skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if cursive has been taught differently over the last few decades -- I was taught in the 70s, and at that time the instruction was that letters always start and end at the same point. That instruction clearly does not match up to the article or some comments, but rather than quibbling over which of us is correct, I'm more curious how the teaching may have changed over the years?
Funny, this is to a great extent opposite to how I write C.
Are you missing the possibility that Scarlett might care?
> Why bother even trying?

Because you helped somebody.

If the world is drowning, and all your work amounts to a millimetre off the water level of one city, what good have you done? A millimetre might make the difference between a submerged nostril, and not. The difference between the water flooding a building's walls, and it not. Nobody can determine the absolute level of badness in the world, but we can make local, relative changes to it. All big things are made of small things.

You can never know whether you have helped anyone. That does not mean you haven't.
I'm using https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use in preference over clang-tidy.
Related anecdote: I know someone who used to work in Oakdale, Minnesota, a town that 3M literally used as a PFAS dumping ground. I'm not saying it's normal for a kid to die of cancer at the local high school, I'm just saying it happens more often there than anywhere else I've ever heard of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_Contamination_of_Minnesot...
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If China gets there first, they will accomplish half of the above stated number two reason, reproduced below.

> The second reason we are going to the moon so that we can put the first person of color and the first woman on the moon. That is explicitly an Artemis mission purpose.
It happened in 2022. That’s not exactly «all the time» or even «again».
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Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees
As someone who has been on the both sides (recently), I've realized this paradox : Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees.

I want to start an honest discussion here and see 1st if I am alone feeling this way? and 2nd how can we solve this weird situation?

My view as employer: Job posting usually sucks. If you're too specific about the position, you get too few quality candidates. If you keep it too broad, you get swamped with applicants that you don't know what to do. I don't even want to get in people faking their jobs/positions/duties/diplomas etc. Also, job posting and application management platforms are usually quiet expensive. As a bonus: if you are a startup, hiring wrong people will most likely kill your company. The best method that works as per my opinion is working with an agency to give you better first results however again nothing comes for free.

My view as job seeker: There are million companies and million posts. (especially with remote positions). LinkedIn is the platform that you can find more coverage yes however it doesn't usually represent the reality about the job/market. As first step, you start with the companies you like/know with being a bit more selective on the jobs but after some point you basically apply all somewhat related jobs and then want to see what happens after. (which only increase the complexity of the problem)

I am thinking to come up with a solution however I am not sure if there is a solution.

I guess my question here is that what else that you have experienced that worked/not worked. Also what would be the dream solution.
Are you really high performance if you can assess the situation but elect to quit instead of influence it?
This is perfect for doing back of the envelope calculations on interstellar probes.
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So your method assumes you can easily take over an employee account? Isn't that the hard part?
The site has been around since anything over 60 FPS was blazing and has been saying 1000 Hz is the ideal target for nearly as long, some articles on why are linked throughout.
What I’m even more interested in, what about the time when people don’t open Google, just ask for a product.

Some companies are 10^7x, while 10^7 others are said goodbye?
You can do something conditionally with the monadic types too; you branch/match on them.
> Human All Too Human : A Book for Free Spirits to give its full name

For some reason i don't often see this book mentioned. Perhaps i am biased (this was my introduction to Nietzsche) but i have always found this to be more nuanced, incisive, insightful and less polemical than his other works. Also the fact that it is basically a set of aphorisms (of varying para lengths) on very many topics means that you can read it from any page for short periods of time and still find something of value.
Also, a fraction of a milligram of plasma, suddenly free to roam about the entire to toroid rather than confined to a small part of it would lose temperature rapidly.

But yeah, magnets throwing around chunks of each other, and chunks of radioactive shielding, would be an unpleasant thing.
Mlterm – a multilingual X11 terminal emulator
This seems fundamentally different. Filter bubbles show you more of the externally generated content you engage with. These personalizations are trying to predict the content you generate.

While it may serve as a ballast for your personal voice changing over time, the whole point is to learn you not to feed you.
We know that the people behind the Clovis material culture weren't the first people in the Americas. It took decades of work by academics like Tom Dillehay, but that's been the status quo since the 90s.

We don't know what happened to the preclovis groups. It's likely they were absorbed/became ancestral to later groups like those behind Clovis culture rather than erased, but the evidence is too scarce to say anything definitive.
Because 3M does some of the best products on the market in their particular niche.

Adhesives, abrasives, protection equipment (ironic, heh), etc... You are probably using many 3M products personally, and whoever worked on your house, car, etc... even more so. If everyone complicit should be in prison, make the entire world in prison. Remove all 3M products from the market and everyone life will be a little worse.

