skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear prospective immigrant,

Thanks for the offer, but we have plenty of highly-skilled workers in the US already. Unless you're a medical doctor, that is.

Cheers!

The Unemployed (and Forgotten) Masses

(Note: I'm not unemployed, but was for a several months until earlier this year.)
Can spray-foam insulation be a moisture barrier, though? My guess is no, it cannot.
> Not infinite value, just any value versus 0 value.

I'm not a fan of Patreon by any means, but it seems pretty silly to me to argue that Patreon offers literally zero value to consumers. Patreon's interface is still better than using Paypal to subscribe to a creator. Patreon still offers me as a user a modicum of privacy, I don't have to give my billing address to every creator that I support.

You don't have to like the platform, but zero value? Do you really believe that?

> but you personally can’t force creators to drop Patron which is why they can be so toxic.

I also want to push back on this a little bit. I know creators on Patreon, and most of them don't like the platform. You know why they use Patreon? Because it's the only place anybody goes to subscribe to content. If you set up a Ko-Fi account as a creator, you will receive a fraction of the subscriber-base that you'll receive on Patreon.

I'm not saying this to say that Patreon is somehow justified in its abusive behavior, but it's kinda silly to argue that the only reason Patreon is popular is because creators prefer it. Subscriber preferences play a huge role in this, and the fact is that most subscribers refuse to use alternatives.

If creators felt confident that they could move to platforms like Ko-Fi, Gumroad, Subscribestar, Librepay, etc without permanently losing all of their subscribers, they would. They'd leave in a heartbeat. Fewer fees, better websites, less VC-weirdness: creators don't really like Patreon. And many of would be able to move if it was worth their while; Patreon doesn't (as far as I know) have any restrictions on joining parallel donation platforms. But every time I've seen a creator do that, the majority of their revenue continues to come through Patreon. Subscribers refuse to leave the platform even when other options are being advertised to them.

There is a little bit of a chicken-and-egg problem in that some creators end up only using Patreon because it's the only platform that brings in enough revenue to make it worth their while, which in turn means it's the only place to subscribe to them -- and yes, that can help reinforce network effects as well. But the biggest thing keeping creators on Patreon is consumers themselves.

If you want creators to leave Patreon, you do actually have at least a small amount of agency over that: find the creators you follow that are on multiple subscription platforms, and subscribe to them on those alternative platforms. By and large, most consumers are not willing to do that.
These charges are quite high compared to most places in the US. I pay somewhere around 11 or 12 cents USD per kWh and around 50 cents per day in a connection fee (in reality, it's 15 per bill and not adjusted for the number of days being billed).
You cam just ignore the Zone 2 advice as a relatively new runner. It's more useful when you're running high mileage.
German engineering like in the new Berlin airport? Or perhaps the new F125 frigates?

https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-st...

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/late-and-overweight-ge...
Exactly where I'm at. It took a recent offer for ~30% more and all of the same benefits after a multi-stage interview to really slap me in the face with an appreciation of all of the other things aside from salary that I am happy about where I am at. It has taken me about a decade and plenty of other positions to realize how important those aspects are to me.

I once had a shift work job with a lot of overtime. The money was great, but I had an opportunity for a M-F nine-to-five for $20k less per year. I was at a crossroad and asked myself at the time "If someone right now told me I could be at home with my family every night and every weekend for the rest of my career but it cost me $20k/yr, would I pay it?" That helped me make that decision much easier, and now I reversed that same idea. Essentially, I sat down and thought "if I were to lose [great management|no work over 40hrs|remote without geographic restriction|great colleagues and no drama] would I be willing to pay $n to have it back?" It's too easy to forget what our goals were prior to achievement.
At least where I live, you don't own the power you generate via solar. The public utility does. You have to sell it to them at a discounted rate and then buy it back at the full rate.
Rebos: repeatability for any Linux distribution
You would have employees evaluate the managers. You can have outside consultants also evaluate the health of the management --but that can get tricky.
> Probably the same reason the Space Shuttle wasn't cancelled even through pretty early on it was clear that it didn't make sense.
Upper management decisions are seldom made for good technical reasons.

> SLS's existence has nothing to do with upper management. This is the child of Congress who funded it without any sort of mission.

Which is a big part of why Artemis is kind of messed up - neither SLS nor Orion was designed with the mission in mind. So Orion has to go to a relatively high near "rectilinear halo orbit" instead of Apollo's "low lunar orbit" because the SLS/Orion system doesn't have enough delta-V to get to the superior orbit and back.
Putting this here with zero expectations but kinda hopeful there’s a workaround.

