skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They cared, but nobody could find a way to get from 11% to 25% and the overall market might have been shrinking.

IMO it was the right decision. Does it make sense for a company to continue keeping folks who fail to meet an objective of getting from 11 to 20-25%? Is it fair if other departments are able to pull off similar feats and one department isn't?

Seems like layoffs were probably restructuring to keep best of the talent and a last ditch effort to try to get the talent to make it possible. When that failed the company realized the best way to achieve that was to exit the division and double down on the ones that could.
If you use this logic to "disprove the elites", could you answer the question I posed to GP? Why do you think the elites care about their properties? Why wouldn't they buy them to get another good 10, 20, 30 years out of them before it's too late?
Thanks, Small Prolog looks neat.

Since I couldn't find an author name in the github repo and had to grovel through the Dr. Dobbs article for it, I'll copy it here: "Henri de Feraudy during the late 1980s".
looks interesting but i spend so little time watching my desktop actually...
This is a strange attempt at trying to justify a clearly undemocratic move that is widely unpopular.

Ohh but the system said it’s constitutional to do it this way … as long as it’s only done a few times ….

Ohh and it was necessary to protect the financial stability of France which has historic wealth inequality … lol.

Sad times for western civilization.
Could you explain what you mean and where the author is wrong?
1. Glass jar with less than 1cm deep apple cider and a tiny bit of dishwasher soap, then cover the opening with that pesky plastic foil nobody likes. Poke some holes with a toothpick.
2. Shake a bit to release the cider aroma. Leave near fruit and other edibles which are covered with fruit fly eggs already when you bought them.
3. ???
4. Profitz!!1!
Yeah, I think there is a tendency to over-simplify the duties of responsibilities of a MM as "printing money", as if it's a passive business that solely relies on existing infrastructure (of course, just the existence of a boat load of directors and MDs all with their niche electronic trading/MM products is an indication it's not so simple, but I digress) and scale -- that is just not true.

I try to explain to retail investors and outsiders interested in markets that this whole operation requires a truly mind-boggling amounts of money and brainpower to keep going on a regular basis, but it's hard talking to people who have never experienced working in the industry.
> weary

Nit: you probably meant wary, though I am also weary of politics.

But I agree. The solution is limited power in the center of government. If you don’t want your political enemies to have the power you enjoy, then you need to abolish that power, because sooner or later it will turn on you.
“The FBI on Friday sent a letter to House and Senate leaders noting that several different reviews found agents have complied with FISA guidelines at least 98 percent of the time.”

It’s in that 2% you get tyranny.
You need to take a trip up north and/or to coastal UK towns if you think this is the reality. 60k a year would be a well paying job up here. At my previous job, 60k is what the Technical Development Manager was on, who was in charge of multiple development teams. Senior devs were typically on 40k - 55k, mid level devs on 28k-35k and junior devs 22k-28k. And this was an international company (UK mainly but recently opened in the US) which was raking in over a billion in revenue. The UK is a very unequal place.
They're the same characters in Chinese, and pronounced differently, so I doubt your hypothesis in this case.
There are some great Frontiers journals and plenty of amazing papers. Here is some nuance:

“As of 2022, 96 Frontiers journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index, two of which are rated 'Level 2' (top 20% of all journals in the field), and more than 88 journals has been rated "Level 1" (standard). academic journals), 1 journal has a rating of Level X (probably predatory), and 5 have a “Level 0” (non-academic) rating.”

https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/frontiers-medi...
There’s always the option of downsizing to a smaller mansion, or selling the second Rolls Royce, if 4x the median wage (120k GBP/yr) doesn’t cover it.
I'm in the same boat and was so confused until I did the math what my lower middle class parents made adjusted for inflation and they had more real purchasing power than me.
Sure, but you can have plenty of options where there's one responsible person, but you may still want to track another person who's involved. Maybe another engineer who's paired on the project, or the PM who's taking point on it, or the QA who's testing it, or the other engineer who's reviewing it.

Having to rely on comments or assignment history to uncover that information is a bad experience.
Once I heard that ca. 1990s MS Word used an embedded Prolog to perform spell check. Anyone with knowledge of this, one way or another? I can't find any documentation of it online.
Well, yes. Self promotion & selling yourself IS exactly that
The Busy Beaver numbers express a limitation of classes of axiomatic systems, not merely of Turing Machines.

It's not merely that computers aren't guaranteed to be able to calculate these. BB(n) for some n <= 745 is independent of the ZFC axioms of set theory.

Furthermore, Gödel's theorem and Turing's problem are related. It is undecidable whether a Turing machine halts, it's not just that you can't write a Turing machine that decides whether another Turing machine halts.

