skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there was more than one story in that world

Two separate novels: 'The Peace War' and 'Marooned in Realtime', sold collectively as 'Across Realtime'. Enjoyed them both a lot, but for me 'Marooned...' had a more emotional punch, especially as it becomes clearer what had happened to the victim.

There is also a short story 'The Ungoverned' whose main character is Wil W. Brierson, the protagonist in 'Marooned...'.

Overviews without plot spoilers: 'The Peace War' describes a near-future in which bobbles (apparently indestructible stasis fields where time stands still) are used by 'hacker' types to launch an insurrection against the state. 'Marooned...' is set in the far future of the same world, where bobbles are used to support one-way time travel further into the future, where the few remaining humans try to reconnect following the mysterious disappearance of 99.9% of humanity. Both are high-concept SF, but 'Marooned...' also has elements of police procedural where a low-tech detective (Brierson) shanghaied into his future has to solve the slow murder of a high-tech individual (someone from the far future, relative to him).
The government is borrowing the majority of the funds from the FED. From itself. They are printing it and loaning it to themselves.
Please dont gamble!
> Putting in time to learn the product as a user of it before trying to develop for it is time well spent

This should always be priority #1 when you first arrive. Not only is it beneficial for understanding your work, but you can never get back that opportunity to see through the eyes of a real user. Once you get used to a product, the warts will be less apparent.

Put the product through it's paces, and take notes on what's confusing or unintuitive. You don't want to tell everyone their baby is ugly immediately, but you can slowly address at least some of the issues over time.
to be honest, if you are in marketing and you don't understand the market you are trying to sell into i don't see this going too well.
Companies have absolutely non incentive to do this. TMSC turned that profit in 2022 with wages as-is, why would they spend more on wages if they don't need to?

Don't get me wrong, I wish companies were incentivized to do right by their employees. That's just not how the world works, companies only need to do the bare minimum to get the job done and leave as much profit on the table as possible.
Paraplegic man plays chess with his mind via Neuralink
I'm facing a similar challenge, but for Sales within the defense industry.

I've approached it by reading and thinking about the company's relationship to it's stakeholders. Understanding and writing mini-essays on the current customers and their pain points, the main competitors and their products, the history of the industry/segment and more.

Information sources include YouTube, podcasts, press releases, news articles from niche sites, research paper summaries and various websites.

Networking of course plays a role, where I've sought out friendly people a few years ahead of me when it comes to industry knowledge. Mostly through existing contacts I'd do this again if I needed to, and would make sure to leverage each new contact to introduce me to further relevant people.

I've asked ChatGPT specifically to detail out how a MBB-consultant would approach the knowledge acquisition challenge, as they are adept at quickly navigating and learning a new field in a short amount of time. This has helped somewhat and suggested I'd sit down a perform a few different types of analyses.

As for rote learning, I've bought into the Anki flashcard system where i study acronyms, enemy materiel NATO designations, specifications and more.

To wrap up, I've studied finance myself and I have a strong feeling that there's a low correlation between financial-academic success and proficiency in marketing in the industry... Best of luck!
You should join the product marketing alliance which has frameworks & an active slack community that can help you out.
It's always tricky to speculate on cause vs effect. Did bicycles come about because people needed to travel longer distances, or did people start to travel longer distances because they had better modes of transportation available to them?
I am building a SaaS to save domains, how is it?
I don’t say this to be mean but if you think Pixel Dungeon is “Ultra Nightmare” mode, games like Nethack or Caves of Qud would probably cause you actual physical pain.

Pixel Dungeon is one of the most beginner friendly roguelikes, widely considered the “next step” in difficulty after the Mystery Dungeon series. (I often recommend it to people that enjoyed Pokémon Mystery Dungeon but find Nethack and DCSS too intense)
The oversimplified version is Laplac's deamon can't split quantum superposition.

Superposition being inseparable is a large part on why the many words concept is popular with some people. It is about regaining a form of determinism.
How is possible to debunk something we have no direct information about?

