skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web server that many of us are stuck with unfortunately ;)
It also works if you think of women as people instead of sexual objects.

But it also requires the women to think of you the same way (this is, rarely, a problem)
I integrated this handy squeaky door sound effect for when I open my laptop based on its ambient light sensor [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/pzJwDs6KRXA?feature=shared
We don't always get a choice.
Personally, I find the opinionation of s6 to be infuriating. As a process executor inside of a Linux container, I find myself spending more time reading source code to figure out why my application has failed (hint: it's probably due to goofy permission and environment state passing) than I would prefer.

I'm happy that s6 is so beloved, but I am not amongst that crowd.
I did that when I was living alone. The empty office floor on a WFH day is kind of creepy, and now it’s weird to be away for lunch voluntarily.
Hate me for it but iterated waterfall was the best time of my life and I still think it’s far superior to agile.

My first job, we actually took time to think about the system design. Being forced to get proper quality insurance manager approval before moving to build meant you couldn’t cut corners and having a proper testing team running a full qualification on what was produced meant things were always tested in depth from the point of view of a user before release.

Every parts of the system were properly documented and we had proper tooling allowing us to go from system design to component design all the way to a specific version test results which was incredibly nice when trying to understand what was happening.

Everyone was working on multiple components being in different phase at the same time so there was no downtime and you would just restart design of a new version as soon as you got back feedbacks from qualification.

I have probably never been as productive in my life and everything was working like a well oiled machine. Every agile project I have ever worked on is a complete mess.
Heh, I think this is exactly why MS Teams hasn't taken that much business from Slack.
Unfortunately, no. Company was called InnovisionLabs, renamed GlassesOff, if I'm not mistaken. Website is down, and I wouldn't expect it to be up — company's runway ended about 2016. And the two apps we released (one looking like a game with some basketball player branding, and another one from scratch, with clean, medical design) are probably removed from app stores too.
> SCOTUS these days also tends to equate cash as a form of political speech

No, it does not.
angel investor makes angel investments
This is definitely not true. If most programmers had morals, no one would work for Google, Meta or any of the pay to win game companies.
Right but we're having discourse right now and discourse contributes to the zeitgeist. Whether intentional or otherwise I interpret your comment on the side of blaming the victim - "well... it WAS suspicious what they were doing."

That language is being used to justify all sorts of unethical behavior by the police, often flagrantly unconstitutional, usually at minimum illegal, and almost always the times it's not obviously illegal, it should be (the laws should be changed).

I don't know if it's from lack of regular interaction from the police but I find a lot of people online are under the mistaken impression that the constitution or law is guarding the rights of people in the USA. Cops get away with violating the constitution and breaking the law multiple times every day - sometimes in ways the supreme court has allowed, such as by lying to you, or tricking you into thinking you have to voluntarily give up your rights. Combine that with a completely overwhelmed court system that leads to something like 90% of people taking plea deals, and the absurd concept of "mandated minimums" and sentencing requirements that judges blindly follow, and you've got a legal system that's nothing like what people represent online.

So I feel "well it's suspicious but of course they should get a warrant" is pro-surveillance state, not anti.
I work in Finance and we recently decided to sell our building and just rent office space catered toward meeting rooms since hybrid has worked so well for us. I think it just depends on the company's culture and the pragmatism of its leadership.
I refer you to my reply to the other comment.
Talk to your manager and try to explain that it doesn't work for you, try and approach it like it's not reasonable in your case to demand 5 days a week - they talk about whenever humanly possible in the memo, I didn't read it in details, but you might be able to sway the fact that it won't work for you your way.

Do not mention quitting over it though, or you'll definitely go straight into the HR crosshair.

If you're done with Amazon, apply to local startups. Likely you won't get the same kind of money, but you might be happier and "you've got that on your resume".
I have felt the same way, and always push back on one-off custom requests. My team has to support hundreds of internal teams, so doing one-off custom implementations is a problem.

While I can push back, I can’t always outright say no, unfortunately. Sometimes they go above my head, but I will try to find a way to do what they need, while keeping it in the single code base and making it flexible to account for the needs of other teams with a similar request.

Other people on my team seem to jump at trying to help and always make a one-off project, in the name of speed, to solve their problem. He is the hero of the day, but maintenance has become a nightmare, with a lot of code duplication and a single change needing to be replicated 10 different places. It’s an easy place to end up, but a hard one to get out of. Now that these agreements have been made and expectations set, we’re kind of stuck. I use every opportunity to try and cut ties or end support if it looks like something isn’t being used… but that also takes time and is a political tightrope walk. It’s much better to avoid it from the start.
"It's capitalism, Stupid." We've incentivized bad behavior and have gotten bad behavior.
Shh!! It's working! It's working!
> Also, if you are in a relationship, having friendships with other females will likely be a problem.

