skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to hire thousands of people.

Why?
Because market is booming and we need to make the most of it to increase our profits.

Why?
Because it will make us more attractive for investors.

Why?
So they put their money in our company.

Why?
Because that will buoy our stock price, which is important.

Why?
Because it makes shareholders richer.

Oh.
Training specificity is a thing. Why would endurance training fix your posture?
Looks interesting. Anyone using it ?
this is mentioned in the article. there are things pointing to the contrary, mostly that the plane didn't shatter onto a million different pieces upon impact
Best viewed in Lynx.
Because it seems like a majority of engineers believe themseles to be above-average, and believe that any kind of collective action would reduce all engineering pay to the lowest common denominator. Additionally in the USA there seems to be a strong belief that union leaders only care about themselves while the company execs have the worker’s best interests at heart.

(I’m not sure where any of these ideas come from)
Well, I don't think that you're rude, and you might be correct from your point of view. I completely respect your views.

I concur that Fuchsia indeed has some interesting ideas. However, I see these interesting ideas as instruments to favor Google's long term vision about their devices, not for doing research in the name of research.

Over the years, I have lost faith in Microsoft and Google. I see every action they take as a means to improve their dominance while (ab)using and EEEing technologies they like, but they can't control. I don't trust these companies and always start from a slightly negative, corporate-centric view of everything they put out there. This is something I do knowingly. This is not a bias which is blind-siding me. It's intentional and I'm aware.

Having a kernel, complete with a Linux emulation layer, which is designed to enable seamless plumbing-rugpulls while having architectural decisions made to please hardware vendors doesn't look like simple research to me.

Adding a MIT license on top of it, and saying "We might be running closed source, slightly modified versions of this that we don't share" adds more wieght to my view, in my eyes.

So, also this is not Google's first rodeo. They are slowly close sourcing Android by moving things into Google Play services. Having a kernel and OS not encumbered by this "pesky" GPL stuff will allow them to have their private forks while playing "Hey, look, we're open source!" tune.

It's VSCode of Google. Designed to fracture, touted as open source but useless without Google's own secret sauce and blessing. Merely a source-available showcase which is full of interesting ideas useful for its creator and useless without its touch.

Oh, at least we see the code and get inspired by some of the ideas they put forward, if they are indeed portable.

We hit Apple for their walls, but at least they contribute their kernel inventions back to BSDs (libdispatch, for example).
Try Go

It’s quite simple, and has a ton of resources. The tour of go should help you understand the language at a very high level. It might also help you understand a bit about how the computer itself works (memory and cpu) without making you feel overwhelmed.

If you end up learning Go you might get a decent paying job since it is one of the higher paying languages.

Once u get the hang of programming simple things, try to imagine products you want to build and figure out how you’ll do it. That would teach you basic systems design.

Ultimately all programming becomes the same whether it’s OO or functional or whatever. Doesn’t matter. Eventually you’ll get to a point where you pick the tool that gets the job done. Doesn’t matter what the end looks like - it’s a damn screwdriver.
That is a caricature. You can invest in naloxon if you are worried about that. Or better yet, go the route of Switzerland and provide safer alternatives for life long addicts. It does absolute wonders for their quality of life.

The crux just is, that in this discussion, sober is the most important metric for a lot of people. Overlooking not just the end of life problems, but the simple truth that without drugs, a lot of those addicts would have killed themselves already. Drugs arent just a fly trap for the careless, they are a haven in the storm for the desperate. A shitty haven for sure, but in some situations less bad then the alternative. That distinction explains a lot of why all the warnings get ignored and all of the "education" on the topic finds only deaf ears.
Disappointed to find there is no photo showing the inside of the case with the CPU cooler and cabling.
It's necessary to divide the companies making layoffs into "profitable" and "unprofitable". It is much easier to make the case for layoffs at an unprofitable company: eventually it will either have to appeal to investors or run out of money, at which point everyone will be laid off anyway.

But the big tech companies are actually profitable. Even Amazon. https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/AMZN/financials/annua...

They put $470 billion through the till and ended up with $33 billion net income, for a margin of 7%. That's a normal profitable company, albeit a huge one that continues to eat the remaining retail world. You can look at the quarterly results too, but there's nothing in the rear view mirror that justifies layoffs.
They are hiring all this time simply because they can pay 1/5 salary there for the same role
To take the strongest form of the author’s argument, his point is that it’s not possible to take a pile of terrible code with no security, and fix all the problems in it. It’s better to architect it in a way that provides security (e.g least privilege everywhere, sandbox, memory safe languages, etc.).

