skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that, very roughly, some engineers are driven mostly by solving technical challenges and some are driven by building product ("product engineers"). Neither is superior or more capable. Different teams need different types.

Ask yourself what work you've done you're most proud of and why, and you can know your rough archetype. Then find a place where you will be rewarded for that type of work.
Amazon Grows in New York, Reviving Debate over Abandoned Queens Project
> Just a regular old pc

It's literally there: the PS4 is amd based pc (bulldozer architecture iirc) packaged in a fancy case and with a nice gpu.
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And let's not forget how scant real mentorship and training of managers is in this industry. Nor, how we've setup the power/money hierarchy that many people feel the only career growth path is to become a people manager (even if they aren't any good at it). :-(
Thanks, interesting stuff.

> I've said this 1000 times, but garbage like Facebook or Twitter could be replaced overnight by a protocol. There is really zero reason it couldn't be built from existing distributed tooling, be secure and just as useful without lizard people getting in the way. -- scottlocklin

But there's nothing about privacy, and the only comment that mentions "censor" is in favor.
I keep saying that once rise to the point where the problem is undeniable, Floridians will demand— and probably get— a colossal bailout on the taxpayers’ dime for their property, either in the form of some megaengineering project to hold back the ocean or just forcing the government to buy their homes, because Florida is a swing state with a large number of crucial electoral votes and neither major party can blow them off.
What you find 'annoying' I find about speeding up processing. I can 'pattern match' code far faster than I can read the text, so the alternative where I read every token is to dramatically slow down my mental processing of the code.

To me, reading every token is the functional illiteracy, the way only new learners spell their way through each word of a natural language.

I've never seen people make it to the point where they pattern match without being capable of reading the language properly.

I slow down and read everything when I need the details, the way I slow down when I read an unfamiliar word, or when I need to ensure I get every detail of a complex paragraph.

But most of the time reading at character or even word level is a waste of time. Unless you're dealing with a language like J or K etc. that doesn't lend itself to visual matching.

To me that is a fundamental problem with those languages.
But I get that people who program them tend to read token by token instead, and if that is what you want to do it needs to be compact.
The "hire for" part is pretty straightforward - when you interview, you'll have candidates with zero idea what your company is building. They won't care either.

Come Q time they'll ask about tech stack, code review, 4k screen, could they use their esoteric linux distro (yes).

OTOH you'll have candidates who already know your competitors, and know the tech stack because they registered for invite-only beta the day before the interview.
OK, boomboomer.

whooooooooosh.
Yes but there's all sorts of silliness that people and companies need to unlearn so they can do this effectively and efficiently.
If you can't see that in the main, using Shareholder Value as the main driver of corporate behavior is a bad thing, well, sorry.

In a society where society provides infrastructure, defense, etc, corporations should have a trio of responsibilities.

1) Shareholder (including primarily stock compensated executives) returns

2) Employee (non primarily stock compensated) pay, benefits, and well-being.

3) Society.

American capitalism has embraced #1 to the exclusion of all else, enabled by lax labor laws, corporate tax loopholes, and lower capitol gains taxing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm afraid that's something I don't have any experience with. However, another commenter mentioned a cool video he did on just this subject, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728298 -- so maybe check that out?
It used to be that wontfix / low impact stuff would still be publically disclosed. Responsible disclosure was the key principle.

There shouldn't be a gap between "won't fix" and "Too bad to be made public".

If a company is happy not to fix something, they shouldn't complain if it's published.
It's literally not possible to hold back the ocean in Florida. The bedrock is porous.
this seems most likely given the subject matter of the article and my exceeedingly accurate knowledge of human nature. tips fedora
an essential aspect of fixed hour contracts is that requirements need to be sorted from the most critical to the nice to have and the client needs to be prepared to drop the nice to have if the budget doesn't stretch to them

which is the whole point of the agile manifesto

which is why agile fails under most circumstances, as having fixed time, requirement and budget but under scrum and sprints is anything but agile.
Comma's would be friendlier than decimal groupings for North American users; also right-aligning would be nice.
That's some seriously scummy stuff from Intel.
Yes, I misread your comment. And then on top of that I screwed up the answer. I've edited it accordingly. Sorry about that, I guess I'm having a bad day.
This type of engineer probably isn't a good fit for some software projects are heavily replication based - think of replicating a bunch of canned reports with slightly different sort orders, filters, etc. The scope of the project is very well known, there is zero discovery work to be done, they just need to poop out a pile of reports quickly and move on.

