skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea this is important. A dev should absolutely not be picking up any kind of phone and talking to any kind of customer. This is a job for sales people. If some nervous dev could manage to make any kind of sale at all, then that means a trained professional salesperson can do probably 10x that much.

Don’t think just because you are very smart you can do sales. This is like business people trying to “learn coding” so they can put together some huge product. It doesn’t work well and isn’t scalable.
Taxi companies, restaurants, gyms - see if you can get some people to pay you to put some native ads on your site for a while...
Textbooks have separate publications called errata, usually findable on the author's website, or your favorite search engine. You should basically never open up a textbook that you are independently studying from without also opening the errata.
Well yes that is what I meant, although reading the original language has a different feel to it.
Well also Tarkovsky died from cancer not a whole lot of time after.
It’s not assuming we are near the limit of intelligence.

Let’s assume we can build something 3x as intelligent as a single person. What exactly can it do that a single person can’t? The thing is the world is filled with super human intelligence, groups of people can create things that are beyond any single person but they are still constrained by physical reality.
> What planet are we on.

A planet where many people (but perhaps not enough) can access to very safe and effective birth control in a way where both people in the partnership have some control over their ability to conceive a child.
YoY population increase of 1% is quite difficult to sustain, it puts considerable stress on already stressed markets and social systems.
That is a good way to get some ancient wisdom, and sometimes some incidental history, but it's surprising how little it will inform you about what those religions teach in contemporary practice. I don't think I could read the Bible and derive from it anything like the range of modern Christian belief and practice.
Not trying to justify phone manufacturers not putting in the effort to optimize their software, but one way around the slow UIs is to go into the Developer Settings and turn the UI animation speed to 0x. It's a setting I've always enabled on my Android phones when I used to use them.
Would you rather one person lose a hand or many people lose a finger, that's effectively what you advocate for here.. distribute the impact that would natural affect few onto the many and with no actual analysis to see if we minimized harm overall. I think the lack of empathy can cut both ways.
Who was being exclusive, exactly? And how?
'How To Read The Bible' by James Kugel (of Harvard University) is great for Judaism and Christianity. It goes through the history of how the text was interpreted - both critically/historically and how religious people interpret it.
How much of that was making the marriage official or just committing to a long-term partner?

I know someone who was with their partner for years, and has been engaged for years more. I've come to the understanding they'll likely never actually marry. They appear to just want some negotiated commitment. Actual marriage appears to carry strings they're reluctant to accept. (Funds appear to be kept separate as well.)
While that’s true. Only a tiny minority of developers work at the well known public tech companies.
Wouldn’t you consider the C standards committee as the leadership of C?
When you look at some repeatedly married people, both now and in history, and ask "why?" the only conceivable answer is, "They both felt they had to BE married."

For all the usual reasons, they thought it was unacceptable to be single, both to society and to themselves. For the latter, it was the feeling, "I'm a loser whom nobody wants." In many societies, it IS almost unacceptable to be single. Thankfully that's less so in Western societies these days.

I'm not saying that's the only reason, but if we're looking at the big picture, that's a huge part of it.
I do this with family too.

Our natural accent is a mix of the many places our family has lived and a fair few words that have stayed with us that most people don't use. It's ours and we love it. But I don't expect other people to know that.

When on the phone or a zoom with everyone, we'll drop into the natural accent. It's especially bad when we get drunk and do so. My SO has had a time learning 'us', and we've added some of their familys' ticks too. I guess it evolves with each person that comes in.

I had a friend in college from Boston's South Side and when he was drunk and on the phone back home, he was unintelligible.

I agree with calling this 'code switching', but to me (and maybe I'm alone here) that sounds a bit, I dunno, negative. Like I'm being forced to speak in a manner that I don't want to because of money. That's not it.

I speak with my family in a way that is a bit more private. We have our own little thing that outsiders aren't a part of. It's not exclusive by any means, but we're not worried about being understood. I think my family understands that a more common form of communication is needed for the rest of the world.

Actually, you know, we do call the form of English we use at work 'Cash English'. So, I'm full of BS here, maybe.
Search "Victoria Nuland" and it will come up.
I find the capability of LLMs deeply surprising, so I want to track down the source of the surprise before doubling down on anything (except the argument from Slavic pessimism, which the killbots will have to pry from my cold, dead hands)
If you are going to argue on the basis of systems you don't understand, at least get your facts right. The class you are blaming is not the merchant class.

It seems quite interesting that this class becomes the focal point of any attack based on ignorance.

