skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a nominally full compliment of people who are over-building or playing around with shiny toys instead of delivering value, then you still have too few actual engineers, but are paying a lot more money for the privilege.

You're also setting up a bill that will come due eventually. I've made some really good money going into companies and ripping out the hot-three-years-ago garbage that some long-gone goof put in. Last time this happened I looked up the responsible party. Turned out he was doing the work so he could give a conference talk on shiny tech. Not long after the talk was done, he took a job somewhere else, leaving his buzzword-compliant half-baked system to rot.
It's always prudent to be circumspect about the motives of writers of what is essentially marketing content.
The previous messaging was a lot more serious and somewhat morbid:

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/151160...
I think fixed point is more appropriate for a Cartesian coordinate system. Floating point will have better resolution only near (0, 0); the grid will get increasingly coarse as you move away from the origin.
I obviously can do the math, but is there anyway this guy is not financially completely ruined now? I kinda always assume when you get into the 100M+ range, you can fuck up but still not go to zero (aka you have houses, cars, land etc that google can claw back)
Absolutely true, but they also tend to work in jobs where they have essentially full control over how much they work, when they work, etc.

And in some cases, that might still end up being much more lucrative than a "normal job". But I'm sure that in many cases, it doesn't - we just don't hear about it, because they're still rich, and nobody really knows what they're really doing anyway.
It does. But perhaps at a lower rate?

Years ago, the Great Recession slowed that migration a lot.
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I got to know that by (1) reading the documents that Snowden actually leaked instead of just the interpretations of those documents from computer illiterates like Greenwald, (2) knowing people who worked on the major email services at the time, and (3) reading the laws behind these programs.
Because moving to places with lower cost of living, to speak extremely broadly of course, means less income compared to cost of living, meaning a lower standard of living. But with a guaranteed income, a lower cost of living would always mean a benefit to standard of living.
I respect the clarity of the vision and the drivenness to make the vision a reality.

I disagree with the vision. The best analogy I can think of right now is high school kids renting a hotel for a party and trashing it and then doing the same thing next week. That’s humanity right now.

There is no Planet B until we build a mutualistic relationship with the one that created us.

And yes when I say “there is no Planet B” I’m being vaguely spiritual. I believe Earth is a creature and somehow won’t allow one of its creations to explore the stars until that creation learns mutualism. But I’m also being pragmatic: A) colonialism was a big motivation in our last 2 world wars and we still have intense colonizer memes circulating through our societies B) we now have the means to destroy ourselves thoroughly C) Mars is the crown jewel of potential colonies right now.
I get that, and I don't necessarily hate it here. I just don't prefer it in general, and particularly hate it when the style ends up in articles that simply don't warrant it. The fact that the long read articles are often distributed as podcasts makes a lot of sense, now that you mention it.
Don't forget DDoS
This one should really have a massive "do not try this":

[ $[$RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && sudo rm -rf / || echo "Not today"

An awful lot of people just copy and paste things to see what'll happen.
Working at a Musk company usually is, from what I've heard, a rigorous, fast-moving and stressful experience. It's expected, from the top all the way down, that people move really fast and push really hard.

So, given that, here's my question: is it not well known, ahead of time, that's the environment? How many people are truly surprised once they hire on?

I've been a long-time fan of most of Musk's work, acknowledging that the man is deeply flawed.

Yet even though I personally believe in most of what Musk wants to accomplish, I will never work at any of his companies, even though I'm quite qualified for several roles in each.

I believe in the mission, but my personal and family time is even more important to me.

Note that all of the above is, roughly, talking about salaried/technical/management positions, and not, roughly, about hourly.
I have some cool decks, but I am terrible about reviewing them frequently. It just becomes another chore. Maybe I should really embrace it. I spent a few months brushing up on biology and that was really amusing but I fell out of the habit :/
All this to avoid building new public transit infrastructure. Crazy. Many of the thorniest transit problems in dense city centres are better solved by improving mass transit options, not giving even more right of way to cars.
For self-driving cars, winter is coming
Except as a startup potentially targeting enterprise customers or hospitals, that downtime may cost you significant contracts or future work. It's probably something that gets disclosed in investor decks - and depending on your offering may really hurt you.
Broadly speaking, yah, PEG. (See also Prolog DCG.) The other neat thing happening is parser combinators. (IMO)
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It was his team at Google that made the designs in the first place...
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> PRISM was once told to be a conspiracy theory fiction

PRISM as it actually is was never a conspiracy theory. PRISM as Greenwald described it was and remains a conspiracy theory.
Land value tax would be the way to go. Regulating the rent would be about as useful and effective as existing rent control schemes..

