skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it cannot be said for nearly any aspect of evaluating who you want to work for.

You are giving up on companies based on a generic line in job offers, which is fairly standard recruiter/PR speak. It's like quitting a book after reading 5 sentences, or judging a full course meal based on the first appetizer.

You cannot accurately extrapolate from that one sentence.

You simply cannot have any idea of what the company culture or expectations are until you speak with someone related to the position you'd be working in. At that point you can begin to paint a fairly accurate picture of the company–doing that from one sentence in an ad is completely guessing. It's a night and day difference.

What recruiters regurgitate into an ad is often completely different than what the people you interview with show.

You really are doing yourself a disservice by being judgemental and automatically rejecting a position that has one sentence in an advertisement that is not written by people you'd actually be working with. The fact that you succeeded doesn't matter, because all you did was reduce potential opportunities. You succeeded -in spite of- arbitrarily choosing to limit your opportunities.
Without fanboying to much, I want to add how important PWAs are to breaking the walled gardens of the App Store and Play Store. Apple and Google can and will stop your app from distributing via their stores if they see fit, but they can't stop users from adding a PWA to their home screen.

This is great for user rights and moves the needle more towards a decentralized and open ecosystem, while maintaining strong security guarantees to the end-user.
> The hardest part is getting started.

This is a big problem for me as I age. Personal problems etc take up my mind space and it is very hard to motivate myself to work. Also constant interruptions which I have to attend to makes things really miserable and have stopped my progress of personal projects.

What do you do to handle starting up?
On a separate note, I like Cowen's podcast for his choice of guests, and his interviewing style.

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler
Look at Dapper.Contrib - it's an extension lib for Dapper that adds a load of ORM-esque functions for basic CRUDing.
Once you take into account the force, you will still have the second law. Or you are just looking at the universe in reverse and once you look at the arrow of time it's all normal again.
What is your definition of a nondeterministic system then? Typically it's a system with a non-deterministic transition relation. E.g., assuming for simplicity a system state sharded into two shards with numerical states, and the initial system state (0, 0), a non-deterministic operation can take (0, 0) to either (1, 1) or (2, 2). Then if you let each shard's replicas run independently, you could end up in an inconsistent state (either (1, 2) or (2, 1)).

So I suppose that your definition of nondeterministic must differ, but I can't figure out how.
It's quite hard to damage a dropout with the wheels mounted if not by way of a major crash.

But the rear triangle of a bike remains pretty weak in shipping as the rear axle is not in place.
Yes , this happens when almost fucking EVERYTHING comes from CHINA and isnt made in the west
Choose randomly of course, Thanos style
The question people need to address, is whether AI is a tool like the evolution from the Gun to the automatic rifle.

OR whether AI is the kind of tool like flight, which made fortresses redundant.

We have many areas of thought and society, which have been protected by walls of 'difficulty' making them intractable to large scale, automated and effective manipulation.

This may no longer be the case, and AI may well represent the more fundamental change of the second kind.
Product Management Bullshit Eliminator
Current Global Trade System

* USA company makes/invents/creates product

* Product made in china for USD$2 per hour worker rate

* item shipped almost for free globally

* item set GLOBALLY of USA RRP

* Item then converted from USD into AUD/JP/NZ/CA

* them then ADDED tax in AUD/JP/NZ/CA

* Item in USA for USD$200 ends up AUD$400 and NZD$425 and JP$385

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Suggested new system
- Go back to the old system it is based off GOLD

* USA company makes/invents/creates product
* Product made in china

* item shipped almost for free globally

* item set GLOBALLY via International Trade currency (ITC)

* Item then based off ITC + Country TAX

* eg ITC = $200

USD$225

JP $225

AUD$255

NZ $255

CA $255

UK $255
It's a fairly well known phenomenon. There is a book called "Poorly Made In China" about it, and the term for it is "Quality Fade".

The concept is that after winning the contract (sometimes at a price below their own costs, in order to beat competing manufacturers), the Chinese manufacturer increases their profit margin by "optimizing" the product design - using cheaper components or omitting parts without the knowledge of the buyer, until the products are rejected.

Here's an article I found from a random search on "Quality Fade" [1]. For a counter-viewpoint, the China Law Blog [2] argues it isn't Quality Fade if customers still buy the products. It was written in response to a recall of 23,000 Chinese-made cars in Australia after they were found to have asbestos in their engine gaskets. Great Wall Motor had argued that "their own in-house testing [had] concluded that the asbestos was not a danger to human bodies" [3].

[1] https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/sourcing/apparel-producti...

[2] https://www.chinalawblog.com/2014/03/chinas-quality-fade-is-...

[3] https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/08/17/chinese-asbes...
>Thanks to moderation, when I open news.ycombinator.com right now, I’m pleased to see interesting new posts about C, Chopin, and concurrency; and no new posts about fake news, anti-vaxxers, or Flat Earth.

