skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 99% of companies you are in a position because a company needs someone to do that thing specifically, and you might have your eye on something else internally but it's less risk for management to hire someone new into that position than it is to leave your position uncovered.

I think your 99% number is way off, I think lots of companies put internal applicants on a reasonably fair footing for lateral and upward moves. Not out of any desire to reward loyalty, but because the worker is a known quantity familiar with the internal culture, and because the fact that they are applying for such positions means it's also likely that they are considering outside positions and that if they don't get an internal job they are likely to take an external one and leave the existing position uncovered anyway.
Thanks for the explanation! Glad to hear you've thought out and handled the linking process.

Just out of curiosity: have you seen or considered age[1] for the symmetric pair? I've used it on a few projects where cryptographic flexibility wasn't necessary.

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
That doesn't solve the problem of Microsoft forcing restarts.
Reading this as a biochemist in a past life, this was a WONDERFUL explanation.
> Is software really so shallow? Does it wash away so quickly as fads change?

In SV and in the NH bubble, yes.

Ex Amazon here. In Amazon there's plenty of technology that HN would likely characterize as "extremely ancient" that keeps the production infrastructure running. (I'm not talking about AWS)
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The tower of Pisa leans at 4 degrees...
John Liebowitz wasn’t a political organizer. He was a mediocre comedian paid to tell low-info people how to think (and vote).

I’m also astonished at how liberals, with full financial support of the world’s wealthiest people (you could count notable exceptions on your hands), censorship authority over every digital and print media, control over education curricula, union bosses, the FBI, and more have the ability to believe that they’re victims of some right wing conspiracy. It’s not just wrong; it’s the opposite of the truth. The US is still distinguishable from North Korea, so clearly there must be skullduggery afoot! BIG OIL must have done this! It can’t possibly be that most regular people think my pseudo-religion is dumb.
How many times does it take for him to be proven right until fools stop perceiving him as a fool?
This is fairly normal, Edition 5 is going out of stock when Edition 6 is released. Some famous youtuber puts a link to Edition 5 and drives demand/traffic on the item, and boom $50 manual becomes $5,000. Edition 6 is still $50.
Personal transportation doesn't mean we need exactly the amount of cars we do now. One scenario is autonomous taxi fleets significantly reducing the need for personal vehicle ownership, especially in cities where the majority of the population lives.
If it's autonomous you can skip the triangulation step. The drone and C2 are co-located.
I use it on Rust as well.
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Not sure why you had to make this political and include “lefty” in that. Right leaning social media is just as alarmist.

At the height of the BLM protests you would have thought Seattle and Portland were anarchist war zones based on coverage by conservative news outlets. That wasn’t the case at all.
From my understanding, though, the Netscape project was started from scratch as a result of trying to avoid any complications with the Mosaic browser.
We actually ended up making our own encryption library that's based on age, it's called sasquatch (built by our team member muesli):

https://github.com/muesli/sasquatch
Thanks for responding. I'm going to poke at this a bit, so I want to be clear that I respect you for engaging.

> I think the "Great Compromise" helps correct for the fact that people in different locations value different things and have different experiences. People who live in farming communities understand plenty of things that people in cities don't and vice-versa.

This phrasing feels like a platitude that can justify any distribution of electoral-college power we feel like creating. Can you clarify how it "corrects" for people having different locations/values/experiences?

Maybe it helps to focus on narrower questions like: Do you feel like the current winner-take-all allocation in most states or proportional allocation as used in Nebraska and Maine either uphold or undermine the values you're describing here?

> ...it's an agreement that was reached between states who were giving up their sovereignty to join together. If we discard compromises like that because people who won the popular vote by a tiny margin now think it's outdated and that they have some democratic mandate, then collectively society has lost my trust to keep it's word on future compromises wherein I'm asked to forfeit some of my independence and sovereignty.

This feels a little unfair...

1. States made a compromise of some sovereignty to join, but the compromise was very much about protecting significant parts of that sovereignty. The states, quite pointedly, retain the sovereignty to modify the compromise. If the electoral college is discarded, it will be because states exercised their sovereignty, via this process, to do so.

2. Following the above, minus a few stipulations, each state legislature retains broad power regarding how their electors are selected and what they are expected to do. Something like the Fair Vote proposal entails exercising this sovereignty.
My value is "I want to have enough money to provide for my family". One way of achieving that is by getting a big lump sum payout, at the risk of future employability. The other is switching jobs frequently to stay on top of things and remain employable. I think your tone is a little condescending.

