skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they are not better, because they are easy to change, and so it is easy to change monetary policy "for better", or make the coin "more compliant".

Bitcoin value is that it is extremely hard to change, especially when it comes to fundamental properties, like 21m hard cap.

You can actually rely on Bitcoin's monetary policy to be fixed forever.
If you look at it from the point of view of an engineer, it appears to be mania: it doesn’t provide DRM despite implying it does (to some extent), and it’s unclear to what extent it actually encodes and stores the content.

However, if you don’t look at it from that point of view, then clearly it’s filling a previously unserved niche (though that may end if users find it violates their expectations). In other words, the need for it appears to be real.

The DRM issue could be addressed on the client side - if enough client applications (e.g. games) enforce the implied DRM, then that may be enough to satisfy this expectation on the user side.
Currently just a side-project so it's not very feature-rich. Good point though, thanks for the feedback.
That is a very important job though and is dramatically cheaper than peaker plants.
I empathize. There have been plenty of mistakes. Trust is difficult to earn, and clearly we have not acted in a manner deserving of yours.

When I first encountered ROCm, my impressions were mixed. The idea thrilled me, but the execution did not. I planned to ignore ROCm until it was clear that it would meet my needs. Obviously, my plans changed, but I haven't forgotten the perspective I had as a potential user.

There are still rough edges and I know that nobody gets third chances, so it's good that you're cautious. We are steadily improving and I believe we will do better in supporting our users going forward, but to earn that trust back, we will have to prove it through our actions.
Single-handedly pioneered reviving the field, but yes.

Pearl is very careful to give his deceased predecessors their due credit. That their work was suppressed will always be a blot on the leading names in statistics in the past century.
That's one take. Another take is that people want chums at work. An average person hires someone they see themselves as being friends with rather than the best qualified candidate. Animals such as bees, monkeys, and ourselves are also biased to favor their genetic group (kin selection). In other words, you subconsciously favor people who look like you and act like you.

In that light, the non diverse office might be seen as less productive. Maybe this is a bunch of pals goofing off, rather than people hired to do work?

But the whole point of the diversity hire isn't that you get someone who isn't white and that's it. The idea is that for every job, there are thousands of people who are qualified to do it, and among those, there are certainly people from all sorts of walks of life, and you'd spend earnest effort overcoming your subconscious biases by dipping your hand into the pool of equally skilled candidates, and pulling out the one that this overtly white dominated society we live in has held down since forever.
What we'd do - as the layer between engineering and upper management - was to do as much aggregation as necessary using notebooks and at the end run the "export to google sheets" call (thin layer on top of google apis). That would give the recipient some kind of control and allow them to feel the data and twist and turn it their own way, while not having to do the "big data" python/SQL stuff themselves.

I am at a new company now and I have yet to figure out how to create the "export to onedrive/excel" command. Google libraries to google sheets seemed so much more competent and well built. (But maybe i am biased...)
I’m not denying there has been Arabs and other groups there. The situation regarding expelling is in many cases more more likely to do with people avoiding tax under the Ottomans (if you didn't own a field you were using, you couldn't be taxed on it) than forced expulsion though.

You’re also confusing a religion with an ethnicity in your comment. The issue is Arabs and Jewish people not anything to do with Islam, Christianity or atheism.
Speaking from experience, if you have to go back after many years of development, where most of the team that made the original design choices has left and want to make changes without breaking the system and discover that half of the system has no tests then it’s going to be difficult to even make the smallest of changes.

When you then decide that you need to retrofit good tests, it always becomes an exercise in trying to reverse engineer the requirements (because half the documentation has been lost or is so hopelessly out of date it may well be lost), then yes, making something well tested is very hard.

Having said that, it often worth doing it because how else are you going to have the confidence that you don’t break the system with every little change, but it very much is going to require much more effort than if it had been done in the first place.
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> The other thing going on is that, for many situations, the use of punctuation within long sentences to help the reader has sort of fallen out of fashion relative to breaking long sentences up.

Semicolons, colons, and dashes, are rarely used now days.

