skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 job where an unpaid job title change to something higher results in exploitation to prove its worth it

1 job where a 5% raise occurs results in exploitation to prove its worth it, after exploitation for the 5% raise

1 job where a counteroffer results in a 10-20% raise results in exploitation to prove its worth it

2 jobs with zero ambition results in 100% raise and no exploitation and a manageable workload

I think companies should just embrace this and attract talent specifically for this. YC could just spearhead this with their portfolio companies. “hey, our candidates are overemployed, its cool, everyone knows. They’ll join your standups on the east coast, and join their other companies standup on the west coast 2-3 hours later, let them allocate tasks and deliver them. if performance isn’t good enough then they’re let go, like any other employee”

employees get to vest in two options/equity based lotteries, instead of just one at a time for years of their life

employees make $300k-$500k/yr (2x $150k - 2x $250k base salaries) without worrying about what Big Tech is currently doing

win for everyone
It means that Dudester230602 sorely wants you to know that he's a sexually frustrated misogynistic incel pig who women don't want to have anything to do with for good reason, so he deeply resents reading fiction by and about them. So next time you see him post, don't think about that and laugh at him!
PVCs are curious because many people have them and don't even realise.

But for those who do notice, they sometimes become super aware of every beat.

Feeling a PVC can make some people anxious, which boosts adrenaline, potentially leading to more PVCs.

It's like a feedback loop where a "missed beat" gets linked with that adrenaline jolt.

Most of the time, PVCs are no big deal. So, the best "fix" might just be learning to shrug them off, which often makes them happen less or go away (obviously after getting a green light from a cardiologist).
Could you provide a way to mark function calls as side effects similar to Temporal?

I'm a bit worried about the limitation of having to use the flawless namespace functions for everything.
Which is why the words "proof" and "fact" have no place in science.

Science is built upon a foundation of falsifiability. The pinnacle of understanding in science is an accepted theory which can, of course, be discarded if significant evidence to the contrary comes to light.
Wow I thought there already was a Malaria vaccine and that that was what the Gates foundation had been deploying to eradicate the disease, but they've only so far been able to (go to great lengths to) mess with mosquitos, protect people from symptoms, remove people from conditions, etc. to otherwise prevent it by conventional means. A vaccine is huge!
You think the companies that are paying employees to contribute are doing so out of sheer benevolence and not because they derive monetary benefit?
Why Exxon and Chevron doubling down on fossil fuel energy with big acquisitions
Another option aside from consulting or creating a product is to write software to trade stocks or crypto. Such as algorithmic trading.
After playing with both, I’m currently more impressed by the output of Visual Copilot by Builder.io. [1]

It builds UI from Figma as the starting point, but the UI can then be iterated with prompting or made interactive, etc.

It’s based on their work with mitosis so it can already create components in a variety of frameworks.

I’d say you still have to know front end dev to do anything useful with it, but it can be a decent accelerator.

[1] https://www.builder.io/blog/figma-to-code-visual-copilot
Software touches so many aspects of our lives now, you don't have to enter into a career as a software engineer to make it worth your while.

An anecdotal example: my home is "smart", with connected light switches, fans and such. I could have spent a ton of money doing that buying premium components that are all part of one cohesive system. But I didn't, I saved money by buying from different systems and using Home Assistant to tie them all together. As user friendly as HA tries to be, "buy a Raspberry Pi and install this custom Linux distro" is a pretty intimidating pitch to a non-programmer. But someone who knew their way around would be happy doing so.
what more do you need? it's essentially the same as a dataframe.
I loved the first two books in the Nsibidi series, Akata Witch and Akata Warrior. I didn't even know this third book was out! Looking forward to reading it.
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anyone looking for an overview of each test carried out and the results can do so here.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342706263_Language_...

I didn't realize until fairly recently that we had strong evidence of language understanding of any other animal and for decades too.

It's technically not evidence of natural language use but I find the idea that these highly social animals have the ability to understand an artificially constructed language but don't use one naturally highly suspect.
Based on a single photo of the parking lot from above, and a basic understanding of air dropped JDAMs vs ground launched makeshift rockets it seemed obvious to me from the scorch marks and lack of crater that an israeli bomb was not involved. Do they not have military advisors for stories that involve conflict? Simply in the interest of fairness and accuracy in journalism.
This is why when you do a us visa you have the opportunity to give all the spellings and forms of your names.
poor Bobby Tables...
https://xkcd.com/327/
Ex-NSA techie pleads guilty to selling state secrets to Russia
Torrent check is really what you want it will remove any no longer needed files. It can put them into a folder for safe keeping if you like.

The method here works as well. You basically run the new torrent over the old files (so you start half way done). Then move the data folder. In the old folder will be any files that are no longer part of the torrent. In the new folder will be only the files for the new torrent.
2^18 == 262,144
> This website is so English language biased it's hilarious.

