skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand, that's what I found amusing. It's easy to imagine a dad in the 90s, when computers were much more costly, being like "hell no you aren't doing that to the family computer!" :)

Maybe I'm still misinterpreting, but this was where my mind went. Man, I wish I could've appreciated how distinct the 90s were as a kid, but I was too young and dumb to have a shred of hope of being that aware!
Learning new things and ADHD go so well together. I was working on a project and then ChatGPT came out.. and so I started to learn all about it, then I wanted to code with it and make projects with it, and that's exactly what I did.

The cons are the fact that I still haven't gotten back to the original project I was working on, as working on these things allowed me to get new ideas for other incomplete projects I had, so I can now finish those up, while still trying to get back to the original project.

There are pros, however, and that's basically: working on the ChatGPT projects helped me understand how to finish those other projects or gave me ideas for the direction I wanted them to go, whereas I was stuck before and now I know how to complete them.

I'd tell you the best way to overcome it is to focus on one thing at a time, but most likely, it's just not going to be possible... especially for those of us who have that undiagnosed ADHD, where we see something else, or some new technology that catches our attention and we really don't "want to miss out" on the next big thing.

I've just turned it into productivity. I used to be a gamer... and don't get me wrong: I still am a gamer at heart. I miss it like all hell, but the issue is that it isn't bringing me any money or making me any richer. Its a distraction. So I use my love of building web apps and learning new things as a sort of game. Someday, maybe, I'll be able to return to my fantasy world as a vampire in Skyrim. I even had somehow managed to become a vampire-werewolf hybrid in Oblivion long ago, and it probably started then: I was focused on video games til I realized that it wasn't helping me in my everyday life, and I started focusing on things that I believed were more productive in helping me in my everyday life.

Is building web apps helping me? I do use what I build to make my workday/worklife/everyday life a bit more productive, and I try to share those with the world.. sometimes for free, sometimes with monetization so I can have people support the project so I can keep working on it.

I'm also one who works on a project -- once I finish that project, other than upkeep, I'm usually done with it. I wrote a very massive book several years ago and other than market it for a week or so once a year, my mind has moved on to other things.

So my advice: make sure whatever you're learning is productive.

As PaulHoule wrote below, "try grad school." Good advice but I had a friend who did that... three masters degrees in something like literature, history, and world culture. He was aiming to be a professor and teach... one day he's headed down to the basement in his apartment, which doesn't have a railing, to do his laundry, and he falls down the stairs and fractures his back. After many surgeries and a lawsuit, he has his insane debt forgiven and he now lives in constant pain, and his dreams of being a professor are now gone. The guy loved to learn... but learning at the institution level certainly comes with a price, and he would've been on the hook for the cost of a mortgage. So make sure what you are learning is actually going to pay the bills.
I'm the exact same. Tried grad school and dropped out after a year, for a messy mix of reasons.
> old school self-checkout

Man, the old ones were better than the new ones my local Kroger has.

The new ones are like they took an old checkout stand and just put a self checkout kiosk in it, so you place your items on a belt...that moves them 5 feet away after you scan them.

So the flow is scan everything, checkout, then bag everything while people stare at you figuring out how to avoid doing what you're doing (and are angry at you for "wasting their time"), only for them to do the exact same thing.
I have been reusing the same canvas shopping bags for over 10 years.
If one side of an argument presents a source as an authority on a health-related issue, it's not ad hominem to point out that the same source held positions which are far outside the scientific consensus on other health-related issues.
Seconding this. How can one historian put such emphasis on this "only eat after the day's work is done and you can leisure to digest" and the other puts the major meal in the middle of the day?
Ring limits more of its basic security features to its subscription plan
It's because it's not based on a simple measure of the similarity of meaning of the words. It's based on how often the words are used next to each other, which means that since celsius is used more often with the word temperature in the corpus, it will be closer to the word temperature.
Most criticism I've heard of them is that they suck up a disproportionate amount of funding.
Peer pressure, oversight and processes are supposed to prevent a group of people from becoming more than the sum of their worst parts. Microsoft has always found a way to become the sum of the worst instead of the average or the intersection. They only stopped outwardly projecting that behavior for a while after the EU dropped sanctions on their asses. But that was four rounds of promotions ago so that’s all forgotten now.
Not knowing how to do something from the top of your head is not the same thing as not being able to do it.
The ship has to return, empty or not. If the shipping company can recoup some of those costs (labor, fuel, insurance, etc.) by selling the otherwise empty space to someone who sells bottled island water, it's a net gain for both the shipping company and the Fijian economy.
My best guess was Water too today. But Temperature as a solution was a way far imo. Can you align the similarity index somehow? Does it evolve? Is it GPT?
No, 4K. 1280x720 would be 640x480, the minimum usable for a Windows 95/98 desktop and most multimedia based software. Today that resolution it's almost the minimum for 720p video and modern gaming.

