skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here's a tip for reading PR pieces: if a company is mentioned in the article and one of their executives is quoted, they are almost always the ones who paid for (and probably wrote) the article.

Here's another one that a surprising number of people still don't realize: If you're reading an article where any company employee or exec is "quoted", the quote is almost always something written by the company's professional PR team and not an actual quote from the person.
I see, that is a fair point, people will report their compensation at peak. Nevertheless, I was still seeing 50+ candidates per job opening. Just by ranking resumes and discarding those to whom we couldn't give an interview due to time constrains, I was eliminating some amazing candidates to whom I'd have given an interview in a different situation.
> for something that manages packages

nix is a build tool, not a package manager. Misunderstanding nix as a package manager (and the dumb marketing on its website) is what leads to frustration (along with, of course, docs).
I also do mostly backend, mostly C#. I’m curious what kind of companies and projects you and your friends work on if you’re willing to share. Don’t need to name names or anything, I’m not fishing for a referral. I’ve just been in the same niche market for a long time and I’m curious what else is out there.
> Resuming to only run specific processes - or resuming to run an entirely different, temporary userspace - is trivial from a kernel perspective.

The first is rather difficult from a system perspective, because if you suspend anything you'll get deadlocks if anything else calls it, or memory growth if anything else sends IPC to it that gets buffered.

You can throttle them instead, but actually suspending is hard.
Not sure how many people actually read this entire post, but...

SPOILERS!!

... if you're intending to watch Babylon 5 for the first time, don't read this.
In what way do you find NixOS to be better?

I'm actually thinking of going the other way, from NixOS to Void+ZFS. I've been using NixOS on 2 machines for a few months now, so I'm relatively new to it, but I still struggle with basic things, and don't really grok the Nix language. If ZFS+ZFSBootMenu can give me easy snapshotting and rollback functionality, then I might prefer it over NixOS.

Sure, Nix does many more things besides snapshots, but for my use case it's the main benefit, so I wouldn't be missing much.
Ok ouch that is a drastic cut, and must be hard to deal with if you have set up your life based on $180k income.

Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US, unless in High Frequency Trading, managing a team of > 200 people, or working for a hot AI startup, Crypto or similar. It is quiet exceptional.

I say this as someone who is, compared to East Europe, Indonesia, Cuba, India, etc, earning a high salary. Same thing could happen to me quite easily if I am out of a job and looking again. It is scary.
America’s top environmental groups have lost the plot on climate change
I paid $300 for my OnePlus 9 pro, and it's plenty fast.
Secret to Taiwan’s healthcare: slave labor of the doctors.
Yes, you chose the wrong license without understanding its implications.

> My sense is that adopting AGPL for a brand new product typically causes the product to be dead on arrival.

It may hinder adoption (in the corporate world) but not contribution to the source. And if you want to promote the spirit of opensource and make money too, dual licensing with xGPL is the best way to go. MySQL is a successful example of this licensing and business model.
"Show me the man, and I will show you the crime."
Mach v0.2 released – Zig game engine and graphics toolkit
I mean, fuck Churchill and that quote, constantly abused to protect a horrible system by people who are too deep in it to even conceive an alternative.
I think hacker authenticity lives on, but not in the form of a massive con that has become a pop culture event.
Highly recommend Lark for Python projects -- it's easy to use :)

Their IDE was super useful for debugging the grammar:
https://www.lark-parser.org/ide/

We use Lark for a SQL-like language tailored for using AI models in EvaDB:
https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb/blob/master/evadb/p...
https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb/

If you like Lark, please consider sponsoring them:
https://github.com/sponsors/lark-parser
I don't know for Germany, but you'll usually have option to receive your pension from abroad, or have it dumped in a local account for later, or transfered to your permanent residency country.

It's always a PITA with no straightforward way, but if you paid for 20 years you'll probably be motivated to go through the hoops to see that money back in some form.
It depends on the instrument and tuning system. In 12-tone equal temperament they are the same. Some tuning systems treat them differently though, in fact some early keyboards had separate keys, the black keys were split in two so D# was a different key to Eb. Called "split sharps".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_sharp
Silicon Valley Bank vice president sentenced to 15 months in prison
> Just so we're on the same page, could you give me a definition of what a fake refugee is

The more common term is "fraudulent asylum seeker". It's defined as anyone that fabricates something about their background in order to qualify for refugee status. This could be any number of things, but the most common are:

* lying about persecution. For instance saying the government wants to kill you, when in reality there is no such threat.

* lying about country of origin. Like saying one is fleeing Syria when in reality they are economic migrants from peaceful countries. https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/07/the-men-who-pretend-to-...

* lying about age. Some countries have more permissive rules for minors, so adults lie and say they are children. Poland studied this, and found about 40% had lied about their age: https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2019-09-18/niemieccy-eks...