We only like strong moderation when it enforces our biases and political leanings.
How to learn how to learn
Read, sure, but skimming for the things that moderators call people out for took me about 30 seconds.
Having come from tropical country and currently living in a country towards north, I find it extremely difficult to get anything fermented because of how it is cold during significant part of the year.
There are several restrictions in iOS. You can not use much. You might be able to track some users but nothing much you can do without native app.
Sorry to be so cynical, but I do not trust youtube whatsoever. Do you trust random "partners" of youtube? I don't.

YT has proven themselves incapable time and time again when it comes to dealing with human support and services. I cannot read PR text from them and just believe it.
Use Google to search "Impending Collapse of China".

Read.
How to Use Nginx to Distinguish IPv6 and IPv4 Users
Thank God for no push notifications on Safari.
It's possible that this was done entirely through chat. Ie/ Rumor types " Snatches Hat " in chat. As long as both players agree that what's typed in chat is what happened, it doesn't matter if the game actually has an animation to support it.
Techies: we’re all different skill levels we cannot possibly bargain collectively

Hollywood unions: lol srsly, we have millionaires in our unions
A HDL that no one in the industry uses?
There are not coffee stains, it's a language: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/arrivals-designers-crafted-mes... (from "The Arrival")

EDIT: accidentally linked to a different graphics. Now it's fine.
Yes I agree that buying second-hand is usually better value. Remember that cheaper new cars means cheaper second hand vehicles too!
Slightly off topic: what might this or any other APL interpreter be used for in what one might call mainstream business or technical applications?
I don't think social media is inherently problematic. Mastodon is a great example of social media being done right where the platform is driven by the community and avoids all the problems of corporate platforms like Fb and Twitter. The real problem is with social media being run by companies that monetize their users.
But the Chinese party is effective.

It may be abhorrent to the societal values of most of the people reading this comment, but its great to MANY people in China.

But even that, is a red herring.

Strongly controlled and moderated communication networks are currently less brittle than open societal systems.

Even on a micro scale, on forums, you can see the ideas the Chinese apply being put to use out of sheer necessity.

When you Add in state level actors, with the ability to crunch the numbers, then its entirely possible to create the impression of a consensus in human minds with the use of sock puppets/pseudo-human accounts.

The holy grail of such research is discovering intent of speakers or groups of speakers. This will be used to stop hate speech as much as it will to kill dissidents.

This is a right mess and any tool created to clean it up (other than human effort), is liable to create more problems.
I'm actually in a similar situation - I don't want to quit the Internet completely, I just wish to recover some time that I think is wasted on social media, and at the same time "escape" that often toxic environment.

I still want to read interesting discussions, but I don't want to read all the other clutter and BS.
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I'm reading the hero with one thousand faces right now. Absolutely enchanting.
You should look up the definition of axiom, and possibly look up the concept of phenomenology.
This one doesn't have out of order processing, a FPU, or a MMU. It's also 32 bit where BOOM is 64.

Edit: There is a little more detail available for an existing Marvell ARM SATA controller (similar to what WD uses now), which this processor is probably the replacement for[1]. That indicates it has 2 ARM Cortex R4 cores. On the Cortex R4, it looks like the FPU is an optional feature, and there is no MMU, just an MPU[2].

Basically, it looks like the BOOM CPU is intended to be a general purpose CPU, and this is intended to be a very fast/capable microcontroller. It wouldn't run Linux, other than maybe something like uClinux.

It does look to be potentially REALLY fast. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/13678/western-digital-reveals...

[1] https://www.marvell.com/storage/assets/Marvell_88i9441_Solei...

[2] https://developer.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-r/corte...
See a post you don't like? Somehow manage to make it have more comments than upvotes and it's gone. I don't see any potential for abuse here /s
While this is true, the anti-vaccine debate and the flat earth debate is verifiably settled and only continues because people refuse to accept it. Diversity of opinion is great for society, but if it gets in the way of verifiable AND verified fact, I'm not sure how diversity of opinion is helpful.
In my experience, the Android and iOS app stores differ a lot in general quality, with the iOS apps being the better ones. Partially, I theorise, is due to it being harder to publish on the App Store than on the Google Play Store. This means that lesser developers and companies will publish more poorly made apps for Android than they will for iOS.

Now, with PWAs, it will become a lot easier to 'publish' 'apps' for iOS, which means that even crappier icons will find their way to your homescreen than would have if all of Android's apps were available for iOS.

That is how I understand 'contaminating' at least.

Some background: I used to have an Android phone and for the last 4-5 years I've had an iPhone. Sadly I still need to help lots of family and friends with Android phones when they are having problems, so I am still familiar with the apps for Android.
What happened when we launched a greetings cards company
Does making the kernel harder make making the kernel harder?
I liked the Maslow's hierarchy connection.

