skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not unwarranted. They are spreading misinformation.

To assert vaccines were not tested, when they very much were, and then to move the goal post when I challenged him (and challenged the moved goal posts) is not quibbling. It is correcting.
Since carbon monoxide is released by gas stoves and car exhaust, it's really worth specifying the quantity for that component. OSHA allows up to 50 ppm for long term occupational exposure.
Austrian court rules against lootbox case: classified as illegal gambling
Hmmm... attempt to define signals using ReactJS' useState()/useMemo() vocabulary appears as really bad idea.

PReact's signal() as a concept is better - more pure. https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/signals/
There's events like Davos and the Bilderberg meetings where the rich and powerful literally do get together and define their agenda.

But for the most part, yeah they don't need to be centrally coordinated and probably aren't, because they are very good at identifying their interests and have the resources to work towards it.

I would hold a more charitable view towards this all, however, if it wasn't for the fact that the media, their sponsors, and the politicians are intentionally using wedge issues to disrupt and divide the masses.
You don't, so just make sure you leave for the right reasons.

And truly the right reasons are whatever you want them to be. It could be solely pay, wanting to try something new, or being tired of your current job. If you're sick of your current job, as you've noticed with your coworkers, it doesn't really go away. Sometimes the only way to see how good you have it is to leave and experience it yourself. You either stay miserable or take a chance elsewhere.

Just make sure you leave in good standing and you likely could even come back down the line, hiring is infinitely easier when you've worked with the candidate before.
Interesting, that's what I've been using since forever and a half in the exact scenario you describe.
Related: Sandia Labs did some impressive simulations of that event entering the atmosphere. A couple of the resulting videos; well worth a minute to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yY34uWty_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7i33UhmC8
>current intel and amd chips are faster

These are close to 2k for CPU alone AFAIK.

I must admit though I am biased as I am yet to find a fault or reason for an upgrade in my original M1 machine, and I had dual xeon workstation prior to that.
Sorry, but I don’t think you know anything about “genetic background” if you think it correlates with making money.
What was the revenue of the 2nd bootstrapped success?
Got to play the lottery to win it.
Echo VR was the best thing I’ve experienced in vr. I did a community run web event where competitive players coached us for a week before we played a tournament. It was a blast! The combination of teamwork, spatial voice communication, and the hangout room really created community more than anything else virtual.

Echo (which was all I ended up using my quest 2 for) got me through a cold and dark pandemic winter. Then in the spring, I got back into ultimate frisbee which kinda scratched the same sports / community itch and is much better exercise!
Here: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
The 137 Emergent abilities of large language models
I think that was another movie :)
> blink and you miss it,

How slow do you blink, let me know when you are out and about like driving, I can head for safety then!

> Nothing to do with google or subliminal messaging about current elections,

We have an election coming up so this is a way for Youtube to start influencing the public. I saw this with Jeremy Corbyn before he won the Labour Party leadership, the Google Trends was projecting Jeremy Corbyn to be the next leader and with all the other social media like on Reddit, sure enough JC one. Using data projections, including AI to influence decisions is a subtle way to influence people's judgement.

Based on my own experience, I could safely say the US tech giants were manipulating political events in other country's as I doubt I was alone, and are using AI to provide the cover which enables them to avoid taking responsibility for their actions! ROFL

I've been exposed to election rigging since before George Bush Jr got in, and I'll even accuse the BBC of being involved in US election rigging as well, because I can usually choose the next US president from a year out just from watching BBC news!
> If you are not married and one partner makes significantly more than the other, what's to stop the wealthy partner just deciding 20 years into the relationship that they want a newer model and just leaving the former partner destitute?

So you like to force your spouse to stay in an otherwise unhappy marriage by putting a ring on their finger and have them sign a paper? So romantic!

Kidding aside, among the many reasons people like to marry, this is one of the worse ones.
Ask HN: Career advice for SWE II 39yo
Hi HN,

I'm looking for career advice and wisdom, especially from those who've made it further along in their career.

I'm turning 39 next week, and I'm currently a L62 SWE at Microsoft (this is one level below "Senior", levels start at 59) First, I'll say that I realize I am extremely privileged to be in this position compared to most of the world and I am thankful for that!

I did not go to college, I have slowly worked my way up from minimum wage tech support job 20 years ago to I.T., SysAdmin, DevOps/SRE, and now a SWE II. I am on track to be promoted a "Senior SWE" in the next 3-6 months.

What I'm trying to figure out is, given my current position, age, experience etc, how far can I realistically go, and how do I get there? I work with a lot of people who are 24-28 years old and some of them are "Senior" SWEs, and Principals who are ~30. I don't begrudge them, they are smart, focused, and made far fewer mistakes than I did as a young person. I experienced some setbacks in life and also pursued other interests (being a musician) more seriously than career in my 20s and 30s. But I have around 15 years of full time job experience, and my current role does not really reflect that.

