skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you maybe reach out to SWEs/directors/founders on LinkedIn who matches your criteria and see if any of them could be a regular mentor at your organization?

I think groups are fine, but as a former child and later a mentor through orgs like BBBS, I do think having a personal presence goes far beyond just another group I can maybe sign up to join or be admitted to. Maybe someone who is themselves doing something in tech that mixes art + tech.

NYC has a pretty big tech scene, so I'm sure you will find someone. Good luck! Sounds like a cool thing you're doing.
Do you have any suggested links to follow in RSS
Oh man, you wanna be triggered? Find a cli app that takes both -<word> and --<other> options, but wont accept --<word> or -<other>.

So rage inducing
"It takes a year to find great executives so you must always look down the fiel
I took the BART to the airport exactly once in a cold winter night, and can say that I will never do that again. Not until they somehow mitigate the issue of homeless crackheads assaulting random people.
It’s even worse as BART charges per rider while ride share surcharges are per vehicle. It’s often not even cost competitive to take transit if you’re a couple or family.
eerrr...

I can only speak from experience with software, but several times I've been in projects trapped with implementations that take months to incrementally update and then seen clean sheet implementations blow them out of the water in a matter of weeks.

In one case I saw an implementation of a radio system that met 100% of the technical requirement that a staff engineer wrote as a side project in six weeks. The corporate implementation couldn't meet the spec, had taken 2 years and was being developed by scores of engineers.

Interestingly the corporate implementation was supplied to the customer, caused a huge reputational dent and was ulitimately scrapped... while the staff engineer was dismissed!
I thought Lynch’s was corny and funny. But I do think we have hit an inflection point of big movie fatigue. Small scope movies are just way more fun and interesting right now.
With confabulation it isn’t anthropomophizing but rather drawing a parallel to an information processing approach in brains.

I don’t like hallucination because it implies that it is different from how it normally works. Theories of confabulation suggest that this normal brain behavior. Still not the best word.
How is the schism from radare2 going? Is Rizin a superset of r2 features or are there things that r2 has gained since the fork and thus missing?
I had very little LSD and got very vivid hallucinations out of it. Things like little devils dancing on a normally plain white wall, stick figures running on rooftops...
[I work on Triplit]
Currently, You can accomplish this by pulling from Triplit with either a JS client that just subscribes to each collection or with the REST API but we're currently working on a way to define custom "triggers" on your Triplit Server so you could directly push into any other database as you'd like
Feels like this part was written by a consultant in a foreign country — the pdf letter is more formal
Amazon listings quality has gone to shit.
> I don't see why it needs to be anything so grandiose. I'm not griping at you, per se, I just don't understand why psychedelics enthusiasts consistently bang the metaphysical drum

It’s really annoying. The truth is, there’s nothing profound about tripping, it’s just a drug that changes your perception. There’s nothing intrinsically magical or spiritual about it. I enjoy tripping once or twice a year because it makes things look amazing and music sound cool, and your thoughts seem super profound (but they aren’t).
Your ChatGPT comment is a perfect description of Villeneuve’s movies and I’ve thought similar things for a long time. There’s just something missing that prevents them from being great.
Yup, too many overconfident people mistake their own subjective opinion for fact and then tell others that their opinion is wrong.
Over engineered and totally missing the point while further obfuscating the code using it. Java devs will love it!
People rarely (if ever) do it on purpose which is what makes it so insidious.

