skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got that setup right now, but I find that the door on top of two-drawer HON file cabinets is just a bit (about 1.5 inches) too high for a normal office chair, and isn't doing my wrists any favors either. What I really need is a very thin desktop that's just as solid.
Now is the perfect opportunity. Q4 is coming and while the company you're interviewing for may not think in quarters, their client or somebody further in the food chain definitely is.
Keep in mind the original post was going so far as to talk about a having different protocol stacks (not TCP/IP), different display protocols, and different IO ports (Apple devices do have some of the latter). And if JPEGs aren't supported through libjpeg, we're actually talking about a completely different computing paradigm, so it's not even a von Neumann architecture. In the fact of that staggering amount of difference, the slight difference iOS and current MacOS have from Linux and Windows is very shallow. That for many things you can easily throw a compiler on there and compile the same open source project and it will link to the already existing libraries it needs, the same ones it will find on other platforms, shows this.

While I don't know enough to comment authoritatively on it, I think with respect to this Apple might have taken a step backwards (at least with respect to percentage of system that is unique, if not in total amount of libraries and code) when it switched to OS X. OS 9 and its prior versions were an entirely unique and custom OS designed at Apple. The whole switch to OS X was taking a UNIX core for stability and building on top of it.

Apple systems are quite different than the norm in many respects, but the scope of this discussion is so large that there's really little they do that's different than everyone else from that perspective, because nobody does anything different. It's hard to start from scratch and ignore approximately 80 years of concerted computer science effort and come up with something useful and usable in any sort of time frame that makes it worthwhile.
>both machines have to use Wi-Fi - it doesn't work over LAN at all

This has to be one of the most baffling statements I've ever read on the internet. What on Earth could the possibly be doing that this is the case?

Edit: Never mind. Another comment says that it's actually a feature of certain Intel WiFi chipsets, so it's not that you have to be using WiFi in general, it's that both devices have to be using specific Intel WiFi chips that support the feature.
I've seen too many people who clearly have been coasting for 20 years (or people who are simply applying to a position that's not actually aligned with those 20 years of experience).

Those 24 year old interviewers are the ones you'll have to train, so you need to, at minimum, be able to do their jobs.
>large numbers of N95 masks

Certifications take time, masks are simple, testing takes time.

This is a government problem, not a manufacturing problem.
If you like this you might also enjoy:

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Joseph Cross' work on Destiny https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnGaR

- Designers Republic's work on Wipeout https://i.imgur.com/pBAf4uH.png
Don’t forget their competitors in the space are Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They won’t be able to do more than make a dent to that market share.
A sensory deprivation flotation tank almost drowned me
A blog explaining the history and business of Nvidia and ARM and why this acquisition
The 2012 Forbes story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/09/18/chuck-...

Biography from 2013: https://www.powells.com/book/billionaire-who-wasnt-how-chuck...

The last time he was reported as giving away "the last of his fortune", in the NY Times, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/nyregion/james-bond-of-ph...

NY Times at $1B left in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/your-money/a-billion-to-s...

At $1.5B left: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/nyregion/a-billionaire-ph...

NYT on his secrecy in 2007: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/nyregion/26about.html

Series when he was outed in 1997 while trying to remain anonymous: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/02/business/lone-rangers-of-..., https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/weekinreview/they-gave-mi..., https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/24/nyregion/quiet-man-with-b..., https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/nyregion/a-man-who-repaid..., https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/nyregion/he-gave-away-600..., https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/nyregion/giving-a-fortune...
That sounds about right. FAANG companies usually need generalists because teams are so big and scopes shift often enough that the ability to pinch hit becomes an important trait. Or if they need specialists, they usually need [company]-flavored specialists, which you can't be if you didn't come from internally.

In my experience the managers usually have a pretty good idea of what work they need filled, but because the hiring pipeline produces generalists, there's some after the fact matching of interest and experience to the available list of projects.
It’s really not that complicated. Anthropologists study ways that current and ancient humans enacted spiritual beliefs, then see if there is evidence for Neanderthals having similar practices.

The problem with skepticism (and relativism, for that matter) is that it’s entirely unproductive. Yes yes, we can’t really know anything, but that doesn’t change the fact that you need to wake up and experience the world every day, driven in part by a cultural/biological drive to find the ‘truth.’
Great feedback. Were you thinking of any specific data sources?
Which company do you work for again?
Scala is perfect for just delivering, myself and my business partner have been using it to rapidly prototype and build for a decade now. You just avoid all the stuff that tries to make scala into haskell and use it as the hybrid OO/functional language is was designed as.
And if you're doing ruby or nodejs or a handful of other languages, you can use the XCode CLI and most of your code (possibly all) will never see the App Store submission queue.
Inverse functions and derivatives: theory and applications
Obviously one would want them to save money. Same reason the seller put fake marks on.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has left the world with "only one way" and the drift into privatization have accelerated since.

