skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But at that point you should be at a higher level of abstraction, looking at the number of sprints that will probably be needed to clear the backlog (hopefully understanding that the backlog itself should always be regarded as incomplete). The discussion then should be something like, "Hey, we're four sprints in, the backlog already has about seven more worth of stories, and we only have four more sprints until our target deployment date. Do we cut features, move the date, or add more team members?"

In the pathological case where management is constantly monitoring the team velocity and converting that to individual productivity, you'll get managers who (often to cover their own recklessness in setting an unrealistic date, or procrastinating on starting the project) will decree that the team is going too slow. I know that happens a lot, but it's not the fault of scrum, it's just poor management. Scrum can't make a bad manager good, but avoiding scrum won't make them good either.
N == 1, but after I started taking NR, my slow descent towards presbyopia (I am 45 now) stopped and reversed itself.
In my country, last year it was definitely a candidate's market: I had recruiters reaching out all the time and I got the first job I applied for. This month I've been applying for jobs and not getting interviews.

From the conversations I've had it seems recruiters want someone who has an exact skill match for the job. They don't care what else you have done or how many years you have under your belt it's gotta be the exact list the employer wants.

I'm now optimising my resume (CV) for the job. I summarise the stuff that I think recruiters / employers don't care about.

The other thing I've noticed now is that when a recruiter reaches out quite often that role is not listed publicly anywhere. So your profile on the job systems - linkedin and elsewhere - better look real good or you won't get a call.
Little known random Brian Kernighan facts:

* He joined Princeton’s CS department in 2000 but taught at least one class there as early as 1993 while still at Bell Labs Research (on sabbatical?)

* One of his students regularly brought a 386sx laptop (running pre-1.0 Linux) to class and when Brian was asked more obscure questions about what awk did which he couldn’t remember, the student would run commands in awk and feed Brian the definitive implementation answer. So Brian had some exposure to Linux moderately early on.

* Here’s a writeup from him on putting AT&T’s toll free phone directory on the internet back in fall 1994: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/800.html
This reminds me of some communications training where they were saying that the most things are not worth disagreeing on and just agree with whatever.

And I think I read in some parenting books too that it is not worth correcting kids over things that don't matter like if they say dinosaurs and mammoth were alive during same time. Over-correcting hurts their confidence.

Maybe LLM been trained on these ideas or maybe it is start of science fiction nightmare and AI really think that it is not worth arguing with mere humans.
Most of these dont seem like a big deal

1) IF you wanted a device like this to work seamlessly and magically, it needs to constantly be listening/seeing/sending location. Local inference is where this will actually work, and I don't understand who'd want to give this company money to buy something Apple will make a much better version of in 5 years, but if you do - this is the way to do it

2) We can't hate megacorps and then expect startups to make good products without data. Rabbit would need this data for any chance of creating something better in the future
When I had my first child a decade ago, someone gifted me a PTZ camera that was viewable through a smartphone app.

I set it up, connected it to wifi, and it worked... for about 4 days. Resetting it didn't work. Called the company and they sent a replacement. Same thing happened.

I noticed that it had used UPnP to map a public port to itself. I never tried hitting it with anything, but I made the assumption that it was getting pwned. I threw it away.

That experience makes me agree with your assessment.
If, given you are at the beginning of the "do onsite interview loop" stage, you have a 30% chance of getting an offer, you will need to do NINE of those to have a 95% chance of having gotten >= 1 offer.

So yeah that is kind of a bad deal assuming you already have a full-time job and/or family/kids. I guess if you're single and unemployed then it's not so bad, aside from the fact that being unemployed greatly cuts your bargaining power?
Isn't exactly glowing?

End conclusion is this:

"At the end of the day, if you are looking for a P-core enabled high-performance mini server or workstation, the Minisforum MS-01 is probably the best out there right now."

The review is why I bought the damn thing. But I didn't go for the most expensive option and bought my own RAM and NVMe for it. NVMe I went with a Samsung PM9A3 for filesystem consistency and heavy writes with Proxmox. For RAM I just went with w/e. It isn't ECC, but also not as bad as non-ECC.

Is the machine perfect, no it isn't. For example all the power saving stuff does not work if you want to use the I226-LM NIC 24/7 and that is a bummer. Also, it took 3 months to arrive (approx 1 month longer than advertised). But other than that? Great machine.
Startups are building balloons to hoist tourists 100K feet into the stratosphere
at this point it's been tried and failed to deliver

A trillion dollars of value suggests otherwise.
The "Scientists react to their PhD acknowledgements" video[1] at the bottom is brief (6 m) and sweet.

