skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's redundancy in modern climbing ropes too. The part that does most of the support is the core. The sheath surrounds and protects the core, but is plenty strong on its own. If the sheath is cut through, the rope won't fail. Even if the core (which is composed of 10-30 strands each capable of supporting your weight) is partially cut through, the rope still won't fail. Of course, you are expected to inspect your rope regularly, and retire it if the core is exposed at all, or if there are signs of core damage.

The reason for retiring a rope when the core is exposed is not because it won't hold your weight, it's because there's no longer as much redundancy.

Climbing ropes (almost) never fail. There have been very, very, few accidents caused by this. You're more likely to get hit in the head by a falling rock while standing near a rock structure (something that non-climbers regularly do without thinking twice), than for the climbing rope to fail

I just looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_structural_fa... and saw that there have been 2 recorded cases of airplane wing failure in the last 20 years.

There are probably more 'climbs' where a climber trusts the rope to hold their weight on descent in a single day than there are flights in a year, so I think the integrity of a regularly inspected climbing rope is the least of your concerns

(for some additional anecdata, in a 2 hour session at my climbing gym, I might participate in 10 climbs and witness 500)
> Plugging it into other devices via usb

You've never plugged your phone into your computer before? If so, I doubt it could cause more harm to do it again unless you haven't done it since your device was infected. You're just mentally aware of it now, but how long has it been there and how many devices have you plugged your phone into since then, even just to charge? If you never plug your phone into another device, it's moot, but I suspect most people do at sometime or another. "Hey, can I plug my phone in real quick to charge a bit" type stuff. Airdrop is good for quick, small files, but I'm not going to be transferring multiple gigabytes of 4k video via wifi speeds that way.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

(I've not done this as such, but I'm a technical writing consultant and the way you get more money from clients is similar.)
People have been talking about photonics for decades. Is photonics actually well-suited to deep learning? Or is this just another "new thing is happening, time to remind people of the old thing that keeps never happening" take?
Then dont comment about things in which you are entirely uninformed, anonymous poster.
> To sneak" is an old verb which was regularized in Middle English along with the rest. Sneak, sneaked. For about ~500 years things could only have sneaked. Then in the late 19th century in America we start hearing "snuck" as the past tense. That's now standard in my dialect and is creeping back into UK English, even. It's irresistible sometimes.

Have you seen the Conan vs Jennifer Garner chestnut on this very debate: https://youtu.be/DTLU06IlPVo?t=190
My experience has been different. The backgrounds of the best engineers that I’ve worked with has been extremely varied: CS, History, Physics, Economics, Psychology, EE, etc..

However, one of the most frustrating colleagues has been a former Chemical Engineer. In 15 years, he has only implemented new technologies when absolutely forced to by people higher in org chart, even when the need is beyond obvious. He fought against 64-bit computing, hypervisor virtualization, automated config management, privileged account management, SaaS apps, and IaaS cloud platforms.

So, I don’t think that you can determine whether someone is a good engineer solely based on their background. I just try to stay away from the people who want to change everything and the people who want to change nothing.
(disclosure: i work on gcp)
i asked this question to one of the people in my orientation and he said that if you don't believe what they say, one real thing they're doing is hiring bunches of new people to work on gcp. also, gcp runs on the same underlying infrastructure as the rest of google, so were i to guess just keeping it running would be relatively cheap.
yup, similar the 2008 financial crisis, the biggest losers of the Covid crisis and its recovery are the untalented, whose jobs are pay little and are replaceable and interchangeable like cogs. And the biggest winners, similar again to the post-2008 recovery, are the talented, whose wages exceed inflation and whose contributions are valued and are harder to replace.

