skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The harsh truth is there are enough 40th out there who can do that AND implement DFS on a whiteboard, so why not take them? At min. it arbitrarily shows their motivation to get the job.
> What shall we call it when the policy treats them as a means to some other greater end?

Sacrifices for the greater good.
I use a UHK daily. Can't mitigate those concerns, but I can provide my experience with it:

1) I enjoy it enough to carry it when I need to. I found a softshell case at a music shop that fits the UHK and my laptop surprisingly well. Not addressing preference, simply noting that it is more portable than other split boards I've used.

2) The UHK is built well and very sturdy. I've never questioned its durability as it's constructed better than most of my other keyboards (except for maybe my Leopold).

I use it enough that I've proposed getting a second one. Not because I'm worried about production or failure, but because it is a good keyboard and I use multiple computers. Though with the portability and a few cons (addressed in my other lengthy comment), I've held off from buying another for now.
The three most recent HN discussions on CRDTs are all worth perusing.

[1] is an excellent tutorial that assumes no initial familiarity with CRDTs or the math that underpins them. It walks you through both the formalisms and the implementation, which is pretty key to understanding why making real-world CRDTs flexible enough to handle things like rich text editing is hard.

[2] is a talk that goes more in-depth on the hard parts

[3] goes deeper on OT vs. CRDT

It's worth noting that many of the CRDT discussions focus on collaborative text editing. That's a really hard problem. CRDTs are (and have been for some time) a useful primitive for building distributed systems.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737639

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802208

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22039950
I doubt the data exists, or at least it's hard to even approximate as many trades have technically infinite upside or downside.

For example, there are plenty of users selling naked calls or shorting stocks, how do you calculate cash at risk for those?
xu4 works on 64 bit. Also, DOSBox exists for OSX.
Google and FB don't do technical interviews for internal transfers, so they insist on a uniform hiring bar. Netflix pays so much money they can demand whatever skills they want candidates to have. All 3 companies have interesting and difficult challenges.
It’s likely companies may have been willing to pay extra for an employee who can colocate in a specific office, and if that is no longer required salaries may go down across the board since they can hire from a bigger pool. It’s odd that FB would resort to a punishment like this. They should just reduce everyone’s salaries and encourage them to move out of The Bay Area :).
I used to think like you do, and I've increasingly come to disagree. Free speech absolutism was a core belief of the open source and early internet community in the 90s and 00s, which is where I picked it up. The idea was that publishing information would no longer be limited to the claws of established powers, and with anyone able to distribute anything, science and art would flow freely over international borders, global unity would reach unprecedented heights, and humanity would enter a new dawn. It was a very attractive idea, and it was hard to argue against because nothing like it had ever been possible. Then, through the power of capitalism rather than hacker spirit, it came true.

Mark Twain famously said "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots." Pithy at the time, but now that the experiment of instant global publishing for everyone is playing out in real time, we can see that it's true. You say

> a good idea is stronger than a bad idea

and this is where free speech absolutism has lost me. When everyone has a chance to weigh in on it, false information spreads wider and faster than true information. This isn't a theory any more, there's data now. The average human cannot evaluate true from false, and tend toward false. I'd guess that true things have complexities and ambiguities that make them less engaging than tailored lies.

We are now in an age of truly unrestricted free speech, as opposed to the centuries in which free speech was practically available only to those with a printing press or the like. Given the immense damage that has already been wrought on dozens of fields, I no longer think totally free speech is worth the price. A few angry tripadvisor reviewers going to jail is a small price to pay for continuing to have scientific progress and functioning infrastructure.
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Thanks, that could explain why I was struggling so much to connect these two.
That was my first thought. "Wait... is there such a thing as a cathode-ray DIGITAL tube now...?!?!"

I mean, if SLR's became DSLR's... I just assume any "D" means we're digital now! :)
Real demand for open banking in the UK as user numbers grow to more than 2M
> Employer NI is 13.8%, but rarely counted as a tax on the worker (crazilly)

It is a cost of the employment. As I wrote above, it goes to the treasury and proportionate to the salary. It doesn't matter how we label it. Doesn't matter neither to the company's, nor the individual's taxation.

> Of course plenty of people earning big bucks don't do it via PAYE, just take their money as far lower capital gains

No, the people who earn big bucks do it in a non tax-resident way. They don't declare tax in the UK or any high-taxpaying region.

> That would only affect the top 2.5% of income tax payers

No, 1.6M people, the top 5%: https://www.ifs.org.uk/election/2019/article/labour-s-propos...

"The top 5% of income tax payers contribute half of all income tax revenues today." With the current level of digitalisation, there is only so much weight you can put on the most performant segment of the workforce before they pack and leave.

