skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being suddenly in the market for a new washing machine myself, I might argue that a large portion of the value of a washing machine is in its aesthetics. Same (probably more so) for cars. I'd probably need to put more thought into that, but I am fairly certain that aesthetics don't count for much in a tractor on a farm. It's possible that classic-styled tractors might even be mark in their favor.

Either way, I suspect, apples to oranges.
Manufacturing industrial equipment is a far cry from your typical ycombinator style mobile-app startup.
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To pick a state as an example, Iowa speed tests had a mean download speed of 71.39 Mbps in 2018. That is twice what Google says is the requirement for 4k Stadia. So even if prime time speeds are lower, there is still a healthy margin.

https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/2018/#fixed
I think there are two very different types of people. The first group is the group that can do what you say and if that works for you go for it. The second group is the group I fall into. I spent 3 months trying to do this and had a very hard time focusing my growth. Then I signed up at General Assembly and it worked out great for me. You definitely get out of it what you put in, and you need to have an aptitude for coding no matter what, but for some people like me the structure of the class is something sorely needed.
> That or these jobs turn interesting people into those who believe they should be magnets for the opposite sex, which tends to be a turn-off for most people.

Tech selects for people who are object focussed as opposed to people focussed.

Most women prefer to date men who are good at wooing and entertaining them. Which means more people focussed than object focussed.

The tech men are frustrated because they are basically their best selves -- financially and professionally successful, able and willing to support a family. Traditionally that would be enough to make them a catch.

But dating women with careers limits the value of their financial support. And they don't have the skills to wow the women socially.

Realistically they can't develop those skills easily.

This is probably going to sound incredibly cynical, but the best advice I've heard for NYC techies is to try to date ballerinas.

They're beautiful and disciplined. But they retire before 30 and have to decide to either start a family or open a studio to start teaching. At that point most of the men they know are married or gay.

So likely to be more willing to overlook the social weaknesses of tech men.
Do you have an example of such a library/service?
Yes, yes, and yes. It's in his FAQ: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html
Self-promoters start early.

You'll see a similar pattern emerge regarding the presenters at smaller conferences.

It works, though, in terms of advancing the writer's/speaker's career.
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I agree with this analysis, and find it overall reasonable, but it seems to need a little more evidence, e.g. do we have any data that shows companies who put "generic managers" on top on regular fail more than those who put engineers on top.

I'm disappointed that you're being downvoted, I wish someone who downvoted you wrote a reply.
I've always pronounced the K, I'm amazed if it turns out I've been saying it right all these years.
>"zig has native support for arbitrary sized integers."

I apologize if this is a naive question. Might you or someone else elaborate on where arbitrary sized integers are used or necessary in kernel programming? Don't they all ultimately need to get padded out for the CPU registers to work with them anyway?
'bug' would be one i'd assume
I would guess that it's more about antiquated attitudes about how cities should be centrally-planned and heavily segregated by use. Some zoning control is necessary to keep chemical plants and steel refineries from blowing up in your backyard, but the notion that there needs to be clear delineation between "office use," EG clerking, and restaurant/bar use is why central business districts are all crime-ridden dead zones after about 7 pm. And it's also why there are traffic jams between 11am and 1 pm where I live.
This is going to be your next cloud agnostic data warehouse.
And the 777, which is FBW, has the same control protection as the Airbus jets. It's that the 737 is a completely obsolete design and duct-taping 2015 tech onto it was impossible.
I just read this article: https://www.halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Introduction_to...

Bonkers if you ask me. There are three biblical areas

> ...reshut ha-yahid (a private domain) and reshut ha-rabbim (a public domain). Any other area is considered a makom patur (an exempt area)

Then Rabbis made up a fourth:

> To avoid inadvertent violations of Shabbat, however, the rabbis introduced a fourth type of domain called a karmelit. This category includes some areas that would be considered a reshut ha-yahid on a biblical level and some areas that would be considered a makom patur on a biblical level.

Which ends up with some oddities that seem to conflict with biblical dictate...

> while an open field is a biblical makom patur [an exempt area], on a rabbinic level it is a karmelit [treated like public domain].

Then the whole discourse degenerates into this...

> Rabbi Yosef Teomim, author of an important commentary on the Shulhan Arukh called the Pri Megadim, raised the possibility that the tzurat ha-petah is only effective in enclosing an area according to rabbinic law. According to biblical law, however, the tzurat ha-petah is ineffective. Subsequently, using a tzurat ha-petah to enclose an area that is considered to be a “public domain” on a biblical level would simply be an insufficient means to convert it into a “private domain.” A karmelit, however, is considered a makom patur on a biblical level and is only considered “public” by the rabbis; thus by erecting a rabbinically sanctioned enclosure, one successfully converts it into a “private domain.”[4]

Every input here just leads to more questions, ultimately I think little of it would make actual sense to me even I studied a lifetime's worth of doctrine.