That's not a healthy relationship.
Yes, you are correct. I was wrong.
We’re hiring for these roles, fully remote. Email is in my profile.
That's absolutely true. I would like them used in an intentional way, though.

If you just slap them down anywhere then you end up with a sentence like "Obscurantist verbiage is a calling card of the intellectual qua gatekeeper, in that necessary role serving to further the creeping and not unimpenetrable calcification of human linguistic torture" and anyone who has to read your writing will wish you were dead, which is bad, or copy you, which is worse.
bzip2 is substantially slower to compress and decompress, and uses more memory.

It does achieve higher compression ratios on many inputs than gzip, but xz and zstd are even better, and run faster.
I wonder how behavior is defined exactly. Will future societies track eye focus and build a profile over time attached to a facial recognition database? Inappropriate gazing
> I have no idea what the ratio of scientific backing vs. security theater is, though.

Yes, dogs give you a convenient excuse to produce 'probable cause' in order to authorise a search whenever you feel like it, because the signs the dogs give are interpreted by their handlers.

So it's not necessarily so much security theatre, as perhaps 'whitewashing' of evidence obtained in other ways. see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
>A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely place: bowling club [1995/2000]
Because names mean a lot in and outside software. Try naming it “ML: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide” or use a O’Reilly/No Starch-style cover and you will get a similar reaction.
Agreed, but if you are running on micro-services and an app crashes, you don't lose everything (hopefully). It's not enough to make me want to use micro-services everywhere, but it is a consideration.

I'd like to see things work on Erlang/Elixir in Production and whether that works better, since the BEAM is very good at preventing individual processes from dominating the server and is also very good at recovering from errors.
When I was there, they weren’t creative. They outright said that doing certain things didn’t help them get promoted.
oh hey, wow, a third place. Weird how someone found community there.

What I think is much more interesting is how activities like this and running clubs might be supplanting dating apps for dating. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/style/running-clubs-datin...
From 2021: https://archive.md/M9jC1
biggest theft every single year is stolen wages by employers from employees
The best way to practice writing is to write, but that doesn't mean that the writing is the goal. I write to communicate, and if you haven't understood what I've written, then I've not met my goal. That's true even if it was still very good practice to write out those words.

I agree with you that unwarranted criticism is unhelpful, and I agree that in blogging, we shouldn't hold others to higher standards than they wish to be held. If you've found a form of writing that brings you joy, then carry on and enjoy it.

But at least for myself, I want to keep on improving in my writing. That's why I (aspirationally) try and learn from great writers like Orwell and Twain, and why I find advice like this useful. I know I'm never going to do this professionally, and I'm quite happy to enjoy writing as a thing for me and me alone, but part of that enjoyment will always be pushing myself to write better.
> "The results show that the brain has special neural circuits to detect snakes, and this suggests that the neural circuits to detect snakes have been genetically encoded," Nishijo said.

> The monkeys tested in the experiment were reared in a walled colony and neither had previously encountered a real snake.

[1] https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/snakes-brain-are-primates-hard-....
I enjoyed the punny forestry imagery. Going beyond console.log in a sveltekit app was on my todolist so I’ll try this out.
I lol'd :)
Controversial opinion, and while I do think Google is largely to blame, I think there is another more systemic reason: speed/storage increase. Humans don't do well with an abundance of resources, in the sense that the end result with abundance is usually extreme waste and low quality. We just aren't evolved for handling abundance properly.

For example: extremely cheap food beyond the basics leads to obesity and poor diets. Cheap fossil fuels leads to climate disaster.

And in this case, cheap space and bandwidth (and to some extent ease of use) has led to anyone being able to put up a website, and cheap bandwidth means that people will waste more time using the internet as a random diversion rather than merely using it to obtain the most essential information. That means there's a much higher incentive to put tons of ads on it and SEO game it.

Or, think about this: what are the BEST parts of the internet? In my opinion, they are the parts with the LEAST amount of speed/modern features that require lots of storage. For example: email, this old-fashioned looking website, personal blogs.

Yes of course, some newer things like YouTube are quite interesting, but even YouTube is being overtaken by headline-hype videos and overly commercial things like sponsored videos and an algorithm that promotes tabloid-like stuff.

But imagine if YouTube was more restricted: it takes a while to load a video, maximum 1080P, and maybe you can only watch 1-2 a day. Then I believe it would be much more interesting.
Do you feel fulfilled?
In those days, having in-house competence to do the coding was very rare. With each step being much more connected to a specific area of competence. Hollywoods image of programmers was that they must not be seen anywhere near a customer.

