skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have absolutely zero sense of what this actually is.

All kinds of economists estimate models on very large data using computers. Does that count or not?

What good is it specifically to “know habermas as well as feature selection” ? What problems are you solving?

Maybe “the world needs an explanation of what you mean when you say computational social science” would make a nice follow up…
2. I only understood that it was actual other people's mouse cursors when I read that here. So it didn't really engender a sense of community, although after some time I did think you are very good at modelling actual human mouse movements. Now that I know it, it's pretty neat though.
I live in EU, earn approx €52,000 as a senior software engineer (whatever that might mean) and live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children, ... Don't consider myself rich, but doing good. Should I change jobs?!

$168,000 - $350,000 for a Software Engineer seems outrageous. What am I missing?
Tested: New CFexpress 4.0 Readers Make Your Current Cards Way Faster
I'm curious what aspect of the poem you don't think will be relevant in a century from now?
I don't even understand what are you on about. The same kind of statue up.to the holding of the genital has been found in the same area in 1993 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man

Not even talking of the fact that 25000 years before people were making incredible art at the grotte Chauvet or that around the same time, a 30cm statue was carved in Germany representing an anthropomorphised Lion ans
> I'm trying to understand why one would design a parser or parser library this way

Simplicity. None of the industrial strength Haskell parsers (parsec, megaparsec, attoparsec, flatparse, happy) are implemented that way.
Such policies could have dire consequences for the UK.

Good road design and good city design go hand in hand. You have less cars on the road when people can safely walk to their doctor or supermarket.

How can such legislation help cities? If not creating unforeseen consequences.
Netflix Takes a Page from Disney and Hawks More Merch
> This is not only about before pandemic remote workers. Once people enjoyed the flexibility they aren't going back.

I mean this is true in the scenario where demand for their skills outstrips the supply of available workers with said skills.

In a different scenario, where tech jobs are being reduced across the board (due to return to normal interest rates and VC funding slowing down), such an "aren't going back" ultimatum isn't necessarily going to be compatible with "I need a job."

And of course, if you believe Microsoft, ChatGPT is going to start eating tech jobs left and right any day now.

The economy runs in boom and bust cycles, and the winds are shifting. The tech environment from 2020-2022 was extremely weird, and the balance of power now is shifting back to management. Management knows that (at least some) workers highly value remote work, and they're not going to hand that out for free.

The only certainty here is change, and as tech workers lose leverage, "remote work" moves from a default assumption to an item that must be negotiated for (perhaps in exchange for some total compensation) - if it's available at all.
The number of graphene clusters in a string depend on the font being used. The length of a string should be the number of code points because that is not length specific.

Better yet, there shouldn't be a function called length.
Co-Op alone is seeing a 1,000 incidents of shoplifting a day at the minute[1]. I'm wary of governments overstepping the mark and using this stuff for ill, but I'm leaning on the side of this being a legitimate use case. Of course, we also need solutions to address the societal reasons why people are turning to shoplifting and organised crime in the first place.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/21/co-op-boss-u...
> One of my fantasies is becoming elected president and creating a constitutional amendment against minimum wage.

The President is the single weakest elected official at the federal level (and weaker than many at the state level) in terms of a Constitutional amendment, having no role at all in proposing or ratifying them, so its a silly fantasy for reasons beyond the viability of such an amendment itself.
I'm not sure how you come to this conclusion. When a French doctor claimed that he had discovered a non-vaccine treatment, several hospitals around the world immediately attempted to replicate his claims.

As it turns out, they all failed, plus his own papers proved bogus.
Map Shows a Divided and Conquered USA If America Had Lost WWII
Analogy - this is like continuing to teach new drivers how to drive a stick-shift ( manual transmission) car when their city has adopted only automatic transmission or single gear EV cars for the future.

Humans are great at adapting to their surroundings. Mentoring/growing juniors will continue but in a different way that works better for modern work arrangements.
It's way, way more than just a tool that improves thought. It's a necessary tool to organize your life. How can you even budget or use a credit card responsibly if you don't know algebra? You need algebra to know how long a paycheck can last you.

