skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a startup that was acquired by an unsexy behemoth. It was not covered in TechCrunch. We had a sales guy who easily cleared over $1MM in salary and bonuses, several times the CEO and founders, because he went above and beyond, closing $15MM of new business a year.

When the MBA consultants and salespeople from the acquirer found out, they couldn’t believe he made that much — all while they personally managed $2MM-$3MM books of business.

What do you think happened? He was slowly stripped of responsibilities and eventually forced out, for the crime of standing out as an exceptional performer.
I left Intel years ago to get almost 3x the salary as a software developer at... a bank.

At Intel engineers are paid supposedly similar rates at similar levels and similar locations. And given my level (two levels above Senior Developer) I estimate I was paid better than at least 90% engineers.

Where I worked in R&D the doors were constantly revolving and many people admitted they wait to register enough of prestigious time at Intel on their CV to get hired at a much better rate for another company.

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I don't see these moves as encouraging, more like signs of complete and utter panic. You go to these moves when whatever you do isn't working and you don't have strategy to do something new so you try to default on what has worked in the past (this both for the choice of CEO as well as bringing retired people).

This doesn't necessarily mean it is a wrong move (see Steve Jobs coming back to save Apple as a proof it doesn't have to be bad) but I wouldn't call it encouraging.

Rehiring retired people to me signals the new CEO has no trust in people that already are there. And that is usually bad news.

Add to it outsourcing CORE competency to competitor (https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm) and it seems that if there is a plan it is to keep the ship afloat for a little while longer.

Hopefully the ship is going to be afloat for as long is necessary to reshape the organization, but I think we haven't yet seen any concrete moves to see what is the strategy.
We have studied (exactly) 0.00000000000001% of the total ant population.

Also, no ant ever has understood he is being studied (which is the more interesting point). We would experience superior beings as "natural experience" and be totally oblivious to them.
BASIC, for explaining the fundamentals of imperative programming. Its weakness as a "real" language is its strength as a training language.

Then Scheme, once they feel straightjacketed with BASIC; it will teach them what abstraction is and how to break code into chunks. It should be a bit of a lightbulb moment. They also get a type system.

Finally, Julia, once they get sick of the parentheses and difficulty of building "real" programs (you'll do a lot of DIY FFI to use standard libraries in Scheme). From this they will also learn array programming and the idea of a type hierarchy.

The only trouble with this curriculum is the student will be completely ruined for ever programming in C or Java. They will not have learned to tolerate the requisite level of tedium, or even programming without a REPL.
Even on Windows/Mac you're probably better off running 1 VM and then docker inside of it.
I think your one(?) experience with Middle-eastern engineers has unfortunately given you a bad impression, but I'm not sure that necessitates making such a dogmatic and blanket "caveat".

Following the logic in your own statement equating Republicans to Middle-eastern homophobes, mid-west engineers will(!) have significant problems working with more liberal/woke companies. They have a strong(!) tendency to be homophobic/transphobic/misogynist. They are a liability which can get you sued.

Does that sound like a correct, or even fair, assessment to you?

I'm a Republican software engineer from Kansas and it doesn't to me.

Beyond that, from my time living in Beirut and traveling the Middle-east I can assure you there are many, many liberal (in both the Western and US sense) and metropolitan software engineers who would have no "problems working with more liberal/woke" companies".
This to me is Twitter becoming the want-to-be William Walker of Modern day Social Media. They’re conducting foreign policy as a private entity. Maybe they will suffer their own self-capture too.

That should not be.
Can you point to a reputable source for the epigraphic claims about the Indus Valley?
SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma
A new mutation of COVID19 has been discovered in an South African donor. With this mutation, the spike protein changed which might render all existing vaccinations less effective or even ineffective.
Thank you for the twitter post.
One thing I'd warn about with APSW:

https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/download.html#easy-install...

Basically, if you install it from pip (without following the directions to install from git directly), then you end up with some ancient version, which rather defeats the point of APSW.
Companies I know of that do drug testing:

- Walmart (1.5 million US employees)

- IBM (352,000 US employees)

- Target (350,000 US employees)

- Kroger (450,000 US employees)

- Home Depot (400,000 US employees)

These are just spot checks of the top 10 largest employers. Obviously, sectors such as transportation and finance also have broadly embraced drug screens.

