skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying but there is a fair bit of context and intent difference between the terms. "China virus" was pretty highly implied to convey blame and fault, but the variant terms are not similarly charged.

Case in point would be that acts of racism or violence are not being incited against races from the variant countries.
> If they offer symmetric speeds to home users, they worry that business customers will try to switch to residential plans in order to save money.

If their key differentiator between the two connection types are upload speeds then they should adjust the pricing and/or clarify (or actually add some) the value add for the business line. That is just unfortunate
A lot of homes in crowded cities like Chennai and Bangalore are tightly packed, congested and poorly ventilated. Air (dust) and noise (human activity) pollution is very high. Within the same congested dwelling, there maybe people who have to get up very early and go to work or come home late and sleep late which disrupts everyone's sleep. So it is highly likely that there is only 4-5 hour window at night when things are quiet enough to get good sleep.
> When I get under 6 hours I see a clear drop off in performance.

Same. I have a hard line at 6 hours. Over 6 and I'm good, less than 6 and I'm dead all day. I don't use an alarm and wake up naturally after around 7 hours of sleep, but that last hour I'm normally aware of the lighter sleep stage I'm in.
Pick any view of the future and I’m sure you could find some economist at some university who is convinced it will happen.
If everyone saved money in a world where ads didn’t exist, do you think housing wouldn’t be bid up by virtue of many people having extra money to spend?

I hate what web ads have become, but I’m pretty sure they’re not a significant driver of homelessness.
Poor people’s income went up in the US, and the poverty level decreased, because we actually did a proper economic stimulus for once instead of an undersized one like in 2010.
Extraction of chemistry grammar from unsupervised learning of chemical reactions
One Year On: Remembering John Horton Conway
Do you have any references to recommend for learning heuristics like this? I want to create effective, useful visualizations but it’s not my area of expertise.
Perhaps we need to add a term such as "harvesting", to better distinguish between hacks/leaks and mass aggregation of public profile data.
Do I think society is worse than what, and in what way(s)?
Roman here, living in the area near Colosseum: the road still exists but has been pedonalized by Marino and it made the archeological park completely different.

Now people can safely walk around, the only allowed vehicles are public buses and archeological excavation have become a prominent activity in the area.

it's still messy because the new subway tunnels are taking a lot longer to be built than planned (that's quite normal in Rome unfortunately) but it's many times better than it was before when the main users where cars and traffic jams.
> For example if you want to work for Google in Europe it's either UK or Switzerland, which are interestingly the two developed european countries outside of the EU

Or Ireland, or France, or Belgium.
Thats a geneeric argument, you cant just apply it to any debate without scruitiny.

It does not work for many assets: land, mineral rights, etc. are risk free themselves and weren't crated.
There are companies out there who value the experience of senior software engineers (and I mean real seniority, not the job title that you update to senior after 3 years in the field).

Such companies will have a career ladder up to Principal or Distinguished engineer. You will have to share your knowledge, of course, but without having to give up coding and do people management, if you don't want that.

I'm 39, happy infrastructure engineer, individual contributor. I tried being team lead for some years, but didn't really enjoy people management. That's okay.

Charity Majors wrote some great posts about that:

- https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/

- https://charity.wtf/2019/11/23/questionable-advice-after-bei...

- https://charity.wtf/2020/09/01/the-official-authorized-list-...

- https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotio...
Right you are. In fact, I was thinking of the EdgeOS on EdgeRouter, and I was wrong there as well, since that is actually mips64.

https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
Why Amazon Unionization Failed in Alabama – Prof Richard Wolff
Ask HN: Is rapid early growth crucial as an engineer?
Hi all,

I'm a software engineer in my late 20s. I love the security side of computing, so I'm doing a masters in information security in parallel with working on software in this field. But at the same time, I feel like I'm not "growing" fast enough, that there's so much to know - things that others are already experts in - and it's putting a lot of mental pressure on me.

I think at least part of it is due to my upbringing, parents pressuring me to "work hard to reap the benefits later on". That's what I don't have a good sense for, though: is it worth focusing a lot of my time and energy now on learning and doing side-projects, expanding my knowledge in this field? Or is it better to let things sink in over a longer period of time

I'm aware that this is a fairly personal question in the end, but it's difficult to know what to expect or how things might (not) turn out.
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the el Daoud

https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg
of course it's a way and it pays well. but once you've become debt free and have some savings in the bank, it loses it's appeal exponentially. this leads to burn out, lack of motivation, people questioning their career choices/decisions
Can you do a blogpost please!
Any plans for adding a UI foot building the expressions?
As this thread has died, I'll leave off with a couple of parting comments--as I previously mentioned, the idea of 'reasonable' will change depending on who you ask. When you say 'We should figure out...,' rather than leave reasonableness to an individual 'I,' now it's given to a multitudinous 'we.' That is, the idea is given a democratic flavor, wherein if a majority (even by just one person) thinks this or that speech act is unreasonable, it can enforce its prohibition.

