skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the idea that discussing salary didn’t used to be an issue; but now is considered rude and taboo. We don’t talk about salary because it isn’t “safe”.

On the otherhand, I agree with other people here that maybe feeling like it isn’t “safe” to discuss things will lead to more open and free places to communicate.
Electron Labs are a successful competitor to SpaceX in the satellite launch space. They don't have the same capabilities, but they are much more cost effective than Boeing. Virgin Orbit also just successfully launched a satellite with a rocket attached to an airplane. I think it's possible we could see more serious competitors to SpaceX given enough time.
So has NK allegedly, at least enough for Seoul and parts near the border in SK.
For being an ethics researcher, they sure aren't very ethical.
Why not cut the middleman for increased efficiency?
No, it's not. This isn't about addiction, that's a different conversation. This is about a private company trying to do a better job of moderating what are very nuanced and important situations: what is acceptable behaviour on their private platform ("in their home") and what is not acceptable behaviour.
As long as there has been democracy corporations have had oversight over controlling mass communications. What is happening now is not new or different.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/time-private-us-media...
Win9x did actually have multiuser support -- it didn't enforce permissions between users locally, but it could at least have multiple profiles with different settings, and could restrict network share access to user accounts with NetNTLM style authentication. The important part is the API was "multiuser aware".

MacOS was inferior to basically every other alternative but it got by because of backwards compatibility with a really large catalogue of Mac software. I don't think an OS like MacOS classic could have made it from scratch.

I didn't mean to sound so negative about BeOS, I just think it could have had a better chance if it had a more solid technical base, especially for an OS made from scratch in the mid 90s. Especially when Linux and BSD were accelerating. I like to imagine something like NeXTSTEP but based on a FreeBSD or Linux core with a from-scratch userland/runtime and API... mmm...
Better can be very subjective. What you think is better may not align with what I think is better.

One of us may feel individual freedom at all costs, one might be the greater good trumps the individual.
I know you're just poking at the absurdity of this, but the actual answer is "lobbying power".
Are you implying that Dr Cox was a serial killer?
It's an artsy version of the Gish Gallop.

I enjoy the aesthetics of the documentaries though.
Oil companies pay a living wage. At least they used to, before "Big Tech".

People used to care about environmmental degradation. It used to be a headline issue in the 1970s.

It is depressing to think of how much energy is required to keep Google alive. That is no small amount of oil.

Google's mission is to keep online advertising alive. Without it, they cannot sustain the high life they are living. They serve only advertisers. To do this, they need massive amouts of data, more than any single media publication could collect. People using Google search and Android are just ad targets. At least the media employs journalists, and they have a purpose to inform. Google's purpose is just to collect personal data and serve advertisers, including political campaigns.
Forecast(2021-01-19): I think Intel, AMD, ARM, supercomputing, etc. will adopt the "warehouse/workshop model"

In the past, the performance of the CPU played a decisive role in the performance of the computer. There were few CPU cores and the number and types of peripherals. Therefore, the CPU became the center of the computer hardware architecture.

Now, with more and more CPU and GPU cores, and the number and types of peripherals, the communication, coordination, and management of cores (or components, peripherals) have become more and more important, They become a key factor in computer performance.

The core views of management science and computer science are the same: Use all available resources to complete the goal with the highest efficiency. It is the best field of management science to accomplish production goals through communication, coordination, and management of various available resources. The most effective, reliable, and absolutely mainstream way is the "warehouse/workshop model".

So I think Intel, AMD, ARM, supercomputing, etc. will adopt the "warehouse/workshop model", which is an inevitable trend in the development of computer hardware.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
It rubs the lotion on its skin
Season 3. Yes, that was awesome.

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/060.html
True, but I’m not going to want to spend the overhead time to figure out if my car is compatible with some random charger, figure out if the price is favorable (some are by the minute, others by the kilowatt hour), and then plug and unplug just to get the range equivalent of 2 gallons of gas while I’m at a store.
The answer will certainly depend on "get paid well" level. What's your current pre-tax salary, and how much are you willing to go down or want to go up for this transition to be worth it?

I have been at (or have VERY closely worked with folks at) all levels of skill, responsibilities, and salaries. Let's assume you want to stay in scrum/SE role. I am of the opinion that within SWE, you can find your fit as long as soon as you define which two out of three of these qualities you want, and which one you can give up:
(1) High salary. (My metric is: get paid at least 50% more than a similar job in another acceptible part of your country.)
(2) Super interesting. (It wakes you up in the middle of the night from a dream, because you found the solution you were looking for for a long time. You rather give up sleep than forget the solution.)
(3) Stress-free. (Well, every job has its own acceptable levels of stress. Here I'm talking about level of stress that makes you want to consider finding less stressful job. If you are not especially lazy person, and find yourself wanting to switch jobs to reduce stress at least once a month, that's high stress.)