With a land value tax, the rent would still go up, but the increase would mostly be recycled back into tax take. (And you can use that tax take to eg finance (part of) the UBI.)
> What if you knew you could get a cheap ride anywhere anytime?

That's exactly the premise of Starlink. SpaceX know they can launch those things 100x cheaper (1000x ?) than ever before in history, so they're churning them out and throwing them up. Even though the ones going up right now aren't "finished" it doesn't matter, because replacing them with new and better ones is so cheap.
The Swiss topos are seriously beautiful. Half of the fun of hiking in the Alps is collecting these meticulous hand-illustrated maps. They are shamelessly artistic, and at the same time give a much better feel for the character of the landscape than "drier" maps.
> Are there really no lottery winners winning lifetime monthly payouts to study?

There are a bunch, but that’s complicated and notoriously politicized because people with agendas spin the results. For example, there’s a famous and widely cited study of 35,000 lottery winners in Florida where the headlines say almost everyone spent all their winnings after 5 years, and that bankruptcy rates went up after 2 years. It’s misleading because the winners were $150k or less, you’d expect that to be gone after 5 years, and because backruptcy rates went down for the first two years, and then returned to normal.

Googling it right now, I’m actually seeing a lot of headlines like “85% of lottery winners kept their jobs” and “study finds lottery winners are happier”.

> if you gave me 5x average earnings for three years, I wouldn’t quit my job. But if you guaranteed the money for the rest of my life, I’d pursue different activities

I’m not sure why... 5x for me would be life-changing. That’s 15 years’ salary, or 12 years’ savings, without making lifestyle changes. I would absolutely use that money to re-evaluate and try some new things.
Spaced practice and retrieval practice, both of which are used in SRS, are two learning techniques for which there is ample evidence that they actually work [0].

Of course, You still need to decide what is worth remembering.

[0] https://www.learningscientists.org/
If you want to make UBI a reality, instead of just talking about it for 50 years, we have to do it from the bottom up.

I supported Yang, my company Qbix even built https://yang2020.app for him. But he didn’t get anywhere.

We have a project to build UBI from the bottom up, using cryptocurrencies for communities - including local townships and cities like Stockton. Local currencies already exist, including casino chips, disney dollars, berkshares, bristol pounds etc. This just puts them on a blockchain (actually, a new architecture we designed that’s far faster than blockchain).

If you are really interested, or want to get involved in some way to make it a reality, I suggest to do the following:

1. Visit https://intercoin.org/feature/ubi and fill out the form

2. Visit https://community.intercoin.org and participate

Or if you are a Javascript developer, contact me. My email is “greg” at that domain, intercoin.org
That popped out at me as well. I'd like to see the actual report because 25% of people stopping work is a big deal. However, it appears the response rate of the survey was only 217 of 4000 (5%) which isn't good. Typically when you have large population level studies like this, you have staff embedded in the town and would conduct telephone interviews with all participants. I wonder if the cancellation of the project meant they could only afford an online survey.
> These two things are supply constrained

Health care yes, housing, no. It's possible to build more housing to meet demand, or for people to move to balance supply/demand vs. prevailing wages. Or to have a smaller home or more room mates.

Housing is often constrained because of real estate owners controlling the political process and eliminating new construction to keep the value of their property high. Not due to economics.
We can do both.

Cheap and rapid space launch may allow us to put polluting industries where they belong: in space.
Thanks for mentioning this.. very interesting. I even had this project starred on Github but did not remember it.. :)

I will give racket another look. Do you by any chance know some more real world Racket applications?
The pursuit of sustainable living and the pursuit of a multi-planetary existence are parallel endeavours, not serial ones. Perhaps the view from Mars will instil a renewed perspective on our dependence on Earth, and teach us lessons on ecological management via terraforming.
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I imagine that the subject of the article is one of those genetic mutants who only requires 4-6 hours of sleep a day. They do exist, but are definitely statistical outliers.

Not needing 9 hours of sleep is the only real way to add time to your day.
> the promise of getting all our problems solved

Where has that been promised? He's working on a rather small set of big problems, which is a far cry from 'all our problems', don't you think?
No, it definately can't. In C one would usually store pointers into memory blocks, which it is impossible to "fix up".

What you can do is search through all allocated memory for full 4K pages which are unused, which can be "given back" to the OS.

However, it's unclear how much benefit there is from doing this. If you give back memory too eagerly, and then need to request more later, you end up thrashing the kernel. Assuming you have some swap space, this unused memory gets swapped out.

It could be (hard to tell, but I do this in my own memory managers) that the memory is technically still assigned to the program, but the pages are marked as unused, in which point there is no "memory" there at all, just address space which you can start using again later. However, it can still look like my program is using something crazy like 1TB of memory.
Oh of course. Missile submarines carry both however. They're more likely to use the tomahawks however. The Navy loooooves to use them.

