skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they don't have to move countries, it's not really brain drain at all. It's exactly the opposite in fact.

If they did have to move, then they would, and you'd have brain drain. But because they can remain in their communities (while earning the globally-competitive income that they would otherwise have to move for), they now pay taxes to their local government, buy from local businesses, mentor local youth, and so on. When they've earned enough money from their job, they may quit and start a startup in their own community, or become an angel investor supporting startups in their area, rather than yet another bay-area based fund. These are all good things!
What service did you get your VM from?
ooh, cute. excited to try the vectorizer on some old favorite BDFs from my eeepc days
"Dick and Jane" books were specifically designed to NOT teach phonics. Rather, they tried to teach look-say reading. Phonics is effective and look-say is not. So these books were designed to make kids dumb.
Happened in (2021)[https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...], and then a few others have forked the extension and tried to revive it, only to eventually sell to nefarious owners or sell user data themselves
I applaud the attempt!

That being said, I sadly do not find this to be particularly "readable". The choice to introduce octagonal-style 45° segments rather than normal rounding makes it quite difficult for me to read. The worst glyphs for legibility for me are "r" and "p" -- you've actually increased the size of the diagonal segment that connects to the stem, compared to diagonals on letters like "o", which really throws off the forms for me, and doesn't seem to be inspired by anything in the original font. If anything, rounded connections to stems in fonts tend to be reduced rather than exaggerated. (As in the font used by HN, Verdana.)

I wonder what this would look like if you used curves rather than introducing octagonal corners, and didn't exaggerate the connections to stems? Keeping in mind that curves usually do things like extending slightly beyond the baseline or at the top.
A very quick skim of the article immediately brought these to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence

(Edit: I don't know if it's true but I've heard a story that these sequences were actually used by car thieves to cycle through all N-digit combinations with maximal efficiency. Who says maths isn't useful)

Now, are there any combinatorists here who would be willing to have a private chat with me about something I stumbled upon a few years ago? Almost certainly well known, but I can't find any prior art and I've looked hard.
I have heard of Obsidian before; is it some kind of documentation/notes thing?

The stuff in the blog post sound great, so as long as the code is open and modifiable by users, I might take a look.
I like your app quite a lot. No issues with your app. I think Zoom degrades the resolution. In any case, the last time I tried it that way was last summer. If there are any major developments since then, I would love to know.
Perhaps it's time for someone to fork GTK+3. It's clear that the GNOME guys are beyond done with maintaining old GTK code (and I can't blame them) and the ecosystem for old applications won't move forward trying to patch code in a project that's essentially on hold.

It shouldn't be too difficult to fork the project and produce drop-in libraries for projects based on GTK+2/3 with patches applied. Through the desktop portal API, these changes would even apply completely transparently for windows like file pickers.

There's such a big online crowd clearly voicing their opposition to the direction GNOME is taking GTK and other software, I don't get why these people don't just get together, set up a website and a forum somewhere, and split off to do the things GNOME doesn't want to do.
That subjective assessment might not necessarily line up with what a test might show. As I understand it, even moderate consumption is said to worsen sleep quality in general.
It was only a matter of time. Tragedy of the commons, and all that. As self-driving taxis become more common, people will trash them, barf in them, and generally make them unpleasant for anyone else to use. This is ultimately a harder problem than the technology.
My teacher friends say phonics doesn't work for maybe 25% of kids. I suspect that is caused more by parents not following up with reading at home than a failing of phonics itself.
It’s basically analogous to e-mail. To have an e-mail account, you have to choose a host first. Most people choose a popular host (Gmail, Outlook), but there are various reasons one could prefer a different one.
Read any of the contracts you have to agree to in order to use one of these networks. You own your data but grant them a perpetual, royalty-free, no-exceptions license to use it however they want for ever. They get to eat the cake and have it.
Can you share your setup/tech stack?
In the DPO paper linked from the OP page, DPO is described as "a simple RL-free algorithm for training language models from preferences." So as you say, "not technically RL."

Given that, shouldn't the first sentence on the linked page end with "...in a process known as DPO (...)" ? Ditto for the title.

It sounds like you're saying that the terms RL and RLHF should subsume DPO because they both solve the same problem, with similar results. But they're different techniques, and there are established terms for both of them.
Indeed. In North Korea, the population apparently has a 99% literacy rate but their government just defines it as being able to write your own name.
One of the good things about it is that using asynchrony is optional. If you don't have to call out anywhere to build the response, processing can all stay in the handler's calling thread. If you do, you can return a future and have the library handle the async for you.

One downside is that it is based on Jetty which isn't considered the most performant backend. A lib with a similar API but based on Netty is Jooby [1] which scores well in the Techempower benchmarks.

[1] - https://jooby.io/
I mean, that's not any evidence that it works better than the alternatives?