This led to silos, where design was done by one group of people in the company, then sent to a third party contractor for a fixed scope and price.

This naturally creates a waterfall and when everybody just sees their own silo from inside, nobody questioned the big picture, nor that their own design would be flawed from the beginning. Until the product came back, not at all working as desired.

The biggest improvement today is that teams have much higher autonomy within their fully vertically integrated responsibilities. With wider areas of competence covered within a single team, or even a single person. As such, iterating and focusing on what is most important become more natural.
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Stable coins can be frozen. And even BTC can be traced to whatever centralized exchange it eventually ends up at.
"Even this lowly gas pump knows you are balding, overweight, and unable to sleep at night."
I thought it was The Last Psychiatrist, but then I saw TLP mentioned later.
The mention of “U.S. currency” raises my suspicions. How does a canine distinguish between U.S. and Mexican or Canadian currency?
> You can say the same thing about humans

1. Holy shit.

2. You can't apply Moore's law to humans.
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It's been working for me lately. Been making quite a few older friends, and it's nice to find they accept me despite maybe not voting the same way they do. Not for everybody, and there's a lot of churches not as conductive for it. If you grew up in that environment it may be comfortable for you.

You just gotta bite your tongue during service when they conflate faith with candidate choice. May December 2024 arrive quickly.
when someone has a strong enough case and means, you take the loss at the trial level (or before by dropping the case). That way the case never makes it to the district or supreme courts that can actually create precedent.
Then gets attacked in his home and roped into a fake kidnapping scheme involving a rug and a dismembered toe.

The 90s were wild.
This exists! They’re called knife-edged scanning microscopes.
They list their email as:

> For more information or to contact us open a PR or email us at nyxpsi@skill-issue.dev

This sounds to me like a troll. In any case, I don't think blatantly advertising your lack of expertise in networking is a good way of improving one's portfolio.
A really weird piece in a way because to me a lot of the stuff sounds like it's a post from 40 years ago. From the beginning of the article where he mentioned that every friend has settled in the 'burbs to

"It requires a purging of entire realms of my shitty male points of view, from shaming self-talk to the latent homophobia I encounter within myself when the instructor tells us to dance, to “make it cute."

A guy in his 30s feels "latent homophobia" from dancing? Would be interesting to know where exactly the author hails from. It's great that he found friends in a spinning class but honestly a more general way to deal with this, just move to a big city where people in their 20/30s/40s are available to hang out and men have hobbies?
AI news article comments bingo card:

* Tired ClosedAI joke

* Claiming it's predictive text engine that isn't useful for anything

* Safety regulations are either good or bad, depending on who's proposing them

* Fear mongering about climate impact

* Bringing up Elon for no reason

* AI will never be able to [some pretty achievable task]

* Tired arguments from pro-IP / copyright sympathizers
It’s no exaggeration when you witness two new engineers cry on two different calls because they are not getting any support from the more senior engineers and are at risk of being pipped.
Today's China is not Qing and might as well compare Rome to the EU.

> This might be the first time for the US.

The great depression could be considered a soft-mini fall for the US. Although it wasn't a hegemonic power at that time, so maybe it doesn't count.
Academia or journalism. Or maybe a lobbyist
Surely you realize that this is not at all the typical experience for independent writers, though.
Would you be open to custom CRM?
Polymer versus paper?
I completely agree with you. There are many issues in that field. Though this might not also be a great fit just putting it out: https://github.com/chand-lab/openEyeTrack
There are some unionized tech workers.

I would never want their jobs over mine.
Yeah, it was never in its literal sense but more like "you get the best possible outcome for this action".

For example, if the player is attempting something totally stupid the 20 result might even be "and nothing bad happened", as nothing better was possible (for instance it is impossible to break the one ring with a hammer, so even not totally wrecking your powerful hammer could be a great outcome of such a foolish action).

Or a 20 for asking the eagles for help might be that they bring you half-way, as the eagles wouldn't want to get too close to Mt. Doom anyway.
thats what surprised me about the sf bay area’s “inclusion by exclusion” throughout last decade

there were some women that wanted to excise the presence of other women, because they (purportedly) felt that men didnt take them seriously after being around the other women. but thats a problem with the particular men?

it was masqueraded as progressive and was successful, they were the only women in tech representation and people didn't challenge the inconsistency
It was free to upgrade and only took 15 minutes while I was away from the hardware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mine was that good hangout time with other guys is working on projects together, regardless of how meaningful that project may or may not be. It's really nice to get your mind off of whatever was racing across it all day to think about a stupid old car or 3d printer or digging holes in a yard.
"Earth" is an old-fashioned word for "ore".

