skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Join the military; Afterward everything will seem cool as long as no one is shooting at you. Apply to DARPA or some other "skunkworks." Take a survival class; Few people know how little it actually takes to survive, but knowing you can survive with just what is in your head relieves a huge amount of stress. Go private and start a small computer business; helping others makes life seem worthwhile. Start a "hip pocket" business such as upholstering, writing, wood carving, truck farming; it gives you a fall-back skill and the physical work combined with the completely different mind-set required by that work may cure your burn-out from coding. Your third point is poorly phrased; I would say that you can't "have it your way" while working for others.
insurances cost a lot of time too. I don't think you can really avoid that, we're in a society where everybody believe that other people's time and attention are disposable.
Corporations are not required to share their income stream with investors, either directly through dividends or indirectly through buybacks. The "income stream" concept is only theoretical.
> not advisable

Unless you're NASA landing a probe on Mars in 1997.
ProServe and SAs have little-to-no on-call responsibilities, but the general workload issues and mindsets affect those teams as well. Just as an example, resource management (aka staffing) and project scoping are things that AWS Sales is absolutely fucking awful at, and are things in particular that other consulting companies have figured out decades ago, but AWS does nothing to improve the shitty staffing processes because they have essentially just thrown up their hands and think the inefficient, inaccurate, and incredibly stress-inducing process is normal.
> a system stacked against them

How is investing in stocks stacked against people?
That sounds like self-insuring but with zero control over the investments?
> "we've done research and we believe we actually do pay comparatively in this market segment".

Sounds like market fixing and likely illegal, however I can imagine poorly paid employee wouldn't be able to afford a lawsuit.
Of course, these packages are fantastic, they do help a lot for more experienced users. But for a pure beginner, there is a high risk he will give up Julia after 10s of Plots.jl compilation, way before we would hear about these.

(and tbh, even leaving a REPL open all the time works perfectly fine, since include("myscript.jl") really does reload the script, unlike the import keyword in Python)
Learn Android Studio keyboard shortcuts (Hotkeys)
Former Citadel employee, /u/dlauer — https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o28tm9/udlauers...

And here’s Dave’s interview with Superstonk: https://youtu.be/AYct0XX0uTU

—

As for “plenty” of career hedge fund traders: I’ll accept “plenty” is a bit of a meaningless word here. Given the anonymous nature of Redditors, I’ll struggle to give you any meaningful identities.

Anecdotally, however, I’ve come across quite a few who claim to be professionals, and were accompanied by some kind of reasonable evidence to back it up. /r/DDintoGME has often brought attention to these people.

There have been several professional traders providing regular updates from their corporate Bloomberg Terminals [1].

Michael Burry, famed investor from “The Big Short”, held a long position on GME [2]. I think he sold it last year, but his tweets have been very bullish about the prospect of a market crash and accompanying MOASS resulting from Wall St being overleveraged. Take this one with a pinch of salt.

Perhaps, most tellingly, there are plenty of major hedge funds — including Blackrock and Vanguard (both of which are full of career traders!) — who seem to think it’s worth holding [3].

[1] https://reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nzyh7f/14062021_gme...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/cthume/dr_michae...

[3] https://www.streetinsider.com/holdings.php?q=GME
The framing of the question in this way will always result and an answer of “you can’t say that this specific event was caused by climate change”, and in many ways asking that exact question is a way to discredit the science.

Science is based on observation of events and then making a theory that can predict likely outcomes in the future. From that perspective, the accurate question becomes “is this event consistent with what we predict the effect of climate change will be?”, and from that point of view, the answer is absolutely “YES”.
Poetry drops worse than jokes on this crowd, I enjoyed it though :)
Unfortunately, the number of work visas for US is quite limited. 65,000 a year in H-1B, high-skilled jobs (presumably what you're looking for). The category is over-subscribed every year by a factor of 3. Many employers have decided the odds are not worth it. Your odds are better, and you can work a bit (3 years) post-graduation, if you get an advanced degree in the US. There are also other categories of visas for intra-company transfer and such.

