skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that matches also my experience. then again I have always been a part of the problem. I'm like an amoebae without a functioning membrane. I find myself in a sick (intentionally avoiding the term "toxic". "sick" like in "sick system".) environment, then I will turn sick and act sick as well. I partake for a while until one morning I look into the mirror and don't like the person I see there anymore and I either just quit or develop a sort of burn out depression first - or favorably both. it would be easy for me to react cynical towards people like the author who manage to play the game but I acknowledge that at the end of the day she's just living her life and probably has a more healthy and happy mind then me - good for her - me otoh, I increasingly just seek healing which I certainly won't find in any kind of fast paced company.

why do I even write this? well, I think articles like this will make everybody compare one's life with that of the fortunate lady who wrote it. for some this is more of a technical exercise collecting ideas and strategies. for people like me it just brings home the realization that I can't do this anymore, if I ever could. don't want to do this anymore, if I ever wanted. but sort of have to keep going. so, a little bit of a depressing realization over all.
I am from Ireland.

(1) There is no "irish national tech council"

(2) Delorian Motor Car was based in the North of Ireland which is a part of the United Kingdom

(3) FAANGS built here because of tax breaks, the hard work of the IDA (https://www.idaireland.com/), educated population, English speaking, part of the EU, etc.

(4) Here is the Data Protection Act from 2018 https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/7/enacted/en/ht... it's actually a good law and annoys Big Tech companies as does EU law like GDPR

(5) Saying Ireland "its status in basically 5-eyes" is one of the most politically ignorant things I've heard in a while.

(6) "I would assume ireland is a privacy nightmare when you get down to brass tacks." – again, idiotic statement – you know nothing about this country.

Hope that helps.
The irony that your website is named "hofstadter", yet:

"And my whole intellectual edifice, my system of beliefs... It's a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing. And especially when you think that human beings are soon going to be eclipsed. It felt as if not only are my belief systems collapsing, but it feels as if the entire human race is going to be eclipsed and left in the dust soon." -Hofstadter

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kAmgdEjq2eYQkB5PP/douglas-ho...

I suppose after everything you've read, he's just trying to make money selling more books or something...
One can talk things up or fix them. As the report (and some comments) suggests, the former is given high priority.
Not Neolithic, but the BBC did a great series of series of living history shows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_historic_farm_series
This.

I'm an EM, and going from an IC to a TL or EM isn't a career progression. It's a career change.

I've known some amazing ICs with terrible managerial skills, they are adept at what they do, but they lack the skills needed to handle people, or to constantly context shift all day, every day.

Now what happens when you suddenly get that IC into a managerial role, and force them to context shift, or manage people's needs, and balance the team dynamics?

They quit, or others under then quit. Perhaps both.

I very much dislike this article for two reasons;

1. She outlines EM as part of a career progression that ICs go on.
2. She was part of two absolute rocketships and didn't realise the reasons she got where she was is at least partially because of that.

Any EM should be aware that not everyone can do their job.. and any EM should be part of a hiring process and keenly know that when you see a FAANG on someone's resume, people tend to have a bias either for or against it. Usually for.
> Not sure how it compares to Planck distance,

If I've plugged in the right figures, the Schwarzschild radius would be something like 22 orders of magnitude smaller than the Planck length. (edit - ah the result of this is in the wiki article)
> the noise level of the keyboard made it difficult for my colleagues to focus

Had the same issue in the past but nowadays everyone is wearing noise cancelling earphones
> Because I care about Firefox and want to see it kill Chrome

You're actively working against what you say you care about if you post a negative reply to a comment suggesting Firefox as alternative to Chrome. In a thread about Chrome's latest user-hostile feature of the week.

Anyway, you brought attention to the issue that you care about going on at Mozilla. Let's hope that there is a way to improving that, simultaneously to promoting Firefox as a perfectly-good alternative to Chrome - today.
You must be great at business
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This was an awesome explainer - thanks a lot. It helps clear up a lot of jargon I keep hearing in very precise ways.
Maybe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgm455M-N3Y
Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud
"reject just one flight plan, and allow the rest to proceed."

rejecting a plan wouldn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist/take off anymore, so that doesn't sound sensible
"Totally wild" is probably an exaggeration, considering there is virtually nowhere in southern England that could reasonably be considered totally wild.
Herenboeren Usseler Es is working together with the ITC institute of the University of Twente in a project that is called 'Developing climate smart water management in agriculture on a farm run by citizens' [1]. For this project a weather station has been installed. At two locations sensors have been installed to measure the humidity in the soil at various depths. Remote sensing techniques have been used to measure crop rates. For a short video (in Dutch) about this, see [2]. The ITC is the former International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation that from 1 januari 2010 has been incorporated by the University of Twente.