My point is that I overweighted the risk of future employability from staying a few years at a shitty place. Lots of people on HN will tell you that's a death sentence and they would never hire you with a period like that on your resume. But in retrospect I don't think it would have had nearly the impact I imagined.
There’s another one of the shore of Yemen. I thought this was about that one, but no. There’s apparently at least two oil disasters under way.
> "Predator!" vs "Predator?"

Should have gone with "Friendship!" VS "Friendship?"
Yup, same. Excellent plugin.
i've seen many founders in my direct vicinity raise lots of money simply because of who they know or charisma, and with a very short deck with basically just an idea and nothing more. i've also seen other founders who were super nerdy and crazy talented, and wrote a library/toolkit that became very succesful, and who never raised any money despite endless pitch decks and actual revenue and customers. IMHO investors just want to invest in copies of themselves instead of making the right decision and investing in someone smart who they might not relate to or like. finally, if you have relationships and charisma, then most likely you haven't had time to actually build something. those who build don't have time for networking or public speaking.
> law isn't just whatever the congressmen decide

That's what it should be and was intended to be by the Founding Fathers. When the judiciary strikes down an unconstitutional law, it is supposed to exactly be because it is not compatible with existing laws or the constitution. 100%.

“A law repugnant to the Constitution is void. An act of Congress repugnant to the Constitution cannot become a law. The Constitution supersedes all other laws and the individual’s rights shall be liberally enforced in favor of him, the clearly intended and expressly designated beneficiary.” –Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
Already being discussed in a much larger thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805748
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It's interesting how modern rationalists look down their noses at the bible and people's interpretations of it, while being completely unaware of the fact that while doing so, they are interpreting their perception of reality (an interpretation within an interpretation).

I suspect a non-trivial part of religion (that has been lost since we have broadly rejected it) is that it explicitly taught various types of humility, in various ways, and then also that from a more abstract/psychological perspective, the cognitive practice of conceptualizing an all powerful, all knowing God may have had beneficial psychological aspects with respect to moderating the (often dangerous) perception of omniscience, that seems to be an evolved and unavoidable consequence of human consciousness.

Evidence of this sense of omniscience can be seen everywhere on social media today: widespread self-perceptions of abilities to accurately read minds, predict the future, know everything (including the unknown/top-secret/undiscovered), solve infinitely complex problems with ease, etc. It's weird how this is so obvious, and makes complete logical sense, but encountering someone who does not outright and incredibly passionately reject this idea is incredibly rare. Perhaps this helps explain why religion is so common, always and everywhere - it is socially evolved and doggedly persistent, because it provides genuine superior fitness by offsetting some of the unseen negative aspects that hitched a ride on other evolved traits.
For better or worse, the university IP lawyers considered it related enough to sue. (No endorsement implied!)
Modern C++ is actually encouraged on Windows with Microsoft making standards compliant and supported frameworks like C++/WinRT for WinUI3.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/winui3/x...
> If 10x more people get it, it doesn't need to be more deadly in terms of IFR to be a concern.

Sure, but what sort of concern? A "shut down everything, COVID-cases are rising!" sort of concern?
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You wouldn't want to use it for training: This chip can do 4 INT8 TOPs with 2 watts. A Tesla T4 can do 130 INT8 TOPs with 70 watts, and 8.1 FP32 TFLOPs.

Assuming that ratio holds, you'd maybe get 231 GFLOPs for training. The Nvidia GTX 9800 that I bought in 2008 gets 432 GFLOPs according to a quick Google search.

Hobbyists don't care about power efficiency for training, so buy any GPU made in the last 12 years instead, train on your desktop, and transfer the trained model to the board.
Thank you for taking the time to give your analysis. I disagree with much of it. I ask you to bear with me as I explain myself. The subject of race is inherently political, and, specifically with regards to Egyptians, mired in decades of bad faith. Much of early Egyptology was dedicated to "proving" that Ancient Egyptians weren't "black." This is, of course, impossible; "blackness" is not a objectively-defined designation. It's a contextually-driven decision by observers and the self.

So, again, the most interesting question becomes not of whether or not Egyptians were black - by the modern definition of blackness (itself predicated in part on notions of separating African populations), they weren't, nor where they white, or Middle Eastern, or Levantine. The most interesting question is why the assertion that they weren't black is so vociferous. That's the character of the parent and several of its replies, not clear-eyed curiosity. They represent a conclusion, not an investigation.

It's in this light - in observing this echo chamber - that I felt the need to protest, and I feel justified in doing so. Humor me and assume, for a moment, that "Egyptians were not black," being rooted in a pre-geneology, anthropology-nascent scientific understanding, is itself a political assertion. What does the rest of this discussion look like, then? How, in your default perspective, is it not political? Because of the genetic studies cited? What do those studies actually say, and what about the model you've built around them is actually an intellectual leap?