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I'm going to put one of these in my "zombie-apocalypse" go-bag.
I often think of the “performance management” regime at most companies as a kind of social engineering designed to have us forget our tremendous power. It’s too focused on the employee and what the employee needs to change, not on the employee-employer relationship, where both sides have value.

Usually it’s couched in terms of arbitrarily assigned levels/titles with status and exclusivity assigned to them. Or certain kinds of work from the employee favored over others. If you read the book Influence, you’ll recognize things like social proof and scarcity that can be used to manipulate us.

It _isolates us_ in our negotiating position with the organization. We have no idea, really, if we compare favorably or not to our peers. Hearing criticism without understanding how our contribution compares to others, how our _compensation_ compares to others puts us in an unfair negotiating position.

But at the end of the day, you don’t have to buy into that regime. If you’re competent, you can just vote with your feet and you will get another job.

The trick is to frequently exercise your power away from your employer. Write the occasional blog article, speak at a conference, or contribute to open source. You can use these as external signals to make your own decisions about your performance, and also get signal from the community about the marketability of your skills. This can come fairly directly in the form of hiring interest from other companies based on your activities.

In short, don’t wrap all your career options in your job. Keep a toe outside the company and always test those waters in case your situation at your job goes unfavorably.
This one is really driving home the scale of the solar system.
Another amazing visualization of distances is the video "Powers of Ten" that goes to the largest and smallest distances. It was filmed in 1977 already but that only adds to its charme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
> You end up seeing many pigs getting electrocuted. ...

Hey, at least those farmers are getting some free bacon out of the deal. Must be worth the risks once you take that into account.
I had not loaded ign without blockers in years. That was painful.
Go live in Singapore if you don’t value individual freedom of choice.
Rhizome: A Ruby JIT Written in Ruby
Here's a few of my favorite readers. If I don't enjoy a book, it's never because of them. And they're good enough that they're never on some of the self-published audiobooks coming through Amazon's ACX program. (don't get me wrong: there's some good stuff there, it's just hit or miss both on writer quality & narrator quality) meaning you'll often find them outside of the Amazon ecosystem as well, if you get audiobooks from somewhere other than audible.

Anyway, here they are. All very different styles, but all very good:

John Lee

William Dufris

Stefan Rudnicki

Scott Brick

In fact, if you enjoy scifi/fantasy, The Psalms of Isaak by Ken Scholes has a full cast with all of the above except for John Lee. (John Less

That series is a very thoughtful set of books, not easily placed into a nice category of high/low fantasy & doesn't romanticize feudalism societies with royalty, lords, etc being the only notable characters. That always annoys me about some types of fantasy: Taking a style of government that is brutal & freedom crushing for 99.99% of the population & focus on the lucky few who where fancy clothes and go to feasts, with a token peasant as "the chosen one".
Can someone explain how Julia MT got a super-linear improvement in performance by using 4 cores + HT vs 1 core?

Fortran’s MT performance is more along the lines of what I would expect.
https://www.universetoday.com/15311/how-far-is-saturn-from-e...

> For the sake of simplicity, Saturn is 1.2 billion km, roughly 7 AU, from the Earth when the two are at their closest approach to one another. They are 1.67 billion km, around 11 AU, from each other when they are at their most distant. Saturn and Earth are the closest to each other when they are on the same side of the Sun and at similar points in their orbits. The are the most distant when on opposite sides of the Sun.
Would you have to prove only that the test discriminates, or also that it was intended to discriminate? The latter sounds nearly impossible.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments (like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27572603) and specifically not cross into personal attack? We ban accounts that do those things, and we've had to ask you more than once not to.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
Small warning for Europeans: here Lupine is a introduced species that displaces endemic plants. It probably should be removed if it's growing in your lands.
I almost always start with a few of the first eulers problems, followed by flappy bird and/or a sudoku solver, and then a super simple interpreter
> The insurer must earn enough income from investing the deposits to cover losses and operating expenses for the model to be economically viable

