skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps every other org is a good one.

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"I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Two pence a week, and jam every other day."

Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me – and I don't care for jam."

"It's very good jam," said the Queen.

"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."

"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."

"It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," Alice objected.

"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."

"I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!"
Growth vs. Product vs. Brand
Before you invest in marketing, make sure it's the right type for the stage you're in.
Fairfield Programming Association
I spent 3 months traveling around ukraine in 2020 (I know.. hell of a year to be traveling)

While lviv and ukraine were lovely, I had to remind myself that I'm comparably wealthy compared to most of the people I was meeting and of course, money changes a lot of things.
Are there any copyright concerns around doing this kind of thing? Surely SEGA will come after him for providing this as a free download?
It is important to define the term "steamroll."

If California broke up into 200 states, would they need 2 Senators each to protect themselves from being steamrolled? If so, then why don't Californians already need 200 Senators?
Sony announces Playstation VR2 at CES 2022
Chretien was fully prepared to join in until it became very clear from protests and polls that the Canadian public wasn't going to stand for it. They hadn't fully committed to non-involvement until then. And even then, there was still support for the "allies" just not direct military involvement.

Many people may not remember or may be too young. Those Feb and March protests were the biggest protest ever in history across the whole western world. "According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of 15 and 16 February." (WP) Police estimates for London, UK were 750k, but they were likely higher.

I left work one evening when they first began bombing and marched through the streets of Toronto and the energy was crazy. The following saturday protest was 100,000 people at least and a lot calmer, but outside the US embassy the atmosphere was intense, angry and electric. It was much larger in Montreal if I recall.
You will still have silly pretentious people that use Windows and Amazon every day and will tell you that these guys are bad.

Start with your vote, kids: use something else, do not buy from them. It is what I would do, in fact, if I had that thinking.
> So... I'm betting there's a political angle there.

If there is, it's that Americans are lazy. Maybe even so lazy that instead of reading the synopsis they just read Wikipedia intro paragraphs to confirm their own biases.
From jaywalking to horrific rapes in other countries. Talk about a slippery slope.
Only if you worked for 10 years in the same company. 1 month is the regular for <5 years tenure. However, the employee may actually demand 3 months.
It sounded like I had heard that in a commercial when I was a kid, but all I could find was “move at the speed of business”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijaz9OaCo7Y
> Six months of a six figure salary to take an on-the-job sabbatical sounds like a pretty good deal, from a certain point of view. It's a shame the hiring managers in question are unlikely to be transparent about the role's actual requirements.

I agree, but the managers are gaming the system so there's no way they could be transparent about it. As a new hire, it would be a huge punch in the gut to be setup for failure like this and not be in on it from the start.
I was once in a meeting with 3 developers (me being the lead) and 12 managers and discussing how we were going to implement something we already implemented. It lasted 2 hours.

In this same company, I had a meeting to discuss what we were going to discuss in another meeting of the same people.

This was a company born of a merger of 5 different companies.
Clearly, the only honorable thing for the CEO of HPE to do is to ... er, blame Sunny Balwani!
Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD
If it's at-will employment the no.
> I would only use steel members if the span called for wood that was too big (like a 24' span needing a 8x14 or whatever).

What about laminated timber to achieve these spans?
Ivermectin is a fine anti-parasite, and plausibly has a mechanism of action that could benefit specific patients infected with specific viruses. Unfortunately for all of us, it has no measurable benefit on Covid. As shown again and again.

We have hundreds of millions of active infections, it's dead-simple to do research studies to determine whether something prevents hospitalization, or shortens length-of-stay, etc etc. You don't have to spend weeks of your life reading primary materials -- here's the EUA for Paxlovid (Section 14):

https://www.fda.gov/media/155050/download

A pre-registered RCT, with specific endpoints and statistically significant evidence that it lowers viral load, and prevents hospitalization and death. It only took 4 months from study enrollment -> results to see how effective it was. Paxlovid works! Hurray! IVM doesn't. Rats.

