skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anytime I see someone signal that they freight the "senior" in "senior engineer" with a ton of significance (self-import?), they fall in my estimation a bit.

That move says something about their frame of reference, and what it says doesn't do them any favors.

Leaving aside its intimation of a possible inferiority complex being overcompensated for, here are some observations:

1. "Senior engineer" is a mid-level title at high-prestige tech companies.

2. Organizations with flat teams (a model that typically only functions well when everyone is relatively senior) have no reason to load the title with a ton of significance.

So when you pontificate about the importance of the senior engineer, you suggest that you (1) are not at a high-prestige company, (2) work in a more hierarchical team structure. Neither possibility is flattering.

FWIW, I would consider every point outlined in this medium post to be a desideratum for any engineer, regardless of seniority level.
Whats your endgoal? I was thinking the other day about fortune, wealth and becoming wealthy. I’d very much prefer to not pursue becoming wealthy and concentrate on a diferent goal. I don’t think I could change the world in a financial sense, I might as well contribute positively from a different angle that is not from a wealthy position. That’s why I am asking you what your endgoal is since you chose anonimity and not to flaunt your wealth. I suspect you don’t need any kind of validation or any other ego tickling so do you have an endgoal that you’d like to pursue through your acumulated wealth?
I don't even know what his build ran at in total, but he had $1700 (x2!) USB repeaters using fiber optic to directly connect USB peripherals all through his house, half a terabyte of ram and 4 GPUS. I think you could build a lesser machine to cover most household computing needs.

I don't think the core speed would matter much - Steam reports 37% of gamers are using 3ghz-and-below processors so they may be mediocre but still competent:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/
Could you elaborate on the painful crowd part?
This seems like a very superficial way of attracting girls. From my experience if you want girls you need experience dating and having an attractive personality which isn't easy. It takes time to be comfortable being yourself around girls. And you don't wait for women to "flock to you". You have to pursue them by asking them on dates.
Sorry, my previous comment was really unhelpful.

What I meant was you should be using pipes and apaches own log rotate code.

Read the “Logging Using Pipes” section at the very end.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-conf...

(Excuse the DO link, it was just the first result in Duck Duck Go. There’s nothing specific about DO or Ubuntu in this approach)

I’ve used this method on large clusters of very heavily utilised web servers and it works great. No restarts required.
This service is a different use case than the normal school busing service. It's ideal for one-off edge cases where the district is required to provide transportation but the normal bus service won't work - i.e. off hours, special needs, etc. With that said, it's a valuable but fairly niche service. Not sure something like this can quickly scale up to VC required levels.
Personally I recommend Distinguishing coroutines and fibers (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n402...)

In short:

- The key difference between fibers and kernel threads is that fibers use cooperative context switching

- When a coroutine yields, it passes control directly to its caller (or, in the case of symmetric coroutines, a designated
other coroutine).

- When a fiber blocks, it implicitly passes control to the fiber scheduler. Coroutines have no scheduler because they
need no scheduler
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We are looking for a senior engineer to assist our web development team in designing and developing an easy to use, data driven, role-based web application that supports multiple retail stakeholders across both web and mobile experiences.
We are looking for a senior engineer to assist our web development team in designing and developing an easy to use, data driven, role-based web application that supports multiple retail stakeholders across both web and mobile experiences.
This is a great comment. Thank you. I appreciate the insights very deeply.
Mine was a Debian 5. Installed it on a small baremetal server for a client.

The client went away, and so did I.

Then some month ago, the client came back. The Debian 5 is still online and still running (but we plan to move on a new infra with a Buster soon).
Outside of San Francisco and NY it seems much harder to raise money.

The startups I know who did it outside of San Francisco did it this way. They self funded or developed about a 1000hr MVP. They then took this MVP to friends and family to raise an additional 100-200k which kept them going long enough to get to a level of self sufficiency.

At this point some took capital to scale and others just continued to bootstrap.
PhDs are often singularly focused (although that can change over time) and it seems likely that your priorities were not their priorities. They probably do very well in larger companies because they can a) find a niche that fits their interests and b) there are more non-PhDs to pick up the slack.
I much rather they would provide video stream hook so I could execute my own player as the external one (VLC, Mplayer, etc). As it is I have a bunch of custom userscripts injecting my own hook into selected websites.
Thanks for the resources and advice. Will look into your links.
Is this because you get a lot of bogus pitches from strangers or that you don't believe in the validity of the Business Model Canvas and corresponding metrics or something else?
My experience at a FAANG (Google) was about what I expected. I felt like a small fish in a VERY
large pond (full of very smart fish) and I felt like the work I did there was more "cog in the
machine" work than truly impactful work. I also felt that the plum projects were all in Mountain
View, which was not at all what I wanted to do (in fact, I was trying to move to Austin with them).

