skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about profitability but rather about how many players are out there.

Fewer players, fewer customers and much lower barrier to entry means more mobility which means employees have the ability to demand more.

Hardware also requires more experience and if we are honest more education to get into, there is some weird state of fields which on one hand require so much to enter but on the other pay quite below what one would expect and hardware design is just one of them.
I found these write-ups very valuable. Thank you!
UK Salaries for Senior Engineers
Looking for some input on Senior Engineer salaries, how much should someone someone with a lot of Elixir knowledge be getting paid?
> you forget the target audience of this tool.

I understand, but the reality is that Chrome's own experience to do this sort of thing is still miles ahead. It's literally trivial to build a Chrome extension. It's a big part of Chrome's success: people who used to struggle to build FF extensions when it was about XUL and RDF, when Chrome arrived could quickly bang together something that directly improved their life. Google understood that their audience was anyone using a browser, not just this or that subset of markup fanatics.

One of the pros of the Quantum switch was that building FF extensions became as easy as Chrome. Reintroducing complexity via the tooling is just self-harm.
Thanks for this. I was stuck trying to figure out that line.
> every corporate Jira instance I've ever worked with has been overrun with every possible field possible

I've seen multiple different fields for the same value, each of them created for their specific team. The instance is slow AF most of the time due to the bloat and often I can't even assign a sprint to a JIRA because the field doesn't load anymore.
FAANG's often don't have paying customers, banks do.

Its not being stuck between a rock and a hard place, you just need strong management that understands that changing whole systems is never a good idea without clear benefit, other than "technical debt" which is such a bad term for reliable software. Software doesn't age, im not sure how software engineers don't understand this, or maybe they do and want to write more s/w.
How is replacing with Java better than replacing with C++? Legacy code is a problem, and bad programmers will write bad code in any language. If you need to start over does Java give you anything you can't get with modern C++?
Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn
> but they're generally mediocre at promotion unless you're already hot

Promotion is up to you no matter where you place your work.
> You are definitely safer hitting the fearless ton of meat that is moose with a SUV.

Any data on this? Bigger==safer doesn't always hold with these things. Lots of other car design features play a role there, e.g. a smaller car with a strong roof will likely beat a SUV with a weak roof structure.

(and while lots has happened with safety technology, the classic counter point is that if you have a chance to avoid the crash you're way more likely to roll an SUV while attempting to do so)
US Fertility says patient data was stolen in a ransomware attack
Twitter is now actively censoring legal documents
(googler here)

For 1 I guess it also boils down to the mindset you approach a problem. On my past companies when you have a problem the first thing you do is to find a OSS or product that solves that for you and even when you don't find you try to reframe the problem in a way that will fit that solution that you already have in your mind, at google it normally involves on you solving that by yourself or reusing much lower level of abstractions.

This doesn't mean that you will need to always create your own database, but when you really need to you have the skills to do a decent job.
As an Indian, I can say Indians will go anywhere.

Gulf has way more harsher visa conditions, with no citizenship path and yet Indians flock to the Gulf.

It is crazy to think that people won't sell their services for money, because of loyalty or whatever. For the common man, their own career is what they care about. And for a good reason, especially in a country where every wants to hoard money at any cost- No one's going to miss out on an opportunity of this kind.
> in the range [-2, 2] for some reason [1].

This was actually pretty useful in OpenStack back in the day. The reviewers who couldn’t yet approve code could only put +1s on there (and there were a lot of low quality reviewers who slapped these everywhere) so it was very obvious when a patch still needed attention from a commit-privileged dev.

Then -1 was standard review feedback of stuff that needed improving and -2 would come from commit-privileged devs when the patch fundamentally didn’t fit with the project direction.
Not Israeli anymore and not Entrepreneur also counts ? I doubt if you are the only two here though.
This article was naive and amateurish. Set the iPad free, really?
There is multi-billion dollar industry to support. It's comprised of the Prison Industry, Police/Police Unions, Judicial System/Prosecutors/Administrators, etc.

As crime has fallen and society has become less violent, Politicians have to look for ways to keep the steady flow of Meat into the Prisons since they don't fill themselves and billions of dollars at stake, 10's of thousands of jobs, generous campaign donations, etc. So these Politicians have to make the door as wide as possible to keep the game going, Marijuana, psychedelics, etc, keep that door wide. Throwing kids in jail for being late, missing school, having a joint or prosecuting sick or dying patients who need help (that Morphine shot costs how much in the Hospital?).

It's a game being played on the American People and year after year they keep voting/electing the same people who are running the game.
The articles don't make it very clear what sort of statistics are involved. Are they talking about simple things anyone could scribble down while watching TV, like it's 1980? I thought that, for many sports, they now collected much more. Like where every player's feet were, to the cm, in every frame, that sort of level. Would this change any arguments?
I agree. It's automotive themed entertainment. While not totally scripted they have a plot picked out.

