skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that moving from a capped track to an uncapped track requires much more than hard work. It requires at the very least an expensive investment, sometimes expensive credentials. Worst case, you need to be of a certain class to do it, and not even money can buy you the uncapped track.

If you're flipping burgers at McDonalds, you can't just "hard-work" your way to owning that store. Even if you pull 3 shifts and are the best burger flipper in the state, your boss is never going to say "thanks for the hard work! you now you own the store." This track switch is gate-kept by requiring a capital investment.

If you're 3rd junior engineer from the left at your tech company, you can hard-work your way up to senior, maybe even principal engineer, but you will statistically never be able to hard-work your way to CEO, where the rewards are truly uncapped. Nobody hard-works their way to CEO anymore--that track is reserved for a separate non-employee CEO class, gate-kept by credentials, and the good ol' boy network.

If you're working as a start-up employee, you're never going to hard-work you way to founder, where the rewards are uncapped. You think you're going to be the best developer on the team, and then the board is going to say "congratulations! we now deem you a founder with founder equity!" No way. The company already has founders. If you want to be a founder, you need to make a capital outlay and risk your own business.

If you're a nurse, you're never going to hard-work your way to being a doctor. They don't promote nurses to doctors after years of hard work. You need to, again, spend money on education and pass the credential gatekeepers in order to switch to that track. And even when you're a doctor, you're working for the hospital, and are not uncapped. You can't hard-work your way to owning the hospital. You need to spend capital to own your own practice.
Well, that's certainly makes sense in a roll-coal, stick-it-to-the-libs, screw-the-next-generation way.
VLC is as good as it gets when it comes to playing video
This is the key point that the original commenter was trying to elucidate.

Well put.
I would agree that APL fits into the category of a "write-only" language, but it's amazingly powerful.

My first project many years ago was working on the IBM 5100 "portable" computer (a 50 lb suitcase sized thing). It had a toggle switch in front that could boot it into a Basic interpreter or an APL interpreter.
When a user's phone attempts to get a location fix, it will use the beacons which are publicly transmitted by Wifi networks around it (I assume it's the BSSID/MAC address, specifically) to reference against (or update) a Google database mapping those BSSID's to coordinates.
"so little effort into software"? Quite the opposite, it seems like they've put a lot of effort into the software. Everything "just works" and is polished, unlike almost every other piece of software I've ever used.

Don't mistake a lack of advanced features for a lack of software effort. reMarkable is making an intentional trade-off - more feature quality, less feature quantity.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27516894
Eh, an au pair from overseas provides childcare in exchange for rent and food, and comes on vacations.

If you aren't a stay at home parent, you can use some of the money you earn at your job to pay for child care.
My daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia three years ago and then at the onset of at home learning late last spring we realized something else was up. After neuro testing she was diagnosed with ADHD. She's on a daily dose of Focalin and the difference is night and day when she's on/off it.

During this time of getting my daughter tested and researching the subject I realized I have many of the same symptoms she does. My wife for years has thought I have ADD which I would casually brush off since I was (and am) a successful electrical engineer. But the WFH was a real struggle for me and my focus and I think I was able to mask it for years. So I went through a full neuro evaluation and it turns out I don't have ADHD just slow processing. I struggle to really dig in and get started on a task for longer than 10-20 minutes. So after talking with my doctor I started taking Amphetamine Salt (aka Adderall).

I do notice a difference on and off the drug. On it I can sit and focus for long stretches of time. It is not a "miracle drug." I still struggle at times with getting started on a task. It won't help the what do I work on first problem. But once that decision has been made I can sit and flat grind through stuff. I don't normally take it on the weekends.

The neuro eval was good to help me better understand my brain and why I do certain things and so it helps me know what to work on. I recommend getting it. Think of it like any other diagnostic tool that a Dr. has (ekg, colonoscopy, etc..) - it just gives you more information on your body.
Hey, it worked with robots.txt all this time :D
Personally I love Kubernetes, it makes life simpler for developers, it super charges your scalability and lowers your cost. That being said almost every company I have ever worked at loves to set up servers and ignore them until they pretty much start on fire, including in the cloud. Kubernetes does not jive with this mentality at all. Its not a set and forget service, even in the cloud. It requires some maintenance, the more custom your solution the more maintenance it will require.

I would never recommend setting up a custom self managed Kubernetes solution for almost any situation. The number of times its actually needed is rare, and if you don't already have a good Kubernetes maintenance culture then it doesn't matter because you cant support it. Use one of the cloud solutions.
To me the bigger issue with the movie was that it pretended that Love is a fundamental force in the universe at the level of gravity, electromagnetism etc...
This was a psychological boost for me to read, after reading how coffee affects grey matter just a week ago:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210216100137.h...
What is the point of articles like this?