Now, I have a family, and I am serious about pursuing seniority and higher earning potential. I don't think I'm the smartest guy in the room, but I have a lot of experience, and am a dedicated and driven engineer.

I appreciate your thoughts.
well, it caused a city-killing explosion. What would we do differently if the projected size estimates varied by 10x?

It's scientifically interesting. Nothing wrong with that.
"But your chances are FAR better if you are well prepared, know the stats..."

Gambling is zero sum.

Businesses, even failed ones, generally do some positive things along the way.

Learning to do things that are useful and getting paid for them is really different from learning some useless information that happens to help you win at the expense of others.
"China is terminal" is such a strong meme now that the Chinese will sure find a way to capitalize on it. And pay some royalties to Zeihan
Guess, problem with logo actually reveals due to founding of the FreeCAD Project Association and first FreeCAD conferences being held last months — now there is a part of FreeCAD users that wants associate themself with FreeCAD visually, but found that logo is not so attractive as Blender's logo.

[0] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FPA

[1] https://fpa.freecad.org/
Never been an issue for me. His friends must use junk messaging.
Entrepreneurs make tons of decisions and lots of creative work that meaningfully impact their chances of success.

Maybe the chances are still quite low if you do everything really well, and maybe an entrepreneur giving advice is likely to massively overestimate that, driving the sentiment behind this tweet. But they're certainly higher than if you do everything really poorly.
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.
Newly discovered chemicals are so deadly to fungi, are named after Keanu Reeves
Spatial Orientation and the Brain: Effects of Map Reading and Navigation (2013)
Interesting discussion is also available on the Information Security Stack Exchange site. For example:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25013/is-behavi...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/136971/do-keyst...
For each event you experience as a "collapse", you "branch" the wave function. You put a particle into a superposition between two eigenstates representing two positions, then you observe the particle, and as a result, you as the observer enter a superposition; you now have two eigenstates, one where you observed the particle being in the one location, and one where you observed the particle being in the other location. And since you and your measurement equipment and everything else macroscopic is highly entangled with the rest of the world, the whole world also enters the same superposition, one where the particle was in one place, and one where it was in the other. Repeat until one "branch" in the "tree" has observed the particle moving a meter.
I like the startup scene in NYC myself. Also, like Randy Newman, I love L.A. I think it is a much more “normal” place that the bay area.
Yes indeed, there are some more nuanced takes on it in this thread that I thought were good.
I feel in corporate land this translates to the Peter principle in some cases where the manager made a random decision that turned out great.
You should quit. There's a randomized controlled experiment on this exact topic. See column 6 in page 28 of https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22487/w224...

On average, people who flip a coin to decide whether to quit are much happier when they quit.

To be precise, if we define H as self-scored-1-to-10 happiness six months after the coin toss, then B_wald = (EV[H | heads] - EV[H | tails]) / (Pr[quit | heads] - Pr[quit | tails]) = 5.203.
Elm managed to move away from signals back in 2016 (controversial at the time, but IMO a great move).

https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp
Really? You can find a hotel for £68.29 per night which includes all food, unlimited soft drinks and alcohol with meals? That's in an area with a wide range of touristy things to do (as the ship will be docking at various interesting locations versus a hotel in the middle of nowhere)?
I don't think you can generalize from your experience. I drink tons of coffee and have wild dreams every night. They're even wilder on the rare occasions I smoke pot.
Anecdata: on my workloads it's near-native† vs ~10x slower for QEMU

† actually not measured, but compared to the order of magnitude on the other side it's about that, eyeballed against the same code on aarch64.
Uncomputable things: Chaitin's constant, busy beavers, and Kolmogorov complexity
You can still see the ash layer from the soon-to-be-Crater Lake eruption hundreds of miles away on hillsides and in gullies. [0] It's as much as 8 inches thick in the Okanogan in Washington State. That's 400+ miles away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazama_Ash
People have children and live their lives together all the time without involving the government or their personal deity. Marriage is a hierarchical construct rooted in male supremacy and heteronormativity.
I'm sorry you believe the propaganda that states otherwise. Its a radical opinion to believe "talent" doesnt exist.
I dunno where you worked but this is def not normal at least within technical ladder ime
If you can, donate to Clean Future - Dogs of Chernobyl program https://www.cleanfutures.org/dogs-of-chernobyl/
Intel Scraps Rialto Bridge GPU, Next Server GPU Will Be Falcon Shores in 2025
When did Keanu > Chuck or were these newly discovered chemicals also found to be susceptible to Norris?
You seem to be making an argument that law enforcement should do anything to keep order, no matter the legality.

