skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I eat a healthy diet and I need to make sure I eat some fatty foods like avocado and some raw unsalted nuts with fruit - otherwise I don’t feel right. I believe in eating lean meats, in small amounts, but two or three times a month I like to split a filet mignon steak with my wife and enjoy some greasy high fat meat.
So... remote work?
I'm a fan of what Raptor is trying to achieve but you perhaps need to go easy on the company Kool Aid. Hijacking another manufacturer's comment thread to push your own agenda is one thing, ranting and being disrespectful is quite another.
consider changing the title to "Ask HN: Feel Like I’m Stuck in an Architect Role. I Want Out"
why can't we do ... is easily the scariest thing any non-technical manager can say.

My manager used it quite a bit.

Why can't we do a help page as good as company X?

Well, we can but it might take 3 FTE for 3 months

Why can't we can't we have feature W?

We can but we have features X,Y and Z to deliver to customers and nobody is asking for feature W

and so on
I hear you, but there are also upsides. As a veteran of many programming languages, I find Go's minimal feature list a plus!

Especially if I'm not rushed, I have an annoying tendency to try for the most elegant, succinct, idiomatic or general way to program a solution, and given a sufficiently expressive language I then fall victim to analysis paralysis.

By giving me so few options, Go removes a major cognitive load. Very often there's a single obvious way to get something done and I'm not tempted to try anything fancy.
Ask HN: How to succeed as an IC at a larger company
Hiya, I've been doing software development for about 5 years now, but always at smaller companies. My last company had about 25 developers on a single product and that was largest team I'd ever worked on at that time. I'm now working on team with closer to 250 developers across 3 locations/timezones and it's extremely overwhelming.

I've been here for about a month now and still feel like I'm mostly just in free falling trying to figure out 95% of what anyone talks about or how to do things. It seems like everything works fundamentally differently than it does for a smaller scale company.

Do you have any advice for short/long term success as a developer that is very new to operating in an environment at this scale?
...and 30 years earlier, another girl, 12 year old Severn Cullis-Suzuki, said the same thing in the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOp5ATk_rlM
Robots like Curiosity are very very slow. If we ever want to truly discover life on Mars, humans will likely be the ones to do it as they are just much more productive.
Sort of a 'virtual switch' but much more beyond that and all with a BPF data plane. Cilium provides connectivity but also security policy, load-balancing and introspection for container pods. Preferred choice in Kubernetes-based workloads.
Prior art is very difficult to prove and patent reviewers often miss obvious examples. They can't so easily ignore a pre-existing patent. It also protects the invention from exploitation by foreign competitors, in jurisdictions with reciprocal patent protection.
I need both for different reasons.
Is not there some common denominator, something simple like - there is both more crime and pollution in cities?
"Can Anyone Catch Nokia" - Forbes magazine, 2007
by outright tech fraud I mean that the tech itself is just not there

Magic Leap should also perhaps be in the list, but that seems more a case of gross exaggeration than complete wishful thinking
We do this as well. Well, we try. But I sleep more light than my wife. So it is always me waking up first anyway.

With our first child, I slept in another room altogether to get the sleep needed for work. With two small ones it’s much harder.
I either get woken up by a karate heel-kick to my nose or just the horrible feeling of a wet bed.
How does music streaming websites earn money?
How do music streaming websites like spotify earn revenue? What is there business model?
Did you have access to health care? In the US, having a baby while in graduate school was profoundly risky from a financial standpoint, and there was a strong bias against women who had kids. I knew families that were bankrupted. Also, they had to completely drain their finances in order to qualify for some forms of public assistance.
This kind of technology would be so world-changing that I can't believe anyone with the knowledge and capability to develop it would actually allow something like patent law get in their way. Whomever gets this working basically becomes a godlike power compared to the rest of humanity. Who cares what the lawyers say at that point, let them try to subpoena you at the Mars colony that houses your space fleet.
Wouldn't try to enforce a patent on such revolutionary devices to a government be pointless?

If they wanted it, they would get it, no?

We're talking about bending gravity powered by a small fusion reactor.
"At least with medical school, Peter said, the job prospects are better. New doctors begin making $60,000 and their salary increases by $20,000 a year during residency."

