skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the cutting edge basic research is done in Europe though. Played a significant part in Cas9, for example.

In general, this is just globalization. Different regions specialize in different tasks. You don't see the United States actually manufacturing much of the pharmaceuticals. That's happening off in India or one of its neighbors.
Just curious, but how would your employer find out who you're working for when you go somewhere else?
Ask HN: What video game would you get?
Since we're nearing the end of the Steam winter sale, what video game would you recommend and why?
Joint probability all members are either all excellent or all terrible is higher when the number of people is smaller.
Have anything to say about Tokyo, Paris, or Seoul? Your silence in that part of the thread is conspicuous.

I'm forced to consider the likelihood that you are a typically provincial New Yorker with no real perspective on global megacities.
My queue for the month is

1. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (which I'm about 15% of the way through)
2. The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (last year's Booker prize winner)
4. The Trees by Percival Everett (a Booker prize shortlistee)

And then I'll try to finish up the Earthsea cycle (I have Tales and The Other Wind left). After that, I'm not sure, and who knows how far beyond January that will take.
Do you happen to be currently in law school?
Well, you can either live in your idealistic world and starve and be homeless unless you can live off of unemployment or live in the real world and save your money.

Or do you expect the government to replace 100% of a tech employees compensation?
Making changes to your lifestyle and diet is still the best, most reliable way to lose weight; this article’s science is far from conclusive or “production ready”, as engineers would say.
Perhaps just unfortunate timing, but of note: this comes approximately a month after CircleCI reduced their staff by about 17%[1].

[1]: https://circleci.com/blog/ceo-jim-rose-email-to-circleci-emp...
I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter
> they still have a P&L like any other company

Amazon's quarterly reports have all been good so far (Q3 2022 is the latest). Sales are up 15% YoY, and they are profitable.
Explaining Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)
No "groups", huh?

Still looks pretty nice.
Software unions are starting to seem inevitable.
I'm sorry again, but I just have trouble equating Scott's supposed agreement (by way of NRx) as to the nowadays-quite-fashionable claim that "American capitalism is uniquely founded on the oppression of enslaved Africans" with moral support for any claim of racial supremacy. A claim that slavery "worked" really well is tantamount to a claim that powerful, enduring systems of social organization could be built on the oppression of slavery as a foundation, and vice versa. These statements only differ by way of their connotation as to whether they assume slavery to be morally acceptable.
And that means that companies are incentivised to hire adequately. Whereas companies see no immediate (and attributable, this is important) problems when exempt employees are pushed to work overtime.
Math can pay the bills, or at least is. A prerequisite for most great jobs.

Most people will never make money with music, but they can enjoy playing it. As such music should be taught as fun first, and then the rest follows if and when needed.
I've done keto for three months and my body's ability to process fat has completely changed. I honestly think were never meant to eat as many carbs as we do in a day.

It sounds like a very similar symptoms except only for the first few weeks of Keto. Ketosis is where the body starts to use fats to produce its own sugars for the blood rather than relying on carbs to suppliment.

Anyway I'm off keto now and I find myself capable of burning fat simply by being more physical. It's really weird.
Going from zero to 4% is a lot harder that going from 8% to 4%
> The problem even with paid noncompetes is that you are only getting your salary, not bonus and in the roles it is enforced, salary kind of caps out and bonus ends up being 25%.. 50%.. 75%+ of your income.

Which is why they should be required to pay your TC+xx%, including any costs you may incur for things like health insurance, not just your salary.
The first idea is interesting, but the second sounds like an unlikely dystopian nightmare.
eh what? even 15 years ago it was common knowledge to just jump around every few years to advance your career. maybe it wasn't all out "f* these guys" but we definitely had no illusions about employer "loyalty" lol.
I would have been fine with not mentioning GIMP had they said "an open-source alternative" or something. It's the fact that they called it a "knockoff" that made me realize they have no idea what they're talking about.
> It's like trying to go up an escalator that's going down, if you stop you come back to point 0.

I think it's more nuanced than that, you don't go back to zero, the decay is exponential so the drop is most brutal at the front of the curve:

My experience with skill acquisition, you have to hit a checkpoint and bed it in while in a learning phase.

Eg Now that I grok cycling/skiing/wakeboarding, I can take years away from those and will be able to find my way around without starting from scratch.

Even after a decade of not speaking Mandarin, I decayed massively but didn't go back to zero even though I really had lost so much vocab and fluency.

My takeaway after really honing the skill of learning itself is that it's most efficient to learn in super intensive bursts, especially if you don't expect to be able to keep up frequent practice.

Skiing is probably the most relatable skill that many people learn but rarely practice. Living in a foreign country and learning the local language is another example.

