skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

I think this close, but a little off. Work hard only on what matters. Join the high visibility projects and work hard on the important parts. "Nobody notices" -> that's up to you. Document and demo your achievements every few weeks.

Work only the good jobs. If it's not good, switch teams ASAP. Never, ever wait for "things to improve". So many times after I switched jobs, I said to myself "Man, why didn't I leave sooner?"
LiFePO4 batteries have been available for 5+ years. They aren't used in portable devices because they have lower energy density than other lithium batteries. They're great for fixed installations where density isn't an issue.
I never have cash on me and I'm not the only one. Thus that service would be useless for me and for everyone I know.

Where I'm from, it's the law that cabs should accept credit and debit, not only does it reduce tax fraud, but it also allow people like me to pay. Transaction fees are not that expensive, but believe me, companies that provide it to cabs drivers, does charge much more for it. Still it's less than 30%.

Again where I'm from, dispatcher does charge the drivers, and from what I read, it was not too far from 30% (which makes sense, they have to account for advertising, wage for dispatch by phone, and since Uber, for the development of a badly made app).
There is nothing illegal about purchasing hardware products from those companies and then selling them on to other customers, even without a formal sales agreement in place. This is the first sale doctrine. However software is different and licenses can't necessarily be resold.
I am surprised to learn that burning wood for heat/cooking is something done outside Amish type communities at any significant level in the developed world.
You need to do a better job documenting test logins and instructions for reviewers. Not defending Apple, but don’t half-ass the things you control when you go to review.
Apple gets its share of critics as it has since its inception, but it also gets its share of loyalists where the rest of FANG don't. One quickly notices that in discussions there as much of a knee-jerk impulse to defend Apple, as there is to bash the company. Even your comment reveals an abrupt dismissal of the OP's testimony, impugning the character of its author.
Brian Eno’s quote comes to mind:

> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.
Syncing a Forked Repo with the Parent Repo on GitHub
For anyone experiencing workplace harassment, this article is a great example of what not to do.

Instead, document everything happening to you with evidence, speak with HR about incidents as they arise, and if they don't take action, seek legal counsel.

Doing anything else will paint you in a bad light.
I don't think it runs Optcarrot (the current most prominent Ruby benchmark) otherwise it'd be listed here https://github.com/mame/optcarrot. It doesn't have a lot of compatibility with standard Ruby yet according to https://eregon.me/blog/2020/06/27/ruby-spec-compatibility-re... which could be why it doesn't run it. But it's a really exciting project!
By database folks: We are Drowning in a Sea of Least Publishable Units (LPUs)

https://researchsetup.github.io/files/lpu.pdf
>It's an abstract kind of feel

https://i.imgur.com/nOkOAYp.png
The First Sale Doctrine [1] is what prohibits Apple or any manufacturer from preventing me selling my Mac on eBay.

It used to be that you could buy or sell airline tickets to people. There used to be ads in the newspaper classifieds. The airlines are very happy that that's not possible now.

Absolutely many companies in many industries would be happy to prevent people from doing X, both from a quality control and profit-maximizing perspective.

But if I buy a ticket from StubHub or a scalper on the street, the experience should be the same. Having a delivery company insert themselves into the process means they make accept orders where they don't have enough drivers, have to transport it too far from the restaurant to the customer (many/most restaurants have limits on delivery area for time/quality), etc.

So this seems completely different because the delivery companies are inserting themselves into the process as though they were endorsed by the restaurant.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
Interesting intro. It's even translated into French I noticed. So northern Europe is borrowing three times more (per capita) than the US? That goes against everything I know.

One question: did you separate out consumptive credit from mortgages? The amount is so high that it seems to me that it includes mortgages.

Because in that case, is it not the cases that it is simply because norther Europe is wealthy and has more expensive houses and more home ownership.

Those mortgages are backed by houses, and are a sign of good financial practices, allowing gradual increase of wealth. Where consumptive credit is backed by nothing and is generally a sign of bad financial practices.
I've tried white lies like that and had them immediately backfire, plus they make me feel dishonest. "How is the conference going? Oh, great. I thought about going myself but didn't see any when I googled it. What was it called again?"

With a little thought you can almost always avoid dishonesty. "Hey, I'm thinking of visiting your town next week. Could we get lunch?".

Reputation matters.
I have a friend who recently left Microsoft after a decade and a half. He'd completely drunk the Kool Aid but ended his experience at the company facing more than a year of abuse from a new manager and senior engineer. Very similar to this long post about Apple, unfortunately. He and a couple of other people on his team tried to move to different teams, but despite a long history of excellent work, everyone was treated by the rest of the company like they were toxic waste.

