skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> progress is a function of how quickly the old guard dies out

I will say that with respect to WFH, younger folks I've dealt with seem to be ones wanting RTO more. Mostly seems because they have no home, family, and use office for social outlet.
Dysautonomia is extremely hard to treat. Symptoms vary from patient to patient and the number of physician is really lacking.

Individuals can have symptoms like fatigue, GERD, poor circulation, neurological problems, psychological effects.

There are many causes too, certain antibiotics, chemo drugs, covid, autoimmune. It is extremely unrecognized.

A specialist in my area used to have a 1+ year waitlist. Now, he moved to a different state.

There is an exciting treatment in the pipeline. WinSanTor is developing a cream with pirenzepine. In clinical studies there was a systemic recovery of nerve damage. I have spoken to a chemist who had nerve damage from flouroquinolone antibiotics, which caused his dysautonomia and he recovered using oral pirenzepine. Keep in mind WinSanTor is targeting diabetic neuropathy in their studies but it should work for other neuropathies.
I wish there was a job for burnout people something like:

1. meaningful

2. high impact

3. high authonomy

4. safe (low pressure, stress, etc.)

5. creative

And counterbalance it with lowpay to please market dynamic, something like a work for people with disabilities or requiring special assistance (which is done quite good in EU).
I did try open source/own project, but the pay isn't guaranteed and I would like to pay the medical insurance/state pension and some basic (minimum wage) income to simply have peace of mind.
It's not fun when people end up with that domain in their history on corporate networks. Fun would be redirecting to a rickroll, what you did is malicious.
Are there papers out there from other companies that detail what performance levels have been achieved using Linux in a similar device to the Netflix OCA? Maybe they just use two devices that have 90% of the performance?
This might be more defensive and about not letting someone else with better ai features sell more phones (if that's what consumers want).
Good catch. Thanks
Isn't it a bit of a stretch from going from your personal experiences to generalization to "much of burnout is"?

Fairly certain it wasn't the case for me anyway, I can see what caused me burning out, and can also see what I did to help me get out + prevent it from happening again.
You can't compare Photoshop CS3 to the newer versions.

I've been using Photoshop since CS2, it's incredible how far it went. Of course if it does the job you need, then that's great. I use the latest version of Photoshop to cleanup family photos, and to design video games. In both cases it would take me much longer to do the same thing in CS3. Time is quite valuable, and Photoshop is cheaper than Netflix every month.
That supposes a government that is not akin to shut down electricity grid arbitrarily and randomly kill people owning material to make computers work out of the grid.

Circumventing policies of a government deemed defective can help on the short terms and narrow perspective, but it won’t fix the fundamental issue.

Currency, be it banker’s bill, digital crytowhatever, are just a marginal side apparatus here.

I’m not an Economist, and I have no idea of what Fernando de la Rua had as insight of outcomes for his decisions. What should have the government tried to stop a precipitating bank run? Would a world where everywhere would follow maraoz economical wishes be a better necessarily a better one?
Title IX includes a "state interest" clause which the courts have interpreted to mean that state can stick it's nose into any local issue it wants to.
A friend of mine ran a marathon with 0 training in large part to spite me for laughing at him for saying he would.

Not as extreme as an ultra, but still an unimaginable feat for most people.

I wouldn’t have believed it if he didn’t wake me up to rub it in my face when he got back.
Full random. Something like 50% of human babies have random mutations which make them unable to develop past the stage of being invisible to the naked eye. Such miscarriages seem like normal menstruation.

There's a knack to optimizing the mutation rate. If you mutate too much, 99.9999% of offspring can't develop and in the end there's too little reproduction. If you don't mutate enough, you don't evolve. Evolution has already optimized this hyperparameter.
I wanted to like Claude but for all my trying I could not get even Opus to understand brevity. I found myself repeating variations of "do not over-explain. just give brief answers until I ask for more" over and over until I cancelled my subscription in frustration.

I am sure there is a technical skill in getting Claude to shut the hell up and answer, but I shouldn't have to suss out its arcane secrets. There should be a checkbox.
Perhaps so, but this knowledge is post hoc for the incident and does not undermine the engineering value of the unified release.
I thought that too, and joined a startup that was founded as remote first. However, we later acquired another company that was 100% in office, and also hired a couple key executives who didn't like remote-first. It's now incredibly painful to get anything done because most of the senior people who built that remote-first culture have been pushed out, and things have reverted to hoping someone overhears the information they need.
Cheeky. Fixed lol
> A few weeks ago, a lot of people on academic X quickly forgot about their support for “Women in STEM” and got angry at, of all people, Katalin Karikó, the co-inventor of the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines and 2023 Nobel Prize winner. Her crime? A passage from her book where she laments that academia involved way too much people pleasing and political games for her…. A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia”, in which I argued there is a trend wherein Weird Nerds are being driven out of academia by the so-called Failed Corporatist phenotype. Katalin Karikó is a perfect example of a Weird Nerd.

