skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the people on this list are "software engineers" in the sense that they have some rudimentary education in the field. Almost none of them could get a job as a software engineer at their own company, if they had to, because they would be completely unqualified. And I'm not looking down my nose at anyone: I have an undergraduate degree in CS, but I got it 16 years ago and then went to law school, and there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase. But if I started a really valuable company tomorrow (maybe I should), I would code as a software engineer on this list.

I mean, come at it from the other direction: Why are there so many software engineers who are not successful CEOs? My God, they have the secrets of for loops, S-expressions, they know about vim---and yet they aren't running Pfizer? Why not?
I'm reading Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky as he writes it at the moment, it's very interesting.

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/

One of the things he talks about it the approach the Microsoft Tools team took to implementing MFC in C++. He talks about a lesson he learned from Martin Carroll, one of the early C++ gurus, that essentially just because a feature exists, that confers no obligation to use it. “You’re writing code for your product, not a compiler test suite,”. He took that and turned it into the MFC team's approach of using C++ as a better C, not OOP for the sake of OOP.

I remember those days well, even then I was mostly working on Unix systems with a bit of Windows here and there, but I was well aware of what MS was doing at the time. He gives a really engaging account of those times and it's interesting how many of the lessons he learned and talks about are still relevant today.
Not an American but got the impression that founding of EPA is not considered universally positively. More generally, I fear such scheme as this will vastly increase the drive to (re)interpret the past. We have enough of that already.
> Why would anyone pay $5 a month subscription to a YouTube channel that is already free?

To support the content producer. Maybe $5 is too high, but what if it was $2 or $3? I pay that to a few producers.
This has no basis whatsoever, and he is doing no such thing. Feel free to provide any examples of that.

Disagreeing isn’t a good excuse to smear someone.
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> Unfortunately, they didn't mandate a return to standard time along with it

It's arbitary anyway -- Spain and North Macedonia are on the same time zone, but in A Coruña in winter the sun rises at 9am, while in Bitola it comes up at 7am, despite being on about the same latitude.

What makes "standard time" standard? Sun at the highest between 1130 and 1230?

Timezones have a rough connection to solar mean, but on standard time the middle of the day in Brest is at 1326, in Białystok it's 1136.
I really like eBPF, and I even know what the acronym stands for, but I'm still completely incapable of reading it as anything other than "e band pass filter"
This is great. I don't know why every site thinks it needs comments or ratings/reviews. Allowing user-generated content on your site is a big responsibility and attracts a lot of bad behavior. Adding comments should be a careful last step, not part of every Wordpress template.
He didn’t work for any of those outlets. He quit the company he founded, the intercept, who was indeed censoring.
The parent comment was hypothetically China becoming hostile to Tesla. Under that condition yes, I think my comment stands.
I'm not sure your comment addresses anything I've said, except nitpicking a single sentence and taking it out on a tangent.

What kinds of capital deepening can one do for our tourism-oriented and increasingly public-sector-dependent service economy?
I remember being quite surprised when I noticed (while I was actually in San Francisco) that its about the same latitude as Lisbon in Portugal. So you are talking about almost all of Europe.
It’s “wise” when it works but it’s gambling.

Nothing wrong with it but individuals shouldn’t assume that the only way to succeed is by gambling.
Great site, sir :)

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This might be true but I don't see why it is obvious, especially when it's not even commonly assumed that the best person to run a software company is a software engineer.
The gold standard for comments is Tim Dowling's articles in The Guardian.

I don't dare look at the WP now.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/13/tim-dow...
If it's to be prepared to use it for self-defence, then that is by definition out of fear. You don't prepare to defend yourself if you don't fear you might one day need it. Just like you don't buy insurance if you don't think you might one day risk needing it, though that isn't normally out of fear.
> because zip contents are compressed independently

I "discovered" this when compressing a collection of icon and wmf files in my youth (long before gif and svg were ubiquitous (in fact before svg was even invented)).