1920x1080 would be 800x600 back in the day, something everyone used for a viable (not just usable) desktop in order to be confortable with daily tasks such as browing and using a word processor. Not top-end, but most games would look nice enough, such as Unreal, Deus Ex and Max Payne at 800x600, which looked great.
Maybe I'm missing something because you and the author seem to agree, but I think schools are moving toward test-optional applications, not test-ignored. So it still could show that a student is excelling. Right?
I might as well take this opportunity to plug my clone of Semantle which uses a tSNE visualization. I've heard many people say this helps them visualize the chains of logic in their guesses.

https://semantle.pimanrul.es/
Social media is changing, and paid accounts are the response
Are you trolling now?

People tend to substitute their biases when evaluating skills and knowledge. Some people overcome these biases through practice but everyone has them.

It's 2023, this is not new territory.
Most organizations, Microsoft included, employ a blameless policy.

It’s almost never an individual person’s fault, but rather that the process failed in stopping a regression from going through. If anything should be blamed, it’s that the process didn’t catch this; at the PR, testing, or release phases.

If individuals were reprimanded nearly as much as it’s implied, there wouldn’t be a lot of people employed at Microsoft or any other big company.
I have a regular teams call with somebody, and never use it outside of this. A few months ago it was blocking both Firefox and Chromium user agents on Linux. Rather than mucking about with it I just switched to a Windows laptop for this meeting. But last week I tried it on Linux Firefox and it works (well, to the limited extent that teams works at all)
I think this is a reasonable question if you don’t know the history or reasons, and there are some good answers here already. I’ll add that it’s worth reflecting on the fact that floats are indeed a heavily used standard, so there’s another way to ask the question aside from starting with an assumption that fixed point is either better or easier: what advantages does a floating point number have above fixed point numbers? People do use both floats and fixed point numbers, so it’s not either-or, but I’m suggesting that to understand why floats are used so much, it would help to curate list of the reasons why floats are useful instead of focusing on reasons fixed points are useful.

The primary thing floats have that fixed point numbers don’t is the same relative precision regardless of magnitude. Combined with the ability to represent an enormous magnitude, and reasonably good precision near 0 and 1, this makes floats easier to use than fixed point numbers. With fixed point, you always have to think about the range and precision required, and with floats you don’t. Add in standards for representing Inf and NaN, which are pretty useful, and it’s easy to see why floats are quite popular.
Keeping it generic I started with some identical words. It took me a little bit to realize I was getting some conflicting things (i.e. opposites that were similar) so needed to change the kind of word I was looking for. Wouldn't really call it janky because of that though, trying to figure out what could be related to the words so far is the point not a side effect. Looking at the final closest words I might have been upset having put in something like #4 and getting lost though.
Unless the shipped amount is exactly the ballast... But even then the ballast and any cargo is placed differently so even that point wouldn't work.
Mmmmhhhhh

does that count the slaves? Because rich people had a LOT of leisure time.
One obvious difference between how the AVSAB and SAT are used is that the minimum score on the AVSAB is ~ 35th percentile (somewhere around a 980 on the SAT). That kind of score is likely all-but disqualifying at Columbia, where the 25th percentile is 1450, and only 5-6% of applicants are accepted.

The question is not “does the SAT provide some globally useful measure of college performance,“ to which the answer is “very probably yes”; instead, Columbia is asking “does requiring it help them identify top tier talent from underrepresented backgrounds rather than filter out top talent from those backgrounds”, to which the answer is “quite possibly not”. They aren’t banning it as a factor, they are just permitting those with a low score to omit it.

And lest I sound like I’m cheerleading elite universities here, I suspect there are enough people with >1500 SATs and family incomes <$50k that you could fill 2 whole Columbias. They’re obviously going to keep admitting legacies and other high donor value applicants because they’re mostly trying to maximize return on investment.
Self hosting is great , except it's incredibly frustrating to get a good pipe to your home that has decent upload speeds. Even "business class " is downright awful. Thankfully this is slowly changing but not fast enough!

Looking to run my own next cloud instance soon.
I'd speculate they are doing some balance of what gets stolen the most, and price. But I'm in the UK and I mostly see higher priced items like brand name razor blades getting locked away.
Perhaps a classic compression algorithm can help too. It will still fill the memory at runtime but the binary file would be smaller.
> If you lie on your tax returns then you have much bigger issues than college admissions counselors.

