skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you grow up poor and aren’t willing to pledge fealty to the right causes, these places don’t want you. If you grew up poor, remake your fortunes, and then speak truthfully about the factors that fuel success (hard work, determination, sacrifice) rather than the factors elites speak about (luck, systemic forces, privilege), then these places don’t want you.

To pretend that luck, systemic forces, and privileges has nothing to do with your success (or weighing against your success) is frankly incorrect.

To be sure, they aren't totally determinate. No single factor is going to make you a success or a 'failure'. As a youtuber put it and I paraphrased, "all you can do is play the best god damn game you can". If you win, you win. If you lose, at the very least you tried your best.
>A modern economy works by running a printing press a little faster than a furnace,

I think you are confusing Modern Monetary Theory with modern economics. What you are describing is MMT, not what actually happens (the government collects taxes then spends that money + prints more money)
If you think we've hit peak you're grossly underestimating the sheer volume of copyrighted books, manuscripts, screenplays, podcasts, movies, documents, history, and research papers that ChatGPT hasn't been trained on. There's a LOT more juice to squeeze still.
I really do not agree with this comparison.

Yes, it is true, that on Linux there are many, many things which are best done through command line fiddling.

But installing a system update, that update borking things, belching up a totally cryptic error message, and then forcing you to clean up the mess through the command line, is nothing something I've experienced on Linux so far. For me, apt updates have always been super reliable - and error messages have mostly been quite specific and easy to google.

So, this specific case seems nothing like Linux to me.
> Military expenditure is more about being ready "just in case"

A rule of thumb I've found to be useful is that if you make a weapon you'll find a use for it. Being ready "just in case" is some of the most homicidal thought patterns in history.

A great counter-example is nukes, but I suspect it's just a matter of time until one either accidentally fires or our insane assumption that states are rational actors collapses.
PCW Plus "Langford" Columns, 1987
"If we lived in the world of cyberpunk, we'd just plug into the system, scan the manual and think the information into the computer. Come on, Amstrad, there's a whole new market waiting here."
Dating myself, but I used an OS/2 build that would occasionally report “This Error Message has been deleted”
I think utility (of what, why?) doesn't make sense in this context.
> One beaver forced its way out of the top of the box while parachuting; the beaver then fell to its death and became the only casualty of the operation.

76 beavers with only one casualty.

Seems like the drop was a big improvement over the previous relocation strategies. I don't see much reasoning for why it wasn't done again. Budget? Improvements in overland technology? Dwindling demand for beaver relocation?
I also got this error... if I understand this correctly, they want a recovery partition of 250 MB... but I already have a recovery partition of 500 MB (acc to disk management, and lists it as 100% free)... so why am i getting this error?

should I increase it by a further 250 MB (for a total of 750 MB), or are they just plain crazy?
Technically (and by that, I mean if you get into multivariate, intertemporal, multi-product auction theory, so very technical), “customers,” i.e., users seeing irrelevant ads, means they don’t get to see relevant ones, don’t click. Those customers would waste their bandwidth and scrolling time, but they rarely pay per Mb and scroll fast. They might fat-finger an ad (that happens surprisingly often when you start looking into it) and waste both their time closing windows and tabbing back to where they were.

Most Meta’s “customers,” the advertisers, see a higher number of ads shown per client acquired. That doesn’t really change their decision to advertise, and their budget as long as the cost per client (click to the site or converted client, depending) is the same.

Therefore, I’d argue users aren’t that impacted (unless you count not seeing a relevant ad as a bad thing, which I would, but that’s controversial); advertisers have less impact than they could, but it’s not that it costs them, as much they don’t pay for something they didn’t get. Meta is the one loosing 4% of their potential revenues.

But admittedly, it’s a wider, complex, integrated system. I’d rather not feel like an increasingly large chunk of it is gambling, tax evasion, and human trafficking.
The output turns blue and nothing happens? Update Terminal and then winget will work.
It’s selling snake oil from the beginning. Prototypical snake oil salesmen like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob have made careers out of it, and have fostered a generation of people doing it at the company level.
When submarines were new, people were afraid to get in, and rightly so!

I enjoyed Kaj Leers “A History of Submarines” (1) podcast. Like a series of history lectures, each episode builds on the last.

I also recommend one of Kaj's sources, “The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its Possibilities” (2). American inventor Simon Lake gives a first-hand account of early submarine development in America. The book's full of illustrations and stories of close calls.

1: https://open.spotify.com/show/27TmgN8qtNdLsP1ns9xrfr or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-history-of-submarine...

2: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46382

P.S. Subnautica is what sparked my interest in submarines and remains the most immersive underwater survival-exploration game I’ve played.
Yeah it would be nice if the LLM knew what you're currently reading - tricky to do with a web app though!
It is at the moment.