My dad didn't graduate high school and even he knew enough algebra to work out how much money he needed a month for cigarettes (until he eventually quit once he really thought about the numbers).
Not a good idea for the following reasons:

- Co-founder preferably should be someone who you already know for a reasonable amount of time.

- There are already many co-founder matching platforms, including on YC Startup School[1]

- Posts on HN are hard to update or delete, unlike those on the cofounder matching platforms / forums / groups / etc. Also they're publicly available and indexed by the search engines.

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1. https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching
Pretty clearly, "every software developer" doesn't need to understand Unicode with this level of familiarity, much like "every programmer" doesn't need to know the full contents of the 114 page Drepper paper. For example, I work on a GUID-addressed object store. Everything is in term of bytes and 128-bit UUIDs. Unicode is irrelevant to everyone on my team, and most adjacent teams. There is lots of software like this.
I believe shopping this assertion around a social science department (or economics, if we’re not calling that social science) would yield a rather more nuanced view.
have you ever owned and been inseparable from a pet? you absolutely can interpret their moods and you can find papers on it if you like, they do have expressions and body language. It may not be the same as humans necessarily but it is there if you care to research it.
Arbitrage, it is not just for hedge funds.

And by now, everyone south of the Mediterranean, or south of the Rio Grande, knows that North America and the EU are not the land of milk and honey. They know what to expect, the price to pay to build a better life.

Half of my friends here are sub-saharan Africans, most of whom came illegally, a bunch of which came on the dreaded pneumatic boats through Libya, Morocco and Turkey. One thing is certain: they know an opportunity when they see it and they'll hang on to it. They left their friends, their family, their weather and their food behind - they work to make the adventure worth that.

Most fun is that, in practice and not in theory, the French government recognizes that: come illegally, work hard illegally, prove that you don't depend on the state for survival and, in practice, you'll have residency within about five years. It is unwritten and cannot be expressed openly for fear of a xenophobic backlash, but that is administrative reality in France.

I could wax lyrical about "land of opportunity" but yes, it is about working to achieve potential, in conditions they don't find on their home market.
I found they can be very unappreciative of their data sources for training. Any mention that scraping art from art sites like DA without their consent was unethical is met with arguments about how its exactly the same as a human looking at art and replicating the style.

They refuse to even acknowledge why those people might be annoyed their work was used without their consent or compensation to put them out of work.
Because Cable Television with "57 Channels and Nothin' On" had already taught us about channel surfing. Subsequently couch surfing became part of the vernacular.
not really, typescript and Rust mostly
Is my math wrong here? 10 gbps -> 8s per 10 GB -> 800s per 1TB -> 80,000s per 1PB -> 22.3 hrs at full speed for 1 PB?
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For more context, the response from the canceled speakers: https://elizabethweiss74.wordpress.com/discussing-sex-is-no-...

They claim the accusation that "it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary" is false - one of their abstracts even makes explicit distinction between sex and gender [1]. While technically even biological sex is not entirely binary, it is, in the vast majority of cases, binary enough to support categorization of human remains as male or female.

Perhaps these points would have been made in their talk, however, it was shut down without notice to its presenters, despite having earlier gotten approval for it.

[1] In “No bones about it: skeletons are binary; people may not be”, Elizabeth Weiss wrote: “In forensics, however, anthropologists should be (and are) working on ways to ensure that skeletal finds are identified by both biological sex and their gender identity, which is essential due to the current rise in transitioning individuals.”
Being “open-minded” when it comes to politically influential billionaires supporting antisemitic groups isn't something to be proud of, actually.
Or you enrol your smart thermostat to raise its set point a few degrees during a “grid event”, but you put a heat pack under it.
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Senior backend software developer with experience on big systems with a Nasdaq subsidiary, multiple mid-tier social networks, data science, and Trust and Safety engineering. Experience leading other developers as well, but also happy as a run of the mill backend developer. Enough JS experience to fill the role of a fullstack developer, but too weak on CSS to fully make that claim.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25376
'Character' doesn't have a single meaning. ZWJ is a character according to definitions (2) and (3) in https://unicode.org/glossary/#character
Recent and related:

ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781248 - July 2023 (334 comments)

Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674 - July 2023 (361 comments)
"HAL, my grandma used to open the pod bay doors every night as she tucked me in..."
Sure, the C1 rates are lower here for one kind of media in one actual comparison, but C1 errors below a certain rate are entirely correctable errors. Meaning, you're not going to lose data when it gets reconstructed. You are not losing fidelity of the CD by having a lower C1 rate in the 20s to 40s; every bit decoded is being played back exactly as originally encoded. Otherwise reading data off a CD would always have significant amounts of corruption every time you installed software. Every time you opened a photo off a photo CD you'd get all kinds of JPEG corruption.

Assuming you have a properly functioning CD player, these errors have zero input in the quality of a CD being played. If you have a noticeable difference in audio quality between a CD with a max error rate of 24 or 32 C1 errors, you've got a tremendously faulty CD player that is complete trash.

Its funny too because in this table it shows the Mitsubishi media performed about identical or better in every speed while being significantly faster at recording. The 1x speed with AudioMaster on for Plasmon is the worst result, ignoring the time they burned 16x media at 44x speed. This table is also challenging to actually compare, because they show different speeds for the different modes (1,4,8x for AM, 4,16,44x for regular) so the only one we can really compare fairly is the 4x. Even then, at 16x speed AM off it had a lower average error rate than 8x speed with it on!

Don't get me wrong, burning a lower error rate from the get go is good, it implies the burn will possibly be more reliable over time as you get things like scratches and other imperfections on the disc. But arguing that a disc with an average of 2.1 C1s vs 1.1 is going to be noticeably different in the sound is absurd. And once again, even then this showed an improvement only in one of the two medias tested. Maybe its better in more media, maybe its worse, maybe there was just something odd with their burns and this is largely just noise in the overall results of burn results from this drive.

I'm still not convinced AM actually did anything but reduce your recording time. Your link doesn't say anything of actually increasing the audio fidelity in the slightest, just that in one straight comparison the C1 errors were lower. Practically every result in that table other than the 16x media being written at 44x speeds is already massively in the "negligible levels." Being below 220 is "negligible", and all of these burns (aside from the one using AM at 1x speed!) are well below that.
Having a border is not the same as policing entry through it
The latest T series are still the ThinkPads we love. Bought one for wife’s brother. That thing is well built and well performing.
SEI Capability Maturity Model has 5+1 Levels.

Level Zero is "we have no idea what our process is". You get a cookie and promotion to level 1 just for writing down your batshit process, which some engineers find particularly cathartic and thus are all too eager to contribute. Pithy things like "and then we play phone tag and finger point for a week until someone gets fed up and volunteers to get it done," can end up in the first draft.
Driving license and passport photos are the same in the UK now. When you get your passport photo taken now the photo booth gives you a digital link which you put in the application. And then when you renew your driving license it uses the photo from the passport. I'm not 100% sure but I think there's an option to use another photo but I expect the vast majority will just use the passport one.
Define Chastise: rebuke or reprimand severely.

Saying "we should" is not chastising anyone - saying "you're evil for doing" would be chastising.
Yes.

If you've been eating the same for the last 20 years and you've been gradually gaining weight over the last 20 years, then it's your diet.

If you've been eating the same for the last 20 years and you suddenly gain weight, it's likely not your diet, it's something else -- exercise, illness, et cetera.
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Today, writers, podcasters, and video creators use Substack on mobile web to write drafts and manage their publication. Despite the difficulties and shortcomings of working in a mobile browser, they're already asking to do more: to record podcasts (and video podcasts), to share their work, and to easily understand their business and audience.