Maybe you should have a 2nd kid and not teach them phonetics and see how they compare.

Though of course identical twins would be ideal.
How so? It's all FOSS.
Sounds like they were right. The youth at that point was lost, and are now raising people who will literally burn down a waymo for fun, or because of some horrifically ignorant idea about fairness.
Ecosystems on Earth might be a better way of thinking about this. Notice how we do not see one organism or type of organism squeeze out all the others, or work to take in all energy available to them; this is also true of human settlements, whether rural or urban. There is a clear diversity of energy extraction methods, & singular dominance (think algae-clogged lakes) tends to lead to stagnation & death. Mechanical expansion might look grabby (as in Von Neumann probes), but life expanding through the universe could instead follow biological & human-settlement patterns.
Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform
"What's it like to be a bat" posed the question; "the character of cats" (horses; or dogs) goes some way towards answering it. Does the reviewed work extend our knowledge? Do I really need to sign up to find out? Animal communication certainly is an interesting topic IMHO but yet another rehash of "animals see things differently" is, I suspect, just click bait. Tell me if it's a descent litt survey.
No it isn’t different as a first. Teaching people to read English isn’t difficult, and as you said was solved hundreds of years ago. There is something else going on. I wasn’t even taught to read, I just picked it up because my parents read to me before I even went to school and I wanted to read books. I made a perfect score on the ACT test reading component.

>Nearly half of California students can’t read at grade level.

This is a complete travesty in one of the most developed countries on Earth. I’m sure phonics would help, my Mom is a special ed teacher and teaches phonics to her students and never stopped.
Not sure that day/night matters but an essential element is the cycles you experience during extended sleep. Naps won’t make up for that.

Night is probably most realistic because of light/noise factors
FIPS is a US government security standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing...
> the deficit grows accordingly, which is kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.

So, the same as today basically? It's been this way nearly my entire life and I'm middle aged.

I’d personally rather fund more children and new families, then whatever the hell happened in the past five years with the deficit. More people means more future tax payers as well.
Because it has a width and height.
Those are record lifts, not competitive standards.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
This is exactly the sort of artifact you expect a wizard to have floating above their hand on a fantasy pulp's cover, circa 1955.
I’d love to use a dedicated sleep tracking device, but they all now seem to require accounts, subscriptions, and forfeiting privacy. Sigh.

So I track my sleep with a timer app instead, and lose the detailed monitoring stats.
PropelAuth – Outsource the User Authorization/Management Aspect of Your Web Apps
Ask HN: Uncommon Reading Recommendations?
The other day I was going through the library stacks and came across "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel" by Rebecca Goldstein and was really drawn into it, was a great read but it was something I never seen suggested anywhere. The book came out in 2005 and off the old due date slip, it was only ever checked out 7 times which made me think, what other good books have you read that fell beneath the radar? How did you find the book in the first place?
I've been enjoying Astro+Svelte. I tried using Sveltekit and couldn't really get into it; I'm sure there are situations where it would be better than Astro + Svelte, but I don't know what they would be.
> Or as the Dutch saying goes: "Lekker gewerkt, pik!" (good luck translating that).

Google Translate says this just means "Nice work, dude!" Out of curiosity, is there some culturally-specific subtext which is missing from that translation?
An anarchist complaining about somebody “stoking political division to no real end” is certainly some kind of irony isn’t it?
> Russia strategy of the German industry

Are you sure it's Russian ? /s
It's a legitimate shortcut, don't take the issue of some browsers having less than ideal page navigation behavior too hard.
I'm a fan of dropwizard but couldn't get swagger to work with it. Maybe it's improved since then?
This varies greatly by parents' education levels.

According to [1] 26% of Americans with 'less than a high school diploma' have 'no books' at home. On the other hand, among Americans with a 'postgraduate degree', 42% have 'more than 100 books' at home.

[1] https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-boo...
I’m surprised this doesn’t mention the Sold A Story podcast and reporting series, which kicked off efforts like this. It’s excellent, and revealing: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

edit: whoah, can someone help me understand the downvotes here? I realize this was an issue before the series (I work in literacy), but it certainly raised the public awareness in a completely new way.
> while they have a clean modern look, they’re as thin as an ironing board.

And boy oh boy, can you tell.

I don't think it was a Southwest flight I was on that had these - or something like them - but you can definitely count every missing centimeter of padding with your back.
Yup. They're exactly what you need if your want to imitate a redditor or Twitter user.

Also not useless for just learning language.
15 years ago, RandsInRepose.com wrote a lot of interesting blog posts on management, and then turned them into books: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/
Divorce courts are very anti-men.

Many men get lifes destroyed due to insane "child support" payments which are totaly out of bounds for what "child support" should be.

