skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, that's why we use compasses, which use the poles of the Earth to determine the direction.

Something living in zero gravity doesn't have a planet, so they'd have to find something else to base the directions on.

That's what I was trying to say before.
As someone who had bell/chili pepper family triggered IBS for 6 years without knowing the cause. This 100%.
> What can I do that would make you look past my lack of educational qualifications?

1. If you are in India, create profiles for yourself on job seeking websites such as AngelList, LinkedIn or Hirist. When I was part of a hiring team, I(and peers) used to go through profiles on these websites with filters for the skills we were looking for, and then ask the recruitment team to reach out to candidates we found interesting. If an engineer or a lead takes a look at your profile and feels that your skills meet what they are looking for, they are highly likely to overlook the lack of a degree.

2. Network. If your resume does not get your foot through the door, try to go to language specific meetups and socialize. The whole `need a degree to work here` is a HR thing and just a way for them to reduce the applications they receive. A referral from someone within the company would usually skip that barrier.

3. Apply to any and all openings that you feel that you are a suitable fit for. Do not let the `CV will not even be considered for even an entry level role at their companies because of that` thought stop you, and let the person looking at your resume decide if you are a fit or not.

> How do I make my skills visible?

Points 1 and 2 should help with this. Apply to one of the free courses on Udemy or Coursera and complete the courses to get a certificate. Have a colleague whom you work with leave a recommendation or endorse you for skills on LinkedIn. I used to receive offers for a IOS mobile dev roles even years after I stopped working with Swift just because of one single skill endorsement.

I believe you have not asked for this, but I would definitely recommend getting a degree, even if it were a distance learning course that you can do while you work.
E.g. by convincing 35% of this website's users to "subscribe" to its "service"?

¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
They train mink to kill rats shown here[1], but the NY rats may be a larger variety.

[1] https://youtu.be/48dlAlrGNj8
Open Source is what allows developers to make their choices without having to ask for permissions. You can apt/pip/npm etc install and integrate pieces written by others in your own solution stack without having to call a lawyer. These non-open source licenses force you to stop and think, ask your lawyer before you build on top of them.

What's the advantage of these "semi" almost but not all the way open licenses?
We welcome you to spend 15 years and 10s of millions of your own money to compete with us, by writing your own software. If you think taking someone else’s software and spending ad money to sell it is “competition” I don’t know what to tell you.
I think what’s missing in these conversations is the cost of living near an office.

Housing costs are very high. If I could live 10 minutes from an office I’d go all the time. But most live much farther, which puts an untenable strain on them (and the environment, infrastructure, etc!)

Of course the C-suite class probably DOES live 10 minutes from an office. They can afford to, unlike most employees.

If you want RTO build more dense housing near where offices are located. And build solid transit and other means of getting to an office quickly.
Compatibility wasn’t what motivated people to switch away from the parallel port, 56k modem, nor the floppy disk.

Consider this exercise: The Nintendo Switch is the third best-selling console of all time. Walk me through how you would design it if the only port was USB-A.
> Just when I am deep in some twisted train of thought involving a failing JS callback or missing network packets in Kubernetes someone ambles over to my cubicle to ask me some random question about helm that they could have answered in 2 seconds using the search function of their web browser. Train derailed.

> Don’t talk to me about collaboration when I sometimes have to turn off slack to be able to hear myself think.

Why not communicate to the people that interrupt that they should not come to your cubicle to ask their questions, and should send you a Slack message with their question instead?

And then, if you are deep into something and you don't want to be disturbed, you can mute your slack notifications.

It feels to me, from the tone of the post, that the writer prefers WFH because it allows them to side-step issues that they could have resolved with communication. Of course this doesn't apply to the practical issues (time lost commuting, ...)
This is the third time you've posted about this in ten days...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38195626

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38243363
I don’t know about this tweet’s author. I mean that most of the people slandering her on Twitter are white men based on their profile pictures. But you’re right that I still shouldn’t stereotype; I’m sorry.
At this point I've stopped trying to correct autocorrect when it decides a word I spelled correctly isn't the word I wanted and changes it with a different word.
Edit: sorry this was intended for the parent comment.

It is but K2 absorption is complex as well. It’s not quite as straightforward as something like salt and potassium intake etc.

Additionally there’s just so much about gut health that we operate largely out of ignorance on. Even simple things like the prevalence of intestinal and other parasites in North America etc are tinged with ignorance or bad backing data
I'd chip in doing laundry or dishes whilst on a boring call I'm forced to attend. Just don't forget to mute the mike on the headset.
The human brain builds structures in 11 dimensions, discover scientists
And we continue to be social animals over video chat. Harder in what sense? I hear this a lot, but I rarely hear concrete examples. Feels to me more that people are just not accustomed to fully online communication at work rather than that it actually being harder. Change is hard, yes. But that doesn't mean that what you change into is actually more difficult.

