skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If undisclosed, it is outright illegal in Europe, as the IP address can be mapped to an individual's identity in some typical scenarios.
That productivity hacks are temporal at best and you can be plenty efficient by just focusing on one thing at a time. That you can get more done in a day than most people get done in a week or month this way. That productivity gurus are not the people to look for answers from, but rather yourself.

That overestimating your short term is limiting given people have wonder years through their personal development where they get more done in a single year than a decade. Etc. That people like the author might be doing too much and could benefit from doing less making them more efficient in both the short and long term.
I like this way of framing it. It's encouraging in that if you imagine how long something might take to get good at, it'll feel hard, but on a daily basis sitting down to practice every day isn't so hard.
There is another thread about this, and for some reason it's no longer on the front page, despite having lots of upvotes and comments. Are people flagging it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34772687
The problem is that there is no external objective assessment. Sabine is certainly not external, for example, and somebody who hasn't studied the field can't make this assessment. So how do you differentiate, as a funding agency, between crackpottery (I get emails regularly), criticism because of disgruntled scientists (they didn't fund me!), and correct criticism?
See this comment from further down this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34765426
In any good development org, yes. But I'm sure there are orgs out there where the team that manages the environment and the team that does Go builds are two separate teams.

Now the team managing CI (or QA which could actually be in a TTY) needs to notice these failures and communicate them (via a JIRA ticket of course) back to the development team. That team doesn't know what it's about and sticks it on the backlog. Eventually they give the right environment variable, but environment variables are a security risk so it needs to go through security review, and because this mentions telemetry data the privacy and legal teams want sign-off...

This might be an exaggeration, but I think it's worth thinking about the worst case scenario when building things like this into development tools that are used so widely.
> Rail companies laid off more than 20,000 rail workers during a year period in 2018-2019, representing the biggest layoffs in rail since the Great Recession, and the nation’s rail force has dipped below 200,000 – the lowest level ever, and down from 1 million at its peak. “They have cut the hell out of the workforce, and there are big plans to cut it further,” Kaminkow said. “Just because the rail companies are profitable doesn’t mean they’re healthy.”

No, the rail company is perfectly healthy and thriving. The workers aren't, but as long as the trains move, the workers could be ground under the wheels for all that Wall St cares.
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Not sure if serious, we are talking about data collection with zero chance of any practical targeted use.

The discussion would be a wholly different one if the data could be used for anything to e.g. sell, target ads or even deduce how/whether an individual has even used the application.
When it concerns this kind of stuff, government secrecy is very important. Anything the military says gives intelligence to anyone listening.
I looked for a job for 3 months and found one last December. It was tough.

I shared details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33882074. Unfortunately I didn't realize I had replies until it was too late and could no longer reply there :(

More people shared their experience there, and a lot shared super nice comments which were nice to read.

Since then, 32 recruiters sent me message request at LinkedIn whom I have not yet accepted, 21 more sent me in-mails or I accepted them and have a conversation, and maybe 3 cold-contacted me via email.

Wellfound (angel.co) seems to be a good place to be, too.

I suspect difficulty in finding a job is related to how much quality and money you're looking for. If you're willing to accept anything you'll probably still find a job quickly.

Context: I live in Argentina, and we do get contacted a LOT because we're generally cheaper than first-world-country developers, specially USA. That makes getting offers really easy, but getting an equal-work-equal-pay job that pays good salaries regardless of where I live is super challenging.
Wish they gave support to export to more platforms like android I stead of renpy or whatever
I saw a video recently where a column of Russian tanks was advancing along a road when the lead vehicle was hit by artillery. The others proceeded to ... just stop and wait until they were also hit.

Now I'm no expert in mechanized warfare but I think when you're caught by artillery fire on an open road with no cover you're not supposed to sit there and wait to get hit. Advance past the kill zone, retreat, or disperse but don't stop and wait for orders. Apparently this is the result of "perfect battle training" a year into the war.
I've noticed a few things like this as well. I vaguely recall not liking a calculation in a nuclear energy video she did because she omitted thorium from the topic - I'm no expert, but I was awaiting her to address it next to her discussion of uranium reserves and was confused by its absence.
It will be kind of grotesque if the big winner of the LLM hype ends up Apple rather than any company actually developing or deploying them :-/
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a grappling martial art, is very much like that. And there was a great post on HN yesterday about this. And I just randomly had a talk with my son about effort and hard work (he is 16, struggling with school, ADHD, just like me). Here are my anecdotes:

BJJ: After one year, all but the newest people still make you feel like you don't know anything, they can submit you pretty easily. Train for 10 years and you are at or close to "black belt" (Which takes on average 10-12 years in BJJ, it is not easy to get at all) and you can fold people up on instinct. The funny thing about the 1 year mark, you FEEL like you haven't learned anything, but you can gently fold the average human up now if it comes down to it.