The fact that some governments aren't bothering to try and detect asylum fraud means there's no available data. But that doesn't mean it's not happening. It's like a company that has no sexual harassment reporting mechanism claiming no harassment happens because it has never had any reports of harassment.
Yeah, in Michigan I really can't find anything over 165. Remote has me above that, but not too much.

There is wage fomo or insecurity that I am a sucker, but I do not dwell on that thought too much. Have to live with the cards in your hand at some point.
I'm still coming to terms with the recent "Star Trek: The Musical" Strange New Worlds episode. The previous crossover episode with Lower Decks softened the blow.
> around 1/3 of the CPU and GPU power

And yet, probably still orders of magnitude more than the original, which could run on an 8 MHz 68000. :)
No conscious choice. I just let my emotions guide the praising. Let fate mold them.
idk, selling services/goods below cost is kinda the playbook most SV startups use so nothing new here.
One can never defend Lexx, only apologize for it. And yet ...

Lexx had the boldness to be deeply and unsettlingly weird. At no point does the show try to awww-shucks it away. You just don't get a lot of singing brains in television. And our main characters are largely trying to survive and get laid, often not in that order. Yes, each has to some degree escaped the vast machinery of the cruel civilization which housed them ... and they're not the least bit noble for it.
Almost no consumer products get designed and manufactured in a way that allows self-repair or upgrade. Cars? TVs? Appliances? Phones? No. What off-the-shelf products do we own that an average person can repair or upgrade?

People who need or want that feature can find laptops they can tinker with. Everyone else — the majority of consumers — will opt for price and convenience.
Yes, but are the actors actually malicious to the system or to the current administrators of said system?
Interesting that you framed it this way and not the other way around.
Google bought YouTube, kept it low ads, and ran everyone else on the internet out of business. People would watch hunt you if you said they would ever add a lot of ads, but then they saturated it with ads. That is a globally-scale, economy transforming bait and switch move to gain a near monopoly on online videos. So: some people are mad
In Mandarin and Vietnamese, you can build new words by concatenation of words with broad meanings. Say, a plane is "flying machine", a mobile phone is a "hand machine", and a fridge is a "cold closet". In practice, it's very effective and it allows you to either guess the commonly used concatenations, or make up your own and you might be understood. I assume you can do that in Toki Pona too ?
As Part I of the same series explains, the patrician/plebeian distinction was basically irrelevant by the mid-third century:

https://acoup.blog/2023/07/21/collections-how-to-roman-repub...

Of course, you would still need to be born a wealthy plebeian if you wanted to climb the ranks of Roman politics.
Right that's what I meant by "at the very least above senior". Within a given company principal is generally always higher than staff, but for companies that don't have staff, principal is generally always higher than senior.

My point was that I've never seen principal used to mean "non-junior employee" in the way that senior occasionally is.
If you click the timestamp (it's a link) you should be able to "favorite" the comment.
Also, if they really had a 1% kid then they probably married someone with a personality disorder or they have one themself.
>"The Imperatives Must Go"

What must go are the holy warriors who are stuck on their dogma and do not realize that the world does not fit into their heads.
> They used Stargate cast members as cameos as fan-service towards people who mentioned the likeness of actors between the two series.

Indeed.

It is weird how much Ben Browder resembles Ben Browder.
If age is a concern, maybe watch Dyumin. He could move Putin to safety, but my money is on Patrushev being able to protect him in the long term.
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> Party leadership making apologies for Nazi Germany or support for Nazi/equivalent policies, or tolerance of party members behaving in such a way.

Oh that's an easy one, there are many many such quotes. Links in German citing sources:

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/nazis-in-afd/

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/argumentationshilfe-ho...

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/25-krasse-hoecke-zitat...
There’s a shit-ton of loopholes in this space because the legislation creating the EPA doesn’t require oversight for chemicals in use before 1976. Many of these byproducts are awful, but not subject to regulatory analysis. It’s similar to hoe people say that if we discovered acetaminophen in 2023, it would never be FDA approved!

One branch of my family grew up near the Mobil Refinery on the Newtown Creek in Queens, NYC. 12/12 have had cancers from that place, as do many others.
That is a very cogent summary of my initial B5 experience when I saw random out of order episodes in reruns.
The implicit problem here is that US tech salaries have been far higher than anywhere else in the world for the past decade. You had kids graduating and starting their first job with zero professional experience who were getting TC that was a multiple of what seniors with a decade of professional experience would earn in places like Europe or Australasia. Most of the world was never able to get a job as an IC doing development and expect to retire comfortably and turn into an angel investor before their 40th birthday.

