skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if "liquidity" is any more specific than just "demand".
When I clicked on this post I was thinking of timelines like 1-2 years but 10 years is a long time to have something on the back burner. Do you really need to keep up? Do you want to have engineering as a hobby in some way?
Small functions are all right, but they're a bit more overhead than just a comment (especially if the functionality is used only in one place).
The original preprint article:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1....

The published reviewed article in PNAS:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166107/
> In a company, employees needs an incentive to work together and be constructive.

Isn't the incentive getting paid?
If `await` could be omitted, every async call would be blocking. Sometimes you don't want that. E.g. you can store a `Promise` in a variable and then `await` it later (or even just never `await` it and let it resolve/reject and ignore the result).

Since `Promise` is a value itself, and it can be passed around, you can create combinators for them (e.g. wait for all promises in a list to settle, for any promise to settle, etc.) This can only be done in userspace of promises are a value themselves, and this requires a difference between `Promise<R>` and `R`, and a way to (blockingly) turn `Promise<R>` into `R`. That way is `await`.
Narwhals have two left+right tusks, not horns. Only one is obnoxiously long, the other one is usually short.
Like an underwater unicorn
They've got a kick-ass facial horn
They're the Jedi of the sea
They stop Cthulhu eating ye
It's good but in the UK open Street maps is insufficient for hiking.

The best map app for Android is back country navigator Pro. Why? Because it allows local caching of the Bing tiles for ordnance survey maps.

I'm off to the lake District next week and have compared windy maps, organic maps, osmand, back country navigator Pro, Google maps, and several others. Only the os tiles on back country navigator will suffice (level of detail) for the peaks in the lake District.

I'd love to see something that uses the country equivalents to ordnance survey in a single global app... For hiking at least
I totally get where you're coming from.

The framework shown in the blog isn't meant to be a "step by step" guide to building product. In fact, this framework isn't even always followed in improv. And to be honest, the improv analogy isn't essential to communicate the lessons either (to build with focus etc.)

It's just a fun comparison, and I think you get a better appreciation of both crafts from it :)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkga/spacexs-satellite-int...

“The phased array assembly comprises a PCBA (printed circuit board assembly) adhered to an aluminum backplate which serves several purposes—acting as RF shielding, providing structural rigidity and, most relevantly, acting as a radiative thermal mass (heat sink) for the components on the PCBA,” Keiter said.

Heat is funneled from the circuit board to the aluminum backplate using a foam-like thermal interface material (TIM). The backplate itself resides in a weather-sealed cavity containing a small amount of air. As this backplate heats up, the air surrounding it also heats, transferring thermal energy via the plastic enclosure to the outside environment, Keiter said.

“Here's the problem: at some point, the rate at which the combined thermal energy being absorbed by Dishy's face and being dumped by the components into the backplate, the air surrounding it, and the enclosure exceeds the rate at which that that energy can be dissipated to the outside environment,” he noted.

Electrical components like resistors, capacitors, and diodes are usually rated for operation within certain temperature ranges. According to the Dishy technical specifics obtained by Starlink beta users, Dishy’s optimal operating temperature is between -22°F to 104°F. Going beyond that in either direction will trigger what Keiter called “Dishy's self-protective instincts.”

Obviously resolving issues like this is what betas are for, and Keiter sees three options Starlink could pursue before a broader commercial launch.

Engineers could change Dishy’s mechanical design to achieve better heat rejection, change the dish’s electrical components to expand its thermal operating window, or develop a feature that allows Dishy’s components to operate at reduced power to create less heat. He noted the latter two options would likely be taller orders.
That's the cold number's game. But that excludes a lot of factors which the original article is about. The moment you have internal competition, you build conflicts and distrust. The fallout on both teams may be much worse, in the long run.

Maybe you get this one project out the door, one team wins, the other one loses. Great. And then what? Half the other team quits since they didn't get that bonus and feel betrayed by management. The other half stays, but resents both management and the "winning" team. Now you reshuffle, and those guys have to work with each other. Start the game anew, with a new project? Great, now people know what's up and will play their cards accordingly. Infighting is guaranteed. That's a terrible way to manage teams. Short-term gain? Maybe. Long-term destruction? Basically guaranteed.

The "without any justification" part of your answer dismisses that that's exactly what the original article is about that we are discussing here. That alone is justification and it matches many people's experience.