> Their tax rate would change from 45% to 46%, hardly an earth shattering change.

No, the former 45% would be higher than 50%, because it would have started from £125K, and they would introduce a 45% above £80K.
I've seen plenty of mid-career engineers get jobs at FAANGs. I don't think you're right.
This is going to sound a little touchy-feely, but I'm going to write it anyway.

There are a lot of games in the world, and what the author describes here is one of them. And you can play this game if you want to, and you might even win at it. But it's worth remembering that you have one existence, one set of time and energy to spend in this life. If you decide to look at the world this way, and operate with this mindset, then that's how you're choosing to spend it. You will not "make it" some day and suddenly reverse course.

More and more these days I think that people who are unhappy in the modern world live in prisons of their own making. Yes, a lot of people think this way and work this way. I think it's good to know the game is out there, and that you'll encounter people with this mindset. But you do not have to play the same game. Yes, you probably need a job. Yes, your material rewards might be lesser if you don't engage in this kind of stuff. But you can still live a perfectly good life—perhaps even a better life—by building it around other principles.

I don't mean this to be a lecture, or condescending, or anything other than a reminder that just because you have to work, it doesn't mean you're stuck playing the games other people are playing.
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It seems like this proves too much? By this argument, no company should pay dividends either and Apple has very poor management.

It's not a given that every profitable company should spend all the money they earn and try to grow at the maximum rate possible.
They might not enjoy it, but if you miss (or fake understanding) a year of high school social studies or language arts, you can still function in the class the next year (maybe with a little bit less practice). The issue I see people run into in math classes specifically is that the curriculum builds on the past heavily enough that if you miss a key insight, you might never catch up (unless someone can take the time to help you restore that ability).
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Also this is another reason why we need UBI or other policies to shink the workforce / total person-hours.

While the opportunists leverage the system, their insatiable desire for more headcount makes actual automation and the defeat of drudgery nigh impossible.
The year of PostgreSQL is every year
How did your employer treat other employees that gave their notice? I would let that guide your actions.

Did they march them out with security and cut off their network access?

Did they let them finish out their 2 weeks notice helping wrap things up followed be a going away party at the end?
FlatCore CMS Meets MySQL
Yeah I agree about sd card reliability concerns. The funny thing is that I've used as cards as data storage inside gun launched munitions (Howitzers!) And they survived 10,000 G of acceleration, but too many writes is a problem!

I use a mounted usb drive for logging and storage so hopefully that helps the sd card stay fresh.
I think this title should be suffixed with "past the standard ceiling". And it's often quite cozy to stay below that ceiling, you can ignore most of the corpspeak and office-warfare and still prosper.

That's also where all the intellectually stimulating things happen, there's nothing of interest to a real hacker in upper management. There's only money and status there (and often lots of it), but no real puzzles.

The corporate management players know very well about the one thing they have to avoid - significant failure - thus they will never cross a truly competent person. Their entire career depends on it. Just make sure to push back from time to time to not take too much on your shoulders.
While unqualified dividends are taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividends are taxed at much lower rates. Qualification status basically requires you to have owned the stock for a couple months. You can see the details in layman's language at https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/dividend-tax-rate/
What about a long-press on the abbreviation? Does that do anything? I'm not on mobile now but I vaguely recall that working on some mobile platforms.
I guess at that age one is fed up working for others, realizing this is not the best way to spend your life - what is left from it.
Does <abbr> work well on Android and iOS?
Ditto. I do wonder what 100x developers get them. I don't know if Amazon Prime or Disney+ have 100x developers, but their streaming experience is similar to Netflix. Maybe Netflix is 5-10% faster. I can't say.

The point is, with a service like Netflix, it's absolutely the content that matters. People happily watch pirated cam copies of movies because they want the content so much.

Then again, the salaries of 10x developers are a lot lower than 10x creators (directors, showrunners, actors, etc)
Hire a good accountant and remember that personal and corporate taxes are very different. General broad concept for the US, personal taxes are taxed on your gross income before expenses, corporate taxes are based on income after expenses (there are lots of details involved this is just a broad point). If you ever wonder why high net worth people hold assets etc in companies, or hold both a major winner and major loser under the same holding company? There are liability reasons of course, but it also lets them manage taxes in an effective way.

There are many ways to reduce tax liability legally but it does take a little effort, time and guidance to do it properly. A good account will help you, but to be fair it isn't worth it until your income and/or net worth cross specific thresholds. Just like using family limited partnerships doesn't really benefit you until you have enough assets to justify doing it etc, otherwise the cost to manage it is just not worth the tradeoff.

