skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The hiring pipelines at FAANG are so over-tuned for false negatives that there are plenty of engineers who are good enough to work at a FAANG for FAANG-level compensation yet are not actually getting offers from FAANG companies.

What happen is that these people will keep trying until they get in. They will focus only in one thing and one thing only: FAANG.

> That's soul-sucking for a lot of people, and those people will exclude themselves from FAANG-level compensation, and are on the market for (market minus FAANG)-rate compensation.

I find things have changed a lot where housing dictates personal career choices lately. It sucks to not be able to buy your own property. I don't care what people strategy is (be it work 4-5 years for FAANG and move midwest or whatnot).
Re: "So perhaps people should quit criticizing bitcoin for its energy intensity and start criticizing states and nations for still providing new industries with dirty power supplies instead."

Three responses:

(1) The author has introduced another unrelated claim, presumably to distract from the main point. See the informal usage of "non-sequitur" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy

(2) This is a false choice. The two arguments are separate.

(3) There are better alternatives when it comes to energy efficiency: (A) in the current cryptocurrency space; (B) in the financial transaction space; (C) in the (open-ended, what might the future hold) software design space.

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The article misses the point. If we're talking energy, the main criticism of Bitcoin is its efficiency. I mean "efficiency" as defined in the engineering sense: useful output / input. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency

If we define useful output as one Bitcoin transaction, how much input energy does that require?

According to [2], "Because of all that calculation, the energy cost of Bitcoin is high in comparison with that of conventional financial transactions. For example, according to one estimate, processing a bitcoin transaction consumes more than 5,000 times as much energy as using a Visa credit card."

According to [3], "Bitcoin's power consumption is extremely high compared to conventional digital payment, and one transaction now uses as much energy as your house in a week"

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amoun...

[3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mi...

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Finally, here's my personal perspective. I have relatively little confidence in a simple, generalized idea of cryptocurrencies. As far as the basic computer science, I like blockchain technologies roughly as much as I like Merkle trees. I'm also open to see where alternative forms of transactions can go.

That said, these forms have design constraints that the technologies must address. I would like to see particular innovation in the design of particular cryptocurrencies that make them suitable for particular uses. For a system that hopes to scale up transactions for a broad user base, I think per-transaction energy efficiency is an important metric.
Directx9 workf fine in Wine already, the problems were with Directx11, there are some obscure games that are not working on Wine, some games need specific fixes since they were working on Windows by mistake.

I could not play Oblivion on Windows10 but worked on Wine for me.
He also said that the reason for that was the way the VSCode team structured the code, not because it's "running in a browser already": https://twitter.com/CompuIves/status/1031932607326371843
It is lovely to see the phrase "taxing externalities" in use.

This surely is the answer - The issue is getting government to take a scientific and 'holistic' stance on legislating.

The issue is the delay between need becoming known, and governmental action (and, said governmental action is often watered down from internal debate and compromise).

One wonders which will mature first - Government or Consumer atttidues & action.
If consumer demands are quicker than the state, then Capitalism will solve this problem (people vote with wallets, and purchase items from organisations that identify and offset externalities)
If the state is quicker, then government will solve this problem (Identifying externalities and taxing).

Governmental solving of the problem appears preferable. It is an ideal entity for accountability and governance (by definition of course).
Which they did, based on DrawBridge. It’s pretty interesting, basically it’s the NT kernel as a library OS which hosts native PE binaries. There are some white papers around.
> You realize not all startups are in SV?

Absolutely. Having said that, I won't join non-SV startups. Why? very simple: the chance of hitting the jackpot is significantly higher in SV.

> You realize not all job markets have developer jobs paying 400k?

For sure, but why would I joined non-SV startups getting paid peanuts while I can join a more established company and get paid double (base, stock, bonus, health benefit).

I felt that First Engineer is a sucker if you don't get compensated well enough (be it way more equity than the typical 0.5-1% or something else).

At the end of the day, I'd choose to maximise my career: be it joining a startup to gain experience knowing the whole stack or joining large enterprise for better career-path and compensation.

I don't join startups to "Change the World" or to "Hit the jackpot with 0.5-1% equity".
By generically you mean "in C"? Sometimes the functionality is there, but there's no way to express it in C. Integer overflows are exactly such a case; many processors provide a built-in overflow detection mechanism, but there's no way to access it in C. (It's not even a special mechanism, it's just the command itself, in assembly you clearly see the overflow.) I'd say that using compiler-specific functions (provided they plug into these processor commands) or assembly is exactly the right way to deal with this issue. Yes, parts of the code will be non-portable, but if they're clearly isolated and marked as machine-specific, then why not? The pros certainly outweigh the cons.
Speaking from experience, premiums go up every year, coverage decreases/copayments increase, and plans often get discontinued. I've had to switch to a different plan three times now.
No I meant bandwidth. The ISP usually does not tell you which frequencies they use and which bandwidth they have available.