Also consider if you are an off-shore provider of software engineers to customers who value having remote engineers who will "just do what they are told" This sort of person is likely not going to be actualized in that kind of a situation.
> But uh yeah... what percentage of Java developers are still on Java EE 7, 8?

I hope around 90% or more, because Java EE 8 is the latest version of Java EE.
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With formal youth unemployment at 20% or so, plenty of young folks would take some of these friends and family jobs and retire at 52 with a pension MUCH higher than most other french workers. There's already issues finding permanent employment in france with a temporary employment crisis.

https://www.ft.com/content/119c2b4c-bc0c-11e8-94b2-17176fbf9...

There is a reason you need to be on the inside track to get these "bad" jobs - because MANY folks would like them.
Most startup companies worry about building out features than building out reliable infrastructure. Almost always an after thought
I meant those open to the public.
> Except the scheme precludes it. Have you just not read this?

Scheme or no scheme: if there is information, it will leak.
There are alternatives but they are not necessarily better. E.g. academia seems to rely on references and publications for hiring. This seems closer to your wish of caring about "how good you have been". But consider the downsides - it is inherently more insular (to work for a famous professor you need a reference from someone, preferably also a famous professor) and also your thesis advisor can easily ruin your whole career.

Contrast that with our industry where a bright kid out of nowhere can study for the (imperfect, hackable, dehumanizing - I agree!) interview and have a realistic shot at that job at FAANG. At least I wish it still works this way, although of course it helps to be a Stanford graduate!
Everything I've read says while they have the instincts of a hunter they learn a lot from their social group and progenitors.
I would have loved SteamOS to be a general purpose Linux OS with Steam preinstalled instead of the... thing it actually was.
Libmdbx is up to 20% faster than legendary LMDB
With respect, the fact or idea that some group of people has spent their life on something does not necessarily make it into the correct choices.
That's a good tip, thanks. This is quite an interesting approach!
I still don't exactly understand what the value of a non-voting share is. What rights does it confer, exactly. Why do I want to own it?
(Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz) We had problems with being blocked in the past.

In cases, where we got a chance to explain, they agree that it is a false positive and took us off the block list. At least, that happened so far in all cases that I'm aware of. However, there are so many lists that it is hard to keep track of them. Would be nice if you could provide some information which block list it is, so we can contact them.

The reason why we end on the blocklist is normally a misconception of our data collection system Human Web:
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-i...

If someone does not want to send Human Web data, the feature can also be disabled through the UI. Same if you browse in a private window; Human Web is automatically disabled there. There is no need to configure blocking rules.
That’s cool. It’s so important for bounty programs to have a systematic way to approach awards. The security researcher community overall is very cool, but there are definitely some assholes and bottom feeders out there that can get under your skin and introduce bias in your decisions.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to spend billions of dollars trying. Voters don’t like to be told “there’s no fix”; they’ll gravitate toward any politician who promises to preserve their property values, especially with other people’s money.
Hesitation to fire is real.
Not exactly.

It’s about caring and understanding the product, the problem space, and the customers/users.

Why spend one month on an enhancement when an alternative can serve just as well or better, for say a day of effort?

But to even come up with sensible (or better) alternatives require domain knowledge and good relationships.
related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINDw7zH5dk
The real “big caveat” here is to make sure that this actually improves your real workload in real life with real inputs. Zen and Zen+ have a lot of edge cases, for example their pdep/pext support is just crazy slow and how slow it is depends on the input values (it gets slower if more bits are set, which is bananas). But this also goes for genuine intel hardware. MKL is not always optimal. Even -march=native does not always produce the best code. Your program may be faster with the latest instructions disabled.
You still own a share of the company. If they pay dividends, you get one.
> I also don't see why this is a question we ask the recipient. Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the payor?

Because at that moment that's the recipients money as far as the bank is concerned - it might have been a payment for some valuable item and the payment order used as proof of payment, it might have been a gift or anything, and the beneficiary is legally protected from the payer changing their mind after the fact, the bank isn't allowed to take their money without the beneficiary's consent just because the payer wants it. There are specific legal exemptions that may apply for cases where the payer didn't actually order that payment (e.g. some types of fraud, or technical faults such as a single order getting executed twice), but they don't apply here, because they did order that payment to that account, so it pushes this situation into the same box as all the other (quite frequent) issues of the payer changing their mind after the fact and wanting the money back.

