skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the rough 100:10:1 ratio was the standard for a long time. That certainly describes my job hunting experience prior to say 2012. The whole 5:4:3 ratio was an aberration during our recent, unprecedented bull market.
I think it's a poorly constructed bill, the ID requirement is ridiculous but I can sort of see some of the reasoning. Social Media is unhealthy for younger people (Actually it is unhealthy for adults too, but I think adults should be allowed to make their own bad decisions). Teens should have real relationships, outside, with human beings. Not a parasitic relationship with an App that was engineered with the same tricks as a Las Vegas casino.

The argument that "teens will find away around this" could be made for anything. Sure, just like kids get into drugs. But we don't let them buy cigarettes at the corner gas station. There is a difference between making something readily accessible and putting in some guardrails.
Or less cynically, it's a really good writing assistant. There is a self-service tool that understands English on a level that Grammerly could only dream of.

Not sure how to phrase an email in a professional tone, tell GPT to write it and edit from there. This is a tool that is going to be a smash it with non-native speakers or really anyone who just isn't that good with words.

> Write an email to a coworker telling them in the politest and most professional manner that they're a fucking idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about and that I'm the subject matter expert on this topic. Don't swear and have a firm but neutral tone.

I understand that you have a great interest in the topic we were discussing earlier, and I appreciate your enthusiasm. However, I feel it is important to clarify a few points.

As the subject matter expert on this topic, I believe it is important to note that there are certain aspects that may not be fully understood without a deeper understanding of the material. With that being said, I would like to offer my assistance in making sure that all aspects of the topic are properly understood.

If you have any further questions or would like to discuss the topic in more detail, I am more than happy to assist. Please do not hesitate to reach out at any time.
The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)
Honestly it's not a bad option if you except the work will suck. I did it for a while after getting severance from a tech job. I did a first year carpentry program. We built a house from the ground up for Habitat for Humanity.

After the program I worked in the industry for a while. When you are starting in carpentry it's a lot of grunt work. People won't care if you have any training. After a full day of vacuuming drywall dust I had enough. Quit and landed a programming job.

I still think it was a valuable experience. It shows you value of hard work. If there is time to lean there is time to clean is a very real thing. I was in the best shape of my life. I now have the skills to do most of my own Renos.
Is this a wordplay on "deguise" = disguise in French?
I think authoritarian is good for developing because it is efficient; democracy is good for developed because it is more fair. A country will be more authoritarian when economy is bad, and will be more democrat when economy is good.
Sure it is. We get indoctrinated that murder & rape are bad, that eating vegetables is good, that you should brush your teeth, that the scientific method is a good approach for discovery, etc. Raising children is an exercise in indoctrinating them; no one (typically) objects.
Thanks. That's the opposite (the government is protecting corporate interests too much) of what the usual "It's the feds fault" usually implies.
5 Years In
Not half so much as leaving open the question of who gets cut through the balance of H1.
Ask HN: Learning to Code at 33
Hey everyone, so I know this has been asked before, but I'm going through my mid-life crisis and have been thinking about learning to code. I took classes in the past and have some aptitude, and the freedom and decent-to-fantastic salaries appeal to me. Could anyone who went to coding later in life let me know how it worked and what they did to achieve it? I live in Canada but would like to move to Europe in the future, not that interested in living in the US (where I know the big money is).
They make pills for that :)
teams search is ass.
Except he compares Bitcoin's irreversable final settlement transactions per seconds metric to Visa's tps which is more akin to the lightning network. Apples to Oranges.
I know some people used to chop down trees to get a line of sight for satellite TV. Starlink is different in that you need more than a single LOS to a specific spot in the sky, but I wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of people ultimately chop down more trees to get access.

Alternatively, perhaps the starlink antenna could be mounted on a large pole or modest radio tower. That would be ugly but probably a lot less ugly than chopping down your trees.
Wouldn't a connection to Cyc be a million percent more useful ?
The Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse, NY has one of these - despite moving out of Upstate NY a while ago and living in other cities with much bigger, higher budget science museums, it's still one of the most memorable and interesting exhibits I've ever seen at one.

They also had another interesting project using a kinect-enabled display, where you could stand in front of a screen showing a Jurassic scene and throw dodgeballs at velociraptors. The original plan was actually to sync the experience to another display in a museum in Boston, so you'd be playing raptor dodgeball with the other exhibit's patrons over state lines - unfortunately, the other museum never set their half up.

