skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The common meta, aka. what you get on https://www.factorio.school/, is to mark inputs using constant combinators. Alternately, at larger scales a couple of chunk-sized (and absolute-tiled) railroad blocks will do nicely; the railway stations work as labels.

If you dive even slightly into the (enormous) mod ecosystem, there's one that lets you make physical labels, at one tile per letter. (Text Plates, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/textplates)

Since blueprint tiling was added, it's become absolutely obligatory to make good use of them. Almost every blueprint should have at least relative tiling enabled. Note, the tile size shouldn't necessarily be the exact size of the blueprint -- it's often convenient to have tileable blueprints overlap slightly, and it supports that just fine by making the tiles slightly smaller.
Yeah this strategy is good, but you need to allow a long layover like 6 hours if you have to go through immigration and change airports for the connection which happens pretty often with ryanair and ezjet. It’s a big pain, but it does save money.
What I call a Service Oriented Architecture is much like the Microservice architecture but without worrying about the "micro" aspect.

Typical architecture in our projects:

- User Management Service with ORY[1]
- Payment Service with Stripe[2]
- Hasura[3] for the storage layer
- GraphQL backend querying the above services
- Frontend querying the GraphQL backend

Basically, we tend to delegate the boilerplate to third-parties (self-hosted whenever it's possible) and only implement the business logic ourselves.

[1] - https://ory.sh

[2] - https://stripe.com

[3] - https://hasura.io
Interesting points. Didn't know some of them. My 2c: in India, I don't think anyone stores potatoes in the fridge, even though we have quite hot weather in many parts of the country.

Does trimming the sprouts prevent them from rotting?
Ps5? You can’t get a ps5 still the resell margins are still like 100-150$ so most in the primary market are gonna have a rough time. The new bots are really good at picking up 30+ at a time so until retailers catch up you are sol.
ECIR 2021: Where information retrieval becomes conversation
> I get my technical content during the day from the internet so don't really feel the need to read technical books, though I'll make the odd exception.

This is definitely where I'm at. The only two technical books I can say I've really read are The Rust Book and Crafting Interpreters, both of which I kind of skimmed, wrote some code, and read more in detail to fill in the gaps.

Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorites.
PyTorch Profiler – the new and improved performance tool
Because it benefits themselves.
Yeah, my dad had a tank like that. I dove with it exactly once - never again, yikes. It was coated inside and out so, despite being a steel tank, it was in excellent shape.
releasing leopards and cheetahs to deal with kangaroos would be so much cooler
Apples to oranges. The last block of F22s had a flyaway cost of $137 million.[1] At the F35A volume of 1000+ the costs would not be majorly different.

[1] https://archive.is/aPCca
A lot of this "pay everyone the same, be transparent" sounds pro-employee but in practice its exactly the opposite.

These companies that tend to write these blog posts on their fair and equitable compensation strategies always pay worse, usually significantly so, then market.

It's easy to say "we pay everyone the same, we don't make geo-market adjustments", until you find out that the Bay Area company that reduces pay for remote team members actually pays that remote employee more than these companies that pay everyone the same. Spotify is a good example.

Let's Whimsical post their compensation numbers and see how it compares to averages on levels.fyi . Guessing it's much lower. And they can talk about other things like WLB, that's fine, there's more to a job than. money. But it's annoying that companies feel the need to write blog posts about their forward-looking compensation strategies that at the end of the day is bluster that amounts to "we don't pay very well."

Levels and Blind are what added transparency to tech compensation - not self-congratulating startup CEO blog posts.
I haven't used Teams in almost two years, but when I did I never felt like I was sure "where" I was, or where anything else was. I'd find myself "somewhere" not have no confidence I'd ever be able to get back. I hated using it. Anything I cared about I'd copy out, or keep notes, including stuff that I'd absolutely leave to Slack to keep for me (so, middling-important stuff).

Lots of enterprise UI is like that for me, actually, including most PM software more complex than GH issues + boards. I find them extremely uncomfortable to use because I'm never confident I'm doing the right thing, or that what I'm doing is safe to do, or whether I'll be able to find the things I need again.

Slack is heading that way with some of their changes (the way drafts and threads are handled is juuuuust on the edge of putting it in that territory) but I still never feel "lost" for long, on there.
I encoded my avatar in a Git commit email field
> What on earth is a "large" framework? What does the size of a framework (by whatever metric) has to do with the "micro" which refers to a slice of the domain the service is taking care of.

I entirely agree. The framework jab, along with the gratuitous and entirely unrelated assertion regarding containers, just lower the expectation that the article has any point worth reading, specially considering that afterwards the author decided to include "having tests" as a characteristic of his concept.
On that 'killing raptors with conservation status to keep the grouse population high', see https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-5429503...

