skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the idea, but could never get into their software. It always felt very alien, especially on OS X. I figured it was due to whatever Java UI framework they were using.

Has that changed it recent years? Does it feel more native? I just set up a new machine, maybe I'll give it a whirl.
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Do whatever it takes to get your foot in the door somewhere, because it's impossible to know what works otherwise. Internships are a great hope.

From there, it's a totally new story/path.

It helps a little bit if you like what you do, but you don't need to 'love' it - if you do, you may get taken advantage of, i.e.'gaming'.

Once on the inside, it should become clear the folks that are valued and some of them will be in accessible positions with a degree of focus.

Tech is a pretty good industry for talent exposition, almost like no other. Usually when people are good or where knowledge shines ... it stands out. At least more than in almost every other industry.
"Scaling laws"[1] is the google phase (missing from OP).

Take "power law" with a grain of salt.[2] They often turn out better fit with log-normals, log-logistics, etc.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=scaling+laws https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=scaling+law...
[2] A classification of natural and social distributions Part one: the descriptions https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03408
I can understand the frustrations. I don't know why people do that to themselves working under these conditions.

I work for a non-software company and don't have to deal with tests, I solve problems with software. I can use the tech I like. I am measured only by results. If I have problems that negatively affect my performance, I get opportunities to get my energy back, be that another project or some free time. There are these companies out there. Maybe not as prestigious, but there are advantages if you like going to work.

Don't ever work for people with an inferiority complex, they will constantly try to throw themselves against you and you should know your own worth. There are enough jobs for softies out there that you can leave that behind.
Thanks for the comprehensive explanation!

I also find it quite interesting that you mentioned git specifically, because I’ve been going back and forth for the last few days with myself about whether I should spend the rest of Winter Break and next semester (I’m an undergrad with one semester left) learning git internals deeply. So, this felt somewhat validating of the perspective that I should learn about git more deeply so I can have enhanced practical knowledge, which could translate into more economic value for the company I’m working with after graduation.

Once a decision is made in this regard, I then have to figure out the best way to actually learn it. I’ve considered trying to follow the mailing list[0] and contribute code to the git project, thinking that would force me to learn it very deeply. But at the same time, I feel like trying to go that deep might have diminishing returns and might stress me out. I like the idea of being an open source contributor to such a huge project and gaining more experience that way, but I also worry about the potentially high time cost.

I imagine I could alternatively read the Pro Git Book[1], the git documentation[2], and/or some other specific git internals resource someone has curated, but I haven’t decided what would be best yet.

[0]: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitCommunity

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

[2]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation
I have great news – you can do that!

https://nextjs.org/blog/incremental-adoption
The title is in an odd spot where, on the face, it is completely anodyne, and not at all misleading or “clickbait.” Yet even sensible readers (like me!) see “radio” and “exoplanet” in the same sentence and think “ALIENS!”

Very awkward spot for the science PR people writing this. It’s almost like it needs extra words to prevent people from adding

“Possible (But Definitely Non-Alien) Radio Emission From Exoplanet (Which Cannot Support Life) Detected”
Ads that don't give the advertiser direct tracking usually give users a code or url specific to a campaign to track their effectiveness. This is an "if they could do more they would" situation.
Signal is the emission of interest, however it occurs. Noise is the other stuff. In common use though people mentally (and literally) drop the first word from "modulated signal" and seize upon signal. It's normal and writers should make an effort to use unmodulated or, probably better, natural in such descriptions. Emission isn't a bad word for this context, but it's still all encompassing and easy to mentally go the wrong direction when reading it.
How is this better than just avoiding the problem in the first place?
In the middle of the rant on burnout, he says:

> I'm sick of everyone being on Adderall.

Is that really a thing? ie What proportion of software folks are using it?
This line is the kicker for me:

"Intel’s current Xeon offering simply isn’t competitive in any way or form at this moment in time."

The rest of the paragraph twists the knife more, and declares there to be an open market on server hardware for AMD and Ampere to fight it out.

With application stacks being what they are and optimizations for Xeon so deeply integrated, it's unlikely that folks running private datacenters actually feel the same way, but if I was spinning up a new company with the sort of funding to be able to decide between self-hosted or cloud I would have some math to do.
That's interesting, which field is that? I guess in finance there's a lot of "crypto coding" (no pun intended) going on.
"Natural Radio Emission" seems to clarify things just fine.
Isn’t it really the semi industry unwilling to invest because they don’t want to get burned just a couple of years down the road. I just don’t see this demand lasting.
Most machine learning is using _NVIDIA_ GPUs, which themselves have a neural engine (tensor cores) for the last two generations. An NVIDIA A100 has around 19 Teraflops but 156 "tensor flops" (312 if you use sparse matrices).

