skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of US companies that have 4 week vacation policies. There are also plenty with "flexible" time off where in theory you can take more (but tends to converge on some common number).

Probably other US organizations (universities?) also have fairly good vacation policies.

I think what's different about the US is that the country and states tend to not mandate this stuff. This does lead to people getting exploited under certain situations where the employer has more power in the relationship. I think the US is wrong on this but seems to work for them?
Learning how to understand, relate to, and collaborate with people who are different from you is part of growing up.
React came out in 2013. At that time object manipulation would likely have been, at best, only marginally faster than writing to the DOM.

First, you have to understand that at that time Firefox was about 500x faster at accessing the DOM than Chrome and about 250,000x faster accessing the DOM via the API methods than via querySelectors. Firefox and Chrome performed about equally in use of querySelectors with Chrome being a tiny bit faster. So, the DOM was already fast, but occupied a different memory space than JS.

At any rate the original motivation had nothing to do with performance. The goal was to introduce a template system that fit with React’s state/component system. JS modules weren’t a thing yet, so code organization was very different at that time and centered around concepts like AMD and Common.js, though it was mostly some form of AMD typically require.js.

The design of the template system in Vue was created to solve for the exact same conditions according to the internal organization of Vue.
Not to discount any actual utility or innovation here, but I was wondering "why would you be hard coding to all these azure services?" then I saw the author is a solutions architect at microsoft.

so this is likely part of Microsoft's AI strategy to lure developers in and create dependence. Doesn't mean it can't also be interesting/good, but it's important context to this project's purpose and goals.
Fake Insects: a game where you have to identify AI-generated insects
> and this allowed people to feel some level of preparedness.

I can imagine it now:

"I can now afford to buy a device that will inform me if I'm about to die"
Twitter are very likely to use some payment providers in the EU, I imagine those can be ordered to withhold part of the money owed.
I think these apps do have a meaningful function and can potentially fill a gap - e.g. as a meeting place or at least initiation of intent.

For example, folks rarely go out of their weekly habits. We tend to go out to the same places which means there are probably people out there we'd enjoy spending time with but we never get a chance to meet. The neighbour you never meet can potentially be a good match.

So there is definitely a need for a way to "put oneself on the map". I don't think apps need to take on the ambition to "find my next spouse" which is a big undertaking and unlikely to happen while swiping left or right.
How would you see that scaling? Are you talking about governments defining what can't be in any terms of service? Or would you prefer to see governments directly working to both define Google's rules, determining when an app breaks them, and having the government decide when to pull an app?
This book covers compiling to assembly whereas Crafting Interpreters only has a bytecode VM implementation. We'll see how good this book is when it drops, but I think that's a worthwhile feature that Crafting Interpreters punted on.
I've asked for and received more time during the interview process to ask these kinds of questions, so you can just do that. If they say "no", that's a pretty strong signal itself.
This is beautiful!

Have you seen that Video Game Motion Artists are on strike against AI? [0]

It would be interesting to see if your protocol could be used in reverse, whereby you put sensors on a Human doing a thing, and have your elegant protocol record the positional elements to be replayed on animatronic bot?

The other thing that I thought might be interesting is controlling the system with Geometry Nodes, specifically a Vector Node with Named Attrbutes to drive animations that can be used to drive both an animated (digital asset) and a physical asset (robot)

If you're not too familiar with Blender's geometry nodes, this series of videos by @HarryBlends on YT are fantastic.

The best thing is that you can control the geometry nodes via python scripts within blender - and capture vector attributes etc...

https://www.youtube.com/@harryblends

https://youtu.be/iwpBgtKilvw?t=353 <-- official 4.2 new features Blender announcement with @harryBlends explanation of the nodes

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This project is really neat. And I wonder how well it could be used for Manufacturing/Industrial Robot control? (sorry if pedestrian questions, I don't know much about the space.. but I love your project.)

[0] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-game-performers-strike-ar...
Where does the funding for the companies developing those databases come from?

I do not know enough about vector search to assert pgvector is enough for you, but I do know enough about supply chains to get woozy
Credible source?
I may have just misunderstood the GP. I read it as wanting the government to directly work on defining and enforcing Google's terms of service rather than this being an anticompetitive concern.
Seems nobody else here was speculating on a rules-based cause, so I might as well.

Policy 1 [0] seems the most likely cause to me. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some vandalism on OSM that had some "inappropriate" content or similar.