What this misses is the fact that a massive element of the “support for women in STEM” discourse was the blatant demonization of the Weird Nerd in favor of the Failed Corporatist.
> That's only for one or two of their games, isn't it?

What difference does that make when the magnitude for one game was on the order of a billion cases?
> A mortgage that is underwater means the value of the home is less than the loan balance.

Indeed. Which means that when a home is not underwater, the owner has savings (or is breaking even, of course, but that is as equally unlikely and is for all intents and purposes considered to be the same as underwater).

> If you make $5k a month and spend $5k on expenses, you can make all your mortgage payments (whether or not that mortgage is underwater) but still not save.

Interest-only loans account for only 1-2% of mortgages. Outside of that small group, and the small group underwater (which very well may be the same group), if you are paying a mortgage, a portion of that is a portion you are saving. Mathematically, that has to be true. There is no way around it.

> When outlets report savings of Americans they don't typically mean just in savings accounts.

So, then, again the numbers don't add up unless we're counting children. Why would you count babies in those not able to save? Is a newborn not making enough money to be able to save a problem or somehow notable?
Apple loves money, it’s why they changed the airdrop policy for China to knee-cap protesters from using sneaker net.
Why aren't Canadian VCs more "cutthroat?"
For those not close to the PDP family, the numbers don't really mean anything. The 11 is not better than the 10 in any way, they are just the order in which they were released.

The PDP-10 was not a mini-computer for which PDPs are generally associated with, but instead it was a mainframe and had a 36-bit word. The switches were coloured in sets of three to aid in entering octal data (as opposed to hexadecimal).
This is something I really like about Rocket League’s matchmaking. Competitive is random, but Casual play allows you to keep the same lobby. You can even vote to rematch to keep the same teams. I’ve had numerous runs of 3-4 or more matches with the same people. It’s fun to get into a back and forth, especially if you rematch and the other team wins one - then you’ve _gotta_ have a tie breaker!
#fartnoise
I noticed this often happens in school.
A key piece of information is just missing and you just learn the right answer to pas tests, but never know why
Well I am assuming Memory and SSD being the same. The only different should be CPU + NIC since Bluefield itself is the NIC. May be Drewg123 could expand on that ( if he is allowed to )
I think it's the opposite, remote workers are not reliable teammates. When we need ad hoc help from a remote engineer, we need to grab a 30 minute slot on their calendar, or we need to send them a long async email or DM chain. Eventually the conversation slows down, and they start responding once a day. When our senior engineers are physically available I can put myself in their office or at their desk and demand they help me. More remote-more slow.
For example, human genetics encode how to make a big ball of neurons that can learn by themselves.
Essentially, the only thing that causes the price to go up is new people buying into the market. That's the only "value" here. This is why it's called The Greater Fool's theory, is you keep passing the bag over to the greater fool who will pay more for it than you.
> Maybe shackling everyone's retirement outcomes, executive compensation, and economic policy to large private corporation's stock price

The alternatives to investment-based pensions do have some trade-offs. Both the tax-based and "public insurance" (current payers finance current pensioners) model are vulnerable to demographic shifts and economic depressions. In many countries with bad demography, the payout you get per income-month has been reduced and the age of retirement increased, because the system threatened to collapse. Since most of the world is now aging rapidly and living longer, these systems are under severe strain.

A significant advantage of pension funds is that they can invest abroad to spread the risk, but in a public system this is impossible.

small nitpick: Pension funds invest only tiny percentages into actual private companies, like the PE firms TFA is referring to.
The origin of every European country's name [video]
I had a very similar experience to yourself.

Didn't investigate and get treatment until it imploded my career...

The people that think it's trendy are young, they often live at home with parents so I think it's a case of their ADHD / austism not yet having serious repercussion's.
> Ironically they should have asked ChatGPT for help debugging

Why are you assuming they didn’t? This is an AI company using AI to build their product and trusting it without proper code review, testing, or guardrails. Clearly they’re all in on AI hype. This took them days to solve, so not only would I bet they asked ChatGPT, I’d wager multiple people tried it multiple times.
Seems a bit harder to print a DAG in a terminal in a readable way, even if the output is shorter.
Netflix has been developing in kernel and userland for this; if ZFS for content was a priority, they could make 0-copy sendfile work. Yes, it's not trivial at all. It will probably happen eventually, by someone who needs 0-copy and ZFS; or by ZFS people who want to support more use cases.
I wish this offered some explanation for how they actually set this up.
Have you ever tried genetic algorithms?
Ask HN: How to gear up from getting comfortable with a dead-end job?
I am a production operator engineer in a Nepali company.

