skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you take the most well-meaning person, leave them holding a piece of trash, then deprive them of anywhere to dispose of it, where do you think it's going to go?

Counterpoint: In Japan, I often had to haul my garbage quite a bit before I found a trash can to dispose of it. No litter though. (To be fair, there are other factors; most people don't eat on the go, and there are usually garbage cans near convenience stores and vending machines).
It depends. If someone is feint am asshole and tearing down the team, a “knock it off or else” approach is certainly a reasonable response, especially if done privately.
Yep, congrats jsnell, you get it.

On average, the stock price goes up. Why let the minions soak up those BPS (basis points)?
Thank you :)

I really had fun making it and speed running it.

It is also one of the few things I’ve made outside of work that got kind of popular for a little while and the ride was really fun.

It gives me disproportionate pride and joy :)

I also love chess
All I have been thinking for years is, I would rather do anything, even bartend, than keep doing this fucking tech job thing for the rest of my life. I don't have the savings built up for retirement so I stick with it, but I really just hate how fucking horrible everyone is at their jobs, how every company is basically just bad for the planet and humanity, and how we keep building the same stupid bullshit, keep making the same mistakes, all for basically no benefit to humanity. At least a bartender is like a cross between a psychiatrist and a drug dealer. People can take a breather at the bar, you can help them relax or treat themselves. Me? I help other people get rich taking advantage of people selling them stupid shit they don't need that's built like a kindergartener made it. But it's a paycheck, whoooo.

I am glad you are able to build yourself a more stable career though, seriously, kudos. I really do hope you enjoy it, unlike my dumb ass. Maybe anything you do for 20 years can make you sick. shrug
To someone who isn't up on the topic, it sounds a lot less serious than the accumulation of gases in the atmosphere that threaten the majority of life on the planet.

Maybe they're just prioritizing where they spend their energy. And maybe they're right.
Thank you so much for posting this. ADHD is not just 'young schoolboys behaving badly disrupting the class'.
You make a fair point, however I don’t think “wall street chose not to subsidize the US steel industry” is quite the same thing as “Wall Street chose to move steel production outside of the US”.

Wall Street isn’t a vehicle for national industrial policy, if anything that lies at the feet of Congress.
All nuclear fission for energy production is a bad thing. Full stop.
I lived in Australia for a time and the taxes were a breeze. Enter a few identifiers like tax id number, it fetches the data from the government, confirm the data, done in 15 minutes. I couldn't believe it.

Taxes and health care in America are just so broken.
Well, what do you think of ChatGPT as a product in the open market that challenges Google?
But it's fun telling pretentious HNers that they they are wrong.
100%. I wish they offered a tiered plan.
Was my first thought. Looking at Epic on the list my first thought was Steve Buscemi’s meme “how do you do fellow start ups.”
Right, the two approach I've seen are 1) either go through each possible (n-1) palindrome centers and for each binary search to find the longest palindrome at that center. Or 2) Since for a given length L we can find if there exists a length L palindromic substring in O(n) time, we then binary search on L. The former has an advantage in that you can immediately answer the number of palindromic substrings as well, although it's a bit harder to implement in terms of edge-cases you need to worry about.
My employer had two rounds of layoffs recently. People from my team were let go both times. Neither time did my team lead get consulted. No higher manager regularly interacts with me or anyone else on the team, although I now have once a month meetings with a slightly more senior engineering lead.

I asked which factors led to being let go. First round, it was underperformers, then tenure. Second was purely tenure. Now I'm the most recent eng hire on the team. My tech lead insists I'm far too valuable to lose, and wouldn't be on the list for any future layoffs. But how could his boss know? Perhaps they care. Other teams got wildly upset when similarly critical people got let go, though, and I don't recall that being undone.

I have little information about my employer, my own future, or how these decisions will be made. That information would be valuable to me. I'm curious if there are employers who would prefer to make the change of more honor for less base pay. I might accept, depends on details.
Yeah fair enough, a rationalization for the ownership classing owning more and more it being great for everyone. In any case I don't take her at her post-hoc word.
You carry it like a normal person.
if production of steel in the usa were competitive, barring chinese protectionism†, those fords built in china would be built with steel imported from the usa

†there is a lot of chinese protectionism
Yeah, the characters have legs!
>The only issue here imho is the violence of the raid, but that is part of the larger problems surrounding all police actions.

It is also an issue that this man's possessions have been seized without due process or any sort of explanation. He has not been indicted, let alone convicted of a crime, yet the government violently broke into his home and stole all of his computers and electronic possessions, including his private, sensitive medical and financial information. The idea that some secret judge can sign some secret warrant and a gang of armed men can break into your home, assault you, and steal your possessions without any recourse available to you should be incredibly chilling to everyone who believes in due process and a free society in general.
Thor love and thunder was just bad. WW1988 is a crime against humanity
> See, unlike many people I don’t regard FFmpeg as something unique (in the sense that it’s a project only Fabrice Bellard could create). It was nice to have around and it helped immeasurably but without it something else would fill the niche.