0: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Your link has nothing to do with genAI
Official native Windows support for OCaml with opam 2.2.0
While people don't discover these apps on the play store, they will hear of the App, search on the App/Play Store and install it. If they can't find it by typing the app name into the search bar there, they won't install it.

I doubt most users will, even when given the link to an .apk, install it. Either because they are discouraged by the alarming prompts (in my opinion a tradeoff that is unfortunately worth it) or because they get lost.
Have you thought about something else _other_ than work/school to get you out of the slump?

I work in IT. Always have. If I'm in a slump, I go into nature; melt into a forest, preferably where no other human is.

Do you have anything like that you could do? Could be a sport, table top model painting, etc. Something else that doesn't involve a screen.

Working in IT will not improve your mental health. If anything, it will degrade it due to the oft political, and as you've noted, educational pressures.
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As far as I know, eHarmony's claim of the questionnaire and algorithm being based on science was marketing fluff from the beginning [1]. One of the founders was a clinical psychologist, but the only science I've ever seen them cite is just studies that they claim show eHarmony to be more successful than other dating sites (which might have something to do with the company's policy of outright rejecting users who are too depressed or too divorced [2]).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42546586

[2] https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2007/may/22/no-love-lost...
> It's like a musician who is not on YouTube and not on Spotify.

There are plenty of musicians who are perfectly happy not being on YouTube or Spotify.

It's almost like a protest, at this point - and I don't mean like a boycott either.
FYI one can avoid duping a command to echo it out as in some of the examples by using set -x (set -o xtrace). It can be disabled with set +x afterwards, or you can run it and your desired command in a subshell if performance is not a priority.

(
set -x
ssh ...
)
When the duck talks back, you sit up and listen. Or at least, I do.
One strategy that sometimes works for me (ADHD) is the "momentum building" approach.

Rather than start with the hardest tasks first, I'll start with the easiest.

If I'm struggling with the easiest one, then it means I need even easier ones on the list to ramp up.

If I'm REALLY stuck, I can often overcome that starting inertia by doing something physical IMMEDIATELY (pushups, body weight squats) and then trying to see how fast I can start the task I'm stuck on. Something about getting the body moving seems to help.

There is also the trick of doing some introspection about why I'm having trouble starting a task, because often my executive dysfunction is tied to some emotional valence (eg fear of messing up, fear of taking too long because I will get distracted) and addressing each one aloud ("It's okay if I mess it up, I'm going to try it anyway", etc).
> In most EU countries it is mandatory minimum to give 4 paid weeks off per year, otherwise the company is breaking the law.

Make that five weeks for France plus up to 11 days of public holidays. That's a minimum too, we have a whole bunch of additional stuff that can stack on top of that, so many I can't even make a complete list from memory.
As someone who just started a business and released my first android app a few weeks ago, you couldn't be more right.

Not only is the fate of your app in the hands of the Play Store, but also in the hands of their testers. Just had a critical bug in an update release 5 days ago, affecting fresh installs. I immediately fixed it after a friend notified me, pushed the fixed update, only to wait till yesterday to get rejected due to a super minor ui issue. Then finally got approval this morning. Typically I waited 30 min for approval, 2 hrs the longest.

During that time I reached out to their non-existent customer support, messaged their "help forum", called any number I could find, finally resorted to randomly messaging employees on LinkedIn out of desperation. Nothing. And when you try to get support through their help options, it's a gamble as to whether or not the help option you select is going to give you an error. Not to mention any number you call ends with "please visit support.google.com. thanks for calling".

In the meantime, I had ~300+ uninstalls out of the ~1200 I had, and risked my 4.8 rating tanking and sinking my chances of success before I even really started.

That's just my story. There are people who are facing even worse rn dealing with them and have been waiting for weeks.
This is largely the motivation for TAILS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)

And also Whonix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whonix

Using the DVD image in a VM would largely suffice for most users. For even more security, you would use the live image on a throwaway laptop at a coffee shop or something, but that's not exactly practical for everyday use.
For relatively static info, sure. For real time bus/rail status you need integrations to countless public transit systems. For stuff like store times, etc, you need sufficient market power so that business owners are incentived to provide that info.
> your interviewers, go through interview training and are coached into giving politically correct answers.

Very few companies have a standardized interview process where interviewers get training. Less than 10% easily.

My Fortune 500 company doesn't have it. Perhaps the managers get such training but the majority of interview sessions are not with managers.
> My original comment started with "but it feels "prior to the MongoDB-is-webscale memes""

Which feels off by six generations or so of memes. It feels prior to "memes" existing in the first place (at least this modern iteration, pics with captions in them; not Dawkins' original verion). I'd guess it is, ironically, chronologically closer to, well, your username here.
If I knew this would be news worthy I would have published the dozen times it happened to me. If you feed source-code to an LLM, it will modify it. If you run an llm in a loop and ask it to rewrite code to pass a test, it will sometimes rewrite the tests.

