skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who works for a Fortune 100 company. He was moved into a management position where he was managing a team within the IT org. Like you, he absolutely hated it and realized he much preferred being an individual contributor. It took him a long time to get out of his position and back into an individual contributor position, but he made it clear that it was either that or he would quit. Well, he is to valuable for them to let go, so they gave in and let him move back, eventually. Though he says that they still try to rope him into management meetings to get his input, but he refuses because he doesn't want to be pulled back into management.

I think of it as the fighter pilot problem. People become fighter pilots because they want to fly planes, not because they want to sit behind a desk managing other pilots. But, if you stick around long enough, the military will try to push you into a desk management position. But what you really want to do is keep flying.
> Not bad like a human not being able to draw, but bad in a different but still obvious (to me, at least) way.

Uncanny valley.
And telephone numbers can be spoofed for voice or text in the US. Not sure when the problem will get big enough that signed comms become normal. I guess imessage probably is? But only between users of apple devices.
Have to agree in as much banning people with legitimate issues is unhelpful. I was also taken aback when Peter Bourgon, a great programmer and contributor to the go ecosystem was banned from all go channels.
Because you can trademark colors, and ultimately the color is the most important aspect of a tractor.
Swimming lessons in the UK are mostly extracurricular, so they start whenever the parents feel like it. There are parent-and-baby swimming lessons for 3-month-olds, for those that want it.

The government also provides school swimming lessons, aiming to teach all students to swim 25 meters by age 11 - so some kids start swimming quite a bit later.

The document I actually saw said the swimming-with-clothes course is aimed at 7-14-year-olds which I simplified down to 'around age 10'
Books are the new web. Publishing books have never been easier. Getting people to pay to read is easier - you do not have to rely on ads, there are no popups, or trackers, only cookie crumbs, and maybe some margin notes.
Why haven’t plastic-eating bacteria fixed the plastic problem yet? (2022)
It's one side of the story. I don't think he was banned for no reasons.
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Staff engineers are not a monolith. Software engineering is a huge discipline. There are staff engineers out there that do more architect/solver types of work.

https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes

In any case, leadership skills tend to go with the territory.
Often enough there were features that made an intermediate state of a feature functional supporting further development, that were later lost.

Flight developed independently four times in dinosaurs alone, besides the pterosaurs. All the flying dinos relied on ancestral feathers.
I separate it by categories and store it in boxes.
Ray Kurzweil would like to have a word with you.
I watched Predator when I was very young, on VHS, without having watched any trailers, and I still remember how amazed I felt. What was this monster? How was Arnie going to win, the creature was unbeatable and was everywhere!

A couple of other movies -- again, no trailers -- which made me feel this way were "Aliens" (they are everywhere!) and "Die Hard" (how is this cop going to beat all these bad guys?).

I don't really feel that way anymore with scifi or action movies, and of course much of it has to do with growing up. But I wonder if teenagers feel that way about the current crop of scifi/action movies, do they feel the thrill, do they feel "the good guys can't possibly win", or is this forever lost in modern cinema, what with all the rushed pacing, spoilers and trailers?
Are google's requests done on-demand, or part of some scheduled refresh?

I am wondering, because even if google's traffic is unreasonable, it might still be less than without the proxy.

CI configurations are notoriously inefficient with dependency fetching, so I would not be surprised if the actual client traffic is massive and might overwhelm sourcehut if all migrate to direct fetches.
Dijkstra said that if we ever had the misfortune of having machines programmable in natural language, sooner or later someone would construct a formal language over it.

Playing out in real time. We're living legendary times.
Really good goal! CI/CD is such a fantastic movement over the industry that has really picked up steam in the past decade.
When my wife got her temporary residence permit in 2018, it came with exactly the same online features as our national ID card. Yours might have been too old.
I see your point and there’s nothing foolish whatsoever in what you’ve written, but the actual point (the one that pertains to the practice the Buddha is giving) is that they’re both about what you (the supposed adherent) do. In both you’re supposed to do X, it doesn’t matter what Y does, so each is no different. Perhaps if Buddha got the chance to speak to someone dismembered by saws who hadn’t continued with a loving heart towards their attacker then he’d call them a bloody idiot too. I also don’t think it’s right to think that someone speaking that way is harbouring ill will, do we not sometimes scold children for their own good and out of love? Must we always be avoiding plain speaking so that we appear kind? He was a trainer, not someone’s mum.
Making money is an indicator that you are producing something that consumers need and want but it should not be the ultimate goal.

