skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impression I got from talking to the recruiter is that you're spending more of your time ensuring systems work as intended and managing running systems than you are building systems from scratch, and particularly you're not working on the sexy parts of systems - the bits people actually notice,bu instead are focused on making sure those sexy bits actually turn up in a timely manner. It's not a bad thing, it's just a very long way away from what I do, and what I want to do, and the fact that the Google recruiters are always pushing me that way gives me the imipression they struggle to find people for the SRE roles.
That would certainly upset one of my preconceived notions about this whole affair. Could you provide a source on that?
Surely his "Free America" comment demonstrates he is following a moral compass, even if it's not aligned with yours.
> The defense industry is why the internet exists.

The defense industry throws money at anything that seems to suit its needs. Thus, claiming that without the defense industry we would never have the Internet is not clear to me.

I am familiar with disproving negatives, but I don't find it to be a compelling claim that the scientists involved would never have developed the Internet.

For example, was the mother of all demos exclusively the result of actions from the DoD? The innovative scientists and engineers at Xerox PARC? Many of the people involved in these things likely already theorized on how to build this sort of stuff, and sought out the easiest route.

But the DoD comes with substantial amounts of other costs. For example, the Vietnam war is largely understood to have been initiated by people within the DoD complex and not the actions of foreign governments. During the war, the DoD cronies forced soldiers to use a defective assault rifle that would leave entire platoons with nothing but grenades and handguns to get slaughtered. Agent Orange killed and continues to kill an incredible number of civilians in Vietnam.

On balance, the DoD leads to horrific amounts of death and destruction using engineers who may otherwise create things that would make people's lives better. Further, significant innovations such as the Internet would most likely still have been developed, just by some private entity or group of entities where the scientist and engineers would have gone to work.
> online payments is somehow not finance

When I think of the finance careers that many of my peers are going in to, I do not think of the online payment ecosystem or fintech writ large.
So did liberal professor Bret Weinstein when the extremist mob attacked him in Washington for daring to show up to teach while being white. As in Damore’s case, this says more about the mob than the subject.
No. Unfortunately, the problem is more complex than that: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3317550.3321441?download=...
>The "outrage mob" isn't real.

You have got to be kidding me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming
Wow it had not even occurred to me that anyone would not remember that the hour hand ticks forward a bit every minute. Blind spots and all that. Also just reinforces how much I dislike trivia and trick questions.
It’s easy to say that when you’re on the side lines, and not making decisions about career growth and net worth. Its also easy to say that when you don’t have student debts.

People go into finance for extremely rational reasons. Getting upset at them for that is folly.
I heard they even developed parking lots into places for people to work and live. It’s incredible.
Unfortunately, the problem is more complex than that: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3317550.3321441?download=... (I oversimplified things in my comment above).
> The days of carefree travel are long gone.

I've been digging up videos of people from the early 1920s and I see very little impact of the Spanish Flu on people's mannerisms even just within a year or two after (like no masks in the streets even though mask wearing was apparently a big thing during the pandemic). Just the other day, I was reading up on Charlie Chaplin. Looking at his filmography, I noticed a a gap of just 1 year (between "A Day's Pleasure" released Dec 1919 and "The Kid" released Feb 2021) which is when the pandemic would've been raging across the land. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin_filmography)

So, while I certainly watch in horror at what is happening with COVID-19 and how the whole world has come to a standstill, if history is to be believed, we'll bounce back faster than we suspect. Not tomorrow, maybe not even within the next six months, but very likely within a year I think we'll be back in full force.
Since hospitals are practically empty right now, have we thought of allowing people to voluntarily get infected/quarantined (using a tiny viral load)? Obviously no old, immuno-compromised, or other vulnerable people. But for healthy "essential" workers it would mean not living in fear that they might get it... because they already got over it.
Good one. World never really change I guess, its human nature.
Agree with the multiple display not really being helpful. It may look professional but your neck won't feel so.

Also on a single monitor I do this to keep my neck and eyeballs easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125617

The display size is usually good with about 24 inches. Bigger and you can't put everything within your sight which requires head movement.
...and they get trapped there! That’s the issue. But then again, if that’s the case are they really so smart?
> volatility went up, but it could've easily gone down.

I don't see how volatility could have gone down. Maybe explain?
Honestly, they aren't in github issues. They are on Twitter, they are sending people DMs, they are at physical meetups.