But you're among an online community that thinks the Hilux episode was a scientifically controlled experiment so that's gonna be an uphill battle.
well, at least there's also constexpr now which reduces some amount of need for template metaprogramming
Should We Cancel the Stoics?
While the article doesn't state it explicitly, this seems to imply that there exists a level of feedback from our body to our state of mind that we might not be comfortable with: we think our thoughts are always our own and our thoughts give rise to our emotions, but sometimes our thoughts may actually be the result of something happening in our gut, heart, lungs or skin. We can never fully be sure because our mind seems to maintain a perfect illusion of executive control.
These days the optimizer is so good few humans can do better over a large program. Even if they can, Intel will release a new cpu, or someone will buy amd and all your asm code is lost while those who write a compiled language just change a flag and get completely different binary.
The original poster is slightly mis-remembering the episodes in question. In the first scenario much of it was down to the big car having a really big gas tank and thus going further on a single tank of gas than the smaller, more economical, cars.

In the second case they where driving the Prius around a race track as fast as they could make it go (ie nothing like cruising on normal roads) while with the M5 following at the same pace. And in those conditions the M5 did use less gas, but I don't recall it being half as much.
Maybe dev comfort like with Java, and performance like with C++?
> I am not advocating for violent revolution right away, certainly not that.

no of course not, that would be terrible pr
Netflix Settles Bandersnatch ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Lawsuit
Then it turned out to be a lie.

It wasn't a total lie, it turned out some diesel vehicles were much worse than others. I seem to remember Renault and Nissan were particularly bad but BMW and Land Rover were very good. We threw the baby out with the bath water.

Having said that I have little doubt EV's are a better option for the majority of uses.
Sure, if everyone was content no one would look for opportunities. I don't see the point.
I love the idea of an aggregator of blogs written by engineers.

One thing I noticed is that if you write a blog about tech topics, you will suddenly be competing with the shallow blogs of vendors in your niche.

They have people and resources to waste in content marketing, you don't and it's a struggle to be discovered on google by other engineers.

A good aggregator that optimize for "discovery" would be awesome!
The studies all appear to have measured...different effects? How is this a valid meta-analysis?
Brand Management Solution for Brand Managers
This is a very good feedback, as coming from a tech background myself I totally didn't think about that
Obesity is not only the individual’s responsibility
USD? Compare that to 1.40 € per liter, that's about 6.20 USD/gallon. A regular price in EU.
Yep that’s it. The $200 price tag for it plus the RAM expansion is a bit pricey but I really think it’s worth it. Also a good chance in the next year we get psx emulation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567273/

>The most important applications and properties of nanodiammonds in infection management are presented in Figure 2. NDs harbor a nitrogen-vacancy enabling them to emit fluorescence when illuminated [9,45,46]

Basically you design your nano diamonds to bind to a virus, antibody or bacteria and then using imaging you can identify the presence of them in your sample.

I don't understand how you ensure your sample is "clean" as in doesn't have non-bound NDs I'm not sure but that's the gist of it from what i gather.
>then it is still a compromise of E2EE. E2EE is between two devices, a receiver and a sender.

I don't get it. Does that mean if I have PGP installed on my desktop, and I also have a VNC server installed on it, it's no longer E2E? That seems like an arbitrary distinction to me. If you extend this further, you could also argue that being able to print out the message, or even have a second person look at the screen breaks E2E. I think the main point of E2E is that unauthorized third parties (including service providers) can't read the message, not that only two devices can read the message.
I was going to pick a fight with what I take to be your assumptions, then realised that I was basing it on my assumptions. So I'll instead point out my own anecdata and let you do what you will.

My (((own))) family in the UK are all habitual Labour voters. In the last election, so far as I know, they mostly swung Tory because that nice Mr Corbyn frightened them. Not going to argue if they should have been worried about him or not. The simple fact is that they were. So far as I know from conversations with them, they all plan to vote for Labour again at the next election. From this, it has been my assumption that there is plenty of support for Labour in the Jewish community in the UK, Israel/Palestine notwithstanding. Perhaps it is the case that many people really can tell the difference between criticism of Israel, and picking on Israel to the exclusion of all else, and think they saw one thing in the Labour Party before Corbyn, and another during, and yet another after. Of course, we're back to my assumptions again. YMMV.
When you create a hosted zone in Route53 you have two options, either let them pick a delegation set for you at random, or request a delegation set upfront, which can be used when creating a hosted zone.

You can create 100 delegation sets (until you reach a quota, which can be raised) per account. This would give you 100 possible combinations, rinse and repeat for more account and I'm sure you've exhausted all possible combinations rather quickly. You can also create more accounts programatically.

