skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. It just doesn't seem right to use the same word for both 10$ that saves you hours of tedium and a suitcase with a hundred grand to get a building permit.

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh

When I have to get my passport renewed it's possible to pay a higher fee to get it done quicker. The difference is it ends up in the state coffers vs in some official's pocket. But in the end it's just to jump the queue, same thing.
I think the VTOL in particular was too much of a stretch. If you see the complicated drive bar setup with that big fan, it really makes me wonder how this thing could possibly get airborne :)
The comment said that your boss can likely do your job, not that everyone more senior than you can.
> probably not top 5-10%, because they also cared about the non-technical requirements that a good manager needs to cover

It sounds like you're saying that top-tier engineers are not generally qualified in terms of non-technical requirements, and I don't know that this assertion is justified.

From my perspective, as a relatively new technical manager who also spent years as an engineer working with technical managers, it's not only about empathy but also about having a thorough understanding of, or at least an accurate intuition around the subject matter. When I was working as an engineer, what I often found frustrating about working with non-technical managers is that they often work on the wrong set of parameters. Discussions often revolve around details which are not really important to the success of the project, or are relevant to the work, and often the team is led down a more difficult path than is necessary because requirements are set in the wrong terms.

I think it's possible to compensate to some degree with empathy and people skills, but it's hard to compete with having the experience and speaking the language.
>There isn't a CEO in the world that could do all of the jobs they hire other executives to do (finance, sales, tax/accounting, HR, marketing, technology, operations, legal). It's impossible.

Impossible, yet accomplished by thousands and thousands of small business owners every month.
Although Robin Hood hashing has good performance under high load, it needs to record the probe length in each bucket. This partly cancels its advantage especially for small keys. In my evaluation, Robin Hood hashing doesn't use less memory in comparison to others.

> Most hash table code makes excessive use of malloc/realloc or has power of two growth

Libraries based on open addressing only call malloc when there is not enough room. That is not "excessive". Also, if you know the maximum size before hand, many libraries allow you to preallocate buckets such that you never trigger rehashing in this case.
Qanon has already claimed that the stuck boat is used by Hillary Clinton to traffic children [1]. I wish I didn't have this example.

1: https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-ship-suez-canal-hillary-clint...
My understanding is that in the aerospace industry, particularly at the cutting edge, margins are so low that common platforms don't really work out.

In the car industry, say, a 10% penalty in, say, weight might be worth it if it enables the manufacturer to share the platform among many different products. In aerospace, not so much.
This is truly the stuff of nightmares, and I'm definitely going to review our CI/CD infrastructure with this in mind. I'm eagerly awaiting learning what the initial attack vector was.
Poster here.
Do you think I need to edit the title?
This title was funny to me, but probably just because I am a security guy and I know what is an APT.
What if only part – not all – of your brain were transplanted?
Now check out Dyson Sphere Program, it's like those games but in space ;)
My recollection is that the only aspect of the F-22 people screamed about was the price.
State of Venture Capital (2021)
The UK is selling extra power across the channel. There's currently 5.5 GW of interconnect with the EU, with almost 18 GW expected by 2023. Brexit isn't going to change that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-55750411
Good Leadership Starts with Your Assumptions
Special pleading is a hell of a drug.
So what did H&M actually do to deserve this?

The article goes to great length to avoid the issue at hand. At the same time it brings up unrelated issues H&M and Nike (??) and others supposedly have.
If you think about it, that's not that far off of a professional licensing exam like the ones that lawyers and doctors take: it's something that's peripherally, but not directly, related to the actual work, takes a long time to complete, can be improved somewhat through careful study and can be objectively examined for success.
So are you telling us they charge you €700 for a measly 30HP, which the car can already do safely? I'd be interested in knowing what manufacturer this is so I can steer clear from them.

Save your money, get yourself an ECU flash utility like a Cobb AccessPort. They're still expensive, but at least you get to control what your car can do.
Network model of Italy shows that regional strategies can alleviate the epidemic
The F35 CAN VTOL, it is not meant to be used that way since it extremely limits fuel and armaments.

The carrier variant is meant to be STOL, since its a JOINT Strike Fighter meant for multi-country use, and many countries do not have large carriers with catapults. Namely Great Britain, whose largest carriers are not equipped with catapults, since they are designed to use STOL planes.
Here's a quick guide on differentiating Asian scripts: https://external-preview.redd.it/5E56z2aoA6M8rKLYBMuAyhPShVQ...
It's really slow compared to normal SQL databases
Thanks for the comment. I'd say that sounds like a good start. But making it easier for people to switch to Perl is still different than giving people reasons to switch to Perl.