I'm personally experiencing the exact opposite these days. I'm thriving on my company not doing this nonsense and we are doing fantastic!
ex-lawyer here: I can confirm it is possible to write buggy conventional contracts; I have done so on numerous occasions. I have missed the odd ',', or simlar lexical slips, in a clause. Fortunately no rockets or stablecoins crashed as a result. And yes, a judge would resolve this to the sound of mocking laughter in the courtroom.
TIG Stack: Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana on Aiven
Is KEGG open access?
It's not clear yet whether it's beyond our intelligence or not.
The API Testing Primer: Digital Acceleration Through Automation
> The wife certainly wasn't buying my unhappiness and wouldn't consider that we should go back to what we were

Probably because your wife wasn't there in the trenches like you were. You created the wealth, she just benefitted from it.

Please note that I'm not ragging on women. Children of rich families would also probably have the same attitude, regardless of gender.
Obscure? C#?

Lots of people have opinions on the language (or Microsoft themselves) and it may not be up there with C++, Java, and Javascript in terms of adoption.

However it's 20+ years old, massively used in enterprise, powers sites like StackOverflow, and is most definitely (by language rankings and surveys) a top tier ecosystem - often in the top 5.
You have to control for the demographics of typical Tesla owners (richer and older - less prone to accident if they weren't using Autopilot), as well as the type of driving that Autopilot is typically used for (tilt towards highway/freeway) when you make that comparison.
Let downvotes do not discourage you. HN is about intellectual discussion, but ufortunately, sometimes, even very insightful comments can rub some people wrong way.
"Liquid" as in "can sell easily", not "in demand".

5-dollar gigs are liquid (lots of people are willing to spend $5), but you won't make much money in total with them.

The author gives the example: suppose one makes as much money programming vs. making Korean food.

As a programmer you can be anywhere, but as a chef you depend on ingredients, the restaurant, and a physical presence near clients.
I see these possibilities

a) Russia or China or an unknown state has discovered revolutionary/significantly advanced technology that one else has - but why admit this publicly unless you are preparing public for potential conflict or need cash?

b) An unknown state actor (think billionaire James Bond villain type) has invented/discovered revolutionary technology no one has - but why admit this unless you think that by making it public you might gain further information?

c) this is a new phenomenon and they genuinely now think there are other beings visiting this planet - and that due to natural erosion of religion/secularism the population can now deal with this fact - what changed - why now?

d) this is a cover story for new US technology that they don’t want to admit to having developed, or that potentially is so revolutionary they haven’t told the existing military/industrial complex about it and they want to continue to deny it, maybe someone has information they are afraid will leak and want to discredit before it happens?

e) this is a cover story for something completely different that they want to distract from or explain away - interesting how they mention the nuclear Arsenal a lot. Also relates to Adam Curtis’s film - he claims conspiracy theories were invented to control people and ran out of control - perhaps they are worried that conspiracy theories no longer work so want to stoke the fire? Distraction from the toll of Covid? (Covid was invented by aliens?)

f) they have know about this for sometime, it’s genuine and they want to prepare people for an unknown piece of information.

G) what you see is all there is? They genuinely have no idea what’s going on but some firm indications that something is happening and now the prevailing wisdom is that government transparency is best policy?

Either way feels like we are going from film plot to film plot at the moment, two years of outbreak - now close encounters?
Thanks, I understand it, but my issue is that more and more libraries and functions are now asynchronous, so the await prefix is going to be everywhere. Maybe it should've been the other way around - when calling an asynchronous function you get the result by default, and can get the promise if you want (as it happens much less frequently):

const res1 = func1(); // async or not, wait for the result
const res2 = func2(); // async or not, wait for the result
let res3_p = promise func3(); // async function, but we want the promise
To me this sounds like more kernel, I was hoping for less or no kernel instead.

On my live machines the kernel is taking 30% CPU copying memory.

I'm waiting for userspace networking... file IO can be offset with async-to-async parallelism.
Social Class in America
Indeed as a candidate, I don't want to waste my time either.

Your clients know their budgets. Why not just be upfront about that to the candidates. Tell us your budget or reasonable expected range your client can pay. Then if (when) we find that it's well below what some other hungry companies are paying, we can save you and us time by passing.

If you know your client is paying low, then just be open about it. Something like, "Ok, this client is a bit below market (and tell the upper limit they will pay), but they have these good things to offer." If the client has no good things to offer, and the pay is low, then you're still likely to not seal the deal with a candidate no matter what. So just cut the game and get to the point.
I hate Xi but what exactly do you want the US to do other than a strongly worded proclamation?
I agree with elements of both sides here but I do think there's one important difference with function and variable names, which is that they have to match between definition and usage.

If you refactor a function or variable to do something different, often it becomes obvious at the calling/usage site that something isn't quite right any more and the name gets fixed. Just having more instances of it gives you more opportunities to realise you need to fix the name.

