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Yes, and that she has a book to promote with the same thesis doesn't help matters... It makes it look even more like a selfish cry for attention and ultimately money. She has something interesting to say, but to say that the Higgs Boson measurement was somehow well predicted is... odd. One could also make similar arguments against the Gravity Wave observatories, but now that we've actually seen (and continue to see) events, that is silly.

Really, there was a golden age of particle physics when it was easier to theorize and find things. Maybe the allocation of money should be different, but that has more to do with politics and how governments make funding decisions. How do they view the benefits of what we learn building an LHC, collecting, and analyzing the data? You can argue about whether those benefits matter to physics... but Tim Berners-Lee had to work somewhere.
That given the number of views of this content and how likely a user will fall for it, there are a significant number of people who will not be tricked into believing something not true due to this algorithm change.
A thermostat company shut down every thermostat in the middle of a cold night
Does it run well on 16GB of ram, or do I need the 32GB 15" version?

I tend to work on a few projects at a time, and I'd like to be able to run a VM without having to shut everything else down. I'm fine to power down a VM when I'm not using it, but I'd rather not have to shut everything else down when I turn the VM back on.
I don't think this is really limited to Postgres. Any relatively big OS project the core committers they tend to do what they do. I submitted a patch to a pretty big OS project and pinged the person assigned to the area. That person pretty much wrote his own version of my patch. I guess it got fixed so that was good. I guess the good thing about open source is if you want you can just build your own version with whatever you want. However smaller projects are more receptive since they want all the attention and help they can get.
There is little to no evidence to support this claim. Whereas what I'm talking about was done after the great depression and developed a lot of infrastructure, especially in rural America, that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
Their position is a bit more complicated than that. Nvidia does provide drivers for Linux at all, and this is thanks to Nvidia customers that use Linux, like the VFX industry. Nowadays there is also lots of deep learning and crypto mining that's happening on Nvidia GPUs with Linux running on the CPU.

Having a hard stance on Nvidia, which I support, makes no sense if they have no interest in Linux support at all.
Exactly - If you eat an apple, you get a modest amount of sugar with some fiber to go with it. The fiber helps slow down the absorption of the sugar and lessens the insulin response.

If you drink a big glass of apple juice, you get the sugar load of eating multiple apples and get none of the fiber. It's basically like drinking soda.
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Jotform & Zoho had similar issues in the past.
This is trivially disproven by the fact that Bach was one of a couple of hundred or so contemporaries across Europe who were also paid to compose full time.

Music theory was much more homogenous then. You could learn everything there was to know in a few years, and after a few more years of work you would be considered competent and ready to enter the job market.

What made Bach different was a long family background of music ('Bach' was practically a synonym for musician in some parts of Germany), and an insane work ethic - he literally walked across Germany to try to get an apprenticeship with a teacher, and he was on top of current developments in the rest of Europe in a way his contemporaries weren't.

But mostly he was a freaking genius - e.g. known for improvising eight-voice fugues, which is something no one else would even consider.

For every discipline there's a certain skill level which no amount of hard work will conquer without a foundation of raw talent - and he lived there.
The current HN headline is sensationalised and should be changed.
I ... earned a lot of technical respect from my teammates, but nobody cares at all about my perspective on architecture, scoping, technology investment, tech debt, etc.

How does that work? All the things you talk about are folded into my concept of "technical respect".
I would try to negotiate something for sure. If they refuse to pay a salary, try to get more equity.

But if the transition only lasts 2-3 weeks, it may not be worth the confrontation.
> "In the original Alzheimer’s transmissibility study, scientists examined the brains of eight patients treated with prion-contaminated human growth hormone as children who decades later died from prion disease (out of over 30,000 people so treated, more than 200 died this way). "

does anyone have any clarification on this? to me that is very alarming. that's about .67% which sounds small, but its int he ball bark of catching HIV after having unprotected intercourse (depending on a lot of factors)
FoundationDB does not use buffered IO, so no.
I've seen references to something similar in home remodeling - required paint and trim are stored in a closet during the work, but that closet itself never gets repainted. When the homeowner says "hey, you missed this!" they get the option of a discount and doing it themselves or the contractor sending someone to use the materials already on site. People who complete it themselves have a higher feeling of accomplishment because they were involved rather than simply hiring it done.
I’ve been reading Game Programming Patterns off and on. Not a game developer, but it’s a pretty light read and interesting to see how design patterns apply to making video games.

Next up after that I’m gonna finally finish Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz. I started this one after reading 99 Bottles of OOP.

Longer term project is to read through The Little Schemer and the other books in that series like The Reasoned Schemer, The Little MLer, etc.
Could you wash the instruments in proteas?