That was always going to make the US less competitive once the economic foundations that supported those very high compensation levels broke. Unfortunately for those in the industry in the US that probably means there will be a sharp contraction in both the size of the market and the TC being offered. Those affected have my sympathy but pragmatically they also need to realise that what they're going to have to get used to for the next few years is probably still (slightly) better than what everyone else in the world doing the same jobs with the same skills and in some cases with a similar cost of living has had available all along.
How the 'Need to Finish' Can Transform Your UX Design
Ah, I found the "Show animations in Windows" toggle in Windows 10. I thought it was a browser setting.
Has anyone seen Ricky Vaughn these days?
Really cool project!

I am curious about the benefits and limitations of using Python in this project as opposed to C++. How well is LearnDB able to support low-level concurrency control and storage management?
> CBS/Paramount have done nothing but been hostile towards new Trek ideas and suing fan-films out of existence.

Are we watching the same Strange New Worlds?
Scorpius is the greatest villain/antagonist/anti-hero of all time.

Anyone who disagrees, prepare for the Thunderdome. The real one that’s coming up this month.
I've used popcnt in prod in last 10 years. We were looking for similar images in large sets, using a perceptual hash (64 bits, at least 60 bits being same considered a match).

Tried a few different solutions. Fancy vector databases. Clustering algos to reduce search space. A really neat custom O(n) algo that searched the set of possible solutions instead of the intersection of n^2 possible matches.

The old fashioned N^2 solution ended up being fastest, simplest, and could handle quite large Ns, when the core of the loop was optimized with popcnt (well xor -> popcnt). Computers are fast.
The bus rarely goes where I want when I want.
I would go back even farther, all the way to the end of the Second Punic War. Scipio Africanus was the one who expanded the practice of client-patron relationships to a geopolitical scale to build an independent power base. He was also the innovator of the cults of personality that would become common. He never tried to overthrow the republic, but some of the political practices used to destabilize the late republic can be traced back to his innovations.
they sell mostly end of line stuff. Hence why they can sell very cheaply as factories would otherwise just clear them by the lot or dump them. as such most are cheap products but you do occasionally get decent items (e.g. factories retooling for a 10,000 MOQ run but buyer only needed 9000 or something).
What are your top gripes with NewPipe, for your purposes?
Okay, and what percentage of drinkable water do the golf courses use?
An open source ink printer would be particularly hard to make because of the nozzle, and laser ones are complicated because of the drums?

I think "open source" doesn't need to mean "every component from scratch", much like a lot of open-source hardware relies on MCUs whose designs are decidedly not open. There's been some attempts at using existing inkjet cartridges with integrated printheads:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=magicbrush&page=1

http://spritesmods.com/?art=inker
Scientists reverse hearing loss in mice
Apart from the fact that Russia is not the only hostile power trying to infiltrate Western organizations, I find the premise incredibly sexist, as if men are presumably more likely to be foreign agents than women.
Money is a claim on energy, materials, and/or labor. Given that none of these are growing more abundant (except perhaps labor, depending how hard you squint), it may not make sense to plan for the same retirement prospects as the currently retired generation. This is neither fair nor easy to accept but internalizing it now may save some pain later.

This is not to say one should accept injustice handed down from on high. There are some who will try to exploit contraction for their own short-term benefit at everyone else's expense. Be wary, and be prepared.
It's not about tinkering. People want the option to have their stuff repaired without getting scammed. It's well known that Apple techs will scam people in replacing whole motherboards rather than fix the small circuit issue at fault. Same thing for John Deer equipment that requires payment for specialized techs to come out.

On the other hand with most cars, you can take it to a mechanic who can diagnose the issue, and order the respective part.
I thought it meant a range - between $10k and a quadrillion. Like some sort of surprise - unwrap the asteroid and it’s either full of rocks or platinum.
Thanks for the balanced reply! Yes you're right, I'm only using lossless and lossy as a metaphor here, because of course, any translation will lose information. Even speaking your native tongue with another fluent speaker will lose information because the meaning is interpreted.

However, I'd say that well-developed languages (which for me means having many hyper-specific words and a diverse vocab available) allows interpretation to be more precise and functionally allow communication to happen. With Toki Pona I have the sense that a lot more is lost, and we end up interpreting broad strokes of the original meaning. This isn't bad, it's just different. Poetic if you like.
> Grouped aliases/imports/requires are a mis-feature in my view. They save a few characters when typing but they complicate searching for module uses and refactoring.

Totally agree with this. I prefer to not use aliases most of the time, or to explicitly list out each module path separately if they are too long to fit inline. All preferences though.

> Similarly, I don’t like comprehensions as everything they do can be achieved with functions, and they are not composable.

I don't use comprehensions too often, but I would miss them if they vanished. Some things are just plain easier with them. They are also valuable in unit tests to show better error messages[1]:

# Don't do...
assert Enum.all?(posts, fn post -> %Post{} == post end)

# Do...
for post <- posts, do: assert %Post{} == post

EDIT: Although I suppose you could just use Enum.each as well.

