skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds sublime. I'm currently working for a company that allows me to be fairly flexible with my hours and I've found it's been amazing for my productivity.

Some days I wake up late and miss a portion of the work day but I'm able to work later and have a fresh mind for the entirety of my work time. With this routine I've found I'm managing to accomplish way more than I did in a previously more rigid environment.

Currently I'm an IC so it's easier to have this kind of schedule. At past jobs when I was in more of a managerial role so this wouldn't have been as easy due to the amount of meetings with various partners and employees.

This experience has been so positive it's made it so that I'm now pursuing a job/career where I can maintain this lifestyle. I loathe wasting time sitting around because I'm tired.
I use Obsidian extensively to organize my life. A big thank from me to the entire team! The only thing I wish it had out of the box was web clipping. I know there are few third party extensions but I havn't found one that works seamlessly
My observation is that there is a lot more cargo-culting / trendchasing in the JS world, largely due to its low barrier to entry. The overuse of "modern" is a dogma more than anything.

(I mainly work on native desktop apps, but can use JS if needed.)
> we were in the right

It's not clear which side that was?
I did some writing and documentation on contract. This led to a competitive analysis contract. This led to a full time job with a partner of my main contact.
I'm sorry, you're wrong - and I dont say that lightly.

My roommate worked a service job during the pandemic, went to work every day.

He couldn't go shopping at a store for 6 months, he couldn't go out to eat for a similar length of time - there was social pressure on him to not do these things even once they reopened for fear of harming others. Social Media was acidic, and the mainstream media was.. upsetting, to put it politely. I'd also note that we are in Texas, which didn't keep its restrictions as long as NY or CA, and it was still traumatic.

All but the most crazy anti-vax nut jobs believe the pandemic happened, I know folks who would otherwise lean very conservative take it quite seriously - do you know why? they saw the morgue trailers. I know others folks who didn't who behaved the same way after watching a loved one die. The folks who didn't believe are not a small number, I'll admit - around 15% of the country - but polling backs up people believing the illness was real, and that it was dangerous - the level of danger however did vary in intensity by partisan paring.
> has me wondering: are we seeing the limits of current "just scale the data" approaches to ML?

This was my thought too. You'd think Gemini would set higher goals (higher than GPT-4) given that it will come out one year after GPT-4, but no, they are just achieving GPT-4-level performance in some respects.

Maybe this says less about Google's lack of AI capabilities and more about OpenAI's first-mover advantage that made them pour billions into what was (like you said) the asymptote of AI intelligence using current arch.
> I thought it's also a phrase in English

It is.
If you can't afford $30 a month, do you really have a business?
Agreed. Doing it to mess with the controller is going to get the crew and the airline in hot water.

That said, there is a fair amount of discretion on the Captain's part, and if the pilot was unable to land at Oakland for an unforeseen reason, such as an ILS malfunction at OAK, then declaring a fuel emergency sooner may be justified.

Knowing that fatigue may also be a factor, which could also result in a missed approach, and they are required to have sufficient fuel for several ILS approaches before diverting, without using their final reserves, could push them to declare a fuel emergency.

Typically, the Captain would say something along the lines of "I can only hold another 10 minutes, before declaring fuel emergency", prompting ATC to get them sequenced for approach promptly.
Makes me think of the shift from reality TV (real people living authentically on TV) to “reality TV” (the genre with it’s specific formulas/tropes/manipulation).
I tend to rely on member unique_ptr for such concerns. At top level, you still don't see any pointers. Of course at machine level the code is absolutely lousy with pointers, likewise at the next level up, but the pointers you can't see because they are buried in libraries cannot generate bugs.
Yeah, it was my understanding that melatonin is secreted under low-light conditions according to one's circadian rhythm.

> A substantial number of studies have shown that, within this rhythmic profile, the onset of melatonin secretion under dim light conditions (the dim light melatonin onset or DLMO) is the single most accurate marker for assessing the circadian pacemaker. Additionally, melatonin onset has been used clinically to evaluate problems related to the onset or offset of sleep. DLMO is useful for determining whether an individual is entrained (synchronized) to a 24-h light/dark (LD) cycle or is in a free-running state. DLMO is also useful for assessing phase delays or advances of rhythms in entrained individuals. Additionally, it has become an important tool for psychiatric diagnosis, its use being recommended for phase typing in patients suffering from sleep and mood disorders. More recently, DLMO has also been used to assess the chronobiological features of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). DLMO marker is also useful for identifying optimal application times for therapies such as bright light or exogenous melatonin treatment. [1]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16884842/
I agree that multi-stage builds help address this, but that also means there are different images.
Yeah, you're capturing my perspective exactly.