Seems BACE2 might be promising.
Diabetes 1 or 2?

If #2 then I'd venture to say that in many / most cases that correlates with abuse of sweets (read: sugar) which would all effect the teeth (and perhaps in turn the gums).

It's unlikely that simple. That said , I'd venture to say aggregate increase in sugar consumption correlates to increases in Alzheimer's. Yes, as do plenty of other mod cons.
Monad in imperative languages
One thing that doesn't quite line up well between stumpwm and emacs is emacs buffers and stumpwm groups. I'd like to have a single emacs running with some buffers associated with one group and others with another. However it jumps from group to group when I change buffers.

Is there a way around this?
How much have you paid out so far?

Most projects like that are well-meaning, but are more like tip jars than real monetization.
I read GP as simply verifying that a particular ballot made it into the count, not verifying what the votes on that ballot happened to be. That seems less problematic with respect to buying or coercing votes. I'm not convinced that "lost ballots" are a big problem, but such a system would be a way of checking that.
> I don't see how Wayland can succeed without supporting Nvidia.

Well, they should get their act together and work with the rest of the community instead. In KDE, people working in KWin said that they will not support NVIDIA for Wayland, unless NVIDIA itself steps in, proposes a change, gets it approved, and maintains it.

That's what they ended up doing so far, although the change hasn't been merged anywhere yet AFAIK.
https://www.spane.org

It's a fledgling community for social entrepreneurs. (full disclosure: I started the site).

It has yet to gain traction, but HN is what prompted me start this in the social impact space.
It's to do with the fact that society objectifies men as objects of success while women are objectified as sexual objects for having a vagina and womb; hence a woman cannot go any lower in value than her womb and vagina while an unsuccessful man can just go the botomless pit as far as society is concerned.

Men are the disposable sex.
How did Apple’s AirPods go from mockery to millennial status symbol?
No Bullshit Guide on Installing Tensorflow GPU (Ubuntu 18.04/18.10)
privacy badger is a better drop-in replacement for ghostery anyway
As an amateur astrophotographer I’ve been following the development of cubesats closely. It seems more and more likely that a small group or an individual would be able to launch a space based telescope within my life time. Right now it’s a bit tricky still, and not really sure if you’re allowed to have a camera in space yet (might be considered espionage). But still, extremely cool ... maybe someday soon a crowd funded mini Hubble might be an option!
Last I heard AMD drivers, both proprietary and open have severe stability issues on Linux. Is that no longer the case?
The question I ask when small satellites are promoted is, how do we avoid Kessler syndrome?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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I agree with what you have to say about it being a plateau... but what are these companies where a senior engineer's impact is limited to the work they get done as an individual?

Part of the definition of "senior", everywhere I've read it, is that your impact has started to spread outside yourself and to the team level. If you're a "strong IC", you're not a senior, in my reckoning. You're a senior when you're pulling up those around you.
Except sugar isn't inherently bad for you. Refined sugar isn't great, because it lacks nutrients, but juice doesn't have that problem. Also, juice can improve insulin sensitivity and elicits a lower insulin response than most starches and proteins. The overall effect on glucose and insulin is neutral. Sugar also contributes to fatty liver less than saturated fat, and only does so in the context of a hyper-caloric diet.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261757046_Effect_of...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29844096/
CubeSats are low mass and tend to be in low orbits that decay in time periods between a few weeks and 10 years. Also, all modern satellites have to be launched with a deorbit plan.
You know what we could use -- bare with me here -- a newsletter that is a collection of the best content from newsletters you might like.

A lot of these newsletters are very good (many are not as well). But the volume is just so high.

Same thing with news outlets. There is a huge supply of good content. But there isn't enough intelligent bundling to make it all work anymore. I recently paid for a Medium account, and the reason I did was that Medium is really good at giving you targeted content from a wide variety of sources.
In my experience, the best principal engineers are those who think of themselves as just engineers and simply focus on the best ways to make a difference without much preconceived notion of what that entails. The worst are those who have these strong preconceived notions about what they are supposed to be doing, often focusing exclusively on the more visible, politically expedient tasks in the name of having organizational impact, while eschewing hard technical tasks. Well if that was all that was needed, we don't need the technical ladder - managers that used to be engineers are perfectly capable of handling most of those. It's important to realize why principal engineers are given such autonomy and organizational influence - they are supposed to the best engineers that the organization has to offer and other engineers look up to them because they can do the same things they do but better. What you value in principal engineers should not be something you don't value in other engineers and vice versa. This idea they should be working on different types of tasks altogether and focus less on technical things specifically makes a mockery of the technical ladder.

