skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a really interesting article, but it also points to a different answer. Instead of shipping low-value raw specialty soybeans to Asia where they will be transformed into a high-value product, they should be creating the high-value product in North Dakota and exporting that. If it is valuable enough, you could even ship it by air and skip the cargo ships altogether.
Can you elaborate beyond your one word? I’m assuming you’re referring to their ETF offerings, which are designed to match their respective market (minus fees) which means they are designed to not beat their benchmarks
I think it’s interesting that the good things about working there had nothing to do with the employer and the bad things had everything to do with the employer.

Indeed, this line is the takeaway, in my opinion: “…is because we've been at least a little brainwashed into thinking a job at Google is the pinnacle of employment.”

I haven’t worked for one so this take might be quite hot, but I get the sense that big tech companies do a great job selling you on the idea that they’re elite and therefore you must be elite too if you get the job. But then you’re really just another fungible developer in a pool of tens of thousands. There’s exceptions of course.
Not at all Tragedy of the Commons.

In 40 days (one round trip from US to China), the system clogs and the boats can't go running off because they can't unload at all (happening now). At this point the system stabilizes. Sure, it's not a stable point that the shipping companies want, but it is stable.

Capitalism has a way to deal with this. It's called "rising prices". However, business managers have gotten far too used to never suffering any consequences for their decisions. The moment actual responsibility comes down the pipe they all start whining and running home to Daddy (the government) for help.

Let the ships sit. When the shipping companies lose more money with a sitting ship that can't be unloaded than they gained racing back without empty containers, it will correct.
"living separately is about 28 percent more expensive than living together"

Only if everybody in the household is in paid employment.

Ask a sole breadwinner if living alone is 28 percent more expensive...
The question you have to always ask -

How many people have they seen with simular test results every year?

Push for a number.

If they cant give you a number then change the doc/institute till you get a number who can back it up with case files. If they have no clue about the numbers, then you can safely assume they dont know what outcomes are possible.

On a 35 year old house you can detect all kinds of issues every year, as testing equipment gets sophisticated and fine grained. That has nothing to do with whether the house needs repair everytime something is detected.

If they do have data, ask for outcomes. Again ask for specific numbers. No wishy washy bullshit. Keep pushing for specifics untill you have been referred to docs who have worked on similar cases.
That's actually abysmal considering how much the TAM will be growing in the next few years. Their stock price today reflects how abysmal this news is.
Only 52% gross margins? Oh, poor Intel. Boohoo.

I guess that's "poor" for the board members. But, since the new CEO is an engineer, I have high hopes for Intel. I've always liked Intel, and I think they finally realize that they need to invest more and push more to compete against AMD.

Gonna be interesting to see what comes out over the next several years.
Oh I get it, I actually think it's a well written/funny joke. I'm just disappointed whenever Bitcoin/crypto comes up on HN that the top comments are usually very shallow critiques of it. It feels like often a lot of people are rallying around a really low effort comment just because it reaffirms their beliefs. Which in general describes social media :), but I usually expect more out of HN discussions.
Consider yourself lucky, soon they will be charging for pop ups
If I wanted something I wrote to last as long as possible. I would learn how to make diamond and etch it into that.

I don't know if that is even possible. But that is my plan.
Agreed, I enjoy the results regardless of the origin!
I think that changed about 15 years ago.
There is this https://github.com/basti564/Oculess

Haven't tried it myself, and it has some caveats, but it does make it possible to use the Quest 2 without Facebook.
The worst part is that Firefox is the only viable Chromium alternative in the market right now, and -as noted- they are rapidly going downhill.

The Chromium monopoly is terrible. Google dropped the `alert()` function from cross-origin iframes starting Chromium 92, which broke a lot of websites like codepen.io. I couldn't see anything in the spec that suggested this change.

I have a bad feeling that this will end up something like the Internet Explorer monopoly back in the mid-2000s.

> Is it possible that some company with deep pockets forks Firefox and hires what it's left from its development team to further develop Firefox and improve its market share?