One last point, entrepreneurs who build businesses outside of VC world (most) figure out how to manage taxes and debt really well if they become successful. Even more so if they deal in hard assets like real-estate, equipment, manufacturing etc. Most tech companies do not have the type of hard assets which give so many of the tax incentives/benefits, Amazon would be an example of an exception there. Amazon pays so little in taxes because of their hard asset investments, much like any large real-estate developer given that real-estate has some of the greatest benefits, and if that real-estate creates jobs even more benefits.
Quality content is highly opinionated. Generic 'kind of watchable' TV is not.
This claims to do runtime dynamic dispatch with interfaces:

https://github.com/alexnask/interface.zig
der8auer recently did a 3 part video on YouTube where he cut up AMD and Intel chips and looked at the transistors with an electron microscope. It sheads some light on meaning (or non-meaning) of the node names. Is also really interesting;

https://youtu.be/uEMDkbF3hu0
https://youtu.be/uXu_1zXOZdY
https://youtu.be/_wAeL3f3iV4
In the back yard, yes.
Not everyone will be using the popular ML frameworks that will likely try to smooth out cross platform differences. OpenGL & OpenCL is still available, that doesn't negate the fact that Microsoft's proprietary DirectX extension is exposed directly.

> It makes zero sense to consume D3D12 and DirectML under WSL directly from user applications since that prevents your app from being deployed on the real linux.

That's the whole point, people will do it because it's convenient, and Microsoft is counting on the fact that it prevents your app from being deployed on "real Linux". DirectX is already quite a popular API on a popular OS and actually pretty good on technical merit alone. It may very well be a sensible trade-off for a project or developer to move to DirectX, but it will be a loss for the Linux ecosystem.

> There also won't be any SDK or headers released by Microsoft so you'll have to manually load functions from .so.

The .so files are compiled from the same source code, the article doesn't go into a lot of detail but I suspect existing DirectX tooling will be updated for Linux targets. Either way, normal developers will have access to the same tooling and documentation as the developers for TensorFlow and similar ML frameworks you already claimed will talk to D3D12 or DirectML (unless you're claiming that Microsoft will give special tools to the open source TensorFlow project or something).
Have you a suggestion how to do this on a Linux box? I'm a heavy VIM user and this sounds like a great idea.
If you want expected returns then I'd argue that FAANG (or late stage startups) makes a lot more sense than a bootstrapped company. Same guaranteed monetary outcome, they're likely to pay much better and look much better on your resume. Startups offer higher potential return for lower average return than FAANG. Bootstrapped companies, unless you're a founder, offer neither.

edit: This is explicitly about employees at these companies rather than founders.
It would add to discoverability if a reminder of the bang appeared besides the search results (could be under a config setting), that way one could learn the bangs associated with their most used sites easily.
Surely there are other websites like this. Bytedance isn't the only chinese company that exists. Should my browser not allow me to visit those websites?
If you write an article and post it here I will read it.
Whenever i hear someone talking about "cyber" a large part of my brain switches off. Im sure that some people are told they simply have to use the term, but i find real experts shy away. If i have a choice between talks on "remote exploitation analysis" or "cyberwar weapons research" ill go with the boring title every time.
> A share buyback should be stock price neutral at the time it is done - there is no change in the value of the company. Cash goes out the door while also reducing shareholder equity.

There is no change in the value of the company. There are fewer shares outstanding though which means each existing share is worth more.

Share buybacks are absolutely a good deal for shareholders when a company is undervalued. When a company is overvalued, dividends reward shareholders better. If a company is fairly valued, it largely depends on tax rates and whether the shareholder funds are in a tax sheltered account. [1]

The problem comes in when executive compensation is based on share-price. Executives have massive motivation to buyback shares even when the company is overvalued. So long as share buybacks are on the table as an option, share value should never affect executive compensation or there is an inherent conflict of interest.

Ideally, the company would hire a third party with no conflict of interest to determine best ways to return money to shareholders.

[1] Tax incentives around dividends and buybacks are overdue for some reform.
Only if you assume features are equal in terms of necessary effort and value (they aren't) and never leave technical debt behind for later cleanup (they do) or at least leave behind the exact same amounts of debt regardless of the implementation path chosen (they don't).
Dude go to half priced books or your local secondhand bookstore and just clean house. Classics in particular are a dime a dozen.
Here's a list of "classics" to give you some ideas:

* A Hundred Years of Solitude

* Crime and Punishment

* East of Eden

* Moby Dick

* Shakespeare's collected works

* Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can

* Plato's Republic, maybe some other philosophy classics like Thus Spoke Zarathustra

* Midnight's Children (how old does it have to be to be a classic?)