As is most international websites. And systems. And content, in general.

It's a sad fact of life that, as we sail into a globally-connected future, the world is going to consolidate on a small number of languages, and the majority of languages are going to be left behind, discarded, and eventually die out.

People want content. They will learn whatever language gets them the most content. Right now almost all content is produced in a small handful of languages, with (in the west) English being dominant.

At this point it looks like English[1] is going to be in that small set of surviving languages.

It's inevitable. Railing against it is a pointless waste of energy.

[1] My home country has 11 languages, all official. Until widespread internet arrived it was common to find locals who could not speak English. Now, I'd be hard-pressed to find non-english speakers, even in the very outlying areas.
Because I can work just fine (laptop and phone) sitting in that seat

I've been commuting to school or work by public transport since I was 16 and in 4 different European cities. Getting any seat is uncommon, let alone one where pulling out a laptop and getting work done was even an option. The only public transport option where I can conceivably see getting work done are the intercity trains, and then only if you get on at one of the very early stops before the train fills up.

Personally, 'can I get to the office by foot or bike' is one of the most important questions I ask myself when looking for a new job (or house). Commuting by car and public transport are both suboptimal.
should we really aspire to being a useless lump? I firmly believe that there is great personal value to be found in the work of creation and digging an ever deeper groove.

if someone is taking your passion and making money so that they can be a useless lump - that's really fine. its sad if they ruin your work because they don't care or know better. and of course its ultimately critical to cultivate relationship and build families - so its not _everything_.

life without work is pretty empty
But you did alright looking at your profile.
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My favorite restaurant was an Indonesian restaurant in Wheaton, MD (suburb of Washington, DC) called Sabang.

They closed 10+ years ago, and I still miss them dearly. I have searched far and wide for Rendang (or generally good Indonesian food) that was as good as what we had at Sabang, and haven't found any (good ones) in the DC area. My wife is sick of hearing me lament about Sabang's closure even 10+ years later (although she still feels bad for me).

The closest I found was a place in LA called Borneo Kalimantan. So whenever I'm in LA, I make it a point to eat there.

I instantly thought of Sabang when I saw this site.
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The numerical robustness thing gave me a chuckle (rotate 1 radian and pray to the geometry gods), especially as I've been spending a good fraction of my time dealing with that in fancy path rendering and stroking.

One of the things I really want to work on in the next few months is a path intersection implementation that's robust by construction, backed up both by a convincing (if not formal) argument and tests crafted to shake out robustness issues. I have a bunch of ideas, largely motivated by the need to generalize well to curves - Shewchuk's work, cited elsethread, is impressive but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to make it work for arbitrary Béziers.

There's an issue[277] to track the work, and that has pointers to some of the ideas. If anyone is interested in working with me on this, please get in touch. If successful, I think it'll result in a nice code base and also likely a publishable paper.

[277]: https://github.com/linebender/kurbo/issues/277
I’d pay £1000 if I could get one that’s wall size, like 100 inches.

I could have random cool photos and artwork cycling. It would be well worth it.
Do you like the effect your electronic devices have on climate change?
I think you mean you are working on a few of the upcoming Vercel app templates.
I really like your formulation of the issue. I am currently in a tough spot where I'm not recognised and rewarded, and after some reflection I had two choices: either I slow down to the level of everyone else, or I find somewhere else to work. I chose the latter, based on the perspective you describe here. For me, life is too short to waste it at half-power most of the day, and I actually feel bad when not working hard. Working only enough to pay the bills is probably more sane, but I cannot do it. The challenge now, of course, is to find somewhere where this attitude is adaptive.
On later thought, this sort of rationalization is what might come out after determining the percentage of systems that can play at 60+ fps is so small that it's better to lower the bar for everyone and not make it seem like you failed to deliver.
Use Facebook groups targeted for jobs in your city, assuming you live near a largish city, and groups related to your skillsets and industry.
Why MuckRock and POGO had to archive FOIAonline
>There are some cases where working hard/loyalty/etc can lead to outsized rewards

People are so disillusioned to "hard work == comfortable life" that they might not even recognize it when it's real, or be incredibly suspicious.

There is also a separate, much bigger lesson in that if you make friends and/or play politics, you also don't have to work as hard and still get rewarded (sometimes massively).

When you layer all of these facts, it's really hard to sign up to be a hard worker. It feels more like punishment once you learn how easy the rich people have it.
Safyrus AI, alternative to ChatGPT and Claude 2
The key concept in routing is hierarchy, which Ethernet does not have. It’s an extra dimension that changes the way the protocol and applications work at that layer.

