skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU isn't one homogenous place in terms of local habits and practices.

In at least some countries you can totally get away with being cash only (although less so since the pandemic).
This will get Sherlocked by Apple in 5 years time. DockBall Pro Max.
"Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's graphics card."
That's what I mean when I say adult immaturity is rampant: an adult facing stress does not become nasty, selfish, nor act out creating a new crisis within the active crisis. That is small minded, "I'm the protagonist" thinking. While often a calm discussion with those in charge, communicating with peer-wise empathy, resolves everything.
No, I mean encrypted. I'm not sure what you mean by "obscured", but if you just mean obfuscated in some easily recoverable way without a key, then no. If you read the original post, it describes the mechanism that dotenvx already has in place for encryption.
This has been a complete show stopper for my organization:
https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/10

We've submitted numerous GH issues and even tried to chase the developer down on LinkedIn. But he treats the project like a fun, novelty "gift" to the community and doesn't respect the SLAs that any repo maintainer needs to adhere to for my org to put their free code in production.
What does “going cold turkey on food” look like here? Because I’ve quit a pack-a-day-for-ten-years nicotine addiction, and I’ve dieted by slightly increasing exercise and slightly decreasing caloric consumption to produce a daily deficit of about 250-500 calories in line with mainstream medical recommendations, and I can tell you which I found harder… and it wasn’t drinking diet soda and walking around the block in the morning.
Cloudflare incident on June 20, 2024
Okay, the point I think the poster up there was trying to make is that there are degrees of assault. I never saw anyone murdered, and only twice some sort of physical struggle. The number of times crazy yelling broke out is uncountable by me, though.
Be careful what you wish for. Endowments and foundations aren’t really accountable to anyone and just end up getting taken over by people with their own agendas.
Fascinating, did the EU not have it for regulatory reasons? A/B reasons?
I’ve been homeless. I’ve also been burned out. Being homeless did not magically prevent me from becoming burned out in another stage of my life.
it implies revenue, not profitability
I agree with you, but do you know that there are at least 7 countries right now where capital punishment is a possible penalty for same-sex sexual conduct[1]? And this number does not necessarily go down, for example Uganda introduced death pentalty for (aggravated) homosequality in 2023.

[1]And 5 more countries where the law regarding death penalty for homosequality is unclear.
"smallweb" has been posted on hn in the past if you want to look it up
> I pity the smoker more because they don’t have to smoke but feel compelled to smoke through addiction.

We all feel compelled to eat.

A lot of cheap food does not satisfy hunger for as long as better food.

Just cutting calories in can make you feel less able to do things, so you automatically cut back on exercise.

People differ in many ways: metabolism, genetics, physical sicknesses, mental health, gut bacteria and probably many more things I cannot think of will change how the same diet affects different people, and their ability to exercise.
The most important thing is I have a fixed goal and a paying customer to keep happy :)

The resources are all crap to be honest. Half of them have been obsolete for a year or more and most of the rest look like they're done for self promotion and assume you already know everything. Every public repo you run into has already been forked 3 to 10 times and now you have to find out which one(s) is/are up to date.

I had one of these toys:

https://shop.luxonis.com/collections/oak-cameras-1

They're cameras with a colour cam, two b&w cams that give you depth info (z-distance) and a small coprocessor from Intel that can run a reduced neural network directly on the cam.

The other thing they have is their own API and pretty good documentation for it.

It won't teach you about ML math but you'll get used to loading pre trained models and getting your data out of them. And then you'll move on to training your own model (look at DarkMark for example), converting models between various formats and other stuff like that that I'm still learning.

And you get a pretty fun toy!

Mind, i've only worked with object recognition. I have no idea about LLMs or other applications of neural networks.
Yeah, I was confused by the same thing. It is one thing to promote drugs/alcohol/etc., but what does “traditional lifestyle” even mean.