I mean a new "idea" is far from being able debunk anything, right?
Sure, why bother understanding anything if ChatGPT can just produce the answers for you ;). You don't have to understand the answers even. Actually you don't need to understand the question also. Just forward the question from your manager to ChatGPT and forward the answer back to your manager ;). Why make life difficult for yourself?
> it's really a just-in-time system that can only deliver productive capacity in real-time

It's a sophisticated game of monopoly where select few players can coopt the productive capacity of the labor class.
Alfred 5.5 new features: Grid View, Text view
That’s true, probably fewer than ten million people in the world would have an opinion one way or the other. :)
People who work from home are still a tiny minority. They may skew the numbers somewhat, but definitely not to a very great degree.
> I left that job immediately after the interviews.

Why?
"Zuckerbucks" and the 2020 Election – Imprimis
While there are tools that help you compute expected power consumption, nothing beats contact with reality. I just didn't think about the "everything changing at the same time" scenario.
Adblock would do the same without supporting these nefarious monetization techniques.
How do tax changes from a few years back affect the current deficit? Shouldn't they be already "priced in" the budget?
I know.
But this is very well understood and researched.

All it requires is mutations, time and selection pressure.

The Blind Watchmaker is still a good read.
The main question will now probably be "do developers using this new Epic store still need an Apple Dev membership?".

If they do (seems pretty like in the short term), that would mean they still need to sign the Apple agreements. That'll bind them to giving Apple a cut.

So, paying two masters. Sounds like a bad deal for most, with the exception being stuff that Apple wouldn't allow in their store anyway.
That not-invented-here locking mechanism was a big shock to me. I'd be very interested to know the rationale behind that, are locking primitives somehow not available in file system code?
elemental cells also have clear boundaries ie the cell membrane, which evolved as a way to catalyze a chemical reaction by containing all the ingredients in one place. imagine a fatty globule that randomly happens to enclose a set of chemical ingredients that react; that reaction is now far more likely to occur
He is salty and pessimistic about the future.
> US led NATO expansion lead to the war in Ukraine, and Europeans are paying the price.

This is the Russian propaganda of 2 years ago, and we know it is a lie because Putin went on camera and told us so himself. When asked by Tucker Carlson why he invaded Ukraine he gave a half hour history lecture telling us about its history of Russian occupation. Putin justifies his murderous invasion by pointing to former borders of historical Russian entities -- which by the way would not just include Ukraine but Latvia, Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Germany, Finland, Japan, Mongolia, Romania, and Poland.

Every child in Eastern Europe knows this to be the real case, and only Americans who have no serious understanding of Russian and have generally never even visited believe this hogwash about NATO.

Putin even said in 2002 that Ukrainian NATO membership was a matter between Ukraine and NATO only: "At the end of the day the decision is to be taken by NATO and Ukraine. It is a matter for those two partners."
Miniature Weaving Looms by Abdullah Yurtsever
Basically enslaved in a prison but with a tablet.
A-10 Demo Team Announces Its Final Year as the Warthog's End Draws Near
Off topic, but is there any chance to avoid sharing Twitter links? Would rather not log in to the site
Comic-themed bibs contaminated with harmful PFAS, California lawsuit alleges
Aside from being impractical, Nobody is going to let you even attempt that without going through certification. If every random equipment provided did as they wished aircraft safety would be compromised.
Looking at the graphs for US Budget deficit since 1980 there's a clear pattern to it, Republican administrations tend to increase it (or maintain in percentage-to-GDP), Democrats tend to lower it:

Carter:

year|deficit|increase|deficit-to-GDP

1977 $54 $78 2.6%
1978 $59 $73 2.5%
1979 $41 $55 1.6%
1980 $74 $81 2.6%
1981 $79 $90 2.5%

Reagan + Bush Sr.:

1981 $79 $90 2.5%
1982 $128 $144 3.8%
1983 $208 $235 5.7%
1984 $185 $195 4.6%
1985 $212 $251 4.9%
1986 $221 $302 4.8%
1987 $150 $225 3.1%
1988 $155 $252 3.0%
1989 $153 $255 2.7%
1990 $221 $376 3.7%
1991 $269 $432 4.4%
1992 $290 $399 4.5%