[1] https://www.utwente.nl/en/sustainability/climate-centre/news...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OnvKziki8
Unfortunately, HN crowd suffers from the "someone, please, do something" syndrome.

(Also: "Here is how the law should look like: we all should get a raise")
Out of curiosity - why should I be required to ask for permission from given company to probe company owned infrastructure?

What I mean here is that if there's a bug / vulnerability on given company infrastructure, then that company should fix it and not put on a blame on a user that was affected by it (even if device that communicates with given infrastructure always follows happy path)
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I think we should be holding governments to a higher standard than some random dude.
Can confirm, working there was Chaos, not sure that's what they meant by chaos engineering though.
And here I am with an old car and my first thought: Car? Privacy? What?

The dealer has our number because they service it. That's it.
Then it's not a singularity (and not a black hole) for any reasonable definition of one. Problem solved.
No problem. By the way, Spanish is also my first language.
And here I'm searching why the rapper Drake whistle blowed the NSA
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Hi,

I am one of the founders of a startup, and we are in the process of expanding. Currently there are 8 of us, but it's looking like there will be 20-30 quite soon.

I am looking for any resources around scaling our internal IT bits (laptops, phones ect.) in a way which is secure. I get how things would look when we are (hopefully) ~100 and can justify an IT manager, but it's the bit in the middle I am unsure on.

Any pointers would be hugely appreciated!
It's really not weird at all.

When the mainstream media doesn't report on something, it's forgotten within days. They dictate what most people think and talk about.

Pandora papers?
Pleasure Island?

What was the name of the woman that got jailed? Do you remember her jail sentence being a joke? What about the list?

What was in the news two weeks ago? What was NOT in the news two weeks ago, despite being noteworthy?
This is mixing two meanings of confidence which could lead to confusion. The OP is using confidence to describe how high the per-token probability scores are, while you are talking about the confidence expressed in the tone of voice of the language generated by the model. Really those are orthogonal issues. (Eg, a model could predict with high probability that a output should be “I don’t know”)
Can you reword this more coherently? There's value here.
There's plenty to criticize of Mozilla, but yes, they're a lot better, or a lot less bad if you want.

Are you really suggesting there isn't a huge difference between an ad and sharing your browsing history with advertisers?

I see this happen all the time, specially in politics or politics-adjacent topics. Just because no option is perfect, they become equal in people's mind. Two things can be both imperfect, and one be way worse than the other.

Google Chrome is on a whole different league when it comes to abusing your privacy. Mozilla Firefox ain't perfect, but it's way better.
Huh no shiny teeth? Why?

Weren't the teeth of the average person back then much shinier because... no sugar?
That's why parent wrote that Hopscotch is the only solution which replicated Postman scripting.

>The one piece of Postman that only Hoppscotch (a Postman fork) seems replicate that I definitely want is scripting.

Parent is talking about the lack of scripting in Postman alternatives.
I'm interested in learning! what are those mistaken assumptions?
What about 10-15 min, just one wrist?
gcsfuse worked great for me on a couple of projects, but YMMV for production use. As with all distributed storage systems, make sure you can handle timeouts, retries, high latency periods and outages.
Maybe I'm a luddite, but I want my start menu search results to open my browser approximately never.
It’s easier to cancel if you subscribe through the app.
Because the whole history of Microsoft is based on the EEE paradigm. And now because of inertia it's almost[0] impossible to move away from it for any org that has been using their products for years.

[0] "Almost", because I know some large orgs that finally managed to break away, but it wasn't easy at all.
Mechanical keyboard definitely stopped my RSI and I haven't had any pain since (5+ years).

I don't use clicky switches though, I don't think they are good.
>Is it really just the money?

They all promote to manager position when there's opportunity, because it pays more.
What about someone else's garage door? :D
Sounds nice on paper.

What action will the EU take against them, and how?

Do you know of any cases where they’ve taken action against companies such as YC?

And do you believe in other countries enforcing their laws way beyond their borders? I’m not against GDPR, I’m against other countries enforcing their laws in my country.
According to the Rent Guidelines Board in New York City, as of 2020, approximately 44.6% of apartments in NYC are rent stabilized or rent controlled. However, it's important to note that within this percentage, there is a distinction between rent stabilized and rent controlled units. Rent stabilization accounts for the majority of this percentage, while rent-controlled units represent a smaller portion. The exact breakdown between these two categories may vary over time due to changes in regulations and market conditions.