Appreciate you taking the comments gracefully. The site is very slick
Wait, shouldn't hand sanitizer food-grade? Wouldn't making it poisonous be very dangerous?
Thats risk. The threat is the potential action. The risk is the potential for loss or impact.
WhatsApp was installed on about 41% of smartphones in 2022,[1] so this 9% growth takes them to about 45%.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311229/whatsapp-usage-m...
The point makeitdouble is making is that it’s fine for people to use the term generically, but products shouldn’t use the name generically. So a parent might call a PS5 a “Nintendo”, but Sony can’t call their next console a “Nintendo”. The same applies to champagne. People can call sparkling white wine “champagne”, but companies producing sparkling white wine should be able to call their products “champagne” unless it is actually from Champagne.
Okay, let me more precise: the fringe idea in Iota was to insist on ternary logic implemented in software on binary logic hardware.
My hope lies on AI making it right in hopefully my lifetime. Or maybe it'll have to be me on some cracked AI because the copyright prevents the usual Hollywood AIs from making it ;)
Or 169 (13 x 13).
I recently got approved for a mortgage with a mainstream lender where they took unvested stock into account for the pre-approval. Thankfully I'm not reliant on that stock vesting to pay the mortgage. As I understand there are quite a few lenders that will do this.
The somehow is explained quite well at the end - they discussed different approaches and why they chose the current one.
Dedicated AMD graphics starts at around 100 €.
from Costco
A bit more dangerous recreationally but scopolamine (datura/brugmansia/etc) is hallucinogenic in yet another way (antimuscarinic, blocking acetylcholine receptors).
Sales organizations have always been mystifying to me.

When I worked at a large, multi-national telecom, I started in desktop support (waaaaay back in the day!). I remember being surprised about the layout of the 10,000 person organization, in general. You had staff, supervisors, managers, directors and vice presidents with some of those roles missing/swapped. Usually its "one or the other, supervisor vs manager" depending on if it was a higher-paid salary (or hourly) position or "the folks who answered the line when you dialed 411".

For nearly every organization in the company, turnover was nothing that would raise an eyebrow. The structure was pretty boring, too -- A single VP, maybe two directors, the rest managers/staff.

And then there was sales ...

In Desktop Support, we spent a lot of time in the various local sales offices. We were either picking up or dropping off a computer over there about 5 times as much despite the office holding 100 employees. Almost everyone had an office. All office locations had the same dress policy, but everyone in the Sales department was 1980s IBM dress policy[0]. And almost everyone in the building was a Vice President.

Being a frequent fixture in the office, I got to know a few of the managers and it was explained: the job has high performance quotas which, if met, will make a 6-figure salary very easily (in 2001) but which, if not, you'll be gone -- quickly[1]. There was something of a 400% turn-over (I can't remember if that was per quarter or per year, but I think it was the former). Much like the response from "Matthew Prince", though, the manager I talked to and the two sales-people that were hanging out all agreed "that's just how it works -- you don't have a consistent paycheck month-to-month, anyway, but the money is very good and the turnover means jobs are abundant." It's not a life I would choose, personally, nor am I in agreement with that way of doing things, but that was my take-away.

[0] Which wasn't all that surprising; the office had customers come through.

[1] The devil's in the details; certain sales jobs had long-tenured people and a long-term high-performer isn't let go after a bad month ... usually, anyway.
If you don't trust NTD's reporting, you can always refer to the source preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1
Exactly this ^
> In other words: in 2050, Dune 2021 will be perceived as just another sci-fi film, whereas Dune 1984 will still be weird and unique.

Just like The Room is "weird and unique"? :)

> As a side note: does anyone take RT or the Oscars seriously anymore? That whole line of argument isn't very compelling to me, but I guess it is for some.

How much would you agree or disagree with this 'ranking' of Lynch's works?

* https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/david-lynch/
I don't think they offer shared rides anymore either? Maybe they don't in any cities anymore?

I always loved the randomness of the ride sharing option, the potential extra time before drop-off easily outweighed the potential for an interesting conversation.
I'm an optimist until I die. While alive, live.

I have no idea what came before, what will come, or even if this is all in my head.

Might as well play the game until its over lol. To be a pessimist or complacent is to die, for me at least.
Maybe you should describe what the site is and how it would be of value to people in this post. People aren’t going to just click a nondescript web link.
Sadly, true. Why is the template processor named `STR`, why not `f"String"`, like Python? On top of the ugly `STR.` prefix, this dreaded `\` character infuriates me more. Kotlin and Groovy have the nicest implementation by far because it doesn't require any prefixes. I understand Java can't suddenly do that because it needs to be backward-compatible.