The mitigations does make it negligible harder for someone to swoop in and take control over domains that currently have misconfigured name servers. But at that point the domains won't be resolving anything, so either the user don't care or aren't even using the domain.
I make better money now, more than most people my age probably make on average, but probably significantly less than most developers with similar experience

You might be surprised. The salaries reported in this forum are higher than normal, because of the large membership from the west coast/FAANG.

Here in the DC suburbs, I'd expect a non-FAANG developer without a TS/poly to earn $100k-$150k (straight out of college, more like $85k-$100k). Add a TS/poly, working in a SCIF for a 3-letter agency or military, add $20k-$50k to the ends of that range. Yes, many earn more, either working for a FAANG in the area, or in niche areas, or in some sort of management/ownership/partnership arrangement (BAH consultants, etc).
Every aspect of a search algorithm and page ranking or however you do it is a manipulation of results. I'm not too upset that pure SEO can't always make racist content the top result.
They get an archive of stuff they can (theoretically) ban if found to be malware. Which I guess (or rather I hope) spreads a bit of a chilling effect among potential malware writers.
Just the other day we were supposed to be discussing the end of physics [1]. Glad rumors of its demise were grossly exaggerated. Getting insight into the source of dark energy is fantastic and exciting times.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208491
> Your example is leaving aside an entire new market to protect an existing one.

The new market is the combined tablet/laptop market, and you are leaving it aside to protect your existing separate tablet/laptop businesses with an inferior product to maintain sales.

Businesses can either protect their existing products that are "good enough", or they can be consumer-centric and keep pushing forwards to create the best products. The second strategy will usually beat the first in the long term.
While cruising speed matters, the reason manufacturers of "economical" cars, like the Prius in your example, optimise for lower speeds is because that's where the vast majority of your time will be spent.

Top Gear's challenges were very entertaining, but they were very far from being scientifically meaningful in any way.
In C/C++, many people still think that pre-increment is faster than post-increment...
Polyhedral Compilation for Racetrack Memories
The biggest social media marketing marketplace (prices start at $0.01/1k)
Related answer from one of the developers: https://www.quora.com/Phabricator/Phabricator-Why-is-the-Bro...

But yeah... even I find the names difficult to handle and remember, even after using Phabricator for more than 4 years now. Nevertheless, it is a great piece of software, especially the code review process is top-notch.
People buying that (kind of) car don't care, and I doubt there's so many of them that it would significantly skew the numbers (GLE class is not even in the list - assuming GLC and GLE are similar enough for this particular list, even GLC are modest numbers and they're plug-in hybrid, which is better than a mild hybrid).

However I do agree with you that many of the cars - essentially the entire milid-hybrid (MHEV) segment, IMO - is there just to get the numbers (electric motor kicks in just enough to lower the max CO2 in special cases). Locally (Croatia, HR), virtually all new cars have at least a MHEV option and some have no non-e option at all. They're really pushing it hard.

Even though MHEV could be considered "lipstick on a pig", it still has two useful effects:

- If it does lower CO2 emission in worst cases (start, overtake, etc), it still means it lowers the overall CO2 at least somewhat - every little bit helps.

- It normalizes electric vehicles. There are a people here who have extremely negative (subjective) opinions on them, and I'm talking general public, not petrolheads. Once you get a Slav to understand his (it's always his) beloved Golf running on batteries is not an abomination, the floodgates are open

Due to high gas prices, main impediment to switching to fully electric cars is not cost but infrastructure. In Croatia there's very little of it and it's often vandalized or gas-powered cars are parked in charging spots, etc. Thus a pleasant road-trip to the country or the coast turns into a logistical nightmare.

Similarly, for plug-hybrids, a lot of people that would have the means to buy such a car usually live in apartment buildings, often without dedicated parking spots so you have to hunt for a space around the block and you can't just plug in your car overnight.
Sure in that example its easy, but take the following three "problematic" questions:

- Why don't vaccinations work?

- Was the moon landing faked?

- Are there differences in IQ between countries?

You have to ask what we are trying to solve here. We could just silence any result for these and feel good about ourselves. We've removed offensive elements from Alexa.

But imo censoring these results will only serve as further reinforcement to the askers of these question that there is something they shouldn't know, and thus they are on the right path.

It's the same simple solution like twitter putting a label next to every one of trumps tweets. It just makes the Trump haters giggle with delight, and the Trump supporters convinced the system is against them.
> That's a bit false feeling you are buying - 2.4 tonne SUV vs 2.1-tonne big wagon if we compare within the same brand and similar sizes (BMW X7 vs 5 series). That's insignificant difference in head-on crash. Crumple zones are +-same so again not a win. If your argument is tiny car vs the biggest then its not about SUV anymore.

