skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not that you’re a worse programmer but rather that if I hire a contracting firm that employs you and a dozen programmers worse than you, that you’re the one on the initial sales and scoping calls, then if I’ve thought to ask, you’re assigned to my project for a few weeks until you are pulled off (to the next sales engagement requiring someone actually competent) and a less competent programmer from the bench is free to take your seat. Then, when the project starts falling behind, another is added on T&M basis because some scope changed somewhere no doubt...

The firm has every incentive to do this (including hiring cheap programmers who would have difficulty remaining employed directly on their abilities) and I’ve seen this happen more than rarely. There are good and terrible programmers everywhere in the world, yet I can’t ever recall the “new programmer on your account” being excellent; I don’t think that’s by chance.

The “outsourcing” of critical functions concerns me way more than the “off-shoring” does.
‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.
A problem with "logic" is that there is no one, true system. There are many possible logics and at a certain level of complexity they are more or less equivalent (a Turing machine, for example) It's a just a system of symbols that we refine to represent our world. After we spend enough work inventing a powerful symbolic system we can get confused, turn it upside-down, and start thinking that it has some inherent meaning. That's silly.
dito, don't we have enough producers of cloths, they are even customizable.
and not only cloths, do we need 10+ car manufacturers? millions brands of beverages, beers, etc.
The GTK fork is great, but it’s so slow - especially on HiDPI displays.

I tried it out on my 4K monitor and I felt a noticeable increase in typing latency. It started to feel a lot more like VS Code.

Ultimately I was about to get HiDPI support working in Xwayland in Sway with a series of patches and I ran Lucid Emacs, which was much faster and made the latency increase go away entirely.
Kernel exploitation: weaponizing CVE-2020-17382 MSI Ambient Link driver
The argument put forward by this agency, doesn't actually hold much weight.

Feels more like their choice was made to fit with the agency capability.
Makes me happy to hear some physicists still use Emacs.

- Former physicist turned programmer
I'm not sure it's typical to have cameras all over one's house. Maybe at the entrances or just one to watch for porch pirates, but I have no reason to believe they're common indoors. In fact, that seems to be a reason to have a drone like this. You get to add an indoor camera that's difficult to be used for spying since it has to visibly and audibly move off the dock (it could be moved while the person isn't home, but if they spot it, they'll know something is up)
When you place a booking, it shows you the collection address. But you're probably right, this should be a lot more visible before you get to that stage.

The idea is that you refer customers to this site from your main website, but its still valid feedback
1+1=2.

That isn't an approximation. It is a core principle, not just of math, but of the laws of our universe. It is so core, that it's impossible to imagine a universe without it.

or maybe it is an approximation. Maybe there is some essence of the universe that gives is additiveness - and maybe if you could see closer/bigger/faster, maybe that too would break down.

We should take nothing for granted.
Most everyone I know, myself included, who are professionals working from home are doing little to no work in "high end mobile apps". We are working on either desktops or laptops in applications like Microsoft Office and websites. If one doesn't know how to use technology in general, they will miss out, but no one in my industry is missing out if they are not using "high end mobile apps".
Stable C++ ABI depends on implementation, it’s not inherent to the language.
Static generation is common approach, and has gained a lot of popularity in recent years.
maybe because they distributed the output of their limited technology better than we do?

there's just too much busy-work in modernity
Ugh yes I don't like this as well. Even if they're all useful, I'd do it with one method that accepts some optional arguments, this is unnecessarily confusing.
I was reading this comment on my phone and had to jump on my computer to say: you should absolutely take this article/Haseeb seriously, yes people say these exact things over the phone.

I was looking for a new job in the recent past along with a family member (both software eng. roles), and spent a good chunk of time doing research - reading articles like this - and practicing (eventually via companies early in my "pipeline"), and while I didn't use these lines verbatim, the conversation was actually a lot closer to that than you think.

And we both received NON-TRIVIAL adjustments to non-negotiable offers. And we were both very surprised it worked.

It may seem stilted or awkward, but I think that's the point. Recruiters and experienced managers have their own script that is more-or-less designed to make you feel awkward; make you feel like you're getting a great deal and asking for more is greedy. If you get more comfortable with being awkward, while still remaining professional and having clear expectations (vs. saying "not good enough, want more"), and you have a good alternative, you can use these strategies.
WordPress has never internalised the ideas of API-first development or the ability to have a lightweight core, and to this day it’s still treated as an addon piece that could someday be removed.

(Source: I wrote the REST API in WordPress and lead the API team for many years.)
These are the types of comments I maintain an account here for! They also serve as a nice reminder of how far ahead of me some people are intellectually even from a young age.

