skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculously preachy. I do think the overall thesis is correct, in that boredom can be a powerful force for creativity and inspiration, but paragraphs like this make the article completely off-putting:

"If you want to let music inspire you and enjoy its real beauty, I have few very simple rules: Classical Music and no “skipping”. Then I will trust my appetite."

I do like sitting down and actually focusing on an album, but suggesting only that only classical music is worthy of appreciation is absurd. There is an amazing variety of wonderful modern music in a multitude of genres.
Yeah a lot of countries are brutal in that respect, but it's still wrong.
One could try selling answers as Non Fungible Tokens, especially if you have some wierd ones. Lots of geeks have crypto to mess around with, and might want to pay for some bragging rights. Which is the only NFTs can really hope to be good for.
Is 10% actually fairly high?

I read that as "if you hire two teams of 5 people, on average one person on one of them ends up not performing and getting PIP'd.

That seems... not crazy to me?
Well, you make it a game - people start playing. The disadvantage of gamification.

I'm not sure that people giving good answers and help are well matched by a system designed for people who like "leveling up". I think that system pulls in a mismatched crowd over time, too focused on the game goal.

The solution creating a match is supposed to be what you get the points for leveling up for. However, that does not really remove the mismatch, it just covers it up a bit. You _will_ get, at least for a time, a lot of people who focus on quality to get ahead. Over time you will get more and more people focusing on just the points and the levels for their own sake though, who start cheating the system. I think gamification might, over time, slowly erode the target it wanted to achieve, even if/when it starts out doing well.

Of course, all of it happens in a context. Why are there so many people chasing after such fake "power" and "fame" in the first place? Are so many at least somewhat qualified people (on the Internet and with more than basic programming knowledge) that bored and dissatisfied with their local situation to chase purely virtual achievements?
This seems very strange. Amazon has a serious hiring process. Hiring managers cannot just hire people as they wish. There's a bar raiser and all interviewers provide their feedback. The bar raiser's job is to prevent hiring someone who didn't perform well in the interviewers. Internal transfers are different, the hiring manager has all the freedom.
The difference being called out is not one of capability, but of perception. People don't go to sleep on purpose behind something like "enhanced cruise control", but apparently if you call it autopilot then some people feel fine doing just that (or riding in the back seat, for example).
Their example does no argument validation. It doesn't check that arr is array, or that i is an integer, etc. The spec actually addresses the argument validation.
There are very few official docs for software that I find to be as useful as SO. If there's another site that is as good, I'm not aware of it.
Seems like this is priced for military & contractors.

Genuinely hope they can find success in that niche. Even if their products never compete with the iPhone in ubiquity, having a domestic company with full stack hardware manufacturing experience is a tremendous asset both to the country and to other companies who aspire to bring their own manufacturing stateside.
How would you characterize the US use of drones? (The USAF vet asks...)
I consider Windows 7 about the only acceptable version of Windows after XP. Everything else between XP and 10 (inclusive) has been a failure to some degree (with Windows 8.1 perhaps being a minor failure compared to what 10 became later on).
A lot of times if you just kept scrolling past the paywall the answer was at the bottom.
My personal experience is that creativity, paradoxically, is a lot like exercise: it's often best done on a regular basis, on a schedule, and you need time to accumulate momentum, and you get better at it with repetition.

It's also best done without the pressure of "I must come up with something". Sometimes there really is pressure and I have to spend some time to trick myself to build up momentum.

I like to schedule time to go on a 30 minute walk with my phone in Do Not Disturb mode.
Wasn’t that the one where if you just kept scrolling down far enough you’d end up seeing the answer at the bottom? lol
I actually watched the full video (at 1× speed, because Bilibili has mislabeled the app download button as 倍速.) He has some criticisms of the Ars Technica article that I agree with. However, those aren't really relevant to the current thread.

He confirms that the developer beta reviewed in the article is running Linux on ARM with all pieces of Android present, modulo Google Mobile Services replaced by Huawei Mobile Services. He then criticizes the article for concluding that it's just Android without trying out any HarmonyOS-specific features, but doesn't demonstrate them himself. To borrow his analogy, if Android is English and HarmonyOS is Chinese, why does he speak English the whole time? (And why so slowly?)

The video would've been much better if he'd booted up an emulator himself to show what was missing from the Ars Technica article.
It’s because of their Teams product - https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/stack-overflow-adds-a-free...
because common sense says that acquisitions result in attrition of key people, damaging layoffs, forced integrations, etc.

nothing that helps the product/user base.