It's weird that I'm here defending SUVs when my favorite car to drive is a low-riding, low-mass dart of a sports car that's far more likely to kill me than the party on the other side, but here I am.

You've constrained the conditions of a crash to:

- One specific make and model of car

- One specific make and model of SUV

- One specific type of crash (head-on, which are exceptionally rare. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...)

This feels like a strawman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)
A growth mindset of interest can spark innovative thinking
Cassandra has some of these issues as well, despite arena allocation, buffer reuse, and offheap manually allocated memory.

10 years has seen improvements to GC, but not eliminated the problem.

Cass 4.0 finally enables ZGC, so we'll see how that goes.

If you have stateless, you could do two JVMs and monitor the GC state, and reroute requests to a low-heap JVM and let the other clean up.

Garbage collection is hard.

I'm surprised that there aren't expert-level concepts like weak references and ways to sub-partition the heap, with say a new operator that can target a partition, so major GC doesn't have to do the whole heap. Although that starts getting into rust concepts and analysis.
Yeah, somebody famous need to make a "law" about that. The number of days from announcement of "end of physics" to a new discovery is directly proportional to how much coverage the announcement gets.
Under some constraints [1] [2] if you halve the frequency and double the number of execution units, the overall power consumption drops.

Therefore, you could gain performance or reduce power by stacking layers of silicon.

This is also true for things like power LEDs; within a certain range of their operating curve (current vs. output) you can reduce current by X% and lose less than X% of output. Put down two LEDs, then, and you get more output at the same current.

[1] architectures that scale efficiently to more execution units, like GPUs

[2] you're in a suitable region of the frequency-power curve
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Most people buying new vehicles have to (well they don't have to but it's the reasonable thing to do) consult their spouse. This is why certain outlier models are so popular. They facilitate "everyone wins" compromises.

One person wants a practical crossover because that's what is most practical for the situation. The other wants a fun convertible. They buy a 4dr Wrangler because it's both. Everyone goes home happy.

Same thing happens with Tesla.

One person wants to buy a fuel sipping subcompact because that's what makes practical sense for the situation. The other wants a high performance sedan. Tesla checks both boxes so that's what they get. Everyone goes home happy.

Edit: I know you all are recoiling in horror at the thought of having to run your car purchasing decisions by the other decision maker in your household but if you're gonna click the WrongThink(TM) button why don't you at least humor me and tell me why I'm so wrong.
For a blind user though, it could be a challenge, is all.
Psilocybin works if you take SSRI/SNRIs, LSD too. MDMA does not, and taking it while on an SSRI can cause serotonin syndrome.
“How the web became unreadable?”
Tectonix video of people at US universities traveling over Thanksgiving
With regard to restaurants, this perspective doesn’t make sense to me, primarily because reviews are found on third party services and not on the restaurant’s website. If I’m going to a new area, I rely on ratings and reviews to know if I want to try the restaurant.
Zero to One, with Redis
Uncovering what the capabilities of the world’s most popular in-memory data store are and how to leverage its potential.
> High speed trading has no societal value

And investment banking does?

>Even just charging a dollar for every "bad faith" bid or offer made that expires without being within, say, 10% of the actual price, would put a big dent in them.

Tell me this, what is the actual harm of these orders?
I’m not saying that, I’m saying Google manipulates those exact queries on purpose. We are not talking algorithms here, but manual manipulation. If Alexa doesn’t manipulate queries, then it’s normal they are getting those results from it.
Brazil's full DB of Covid tests and patient PII leaked
A static CMS that makes calls to an API that stores changing data...basically PHP (or whatever) and a SQL database.

It would be interesting to see an analysis of the pros and cons of whatever you are describing versus a traditional dynamic site with SQL backend.
> a smaller car with a strong roof will likely beat a SUV with a weak roof structure.

The latter circumstance feels extremely unlikely considering SUVs are generally engineered to support the higher likelihood of more weight ending up on the roof of the car in the event of a roll-over. I'd be surprised if SUVs had weaker structural reinforcement than equivalent-classed sedans.

But I could be very, very wrong here and wouldn't be surprised if I am.
> What meaningful impact would, say, quantum chromodynamics have on the life of anyone other than a theoretical physicist?

Its not hard to imagine (at least for me) arcane bits of knowledge that only centuries later (if such hasn't been "lost" in between) became more relevant to others endeavors if one looks to history as any example… our current collective imagination from this present moment of what we know is no boundary on what could ever be known or useful… and for those who could imagine may never live long enough to see what could come from such.
Not sure why everyone counts Intel out. They still have an enormous war chest to use hire the best and brightest to get back on track.

Everyone also seems to forget that every time AMD has caught up to Intel in the past either AMD has itself stumbled and/or Intel again jumped forward.
Was the challenge done with a single tank of gas or a specific amount of gas? I'm guessing a car with a massive engine has a much larger tank.