skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This style of writing is highly misleading.

With careful reading, one can see that author restricts the necessity of fraud to situations where the masses create value for a minority with no external benefit to themselves or anything else.

However this isn’t at all clear at first glance. Read casually, the text appears to state that fraud is necessary for all exercise of power.

The pivotal word of “simply” makes the text difficult to read because the author uses the word to express exclusivity despite the common use of the word to express something like “essentially” or “easily”. This word choice allows the reader to be mislead into thinking that all use of power requires fraud rather than some specific use of power requires fraud.
I just tried Bing Translate, and even though it nominally supports "Cantonese (Traditional)", their translations don't seem to be much better for the example sentence I gave.

"Please give me his book" is translated to: 請把他的書畀我。 While it does use the usual Cantonese word for "give" (畀), the rest of the sentence still mostly uses Mandarin vocabulary and grammar, notably the 把 construction, the third-person pronoun 他, and the use of the 的 genitive particle, which aren't typically used in spoken Cantonese.

Conversely, 唔該你畀佢本書我 is translated to: "Please give him this book me." This seems to indicate that it doesn't understand Cantonese's ability to use measure words (such as 本) as genitive particles, nor does it understand that the word order of the direct and indirect objects in the sentence are switched compared to the usual order in Standard Written Chinese.
It reminds me more of the (now abandoned) Xeon Phi line of processors.
No, they are clearly idiots. Who are against any kind of diversity. Sorry they wasted your time, and hopefully you can find a decent place to work.
>I had to use Macs in college. They crashed just as bad as the PCs.

I also used Macs a lot in college, and had the same experience. People who never used pre-Unix MacOS have no idea how unreliable it was. Windows 95 and 98 weren't great, but there was at least some hope of killing an errant application and continuing on. System 7? No hope whatsoever. It didn't help that Mosaic (and Netscape) wasn't very reliable regardless of platform, but pre-Unix MacOS's own failings made things that much worse for using the emerging WWW.

>Enter OS X. On first boot my first thought was, "This is a NeXT with the dock rotated 90º clockwise" I was less wrong about that than I expected.

I also used (and liked) NeXT machines in college, but not nearly as often as the other platforms; by the time I got to them, they had been relegated to running helpdesk-client software.

I first tried out OS X in 2003. I've been using Linux at home since 1995 and had tried every available desktop: CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment (The horror .. the horror ...), Window Maker/AfterStep, fvwm, and even older ones like Motif and twm. OS X was a revelation.

I still use Linux as a server, but for a Unixlike desktop that actually works and runs a lot of applications, OS X is it. Period.

(I wrote the above on Slashdot ten years ago <https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2940345&cid=40457103>. I see no need for changes.)
k and q are array languages in the APL tradition.
APL is one the "ur programming languges".
https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html

Here's an open source implementation of k: https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/

kdb is a time-series database with deep integration to k.
It is famously used in the financial industry.
I'm not saying that you can't have unbundled pricing, or go with an ultra-economy carrier if that product suits you best.

I'm saying that listing ultra-economy in the same search results as (now so-called) "premium" economy is a race to the bottom. We can stop this race if we just define a standard bundle and force competition on the basis of the bundle price.

If they could charge you extra for the privilege of taking the clothes on your back, they would. I'm surprised they aren't already charging to use seat-back entertainment (or "limited ads" seatback entertainment) or the reading lamp.
One of the biggest drives (for me at least) behind 144Hz is reduced latency. Framegen obliterates that.
No, it is not fair, nor is it correct. The professional response is, that for the most part it is a matter of preference what tools you use and as long as you are proficient with them and you get the work done, it is more important that you can use tools you are comfortable with and accustomed to, because you will be faster.

Nowadays there are few differences between firefox web developer tools and chrome's tools.

IDEs can be powerful tools. To me it seems that in some programming languages they are the default, in others not so much. I don't see much IDE usage in frontend development. But it could be useful when writing TypeScript maybe?

Anyhow. You did absolutely nothing wrong.
So there are other things going on here and I did end up moving from Nest to Ecobee and mostly am okay with the switch. (The bar is very, very low right now.)

But I wanted to clarify about video recording and viewing 100% of clips:

there are two service levels from Google: either you’re grandfathered on older pricing plans per camera and can see a 24/7 recording or you upgrade to new plans per household that they sell now where the camera only records and sends motion or sounds, not 24/7 feed recordings like the old Dropcam used to.

You can’t buy the old way of recording 24/7 from every camera as far as I know, and the only reason I can think of that they switched recording modes is because it saves power and is more efficient so hardware might not break as often via overheating. I mean, they might claim it is more efficient for storage, but they have stationary cameras - compression has to be good, right?