Business: We built a business over 8 years. It was hard. The first year we were negative in profit, paying ourselves out of our bank accounts. Overnight success in 8 years. Just keep learning everything that wasn't tech, marketing, people management skills, etc. Eventually we did well got up to like 20 person head count purely with organic growth and were acquired.

Skills in general: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/e83ed02eac6cc8d7e185 "A little slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept".

So now when people ask me anything. Career advice. How do I lose weight. How do I get in shape. "Let me tell you about my 10 year plan for you. you can't even imagine how long and hard 10 years is, I know, but that is what it is going to take to make a life long change. do you still want my advice?" Of course many good things happen sooner, but I only talk to people that can at least accept it is going to be hard and I don't hold any secrets about anything other than you have to work really hard and apply effort.
> would only recognize SMS from those abbreviations you just threw out.

I think this is even a stretch. They likely don't know the difference between SMS and whatsapp/iMessage, it's all just a "message" or a "text".
It's an affected resident, not a random person, so it's quite relevant to the news at hand.
I think a compiler that phones home is a great addition to my AI-powered terminal (https://www.warp.dev) and toaster with a camera that I never changed the default password on. /s
this is why I don't like school. It squeezes everything you need to know into a semester and you feel dumb for not understanding it right away. At least I do. But if you just had a little more time it would be totally fine.
I get the feeling it's seen as an unattractive janitorial job which is perhaps why there are so many attempts to re-title the job as Devops or SRE or Platform Engineer or whatever the de jure is.

I suppose if I had to pick my title, I'd just say "Infrastructure Engineer" because that seems to strike the right balance of vague yet fancy enough to put in an email signature. Really it would be "IT Dude (open source focused)".

As much as companies want to seem to believe they can get rid of them, they need someone generalist around who understands how things fit together and can take on the occaisional maintenance task.
As her Venn diagram showed, 'scientific' is a subset of 'falsifiable'. Scientific requires falsifiable, but falsifiable doesn't by itself imply scientific. 'In five minutes the Pacific Ocean will turn to liquid gold' is falsifiable but not scientific. Why would you predict that, what data does it align with, what model of matter and liquids does it work with, by what mechanism might it happen, why five minutes and not sooner or later, etc?
That's my problem too. I have a website, then A LOT of companies know a lot about my users. From their ISP to Microsoft (I host on github) they all know when my users poop, when my users go on vacation, or when my users are cheating their husbands and checking in from someone elses computer.

It is so hard to create something, because of the dangers lurking everywhere. I think I need a reasonable creators license.
Como hacer un speed flip en rocket league 2023
En Rocket League de 2023, la gestión de la velocidad es una mecánica esencial. La gente, incluso en rangos altos como Champion y Diamante, cambia constantemente de velocidad. Francamente, si no sabes cómo hacer un speedflip, estarás en desventaja.

La verdad es que, aunque es considerada una mecánica avanzada en este momento, el speedflip no es tan difícil de lograr como la gente lo cree. En esta guía de Rocket League 2023, repasamos 3 pasos simples para aprender cómo hacer speedflip en Rocket League de manera consistente, junto con los errores más comunes que frenan a las personas y cómo hacerlo desde cada aparición inicial o kick-off.
Let me don my nightmare goggles for a moment and ask: What are the odds that this was a domestic terrorist attack caused by a group of maligned workers who were angry about the rail strike bill?
> The guy that you can see in one of the pictures drinking from a glass recipient was in a Netflix documentary (I can't remember the title from top of my mind) where he was advocating for everyone being able to use genetic engineering for self-improvement, even without any previous knowledge of genetics.

You mean the documentary unnatural selection. I have seen it, but I recall something quite different. He did infact advocate that at some point people will use this technology without understanding it. It surely feels like a premature opinion, but in retrospect people use many life changing technologies without understanding them either

Does everyone understand what they eat? how electricity works? how their smartphone works? the drugs their doctor prescribes?
What if it's in an free open source project, and can be disabled? The point is to minimize the issues people open due to running old versions of the software.
The summarized experience of my social network (in USA!) is that for relatively junior labor (1-5yoe), across many job types dev and not dev, startups are hiring and big firms aren't, and in between there is some mixture .

Essentially, don't expect an offer from a firm that just did layoffs, and do expect tougher competition at smaller firms during interview loops, but there are jobs available. Just my two cents.
If someone else thought it was worth doing that just validates your idea.
The goal is totally autonomous train operations.
It's an UFO, they are interested in ChatGPT for sure
I'm sorry for the experience you had. I use tally forms and stripe for payments which are both reputable. I'll see if I can fix any problems with payment. Yes I'm Nigerian and I didn't try to hide that.
Congrats on the launch! I fully intend on using Lago for my SaaS.

