skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's my feeling. I see plenty of positions and still get maybe 5 calls a week for work. But it really does feel like most aren't even looking at my resume, nor do recruiters get much farther through a hiring manager.

Of course I could simply be unlucky and swamped by other more attractive candidates. Apparently seniors are swamping Junior roles, so maybe I'm just competing with a bunch of staff/principals now in mid/senior roles.
Wow, I did not know that. It is just an instance that seems to work better than all the others I tried.

There was a submission about KF a while ago and it summoned an army of impromptu commenters that literally took over the thread, suppressing any negative commentary. Interesting PR strategy.

TBH, I do not use Twitter much at all. It's only when I'm checking something someone submitted to HN. Would be nice if people stopped submitting "tweets". There is rarely anything worth reading in them. Often it's just someone sharing a URL. Why not submit the URL instead.
Stating the conserved quantity (baryon number = 1) makes it correct in a precise, meaningful way, even if it's not the whole story. Most people don't have the background to understand the subtleties of interacting quantum field theory.
What is the Piedmont Atlantic region? There’s no way there’s 26 million people in those cities. The combined population of GA, NC, and SC is less than 27 million people, which includes all of the costal regions and farm areas. Are you including Savannah and Charleston ?
I'm a bit perplexed about experiments like that. I get it why we did a lot of this in the early years of the Space Age to validate our assumptions about the hazards of outer space.

Then, there was some scientific curiosity about how certain life forms, such as complex plants or insects, might adopt to near-zero gravity. This was a bit harder to justify in practical terms, but interesting and hard to replicate by other means.

But what's the objective with this test? We can easily recreate similar conditions (pressure, temperature, illumination) here on Earth. So what have we learned to justify the cost? I'm not trolling, it's a sincere question.
Not a myth. I clearly remember watching a YouTube video where this was discovered, only a few years ago, but of course the uselessness of search engines these days has made it impossible to find now.
Yes, it was. Not the original series though. It's in Foundation and Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_and_Earth#Part_V:_M...
I'm a lawyer that works in tech. Anybody got questions for me?

I fine these primers almost always focus too much on technicalities and don't make the takeaways sufficiently obvious.
Bizarre to see this pop up on HN. I live in downtown Milwaukee, about 5 blocks from the apartment where the car bomb took place. Reading through the rest I know where all those places are, and went by some of them today.

The other interesting thing about this is I had no recollection of organized crime or any of these names having grown up around the city and now living downtown. Is it my fault for not ever wanting to know about the history of the city I grew up in? Or has society changed what it considers interested to where people don't really care about recent local pasts?

These sort of stories are really the thing I hope gets emphasized in the future of local news. Longer stories about people, both from the past but also in the current. Automation with AI generated news can't help become a thing, and hopefully this means more emphasis is put on reporters doing fuller stories, news stories, not news facts.

This is a story not only about the crime scene in Milwaukee ~50 years ago, but also the story of how the author learned about it and how it affects her. In fact, it's less of a story about a crime, and more of a story about what someone had to do in this age to try to understand more about what happened before.
I'm just some rando so you're asking the wrong person.
intermittent reinforcement is focused on providing motivation when the person needs it - based on some intrinsic understanding of the effort's stressors - instead of rewarding the effort itself.

poorer background kids tend get rewards at random intervals not intermittent intervals.

this is - as a contrasting example - what pushes them to "hustle" culture instead which does reward effort and in addition has intermittent reinforcement with bigger rewards from people who are entrenched in the culture and see a performer who needs motivation.
I saw this as well. Shall we call it “entanglement “?
Can someone ELI5 the significance of this for non space scifi geeks ?
I would like to believe we were put here by a super advanced species so they could observe what we do for their entertainment and research purposes.

Why else would people for example keep ant colonies in their home or grow kits?

Hopefully we are not alone and they come back soon. I have many questions.
bad design... almost as bad as most software.
This seems to be very similar to the Cloudflare tunnels. They are reverse proxies in the cloud, with TLS termination. The traffic is terminated and scanned in the cloud.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/app-proxy/a...

A version with end to end encryption will be great!
I get skipping days is against the algorithm, but wouldn’t it be better to simply freeze the algorithm for a few days opposed to get a backlog at all? A backlog would break the habit for me making me unlikely to return.
Will also.

I use Logseq and Obsidian to take notes, but I've kept putting off the end-of-day reflecting session.

Looks like this may make me keep myself accountable.
The DMA (the legislation that Apple is being forced to comply with in the EU) is specifically intended to stop this kind of gatekeeping behavior by big tech companies. Apple is not the only company coming under fire: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and others are also being targeted.
What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?
How do past lessons about automation cleanly apply to AI code generation?

Cleanly enough that there's no room for debate, doubt or discussion?