Actually not true. A resident's salary might increase by $20k between the start and end of their training (esp for intensive 7-8 surgical programs), but most programs only increase salary by $3,000 per year. In the following tables, PGY stands for post-graduate year, and extends from residency into fellowship if you choose to do one. Usually the salaries are the same for all residents, regardless of whether you are training to be a neurosurgeon or a psychiatrist.

https://med.virginia.edu/gme/program-resources/salary-benefi...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/emergencymedicine/em-residen...
What about qml?
Should I be amazed at the lack of due diligence from investing firms, not just in this case, but generally?
Or, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, after all, this isn’t their money. If it sounds good it probably is. They only need to be right 10% of the time...
chip gyros aren't as accurate as this in practical reality. they give up a lot of accuracy. you need good, hard mass and well-machined metal.
it has an appearance of it, but we have no idea if that's all the info and/or the real control we have
> Compare the 35.7 km traversed in three days by the Apollo 17 astronauts in December 1972 with the almost identical distance (34.4 km) traversed by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in eight years.

Yes, and the Rover costs 1/150th the price. We could send up literally a hundred rovers for the cost of the Apollo program and still have billions of dollars left to burn. We could build a giant Nolan Joker style money pyramid and roast marshmallows.

More-over all modern Mars missions are done on a relatively shoe-string budget using robots NASA knows are much less capable than they feasibly could construct. Basically Opportunity only went 34.4 km in 8 years because it was built by the NASA equivalent of 2 guys in a shed for beer money. Since the humiliating loss of Mars Climate Orbiter NASA has focused only on sending things to Mars they're not quite so afraid to lose, which means rather drastically reduced rover capabilities and lessened scientific payloads.

>Greatly increased efficiency in sample collection and sample return capacity. Compare the 382 kg of samples returned by Apollo with the 0.32 kg from the Russian robotic sample return missions Lunas 16, 20 and 24, and the zero kg returned so far by any robotic mission to Mars.

This is comparing apples to oranges. One of the great benefits of robots is they don't have to come back, which massively saves on the budget. Manned missions by necessity do need to bring about 3 x 75 pounds of dead weight (aka 3 man crew) back home, so you may as well have them line their pockets with rocks if you're just burning money anyway.

>Increased potential for large-scale exploratory activities (e.g. drilling) and the deployment and maintenance of complex equipment.

This I do agree with. Large scale drilling in the asteroid built would actually benefit from human presence, as it's far enough from Earth that light speed lag is non-trivial and mining in space will likely be a very complex, novel situation that will benefit from human level intelligence.

But just walking around on Mars, doing sample collecting? The case seems extremely thin. Especially as, even by the article's own admission, robots are improving to the point a human is only "1-2x better" than modern AI-assisted drones. Rather than the 1500x human-robot performance disparity the author highlights for earlier robots. Given the relative costs of people and robots, it's very much still tilted in favor of drones.
That's what you get for choosing react. Many ways to do the same, many alternative packages. Extra complexity layers to just bind rest json to a control. Good CV booster though.
I saw something years ago that shows a global correlation of violent crime with use of leaded gasoline in the country.
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While I think discussing whether military research should be patented is an interesting question, I think the nature of this particular patent (that is, that it’s total nonsense) kind of trumps any speculation here.
Thanks, though I'll note that's a 23 year old article.
Hmm, it does? I was not aware of this. I did it twice (with two independent projects) earlier and it seemed to have retained the signature for some reason. It shows "Signature made ..." and "Good signature from ..." for all the commits I made earlier. I will pay more attention to it because those signatures matter a lot to me. Thank you for pointing it out, I will keep this in mind and make sure to double check.
Anyone with a knowledge of atmospheric physics might think that it is plausible, but science is not confused over the difference between 'plausible', 'obvious' and 'true', and insists on evidence.
A machine running and converting raw material into finished product (say, injection-molded plastic, or a part-picker-placer organizing or soldering on a PCB) rapidly turns less-valuable-stuff into more-valuable-stuff. Value added.

Yes, there is some human labor in assembling and maintaining the machine, but I consider it largely divorced from human labor.

A computer server turns data into more-useful data, either by aggregating it, storing it in a convenient way, or routing it. Once set up, the computer can run for years without human intervention. Very little human labor there after initial setup, but value was added.
this trick works. my twist on it is to watch people play old video games on youtube.

however, it doesn't work when i need a clear mind, especially when i am exhausted. it is frustrating that no amount of movies, songs, video games will help clear your mind -- at least not mine -- which in turn makes you stay awake...

i used to know how meditate in college, but i have somehow lost that ability it seems (yes, one can lose it lol)
If she wants to make a difference her next speech will be delivered in Beijing, not Denver. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... for why.
No, what really helps is picking the right colour space to work in. Which is probably CIE-LAB, being constructed especially for the weird way our brains perceive colour, but still also works mostly correct if you treat it as a linear space.
I think it's more about preventing international private entities from profiting. AFAIK, they would get the same anti-monopoly effect just publishing about it because nobody can patent prior art.
> I drink a cup of chamomile tea and take 5 mg of melatonin before I go to bed, and this seems to help (or might be a placebo)

