skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preferring to spend time with friends and family is normal. It doesn't mean someone's coworkers are so toxic that regular interaction with them is an ordeal.
>> I live an 8 minute (peaceful) bike ride from work

Well that's where you live now. Average worker changes jobs 12 times in a career. Is your plan to just move 12 times (and pay the costs associated with that)? Or work at the same job for much longer (and pay the costs associated with that)?

One of the benefits of living in a large metro area is the amount of job opportunities, but it you put an 8 minute circle around your residence and only look for jobs within that, that negates those benefits.
> 2. Viewed at the right wavelengths, jammers are like looking at Las Vegas at night. They’re very visible, and attractive targets for RF-seeking munitions.

This may not be super intuitive until you start playing around with the technology and understand what’s possible with phased array antennas. I’m fairly confident that somewhere in the planet is an integrated, real-time, broadband view of RF illumination over the surface of the earth.
The concurrency / collapsed timeline sounds like an agile vs 'waterfall' thing. Very probably valuable but under appreciated at the same time.
>who all do highly immoral things but nobody is telling on each other

The culture of Amazon does not see this as immoral, so why would they "tell on" each other? And among those who maybe do see it as immoral, the managers are incentivized and compensated for it, and the non-managers are threatened with PIPs and firing if they disagree with it.

>The BR has no incentive to partake in the conspiracy, because their track record will show a high attrition rate which is against their goals

BRs do not have any kind of "track record" related to attrition rate. After a BR participates in a hiring loop, that's the end of the story for them. A BR has no incentive to not participate in this so called "conspiracy".

But furthermore, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the BR program works. In practice, the BR is just another interviewer that helps facilitate the debrief, and usually just defaults to echoing whatever hire decision the HM makes. If an HM wanted to hire-to-fire, the "participation" of BRs isn't required at all.
Catastrophe? Those bombs saved millions of Japanese lives.
The good thing about chocolate is that the better quality you buy, usually the less inequity went into making it.
>What exactly makes taking psychedelics a degenerate act? What leads you to believe it is a result of degeneracy?

I'm sorry mate but it was your parents' job to explain that one to you, not mine. And it's not a belief, it's a conviction based on proper upbringing and personal experience with greek life.

But if you need a hint, just look at all the responses to my posts. It's like I've kicked a hornets' nest of self-deluded hedonists who don't want their guilty pleasure taken away from them. All desperately trying to rationalize their vices with pedantry and other exculpatory re-framing of drug use.
If you'd use a column-oriented format like {"col1":["a","b","c",...],"col2":[1,2,3...],...}, it's about the same density, no?
> My personal criticism comes in the close in air support, what good is all that money that was dumped into stealth doing as it just hovers above in plain view/access? Also, it does a poor job at flying slowly. It's just not specialized in it.

This is probably a valid criticism, but aren't the current generation of military helicopters simply way better than jets could ever be at this? And they have the advantage that they can land and evacuate people.
do you have Scala and Kotlin reversed? Surely Kotlin is the trimmed down for foreign markets version of Scala.
The price point argument holds little merit considering that the A variants are cheaper than modernized F-16's. At best you can claim the flight hour costs are much worse, and that's a good point but unfortunately that is the cost of stealth.

>It's well known its dog fighting is weak even compared to other older fighters

It's more nimble than a combat loaded F-16. Sure it isn't super maneuverable like a F-22, but it actually is able to do maneuvers which other planes need thrust vectoring to achieve.

>And perhaps the article is right, the stealth is fantastic. Lets you fire without being seen. But after you've fired it, then what? Now everyone knows where you are and a potential dog fight is coming.

You misunderstanding the nature of the F-35's first shot advantage. It is not merely remaining unseen and firing first. Even if a AWAC's or L band ground radar directs you toward a F-35 it will be the first to fire because it can get a firing solution on a 4th gen before it can get one on the F-35.

Furthermore, it's also not a forgone conclusion that an adversary would know where it is after firing. A F-35 pilot could have moved serious distance in that time from whatever heading the missile originated. With stealth the pace of combat is dictated by the pilot who actually has situational awareness.
SIMPLY BANNING POSTS WITH ALL CAPS SHOULD BE ENOUGH.

EVEN IF THE KOOKS ADAPT AND USE PROPER CASE, THAT'S STILL A VICTORY.

Just a thought :)
>This time a witch-hunt to cancel a user, due to ‘past crimes’.

