skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that using KillMode=mixed is very useful when running Airflow with Celery workers. It allows the system to shudown gracefully coupled with TimeoutStopSec, so the workers will stop receiving new jobs but will finish their current jobs before exiting which is nice for auto scaling or spot instances on AWS (coupled with EC2 lifecycle hooks).
AR vs. VR: All You Need to Know About
It depends on your software. Here are my rules:

1) The hardest tech possible. I want to test my intellectual limits, which was not possible in the corp world.

2) The most hyped areas, today those are AI/Kubernetes.

If you have a unique solution, then it should not be a problem to get early adopters.

Moreover, after leaving my corporate job, I began:

1) Working 17 hours days, 7 days a week.

2) 100% software dev.

To sum up, if you leave the corp, you must increase your focus.
This is called a poverty cycle. And the current Nobel Prize winners in Economics have talked a lot about this. The foundation of UBI is based on cases like these.
All of this is clearly a matter of balance.

If you were to have infinite time, you would be idiotic to _not_ spend a bunch of time fully internalizing the entire stack; or at least, trying to comprehend as much as possible given your non-infinite memory. Hell, whilst you're at it, throw in a rounded education in the humanities and sprinkle a ton of socialization in there too.

But you don't have infinite time. So instead, you try to find the balance that allows you to perform the task you wish to perform.

And at that point it's a completely personal decision. Perhaps you spend more on soft skills because you have managerial aspirations. Perhaps you drill down into bit banging simply because it's of intrinsic interest to you.

There probably is some basic level that's useful for every programmer to have, sure, but what that even means is dependent on sector. I don't know a thing* about Windows because it's both highly uninteresting to me, but also because it'd be a waste of time for me to bother with it. (Perhaps the two are linked!)

* okay, I know a decent amount compared to the man on the Clapham omnibus, but not compared to a Windows developer
Regardless of where this debate ends up, AirPods are estimated to have sold 60M units in 2019 [0].

This means AirPods as a stand-alone business is somewhere between a $5B-$15B/year.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-pro-production...
Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveil
No, that's the surgeon who doesn't understand appendixes and tries to redo the gastrointestinal system instead.

The parent's question was if you'd trust an appendix doctor who didn't understand the associated systems.

Which is a brake mechanic who doesn't fully get fluid dynamics, but does get brakes.
Switzerland Tourist Visa: A Step by Step Guide for Easy Application
The Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom (2016)
Yeah and that might be because there are lots of problems down on earth right now, like climate change, requiring more effort and are maybe more important than space advance. And sadly I would agree, you don't?
this project looks phenomenal. The article assumed I was already familiar with MirageOS and why I would want such a set-up ... but thankfully the MirageOS homepage covered my questions:

...

Self-scaling architecture

We can create auto-scaling web-servers with very small footprints. These would be cheaper to run than current solutions due to the small size but they would also be highly elastic. If a sudden spike in traffic occurs, the web-servers can be configured to create and deploy copies of themselves to service the demand. This auto-scaling happens so quickly that an incoming connection can trigger the creation of new server and the new server can then handle that request before it times out (which is on the order of milliseconds). When the demand dies down again, these web-servers can automatically shut themselves down. Since these machines boot fast we can be more elastic, raising and lowering capacity to precisely meet demand and therefore only spending what we actually need when we really need it.

...

Xen is a very large beast so maybe replacing it with Genode could further reduce attack surface and even speed? Even though I'm unfamiliar with OCaml and Mirage this has whetted my appetite to learn more about it.
I have the AirPods Pro and find myself often using them with nothing playing just for the noise canceling. The noise canceling is not quite as good as some over ears I've used, but the combination of comfort and noise canceling from APPs makes them superior in my eyes. I often forget I have the APPs on.

APP also has an interesting pass through mode where there is some noise canceling, but sounds like voices are highlighted.
Doctors all acquire broad medical knowledge as part of their training. They're not allowed to specialise until they've shown adequate competence in basic general medicine.

An eye specialist who is absolutely clueless about heart or kidney function would be unusual, and not particularly useful. Not only do most drugs have multi-system side-effects, but many conditions affect multiple systems.

So Dr Appendix Removal will almost certainly do all kinds of surgery.