Good faith individuals would move on and investigate something else that could help humanity but admitting you were wrong doesn't get you invited onto Joe Rogan so here we are, with people still referencing their nonsense.
Haha! Well, I'm glad he's well!
According to a half remembered article , average retention is about 10 months, so when I saw the headline I assumed this was the topic. Amazon turn over more than their total workforce, every year.

This includes all staff yes, but still shocking. If true.
> My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles.

For me, leetcode is basically just what is taught at university level. So they're hiring people based on if they know stuff they would learn and forget from university.

The thing is, it's not about having free time, it's about being so dedicated to getting the job that you'll spend ages learning things you would never do during your day job and if you did do them during your day job you would be considered a cowboy because there are predefined libraries that are optimised to do those things.

For me, the main reason I don't want to work for FAANG is they have a reputation for long hours and that the hardest thing at the companies is the interview process.
I see you didn't read the original comment that started this discussion ...

> Although a lot of things have changed, the nature of human conflict and the desire for power haven't.
Great list, i have all chargers can switched with a multi gan2, and some toiletries with mini soap/hair/shower bar.
To be sure, you're assuming Rastonbury is correct.
Reduced hospitalization and disease severity is enough of a justification, and that it does.
How does Makie compare to something like Gadfly?
I've found the Product Design Online's "Learn Autodesk Fusion 360 in 30 Days for Complete Beginners!" youtube playlist quite helpful -- though skip the intro videos to Day #1 if you already have experience: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZ2zKOtC_-DR2ZkMaK3Y...

I use Fusion 360 exactly how you say you want to. Just slap some shit on there and then use dimensions and constraints to actually precisely position everything to match my measurements.
The one case I have first hand knowledge of someone put on a PIP, they had done some specific things and also clearly weren't interested in their primary job any longer. I'm pretty sure they could have recovered had they found a way to jump into their current (or another) role again. They had been quite respected for a lot of things.

But it was really a time for a parting of the ways at that point.
How, though? The backbone connections are still terminated at ISPs and interchanges. Somewhere an engineer still needs to either remove the routes in software, or pull a bunch of cables out.

Unless you're saying that the president himself has all the major backbone connections running through his office?
Invalid Science
You mean wage stagnation? Productivity has shot through the roof since 1973.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
If you want a house to be able to exist for 1000 years without human contact, you should look at neolithic burial chambers, e.g. long barrows[0], and copy their construction.

If you want a house to be able to exist for 1000 years with human contact, then the only thing you need is for the humans to care and to proactively fix problems as they happen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_barrow#/media/File:Waylan...
I made a joke on Facebook a few years back about true 'full stack' development. It was a post talking about some code I was writing to do some math computation on a simple OS I had written, running on a CPU I designed using my own custom instruction set, implemented in logic on a physical PCB I also designed and assembled.

Of course even this is really only 'partial stack', since I didn't do the VLSI design of the 74x series ICs I was using. So when I think full stack, I think high level code all the way down the transistors. Anything else is weak sauce. ;) ;).
It should not be legal to make a car that is designed specifically not to be serviced by the user. It is a massive failure on the part of the manufacturer.

If the issue with the car is that there is a risk from the HV system, then it is negligence on the part of the manufacturer not to allow for the user to disable it.

Cars kill people that repair them. All the time. No one has been able to sue Ford because they put their hand in a running engine or fucked up their brakes. It's a false concern.

Mercedes is not at their first attempt. The model is to make the car artificially difficult to repair, in order to make revenue from repairs.