I wonder, would it ever be possible to use the structure provided by lago to also set up a marketplace where user can buy/sell from eachother?
It is especially frowned on if the software was packaged by a package manager that handles this for you!
It's a bit more nuanced than that, not that you'll find that anywhere in comments sections on the internet.

Rail workers wanted to strike. There's a law allowing Congress to prevent that to avoid a catastrophic disruption to the economy - and it would be catastrophic. They voted to prevent a strike and Biden signed it. This was IMO a smart move, deliberately tanking the economy would have been good for nobody.

There was a separate vote to force the companies to agree to some of the workers' safety and working conditions demands, which Republicans blocked.

Place blame where it belongs.
It should, but UFO UFO UFO! I've lost faith in intelligence of HN users after they downvoted into oblivion anyone sceptical about COVID "vaccines" and pushed official safe and effective propaganda. It's same with this baloon smokescreen, notice how nobody talks about Nord Stream 2 sabotage by US, which was like 1 day affair, while they entertrain us with this UFO nonsense for days already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34760483
Here's my method:

Plan -> Study -> Practice -> Model

# Plan

Set a small, specific goal. Brainstorm topics which might help. Research if experts agree with topics.

Classify topics: conceptual - deeply understand; factual - memorize, little understanding; procedural - practice, little thought.

Qualities of concepts: three Rs - read, recognize, react; many paths to a good result; highly flexible, agile, interactive; recognizing patterns instantly; overcoming complex obstacles; making smart, timely choices.

Qualities of facts or procedures: ABC - always be correct; few or one path to an ideal result; imagine the performance of a reliable robot.

Find good learning resources for each topic. Try to match topic classification. Try to find all learning modes (see, hear, do). Research thoroughly. Good resources save time. Emphasize or exclude parts based on goal.

Brainstorm obstacles. Find ways to overcome those obstacles.

# Study

Review prerequisites before studying. Break learning resources into chunks.

Prepare to study a chunk: preview relevant exercises and tests; scan major elements of content; generate questions from scan.

Study a chunk: consume content; try to use all learning modes (see, hear, do); take notes, and highlight key parts; answer questions from scan along the way.

Improve chunk retention and comprehension: do free recall (no prompts); consolidate notes and highlights; do active recall (exercises and tests); connect it with other knowledge; try to teach it to an imaginary student; utilize spaced-repetition.

Repeat process with next chunk. Add practice when knowledge can become skill.

# Practice

Structure practice with scrimmages and drills.

Scrimmage: good for concepts; open-ended attempt in a realistic scenario; projects, immersion, simulations; replicate complexity and uncertainty of reality; focus on making a high number of varied reps; aggressively explore and experiment.

Drill: good for facts or procedures; use the REPS method; size: proficiency within 1-3 sessions; repeat and master a chunk before moving on.

The REPS method: R - reaching and repeating; E - engagement; P - purposefulness; S - strong feedback.

Reaching: challenging, ~85% success rate.

Strong feedback: immediate; concise; accurate; direct; actionable.

Common drills: time slice - small sequence in longer one; copycat - copy in irrelevant parts; magnifying glass - one aspect among many.

# Model

Find and steal from experts. Study examples of excellent work. What are the specific, critical elements? How do experts perform differently than I do? Identify process, performance, and results.

Edit: formatting
Yes, there are many differences between Stripe and Lago. Here are some of the most common:

Lago is completely agnostic of payment providers, meaning you can use any payment service provider (PSP) with it, whereas Stripe requires the use of its entire stack.

Lago is event-based, making it easy to ingest a high volume of usage-based components. This eliminates the need for users to manually bill their own usage-based billing aggregation on top of Stripe.

Lago is open-source, so there is no revenue taken as a cut. For its fully cloud-hosted version, Lago prices a platform fee and tiers on usage-based events, making it more scalable for high-volume companies. Additionally, its open architecture allows for full customization to fit your needs.
Elysium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLoSxd2nNY
That doesn't seem likely considering their terrible safety record with people at the scene who should be empowered to detect and stop it.
I mean you could argue that part of this was exactly the result of government intervention is one of the strikes that railway workers were working for was better safety rules and more time off and then Congress forced the strike to end.
Is Xiaomi’s shine dimming in India?
It’s not as easy as getting a job in 2021, but then again that was an outlier.

When we post job listings we get a lot of great applicants now. It’s hard to choose between all of the great candidates. Some of our best candidates are getting multiple job offers from different companies so it’s not impossible to get offers right now.

We have access to salary statistics data for the market. The comp ranges have dropped a little, as is expected in a mass layoff situation.

