skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the lead architect of the VMS operating system, Dave Cutler was headhunted by Microsoft in the 80s to work on their new operating system - Windows NT.

There are a LOT of similarities between VMS and NT, under the hood. From memory, the process priority and scheduling systems are (or originally were) identical.
New Isn’t Actually New
This gave me a flashback to pre-web days, when I was in a developing country as a kid, and:

- used "FTP via email"

- connected via a national call ($$) to a shell account

- used pine to copy+paste email text into local files and vice-versa

- assembled segmented files by hand, then decoded and decompressed

- all on a Mac Portable
I remember growing up in South Carolina, being handcuffed in my residence for small amounts of marijuana, coming home to find the cops in my residence because my roommate dealt small amounts of marijuana (less than a pound). We lived in a trailer and mostly smoked pot, we didn't bother anybody.

My guess is the questionable-to-doubtful justice of the War on Drugs is one of the main culprits of the issues we see with law enforcement. Personally I believe we would be better off if all drugs were legalized.
With our bootstrap theme we found we were dropping to style overrides a lot. Also, the purging support ensures that only classes we use will make it in the final css.

Those two features themselves were quite appealing.
> As always with posts about employment, the idea that there's higher demand than supply for engineers is a lie. The demand for highly experienced cheap engineers is high, the demand for junior developers is almost non existent.

Yeah I don’t think this is true. I teach undergraduate CS and our data shows (which we publish at admissions so is public) we regularly have close to 100% job placement within 6 months, with 90+% of that being CS related. I know many of the students personally and they are almost all landing good software development jobs. I think we have a good program but I hear the same from colleagues at other schools.

“Good software development jobs” of course is a relative term. CS related does not mean Amazon at >$100k, although a few achieve that.
So this article uses screenshots from weather.com, barely talks about the actual apple weather app, which just changed its data set from Weather.com, to the acquired Dark Sky.

Seems really odd, and like a possible PR fluff piece paid by IBM and Weather.com to try and convince people that the built-in weather app for iOS 15 will be somehow bad. When in fact it will have the same features as Weather.com+ for free.

Just feels wrong, and I can't entirely explain why.

Edit: Leaving the rest of this for posterity, on a second read through it seems that Apple is using weather.com as the weather app on iPados 15, which is just a confusing decision on their part.
If you want Atmos you need either headphones that support the audio, or a multichannel reciever. Which are a dime a dozen. "Crazy audiophiles" won't have one because they spent all their money on $1,000/metre audio cable, CD-colouring pens, and magic rocks to balance their turntable on.
Physicists used LIGO’s mirrors to approach a quantum limit
From the review:
"The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress."
How would they get the necessary context? What if that context is rooted in business requirements?
There is no actual weather app. This is a satirical article.
That's pretty much why I threw away the book. I wouldn't meet his criteria for treatment, but I look at how much better my life is this past year and half since my diagnosis and said ... "F this".
They are making that on their 3-4 years vesting and refreshers etc that they can't sell. So yes, in past few years some folks have been making great to really great money especially if they have a bunch of equity in various vesting stages + get a big refresh / bump on a position switch to drive retention. I wouldn't say a lot but many maybe?
"Despite recent progress, is it possible that fusion will reach efficiency where it is net positive in energy output but still too expensive to be useful"

This is very likely and expected. First we need that positive output - then we can improve and scale up .. and then it might be worth it.
It helps that those values happen to make a lot of money for people who aren’t doing all the work.
It should have been, but in my mind the disconnect between "Coca-Cola" or "Coke" and "KO" was to big to bridge. I should have just looked it up. Thank you.
Sweet, cmp::min_by_key and cmp::max_by_key have finally been stabilized. Was sorely missing this little convenience in Rust, as it helps express a particular idea more clearly and succinctly.

Also the improvement to compile times on macOS due to the change in how debug info is stored is a nice productivity boost.
Interesting idea. I love the recognition of current hiring asymmetries. Some of the practices by companies simply shouldn't be tolerated, like the recruiter ghosting, opaqueness on salary ranges, exploding offers, misleading listings or qualifications, lack of feedback, etc., and I wonder if some of these can be solved by a company like TB that facilitates the hiring market and pipelining the process.

So hiring through TripleByte would be conducted in some fixed-length time intervals (e.g. 1 month). Companies specify skills they're hiring for, interested engineers interview for the skills that TripleByte can screen for and supply a minimum salary (invisible to companies), and companies hiring that month bid starting at the min salary for the engineer with all other hiring companies.

