skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never really understood what variations of the rejoinder “you are not the target user” are intended to accomplish, at least in conversations like this.

When discussing things like product strategy it makes some (more than a little) sense. But in a conversation about personal preference, what do you expect the reader to take away from it? “Oh okay, sorry, I didn’t realize I wasn’t meant to like this. I guess my opinion’s invalid.”

Who cares who the average user is, when someone is saying something doesn’t appeal to them? Is the sentiment some kind of scolding for not liking it? I sincerely don’t understand.
I have a similar problem where I play Disney music/movie music in the car when I drive my kid to school. Every time I have to go find "private mode" deep in the settings. Typically I just forget. I am primarily a discover weekly and release radar user, so it's definitely frustrating. They have basically done almost nothing positive for users in years in terms of UX. They tried to git rid of dislike, but brought it back because it ruins those suggestion playlists, when you can't hide awful songs.
> You probably print a lot if an ink cartridge service is cost effective for you.

I did the math and showed my work. $0.04/page over the last 5 years.
I wonder if we would "foolishness" would be a better translation than "stupidity"? Foolishness as in a lack of wisdom.
I would say that this binding of identity with opinions is the outstanding feature of the "stupidest" and most destructive people I know.
While I agree with this and I am seriously irritated at the current populistic, anti-democratic government and people who vote for them not seeing the damage that is being done, I fail to see the connection with discussion about guns.

If anything if an undemocratic country like Poland can make streets safer than the supposed paragon of democracy, it should be even more argument against unrestricted availability of firearms. Unless you are of the opinion that these deaths are somehow necessary for democracy.
Fuck Mars, all those asteroids are going to be way more valuable for Earth. Getting to them needs the same exact industry.
What's the compensation range for senior devs your company wanted to hire?
Someone always has to come with this particular middle-brow dismissal whenever anything subjective gets posted to HN. Not that I think this is the most brilliant article, but like most things in general-purpose high-level software engineering management, the ideas presented are not quantifiable or specific enough to be tractable for rigorous scientific exploration, you just have to consider them within the framework of your own expertise and experience. Trying to force a data-driven approach on top chaotic human systems where the inputs and outputs themselves are vague and subjective is a quick path to the McNamara Fallacy and other management theory quackery.
Why do you say heat pumps only work in well insulated houses with large radiators? Heat pumps are ~3x as efficient as the best gas furnaces so why would you need a better insulated house?

Also, the problem with hydrogen is how do you produce it? Probably with renewable energy, right? So why would you waste all that energy converting from renewable electricity to hydrogen then burning hydrogen (which is not super efficient anyway)? Might as well just use the renewables to power your heat pump. Plus, heat pumps already work at scale whereas hydrogen needs a lot more work before it's ready for primetime.
You're right, I forgot about the 3 holes you need to drill. Thanks for the correction.
And/or you provide better incentives for people to stick around. Without getting into the specifics, the dynamics are that many companies assume that people are going to move on in a few years anyway so there's no real point in investing in existing employees so existing employees do indeed move on in a couple years.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Spotify used to have explicit upvote and downvote buttons like 5 years ago?

I assume they decided they could infer the same metrics from users skipping tracks for example
In certain countries having a specific flag come up on your reddit feed is dangerous. So NSFW applies to things like that too. I agree with your opinion on how reddit deals with NSFW issues.
You’re speaking as if you work beside me and have a clue about anything in the music industry. There’s a reason Spotify doesn’t but uses to have dislike buttons more accessible. I’m not sure why you are disagreeing with me but there’s no need to speak down to someone because of different perspective. I have real world data and work in recommenders I’m not sure what your background is.
Sarcasm and belittlement are a terrible way to engage in conversation. You seem more interested in aggrandizing yourself than to actually make a point or bring some food for thought.
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somewhat ironic, since this is the kind of political topic (political philopsophy) that a curious mind should gravitate toward rather than the popularity contests and tribal rhetoric we're otherwise awash in.

with that said, i do see liberalism as having 'jumped the shark' so to speak, and become too much of a virtue totem, rather than a sociopolitical model worth examining and critiquing.
It's missing a few commands, like git-jolt-ancestor[1] and git-shout-revision[2].

[1] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#am9sdCQkYW5jZXN...

[2] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#c2hvdXQkJHJldml...
Genuinely unable to tell if this is continuing the joke or an entirely serious but misguided comment.
17" LG Gram with 40 gigs pf RAM...
Super light and with lots of screen real state to read a lot of code... plus xmonad to manage all that screen.
I purchased a refurb Mac Mini M1 to try it out, and it has quickly became my primary machine. I haven’t owned a desktop in easily 10 years, but now I’m hooked.

Given this fact, I’m now re-thinking whether or not I need my 16” MBP. I love the portability of the Air and 13” Pro, but the screens just don’t feel adequate enough when viewing windows side by side. So maybe a 14” MBP is in my future?
The Defensible Space Theory
Do you have any cites for
that?