If there's a dispute and the payer claims that the beneficiary shouldn't have that money and they owe it back - well, the banks don't get involved in disputes about who owes whom what, they can only execute payments when ordered by the owner of the money or a court order resolving that dispute. It's just as with a cash payment, if someone has gotten your pile of cash because there's been a misunderstanding, or mistake, or a change of mind, or even actual fraud - you can't simply take the cash away from them if they disagree or dispute the issue, they'll keep the cash until the dispute is resolved, or possibly the police will seize/freeze that cash following due legal process.

There are very many cases where there might be a dispute between a payer and the beneficiary, someone demanding their money back for all kinds of reasons - those cases far outnumber situations like this one. We have a process for resolving disputes about money, and that involves civil claims in court. After a correctly executed payment is completed (and a payment credited exactly as the payer ordered, even if they wanted to order differently or changed their mind) it can be reversed only if the beneficiary agrees or by a court order taking the money from the beneficiary and returning it to the payer, as in this case, that's the law.
I’m not sure it takes much intelligence to feel fear. Many fears can be highly instinctive and even irrational.
I'll give you an example. I once did an Android app for a conference. However the data model was so generic that it basically could've been reused for any other conference. If you're motivated as such, the whole thing could very well be an excellent opportunity to sell a product, instead of one single month of subcontracting.
If you have children, be careful about lead in drinking water
Not the usual post, but as many of us reach the age where we have young children, I wanted to make a post about lead in drinking water.

Here's a recent article about lead concerns in Canadian water (including affluent areas like Victoria and Vancouver):
https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/water-in-crd-being-tested-for-presence-of-lead-1.23997842

For American friends, here's an excellent 2018 NPR interview:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/623126968?storyId=623126968?storyId=623126968

Quote from that article:
"So you would be drinking bottled or filtered water no matter where you lived in the U.S." - Terry Gross

"Yes." - Dr. Hanna-Attisha

Now, it seems that tests later showed that Victoria and Bay area water is OK. But as Dr. Hanna-Attisha said, lead in drinking can exist anywhere. If you have children, it's especially important to take care.

Some tips:

- Never use hot water from the tap for cooking or drinking

- Flush your taps with cold water before taking water for cooking or drinking

Educate your children to do the same.

Note that problems can occur in an unexpected way. For example, by upstream chemical changes in water, which is what happened in Flint. This makes it seem worthwhile to consider a filtration system (instead of that second Tesla).
Linus makes a good point.

I think this should work:

1. Take two comparable systems (external bus speeds and external clock are the same). Measure base SPECint2006 of both.

2. downclock the system with better score until SPECint2006 scores are equal.

3. Compare power use.
Maybe, but please note this part of the article: "It is also possible that the resulting code path has some precision loss or other problems on AMD hardware. I have not tested for that!"
The Unnamed Privilege of Deep Work
If only there were a way to do automated validation checks...
Equality is in the “state”, not in the process that leads to that state. (It is the weak who needs help to get somewhere, not the strong.)
40 somethings are not baby boomers... boomers are in their late 50s to early 70s right now. [0]

The baby boom happened after world war II ended in 1945 which was 74 years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
Again, the alternative to standardized tests and credentials is hiring based on connections, ethnicity, pedigree, physical appearance, and superficial confidence. These problems are exactly why meritocracy was invented in the first place. The alternative is not everybody getting the jobs they want, it's you being turned away without any consideration at all because the boss already hired their cousin.

> How objective are, e.g, IQ tests when I can take two different tests in a span of two hours and get from 128 to 146?

You can't take two proper WAIS-IV tests in two hours. In fact, unless you have been part of an unusual psychology study, you've probably never taken a real IQ test in your life. There are a lot of gimmicky free things on the internet that call themselves IQ tests but aren't predictive of anything.
this is why i'm against property tax. I m all for a sales tax - because a sale reveals the true value of a property, and thus can tax it accurately.
"That error — which the Wasatch County assessor explained possibly occurred when a staff member may have dropped their phone on their keyboard — has resulted in a countywide overvaluation of more than $6 million and revenue shortfalls in five different Wasatch County taxing entities"

That is an oddly specific explanation for the error, I guess the phone dropping incident must have been an especially memorable incident that year.
Why don't you ask LI? They may have tools.

If you don't have their permssion then you are likely running up against various 'compuster misuse' and 'privacy' laws, never mind being rude by eating their resources.
To continue the analogy: If someone parks in your driveway, while you don't have to tow their car, you are entitled to recompense for towing costs.
One solution might be to silo the people who evaluate the students from those that teach the materials. Treat the test more about evaluating the effectiveness of instructors and less about the students.
Fines are not related to the externalised cost of speeding, because the externalised cost of speeding can include death and life-changing injury as well as property damage, and it's very difficult to assess a fair market price for death.
Go see reply to t_d's tweets . People pounce on them like it's their raison de etre
> They're someone who would likely make a good product manager if they ever decide to give up the joy of engineering.