* Paradise Lost, Iliad, Odyssey

* The God of Small Things
Netflix probably has huge DevOps, who's roles may not really meet the definition of 'Software Eng', also, they might have tons of related technology people. Also - technical product managers, directors etc.. A lot of people not writing code.
Have you ever considered the 100 Decameron stories, or the 24 Canterbury tales? No worries about digital broadcast rights there!
Let's not forget that just a few years before the NSA tried to just steal the designs from Brazil:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idU...
>when sh*t goes sideways, we blame someone else together

The parent comment literally said "they will take the blame without naming names". Taking the blame pretty much always implies "taking the blame upon themselves" when used in this context. So I don't see how you get "blaming someone else" from the person saying "the blame is on me".
Sure. My point is that "linux exists" is not evidence that remote startups will be statistically as likely to succeed as in person startups.
Any (most?) phone chords work for this. I wanted a longer one and it made for a good laugh when I asked my partner for one as a gift.
Yeah, for anything DOS based, I imagine dosbox is a better solution. It's how gog.com provides those older games when you buy them, and they have to support them.
My SO is a DDS and has been back to practicing for over 3 months now. Her office has had no infections. My guess is the enhanced pre-screening, the closed wait area, no non-patients allowed, and all of the additional requirements of PPE have contributed very positively to keeping that infection potential suppressed. Staff have been tested a number of time due to concerns but they are strictly following the outlined protocol and have some enhanced requirements the owners have instituted to help keep it that way. This is in the US.
Indeed, my bad.

Seems to be easy to confuse since the crater seems to have the same name "Vastitas Borealis Crater" [0].

Do you know if it's actually called "Vastitas Borealis Crater" or is it just simply a crater in the region Vastitas Borealis?

> The 35-kilometre-wide crater sits 70° north of the martian equator, in a low-lying region known as Vastitas Borealis. Previous orbiters have spotted ice deposits in craters, but the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the European probe is the first to return a three-dimensional colour image of an icy spot. The ice may be up to 200 metres thick, and lies over a dune field that has formed in the sediment on the crater's floor. The data were collected on 2 February, and this image was created for Nature last week. [1]

[0] http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2006/10/Residual_wa...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/435723b
Fire alarm tests happen at office campuses at regular intervals and aren’t announced beforehand.

That said, the thing to remember at all times is that the dude doing the interview is just doing his job and you’re little more than a row in a spreadsheet before and after the interview, perhaps even during, too. I wish this was taught instead of having to be hard won experience, especially since this is obvious as soon as you start interviewing people yourself.
> it seems strange to see him be so dismissive to the potential of the massive storage space of CDs at the time.

Sure you had all that raw storage but remember, the 3DO and PlayStation had just 2MB of main memory and 1MB of video RAM. So although the developers had a ton of space, there wasn't much they could reasonably do with it game asset wise. But media streaming from the disc was doable so that enabled high quality prerecorded sound tracks as well as video cut-scenes. Video cut scenes were always a bit painful or needless filler but some of the recorded sound tracks on CD games were really nice to have (Sonic CD is a good example IMO.)
Yes, and not just hours of work, but reputation damage. Think of all the products out there where people say "but it sucks because it crashes for no reason sometimes." These are not reproducible crashes generally (as most developers can fix those), but rather bad developer decisions that led to a system that is hard to make bug-free due to the way it's structured. Even the decision to use a programming language without pointers can lead to fewer unexplained crashes, security vulnerabilities, etc.
If anyone here could chime in with anecdotes or generalized advice about moving “up” castes, I would be interested to hear it. In my limited experience, being early at a growth company (e.g. Uber in 2014) increases the probability that you’ll be able to grow headcount under you and accumulate initiatives quickly enough to go from IC or line manager to director. Have seen it happen with a couple of friends. This approach requires a bit of timing and divination, though.
Yes, exactly right. If you are going to make the jump it's smart to do it all the way. Intermittent steps will help some people, but won't always solve the RSI problem fully.
> especially if there's some AMD Ryzen systems

The Asus PN50 with Ryzen 4000U series APUs is starting to become available in the US and other countries. Zen2, laptop chips. Tiny computers: 1.93" x 4.50" x 4.50" (or 4.9cm x 11.5cm x 11.5cm). I don't have experience with these, but they were on my list before I decided to go a little bigger and get the desktop APUs in the same series whenever they start shipping to the US.
Maybe, but not as they are. If I understand it correctly there's no limits by geography. If the Durable Object is created in country A when a worker from Country B accesses it then that data will be replicated to the worker in Country B.