So if by "faster divorce" they mean that the "women can take everything from a guy faster", I'm not sure this is going to end well as far as men's incentives are to get married.
Design a byte code like Sweet 16 or UCSD Pascal, and compile Ruby to that.

It would certainly be more space/time efficient than Manx Aztec C, which was terrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C

Hilarious discussion on the talk page -- I used Aztec C but I have not vanished yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aztec_C#WHO_vanished%3F

I had a Legend Industries 128KDE memory expansion card on my Apple ][+ -- that would help!

Washington Apple PI, January 1982, p. 12, "I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH MEMORY I HAVE" by David Morganstein:

https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/washingtonapplepijourna...
It's taken the place for LXQt/LXDE for me. The one notable negative is that I've had a lot of trouble getting bluetooth earphones to work properly.
Not an article, but I do frequently recommend the following:

Multipliers - an excellent book on how to avoid becoming a stereotypical bad boss. Chapters are easy to read independently and have great summaries at the end.

Crucial Conversations - good for both professional and personal conversations. Learn how to have a difficult conversation without burning down the relationship.

Finally, look up SOON (acronym) for when someone you manage comes to you seeking guidance.
Like I said, I can't comment on test results on other people, I can only comment how I feel after sleep. And I feel better after sleeping with a good beer or two in the afternoon, than without.

Shouldn't my own assessment of my sleep quality matter more than test results on other people?
> XFCE released in 2014 has significantly less bugs than XFCE today

The Thunar of today's auto-sized column behaviour irks me, I always end up with a horizontal scrollbar even though the content doesn't actually extend beyond the view. Can't think of anything else buggy. I think I first used XFCE in 2018, but it must have been spectacular in 2014.

> XFCE/MATE/Mint/etc need to band together and fork/mantain Gtk3

I'm curious if you have any reason to think that the people working on these projects have any interest in forking Gtk? They are using it (as is?), presumably they aren't that unhappy about it.

> the multiple bugs introduced by progressive removal of Gtk features

It really annoys me when software updates break my workflow, but it's easy to see how "add new shiny thing" (= progress) often wins out over "tread carefully" (= stagnation). The way you are referring to such changes as bugs is misleading though.
Teamviewer seems to work, but it's pretty unstable. The APIs are all there now, but of the limited number of Linux compatible remote desktop applications, even fewer seem to be interested in adding Wayland support.

Rustdesk has Wayland support, but that project has all kinds of weird code smells. Hopefully other projects will take inspiration and implement Wayland support as well, though.
Consider that you may be somewhat of an outlier.
I'm also curious about this. What makes it "good" (other than things like "I like it", or it comes from a manufacturer with a good reputation, etc.)

Is it just that the ethanol is accompanied with other non-active ingredients that somehow change the body's response?
The problem is that no one really knows. There are a tonne of people who simply cannot sleep well no matter what they change
Assume the equity is worth zero: can you live with the salary? Are you willing to work long hours? If yes, go for it, why not?

If you can't live with the salary, or if you are not in a position to work lots of overtime, pass.

If you do take it, get an attorney to check the contract and the equity agreement.
I'll be honest, I've not read this specific article. The topic was all over the news for a few days here though so I've read plenty about the issue.
>Your gratitude is someone else’s abuse.

I see the golden rule is dead.

> I doubt you meant to cause harm but unsolicited celebrations hurt people.

I've never thrown a work party. But if my thanking or praising you is abuse then I feel this is a personal issue than a character flaw. Learn to take a compliment and learn to bow out gracefully. There's way too many impromptu abuses of your time and energy by corporate leeches for a random celebration of life to be considered torture.
How does Phonics works for ensuring whether/weather & their/there get remembered?
(I'm hopeless at getting them right...)
> When you have to assign a variable instead of using a before block to create an instance variable, use let. Using let the variable lazy loads only when it is used the first time in the test and get cached until that specific test is finished. A really good and deep description of what let does can be found in this stackoverflow answer.

It omits entirely the warning and says "use this when assigning variable". Yeah you can make an argument either way, but given how dogmatic this website is, it's literally pushing toward using let.
The consequence is that you get tests written with let everywhere.

I would outright say do NOT use let, like at all, your tests will be better without them:

- A test abstraction could live in the actual code so that it's properly tested, it's plain ruby and can be used by other developers wanting to test code related to yours
- A test will have all the setup close to its execution phase, making it easier to read
- Instance variables override don't exist
Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4
Good engineers will accept lower payment if their costs are lower. Similar to how amazon is operating, by lowering costs, minimizing margin, they can win over customers and win the market.
Why is it so hard for you to believe that Republicans are against contraception?