They are so disingenuous, pretending a faux-surprise that innovation has to work against immense resistance in the workplace (and life in general). You have to be hopelessly naive and indoctrinated by ivory tower institutionalism to be surprised at the way real life works.

The next time you are on a management course which asks 'How do you foster innovation in the workplace?' or 'Do you see yourself as a rebel?' just write the obligatory guff and think of how you, the boss and your mates can have a few beers and work out how to shut down Bob, Sue or Jo because 'He / she's bright, sure, but his / her people skills could use a bit of work.'
// "get in shape" for job interviews. That's just not reasonable to expect of anyone, let alone those with families or other responsibilities.

and

// Once you've buffed up, you're prepared for most major tech interviews.

and

// has poor predictive power.

If "acquiring skill X" is broadly valuable (as you're saying in this case) then your ability to work on acquiring it is predictive of your success.
The Computer Misuse Act [0] makes it an offence to commit "unauthorised access to computer material". Obviously Google thinks they can get away with it, but it's an entirely reasonable question. I'm not saying what they are doing is illegal, but their approach to tax hardly demonstrates good-faith approach to the law.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act_1990
What’s really surprising is that a stranger on the internet is an authority on my childhood and family. What else can you tell me?
Would be cheaper if MS-13 just became organic certified and paid taxes. Why doesn’t Starbucks walk them through an IPO?
> P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable.

I wonder if that's why even on a gaming desktop USBs default to "turn off power to preserve battery" which made my keyboard stutter, and I had to turn off this setting from Device Manager.
Yq: Mastering YAML Processing in Command Line
> I also consider software as a form of art (which we can debate if you feel)

I've never thought of it this way, but I think I agree. Nonetheless, can you please explain this idea more? Its an interesting view.
I vote for the ban and suggest France24 instead.
It's perfectly in line with all of the other Google policies which are thinly disguised versions of "we want your data and if you don't give it to us, we'll punish you."
... it's not the case in the US ? Wtf
Microgravity might leave astronauts emotionally impaired
Well -- working hard may be your only chance at a better life. You certainly won't have one by not working at all.
I've been largely acting the same way my whole life. I never really got into social media, it mostly felt creepy to me, though I admittedly have been using twitter more lately.

That being said, I've seen friends and family become radicalized from social media. I think there is a nuance that people miss, radicalized doesn't just mean storming the capital or antifa, it also means jumping down someone's throat when they don't want to engage in your favorite content. This isn't just about politics, there are the conspiracy people, the UFO people, the spirituality people, etc. It really just seems like everyone is so energized towards making you the other if you're not in their subgroup.

The really dark thing about this is that I find myself not caring about things that are pretty important because it's filled with extreme people yelling at each other. I actually deleted a recent example that I was going to put in this post because I don't want anyone to pick up a pitchfork.
It doesn't need disrupted, it needs to be criminalized. The application of capitalism in circumstances where the alternative is illness and/or death is tantamount to extortion.
I think I'm getting old. In my memory, Windows 10 is still "the new thing" that released not so long ago :-]

I still use 7, because of inertia and it's hard to change something that "just works" (read: I know its shortcomings by heart so I don't even need to think about how to avoid them), and also it accumulates years of fine tunings, configurations, and personalization.

Also I bought a laptop that "already" came with 10, and oh boy it didn't do a good job of convincing me to upgrade my main computer.
By that definition, IP addresses are also public information. It’s not about the SSID or IP itself, it’s about it being connected to an individual.
Ivermectin isn't an antiviral drug, so why should we give it any more focus than the positive effects of exercise, diet, prayer or anything else?
I had to look this up to check if it was sarcasm or not.

Apparently it's not, and `_optout` for Windows is real. FML.

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1005235/wi-fi-opt-out-micros...
First, the anticipated loss in the case of that 0.1% scenario is infinite: you die. A rational person would do anything possible to lower the probability of that happening.

Well, compared to 0.93% chance of dying in a motor vehicle crash[1] the same rational person would do anything possible to avoid motor vehicles. Based on the percentages in the article my chance of catching covid and dying from it is 0.003%, so I'm not gonna take the vaccine.

On a side note I am not surprised to read that the author of the article is a "biotech entrepreneur".

