skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hang out with the family on weekends, my work day schedule is 9am to 5pm and then 9pm to 2am, Sunday night through Friday at 5pm. The 4 hour window between working sessions is when I hang out with the kids before they go to bed. I usually fit some hours in on Saturday but mostly the weekend is all family time.

All that stuff you mention is mostly my wife during the day. My kids go to school / daycare so she has time to maintain the house and shop.

I work from home and co-founded a fairly large and successful software business that is remote only. This is the only way I can work this much and see family properly.

I’ve had enough exits and frugal savings over the past 20 years to buy multiple rental properties, and I make a good salary.

My wife is very appreciative of what I do and knows all we have is because of my career. She is extremely helpful and accommodating, and we are a team - she manages the kids and house while I make us financially secure.

The best way to summarize my philosophy is long term thinking. I always try to make decisions and investments that help long term, even if there is pain in the short term. You wait long enough and the seeds planted 5, 10, 20 years ago bear fruit. And if you plant those every year, after a while it’s just ripe fruit all the time.

I have no moral issue leaving a giant inheritance to my children - the family unit is the most important thing and I see my work as the beginning of a multi-generational project. I want them to have every advantage in life, but also the philosophical tools to properly manage and grow their wealth, build new businesses, nurture their spiritual and intellectual souls.

There is so much more I could say but I’ve rambled on enough. Like you said we are probably of similar mind in many ways.

One final note is that my family is quite religious which is not typical for big city tech types. However it is a key reason why we are happy IMO.
What are the reasons for the CCP blocking all foreign media apps?

I sometimes wonder what the long-term impact is going to be of allowing advocates for foreign powers to fully participate in Western conversations, whilst not even Chinese citizens (let alone foreigners) can advocate against their own govt in China.
Berkeley's scores from you link:

* College Readiness, 8/10: This school is above the state average in key measures of college and career readiness.

* Test Scores, 9/10: Test scores at this school are far above the state average, suggesting that most students at this school are performing at or above grade level.

* Equity, 4/10: Underserved students at this school may be falling behind other students in the state, and this school may have significant achievement gaps.
I came from a centralized store background — and honestly I'm falling in love with the decentralized data responsibilities. Between React Query (fetch batching & caching) and Jotai (decentralized state) I love that every component can just take care of itself. No more prop-drilling, everyone just declares their dependencies and takes care of their own.
also, is it likely due to Visa situation of those people ?
Programmers love to come up with abstractions that they see in other fields. 99% of the time these are well-known inside the field. Reminds me of that medical paper that got published where the researcher rediscovered numerical integration.
He doesn't want to open himself to criticism from people that might actually do a good job of it.
I wouldn't have believed "megabytes" was an Internet speed, because it never is. It's literally impossible for that to be a signaling rate on any known Layer 2 technology. ISPs use Gibibytes or Tebibytes (which they misname as Gigabytes/Terabytes) for transfer caps, but that's apples and oranges.
In the public school I went to up through 7th grade (in the late 90s), the top 10% to 20% took algebra in 8th grade. In the private high school I went to, most of the 9th grade class had algebra the previous year (whether they went to public school or private for middle school). While by no means universal, it's been pretty common for a while.
Still, that’s what sets a good manager from an average, no?

No different with how there are relatively few good engineers but most are average or bad?

I mean there are companies that put out good products but most are average at best.

I suppose A/B testing is bad in the way that table saws are bad — that they are dangerous and I see a lot of videos of people using them in ways that are gonna chop off their fingers, but I wouldn’t blame the table saw for it or want to take it away.
This sounds nice but would quickly be abused by households with shitty parents (gamblers, drug addicts, alcoholics etc) that would take the kids money. Better to somehow subsidize higher education through some kind of credit system they can earn and then use to pay for college later on... of course the problem then is it would have to scale with the rising cost of tuition.
Oh, right, I had remembered it backwards, and I didn't realize Eno got it from Riley and Oliveros! I guess my chain of provenance is missing a few. Of course, in the hands of any creative musician, I think it would only take a week or so before they thought about making a tape loop on a reel-to-reel recorder.

https://happymag.tv/frippertronics/:

"In September of 1972, the pair met in Eno’s London home studio, where he had set up a tape system developed by avant-garde composers Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros."
> The four-on-the-floor itself was already a feature on electronic club music like Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk

TEE by Kraftwerk is not four-on-the-floor.

See "Analyzing Kraftwerk's Beats" for a full explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qhcp6iVWbw
I will have to disagree with both you and GP to a certain degree.

A developed country is not where even the poor have cars, it's where even the rich use public transport - a quote attributed to many including LKY.

