skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi there,

I'm one of the ones that got caught with a PIP. My supervisor, team leads, co-workers, and other colleagues all had great performance reviews for me. And then suddenly the PIP. I found out later that it was probably related to some medical issues I have, which explains why it came out of nowhere.

> But at the same time, decoding what 'business language' means in real-world terms is an essential skill in today's market.

Yep, still struggling with that. I'm the child of hippies that wasted all their time filling my head with religion, rather than survival skills, and so being prepared for "business language" is still challenging. Heck, I'm a Millennial, and I haven't had any career office talk to me about how key LinkedIn is in finding work and networking. I had to go find the research myself, and take action to get myself up to speed.

I can't really guess at all the factors keeping me and my cohort out of professional life, but it does happen, quite a lot. Maybe it's not visible to everyone because we're so absent in professional settings. For example, at my last job at a big company all of my colleagues were either 15 years older than me or 15 years younger than me, with only a single exception. That is a pretty clear pattern, and does explain why my experiences and those like me might be absent from the discourse surrounding professional work.

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Edit: Actually, that got me thinking. What if we're looking at some sort of evolutionary process? For example, consider a population of people, and assign the trait of "understanding business language" to some of them at random. Then at each time step prune out of some of them that lack that trait. Then, after n-time steps you're left with a population that is almost entirely made-up of people with that trait. And as the people left in the population all have the survival trait, the equilibrium state is a professional class of people that were lucky enough have the trait in the first place. And so, from the perspective of someone in that population with that trait, over time, they would see only others that had the "common knowledge" of that trait, and perhaps assume that the trait must be present in most people given the "False consensus effect" [1]:

> is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to "see their own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances".

Fascinating if true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
Make the easy, easy and the hard, possible.
ISTR he was there on a book tour? Ready to talk politics. Got a bunch of linguistics questions.
You think that voice carries more weight than a golf junket?
> fundamentally that's what we're all here to do.

I'm sure that I'm misunderstanding what you mean here. Do you really mean that fundamentally everyone is trying to get ahead by gaming the system?
I do agree that data teams are probably not going to disappear in the short term, and their understanding of the structure of the data they work with is even more important than their SQL syntax skills.

But that said, I think we can do better than just static dashboards. What I'm trying to do with https://sql.ophir.dev is to let the same data teams write apps instead of dashboards. Apps are more flexible, and allow deep dives and navigation to a level that is not possible with just a dashboard.
Why should I use Swift instead of Rust?
Threads Isn't Twitter. It Has the Potential to Be Better
"Was Hans nicht lernt, lernt Hänschen nimmermehr."

german, roughly - "What Hans did not learn, his son will never learn."

It is so obviously wrong as a generalized truth but painfully accurate on occasion. Cool about it: The reaction of others towards this saying is a great signal on their views regarding life, society and education.
In Australia we've been able to do BSB (simpler domestic version of IBAN) for decades, and we introduced NPP 6 years ago. All banks now have instant transfer between each other via the BSB method or via your own unique identifier you can pick and give out (your phone number, email, etc).

The focus on P2P pay makes me think that despite how profitable Google and Apple are, their mindset is still US centric which is surely not the country the majority of their profit comes from, given their global reach. Surely they leave money on the table constantly with this focus?
Not necessarily, use it for testing only (not production) and you will be fine.
My Pixel 6a has a toggle in settings labeled "Allow 2G". It does have a note saying it may help you connect in situations where reception is poor, and that it may potentially be used for emergency calls even if you turn it off.
WWDC 2024 Platforms SOTU: Swift is the best choice to succeed C++
There's no thesis, we're just talking. I don't understand why I got called names and hostile responses. Meh.

The second part of your reply is great, I figured this would be the place to ask somebody who knows about it. I wish you'd have started and ended with that. I'm one of those very nerds who never cared about who wants to sleep with whom.

I must note that on occasion trans techies are aggressively hostile to none trans techies and I don't appreciate it anymore than you do when it flows the other way.
Code is written once but read a thousand times.
This is almost certainly a standard supply/demand curve problem. Especially when you factor in that the supply side is in rather heavy flux and that the optimization side of supply has not caught up to the advancement side of it.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward
Then I'll take this opportunity to ask someone who presumably considers themself sane: How do you determine what kind of interaction counts as a measurement?
Once again a note taking app that should have been an Obsidian plugin.
AdGuard has been working well enough for me.
I proved a topology theorem in a dream once.

Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had been bugging me all day long, and I suspected it'd be featured on the next morning's (way too early) final exam for my university course. I solved it in my dream, woke up, wrote on my whiteboard what I remembered and sure enough, it was correct. I worked it a few more times to cram it into my memory before running to my exam.