Nobody thinks that their company is like this until they're on the other side of it. In my friend's case, it was only in retrospect that he saw patterns of toxic behavior from management.
Squiggly Sudoku
>It didn't hurt that the motherboard's 440BX chipset is popular with VMs

Bochs has that among i440FX :)

Still, I can't emulate some spin-o-rama (Google Street View like) games fast enough under w95 on my AMD Turion...
Great little story!
I can highly recommend Alexander Burnes' non-fiction Travels into Bokhara and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Kim, which in fact coined the term "The Great Game".
Information Systems & Technology. They're mostly contractors that are hired to build and work on Apple's internal tools and infrastructure.

Buzzfeed News has an excerpt [0] from Alex Kantrowitz's book Always Day One [1], which contains interviews with former employees that describes the dynamic.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/always-d...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52027218-always-day-one
Outdoor wood furnaces (boilers) became very popular over the last 15 years. They are cheaper than fuel oil. A traditional wood stove has to be refilled every 2 hours (or so), and is also a major fire hazard. "Wood burners" may also include pellet stoves which are also increasingly popular for similar reasons.
This kind of story is why your first priority when you start earning a salary should be to save up some fk you money.

That should be about ten times easier on a software developer salary than on anything else, so consider yourself lucky.
Chris Heard – The Future of Remote Work
It reads like what dropshippers did.
This was a common practice in the 19th century, paying workers in company chit that was only good at the company store. The practice might come back if the economic conditions are right.
The ten minutes it spends on your plate is a very different ten minutes than those spent tightly wrapped in foil in a car; one makes the burger a lot soggier than the other.
>> John Chowning refined the concept, moved from frequency to phase modulation, and brought FM into the digital realm.

> ?? Chowning's paper doesn't mention phase modulation at all, does it? His equation is for frequency modulation.
>
>https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/course/100/misc/chowning...
>
> I would presume that the relationships between phase and frequency modulation were known a half-century before Chowning.

Chowning says his equation is for frequency modulation, but the equation is actually phase modulation.

Chowning's equation(1):

e = A sin(𝛼t + I sinβt)

That's phase modulation. Frequency modulation would be:

e = A sin((𝛼 + I sinβt) t)

Very different.

That's okay; it's the first academic paper on the topic, and things were still a little wobbly.

After the paper, he and others refined the concept, moved from frequency to phase modulation, and built digital implementations.
But people like you and me are in the minority.

Most young people I know, when they want to order takeout, go directly to their preferred delivery service on their smartphone, select from what comes up, and consider nothing else.
In my experience as a hiring manager, Hackerrank is useless now. There are too many cram schools which teach you how to pass a hacker rank test and many junior developers will beat the crap out of seniors just because they know how to game the system. It ends up optimising your hiring pipeline for people who have time to cram.

The same problem happens with take home tests. It pretty much optimises for people with more time on their hands (i.e. people who don't currently have a job, people without kids etc).

In both cases a lot of good people will be filtered out. Some people think it's good to avoid bad hires at all costs but I don't think wasting people's time is particularly ethical.
TCL would run for sure.
I intended primarily to impugn their ability to tell a coherent, readable story, which is a necessary pre-condition for forming a judgment about the contents.
If you smell wood smoke your fireplace is either not an efficient design or you are burning the wood wrong. A modern efficient fireplace with a catalytic converter does a really good job at converting wood to heat.
Try roasting marshmallows on your induction cooker.
How do proprietary platforms gain a lot with Adobe killing Flash? Flash itself was proprietary. And Adobe is advocating for a not proprietary alternative that was recently released and is called HTML5.

Sure, killing Flash sucks for all the games, but Adobe isn’t really doing anything illegal.
> Not going to get into terroir other than to say that to reduce it solely to the soil type is the wrong way to look at it. It’s more of a holistic view of the entire growing microclimate, including soil, topography, water table, general climate conditions, etc.

Well said.
> It would take a paltry amount of money, in the low millions of dollars, to design real (general purpose) multicore processors that deliver orders of magnitude better performance than what we have today. But unfortunately lawmakers are for the most part technologically illiterate, and technologists are unduly skeptical of any type of programming outside the mainstream.
>
> So my dream of a sub-$1000, 1000+ core CPU with a modest amount of RAM per core (between 1 MB and 1 GB) that can be programmed with existing tools like Erlang/Go/MATLAB/Julia and even Docker is just never gonna happen. And without that, there is no viable road to really experiment with stuff like AI, physics simulations etc without renting time in the cloud. We have the impression that progress is being made on these endeavors today, but things look a little different to me, watching them play out at a glacial pace, at mind boggling expense, over 3-4 decades. I mourn what might have been.

