skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your the frog living in the well.

Think bigger. For eons and millennia society has been structured this way since forever. It's only in the recent three or four decades has there been a cultural shift. Men have been taking home the income since they were hunting, farming and now programming.

Women taking home the money is a new thing. That only happened in the last 50 or so years. And the social pressures aren't even forcing them to take home the money. To women, it's just an option. For men the pressure is worse. For men it's a social requirement... the survival of the family unit still rests entirely on their shoulders.

But again this is besides the point. The main question here is, how does this new opportunity for women to make money suddenly make women deserve a hand out when they choose divide the time devoted to these new opportunities with care giving? You do less work and as a business owner I have to give you the same pay because you're entitled to it? How does that logic work out? It doesn't.

If an employee works 4 days a week and obviously has his/her attention divided to other endeavors how does he/she deserve a promotion? Are you kidding? Maybe in her eyes she deserves a promotion, but as a business owner I'd rather promote the single guy who is 100% dedicated because he's the one that actually deserves it.

That being said if society wants to make themselves better and give hand outs to women for caregiving... I'm all for it. But don't twist it any other way. What's going on here is a charity. A kind gift to caregivers who are not entitled to said gift in any way.

Don't come to me as if women deserve promotions because they have kids to take care of or social pressures to deal with. That's just garbage. Also don't get me started on the pressures on men, it's magnitudes larger than it is for women, magnitudes and we don't go around screaming for a handout.
Zip – How not to design a file format (2021)
Did they fix the design? It looks fine to me. I'd even say it looks good. (Firefox GNU/Linux).

I wonder how you're able to enjoy science fiction at all given that the answer to every story is "because it's fiction and it was written that way".
I didnt read very much of it so ill take your word. But the title certainly sounds like it includes instructions on how to do something.
Thanks! How do I use the bot?
Phew, that surely makes more sense. Great links too, thanks a lot!
Exactly. How could people be so naive? A friend of mine bougth the cheapest Android smartphone for less than 50 bucks on Amazon and then after buying iPhone Pro for ~ 1500 he annoyed anyone saying how much better iPhone is than Android. However, he never ever used a proper flagship Android, only the cheapest of the cheapest models and then compares them to iPhone... Genius
Nixon Jew Count
Who chopped down britains ancient forests? (2012)
I tried duckduckgo for a while.. I don't know if it's because my main language is french, but I found the results really worse than google's and so I used the !g bang really often. I switched to startpage (proxy seargh engine giving google results), it was ok but a bit slow.

Now I use Kagi search, you have to pay for it, but results are great (often better than google) : less SEO spam, a lot of tuning possible, custom searches, small web searches, good image and map searches. And it is supposed to respect your privacy and private data.
Datetimes can come in thousands of formats, I think rule based tools would have a hard time detecting unknown formats perfectly. AI could be a potentially better way to parse datetimes, maybe not LLM though, what are your thoughts on this?
Yup...95% of "HR" is your Workday intranet, scales very well, new employees do not require linear growth in HR

JIRA and Github automate/gamify work distribution and scoring, so even technical management need not scale linearly to rank-and-file

AWS means resources scale out without increasing ops headcount

Standardization of dev tooling provides pre-trained pool of workers

Etc etc...rank and file developers are becoming a human autoscaling group
Attention is all you need. People’s attention that is :-)
Where are you from? In the US goods and services are normally quoted as one price and charged as another if there are taxes and fees. Restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, retail, etc. Everywhere basically. “Junk fees” take this further but your definition of fraud describes basically every sale already.
Love how simple this is. Let's see how this scales when everyone starts adding their open positiobs!
But not a long-term solution. The brits had the right intuition. The EU is pretty much a globalist failure. The more it goes in the direction of an US of E, the less I want to be a part of it. Its slow and hopelessly naiv. The whole refugee situation and the russia thing made this very obvious.
Indeed, it doesn't change the fact that the countries themselves might implement such things.

Many dictators were democratly elected.
On the one hand I wanted to say that a lot of people are not that rich, so they would still happily buy an older PlayStation model and games.

But then I remembered that this is Nintendo and that they would sadly still ask full price for both the console and whatever games would be available.
The Dutch East India Company was still bigger.
While it didn't point that out specifically in the first message it actually did recognize that when I asked it about it, without suggesting anything: https://i.imgur.com/OE9tCX4.png

> Should I attack while it's tail is up as the message suggests?

> Actually, no. In "Final Fantasy VII," when you're facing the Guard Scorpion and its tail goes up, attacking it will prompt it to counterattack with its powerful "Tail Laser." It's best to wait until the tail goes down before resuming your attacks. The message is a bit misleading in the game, which has been a point of note for many players over the years. So, hold off on attacking when the tail is up to avoid taking unnecessary damage.