I have have some experience (first hand or second hand) with roles that match the combos:
(1)+(2)-(3): Start-up with goals to be bought out by FAANG within a few years, or go IPO in less than a decade of founding.

(1)+(3)-(2): Any team that has self-sustaining profit in a large tech company, or any large non-tech company that wants to seem attract tech talent without changing their non-Silicon Valley type culture.

(2)+(3)-(1): Any startup that is not VC funded, and definitely isn't on IPO track.

There are LOTS of exceptions to above, and there are rare occassions to find all three.. but if you want predictable long-term behavior, I'd say pick two-out-of-three on those, and that'll cast your widest nest. Finally, as soon as you frame your question with which of those two you want and which one you are willing to give up, you'd get a concrete company and role recommendations.

Cheers!

PS: I'm in a (1)+(3)-(2) in a non-FAANG tech company. My (1) is "relative" though, because I'm paid less than the company's average, but I also get to be fully remote in a non-expensive part of the US, so relatively speaking it's more than their average. I work on one of the most mundane parts of MarTech/AdTech (hence the "-(2)" status). I get sufficient autonomy, but I also have to show that I'm bringing the value to the company. It's not stress-free, but definitely manageable. I haven't had to work weekends in a long time.
Facebook used to support XMPP. Which predates their separate Messanger app.
Doesn't that depend on how the crack is forming, from outside or from inside? Gosh, can you imagine being in space and knowing there's a crack? I'd be so stressed. But the Russian dude said that the integrity is within acceptable limits or something, so I guess they can just do some calculations and feel confident.

Still, it must be intimidating to know that you are performing your own due diligence for the very fabric of your own life-support systems.
I can get on board with 99% of that as being stuff a style guide can reasonably standardize for organizational voice, but the one thing that doesn't sit well with me is preferring "in to" over "into" in the second example at the end: "Learn how to sign in to Power BI" seems like it wants to use "into" for the same reason we would use that compound word any other time it should be used.
At least for valgrind it's fairly easy to annotate custom mallocs in the source. Just someone needs to do that.
What filesystem did Kraft create? Wikipedia is silent on the matter.
They can do whatever they are allowed by law, nobody argue about the legality but rather about the existing legislation. It seems like we need to change our laws if we don't want SV companies, which we don't vote for, to control our lives and govern what we can or can't do.
It won't be weird. There's http://thedonald.win still online and is very active - and they ban/block any counter narratives, hypocritically "censoring"/blocking like what they're complaining about.
In extremely bad taste.
I totally agree with you, but lets not forget that we are going through a phase where the open source model is suffering over the lack of incentives.

We need to figure it out a good and sustainable economic model or else it might start falling apart.

I really think that society, governments, civil entities should step up with some formula, because i mean, this is the XXI century infrastructure.. open source software are now the "roads" where everything is passing through.

Government all around worry about their physical infrastructure, so why not start to care about the virtual infrastructure we all rely on? Where a big chunk of the economy, culture and society in general are relying on?

Unfortunately capitalism on its own is failing in presenting a good solution, unless you think the guy running (idk) some important crypto code having to take care of ads to survive is a sign that everything is working as it should.

I would love if we had some sort of "trickle-down tax", where we use dependency resolution and some algo to rate the importance of that particular dependency and make the software and services that are using them and being payed for it, to let some of the profit to help the open source ones (here i think a blockchain solution might be of some help, as things would be totally automated).
> I'm pretty sure in Quantum Mechanics systems like this the entire unit behaves as one and there's no real distinction possible regarding "which is which" if you were to try to identify individual atoms.

The grow experiment was at room temperature 298K. At this temperature the nuclei of the atoms behave almost classically. There are some important quantum effects between the electrons, but their mass is like 10000 smaller. The effects are small in the electrons in the lower levels that are close to the nuclei, but in the valence band they can be very important. Specially in conductors where the electrons are very delocalized, but this is not a conductor.
Manassas just elected its first Democrat mayor in like 100 years, for what it’s worth. The area isn’t as prosperous as the rest of NoVA but it’s kind of being forced to stop being looked at as a slum. Home prices YoY led the entire state this past year with the growth of remote employment. I know plenty of people still call it a NoVA ghetto similar to Herndon, but I’m happy to not be shielded from day to day reality for people that don’t have white collar jobs when I look outside my windows.