I think the author could have phrased it better, in that the best approach is having a good security design, and then taking out all the bugs it couldn’t cover.
Which impacts economics because some customers surely got deals guaranteeing some amount of credits based on up/downtime as reported by the status page.

And so updates to the status page become political and locked behind senior management approvals.. like AWS.
>If there is immediate impact, assign a low negative score. And if only in the long term, assign a higher negative score.

So what's a "higher negative score"? :) Is it a score that's nearer to 0 or further away from it?
I think the difference is the that those other things affect everyone on the plane, but depressurising only the cabin, doesn't.
isnt that good? fuchsia success means death of linux, similar to how chrome success meant death of firefox (purely because of funding and power)
Programs from Lego for Mindstorms NXT, LDD and Studio.
Also Chromecacheview.exe, Maperitive and Civ-IV.
That's a WCAG paddlin'.

* Focus indicators
* Text block width
* Target Sizes

Apart from that, even if it were there there's some trouble with the markup:

* <abbr> tags missing
* No landmark elements
* bloody tabindex
* repeated same div
* search input has no visible label
* no context-sensitive help or whatnot
Added in Node main: buffer isAscii method
The site actually looks decent. Welcome back to 1995.
One of the other big features to land in this release (that didn't make the blog) was the ability for the Terminal to sync the color scheme & theme to the Windows OS theme

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18356694/214559480...

When Themes were added in 1.16, this was one of the biggest requests, so I'm really excited to see all the moving parts for it come together in just one release.
This! Other good books are ”Expert F#” by Granicz, Syme & Cisternino, ”Real world functional programming” by Petricek and ”F# for scientists” by Harrop. The last is old but still really great in succintly explaining what ’new&unfamiliar’ structures in F# are great for pragmatic software engineering.

Why is there so little noise in F# land? I have no data, but I can guess that the language is so unproblematic that everybody is just happily coding instead of explaining how to fix something. It’s also not very good at guis so there is usually nothing visual to demonstrate.
> They have been working on Fuscia forever and no signs of shipping, one of many projects that seem to be designed to entertain very expensive talent to keep them busy.

Please. Fuchsia has already launched and is in production devices. [0] At least get the spelling right as well as the fact that it has shipped.

I have not seen anyone else create a production-level OS from scratch in less than 7 years and release it on to real world devices other than Google and have it run the full Chrome browser in that same time period. [1]

It is as almost as if that they are planning to replace something inside ChromeOS, or even Android...

[0] https://9to5google.com/2022/08/24/nest-hub-max-fuchsia-rollo...

[1] https://9to5google.com/2022/03/04/full-google-chrome-browser...
No it doesn't. It works better for 1% of the population. Everyone else is a health crisis away from bankruptcy.

Literally. That's all it takes in the US for everyone who doesn't have an eight-figure-or-more net worth to be staring ruin in the face.

Your comment is exactly the mythology that perpetuates the problem. Exploitation is sold as participation. "Well we're paid fairly well so I guess we must be privileged and upper class."

If you can't stop working tomorrow without ever having to worry about money again - including health crises - you are not privileged or upper class.

Please stop telling yourself you are.
> without making your calorie intake less than your expenditure you will not loose weight

I've asked on HN a couple times in the past for citations that support this meme and haven't yet found a good source on this. The connection between caloric restriction and weight loss isn't as straight forward as people seem to think, despite that being the standard correlation pushed since the 1950s.

Calories seems to be the catchall metric pushed around, but it seems to be as much about what you eat, not just eating less. Although I'm sure asking someone to simply "eat less" would still ultimately contribute to weight loss. Whether calories is the thing that matters is the question.
Going to have to disagree. I’ve bailed from a few Yosemite big walls because a partner lacked the endurance to climb 16-20 hours straight. These were 5.13 sport climbers that were too bonked to jumar the rope.

Nope, you can’t run a climbing marathon unless you train for it.
How do you create the embeddings? Is there a GPT3 API that returns a paragraph’s embedding vector?
This is not a great story and the visuals don’t do much either.
How many people benefitting from more exercise are elite endurance athletes?
The Universal Clock of Aging
This no-js-no-css trend is gaining traction
These days, Google search makes me feel old and confused.

The default now seems to be to ignore any search term it deems irrelevant. Whatever process is used to drop words from the query almost always drops the most important and significant words I have entered. Then it returns results that have nothing to do with my search.

It's just baffling.
Selinux is only one of the tech I mentioned. Flatpak portals do access query at runtime instead. But if you hold MLS and its military origins as an example, keep in mind those were very much labelled ahead of time and there's lots of administration involved.
Sorry i didnt see your post

Its examining you for the ability to make an independent scientific contribution. Its an exam situation similar to your Bachelor and Master in that matter, only on a higher level.

