skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure your title has any meaning beyond your company though.

So you are ignorant to the reality that it is meaningful and has some value, that value is debatable and subjective, but it can and does have actual value. You're stuck on your own narrow minded meritocracy mindset, which is noble and pure, but also extremely naive to how the world actually works at large.

> Where I work, pay is based on skills, experience, quality and value of work produced.

Reducing to N=1 doesn't help your argument. Quite the opposite. I think we're all in agreement it would be convenient if titles and levels were normalized across the industry / globe but they never will be. I'm glad you found an employer that works for your preference. But if you ever search widely for another job, and want to optimize your earnings, a big title will come in handy and have value. You can stick to your guns, but you are experiencing an opportunity cost by being stubborn on this and not seeking bigger titles. You'll never know how much more you could have been paid had you came with a big title and made them think you were worth way more than they wanted to pay.
Sure, nuclear may fit the bill. That avoids needing a new advancement if we're happy enough with the environmental impact of nuclear generation, but it doesn't avoid all the external costs beyond just the nuclear reaction.

Reactors themselves take a large amount of resources, some rare, to build. Infrastructure is another huge resource suck, all that copper has to come from somewhere. Nuclear has the nice benefit of being on-demand, so it does at least dodge resources needed for energy storage.
This from the store that commissioned a portrait of Vonnegut (among other authors) that featured prominently in their branding and store decor?

https://www.behance.net/gallery/15574393/Barnes-Noble-Author...
Terrific blogpost. Enjoyed reading.
Looking forward for all the government sanctioned "safe" software that continues to send real time telemetetry while it tries to manipulate me into spending money on things I don't need. But at least only the good guys will be able to do that, yay.
Dig a little deeper into your dataset and you will find that the reason these people didn't end up homeless is because most of them have well-off / supportive families, trust funds, or Ivy League degrees.

That said I agree that people give in to fear too much, which prevents them from taking risks.
In 2018 I did a 400-level CS class that was an introduction to computer audio. One of the assignments was to implement a fast fourier transform. After class I went to the cafeteria and hacked one out in like an hour or 2. A week or so later as the assignment was nearing due, apparently many, if not most of the students complained the assignment was too hard because... they seemingly just didn't know how to write code?

They ended up changing the assignment to where you could just find an implementation of a FFT online and write about it or something.

That's not even getting into the students who copy-pasted Wikipedia straight into their papers in that same class.
Companies are going to have to do a lot less gatekeeping and siloing of data for this to really work. The companies that are totally transparent even internally are few and far between in my experience.
Good news items like this in the medical, social, environmental areas is available via a weekly free email from https://fixthenews.com/. (A premium version is also available.)

_Some_ of the items from last week (each has a paragraph of details):

* India is finally becoming a clean energy superpower

* United States designates a massive new marine sanctuary

* India officially eliminates trachoma as a public health problem

* Global electric vehicle sales soared in September

* Global teen pregnancy rates have dropped by one-third since 2000
Succeeding boringly?
Would also like to know this.
Don't think of an H100. Think of the factories, the tooling, the datacenters and the power supply needed to light one up.
Ironically enough, our lecture halls were simply not big enough. The space capped out at around 300-600 people and for popular topics such as programming 101 every semester would easily have 1500+ enrolled.
Kobo has Pocket integration, is this substantially different?
Matriculation agreements are based on content covered not on whether or not the students learned the material. But since community colleges have less grade inflation than other institutions passing our classes means more.

The Higher Learning Commision is a farce. It’s purpose is for sinecures for its employees.
Would signaling, say, a semaphore count? That could cause another higher priority realtime process to wake-up and block the signaler forever.

I think the canonical meaning of "blocking code" is more of the "I know it when I see it" variety than an useful and rigorous definition.
Sophos acquires Secureworks for 859M dollars
A Tardigrade Riding a Worm
That's OpenAI's current answer to safety. Its far too early to say whether they is actually a good approach to LLM safety.
Let's to forget this long article from just over a month ago, outlining Microsoft's failings and seemingly willful neglect regarding cybersecurity overseas. https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/bombshell-allegations-th...
> LOL read literally the last 4 paragraphs.

OP gave you valuable feedback on how your point is not getting across. Should you edit, or should you lol and snark is a personal choice for you to make. But OP is just trying to help you.
Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days
The costs of employing a resident are a lot more than just salary, but as I noted above the numbers are kind of fuzzy. Certainly most teaching hospitals can take on a few more residents but would mean less money for a new MRI machine or administrator salaries or charity care or nice landscaping or whatever. So it's a matter of priorities. For better or worse, most organizations are always going to do the minimum.