Without Gödel's theorem, you could try to enumerate all possible proofs in your complete and consistent axiomatic system until you find one that proves whether an arbitrary Turing machine of your choosing halts, and you'd have conceptually solved the halting problem. (Then, you could encode that whole algorithm in a Turing machine (TM), and have that new TM be your decider that solves the halting problem, if you wanted).

Because of Gödel you can't do this, whether on paper, with a TM, or even in principle. Your axiomatic system is not complete, so there are things it simply cannot prove. Like the halting problem, or in the case of ZF the value of BB(745).
Just starting to study the things that catch your interest. Keep studying them so long as they hold your interest. Then stop. Maybe come back later. Maybe not.

There's not a test on Tuesday the fourteenth and the self-study of databases isn't a class that ends after twelve weeks.

Learning after finishing school doesn't look or feel like school. That makes it hard. Particularly it is hard to start because it requires giving yourself permission. And it is hard to keep going because learning is the process of being less bad at something that you are bad at and that means doing things you are bad at.

Anyway, just start and struggle. good luck.
I love the idea. Telling our content folks, "you can choose 1 of 8 different templates" would be great. In actual practice it's more like, "Ok, we want to use part of that template and we need to modify part of that other one - marketing wants this live in 30 minutes'. So, giving them the "blocks" approach has worked for delivery. Frankly I'm embarrassed at the results it yields.
> One thing I know is they won't blame themselves.

Which is precisely why they went all in on Microsoft Cloud. Using an in-house stack (no matter if it's Jira, Confluence, Exchange, AD, Postfix, Exim, OpenLDAP, Samba, ...) will always lead to people blaming the C level for any outage, hack, whatever. Miss one tiny little patch and insurance won't pay.

Go for Atlassian Cloud/Microsoft/AWS/GCP? You can now deflect any blame onto the cloud provider. No personal liability, nothing. You followed industry best practices, so insurance pays out.
Had it been a 404, I would have thought someone was pulling a funny on me. :)
> However, how does one run a successful spy operation where everything's done in the open?

The obvious answer is you don't? It is punching at phantom enemies - the FBI turned out to be the bigger source of disinformation than the Russians.

US politicians are for sale (see Joe Biden's recent scandals, but there isn't much evidence he is unusual in the halls of Congress). The US intelligence service doesn't do anything about that. The spy program is a much more fit-for-purpose tool for internal corruption than fighting external forces.
This is why kabobs are so good.
Including your future self.
Question, how does Python libraries compare to Java/C# libraries? Comment only if you have experience with Java/C# not very trivial libraries like those of cryptography etc.
Viewing any stereotype as wrong is overcorrection. Stereotypes exist because they model things roughly.
In a way, I can agree with this. But I doubt it will be a "stone age". I tend to think it will be very similar to a cancelled SYFY Show called "Incorporated".

It is too bad it was not allowed to continue, but how the main star was written I think it doomed it. To me, if born outside the privileged caste, you would have no hope.
I like PHP, bit even I have to ask... Why not just use JS that comes with electron rather than bundling a third party language?
> It is important to have a setup that respects that difference.

No, it is not. Or rather, which differences matter depends on your application. A circle of radius 1 is a very natural thing to me. I don't think 3/4 is more natural.
The labor theory of value is simply incorrect. Profit isn't stolen from workers.

The biggest problem in this day and age is cost of living, not wages. Housing is way too expensive. But that's not because it's provided by the market for profit, it's because government hasn't allowed it to be build in large enough volume to satisfy the demand of people moving into cities.
you would be protected by laws. as a foreigner you have basically no rights
Tesla’s argument centered around the idea that vision and LiDAR were not complementary. They questioned the reliability of having two different sensors providing conflicting information and the challenge of determining which one is accurate.
if we are just chemical reactions writ in meatspace, then where's the room for "ethical considerations" except as performative nod to the illusory problem of pain and death?

/speaking sarcastically about hard materialism, of which I am simultaneously a critic but also recommend to be the universal null hypothesis
So you agree: "From the point of view of the scientist, it is something. From the point of view that matters, it is nothing".
Deprecation of Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) and MSDT Troubleshooters
> this just add another layer of output verification IMO.

It's not verifying the output after it's done, it's constraining the output as it's generated.

> But does it really save much as comparing to get the output then parse and reject the output that doesn't follow the grammar? Might be debateable.

I don't think it's debatable at all. Forcing the model to conform to a grammar during generation means there is never a need to discard and regenerate because it got the grammar wrong.

Think of the compute involved in generating the whole output and then re-generating if it's non-conformant. There is no comparison.
Brain Shape Matters More Than Neural Connectivity
>The shape of our brain rather than the interactions between various regions, plays a pivotal role in influencing our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
There is a correlation between income and wealth. But it’s far from perfect. When you factor in things like inheritance (e.g. inherit a median home in CA that’s fully paid off from your parents, that’s worth $600k - it takes a really long time earning $100k/yr to save that much!) there are lots of low to middle income earners that have more wealth than some higher income earners.
I come to HN for high-quality discussion. If I were looking for snark and meme content I'd be on Reddit.

