skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking a lot about hiring recently. Friends and acquaintances often tell insane stories about their workplaces, and inevitably the problems all stem from poor hiring. The specific request in TFA is insane and shouldn't be entertained. This doesn't mean the employee in question is bad, but, in general, when you entertain requests like this you're bound to pick up a few bad eggs. When you build a team, you want to ensure that everyone has the right mindset. This means people with little ego who are willing to put aside their personal differences to do what's best for the team. Starting your employment with a bizarre religious exemption to using Windows does not illustrate that in the least.

There is also the related question about why the company needs this employee. What I've seen is that such red flags often come up in hiring. Good managers recognize that there is a potential culture fit and pass without losing any sleep. Bad managers, those who obsessed with increasing their headcount, are willing to ignore such signal. They're willing to sacrifice the quality of the team, its output, and the company at large for their own personal gain.
> jokes about war

It's called history
What are you getting out of ACID, and what is it costing you? The main practical effects of using an ACID datastore are that a) your writes don't commit until they've finished updating all your indices (sometimes what you want, but often not) b) if you get your dataflow wrong you'll get deadlocks, occasionally, probably starting weeks after you made the mistake that caused them
> Sure, but what's not really python per se.

But that's exactly the strength of Python: it's an interface language. It's meant to make pretty sophisticated things like CUDA easy for everyone.
I moved to a non tech company a few years ago. I run the phones and file server and program a few machines we sell. Its nice having a physical product to be proud of, and its enjoyable doing helpdesk for a very small company.

I used to work at web hosts and such.
This 3D tour is amazing! I’m going to share this with my students.
Also about half the time when you hear about a cyclist dying because they "lost control of the bike" in traffic this is what happened. Car passes slow and too close to give you room to countersteer and you fall into and then under it.
> equity language censors took this way way too far.

In fact, they took it so far that it is now in the realm of fan fiction.

Language cannot be legislated, and meaningful change requires more than a new literay style of expression.

Social progress in real, measurable ways is possible and important. Workers' rights, pay equity, access to education, public health-care, affordable living, good care for our elderly... These are good things that measurably grow happiness in community.

Hurt-Feelings Fan Fiction is a section of the book store that I will never visit.
It's the same RDS though. These controllers enable you to manage the lifecycle of the exact same AWS services you get when using the AWS console or CLI. Kubernetes is the porcelain and AWS offerings are still the plumbing.
What is your general approach? Selling premium? Earnings announcements?

Do you frequent any online communities of professionals, or is it just you, your spouse, and your mentors?

Beyond wanting to learn alternative approaches myself, I help moderate a local trading group. We are always looking for presenters in our monthly meetings.
This right here strikes at the root of the issue - if someone wants to refer to a group with hate, there is NO way to fix that by changing the term.

And changing the term to try to avoid it just results in weird terms and euphemisms, it doesn’t eliminate hate.
On the other hand, back in college I was a TA for an intro to programming course that used Java. This:

> They didn't pay too much attention to white spaces and tabs, probably because they are "invisible"

can get so much worse than people imagine, when the language doesn't enforce it. It was that experience that made me lean towards python being a good introductory language, to help people get used to correctly indenting code in general.
Interested to hear more about your experience with Julia!
Even with the ending of your story being "it didn't work out", i can't help but feel envious.
Understand and disagree, since there’s a fundamental difference between Amazon and a nonprofit — both in their intended missions and the literal outcomes.
The Last Breaking Change
Can you not use the `path` option in each Gemfile for local development? https://bundler.io/v1.12/man/gemfile.5.html#PATH-path-
There's a library [1] that implements message passing and locking for communiction between VMs in a similar way and is used by the awesome looking glass project to send the accelerated GPU video stream from a vm to the host or a different vm.

[1] https://github.com/gnif/LGMP
never stopped being fun this is why fixed gears are still a thriving niche
Yes, but they're more useful in a central location.
I'd completely disagree. Not necessarily for cats, which I wasn't previously aware of, but in my experience there's no benefit to having karate in the mix.
Rear tires do must of your braking. If you hit the front break too hard/fast, you flip over the front tire, hit the rear brake hard/fast and you burn rubber/lose traction.
I love the idea that LLMs will get watermarked in a way where you can ask them who they were built for and they just tell you.
I don't think most people have their employer recording their screens or looking over their shoulder?
The Coming Storm: Geopolitics and PostgreSQL in a Changing World
At the beginning of every new term in school there is a flood of users so I'm sure that is some of it.