(Edit. Not the same person. I keep making this mistake in discussion threads)

Previously I wrote:

> It's your tone of "this is obvious, people! Why are you still wasting time thinking about it?" that I'm taking exception to.
Google did a great deal of research on the question using real-world telemetry before trying it in Chrome and proposing it as a standard to the IETF’s working group. And others including Microsoft and Facebook gave feedback; it wasn’t iterated on in a vacuum. The history is open and well documented and there are metrics that support it. See e.g. https://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper/
> Disabling `strictNullChecks`

Are people this eager to be PIP'd?
Disney 'Cracks Down' on Mickey Mouse 'Steamboat Silly' Pirates
Some fungi require dead organic matter for survival - necrotrophs. Many dont (e.g. yeast)
I don't think it's mostly good or mostly bad in the abstract.

DRYing code repeated for the same reason is mostly good.

DRYing code coincidentally repeated for different reasons will sow code churn or inadvertent behavior shifts.
But there are still people playing chess professionally because playing well is not enough. (You have to entertain an audience, which is only possible by "just playing well" if you're human)
Tackling lithium-ion battery fires 'next big thing' for Australian recyclers
> Anticipating potential free speech defenses, the lawsuit argues that the special "has no comedic or creative value absent its self-proclaimed connection with George Carlin” and that it doesn't “satirize him as a performer or offer an independent critique of society.”

How is commenting on current events not "an independent critique of society"?
web.archive.org is extremely useful for digging back into history.
FSRS seems to reduce the amount of reviews required, might be worth enabling it and seeing if it helps.
Because diseases are complicated and your body’s response involves a number of factors. We know that there is a large group of people who had no known health conditions prior to some number of COVID cases, at which point they did have a chronic condition, and tests have failed to link it to other known diseases. This again is similar to other things - for example, arthritis has some components like age or genetic predisposition but also risk slog goes up with things like obesity, smoking, exposure to certain chemicals, or bacterial / viral infections in and so there isn’t a simple cause or effect relationship because for any given trait you can find people who have it but did not develop the condition or vice versa. What researchers have done is find correlations in large groups to identify how the many factors increase your odds of developing the disease - even if most people don’t develop it, we have a large enough population that many people will.

Long COVID is similar in that they have identified risk factors like age or not being vaccinated and have some theories for the underlying mechanism and biomarkers which hopefully will make it easier for clinicians to identify patients or warn people with high risk factors.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/lighting-up-long-covid
“Best” as most addictive. Intermittent reward might meant that the world and their cues are not reliable.

Children are slightly more intelligent than doves, so expecting us to behave like winged rats is both reductionist and insulting
Some fungi can survive the conditions of space, which is pretty incredible. I think that’s basically it.
Planescape is a good omni-setting for telling whatever type of story in whatever type of genre you want. Other systems benefit from being more focused. Glorantha is better if you want a Bronze Age sword and sandals setting, IMO, but if you want to do funky multiverse stuff it has basically nothing for you.

Anyway, I think the reason literary organizations don’t award settings is because they are generally interested in stores, and settings are just a component of that. I’m sure you could find some industry awards for setting development, and I bet Planescape stuff does well there. They are just not as interesting to outsiders.

Also I want to push back on your “the topic at hand.” I was talking about the stories themselves. You’ve changed the topic to settings. I’m not sure I want to come along on a tangent where we talk about setting in-and-of-themselves. The article was about why game writing is often bad. I think it is not settings, games often have great settings, but poor stories.
You used a tropey put-down. You couldn't even find an original way to dunk on the project. I have a lot of empathy to allocate this scenario, but it's unclear why any of it should go to you.

I don't mean to keep a flagged, unproductive subthread going, but since you're listening to me: stop writing that way on HN. Stop dunking on people's open source projects. Be careful with how you write criticism. The preceding commenter was absolutely right to call out the snark in that comment. If you don't call that stuff out, it spreads like kudzu, and pretty soon we're all just writing Youtube comments. They did you a favor, and you should thank them for it.
And lets not forget Facebook’s compliance in the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya from Myanmar.
So as a group I shouldn't take such authors as anything except entertainers?
yes. there are dozens of us.
I don't think the difference between the total amount paid by each music streaming service and the amount paid per stream by the various music services is too complex a topic for a musician's union to understand.

The statements released to artists with their royalty amount includes the number of streams played of each of their works on the service.
Cell networks are dependent on local electricity,
anything major happens they get overloaded or
shutdown, and much of society stops
functioning without cell towers.
Refinement types and liquid types (which are a subclass of refinement types).
Almost. Barely. Minus the tech background. But yes some of the scenes were spot with recent development at OpenAI. Too bad we did not get a happy ending. The only people benefiting from OpenAI are the top tier investors. They should have not allowed him to go back. Regardless of the threats.
I don't think ants want their kid 'owner' to come back soon to see how they struggle when it floods the nest. For science.
The fungi of Yuggoth!
> - Turn the piles face down and shuffle the piles so that the piles stay together but you no longer know which pile is which suit

This is the specific part I'm actually concerned with. It is difficult to shuffle piles without accidentally exposing information. Cards can slide and there's so few "bins" that your brain can easily track, even by accident. The rest is easy and standard.
> I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though.