I like to keep my hands on my keyboard and I can `command-L` `hn` `return` my way to Algolia quickly from an open browser.

But why oh why doesn’t the search input have focus by default. And since it doesn’t why can’t I type `/` to get focus on the search input. I guess by now the three tab presses should be muscle memory for that but I’m so annoyed by that fact I refuse to internalize it.

Apologies for the random rant
Nifty! Appreciate your sharing that. I’ve managed to work around the few annoyances with remote for the most part but I’ve also accepted mostly that it’s just not going to be quite the same. I guess this is one or two steps closer.
Intel and Boeing. Sad to see greats turn into this.
I think the doomposting is people trying to manufacture a narrative they wish for. Like they want it of fail so they are repeating things about it nonstop to make that its reputation. It’s sad that tribalism goes so far even here on HN.
When people talk about "Zone 2" they generally do not refer to a specific % of max heart rate. The simple answer is at this volume of training (3-4 times a week 30 minutes) don't even worry about it. Just run. Zone 2 is an optimization. Can you talk while running at this pace? Can you hold a conversation? I think it's unlikely you can over-train at this volume though if you've never run maybe you ease into this over a couple of months.

Adding distance/time into your program is probably going to help, as long as you don't feel too tired/sore or that you're over-training

Consider adding interval training to your regime. That's a more time efficient way of improving your VO2MAX (which should translate to your overall performance). E.g. 1-2 minutes 90%-100%, 1-2 minutes walk/slow/jog, x3-5 (this is rough, do some reading and see what works for you).
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If you're a child of the 80's in North America it does!

(Do a google search on the number, without the 0x0 prefix...)
Pop song in the 80s, 867-5309 (Jenny)
A blast from the past! I was in grad school in 2014 when I learned about racetrack memory applications using magnetic skyrmions, they were pretty hot because they were considered topologically-protected spin textures and around that time the Nobel prize was/would be awarded to topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter, so the grant money was flowing, and this guy Matthias Klaui from the article was a bit of hot shit in this niche field I was in.

I remember at the time magnetic skyrmions could only materialize at low temperatures in materials like FeGe that had to be grown in a specific crystalline phase, B20 if memory serves. Fast forward to today and people can nucleate skyrmions at room-temperature using multilayers of more conventional materials, so at least that was some progress.

What never materialized was a disruptive technology, or even a technology. This racetrack memory thing was affected by the most common of magnetic domain wall defects: pinning. The so-called 'topological protection' promise never came true, skyrmions get pinned by defects just like regular domain walls and so then.... poof! I was fortunate to have found failure early on my skyrmion research and moved elsewhere, but at the time, boy was there froth everywhere about the revolution that's coming!

10-15 years later and this thing is still relegated to the lab. And truth be told, I still think this whole magnetic skyrmion thing is the same thing as magnetic bubble domains, it's just that we could study things in greater detail today and learned that these bubbles have chirality, but it always felt like this was more of a re-discovery or further refinement of something already known, rather than this new, hot, revolutionary thing it was hyped to be, but hey, maybe that's how you get money no?

I just find it fascinating how wrong the predictions were, how little of the promise/potential was actually realized, and what a waste of energy to be stressing about these things! Man, grad school was this weird reality-distortion field.
My bad, thanks for clarifying!
It's a reference to a song ("867-5309 / Jenny") by Tommy Tutone. It's pretty dated by now.
Waymo has been doing public rides (2015) since before either company was founded (2016). Pony.ai also got their permit suspended twice in California for different safety-related reasons, so the comparison says more about the different regulatory environment in China than it does about their relative maturity.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

> but sometimes considered offensive if used by a man to a woman he does not know

There are billions of other magic numbers to choose from anyway.
For instance, under GDPR, you have the "right to be forgotten", which means your data (and any traces of it) must be deleted. If an ML model learns from it, perhaps (IANAL) that implies the model must be re-trained when a GDPR deletion request is processed? And it's assumed they are not doing this (because of course they're not)?

Just because the data was once public doesn't mean you are allowed to embed it in a model forever.
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Dated?!

DATED?!

BLASPHEMY!

;-)
The real answer is just don't use apples stuff. The fact that you can fairly trivially just get an android phone and a windows/Linux computer and do pretty much everything demonstrates that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything.

I was an iPhone guy. Switching to Android was honestly trivial.

