skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of North Korea’s traffic is routed through China so it’d require cutting the latter off from the internet. With the amount of submarine cables connecting China to other countries, it wouldn’t be very feasible.
> If you sell your body, most societies will punish you.

No, if you sell sex, lots of societies will punish you. Selling or renting your body otherwise -- which a very large share of jobs involve just as much as sex work does -- is otherwise lauded.

> Thats fine, societies have all sorts of norms we all need to learn.

Lots of norms that societies have or historically have had would be better eliminated. That something is an existing norm isn't an argument in favor of it being a norm.
We shouldn't write an OS in rust. We should create a data platform on which we can run DML/DDL with an SSMS++ automatic frontend.
That's hard to imagine. In big tech it's the team manager who decides that standups should happen and when (maybe this is an expectation from higher-ups). He always joins unless running late.
Oh, this thought has definitely crossed my mind quite a bit. Just not much I can do about it!
I grew up in the latter half of the 90's and the narrative I remember was that it was a time when even like entry-level secretary jobs started requiring degrees (a phenomenon which may or may not have been exaggerated), and the reasoning was "it doesn't matter what it's a degree in, they just want to see that you have the capability to see something through to the end and not drop out"
You think they are doing this from NK ip blocks/asn? Their physical links are more or less enemy of enemy with US, so they have no incentive to block. Its impossible to keep them off the internet.
I think you'll find that lots of people in non-sex-work, non-stigmatized, socially respected jobs feel like they were pressured into them and/or currently doing more of the work they are in than they'd like due to economic coercion.
My score was an 8. Depression of course. All the usual problems.Thought I was unhappy because no one loved me. Turned out to be the opposite. Found my own key to a joyful life at 31. Had my first child. Cared for someone else more than myself. Cut off all contact with my family 13 years ago, except my kids. Second best decision I ever made. Best was choosing to raise my girl on my own. You cant fix toxic people, but you can leave them. Later I met a woman who can tolerate me. She prefers to work, is very happy she met a man who would rather hang out with our kids than work. I read "The Happiness Equation in my late 40's, had already stumbled into my own life solutions, but that book really helped explain WHY I felt my life had improved so much. You can get to a mental place you feel safe. You only get so many trips around the sun, take them with a smile, never waste a moment comparing yourself to anyone else. Best of luck.
> when I had $10k in my US bank account but couldn’t access it while traveling because I ran afoul of whatever KYC at Western Union after losing my bank card; or,

Why would you first stop be western Union if you lost your bank card? Ignoring my confusion as to why you didn’t have a credit card handy, or a phone with a banking app handy if you’re well off enough to have $10k in the bank. Why would your first thought be going to western union, a well known haven for scammers everywhere. OF COURSE it set off all sorts of red flags with your bank. I’d be more concerned if they didn’t put up roadblocks to someone claiming to be you, in another country, trying to pull out large sums of money at a western union.
It reminds me of the food processor salesman who came to our house to demonstrate how you can avoid processed food by making it at home... in a food processor.
Not a professional, n=1, but I've successfully NaNoWriMo'd a few times and do regular amounts of creative writing for both D&D campaigns and for fun.

Absolutely freaking yes. Lots of mental drift. Swapping over to a new window on my MacBook happens enough that I have an app for shutting down that ability while working on writing. Ditto having a specialized app (Ulysses, then Obsidian) for writing with minimal buttons.

I can do without, but having the ability to close and lock those doors increases my writing speed by a decent chunk. As an engineer, if I can make myself more productive and writing more enjoyable with better tools, I'd rather do that.

That said, I absolutely have a friend who does his writing in Microsoft Word. He's already a bit of an odd duck, though, and is not an engineer.
Doctor Who never had canon. The writers never cared about canon. It had motifs.
The mistakes are important. Leave them in!
Do they accept worldcoin yet?
The problem is that sometimes your application intends to send messages[0] multiple times. If your "log-and-discard" system was implemented naively then each node could only ever send each possible message once and only once. Ever.

That would be like:

Alice: "Honey, where did you put the keys?"

Bob: "They're up on the counter."

(The next day...)

Alice: "Honey, where did you put the keys?"

Bob: (nothing, I already received this message, it could have echoed off the walls from yesterday)

What you need is for all sent messages to have unique IDs that will never repeat, and then log those. That's known as an idempotency token.

But even then, logging all those UUIDs forever is probably not a good idea for disk usage. At some point you'll have to trash old message logs and hope you don't have a rogue network router retransmitting six month old messages or something.

