skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I find parties at the niche conventions I go to the most fun. At these conventions are tons of like minded people who are into the same weird stuff and it's easy to do get togethers after days at speakers and exhibits and have great conversations. The problem with the modern world is people who live next to each other aren't really forced to be in the same culture. Especially in big cities, everyone plugs in and lives in their strange niche no one else cares about or worse polarized echo chambers.
If there were ever a shortage of CEOs because they felt they were being treated unfairly, let me be the first to volunteer. I'd be happy to suffer as they do.
SOP for a McKinsey product.
The chance, however minimal, that you might get laid is reason enough to attend.
The one I really want is “do expressions”. I also can’t understand why anyone wants private fields over these kind of improvements. Lack of private fields in JS has literally never caused a big for me in 15 years of JavaScript development, but I have to use mutable variables and ugly if-else chains to 3 case assignment all the time!
This is incredible news, thanks for sharing. I would never have guessed that, really. I wonder what's their motivation (why now?).

The AWK book was one of the fundamental books I used to teach myself some coding. The precision of the language is remarkable; I wonder how much will be different in the new edition.
I restarted mine at 41. I was lucky to have saved money, but I just walked out of my 25+ year job with a 2 week notice. Decompressed for a year living off savings, and went from hardware to software engineering. Still engineering, but radically different tasks: I went from designing memory architectures (boring as hell) to writing web and mobile apps. (I also went from working with creepy old dudes to more exciting younger people.)

It took a lot of therapy and coaching and crying and some medication, however.

You probably can't do this alone, so definitely get a therapist because it sounds like you are depressed.
This isn't the pipe operator in elixir. It's from some php derivative language that facebook uses and you shouldn't trust it, because nobody could even show in TC39 that it was sound.
It seems like the algorithm recommended you a video and then you clicked on it and watched it or at least read the description for it but then you clicked don't recommend and not interested.

I mean how else did you know what this leather apron club was? You seem to of described the content of the video that was recommended as if you watched it or clicked on it or interacted with it in some positive manner.

You sent a conflicting signal to YouTube by investigating the content that you don't want to be recommended by interacting with it a whole bunch.

Next time you get recommended things that you don't want to be recommended I'm going to recommend to you to not interact with it at all. Don't click on it don't do anything that is considered engagement to it.

I also use YouTube a bunch and I also pay for YouTube premium. All of my recommends are extremely accurate and that is because the only thing that I view or consume are things that I want to view or consume.

I don't click on things I disagree with or would be offended by I don't click on shorts because I hate that entire concept of content and I don't click on trash content like haha funny viral videos because I am under the complete understanding that interaction and engagement are what drive the algorithm that recommends me content.

I could get totally rabbit holed and click on this stuff that every once in awhile it tries to recommend me that is slightly outside of my bubble in order to research it and find out why it tried to recommend me this. but you know what that would do? It sends a signal to them that I clicked on the video and then I clicked on their homepage to find out more and then I clicked on their about to look at other channels associated with it maybe I clicked on a couple more videos to find out if all of their content is like this maybe I clicked on videos on the side that are related to the video that it thinks I would be interested in if I like the video I'm currently clicked on and all of these are positive signals that feed the recommendation engine to give me more things that I don't want to be given.

And I'll go as far as to say I wouldn't even do that in an incognito tab or from the same IP address or from the same computer because it will somehow leak into my logged in normal account.

I guess I also want to put forth the idea that the negative signal that you put out by saying you don't want to be recommended something is possibly exponentially weaker to the recommendation engine then any amount of investigatory engagement that you do. You say AI a lot and frankly this is how YouTube's recommendation engine has worked for a very long time and I think it's going to be an even longer time and it's going to require more invasive analytics for YouTube to be able to have the ability to pick up on intent of a click. Because that's what this really revolves around. If a human was behind the recommendation engine and you were able to small talk with said human during your frustration of investigating why you're being recommended something then that human would understand to ignore this engagement.
Late 20s, but yeah, made the change into tech. Was a government analyst beforehand. I hate tech, but the crash of 2008 happened and I got into the data center and it was good enough.

Know several folks that made a change too. A parent went back to school to get out of engineering and into teaching. Became a professor.

Family friend went to law school at 40 -- she's now a judge in GA. Know a couple of folks who did law school early and then got out; one became a priest, the other got involved in government.

Had a friend who did a PhD in Theoretical Physics at UCLA and then went to Canada to teach; he's now a full-time cheese maker. He went hard on Insta and networked and has grown his business. It's hard work but he sounds satisfied, and his fresh cheese like queso fresco are delicious.