Because the files were fairly small without a lot of redundancy the resulting archive was not massively smaller than the input files. It did take a lot less space on-disk due to no longer taking at least 512 bytes (one allocation unit on a small FAT formatted partition) per file which was enough for my needs at that point but it would still be inconvenient if I wanted to transfer them over a 14k4 modem based link, but it seemed wrong so piqued my curiosity enough that I hunted out some info via Usenet and worked out what was going on. Recompressing the zip resulted in massive savings, because the headers in the files were very similar, identical in many cases, so the inner .zip acted like the .tar format in this discussion.

> so the ordering really doesn't matter

Unless you compress again, either as another compress-to-file or through compression in the transport method, in which case there might be significant extra savings to be made if things are in the optimal order.
A friend of mine discovered that you can, uh... invest into engagement [0] and went ahead.

I did know about this shady part of the internet but knowing and seeing it in action is different.

[0]: https://www.techeblog.com/rare-look-inside-an-app-review-far...
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> Nobody reading any of these comments actually needs them, no matter how much wisdom is in there.

Disagree. Reading these comments, especially when they relate to specific technologies, I have come across numerous systems, resources and techniques that I have gone on to use in practice. I'll just take this opportunity to say a quiet 'thank-you' to their respective authors.
A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
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Pay to post is harsh on the consumer. Pay to prove you're not a spammer is better, because you get your money back.

I'm experimenting with a fix for this at repowcha. There's probably a cost threshold past which it becomes unprofitable to post bad comments with an agenda.
> When the FBI says it’s “going dark” because it can’t beat encryption, what it’s really asking for is a method of breaking in that’s cheaper, easier

The way I see it, authorities all over have zero difficulty in breaking into devices (deus ex Cellebrite).

I always believe that any password we use (computers, phones, etc.) is only to protect us against the common criminal. Someone who will take your phone, and a strong PIN/password will only stop them from using your Apple/Android-Pay, read your emails, read your messages, etc.

If the gov wants to get something from you, then the gov will take something from you.

"Give up your password or go to jail: Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones" (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/give-your-password-or-g...)

Also the Security by XKCD. (https://xkcd.com/538/) (in non-democratic countries, or really dark scenarios).

Also.. let's be honest, when the "default" on all devices is to "sync all with Google/Apple cloud", then there is minimal need to even alert someone to the fact that you need their data (e.g. by arresting them, confiscating their devices, etc.)

Just warrant+gag to Apple/Google/Dropbox/etc. and you got their "latest" backup easy-peasy.
absolutely, also refs for bash on TLDP are for bash 3.x.x, will it still be good for 5.x.x ?
I feel their quality is about the same of the comment section of a subreddit I disagree with, which is much better than any other online newspaper.
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The immediate implications of reducing workweeks varies a lot by job type.

Doing 8 hrs of work done in 5 is not possible for a dental nurse, waiter or an air traffic controller. Those jobs literally need asses in seats for N hours. The hour reduction game is almost 0-sum. Do less work. Hire more employees. Pay less. Charge more.

This is a lot of jobs.

For a software developer, hr executive, or user happiness advocate... reduced working hours is not necessarily 0-sum. What we think of, when we think of reduced work hours depends on which of these is our anchor.
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> that we know about.

Good point!

(For all we know, these people might be running full "Red October" style operations out there :)
The problem then is still how you get from that study to the claim "even experts can't tell the difference". Given that the study didn't involve experts and the "experts" could still identify differences in taste. The study might be good, the results might be good, but the description of the study and its "conclusion" as spread through the media is hot garbage.
Why 42, specifically? It can't be some HHGTG joke, it's Germany!
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The pricing model was weird as well.

For commercial development it was either cheap or hugely expensive there wasn't much in the middle - that was the norm when it was created but they failed to react to the move to a different pricing model during it's heyday.
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Protectionism of local manufacturers, I take it ...
Sounds like the Cookie-law of wine making.
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So you can only be a software engineer if you studied computer science? Not any other highly technical degree that's regularly hired into software engineering positions?
It does make sense... if you want to build a software company, already having SE skills would be very useful.

Exactly the same way a salesman would be better at starting a sales company, etc.
Real estate rarely goes down, outside of a total bubble deflation.

