skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left a job I really liked after 9 months, when a team I knew offered me a role at an early stage company. I took that job and stayed almost four years, and when it wound down, I went back to the previous job. Things had changed - it grew a lot - but many of the leaders I'd known during my first, short stint were still there. I came back at a more senior level, and came in with a positive reputation amongst many of the people who I hadn't worked with before, based on having done good work my first time out. This worked really well for me.

I have never regretted quitting a job I disliked.
USA has nothing on Norway in % of vehicles sold being EVs.

Norway's population is a fraction of USA's, so of course USA will have the raw numbers.

However, Norway's new car BEV % is 80%. The remainder is split between hybrids and pure fossil.
Where are you finding other (tech) jobs that are ok with this arrangement?
> I never heard about 12-bit CPUs though.

The original article points to the DEC PDP-8. That 12-bit architecture, which built on the PDP-5, also 12-bit, wound up in microprocessor form in the Intersil 6100, and DEC actually tried to build a desktop microcomputer based on that chip - the DECmate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECmate).

The 16-bit PDP-11 was literally the result of typical DEC indecision, infighting and hedging in the face of increasing importance of ASCII processing (and ultimately a response to a bunch of their engineers who had seen that writing on the wall leaving and founding Data General).

Like so many things in computer history, if DEC had had its shit together, things would have worked out very differently.
The disease of blurbs is not that anyone consciously takes them seriously, but the fact that not having them has become a black mark. People are used to chatty book covers. This is just one of the many tools a dying industry uses to keep its unfair advantages.
That energy has to go somewhere. As I understand that resulting energy is mostly not directed towards the ear (probably as heat?). But tinnitus isn't purely physical, there are psychoacoustic mechanisms at play as well, which noise canceling might cause.
Their entire company is developer tooling with GraphQL, so it's not like they made a compiler for their own specific web app; they're selling their service. I agree if you're just making a run of the mill web app that it's crazy but they're an infrastructure company, not a web app company.
Signal isn't overloaded. It's use here is the same as it's use elsewhere. It just requires contextual information to know what it means. A Qt programmer might think of signals and slots, a UNIX programmer might think of UNIX signals, etc. Jargon sure. Overloaded? I don't think so. Only thing here that bothers me is how vague the title is.
I know when I was interviewing there they were talking about working with gov funded programs like for older or poorer people or something, as well as mobile clinics that would go visit people who had a hard time accessing care.

Don't know if that's still all true tho, that was 1-1.5 years ago.
Yeah, URL is from the first release of Java and should be avoided. You want to use URI instead.
The number of people who can attribute their exceptionalism to genetics is minuscule compared to people who are just wealthy and connected.

Even those that you assume "just have it" most likely just have enough means and connections to try and fail and eventually succeed than most of us.
That's why the left should push for legalizing long range rifles and AP rounds instead of fighting against semi-automatics.

I mean, Abe was the only corrupt politician/business leader who suffered the true "cost of doing business", hopefully he start a trend.
Honestly it just looks to me like the lottery you won is not "having a successful business", but "having the luxury and connections to try and fail 5-7 times with one success"

Most people cannot afford to recover from failing once.
You are precisely demonstrating the original post, no?

You had 2 of 9 businesses succeed. You are demonstrating roughly 1:5 odds of rolling a successful business.

With 1:5 odds if we reroll you doing 10 businesses over and over, 10% of you never succeed. About 1/3 of you win once, 1/3 of you win twice, and 20% of you win 3 times.

The versions of you that won 3 times are not any different than the versions of you who won never. Any advice you give is neither more accurate because a version of you won 3 times nor less accurate because a version of you won never.
I keep a Windows 2000 VM on my machine just to occasionally play this.

Sadly, the original version of the game with the expansion packs included crashes on Windows 10 and none of the compatibility settings fixed the problem for me.
pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
Don't get married to a position.
There is a schism between "JS influencer Twitter devs" and "Building actual apps devs"

I have stopped taking seriously people that rely on novelty to sell you their next training.
Or you can use GraphQL and get all of that functionality for free.
I did 6 years at my first job. Then I moved so I “had” to quit (this was 15 years ago so long before remote was common). Then I realized switching from desktop software rich in processing and complex algorithms to working on things with a web stack was terrible. Just doing crud plumbing was soul crushing.

I asked for my old job back (remotely) and have been there since. I now realize that if I rule out any job with any web or db’s in it then I likely rule out 99% of all dev jobs. And that’s fine.
Prompt engineering in 1965
Every time he falls asleep, wake him up and bring him here.
Fit the rhythm of the sound and vision to his brainwaves, it'll make for a much deeper response.