Given your reasonable fear of manipulation/propaganda by those in power, can you see where this might go wrong?

Thus, as Americans, we've done more or less what you've asked--we laid out the ideal, 'Congress shall make no law...,' then we set our local, state and federal bodies of government on the problem of how to work within this ideal. Which, if the solutions are reasonable, will remain law. Which, if an individual (e.g. a flag burner) or a multitude (e.g. a religious sect) thinks are unreasonable, will be challenged through later legislation or through the courts. Potentially landing at the doorstop of a nine-member group called SCOTUS who, using their collective wisdom, will tell us whether we've (or our bodies of government have) gone too far. (And if we as a nation disagree with their decisions, we as a nation have remedies for that as well.) All in a world of moral-less actors.

Is this not reasonable?
Your company pushes you to a managerial role because your experience allows you to deliver more value in that than you would as an individual contributor. You're are essentially a force multiplier for more junior ICs by providing the strategy, direction and mentorship to them. You'll find this career trajectory to be fairly normal.

Being a coder makes you a cost centre, whereas being a PM gives you some degree of charge over a budget, which means you can more directly quantify your $ contribution to the business. The upper end of your salary expectations will therefore likely be higher in the PM role. It sounds like you don't want to do PM, but sort of realise this.

There are a handful of exceptions to this, where you become such a domain expert that people will write blank cheques for you do still do the technical stuff, but you will find overwhelmingly that your experience level is one where companies see your best value in providing you the responsibility to guide the high level and leave the detail up to juniors below you.

Of course, you may choose that you want to become that greybeard IC, and that's totally ok, but expect it to put some degree of limit on your salary's upward trajectory. I don't think that they will kick you out just because you're old, but they certainly see you as being able to deliver more value in some degree of management. As an IC, you simply can't provide that much more value back to the company compared to juniors in similar roles, because your true value lies in being leverage to multiple juniors through your experience and mentorship. If you're paid well enough, satisfied with having that for the rest of your working life, then it's an increasingly stress-free way to pay the bills because your mastery of the role will mean it's easy to deliver.

It's worth noting, that some of the other ways around this (starting your own company, freelancing, consultancy) will inherently include a degree of management of some description. Whether it's the right balance for you is again something only you can gauge.

So if you truly want to stay as an IC, how do you do that? Talk to your supervisors about your career goals and highlight that. Have that discussion, explain to them that you're happy to take on a mentorship role but still want to be in the weeds at the end of the day, and hopefully your company is flexible enough to work with you there.

Context: I'm also 35 but in a mech engineer career, and in exactly the same career stage as you. I now have 3 people reporting to me, but more informally play a strategy/mentorship/leadership role to a team of about 10 more junior engineers.

I have thought a lot through this, and my team has multiple of those old greybeards who stayed in the technical expert IC role. I wrestled with the same issue (I used to love doing technical design, FEA, CAD, etc., and can still probably run rings around the juniors in it) but ultimately realised that I want the career growth and that I can deliver substantially more value by moving into a leadership position.
My point is that when someone is currently relying on a state welfare programme to meet their basic needs, it doesn't imply a lack of contribution to society - as is too often the connotation.
The FAANGs, and I figure about a couple dozen other major tech companies paying similar comp levels, now have offices spread out across the country. You won’t make as much in say Austin or Denver, but it will still be dramatically better than other local options.
> Once that's bypassed

Do you mean that you trick the app into accepting a wrong cert? How does one do that, apart from decompilation?
I have been wondering if using VMWare Fusion docker compatible solution that even comes with their free version of Fusion has better IO/disk performance when running containers https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/05/fusion-11-5-now-...

I think Fusion comes with a driver for Docker
I think that long lasting cars was a reference to how Ford was notoriously early adopter of gauge blocks, which eventually became the standard references for inches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block#History
> I’m deeply concerned because engineering seems to earn more across the board than project management.

Where I live (Sydney, Australia), front-end contractors earn (in AUD) $800/day, back-end $900/day and project managers $1000/day. There’s a range, of course, but that’s the gist of it.
> this mechanism.