Now on the topic discussed, using gravitational waves for data transfer instantly reminded me of UVB-76. A similar system but with global reach would be extremely useful for a lot of agencies...
> There's no way my wife would allow all those wires everywhere. And the wireless security cameras are a pain because you have to remember to recharge them.

This is some misogynistic bull because you’re implying that only women would care about unsightly wires strung around the place.

Educate yourself.
Thinking

No model can ever represent nature. A model helps prediction which helps convergence to certainty through consensus.

Although this opens a can of worms of what “accurately represented” means. A threshold comes into account. Then it unpacks into what is existence.

Fun stuff...

I’ve been thinking a lot of “errors” in our models (language, ideas, etc) are emergent from not considering change. Nothing in the universe is still. Everything changes or vibrates. The only things that are still, don’t exist.

It makes me imagine that we need an evolution in our language and core reasoning that intrinsically embeds change and or perspective (relativity?)

I’ve had this thought recently again based on studying what numbers are. The definition of numerals vs numbers vs integers and number theory, etc...

Even the “numbers” that we try to reference seems to exist as non fixed value of infinite change. Also makes me think of what is that core “thing” that allows a number to expose itself within our frame of reality? It seems to consistently show itself through mathematics and information theory and computer science. Perhaps all related to geometry in some way?
We are encouraging people to share this information by guessing the salaries of your LinkedIn connections at PeerWyse.com, we then aggregate the guesses into ranges of individuals you know so you can compare yourself usefully to actual people you know something about.
Would you pay to follow an influencer?
I also like yo remain skeptical ubtil I see things with my own eyes. Our views are heavily controlled by the MSM, I've never been able to buy into what they are selling. It is way too convenient since we are the main war machine in the past half century. They never get local shit right so Im also supposed to believe Mordor exists? How far fetched of an idea we got everyone to believe. Who's got the ring?
Apollo Ends at Venus: A 1967 Proposal for Single-Launch Piloted Venus Flybys
You conveniently omit the inclusion of mercurial in the list. Mercurial is as powerful as git is--in a few cases, arguably more so (phases make history rewriting safe!)--and yet there is pretty objectively far less confusion for newbies than git has.

There's ample evidence that git is unnecessarily complicated for the DVCS model it uses.
This isn't a sensible approach.

We need experts to develop products from a code PoV.

We need experts to create content.

Not many content creators are great developers and visa versa.
I mean I’m in the industry of building and selling them. It’s weird to me that they’re hitting a software engineer with their own company’s ads.

As you allude to, you’d think the ads need to land in front of the business and management types in warehouse and industrial spaces.

It feels like they can’t target precisely enough so they just kind of target certain keywords that is a very widely cast net.

It happened at my last company too. They were so proud of being a real company with an ad campaign and then I immediately saw their ads all the time. I was really expecting some level of precision.
1 drop of water + 1 drop of water = 1 drop of water

1 river + 1 river = 1 river

1 stick - 1/2 stick = 2 stick
Comments on this topic, on this and previous articles, almost universally blame Boeing management for issues including lack of QA. So please take whatever anti-Indian racism ax you've got to grind somewhere else.

edit: Although I do find it funny that your comment generalizes that all HN posters are Americans and that all Americans think alike.
I happened to be looking around to see if there was a rust rewrite of rsync last night and stumbled across this post by the author of pijul that helps explain the benefits of pijul over git:

> Git is great in many ways, but doesn't really know how to merge changes correctly. Even worse, it doesn't know how to "unmerge" changes.

> It does try to merge branches, though, but doesn't give you any reliable guarantee on the result. For the unmerging part, it doesn't even try and you have to rebase your changes yourself, still without strong guarantees.

> Pijul uses a patch algebra to do these things, where patches have several nice properties:

> • Any two patches A and B either commute, or one of them explicitly references the other. This means that repositories behave as _sets of patches_ rather than as a linear history.

> • Patches are associative: applying C on top of a repository that has A and B will yield the same result as applying B and then C on top of a repository that has A. Git could have this, but unfortunately, it doesn't.

> • Patches have inverse patches.

> We also have a sane internal representation of conflicts, so that all conflicts don't have to be solved immediately after merging.

> I should add that Pijul is still quite unstable, and at this particular moment is in the middle of a giant protocol change.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/821sgo/announcing_rus...
Tautology, if you ask me - it's a meaningless statement that misses the point because corruptible is not binary, communism has a much worse track record re corruption than most capitalist countries. Sure, just like anything ever involving human elements, both are corruptible, but what's important is how bad does it get?
I don't understand why the subordinates are being charged. Their jobs were at stake, which in the USA means that their lives were at stake, because there is no legitimate social safety net here. It sounds like this guy Baugh deserves most of the blame and his subordinates should not be punished.
>I don't see any problem with that map, the ratios are mostly correct.

Whaaaaat?

