skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is critically important, because in my experience it can work both ways.

Sure, you can learn writing and exposition on the side, but you'll learn it faster to a greater precision in good courses. You can also learn math and computer science, or whatever "on the side" through research projects and work. It might take longer but it can happen.

It always strikes me as strange to see all these postings to open STEM coursework, but then this idea that someone who is really bright who just didn't happen to major in a STEM program can't pick up a lot of STEM experience through non-coursework experiences.

I know of someone who had history undergrad and grad degrees, for example, but who became heavily involved in computer science and imaging research because of some project involving imaging some artifacts or fragile records (I don't remember what, although it was in north/east africa). It launched a new line of work that was pretty much all computer science and image processing. I suspect by the end of it, which was years, they were probably comparable to someone with a comp sci bachelor's degree in their knowledge. I certainly got the sense they were more competent in computer science by the end of it than some of of the CS bachelor-level graduates I've worked with.

Stuff like this happens all the time. I'm not saying that there's no value in a STEM degree, but there's this weird fixation on certifications in general that's grossly inaccurate. My sense is it happens to make HR departments' jobs easier, nothing more.

We live in this world where it's assumed competency is equal to test scores on a general achievement test, and skillset is equal to degree or certificate. It leads to these gross distortions and over and underemployments — not only in the sense of who is being hired as an employee, but who is being recruited to accomplish tasks and solve problems in professional capacities in general.
Yep, I was looking into running Jobs with Sidecars awhile back and came across this issue. I was actually surprised this morning to see a link on HN be in the "already read" state. Nice to see this feature merged, however our Cluster is on 1.25 I think? Probably a ways away from being able to use this.
Hi your work is very good
I mean, if the maths was right it was right. If it was wrong and people decided to proceed anyway then that's "consensus based" (or bullshit as I ineloquently put it :) ) like non stem seems to be most of the time.

Sorry if I'm missing your point?
> If someone is being paid more, this person has to work more

Given the number of new grads out of college working 60+ hr weeks, I am not sure there is much leeway left for managers to 'work more'.

With a manager's job, time invested and outcome is even less correlated than a code-monkey (no offense, I am one too) who at least has a slightly-less-than-linear relationship with work/time.

Find yourself a good manager. Don't think too much about how long the manager (or any other coworker) chooses to work. A good manager will find a way to accommodate different lifestyles without disrupting the unity or drive of the individual members of the team.
My doctor said I should sleep until I feel rested, there is no arbitrary number.
How Louis uses Testimonials for a B2C app with 10k users
Someone should Google about the .git-blame-ignore-revs file.
> THIS IS IRREVERSIBLE

I might use a word other than irreversible. At a glance, a wishful brain can see “This is reversible”. A vocabulary challenged brain may think “oh cool, it’s reversible”, or revert to the wishful thinking brain.

Ideas:

- ALL YOUR STUFF WILL BE GONE FOREVER

- YOUR ACCOUNT CANNOT BE RESTORED

- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESTORE YOUR ACCOUNT

The thing they keep asking you to do is undelete. Tailor your messaging to explicitly indicate the opposite of the outcome users keep asking for. Irreversible requires some interpretation, even though it probably makes perfect sense to most people.

(Hard learned lessons after years in enterprise product management. It’s amazing how many odd conclusions users can reach about seemingly obvious labels and messages).

Not much to be done about the ones who don’t read at all.
MariaDB's "Business source license" seems like a good bet to me. It has enough consumer protections in it that even I, as a free software zealot, will accept it. Mostly protects the 4 freedoms and compromises relatively little but you are allowed to customize the BSL to do things like lock out commercial use.
yeah no, the people complaining about their deleted data clearly wanted to keep using it - so much so, they didn't expect anything close to migrating away to another location
Some people will add things to their cart and then wait a few hours (or days) to see if they really want it. If they do, it's in their cart, and there's no reason to go find it again. If they don't, they just remove it.

I can see people who shop like this accidentally hitting "purchase" every now and then.
I might be completely wrong here as I've never worked in adtech, but the field seems like a really weird mix of bullshit jobs (the kind David Graeber wrote about), snakeoil, adtech that actually works as advertised, but still feels bad to work on because it's mostly harmful to society, and adtech that's actually legit and ethically neutral.
> I know that Zuckerberg said: "You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."