Clinton:

1992 $290 $399 4.5%
1993 $255 $347 3.7%
1994 $203 $281 2.8%
1995 $164 $281 2.1%
1996 $107 $251 1.3%
1997 $22 $188 0.3%
1998 ($69) $113 (0.8%)
1999 ($126) $130 (1.3%)
2000 ($236) $18 (2.3%)

Bush Jr.:

2000 ($236) $18 (2.3%)
2001 ($128) $133 (1.2%)
2002 $158 $421 1.4%
2003 $378 $555 3.3%
2004 $413 $596 3.4%
2005 $318 $554 2.4%
2006 $248 $574 1.8%
2007 $161 $501 1.1%
2008 $459 $1,017 3.1%
2009 $1,413 $1,885 9.8%

Obama:

2009 $1,413 $1,885 9.8%
2010 $1,294 $1,652 8.6%
2011 $1,300 $1,229 8.3%
2012 $1,077 $1,276 6.6%
2013 $680 $672 4.0%
2014 $485 $1,086 2.8%
2015 $442 $327 2.4%
2016 $585 $1,423 3.1%

Trump:

2017 $665 $671 3.4%
2018 $779 $1,271 3.8%
2019 $984 $1,203 4.6%
2020 $3,132 $4,226 15.0%
2021 $2,772 $1,484 12.1%
IMO musl is the right way forward if you want to optimize for minimalism, security, and making it easy to build static binaries in most languages.
Worries about pipeline leaks and climate change are not silly.
Yes, eventually one gets a series of software improvements which eventually result in the best possible performance on currently available hardware --- if one can consistently get an LLM to suggest improvements to itself.

Until we get to a point where an AI has the wherewithal to create a fab to make its own chips and then do assembly w/o human intervention (something along the lines of Steve Jobs vision of a computer factory where sand goes in at one end and finished product rolls out the other) it doesn't seem likely to amount to much.
Usually I try to avoid cheats but I use them it in situations where I either get badly addicted or where I notice that I'm losing a lot of time with repetitive grinding
To offer a differing experience, I've been working in Angular for a couple of years now and personally like it quite a bit. I don't like frontend frameworks in general, but given the choice I prefer Angular over React.
Until you try it out and realize the benefits!

- Type safe HTML: you get an exception instead of malformed HTML

- Truly reusable components: any Python web framework, component packages are truly reusable in any other projects. I never seen this with template engines.

- Huge productivity boost: not even close! No hunting for templates, no jumping between files, everything is in Python functions.

- Composable elements: you can nest things as much as you want, refactor very easily. Doing this with templates is not even possible, or such a pain I never did it.

- Storybook: There are a couple ones for Django, but they are clunky and not reusable at all.

I felt the same for a long time, but started thinking about a nice API. It took me months, but I finally got it: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/compone
It's still incredible despite all that. Not in the sense that one chooses not to believe it, but in the sense that it's hard to fathom that it actually happened.
As long as $ is the global reserve currency, these number are pretty much meaningless. Not to say it will be this way forever. We already can see other countries are doing everything they can to trade commodities in their own respective currencies (Russia, India, Japan, etc).

It is actually a great effort to forgive student loans. In US it is one of most debilitating factor for people who went to college (especially the private ones).

Why not do this earlier but wait for an election year? This just looks like a election campaign stunt to me.
I thought some teams at Google were dogfooding Angular for many years now?
SoftBank’s DeepCore invests in UK start-up Builder.ai (Formerly Engineer.ai) by Sachin Dev Duggal
Microsoft Is Attracting Growing Criticism for Censoring Bing in China
$ go install teler.app@latest

go: downloading teler.app v1.2.2

go: teler.app@latest: module teler.app@latest found (v1.2.2), but does not contain package teler.app
I have not done the 1 on 1 method before, it sounds interesting and will try it in the future, but I agree with utilizing the grace period to explore, ask and learn as much as possible about the organization and industry.