I've also tried a fresh conversation where I just gave it the same picture and asked what is the best action in this situation, and it correctly replied that I should wait until the tail is down: https://i.imgur.com/nchv2bH.png

So overall I would say I'm pretty impressed about this response.
Ask HN: I'm 24. Should I leave my job to study a second degree?
tl;dr: is it too stupid to (1) leave my job, (2) finish my CS degree in order to start a B.Sc. in mathematics and, hopefully, in the very distant future, (3) have the possibility of doing private AI/ML research?

Hi, I'm 24 and European, have an unfinished CS bachelor degree (less than 1 year left) and around 3.5 years of work experience--1.5 of which I did on my current well-known company, which has put me in the 11% of people with highest salary in my country so I'm doing good (and expecting a promotion very soon).

Retrospectively, this CS degree has taught me almost nothing. I've been self-learning since 10, and I already knew most of the important stuff about software engineering before even starting my degree, but with a bit of pressure from parents and teachers ended up studying something that was really of no use to me.

I don't think of me as a person with high intellectual abilities, but I do think I can do more interesting things than writing boring code for the next revolutionary product I don't really believe in. Every day I come to Hacker News and see a lot of stuff going on that I'd love to know more about (e.g. compilers, formal languages, machine learning, type theory, modal logic, abstract algebra, physics) but all of these involve a lot of math, which I'm not really versed in.

I've been actively looking for a job because I wanted to see how the job market is right now and after doing some interviews I've started to realize that I'm pretty disposable, lucky to be on my current position and that in some years, tech jobs will be extremely specialized (with generalists like me replaced by underpaid AI-assisted junior developers).

So yes, learning math it's a personal pleasure of mine, but also a valuable tool for jumpstarting a career in AI/ML research. I could probably specialize in AI/ML by doing a Master's degree and some training, but I'd love to do actual research in the future, so I want to have a good foundation in mathematics. Of course, this would require me to finish my current degree and going back to university to do a B.Sc. in Mathematics (after finishing my CS degree, because it's 10x easier to enroll in a degree if you already have one).

Do you think my plan is realistic? Am I being too naïve? Should I just give up, settle on my current job and focus on getting promoted, buy a house and forget about dreams and all that stuff?

Thanks!!
What EU is afraid of if they think they need Stasi level of surveillance?

Many Europeans still remember the dark times before 1989. Why there is a need to come back to it?
Being specifically anti-cryptocurrency seems both too specific and not specific enough. Why aren't oil and gas companies excluded? Why isn't ad-tech excluded? Why aren't dodgy anti-virus companies that pray on the computer illiterate excluded?

Why are all cryptocurrency jobs excluded? Why aren't jobs around blockchain analysis for fraud or tax investigations allowed?

The result is a feeling that this site is an emotional response to an individual's frustrations, rather than a meaningful attempt to change the job market.
> > outdoor temperatures and ice cream sales
> That’s too simple: a simple regression can handle that.

Not quite. Regression by itself will not answer the causal (or equivalently, the counterfactual) question.

I strongly suspect you already know this and was elaborating on a related point. But just for the sake of exposition, let me add a few words for the HN audience at large.

Let me give an example. In an email corpus, mails that begin with "Honey sweetheart," will likely have a higher than baseline open rate. A regression on word features will latch on to that. However, if your regular employer starts leading with "Honey sweetheart" that will not increase the open rate of corporate communications.

Causal or counterfactual estimation is fundamentally about how a dependent variable responds to interventional changes in a causal variable. Regression and relatedly, conditional probabilities are about 'filtering' the population on some predicate.

An email corpus when filtered upon the opening phrase "Honey sweetheart" may have disproportionately high email open rates, but that does not mean that adding or adopting such a leading phrase will increase the open rate.

Similarly, regressing dark hair as a feature against skin cancer propensity will catch an anti-correlation effect. Dyeing blonde hair dark will not reduce melanoma propensity.
> Men have been taking home the income since they were hunting, farming and now programming.

> Women taking home the money is a new thing.

This is ill founded claptrap smacking of near zero exposure to working history.

Farms in history would fail without women doing vast amounts of seriously hard work.

Hunter-Gather societies mainly functioned on what was gathered, predominantly by women.

It took both working together to make these things work.
Wow you just described my current gig, it’s like they have this inner circle of management/architects that just withholds information. No one documents anything. It’s a fucking mess
> France for example

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/data-retention-france-illeg...

