skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that actually mean? The fact you're using language like, "cog in the machine" is already telling me a lot about why companies don't want to hire you. If you told us exactly where the process breaks down for you and why with illustrative examples, we might be able to help you identify where it's going wrong for you. But tip 1, companies hire people who are positive about how they can contribute and work within an org.

EDIT: Took a quick look at your blog to see if there were any obvious red flags and found this, in the context of the Rust Foundation's prohibition of firearms at Rust events

> I have a concealed carry permit. I have firearms and other weapons. I know how to use them, and I will use them in defense of my wife and myself.

> And you can bet I carry them into places I consider dangerous if it is legal to.

If I was hiring, this would be a huge red flag to me. Why do you need to even consider bringing a firearm into a conference?
Said the frog in the boiling water
Might also have to do with the quality of the beer though ;)
Few companies look at personal projects in my experience (UK). You can mention them in interviews for bonus points.
As a person involved in hiring in my company, one of my goals is to remove biases for things that are not really related to the thing I'm evaluating, which is the ability to do a given job. There are valid reasons not to have an interest in publishing your coding or writing work, there are lots of great developers that don't do that, so I don't feel like this should make a difference.
So I was curious what this was called by contemporaries, because "optical telegraph" seems like an overly-specific construction.

And sure enough, Wikipedia tells us that its inventor, Claude Chappe, coined the terms semaphore and tachygraph, while a French statesman preferred to apply the novel term telegraph.

"Optical" was clearly applied in retrospect, after its electrical counterpart came on the scene.

Fun semaphore fact: the Peace Symbol, popularized along with the smiley face by hippies, is a superposition of two semaphores: "N" and "D", meaning "Nuclear Disarmament".
Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?
they got what as they paid
How to add comments into Excel formulas? Use N(“comment here”)
The second link on that page says bitcoin uses a half a percent of global energy use which is a BONKERS amount of electricity. The fact the author tries to justify the use of that much energy is an astounding stance.
Also worked in Aus - Melbourne and Sydney, as well as London. I have zero blogs, and I don't contribute towards open source. My github has random bits of code, a few coding exercises from other companies.

What I do have though is a decent CV.

When people say you need this or that, what they're actually saying is you need to show somehow that you're technically capable.

There are other ways of doing that than just having a blog.
I’ve had an in person interview where we talked about them actually reading through my website. It was awkward to be honest but also cool they read it - was also strange to talk about “extracurriculars” during a technical interview.

Always had a really really difficult time with how to present “myself” on a personal website - too many sides (code, personal preferences, opinions, etc) in one place. But whatever just send it and own it I guess - am still content selective though.
So you can't get a job that you want, but you could get a job that you don't want (software dev cog)
> Perhaps you would prefer "incumbent ISA"?

I wouldn't mind that.

> But that would be a pointless exercise, because RISC-V is inevitable, and the new industry standard.

Er. So even if the second part of the sentence were true, calling out the current leader isn't pointless. And the second part of your claim is very much not a foregone conclusion; RISC-V is a standard, and used by the industry, but it's not in anything like a dominant enough position to call it "the industry standard", and its success is certainly not inevitable - RISC-V is today where MIPS was a decade ago (cheap, modestly popular in embedded, lacking in high-end parts, not popular outside of embedded). Now, its trajectory is upwards, it has enough going for it that it could become extremely popular, and certainly I'd like an Open Source option to win - but that's just one possibility, and history is littered with ISAs that were supposed to be the Next Big Thing.
My experience with musl has been that while it’ll most probably work, you’re severely at risk of a 30%+ perf degradation, and that means the juice is really not worth the squeeze.

glibc shouldn’t be statically compiled in because it’s lgpl and so immediately infects your code if you do.

The zig linker is quite nice here because it lets you pick what glibc you want to be compatible with.
It isn't running in java IIRC
> as well as water-borne illnesses

How? There isn’t enough alcohol in wine to kill much bacteria, especially if you mix it with water.
I kinda hate this take and to be clear this is coming from someone who did learn at the low level first: objective c then c++ with some fiddling with assembly and fpgas along the way. In my experience JS programmers are people who want to get things done and see results they can touch. It does have many inexperienced programmers, but because it's one of the better languages to learn if you want to get into programing. The people I saw learning it when I co-led an on campus club focused on encourage people to build things and a hacker mentality were interested in it because it was the path to building things they wanted to build not because it was the path to riches
I have recently been trying alcohol free / low alcohol beers as the market is picking up for them, and people definitely advertise 0.5% as alcohol free.

