skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? So, in order I started with two supervisors:
1) Supervisor 1 left for maternity leave

2) Supervisor 2 sued the university and ended up leaving

3) Supervisor 1 returned, got me to re-write

4) Supervisor 1 went on maternity leave again

5) Supervisor 3 (head of dept) forced me to rewrite and completely change the focus

6) Supervisor 1 returns, says nothing about change of focus

7) Supervisor 3 leaves

8) Supervisor 1 asks me to rewrite to original way

9) Supervisor 4 comes in (super helpful, especially with the stats)

10) Supervisor 4 gets heart disease, takes early retirement

11) I finally say fuck it and put in the PhD

12) Supervisor 1 says I didn't read it all, see what the examiners say

13) Examiners very sceptical I wrote the whole thing, until the actual exam

14) I get major corrections, all of which were down to my refusal to follow APA style in my tables (because it's stupid).

15) I finally graduate, three years after getting my first private sector job.

So, yeah, PhD's can be bad for everyone ;)
Interesting grouping. I would've put The Atlantic and The New Yorker in the reputable group, and Bloomberg in the BS group.
London is France's sixth largest city: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18234930 or it was in 2012!
Bref, a serverless runtime for PHP on AWS Lambda
I agree that an incentive structure is probably needed as a matter of practice (since few people will want to do extra work with zero upside), but I wouldn't call it exploitative.

You're an employee, you work for a guaranteed salary now in return for someone else shouldering the risk. That's the nature of the deal. If you want to share in the upside, you have to share the risk.

It's not like anyone's being forced to do this extra work (unlike, say, game dev, which is exploitative). It's just an option for people who want to tackle interesting projects.
Curl is C (2017)
Eyes on their feet,

watching where they step,

oblivious that they're heading,

directly towards a cliff!
Absolutely. And better insulated houses save money on both heating and AC. It's a very obvious way to save a ton of energy.
Is there a reason why some developers prefer Rust over C++?
I often hear that it’s because of Cargo, but in my experience, universal build systems and package managers end up not really solving the problem they are designed to solve, and are a huge attack vector. Anyone who’s tried to deploy their own complex Maven project knows that it’s a true nightmare.

C++, on the other hand, has a variety of choices for build systems. CMake is prevalent, you can use simple makefiles just like C, or you could use countless other custom solutions. I’ve found that languages which support a singular build system are really easy to build simple demo apps, but once you need to build something that the default build system doesn’t support, you’re in big trouble.
This is just hype created as part of SpaceX and marketing it as sci-fi tech. Satellite internet has been there for a long time. They are unreliable in bad weather and best for rural areas where there is no internet connection or slow option. For $99/month it is very expensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Inte...
I would say the time the NYT literally covered up the crimes of Stalin, might have been one point where its ideological bias led it off track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
A British culture and way of life certainly does exist.
They didn't block their pages, they decided not to provide free hosting for them.

Those services are perfectly free to have their own websites that are not paid for or promoted by Facebook.
> And why are the Baltic states pulling out of the Belorussian energy network?

To protest the operation of the new power plant. Belarus has no reason to operate it in the first place if they don't have buyers for the electricity. They'll probably exchange with Kalinigrad and mainland Russia anyway and electricity from the Astravets NPP could end up in the Baltics via the Russian grid. It's just that they make it more expensive this way. Latvia wants to ask for origin certificates for Russian electricity, which is kind of silly. How does one discern between a Russian or a Belorussian megawatt?

https://www.reuters.com/article/litgrid-belarus-idUSKBN27J2C...

Also, this is a politically motivated move that actually reduces safety because if the NPP's somehow gets disconnected from the grid and the exchange with the Baltics is shut down as well, they have a loss of coolant accident on their hands. I really hope they have working diesel generators in good condition and good interconnects with Russia and Poland.
I expect there will be political and law enforcement pressure to use those autonomous vehicles to scan for "Amber Alert" license plates.
I assume 150k at Google is enough salary demotion to provide motivational filter, but feel free to adjust the figure as you see fit.
A TL;DR after analyzing Clubhouse app
Yes. Latin America! :)
Been using zsh for years and many of these were new to me. I love #3 and use it daily. I find it most helpful to use this trick to type ".." or "..." and quickly navigate back a dir or two. Of course you can do this in bash (and other shells) with aliases, it does not come out of the box like so many niceties in zsh.
Just use paypal - you can cancel it from the paypal side without contacting NYT.
I very much enjoyed this, in explaining StoneKnifeForth it is a nice article on minimalism in computer language design.
Introduction to Advanced Types in TypeScript
The service has been demonstrated on fighter jets so a boat at anchor should be no problem. Of course the $500 antenna they currently sell probably isn't quite as capable as the one they used on that fighter jet...
Big companies buying startups looks like the most likely 'successful' outcome today. Yet with effective antitrust maybe it shouldn't be.
Its brand is about all it has going for it. It's the IBM of journalism. We like to think it's still a leader, but we're kidding ourselves in doing so.
Since they use regional pricing, doesn't it make sense that it would require a service address before they can show you the price?