That is way too much and possibly not timed properly. Correct dosage is closer to 0.3 mg - 1 mg. See here for more details about dosage and timing: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

Edit: I incorrectly written grams instead of milligrams previously, thanks aneidon for catching it.
In my experience, it depends on which sport you do and when you do it during the day.
I used to play squash during the evening around 8pm and on these days I would fall asleep very late, like around 2am. This was mostly due, I think, to my heart rate still being quite high (I could feel it), and slowing down very slowly until it reached a reasonable level at which I could get asleep. This is something that other friends playing squash in the evening reported as well.
They only get only a small cut on prices set by "majors"
Some streaming companies try to rollout the netflix model (producing artists / cut the middle man) but it is david v goliath.
...and 30 years ago this infamous news article was published: https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

At that time we had only 10 years to fix the problem, now scientists graciously give us 12 years.
I'd think that proves the opposite: Even though it hurt the Norwegian government's relationship with China, the committee still went ahead with their decision.
That's a pity. Might just eat more because they taste good anyway
Fully with you here. But here’s the thing, if your nuclear scientist troll spends one afternoon with the bogus patent application, and the adversary loughs at it after 30 seconds, you end up wasting more resources than them. Which means you need to be sophisticated to troll. War is the art of misdirection, but you can’t fool someone you have a tank when all you have is an umbrella.
A Ph.D. is not about the classes, it’s about the research. The classes are to prepare you to do research. If you’re interested in the classes do a Master’s. Georgia Tech has a great one in CS for under $10K[1] and the University of London has many in other fields for not much more[2].

[1] https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/

[2] https://london.ac.uk/ways-study/distance-learning
> Their online store does not offer particularly good value apart from fast shipping for commodity items

you forgot the excellent return policy, almost no question asked. Before Amazon that was almost unthinkable and you would wait weeks to be paid back.

They have improved e-commerce to the point that it's better than most other previous (online) shopping experiences.
Interesting! Is there any way to automatically track the changes in position of a post to HN and check that afterwards?
Unfortunately, there are also not a huge plethora of jobs for researchers in industry either. At least, it's hard to find posted job openings. It may be that a lot of the people in industry who are doing researchy work started out as clerks and worked their way into their positions over time.
Someone who recently became a new first-time mom credits Amazon's same-day delivery, Target's same-day pickup, and a supermarket's online order / bring to your car service with making life a lot easier.

Her sister, who had kids last decade, is jealous. I don't think consumers want to stop Amazon.
I wonder whether there is already a law that states:

"Whenever the media implies that a hegemon will be at the number one spot forever, it will mark the start of its decline".
Application like configuration UI is probably fine, for example, system preference. It has sort of generic UX.
Early in my career, I got stuck doing a lot of software maintenance on legacy systems (I suspect this permanently stunted my professional growth, but this was during the great recession and I took whatever work I could find). It's a hard rut to get out of - I spent a lot of time developing relevant skills in my spare time.

Anyway, one place I worked had a 10 page procedure for building the system. It involved running several scripts, logged into 2 or 3 different servers (we were running Solaris 8 - which was already quite old by then) as different users. About half the procedure was written down, the rest was unspoken and passed down via oral tradition.

A particularly intelligent and motivated guy once took it upon himself to unravel the whole mess and come up with a sane build solution. Unfortunately, his quest was not approved by management, the time taken away from bug fixing caused him to fall behind on "points" (i.e., number of tickets closed in the bug tracker), and he was laid off. So we stuck to the old system that sort of worked, most of the time.

Now, one of the user accounts that was required to build a certain module belonged to a person that no longer worked at the company (let's call him Steve - I don't remember his real name). We were certain there was a permissions or environment issue somewhere, but were unable to track down the specific reason why only Steve's user account could successfully build said module. We were successfully ignoring this obviously absurd situation until we got a new sysadmin....

The new sysadmin was unfortunately a very motivated guy who wanted to set things in order. He reviewed all of the user accounts, noticed "Steve" no longer worked for the company, and deleted his account. We were unable to build until the backup containing Steve's account was restored.

We never fixed the FUBARed build procedure, mostly because our customer (this was a defense contract, so the govt was the customer) didn't want to pay for such an effort - every thing we did had to be tied back to a specific req number in our system requirements specification (SRS). Fixing technical debt was not covered in the SRS, so it never got fixed.

Eventually I was caught up in a mass layoff and went on to better things :)
Including the Google Analytics library and Facebook Pixel on your site at the very least sends each and every pageview back to both of those entities. If the developer has implemented custom conversions, even further behavior is tracked.
So 1/4 of what Elixir/Erlang can handle, but more difficult and less reliable:

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
Dell XPS (9560 in my case).
As someone who is prone to overengineering, I wonder if they also tried adding more standard streams after that (e.g., debug or verbose, different levels you would find in logging libraries today).