Another friend who was a NOC manager who moved to rural WA, married a local, and got involved in the local RotoRuter / sump-pump business. Literally a shitty job, but he makes his own hours and makes almost as much money, while meeting people and living on his terms. Being rural means hunting and shooting on his own land, him+his wife built a half acre garden, etc. Dokie jokes notwithstanding, I ponder if I should make a choice along those lines, since he's done at 5pm sharp, and the worst parts of his job wash off easily...

My $0.02 -- do some of those career inventories, either online or via paid local groups. I did one when I got out of the military and their predictions were, 10 years later, fairly accurate IMO. Talking about wayyyyy more than just an online MBTI test, too. But figure out, somehow, where you want to go, and then worry about picking up skills.
YouTube as well…
The Homeric Parallel in Ulysses: Joyce, Nabokov, and Homer in Maps
Does it happen in the industry that when a manager doesn't like you they prevent you from working on stuff and then proceed to complain that you're not performing which eventually leads you to a pip?
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The author wants apple to "Do Better" in Green/Sustainability terms, by offering More Money to buy back Last Years' Laptops. Author also stated he was planning to keep the laptop for a few more years to get his money's worth.

If Apple offers Garbage Prices for Old Models, doesn't this encourage Users to Keep Using Old Hardware? As opposed to making it economically attractive to buy New Laptops every year with Great Discounts for trade-ins?

I'm using an iPhone 6s because I can't be bothered to spend $1000 for the new models. If Apple offered me $400 tradein, a new phone would cost me only $600, making it Much Easier for me to consume new Battery/Metal/Semiconductor of a New Phone. The most Environmentally-Friendly thing for Author to do would be to use his Laptop until the Battery/Ports fail, then replace those parts, and continue using the Old Laptop until Apple no longer offers Software Support on it.
I had a horrible manager once. He actively sabotaged me. I won't go into details. I knew about him -- 3 people left because of him and they all confided in me!! But I somehow thought I was immune. I went through a year of depression and utter confusion. I was innocent in that I didn't "get it". I had good experiences prior to him and his level of sabotage was just not something I could comprehend. Eventually I worked for a good enough company that he was demoted to a non-managerial position. But it was too late for me. I just left (I was at principal level).
Honestly, you demonstrated poor reading comprehension here.

>Her employer did not sue her.

Did I suggest otherwise?

>Her employer fired her for underperforming and falsifying her time sheets.

Did I suggest otherwise?

>She sued her employer saying that that was not a valid cause.

Did I suggest otherwise?

>The court said that it clearly was and that she now had to pay back some of the costs.

Did I suggest otherwise?

>She would have gotten away with falsifying her timesheets if she hadn't decided to sue them.

Did I suggest otherwise?
> In addition, though they feed on meat, their honey is reportedly still sweet and edible. “They store the meat in special chambers that are sealed off for two weeks before they access it, and these chambers are separate from where the honey is stored,” Maccaro said.

I have so many questions
Property rights + individual liberty = capitalism.

The right to accumulate capital, and the freedom to voluntarily transact with others without outside interference is all that's needed to accumulate enormous wealth.

There is no dismantling of capitalism without compromising either property rights (ownership of land/stuff) or individual liberty (labour regulation).
Umm you are not driving much?

There's like 50 shades of 'pressure' in traffic, to name just a few:

- staring angrily

- shaking fist

- various gestures involving middle finger

- shouting

- using the horn liberally

- flashing high beams

- driving really close to you

- bumping into you

- blocking you

- smash your window with something

- draw a gun

- fist fight

- etc etc

Some people also feel embarrassment by making others wait because something obvious you did.
One important note, though, is that the backup and multidevice requires their cloud servers* so the threat model is a little different. They've got a blog on how they do the cloud backup**, but since you need a password it either needs to be something you can remember or be stored in a password vault that doesn't rely on getting a 2fa code from authy for access.

* for the paranoid, there's a mode where it doesn't backup to the cloud, which makes it function the same as google auth, but that does defeat a lot of authy's benefits.

** https://authy.com/blog/how-the-authy-two-factor-backups-work...
> But around 15 years ago, before the proliferation of gig work, deep learning systems were considered merely an academic curiosity, confined to a few interested researchers.

Um, no. Google was using machine learning more than 15 years ago, notably in the SmartASS system that predicts whether someone will click on an ad [1]. I got my cousin Missy a gig (at $15 an hour) rating ads and search results.

This story is hardly a claim of humane treatment of gig workers, I should note. I intervened and got her treated fairly.

> Companies make sure to hire people from poor and underserved communities, such as refugees, incarcerated people and others with few job options, often hiring them through third party firms as contractors rather than as full time employees.

Citations, please. A rater who is many standard deviations away from the mean is extremely undesirable. You want their judgments to be representative of the population.