[0] Or the moral equivalent of messages, e.g. HTTP POST requests
In hk too
> If the connection breaks while an ACK is outstanding, the sender will have no way of knowing whether the segment was received

The real question is, why this should be a problem that TCP must solve? TCP gives you a bidirectional waterflow-like pipe, and that's enough for you to create many useful applications. TCP never provided guarantee for correct delivery, that's your job.

For example, if a HTTP request is interrupted before the respond is received, the sender should assume the request never reach the server and try again with a new connection, while the server should mitigate duplicated requests (reject or return a successful code).

Well, maybe that's the point of the article, because many web pages gets confused if you send duplicated requests to them.
I am glad you scored a 2! I understand that such scores do not adequately capture the severity of someone’s circumstances, even if they say yes to one question.

I like to think I am working myself up to a partner and a dog, but opening to people is hard. It’s a work in progress.
It could be also great to add a karma ranking per city.
Rewind your mind to 1950 and reading that the future is chatting with bots about solving math homework.
If Tao says he's interested in something being coded in lean, there are literal teams of people who will throw themselves at him. Those projects are very well organized from the top down by people who know what they're doing, it's no surprise that they are able to create some space for people who don't understand the whole scope.

This is also the case for other top-profile mathematicians like Peter Scholze. Good luck to someone who wants to put chatgpt answers to random hypotheticals into lean to see if they're right, I don't think they'll have so easy a time of it.
Be that as it may, if the scrum guide explicitly says they shouldn't then it isn't really fair to blame scrum for that.

Honestly, the recurring complaints with scrum, agile, etc basically boil down to this: shitty organizations can make any system miserable. People generally are blaming the intermediate cause (how we do scrum sucks) rather than the root cause (our company sucks and nothing would work).
This book won't go into field surgery, but will go into emergency care for field-setting a broken limb, how to clean wounds, and when to use/not use medications.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540113.Where_There_Is_No...
https://www.amazon.com/When-There-Doctor-Challenging-Self-re...
Powerful, Open-Source, Programmatic CAD
as things are ready to be shown you will see them : this is how you will know
You can buy all of those things in uncontested form (private aircraft, private gym, internet with CIR etc), but you can and should expect to pay more to not have other customers subsidise the cost.
New DJI drones to be banned in the US
ImplicitCad is a competing project which I think is a lot more robust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545100
The issue is that a hypothetical answer from a LLM is not even remotely easy to directly put into lean. You might ask the LLM to give you an answer together with a lean formalization, but the issue is that this kind of 'autoformalization' is at present not at at all reliable.
Those are the exception and get me amped up.
What’s the point of LinkedIn anyway? Games - are you serious?

It’s become so thoroughly Facebookified but so, so much worse because it pretends to have value. At least Facebook is honest about its intentions to kill your time. Heck, Facebook Marketplace and Groups probably have more redeeming utility than LinkedIn’s job board.

I don’t see updates or job posts or anything good from people in my network who can positively impact my career, just vapid influencer junk timewasters.

My inbox is all spam irrelevant job opportunities and biz scammers who want to sell me things.

Nobody I know in real life answers messages since they had to turn off notifications to stay sane.

And the job board sucks. You can buy Premium to supposedly help your job search but it does nothing useful. I feel at a disadvantage to other candidates when I apply on LinkedIn.

I used to think I needed to have a LinkedIn as a sort of verification of my real-ness, or perhaps as a form of transparency to show prospective employers that I’m not hiding overemployment, but I’m not sure anymore. If LinkedIn is this bad I feel like there must be a lot of companies who don’t trust it anymore, who don’t care to see the LinkedIn profile of their applicants.

Finally, back to this whole games thing…if you’re playing games on your phone at least realize that there are so many wonderful, artistic, rich games out there, either on mobile platforms, emulated, or on other handheld devices. Like, all these Wordle-like time wasters are boring. Me, personally, if I’m going to play a game, I’m going to play a proper game, the kind that has art, graphics, sound, maybe even story or role playing.
Not sure how that applies to Elon in the slightest.
I've never seen him promote anti-semitic views.
All of computing reduces to "just ones and zeros." In light of this let's just dispense with the decades of verbosity and libraries' worth of extraneous elaboration.
Python coding interview test used to hack computers
I agree with your claim, a recipient can cope with at-least-once delivery by being idempotent. You're right.

The meaningful distinction is that something on the recipient needs to be idempotent because the message might get received twice. The application can be oblivious to this, so long as you assume that channel to be perfect.