Here're the reasons why I know I am in dead end job.

- It has already been 1y and nowadays, work feels like a chore. I've been just following my notes that I made earlier and solving tickets based on that.

- The job is limiting in its scope. I studied computer science in university. But this job is revolved around escalating issues to developers. The only thing that we do are

- changing database flags to make it work.

- forward logs to developers(We probably exist only because there is no loki log centralization)

- The only "real tech" that we work is when debugging web servers or when some new change request for webservers comes.

- Since it's limiting in scope, it's also limiting in salary(which is not necessarily true always, but it's here).

- Manager has cleverly overhired so that even if few leave, there will be no issues (more employees, less budget for each)

- I am underpaid. This is Nepal and neither development hits here nor recession. We're forever in same state "status quo". I am making somewhere around 250$/mo and I should be making 350$/mo for the last 6 months.

- Performance review is coming soon, but I've heard from reliable sources that the max increment will be 100$/mo. So, I can expect at max 350$/mo after 1.5 yoe.

* * *
My problem
* * *

I've not been able to find a new job and I feel guilty to even search for a new job. So, I am searching a new job with a heavy heart. While I've applied to couple of places, but they don't even respond (even with multiple serious referrals from known people).

Now the thing is linkedin is where employers are finding me and I've put my job title different compared to what it is on CV. I think that's why I'm not getting any responses after I send my CV.
The title is like data analytics employee writing data science. LOL. I wrote it just because it is what I want to be and it's how people are searching for that role candidates.

* * *

I am still investing time in self-learning. Due to my low salary, certification exams(they cost double here in Nepal) are out of my reach(RHCSA/LPIC etc). But I've dedicated my ass off to study and I regularly study ~3hrs. I know that I won't reach that far by self study without a job that challenges me. But I am unable to find a newer challenging job.

I learnt loads of Linux and web servers in the current job, which simply would not have been possible without getting this job for me.

* * *

TLDR:

- Dead end job

- comfort zone in current job

- not finding a new job, hard time building skills w/o a challenging job

- don't even search pro-actively for jobs

- have a differing title in linkedin and resume, which might be a reason for extremely low interview conversion rates.
Yes, this is well known, but has nothing to do with whether they see you or not.
The subject wanders all over the place.

From dont contradict your elders, to learning about externalities (which weren't considered originally), to reality is a great teacher...which is why "don't contradict your elders" is born of. Experience.

Many people, especially those that are immature in some way, don't accept reality, which is hinted at, throughout. Being right, isn't enough to justify reprioritizing/wasting disinterested people's time - re: The head-on collision story. Take it up with the Textbook author, rather than pretending that taking it out on some poor physics teacher is virtuous.
What I most remember about Sun is them acquiring MySql, ruining it, and making PostgreSQL the leader in open source databases.
> Those two problems make me think that my side gig has grown up enough to switch to ArgoCD/K8s

If you have to think about it, it isn't worth it. You'll know when it is time to refactor your infra.
Was the reaction to that excerpt of Karikó's book really that bad? The author mentions one deleted tweet, but nothing else specific.

I ask because I hear/read very similar things to what she wrote from people in all kinds of fields (not just STEM or academia).
That's even worse, then you have to start over with name recognition/PR. That is almost certain death.
the sugar content of a McDonald's bun is public knowledge

Their competitive advantage has nothing to do (or at least extremely little) with recipe trade secrets. Any professional test kitchen could reproduce any McDonald's item within weeks
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook?
Ask HN: What about the P=HP problem?
I've been thinking about a practical take on the P = NP problem. Traditionally, it's about whether problems that can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by one. But what if we framed it in terms of human verification?

Imagine this:

P: Problems that can be quickly solved by algorithms on modern hardware.
HP: Problems where solutions can be quickly verified for truth by humans (or algorithms).

The real-life P = NP question: Can every text generated quickly by an algorithm (news summary, scientific claim, legal doc) be quickly verified for truthfulness by a human or automated system?

How would this approach change our current methods for verifying the accuracy of generated content in journalism, academia, and law?

What are the potential limitations or challenges in framing P = NP this way? What better models do you have?
There are hardly any jobs like that in the world. It would also be hard to create them via some state intervention, because it's very hard to create "meaningful, high impact, high autonomy" via bureucratic process.
It might demonstrate partial in-orbit refueling. If everything goes optimally right in payload capacity of Starship, it takes 8 refueling flights to completely refuel Starship. Achieving fast launch cadence and the full 150 ton payload Elon has announced will take years, assuming refueling is fast enough to prevent boil-off of significant amounts of fuel and waste due to incomplete transfer.

