skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is too broad. i think that may actually be the problem: in theory it can do a lot of things, but in the real world it’s hard to get all those theoretical benefits.

for me, if you’re in the cloud you don’t need k8s. your favorite cloud provider has already figured out logging and monitoring and the basic things you need to get going. (another story if you run on bare metal)

if you’re not running a legacy app you don’t really need containers either. containers are great for legacy apps, for poorly written software or if you like overengineering. the abstraction you need is called a vm. use it. (again if you are in the cloud).

your app/service/thing is not as complicated as you think it is (or at least it should not be). I see a lot of people feeling like they need to experiment with new technology, on the job, on whatever they are doing now. actually building something that works and is simple as fuck seems to take a backseat and these types of people will create a narrative around using the new flashy thing. this is how you end up with production systems leveraging tools in beta and you end up closing shop when you finally figure out that you don’t have the resources to understand and maintain what you’ve created.

there is a time and place to experiment and learn. on small projects or on your own time. it takes experience to understand the hype cycle and to distinguish good tech from the hype.

as for k8s? yes, it solves some problems but it also creates others. do you like basically spending the time you’ve saved on setup and deployment to maintain/troubleshoot/upgrade your cluster? knock yourself out.
Interesting! Does anyone know if it can be used to execute some remote code from non-trusted authors?
It’s funny to mention ctrl+q , because it is one consistency in MacOS that I find unbearable to the point of having set it to spotlight instead

Right next to ctrl+q (something I end up hitting once per session of an app, by definition) is ctrl+a (select all, something I hit tens of times a session), ctrl+w (hit in the browser a good amount), ctrl+1, ctrl+2 (also good browser shortcuts)

I actually don’t need to close the entire program that often! Please don’t make it so easy to accidentally hit at such a high frequency. Bonus points: I switch between QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards a lot. That’s just me but it makes me have a lot of extra pain

Alt-F4 is very nice in that regard.
I very much agree that kubernetes is useful in an environment that doesn’t need to scale, but do tell how it enables consolidated logging and monitoring, since my medium/small shop is spending quite some time setting up our own infrastructure for it.
In case you are unaware. You sound like a dick. Relax...
I think the issue is that they wanted to first identify and test the idea first. If you add in humans, you have to find volunteers and then waivers because no one is really willing to hang around in the nude and get bit by horseflies for a day.

As well for humans, you will have to consider demographical data and other data like gender, height, weight, body fat, in general how healthy the human is etc. which lead to even more questions.

Using just the models can mitigate these concerns
Did a quick google on patents in this area and there are MANY! And, Thomas Edison even had concrete patents http://edison.rutgers.edu/cemepats.htm

https://www.google.com/search?&q=concrete+patent&oq=concrete...
There's a famous economics paper by a guy called Meade that gives some examples of externalities (i.e., situations where what one person does affects another in ways not represented by market transactions); one example is of a region where some people keep bees and some grow apple trees, and the bees get food from the apple trees and/or the apple trees are pollinated by the bees. The beekeepers' productivity may be affected by the apple farmers' choices, and the apple farmers' productivity may be affected by the beekeepers' choices, but (in Meade's hypothetical situation) they don't trade with one another so the market doesn't do anything to push them towards making choices that work well together. (In which case, e.g., you might want the government to step in somehow -- regulating those choices, or arranging taxes or subsidies that encourage mutually beneficial behaviour, or whatever.)

But allegedly it turns out that in at least some cases where you have beekeepers and apple farmers near to one another they do trade with one another -- with e.g. contracts stipulating what sort of bees the beekeepers are going to keep -- and the market does do its thing, and the result is efficient allocation of resources.

Here's a paper by Steven Cheung about bees and apples in the Pacific Northwest. It claims (I haven't checked any of its empirical claims or its theoretical analysis): https://www.jstor.org/stable/724823
I find that olive oil combined with a bit of butter works pretty well in non-nonstick pans. I start with maybe a teaspoon or so of olive oil in the center of the pan and let that heat up a bit, then add a small amount of butter and wait for it to melt and bubble, then crack the egg directly over the puddle of oil/butter. This has worked well for me, even in otherwise testy pans like worn-out nonsticks, iron skillets, etc.
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https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039383631--S-T-R-E-A-M-FREE-NFL-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-VS-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039385771--WATCH-NFL-2019-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-CHIEFS-VS-PATRIOTS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039683952--LIVE-NFL-2019-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-CHIEFS-VS-PATRIOTS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039385891--W-TCH-NFL-2019-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-CHIEFS-VS-PATRIOTS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019
It does always amaze me that literally what you learn in HR 101 in an undergraduate management curriculum is controversial. The r^2 of a ton of different methods for predicting job performance is something large companies are highly incentivized to get studied by academics (and they do).