The above is a quote from the Wikipedia article. I suspect that with interest rates at an all time low, the environment is not exactly ripe for this kind of insurance model.
It's a cool idea, but seems super sci-fi. Might need some wonder materials to make it feasible, even then that would be a really big crumple zone. Or flubber. Another crazy idea: latch on to the planet from the side, like a skateboarder hitching a ride by hanging on to a truck. Again, wonder materials required.
On the off-chance that someone reading this is also interested in algorithmic composition:
https://michael-edwards.org/sc/index.html
https://michael-edwards.org/sc/liner.html
“slippery chicken is an open-source Common Lisp environment for declarative or generative algorithmic composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, MusicXML and Lilypond for score, sound file, and/or MIDI file outputs and the integration of these into closely aligned hybrid acoustic-electronic pieces of music.”
…made by (the extremely awesome) Michael Edwards:
https://michael-edwards.org/
yeah, exactly my thinking. Insurers would just go bust.
Wait another 5-6 years, and everyone will want pure electric cars. ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars will drop in value faster than ever.
> Brave [does not] send any data to advertisers.

What about Brave itself? Brave Ads offers a lot of IAB advertising categories for sale to advertisers. If everything is pushed to the client and happens on the client, how does Brave Ads even know which IAB categories might be missing (and not exactly for sale in its network)? How would an advertiser know if/when an ad was even served?

The model still relies on assessing the folks that install Brave to know what you have to sell, and advertisers at least feeling like they are getting value from that advertising, most want some kind of measurable result. It would seem that some information is flowing back to Brave to allow for attribution and payments. Why do I trust anyone to hold this information? How can I know what happens to this information in the future? I can probably be deanonymized from Brave data.
http://levels.fyi is a great reference for converting between levels at different companies. Cuts through a lot of the bullshit recruiters and HR will try to sell you.
I got bored with trying to find an analytical boost, but I benchmarked a couple IMO super readable python versions (basically what's in my original comment after making the (100+i)i change):

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ABrZJlm8pwB6_Sd6ayO...

On my macbook, using XLA's jit in python gave about a 12-15x speedup on CPU over OP's solution, which was pretty cool, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to install and benchmark Julia on my machine. Applying a 12-15x speedup would at least beat the Julia MT solution in OP, and you've got to admit `exp(CONST * sqrt(A**2 + A.T**2))` is a pretty clean way to do it.

Then I ran on whatever GPU colab decided to give me (a P100), and for just adding a decorator, it's a 1000x-1900x speedup (better as n goes up). Hence my current honeymoon period with jax. I love the speed vs readability tradeoff.
It's an actual concern for you. For Apple it's a variant on planned obsolescence. ;-)

Note though that memory use metrics on MacOS can been a misleading. Make sure that you're seeing what's actually there.
Hello, hello, nice to hear that - I'll make sure to look through your comment history later!
Comments like “good luck!”, “me too”, and “hi James” will get downvoted because they don’t contribute to the conversation
The article mentions this (but it is easily missed): while current chips are 64 bits, in practice the memory addressing is only 48 bits, with plans to extend it to 57 bits for server products [1]. Taking this into account, there's a clear slowdown in the growth of the number of bits: 7 years from 16 to 32, then 18 years for anther 16 bits (32 to 48), and now ~18 more years for just 9 more bits. Seems like exponential slowdown, which makes sense given that the size of memory is an exponent of the number of bits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging
The Yugo was based on the design of the Fiat 127. I owned several of these including a 127 Sport that had a massive 70 HP. It doesn't sound like much but it was a huge amount of fun to drive.
The post said "I think a better argument is to look at history" and then left out 12 years of history. x86_64 was on the trailing edge of that history.
Yeah, that's fair. I guess I read your comment as saying that julia isn't a good replacement for Python, rather than it takes a tiny bit of learning when you're coming from other languages.