I can't get over the ugly `\{someVar}`. It will be easily confused as the `{` character is being escaped, rather than a template. `${someVar}` was a much better option.
Apltail: APL Compiler targeting a typed array intermediate language
No snarky comment here.

I thought all "affirmative action" accusations were non-sense.

It appears at least one wasn't.
Dont forget when it provides -help but not --help, and -h is is an invalid argument.
Why does the number of digits in the base should matter?
Sure, but that would still make it bad, right? I may be a hypocrite (for argument's sake), but that doesn't change whether being steeped in ideology is a bad thing.

Would you agree? Or do you think being steeped in ideology leads to more rational decision making? (independent of whether ideology is needed for social mobilization)
Great decision for turning back and not risking anything.
I am typing on an M1 MacBook Air.

Lovely screen, lovely battery life.

It is a work laptop. My own are Thinkpads. I prefer the Thinkpads for most things.

Cons of the MacBook:

Terrible selection of ports, terrible trackpad (no middle click as standard, right click is unreliable and needs a clumsy gesture which fails more often than it works), AWFUL keyboard, zero repairability or upgradability.

I would not wish to spend my own money on one of these things.

I am not saying you are wrong. I am merely saying what you value is not universal.
On the other hand, Airbus went ahead with the A380 and gets a lot of bad press for it ("How could they not have seen this coming").

And the 757 is an old design too.
They primarily benefit Fedora Asahi Remix (the new flagship distro for Asahi) because that's where the integration work was focused. However, all work done by the Asahi project can be integrated into any distribution if the distribution provides that effort.
I'm not sure that this merits the same kind of discussion that the MAX situation is garnering yet. Cracks happen, there doesn't seem to be a systemic issue, it was in one of four layers of glass (the outermost), and the plane landed without issue.

Now if similar cracks are found in more Boeing 737-800 windshields, that'd be an interesting element to add to the existing general discussion around Boeing's QA issues. But for now, meh.
No, absolutely not! This will be the most hated Java feature to me.
Probably the -value- of F.Herbert Dune is high enough to survive a film transposition, givin an higher-than-mean Director (in theory), and in pratice all those read and love Herbert work will see his message and meanings behind a movie..
Lynch Dune is not bad seen today but the director is not 'fit' for SciFi IMHO, Villeneuve, decades after, seems mode inside the genre and capable to manage the matter and the modern SFX, it's Dune seems more close to the essential minimal trascendent adn vastness spirit of FH Dune. All IMHO.
The Max 8s can also have the door (Ryanair fly 8200s and have the additional door), so presumably may have the plug?
Keep your seatbelt on is the number one rule. Do that and you’ll continue to live through your flights. I’m willing to put money on that frankly
It carries signal for being above average relative to the rest of the population, which is a low bar to begin with.

It doesn't carry much signal for being great.
... and the Dunning-Kruger people who think they understand but actually dont't?
If we keep on praising uninteresting, soulless movies like Villeneuve’s Dune while shooting down more artistic (but weirder) views such as Lynch’s one, then I think we might end up with the opposite: human crews making films based GPT’s scripts.

The same thing happened with Society of the Snow: a technically beautiful movie with nothing to say other than being more “faithful” and using native actors. All that is appreciated but Alive was a flawed but much more exciting telling of the story.
Sharedrop.io ?
"My chicken sandwich last night came with bluetooth 5 compatibility. I connected it to my phone to track the journey through my digestive tract."