During the very first 48 hours (sustained) in the war in Afghanistan, a tomahawk missile was launched, on average, every 12 seconds night or day. The amount of boom those things made is unbelievable.
Kubernetes is supposed to make distributed computing more reliable. Of course a non-distributed system will not be magically made simpler by using an inappropriate tool for the job.

The concept of a single filesystem as the source of truth for not just a program but also the systems that run the program will be the lasting legacy of Kubernetes.
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Indian signs are the classics. "go gently down my curves"... "Hurry will give you worry"... And many more here: https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/9-funny-indian-road-sig...
I agree! The US did this as part of the New Deal [1], it was called the Works Progress Administration (WPA) [2], making the federal government the largest employer at the time. You'd want to integrate that with employee unions; during good times, businesses work with unions to source labor. During hard times, the government steps in as the employer of last resort, using cheap nation state debt issuance to fund infrastructure projects to fill in private investment gaps. You of course then have to pay back that debt with taxes when the economy is booming again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Summary_of_First_and_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
Galaxy S20 teardown shows off plethora of cameras, double-decker motherboard
What about guaranteed 1/4 average earnings for life? Would you still quit your job then? It's a rhetorical question the answer is obviously no, most people would still keep working just now have better negotiating power and flexibility.
Little self-driving boat is changing the way we search for shipwrecks
So regulatory arbitrage? I don’t think law enforcement will see things that way.
If people wanted to save, why wouldn't they do so privately? (And if they don't want to save, why should the government force them? Isn't a democracy supposed to reflect what the people want?)

Btw, the Norwegian model is partial about avoiding 'Dutch disease'. That's why they invest the money abroad. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
> Articles like this one, and even more comments on HN and similar sites, generally suffer from a perspective bias, with people overestimating the frequency of their own particular circumstances and declaring something outside of their needs as "niche" and generally misguided and "overhyped".

It's my experience the opposite is true. The blindness is people overestimating their needs (or resume-padding) and using specialized, overcomplicated tools meant for traffic in the billions (e.g. cassandra, kafka, mapreduce) for 20-person startups that haven't hit rapid growth (most of which never do).
But there are infrastructure and opportunity shortage in those areas.
I think they just meant marginalized groups, not People Who Are Bad.
People who are generally oppressed by the larger system/those in authority? There's a charitable understanding of the statement here.
My point is that the choice between driving for Uber or driving for Lyft isn't really a choice because other than the company paying you there isn't actually any meaningful difference. It's a reply to the parent's point and says nothing about taking anyone's options away.
>So yes it seems reasonable to me that these are groundbreaking challenges.

Isn't weld strength something engineers would know/understand in advance, though? How would it come as a surprise that the welds would fail under pressure?

It seems strange to me that Musk could be spending so much time working on Starship, and somehow a "badly designed, badly built, and badly checked" rocket makes it to the platform and explodes.
> Alaska Permanent Fund

About $133/month in 2019, which might offset the fundamental additional expenses associated with living in Alaska.
If you factor in the opportunity cost of a rich persons time, the cost of the burger itself matter proportionally less.
Steve jobs was super rude to Elon Musk! Right.
I agreed with the first part. Not with whatever I said described later i.e stuff about not improving their lives and delegating the responsibilities.

But I have found that every thread on women issues often end up with a men centric comment section. I agree with that.
This is true in theory but not in practice in my experience. I presently live in one of the bottom 5 states in terms of population density and there are multiple manufacturing plants that require no experience, are paying 60k+ for new hires, and are in extremely low COL areas. By the way, they can't find enough people to apply and are having to aggressively advertise to fill entry-level spots. I think the issue is more information asymmetry. If people knew the jobs existed and knew what they paid I'm sure at least some % would be willing to move, but no one discloses that out of that gate, unfortunately.
> Ctrl+L works when a program is running. Clear does not.

I can't see how because ctrl+l is a $SHELL / readline shortcut rather than one defined in the terminal emulator. Once you run a program you're forking STDIN control to another process so you'd have to wait for the $SHELL / readline prompt again just like you would if you typed a command / function / alias into the command prompt.
You don't need to work to stay rich when you have a $25M trust fund.

There are plenty of people who were born rich who nonetheless go to work everyday. They are engineers, doctors, lawyers, consultants, bankers, inventors, teachers, professors, and business owners.