If you own a large amount of equities you can get a secured loan on those holdings and use it to pay your bills while taking zero salary. This allows folks to live fancy lifestyles without selling holdings and triggering capital gains:

* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/portfolio-loans-can-be-one-w...

The loan is not counted as income.
Sure, but if you are lucky enough to have an entire team of interviewers who have this much experience, you're probably not having the same hiring conversation that's happening in this thread.
Ask HN: Best approach for manual data fixes in db?
What processes or tools do teams use when making manual SQL data changes?

I'm particularly interested in data changes, not schema migrations. Most teams I've worked on just gave production write access to all engineers who were on call. Is this the norm?

For example, if a support request came in (either due to a bug or user error) and there wasn't an existing admin endpoint to make the necessary change, the on-call engineer would write a SQL UPDATE statement to run directly in the production db.

A few issues I see with this:
(1) A bad query (accidental or malicious) could have serious consequences (data loss and/or service interruption).
(2) There is not an easy way (afaik) to audit which changes were made in this manner or why they were made. This also seems like it could bring compliance issues.

How have you seen changes like this handled - what tools/processes are seen as best practice?
I'm white, my wife is Asian, our kids will be applying to university over the next couple of years. We've started to have the conversation about which race they will check off on the application. I'm coming to the conclusion that they have to just check white, as this means they will face less discrimination than if they check Asian. This makes me very uncomfortable, and also just seems absurd.
No, both going great, which means (it appears) I’m balancing the org’s health and need to succeed with giving candidates an opportunity they might not otherwise have had.

The purpose of the system is what it does. If desired state is not emerging, we must adjust and observe accordingly.
I went to one of these last year and it's was basically a gas station convenience store without the gas or convenience. Poorly stocked, weirdly expensive, and, well, shabby.
Even if these compostable service items can’t be composted at least they would degrade in the environment, right? There is no real issue with landfill space. True problem is lots stuff never makes it to the landfill.
If you’ve played rogue like games you know that sometimes you get lucky and everything goes your way. You get the best starting traits, the easiest progression, path, etc. Other times it’s the opposite.

But the goal is to make do with what you have. There’s no use complaining that you were born in worse circumstances, try to make the most of it.

I was born in a poor third world country and had several serious medical conditions as a child (I almost died twice) as well as autism/ADHD (not diagnosed till later of course since no one in my hometown even knew of those things). But I have ended up fairly well off, with a family, in a rich country (earning mid 6 figures). If you had guessed whether it’d be better to be born me or a random American in San Francisco you’d probably have been wrong. Of course I was lucky to be born with some positive traits (smart, interested in programming) that helped as well. I’m not saying that everyone else should follow my path, but what’s the point in just complaining that your life sucks without trying to make it better?
> I don't recall anyone promising anyone else a perfectly even playing field down to the most minuscule detail.

Neither do I but that doesn't mean that we should make trivial changes to even the playing field where possible. Especially when that trivial change is just to stop doing something that is very obviously unfair.

At this point I'm guessing you or your children benefited from the legacy system and don't want to feel guilty about it because I can't really imagine any other reason to defend the system. It's very obviously unfair, and there is very obviously no good reason to keep it (other than money of course).

> people arguing against the rate of legacy admissions haven't a leg to stand on without first controlling for obvious variables.

You don't need to do any statistical analysis to prove it has an effect to know that it is unfair. Like, if you took fair dice and then sanded one side slightly, you don't need to actually do any actual analysis to know that you shouldn't do that because there are no possible good effects and one possible bad effect.
Gitlab Raises Prices for Premium Customers by More Than 50 Percent
More expensive than landfills or shipping plastic to the developing world. Usual externalities.
Is that 3 separate interviews for your startup? Or is it done in one session? If it is the former you're missing out on lots of potential candidates
Or it's just very well ingrained bullshit - the idea that the stars you were born under define your personality and fate is as old as time and still practiced today.
The point of FUD is usually to carve out a space where existing products/solutions can't compete with idealized vapourware. I updated my opinion to NIH (though could be both)--and still hope to be mistaken.
> As for the "regional" trains (that this offer is talking about), they go really slow and are just for people commuting.

That really depends on which line you are on. For example Munich - Nuremberg (~170km) takes 1:45 by regional train. That’s pretty competitive, going by car takes the same time. The ICE train on the same track needs 1:10.
East solution..do not tip or do not give business to these places.