Spoiler alert: work-sample tests are the only practical and generally tolerated one to use (for software engineers) that is actually correlated with job performance.

@tptacek: how do you feel about people who have large amounts of open source work that is easily reviewed? This obviously doesn’t add new data to your company’s test but is definitely some kind of work sample, albeit not necessarily in a similar environment to the one being hired for.
it is a very wide font, compared to programming fonts which are more tall than wide.
I agree with a lot of the points here. One specific pet peeve of mine is job listings that refuse to nail down which specific technologies they're using.

Some will say things like "Front-end web development using a framework such as ExtJS, React, Vue, or Angular". Neat - which one? I'm happy to work with 1 or maybe 2 of those. Do you mean that you actually use React but you're fine with people who come from some other framework? Or do you mean that you are converting a legacy app from Ext.JS to React so you're hoping the candidate has used both?

Sometimes they'll bury the actual framework in the "Nice to Have" section but it's pretty common for it to be left vague. I think what they're trying to do is widen the pool of applicants, but that strategy seems suboptimal for attracting folks who want to work with a specific tech stack.
> The thing is, this isn't tech restricting or freeing anyone. Tech doesn't come up with the business rules. Engineers don't decide hey, I want to make this old lady's life harder. Middle management decides that.

Middle management doesn't decide it any more, or less then the engineers do.

They order a system, the engineers build it, nobody, including the engineers, has a perfect understanding of the problems that the system is supposed to solve, so it doesn't 100% map to the real world. Nobody understands which parts of the system don't map well to the real world, so they don't design a process for dealing with the system's shortcomings.

The responsibility for this failure is collective.
I once measured the energy usage of opening the start menu on Windows 2000. It was about 40 Watt seconds.
Oh for sure! Not everybody needs to be trying to max out the standard benchmarks with every paper. But have there been any new developments or improvements with capsule nets since the original paper? This blog post looks like it only references that first one, which is coming up on two years old, right? It'd be great to read about any followup.
Pay as much as FAANG and trust me, you'll get your senior engineers.
Lisp is the canary in the mind shaft.

All programming languages have a bracket problem; Lisp just has a more intense bracket problem. Until the recent advent of 4K and "retina" displays, it wasn't practical to have significant weight variations in screen fonts for programming. It's now practical, and it's easy in font editors such as Glyphs Mini to swap in or modify brackets to be a lighter weight.

I've made many Lisp coding experiments: with preprocessors that eliminate most parentheses, with alternate symbols, and with various weights and sizes of parentheses. There's something to be said for the theory that parentheses should be lower case, just like identifiers. (I'm reminded of the "GET OFF MY LAWN" effect in Common Lisp; one can shut off the upper case defaults but most people don't stay around long enough to find out.) However, my favorite approach is to make parentheses light, but not too light. There's a sweet spot where you actually love the lightweight brackets, in Lisp code and everywhere else. You're conducting an orchestra, not engaging in a knee-jerk debate; if the trumpets play too loud, teach them to play at the right volume.

It took me ten minutes to swap in ()[]{} from SourceCodePro-ExtraLight, and copy a period into the center of the zero. This a fine Lisp font but not my favorite. I like Input Mono, or Courier Prime Code (both similarly modified).

http://input.fontbureau.com/

The Input download can be customized to look nearly identical to B612, only better, and without the O0 and () problems.
The author describes ctype.h as "kind of a letdown" and as "not sufficient for international text processing" and then proceeds to write an isalpha() that's not portable C because he assumes an ASCII derivative (the code won't work under e.g. an EBCDIC system).

A lot of things in the C Standard Library look odd or pointless until you do some digging and realize that they were often designed to be portable to systems that are either really obscure today, or don't exist anymore.
OT but the setup looks somewhat similar to an optical derotator.
> because someone knows someone and has worked with them for a long time only

And this is the #1 thing that gets a near auto-hire from me. I'm not saying don't interview them, but most interviews don't really tell you what it's going to be like working with someone. On the other hand, WORKING with someone (for a long time) 100% tells you what it's like working with someone.

If someone has worked a long time with someone else and is willing and wanting to do so again, then hire them.

My experience is, most interviews suck trying to figure out how someone is going to do on the job. Working with someone a long time and wanting to work with them should weight heavier than anything else
On the ships I've worked on, call-and-response gets used for important messages even between two people:

"Steer zero nine zero"
"Zero nine zero aye"
Yet Another sans-serif face, with dubious claims for legibility, as usual only vs. other sans-serif faces.

When will they learn? When will we?
They point at a horizontally narrow sign board with diagonal black and white strips on it. In any station, you can find the exact middle of the platform by standing under this sign.

https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/12133255/N...