Read: If they ever decided to stop working and start siphoning funds to start their own company.

When companies are small the engineering managers are the product managers and the product is good. When a company reaches the point of over-reaching they divide their concerns and hire managers who don’t know how to build the product and are paid to act like they are doing so while whipping engineers who have no interest in the product. Big companies that make good products do so by provisioning small teams with personnel who are essential to their collective goal. They mimic the small company.
I liked my old xps 13. The build quality was probably the best of any non-mac machine I've used, and the carbon fiber is a cool design choice. But the coil whine was awful and it felt like they tried to make a workstation out of a 13 inch ultrabook.

I haven't seen many people using these, which is kind of surprising to me.
No. They would pay to fly him back to Syria, then send in Navy SEALs to assassinate him 10 years later.

The U.S. does not recognize international law. The country would look a lot different if it did. Shortly after 9/11 the Taliban had captured Osama Bin Laden, however Bush let Bin Laden slip through because the Taliban wanted to try him at the Hague.
Many species seem to love their offspring. It seems unlikely to be human only.
It’s a financial decision. Building a competitive console game wasn’t cheap by that generation, and passion only goes so far. Publishers ultimately want to recoup their investment, which means developers targeting the common subset of functionality and using middleware wherever possible to support multiple platforms. Unless Sony was your publisher, it wouldn’t have made economic sense to deeply optimize for Cell. PS4 and Xbox One being so similar to each other is good for developers, which is good for games, which is good for gamers, even if it does mean fewer esoteric toys for passionate engineers to play with.
I loved sandstorm and used it for a while. The only issue I had with it, is that is was very complicated to add your own sandstorm app to your instance and the documentation to do so wasnt too great
It's like a real Kickstarter
Be careful with Montessori.

I went to a "traditional Montessori" school for a few months when I was very young. Long story short, their educational method insisted that we needed instruction in how to play with toys before we were allowed to do so, and we needed to do so on mats, which needed to be rolled up tidily at the end of the prescribed playtime.

The problem with that was that we already knew what Legos were. But we were supposed to pretend we didn't, in order to appease the teacher.

I think this was the same school that insisted to my parents that I couldn't read because they (the school) hadn't taught me to read. My parents taught me to read. So they had me demonstrate, and the teacher decided my parents must have... trained me to pretend to read.
For all the grief Kenneth Reitz gets... gotta give him credit for his emphasis on usability and professional presentation.
I'd disagree with "much" unless you can show numbers saying how much they pay. Noting there is a variation of up to 5% in contribution depending on personal situation (including status cadre and other stuff).

I have family working in national research centers and they contribute less than in the private sector (about 3%). Due to some historical agreement that's waving some mandatory contributions for all personnel of that institution.
They can be of anything, usually (almost always) dividends, but can be rights to something, like profits directly, too.
It's interesting how "success" means "selective, high-workload, white-collar career" in this study. In other cultures, it just means having friends/relationships and not being stressed all the time. I suspect many of these successful types are failures in this regard.
Corporate-sponsored research is always suspect. Why is this an important research topic? Is the study notable or significant compared to other studies in this field? Just asking.
> And of course, because US incomes are higher to start with, US retirement income is even higher in absolute terms.

On the other hand, cost of living is undoubtedly lower in France and Germany, especially healthcare. Yes, there's a government healthcare plan for seniors in the US, but IIRC it's not nearly as generous as the plans you see in western Europe.
Performance artist eats banana duct-taped to wall that sold for $120k
Yes, what I'm arguing is that it's very difficult for it to not become terminal because people die without income.

That's the root of the issue, not motivation or purpose or what the individuals value or the intentions behind the creation of the company.
I disagree on the criticism of Apple, since they do try to innovate, but I think you are spot on on Google embracing a conservative business culture centered on selling attention.

Directly to advertisers and indirectly through content creators, so they have multiple channels at least.

Not an Apple fan at all, but if I could pick an employer, Apple actually is on a track to become more favorable. Still, their locked down environments aren't really interesting if you don't care about monetizing software directly.
I think the title is rather misleading. Theranos could supposedly do a full gamut of tests, not just CBC.
In reality (if you haven’t noticed) mass murderers send nice men to war to kill each other (and old ladies, as a collateral damage).