I think that speaks to the question commenters are raising here about why these aren't more common or commercially available. A lot of cool stuff like this is tied to the Kinect and comes with non-trivial setup and maintenance cost.
I agree. I went on parental leave a couple of months ago but had I not I would have started using something other than Teams with my colleagues with no regard to what the official platform is.

I don't get why upper management thinks they have anything to do with how I communicate with my colleagues. I can only assume they would want us to choose a platform that allows us to work effectively.
This stigma exists because in past cycles (think 90s') layoffs were performance ranked. We can argue if such metrics are fairly calculated etc, but that often was the reason given.
You're thinking of the one in Plunderground's Museum. I know the guy who made it and this isn't his.

You can see theirs in this 2018 tour of Plunderground Museum video around the 3:15 mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23-hruLqNI

Very much a Tripper Trap :)
The purpose of Windows is to support the staff I want to do on the computer, not to support Windows. There is a priority inversion here, refusing to acknowledge that does not make it go away. Neither does making excuses for Microsoft's user hostile design make it not hostile.
I thought XUL had been removed?
It blows my mind the ways MS Teams finds new and creative ways to mangle and destroy my chat history.

Just about the most important thing a business chat app could do, right?
When the average enterprise starts using F# regularly, maybe it will get the same TLC as C#. Lots of complaints about F# being the red headed stepchild but people seem to miss the fact that C# absolutely dominates on the list of languages the average Windows/Microsoft shop is using.
What I find interesting and impressive

1) your photography

2) your HN account is ~3 years old, with 33k karma.
My unsolicited opinion is that Lebron is the goat because of his level of sustained excellence. 8 Straight finals on 3 different teams and 4 rings overall is actually mind boggling when you think about it. Every team Lebron left became a bottom feeder and lottery candidate and every team he joined instantly became a contender. Number 1 in points, currently 4 in assists, 9 or 10 in rebounds the numbers are just absurd. The totality of his game is unreal.

I can admit MJ had a higher peak and was probably the better competitor but when he "retired" in the 93-94 season the Bulls still made it to the second round in the playoffs and barely lost to the Knicks in 7 games who then made it to the finals. Lebron never had a team like that outside Miami and even with only 2 rings they were definitely dominant.
> I much prefer thread-based chat than message based chat. Teams forces people to use top message as a topic, then respond to messages under that topic. Slack message is just a message.

Slack has threads: https://slack.com/help/articles/115000769927-Use-threads-to-...
The big problem is it can't see. and it has no sense of that looks right or wrong.
What's "natural" or not is for hippies.
It's a thought terminating cliche that weird people use to imply that making american healthcare would require raising taxes.
If you’re writing a REPL it’s one thing but it does seem like evaluating a string is the kind of thing where most people trying to do it are using the wrong approach.
43.6% of the electorate voted for the Tory party on a manifesto not very much like what the current government is delivering. So even if one accepts that the Tory party totally changing the platform of their government doesn't justify saying nobody voted for it, the current party in government got its majority in parliament with the support of a minority of voters thanks to a fundamentally undemocratic electoral system.

By that measure, it's pretty reasonable to say that people did not vote for this.
Microsoft teams barely even work standalone. It frustrates me whenever all the buttons stop working when I need to unmute myself during an online meeting. I then have to use my phone and hope it won't happen there too.

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Ah, I remember the old machine room days. (and I love the typo of air-conditioned popes). A few years ago, my department had a field trip to the Blue Cross/Blue Shield data center in Waukegan for a tour. So unlike the machine rooms of yore, although they did have an IBM big metal machine up there alongside all the rack-mounted servers (and even that was tiny compared to the old IBM mainframe I used to work with at UIC back in the 80s).
Of course the point of all his robot stories are how the seemingly complete three laws don't actually work to keep robot behavior ethical.
Clean ALL my bathroom fixtures for under 1000$ retail.
There could be unintended consequences. It sounds like the recycling involves caustic chemicals. Does the recycling operation produce toxic waste or use a tremendous amount of energy? Someone needs to do a lifecycle assessment to know the full impact. Sometimes recycling is worth it, sometimes not.
Walmart now sells Novo Nordisk produced insulin for $17 per pen[0]. I have a hard time believing California will do it cheaper than that.