I think just out/err has been proven by history but that couldn't have been obvious to the original designers?
> I’m aware that our bodies feed into our minds, and that things like hormonal levels, nutrition, gut flora and fauna, etc all have a fairly profound impact on things like mood

it's pretty much that. the mind is the entire body. although it's mostly the brain it is NOT entirely the brain.

> That doesn’t mean that the night sky or society somehow “is” our mind,

but our mind is formed by what we learn from society (culture) with our brains (the software gets installed hahah)

> while recognizing that it’s all happening within the confined, physical space that constitutes a person’s brain

maybe all the language and the words form within the physical bound of the brain, sure, but the mind more than just what we do with our brains.

In the end, thinking this way has led me to take better care of myself, not just my "brain" (i.e. eating better and exercising the rest of the body a little more)
Human breath may significantly affect office air quality
>> I've been here for about a month now and still feel like I'm mostly just in free falling trying to figure out 95% of what anyone talks about or how to do things.

It is fairly normal, every company has its on acronyms, processes, so I would say it is fairly normal to be overwhelmed in the beginning. There is no way you could know in advance their process.

That being said, you should have colleagues available to help you.

Take always a notebook and a pen with you. Whenever there is a word, or process, you have never heard of or are not sure what it consists of, write it down.

Now every few days schedule a meeting with a member of you team, reviews the list, and request explanation/clarification.

Take additional notes for future reference. That's it, in a few weeks you'll feel at ease with what is happening around you.

This is a gradual process, you'll keep learning in the months, years to come.

Then once you feel more at ease, you can push for initiatives, new ways to do things. A newcomer has usually always lots of fresh ideas because is not yet used to how things are done here...
I remember them being wrapped in foil and the foil was wrapped in paper. The paper would not have been in contact with the chocolate.
From the DoD scientist point of view there are only so many ways to show productivity. Showing productivity is required for raises and receiving funding for projects. (National/DoD labs basically function like universities.)

It's really either papers or patents, and patents are generally counted equivalent to two papers.

I'm not sure what other metrics could be used.
Interested - what would be causing the high lead levels in those areas, not that lead has been removed from petrol? Is it legacy contaminants or other ways that lead is released into the environment?

I was warned off eating the food I grew in my garden in London as historically people threw their ash into their gardens, so the soil their can be pretty polluted.
You can't compare the price of the Apollo program with one Mars rover mission. The Mars rover missions built upon the discoveries and experience from the Apollo missions.
They do have a weakness - Search.

There are a trillion products in a trillion categories and some meaningless small number get displayed on the first search result page. This is obviously highly abnormal and their own search teams will tell you that.

It creates unmonitorable arms races, unnatural uniformity across myriad cultures and thought processes, pissed sellers, frustrated customers and just bubbling tensions of all kinds.

It's like taking all the animals and plants in the world throwing them on an island and telling visitors they experience everything through a magic window, but 10 at a time. Ofcourse they cant. If you know what you want to see - great! If not its just a useless experience.
From TFA:

> Related Videos
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Seems popularmechanics.com needs to tune their what-is-related algorithm a bit. Or is it a subtle jab at "yes my boss says I need to publish this even though it's an obvious crank and it's just clickbait"?
Well yes. Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity.
He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views.
How is that different from penalising people for supporting violent protests?
I use the "Make Medium Readable Again" browser extension because of this. Firefox also has a reader view which I use on a lot of other sites.

https://makemediumreadable.com
From my experience doing web development, that's not surprising. Safari is sorta the king of broken, half-implemented Javascript APIs that will advertise support but don't really work correctly.
For all those commenting on 'aren't more polluted areas just more criminal due to other factors", as far as I can tell the researchers examined crime rates for the same place and find correlation with whether there was more Ozone and PM 2,5 on a particular day or not.

So they are not comparing clean air neighborhoods to highly polluted neighborhoods, but the same neighborhood on different days.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191003114007.h...
I used the ones which have clear undesirable side effects, others might have it as well just that we don't know about them.

>Are you also advocating against medical drugs or vaccines?

I am only advocating about being conscious of how much we don't know. If medical drug or vaccine saves lives - I have no problem with it, still most likely we don't know all the side effects.
I have an JavaScript implementation of Seam Carving :D
https://khuesmann.github.io/
You can play around with it here.
> Their online store does not offer particularly good value apart from fast shipping for commodity items.

You say this like it's a bad thing? This is exactly what I use Amazon for.