It was arguably the psychological impact of the on hold feeling that did more to explain now, than anything about the disease itself - though the pandemic did make me personally acutely aware of my own mortality - and I dont think I'm the only one.
The original c.1865 pumps inside were marvels... At 11 revolutions per minute, 6 tons (approximately 1,500 imp gal or 6,800 L) of sewage per stroke per engine were pumped up into a 27-million-imperial-gallon (120,000 m3) reservoir, and was released into the Thames during the ebbing tide.
Absolutely. I often fantasize what a different length day might be like.
Leaving all your creative fiction aside, that's not the reason I use Linux.

macOS is the overwhelming choice for those who do not want to know how things work, and are OK with being prevented from seeing how things work.

macOS is the overwhelming choice for those who are OK with planned obsolescence, being denied their right to repair, and not having control over their property.

macOS is the overwhelming choice for those that got into this for the money, not because of passion. The reason you need a supercomputer to run eyecandy versions of the same software you ran on a Pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB in RAM in the 90s.

If you want to become a software engineer, and you don't want to know how things work: you are a commodity and generative AI will get your job in the next 3 years. If AI doesn't do it, then one of the millions of people learning how to code on YouTube will.

Everything that you see as special about your code, will be offered for a fraction of a cent per token by an actual automaton.

Most of the macOS users in Silicon valley (and elsewhere) run Linux on Docker, which will run slower on macOS than on Linux. As a macOS user, that performance tax will apply to everything you try to do as a developer.

They also run Linux on all their production environments. So they're just making their life harder for no reason while thinking they're doing the opposite. If your production environment is Linux, you will still need to learn how Linux works, and on top of that you will have to learn how macOS works. Did you really simplify your life doing that?
He wrote GitLab CI
You are assuming the moderators are not lying. Unfortunately, mods on some sites do lie and do claim innocent posters violated rules. I myself was temporarily banned on one site because I argued that the Epic game store was good for competition and would help bring down prices for both consumers and game developers.

The stated reason for the banning was something like “trolling”. Not much to say other than some mods are good but some abuse their power.
Replying to this 3 days late, so likely this won’t be seen, but I assure you the retention factors are not being ignored. (Well … see my last sentence.). For 2 years in the early nineties I worked in software with an extensive, sophisticated retention model.

Direct pay, benefits, promotion velocity, source of commission were all extensively tracked and modeled. The problem at that point was that you can claim you want a 600 ship navy, but if you don’t have enough surface warfare officers with the right number of years (or dentists or chaplains or JAG lawyers) it’s not going to work.

On the other hand despite our multimillion dollar contract to work on this software, I have no idea if BUPERS actually used it.
The Race to Save Ketchup: Building a Tomato for a Hotter World
I wrote a Kibana plugin - https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail and a few graylog plugins which opened many doors for me. It also helped me land my last job at Sematext. I lost interest in maintaining the plugin after Elastic's open-source license changes.
Years ago, I switched my home "land line" to a VOIP service provider. This provider allows you to build a simple set of actions which will occur when a call comes in.

Mine works like this:

Is the call from a fax machine?
If yes, take the fax and send the fax to my e-mail.
If no, move to the next step.
Is the call from a number that's on my whitelist?
If yes, ring my phone.
If no, move to the next step.
Play a recording of my voice saying, "Please press 5 to be connected."
Keep repeating this recording for 30 seconds.
If the caller presses 5, ring my phone.
If 30 seconds elapse and 5 is not pressed, hang up.

No more robo-calls for me. Zero. Gone. I check the logs and I'm still receiving many calls a day from random numbers, but none makes it through the test.

I know that if everyone did this, scammers would figure out a way around it, but for the last 7 years, it's completely solved my problem.
It's that time I get to repeat: The US is a big enough destination that threatening to drop incoming calls would work. Much like the EU online privacy regulations has international effects, the US can play the game too. It's extremely unlikely that a legit telco anywhere in the world would choose to continue spam and lose the ability to call the US. (Telcos peer to other telcos/interconnects explicitly and can force custom agreements)
Agreed, it’s definitely not in line with their stated philosophy. Sadly, Mozilla has been drifting away from it more and more lately.
Yeah, you haven't lived through actual inflation. In Argentina we're used to "buy it now because it will be more expensive next month". My laptop is more expensive used on mercadolibre than what I paid for it brand new 5 years ago.

In the US they have 5% inflation rather than 200% but the effect is still true, just less strong.
I remember once I mentioned something about lobste.rs in Twitter (trying to actually be positive for the community) and the creator went all crazy against me . shrug Thanks but no thanks
Someone has to keep the game of musical chairs going!
Please don't do this here.