Because by the time the term was coined, Microsoft was a slow-turning behemoth that had shed a lot of talent to help create the internal engineering cultures at the non-Apple others.

Apple doesn't really belong in FAANG either, but at one point including Apple made it seem cooler.
It's a treasure trove of data to know the bathroom utilization rate normalized for passenger volume and time spent per session. Maybe train bathrooms are highly unoptimized. Do trains which frequent downtown areas with bars and sports stadiums need more bathrooms? Maybe there is some kind of flex use option for low passenger count trains to make use of that space but also provide a buffer for commute hours? Does the speed/acceleration/jerk of the train impact bathroom habits? Could this be used as an early warning system for possible food poisoning outbreaks? How can all of this be factored into ads we can serve the bathroom user?
Also, tax breaks...

Notice how many jobs in Texas are on-site only? Texas is aggressively enforcing the tax deals they had with companies to have XX% of their workforce on site, spending money locally to keep the tax benefit.
BeReal, which now has 23M DAUs, is onboarding brands and celebs
That's a fair point; a detector that reliably detects impeding once-in-a-century strong earthquakes as well as every wolf or bear wandering too close to some herd of goats is probably not that useful.
What makes the Lewis story worse is that he was asked to vet SBF as part of investor due diligence
And Google is Alphabet . . . MAMAA!
We often think about life arising in one location and then spreading across the galaxy or universe. Quite interesting to consider instead life arising everywhere and then being reduced to only a few (maybe one) remaining pockets across the entire universe, or not at all.

Of course that likely doesn’t apply to life as we know it, assuming our estimates of the age of the sun and the universe are correct.
Georgia is literally on the Atlantic Coast. Sherman marched to the sea, remember?
Why I'm excited for Biome's type inference
Is there anything preventing a public Nitter instance operator from just creating a few hundred normal user accounts? Phone verification?
Tell HN: "Taylor Swift AI" has a lot more relevant results on Yandex vs. Google
That's called a poker machine.
A NC PFAS factory claims emissions fell 99.99%. Guardian tests reveal otherwise
Having low seniority in a company makes you more likely to be laid off if layoffs happen.

Source: I switched jobs at the end of 2019, got a 30% pay bump, then got laid off 3 months later.
How many cars does one smoke in a year though?
Asking Rents Post Biggest Decline in over 3 Years
Contemporary with the PDP-11 is the IBM Series/1 which runs the nuclear forces of the USA. The 8" floppies were retired in 2019 though. Progress? I guess.

Much older than that are the IRS Master files: the US tax system runs on IBM 7074 assembler although I think the actual 7074 hardware is long gone.
I think he’s making a point about mechanization inevitably causing both accelerated progress and also, in some ways, reduced quality. There’s a challenge to grapple with there for traditional craftsmanship.
If you are really overwhelmed by the answers, then you could stick to just one or two of them. I agree that having too many can be overwhelming. The SRS algorithm should still work. I don't recommend to use "well", as you won't see the cards again for a very long time.
Wine can use Windows' DLL's just fine.
It did indeed start a year ago. Main reason it's ramping up so rapidly in the last 6 months is that games were released (in what many would consider an amazing years for games in 2023) and layoffs tend to happen a bit after shipping (to get launch bugs). But with the current economy the layoffs are more severe.

Another less talked about point is GaaS. Many, many studios were trying to ramp up games with continuous revenue streams, and that needs a big investment and risk. It's not ubcommon to launch 10 GaaS expecting 7 to fail and 1 to easily pay for the other 9's developments. That's a great strategy with free money. Awful when you need to weather a storm. And now we're on that storm. Even studios with successful GaaS have to reel back, so most games in development are SoL.

So, not surprising but the volume this year is immense.
No. 1. Don’t play with people. 2. Be honest and fair. 3. Hire people who follow those points.

I’m a fan of Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards
What does "historical lands" mean? What's the cut off point on being able to claim the land your ancestors lived on?
There is necessarily no cross-links between all of them, but there is a link. If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.
When I was studying CS, I had to take some courses outside of CS and I took law. It was pretty fascinating and I even thought once or twice of switching.

I now have the very nerdy perspective that law is the operating system our socially run on. Laws are small snippets of code similar to a predicate in Prolog. We apply them once the conditions are fulfilled.
Upper atmosphere winds are well within the Earth's gravity well.