Anyway, just pointing out that generating clips from video recordings is kind of the old way, and the new way is that it somehow automatically makes clips for you as motion alerts.

But… outside of that I agree 100% that Nest has been basically dead since the rebranding. That Ecobee still has any unique features Google doesn’t have largely stems from this lack of innovation.

Ecobee is now owned by a company that makes generators, the kind that runs on gas or diesel. It’s hard to imagine that Google can’t ship new features, apps or software products faster than a company that makes industrial appliances and yet here we are.

Google makes too much money from ads to care about any other way to make money, long term. I’m shocked they don’t just give away these smart devices and wire them up to play YouTube ads with facial recognition at this point.

Maybe they’re waiting for Amazon to try it first, or want to experiment with Google TV ads like Fire TV and Samsung already do. If my Apple TV ever starts auto-playing trailers and ads, I’m going to permanently switch to using AirPlay, I think.

As for the Dropcam, maybe I’ll replace it with an iCloud video camera when the time comes…
> I can't fathom working on the same thing for a decade.

I don't think that is being suggested here? In fact, jvns specifically talks about working on other things for the vast majority of that time. I think the idea is that you're doing whatever you're doing, but there are these threads that you'll return to repeatedly, deepening your understanding each time.

Specialization in one area is an interesting topic (when does it make sense? When is it career-limiting vs career-enhancing? Can it be done in a way that avoids overfitting?) but it's something different than being discussed in the article.
The one-off result and announcement from December 2022 seems to be linked to the funding cycle for NIF at LLNL. For example:

That’s why I’m also proud to announce today that I’ve helped to secure the highest-ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.

https://www.llnl.gov/news/lawrence-livermore-national-labora...

NIF was designed to simulate nuclear weapons, and only switched to fusion power R&D to win continued funding when the military sponsors shifted towards supercomputer simulations.

In fact, the energy from that 2022 test was not breakeven - it was only ~1% of the total energy input.

Inertial confinement does not seem to be a promising route to commercial fusion.
It already hallucinates and doesn’t know what is accurate or not.

A first draft could answer the prompt in any number of ways, then be re-written with another parameter (ethics) in mind. That’s editing, which these LLMs seem suited for, understandably.

Factually, its first draft made a best guess (prediction) of what’s accurate. It has no reason to later “suspect” that a fact can be “more accurate”. More specific, maybe, or scoped to a type of source.
Ben Goertzel: You could probably obsolete maybe 80 percent of jobs
It's a somewhat esoteric, and extremely terse, language used by some financial modeling firms. Influenced heavily by APL, but (thankfully!) without the non-ASCII characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
I sort of agree with you: if I am reaching for the debugger I know I am in trouble! It is good for ... well ... bugs - things that got past QA and are hard to pin down. It is also good for CSS "hacking", as in why won't it work so let's play with different CSS settings.
I find it so disingenuous when people claim "oh well there's only so many notes". Sure, the basic building blocks are the same, but that's like saying every computer chip is the same because they're all made of transistors. It's not about the building blocks, there's an infinite number of ways that you can put them together, and not just by random chance either. Dave Grohl will happily tell you he stole his drum beats from Disco, you would have to be an idiot to claim that Nirvana produced disco music.

The complaints about copyright law are to me atleast, not seeing the forest for the trees. It's much more concerning the conflicts of interest between the music labels and spotify - setting up a deal that essentially siphons off their artists's profits to themselves, than copyright law as it is today. If the market were structured such that the labels had a fiduciary responsibility to their signed artists this market would look very different.
Fair? No.

Termination on grounds of things that _might_ happen is not fair at all.

I suspect there's something else going on, as this reasoning seems spurious.

Whatever the reasoning, this type of behaviour by an employer is a red flag in itself.
I don't know if what you say is true but this looks just like an excuse for them to get rid of you. Not a great place to work anyway.
Is it fair? Sure. Is it fair to you? Probably not.

It sounds like they were looking for a 'fit', and it wasn't you.

That said, these types of things should have been settled during the interview and onboarding processes. If it wasn't, it sounds like a really poor company to work for anyways. Keep your head up, and hope the next one is better.
It's not a lie, because this advice came from a number of HRs I interacted with for a number of years; it was suggested as their personal advice and not their professional one.

One of them even codenamed it "the cloth of protection" lol.
For those on the Middle Meeting rung of the corporate ladder - going to a meeting is at least "billable" as the alternative use of their time is they sit and browse the internet instead.
Yeah, lie about the age indeed.