So if you want, you can meet someone on a specific train car if you stand somewhere in relation to the board.

I used to meet up with my wife who worked 2 stations north of me using this technique without either of us disembarking. It was pretty handy.
>> 130 meters with 20% reflectivity.

Isn't our perception of "reflectivity" essentially logarithmic? What we perceive as the "middle" between black and white only reflects 18% of light. Meaning anything that's darker than gray will be exponentially less reflective than that.
China has spent over a billion dollars on molten salt reactors, was partnering with Terrapower on a fast reactor project until the Trump administration stopped it, and has a bunch of other GenIV reactor projects in progress.

Another bright spot is Canada, whose regulators are much friendlier to reactor R&D. Terrestrial Energy has gotten through the hardest part of their licensing process, and expects to have a demo MSR operating by 2025 or so. Seeing their success, Moltex has moved into Canada as well, after making little progress with UK regulators.
Since the Author is from Austria, it's not common here to specify the actual salary but the minimum allowed by law according to a collective agreement which is always a laughable sum for a dev.

This is really annoying as companies try to keep the employees in the dark regarding the market rates hoping to catch someone gullible who doesn't know them, and often they do.
And yeah, I have strong opinions on this - I've been on both sides of the table for a long time, and don't think the average interview is a good indicator of how they'll do in the job.

I wrote a book about this :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJ6N8P1
>and I'm sure they have the paperwork to "prove" that the supplier sent them legit product.

I've sold new items on Amazon (fulfilled by Amazon). I assure you, I provided no such paperwork other than me marking it as new when I set up the shipment on their site.
> I ended up reading comments on HN to see what the article was about.

I always do this first.
I count to six: wallet, watch, keys, phone, work pass, pen.
I sure hope so. This may be a contentious opinion, but I strongly think that the 'average non-technical user' that has driven so much of modern UI development (for better or for worse) is not representative of someone who should have input when it comes to tools used by professionals. Complex tasks usually benefit from deep, rich interfaces. Simpler ones may be easier to learn, but will always be restrictive once baseline competence has been reached.
Strange, I was looking for gömböcs this morning (like 12 hours ago) and now I find them in the HN front page.

I found this website which has much cheaper gömböcs (42 €):

http://gomboc-online.com/index.php/gomboc.html

But apparently their only shipping method that ships outside Hungary is "currently unavailable".

Well, there is also the option "SZEMÉLYES ÁTVÉTEL GLS CSOMAGPONTON" but Google is not very concrete when translating it. It sounds to me like picking up in a "something-point" though, which also looks like it's not international shipping.

If anyone keeps investigating and finds a gömböc that wouldn't make me broke and can ship without shenanigans outside of Hungary, I'd be grateful.
That’s how German companies treat their customers, why would you expect any better for their employees?
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Not pragmatists in general.

More like: resisting social change in the name of “pragmatism” is a very old pattern.

Imagine a dialogue like this before 1967: “Hey friend, I’m just being a pragmatist — interracial marriage is illegal. You could go to jail. Just break up and date someone else. Of course it’s not right, but what can you do? We have to understand that our actions have impact in the society we live within. Don’t take this to court, it’ll ruin your life.”

Without people disagreeing with this, without people disagreeing with status quo-aligned pragmatism, Loving vs Virginia would have never happened. Not would have the end of slavery, women’s suffrage, gay marriage, etc.
If the font works, I suggest we use it on airports flights information displays too. Those are not always very legible...
(with the slashed 0, of course)
Aside from a critical mass of developers, another reason is: Because it can. I can access new, proposed features not yet implemented in any browser with polyfills and transpilation. Distribution is not a problem (sans file sizes) because the user downloads the newest version every visit. Now, if IE users would just go in a cave and die peacefully...
We view this a bit different, and that’s fine (not the automation part, here we agree).

Automation in this context is for me more than just the deploy bit, it’s also about testing and service management which includes for example service relationships and discovery.

If you could do local dev on that app as a monolith, it can most likely be done broken up in smaller services as well.

There are no silver bullets to be had anywhere, right?
Just use whatever processes and tools that work, until they don’t I guess.
Learn what?
Without any checks or oversight at all! Shameful!

Well, OK... there's obviously one little check. Like, the staff of these organizations are literally not getting paid right now because of a funding impasse. So, obviously there's some regular oversight about who gets what kind of funding.

And come to think of it, all these organizations and jobs were created by act of congress and/or executive prerogative, with scope prescribed by the relevant orders and law.

But who are congress and the executive accountable to anyway? And who writes these so called "laws"? Who are the laws accountable to?

