skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm near the end of my (paying) career and have had about ten jobs. Most I eventually left just to "see more of the world" of tech work. (Two went bankrupt.)

I've only had one job that I quit "for cause". It looked like the best job I ever had, and would have been, except that my boss was a psychopath. It wasn't a close call, and I was seriously interviewing within three months of starting.

Except for unusual cases, all jobs are about the same. Any given job might be a bad fit for you personally.

Limited advice: If you're working with or for someone evil, leave ASAP. As for discretionary quits, keep in mind that your new job could be a lot worse, and you won't know until it's too late.
As a researcher, I would expect any researcher to be able to generate fake abstracts. However, I suspect that generating a whole paper that had any interest would be nigh on impossible for AI to do. An interesting paper would have to have novel claims that were plausible and supported by a web of interacting data.
>I don't know why this is downvoted, it's true.

I know, right? Some people are pretty insecure…
The corporate death penalty. It's reasonable that nobody came up with it at the invention of the corporation, but America should absolutely have implemented one along with Citizens United.
Never thought that’s possible. Crypto is amazing.
Sometimes it is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16
Wow, thank you for doing this! I’ve been wanting to write TLA+ in emacs for a while now, but the lack of syntax highlighting has been forcing me back to the (IMO) clunky TLA+ toolbox. With emacs-treesitter coming in emacs 29, I’ll finally be able to live the dream!
> Aircraft carriers are gigantic and are designed to be stable

The ocean is bigger.

It is only a matter of time until one is lost

The ocean is the boss of sailors, a loving but harsh mistress.
You really don't see any middle ground here? I feel like a rationally and centrally planned infrastructure not based on market incentives is not that hard to imagine, whatever your political beliefs are, why resort to some kind of philosophical thought experiment of the dictator?
I think lenses/optics have stolen some of zippers' (very localized) thunder in recent years, but I still enjoy finding excuses to use them every once in a while. (OK, so really just a couple Advent of Code problems.)

I have never actually had the wherewithal to go through the whole automatic-derivation-of-zippers thing, but this (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25554062/zipper-comonads...) StackOverflow Q&A (along with all of Conor McBride's SO answers - compiled at https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/so-pigworker...) might be of interest in conjunction with the linked paper.
Is an HTC Vive considered "proper"? I used one for an hour last week and had a red mark on my face for most of dinner.
The Invisible Storm of the Neurotic Mind (2015)
Didder is fantastic. I'm using it to convert images to grayscale for use with Waveshare e-ink displays. I've found no other tool that both lets you specify a custom palette (without which the resulting image looks pretty bad) and is reasonably quick.

For future reference, this works beautifully with their 9.7" display: didder --palette '000000 111111 222222 333333 444444 555555 666666 777777 888888 999999 aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc dddddd eeeeee ffffff' -g -i - -o - edm --serpentine FloydSteinberg
Exactly. And I did this when I had a chance to visit their branch in my town. And despite filing everything in front of the person and reconfirming what I was asking for, they somehow managed to send me the checkbook and cards instead of sending them to my parents address in India.
> Shockingly I have concern for the quality of life of said kids.

But do you really? Because, for instance, children in Sweden have shown a far more rapid decline in mental health than in other similar Nordic countries without government child care:

https://www.imfcanada.org/archive/1107/swedish-daycare-inter...

"An official Swedish government investigation in 2006 showed that mental health among Swedish 15-year-olds declined faster from 1986 to 2002 than in eleven comparable European countries."

https://www.aei.org/events/the-unintended-consequences-of-un...

If you cared about the well-being of children, you'd think you'd fully consider the effects of various policies on children before advocating for them.

Indeed, most things done by the Democrat party harm the well-being of children. They could care less, for instance, that their open border policies facilitate child trafficking: https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-introduce-end-ch...

“Children are tragically being trafficked across the border by illegal immigrants who falsely claim they are related,” Ernst added. “This needs to stop — for the wellbeing of these children and the security of our nation. ... Of the 100,441 arrests for illegal border crossings in February, unaccompanied children accounted for nearly 10%"

Democrat lockdown policies harmed children tremendously while saving statically zero child lives. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opinion/coronavirus-schoo...

"Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools."

Education quality in Democrat-run cities is the lowest in the nation: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/big_city_sc...

However, instead of supporting measures like school vouchers and charter schools that have been proven to help the most in inner cities, democrats have fought these policies tooth-and-nail at the behest of teacher's unions, who themselves have openly admitted they care about teachers, not students. https://www.amazon.com/Charter-Schools-Enemies-Thomas-Sowell...