I’m not aware of any that even attempt to hold software engineers to any sort of Professional Engineer standard, or have a mechanism that one could actually comply if they did.

I do know of some areas where a PE is required for some software engineers, like some nuke or aerospace shops, but they’re very very few in number - and the PE isn’t about the software part of it.
PIC16?
I do a lot of low-level stuff by choice. Early in my career, I fell into web development because I got a job offer from a friend, and I found myself writing for loops and various SQL queries. On a good day, I got to write a regex. Hell, these days, you hardly need for loops in javascript because they're hidden by frameworks. It was boring as all get-out, so I got out of the industry, went to university and learned a whole lot about programming. I try not to be elitist about it; I think it's important to acknowledge that a ton of people in the industry have a radically different perspective on the nature of programming.
> Why nobody hires junior developers

There are some companies out there that hire junior developers. I know because I was one of them.

After a few days, you will find out the hard way why no senior developer wanted to work for your brand new employer.
Could this make a more performant PRNG for generative models, random simulations, etc?
> need to be prepared for a really boring mentally taxing grind that's going to take years.

Isn't this most jobs these days?
Does the higher enrichment make them somehow easier to build, or safer?

If not, my point stands, I’m not suggesting to copy the designs, rather that mass produced reactors can be viable.
I remember stumbling upon this man's story during a hard time in my life.

I understand.

I'm more sympathetic towards assisted suicide now.

It's mercy.

> My personality was something I spent years creating. Along with my mind and body, it was part of my life’s work. It’s true that I accomplished a good number of things, but my greatest accomplishment was myself. It was the thing I put all of my heart into and wanted to share with the world and now it’s imprisoned inside of me. When people tell me I just have to find a different way to express it, I want to SCREAM!! Do you know Joseph Merrick, the “elephant man”? One of his doctors said the saddest thing about him was that he could not form expressions with his face. He could not smile. I expressed myself with my body! I showed joy with my body! I was a fighter and a wrestler, a streaker and skinny-dipper. I was a runner, a jumper, an expert weight-lifter, and yoga master! An adventurer! A thrower of axes and a hefter of logs. A fisherman who wrangled with sharks and octopi. A wearer of giant pumpkins! I was so much fun! A hearty embracer of friends. A climber of trees and of mountains. I loved to throw big rocks! To dig and build and move heavy things around. I was so strong! I loved to play with children! I would catch my cousins in my arms, all three at once, and run them in circles, or bear them proudly around on my shoulders.

> I am Horowitz with no fingers. Phiddipides with no legs, Shakespeare with no pen. Michelangelo with no chisel or paintbrush. I am not what I am.
This especially sucks because the CS Academia track is much less diverse than outside of it: Coding bootcamps, self-taught, etc. have all the diverse candidates companies claim they're looking for and I can guarantee those folks are hungrier and want it more than most college grads.
>Existence had a beginning, it was formed by something, that thing didn’t need to be formed by anything

Energy can not be created out of nothing so something had to exist before "existence". My assumption is that every universe collapses and then new universe emerges through something like Big Bang.
Rockets also drop parts as they fly - see what's happened in China with their inland launches.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/01/04/photos-long-march-rock...
Have you ever used a trackpoint-style pointing device from anyone other than IBM or Lenovo and had it be any good?

I think the current Lenovo trackpoints aren't as good as the IBM devices used to be in the late 1990s. I assume they were sacrificed on the same altar as the keyboards.

But the ones I've used from Dell, Toshiba and HP were so aggressively terrible I'd rather just carry around an external mouse.

So I like the idea of a framework with a trackpoint-style pointer, but I am afraid it's likely to be awful.
I strongly believe that capability based systems like this are the only way out of the security abyss we inhabit, and are also a required step if we ever want to stop losing the war on general purpose computing.

All of that said, I can't see a path forward to using this as a daily driver for myself. I'm not versed enough in C and Linux systems to deal with the complexity. It keeps getting closer, I can feel that happening... one day, for me, I expect it to click, and then I'll be onboard.
Respectfully, I couldn’t disagree more. I’m not referring to the traditional call center “is it plugged in?” Tech support.

I mean working as a “support engineer” for a start-up SaaS company whose users can be fairly technical themselves. For example, working on the support team of a B2B SaaS company who makes a tool for IT teams.

These types of roles can be filled by just about anyone, and there is so much to learn just by being around the environment. Lots of things we (people already in tech) take for granted is just how much one can learn by being around devs, sales, success, QA, devops, etc teams on a daily basis.
Happy phi day ^_^
The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like
Review: InkBox Semi-Permanent Tattoos
You... do realize lobbyists are paid, right?