He himself is always just the same down-to-earth guy who called people "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data.
Setting aside the fact that naively we'd obviously expect basic python to take less time than basic CL, there's plenty of people who are already working in python. So time to learn python (remaining) is 0, compared to non-zero for CL.
It's alright. The visual design is clean but has some accessibility issues and small things that bother me. Dislike the algo-only feed right now (apparently they are working on this). Love the post editor (plus having ~500 characters and 10 images). Interesting to see how it ends up after integrating with ActivityPub, whether anything changes. Still using Twitter and Farcaster (https://farcaster.xyz). Also making me realize the need for social feed aggregators like https://yup.io
I get it too, in Firefox 114 on Linux.
I see. My bad!
This is only an issue on chrome-based browsers; performance in Firefox is much closer to what you would expect. You can/could (late 2022) reliably crash chrome by displaying 1000+ unique SVG files on one page, with each SVG simply displaying a single line of text. My current workaround is rendering the SVGs to png serverside if the client is chrome-based, as canvas feels like the wrong solution.
You can figure out the basics in a couple of hours of reading. You don't need to process it all at once. I started lifting with some dumbbells I found on the street and just practiced moving them around slowly with light weights attached while figuring out which muscles different movements activated, then searched for simple terms like 'dumbbell shoulder exercises'.
> Nothing to do with remote.

A lot of those people are comfortable slacking off when noone see them, but will work when being at work.
I think the more important thing is coming up with a better way to do these things _without_ permissions.

The core issue of permissions systems in my mind is the user. All of the pop-up permissions boxes on phones are really nice, it's helpful that Android now removes permissions from apps if they're unused.

But that doesn't stop the average user from just hitting "yes" to permissions without reading them because they just want to use the app they just installed. It's exactly the same problem as nobody reading Ts&Cs etc. Our species has an apathy for this stuff.

We should really just be sandboxing the shit out of everything. On Android (as an example) if I install a file manager app, I can only give it access to _everything_. But also as a user, even if I could give it granular access, it's easier to just give it access to everything because it's...easier.

The location pop-up is nice, I usually hit "only while using the app" but I'm sure plenty of other people give their apps access to fine location data at all times. Is this a platform problem? Maybe Apple is right in being so strict about usage of data, even though privacy is just marketing/a selling point to them (I laugh if people think the world's richest company _genuinely_ cares about privacy on a human rather than financial level).
Reminds of the time some fraternity brothers parked a compact Ford on Ho Plaza sold sledgehammer whacks for $1, I said "I always wanted to bash a Ford with a sledgehammer."

For me printing is a "special interest" and I try to never "get mad" at printers but always "get even" in that I don't complain about the results I get but I figure out how to get better results.

For instance lately I found the color management system of the printer and Photoshop was screwing up my red-cyan stereograms so I developed a CMS specifically for stereograms and I am now applying the same method to high color gamut displays.

Almost all the photos I put on social media are pictures of my cards with photos and other images on them

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/media
Maybe most of people having regular office hours. But between retirees, unemployed, shift-work, small kids, stay-at-home parents, and other irregular hour lives its probably difficult to say when most people are awake
.. Or European countries and their policies dating hundreds of years back.
This is sloppy and lazy in its generalizations from Google and Amazon to "tech companies" in general. They should really say something like "monopolistic tech behemoths that are in the top 10 of the S&P 500".

I've worked in tech before, during, and after the hiring boom; but not for any of these companies. I have seen very little of the sort of make-work that is described in the article. Sure, there is no guarantee that research efforts will be utilized, but making that the goal from the start for political reasons is so terrible that it's likely that only FAANG bureaucracy is bloated enough to sustain it.
Ah, that was a poor word choice on mine. I meant "for a good manager, you need an appropriate organization."

That said, I somewhat reject the idea of "laws of leadership." Too situational and way too much "had the best people working for them" involved in so many of the success stories out there.
I'd also consider myself to be a direct communicator and always think twice when reviewing someone's PR / doing code review. My team is completely remote and things can get awkward at times. Often, it may come off as unnecessarily harsh or may make it seem like I'm telling them what to do. Like it or not, the tone of the review can greatly influence the morale of the team.

I found this[1] to be a good resource. Another thing that has helped me is adding a prefix to my review. Classifying it as: suggestion, nitpick, props, etc. More about this here[2].

[1] - https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/30/how-to-make-good-code-...