Some tech jobs may feel like a dead-end, but better than low-paying and dead-end retail/service jobs.
https://archive.is/uwfnc
I’d like to see more of ruthful.
We're technically in a new bull market now.
It's a factual argument. Our civilization has been peaking in agricultural productivity decade after decade for 200 years. Your hypothetical argument is not statistically likely. Sure, on a long enough time frame some natural disaster will occur that causes a crisis, but the fundamental mechanics of photosynthesis and ag science aren't going anywhere.
> average joe != nutritionally ignorant

The CDC begs to differ: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
Detecting the Duchess: Serious Doper
“Can god create a paradox so mind bending even he gets confused?”
I’m not bicycling in 20 degrees Fahrenheit to shop for a family of 4, bags strapped to a bike. And there’s no public transportation. I think I’ma pretty regular American consumer. So I should feel guilty about this according to you?
The Canadian tech sector has completely changed over the past 5 years (which is when I first came to Canada). When I first got here, $100k+ salaries were rare unless you were very senior or at a select few companies. I am now looking for a job in Toronto after working for a FAANG for a few years and often see companies offering over $200k for mid-level positions. However I will say that level.fyi is a little unrepresentative because it's mainly people with impressive TCs posting on there.
If it’s 1000 times less than paper/wood then hell yeah
If you design your network on a TPU, you will tend to use operators that work well on a TPU. And in the end you will have a network that works best on the TPU.

Lather rinse repeat for any other architecture. You can even make a network that runs best on Graphcore that way, but it won't be fun to do it. You might even get Graphcore to pay top dollar for it though as they both need some good publicity and they have lots of VC left to squander.

This also tends to be true of video games where the platform on which they were developed is the best place to play them rather than their many ports.
He got lucky; as I mentioned in another comment [1], which links to more details on what happened, he was quickly rehired in a different role. But for a short time before then, he went through everything that comes with unfairly losing a job. And again, it might not have ended so well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028099
Aren't law enforcement immune from FOIA requests?
Proprioception
Yes, it does.

I'm not sure who my favorite broadcaster is supposed to be, I don't live in Australia. Maybe Alan Jones? He seems controversial but I've never listened to him.
I would think the OS, the hardware, the payments, the reviews, the App Store, etc.?

I think the 30% cut is ridiculous but it's a give and take for both companies.
That would be an entirely separate issue related to licensing (which historically led to the creation of GNU and free software foundation BTW).
> I can be sure that they won't inject ads into my HTML pages.

But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason. I also sometimes run into Cloudflare's "this website is using a protection service" with no way around; it turns out it's a geoblock because it does load just fine when I use a VPN through Germany.

The internet was meant to be decentralized. The IP addresses were meant to be used for routing and for routing only, and otherwise treated equally.
What kind of a fairy tale is this -- 400, 500, 800k?

I make ~110k, and I have no hobbies but code + contribute to a variety of OSS projects in my freetime.

What sort of software do you have to be writing besides magic money printing machines for it to be worth that amount of money?
Yes it is a waste of anyone's time if they are going to ignore the science or cherry pick irrelevant studies.
The only explanation I saw was that C++ standards guys were horrified by the idea of unpredictable side effects as a result of initialization of a struct.

I think C++ though is adding them.

What I'd like in c is designated function parameters.

// these the same
bar(.a = 10, .b = 12);
bar(.b = 12, .a = 10);
For architectures where unaligned accesses are illegal, gcc will generate multiple load/store instructions when accessing packed struct fields by name. The main caveat to look out for is taking the address of a packed struct member and then dereferencing it.
> re-used as household trash bags

But that’s a one-time reuse for something that’s not going to biodegrade when it ends up in the ocean or landfill
I always liked this 8 minute explanation of the proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRl5W-whTs
> I can be sure that they won't inject ads into my HTML pages. I can be sure that their DNS will not replace NXDOMAIN with fake ad responses. I can be sure that they won't log my VPN traffic trying to extract passwords or something like that.

But they have built the perfect shim in the middle to do ALL of these things at some point in the future.