Based on my experience in IT, they are not outliers. As a contractor, I've even had to submit to drug testing for contract gigs in the past.
Sorry to be “that guy” but can’t seem to update my profile picture. Just a heads up. Love the idea! And the UI is super nice. Just posted a reflection.
Raspberry Pi 4 Kubernetes Cluster with x86 Support
I think that those "silly" annoying small exercises targeting different muscle groups definitely have a role in later allowing you to perform more complex moves without injury. I hate them, but since my back is a bit deformed since birth I have no choice and I suggest others talk to a physio before breaking their backs, pelvises or whatever. I have seen multiple people messing themselves up because their bodies weren't properly "prepared" for those exercises.
I guess what I'm saying is there are no shortcuts. Hard work, time and diligence.
I think there is more to the story. Apple and the new M1 just shows the strength of vertical integration. Once you can collect data from millions of devices and apply statistics on the top of it you can make decisions that Intel or AMD could never make. Intel also fall victim of its own success, become slow, stopped innovating at the pace necessary for the future.
With batteries you'll want a buck/boost regulator (DC-DC converter) in any case. At a $4 retail price, that would be a significant share of BOM for a specialized use case.

For professional use, nobody stops you from creating such a board, amateurs are better of using a commercial USB power cell (likely more expensive than the Pi Pico though).
> The effect of Gelsinger taking the CEO role pushed a hire that was on the fence into accepting the role.

That's what he says and it is probably true. But it could also be true that saying so would put him in good graces with the new CEO and he would basically be expected by everyone to say that's what pushed him over the edge even if it wasn't, so him saying so adds little new information.
> At first glance I interpreted this the other way.

This is why English has a guideline that compound adjectives preceding a noun should usually be hyphenated:

Cruise-missile-carrying submarines.
what i think most of people are not getting about cloud providers is that you can surely get better deal out of your money if you go to bare metal, but what you will miss out is a lot of services that come with AWS and that you would end up provision and maintain (e.g. S3, cloudfront). If you are a large business that can afford certain upfront costs to setup certain services cloud services might not be the best place, but for pretty much everyone I think you get a very simplified environment to start your business.
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> Once the reward drops to zero, transaction fees will be born directly by parties to the transaction and will have to be high enough to stave off a 51% attack directly.

This is something I don’t see talked about much, but the asymptotic state of Bitcoin when mining fees are zero is interesting to think about. It’s not obvious to me that the economic incentives against running a 51% attack will exist in the “terminal” stage of Bitcoin in the way that they do in the “inflationary” (positive mining reward) stage.
> What's a Manual Task? It's a task in a schedule that has its dates hardcoded and thus will not move, which is really insanely wrongheaded.

It certainly can be abused, but at the level you have described it, it seems a straightforward way of modeling things outside of the scheduling control of the project.

(Now, if it's allowed to have other tasks as dependencies, and doesn't basically raise a giant red flag if the calculated time of those dependencies pushes past the begin or end of the Manual Task, depending on the kind of dependency, that's a problem with the implementation, but at the level you have described it the concept isn't misplaced.)

On one level, needing to use it is a management smell that control may not have been assigned over all things it should be to effectively manage a project, but that's very much a reality.

> Imagine Excel introduces a feature called Manual Math that allows you to override the rules of arithmetic.

You mean, if excel let you directly enter a value in a cell, even if headings suggest it's a calculation? I'm pretty sure it's has that feature from say one.
Preferences > Moderation > Federation > search for the instance you want to limit > Add new domain block.

Now set Severity: None, click Reject media files, then Create block. There - now you're not disconnected from them at all, but neither are you hosting their media.
During the COVID-19 pandemic I found myself doing nothing interesting during the weekends, so I decided to offer my AWS knowledge to medium sized companies in regards to their monthly expenses in cloud compute. I thought I would help them save a couple of thousand dollars from their annual bills, but so far I already shaved more than $100k from three different companies. I am quite excited about this side gig, and I hope to be able to continue helping other companies this year too.
The only spoiler is that a pro Bitcoin source is going to extreme levels of mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable use of an entire countries worth to electricity to write 7 entries per second into the worlds slowest and least efficient database.
I actually had a loop in background that would kill -9 various services every few seconds until I finally got them all uninstalled.
I don’t think people will blame Substack. As I perceive Substack model and positioning , I would guess that people would blame the author.

Also, newspapers have a mix of subscription and ads for decades, I don’t think it’s that shocking that some Substack authors are doing that as well.
Point to point can also be useful when getting a building connected is expensive. A former employer leased a space in a city, and the space wasn't connected. One of the big providers wanted $10k to connect the building. A local small ISP connected the building using point to point for a fraction of the cost. I think we'll see more point to point adoption until it threatens the market share of entrenched providers.
Yes I am really doing this at home with actual living biology.

Garages are terrible for biotech because of contamination problems. I have a bedroom that I've sealed quite well with 2 box fans constantly running filtering the air (tape a 20x20 filter to a box fan and it works great). When I work with media or anything I also use a flame. I still have some problems with contamination, but it is manageable.