Bringing it back to music, after taking almost 8 years out of the piano my scales didn't really drop below 150bpm for quavers but I was able to get to 250+ in a single focused practise session. Skill reacquisition is very fast, which is why weight lifters always report that getting back to PB is considerably faster second time around (weightlifting low-key being the skill of muscle recruitment)
What's "prosperity"? I feel much better off with a decent work-life balance and the assurance that I won't arbitrarily lose my job than I would with a larger number in my bank account but none of that protection.
> People are tired of job hopping to get market pay

If nobody moved from job to job, there would be no market.
Image Segmentation: Your Ultimate Guide to Easy Deployment and Fast Inferencing
“Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!”
Lurkers of course mostly just silently download without causing drama. But there are enough people stirring shit especially among "elite" uploaders and mods.
This would be more persuasive if it wasn't more or less the opposite of what current nutrition research suggests about fat and satiety.
Ask HN: Common Misconceptions about Computers?
One of my favorite experiences is learning that something that I thought was true isn't. All the better when other people think it's true too. What are your favorite misconceptions about computers?

Some that come to mind for me are:

(1) The idea that relational databases are named "relational" because they allow you to represent relationships between tables. Actually, "relational" refers to the fact that they are modeled as relations (aka tables). A relational database would be just as relational if it was only capable of storing a single table.

(2) The idea that HTTP "packets" are the same sort of thing as TCP packets. I used to imagine HTTP headers being attached to the beginning of every TCP packet when communicating over HTTP. Of course TCP doesn't present a "packet" interface at all. It's just a stream of bytes, so an HTTP packet is just a division within the stream of bytes, defined by the Content-Length header.

(3) The term C in ACID and the C in CAP refer to the same concept of consistency. Actually, ACID consistency is a single-node property, whereas CAP consistency is a multi-node property. One is about maintaining uniqueness and foreign key constraints, whereas the other is about making a multi-node system appear to behave like a single-node system.
I think the problem with Ketosis is that people are too busy trying to eat a lot of fats. You just need healthy fats, protein and vegetables.
From Chaos to Clarity: The Essential Guide to Personal Knowledge Management
What’s the time out on being able to edit posts? Because every time I think to go edit one more than 60 seconds later the option seems to be gone.
100% this. A lot of people on Mounjaro report that one of the benefits is that their internal chatter about food / cravings is silenced. For the first time, when they get hungry they’re able to stop and consider whether they should eat a salad, reduce portion size, etc.
The point is that science can’t comment on the “divine inspiration” claim, except to note that it’s outside its purview.

Burden of proof is a whole different discussion.
Netscape: Gates Is Beatable (1997)
Perhaps it's because it's how I taught myself, but I am in the camp that chords should be taught first (guitar or piano).

Notes, reading sheet music can come much later (if at all).

Two or three chords on either the guitar or piano is an easy start and will open up a world of songs for the learner.

I watched my daughters take lessons and tediously work through reading sheet music, learning scales... I thought it was no wonder they hated it, and no longer play an instrument.
I have heard it said that most people that have a life-long love of playing music can either play by ear, or sight read. We started our sprout on Suzuki-method violin at an early age, and I learned a whooooole lot about how to teach skills (not just music) from that. We had an excellent violin teacher. First of all, it has to be fun. It is more important that practice be fun every day, than it cover all the assigned material every day. It must be kept fun. And incremental -- the teaching points are introduced gradually so that nothing is frustratingly difficult. Just keep having fun every day, and emphasize playing well and correctly, not on racing through more material for the sake of some kind of false progress.

The early stages of Suzuki-method, of course, emphasize ear training. When the kid reaches 6 or so (early reading stage), they also start to learn to read music -- and by then they are likely playing Vivaldi concertos, learned by ear, so ear-training is well established. Eventually my kiddo also learned to sight-read.

But throughout -- it has to be kept fun. Yeah a constant diet of classical is great for teaching skills, but you want to use those skills on fun stuff. The lucky thing about violin is the huge body of traditional fiddle music from several cultures, and also jazz fiddle. And the local Suzuki teachers put on a weekend fiddle camp every year that was hugely fun as a camp experience over-and-above the music activities.

Anyway, kid developed life-long love of music, still plays pretty much every day, after coming home from day-job as an engineer.
The original plan was a SSI, single-system-image operating system, where one cohesive system could span across multiple physical machines. It's quite a long ambitious plan, but it's still up on the project's history page[1]:

> DragonFly BSD has been going through rapid and ever increasing development since the fork. One of the important works included the simplification and general cleanup of the majority of the kernel subsystems. This work was originally intended to support single system image clustering, but has had the effect of making the kernel much more reliable, understandable and easily maintainable. One of the fundamental synchronization concepts that DragonFly uses throughout the kernel, the token, lends itself directly to ease of maintenance and understandability of the kernel.