Does it mean 3M shouldn't respond to all the environmental damage, of course not, but there are many products 3M makes that are not particularly bad for the environment.

Also, what would happen without 3M? There are needs to be fulfilled, other companies will take over (maybe directly by buying sold 3M assets), but there is no reason to believe they won't be as bad as 3M, especially if it is a company located in a country that doesn't care that much about the environment. China will probably love the idea.

Yes, they lie, spy and poison us, so work on the lying, spying and poisoning part on a company that can be controlled in some way instead of throwing off everything and have the problem move elsewhere.
Your approach to sandboxing browser PDF rendering is to just not do it..?

You realize this particular problem requires JS to solve, right? It's not just there arbitrarily.

That's like saying your approach to web application hardening is to disable all inbound connections. You quite necessarily need those for a web application.

I can't see how this would be pragmatic or productive, or maybe it's not meant to be.
Learned recently my mid sized company was also targeted. The CFO received first a (fake) call from a lawyer asking to confirm a transaction, then later a deep faked voicemail from the co founder mentioning that same transaction. It apparently all sounded very real. The attacks are becoming very targeted, customized and elaborate. Very far from the Nigerian prince emails written in poor English...
I'm no historian, but:

https://gizmodo.com/10-civilizations-that-disappeared-under-...
Nix-doom-Emacs-unstraightened: Doom Emacs using Nix
What about consultants? I currently am on a "mission" of 1 year 3 months, but really the original assignment was 6 months, which has been prolonged 2 months, 3 months (really, with a change of function), and now (maybe, to be approved) until the end of the year, which would make it 1 year 8 months. But that's exceptional. And really, these were ~10 months in one function, then 5 months (for now) in another part of the company (double consultancy ... sigh). So in at least one interpretation I haven't held down a job for a year in ~4 years. Of course, I did have the same employer for 7 years. But I see my actual employer, and my manager there, maybe 2 times per year.

Because holding a single mission at a customer as a (probably expensive) consultant for a year ... I'd say my average is 8 months. My record is 2 years 7 months.
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> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things...

I've not personally ever seen a board with dual AGP slots, but there were a number of AGP and PCI-e supporting oddballs during the transition period. I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus. There were some AGP/PCIe chipsets that were quite good during this time as well, but many of them seemed to be crappy hacks with performance limitations or compatibility problems.

Also interesting were the graphics cards that used Nvidia's AGP -> PCIe adapter chip which allowed them to keep selling older hardware on newer platforms.
And you can't have blazing fast without rust, and a little kvetching about lifetimes
"At this point even technically decent teams/companies have given up on developing large, complex systems in favor of SaaS"

Yeah until those bill come, They would consider alternative
I don't think they legally can in number of European jurisdictions. This isn't like Comcast overselling their copper cables - brand new fiber paid for by the EU comes with certain obligations.
³He, aka the material whose primary envisioned use is for something we can't do and don't look able to do anytime soon (nuclear fusion), and which exists in comparable concentration on the moon as it does on Earth. That people run to it for the standard example of what can be feasibly mined from the moon should be a strong indicator of how little viability there is for space mining.
Yes. And 1000Hz lets you get reasonable frame pacing even at non-integer multiples of 60fps.
> Indirection, responsibility splitting, and accountability factoring are enormously effective organizational tools that ... are legally impossible to prosecute in practical timeframes, and give broad cover to bad faith actors.

It's not just at the organizational level, it's at the societal level in democratic politics, too.

Just take deregulated modern capitalism, broadly. It has all kinds of clearly-observed bad or unfair outcomes for lots of groups (to various degrees, pretty much anyone not in the ownership class), but its structure is so slippery that the ownership class and its lackeys have been able to use the characteristics you outlined stymie positive change.

For instance, there is market incentive for corporations to behave badly, but then that bad behavior is defended by pointing to those market incentives and making the bad-faith argument that, due the markets decentralization, the complainer is complicit unless they took the impossible action of being totally independent from the market we've used to organize our economy. That confuses the situation so much that a lot of people just tune out.
Well given what has come out about OpenAI's disclosure policy I wonder how much of "To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents." is true.

Have any of the actors publicly commented on their involvement?
I agree with you, but there is a plus for deleting old data.

If you are not required to keep the information for more than X years, and you still keep it, then you have to provide it when it's requested.

If you didn't keep it, then it can't be used against you.