I would argue that as soon as a “good guy” cuts legal corners, they set a bad example for those next to them. Those little corruptions have outsized consequences over time, like compound interest. I was in Los Angeles when LAPD brass were trying to figure out what to do after the Rampart District had been revealed for a perfect example of this corruption.
But the particle moving a meter in this scenario isn't described by the Schrödinger equation or any other part of quantum mechanics. If you just measured the chance of it being there originally it would be 0% chance, it isn't there. The only thing moving the particle is the wave function collapse. I don't see how the theory can be both correct and ignore that the wavefunction collapse can move particles into states they weren't originally in.

You would need new rules for the wave function in order for MWI to work, one that handles the collapses. But if you do that I wouldn't call the theory "just standard quantum mechanics without collapses".
I love when a difficult engineering task has a built in solution to a sub-problem. You want to capture an image of a nuclear blast immediately after the explosion for only a minuscule time slice. That means you’re worried about getting a viable exposure because the film’s only under light for microseconds. Solution: nuclear bombs are really fucking bright.
Having disposable income and connections means much much more than genetics.

This comment has the relevant quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024721
I was advised to move every two years in software, without knowing if it would be good advice. As it happens I roughly did that for a while, until I went contracting when curiously I stuck around for longer, well, not that curiously - I can be picky about roles and conditions now and doubling my income is no longer likely.

For the first few moves I doubled my salary. That helps a lot.

You grow a network too, you see things from different perspectives, get variety, learn new tools. A change is as good as a rest. And when all is said and done, if it doesn't make you happy, just take the extra experience and increased salary and go back.

But look around you, how many people who left the company ever came back?

IME the advice was good because companies tend to value you as little more than who they hired, the jobs market values you for who you are now, which changes quickly early in your career.

Good luck either way.
Jack Daniels isn’t meth. It is a complex and specific flavor profile that is enormously successful commercially. This profile was not arrived at via chemistry and biology, and it’s currently infeasible to apply chemistry and biology in a lab to replicate this flavor profile. The same is true of the overwhelming majority of other spirits, too. The only method we have to find your way to these extremely precise locations in high-dimensional flavorspace is to religiously follow the ritual that gets us there. On the road to mass production, spirit distillers have run across many pitfalls that look innocuous, minor changes that seem like they couldn’t possibly affect the outcome but nevertheless do. That’s what I mean by trying to crystallize luck. (Yes, chemistry and biology are the fields of science that _would_ describe this process…)
> Unfortunately 15 is still a very big problem.

Especially when they are in charge of the hierarchy.
I'm surprised I don't see a reference yet to Darius Kazemi's iconic 2014[1] talk, which is basically riffing on this joke for 10 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

A key takeaway I've kept with me this whole time is the idea of there being two kinds of creative advice: (1) how to buy more lottery tickets, and (2) how to win the lottery. The former is useful, the latter not so much.

[1] Wait, 9 years ago? That can't be right.
While I don’t agree with the premise of the tweet, having created 2 successful businesses doesn’t necessarily mean that it wasn’t all luck, because you’re missing the fact that the number of entrepreneurs, who would be the equivalent of the lottery contestants, is highly limited.

If you had a daily lottery but only 1000 people were able to enter it, by year 5 nearly everyone would have won the lottery at least twice.
Seeking through holes also doesn't work very well for compressed images, since usually there is no way to tell apart an insignificant hole from a long sequence of zeroes or other filler data.
Darius Kazemi - "How I Won the Lottery" - a talk at XOXO Festival (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

brutally hilarious
This is a fascinating paper, and IMO you should submit it as its own link so more people can read and discuss it.
When you have a big app, it becomes a spaghetti mess, and I speak from personal experience having to untangle that spaghetti.
I have noticed this too as a very tall person. At times I’ve realized I’ve got a lot more sway over controlling a crowd than most. Unfortunately for me, the confidence to wield it doesn’t just come with the physical trait.
Bad analogy. Founding a startup is not entirely a gamble. There are some things you can do to increase your chances of success.

However, that doesn't mean you should do everything a successful startup founder mentions in their retrospectives. Founding a successful startup does not equate to having a flawless perspective into what caused your success. It's the job of VC firms to study startups and figure out what works and what doesn't, not founders.
How about a normally remote job?
"VCs giving advice" would be a better fit
I've often taken vacation days to go work some place else for 1-2 weeks. If its horrible I'm more happy in my old job (as if I've taken a vacation) if its nice there Ill consider staying.
You are not using tmux for what it's designed to be used. It's not for running long-running processes, even though you might use it this way (you could also use eg. Photoshop to run long-running processes, after all, it has an embedded JavaScript interpreter with some extra functionality that might allow you to do that).

tmux serves the same purpose as DE, except w/o the whole windowing system etc. It's to allow you to switch between multiple applications which require terminal for interaction.

