skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you overestimate how much "profession" plays a role here. I think people only really care about doing honest and worthwhile work. No one have any idea what they "want" to do in 5 to 10 years.

The problem that I see with work today is that the value from my work is so hard to derive that I can't help but see it as pointless. I mean what value have I generated from writing a bunch of code that is used to do some analysis? How is my company/industry providing value to society again?

I think IF people find genuine satisfaction from their work, then they are more likely to think that it is their "dream" profession. That is to say that what the profession is doesn't really matter as much as what the person think of their work, whatever that is.

For instance, if janitors is a highly respected and well paying job, would people still think less of sweeping floors and flushing toilets?
Fair point, although I found in the discussion that zero percent unemployment was considered bad, whereas, as I see it, there are always people dropping in and out of the labour market. My point was that not everyone works all the time.
Lower Wacker Drive waves hello!

But actually I think the contract accounts for this though, my memory is there's some kind of year-over-year value promise. (Plus inflation!) If true, moving the parking meters to a low demand location means the city would have to pay the difference in potential revenue, on top of the relocation costs.
Your coworkers have the same options as you have. They can leave. Your manager also has his own manager and interacts with and is judged by senior management. They know and if they are unhappy they will let him go.

On the other hand, if you hate the job it's not necessarily an issue with the company. It may simply be that you don't like it as a matter of personal preference and fit.
Germany being divided in South and North Germany (or eventually forming a somewhat loose federation) wouldn’t exactly have been a tragedy for the German nation.

And it likely would’ve meant no WW1
jmespath does look like an interesting thing. Wish it weren't stringly-typed but that is a bit unavoidable.
Yes; it is a property of the "Erlang Run Time System"(ERTS)/"VM"(BEAM) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415159
Here's how to tell the difference between blue and gray: "latinx", "POC", "intersectionality", "toxic masculinity", "allyship", "lived experience"

Or one of those hideous "we believe in..." yard signs you see in NIMBY areas, that's another dead giveaway
This is a nonsensical understanding of employment! The reason there are unemployed people is a combination of transit times (if you lose your job as a programmer tomorrow you don't want to be allocated to a job as a hairdresser just because that was the next slot that opened up temporarily) and because some people would like to work at a specific job but can't get one right now, and would rather live off savings or welfare for a while rather than compromise (e.g. jobbing actors).

Attempts at full employment were tried, it resulted in dead economies. This stuff is basic!
Is it a human thing, or a mathematical game theory thing. If you have a group of agents with diverse motivations, power will become concentrated in many conditions.
I don't know how it was elsewhere, but the prevalence of free AOL CDs on just about every vaguely tech magazine cover was an amazing marketing move by AOL (and later ditto Freeserve in UK).
Makes me sad. I love everything about the company other than the use case of their products. steep innovation, hardware, robotics, NixOS, design sensibility, supposedly good comp.
The difference is I think that you hand off managing the distribution of the code to the Erlang VM, making it much easier to distribute anything else.

Of course security guys are going "Wait, every machine has an open RPC channel that will blindly execute code to every other machine???"
What is the big vision at Anduril? SpaceX has the goal to make life multiplanetary, which sets them apart from the old crop of rocket companies.

This drone looks no different than what comes out of Lockheed?
I had a job I did not hate, but two of my teammates left and, just in case, I started looking for a job.

I got an offer for $25/hr extra and my manager offered me $50/hr extra. Of course I was very happy (and stupid). He made me work 70 hours per week and after 8 months I never got the increase.

On the exit interview, his manager, which was a good boss, told me: "I'm sorry I don't have much time." I said: "It's OK. I don't want to waste your time," and I left. The next day he arranged a nice exit lunch and invited the two coworkers that had left earlier.
That's amazing. He even managed to fit handwriting-like fonts and outline fonts in 8x8.

I'll keep that page in mind, when I build my next Arduino LED-matrix display project.
According to James Nestor, author of "Breath", depression leads to unhealthy breathing which in turn leads to bad support for the body. Because of that a list of modern illnesses benefits from a bad breathing.
Sorry for my bad wording, I hope I got the point across.
These articles are a bit more informative

https://aviationweek.com/mro/supply-chain/industry-assessing...

https://simpleflying.com/easa-supplier-unapproved-parts-cfm5...
Target in Seattle has placed everything behind glass
I love GA's and realy like Python, but given Python's traditional struggle with the multithreading that GAs crave, it is not the most obvious combination.
No, it’s a very natural power—the courts. If Chicago ignores the contract, they’ll get sued and have to pay even more.
There's usually a time limit on that. Last I checked in my country it's six months before you have to register the car, get local plates, and pay VRT (vehicle registration tax) + VAT. Including the cost of VRT in the VAT calculation, resulting in double taxation.