That's as appealing an idea as it is horrifying, honestly.
You can see the sun rise in the east. Despite what you seem to believe, you cannot see what is going on inside someone else’s head, which is essentially what you are claiming to be able to do.
Is there a database of 737 incidents that is regularly updated and available to the public? It’s difficult for me to discern whether there are more 737 incidents or just more incidents reported in the news.
"As a person who has been on both sides of the table for these meetings, I have really appreciated them," the person wrote in an email. "Buuut, when the candidate is White, it is just awkward. The last meeting was uncomfortable, and I would go as far as burdensome for me. Can we change the policy to not do these going forward with White faculty?"
> Marketing is like juicing in athletics.

This is far, far too cynical. Marketing is not cheating. To keep the sports metaphor, marketing is training. It's unglamorous, time-consuming, and (for most) not fun. But, if you want to succeed as a professional, you have to do it.
> Part of what makes sex robots ideal in the context of the current work is that people's attribution of moral standing to robots is highly manipulable, as people's moral intuitions regarding robots are much weaker and more flexible than those regarding humans ... We can therefore leverage this flexibility of people's intuitions about AI robots in cases of sexual assault.

Sounds ideal from the perspective of getting the result you are looking for. I'd take these attributes as signs that the intuitions are weak and arbitrary.

The justification seems to be:

> these disparities led to the emergence of an alternative view which suggests that social robots are interpreted merely as composite depictions of social agents, rather than entities that lie on a continuum of mind perception ... If people view female-like robots as depictions of women, for example..

That's a big if, would seem to me there should be a lot more evidence for this (and any nuances of the process) before basing further studies on it?

Now that you have a "highly manipulable" model, and a theory that these result apply to real women, you can manufacture any moral perspective on women you choose.
Still fascinating how presciently Matt Stoller nailed the issue 5 years ago:

Let’s start by admiring the company that was Boeing, so we can know what has been lost. As one journalist put it in 2000, “Boeing has always been less a business than an association of engineers devoted to building amazing flying machines.”

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
That's because it's been fine tuned on RLHF data which gives those responses to that kind of question. It says "I" because that's how people talk and it's modeling how people talk. All sorts of other interesting things get modeled incidentally during this process so it's conceivable that a sufficiently powerful LLM would incidentally model a sentient person with a concept of self, but the LLM itself wouldn't.
Symbolics.jl
MS Word, for Outline Mode alone.

I prefer Word 2003 or failing that Word 97, which is the oldest, smallest, fastest version that handles the same file formats used everywhere until MS invented its compressed-XML nonsense.

Word '03 started working around WINE 8 or so. Before that, I had to use Crossover for it.
They are still required to pay taxes, and Uber/Lyft are required to send 1099s to the IRS to declare the income. Nobody was hiding anything.
Uber Pool is back after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The main draw isn't the potential for an interesting conversation but the fact that it's cheaper.
But other scenes, like the squishing of the literary agent between the floor and ceiling of a building that had been, up until that moment, supported but some kind of energy field, would be spectacular.

But more generally I completely agree with your comment. I also think the religious symbolism, like the cruciform parasite and the tree of pain, were a bit cheesy and overwrought in the writing, and would come across cheesy in a film, too.
Haha, a good one
I’m not sure that dropping flaming batteries from the sky will be very popular with those on the ground.
Yes but this is not a huge problem with the airframe itself. The tendencies without MCAS are fine. The pilots just need to be trained for them.

The problem was that airlines want to skimp on the training.

The same thing happened with the engine management. Boeing doesn't want to introduce an engine warning system because it would mean pilots have to be retrained. A lot of these barriers aren't part of the physical design but the industry as a whole being extremely wary of training. Probably as a result of cheap low-cost carriers emerging.

Not saying Boeing is a great manufacturer but it's not the only issue at play.
Can you transfer your account to another custodian/broker? You can do that with a Roth IRS here.
> At this point I'm starting to agree we should severely limit or outright ban stock-based or near-term performance based compensation.

If Boeing employee compensation takes a hit, they will lose good engineers to Meta, Google, and TikTok which already probably pay 3X. You want safer planes? Help bid their stock up so that it attracts good engineers.