> In a decree made public today [18. October 2022], French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has extended the temporary retention of communications data of all citizens in France for another year. The blanket retention obligation concerns identity data (surname, first name, date and place of birth, postal address(es), e-mail address(es), telephone number(s)) as well as payment information, connection data (IP addresses, port numbers, identification numbers of users and their devices, date, time and duration of each communication, data on supplementary services and their providers)
Creating Checklists for High Stakes Changes
Over 2/3 of the workforce actually does not like their job. Maybe start there, instead of reducing work time for everyone and likely dropping wages for everyone too.
Several years ago the company I work for offered a 'compressed working fortnight' option, where for nine days out of ten you work an extra 45 minutes a day and then get every other Friday off.

For me, this was an absolute game-changer in terms of quality of life. The majority of the company took it up and there's really been no issue in terms of overall productivity that I can see. If I ever change jobs, whether or not my new employer offers this will be a huge consideration for me.
Scottish VC Firm
Can’t wait for a remake of the VGA remake of the EGA original mother goose.
Been self-hosting my bandcamp albums with this very successfully for a year now. On mobile, there is the app "Symfonium" that gave me perfect experience.

For Desktop, there are some older clients that look pretty dated, so I've decided to just write my own (maybe I'll release that one once it's finished).
Douglas Crockford to Keynote 'From Here to Lambda and Back Again' at RacketCon
Douglas Crockford, author of ‘Javascript: the good parts’ and ‘How Javascript works’ will be giving the keynote presentation *From Here To Lambda And Back Again* at the thirteenth RacketCon.

Come join us on 28-29 October 2023 for all the presentations at Northwestern University.

See https://con.racket-lang.org/ for the full programme, tickets (for in person and *remote participation*), and accommodation.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-2023-tickets-669052563227
In my current job I was discussing with a C-person and they were expressing their worries about "Microsoft Cloud" taking cover of everything, and how 'we' could reverse that without crippling the business.. to which I answered that we are past the point of no return, and this is a dialogue that we should have had 3-4 years ago. But when this was discussed everybody was 'thrilled' to have a solution up and running in Y time at Z cost instead of alternatives with 3xY time and 3xZ cost.

That hindsight is always 2020 (semi-related - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called)
It's almost the opposite of a Culture novel; the mainstream small-c culture is an extremely hierarchical, religious, rather technophobic, pseudo-capitalist society (the Dwellers are arguably a bit more Culture-y).

I'm not sure it's clear that Luceferous is even the villain. He's pretty unpleasant, obviously, but almost a side-issue.

The other major non-Culture sci-fi novel, Against a Dark Background, is also notably un-Culture-y.
I'm in France, I work 100% (35 hrs/week, 5 days), and there are more and more part-time workers among my colleagues.

I think it's a nice option and that it should be a thing almost everywhere, and I might consider it myself in the near future, however there are drawbacks, a colleague is 60% and starts the week on Wednesday, but often parents take Wednesdays off, or half the day if 90%, or a full Wednesday every other week. Now let's add people like in the article, who like to enjoy Fridays off, at 80%. Why not, but now if you want to schedule a full team meeting, it's gonna have to wait until next Thursday. Even for little things, if you need it urgently on Mon. from the guy who starts on Wed., you're out of luck.

Also, we have full-remote for a few people, 2-3 remote days a week for most workers, and full-time on-site for select jobs. Contract workers might work on-site some days, or from their company's office, or from their home, or they might be working elsewhere some days if it's not a 100% contract. It's a nightmare to manage calendars, as there is no single source of truth on whether collaborators are present today or not. For employees, HR software can give you that information if it's up-to-date, but I think for legals reasons you can't have contractors availability listed in HR software.

People aren't used to communicating in an "async" way, it's not in the culture, it's not implemented well right now, and even if and when it's done well, projects tend to need longer periods of time to advance.

Also, the housing crisis is hitting hard. I couldn't have bought a nice house on 80% income, and I know full remote workers who bought theirs in the center of France, very far from big cities, often way cheaper, so they can do 80% more easily.
Yeah - I distinctly remember back in 2006-2007 (My early college days) getting a 2 for $2 deal at McDonalds - 2 bacon, egg and cheese biscuits for $2. Now one biscuit (normally) is $3.89 and they run 2 for $5 specials, but seemingly way less often. Back in the day, the special was ran literally all the time, but even still the cost of the biscuit was under $2. And this is 7 years past 1999.