A company should stay true to its mission and vision.
Speaking of South Park, the creators did a one-off "deepfake comedy" a couple of years back that's available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
C++ 20! A good step forward, this iteration of C++.
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I see it as more of a vicious cycle.

The "don't put this plastic bag on your mouth" warnings come about because the public supports those laws/cases. Those people are at the point were they rely on other to be responsible for them rather than using common sense. Those laws/cases create an environment where people come to expect warnings for everything rather than rely on their own common sense.

I do think you're right that day to life would cause more harm without any warnings, at least for certain people. The people who are responsible for themselves are generally going to be ok in either situation. The people who are happy-go-lucky and rely on others to think for them and arlt high risk in either situation, sometimes regardless of if warnings are present.
One of the biggest problems with extremely large files is how a simple insert or delete near the front of the file causes all bytes following it to be shifted and re-written to disk. Add 3 bytes to the beginning of a 50 GB file and you are writing 50 GB to disk.

I have been implementing a file system replacement project for several years. It is designed to handle hundreds of millions of files within a single container; put contextual meta-data tags on them; and enable lightning fast searches for things based off file type and/or tags. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw)

One of the ideas (not yet fully implemented) was to break up large files at the file system level. You might have a 50 GB file of data that looks exactly like a normal file to any application accessing it, but in reality it might be 10 separate chunks of 5 GB each. If you add or delete any bytes within any individual chunk, it only adjusts that specific chunk. For example, deleting 100 bytes at offset 6 GB causes the second chunk to shrink by 100 bytes. All the chunks following it are unaffected. The file still looks to be 100 bytes smaller to the application, but it doesn't realize that a chunk in the middle was just reduced in size instead of all the bytes after the change being shifted down.

This feature would also make it easier to copy large files from one system to another. Data could be transferred one chunk at a time. If the copy was interrupted, only missing chunks would need to be copied when the process was restarted.
More. Often "panther". And others.
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I froze mine years ago when the first leak of my SS# happened thanks to one of the stupid credit agencies.

I was happy and secure in the knowledge that it was locked until I had to unlock it the first time. The password I set didn't work, as they had apparently changed the log-in system with no alert (also, now the stupid log-in sends us spam e-mail that we can't opt out of).

I called them. I had my account unlocked, and the phone representative even gave me my own SS# within three minutes of being on the phone, and by answering questions that were publicly available information.

It's an absolute fucking train wreck and I wish the system as a whole and the credit companies in particular were destroyed.
Self driving AI’s have complete control over a car just as you have complete control over your body.

Humans can’t swap to a hummingbird or sharks body but are our template for AGI, so why argue self driving AI’s need that ability?
Roommates? Co-ownership? A higher minimum wage? Permitting smaller houses?

Keep in mind the median housing unit price today skews higher because things like studios and SROs never go up for sale. SROs are effectively illegal to build in many cities today.
Perhaps structure your work around your personal life.

Young and just want to party? Change jobs every 4 months - just don't damage your resume or reputation. When you're young and have few responsibilities change jobs with the sole requirement of keeping it until it becomes useless, or less useful than you could otherwise find somewhere else. Even if this means couch surfing for a while. The whole point here is to get experiences and exposure.

Ready to settle down with that special someone and start a family? You may want safety and consistency. And the older you get the less you may be willing to job hop. If you're married with children you probably want a more stable income, which means less movement. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

Kids out of the house and ramping up for retirement? It might not be the end of the world to swing big and go back to the startup life. Or you may have built up enough tenure and reputation that it would be unwise to leave. The point being is you have some flexibility here as long as you've made smart financial decisions along the way.
> at least here in UE, most apartments

Umm, I gave citations which show your claim that "living on private cars in vast Rivieras do pollute GLOBALLY much LESS" needs much more solid support than your personal views which you have just repeated.

These included examples from Germany (where different regions had different urban/rural balance) and France (where rural had more CO2 emissions).

> you do not need expensive and invasive road infra

Do you have evidence for that? You need, what, 100 meter of street per house? And you are, what, one person? While 100 meter for an urban street is indeed more expensive in linear terms, but can support hundreds of people.

> Drones delivery? No issues. There is plenty of space. .... Future flying cars?

Flight is energy intensive. Either you have heavy batteries (making the flight even more expensive) or you've got hydrocarbons, which currently means fossil fuel.