[1] https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/videos/scientists-rea...
> And yet, Apple still use NSCopyObject themselves to this very day

Of course they do. The existing behavior involves NSCopyObject (for decades at this point) and user code written against those existing APIs, therefore depends on that behavior. Even if removing the NSCopyObject usage would make things "better" in principle, doing so would likely break existing code so it simply isn't an option.

Hence it's deprecated, and all the documentation says "don't use this", but the system still does, not because Apple is being hypocritical, but because it has to support existing code. That's just the reality of providing ABI stability on any OS: sometimes you have to do distasteful things - an example I'm acutely familiar with is with JSC's API on 32bit platforms: the internal representation of js values is 64bit, but the API is 32bit so sometimes accessing a property can result in GC allocation of an object to wrap immediate values.
It was a ver common phrase. I think its been lost to history but right before "TikTok" the phrase "tic tock" was getting popular as a way to say, "the second-by-second run down", e.g. give me the tic tock.
> The downside though is you don't have any preemption, which depending on your usage is a […] massive downside.

Nobody is taking OS threads away, so you can choose to use them when they better fit your use case.
It's hard to believe one of the highest valued companies in the world cares about being shamed for not having open source drivers.
Because there is no higher chance of getting sold a product with a dirty diaper in it from this company than from any of the 11 other products, unless you believe the company sells new diapers with shit inside them.
This is very cute :)

Definitely one of my favorite parts to read of any thesis are the acknowledgements. It’s often a time to lower the “fancy academic” mask and really see the human behind the writing; something essentially impossible with the dressed-up writing of many disciplines!

I believe the first part of my own acknowledgements began with: “There are only a few interesting things in this thesis. Out of all of them, this section might be the most important.”

To this day, this is still true!
Do you have an API?
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nightmare fuel
http://williamcalvin.com/bk9/index.htm

I'd recommend just banging out chapters 1-4 of the book (~60 pages). Lot's of diagrams and I think you'll get the meat of the idea.

Thanks for the feedback!
Do they get to pair with your team on the take-home or are they doing it solo?

I'm not happy working by myself on features/bugs in a codebase that no one will ever. It's meaningless work. If that's the job you're offering, then you're right, great signal.

But I imagine at your company that you work together on a codebase that people are using. That the requirements and bug reports are coming from actual users if not customers. If so, then you may be discarding some good talent who might be better for your company. The ones who will push back on bullshit work because they can see it's not doing anything for anyone.
Amazing, history does repeat itself. One of the companies in my batch (S07) was iJigg (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ijigg), which had the 2007's version of this interface: single upvote, player, and all. It did well and then petered out as many hyper-niche apps did at that time.

Best of luck with this version!
Similar thing. My good friend and early college roommate took his own life with a gun after having a bad trip. I wasn’t there for it, but the way he described it he felt ridiculed and deserted by his old high school friends during the trip. He was left alone to deal with these feelings.

His mood post trip became increasingly abysmal. He became highly paranoid, and started questioning the loyalty of the people close to him like his family. I now know that this was a sign of possible schizophrenia. I now know that dementia runs in his family. He started creating simplistic yet disturbing paintings. I wish I still had them.

This happened in March of 2020, COVID had just become a national concern. I was dating long distance at the time and she wanted me to come up before the airports closed down. Sometimes I regret going. I wish he had gone somewhere so he wasn’t alone. He ended up shooting himself with his grandfathers rifle.

I guess the lesson here is be cautious with drugs that can accelerate mental illnesses if you have a family history of them. Check up on your friends that have bad trips and seem kinda off.
ELI6 why SPAG is better than just the default pretraining method (token context statistics?) of an LLM.
I believe it was buried in their "community forums", which only recently became publicly viewable.
> One of which there will only ever be 21,000,000.

This is a good property of something you want to be scarce, but it's a terrible property for money, whose purpose is to exist in the correct amount to keep stable money velocity in a growing economy. (Or a shrinking one.)
$150k seems high but in reality it’s barely keeping up with the cost of life expenses.

In 1950 a house cost $7300. Average salary was $3000. So you could make 41% of a house in a year. You would be taxed at 17%.

In 2024 the median house price is $420k. So someone making $150k only makes 36% of a house in a year. You will be taxed at 19%.
What's an easier/better way to style an app then? It sure isn't easier with QT (unless you use QSS or QML, both of which are inspired by how you'd build an app on the web).
> Rich people that don't like Black people are Trump supporters.