Also, I'm not sure of newer generations where you're from, but here what I see is less and less want from people to have in-person conversations. Newer generations have everything done remotely. Ordering food, socializing (online video games, etc), that in-person conversations often are intimating to them. Which begs the question, have the people who say juniors need in-person help actually asked juniors what they would like? Or is it more that _you_ are more comfortable _teaching_ in-person, in which case again, the problem seems to be you, not the juniors.

All-in-all, I'm just not seeing the difficulties people seem to say they have. Just my $0.02.
...unless you count Social security contributions as taxes, in which case you will reach 42% taxes a lot quicker, especially if you also account for the 50% your employer pays or you are self-employed.
Sure, that's what the 2nd line is referring to.
And, of course, there's the (hopefully apocryphal) story of the French initially referring to GMT as 'Paris time minus nine minutes and twenty-one seconds'.
Previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611365
That’s kind of not the point. They ate the competition by offering free hosting, that was their entire point of existing. Now they are realizing why everyone else was charging for hosting… but charging the wrong person.

In reality, I once had monetized videos until one day they changed the rules to “number of subscribers” and none of my videos mentioned “subscribe” so I didn’t have enough. Oh well.

Anyway, it doesn’t really matter. Most people will never see a dime of the money made from their videos. One-hit-wonders on YouTube are now pointless.
I think this is exactly right for reasons that weren't important to the base story. The year after the story they moved to these Cisco VoIP phones that plugged into Ethernet directly, which seems odd considering they had just recently moved onto what was supposedly a Telco provided IP phone service. I suspect someone either misunderstood what they were buying or someone misrepresented what they were selling. They moved to what they thought they were getting in the first place and dropped the telco entirely.

For schools of that time, there was an incredible amount of money flowing around in the dot-com era. At least for a high school in a state capital. Both Microsoft and Cisco sponsored classes and teachers for them at my school. I got semesters A and B of my CCNA as a credit giving elective. My first time using Linux was (ironically) in the Microsoft sponsored class.
"Voting with their feet"? With what alternative? Which other site has TF2 video tutorials on the best rollouts for cp_granary? Cmon, give me a cp_granary rollout video link that's not YouTube.
Zero-K = Noita RTS :

https://imgur.com/iCUnQy6
Open floor plans are super loud and distracting… what issues would this solve exactly? I think it only creates more issues.
I wonder why companies feel the need to set physical presence policies at the company level. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to do it team-by-team? Is the unspoken admission that nobody would choose to pick a collocated team if they could join a remote one?

A team composed of 4 people, where one’s in SF, another in NYC, etc is having a very different experience from one where all 4 people are all collocated.
It’s not easy to start successful ventures. Most new ventures fail. Even the best VCs only have a 30% success rate.
You can be social over a video call. No one needs to suffer through all of the bullshit of modern offices just to lean over someone's shoulder to read some code.
Tuples of the local time zone (not utc offset) and a time, along with a utc localization conditional on date.
Ask HN: How do you know you're good enough to apply somewhere?
If you're having trouble finding a job in the current market, and you have aspirations to work at x company or an x-tier company (I'm using x as a variable not x formerly twitter), how do you know if your failure to get an interview is due to market forces or due to you being genuinely below the standards they're looking for? (this is of course assuming you meet all the on-paper qualifications in the job posting).

There's also the problem with applying too early. I applied to Anthropic, got an interview, then unexpectedly was rejected and they said I can't interview for a whole year. I feel that I'd be able to "level up" to whatever threshold I'd need to get to the next interview in less than a year, so applying as early as I did was a mistake.

How long should you "work on yourself", portfolio-wise, before you should feel confident you could meet the standards of a company? Should you just do a direct comparison with people who work there and their online profiles/GitHubs/personal websites?
The deep learning book is a great choice, as many have mentioned.

I've been making a course that has a little less theory, and a little more application here - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/zero_to_gpt . Videos are all optional (cover the same content as the text).
I don't even need a private office. One of the best environments I've ever worked in was a hybrid office/open model. Basically a bunch of conference rooms where each team got a room, and within the room the desk walls were low. Decorate it however you want, if you agree on style then you can have ambient music, etc. It was pretty great.

But then they knocked all the walls down and put in rows of desks because they could cram more people in that way. Within a year probably 25% of our development staff walked.
You're a twit. I was referencing my personal experience.
In this case they directly injected the nanoplastics + α-synuclein into the brains of one group and as a control injected only α-synuclein.

However, mice that have human α-synuclein have been around for decades, and nobody has (so far) noticed any effect of plastics on the development of Parkinsonism in these mice, neither are there any claims that Parkinsonism is more prevalent in people who have plastic implants of one kind or another.