Batched ground transport is more fuel efficient. It only costs, what, about 1 EUR to get a letter delivered to your door? But you only get that once per day, and not every day.

The Rivieras had horse-drawn delivery before vehicles so you only need a few horsepower to get around. Ground-based vehicles emit less pollution, operate in a wide range of weather, and have safer failure modes.

> You have room for p.v., to store water

My point is that this means you don't have any cost sharing with your neighbors. Each house needs enough to cover its peak use, and likely each person need to know how to maintain the local equipment, and have the tools for the additional maintenance.

One city water tower is more effective than the same amount of individual cisterns.

> since now in cities almost no one produce anything,

As a software developer, I would produce exactly the same amount in the countryside as I would in the city.

Actually, probably less because I would have more to maintain the house.

> most westerns cities who are tertiary sector workers place have anyway no reasons to exists anymore

You do know that many people like to be in the city for easy access to restaurants, clothes shopping, the library, clubs, socializing with friends, lectures, political demonstrations, parades, churches, festivals, and more, right?

I personally hate taking care of a lawn, and I get cabin fever working from home.

> tied to crappy public transportation systems who are not sustainable

It's not like wide-scale ownership of personal automobiles is sustainable either. I mean, your lifestyle requires two cars. What happens if, due to age or illness, you no longer have the physical ability to drive? What do you do then?
I thought the same, but he actually supported it as a way to drive the marketing.

I believed our potential audience would be more attracted to seeing how the most badass killing machine could become a hero than they would be to just another kill-fest in the same vein as the first film. Sequels have to strike a delicate balance between honoring the most loved elements from the first film but also promising to really shake things up and turn them upside down. Our marketing campaign was exactly that promise, and it worked.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1118938/why-james-cameron-spoiled-...
Honestly the three things you can do easily:

1. Only go deep into nature (out of cell range) with someone experienced.

2. Obtain a rescue device (Apple satellite cell, Garmin GPS emergency beacon, etc).

3. If stranded in a vehicle stay with the vehicle!
Sorry, I haven't mentioned that I mostly read old books (at least 100 years old usually) and very rarely new things. I think the only living author I've read is Taleb. History is a powerful filter.
> That said, rewatched transformers too, purely for the joy of the initial transformation

Aside from the voice acting, there's nothing redeeming about those movies and felt like someone just pissed on my childhood. Any aspect of the cartoons or toys that inspired joy and wonder was lost in translation.

The initial transformations were spoiled by trailers and also just disappointing in general. The transformations are largely incomprehensible and they might as well have used Star Trek transporter FX or a flash of light to transform them.
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Academic and some nonacademic books have citations and/or footnotes. Those can be followed, though with somewhat more effort than simply clicking a link. As a positive, however, proper citations rarely suffer linkrot, though some references are obscure, and if you're looking at ancient works, there may well be entirely lost works.

What I've found over the past decade or so as more books are available online (with varying levels of copyright compliance), it's possible to hit a reference and trace it often within a minute or so of searching. That's both delightful and something of a tarpit, reading lists can grow with amazing rapidity.

One of the first times I realised this was when reading through James Burke's Connections (companion book to the 1970s television series), and seeing a reference to Agricola's De re Metallica, a Renaissance-era text on mining and metallurgy still used as a reference through the 19th century.

Within a few minutes I located it (English translation, by an American couple, Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover) on the Internet Archive:

<https://archive.org/details/georgiusagricola00agri/page/n3/m...>

There's also a Project Gutenberg version: <https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/38015>
My understanding is that Maya wasn't a total rewrite, it bolted together parts of Power Animator and Wavefront together with a new architecture.
Most of Cameron’s older movies hold up very well. Aliens is still fun, tense, and well-paced. Even True Lies is still fun.

I think Cameron’s secret weapon is the camerawork and editing. He really lets the camera breathe and has an incredible sense of “beats” for every cut.
> However the polish you are used to on dropdowns plus countless other controls you interact with every day require javascript.

I got one can do without the "polish I am used to". I'm generally fine with HTML form controls.

My problem with JavaScript frameworks is they are huge beasts that build their components out of non-semantic block elements. A button or text field is just a giant mass of divs and spans with events attached everywhere with one-off CSS. The browser is stuck doing tons of work in its single-threaded JavaScript engine to build and manage these components.