> Tell me how you you would word a law that makes it illegal for corporations, groups of people, to lobby without making it illegal for individuals

Eh, sure: corporations are legal entities with things like tax filings, budgets, and bank accounts. If any of that money is spent on influencing legislators, the corporation is dissolved, and all of its assests siezed.
I haven’t owned an Android phone in a long while; but, back when I did, the phones I liked, the ones with very long battery lives, were not rootable and I couldn’t replace the OS.

Has that changed or can you replace the OS in all phones, now?
For a junior, "unrelated" work experience all counts IMHO. You can't ding some just starting out in a first role because they haven't already had a job other than flipping burgers.

At least someone with unrelated experience has shown that they have some experience of holding down a job and the responsibility that goes with it, and can apply themselves doing something mindless if they have to (most intern or junior candidates I interview these days all want to solve cancer with machine learning on day 1 in their role - someone without a real-world reality-check who has only done a series of silver-spoon elite internships might get disgruntled when they are given the shit work as a junior)

Likewise some people cannot afford internships - they need to get paying work to pay bills and can't have the luxury of doing unpaid/expenses-only/etc work, or have other reasons like care responsibilities etc.

With respect, please check your biases and give people a chance.

</manager at a BigCo that also rejects huge numbers of applicants>
I'm sorry your sister went through this, and that I unintentionally picked at your emotional scab. My PoV is that of a customer, and Brother is relatively less customer-hostile.
The fact that neurons on top of each other have similar firing properties is very interesting, and is indeed a uniform organizing principle of the cortex. Calling this “minicolumns” is very misleading because it implies some level of horizontal organizational structure. That is not a universal organizational principle of the brain—it exists in certain areas, in certain species. It’s an accident of history that a lot of the early neuroscience in mammals was done in primary visual cortex in macaques and primary sensory cortex of rats and mice, which do work like this (though at very different spatial scales). This led to the hypothesis of the “cortical column” as a universal, intermediate level of structure in the cortex, but when you look at other areas they just don’t work like that. However this idea is so attractive that it just won’t die.

Meanwhile, cortical column fans (including neuroscientists!) engage in a motte-and-bailey argument, where the bailey is “the cortex is divided into columns that represent an intermediate level of modularity” and the motte is “neurons on top of each other usually have similar firing properties”.
Ghost CEO lectures locked out customer about empathy
Linearity is actually relative to the algebra you are using. Xor is not linear in real arithmetic but it is in GF(2). This is useful because some of the algorithms work across many algebras, and are useful for different problems. Eg, the tropical algebra.

But you are quite correct about the AI winter.
May I recommend my previous employer; who likes to hire infant developers, teach them a framework and sell their "services" for piles of cash.
Silicon Valley has the first-mover advantage in social networks and pretty much all other sectors in IT technology. Competitors in Europe only exist because of niches, sometimes created by regulation and mostly by cultural differences. However, the (mostly) laissez-faire approach to access to information makes it difficult to put constraints on social networks. China managed to do so thanks to their Great Firewall. The GDPR is too little, too late, and the public is too used now to scatter factoids about their private lives on the internet.
Better way to build measure learn
For anyone not sure, here is the proof.

https://godbolt.org/z/4zhWM9hTP
On top of that, if you listen to a wide range of genres the attempt to shoehorn your history into 6 Daily Mixes yields some comical results. Like Doobie Brothers followed by Nirvana.

Give me a home screen with 12 or more Daily Mixes that segment my listening behavior at a finer resolution, and I'd be a lot happier with the service.

I understand why all the other playlists exist, but I generally have an idea of exactly what I'm trying to listen to, so these low effort curated playlists are pretty useless for my listening style.
Pixel Fall Launch landing page
Macbooks are easily the flimsiest devices I own if not for the display alone. I've dropped a Thinkpad out of a moving vehicle, and it booted up like nothing happened. My Macbook tumbled 2 feet onto a concrete floor and now the $600 topcase is destroyed...
If she had changed her Google password it would have the same effect, because the access token would have been revoked. Are you saying that would also be deletion?

Perhaps you don't understand litigation? Apple will get discovery, and the court will order Google to supply the files, and revision history, which they will do.
It sounds like the explore / exploit trade off as seen in a multi-armed bandit problem.

Also, a known source of randomness (that you add yourself or already occurring) is pretty important for determining causality.
USC to apologize for WWII actions that derailed Japanese American students
What countries are these you keep referring to?
Instead of gatekeeping off what we each consider a developer to be, let’s relate it back to the article. The problem for bootcamp grads is that at the FAANG level (the companies with money and motivation to train juniors) they only hire juniors who interned at FAANG. They only recruit interns from universities. So if you just got out of a 12 week bootcamp, going to be hard to compete with a 4 year degree (or graduate) + 3 months work at a real company. Even outside the FAANG level, there are thousands of new grads with degrees and work experience applying for entry level jobs.
Lua uses "chained scatter" (linked list, but links point to other entries in the same table, to maintain locality): https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/ltable.c

This is a good visual depiction of chained scatter: https://book.huihoo.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-with-...