40 MHz only with CA I think.
Next.js has had support for a static site export for a long time. I’m just waiting for someone to make it into a user friendly CMS.
It's not really temporary in that example, though, if mp5 existed for some period of time there will always be mp5 files that some people will want to play and adding support ensures those files are never lost.
If you are paying less than €3/GB (before VAT) they can apply a fair use roaming limit which is lower than your domestic limit Which is calculated from the EU cap of €6/GB - so 25GB is well above what they have to give you for that price.
Louder is not really worse ... loudness wars

Those are 2 different kinds of loud making your point sort of moot.. The former is about amplifying every frequency with the same amount (well, within limits of whatever harware you're using), the latter is about amplifying certain frequencies more than others resulting in relative differences between instruments getting smaller.
See this is why we can't have nice things in America like socialized medicine.
All half-decent compilers elide a memcpy when you're using it for this purpose; they'll just generate the assembly you "intended" to create. And while I know casting to a char * is legal for all types, I don't believe casting from a char * is legal unless the memory the pointer references is actually the type you're casting to. I'll have to check on this–or if you have a link to the standard on this I can just look at that.
I'm curious, AFAICT Linux uses -fno-strict-aliasing with GCC which promises not to enable strict aliasing based optimizations even at higher optimization levels. But they also rely on the GCC blessed behavior of union based type punning which is redundant in that case.

I suppose union based type punning makes the intent a little clearer (vis a vis memcpy) but that's a weak argument at best.
You're always expecting a specific type, whether the type or schema is made explicit by the language or not.
> this seems a profound result, with perhaps crucial implications

I'm not sure about this case in particular, but in general this is actually a good argument as to why something would take longer than usual. A lot of work has to be verified, especially groundbreaking work.
Grid scale batteries are different in that they can use different chemistry (volume is not as important), better cooling and less aggressive charge/discharge cycles to increase lifetime.
Understanding GROUPING and GROUPING_ID Functions in SQL Server
You can always run a desalination plant.
> Valve needs to partner with Google and launch a Chromebook/Steam Machine hybrid.

"Valve needs to"? Or you'd like Valve to?

> It's in the interest of both companies to kill Windows. [...] It would be a success and could seriously hurt Microsoft.

Ah, there it is, your real motive. Valve will do whatever will make them money and keep their users mostly happy. I doubt they have much incentive to "kill Windows", and they definitely won't do it just to pander to an anti-MS zealot such as yourself.
Then that is already the message—to question what art even is.

Computer generated works don't have that, or any message.

The process of computer-generating a number of pieces itself might be some form of art, but more like in the form of art of programming rather than the art of painting.
You should really ask the people paying their salary whether the job is useful or not since they are the ones paying for it.

On that note, at a previous employer, the technical director hired a business analyst who subsequently told him to his face that she spent the days doing her nails, so he certainly knew the job wasn't useful. She went back to her desk. She quit out of boredom after about a year to pursue a job in teaching. He hired another one who spent the days working on a website for a local youth group. This happens, every day.
There are some cringe worthy ones, but also a couple which I think are suprisingly good. I think ShopWith is brilliant (although I expect HN is not the audience to discuss this with).
Two words: child rearing.

Imagine if every pair of prospective parents had a couple dozen more hours available per week, because they don't need to spend more time at the office than what is actually needed to do real work. Parental engagement has a massive influence on a child's achievements.
This is the corresponding github issue, open since 2012: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/74 :)

At some point during the beta of the Steam client for Linux, there was a bug in that you could install Windows games on Linux. I had a binfmt_misc setup at the time, which allowed me to run Windows executables directly through Wine as if they were ordinary ELF binaries. I don't remember exactly what happened when I tried running one, I think it failed when the Steam copy protection kicked in, but I always wondered if they couldn't make this work.
I agree that it's unacceptable that SIMD Vector extensions [0] are not standardized yet.

However, they already work acceptably in GCC and Clang. There are only minor differences (e.g. __builtin_shufflevector) but it's usable with very minimal #ifdeffing.

Example:

typedef float vec4f __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
// initializer
vec4f a = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 };
// literal expression
vec4f b = a + (vec4f){ 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 };
// standard infix operators
vec4f c = -b * (a+b); // with --ffast-math, this will be a mad()

It's not perfect but it's quite usable and I've been using vector extensions in C for years.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html
This is interesting, I didn't think of it like that. You're saying the moon should be used as a base because less energy is required to leave the moon. I wonder if those savings amortize the up-front cost of creating a self-sufficient moon base.
Have a look at how much getting your own insurance costs, you will be surprised.