There are a few colleges now offering accelerated 6 year MD degrees so hopefully that option will become more common. A lot of primary care is also being picked up by physician assistants who have less education.
At most universities you can talk most classes pass/fail by choice which means A-D is pass
and F is fail.

The nice thing about an all pass/fail system is you can formalize the 'new' way grades are actually done in which A means meets expectations and anything less means did not. Making pass mean A/B takes a lot stress off students and C/D is already failing
for practical purposes as often you can't continue with less than a B.
Forums vs. Slack with Dan Moore from FusionAuth [video]
Pollution (especially the greenhouse gas type) is like the proverbial frog slowly boiling in the pot of water. Eventually we feel the effects, often in huge ways but disintermediated by time.

Whereas exploiting a new technology like AI for potential profit is like a massive hit of sugar/caffeine/drug in that we feel/act on ASAP.
It could be that I just haven't written enough Rust to encounter this issue. Thanks for the insight!
$ units
You have: 25m2 / 2tau(700km)^2
You want: /billion
* 0.0040600751
/ 246.30086
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It's not just lower quality journals. Marc Tessier-Lavigne was removed as the President of Stanford for having faked data in 12 of his papers, some of which were published in Science. He's still a professor though and still publishing. There are a whole bunch of Alzheimers studies that have been shown to have been fabricated, and led to extremely expensive trials on Alzheimers drugs that didn't work.
Pioneer Anomaly
Ubiquiti Enterprise Off-Cloud Storage
I've observed that also being completely incompetent doesn't hurt. But you must continuously demo your completely trivial achievements (or demo someone else's achievements before they are ready and can do it themselves).
automotive application can mean as well use as windshield or wipers motors
Ironically if this paper intentionally uses an incorrect and misleading term "fake", to label and then claim that 1 in 7 are fake, would it make the paper itself "fake" according to their standards?

Because they find 1 in 7 with serious errors, but their definition of "fake" requires it to be intentional. Where's the evidence it's intentional for all of these 1 in 7?
> OOP is entirely about writing GUIs. (Well, the C++ idea of OOP.)

Nope.

One thing I like to do in C++ is, on an embedded system, wrap an object around a hardware resource. It means that no other code needs to know about the details of talking to that hardware. Also, if there are multithreading concerns, it leaves a very small set of places to worry about mutexes.
Employers need to wake up to this in hiring, too. You can get a 4.0 with a degree in computer science from a top school, and still not be able to program at all.

Some organizations still hire software engineers just based on resume and a nontechnical interview. This can easily be a disaster! You need to do a real assessment during the interview of how well software engineers can code.
Serious question from someone who is regularly tasked with hiring Juniors. What IS a good assessment for entry-level/right out of college positions?

-> GPA can be gamed, as laid out.

-> Take Home assessments can mostly be gamed, I want to assess how you think, now which tools you use.

-> Personality tests favor the outgoing/extroverts

-> On-location tests/leet code are a crapshoot.

What should be best practice here? Ideally something that controls for first-time interviewer jitters.
I was doing the codecrafter course then went off-script when creating the parser, this is good to have all the steps in one place so I dont need to jump through the hoops on the website
A TI-84 Plus calculator (over 20 years old) is still useful today.

In isolation, I don't think a model necessarily becomes less useful over time. It'll still be as good at summarizing articles, translating text, correcting grammar, etc. for you as it is today.

If things do continue to advance and new models are released, which I think is likely, the old ones become less useful by comparison and in situations where there's competition. But then, through hardware/algorithmic improvements, better models also become feasible for universities/open-source groups/individuals - so you shouldn't be stuck with a 2024 era model.
Using generalizations will make you a bad writer. Yes I am showing that I am a bad writer.
Does SpaceX even use traditional GPS? I'd assume with something like Starlink they would be able to employ something more precise/fit for purpose.
Boeing should be forced to clean up the mess they made on their dime, or it's prison for the execs.

We are far too light on execs causing irreparable harm to humanity.
I can't speak to anxiety, but for depression, you're still going to wind up needing something in addition to exercise.

Not because it's not helpful, but it's sort of like the case of the person who needed the exercise of "normal" walking with a brain implant bypassing his damage to recover enough to gain partial mobility with it turned off[1] - if the whole problem is "I cannot convince myself to do things", "force yourself to do this thing non-depressed people find hard" is a nonstarter as an initial treatment, after a certain point.

Sure, one can argue that the correct way to do this is prevention, but that's somewhat like saying the best treatment for an infection is prevention - that's technically true, but you're still likely going to wind up with people needing an acute treatment sometimes.

(This also gets into complicated territory rapidly with people with comorbid problems that preclude "more exercise" being a thing that their doctors would recommend...)