Consultants tend to have a more limited focus, but you don't get to be a consultant without doing a lot of other medicine first. Usually they either work as supervisors/managers, or they're called on to consult/advise and maybe operate on more challenging cases.
Rather than not being able to tell the difference, most consumers don't care about the difference. Everyone has their own acceptable level of sound quality, even enthusiasts. That being said the airpod pros' fidelity are known to be quite good in audiophile circles.
That’s not what it means. That is what “Always” is for.
It hangles SMS-based OTP authentication automatically - it grabs the OTP token and passes it to an app so the app doesn't have to require SMS access or ask user to retype the code. It also verifies the source of the SMS.
Mixer and Facebook Gaming begin chipping away at Twitch’s market share
You can sell it on Amazon because they don't care if you send them counterfeits or stolen goods.
unfortunately they (airpods pro) seem
to stay connected to only a single device, which is a shame. my other daily use headphones (qc35) can be connected to 2 devices in the same time and it helps as when someone calls me
on the phone it pauses the laptop music and switches to the call.
Maybe up to senior levels (say T5). At some point, it becomes difficult to even keep your level, much less advance it.

All said, I likewise would find it difficult as OP to work at a large company where local incentives can be so misaligned to the company's. Hence, the advantage of working at start-ups.
Learn to navigate by all means possible. Use GPS if you have it, use the stars if you need it. Whenever you get to a new city, find out where things are. Use books if you have them at hand, or whatever.

Humans are nomads. We either know where we are, or we don't. The tools we build to solve this problem only get us where we want to go when we use them.

(Map-reader here. GPS is great. So is a good chart.)
This "very minor" convenience also verifies sender signature to help avoid spoofing and phishing attacks and thus improves security.

It was deemed important enough that Apple followed by implementing the API in iOS12.
Source, which is a bit better than engadget: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/capturing-co2-from-trucks-and-redu...

> Researchers at EPFL have patented a new concept that could cut trucks’ CO2 emissions by almost 90%. It involves capturing CO2 within the exhaust system, converting it into a liquid and storing it on the vehicle. The liquid CO2 would then be delivered to a service station and where it will be turned back into fuel using renewable energy.

This all sounds a bit energy intensive to me and that it would significantly reduce efficiency.

> The whole process takes place within a capsule measuring 2 m x 0.9 m x 1.2 m, placed above the driver’s cabin. “The weight of the capsule and the tank is only 7% of the vehicle’s payload,” adds Maréchal. “The process itself uses little energy, because all of its stages have been optimized.”

> The researchers’ calculations show that a truck using 1 kg of conventional fuel could produce 3kg of liquid CO2, and that the conversion does not involve any energy penalty.
No - and neither can you do it in Android. The second dialog already has a "Don't ask me again" tick which denies the permission permanently.
> how could America have influenced a place into a behaving a way that is completely foreign to America

Authoritarianism is hardly "completely foreign" to America.

But even if we ignore this, US government has a long established pattern of supporting any movement that opposes left wing politics across the globe to the point of funding coups.

The list is very long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Would it though? What's the lead time on training nuclear engineers, construction companies etc to start building reactors again. UK and European projects have gone massively over time and over budget.

I mean maybe US, Europe and China can do this but can the rest of the world?
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> The idea of working to please an anonymous promotion committee is quite depressing.

Having experienced both, I'd say it's still infinitely better than this being a negotiation with your direct manager.
Yes I know the reality of the situation.

So let's rephrase. Do you trust an AI controlled robot specialized in appendix removal (with a very good track record) but zero knowledge of other systems or procedures?
> In essence, we are moving away from pulling data from various apps to receiving a curated feed of data that is dynamic - always changing and tailored to our needs.

Is there any indication that users (not designers, developers, businesses or "the industry") actually want this?
I really loved your article. In software we are accustomed to constant progress, and we are sometimes on this perpetual hype train. Which creates this stress of the next thing you need to learn, stay ahead of the game, I wonder if in software we should more focus on calm as a counterbalance to hype. A recent HN article I liked for instance focussed on calm apps that instead of constantly bugging you, they quietly do their job.
T5? On what scale is that? And where does it compare on https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Apple,Amazon,Google,Facebook...
I've never been homeless, but I do have a degree in physics/astronomy, and I've recently (less than two years ago) made the move to "software engineer." The reality is that although I had a great deal of experience programming as well as highly relevant problem solving skills, it was very difficult to get interviews for software engineer positions. As soon as I had one position, however, and could put the title on my CV, suddenly, senior level positions opened up for me (afterall, I did have the experience, just not formally as a "software engineer.").

I think the key is to use your cover letter to highlight the programming you have done and the problems you have solved as well as highlighting any other relevant skills. With a degree in science, you will have skills and a way of looking at problems that is different to a typical software developer.

