skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that Atlantis was actually a real place, I'm arguing based on how it was written, based on his other works that use allegory, based on other works that are attributed to Plato and his use of allegory; I think Plato thought it was a real place.

Plato mentions that the story was heard by Solon in Egypt, and transmitted orally over several generations through the family of Dropides, until it reached Critias( a dialogue speaker in Timaeus and Critias. )

Which is more likely, he completely made up Atlantis and all that detail in a very weird way, or he just reached for something that he thought was historically true that he came across during his life.

Oral histories extremely important in the time that lead up to the time of Plato's life (and afterwards as well.) In the absence of widespread literacy and accessible writing materials, these oral narratives served as the primary medium through which historical events, cultural norms, legal statutes, and philosophical ideas were transmitted across generations.

Socrates, Plato's teacher, famously never wrote anything down, his philosophy was preserved and passed down primarily through the oral accounts of his students. (Like Plato!)

in "Phaedrus," Plato discusses the art of rhetoric and the importance of the spoken word over the written word, which can be seen as a nod to the value of oral tradition.

So I don't think it's as binary as, fact or allegory. There are other facets, to how this description of Atlantis came to be.
Ask HN: As a hobbyist developer, what are the odds of getting hired as a pro?
I've created some OSS projects, one of them being Monica [1], an open source CRM which pops up sometimes on HN. The project has more than 20k+ stars and a lot of contributors. I've also created other projects (OfficeLife [2], Bivouac [3]).

However, all these are passion projects, worked on at nights and weekends. My day job is about project management (currently a very senior position) at various big corps.

I would like to switch careers and become a professional full stack developer. I can't choose between backend and frontend since I've done everything on my projects. I only know Laravel, Vue 3, HTMX. I have to deploy my projects myself, maintain them myself, and design everything myself.

I'm not an expert in anything, but I know a bit of everything that is required to ship something that works.

That being said, what are the chances of being hired as a professional developer? Will I be taken seriously?

[1]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica
[2]: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife
[3]: https://github.com/djaiss/bivouac
Disclaimer: I know nothing about this sort of thing, just doing some napkin math.

$15 billion for 15,000 homes is about a million dollars a home?

Sounds... high. Especially when you're talking about multi-unit, higher density housing.
Just for some recent history. Seattle has/had a contract with a company that uses statistical techniques to analyze body cam footage in bulk looking for things that a human should review. Over the summer video footage was brought to light by them showing the vice president of the police union on the phone in his cruiser with his boss, the president, making light of a 26 year old citizen that another cop had run down while traveling at reckless speeds without his lights and sirens on. Now suddenly the police aren't renewing that contract.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/14/us/seattle-police-officer-pho....

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2023/10/reports-seattle-p...

Shoot all the footage you like, in the best case there is too much to review, in the worst case the unions will bury it.
Because outside of government and certain (but not all) bigcorps, knowledge worker jobs aren’t “find a cog to fit a precise position in a larger machine” things.

Heck, even in government they often aren't, though the rules governing government hiring force people to superficially hire as if they were.
Location: Schaumburg, IL, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, React Native, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Java

Resume: https://github.com/rishabmahesh/rishabmahesh/files/13283294/...

Email: rishabmahesh0@gmail.com

Highlights: -
1. Have worked in 3+ startups, love making things from scratch
2. Willing to relocate anywhere in the world
3. Mainly been a FE Dev - Project Manager - Lead Developer
Mac OS put code into segments that could be moved around, Atari ST TOS didn't do this.
> continued technological progression without social media because everyone agrees 'never again'

We didn't say "never again" when we first threw rocks at a rival tribe and saw the aftermath. We didn't say "never again" after millions of people died in world wars. It is beyond optimistic that one day we'll look at Twitter and say "no more of that."

What if the Great Filter is light-speed communication and dissemination of ideas? The odds of a physical lifeform able to deal with the implications of that discovery from day 1 are infinitesimal.
Incredibly insightful comment, even the performance concern.

Apologies for doing a glorified +1 comment, but if you take the above comment plus the article's in-loop mutation algorithm and try it in different languages you get insights on who you are as a coder and what are the language's strengths.

Another detail is that the programmer in the article prefers an mutation iterator format while the language forces him/her to use an array/index. This has further impact on pointer vs value accesses.