I can’t say much about law enforcement honestly one way or the other. Danica Roem won multiple elections here for focusing upon fixing the terrible traffic on 28, and it’s proof that local economic issues matter more than social issues now. The problems with that road have kept economic development from going to an otherwise welcoming community, and I blame that upon a laisse-faire style leadership for many decades that’s ironically impeded growth for the community long-term as AWS grew just down the road.
I think it's used on a lot of social media platforms like TikTok where the users are used to a quick click kind of interaction.
Pocket Computers from the 1980s
Have you tried momentum scrolling?
They didn't insinuate - they outright listed it as an option, noting the "or".
Something that is missing in those discussions about Google's monopoly position is that monopoly power doesn't matter that much here because absolutely no content platform would agree to the terms Google are being strongarmed into.

Google doesn't want it. Bing wouldn't accept it. DuckDuckGo wouldn't accept it. Qwant probably wouldn't, for that matter. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and HN wouldn't (in fact, Reddit actively lobbied against the EUCD).

The publishers went after Google because it's both the biggest mark and also the most unpopular.

If they wanted to be principled, they'd apply the same law to Bing, Facebook, Reddit, etc. Except they won't, because Bing, Facebook and Reddit would simply remove any links to French news sites, and they would be hard pressed to make a case for monopoly power when every single content platform reacts the same way.
Sorry, I was unclear. Kraft was [merely] a programmer+serial killer.
>Things like the ISS, JWST, etc are all one-off projects, and they cannot be allowed to fail

True

> "Public bad private good" isn't a coherent strategy

Also true

Still, an infinite series of one-off projects comprise a continuous market. If SpaceX royally screws up one project, then yes, the public is left holding the bag _on that project_. But you know who's getting a lot fewer projects? SpaceX.

A federal gov't monopoly isn't the answer, just as abolishing NASA isn't the answer. Both are good. But... SpaceX is proving they can launch cheaper, quicker, and just as safely - isn't that a thing worth encouraging?
The problem is Facebook is only going to ask for help if they don't care about the verdict.

If one of the possible answers is bad for business then what?
It happened to my girlfriend's mom tonight.
I really disliked Curtis after many people had told me that I would love him. I think it was because people talk about his films as if they he was a historian, or they were documentaries. Then I read someone refer to him as a political artist, and through that framing I now think he's pretty interesting.
"I don't get why Google should pay news sites for promoting them and helping them make money."

Because Google pays massive fees to be the "default search" on millions of computers. Why would they pay so much for that. They insert themselves between then computer user and the path to finding the media sources. Nerds may know how to get past middlemen if they need to, but most people using computers do not know how.
Optimizing for revenue goals is terrible advice
This is a classic motte and bailey argument.

You are holding the factual motte: that Russian intelligence agencies bought some adds on social media and pretending it's the same as the bailey of the larger conspiracy theory: that Russian agents did everything up to an including hacking into voting machines, changing tallies in swing states, having blackmail on Trump, Trump having a Russian handler, Trump being a Russian asset and all sorts of other nonsense.

Russia gate is Qanon for liberals.

We even have a factual Jewish pedophile with ties to Clinton, the British Crown and the CIA who died in 'mysterious' circumstances for the Qanon motte.
This article is hidden behind a paywall.
I own a farm in India. Indian people are moved by plight of poor farmers, which helps government subsidizes most of the inputs we require in farming. As most farms in India have pretty weak technology and automation, we are able to leverage subsidized inputs along with modern technology and produce yeilds as high as 20x the average yield.

Labor is cheap in India and it's easily found specially when we pay more for slightly more safer and comfortable work.

Supporting farmers is a sentimental thing for people in India so we are able to produce very large profits to the tune of several millions yearly in profit.

Previously I was a software engineer for a western company based in India it was very stressful job as you need to be available for Oncall troubleshooting anytime.
In his book Oxygen, Nick Lane argues that most age related diseases are a function of cumulative oxidative stress, particularly in the mitochodria. He suggests that vigorous exercise is actually more stressful than lower intensity exercise, as well as the effects of calorie restriction etc on how the body handles the longevity vs reproduction balance. I think this may have a part to play in hunter gatherer societies, which were calorie restricted, and also relaxing most of the day :)
Not gonna lie, this sounds like something I might accidentally do. I don’t know if this guy had a malicious intent or not but I can see his point of view. I install Dropbox on my work computer and sync some of my editor settings over and some other personal things. I never transfer company docs but I could see it accidentally happening if I meant to copy something to ~/Desktop but accidentally autocompleted ~/Dropbox.

Gonna have to remember to watch out for this one if I ever go back to a big company.
Good storage people are hard to come by too.
HEY i can do luns!

can you do them high available, low latency, cross region redundancy, and restore both ways with near zero data loss?

well, sure, theres this button on the emc console I push and..
Sounds good, until the next bail out comes and private companies and their investors has to be saved.
> If DDG etc. produce the same results, why does everyone chose G?