From a quick tesco search Punk AF (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/304722896) and Lucky Saint (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/311448058) both contain the terms "alcohol free" prominently on the front but are 0.5%.

There are also a bunch of 0.0% beers, and their fine print is how you say, no more than 0.05%, but at least Brewdog and Lucky Saint are getting away with using the term for 0.5%, and I am sure I've seen more of that kind of thing.
> All the efforts to spot such an interaction seem to be based purely on wishing that it is not true, so that fancy expensive detectors can defensibly be promoted and somebody might get a prize.

That's incredibly short-sighted. There are many other falsifiable hypotheses and due diligence directs us to make measurements to test those hypotheses.

More generally, it makes zero sense to assume the worst case that cannot be ruled out and use that as an excuse to not pursue science. For example, it is impossible to "falsify" superluminal/nonlocal influence -- and not being able to screen for that renders the whole scientific process fundamentally useless (because there could always be something happening in a neighboring galaxy that is influencing your experiment -- how do you rule that out or control for it?). We simple continue doing science with the optimism that the the universe is not perversely adversarial to our attempts to understand it (and give that optimism fancy names like Occam's razor).
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I've spent some time in monasteries in the Ajarn Chah tradition of Thai Buddhism. The most common form of meditation is observing the breath at the nose. Importantly in Buddhism, when observing the breath, don't control the breath but rather observe how it wants to be. Inevitably, the mind will wonder from the breath. It's important to kindly and gently come back to awareness of the breath.

There are other forms of meditation as well, but this one and it's variants is probably most common.

Very mercifully, I've never had visions in meditation. But recently I've been feeling a lot of weirdly physical pleasure in my head and shoulders from the samadhi--concentration or calmness--that comes from my practice. I've also had more "insight," which just means I notice more internally and externally. In Buddhism, we talk about how concentration and insight are the goals and results of meditation.

It's important when talking about meditation, however, to mention sila, or morality. Sila for a common person means following the five precepts--not to kill any living creature, not to steal, not to commit sexual misconduct (rape, adultery, etc.), not to lie, and not to take intoxicants like alcohol and cannabis (caffeine is okay). Many teachers often say that if you summarize Buddhist practice, it's just sila, samadhi, and pañña, which means morality, concentration, and wisdom. If you want results from your meditation, also practicing the five precepts is a good idea.

I suppose the final result for me is that after studying Buddhism in college more than ten years ago and then spending several years in Thailand in my 20's, I'm taking steps now to seek ordination as a Buddhist monk. I'm in the very early stages of turning my life upside down, but those are my results right now.

So if you don't want to give up your worldly possessions and pick up the robe and bowl, don't meditate. Lol. I kid.
"After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss."
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Worked for me at the start of my programming career. I had a few Stack Overflow answers (few hundred karma) and a fairly barebones GitHub profile.

I applied to a large local IT corporation. The person interviewing me (who was a team lead) simply assumed I have the skills necessary for an entry position and we pretty much skipped the technical part of the interview. (I ended up in a fairly fantastic team full of great engineers and coworkers. Turns out the guy who interviewed me was awesome at hiring.)
No lamer than dropping davinci.
My parents never did! Hahahaha <sigh> :-(
At least there is a bit of VMS spirit in Windows.

In what concerns the kernel, userspace is another matter.
Just happened to come across a coworkers GitHub today and really only looked at it for like 5 minutes. My take always were: “wow they have a LOT of recent activity”, “all the history of this repo is 8 years old”, and “didn’t know they coded with next|node|ruby”
But it gave positive impressions
> Unfortunately personal cars are a drop in the ocean (ignore any pun please) compared to other systems like the.....

Not disagreeing with you, but everything by itself is a drop in the ocean compared with the total - the "coordinated effort to de-carbonize" starts with doing what's possible and reducing CO2 use of land travel is a lot easier than for the military, commercial shipping, and air travel at the moment.
I can only talk about it from a crypto perspective. I've never cared for looking deeper into TA. All I saw was people drawing lines and looking at patterns, so I spent time figuring out how that works practically.

When I can draw lines, which are called channels iirc, and the price follows that channel over time, it's already more accurate than astrology.

When time passes and I can copypaste the lines to a newer structure (that came later) and the lines fit the new structure just as much, it's already more accurate than astrology.

When I can see that a repeating pattern exists, which repeats itself on a bigger time-frame, then it's already more accurate than astrology.