You can say a cube and a square are the same thing, but I don’t think that’s particularly useful pragmatically. Ditto for L2 and L3; if you abstract out the difference, they are indeed the same. But that’s not useful.

Now, you could say that time has brought evolutions / optimizations that blur layer boundaries, like VLANs at layer 2. But that doesn’t make the model less useful.
I think you may have convinced me to learn more awk with this. I'd have constructed something horrible with sed or so to do this. And this is just much cleaner
Or gives meaning - it's possible to derive value from doing successful hard work outside of any external validation (promotions, accolades, raises, etc).
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The contrasting sentiment is "the squeaky wheel gets the oil". That is, the employee who is the most vocal will get the most attention and advantages.
Also, it should be considered that one of the causes for decreased gdp in a region is disease burden. I don't know anyone with malaria, but from what I have read, it is not conducive to extreme productivity. The global north may get a taste of this with long covid. I don't know how it would be studied given the lack of a reliable diagnosis, but I suspect quiet quitting amongst other post pandemic attitude shifts is related to mild cases of this fatigue. We just seemingly all care less about things, which is maybe good for gdh, but not for gdp.
I totally agree. This is very on point
Not quite out of use:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Curren...

Spain, a large portion of Europe, and many Latin American countries use it.
Would love to see independent research, not the company presenting their own.

It’s insane to me that we let people with massive financial incentives run their own trials.
Then I'd want an e-Ink screen I think. And probably a better (mechanical) keyboard.
How does this handle the machine running out of memory?
12 days Mac after 12 years Minux
'Set It and Forget It' 401(k) Made You Rich. No More
Elon Musk's 11th child named Techno Mechanicus
There is a fantastic book after Hans Rosling called factfulness.
You should read it.
It explains a lot of misunderstandings on poverty.

A very cruel and poorly informed comment imho.
Poverty is not a crime.
Wow, UTF-EBCDIC is a new one on me! Ugh. Wikipedia says "This encoding form is rarely used, even on the EBCDIC-based mainframes for which it was designed" so that's encouraging.
That’s an incredible idea. Wireless charging is already doable so it’s absolutely doable
On vtype/setvl: in the RISC-V V extension (aka RVV / Vector (≈SIMD)), due to the 32-bit instruction length, there's a separate instruction that does some configuration (operated-on element size, register group size, masked-off element behavior, target element count), which arith/etc operations afterwards will work by. So e.g. if you wanted to add vectors of int32_t-s, you'd need something like "vsetvli x0,x0,e32,m1,ta,ma; vadd.vv dst,src1,src2"

Often one vsetvl stays valid for multiple/most/all instructions, but sometimes there's a need to toggle it for a single instruction and then toggle it back. With 48-bit or 64-bit instructions, such temporary changes could be encoded in the operation instruction itself.

Additionally, masked instructions always mask by v0, which could be expanded to allow any register (and perhaps built-in negation) by more instruction bits too.
https://temporal.io/blog/durable-distributed-asyncio-event-l... explains how it works
attending a gathering because they said they had a chicken and being expected to interact
I hadn’t grasped the all-cause aspect from a skim read.
If it was cheap enough I'd be tempted to get for one of my teens to bring to school. Except they'd hate me for unleashing not only Linux, but Linux on a rather experimentally-new ISA.

Still tempted.
Who says 0.999 won't be followed by 0.1000?
"React developers" the world over should be working very hard to learn something new at this point.
except, that is not always true. More like, investor-backed and aggressive user companies will do that. Adults with a some money can start a business.. but, you know Walmart etc.. its not black and white. Its overly-simplified to simply blame "business" though what you say is not uncommon. What are the alternatives?
[not you but the person who obviously does this to that extent absent any external basis for doing so]
Install Instructor and dependencies:

pip install InstructorEmbedding
pip install torch
pip install numpy
pip install tqdm
pip install sentence_transformers

Use it:

from InstructorEmbedding import INSTRUCTOR
import numpy as np
from scipy.spatial.distance import cosine

xl = INSTRUCTOR('hkunlp/instructor-xl')
embeddings = xl.encode(["I'm amazed at how autoencoding actually works, despite the simplicity of the approach.", "Are there any good document embedding models I can run on my own hardware? "]).tolist()

cosine_distance = 1 - np.dot(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]) / (np.linalg.norm(embeddings[0]) * np.linalg.norm(embeddings[1]))
print(cosine_distance)

Output:

0.33516267980261427
Grug has some good points about complexity, but proceeds to take it all the way to full-blown, self-defeating anti-intellectual and anti-professional attitude. It makes sense for imaginary cavemen, but not for practitioners of a profession - people both capable and expected to learn the tools of their craft and continue learning past their first job interview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC
For those curious, I found this VAX manual, but haven't found anything truly egregious yet:

https://www.ece.lsu.edu/ee4720/doc/vax.pdf
Yeah the discord chats there are pretty dead. Usually only getting a bit of traffic once a month around release. The exo board is a LOT more active.
It actually looks like a typo as the sentences reads much more logically as "It's not essential, but ... "

FWIW I keep checking in on the Bullet Journal blog once a year or so to get some ideas, but I started keeping a variant of Bullet Journal about 5 years ago.