Acquisition that improves things are extremely out of the norm.
array["at"] = "lunchtime";

Is also valid javascript... And will break functionality in this proposal!
Stack Overflow releases archives every 3 months.
Oh wow this is incredibly helpful feedback! Users will be able to have multiple Workspaces in the future, which is why I set this infrastructure up now. This will be useful for agencies. I can see how it’s currently confusing though.

The other issues are now in my list to address. Thank you so much for collating these. Please send me an email - I would love to send you a premium account as a thank you.
I will admit the Prosus people seem more forward-looking (based on some wiki reading) than your usual run-of-the-mill PE acquirer. So perhaps they can steer the ship competently.
ADI’s New ASIC Transceiver Platform Marks How 5G Has Matured
So instead of requiring a job you want to require the immigrant to pay to stay? That's how you end up with only rich people getting to stay and also using it as a shortcut to immigration.
Yeah I see that too.

Back when python 2.7 was out, the top-rated answer was a really great, python 2.7-specific solution. Now that python 3.9 is out, the top-rated answer is still a really great, python 2.7-specific solution.
gRPC or REST?
And for every new generation of know-nothings that grows up to replace the veterans of wars long past, all the old battles will need to be re-fought... Sigh. I'm too old for this shit; geroffmylawn.
My code isn't public because it uses jQuery and I don't need the feedback about how old I am because I like jQuery. :)

But generally speaking, if you can get JavaScript to display the current time in a browser, you can pull in that file via a browser source (using a file:// protocol) and show it on the screen. From there, it's a matter of doing anything else you can get JS to show in a browser. Or, if you have a local server running, you can display entire websites along side your face.

At that point, it's an interesting shift in mindset — you're not designing stuff for the browser, but to be displayed next to you.
And JSX is renderer-agnostic (and even implementation-agnostic). You can use it to render anything from CLIs to smart TV interfaces.
Not everything is a large ugly, buggy monstrosity that needs to be rewritten into "real software". There are may business processes served quite well by excel which might be enhanced with a low code solution like this and could stay that way for over a decade.
The relevant question, I think, is extensibility. If the low-code solution, upon hitting a wall, can be extended instead of rewritten, it's going to be a great solution for small companies to prove out ideas without the cost of general-purpose developers and custom software stacks built from general-purpose software.

If any company can solve the extensibility question, I think Microsoft has a better-than-average shot at it.
Annotated PyTorch Implementation of Attention Free Transformer
Digital Phenotyping
I mean, the domain is experts-exchange.com. There's a dash there to prevent this mistake from happening.
I would guess the RPA hype wagon will slow down on its own accord soon. The big users will start to see the downsides now that their implementations have been up a while. Scraping is brittle. And I imagine it's not experienced developers writing (or point/click generating) the scraping code at the customer locations.
>"despite some crazy people in this world"

Is making biological weapons of mass destruction crazy?

Fauci does not think so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-wor...
Is it a bitcoin miner?

Oh, you mean a climate change prevention app.
I don't think so, because I think the most common tenure is just over 2 years. I know a lot of people who leave right after their second year cliff (the vesting isn't even and most of it comes at the end).
It is too early to say the UK is on top of the pandemic. The delta variant may result in a rising toll despite the mass rollout of vaccines, as the major one they use, the AZ one is only 66% effective. Wait and see, and keep social distancing is all we need to do now.
This is the only correct answer, IMO.

all the other pundits miss that if the deal was for existing source of revenue, it would have been priced as modestly as those are.
Anybody grinding leetcode to try and get into a FAANG just “because FAANG” should read this article.

There are thousands of other well-paying, respected companies that don’t treat their employees like shit.
I disagree with the idea that Blair brought in posh = good. To me this feels like a continuation from Thatcher/Major.

Just going on personal experience I feel like 'chavs' had social confidence around the early Blair, and tended to be dismissed late Blair/Brown. By the time Cameron was in office I fell like there was an idea that Eton, private school, investment banking, Mayfair = good, or at least this was stronger under Cameron than Blair. It's all flipped now.
Since switching almost completely to JavaScript, Node.js and React I noticed that my time spent on Stack Overflow dropped significantly. I found my answers in API docs and GitHub issues most of the time.

I never created an account. Once I had listed most recent Redux and React questions, had an answer to one that was pretty tricky within one minute since posting and while I was typing out the answer in my editor somebody already had their answer posted and accepted. With code formatting and everything.

What's left is the unanswered questions that look like really specific, obscure, and unpaid debugging sessions to me.
Tumbleweed is great for User-devices and Leap for Servers and "Enterprise"-Devices. It's a great combination.
Since when is stack overflow dying?
That's a straw man argument. Both conditions do indeed raise prices, but only one is due to unnatural government intervention in the market.
To your point on production capacity:

This reminds me of pushback in the early days of Tesla. Sure they can build 1,000, but can they build 10,000. Now we’re at “sure they can build 500,000, but can they build 5M.”