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I have never raised money (at least not so far) but as far as I have understood, investors don't care about the fact that you were able to acquire traction using miniscule capital. They care that you grew fast and there is a billion dollar market.

If your argument is that you grew slow bootstrapped but can replicate that 10x or 100x just by VC money, investors don't take that as a sign of strength or possible future success.

You can bootstrap but you need to show high traction to raise money from investors. Bootstrap or not.
Eshell is neat, and I especially like the TRAMP integration. But I've yet to see anyone completely replace their terminal with it though. There are some usability problems like company mode hanging Emacs on every key input when used with Eshell on remote directories.

Also, Emacs in general can't replace tabbed terminals because there are so many blocking operations that make it unresponsive for a while.
This is the death of anthropology.

> The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline

I don't think it's settled science. You can cross different borders on our planet and have different anthropologic organizations that come to different conclusions dependent on what borders you're inside of.
as mentioned controlnet and inpainting help. my guess is img2img will improve to fill this edit step.
A few facts. The 15-minute city is a simple design goal. In the USA, most residential areas are zoned far away from commercial, making this design goal completely impossible without zoning law changes. All cities and towns built before 1910 all met this goal. This goal is not an either-or proposition: You can have a 15-minute city without the removal of cars and personal freedom. In fact personal freedom goes up, because now a middle or working class person can ride their bike to the train if they so choose. They could still take an Uber or Taxi if they wish. Anyone who reads Jane Jacobs or Christopher Alexander should already know this?
Well, it is certainly a prototype. In the early consumer CD players the whole CD decoding datapath was split into chip with the analog part (servo amplifier, which also produces an error signal that contains the read data) and digital chip with its associated DRAM that does the rest of the decoding. It is somehow surprising how empty the single layer PCB in these early CD players is. Obviously, this level of integration was required for the technology to be commercially viable. The CD somewhat coincides with the time of cost-effective VLSI ASICs, which made this possible.

On the other hand, the modern CMOS logic runs so fast and can be so densely integrated, that the 15 years old SAF784x apparently implements the “complex analog RF” part of CD player by using DSP techniques. And the process it is made in is apparently mature enough that it can accommodate various analog functions including high-powered ones so you end up with a complete CD/MP3 player on one ASIC (if you can fit what you want to do into 64kB of ARM7TDMI code and can tolerate the sound quality and EMC implications of the integrated audio output DAC)
Mostly because the younger generation wants the world to be habitable for the foreseeable future. But ultimately light rail and cars are not mutually exclusive. Property doesn't have to be lost to add it. Heavy rail can largely go parallel to current lines and we can add additional rail lines rather than yet another lane to highways. If you look around, rail + highways is already done and has been for decades, it is just poorly mismanaged to maximize RR profits. I posit that nearly none of the Semi trucks out there are only solving the last mile problem, most of it is interstate transit, which is best served by rail. In places that are upstream of water sources, they need to be heavily in rail to prevent the pollution we're talking about here.
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I despise this "entitlement" argument. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean criticism of people who have it better is invalid.

Historically, violent conflicts notwithstanding, only people in already relatively comfortable positions are able to improve conditions for themselves and others, such as normalizing WFH, since the people stuck with 4hr commutes that can only pray that they can afford a full tank of gas that day won't have the time or energy to do so.

The author explicitly says they're not going to uproot their life to move to some expensive city, which presumably is much more than a cost of living argument.
That's the US market! And yes, you could earn something like that if you work remotely for an American company.

(I moved from Chicago to the UK and took my salary with me. It's been nice!)
“It’s true because it has always been true”
Does that 8.3% include retirement savings to a 401k?
I don't particularly care what the venture capitalists who own this website want me to do. Nor is it surprising that they don't want politics here. Political consciousness can only be bad news for the uber-wealthy.
Yes, but you'd likely be as well if you had been facing this at the age of 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...

(Hector Martin, a.k.a marcan, was also a target of the lawsuit)