Because Google is the best search engine in the same way the iPhone is the best phone. That doesn’t mean an Android phone can’t do all the same things an iPhone can. That doesn’t mean DuckDuckGo can’t find you all the things Google can.
It's interesting how out-of-date the HN comments are on this topic, since there are current threats:

- Russia has a doomsday system that will launch its weapons if there's radio transmission silence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

- Russia also has 100 MT undersea weapons near New York, which means there will be no warning when detonated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...

- Xi has threatened to launch at the US if anything happens to the Three Gorges Dam. (The CCP released an animated video of nuking a US naval base.)
Yes, but only because the new administration has signaled that it is pro China, and will likely start to roll back restrictions on its exports, regardless of its human rights genocide.
Just like some people are used to park in handicap spots. I don’t think that’s a problem with the type of car but with a certain type of driver.
Scored 10/10. Marking mugshot-looking pics for serial killers and professional-looking portraits for programming language creators.
> And what, pray tell, is the "traditional approach" in designing space stations compared to magical "approaches that yield results faster"?

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the huge amount of work done to keep things light, thin, self-contained and fit within existing payload bay sizes and can be constructed with minimum number of launches.

If launch costs drop through the floor there is less need for that.

You could build heavier, more robust stations because mass to orbit prices are so low. You could build it without having to minimise the number of launches. You could have much bigger and heavier sections sent up in pieces and built "on-site" so to speak.

Much easier to consider when the price to move those heavy components up to space orders of magnitude cheaper and launches take place daily / weekly.

(Yes I know I am glossing over a lot of things here).
It's a great idea, the site looks nice and works as expected! However, I see that some people have "credit", and I fail to understand how they work. They're not mentioned in the "Start Here" [0] page.

[0]: https://rysolv.com/how-to
I absolutely don't mean rural areas, I mean medium density urban communities with very low levels of street lighting, which is great from a light pollution perspective, but less good from a bootstrapping a charging infrastructure perspective
Not having a keyboard-like pop-up app that can work inside all other apps that's half speech-to-text processor, half emoji picker, like you have on mobile except having it on desktop.

And a way to run all Windows software flawlessly.

And making KDE the default DE because it's the best one.

And Wayland feature parity.

And another packaging format that's like Flatpak and AppImage, except the best of both combined into one, that everyone uses from now on instead of any of the others.

And something about how good Macbook trackpads are.
No. I'm not trying to make a disgusting joke. A site that has you judge whether a person is a serial killer or a programming language creator is in poor taste when one of the top programming language creators' obituaries (with his photo) is on the front page. Too soon.
How? What do they do that cheaper combustion cars don't?
Similar logic comes into play with mic (noun) and mike (verb). "They miked (or they're miking) the drums with several mics."

We avoid mic (verb) because the "k" works so much better than "c" when leading into various verb endings like -ed and -ing. It's the same reason we add "k" to the word traffic to form words like trafficking; we would interpret the "c" softly ("s" sound) if it was followed by a vowel. But in this case we replace it with "k" instead of adding "k" to maintain the long "i" which would shorten if followed by more than one consonant.

Mic (noun only) is great as a truncation of microphone, though.
It's not about "array" or string".

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(appDidBecomeActive:)
name:NSApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification
object:[NSApplication sharedApplication]];

can you explain to me what any of those terms mean without looking a fairly extensive reference manual?
Might be worth being very explicit which icons are trademarks. Facebook is obvious to basically anyone with an internet connection at this point, but there are plenty of brands that, despite (or because of) paying 7 figures to a big name design firm, ended up with super generic-looking symbols as their logos. "Ooh, that's a great apple/bird icon, I'll just use that."
That statement is neither true, wise nor a rebuttal.

(1) They have to obey a whole bunch of laws. Including laws on political interference.

(2) If there is a corporate exception to foreign interference, foreigners will found corporations to interfere. If founding an LLC lets someone interfere without hinderance then the world would soon be contending with the NSA, LLC and GRU Pty. Ltd. and Guoanbu Inc.

(3) Any US billionaire, Zuckerberg included, is a potential presidential candidate. They are all politically connected. Facebook will also cooperate with US intelligence which has a long proud history of overthrowing or suppressing various leftist movements.

Facebook is absolutely a source of foreign political interference.
Last I saw that stat was 2008, and I think the study was much older. I shouldn’t be so sloppy. Looks like it’s 60% for men 79+, but this is the no prior screening group, which specifically excludes known cases, so maybe a bit higher. Breast cancer is 12% and all cancer is 40% lifetime diagnosis risk in the USA.
Brings my mind to the ultimate acronym: PCMCIA

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
"Yes! C++ is nearly exactly a superset of Standard C95 (C90 and the 1995 Amendment 1). With very few exceptions, every valid C95 program is also a valid C++ program with the same meaning."

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/c
https://www.barrons.com/news/biden-state-pick-agrees-china-c...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/us-china-relations-bidens-te...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Tea...