skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just literally transcribing English to Japanese using katakana, to be fair.

Actual Japanese for text color would be "文書の色" (bunsho no iro) and font size would be "文字の大きさ" (moji no ookisa), and variants thereof.

So a Japanese dev who doesn't speak English would think: "文字の大きさを設定するために「text-color」と入力する。" and it would, again, make logical sense from both human and computer perspectives.
How many dads out there have said to their sons: "huuuuuuhhhh Eye am your Father! huuuuuuuuuuhhh" ?
Response to Steve Ranger's article [0]

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/cyber-education/
This is not econometrics though. Actual econometrics is upfront that you have missing data, performs partial identification rather than pretending that you have point identification, and gives you upper and lower bounds on what the true parameter value might be.

Only if you did that with this paper, you’d have bounds so wide that no useful conclusion could be drawn, as indicated by the author’s statement that without imputation such data is useless.
"Sweden's freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings"
Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.
I could imagine that licensees for music in games ask for so wide a range of use cases and possible future distribution channels to be included in the licence, that licensors are genuinely scared that a forever grant would be almost like completely handing over the copyright. Licensees will want distribution over every future steam competitor, at any price point, in any form of package deal, remaster version, mod remix. Add gameplay videos and cloud gaming services, all far outside control of the original licencee, and the rights holder will find it almost indistinguishable from granting infinite transitive sub-licensing.
Humans are not special.
https://youtu.be/_3Sfxxx9m5U ("Youtube: Why Solar Is Cheaper in Australia Than America")
Its the new "normal". Just have to wait for hiring to pick up again.
Downvoted because it isn't actually faster.
Noticed that distinct bias towards gardens and parks too, and after looking at my city, very quickly came to the conclusion that this was certifiably full of shit, i.e.

- a park with heavy foot/vehicle traffic that's half a mile from the intersection of two major interstates;

- an arboretum that's immediately adjacent to a major interstate beltway exit; and

- a beach surrounded by commercial development locally known for its active nightlife scene.

Perhaps just as ironic is a state park in an area known for its retired affluence---where the only major road is a 2-laner that's sparsely traveled---with a higher "quiet score" than 2 of these locations.
As someone who has worked in this space, I would intuitively go with the decoupled tools every time. The toughest thing is matching a monolith of opinions with your requirements. Individual tools leave design space in their integration and thus allow proper engineering. That they allow it, does not mean it happens. If you go with a shopping bag architecture then you might be better off results wise with an integrated solution, but still, when the real engineers come along they’ll have an uphill battle to uproot an integrated solution vs redesigning the combination of individually good tools.
I don’t know about existential. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Hungary all lost their empires without ceasing to exist.
Sure but they’re the official completely free filing option where it’s always free even if you don’t qualify for the free tax product that all the other tax services have. It’s not some random fly by night website.
I help teach woodworking and there is a lot of truth in this. There are very few mistakes in wood that cannot be fixed.
Did they? The typical person in the US lives within commuting distance from their mother: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...
I do 'model engineering' which is mostly metalwork, and it's about the same.

You end up with something tangible but it really hurts when you make a mistake many hours into a part and have to scrap it and start again. Especially if it's not plain old steel, so just cost a lot. You do learn to save a part from some types of mistakes but it's not always possible.

I think it's great that software lets you build castles in the air and mistakes generally only cost time, and fixes or improvements can be incremental but it does get old when many projects are scrapped before being used so you feel like you're just wasting time.

I find the 'no undo' and a perfectionistic streak add immeasureably to the stress of my 'hobby' but now I have finally finished my steam loco after 10 years I do like looking at it and driving it.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of those are ghost job descriptions, ones made to gather stats on the job market, add applicants to the pool and use as a reason to pull in foreign, cheaper talent
If you wouldn’t mind: in your experience how often does the problem seem to stem from “we might need that later…” or “we don’t have a concrete set of questions we want to answer?”

I have considerably less experience but so far I have experienced a complicated data science stack being used as a way to handle a ton of data without clear questions and desires on how to act on possible answers. As if they’re searching a haystack for… something?
The asymmetry between mobile and cell tower is important. The tower has lots of good antennas and more power.

I'm interested in LTE Direct but no one has implemented that in a phone. LTE Direct has range of 1mi which is the range of most low-power systems.