You can't put foreign plates on an irish registered car without first bringing it out of the country and registering it abroad either. I don't think there's any tax due on re-importing a car that's already been registered however. (you even get the same plate numbers since they're consistently mapped 1-to-1 VIN-to-plate forever)
I feel like Woodworking is mostly about removing material, while blacksmithing is a little less so? Disclaimer all my woodworking experience is from shop class in elementary and all blacksmithing is from YouTube.
> I believe GPT was trained in same manner

If you are talking about GPT-4, unless you are insider (doubt it) you'd have no way of proving it either way because that info is not public.

> Llama2 doesn’t and outclasses llama.

My point still stands, llama2 is just one llm, and we still don't know the distribution of their training set.
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/ is a nice place to find code samples for every programming language
Batteries probably work for this, though prices will have to drop a little more for this.

For seasonal storage, pumped storage and chemical (power to gas) are the more likely solutions.
However, if might turn out that simply overbuilding solar is more cost effective than a lot of seasonal storage.

And yes, you will always need backup generation capacity based on gas.

But those plants can be inefficient and cheaply built, since they won’t run many hours in the year.
I'm most afraid of the router.

I've heard more people are hurt each year by angle grinders than any other tool.

I've only been hurt by two power tools: one was a drill, it slipped off the screw and made the pad of my finger into hamburger.

The other was my table saw, twice. Both kickback events that threw wood at my abdomen. I'm a pretty careful user, definitely not a cowboy. Mistakes are easy to make. I'm very careful with my fingers, at least!
Epic games store is pretty lightweight, doesn't track you around the internet, or announce what game you are playing to the world.

Why are there so many people who are hating on installing this particular client?
FT is a conservative-centre aligned news outlet, so stands to reason they'd favour their preferred party
I thought this was a bug, I couldn't see my own activities on my own activity page? Is it funny? It's too garbage
The founder spent a ton of cash on “shitposters” supporting Donald Trump in 2016[1], his sister is married to an infamous Congressman, and the name of the company is cribbed from Tolkien. What more do you need?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13025422/palmer-luckey-oc...
I personally don't use the stars, dashboard, feeds, etc at all, so they are of no concern to me. I only use it for mirrors of my public projects (the main repository is hosted on my own computer) and for issues/comments of other projects.
And I don’t know if you consider it a “peer”, since the NFB was commissioned to produce, but “Hinterland Who’s Who” by the Canadian Wildlife Service is iconic (and indeed to where my mind goes when imagining Boards of Canada’s influences)[0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland_Who%27s_Who

[1] https://youtu.be/H-aoWSpFor0

Edit: Canadian Wildlife SERVICE, not Foundation
A Rube Goldberg chain of failures led to breach of MS-hosted government emails
Me too. Thirty odd years and it's still earwormed.
It is for us, Civil Engineers and many other non-cs Engineering Fields.
This question is really too broad to answer. What sort of thing are you looking for? For a general overview of the whole system, this strategy is the best place to start.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I remember when this stunt was pulled. It was loudly reported on all sides an obvious fleece for a quick buck. No one in the city supported this except Daley and the aldermen. Daley avoided having to actually deal with a budget shortfall, and then got a job with the firm that negotiated the deal.

As for “normal returns”, it was sold well below value, and the whole enterprise is literally just rent seeking.
That doesn't matter. What matters is that Tesla doesn't get to fudge the record, wipe evidence or misrepresent things.
Since the discovery of DNA we build up the common knowledge that "it is all in the DNA", and the basis of evolution is a random change in DNA. It was due to a selection bias, DNA is a static structure that sits there and waits to be studied while the nano processes in a cell were impenetrable until fairly recently. DNA only contains templates for proteins. It does not contain informtion how to assemble the molecular machines from the proteins, or how "to be alive" in general. A cell is a fairly intelligent problem solver, that can adapt and chang during its lifetime, it does not need to wait for a mutation to occur. There is heritable information outside of DNA, that is epigenetic in its nature. In a multicellular organism this information is communicated and shared between cells. A beneficial DNA mutation is like a lottery win. It might be viable strategy in viruses an bacteria, who divide at an astronomical speed. A multicellular organism gametes divide only a handfull of times per generation. These need to put a more concerted effort, than a random chance, to score.
The deal is objectively awful. If Chicago needs to move parking meters or removes them in order to do construction work or change the road infrastructure (e.g. add sidewalk seating, bus stops, bike lanes), the city needs to pay the company for the lost revenue from those spots. Hell, if too many people get handicap placards and use them to get free parking, the city needs to pay for the lost revenue. Also, Chicago needs to make up any shortfalls if revenues don't match inflation.