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5
I'm building "greenfield". I still use it at least daily, but the benefit just struggles to outweigh the cost of invoking it. Maybe I don't understand how to use it.
"Fail" is by definition to be unsuccessful on one's goal.

It can literally mean my cake burned in the oven or my company loses millions of dollars.

Consequences are irrelevant.
Any velocity changes will only happen once so will result in an eccentric orbit where only one side of the orbit is raised or lowered -- the other side will still be in SSO.
This ambiguity is specific to English, where the same word can be used as a noun or as an adjective or as a verb.

In many languages such ambiguities are impossible, because the nouns, verbs and adjectives derived from the same stem use distinct affixes to mark the role of the word.
They're designed to isolate and control everyone outside of them in order to keep the children inside safe? That is certainly an opinion.
I'll take that guarantee and raise you. Someone on here who posts was in that situation.

If you risk homelessness on a lottery ticket you are making a bad choice.
That level of security is true for most big tech companies :) You mistake thinking that large and well funded = secure. They clearly have an audit trail but no preventative controls, which is sadly the standard for move fast environments in big tech.
In life, I can’t even manage to fail spectacularly. I get more of a like warm limbo of misery
Indeed, "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection" shows that tracing and counting are duals: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1028976.1028982
You have to use on-location tests. Do your best to be fair and get a true evaluation of the candidate's skills. It's not perfect but the alternatives are worse.

The other thing you have to do is that you have to be willing to fire the people who are underperforming. It's just a natural consequence of the interview process being imperfect.
> don't you have the problem where you accidentally push a stash just like you push a WIP commit?

Because jj doesn’t require commits to be on a branch, and the equivalent feature (bookmarks) don’t automatically advance, if you created a new commit to stash some stuff, the name wouldn’t move to it, and so when you push nothing would happen.
Sorry to hear. For the benefit of others, I read this as the importance of sizing the bet relative to your portfolio and nobody else’s, and is broadly applicable.

If someone bets a million bucks on stock A, but is worth a billion bucks, then that’s not $1m conviction, it’s <1% conviction. And that information is then factored into the size of my bet.

Unfortunately I also learned this the hard way.
I completely agree with you that they are mostly used as CYA. However, I'm speaking from practical standpoint where if you have to work in certain industries (banking, health, finance etc.,) the first thing you are asked is if you have XYZ certification.
But that is just confirmation bias. You cannot infer valid conclusions by just looking at the success stories. By that same logic you can conclude that eating food leads to becoming one of the greats, because they all ate food.

Fact is that most failures and sacrifices don't lead to great success. But of course most of them don't result in some humble-brag grind-set blog post either.

So those sacrifices and failures are under-represented, and this leads to people who are not well versed in statistics, to conclude that therefore sacrifices and failures are somehow a necessary step in the way to success.

But that's false. There are loads of people with good ideas and talent who have made plenty of sacrifices but still have never seen success, and there are loads of people who gain success without any meaningful sacrifice at all.

Another point is that I don't think those sacrifices were difficult decisions for those 'greats'. Because another overlooked difference between people is an inherent ability to relentlessly pursue a singular goal. So even though they might have felt bad about giving up on something at the time, they did so because it was standing in the way of what they truly wanted.

I this way, could you really say they have sacrificed anything at all? If you really care about productivity and don't care so much about comfort, is it really a sacrifice to spend the night at the office?

It's the people who don't really care about all that who have to make the hardest sacrifices, in which case maybe better advice is to tell them to not make the sacrifice.

Just living your life without wanting to attain status is a perfectly valid go to try to achieve.
Honeywell partners with Google to integrate data with generative AI
Not sure I understand the "qualifying time" aspect. Does hitting 2:55 guarantee you entry into the Boston Marathon, whereas achieving the "cutoff time" gets you into the lottery for one of the remaining spots?
That’s the Higher Learning Commission’s job. Partly their job. The HLC is a joke and an expensive farce.
At a minimum, inappropriate from TikTok/ByteDance's point of view. Even if we put that aside, users of this app may find it inappropriate that this app advertised as a "TikTok feed" app is not a TikTok feed app (so it appears very much like a scam from the point of view).
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/slide-rule-fast-a...