It's absolutely not foolproof, you can obviously still have them get out of sync. I do find it's rarer, though, personally.
It's been reported that it's the Trump management style as well. Both in business as well as among his kids as well as the WH.

(Not drawing other parallels to nazis here, please don't accuse me of that.)
What happens if a document does not deliver the data and too many things are unclear? Like too many questions appear and the while meeting is becoming unproductive?
The CCP aren't idiots. They knew the time was right to do it, because in western circles, that were a bit slow to understand the world around them, freedom was not in good graces with political leaders. It was the perfect time to tighten the grip.

The G7 was disappointing. It was all talk in my opinion, although there aren't many venues to handle a situation like Hong Kong.
Is there still something amiss in the M1 firmware?
My friend who studied biochemistry in Turku University once had this kind of poster on his wall, but it had all the pathways overlaid on a human body. When I first saw it, I studied it for the better part of an hour.

I have been trying to find an image of this poster without success. The detail level was like on these Roche posters, but the style was more like in these:

https://www.tocris.com/literature/life-science-posters
No. If it is, management has failed.

You should be paid enough just for showing up to take money off the table as a concern. If you worry about money, you will not perform at your capacity. You need to be motivated by better things, like sense of accomplishment, the joy of figuring stuff out and solving problems, teamwork, etc.

As a motivator, money is a notch above the whip, of course, but not very good in the grand scheme of things.

The book Drive is very good and discusses the latest evidence around motivation at depth. Obligatory reading for anyone in a leadership like role, in my opinion.
Are you a comedian?
I've seen a lot of these children's books about technical topics. Is there any record of an actual child reading any of them? And, as children do with good books: reading them more than once? (Excluding children in the author's family.)

I have read about 10 of these "children's books about programming" and while I enjoy them myself, I find that they lack most of the things that grab children's attention, such as repetition and visual-only sub-plots.

This is not to criticize the use of an illustrated fable as a storytelling device for adults: They're great! It's just sad that we have to frame an illustrated fable as "for children" in order for it to be accepted. I think it says something about how content dictates and narrows the expected presentation format, sometimes to the detriment of clear communication.
I never understood this line of reasoning. If you're changing a line of code you should at least look at the whole function that contains it, and update the comments according to the change.

> given they don't have to change them to meet the requirements

What are the requirements? Code review is standard practice, so I see clear code as part of the requirements.
Additionally, you have some sort of paper trail you can use in GDPR or T&C disputes.
English Electric 8switch Audio Grade Ethernet Switch
Octopuses and lobsters have feelings – include them in sentience bill, urge MPs
> In Rust, if you're actually doing any compute work, you're stalling out the async system. In Go, if you compute for a while, the scheduler will let someone else run. You can get all the CPUs working. This is well matched to writing web back ends.

For the first ten years of Go at least, it was pretty easy to stall the system as well, since the scheduler wasn't able to preempt in the middle of a hot loop[1]. This has only been fixed in 1.14 last year!

> Rust's "Async" seems to be designed for a very specific use case - a program running a very large number of network connections, most of which are waiting. If you're doing something where you need all available CPUs to get the work done, it's a bad fit.

In Rust, if you have a CPU intensive job to do, you can use threads (and as it's completely orthogonal to async, it combines well with it).

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958
Don't seek other founders, we are a boring bunch--for the most part--and too hectic. Also they will induce anxiety in you.

Online games changed my life when I was deep in/under the valley of startup desperation. I met people I could talk about non-work things. Or whom I could joke with about my job. That also helped, trying to see the funny side of the harsh life of a company founder from the outside.

That was four years ago. Company is doing better than ever these days, not particularly thanks to me. And I don't feel too lonely these days.

Another thing that worked for a friend of mine: writing fiction. He says his characters live in his mind, like he is the hardware running the world of his books, so he never feels alone. And he also gets to interact a lot with fellow writers in the real world. Fiction writers are a very different bunch than software developers, it seems, they are more concerned about people feelings and such.
HBO Max sounds like a big company (I've heard of HBO, and "Max" sounds big to me). But it is possible they are using something like Mailchimp for their mailing list and don't do it in house. I'm just guessing here - a quick look at the headers would reveal this.

And with a confusing and horrendous UI such as Mailchimp's, it's quite easy to send a test email to the "live list". VERY easy indeed.

We've done it twice now. Once to about 10,000 emails and another to almost the entire list of 800,000. Luckily the template we were testing was 95% complete and not many people noticed. It just looked like the email got truncated with gibberish at the end.
NASA was split off in 1958 and made a civilian agency, while the Chinese space programme has not, and probably never will.
Hong Kong was built from nothing by the British. Before the British arrived and settled HK, it was but an empty jungle mountains sticking of an estuary on the Ocean. By comparison, the powerhouse of southern China, Guangzhou, was plenty populated. They ceded some empty land to the brits to build a trading port some distance away.