One of the most difficult parts of the Phd is long term planing and coming up with a good plan to tackle your research question.
Someone got very tired of adjusting margins and just said: „screw it, Im done. Its even better without CSS“
There is no "best" language, all of them are their own special circle of hell, with advantages and disadvantages relative to the problem you're trying to solve. And if you're learning, the specific language isn't as important as general concepts.

A lot of people start learning with Python, so maybe try that or Javascript. C++ is also good but it can get complex quickly.
The question is whether 500W counts as high intensity, and whether the results are applicable for people whose high intensity is 2 to 4 times higher than the test subjects. I have to admit that I didn't read the linked article, but previous similar ones had the low intensity reference at so low intensity it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that it didn't produce any results.
Am I the only one who likes it better this way?
> A better idea might be to simply quarantine all attachments as they come into the enterprise, delete all the executables outright, and store the few file types you decide are acceptable on a staging server where users can log in with an SSL- enabled browser

An odd suggestion in an otherwise relatively uncontroversial article. It implicitly trains your users in a bunch of unpleasant things:

* clicking on some URL in an email, typing your password into whatever webpage pops up, downloading the blob it serves you and opening it (after clicking through the browser's "this was downloaded from the internet, are you sure?" warning) is a perfectly normal and legitimate part of the working day

* one needs to find ways to obfuscate documents of types that aren't on the IT whitelist so one can send them to one's colleagues so they can do their jobs (and no, the corporate whitelists never capture everything people urgently need to share in order to do their jobs)

* since everyone now does that habitually, receiving an automangled email with a link to an attachment which has its actual payload contained in several layers of archive obfuscation wrapper is perfectly normal because that's just what you have to do to share stuff with your colleagues now

These could, of course, be mitigated by suitably educating users, but since the practice is advocated in a section about user education never working, that is unlikely to happen.
Not just iOS. Notarizing apps for macOS requires payment too.
I find this line of argument frustrating, personally.

Yes, memory safe languages have bugs. But, we’ve been spared a world where big enterprise Java apps also have a bunch of trivial stack buffer overflows, in addition to log4j issues.

It’s like saying seatbelts are pointless because folks still get hurt in car accidents, while ignoring all the times they saved lives.
> Um. Last time I checked

So every google interview is for dev position and not other positions? Also, dev interviews depend on the person who interviews and not all people are the same. Plus, the difficulty of interviews means absolutely nothing - checking the ability to solve trigonometry problems using C++ gives literally ZERO insight in how the candidate will be USED, managed, what the interaction with other people in the team will be, how much time will be wasted by using google complex amenities etc.

Being able to solve rather trivial problem(s) that tutorial websites don't cover isn't valid measuring stick to assess someone's potential commercial viability.

> The decision was made despite it.

So you're still in favor of keeping employees who don't contribute for.. what reason exactly? It's not even a secret that everyone over-hired and that IT still suffers lack of skilled, competent, ethical, knowledgeable engineers. We didn't produce hundreds of thousands of experts in the last few years, we merely reported we did - and they're not as good as their CV's say. It reflects in job stability.

I'm not the one who created this situation, but it's trivial to observe. Hire thousands who aren't as good. They underperform. Face huge loss of money OR get rid of dead weight. Yes, the boss wants to remain in the seat and rich, but the consequence did not occur because of the evil boss. It _also_ occurred because of incompetent self-proclaimed engineer.
A bit tongue-in-cheek, but sometimes people put their nation's welfare above their company's.
https://www.w3.org/2008/site/css/advanced.css is even still there unzipped.
Another thing could be that many components and processes are now well established and do not need constant iteration. These mass layoffs would be appropriate time to let part of team go.
That sounds like what I've seen on Azure. Mystery weird problems we see, but they don't. Often in the network side. One time we were pretty sure they had a bad interface in a LAG group. Massive packet loss between hosts, but only on certain ephemeral source ports, about 1/8 of them.... Support couldn't find any issues even after a few days.

This was circa 2018 but AWS was so much more stable at that time. Ok, US-E-1 AWS had issues from time to time but they acked them and fixed them
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I went from virtually no exercise to moderate exercise for 15min, 4 to 6 times a week. Mostly 2 to 3 minute rounds on a heavy punching bag. I wouldn't call it life changing from a physical point of view, at least not yet. But the mental benefits were there from the first month.
Yeah, props to them for having some structure! It's like CSS Naked Day [0] in the dead of January

[0] https://css-naked-day.github.io/
The second Google result for this book is a chapter preview from the publisher: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780134032832/samplep...