At this point it's just really a pain to make a server and have some of my son's friends join it. The parents need an MS account, then need to associate with the kid, they need to approve things that seems like you want to show their kids a gory horror film. It's like MS is the parent, or MS thinks I'm a bad parent. Come on, I'm the parent, I'm perfectly capable of guiding my kid online.

I don't do it anymore.
Why would you have to explain those? To whom? You’re an adult and what you do with your time on Earth is your decision. Run away from anyone who doesn’t respect that.
To add to this: the Nest Protect isn’t compliant with Australian, NZ, or some EU countries standards due to it using single-insulated wires and not being compatible with hard-wired interconnects. This has been a problem for 6 years and most licensed electricians refuse to install them, but they just keep selling it? (I’m not actually sure if it’s even legal to sell it technically?)
Came here to ask the same. kx.com is just some marketing page. I still have no idea what kdb+/k/q is.
UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
Apple Fails to Fully Reboot iOS Simulator Copyright Case
You should be thankful that it took you only 3 weeks to realize how rotten was that workplace.
Actually they are also getting good at using tools, generating working code for common problems, helping you explore vast bodies of published information (limited by what it has been trained on obviously, particularly Bing chat seems good at this), and a few related topics.

Limiting factors are mainly interfacing with other systems and tools, expanding the training data to include stuff you need (e.g. up to date documentation for whatever you are using vs. the two years out of date stuff it was trained on). This is more a limitation of UX (chat) than it is a limitation of the underlying model.

It's weak on logic problems, math, and a few other things. But then a most people are also not very good at that and you could use tools for that (which is something chat gpt 4 can do). And people hallucinate, lie, and imagine things all the time. And if you follow US politics, there have been a few amusingly bad examples on that front in recent months. To the point where you might wonder if some politicians are using AI to write their speeches; or would be better off doing so.

It's our ability to defer to tools and other people that makes us more capable than each of us individually is. Individually, most of us aren't that impressive.

Even a few years ago, the notion that you could have a serious chat via a laptop with an AI on just about any topic and get coherent responses would have been science fiction. Now it is science fact. Most of the AIs from popular science fiction movies (Space Odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) are actually not that far of from what chat GPT 4 can do. Or arguably a bit retarded even (usually for comedic effect). You can actually get chat gpt to role play those.
Heh. I thought I was the only one who did this!
I like it! gave me some interesting answers. They are very serious doh! This is just for fun right?
Or one side could attempt to banish people from the other side and instead hand power to the other side ...
People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused
> "shipping the org chart"

It is science :-)

Conway's law: ..complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
agree, its a great book to read and even with after-the-fact knowledge its really interesting and in-depth (very well researched)

it makes a really good (though long) business case study imo
> more efficient

I was going to make a quip about efficiency being more than execution, with development efficiency also being important. But then with it being a comment about C++ vs Java I decide not to...
Console.log and a prayer isn’t exactly the kind of thing I’d like to hear from a dev I’d just hired, tbh.
That's hardly long enough for a holiday. I'd never dream of questioning a three week (or three month for that matter) gap.
Imagine the economic situation we would be in if the majority of jobs became obsolete in a few years' time.
The whole civilization would crumble, possibly hundreds of millions would perish in starvation.
How on earth would that be useful for mankind? I think these predictions are silly.
The problem at its root is despite this stuff being the major external public appearance of Google, it is in fact all just a side show to the real Google -- which is all data centre hosted core services stuff doing ads, search, etc.

Behind all that stuff is an incredibly competent smart SRE team keeping the lights on and keeping things very efficient and reliable. And some boring but diligent SWEs writing the rather boring code to do all that boring stuff. That's what the real Google is, but it's invisible to the public.

But all that ads money needs to be spent somewhere. And you can't grow your staff forever doing "boring" stuff. And if there's an exciting interesting project inside Google it's flies to shit, people stepping over each other for promotion.
I've been much better at getting paid well since I started... creatively reframing my comp.
Like everyone else, you're not reading what you don't want to see.

I said people flag stories that are research papers. As in, published by doctors. Not comments, not conspiracies, just collected data. Doesn't matter. People (like you?) flag them anyway to try and keep everyone else at the same intellectual darkness.
> I wish we could stop judging individuals without understanding the context

"judging individuals without (enough) context" is basically what resume screening is, sadly. There may be 10 resumes that are otherwise equally strong, but one has this "issue". Then that issue might cost the opportunity to give more context. That's just how screening works.
No, you have lost ONE of the major values of JWTs. You still enjoy a lot of the others (standardized data structure decodable by both sides, library support, easy custom payload).