I'd love to see metrics on this.
A suggestion (to Fastmail): add an indicator to the mail dashboard that warns when there are delivery issues. Currently it just displays as though all is dandy. I was only made aware that I might have undelivered mail because I tried to sign in to a service that emails a login code which never got delivered. It took 20 minutes to trace the problem back to Fastmail. I have to go through a search engine to find the status page. I can easily imagine a more delicate situation where, expecting time sensitive communication from another party, action with non-trivial consequences is subsequently taken based on the belief that it was never sent. Just informing clients that "hey, we have mail that isn't displayed" could go a long way.
Close Encounters with the Amygdala
This is discussed in the Walter Isaacson biography that came out last year. Saying he “hates” his daughter is completely wrong and ignores first hand claims from both Musk and his biographer.

>Musk only learned she had transitioned through a secondhand source

>The wife of Elon's brother got a text, Isaacson wrote, which said: "Hey, I'm transgender, and my name is now Jenna". The text from the child, as in the biography, added: "Don't tell my dad."

>The biographer said that Musk was "generally sanguine" when he found out she had transitioned but was hurt when she cut off communication with him.

>The rift pained him more than anything in his life since the infant death of his firstborn child Nevada," Isaacson wrote of Musk's feelings about his relationship with his 19-year-old daughter.

>Isaacson said that Musk blamed the disconnect between him and his daughter on her schooling at Crossroads, a private school she attended in Los Angeles. Musk has made similar comments publicly.

>Last year, he told the Financial Times his daughter didn't want to be associated with him because of what he called the "full-on communism" taught in schools.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-comments-relations...

This all explains why he has had such an anti-woke streak, he blames the ideology for poisoning one of his kids against him.

Definitely recommend reading the biography, it’s very interesting.
Did you miss the whole first part of the article talking about how cows are getting it? Once something moves from birds to cows to people, it can pretty quickly spread among people. Just because we've only had 3 or 4 documented cases in the last year doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of more or that there isn't the possibility of a lot more.
Why are you doing all those things and what jobs are you applying for? Can you solve fizz buzz in an interview setting?
This is an awesome write up. I especially love the Newton analogy. Thanks.
Hello, OP here. We didn’t yet have access to a proper critical commentary and did our best with the image captions, although our best was a rather poor job in this case — much trickier than anticipated. I went to the Berlin Staatsbibliothek today for research and new captions will go live tomorrow. (Although even the experts are confused as to what the “Jerusalem artichoke” image is supposed to be — they suggest watermelon or cucumber.)
I would say Ken Thompson and Steve Johnson are the closer.
On one hand I agree. Big corporations are doing this too. On the other hand:

1. This is just a tiny fraction of the violations they've done.

2. I trust big corporations to have better data categorization and secure storage.

3. If big corporations misuse data, they are liable to a pretty large class action lawsuit. There's not much recourse in the case of Rabbit.

4. There's no good reason to collect and send cell tower data back to their servers for their use case.
I've been looking for a camera to recommend for use with my open-source NVR. [1] This sounds promising, but I have a few questions.

* What's the status of Uniview? Are their cameras allowed in the US under the 2019 NDAA? still receiving FCC approvals since the Secure Equipment Act of 2021? Does Uniview participate in the Uyghur genocide?

* Do you have any models with large sensors, e.g. 1/1.8" or wider? I prefer good night performance if possible, which I believe requires each pixel to be physically somewhat large. There are a lot of many-megapixel cameras with 1/3" sensors out there, which aren't so great there.

* What's the pricing? Your camera page [2] has "contact us for info" instead of a price, and when that happens I usually assume it's too expensive for the DIY crowd and drop out.

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

[2] https://monitoreal.com/product/monitoreal-perimeter-cameras-...
I read this comment in the spirit of "you might not have known that K did much more that write awk, but he's a genius." Which I didn't know, so I appreciate the context.
>Hiring manager: "So, no $X experience then" *jots something down and you know you just failed the interview"

I've had that happen before. It seems like many hiring managers just look for those who check as many boxes on the application as possible, without regard for which of those skills are actually needed for the position.
What you are describing is a forwarding DNS query resolver, which can be configured to directly answer queries without forwarding them upstream in the DNS hierarchy. This is sometimes used for ad-blocking, but the archetypical example is the DNS resolvers your ISP usually provides. Their purpose is to forward your queries to the nameserver responsible for the zone you ask about.