It's worse: According to the article, there weren't even "past crimes":

"The outrage stemmed from photos of the 41-year-old actress as a teenage debutante in 1999, when she participated in a debutante ball in her hometown of St Louis, Missouri — an event rendered automatically suspect to a certain subset of internet users given its location in a city below the Mason-Dixon Line."

If true, it's a whole new level of low for these mobs.

"You’d have to read carefully to understand that Kemper isn’t actually accused of racism, per se, or that the balls in question hosted black members and debutants beginning in the 1970s — but the thing about these controversies is that nobody ever does read carefully, or at all."
It is needlessly provocative for the creator to claim it is a mechanical marvel and yet require blue LEDs for the clock to work at all.

On the one hand why would this clock be tolerated if it was fraudulent — that is to say, not entirely mechanical?

On the other hand, if the work is as much artistic as it is technical, then the creator must be applauded. Why not troll the unbelievers by making the most striking component of your ‘mechanical’ clock — the part that tells the time — be utterly and obviously not at all mechanical.

There is a hint in the design that the concentric faces are some sort of circular vernier scale, but the way it is presented makes it seem like the creator very much wanted to give the impression that this is driven by blue electric lights. The aperiodic behaviour of the pendulum and grasshopper escapement seem a lot more interesting, but that mechanism is hidden from view.

This is the level of hubris one must expect from someone with large amounts of money... “clock-you money”? Not that we’re picking teams but I’m more of a Long Now fan, myself.
may you please suggest an api or an interface that makes it hard or almost impossible to get ordering wrong ?

and one which probably is succinct as well ?
Where is the evidence for that, though?
My employer is owned by private equity companies. Every few years there's a sale and we get told nothing will change... and every time I've seen (which is I think 2-3, over ~13 years) nothing noticeable has changed.
Tutankhamen!

This one was all the rage in the New Kingdom.
Lord of the Flies was somewhat a rebuttal to The Coral Island. More enjoyable to read though.
What people so often forget is that the stories we tell ourselves create our nature just as much as they describe it.

When we decide how to act, many of our decisions comes from our culture, which is the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. We don't tell stories just to learn, but to become.

One wonders how those six Tongans would have acted had they had the misfortune of reading Lord of the Flies before they went sailing.
You can see it that way. It's really more politics than cost in this case though.

From an engineering perspective local political optimization of a national project is what I would call ineptitude. But you can call it by another name.
> I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

For those of us who have to commute, it's not exactly the norm to be saving money while commuting.

Commutes are responsible for a 10% drop in hourly wages[1], and the median commute time results in spending 10 full days commuting a year.

The average commuter in one of the largest metro areas in the country will spend over 13 full days commuting a year:

> In the area with the longest average commute (New York-Newark-Jersey City), commuters are spending an average of 13 days, 2 hours, and 26 minutes driving to and from work. That means that 14 vacation days a year are barely covering the time it takes to get to work every day. So in addition to dropping the average wage from $34.71 per hour to $30.15 per hour, in order to get 14 days of hanging with their family on a beach, New York commuters must be willing to spend nearly as much time sitting in a car.

[1] https://go.frontier.com/business/commute-calculator
And in the small print, turning that on allows ebay to make withdrawals against your deposit account!
Its a well known proverb, "Generals always fight the last war" going back to at least 1934 as a criticism of military doctrine. And while it is true, it is also inevitable because nobody wants to lose knowing that the enemy did X in the last war and they didn't bother to develop a countermeasure Y to defend against that.

That said, there are always new things to try on the battlefield as well and they are. Stealth bombers in Serbia, "three layer" attacks (top B-52, middle F-18, low Tomahawk) or any of the other tactics that appear as "new" in a conflict and then become "Yeah, they always do that." One of my classmates in high school went to West Point and at a reunion we were talking about the difference between engineering school and military school. There is a very deep base of knowledge there. And while it wasn't my destiny to go that path (even though the Marines tried really really hard to recruit me :-)) I recognize that fighting effectively is just as complex and nuanced as making a circuit that has 160 dB of noise margin.

What has been interesting about F-35 project is what was called out in the article, developed during unprecedented visibility into the unvarnished ups and downs. And there are always people who exploit that to paint a narrative of incompetence and gross negligence. The real test though is when they go to war and whether or not they provide the capabilities that overcome the enemy or not right?
Is your argument that military technology could be described as an "arms race"?
NASA Just Broke the ‘Venus Curse’: Here’s What It Took
Slightly related, but there's a great hour-long lecture [1] by Colonel Randy Gordon, who's a test pilot, discussing the flight control systems for the F-22, contrasting it (a bit) to other jets, and even to a Cessna. He talks about the tradeoffs between human factors, mechanical engineering, software engineering, and shows how the software systems help the pilot.