An EV is not inherently more dangerous than an ICE to service. We allow people to fix their ICE vehicle, and they are designed to at least be immediately safe to work on. There is no reason this wouldn't be the case with EVs.
This makes me wonder how much complexity can they grow until it's not sustainable by the culture? At what point smart talent would say enough is enough and start hiring average joe's? How would that be reflected to customers?
I'm curious, how do they compare against S3? (cheaper, easier to use, ...?)
The underlying clock doesn’t need to be fine-grained; only the target representation needs to be fine-grained enough for the additional increments inserted by the code that generates the IDs. Effectively, the precision of the timestamp part needs to be large enough to support the number of IDs per second you want to be able to generate sustainably.
Thank you for your work, _paulc!

I used your library to broadcast weather readings via DNS in the park where I live. It was really nice to have all the protocol work done for me, leaving me to focus on my meteoprocrastination :)

There’s a special place in my heart for tools where you learn by following examples, rather than by having to read abstract documentation.
SmoothWAN: Quickly deploy Speedify to your home network
> That sounds like a huge disincentive to mentoring and developing your team.

I've heard there are huge communication issues within teams, thanks to policies like this. You have to look out for yourself first and foremost, otherwise you are up next for the stack ranking. Better to sabotage your team mate's onboarding than risk being next in line for the firing squad.

It's actually worse, because it's actually a "unregretted attrition" (URA) quota - which Amazon HR has spent decades developing into a sinister fear-based culture. They have a secret "FOCUS list" (used to be called devlist) which managers don't even tell their directs they are on. A secret list which if employees leave while they are on it (and remember, they don't even know they are on it), they are marked as URA and cannot be re-hired. HR directs managers explicitly not to tell employees they are on this list. Many employees only find out once they try to switch teams and are blocked due to being on these secret lists.

It fosters a culture of fear, uncertainty, and doubt - combine that with overly political managers fighting for their own lives, and Amazon can be a brutal place to work. The best teams are those that shield you from all these politics, but when push comes to shove managers are forced to make these URA decisions constantly.

Bezos believed his employees were inherently lazy and needed these types of mechanisms to scare them into doing their best work. Now that Amazon is the size it is, you can find crazy and absurd anecdotes of these policies being twisted into some truly bizarre Kafkaesque situations - like managers hiring individuals solely to fill the URA quota, and team members sabotaging onboarding on new members to try to avoid the firing squads themselves.
Rigidity is good for some things and bad for others. In seismic design, inertial forces tend to decrease as structures become more flexible (Good!). But the consequence is that things move more (Bad!) meaning that all the nonstructural things get damaged - drywall, chimney, ceilings, etc. If things move too much, they also are subject to various types of degradation - yielding, fatigue, etc.

The other structural aspect not mentioned in the above discussion is strength. You can trivially get an order of magnitude more strength than required by even the harshest of loads using steel in a small structure like this. The same cannot be said about wood. For instance, a single 3/4" A325 bolt will be able to resist about 40,000lb shear or 70,000lb tension. The entire base shear of this size of structure in a code-design earthquake would be somewhere around 4,000lb.
RSS is still alive and kicking. I came here via RSS.

But the masses browse a locked down web. That is true.

We might have another shot at an open web for the masses via the whole crypto movement.

If content goes on decentralized blockchains in the future, nobody can lock the content down like big tech did for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc.

Projects like Arweave show how it is possible to store huge amounts of data on a blockchain without using much resources.

If we get there, it will be trivial to build blockchain-to-rss bridges. I am ready to build some to get my favorite content into my RSS reader.

My feeling is that there might be a way towards a decentralized web via financial incentives. In a decentralized web, crypto currencies can float around freely. Making it easy for the actors to earn. Old platforms will probably be slow to open up to crypto currencies.
Brute-force search, as kurthr suggested doing, takes under 250ms to find a solution that's better on both axes by an order of magnitude, without Scipy, though it still took me 15 minutes to set it up.

With R1 = 100Ω, R2 = 330kΩ, C = 2200pF, the frequency error is 7 Hz rather than 39 Hz (0.7% instead of 4%) and the duty-cycle error is 0.008% instead of 0.03%. Probably your capacitor is not going to be stable to 0.7% or precise to 1%, but you can certainly do better than 4%. (Use an NP0/C0G capacitor, not an X7R or something. In larger capacitance values you'd use a film cap instead, but 2200pF is fine for NP0/C0G.)