Also by mapping on players list the above post means: just discard the previous one, create a new one however you want and make the new one the new source of truth. No need for mutability considerations.
The paragraph you describe criticizes some of the characterizations in the game and a lack of options for character customization, both of which seem to be safely within the ballpark for game reviewing. The reviewer clearly has an anticapitalist perspective, but I don't think that's sufficient for "political activism". Reviewers always have some kind of perspective that affects what they emphasize and de-emphasize.
I think it will be God GPTs that will do anything and everything by automatically finding specialized agents and "employing" them on your behalf.
There are other sites these companies know people check more than a posted salary range eg levels.fyi which would include everything
What about your mental and emotional well-being? Does that get any better or worse with partner(s), live-in or not?
It's current market price. Land costs money.
Glad to see Wingspan featured prominently! I love that game
Did we read the same comment? The GP is criticizing Google and a government. It may or may not be ideal to "leave" housing to private developers, but "that's" not why.
In my area of the US, you have to move mountains in order to get a plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc to show up. To get work done on my house, it involves leaving messages with at least 10 people, getting callbacks from maybe 1-2, and hoping to god the person actually shows up (when they do show up, it's probably a month after the first call).

(Private equity is capitalizing on this by buying out local plumbing/electrician/hvac companies to merge them into full service companies with a call center, CRM for customers, tech-enabled scheduling and dispatch systems... which is all good, except they charge 2-3x higher rates compared to your local plumber... so the option is <call PE-owned plumbing company and pay 2-3x the price to have someone show up tomorrow> or <call 10 local plumbers and pray that 1 of them calls you back and actually shows up>)

I imagine house builders and contractors have more reliable networks of workers to draw on compared to the average homeowner. But maybe the availability of workers to build a house isn't what it used to be?
The Rights-Ratchet Model (2021)
It looks like they got contaminated cinnamon. Lead (II,IV) oxide (red lead) is a reddish-brown pigment which could have been used to adulterate the cinnamon to make it look better (hide imperfections since it's close to the color of high-quality cinnamon bark). Similar to how lead (II) chromate gets added to turmeric to hide imperfections. So I'd not rule out deliberate addition of red lead to allow selling a cheaper product.
Interesting. Why not look at credit reports, tax records, etc: are they showing more income than an employer pays? If its not extra work then you get to bounce them to the police for reward money!

Wonder why there don't seem to be startups seeking to profit from finding and eliminating employer side fraud, wage theft and the like?
In San Francisco, a toilet alone may cost $1.7M

https://abc7news.com/sf-bathrooms-noe-valley-public-toilet-1...
They should remove the L4 from the job post title if that's the case, or replace it with (L1 - L7) so it's clear it's for broad levels of experience
Yeah. In criminal trials the jury instructions will include something to that effect. "The Defendant has chosen not to testify. This is normal, and you cannot consider that lack of testimony as evidence of guilt." We know that jurors will often still make negative inferences in their head. We can't do a thing about that. But not all of them. Jury instructions carry weight.

So the jury instructions would be pretty powerful if the judge said, "You should consider the lack of bodycam footage as beneficial to the Defendant. You may reasonably find that the accused's testimony is more credible than the officer's during those 17 minutes."
Not totally sure this is eventually going to survive a Twiqbal appellate review, and even then it's hard for me to buy the judge's "first step" harm analysis here. I'd love to see the bar for private antitrust suits loosened up, but the fact pattern (Sprint was not a particularly stable company at time of purchase, and no one's alleging any kind of price-fixing, collusion, or monopoly of essential facilities) and legal framework in this case don't feel like a great opportunity to do so.

In general, I'm skeptical that we should punish a company, especially one that isn't the largest player in the market, based on (pretextual IMO) actions taken (or not taken) by its competitors. I don't think the merger should have been approved, but once that bell is rung I think the standard for judicial intervention needs to be very high, and I don't think bare market forces apply.
> for capitalists that do no work (like CEOs)

I mean... sure.

They still pay taxes on their income.

> value extracted indirectly via the stock market, etc.

Like how?

> It's also for a very narrow portion of the global economy, where workers are paid particularly well.

You misunderstood me, I cited Google as an example of a company which is relatively close what you're saying (high margins, a relatively high proportion of value goes direct to share-holders). Most companies which have high numbers of workers are less profitable that it.

Anyway this is pointless. Do you have any data?
And now your platform is going to stop getting OS builds potentially as soon as next year because Apple switched to a new architecture. There’s a reason that system cost less than an iPad.

Apple was basically begging Intel users to upgrade to Apple Silicon at the most recent keynote. I think Sonoma is the last Intel build. Apple drops a ton of technical baggage if they can stop supporting Intel.

The machine you should have purchased is the M1 MacBook Air. You can find a used one in the $500-600 range or a new one in the $700’s and it will smoke the 2017 Intel system while returning double the battery life and making zero noise with its fanless design. It’s comfortable on a lap and doesn’t get hot.

Look, it’s bad that technology is disposable, but if you buy a Mac you are getting ~8-10 years of feature updates and an additional ~2 years of extended support security updates. Maybe after that you’ve got OpenCore Legacy, but that won’t help you if Apple doesn’t release binaries on your processor architecture.