It's definitely been useful for not forgetting upcoming events, reflecting on the last month and for tracking trends on events in my life (e.g. sporadic food logging when making more of an effort to lose weight). One of the most positive outcomes was from recording key details about events - e.g. if I've met someone new at a language exchange, jot down their name and a detail or two about them. I found just re-reading these notes a day before I'm likely to encounter someone again has massively helped the next interaction because I'm not just going "Oh, what's your name again?"
Dreamweaver, but you need to describe what you want instead of drag and drop.
The Speed of Light Is Not About Light [video]
Camp Counselor (https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/). This is a GNOME application for managing your bandcamp.com wishlist.

My wishlist has grown to >1000 albums on bandcamp. It has become more of a "things to check out" rather than an actual wishlist. I need to be able to keep ratings and notes on the albums as a listen to them. (Even if I don't like an album, I keep it in my wishlist with a low rating and notes).

I wrote it in Gtk4 with Vala, as a chance to learn Vala. I haven't done any desktop software since the Gtk 2 days.

Part of this decision was that I use a pinephone with phosh as my primary music player, so I wanted a native mobile app.
The criteria can be found below. There are no hard and fast rules, but the goal is to only include requests that you might otherwise find in a spec.

https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools/blob/main/sr...
Running maybe not, but if you get too into cycling or swimming (or I guess any low-impact endurance sport), it can sometimes be a chore to shovel enough food into you.
Do people who say this sort of thing not have families? Put your hard work in at home, in your own community. It's still work if no one is paying you for it.
> it's curious that many people are rushing to defend

Roll a d20 and add your Wisdom modifier.

With disadvantage because 2 ≠ many.
The NYT relied purely on reports from Hamas, amplifying them without any corroborating evidence. You only do that when you really trust the source.

Who trusts a brutal dictatorship that regularly conducts terrorist attacks, and recently committed atrocities, which they proudly documented themselves, killing 1400 people and wounding thousands of others.
My last job was a corporate hellscape. I worked really hard to move up to assistant manager, then corporate put me in a failing store on the other side of the state and just left me to rot. I had zero employees, just me and the manager. We constantly got berated for not meeting sales targets, which meant corporate sent us less product to sell, so our numbers got worse...

Then there was the mandatory unpaid overtime, the 12 hour days running the entire store solo. It nearly put me in the hospital, and I'm not exaggerating.

Then I got an unbelievable offer for a tech job ten minutes from my house. It was "only" twice my corporate salary, and I'm definitely being way underpaid for essentially being the senior R&D engineer. But it pays enough that my husband doesn't have to work and we don't want for anything. My job is so much fun, and my dedication is definitely noticed and appreciated. They've already given me a raise unprompted, and once we have enough revenue, I expect I'll get a much bigger one. Not that I really care about the money, I feel respected here, and I get to use all of my talents instead of cold-calling people to sell more crap.

I'll never go back to that corporate life. It was absolutely soul crushing for someone who has a lot of initiative and a lot of skills. This is where I was meant to be.
Thanks for the feedback, I just fixed this!
It's the same vicious cycle as with the VR hype. In the end companies have to face the harsh reality that nobody really cares about their hyped up product and cut their losses.

Microsoft actually did try really hard with the Kinect (already in the Xbox 360 generation) but it just didn't work out. I wonder how much money they lost on that whole experiment (or maybe they actually made money, apparently they sold 35 million overall which isn't too shabby actually).
Old Christopher Alexander fan and cog.sci sceptic, and I can't really summarize him, but I thought he was an antithesis for post-modern subjectivity, and a modern philosophical advocate for the value of techne over episteme. I thought he was approaching an implied question of whether a critical theory or ideology of Order and Nature could produce beauty reliably. It was based on some axioms that reduced to beauty = truth = the real, and where the uncanny dissonance (ugliness) intrinsic to shallow representations might be refined out of the things we make, if we could only make them with a deeper understanding of each other. Hence his divergence into these secular but still essentially spiritual cog.sci ideas.

The basic flow from that is, we understand each other more, produce things based on this understanding that is, in effect, a love, and then the things we make from that are the tools and artifacts in a human story that evolves with that intent, and organic growth from that forms a substrate for our experience made of this Real and Beauty he's talking about, instead of just a bunch of noisy representations of other sentiments that pile up as garbage. In a comment, that's what I read in him anyway.
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