In addition to being useful for training and inference, the consumer cards use tensor cores for things like mic filtering (RTX Voice) and neural upscaling (DLSS) in games.

General purpose GPU hardware is way more wasteful for matrix math, like maybe >10x waste on power and equally worse performance, than tensor cores.
My plan is to deal with it , every job is a another job.

Trying to retire within the next decade. I don't want a boss period.
Interesting that they only mention server. What about their employee devices, networking hardware, and every other internet connected thing? Not saying I buy this theory, but that denial leaves a lot of technically correct room to lie through their teeth.
Hm, It's Planetary Radio Friday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466535

though that one doesn't appear to be a WOW.
None at all. I've had a few action sequences in the story now and they all went smooth. Sometime quality notably drops, but not pace/framerate. The one time I had an issue with frames dropping was because a local computer downloading files and causing bandwith spikes. But I think with some Qos on the router that should be fixed. Average bandwith usage of the game is between 10-20Mbit.
How to do Sales/ leads for Agency?
Hi, everyone!

by Profession, I'm a programmer doing a job in a company mostly doing FE(react.js). I'm thinking to build an Agency Focus company. where Can do Project/Products. but I have no idea how I can generate leads or sales
how can I get clients ?

Do you give some advice to generate leads or how I can get clients to build up my Agency
It would seem like the content creator has the right to make their site as easy or hard to aggregate as they want. If you’re in the aggregation business, you have to convince them of the benefits to make it easier. If you can’t, you’re not adding value (to them) for what you’re taking.
Why Did the NSA Go (Virtually) MIA?
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (1990) [pdf]
> I'm fairly confident that, depending on which and what detail of personal information, both of these justifications will be accepted by EU courts.

I believe they must also show that they don't store this data strictly longer than necessary.

Which, in the case of analytics/usability would mean aggregating (and thus depersonalising) the data almost immediately.

And if they do that, it will indeed be fine. Both with the letter, as the spirit of the law.
> "They wanted to have my presence, but not me"

Well gosh, who could have predicted this?!

It's almost as though diversity hiring, more often than not, tends toward reducing people to their immutable attributes.

I mean isn't that the social dynamic of wokeness anyway?

A bunch of upper-class guilty whites that want a religious code and creed to say to absolve them of their original sin?
This makes more sense now. I also noticed lag. Not everyone has access to fiber internet for various reasons.
It seems we're agreeing indeed! I understood your meant that, but I also thought you meant that snapshots were an implementation detail to simulate diffs. My point is, I don't think they're good at that.
It may not be the "end of macOS as a developer platform" but it's one more sign that I should start looking for an alternative because the end is on it's way.
That's great. That's not an easy life (speaking from experience), but certainly can be gratifying. I wish you much success, good luck!
The Sophist and The Magician, Understanding how we can be manipulated
Feudalism was a system of land ownership and military service for nobles and peasants more-or-less tied to the land working for the nobles. Urbanization and capitalism eventually overturned this system with most of the vestiges wiped out after WW1 when many monarchies became republics. It existed mostly in the middle ages up to the 1700s/1800s and was eroded unevenly around the world (notably the USSR confronted the system directly in 1917).
There's a Firefox add-on for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
Out of curiosity what are your PC’s specs?
The Czech Republic wasn’t part of the EU in 2000.
Early access is usually great for multiplayer games. For single player, story driven games, early access serves as a way to spoil the game for customers who intend to buy at release.
> Can anyone elaborate on what Carmack is suggesting here? To specialise in some tool early in your career? Or something else?

I think he is overall suggesting that you should find your business value - your value as an employee to the business you work for. He seems to be specifically talking about "career advice", as advice for employment, so slightly outside of his own experience.

He is suggesting a shortcut to this business value is to know one tool deeply enough that you become the go-to person for that tool in your company (whether or not that is in your job description).
If you’ve already cut out gluten, you’ll have to start eating it again for the test, which is...not pleasant. And for a long time too. (I’ve been given different durations for the challenge period, but they were all at least 3 weeks long when I last investigated this.) This is why I’ve never done the test.

Random tip: if you accidentally expose yourself to gluten, taking Benadryl right away can help with the flu-y sort of inflammatory symptoms. You’ll still get the gastric distress, but you might not feel like you have the flu for the next week, which for me is the worst part.
> RFC4180 isn't an Internet standard. Says so right at the top in the first paragraph.