To avoid a rabbit hole conversation I bow out and just chalk this up to humans being humans. Others are obviously free to think whatever they like, I have no problem with that.
This guy (parent) took two data-points and extrapolated like he had just figured out how two continents work.
How is that even possible?

I mean, you should get 50 Mbit/s from very affordable mobile broadband. If you have ASDL landline, you can get hybrid solution (combined mobile + landline that works as one) and you should get 100 Mbit/s
Wow. You don't even bother to just give them to someone? A family member, a friend, a coworker?

I'm not shocked by a lot of things, but I guess I am kind of shocked that someone would have so much money that it's not even worth their time to keep it in their wallet until the next chance they have to give it to someone else who would appreciate it.
Elon was right for Tesla, but that doesn't mean the economics don't work for Waymo, even as they continue to improve.

A $100k fully autonomous taxi would print money over its service life (right now they have remote safety drivers on standby).

The question is how quickly they can expand their currently tiny geofenced area.
You need to first understand why you are getting passive-aggressive responses. Just because you think you are doing "other things that no one cares about", it doesn't mean it aligns with what your Manager/Team/Company needs from you to ensure you are effective at the job you were hired for.

Superstars in a team are easy to spot. They not only get their stuff done but do other things that help the bottomline. Problem is that sometimes you may think you are helping the team by doing other things, but you are probably doing it at the cost of your own work.
> If I give my mother $50 for a spa place, I'm gifting her a relaxing day that she might not be able to budget for or otherwise justify.

If you know that your mother enjoys that particular spa, then I agree, it's a good, thoughtful gift -- basically that's the right way to use gift cards/certificates.

That's not how they're used for the most part. For example, 90% of the time when I'm given a gift card, it's for Amazon -- the thought behind that is precisely the same as it would be for cash, except that I am now constrained to using it on Amazon rather than somewhere else that may be a lot better for me.
It's great for business, in the short term. And that's all that really matters to shareholders.
As I ended my first post with, I’d take no gift at all over any of that. I’d rather have a good memory or a connection.

For the most part Christmas gifts are about balancing an equation by buying each other shit you don’t need and then hoping your spend cancels each other out. If it doesn’t, resentment and drama.

You can both spend/save the exact same money together by buying nothing. Club together on food, drinks, hospitality. Get some good ingredients and booze, some stuff for the kids, and then help make it happen.

Don’t bother trading things you would have already bought yourself.

Unless you’re a child.
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It's just that they also use letters for clarifications, incremental updates, and in a couple cases tangential committee work, so 802.11 skips so many letters not because they weren't documents but because they were documents that didn't spawn a "new standard" outright. Some of the "in between" letters are used for interesting things, and/or are useful stepping stones in seeing the evolution of the standards that made it to "consumer adoption".

(Hence why it was maybe smart of the Wi-Fi Alliance to disambiguate IEEE procedure from marketing names for consumers, but also why they don't seem to be having much more luck with it than say the marketing names of cellular networks, because standards don't evolve "linearly".)
That's what you wanted to show, but what you ended up showing is that if you have different data, then the query performance can be quite good.

I get the desire to critique the temperature profile, but completely changing it makes the comparison worthless. From a data perspective it's like saying "if all the sensors just report 1 for temperature every reading, computing the min, max, and average is super fast". No shit, that wasn't the task though.
> that management is a valuable skill on its own

Arguably an issue back in the heyday of hereditary nobility too, come to think of it. I wonder how much of modern executive culture echoes some of those older patterns.
it is a great progress, yep. We just always implement it in a sad, social darwinism style, way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JEYHczRar8&list=PLwcGjCE72U...
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That would have been WWIII.
Capitalism is not working in this case since making faulty aircrafts should not be possible, by regulation, in the first place. Waiting for market to react gives companies to sort of "binary search" the market to find a sweet spot where they don't overspend on engineering, or underspend on engineering by making faulty aircrafts. The point of having regulation is to force companies not be able to perform this "binary search" so that there is a baseline they have to spend on engineering to be able to produce a commercial airliner.
What is the fear around robots? Machines have been displacing human labour for the last 100 years.
That's not the thinking at all, though. The thinking is that the road being in rough shape means that everyone is forced to drive at a sane speed through a residential street where children are frequently playing.