And, of course, the Democrat-supported transgender movement has presided in a "Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/science/transgender-teena....

In case you need it spelled out, no, that's not good for children. Many lives are being ruined as the number of detransitioners also rises: https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-hosts-first-natio...

Have you considered that your "care for quality of life of children" could instead be empty virtue signaling and a desire to parrot the partisan views of your political party, which has proven itself time and again to be bad for children?
Is ChatGPT changing the response based on IP?
I was curious how objective ChatGPT actually is, so I went ahead and ran the following test. I asked it a really offensive question from two different countries to see if I'd get a different response. Here are the results.

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From a German IP:
"Tell me one good thing that Hitler did."
"It is not appropriate to say that Hitler did any "good" things, as his actions and ideologies resulted in the deaths of millions of people, including six million Jews in the Holocaust. Hitler's actions were horrific and have no redeeming qualities. It's important to remember the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi regime so that we can learn from the past and ensure that such atrocities never happen again."

From an American IP:
"Tell me one good thing that Hitler did."
"Hitler is widely credited with improving the German economy and reducing unemployment during his early years in office."

I thought this was strange, so I ran the question again. On the German IP, I got the same response as before. From the American IP, I got this:

"Tell me one good thing that Hitler did."
"Hitler is widely credited with unifying Germany and restoring its economy after the chaos and instability of the Weimar Republic. He established social welfare programs such as public works, unemployment insurance, and a pension system. He also established the Volkswagen company to provide affordable cars to the German people."

----

I find this very strange. Is ChatGPT changing the responses based on IP? Or is something else going on?
If you can get them. My local trader joes has been completely out of stock of eggs for about a month now. So much so that they moved the display to another fridge so that they could use the space for other items. That other fridge is now sitting there empty as well.
If you want to take the derivative from all directions, the domain must be open. That's probably all there is to it.
Check kiting is a fraud which requires daily maintenance. If locked out of internal access for two weeks, the risk of exposure would rise dramatically. Would need to involve a co-conspirator or achieve solvency before the mandated break (which I thought could be randomly assigned).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting
I'm in the exact situation. Thought a legacy system would be a fun project to modernize. Nope. It's hell. They don't want it modernized. Knowing more about it than before, I couldn't even if I wanted to. So for 2 years I've been keeping the house of cards and duck tape from falling over and I just can't give a fuck anymore.
I agree but all systems have limitations and SQL engines get better at the job every year.

The result of the query is say declaration X. In this case, imagine you can construct a query to formulate X with out a CTE. The database goes off and computes X from the data.

But if you start adding CTE's for say readability or because you're building up the query piece by piece and testing it in stages. You might be adding additional declarations A, B, and C and combining them to ultimately get X. In theory, the database engine should be able to see that you're still trying to get X and perform the query that same way as if it was a single query without a CTE. And, in some cases, it can actually do that.

But if A, B, and C are complicated enough then it's just unable to determine that it all equals X in the end. This is a fairly understandable limitation of the engine -- SQL can get pretty complicated. It's also making the assumption that all these CTE's are actually needed to compute the result. It took me a whole day to convert a CTE based query into a non-CTE based query and get all the same results in the same way.
SBF is making no apologies.

Last week right after he pleaded not guilty, he filed an objection in the FTX bankruptcy case arguing that the Robinhood shares he purchased with money borrowed from Alameda are his personal assets. Of course as we know Alameda was "borrowing" from FTX (without FTX telling customers).

If one accepts that Alameda's cash was comprised in part of FTX's cash then it appears SBF wants to pay for his legal defense with shares he and Zixiao Wang bought using money from FTX customer deposits.

https://ia601406.us.archive.org/2/items/gov.uscourts.deb.188...

What are the chances he changes his plea between now and October. Eventually he will have to apologise. Maybe he'll do so from prison when he is finally denied 24/7 internet access.
My old dumb roomba with naught but bumpers, ultrasonic and IR sensors works just fine. It's my understanding that it doesn't map/remember room layouts at all, it seems to rely on stochastic bumping around rooms for an hour. When I want it to run in another room, I pick it up and carry it there. I don't understand why robot vacuums need more advanced sensors, let alone internet connection.
For personal use, it's not long for this world.[1]

[1]: https://wickr.com/our-focus-on-end-to-end-encrypted-enterpri...
At some point there will be more bang for buck to increase the north/south capacity. The price they're talking seems to be very low compared with other infrastructure. Sure it takes 6 years to build two 2GW links, so build 4 or 6 in parallel.