In the House, it was voted for by 100% of Democrats, and voted against by 96% of Republicans. The text, in full, if you want to read it is here: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr8373/text

It's not very long. I've read it. It is the answer to what you want to know, straight from the horses mouth. There is no uncertainty or middle-man telling you how to interpret things. Just read it, and then consider that 96% of Republicans did not wish for that bill to go to congress.

You can then try to surmise what plausible reasoning they might have had to object. Just be somewhat critical, otherwise you'll just reaffirm what you already wanted to believe.

Don't know what else I can suggest on this matter.
And I'm sure a lot of people's names end up being whatever the Hangul version of "X" is.
I have a highly optimized LinkedIn, yet I don't really spend a ton of time on there. I log in once or twice a month, answer messages, and do a few things. Maybe make a post once every 2 months or so. Nothing crazy, yet my profile is very well optimized.

And this is why: Everyone looks at it. Far more people then you would expect.

I can't tell you how many meetings I have gone into where I walk in and see that everyone at the conference table has my LinkedIn profile up on their laptops. They knew they were meeting with me, had no idea who I was, so they looked me up on LinkedIn right before. Its my introduction and sets the tone for a meeting or presentation. This experience is not only in the professional world either. I recently (in my mid-30s) decided to go back to academia to get a PhD and now I am encountering people in academics who use my LinkedIn to learn about me when I reach out for academic or research assistance. When applying for stuff, presenting at conferences, all of it uses LinkedIn as the central way to communicate your identity. Having a nice profile helps me set a positive first impression that helps me gain more responses.

Also, I can't fail to mention that recruiters use LinkedIn as a search tool. Not every recruiter is worth your time, but the right ones certainly are worth it and LinkedIn helps connect you with more of them. THey also use your LinkedIn when communicating with their clients. Almost every job interview you do, you can assume the hiring manager and interviewers have looked at your LinkedIn profile before meeting you. Most have probably looked more closely at your LinkedIn profile than your resume.

Curating a LinkedIn profile is not that much work. Maybe 30-60 mins per month is all it takes if you have a lot happening and maybe 1 hour per quarter for everyone else. Its not a huge commitment, and yet the gains in my opinion are far greater than the small amount of time spent on it.

I don't care if people want to hate on LinkedIn and say its stupid. If anything that benefits me, because it helps optimized profiles stand out. Maybe theres a few people (like the parent comment) who have an aversion to LinkedIn for some reason and will look down on someone with an optimized profile. But I truly believe it offers far more value than it detracts. The people that look down on it are usually people that are not in any position of power anyway or they are a micro-minority.
Something very similar in Austria - you can get a free Master's degree (1-2 years) by doing a study programme ("Studiengang") at a university, that will also qualify you for a PhD. Or you can pay for a Master's course programme ("Lehrgang") that costs ~15k€, is usually a lot easier and does not qualify you for a PhD.

The difference here is that you are allowed to wear the title of MSc either way and both programmes do confer ECTS points - only the latter does not qualify you for a PhD.
That's one of the main reasons modern Tetris plays extremely differently than old Tetris. The game generates a "bag" with a single copy of all 7 possible tetrominoes. It then randomly pulls from the bag until it is empty, at which point it generates a new bag. This means you're guaranteed all possible pieces on a regular cycle.

At high-level competitive modern Tetris this allows you to plan out complicated structures like the 4-wide (<https://harddrop.com/wiki/4-Wide_Setups>). Rather than a big empty column on the far-left/right, you leave four empty columns in the middle (or alternatively the side). Once you have the setup, you can rely on planning and foreknowledge of the Tetris bag to guarantee yourself a 20-piece combo of single line clears. Due to the way battling works in modern Tetris (clearing lines sends "waste" to the bottom of the other player's screen with bonuses for combos + other stuff) this can instantly cause the other player to "top out".

Contrast with classic Tetris where just surviving is hard because you don't have any guarantees about pieces.
What makes you think that Czech or Belgian beer is higher quality?
Do you mean the `await fs.move` on line 13? Because yes, I do need that to complete before I can run the next command, the build, on line 40.

I could have appended it to the Promises that I'm creating on line 9 to run it in parallel with those moves, but this is not performance-critical code, and moving the two conceptually-unrelated concepts into the same expression wouldn't aid legibility, in my opinion. And since I'm the only one who needs to read the code, that opinion wins by default :)
I recommend the book “why we sleep”. It helps (helped me) understand some of the fundamentals of sleep and why it matters
>The way you are referring to such changes as bugs is misleading though.

The deprecation and removal of keyboard inputs literally results in a bug that generates an error message, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872

This is a microcosm for the Gtk3/4 pivot to mouse only as a whole: they don't care about the bugs caused for people who use keyboards. And DE's like XFCE/MATE/etc are unable to fix these bugs because they're Gtk bugs.
We don't need phonics anymore, because now we have reverted to icons, a primitive method of writing abandoned thousands of years ago.