Edit: Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I can't say I've been able to solve this problem 100% but personally visualizing a very cold environment I'm trying to keep warm from helps. Also keeping the room really cool with ample warmth from sheets seems to help.

I'm not sure why though.
I like the discussion below, because this is honestly a complex issue. It sucks for the narrator if her girlfriend thinks she's below her standard. It sucks that she found out accidentally.

But is it wrong for the girlfriend to have had those feeling? I don't think so. We don't get to know, as readers, whether their relationship was supposed to have been serious. So maybe the girlfriend was leading the narrator on, or maybe it was just casual.

I also don't think it was wrong for the girlfriend to keep an unfiltered journal, if the purpose of the sheet was just working through her thoughts.

On the other hand, the narrator encounters the document accidentally. She probably should have respected the girlfriend's privacy, but who among us wouldn't have read further? It's not wrong for her to feel devastated.

The basic set up of the story is a conflict between two people, who both have taken understandable actions up to that point. It feels uncomfortable to us, because we want to be able to identify the good guy and bad guy here, but it's not so easy. This desire is deeply rooted in Western culture, or maybe even in our neurology as a species.

I think it's better to assume that most people mean well, but sometimes make suboptimal decisions based on their circumstances and the path dependent development of their personality. Sometimes those decisions can be quite heinous. But for most of us, it's the little ways we unintentionally undermine ourselves and our relationships.

To me, this story is about this exact thing. The narrator goes a bit off the rails as a result of an understandable emotional trigger. Until the end, the narrator barely, if ever, questions her self-righteousness.

It would kind of be cool for the author to write the story from the girlfriend's point of view. But then again, he kind of did. The narrator essentially accepts the worldview of the girlfriend, and reorganizes her life around it. But where did the girlfriend's worldview come from? Maybe we're meant to assume the girlfriend had a similar experience, which drove her to be so top tier, at least superficially.
The Confederacy was never going to win outright, and they knew it. Their goal was to force a stalemate, allowing them to continue to exist as a separate country from the United States.

edit: and for the first few years, it looked like they might be able to do that.
“In some respects” is such a weakening qualifying statement, that it could be made about anything.

In some respects, this comment is like Pulitzer-winning writing. (Pulitzer writing is in English, too)

In some respects, I am as good as George Clooney. (I am as good if not a better software engineer in my niche)

In some respects, $1 is worth far more than $10. (Earning the first $1 is in business is a bigger milestone than earning $10)

“To the best of my ability” is another funny one. To the best of my ability, I am the rubberhose variant of Mickey mouse. To the best of its ability, this comment is Diet Coke.

Such completely meaningless statements, but strictly speaking, unfalsifiable.
This isn’t a great article, tbh. Most of the complexity is from compiling the Rust compiler (and its “large standard library”) from source. Of course that’s going to be a complicated affair, because a production-quality compiler is not a simple bit of code. Normally this would just be a binary package, but it looks like MacPorts didn’t have said package for the author’s platform at the time.

Second, the upgrade didn’t fail at all. The author has misinterpreted the log. This is understandable given the wording (“Unable to uninstall…Uninstall forced”), but all it’s saying is that it is forcibly uninstalling a package that’s being depended on, because the depending package is also being upgraded. The upgrade process completes fully, despite taking a very long time.
not compact as a disc. that's just someone retrofitting an optical reader for existing vinyl. that's not even close to what i'm suggesting
Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
Nice to see people are still reading "Idoru" (William Gibson, 1996).
Still kind of does.
Now if someone were to make one of those pizza ordering LLM agents do the calling for them...

I suppose that would be like spamming the carriers. Not sure that's better, but it might make them act.
Yup likewise. Eating after 8pm is a sleep killer for me.
Similarly, people that dismiss valid criticism because it doesn't match their personal opinions seem like dummies to grown ups.

Unsure if it means they are or are not dummies, though.
How to (Succeed) in Technology Cross-Functional Teams
Is the most important asset market broken?
A little bit more detail is needed to understand the question. I find it hard to believe you are unaware that people burn trash.
It's wordpress.
As you can tell from my post above, I have only had this role temporarily so I'm not an expert.

Based on my experience, you have a few people that report to you from the different teams (reception, cleaning, maintenance, kitchen, sales etc.) - what you actually do depends a lot on the size of the hotel and on how large those teams are; in a small B&B you are probably doing some of those tasks yourself, but in a larger hotel there will be different teams and you are purely in a management position.

The amount and frequency of customer interaction also depends on the hotel size.

Whether it is more technical or social depends on the above. And it also depends on whether you consider management itself to be a technical or social skill.