Heck I am impressed when I see a dash properly used, I myself cannot lay claim to such knowledge. I am almost 100% certain that their usage was not taught to me in either school or college.
Actually you have to integrate Stadia in your engine so it's pretty far from a simple VNC, that's why it's better than other solutions.
You will write like a dog for no good reason.
Modern SQL standards seem to be primarily written by the PostgreSQL team - new features they roll out and syntax to describe them tend to be widely adopted. Granted, it could be coming out of ISO itself but nobody would be able to tell since their standards aren't openly published.
I actually understood the title as-is, but that may be indicative of my age (mid-30s) and could see how someone in their 20s would have no idea of the horrors inflicted by <bgsound>
why not though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It happens in aerospace as well. I had a manager boasting, once, about the skill of his people and the product with something like, "This was 100k lines of code!". In working with some of those people (a couple specific individuals) later I realized that the 100k lines of code was probably reducible to 10-20k lines of code if it was anything like their later work. The code they wrote worked, but was not extendable or comprehensible by anyone but them, and I spent more time refactoring and shrinking their work than actually extending it.
There's a niche in the space for workspaces that support "low intensity 3D applications" with 99.99% uptime. Right now, all the major cloud vendors (AWS/Azure/GCP) are prohibitive with respect to pricing. I can spend $600 to buy a dedicated machine to run my GPU-bound workload 24 hours a day, or spend $600/month to have a dedicated GPU instance. Things like Paperspace don't cater to this particular workload, still. I've honestly thought about creating a new PaaS provider that attacks this niche. Seems doable.
yup, spot on. Google is now where Microsoft was at the height of "Windows on every desktop". From the outside at least, Sundar Pichai's leadership looks increasingly like Steve Balmer's: operational management by numbers. Quarter on glowing quarter of extensive profit to keep the analysts and investment funds happy. But under the covers, no obvious progress on anticipating, or even creating, "next". It almost killed Microsoft, saved only when Balmer was pushed out.
China is a poor country that was forced to accept some level of exploitation to avoid invasion or blockade. Thankfully the working conditions have been improving steadily and many of the exploitative practices by foreign companies are now banned.

Most CPC members are working class, especially in the leadership. They’re almost 10% of the population, of course they’d be a typical sample.

China offers loans for development with mutual gain, not extraction of profits. Even just comparing interest rates to the IMF is telling, let alone the many loans forgiven. Talk to some Africans affected by the Belt and Road Initiative, they’re overwhelmingly in favour.
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Let me second "How to measure anything." I think it should be required reading for human beings.
Yes, which is why so many standards are not ISO.

Some are, to be certain. Especially standards where a lot of money is riding on all the adopters agreeing on compliance, so there's a certain benefit to the "money where your mouth is" aspect of the service ISO provides.

But plenty of highly influential standards are not ISO.
Fair enough, an actual economics professional might have some insight is you can ensure your not talking to a voodoo economics professional.

Economic theory is good for asking questions and maybe creating a standard. It has a dismal record of answering questions.
Are you saying there are a lot of Turkish people in Crimea?
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I'm very interested in this space! I've been hacking on some open-source libraries around these ideas: rsdict [1], a SIMD-accelerated rank/select bitmap data structure, and arbolito [2], a SIMD-accelerated tiny trie.

For rsdict, the main idea is to use `pshufb` to implement querying a lookup table on a vector of integers and then use `psadbw` to horizontally sum the vector.

The arbolito code is a lot less fleshed out, but the main idea is to take a small trie and encode it into SIMD vectors. Laying out the nodes into a linear order, we'd have one vector that maintains a parent pointer (4 bits for 16 node trees in 128-bit vectors) and another vector with the incoming edge label.

Then, following the Teddy algorithm[3] (very similar to the Hillis/Stele state transition ideas too!), we can implement traversing the tree as a state machine, where each node in the trie has a bitmask, and the state transition is a parallel bitshift + shuffle of parent state to children states + bitwise AND. We can even reduce the circuit depth of this algorithm to `O(log depth)` by using successive squaring of the transition, like Hillis/Steele describe too.

I've put it on the backburner, but my main goal for arbolito would be to find a way to stitch together these "tiny tries" into a general purpose trie adaptively and get query performance competitive with a hashmap for integer keys. The ART paper[4] does similar stuff but without the SIMD tricks.

[1] https://github.com/sujayakar/rsdict

[2] https://github.com/sujayakar/arbolito

[3] https://github.com/jneem/teddy#teddy-1

[4] https://db.in.tum.de/~leis/papers/ART.pdf
IME, recruiters in the US will give a range from lowest to no higher than midpoint (and often lower).
In other words, it is all about social skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAe867evM18
Space elevator competitions
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Revenge of the White Swan also appears available on ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4741329_Revenge_of_...
I figure it to be controversial because I see the HN crowd as leaning more towards maths/reductionism/measuring than intuition/holism/feedback and while I'm specifically levying the anti-quantification argument against managers in this case it also applies to that approach in general.
I tried Paperspace and Blender would just crash the instance when rendering the splash screen demo files.