Ham radio gets longer range with higher power and better antennas. But only to the horizon with most people. Ham radio still depends on repeaters on high points.
True Love. Is There a Hack for That?
https://archive.is/8FnRP
I'm kind of an old guy but I remember having interviews, just shooting the shit with the hiring manager and maybe a team lead present. Whole thing would last about 30 minutes and end with a handshake and an offer in 24-48 hours or a call to let me know I wasn't chosen. Between 1999 and 2019 I worked for 5 different companies and the interview process was basically the same. These were not small companies either. If someone told me today I'd have 6 interviews with homework, I'd tell them to fuck off. Thank goodness I retired......
Only parts of the financial district are that way. In my experience the rest of the neighborhoods in Boston proper are annoyingly loud compared to other cities I've lived in (except NY, of course).

I had an office on Newbury street that was an absolute nightmare to work in from about 6pm every night due to shoppers and restaurant patrons, and an office in DTX where I always wished the windows were way thicker due to the constant noise from crowds, buskers, etc. A few blocks away from that office, in Chinatown, I basically lived in an office where it was just constant noise from all the chinatown gate crowd even at 1 in the morning.

And most of the last 20 years I've spent living in Mission Hill, Back Bay, Fort Point, South End, South Boston. All of them were lot louder than, say, Midtown Atlanta. South Boston in particular has both constant airport noise and a weird obsession with rooftop parties and fireworks, much to the detriment of my young kids' sleep.
I graduated college in 2007/2008.

Things were worse back then. Nowadays, you could apply to 30 jobs in a day. Back then, there weren't even 30 jobs, maybe like 2 new ones every month.

I am going to sounds like a grumpy old timer, but I don't care...

I see far too many young people on social media complaining about how hard it is to find a job now, but at least you can post a tik Tok about it and potentially go viral and maybe even score a brand deal [1]. I remember applying to Target and Starbucks, and then never hearing back, so I have been there, done that. I did not get a job with health insurance until I was 25, which was also when I was finally able to move out of my parents' house.

This happens every 8-10 years. Nothing really new, expect this time was not as bad as 2007/2008. Back then, almost all companies had mass layoffs all at once. Today, they come in coordinated waves.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gen-z-tiktoker-goes-viral-21...
There is no "the" data stack.

Some organizations have complicated orchestration requirements, some don't. Some organizations have large amounts of heterogeneous data, some don't. Some organizations need to run large distributed machine learning tasks, some don't.

If you adopt tools that don't actually solve real problems that your team/org faces, then of course you'll end up with a bunch of extraneous fluff.

Your comment has the same flavor as the frequent HN meme of "I just use Vi and Tmux and a BSD server for my business and anything else is a sign of organizational failure and individual weakness".

All of these tools exist for a reason. Where you get into trouble is losing focus on solving your real practical problems.
Is that just efficiency (per byte, etc) or would the network actually work better (faster real downloads for larger files vs smaller)? I’m imagining there’s some tradeoff at some point.
Isn't this the same as a notebook in the glovebox?
TIL that elements with ids are exposed as global variables in JS.
Social isolation takes a toll on a rising number of South Korea's young adults
Sure, but fractional people don't exist, so the wife and I have hit the replacement rate to the nearest whole person, i.e. 2.

But you are quite correct, and my usage was loosey-goosey in this context.
I wish Go had a retry block
A “naive generalization”? Use words because they are the right words, not because they make you sound smart. “Vehemently” disagree with something important. I am not worth a word that strong!

I’ve lived around cars every one of my 42 years. They are loud. It’s not a generalization or naive. Side streets are quiet, main roads are loud. I’ve also walked dozens of cities in, again, 42 years. It consistently holds up.
Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
I think that it shouldn't even be an option. Unless carriers fix the SIM swapping problem, SMS 2FA is laughably insufficient, and any time you have insufficient security, the answer is not "make it optional". The answer is "fix it".
To your last point, have you tried plotnine? It's meant to be ggplot2 for python.

https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine
Go to most Spring Boot pages or examples, XML is in your face. "legacy"? Modern examples still push the xml injection bs.
Speaking of AWK and Henry Spencer, let me quote from the awf readme:

This is awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter -- a "nroff -man" or
(subset) "nroff -ms" clone written entirely in (old) awk.

It is slow and has many restrictions, but does a decent job on most
manual pages and simple -ms documents, and isn't subject to AT&T's
brain-damaged licensing that denies many System V users any text
formatter at all. It is also a text formatter that is simple enough
to be tinkered with, for people who want to experiment.

Type "make r" to run a regression test, formatting the manual page
(awf.1) and comparing it to a preformatted copy (awf.1.out). Type
"make install" to install it. Pathnames may need changing.

I don't know whether awf will run on 16-bit machines. Data requirements
are modest, but I fear the programs are probably big enough to run awk
out of space.

I can't believe I really wrote this.

Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology

henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry

13 July 1990

---

(n.b. the first release of groff was June 1990)
I don't doubt that for a moment, but I think I once heard an interview with Lucas where he explained that, by the time they got to the third movie, Chewbacca had 'become' more intelligent, and that he specifically wanted the empire to be defeated by a 'primitive' people.
The iPhone was Apple's peak. The car will be their undoing.

Can you imagine getting trying to get an Apple car repaired? They'll likely force you to buy your tires from them. Wheels on the Mac Pro cost hundreds, wheels for your Apple car will start at 2k each and will be serial locked to one vehicle.
I cannot put my finger on it, but duolingo does not feel as good to me as a user as it felt a few years back. Maybe I have changed, but something does not click the same way.
At first glance - how is this different from VTune?
> On a side note "import GOTO" works in python :)

Never heard of this, and it doesn't work on my interpreter (tested with both 2.7 and 3.11). Are you sure it's not a third party package?
Worked on an old ipad.
Divergence vs. Decision P-Values: A Distinction Worth Making
What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department
As someone who has sometimes hired people from FAANG into startups I've worked in, I'd say it's 50/50 if the person will actually be a net positive to the organization. A lot of times the people coming from FAANG seem to be under the impression that what their previous company was doing is 100% the best, in all cases, and they try to cargo-cult their previous culture into the new company.

Sometimes they're able to adapt though and have a really positive impact overall. But the sour experiences really woke me up regarding seeing it as a mostly positive signal that someone worked at FAANG. So I wouldn't see FAANG as a guarantee about anything, no matter which company was their previous one.
Clearly the implanted microchips had a bug!
https://archive.ph/jVLm1
Nowadays many universities have adopted land theft acknowledgment statements, where they graciously acknowledge the displaced native peoples who will not be receiving any form of rent or other compensation from the university.
Algorithm that were solved over decades and centuries are asked during the 15-20 minute demonstration asks it to be memorized

The problem is the sheer dumbness of those who believe it is important in the interview process
>Minimizing bot activity: Farcaster requires that new users pay a $5 sign-up fee, aimed at preventing the creation of spam accounts, and limits users to a restricted number of “casts” tied to paid “storage units.”

https://decrypt.co/resources/farcaster-explained-the-blockch...
I liked that book too.

One problem I have with it, and with many similar books, is that it tells managers to move to a less directive way of steering people. This is very good for quite a lot of existing managers. But it's not very good advice for non-established leaders.

If, for example, you're not very assertive anyway, you might find that everybody has already taken the authority to do whatever they want. In that case you need to be a bit more assertive and directive.

This might be a less common failure mode for a ship's commander, who is already a very senior leader and has a strong formal authority. But if one day a manager tells a seniorish programmer "maybe lead the juniors a bit more", you're in a whole different position, and you need a very different strategy.

The "I intend to" advice is pretty good for non-managers too. In some companies you may find that no one is willing to stick their neck out too much. In that case communicating what you intend to do, and doing it unless stopped, gives you perfect cover. If it's actually a problem, people will say. If people are just scared to put their name on something, they won't stop you and you can improve things. You will also look like an A-player and a leader.
Please always disclose you are part of the team whenever you mention acreom. Just putting "building https://acreom.com" in your HN profile/about is not enough.
It indeed does not work. I was curious, and found this hilarious article "confirming" its existence: https://www.edureka.co/blog/goto-statement-in-python/ - it's complete nonsense and appears to have been written by ChatGPT.

The feature has been implemented a few times as a joke (more or less), e.g. https://github.com/snoack/python-goto/, but that one at least hasn't been updated for 5 years.
Do you think their leaders at the time were fine with this?
I just want to highlight: we really need to do both.

Police response to these types of calls is faulty. The Milwaukee police are definitely particularly deficient in continuing to fall for this and not taking corrective action.

But there's myriad ways to harass people through proxies-- SWATing is only one. We need to be put in the effort to catch and punish people engaging in these stalking and harassing behaviors, because we'll never harden our society against all of these.

We have laws in place for this type of thing, but that's not to say that law enforcement generally cares.
I am pretty tolerant when it comes to not knowing things or time for learning new skills. With this fast changing industry i can not help it but tolerating.

But when i catch someone lying at least twice about something technical, i do my part to make sure the person is not hired or next to leave. There is no trust.
> "Vader" actually means "father"

In what language? Isn't it "Vater" in German?
A company whose smart engineers threw their hands up claiming no moat while they were the pioneer of AI
IME, it has usually stemmed from "that's how everyone else is doing it, so we should too" without considering specific use/business cases. Senior management were simply not willing to deviate from the norm.
This is what I thought early last year when people were saying they couldn't find jobs, but after having some experience with the job market earlier this year it was absolutely brutal. I have 15 years professional experience, which for this field is quite a lot.