My additional recommendation would be to try to identify limited-scope projects that contribute to your role and where you can start delivering some value. For me this helps set a clear goal and it is usually easier to identify the specific skills/knowledge/information/contacts I need to complete the task. It also usually feels motivating to check off those early projects.
The actual alternative would be to publicly admit the failure of very loosely regulated free markets and regulate the chip industry instead, but apparently the charade must be kept alive at all costs (to the taxpayers).

> The market chose wrong.

Oh no, the market chose right, but what the "market" wants doesn't align with what the nation requires.
>wouldn't the code and its comments become documentation that would otherwise be in the well-drawn schematic?

Technically, yes, but 99% of EEs would not approve of code in some weird new DSL as documentation for a circuit.
While it may contain the same information as a drawn schematic, it is much more inscrutable and introduces mental overhead when you actually need to read it.

There's also a huge difference between a poorly laid out schematic and an excellent one; the latter makes it easier to follow the flow of signals and power through relevant parts of the circuit and allows you to easily pick out the different parts/modules and how they play their part in the circuit as a whole, all with a quick glance at a drawing.

I guess a (poor) software analogy would be that you could surely implement a function as a bunch of GOTOs and/or BRANCH commands, but just making a nested for loop would make the logic much clearer.
Is that calculator simply comparing the monthly payments between paying rent and paying a mortgage? In that case, that is completely misleading. Rent can only be compared with the interest part of a mortgage payment, since rent is 100% interest and 0% amortization. If you can rent for less than the interest part of your mortgage payment, then it is a better deal to rent. Or if you expect real estate to come down in value.
that's too bad
Clearing cookies fixed it for me
A faraday cage with the right hole size, or a faraday shield of sufficient thickness, should protect it against very intense effects, up to EMPs.

Just being disconnected already helps, it comes down to strength of the solar flare vs length of metal piece.

I know some military hardware is built with a metal box with holes on the inside of the plastic case -- a faraday cage -- though that probably also serves to minimize RF leaks.
Vernor Vinge has an outstanding catalog of invention and accomplishments. One of that's threaded through many of his stories and has become even more relevant lately is ubiquitous computing and networking, and in particular augmented reality.

To truly understand the transformative potential of something like a VR headset if technology allowed it to be unobtrusive and omnipresent, one must read Vinge. The idea of consensual reality as portrayed in, e.g., Fast Times at Fairmont High, is kind of mind-blowing.
Yes, when bicycles were young people took trains to travel between cities (or boats). So no one was really interested in roads all that much.
I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't get more pushback for their work in China given how deeply intertwined they are with the U.S. government and national security apparatus.
Being in a random coffee shop won’t help. I do way less work than I used to because it’s just not visible anymore. Working really hard or working 50% and talking it up well in standup looks exactly the same. Back in the office you couldn’t get away with watching YouTube or sleeping for half the day.
The Cookie Monster was one of the best short novella's I ever read, and its influence can be seen everywhere from Greg Egan's Permutation City to episodes of Black Mirror.

Edit: I got it backwards, Egan's book came out first.
> Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was already mature and suffering such patterns

I still remember the moment when I realised that the galactic network in 'Fire...' was in fact based on Usenet (which I used heavily at the time), especially how it was low bandwidth text (given the interstellar distances) and how it had a fair number of nutters posting nonsense across the galaxy ('the key insight is hexapodia'). Great author, who'll be sadly missed.
ExFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "Dirsync" Performance with Linux 6.9
> The world is so interconnected and everyone depends on everyone so much that there is basically no point in planning for this scenario

There's always a point in planning for a scenario if you think the risk is high enough and there is something you can do to better prepare for it.