Lmao we're not particles in a simulation. Not everybody optimizes for earnings. I optimize for not giving a fuck, so I'll never work at a FAANG. Not everybody wants to trade ten years of their life span for... a modest home in the tri valley and a horrible commute.
Japan has several. Not sure if they are obsolete. Rooms are often measured by tatami mats. a 6 mat room, an 8 mat room, etc... I also once bought a tape measure assuming there was only one kind and it was metric but it turned out there are at least 2, metric and the shaku and I bought the wrong one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement
Value investing strategies sometimes beat just buying the index.
Negligible: 26 today, up from ~3 around Q4 2020.

Not sure if that's Google Play's metrics being played with, but it's shocking that there appear to be installs on something that old (it's well before TLS 1.2 support on Android, and most of the internet will be broken)
One of the authors explains the result a more clearly than the article[0]. The short version is that the headline makes the result sound much worse than it is, the reduced protection is offset by reduced fitness of the virus variant, and apparently there's significant protection +14 days after 2nd dose.

[0] https://twitter.com/SternLab/status/1380922920734711811
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Creating SSH keys for GitHub in Windows is hard. Bloody hard
If I understand it correctly, you play by putting your moves on the blockchain here.

That’s the play by Twitch Chat concept ported to a blockchain?

What advantage does this have besides the moves being recorded on the blockchain? It’s more expensive and it’s slower (Cardano has 20 seconds block time IIRC).

Nothing is running ON the blockchain. Cardano doesn’t have smart contracts yet. You could exchange the blockchain part with any component that allows people to comment. For example Twitter.
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I really think this nails it.

Management of people requires a very empathetic, highly personalized approach. It's really all about motivation and the levers you can use are not always in line with the company objectives. High performance companies and teams are usually the ones that can find a way to sync up the people objectives with the company objectives for a long enough time to deliver products and services into a marketplace.

Meanwhile, organizational management is much more of a systems thinking approach that requires classical engineering skills. It requires technical and domain expertise plus intimate knowledge of the existing practices, processes, and environments.

Which makes sense as to why most managers in the software development field fail. They know the organizational side of things well but the people side is overlooked. And now the spectrum is swinging towards people managers without the requisite organizational skills and we're left with a new set of problems.
Maybe this happens because the inefficiency is resilience/anti-fragility?
The implication is that highly efficient businesses exist for a short time but they get wiped out quickly when their environment changes.

Sometimes a CEO thinks up a radical crazy idea. While it distributes through middle management it gets twisted. Once it reaches the front line workers nothing really changes. One might consider this inefficient change management but maybe the company protected itself from a stupid CEO decision.
Minichess
I'm not entirely buying it.

You might be a blacksmith, but eventually you'll become the master of the shop, take on some apprentices under you, and take on more high-level responsibilities. You might still get to work iron periodically (especially if it's a complex, artisan piece) but more of your day will be consumed with balancing books, managing contracts of supplies, client liason, etc.

I don't think that's really evolved a great deal compared to the OP's sitaution.
The whole reason why French invented the metric system was because they had similar mess of various local measurement units all over the place, which notably made taxation and regulation complicated.
I had an interesting call once asking me to interview for marketing job at a women's online fashion business.

I said to the person "not sure IM the right person, I'm male and have zero interest in fashion". To which she replied "That's great because I've got plenty of that fit, I want someone that looks at this more as a business than personal interest"

I never interviewed as they salary was low, but I really liked that approach. I find that 'must love and be passionate about our company products' a little overdone, especially in the US. Its healthy to have people with different points of view, and staff that use alternatives and can discuss why.
— It says on your CV you are very quick at maths. 2746 x 8463 ?

— 82736!

— Not even close.

— Yes, but very quick! (same for Big Data)
Most developed countries are far enough from the equator that the amount of daylight is very different during different parts of the year. Perhaps it would make sense to base the schedule around sunrise and sunset rather than around arbitrary numbers?
Pleasure to meet you too.

> I suggest you are incorrect to assert that "no one is entitled to my CPU time."

Very well, please elaborate. I'm always up to delve deeper into reason and philosophy (time-permitting of course).
It’s an ad-supported business. What do you want them to do for people who use ad blockers, roll out the red carpet?
We see similar things in other industries. When hiring a lawyer a lot of the hours billed might be performed by a law student intern, but billed as if it was the high profile lawyer.

In consulting you might interview with one team of senior consultants who lay out the strategy, but once work start you are met with juniors who report to that senior team and “therefore are in effect the same”.

But the examples in the article go far beyond “a qualified junior works following instructions from the high profile senior”. In Kwons case it sounds like procedures were deplorable and nurses and ghost doctor incompetent. Scary stuff.
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That doesn't justify the immorality of engaging in usury, it's like saying whaling is banned, but there are people who need to feed their families - we already know that.