Why would the Communist Party of China have more of a claim to this land than the brits? When HK was ceded and built, the CCP didn't even exist and wouldn't for a few more hundred years. A different power (the Qing empire) controlled the land from afar. They are from a different ethnic group (Manchurian), from modern day northern China / Russia, and have very little to do with the Cantonese people who inhabit southern China.

(I live here)
You are right, I expressed that poorly. I wanted to disagree with the GP's following assertion.

> in an unhealthy organization people can take advantage and not get back.

I interpreted it as "unhealthy competition is a result of unhealthy organisation". My take is internal competition is a big reason that results in unhealthy organisation. The point I wanted to make was if the management is not careful to snuff out competition at early stages it'll get bad and that the upper management must constantly foster co-operation, not just by talking about it but by showing it in action. For instance if leaf level workers see that there are two VPs with overlapping charters who are sort of having a rift then they will copy their behaviour.

And in your org it's clear that co-operation is being fostered, a great example is everyone having the same title. It's a terrific way to show to everyone that the management means what they say.
On a side note I would much rather see spatial audio applied to resolve the unidirectional audio mess of video-conferencing.

The ability to resolve who is saying what in simultaneous conversation is in my opinion a much bigger problem than trying to get really high resolution video during calls.
What is the point of repeating part of my comment?
I learnt and worked on how to earn money, but didn't learn and work on how to grow the money I earned.
It's the exact opposite.

If you acquire a competing company, you ideally assimilate the employee work force and integrate them into your organization. You welcome them and make them feel home from day one. At least those that you keep. There are likely a few that you let go. But it's really important not to get hard feelings in there, 2-tier engineering, internal competition. I'd quit immediately any organization that doesn't understand this.
Used the x.25 pad (telnet, for an older protocol family before internet became ubiquitous) command on the console of a vax 11/780. The pad break-back sequence to get back to the calling shell was ^P which was alas also the vax break to halt/debug command if you were on the main console. Took down the entire campus interactive logins
Seems like they could have made some different design decisions to make the input a lot more readable. Also IMHO code generation should be a last-resort anti-pattern; after all that's what you (the programmer with a brain) are for.
Sections were updated in 2019 though.
No automatic verification would flag misunderstood business logic
https://www.tesladeaths.com/miles.html

Is this looking accurate?
That'd be quite expensive. And as you manipulate prices across blocks, arbitrageurs would arb it back to "market price". Uniswap V3 allows for a 3rd party smart contract to ask its Uniswap V3 Oracle to employ a 9 day moving average price - which is of course, not very useful as a "spot price", but is super hard to manipulate.
I work at WarnerMedia, who own HBO Max, and I thought this was a test using an employee account pool. Never mind, then!
Invited a community of users to help fix bugs in software and accidentally implicitly bust the IPR of that software suite.
Timetrace: New features of the time tracking CLI
"Two is one, and one is none" is a phrase I've heard for critical survival equipment in several contexts. For example two regulators when scuba diving,
two tie-offs when securing gear to a pack,
The CCP prevented the British from enacting democratic reforms and any self-determination in Hong Kong, under the thread of military invasion. This isn't on Britain, they tried decades prior.
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL], Government Bill,
Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2021-22

Last updated: 17 June 2021 at 18:57

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2867

____

Press release

Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in domestic law. Introduction of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill as part of the Government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare

From:

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith

Published 13 May 2021

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/animals-to-be-formally-re...
Maybe 10-15 years ago it would be possible, right now all the countries you've listed are strongly depended on Chinese manufacturing. Average person in any of those countries will easily swallow restricting freedom in HK, Urguys or Christians persecution, but will be mad without next generation gadgets that are all produced in China.

It would require a really big effort to drop dependency on China, I don't think politicians and societies are ready for this.

One more thing: when it comes to relations with China there is no such a thing like EU. Every country has its own agenda and interests, every country wants to win as much as possible for themselves, right now Germany is cutting a trade deal with China and there is no less important subject for them than some HK rights.

And you are right, Taiwan is next on the list. I've read some analysis that in 6 years China will develop its army to that extent, that US will not be able to defend Taiwan.

Taiwan is buying from the US expensive planes, tanks, which would not matter that much in the future war, where a relatively cheap loitering munition or a drone can destroy very expensive tank or plane. This was good for US military industry, but from the Taiwan defense perspective that's not a smart move.
Didn't attend the hiring fair in my last year of uni, and missed the chance to become fully vested in Microsoft and like companies in the 1980s