It is probably also useful to be targeted in your search. I started by applying to software positions in research contexts, the sort of places I had previously worked in other roles. In other words, doing software in a physics context (with knowledge that a typical CS grad may not have). Or, if you can find a small company doing something that is very interesting to you, you may be able to talk your way into an interview. That sort of place needs talent, but doesn't have the cachet (and perhaps, the budget) to draw more traditional candidates, so, depending on who is doing the hiring, they may be more willing to take the risk on a non-traditional candidate.
This is going into tinfoil hat territory - Google keeping data after promising deletion would be a massive breach of GDPR and US contract law and would trivially result in massive fines.

Sure, you don't have to believe what they say; but then again you should also probably stop using Apple, Microsoft and any other closed software as well. After all, they collect data too and they could also lie to your face about what their devices send to the server. It's not a useful way of thinking.

Besides that - explicitly telling Google you don't want data collected is strictly better (even as a grounds for class action lawsuit) than not telling them that.
people that aren’t as passionate as you are aren’t willing to invest the time to find _the best_ headphones. these are good enough and much better than average, convenience matters a lot. so, yes, you’re right, they’re not the best overall, but they are best for me now with the time i am willing to invest into the purchase decision.
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They are from the 90's, however for the most part they still signify importance of the page being cited. Deviating from links to mainly on-page factors makes it easy for new search engines to compete with Google. The results can also be manipulated much more frequently than when you need high authority links to rank on top.
L5 (Senior SWE) at Google, the position Michael was trying to get in the blog post.
A Different Kind of Bottom Line – Next Level Conscious Capitalism
In 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan (2010)
Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)
[..] here is a quote attributed to Genghis Khan:

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

You’re probably more familiar with the paraphrase in Conan the Barbarian.

The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols:

We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage with several unusual features. It was found in 16 populations throughout a large region of Asia, stretching from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea, and was present at high frequency: ∼8% of the men in this region carry it, and it thus makes up ∼0.5% of the world total. The pattern of variation within the lineage suggested that it originated in Mongolia ∼1,000 years ago. Such a rapid spread cannot have occurred by chance; it must have been a result of selection. The lineage is carried by likely male-line descendants of Genghis Khan, and we therefore propose that it has spread by a novel form of social selection resulting from their behavior.[..]
There is an introduction blog post here: https://hackernoon.com/towards-a-better-gui-programming-benc...

If people have similar "benchmarks" for GUIs, would be lovely if you could share them here.
Seo contests are a fairly good way to see that backlinks still work well.

This one was able to rank a website written in Latin, where that makes no sense, at the number 2 spot for a competitive local term:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-algorithm-loophol...
Feel free to email me if you have any questions around Haskell/category theory/databases. My email address is linked in the Opaleye README.

(BTW I meant "sounds like you're from the Haskell community" ... thinko)
OS cannot account for all the possible functionality a Bluetooth device can provide. There are thousands of very useful BT devices that come with apps that need to talk to BT directly.

You're advocating permanently crippling this hardware over privacy theatre. If you don't want apps to have this access, deny the permission as a user. But stop advocating crippling the most powerful pocket computers we have for everyone else please.
I think apple's plan here is a combination of watch+airpods, which works already btw. You can connect watch to airpods directly and play music via esim of the watch.
AI Researchers are trying to ward off a reproducibility crisis
Honestly that sounds like something he coulda explored better while keeping his job and quitting after it was successful. If someone else is going to do your job then why not wait till you find the right person. He may wanna try paying more per article honestly. Any serious writer would charge way more.

I know people who went this route but they waited till they had a good thing going. They also freelance to make up for any additional income necessary.
Let Go of Your Data
That Wiki entry doesn't seem to have anything about a genius working in an NGO, so how is it illustrative.
Sure. You can draw conclusions about what will be a good design, or where a problem is occurring, or what you should optimize from doing "the math."

The simplest example is probably using a Big O approach to view how to walk a large data structure. The math works out that certain approaches to walking it are cheap enough in terms of total operations at small scales, and incredibly expensive at large scales. By doing the math, I mean that you can both know when you can get away with sloppy approach, and when you have to be careful to not touch each object more than once.

I didn't just mean big O, though. You might do calculations like "if every user creates these structures in a database, every 5 minutes, we can expect that this table will have n records by time y. If that happens, one, is the size tractable, does it need an index, and do we want to reconsider this approach in favor of a cleverer design that can avoid this query? Things like that.

A recent example for me was researching max zookeeper writes per second and deciding if it can be used for super high volume writes in a system. The conclusion, based on some napkin math of the system needs, and some benchmarking of ZooKeeper was that a different tool needs to fill that spot in the architecture because it was too write-heavy for zookeeper.
We do __now__, but that is a fairly recent thing (within the last couple of years). When this brouhaha started the projected costs looked astronomical, and seriously economically debilitating.
But you should usually wear a windproof layer, and a waterproof layer serves as such, even if it's overkill.
> I mean maybe US, Europe and China can do this but can the rest of the world?