[0] https://www.walmart.com/cp/relion-diabetic-care/3769564
That's interesting. Thanks for sharing. (Eyeballing it) That seems to be a continuation of a trend since 2015. I wonder if that relates to the prevalence of rideshare, which also caught-on about that time? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=u...
I mean Sid Sijbrandij has been a horrible CEO for Gitlab. Has squandered every meaningful lead the company had. If he was sharp and a good leader, they wouldn't be in this boat.
I had a Bluetooth headset for my Palm Treo 650 actually. But I think I still had to sync it via USB.
A published "real" news article like this is actually one of the more futile things to try to "correct" IMO. Some guy on a blog might publish a correction or change their view. The New Yorker probably won't (at least not based on an HN comment).
I read an article recently about how easy small boats are to obtain here in Germany, as in the people hiring them out look the other way. They could be made more expensive, or better regulated, and this article was of the opinion that would go a long way to combating that. Because the boats are a one off thing, they can't be retrieved from the UK side.
We think our UX is simpler for users who don't wish to get involved in too much technical understanding. We heard from many users that N8n was a bit too technical to them. Thank you!
What does it usually imply?
Oh interesting! Thanks for clarifying. I knew there was an office like a decade ago but I guess I forgot how old Github is!
Thunderbird used to be a Native email client, that was awesome. I want an native email client, contacts and calendar. That's it. I dislike the browser tabs inside Thunderbird (I already use Firefox), either make a web version or keep the native version native. Most of the Thunderbird user base, are the ones that preferred the OG version. Not everything have to be a webview. Maybe they don't want users like me anymore. And that is fine. Is just feel sad, I miss the old Thunderbird.
Almost everyone on the planet supports eugenics: "You're probably a eugenicist"

https://dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist
> Nobody in the world uses some random domain.trade to send emails as company.com ffs.

Lots of emails come via mail delivery services.. random domains (sendgrid, amazonses, mailchimp)

Many phishing attempts can be defeated by SPF[0] (the servers that are allowed to send email for this domain), DKIM[1] (proof that it was sent from a domain, and not tampered with), and DMARC[2] (what to do if the email fails SPF/DKIM). Many virus scanners, spam filters pay attention to these, but your mail service can filter mail by it too.

The other piece is seeing `FROM` (just a mail header, spammers will set this to what they're pretending to be) vs `Reply-To` (if you reply this is the address the message will be sent to, for spam this is often unrelated to the content eg random1222@example.com) vs `Return-Path` (who sent the email). This is sort of like the `raw domain` vs `internationalized domain` (allowing UTF8 similar characters to spoof a domain) vs `hiding the URL` problem in the browser.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC
Because Kafka is not a message queue, but can be used as one. Multiple consumers on a topic is the default behavior because it’s very useful for the typical use cases in Kafka. I like to think of Kafka as bringing “micro services” to data processing. If I want order data to be both shown real time on a dashboard as well as aggregated for reporting purposes I’d build two different consumers for the same topic. One which sends the results off to the order dashboard via websocket and one which performs a rolling aggregation using a streaming query most likely. Maybe you now need to alert the sales team when an order comes in over a certain amount so they can give the customer the white glove treatment. Just add another consumer which is a ksql query for orders over $$$ which then get dropped into the high value orders topic. There you can have a consumer fire off the email to the sales team. Want to do other things when a high value order comes in? Add another consumer.
The current government is of a party that has a majority in parliament despite getting a minority of the votes. It's fairly reasonable to consider the UK undemocratic and unaccountable, even if there are far worse alternatives.
My experience trying to set up my next C2C contract is remote is utterly dead and every posting has like 500 to 1500 applicants, whereas the locals are mostly hybrid (like you will attend weekly team meetings live in person) and locals are seeking me out.

I have seen weird verbiage for remote work at big companies where they post a senior level job description with an amazing shopping list of requirements and nice-to-haves but its a "junior developer" job title and pay. Which is an interesting way to handle wage deflation. Sometimes the desired shopping list of technologies is so immense I can't imagine what the role would be doing day to day, the entire technology stack at a small startup is possible but the entire technology stack at a huge multinational is, well, very huge!