In other words, the "nice thing" isn't actually so nice in terms of the things that the people on that street really care about.
It really depends on the type of RADAR being used. If it's an FMCW radar, typically you will get a beat signal whose frequency corresponds to the target range. That frequency will vary with range, and in order to be well resolved you have to observe it for something like 1/period. So that puts a fundamental lower bound on how long you have to integrate. There are lots of tricks to improve things, and there are lots of variants of the standard radar hardware/methods, but I suspect that's what OP was referring to.
> misfolded proteins, which are hard to differentiate from prions

Prions differ in that they are not merely misfolded, but they also catalyze more of themselves.
I’m not following. If I want to go visit my family 700 miles away for a holiday, I should most reasonably compare driving there with flying there as the risk choice is between those two manners of getting there.

Comparing flying for an hour vs driving for an hour isn’t a comparison between two substitute goods, unless the purpose of my trip was “to kill an hour”, making those valid substitutes.
Yeah, that's something regulations can handle (and should).
You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn.

In the UK a low carbon tax rendered coal completely uneconomical and they smoothly phased out coal without any price hikes. The guaranteed price for rendering the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station economically viable is much higher than the price of new wind/solar, and higher than the economically optimal system cost of a 100% renewable system.

Selectively citing macro facts without considering the complicated details is no way to get to an understanding of the system constraints and possibilities, or the true cost structures. You can't avoid detailed modelling of the trade-offs involved.
> But isn't finding out clear priorities from sales and other teams, with the context behind it as well, useful as a PM?

Absolutely. But:

1. How are they defining clear priorities? With inexperienced support teams it's "here's the most common / last requests I've heard". With inexperienced sales teams it's "here's the feature that 'prevented' me from closing my last deal".

I'd rather understand how many people asked for a feature and who they are (enterprise vs SMB plan? active customer vs current prospect vs lost deal?)

2. As a PM I'd prefer to get as much of the context from the requester's own words (e.g. what did they actually write to support? or say to sales?) This is where capturing that snippet and sharing it with Product comes in handy... but this is hard to do at scale with an e.g. spreadsheet.
> doesn't make it less sad for people's who livelihoods depend on those positions

I totally agree. Id say, however, that we should be making it so those people, and we all, are okay without a job/with our jobs being automated away, not be Luddites about it.
An EMT-Basic's scope of practice is so small, there isn't an analogy applicable to software.

If a doctor is equivalent to a software engineer, than an EMT is equivalent to a business analyst who can only work on 3% of your projects and is only present a few hours per week.

I have nothing against EMTs. I earned an EMT-Basic license a number of years back.
I used to but its more that I never remember them. A long time ago I would save them and tell myself to remember to use them and I never did. Then I would save them in my car for the next time I see a family member to give it to them, and I would never remember then. Just a hassle, in all aspects so its easier to toss them. Nothing gained nothing lost.
It contains the sequence structure and organization of the original API, so it does according to oracle's theory...
Capital markets are looking for worthwhile investment opportunities. An established ag-implements manufacturer can probably use that sort of risk capital to expand into making tractors, or something like that. Getting a large firm started "from scratch" is going to be less feasible. And these things also take their time to happen, of course.
Yeah, so first off, not silly at all!

Second, if I have a staff member where we agree that reading a book (or listening to an audio book, or taking a course, etc) is a good idea, we make sure the resource is available for them (there's no way in heck I'd expect a staff member to go out of pocket on a PD resource of any kind).

At that point, they can either expense the thing themselves, or I'll just get it done (especially if they're dragging their feet a bit). One way or another, that book lands on their desk. :)
And this seems to prove him right with $6k - 16k price range. Far too expensive to be practical. Still the potential is there for it to be a useful component for self driving vehicles, only if the price comes down an order of magnitude.
There's no way to determine the total spend for specific software/technologies for Fortune 2000 companies (unless you can somehow survey them, or have an insider).

So what proxy method would you use to determine that Fortune 2000 companies are spending twice as much on Splunk as they do on New Relic (for instance)?
1 word:

Lobbyists

Law - you have to pass the bar

Accounting - you need to be a CPA (although mostly for a specific career path)

Surgery - do you really want some schmuck performing an operation solely from a 2 month school that teaches how to fix people?

Policing - well the union's a big one...
Per pax mile, airlines are surprisingly competitive with private automobiles.

Short haul flights are right around 100 miles per gallon per passenger seat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Short...