Also, your other replies about jatts is definitely not true. There are various sources that class them in the merchant class responsible for agriculture and trading.
New kinds of widgets, composition of classic widgets, view models, event handling (selection state, drag and drop, user inputs), visuals, shortcuts and accessibility.
Dreaming is not a sign of intelligence, it is just a quirk, there is no reason other intelligent species must dream.

Octopuses are intelligent, but their nervous system is very different from ours, less centralized. We think they might dream, but it might just be anthropomorphism.
I would be willing to bet that the 3% stat doesn't hold true for HN users
Americans somehow expect that they can wage economic warfare against China, trying to wipe out its entire tech sector, and then ask China to go out of its way to help the US control its own drug problems. If the US wants Chinese cooperation, the US should act reasonably towards China in other areas.

This is not even to mention how crass the comparison between TikTok and the Opium Wars is.
Would love to hear it too
For Christianity I highly recommend Saint Augustine’s Confessions. It is very readable and the author’s intellect shines throughout.

Edit: I hear very good things about C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity too, but I've never read it.

Also there's always Aristotle. Thanks to him we know there is not really a clear line between theology and philosophy. It's fascinating to me that an ancient Greek pagan derived a kind of classical monotheism as being philosophically necessary. One may disagree, but I don't think anyone seriously interested in the subject denies the importance of his contributions.

Others have already suggested the various holy and foundational texts as being worth reading. I'm inclined to agree on account of for thousands of years before printing when keeping a book extant was extremely laborious people from every culture chose some writings as being particularly precious. Surely they had what seemed to them at least to be good reason.

And casting a broader net, reading the myths and stories of the religions can give you a good feel for how believers see it. I'm mostly familiar with Viking and Greek myth, but there is a rich tradition of mythology in the east too. I've never made a serious study of the Vedic stories, but I've read a few adaptations and there is a lot of interest there too.
Principal Software Engineer has two different meanings depending upon your corner of the industry... at big tech companies (and those that adhere to their precepts) it means you're one of a handful of top technical ICs that makes org-wide decisions. In more traditional "IT" jobs it means that somebody half a world away in HR decided that anybody not a manager is a Principal fill-in-the-blank with Junior or Senior possibly tacked on the front. It's been my experience that people aren't aware of this distinction and I would imagine that this skews the job title/salary graph.

Case in point: I was a Principal Technical Specialist - Software Engineer long before I was a Senior Software Engineer. Guess which job was better-paying and required a higher level of technical acumen...
It's infinite but not free. Larger context still means more VRAM used and longer compute times.
Both of those goals can be accomplished without marriage; a will can be free although I consulted with a probate attorney and established a revocable trust, and a probate attorney can also help with the medical decisions paperwork.
>These things have nothing to do with the DSA.

Yeah, only with the political climate the DSA will be enforced in...

>Though, I doubt these hold in courts;

Doesn't matter as they can still be used by the police to harass and intimidate people. Getting arrested or just facing a legal battle and having to go through it is intimidating in itself, even if you end up winning the case.

(And such fines have held in court before)
IIUC, both cities will be in catastrophic trouble.

There was a very compelling and alarming article several years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

(Tektronix is great.)
I'm a big fan of the "Very Short Introductions" series from Oxford University Press. They're usually brief and gives a wide starting point to a lot of different viewpoints of a subject, useful as a starting point into a topic. Seems there are about 730 books published in the series so far, with a wide range of topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Short_Introductions

I personally haven't read it, but there is one for religion as well, "Religion: A Very Short Introduction" (9780190064679). Then there are a bunch of them around specific subjects in religion as well, browse the list in the Wikipedia article and you'll find them.

I've read maybe ~20 books from the series and all besides two or three have been of utmost quality, so probably this one is at least a good starting point.
Is Silicon Valley still aggressively paying people such salaries? I have no idea how Silicon Valley works but all my Indian tech friends and relatives seem to flock there and never want to leave. I wonder what makes you not want to leave that place. Can’t be only the big salaries.
Not a single mention of Linux. Hope the windows community comes together and finds ways to harden these exploits
Is your iOS device hardened, e.g. Lockdown Mode, locally supervised by Apple Configurator 2 with restrictive policies, whitelisted WiFi without auto-join, disabled AirDrop, etc? You can also look for forensic artifacts in iOS device backups.

https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/ios/methodology/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

https://github.com/citizenlab/malware-indicators

https://github.com/sroberts/awesome-iocs
> There's also something about the rhythm and the melody (and possibly the instruments - such as acoustic versus electric).