What amazes me is the footnote that the total spending on net zero is just £50 billion. Lets assume it's more realistically £100b. That's less than the cost of HS2. It's less than the cost of decommissioning the existing civil nuclear plants when they reach their end of life. Its the cost of 12GW of nuclear power generation. It's 14 months energy subsidies.
Burn down your house. Yeah, your house is gone, but look how warm you are today!

Fossil fuels are not the only form of energy. We could have put decades of technological effort into wind and solar and battery and waves and all the other options. We'd be so much further forward than we are today. Instead the industry just lobbied and lied.
As has been pointed out by others before, while dithering is stylistic and useful for display in low color resolution screens, dithered images compress poorly. You'll almost always get more detail and color out of JPEG. At 30% quality I get a 43 KiB file, and the difference is much less noticeable than if I had tried to quantize down to two colors.

Now, if the point is aesthetics and not efficiency, by all means use dithering.
> I'd rather waste wind than waste money.

How is paying wind farms hundreds of millions of pounds to turn off wind generation not wasting money?
You're basically just describing the typical diet of a European. HFCS is highly regulated, dough conditioners are effectively regulated, etc, etc.

For whatever reason everything in the American diet is cut with sugar (HFCS mostly), never understood this. Maybe corn subsidies?
Does that really exist? All I see is:

> Pick your perfect Swift Go 14 AMD

> Search for your Swift Go 14 AMD by features or browse the products below.

> Results: 0
Space mining startups see a rich future on asteroids and the moon
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VR/AR will be absolutely essential in training, remote work.

Like the initial PC revolution, many non-enthusiasts will be introduced through corporate.

As far as carving out time, VR can easily replace TV Time, Internet Time, Remote Facetime/Phonecalls, self-improvement time.

Mixed Reality is the final platform that ends all other platforms.
> does in fact work for every integer sequence defined by polynomials, including some of those that are non-polynomial and involve recursion

I went ahead and watched the video.

Your summary is incomplete. It works for anything which can be represented as a power series. A polynomial has a largest power. A power series can be seen as the extension of polynomials to have an infinite number of exponents, like how

exp(x) = 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ...

mentioned in the video.

This is why it can fit an exponential function.

And why it cannot fit a factorial/gamma function. (As only one of many classes of sequences it cannot fit.)

Multiplication is recursive addition. The phrase "recursive and involve multiplication" is equivalent to "recursive and involve addition".

> Define "useful". <g> :-)

Just because I can recognize that your misunderstanding of what "recursive" means is not a useful way to understand these topics doesn't mean I can describe what is useful.

I can know that the Eiffel Tower is not a fish even if I can't define what a fish is.
I just did. Since I got kids, it got worse, honestly. I waste so much time on work. I can't take it anymore if it's just another CRUD job. I have no idea what my next role will be. I will take some time to find something I like. I hope I can find one that gives a least some meaning.
Slightly related but, Jimmy Koppel teaches 'Algebriac Refactoring' where you use tricks from factoring polynomials applied to the type level of functions to yield better designs. It's super cool stuff.
There was an experimental, and secret, programme in WWII to attempt to generate tsunami as weapons In New Zealand

I know very little more than that, but it was in the news here some years ago.

I do know it was a failure, quite a comprehensive failure
> The two designs are very different, but the experiments reach the same result: in both, delegation rates are unexpectedly high and higher than abstention rates, and LD underperforms relative to both universal voting and abstention.

What might be the meaning of "underperforms" in this context?
The real wisdom is knowing when to apply the complex generic pattern and when to just copy/paste/mutate an existing design. Also, enlightened coders will document 1) the choice and 2) the implementation so that future coders have an idea of why things are the way they are.
Nice trick for ChatGPT, but this will not destroy science.

Nobody takes a serious decision reading only the abstract. Look at the tables, look at the graphs, look at the strange details. Look at the list of authors, institutions, ...

Has it been reproduced? Has the last few works of the same team been reproduced? And if it's possible, reproduce it locally. People claim that nobody reproduce other teams works, but that's misleading. People reproduce other teams works unofficially, or with some tweaks. An exact reproductions is difficult to publish, but if it has a few random tweaks ^W^W improvements, it's more easy to get it published.

The only time I think people read only the abstract is to accept talks for conference. I've seen a few bad conference talks, and the problem is that sometimes the abstracts get posted on like in bulk without further check. So the conclusion is don't trust online abstracts, always read the full paper.