Having money doesn't discourage people from working. We won't run into a shortage of astronauts, teachers, or even police officers. But we may find it difficult to find people willing to work as a janitor for $8.00 an hour.
I have lived in areas that were gentrifying. Everyone knew that rents were going up and would continue to go up, but few were willing to leave. People with small nest eggs preferred to blow it on higher rents than invest it in relocation. The general attitude I saw was 'I have a right to live here so I will, even if I can no longer afford it.'
Wouldn't reducing/eliminating taxes have the same exact effect as an UBI? More money in people's pockets. By following your logic no form of welfare can work.
SpaceX built an incredible custom simulator in order to design the methane engines used in Starship[1]. Right now they are experimenting with manufacturing techniques, which is much less amenable to simulation

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2zhad6/spacex_at_gp...
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I would not use the word deep-sea here. The species range from epipelagic to the first middle of mesopelagic and lives in soft bottoms that can still receive light. Is better to save the term deep-sea for the bathyal area.

Mouth incubation is uncommon but happens in some families (mostly Perciformes if I'm remembering correctly). Is pretty interesting to find this in Zeiforms.
Wait until insurance demands its use to mitigate risk.
I'm having a mental blockage on this, as you can always launch 10 rockets at the same time and get 10 times the payload. Having those 10 rockets strapped together should not change the payload of them flying independently.

What am I missing here -- I'm sure I'm overlooking something.
Two cents - do vent in public, and do share salaries. These things actually help other engineers, though I'm sure they don't help career directors and VPs. Let's not pretend to be stupid when we aren't.
Yes. More popularily known as EMA, apologies.
I disagree with the HN consensus here: I think managed kubernetes is really useful for startups and small teams. I also commonly hear folks recommending that I use docker-compose or nomad or something: I don't want to manage a cluster, I want my cloud to do that.

We run a fairly simple monolith-y app inside kubernetes: no databases, no cache, no state: 2 deployments (db-based async jobs and webserver), an ingress (nginx), a load balancer, and several cron jobs. Every line of infrastructure is checked into our repo and code reviewed.

With k8s we get a lot for free: 0 downtime deployments, easy real time logging, easy integration with active-directory for RBAC, easy rollbacks.
I believe this highlights a very important reality of office politics. Most ICs, even Principal Engineers, are just not in a position to fix significant technical-cultural problems...you just won't have enough influence.

If your goal is to influence the big picture at a corporation then your title probably has to be Sr. Director, VP, SVP, or something similar. Even then it won't be easy. Political and cultural inertia will conspire to prevent change.
Or Nomad or Mesos!
>If you are guaranteed income, you aren't bound to specific regions or locations.

Not disputing this, but there are some caveats that would need to be true for this hypothesis to hold. The main one being that people's reluctance to move comes down largely to career opportunities and moving expenses rather than access to amenities or proximity to family/community.
Groups disadvantaged by the current power structure of society?
Developers will stop caring about having experience in the latest hot thing when that stops being very important in interviews.

I hope, but doubt, that will happen before I'm retired or have been ageism'd into something else.
Thanks for your input. It coincides with my impression about Qt and Gtk. Years ago I made an application (for myself) with Qt and C++ and it was kind of a pleasant experience. I was only reluctant because I would like to not use C++ in my free time.. I will however consider this again and maybe see what bindings exist for Qt.

I don't think Flutter is an option for me. I would then rather go the JS/Electron route. It just makes no sense to learn Dart to me.. the only use for it seems Flutter.
What's to stop UBI from eating into other welfare checks? Or what's stopping renters from simply raising rent 1000 dollars?
Simulation is not the same as trial and error. There's no such thing as a perfect simulation, and imperfect simulations without real world testing and iteration result in disasters. There are many examples, but the Mars probe that crashed because of a unit conversion error comes to mind.
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The problem is that instructions for ieee754 values use the full precision of those values (or greater), when you almost never need that much. And if you leave them as-is, you build up bias.

As your calculations progress, your results slowly build up significant digit bias (which will be different depending on the architecture and libraries). To get around this, you'd have to round regularly, but that also slows things down (and is difficult to do in binary float).

If you're taking the results of calculations at their full precision, you're just asking for trouble. 32-bit binary ieee754 may be able to represent 7 digits of precision, but I sure as hell wouldn't take the results of 32-bit float operations to more than 6!

The alternative is to get a contract from the compiler that everything will be done in the same precision with the same bias for the specified type, and just accept the buildup (which we're currently doing without that guarantee, and getting burned by it).
I've had great success with a parser-generator known as "Marpa" [1]. One of the things I particularly liked about it is how simple it made to emit accurate and useful error messages when parsing complex languages. In addition, it can handle anything that can be expressed in BNF, and it's quite fast.

[1] https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/
Did you mean "inhibit"? Prohibit means to forbid.