I think the way we talk about julia sometimes makes Python and Matlab programmers think they can just take some of their old code and copy paste it into julia, switch around some keywords and have everything be faster. It's important to emphasize to these people that it's a different language with its own idioms that need to be learned.
Its paywalled but you would think that the world wide covid epidemic might have an effect.

Consumer behavior has been very different in the last 18 months.

Not that I don't think quality improvements over he last two to three decades wont have an impact
Does any system marketed as a "supercomputer" with exabytes of memory actually allow unified addressing of the RAM? My understanding is that they are used through interfaces such as MPI which doesn't work that way.
This. I really don't understand why people both buy their products knowing what iOS allows them to do and what not, then still complain.

Don't like iPhone/iOS? Don't buy it, go and buy Android. Simple as that.
Well, they no longer need to think about hard disks, but there are a lot assumptions from the world of hard disks that play out very differently in the SSD world.
Single currency without internal transfers will be hard to pull-off. Euro has a fudged internal transfer, and when that couldn't keep up in the aftermath of the Great Recession, it almost unraveled.
Cue, Avi Loeb insisting this is a follow-up to Uomuamua...
You have to set a delay in your profile settings.
Can anyone comment on the significance of this accomplishment, and why it was hard to achieve before?

I (naively, apparently) assumed this had been possible with open-source toolchains for a long time.
but what's the point?
That's pretty cool. It's wildly counterintuitive, but if it weren't the case, the planets would be orbited by lots of captured asteroids and debris, instead of/in addition to being covered in craters. The only explanation for why that doesn't happen is that it can't happen.
Yep, they are semivolatile limited write memory modules, not disks. Everyone should use that SV-LWMM acronym.
That's a completely different goal post now though from saying the industry is based on not paying people. The majority of film roles, even outside of VFX, has no equity. Equity is the exception not the norm.

Other VFX studios like Imageworks have been doing pretty well without equity.

I don't believe Weta or ILM get any equity in their projects though. At least, the majority of their projects are work for hire.

Either way, this is a another jump from the initial statement that the VFX industry is based on not paying people.
im not sure what a good analogy might be... a gallery displaying a replica of some famous painting but deciding that part of it needs to be brightened up? i think most people would find that really odd
AFAIK many launches are timed to make the flight shorter. Although not on 1 in 175 years, but shorter windows.
We should have policies to make the poor less poor.
> I prefer older vehicles without all the safety stuff

> I don't see airbags and things like that as necessary features.

Those points contradict this one:

> My wife and my kids drive them so they have to [...] be safe
If we let some people have their way, we'll have an Electron app for each widget on your screen.
If the earthquake was so big then coming up with the cash needed for the deductible would be at the bottom of my list. Instead I would try to find an alternative place to live for 6-12 months. If there was an insurance that covers living and mortgage expenses for an year, I would totally buy that.
...and all that cruft, and the logic to try to make handling of it not so bad, makes for a lot of complexity and unintended consequences.
I "repaired" a car that was worth 600€ because without a repair nobody would be willing to buy it for its true value. I'm pretty sure value of the car (to me) exceeds 600€ + the cost of repair now.

Your calculation is silly and so many people fall into this trap. If you want to calculate whether a repair is worth it you have to either calculate cost per mile or cost per month. If a repair costs 1000€ and buying a new car would get you 200€ monthly payments and the repaired car survives 5 months then you just broke even and every month after that is profit. Your new car is never going to make you a profit.

The only thing you lost is the opportunity cost of not driving a new car.

When people say "where the cost of the repair exceeds the value of the vehicle." what they really mean is that they want a new car and there is nothing wrong with that but it is absolutely not cheaper than maintaining the old car a little bit longer.
NY times I can get behind.
Business insider is like citing the national enquirer.
Fantastic summary. Thanks.
This is oversimplification.