If the market determines the hiring timeline, recruiters can't put you on hold if they're interested-but-not-sure, and can't use exploding offer tactics. It also pushes companies to be more honest about salary ranges and required skills. TripleByte would be responsible for providing feedback rather than the companies.
Hey guys,
Just to say that I made an update and the website is now a forum so everybody can talk if you want to visit it and tell me what you think I'll enjoy it.

Thanks,
I presume that given effective physical and mental immortality you'd see relatively few people hit 1,000 years simply because a lot of people would run out of meaningful things to do before then, and we don't tend to do well in that situation.

Statistically if I remember the half-life of people dying from random accidents is somewhere around 300-500 years, although presumably the level of technology required to completely cure aging would presumably make that number larger.
Note that an AppleTV -> multichannel reciever will get you what you want. You don't need either Apple headphones or even a Dolby reciever.
Most communities have regulars with a consistent angle. There's always a "no new things!" person or three on product forums.
OK, but what if the sponsor was IBM?
We saw a couple bugs that only happened in jit mode in prod builds. I’ll have to ask our dev what it was.
You can get it with the beta if Apple Music for android
I'd pay for the magical place sequel.
Yeah there’s an argument for that. I think it’d hold more weight if narrow, specific, and loosely defined duplicate questions were allowed - but they aren’t.

Questions and answers belong to the community. I think the accepted answer should too - maybe after some period of time.
"I don't think it is appropriate to demand a gift," -- I agree completely, hence the use of the term "request".

But I would suggest that rather than making the effort to hinder what may be a genuine attempt at the restoration of a relationship, we should instead seek to help people recognize that forgiveness is voluntary, and that they have every right to decline extending forgiveness if harmed.

To use your phrase, we need to make it a socially acceptable response to deny forgiveness.

Better that forgiveness be rare and sincere, than common and meaningless.
If just moving the product has this much effect it shows just how powerful brand perception is and how nuanced it can be. If you're a student of media / propaganda this is a textbook basic example of product placement and its importance.

It may seem obvious but the implications are immense. This kind of insight underpins just about every advertising campaign in some way. This is not a trivial example at all.

This is how lucative having those bottles positioned just so is to these companies. It also says a lot about how persuasive this kind of placement really is.
Maybe I’ve been unclear. Way I see it, Apple’s “spatial audio” branding really means a couple things.

1. Dolby atmos, obviously this is industry standard

2. Head tracking, where sound stays in the same direction despite movement. Introduced last year for the listed headphones, works on some video streaming services. Not supported by Apple Music yet but supposedly coming soon.

I only meant that the head tracking seems specific to apple headphones. If you still feel I’m dull please knock some sense into me.
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed seeing him do that.
Nope, fairly new account, billing added. Looks like they limit the number of projects which can have billing attached to 3 by default. So any created after that just have no billing associated, with no warning. What a Trainwreck.
What you're describing is not actually a problem with async/await. Rather, async/await places a burden of knowledge on the developer to explicitly avoid this problem. Go makes a tradeoff on overhead in exchange for removing that burden of knowledge.

Explicit cooperative multitasking absolutely can be used effectively for CPU-bound work, but it requires the developer to know how to do that, rather than relying on preemption to cover for them. It's similar to the different pros and cons of garbage collection vs. explicit memory management.
It's okay to like coke more than you hate advertising. You'll be in good company with millions of others.
Thanks for continuing to improve it. I will try it again though with your suggestion to do it independently to find the bottleneck.

In spite of the build times, we like tailwind so we’ve kept it!

It’s just that we get a lot more “you’re running out of build time” emails from Netlify these days :-)
Do people find these analogies helpful? The concepts aren't that difficult, the audience for them is already technical, and adding a cutesy abstraction about it makes it harder to understand.

The art and animation in this is great, but I feel like the author's talents are wasted on a document with no audience. Make a kids' book instead!
So Amazon avoids tax, then uses that money to "fund" energy plant that tax payer will be charged for? Am I reading this correctly?
Meh. As someone who has moved around a lot this just sounds like friend nepotism. Based on this system I’d be a garbage tier developer since I don’t have friends in high places.

I much prefer the imperfect systems that at least pretend to be fair and objective-ish.
Yes, that's where I would suggest putting it, but the reason projects don't is either because they aren't aware of it, feel it's a bit more convoluted to make sure you update where PATH is set, or that /opt is generally used for singular applications, not an extended hierarchy such as /opt/local (which is actually a truly weird name, /opt/macports/ with /opt/macports/bin, /opt/macports/lib, etc would make more sense). It makes sense to use /opt from an "application" point of view, but I think the problem is many of these package managers see themselves as more than that, and as pseudo-system components, which clouds their reasoning.