..
'Listen to my voice.
'Nothing but my voice.
..
You have forgotten your name.
'What is your name? '
Now you will hear a voice say, "Now listen to me. "
'You will always obey this voice. '
'Now, listen to me. Listen to me.
'You are here because you are a traitor.
..
'Now, listen to me. Listen to me. '
Now repeat after me,
"Whenever I hear the voice say, 'Now, listen to me,' I will obey. "
"When I hear the voice say, 'Now, listen to me,' I will obey. "
You will wake up when I count five.
You will forget what's happened to you but you will remember your name.
One, two, three,
four...
five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ipcress_File_(film)
Of course, but we're not talking about people in poverty, or that are homeless, etc. You're just bringing up a weird red herring that's orthogonal to my point--namely, that the bar is extremely accessible (esp. compared to ventures prior to the advent of computers).
I'll offer some different advice from all the "quit" people (9 comments so far and all advise quitting).

My first job out of school was at a really top-notch place. I grew a lot early on but growth started to slow a bit already by 1 year. I became frustrated with things and wanted to leave. In retrospect, I still think that was probably fine / the right move for me at the time - but what I'd really like to have known is how to make better of the current situation. I lacked the emotional maturity and perspective to take things more into my own hands. Admittedly, I've gained most of my wisdom from job-hopping and seeing things at different places.

I would advise you to be prepared to leave, but have an honest conversation with your manager about your frustrations (and also what makes you happy there). If it's a good place, they'll reciprocate by helping you towards your goals. If not, then you tried, and you can feel good about leaving.

Also just in general, I find average tenure is a very strong indicator of things. Crowd wisdom is important. If most people leave after X time, there might be good reason for it. If your company's average tenure is much longer, then you should try to figure out why those people are happy to stay so long
I think they mean it was $5 million. The same sentence seems to be talking about both of them, but would be clearer broken into two before "then".

I'm interpreting it as "The first was in the 2000s out of college (~$500k annual); it eventually petered out. Then [the second was] in the 2010s (~$5m annual)."
But how do you explain what happened to Kevin's cat?

There are also 2 PKD flavors: before and after Valis. Almost a completely different PKD.
Hmm doesn't seem to do 64bit very well:
0xdeadbeefcafebabe -> 0xdeadbeefcafeb800

Is the result by any means passing through a double? like in freakin' JS!
I still don't understand how a trans-parent makes a child at "risk" of getting hormones. Republicans have taken a Twitter issue and made it their only platform. I wonder how much traction a hate campaign will get you in an election. Going by the mid-terms, not that much.
Man to be charged over urine attack on ‘Nikkei’ – After China Spy Report
Well, it made into Amazon Fire Phone, and then went nowhere.
There is no state collapse in the MWI. This is a very basic fact about it. The whole point is that what we experience as a "collapse" in a lab experiment is not really happening.
The --python flag for virtualenv will let you specify a different Python executable to use, but requires that executable to already be installed somewhere on the system.
Traits are advantageous until they are not. Consider the shift of the US economy from blue collar work toward knowledge work over the last 100 years. Those types of work favor different traits and types of people.

I don’t think that would stop people from foolishly altering their germ line to chase trends. But the reduction of entropy / diversity in the gene pool caused by that would represent an existential threat to humanity.

My guess is that the germ lines of people who tried to outsmart evolution would get weeded out pretty fast.
> I bet you also think that cutting executive salaries would somehow make major corporations like McDonalds be able to pay all of their workers a living wage. I would encourage you to do the math on that -- it literally never works out.

Ignoring the "franchising" model which explicitly breaks the local/corporate link of profits and costs...

- McD had a 12B in profits in 2022.
- McD had ~2M in employees at franchises
- McD employees make ~$12 an hour. Thats 24k a year at full-time.
- I couldn't find just the executive salaries.

If you took those profits and distributed them to employees, thats a 25% increase.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gros...
Can we work towards re-homing the dogs, or not so much?
Good to know the venerable "credulously repeat what the charismatic technology man said" school of journalism is now well into its second century of utility.
I agree that measure of success is relative and like the principles you list, but your reply lands reinforcing the point of the tweet.

Does 2 out of 9 successful startups mean your tenets listed here will lead to your level of success 22% of the time? Or do they only lead to success 0.022% of the time and you're the 1 out of 5000? How do you know?

It's not just this topic, it's a problem with general advice humans give to other humans without applying any specific context.
It does sound like common sense to me though... I'm still completely astonished that doctors allow teenagers to undergo sex change surgery or chemical procedures before the age of sexual consent, or the right to vote.

Either we consider kids to be kids, and thus not totally "settled" psychologically (for the lack of a better word), or we don't.

