skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this sounds like an amazing job. I too would love to find this.
First plataformatec (company behind elixir) now this. Interesting.
How could that happen for an existing, standalone device?

(Assuming there aren't any time bombs waiting in the code only to be fixed by a firmware update, like the GPS week number epoch rollover, of course.)
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Has anybody tried to reverse engineer garmin's bluetooth protocols? I often want to buy one of their smartwatches but the idea of having to install proprietary software on my phone kind of puts me off. I'd love to write my own software but I don't have any experience doing bluetooth RE.
The discussion about shadowing variables doesn’t seem to make a very good case to me about this feature. Why would you want to introduce all those variables on the stack, each of a different type (even if they have the same name, presumably they are new pieces of stack memory)? Why not just mutate an existing variable each time?
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I did that for a while, with a Mac Mini.

It was lighter and more powerful than the Macbook Air I've been using the last few years.

(In the end there were times when I wanted an actual laptop with me, i.e. non-work trips away)
I guess the silver lining here is that the "employees" are already generally unpaid.
That's probably the story you are referring to: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/we-will-find-you-dna...
Why is a “random sample” the right tool to determine Internet Service prices around the world?
Aviation questions often have great answers.

I used to answer a lot of veterinary questions. But these days when I click onto a link to Quora, that’s the end of the line, because you have to log in to see anything else. StackExchange is just a better site now.
Everyday a good deed - I'm glad I could help ;)
> What was the trespass that got me banned? I said that the earth is not flat.

If you keep reading you find it looks more likely he was banned for being abusive.

> I called a few people idiots and a few others morons

So, good riddance.
Here’s the biggest problem I see with the lockdowns.

The lack of Interdisciplinary Approach in Policy Making: Doctors fail to realize deaths can happen outside of hospitals in poverty and dysfunctional families. Virologists fail to realize that economy equals life, not just money. People need to consider as many aspects as possible when it comes to policy making: economy, psychology, social science, history, communication, statistics, and more.
Can you clarify what you mean by "interface as a function of state"? All the templated-frameworks still fit this definition... they are reactive to the state of your component. In fact, they are more performant than React because their template syntax provides static analysis, so the app can be optimised at compile time.
Interesting tool - I tried pasting in your comment and it seems like the word "style" is not permitted!

Uh oh! You have used a non-permitted word (style)`
QEMU is an emulator, not virtualization. It allows the user to run an OS designed for one type of CPU on a host system of a different type. i.e running Raspbian (ARM Linux) through QEMU on an X64 Linux Host running on an X64 machine.

Virtualization, by contrast, allows the user to run a guest OS designed for the same architecture as the physical hardware. i.e running x64 Linux guest on an X64 host that runs Windows as a host OS.
Exactly. BlinGyUI on the streets, POSIX under the sheets - is what many really want.
Everyone wins when patents are pooled
Its quite an easy install, get yourself a narrow SMD tip and take it slowly. The only fiddly bit is soldering the sense wire onto the capacitor pad.
> It may even work for most workers but for some us, we cannot mentally "compartmentalize" the day job as the isolated 9-to-5 soul-sucking slog and then use the weekend activities to make up for it.

Remember that the absolute majority of humanity are working soul-sucking slog jobs to get a salary to be able to afford a home and food and some nice things.

We who work in tech are extremely fortunate to be able to find jobs that are both very well-paying as well as fulfilling. Thank your lucky stars that this is a possibility for you.
I actually didn't know this word either, so it was good vocab. Thai's abugida is pretty complicated, but once you memorize the rules, there's not too many spelling exceptions, and a lot of words are pronounced about as as you'd expect.

