skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire market is a game and sham according to my experience:

When employers actually need labor they hire who comes along and train them to fit the needed roles while managing attrition.

But what I'm seeing is all about arbitrage. When an employer prefers to leave positions unfilled without facing the costs of constructing skilled labor, they're just scalping.

Employees are expected to self fund training in branded products to be "competitive".

"Growth" / "innovation" become PR terms for automated scalp removal.

What's weird is that internally at fat corps they don't know what to do with the skilled staff they have.

For example Intel has a perpetual purgatory they literally call "the pool" where they send skilled staff to tread water before being laid off. They've had the pool for 35 years but have no internal equivalent of LinkedIn. They don't even bother to curate the staff they already have while endlessly seeking greenwood. The training is more than half outsourced to the community while the firm enjoys humongous tax breaks because it's "employer of choice". But weirder still, they'll help arrange for a PhD then dump the staff member a few years later.

It's this incredible selfishness to process absent of purpose that leads to a community corroding pathos which explains why the Bay Area is one of the most stratified and regressive regions in the world. It produces churn where the only feature of the landscape that represents stability is in "Defense" contracts and a culture that produces policy like this:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/R...
I got my current job few years ago by just responding to a public posting, but I have noticed that nowadays most of new hires actually come recommended by someone. I wonder why the switch happened. Is it the community responding to lower demand for IT professionals?
There is also a Vault Fork called OpenBao https://github.com/openbao/openbao
Word salad. There isn’t really any coherent thought there for me to respond to.
I prefer learning myself as it leads to finding novel solutions.
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I find soundcloud's autoplay to consistently give me fresh new music that i enjoy and many times in a style never heard before.
Burgess' speech is here:

https://www.asio.gov.au/director-generals-national-press-clu...

I can't see anything about backdoors. Can someone elnigbten me on what I am missing?
With the rest of the world is frantically arming themselves, we cannot afford to be complacent or pacifist.
I’m just not enthused about anything released by Atlassian. It’s almost invariably an afterthought that only exists for their own products.
This can’t happen in companies where you’re part of the hiring process.

Every company I’ve worked for in the past several jobs has had me interviewing candidates directly. I’m part of the decision making on whether the candidate is hired, or which candidate from a panel is hired.
Yes. It's paradoxical, but apparent if you engage in any kind of political discourse over here.

Nerds have always had some of the worst political stances, not because they're dumb but because they bend in face of the slightest pressure of losing social capital - in the current climate, this usually means submitting to the most psychotic leftist interpretation that is physically proximate to them.

Explains the politics of places like SF quite well.
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Choosing is not free will.

You choose based on your past experience. If you know doing A is better than B, you didn’t choose A, it’s just that your brain already knows that A is the best option based on past experience or knowledge or beliefs.

Even if you choose the seemingly "worst" option B, it’s just that you know that new experiences can be rewarding so your brain is ok to try it.

And there is the extreme example : given you are in good mental health, you are totally, physically, unable to chose to kill someone (or even yourself) without a very important reason (to you).

Also, if the absence of free will at biological levels don’t make the concept useless at the society level. Accepting that environment, culture, knowledge and society have such an influence on us just shows the importance of shaping a good society.

Accepting absence of free will at a biological level can just makes us more empathetic towards others.

It doesn’t means society have to accept any wrong behavior from humans but rather something way more positive : society is ultimately responsible for individuals behaviors and have the power to change them for the benefit of everyone.
Which reference counted implementations never make use of, when they do, they slowly evolve into a tracing collector when fully implemented.
We already have YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and even LinkedIn to fill the short video void - bringing back Vine would be a Johnny-come-lately move.
I tried and failed to follow that. I'm looking for a report from someone who has got it (or something like it) to work.
> Every company I’ve worked for in the past several jobs has had me interviewing candidates directly.

That doesn't mean you (or other employee interviewers) are seeing all the candidates. There are almost certainly a lot that are getting screened out before they reach that stage.
That's just one contract. SpaceX will win the rest. ULA is dead. They're being sold for parts.
That is unrealistic expectation for 15 years, especially for a 2017 EV.
These tribes aren't isolated in true. Over 1000s of years, they have interacted with world outside and formed a generational wisdom and values. If 100 years back British/French came and enslaved some members, the behavior is expected.
>Would you think it would've been a good idea to have foreign investors from Nazi Germany run newspapers and radios in the states in the 1930s and leading up there?

Good idea? No. But the world isn't exactly ran on good ideas. Instead of Nazi germany newspapers they went straight to american broadcast itself and seeped in like a poison.

And the sad part is I don't even blame them. People want to hear what they agree with. Some may be legitmately brainwashed, but I've seen enough examples of individuals shunning the truth to conclude that we're well into a post-truth era.