Extrapolating this to the current argument (disclaimer: not read the article), if the same system is thrust onto the rich and poor alike, it should get better over a period of time, no?

This is a complicated question, thoughts welcome.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

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wow, I did not know,l thanks
Garbage site. Here's the Youtube link instead: https://youtu.be/IAqKl1-PsoM
The last copyright extension was in 1998. With the rise of companies like Google, there’s enough lobbying power in the other direction that I suspect (well, hope) that a new extension wouldn’t pass.
Heck yeah we are. Also wherever your house is and whenever it was built theres a 100% chance it was built on a bugs house and theres definitely a haunted mass grave of insects under and around it.
A private, after-school extra curricular program. It’s a national company with many local branches (possibly franchised). Like Kumon, it’s a way for ambitious parents to buy extra academic classes and extra homework for their kids.
LLM OSINT: using LLMs to get info on the web and then perform a task with it
Noob question but how does archive get a screenshot past the paywall of these articles? Doesn't that cause any legal issues for the company or there is an agreed time after which the article is old enough to be archived?
This is in fact how the programs are structured at many high schools with dual-enrollment. Most top high schools in the Bay Area offer such options for Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra. What Palo Alto is doing is dropping formal support of the program - in practice that has meant bringing college professors to school sites and providing these classes without fees for students. Without formal support, students have to pay and have to commute.
We could let utilities fail if we had a special receivership and continuity process for infrastructure. Think FDIC takeover teams.
Wikipedia has an interesting paragraph on the circumstances whereby his autobiography will not enter into the Public Domain as scheduled, but later, due to some "gaming the system".
Hey Sameer,

I am a data analyst with around 5 years of work exp. I love the Metabase product and have used it for data exploration and self service analytics. I have around 5 years of work exp. mostly in startups.

Is the role of data analyst/analytics engineer open to remote (worldwide)candidates or are you looking for candidates from a specific time zone? Open to working according to US hours.

Thanks!
You're describing so many things wrong with humans as a species, or at least modern humans. We shouldn't change things just because we can. We shouldn't assume that if we're able to extract natural resources its also our right to use them without question until they're completely depleted.

Why should we assume that every invention, every technology, everything we call "progress" is actually advancing in a good direction?

There's a balance to everything. We wouldn't be human without the ability to invent, to use tools, or to contemplate the future. We need to respect that power though, not lean into the shiny objects and power we can buy with a currency that itself is an entirely man-made system designed to feed a system of taxes and perpetual "growth".
IMO that SOP essay for higher-ed / graduate admissions was always a comical problems. People took a lot of help from relatives , senior friends, and even professional admission-essay-writers. The content was at best 25% truth and the rest were "what the univ admissions office wants to see" to secure an admit.
"What is color space 1? And what are primaries?"

Be thankful you have the ability to set the color space and primaries within the command. Back in the days of dinosaurs (mid-2000s to 2010ish) and when HD was just an infant sucking its thumb and before Apple updated the MOV container to hold these values, it was even more annoying to get colors correct. The big issue then was gamma settings. Windows used one value and Macs used another, and there were always issues getting them to look the same on either platform.

There was also the bad ol' days of when iTunes would reject your MOVs for not having these primaries and color space values in your files created by Final Cut Pro. It turns out, that within the silos of Apple, they do no communicate back and forth with each other. So the iTunes team read the white paper on the MOV file format and wrote all of their automation expecting these values to be present. Unfortunately, the team writing FCP had not updated their exporter to use these new features of the MOV. So iTunes rejected the files from not being written by an official Apple product!?!? something about left hand ands right hands can be written here. To the point, we had to have a 3rd party app developed to take the files from FCP and update them to be compliant with iTunes.

I still have scars from the shrapnel from those "early" days. If only articles like this were made at the beginning of the features rather than 15+ years after the fact and can be written after doing a google search. So hopefully future me types can find this rather than the hell of needing the feature and having to get the feature developed, and then just try it and hope for the best.
Why should people come into the office so rich people can get richer?

Our lives don't exist to ensure the value of their investments whether it's commercial real estate or sandwich shops.
When you extend the term “software”: Maybe Darwin’s ideas? They also existed long before the public caught on. They also were then widely discussed in newspapers and books. Shook society at the core. And attracted lots of charlatans who abused them to bolster their own unsubstantiated conclusions.

It’s not quite that magnitude yet. But the direction seems close.
The cut of jigsaw puzzles determines how they can be put together, but what determines how they should be is the picture painted across them.