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Bladder tumours reduced by 90% using nanorobots
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The owner tied to stop another bridge being built. "First proposed in the early 2000s, the project was met with prominent opposition by Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun, who believed competition from a publicly owned bridge would reduce his revenue.". Private owner wants to maximize their income even if it means worse service for the public.
I agree with many of your points, but the comical levels of unadulterated doomerism make it hard to take very seriously. The world isn’t over because a company decided some unnecessary backend employees didn’t need to work there anymore.

Standards of living have never been higher, worldwide poverty has never been lower, all hand-delivered to each of us via capitalism.
Agreed, you will do well with either QT or Swing. Or just a web application. However let's say you want to develop a vfs using Dokany, then a windows image is very useful.
I think that the harder the chance that you could "survive", the harder the survival bias you'll be subject to.
Can someone expand on the significance of this?
Implementing true agile and keeping it clean of hiearchical management is so hard that it might not be the right choice for most companies...

If something is to hard to implement, maybe it is the problem.
Bird–Meertens Formalism
How much of the world is it possible to model?
Thinking too much about keywords. Let go of keywords.

Understand you will die one day. Not as a concept. But as the truth.

Keywords doesn't matter. Resume doesn't matter.

Do what you really want to do.

Don't think too much about future.

You are not in control of it.

Don't analyse too much. It's a scam by your egoic mind.

Just do what do you want to do.

Where will you choose to go if you don't survive 1 more year? Go there.
I think the point is that the Linux command line is more functional and easier to navigate than the Windows command prompt
Just in case: putting your value proposition on top of your resume, in very concise terms, helps. At least it worked for my resume [1], which employers and recruiters praise from time to time.

[1]: https://dmitry.cheryasov.info/resume/
You have to wait for all the back-end updates to finish. Install all the Windows Updates, then open Microsoft Store and go to the Library and wait for it to update even more shit, then you finally will have Terminal and WinGet.

Yeah, I found that one out the annoying way too.
But thats the problem with anykind of private ownership. Why is it an issue here if not in healthcare or other sectors?
I've experienced multiple MSFT compliance audits at small business Customers in the 2004-2020 timeframe. MSFT only ever cared about reconciling what was in use with what was paid-for. I've been asked for photos of OEM key stickers attached to hardware but never asked to retrieve keys from installed software.

I assume keys are another facet of keeping specific details around licenses vague enough that there's always room for MSFT to argue or bargain.
Inference usually runs on much more quantized models, which don’t use bfloat16.
Lago (YC S21), open-source Stripe alternative, is hiring a founding marketer
Only if it isn't offset by raw economic growth.
"When there's a shell, there's a way".
> need a filesystem snapshotting mechanism to reliably back them up (so you don't have one state in the database and another in the wal)

VACUUM INTO?
It was fought tooth and nail by Moroun every step of the way, which is one of the reasons the Canadian federal government is paying for the whole bridge including the changes to I-75. Moroun got several US funding bills killed and nearly succeeded in preventing the Canadian government from picking up the tab.

I've never seen a stronger case for ensuring public ownership of key infrastructure in all cases, otherwise you can end up in a situation where two giant economies are held hostage by one person. It's also a cautionary tale on the dangers of special interests and lobbying being able to stifle action so clearly in the public interest.
I develop a cross-platform application, via Electron.

If you think "cross-platform" means "everything will work so consistently that you never even need to test on the most popular desktop platform" then I'm afraid I have some very bad news for you.

I use these VMs all the time - they're a pain if you need a serious development environment, but they're great for quickly testing Windows issues & reproducing customer environments.
Given 100% of my exposure to this person is from reading this blog post just now, I'm not sure I'd invite him to my bookshop either. Luckily this is immaterial, because I don't have a bookshop.
I really don't want this to come across as snarky, and things are very tough out there right now, but if you think the OP's CV is fine and yours is similar to his then that might explain some of your own difficulties.

It's no good being a "star" employee if you can't communicate that fact to other people.
Would you consider this "first world" if you don't even get electricity for a full day?
Can Microsoft just bring back a proper QA department instead of leaving it to unpaid "Insiders" who drink the Flavor-Aid and think Microsoft can't code a single thing wrong?
No way you are the author of Hapland, thank you I had lot of fun.

I don't have anything more to say than what has already been said in this thread, I would just recommend modernizing your CV by using Canva [1] , the site has lots of free themes and they are generally well done.

[1] - https://www.canva.com/
> For me, apt updates have always been super reliable - and error messages have mostly been quite specific and easy to google.