A golden eagles satellite tag stopped broadcasting in the middle of a grouse moor in 2016. It was found last year, several miles distant washed up on a river bank, wrapped in a sheet of lead.
I assume:

1.) There is some cost associated with doing the title search which is probably fairly manual

2.) When something does go wrong, it's expensive

3.) If it really were a license to print money, I would, perhaps naively, expect more competition to drive prices down
Sure, but I’ll bet that that is only a small part of the business.

Most of riders, I’ll say 90-95% in large cities are residents, (just a guess not based in real data) which fits very well with coop model.
Would you still pick Elixir in 2021?
Comedy is extremely situational — first scene in first episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer made somebody dying funny — so if OP says someone was witty when they did something, they almost certainly were.
Hopefully it is never an overnight switch and the engineer's career goals are respected. Any non-shite company is going to have engineers taking on leadership responsibilities at various levels they are comfortable with before turning them full loose.

In some companies, like Gore Industries, and other employee owned entities the engineers and operations people organically select their own supervisors by consensus and set pay democratically. I have been in environments that did that without explicit structure even, and it was very productive. Unsurprisingly,none of those were publicly traded.
Yes, at least one utility in Vermont is offering discounted Tesla Powerwall leases: https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/home-energy-.... No solar installation is required.

The utility keeps the battery charged, uses the power during times of peak load for the grid, and the homeowner can use the battery as a backup power source.
You missed that boat. Already conspiracy theories floating around about the crew intentionally getting it stuck to protest poor conditions for maritime workers
This could happen to Apple If they took a stand.
In some situations that's just not an option because once you've acquired the skill you now need to be paid for the skill in order for this system to be at all fair.

That's also not saying anything about the feasibility of turning the average engineer into, for example, a
chrisseaton [0] in a few months.

The deal from the employer sounds bad: "Ok we need you to become an expert in X by Y to meet deadline Z. If you can't become an expert in X just do your best so we are able to hit deadline Z! Don't worry! You'll have a bunch of time in the future to maintain it!"

[0] - https://chrisseaton.com/
I think it benefits people who play video games. I also think that group consist of people who are neither men nor white.

I am not impressed by this comment but in keeping with my own promise of assuming good faith, can I ask you to elaborate please?
You might want to look into Processing[1]. Depending on your needs it might feel more intuitive/appropriate for graphics programming, and there seems to be an active community of people who use it.

[1] https://processing.org/
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
We should cancel all of China.

All the crap happening in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet... Sesame credit, Falun gong murders, forced organ harvests, Great firewall, censorship, forced labor, child labor, Tiananmen square massacre, and we could be listing things all day.

The Xinjiang situation should be more than enough on its own.
I might try to take that approach in the future. Usually when I get bored of whatever book I'm reading I just queue up a video game though.

Oathbringer is really great.
My impressions:

The loading time was longer than my expectations for the 2021 web.

It I started by trying to pan around the room, but it only zoomed.

For the time I spent, I received very little useful information.

As a landing page, it had very low information density.

If I stop to think about it, it's remarkable to have 3d in my browser. If I don't stop, interactive 3d seems very ordinary.

Good luck.
I'm quite skeptical of the viewpoint in this article - just answering the question from the parent comment of "would China be justified in exploiting Huawei?"

The distinction that this article makes is that our clandestine operations have "democratic oversight." To be clear, I think the author would say that they are attempting journalistic neutrality, but they're giving considerable space to the argument that democratic clandestine services deserve a different standard.
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You just described 50% of the US population in the last year.
They have a managed service for folks with docker instances.

You also get a few free static sites as well https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/
No issues to discuss with the removal of my post, apparently. Not sure where the flamebait or name-calling were. You just didn't like my post. Own your bias.
If you use Fastmail, it comes with static website hosting included
This is one of the old OSes that I wish had been open sourced. I would really like to see the Pascal source code, and it would be neat to see something that wasn't a UNIX.
Which applications don't have alternatives to leather?

Leather fades when exposed to sunlight. Leathers aren't waterproof without treatment.

Wool shrinks when it gets wet.
I would assume that means creating a new level with an appropriate level of compensation – perhaps a "technical specialist" or similar. I don't see why the situation you describe would be a barrier at all.
Yes, you make some good points here but I would argue that in most organizations that skills that make for effective engineering are aligned well with those required for managing. At a certain point, reinvesting into programming ability sees diminishing returns and ROI on e.g. mentorship, task planning and delegation out-paces improvement in technical skills dramatically. Of course, this is not universal and there are specialties, domains, and organizations that require technical competency and competitiveness above all else, but I don't think that's the general case for most engineers.
Why investing in Tesla could make you millionaire?
I suspect that a lot western companies don't want to go down the "chitty" route.