One reality is more like "You are handed a system with a heavy on-call load. Make it better."

The other is "The system you built was great with 1e9 load, but now we're heading for 1e12 load. Make it better."
I work 4 very intense days, including evenings, then prefer to disconnect over 3 days.

To me this is a better WFH model. It’s hard for me to “disconnect” and just walk away from the laptop for a few hours in the evening. So I’m like, why fight it? Just go all in on work 4 days (still total 40 hrs). Then begin to slack off on Fridays and begin to disconnect. Eventually going “all in” on disconnection over the weekend.
Is there a list of the 1486 packages in the minimal ISO?
Had my daughter make a scaled model of the solar system, radius of 1km: https://youtu.be/-fPm5mj0Bhg
Was it Amazon US or Amazon India?
But that's normal. On any OS you shouldn't be replacing OS files and instead you should be prepending to PATH.
Let’s just blow the moon up and give rise to 7 new genetically engineered races, man-fishes, and dwarves.
When somebody is clearly in crisis, we stop sprerging for a moment and offer empathy and support.
It’s called being a human.
Just to note, I believe Terry Wahls has been arguing a version of this for at least a decade (https://www.amazon.com/Minding-Mitochondria-2nd-progressive-...) and has written a diet (the Wahls Protocol) directed towards mitochondrial health.

I've been interested in her ideas ever since close family contracted an autoimmune disease.
Oh, I'm sure of it. I want to live comfortable life, not survive.
IMHO that's the down side of Amazon's customer obsession. As long as it works for the customer, nothing will change. Regardless of internal benefits. And that system quite obviously works.

Disclaimer: Former logistics Amazonian.
> And honestly, is having to type 12 characters such a burden for the exceptional case of a password reset? I don't think so.

If those "engineers" need minimum of 26 characters 1-time use passwords that can only be used one time to feel secure, I don't trust those engineers (unless they allow me to copy and paste it).

A one-time-use 6 digit password that can only be tried once is pretty damn secure if it is random.
I’d suggest to view this super interesting presentation dir open source music https://youtu.be/dRM7wkMBSHY

Trackers might seem nostalgic, or as a quirky alternative. But they are also a forgotten was of dealing with musical pieces as a whole: everything a Musical piece is including notation, sound, performance and editability of all the parts and their whole.
Russia, China reveal moon base roadmap but no plans for astronaut trips yet
What are the 8 healthful ways to manage your weight?
8 basic measures to reset your wellbeing insurance and weight, irrespective of your own "diet"
As per the latest meta study of June 6, for over on whole year, 549 authors in 60 conclusive studies published on medRxiv, Nature, Wiley (basically the usual medical research forums) during the last year => free and shared, as you asked.

Malone, Weinstein, Kory and al. were banned for two videos made one and two weeks ago talking among other this of this meta study.

That's hardly spreading disinformation, or am I wrong somehow ?

Several point of comparison :

Improvements with Ivermetcin were 76% for early treatment, 46% for late treatments, 85% for Prophylaxis for a 70% average over almost 19K patients. Ivermetcin was forbiden for Covid use in several western countries, and it's distribution forbidden to retail pharmacists (Switzerland is one).

Budesonide and Remdesivir were authorized with respectively averages of 17% and 31% improvement only over 3.5K patients, and it's use promoted everywhere as the miracle drug.

Dr. Raoult's initial HCQ announcement in early February was for 22 cases - very anecdotal and ridiculously insufficient. Later on, by the end of 2020 the hospital he's directing covering the southern third of France had treated 40K+ cases, with broadly similar results. We still hear the same "HCQ was debunked", somehow, and HCQ is still forbiden for Covid use in several countries.
I have actively avoided FAANG and been realistic.

> The vast, vast majority of paid software job interviews don't involve ANY algorithm whiteboarding or online test-taking.

Not my experience in the least.

Good luck in your ivory tower, and piss off.