People who think/thought they could build rep using chatGPT is probably a minor thing.

Mostly though, I have come to the personal conclusion that when some people want to ask a question, they create a throwaway account to avoid being review bombed.
It good people are thinking about this problem, but this proposal doesn't address some fundamental issues. E.g,

- why developers/maintainers choose the package granularity they currently do. e.g., you can have tiny granular packages today (npm famously has single-simple-function packages, which is widely derided, BTW). Developers break down packages in a way that makes sense to them to best develop, test, maintain, and release the package. If you reduce the overhead of a small "grains" of package, developers might choose to go a little more granular, but not a lot.

- why people want or need to update. People want or need security updates. People want or need new features and functionality.

So even with this magically fully in-place (there's some tooling implied here), I don't think there would be much impact on updating.

(And people who tried to implement it or use packages that implemented it would be getting burned by version update mistakes -- this seems almost pathologically error-prone -- and when something does go wrong, it will take some new class of tool to even diagnose what went wrong where. People will end up with issues triggered by their personal upgrade path.)

BTW, patch updated don't have to be done at a source or function level at all. (e.g. upgrade from version x to x+1 could be expressed as a delta. Or x to x + 2 for that matter.) This has been popping up for decades, but it seems the practical value must not be worth the trouble because it doesn't seem to catch on in a big way.
How do they solve the parking problem?

In Manhattan, I have zero consistent options.
There really aren't many (if any) other career paths that will pay so well that you could upskill in and reach pay parity in a few years.

You could try something like a PM/BA role, orientated more around the user and stakeholder management. It's less tech focused and more time communicating with others but probably equally stressful.

I have a friend that bought a coffee shop in a midsize affluent town. Long days, always something going wrong beit staff sickness, stock shortage or maintenance. Kept it up for about 5 years, sold it on and went back into sales.
Assume you got source for a game written in a proprietary game engine. If you don't have access to the game engine itself, nor the API documentation, etc, how long will it take to get this game running in your manner of choosing?

The infrastructure in these companies is a huge amount of scaffolding that's non-trivial to replicate.
`any` is infectious, a blackhole for type safety. You can accidentally pass values with `any` all over the place and TS won't complain, but it also won't catch any mistakes you make. `unknown` is much more restrictive and you can't accidentally pass those values around without refining the type, it's much safer.
I think some of those data sets are likely too big for our poor demo server. It's had a stressful day.

I did try with some of the smaller sets, though, and they seem to work. An advantage of Mathesar is that you can always self-host, and provision enough resources for whatever data size you have!
I think there are many teachers who would love to have an experienced individual come in and guest-speak about one topic or another, if that's something of interest to people.
Finance? Sales?
> US going to war over the lithium.

there's nothing strange about a country going to war over a resource. Has been happening for a long time in history, and there's no reason that anything in the modern world changed human nature.

Except that lithium isn't valuable enough to go to war over at the moment.

Now, the threat of being able to develop and fire nukes, on the other hand, is something that might be war-worthy.
15k is the price to buy a GPU, not to run it, you'd have to account for electricity costs which isn't so straight forward.
The degree to which we’ve been blessed with resources and opportunity to do the right thing (and have consistently chosen to do the dumb thing) never fails to amaze me. Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels; vast reserves of lithium to help oil-producing nations smoothly transition us away from oil; huge and unusually-enriched Uranium deposits we could use to build power (but instead used to build bombs) etc. It’s easy to see where the Garden of Eden parable came from.
I left tech about 20 years ago and moved into marketing. At the time, I facing the classic individual contributor (architect) vs management track dilemma. I’d chosen the latter and pretty much immediately regretted it. However, rather than switching back to a more hands on tech role, I jumped even harder into the world of marketing. I am entrepreneurial by nature and it was a lot of fun.

I’ve stayed tech-adjacent the whole time though. So, despite some very exciting times and decent compensation, I’ve always wondered what might have happened if I flipped back to tech or even jumped way outside the world of regular business entirely.

In any case, I can’t say I regret the change. I made it for the right choices. As you work your way through this decision, think about where you want to be in 20-30 years. Really try to see the day to day life you are living. What gets you excited in that future state? If you can see that, then go explore it.

