skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa there... you've got a blessing in disguise... use it wisely before you scamper off.

I've had two of these in my career - extended stays in a role which is "naturally prestigious" but had minimal actual challenge or operational responsibilities. They're fantastic...

The first one (at about your age) I used to court my wife and read / think EXTENSIVELY about business and life. It let me get my shit straight before the next leg up.

Rolled off that into a super-intense turnaround role and fatherhood (also super-intense) which took about 5 years. At the end of that, wound up as an "executive caretaker" managing group with instructions not to disrupt anything while they sold the company. So 3 - 4 years of sideways action with no meaningful opportunities for promotion.

Which turned out to be a MASSIVE gift. My bosses basically didn't care what I did with my time, so I learned how to code (full stack + database management) on company time and leveraged that into a successful side business. They funded me through the low-return slog of learning a new industry and starting a new business....

THANK GOD they didn't make me a fucking VP....
The point of the case is to establish what the law is. In that context, pointing out that the litigant is a hypocrite who would themselves run afoul of their own proposed extension of copyright law is extremely relevant to a rational body considering the merits of the case.
The auto industry deals with this by assigning cars a "model year" which is the year after the calendar year in which they start being sold, thus you can buy 2021 cars in 2020.
It also gives an indication of whether two things were produced around the same time or not. (Eg. You'd know that Windows 2015 probably wouldn't support WiFi 2019 without support being added)
In what way? It does everything I did before (put the tabs in a tree on the side)
It’s kind of weird, though, I’d imagine that most of them didn’t get into academia to try to spend their time gaming a system, and they’re giving up quite a lot in material terms to be in academia. So why do it? Are they mostly in it for the prestige rather than the ability to actually move the state of the world forward?
The EGA color situation isn't as bad as the author described.

CGA had a 16 color palette. In text mode, every character could be rendered with the background and foreground of any of the 16 colors. In graphics mode, you had to select one of two horrible combinations of 3 colors, and could pick any color to be the fourth color. It was awful for games, being mostly oriented around having brightly colored text on a black background.

TGA's graphics mode had 4 bit color, which gave it the complete 16 colors of CGA. It was less terrible, but still pretty garish as you can see from the screenshots in the article. It inherited the overly bright colors designed for differentiating text on a black background.

I believe that both CGA and TGA used the a digital connection to the monitor, and they were compatible with each other. There were on/off RGB lines and a half bright line that made stuff half as bright, with additional logic for another independent grey instead of duplicating another black.

EGA had 4 bit indexed color into a 6 bit palette. I honestly think its 6 bit palette is passable for the darker, moodier environment of Another World, unlike the CGA palette. But relatively few games used it. Most games (including, apparently, Another World) used the CGA palette, because then you would still be compatible with CGA monitors. IMHO the developers would have done their users a favor by making a third EGA only palette.

I don't recall how EGA's cable worked, whether it was analog like VGA or used a six bit digital scheme not unlike CGA.
> but can your business earn more if had more of them?

But that's true of everything. If you hire 100% more salespeople (generally considered a "profit center") but don't also hire a proportionate number of extra devs and IT and janitors you're not going to make more money either.

Simplifying a bit, but there's "right amounts" of all types of employees - if you don't have "enough" devs/salespeople/support staff/IT/janitors, then hiring more will result in you making more money.
On point! So much harder to execute and create something real and tangible than pontificate.
Thanks for this follow up. Really got me thinking.
It is illegal to burn $, no?

https://www.thoughtco.com/is-burning-money-illegal-3367953

Selling it for a dollar doesn't lower the value of the assets or stop it from circulating back into the economy?
> Google copied Java's API without getting license to do so. Java was not published by Oracle or Sun with such a license, nor did Google obtain such license to use their API by contacting Oracle for one.

Patently false. Java was published by Sun with an open source license over a decade ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK
> We still haven't figured out how to relate quantum mechanics and relativity

Huh? Paul Dirac did it quite some time ago.

> haven't fully uncovered the deep structure of matter

VERY deep, highly irrelevant to our lives.
They do. However, they can do 10X work only in deep work env, I.e. private office, no email, no meeting, etc.

Once you put the 10X eng in regular work settings, he will quickly become 1X or 0.1X
Haha, Chokidar [0] strikes again! So much time could have been saved by so many devs on Linux if that package had saner defaults. More than one of my package.json .scripts objects have "sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768" embedded somewhere...