I have a strong feeling that the answer to this will heavily depend on the region. And for countries that already have similar legislation (which is mostly just various flavors of religious states for now), I will just say, I neither vibe with their idea of “traditional” (women not being able to drive a car or walk in public without a male chaperone, stiffling freedom of speech because badmouthing the politicians and higherups, etc.) nor would want to live there for plenty of practical reasons beyond that. And for non-theocratical states, we got Russia with their prison sentences for “promoting alternative homosexualism lifestyles” (with “promoting” including just silly stuff like displaying the pride flag or posting a pro-lgbtq tweet).

All of those things are done in favor of “promoting traditional lifestyles” (or in favor of “discouraging ‘harmful’ non-traditional lifestyles”, depending on what those governments feel like going with on a particular day). And all I can say is that those places just seem like they would be plain sucky to live in[0] for many reasons beyond that, with their “traditional lifestyle”-related legislation being just a symptom of the larger incompetence and idiocy.

0. Had about 15 years of experience formerly living in one of those places, and can confirm that it sucks beyond belief. And it wasn’t even that bad compared to other more religious and authoritarian places.
Part of my point is that if you care about security, you need to be thinking about these things. Forcing encryption then also forces you to think about how to provide the key. Of course, it's possible to do this in a very insecure way that defeats the purpose of encryption in the first place, but I think it moves things in the right direction.
In my experience it's usually 35-40 hours "butt in seat" time but 1 mins - 5 hours of work actually happen. The rest of the time is dopamine switching between news, personal communications, and other forms of non-work entertainment.

I count checking emails, work instant communications, and working through bureaucracy (paperwork flows) as work, not just hands on keyboard working on software solutions.

Also in my experience there are people who focus on only work at work, and they usually drag others into performing their job function.
I heard Microsoft is working on a subscription service / Teams upgrade
If you look at the average household income in Carmel, IN. Then compare it to, say, Darien, CT.

Then consider, Darien's per capita debt load works out to about 2% of the average annual per capita income. Carmel's per capita debt load works out to roughly 25-30% of its average annual per capita income. (And that's being kind and using the average per capita income. It gets even uglier for Carmel if we do these comparisons at the median.)

Given all that, it's not hard at all to bet on failure.

You can play at being Darien if you have Darien money. If you don't, you're just being fiscally irresponsible. There's nothing about the Carmel story that says 'competence'.
In my experience there are different levels to burnout, with each stage is progressing towards a full-blown one like you described.

Agreed that I also wouldn't trust any self-reported burnout unless the person has experienced a full-blown one before.
Remember Indonesia is an overwhelmingly Islamic nation - in fact the largest one by population. Blasphemy is illegal. Even complaining about the volume of speakers playing the call to prayer for Muslims will get you arrested. Some areas like Aceh explicitly follow Islamic law (like with sharia courts). The country’s beliefs and attitudes towards things like LGB are deeply influenced by Islam. So it isn’t really surprising even though it’s appalling.
When you build that, I will upvote the HN post to that too ;)
Citing Papers in Software (2021)
> The humanity has been taken out of jobs.

Absolutely, but...

The humanity was taken out of jobs before, too. An assembly-line job wasn't like being a craftsman. There was "alienation" (to use the Marxist term) there too. The factory workers were just biological components of a big machine.

The difference between then and now was that much of the rest of life still had the humanity in it. You knew people in your neighborhood, at your church, at the bar, at the barbershop, at the grocery store. Now... not so much. There's no humanity anywhere. So people feel alienated, not just at work, but everywhere.

But they feel it especially at work, because that's the place that they interact with other people the most, so it's the place where there should be the best chance of real human contact. And it's not there.
Giant Steps is a great suggestion, I second this.
Pivot maybe? Direct, undifferentiated competition with a giant company is never a good idea.
Oh they’re the best
That's some hyperbole right there, I'm just saying that they get paid less than they could and generally have worse working condition that they could have, that's all. Again, that's okay if they are aware of this tradeoff.

