skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canadian Company: Our upper bound is 90k American, you get no equity, you have to work Eastern Time Zone
US Company: Our mid bound is 200k American, you get equity, you have to be available +/- 4 hours from the time zone of your core team for 3 days a week.

Its not even close. And if we are talking about raising money - just lol. Canadian VCs treat their investment like they are buying into a 200 year old insurance company for a check in the 50k range.

Turning around a company / industry culture away from a 1950s factory model is very hard, and its even hard for companies who allegedly want to compete against SV firms.
Hacking Dutch Government For a lousy T-shirt
I created a command that cd to the right project, and optionally start docker, dev tools and other things related to that project.
NFTs can be created that are non-resellable, you just build that into the smart contract. Even if they were, you can see the full transaction history and decide to reject anyone but first owners
Along these lines, NVMe has standardized an optional Predictable Latency Mode so the host can instruct the SSD to temporarily suspend background work. It's intended to help you offer tight latency guarantees when you have intelligent load balancing across a large pool of drives.
Cool hypothesis! Reminds me of the Alphasmart Neo[0], which a lot of writers seem to like because it allows you to go into a writing (vs editing) state of mind:

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alphasmart+neo&t=ffab&iax=images&i...
My guess is that they're confusing the MSRP in their country (probably United States, apparently $499) with the MSRP in Poland (apparently about US $832).
The curve is a bit steep but once the things start clicking you productivity goes through the roof. You'll be able to make game prototypes in a few short hours.

I admit that building 2D games with unity is a bit of an overkill but the fact that everything just works across different platforms makes it well worth it. I originally developed games using Java and a cross platform framework called libgdx. It was fun till you needed to implement things like cross-platform advertisements and IAPs. With unity you know that the support will be there for the foreseeable future and no other engine comes close in terms of the available free online resources.
> breakthrough infection increased risk of death

Can someone explain this to me? What is "breakthrough infection"?
ugh, that's a neat format but they have ruined it by having the actual recipe be a blurry picture of text!
Wherever you stand on the debate I think it's hard to deny that the vaccines have turned out to be a lot less effective than we were initially led to believe.
I wonder when US Government's crackdown on US tech firms will begin. US politicians know full well by now that they're at the mercy of Zuck, Pichai, Dorsey, and a small handful of other people. I'm sure they understand that even if they benefit from this symbiotic arrangement (which at least half of them do not), their fortunes could turn on a dime if they pass a "wrong" law or something, and the situation will only get worse over time. IMO it's only a matter of time before they impale at least one of the trillion-dollar monopolies that are allowed to exist today to set an example for others and bring them to heel. That's what Xi is doing. That's what Putin did 20 years ago (with oil companies which are the dominant sector in Russia). Seems like a pattern.
I'm curious if anyone has tried [huginn](https://github.com/huginn/huginn) or [beehive](https://github.com/muesli/beehive) or similar, and whether or not these work well for programmers?
i feel like they've given up and are going on spending sprees to catch up to UE
I have a Samsung washer and dryer that are fairly new and it's not that hard to repair if you have the parts. The roller bearings for my dryer seized up, so I ordered a kit from Amazon to replace the wheels and it took me about an hour.
> On the db side, in MySQL, it's possible to disable the doublewrite buffer (which is another form of overhead, which, in theory, ZFS should avoid), but nobody really knows if that is 100% reliable or not.

It is. Actually, that's the best thing about running MySQL on ZFS. The doublewrite buffer is not just another form of overhead, the doublewrite buffer is *the bottleneck* for any workload with moderate amount of write (until it got revamped in 8.0: https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=5655).
There is little spiritual or foolish in this. When you solve a problem in a creative way, be it a cool application of an algorithm, a feature, a product, a clever bug fix, a clever marketing campaign, new way to raise money, etc, you get rewarded.
That's a Chrome setting.
We dont change anything in your profile.
I guess folks here have a lot of reasonable doubts about extensions. I get it. I hate them also because many follow you around to all the sites you visit, etc.

Surprisingly nobody mentioned all day that the ONLY permission this app has is to change your navbar setting. Chrome says that so clearly when you install it :)

The reason to install it is to have the convenience of a navbar search. Without it you will try a search or two and depending on what you searched for disappear because it's just not convenient enough to have to load another page every time you want to search.
Thank you!

> You won't be able to use them in a system at the current time though.

What do you mean? Why?
Energy storage: there is a gorilla in a corner of the room, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603...

Solar and wind often overproduce (leading to negative prices). This (otherwise useless energy) will be used to produce dihydrogen (water electrolysis), which will be stored, then used to produce electricity (fuel cell).
>I've worked for FAANG companies, a number of mid-major sized tech/internet companies, have had a engineering job for 20+ years, been a CTO and co-founded a VC backed company. All without any degree, in fact in the 20+ years in the field I've never once been out of work.