But even the people in the US have been in favour of some sort of universal health care since well before USSR collapsed but still haven't been able to "vote in" people supporting that. So it's a pretty strange argument to make.
Please stop making the world a worse place. There are so many other fields you could contribute to.
It would be funny if the logos for the various "corporate" factions were just Helvetica words inside a rectangle.
This is what I'm doing at the moment. I'm just translating to Java right now so I can have a robust platform to target; it's working well for me, but it would be nice if I could go directly to bytecode. However, that work doesn't add value until latency matters.
I thought google does leetcode/whiteboard questions . How did you get in without being able to write fizzbuzz.

Not sure if you are trolling.
you can still use old.reddit.com to access the site and set that as your default if you're logged in, my experience hasn't changed much since the redesign
There are 1.9 billion acres in the contiguous US, making 1% about 19 million acres.

a bad wildfire year is ~10 million acres or ~0.5% (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf). It seems conceivable that we surpass that significantly this year.
That's a nice way of seeing it and there's definitely good information being shared in these comments, which may help many people.

Maybe these transparent content marketing articles ignite my skepticism
> In February 2011, Feeney became a signatory to The Giving Pledge. In his letter to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the founders of The Giving Pledge, Feeney writes, "I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living—to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater."
Last time I worked with CAD people, solidworks was making inroads on autoCAD. It's a slow change industry.
I tried explaining that here: https://inside.java/2020/08/07/loom-performance/
DigitalOcean's New App Platform
My pragmatic suggestion is to use small OSs running on small hardware like a Raspberry Pi. You start with the terminal and end at GUIs.

Unfortunately, this disregards another aspect of a pragmatic picture, which is that to start off with, probably none of the teachers at a random school would even be able to open a terminal on some linux setup... Which leads us to... YouTube! Hmm. I think we are stuck again.
Paul "By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” Krugman.
"if I'm hitting the accelerator hard, how could it be that I'm not currently moving fast?"

I guess we'll see when they adopt these bubble barriers, or something similar.
My spouse works as a career counselor at a university and students often end up with exactly this problem. Many of them come to the solution of accepting the less favored offer and continuing to interview, and then reneging on the company that made the exploding offer.

Sometimes, employers will call my spouse up and complain that students have reneged and she shouldn't have allowed them to do so!
I'm no fan of Apple, but they now own everything from chips and hardware to the OS and 30% of app store revenue, and they are the most valuable company on Earth.
This seems to be the idea behind Vim registration: “You can become a registered Vim user by sending at least 10 euro. This works similar [read: basically identically] to sponsoring Vim (see above). Registration was made possible for the situation where your boss or bookkeeper may be willing to register software, but does not like the terms "sponsoring" and "donation".” https://www.vim.org/sponsor/
Nope, I think lots of people perform 'low skill' in a whiteboard scenario that are not. And the arrogance of their interviewers gets them on HN making very bold claims about other people's skill levels without consideration for the scenarios involved.

Don't get me wrong-- I've worked with very incompetent people. Many of them would have passed a coding interview though.
If I understand the terminology correctly, comparative advantage is used within a country (or island) while absolute advantage is used between countries. China has both a comparative advantage and an absolute advantage in manufacturing masks.

Additionally, mask making in the US has very low comparative value. Us workers and business have much better products they to produce.

Dave Chappelle hit the nail on the head in one of his standup routines "I wanna wear Nikes, I don’t wanna make those things. Stop trying to give us Chinese jobs"
As others have mentioned, `C-h t` should be enough to get you comfortable using it as your daily driver. From there the sky is the limit!
But did Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China reach their current status without utilizing free trade? That's the important question here, and it's certainly not trivial.
In my own Sangha (community) of lay people, we have several who observe the 8 daily precepts. Every retreat I have gone to, I have never seen monks eat more than one meal a day.
I didn't say they couldn't criticize the project. From the comment, it sounded like they had some good knowledge on the subject. Was curious if they ever designed a language, or helped out on one.
If you bought something that was fake, would you want me to seize everything you buy in the future, after you pay?
The empire building thing is the worst.

"We don't actually have anything for you to do, we just have funding for three more people, and we need to hire people for those slots or we'll lose our funding. And our team size is in the second quintile for headcount, so we need to grow a little."