The LFS spec you linked to is actually ancient at version 0.65, the latest is 3.0 and available here[1]. It's a bit "do what you want", but it really expects the "local" part of /opt/local that MacPorts uses to be some sort of identifier for MacPorts.

That said, it's the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy, so it only applies to Apple stuff inasmuch as it's common practices for UNIXes in general. And it's not like the major Linux distros follow it fully either. They're happy to break from it where it preserves some historical layout their OS has had that they think is easier for their users/admins.

1: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html
I don't consider the time wasted because:

1 - I get real-world interview practice, and that always helps me in future interviews. Many companies ask the same or similar questions, and the more I'll be ready for them being asked again. In addition, when I'm surprised by a question I'll research it thoroughly when I get home and won't be surprised by that question again.

2 - I get a bit of an inside peek in to how the companies I interview at work. That's a privilege not afforded to many outsiders, and how some of these companies (some of which are world class) can and has helped me at other companies.

3 - A company might bring me in to interview for one position, but after the interview might determine I'm better suited for another. If I didn't interview with them they'd never know.

4 - As I interview with people I get a chance to make a good impression on them, so even if they don't wind up hiring me for that position they might want me when a different position opens up (whether at that company or another company the people I interviewed with moved to).

5 - By letting companies make the first offer I myself get a good salary survey of the minimum what all the companies I interview with are willing to pay for someone with my qualifications in that position. Of course I try to do my own research ahead of time, but getting salary numbers without getting a job offer is not always possible or reliable.

6 - If I blurt out a number first I'll it may put me at a disadvantage in the negotiation, as they'll just start the negotiation from what I say even if they would have been happy to have paid way more.
I haven't done a TUI since using curses, which is appropriately named.

I do have some scripts used by non-developers, who can do things on the command line, but only by wrote. This would be really great for that vs having to build out a web-based thing.

This looks like DOS-based UIs, but so much nicer. I just never even considered that a possibility.

It looks like it's aiming for a very usable API, I'll try to follow its progress.
Kubernetes https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber...
Yep, I'm already setting the ground work for a migration. But they were really excited about using Google Cloud, so it will be a hard sell.
If anyone wants to hear a sample of this, you can find it here:

https://www.dolby.com/technologies/dolby-atmos/

It's pretty impressive with headphones.
Not by default. You need to figure out how to connect to the network, which works great if you know how to reach other nodes - but in the small cell scenario? I don't believe they have a reliable local network discovery.
I doubt people only wanting to move to Seattle/SF/NYC is the problem. What about all the people who only look for jobs in their hometown or regional hub where there are approximately 0 jobs for software engineers? From what I’ve seen that is a much more common problem, people basically limiting their search parameters to a very small set of all open jobs, rather than looking at the three cities that have the most jobs.
On hiring side we screen folks out pretty quickly who can't discuss money.

I used to be much more relaxed about this, but if you get burned doing a few rounds of interviews and it was a waste you wise up pretty quickly - teams do not like time wasted.

I've also found that folks who can't / won't talk money - usually not great hires for a bunch of reasons.

We're happy to talk through the different positions, levels, progressions and comp ranges for them all. But you have to have a clue about what type of comp would work for you (early on in initial call or two) or it's just not worth continuing forward.
Intel CEO sees '10 good years' of chip industry growth
I halfheartedly maintain a list of interesting open source routing implementations: https://gist.github.com/systemed/be2d6bb242d2fa497b5d93dcafe...
So...

$ /usr/bin/python

WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.

Python 2.7.16 (default, Dec 21 2020, 23:00:36)
[GCC Apple LLVM 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.30.4) [+internal-os, ptrauth-isa=sign+stri on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit()

but wait, also,

$ /usr/bin/python3
Python 3.8.2 (default, Apr 8 2021, 23:19:18)
[Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit()

I think we should take the lines,

> This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
> Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
> Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.

For exactly what it says. It's included for compatibility with legacy software and should be transitioned from it to another version... the other version that's bundled with it.
I don't think the "sugar tax" has had an impact on the flavour of Coca Cola.

Its current formula in the UK contains too much sugar to apply for any sort of exemption or reduction in the soft drinks sugar levy.

The amount of sugar in Coca Cola sold in the US is similar to the UK (about 10.6g per 100ml).
Because governments are too afraid to ask for accounting books and sift through various schemes and slap back tax.
Restaurants May Finally Get Relief from Grubhub and Uber’s Automatic Sign-Ups
Almost any hormonal imbalance will lead to the symptoms you described. Also AFAIK soy and most of the other foods you listed causing low T is a myth.

You do bring up a very good point though: sometimes depression is a mental symptom of a physical problem. Bad hormones can make you hopeless, they can take enjoyment and passion out of everything, they can completely alter your thinking and personality (I know from experience).

