busy engineer.
As opposed to “why am I learning category theory”, which is usually screamed deep in the night before an exam.
Does this confirm that Huawei phones come with some sort of spyware?
Right, an RC bomb is not by itself too different from say a sniper, it's if this establishes a precedent for more autonomous lethal robots.
It does sound great when it works. It’s awesome that Estonia succeeded. I do believe this is a really hard problem - digitising public services - to solve at scale.

Whenever you have bigger countries you almost always have several levels of local governance - state, county or Land. These local governments often work with full autonomy and do not share date with the central government.

In this case even solving such simple and basic thing as a centralised login solution is difficult since why would the owner of the centralised login solution should have knowledge of which citizen used which local governments service?

I believe that’s why we see so many unfinished systems not working together because they have to be built completely separately by each local government since they operate in autonomy.
Can you give an example of what being bullied by a peer would look like and what skills would be required to resolve that conflict?