skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, some of these users seem to be quite addicted to this site.

I would like to ask coldtea, DanBC, dragonwriter, dredmorbius, jacquesm, jonbaer, pjmlp, pseudolus, rayiner, TeMPOraL, Tomte, tosh, tptacek, and others in the top list — why?
I didn't see it mentioned here, but worth pointing out if it wasn't obvious it's the 4th quarter of the fiscal year and hiring drops off - it's the worst time of the year to land a job. That being said, I may have some advice as far as how to land a job under less than ideal circumstances - it requires a bit of salesmanship, both in how you layout your presentation and who you are speaking to/targeting.

Are you creating a custom cover letter for each job you apply to? How do you apply - do you submit a form or do you try to get your resumé to someone's email either HR or someone related in the department where the position was posted for? If you're willing to work for low pay, are you sorting job listings where the bad pay shows up first? Are you labeling yourself as a "mid-level" engineer in your application or do you use your cover letter to demonstrate your comfort and experience with the skillset or domain?

Creating a nice cover letter that shows sincere interest, thought and understanding of the industry and the duties that come with the job then getting it into someone's hands who knows who to pass it along to or is a decision maker is your best bet.

Writing all those cover letters though can be draining, I know, I once did it manually and could get one a day done, maybe - never got a job that way. At some point, I realized all the best cover letters stuck to a format, and job listings weren't too different either. I made a spreadsheet that could draft cover letters for me, I'd just add a row for a job listing in my spreadsheet, select from some dropdowns (or add to the list as necessary) and then it would pull some statements relative to those parameters in and generate a cover letter that usually needed less than 5 minutes of editing (the cover letters could get long winded and sound conceited sometimes, good problem to have) to be ready to send out. I also added some job/skill type parameters where I could rank my compatibility for a job, like if two jobs were the same except one used PHP (not that experienced) on the backend, and one used Ruby (more experienced), I'd be able to prioritize the one that was a more likely fit. Once I built this spreadsheet to generate cover letters and rank jobs, I literally got the first job I applied to despite being mostly self-taught and trying to break into the industry. I just sent it to hr@companyiwasapplyingto.whatever and got a callback in 10 minutes too, FWIW. Pretty sure the general gist of this advice applies to any job - send a nice cover letter!
Not remotely the point I was making.
The fundamental thing Apple got out of the NeXT acquisition was an adult OS management team. The software acquired was totally irrelevant (at the time). What was important was new people in charge, who unlike the previous Apple management, could actually make decisions. The decisions were often bad, but they were decisions!

If Amelio and Hancock had been competent, they would have actually set up a management structure internally and started focusing on shipping Copland-based software instead of shopping externally. Strip it down and get it out the door and build on that. It could absolutely have been done.

Of course, you wouldn’t have the iMac or iPod or iPhone. And Apple might not have survived. The world would be very different.

(That all said, OpenStep was truly dire in 1997. Yes, it could print, although they ended up having to write an entirely new graphics stack from scratch anyway. It actually took six years from 1997 to turn moribund OpenStep into a viable consumer OS (I could not recommend anything before Jaguar to end users — the Finder, among other things, was unusable up to that point).
> While I don't know what the prompt exactly said, I bet it was specific enough.

An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected. In this case it was the friends of the person signing up. Again, that's the only reason Cambridge Analytica was successful. They didn't have that many users, they collected a ton of data on the users' friends.

> I agree. And that company is not Meta.

Meta had an obligation to protect its users' data. It failed at that.
The thing I really don’t like about the whole assisted dying debate, is when people use exactly that phraseology. It’s “peaceful”. It’s “safe”. There’s nothing safe or peaceful about your own death.

When Nazi’s put people in gas chambers they used these kinds of semantic arguments to brainwash people into committing atrocities. No one knows what happens after or when we die. We found out after years in the US, after executions by injection which was considered humane was actually excruciatingly painful but the prisoners couldn’t scream because they were effectively paralyzed. The whole idea of this raises red flags to me.
All politics aside, he's showing himself to be incompetent in really surprising ways.

This whole time he's been trading on his personal brand of futurism and technical acumen, and this Twitter business lets everyone see behind the curtain, and it's really easy to be angry when someone is shown to be such a hollow fraud.