Early design choices and the goal of 100% rapid reuse of the upper stage makes Starship depend on everything going right on a large number of parameters.
Ok, robots are my day job. :) General purpose robots that are useful for any purpose in any environment are incredibly hard to impossible. But, if you constrain either the environment they have to work in, or the actions they have to perform, things get a LOT more manageable.
Cool site! What are the main use cases for this?
Has this already been cleaned up? I opened the link and it did not redirect. I viewed source and I do not see "<meta http-equiv="refresh"...." in there.

(Using Firefox)

EDIT: nvm I see my sibling comment just now.
Canada's parliament rocked by allegations of treason and foreign interference
Great idea! Love the simplicity.
I think you mean "hn" tld?
I disagree. An electromagnetic paradigm of cell life is critical to understanding predictive molecular dynamics, particularly where cellular neural recruitment is concerned. Moving passed mass and unto the mathematical perfection of electromagnetic radiation - as idealized as realized in the electrical engineering sciences - demonstrates its exaltedness in theoretical application.
Not sure and IANAL but the GDPR text is a bit weird on that. Article 9 has section e) which says that information 'manifestly made public' relating to 'special categories' is excluded.

What's weird is there seems to be no such exclusion for personal information which does not relate to special categories.

Having this 'opt-in' certainly seems to tick the box for consent.

However, if reproducing information from a publicly available bio would fall foul of GDPR requirements, then I think there are bigger fish to fry than a hobby project made by a guy who at least seems to trying to respect people's preferences.
They can pay because they had make a mistake or don't have a knowledge.
For example I was working with a team of 6 creating a project for a bank that was discontinued after 3 months, without any reason and code was simply deleted.
I wonder how much time I've spent staring at the words "Website found, waiting for reply..."
As a young “Business Analyst” (1990s QA), when a defect was reported at Insurance Co, we had to make some guesses about what might be wrong and request a “scan” from the COBOL programmers, which returned output in the form of green-paper printouts of dozens of insurance policies with similar attributes with some policy values - this took about a week. I would then have to go through each line, pull out a physical rate tables book, and calculate what the policy values should be, going back and forth to a CICS 3270 terminal to get data for calculations and check stuff. If I found enough other policies with the same defect, I could either narrow down for a second scan or report the problem if I was confident.

As a new liberal arts college grad who wrote in basic on the 486, and knew everything, this was NONSENSE.

Network Security didn’t exist here, and neither did internet access. I found code for a Win32 netbios share scanner on some forum (Code-Something iirc), and smuggled it in on a CD with Borlands free C compiler to load on my Windows95 PC. Looking through every file in the building was how I spent free time that summer. One day I came across some huge binary files that looked important, which ended up being the Btrieve database daily backups (*.btr). They were fixed record binary encoded in some EBCDIC text thing (this took me a month to figure out) and I was able to write a small C program to dump them to CSV, which I imported into MSAccess and learned SQL in the process (and C, I guess).

Not only did I never need a scan again, but never needed to access the terminal and could write VBA to perform math. Instead of doing the mindless old process, I spent my time typing rate sheets into excel and completely automating my job. Of course I never told anyone. My next job was junior developer, somewhere else. I never did find any of the system code on that network, only some Delphi tooling. The programmers at least were security-minded.
All true, but that wasn't what we were talking about. It's which looks dumber.
> My parents had the Desiderata on the back of the toilet door.

An addendum about the merits of fiber, hydration, and exercise could also help in difficult times.
For additional anecdata, I've had the same experience at the government-run Indiana BMV, and most recently, was able to go in and renew my plates from a kiosk in the lobby without waiting or talking to a human at all. When my wife changed her name and renewed her plates, the whole process took about 10 minutes, including sitting and waiting to talk to one of the 20 or so humans working there.
Surely the latter is a function of the former.
Apple's Steve Jobs told Starbucks's Howard Schultz to fire his leadership team
I will steal this
Big Tech promises are without meaning.
Flagged due to politics, specifically:

> This model for post-disaster recovery can be a lesson for today. The costs of funding the recovery never seems to have been debated. Survivors were not isolated into camps, nor were they forced to live indefinitely in tent cities. There’s no evidence that they encountered discrimination in their new communities.

That's a very different situation than what we see today, and is a completely inappropriate analogy. The survivors of Pompeii moved to adjacent communities about a day's journey from Pompeii. They were not migrants. The best analogy is how we (in the US) have FEMA to handle disasters within American boarders; and how American residents regularly move to different towns / states.
If you mean x86/x86-64 assembly, you can turn on intel syntax.
Yes. The employer/employee relationship is inherently an adversarial one. Each wants as much from the other while giving as little as possible in return.
Nailed it! I want to buy whatever it is you’re building.
Although I wrote "it's something to consider", from what I can see the developer has already considered this sufficiently for the scale of the project.