I totally agree with this. We need some serious competition in the browser space.
It really comes down to the people, and well, Intel doesn't have the best people today. They had a massive brain drain and those people are not coming back anytime soon considering how well their stock is doing at competing companies.
Still depends on the org. Many orgs still engineering driven. This happens when engineers are more familiar with tech and business than PM, which surprisingly is not that uncommon (GCP)
Isn’t it luck anyway? I mean, whether or not you’re born gifted. I get that it’s important to teach kids the value of hard work but these kids are getting into the gifted schools at age 4! I wouldn’t expect any 4 year old to demonstrate much in the way of study habits.
I know I'm going to catch flack for saying this, but married men rarely complain about this. They usually know they're not working as hard as their single, or otherwise less family-occupied, counterparts and as such cannot expect the same career trajectory. It's a trade-off and usually a conscious one.
permanent.org has a model for blob storage that I really like and think could equally be applied to web hosting: instead of paying monthly for the service you pay a bit more up front just one time and this is put into a nonprofit endowment which is used to fund the storage costs. It may not last for 500 years, but it seems more likely to last quite a bit longer than your basic web host.
We already seem to be going to hieroglyphics, except that it’s with emoji and has dialects depending on where and by whom its used. I’ve seen adults unable to understand the emoji lingo that teens used to communicate a lot of things, and this developed in the span of a decade (or lesser) with the widespread availability of emojis. I can only shudder to think of how complex and divergent things from now would seem even 50 years from now.
I am one of those hard money people. The work secures the network. In order to alter the ledger, you need to reverse not just one block, but every block after it, means you would have to redo the work for every single block. All the while, the rest of the network keep working along the real chain, mining new blocks. The work makes it impossible to alter the chain.
> growing opposition to the high-stakes exam the city has used to evaluate 4-year-olds.

I thought this story was about the gifted program in general which I feel very different about. 4 year olds should not be taking standardized tests. They shouldn't be on different tracks. That is insanity. I actually fully support this in this limited case.
No, the price paid out to the publisher is the “keep”, and the fees google collects is the “take”. If typical ad networks charge 1%, and google charges 2-4%, you could also phrase this as a “keep rate” of 99% vs 96-98%. It would be a lot clearer to give the actual amounts rather than say “2-4x”
seems like this is most relevant video:

https://youtu.be/P4VBqTViEx4
Sure, but the tanks will be sized on the assumption the ship will be under a normal load, not completely empty.
I'm in Eastern Europe working for a US company earning just over $100k/yr. Been working for this company for 4 years now. Before that I was working as a contractor in the UK earning more, but wanted something remote and more relaxed :-)
But from a societal perspective, I'd say it's in everyone's interest to make sure the people with the most natural ability can stretch that ability as far as possible.

(This is, of course, assuming it's actually possible to determine the future potential of one 4-year-old over another, and I'm skeptical of that!)
It’s kind of incredible how fast the shine has come off of most of the FAANG companies.
Yes, it's inaccurate.

Here's what the C90 standard says:

5.1.2.2.3 Program termination

A return from the initial call to the main function is equivalent to calling the exit function with the value returned by the main function as its argument. If the main function executes a return that specifies no value, the termination status returned to the host environment is undefined.
That same new CEO was at VMware and let's just say the results were beyond underwhelming as they missed the entire move to the cloud.
"AMD and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11"
It strikes me as pure arrogance that people think they are somehow morally superior because they have the benefit of looking back. Hindsight and all that. I hope they are judged with the same unreasonable severity that they judge others.
Morgan Stanley’s robot Libor lawyers saved 50k hours of work
A middle ground that I've seen deployed is corporate node mirrors with whitelisted modules. Then individual repos can just point to the corporate repo. Same thing for jars, python packages, etc.
Gross margin of 52% of 74bln of revenue is 38.5 bln gross profit. You take out 6 bln SG&A expenses (this is about what they have been spending the last couple of years), 26.5 billion of capital expenditures and 15 billion of R&D you end up burning 9 billion dollars of cash for the year. If they actually pay their dividend, that will be another 5.5 billion for a total of about 14.5 billion dollars of cash used up. That is a very risky situation to be in. One hears about startups burning cash but not in the billions.

You have to ask Intel shareholders who have been used to a very reliable cash generating business that buys back a lot of shares, and pays nice dividends to use up 9 billion of their money in an year in the hopes that things turn around some time in the future.

I am not sure what exactly constitutes betting the farm, but they are getting into some very risky territory.
Any such expectation is unfounded. The C90 standard says:

"A return from the initial call to the main function is equivalent to calling the exit function with the value returned by the main function as its argument. If the main function executes a return that specifies no value, the termination status returned to the host environment is undefined."
I haven't read the paper, but based on your description these are really lame arguments. There is plenty of benefit/utility for holding Bitcoin, even if that doesn't apply to everyone in the world. The two biggest are the ability to store value outside the control of governments and send value anywhere in the world free of censorship. Many people don't have or a see a need for this, but that doesn't negate how immense the value is. Bitcoin provides a way to opt out of a financial system that's not serving you, and that is an incredibly powerful concept.