To my great delight, the ability to prove that theorem was featured heavily in one of the exam's questions, and helped me do quite well on the exam overall.
It's very much a "death by a thousand cuts" situation - I'm not a fan of the removal of 1Password mini which was my primary interaction with 1Password, especially for the common workflow of password generation/account lookup.

It seems their focus is to drive this into the browser extension but that doesn't cover all of my use cases - I very often need to generate a login password _outside_ the context of a browser and doing so now requires me to open the application and create a new password and save that record while before it was one click away in the menubar.

I'm also annoyed that we're no longer able to define which vaults are included in "all vaults" and the inability to simultaneously disable the browser extension from injecting their UI into websites (the login icons, blue input fields, etc) while keeping the prompt to save a login when a new one is detected.
Oracle is in the business of selling career insurance for executives.
"discrimination was not tolerated by mgmt in the latter 90s"

That's a really nice thought. Having lived as a trans woman in the 90s, it does not match reality though.

Management is, always, a mixed bag. More and more managers indeed do not tolerate discrimination, but even in the face of policies, it exists. It certainly existed in the 90s, in very large patches.

As for corporate policies, IBM added theirs (gender identity specifically) in 2002. HP had GLEN in 1995 - "Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual employee network". You'll note gender identity isn't part of that, though. (And bisexual is a silent B, I guess ;) If anybody knows when they included gender identity, I'd love to hear about it!

Before that, it was patchwork-y, and your best bet was finding a corner of the corporation that was supportive. And never raising your head to far, just in case. (Many of us did anyways, but more often than not, that had indeed the expected outcome)

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy and grateful HP & IBM were at the forefront of these policies. But it wasn't quite as easy a transition.
There’s norway to prevent it
Like I said, take a look at the linked guidelines, they ask you not to write like this in HN comments generally and in Show HN's specifically.
"There are two hard problems in computer science: (1) We have only one joke, and (2) it's not even very funny."
Does it work with vue/vite? I am really hoping someone will make such a solution some day.
We have ones made by Lexon. A non-radio-controlled version of this: https://lexon-design.com/en/product/flip-plus/

It's a nice concept, though the execution isn't perfect. The biggest flaw, which may have been fixed since, is that the power supply decoupling isn't good enough, such that when the batteries get low and the alarm tries to make a noise, the clock detects it as a touch, which instantly snoozes the alarm. We haven't had it since the original batteries though, which were ironically the ones Lexon supplied.

N.B. These are only just big enough to put a glass of water on top, and it might not play well with the touch sensitivity.
A squib is what they use in movies to make something look like it’s been shot with a bullet. Kinda a little flat firework that ejects “stuff” explosively. Actors wear them under their costumes. They’re usually remote controlled
I think it is because they are significantly cheaper than the alternatives.
> but Tesla’s market cap has gone up by $487 billion (almost 10x) since he was awarded that comp package in 2018

The speculation on Tesla's stock raised the "market cap". Any stock that Tesla doesn't own brings Tesla exactly 0 dollars, no matter how hight the illusionary market cap there is.

How much of the stock does Tesla actually own? How much of the stock that Tesla owns can the company safely sell to offset the $45 billion of actual money that they had to cough up for Elon?
The use case you described is essentially the future of all the RPA vendors, too. BluePrism, UIPath, Pega, Automation Anywhere, etc. They all started as screen scrapers & BPML parsers to "automate" processes. With the power of LLMs they become powerful enough to actually automate things (and also put hundreds of thousands of offshore manual tech laborers out of work). BPM automation supercharged by LLMs is systems integrators' nightmare.
Can I make Gtk GUI with this like you can with cocoa on macOS?
My ADHD meds (stimulants) also keep me up. Can be a real struggle sometimes.
yes, although that burden of proof may indeed eventually be met for either phthalates in general or some specific phthalate; as with soybeans, there's strongly suggestive evidence that doesn't yet rise to the level of proof
Wait, now there's two boxes.
More than just a license, free and open source is about us leveraging each other's effort for problems deemed too unprofitable for major companies. It’s required for the authors solution to scale but they don’t mention it.
I initially installed for an ex-windows user that needed something similar to the snipping tool.

I quickly started using it for myself, it's very very convenient.
Yeah it's supposed to be two flash positions only, but I missed that the last one is supposed to flash twice which it apparently doesn't in the gif so that was the confusion.
I liked how they used logic to narrow things down to just what was verifiable and only ended up searching a few spots in the end. It makes me feel like the police should work with them to solve other missing persons cases.
This is super sketch for others on the platform. First hand experience from using OCI - they have severe capacity constraints and need _lots_ of heads up when you want to increase your usage of things. Auto scaling it ain't.

So if OpenAI starts drawing significant resources from their cloud hardware, good luck gettin your own. Including me :)
WWDC24: Go small with Embedded Swift [video]
> Immediate showstoppers are having an open office plan or hot-desking.