I'm really curious what specifically you mean by this. I see similar issues on the software side (my degree is in CS). Software is incredibly bloated and horrible at interoperability. Unix had pipes back in the early 70s, and somehow with GUIs and then mobile "apps," we've regressed. Identity-based security has failed time and again. And only rarely has software design progressed meaningfully beyond structured programming from the late 70s (not to mention the languages). Moore's law has given software developers around over 100M x improvement over the past 40 years, yet ordinary people would scarcely notice.

TL;DR: I see a lot of the same flaws in software, dominated by fads and popularity only of what is mainstream.

I'd really like to hear a dissident point of view from the hardware side.
Sounds like you should be willing to take a pay cut for the lifestyle you're enjoying
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time...” - Abraham Lincoln
Five trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020
Seems like something where ceramic-like coatings would help.
The same can be said about software development: almost the totality of software developed is boring, unnecessary, and sometimes wrong. That said, we still know that developing software is an important activity.
It still doesn't work. It's sad but even payment processors are able to make editorial decisions on who can accept payments. You can control all your content and still be at the mercy of payment processors, ISP, domain hosts, and even getting delisted or hidden from Google basically kills your website. It's even worse when you see all of these working in concert together. I believe all in the same weekend Alex Jones was banned from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and even Paypal after he made a video harassing a journalist. It's not like Alex Jones was doing anything that bad, basically just shouting at some dude for like 10 minutes, but they basically said that's enough and somehow all together decided in one fell swoop to implement the Ban. Apple joined shortly after banning him from iTunes. Pornhub recently just had Mastercard and Visa cooperate together to stop providing payments to them. Now whether all those were deserved is a debate, but it just shows that even without government intervention, no company, business, or person is safe from basically being forcibly removed entirely from where all traffic on the internet occurs, at the whim of a consortium of massive companies working together.
What about a world where we all agreed to fight against our natural tendency to follow the guy who shouts the loudest and instead pick leaders who have the traits we want, like wisdom and capability? Then we don't need to bother trying to teach a bunch of naturally shy, intelligent people to shout at each other more.
The Internet of Pwned Things – NDC London 2020
Not debating the actual content of the article, but what kind of English is this? Did anyone proof read this? Emphasis mine.

... reported long wear times in gold rooms ...

... with their sleep premium ...
I can only answer with LOL to such offers

Yes I've worked for a startup. Yes I did long hours. Yes I learned that's not sustainable and not a good way to make things work.

So, no, I won't do it again.
This would be far more valuable if it weren’t anonymous and didn’t have the threat at the end. Cheapens the message. Think of Susan Fowler with Uber, and why that was so effective.
Someone has to speak out first and it has to get a ball rolling. Stuff like this can be hidden for decades before coming to light, if ever, see e.g. #metoo with prominent examples like Epstein and Spacey.
I don't think people are purposely trying to mislead, I think they're just connecting the dots with whatever low-quality sources are available to them: old Tech Crunch articles, press releases, company blog posts, remarks from coworkers/friends who've gotten sales outreach, etc. And making some kind of narrative out of them which feels believable. Often logical inferences to draw, but ultimately just wrong/irrelevant.
School or Prison
Yea, the counter to mastery is the realization that you can get to a useful place in most areas with 100 hours or less of effort.

It’s nowhere near enough time to become say a short order cook, but plenty of time to learn to make bacon and eggs for breakfast in whatever specific way you want it.
If you live in the rural parts of the northeastern US you'll end up with a years supply of wood just by occasionally clearing your land. It makes a lot of sense to use it for heat, many houses up there have both oil and a wood burning stove for heat.
because doing b-tree traversal from memory on paper correlates only so much with building successful business applications.

there's market leaders breaking new grounds every day, and for those I'd say it might be appropriate.

then there's your average bookkeeping application that is at most transforming existing data based on problem already solved by the customers, and these are like the majority of jobs on the market, but still pretend to hire the best 10th percentile - except they don't provide a 10th percentile pay and the job is boring and soulless so they probably won't even have a 10th candidate apply to begin with

> How does a prospective employer evaluate someone’s problem-solving and programming chops?

how do factory evaluate the capacity to tighten bolts?

this problem was solved by Ford a century ago.

if one's building run of the mill business software with spaceship grade engineering, you're trying to solve a hiring problem you shouldn't be having to begin with.
I don't think this requires anything special from ASML. They'd sell systems to the TSMC/EU partnership. The key is that the process engineers in the fab would learn how to develop processes for the leading edge geometries. To some extent, ASML engineers would know this, too. However, the secret recipes (literally) of chip production are so closely guarded that even the equipment companies for the tools they run on are not permitted to see them.