Apples biggest crime IMO is doing everything possible to hide the 30% tax from common knowledge, not that they charge it.
indeed, thats a good callout. We'll add this to our README over at https://github.com/useblacksmith/remote-buildkit-terraform
Much more than that though, they would have been highly skilled people with thousands of hours of welding high pressure piping and exotic metals. It doesn't matter how slowly or carefully somebody goes, or how much they revere what they are working on, if they aren't experienced then they will turn out poor work.
I'm not convinced they don't. If you look at Lyle's bib when he takes it off and shows it to everyone, there's something on the back. I thought it was another YuGiOh card at first, but then I thought, "That'd be the perfect place to put something to trigger some sort of check at the finish line."
Wouldn't rustc flagging "problematic" numbers prevent arbitrary rust programs from having them in the source?
That isn't what the comment I replied to said. Paraphrasing, they said in present tense, that we have enough alternatives to support the current population and that we can only survive if we eliminate fossil fuels. But the truth is we desperately need fossil fuels now and alternatives are still mostly lame and undeveloped. Furthermore, we need more energy than ever to run AI according to current projections. People on here are quick to condemn people for eating meat but they're fine with dubious uses of electricity for lame AI.
Pass-by-reference means that your callee gets a reference to your local variables, and can modify them. This is impossible in Python. Pass by value means that your callee gets the values of your local variables and can't modify them. This is how Python functions work.

What those values represent and how they can be used is a completely different topic. Take the following code:

x = "/dirs/sub/file.txt"
with open(x, "w") as file:
file.write("abc")
foo(x)
with open(x, "r") as file:
print(file.read_all()) #prints "def"

def foo(z):
with open(z, "w") as file:
file.write("def")

Here x is in essence a "reference to a file". When you pass x to foo, it gets a copy of that reference in z. But both x and z refer to the same file, so when you modify the file, both see the changes. The calling convention is passing a copy of the value to the function. It doesn't care what that value represents.
shouldn’t the runners be facing left then?
Why is that strange? Most jets have many owners, and most are sold when the current owner can no longer afford it. That means that most jets were at minimum owned by a failure. And if you’re the type to believe that all rich people are evil criminals, then every jet was owned by an evil criminal to boot. Or a corporation, which some people regard as even worse. The really scary thing is that it might have been owned by an _airline_.
I'm not terribly familiar with this space, but I do like the concurrency model presented here.

I think the README here is very well written, and I have a good idea of what's going on just from reading it, but there are a few areas where I'm left scratching my head. Thankfully the code is fairly easy to read.
I wonder how much of this is Boeing and how much is NASA. It's very easy to throw Boeing under the bus right now, and they might even deserve it, but at a minimum, NASA deserves blame for not doing due diligence. They're also trying to build something that we've largely forgotten how to build. It's a different NASA, and different Boeing, and design technology and manufacturing is completely different. It isn't reasonable to expect this to go smoothly.
This is a common cause yeah but becoming less of an issue with increasing support for ARM runners.
When recruiters have ghosted me after an interview and then a follow up email from me, I have scolded them with something like, "Hey. I haven't heard from you in a few weeks. I am sure that you are busy, but so am I. I took the time to interview for your position. It is unprofessional and rude not to respond to my follow up."

They almost always respond with an apology, and then I'm sure black list me. I don't much care. I'd rather work with competent caring people. And maybe my scolding will help the next recruit.
Android store is the only one anyone gives a shit about, and even there, to suggest that android is anything but a monopolized store is you living in a land of rainbows and unicorns

We are already seeing it on PC where epic is buying titles. Microsoft it’s trying to make my exact nightmare scenario a reality each passing day.

Just cause you lack imagination of corporate bullshit harming consumers in an unending chain doesn’t mean everyone is unable to see it.
They don't have the thing anymore that you can leave the towels on the floor if you want them changed?
Usually I'm the one making this argument to naysayers. But we're talking about plants of the same genus so there's definitely competition for market space, policy, funding, agricultural land, etc
Semi-related story with some insider baseball:

There are quite a few memorable words you can spell using 32 or 64 bits—like BA5EBA11. This is the story of me -not- choosing one of those.

These bit-pattern words are handy because they’re easy to recognize, especially in a random memory dump.

On my first “real” assignment, I was writing real-time embedded C code for a 16-bit processor that communicated with a host microprocessor on a server. We needed to run periodic assurance tests across a bus to ensure reliable communication with the host since we weren't constantly using the bus.*

We were given an unused register address on the host processor and told to write whatever we wanted to it. The idea was to periodically write a value, read it back, and if we encountered any write errors, incorrect reads, or failures, we’d declare a comm error and degrade the system in a controlled manner.