"Rare earth" metals are not rare in terms of crustal abundance, but earths of them (minable ore bodies with few impurities) are rare. These metals love hanging out with others - that's part of the reason why mining them is a dirty, toxic business.
I'm never going to be on call. It is a condition of my employment. If you've let them abuse you like that, then it's on you.

That isn't to say that if something needs to be overseen because a part of our infrastructure needs updating that I won't volunteer. But being mandated to babysit systems? No, absolutely not.
However, it can take up to 15 hours to deal with possible bugs after the upgrade, and I'm still struggling with whether to upgrade
> If you have a receipt showing you just withdrew it from a bank account, even if they’re stupid enough to seize it, the court is going to give it right back to you - along with a civil settlement.

This isn't true. You'll probably get the money back, but it will take a couple months and cost a couple thousand in attorney's fees (which the courts will not reimburse)
You buy land, buildings, out have a contract for these types of things. When there nobody at these locations it makes it appear that these were bad decisions rather than the fact that there was a black swan event that caused a paradigm shift. Some walnut will try to say that the writing was on the walls about covid or about the benefits of remote work but that's mostly contingent on post hoc analysis rather than is situ. And as they say: hindsight is 20/20...

Tldr: fear of looking bad because metrics are more important than actual results
More like the universal approximation theorem extended to computation rather than network complexity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
I thought iOS 18 might seem hollow with its biggest feature missing at launch, but in playing with it tonight I was wrong. It has some of the biggest quality of life upgrades in recent memory. I’ve been very pleased so far.

I remembered Calculator was getting Notes, but I didn’t remember hearing anything about the converter functionality. At first I thought it was just currency, which would have been great, but it’s a full blown converter for all kinds of things (area, angles, force, fuel, etc, etc, etc). Fantastic! I seem to be finding little things like this all over the place.
Can you read the machine translation flavor of this article, in fact my English is very poor
A bank failure + deposit insurance bust is a tail risk.

Inflation is a constant.

(And to pre-add, precious metals haven't historically been a great hedge either, when benchmarked against investing in economic growth)
> The meaning of MEDIEVAL is at the heart of this. D&D is Medieval, as it has markedly and prominent medieval world characteristics.

That's the important part for me, too. The general idea I always ran with was that "medieval" in the context of D&D (and most role playing games with that setting) referred to the environment (castles, villages, etc) and technology level (swords, bows, etc; sometimes early firearms).

As a general rule of thumb, it didn't go into government at all, because that's a aspect of the campaign setting. The actual campaign settings (Greyhawk, etc) defined various governments, everything from kings/emperors, to mage groups, to dragon kings.
Regarding your last point, I’ve witnessed two different engineers cry on two different calls because they weren’t getting any support from senior engineers and were at risk of being pipped. It’s that ridiculous. And these were not incompetent engineers. One went to Meta and another went to Cloudflare after Amazon.
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In my experience, being in a stable monogamous relationship makes it easier to be friends with the opposite sex because it reinforces that it is strictly platonic.

It works especially well if they are also in relationships and if your partner is also in your social circle. Couples hanging out with other couples is a really strong basis for friendship.
> can be extremely hard to physically get to your savings money in a crisis

Having spare cash around is never a bad idea. But there are precious few timelines in which the banking system collapses so completely that savings are inaccessible for extended periods (or at all) but paper U.S. dollars continue to hold value.
How about I look at actual unions in software, like the NYT tech union that immediately started undermining merit, making illegal demands, and discouraging high performance.

Every actual tech union that exists is a great advertisement for not unionizing.
GnuCash actually does that after an import. Sure, one can use the nice reconcile flow, but for importing lots of data I prefer slowly working through the bank statement at my own place, paired with occasional sanity checks.
Great points. We're pattern-matching shortcut machines, without a doubt. In most contexts, not even good ones.

> When I go to the doctor, I don't study medicine first, I trust the doctor. Trust takes the place of genuine understanding.

The ultimate abstraction! Trust is highly irrational by definition. But we do it all day every day, lest we be classified as psychologically unfit for society. Which is to say, mental health is predicated on a not-insignificant amount of rationalizations and self-deceptions. Hallucinations, even.
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It wasn't a clever gotcha, and I wasn't patting myself on the back.

I just found it odd that you went through and systematically addressed every section of my post, but that one.

It was taking what in my opinion is a lame point of view, to an extreme, in hopes of helping someone see that it fails at the extremes... Thus maybe you'll think about it and agree with me that in reality someone's own goals and views of themselves don't matter that much because as a whole we as a society have views on what makes a life worth living and what adds value to society.

And yes I think MrBeast systemizing making mindless brain numbing stupid videos for teenagers and kids to be pretty bad for society. I don't care that be produces revenue doing so.