>The 60min segment of ABC(Australia) also clearly showed that the TikTok version in China serves more STEM content to kids while the non-Chinese version shows entertainment mostly(let's amuse ourselves to death).

And would Tiktok be the fastest growing social media if it did the same? China can force their citizens to watch whatever they deem worthy. they have literal curfews for playing games implemented by the government. imposing that onto the west is just a bad business decision.

It goes back to the root issue, many westerners have long lost that disciplined to be an educated populace, to identify and defend against bias. to will themselves towards what they need to do as opposed to want. a single social media side won't change that.

>The users won't know the difference between posting on TikTok under Chinese or American ownership.

They would if they pulled out of the US. I'd look forward to the fallout that ensues. Maybe it will get the you to understand the power of their vote.
We have lived through hundreds of years of this murder. We do not want to live through this again. This is the end. This is the end, and finally Russian people will prosper. Take the "L," It's actually a win. Just like Germans did after "losing." Just like Spanish did after "losing." Just like Italy did after "losing." Just like Portugal did after "losing" their empire. Then we became boring European assholes and we get a little per captia rich and all got along.

Fine, have a different alphabet, have orthodox, the Greeks are part of Europe and they have this. Why can't Moscow just stop killing us???

And they kill Russians more than anyone!!! Please, just stop! Fuck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqohApD6Ng8
I use WSL for work as well and in my opnion it fits Microsoft's classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" paradigm.

WSL basically prevents most from requesting from the IT dept, A full blown Linux desktop/Laptop because they will simply say "you want Linux? here have WSL, it is 100% Linux", Which it is really not, WSL's idiosyncrasies from a true Linux Desktop drives me nuts at times.
Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid
Lots of answers about free will.

My criticism is that they all seem to make the same error, in treating the existence of free will as some sort of binary decision.

My view is that the more one's model is coherent with the underlying reality, the more options are available to the individual. The greater the selection, the more free will you have.

Eg, if someone pulls a gun on you, you may think you have no free will. However, if you have a gun of your own, you have a different set of options. Similarly, if you are a trained martial artist or hostage negotiator, you will evaluate your options differently - you have more options.

Put simply one doesn't know what one doesn't know. Most likely this will occur in the case where one is certain of one's 'knowledge' of something that is actually false, ie one is operating within a lie/fantasy and has been tricked. Here, one will have a constrained set of options and therefore less free will.
100%.

A system like this is bound to be compromised and abused.
i don't think "cold war is over", in a way it is, but the amount of propaganda tik toks blows my mind and the most important thing is - it's so one sided, that i fully support this bill/law or what it is, EU should do something too.
I was surprised by the fact that people with slight myopia often need reading glasses (presbyopia) later in life compared to people without myopia. Myopia might not be that "pathological", more like early life adaptation for certain visual stimuli.
I would agree that humans are pretty decent in tiny communities. Scaling beyond that they are absolutely unquestionably horrific monsters. Without any doubt. And those communities are not ready to punish their own community for those horrific deeds they comitted.
A few years ago, my dad working in chips control quality asked me how to do exactly this but with images from optical microscopes.

I can confirm what the post affirms that panorama stitcher softwares are not able to do the job. But what I found was that the opencv Stitcher class can do this perfectly out of the box. Unfortunately, there was no existing gui for the class at the time, so I quickly made one in 3 days: https://github.com/kwon-young/ImageStitcher

It would have been nice if the post had compared it's approach to the Stitcher class. Maybe the number of images or the size of the final image or the stitching error control cannot be sufficiently controled with the Stitcher class ?
> Not sure why you're discounting the potential for foreign influence campaigns from reducing the accountability your government has to you.

People often bring up this point, and yet if China poured every resource they had available into spreading chaos and disinformation, it would not touch what domestically-sourced influence campaigns are currently achieving.

You might say that, nonetheless, it's a step in the right direction. But when disinformation and manipulation is as ubiquitous as it is now, the real effect of this law will simply be to protect informal alliances between legislators, media companies, and intelligence agencies. There's a handful of things they all agree on (which may not be in your best interest), and this law helps make sure conversations about those things never gain traction.
I understand the argument against updating the <dialog open> property but it's useful to be able to target it with CSS
there's gotta be millions of USB wifi dongles sitting in cabinets and drawers around the globe. a couple "do-ers" with high chimneys can start backhauling for their neighborhood. Mirror wikipedia, podcasts, music, books, etc. The issue becomes "on demand" video stuff, which i haven't put a lot of effort into figuring out, because if i set something like this up the video would all be programmed for 720p+ and only 360p would be available on demand.