Yes. Not just because it's an unpleasant environment (though it is), but it's a sign of major management cluelessness. "Wait: you're hiring me to think, and putting me in an environment that makes it harder for me to think? Um...okay."

The other side of the coin is that there needs to be somewhere to hang out when you do* want company. It doesn't have to be one of these places where every floor has its own executive chef. A comfortable break room with a selection of hot and cold beverages is fine. Snacks aren't necessary if there are food options nearby.
Use .NET's profiler to load DLLs from remote computers
Location: Boulder, CO
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, AWS, Docker
Résumé/CV: roryhr.com/pages/about
Email: roryhr.com/pages/contact

I'm a senior data scientist and ML engineer with 8 years of experience using Python to explore data and build models.
So it's either or, and you are most likely losing the best people by insisting.

Maybe that's fine for you, but maybe not.
I would say that yes, in fact, simplicity is characteristic of Go. That is clear from how the go team considers the impact of every new language feature, often choosing not to do things that would've been considered obvious in other languages. Many parts of the community still resent generics, and there is widespread backlash to the new iterators proposal. Most Go enthusiasts wouldn't be fans of Swift and vice versa.
Ah, but it’s an idempotent joke, so it’s funny no matter how many times you tell it!
What mechanism does the linking use, to establish a unique connection with the intended target mind? Does it ever mis-pair or drop the link? If so, is there a reliable re-acq process?
Yes: https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/
> the disaster that's python package management, that's not where you want to end up

The one where the only sane option is using distribution packages or conda and ignoring anything that the python community comes up with?
Have you read his essays and criticism? This seems like the take of someone who has only consumed his best-known novels.
>without cellphones and without contact most of the trip

Well, that's a big difference. Even traveling 25 years ago it was pretty accepted that, even if I were traveling with a company, I was pretty much not reachable. Among other things, I did a 10 day sea kayaking trip with a company and we'd have been totally out of communication if something had happened. I think they had VHF but it would have been--maybe if there's a ship on line of sight we could possibly reach them.

Today, I think a lot of people would have a problem with the idea that I might be incommunicado for weeks or months.
> They are popular because they offer an easy way to project your own political opinions and biases into them. They are tempting by their simplicity while offering a way to show off how intellectual your are. That thing you don't like? Literally 1984!

That reflects Orwell's status as an observer. He himself did not initiate political action.

> Some of the ideas he partially helped popularize like the concept of language shaping

It's not well known, but "Newspeak" was quite real. During WWII, Orwell worked for the British Ministry of Information. One of his jobs was translating news broadcasts into "Basic English", a 1000 word vocabulary for non-native speakers. Those broadcasts were sent out to the colonies (India, Hong Kong, etc.). Political ambiguity had to be made concrete to fit into the limited vocabulary. Orwell thus discovered that translation into Basic English was a political act.

See "Orwell - the Lost Writings".[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/orwelllostwritin00orwe
little matter called respect
Oh, I wasn't even thinking about recruiting staff, I was specifically thinking about outsourcing technical screening to a third-party company.

I'm specifically thinking of the time I was asked to do a karat technical screen when applying for a position with a small company, and it was a big red flag for me. This is a service that does a remote, screen-share-based technical screening. My view is, you're only going to get a worse outcome with this approach compared to doing the screening yourself: either you're spending a lot of time going through the recording afterward, in which case you might as well have just done it yourself in the first place, or else you are just looking at the feedback by the third party company and deciding based on what they tell you. Since the third-party screener doesn't know you business, product, culture, or tech stack, that seems like a terrible idea.

People will often acknowledge that hiring (or not hiring) is the riskiest thing a company can do, and yet take stupid shortcuts to save a little time on it. That's the mentality of companies I want to avoid.
I think you're just using "transaction" in a different sense than what the interviewer meant; "guarantee that an event happened in addition to a database update" sounds like at-least-once to me, and it's normally what you would want in this kind of system.
My Favourite Gleam Feature
It’s also, what, 3 years of profits by Tesla? Where does the money come from?
"Soap box, ballot box, ammo box. Use in that order."
Regardless of inflation or changes in the money supply, new techniques, new technologies, trade, and population growth can cause the value of everything bought and sold to increase over time. You can measure that value in dollars, or you can look at changes in the quantity and quality of goods and services.
Given there is native C++ interop, is exporting a C ABI still a seemingly experimental/niche feature? Same question with interop between C and Swift.