Detroit, Baltimore, Camden would like a word with you and your theory that housing never goes down.
> Medical Doctors for instance (even though some radiologists try hard to) are limited by interactions with their patients

Strongly disagree, productivity increase is everywhere, surgery recovery times have been drastically decreased in the past decades, and recovery protocols accelerated across the board.

Just because doctors have a limit throughput of how many patients per day they can see, it doesn't mean that hospitals and clinics aren't increasing their productivity as a whole. If you are seing less of the same patients per week then your productivity has increased, as simple as that.

The key point GP is highlight is that productivity has basically decoupled from salaries since the 1970's, i.e. we are all collectively producing more value whilst collectively getting payed less in proportion to the value generated.
As were most software engineers in those days? It would be a while before CS and specific software software related fields of study took off
Software is eating the world but you are discounting the possibility that this force is simply drawing in the best and brightest; part sorting hat and part black hole pulling in the biggest stars.
What's hostile is the timing and bluntness of Google's treatment of developers on their platform, as well as the difficulty of getting a decent human conversation with the party you're doing business with.

But if Google sets clear rules about how your bad people/behavior reporting button must look, I don't see Obvious fault in such policy.
What type of system would allow you report the user without the context? Banning users with consistent bad behaviour is much better for content quality than just removing content.
I like the aim of encouraging legislation with long term benefits, but I'm not convinced that monetising this process is the answer. If the crises of the past few decades have taught us anything, it is that the market is not always right, or that the market is right except when it is wrong. As soon as you put money into the picture, you will attract the attention of those who will seek to exploit the system for their personal financial gain, even if that has negative affects for the society in which they live.
Engineering is bounded by the laws of physics.

Software Engineering is bounded by the laws of magic.

Engineering requires creativity to harness a material to perform useful work, within the material’s tolerances.

Software Engineering requires creativity to create worlds that have no existence in reality, other than in the imagination of the software engineer himself.

And in today’s world, software engineering is essential to make physical engineering a reality.
The irony of this and the parent comment is the UK regularly come up as a country that the exact same problem happens in.

The UK has notoriously low productivity compared to Europe and the US, and longer average work hours than the rest of Europe.

These are larger aggregate studies. I wonder why both your experiences of the UK seem so at odds with the observed studies? Is it just the field you're in?

Some examples:

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/british-workers-putting-longest-...

https://www.businessleader.co.uk/uk-employees-work-the-longe...

EDIT: Downvoted for actual studies vs anecdotes. Fabulous. Not only that, these studies have been coming out for years.
I don't think most Americans are in a position to criticize or even care about light pollution - the light pollution caused by your cities is way above that of a tiny bit of reflection by Starlink.
a thousand years ago in Scandinavia the new day would start at 6pm, effectively at sunset, which is also why Christmas in Scandinavia is on the evening of the 24th instead of the 25th in the morning.

Or so the legend goes. I'm pretty sure that the ancient winter solstice feast had something to do with it as well. In Scandinavia the word for christmas is still some variation of the ancient "Yule" meaning wheel in old norse.
Not to mention the collision risk of something lurking just under the surface with no lights or a radar reflector.
More of a ZX Spectrum guy, the downvote? :)
> protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs

Does the grapevine grow in Canada? That would be a surprising discovery.
I find this to be a rather strange take. Shouldn't this have been a feedback from Google to the developers, followed up by a swift change to conform, and everyone is happy?

The main issue here is lack of communication, and automated removals with little recourse from developers?

Complaining about this process does not seem like "immature whining" to me.
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I have read about too many hyperinflation stories that I forgot the specifics of Venezuela but the vast, vast majority of them are caused by food shortages which themselves are caused by government repossession of productive assets. The problem is that the government is stealing your land, your company and your gold. The problem isn't that money is getting less valuable, it's that there is nothing to spend it on.
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Why not give them some notice to fix it rather than just outright ban it on a Saturday? I'm surprised how many people on HN defend these hostile big corporation practices
I could have worded better, thanks.
Not all MBAs are pursuing personal money, but when there's high visibility debacle (Intel, Boeing) there are always MBAs and accountant involved, not engineers. It's against engineer's logic to do moves/products like that.
7:00 is absolutely early for a business meeting.
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> Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me

Please, report any issues to issues tracker.[0]

[0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad
How do you know it doesn't contain additives? As I understand, additives is pretty much standard in all wines. Even ecologically certified wines are allowed to have additives in them. And there is no obligation to list them on the bottle.
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I'd argue that it forces you to think clearly about problems. You cannot write a program unless you understand exactly what you want it to do. In contrast typical CEO excels at creating tons of meaningless fluff. Perhaps mathematics or philosophy may have similar effects on people's ways of thinking?
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This isn't limited to journalism. Advertising-based business models are inherently toxic and completely reverse the incentives between the website and their users.