I didn't say it was an Internet standard. I said standardised. Ok, I'll concede it is more of an informal or de facto standard but when IBM, W3C, IETF, OKF and others all publish the same parsing rules for CSV, it's hard to agree when people make statements like "there's no standard in CSV". The problem isn't that there isn't a standard to CSV, the problem is that people often don't follow those conventions. But you have that same problem with other file formats too.

> I think I have a few thousand files on my computer right now whose names end in ".csv", and I'll bet money not one of them agrees with RFC4180 to the letter except by accident of the data itself, and that's a Real Problem to me.

That's just conjecture. And even if that were proven true, it's still only anecdotal. That said, I do sympathise with your point. But you could make the same argument for

- JSON files that don't follow spec (support for comments, aren't UTF-8 encoded, have been manually written so don't follow the escaping rules correctly and thus only parse correctly by chance).

- XML files that have been manually cranked and so don't follow schema

- HTML documents that don't follow specification and thus browsers do a lot of non-specification interpretation work to render correctly

The IT industry is littered with example of people not following the docs. CSV isn't unique in that regard.

> I can concede that two parties could agree to interchange according to RFC4180, but as a general format I maintain that for archival and interchange purposes CSV cannot be divorced from the rather complex schema I alluded to without data loss.

I wasn't commenting on whether it's a better format than another file format. I was commenting on your points about standardisation saying there are an abundance of published documents on how to read and write a standard CSV file and C-style escaping isn't part of that specification.
>it is like living in 12th century, how this is happening in 21st century

because human nature hasn't appreciably changed between the 12th century and today
I'm confused, as I'm an enthusiast but definitely no physicist.

The article states that quantum information is being teleported via entanglement. However, it was my understanding that one cannot transfer information in such a way as the "information" is only revealed when interacting with the particle.

Could someone perhaps clarify what's going on?
I too dropped out of school because of Linux.

Mandrake quickly led me down the rabbit hole to Gentoo where I got to learn how operating systems actually work hands on by tuning and building my own from source.

My college was still trying to teach me that no computer needs more than 64MB of memory (misquoting bill gates), and the CS teachers didn't understand computers enough to use anything but windows XP.

I dropped out and continued learning software engineering, sysadmin, and security engineering on my own. Three topics no college had any current or relevant courses on at the time.

Dell was right to steer people towards operating systems that give users freedom. A subset of those users will take advantage of that freedom to learn far more about technology than their coursework will cover.

Will that make them different? Will being different require them to solve more problems themselves and rely less on others? Yes and Yes.

That is a feature, not a bug.
They wont. The article is written from a very one dimensional perspective and clutching at straws in some places. (I do believe that there is some merit in FB's argument about Small businesses, while I dont think those businesses continuing to rely on FB is a good thing in the long run).
This one makes it all the more obvious what Google is actually doing. They have a search monopoly and supposedly are heavily biased on speed as a ranking factor. Well golly gee, if you want the Web to be a lot faster, smash sites with brutal speed ranking penalties until they get the message. It wouldn't be difficult nor would it take much time to get the point across (in fact it would be trivially easy). There is no other logical explanation other than Google's intentions are gatekeeper (and plausibly much worse in time: hostage taker), not primarily to make the Web a better place (that's merely the lie they're pitching as a cover story).
> It is interesting that they initially offered subscription model without unexpirable license.

I wasn't even aware they ever did licenses that 'fully expire' but I'm glad they have their current model.
Why is there no discussion of the actual data? Surely someone has conducted real scientific polling on the issue. Instead the article laments how engaged members of the community are having their voice heard. Quite an unusual culture for a Western country. But then again she always has been an empire, not a nation. Hail Britannia.
MIA: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mia
I'd like to read what you have to say about doing so.
That’s the first time I am reading these allegations. Do you have sources backing up your claim or is it just expected to be “common knowledge”?
I think the point is that diversions don't really require much concentration, they're easy to consume. If they did require a lot of concentration they wouldn't (usually) be diversions.

Depending on the goals you've laid out in front of you for the day, Chess is either a diversion or the "right thing". The "right thing" is up to you. Considering the investment Chess requires I don't think it's typically what is pulling people away from tasks they should be doing.
I'm a huge fan of sqlite but I'm not sure it's an improvement over xml for holding a DOM. Especially since there's more or less just one implementation.
> Such as?

I realise the irony as this still relies on Google, but: I'm surprised that such user-hostile designs are still around, considering Google presumably takes steps to punish such designs in their search rankings.
The impact on user freedom is negligible.