The ocean between. While you or me might appreciate a good error message and handy debugging options, the standard windows user experience is optimised to not confront users with errors at all. Either approach comes with its trade offs and is implemented with varying degrees of success.
It’ll be great for freelancers and terrible for employees.
Also: do we know if he tried to present at other, not so politicised or ideologically-driven bookstores? I'm sure there's some. Feels like he's somewhat cherry picking to market his own book with some good old controversy marketing.
I've had a similar experience with lm studio and draw things on my Macbook.
Voice chat is fairly easy, it's not actually a huge use of bandwidth (in principle it can be basically none and peer-to-peer but that has privacy implications and discord now routes it all through a proxy). The CDN is probably the largest cost, and they have made moves towards cracking down on using it as an image host. But they do have a good income from selling Nitro features, much as many people don't see any value in them. They aren't quite profitable yet, but they're far from burning cash either.
You would still have to memorize 60 different symbols. A base so large is unwieldy either way.
> The boom and bust cycle has been happening for a long time now.

Is part of the problem, that people making the decisions have asymmetric incentives - the gain from the boom is greater than the penalty from the bust?
Home Depot essentially runs a virtual logstics backend out of a surprisingly lean footprint.

Whereas Amazon has a huge warehouse / fulfillment footprint, Home Depot uses stores + a few (2?) online-specific fulfilment warehouses.

The benefit of that system has been really efficient storage costs. The limitation has been multi-item (especially rarer) pulling from multiple stores (because each only has a few pieces).

At a high level, Home Depot's logistics goal is zero warehoused inventory. Either something is (a) on a ship, (b) in transit to a store, or (c) in a store.
2021, timeless words tho.

I have been reflecting on the term "Idolatry" when i see things like this, of late.

We make Idols of our goals; and cease to think about the realities. "I'm being productive!" thrashing in the mud, because the goal became the service to the Idol instead of the original aim of draining the swamp.

Th Golden Calf or the image of the Prophet isn't the issue; it is how people use these things as crutches instead of thinking about their goals for themselves. the great Evil that people spend so much time preaching against is itself a symbol for individual human laziness
Aviation Designated Engineer Reps and Quality Control Inspectors [video]
This video was created by a retired: airline pilot, RF engineer, Edwards AFB chase pilot, Chairman of the ALPA National New Aircraft Evaluation and Certification Committee, and more.

His opinions are very well informed.
It is disappointing to be brigaded with low-effort bait, I must admit. Or do you just have a bunch of different alts?
This viewpoint existed (to a more extreme degree) in the 18th and 19th century too.

"If we give everyone the vote then...", "If workers have protections then...", "If women had equal rights then..." etc.

It's interesting how stubbornly this false and negative image of humanity has persisted even though every time we made progress the opposite was found to be true.

Yes, we are lazy, greedy and dumb. But we are also disciplined, helpful and smart to a much higher degree. Not because someone holds a whip, but because we just want to. We should maybe stop optimizing society to cater to the few people (or circumstances) where this isn't the case.
The update requires 250 MB of _free_ recovery partition space, not the total size of the partition.
With slmgr /rearm you can extend the license period. IIRC a couple of times but not unlimited, but I definitely got more than 2 months out of it.
Luck and connections matter a lot. Ivy League schools are so competitive for this reason, for those invaluable connections and opportunities they open.
is >99% of all food consumed daily privately owned and sold by a single company?
Thanks! Yeah the landing page might need some work

re: Native LLM: The fact that Amazon just upgraded the web browser shows that they at least have some engineers working on Kindles, so one can always hope
And the high skilled worker unemployed they’ll both downsize their house and have time to clean it themselves
I agree with you. The bridge didn’t exist and a private company saw a need, so they built it. Clearly the private company was right considering the volume of trade that moves over it.

Government planners have their own priorities, but it doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Waiting for central planners to make decisions as the ONLY way is always bad.
> capitalism is bringing international relations to pre WWI levels

And how exactly does it do that?

Offering Eastern European countries too much freedom and prosperity and thus making thugs like Putin envious and hungry for conquest? Hmm maybe you have a point.
> Scrum practitioners/coaches always seemed to have this idea that if Scrum wasnt working then you werent doing it properly.

And if people mean different things by the word scrum, it is rather hard to tell whether they are doing it properly :-)

Scrum is pretty difficult to do properly (the famous "easy to understand, but difficult to master" formula; although I would argue that it isn't that easy to understand either, at least not something that someone unfamiliar with it can understand in a day or two). It requires certain changes within the organization, which few organizations are willing to adopt.
Who is saying it's not an issue in other sectors?
I used these from Linux since they offer Virtual Box images. ;)

I think they should just offer an unlocked version of these for like $5 - 10 a month, as long as its in a VM it stays active.

I mean they are literally giving it away for free.
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> Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements?