[2] - https://emmer.dev/blog/code-review-comment-prefixes/
The likely reason behind this, given today’s news, is https://stgraber.org/2023/07/10/time-to-move-on/
The same can be said for most of the entire world.

That still doesn't make turning your country into a postnational state a good decision.

I'm still of the opinion that making Canada a post national state would be devolving the country even though I already know what you pointed out.
> It's more a measurement of how useful you appear to rich people. You can't make money being useful to people without money.

I disagree that the two types of people are "rich people" and "people with no money"; the latter of which is vanishingly rare in developed countries.

> You can make money convincing rich people you're useful to them when you're not.

You can, but I don't think this accounts for all or most or much movement of money.
Great way to mix two different processed. Personally, I would say ‘Sorry, Sweden’
Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading:

-The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson

-The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos

-Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson

-Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White

-The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester

-Edison by Edmund Morris

-Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

-The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts

-Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler

-The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

-The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

-Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone

-The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

-The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

-Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.

-The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

-Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney

-Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland

-Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson

-Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie

-The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure

-https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

-De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola
The 8086 emulation would work by trapping every segment register load, emulating the instruction's real mode semantics, and then loading the new CPU state using the undocumented LOADALL instruction.

In principle this should work on any stepping. I'm not sure how Digital Research implemented it, but they might have relied on some detail of the exception handling that changed between steppings. For example, if early steppings left "invalid" values in segment registers instead of zeroing them, DR might have used these instead of going to the effort of emulating the faulting instruction?

Concurrent DOS/286 became FlexOS, which seems to be available here (but I haven't tested it to see if this actually includes the real-mode emulation, it might have been a feature that was only in the prototype):

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DigitalResearch/Flex...

In any case, this way of running real mode code might just be too impractical. For "large model" programs using more than 64K data, every pointer dereference would have to be trapped and emulated, taking possibly thousands of clock cycles instead of just a few. You could optimize accesses to code and static data segments by defining protected-mode selectors for those, but running code that e.g. walks a linked list allocated on the heap might be intolerably slow.

Also all of the memory allocated to the program would have to be in one contiguous block, since there is no linear->physical address translation in the 286.
Lol great attitude. why would anyone pay money to any company you manage now or in the future if you deliberately trash user data and justify it with 'but we emailed you a couple of times first'
Interesting seeing job postings wanting 5+ years of LLM experience. Like unless you were at OpenAI working on GPT-1 or Google on BERT there's no one else in the world with that much experience and your shitty Startup/Fortune 500 company can't afford them anyway.
> Why not "a person who went to a school you've never heard of, but has a job they enjoy deeply and that gives them purpose"?

Because by and large people go to university to have a better chance of making more money
You're correct. There is no ethical consumption under late-stage capitalism.

All civilization requires is to politely ignore each other. But if somebody goes out of their way to make themselves obnoxious, they make politely ignoring them impossible.

So you might choose to pretend you didn't overhear the local dry cleaner manager making racist comments on the phone. But when a fast food chain goes out of its way to make it clear that they support anti-gay causes, I will never shop there again.

My choices won't be consistent with yours. They won't even be consistent with each other. But I won't let inconsistency stop me from taking at least a stab at doing the right thing.
Surprising things I learnt from the book Outlive by Peter Attia
What is the reason for that? I think they should be long gone for the lack of proper data structures, if nothing else.
No, it won't, honestly.

I was drinking 2L/day at my peak, while I was sleeping 6 hours a day (Ph.D. corrections). It gives you awakeness, but the not the concentration of a well rested mind.

Nothing replaces sleep, since your brain flushes its toxins through your spine to be expelled from your body.

Sleep is underrated and deprivation of it kills you slowly.

I work way better with half a mug of coffee (a Starbucks tall) and proper sleep than two Ventis and not enough sleep.
Pakistan did not suffer "Western military operations", at least not recently and at a big scale, and half of the refugees in the ship were probably Pakistani.

"Humanitarian" intervention has always been an excuse to conquer, at least from the times of the Persian Empire or so.

And there have been refugee waves wherever there had been war and famine - that is all over the globe, with nothing explicitly indicating the "western interventions" are outsiders
I’ve found the opposite… because of the complexity and noise the social sciences are using more sophisticated statistical methods than the “hard” sciences. In grad school I took Bayesian probability theory classes from social scientists because my “hard” science peers were still using frequentist statistical tests, often applied inappropriately by just copying methods from past papers that also applied the methods inappropriately. The social sciences in general seem to be a decade or two ahead in adopting improved methods, and researchers spend a lot more time understanding these methods, writing custom software and models, etc.