There's been plenty of neat off-shoot advantages DragonflyBSD has gained along this quest. Great great scalability has been notable; the core coherency construct, the serializing token, targets reducing locking in the system & potentially allows scale-out into SSI. DragonflyBSD has some really cool tricks, like being able to run virtual kernels- running a kernel as a process, for "jail" or just kerneldev reasons.

Still it's impossible to mention DragonflyBSD without mentioning it's filesystem, HAMMERFS, and now HAMMERFS2, which is a great Copy-on-Write & snapshotted fs intended for radical scale out, & ultimately, clustering, where multiple machines can cohesively contribute & operate a single filesystem together, with pooled resources. There is already a good bit of quorumed clustering support in HAMMERFS2.

> The HAMMER filesystem is also intended to serve as a basis for the clustering and other work that makes up the second phase of the project.

There's a StackOverflow question talking to DragonflyBSD as a SSI[2] as well, which mainly cites the same History page, but also has some other links.

[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/429464/dragonfly-bs...
Thanks for an example. I have literally never experienced those latter two.
Not yet, but that is the intent. As a long-time Django user I have a high bar for the kind of forms support a framework should provide. One of my thoughts/beliefs is that, as a compiler with complete control over the page, there is a lot Pushup can do on both the markup generation side as well as checks and validations. eg., automatic CSRF token insertion, compiler "warnings" for accessibility, etc.
Keto you can eat your calories though because the process of ketosis requires more energy.
A) I'm a writer. The way something is written is a really important part of the meaning of a piece of writing. Style and formatting is meaningful and important, and isn't just window dressing. It is sometimes more important than the "content" of the message.

In my opinion at least.
We can feed prompts into chatGPT ourselves if that's what we want to read.
Louth which is also in Lincolnshire and only about half an hour away from Lincoln has a very impressive spire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James'_Church,_Louth?wprov=...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_church_buildin...
To assume a role with OIDC you'd need to do it from the context of a specific CircleCI job run - getting access to the secrets of a particular CircleCI account alone would not be enough to authenticate to AWS (unlike when you use IAM user credentials).

Even if the attacker had access to env vars from running jobs (which includes the signed token needed to do an OIDC role assumption), those tokens have a short expiry time, and even if an attacker stole that token and performed a role assumption then that session can only be valid for a maximum of 12 hours in AWS, and then you know the attacker is out of your account.

It just significantly reduces, practically nullifies, anything that an attacker can do in your AWS account.
I saw a video the other day claiming to be the start of a "ChatGPT expert in 13 days." A what?
Both parties should see the relationship as bi-directional and symbiotic. Sometimes you have to find a different symbiotic relationship after the one you have has run its course.

It does not need to be interpreted as adversarial where you want to get as much out of them as you can for as little effort as possible and neither should they see it as an opportunity to suck the employee dry. It only works while your goals align with the company's goals.

There should be a mutual understanding --a meeting of the minds. I give you this for that. But, yes, ultimately, the company is not your friend. HR is definitely not your fiend. You should have friends outside the company. At work you have colleagues and co-workers. It's not to say you cannot cultivate friendships at work that last beyond your time there, but don't presume it to be your source of friends.
Ozempic is widely available in Mexico (without prescription) and Canada (with prescription). It’s also available throughout Europe.

Mounjaro is not widely available outside the US yet.
There would be a lot fewer recruiters, and more experienced engineers.

Also a less monolithic tech culture. Right now every employee is more or less compatible across every company because we all seek to be transferable
If your best guess for what the market is going to be in 3-5 years is now half what you were guessing last week, surely that means you make some changes, and past a certain point you want to make a bigger change than what's going to happen by just freezing hiring and waiting for natural attrition. I'm no fan of companies doing this, but the logic makes sense.
Forensic handwriting analysis is pretty much fake but I don't get the impression this is that. Scripts for a given writing system change by time and place and noting when the techniques used in a document don't match its purported origin is just standard shit in the practice of certain branches of history.
Fun fact: To be Prop 65 compliant, you just need the ubiquitous warning label, and there's no penalty for over warning, so just stick on everything and you're done.

Speaking of which...

Prop 65 Warning: This post contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Right, some sort of total compensation weighted average with more recent years weighted more heavily.