If you buy a PC you’ve got a system that is better designed for alternative operating systems and long-term support. But when you buy a Mac that’s just part of the deal, you’re in the platform. I consider my Mac system to be more of a leased tool and I’ve accepted its limited lifespan as part of the compromise of that platform.

If you buy Apple’s previous architecture you’re getting a much worse experience, and there’s history to back up that fact. What you did was equivalent to buying an iBook G4 in 2008. Your system is going to either be a brick or a jankier-than-average Linux box in 2-3 years (i.e., a ThinkPad makes a better Linux box than a MacBook).

Finally, if you don’t even use iCloud or an Apple ID I’m not sure what the appeal of a Mac is in the first place, especially one that isn’t on a particularly unique or advantageous architecture. I’ve got a Mac because I prefer an iPhone and I’m kind of stuck with it if I want to send texts from my computer. If you’re not even using anything involving an Apple ID you might as well be on Linux or Windows.
Are we too afraid to consider features and source code now?

I remember when Starlette and FastAPI were both just starting in the double digits. IMO this is 100% a sleeper project based on the qualities above.
Given that about a month or so after the redaction they renaged on their obligations over Grass Island that seems unlikely

https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3283/page/5208/...
Hey I was one of the three Google Wave users.
The M2 Pro was a barely crippled M2 Max.

The M3 Pro is a properly crippled M3 Max.

It's called market segmentation, and Apple is very good at it, but in the early days of M1 (and M2, which is just a warmed-over M1) they didn't have the engineering time to make 4 tiers (Base, Pro, Max, Ultra) and had to do a half-assed job of chopping off part of the Max to make the Pro. With M3, the Pro is its own design, with carefully designed limitations to force you to the Max.
> Google kept Waze independent and as a separate brand to preserve the spirit of innovation of the team behind it and because there was really no reason to kill it, but there was also no reason to promote it.

but sounds like its days are numbered https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/go92isunj
How are there still people that believe this? I seriously thought the claims about Grayson were so widely discredited that even the people still saying gamergate is about "ethics in journalism" stopped making them because it was so embarrassing. Like its obviously not true, go look at the Kotaku website, he never wrote any reviews about Quinn's games, it takes like 30 seconds to check.
Title should contain quotes around gold like the original title does.
I have a simple but very high-quality night vision setup that I regularly use. Working remotely, my sleep schedule is often pretty weird, and as a result I sometimes find it difficult to get outside and exercise during the day. I bought my stuff to let me go for walks at night.

I have a single PVS-14, but it's an Elbit third-gen white phosphorus tube with a FOM of ~2400. I also picked up a Crye "Night Cap" soft head mount for it. It's a little less practical in that it takes a bit longer to don, but it's a solid mount and doesn't look quite as intimidating as a helmet IMO.

In total I have about $4,200 in my head-mounted setup.

One thing about the video that stood out to me - the video shows a lot more optical noise than I actually see, especially if I'm outdoors or using active illumination. That level of noise is only visible for me on overcast nights with a new moon.
Centralized planning is hard, in that changing the plan even close to optimally is hard.

Changing the plan costs trust and resources. Not changing the plan also costs trust and resources. Can't win, the game is to lose the least.
My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.

The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones.

We ended up listing them on FB Marketplace. Clearly marked them as fake. Person came and picked them up and I said again that they were fake. Got the same amount we paid for them. I don't understand this world sometimes.

The fake sellers must make enough off of people who don't realize that they are fake that they can just write off the few that do.
Waiting for see one technical in the Middle East
I'm curious how well AP mode works for usb cards these days. After a bunch of years with Openwrt (mostly on a bunch of netgear wgt634u's), I was pretty gung ho about trying to switch off router hardware and to more generic-computer + wifi for wireless infrastrcuture. Ideally if I could via usb cards, as those were so easy to add to even small systems like the early rpis or cheap chromeboxes.

But after buying one or two of every Alfa usb cards out there with all the different chipsets, I found each chipset would have some horrible blocker. Some examples, iirc (it's been a while): Realtek-based AWUS036H would work some then die & throw a bunch of kernel messages. Atheros-based AWUS036NHA was working great, but was limited to ~8 clients.

I keep hoping someday the RPI can make an actual respectable decent AP, without needing to go for a pcie carrier board (and frankly, it seems like there's not good availability for AP grade PCIe cards either... everything seems to be rebadged Compex cards, usually at astronomical prices). I keep hoping wireless can be more DIYable in general.