And those tests are gameable as are IQ tests and discriminate.
Looking forward to this becoming the new standard with an ecosystem of bootcamps, an infinite stream of blogs, youtube videos, and personal tutors teaching you how to play optimal factorio while candidates sweat bullets and cry.
Throne of lies and social deduction games like them are about finding out peoples real intentions from what they say and do, also aspects like using and understanding subtle signalling to collaborate with ones team.
Oh yeah speaking of popups I once made a horrendous bouncing image script for IE 5.5 that allowed images to fly around your screen outside the browser window.

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/bounceimage2.htm
TclstubsNimble: Nimble package to build Tcl extensions in Nim
Pretty much everybody who isn't an automotive bean counter that gets existed over reduced part count hates the gear selector FCA knob.

Everybody who isn't a pencil pusher for a safety agency hates that you can't open the doors on (all?) modern cars with it in gear (because the FCA knob sucks and people would run themselves over not realizing the vehicle was in gear).

In what universe is taking it a step further and going to a touch screen a good idea?
> I’m pleasantly surprised to see they aren’t (yet) completely in bed with the “counter terrorism”.

I think it would leak!

At least having seen Google from the inside, I don't think Google can keep a nefarious secret.
Why wouldn't I want to take every possible factor into consideration? If I have two people, one of whom has a github with lots of personal projects and the other one does not, I'm naturally going to get a better sense of the github developer in terms of their overall capabilities.

That doesn't automatically make him the better candidate but it definitely gives me more information to act on.

If people don't want to or can't work on personal projects then that's fine, but I'm not going to ignore the people who are passionate about building their own stuff.
The Well-Grounded Rubyist is my favorite Ruby book because it really drives home just how internally consistent the Ruby object model is. It gave me a deep appreciation for the aesthetics of Ruby.
So I'll take it that's a "no", then?

Text is a much better way for me to look at a topic deeply. I can reread a sentence, copy and paste things into Google, and generally take it at my pace rather than theirs. Text can contain links to further information

Things that exist only in video make me suspicious that they're persuading me rather than informing me.
I prefer driving stick, abhor touchscreens, and dislike "AI" [0], but this doesn't seem all that bad to me. The selector is basically only meant to be used when the car is stopped. I would much rather have this be on the touchscreen, than the music controls! I'd be most annoyed at not being able to easily downshift into "2" or "1" on a hill, but that isn't needed with an electric drivetrain.

For needing to quickly act, wouldn't switching the car off do the same job? And a seat occupancy sensor should take care of forgetfulness.

[0] I prefer well-defined state transitions that I can model to know exactly how something will respond to a given input.
I think you and most of the other commenters here are analyzing this correctly, but from a very different perspective than me - I've only worked at small companies (less than ~80 people) at varying levels (Junior Eng, Senior Eng, Founder), but in my experience at these companies, you solve the retention problem by giving engineers things to work on that they /actually/ want to work on, hiring people who are not strongly motivated by money, and doing work as a company that is ethical and progresses the world.

At least half of my coworkers could move over to a similar position at a FAANG with no difficulty and make over double what they are now, but I have no doubt in my mind that if any of them did that, it would not be for compensation.
It absolutely would. These cores are in a completely different class.

If you care about benchmarks, a Pi4 will score around 200 points (1 core) or 550 points (4 core) at 1.5GHz on GB5. At 2GHz you can reach around 700 points multi-core.

Ryzen 2700 will easily go above 6000 points in multi-core bench without overclocking.

So even in a theoretical, embarrasingly parallel workload with minimal sharing between cluster nodes, the Zen will be faster than eight pies. It's not even a contest if you also need some I/O, shared memory, or heavy SIMD.
This simply allows the most easily offended to set the norms of public discourse.
I think this part is captured by Satisfactory "Tier" system. As you progress in the game, you unlock Tiers which allow you to build new materials and structures. The issue often is that you optimize the hell out of your factories to build something that is needed at you current Tier, and when you unlock the next one, you suddenly have to refactor everything to build the new items, that require different ratio of materials and inputs.
.Net as a language is sooop productive, and yet also extremely fast (for a managed language)
It's really an impresssive feat.

It also looks like they're actively working on improving it at every level, after leaving it stagnant for a while.

What changed?
Quick Tour – Elvish Shell
Beat me to saying the same thing, by an hour:) I've always thought qanats were a cool idea.
I know you mention the San Francisco DMV, but you cannot get a commercial building connected to the water system in the city without a $10,000 bribe.