I completely agree that consortium-based organizations are less able to respond and react to changes or issues. That's why it needs to be treated as a strategic (defense) matter rather than a government/industry partnership, a-la Sematech in the US.
> If Apple refuse to take actions, I will interview with major media outlets describing the experience in more details and I will release a list of all individuals involved from senior management to the HR director and all the evidence as public record.

Seems like the author is going to expose more details about his story including names if things do not change at Apple. I just wonder, how will he know? He is not working at apple any more.
This is true. Canada has been trying to spend hundreds of millions or billions (under a series of different names and projects) to develop a domestic SV like tech sector and it keeps failing.

Our smartest people keep leaving to the US and taking US venture capital. Or selling to US companies. All for very good reasons. It’s where the rest of the smart people are. I’m convinced that’s what matters most, the people, not just billions of dollars won’t replace that.

If anything it’s quite obvious the US gov should be investing in infrastructure (transit, urban development, etc) like a good gov instead of venturing into even more territories pretending they can compete with highly advanced industries (be that finance or tech).

These governments, not just US, have enough things they are already struggling to deliver on. I really wouldn’t recommend they also pretend they are venture capitalists or worse starting the organization themselves.

Even old school NASA success was a lucky collection of semi-nationalizing a bunch of already successful private industry, academia, and a hardcore Cold War patriotic mission. And I should note one of the most famous people who helped get the US to the moon was Canadian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chamberlin

One could argue NASA slowly lost that powerhouse ability as it became just another hundred billion dollar gov project. They still do great things but nowhere near the scale or speed as the past.
The problem here is that for lots of big projects, there are typically only so many people who really drive the project to the completion. If you work for a big bank, you'd actually have a couple of people like you and a dozen of bystanders who lend a hand here or there, but are barely competent. They will have exactly the same resume as you, and it might even look more impressive. But their 20 years of experience in development is really just a couple of years played over 10 times.

So when hiring, I don't care if you're slow and methodical, or super fast. What I care about is that you understand basic algorithms and data structure (lists, sets, maps, trees) and can apply them to simple problems without me telling you that using a hash map here will speed up the solution tremendously, or using a heap will simplify the code. Those simple problems are also taken from most common patterns we see in our codebase, which consists of lots of geospatial data processing and analysis.

And if you need more than an hour to solve a couple of those simple problems (let's say, find duplicates between two lists), you'll definitely have a problem fitting in with the rest of the team - since everyone on the team has solved those problems and agrees that we need people with at least this basic algorithm knowledge to be able to make a significant contribution here.

These questions also a first hour of the interview, the rest goes deeply into discussion of previous projects you made, different architectural patterns, etc.
> Actually, the only real annoyance for that kind of work is that the machine's too slow to authenticate SSL keys in a reasonable time, so logging in takes forever and you can't host an HTTPS site.

Isn't Dillo (compiled from Mercurial) with mbedtls fast enough? Also, Gopher servers like sdf.org, magical.fish or i-logout.cz would shine on that machine. Fire up lynx and go. Or better, compile sacc with tcc, it will run megafast.
“Trust but verify” - That doesn’t work anymore. Western values are being eroded. Sadly.

Sounds alarmist but I feel like the west in next decade is going to have to deal with a lot of “Distrust and ask for verification”.
Oh boy I love selective enforcement.
Wood, often industrial wood waste, is simply the cheapest heat source in many regions. It's relatively common in suburban and rural Canada, and in the cold northern parts of the USA as well. Also the Nordic countries and Hokkaido in Japan. Probably anywhere with a low population density and a lot of trees.

I know Finland has wood-fired electric power plants in the hundred-megawatt range. Just like a small coal plant but with a wood-fired burner. And while not wood, in a similar vein I believe Ireland was burning peat for electricity until recently.
Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
Even Picasso was a jack of many trades. I am in no position to decide whether or not he was a master in every field by the end of his life, but I know for certain he was mediocre at all of them at some point.
It's not exactly a kids' movie, but it does end with Benjamin rallying the other animals to overthrow the pigs' rule.

It later came to light that the movie had been financed by a CIA project to promote anti-communist art.
.txt is an ancient and extremely well-established extension, and so will not cause any trouble anywhere—it’ll be mapped to text/plain in all standard servers, out of the box.

.text is not a common extension. Some things know that it’s text/plain (my Arch Linux /etc/mime.types and /etc/nginx/mime.types both do), but I expect some common server software won’t handle it properly out of the box (haven’t checked beyond nginx’s mime.types), and common OSes won’t have a handler for .text files set up (Windows, for example, comes with .text set to PerceivedType text like .txt has, so that it’ll suggest the right sort of apps to open it, but it’s still not hooked up to any app by default, unlike .txt which is “Text Document”).