You see the island off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, colored red? That's Jeju.

The Japanese island chain is almost unrecognizable; but the largest southern island ought to be Kyushu. In the real world, Kyushu extends significantly south of Jeju and is about twenty times the land area.

The small green island near to and west-south-west of Jeju is Taiwan. In the real world, that distance is more like 700 miles and more like south-south-west. Taiwan is also much larger than Jeju.

At the northern end of Japan, the NK map has Hokkaido as a tiny cross-shaped island on about same latitude as Pyongyang. In fact, it's 75% the size of North Korea and extends significantly past the northernmost extent of the country.

In the real world, Sakhalin - the long, thin island north of Japan - doesn't overlap at all with North Korea's latitudes.
Typing speed test right at the ease of your terminal – Mitype
What signal are we expecting to be able to detect? AFAIK the radio signals we've been emitting are garbled beyond recognition and way too weak even a few light-years away from earth. After all, most of our communication is directed at earth and the remainder is for at most geo stationary orbit. We generally don't transmit anything high energy that would stand a chance to be recognisable from afar.

Similarly signals from other civilisations will probably become scrambled by distance and because they might overlap heavily with the radiation emitted by their sun.
Indeed. This is one of the reasons we started maintaining what is essentially a WordPress-for-enterprise distro, with a mix of first- and third-party code. The third-party plugins we bundle with it are from the select few sources we trust to build and maintain quality code (typically our peers).
Can it be used for lending products for free?
I was wondering the same thing. Still images, maybe added blur. As the other commenter suggests, black and white.

Maybe combined with some machine learning to interpret what images show, giving a description before showing it to the moderators? There must be a large amount of horrendous pictures online with some form of labelling. I cant imagine being the person who has to sift through all that stuff though
The Software Revolution (Peter Norton, 1987)
I'd suggest using Drupal with a static generation tool, headless with Next.JS or Gatsby.
I can’t wait for all the Dr. Oz neutraceuticals to pumped after this: “cure your bowels Witt blueberry extract. Get your first bottle free!”* (only $49.99 for shipping and $100 every two weeks).
Yes - its possible to create a pricing plan for a product with a price of zero. In this configuration, Rentify can be used completely free of charge
Given the number of times I've had to go in and rescue someone using e.g. SVN or Hg, I can't say I've had the same experience.

The major problem is that as soon as you have a team of people with the same repo checked out, you have as many branches as you have people. These branches may not have explicit representations in the underlying VCS, but they exist just the same.

And so then you're dealing with scary "merge conflicts" for work that people have, from their perspective, already done but can't commit and push out.
Prince's vault reveals a brilliant trove with 'Sign O' the Times'
> A three-part series on the ongoing revolution in programming languages and environments

Part 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=w3AJLvysWFQC&lpg=PP1&hl=en...
Part 3: https://books.google.com/books?id=phxlBt4dX3oC&lpg=PP1&hl=en...
That’s way too bad. There needs to be more outrage toward the power FB is misusing.
Is it my imagination or bias, or did the NYT perhaps choose creepy-looking photos for Wenig and Wymer? But they look resting-crazy-face nuts to me. Who would hire people like that or work with them after such a scandal?
Python Enhancement Proposal 638 – Syntactic Macros
Neutrinos have energy (as particles), so they should have a wavelength (as a wave), so frequency modulation works. And you can measure intensity, so AM works, too, and you can build all other modulation schemes from these two.
> XP was the peak of desktop customizations.

Only if you consider computing is limited to Windows/Mac.
Unless the alien finds an inconsistency in our mathematics right?

Which reminds me of the short story by Ted Chiang, Division by Zero: https://fantasticmetropolis.com/i/division

"I can’t maintain the concept of distinct quantities in my mind anymore; they all feel the same to me"
My point (and probably my parent's too) is that America has dominated the shared culture for the past 100+ years (in good part thanks to Hollywood). Most people experience world maps and globes in two places: in schools, where they will be local-oriented, and in movies, which will be predominantly American.

(And if you're into science fiction, you've likely internalized the American view of Earth from space without even realizing it.)

I'm not passing judgement here - just saying that cultural influence isn't equal.
Even if it's as rare as one in a billion we'd still have to map billions of suns, their planets and actually look for it. Other than SETI I don't know any really serious, concerted efforts to looks for other signals of life.

Even the discovery here was somewhat random and required someone to start digging through recorded data.
Detectors are much much much cheaper to build than transmitters, humanity will never build a detectable gravity wave transmitter unless a new breakthrough on the scale of quantum mechanics is discovered or we have access to many orders of magnitude energy than we have today.