Point 2 seems even more ridiculous. Just about everything has a non zero probability of perishing over any time period (even our sun :)). TSLA/AAPL/GOOG all have a non zero probability of perishing, but that doesn't make them bad investments.
I am in the middle of the same sort of sabbatical from Google. It was my first job out of college and I joined the same time as Jay. In fact for a time sat right across the aisle from the Go team when I was working on Abseil (abseil.io) and I can confirm that Alan Donovan is a really kind, friendly guy. The company got progressively more and more "corporate" and felt less and less dynamic as time wore on. Most of the people I know who are still there are burnt out. It's a company filled with people who tend to put a lot of pressure on themselves and I felt, at least on my last team, a rising sense of anxiety and isolation from what was already a very high level before the pandemic.

That all being said, the quality of humans there is pretty amazing. I count almost all of my old managers as friends and I felt privileged constantly to be surrounded by such intelligent people and to work on such huge ranging vastly impactful projects as I did. But I'm happy I left. The self-direction feels too good after being in such a behemoth to start my career.

On to new adventures!
It takes 4-5 years to grow according to the article, and you can make Strand Woven Bamboo out of it. You can get a feel for the hardness of Strand Woven Bamboo here:

https://planettimbers.com.au/2014/06/25/timber-wear-tear-and-hardness-including-janka-ratings/

Quoting:

"Even though a Janka rating of 8 is considered ‘hard’,
many Australian timber species achieve ratings of 12
and above."

Strand Woven Bamboo has a Janka rating of 14.

As it happens I live in Australia, and so have tried to bang the odd nail into an old house, which are often made from Australian hardwood. Almost all of us live in new houses made from pine, and so all make the same mistake. If you are lucky, and after more than a few bent nails, some old codger will take pity on you and tell you it isn't possible. You have to pre-drill.
You could try and increase the chances you're alive in 500 years, by donating to efforts such as the SENS Foundation.

Then you can keep it up yourself.
Bitcoin is an inflation hedge and a durable store of value. Tulips were 100% pure short term speculative venture with zero durability. Bitcoin has a value proposition outside of day trading speculators.

Right now people holding BTC long term is at all time highs. They are fundamentally different and it is a silly comparison.
They are most likely all blind men feeling an elephant. They can all see some inefficiency but they don’t necessarily have a great view of what upstream problem is causing it or who to call to fix it.

I would imagine most companies don’t sufficiently reward low level employees pointing out and proactively fixing inefficiencies.
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Seems like your comment was just an attempt to dunk on a group of people you seem to believe are over paid. You have no real facts or information about how much port workers make and you present no evidence that rules that you may deem to be “inefficient” aren’t in place for safety reasons. You also seem to ignore the fact that most manual labor jobs have to provide enough income for a worker while they are able to physically engage in the work to provide for the significantly longer period of time their bodies won’t be able to do the work.

Everyone in this country seems to think they know exactly how much everyone else should make and surprisingly they always think others are over paid.

It’s especially comical when it’s coming from tech folks where an L7 sitting at FB can be pulling down seven figures and could sit in their aeron chairs working till they are 80, we should all recognize the privilege we have in that regard
https://archive.ph/oSc4y
I love tecnographers to tell me that I am an asshole.

Seriously. Film is a medium. Technical race is over.
Digital coupled with algorithms for "ultimate" technical exposure is the winner. So what?

Film has a natural grain, grain emulation made digitally is obvious for a trained eye. Film has a chemically based development, you can alter exposure in different ways and produce different results. Shooting film makes you a better photographer. Why? Because to produce a decent photo you must know the exposure triangle and focus.

Focus, because there is no computer to help you and make you think that you are "the best" ever, and if you are not - you can always fix it in post. Learning to do all in camera is giving you advantage in expression.

Expression. This is the key word here. The world of humans has become so narrow, so predictable and binary, that we are fighting with our natural human psychology. Under the command of the technocratic elites moving us forward to the ultimate vision of AI overlords and never-ending cycle of unnecessary software and hardware updates. Don't let me start on security. Try to hack my Leica M3 - remotely.

Film is made for print. Printing has a value in itself. And the process requires more skill and knowledge than applying some LUTs or predefined filters.

1000 megapixel cameras with AI will not make you an artist. Connecting to a real human world and caring will make you one. Yes, you can express this with a smartphone camera without a doubt, but the choice of film is similar to the choice of oil painting as a medium.

Or should I be asshole again for not using digital painting as a medium of choice.
You know, painting digitally is so technically superior. You have undo and redo. Layers and masks.

Why live in the past and not embrace the future?
Why learn to play an instrument? The computers are so much better.

P.S.

I responded to your "emotionally" charged opinion with an equal reflection. The main point is that everything has a value as an experience, process and end result. To dismiss someone choices over "technical" logic is a false positive.
Technically educated people can buy a vinyl record. For different reasons, aesthetically or experience based ones. Putting all the eggs in one basket is not a balanced approach at all.
Turnip mania peaked with Super Mario Bros 2.
It's referencing a scene from the movie Ronin.