No more benefit of the doubt for him.
Must be some sort of bot or marketing service. If you look at their posting history, they submit the same article over and over again. This should be filtered or flagged.
Why does anyone care?
> wikipedia, it’s still sort of part of “old internet”

what sort of new internet are you living in?
You can be the change you want to see by making the kind of comments you'd like to see—hopefully not this sort. I think one can't tell from these summary statistics which articles are posted without context; and there definitely have been numerous Wiki posts that just fall into the "huh, I didn't know that exists, but I'm glad I do now" category that didn't need any additional context to be beneficial, at least for me.
One of the alternate histories of the modern computer era is one in which AT&T made peace with BSD. There were of course also many minicomputer OSs that were no longer of significant commercial interest by, say, the mid-80s that could have been interesting as open source options. Something like Linux was probably inevitable but Linux itself was probably not.
I think publishing this information would stand a strong chance of being protected under the free speech clause, even in a jurisdiction that otherwise applied penalties to anyone who would help someone procure an abortion, yes, and a much stronger chance than a doctor writing a prescription for these medications and trying to argue the prescription was "speech."
That’s a good observation. In many ways your approach is like Carbon on MacOS, or the bajillion UI toolkits that exist on top of the same display driver, clipboard, etc., infrastructure in Windows.
Cool, I figured we were just using different words for the same thing. I learned a lot of this stuff in the "Inside Macintosh" days, so my UX argot tends to align with it. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Yes, but in all honesty just "reading the books" is probably not enough. To really understand the full "lore" you should definitely read the appendices and the chronology; also reading The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales is most recommended.
Seriously, the whole argument is so flimsy. Very few people know or care about all of the extraneous arbitrary make-work causes and movements that Wikipedia donations are actually being used to fund rather than the core site.

And that’s the whole crux of the argument that OP conveniently ignored: that the banners make it seem like Wikipedia needs the money, when it doesn’t. WMF, on the other hand, does need it so it can continue to grow its spending exponentially on causes no one cares about and have nothing to do with Wikipedia itself (which is what people actually care about and probably think their donations are being used to support).
I've never had any problems on Windows similar to the ones I've had on Linux.

On Windows I have never had a button just do nothing. Not for something as simple and common as formatting a flash drive.

I've never had problems dragging and dropping between a popular windows program and the windows operating system.

Maybe it's inherent because Linux is open source and stuff just won't work together because of that, but if that's the case then Linux is doomed to never be able to compete with Windows.
The sudden - N votes after responding to sibling comment without any comments below this one suggest that I hit some nerves.
My past employers include some lackluster companies that not too many people knew. I found those companies by browsing the local startup incubator's press releases. When the times were good, I attended some tech-related meetups (virtual or in person) to learn what others did. There are some smaller venture capitalist firms such as 8VC that work with many startups. You may learn about opportunities that not too many people are aware of.

Just like what at least one other person have said, ensure that you've an up-to-date LinkedIn profile. In addition, have someone in recruiting or in software development to read over your resume. Remote jobs could receive many applications because the applicants are not bounded by their locations. With the number of applications, it is easy for the recruiters and the hiring managers to stop reading weak applications even if you are experienced. I used the paid resume review service from levels.fyi.
>Simply not true.

Okay. What is a proof other than a step by step explanation for why something’s true? You’re getting caught up in “program” when it’s objectively the case that all math follows a series a steps. A lot of those steps are “handwavy” I’ll give you that. That’s not relevant to what I said though.

>there is nothing interesting about symbol manipulation

Cool. You missed my entire point again. Math education is geared towards a certain set of people who pick up on (and gain an interest in) the language of math. Only once you get to higher level math do you even start to get alternative visualizations etc (at which point you’ve weeded out a ton of people who would have benefited from e.g. visualizing numbers as groups of shapes). There are a million ways to teach math and we’re leaving a lot of people behind. That was my point
Entrepreneurship is mostly sales.
Won't they just give it a name? i.e Siri, Alexa, Jeeves

Just noticed that GPT sounds a little like Jeeves.
I have no knowledge of CMake other than that of a very superficial user. Still I think due to critical mass unless we have something truly ingenuous it is probably better to keep adding missing features to CMake than create other tools from a scratch.
I think that individuals have a right to end their own life. Often doing so is a selfish act that hurts the people closest to them, but it's their life, their body, and their choice.

Also, jurisdictions are increasingly allowing assisted death in non-terminal cases. For example, Canada is poised to expand its assisted death program to individuals with mental illness. That is effectively carte blanche for anyone to access assisted dying.
>Or you can choose to resend the same email to audience who haven't opened the first time.

I know there used to be tricks to find out whether an email was opened. But my impression was that Gmail and others prevent this nowdays?
While this may be true for individual cases. Statistically the argument is worthless. Frankly, it's a comforting lie that encourages harmful inaction by instilling a false sense of the playing field being close to even.

The children of the top 1% make up 14.5% of the admissions to these schools. The chart of students by parental income[0] speaks for itself.