PS: the issue of taking kids custody out of trans parents is an entirely different matter though..And i agree that states "kidnapping" them is highly problematic.
How does that matter even anymore? Google removed JXL support.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940

JXL is pretty amazing - as has been JPEG from a speed/compression perspective. Really sad to see it die like this.
Not sure what this has to do with anything; my point was just that the bar is much more accessible, generally speaking, than it was prior to software being a thing. It wasn't some grand thesis about the affordability of internet or larger social problems (housing, poverty, etc.).

Seems like you're just trying to grandstand.
Since so many French (and not just French) books are sold shrink-wrapped, the only way to get any idea of the book's style is either the except from the text on the back or from the author (as in you already like X's writing). You must literally judge a book by its cover.

Quite a few bookshops discourage you from opening the wrapper, especially, I find, in Germany for some reason.
Lol. We can be tattoo brothers. I actually got a temporary tattoo to see how it looks and still thinking about if i should pull the trigger and get it done.
It’s unfortunately a negative feedback loop at first. Hearing it causes you to stress about it, which makes it seem worse. That’s why stuff like white noise helps at first. But ultimately you need be comfortable with when you do hear it, which is the really hard part to come to terms with.
A good rule to determine whether you should quit a job is to examine how much you think about quitting. If you're thinking about quitting on anything resembling an occasional basis let alone a regular basis, the answer is yes.

If you ever suspect you might get laid off or forced out via an unacceptable change in your working conditions, start looking immediately. As stupid as it sounds to anybody who hasn't accepted it as normal, its an open secret that many companies consciously discriminate against unemployed people so it's easier to find another job if you're currently employed.
Out of curiosity, how many minors do you believe undergo sex-reassignment surgery?
Eventually we will build a sentient AI and we’d better have our morals and attitudes figured out before then.
The secret is nobody needs to know
One person’s dream is another one’s nightmare. I’ve been on cruises as a child and they felt claustrophobic. But got to see some cool places and you can definitely do your own thing in each port or just stay onboard relaxing. I think that as a way to go around the world and see 130+ countries in a year it would be awesome. You’d be pretty sick of it by the end but at least you’re not stuck rotting in some retirement community doing puzzles and watching daytime TV. Again one person’s pleasure is another’s poison.
As a successfully exited entrepreneur I can tell you that a lot of stuff I considered important in my success later I started to consider optional. Or more precisely: there are kind of combinations of strategies/behaviors that strengthen each other, and that's why it is 1) too complex to write recipies like i see here at the top, 2) different clientale, context and the industry itself makes different kind of these work more or less.

Basically I think it is a bit arrogant to "know" it, but also it is quite pessimistic not to think and talk about these as successful serial-entrepreneurs have a lot to say that has merit.
If your day job doesn’t pay enough to make rent, you should move to another city.
If doctors and psychologists do this, why do you assume they haven't determined that it's a net positive given the evidence and thus a rational thing to do?
I also wonder if reality is more like No Country for Old Men
It actually happened in Indonesia - people died en masse in their homes, died in hospital's front yards, hospital's hallway, etc ; too many got infected, that the healthcare system simply unable to keep up. We even experienced severe medical oxygen shortage for months.

The only reason they didn't die on the streets was because we're under lockdown at the moment. So instead dying on the streets, they died indoors.
The good and bad news is that publishing’s social proof is about to lose 98 percent of its value once NLP gets to the point of having as much predictive value as publishing’s signals. We might be there already. That doesn’t mean a program can decide what is and is not great literature. It doesn’t have to. It just to be better than the curators we have. That could probably be written in a hackathon with a decent labeled dataset.

The good news is that this will make it a lot easier for good writers without connections or preexisting celebrity to be discovered. The bad news is that there will be a few people who reverse engineer the AI graders and get millions of readers despite not being all that good.
> the biggest tick I've ever seen

In East Africa, the cows would get these massive ticks that were visible, when driving past on the road. They were the size of ping-pong balls (and sort of looked like bluish ones).
> from some reptile's salivary gland

Kissing dragons is part of a healthy diet.
I think the take home message is that successful entrepreneurs can tell you everything that’s necessary for success and it still may not be sufficient.

Some luck is still required.
You won the lottery in the sense that you went to college, live in a well-off english speaking country and as such, can burn through 5-7 failures. I'm sure you're smart and hard working, and I don't believe in shaming gringos as if being born rich (e.g. having access to a toilet and clean water) was their own fault. You deserve to be happy with what you have. But will never get to be preachy about it without some one calling you out, unless you surround yourself with people with the same biases.
Octal isn't quite dead. It's still used for unix permissions, because a single digit of octal corresponds to the three bit of read, write, and execute access.
Reading excerpts from Process and Reality and Modes of Thought, on the one hand, ignites hunger for a greater understanding, but on the other hand, highlights the lack thereof and, in today's day and age, the impossibility of a possible fruition.