[1] https://keathley.io/blog/good-and-bad-elixir.html
vim is on there but not emacs? suspicious of the value of this survey.
This is just another entry in the common genre of "online article by a media reviewer who won't stop talking about their incoherent politics instead of the media". Nobody needs to hear what an English major thinks about space neoliberalism.

(The #1 example of this is the Kotaku review of the PS5 from 2020 that spent the whole time complaining that no Americans had time to think of a PS5 because all Americans were in grinding poverty, by which the author meant they lived in NYC and had untreated depression. Meanwhile, poverty and income inequality went down in 2020 compared to 2019 thanks to the US getting fiscal stimulus right.)
Is the Dollar Doomed? [video][33 mins]
Of this author's many excellent series, one is about Sparta (https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/), and it makes this point practically word for word. He is vehement in deconstructing the idea that Sparta is represented by the Spartiates, repeatedly emphasising that the majority were helot slaves who are invisible to history but whose lot we'd be far more likely to share.

Your observation stands as a generality but it's somewhat ironic still, making this complaint about a post by a historian who is very very aware of what you're saying.
I think you could replace "psyop" with "marketing campaign" for most of the times the expression is used today.
> They clearly had a lot of money cause like a hundred Chromebooks were set up

That's like all of 10K
What are you talking about? I feel like you’re pushing agenda talking points rather than discussing the reality in Texas. Business travel via airplane between Houston and Dallas is a major source of travel and has the exact same issue of not having a car on the other end that you mentioned, and yet it continues to be a popular form of travel.

The lack of HSR has absolutely nothing to do with consumers’ obsessions with cars and everything to do with business lobbying, difficulty in acquiring private land, and lack of government interest. It does not stem from the Texas citizens.

Further, DFW has (far more than) last mile transit from the airport with DART. How can you ignore that even if it’s not perfect? It can take you from Dallas to Fort Worth!
Or, they build nothing and allocate capital to a different city where luxury apartments are still selling.
> I learnt of a case just this week where a guy on Reddit left a slightly controversial comment and ended up being charged with hate speech, lost his job and received hate abuse online for his opinion.

the guy publically posted a racist comment in the UK where there is not an unlimited right of free speech and anti-social behavior is regulated. I don't see the privacy concern. I prefer an unlimited right of free speech, but I don't call it privacy. This guy did have something to hide, shoulda kept it hidden.
What you're doing is worse than providing no data. You're posting links that you claim support your argument, but which on inspection do not actually support your claim, partly because you don't understand what the statistics mean (e.g., you think that a "serious side-effect" and a "serious case" are 1-to-1 comparable, even though they're very different things; partly because you don't pay close attention to what you're posting, such as your latest study, which is about vaccine side-effects "in adults"). And then you're making broad claims (childhood vaccination reduces QALYs) based on your uninformed interpretations of the data.

This is a study specifically about safety of the mRNA vaccines in children.[0] It looked for 23 likely severe side-effects. The children covered by the study collectively received 250k doses of Biotech/Pfizer or Moderna. The side-effect rate is small enough that the study was unable to detect any increase at all in side-effects in the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children.

0. https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/152/1/e20230...
OP shouldn't be flagged.
Yup, helped a lot. Had a ton of ideas. The mentors helped refine them. When you're in creative mode, you're not always in rational mode. I'd bounce ideas off the mentor(s) every day, which also forced me to build something to show them.

Avoid mentors who are regular cynical corporate job types though. They do more harm than help, and I think they subconsciously just wanted us to see us fail. Find the ones who are cheering for you.
> Yeah the growth story hasn’t come back so most places aren’t aggressively hiring...

Dumb money (and unimaginative executives) waits for someone else to tell a "story" in order to act. Smart companies should be hiring like crazy, sucking up all the great talent these dummy companies are shedding. Tech companies, more than at any time I can remember, seem to have no ideas--they're just watching their competitors and aping whatever they are doing. Competitors are laying off? We're laying off! Competitors are returning to the office? We are returning to the office! Competitors are getting into AI? We are getting into AI. Everyone is chasing each other's tail and sniffing each other's farts and there isn't even a spark of creativity left.
There are common forms for certains words of course, but no lexicalisation. In Toki Pona, you're not adding words, set phrases, to the language's lexicon. So there are no compound words that would be set in stone and things can and do change depending on the situation. Let's take an example: coffee. The word "telo" is some form liquid or water, so coffee could simply be just telo (if you're in context where it's clear), but you may just add it's the dark/black liquid ("telo pimeja"), or the strong hot drink ("telo wawa seli"), or the liquid of no sleep ("telo pi lape ala"), or there are many other possibilities depending on what's the important aspect you emphasize and how brief or precise you want/need to be (if you need a lot of precision, you'll end up doing several sentences, but you'll get there).
Cambridge Analytica is also entirely fake, in the sense that it's highly unlikely any votes were affected by it.