The only thing preventing it is a handful of moral executives, who someday will move on or retire. At that point a smart Wall Street type is going to figure out that a merger between CloudFlare and $adnetwork is going to generate a shit ton of money (think Google+DoubleClick).

I don't doubt that CloudFlare is full of smart well meaning people, but what they have built is a ticking timebomb. The solution is to have ten CloudFlares so that the path between consumers and websites isn't regulated by a single organization.

Edit: to be clear, the internet was successful because any host could talk to any other host. If people did dumb shit you could work around it in creative ways. Even in the most oppressive countries censorship is still bypassable. CloudFlare's business model is centered around convincing companies to effectively disconnect their services from the internet so they only talk to CF servers.
Experience and reputation play a big part in this too. As your colleagues branch off to other opportunities they’ll bring your name up when the new company is looking to fill a role. At this point you’re being contacted by VP’s or Directors to gauge your interest.
> What sort of software do you have to be writing besides magic money printing machines for it to be worth that amount of money?

My understanding is that you have to get into FAANG or be in certain roles at certain HFT firms. I’m also pretty sure these are TC numbers are large chunks of those numbers are stock options.
That might get you a recruiter call, but it's not at all helpful in actually getting the job.

Best thing is to build a solid LinkedIn profile. I've had multiple FAANG recruiters reach out in the past based on my LinkedIn profile, but my own applications have never received attention.
That's how nature have dealt with trash for as long as earth has existed.

Landfills are "holes in the ground", I won't deny it. But a lot is happening in these holes, will all sorts of microorganisms breaking down stuff. Well managed landfills try to minimise impact to the environment with that knowledge.

In an oversimplified way, our landfills are putting oil back where it came from. Recycling and incineration are good too, but so are well managed landfills. It all depends on the situation/materials/...
> work to become less lazy, without punishing it

But to laziness, work is punishment.
You always want to pick your risks with care, sure. I didn't say that earlier in so many words because I assume it doesn't need saying, but if it does, now it has been.

If where you are is stable, you can expect it to stay that way through a crash, and you're at least confident of being able to come out of it when things settle
down again not looking like you've been standing still, maybe don't make a move at all.

But if you're already thinking of doing that, it's not wise to assume you have unbounded time in which to act, or that said bounds are as broad as they ordinarily would be.
Even setting aside the importance of principles, every spoon OP doesn't use is a spoon that doesn't end up in a landfill.
> I don't have to worry about what my grandma downloaded from the internet for her iPhone

Yet you're ironically responding about an article telling how to find if your iPhone has been infected with Pegasus, one of the worst most obtrusive security vulnerabilities you can have, period.
"Butt in seat" mentality doesn't scale since it ruin morale.
Is DDOS such a frequent occurrence that you would be down "constantly"?
What Improves the Chances of Solving a Murder?
But of course, a conspiracy theory involving hundreds of thousands doctors makes perfect sense, right? :-D
I’ve used Linux desktop for 3-4 years now. Love it. Only use windows when a program only runs in windows, which is maybe every other week? Usually graphics intensive programs
Basic thermodynamics doesn't prevent you from cooling something reversibly.

That said plenty of the steps involved here are likely not 100% efficient, and I'm somewhat unsure where they're recovering the energy involved in the gas-liquid phase-transition, if at all.
So I'm a recent computer science grad from Germany with some side projects. Nothing spectacular. I haven't actually graduated yet because I fell sick just before my last exam, so I had to reschedule it to some time later this month.

It's been a few years since I've been on the "I'm gonna move to the US after graduating and become a techbro" train. So I'm not up to date on the latest H1-B regulations etc. Does this mean it might be easier for foreign workers to find a job as well?

I don't want to stay in the computer science industries and have made plans to go to uni again for something entirely different, so I'm mostly just looking for a job for a year or two max, until then.
> Plant based and vegan eating are almost entirely the land of privileged people.

