skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just saying someone doesn't understand something because they disagree with your idea is not a constructive argument.

You pay in monthly based on income up to a maximum amount. If you say a speeding fine just counts towards my monthly contribution and is deducted from what I have to pay anyway why not speed?
Sony Finally Admits It Doesnt Own Bach and It Only Took a Ton of Public Pressure
Their software page: https://nevercenter.com/pixelmash/
Taking a chance and joining a very large corporation.

Previously I was all about startups or small companies and was very much against the mega-corp environment.

Over several months a colleague "recruited" me to join their team and I don't regret it.

I've been able to climb pretty high within this corp and it has been a wild ride. Never in a million years would I have thought I'd have any sort of influence over technology strategy that one of the largest US corporations would follow for the next decade.

So, I've learned to keep an open mind and not let preconceived notions on how others do business until I see it for myself. If I had not done this I'd still be hopping from start-up to start-up.
Philosophy's Relevance to Technical Writing
Changing careers. Left software to become a doctor. I'll graduate in 7 months.
Teaching myself to program. Nothing caused such a hockey stick in opportuinities. I was able to make way more money in a very short time period and work in much more interesting companies.

I never took anything so seriously in my life as when I decided to become a programmer. I bought dozens of used textbooks, read and meticulously underlined them, relentlessly wrote code and read all the programming interview books, made guides for myself to study, said yes to every contract and bug I could help with regardless of the tech stack. I refused to be anal about picking one programming language over another.

I have a marketing degree from a not good school. If I could do it again I would (a) drop out and move to a major tech metro and (b) identify a high growth tech stack and study it intensively. Never should have wasted time getting a useless degree.

The best thing learning to program taught me was how to read books properly - Write in the margins, take extensive notes, phrase and rephrase the lessons, write my own articles and guides to solidify the learnings.

This year I mad $350,000 and got promoted to manage five people. I couldn’t have gotten here without learning to code.
learn machine learning and AI instead of rails now. Rails is 2008-2012.
But it's not actually the physical size of the pixels that ultimately matters, it's the total amount of light captured by the sensor.

Thinking about the individual pixels of a sensor is tempting but causes an unfortunate chain of erroneous assumptions.

It is true that (a) larger sensors have had an historical efficiency advantage, but it's progressively diminishing, and (b) larger sensors tend to be capable of lower area-equivalent ISOs. If you could build an MFT sensor capable of ISO 25, and used comparable glass, the full frame advantage would be eliminated.
I just hope they don't shit on the android support like Snapchat. It's the first ever paid app i got and i'd like to think that's saying something for an android user. Probably far fetch but it would be nice the android version became open source if that should ever get dropped by apple (so community can maintain it)
> Sarcasm doesn't translate well on the internet

Given what you're replying to, I'd say irony sure does.
Interesting but it is less of a story than the title implies, because this is on a mac. Yes MS should have their shit together that Edge on Mac is their recommendation. I wonder why it wasn't.

Also maybe there is some context here we are not aware of. Maybe you told them you have FF and Chrome installed but not Edge, in which case that is a good recommendation rather than ask you to install Edge, and shows MS support in a good light IMHO.
When was it appropriate for you to burn bridges and how'd you go about it? I'm going through something similar.
I read through it and this is indeed how it works. Wasm as a language provides the restrictions that the MMU provides for machine code. You can't read from/write to arbitrary pointers in wasm.
> Their customers are not their users

Cannot be overstated. The incentive structure is clear and the subsequent evolution is happening.
Probably taking my first job after college 2800 miles from where I grew up.
It's Facebook's and it will live in the Facebook app, not Instagram.
Seems like it was replaced with GCM in https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/commit/f4e50d5596b05d0c...
Is there any sample code that illustrates this kind of python embedding versus one of the freezer scripts ?

We used to build desktop software using pyqt and freeze it. I wonder how that entire toolchain looks like in this new way.
Leaving the mom and pop shop that was underpaying and under appreciating me.
Saving and investing approximately 40% of my income at all times.
I recommend the Google container as well
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
The National Cryptologic Museum[1] next to Fort Meade has an extensive collection of code-breaking devices and computers from various time periods, plus a library.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/
I enrolled in the JET Programme [1], got accepted, quit my job at 39 and taught English for 5 years in Japan. Oddly, I think I'm less effective as a programmer now. Before I left I was definitely an "alpha dog" programmer and pushed my way towards success. Teaching changed my perceptions and I think I am more effective as a person. It's been a hard transition and often frustrating because I now back down in situations where I know the team will suffer. But young people have to learn and they need someone who is willing to let them do so. I still need a fair amount of practice not being grumpy about it, though ;-)

Note that while I feel this is the best decision in my career, I think it's debatable whether it has helped my career in the traditional sense (i.e. more money, more influence, etc). Probably not :-) Still, I like the direction I'm going, which I would not have said before I made that transition.