Wait. They're written by members of congress? And carried out by the executive? Huh. OK, but other than that, totally unchecked! Again, who are "congress" and the so-called "president" accountable to? Who made them "officials"?

Oh, yeah. Voters.

So actually, there isn't any defensible sense in which one can say "unchecked" at all, actually.

Now that we're here, it's almost as if the only way one could use the term "unchecked" is if they're not using language in an attempt to actually describe the world, but out of intent to characterize inaccurately without a supporting argument. Propagandize. Or, I suppose, if one had already had one's mind hijacked by such propaganda.

But who would suspect that someone named "rattlesnakedave" might actually be engaging in that sort of commentary?
I don't exactly have a specific job title in mind.

If I could get to a point where I could help solve problems in AI R&D, then that's what I would probably do. I mentioned that my philosophy undergrad focused on ethics and logic. If I could find a way to work on building systems that have ethics as a primary concern (ethical algorithms, ethical artificial intelligence, etc) then I would like that.

I have really enjoyed my self-study in machine learning, and for a while I thought for sure that's the path I would take. Right now I am not as sure. I just don't have a good sense of what I should do to keep going down this route if that's what I want to do, other than trying to get into a data-sciecne-type degree program perhaps.

I have no issue with starting in a junior position. I don't care about the money or the power or the prestige specifically -- I just want to do something interesting and fulfilling. I have already had the chance to make lots of money in my life, and I just don't care that much, so junior (engineer/data scientist/etc) is fine. Also, it's easy not to care about money so much when your partner earns so much; I realize that I am in a fairly privileged place of not having to worry about money right now, but that's just where the universe has put me for now.

Otherwise, I am really into Linux and FOSS stuff. I don't know if I would like kernel dev or embedded software as a career, but that's a possibility.
Is the “obvious” behavior mentioned in the article what the standard specifies? Because it’s surprising to me that the compilers are so broken in these cases…
You're right I don't know, but that's been my personal experience. A lot of low offers.
I used to take the metro line 3 from station saint-lazare. At peak hours there was a train practically every minute. As soon as one train leaves another one enters the station a few seconds after. So I often did what parent said. skipping two or three trains isn't that bad when there that many trains.
Funny, I remember some similar tests by scuba divers in the 90s. They dressed in black and white striped suits thinking they would look like sea snakes and everything would stay away. Didn't go so well. Lots of stuff was very interested in them. Don't do this underwater.
On Windows, it has quite an odd look in the font viewer. It seems like it is not being anti-aliased for some reason. The unusual cutouts also seem very prominent on a 4k screen. I'll probably still try it at work, but I am guessing this is not going to displace my current font of choice. Thank you for sharing!
Why not aim for 0% profit, and keep public transit self sustaining?

Everything has a cost, and making something (virtually) cost 0 only transfers the cost elsewhere
> The irony ist that it should be easy to get at least some of the books get blocked in the US as well. Not for copyright reasons, but because of the content.

Can you elaborate? Because as far as I'm aware, thanks to the 1st amendment, not a single book is banned in the US. At most they're removed from public or school libraries.
I don't think Steelcase ever sold it for $1699.00

I bought this chair from them several years ago (same configuration). In those days, they listed the new price as $800. I got it a lot less than that because of some Christmas discount they had.
It's not blurred out to hide who it is. It's blurred out so we don't get stuck in the details. It's a UX technique.

EDIT: Well...fuck. Don't know how I missed that. He actually says it's to hide the poster.
I believe that there is no such a thing as useful system without any viable source of entropy.

Any useful system has to communicate with something and has to have at least some vague idea of passing of time and thus you can hash timing and contents of outside communication into your preferably persistent entropy pool.
> Both perform symbol processing

Not sure about that.

> So what gives the symbols of the semantic model meaning? The correspondence of each symbol to real, observable objects.

And what decides what symbol corresponds to what real object?

> You're assuming that consciousness requires some special property of matter. There's no justification for this assumption.

Really? I thought that is something we have agreed upon. You are claiming that any system structured as a digital computer (hence, has a special property) is conscious, I am saying that it is not enough, it has to be structured some special way.

> We created fire long before we understood it, for instance.

This is a laughable argument. "We reproduce (as living beings do). therefore we create minds".
I'm sure it is for most people. I've always taken pictures of my niece and nephew on a decent camera, I'm pretty sure they'll last the test of time. Every new phone claims to have a good camera, when to me it's still not good enough and doesn't justify the £700+ for a new phone.
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Bachelor's degree programs aren't intended to provide job training on narrow technical skills that will probably be obsolete in a few years anyway. If you want entry level Linux sysadmins then hire college graduates with the right aptitude and train them, or recruit from community colleges which do provide technical job training.
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