That said, they are big companies, so YMWV. Some people were having a great time there, which was
assisted by their really good set of benefits.
Clang vs. other open-source compilers
Thanks, I appreciate your (and other's) honesty.
I appreciate your humility. I still encourage you to apply.
I’m surprised they didn’t slow down to conserve fuel and arrive on-time. In the USA, if your flight is more than 20 minutes early, you are usually stuck on the tarmac waiting for a gate.

80 minutes of fuel for that plane must be very expensive. Is it possibly to fly that plane, at say 200 knots ground speed, and save on fuel? Or are they stuck at their speed they filed in the flight plan, to keep traffic separation?
This would be one advantage of the system's built-in PiP mode employed by Safari. I don't find the limitations (maximum size, single video) to be hinderances.
I believe they use the GPU for video encoding, while most Remote Desktop solutions are CPU-only. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the encoding used by Steam is lossy, which is fine for games and fast-moving video but would be completely unusable for text.
if you want to properly archive your emails then you should print them on paper
Not a record. This flight got to 717kt, but the fastest record for a 747 is 752kt: https://groundspeedrecords.com/top-3-models/?terms-filter=15...
Well I kow I should do that, but perhaps because I'm near my fifties (so lived a lot without a mobile phone), I always fail to remember to active it back when I wake up.

My wife (who is younger than me, as in 16y younger) do that too and have no problem.

For me, if I do it, I sure remember, but 2 or 3 days later :-D
Good point about advisers. That's going to be reason enough to seek out people in this kind of space.
The stalker thing reminds me of Bjork, the singer and the stalker who wanted to kill her through mail. Very disturbed person developed an obsession with her, imagined her telling him things through her songs and so on. There are plenty of nutcases out there and being famous only paints a target on your back.
An example how domain knowledge makes data wrangling more effective and/or valid.
Ubiquiti AP are pretty great. Have 3 of them at home and great coverage on a 3 level home.
There's not, but in general one would guess they use the machine during their work. If a machine is expected to put in an 8-12 hour workday, whether it's a computer, car, truck, power tool or whatever, it needs to be able to handle operation at full load for extended periods of time. Adequate cooling, lubrication, duty cycles, lifespan and so forth should be considered by the manufacturer's engineers before they slap the "Pro" label on anything.
Have fun paying 4-5 times more for the same education then...
I went through the same thing, and I think that may be why I prefer Ruby over Python. I still have a soft spot for Eiffel and checked it out recently, but the tooling situation and library ecosystem is still not great, and I can’t see myself actually using it for anything practical.
Excerpt:

"Clang can serialize its AST out to disk and read it back into another program, which is useful for whole program analysis.

GCC does not have this. GCC's PCH mechanism (which is just a dump of the compiler memory image) is related, but is architecturally only able to read the dump back into the exact same executable as the one that produced it (it is not a structured format)."

Clang, you had me at 'hello'.

The point I outlined above is just icing on the cake!
When installing Contextualise, please install TopicDB (the topic maps engine on top of which Contextualise is built) directly from GitHub. Instructions to install Contextualise and TopicDB are provided, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise#install-the-d...
I hit this, and the solution for me was to turn off my content blocker.
>Works great.

As long as it has enough charge to do its job when required. What type of batteries are in these, and how long do they hold appropriate charges? I've seen these smaller starters in stores that I immediately dismiss them as useful (dollar stores etc).
It would be fun to use this for 'code injection,' specifying that the contents of an URL under your control should be included verbatim in the bill.
I've tried Playstation Now on a PS4 with a 1Gbps enterprise-grade fibre connection and the latency was definitely noticeable, despite single-digit pings. I'm starting to think the latency from the video encoding/decoding could be a bigger issue than the network itself.
So essentially: build a product or service and move it and yourself to San Francisco?
App Used by Netanyahu's Likud Leaks Israel's Entire Voter Registry
Photonic computer solves the subset sum problem
Iowa Democrats Won’t Correct Errors on Caucus Tally Sheets, Emails Show
I've talked to the UK health services, based on my symptoms they aren't worried. What they're looking for is mostly respiratory distress, which I don't have.

I just feel the usual common-cold variety of lousy...
I really do have great appreciation for this; why the downvote?

?
'DES MOINES — With the results of the Iowa caucuses still unclear after nearly a week, the state Democratic Party this weekend was furiously re-examining results from 95 precincts, about 5 percent of the total.

But when the party delivers its updated results, which it has promised to do on Monday, they may hardly reassure candidates and voters. Internal emails from Saturday night reveal that the party will not correct even blatant errors in the official handwritten tally sheets from individual precincts.

Those records, known as “caucus math worksheets,” could not be changed even if they contained mistakes, according to the lawyer for the Iowa Democratic Party, because they were a legal record and altering them would be a crime.