Relative to the center of the Earth (average gravity)
, the atmosphere ends approximately at sea level.

Small particles aren't escaping based on their own velocity from random collisions. Maybe from interplanetary scraft like Voyager.
I could see a future where people switch to other white collar jobs like accounting, law, and engineering. Software skills will come in handy here.
I’m starting to agree that the fbi and cia need to be dismantled and something new with new leaders and workers need to replace it.
Prescription drugs are dispensed by a pharmacist for a reason. In the US, they are legally required to report any unusually large, frequent or suspicious orders to the government. Many pharmacies were found to have neglected that responsibility so they could sell more drugs.
I don’t remember well. I guess I Worried and stopped reading logs.

Aah. I diverted my domain to cloudflare, allowing only traffic from 1 country in.

So instead of exposing my IP publicity through my registrar, I set the firewall to only allow traffic in from cloudflare.

I would have loved to install PfSense as well but it was out of my budget
I can't remember Windows 3.11 crashing so much, dos 6.22 neither. Windows 9x and ME did crash more.
Anyone know what happened to the Win98 presentation guy and where he works now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUyxjLhAxU
I noticed that when want to boredom/stress-eat, that if I do a small workout instead, the joy from having completed it makes the craving go away.
Duckdb-nsql: 7B parameter text-to-SQL model by MotherDuck and Numbers Station
Yes they do: https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2019-10-02/parents-of-boy-...
For sure — other than the Mac, Apple is no longer a general-purpose computer company. I'm content with that, but I'm glad there are choices for people who aren't.
I don't like the term "overhiring" in these discussions because it implies that these studios didn't estimate the costs of development and see layoffs as a mark of failure.

Neither are true. They took a gamble with low risk and the low risk became normal risk. Layoffs often come with a small stock rise, so they aren't even shamed by shareholders for trimming down. It's devastating for employee morale but that's rarely a factor in these decisions.
Those who can't code better than an LLM will welcome it, those who can will abhor it. Unfortunately it seems there are far more of the former than the latter, and they aren't going to get better either.

Progress comes from human intellect, mediocrity comes from regurgitation.
I have a feeling the OG 4chan-ners were doing it for the "lulz", but when it became well-known as a "site where the users supports Trump", all the bleeding-heart Trump supporters (including the actually deplorable e.g. the white supremacists) actually started frequenting the site...

I wonder how most of the media's inability to see jokes as what they are contributed to their misreporting...
Well, amazing is relative. To underserved kids in poor school districts yeah his skills are probably amazing. And while an MIT Physics degree doesn't explicitly teach software engineering craftsmanship, his first employer Jane Street has high standards for that, and may have, depending on what he actually did there.

But compared to, say, Jeff Dean, his skills are garbage, tofu-dreg, and devoid of any real craftsmanshift or integrity. Pick your point on the continuum.

But I'd rather have high-skilled conmen like Sam, Michael Milken, etc. answering for their crimes and rehabilitating by helping others and being constructive, than wasting away in jail, and potentially teaching other criminals there, or becoming more criminal themselves.
Lots of interesting information in this and so far the model has worked well on my toy scenarios.
I often advise teammates to follow destructive rules by management to force management to overrule or cancel rules. The employee has cover for following the rules vs breaking rules set by management to meet goals set by management.
We should have never let the population levels grow havoc as the H&B process was introduced.

We reduced famines for a few centuries or less while the population in the most polluting countries exploded. Now, we risk famines and a possible slow death due to extreme drought due to the climate change created by the fossil
Fuel Industry, in the billions

The implementation of the H&BP was irresponsible and reckless.
65,535 $
I don't imagine Kaysuyama is that naive, he just had a product to sell.

That product is a differentiated market that makes nbbo latency arb more difficult.

Agreed the big anti-HFT/electronic market making bias is funny since we now have decentralized market makers competing for penny spreads. Versus the alleged "more fair" world we are supposed to yearn for is the pre-RegNMS days of 25cent spreads guaranteed to a guy on the NYSE floor.

Where do people think their cheap/free trading commissions come from (that and PFOF).

Also the idea that large holders of assets should be able to de-risk (or put on risk) without market impact by buying/selling huge lots at the bid/ask is interesting. It's the opposite of defending the little guy. NBBO was put into place to protect small investors more if anything as the first 100 share lot is protected. There is no constitutional right to buy a million dollars of some midcap stock at the ask.
IQ is a very different thing from literacy (or generally any skills one learns). I think IQ is not relevant to this discussion.

It's basically impossible to improve an adult's g-factor, for example. For children, things like nutrition and hygiene (e.g. no parasites) play a big role. But the kinds of things a human learns or tools they use doesn't significantly affect G-factor.
ICE is actually in Chicago.