There's nothing new or interesting about this.
NYC Traffic Cam Photo Booth
could be like a video container.

video data; audio data; title information

or...

images; sounds; emotional state; more?
I actually collect those types of questions here if you want more ideas (with translations) https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview
The author of the article assumes too much on the interviewers’ ability to deeply reflect on open ended questions, and clearly articulate the response (in a short period of time, because tables are turned when there is only few minutes left on the clock).

As a tangent, when I am interviewing someone, I try to find additional signals about the candidates communication skills / behavioural traits as well as their motivation in seeking the role.

Candidate: “how is this role going to change in X years?”
Me (internally): This person is likely growth oriented, and their growth may have stalled at their current role.

Candidate: “How is the on-call load?”
Me: This person may be burning out and looking for a place with some stability.

Of course, these are only assumptions and I try to be self-aware not to be biased in my decision by them.
You're right that discoverability is not really the issue.

However, I still agree with the GP that if you are not on the Play Store, you lose most of your installations.

If someone has already discovered your app and can't find it on the Play Store, they are more likely to assume that it's not supported on their phone, unavailable in their region or whatever. Even if you explicitly tell them to just download the APK, most people will not do that. Keep in mind that the average user probably doesn't even know that you can install apps from outside the Play Store. Or even if they guess that it's probably possible, they might well perceive it as complicated and sketchy.
The thing to always remember is: the way they treat you at the interview is the best they will EVER treat you.

Do they ask if you need water, coffee, etc.? Do they give you time to use the bathroom? Do they keep you waiting excessively? Do they listen to your answers and look you in the eye, or do they keep staring at the resume as if they've never seen it before?

What they say is certainly interesting, but what they do is more so.
No, like a self hosted version.
Show HN: The tool that helps you remember what you've read
Why would you exhume an 11-year-old article full of half-information about the state of a fast-paced arms race?
State management is not simple. You have to constantly keep in sync two different piece of states (your data model and the UI). Making sure that when you modify some parts of your model then everything depending on that is also updated is one of the hardest things to guarantee. Fundamentally this is because it is non-local: you cannot tell what will change by just looking at the definition of what you're mutating.

You might be able to handle this while you're alone and you know everything about your codebase, but the moment you're working with someone else or in a team this will no longer be the case.
Firefox has an old slightly broken feature that wipes all cookies, except from a set of origins you whitelist. It actually saved me about half a gigabyte of pure cookie nonsense and made website loading quite a bit faster. Soon after I set it up, they announced their third-party cookie sandboxing, but I still think there's no reason to keep all the adtech trash on your computer in any capacity.

about:preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Cookies and Site Data -> [x] Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed -> Manage Exceptions

Just don't forget to back up your `~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default-release/cookies.sqlite*` beforehand.
Most people dontgain competence until they learn from their mistakes
I think it's really hard to disagree with people who make you laugh.

No dis on "ACTUAL REPORTING" but "COMEDY" is far preferable, and generally a lot more honest in how it helps you understand what you're learning about.

"A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing." - Clive James
High School Starts Replacing Teachers with AI
But ads are an inevitable effect, no matter if they are online or "offline", except if you think that ads should be prohibited which would turn to a different discussion.
Very well done - it took me several attempts to get the hang of Blender and I still only know / used half those shortcuts. Thanks for the easy to use tips!
Textb: Real time collaborative text editor
Love your site!

I googled your name and 'blender' but didn't find any training resources online. I'm a new Blender user and am on the hunt for resources beyond BlenderGuru's Donut tutorial (which is great, btw).

Do you create any Blender educational content?
Yeah it's a building block for understanding number theory well, which is important in cryptography.
> being opinionated is now a dangerous game.

Where were you during the Inquisition, I wonder.
Exactly. It's not a matter of accepting or not accepting. There's practically nothing that can be done about it.

At the federal level, no major presidential candidate supports EU-style worker protections and mandatory benefits. And not enough congressional candidates support it, not even remotely enough to change anything. In fact, the vast majority are outright hostile to worker rights due to lobbying/capture by corporate interests.