“The incorrect math on the Caucus Math Worksheets must not be changed to ensure the integrity of the process,” wrote the party lawyer, Shayla McCormally, according to an email sent by Troy Price, the chairman of the party, to its central committee members. The lawyer said correcting the math would introduce “personal opinion” into the official record of results.'
I still have 20/20 vision at my mid-age and get cranky at small fonts. This site appears to be at 14px. Which looked bigger back in the day. I found myself bumping it up to read better
That's right, of course, and I should have made this a bit clearer: I am mostly concerned with being known under the same name in multiple independent fields. While it certainly has benefits, it:

* Lowers the Signal/Noise ratio when searching for your works in that field

* Might not always be relevant for your future employer that (forgive my bad example) you are a skilled baseball player, for them to find some drunken pictures of you, or for your date to know that you are a speaker at defcon.

I think of it as controlling the flow of information, installing firewalls between different aspects of my life. I would prefer personal matters not to intervene in my work life, and vice-versa.

By virtue of not having a common first name, if you look mine up with a few keywords related to my interests, you can quickly track me down. This is not a big deal in general, and I don't do anything that would deserve it, but you always are one scandal away from fame, especially in today's world...
So many of these describe a hellscape.
You should build it into the Dockerfile so it's easy to try out.
The way someone looks doesn’t say much about their mental health. Being stalked by someone raises the alarm a bit but sure, not all the time a bad outcome comes of it. Theres the potential to attract nutcases and in my opinion this is a high cost for being famous.
This is basically what happens with the budget every year in Canada. And we don't even have the "executive with veto power is the other party" issue because it's parliamentary.
1 - keep in mind investors (good ones) typically invest on people, market and then idea.
2 - if you're not known with a track record, you need a warm reference. A VC once told me, if a founder is not able to hustle his way into getting a warm referral he is not worth my time.
3 - build a network of existing founders who have been funded and ensure they see you and your partner as something worthwhile an investors time.
4 - otherwise, traction will bring investors. Some VC have interns or junior staffers who comb the internet for the markets they want to invest in. If you're good they might just find you.
In the 90s, they definitely were driving around in 140mph cars and big, big trucks, especially out in the country or in suburbia in the south; and we definitely walked around, rode bikes everywhere and so on.

People are super, super afraid of everything.

Now, I will say that people looking at their smart phones or driving with headphones on (this is a thing. What the heck, what is wrong with these people. No, I don’t care if they’re on a phone call, blue tooth for your car is a thing) is a new thing and is very distracted driving.
The story structure makes it possible. Most stories don't have such a structure.
I was just talking about Linux/BSD desktop apps and their implementation languages/libraries. Not a lot changed there, and the RESF seems to focus on more fashionable/achievable things (The only non-C++ option for Qt right now seems Python, and the most popular non-C language for gtk is probably Vala).

Right now not enough hubris for either Go or Rust to do a build their own thing right from scratch.
> That said, pipe() is not "portable" either, so whether to use platform-dependent code for pipes or semaphores... no big difference.

pipe() is in POSIX base since forever. If it is not portable, I don't know what is. Oh well C is more portable than POSIX, ok; but C does not do IPC at all (actually not even processes) so that's irrelevant. SysV semaphores are in XSI, POSIX semaphore are only in base since recently, previously they were in a Semaphore option.

So yes, pipe() is absolutely more portable. Works on all BSDs, GNU/Linux, embedded Linuxes, Solaris, dead Unixes, Android, QNX, Cygwin (where on the other hand semget seems buggy: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-08/msg00099.html), Mac Os, etc.
This is really against the RAI if you ask me.
Reminds me of buffer overflow attacks that repurpose/rearrange existing source code in ways that the author never anticipated to gain control of the system
Ah, the "good old days". $20-30k per CPU? Yeah, I don't miss that.
Ask HN: How do you handle customer “ghosting”?
To provide some context, I am the founder of an enterprise SaaS company. We have had quite a few customers - after expressing gushing delight over our offering - just go silent. No responses to emails or phone calls. How do you handle such situations?
It doesn't always work to go slower. The speed of least drag is an airspeed, not a ground speed. And commercial jet engines are most efficient around 90% thrust, not at lower settings. So going slower can make you less efficient.
Subset Sum Problem
I mean, you can blame the Brits for shit like filibusters all you like. This, however, is Americas very own special sauce
Leashes are a thing for sufficiently small children. They look like backpacks or monkeys.

Absolutely blind and uphill alleyways are a thing I will always panic about while trying to drive out of.
Ah, yes, the call of the void is very real, and I do agree that children learn to go towards very dangerous things in astonishing speeds, but I disagree that they require constant undivided attention. Situational and location awareness really helps.
Can't you trigger that in Firefox also by right clicking on a video (or twice on YouTube) and then choosing PiP?
lol yes I'm working through reverse engineering CTFs now, and that's what I thought of as well. It seems like this means all your laws have to be super-convoluted to be robust against individual word deletion, maybe have checksums in logical expressions scattered throughout.