> There's no shortage of full stack developers globally willing to work for cheap.

That has to be the worst argument here, even Microsoft themselves outsources their own .NET work to India.
That's not burnout you had, you were bored out.
And who pays the merchants and banks?
Is it creating more poverty or “attracting” poverty from somewhere else? If it’s the latter, it’s not increasing the global level of poverty, just the local level.

I would expect a well governed municipality to have the ability to absorb, and ideally mitigate, an increase in low-income populace. To me, raising the lower-limit of quality of life is one of the measures of a good government. I’m just not sure artificially raising it by expelling poor people, or making their life miserable so they expel themselves, is actually doing that on a larger scale. Rather it’s a bit of poverty shell game. Granted, there is a tipping point by which any system will become unstable if it absorbs too much, but again, I think a measure of good governance is the height of that threshold. The discussion about Carmel seems to indicate their threshold is low.
> it’s far higher for certain subgroups. ... and deskless workers

I'm still happily doing a fully remote job, but I've noticed that a number of my friends have been forced to return back to the office 2 or 3 days a week. The irony is that many of their companies have scaled back office space due to decreased natural demand when people had the choice of full-time WFH, but now there isn't space for everyone to come back to the office full-time, even if those employees wanted to. So now, they've lost their desks but have to come in and hot-desk twice a week. One friend has to carry around a heavy laptop (not a powerful one, just a heavy one), the power supply AND a dock (because the hot desk docks aren't compatible), plus all the pens and stationary he needs to and from work twice a week. He used to love being in the office and now hates it. If desklessness really does lead to increased rates of burnout, companies will be setting themselves up for an even bigger problem a year or two down the line.
There aren't that many folks who publish even workshop papers. Most folks are scared of academics and hope to raze their way to ML just with dev skills which is unlikely to work as they won't be able to grasp the concepts they need to implement, especially if they work on anything <2 year old. $150k is also on the low end.
>> So we can use explicit examples to demonstrate that certain proofs are impossible

> Nonsense. The independence of an axiom shows in general nothing about what you can and can not prove. A statement can just be false and therefore unprovable.

You clearly know about these things, but I think you have not seen my intended meaning. It's easiest to use the example of Euclidean Geometry to clarify.

We have axioms A1, A2, A3, and A4. We want to prove A5 from these. But we can show that it is impossible to do so by creating a system (for example, spherical geometry) wherein A1, A2, A3, and A4 are all true, but A5 is false. The existence of this system then shows that A5 cannot be proven from A1, A2, A3, and A4.

Thus the explicit example of spherical geometry shows that it is impossible to prove A5 from A1, A2, A3, and A4.

I wonder if your deeper knowledge of the subject is leading you to expect more of my statements than what I'm actually saying.

>> Banach-Tarski Theorem is a result that proves that a "Measure"[0] cannot have all four obviously desirable characteristics.

> The important point is that it can't have these properties on all sets.

Yes, that is one of the four desirable properties.

* Measures 1 on the unit object;

* Countably additive;

* Isometry invariant;

* Defined on all sets.

We can't have all four of these, even in one dimension. But if we relax "Countable Additivity" to "Finite Additivity" then we can have all four properties in one dimension, and in two dimensions. What the Banach-Tarksi Theorem shows is that even with the relaxation in property two of Countable to Finite, in three dimensions we still can't have a measure with all four desirable properties. That's why we don't relax that property, we relax property four, and no longer require the measure to be defined on all possible (sub)sets.
With our help. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelic...
Interesting, is this in the US? Would you mind sharing which, if so?
MS ... Ball for Teams! :/
> If the data "belongs" to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?

We could, but if the data size is not that huge, sending it once to the client and then letting the client perform the queries can be desirable. The tool works without internet access, the latent is much better, all results are coherent etc

> If the data "belongs" on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a "data-lake" structured db, at all?