Its cloaked with "agents" and "consultants" but it's still cash changing hands, at the end of the day.
I love the idealism here. I am very much in favor of transparency in wages and in setting a salary and saying this is where you start. It reminds me of that car company where the price was the price and you didn't have to negotiate. Saturn, I think?

I, like others who have posted, am unclear on how this is a merit based system. If everyone started at the same place and then you allowed for merit based increases to salary, I think this system would function better in the long run-- though it would definitely have introduced bias.

It sounds like a 'we sink or swim together' company. That can be a good thing. It can also be a bad thing. Like a codependent relationship. You end up working like crazy while someone else rests, knowing there is no additional compensation at the end of the rainbow-- unless you are promoted.
I think the page makes clear that everyone at the same level gets paid the same - even across different teams (UX and Design and Engineering get paid the same at the same level).

The S1 band gets re-calculated every year based on industry average (top 10% apparently) and then all higher paid levels will go up by the +25% modifier.

I'm not sure how that leaves room for "periodically get differeing raises" ?
V1 is a hard part, what you are talking about is the insanely hard part. ;)
I don't really understand your comment. Marketers, scammers and other abusers already publish to the web with the intention to be included in a crawl. Postprocessing crawl data is already a thing.

Assuming this hypothetical shared crawl cache were to exist, it does not preclude google (and all consumers of that cache) doing their own processing downstream of that cache. Does it?

What's the new attack vector?
Don't forget that after the cancellation of the earlier Space Station (the ISS came much later) the "Shuttle" had no place to shuttle things to. Even after decades, the Shuttle never came even remotely close to its cost, reuse, and turnaround time targets. On top of that, two of them blew up, accounting for 14 deaths, a figure that is 100% of all actual in-flight spaceflight deaths. By any rational measure, the Shuttle cannot be considered anything other than a failure.
As someone who used to work on lobster boats, they tell you to bring TWO knives. When the pot goes to the bottom accidentally roped to your leg, you always panic and drop knife one. You need knife two to actually cut yourself free.
Could someone help me here : The pixs show a boat with evergreen on the side, where does ever given come from ? TIA
Yup, this exact timeline of degraded experience on Facebook led me to disable my account. I haven't reactivated it in over a year, and I'm happier for it.
I had an HP Apollo 425e, 68040 @ 25 MHz.

I believe it was one of the last models that could run Domain/OS, but it could also run HPUX, which is what I had installed...so I never experienced Domain/OS. I did get NetBSD running on it, but it didn't support the framebuffer, so no X11.
I did not know about Hoppscotch. I will surely check it out.
It’s usually not the right call to use a hash table like you’re describing. You’re not saving any work (all keys have to be migrated sooner or later) and by doing it like this you incur a non-trivial amount of overhead on most operations.

Hash tables generally work on the assumption that operations are O(1) in the amortized sense, that individual inserts might be expensive because of rehashing, but in aggregate they are very cheap. In practice, this is almost always a fine assumption, and it is how the vast majority of hash tables in all programming languages work.

The kinds of hash tables you are talking about have their uses in places where you have soft real-time constraints, but that is honestly a pretty niche use case.
In the SF bay area for these roles the job market is much more fluid than most places
Coops FTW
You'd think they'd have learned from their mistakes and included the air to ground missiles from the get go this time
Find out if the Suez Canal is still blocked with Twilio and Python
I have never seen a true described as easier than a hash table. Curious what makes you say they are easier?
The reason I think it's good to have a product/project manager who can get down to this level if needed is that it increases the scope of possible solutions. With a strict division between tech and product, typically the solution space is bounded by the product requirements. But if you have a product manager who is able to operate on the level of implementation details, you can adapt the requirements in ways which are better on both a user side and implementation side.

It shouldn't be the norm that a manager is operating on the level of implementation details, but it is good if they can understand them, because maybe they have more levers than the development team has access to in terms of unblocking a tricky issue.
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> Aside, there seems to be a swath of people who seem bizarrely resentful of personal projects

I wouldn't say anyone is resentful, just rightfully annoyed. It's not bizarre. I just don't think we as an industry should require everyone dedicate every waking moment to working. It's not healthy. Surgeons don't do surgery in their free time and are not asked about it in interviews.

> Yes, we get it, not EVERYONE in the universe has sufficient free time. Bla bla bla, maybe cut down on Netflix.

I think the implication of not having enough free time is that a person does not have enough free time to do things like watch enough Netflix to free up enough time to work more.
Which local businesses does Amazon destroy? That’s a pretty wild accusation. I just visited several places last year before COVID. Pretty much all the businesses that hire warehouse skilled workers are still there. As a matter of fact, most of those places still pay the actual federal minimum wage, not $15/hr with benefits.

This comment you’ve made is propaganda at best and an intentional lie at worst.