When the power goes out for multiple weeks, it doesn't affect me at all, entertainment wise. in a "oops all censored" future dystopia, i'd make sure my neighbors could access entertainment, even if it's self-serving for mine own self.
Based on every chatbot I use to resolve corner cases in billing and service delivery, he's on drugs.

I invite anyone who has had the mythical stellar AI helpdesk experience, the one where the AI uses its discretionary budget to fix that bill, updates the records to make your bill align to the right meter identity, removes the credit line mistake, restores the extra bonus interest, you name it: the only outcome this twonk wants is this one:

COMPUTER SAYS NO

Let's hear it for agile computer discretionary fixes. Anyone?
Commerce is not zero sum. When done right both parties gain something. But China’s ambitions directly counter those of the United States. They’re propping up Russia against Ukraine for example. Use of heavy state subsidies and lack of environmental controls mean they can flood the world with cheap solar destroying the incentives for local production. When all the world is dependent on China for something they then hold outside impact.

To not see the coming conflict be it cold or otherwise or not see the CCP for what it is is just ludicrous to me.

They want to — and as they should — become to dominant world power and reshape things as they see fit.

They will take Taiwan by force and it is zero sum: either China and its allies become the world’s leading economy and lead on things or the US and it’s allies remain in “power” and the west continues. This is the threat.

Now I’ve nothing against the people of China. It’s the government that I don’t trust.
There's free will in the sense that the system is so chaotic and complex that it's impossible to predict for us now at current technology levels, maybe never possible to predict, but I don't see anything in science that would allow free will to be a thing. We're complex automata in the end.
"You once listened to a cover from Metallica of an Ennio Morricone song? Here's Metallica entire discography as a suggestion!"

-- the recommendation algorithm
Terrible name imo

If they wanted open in the name they should have gone with "opensesame"
Looks cool, will share it with a colleague, might try it out.
I'm sorry that's been your experience. I have the good fortune to be able to say that it is not like that at many, many places.

I also suspect that the state of affairs at Intel that you described is largely due to incompetence as opposed to selfishness.
It's been a while but there was something about Dafny only loop unrolling or maybe inlining functions a certain number of times which meant my proof worked for like 1 and 2 byte numbers but not 3 or more.
> I'm pretty sure the US gov. is absolutely eager to create more competition of the space.

The DOD actually is the reason the defense companies consolidated. They literally told them to do it. I think they explained it in the Acquired episode on Lockheed Martin from a year ago.
Can someone please explain to me what the security threat is? I still haven't understood it.

If it's that China will know more about Americans through data ingestion, they can already do that. Americans willingly upload every little bit of their lives to YouTube, Twitch, and tons of other platforms. Not to mention that Temu is the most downloaded shopping app in the US. And what kind of attack can TikTok information provide that other publicly available online information scraped from other social media sites cannot?

If it's that China can show American citizens a curated list of topics and videos to make Americans think certain ways or vote certain ways, then I absolutely think that's a 1A problem. That's the exact same rhetoric tons of repressive Communist countries used and still use to deny people the freedom to read books from outside, watch movies from outside, read newspapers from outside, etc. And I'm never going to accept the idea that information (even full on lies) so dangerous that people shouldn't be allowed to see them.
Probably overthinking. The Europeans signed deals with Helsing and Palantir recently for similar projects. That must have lit a fire under someones ass.
Is anyone using this? It's from 2019.
Same. The wall fell as did Russian communism but it just swapped antagonists. Now it’s the Chinese government.
That's exactly it.

Freedom of speech is my right to be able to bitch about Biden or Trump without having to worry that I'll die in prison.

Freedom of speech is not a right of foreign entities sending me memes about them to manipulate who I will vote for in the election.

There's a law where foreign entities can't own TV or Radio in US. This might be controversial, but IMO it should be updated to also include social media as this is source where people get news from.
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From TFA:

"“I did my PhD in France on making a spherical shell swim. To make it swim, we were making it collapse. It moved like a [inverted] jellyfish,” says Adel Djellouli, a researcher at Bertoldi Group, Harvard University, and the lead author of the study. “I told my boss, 'hey, what if I put this sphere in a syringe and increase the pressure?' He said it was not an interesting idea and that this wouldn’t do anything,” Djellouli claims. But a few years and a couple of rejections later, Djellouli met Benjamin Gorissen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium, who shared his interests. “I could do the experiments, he could do the simulations, so we thought we could propose something together,” Djellouli says. Thus, Djellouli’s rubber sphere finally got into the syringe. And results were quite unexpected."

The paper discussed in the Ars piece can be found here[0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07163-z.epdf?shar...
The various anecdotes[0] about Diogenes are almost nothing but jokes[1]; he used humanity as his straight man.