As such I've pretty much stopped trying for remote. Maybe the market will be better later.
> collaborative editing of powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets

Hahaha...if you want collaborative editing of anything, use GSuite. The MS tool suite is a joke for collaboration.
yeah, headcount numbers are still net increased. Just jarring to see so many layoff headlines
Fortunately I never left emacs.
> Obviously, no one can speak for all writers, but let me make the argument that starting with a blurry copy of unoriginal work isn’t a good way to create original work. If you’re a writer, you will write a lot of unoriginal work before you write something original. And the time and effort expended on that unoriginal work isn’t wasted; on the contrary, I would suggest that it is precisely what enables you to eventually create something original. The hours spent choosing the right word and rearranging sentences to better follow one another are what teach you how meaning is conveyed by prose. Having students write essays isn’t merely a way to test their grasp of the material; it gives them experience in articulating their thoughts. If students never have to write essays that we have all read before, they will never gain the skills needed to write something that we have never read.

I'd add the following to this: The font (as in fountain) of all creativity is the physical and emotional experience of the real world. This is true for writing a great world-changing classic novel as it is for the realm of scientific discovery, new engineering applications, visual or audible art.

It's the stimulus from the natural world, conveyed to us via our senses coupled to our linguistic or symbolic generation capability, that ultimately drives the most novel and relatable rearrangements and transformations of existing information that we eventually call "art". And when a work lacks that foundational experience, or it becomes regurgitated too many times without novel inputs, it begins to feel inauthentic.

For example, when I remodeled my house, I made the plan based on my family's lived experiences, both physical and emotional. Every wall that I bumped up against, every chilly corner, and the ache of my knees carrying laundry up and down stairs informed the remodel. Also, the way I liked to sit when talking to visiting friends.

Sure, some of these things followed well trodden patterns from architecture, remodels and associated trends, but others were quite idiosyncratic, even whimsical, based on the way I like to live. And it's the idiosyncratic and whimsical that creates both novelty and joy in the aesthetic appreciation of things.

Could an AI tool based trained on remodels accelerate aspects of the design? Absolutely (there's a product idea right there). But it would still require extensive input of my experiences in order to create something new from its compressed models of feasible designs, and those experiences are something it can't hallucinate.
I don't want to be in that kind of situation either.

I can't comment any further without going way off-topic from the article about LocalBitcoins.
To be clear, the parliamentarian is only an advisory role, they don't get to rule or decide anything, only offer guidance which senators then choose to listen to. But they could ignore it (and have done so in the past) or can fire the parliamentarian and pick a new one which is more likely to advise in the way that they want (and have done so in the past.)
The late Ezra Zygmuntowicz was a glassblower by training and trade long before starting Engineyard.
Will go back to hiring in a year or so, it's a cycle
Lebron wasn't talking about data. Kareem's critique of Lebron's comment looks spot on to me and incredibly well argued.
> This momentum isn’t a fad; it’s a new beginning. By the end of this century, the world’s electrical grids will be grounded in abundant nuclear energy, because it is the only source of reliable, emissions-free energy that minimizes environmental impacts, can be scaled to meet global demand, and is not geographically constrained. Areas without geologically specific reliable energy will be forced to adopt nuclear—or remain reliant on fossil fuels.

Is this an ad for fossil fuels?

edit: after reading on, yes, yes it is.

> many politicians in the West are discouraging natural gas developments in their own countries. The EU has implemented a “windfall profits” tax of 33 percent or more which will cut into gas companies’ investment capital and raise prices for consumers. Europe’s record natural gas prices and a level of energy insecurity not faced since the 1970s oil crisis incentivizes those nations with fracking bans to end their prohibitions, yet they have mostly refused to, in an epic move of self-destruction.

> In the US, shale companies lost $300 billion from 2010 to 2020 in a race to boost production, and now investors want profits more than growth. And, like their European counterparts, American leaders are largely doing the opposite of what should be done to increase production. President Biden has attacked fossil fuel companies with threats of windfall profit taxes, pledges to end fossil fuels, and cancellations of energy projects.

It seems they forgot they were supposed to be pretending to support nuclear once they got into their stride.
Uh wtf

I want to have something more useful to say to contribute meaningfully here. But my brain segfaulted.
It's crazy looking at their bugtracker, it's just years and years of accumulated issues. I ran into one the other day with a time zone setting on invites, and sure enough there is the bug report in their tracker buried in infinity.
Nah. These are all dumb companies which people shouldn't have joined in the first place. You won't find companies like Valve doing this. Join a good company people, instead of dumb, boring ones run by another run of the mill CEO.
You didn't even make an argument. Are you a licensed and bonded engineer?
Thank you, pretty shocking to be honest
Unless you have a Pioneer drive and macOS 13.2

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-13-2-breaks-compa...