People on the Internet won't like you calling it 'exactly once delivery' because it's not exactly once - it's an idempotent at-least-once. Which is great! But the statement of the at-least/at-most problem is making a decision to re-try. There's no middle ground, I either have to retry or not. People won't like a claim that 'exactly once' delivery is possible, because it isn't, it's just moving the at-least-once-ness to somewhere else.
I can very much relate here. Ace score of 5. Took me until until my mid thirties as well to shake it and start to try, and I'm happy I did.
It's probably the case that there are people who know the reference but are just seeing you in traffic.

I saw "SIGKILL" a few years ago and smiled to myself but didn't have occasion to speak to the owner (driving at the time).

I've had "31337" since '98 (also old) and had just a couple of people mention it to me.
I don’t get it. Wouldn’t electric vehicles save them money in the long run? A lot of money?

EDIT: per this comment charging infrastructure was going to be a huge cost. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544204
Even worse. When I worked in that sector, the government simultaneously mandated that we use agile methodologies, and also that we do waterfall things. Doing agilefall like that was the dumbest possible thing, because we got the benefits of neither and the weaknesses of both.
Most of the crypto world operates on "assumed clean" (blacklist) thinking so you don't have to fully clean anything.
And only one in Miami, apparently. Me.
Press, followed by $3 billion extra budget from tax coffers.
Beaten, neglected, molested, unsafe, etc. Many family & friends died from drugs, disease, poor life choices. Read books on success & business. Moved out at 16. Taught myself programming and business. Married a hot smart fellow nerd. Got good jobs, bought a business and monetized it. Had fantastic kids. Grateful every day to not be where I woke up. Retired to a farm recently.
As a developer, I find retros most useful when EMs (and probably PMs, depends on how things are configured organizationally) aren't present, as it should give a chance to talk freely about challenges you or the team face, which often are organizational in nature and may involve one's management chain. My current role doesn't adhere to this, and it makes retro often really painful.
How to turn monero or Bitcoin into cash, I think is the hardest part.

Laundering it after that is, in fact, easier.

But the first problem still isn't solved with your statement I think.
Factory farms do not make animals suffer less, quite the opposite
> What you need is for all sent messages to have unique IDs that will never repeat, and then log those. That's known as an idempotency token.

So your problem is not really a problem because you yourself present the solution. The real problem is:

> But even then, logging all those UUIDs forever

But you don't need to log them all forever. Just make the UUIDs sequential, and all you need then is to keep track of the smallest id that has not yet been received. (You can be more efficient by storing more state, but it's not necessary. Remember, we're assuming at-least-once deliver here, so you can always force retransmission by not acknowledging receipt.)
The current driving force of AI is the desire to cut costs. Jobs will be cut even if ChatGPT is nowhere near a junior engineer and that's the problem.
WASM is such a cool technology to me but I don't work on anything that'd warrant it :(

nice write-up!
It's OK for cases, when humans are worse and/or much more expensive.
Absolutely worth it because of the environment that it put around me for four years and the peers who inspired and pushed me to do better (and also helped me grow socially, become more independent, etc).

There is nothing in adult life that's even close to that kind of environment and the growth that it fosters.

Although you have to go to a good school with great peers to experience these benefits.
any exchange willing to trade for those amounts do KYC and follows AML

This is not true AFAIK and it used to really be not true. There were plenty of no-KYC exchanges or exchanges that offered no-KYC accounts if you had the right connections.
> One concern in the Project Red test was that 10%-20% of the fluid pumped did not return to the surface. That number is much better than many legacy enhanced geothermal projects but needs improvement. Costs increase and site locations narrow to those with excess cheap water. It could also increase induced seismicity risk over time.

> The latest results released for Cape Station do not include the fluid loss number, so we don't know if it improved. Options remain even if it didn't, like reducing fluid throughput. That would hurt productivity, but further gains from drilling and completion intensification could compensate.

https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalupdate2024.html
For me material and financial success represent dramatically increased safety. My goal was not to live in the same kind of gang infested place I grew up in. And it means I can afford the $50k a year I pay in health insurance for first-rate medical care.
Another n=1, but it depends. Outside interruptions when I'm on a tear are horrible. I don't often distract myself with a full-featured computer. In fact I often spin off into "research" or fiddling with fonts as a way to let my background brain do its work. I do a fair amount of editing on my phone (!) when on transit or generally goofing off.
Well there is some wiggle room here, public school teachers have more of these types of expectations than software engineers. It isn't just high-visibility jobs
But unlike LLMs, a person is capable of reflecting and realizing that they made a mistake. They are also capable of correcting so that they don't make the same mistake again. This is why fallible humans are still useful, and fallible LLMs are not.
I don't feel anything you've said is logical. The deliverable is, in the best case, what communicates progress and success. Short of that, tickets can do that, which is also not what the article is complaining about. The article also specifically attacks Agile/Scrum; Kanban is different and quite explicitly sidesteps a lot of the stress problems the article outlines.
Indeed. Which is backwards. The goal shouldn't be giving execs a warm fuzzy feeling. It should be identifying issues and risks that execs can help fix. I.e. handle exceptions to the norm.
I agree entirely with what you’re saying.