Recently went with using Kotlin Native over Swift on macOS for this reason, the C ABI export and C interop were painless.
Raycast is also a Spotlight replacement that's very good and has a built-in clipboard history manager.

https://www.raycast.com

Everything that the OP listed it does out of the box (keyboard control, previews, searchable, etc). I'm very confused at what they found it was lacking.
I never thought about it before, but you're right. He's got such an odd presence and unidentifiable accent(to me) in most of his roles, I think he'd be about the best we could ask for.
Used to work at Oracle. They keep winning deals because at the C-level it's about:

- enterprise-grade features

- completeness of vision

- long term viability

- dependable support

- availability of talent

And no, normally they don't want to hear from engineers.
As someone who has been blissfully oblivious to electricity prices due to a 36 month contract at $0.10/kWh, I looked up the recent rates and saw that they're now in the $0.15/kWh range. Makes me a bit more receptive to biting the bullet and just going with solar with battery if this trend is going to continue in that fashion.
> from experience it does to IndexedDB — seemingly even in Electron applications (??).

oh fun! I haven't run into that. But if you're using electron or any platform's local webkit wrapper, then it makes a lot more sense to forgo the browser's storage and directly use sqlite + server-side backup if possible.
Yes I see the last one was supposed to flash twice, but at 2 positions. The explanation is the same though as far as I understood the article, that the brain processes all flashes as a single temporal chunk and that is what causes the temporal re-alignment. It kind of resembles the famous letter-jumbling where you can still read the text if you re-arrange the letters inside the words if you read fast enough.
If they're wearing a suit, why aren't you?
How would this new intermediate be different from SQL?
And at Google we made impossible things possible, but at the cost of making easy things hard.
The concurrency story is quite good now with Swift 6, and it’s arguably easier to handle than the borrow checker, but still very safe.
The reason you can’t tell is one comment up in the thread.
To help you conceptualize how that is possible: 100 years ago the world population was 2 billion, and now it is 8 billion. While the housing stock is also increasing with that population growth, the actual amount of desirable land does not grow as fast. That's why -- for example-- the US gov't in the 1850s could just hand out 40 acre plots of land to people. They can still do that, but it has to be way out in Alaska or something.

A hundred years ago it took much more labor to produce enough food to feed a person. Before the industrial revolution let's say 90% of all people were farmers. In 1850 in the US that was maybe 50% of all people were farmers. So the % of GDP going to food was much higher. Now 1-2 people can feed 100 in the west. That means less of your income proportionately goes to food.

Similar declines in the amount of labor required to produce a thing are happening in manufactured goods. So it may have once taken hundreds of hours of human labor to build a car, but now it takes much fewer.

So the wealth of everyone is going up faster than the supply of desirable land. That does mean people are getting priced out. But also people find ways to live on less land. Before the industrial revolution most families needed a farm to survive. Now many, many families can live in an apartment building in a city that takes way less land.
Been using this for a few years now. First grabbed it because I wanted a linux alternative to ShareX, but now I use it on windows too. It's great!
Housing has elastic demand, right?

Based on prices, you can have roommates, children can live with parents, etc.

Real housing costs could double tomorrow, and people would survive (not happily).
About that...

https://eos.org/articles/ocean-waves-mist-decades-old-pfas-i...
Oracle shares jump on Google and OpenAI deals despite earnings miss
> Packages get rebuilt all the time. This is fine.

You forgot to link the image with the dog sitting in the fire.
They are examples of ideas force fed from the top with the aim of controlling the population, which is sort of a category.

Applying mathematical reasoning to history isn't going to work very well, but knock yourself out.
Why do you think they wouldn't? (I don't keep up with Rust+its community closely enough to know.)
But they do. They do let you choose.

Debian's build of rust packages are linked dynanically, for instance. It's a build setting, you can turn it on.
Yeah, just Apple doing a better job branding. LoRA is an adapter.
My understanding is that T-mobile solved their spectrum issue in the failed deal with AT&T. As part of the penalties of the deal not going through, AT&T had to give them a bunch of spectrum, and some cash to build out towers to deploy that new spectrum.
Cryptophasia
the vast, vast majority of computers do not support the sse instruction set or indeed any of the i386 and amd64 instruction set at all, and the fraction of computers that do support them, other than through emulation, is continually shrinking

gpu instruction sets, arm, risc-v, avr, pic, 8051, fpga... of course, in many cases, these do have a built-in approximate reciprocal square root operation, but probably implemented with this algorithm
> you don’t learn by figuring out a new concept

This.

If LLMs were actually some magical thing that could write my code for me, I wouldn't use them for exactly this reason. Using them would prevent me from learning new skills and would actively encourage my existing skillset to degrade.

The thing that keeps me valuable in this industry is that I am always improving, always learning new skills. Anything that discourages that smells like career (and personal) poison to me.
Or we just go back to 5 years ago Elon where he tweeted about rockets instead of far right conspiracy theories.
I love this old interview.

If you skip to the very last question at 26:50, it is a little bit poignant, considering this news.

https://youtu.be/hdUbIlwHRkY?si=cRpz8f9m7YDh_6G-