I forgot the other fun thing is that any of your deferred compensation is zero-d out as soon as you resign, even though you might be on garden leave for 12 (and now some cases, 18) months.
Nothing I am saying has anything at all to do with the 1619 Project (of which I am not especially a fan). When NRx people talk about chattel slavery, they're really talking about chattel slavery. Like, Calvin Candie style. And again: this is the part of NRx thought that Alexander found compelling. It's right there in the email! Which is about scientific racism, and Alexander's secret support for it ("NEVER TELL ANYONE I SAID THIS"). He called it "pure gold", like Kenny Bania on Seinfeld.
> “the raison d'etre for publicly traded companies existing is not to simply exist, but rather make profit and ideally continually expanding profit for share holders”

Should be noted the ideology that the purpose of a corporation is to maximize the profits for shareholder above all else is a modern obsession, and always takes a short term view. Starving a company just for a few good years of share prices is is dumb but often what that ideology leads to. Making profit is part or what a corporation should do, maximizing it above all else is not.

Similarly HOAs are supposed to maximize house value but funny how some of the highest property values are places like Palo Alto that aren’t known for HOAs.
More active thread on the issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34255319
Yeah but did you get paid for the time
What about 90% willpower? 80/20? I'm willing to go below 100% on ascribing this to willpower, but probably no lower than 70%, just based on the outcomes for folks who have willpower and for folks who don't.

There's just too much evidence supporting the idea that actively eating less and continuing to do so is a successful strategy for losing weight, combined with the obvious fact of simple human biology that eating involves consciously taking food and putting it into your mouth (sleep-eating notwithstanding).
I agree with the rationale overall ( people at helm being worried as a signal ). I try to look for similar clues.

Still, as far as tech goes, for some companies that relied on cheap money, the ride may well be over ( I think of weird products like Peleton, which is a niche product, but was scaled as if it was going to become a thing in every house ). I am not sure it translates to everything going out with a bang.

Today's news were that job market[1] is still fine despite clear attempts to make it employer's market again.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/jolts-report-november-2022.h...
I came across this during my initial research when starting Pushup, very impressive.
So Danger OS belongs to who now? Andy? Is it merged into the Android1.0?
> The body is an energy equation to be balanced. Physics defines that.

Care to write it?
Oh, no. Are these some of the same people who pivoted from binary options in Tel Aviv to crypto out of Bulgaria and Cyprus to this? If it involves a large outgoing call center sales operation, there's a good chance it is. That seems to be the core skill set of that crowd.
> It’s kind of trivial to get a throwaway email address, no? What tracker uses discord? All the big ones use IRC.

Different sites use different means. You can create a throwaway email address, but it's just one more data point.

> Your example is a very public lawsuit by the MPAA against a public tracker?

If the site operator agrees to keep the site up while data is collected there is no court order. Every site operator who gets raided ends up facing some legal consequences but the details of the deals they work out with the industry are not made available for the public

> Give an example?

https://www.cashmanlawfirm.com/list-of-strike-3-holdings-cas...

Outside the US lawsuits continue as well (examples):
https://www.mosshacheylaw.com/blog/movie-producers-suing-can...

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/intellectua...

https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-user-who-transferred-1...

> They won’t demand money from you unless you’re making a profit.

Not even remotely true. Please don't assume this. I'm aware that they have made exceptions in cases where people were literally impoverished but fines are typical in settlement offers.
Also a stock can go up because it reveals information that is not as bad as previously thought.
there are way more small teams (1~10 fte) in software world than people expect, but they don’t make enough money to be on such list. still, their revenue might be USD $1m/enployee. good for individuals, but not good enough for media/blogs to report, because that won’t generate enough clicks :)

a book i always recommend is https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-One-Person-Business-Gr...
How Clean Is This GitHub Profile
Agree: TABS == good, sheet music == bad. (For beginners, anyway.)
I’m from Grimsby and I stumbled upon your newsletters a few years ago when learning to code and was shocked when I noticed that they were made by someone in Louth! And now I’ve stumbled upon the man behind the emails on HN!
I remember, when young, I would always find these old chemistry sets for sale at garage sales around my grandmother's neighborhood. Parents didn't really care, so long as you didn't destroy / damage anything!
I can see how you might want HTTP/3 across data centers, but you may want to stick to HTTP/2 for intra-DC workloads.

There's a ton of work to optimize TCP including hardware offloads that help push higher throughput. Basically we're talking library + kernel + hardware changes. It might be possible to get some of these into QUIC, but since QUIC is most compelling for WAN traffic, there's probably not much incentive for that.
Our hodgepodge of microservices- developed over more than a decade- never got coordinated env variables, so now we've got to go through like ~50 services & libraries, one by one, updating secrets. Yuck.

If you do your shit right, you can just dump most of your secrets into some Contexts- containers of env variables- and apply them. Then when this stuff roles around, it's easy to update everything centrally; change the context & everyone sees it. We, alas, can't easily do that, since we have so many differing env var names. New Year, new fun!
I have only ever signed a new contract when I changed entities entirely. Within orgs I haven’t had to do so. I’ve changed salary or role 4x in the past year internally and it might as well be updating a db record.