skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and I'm a staff+ level engineer who has worked at darling unicorns and big media/tech and made a ton of money. I earned that equity payoff. Now I'm working on my own projects and paying for myself to live in SF, so you're free to have whatever opinion.

I know what I'm saying, and out of a dozen plus managers I've worked with over just the last 6 years (re-orgs because they have way too much time on their hands) only 2 have been excellent, and 1 somewhat all right. It isn't my fault that even with terrible engineering managers, I managed to never get below the max rating on any performance review. I know what I know, and I'm good at it.

The bigger companies get, the worse quality of talent that comes in. Most late stage+ employees are there to rest, vest, and cruise. Don't be naive.

The worst part of this is the more and more levels of management that get put in. People start coming in who have spotty technical understandings, but talk a whole lot that sways people who only need a high level understanding of what is going on. Imo this is due to people who cannot operate efficiently nor in a lean manner. Everything needs to be overly complex for them, to prove they’re something.

Again, I'm giving my experience as a competent engineer and I at one point managed 4 people for a few months before I stopped because I was leaving meetings that were a waste of fucking time with other managers. Literally people stroking each other's ego in a passive aggressive way instead of talking business and ensuring their teams succeed. Not to mention the ways they talked about their reports and literal games on how promotions work.

I am super passionate about removing the unnecessary complexity bloat and drama that bad management leads to.
Fixed pie fallacy of wealth strikes again. Amazing how common this view of x% people holding 'the wealth' is. Nothing similar existed before Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the 2 Steves built their offerings; they got massively rich thanks to people worldwide choosing to pay them for their products & services (or voluntarily shunning the open internet with multiple anonymous fora like this one for Facebook's walled privacy screwing garden).
Baynutting: Tips for Harvesting, Storing and Using California Bay Nuts (2012)
I'm both impressed and very confused by this project.

Looking through the source code, they reimplemented all components for react, Vue and svelte. That's an impressive amount of work.

What confuses me is why they would do that... Why not just use Web Components as the core?

If you want clean integration with a framework, a small "glue" wrapper component should be easy.

I question whether the current development approach is maintainable.
The Myth of American Individualism
An Indian chief was asked by his tribe, "Winter is coming, what should we do?"

He told them to collect firewood.

When they brought that back they asked, "Is this enough?"

The chief had forgotten the wisdom of his ancestors so he called the weather service.

"Is it going to be cold this winter?" he asked. "Yes!" they told him.

So he instructed his tribe to collect more firewood. When they asked again "Is this enough?" He called up the weather service.

"So when you say it is going to be cold, exactly how cold?" They told him "All indications are pointing to a very cold winter."

He told his tribe to collect even more firewood. When they asked yet again if it was enough, he called the weather service again.

"Can you tell me how you know this winter will be so cold?" They told him "It's got to be. The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."
In Firefox you can change the "network.IDN_show_punycode" value to true, and you will no longer see lookalike UDN domains. It's a good point about using a browser password manager though, since they won't function on a lookalike domain and that should force you to stop and reassess, at which time you (hopefully) notice the scam.
Just in case they do in the future.
Contributed it back how? On CDPR's Github? This isn't an open source project.
I also found the linked follow-up article interesting, where the writer tries to find the original author. Including an article comment at the end of the page by someone who claims it was them, with web archive links. Looks somewhat convincing but I doubt we can ever know for sure.
If you include traffic deaths (more likely to cause kids to get killed than murders), India and China look much worse.
That's not your choice, or even the owners' choice, to make.

Goddamn I miss Totse. HN users strut around this place like they're Men of Letters but all HN really is, is Reddit with (somehow) even more self-righteousness.
I authored a markdown player, for which one may run arbitrary code/commands, capture output, and self embed. Literate programming, md targeted.

https://deno.land/x/markdown_player@v1.2.3

OCaml users also like omd. Iirc omd is a bit ocaml specific tho
I apologize for reposting the comment. You have warned me about that before and I should have known better.

I don't apologize for the comment itself. It was intended as a provocative, but sincere, way to get people to seriously think about the topic of whether and how much native Indians are discriminating by caste in the US. I really don't know whether and how such discrimination is actually happening. I have read anecdotes that say that it is and is not happening, from both Indians and non-Indians. I guess the city of Seattle has seen enough to say that it is happening and that a legislative remedy is required. If that's the case, is it really worth gaining individual Indians' contributions to this country at the cost of adding yet another cause of ethnic intergroup strife that hadn't existed before? I don't know the answer to that question, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask.