The first result is entire PDF though. I remember back in the old days being a poor student trying to save money spending hours trying to find scans of texts (or making scans in the library). Now it’s the first result in Google! Here’s hoping none of us need to make money through writing…
It should easily be possible to add a handle to it though. Could be either 3d printed or even hand carved from a big stick or something. Maybe it should be possible to route much of the cabling through the handle as well? Hmmmm.
I have, for an engineering position.

I put the experience on GlassDoors, but in general... it's fine, but took way too long.

On plus side. The coding challenge was amazing and I learned a lot doing it. I passed the first code challenge, then I didn't pass the followup exercise which was on slack. It was very clear that the exercises are directly related what I would be doing.

On the negative side, the whole process took far too long and there were around 1 month delays in all the messaging. That made me think I don't want to apply there again, because I don't have infinite time in my life. However, if you can afford to wait, it is fine.
Now here is logically why what you’re saying is incoherent with regards to copyright:

I can train my own Stable Diffusion. So can you. So can everyone! And we can do so in the privacy of our own private properties and without anyone knowing what we’re doing with all of the images coming through our connections to our ISPs.

No one would really know how if anyone was creating images with or without Stable Diffusion. People would need to bring an image that is significant evidence of copyright infringement in order to get a court to issue a warrant to search for Stable Diffusion in a certain premises… but they can’t because the suspected image doesn’t look anything like the plaintiff’s to begin with.
I see they finally come out in favor of the perfect website: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Most Uranium ore is roughly as energy dense as anthracite.
Why would you apply for a job with employer who is known to overhire and the entry level is low?

Does that not speak of incompetence of the employee too?

I'm not advocating that boss is good, worker evil. Both are incompetent AF. It's just easy to jump at the boss because boss rich, worker poor.
You don’t have to “prove” anything, you already got the money
Mukesh Ambani changed the face of Indian telecom with Jio and its novel pricing model. Not to mention, Reliance has tons of businesses with actual real value, real history and real employees. Mukesh Ambani plays along with both the parties.

Gautam Adani is a Gujarati impex trader who won the lottery when his pony won the parliamentary race.

I would argue both families are extremely different, even if they seem culturally similar on the outside. That being said, I would say there are parallels to Gautam Adani and Dhirubhai Ambani (Mukesh's father, for those ootl).
On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths
hm, the css seems to be there, but looks very obfuscated? could it be encrypted or attacked?
Tested it just now (Firefox on Linux), and the response (for me) has 'Content-Encoding: br'.

So, it seems more like it's indicating Brotli compression, but the actual file (https://www.w3.org/2008/site/js/main) is gz encoded.
It's like CSS Naked Day [0] in the dead of January

[0] https://css-naked-day.github.io/
Microsoft pretty much owns the de-facto standard for PC operating system, office applications, e-mail, calendar... And use that to extend itself beyond with services such as Office 365, SharePoint, PowerBI, etc.

I'd guess far more established companies go with hosted Microsoft apps than Google's.
Don't take this as a trolling question, but I can't help but wonder if this sentiment towards AI generated art and creativity is similar to how a chef might feel about shrink wrapped frozen food factories. Just like how a frozen meal can be thrown in the microwave and still be considered a meal, AI generated art can still be considered creative and beautiful. But, as we all know, the timing and execution to properly deliver a "real meal" from a chef is far different than a frozen meal from a factory.

I find myself conflicted on this topic as I can see how the makers of yesterday have been replaced by process automation, taking away some of the magic of the creation process. But, just as a frozen meal from Costco has its place, so does AI generated art. The macro level ingredients may be the same, but the final product is different.

Before fast food, the number of chefs and home cooking would have had to be far higher and/or more frequent than now. Some would argue that we are paying the price for all that processed food now, but others would argue it's the only way to scale people's lives and their time.

I agree that something "feels" different about midjourney making artwork that I likely could never make myself, but I'm struggling to fully have a reason or complete reasoning for why. And then I wrestle with, is this a normal evolution problem? Just this time it hit something nearer to me personally and it impacts my life.

Would love to hear other's thoughts on this.
The problem with almost any smart computer system is that the smarter it gets, the harder it becomes to understand why it behaves as it does.

This in combination with the well-known design obstacle of having a text box as a the entire user interface making it so that you can't really communicate how to use it... well, it makes for a frustrating experience.

It's a pretty deep-seated UX problem I'm not sure if there are any good answers to.
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Good luck if you are using one of those SPA over engineered hipster framework.
Where do you import your exported content?