It's really hard to come up with a deal that does a better job at effectively preventing any changes to road and street infrastructure.
I lived on a mountainside in Norway. The amount of people that slipped and slid down on our roads was much higher than I could have imagined. That was people that lived there all their lives, let alone me trying to cycle.
What are some words you pronounced a certain way, but then found out it's wrong
This. Pseudo-runtimes can't guarantee anything.
How did those developers had access to that key, and how did it land in crash dump?

I smell like gross negligence here.
There's a lot of these comparisons, and I wouldn't want to reply to all of them, but will on this one.

What's missing on most of these are the social aspect. With Google, you can't just drop into a 'miamidolphins' chat room to discuss the Dolphins. Nor can you instant message folks.

Think of what you'd need to recreate all of it with what we have today. Discord for chat rooms. Whatsapp for IMs. Chrome for browsing. Outlook for email. Steam for games? And there's many more features missing still. All in one application.

Further, part of the 'magic' to me was that the application itself was native and static. So you always had your menu bar to click between. And each clicked thing was its own subwindow. Like an OS inside an OS, if you will. Sounds wacky, but I loved the experience...at least at the time.
I did find that part a bit of a stretch for "powered" but I'm more surprised his wife was happier with random shit cable tied to a pegboard than said shit sitting on a high shelf.
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Isn't whole creationism rather judeo-christian viewpoint? So basically 3 of the major religions.

Others are quite far from that.
From what I’ve seen and read, AOL in the UK was a very different beast to AOL in the US.
> SiFive was working on CoC (theorum prover) extensions to validate designs using formal methods. THAT sounds fascinating, but I'm not sure how they would monetize it.

Synopsys seems to think it's a decent business to be in. :)

https://www.synopsys.com/verification/static-and-formal-veri...
I think that I would not use the AI and continue to do the programming as I already do, using programming in C, and in assembly language, etc. So, it would not make much of a difference to me, I think.
EU "directives" require matching laws to be passed within member states, EU "regulations" apply directly to member states as written. In both cases, enforcement is up to the country you're in.
These are great release notes. Looks like the project is in good hands
You're making it sound as if the headline was poorly written, perhaps by accident or by a poor writer.

I can assure you that isn't the case. Whoever wrote that headline is a copywriting genius. The headline conveys almost the exact opposite of what really happened, without being factually wrong.

That doesn't happen by accident.
I think in this case "better" reduces to convincing the upstream data source to not use json.

Putting that frustration on jq seems like a case of transference.
We are going back to the shop counter era of general stores where everything is behind the counter, society is in full regression
Someone created a userscript to restore the old feed, it seems to work perfectly so far:

https://github.com/Gerrit0/old-github-feed
Killing people is an excellent way to reduce global carbon emissions.
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I'm not sure how you relate this article to an unrelated book on being childless.

Nevertheless, it is true that Prussian imperialism ultimately was a disaster for Germany. I'm not sure how that relates to a "French side", unless you also want to say that there was an "Austrian side", a "Polish side", a "Danish side", etc.

> At that time Nationalism was a force for good throughout Europe demanding more egalitarian rights for citizens

That aspect of nationalism was dead since 1848 in Germany, in no small part due to Prussia. In fact, the 2nd reich was illiberal, with a parliament which was mostly powerless.

> She leaves out this context, as well as that the French state [...]

The book is about 1870. France had been mostly powerless and diplomatically isolated since 1815. But yeah, nice irredentist propaganda.
That idle timeout was pretty important when AOL cost $1/hour (and it was the cheap service! Prodigy, Compuserve, and especially GEnie were more expensive!). Leaving it connected overnight would get you grounded in a hurry when that AOL bill came in the next month.

It was really no wonder that all of those services basically collapsed once dial up ISPs with flat (and low!) monthly fees started appearing. $10 for unlimited (modem speed) data is a steal in comparison.
We’ve never “seen” qualia in biological things either.
I guess it depends on what you like. I’m fortunate in the way that I like doing most programming. I love building things, even if they aren’t exciting or if they are using “un-cool” technologies. Heck, I even enjoy maintenance work as long as the end goal is for it to never need human eyes again.

What I dislike is typically tied to all the bullshit that comes with programming. Because I’m mentally damaged the way I am, I have to expend an enormous amount of energy to pretend to listen in a daily standup meeting when people I don’t work directly with mill about whatever the code I’m not at all involved with does. Which is how SCRUM “works” in basically any Danish organisation because none of them have teams actually working on the same thing to justify using SCRUM. Or if you bill by the hour, so you can’t help another developer chase down that silly mistake that turns out to be ridiculously obvious because then how do you bill that half an hour in JIRA? Those things are what I personally look to avoid.