For example, at my current job we picked Python as our default language because a) it's a solid language, and b) since we're doing exploratory ML work, Python's dominance in the ML and data science worlds means good tools and a strong community. Previously I switched to Ruby because a) it's a solid language, and b) Rails made it really easy to build the sort of web stuff we were building at the time. Or when I was building a mobile app I went with Dart and Flutter because it was the only decent-looking platform that would let me do cross-platform development as a solo developer, and it seemed like Google was serious about making it happen.

So I think Perl has to answer the question: whose problems are we going to solve better than anybody else? From what I've seen over the years, it looks like the answer is "people still using Perl". Which is not a terrible answer; it serves for the COBOL and Fortran communities.
> the point with selling electricity is that you need to guarantee that you will deliver some fixed amount of electricity.

No you don't. Electricity is sold at spot prices in real time. At that is how I and most people in Norway buy theirs.

It should be possible to reduce the likelihood of prices going negative by continuing to improve the interconnectedness of the various national grids in Europe.
There's gotta be a better word than "renewable" when referring to wind and solar. Trees are also a renewable resource...
Essentially a manifestation of bikeshedding. Yep, very common.
As if a transaction only takes 1ms... Imagine you want to update the lastLogin field for a logged user for example.
I'll stop when I'm dead.
Boyd and Pierre Sprey are hacks part of the luddite fighter mafia. If it was up to them the most successful fighter plane of all time (F-15) would have been replaced with cheap f-5 clones without BVR or RADAR capabilities.
Stage one: Denial.
90% - fiction, but never SF or fantasy

10% - non fiction, but never self-help or pop-science, preferably nothing written in the last 100 years.
Original design goals:

* Faster than light outside atmosphere (s model used by space force)
* Take off from underground
* Returns a vastly increased radar signal to damage ground radar
* Air superiority
* Water superiority
* Negative emissions
* Generates new car scent
* 600,000 lbs of ordinances
* 3 pilots
* Autonomous
* Made in Mississippi
* Troop carrier
* "None of those dumb green screens"

Edit: single -> signal
In the US we saw the beginnings of the problem of inexact boundaries in England, so we carefully surveyed most of the country after getting land from the natives (I won't touch that issue). In the far east cost things were not done well (nw to the old stump that rotted away 200 year ago...), but most of the rest of the country has land borders known to within a few cm.

England land dates back to pre-history in some cases, so it isn't a surprise that it is hard to pin down where some boundaries are. It is also hard to fix this when two different owners disagree - someone will be screwed out of land they think they own (or given a fence they don't want to maintain)
Factorio is fascinating because it also simulates critical issues in productions: bugs will come and eat your beautiful factory.

I also I threw together some thoughts about factorio and programming a few months ago:

https://dev.to/samborick/what-factorio-taught-me-about-work-...
Vaccines vs. Variants
The latest update in Experimental (in Early Access on April 13) adds Drones for point-to-point delivery without needing connecting belts or rails or whatever. They're pretty low-bandwidth so you can't use them to transport raw materials at any scale, but if your "microservices" are sufficiently focused at a higher tier, you can tie them all together pretty easily with Drones now.

At least, in theory. Drones are T8 tech, and I'm not _quite_ there yet to start putting that theory into practice. But that's the stated intent, at least.
Maybe COVID will render many of these "must travel for work" use cases obsolete! One can hope...
Also dipped my toes into Satisfactory this winter - after spending over 2,000 hours in Factorio.

Games like these challenge your ability to manage complex systems. Remembering which parts of your system processes which data (aka, "materials"). Finding and addressing bottlenecks in production lines. Maintaining and upgrading components, while creating new production lines using the techniques you learn. Managing time spent refactoring old systems vs replacing them with new ones. Etc, etc, etc. Planning properly - as you mention - is extremely critical to building a good factory.

However, despite over a decade of software development experience, and some time in Factorio, my first several play throughs in Satisfactory where an efficiency disaster, and even my recent ones were an ugly mess of spaghetti for the first few days of gameplay.

It took several playthroughs for me to grok the mechanics well enough to build a somewhat efficient factory. If my first couple tries were reviewed in a job interview I highly doubt I'd get the job.

There are strong similarities between these games and the mechanics software development, but like any new system, it takes time to create a true intuitive understanding of the mechanics and demonstrate them in front of others. If you're going to interview someone for a job, you're better off testing their ability to play the game that they'll be playing on a daily basis if they get hired: "Software Development".

Software Development, the game!