If you're looking for something more phonetic possible as a stepping stone, Lao, despite having less content to consume, is much, much easier to learn where the abugidas look about the same if you squint; you could look at Lao as simplified Thai (with a 6th tone). Lao had a spelling reform recently that dropped all the duplicate letters for Pali/Sanskrit words, there's no implied vowel (and they change form less), there's no การันต์ (◌์), and the final consonants are normalized to the sound it makes. Lao and Thai are asymmetrically intelligible where Lao people understand Thai but not the other way around. That said, the Northeastern Thai dialect, อีสาน, is almost identical with small dialectal differences. Grammatically they are the same so anything you learn in one will almost certainly transfer to the other with just a different vocabulary set for common words (to do, to work, I, you, man, woman, etc.).
Good advice. Even better to use one of the vector outputs, such as SVG, when you can.
would be nice to sort by some sort of date method where we could see the increase in pitch of pop singing over time
>combined with the fact that there’s money to be made on the topic — especially on YouTube, where flat earth channels tend to have a lot of subscribers. As YouTube (like Quora) monetizes content, the more viewers, the more money flat earthers make.

Is it really that much of a widespread belief ? I really have trouble understanding the current phenomenon with some anti science conspiracies.
> He didn't get banned for saying the earth was flat, he was banned for calling people morons and idiots.

No he didn't?

> Long story short, I called a few people idiots and a few others morons. I got a warning about that, acknowledged it, and stopped referring to the people who believe the earth is flat as idiots and morons.

> After my warning, I was an excellent Quora user. I was courteous, even to people who completely disregard science, and I watched my language. Don’t get me wrong — I still interacted with flat earthers and I still told them they were wrong. I just sought not to violate the Quora Policies and Guidelines as I did it.

> But it seems as if my answers angered the flat earthers, no matter how courteous I was.

Sounds like the banning came long after he ceased insulting people.
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The are pre-generated, by chance I got the same image within 10 clicks

URL to images is https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/XXXX....
Does it really take skill to get into a FAANG or just the ability to do algorithms well enough to get past the interview?
Apple isn't selling anything at the moment. It was only an announcement, and it remains to be seen if what they deliver matches what they announced.
In particular, he admits he was originally insulting, but then was "polite".

Turns out his definition of politeness (from his own blog post he linked to) is saying "... Team Flat Earth will be shown to be the moronic fools they indeed are".

I personally agree Team Flat Earth are moronic fools, but I haven't promised to be polite to them.
I wonder if you are at risk of doxxing yourself with some peculiar typos and grammar mistakes.
Brian Krebs likes to dox everyone: from security researchers, people giving him bad book reviews, to website administrators. Doesn't even matter if you're they're the allegedly "bad guy" of the story he's publishing or not.

He does it because he can. Must be one of the few very ways he can feel powerful, messing with people like that. At this point I can only assume he causes havoc and screws with people's lives because he enjoys it. You can't work in that field, doing this to people over and over, and not grasp how incredibly dangerous this can be. Especially since he himself claims to be getting death threats and people sending him drugs in the mail.

Or maybe it's pathological and beyond his comprehension. In which case I wish him all the best and hope he gets professional help soon.

A course on ethics in journalism also only ought to do him well.
I would like to see your calculations for the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. How many? What percentage? Do they exist on any kind of scale? Are there any major differences between them?

Thanks!
Apple also managed to mostly stave off competitors from eating away at their incredible margins while still staying within price bounds that make their products accessible to the mass market. I'm not sure Tesla can do the same. There is a big difference between paying the Apple premium on a $2000 computer or $800 phone and paying the Tesla premium on a car. You're dealing with a premium upwards of $10,000.

The Model Y, a compact SUV, starts at $53,000. That is wildly out of bounds for most people. Factor in the low price of gas right now, the unreliability of Teslas, and tax credits that are going away and you really erode away the savings that put a dent into the Tesla's value equation. You're left with a vehicle that competes on value moreso against a smaller luxury compact SUV class.

The big question is if Tesla can continue to see gains from scale that either allows them to address a larger market while still keeping margins at an industry leading level. All that while managing to stay ahead of the influx in competition that will be coming from all the major auto manufacturers as they increase their EV and battery capabilities.
And when you have that gear, what is it used for? Obviously businesses can, but a home user? Even with an appetite for movies etc you would have filled your drives in no time.
I hereby commit 8 of my eggs to that China.
No Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden; he has one of the highest ranges.

Also Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge
I doubt any company would prefer to spend its time on the small product vs it’s cash cow (iPhone).
The thing he was banned for was linking to an article he wrote which claimed "... Team Flat Earth will be shown to be the moronic fools they indeed are".