There are also biological ways to get around contamination problems. So long as your media is clean, if you use a strain like Vibrio natriegens, it just outgrows literally everything, so it's not that big of a worry.

I have a few ruuvitags + a raspberry pi to monitor the temperature, and I live in Coastal California, so we don't have that much fluctuation. It hasn't mattered for my experiments, anyway, which are mainly just DNA cloning.
Wow, what a horribly named function for a library that aims to make regular expressions more readable. The name very strongly suggests it should match anything but the string aeiou, so that it would match for instance the string a, but that is not what it does at all.
I was disappointed when I saw it wasn't emojis drawn to look like Paul Graham.
It was an amazing delivery, i never even thought that she could have a speech impediment.
I'm well aware of that guideline, and I flout it specifically because it has only made the problem worse.

I get turned into a pincushion every time for my trouble but it's worth it.
what else is there - royksopp

I once listened to it for 6 hours straight to help put the finish a project
I'm not particularly surprised. Many hobbyists just need their microcontroller to periodically poll some sensor data, or actuate a servo when a button is pressed, etc., and the convenience of programming in Python trumps a 10x speed improvement.
Keeping apt-get in our container builds is vital, since it helps keep CVEs out of our containers. We can do automated re-builds of all of our containers weekly and (typically) it lets us keep on top of the CVE game.
Yeah but you can spin up everything you need in a day. Then you can shut it all down. If you’re a startup, it can make a ton of sense.
Here’s a controversial prediction: in order to get adequate vaccination coverage / herd immunity, the USA (or states) will need to start paying people to get vaccinated.

While intent to get vaccinated is at least rising, it’s still only 60% [1]. The anti-vaxxers are out in full force over this one. Combined with the existing public skepticism about COVID, I think we are going to find it difficult to get enough people vaccinated without providing some kind of an incentive. We are going to have to fight fake vaccination cards, and more strongly fight fake medical exemptions from doctors [2]. We are going to see surpluses of the vaccine going to waste because states can’t find enough people in later “tiers” willing to vaccinate.

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/03/intent-to-get...

2: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/california-passes-laws-to-r...
I believe they're referring to buying lab equipment on eBay.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05655-3
I think hardware cost is secondary for hobby projects compared to learning curve cost. C is very intimidating (and annoying sometimes) compared to Micropython. It definitely promotes bad coding hygiene but I don’t really care if I just want something quick and dirty for my own small project.
They already ported Linux to Apple A10 in iPhone before, the M1 shares a lot with those chips.

https://projectsandcastle.org/history
They should also be hiring fabrication engineers, to get that 5nm process back on track.
Agreed. Taking the "ant" argument to it's logical conclusion and based on https://xkcd.com/1610/, there very well might be some alien who is part of a very advanced society and struggling in grad school, and that alien's advisor (unhelpfully) is suggesting how cool it is that we earthlings manage to do what we're able to do despite how primitive we are.
We will continue celebrating the removal of abusive assholes from platforms which would otherwise serve to facilitate their abuse.

The duly elected government of a country is a different matter entirely.
Yes, he failed to produce any keys, the courier with the keys never materialized, the judge has not thrown Craig Wright in jail for contempt of court nor has be been charged with perjury. The judge seems to be mildly entertained by this and views Craig Wright as mentally ill, but won't have him committed. It is all sad and strange. There are a lot of guardrails against using the system this way, but they aren't being used.
> forged

So in other words he failed to provide proof
I guess the OP meant such that apt/yum/dnf/whatever runs every time the image runs, rather than just once when it's built. Not that that's something I see very often, mind.
More perfect implies imperfection, just less of it.
This is ridiculous. How is graying out a comment on Hacker News "holding to task" anyone?

The only result this achieves is telling these people with "reprehensible ideas" that they need to take their discussion elsewhere and avoid any communication with people who don't share their opinion.

This is the opposite of productive.
Towards copy-evident JPEG images (2009) [pdf]
> IT seems to have total control and puts very little thought into developer experience

To be fair, I can assure you that developers give very little thought to the experience of people who have to support their software too.
Far be it from me to shame anyone who finds this useful.

Personally speaking, I would find it frustrating, if I had to support such code.
I wonder if this would also be useful in the other direction, as a reference for WINE-like reimplementations of the Win32 API.
Rising expectations doesn't increase the pool of high quality men and polygamy, unlike marriage, doesn't provide a safety net. I also bet that few women will want to follow the path of lonely competition. Men do it because they have no choice, not because they like it.
In TFA. Misread the # of docs, edited
Look up some talks from Guy Kawasaki, art of the start for example, it’s quite good and harmless humor.
Stop Keeping Score
>Other related terms like kappalandi (ship nuts - i.e. peanuts) indicate sea trade and that they were not endemic to India.