For a couple considering an airline flight vs a car, they'd need to be driving a 50mpg car to achieve the same fuel efficiency as the airline.
In the US you have to put down an "earnest money deposit", which is sort of the same thing. You can get it back, but there are usually very specific rules about what conditions warrant getting it back, and "I didn't like the house" isn't one of them.
Five Guys is definitely beatable. They have lost quality in my opinion lately. Buns are not fresh. Burgers are over cooked etc. My wife likes their hot dogs but she says they are hardly warm, never hot.
I'm being a bit pedantic - I'm pretty sure the visibility of the wavelength does matter (slightly) for lower power lasers, as visible lasers will allow your eye to react to the laser (by looking away) before serious damage - again only in low power lasers (like laser pointers).

If it's not visible I'm not sure that your eye will react quickly enough to prevent damage.
That's the piece we are missing. Sharing the benefits of automation as a feedback of the ecomonic system.
The letter noted two distinct facts vs. typical restaurant reservations:
1) You have to pay to reserve at Workshop Cafe (unlike typical restaurant)
2) The reservation can be for an unlimited period of time (again unlike a restaurant reservation)
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I think the numbers seen here for Pittsburgh miss a big part of the picture. There are only a handful of big tech companies with offices there and they employ a comparatively small number of engineers. Most engineers in Pittsburgh are not working at those companies and do get paid 4x less. These are pretty much dedicated AI offices that recruit from CMU and are companies that don't adjust pay much between locations
I can receive targeted advertisements without being surveilled and sold.

It's been done for hundreds of years with billboards, newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Heck, even web sites can do it, and did for many years before Google even existed.
That exact point is addressed at the 3:00 mark.
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I don't really know the chip48/schip differences to chip-8 but I fondly recall Ant.

https://github.com/erincatto/AntLove/blob/master/OriginalAnt...
I'm glad to see Income Share Agreements (ISAs) as #1. They're a tax on the poor and just as bad if not worse than predatory student loans.

This "don't pay unless you get a job education model" costs you far more than those who have the means to pay for a bootcamp outright.

BTW, as someone who hires developers at all talent levels I'd never put any value in a diploma, from an Ivy League or a boot camp. The only thing I want to see is the most interesting thing you've built recently. From there we can talk technical details and cultural fit.
Yes, but a non-tech-savvy person is probably using Windows or Mac... My sibling in particular is definitely using windows (though they do use WSL for some of their work).
They both qualify, but note that word 'further'. Going further in the flamewar direction is driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
Most people seem to prefer lower prices to higher quality. That is why airlines have responded that way.
> As I ended my first post with, I’d take no gift at all over any of that. I’d rather have a good memory or a connection.

I agree entirely with this. This is why my social circle (and most of my family) has a "no gifts" rule around gift-giving holidays and events (children excepted). But not everyone follows that.
Yeah I was gonna say this too. Part of the point of making the process convoluted is to sort of "vet" the people who want to peddle nonsense, and people who legitimately understand how things react with the human body.
I've also worked with only one truly "10x" developer and dozens of "10x through technical debt" ones. I've very often had to finalize the famous "last 20%" of their projects which is a fun place to be in. "I thought it was almost done?"

There was one guy who worked extremely hard and extremely thoughtfully who was a master at low-level and high-level languages. Kind of a John Carmack type. But these people are like unicorns who you meet once in a career.
Curiously, even though this story has far too many points and comments, and is even very fresh, it has been booted from the front page and is right now at number 48.

Stats on the story:

Points: 622, Comments: 489, Time: 16 hours ago

The frontpage has a story on Knuth, with similar freshness but much lesser comments and points.
Although I have never been there, but I don't think the street view makes your point. If you take the monitors out that cafe does not look any different than any other rather run of the mill cafe with stock furniture.

I wonder if this is a bit of a perception is 9/10ths of reality thing where the fact that the furniture looks too "office like" with the separated meeting table with an wall hung TV and other office-feel things; rather than cafe-like with exposed wood and pipes, Edison bulbs, copper stuff, monitors that are built into an enclosure instead of free standing, etc. the bureaucrats found a probably already biased/influenced position and finding easier to rationalize.

I know that may seem silly to some, but if you have ever worked with or in a bureaucratic and especially a political office, you will surely know what I mean when I am describing the use of any and all excuses and tiniest little reasons to rationalize a preconceived or forgone conclusion. It's really a major scourge on every single aspect of government and leads to these kinds of decisions.

My theory is that it largely stems from the fact that bureaucrats, including most politicians these days, simply have no real accountability or consequences for their actions and decisions, so some tiny technical violation can invalidate everything else on precept.