Note that people ingest plastics all the time, e.g. through the breakdown of toothbrush bristles.
Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam
The company I work for has unlimited PTO with no minimum or maximum. I have consistently taken less time off year after year as compared to my previous job where we had fixed vacation days. I guess it probably has more to do with me not feeling psychologically safe in my current organization even though I have been here almost 5 years.
Ad-homones and TV shows? I litterally cited the IAEA report on Fukushima... But I agree, cunducting regular audits, similar to after incident investigations, is something the IAEA should do. Similar to what the FAA and EASA do.

But let me guess, you don't even know where to find said IAEA report, do you?
I work on the cloud security team for a Fortune 500 company. They won’t even consider a third party service that doesn’t provide a enterprise SSO/SAML integration with our auth provider. I suspect this is the more common approach for enterprise level companies given that at 40k+ employees it’s just not possible to manage employee auth across hundreds of services.
Unexpected Insights on Generative AI – My PoV as an AI PM Google
I recently made an effort to attend every interesting Silicon Valley AI tech event that crossed my radar so I could get a sense for how different people were thinking about the state of Generative AI. This included a couple Google events, TED AI, a few OpenAI Dev Day events, and an AngelList happy hour.

The following are my top 4 takeaways.
uhm, wat?
So what dosage would you recommend in terms of both and also is it always contingent on getting a blood test? Like it can't hurt to supp the minimum?

Edit: are there any a prioris you can offer as a basic jumping off point inline with your commentary?
I guess her take on an "Independent Board" must be like the one at Yahoo, while she was running down the company to the ground. Another one time CEO...

[1] - "...Before the deal was finalized, it came to light that major security breaches in 2014 had affected over 1 billion Yahoo customers. Mayer and other Yahoo executives' failure to reveal the breaches to the public until two years later cost Mayer millions in bonuses and payouts, although she did still leave with a $23 million severance package..."

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.nl/yahoo-marissa-mayer-rise-and-....
I have a very short commute, 5 min walk from door to work. So that's 10 minutes a day.

With 260 workdays a year, for me that's 2600 minutes - or 43.3 hours, just over 5 workdays, spent to and from work.

One of my colleagues has a 1 hour commute, so for him that's whooping 520 hours / 65 workdays spent on commuting!

But anyway, the commute isn't the only factor for me: During my 30 min lunch, I spend maybe 10 minutes eating, and the rest 20 mins is spent on shooting the shit with colleagues, scrolling the phone, or similar stuff.

When I work from home, I can spend that time doing chores. I can put on clothes, do the dishes, cleaning, or whatever. It's amazing how much you can do, by just spending 10-15 mins here and there throughout the week.

My weekends do feel a bit longer, since there's less housework to be done.

I spend less money on fuel, and shop less.

Of course, I do enjoy hanging out and talking with my colleagues - but I don't feel like I'm "missing out" if I'm at the office 1-3 days a week, compared to 5 days a week.

So, mostly just benefits for my part. Can't really imagine going back to a typical "butts in seats" with lots of facetime type of job.
The problems in this game are vastly overstated. I've been playing for a couple weeks and it's great.

Does my framer ate occasionally drop? Yes. Does it matter? No! It's Cities Skylines, not Counter Strike.
Related recent post with 711 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304485
Which ones do you have and which jobs are you targeting? Do you not even notice an uptick in interview requests?
> India has half-hour timezones

Not plural though;

The whole of India -- even though it is pretty vast in area -- has a single time-zone country-wide. I am very thankful for this. We already have a lot of other challenges -- including dozens of different languages -- that a single time zone is a relief.

But yes -- the +5:30 offset usually makes for a less-than-ideal factor to plan meetings or follow non local event schedules.

Did I mention we also hate the Summertime / Daylight Saving time adjustments we have to accommodate twice a year when working with western teams -- more adjustment even after most people have already sacrificed on a sane 9-5 schedule to ensure they overlap with EU/US teams for daily work meetings. We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country, and EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.
I've onboarded juniors and interns remotely at a couple of jobs and it's been fine. It doesn't work well if your onboarding process is osmosis-based & you want them to just pick stuff up by being around others. But if you are invested in the success of a junior and establish good patterns around how to communicate, there's no real risk there, and if anything it's healthier and more repeatable.
Or talent...
Personalized climate control; a useful (clean and fully equipped) kitchen, with private storage...

There are all kinds of features, with varying value to everyone and that people insist on ignoring.
Crystal Conference 2023 videos playlist
The hand wringing, deep measured sighs, and self assured hype cycle is real folks!