This comes off as highly insulting. "something else would fill the niche", do you really know that? and even if its true, you could probably say that same thing about any other landmark software, making the statement meaningless in addition to being rude.

I am inclined to give Konstantin leeway, as he was an FFmpeg developer, but even being in that position, I dont think he has any right to make a statement like this.
> Sure, and a bunch of countries give people criminal records for being gay. Doesn't make it right, or not stupid. California is welcome to enforce those laws, and the rest of us are welcome to laugh at California for being such a nanny state they can't even tolerate the use of a garden hose in anger. Won't somebody think of the plants

Ah yes, the man who checks notes sprays people with water in anger and is being held responsible is being persecuted like gay people.

I’d also love to know where you live. The definition of battery is pretty similar in all 50 states. Use of force against another. Not sure that makes California a “nanny state” (there are many other reason that California sucks though).
Not everywhere is. In big cities there is some mixture of tragedy of the commons, corruption and resource allocation problem. Garbage/waste collection is a local responsibility, but the city/municipal administrations in India are not very powerful compared to their Western counterparts. They don't have as much freedom in generating or dispersing with revenue and are mostly dependent on the state and national governments for their expenses. This makes it hard for the local government to do anything apart from the bare minimum.
Australia is 1 - Huge, low density, lots of choice where to place renewables, 3 - has some of the best places for solar in the world, 4 - good solar production in winter.

Try Austria, and find that solar production falls 5-10x in winter, there is almost no good location for wind, and the problem is much harder.
A really clever puzzle, UI issues aside. Reminds me of programming the knights tour back in college.
Apply for a batch! There's a bunch of folks there who specialize. There's a running cryptopals group IIRC
How much are you paying? I have a good accountant that does my ex-pat taxes for $250
Maybe we were pushing the programmer a little too hard for changes if they felt compelled to continue working on their project while showering. (Remember folks: using a computer, or any other electric appliance, in the shower is a bad idea!)
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you mean this in good faith, even though I don’t think you do. What is the damage, and how doesn’t the site owner explaining how to consume their site without furries address it?
Most of us are hoping the same for the Americans and their export of far right blathering idiots.
Several studies have correlated education and income levels with environmental awareness. In practice, it is also due to corruption and the consequential failure of public services. The city I was born in (Dhanbad) suffers from rampant corruption, even by Indian standards - large swathes of the urban area have no other way to dispose of garbage other than paying private companies around $1-$2 per trash bag, which is then dumped in rivers and makeshift landfills.

Dhanbad allocated around $34 million dollars to its public waste management company a couple years ago, yet even today it still hasn't managed to get standardized trash bins and collection routes for most households. Endemic corruption and tax avoidance cripples virtually every public service in India, and any systems of regulation (law enforcement, bureaucracy, politicians, journalism, etc) are firmly captured by the business interests that perpetuate it.
>But national security is a completely different world than regular law enforcement. To me this situation just screams "fuck around and find out"

Only in a police state. In a free society governed by laws, it doesn't matter why the government claims it needs to do something. Your Constitutional rights are sancrosanct. If the government can simply ignore your rights, the law and the Constitution by simply saying "national security", then in reality you have no rights, there is no law and the Constitution is meaningless.
So it's some grand conspiracy that companies are doing mass layoffs as their stock prices drop, but not when they do mass hiring as their stock prices artificially inflated?

What happened to basic logic here?
Binoculars are a good starting point if you already have them.
Oh my, WebGL has come a long way since the late '90s

I think I mean VRML but you know that don't you, you old farts you
well, wall street didn't expect high returns from the steel industry in the us

one of the things that distinguishes capitalism from other economic systems is that national industrial policy (in the sense of allocation of scarce resources to future productive endeavors) is determined by private investors, not the state
This is true, but I think you have the reason misconstrued: it isn't that working at a FAANG on your resume provides a signal of greatness, it's that it guarantees a reliable floor competency. The recruiter is concerned with making her quota just as much as finding rock stars, if not more, and ex FAANG candidates probably stand a higher chance of making it through the interview funnel on average.
Secret hints:

1. Animal on roof

2. Animal on tree

3. Large object in trees

4. Beach goer

5. Small wooden fence room
I was so hoping when I hopped from the railing by the cats to the roof I found a secret :(
One nice thing about Guile is that you can use it drive Guix.