Actually, health insurance is not that expensive. A couple of years ago my wife was out of a job and checked what it would take to have health insurance on our own.
Turns out a top-level plan for a family of 4 cost less than 200 USD a month.
Given that as a contractor we typically make a lot more than with a full time job (between 1.5 and 2 times), health insurance is not a good reason for remaining full time.
If you offer unlimited fire trucks for $X per month then if someone only pay for one month in theory during that period they should have unlimited trucks. They don't...
This type of in-game realism is fascinating. It's a kind of immersion you can't get through graphics alone. The Discworld MUD has also been running player-led in-game newspapers for a long time: https://dwwiki.mooo.com/wiki/Newspapers
You ROCK!

Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for!
If the upper bound is known, then we'll just make the check once before the loop, no?
>And yet I am pretty sure that in Germany at least, that plan would not be allowed to be called "Unlimited", no matter how fine the fine print ends up being.

My German O2 plan is called a "flatrate" and is throttled after 300GB according to their "fair use" policy. Both terms are verbatim what O2 calls it, Germans have a lot of anglicisms. They claim it has "bis zu" 50Mbit/s ("bis zu" meaning "up to").

So sadly no, in Germany Ginger Beer is called Ginger Brew, but DSL contracts are still scammy.
> I suppose union based type punning makes the intent a little clearer (vis a vis memcpy) but that's a weak argument at best.

How much more explicit can you get than a memcpy?
They don't have that money to spend, because that money came from the sale of the previous fans, but now it's the investors that are selling them.

Before: Importer spends $100 to buy the fans, spends $10 to ship, gains $150 from sale. Net: $40

Now: Finance guys spend $100 to buy the fans, pay $50.01 to the importer to ship them, then sell them for $150. Net (for the importer): $40.01. The finance guys are down $0.01, but they get Real Bucks from that.

The real economy gained a mere penny. It just added complexity to the whole thing, for no real gain.
Are the Athos monasteries also connected to the grid? (According to the night photos they seem to have lighting.)
The title (both here, and on the article) is talking about debt-to-GDP ratios. The parenthetical note is just a parenthetical note.
Here's a nice ebook which will give you a feeling for what professional designers actually do. There are also links to sites for inspiration. This will give you a feel, for what is actually possible (crazy stuff out there).

https://design-process.netguru.co/chapters/01-project-introd...

Btw. if you want to trial&error your css theres this amazing online tool called jsfiddle. Theres a section for html css and javascript. If you do not need the javascript, just leave it empty.

Here's a simple example:
https://jsfiddle.net/frq75sud/5/

Just edit the css and press ctrl+enter.
I guess you are frustrated but most of it sounds like everywhere else. Also I think you are exaggerating. For sure they are not 10-15 years behind. There are some fine ideas and implementation for instance the Pouch container and p2p distribution system, even by Alibaba. Hyper.sh is chinese, too. OpenResty is nice. PingCAP, the makers of TiDB are chinese, as well.
The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)
The author stated that the story is "not-so-true" and copied from Snopes, but he didn't include the debunking.
that would be discrimination and that's would also make it a non open source license

5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
It's not just fashion. It's a question of "Do I want someone to use my software?", because with GPL the answer would be no for a lot of projects.
Key differentiation here is that the person is not donating time so that a company necessarily profits off that labor. OP is getting what they (OP) are expecting out of it (joy by being a part of larger collection of people that have given them so much free stuff)
The whole open source software movement is proof to his position.

How much of the free time development is done, directly or indirectly, in support of their day job though. Often times they're doing it either to improve the tools they use on their day job, improving the skills they use on their day job or trying to learn new skills so they can get a new/better day job.
To be fair, in most cases the consumers don't know what they want. Was anybody asking for a touch screen phone when the first iphone came out ?
Yeah, it didn't occur to me that you weren't an applicant, sorry. Sounds like something YC or Startup School applicants could do something about.

Although, realistically speaking, YC may not have anything to gain from connecting the rest of the students to outside advisors, keeping in mind that this would require some effort.