Besides, it's not like if you click that Order Now button that it instantly places an order and a SpaceX kit drops from space in your front yard seconds later. There's a few more steps before that happens, like payment info.
What problem are we trying to solve?
Many people would consider the "leftist version of identity politics" to be an oxymoron.
To me this idea sounds a lot like "why do we need IPV6? Why not keep IPV4 and add a few bytes?" except it's effectively almost the same amount of breakage. Either you're C-compatible or you're not.

Making C memory-safe by adding extra annotations to allow for static zoning/borrow checking is possible, but the churn involved is probably not much different than rewriting in a different language. See Cyclone for instance if you want to see what such an approach looks like.

On top of that modern languages have facilities that are seriously lacking from C, memory safe or not. C's error handling is atrocious, C doesn't have (standard) destructors, C doesn't have type inference, C doesn't have algebraic types, C doesn't have proper string/collection support etc...

I like C quite a lot, it's probably the language I know best, but it's definitely very outdated. I think in the not so far future it'll be almost entirely replaced outside of legacy applications, hopefully with Rust. I think the watershed moment will be when the Linux kernel is rewritten in an other language, which definitely won't happen overnight but at this point I'm fairly certain that it will happen within a couple of decades.
It's standard in the USA because of government policy. (Mainly Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac). 30 year fixed rate wouldn't exist in the free market.

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/31/why-do-we-have-30-yea...
Stadia is a good demo.

If you consider it as a product it's a failure.

And people are bashing Google, Stadia is just a proxy. Google is the one who fucked up here, so it's not like they don't deserve it.

People were saying that goolge will fuck it up, since Stadia was announced. Google super-duper-pinky-promised that this time its different. And now we have this crap.

How are people supposed to feel ?

Or should they be in awe since on paper its amazing ? Execution is what matters in the end.
Specifically, I’m suggesting with the remote customer service or community manager jobs while you study and prep for the technical ones. The competition for technical jobs is pretty high right now because lots of people can work remote, and the bar is higher because you can’t receive as much on-the-job training. Maybe look for the service jobs with a technical bent of you want a leg up on your tech career path.
I'm not sure Tindr is a good example, since it has a more complicated founding history and IAC was initially not the sole owner:

> In March 2014, media and internet conglomerate IAC increased its majority stake in Tinder

Also, IAC (Match Group) owns most of the top US dating sites, so they were already in the dating market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_(app)
Makefile Support in Visual Studio Code
Offtopic, an early-ish film that impressed me is ‘The Rules of the Game’ (‘La Règle du Jeu’) by Jean Renoir, from 1939. I somehow stumbled across it long ago, and recently had to wade through Wikipedia looking for its name, because I realized how alive it was for its time—it's basically ‘French new wave’ before even the WW2, and does quite much remind of Fellini. Maybe I'm watching too few pre-war films, but e.g. ‘Citizen Kane’ looks rather stilted compared to ‘The Rules of the Game’.

Apparently the picture was originally poorly received and quickly recut to a shorter time, but reconstructed in the 50s back to 110 minutes—so it's best to make sure to see this version.

One other, even earlier film that has the same lifelike quality for me is ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ by Dziga Vertov, which is not even a fiction film per se but sort of a documentary. Originally a silent film, but now best enjoyed with the soundtrack by Cinematic Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYZ5847FiI

P.S. Wim Wenders said in his quasi-documentary ‘Tokyo-Ga’ about director Yasujiro Ozu, that previously films were about life as it is, as opposed to now that both life and films feel more and more like dreams. That's the impression that I get most from European films from around the 50s and the 60s: French new wave, Fellini, Bergman—even though Fellini constantly swerved into the territory of fantasies. ‘The Rules of the Game’ is also in this company for me.
not with <50ms ping: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/starl...
> I was astonished by how much NYT was blaming Trump for everything

The guy was calling the whole thing a hoax, I don't know what credit he should get for anything.
It'll be interesting when the characteristics of the cars are known. Eg you can cut in front of a Tesla and it'll stop, but dont do the same for a Chevy.
The word for this is "skunkworks". Even the most independent skunkworks still serves big-company goals, often taking advantage of big-company resources and generating IP for the big company.

In some ways, a skunkworks is startup-like but in many critical ways it's way different.
I'm a VP for a software firm focused on IoT. I work closely with both actual startups and Fortune 500s companies looking to launch new connected products.

I agree there is no such thing as a start up within a big company.

But that's not the point.

The point is to innovate. And a lot of innovation can happen within a true start up. But a lot of innovation can happen inside big companies, too. I see it all the time. Most of it, though, is just incremental innovation, not massively disruptive innovation.