"What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-g0NGE9W8
No, it's not undefined behavior. Only the status returned to the host environment is undefined. (And in C99 and later, the status is 0.)

As for your example:

int foo(int x) { if (x >= 0) return 123; if (x < 0) return 456; }

that has undefined behavior only if the caller uses the value. (That's to cater to ancient C code written before the void type was introduced.)
I was thinking perhaps about the leadership (Jack vs. Zuck/Thiel). This is good clarification regardless.
You either die a hero, etc etc.

I wonder if there's any "big, established" company where IC engineers have more weight than the PHB types. I'd be genuinely curious if anyone knows of some good examples, I suppose HN would be the place where people might.

It seems like that's one of the natural equilibrating factors that offer some small amount of competitive grace to Davids competing against Goliaths. Google hasn't been David for a long time now, I think.
As a complete outsider, I have an impression at least that Google PMs have some level of technical knowledge. Which would make them far more "engineer led" than is common.
Well there's no grand strategy and it's too big and settled for engineering to have much impact.

It's inertia-led.

I bet most googlers hate ads so it's a big state of cognitive dissonance too.
When I leave a company the company loses out on a cog in their wheel. When a company leaves me, they also take from me a way to access healthcare, which is life-threatening given my medical profile. It's not really the same.
An unfortunate side-effect of this type of system, in my experience, is that you end up being stuck on very old dependencies for a very long time.

When a security issue is discovered, perhaps months or years later, it is extremely difficult to upgrade because

1) the patch will always be applied to the most current release, which could be many major versions beyond what you run, and

2) manually backporting the security fix is impossible without creating your own fork and the code will likely be so different as to not be able to cleanly apply the patch.

You are creating so much friction to update dependencies that you will find yourself unable to update them in the future.

Small example: I recently upgraded a dependency that required us to move from node 12 to node 14. That required us to upgrade more packages, including our database ORM. The ORM was 2 years out of date. Now we have changes that literally affect the entire application and require significant regression testing (automated and manual) because the risk surface is so much larger. This wouldn't have happened if we didn't use a lock file with pinned versions.

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In the past (node 4.x), lock files weren't written by default, and I (on a small project) had sufficient test coverage that always allowed NPM to install the latest minor version bump of every package, every time. If there was a problem caught by the tests, then I immediately fixed the issue with the upgrade.

The nice thing about this is that I was always on the latest version of every dependency, so I always had the latest security fixes, and the online docs for the dependencies were always accurate to what I was using.

If this particular exploit happened, it would have been more likely to get deployed but it would have also automatically gotten fixed as soon as the patch update rolled around. Whereas with a lock file, someone may have updated it and then not been aware when the "fixed" version came out because npm/yarn don't tell you that.

As a JavaScript dev (full stack) I think lock files are a bad idea by making us LESS secure, not more (keeping around insecure older dependencies that can't be patched).
Here's a fun and working model aircraft powered by articulated flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnAVwtdbYc

Things that strike me off the bat for creating "the real thing:" Ground effect with rising heat, helping with lift. Longer and lighter wingspans made out of special exotic materials that is incredibly durable, flexible and easy to articulate, perhaps with a "muscular" system. Much stronger, lighter and tuneable machines. Systems or mechanics preventing compartment shake. I think this is probably the most difficult part in order to achieve comfortable flight. The part of a bird best evolved to counteract this movement is the head, since they need that as a stable platform to observe the world despite the rest of the body moving.
I've said nothing about what "deserves" preservation, but only what sort of things tend to be preserved over periods on the scale of centuries. And yes: My contention is that unless a substantial community of people voluntarily commit to preserving something, it likely will not survive (or will do so accidentally).

I'm not quite following why this is not relevant to the OP's question. I suppose I'm saying that it's not just a hard task, but an almost impossible one. Lots of people (2000 years ago, say) thought that what they were writing was of world-historical significance; today, we barely know their names. Others dashed off dictated letters to small, fragile communities of early followers and just happened to have created among the most well preserved texts of all time.

All I'm really saying here is that among the titanic forces determining which is which, the type of ink used seems not to be a matter of much importance.
In German law, the Eichmann lesson was the opposite: it created (or, more accurately : recognized) a moral duty to refuse to follow unlawful orders. They didn’t let Eichmann get away with his just-following-orders excuse. And subsequently, this principle was explicitly added to the law. German soldiers, for example, are specifically instructed by law, and swear to it as part of their oath, that they will refuse to participate in genocide etc.
> Past tense of beget is begot or begat

https://pasttenses.com/beget-past-tense
Yeah, and with a Brinell hardness of just 31 I doubt knives made out of this material would hold an edge that well.