Buyer beware :)
Which days are recognized by an administrative region as holidays is an orthogonal concern from timezones. e.g. the US recognizes the 25th but spans multiple timezones.
it's interesting seeing all of those stars in such random orbits instead a unified orbit where everything is going in the same direction. That one star really looks to be moving, and is pretty much the only way to know where the "center" is. Everything else looks like blobs floating in a petri dish.
It also looks like Sam Altman was busy creating another AI company, along his creepy WorldCoin venture, wasteful crypto/bitcoin support and no less creepy stories of abuse coming from his younger sister.

Work or transfer of intellectual property or good name into another venture, while not disclosing it with OpenAI is a clear breach of contract.

He is clearly instrumental in attracting investors, talent, partners and commercialization of technology developed by Google Brain and pushed further by Hinton students and the team of OpenAI. But he was just present in the room where the veil of ignorance was pushed forward. He is replaceable and another leader, less creepy and with fewer conflicts of interest may do a better job.

It it no surprise that OpenAI board had attempted to eject him. I hope that this attempt will be a success.
Once all computing is in the cloud there are going to be a lot of new barriers.

I could see everything you do being monitored for the implementation of unauthorized types of software for example, not to mention total surveillance and appropriation of everything you do.

“We’re sorry but it appears that the software you are implementing might be able to be used to facilitate communication without the required safeguards. Your project has been locked.”

Meanwhile if the center of gravity goes entirely to managed cloud services the endpoint will wither even more. I can see a future where you can’t even buy a general purpose computer except in the most raw form like SBCs or parts and doing so might even get you on a list.

Look at the EU chat control stuff or the crazies who want to ban matrix math. This is not that far fetched.
Isn't this a bit of an overreach considering the following from the same article:

"emphasises the current prevalence of vitamin D deficiencies in France, with 70% of adults noted to have inadequate intakes in 2019."

That is an absolutely insanely high deficiency.
This particular one needs to be a tribal schism as the preferences cannot coexist.

WFH people will always be miserable with in office people and vice versa.
Trust me, I have checked. And I wish you had trusted me to be truthful without making me reiterate it.
Don't you guys think that WHF makes learning for Junior Devs relatively much more difficult?
Why send every url you visit (or its hash, whatever) to google in return for little to no tangible benefit? I've never used safebrowsing at any point since its introduction and have yet to encounter a single instance where I would have benefitted had I been using it.
Tangentially to the topic of the blogpost, has anyone else noticed that many recent articles on Hacker News feature AI-generated illustrations? They seem to have a unique, AI-specific style and that weird "uncanny valley" like quality where you can easily tell it was, in fact, a machine generated thing?
I like working from home because of its flexibility. To separate my workspace from my living space, I rented a co-working station similar to WeWork, which is a 10-15 minute walk from my home. I usually spend 4-5 hours a day there, focusing on tasks like hard problems, and work from anywhere for less demanding tasks, like squashing bugs. On a weekly basis, I find myself spending more productive hours this way than I would if I were going to an office. Additionally, this approach allows me to learn more; I can freely explore new frameworks or technologies unrelated to my current work, without the pressure of product deadlines breathing down my neck.
Are you implying that the author of brr.fyi is being disingenuous? I've enjoyed the writing, and I didn't take it as an objective documentary of a place, just somebody's subjective journal.

It's possible for different people to have very different experiences in a similar context for a variety of reasons, no?

That said, it's indeed been a while since the last update...
I feel old now :-)

SpringRTS is actually older than the first Supreme Commander game.
Thanks for correction, you are probably right.
That's definitely a big upside. Things like dishes and laundry are great background tasks. Doesn't take long to set up, then a machine handles the rest, swap out the laundry and keep going. Barely interrupts my day job, and the impetus to get out of my chair is welcome anyway.
There is some research and some terminology but not a whole lot of conclusive stuff.

Look up circadian rhythm sleep disorders, non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder, delayed sleep phase disorder, free running sleep.
Yeh he was setting up another funding funnel MS -> OpenAI -> his AI chips

https://youtu.be/NVVsdlHslfI?si=FMUm79WYmK2aNfGS

Make it appear on paper like there’s proper separation of concerns but really building a web to form monopoly with MS’s backing because they can’t get in trouble if some startup is doing it.

Just more shell company games to play the system, screw everyone else by using their churches to claim dominion over all of tech. These guys are too obvious now.

The elders who don’t know better are dying off leaving behind a more technically literate voter base.
the climate thing is pretty important but at this point manageable

financial crises come and go; the one 15 years ago was interesting but not, as it turned out, a second great depression

ukraine was one of the major topics of the note i linked, though not explicitly mentioned

covid i'm not sure about. you would expect 6.98 million confirmed deaths (and several times that many total deaths) to have a cultural impact like aids or the holocaust, but if it has, i am not sure exactly what that impact is. i don't even see people wearing face masks on the bus when they have a cold, which is sort of the minimum i was hoping for