It's well worth the hour if you're an aviation geek.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n068fel-W9I
I am sure that "finger" is not a Freudian slip.
Yeah, these articles powered by numbeo metrics and surveys from disparate sources really aren't worth the magnetic platter they're stored on.
Presumably one has rolling backups. Something line N backup drives, and every day you back up to the next one in line. Then there are rolling monthly backups, etc. The idea is hopefully you notice the problem before all are corrupted.

With the way I understand ransomware works, merely connecting a backup to the system will corrupt it. This is where a write-enable switch really comes into play, it cannot corrupt the backup when you're trying to restore from it. And if you have online archival databases, they can't be corrupted, either. After all, how much of your company data really needs to be writable? Certainly not last week's payroll records.

With append-only incremental backup systems, enforced by hardware, it'll take a lot longer to need to recycle the backups and risk them. Tape backup already does this inherently.

Another thing you can do with a backup drive, is attempt to read it from a clean system that has never been connected to the network. If you can read it, it isn't corrupted. Then, have a process where once a week see if the backup can be read. Then your worst case is a week lost.
One I alway used to get the kids with..."I heard a great knock knock joke ok...you start." It only works a couple times, but the slow realization they're stuck and what's happened is always entertaining.
I've seen enough of his work debunked just by looking at the footnotes he uses to take the rest of it with more than a grain of salt.
But Mac date year doesn’t always correspond with the intel processor year/generation.
Yeah, your missiles don't need fancy GPS guidance when their programming can basically just be "travel towards the radio jamming signal and explode on impact"
It’s the exact same in-group/out-group tactic that the neo-conservative republicans were using in the early 2000s with terrorism e.g.

“if you’re not with us then you’re with the terrorists” == “if you’re not out protesting/twittering/tumblring then you’re with the white supremacy patriarchy.”

Actually quite interesting how you can use the same tactics in a totally different population and get people all riled up. Most likely just political maneuvering by parties to engage voters.

Looking at it objectively I also didn’t see the media covering the Tusla massacre (as abhorrent as it was) nearly as much as they have been in the last couple days, which does lead to the suspicion that the coverage is politically motivated.
It wasn’t literally the point of the plane when it was being designed. It’s the fourth or fifth public justification. It’s actual literal point is to make a lot of people a lot of money. It does that very well.
Our CISO made a deal with us that we'd wear collared shirts when we need to be on a video call but are free to wear whatever we want otherwise. I keep a polo shirt with the company logo in the closet of my home office for those occasions. Works well. Sometimes I wait until lunch to shower but if I have a video call in the morning, I'll be sure to shower so my hair looks presentable.
I do not care about being competitve.

I work so I can draw a salary to fund my life. That's it. I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder. I don't care about advancing my career for the sake of advancing my career. I just want to enjoy my life, and working for a living is just my means to that end. If I'm making enough to be comfortable, I don't care about chasing a promotion or getting ahead of people. I can't think of a single thing I care about less than having a competitive advantage over other people in the Game of Offices.

Being forced to spend 8 hours a day outside my home makes me actively uncomfortable. I'm autistic, partially faceblind (I used to think I can tell people's faces apart... but then a coworker will shave their head and it turns out I'm completely incapable of recognizing them... turns out I mostly just recognize hair), have difficulty looking people in the eye, and have a litany of sensory issues. Face-to-face interaction gives me zero benefit, and being able to work while wearing a rayon nightgown and rayon pajama pants means I'm actually able to focus on my work instead of focusing on how my clothes feel.

My company has a diversity and inclusion committee—I am on the diversity and inclusion committee—and there has not been a single discussion of how forcing people back to the office is actively harmful to autistic employees who can't benefit from face-to-face interaction and have sensory issues that make offices uncomfortable. It is absolutely hypocritical for companies to say they care about diversity and inclusion while shafting autistic employees like this.
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In states where cannabis is legal, testing is going out the window. More then anything i would guess it is to stay competitive and to get rid of archaic policies this country appears to be moving away from. i think most US citizens now live without criminal marijuana laws.

Employees at my local Home Depot here in Washington, openly wear clothing that carries obvious cannabis related brands, imagery, and wording. I am seeing it more and more in other F500 type companies as well.
Subversion of expectations is the root of humor.
Well I mean tech tenure is what, like, 8-20 months anyway? We’re not building bridges; software projects complete quicker on average than your average megastructure. People move on once the project is done
> to keep their employees in the office longer.