In this particular case, your parent made a very reasonable case that a web app could simply choose to respect the system light/dark mode and that would be enough. I happen to disagree with them, but they were sincerely contributing to the discussion.

You came along with a 4-word + emoticon + hashtag parody of what they said that was inaccurate and frankly rude. I came away from your comment not at all sure what point you were trying to make but 100% sure that your comment wasn't contributing to an interesting discussion.

Here's a possible rewrite, assuming your objection was that some computers don't support system theming:

> If you only support system themes, you're excluding a large number of older systems that don't have their own light and dark modes. A toggle wouldn't take up much space in the header and would help those users to use the mode they prefer.
> This continues a common but remarkably greedy line of thought where the existence of someone, somewhere, with a billion dollars suddenly robs life of all joy for everyone else.

This is missing the point. It's not the "mere existence" of the ultra-wealthy, it's that the ultra-wealthy have increasingly been taking all of the economic gains in society. For example: "while the top 10 per cent grew its share of total income by 7.6 per cent between 1980 and 2018 (from 28.5 per cent to 36.1 per cent), the top 1 per cent grew theirs by 6.3 per cent (from 6.8 per cent to 13.1 per cent), which leaves only 1.3 per cent of share growth for the rest of the top 10 per cent."

> The focus really should be on absolute living standards and how to raise them.

That is the focus on the article. The point was that the top 10% are not necessarily raising their absolute living standards, because most of the income gains are going to the top 1%, inflation is rising, housing prices are rising, student loan debt is rising, existence in the top 10% is often only temporary and precarious (think layoffs and other economic trends), and as the article says, "The children of high earners will increasingly see their position depend on, as Maren Toft and Sam Friedman put it, the “bank of mum and dad”, and on what they inherit, rather than only on their professional status."

Someone can easily fall out of the top 10%. It's a lot more difficult to fall out of the top 1% and back into the working class. Wealth begets wealth.
Yes, in fact most roses and fruit trees are grafted onto different root stock. Most citrus is on sour orange stock. https://citrusrootstocks.org/rootstock-cultivars/ In the case of roses, this is the hideous Dr Huey variety, which will often try and take over the grafted rose https://www.rosenotes.com/2012/03/dr-huey-you-sucker-you.htm...
Fun fact: all over the world vineyards use an American variant of grapes for their rootstock and graft their preferred European/Peruvian/etc grapes on top. This makes them more disease resistant and in some cases means the cultivar of European grapes can survive at all after disease had almost wiped them out.

All your citrus and apples from the store are like this, and why they don't grow true to seed. The seeds are open pollinated by whatever is around but the fruit was from a single plant hand selected dozens or more years ago and produces that exact fruit over and over again. It would take hundreds of years to 'stabilize' those traits in the seeds and in that time, you'd probably find another great variety and keep that around to graft to other plants.
The points the article raises are completely moot.

>Meanwhile, traditionally upper-middle class professions such as law, medicine and academia are threatened by automation, precarisation and increased competition in globalised labour markets.

Apart from this being the entire point of globalization, the attitude that an academic degree alone is a guarantee to a good income is one of insane privilege and entitlement. This is a take from someone that doesn't like that his humanities degree is worthless in a globalized Meritocracy.

The New Zurich Newspaper had a very sobering article on how academia is loosing it's last edge, that of gatekeeping higher paid jobs in a globalized economy. A degree used to be an effective showstopper for upwards mobility, because not many could afford one. This might be europe specific, but conditions for undergrads from the middle class were abhorrent up until the mid 80s here in europe.

The truth is that I don't need an electrical engineer or a compsci graduate from some no name university to obtain someone with a specialized skill, if some kid from Shenzen can do it for a fraction of the price. That's overstating it, but the comparison holds imo.

> The children of high earners will increasingly see their position depend on, as Maren Toft and Sam Friedman put it, the “bank of mum and dad”, and on what they inherit, rather than only on their professional status.

Because of the environment created by their parent generation. They're the ones pushing for ever more "professionalization" your honor! Where my parent's could have gone into the field I want to get into without a degree at my age, I have to graduate in order to attain any respect.
Yes every state shares this view. They may not assume you’re American upon meeting you but if you tell someone you are, they will almost certainly accept it.
It does appear to be a PCIE slot, it's also written on the board.
The bit about expertise overlap is curious. After all, why hire someone that can eventually be your competition? Academia is viciously competitive on the inside and it just doesn't look rational.
I'm sure this sounded clever when you wrote it, but can you actually explain it? Are you really just trying to say "curious, you want diversity, yet you don't want people to be poor"?
There is a meme that carries more or less the same idea: https://i.ibb.co/3CNSCq2/103.jpg
The workaround was pretend to be Firefox, which didn't work. Gave up after that as this was a passing curiosity.
You're probably not in the top 10% when you account for the wealthy hiding their assets from the tax man.
Why even let users set their own passwords?
Yup! That's the avenue we took. A React app as an editor, content blocks are represented as a large JSON structure. That structure is stored in a DB via Drupal. (The editor is actually jacked into the Drupal page editor). We use GraphQL as our integration service. There's a shared "blocks" library so the editor can do the layout, store the JSON and the front-end website can interpret that JSON and use the same library to rebuild the component structure. I will say that it's a neat system. Some folks are VERY attached to it. I don't feel it fits the business needs so I'm investigating other options.