I mean, I agree that Team Flat Earth are moronic fools, but if you've agreed to be polite that isn't it.
Almost 9 years in one and been on several teams, and yes, this is kind of how they are. But you might be interpreting things wrongly. Here's how I look at it.

Firstly, you're measuring pace compared to companies that are struggling to survive, while these companies are not.

Secondly, the benefit to these companies of hiring boatloads of staff (89.9% of staff are newer than me and there are about 5 times the number of people now than when I started) is not really to get a lot of stuff done and done quickly; but instead the following:

1) More eyes on a problem means potentially less defects, even if it slows things down. Especially with giant systems like search or ads or huge social media sites a small change not well considered and done quickly could cause serious problems. Your job at this company is truly more like an engineer than a developer. You're not there to "develop", but to slowly and carefully engineer.

2) It's like firing a shotgun, something is bound to hit the target. You hire 80,000, 100,000 etc. engineers and one of them is bound to produce something genius. At least that's the theory.

3) The more brilliant well-paid developers you have internally the fewer are out in the market doing work for competitors. (Or worse, creating new competitors)

Having been through an acquisition and then seen others, I feel like #3 is most important to understand management behaviour. They simply cannot afford to have the market disrupted. Luckily for them most of our industry churns on this process: a) Get VC, b) Make something 'disruptive' c) Get acquired by the people you're disrupting d) Rest & vest.

While here I've seen some of the most brilliant engineersing and cleanest nicest code. But all done for rather banal and slowly implemented tasks.

... Also the process has surprised me, I've been on projects that felt like ridiculously slow and mismanaged progress was what was going on and then 6 months later and not really delayed there was this shiny beautiful product sitting on a store shelf with code in it that I worked on (a very small amount), and I honestly couldn't figure out how it got there because the whole process seemed so broken to me. And yet there it was, and it was good.

So for advice, what I'd say is this: if you're young and in the early stages of your career still then spend 4-5 years, dig yourself into it, learn what you can, and then _move on_. If you're older, like me, well, you could find your niche and milk it until you can retire. [Not sure I'll last that long myself, tho, I'm looking for something new now]

Honestly, you are surrounded by really smart people, there is a bottomless amount of knowledge you could absorb in companies like this, even if the work can seem unsatisfying.

EDIT: I should also mention that you should be careful about measuring productivty right now -- during this COVID-19 situation -- compared to normal times. Things are moving very slowly right now.
I can’t fathom how people actually use Quora when answers are often (thinly-veiled) advertisements.
> Is it really that much of a widespread belief ?

I am fairly sure that like a lot of the current fever around conspiracy theories, the vast majority of people are doing it simply to wind people up - and it seems to be super effective. It's a new counter-culture.
> Politicians have gained control of money supply and they will not give up this instrument anymore

The issuing of money is a key aspect of sovereignty. So, if anything, it's "restored control of money supply".

But even this is a misrepresentation, since most money in modern Capitalist states is created by commercial banks, through a Fractional Reserve mechanism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

in a nutshell - banks only hold a fraction of the money they give out as loans, i.e. when they make loans they literally create new money.

It's also a slight misrepresentation since governments are mostly not-really issuing their own money, just telling banks to issue a lot of loans. Having said that - the states may need to issue money to cover failing loans (or otherwise introduce stiff austerity programs).

When the state issues money, it is typically not debt-based like commercial money. (officially it may be registered as sovereign "debt" to the central bank, but that debt is just an artifice, and is never collected).

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> QE was a fiasco. All that central banks have achieved over the past ten years is creating a lot of non-bank debt. Their actions kept interest rates low, which inflated asset prices and allowed companies to borrow cheaply through the issuance of bonds.

But that's what they set out to achieve! That's the policy that government - or perhaps we should say, large corporations and financial institutions, through government - chose to enact. It is an aspect of the collective insanity of capitalism that millions of people lost their homes, and got no bailout or public housing etc. - but the financial institutions who had inflated the bubble of speculation and helped drive those people into ruin were showered with cheap money (after some of them having been bailed-out outright at public expense).
there actually is a meta-tag with utf8 so my explanation doesn't seem to hold
I need to believe because it makes a massive difference for me as an embedded developer. I can't use Macs anymore if I can't run multiple x64/x86 Linux VMs on them.
Who cares about “prestige” when working? Since when did HN become r/cscareerquestions?
It says this in your post.