If you delete it after it was requested, then you are in trouble.
For this particular question we have a great answer in the form of homotopy type theory. It handles all the complications that the author mentions. This is one of the reasons type theorists were excited about HoTT in the first place.

The only problem is that the author is working in Lean and apparently* dismissive of non-classical type theory. So now we're back to lamenting that equality in type theory is broken...

*) I'm going by second hand accounts here, please correct me if you think this statement is too strong.
This seems more of a concern for foundational models rather than personalization.

Any pressure you feel to adopt python is not because it has detected you enjoy python, it’s because it’s global training data skewed to python.

Its a huge concern but, not this article’s concern I think.
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Someone from Connecticut told me Red Lobster never took off there because it was seen as bad seafood. Maybe the same reason Taco Bell failed in Mexico and Domino’s failing in Italy.

Seafood is a harder sell I think and higher prices don’t help.
The "~" is important. Most merchants are incurring anywhere from 3~6% on charges made via CC. Likewise, your actual cashback varies (for example the highest I'm aware of is BoA's 2.65% cashback) and the average consumer is likely only getting about 1.5% cashback. So there is your delta.

FYI - For people who work in payments, they know it's not as simple as this, but the point is that there is a delta between the two, and it does help pay for both of the convenience AND the ability to dispute.
Placement is a huge problem. Recruiters clearly aren't the answer. Six stage tech interviews are also not the answer.

I know hires that I have passed on for major red flags who have went on the Meta/Amazon/Apple. I've also had the pleasure to work with phenomenal new grads who should have been at Meta/Amazon/Apple, but for whatever reason struggled to even be interviewed.

Statistically, it's likely pretty rare to be working in a job that closely meets your competency and drive. It's much more likely that you are above/below your preference, which in my experience causes anxiety - when you are outclassed, but also especially when you are the lone "rockstar ninja" on a team.

Solving placement is a problem that the industry isn't interested in solving. Why do I say that? The value in solving placement is worth billions of dollars, and yet nothing really seems to have changed in the last 20 years. If anything, hiring is far more complex/expensive, but the quality of placement is no higher than it was in the early 2000s.
That's true and something I've run into as well. It does seem like there should be an easier way of getting a stack trace... or at the very least a line number.
I think I tried and that didn’t fix the Alt+Tab problem for me. The daunting thing about it was that I don’t even know where to begin to track down the cause, and it’s hard to file a bug report because it’s a heisenbug that takes weeks for me to come up.

Does Gnome give you similar bugs on Wayland too?
I feel like I've been in this situation for the past year - the place I'm working at had a large culture shift for the worse.

I would change jobs, but I hate interviewing and everything else in the process, so instead I work at my standards and stopped trying to impose them on others.

I'm not satisfied at work, but personal projects and activities help fill the void (as a software engineer). I'm never sure if a down period is temporary or not, so I'll always tough it out for a bit.

I started looking for a new position very recently, though, since it's been long enough.
Actually a bunch of people that do still like them... it's just that we don't have the infinite time we had at our disposal in our teens that makes us not ever be finished :P
> we can't even prevent our tax dollars from arming mass murderers

Quite the opposite - taxes are the only things that arm countries.
Social media apps are probably mostly okay, but the recommendation and feed algorithms are likely problematic.
IMHO a court would accept a waveform comparison that proved beyond all doubt that the two voices are similar, but I doubt you'd find a court that would settle the issue just because the comparison said no.

The cases brought forth by Marvin Gaye's family [1] showed that some judges will declare copyright infringement even if the melody, harmony and rhythm are different. Note that the author saying he reverse-engineered the original song in question probably had something to do with it, so in the end intent and artistic perception will always remain factors that no computer function can compute.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharrell_Williams_v._Bridgep...
Equality can be philosophically troubling, but as a practical matter, what you care about is the indiscernibility of identicals, and if every property you use follows from a universal property, then equal up to isomorphism is just equal. So every Rubik's cube is equal considered as a group of face rotations, and there's only one Rubik's cube, but if you care about chemical properties of sticker glue, they're no longer equal.
Thats a great situation to be in when one can spend 6 million even when there was some chance to save.

I tried same for ready to eat meal everyday to save me from potential kitchen disasters but sadly numbers didn't work out.
This is an excellent narrative, but I think it omits the many risks the program took to get to the moon before the Soviets.

For example, Apollo 8 was the first time a Saturn V (and command module) was sent all the way to the moon, and it was done with a crew. Because there was no lander, there was no backup in case the command module had a problem. If the explosion on Apollo 13 had happened on Apollo 8, the crew would have died in space and never returned.