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar
I tried 3 times to read Gravity's Rainbow in proper order, but couldn't get engaged. Finally, I just started skipping forward reading portions of pages until I found something I found interesting. Eventually made it to the end, skipping occasionally when it threatened to become a slog. I knew I'd come back for the full experience once I understood the terrain better. And so I did.
Antibiotic Makers Struggle, Hurting War on Superbugs
someone put a website to advocate something like this to replace semver, forgot the url though
I agree this kind of thinking is good, but disagree that it should be concentrated in a role with a title like UX Designer.

In the company I work for, we call it "customer experience." We have an entire team of people who work face-to-face with actual customers, observing how they interact with our products and services to improve things.

It's why we have a 96% satisfaction rating in an industry where 40% is considered off the charts good.

But this will never fly in the tech sphere because it requires actual feet on the ground and talking to wetware. Some middle manager along the way would say, "it doesn't scale" and the project would get shelved.
EV drivers will need to spend much longer filling up, particularly at high-demand times when there's a queue. Gas stations will probably transition from grab-and-go to a more café style atmosphere where people don't mind spending an hour.
Now that's just brilliant. It hasn't seen wide enough adoption for this to happen yet, but imagine all the USB standards and processors and whatnot did the same.

That's just so simple it's genius.

"That 2020 motherboard won't run USB 2025"

We really need this.

Please Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, etc. folks reading this. Please.
Feels like supporting argument, not critical to the question. The Apache licence was applied to the S3 bindings: they may be in breach of them, but the licence is the declaration by the IPR holder of their intent, regarding use. Oracle did not apply the Apache licence to the Java API did they?

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/core.1111/e13777/prodli...

Nope. special Sun licence, reserved. They used Apache licence for other stuff.
It helps if you work for the right company. Some are looking to bend over backwards to bring in and promote women engineers so they can showcase their newfound diversity. A higher up at my company was literally suggesting women hiring quotas (not sure how that's legal but whatever).
From DNA to RNA – Molecular Biology of the Cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

> Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George

> towards the end of his life, Tolstoy become more and more occupied with the economic theory and social philosophy of Georgism.

> He spoke of great admiration of Henry George, stating once that "People do not argue with the teaching of George; they simply do not know it. And it is impossible to do otherwise with his teaching, for he who becomes acquainted with it cannot but agree."

Land value tax explained in 10 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0
Compiling the configuration into the program eliminated a ton of string parsing and other annoyances. For my use case, it wasn't a super high priority either. That being said, if it would be a benefit to you or anyone else, let me know and I will add it in when I have time.
Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
They have plenty of trouble funding much of anything.
Sun publicly licensed Java back in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK
They've always done this. Worse is the phones in my experience have had the same issues over and over again.
Can WebAuth work on websites that do not use JavaScript?
I can think of way better and more appropriate quotes, the only relation to relationality this one has is the preposition "with". And regardless, your comment could do without the proseletizying in the last sentence.
Definitely. Developing a unit of account is key to solving this problem. The problem was never that businesses didn't "get" technical debt, the problem is that they could only measure it by the volume of developers' whining.
Land value tax explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0
> Especially since I'm considering companies with a higher hiring bar than Google.

Google isn't the most stringent? I thought only the quant firms had higher bars.
I don’t mean to be glib here but if you are dead do you really care? If you can’t trust your spouse and kids after death then maybe you need to reconsider your relationship choices?
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Interesting! First I've heard of the term Hamartian. I think it works amazingly.

I see you updated the repo. It looks good. I hope it gets noticed and other stuff gets added. Could submit it to https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/
Sure. If that appeals to you, you're welcome to move to the Bay. You'll dodge so many bullets, that you'll forget what a date with a woman is ;-)

More seriously, while we'd love to impose moral views on reality, the simple fact is that when people can afford to be picky, they will be.

I don't know what you value in a romantic partner, but for simplicity, let's assume it's looks. If you arrived at some magical island where it was just you and hundreds of women, and 50% of those were supermodels, would you ever date an average girl?
That lawsuit has been dragging on for even longer, it wasn't open source licensed at the time. (Technically it was, but it was one of those corporate "community" licenses that has loads of strings attached.)
Well, maybe if salary compression and inversion didn’t exist and that companies would pay their existing developers based on market value instead of HR enforced policies of “no raises more than slightly above cost of living”, incentives would be better aligned.