You are making way too many wrong assumptions about why these people don't eat plant based diets. There's modern industrial society making meat cheap, ignorance about healthy diets, and the false impression that plant based diets are not cheap.

You can buy legumes, whole grains, and vegetables in bulk, which would give you a full nutritional profile, and there's no way this is diet would be too expensive for underprivileged.
Schwa
The main thing would be scoping and funding projects. Basecamp is a good example: they organize their projects in six-week increments, scoping them so that they are achievable in that time frame. Most companies fund and scope on much longer time frames where they commit upfront to delivering something, frequently without understanding the actual complexity involved.
Meanwhile we got guys like this defending the leetcode regime

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1420960218469388290
Look at remote jobs boards and filter by contract or keywords lime "agency"
I am not qualified enough to answer for NT and BSD (I only can note they appear very stable nowadays).

But XNU is not much better than Linux. It has a schizophrenic soul with its BSD and Mach duality for everything. It is bogged down by Apple's never-ending "security" lock down efforts. It has no equivalent of "jails/containers". And, again, it is practically unusable for anything that is not created by Apple and is not extendable now that they are phasing out kexts.

I think a very interesting recent effort in kernel architecture innovation is Fuchsia.
I was not literally diagnosed with PTSD and I apologize. It is not my intention to belittle actual PTSD like you have experienced. A better description is probably "burned out" and I'll change it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS
> A small company TBH would not adopt this kind of browser

At $10 per month per user, that's dependent on whether one decision-maker in that small company can be swayed by Cloudflare's marketing, right?
ChromeOS is basically desktop Android
I don't agree with that. I think it's pretty clearly about preference.
On non retina displays, MacOSX really is blurry, and my preference is clear lines, preferbly without antialiasing, an certainly without subpixel AA.
I think pre cleartype Windows, Classic MacOS, or X11 with bitmap fonts looked the best, but was not flexible enough for modern requirements.
A friend of mine had job offer with a 24-hour deadline on hand. A past colleague of ours gave him a referral at his company, and he received an offer with ~80% higher TC an hour later after a quick phone screen. Happened in Norway.
Is that a serious question?

The effort to build into iOS the APIs needed for Epic's games. The effort to document those APIs and host developer conferences where actual iOS devs give instruction on how to use them. Do you see any first-party iOS games that look anything like what Epic sells? I sure don't.
I'm an engineer, not an economist. So the best I guess I can say to that is, I hope it's true, and that it means what it sounds like it does.
I have a few non-tech friends who have installed Ubuntu themselves and never looked back.

It does everything they need to do, and it doesn't bit-rot like Windows. Anyone who just uses their computer for web browsing, playing music, and other simple stuff just doesn't need any more, and that's been true for at least a decade.
> I’ve stagnated sharply skills wise

I'm sorry, but what does this even mean?

Nothing has changed in a significant way since 1996, other than ops per second and memory bandwidth. If you're an old school C programmer who knows how pointer arithmetic and memory allocation works, you're better than 99% of the total trash new-school Node.js/Django/Rails/React developers who think JSX is some sort of "innovation".

Having "stagnated" is definitely a hiring plus. It means you're less likely to slow down my systems with eight quadrillion layers of dynamic dispatch and abstraction, and you're not going to agitate for infecting my systems with Kubernetes specifically because I now need to orchestrate ten times more production machines to run the ensuing inefficient bloatware.

I can't imagine anyone being more highly sought after than a "stagnating" programmer.
Try nextdoor. I have found that people are often so eager to get rid of things that I need that I can get them for free.
disagree. in times of peril, the states consider themselves part of the nation.
Are you sure they're not biodegradable "plastic" forks?