I think the answers “yes”, if the demand is there. And I agree with you that industrial policy could help jumpstart that demand.
On the flip side, there's plenty of ugly, buggy, code monstrosities that have to be rewritten or refactored. This just means the professional developer gets to start with a clean codebase with the UI & processes already laid out as an example. Almost like the no-code is a working prototype in place of a requirements doc.
They're not, the early posters in this thread are just trying to create drama
Your number guard is insufficient. NaN, infinity, 2.23 are all Number but not supported values for the function.

This goes to show that it's NOT trivial to implement in a robust way.
Either the rest of the private equity world is insanely overvalued or this is a really small price for such an important part of the software engineering community
It does it at lunch times too, adds a little fork and knife, dropping the word "LUNCH" underneath. :)
> The best thing would have been the status quo. SO has been running on its feet for many years

You forgot that there's a bunch of VC's who now want their investment back plus interest.
They changed it.
> optimizations that the native version would incorporate

We shouldn't write stuff in native code for performance... We should write the compiler to detect these and output optimized code.
It's stealthier and quieter.
Yeah this article is garbage. I never saw any of this when I worked at Amazon (up to around a year ago). Post-interview panel meetings always focused on the candidate's strengths and weaknesses and their ability to raise the bar. It would have been absurd in those meetings for a manager to advocate hiring a "throwaway" candidate. I can't see it happening at all at Amazon, particularly with the requirement of having a bar raiser on each panel.
> In Arizona, no regulations exist as to how much water farmers can pump in rural areas such as this.

The Arizona desert is beautiful. The smell of creosote bushes after a rain is firmly fixed in my memory as a heavenly delight. The way we disregard ecological health saddens me. What is a reasonable per-capita energy budget for humans?
> when I was visiting a deserted island in Brittany, to look at my friend directly streaming the video of the ocean. I started to feel a deep feeling of disgust.

This article disgusts me.
Do low performers not exist?
I switched to decaf and it's really the best of both worlds - water processed beans have a great taste without the caffeine crush
Well, I take that back. I guess when big banks are forced to take money from the government, they have to do something with it, so in that case, the execs get bonuses and stocks are bought back.
For financial makes sense, but science should be independent of numerical base?
First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background.

It's unconscionable to suggest that one needs multiple computers for various purposes when they are all general purpose computers on the inside.
I loved listening to the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel. It was kinda crazy that they were doing a podcast like that while they (Jeff mostly) were building it and coming up with the name, etc. Still have all the mp3's somewhere.

Edit: I'm in the top 2%. Most of my rep. comes from interest earned on questions/answers I posted very early on.
Way back in 2008, Google had a feature called SearchWiki that let you X-out or upvote search results. It was little used, but apparently the most frequent usage was to delete ExpertsExchange results. IIRC we ended up making some changes to webspam that resulted in ExpertsExchange links falling off the front page, and then SearchWiki was unlaunched because it was no longer necessary.
Teardown of a Cel-Fi Go X Cell Signal Booster
Everyone is saying how 1.8B is a ton, but I’m kinda surprised that it’s “barely” more than the Depop acquisition today at 1.6B.
SO will never be wikipedia and that is OK.

What we miss the the middle ground. And that is open for the taking! (hint)

SO is transient and disposable. It is about the error message of the day and by chance hits the language/pattern of the year. Wikipedia is about stablished knowledge already accepted and published. The open spot in the middle is about accepted techniques for the pattern of the recent years. Those are filled currently by random blogs, posts and news aggregators.
Great. That won't be a problem, as I love ugly password prompts.

Edit: Relocating /boot to a flash or SD-card is also a way to accomplish deniability of a cryptroot.
Leap 15.3 is build on SLES, and if you need support from Microsoft, you have lost already...not to mention a IT-Department who installs a Antivirus on a Linux endpoint...and probably forgot about the HID.
> directly causative of the great frustration and antagonism against "techies" nationally and particularly in every city that has been changed by this industry?

I'm not familiar with any examples of this, does anyone have references?
Not sure if this is sarcastic, Android has literally the same feature provided by Google.
Prosus’s Acquisition of Stack Overflow: Our Exciting Next Chapter:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosuss-acquires-stack...
Consider the story that we're discussing. If you're hired by someone whose incentive is to fire you to meet a metric, then you're never going to get that equity payment. And they have every incentive to load your offer up with as much equity as they can.

And even if they don't, there are lots of ways to find yourself in a toxic workplace. If you're depending on that vesting schedule, your life can suck as you're trying to wait out an arbitrary deadline.