So an ideal jigsaw puzzle has no two pieces with the same cut, preventing you from putting any pieces together incorrectly. This is largely impossible. A jigsaw puzzle where every piece has the same cut, however? That’s simply torture.
Massive amount of ignorance demonstrated here by blaming journalists. This has been a heavy debate within the dance music scene as far back as the earliest days of the Belleville Three. Nearly every fan/everyone involved in the scene has an opinion as to where the genesis was.
Yes it is actually and birthrates in third world countries are much higher
That's exactly analogous to SF not offering algebra (for the students without the means to take extracurricular classes, which are disproportionately Black and Hispanic) - none of them get algebra, so they're all worse off in math in the future. With algebra offered, Black and Hispanic students may be less successful on average at algebra than other groups, but at least Black and Hispanic students that can handle algebra get a chance for better math education.
I work in peaks and troughs.

With the blessing of fully remote work sometimes my troughs happen during the work day and I don’t get much done… and that’s okay.

I do sometimes make up for it by doing deep solo work on the evenings, or solo individual contributor stuff or strategic planning stuff on Sunday nights to kick off the week.
Just tried it. I like that it lists the information sources in the right-hand panel, and provides the digested information in the main panel
As I recall, Space Invaders was the first hit video game. It's really what introduced us kids to video games. However, it was pretty quickly replaced by Asteroids, which was much more exciting. There were a handful of other games, but those were the two big ones. Then, Pac-Man hit the arcade and everything changed. We all forgot about Space Invaders and Asteroids after Pac-Man.
> Zappa and P Funk

Zappa? Do you mean Zapp as in Zapp & Roger ? I've never heard anyone credit Frank Zappa with any exploratory forays into what became known as "techno".
OK sort of like if I used the word distributed in a technical discussion to mean a lot of people in different countries are using our application.

on edit: just seems a weird word to use when that has a precise meaning for food, if they had said a richer selection of food I would understand. But as the discussion was about what makes Americans unhealthy with shorter lifespans, and the unhealthiness of Americans is often synonymous with being overweight, saying it's because Americans eat rich food just doesn't seem to make any sense if what they mean is Americans have a wide selection of food to choose from.
Anyone know much about how this compares to Filament by Google?

https://github.com/google/filament
That’s understandable, but as I read it I thought “if these were contemporary terms he’d probably have embraced them”.
https://archive.is/c7CQI
And of course the biggest (in scale) economic success story of our time is China the last couple decades - which is not a democracy at all as well as having massive government intervention and ownership.
Arrival != death.
On chrome-based mobile browsers your traceroutes are getting stuck in a small non scrollable iframe-type-thing.
So wear two masks.
yes, but there was proper notice given, and the planning permits were on display that construction was going to be occurring. there was plenty of time to relocate rather waking up one day and having the color yellow front of mind and needlessly laying down in front of the equipment.
> However: those European acts that were called "Techno" in the early 80s are now retroactively called "Electro" or "Synth Pop".

This has been my core insight, any one person you are talking to may well be correct given their location and time that they learned about these things.

To 2023 me, "Electro" doesn't have enough information to know for sure what music you mean, but in early 2000's in the Australian club scene, Electro was a specific sub-genere of modern club house. We would probably call it electro-house now that it's not the current zeitgeist.

The fact that I know for sure people will disagree with that is how I know the former insight is right, it's very dependent on time and place, and there is no authority.
Not even Lima, the capital? Is it not common to study what all countries and their capitals cities are called in school where you're from?
I've done the same for slack
> The problem described in the post isn't the fault of package naming schemes

If PyPI used Java-like scheme with domain ownership verification, Google would presumably use com.google.* namespace for their private stuff and it wouldn’t be possible to introduce malicious package this way.

So the described issue arguably is a consequence of that.
A school filled with wealthy families will always have solid readiness and test scores, just because the families can afford whatever help is needed. A quality school wouldn't just let underprivileged children slip through.
For me it’s as useful as online encyclopedias before Wikipedia. I grew up in third world so we didn’t exactly have nice public libraries with all the knowledge in the world. So, as a kid I’d do my homework and then spend hours just reading as much as I could from those encyclopedia Britannia and others.

Anyway I think chatgpt is cool but the issue with these at scale is there’s no way to actually verify or vet its results.

It’s trained on some data and exists within those confines. If it doesn’t know it makes up stuff even when you’ve provided a lot of information in the context.

Now I’m not doing some meme tier crap like make a function that gives me a color hex code.

I’m doing some more complex Postgres debugging and thought I’d use chat gpt and literally getting recommended function names that exist in BigQuery and not in Postgres.

Imo, these tools will find their niche in ultra specialized workflows where there isn’t much requirement for intuition or judgment, and only raw output is needed.