In this scenario, the ones most impacted immediately will be the ones most dependent of the global economy. If you can't get the basics like food, water, and shelter if war with China breaks out then sure you'll be in a bad spot. But is it really an impossible task to prepare at all?
I do not know if it is still the case (because I have not looked in 15+ years), but there used to be all kinds of add-ons you could buy for Excel that had prebuilt forms, charts, macros, etc
It is a highly evolved bacterium for sure.
It still hasn't figured out how to form multi-cell clusters. And let's hope it stays that way ;)

Also scale is subject to physical limitations. Bones can only carry that much weight - chemical processes are limited by - for example - maximum energy dissipation rate.
I'm free to log off this website and the rest of the Internet at any time! Harrumph.
How many tables will be able to played at once?
I nearly passed out when I saw the intensely squiggly traces
Well actually it’s more likely that Enrique of Malacca was the first person to circumnavigate the globe.

(He had been enslaved by Magellan 10 years earlier on a voyage which had reached Malacca going east, and then returned on the later more famous voyage of Magellan which had gone west.)
And also to remember that roads were more of trails or something you might seen on field or in forest. Not the nice flat surfaces created with road drags we think of dirt roads as.
As a freelance software developer, I've worked in finance, law, logistics, pharmaceuticals, cable TV, food sales, and probably a few more I'm not remembering off the top of my head over the years. I provide the best service to my clients when I understand the domain well enough to make suggestions that marry the capability of the computer and the web to their domain. It helps that I have repeat clients often, and referrals within the same industry so I can re-use knowledge from previous contracts, but often I'm working on software for a domain I have no prior knowledge for. So it's a high priority for me to be able to obtain a lot of information about the domain quickly.

Here are my tips:

1. Schedule time to ask questions. Domain experts' time is valuable, and you don't want to be interrupting their other work, so if you can build up a list of questions and schedule a 30 minute period to ask all your questions, that uses their time more effectively, and also gives them the opportunity to take the time to answer the questions you didn't ask. (OP doesn't appear to be a freelancer, but for any freelancers reading this, I don't bill for this time, which helps clients to feel they're getting something worthwhile from it).

2. Ignore "rank". The people on the bottom of the totem pole are often the people who know the most about the domain because they are actually working waist-deep in the domain. There have been cases where I have used my seniority to escalate problems or promote ideas from, say, an intern or junior, that were likely more valuable than the development work I was getting paid for. When you do this, be sure to give credit where it's due--people remember that sort of thing.

3. There comes a point somewhere in the 3-6 month mark at a job, where I start getting a lot of anxiety because I feel like I should understand the domain better than I do. This has never, in my experience, been anyone else's expectation. It's just impostor syndrome.
Bricklayers aren't paid by the brick either. They are paid usually by the job (e.g. "build this wall") or by the hour, just like programmers and models. It's really not that different.

The bricklayer's wall could become part of a very valuable property in the future (say if the area became highly desirable), or it could be subject to a natural disaster and fall down. Just like the model's pictures could end up everywhere, or in the bin. But they take on none of that risk.

I reckon a model wouldn't do very well at all with taking the risk. A photographer could probably get through a hundred models in a week and bin 99 of them without giving them a penny.
Dying is not dying in computer games. Think of it as a game mechanic.
Probation is a privilege that a prisoner needs to apply for. It could be argued that even though he was previously convicted perhaps he didn’t know the exact consequences and so leniency can be given. However, by violating probation, he has proven to be intentionally malicious and a danger to society even more so then before. I think a few extra years for that is definitely justified
I seldom see this opinion but I'm glad to read it. People complain about JSX on the React side but what on Earth am I reading when I see the templating language that Angular came up with? ngIf, ngBlah. Much worse than JSX, which is subordinate to JavaScript code, not equal. I also have been forced to use Angular at the workplace and it killed any fun making web apps had. People say Angular is great for enterprise because it removes the burden of deciding things, but this indicates an organizational problem being solved technologically. In other words: Never a good thing.

Similar conversation 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35811256
Fnn are easy for sequential data because there is no relationship between the elements. Hence, these NN are a frequent target of simplified analyses. However, they also never led to exciting models which we now call AI.

Instead, real models are an eclectic mix of attention or other sequential mixers, gates, ffn, norms and positional tomfoolery.

In other words, everything that makes AI models great is what these analyses usually skip.
Of course, while wildly claiming generalized insights about how AI really works.

There’s a dozen papers like that every few months.