I spend close to 100% of my time at work inside tmux, and I never needed to answer a question "where do the process variables come from?" -- it's irrelevant in the same way how you don't ask where does Gnome get its environment variables from. You simply don't rely on environmental variables when running tmux / don't care about them.
Did you know that some people spend their weekend working to make rent rather than launching apps that they hope might work?
Of course it does, the second paragraph in my original response states just that. This doesnt negate the fact that some people are exponentially better at business than others. Its the same in math, chess, basketball, football, writing, and every other human endeavor
My take on the job market is that the Bay Area could be in recession (FAANG is firing, VC investments seem to be retreating) but normal employers in the rest of the country are struggling to fill positions.
> When the advice hinges on a unique set of circumstances that you can't reproduce, then they are likely giving you their lottery ticket.

People typically don't explain their success with "just after I opened the pickaxe shop, the gold rush started". Even if that is a major factor in their success, they will explain their success coming from other factors, like waking up at 5 am to listed to podcasts while running on the treadmill.

(The advice that you should wake up at 5 am and listen to podcasts on the treadmill is reproducible, but timing the pickaxe shop opening with the gold rush is not reproducible. You hear one as the advice, not the other. This makes it difficult to follow your advice "When the advice hinges on a unique set of circumstances that you can't reproduce, then they are likely giving you their lottery ticket. Otherwise you might want to listen more closely.")
Fwiw, everytime in my career where i felt like quiting but wasn't sure, when i eventually did quit my biggest regret was usually not doing it sooner.

If your gut is saying it is time to move on, you should probably listen.
Tesla said a lot of shit, some of it was even true.
You can do all of this and still fail. Many well-run start-ups fail because of market conditions. There is a lot of luck involved.
Wait until you find out how many people in the 21st century are still iterating on the idea of the wheel itself. Imagine if nobody tried reinventing wheels since they were first introduced and you have your answer.
If you came here for 3-eyed dogs, you will be sorely disappointed!
Tesla was actually the equivalent of an alien spy/special forces. Just like In Afghanistan, the US used embedded special ops forces on the ground to do targeting for missiles launched from fighters at high altitude.
Its also has a horrific effect over where you spray the SO2, and wherever you operate the massive airfleet.

And its not $1B, its tens of billions per year as the most optimistic estimate, over a decade+.

https://newatlas.com/environment/sai-polar-refreezing/

Its... truly terrible. Which I think people should emphasize when they correctly assert that its the least bad option so far.

Also its not even realistic, because we still convince a large fraction of the educated first world that lifting a finger for climate change is even necessary.
That anyone at the very least needs access to a smartphone, powerful-enough computer, and internet.

18% of households in the US say they can't afford home internet service: https://ntia.gov/blog/2022/switched-why-are-one-five-us-hous...
I have worked with folks who weren't happy with their job. And I've quit a few jobs I had because I wasn't valued there.

But it wasn't because the work was unfulfilling. I've never really given that any thought because I was working to earn money and agreed to do what they needed done.

I have worked at a couple places where someone with a much higher pay grade quit and I was asked to take over their position but not offered a raise in pay. I quit on the spot when that happened. I have never felt anything close to regret over that.

But I have known friends over the years who have. They had a sweet gig at a great company and they didn't really realize how good they had it until afterwards.

I tried to talk a few of them out of that who, after they quit, came back and told me they regretted not listening to me.

Personally, I have had a pretty hectic, but also "rewarding", life. I'm 63 now and just getting by. Others I know who got and stuck it out working for a company that paid them well are doing much better.

Don't get me wrong, I have no regrets. I'll just say that if you have it pretty good, ride that for as long as you can cause shit happens.
Ha! I didn't see you response before writing mine, but, yeah, I had the exact same reaction!
“child is "at risk of or is being subjected to the provision of sex reassignment prescriptions or procedures," according to the proposed bill text.

The proposed bill defines sex reassignment prescriptions or procedures as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgeries or procedures that "affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception is inconsistent with the person's sex" at birth
I didn't read it, I remember it being talked about at the time by some colleagues who happened knew him well (he had an eclectic circle). One of them was quite distressed about the Laetrile thing.

I was just a kid at the time and only met him once, in passing, so take my statement as you will.
In my experience you’re wrong. Most OpSec failures are not magical or require massive resources but minor single mistake. Beyond that, OpSec is a skill that requires practice. If you only apply only when needed, odds of failure significantly increase.

Since you claim to know so much about what national mail systems know about a piece of mail, what specifically is your understanding of what they know?