Just because it fits in memory doesn't mean that the shape of the data does not matter. A data structure optimised for whatever query/analysis you want to perform has a significant impact on how fast and efficiently you can perform those operations
I wonder if this shift is due to the web. Everybody can read medical terms and interpret it as they want.
Criminal Case No. 1:24-Cr-00014 USA vs. Julian Paul Assange: Plea Agreement [pdf]
Very doubtful that this would raise a relatively meaningful sum...
You are in the minority. Out of 392 people in our internal CoP group that uses Teams on a weekly basis for our checkin, in a poll, 276 asked to switch off Teams to something else, and only 5 people wanted to remain. My guess is that you'd be one of those 5. Sadly in this IT ecosystem, the minority rules.
I still believe HyperCard is the most productive development environment for end user applications ever made.
I agree that is what should happen. That is not what dotenv does though: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv#-documentation
Google makes so many things - I wonder why they didn't bother to build a simple programming language that is specifically suited for managing configs.
There is like a multi decade lag between walking less and health issues. There's no way you're going to see correlations like that.

Hell I doubt you will even see much correlation between car ownership rates and miles driven in a car or walking distances but at least that's a correlation that you might possibly see in data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_documents_leak_o...
For sure, especially under an article about LGBT, its super clear what this means
> Society has to find a way to promote traditional lifestyles

Whenever I hear “traditional lifestyle” it usually means patriarchy and keeping women as slaves
I tried https://shell.duckdb.org/, but it was a very rough experience.

The "delete" button does not work. The "home" button inserts a whitespace. Pasting with "Ctrl+v" also does not work. Every keypress results in blinking, and there is a notable input lag.

When I tried a query

duckdb> SELECT * FROM 'https://clickhouse-public-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/github_events/partitioned_json/*.gz'
...> ;
Catalog Error: Table with name https://clickhouse-public-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/github_events/partitioned_json/*.gz does not exist!
Did you mean "sqlite_master"?
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM 'https://clickhouse-public-datasets.s3....

Suggesting the "sqlite_master" database is also misleading.
Eh, I don’t think that’s the underlying question.

I think the underlying question is ‘when would such a course of action (interstellar travel) be more preferable than the alternative’.

We could have growth to near infinity and still have interstellar travel be inferior to all our other options, based on our current understanding of physics.
This isn't really true. WhatsApp was used pre-acquisition and continues to be dominant throughout LATAM, Africa, and Europe in addition to US/NA. Only in the APJC region and Russia do we see significant divergence in messaging apps.

Having traveled extensively in these places, I always theorized it was due to UX behavior aligning well with the local languages. While the countries WhatsApp dominates speak different languages, they all use the Latin alphabet. In Russia and APJC there are many non-Latin alphabets used and those languages may also use different directions for writing/reading than Romance and Germanic languages.
> Title insurance is a much bigger scam/cost.

I wouldn't cut out Title insurance, I have two friends for whom it saved low 7 digits each due to fraud in one case and liens in another.

It's incredibly important in today's market and I can't see how you can call it a scam, unless you also view car/health/life insurance as a scam as well, in which case we just disagree:)
The possibility of "character" is always my biggest dread when getting into a taxi or an Uber.

I just want to get from point A to point B without having to make small talk or delicately navigate a political discussion with a stranger. A stranger who both controls the vehicle and, in the case of Uber/Lyft, will be giving me a rating at the end of the ride.
All of those products were actually rather difficult to implement, to the point that they were job creators. It's honestly a case study for saas dominance: some ornery cludgery dying to 'it is a website'
My comment was not about the price but the fact that they say it’s regulated in Italy and then they say “go neoliberalism”. Got confused.

Updated my comment to reflect that.
At least in the UK this is done as well as pulling your credit score, traditionally it's not a factor feeding into your credit score. Banks check both your history of paying off debts and your ability to continue doing so, it doesn't matter how good your score is, if you ask for an unsecured loan that's 20x your annual income over the next 5 years it's going to get refused.