But really I think the main bottleneck keeping most devs from starting a business is just how time consuming sales is, and partnering up with a sales guy just isn't a good idea for a variety of reasons.

I'm not entirely sure what a solution would look like. A concierge-type service that connects entrepreneurs with marketing channels?
Maintaining the Unmaintainable: Picking Up the Baton of a Secure Kernel Patchset
It is like a beowulf cluster of interesting stories and comments
Same reason (smart) drug smugglers obey the speed limit.
I feel another poster addressed that very well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010217

I especially agree with their point around properly packaging items.
> SQLite uses cathedral-style development. 95% of the code in SQLite comes from just three programmers, 64% from just the lead developer. And all SQLite developers know each other well and interact daily. Fossil is designed for this development model.

Is this not terrifying? I've always thought the distributed nature of git is part of why it's so incredible. Not relying on a few handful of individuals.
Future JavaScript: what is still missing?
Solar power is considered democratic since anyone can harness it

But that makes literally no sense. You can’t fabricate solar panels in your backyard. You need a factory handling toxic chemistry and a supply chain of rare earth elements from open cast mining! Solar is no less centralised than nukes.
Sure... All these R&D engineers and R&D centres the world over do not really exist. Their 5G leadership does not really exist.

Trying too hard to badmouth them makes people look ridiculous.
How does this compare to Sailor?
Ah, sorry then. I was just reading the footer of the home page. That's why I asked.
But how specifically do you think we can do better? Can it be done without a different kind of human being that does not pursuit his own self-interest?
In that case I'd use an ebike. Still decent fitness but not super intence
While I totally agree, any step that eliminates plastic waste is a good move forward. Now if we can get this going across industries, think of how much waste that eliminates. Then once we get comfortable with this idea, start doing more.
Simply not true.

I like strong moderation even when it sometimes catches, as it has, topics that suit my biases and leanings. Just as with the more strongly moderated reddits, it's the price of achieving a decent factual discussion. Without it there's a predictable race to the bottom. Without it HN would be just another barely moderated reddit with little appeal.
I personally wouldn't even call the author's given example abstraction, it's just splitting code into functions.

Splitting code into functions is mostly an aesthetic and "reading comprehension" choice so you get shorter, well-named functions -- as well as not too many variables to keep track of in a single scope.

Abstraction, in contrast, takes two similar but different functions (or other structures) and turns them into a single one that uses some kind of parameter instead.

And the easiest rule I've ever found is to abstract whenever you've duplicated 3 lines of nearly-identical code, and also whenever you've written a single line of nearly-identical code 3 times.

If it hasn't been 3 times or 3 lines, it's not worth it.

And never abstract in advance (the author's "You can imagine a case where somewhene would like to call it from elsewhere") unless you know it will need to be called.

(Side note: also be extra-careful about abstracting stuff in business logic -- there's extra value in having code map 1:1 to specs or processes even if it winds up being redundant, for ease of maintainability later.)
Luke warm water for 45 seconds
You can visit more than one site with news/links to satisfy your curiosity, and I'm sure many people here do. And even more importantly the guidelines are explicit here - you know well what you will not find on this site (example: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"). I think the trouble starts when people are tricked into believing that whatever they're seeing is a fair sample of the world while in reality it's not.
Good to know

"More comments than its score" looks like a nice indicator, though there is probably a threshold, otherwise any new story would probably trigger it.

The hard part of the website it seems is not just the "CRUD" part but all the intelligence to make it feel "seamless" (because without it it would be a spam and flame fest)

The challenges of course keep evolving and I have my worries about some of those (influence by 3rd parties mainly and some discussions that maybe should be allowed but aren't - though that's more on the editorial line of the site)
Here is a non-rendered video where the lifting happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocfNOjeBm8

I don't see how 2 tons are being lifted from such a low and thin surface. The whole thing looks more like a Kickstarter than a real product.

Edit: Nope this is 100% legit
C# is such an expressive language.
It's a neat idea, but to me, that's like it. For SW, LLVM serves two-way: 1)target any (supported) arch you like with your language of choice, 2)customize your toolchain to generate native machine code (i.e. GPU shader langauges) from any (supported) language.

I'd say putting yet another middleman between your logic compiler/netlist and what you actually use is not the best course of action for HW implementations. Even HLS has a big friction for use and is hardly picked up, with its obvious, immediate advantages.
If you like to make yogurt at home then I highly recommend getting yourself a multifunction electric pressure cooker. You probably can get dedicated yogurt makers but I prefer the pressure cooker even though yogurt is made at normal pressure and low temperature since it is great for cooking many other things.