Edit: Link :-P [1] -http://jetprogramme.org/en/
This is the ideas behind GANs and progress is reliant upon the generator and discriminator generally can't get too far ahead of one another
Too late Google. What ever trust I had left in you are gone. I already uninstalled Chrome and it is not coming back on my computers.
Steps to reproduce:

1) Pick a rMBP. Any one.

2) Set display options - "more space" under System Preferences.

3) Run Firefox. Load any website. No extensions; safe mode doesn't matter.

4) 100%+ CPU, fans kick up and run high, system gets hot and slows to a crawl.

Chrome and Safari run totally fine under the same conditions.

It's documented pretty thoroughly in the first Bugzilla link I posted; the second one is an offshoot where they're trying to solve this specific issue. If you do happen to work at Mozilla, would really appreciate your help escalating.

EDIT: I now have a perf file showing significant issues when clicking on a YouTube video. It gives an error when trying to upload it to the site, but if you contact me through email (in my HN profile), I can send it over.
Since this is mostly a place where those in the software industry spend time, your story is generally going to veer off the path most people here took in their career.

Can I ask for more detail about why it was that software was not the proper path for you?
In theory, yes. I asked this exact question on the scuttleverse a while back and the answer was basically "that might work." This was back when I was still using my old iMac, which is still the only device my scuttler identity exists on. Heh.
I made the decision to not have a career after leaving college and travelled around the world for a few years, working brief stints in tech and non-tech jobs here and there to make ends meet and fund further travels.

When I actually started to focus on work that experience benefited me extremely well.
I started a doctoral program at the University of Maryland in aerospace engineering, instead of going to work with a bachelor’s in CS. Had I started a programming job, my net worth would almost certainly have an additional zero behind it.

But: A PhD gives you intellectual freedom you don’t get any other way. I’m the PI for a space robotics program. And in grad school I made friends I’ll have for life. I got to do a Vomit Comet flight. I got to do a spacesuit run in Marshall Space Flight Center’s neutral buoyancy lab. I designed a spacecraft simulator robot from scratch. I’ve done things very few people get to do.
And that's just unnecessary friction, which is a problem of politics, not technology.

I do recall a time as recently as 4 years ago where it was difficult to find, for example, rack-mountable servers that could hold a large number of these GPU cards, but substituting for a mid-range PC with 2 or 4 of them would not have been an issue, even then.

Cost would be higher but not necessarily outrageously so, since large server chasses often have startlingly large PSUs. It might be an extra 50% on top of that $3k, but that's still competitive, even with the pre-builds the article mentions.
Most young, single, and/or wealthy people don't personally deliver their trash to the truck. The apartment complex I'm living in now in Taipei has trash and recycling bins down the hall on my floor. The last one I lived in had compost too, with separate bins for meat and non-meat food waste. It's still mandatory to use the municipal blue trash bags.

Depending on the vendor, you do occasionally see trash piled up in big round bags that sit on the ground outside restaurants or stalls. Some are much better about limiting disposable plates and utensils than others.

Obviously the lack of space on this small island plays a role but more broadly, I think there is a sort of diffuse sense of social capital, and as Eugene says, civic cooperation, that allows public spaces and institutions to function differently than in the USA.
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Because there's literally nothing they could've said that would make them change their mind. This is the most reasonable response Google could've given. They've addressed every issue as promptly as possible, yet people just dismiss is as PR. It's a lose-lose battle, no matter what they do, people like this will always spin it in a negative way with zero justification.
"Salvaging quarterly earnings"? What kind of an impact on Alphabet earnings do you suppose any Chrome controversy has?
I was going to ask the same thing. I’ve always dreamed of programming embedded systems.
Because vacation packages in the US are 10-20 days and more like 42 days in France ?
I'm actually unsure if I've ever made any particularly good career decisions aside from switching into computer science. Aside from that I have largely been reliant on the combination of being reasonably competent and the generally high demand for developers to make up for lack of good career decisions.

On multiple occasions I have resigned from jobs after 2-3 years with no clear plan for the future, let alone another job lined up, simply because I didn't like my current job anymore.

On multiple occasions I have poured hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours into projects and start-up ideas that never had a realistic chance of working out. I did this safe in the knowledge that I could run down my finances working on some fun speculative project and someone out there would give me a job to let me pay the bills when I needed it.