But as long as statistically the best way to make more money is by job hopping every two or three years, developers are always going to look out for their own resume and best interest.

No job is permanent It is irresponsible not to be focused on keeping yourself marketable.
Please say more!
So for someone who isn’t following all this. If I replace my seven year old router am I going to get a huge speed boost?
Unfortunately for the user experience, those tokens typically can’t be cloned even upon initial setup. The practical result of this is that if you intend to keep a second token as a backup, you need to remember to register the backup token individually for each service you use your primary one for. This is unlikely if you keep the backup at home, and it’s downright impractical if you kept it in e.g. a safe deposit box.

I love FIDO tokens, but I’m not confident in my ability to keep myself from getting locked out of a service I use infrequently, and I’m a fairly technical user.
Isn't that redistribution? Aren't you sweeping debt of the bankrupt company by buying its share thus pumping money into the economy?
or am I missing something here?

How will it vanish into thin air?
Are there any benchmarks available for these drives?
Eschewing newer technologies in general is clearly a terrible idea but it's not such a bad idea to eschew hyped technologies (particularly corporate driven hype).

Python is an example of a technology that grew relatively slowly and without a hype cycle.

IME hype in this industry correlates pretty strongly with crap.
Yeah, and the hordes of price sensitive customers will have no problem passing up your "nice" gas station for the one that's consistently 5 cents cheaper.

Clearly untrue, at least where I live.

There are two thriving chains of gas stations that do well because they offer superior customer experience. There are often lines inside and outside.

Then there are half a dozen other chains that are bare-bones and sell the gas for up to 30¢ a gallon cheaper. They don't have nearly the traffic as the nice chains.
There are mandated power levels which devices use. Some firmware allows you to ignore them.
R is the right tool in many cases but I've observed several cases where people have become overreliant on it and hacked together things that would be better written in bash, python, or other languages.
Which company you are working right now?
I almost get a chance to join Google Sydney but failed at the last round. If there is any other company cooler than Google I will definitely want to try to apply.
this problem is about as intractable to me as why I don't eat healthier. Maybe one day I will achieve one or both.
This feels borderline sociopathic.. working in team is hard and demand compromise, and yes, although necessary no political system is perfect. But the work conditions of a software engineer are way better than any other job I have done.
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> Also, please, bear in mind that you cannot directly compare US and EU salaries. Your 80k€ gross in e.g. France should be the equivalent of $150k for a US worker; if you account for the same level of medical care and retirement savings. Not much of a difference after you realise this.

What makes you think that? As to retirement savings, American retirement payments replace 70% of working income on average, versus 60% in France: https://www.etk.fi/wp-content/uploads/PaG2017EN.jpg. The US retirement system is one of the better ones in the OECD. Like the U.K., Germany, Netherlands, and Sweden, the U.S. has a two-pillar system, with a public pillar and a defined contribution (i.e. 401k) pillar. The public system alone pays out about as much in absolute terms as in France. (60% of French pre-retirement income ~= 40% of US per-retirement income.) Adding in the tax-advantaged defined-contribution component (but excluding other private investment income) makes the total income replacement one of the highest in the OECD.

Of course, at the end of the day, a programmer is going to be a “net contributor” to the retirement system in both countries. The French person will pay (percentage wise) much higher social insurance tax to get a bigger (percentage wise) public pension check, while the American person will make a 401k contribution plus a lower social insurance tax. At the end of the day, that doesn’t have any effect on the comparison of 80k euros being less than $150k, because retirement savings will come out of both numbers.

As to healthcare, programmers are going to be among the 65% of American workers who get healthcare through their employer. That means that, on top of their salary, they get additional compensation in the form of employer-paid healthcare premiums. Meanwhile, the French person will pay for healthcare in the form of higher taxes out of that 80k euros. Although Americans spend twice as much on healthcare as French, that isn’t relevant to this comparison, because for the American the additional part is paid by the employer on top of the $150k. It’s not something you subtract out. (Put differently, the 80k euros versus 150k comparison understates the difference, because the American salary includes $10-15k in additional health benefits.)