Me and my wife are both AI academics in the UK who do a bunch of programming. I have no "interesring stories" to tell, my wife has a dozen including men punching walls because they were beaten by a woman in a board game, being sent death threats and dick pics (not from the same person), and being assumed to be my non-tech wife when we go to events where she was invited and I was going as her partner.

Now, these events aren't daily, or even weekly, but they stick with people and make then feel unwelcome and unsafe.
The go link for his memo was "pc-considered-harmful". PC. You know what that stands for, right? Even he knew he was doing political activism.
While I really hate the “those who can’t do, teach” formulation, professors don’t always have the best advice when it comes to career growth, because their career looks so different from that of their students.
Sure. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17038430/google-james-dam...
Peertube is such a good project. I have used it and its good :) Its decentralized, unaffected by kids policy of youtube and much more. And the github support is pretty active.
I doubt the legal department of the hospital would allow such a thing
This is speculation but it seems like we should inevitably see political factions in the US being defined in this way (and it happens in the Democratic Party too, maybe not in as obvious or extreme a way) as a result of the well-known two-party endgame of our voting system. If your faction isn’t one of the two, your choices are to join one or be irrelevant.

So you jump on the bandwagon with whoever you hate least, and pretty soon you find out that’s almost all you have in common with the rest of the riders.
On the contrary, I think social stigma and pressure can definitely influence what careers people go into and the suggestion that most people make decisions as purely rational money-making machines seems somewhat facile.
This doesn't negate his point. The criticism is that too many people are going into "industries" that do not create any wealth. The fact that he also got well paid in finance demonstrates that the current system rewards finance.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-dc8c42a6725776dfc54ed8...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/NYUGDPFi...

Correlation/causation yeah, but you can't have more people doing nothing of value and more middle class.
Not true. Photovoltaics are ~20% efficient, so you're looking at 200 W/m2 in full sunlight. Plus typical solar capacity factors are about 25% so you're down to 50 W/m2 average power generation, with a subjective penalty for intermittency.

RF rectification is ~90% efficient, so that same 1000 W/m2 gives ~4.5x the power density of daylight PV, plus a capacity factor of nearly 100% gives 18x the energy density of terrestrial PV - and its baseload power.

Mankins will pitch you 100 W/m2 as a useful RF energy density to be competitive with terrestrial solar. You may also be able to include photovoltaics in your receiving antenna and have it both ways.
What virtue claims do we make?

I suppose you feel the same way about those two poor white conservative men who were finally arrested for murder after the outrage mob mobilized.
You are both right. Labor was crushed by multiple forces.
There are lots of edgy, ironic white supremacists these days. Masking aggression with humor is an age-old tactic.
Careful. You’re getting awfully close to having a nuanced opinion here.
They presumably wouldn't agree with your definition of "trapped". To reiterate the GP comment, the claim is that going into finance or law is individually rational for many smart people, but globally suboptimal at the levels we currently incentivize it.
> Companies shouldn't be encouraging employees to be political

Yet the very act of any type of business dealing is inherently political. To deny that is to misunderstand the word itself. It's a shame that people have weaponized this term (political) and use it as a pejorative. Similar to the term social justice 'warrior', for people showing solidarity.

To not see this truth is to be culturally grandiose, in my opinion. Read Yash Tandon's 'Trade is War' for more.
What the hell are you talking about? Tesla is Tesla because of their incredible engineering talent. The rest they do to amplify their car building efforts. If you offered Elon 100 incredible engineers/lawyers/financiers, he'll take the engineers every time.

How many car startups that achieve wide distribution has America had in the past 100 years?
The nazis claimed that jews had biological differences. Slaveowners claimed that black people had biological differences. Heck, denying women the right to vote was justified by claimed biological differences.

Oppressors don’t exactly have a history of saying “yeah we are doing this for evil reasons.” Instead they hide behind bogus arguments to justify why their behavior is actually good for those they harm.

“We should change how we hire women because of structural differences between men and women” is not only a political statement but one that comes with centuries of baggage attached.
This was really fun to read, thanks fsanglard.

> This is correlated with the warning nvcc issued. Because the raytracer uses recursion, it uses a lot of stacks. So much actually that the SM cannot keep more than a few alive.