From what you’ve said it sounds like you have a great opportunity to explore something new. Just remember that sometimes there’s no road back… and that’s 100% ok.
I find this simply unfair.
https://mobile.twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1625491055201366...

https://mobile.twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1631326335783...
> The notion that someone would leave the tech world for a job in the service industry because it comes with more respect is absolutely wild to me.

There are definitely tourist-heavy parts of the US where this is absolutely true.
The business owner (whoever writes the checks) prefers get shit done over "the right way". Time to completion is a key factor of the payoff function of the devs work.
The Vanishing: The erasure of Jews from American life
I think people are extrapolating from their experience with OpenAI, which is understandable albeit unfair to you. "Open"AI burned a lot of bridges with their bait-and-switch, so developers are weary of trusting another company making similar claims. Personally, I welcome any actually open company, and I will continue to chastise OpenAI for their duplicity every chance I get.
why not design it ? Anyone can say to throw in a time series db but what about it's internals ? How do people judge if you can build or add a feature without asking you to design something ?
Not going to lie but an LLM that generates Fresh Prince pasta sounds like one of the most amazing things ever.
I am in the process of exploring a switch to become a vicar/pastor, which would obviously be a complete change!

It's not clear from your post what it is about tech that is demotivating you and without that it is hard to give good advice. But I'd caution against just leaving without having some clarity about what is next - i.e. discerning a positive pull. It may well be that your challenges/frustrations are only tangentially related to tech itself - could it be social, mental health, team/company, etc?

Flexible or part-time working is also something to explore - especially as you are not struggling financially. I've done variously 4 days or 9/10 days for the last 5 years or so and that's allowed me to do some volunteering on the off day, which has been a great change from sitting in front of a screen - as it's been physical and people-focused.

A sabbatical is another option. Take 3 or 6 months off, do something different, and you may rediscover a bit of passion for tech or otherwise figure out what you want to do next.

I also recommend chatting to friends/people you trust who know you well and might be able to give some wisdom/help you understand where the frustration is coming from.

And of course, if you do leave tech, you can always jump back in!
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Since I know how to explain how little that means, I don't care what links they see me go to. If I have a work-related reason to look at something then I do, simple as that, and when your job is to engineer, almost any instance of satisfying curiosity is work related ultimately.
> no, it’s just as bad

Google and Apple are capturing data from milions of apps.
Nah, it just reflects poor judgment that may extend to other areas.

It’s a little like the Van Halen M&M test: if you don’t follow that rule, people have to wonder what other expectations you won’t meet.
Why did Rails get outcompeted by newer (and also some older) alternatives in the long run, when numpy and scipy did not?

Ruby would have a much bigger market share these days if library path dependence was that powerful.
Generally pay is tremendously higher in the USA. Tech companies, although not compelled to, grant severances if you aren’t “fired for cause”. Also in most other places you have to give like a 3 month notice if you want to quit.

It’s frustrating hiring Europeans for this reason but at least they are significantly cheaper to pay than in the USA.
(not US) It seems the whole setup is constructed to make you feel bad, no appreciation for work delivered, every technical argument is seen as an excuse, deadlines have nothing to do with reality an so on. When I interacted with blue collars, they got more respect from their boss or colleagues. Of course, "working with the public" is different and I would guess the only job that is more toxic than programming.
Only if you use a modernist, relativist truth instead of the objective truth.
It's not exactly paranoia given there have been many examples of the fear becoming true.
> the model could infer a relationship between those based on the massive amounts of other size comparisons

That is true! But would it be factually correct? That's the whole point of my argument.

The knowledge and connections that it acquires comes from its training data and it is trained for completing well-structured sentences, not correct ones. Its training data is the freaking internet. ChatGPT stating facts are a happy coincidence because (1) the internet is filled with incorrect information, (2) its training is wired for mimicking human-language's rich statistical structure, not generating factual sentences, and (3) its own powerful and awesome inference capabilities can make it hallucinate completely false but convincingly-structured sentences.

Sure, it can regurgitate simple facts accurately, especially those that are repeated enough in its training corpus. But it fails for more challenging queries.

For a personal anecdote, I tried asking it for some references for a particular topic I needed to review in my masters dissertation. It gave me a few papers, complete with title, author, year, and a short summary. I got really excited. Turns out all the papers it referenced were completely hallucinated :)
The ACA is what allows small business and individuals to buy insurance in the first place. Without ACA, you would be subject to benefit maximums, pre existing coverage denials, and no requirement that insurance cover proven treatments for your ailment.
I don't even have a rear brake.