So the worst part about this article, to me, isn't necessarily this notion that principal engineers shouldn't be all about tech - that I think is relatively uncontroversial. But the reality is that if your organization needs to stress this at that level, this should also be true at every level. If you want to have a great engineering organization, nobody, not even the most junior engineer should merely be converting tickets to code - they should ideally be doing all the things that she thinks principal engineers are doing. And whether someone on the team works more on soft, cross-team stuff or hard technical tasks shouldn't depend on one's level - it's entirely possible that interfacing with other teams or stakeholders is something your mid-level engineer can do well and also solving a very narrow technical problem is something you want your principal engineer should work on because it's extremely difficult. I will go even farther and say that if your engineering organization's challenges are such that the hardest problems that your best engineers should focus on are exclusively non-technical, you should reconsider why you need principal engineers instead of much cheaper project managers.

In one specific instance I observed at this organization, principal engineers were, on the whole, less technical than their managerial counterparts or senior engineers. Because the organization bought into this "principal engineers ought to focus on high-level, organizational, cross-team stuff" - their principal engineers were for the most part too busy trying to direct other teams' and people's work to do anything themselves. They had no deliverables beyond being the multiplier so they were also even more removed from the technical reality than line managers, who are at least forced to deal with what their reports are doing.
Loved this essay. I would highly recommend this lecture for anyone who wants to go further: https://vimeo.com/81483477
> The exception to the last paragraph are those that constantly broadcast on social media and make a name for themselves that way and doing presentations at conferences, etc. Not my cup of tea, personally.

These are folks who get hired by BigCos as "Evangelists". They're not gunning for the same roles that you are.

Oh hey... the system just works! : )
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If you leave your keys in your front door and get robbed, your insurance will laugh you out the window when you try to file a claim. Surprised I had to explain this, though.
I believe you raise a fair point. That is, plenty of humans have plenty of habits. We are, as they say, creatures of habit. The difference now, is the online habit is easy to identify, as well as self perpetual when we interact with others.

Even email can be habitual. Stop sending them and - sans spam and newletters - you stop getting emails.
I agree with you about preferring manual tiling, the worst thing about manual tiling managers is that there are so few choices. EXWM is my favorite with StumpWM a close second and i3 a distant 3rd.

I've been using EXWM for a few years now and the fact that emacs isn't multi-threaded has caused me very little pain. It really isn't something to worry about. I've had way more issues with StumpWM than I have ever had with EXWM.

I find it slightly amusing that you list Common Lisp as a plus for StumpWM. At the time the gigamonkeys lisp book was published I was using StumpWM and had some issues I wanted to fix (which still existed when I finally switched to EXWM). Trying to learn Common Lisp exposed me to a community that is, to this day, the absolutely most toxic I have ever experienced. For a decade lisp was anathema to me until I discovered Clojure and from there realized that the Scheme and other non Common Lisp communities are great.
Not anymore for open drivers. Mesa developers had a lot of push to fix gaming related bugs. If you know some that are still broken, please open a bug on Mesa bug tracker and also list it here:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Games_broken_on_Mesa

This list is monitored by Mesa developers.

These days AMD explicitly recommend using open drivers for gaming.
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Yes, nouveau is of course supported.

But nouveau has trouble supporting the newest cards currently, since Nvidia seems to try their best to make their lives hell.
> Do you really expect us to integrate patches without thinking about that?

Whoa! You made huge leap there. At what point was it suggested that patches be recklessly applied?

That didn't happen. Your quote actually suggests a reasonable progression and at no point is there any suggestion, implied or otherwise, that changes be integrated without due consideration.

Not irrationally dismissing criticism != abandoning sound design and development.
You can "prove" this by looking at the glycemic index. Glycemic index is not a napkin math thing, its done by making people eat or drink something and watching what their blood sugar does.

A raw orange is 31-40.

Orange juice is 46-54.

Coca-cola is 63.

I think juice may be a _LITTLE_ better than soda. I still choose to drink neither, and think I am better off for it.
if you don't want to give your email address or fill your inbox with newsletters, you can get them in your RSS feeds.

I just added this feature a few weeks ago to the RSS reader i built (https://aktu.io/about).