Also, DB calls are not necessary, when it comes to scaling, in-memory caching is a very valid option, so a DB read is only necessary occasionally.

Yes, you lose some of the benefits of JWT but that's inherently expected when using them for something that goes beyond their original capability.
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We are building perhaps the simplest to create surveys in the world(let me know if I'm wrong). Currently, you can get super powerful(NPS, CSAT, PMF etc..) surveys just by filling out 1 text field with the name of the subject.

We are leveraging GPT to conduct the surveys and analyse them. And so far it's doing an unbelievable job, but don't take my word for it - check it out and leave a comment!

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Do yourself a favour and watch "Meetings Bloody Meetings" by John Cleese (I recommend the original one from the 70ies that can be found on the internet archive, not the remake on youtube, also by John Cleese).

It's a funny 30min skit, well worth watching until the end, with a nice recap in the last 5 minutes.

If you follow those guidelines, you will have productive meetings.

In particular, with regard to this app, the meeting would have been cancelled way before any need to swipe, because the chairperson would have not scheduled it (or cancelled it if recurring) in the absence of any agenda items.

Similarly, swiping without knowing the agenda seems unproductive. If there were real issues involved, you've simply postponed until nearer the deadline.
What else is there in the 35-hour battery life/$300 range?

Apple Watch SE starts at $249 and frequently goes on sale at $199. A regular Apple Watch of a previous generation can be bought at $299. Last-generation Apple Watch is $399 but is sold at $329 frequently.

For people who have iPhones it's a no-brainer.

I love G-Shocks and I hope this model will get down to more reasonable $170-180 range.
It is a bit weird to frame one of two competing protocols as the successor of the other, when the only data point for this assertion is that one is older.
Matrix is not even close to the lightweight nature of xmpp.
tweaked the language a bit. thanks for pointing it out.
The cat is the hoMEOWner.
Completely tangential to the list itself, I find the only illustration in this article a bit jarring. It lists the adventures of Odysseus during his journey home and prominently highlights "7 years 'forced' to be a sex slave" with that section in the accompanying bar chart marked with hearts. The quotation marks and hearts suggest this is intended to imply that the sex was voluntary and he was free to leave at any time. I find this pretty vile, especially given that sexual abuse and rape of men by women is still a social taboo.

The story of the Odyssee describes Odysseus as being (literally) charmed by Calypso, a nymph with magical powers. Odysseus is described as longing for his wife, crying himself to sleep and Calypso using him for sex against his will. This is as straightforward as it gets when it comes to a description in Ancient Greece of a man being raped by a woman.

After skimming a few of the other unpaid articles it seems the author prefers implying their biases over outright stating them, often publishing articles with promising or suggestive titles, presenting two sides of an argument, then leaving the conclusion to the readers whose responses may or may not end up in the next article's "mailbag" section. Upon closer inspection the two sides are rarely truly representative of the entire spectrum of an issue, instead revealing a consistent political bent, e.g. Ayn Rand being contrasted with a free market liberal opinion.

It's always worth widening your horizon by reading material from people with contrasting opinions but it's also worth keeping in mind the bias of an author when engaging with their work, especially if it tries to appear objective and neutral.
And if I actually chose cancel - I would spend the whole meeting wondering which so and so prevented the cancellation of this pointless meeting.
You don't have one, so you downvoted. Classic.
I remember working on openssh years ago and when I got into scp - I was "WTF are they THINKING?" sort of thing.

Basically scp logged you into the remote system just like ssh and spawned an process through a command pipe.

For one thing, this completely eliminated the ability to separate "user can run program on remote system" from a much more limited "can send/receive a file".

It's like if nfs access to a filesystem required the ability to log into the remote system.

I'm glad this seems to have been sort of addressed. I don't know if it allows more sane filesystem-access-only ssh access to a system.
As much as he dislikes fighting these cases he is entirely dependent on the money he makes from selling songs and the the way the fact that these have value/are copyrighted allows companies to market him and make him more famous.
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Why not use 'mojo'!
> ...and you consider this a healthy behavior from any working environment?

No. Of course not.

But there's a difference between the world we want to exist and the world we live in. And that world is full of people who behave like your manager and the ones I've seen that led to my observations here.

The sad truth is that you need to be able to read situations like this and adapt to them.

> If you were a boss, at what day would you expect from your newly hired developer to start delivering any result?

I'd suggest flipping this around. If you were a boss, and your new hire jumped in with both feet on day one and started closing tickets, would you let him go after his 3 week probation was up?