Only https://moderntoss.com/periodic-table-of-swearing that I can think of, and I disagree with several ordering choices on that, and some of the options made up to fill gaps are not at all good.

The problem with a lot of things people try to mush into something that looks like the periodic table is that most datasets:

• Have too few items

• Have too many items

• Simply don't fit into a near table, needing more dimensions, or having two obvious dimensions that line up into a grid less well than the elements do.

Heck, even the elements don't really fit. It just happens that it works & looks OK if you break out a load from the bottom left to stop it being too wide. As someone else has already said: the periodic table is more a document of a model, that by chance happens to work well enough as a visualisation.
Things have definitely changed and I would expect to see something on CVs that come across my desk now.
True. But to be fair that's what they see, so there's no reason to believe otherwise. When scarcity is all you know then zero-sum is all you think. When the Top 5 double their worth, and the poorest lose - while that might be correlation - it certainly looks like cause (read: zero-sum).

Per another comment I left on this thread, we need to be aware of the language the rest of us use, as it does create worlds. And we keep creating a world that favors the systems, metrics and paradigms of The Few.
Or use "VACUUM INTO" to get a backup that is is even faster (and easier) to restore.
I worked at the hi fi shop in the late 70s. Aja was the best sounding demo record. The Cars record sound like trash. We had speakers with 5 plus drivers. Playing a Beatles record, McCartney’s voice was emanating from a single driver. It was not great imagining Paul inhabiting the speaker cabinet.
Only if you don't use a TPM PIN and/or have a <2.0 TPM.

Bitlocker using TPM with PIN has no way to know your hard drive key without asking the TPM, which requires the PIN (and has anti-hammering/lockout built in.)
> I think a lot of orgs move to cloud simply because it's popular

This can be rational and not just following the leader. In particular.. many devs might think that working with an org that does On-prem is bad for their career, and they might be right. So from an org POV you can't hire good engineers if you're perceived as a dinosaur. This actually might be enough to send you towards the cloud even if the price by itself makes no sense
You can't acquire more farmland by nuking the current owners - as it tends to be unusable as a result.
Some scooters are susceptible to death wobble, that's true.

The fact that you can push a bicycle without a rider and it will roll, while most small-wheeled kick-scooters will fall, is not caused by a higher center of mass, but by the geometry of the front wheel, mainly the steering angle, fork offset and trail. Without a rider, a) the center of mass isn't even that different and b) it doesn't really matter how they behave without one, because the rider is part of the system.
Discussion forums often turn into a black hole for information as well. IMO they aren't something to aspire for in terms of storing and organising information, whatever their advantages and disadvantages compared to a chatroom.
How would he procure a 4G/5G laptop, batteries, a generator, and gasoline if he doesn't have any, can't drive, and has no internet?
I found my way to the story after watching the film recently. I came across the film on Criterion knowing nothing about it.

For anyone who doesn't already know the story, I think it's best to go in blind, but if you don't mind spoilers (and I guess this one has definitely reached the statute of limitations):

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-swimmer-1968
It's both. If you don't exercise at all you will waste away - the older you are the worse this gets. But I know two people a little over 80. Both were very active people up to about 5 years ago when one got arthritic hip and knee issues for which there is no easy fix. They are nearly debilitated and this is affecting the rest of their health. The second person just keeps on going. The first person would definitely be the same if not for the issues.
Large Language Models for Social Networks: Applications, Challenges, Solutions
You do recognize that you are making fun of the sarcasm indicator, right?
Greed is just a proxy word for human nature. Humans are the reason.

Now you might read this and think "This isn't true, I'm not greedy". I'm guessing 99.99% of people reading this thread have more money and food than the average human on earth. Statistically if you reading this you are greedy relative to the average human.

This isn't an excuse to not try better.
Yeah, in OpenSUSE I'd just rollback a bad update like this. Automatic snapshotting before and after all package manager operations is very nice.
What I find most appalling is that even though all these positions are staffed, there is no limit to what they will ask developers to do. They want the developer to come up with all the ideas, write the stories, do the work, do the coordination, do the release plan, roll to prod, do all the documentation, and on and on and on.

This is an absolute nightmare for retention and recruiting. When I went to university to learn about computers and technology I always dreamed of writing user stories and doing other mostly pointless clerical work.
Depends on distro and usage, but once installed Linux does not need command line fiddling. There are GUIs for installing and updating the OS and applications and pretty much everything else an average user does.
Very very personal business here. Hardly an answer here will be able to asses every single aspect that matters to you. IMO, from a superficial point of view, if you are single, no kids and got yourself some sort of very disputed scholarship them I'd go for it, graduate and get a job in the EU, in your home country, whatever.

IMHO, after you graduate, you will have more experience (both technical and non-technical) and be able to find better jobs. And there will always be startups looking for good engineers....