When I can watch good analysts (not the assholes on youtube who just bait the dopamine-addicts/greedy into watching) continuously doing TA properly up to the point where most of the things they predict are likely to happen, then that's already more accurate than astrology.

Of course it's not exact. Outside influence can throw it all off. That doesn't mean that it's wrong, things simply change.

Anyone talking about TA without understanding that it has value, either never did TA, or was too dumb to draw a few lines and compare patterns.

All of this works, to the degree it does, because most of the trading is done by bots, which all more or less orient themselves around the same data. As long as everything goes smooth, TA is extremely usefull. When something happens that throws everything off, it's back to the drawing board.

Back when LUNA crashed, Binance pulled it from the exchange. I thought that wasn't right ... simply too soon ... and got ready for when they'll bring it back. They did. With TA I made 1200+ in two days of trading LUNA, because price movement was entirely predictable.

I have no idea what's wrong with the people who shit on TA. It works to a certain degree and that's all that matters. All this yammering about it reminds me of children who don't know what they're doing, which causes them to shit on it.

It would help a lot if people were capable of recognizing when they're listening to someone who they shouldn't listen to. There's too many assholes out there abusing the simple minded, who happily listen to them, because the assholes them what they want to hear.
The water sources part, maybe a myth. But the weak part, not a myth. Yeasts less aggressively bred for alcohol tolerance, and short brewing times.

Somewhat made up for by people having less body mass, though.
This is the first article that has implied that this historical beer consumption was this high % wise, so I am suspicious of the phrasing "taken to be" that is used all over the place. IDK if this means something specific in the context of scientific papers, but in conversational English it can be interpreted as "a number I made up".
NatWest boss Alison Rose quits after admitting Farage leak to BBC
Don't use *. It is a common source for all kinds of problems. Many query langs does not support it at all for that reason.
Cool thanks for looking into it. My sibling comment was poorly worded but I was curious what the protein makeup was.
I’m speaking as someone who has never had to price anything. To me it feels like a service that doesn’t give me monthly benefit (i.e. frequent recurring usage like my iCloud storage or Netflix etc) as I wouldn’t use it often enough, so paying monthly just feels like a waste to me. The difference between monthly rate if bought as a year and per month is pretty big to incentivise people to pay up for a full year - I personally dislike this strategy, it implies to me that I have to pay a 50% markup just to have the option to change my mind after a month or two (to me this implies I might, so best to get all the money up front).

I think you want to incentivise long term ownership of the product (MRR->YRR) with a focusing of the price at yearly. It aligns more with financial years / tax filings and the general cadence of people looking at their finances.

Now as I say I have absolutely no experience and haven’t done any market analysis. So this is just my opinion.
Yeah, this is usually a killer in interviews. You can be super smart, know what you're taking about... but if you're not willing to "play the game" you're going to go nowhere.

I'm Australian based, probably similar elsewhere.
Your blog post:

> Got another programming job. Got fired for "performance." I think the reason wasn’t good, but I also have a hard time building a theory of mind, which means I can’t read code written by others.

If you can't read code written by others, that's going to be a big concern for companies that require you to read and modify other people's code.

Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.
Mostly agree.

Not sure why you were downvoted -- but this seems fairly straightforward in terms of logical progression of abstraction.

I would say LLMs may or may not be that next step in the chain before we see direct interfaces with brain for creating new programs -- but they sure seem promising.

BCI itself will still need go through a few steps where first we can reliably select from choices (click buttons) across diverse use cases, and then graduate to inferring intent / extracting logic or language etc. -- to reach a stage where we are able to ask a question of Alexa/Siri or prompt ChatGPT in a coherent way by simply thinking about it. Even the hardware would need to achieve a form factor that can be adopted by masses.

By that time hopefully LLMs would have graduated to a level that can take that input and give us robust programs / API calls etc. Or something else other than LLMs emerges by that time to fulfil the same function.

But once we get there though -- our communication with machines need not be constrained solely by clicks and words or programming constructs and logic -- but could take on a much more complex and unconstrained form. We can think in abstract concepts, ideas, visualizations, feelings and emotions -- and all of them are rich fodder as input for BCI + generative models.

For example, I could think musical ideas and am able to generate actual music live -- or "save" musical ideas as .RAW thoughts for later processing.

Or I think of the concept of frisson and imagine the feeling of goosebumps -- and able to generate content / physical design ideas that result in that sensation or state of mind.