Instead of using zeros or something like 0xDEADBEEF, I decided to write 0x4D494B45 - "MIKE" in ASCII. It was unique, unlikely to be tampered with, it worked, and no one argued with me. The code shipped, the product shipped, and all was well. We even detected legitimate hardware errors, which I thought was pretty cool.

Fast forward two generations of systems, and long after I’d moved on from that team, the code had been ported around but that assurance test remained unchanged. Everything was fine until they brought up a new generation of systems, flipped on the firmware for that device, and 10 seconds later, my assurance test clobbered an important register. The entire system promptly checkstopped and crashed. It took the team days to figure out what was wrong, and I had to explain myself when they found "MIKE" staring back at them from the memory dump.

That was a fun project. ;-)

* Note: It would've been bad if our device went out to lunch because we were responsible for energy management of the server. If the power budget was exceeded and we couldn't downclock and downvolt the processor, something might have crashed or been damaged.
"UK people swiftly discover the stupidity of a North American practice."
Ditto. I wonder if I can get some sponsors too
I want to see scrappy people with verve vie for glory, not a bunch of overpaid spoiled egotists showing off.

Professionals already get good remuneration, sponsorships and glory --have a forum for the college student and for the guy or gal who really love this one activity on the side so much they're willing to give it their all despite the meager monetary reward.

I goddamned hate these billion-dollar industries contaminating the spirit. I hate the quantization of performance where they're scientifically extracting the last bit of juice that they can out of a body. What the hell is the fun in that?
> a lot of people can run at their lactate threshold for about an hour.

I say this as someone incredibly out of shape, but I doubt any of those people are wiped out by running to the bus stop ;)

> I suspect there are even more basic adaptations one needs to be able to do these very short activities for which a more trained individual can complete anaerobically.

Yeah absolutely, I found it very interesting that weight training is universal in sprinters, it makes sense as metabolic training as well as the actual muscle growth.
Is this just risk seeking behavior (in contrast to risk sensitive)
There certainly are "ultra" routes that essentially require just speed hiking. But the majority of 100+ mile ultras are not like this, and allow capable runners of moving much faster than "speed hiking" pace.
UNO’s enrollment has dropped by 2/3rds since Katrina. What did people think was going to happen to the labor supply?
Blackberry, mustard, mint, oat... I could go on
We know that is what he said immediately, but he also said they could get it started in a few minutes by capping the attendance

Musk claimed they tested with 8M, but the actual attendance was around 115k iirc. It makes me wonder if they tested with internal connections and not through the full production network path in a truly global distributed setup including network and packet failures.

The other thing to consider is the history of Spaces, notably the DeSantis incident which went poorly as well. It is notoriously a low quality audio experience.
> Passing a pointer-by-value similarly seems to be avoiding the point; if you tell me Python is always pass-by-value I'll expect an object I pass to a function to be a copy & not a reference, thus not be able to be mutated, and that's not the case.

That would be a misunderstanding. It would only make sense if you think Python variables are Python objects. They are not: Python variables are pointers to objects. The fact that assignment to a variable never modifies the object pointed to by that variable is a consequence of that, and doesn't apply just to passing that variable to a function.
I think soliciting donations via something hidden/obscure/confusing is a lot more dubious than soliciting them openly. And the very act of using crypto suggests that you're doing something that you know is wrong.
A PVC raincoat also block water vapor; and if you're even mildly active in it, you get soaked from the inside.
As other people say here, 9 to 12 miles a week is unlikely to put you in need of that kind of specialization. People I know that do zone training are running 30-50 miles a week, some more.
Not to be political, but what a timely comment: https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/new-biden-administrati...
I found an actual bug in their infrastructure, on R2, which somehow still feels like a beta product.

I made sure it was an issue with them, not on me. I documented it. It's reproducible, tried it on another cloudflare account I own and the exact same thing happens when the conditions are there. I was doing work for them, for free.

So, I went on the Discord just to find out how poorly they treat people there. I insisted on this thing for like one or two days, IIRC. Several members of their team saw my post and dgaf. Eventually, I @pinged one of them (the one who I thought was the more appropriate one) and xir response was "that's not my job", damn, just cold like that, not even "but you could try reaching out ...".

I went on to look xim up online and turns out xi was something like the "developer experience guru" for Cloudflare, lol. I called xim on that, "hey, you know, this actually is your job" and xi doubled down, so I told xim "this is bs, maybe you're just a lazy employee" which got me banned from the Discord.

Since then, my stance on Cloudflare is "take whatever I can get from them for free, and never spend a single dime in any of their services".

I ended up going back to S3 because of this bug, unlimited egress (while sweet) is not really a selling point for my particular use case.
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