If you want to design something that appeals to Americans, you want American raters. Since the US is by far the largest consumer of Internet services, it stands to reason most raters of "quality" will need to be from the US.

If you just want to know if an image contains objectionable content, then yes, you could use Third World employees.

[1] https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-ads
Yes. Google has loosened their spam filters. I have noticed.

My educated guess on why? Lawsuits from political parties, notification of class action litigation against Google and others, union notifications, insurance notifications, and similar emails ending up being caught by spam filters.

The lawsuits are piling up.
General technology for enabling AI capabilities with LLMs and Generative models
Hype, mainly
big german companies do it because they are required to by law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_representation_on_corpo...
It might help to seriously look at why you want a PhD and whether you still want it. There's no shame in going a different direction (i.e., drop academia for industry), if you find out that you have zero inspiration and it's not for you. Success is not measured in either having or not having a PhD. But if it's something you desperately want to have because of what will come after your PhD that can only be achieved with one, that can provide motivation to just push through even if you hate it.
Either way I wish you success.

(PS. Don't let sunk cost be your primary motivation for finishing it.)
Apropos of anything else, in many parts of the US, doing that speed, particularly on a motorbike, is almost reckless even for the sole reason of ... have you seen our infrastructure budgets? We're not known for our high quality roads. A single pothole at those speeds is launching you over the handlebars.
Judging from my own spam label on gmail, those messages are part of the torrent of junk that is pouring out of Microsoft's "hybrid on-premises exchange" egress VIPs. Basically some clown who pays Microsoft for quasi-hosted Exchange has a virus that sends spam, and Microsoft blesses it with the reputation of the customer egress addresses. Eventually, this will stop working for Microsoft but at this time it's like waiting for Greenland to melt: inevitable, but takes a long time.

Also worth noting if you are trying to evaluate gmail's classification performance that the vast majority of what they think was spam is not in your spam label, it got stopped with a 4xx error code at SMTP time. So you don't really have a way to know the denominator.
Costco seems to do a pretty good job at saying no and they have not had repercussions.
I kind of wish Rust would eventually focus on a rich standard library. I'm talking everything from a basic but usable web HTTP server which others like Python and even Go (which I attribute to their success via net/http being built-in and OOTB) have available from the get-go. I also think Rust should heavily consider building a cross-platform UI stack, it doesn't have to be insanely exhaustive, maybe it can just seek for feature parity with something like Tk, but it would lead to far more adoption I think.

Who doesn't prefer to just build something in a language where you know first time setup is pretty straight forward as opposed to wasting hours setting up some convoluted web project by hand?

I think Rust needs to invest in providing a rich standard library, even if it is just its own library that is fully optional, as long as the core team works on and maintains it, I think it could do plenty of net-good for Rust as a whole.

I'm also thinking of my favorite things about languages like Racket and Python which is a really simple editor that is built-in. Again, Rust needs to be able to build UIs to achieve this.
The Luddites were not broadly opposed to new technology, they were opposed to the ownership structure which cut them out of the higher profits the new technology brought.
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Their AI sucks, this is what happens when a site curates their feed instead of just using hashtags+views+popular.

I've been using pockettube addon and just add my favorite channels to groups. Now I can just watch tech, and get my favorite tech shows. Cars, Music, etc. Plus I get uncensored and time/popular feeds sort views again for each of my groups. This is 10000% better than clicking "subscriptions".

Sad people are just herded like sheep on what content they consume.

https://pockettube.io/
I agree that it is probably difficult to run clandestine military aircraft research in a country that has a Bill of Rights.

I prefer that sentiment over:

It is probably difficult to have a Bill of Rights in a country that needs to do clandestine military aircraft research.
OTOH, you've learned an important lesson early: You aren't hired until your first day of work. The job search never stops and never ends, until you're really ready to stop working.

Next time when someone agrees to hire you in the hypothetical future, you will keep looking and interviewing, at least until you have accepted a formal offer from someone.

(I'm assuming here that they didn't give you an actual, formal offer even if they did tell you about a starting date)
I mean you tell me, which would be bullying to you? You work for years on something and someone tells you it's not "serious" because they haven't learned to browse a source tree, or the guy telling him to read a little more?

Either way, I apologize for how it came off.
Hamburger Pattie’s have a single ingredient: beef.

I thought it wasn’t relevant because the ingredient list is still complex compared to cow burgers. It’s nice that the long ingredient is mostly recognizable, but the point is that there’s a long list of ingredients, not that the ingredient list included toxic waste or something.
I'm not sure why you thought honing in on the least informative word in my comment was useful.
G-suite definitely was held back by that approach. I was there during the critical years. Very frustrating.
I'm not sure why you are bringing her up at all. I was not making a comment about her case in any way.
Skilled trades workers can make that much, but those aren’t the majority of jobs.