That's the conversation I want to have. Not, "Oh boy ain't my Negro Studies professor dumb?".
You're not wrong, but if you're designing a universal language I think Latin script is the only feasible option. You're not helping anyone if you invent an entirely new script that everyone has to learn from scratch, and that doesn't even have extant keyboards. Latin script is the only choice that makes sense -- most people worldwide already have at least some familiarity with it, and it has excellent universal hardware and software support. Nothing else even comes close.
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If you don't want to go through the added risk and uncertainty of trying to create and run your own business, you can get the parts of the job you seem to enjoy by looking for positions as a "Professional Services Engineer", which is usually a weighted blend of consulting, engineering, and sales (in that order). Professional Services Engineers also tend to be better compensated than their internal product engineering counterparts because the PS Engineers are closer to the revenue stream (their $$$ time is billable to the customer, and thus they're a revenue generator for the company), so it's often easier to justify and negotiate for higher comp. You also get to rapidly grow your network of people in industry, and if you're strategic about your relationships and on-site engagements, you can often establish rapport with executive level folks as well.

If I look back over my career, the single greatest accelerant along the arc from programmer to co-founder & CEO was my time spent learning, working, and networking as a PS engineer.
It doesn’t matter. “Weird CS professor was right about Facebook” holds no weight, people don’t care and aren’t going to listen to anything else he might have to say. Unfortunately.
my problem with the coral usb that I got was that Google's own AutoML service did not fully support it. Which sucks since they own it...
> The majority of the web, in its first few years, was full of "content" and there was, broadly speaking, zero financial incentive.*

In grand scheme of things amount of content was abysmal compared to today. And today you have way way more of free content, created without financial initiatives by people who are passionate about the subject. Why? Because human nature didn’t change, and we got many orders of magnitude more people online.
The Macrovision signal was an out-of-image voltage change during the blanking interval. AGC circuits in VCRs that used the blanking interval to set the gain would be thrown off by it. So unfortunately it is not something that can be displayed meaningfully in visible light.

But, maybe you could find a different flaw in the exposure control. If not, you'll just have to be really bright.
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MMU allows linux to provide a "flat" memory space to each userspace process. This memory space is assembled from 4KB pages that can be randomly dispersed throughout physical memory. Say, you want to malloc() 1MB of memory on a system that's been up for some time. Physical memory may not have a fitting continuos chunk of memory, but virtual memory of a newly created process will always have one, provided that there is enough free pages available.

In other words without MMU all programs share the same memory space, and if it get fragmented, generally you'd have to reboot. With MMU fragmentation can still be an issue, but it's greatly reduced, since each process has its own memory map. And if memory of the process gets framgmented, you can just restart it. If runtime supports object compaction/relocation, then fragmentation may be not an issue at all.

Re access to memory locations -- mostly any direct access to instruction or data memory in userspace program automatically goes through MMU remapping.
Nobody needs another language .... we already have too many which causes no end of communication problems.

Esperanto, the world's least spoken language. Even Klingon is spoken by more people than Esperanto hahahaha.

"Finally, a mention of tlhIngan (Klingon) for you - by far the Most widely spoken fictional language. Participants at Star Trek conventions frequently converse in the language and in addition to a Klingon Dictionary there are Klingon translations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing,Gilgamesh, and the Tao Te Ching. Qapla'!" -- Guiness Book of World Records

Please just learn English or Klingon.
> Esperanto creates a kind of "level playing field," because it's a second language for almost everyone who speaks it, says Humphrey Tonkin.

It doesn't. It is entirely based on European and Western culture. Language have huge influent on thought process, and it seems that thought process needed for Esperanto is a Western-centric.
I've not seen it used in handwriting I think it's mostly used for digital inputs (including some calculators). The most common usage in handwriting I've seen is like 1.5×10³² (=1.5e32).
No one at my company has managed to have a functional video conference using the Mac client, and I talked to people at two major software development companies in Denmark, they have the same problem. The web client works. It’s not as good or easy as Google Meet, or what ever it’s called, but it works. The Mac client does NOT work and have not worked for at least six month.
Sounds like you need to switch jobs.
Well let's see. It's a reply to a Show HN about a coding project. The reply doesn't contain any feedback about the coding project. The reply doesn't contain any technical content at all.

Hacker News is not a tech site.
Sure, but having been burnt by Keybase and others in the past, there's no way I'm adding another closed-source single-provide blackbox server endpoint to my daily routine.

While this looks like a really neat utility, I'll pass until there's a self-hosted option under a free license.