Homemade yogurt tastes so much better to me than store-bought!
To be honest they are different sites. Born of different times (and even 5yrs on the web is a lot)

Just see how the moderation and commenting system works on both. And I have to say the cheap humour of /. got old already.
I guess Services Worker is fine on iOS and iPhone. Because you rarely have Safari opening all the time. On macOS it is god damn awful. [1]

I am also a little uneasy with PWA, on quality, safety and without some sort of App Store firewall guarding it. But then I also don't see the point of KFC, McDonald, or every restaurant / services sector require an App for their business. When it could be on the Web or as Web App.

[1] https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1083810719009787904
Scientists discover 'Farout,' the most distant solar system object ever seen
You keep saying "on top of the sled".

The sled moves under the car. When the sled is under the car the fingers extend under the wheels. They do not, cannot, extend under the part of the wheel that is in contact with the ground. But they can, and do, extend to the parts of the wheel that are close to the ground. Again, look at 1:12. You can see the prongs go around the wheel, not directly underneath it.
I decided to leave my last job with a month’s notice due to a few reasons, one of which was constant noise and interruption. I was in the process of finishing a project with no further input needed, and I wanted to leave behind something I was proud of.

Given that I had no reputation to protect there, without asking anyone, I moved into a disused room, no windows, completely isolated from the rest of the office and spent my whole days cracking out code alone. I was never happier, and I’ve never got so much work done in an office in my life.
Yes, that's true. However after using the Twitter PWA for some time, I believe there's a whole segment of native apps which could run just as well as PWAs. My biggest gripe was the Twitter PWA losing state while multitasking. This now seems to be resolved somewhat.

In addition PWAs will only become more capable. WASM will have direct access to the web apis and opens the door to implementing PWAs without JavaScript. I'm keeping my eyes on WebGPU, which I believe could deliver huge performance benefits to webapps. At this point having no support for push notifications is probably the biggest holdback for PWAs.
Can't you have stuff ferment indoors?

When I tried making my own Sauerkraut following a recipe, it told me to keep in the warm appartment for the first week (to kickstart fermentation), and only put it in cold storage afterwards.
> partnering up with a sales guy just isn't a good idea for a variety of reasons.

Can you elaborate please?
If that is the conclusion I think it is correct. It has been shown time and time again that countries become successful not by being productive as such, but by not being unproductive. The most important factors for success are:
1. Staying out of wars, disputes and conflicts. 2. Economic and social equality. 3. Functional society and industries.

Essentially all countries who do badly fail at that. They are involved in conflicts, they have hierarchical societies and their industries are administrative, rather than technological.

So now you might ask, what about the US? It is certainly involved in wars, have inequality and dysfunctional society. Right, but mainly for part of society. The middle class and upper middle class have mostly been spared from any effects of that, at least until recently. Which means that this part of society is very successful.
I used to MUD back in the day and there were role players who were very much into the character, and if you typed "snatches hat", it doesn't matter if the game didn't have support for it, that's what happened.

Given that this wasn't rare, it seems likely that that's what happened.
My work Fortigate firewall is marking mindk.com as malicious.
His first enrollment in Tsinghua was in 75 during the Cultural Revolution, when workers turning in blank exam papers were celebrated and admitted. His second enrollment was as a pretty senior party cadre, when he basically would have no time doing any real academic work. Many officials use such “on-the-job” phds to polish their resume. But really any average person would know they’re pretty worthless academically.
If they can access mafia, politicians, competiton can access it too.
Hmm, I think you are right. I was rather answering the questions in the description not in the title, my bad.
I would much rather they rolled back some of their innovation in appliances so that you can no longer replace some consumables. Like heating elements, but now have to change a hugely expensive combined and indivisible unit.

The packaging is a step, I just sincerely hope it's not the only step for greenwashing purposes.
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I am a bit older and seen a lot of tech come and go. RISC-V is something that feels like it is going to be really, really big.

It has so much momentum so quickly.
Rename it Notsofarout already, since you will have to a in couple of years anyways!
Four of the Best Cities to Start a Small Business
Marketing lessons from the street market
the Librem 5 phone will actually be using their own Phosh [1] shell - made for mobile devices. It's targeting GTK3+ apps but it is not GNOME 3 based.

[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh
Which webapps are being held back by their ability to quickly dispatch instructions to the GPU?
Surely the [sic] annotations are to indicate that the quotations are unchanged from the original source text, which contains somewhat archaic language and misspellings of words when compared to modern English.
It's the long term car park, open outside not multi story and at about half a mile from the terminals. They are removing loads of lamp posts though...
To be frank I enjoy watching conspiracy theories very much.
(I don't know why you're downvoted).

I guess they mean "wash the neck of the bottle". The neck can gather milk that goes off and smells even if the rest of the milk is ok.