In a typical paid product, the provider provides a service to the users who are paying the provider for said service. In this case, the provider is incentivized to deliver the best version of that service so that users keep paying, whether it's great journalism with added value (a high-quality comments section would be a plus here) or software.

With advertising, this changes completely. Broadly speaking, the profits negatively correlate with how much value is delivered to the user. There is no incentive great journalism and moderate the comments section while you can churn out inflammatory clickbait and leave comments unmoderated - the latter will actually net you more profit because outraged people barking at each other in the comments is a great source of "engagement" which is what advertising-based business models profit from.
> Source code, datasets and more results are available at http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/2020/Im2Vec/.

When I visit that URL all I get currently is the PDF of the paper?
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Instead of a steam account. Facebook is infinitely more likely to ban your account and lock you out of your games than valve.

If you violate any of the facebook rules, your oculus games are toast. If you spam the steam forums you get banned from the forums but not your games. The only way I know to get banned from the steam store is to make chargebacks.
OTOH the drug cartels probably have lots of money to invest. So if they need something sturdy they could probably hire a team to build that.
Indeed, this from Eurostat includes Portugal and Spain, both of which have lower average working hours than the UK.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...
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I do feel like software is unique compared to most other fields due to the speed of iteration and possible impact.

You can hack some crazy stuff together really quickly and it's possible for it to have an outsized impact.
Musk has good enough relations and shared interests with the Chinese government that Tesla has the first fully foreign-owned car factory in China.

This means that if the Chinese government does not want Starlink in China then SpaceX will make an effort to comply. I'm not familiar with Starlink's technology but that could include geofencing the terminals (e.g. if they have GPS), restricting downlink beams, etc. in addition to obviously not selling terminals in China and not accepting customers located in China.
What is it that you want that isn't accomplished by the search box? Can you give an example in which it doesn't do what you want/need?
Yep, a $2 wine flavored and colored artificial drink. The math is math, like saying "natural cheese" when the price is much lower than the cost of milk required to make it. For $2 people should know not to expect much: you need bottles, caps, store margins, taxes, distribution in addition to the rest of stuff.

Added sugar is a huge no-no for me. I wish wineries and spirit makers were forced to disclose in plain terms a lot of this stuff, especially after a price point.
Apple M1, can do four fused multiply-adds per cycle with latency of 4 cycles. Interestingly enough it seems that the latency on the vector FMA is even lower. So it’s 16 float FMA per cycle.

Source: https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm-simd.html
Why? Is this unusable naive or why would they build it?
Excuse me for my lack of knowledge, far from my field.
I wouldn’t go as far as blaming civilization.

1) the word “tax”
In carbon-tax terrifies people, especially in America. So we get a tragedy of the commons situation with the cost of carbon made into an externality.

2) massive FUD and manipulation of media and environmental efforts to stop awareness of climate change for decades.

Fox News destroyed scientists on TV to discredit global warming.

People have made this happen, and they have gleefully lived without any repercussions - which is why the model has been copied around the world.

Hilariously the oil firms are rebranding themselves as eco firms.
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Another far larger reason why they travels so slowly is because of power constraints. It takes a lot of rocket fuel to deliver a significant payload to any interplanetary destination and both batteries and RTG's are prohibitively heavy at the kinds of wattage required for a pace that goes beyond that of a snail.

It is difficult to overstate what a limitation this has been for research there. Even without the benefit of a vehicle, a human walking at a natural pace would over a year be able to cover a larger region than all of the previous rovers sent combined across their entire lifetimes.