Domain registrars, however, usually do not operate forwarding DNS resolvers. They typically only answer queries for zones that they are responsible for, and give you an NXDOMAIN response for anything else. For this reason, nobody would use a non-forwarding DNS as a resolver for their computer since it would make it near impossible to reach hosts on the Internet (unless you happen to query a record for one of the zones they provide service for).
In the sense that it's a physical process triggering mental reactions.
Err. Via Eden&Nano? SiS? NS/AMD Geode? Transmeta Crusoe? Jurassic Atoms & Celerons?

That seems interesting for retro-computing, but not really for anything current running on them. Be it for lacking instruction-sets, or peripheral ports.
Imagine thinking being generally sociable and polite is in any way, at all, a negative thing.
sounds like a circle to me
With Matrix I log in and see all of the messages that were sent to me (or in the chats in in) while I was offline.
My understanding is that IRC doesn't do that.
So if I want to have a long running series of searchable chats that happen even when I'm offline then IRC isn't going to cut it.
Mushrooms are very contradictory in their nature to the modern "cog in the machine" lifestyle. It's a bit like being subjected to a software fuzzer. I imagine if learning from one's inputs, one will be afterwards less sure of concepts one was very sure about, but also less sure about concepts thought previously to be impossible. That will surely increase cognitive load, especially when one's life is pretty straightforward.
I never said every firm has to use Python, I said every developer needs to know Python basics. I'm old enough to remember a time when every developer needed to know Pascal, even though very few firms actually used it. It was simply a universally known language to assess one's skills. So it is today with Python.

WRT your rant against Python's used of indentation, most people I know aren't a fan, but editors take care of it and it's rarely an issue. It's not a problem for a whiteboard exercise.
Another example along these lines: scurvy! [1]

They found it was cured by lemon juice, but they didn't understand the details. Over years, they switched to lime juice (less vitamin C), put it in copper pipes (leaches vitamin C). But ships were faster so there was more fresh food available, masking the problem. Then scurvy starts mysteriously popping up again 100 years after it was first "cured."

Hard to keep track of the effects of all the details in the face of various co-dependent things changing simultaneously. Recipe for surprises.

[1] https://www.bluesci.co.uk/posts/forgotten-knowledge
One of the two dying parties will elect a president later this year. There's no viable new path that fits the timeline, so it's either old thinking or risking the more popular of two evils getting the White House (now, with Extra Powers!™ granted by the SCOTUS) and the not too far fetched possibility of a lot of civil unrest because of it.

The US is a nice country. It'd be a shame if it fell prey to itself.
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Yep, How to make your smartwatch not have half of its interesting features.
Biden could be a literal corpse come election day and his cabinet/admin will still not paywall NOAA so why does that matter?

Both Trump and Biden are abysmal picks, for rather different reasons, but come November 9th, one of them will be chosen as the winner, because that's how the American electoral system is designed. If you don't like either of them, it doesn't matter. They still have explicit visions and plans for the future of the country, and surely you like one more than the other right?

People need to get this "perfect candidate is the enemy of the least-worst candidate" shit out of their head. The American political system was designed by a bunch of ethics and philosophy turbo nerds with an insanely optimistic view of how humans organize, a blatent neglect of already understood problems (refusing to create a term limit for the presidency even as Washington was trying to avoid being president for life, choosing to take no preventative action against the formation of political parties despite them obviously forming before the constitution was even finished, no formal system of succession, even though politicians were still dueling each other), and zero systems engineering or practical experience. It is flawed in all the ways you would expect a student project from first timers will be.

This stupid system is the one we are stuck with, and by design it can only be changed by participation, unless you are fine with murdering half your neighbors to enact a populist revolution and also convince everyone else to murder half their neighbors in your populist revolution.

Staying home isn't a protest. Not voting doesn't hurt anyone but yourself. Choose the direction you want the country to go in.
What's odd about it? I'm not sure I understand what you are implying.
And if you have a bad day, tough. That's one job you won't be getting. No one ever said that life is fair.

No one is building a panel around pleasing anyone. If you have a member of your team who is particularly skilled in any area, it would be foolish to not take advantage of it.
Smart camera. Attach a microphone and speaker with the camera. Any movement at odd times and you get a WhatsApp video call on your cell phone. You can watch the other person and can talk to him, "Hay! what are you doing at my home?"

I was wondering if that's already available or not.
Humans aren't the only primates with this trait. It's all the Haplorhini.
I think the most common way to try to insult someone right now is to call them a "con artist", and this can sometimes get very silly, but the core kernel underlying that reality is that we've built a world by and for people whose only skillset is bullshitting each other (Sometimes with fancy graphs, soaring speeches, business school language stripped of its context, lots of ways to skin that cat but they're all bullshit), and everyone else is doing quite poorly in it
LSD is better, sorry :/