My comment did not cause a nationalistic or ethnic flamewar (in either place), but perhaps would have in another time or place. Maybe it's asking too much of The Internet(TM) to ever expect that it would not. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I thought the risk of causing such was worth balancing against the possibility of reasonable and useful discussion on a topic that I don't think should be immediately and blanket forbidden to bring up.
A mockup version of this for the Apple II recently popped up on Antiques Roadshow. An Apple employee grabbed it out of a dumpster in the late 80s. Appraised at $10,000-15,000.

https://www.pbs.org/video/appraisal-1976-apple-i-operation-m...
>How do you square this with the observation that every open SDE role at a company that pays at least somewhat decently seems to have hundreds of applications?

This has always been the case.
"You shouldn't use a Twitter post as news"

"Ah don't worry, there's an entire thread"
Videogames largely moving away from mapping/modding in general has been such a disappointing thing to me for many years now. I'm still playing Doom and Quake mods to this day and some of the content people put out is incredible. Recently an episode 2 for the Quake mod DWELL released and is of unbelievable quality that we couldn't have even imagined playing back in the 90s.

Community servers on the other hand.. those have almost all but vanished completely. It's pretty much just Valve games as far as AAA goes, and even they do their best to hide their server browsers now.

Unfortunately, it just seems like you can't aggressively monetize free content so the industry in general has moved away from allowing it.
GitHub Actions Extension for VS Code
> Criticizing the "girlboss" fad even a year ago would have been a bona-fide way to end up jobless and blacklisted

This article was written in mid-2020. I don’t know how the article was received at the time, but presumably the author was not blacklisted or fired for it.
I think (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) that all we really need is our sun, and to not be swallowed in a black hole or something. Eg. if we lost our own black hole, or a hole got punched in our galaxy (not where we are), or our solar system got slung out of the galaxy (intact)- we'd be fine, right?
Tell HN: You can link to segment of a YouTube video with stop time query string
This began as an Ask HN (after much Googling), but now I’ve found the answer and thought I'd share it. Here are seven seconds of a Joel Spolsky talk:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0nbkaYsR94c?start=41&end=48

1. Use the embed URL (https://youtube.com/embed/ID) rather than the watch URL (https://youtube.com/watch?v=ID or https://youtube.com/watch/ID)

2. Specify the start time, end time, or both, using the url parameters "start" and "end". The units are seconds. I haven't figured out a way to use other units but it might be possible.

I’d run across mention of YouTube allowing one to link to a segment of a video using ?start=30&end=60 (or in some cases "stop" rather than "end") in various articles, but these parameters don’t work on the watch URL. When sharing a regular YouTube link, start=30 turns into t=30s and the stop or end parameter gets thrown out. I assumed YouTube had removed this useful functionality — but the docs for the embedded player (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters?csw=1#end) still mentioned the end parameter, so I tried using them on the embed URL when not embedded, and it worked.
You pretty much described the game's timeline, in order for a phone available in September, you have to compete all resources as everybody is competing for the holiday shopping season, the EVT/DVT probably are done latest in May otherwise you will see a major news piece says Apple is having difficulties doing ABC. However, if you push the release date to a few months later into early next year, all the resources along is available idle for you and naturally more buffer everywhere.

Samsung/Qualcomm used to do the "June release / Sep available" model about 10 - 12 years ago, they always lose to Apple from every aspect. So instead of directly compete with the "in cycle" release for the holiday season, they made the release looks earlier in the year, but then compete with a product released last year for the holiday season.
To me personally, this is a solved problem: Bring back peer-to-peer servers that you can set up to play privately with your friends and online social group. No more rampant cheating and easy remediation.

Game publishers won't allow this again because it they can't "control" it and it won't make them money. Fortunately, opensource games still exist :D
TikTok Is Becoming Gen Z’s Google, and More on How Gen Z Gets Its News
it'd be neat if you could make it automatically scroll.
That's what I get for replying to replies out of context and going by memory. Oh well.
They don't do anything with phone numbers. You can give them lat/lng coordinates and get the address, or an address and get the coordinates.

So "7 Carmine St, New York, NY 10014" will return "(40.7305290, -74.0020706)" and vice versa.

There are youtube tutorials claiming you can do phone lookups using their service. What these youtube tutorials really do is use some other library to determine the country name from the phone number. Then they call the OpenCage geolocation API with the country name as the address input.
Ah yes, communism. This time we will surely get it right because of our arrogance and hubris combined with total cluelessness about human nature and how spectacularly communism and its sibling socialism failed everywhere they were tried (And no, Scandinavian countries aren't 'socialist' just because of running a welfare program that happens to be funded by much heavier taxes on all their citizens than Americans could imagine)
Andrew Ng in the linked message said himself: "Maybe you’re training XGBoost on a structured dataset and wondering if you’re missing out on ChatGPT. You may well be onto something even if XGBoost isn’t in the news."

Boosting generally is very competitive with (or better than) neural networks on small to midsized datasets.

Bayesian techniques are always interesting.