So I certainly haven't maximized within my career but I chose a career well.
My two cents, having done some of both...

Embedded systems don't really scale the same way backend systems do. In embedded, you write the firmware, and it gets loaded into thousands or millions of devices. There may be a few updates, but firmware kind of gets frozen in time.

With backend, you write code that can be used to expand a business. You're adding features to grow marketshare or scaling up to meet user demand, so it has a more direct correlation with the health of a business. It's less of a cost center, and more of an investment.
As a vimperator user still on 52 ESR, this sounds great but any serious browsing requires me to use my add-ons, umatrix, ublock origin etc. Do we extensions work on this?

Actually on second thoughts extensions probably don't have a relationship with layout engine but with browser GUI so maybe no.
It's inherently confusing.

Rubbish.

What's confusing is having a zillion usernames and passwords for every site on the internet, and "doing it right" (which only a tiny percentage do) requires installing password manager extensions in your browser. In practice billions of users use the same insecure password everywhere including their banks.

You may or may not like the implications of centralizing authentication to a few players, but it is a massive improvement in security and usability over what we have now.

I am quite happy with this change, and hope to see "log into chrome" as the equivalent of "log into all websites that use google auth". It will simplify not only my own life, but all of my customers' lives (my B2B SaaS service uses Google auth).
That's interesting. I would have assumed that Reddit was a much better resource for at least the technical docs. Many subreddits include a crazy amount of very specific information about just about anything you can think of.
Ask HN: Has blogging helped your career?
Hi all.

I am thinking ahead to what I want to achieve over the next 10 years.

Over the last few years I have hopped around a few jobs, and on the side learned Haskell and some other stuff, as a nice contrast to my .NET bread and butter experience.

I am now thinking to concentrate back on .NET, especially now there is a really nice ecosystem with .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Typescript etc.

As part of this I am thinking of doing a mix of blogging, some presentations at local groups, and maybe some "self published" books, all on stuff I am super familiar with from years of experience. One example would be design patterns - I found most of the design pattern explanations on the web pretty horrendous, and not as much care goes into them as the Haskell equivalents (e.g. monad tutorials!). So there is a 'gap in the market' there I could hopefully explain them better.

I wanted to see if anyone has had any success blogging where success could mean:

1. Found out about a great job because someone reached out due to blogging.
2. Got some freelance work in a similar fashion.
3. Got promoted at work because of been seen as an expert.
4. Framed themselves as an expert and got a better job or higher paid or genuinely 'head hunted' as a result.

I'm interested in all experiences .NET or otherwise!
Are you in a high cost of living area and what industry do you work in, if you don't mind sharing?
Comments on blog posts are usually close to useless, because the community cannot moderate/curate itself pretty effectively. HN and Reddit are far better tools for feedback.
Absolutely!

I found that I was spending an inordinate amount of time in front of a computer and not interacting with anyone. I also was extremely disappointed with a general lack of self-improvement; I think part of that was that I just graduated, where I was used to everyone constantly studying and working to improve themselves. These experiences may have also been in the minority in the industry, but they were my experiences.

I also had EMS experience in college, so I knew what it was like to treat patients, and I missed that very greatly. I've loved every day I've gotten to talk with patients here in medical school, and can't wait to start truly practicing medicine.

I do still do some web development work, including incorporating my current predicament - traveling the country interviewing for residency. I worked with two current residents to build Swap&Snooze (www.swapandsnooze.com)
Hang on.

The logical thing to do, if your real aim is to have browser sign in state reflect cookie state, is to sign out the browser when someone clears their cookies.

That would make total sense to users.

I think this is clear evidence that Google made this change to keep more users signed into Google so they can collect more of your data without telling you.
The quantity of photons captured and usefully turned into data by the total area of the sensor is what matters in digital photography. The physical size of each sensor pixel is irrelevant, except insofar as current technologies favour physically larger pixels in order to capture larger quantities of photons before the pixel is fully saturated.
I have tried to do some of that with a Slack bot project I'm working on, called Huxley: https://www.meethuxley.com/

Basically, it used guided questions to get you to give structure to your meetings. I will add some of your suggestions, they sound very good.

I should also get around to releasing it one of these days...
interesting that you did the JET program at 39. I figured it was all 22 year olds.

Out of curiosity, were you a single person? Wondering if they accommodate adults with a spouse and one or more children.
https://www.google.com/search?q=find+out+email+address

Not that it's a really groundbreaking discovery, just a consolidated list that might save you 10 minutes of research ;)
Unlike the post office, both a newspaper and Google's primary competitive service is organizing and prioritizing information. Would you suggest that the government mandate how they do that?