At the state level, there is lots of variance, but even in the states most friendly to workers, it's not remotely possible to reach Europe's level of benefits around vacation, sick leave, maternity leave, let alone the right to organize for these things. There is no political will, and any political candidate who actually has the will could never win a statewide election.
Yes, but providing fair appeals does not require the government to be involved in evert T & C, just requiring things such as approvals be carried out impartially, and with some channel of appeal.

Something like an Ombudsman scheme for app stores would do it.
Life is short and limited and you will die sooner than you think.
The way this worked in many places is that workers formed political parties. In France people did and still take to the streets over labour issues. You can also unionize. Or sure, lobby. But if people are happy with the current system then that's also fine.

All in all the US has been a success story. Whether there's correlation or causation between that and some of the regulatory and legal environment is hard to say. Maybe its success is primarily due to resources and geography and maybe the US would be even more successful with a more European style system.

[EDIT: it's should have been its ;) ]
> There is no "engineering culture" in a company

There is, with out doubt, engineering culture. Culture really means "what customs we use and how we work." Every single company has a set of customs for working. Sales customs, engineering customs, management customs, etc.

Engineering customs, or culture, dictate how the org approaches software development. Code reviews? How deep? Quality checks or not? Is quality encouraged?Level of collaboration between teams and teammates? is there a partnership with Product or does product dictate? How much and what gets written down? How are new solutions brought forward?

Does the company intentionally grow/weed-out these customs? That is engineering culture. You should work somewhere where their customs are things you can adopt. Else, you are not a culture fit.
My greatest weakness? That would have to be interviewing.
It really depends who you are and what you do...

For most of history humanity grew it's food locally, it depended on local items, got killed by local actors as you state. Each locality was its own anti-fragile little kingdom.

But this is no longer true and this is something we saw during covid. If a factory blows up in Tokyo that makes the live saving medicine/device that you depend on to keep surviving, it's no different for you than your city catching on fire. If all the crops die in some foreign place and you live in a food importing country, trouble is coming. If a war is blowing up ships then supplies you need for your business may not show up any more and bankruptcy could be on the menu.

We live in a fragile black swan dominated world.
Hans Selye for the win!
> Not sure why this kind of "we are aiming for AGI" code is written in Python

Python is used because it's easy to use for these high-level numeric calculations (compared, e.g., to C) and all the relevant libraries are available in Python.

The libraries are available in Python due to network effects, to some degree again relying on Python being easy to use and having been around when that groundwork was laid.
> "Tell me about how the team collaborates and coordinates work"

worth it's weight in GOLD
If X owns the building they can seize that, tennants be damned.
I meant build a rug sized plotter. Would the stiching technique hold up to heavy wear of feet walking on it daily?
What an extraordinary channel. Thanks for introducing me to it!
It's only a four page article about a particular spaced study strategy. Nothing really groundbreaking nor a comprehensive collection of techniques
actually, I got a secure connection failure with https, switched to http and got "malware and phishing" when loading the page.
More likely that the offense by twatter was more egregious than what the courts are used to.
> Almost no one in Europe has 8 children

You don’t need 8 children to get to 8 years of dedicated child care with the pre-daycare-normalization worldview. You only need 2 children with an offset of 3 years, or 3 children with less offset.
I guess it's because LLMs score highest on python code. Which I presume is due to to the popularity of python code in the training data.

What language would you use?
That's exactly how I see coffee, and I keep stopping taking it and then coming back every few months...
>Not sure why this kind of "we are aiming for AGI" code is written in Python

So that it's slow enough that a human can intervene if necessary?
>My original comment was in reference to the inequality within the distribution of funds due to inequality of tax revenue across the country

I was responding to your request for evidence for searealist's statements that the US educational system is the best in the world when accounting for ethnicity.

But, since you brought it up: Contrary to what is often said, there is very little evidence that funding affects outcome at all. New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US. <https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...> Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third most. #4-6 and #8 are all wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, but their schools are all far better than those of Baltimore or NYC on average, despite Baltimore spending slightly more per student and NYC spending 60-70% more.

(With that in mind, now reread the above Twitter thread.)
>> When data size goes to a billion rows, Postgres is tough. MongoDB just works without issue.

Our everyday problems...
Tbh when you reach that size you will hopefully already have a dba department no matter what you use.
Can you try to use a memory-mapped file, so the tree is always stored to disk, without a need of de/serialization?
I found Hatchet when I was in grade 4, and damn near read it straight from the library checkout counter until I was done a few hours past midnight. I'm pretty sure that my parents made me take a break for dinner.
If you like playing with First Order Logic, I cannot recommend enough this playground site:

https://incredible.pm/

You can even introduce your 10 year old to FOL with it