Finally, cost of living is about the same in France as in the US.
This tool is a great idea. On recent computers your only choices are: powersave or performance.
That looks stupid compared to automatic CPU throttle that we had before.
So, similar to the author of this tool, I also waste time to switch my computer from powersave to performance depending on my tasks and if keeping battery is critical or no. Like when traveling without power plug.
Also, maybe I use it badly, but with cpufreq in have to manually change all the state of all cores individually and can do a single command to change all of them!
don't think this would work on GCP since they regularly preform 'live migrations' https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati...
You're referring to clause 4 in the license[1] which states:

4. Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the
Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without
modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that You
meet the following conditions:

Oracle's server software is not redistributing the API.

[1] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/blob/master/LICENSE.t...
Just like anything with radio, the answer is "it depends".
File under "Can't Prove It, But I Know It's True":

Those crappy UIs were the result of PHBs sabotaging the work.

I stopped doing UI. It was pointless. We'd mock things up. Validate with usability testing. Rinse, lather, repeat. Until it was spotless.

And then it'd all get trashed by someone(s) with a corner office.
> I know companies that won't hire Google employees because of this reputation.

come on...
That sounds like a variation of a sleep timer. I'm talking about measuring (and maybe even alerting/stopping) excessive watch time. i.e. if someone is actively flipping channels for 5 hours a day, that's not healthy (according to this research)...

Streaming services sadly have the reverse incentive in this case, to actually make you watch more.
This is certainly not something that can be answered with a simple Yes or No.

I am by no means saying that the underlying traits are casually related — only that metrics which predict one may also predict the other.

The human brain is a complex system and IQ itself is a very simplistic way to characterize it.

Think of it this way: imagine IQ is like electricity powering a city. Different city configurations have very different power and load requirements. You might find that, in general, cities with more power function better.

But perhaps the well functioning cities also had better transmission infrastructure. If you applied the rule of “more power is better” to a city without that infrastructure it would blow fuses everywhere and cause chaos.

With this example aside, In fact the science does say that there is a relationship:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0332-x?WT.feed_na...
It might fit. It's the buying and selling influence. Mod accounts being bought and subs being taken over.
Levitin also points out in "This Is Your Brain on Music" that

Only relatively recently in our culture [...] did a distinction arise that cut society in two, forming separate classes of music performers and music listeners. Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated.

[...]

A couple of generations ago, before television, many families would sit around and play music together for entertainment. Nowadays there is a great emphasis on technique and skill, and whether a musician is "good enough" to play for others. Music making has become a somewhat reserved activity in our culture, and the rest of us listen.

I didn't really realize this until reading this passage. I am lucky enough to have learned piano at an early age, and have picked up other instruments along the way. Even so, I was hesitant to sing around others until I took a leap and joined a choir in college, and got in enough practice to gain the confidence to sing more.

Music is an incredibly important part of my life, and it makes me a little sad to see how often people are too embarrassed of their own ability to participate.
Agreed. Recent updates to rlang have made programming dplyr/ggplot2 functions a bit better, but it still feels super clunky. I use data.table for most things for programmability and speed reasons.

As much as I like ggplot2, I find the rest of the tidyverse to be solving problems it invents (e.g. quosures to fix the problem of not permitting string arguments for dplyr verbs) and monopolising an open source ecosystem.
I've been brainstorming this with colleagues at my job and tossed out the idea of including both an immediate development cost as well as a "long term cost multiplier" for every requested feature. So far, no one has the like the idea or phrase. I can't really blame them.

But there must be some quantity or term, with a nice memorable ring to it, that could get this across and at least let business people make decisions with full information at hand. Granted, any such numbers delivered in that guise would be wild guesses. But still, better than nothing.

Edit: However, I've since realized that the notion of "story points" and "velocity" already sort of provides a way to get this across if used carefully.
You might get a modest performance improvement. Wifi 6 makes use of multiple antennas to better spatially separate ACKs and other upstream traffic from multiple clients even when the packets temporally overlap. The extra bands may also come in handy but some of them may be attenuated by walls and other building materials.
That is not how health care was started as a job perk in the US, it was used as a tool to lure employees to work for your company. It's a benefit of working there, because they will get the best employees because they offer the best benefits. With unemployment so low in the US it will be interesting to see how this fairs. A company should not dictate (largely) how you get to live your life while not at work. It's a job, not a lifestyle.