You probably ought to measure some capacitors before running the optimization if you're only building one circuit, and if you're really interested in precision you might put a couple of trimpots across the resistors and adjust it while watching the scope (modern digital scopes can continuously display the frequency and duty cycle, so this is quick). But that will only help if most of the resistance and capacitance comes from components that won't drift over time or vary too much with temperature.

Multiplying the loss values instead of adding them avoids having to choose weights for them. If you were going to use Newton's method or gradient descent, you might want to square them instead of taking the absolute value in order to get faster convergence, but of course that takes you back to solving a continuous relaxation of the discrete component selection problem you actually have. For branch-and-bound search a continuous relaxation can still be a useful thing to do, though.

>>> R1 = R2 = 1000
>>> import math
>>> u, n, p = 1e-6, 1e-9, 1e-12
>>> caps = [a * b * c for a in [1.0, 2.2, 4.7] for b in [1, 10, 100] for c in [u, n, p]]
>>> e24 = [1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.6, 3.9, 4.3, 4.7, 5.1, 5.6, 6.2, 6.8, 7.5, 8.2, 9.1]
>>> C = 47 * u
>>> 1/(math.log(2) * (R1 + 2*R2) * C) # f
10.231879722616762
>>> (R1 + R2) / (R1 + 2*R2) # duty cycle
0.6666666666666666
>>> rs = [a * 10**b for a in e24 for b in range(2, 6)]
>>> import time
>>> s = time.time(); soln = min(((abs(1000 - f)/f) * (abs(0.5 - D)/D), R1, R2, C, f, D) for R1, R2, C, f, D in ((R1, R2, C, 1/(math.log(2) * (R1 + 2*R2) * C), (R1 + R2) / (R1 + 2*R2)) for R1 in rs for R2 in rs for C in caps)); time.time() - s
0.2474360466003418
>>> soln
(1.0000300746386372e-06, 100.0, 330000.0, 2.2000000000000003e-09, 993.4411045771049, 0.5000757460990759)

It would be fair to argue that the nested generator expression there is pretty hard to read, but it didn't really take that long to type, the Python REPL is pretty shitty at editing multiline functions, and I didn't feel like firing up Jupyter. But this way of writing it is definitely less unreadable and works just as well:

>>> def search(rs1, rs2, cs):
... for R1 in rs1:
... for R2 in rs2:
... for C in cs:
... f = 1/(math.log(2) * (R1 + 2*R2) * C)
... D = (R1 + R2) / (R1 + 2*R2)
... yield (abs(1000 - f)/f) * (abs(0.5 - D)/D), R1, R2, C, f, D
"those bytes inherently have a different meaning"

Are you sure? Utf-8 is a variable-width encoding so it should just work, right?
> You might as well test a French Cuisine Chef on how well his Chinese cooking is.

A way more apt comparison would be evaluating him on his knive sharpening skills.
Plus, I’ve found that most iOS codebases, tend to rely on parts of Foundation and the Objective-C runtime that are not implemented on Linux, even if the code doesn’t touch UIKit at all.
Tax law throughout all time. I didn't think it was necessary to clarify that point.
2500sf is 232 square meters. That's three normal family city apartments by European standards. I guess houses just run bigger there but sounds quite excessive nonetheless.
NMR Metabolomic Biomarkers in Blood Samples Identify Cancers in Patients
"Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)"

Sounds like my first job out of college (it was early 1990s, big consulting shop).

There was a ton of pressure to arrive early, stay late, 55-60 hour weeks were normal, continually document progress on your tasks, but the project overall was well behind schedule and what had been completed didn't really work.

We got paid straight overtime after 40 hours, and I didn't have much else to do with my time, so it wasn't all bad. I only did it for about a year. It was a good reference for my next job.