Want to play a game where you will never run out of new content? Where you are constantly challenged by new issues that'll haunt your dreams and make you lose sleep? Software Development is the game for you! With an ever changing landscape, where components and frameworks are updated daily! That's right, DAILY! This MASSIVE-multiplayer-online game never turns off. There are actively hundreds of thousands of players right now!

And you know what the best part is? Software Development is not "Pay-to-Play" like all those other games that try to steal those valuable dollars out of your pocket.

No, in Software Development YOU get PAID to play. That's right! All you have to do is find a company, nail a job interview, and enjoy playing the game you love while they hand you buckets of REAL LIFE MONEY that you can spend on other games that you have to pay to play. And also, food and rent and stuff...

Download now at, the internet.
I was actually looking forward to giving up some control as I became a manager. Unfortunately, we haven't hired anybody to fill the day to day void I left so I'm still doing my old job + now managing a small team.
There is a dichotomy here. If an individual contributor is unclear whom they report to or what the product strategy is, then seeing the CTO contribute to numpy is not comforting.

As you say:

> It's nice to see the top guy, who performs like a top guy, doing the simple work.
A 'good' sea captain will also exhibit this trait and step in to perform tasks of necessity.

Since safety at sea comes in large part from 'simple work' being done rigorously, it is heartening to see the top man wiping down a slick deck to prevent the chance of accidents.
Does anyone have first hand information on how big of an impact the decision to use C++ instead of Ada had on the "staggering array of persistent issues"?
> or, if the feature is sufficiently common, google it

I do that all the time. I haven't yet, today, but I'm sure I will soon. I'm working on some stuff I haven't done in a while. Googling has the extra benefit of helping me to do something that I already know how to do, but more effectively. I can always learn new stuff.

They also mention that people "don't have the time" for open source.

But I do have the time, and the result is a pretty massive portfolio.

It's been kind of amazing, watching it get ignored.
A good portion of the voters are okay with government spending on military versus “bad” guys, with almost no limit, but the same voters balk at other government spending, decrying it for waste or corruption or inefficiency, etc.

The tribe opens up their wallet anytime they feel threatened, but not to help each other, to make sure no other sub-tribe is getting a disproportionate portion of the help (and/or to maintain their own sub-tribe continuing to get a disproportionate portion of the help).
Well the B-2 definitely was and still is too expensive with its ultra-sensitive coatings :)

But a lot of the others you mention did complete on budget. The extreme cost overruns are a relatively recent thing.
I was saying (jokingly) that we should send some good ol boys over there with their towing tackle. Hell there are probably dozens of them serving in the general vicinity already.

It’s the desert though. There are no anchor points to attach anything to (and for something this heavy, you’d need so many to split the force that you’d run out of blocks).
I read both! Just finished Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos - starting a book about history of dress codes/clothing and a short story collection. A good nonfiction can be as fun as a fiction books in terms of transporting you to other "worlds".

Reading is my main hobby for pleasure, so I'm averse to the popular nonfiction "productivity" books.
Which now looks like damn near a bargain compared to the financial black hole that the F-35 has turned into.
I see it mostly as a refutation of the idea that MBA style management-as-a generic-function works - nothing more.
I have a metal stake at the corner of my property. It is possible for me to dig that stake up and move it. Thus there needs to be a record of where that stake should be so that if I do such a thing I can be caught.
They Just Wanted Their Couches. An Accidental Reply-All Email Storm Followed
> "Nissan were looking into V2H for years but not sure what happened with it."

In the UK, there are a few companies offering V2G packages for the Nissan Leaf. For example, Octopus Powerloop (available in London and parts of South East England):

https://www.octopusev.com/powerloop
In Factorio you can turn off the locals.

But turning off the locals for your factory is probably not what you want to do.
The Air Force doesn't fly the F-18. Boyd was against the F-15, so I'm not sure where you are getting that from.
I tried out weasyprint, wkhtmltopdf, and a trial of a paid one (forget which). They all vastly underperformed chrome and firefox's print to PDF functionality, which both worked exactly as expected (i.e., they print it looking like how the page would look under that browser).
>There has also been significant investment in the program by North Atlantic Treaty Organization members and other allies.