Personally I think there are great opportunities linking knowledge engineering approaches (which are very manual-labor heavy) with neural network approaches so we can bridge the taxonomy/unstructured data divide.
Elon Musk has organized his entire business empire around that fear. (Or at least the parts of his empire that were deliberate.)
Windows isn't bad as an OS. It's just like Mac in that it just needs a handful of tweaks to make it usable. The underlying system is much more cluttered though , which can get overwhelming at first. But it's done mostly because Windows has an insane level of legacy support, being able to still run basically any program made in the past couple decades. The same goes with hardware. It's the Ak-47 of OS's.

Windows laptops are another story, and there are a lot of issues with seemingly good hardware (like well reviewed Dells). Usually fans are either running continuously, issues with going to or staying asleep, and the classic issues with Windows Modern Standby (close laptop, put in bag, take out drained and very hot laptop later). Personally, I always hibernate instead of sleep since sleep is rarely reliable. It's excellent on gaming pc's though.

For development, Windows is generally pretty good these days. Windows Terminal is as good as Gnome Terminal or iTerm2, and WSL2 gets you a linux environment.
Is F# closer to what you are looking for?
I’ll lead the co-op. I just want 2 times everyone else’s salary and final decision on everything.
When I’m doing a big shop I just get it delivered to my door. Costs from $2-$10AUD.

I’m not claiming there are no things where a car is useful. But having to drive regularly is depressing. My life improved so much when I moved out of the suburbs and in to a walkable area. Sitting in traffic twice a day was sending me insane. While walking makes me feel better.
The problem is the dynamic of AI is leveraging massive computing power into something flashy - OpenAI and DeepMind have been going back and forth on this for a while, with OpenAI leverage a lot of human also in ChatGPT.

It's a bit like the original dot-com bubble, when people were throwing what was then vast amount of money out just to be in the space. And not knowing what the business model was going to be. The business model then turned out to be advertising but it's certain that advertising is well suited to a chatbot or other new AI stuff, stuff that is computationally and dollars-wise expensive.

AI projects are often valuable if given away. I assume people will ask how valuable per watt they are after a while.
what's wrong with both?
And it still is - the efforts people still go to to produce Counter-Strike maps, working around the quirks of the various game entities that don't properly reset at the end of a round and so on.
at least word clouds are not so common anymore...
We have a formal structure for who is sovereign in deciding disputes - civil society and the courts.

The actual problems of gang violence are endemic - poverty, trauma, systemic racism, underfunded education, poor nutrition, easy access to guns, lack of role models, the romanticizing of criminality in pop culture, to name a few. Nowhere on the list will you find "lack of clearly defined rules for setting order of initiative."
But everyone lives in the United States, didn't you know?
The company was two guys soldering in a garage.
" Just this week I had huge problems with an expected email not reaching either of my gmail or outlook inboxes. It just never came, despite the sender insisting they sent it."

That's been the opposite problem for me. I can see my email leaving my client, see it hitting my SMTP server, and I can see Gmail accepting it. The client cannot find the emails. Not in their Spam folder either. I have no issues sending to my test Gmail account or my friends, but new people? Forget it. Google simply loses the email. I"ve tried to contact them to no avail (no surprise) and the usual answer I get from others is "well, just use gmail. nobody self hosts anymore."
How sure are you? I was pretty sure square was the responsible party when I got spam emails from a coffee shop as well.
It’s one thing to accomodate cars, it’s another for the entire landscape to optimize against them.

The average suburban family in the 1980s had a car. They also had well maintained sidewalks, civic organisations, and - in many cases - stores within walking or biking distance.
iPhone is easy: Settings -> Phone -> Silence Unknown Callers: On
There is a political thing but there is also just an HN thing.

Like rust - I gave it a whirl, didn’t like it, think it’s overrated. Mention that here and it’s like you tried to shoot the Pope.
I'm reminded of Divekick, a 2D vs. fighting game that pares the genre down to its barest essentials. Instead of a joystick and six buttons, all movement, offense, and defense is performed with two buttons: Dive and Kick. This is a parody of the easy-to-spam aerial kick coming down on your opponent that is a staple in 2D fighting games (except in this one, it's your only offensive move, and one well-placed kick ends the match), and the whole game parodies other fighters and the FGC in general. But the simplicity of its control scheme admits surprising depth, and new players can learn the basics of fighting game strategy without a lot of distraction by playing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divekick
Most (if not all) UMS maps work in Starcraft 1 remaster. You can in fact play the version without improved graphics for free now.

Players still play custom games but it is harder to fill lobbies now.. especially if you need more than few.

I remember "zergling blood", samw for those RPG games or microcontrol maps.

There was a map called "The Unknown" which is the same idea as in Among Us game. It was so much fun.
"Dang" is a last name some people have, I assumed it was that for a long time
Randall wanted a unique short string associated with all his work. That way he could Google "xkcd" and find everything he ever did online. I believe he had a script that generated all possible 4-letter combinations and filtered out ones with any search results, and settled on "xkcd". But he became a victim of his own success when the comic became so popular and "xkcd" is now synonymous with the comic.