IMO, mathematical and computational “literacy” is particularly low in the medical and life sciences compared to the social sciences, physics and chemistry are not quite as bad.
Well, here in south west Virginia, it was a company dumping waste into the Roanoke River.

>Since 2014, ProChem has been servicing “vessels” — which are the same configuration as home water softeners and serve essentially the same purpose — that are part of the manufacturing process at a Chemours plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. After ProChem removed calcium and magnesium compounds from the units, they were returned to Chemours.

>Samples of ProChem’s wastewater that were discharged into a sewer system that leads to a Montgomery County water treatment plant showed levels of 1.3 million parts per trillion.

>“If ProChem had been made aware of the presence of GenX on those vessels, it would not have accepted the order,” the company said in a statement released Friday. “As soon as this knowledge was obtained, the service of these vessels ceased.”

https://roanoke.com/news/local/how-the-source-of-a-forever-c...

https://www.deq.virginia.gov/topics-of-interest/roanoke-rive...
ESignature for SaaS
I developed an ancestor of YOShInOn, my smart RSS reader, to process large numbers of job applications. The first time I tried this I got a job in two weeks, the second time took a little longer.

If I hadn't gotten a job when I did. I would have given myself a job removing scam job listings from "America's Job Bank."
It really isn’t thought. I might help 10 very reach people and make a lot of money or I might help 1000 and do it for free. Money is not an excellent proxy metric. Money is just money.
>dozens of elements with a tiny percentage

That's really the ask, isn't it? What else is in there that hints of manufacture? Even a few ng of precious metals such as platinum would tell us they were not natural formations. Something extremely rare, say Erbium, would be evidence that these are extra-terrestrial parts.
Yes, but if I stay up late I can mindlessly doomscroll through the dregs of reddit, so who can say which is better, really?
Right now, I don't see any value in Meta Threads beyond the usual festival of parading celebrity posts in front of everyone else struggling to make a name for themselves. They dropped the ball on creating opportunity for discovery, just as all these other failed platforms have done. There also seems to be some sort of social rank that is assigned to every account behind the scenes, where it clearly plays out in terms of which accounts grow and which ones don't. It's really the same old model, with less features to sugar coat the real basis of the app (which is to just do the same thing eventually ---> -ad sales- in a new suit).

It does not appear that any real algorithm is at work. It is just foisting stagnant posts by celebrity accounts in front of everyone, and promoting the same people that had high follower counts on Twitter... Nothing about the app is revolutionary, at all.

The site also has been randomly muting videos I upload without any sort of explanation, and there has been no response from support for this issue since I submitted it on day 1. There is very little video content, and video is not displayed particularly well, so that rules out any strong competition with TikTok.

Even though an app has 100 Million people signing up, most aren't posting, and that's just an indication that people just want to prevent others from stealing their IDs, or that perhaps many are registering fake accounts to sell or use for brigading later on. If nobody uses their accounts, it's a failure, so reports about "wild success" means very little in my opinion, especially when registration for most was simply a few clicks over from Instagram to start an account on Threads.

It doesn't seem like there is much thought behind products of this kind in terms of adding value to the experience for users... There are really just a bunch of tricks and PR to keep people signing up and in keeping people uselessly posting in hopes they will go viral. Meta built a platform, so what? They already ran 3 terrible ones that are failing miserably... In order to compete now, you have to burn a lot of cash, which pretty much shuts out the really innovative ideas, and it shows. Meta Threads is a half-baked clone of a bad era from Twitter, they really didn't ask themselves what they should have done differently, they just cloned Twitter.

This is where we are in terms of the Internet, original ideas that are highly helpful and highly functional just aren't happening, there is only "bait and switch" ideas and strategically planned opportunism developed strictly around baiting people in for profit, and that's going to just keep failing hard over time. It's really not differentiated at all from what has been done before, and it's painful to think that all that money and labor went to just recreating the same old "spinning wheel" of artificial online celebrity adoration and suppression of undiscovered talent that happens in pretty much every other major social media app these days.
That's definitely a mistake for it to be like that, but it doesn't seem like a big problem in practice.
Look at the "+ New message"
One time Apple asked us why we needed bluetooth permission for an app that had the singular purpose of using bluetooth "iBeacons".