skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to see more produced from public institutions.

I understand this sentiment, but I also don’t think it’s very realistic to expect this based on how much more money people make working in industry vs education.

I was once interested in teaching at a software engineering school and the money offered wasn’t even close to being competitive with what I was earning as a full-time developer.

There’s just no way education for the sake of education can compete with programs put on by these companies that have established business models and practices. Why would experts at FB/GOOG/AZN leave those opportunities to go build curriculum at public institutions for a fraction of what they make as ML experts at these companies?
More like deferring to a later batch than kicked out entirely.
>>It's easy to say "meh" when you live in Europe.

Well yes, obviously this was spoken from a perspective of a European so moving to US is not exactly appealing. But if you're from somewhere else then I can see how US would be at or near the top of your list.
Did you run algos professionally before you quit? I’m trying to get some kind of chat forum going for people doing what you (and I) are trying, not sure how to gather up a sensible sized posse.
Yea exactly, she seems to have reached a level of comfort with her technical proficiency and years of experience that she's not even seeing how this kind of talk can be discouraging to a junior who doesn't have the depth of knowledge she has.
We have two cars that sit in the garage now most of the time because we don’t go anywhere (Post Covid). We don’t buy lunch out, we don’t eat out, no gym memberships etc.
Google is reportedly replacing Duo with Meet for video calling
Eich wasn't fired.
I think developers prefer writing code they understand over trying to understand someone else's code. I've taken a look at Telegram's codebase, and replacing the Telegram API with the Matrix API is way harder than it sounds. Telegram wasn't developed with this flexibility in mind, and the Matrix SDK has its own way of doing things.
> you wouldn't learn all the meta of a language like C++ in a couple of months.

I think this reinforces OP' point though: what we really need are descriptions more specific than "software developer" but less specific than "$language developer"

> some languages force you to learn so much other "stuff" before you can be professionally productive in it

And it's exactly that stuff that should be the focus of describing the role. e.g. you're looking for a low-level network software developer with proficiency in memory management. If you were recruiting someone to help you with a Go or Rust codebase in that domain, you wouldn't pass over someone with a ton of relevant experience via C++ who hadn't spent much time with Rust/Go yet.

Focusing on the language rather than the skills/application (even when there's a heavy correlation between the language and associated skills) excludes good candidates and includes irrelevant ones
What does constitute a historically underrepresented background to get a grant? Does that mean that grandparent might have been poor but not had access to a grant because they're not considered underrepresented according to RC criteria?
There is quite difference between missing first day and missing first morning meeting. I can see how article author would read this and think he is complying.
This isn’t the first time Greenland’s glaciers have receded. The name is a bit of a clue after all about its condition when the Vikings named it.

Edit: Covered in a reply, but for those who don't read it please understand I was referring to the Medieval Warm Period[1].

[1[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
"It’s an amazing demonstration of the adaptability of life."

Ya. Just as awesome as chemosynthetic life forms adapted for hydrothermal vents.

It's hard not to be dumb stuck.
Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
This is why Microsoft, for all its faults, has huge mindshare in the enterprise: they don't give up on anything, and when they do, they give you years to make the transition.
To be fair, the orientation is the only mandatory meeting you have to go to and the remote transition probably makes these logistics harder.
Thanks for the links. Comes to show how cognitive bias works.
Is it even legal to force a foreign company to sell an asset to a US company?
Why Svelte Is Like Rust
I'm a nuclear fission power plant designer. I write a lot about nuclear reactor development history and nuclear economics. One of the most interesting ways to decarbonize with nuclear fission at the scale and pace necessary is to use shipyards to serial construct GW-scale nuclear power plants on offshore floating platforms. This allows us to do Henry Ford serialization while capturing economies of scale. This method was very seriously considered in the 1970s and 1000 people built the production facility in Jacksonville, FL. It was called Offshore Power Systems (a joint venture between Westinghouse and the Newport News Shipyards) and there's a wonderful writeup about it in a 1975 New Yorker [1], plus my summary of it from earlier this year [2].

This form of nuclear production got an actual construction license from the NRC after incredible amounts of environmental study.

It may raise eyebrows, but consider that in deep water tsunamis are a few feet tall, earthquakes are non-existent, and huge ships like the Prelude are designed to handle category-5 cyclones. You also have infinite access to cooling water and can design in a sink-safe worst-case scenario with a engineered recovery operation.

If we were serious about decarbonizing right now and I were in charge, I think I would march over to S. Korea and try to get their world-class nuclear construction people (KEPCO) hooked up with their world-class shipyard people and just start hammering them out.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/05/12/the-atlantic-g...