- you know what
I admit I have no idea how the system works but if there is an obligation to submit a flight plan in advance then there should also be a standard procedure not to let planes take off or enter airspace if they don't. At the very least there should indeed be a procedure to reject the flight plan even if flight cannot be stopped.
Isn't that the business model of most employers in the US?
Isn't this what people would do? I'd definitely update my knowledge after a single failed test question, if it was something I'd care about, and I discovered my previous model of reality was wrong.
For VOD platforms. it would be a dream if one day netflix / disney+ / AppleTV / ..., would offer iframes, and I could use other sites that offer me their own catalog browsing and recommendation ergonomics that are not limited to a catalog with their walled garden editorial choices.

Why have iframes lost so much use?
Ever heard of pilot unions?
It turns out some of the abusers are using 'botnets' of thousands of virus-infected home PCs. So they've got thousands of CPU cores available for proof-of-work challenges, legitimate residential IP addresses, and so on.

Meanwhile, plenty of the legitimate users are using 5 year old budget android devices, so you'd better not make that challenge too hard.
Did you post an example gist someplace, perchance?
> Cloud Storage FUSE can only write whole objects at a time to Cloud Storage and does not provide a mechanism for patching. If you try to patch a file, Cloud Storage FUSE will reupload the entire file. The only exception to this behavior is that you can append content to the end of a file that's 2 MB and larger, where Cloud Storage FUSE will only reupload the appended content.

I didn’t know GCS supported appends efficiently. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think S3 has an equivalent way to append to a value, which makes it clunky to work with as a log sink.
EU targets all major tech giants in next phase of digital crackdown
Sure, there are plenty of alternatives, many are superior, but because of inertia and policies it's difficult to eradicate Microsoft variants. That's why many of us have to put up with broken products like Teams on a daily basis even though everybody (i.e. users, middle management, top management) know they're broken and half-useful when compared to competition.
I do see your point, but the fall of the Weimar Republic isn’t a great comparison.

Ultimately, it still boils down to “I think you should be limited to making X for doing job Y, because I don’t believe it should be worth as much as job Z, which is clearly prestigious enough to be worth 2X.”

Market forces are a surprisingly efficient means of separating perceived and actual value for pretty much anything, even with some fairly sizeable warts.
What is a pareto frontier? what?? and what is "FLOPS" in the graph? I don't understand anything!
Wow that is even worse.
That'd be nice, but, no federal anti-SLAPP law exists at this time.

e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/its-time-federal-anti-...
Cryptographically signing GPS signals makes it harder to spoof GPS coordinates but does not stop it completely.

A spoofer could obtain signed GPS signals from the time and location where they are claiming to have taken a photo and combine them with a photo taken in a different time and place.
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Porter-Duff refers to a seminal 1984 paper titled simply "Compositing Digital Images":

https://graphics.pixar.com/library/Compositing/paper.pdf

This research was sponsored by Lucasfilm because at the time, alpha compositing of bitmap images wasn't really a concern for desktop computers. CPU, memory, and display hardware wasn't there to do anything useful with alpha (other than 1-bit masks used for game characters and GUI icons).

OTOH Lucasfilm (and other film visual effects companies) had a long history of using mattes, the physical photography equivalents of alpha compositing. When you see a group of Stormtroopers marching inside a Death Star hangar in 1977 "Star Wars", the hangar is a matte painting. They were typically created by artists directly on a large glass that was carefully placed in front of the camera to create the illusion.

Porter and Duff came up with a compositing model that's appealingly simple: it's a single formula, three variables, and you get 12 compositing operators by simply enumerating the combinations.

You can still find these Porter-Duff operators pretty much anywhere that 2D graphics are processed. They're in HTML Canvas, PDF, Apple CoreGraphics...

But, as neatly mathematical as these operators are, most of them aren't really practical for rendering actual scenes consisting of graphics layers. They're not terribly intuitive for designers, and they don't even attempt to simulate the effects of combining light.

So when Photoshop was created, its designers needed a set of blending operations (initially for drawing tools, and soon after for combining layers, which were introduced in PS version 3.0). Exposing the Porter-Duff operators to designers in the Photoshop GUI wouldn't have been very useful.

Instead they came up with a set of blending modes that were loosely derived from operations that you could do on physical photography negatives, since that was the inspiration for the application. (The PS blending modes still retain names like "dodge" and "burn" which refer to darkroom techniques that no designer aged under 50 probably remembers.)