Apple has been practicing incrementalism. Each small step by itself doesn't seem very significant. But the slow march continues, and the pieces add up. Current people with technical ability may be able to modify their behavior to work around it, but the technical bar has been raise slightly-- people without technical ability have one more small speedbump.

If you're right and Apple stops here, then sure, no big deal, and I'd be happy to be wrong. This isn't the hill I'd die on for the issue. It's the trend I don't like. If a few years go by without Apple locking down the OS further, I'd be okay with the status quo. Looking at the trend of the past few years though, it seems like Apple is slowly taking MacOS towards the iOS model.
> The signal is from the Tau Boötes system, which contains a binary star and an exoplanet.

So, different to the signals from Proxima Centauri?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/18/scientists-l...
we expect what was advertised to us. It turns out the marketing was all lies! Companies should be held accountable for lying.
I mentioned this before, but the only problem I have with AMP is that one can't self-host - you have to link to amp js files on the official servers (you'd think a starting point for fast hosting of webpages would be hosting everything on the same server, but it seems no...). I haven't seen anyone try to justify this; for whatever reason it's not on anyone else's radar that I've seen. For me it's a total deal-breaker.

If you want a standard you can specify a standard, if you want a framework you can specify a framework. But requiring it to give you client-side permission to run scripts is something that requires more justification that I've seen anyone give.

(I haven't checked the official amp website in a year or so, maybe things have changed since then).
> My suggestion is to find gaps that aren't integration efforts, if possible, that are instead extension efforts.

Yes! This can go even further and the technical integration work can easily slip into soft/people/team/project/management integration. Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw

Summary article: https://noidea.dog/glue
Alibaba says Uygur-tracking facial recognition violates company values
While your basic point stands, I have to point out that "wireless telegraphy", like many other inventions, was almost simultaneously invented on different sides of the Atlantic. There are many inventions which have American and European "inventors", because the news of one had not gotten across the Atlantic to the other before they invented it as well. Which suggests, that once an invention is possible, it is likely to be discovered, whether an accident is involved or not.
SemiAccurate thinks no where on the horizon. They have a good track record on these things.
See this for example.
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2020/11/12/intel-delays-a-mains...
At least they were real books though!
> I'm sick of wasting time writing worthless tests. I'm sick of fixing more tests than bugs.

I think as an industry we need to look at tests, particularly unit tests, and Test Driven Development (TDD) through critical lens. Writing unit tests is seen as a virtue while in reality how much value an individual unit test adds given the cost of writing, running and maintaining unit tests.

What baffles me the most is TDD. I have seen front end teams of startups doing very simple apps following TDD. I have delivered complex data pipeline project without writing a single unit test. I wrote functional tests and lot of monitoring tools for the pipeline. But not a single unit test. It worked perfectly fine in production. For technically simple projects I just don't see any value in following TDD. And the value of unit tests for simple projects should be very carefully thought through.
Too late now but consider using a throwaway account next time.
On my cameras I usually turn the lens and the image adjusts
If you structure your company around an ethical business model, then changes to the marketplace to become more ethnical inevitably end up benefitting your business model. I'm not actually seeing the problem here. It's like saying Tesla benefits from there being high carbon taxes. Of course they do, but so does everyone else.
Those are mostly a bazillion nodes with a couple dozen Xeon cores each, wired up together (over a very nice interconnect). Each Linux instance only has to handle the cores for a single node.

That said, I agree with you that it isn't particularly surprising that Linux handles lots of cores fine, it's been run on more esoteric hardware for ages.
It’s not a unplayable, but there’s definitely noticeable latency / lag compared to playing something locally. The resolution is also lowered compared to a decent midrange PC. Obviously, this depends on your internet connection and what you’re streaming to
While those do exist (and plenty of them), many people avoid them precisely because content moderation isn't possible or regularly done in those communities. From people who prefer not to sift through egregious amounts of bigotry/spam, to people who are at very real risk of having their physical safety or livelihoods damaged by online abuse (e.g. children), there are plenty of reasons to avoid those communities--reasons why those platforms are often ghost towns or toxic echo chambers.

Like, this isn't a "think of the children" argument that those communities shouldn't be allowed to exist. Of course they should. But don't be surprised when people prefer more centralized and "censored" (policed/moderated) communities. For the vast majority of people, that is a feature, not a bug--and they tend to realize that and boomerang back to Twitter etc. when they try out decentralized/anticensorship-oriented alternatives.
The course is decent but I really don't get how it's relevant here.