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-sys...
This puts into words what I have suspected for a long time. When we were considering which cloud platform to move onto, we considered Google Cloud for about five seconds before someone said “How long until they kill it?”. And all of us knew exactly what they meant. It feels like Google’s main mode of operation is killing projects. We ended up going with AWS.
Each time I listen to climate change scientists and consultants who talk about the numbers, I clearly see how people will die because of it, but it's crazy how powerless I feel about it.

It seems the only good to go about it is to educate people so that they can understand why their standard of living will be forcefully taken from them so that their children can live better lives.

Climate change is the worst punishment caused by individualism, even worse than inequality. I'm still staying optimistic, but in the end I think that carbon reductions will reduce the average standard of living of all humans on earth, and that's the most worrying fact, in my view.
Show HN: Spartan HUD Augmented Reality Helmet
sure, I think what I've used translates to the title "digital design"
For a few years, I've thought that attending the Recurse Center could be a great thing to do.

Now I'm reading this story, and the story itself destroyed about 50% of my interest in the Recurse Center.

I'd expect an institution like the Recurse Center to be able to see what happened here, make a graceful accommodation in this instance, and try to improve it in the future. This story is about a systems-level failure, not an individual-level failure.

So, RC acting as if this is an individual-level failure is extremely off-putting to me.

I don't think I have an unreasonable take on the situation. So now this /u/rcthrowaway account shows up... and it's odd to me.

If it represents Recurse Center, I'm baffled at how tone-deaf the account is, and it's _rapidly_ destroying the other 50% of my interest in RC.

If I found out, conclusively, that this anonymous account speaks for RC, I will never again consider attending RC.

Which makes me think - how might I speak, if _I_ created an anonymous account, and wanted to destroy the reputation of an institution? I'd say exactly the kinds of things that the anonymous account is saying.

So it's either 1) tonedeaf and revealing of deep institutional ill-health, or 2) a false-flag operation trying to attack the Recurse Center.

If option 2 is true, my interest and curiosity is sparked, and maybe I _would_ attend RC.

I'm in the middle of a long sabbatical from work. I could do it right now if I wanted to, but this story strikes it completely from my list.

If you're out there and reading this, Recurse Center, I would recommend adopting a perspective that your side of this story looks _really bad_.

Edit: Spelling. For years I thought it was the "Recourse" center, not "Recurse" center. TIL!
This meanwhile fell behind with the times. I would recommend the submitted article rather than Spolsky's.
I hope you do know that the Indian WITCH companies hire a lot of people from US on h1b. From what I heard, most of the companies such as Infosys stopped bringing people from India 1.5 to 2 years ago. One team I know has been hiring only US MS H1Bs at least since 2010. Its actually easier for them to hire foreign MS students straight out of US colleges, because they are desperate for h1b, than bringing someone from India. The MS graduate can be placed in projects right away, while it will take several months to bring someone from India. Many of these students will accept whatever salary they are offered if they are running out of OPT or whatever its called. So when you are seeing Infosys got x visas, that doesn't mean they are bringing x people from India. Probably half or more of them were h1bs hired in US - either students or h1bs who are changing jobs while in US.
The Intervision Song Contest (Интервидение), a second world alternative to Eurovision[1], ran the voting by telling people to turn off or on their lights, during specific time slots for each candidate. Supposedly they could tell by the electrical load on the grid who got the popular vote.

[1] for the yanks, this show gave us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsVeMz1F5c&t=60
Badly written article and bad comments here.
Apple never warned to not tape over the camera. They warned against using a too-thick third party device that physically wrecks your hardware if you are a moron.
Kill switches do not kill for good...have you never heard of kill switches in cars?
Even if taking the loss is a right choice, I think it's fair to characterize it as giving up, as compared to the alternative of fighting to contain the disease at all costs which some countries are still trying.
The project is barely related to SARS-CoV-2, the title is almost a linkbait.
For brevity and wit, the most impressive email address I ever saw was up@3.am - and the most impressive website was http://ws./

Sadly, ws. is not serving right now it seems - I had no idea root ccTLDs could vend an A record but there you go; I guess technically that means the root servers themselves could vend A records, which would let you have the ultimate website at http://./
Why is a company entitled to having customers that give the benefit of the doubt, try to work out something, and act in private before making public statements?