To each their own.
It's certainly a different mindset. I don't really do software development any longer. But if I were at Apple, barring a bad situation that I was unable to resolve for some reason--which I've been in before and have been able to switch managers--I'd think very long and hard before switching companies, perhaps especially to Uber.

Maybe if you really want to do a startup? Perhaps one could learn a bit more at Apple first. And to the point later in the post about the loss of net worth. I'm pretty sure sticking around Apple for a bit as a young person is not going to cripple your chances of retirement.
There's also https://www.lume-pad.com/ which I'd love to try out but can't drop a grand on.

I have access to a looking glass (the smallest one) and it's quite fun - especially when paired with a Leap Motion for hand tracking. I had the pleasure of demoing it to William Latham who adapted his work for it. ( http://latham-mutator.com/ )

I ported one of my proc gen demos to it and it's in their store - but I don't think you can link to it. The repo is here: https://github.com/IxxyXR/Polyhydra-upm ( and https://github.com/IxxyXR/Polyhydra )
- I do switch between several computers throughout the day. That's what network file systems are for.

- ‘Cloud folks’ might have more stable hardware and software, but have built themselves a deadly reputation for unreliable policies.
The only adblocker I trust is uBlock from gorhill. I used Adblock way back in 2013-14 and jumped ship when they started allwoing some ads.
Software=Magic for Most People, and We Often Forget That
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downvoted, because criticism of google is not allowed here.
That is why I love Dell latitude laptops and precision desktops.

1. You can download the recovery USB drive from the dell website.

2. A recovery USB can be used to fix any number of dell machines as long as they shipped with the same OS.
So what that means is that if I got 10 Windows-7 Dell laptops, I can fix them all with one USB drive.

3. There is no need to mess with Windows keys as they are embedded in the BIOS.
I wasn't trying to be precise. I use knowledge in the sense of proposition. The interplay between deductive knowledge/frameworks, and inductive. I problem of that relationship is the core of why many of our mappings from the world to the framework of the world are so difficult.
Computers are machines in a very similar fashion, and it's also people's jobs on the line when they can't complete their work with their machine.
You need to build an audience on the internet to get a steady pipeline of leads.

It sounds counterintuitive, but, share everything you know on the internet for free (Blog for SEO), and then collect emails at the bottom of each post promising further valuable information.

You’ve now got a list of leads who think of you as an expert and specifically need help with your niche area. You need to email them regularly with further valuable information to keep them engaged. Occasionally sell your services to this list, while keeping it mostly informative so people don’t unsubscribe. This will become the “inbound” portion of your sales funnel.

Next, you need to create the “outbound” portion. Using your email list, send out a survey and find out what type of people are looking for consultants in your specific niche.

Once you have a good target profile, troll LinkedIn and create a contact list that fits the profile, and systematically reach out to each of them. You also should share some of your content posts that you think would be relevant to them (and that have proven to be popular) to both establish trust, and also potentially get them on the email list (not everybody needs help right now but will later).

Once you have an inbound and outbound process that’s working and you can calculate what percentage of leads eventually convert, scale it up. Hire virtual assistants to automate and dabble with ads.

Now you have more work than you can handle and have the beginnings of an agency where you can sell other people’s time for even more profit.
The value proposition of Esperanto never made sense to me. If the goal were merely to get everybody speaking the same language to achieve world peace, then the efforts of pragmatists would go towards teaching more people English, since that language is the closest to the finish line. Of course that would be contentious in some political philosophies, it doesn't surprise me that some people drawn to the 'universal language for world peace' idea find the promotion of English unacceptable. However it seems to me these people are relinquishing any hope for success in order to remain principled.
But can you use it for a video conference?
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Geostationary weather satellites have 24/7 coverage with low resolution. It's inconceivable that there isn't a single military with higher resolution 24/7 coverage.
Tuning relevance is extremely difficult, and it’s not just an information retrieval problem - at Amazon’s size (and even smaller companies) a lot of what you see for “relevance” is hand-tuned by humans, through machine learning on longer-tail queries, and some combination of both in the middle (with sponsored or high margin or velocity items weighting more heavily). If you search for something like “men’s shoes” there’s 0% chance you’re getting a search result, it’s going to be a curated result page. Lots of people work on this hand tuning, but they’re not engineers, they’re product and marketing people.

If you search for “men’s shoes with green laces” you’ll see the real challenge, with a top 10 search result that’s not even shoes (it’s a pack of laces).
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Relatively. It's not based on what you can buy with it, it's based on what your company pulls in with your turning your cog.
I don't know - my friends who work on a wide variety of cars say porsche is near the top.

I guess the thing is - they're competing against cars that are not designed to come apart. Is it a sea-change to the models of televisions and computers that are designed to be purchased and disposed of at the end of their lives?