Same energy
thanks, now i get your point. essentially what we are discussing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religio... a topic that i am not deeply familiar with, and to be fair, i also don't hold a strong opinion on. in my naive view i believe the following to make sense: storytelling precedes religion. religion evolved from storytelling and became more elaborate, motivating the development of the role of priests because the skills and knowledge needed took more time than a normal person had available and the role was deemed important enough to warrant significant time investment into learning it by selected individuals as part of the specialization of roles in a community. today priests are no longer needed because the skills needed to create, share and interpret stories can be learned by anyone.

to summarize the argument and bring it back to the main topic, i'd like to argue that adversity influenced storytelling which created religion and religion necessitated priests. so yes, without priests religions may not have persisted, but that's like saying without farmers farming would not have taken hold and we would still all be hunter/gatherers.
Don't they have a process for determining whether new technology should be integrated into their lives?
When Tim of EverydayAstronaut quoted this[1], as I recall the quote was within 0.5cm of the target landing site. So I assumed that to be relative accuracy and not absolute.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPt5vbr-YU (don't recall timestamp, sorry)
Maybe a bit confused - paying for damages is a civil/contract matter. Jail is for crimes committed by a person.

The parent comment explained some reasonable contractual mechanisms for civil remedy - insurance etc.
Rust, recently migrated from SQLite to Postgres, Astro, svelte, tailwind, caddy. Hosted in a VPS in Hetzner
Quick offtopic note: for a moment I was surprised when this website was redirecting me to 127.0.0.1, but after some head scratching it turned out to be on the default (and many other) blacklist in PiHole.
Extinction of the Influenza B Yamagata line during the Covid pandemic (2022)
>There were hundreds of failed automotive companies

What companies are you referring to?
I noticed that, and I was left kind of confused. My experience might be limited, but operating on thousands of files and performing multiple reads or writes on them over and over seems exactly like the type of thing a lot of JS tooling does, so I’m not really sure where the author decides that JS is no longer the right fit. I don’t see why that doesn’t dispel skepticism right off of the bat.
Neat! Though I feel like this needs to be "integrated" into something else to achieve full potential. I think a lot of people end up falling down wikipedia rabbit holes (me included!) and something where my browser can provide the same sort of "topic quicklinks" that wikipedia articles have [0] but for anywhere on the web? I'd love that!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_frequency#Electromag... (deep linked to the "Electromagnetic Spectrum" topic quick links, but you might have to click the accordion control to unfold it)
Opinion: The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here's why
The one behind it is 1000km away vs 200km away for the one in front.
Hey, that makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of crows who come to the bird feeder in my backyard. I would just have to figure out how to easily make a food dispenser, and what sort of touch screen a crow can activate....
Consider your personal threat model.

Due to his conduct, I consider Matt a bad actor, at this point. Combine that with other perhaps dubious allegations in other lawsuits[1] against Matt.

If I were using SimpleNote, I'd question the privacy of my notes. The notes aren't encrypted[2]. I'd have concerns if my notes have been/will be grepped through for "juicy" content, or if I were to publicly criticize the owner, embarrassing details be made public in some fashion.

Same for Day One. I'd stop using it immediately and cut my losses. Obligatory link[3].

I don't use any of Automattic's products except WordPress, but previously, if I were going to use a cloud-based notes app, I'd have probably used SimpleNote, based on my previous impression of Matt as this stoic do-gooder.

This is a good lesson in that you don't really know the real person behind these public personas. Do not make critical decisions based on these personas.

1. https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io (I have zero affiliation with this site)

2. https://simplenote.com/help/#encryption

3. https://dayoneapp.com/guides/day-one-sync/end-to-end-encrypt...
Does the name "Bram Stoker" not carry any weight?
That's one automobile company. The parent mentioned "hundreds".
> Speeding up does not work, that'll just put it in a higher orbit

Speeding up doesn't raise the orbit; it makes it (more) elliptical while still intersecting with the old orbit (shared with neighbouring satellites)- you need at least 2 maneuvers to raise an orbit. You're also assuming a perfectly pro-grade acceleration. In an explosion, different pieces go in different directions, I suspect there is a vector that results in faster speed in the same orbit, but I'm no rocket scientist.
And that’s the fundamental problem. They fail to see that if they took those same methods and made it independent of state then those things are now called functions.

Functions can be moved to different scopes. Functions don’t rely on state to exist.

You can compose functions with other functions to build new functions.

And here’s the kicker. All of these functions did the same thing as the method.

Functions are more modular. A method, is a restricted function that is tightly bounded with state and all other sibling methods.
YouTube still supports WebSub (PubSubHubbub)[0] via their own hub[1].
There's very little documentation on how to actually use it though, and it seems like it's been on life support for quite awhile, a lot of small oddities have crept in over time and recently there was extended outages where notifications stopped being pushed. The current documentation isn't even correct, since is specifies an incorrect topic URL (should be /xml/feeds/ rather than just /feeds/, the /feeds/ link is for the base atom feed, and while it actually does "work" if you supply it to the WebSub Hub, it won't send you correct notifications).

[0] https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/push_notific...

[1] https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/