Young people can afford a few years in the salt mines to get some perspective.
There are even bigger caveats to that number than what they mentioned in the video. Since all the ratings are based on user reports, there is no standard for what is considered a working game. You can look through pretty much any game and find positive reports that mention frequent crashes, performance issues, missing textures, requires a custom proton version, etc., but since it launches, they gave it a thumbs up. I've tried platinum rated games that are completely unplayable, ProtonDB ratings are a general guide at best.

ProtonDB also considers a game as "working" if even a single person gave it a thumbs up, so the big "17,984 games work" on the home page is very misleading.
Indeed. You don't want to rely on these, though, and it is a design failure if the manufacturer doesn't make available a way to safely disconnect the HV systems to the user.
I know a bunch about pharma. The folks who are doing this and saying it's cheaper are often completely neglecting costs that are borne by corporations: the initial R&D, but also the immense amount of quality control and regulatory compliance.

I've also talked to the biohackers. S ome of them are smart, careful, and just get stuff done in the lab. Then there are the attention hogs who inject themselves on youtube (typically with no ability to know if they did anything at all), many of whom, after a few years, realize that what they are doing is naive, and that there was actually a reason for the entire establishment around pharma.
> My favorite "wtf how is this possible"

Mine are from the demo scene. Second Reality, free-flying in 3D in a time where running Doom taxed machines.

The 8088MHz demo: 1024 colors on CGA.

64Kb demo generating really good mountain landscape.

That sort of thing.
Would be interesting to know if it's contingency or if there's some outside bankroll.
> IMHO the answer is some kind of regulation

IMHO, the solution is actually less regulation.

If any company could enter that market with being sued into the ground, you'd get top notch a quality product for a fraction of the price before you could finish spelling epinephrine.
What you can learn by merely writing a programming language changelog
We're also undergoing "The Great Reshuffling", coined by Zillow CEO Rich Barton, regarding the physical movement of (mostly remote) workers, creating booms in places like Boise and Bozeman and lowering rents in places like SF and NYC. That isn't quite leaving your job to hike the Appalachian Trail, but for some people it means an opportunity to prioritize living near one's preferred recreational opportunities rather than prioritizing living near one's job. Or others might prioritize living near family, or in a low-tax state, or somewhere they can afford a big yard or a pool, etc.
> Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence

In software development, you are expected to learn, to become competent. For example hires direct from university are usually incompetent at the time of their first employment.

The most successful people I know are always at the edge of their competence or beyond the edge, but their competence envelope increases over time.
This was in a mid-sized town. The main guy who was hazing was only mid-level talented, and was very insecure about it. On the other side of the table, I've never seen someone who I considered a high-level talent act that way. They may have tough questions but they certainly aren't pricks about it.

This was a long time ago, I get work through my network now, interviews consist of going to lunch and shooting the shit.
Meta Halts Development of In-House AR and VR Operating System
> For me, the main reason I don't want to work for FAANG is they have a reputation for long hours

I thought working at Google or Facebook was supposed to be a pretty chill "rest and vest" situation, esp at the former (?)
I'm surprised there's no product called:

"Microsoft Fullstack"

or

"Google Fullstack"

or

"Amazon Fullstack" (formerly "Apache Fullstack", now forked and rereleased)
Tracing should be sampled at a rate that makes sense for the dollar impact of an error in the service, versus the dollar cost of your tracing system.

$thousands per transaction? Sample 100%. Cheaper to refund a customer than debug the problem every time? Then sample. You'll have plenty of sampled traces with the bug/error shown as soon as the problem is expensive enough to matter.

Metrics are great for demonstrating a problem exists (and alerting), and tracing is great for helping you understand how and why it happened once it's at a big enough scale to matter.

Beyond that, with a lot of what's coming out of Open Telemetry, you can get fancier like sampling a higher percent of traces to a localized processor middleware that then filters out any traces you doesn't care about (e.g. dropping non-errors or low-quantile latencies).