Edit - regarding training: I have seen people in this field who had hospitality management degrees so I suppose that's the most common path.
That is not /more/ true in 2023 than it was in 2019, so it isn't a problem for a quick look at trends. I would've linked a median household graph if I had one, but there are some median numbers here and they're good; keyword is "leverage ratio".

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf

(Also, you can't compare GDP and wealth, and income inequality has been decreasing in the US in the last few years.)
Just link directly to the article. No one wants to be exposed to Reddit comments.

On the article itself, yeah I don't believe a word from Google and they've clearly delayed it because it's going to be nearly as embarrassing for them as Bard has been. We know it's not because it doesn't handle some non English queries, because Google has never been shy about releasing products to only some regions or in some languages before.
Wow, this title sums up in one sentence what we all hate about Jenkins. It's like the equivelent of timeouts being worse than fast fails.
The issue used to be the tech.

Today the issue for social media is curation, I.e. moderation.

Dreams of that freewheeling intellectual market place were inspiring.

However, reality trumps fiction. Results trump theory.
Success creates Business models.
At my school we were punished if we left a mess. Mess outside was cleaned up by students on detention. If there was nothing to clean up they had to do work with the gardener in the sun, in a desert.

I didn't have to walk up a hill to school both ways, but I did go to school in a desert with an average temperature over summer of 33-34C with no aircon.
Well I don't like indentation-based syntax because when I write code with such syntax down in a notebook I have this bad tendency to drift to the right as I go lower down the page. And then if I go training or something and return the drift causes me to lose the structure of the code.

With round brackets on the other hand, well... I think my brain just works with round brackets. Like my mind is coded in Lisp or something, I dunno. It would explain why I'm so slow: GC pauses. My mind should really be ported to SBCL or something.
Indeed. The idea of an economic downtown almost seems to be one of sentiment rather than any data.

Wages are up above inflation. Asset prices are strong. Job market is strong. Inflation is dropping. Consumer spending is strong.

Other than inflation currently being a bit above target, which numbers are people unhappy about?
In case you (like me) doubted a bill could be so rational, here’s the full text (3 very short pages): https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BU...

Looks like it does exactly what’s claimed. Amazing!
The solution (well, one at least) to the large scale problem is for everyone to call their representative as long as it takes to implement necessary penalty regulation. All the US based people complaining here can start doing it today.
Didn't read the article, only this thread.

It's a lack of hope. There is no signal in sight that housing will go back to the affordability it had five years ago. The fed and corporations are making inflation worse, and while the government spending of the pandemic seemed wise to keep the circulation flowing while we were on pause, it does seem to have screwed the little guy with no house or stocks.

So if this is as good as it gets, why save or have hope? People getting by will just keep getting by.

At least that's my take.
Back in 2005, when I was still living in Poland and working as a developer after graduating uni. I started contributing to a GPLed L4-microkernel-based hypervisor targeting ARM-based embedded devices called Codezero. I was just interested in micro-kernels and it allowed me to play with an actual working project. I've got a job offer from the founder and worked remotely on it for 3 years, when the company was acquired by nVidia and I got a H1B and moved to Silicon Valley, which pretty much changed my life.
It provides a private right of action for you to sue the culprit in civil court. I have personally received thousands of dollars in compensation for every case I’ve brought under the statute.

Unfortunately most of the culprits nowadays are overseas scammers, in which case it’s no help. I would agree in that case- the only way to stop these folks is through the carriers themselves and they don’t seem too keen on doing anything.
Working on a write-up of the Russian ArVid system (file backup that used VHS tapes as media & your domestic VCR). Got screenshot, software, basic schematics... the next challenge is writing it up.

You can help: tell me what questions you'd like a write-up like this to answer.
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
Your first one never existed.
> pour billions into what was (like you said) the asymptote of AI intelligence using current arch.

What a wild change in fortune that would be.

OpenAI/Microsoft looked to be forever ahead, but maybe this is the break everyone else needs to catch up.

I'll be really happy if we wind up with more companies owning different parts of the market rather than just FAANG at the top. Or more competition in general.
In some respects, Phind's model is as good as GPT-4 at coding. (or so they claim)
Submitted title was "Study: Users would be willing to pay $28 to have their peers deactivate TikTok". That was badly editorialized (which is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Even the article's own title is somewhat baity so I've changed it to a more neutral version of the subtitle.
Oh, thank god it wasn't just me.
Thanks for checking out and reporting this bug. Fixing this today.

Until the fix is live, it will work when you leave field kids empty.
Did the remaining mainframers demand a higher salary to stay on, or did the insurance company have to hire outside contractors at exorbiant rates to migrate everything over?
I think it speaks more about the people from other countries themselves than about the U.S. It's about naive view that if you are really rich, you don't have to do anything yourself. And in the US everyone is really rich from their point of view.