Stack frame size / "local memory" size doesn't actually directly limit occupancy. There's a list of the limiters here: https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/developertools/des.... I'm not sure why the achieved occupancy went up after removing the recursion, but I'd guess it was something like the compiler was able to reduce register usage.
I, for one, am ready for the metaverse
Why are we posting this guy? It seems like he's always just trying to make it into headlines. "AI will kill us when its made in 3 years when we get into mars" sure dude! Good luck on getting into twitter trends again, Elon.
I didn't say they had the best advice for career growth, just that they were also making sacrifices to pursue engineering.

Professors also likely know many other people with developed career paths that are different from their own, while a student has no career at all to draw inferences from.
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> ... the gate agent is not going to be your personal valet because you didn’t have enough god-given common sense to plan your travels accordingly.

You can call ahead and arrange for a sky cap to assist you with luggage, or if you ambulatory help, such as a wheel chair. This is well worth it if walking through an airport will be challenging for you. The sky cap will get you past the lines and through the airport in record time.

Make sure to tip them, as they work for tips.
Because the public is so stupid they can operate in broad daylight. You don't seem to get that the vast majority of the population is computer illiterate.

You come off as not too bright yourself, why would you go from having quake 3 with level editing, mods, free maps skins, etc, in big budget AAA games, to not getting that, and having the game client server locked to company PC's like diablo 3 and overwatch?

As PC gamer from the 90's, we were expecting Diablo 3 to get level editing and modding, aka juts like warcraft and starcraft had editors, the editors stopped however because of world of warcraft, everquest, guild wars, and uo.

Those were RPG's that were just renamed and resold to the public with non ownership, aka anyone who paid for those games paid for the privledge of being robbed.

It's as if you went and bought a RPG from staples that had an ethernet dongle that was hooked up to a PC in the back of the store in order for the game to function.

You don't seem to get "MMO's" and "f2p games" are not genres, they are just the same PC game recoded to get rid of your ability to control the software.

It was all part of a scam to defraud the public of getting complete files for software, this was the end game for the corporate world.

So that means we've been getting fraudulently coded software for 23+ years now, and now windows 10 has all sorts of client-server bs in it which is basically malware bs to further turn PC's into a locked down platform like mobile.

All to undermine local file access control, thy are using things like active directory to deny access to files on your own machine remotely.

Shit is dystopian. The fact that most people are oblivious even on hacker news is pretty disturbing since it says "hackers" you'd think hackers would want to own and control their PC's and not be spied on by microsoft or by their own PC game software.
That's a harsh simplification. There can be other reasons.
As someone that works solely in a GCP environment for work, I couldn't agree more. GCP products do "just work", but if I had to nitpick, it's that some of their services don't have complete terraform modules (looking at you IAP), but outside of that, their pricing is reasonable, documentation is solid, and we're really happy we ended up going the GCP route.
That quote from the article is also somewhat contradictory.

> The CEO also addressed his recent vow on Twitter to sell the majority of his physical possessions, which he said weigh him down. “I have a bunch of houses, but I don’t spend a lot of time in most of them. That doesn’t seem like a good use of assets. Somebody could probably be enjoying those houses and get better use of them than me.”

I interpret it as encouraging finance over ownership. It is a sensible, if debatable position. Instead of owning things you don't use, it is smarter to invest your money in more productive ways. Which is a roundabout way of saying "if you are smart, go into finance".

Otherwise, I know a whole lot of very smart people who aren't into finance. It is just that no one talk about them because they are not rich. They probably could have been rich if they wanted to, and had a bit of luck, but instead they have chosen to use their intelligence to do what they like.

Being able to do what you enjoy and making enough money to live decently and maintaining a good work/life balance is a huge privilege. Doing that when the thing you enjoy doing is an already saturated market or something that is hardly marketable is even more so, and it may be considered as desirable as being a billionaire.
You mean consequences for your behavior?
I don’t dismiss things by calling them political, although apparently you do. I just think it’s insanely naive to believe that you can write a 10 page document on a gender related company policy and not have it become political quickly.

You can’t post a 10 document article in response to a corporate policy about gender in hiring and not expect that to be interpreted as an argument against said policy. Whether or not that was his original intent doesn’t really matter, the interpretation of his post was both predictable and understandable. He should’ve seen that coming, and to argue that he was just apolitically interested in the science of gender is disingenuous.
China’s new spacecraft–which resembles a Crew Dragon–just landed
The days of carefree travel will return. It'll be a while, but it will be back.