So basically hiring bench warmers. I actually encountered that once in my so far 37 years. It was a total wtf moment for me.
> guaranteed to hit p999 latency

That's why people invented the backup request.
I used to see things the way you do.

Then I actually ended up in the position where I took on the responsibilities of a Project Manager in the course of building a department. I see it much differently now having worn both those hats as a generalist. You're tracking two different sides of the same body of work, and there is solid value that a good project manager provides in terms of producing a meaningful skeletal specification on which more in depth technical analysis and work can be done.

In addition, not all devs are full on gung ho let me throw something out there that I know will be mostly wrong until the details get filled in by everyone else. As a PM, you're as much the Rock in a pot of Rock Soup as you are the guy in meetings all the time. I've had to eat a lot of humble pie since getting saddled with building a department. The challenge is as much making sure things are in the right place at the right time, defining what the right time is, and making sure to unblock people as they run into obstacles.

It's a completely different type of work from straight up technical work, and is fundamentally destructive to maintaining the fine grained technical context you need to accurately implement something. You don't want to have to do it all at the same time.
Why would anyone think there was a relationship between the two? Nothing in Zen’s marketing mentions Zig.
I think current garbage sorting is waaay too inefficient, and this is fundamentally limits the recyclability rates.

This is especially obvious when you talk about stuff made of a lot of different materials.

Picking such things apart for different material streams is impossible to scale.

I was thinking, what if governments were mandating mandatory chemical tagging of all common materials, so you can just shred everything, and then separate materials using machines which can distinguish chemical tags.
> Role clarity is a huge one in my book.

While I could agree on larger tech companies, I certainly don't count this as a red flag for startups or smaller and/or younger tech departments within larger organizations.

A lot of times managers know they need more resources and/or skills but don't have a clear idea of exactly roles are divided - and maybe it's an organization with fluid or not defined roles in the first place.

I don't think that has to be a problem at all, on the contrary I thrive in such environments.

I've been at the same company for 3 years and I'm not sure I could give you a good answer to what, precisely, the role of me or my fellow engineers are. It's a pretty flat org. I'm happy to keep it that way.

Obviously there are many people that get frustrated or miserable without clear roles and responsibilities, but I think it's important that this is relative to the individual and not inherently a red flag.
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This is not a dupe.
There are multiple companies who are dependent on a programming language. Jane Street has adopted ocaml as the main language - they are the part of the ecosystem by now with many "core" libraries they created. RStudio is depending on R.
Interesting. It seems almost immoral to interview new hires when you know there are insurmountable problems at the company that make you consider leaving.

Not saying you are immoral here -- just that it does seem to pose a dilemma. I have not had to interview someone for a company that I want to leave. It sounds like it would suck and require some level of internalized rationalization to go through with it.
I wonder what would it even take for the first "what will let you grow best as an individual human being" algorithmically even possible to judge? The spurious correlations alone from bad attempts to quantify it would be amusing.
Been thinking a lot about this - right now I run eng for a pretty broad product in healthcare, and there is overlap between eng and product.

In your case, it sounds like you have crappy product leadership. This is _way_ too common.

You need a cohesive product vision from the top down (VP/head of product), which they communicate to their team of PMs. The head of product needs to ensure that their team can make the correct product decisions. This means guidelines on where the product is going, what the company prioritizes, and how products inter-play/work together.

With an actual vision from the top down, these calls which your PM team bicker on should become easy.

An engineering analogy: the CTO/lead architect sets the standard for the direction of engineering, its services, etc. This is followed by everyone in the engineering org (hopefully) with alignment and without bickering. This SHOULD happen for product, too.

Really, I've noticed that at upper management this is literally your job: ensure that people make the right decision, whether they're your team, your peers, or upwards to the CEO.

You could probably reach out to your engineering leader and have them coach the head of product here. After all, that's the engineering leader's role - making sure their peers make the right decision and remove blocks from you, the engineer.

Regarding overlap, a good PM should amplify engineering. You might be a product focused engineer, but trust me: an engineering team cannot and should not be focused on writing user stories, performing research, and deciding the larger impact of features alongside their regular job of executing with code.
The main difference I'd say is that ARM holds more of a potentially captive industry that is totally intertwined with its IP. Most of the products that Samsung sell to other industries are more or less fungible with products that other third parties sell but the ARM design rights are going to be incredibly difficult to replace. Entire ecosystems of electronics and software are built on it.