But that's true of most startups, too. Most startups (the ones that survive) are incremental in their impact: they make incremental improvements to some part of our world, and they get bought. Very few transform into the next Fortune 500 giant and have that level of impact on society.

Final thought: I have seen a few world-shaking ideas emerge from corporate America. The problem is it typically cannibalizes the core business, or is so outside the core business, and the C-suite doesn't know what to do with it.
If you need technical advice or help learning programming laguanges like Javascript, ReactJS, Java, C#.. let me know. I can spare few hours.
Hiding in plane sight is powerful. Especially true if one can do it with a community.
All of these comments seem to make it less defensible when people post NYT articles behind a paywall...maybe this kind of information will help people stop doing that here? It would sure make it a much more enjoyable experience.
It’ll be months worth of them, and there are plenty of cheap agencies that will make minimal effort, report to the credit bureaus, and wait for you to come to them begging to get it off because you can’t get a mortgage.
> I would call C++ a memory safe language

C++ is not, in any sense, a memory safe language.
I've never heard NPR or BBC talk about how they are "fighting fascism".
> " I interviewed people for Amazon as well before moving to another FAANG. All I would amplify here is that entry level is entry level, especially in software. None of the college hires have professional experience (maybe internships, but they had to start from nothing to get those anyway)."

100% agree with everything you said, although depending on the Org 'entry level' can mean 'just graduated from college'. In Premium Support, at least, they're always tinkering with their recruiting models.

I was hired as entry level with 1 year experience at a startup. These days, that entry level job is reserved for recent college graduates or people getting out of the military. They wouldn't slot me as entry level today for recruiting/interviewing purposes.

Not sure how AWS handles entry level software engineering positions.
Crowdstrike to Acquire Humio for $400m
The main problem is probably heterogenous collections. If you have a collection with both ints and strings then hashing will work fine but comparing will fail (in Python 3).

(Frozensets are hashable but not sortable but that's probably more niche.)
I've really enjoyed the In Defense of Plants podcast and blog as a way of learning more about plants and ecology.

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast
Most likely not. At minimum China will require the local regulations to be observed if SpaceX wants to sell Starlink services to Chinese citizens. Also, currently ground-based stations are required so the filtering could be implemented there.
There is nothing that is absolutely categorically capable of singularly identifying an individual natural person except that person’s physical body and even then biometrics need to be carefully created.

Everything else has a statistical probability of correlating with a natural person. The probability of phone numbers as identification is good enough. In fact it is great.

All or nothing reasoning is incorrect. It is only useful when you need to capture literally every case, which isn’t the problem here.
I’m not rage-quitting yet but the decision to capitalize the word used to describe the skin color of one group of people, but not the words used to describe the skin colors of other people, is just so completely asinine and panderous that I have considered doing so.
IIRC Zig isn't memory safe though, is it? If not it seems like a bad choice if the explicit purpose is to mitigate memory safety issues...
Do you think that he is the only member of WSB that is a licensed broker or works in finance? I don't want to bet but I would say there is a good chance that people that a lot of people that used to post on WSB have either financial background or work in finance/trading.
I don't think so. Either Musk will change Starlink to comply with the great firewall (giving starlink access to a market of over a billion people), or China will ban Starlink terminals (which would be sort of like the current situation- Chinese citizens can get around the firewall with a VPN, but doing so is illegal)
Your criticism is understandable. The Model M is not as good as the Model F was, which is nowhere near as nice as the beam spring ones were. It was, indeed, a cheaper replacement to the Model F, which was, itself, a cheaper replacement to the beam spring ones.

> The Model M has no replaceable parts.

Unicomp sells a lot of replacement parts and a lot of the most common repairs can be easily done by the user. Besides that, they are really durable: I know people who use Model M's older than them.

And few keyboards will resist coffee spills.

One thing I wish it could do is backlit keys. Some people mod them, but I've never seen this done.

> Because it is much cheaper to make.

That's really true. Model F keyboards were expensive, beam-spring ones were even more and the kind of mechanical beasts you find inside IBM Selectric-based terminals and the 2260 terminals would be considered art installations more than office appliances if made today. You can get a new Model M today for less than many good mechanical keyboards with good switches and nice keycaps will cost you. And I assure you, no mechanical keyboard sounds like a Model M (or F, or beam spring, if you can pay for one).

I have a couple keyboards on my desk. The M sits beside a small "gaming" (which means "ridiculous RGB effects") mechanical one and a couple Apple ones (one wireless, one wired) all connected to different computers, which are used for different things (the Sun Type 7 is stashed away, for now, but, as cool-looking as it is, it doesn't feel that great). The gaming one will, eventually, get new sculpted/spherical keycaps because this is one area where these keyboards really shine - they are ridiculously customizable.
Administrations on one side changed, for reasons seemingly unrelated to the "trade war". It remains to be seen how this will affect the "trade war".
It doesn't matter much if the country that builds the power plant has a dictatorship or a democracy. Both political systems produced nuclear disasters.