When I think of the people who I know who are excellent at sales, what they’re really excellent at is relationship building, and they’re always pass on trying to sell something if they know it isn’t the right fit for the person/ business. Going so far as to recommend / build other connections.

The seemingly I had added was in my mind in the hypothetical context of someone working on behalf of a nation state actor. However, even then the seemingly might be incorrect… reading interviews from people who seem to have been top in their field, the “trick” seemed to be that there was no coercion involved with the most effective outcomes.
I don't get why this was flagged.
Your comment was "instant 50x productivity increase for any legal process".
But, this is the drama... you are part of the drama ;P (as am I! and we are both doing this--"instead of doing something actually pleasant"--because, what? FWIW, I can see the argument that it is maybe being justified mentally as "social activism"--for both of us, though in different ways--but I actually think, at least for me, that it is a form of escapism and addiction).
I assume by zip code.
A big thing that he didn't mention: Income-based repayment programs (particularly the new SAVE plan) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), while certainly well-intended, make the cost of college essentially irrelevant for people who can reasonably expect to benefit from those programs. And so the colleges up the bill. His 3 proposed solutions don't really deal with this. Obviously people on IDR or PSLF don't need to declare bankruptcy just because of the loans. And if the colleges had to carry the risk, the risk would be far less than imagined if these programs still exist in the same way as today: the federal government guarantees it will write off the loan of anyone who works in non-profits (which are about 10% of all jobs) for 10 years, or anyone who makes a small minimum payment for 20-25 years with SAVE.

The SAVE income-driven repayment plan is a big deal that will make the cost of college far worse. What you have to pay is 5% of income above 225% of the poverty line. A family of 3 making $80k pays $104 a month - it doesn't matter if they had $10,000, $100,000 or $1,000,000 in loans. If you are not planning to be in a very high-earning field, why wouldn't you borrow the maximum? Why wouldn't the colleges charge the maximum? This amounts to a giant subsidy.
when's XxToTheMoonxX coin coming to oai?!?
> we're stuck with a "tethered jailbreak"

Modchipping makes things permanent, although the soldering isn't for the faint of heart.
And sprints!

When I started at my current job, I naively looked at the bugs and tasks assigned to me, and started picking and fixing the highest priority tickets.

Then I was informed, "Oh no, that's not how we do things here. Don't look at the priority, just work on what is assigned to you in the current sprint."

I had never heard of sprints before.

More recently, I had a conversation with my manager and asked, "Do we really need sprints? I've been in this business a long time. 10, 20, 30 years ago we didn't have sprints and somehow still managed to produce great software."

The reply was "But if we didn't have sprints, how could we possibly measure the team's productivity and individual productivity?"

I knew I wouldn't win this debate, so I politely let it drop. I just wanted to sow some seeds of doubt.

In all fairness, my manager is a very reasonable person. But when this devotion to sprints is ingrained in the entire company, it is hard to question it or get away from it.

At least we don't do daily standups!
he has been paid pretty handsomely from various grants and individuals
Really? Come on. You think trying to make it solve "niche and complicated issues" for a Brainfuck compiler is reasonable? I can't take this seriously. Do you know what most developer jobs entail?

I never need to type paragraphs to get the output I want. I don't even bother with correct grammar or spelling. If I need code for x crud web app who is going to type it faster, me or the LLM? This is really not hard to understand.
I think I can, this is the part of the world where I know the history & culture. I understand the nuances in the feud I am supposed to have with the Chinese. What do you know? Do you even live here or speak any of the languages?
The server may or may not have seen the request, and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem proves it impossible to know in every case (no matter how many acks, the last could be dropped). A request that alters state should be retried using the same idempotency key, and the server should try to ack with whether the requested work already happened.
Wasn't that obvious? If any tests were performed at all, how anyone can manage to caused an outage at such scale?
Nuclear power successfully decarbonized almost the entire French electricity grid. The only case I know of of a large industrialized country without heavy hydro resources managing to almost remove fossil fuels from electricity generation. Maybe it's expensive (still less than in Germany which chose NREs, coal and gas), but it's also the only solution proven to work.