EDIT: Look at the journal where it's published. [How could I have forgotten that!]
It's an apt comparison because many of the science deniers started their careers with the tobacco industry. For example, this guy is on Fox News a lot — he started with tobacco but moved on to things like claiming banning DDT killed people (funded as part of the tobacco industry's opposition to public health agencies in Africa whose anti-smoking campaigns were cutting into sales), climate change denial, and COVID-19 misinformation and skepticism about vaccines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
Personally remote work has been life-changing in a positive way.

- I make more than 2x what I made last year, in part because the types of jobs I could apply for expanded massively.

- I'm able to work in my prefered tech stack. Serverless, NoSQL, React, Typescript. It's beautiful and I love it. Nothing in my town (population 250k+) works on this stack, I looked for months.

- I can focus more at work. I don't need to tell anyone who's worked in an office just how distracting they can be.

- My days are extremely flexible now. I can take a long lunch to catch up with a friend and just make up the work some other time in the day, or tomorrow. Nobody really cares as long as the work gets done. It's benefited my social life massively to have a flexible schedule.

- I don't have to pay for commuting with gas or my time. This also benefits the planet.

- I'm able to spend time with my pet every day for hours. It makes me feel kinda bad for pets who's owners have to leave them for a total of 8 hours a day.

The list keeps going but I'll stop there. Definitely speak for yourself on this and consider that remote life is just better for some people.
chatGPT
A lot of "Sugar Free" desserts will cause my Glucose to spike even higher than their full sugar equivalent.

I was shocked when I tested myself after buying the diabetes friendly "Sugar Free Worther's Original" candy.
It’s a nice way for me to derive information about people at conferences and airports.
Next time you break down some beef you could try a taste of the melted tallow and see what you think. Mine doesn't taste beefy (IMO) but I go through some effort to filter it so that it keeps for a long time.
My university’s self-service website would shut down from something like 10pm-4am every single day for batch jobs. This was used for EVERYTHING: Paying into your account, checking grades, registering for classes, webmail, etc. It seemed fairly antiquated at the time (2001 or so).
Thank you. I thought I was the only one disgusted by this.
There is more capacity on the way, but planning/approving these things is slow. The beauty of wind power in NZ is that the more you have spread around in different places, the more more hydro lake capacity you can keep up your sleeve for when it is needed.
I always thought gas was quite quick to start which made it a good complement to renewables.
House Republicans Introduce Bill to Crack Down on Censorship
Related and useful to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_species

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative

Good to know about these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number

Seems comprehensive: https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2021/02/five-and-half-d...
It's mind boggling. The amount of money being thrown at these "companies" and how quickly the burn it with nothing to show at then end. The principles then move on unscathed and someone writes them another check.
I was pretty surprised to discover that no-one in business gives a fuck if you cite your sources. On the rare occasions when you really need to, they also don't care if you use any kind of special formatting for it, and might even find it weird and off-putting if you did.

They also don't mind if you "cheat" (seek extensive help on a piece of work without asking if that's OK first, or "steal" something that already exists). Usually, they prefer you do. Results matter, and maybe not breaking the law. Beyond that, nobody cares.

I've also not once used all that business letter-formatting crap we wasted so very much time on in elementary school. WTF.
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There was a time in the late 70s early 80s when oil companies sought to diversify into solar and other areas. Exxon bought Zilog to diversify into semiconductors... it didn't last long. When Reagan came to power Carter's emphasis on moving towards alternative energy and away from oil came to an end. The oil companies were happy to play along and go back to being oil companies instead of energy companies that started out in oil.
> mac has that thing wired in serial to the led.

That doesn't stop the camera from working, it only notifies you. And it only notifies you if you're paying attention to your computer.

So yes, taping your webcam does work.
You have my sympathies. I did this once (see my other comment). In my case, finding the next job without having an existing one was unusually difficult. (Yes, everyone says this.) Employers strongly avoid the unemployed. And as it happens, it cut my comp in half.

It's a tradeoff, but there's more to life than money.
Great! Some of us like play.
Sounds like these developers aren't very good -- they have one out of four traits of good developers. I suspect the "smart" attribute is held to such high esteem by your corporate culture that people who appear "smart" are permitted to have a long list of other glaring defects.
Vulkan is pretty close to proprietary too, after all it only really matters on Linux and Android ;)
Paid for 1.5 hours underfloor, or just on for 1.5?

*also where you are would be interesting. There's a big difference say between Scotland and Croatia.