Reminds me of the Shibboleth about Kappalandi vs Kadala in Malayalam, where the choice of vocabulary points to which region you come from (North vs South Kerala).
lol. provolone only my friend
Mmm. Consider it possible that I'm right? Not everything that sounds good stands up in the cold harsh light of criticism. Or as a great poet once put it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hzkBihaew): "Do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly."

Update: heh, my fastest-downvoted comment. Yup, I'm definitely right.
I've also never found anything meaningful out of SMART at home lab scale. I do know the way vendors report it is a shitshow, so I wouldn't suspect it'd be great training data.

What I'd be really curious to try is run IO benchmarks on the drive and see if there are performance issues that indicate a drive is failing.
Can only second this, we use a VSCode devContainer-based setup in all of our projects and even migrate our legacy projects to it (software agency).

Here's our current base go template, you only need Docker+VSCode on your system to get started: https://github.com/allaboutapps/go-starter

Bonus points:

* As all IDE operations solely run within the local Docker container, all developers can expect that their IDE will work the same without manual configuration steps.

* We can easily support local development in all three major OSes (MacOS, Windows, Linux) and even support developing directly in your Browser through GitHub Codespaces.

* Developing directly inside a Docker container guarantees that you use the very same toolset, which our CI will use to build these images. There are no more excuses why your code builds differently locally versus in our CI.

Edit: format/typos
They pass it back to Cloudflare.
Not to mention, "safe storage" of that currency for spending. It was literally an escape from traditional banking that was born out of the 2008 financial crisis where wallstreet caused billions in losses.
It's worse than just failing.
I guess management has never been anywhere close to Palo Alto.
Previously at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428700
Wow that's harsh. Is it a personality difference or technical knowledge, or something else that makes you say that? I'm curious, I dont know either of them.
Months of trials won't show effects that take years to notice.
Considering you are talking about the health care system where insurance companies spend money on behalf of their customers. At no point did the customer of the doctor or dentist spend his or her hard earned money. It was always a large, authoriative corporation.

Why would it matter if the corporation is the government or an insurance company? Also, are you implying that you can't have a free market if you have insurance companies?
> Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages.

Can it? The robot in SF may make financial sense because of high utilization. A low-wage worker can do 100+ useful tasks when the restaurant is not busy enough to require constant burger making. Is a burger-making robot flexible enough to match that?
Hopefully they also consider current engineers and harmonize their compensation too, else people will have reason to hold a grudge because it would prove the only way to get fair compensation is to play the game and accelerate turnover.
> > I think it would be nice if something held my head and neck straight so I could doze off.

I've come across headrests that have adjustable height and 'wings' that can be folded forward to support your head somewhat (most people don't seem to know they are there unless they happen to notice another passenger adjust one).

> Have you ever tried one of those inflatable around-your-neck pillows that are sold at airports? I've always wondered if they were worked.

They work, though I don't like the inflatable ones much and prefer those filled with microbeads like a bean-bag even though they're less portable. I haven't yet tried one with memory foam and an inflatable core or the even fancier types since I tend to lose them while I'm stumbling bleary-eyed off the plane (I've also lost books, hats, scarfs, & sweaters this way, basically anything that might not be stowed in the carry-on bag).

BTW, don't buy a neck pillow at the airport, the options are very limited, the prices high, and you probably won't be able to return it if necessary (poss. even if you kept the receipt).
So it has a different male and female option to select the muscles, but the explanation and text on how to do it seems to be identical in both cases, and how could it even be different?

r/pointlesslygendered
Critical Race Theory.
Divine intervention is required to put things on the right path. Hopefully this happens for the sake of consumers getting some innovation.
> To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong.

Unfortunately, this feels all too true. I believe this kind of mental bias trap is true and widespread.
git status is not supposed to use the network, unless you're running it on an networked file system

Have you tried running git gc (maybe --aggressive) and similar commands?
Everything is hard until you know how to do it. Some things are hard after you know how to do it. But there's usually an easier way to do it, you just have to find and use it. If you find yourself going "boy this is hard" a lot, you probably just aren't doing it the easy way.
https://archive.is/yUWvC
> Seems like a pretty thinly veiled swipe at Trump to be honest.

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But if you don't think that guy (not even gonna use his name) deserves some serious criticism after the last 4 years and especially after the events of 1/6/2021... well, I'm just not sure here's any way to reach you.
Okay. So this bit, then:

> In a statement to Axios, Google said Mitchell's email account had been locked pending an internal probe into her downloading of a large number of files and sharing them with people outside the company.

Edit: I'm guessing the string "levandowski" was used at least once in the code responsible for detecting this.