Would really like a service that works well for casual Blender usage. Vagon didn’t crash, but was too slow, even though the ping was in the low tens of ms.
Well, except that you do have that choice in most things. You can buy a used car without a rear-view camera, or keep your older car - and many people do. If you want a cheap smartphone, you can get one - I recently had a Nokia 1 (cost me 24 euros!) as an experiment, and it worked fine. If you're content with a TV from 2001, you can get one for free off Craigslist.

The reason I like the car as an example is because it is a quality upgrade and also a lower cost. A vehicle with more than twice the lifespan translates directly into cash in your pocket. You save cash on a regular basis by not needing to purchase a quart of oil a week, 11 hours of mechanic time (while the car is still new!), more expensive tires, more spark plugs, more coolant, etc.

I get your point that quality upgrades are _occasionally_ mandatory, but the majority are not. If you want to save money by skipping the improvements (get a TV, flashlight, keyboard etc from 2001, or a more spartan smartphone) - go ahead, plenty of people do, and they save money for it. But if you want the latest tech, and a palace on wheels, and international travel, and organic food, and a fancy university on your resume, well, those things cost money.

Fun fact - community college enrollment has dropped year over year for about a decade now (today it stands at almost half of its peak enrollment.) There are plenty of budget smartphones, but the most popular phone in the world by far is the non-SE current-year iPhone, costing $800 to $1600 depending on configuration and the place you buy it in. A safety razor is cheap and effective (I use one) but Gilette sells millions of copies of expensive razors. The American middle class, in particular, wants to consume at a very high level, increasing every year, and it will not be satisfied with less. Interestingly, this consumption has shaped the political debate on the American left. Student loan forgiveness, which as planned today would be a colossal handout to the upper middle class, is wildly popular. Money for the millions of Americans living in true poverty is discussed nowhere, while left circles are furious that couples making 160k won't get any extra thousands with the latest stimulus bill.
A-couple-of-years positions are definitely not freelance
I should clarify that I was ironically using that word. Basically the point is that this is part of a much larger history, that has pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with the formation of Israel.

Unfortunately, most of the people who've been tasked with bringing the "conflict" to an end cannot seem to fathom, or more importantly, actively choose to deny the existence of these prior elements. As they would completely undermine their (only) thesis.

Again, I hate giving Trump credit for stuff, but his approach of "lets make deals with parties willing to make deals, and ignore those who want to waste our time" has opened doors. It would be a tremendous shame if we walked backwards to the old (failed) peace processors viewpoint. With the current administration, I'd say that was inevitable.

Lebanon could benefit from this. So could the Pals. All they have to do is stop trying to kill Israelis and destroy Israel. I have little hope of this happening in my lifetime.
What do nation-states and legal compliance have to do with standards like C++ and SQL? I've never heard of a government mandating that compilers be standards compliant, or anything like that.
You saved the reader time by writing clearly?!
So, what would you do differently? Say you run an organization with 200 engineers all with different levels of skill. You have a budget, maybe a year of runway, and a set of deliverables.

How would you, as a leader, keep track of how your organization is running?
I can tell you what we do: We use SM as a reach platform but then we create a direct relationship: email, telegram, FB groups. We've build a community of +150.000 people. They are not gone, however now it's harder for us to reach more people.
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Is selling your shares post-IPO culturally frowned upon? The company I work for has a strong culture of sticking to the mission, so I think it might be frowned upon to sell post lockup. However I am also worried about the current tech sell off and what that might mean for the next few years. Has anyone else encountered this before?
I think the first structure designed to catch boosters will be away from the launch mounts. The primary advantage of catching is eliminating the mass of the legs. Quick relaunch capability is just a bonus and primarily useful at offshore launch sites.
Can you represent all the values in an equation of two variables using only a single variable? Only if the two are completely dependent (and therefore its actually an equation of just one variable). If the 2nd variable contains any information, its an impossible ask (and therefore the worth of people can only be boiled down to "productivity" if literally every measurable dimension of worth is 100% dependent on productivity).
I consider myself as a bitcoin skeptic, but this is just gross overgeneralization.
Goodharts law applies to using a metric as a target. I'm talking about metrics being bad for measuring because they inherently overgeneralise.
We get it. You don't like Jews. But what does this have to do with power transmission lines?
Have you researched fecal transplants? I've seen some evidence to suggest they can restore a microbiome after e.g. chemotherapy or broad-spec antibiotics.
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There are a number of visual data transformation environments, including https://www.easydatatransform.com (I am the developer), https://www.alteryx.com and https://www.knime.com .
I agree with your first point but, with regards to the second point, how many people learn coding during gaming?