These PS blending modes are conceptually pretty much the opposite of the Porter-Duff modes: they're not mathematically rigorous, but just a collection of algorithms that could be executed in reasonable time on a 68k processor back in the early 1990s. These original limitations are visible in the design of the algorithms: for example, they don't even try to account for gamma correction in the source images, which means that the algorithms do a rather poor job of simulating the behavior of actual light. (Photoshop has later added "linear" versions of some blending modes to address this.)

Still, they are the closest thing we have to a standard for blending modes. Many 2D graphics APIs that originally only supported Porter-Duff have added support for PS modes too, including the aforementioned PDF and CoreGraphics.
It's my opinion they're not an asset, unless you own the cullinan diamond or something very pricey, they're going to depreciate, just at a slower rate perhaps. Older diamond cuts go for less as we get better at cutting techniques, the rest of the ring also loses value as the setting goes out of fashion.

The icky diamond thing is arguable, these are generally mined in countries with decent labour laws. On the contrary, lab diamonds require few workers and takes food out the mouth of poorer mine workers who become jobless.
That's true. Details are here: https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/basics/syn...

Basically if you sign into postman, it's copying everything to their cloud. It "works" without signing in, but you can't use workspaces which means it saves things only in an unstructured sort of draft format.
Not sure if it’s just me, but the whole mention of the Stitch Fix blog post and ‘democratising data pipelines’ really threw me off.

> The idea here is the engineering team creates ‘Lego blocks’ that consumers then assemble into end-to-end data pipelines.

Might be my personal biases, but it doesn’t really seem to set the scene for the rest of content?

The rest of it was good enough common sense “non exhaustive list of stuff to always be working on” as a data engineer or something.
> He would have had the chance to go to trial and defend himself and seek whistleblower protection status...

In what universe would the US Gov't not just ship him off to some blacksite on a remote island somewhere and disappear him forever?
Try xorgxrdp. Might make it nicer for getting a remote display going, and has less latency.
"Point particle" isn't quite as clean as it sounds. What it means (hand-wavy) is that the underlying electron field has a finite number of degrees of freedom for every point in spacetime (in contrast to, say, a string theory). It doesn't mean that the density of the electron is infinite because quantum effects will "blur it out".
That would be nice. I’d read it for sure.
Well, it's in Canon's interests to appear to be as open and transparent as possible about this, so I expect they would not only make the originals publicly available but also make the process of verifying as frictionless as possible -- maybe even make a phone app or browser extension to do it. I'm just saying that that's technically more than what's required for someone to trust their claim.

OTOH, yes, privacy and upsetting content are reasons why they might hold some (or all) back from Joe Public and only provide the bits to someone more authoritative.
> All languages shift, but I've got the feeling that English shifts a lot more, faster and more dramatically than most languages. And I'm not sure why.

Probably because they go off to colonize very far away places and then develop separately.

Isn't Afrikaans pronunciation shifted Dutch?
Is it possible to somehow modify the sampling from the model to account for that?
I know people to this day that didn't leave home and are supported by the state to care for parents who can't look after themselves, because they feel guilty about abandoning them, and don't have any skills. When their parents die they will most likely be unable to find work or integrate with society.
Why would anyone want this ? It's like attaching a card to your bike to make it hit the spokes and pretending it's a motorbike.
EU confirms six (mostly US) tech giants are subject to Digital Markets Act
Yet another glorified product viability fishing survey. Sigh.
Of course, but unless you're going to work out the price elasticity of supply/ demand, you might as well just assume it's one as a starting point.
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It definitely used to work like this, but thst functionality broke for me when the Firefox rewrite launched (Firefox 69 I believe).

In my opinion, Firefox shouldn't need to keep a separate store for user imported certificates at all. The operating system already has this built in, with a dedicated API to listing and importing these certificates, and Firefox actually uses that if you use the secret setting to enable it (not in about:config, you're not allowed to touch about:config unless you run Beta or Nightly).

I think Firefox tries to be simple and easy like Chrome is, but just fails to in edge cases. I still can't paste an IPv6 IP address (i.e. http://[2000::5677]/) into the address bar and just visit it like I can on every other browser I've tried, and to me that's indicative of Mozilla's struggles to keep up with the mobile browser market.
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NHS management is notoriously corrupt and a bureaucratic nightmare, which is why the national health service failed in the UK.

If you live elsewhere and are surprised to have never heard about this, it’s because it hasn’t been acknowledged yet by the government to save face, but anyone with relatives stuck on a NHS waiting list or who have sadly passed away waiting for an ambulance that doesn’t come already knows this.
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