“New” country music follows formulaic measures and beats, and doesn’t tend to experiment. If there is an ear worm section to a song, it’s made very obvious, and almost seem to invite people to “stim”.
I'm an Anglican (Episcopalian) deacon – your question is perhaps slightly problematic, in that "religion" is extremely difficult to define. Westerners (confessional Christians or not) tend to have in mind something that looks a bit like protestant Christianity. Faith traditions intersect with culture and history and everything else.

Brent Nongbri's "Before Religion" is good on this; he engages with the whole concept of "religion" and pulls it apart; you mention the idea of evolution of religion, which is itself an idea he critiques. You might find it very interesting.

I can't speak for any other major faith, but if you want a thousand-mile in the sky view of the history of Christianity, Alister McGrath's "Christian History" is a decent start. You might find short courses being run at a local university or theological college.
The world has always been a sad and pathetic place, it just shifts over time on what people consider that to be. It's also a joyous and wondrous place if you let it be. Humans have been caught in the same for loop since we became conscious and capable of higher order thinking. The amount of enlightenment has been waxing and waning over time but with an upward trend line since that point in time.
Nah, defender is a PITA. There is theory and there is reality. Theoretically you can load a vuln driver and load a rootkit or just disable defender but both those things are highly detectable in mature environments. But a developer or jetbrains.exe setting up a nice dev drive is too noisy for a detection and too burdensome on your devs to block it outright.
"Github pages, Netlify and many others completely free" still require you to create yet another account. Always a pain when all you want is get a few words out. There might have been a useful goal in that it prevented spam, but today it's not even preventing that anymore.
There are non-tech companies that give stock options and bonuses to software people. Many in those stodgy/established areas you mention.
Run a SSH honeypot. You can capture plenty of Linux malware.
Well, speaking for myself, it's just the browser I use, I don't necessarily love it but it the standard browser with the least headache.

As for the extension, it doesn't depend on anything other than hackernews and the search api, so a port should be easy.

Update: It's now available as a userscript, tested on Firefox with Tampermonkey
> Because nobody e.g. teachers, students, parents wants remote education.

Plenty of students do. The percentage of parents that does is indeed small, but not trivial either.
Ask HN: If I learn MapReduce or Golang, would you hire me?
I am 38M, with 17 years of work-experience in marketing and sales. I feel like my career is going nowhere. I am not a programmer but I like reading about technology. I visit HN daily and have been in the technology industry all my life (tech journalist --> content mgmt --> marketing --> sales --> client servicing --> marketing).

I went through this discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104168) and the article, I was just wondering: If I start learning some of the top paying computer science skills (MapReduce, Golang), will I be hired and get a good well-paying job?

I am currently earning 55k USD annually in a European country working as a marketing manager in a venture funded B2B tech startup. Before that I was at Director level but in a developing country, earning 33k USD annually at an IT services company, heading client servicing. I'm a graduate from a normal university and not from a traditional top-tier university.

Thank you.
Or charge to remove the casual references to how product X sucks
A phone number is a number in a colloquial sense (a string of digits) but I would hate to use any computer system where phone numbers are stored or reasoned about as actual mathematical numbers.
It’s a huge book and not particularly well-written, but I recommend Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. It helped clarify a lot of things about the modern Western world and our relationship with religion and secularity.
> And then they pushed them out of the conference behind leadership's back?

If I understand the story correctly, they downgraded the talk from a keynote to a regular talk. Which — if, like you say, was about purely technical thing that was pretty widely disliked conceptually — maybe shouldn't have been a keynote in the first place?
But distilled liquors were a product of the Industrial Revolution. Of course it is perfectly possible to go about in an alcoholic haze on fermented drinks--Samuel Johnson said that the people in his hometown were soberer on wine than they had been on beer. But the scientific explosion preceded the gin.
A lot of disinformation about this initiative flowing around. I hope they succeed; it would greatly improve both citizens' and businesses' life when moving from a member state to another. That said, there are some legitimate concerns (e.g., regarding prepaid SIM cards and the initiative's connection to EHDS, which contains some serious privacy issues).
Ah I see. What I meant about "these things" are the corresponding French laws, not the individual person in question. The ECtHR already in 2013 raised concerns and I think also the French courts share these.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/03/30/heres-the-story-...
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In this context, it's a figure of speech, meaning a game of pretending.

Literally, it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
They wouldn't have any liability if Nintendo filed no DMCA claim.

They would need to comply to the claim if/when filed, but could have passed the bucket to the Dolphin team for any defense while they're off Steam, and let them duke it in court if Nintendo sues.
What does "last minute" mean here? Isn't RustConf in mid-September and it's a single track conference so speakers are heard by all participants? It would be a good way to get your work and opinions out to the broader community.