Which is another reason to not commit suicide when you're depressed. Even if you cannot physically imagine yourself happy, seek a doctor to check if your hormones are off. And if they can't find anything, seek another doctor (there are many many things that can go wrong with your body and cause depression, one doctor won't check them all). People's lives have been changed because they found weird holistic treatments which cured their rare hormone imbalance, which caused their depression.
Copied links

- https://blog.mapbox.com/mapbox-%EF%B8%8F-valhalla-1fdda95ac4...

- https://blog.mapbox.com/valhalla-is-live-on-mapbox-d868e8d41...
Building an Audio Player with React Hooks – Ryan Finni, Jan 2021
I'd say Uniswap is interesting. That doesn't use an oracle.
Thank you! That's the critical fact that I missed!
Eh? There's quite some encapsulation in biology too. Often literally.

But yeah, subsystems don't need to be kept to a size that will fit inside a regular programmer's working memory.
Sometimes I think that immutability should have been a built in part of the web that way we wouldn't be so reliant on archivers like the Internet Archive. Someone still needs to store it, but it really shouldn't have been foisted onto one organization.
Responding to that comment with a joke is a pretty callous move.
That page 24 image was exactly where I felt the otter metaphor was perhaps being stretched to its breaking point.
I'm actually depressed, and have been for years. Working remotely in a room by myself for the last year hasn't helped.

I haven't had a real vacation (more than a week or so of time off) in years.

I have less than 2 weeks worth of PTO sick time accrued. I genuinely wish I had the option of taking 4 months of paid sick leave for mental health reasons. I'm pretty sure that would help me reset my mental state.
well written article. english speaking and writing ability in a population can also signal where I would like the to say the society is headed whether in terms of opening up or just general affairs.
also english ability is why the us software industry is so ahead of other countries e.g japan where in the case of the mp3 player they had the hardware but couldn't write could enough software to make an ipod.
n in something discussed this past week on hn, about european software - the tech hub countries e.g netherlands, sweden etc have are english proficient.
They tried to do this with twelve top teams. It would have prevented them from being relegated and to keep the cash to themselves. Lasted a day or two before the fan base rioted and 9 of the 12 teams said they were sorry. They might get fined or being whipped by their fans might be sufficient.
You do realize that
Scott Alexander
slatestarcodex
astralcodexten

are all acronyms, right?
For those who already had to work on something like this, this article is gold.
"Smart contract" has always been a bit of a misnomer. If they'd just called them "scripts" then people wouldn't complain about the lack of lawyers.
Pedigree filtering is most often myopic elitism, especially in a business context. Anecdotally, I avoided MIT and Harvard because of Boston's snow and traffic. CalTech is Pasadena: too frick'n hot. I didn't study at all for the SAT-I and aced the math section. (The SAT should be more like the JEE.) I went to an expensive, "top 50" public university where I liked the area. Also, it was more practical and rigorous academically than most Pac10s (Pac12s now) and Ivys because they had something to prove (no grade inflation at all, they don't care if you turn in homework or not, not much market for homework and tests, and proctored exams). I also didn't do a PhD because of the economic disincentive: if I put in the work and the cost, I could do an MD, JD, or PhD CS but there is no added benefit.

Most clinical doctors have social skills and crystalized intelligence from domain expertise, but aren't typically mistakable for particle physicists.

People don't necessarily require the proper sheepskins to possess fluid, crystallized, and/or other domains of intelligence AND the skills, personality, and experience relevant to excelling at a particular STEM role.

Pedigree is mostly used for social filtering and business leadership board packing, but if someone wanted to create an elite monoculture of staff, lacking in cognitive and personality diversity, by all means, go right ahead.

PS. I. Don't even get me started about a car full of CS IITians talking about the JEE and high-placers who seem normal on the way to snow country for snowboarding and gambling.

PS. II. I bombed an Apple interview for a mid-career role by being too intelligent and too maverick compared to the group of compliant, I hate to say, yuppies. It was an interview panel of about 9 people and they were just speechless. The other time I bombed an interview for being too smart was about 10 years before that when I was 20 at the old Borders bookstore in Palo Alto. Moral of the story: it's important to play dumb where appropriate because most people are relative-intelligence insecure.

PS. III. Sorry, reader, for the rambling and discontinuous thoughts. Absurd endocrine values of unknown etiology currently... doctor appointments pending. ):
If you think about it, the special case should give holders the option to withdraw the 74c of USDC without any TITAN.

Clearly the programmers didn't fully think though what would would happen if TITAN reached and got stuck at zero value.