skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but capturing meaning mathematically is somewhat an unsolved problem in both mathematics, linguistics and semiotics.

I've been successful via my search math. For your claim, as far as I know, you are correct, but actually that does not make my search engine and its math impossible.

> That will produce a set of techniques that are observed to increase the ranking.

Ranking? I can't resist, to borrow from one of the most famous scenes in all of movies: "Ranking? What ranking? We don't need no stink'n ranking".

Nowhere in my search engine is anything like a ranking.
25 years in RF hardware design. I think I’ll now just go shoot myself.
The Power of Types for Errors
This is giving me flashbacks to reverse-engineering some German-made code with only a veeery basic understanding of German and no technical dictionary. Google Translate usually had a seizure with technical terms and by the end I was just going by the "shape" of the code, despise having full function names. What a language!
If you have a Bimmertech MMI, I think it can be hard-reset by just keeping the Menu button pressed for some time.

It's a great product even if a little buggy. I'm glad my car is compatible and honestly I wish this kind of device could be made universal. Car stereos used to be super easy to swap in and out, but nothing is standardized anymore. :(
This has many of the red flags for "technological" development that won't withstand scientific scrutiny.
“In this case instead of the wrong person arrested for the murder, nobody would be arrested and the case would go unsolved.”

Are you suggesting this would be worse?
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Kelly Sommers kellabyte Nobody believes me I 3x’d my salary by leaving .NET
Such customer service! So much better than the taxi “cartels”! More disruption, please!!
BeiDou Navigation, China’s version of GPS, is supported by all new 5G phones
I do it, because I know my positive message has a disproportionately big impact on them. Being loved is one of the motivations of many public figures. It also feels good to say something nice.

Politicians get a lot of hate, and I'm sure positive messages have an impact for them too.
Just US things.
I’ll Share My Salary Information If You Share Yours
I once thought about building an app based on IPFS but the problem is the lack of decentralized consensus. Only the Blockchain has cracked that problem and it is incredibly inefficient. The IPFS app would still require a central server and if that is the case then it would be better to just have some sort of public database backup with encrypted user data so that anyone can host their own fork and each fork can talk with each other through a standardized protocol. It would be a federated system like E-Mail.
The idea that the inequality trap was avoided, is demonstrated in the relics left behind - and in that regard the article does indeed present data to suggest that wealth was distributed because the culture was based around the distribution - free commerce - of skilled artisans producing valuable goods derived from locally available, abundant resources.
This sort of “if you aren’t eternally vigilant, it’s your fault” attitude is really not the way to go. People are busy and have stuff to do, places to be. Expecting everyone to read various essays on the ethics and practices of every single consumer service is unrealistic and has bad consequences.

This is kind of the principle upon which society is built. I should be able to trust that the food at the grocery store is safe for me to eat; I shouldn’t need to conduct deep research into the supply chain to ensure it won’t poison me.
This isn't true anymore.

With MBUX Mercedes has started developing their infotainment system in-house again. I don't personally own a Mercedes but from what I've heard it's much better then the previously outsourced infotainment system.
The reliance on measurable outputs from days of yore was probably not the result of some high minded meritocracy which is now gone, but from building things that needed performance - a need which has now diminished greatly for a large proportion of work. This reduction is simultaneously a result of higher level abstractions, as you say, but also a result of simply more tech in more places that doesn’t really need it.

There are still plenty of places that must incentivize quality as a matter of survival, just your friends in the Bay Area won’t “oooh” and “ahhhh” when you tell them you work there.
I have posted this in another thread, but I am posting it again because more people need to be aware of Netgear's practices:

I recently bought a couple of Netgear Managed Switches (for Business)⁰ and in their datasheet they list "Local-only management" as a feature. Only after they arrived we discovered that you only get limited functionality in the Local-only management mode, you have to register the switches to your Netgear Cloud account to get access to the full functionality.

Reading up on it, this was achieved only after a community outcry because in the prior firmware versions the switch would have to connect to the Netgear Cloud on every bootup.

Needless to say I would not have bought the swiches if I had knew I needed to register them to Netgear Cloud to have access to the full functionality specified in the data sheet. If I had bought them as a consumer, not as a business, I would have returned them immediately.

Netgear are now on our purchasing blacklist.

⓪ - the switches are Netgear GS-108Tv3
I guess I run a different firmware for my Netgear ReadyNAS 312.

This is easy to inspect because the FW is Debian-based, and enabling inbound SSH is easy.

Checking on mine, it has a cert only for the "nas.local"-domain, and the cert is stored in /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key respectively.