Weight is transferred to the front on heavy braking, and if you have proper technique, you will not go over the bars. The front tire does all of the actual stopping.
> Does that make my work output immediately tainted and the company has to immediately file for bankruptcy?

No, much easier just to fire you. You’ve shown a disregard for what is almost certainly company policy, and created legal risks for the company (e.g. if anyone walked in on you while your screen was showing naked people).
I once worked for a company that would set a box on your chair during lunch with a letter from HR in it for firings and layoffs. Being fired there was referred to as being "boxed".
Which means China will buy it. And that might be good: right now China is the largest carbon emitter in the world, so everything that helps them transition rapidly helps us too.
Definitely. It's much easier to engage with a class when you're not the main source of authority. It's like being the cool aunt/uncle.

Teaching is not easy and a lot of tech work is much less stressful than it
I only read the first section on monotone fixed points.
A real pleasure. Nothing new, but the key ideas explained in simple yet precise terms and examples.
It really makes me want to read more.
I'm surprised BT is fine to view but not Virgin.
The answer is simple: if you agreed to participate in an experiment, they are gleaning something about you, not just when you think they would, but all the time. Many experimental setups collect key information when the participants think that the experiment is over, or hasn't yet started.

So, relax and enjoy the quiet. They even likely paid you a small sum to do that!
And look what happens if you don't join that alliance?
Guess you never heard the joke about the Education Nationale using the term "Référentiel Bondissant" to designate balloons/balls...
Quick search indicates it was used by the Grenoble academy at one point in the 2000s XD
Feminism has always been about eradicating gender roles, and that's usually fine because the gender stereotypes that existed were almost all factually incorrect. It's definitely going in directions people never expected though.
The main reason this is looked at is that, while you are right in saying these materials resources are well distributed, China has been a major supplier for decades, buying out all their big competitors. The result is that they are way ahead of anyone else in the engineering processes to extract, process and transform these elements into viable products at scale.

If China were to stop selling them, everyone else would have a lot of difficulties replacing them right away and would need at least 5-10 years to pick up the pace.
I would think that a Python code using the csv and email modules would be as fast or faster, and be more robust against typos.
We tested importing the files from the link and right on, some of the imported tables do not seem to work as expected. You've just helped us discover a bug.

Here's the issue that tracks it: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/issues/2634

Thanks!
Beautiful answer -- why would you just accumulate savings without using them for living an interesting life? It's worth taking risks. I'm considering doing something of the sort, probably much less risky actually.
Nuclear might be renewable if you get the uranium from seawater and feed it to fast breeders…. It gets replenished by erosion.

On the other hand it has a half life and maybe you better use it now because if you wait too long it will be gone. Gotta have some sense of urgency.
When I switched from PHP to Python years ago I had the same feeling as the OP, then it became the third best, then the fourth, then situational when object-orientation makes sense, then for just scripting, and now... unsure beyond a personal developer comfort/productivity preference. TUIs and GUIs built on Python on my machine seem to be the first things to have issues during system upgrades because of the package management situation.
> No you are probably overestimating the cost by 1-2 orders of magnitude.

You are right! Wow. Thank you for correcting me.

> GPT-3 probably cost under $5 million,

Is that one training run or includes all the fiddling to find the right hyperparameters? Or there aren't many of those in these training or they are not that sensitive?
>"how much work do I need to put in to get a very simple JSON file from a web URL" (nothing fancy like POST, just an HTTP GET). With python, a call to urllib.request.urlretrieve and then a call json.loads are all you need.

In C# you just have to do this:
var things = await httpClient.GetFromJsonAsync<List<Thing>>("url");
I was a teacher for ten years before taking a position at a small tech consultancy. I also encourage you to jump into the substitute pool; however, please understand that as a regular classroom teacher you will have many more tools to manage a high functioning classroom (not least, a regular classroom teacher has established relationships with their students). Substitute teaching is teaching, but there's a reason expectations for what's accomplished during that day are typically quite low. This all will change classroom to classroom, school to school - of course.
I don't see how this is a strong argument. You could just as easily make the same counter claim about Norway, both rich in minerals, oil and gas.
M-x untabify ? ;)
It's funny that part of the 4chan excitement over this is that they think they'll get back the AI girlfriend experience of when character.ai was hooked up to uncensored GPT-3. All that has been thoroughly shut down by character.ai and Replika and they just want their girlfriends back.