Things are very different now than they were 20, or even 10 years ago. It used to be that people coming into this field did it out of passion and interest in the work, and accordingly the talent pool was fairly small and someone with a bit of knowledge and aptitude could get a shot.

Now it's just seen as a lucrative career like Law or Business, and so CS has become the number one major at many US universities these days. We are facing an absolute glut of new grads. And if you're trying to compete for an entry level job without a degree now, you're pretty much out of luck.
You forgot unwashed coffee pots in the morning. It’s all about the unwashed coffee pots.
I'm curious what the actual employee staff numbers are given the various Weta companies are AFAIK pretty notorious for using "temporary contractors" rather than actually employing people.

It's also an interesting development given that they only recently started promoting a cloud-based service for integrating their technology with Maya & Houdini.
You could just Google it
"In reality, a mentor is mostly just somebody that answers questions more than once."
The amendment doesn't say "secure from government" or "secure from law enforcement." It just says "secure."

A person cannot sell themselves into slavery. Yet we allow the US government to endorse indentured servitude for immigrant labor, because corporations want indentured servitude.

Nor can a US citizen sign away workplace safety rights, legally. Yet we allow US construction companies to rampantly hire off-the-books undocumented labor so that they can freely ignore workplace safety rights, since no one will exist to make claims against them.

It would have been perfectly reasonable for a court to broadly ban surveillance of individuals by telecom companies back in the 1990s, based on the same principles that those courts have willfully violated on behalf of corporations in the other examples above.
We really need to stop using the word "vaccine" for these jabs - it's completely the wrong descriptor.
Yeah, I need to fix that. You're seeing a performance bug. There's a cache in front of the API, and sometimes if you hit the API outside of the cache window, the lambda running in the background is a bit slow. Subsequent loads will hit the cache.

Although, I'm surprised you didn't see the page load UI. There should be a pulsating circle to indicate it's loading.

Thanks for the feedback!
Agreed with not overloading fields: that way leads to madness.

I really like the LOC standard: it follows already-used conventions for inexact dates. Thanks for the pointer!
o_O
Lol.

Thanks...
Please let us know of any configuration files that you are in charge of designing so that we may avoid them in future.
I really like the promise of green energy source. I do see the huge advancements made in terms of safety.

I have a question around waste management though: Do we know if there are big improvements here? IOW - https://apnews.com/article/washington-business-nuclear-waste... bothers me.
> >sugar vs fat

> the strange part about that was why there was no counter-propaganda from the fat side.

I suspect that sugar was simply more concentrated and organized.
Alt Link: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-outlines-challenges-...

Artemis I still set for Feb or Mar launch ;)
Is true. What we keep learning about the life changing medical issues following Covid infections - that is genuinely biting us hard.
Yeah I feel the same about the parent comment. Who can say we don't confront ourselves and at one point had one reached this mystical state of mind where one has confronted themself fully? It's a very vague opinion to make the teller feel holier than thow.
Sure, you can rewrite a program using lightweight threads to an async/await model and vice versa. I find the difference is in how easy it is to reason about concurrency in the program.

With threads I find I can more easily mentally organise which code in my application is executing in parallel.

In async/await land, you end up with 2 classes of functions async & non async functions, it's up to the callee to determine wether it is a blocking call or not. With threads you just block by default, and let the caller determine whether it's appropriate to block or execute the function on another thread. See https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... for someone mere eloquent than myself.
I am working a big financial sector consulting job right now where disaster recovery tools managers have to check if primary servers really do have recovery servers ready to spring up and mount network storage and firewall rules.

It is an absolute cf because the current system is a bowl of manually verified spreadsheet spaghetti that exists mostly in two guys' heads. We are currently discovering that no one knows how many servers don't actually have recovery backups ready because the buck has been passed so often and so many people have come and gone.

So I totally believe some employee as the single point of buck-passing would absolutely rubber stamp metallurgical tests just to avoid jamming up the system.
Renting Is Throwing Money Away Right?
I like to pronounce it [e`ts] when I think about it internally, but I live in Norway so I think about it that way because of the Norwegian word “etse”. When I talk about /etc to someone else I usually spell it out e-t-c though.
No, the difference here is that for us that's only a small percentage.