In early March, looking for a park to sit quietly with my thoughts in the sunshine but away from others, I found myself in a local cemetery. Alone, but not far from a great many people.

Seattle's a pretty young place on the scale of things. I was surprised to find that our local graveyard had a substantial contingent that had lived through the 1918 flu. After noting, to my surprise, that there wasn't an obvious peak in the deaths in 1918, I sat there and silently asked a number of them what they'd tell us, if they could. I wasn't sure of the answers, but my perspective was changed.

Everything all of us know as "normal" came after a number of devastating pandemics. It'll be back, it'll be slightly different, but it will be the same.
Just to clarify, are you saying there is a way to avoid the final percentage of hidden charges by knowing about and using a different interchange?

Or, just that the blame lies with the interchange and not the payment gateway?

I'm curious if you are suggesting smart people can avoid those extra fees somehow?

Do you have a link which summarizes this difference?
It's not just individual households. There are whole school communities predominantly comprised of households like this.

It's been challenging even for the IT departments of technologically advanced companies to adapt to a remote workforce, so schools serving poor communities face daunting obstacles to continuity of education at the moment.

This problem is exacerbated by the existing digital divide.

As an example, I serve on the technology volunteer committee of a public school at which less than 5% of children are technically classified as being in poverty, yet the school had to lend out computers to 20% of the students. The lending program was managed by our volunteer committee so the administration and teachers could focus on ramping up the distance learning program curriculum.

So our school is one of the lucky ones. However, in the same area there are schools where 95% of the students are in poverty, and they have no volunteer committees to help solve these problems, therefore it is left to the already overstretched staff. Some of these schools actually have computers they could lend, but no community knowlege capital to draw upon to organize adapt to the situation.
Genuine question: why are hospitals empty? Aren't people affected by covid taken there?
I don't know if teaching needs 'innovation', but we need to incentivize people to go into teaching more, specifically by paying them a whole bunch of money and giving them a secure environment to teach in. I'd drop out of tech immediately if I knew I could have a good salary teaching in a public school.
It's reactionary to say it but China has to pay a price for this, otherwise what's to stop it happening again?

Edit :I've been completely hammered on this topic so I won't make any more comments. Hope that's ok
If you're replying in good faith, you should either defend your "outrage mob" accusation or apologize for it.
And I'd probably be surprised at just how common it is to forget that. Not that forgetting (or remembering) provides any information as to whether someone's a good SWE or not.
You mean like that in more gender equal societies, women are less likely to pursue a degree in STEM. Its a well known phenomenon called the gender-paradox[1]

[1] http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/4753/6/symplectic-version....
Thanks. I was also having trouble figuring out how to decode the svg figure element into plaintext I can throw into a text editor and open in the browser. (I don't have any svg experience).

I checked the docs and switched the imageFormat to png and was able to see the render.

It's awesome that with svg I could style elements of the provided image however I want!
How Emacs should get more users
That’s quite the simplification of the practice of law isn’t it?
> Musk makes a lot of grandiose statements, but he's spot on with this one.

But so what? A lot of people believe that. What I have never heard is a realistic plan for restructuring the economy that makes things like finance and advertising less lucrative.

Technology naturally leads to a "winner take all (or most)" economic system. When it's so easy to switch to competitors, platforms that are even a tiny amount better than their competitors can take all the mindshare of an industry.

In that environment of extreme economic concentration, fields like finance and advertising (which is really controlling marketplaces) will always be extremely lucrative. Haven't heard any good proposals on how to change that.
Isn't it annoying to keep moving your neck around than sticking to the main app window one at a time?
How about Silicon Valley related fields? Big tech companies have long claimed there are labor shortages and thus need to bring in overseas workers.
That's surprising to me; I've always heard that it's better in Europe.

It's possible that our definitions of "great", "good", "okay", and "a joke" are different. "Good" in the US is 50mbps. "Okay" is 20mbps. "A joke" often means there's no actual hard line, and you have to use a satellite-based ISP instead.
I live in the US and I've seen this anecdotally too. If you're moderately smart, didn't do much in your early career[0], and aren't technical, law school is one of the things people grasp for to level up into a real career.

[0] or took a shot at a career that didn't go anywhere, like in Hollywood or politics or any other industry built on an underclass of lied-to 21 year olds