— Not the Diogenes? I have been looking for you... I am Alexander, king of Macedon, called by some "the Great"; do you have any boon you wish to ask of me?

— Yes: please move a little to the left. You're standing in my sun.

[0] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gr...

[1] compare Moore's The Comedian? "It came true. You're lookin' at it."
I like Anduril, but it seems that their stuff is overcomplicated and expensive compared to what we see on the battlefield in Ukraine where hundreds of drones are downed daily.

An unmanned fighter jet is a whole different ball game for them.
Possible in some circumstances. But also possible that they are the result of other peoples actions (example: emotionally abusive parents or partner)
>Having the US's primary rival, which runs massive disinformation campaigns, also opaquely control the content that US youth consume en masse seems worse than...just about any alternative.

Sounds like a skill issue. The Us has decades worth of a head start on the internet and social media. If "the enemy" can just waltz in and disrupt that in a matter of 5 years, I think we have bigger issues on hand.

> Someone like the CCP wants the algorithm to show addictive content that idealizes "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and increases division in Western countries.

Yeah, America has a decade long headstart on that too. We blamed facebook in 2016, we're blaming Tiktok in 2024. How long are we going to deflect this to the internet?
It might depends on the implementation, and I've haven't dug into actual implementations but you pretty much need an attribute mapping (from names to values) for many things and that's how I would store it.

There might be additional optimizations or storage features for certain attributes. For example for id, since you mention this attribute specifically, you pretty much want document.getElementById() to be fast, you probably don't want it to traverse the whole DOM tree each time is called, so there's likely an additional mapping from ids to DOM elements stored somewhere per document, that is to update each time the id attribute is changed (though the spec [1] does appear to say anything about the speed characteristics of getElementById; in practice I personally certainly assume it's quasi instantaneous when using it).

For other attributes, more generally, you need to store the attribute value, not the property value (which you can cache, though), because the property value can be coerced. For instance, hidden="hidden" or hidden="HIDDEN" both lead to .hidden == true. But you need the exact value for getAttribute or for HTML serialization.

[1] https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#ref-for-dom-nonelementparentnod...
> +1. I love golang, because for the most part, there is only 1 way to do something.

Are you aware that you're referencing the Python mantra with that?
Feel free to Google it, it's from 2004.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
> The US government is a far greater danger to the average American than the Chinese government is

The US government could, if it wanted to, slaughter the entire civilian population of the US right now and no one could stop them. I don’t believe for a second that China would be so restrained if it suddenly had that power over the USA. So, while it’s true that having the power that it does makes the US government a potential threat, it is nowhere near as much of an actual threat as China.
> i feel like it adds a lot of shaming and suffering to people who struggle to modify their behavior

You just moved the shaming from "look they are lazy and don't move from the couch" to "they are lazy because they made bad decisions"
From what I can tell from your list, it is 100% men. Where are the women? Heart might fit your list.
Nice! You should mention that you're a co-founder and CEO of Percona, which adds tons of credibility.
In case you haven't noticed, there's a pretty serious drone war going on right now and Anduril makes drones. With the new US defense package they stand to get some business, among other reasons for them to be in the news.
While the phenomenon you describe certainly exists, it is vital to separate it from the phenomenon of not wanting to support the US "defense" sector.

I do not identify as a leftist, and would not be considered one, but as an aerospace engineer I would never work for something that aids the US war machine.

Those weapons are never used in "defense". Do they defend an unsustainable way of life ? Sure.
I sort of responded to this idea in another comment, but again. How can you take ‘personal credit’ (as if you could have acted otherwise) for choosing to change your behavior? Isn’t that an idea that also just appears in consciousness that is, for inexplicable reasons, more compelling than other ideas at the time so that is the choice that your brain reasons to follow?
I'm in the bay area and literally nothing they've designed around here is going 220mph unless they a going to be banking the tracks 40 degrees and doing a TON of ground breaking engineering around safety to run at 220 mph safely while sharing with Caltrain and other users.
I'm not a professional philosopher but I did study the subject at one time.

The main point about philisophy isn't its concepts or theories as these can and do change over time and through circumstance. For instance the question about what is consciousness has changed as we've become more knowledgeable about neurology and even of quantum mechanics.

What philosophy does is to teach one to think and reason in ways that one otherwise would not have done. It enlarges one's worldview which makes it easier for one to grasp new ideas and concepts, and to be open to fields of knowledge that one may have otherwise bypassed.

Add to that reading the works of great philosophers is a mind-opening experience. Many of these works have stood the test of time because the ideas they contain have widened the minds of those who've studied them.