If you're a developer, we have several "search-apps" such as StackOverflow (with code snippets), W3Schools, MDN, Copilot-like Code Completion, json checkers, and more.
And it would be fine if they were at least upfront about it, but I feel like I'm going insane when I suddenly just can't find a song on a playlist.
Is it just me who keeps getting Cloudflare "Always Online" error when trying to search?
Their growing by word of mouth from geeks like us

Well, to be complete, DDG also advertises on radio, on streaming, on billboards, and in newspapers. I think TV is the only place I haven't seen a DDG ad.
Built to die 6 months after the warrantee expires has nothing to do with how little power/water it uses.
A breakthrough infection is just a COVID case in someone who's been vaccinated. In that particular sentence they're just saying that people who developed a breakthrough infection did have a nonzero risk of death, but the vaccines were still fairly protective.
My understanding and it could be wrong is that they can't lower their rates, (and might actually have to increase to compensate for more vacancy) because it will affect their ability to finance the buildings if they have lower rates from whatever math is used to calculate the soundness of the loans. That could be causing the stickiness on price you are seeing (if it's not apocryphal).
Ridiculous. Vaccines have turned the tide.
Yes: https://international.andra.fr/solutions-long-lived-waste/ci...
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I thought the unvaccinated were dying against vaccinated literally 99:1

Am I misinterpreting what you're saying?

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1017002907/u-s-covid-deaths-a...

https://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/covid-19-staggering-stati...

https://www.cnet.com/health/99-of-covid-deaths-are-now-of-un...

https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/99-of-alabamas-2379-covid-de...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-says-99-covid-dea...
Sorry, wrong how?
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my personal feeling as a non-philosopher is that PI cured me in a way of overly-materialist and hierarchical thinking. When I really sat with the idea of language games and with his ruthless attack on the idea that words get their meanings by referring to objects, I had what I can only describe as a spiritual experience.

I had previously lived such a left-brained (maybe slightly autistic) life and I thought all my words and logic and frameworks and habits and hierarchies of value (i.e., my “walk of life”) were REAL. In a sense I thought they way I thought about the world was “god”.

After reading Wittgenstein I realized that “god” was also encompassing of every other persons worldview. Every other walk of life. Talking about feelings is not above or below talking about science. Not everything can be described in words, maybe nothing really can. Live in the world of reality, not the world of words.
Informative!
Hotel in Italy charges 1€/night but guests will be broadcasted 24/7 on the web
Loud typers are on trial in the Theranos courtroom
Addressed in the article, in a link within this quote:

Bourla’s comments come after a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll found that 8 in 10 Americans believe or are unsure of at least one false statement about COVID-19.
To someone who has done mushrooms before, sure, they can tell. But for people with no psychedelic experience, niacin (a common stand-in) causes flushing and some other effects which a patient can tell "is doing something."

IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group.
All these things have tradeoffs, but even with a kubernetes setup there is a variety ways you can configure it that will work better or worse for your workload.

Regarding being the core business, in this regard, that doesn't matter that much. You'll either pay amazon or hire your own team. In either case you'll be spending money in something that's not your "core" product. If you can replace amazon with a bespoke system for a fraction of the price and same resilience, why not?

Someone have said in this thread before, managing those things is not really rocket science. You can have a small, focused team who's able to manage a lot of resources and that can and often is cheaper than outsource. Obviously, it depends in a number of factors. Whether or not it's your core business doesn't seem a decisive one.
Don't ever try Instagram.
You'll hate it :)
The announcement mentions that the "FX studio" part is getting spun out into "Weta FX" which isn't part of the acquisition, so the part Unity is acquiring is the "technology company" part of "Weta Digital".
>150k is also out of date for mid-level FAANG total comp today. I hear it's more like 600k and goes up from there.

FAANG is a whole other ballgame. $150k is intern level pay there. I was just talking average total comp for B and C tier large companies outside the Bay. The kind of role an average self taught dev with 2-3 years experience could expect to land in any major US city.
Orthogonal to the app being a cool way to do interviews, am I the only one perplexed by the example this person chose to highlight problems with coding interviews?

If I understand correctly, they hired someone who seemed to have a good grasp of algorithms but when it came time to code, took forever to write code and took forever to type something out?

Isn't that the exact thing that code interviews are good for? Finding out if someone can write legible, working code quickly?

Code interviews are terrible for finding out if someone can do deep thinking on a very difficult problem over a long period of time, but the exact problem scenario this hire had should have been caught.

I'm not sure how having them write/debug some slightly more complex code in IDEA vs an online Vim approximation is going to suddenly keep someone similar to the 'candidate' referenced from slipping through.

I'd also argue that bootstrapping a project is very different than managing a great code base. I'd be very skeptical of the idea that evaluating someone's toy project tells you how well they'll do in a massive code base.
I think the position being expressed here is more that in the real world Google is now part of many work flows and so a test that asks you to be cutoff from it is actually unrealistic. I don't fully agree though because a test is also unrealistic in that it often gives you more than enough time to solve the problem. And maybe more along the lines of what you're saying because again it's a test it can't really include truly novel problems that won't have known solutions
That's a great idea as long as we're not subsidizing activist disciplines such as gender studies. I'd be happy for my tax money to be going towards free computer science courses at a community college.
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Overbuilding renewables (and accepting seasonal curtailment), utility scale battery and hydro storage, and HVDC transmission and robust interconnections between grids/systems. Whatever is left will be a pragmatic amount of natural gas/green hydrogen/ammonia mix for combustion.