The owner of the blog felt like the billing update was shady, sent an email, and complained harshly on Twitter. Regardless of the harshness of the tweet, that is literally a customer wanting to work something out and providing feedback. It's what every company should want. It's even better than working it out privately because Twitter is a public platform that ghost can utilize to make their customer service look better. "We have given you a free 30-day upgrade so you have more time to think about this. In the meantime, we will take your feedback into consideration and discuss this internally. Thank you for being a loyal customer" or whatever corporate-speak ghost wants to partake in.

Cutting the customer off completely, knowing full well that they will then talk about this publicly, is not only the complete opposite of working things out professionally, but works against ghost's public image.

This is the exact kind of customer a company wants. They go public with complaints that can be easily fixed and remedied. It's the easiest form of free goodwill.
Sukhoi Fighter Jets in Southeast Asian Countries – Part 1
Of the various types of Sukhoi fighter aircraft, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, are 4 countries in Southeast Asia, which use Sukhoi in the air force military structure.
The following is a comparison of the types and specifications of Sukhoi fighter types, which are owned by each country.
Do to a reorg, one of our best software engineers has been placed in an architect role. He’s doing a fantastic job but I wonder if this is the type of work he wants to be doing (to my knowledge he did not seek out the role). The role is designed as a split architect/dev role but he hasn’t written a line of code in months. I’ve been meaning to reach out and see how he’s feeling about things and to make sure we address any concerns (this is somebody we absolutely want to keep on the team) but just haven’t made the time to do so. I now have a sticky note to reach out on Monday, thanks for the reminder!
Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research
Ironically, something has autosubstituted an em dash "—" for your original double hyphens...
5g still needs backhaul infrastructure.
Google messed up when it sold boston dynamics (where's my cooking, dishwashing, and laundry (folding) robot?), didn't buy github, and sold motorola (i just bought my wife a motorola edge)
Or the "mozzarella" on the pizzas which is actually oil and protein-based
How much more capital could they get if they had really talented fundraisers? Both for profit and non profit companies have the same goals - to make money. What they do with their money is different. Could Mozilla save money and be just as effective if they got a bunch of a boot camp grads?
A Blogging Tip: Stop Beating Around The Bush
>If you go look at the climate science literature, you'll find that all different kinds of models and explanations have been proposed and studied. Those alternatives have been looked at in detail by people in the field, just like any other study. None of them have been found to better match the data.

Because the system is chaotic and we can't predict it beyond a week. Maybe a day at best. Once you can predict hurricanes, volcanoes, and tropical storms, then let me know.

You can over-fit any data. I guess ML still has to learn this basic concept from statistics 101.

Anyways, I appreciate the discussion, thank you. I'm a bit irate this week.

You can harness chaos in space because things are really far apart. It doesn't work on Earth, or our stock market would be linear.
Don’t be obtuse. You know it’s either race or sex based. If they were open to poor Indian or Appalachian men they’d mention that kind of thing explicitly.
> Shutting down nuclear to replace with gas is so backwards.

As a now-deleted comment observed, gas wells often mean methane methane leaks as well. Methane is 84x worse than CO2 for global warming:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential

There's a growing move towards new (HFO-1234yf [1]) refrigerants (for AC/HVAC) because a lot of the current ones (R-134a, Freon [2]) aren't good for climate change. We went to the current ones to fix the problem of the old ones (R-12 [3]) with the o-zone layer.

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene

* [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane

* [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifluoromethane
Depends on whether the organization that approves the labeling has a trademark on it. If it's a trademarked phrase, you can't sell it with that label at all.
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OK, seattle; Washington State is one of my favorite places. I'm african, I didn't think twice: I mistakenly walked out of the bar with my beer in my hand, to fetch something from the car.

The ten minute fiasco that followed, during which I was not permitted to re-enter the bar with my beer, but not permitted to put my beer in the trash can, nor permitted to "finish it" and throw the can away, I had to "pass it over the line" with outstreched arms, as though it was radioactive.

(edit: mis-remembered. I actually had to pass it over the wall that surrounded the entrance, not over the entranceway itself. Maybe that's part of the rules).

There were no cops on the scene, but I FELT we were on the verge of someone calling nine-fucking-one-one.

In order to re-enter the pub (closest to my airbnb), I had to "ask forgiveness", and I was "lucky enough" to have it bestowed on me.

Honestly I felt like a forty year old child.
Can you share your patches? I'm still using 52esr in some very limited contexts and an upgrade would be great
No, I'm US, I moved to Europe for QoL, then went to South America for the same. After Trump got elected, I felt pretty vindicated on the decision and have no plans to go back to the US. Also, I didn't learn Danish, it's really hard (3+ years to be any sort of good at it, usually) and you can only speak to 5M people once you learn it anyway. Plus all the educated Danes speak flawless English, they watch our TV from birth. I'm working on Spanish right now since its much easier and you actually need it in SA. If you're giving any thought to it, I stringly recommend moving abroad, even for a short time, you will grow more than you can imagine and get exposed to so much that you just can't get in your home country.
It's my understanding that the name Greenland was used to attract new settlers, not because it actually was a good description.