A lot of the time with these investments it seems like it is mostly a signal of investment in the alliance with the US and that getting the planes is a sort of side effect.
I could imagine CEOs being capable of performing COO and CTO function. It will of course screw up main responsibilities so it is better not to mix.
College football coach selling his 3½ million dollar FL mansion
It requires a lot of start up capital to make co-ops involving network effects work, and it's hard for co-ops to get startup capital.
How to make a list in Slack to complete your tasks
Chrome headless is nice for this:

$ google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf-no-header http://www.example.com/
Not reporting vulnerabilities used by a friendly government is a backdoor backdoor.
So the producer of the pollution gets off scot free? Or are you going to count the pollution twice?
Important to notice that political parties aren't a person. The people saying those things were neocons, and they've mostly switched parties now. Witness the liars from the CIA who used to appear on Fox now appearing on MSNBC or CNN instead. Meanwhile arch-neocon Liz Cheney, who presumably hasn't switched parties because a Democrat would lose in Wyoming, is facing a primary challenger from within the GOP.
TFA - "democratic" hacking is good: "How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime."
Does it? What proportion of rideshare users regularly travel internationally?
He's not being paid by Reddit and abusing his admin access.
the US has (or used to have) this when it comes to processing certain forms/visa applications (I129, I140). it’s called premium processing. Is this corruption?
This is so true. Many building companies own hundreds of low quality apartments in the cities and literally don't pay.
Microservices: Instead of debugging a function, debug why it didn't even get called. What a waste of time.
That is, if your boss wants to not get his/her job done.
As someone who has played a bunch of Factorio but only heard about Satisfactory: Can you elaborate on that?
School says asking male students to 'apologise for their gender' was wrong
ConTeXt[1] can render XHTML to PDF[2]. Throw Pandoc[3] into the mix for a powerful command-line document conversion solution. My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[4], will soon have the ability to render Markdown as PDF using ConTeXt by first converting Markdown to XHTML, then rendering XHTML as a PDF; however, KeenWrite doesn't support command-line operation, yet.

[1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation

[2]: https://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/tas/xhtml.pdf

[3]: https://pandoc.org/

[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
Why would the amount of software engineers that can touch type be down?
Yeah, even in the cynical view that it's a spending program, you can still end up with more or less capability and might as well shoot for more.
> You only have to understand how to move your character using WASD, the concept of Inventory and pointing at different places on the ground with a cursor.

You make it sound so easy. Once I gave my PS4 controller to my dad to play a driving game. Even though he's a better driver than I am, it did not go well.
It's likely that they can do any one of them well (whichever function they came from), but not all of them. They can probably do a passable job at some other one, which means that for at least half of those executives, they have a boss who can't do their job.
> hire quickly and fire quickly

This kind of mentality is not conducive to a well-functioning nation with people who have dependents and need stability.
Not much but if I do it's pure fiction.

How could you EVEN read non fiction after browsing hacker news all day ?
Doesn't apply, not the same conversation. Discussions about limits on spoilers isn't the same as teasing someone for lacking knowledge on the same topic.
Simple Elixir Decimal Interpreter
Simple interpreter that uses Elixir Decimal lib to solve simple math equations.
Also forest / land owners tend to be wealthy as the income from woodland is very low so you have to be well off not to worry about that.
Demand shaping generally reduces the peak demand so the grid can usually handle much more power on average than before.
Factorio runs on Windows, Mac and Linux; Satisfactory only runs (currently) on Windows. Factorio is the better option, though Satisfactory is a great game non-the-less.
Slave camp? That is an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary evidence.

>That Amazon pays so little in tax only shows, to me, that the company Amazon's only concern is to get money and that they don't care about society or humans.

Businesses are always going to spend maximum effort to reduce their tax bills. Perhaps instead of an infinite game of cat and mouse we should consider revamping the tax code to eliminate business taxes. We're not getting the money, we likely never will, and because of the corporate taxes we have special capital gains tax rates. Trying to get Amazon to "pay their fair share" is equivalent to pissing into the wind.
Not as much as I wish I did. I read a lot when commuting, but Covid keeping me remote meant I used my free time doing other things.

I read less fiction than I did years ago and mostly read study books on fields I am interested in. I do read a bit of "self-help" too.
Considering the total program cost, one wonders if a VTOL F-35 plus slightly smaller carriers really is cheaper than skipping that model entirely and using the R&D money to build slightly bigger carriers with catapult launchers and arrestor wire gear?
JESUS! SPOILER?!
Auto safety: NCAP requires 5 tests, Europe’s NCAP requires 21 tests
This might not be the best place to ask but: I'm wondering what the best data structure is for these needs:
* there are fields and values, similar to a struct
* I know at initialization time what fields there are (assume a string)
* at run time I want to be able to get this values accessing via the key/field
* also I want to update those values
* what I don't care about is inserting/deleting fields because that's now allowed,

I guess what I want is a struct like data structure, but in an interpreted language

Mightve typed to fast...
I wonder... Right now the Netherlands has no armed drones at all. Just surveillance ones.
Did the Air Force ever use the f18?