Telepathy is one step away from there.
If you are optimizing for image size, Alpine is not the best choice. For example, Distroless (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless) has options 50% smaller than Alpine.
Perhaps an early sign that the speakers aren't going to be around in the future
Surely in order achieve maximum return the animal farming process must become industrialised which leads to unpleasant outcomes for the animals involved. From chickens to salmon, small animals are treated poorly. Fish farms are a case in point, they destroy the local environment as well as constrain the farmed fish in unnatural ways.
Elon Musk’s ‘X’ already trademarked by Meta for ‘social networking services’
While consumer efforts are good, it's important to remember and focus on industrial waste, which is a far greater problem: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/industrial-versus-consumer-...
I mean, it's pretty inconvenient when you have to spend 20min on the freeway to go out
I was thinking this. There were other types of beer and wine that had much lower alcohol content than what is typical today, just barely enough to keep it sterile, but the article mentions that the several liters of beer per day was sometimes 10-15%, which is damn high.
I think he's cultivated that negative reaction himself; he just can't help himself. Once upon a time, his reputation was primarily as the action man heavily driving forward key industries. There might've been a few "he's just the figurehead, others do the work despite him" sorts on here, but mostly sentiment on a tech site would've been favourable. Hell, years back, I thought he had a decent claim on Person of the Year.

He's really gone out of his way since to polarise the public, for limited benefit.
Other comments here mention there's no real time to look through actual code or a GH repo. I agree, however that's why I think it's better to focus on the other markers here - blog, community involvement, and so on. It doesn't have to be grandiose; just list it on your CV!

You cover a few things this way. You show that you think beyond the terms of warming a seat, and can highlight particular ways you may fit a specific job.

I've had several jobs/contracts that told me they think I'm a fit because of me listing my involvement with meetup hosting and how I've tailored my CV to highlight specific kinds of work that I'm interested to do more of (e.g. payment integrations).

Like with dating or sales, it's kind of the same idea: you want to look specific instead of generic, in order to filter out jobs that would be a lukewarm-to-negative fit for you.

If you have nothing to differentiate yourself, then start something and highlight it. For kicks and giggles I even have "Certified Log Home Builder" in my CV after taking a course on it.
It appears the thought process is an increasingly smaller unchanging bubble containing "pure bloods" will be maintained, as the country slowly dwindles towards irrelevance or economic collapse. And apparently, some prefer to go out that way.
While I agree that it's bad to spread misinformation that may be harmful, I'll again appeal to you that it doesn't matter a great deal to the audience of this particular book. If the argument is that the fundamental underpinning of all these religions is untrue, unreasonable, or directionally opposite to modern science then the details are not important.

To put it another way, if you read the book and you are religious then it probably matters to you in a way that other's just don't give a damn about. For example, I remember at uni some Christians in my class debating the holy spirit / God / Jesus and the distinction or lack thereof. But if you're not Christian then it doesn't matter, that detail has no bearing on you at all. In the same way that if you are Christian then a book discussing whether Jesus was a mythical figure and retelling of an older story or a real person, that detail is just outside your belief system, it doesn't have any bearing on you and there's no point engaging with that detail.
Literally came here for the same thing. Went to their blog and saw that a programming language is "dead to [them]" because the organization behind the language doesn't like guns. WUT

> "Why can't I get a job?"

> - man with 30ft pole behind them with a red flag hoisted on it
I was wondering the same thing as an infrastructure engineer making Canadian peanuts compared to my friends who moved to the US.

I guess it’s mostly my own fault for being nervous about switching jobs, but hearing them accidentally hiring obvious frauds makes me think it’s not as daunting as I feel.
The shouldn't in an ideal world, but on the other hand, it's obvious that it can. If you're looking for someone to perform a specific task, and you stumble on a blog post from him, or a project that showcases his passion and skill, it would be (IMO) pretty stupid to "remove the bias" and ignore this. At this point it's not even bias, it's just proof in front of your eyes that this guy has some knowledge and might be a good fit ( or whatever proof it is)
Or Islamic regions.
This specific documentary

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/

So many things I didn't appreciate
How does immigration solve the issue. Once they become wealthier, their birth rate is going to drop, so you have to keep importing poor people from overseas to keep your GDP rising. Why not address the issue itself instead of trying to bandaid it.
Yeah it’s one of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence. They were pretty explicit about what they wanted.
This is just speculation that they didn't catch this before.

Maybe they weren't yet decided on lowering their security stance for these specific devices to one similar to the existing OS or skipping these devices. Maybe management was pushing for them to find a solution either way. We can speculate in a lot of different ways.