Making data for testing purposes or helping to write scaffolding for common lcd programming tasks, coming up with some headline text or turning a Charles Dickens novel into a ten minute story. Low risk but huge time sink type of work.
Your perspective sounds overly mired in tech and San Francisco issues. For most of the country geographically, it’s good to be able to make a business because you can make money doing something useful for other people, create jobs for others. By doing so you improve and create further opportunities for your community, and your taxes pay for the safety nets (that do exist) and decent schools, and you and your employees can be philanthropic on top of that, which is fairly common.

Building quickly and creating good, reliable jobs don’t have to conflict.
These courses are the next step after Calculus BC. Lots of kids take them with the support of their high school. Paly & Gunn combined have something like 90 kids who take Calc BC their junior year.
My senior year math course (after Calc BC in grade 11) was discrete math at the community college across the street. Felt a little embarrassing for us to take up half the classroom, sitting next to adults, and realizing that most of us high schoolers were towards the top of the class. But other than that unfortunate situation, I think it was a good system, and if anything, cheaper for the school district than finding someone to teach in-house.
I think this kind of problem is less about maths and more about how one might approach an unfamiliar problem. Not knowing where to begin is normal. What you're looking to do is to build up the intuition for how you can break down the problem into smaller pieces so that you can investigate its properties.

x/2 - floor(x/2) is the natural place to start because it's the smallest independent piece of the equation. Take a couple of minutes to plot this on a graph for a small range of values, like 0 <= x <= 6 (deciding what range to check is also part of your problem solving skillset).

With this, you can calculate and sketch out e^(above result) on a graph. Finally, knowing the principle that a definite integral calculates the area under the curve, you should be able to use your sketch to reason out how to calculate the entire original integral.

Hopefully you can see how solving this kind of problem isn't about knowing anything about this particular problem, but simply investigating it without any prior expectations, which is why the author thinks this is an interesting exercise for students.
> ask for catboxes

What's that?
Agree completely. You only have to spend a little time on Hacker News to see how over-rated intelligence can be.

There are plenty of people who can make articulate, complex arguments on a topic but are just not connected to reality. Often it can just mean a greater capacity for self-delusion.

The world is full of "clever fools".
"OG" ?

this is him I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla but I do not get that "OG" :)
Compound interest can be taught in about 5 minutes.
Yes, but to move the needle you need to use another single vendor Mellanox (which nvidia owns).

So the (slight) differentiations are.

AWS - gpudirect and high bandwidth (but also high latency)

GCP - 16 gpus on one machine

Azure/OCI - mellanox
You’re claiming that federal employees weren’t paid at all?
I grew up in the midwest US, and what we called "word problems" were a pretty common component to learning (classes), practicing (homework) and verification (testing). The one that stuck with me is the explanation of how speedometers and police radars actually calculate speed using derivatives in pre/entry calculus. We also learned to write very basic proofs. I would consider both of these to be the essay equivalent of mathematics.

Students who didn't show an interest in higher maths courses either took slower versions of the earlier courses where they could get more time with the material, or more business oriented maths such as basic statistics and accounting.

AP Calculus was the closest I experienced to "shut up and calculate", if only because our teacher somehow managed to get behind the lesson plan in our first week and we ended up doing homework for lessons the night before the class where she would actually explain it. That was the second most brutal experience of my academic career, only after the semester in college where I was taking a macro economics course taught by a Polish grad student and a micro econ course taught by a Greek grad student; neither of them pronounced things (especially, and perhaps obviously, the greek letters in equations) the same way, and it turned into a nightmare keeping things straight.
It's an embarrassing example of how insanely big (and thus regionalized) Canada is and how untravelled that most Canadians are that in writing this post I apparently briefly forgot about the existence of Quebec and New Brunswick. lmao.

I haven't been to Quebec for probably 20 years. If it was dramatically cheaper and easier to travel in this country maybe I wouldn't (even briefly) forget that millions of Canadians speak French as their first language.

But interesting point in that it underlines the problems that a Canadian company would have in diversifying across its own nation. A successful Ontarian company would induce significant cost in expanding to Quebec, a remarkably different jurisdiction with important language regulation that needs to be respected, while the same sort of company in Vermont would have less barriers expanding to all its surrounding states.

(Also for completeness sake, one should point out that there are areas of Canada where indigenous languages are significantly spoken (eg. Nunavut) but they are quite small in population)
Having been in the industry ~15 years, it’s true: the number of glassblowers who would be concerned about that is very small.
Expectation: ChatGPT will destroy developer jobs.

Reality:
> and making the art cutesy.

I can't find it but recall reading somewhere that the original "pitch" for angry birds was just a bunch of bird sketches submitted to a company-internal brainstorming session. Then they tacked on the gameplay etc. afterwards.
GP just happened to be one of the lucky 10,000 on that day in math class. https://xkcd.com/1053/