This may be something the students will have to do themselves, using the forum as a place to coordinate.
The secret 4 step method to turn $100 into $100,000 in 90 days only
They said they work on their own fork and push everything back to upstream when its appropriate. I guess that gives them the freedom to do anything without worrying if upstream will accept it.
He is saying they are not forced, that it's more complicated than that. They want to do it, but aren't compensated appropriately.
The only reason I still use Windows is Win32.
Pretty much. And also, models almost never operate on full-size image, and if you e.g. pixel bin a bayer image you will get a de-mosaiced image, so that's not very interesting. What is interesting is, it'd be pretty cool to train on linear HDR images for instance (i.e. direct 14-stop sensor output without contrast curves and color correction), or on visible spectrum + IR + UV, but I'm not aware of any large public datasets like this. The reason why this is interesting is because a lot of vision models suffer from the lack of robustness. Their performance on the train/validation datasets might be OK, but connect them to a real live video feed and they turn to shit. To some extent this can be addressed by data augmentation during training, but you have to understand that this is an imperfect process: you're operating on the data that's already pre-cooked, so to speak, for _human_ consumption, with color correction, gamma curves, etc already applied, and there's not a whole lot you can do to make things more robust to different lighting conditions, noise in the feed when camera bumps the gain in its ADCs, color drift due to e.g. sodium lamps, over/under exposure, etc. Unsurprisingly, this is especially noticeable in efficient, quantized models, because they don't really have much leeway built in to work around the deficiencies in the input data.
One of my most favorite essays on the subject: [0]

In February 1968 New York City sanitation workers went on strike. After just six days a state of emergency was declared, and after nine days the city had to give up and give the strikers their way.

In May 1970 Ireland’s bank employees decided to go on strike.

At the outset, pundits predicted that life in Ireland would come to a standstill.

> Heading into the summer of 1970, Ireland braced itself for the worst.

> And then something odd happened. Or more accurately, nothing much happened at all.

> In July, the The Times of England reported that the “figures and trends which are available indicate that the dispute has not had an adverse effect on the economy so far.” A few months later, the Central Bank of Ireland drew up the final balance. “The Irish economy continued to function for a reasonably long period of time with its main clearing banks closed for business,” it concluded. Not only that, the economy had continued to grow.

In the end, the strike would last ... a whole six months!

[0] http://evonomics.com/why-garbage-men-should-earn-more-than-b...
Kubernetes makes it easy, but there are few missing pieces - for example there is no load balancer that you can use with commodity dedicated servers (there is metallb, but it requires routing facilities most hosting providers don't offer).
> For instance, say a surgeon decides 'hey, y'know people are going to die anyway, my work is useless' then according to Graeber's definition their work is BS while most people would say it is useful work.

So what you're saying is that when we do this survey next time, we need to control for nihilism? :)
It wasn't, but that's a good article on the same topic. The one I was thinking of was focused more on low-level details of the twitter UI.
If not Mozilla Internet would have migrated to animated WebP already. But due to their unreasonable policy they ignore users' voice for eight years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600919
Algo supports it as well although the docs currently make it sound like it's for Android clients only. But you can grab the generated config (and perhaps add a keepalive line to taste) and use it on other platforms.
So this is obviously bullshit.

Mysterious secret ancient teaching that's died out that can do unexplainable things, what a cliche.

The area is huge - https://goo.gl/maps/SV7sE3p9XWP2 it's going to be mostly white noise.

If there was anything to it Darpa would have to know, it'd have a high military value wouldn't it?

I could see a mix, telling calmer waters and knowing currents along with the sun and stars.

It makes for a good anime anyway, but in RL not so much.
First Microsoft has to get every app on the windows store, then they have to get people to start using it and then they cut off external software sources or make it hard to do like requiring power shell to enable.

Its obvious this is the long term plan for MS. Apple has already shown people will buy locked down systems.
(Warning: the discourse on the nature of art is a classic debate that will likely never end.)

Art has a quality that is merely not personal and subjective. Interpretation is personal and subjective but if art was, then anything would do because there would be no objective-ish yardsticks to help judge between two random pieces. Postmodernism tried to explore the boundaries of how little is needed for the subject still to be art, which interestingly can be considered an art in itself. But the underlying current even there is that there is a human idea, motivation, or vision behind the art that is created. Computer generated pieces lack that; however, the process of computer generation probably does qualify as art. If an artist used a computer to generate images and make collages out the selected generated images that would be art—much like Warhol created art out of emblems of ordinary or entertainment figures.
What makes YUYV more efficient is downsampling. You represent 2 pixels with 4 bytes instead of 6 due to the loss of spatial color information. If there's no downsampling, and there exists a transform between RGB and a given color space, your network will simply learn slightly differently. Remember that after the very first layer there's no notion of color space anymore.
A big one is not having to reboot in to the other OS to do stuff.
People can spend their free time doing whatever they want. What's the problem with that?
The ice caps hiding under an atmosphere of burning sulphuric acid at hundreds of degrees!?