This is all somewhat complicated by recent products from credit agencies, which make use of the Open Banking standard to pull data direct from your bank accounts and use that data to feed into credit scoring as well.
You should try fast.ai practical deep learning for coders part 1 and 2. It's quite dated 2022 but the principles you learn are very valid and highly useful in today's context. Especially self attention, transformers and the newer architectures based on these concepts.

Many who have done the fast.ai course have pivoted their careers into not only ML engineers but also research scientists.

It's not an easy course so to speak so you have to work through it in your spare time.

Since you are interested in deploying/scaling feel free to jump straight ahead to lesson 2 of part 1. Jeremy is an awesome teacher. I don't like or come from academia so I find his style of teaching very wholesome.

https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/lesson2.html
It actually is often rewarded quite well, just not to the one doing the work.
The elephant in the room here is companies who "do their chat and collaboration" on Teams. If you work in an organization with 10,000 people using Teams, no one is going to join your Google Meet meeting - if you're even allowed to create one.

As someone who uses Teams all day for work, I have to say since they created the "New Teams", the performance is a lot better and especially if you also use OneDrive, Outlook etc. it is a very streamlined and handy tool.
It would go against their operating license for a remote driver to completely take over control of the car. The car is always in ultimate control even when it's getting "assistance" from a remote operator.
Installing APT packages from a requirements file
Corporate CISOs revealed to receive kickbacks from VC firm Cyberstarts
I think he's busy bluescreening humans.
Do you mean 1 in 10 paying $150 use the payment and 9 in 10 throw it away?
How Bill Hwang's Archegos' $36B Fortune Crumbled in 72 Hours
Oops! Yes, O(1). Too late to edit, unfortunately.
https://archive.ph/IC3Hj
Or in this case, forcing the gays back into the closet
This argument boils down to:

- database engines should always run on a server, never on the user’s own machine.

- local data is never larger than the database engine, and it’s better in all cases to move all of the local data to the server where the database engine runs.

- local data can always be moved to another machine, regardless of sensitivity.

Buy are these always true, all the time? It seems to me that there are many use cases (e.g. training local AI models) where these rules should not be so absolute.
I actually wrote a blog post about this for experienced software engineers like you who are thinking of transitioning to ML, so I wanted to share it here: https://www.trybackprop.com/blog/2024_06_09_you_dont_need_a_...

I write about various engineers who now work at Meta, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI who made the switch. You can see what strategies and tactics they used to do it.

1) It's "wise" if you find during your personal hours you are enjoying hacking on it. Before I made the switch, I spent a year studying the material on nights and weekends so that was m my first data point that perhaps this is something I wanted to do full time.

2) Yes, I have! And I've been an ML engineer for 7 years now after I made the switch. For context, I'm an ML tech lead at FAANG. Prior to that, I worked in infrastructure and product.

3) One piece of advice I got on this years ago is to join a team adjacent to ML work so that you can get familiar with what production ML looks like. You can also start practicing ML thinking on Kaggle.com.

P.S. You can check out other posts in my blog for resources to learn AI/ML and the math needed for this career, such as my Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML series: https://www.trybackprop.com/blog/linalg101/part_1_vectors_ma... (includes interactive quizzes, fundamentals of vectors/matrices, and a quick intro to PyTorch, an open source ML framework widely used in industry)
Sadly the current one. Most web apps that have a backend database do all of the aforementioned. See e.g. https://amazon.com

Also,

https://www.ebay.com/b/Digital-Cameras/31388/bn_779 -- try choosing a brand

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/video-games/video-games-accesso... -- only loses scroll, probably a winner

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=50001157%20100007671%206013930... -- uses "Apply" button, out of competition, but still better

https://www.levi.com/US/en_US/sale/mens-sale/c/levi_clothing... -- a winner of the "wtf is going on after I click my size" category