South Africa has problems getting conventional coal plants up and running [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medupi_Power_Station#Delays_an...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusile_Power_Station#Delays_an...

And there is no real interest in mass roll out of solar and wind in South Africa - people would just be all to happy to get some reliability in electricity supply. So sure, the rest of the world will have problems - with nuclear and just about anything else.

The problem still remains that energy storage is not a solved problem and wind and solar can maybe generate enough electricity but not in right places and not at the right times.
This is very true if you want to make a game, but that's not always what a "gamedev" wants.

I used to think I wanted to make games, but I really just enjoy making game systems and game engine related things.
I would also add that there is a custom chip design in the airpods (m1?). In terms of "sucking the oxygen out of the market", it's a lot easier when your competition can't even come close to the level of tech savvy you put into your hardware
Kyle did great there and got his sites banned because of it!
Eclipse Theia: extensible platform 2 develop multilanguage Cloud and Desktop IDE
I wonder why they went the VFX route at all. Why not just have the dancers wear costumes and makeup?
Can you go into more detail about what happened in your situations?
Not much new here, just scaling down the production of centripetal force.

> The engineer lies down on a metal platform that looks like a hospital gurney, part of a machine that engineers call a short-radius centrifuge. After a quick countdown, the platform begins to rotate around the room, first slowly and then faster and faster.
As far as I know, that's what all the breathable fabrics are. GoreTex ís PTFE (teflon™) with microscopic pores, originally developed for uranium refining; PTFE is soft, so it's usually combined with a nylon shell. Tyvek comes in many varieties, one of which is a waterproof+breathable version; it's polyethylene fiber pressed into a porous felt-like sheet.
Don't be a tech philistine! Just look at the sales of these things and you'll note there's a phenomenon going on that makes all your points moot.

The user experience is still amazing with the airpods, despite all their problems: battery life, sound quality. Etc... The airpods have hit on a balance of usability and tech that was much needed.

Also, I love my airpods and I've only ever used an Android phone.
Interesting. I've been heard that there should be no 'black magic' since I just tried to do something in this field. But yes, everytime I cheat more or less, though. So what's the standard here?
How do you know you have to blame the seler when you can't know that it was the seller's fault?
the flipside is also true - sometimes the product changes but the listing stays similar with the same URL. I buy why protein isolate and the listing on amazon changed to a blend of isolate and hydrolysate without any change in brand or product name - just a slight change in the packaging.

It's possible the product did change every 2 years or so.
Building your product like it's a game
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I've had the opposite experience. With some exceptions, It's not that hard to figure out how to win over one person. Even if they are a terrible manager, you get a sense of what they consider important.

Figuring out the dynamics of a committee is harder.
The costs to maintain the infrastructure dwarfs any tax revenue generated
well, or this, ok. AirPods don't have it yet.
This sounds like a feature, not a bug - it prevents extroverts who suck up to a boss always stepping over introverts who do a better job.
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20,000 pageviews / month vs $75 in revenues and a full time occupation + costs for having articles written.

That's harsh.
It's an incredible financial challenge, to say the least.

In 1960 Pakistan had 25% the population of the US at about 2.7% the GDP per capita of the US. Today Pakistan has 60% of the population of the US at about 2.4% the GDP per capita of the US. The vast majority of developing countries have gained considerable ground on the US over that time on a per capita output basis, Pakistan has lost ground.

To bring Pakistan up to the output level per capita of China or Russia (roughly near the world average; plausibly giving them the necessary room to make considerable employment, social welfare and infrastructure improvements) - Pakistan needs to add about $1.8 trillion per year to its economic output, an economy nearly the size of Italy or Brazil. To reach the level of Croatia, their output has to climb by $2.6 trillion per year, an economy the size of France.

I don't see how the world can change anything structurally outside of Pakistan, in terms of how the world works, that will dent that enormous scale of a financial problem. Pakistan has to change dramatically internally. China and many other countries have managed that sort of prominent internal change over time, hopefully Pakistan can as well.
Religious symbolism. Completely unacceptable as part of a product update. Please make it your top priority to remove this immediately. I find it more offensive than a swastika.
And likely banned manually as a result of the publicity.
Interesting. I was surprised there was more talk about the value of communication. It seems to me plenty of friction rests from different forms of comms - professional asw well as personal - gone astray.

For exame, given the first point (we're emotional) a comms void can often be fill with false assumptions. Going forward is going to go sideways.

Yes. We can improve our inner selves. But sooner or later we need to interface with others. That innerface is comms.