Not that using another Scheme for your stuff would seriously hamper you from using Guile in Guix anyway.
- employee_id % 10
Reddit is great because someone can says 1 + 1 = 3, get fifty upvotes, you can point out that it's actually 2, get downvoted into oblivion, and then some other idiot will come along and say it's 4
> Alternatively, a good chunk of my twitter feed would call this the bottom emoji

Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be calling it that in the morning standups.
We need an AI that de-click baits titles. That would be a great service to the world.
Why does this principle apply to India but not say Japan, Sweden, or Singapore?
That doesn't solve the problem of long-running processes, CPU time isn't the limiting factor here, and devs cost more than compute resources.
Please explain. I have deployed them successfully at both large and small companies without any significant issues
Too common and too tragic.
and they'll never forget it now. hopefully.
Which do you think would require more certainty: crimes with severe punishments, or crimes with low impact of the victims?
This is delightful. So smooth on ios safari
This contradicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag
I wrote a ruby script to map out the graph and fed it into graphviz to make the image.

https://graphviz.org
If you take other people's money to run a business, those people can run you out if they feel you're a detriment to their investments. Investors can afford legal battles, and if you're taking other people's money, chances are you won't be able to outspend them in court.
But it allows a fully functional style, and so you can do railway oriented programming[0], where every function has a success and failure route. The top level code looks the same as that without error handling.

[0] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/
Honestly it seems absurd that innocent people can actually end up being robbed of their life and thrown in prison at all.
> This one could be "qiu", for example.

The wechat shortcode for their similar face is 可怜.

As far as I know, it is not used for begging (and therefore couldn't be called 求); the one time it was used to me, it seemed to express something more like "ouch!".
Workin' on our knight moves.

Tryin' to make some front page hacker news.

Workin' on our knight moves.
I started my Saas business in my 30s and ultimately it has been enough for me to be financially free. I’ve run it full time since 2005. Yes, I’m in my 50s now and still running a saas and developing new software. 30s, yes you can start over, and it’s even still young to do so.

Edit: I was not a software developer professionally before I started over.
It may have been updated after you started.
The context was clearly about payments. So it's foot. It's not particularly ambiguous even.

I don't correct people to be pedantic or argumentative. I love being corrected and learning from others, but I suppose not everyone does.
Clancy performed a mountain of research and a lot of interviews to prepare his work. The details were not "eerily close," they were more or leas accurate. HfRO is not at all similar to a coincidental Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The sad thing about that ADHD stereotype is when people are young the stakes are so much lower. Messing around in class, being distracted and not completing school work, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't really matter that much.

If you're an adult things are much worse: unemployment, inability to maintain relationships, impulsiveness and anti-social behavior.
As an engineering manager on multiple projects, my calendar is jam packed. My developers who are on one, or at most two projects have their calendars fairly empty (which is a good thing). I had folks who took many interviews within a short time span and I had no clue at all. I barely have time to take a lunch break.

Yes - I can manage my calendar better, but then people would get suspicious, or I'd be worried some emergency comes up.

When I used to interview, I'd just start having more "doctor appointments" or what not and block off a few hours. Also, these were back in the days of going on-site for interviews. My engineers who quit did it all remotely, even the final round (covid times...) so it's more manageable.
Usually the Playground still works when ChatGPT is down...
You've quoted the paragraphs I read and responded to.
[SPOILER AHEAD] On mobile it's very hard. You can't jump and go forward at the same time, and there's radius when you turn, so precise positioning is fiddly.
Wow that's great. Nice color palette. Ran on Android Chrome
binocs are good, but you still need a decent form of stabilization. I know I tend to shop higher end because I know what I'm getting, but by the time I've priced out support and the glass I've nearly arrived at the price of a telescope with much high magnification.

so it all comes down to realistic expectation levels what can be seen. you don't want to spend the money and then be disappointed and get turned off to the experience as underwhelming.
I made friends with someone else who kept circling around. The look of it reminds me of Boku no Natsuyasumi.
https://github.com/temporalio/hello-world-project-template-j...

You have to write your code using Temporal SDK.

At a quick glance:

main() calls WorkflowServiceStubs/WorkflowClient

I also see something called an "Activity"

Also see something called a Worker.

Not trying to argue. Genuinely curious if you think this is within the realm of "not take anything special into account" (be forced to use a specific SDK and lay your logic out in the exact way it supports) or if you didn't know this was referring to Temporal?
this could be said about computers back in the day too. they used to take up entire floors, now they fit on your pocket. i suspect something similar applies for tech in general and reactors also
You can send that data into bigquery with ga4 if you need too.
we don't really know the width of the distribution of course! and it depends on where you are and what you are doing.