[1] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
i cancelled my prime subscription yesterday after finally getting frustrated enough by so much of what i've bought/wanted to buy on amazon being clearly fraudulent in one way or another. forget free shipping, i want products that work, and which actually are what they are advertised as. i've wasted too much time munging through reviews to try to figure out if a good product was stealthily replaced with a dud, if manufacturing standards dropped significantly, if the seller was paying for positive reviews, not to mention time/effort wasted on returns and discovering that the products i got were in fact blatantly counterfeit/defective.

yall probably know rule 34, but I'm pretty sure there should be another rule of the internet: "if a product exists, it will be counterfeited on amazon". just try taking a look at how many people on the amazon sellers forum have their businesses/brands seriously harmed by the myriad of counterfeiters on amazon.

i also recommend this write-up for more perspective on the extent and nature of fraud on e-commerce platforms: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/20_0124...
ICLR 2021 Keynote: “Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML”
A fully anonymous society is also a pipe dream. It doesn't work.

You already provide your name and phone number and email to Twitter. You already identify yourself. We're talking about making that exchange more reliable and more secure...
Finished software has lots of nice properties. What this article gets wrong is that it elevates a situational property of certain software to an imperative. Like so much praise of Unix, it's fetishized.

To be finished, software has to exist in a specific context, for a circumscribed purpose. But some software is inherently open-ended, because the question of how we should work is open-ended. The way we work has changed over the past decades, and the software that supports that work has also changed. IDEs aren't finished, and neither is Emacs. Compilers might have a stable interface, but their internals aren't ever finished (you can artificially freeze the optimizations you do, but you're not done, you're giving up).

Even for the cases the article starts with, I have my doubts. Is grep finished, or is it stagnant? The wow feature of ripgrep is performance, but it also provides new functionality (like ag before it).[0] Grep is finished, but the cludge of pipelines and copied shell snippets that people attach to it aren't. Eventually someone says "instead of find xargs blah, let's write a tool." Finished software makes a decision about shunting the complexity elsewhere.

[0] Amusingly enough, I don't use ripgrep or ff or many other new tools, because I am a creature of habit. But they look like something I _should_ use.
> Let's say you need to search for age > 19 and less than 30 for a person with the name of Jane or John.

I’m pretty sure you can do that. You can create an IDBIndex that covers multiple fields, then narrow down the search using key ranges. Though, even with key ranges, narrowing down results based on multiple independent ranges requires some manual work:

https://gist.github.com/inexorabletash/704e9688f99ac12dd336

But at least algorithmically speaking, that’s roughly the same thing that a database natively supporting such queries would be doing, so the big-O performance should be the same. Though I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s slower in practice.
How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
The hospitals and the insurance companies do not want this to happen. Some politicians may want this to happen but others don't so the regulations are not forcing this to happen.

It isn't something that software can fix.
Honestly, I don't think that from what I have seen it is an either / or situation at all.

It is stressful, which doesn't help, bit there are many stressful situations across all walks of life which can be stressful for extended periods of time.

Basically, I think we are agreed it is a problem worth addressing. I don't think we agree that addressing food insecurity will necessarily translate into better attitudes towards doing well in school.
Yeah, I'm on some facebook reMarkable groups and it's stunning how many people bought it without watching a single video from manufacturer. They though browser, video, dropbox/google drive/others will be available, or that it will integrate with their decade worth of notes from various services...

Those tablet e-ink devices does some of that. reMarkable is just a notepad with very simple cloud sync to their cloud.
That's OK. But if I work from home, that means you're not paying rent for my office anymore. Where should I send the bill?
The rM1 I think has the capability to solder in a socket but it is not clear to me that the rM2 is similarly modifiable. The low storage and the lack of support for external storage via the usb-c port really make things unnecessarily complicated. There is a rm2-pogo project that hopes to use the built-in pogo pins to add support for external accessories such as keyboard and storage but it is still in progress

I haven't checked out the remarkable-syncthing solution you mentioned in a different comment but it seems like a good idea.
We've also encountered that problem in some cases. Stacked PR are difficult to manage. We could potentially have multiple PR into a single channel to make communication easier abroad stacked PR.

To this date we don't have access to the code and it's easier for companies to try us this way. So not sure we will go too much into details on this topic.

Stacked PR shouldn't exist, or at least rarely. We plan to introduce analytics and we think that too many stacked PR should be a warning that something is not right.
That is what made the "Uncharted" series of Playstation games so good because it reminded me of Indy.
Maybe those born into positions of wealth believe the former, and those not believe in the latter - Hence each believing whatever benefits their ego.

Maybe not hearing of the former opinion is due to its unpopularity - there are more people not born into wealth after all; This means you are less likely to meet a wealthy person (or be a wealthy person if this increases likelihood of meeting one), and if you did, they would be less likely to tell you of their perspective.
My girlfriend got a remarkable 2 and is really, really happy with it. We are both computer-science master students and beside the remarkable she uses an older laptop. Of course it's expensive, but if you are doing a lot of handwriting or annotating pdfs it's might be worth it. She spends most of her day using the remarkable, not her laptop. She also started using it to organise her day, it just works as good as any physical planner. There's something pleasant about writing per hand and they really nailed writing.