Source: talk by Randall, might be this one but I'm not sure: https://youtu.be/zJOS0sV2a24.
It's a shame that information is lost, given it wasn't even that long ago.

Much like the original source files for most of Counter-Strike's old custom maps - most likely lost and gone forever.
They do. Kirkland was overcrowded. People were working on the stairwells! At least I had my own desk. Working on an open for plan was bad enough. Having to share your desk wouldn't work for me. I think I would prefer"hot seating" over sharing a desk.
Almost no reason not to let people work remotely
OpenAI does its best to make it clear that it is just a language model, but what can you do with you have users that just instantly click "Agree, Agree, Next, Next, Agree"
You can control when, if, and what, as a feature of a good package manager, no need to throw the baby of convenience with it
This looks really cool - if I understand correctly, you've implemented a Mongo compatible database that runs on FoundationDB and auto-optimizes the indexes.

Can you share a bit more about what stage this is at, and how mature the database is? I looked around to see some benchmarks, stability testing, large scale usage, etc and couldn't find much.
Not inconceivable that a fraction of employed people will have started applying around "defensively" or just for practice.
I feel we'd be remiss not to read to the end of a paragraph:

However, engineers and scientists (such as Omer Emre) attributed the town escaping unscathed to geological factors, such as Erzin's relatively higher sea level compared to surrounding towns, and it being built upon harder ground, consisting of bedrock and coarser grains than sand, compared to softer, water-laden sediments like that of cities to the south.
Yes, but the point of this info is to sound impressive, not be useful. Similar to when phones used to endlessly tout megapixels, as if that was the entire equation.
Hook it up to fMRI
Just a guess. I know from experience modern soldiers have a “knack” for losing their army issued equipment and asking the quartermaster for replacement. After losing several items, the quartermaster would start docking their pay. The truth is the lost equipment was sold to the local army surplus store.
I’ll give anyone interested half of nothing for full time wages doing whatever I want too.
I’d love to try it ! TBH this app was made in less than a day as a proof of concept: my real work focus is on AI for drones and satellite imagery. If you’d like to build an alternative with Qdrant I’d be happy to merge it into the repo!
Maybe they just really like True Religion jeans?
You're not entirely wrong, but that's been baked into HN since the beginning, and yes it is absolutely the owners' choice to make. It's their house, their priorities, their rules.

But if it helps, they didn't even used to warn people beforehand. PG just pushed the button on you and you might not even know you were shadowbanned for years. At least you can vouch up unfairly banned comments now, and the mods give you warning.
looks cool, thanks !
I try to distinguish between comments that are just materially controversial, and comments that are unnecessarily inflammatory/charged/provocative. I usually downvote the latter (or flag in extreme cases), even if the material would have otherwise been legitimate or reasonable, but try not to downvote the former
Population density.

Post WW2 suburban communities had small roads (road width is a major factor in, i.e., how fast people feel safe driving), sidewalks, and - in general - were designed for a higher population density because this is what people wanted and were used to.

Over time, development optimised for housing and garage space with lower population densities. No one wants to go outside and walk or play if there’s no where to go.
I had a weird issue with them once.

I sent some money to a colleague's PayPal account who was collecting money for another colleague's leaving collection. I used the name of the colleague who was leaving as the note/reference on the payment.

A few days later I received an email from PayPal asking me to provide the date of birth of the colleague who was leaving and that the money would be held until the request was resolved. They claimed it was to meet regulatory obligations.

I called them and said I refuse to provide the info because I felt it breached GDPR laws and besides, it had nothing to do with them.

The money was eventually returned.
MLMs abuse key social instincts of a human (“we are family” and all that junk) and use them against other humans in order to profit higher levels of the scheme. Socialization itself is hijacked for the purpose of making sales, because that’s how the victim stays afloat. Every time I see it in person it’s sad to observe.
Exactly what came to mind, everyone in here is operating on old data. They haven't kept up with the current trends.
Project management is a crucial skill set for effective leadership in any organization. Whether you're leading a project team of professionals or spearheading a new project, the ability to manage resources, timelines, and deliverables is essential to achieving your goals.
You might want to have a look at SigNoz, https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
Telecommunications is one of the only things stopping me from wanting to migrate to the US. I live in a third world latinamerican country but we have one of the best internet service in the world (it was awful when I was growing up).

The recipe? Regulation to avoid monopolies and market manipulation.
BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; "Peering Out a 'Real Time' Window", By Peter H. Lewis, Feb. 8, 1995
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/business/business-technol...

The article also indicates Internet Multicasting's "Geek of the Week", there's an archive at: https://town.hall.org/radio/Geek/ Transcripts available at http://opentranscripts.org/sources/geek-of-the-week/