"rare" i agree with. that's a far cry from being a myth or not existing. "The 10x programmer doesn't exist", i think is what you said - don't move the goal posts.

they are clearly somewhat rare, how rare is a pointless argument. but they exist and i'm glad you have acquiesced to that fact. i hope you have the privilege of working with one someday.
According to at least one anthropologist, the religious leaders were so obsessed with the idea of ritual purity and pollution that physical cleanliness took a beating. It is not easy to understand even for an Indian. Caste system foundations were also based on, or at least justified by, the idea of ritual purity and pollution. 'The remembered village' by MN Srinivas hints a bit about these things.

While growing up in village, there were so many sayings now I understand. Like my soul is pure what if my hands are dirty or I havnt took bath for two days. Cleaniness of place is even less cared for and personal cleanliness.

I get it that other dont understand why its so hard to keep your neighborhood clean. Its not hard, its just most dont care!. And before thr age of plastics, nature did all the cleaning during monsoon and summer.

PS: It is not the politician. It is the people and culture.
Not (directly) a murder case, but Mark Duggan and Steven Levitt's 2002 paper on match fixing in Japanese sumo is also interesting.[1]

While the suspicion had lingered for a decade or two that sumo matches were rigged, the analysis of the paper precipitated a scandal years later that led to the cancellation of a sumo tournament in 2011, and the expelling of 23 wrestlers.[2]

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~mgduggan/Research/MD_Levitt_2002.p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match-fixing_in_professional_s...
Because it is overly reductive and incorrect
You see how this can be knocked down as a just-so story, right? You started out with a statistical narrative that, to say the least, doesn't hold up.
That’s not the same.

A complicated tax code is different than a complicated filing process.

We can all hate Intuit for one but not the other.
What would Holmes’ GTA star level be? I mean, IRL in terms of absolute scale of crime maybe 2/5, but in-game it’s usually more violent activity only that gets stars. This needs further discussion, maybe with some consultation from Rockstar.
I was hoping this would link me to a deeper discussion on hallucination.

I'm intrigued that it's hallucinating sequences that appear to have never written before (at least not on Google) and not just recalling some crappy training data.

Anecdotally (and expectedly) it happens a lot on ChatGPT with specialized scientific questions (random radiology and medical stuff). I am assuming some of this is due to the training corpus although Galactica suffered from the same thing, and the GPT3 corpora would have included a lot of scientific webpages.

Anyone have any resources that investigate why this happens?
This isn’t really about profits. This is about bureaucracy. In a highly bureaucratic environment each buro’s manager is incentivized to keep the buro budget as large as possible each year, which ensures that stupid bullshit and waste will occur.
I once asked recruiters how many candidates they review before they hire a senior engineer. Some answered 200! So the fact you worked in FAANG is not a reason to reject, at least not on recruiter’s level.
Migrations, typically via Phinx for PHP
So I guess the eyeball scanning token didn’t take off?
The Dark Art of Stealing from Self Checkouts
> and they'll never forget it now. hopefully.

A good, permanent phobia.
And move the bar to the top with a bit of text - "Next square: F8"

Yeah I spent a lot of time trying to hit every square.
Though I typically use rsync these days, FTP can be useful for copying files to and from a Linux server when the client is a Windows machine.
Both the cartoon and the novel are satirical, but I think you are probably referring to how accurate the cartoon was to how The Plan was first revealed to the protagonists in the novel.
As the WSJ source article explains [1]:

> "...hobnobbing at Davos is part of doing business for major tech corporations and the events are planned far in advance making it difficult to change them..."

As far as I can tell, the concert wasn't a perk for MS execs, it was a networking event for those execs to build relationships on behalf of Microsoft with powerful people/institutions from across the world at the World Economic Forum. And an exclusive concert with Sting is a good way to get important people into the room with you, rather than competing events.

And of course planned long in advance of layoffs, and totally separately. But this is what the elite trying to influence other elite looks like.

So I'm not really sure what anyone is complaining about. Was Microsoft supposed to cancel the event at the last minute but still pay Sting his full fee that had already been contracted? Or is Microsoft not supposed to be engaging in the kind of elite influencing and lobbying that it needs to build its business? Because Davos is exactly the kind of place that can pay large dividends for Microsoft.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/davos2023/card/microsoft-ho...
Leanchess: World’s smallest chess-playing program
Employee B will be put in a "it's time to train your replacement" scenario and will be let go.

Employee B would have probably been dealt with way before layoffs, as well. Relying on an oracle is a roadblock that will have, at the very least, annoyed anyone who had to work with them. That oracle is an easily recognizable bottleneck.

No one is safe from layoffs.
But how can we pop a box without have wuftpd installed?
Yeah, I do.
That depends on which interpretation you subscribe to.
Being layoff is a terrible experience and is one of the most stressful times in your life
"Well, what can you do, right?"
I think this sentence somehow sums up the vibe that led to your eventual success. Congrats!
Thoughts on Change in Liminal Space