The children of the bottom 20% make up a mere 3.8% of the student body. I'm not sure how anyone can look at the current situation and suggest there's nothing wrong with it.

Perhaps these people are inherently inferior? Instead, I would suggest that we should do something about the talent that we're intentionally wasting.

[0] Chetty R. et al, Figure I. B, MOBILITY REPORT CARDS:
THE ROLE OF COLLEGES IN INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY, Page 80. url: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23618/w236..., image: https://i.redd.it/tbh2qmozodv91.png
Ok, great. What's the name of this example web application?
I may not be a good representative sample, but the forums I remember were fairly niche (transatlantic life advice) and consequently small. 4chan style meltdowns were avoided but HN is on a different scale. It might be an aberration, it might be a new way to moderate / build community. I am not sure but it is a very interesting question how we got here. And is it replicable?

And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
This is a deeply strange line of thought to follow. Do you think broadcasters would go to the trouble and expense if there was no value for people in it?

If subtitles were equal value or even “good enough”, they’d be used exclusively. That they aren’t should tell you something, and you repeatedly protesting that you are unable to comprehend the value doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
>An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected.

That consent was granted the day they accepted/sent the friend request. Once the friendship was established, the other user had access to the profile information. They can do with that information as they please, which includes giving it to a 3rd party. If it's illegal to do so, the parties at fault are the user who accepted the API access request and perhaps the 3rd party, but definitely not the medium.

>Meta had an obligation to protect their user's data. It failed at that.

If I go to your profile and take a screenshot, has Meta failed at protecting your data? What if a friend gives me their password or remote desktop access to their computer and I look at your profile? Should we fine Facebook?
Related:

The Society of Mind (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30586391 - March 2022 (37 comments)

The Society of Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050936 - July 2016 (2 comments)

Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971310 - Jan 2016 (6 comments)

The Society of Mind (1988) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8877144 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)

The Society of Mind Video Lectures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8668750 - Nov 2014 (10 comments)

Marvin Minsky's "The Society of Mind" now CC licensed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6846505 - Dec 2013 (2 comments)

MIT OCW:The Society of Mind (Graduate Course by Minsky) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856714 - Oct 2009 (2 comments)
I understand that company officers cannot be directly sued or prosecuted for the actions of the company that they run, on the legal theory that the company is a separate person. However is there any reason that they cannot be prosecuted as accessories before the fact?
I think OP means stability in the sense of the fickleness of policymakers from administration to administration. If your business is predicated on tax deals, environmental regulations, the stable import or export of certain goods, or other things that may be more ephemeral than expected in your business plan, longevity may be an issue.
His biographer says that Allen & Unwin (his publishers) asked for "a new Hobbit book". The earliest drafts are about a second adventure for Bilbo -- he had run out of money and needed a new treasure fetch-quest.

You can read the early drafts in book 6 of the History of Middle-earth, and watch as "the tale grew in the telling". They start with Bilbo, then the protagonist changes name and identity as the concept fills out. He made it as far as Bree in a very Hobbit-esque style before scrapping it all and rewriting it in the more adult LotR style.

(He later tried to re-write The Hobbit in that LotR style, but it was dreadfully boring and he gave up after a few chapters.)
Also, the core algorithm behind chatGpt, Transformer Neural Nets, was actually built by Google in 2017. They'll be fine
My thoughts at this point in the original article was:

Well - if you want to demonstrate how mathematics helps here, then you should mention that computing the n-th fibonnaci number can be computed as the n-th power of the matrix [[1,0],[1,1]], and that the most efficient way to compute powers (in any associative domain) is the repeated squaring algorithm.
Yet another paying NewsBlur subscriber, from the earliest days. I use them to subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds.

I've been increasingly using their search feature, which allows you to search for text across a "folder" (group of subscriptions) or across all your subscriptions.

Another nice feature: If you enter just the home URL for a web site when creating a new subscription, it'll automatically search commonly used URLs (/feed, /rss, etc.) to find their RSS feed for you.
In art school I took a lot of large format photos of industrial facilities at night, which often involved climbing chain-link fences with a huge pelican case and tripod. Totally worth it for the end results, and looking like a quaint old timey photographer was helpful the few times I was confronted by security guards. :)
R is the set of real numbers.

Z is the set of integers {.., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...}.

Z is called "Z" due to influential German mathematicians who chose the letter to stand for "zahlen" ("number" in German).

As a fun fact, the letter "N" stands for "natural numbers," meaning either positive integers, or positive integers and zero. However, that letter (N) is _not_ standardized because mathematicians disagree about whether or not to include zero. When I separately told a couple of my professors this in grad school, they didn't believe me — one of them thinking it was crazy for zero to be excluded, the other thinking it was crazy to include it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number
> Where does Tolkien describe that?