The currently built VVER1200 NPP has pretty good safety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER#Safety_features

There are a lot of these (especially the older version of VVER1200) reactors operating in the European Union. Some of them are not too far from international borders. I think a casual Russophobia is the main driving force of the opposing voices instead of actual criticism of the VVER1200. I am not sure if Russia would want to have another nuclear disaster by not taking nuclear safety seriously. It would be really bad for business.

Some places where these VVER blocks are operating or going to operate:

VVER power stations have been mostly installed in Russia and the former Soviet Union, but also in China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, India, and Iran. Countries that are planning to introduce VVER reactors include Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey.

What is the scenario that could cause a catastrophic failure in the VVER design or implementation that would result in a disaster that would create a situation to evacuate cities 50kms away?

I am truly interested in this, because I though that VVERs where designed to avoid any sort of disaster. This is why these have a pretty reliable control rod system with safety factor of 5+ and the containment block can survive a Boeing 747 flying into it. Do you think there is a real change that the reactor going super critical and exploding?
That isn't the same as:

What there is none is the "right" for governments to claim ownership to other's work and dictate you must do what your own free will tells you is not on your best interest

which is the post I replied to;

The law absolutely dictates the rules, which may or may not contradict your own free-will e.g. paying taxes, abiding by copyright etc.
Slightly off topic: Growing up I never valued outside spaces. I never spent time in nature. In my 30s, and now living outside of a city, I walk every day and try to make it through a forest of wooded area. It really calms anxiety over the past year. When I move home in the next few years, proximity of nature will be a key point in picking a new home.
Hey Chovy, thanks for the comment.

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That's the exact reason I use mechs. My finger joints started getting sore from typing, which was a career threat for me. I bought a collection of nice keyboards with Cherry browns and reds, and trained myself to type without bottoming out, and the problem went away. As a bonus, it turned out that typing that way was faster for me.

For several years, sometimes I slacked off and just typed on my Mac keyboard, and fingers would start getting sore again so I'd switch back to the mechs. Now I've apparently healed up a bit and a modest amount of laptop typing doesn't bother me, but I still bring out the mechs for more substantial work.
But it has probably caused more birth defects because of Fukushima and Chernobyl. Death is just one statistic.

Though it wouldn't surprise me if deaths+birth defects+other health problems was still a lot lower for nuclear than for coal and oil.
My own experience ([1]): the biggest different between "startup inside BigCo" and an actual startup is availability of resources.

"Startup inside BigCo" generally revolves around spinning up a new team that's product focused and delivering quickly.

Depending on which BigCo you're at, delivering quickly could be a departure from how things are normally done. e.g., You don't have to worry about writing a big up front proposal doc, going to the architectural review board, or using the standard infra tooling.

For engineers on a team, this "feels" like a startup. There are daily standups. They talk to users and have a sense of ownership on what's built. There can even be some sense of urgency to ship quickly.

While "BigCo startup" teams mimic a lot of the same procedures and activities as a startup, there is an underlying support structure at BigCo that isn't there in an actual startup. IMO, that makes the experiences substantially different.

Some examples:

- The cost of failure is different. At BigCo, if the project fails, it's generally OK. Each engineer can be reassigned to some new team at BigCo. At a startup, if the project fails, the entire company fails.

- There are more people to ask for help. At BigCo, if you're stuck on some hairy engineering issue, you have a swell of engineering talent to lean on for help and guidance. At a startup, you have StackOverflow, Google, and maybe some folks in your personal network to lean on for help.

- There's more than just product development. At BigCo, generally only the engineering / product development team is structured like a startup. After the code is "done", the regular product marketing org, marketing org, and sales org (if that's a thing), can kick into gear. At a startup, there is no such massive support structure.

- On the topic of marketing, having the brand of BigCo is a huge boon to a new product. For mobile apps, there's a lot more trust in seeing "NewProduct by BigCo" vs. just "NewProduct" in the app store. Your rockstar CEO may even tweet out the launch announcement to his millions of followers.

- And yes, at BigCo, when it's lunchtime, you can go to the cafeteria and decide if you want the steak or the coq au vin for lunch. (well, before COVID at least)

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[1] - I've worked for really small startups (< 8 people), really big companies (I was person 2000+), and small companies that became big (joined at 20, left at 200+, now at 500+).
It’s sad to see (and experience)... it’s the corporate equivalent of leaving someone on “Read” and while technology has improved our lives via ease of communication, at the same time, it has made it easier to have bad or no conversations.
Everyone can just do DeepF**ingValue if that’s the issue