There's a whole lot of inertia for Nvidia to take advantage of here while the rest of the industry figures out where it's going.
My field is propped up by various governments. My paycheck is a combination of sales, bailouts, and loan forgiveness. I also make lots of money.

Should I be in favor of cronyism?

I actually take the other side despite getting paid by them. These companies/Management made terrible decisions and continue to make terrible decisions. Instead of selling and replacing managers we are burdened with zombie companies.
Project managers are very useful when there are clients and budgets to deal with, as in outsourcing and contracting shops.

The role is not as useful in tech companies where developers are working permanently. It's actually hurting collaboration across teams if you start budgeting projects and people tightly.
The area covered is somewhat useless — actual coverage depends hugely on how leaky the building is and how windy it is. The goal is to get enough air through filters that the incoming smoky air is diluted enough by filtered air to achieve a good average particle count.

A handheld particle counter helps a lot.
Quick Guide to Building Electon Apps for ARM Linux and the Raspberry Pi
The new AI is different than the algorithms of old. The old algorithms are one size fits all and everyone get exactly the same schlock. The new AI knows you individually and shows you as an individual the kinds of things that you are most likely to engage with. It doesn't matter at all if the kinds of things you as an individual are more likely to engage with have less inflammatory headlines. The system is still doing the same thing to you as it's doing to everyone else.
Your comment didn't contain any information. It was just mean. When you do that, you make HN a nastier place.

These effects are always greater than the person adding the poison imagines they are—and worse, they compound over time. That path leads to the destruction of the forum as the most desirable users gradually get disillusioned and leave, and the proportion of nastiness grows among those who remain. The idea of HN has always been to try to stave that outcome off for as long as we can:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"Someone needs to hear the truth" is not an argument that carries much water because (1) it's what every internet asshole says, and (2) if you present the truth in a nasty way, you actually discredit the truth by giving neutral readers a reason to reject it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). In the future, if you have some truth to share, doing so respectfully will help protect the forum and will get the information across to more people.
A lot of people might think "Ah, well, fasting is clearly effective for the 1/3 that are able to carry it out, just gotta make sure you have the willpower to be the 1/3."

But hold on. Slow down. There's a good chance the "women who fasted had better chemo responses" story completely REVERSES cause and effect. Here's how:

WOMEN 1 - Has indolent biology, slower growing tumor than your average breast cancer at this stage.
- Symptoms: Less pain, neuropathy, less swelling, tumors not affecting distant organs as much

WOMEN 2 - Has aggressive biology, faster growing tumor than your average breast cancer at this stage.
- Symptoms: More pain, neuropathy, more swelling, tumors begin to affect distant organs

So ask yourself: Which women is more likely to be able to follow a strictly regimented diet?

Clearly WOMEN 1.
Agree. Remove all animations. As a user/reader I don't need a 1 second animation when clicking through pages.
I know Rust uses the turbofish (foo::<Type>()) to solve it in expressions. As long as you keep type definitions strictly separated from expressions, it should be fine. But also there's various common syntax patterns that cause unbounded lookahead (arrow functions for instance)
As a long-time dual monitor user planning to upgrade to 3 along with an upgrade to a 3080 next month, you are a god among men and I aspire to your level of screen real estate.

What does it take to run all of that these days? Can you manage with two video cards?
As written it's it won't just call /usr/bin/curl, but the first curl in $PATH. Not to mention just hardcoding /usr/bin/curl isn't portable (Android/NixOS don't have a /usr/bin like you expect). Also take a look at this: https://christine.website/blog/OVE-20190623-0001
No I don't. I live in an immutable, four-dimensional world /s

These are all just models of the real world, not the reality. The real world can be modeled equally accurately as mutable or immutable, it just depends which properties of the real world you care about modeling.
Cool, a blood oxygen sensor. What a revolutionary new sensor that Garmin watches have had for only 3 years now.
> Why should the landlord fit the bill because Jonhy does want to live in a high sought place?

It's just one of the very few risks a person of wealth might have to accept, should they decide to use their elevated position in society to inflict landlordism upon people.
I'm glad Java is being conservative and not doing that. JS/Python f-strings have not proven themselves long-term. It also bloats the language with yet another mini-DSL. You can always add a proper templating engine on top.
Our favorite bug for newbies using moment.js:

const somedate = moment(...somedate...);
const oneMonthLater = somedate.add(1, 'M');
const dateToCheck = ...; // between somedate and somedate + 1 month

if (dateToCheck.isBetween(somedate, oneMonthLater)) {
// do something
}

The puzzled looks when the tests fail. I'll miss that. Seriously.