Best of luck on your CMS! I'm always intrigued by what others build - so please don't take my experience as any sort of criticism - I'd love to see your project succeed!
I think this particular article doesn’t look credible. And the whole “Opinion” type probably shouldn’t be published in journals, just post your opinion on Twitter.

That being said, I know for a fact that publically funded Norwegian research is published in Frontiers and researchers from Norway do consider those to be real academic journals.
Matrix is the way to go for FOSS.
I apply that to all consumer products and switch China with « NSA »
Can We Lose Technology?
One man isn’t an apparatus in lockstep seeking to perpetuate its power for its own sake. That’s not at all the same.

This is the state believing it has preeminence over the people and can ignore laws to further their own goals without public input and without discussion; without hearings.
The John Lewis Partnership is a workers cooperative and in 2022 had revenues of 10.84 billion GBP.

What size do you think is "too large to be a co-op"?
Brassica are the same way. Turnips, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, mustard, rapeseed, Brussel sprouts, kale, etc. Effectively all the same species -- hybrids or cultivars of a few wild ancestors that hybridize easily.
> The whole idea of materialism is simply a bad and inconsistent worldview.

Isn't your argument an example of Appeal to Consequences?[1] It appears that you don't accept materialism not because you can show that it's incorrect, but because you don't like the implications?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
What’s an example of “aren’t when it doesn’t suit it?”
In the video I used closed captioning (English) since I am only fluent in Texas English. I have to say that the CC translation on that was pretty funny. Whatever they used did not produce a meaningful translation. It was impressively disjointed nonsense. It was easier for me to listen closely to his speech to peel out the root words and try to infer the rest.

I am not familiar with conventional bitumen processing or preparation for use on roads but if this process allows creation of an asphalt product that eliminates the need to mine low gravity petroleum resources then it is a great development. Perhaps it eliminates a lot of the incentive to continue mining the tar sands in Canada. Maybe?
Helium leaks are especially annoying, because they'll brick most modern electronics for a day or so. iPhones especially.

If they have a PCB oscillator, the gas will seep its way in there and cause a clock failure.
Uugh. Do you think that aspiring professor is being irrational (in the sense of adopting a clearly suboptimal plan for overall happiness)?

If I were doing that, it would almost certainly stem from an unhealthy fixation.
Isn't the obvious approach to marinading to use a bed of needles to just inject the marinade in?

Commercial meat processing does that (injecting salt water mostly to both preserve the meat and make it heavier so it sells for more money).
"Inflation’s silver lining: higher salaries" [1]

But you're making a bigger number, so it's fine! Don't mind those that own everything unofficially taxing those that own nothing with inflation.

1. https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1413132513350803460
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10p3Tn9V5Y
Wow, you found a self-reinforcing quote from one of the co-authors of the very paper in question. C̶u̶t̶e̶

Edit:
Recognizing this forum frowns on snark, I will be more stoic. Whenever citing quotes in this debate, take but half a moment to observe the name of who is doing the talking; each side of the debate has an exceedingly finite set of vocal participants putting their scientific standing on the line, and, rightly or wrongly, their positions don't tend to change once made & vocalized.

So in a debate about whether person-X should have said thing-Y, it's epistemically distractibg (to oneself at least) to then go on to uncritically look at what person-X subsequently said on thing-Y as if it's unbiased, disinterested support of the position they also happened to hold earlier.
Fake It ’til You Learn It
Oh, it's not legalized bribery, it's mandatory bribery. The need to finance a campaign means that every option must be approved by wealthy interests before the people are even allowed to see the options.

Call it what you will. Playing with definitions does not fix the problem.
"more impactful" = worse?
The port on the back of the Apple STB is actually literally a T1/E1 port (even though it looks like TP Ethernet), with a Brooktree Bt8069-Series Line Interface Unit chip inside for a T1/E1 interface!

I'm not sure if there were T1 adapters for DSL etc back in the day, but I guess that's plausible (before the computer world won over the telecom world there were a lot of weird standards that looked like they would be adopted - ATM anyone?)

edit: Apparently T1 started being carried over HDSL which is probably what was being used here https://www.arcelect.com/HDSL3698.htm