This is the problem with public companies. Boeing stock value should be determined by safety, by FAA, and by actual passengers, not by some armchair investors who don't even fly on their planes.
Airport Uber works different. Drivers wait in a designated queue.
No offense meant to OP, but this is a good example how the commercialization of criticism can really suck the joy out of things.
How to Copy and Paste on an iPhone
I didn't know what IOTA is and had to look it up. And I agree with your assessment, I suspect their decision was motivated by marketing reasons and not technical reasons.
Shadcn for Rails (MIT License):

https://shadcn.rails-components.com
The 787 and A380 are still the best planes (in terms of comfort, at least) on the market. It makes my 12 hour flights between HK and the UK way more bearable.
I was pretty against this way of thinking a decade ago, now I cannot deny this might be the solution for most problems on predatory capitalism.
One of the few times I wish we had dms here. :) I do not have many groups to offer, but for educational resources, here you go... Dig around on GitHub for Awesome Lists. There is so much out there:

- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#learn

- https://github.com/mike-north/awesome-learn-to-code

- https://github.com/lauragift21/awesome-learning-resources

- https://github.com/afontcu/awesome-learning

- https://github.com/yrgo/awesome-educational-games

- https://github.com/notpresident35/awesome-learn-gamedev

- https://github.com/RahulBirCodes/awesome-steam

- https://github.com/Ghassen-Chaabouni/machine_learning_games

- https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners

- https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners

Also check out this list Pitt puts out every year:
- https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/Summer2024-Internships

and make sure to ping www.skypeascientist.com for speakers.

More, maybe useful:

- https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

- https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

- https://github.com/DopplerHQ/awesome-interview-questions

- https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets

- https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning

- https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

- https://github.com/Roobyx/awesome-game-design

- https://github.com/dh-tech/awesome-digital-humanities

- https://github.com/bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker

- https://github.com/academic/awesome-datascience

- https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

- https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R

- https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math

- https://github.com/newTendermint/awesome-bigdata

- https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software

- https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learnin...

- https://devhints.io/

I'll make another comment if I find anymore in my bookmarks. I'm also an educator.
So weird that of all the choices they decide to use something used as an escape character.
I think you just created that situation. I am about to reproduce this just using prompts.
Great comment. I agree. Dream journal can be pretty wild, after a couple of days I can remember like 5 dreams every night, until I have to stop because It's a lot and it's very intense. Pretty awesome.

I would also add hypnosis, self-hypnosis (or also known as non-deceptive mega-placebo). Can be awesome.
About Arrival, another one of the soulless, empty outings by Villeneuve, it has 7.9 on IMDb and 94% on rotten tomatoes. Obviously, nobody really cares about the details (unfortunately).

If anyone is interested in the ridiculous amount of potential that Villeneuve threw away by becoming Hollywood’s generic sci-fi director, watch Incendies.
Your feedback laments technology making people anonymous but at the same time seems to forget there's a real person receiving it.
Is Angular still seeing any serious usage in 2023? I thought that React was pretty well the lingua franca by now.
It is kind of amazing how random conversations give you a window into how other people think.
I remember talking to a radiologist who in the middle of a conversation dropped this nugget - if we knew when people in chronic health problems were going to die and end treatment six months before that and simply try to make their last days as comfortable as possible, we would save a lot of money on healthcare in the US.
His work is so important.
Are You Sonder?
The Room is an extreme example because it’s mostly remembered for being so bad that it’s funny, but sure: it has had a thousand times more influence than the hundreds of competent but procedural thrillers that came out at the same time. It will still be watched in fifty years.

I don’t like that list at all and think it’s basically a list of how “traditional” the Lynch film is. I’d put Mulholland Drive first personally.
C++ was supported by Apple even before Swift. Objective-C had full access to C++ via a objective-C++ compiler mode.
Uh, what?

Did you just list two companies which had some of the most comprehensive layoffs this year and a third Chinese private firm for clearance-based US engineers (generally stereotyped as uptight and/or establishment types) to move to?