Inspired by Lua, I did the same for upb (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/upb). I recently benchmarked upb's table vs SwissTable for a string-keyed table and found upb was faster in both insert and lookup (in insert upb is beating SwissTable by 2x).

It's true that the links do create more memory overhead though.
> nationalism

Tribal is my best guess at his meaning, but ingroup is related, or perhaps partisanship when applied to American politics. Nationalism feels incorrect, especially when he chooses examples of beliefs that are against their own nation (skip to the heading “negative nationalism”), or examples that are not much to do with nationality (political Catholicism, Antisemitism, Pacifism).

Another theme is blind loyalty (authority figures) versus freethinking. As a geek I try to avoid succumbing to geek groupthink, although HN doesn’t always help that goal.
Hear hear.

I'd add, "from Apple".
Here's just one of the few reviews lambasting the new 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBysG9ap3E
The clustering can still happen with any walk. The dumb walk is the best, but it is the most prone to clustering if the hash is simplistic. But if the hash is pseudo-random, it's as likely to get clusters as any other walk, and has better locality.
anything you can do at home sucks for photos. drugstore prints too. you can't expect inkjet pigments to last very long.

if you want a decent photo print that won't deteriorate, projection onto real silver or archival color process is the way to go.
Completely agree! I think C99 is the ultimate version of C, newer standards should be about defining previously undefined behavior and removing deprecated stuff that should not be used like gets and variable length arrays.
I hoped to explain how to apply more robust scientific processes to lean software development principles.
What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes
I've never used Spotify or any other recommendation service. Music is like food: it's far too important too substitute with junk. I won't eat Subway, I won't listen to auto-generated recommendations. I browse (and support) rateyourmusic.com, I use the last.fm API (to find out what my neighbors are listening to) and I listen to music for free on YouTube before I buy it. I also heavily use tags on my purchased music so I can easily put together a playlist matching my mood.
For new grads in recent times, TCS and the like can be a great career starter if you can settle for the job not being glamorous, having to move where they put you, and high variability in career development depending on what you get put on (possibly paid to do nothing at all for stretches of time, which are on you to do something productive with or not). Good beginning pay for a fresh grad and high job security. Not even sure how relevant having to move is anymore with so much more being remote.
What's the systemic issue that keeps doing wealth gatekeeping?

It crops up over and over. If X is a path to upper-middle class or above, it's almost inevitable that filters and gates are put in to place that primarily work to ensure it's available only to children of the upper-middle class or above.

There's nothing inherently within most software development that makes it out of reach of being treated like a technical skill like electricians, carpentry, or plumbing.

Personally, I suspect it's more to do with "cultural fit" issues than skill issues. College is a great filter to find people who self-select and are trained to fit into the global corporate world.

Unfortunately, the side effect of this is concentrating wealth into the hands of people whom already have significant wealth and advantages. Efforts to counteract this (like the GI Bill, and college loans) have tended to have additional expensive barriers to weed out people deemed a "bad fit". For example, requiring more advanced degrees or hard to get internships (that may even be unpaid!).
Also a surprisingly non-trivial number of FAANG engineers can’t operate without the world class tooling and technical leadership support they get inside those companies.
Are you buying them in droves? Shiploads?
Or they want a gas well because super heavy and starship engines burn METHANE for fuel.
Stand it on the cut edge and cover it with a thin dish towel.
Ask HN: Strange Google Link Behavior in iOS?
So I searched for site on Google, for a couple reasons, I’d rather not disclose the specific site, but it’s been up for years and is typically the first result when you search the sites name.

I’ve been to this site many times, but today, something odd started happening. If I search the site in Google, the correct site is indeed the first result.

The problem is when I clicked this link, it sends me to a different URL, one that gives me spammy vibes. At first I wondered if the site was hijacked. It has never supported HTTPS, so I figured maybe they just got hacked. But strangely, and hour or so ago, I didn’t have this issue.

The part where it gets strange is when I browse the URL directly, I get the correct page, not the spam site. Also, if I long press the google result link and wait for the Safari preview, it shows the right site, as does opening in a new tab. I hopped over to my PC, searched for the site and clicked the link, and it all looks good there.

I can’t even begin to imagine what going on. Maybe some strange UA/referrer/etc. hack, but this has only been observed about an hour ago.
Still... 260 employees is not a lot. And most companies outsource customer support these days. Especially if it's 24/7.
Yes, I read it. if they are able to make the investment they can work on the implementation themselves instead of waiting for someone else to take it up. They are the most likely to benefit from it.
Funny how this is one of these things one probably won’t understand as a junior but first gets clear when turning into a senior