So yeah, if you’re not that into programming anything, then I guess it’s harder but it’s still possible. The first thing I did at my current job was to work with solar inverters and collect massive amounts of data from our solar plants. Which was certainly a challenge, I haven’t really read a manual the way I needed to read those solar inverter manuals since I did some silly stuff in C with BitMap images during my computer science education. So those jobs are also out there.
Ah, yes, what you say makes sense now reading your post again: So I can happily continue eating my naked oats..
I have a new phrase du jour: "Let governments be governments". This is pretty much the exact situation. A mistake (corrupt or incompetent) was made. Admit it. Then end the contract.

Now governments should honour contracts negotiated earlier in good faith, but there has to be a level of "oh come on" about that honouring.

Here everyone's reputations would be enhanced if a meeting occurred where the CEO of Goldman? / Abu Dabi and the Mayor plus maybe a federal rep (pretty high up maybe White House Chief staff) sit down and basically threaten the investors with no more deals in USA unless they hand back the meters.

Everyone gets to look like winners - the government looks like real government and the investors get a profit and look like the kind of big shots only white house can deal with.

And then we learn to actually scrutinise these deals that happen every day across towns across the west and ask - why? Don't sell the family silver, build strong towns, tax sensible levels, and trust in your city.
Can't you set up overprovisioning so the storage controller can do something usefull with it while you don't need the space?
Get some Plarail tracks and trains for yourself if you can. They come with realistic (mostly Japanese) trains and tons of various accesories.

https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/english/products/plarail/what/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plarail
> See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01326-w figure 1 a and b for a demonstration of the distinct time-to-first-byte for uncached data (local POSIX, S3, and nginx/http).

Looking at your figure, almost a second to download a 128KB chunk with HDF5 seems extremely high. How many requests are being made here? Is the HDF5 metadata being re-read from scratch for each iteration of the benchmark?

It might be interesting to trace log each http request being made and its timing during an iteration of the benchmark.

Using AWS CloudShell I see range requests for the last 128KB of a 512MB S3 file without authentication taking about 25ms when reusing a connection and 35ms when not.

> I'm trying to find a way to accelerate that TTFB for a dataset that lives in S3 and we don't know which parts could be cached before a user shows up and clicks on a dataset.

If latency from S3 turns out to be the problem I'm not sure there's any alternative but paying for the space your data uses on fast storage. The cheapest option on AWS will likely be EBS SSD volumes. That runs to $0.08/GB/month or $8000/month for 100TB (4x more than S3) before IOPS charges. You could try they EBS HDD volumes but they do not advertise latency figures and are still 2x S3 pricing.
> security guys are going

It's a bit concerning if it's only "security guys" seeing issues with this approach.
We should write native apps
ISP whacks game fan with $24,000 bandwidth fine (2000)
You can use this trick to get a handy notepad.

data:text/html,<html contenteditable>

I keep it on my bookmarks toolbar.
How do I get a salaried job doing cool hackery stuff like this?
Anecdotal, but I removed every social media application from my phone, keeping only the essentials such as email, banking, maps, messaging and RSS. I don't check it anymore. I forget where it is, I feel free.
AOL's Usenet client was a terrible hack too. It barely worked. They also tried really hard to filter out the porn and warez which was ultimately futile.
What reason? Nobody ever asked that.

Kinda funny, I was learning about file-system data recovery and forensics around 1999-2000 and was impressed with how much data that could be retrieved from slack-space [1] on hard drives. I had originally learned this on FAT based file systems. Wanting to expand my skills, I built a linux kernel with all the available file systems at the time, including ReiserFS and then created files systems to experiment with. I was surprised to find that there was no slack with ReiserFS. Without getting more long winded, that caused me to take a closer look at it. Put simply it got my attention.

By around 2001 I was using it on my personal workstations and occasional laptop. Eventually it even made it onto my personal co-located servers. At the time I had the delusional idea of making my own security-focused linux distribution, so I was re-installing my devices frequently. Probably why I never had an issue with failure.

The one exception was one of my co-located servers that I used for version control that was online with reiserfs for almost 2 years without issue. I migrated to a different server and rebuilt that one before it failed.

(edit) I almost forgot - Something I did really /love/ about it was that it handled filesystems with many (hundreds of thousands) of tiny files, symlinks, and directories without breaking a sweat. I was using it as a weird document/graph-oriented database for an app I wrote and was experimenting with (2002-ish?). Now I remember its architecture I'm surprised how well it worked considering I was too inexperienced to understand what indexes were let alone how to use them.

All other file systems I tried that with would run out of i-nodes and become incredibly slow at a mere fraction of what the reiserfs based version was able to achieve.

[1] - https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/slack-space-fil...
My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s.

These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.