It's a lot of wasted memory and clock cycles to recreate a text field the browser already provides. It makes for a worse user experience, wastes my battery, and eats up my bandwidth. To me it's not polish but waste.
Experian and Equifax have security leaks all the time yeah
" The release also sadly lacks the full spectrum of special features that were available on the 2001 release, including script drafts and an hour-long documentary. "

This is something that I noticed as a pattern for DVD releases in general. When DVDs were first arriving, titles were slower to be released. There's plenty of reasoning behind this. However, "they" also did not know what level of effort would be required to get people to buy into DVDs. So the first DVDs were in effect overly produced with so much extra content. The first DVD that I bought was Contact, and the entire second disc is nothing but BTS and making of type content. Skip to the time when Blu-ray/HD-DVD were being introduced, and you had <$5 DVDs in bins at WalMart with 2 or 3 movies on it that had nothing but the movies with essentially no effort whatsoever being applied.

"When I revisited the film on Amazon a year or two ago, I realized I was watching a remastered HD version, which featured a more contemporary color grade, generally referred to as “teal-and-orange.” The bluish look of the theatrical release, which was reproduced in previous video versions, gave way to an overly greenish look that was common on HD transfers of 80s pictures."

With DVD still being SD, a lot of the films had digital masters like a DigiBeta or D1 tape format which made for excellent DVD sources. This meant the DVDs looked like how people had seen them (only much cleaner compared to VHS). For HD discs, the studios had to go back to the film sources to rescan them at HD resolution. Since they were going back to the negatives, the sources would need to go back through a color session. Most film types can't leave things alone and must always tweak, but even if they didn't it's a completely new color session and usually not the same colorist. Maybe for A-list titles did they get anything other than factory floor treatment. They had entire back libraries of films to get transferred. You also had the decisions of keeping OAR, reframing for 16x9 full frame, or even pan&scan 4x3. It was a tremendous amount of work, and the longer it took meant fewer sales. Let's not forget that some of the people that originally worked on titles could very much be "no longer available" to work with on the projects.
Okay Honda, you have one job. 2025 electric Honda Fit/Civic with 300+ mile range. I don't care if you name it Afeela or Seborrhea. Just help me with an electric car that doesn't drive like an Apple product.
I hope that I'll start learning JS.
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Is there a name for this phenomenon, yet? When a comment about an obscure search query becomes the top result of the query.
The word that comes to mind with this name is - “Engrish”. Maybe it’s being unfair just because they are Japanese. Who knows what played out behind the scenes in getting this awkward name approved.

Another recent non-Japanese name I felt was cringeworthy was Marriott’s rebranding of their loyalty program to “Bonvoy” - apparently the shortening and combining of the word “Bon Voyage”. I would describe that as “Engrishy” as anything else too.
Oh, forgot to link to the GitHub. MIT licensed @ https://github.com/saiorama/cloud-browser
> You cannot just say 'this will revolutionize everything' and then refuse to elaborate.

This is intentional, as most of the low-hanging fruit of AI transformation are things people either don't care about, or think would be a net negative. Like replacing junior publicists with AI-written PR copy. What difference would that make to the consumer? Very little if any.

On the other hand, replacing real human art (as you might see on The New Yorker cartoons or The Economist) with AI-generated images may make some readers unhappy.
If you do all the hiring yourself, what is to stop you hiring someone to do all the stuff you don't want to do ?

I am sure you could bring in an engineering manager, project manager, technical product manager or whatever you feel is the most appropriate job title to palm off the aspects of the job you are less keen on.
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> so you can get a cadence going.

To me it seemed like numbers which could be split into two equal groups were the easiest. 235 431, 4475 3268 etc.

I also sang the numbers in my head and tried to memorize by repeating the melody after the numbers disappeared.

There is probably a reason why level 11 seems to be so prevalent. Phone numbers could be a factor, but to be honest, I don't know a single phone number by heart, which is probably due to my young age. Never had to memorize a phone number...

The best training for me are probably 2FA codes, so up to 6 digits I should have it covered ;)

EDIT: I realize that I just called you old. Sorry.
I just started on Ben Eater's 8 bit computer kit. I'm not having fun writing code anymore, I'm actually worried I can't keep this up as a career path for another 2 or 3 decades. But this low level computing / circuitry stuff has been the most fun I've had "programming" in years.
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A lineage that reproduces too fast might be displaced by a slower one from elsewhere when it is weakest.