Remember also that Apollo 8 orbited the moon--it wasn't just a free-return trajectory. The command module had to fire to get into lunar orbit (for the first time ever) and even more importantly, fire to get out (also for the first time ever).

Apollo 8 was originally supposed to have a lunar lander--everyone felt safer with a "lifeboat" just in case. But delays on the lander program meant that they either had to delay Apollo 8 (and miss the end of the decade deadline and maybe the claim to land first) or fly without. The safe course was to delay, but NASA decided to take the risk.

The magic of the Apollo era is that they made it look so easy that we forget how hard it was. The tragedy of Apollo 1 highlights that even simple things, like testing a new capsule on the ground, are incredibly risky.

Apollo 6, the second uncrewed flight of Saturn V was almost a disaster. The booster vibrated badly because of engine instability, and two second stage engines shut down early. But on the very next flight, they decided to send it up with a crew. This would be the equivalent of putting humans on board the next Starship test launch (IFT-4).

Sure, the timeline seems incremental, but only because the dates are omitted. Mercury 1 was in 1961 and the first moon landing was only 8 years later. In contrast, SLS started development in 2011, using existing Shuttle engines and solid rocket motors, and the first landing probably won't happen before 2028.
I think targeted content is the worst offender. It is responsible for creating the filter bubbles many live in.

There have been stories about how "sane" individuals were slowly radicalized because they only saw a particular perspective of the real world
Is accounting really a core part of Uber's business? They're a transportation company not a bank. I kind of question the premise really
I agree with most, and most of the others I might quibble with, but accept.

However, the item to not use unsigned types is vastly stupid! Signed types have far more instances of UB, and in the face of 00UB [1], that is untenable.

It is correct that mixing signed and unsigned is really bad; don't do this.

Instead, use unsigned types for everything, including signed math. Yes, you can simulate two's complement with unsigned types, and you can do it without UB.

On my part, all of my stuff uses unsigned, and when I get a signed type from the outside, the first thing I do is convert it safely, so I don't mix the two.

This does mean you have to be careful in some ways. For example, when casting a "signed" type to a larger "signed" type, you need to explicitly check the sign bit and fill the extension with that bit.

And yes, you need to use functions for math, which can be ugly. But you can make them static inline in a header so that they will be inlined.

The result is that my code isn't subject to 00UB nearly as much.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/08/the-scourge-of-00ub/
I know that. There has been a pretty steady drumbeat of evidence of pre-Clovis stuff for many years.

I apologize for appearing to dis the claim. That was not my intent. I was simply stating the issues we face in these types of things, with gatekeepers and crazies.

I actually support this guy. I think he's probably correct.
Not that it changes your point much, but AI research also took decades. It’s just that the last few years are when all these milestones were achieved
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For 800k I would have 20000 different connections. This would allow me to survive many unfortunate shovels per month.
My take is more that functional style really wants everything to be a value. And checked exceptions break that pretty heavily. Same reason most functional style heavy languages don't have statements as much as they do expressions.

For places it gets really intrusive, consider that when/where an exception is raised in a map statement.

There is also the annoyance of how junior programmers will fixate on trying to model every exception thinking that means they have handled them. With many exceptions being necessarily delivered all the way to the user, granular modeling of them is of rapidly diminishing value compared to quickly getting it to the user in the first place.
The safest path is undo what we did, somewhat stop adding more fossil carbon to the system, and capture the excess that we added since preindustrial times, and then some extra to unwind what some positive feedback loops added by their own. It it looks hard, impractical, expensive and a lot of more ugly words, but it goes right to try to push the system to the previous stable state.

Other “solutions” try to short term deal with one perceived problem without taking into account how the whole system is changing and how our “solution” will change it even more. With very complex systems shortsighted and not holistic approaches could bring to the table far more problems, some of which we may not have a way to deal with.
Just make sure you don’t try to optimize dealing with someone who is insane. It won’t work.
Wasn't the strategy to exploit the European dependence on gas a failure then though because especially Germany didn't really put up a fight against the sanctions to keep using the cheap Russian gas.

One can argue about how "painless" it was, but I would have thought that stopping Russian gas imports within a few months would cause a recession and a lot more havoc in the economy. And I always assumed that was what Russia was counting on, Germany's dependence and thus tacit support but I didn't see much of that.
I think the underlying problem is cultural: people have been conditioned to expect others to authenticate them (give me the last 4 digits of your SSN, tell me the last two transactions on your account), BUT they haven't been told they need to authenticate others. They just aren't thinking "how do I know this is who I think it is? How do I know they haven't been kidnapped?".