Glassdoor says Mercedes Benz production workers make about $18/hour on average: https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Mercedes-Benz-USA-Assem...
* stationery

But you're right. :-)
‘They’re 25, they don’t do emails’: is instant chat replacing the inbox?
I had what I thought was a bad manager once. Problem was, I thought he was bad, everybody else thought he was great. It's not easy to say who is right/wrong in these situations.
Try to treat it like weather. Some times things are clear for weeks, then you get hit with storms. My wife and I both have had Gmail accounts forever and we never see the onrushes of spam at the same time. So I think it's the noise of two algorithms fighting. We should all get used to it.
I agree with you, but I also feel there is a huge difference between not working and doing nothing at work. The latter is way more draining to me.
If I where you, I'd just ensure the RAM is expandable...
Ask HN: One month with one arm, after surgery
Hey everyone, in one month I'm getting shoulder surgery. I won't be able to use my left arm at all (I'm right-handed). I'm here to ask you all suggestions how to face this as proper nerd. Split keyboards (because it seems I can use my fingers, if I attach something right under them), programming with dictation, mechanical arms, DIY stuff, etc.

Example: I have a kid, I'm gonna buy a harness so that I can lift him with one arm when my wife needs help.
What does this woman have to do with my comment?
I just love my car. I just love to drive it. I love to go where I want, whenever I want. I hate being driven - it's anxiety inducing and mind-numbingly boring. I appreciate the car-friendly infrastructure.

I'd wager most drivers IRL are like me, despite the vocal online minority. We should work on better infrastructure that allows for all public and private transport modes to work about equally as well in a given space.
Time to apply! ;)
Thanks for your correction. I got the number from a fucking company that claims to be the best in Web search and AI.
I literally only hear that Google search is bad from HN. No one else in my daily life - my family, friends, people out at my gym or grocery store - ever complain that Google search is bad. In fact, Google is still the default for looking up information anywhere. It's sentiments like this that make you realize how much of a bubble HN exists in.

OTOH, people have trouble using GMail, google home, or ban YouTube in their house for their kids. Next to no one uses Android, etc.
> If you got that pre-IPO

Do you realize that Tesla has gone from 1k to 100k employees in the meantime?
esp. for anything relatively technical. the pages look like they copied and pasted someone else's documentation together.

at this point it's almost always ignore the first 3 hits and go straight to stackoverflow or reddit, or something that's plainly obviously related like python.org documentation.
I interned at Google around 2015 and again 2019 as a grad student.
The culture was dramatically different, even in a very similar team.
>there's a pretty small number of people who actually organize things

I think this is very true. Back in the day, I was 'the instigator'. I'd phone a couple of friends, and soon enough, Saturday night would be 'on'. If I didn't do it, it generally didn't happen. They wanted to go out, but never enough to actually organize it. 20 years on, I'm remembering my role and trying to make more things happen, particularly as I'm not on any Social Media, so have dropped off the passive radar of a number of my friends.
If you genuinely had a happy ending from this, good for you. But I suspect that some companies intentionally act like this to get rid of people who are due stock options soon.
Yes: It is that easy to end up frog-in-a-pot. I've seen it, and I've done it. I've seen it nearly kill people and cause them to give up on careers.

And this underlines what stress is all about: Not working hard, but spinning your wheels and going nowhere. It will make a mess out of you.

And yeah, for whatever reasons the tech startup world can be ultra-nasty compared to everywhere else. The level of vindictive, nasty, hateful behavior can get completely out of control, often happening right out in the open. Not sure why, but when startups go bad, they can go ultra-bad.
This for sure. I've learned to love where I'm at, but if I knew what I know now I doubt I would ever left my first job. At least not as soon as I did.
> compensation of the workforce in check

This is the real take away, imo. It seems like a controlled, insider effort to combat wage growth.

I essentially didn’t get a pay raise after a year of stellar performance reviews because of inflation, and with these layoffs I’m no longer in a position of bargaining power to ask for more.
Google Translate and Google Photos are good examples, but YouTube Recommendations is absolute garbage in my experience. Heck, I'm not even sure it's using any sort of AI because it seems to mostly want to funnel me to the currently most popular videos, not anything similar to the things I actually watch. I mean, it'll recommend new videos from the channels I'm subscribed to, but almost everything else is music videos in languages I don't speak, sports clips when I don't watch any sports, local news from countries I don't live in, and videos from channels like the Paul brothers, which I abhor.

No matter how many recommendations I click "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel" on, there's still an endless list of completely irrelevant, unwanted content and channels.