Do you mean that more people get into gaming because of modding?
fun fact, KSC is also a huge nature preserve. ...and there are alligators EVERYWHERE. Last time i was there (many years ago) they were basically as common as squirrels. Actually, i wouldn't surprised if they allowed hunters these days.
Since you mentioned ppc64le, there's also aarch64eb (arm64 in big endian mode). I saw that NetBSD supports it. It seems like support for other operating systems is limited mostly because of issues around booting...not the actual kernel or userland itself.
Recently I was curious as to how the wireless emergency alert systems work. But the actual specifications [1] from ATIS (another standardisation body) that carriers are required to implement are paywalled with ridiculous prices. $145 for a 35 page PDF is way too much, and makes the whole system way less transparent.

[1] e.g. https://www.techstreet.com/standards/atis-0700036-v002?produ...
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I had a friend work as snr. engineer at a startup taking a pay cut down to 80k, then went to work for big US tech company presumably for a significantly higher salary. All in Amsterdam (with some time remote). Certainly no senior dev in Amsterdam worth their salt would need to work for €55k or even probably €65k unless they chose to work at a startup that cannot pay competitive rate, or have other priorities

Edit I should add I'm also earning well above that as snr engineer in Amsterdam at a startup.
I worry that hardly anyone believes this anymore. Most of my acquaintance seem to think more highly of their favorite youtube "news" purveyor than any journalistic source. In their minds, journalism stopped being a practice some time ago, and now there are just media megacorps that produce check-the-box ideological hit pieces based on which billionaire owns the company at the moment.

I think that actual journalism is still alive in the hearts of many of the employees of those companies, but it's really hard to convince anyone else of that when there's no differentiation in placement or promotion between serious work and shoddy clickbait.
> Tim Sweeney correctly observes this, then continues to talk about "millions of hobbyist programmers". I do not believe that ISO targets, or even has any remote interest, in this market.

They probably don't. And, maybe that made sense decades ago when it was more true (though this has never been completely true) that serious software came out of big industry with up-front allocation of resources, whereas what any hobbyist programmers were working on was something else entirely. Today, much serious software is built by informal networks of developers who don't necessarily share an organizational affiliation even if some of them have institutional sponsors. And a lot of it evolves fluidly, without mandated standards as institutional requirements, so if developers can't get a standard freely to assess it for fitness, they simply won't consider it at all. Thet’ll either ignore it entirely, or approximate the behavior of some other piece of software that implements (perhaps not faithfully) functionality from the standard relevant to the needs of the new project (maybe making alterations to suit the different use case, without reference to the inaccessible standard, which may have a solution for the new projects problem that the project used as a model didn't need.)

ISO/ANSI/etc. model of selling standards documents to fund the standards maintenance organization introduces friction for even “serious software” in that environment, whereas the models used by the IETF, ECMA, W3C, etc., that funded standards work without relying on selling standards docs does not.

Now, of course, there's an easy workaround; if you want technology to be used, and multiple standards organizations make standards in the field, don't submit it (at least not exclusively) to the paid-access organizations. But you've also got to get, e.g., governments onboard so that they don't adopt paid-access standards into law.
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Canaveral is evidence that sensitive wetland in a state park is a great place to build a rocket launch facility. Rocket launch pads have huge keep out zones, and those zones are monitored a lot more closely and effectively than any other state park. Poaching sea turtles from Boca Chica would not be a safe activity.
ISO actually shouldn't have an incentive to charge more money than the support of the standardization process costs.

Also, regulators should (in my opinion) pay for standards to be freely available when they harmonize/adopt them for their country/countries. It is kind of insane that one as a customer can't access the rules by which products are approved without paying. It is as if laws would be hidden behind paywalls.
You should look into Nano, it covers a lot of this.
Seems there's still "required diagnostic data" [0].

See also "Minimum telemetry level" [1] under "Comparison of Windows 10 editions" on Wikipedia.

[0]: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-windows

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison...
Why wouldn't you want tracking your users as a tech company? Some people love condemning it. But that brought so much progress to humanity, if you want to build a good product, you want to know how users use it. You want to know how many users actually read your emails.
Perhaps someone will find other cases of this story showing up.
Rust macro that forks the compiler to try alternatives: whichever_compiles {}
I don't know what they are whining about: I've never had any issue finding talent in this industry. Part of that is making sure the compensation is among the highest for the position, not simply in the "local market" or whatever recruiting jargon defines it these days, but worldwide (because in this century talent is global and so are your competitors).

Then all you have to do is screen a little, to make sure you don't hire one of the 199 out of 200 applicants that can't program. [0]

For new grads, it's possible to significantly reduce the noise by going to a CS program you trust and getting graduates from there to interview.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
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Why not put all this info on the site?