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/what-does-science-say-abou...

> To start, we’ll consider Sanders’ claim that “scientists tell us” that it’s possible to get to a zero-carbon electrical grid without nuclear power.

> “The shortest answer is yes, that’s true. Scientists do tell us that we can,” said Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

> Ryan Jones, an expert in electricity systems and a co-founder of Evolved Energy Research, a consulting company that models low-carbon transitions, agreed. “Anyone who says that nuclear is 100% necessary on a technical basis, I would claim, just hasn’t looked at the alternatives in enough detail,” he said in an email.

> Most experts FactCheck.org contacted, including those who think nuclear power should remain an option, said that from a technical perspective, nuclear is not needed to decarbonize the grid.
I used Notebooks for notes for a while. It's useful. The choice is essentially between Markdown with inline code, or Notebooks, which are Code with markdown inbetween. Markdown focusses on the text, and the code is incidental. You usually don't want to execute it. For Notebooks, executing the code is the focus.

I personally thought I would really value the ability to execute the code, but I found out that it wasn't useful to me. The kind of code I write in my notes is rarely executable. It misses library includes, boilerplate declarations, or sometimes isn't quite syntactically correct.

The overhead of trying to make each (or even most) cell in a Notebook executable takes away from the "whatever is most expressive" mindset I have for notes.

There's one big caveat though. Notebooks are much better for sharing with others. If the code is complete, and literally executable as-is, that is much more useful to others I show the notes. Most of my private notes don't have this constraint though.

I'd probably use notebooks if I was writing something I would possibly publish in the future. Much easier to share it with others to get feedback that way.
Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”
You don't use the blockchain to verify ownership of a private key. You know the public key, and the owner of the private key can sign any message to prove that they indeed have the private key associated with that public key. This can be done completely offline.

Isn't a crypto wallet, literally a key pair, the purest form of identity verification? It's something you have (private key) and something you know (passphrase). No need for some central authority, no need for privacy concerns.
I found a 300 baud modem at a yard sale, the owner let me have it for $1.

Proceeded to crack open the family computer (a 386sx-33 with 4 megs of ram and a 80 mb hard drive) and found a long spool of telephone cable and connected, only to realize that I had no idea what number to call or how to dial out.

I learned how to use telnet by reading the massive 800 page Dos 5.0 instruction manual and in a copy of the yellow pages I found the number to a local BBS (generic Sherlockian starting point provided courtesy of a "Computer Shoppers" magazine) and dialed in.

Man, that was electric.

Being a dumb kid with a screwdriver and just the unbridled desire to make something happen and suddenly seeing bits and blobs of ascii characters appearing on my screen from dozens of miles away... man. That just can't be beat. I feel like even the air smelled different during those moments, like if electric copper and possibility were an odor that crawled out of the nether, summoned by the buzzing harmonies of the modem.

Reading the anarchists cookbook was a blast. It seemed so real and so full of BS at the same time. Oh, you can make drugs out of banana peels? Sure, yeah, ok. Not gonna do that, lol.

I think my favorite game to play was Usurper. it was LORD but with drugs and cyberpunk PK violence, and if you killed the current king you became the king. It was rough and gritty, pretty perverted, and perfect for a teenager who just wanted to play on the edge, lol.

Part of me wishes I could experience it all over again. I was the only person I knew who was "jacked in". It was great.
I strongly second not gating the service. Honestly, I laughed and closed the tab when I saw that I had to install an extension.

Furthermore, literally drawing a search-box and then having it not actually perform a search is a dark-pattern. If you have to trick people into doing an action, it's probably not the right thing to do.

If you have differentiating features, show people them! Optimize your flow on how you're different. If there aren't niches (e.g. some people use Bing for differentiated image search or travel) that people will come to you instead of going to Google for the same purpose, you won't see adoption. Google has such an advantage not because of their market position, but because of the huge amount of person-years they've spent developing their product.

If you're privacy first, that's great, but you are competing with DDG not Google. Privacy doesn't keep users coming back. Build a better product, people will come.

And that starts with letting your users search how they want to search, not how you want them to.
It doesn't bind private persons, but it can certainly be argued that by the government making a purchase, the collection (even if retroactive) is pursuant to government direction through the incentive or interest nexus, and therefore the collection itself should be unconstitutional as soon as the government makes one purchase.
This is the pretext for regular boosters I guess.