I don't think people here with jobs even understand how bad it is. My whole career I've always been in high demand. I've always got multiple offers when looking for work. I rarely ever get ghosted. Looking for a job has just always been extremely easy. However, right now I'd probably need to apply for 20+ roles just get a single call back. I might need to apply for 50 roles to to get an interview.

To your point on "just call someone" this has been happening. People are texting me and sending me LinkedIn messages constantly at the moment. I don't really know what people expect... Most people you know are probably not in a position where they can convince their company to just hire someone on recommendation and few companies are hiring anyway. At best they can say, "yeah, my company is hiring", but you're still going to be put into a pile of 300+ other people applying for the same role.
Ah, fair. The US national average for “completion within 8 years” is not far off, about 60%.

At US “elite” schools there is definitely an expectation of completion in 4 years, though not much stigma if you take longer—and students go through in cohorts with target graduation dates (“class of ‘25” or whatever).
An Oddity in the Rust Compiler
Maxim machine gun manual
Looks like it may have been stadia related.
I agree with your first paragraph, but my experience with the second is that I’ve always been offered it at that figure. (The insurance company is negotiating with you to buy the car from you. They may not want to present it in those terms, but that’s what’s going on. You own it; they have an obligation to you; in some cases, it’s advantageous to all sides for the insurance company to buy the wreckage from you. If they think they can get $X for salvage, it’s cheaper and easier to offer it to you for that; it ends storage fees, avoids transport and selling costs, and in most states avoids them paying sales tax to you on the salvage amount.)
The Computer History Museum has a oral history of Frederico Faggin which is really interesting to read.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265802...
This is cool but it's not a Frogger demake!
Where do you live and how do you measure that? The literature has many studies finding vehicle noise as the top effect:

NYC: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...

Hong Kong:

https://doi.org/10.1121%2F1.1494803
Software Engineer and I absolutely love woodworking, I'm going to rebuild the roof on a barn this year and cover it in solar panels, I'm ridiculously excited about this project. So much so that I secretly don't really want to get back on the computer anymore. I have a feeling a lot of people feel the same and just do it for the money.

I love coding personally, but I like being outdoors or in my workshop better.
I had a McDonald’s toy that was a self balancing Superman on a point. Obviously this cube is something else in that it can move around but I wonder if it’s even possible to build a non mechanical cube that could balance on its point
Huh? Isn't their most recent release 2024.0.1? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/r...
Last VTune release was three months ago, can you elaborate?
The article's analysis focuses on a rivalry between Russia and Poland. At least in my book, being stuck on a rivalry to the point of your own destruction is the exact opposite of "clearly rational" and having "a high level of sophistication".

If Poland has gained this newfound strength by shoring up its western border through cooperation and trade, and Putin is worried about Ukraine just being able to do so as well, it begs the question of why Russia could not have done the exact same thing. And well it probably could have, if not for its wealth being squandered on a kleptocracy as touched in a few sibling comments. The resource curse strikes again.
I would downvote because the person is being reductive, in such a way that you can destroy most joy in life.
It doesn't always make sense to "collect only the data you need." For example, someone in our org will ostensibly have a good reason for setting up an event in Google Analytics. As the head of analytics I have no use for their event but I'm going to end up ingesting it into BigQuery anyway because the built-in GA4->BQ transfer sends ALL the data, and I'm fine with that because it's damn near free for me to ingest and store. I could instead "collect only what I need" by running the transfer through an ELT tool and filtering out that event, but why would I bother doing that work and paying the ELT vendor money when Google will do it for free and charge me like $1K/year to store 100M rows of everything collected in GA4?
How about just plexiglass sheets mounted on the 6 faces of the cube? With screws so they can be removed easily.
Can anyone with an accounting background explain what is actually happening on the books to make this economically advantageous? By forfeiting any revenue on these films, the studio is reducing its tax burden but isn’t it increasing its overall economic loss?
These come up every once in a while here, and it’s great. I had two, a general robotics book, and then explicitly the “build a robot” book.

I sometimes contemplate modernizing it for a 3D printer and a raspberry pi. My kid is (I think) approaching the age where he might want to give it a try. I really wanted you with my dad, but we never had time.
Very interesting analysis. The last map makes me wonder: could you invert the function used to estimate coordinates here and directly plot the reflections data overlaid on the map?
I remember seeing this exact thing a couple years ago. Or is my brain bugging out? very cool nonetheless.
Considering Stadia's demise, is orbit dead as well?
Honestly a much bigger problem than LOC. It’s a completely different algorithm.