A superior and not immoral model is investing in said companies, so if they succeed both the investors and company owners profit, otherwise they both lose. It's proper risk sharing.
I have it an easy way I think. My development for Linux except some RPi projects is strictly limited to some high performance business servers. I use C++ with a couple of multiplatform libraries for such development. So I simply develop and do main testing on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio C++. The big one, not VS code. When the time comes for release I just check out project on Linux, run build and tests and that is it. I do have Linux VM on my development computer (VMware, full Linux OS with the GUI and dev environments) in case Linux tests fail due to some compiler differences / whatever. During last 3 years I had to use like it twice for that purpose. I mostly use Vm's to test my server setup from scratch scripts.
In addition to the lack of any adequate training, many nurse practitioner schools have 100% admittance rates.

The US also stands alone in how much autonomy it grants advanced practice nurses. It is no coincidence in my mind that this is at least partially to blame for the decreased life expectancy compared to other developed nations.
I read this article in 2013 and made sure to visit that multi-layered church when in Rome in 2014. Well worth the visit and so easy to miss.
But it's still a problem and if the recruitment landscape improves it will also help those who have their rent due.
> They seem to be a mac user so I can only guess it might have to do with lack of expandability of the used hardware?

More enthusiastic Mac-using photographers would probably invest in a consumer NAS like a Synology for expandable storage. It's also great for offloading videos and other large, infrequently-accessed files.

Some Apple users these days also opt into paying for more storage for iCloud Photo Library. I personally think it's a great deal, since I can also get away with buying an iPhone with the lowest amount of built-in storage (saving ~$100 over the life of the phone), in exchange for paying $0.99/$2.99 more a month.
It's clear we live under capitalism. Private entities own the means of production and employ (largely) non-owners to engage in wage labor using those means. The profits accrue to shareholders who often do no actual labor in the enterprise. There is very little economic nationalization, relative to what is possible, in the United States and in the west in general. A couple of examples of minimal nationalization are the Norway and Alaskan oil funds. There is also very little in the way of worker control or profit sharing except at the very top of the economic ladder, for example certain tech companies/startups and wall street workers.

Libertarian purists eschew the idea of a state putting any limits on markets or enterprises for reasons (there are actual reasons, as you can read in their literature, I just don't wish to expound on them), but to argue that any limit on an enterprise somehow makes the system not capitalist is an absurdism.
Metric might be good for scientific measurements, but it's a trash system for day-to-day human usage.

This most stark in Celsius, where the useful range of temperatures where humans can live is compressed into roughly -20 C to 40 C, versus 0 to 100 in Fahrenheit.
Like others have pointed out, a career in tech doesn't necessarily follow a linear path.

I landed my highest profile job so far as a fresh graduate, but I quickly found out it was a miserable place to be in. I have made a healthy work environment my top priority ever since. In my opinion you should chase what makes you happy, which may or may not be what makes some random HN users happy.
fine print: must leetcode for a year before entering. results are not guaranteed. along with the fact that you'll feel like an insignificant cog in a gargantuan machine
This.

I'm glad my employer has hack weeks twice a year when I can play, or grind out useful-but-low pricey tasks.
I am 39, been programming for about 10 years, and I have never managed anybody. Mentored numerous, always had an "open door" to sit with a junior or even not-so-junior dev to hash out/debug/conceptually consult on something. This is part by explicit choice, part by just not being as "emotionally" invested in the tech decisions as people who desired management. I always volunteer to take on or clean up parts of the code or stack that no one else wants to touch as long as my other work duties would be reasonably adjusted to accommodate for this, so that everyone else's job could be more fun and productive. I have always been valued by both management and for being this kind of "informal player", and never felt my job was at risk, or that I got stale. You don't need to be working on the latest tools/lang's/stacks: just writing and reading code constantly. Tech challenges that keep your skills sharp lurk everywhere.
It goes without saying that a pure free market is not something to strive for. But it has been proven time and time again that a free market delivers more supply than any centrally planned economy in existence. In fact, each centrally planned economy had historically suffered from undersupply and consequently open up to free markets at least partially.

Just one example is Cuba. A highly educated and stable society failed to provide food (especially meat) and consequently had to open up that sector for entrepreneurs.

As I initially said, there are clear downsides with that, especially overproduction, environmental concerns, and worker treatment. But ironically, the same problems appeared in centrally planned economies as well.

Consequently, people will always choose free market economies over centrally plan ed ones because of the better supply situation. This then leads to a conflict between democracy and economy (see GDR).