Have to admit I love the naming of those files :)

Edit: Obviously it is a different firmware. Mine is a NAS, this was a router. And “snakeoil” seems to be default debianism.
Hi Chris,

Thanks for the informed response. To be honest I hope Flatcar does well, I notice the Docker version has been updated on your edge release - long overdue from the upstream project!

I will let you know if our security team has any issues if and when they look at it.

Thanks for giving everyone the option of staying on Container Linux!
The main problems with SOAP were practical problems - bad dev experience and inefficient, like almost everything XML.

But the goals of SOAP were not bad.
1. I'm glad you find it funny, but the reality speaks for itself.

2. Americans do tend to respect very wealthy people, like Musk. But Musk, for examine, is not a monopolist. You're just lumping all rich people with monopolists. Warren Buffet is also admired. What does he monopolize?
> But her wealth is the subject of mounting scrutiny

The problem is articles like this glamorize the people and the activities. "Savvy investor", "lucky". I know the verdict isn't in and if she did her job just right it will never be. The whole point of being so rich and benefiting from nepotism is that nobody can or wants to touch you. But from a reasonable perspective I guess it's pretty obvious that with such relationships you don't get rich in a country where most barely go from one day to the next by making honest business. This while state coffers that should be full somehow stay empty.

On the flip side you have just "mounting scrutiny". This article does too good of a job at staying "impartial" by completely avoiding any claim that the accusations are real. But gives a strong hint that she is actually the savvy businesswoman she presents herself as. You never get sued for defamation for saying that eh?
Sometimes, but I keep that saying, "Never meet your heroes." in mind.
> Many other fields require the same mental capacities we employ: from doctors to school teachers all the way to even accountants. They are literally doing the same stuff we are doing: grabbing stuff that was already built by others, thinking about it, discussing it, having meetings, etc.

Here I disagree. Doctors? It seems true.. But school teachers and accountants? Nope..

I don't really think these fields compare, unless your 'software' is limited to doing some outsourced CRUD work..

However much people tout against it, I believe software engineering is closer to any other engineering (say Mechanical) than it is to other fields. Our task is solving problems in efficient ways, and optimizing things for one thing or another. Except these days unfortunately the bar seems very low..
Your answer is in your question: “global economy”. That lawyer is licensed in his state. Software can be written in a 3rd world country.

Why is it that these high $ software jobs in CA have not been outsourced to India?
Artisans, not just commoners, provide the juice for free market societies. But artisans require resources. A lot can be told about a society on the basis of its resource management; slavery is an extreme response to a lack of resources, or it could also be based on abundance/cultural desire for decadence, based on affluence->scarcity factors - which can indeed be read from the soil and the shards.

By looking at the shards and remnants of the dominant industries, we can see that humans self organise as a cultural unit according to what they have available at hand to play with. This is a fundamental key note of the way archeology contributes to our extant society.
#3 is why IPv6 needs universally pushed out by all ISPs.
Yes. IIRC according to Edwin, he didn’t want to spend too much time on implementing an efficient RTS and decided to focus on his core competency instead to (correctly) bring in qtt.
The result is surprisingly good and fast. Way faster than v1 actually on both compile and run time.

Ps. Brady btw.
Because it is available in almost every standard library?

In most cases developers don't care for the worst case because they either have no idea what you are talking about or, if they actually understand the problem, they try to ensure they don't need to sort arbitrary amount of user-controllable data.
RTCA/DO-178 is not a coding standard, but does mandate one be used, such as MISRA
Contacting people who've had an influence on your life is the very thing of living!

Here's something I did last year, which I'll be doing again in a few weeks.

Back in high school, I had a really great math teacher. He really created excitement about the subject, and he always had extra time to teach extra stuff to us. Just a really cool guy who'd show us Monty Python videos sketches and then some interesting math problems. It was really night and day when compared to for instance what came later at university. I found myself practicing a lot of extra math for no reason. Plus of course it made actual math class a breeze.

Three of us went to do a math contest each year, and in the final year - he was retiring, we were graduating - we won the contest.

So I've arranged for the other two to fly over to me and we're going on a road trip to see him.

If you're wondering whether he's bothered by it, I think he'd say that was the whole purpose of teaching, to show young people some interesting stuff and motivate them. The guy even sees his old "kids" who are now in their early 60s. He's mid 80s.
Because this is Hacker News, the discussion would be incomplete without a link to the Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden[1].

After the Tariff Act of 1883 taxed vegetables (but not fruits), produce seller John Nix — no relation to the package manager — sued to get tomatoes classified as a fruit.