At the office, maybe, but definitely not working.

For dinner, the set times provide natural day boundaries with a strong incentive to wrap up by a certain time. During lunch, it may be saving some time that people wouldn't work by doing away with the need to get to and wait for a restaurant (if the company wouldn't provide any cafeteria at all; every place where I worked had one, usually paid and lunch-only though).

I believe that companies provide food because it's a relatively cheap perk providing a lot of value that simply cannot be replicated.

If I have to make my own food, I have to grocery shop, cook, and do dishes, all of this done inefficiently at small scale and out of my own time. At a buffet-style cafeteria, you just walk in, grab food, eat, drop off your dishes, done. The real value isn't the free food. It's the convenience that comes with it.

At the same time, it doesn't cost the company that much. Raw ingredients aren't that expensive, and neither is running a cafeteria if everything is prepared at scale.

Even if you ignore the cost, restaurants (including buffet style ones) can't replicate that convenience: They aren't at a place where you are anyways, and payment adds extra friction. A la carte restaurants are right out because of the wait. And even if the food actually did make people stay longer - I bet that time is made up by not having to do chores to feed yourself.
A genuine disservice to science and Scientific American. Some topics tend to attract correlative dross.
It is now included in this version as the Line Art Modifier. While LANPR was a nice render engine, iterations between the summer of code projects and v2.93 moved to a grease pencil based modifier.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Though I'd argue that's not quite the same as alcohol and/or alcohol withdrawal are active causes of death while this seems more like a side-effect/contributor. At least from what I'm getting from the article[1] I read.

Still, good point I'll keep that in mind.

[1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/what-you-should-kno...
See, you've confused age with maturity. A library that is old and still broken and hard to use isn't mature, it's just old. A mature library would be one that has learned something from the history of software development.

foo(5, 42, 99) is just a bad interface. foo(red(5), green(42), blue(99)) gives the compiler enough to whine about.
The best cryptographic protocol ever!
> random talks about random stuff, lunch together, practical jokes

Thanks for reminding me why I started working remotely 15 years ago.
Sadly, that joke will not last for 4,000 years :)
Yes that's pretty similar to what is used. Each mask takes days to get simulated. It is getting "old" but this great video is covering it https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4
> I often do/did paired programming, and over-the-shoulder code reviews. These are easier in person

I work 100% remote and recently have been mentoring a recent CS graduate and doing pair programming with him. Let me describe how we do it and then I'd like to hear how you think things are better in person.

We start a Slack voice call, these work reliably. Some coworkers told me the longest Slack call they have maintained was over 12 hours long, with people coming and going throughout the conversation.

After starting the voice call, I share my screen. I show him what I'm working on in IntelliJ and we talk about it. Then I use a new IntelliJ feature called code-with-me and send him a link, he clicks on it and and he is then able to edit any file in my IDE on his IDE on his computer. I'm still sharing my screen, but he might not look at it, after all, he can see and edit any part of the code on his own computer now. He can share his screen at any time if needed with 2 clicks.

I direct the conversation, but look for tasks I can pair off. There's a service I need an interface too, so I ask him to work on it. He starts reading documentation about it on his own computer with multiple large monitors. He then begins writing an interface to the service. I flip tabs over to the source file he's working on and can see where his cursor is and what he's typing in real time. I give advice, I just type out what I mean instead of trying to describe what I want him to do in the code with verbal words. This is all like Google Docs, we can bring in even more people and have 5 or 6 cursors all over the project just working independently. Everyone at their own desk where they're fully productive.

This is a real story. He finished the interface to the service, and it worked well. I still don't know all the details of what he wrote, I never had to be distracted by it, but his code has worked so far, so my trust was well placed. The whole experience was so smooth. We could sync up and talk about a single bit of code and then return to our own work, the context switching took literally seconds. I'd just say, "hey, look at this", he'd click a tab in his editor and then see what I was doing, we chat about it for 30 seconds, then he makes a 2nd click and is back to his own work. We pair programmed like this for about 3 hours. Sometimes we'd go 15 minutes without saying anything, but we were working towards the same goal, and interruptions to talk about the goal weren't distracting. I could never endure watching over someones shoulder for 3 hours.

We were maintaining a call / audio channel the entire time, I even muttered some things under my breath (just thinking out loud) and he was able to hear. I think it's the only time I've been happy and productive with pair programming.