The Big Mac Index shows the price of a big mac in 2000 at $2.24, and now at $5.58, so that would put $1 in 2000 at $2.49 in 2020 which feels a lot closer to the actual number...but still low because everything "around" the entree has also increased similarly, if not more.
> Employers can simply say : "this ticket is three hours of work and that is all that we will pay", and your choice will be take it or leave it

In a way, a more empowering choice than being simply ordered to do something impossible.

Employees can simply say: "Dear boss, I bet it will be more like ten hours of work, but if you stand by your estimate you can do it yourself or spend some time looking for an optimist".

If the clock is ticking, estimates aren't going to be very aggressive; when no competent person accepts tickets nothing gets done.
same when youre at chrome download page.

its fricken hilarious and unbelievable but its real.
It was built of stone but the thousands of soldiers and others required huge amounts of wood, also from the article:

> Using modern day scientific studies of the region and inferring likely effects of the occupation, we can look at the environmental impact of this conflict. There were several major consequences to the environment. First, the area had massive deforestation, which has been confirmed by scientific studies and can be inferred from the increase of population on this frontier. One study indicates that, “it was not until Romano-British times that man had much effect on the forests of the area. Organized clearance and farming in this marginal frontier zone of the Roman Empire was on a scale unparalled in history until recently”
IMHO the main point of the French article is that the rotation speed of the galaxy decreases according to Kepler laws for the outer parts of our galaxy. They're us a graph for that. This contradicts previous observations. They ask why our galaxy should be special and they suggest that we (they) measured rotation speed of stars in the Milky Way while we measure rotation of gas in the other galaxies. I'm not sure why gas and stars would have different orbital speeds, but well, who am I to actually understand this matter.
> Aggressively pushing bikes as the only future of transport

Nobody is doing that.

> But not for the elderly, disabled, or unfit

Fortunately, when the roads are far quieter because more people are biking or on public transport, it becomes much easier for the people who need to drive, to drive! Everyone wins!

> And public transport options need to be safe and comfortable. That doesn't fit with currently-trendy soft on crime policies.

I live in the UK and our public transport is by-and-large safe and comfy (although I'd like more of it). And given our prisons are overcrowded, I don't think "soft on crime" policies dominate.
Can't wait to do ethical work at Anduril!
Better yet, they now have those e-ink price labels. They could literally update as you walk towards them to show the price they will sell to you.

If you walk off and don't pick something up, they could then change the offer a little. It's no longer '2 for 1', it's now '3 for 2 with a free X'.

Disgusting.

> I just can't understand how people have come to accept such erosion of their privacy, ultimately their very own economic interests and agency under the hands of manipulative operators and captured regulators.

The frog born in boiling water doesn't realise it is hot, it's all he ever knew. The age bracket with the largest disposable income now doesn't know any different, it's how it always was.

> What kind of collective inanity allows such social degeneration. Was it always like that? Is there any hope?

No, technology made it far easier. It's now targeted and automated, it's as worse as it has ever been and continues to get worse. There is not a politician in any land willing to do anything about it - more product sold at higher prices means larger taxes. (And that's if the company doesn't lobby on top.)
I guess you're just not very well versed in the region:

https://nordicperspective.com/facts/netherlands-scandinavia-...

Please Read this for education. Then you can stop pretending there's no relationship between the two as if it's completely ludicrous that I would even compare the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
> It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim

"Instagram filters are for people who don't know how to work with Photoshop layers, don't understand basic color blending operations, and who just want to swipe."

I mean, yes.
The quote places absolutely no trust in the state of your mind. That's the point.
I don't want to read this now because I'm currently in the middle of Use of Weapons. I am enjoying the series so far, even if I find Banks to be quite ruthless and some of the descriptions of pain and suffering hard to read. I usually read hard science fiction and do sometimes wonder if I've accidentally slipped into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But it's masterful writing and an incredible imagination.
Thanks for asking! I've always used the "default" init system when trying a new distro, and while I enjoyed running systemd on Fedora, I've also enjoyed working with OpenRC on Gentoo and with Shepherd on GNU Guix. I've tinkered a lot with early boot, writing my own initrds, curating system services under each of these init's.

systemd is undeniably powerful, but I enjoy how broad the ecosystem is. Off the top of my head, I personally like having real logfiles under `/var/log`, which I've occasionally had to examine by mounting the disk on another machine after really mucking something up :p
It isn't, however due to the bilateral agreements they might agree on specific changes, depending on how they see them.

Even if it goes to vote, sometimes referendum results might turn out differently than expected.
Again please educate yourself:

https://nordicperspective.com/facts/netherlands-scandinavia-...

Thank you.
I hear you, and you make a good point. However, I think the term 'unintended' is both accurate and non-bothersome in this case, as I am confident that when the law was designed, it did not factor in this downstream impact.