Right now there's a few hundreds newsletters you can subscribe to, i'm adding new ones every day, and suggestions i welcome :-)

You can subscribe to a newsletter as you would add a RSS feed, it's gonna showup in your folders, no need to give your email address.
Would be interesting to see the rate of Alzheimer's among addicts and former addicts. But I imagine the sets "IV drug users who share needles" and "people who live to be old enough to be at risk for dementia" don't really intersect in any meaningful way.
As a member of the "hacker news crowd", I think that paper ballots make a great solution to bad UI for an electronic voting machine. My county uses the paper ballot system described above.
I don't think the issue was with understanding, but rather with my comment detracting from the moral panic.
It feels like the OP came from a corrupt or communist locale where cronyism and nepotism were rampant. I grew up in a communist country like this and always found networking distasteful for that reason. However on the spectrum of hiring signals available it just turns out to be one with a very good SNR due to the trust involved.
If someone spends x amount of work hours on something, that is what they want feedback on. They aren't looking for quick suggestions on other paths to explore. It isn't a brain storming session. It is work done being represented by an e-mail, code or a product. You are being presented with their theory for a solution. At some point something else might be relevant, but that isn't something to assume. The assumption should be that the person presenting have made their choices based on their situation.

It is often the same with software. Good feedback on software isn't random ideas, suggestions or feature requests that adds hundreds of hours of work on a whim. It is feedback that considers the work that has already been done. Anyone can come up with something else, especially in theory and with a blank slate. It doesn't really require anything other than an opinion. Hacker News certainly is proof of that.
I had this idea exactly a week ago and thought “I should build this!” as my mom is switching to a CGM. I even have some scrap notes on the API, I just hadn’t found the hour or two to build it.

Execution >> ideas and all that, and this is nicely done. :)

I really like the prompt idea, actually - won’t work for my mom, but works incredibly well for anyone who codes at their machine all day.
List of startup post-mortems and mistakes
no way! principal engineers are those who have the technical vision and understanding to build a product by themselves. And the people and leadership skills to lead a large multilevel team of engineers to actually do so.

a project that could actually be built by a single person doesn’t have enough scope to warrant “principal”.
The issue was that the author uses unsafe code unsafely and often for questionable performance or ergonomics gains that didn't actually need unsafe anyway. Fortunately, he cleaned up pretty much all of it, as I understand it, with the help of some involved community members when people freaked out about it all.
If you really think that things are so black and white, then so be it, don't need to tell people they're sheeps.
> I've decided to adopt the attitude: Enjoy it while it lasts, but don't count on it lasting forever. Live a lifestyle consistent with your market value, and squirrel the rest away. I'm also conscious about keeping my tech skills up to date.

Same here. Its kinda easy to be fooled into feeling complacent when you get compensated very well and are respected for what you do and have done so far. But it will never be enough to keep you around forever; there are so many failure modes that you have to think about the possibility of being on the job market again.

Which is another reason why (apart from plain old human decency) I do make it a point to reply to most of the recruiters that try to recruit me with a polite explanation that I'm happy where I am currently but please lets stay in touch so in the future if things change we can try again.
In my experience many of the CS people who are most active are basically doing it for career visibility reasons and much of what they post is either highly misleading or exaggerated to the level of clickbait. But it depends who we are talking about.
Ask HN: Do brains deadlock?
Massively parallel processing and zero deadlocks? That's curious.
1. CJD is only one specific instance of Prion disease. Others (e.g. vCJD) have incubation periods of - multiple decades -. From the article: "In the original Alzheimer’s transmissibility study, scientists examined the brains of eight patients treated with prion-contaminated human growth hormone as children who decades later died from prion disease"

Alzheimers is growing at epidemic proportions, globally [1].

Alzheimers in the US is growing at alarming rates [2].

[1] https://www.alzheimers.net/alzheimers-is-on-the-rise-in-thes...

[2] https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures
Learn to talk about your accomplishments like an entrepreneur or executive would: impact with quantified customer and company value. Not “I switched our development from Java to Go” but “improved time to deliver new customer functionality from 8 weeks to 4 weeks through new platform choice. Improvements in agility yielded $8 million in revenue growth.”

Another thing I don’t see enough in this thread is emphasizing software you managed to avoid writing. That’s the real secret of being a 10x engineer: telling your organization when building something expensive is not necessary, either because you don’t really need it, can use something simpler, or can adopt something that already exists.
I appreciate the idealistic take on what a "principal" role should be like, but in all actuality, principal engineers are commonly the ones that simply stayed there long enough (ie. to survive multiple re-orgs), and played their politics cards wisely. They were playing the title game. Often, their work is invisible to most. They perpetuate tribal knowledge, and have trouble letting go of the past and accepting change.

You'll notice plenty of comments here from people who claim to be principal engineers - stating that they "kinda follow it all". I wish we could talk to their colleagues though (the juniors, seniors, PMs, tech-leads, support/escalation engineers, as-well as other principals).
If you're in a niche where there are no freemium models/plans, is it still a good idea to offer one? It seems to me that many of the examples provided are of businesses in highly competitve spaces, where free alternatives likely already existed/were being offered by competitors already.