The Morrownr/usb-wifi repo has been such a godsend. There's just been no stable repository of knowledge for so long. But I haven't dared wade back in, & figure out how I'm going to be disappointed this time around.
I tend to use multiple apps simultaneously (Waze, and either Apple Maps or Google Maps, depending on how I'm feeling or the area). Especially for longer trips or trips outside of my home area, I trust non-Waze apps to keep me more on the "safe route" and not make detours into unsafe neighborhoods or winding back-roads in areas I'm unfamiliar with.
You're reading cherry-picked letters from verbose and emotional writers, not random Joes. The poorly written ones don't make it to venues like this. Comparing this to someone's busy social media feed is a bit disingenuous. Not to mention for all you know, some of these people can write love letters like this, but why should you know that? You're not the object of their love.

The same way probably no one in these people's lives knew they wrote love letters like this while they were alive.

Not to mention that "love letter writing" was a form of social obligation, courtship norms, and even PUA-like tactics back then for many people and not always the sincere original poetry modern people like us might think it is.

Its a lot of people lifting phrases and ideas from others to please or even manipulate current or potential lovers. Some of these soldiers had several women back home and wrote many letters to all of them, maximizing their odds of a relationship or sex when they are discharged. While I certainly believe in romantic love, I also think its important to remember people in the past weren't different from us and some of this is disingenuous writing or seen as honest but exaggerated rote obligation, and not often this expression of deep love that suddenly turns a dullard borderline illiterate into a prolific writer of poetic love letters. This is a practiced pretension and artform and our history has always had elaborate courtship ritual just like near any other animal has.

We just don't practice this often today, but if you decided to learn the art of love letters, you'd be just as good as any of these people over time I imagine. You probably won't because that's seen as an out of style courtship ritual, and instead you probably are good at other, more modern, courtship rituals.
That's why you find two companies you'd like to work for, and have them compete against each other. This is just job hunting basics.
Blog post with more details: https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
> The tribal structures that still exist in many parts of the world aren't really about preserving culture or identity anymore

That's not strictly true. There are real tribes in the jungles of South America and southeast Asia, for example, who still live in the forests, cook food they raise, and live in thatch/mud/bamboo houses.

I would argue that these tribes' rights (especially property ownership of land where they have houses and raise food right now) matters more than arguments about things that happened more than a hundred years ago in developed countries.
Citizenship is a modern institution; yeah, the Athenians had it, if you're OK with a notion of citizenship that extended only to a small percentage of the population. But even in ancient Athens, the majority of the population were slaves.

In feudal Europe, most people were serfs or vassals; they came with the land, a bit like trees and game. The only people with rights were aristocrats, and then only really if they had land. Poor people might have had some rights in law, but the judge was the local baron; it was meritorious for the sovereign to promulgate "the King's justice", but it didn't happen much.

The change came with the Age of Revolutions; rights are something you have to seize. To my fury, I remain not a citizen, but a subject, because the English Revolution was led by landed gentry, not by the populace.

The idea of universal rights is a fine idea; but not having been seized, they don't exist.
Woah, TIL that HB was not a branding mark on the #2 pencils I used growing up!
I alternate at random, although I prefer Waze for the hazard warnings. I will use both when my wife is driving, and I want to plan ahead or deal with the aforementioned traffic snarl. BTW Apple Car play is terrible for navigators. Once a phone is "locked in" it's useless for the navigator. You need another device to "look ahead".
I looked through all 47 pages of the document linked, and I didn't see any numbers on homicide convictions by race. Would you be so kind as to clarify your citation?
So this isn't an unsolvable problem but is part of the complexity of the current situation. In a lot of states, on body video has been determined by statute or case law to be public record. This means it is all subject to release if a member of a public makes a request. How much, if at all, the video can be trimmed or censored varies by jurisdiction. In some states police have latitude to edit video released, but the more common situation is that police departments are prohibited from any type of editing, in response to public records requests, unless they have a specific statutory authority to do so.

The legislation to clear these situations up can be complicated and extremely difficult to get passed because of the differing interests involved.

Complicating things further, police departments can usually do any editing or redaction they want on material they release voluntarily. Policy and union collective bargaining agreements may also restrict what information can be released to specific parties like internal affairs investigators. This all means that what is redacted vs left in, for the same incident, can depend on how the video was requested and by whom. Ironically, in states with public records laws, a random member of the public will often get the most complete version, more complete than what misconduct investigators are allowed to see.
Why would there be thousands of them? Wasn't the last GPT where the research actually was shared, GPT3? Hard to imagine that OpenAI suddenly will start releasing models more often than what they have been doing so far.

Edit: That's what I get for reading the comments before the article... "GPTs" is actually a new thing they introduced, where you can create your own "GPT" somehow, not just pluralization of GPT as we've know it.

That's some really messed up naming if anything. But regardless, parents comment makes a lot more sense now.