The court held that the “common meaning” mattered more than the botanical one:

“Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.“

If you’re in New York, you can celebrate Nix’s memory by eating at a fancy vegetarian restaurant[2], or, of course, you can just use the package manager or operating system.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/149/304/ , or see the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
[2] http://www.nixny.com/
Oh dear, I am definitely interested!
Interesting. The people who've contacted me (via email) to say positive things I've generally taken at face value about <whatever they said>.

Maybe I just don't feel people are being weird/creepy when they thank me for the effort I've put into things?

Re: "email is impersonal". To me, it's not. But then... I use a lot of emoticons and similar, to help convey things better than "impersonally". :D
What's wrong with that in circumstances where it might be in the public interest? I have no opinion on whether that's valid in this particular case.
Thanks for the kind words!

You have an interesting idea, but it seems tricky to pull off in practice. To be clear, I'm not necessarily trying to say that low effort issues _are_ a waste of my time, but rather, that is sometimes how _I feel_. I think it would be good to collectively reduce their occurrence---I'm not sure how---but sometimes the choice isn't between "low effort issue" and "high quality issue," but rather, "low effort issue" and "none at all." In the latter case, I'm not sure which I would prefer. Certainly, sometimes low effort issues really do lead to productive outcomes.

It's tough and it's not something that has an easy answer. Some part of it is me overcoming how negatively I feel about them and another part is perhaps others spending a bit more time filing good issues. At least, in my opinion anyway!
If that's your perspective, then so be it, that was your experience with the scene, it does not match mine. Of course, I can only speak for the corner of the scene I was involved with, and perhaps I spoke in too general terms previously, but from my days, not once did I hear talk of the corporate world except if it was derisive. Most teenagers don't hold dreams of becoming white-collar slaves, joining the ranks of 9-5 drones in cubicles, especially not those in the scene. People got jobs because they grew up, because they had to. They became adults with responsibilities, and it was simply time to stop spending time on frivolous things, not because it was a goal or motivation, but because you had to make money, black hats, and gfx coders alike.

As previously discussed in this thread, many sceners ended up in game dev, others became artists (music), that should tell you something about what their motivation was, and what they considered fun. The drudgery of working in a Fortune 500 doing enterprise programming was not it.

Those who didn't concede to a job attempted to start their own thing.
> On the second floor, in what Tiffany calls the “love and engagement” department — where it sells engagement rings and wedding bands — Leslee Nugent, an employee, was packing a 10.64-carat engagement ring priced at $2.475 million.

I suspect this 10.64-carat ring is the particular asset in question.
You're right! I just listened again, and you're right that a hazelnut is a botanical nut.
Actually 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_(1986_TV_s...

And a more recent (2010) remake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Cheng%27en_and_Journey_to_t...
Honestly this doesn’t bother me much, tomato sauce is going to be more nutritional than the raw tomatoes that went into it. It’s just not roughage.
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How do you protect the customer in the case that somehting inside the luggage get lost? Or what if they claim that they lost something, but it just bs and want to rip off the store owner/your platform?
I think what you’re doing is wonderful. Keep it up! I come at this from the opposite point of you as someone who, at a certain point in time, was perhaps a little bit of a big deal. Many years later I still get emails from people almost weekly saying how impactful my insight was or how inspirational watching my own and entrepreneurial journey was for them. I’m always glad to hear from them and I also 100 Percent of the time respond. Nothing creepy about it. You also never know who of those folks that have inspired you could use that little boost in that moment.
Considering leaving Stack Exchange
The most interesting bit IMO is the linked Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/shog9/status/1217542885605662720

but submitted meta post as OP as it seems a better entry point for context.
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Codeplay Software develop compilers for new architectures and new high performance programming models. They are always looking to hire talented engineers.
I think this is a great thing to do. I still regret not telling my last elementary school math teacher this. For years I had detested math. Then random events made it necessary for my school to have this alcoholic, probably technically unqualified, 70+ year old wood-shop teacher substitute as our math teacher for like a year.

No longer was I chastised for writing ugly and not underlining the final answer. No longer were repeated computations and rote memorization the order of the day. It turned out that those things aren't math at all.

That year math went from being something I'd come home crying about to being an amazing new world.