[From Wikipedia] The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favorable name."
Oh yeah, facing the worst health crisis in a century and it's disingenuous to not engage the Republican talking points despite there being zero evidence for them (and there is evidence to the contrary!) while they systematically dismantle the postal service from the inside to "save money" right now, in this moment.

No, they don't deserve the legitimacy of being engaged with as if what's going on isn't criminal or corrupt. It is, and those are the facts on the ground.
I don't know how scalable it is, but isn't concentrated solar power fairly environmentally benign? That system uses mirrors and lenses to boil water and generate steam. The steam drives turbines attached to generators.

There are certainly some environmental effects, as described at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power#Envir...

But the basic model seems cleaner to me.
Much more common for people to call other types of sparkling wine "champagne", eg. an Italian prosecco or whatever.
AMC to re-open 100 theaters with 1920’s ticket prices of 15 cents
Basically counterfeit Champagne :D
How to Write a Coding Tutorial
Going fullscreen in youtube is always instant in Chrome. In Firefox however, it is very slow (like 5s) when you have 1000 tabs open.

Even opening a select box is slow, if you have several 1000 tabs.

Funny enough, opening a new window (and keeping all the other tabs open) makes it fast again, if you are in that window.

Seems like Firefox has some slow code paths, like notifying every tab about going fullscreen?
Greenland's name was partly marketing:

> After finding a habitable area and settling there, he named it Grœnland (translated as "Greenland"), supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers.[20][21][22] The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favorable name."[23]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Etymology
Agreed, this drastically changed my opinion of Recurse.
> I have seen too many colleagues that instead of engineers are Google extperts or Amazon experts and lack a broad view of software engineering.

Maybe that's the key to quick success?

Because I know tons of well paid frontend devs that do not understand even the most basic web technologies. They are however good in using 2-3 specific frameworks.
I agree. Maybe RC will update the FAQ after this incident to make the severity of missing the first meeting in particular clearer.
How does this work? Also, why can't nslookup resolve it?
Employees paying might make sense if the employees were paid on some sort of commission basis. Then it’s in the employees personal interest to find ways to make themselves more efficient so as to maximize their own income. But for a salaried employee, there is not enough incentive for them to pay out of their own pockets.

Basically the statement you made that employees are paid based on value delivered is not really accurate in most cases.
Accepting emotions in their whole shape and size as they are and occur is something that I've been struggling with (and am still struggling with) since childhood, especially since the way I've been brought up essentially repressed expressing or even exhibiting whole classes of emotional reactions. Psychotherapy works in my case, but is also long, painful, and tiring.

Any kind of scientific (and legal) development in other means of helping in this matter will be beneficial for future people who will need to suffer less after prolonged psychological stress and/or trauma.
A library being dependably bad is not good. Sometimes changes really are good enough to break an api. It does take a significant amount of communication to do this without pissing people off, though.
Doesn't seem that odd? They're not claiming to speak officially for them, and could easily be an alumni etc that wants to present "the other side" but not tie it to their main identity.
Google are not competing with DO for developer mindspace, for large enterprises stability matters a lot more than new features and enterprise support matters too, for startups serving enterprises they don't do much either, what's left is consumer focused companies like SnapChat who can thrive on just innovative new tech.

I can get Microsoft on a call anytime, I have account managers responsible who talk to me atleast once a month, reach their product teams, get preview access, get the MS account manager of my customer to help with a deal, put them in front of my customer, help with compliance, even get their sales guys to recommend my product. To a lesser extent I can do a lot of that with AWS too, with even sub $100k/year spends they will still put an account manager for you. I am not sure any of this was possible with GCP for most customers.

It is extremely hard to get a human from Google to talk to you even at $100k+/year GCP spends. Google has contracted a lot of partners to do all the heavy lifting in support for them so they don't have to do the hard work. It does not work, the partners can not do much beyond what is available on the portal or clarify beyond the documentation.

Azure serves enterprises really well, and has really made effort with developers and their support for startups in fantastic, AWS is not as good yet, however it feels like they are really trying and their tech popularity works in their favour and they care about backward compatibility a lot S3 API from 2006 still works. With Google and GCP it does not even look as though they are trying at all.