If person just hands me my order then me not tip. Shamelessly press 0% on touchscreen.
Chrome became popular by being bundled as shovelware with Flash and being marketed on google.com. There is literally no way for an open source browser to compete against that.

Mozilla has a lot of mismanagement but that's more of a symptom of Firefox being out-marketed in a way that was impossible to fight against.
What the Mastodon ecosystem needs to scale
20 min Video that explains accelerometers and gyroscopes in MEMS chips. MEMS means Microelectromechanical systems. So there actually are mechanical systems, that work in your phone, etched into silicon chips. The video uses 3d printed models to explain how the accelerometers work, the gyros are also explained, but a little shorted, because they are very complex and therefore hard to explain.
I like a alternate version of this: tax 25% of all donations to schools (all of them, top or not), and redirect the money to fund and improve quality of public universities.

You still have a strong incentive for folks who want to show gratitude to their alma mater, and at the same time help improve access and equity to everyone else.
>if we call [late stage capitalism] early stage socialism somehow we're conspiracy theorists

sounds good to me. over time the world's wealth accumulates with the already wealthy. this makes sense, it's much easier to make money if you already have money. under the current system, inequality inexorably, unsustainably grows

last time we were here it took a pandemic, a massive depression and two world wars for serious change to occur. and even then it only lasted 30 years or so, until the Thatchers and Reagans rolled it all back. and here we are now. late stage capitalism once again. what will be the final domino before change this time? nuclear war? some kind of AI disaster? hyperinflation? Covid clearly wasn't enough.

it seems like kind of the people that would typically be concerning themselves with this kind of societal correction have been successfully distracted by bullshit culture wars
Clang-cl is a driver for clang+llvm made for compatibility with cl.exe.

It uses the llvm backend.

Unless Daniel is using something special, he is incorrect. It is not the vs backend.

Microsoft did have a clang frontend + c2 backend project, but I thought they deprecated it.
> Why not ask the much more interesting and potentially useful question of balancing a binary tree?

Or even just when would you use a binary tree? Figuring out which data structure is appropriate for the problem at hand is the hard part, how to implement operations on the data structure is easy in comparison, you can just Google it.
> However, the US government certainly signed off on pre-war decisions to extend Nato into Ukraine, paying to modernize the Ukrainian military, and Joint military exercises in the Black Sea.

All of this occurred after 2014. What happened in 2014? Everything that is happening in that region is due to Putin and Russia’s own actions.

This is not a great benefit to the US whatsoever. It takes attention away from Asia. The US has been reaching in to its stockpiles and coffers to make sure Russia doesn’t get what it wants.
I started feeling this exact same way a year or two ago, and made two important rules for myself.

1. All consumption must result in creation.

First, I started making creative routines around all my existing consumption habits. For example, I now synthesize all my readings into book reviews. This practice makes me more intentional about my media habits.

If I'm curious about something, I write an essay about the topic. The essay format helps limit the scope and narrow down exactly what I'm curious about or trying to argue. I end up publishing about 5-15% of my essays.

2. Keep a project-based timeline.

To truly learn something, you must apply your knowledge.

I create 3-4 day "projects" for everything I want to do, and throw them on a public timeline.

This helps me prioritize and stick to "one big thing" at a time. When I make a long-term plan, I'm less likely to get distracted by shiny things and rabbit-holes.

3. Restrict your media intake.

Wikipedia and Youtube offer great content, but rarely give the active learning experience needed to feel accomplished.

If you get off the internet and start making things, you'll feel less tempted by new topics and have more time for creating things that last.

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[1] https://taylor.town/books

[2] https://taylor.town/now
Yeah it's such a basic structure we use in-directly - in classes & sub-classes, intellij dependency list on left side, using google maps, etc.

How complex is homebrew ? Can no one else replicate it ? Why should a company hire for something you did that's simple ?

What are the skills he posses that no one else has ?

Learn your basica dsa stuff for gods sake people.
The reusable dog poop bag is probably a bucket. Maybe smaller one with a lid.
Can concur, the defaults cause throttling before fans start spinning properly.

What's worse, these things have an accelerometer that causes the same type of throttling if you move your laptop.

Fuck Intel-based clothes-iron laptops so hard.
> But if I was ... a lower middle class kid in Iowa, I'd be pretty outraged about this.

Of course, no one cares about these kids (least of all the elites and their cadre), and any outrage from lower middle class Iowans is already explained away as racism (never mind that Iowa, like much of the rest of middle America, went to Obama in 2008 and 2012).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China
What is G$?
On Android, with FF installed and using a Work profile for all the Microsoft bullshit, both Outlook and Teams won't let me click on links because "there's no compatible browser installed" :D