The post office is more analogous to the transport layer, in which case you'd be making a solid case for net neutrality, and I'd agree with you there. The post office having an editorial board would be like Comcast having an editorial board.
And their 'email' button opens a email with no address:

Button: http://prntscr.com/kyrhrf

Email Opened: http://prntscr.com/kyri1i
I think the issue is that they're doing our dirty work, and if we condemn them, we might get less cooperation against Al-Shabaab/AQIM.

While I'm sure no one is happy with this, the war on terror is a dirty war and our partners are less than ethical.
I hope your art is better than your maths!

And 1000 hours is a very slow drawing, regardless of how intricate it is.

Now if you had spend a few hundred hours tops, then at $100 per hour you are looking at $30k, which is not unusual for an well known artist.
Getting off of the people management track and focusing on individual contributor roles. I quickly learned that I do not enjoy being responsible for the productivity, pay, morale, HR processes, deliverables, disputes, and career progressions of other people. I’d much rather just be a helpful coworker than a boss.
Why? How is it better than the original OpenJDK? There seems to be no answer to this question in the repository readme.
I believe they're deliberately misleading around what the issue is. It's not that Sync was enabled, it's that you were logged in period.
Applying to CERN while studying for a CS MSc. It was risky - new country, new language and not a software development company - but incredibly rewarding.
Literally needles. Like sewing needles.

I am guessing you are thinking of injection needles injecting some substance in, which would frankly be more scary because there would be no way to tell if a fruit is infected or not.

I've been cutting up strawberries and carried on buying and eating them and feeling safe enough.
And if Taiwan has WMD they could throw China into complete and utter turmoil, likely breaking the mainland into 6 or more "kingdoms" once again (were Beijing nuked).

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/chinas-greatest-nightmare-...

Taiwan _does_ have excellent missile technology (there are even rumours that their work is the basis of North Korea's ICBMs).
Hadn’t heard of aws-vault, awesome! egg on my face as i consider myself an expert
I'm pleasantly surprised by this. This is nearly as good a short-term reaction as could have been hoped for over the current batch of issues.

Hopefully there was also an update to the privacy policy reflecting the new meaning of being signed into chrome?
I believe that's only if you enable and use Send Later (because they need to be able to send an email in your name, even if your device is offline).
It does matter. You need an attested cert which only yubico can provide.
They could have removed the feature entirely, or set it to a privacy-friendly and least-surprise friendly default.
Made the move to firefox after the initial post came out about this "feature".

Surprised to say that not much has changed with the move. I was able to find all my extensions in the firefox addons. Life continues
Chrome 70 will let users decline to linking web, browser sign-in
That is a logically incoherent statement. The only mechanism Mozilla has for "installing secret extensions" is via software updates. If you turn that off, they can't install anything.
I was just going to reply to myself to state that. You just earned my +1. :)
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Well they could have make the changes they're saying they're going to make in the first place. Or not have sent their developer relations goons out to say "move along, nothing to see here, folks" when people started complaining.

This is PR. It's damage limitation.
Wow 360k is insane. Are you still hands on keyboard or strictly a manager? Mind sharing what industry this is that can afford that salary? Thanks.
You were asked to provide evidence for your assertion, and you have failed to do so. Please do so, otherwise everyone will have to conclude that you are not discussing the topic in good faith.
> Their customers are not their users, and therefore I think things are unlikely to change.

Interesting concept. Care to expound? Would be interested in hearing more.
If only the monoculture problem were merely "tech, tech, tech"
Aliababa was almost like pyramid selling in the beginning tbh.
I do live in a high cost of living area, but I work remotely. I'm a software developer.
I agree with you, though it's specific to the US Republican party (not just whatever party is in power). It's definitely saying something. Their key demographics are relatively more registered to vote and relatively more likely to vote.

General "get out the vote" and "register to vote" campaigns favor the Democrats.

I'm in favor of such campaigns generally, but in this case it's quite self-serving.
"We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows clear that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources." - Carl Sagan
If you've got evidence, feel free to share it.
Mind sharing what country? Thanks
they are solving issues and bugs that they probably already planned to address. they aren't doing anything because we asked them to, they are just pandering to their audience by saying that. IMO.
I don't have a rMBP, and others who may be curious to help may not either. Uploading performance profiles from various websites to the mentioned URL will give everyone something to poke at.
> How open-minded of you.

Spoken like an American.

You do know the rest of the world is doing just fine without your absurd gun "rights". I much prefer my "right" to live in a city where guns are exceptionally difficult to procure. That right keeps me much safer than your gun rights—and that's an indisputable fact, not an opinion.