If you treat vesting as a nice optional bonus that you don't plan on, neither situation will feel bad to you.
I think Deep Work is a much better discussion of this problem; without the shame/disgust/morality play that's being enacted here.
Wow, I just wish there was some real competition from a site owned by some independent foundation.

Also, what is Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's net worth now?
Until the public stock shits the bed, like GE for example
As I mentioned in another comment — I used jQuery, and chose not to share anything because I don't need everyone's feedback on how old and dumb that makes me. :)

But basically, anything you can render in a browser can happen on the screen. Get JavaScript to show your current time in a browser, then pull in that URL into your OBS scene. The background will be transparent.

I think it's using Blink to render things underneath, that's what it seems like at least.
It's obviously not impossible for someone to turn down a billion dollar offer because they think it's not enough, or to maintain control over their company. But I think people drastically underestimate how easy it would be to not sell out and walk away. The kind of people who will look at that offer and say "no thanks" are far and few between. There is a non-trivial chance that most of us have not met anyone like that.
Having it happen once isn't toxic. The part that creates the terrible culture is that it happens every year.

Imagine trying to build a team and good culture when someone on your team is put into a performance plan/fired every year.

Now add in unreasonable demands from management on delivery dates, churn from people trying to work at a company that doesn't fire one of their coworkers every year, and a lack of new hire support because if you don't bring your new hires up to speed very fast, they're more likely to get fired than you/your friends are. Also, those new hires get paid more than you do if they were brought in at the same level because they're "bar raising" and you aren't.
There are zero relevant metrics a company can use that don’t create negative incentives. Maximizing profit, cut R&D.

Business is simply complex, you can always sacrifice an intangible like brand perception to tweak some metric. But, it’s the along term that represents the vast majority of a companies value.

At least assuming the company is likely to survive the next 2 years.
The user generated content is under a fairly liberal license so if they restricted access someone could just create a mirror.
This have come now https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosuss-acquires-stack...
>I own the HD800S and if it wasn’t for the scientifically derived EQ filters some community members have developed, I would be entirely unable to listen to them for the reasons exactly as you describe. But once the EQ is applied fixing their FR curve to the Harman target curve, suddenly the sound signature dramatically changes from unlistenably painful (for metal music, for example) to perfectly balanced sound.

That's why I prefer flat, little coloured gear (IEMs in my case) and do minute adjustments in EQ if I really must. I've got enough of a wide range of styles I listen to in any given time frame that I would get more bad than good from gear with a strong signature. I've been happy with my Etymotic ER4.
While true, getting the MAX flying was a business continutity thing (I suspect, but can't prove obviously, that they would end up divesting their passenger jet division if they had to write off the MAX in its entirety)

But it is also true that what is going on inside Boeing is not exactly visible to people outside of Boeing. Further, ripping out a previous process and replacing it doesn't really generate externally visible signs, typically it is visible by better results.
Thanks so much for writing all this down, this is extremely useful!

You are right, the documentation is incomplete and there are still lots of issues, the next week's update will fix some of the above and make it a more stable and proper 'beta'.
If I had access to their business network, data analysis, and knew in the end it wasn’t my money, society will just bail us out, sure why not make that choice?

You’re making it sound like they had real skin in the game. If it fails they walk away with enough to retire on anyway.

Let’s not make celebrities of the biggest grifters out there, emotionally coloring them in as possessed of magical insights. They’re people playing a game where the deck is stacked in their favor by that sort of fawning.

It’s an unverifiable claim to suggest they were uniquely gifted. Uniquely positioned is not the same thing.
A self directed 401k allows that too just like a self directed ira. 401k is still superior then. Roth or otherwise

you can “mega backdoor roth” into self directed 401ks
The show's happening here now:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125184

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4867

There's also not-directly-related cross-functional need here on the install process:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4289
One big source of climate damage, especially in the United States, is food waste. The average American throws away a third of their food. The culture and TV treat food waste as normal.
It is trivial. It requires a few more lines than my example, but my example was intended to show the core use case. All I'm getting in replies is nitpicking about my example case... Can't you just assume when reading that I know how to write some simple guard statements? It's hardly rocket science.
That's also my favorite way of making coffee. Add to that a manual grinder and you can't get much better.
A Military Drone with a Mind of Its Own Was Used in Combat, U.N. Says
Which was extra funny given Tencent's tiny ownership share in reddit.
Perhaps that's true, but it's sort of orthogonal. boeing and airbus don't make engines either; afaik no major aircraft manufacturer does (pending the inevitable exception).

Granted, I don't understand how China's aerospace industry works, if it's basically just a large industry-wide state conglomerate.
But not having locally sourced engines does not really give any information about comac's potential competitiveness.