Susan Sontag, in effect:

> We read writers [Weil, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche] of such scathing originality for their personal authority, for the example of their seriousness, for their manifest willingness to sacrifice themselves for their truths, and—only piecemeal—for their "views." As the corrupt Alcibiades followed Socrates, unable and unwilling to change his own life, but moved, enriched, and full of love; so the sensitive modern reader pays his respect to a level of spiritual reality which is not, could not, be his own.
> There's events like Davos and the Bilderberg meetings where the rich and powerful literally do get together and define their agenda.

Here's the website for the latest davos meeting: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-m...

What type of "wealthy colluded against the masses" is happening there?
Florida Senate Bill 254 is the bill.

The text of the bill:
https://legiscan.com/FL/text/S0254/2023

The fact that this made it to the senate and house in Florida is a story worth discussing.
I work with some pretty successful people who started their companies.

I can tell you, the sentence is pure BS.

Successful people may not know why exactly they got successful. Or they may not understand how much what they do contributed to the outcome. But they certainly tend to be sharp people putting a lot of hard, HONEST work and doing a lot of things right.

Even if you could say it was luck, think in terms of being the kind of person that creates a lot of chances for luck and prepares so that when they get lucky they do most out of it.

It is a bit like a person who never bought a lottery ticket complaining the other one won. After playing it every day.

Don't be salty. Try to understand what successful people do that makes them successful. Just because they can't explain it well doesn't mean there isn't wisdom to be had.
The security services here in the UK do what they like, you only have to look at some of the stuff coming out of the troubles in Northern Island for example, or things like the Hillsborough disaster.

The UK is terrible for this abuse of human rights and following their own interpretation of law, and it starts in childhood, usually under the pretence of teaching people/kids a law whilst they get abused.

The British culture is toxic, it needed to be in order to force itself on the rest of the world as a criminal empire.
Yeah, this is one of the things that drives me nuts about these "inspirational" stories where some millionaire/billionaire talks proudly about how their first business failed, their car was repo'd, bank foreclosed on them, etc... but I've never heard one talk about what they did between that and the successful business. Where did they sleep? How did they afford food?
Constitutional protections are VASTLY different from motor vehicle violations.
But you're influencing the particle between each step, right?

Is my understanding correct that you put the particle in a superposition, observe it a little bit further along, then put it in another superposition, observe it further along again, etc until it has moved a meter?

I don't see why you would expect there to be some probability to see the particle as having moved a whole meter after the first observation. Obviously you putting it in a superposition in between steps is an important factor. And each time you've first put it in a superposition and then observed it, you've created two branches of what we would classically call the universe.

The only thing which really changes between an interpretation with collapse and an interpretation without collapse, is that in one without collapse (i.e MWI), the universal wave function splits into two "branches" which can't interact after the split.

Sadly, I don't know much about the math though, so it's completely possible that I've missed some detail in your question and given a reply which doesn't address what you're getting at. If that's the case, I've probably reached my limit and you'd have to ask someone who has studied this way, way more than me.
Good bit of logic and satire and sort of proof by contradiction. I think (not sure) the above point is that if you could show it's malevolent, big implications follow. Probably user j-pg thinks it's not and def not an example of agi. Or maybe his point was chatgpt is seen through an inappropriate prism leading to silly places
I added a comment to this effect at https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...

I'll contact the original author as well. This is definitely an issue that should be listed in "falsehoods that programmers believe about time".
My fav:

#!/usr/bin/env cat

Or even shorter:

#!/bin/cat
You're not wrong about the proliferation of tools, but I'm hopeful it's a necessary waypoint to consolidate on fewer tools.

Take dependency managers; for a long time there was just virtualenv+setuptools, then came Conda, then Pipenv. That was it for awhile, until Pipenv got displaced by Poetry. Now we have at least three others vying for mindshare: hatch, PDM, and Pyflow. They all have a ton of overlap with Poetry, but they're all a bit different.

I think venv/Conda/Pipenv was a tolerable set: barebones, heavyweight for ML, and a tool that feels like what other langs have. I don't think we can handle 4 Pipenv replacements for long, so I hope we see some of these tools replace eachother in the coming years. I'm not sure if the standardization of pyproject.toml encourages or discourages this proliferation, but I think it's a huge win for the community vs setup.py.
+1. I have 3 IPOs and numerous acquisitions, across multiple industries. It's still 50/50 but that's way better than the long odds most people face.

Also agree that it depends on your goals! I've done venture capital deals, self funded deals ("lifestyle"), non-profit & political campaigns, etc - and different stages and goals.

Obviously YMMV: I know people who legit get lucky and then their luck runs out, and I know smart guys who do everything right and can't catch a break.

It's also fun to angel invest. Get to see dozens more companies from (a bit) of the inside.
To be fair PKD predicted a lot of things that make our current dystopian present.

Checkout Vulcan's Hammer for a PKD on AI story.