It probably is important that we both don't really code that much, it's only a smaller part of our studies.
It detracts from the purpose of the article to capitalize Black and not White when referring to folks' race. Why trust someone who writes in a racist way about racism? I'm all for capitalizing, but if we do it, we ought to do it all the way, or it's a racist writing style. There's no justification to subtly belittle folks for their race. Nobody chose their parents.
The new cold war is here. The narratives everywhere are starting to change in support of it, and I wager that the rhetoric is going to continue to escalate.

Suddenly "lab leak" isn't racist and isn't implausible.

Biden is going to go cozy up with Putin, which was at one time unthinkable.

Reddit and other social media has drastically shifted tone. Patriotic voices are upvoted, positive opinions on China downvoted.

Supply chains are moving (especially semiconductor supply chains and critical components).

One of the things I'm surprised by: Thinkpads are getting criticism. I was looking to buy a new one the other day and there was hostility in the forums over China.

On the other side of the ocean, Chinese propaganda has heated up too. Yesterday state media supposedly published an image of the G7 as The Last Supper.

Those UFO drones are probably either China or the US.

Where will we be in five years? Is this going to continue escalating into more than just words?
The original poster is in therapy, so presumably there is something going on that he or she is unhappy with.
Now if only people started practicing what they preach we would see a massive shift in the labor market and fast. Alas it rarely works out that way.

The dominating protestant/north European ethic on work worked well when people mostly had their own business to take care of(e.g. a homestead) but obviously makes little to no sense in a time when we mostly have people working by the hour for someone else.
I get your point but I recently bought a RPI with 8GB RAM. Although it is in no way comparable to a modern Celeron or Pentium, SBC's are already to the point where they can sufficiently be used for web browsing.
Network hose: Managing uncertain network demand
Tweet with other links: https://twitter.com/mmbronstein/status/1404380398856060932

Paper (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13478.pdf

Blog post: https://towardsdatascience.com/geometric-foundations-of-deep...
> What's the point of a law against breaking and entering? A criminal will break and enter anyway!'

Laws are about justice not prevention.

Other laws are enforced without the criminals cooperation or consent. For example you stab some one, cop finds the knife with your finger prints and the victims blood case closed your off to jail.

This law would be like the cops requiring you to hand over the bloody knife and if you say no then the cops will have no evidence and little recourse but to arrest you for the lesser crime of lying to the police, not very effective.
It seems absolutely nuts to me that this case ended where it did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokeo,_Inc._v._Robins

And we're having a discussion about linkedin might possibly lose. In the spokeo case it's data that Robins said was untrue about him and Spokeo was allowed to keep sharing it - simply because he couldn't prove harm.

Which, is laughable in TODAY's political climate where harm is waking up in the morning - because of all the data sharing happening everywhere and being unable to stop it.
List your block of time outside regular employment as consulting.

Then provide a list of notable projects/clients that highlight what you completed during this time. If you don't have interesting clients/projects I would just say you consulted for various companies doing x when it comes up.

I just did this moving from consulting to a full time dev role and the various interviews were fine.

It's pretty typical for developers to do their own thing for periods of time.
The best/worst is when you've run out of ideas that make sense, so you start trying ideas that don't make sense and one of them works.
I've had all 4 issues, in my time.

I am grateful that my initial training was as an RF tech, and my first job was a tech at a microwave receiver factory. It taught me how to find really difficult problems.

After that, most software issues are a cakewalk.

The worst ones are occasional threading issues, buried inside a dependency. Sort of an "all of the above" bug.

That's one big reason that I avoid dependencies like the plague. You only have to have one or two of those, to learn religion.
They could disclose the charges and let guests decide.
The amount of depression, suicidal ideation, poor health, and excessive stress that doctoral candidates go through is staggering.
I was very, very close to accepting a doctorate program and was ultimately talked out of it by several PhD friends.

4-7 years earning ~$30,000 under the intense pressures of the academy to learn, publish, conference hop, and teach don’t sound fun, esp. when a MSc program is two years and can get you a quite satisfying career (in engineering and science).
There is a series of page sizes that steps in increments of 5 bits per width. 8k/256k/8M therefore have regular join points in the address space, the first of which is at 8G.

Does superpage management get easier when each superpage is composed of only 32x of the next size down? When I first stumbled on this idea, it seemed like it would have many more opportunities for forming intermediate-sized superpages.
Cracking the Textbook [video]
Does it have as much value? It is designed to constantly inflate while bitcoin is designed to have a hard limit on the number of coins mined.