A disproportionate number of laid off candidates were working remote when laid off, from what I’ve seen. Among my friends, the only people laid off were remote. I also sense that remote positions are slightly harder to get now, though not impossible.
I wonder why people just can't be completely honest and say something along the lines of: "look, rising interest rates makes leaving money in the bank way more attractive than spending it by having x% more employees doing things that we were not sure if contributed directly to our financial KPIs. It was cool while it lasted but right now we're just keeping the cash cows and what they need. Thanks"
My dad is a power tumbling coach and we also have the 5 perfect passes rule. The kids are eager to learn new tricks. They are young and feel like they are indestructible. When they want learn an advanced trick we make them do the base of that trick perfectly 5 times. If it's not perfect, back to 0. They don't like it but the basics have to be muscle memory, subconscious actions before we allow them to move on to the more advanced trick. For physical activities like these repetition is key.
For the youths who don’t get the joke, Windows NT 4.0 limited their TCP stack to 10 inbound connections on the Workstation edition. 3.5.1 didn’t have that restriction. Server edition and workstation edition still had the exact same kernel. They did it, of course, to prevent people from running network services on the cheaper workstation edition.
> The checkbox being pre-checked is still not legal in some countries exactly because it favors the non privacy protecting option

I think you are confusing this with systems that gather any PII, and regulations such as the GDPR and similar. This is about collecting data without any PII so any privacy regulation wouldn't apply here.
I was working on this yesterday. It seems that the most common approach with Whisper is simply to break the audio into chunks and transcribe each one separately. This works but as you'd expect sometimes has trouble at the edges. The segments also have to be sufficiently long (like 10s) or the accuracy suffers, meaning it's not truly real-time.

You could do better by overlapping the segments, except then stitching the transcriptions together becomes an issue since whisper doesn't provide reliable per-token timestamps [0], and the output of the common part of overlapping segments isn't necessarily the same. I can imagine a cool approach where you transcribe long, overlapping chunks in real-time and intelligently merge the stream of words somehow though.

Some more useful discussion here (whisper.cpp project, but still relevant) [1].

0. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/332

1. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/10
Interesting. That's only the second time I've seen a moderator manually remove something that wasn't flagged.
It was just the invisible hand of the market that took it down.
Let me rephrase that: "A toxic cloud was leaked, for all we know caused by subpar safety standards on the other side of the globe, which involved the same chemical that was used to produce my PVC flooring."

Based on this reasoning, which flooring (or other construction materials) are acceptable?
Awesome! Real throwback to my first programming class; using turtles to draw stuff in GIMP using Scheme.
Math should be right, came here to write same.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28100-11%25%29-17%25
> Do these accidents happen regularly in capitalist countries such as Sweden, Norway and Germany

Don't know about those countries but I was in the general geographic area when this accident in Rouen happened, in 2019 [1]. The same as in this case, the main media (i.e. the Paris newspapers) pretty much ignored it, buried it in their 20th page or something, that's when they weren't calling really concerned people out as "paranoids". Luckily for me I was just a tourist in Normandy back then, so I got out of the area pretty fast.

Almost forgot it, Buffett himself was one of the major shareholders in Lubrizol. He even had the audacity to call it just an "unfortunate story" a couple of years later [2]. So, yes, I pretty much regard this as a failure of capitalism.

Later edit: This job [3] of picking up dead fish after an environmental disaster should have been done by a government-run agency. That way they would have correctly assessed the damages, the most likely causes, the compensations for those affected, the measures to be taken so that a similar thing doesn't happen in the future. Instead it looks like a private company has been employed to clear up the mess, in pure capitalistic fashion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubrizol_factory_fire_in_Rouen

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-berkshire-hath...

[3] https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/16250483862936330...
In contrast, I only visit any of the home, latest, top or whatever pages like once a year, I only read HN via RSS - but like the OP stated, I need both links, one to the original article and one to the comments (or the proposed only comments-link)
Unlikely. Trains derail all the time. Poor maintenance, old tracks, mistakes by operators, random breakage. Just unlucky that this one had a lot of toxic cargo.
No I mean small towns with their own urban/town center. They wouldn't be as dense as a cities downtown but would support 2-4 story mixed use in a walkable core.

Every suburb I've ever lived in has been prone to ever-increasing low-density sprawl and resists building even a 2nd story for anything other than residence. I can drive past miles of 1 story strip-malls in virtually every suburb in America, and only rarely do I see an 2 story doctors office, or maybe a 3 story apartment or office building.
Starting from a baseline of people being able to make rational choices that further their own goals, who cares? Just don't go out of your way to make it seem safer than it is, and let people captain their lives through whatever risks they see fit.