It's discussed extensively in History of the Lord of the Rings. The sequel was originally intended to have a tone as light as The Hobbit (which somewhat excuses his original "Bingo" Baggins). Tolkien had no idea where he was going when he started writing; he just knew he wanted to start with a party and somewhere include an off-hand story involving Tom Bombadil. He eventually decides that the protagonist (Bilbo/Frodo/Bingo/whoever) will go to Rivendell.

He wrote a few chapters with all this in mind, still in a light tone. He went back to rewrite some things and he decides to add a passage where Frodo hides to surprise/scare Gandalf, who is coming down the road on his horse. Tolkien writes the part where Gandalf stops and starts sniffing, probably intending for Gandalf to ruin the surprise.

But then, with no known explanation, he scratches out Gandalf and writes "black rider" (or something close to that). In the margin he writes "who is the black rider?". He then pauses his rewrite so he can ponder who this new character is. This starts him down the new, darker, path that leads to the Ring and Sauron. The sniffing rider eventually becomes a Nazgul. Fascinating stuff!
In the list of the top 10 users who got most upvote, one of the user is mooreds who runs an amazing newsletter call "Letter to a new developer"

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

Highly recommend to follow mooreds and his newsletter. It's great that he spend his time to tailor and help the new developer.

Not affiliate with mooreds in any mean just a happy audience.
I’d just like to give miniflux a mention. Web-based, self-hosted or SaaS. Available and synced across devices, no fluff, great UX / UI in my book. Not as snappy as some desktop keyboard driven ones, but I love it.
Summarizing “Advance SQL” Workshop with ChatGPT
I self host https://github.com/urandom/readeef which I wrote some time after the demise of google reader
Are the PDF exports vector or bitmaps?

Update: Just did a quick test and it appears that the PDF export is a vector output. You can open and edit it in Affinity Designer and likely other graphic programs and then export from then to SVG or something else.
So I had a stack of 12v pixel leds I picked up at an amazon returns bin store a while back for $10 for 10 sets of 50 leds. (Normally $120-150)

This was 6 strings (Only 5 visible), a D1 esp 8266 running wled and a 12v power supply. Worked quite well.

https://imgur.com/a/C8BbDVI
I just downloaded it. Thanks :)
I disagree. You’re only able to prove that ordering of the reals (and that it’s impossible to show) because you are computing the abstract structure underlying the reals (which is based on some lower level ideas etc.) Just because a problem is computationally hard with a step by step CPU doesn’t mean it isn’t computation.

This is actually a problem of interest to me, so I’ve definitely been exposed to it and the limits of modern computation. But I’m not speaking strictly about the modern day CPU.
> Input it into a proof assistant, and rely on the same sort of feedback "does the computer accept your proof, or get stuck". The hard job of formalizing stuff for this purpose has seen significant progress, e.g. by the Lean mathlib project.

As a math teacher who disagrees with the premise of the GGP post ("This couldn’t be more wrong. … I’m sorry, but mathematics is orders of magnitude more intensive and difficult than most programming"), and thinks that any good programmer can learn mathematics—of course there are code wodgers out there who don't really understand their craft of programming, and so can't translate that knowledge to facilitate an understanding of mathematics—I think I also disagree with this. I've never tried it, but I can't imagine someone learning about Stokes's theorem in anything like this way. One of the many axes along which I imagine this failing are that the state of human readability in proof assistants is, well, let's say it's less well developed than the, cough, stellar state of the art in compiler error messages.

But, more importantly, you can, at least in principle, know every single step in a proof of Stokes's theorem without understanding in any real sense why it's true—and a proof assistant in particular will force you into the weeds of minutiae that absolutely do not help to build any intuitive picture—and, even if you manage in the process to piece together that understanding of why it's true, you will never thereby gain an understanding of why it's interesting (e.g., among other things, its connections to physics and the entrée it offers to differential geometry).
I was a Feedly user since 2013 but have since moved to Readwise Reader

https://readwise.io/read

Also recently did I little write up of my workflow:
https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/
>RSS feed can't limit only to subscribers

The feed doesn't give you the whole article. Only the first paragraph or two. If you've ever seen someone write "after the jump" they're referring to the content that you can only see when accessing the page directly.
I expect that model already exists in multiple places.
TIL a salt water spring at -5C temperature exists (and extremophiles live in it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Heiberg_Island#Lost_Hamme...
That's false. The api was called friends permission and was public. There are references to it everywhere in the web. For example here you have a rando asking about it in SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6392338/what-is-the-diff...