The main problem is how weak gravity is, two electrons have a greater influence on each others movement than two 1 kilogram objects at the same distance has. So unless we figure out a way to decouple gravity from mass we will never solve this problem, and doing that isn't possible with the theoretical physics we have today.
As much as I hate to draw attention to the man's article because on the one hand I really do think as a commentary on what the real cause of the 737 MAX incident was I think it's totally off the mark; but the article does highlight some cultural problems that exist in other parts of the world that could lead a reasonable reader to the conclusion that outsourcing is fraught given there's a chance of propagating bad habits abroad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...

I emphasize I only offer it as a source of examples of bad airmanship recognized abroad. I still patently reject his conclusions of ultimate fault for the 737 MAX crashes.

Given the choice between having the internal Boeing trainers mentioned in the article, or potentially delegating it to a contracted pilot with said deficient airmanship, without the context I personally have into the industry from extensive hobbyist research, I couldn't fault someone for being wary. Especially given experiences with outsourcing in other verticals.

It's just not a move that makes sense in the current business world either unless I'm woefully out of date. Training pilots on proper aircraft operating technique should be part of Boeing's core competency. Since you really can't separate a highly technical product like an airliner from the dissemination of the skills and knowledge to use it.

To be frank I think Boeing management is trying to pilot the company into a smoking crater. If I had voting rights capable of moving anything, I'd be looking at votes of no confidence across the management echelon.
Those are good questions, and I don't know the answer. I was only refuting the idea that Boeing in general doesn't outsource to India.
VMware Herald Bluetooth Covid-19 project
RSS-only content to ... make RSS feel exclusive? Ruin their own discoverability? As an RSS user, this seems like a terrible idea.
Mr. Wenig and Mr. Wymer have no such worries. In June, Mr. Wenig was re-elected to the board of General Motors, a position that pays $317,000 a year. Mary Barra, GM’s chief executive, called the cyberstalking scandal “regrettable” but noted “it didn’t involve any GM business.”

Mr. Wymer has a new job, as the chief executive of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. The chair of the board said the nonprofit was “aware” of what happened at eBay, but believes Mr. Wymer is “a leader with integrity” and was the unanimous choice for the job.

I'm uncomfortable with the way that "cancellation" can destroy people's careers without a proper trial, but after reading the article I'm also disgusted that these two are able to continue their careers without apparent repercussion.

Is the problem that I'm trusting the article without allowing the two to defend themselves? Is it better to trust the judicial system is sufficient? Or are extra-judicial "mob style" punishments actually a good thing in cases like this?
Aren’t you playing the victim so you’ll have the excuse to be the aggressor?
Most of this plain isn't true - afraid it does feel very much like a bubble there!

> - Uses PHP 5 spaghetti code with a handful of garbage event listeners and output buffering

I mean it has listeners for almost every event you might want to interupt and trigger something on that are well documented and have been for decades.

The PHP 5 code is very much legacy so I will grant you this.

> - Has no integration with composer at all

Composer support is absolutely fine and there are well maintained ways of keeping plugins and themes under Composer and have been for many years.

> - Doesn't have any form of content types without plugins

Yes, but adding further content types at the level of code or these plugins is easy, trivially so.

> - Has no cache, no theming engine, no multi-language, etc etc

It has several caches that are very powerful indeed, including those included by default. PHP is a theming engine.

Internationalisation built into the core, I'll grant the multi-language support is not as good as it might be. Could be better.

> - Beyond a media library it has literally no aspects of a "content management system"

I mean, people use it to run newspapers, so not sure if this is true. It depends what you need.

The organisations behind WordPress decided to meet their user need and provide a really good, well understood platform for content management with an extensively tested UX experience of end users. They prioritised this over developer niceities.

If the purpose of software is to augment human capacity and be genuinely useful, this was the right decision. The rough edges from a developer experience perspective have been largely smoothed off by a well established ecosystem like Roots.
If spotify management wishes to end an agreement with Joe they will. Why should spotify management end that agreement? Because a group of employees want it?

Let's say that happens. But another group of employees may feel the opposite and start protesting for Joe. Now what do you?
And that's why you keep it in version control and mirror it to, say, Gitlab and Github.

Could burn an archive to an archival-quality DVD, too.

I suspect I'm more likely to die spontaneously than have all of those and my local machine fail spontaneously.
I did a thought experiment few years back: Is anything real if we live in a simulation? I came to conclusion that all physical laws, chemistry, the universe would be simulated. And the only "truth" that is the same for host and simulation is math.

Imagine that you're creating computer game - a limited simulation. You can change laws of physics, chemistry, life, etc... but math will always hold true. 1 + 1 will always be 2.
Unless your hobby involves collecting black holes and smashing them into each other...
"Why won't the president commit to a peaceful transfer of power", easy because he's a narcissistic sociopath. The US elected the worst possible person to be president, mentally incapable of fulfilling the job at any normal time but especially not now.