Cognitect will continue to offer professional services for Datomic customers, but will transition out of general consulting development.

Does this mean your general consulting services are going away?
If people signing up for 23 and me / ancestry didnt want their clones to be slaves they shouldve exercised some critical thinking
Great, so it sounds like not much will change for external users of Clojure and Datomic. Sounds like the the biggest change is in terms of funding.

Sounds good to me, congratulations!

EDIT: I guess my confusion was between professional services for Datomic and general consulting, since both were mentioned in the context of Datomic.
> why would an American company offer to pay me twice as much as I could make in the UK if I'm in the UK? They only have to offer a little bit more to inceltivize me to take the job.

If they have the money, e.g. they're a large corp or a startup with VC money to burn, they tend to not watch costs that closely and it should not be a problem. I've received multiple offers for six-figure remote jobs in the US (I'm from Eastern Europe) and so far only one offer for less than $100k - that one offer was from a small, profitable self-funded startup.

OTOH, if you're already making say $100k in the UK and want to double it by getting a $200k remote offer, then it's considerably harder. I'm betting it would require a lot of valuable and unique experience in your CV.
How do you watch market and startup trends?
For now, I'm using signum.ai (no affiliated) reports, but those are covering only new consumer products, mostly.

treendly.com seems to be good, but again, too consumer focused and paid tier is a bit pricey.

Would appreciate any paid and free reports and services.
Seems like the author is a fan.

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That seems like a lot of effort when Julia is both high-level and efficient already.
A fair amount of PC's already have remote access built in, via Intel's vPro. Might be worth checking for that if you're on a budget.
They are, but it's always a trade-off.

Stock paste goes for longevity and cooling, so it's kinda crummy at both.

Thermal pads go for longevity with a sacrifice to cooling.

High performance paste like arctic silver goes for cooling over longevity; but can be re-applied many times as it doesn't damage hardware.

Liquid metal like Thermal Grizzly's: conductonaught, goes for extreme cooling at the expense of hardware. (IE; it will literally eat your computer, slowly, over time).
There's a song by the french artist Camille called Money Note which is a sortof satire on the competition to achieve vocal range. The lyrics are pretty funny. At the end she hits a C8, although its kindof as a shriek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3iix0CMJU
Killer team.
Politeness doesn't mean you aren't insulting them. 'Moronic fools' is a fairly polite insult.
Too rude for Quora? There will always be a place for you here. Welcome home.
> It is, after all, a free market.

It is a remarkably unusual free market where a small committee declares what the market price will be. I'm not sure what more it takes to get it called a planned market.
Me too. I've stuck with my miserable job for the last 4 years so I can support them. I feel like if I quit I'd be failing them.
Oh, wow yep that's the one. Thanks for source!
They say that markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The same goes for the marketplace of ideas. There may be some long-term punishment for people who accept bad ideas and reason badly with them, but many people get along just fine for a very long time.

The canonical case for me is creationists, who apply some of the most trivially bad reasoning I can conceive, yet it doesn't actually mess up their daily lives. It even benefits them, since it reinforces membership in their tribe. Sure, it cuts them off from certain careers -- more than they realize -- but most people don't directly apply evolution all that often. (Indeed, many who do, like armchair evolutionary psychologists, usually do it wrong.)

People can often compartmentalize their bad reasoning in ways that the negative effects are distant enough that they get along just fine. It may bite them long term, but in the long term we're all dead anyway. The time frame in which "good ideas win in the end" may be several human lifetimes.
They are using the ARM ISA on their own custom silicon.
>> Please stop telling people that neural nets are related to brain neurons. They have essentially no relationship other than the name and it just fosters this fear of Terminator and obscures the real issues that need to be thought about.

Indeed, this is supported by the opinions of the foremost experts in deep learning and neural networks:

IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/artificial-intelligence/...
Questions too! I kinda love the ones that are like "Is compassion the key to an expanded conscience?" with the top answer being "Yes, as I explain in my book Compassion: The Key to an Expanded Conscience".