Clearly the process was botched and more effort should've been made to come to a mutually beneficial solution, but going from an invited keynote (great honor) to an invited talk (honor) is not what I would call a deliberate attempt to "disgrace one of the experts in my field."
I have had the opposite experience and don’t recommend this series at all. Every book I’ve read from it is either rambling and hard to follow or simply not written for a beginner audience. You’re better off reading the Wikipedia page.
Are LOLBINs still an issue for most companies? I was under the impression that most endpoint detection products simply trace all syscalls, and therefore can somewhat accurately extract information about exploitation events without relying on a "foreign" file artifact.
hey gregman11,

sorry I didn't your first part about the chat server

> And what is this? This is an expensive security breach.

Great question,
From the data perspective, we don't store any kind of information, the logs are retained by GitHub, for each run we issue a registration token and use it for spinning up the runner and it is gone. When the job is finished the VM and the filesystem get deleted, and if your security needs prohibit you from using a SaaS you can use Open Fire in your own infrastructure.
We're working on our process of getting the SOC-2

> How can it be cheaper to have a runner elsewhere? And how hard is to self host a runner?

like any engineering problem, self-hosted solutions come with tradeoffs and at the end of the day all depends if the benefits will overcome the effort that you need to put to build, operate and run your solution, in the post, I made a not exhaustive list of thing that you need to do in the self-hosted case if you can pay that price and still get benefits then that is the way to go in your use case, as always the question is the same, why use Dropbox if I can build it myself? Yes, you can build it but is it worth it? or just pay 5 bucks and use it.

Thanks for your questions, I hope you have some more
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Oh for sure. Just saying in this specific bulletin there's no mention of Linux or macos targets.
The point you appear to be making is the same point made at every step in computing history. It's an old and predictable refrain going back to assembly programmers complaining about the laziness and bloat of C development.

Yes, bad software can suck up all your RAM and CPU time. This was a concern on the family's XT clone with 1MB of RAM. The only reason the bad software back then didn't suck down 32GB of RAM was because they hit the system's limit far earlier than that.

That said, there have always been efforts to reduce the overhead of individual apps. Docker for all its bloat was a dramatic memory and CPU boon over full virtualization. New languages like Go and Rust have much better memory profiles than Java and C# before them. Qwik, Svelte, and Solid are all worlds better in terms of efficiency than React and Angular.

There are clear improvements and also clear highlights of waste within our industry as there has always been. But if you can only see the waste and bloat, you are sadly missing large parts of the whole picture. The truth lies somewhere as a mix of the two extremes, and the overall capabilities of the current landscape are unambiguously more advanced than they were 5, 10, and 15 years ago.
That's a gross oversimplification.

It's only close to true for those kids that would have done reasonably anyway.

For those kids that don't have the kind of family environment that will allow them to catch up, it's gonna be a long haul. And they may never get there. That weighs on them for the rest of their time — on the education system, while they're still in it. And it weighs on us, in terms of the resources they take away from other children in education, and then on wider society later in life.

Since the lockdowns, there seems to have been a change in the mindset of some groups — skipping school has been made acceptable. There's a whole bunch of kids that might never return to education as a normal routine. It's likely the hangover will be long and painful for some groups.
So, do it. Don't ask for others to spoon-feed it to you, contact the owner, take the matter in your hands.
That's correct, this talk was given back when nerds were reading his book and scaring themselves silly.
> they have to belittle and berate users of other languages because their choice (or not: employment is what it is) isn't "correct."

I keep hearing people claim this to be the case, but I've never seen this behavior as described in the wild - I only see the complaints about it.

Yes, Rustaceans will evangelize and whatnot but I don't see the belittling or berating.
They kind of go out their way to highlight that the sample size that chose that option was low. Hardly worth throwing out the article simply because there was an outlier.
After the Bible & The Quran, Reza Aslan’s “Zealot” (Christianity) & No god but God (Islam) provide some great historical context.
What about a credits type setup?

You get a few free uses each week and then you need to buy credits/sign up and unlock more?
If (2) was a core piece, then having worked on enough open source projects I can assure you that informal code of conduct didn't do shit. ;P
Found it at: https://imaginationlibrary.com/usa/book-list/. Really nice, there's even a pdf of the contents.
They do explicitly call out that this one has under 100 data points. There's a few people who are well paid and are running software on map reduce. That's all.
Got it: ["Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang... ), by Nick Bostrom (2014).

Guess I saw the title, "Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people", and thought of it as being about that general topic (of superintelligence), rather than being about a specific book.