That's what my Trader Joe's uses. I believe they're made out of cornstarch.
It should never end up in the ocean, and nothing really biodegrades in landfill, especially not paper.
Apple is now an antifragile company
Anyone have anymore current figures on this?
Why is AWS more profitable than Google Cloud?
You seem pretty caught up in your own emotions on this topic and are missing my point entirely. These stories and ideas still came from human minds, and that's the part that interests me even if I think the claims are fraudulent.
I am, yes. But this was not the case when I played WoW 15 years ago. I mean, I knew that I was playing on a server, and of course they are tracking everything on a server. But for some reason this steganography in the screenshots just gets under my skin.

With current games I go in with the assumption that I'm in a public place, and act accordingly. But back then I really counted on my Personal Computer being personal, so this feels like a breach of trust.
Ubiquiti PtP and PtMP Comparison Charts
Turkey is a Muslim country. The strict separation of religion and state was introduced by Ataturk and is reversed by Erdogan.

While being a Muslim country is not necessary something bad, it seems to go not well along with an industrialized open society:

http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/monsters-ii/

I just came back from a short visit to Turkey and some strange, random impressions gave me big doubts.
I thought I had it in February. I finally got around to paying $25 for finger prick blood test at local pharmacy. I tested with the antibodies. I am glad I know.
The reference is at the bottom of this, author probably forgot to fix it when cutting and pasting from Mathworld (yes, it's the same Gardner)

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BettiNumber.html
There are job postings for mobile app/game developer positions requiring x years of designing slot machine casino games as a prerequisite. Calculated addiction and whale hunting is a major part of the economy right now
source: just google it
There are cool people with the seemingly uncanny ability to predict fashion, but it's a bit of a trick. They do something that's different and can be monetized, and the industry grabs on to that and tries to push it as The Next Big Thing, through advertising, magazine contacts and social media influencers. Meanwhile, the production lines are running full-tilt so they can have the clothes in stores for when the right level of desire/FOMO has been built up.

At that point, the cutting edge fashionable people are already on to the next thing, and the cycle continues.

Since it's impossible for ordinary people without industry contacts to be ahead of the curve, do you try to follow the fashion trends, knowing that you'll always be at least a half step behind?

Or do you stick with tried and true stalwarts, such as slim-to-regular cut dark denim jeans, Oxford shirts, sports jackets and so on, never being super fashionable, but also certainly not sartorially hopeless?

Trends are almost always pushed or at least encouraged by financial interests.
Android is not desktop Linux either.
And here is proof that it is personal preference. I hate the font rendering on macOS and think Windows is clearly better. I even think the font rendering on modern Linux distributions is superior to that on macOS.
>I donate to the state troopers every year

Wait, what? ...are they not tax-funded? Forgive me, it's your money, but are underfunded state troopers such a problem that there's nowhere else you'd rather put your charity?
I think just the opposite: the best time to pounce on them with salary expectations is as late as possible, after they've already invested the interview time on you and seen you excel.
Even in FAANG I have a hard time understanding how any developer is worth that amount of money though.

I know a solid number of FAANG and ex-FAANG devs -- the stuff they work on (from what I've heard) isn't much different from the sorts of software I assume most people in SaaS startups work on. Outside of scale (which is significant). A lot of it is internal tooling though, which never hits absurd amounts of scale.

I do know that there are x100 devs at FAANG that put out the groundbreaking projects that change landscapes -- but that's generally these well-known outlier developers for which there are a tiny handful in the world.

HFT and quants I understand, that's money-printing business, FAANG I don't. But also, I've never worked or applied at FAANG, so I can't really form a valid opinion I suppose.
Discrimination absolutely does not require an active effort. Neglect is just as effective at keeping people out.

In any case Cloudflare's inaccessibility is a direct result of choices they "actively" made. Technical decisions, prioritization, maybe even company culture.
This was the right article at the right time.

Trying to get hired but having a hard time enjoying the little dance I have to do to pass 5/7 steps interviews, dealing with hierarchies, schedules set by others, etc.

I should focus on my projects, scale my profitable SaaS and get more passive income streams.
> Why people are still using and promoting Cloudflare

I use Cloudflare because it hosts my website for free.