"I think I'll veto the 'not' here."

I don't know who thought this was a good idea.
I suspect the economics for this only work because all drivers are contractors. The founder spent a lot of time highlighting the factors that support the contractor story but with recent changes in specifically California I'd be wary; it's becoming harder to justify the contractor narrative when the market maker controls the entire supply side, ie if they set the prices and the wages ahead of time (and it sounds like they do) it starts to look an awful lot like regular part time shift work.
Because they're often full of malware or bloated with other stuff.
There's also no shame in taking it on in a way such that's more of a lifestyle business than a startup.

The primary reason Alchemist Camp exists is so I can later self-fund the much more ambitious startup I couldn't raise money for previously.
Main problem I have is captions from Netflix don't work which is important for me. Would have been nicer if we could have popped out a div instead.
Every GUI is married to its language, regardless of whether it is a desktop or browser based application. You can 'easily' implement the backend and frontend in different languages and manage the interface through a socket, an API, DB, or MQ.
Same in Europe, it's happened to me multiple times. It really riles people up for some reason, with people just flat out ignoring crew orders to remain seated etc.
Return-oriented programming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming?...
The site has some impressive names. First time i have heard of this. Anyone has experience with this?

How do you "earn" points? Is your project voted by the experts (ok, great) or by "other players" (well..) ?

It seems you need to reach 10,000 points which a lot.
Great blog post on great research. Worth reading in its entirety.

Summarizing at a very high level abstraction: This work compares a mechanism used for learning probability distributions of expected rewards in deep reinforcement learning systems to the dopamine reward mechanism in mice brains.

This passage near the end, in particular, caught my eye :

> ...our final question was if we could decode the reward distribution from the firing rates of dopamine cells [in mice brains]. As shown in Figure 5, we found that it was indeed possible, using only the firing rates of dopamine cells, to reconstruct a reward distribution (blue trace) which was a very close match to the actual distribution of rewards (grey area) in the task that the mice were engaged in. This reconstruction relied on interpreting the firing rates of dopamine cells as the reward prediction errors of a distributional TD model, and performing inference to determine what distribution that model had learned about.

In other words, mice brains seem to be using the same mechanism, and it appears we can decode the probability distribution of expected rewards learned by those brains by measuring only the firing rate of dopamine cells.

Very exciting!
I was initially confused about why they would divide up the data this way as well (being very puzzled why declination even came out as a bin, and that it meant what I thought it meant). Their measurement of the dog's orientation (or the dog's control of it) cannot even come close to this level of precision.

My suspicious side says that they saw that the overall data showed no strong correlations at all -- and then used variability in declination as a bin to get some result that shows some correlation. I have never heard of variability in declination (on this timescale) as a strong determinant of anything, much less micro sensitivity of a biological physiological phenomenon.

And yes, "arc" minutes is more standard.
This blind zone and the one behind me are two of the most stressful areas of blind zone while living in the city. It’s made worse when

1) people will aggressively creep up in cars against my rear; and,

2) when pedestrians decide to cut between cars when walking at a stop light.
Imagining legislative text as if it were software code, this is akin to discovering that an engineer has been running a regex across pull requests which replaces 'if (safety-condition-encountered)' with 'if (false)' -- just prior to merge/deploy.

What would happen to that engineer and code review process in a well-run tech organization?

And why should we not apply the same principles to legal changes -- which affect our real world environment -- as we do for software changes which affect our application environments?
Experimentation can be an important tool in gathering data & error estimations to build and test a hypothesis. Reasoning is another way. There's no One True Way™ to solve a 3D geometry problem if the resulting hypothesis is demonstrably correct.
Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
Sounds like https://earnestcapital.com is right up your alley.
OT but on topic of choosing writing instruments. My personal go to are the pilot G2 rollerball gel ink pens - preferably 1 mm tip. They feel very smooth. Look more authoritative somehow too. Can be bought by he dozen.
When you say private investment are you just talking opening a vanguard account and putting money into stocks and ETFs?
Coarser nibs are harder to clog. Changing ink to a more liquid one can also help, and sometimes a given ink just does not go well with a given nib. I don't use the same nibs as you do but you can search forums for ink recommendations for your specific nibs.

If you want another fountain pen, I recommend the Platinum Century #3776. It has a locking mechanism that prevents ink from drying so it prevents clogging when the pen is not used for a few weeks. For me it works like a charm.

PS: Keep in mind that Japanese nibs like the Platinum are finer than European nibs. So for example a Platinum M should feel roughly like a Lamy F.
Discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209021