I now have a PhD in math, but more importantly, math has entirely changed how I view and approach the world. Thank you, MB. My life would have been immeasurably poorer if not for what you showed me that year. I wish I had been mature enough to tell you this before you passed away.
Yea, those laws mean nothing because whose going to enforce them? The department chiefs that are giving quotas to their underlings? Prosecutors that stay buddy buddy with cops?
A .22 can weigh less than 1.5 grams. But it is ridiculous regardless to compare weight of a ring to something most people don't really know the weight of and that something that seems light as is.
The whole state of California has about 14% of USA developers. So whatever the Bay Area is earning does not have that much of an impact on the nationwide average.
Ask HN: What are some interesting ideas in Code Editing and Development tooling?
Sublime style multiple cursors, for example, have been quite popular these days. Fuzzy search and fuzzy symbol navigation is interesting as well.

What are some useful or interesting and less well-known ideas in Code Editing and other development tooling?
It seems it would need an independent reviewing platform, which would act like a court.

One could crowd-source it, but there's probably a high chance of brigading...
Sure, I was not clear about that and this was not my intention. Of course a grand-mother with limited technological savvy is not at fault here.

However, a technical writer, and a developer, such as is the case, is not only supposed to know about facebook's callousness, but to be active explaining it. The fact that even developers use facebook as if it was a socially acceptable possibility is an extremely sad state of affairs.
The cage you live in is of your own making. I encourage you to step outside your comfort zone. Thanking people is almost universally welcome. If your heroes don't like to be thanked I would humbly suggest picking different heroes.
Thanks!

> One thing that I found surprising was that the author considered comments along the lines of "Just chiming in to say that I would also really like this feature." to be rude.

I mentioned on r/rust that "rude" is perhaps too strong of a word. I was more or less thinking of things that annoyed or grated on me, and then just kind of lumped that in with "rude." To be sure, I do not get to lay claim to a universal definition of rudeness. :-)

But yeah, I think others responding to you pretty much summed up why it can be mildly annoying. And to be clear, I do think part of this is on me: I'm working on trying to let such minor things like this slide more. It's a process.
Why no one cares about your brand
You shouldn't overlook Orbeon Forms, it has history going back to 2007 (it seems quite mature).
I believe it can just be used like a robust black box to do both CRUD and HTTP web front ends.
This whole thread is amazing. Thank you for posting it.
They could be preventing murders in the South Bronx. Aren't lives more valuable?
Tiffany has enough funds to cover security of moving 50 feet.
> Isabel dos Santo has worked hard to get where she is

other headlines about her indicate that she is just another corrupt despot:

Isabel dos Santos: Africa's richest woman 'ripped off Angola': https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51128950
Tips on Understanding a New Codebase
What's the lesson in this saying?
You do not play new AAA games on 1440p high with a $120 card.

High end RTX are worth it on 4K screens. I can confirm that a £1200 RTX 2080 Ti can run new AAA games on 4K high at a stable 60 to 70 fps. Not much higher than that.
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There are a lot of thoughtful and insightful comments in this thread which I will look forward to reviewing with the care they deserve very grateful to each and every one even the downvoted ones which I can totally understand too

In short it's this -- corporacy held such a promise that we would be something far greater than ourselves

It's well known that an organization that designs systems is bound to design systems which mirror the communication structures within the organization

It's also known that any sufficiently large software system becomes a half baked implementation of common LISP with an email client tacked on for good measure

You can tell a lot about a company by the software it creates and vice versa

Rather than fix corporacy as a means to write the best software we're slogging along with a toxic casual mediocracy that's beginning to resemble
a surveillance state policed by petty bureaucrats where initiative is punished in favour of disenfranchisement and the only way to build a career is to self deal with the bullies

They say the only thing worse than running in politics is having others do it same goes for corporations

As software and systems people we were supposed to fix the system from the inside for everyone remember people over processes agile is a disruptive paradigm and all that?

Instead we threw t-shirts at it and told it to fix itself

Somehow the tables have been turned on us and we've become the data you know what I mean I never signed up to have someone less qualified to do my thinking for me and force me into one of a few stereotyped roles while the bourgeois brats take all the profits

I signed up to commune with gods and legends like Alan Turing do you suppose he cracked the enigma just to clear the road for this shit?
At any given moment, there are at most around 500k H1B visa holders in the US, for all industries and companies. There are 90 millions working American, may be a third (half?) in white collar jobs that would employ H1b. There just straight up aren't enough H1bs to affect the job market.

I don't live in the US, for the usual disclaimer.
I wrote a quick blog post over the weekend on my approach for understanding a new codebase as it's a position we've all been in.

I saw a thread about this the other day and wanted to hear from more people on how they do this!
They should be protecting everyone equally by patrolling the city. Security guards protect specific places and things, such as museums.
Extending the Smalltalk Syntax
Should you migrate from Linux to BSD? It depends.

A response to "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD"

https://fediverse.blog/~/AllGoodThings/should-you-migrate-fr...