skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So yeah. Credentials do matter, and it matters that this person is not willing to say this out loud, in public, without using a pseudonym.

The problem is that we've come so far that him not saying this out loud is not necessarily hinting to him being a charlatan. Plausibly, the cost/benefit analysis by that individum might not make it worth speaking the truth given how heated up the matter is rn. If this sentiment propagates to other topics I fear that larger (and important) parts of the world might drift towards soviet era incompetence
As a resident, you're spot on.

The existing rail infra was fucked over by NIMBYs before it even got started, and all future efforts related to public transit get screwed over as well.

A ton of money was dumped into Mopac/Loop 1 and so much of it ended up in walls to cut the sound down in high-value residential areas instead of improving congestion areas.

A large portion of real estate/housing is being purchased by investors tossing money way over asking prices, driving up the local cost. Housing in the area has now raised by ~2X in most parts of the city and it's outskirts. I was on my way towards being able to purchase a house in 2020 before the pandemic struck, then with the economic downturn a massive influx of outside investors took the market by storm. Between mid-2020 and now the target area I've been keeping an eye on went from a median home value of $275k to $485k. Many are now being relisted for rent and the rental market is rising fast as well.

I think we're already seeing the same gentrification/cost of living rise, and it's only the beginning.
Can you share API docs and pricing? :)
I'm tempted to leave because of how employees are graded.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-Amazon-rates-employees-z3...

Management must shoehorn their reports into these percentages.

Even if you have a team of high performers, HR expects someone to be graded as LE, which means likely put on a PIP and at risk for termination.

It's frankly disgusting to treat people this way.
If government banned long term debt would the real estate market disappear, or would home and auto prices eventually level out at a much smaller amount reducing overall inflation, or would ownership just be for the wealthy and the rest would live in pottersville?
There’s another explanation that I find fits better: that the last ~70 years have been an extraordinary confluence of good luck and peak resource extraction that is no longer viable going forward. Scarcity was always going to become a thing again, and Covid pulled that crash forward by a decade.

There’s no stuffing the genie back in the bottle now. We’re going to be paying the price for the corporate excess of the 90s, 2000s and 2010s for the next few decades in the form of climate change, disinformation, authoritarianism and the ensuing civil unrest. Thanks to the combination of the last three we will continue to be unable to muster a coherent response to any problem going forward.

Maybe we can have some good times again eventually, but the next decade or two are going to be rough.
For your first idea around social media, while not 100% exactly what you cited, the fediverse sort of already provides for that...Well, specifically the ActivityPub protocol (and couple of other protocols) enable such functionality...and frankly there are numerous (yes, not just 1 or 2, but numerous) server implementation which further enable numerous desktop and mobile clients to interact with content...all federated/sort of decentralized. If you've heard of mastodon, then they tend to capture most of the mindshare, but there are many other servers and clients...and there are reportedly millions of people on the fediverse around the world...so we're sort of already where you would like to be. ;-)

I'm sure there are many sites which help provide better context for the fediverse, but here, check this one out: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse

Cheers!
The FTC is reportedly investigating Meta’s VR division for antitrust violations
Old Lisp (2018)
Oh I strongly agree about need of moving away from oil, I was just addressing the oil shock remarks parent made. I do worry about the compensatory behavior in non-ev addressed markets (like aviation, energy, food etc) just because oil prices are temporarily low after EV demand destruction. this is why I feel its best to start removing all fossil subsidies at the first chance we get because we may not want a distorted price signal to exist for any longer than it has to.
alright, do you want a specific answer? My guess is it's somewhere around one in 3^{5-6}-ish, for the singular founder event that establishes and fixes that sequence as the canonical sequence for the furin cleavage site of COVID-19.
Can someone explains why it prints that?
What this is saying to me is that they have untested code paths. All the places where error encountered bad parameters are not actually covered.

It doesn't seem incredibly valuable to know that some error() calls in untested code are well-formed, since that code could be broken. The error() could be a false positive, or the compiler could crash before reaching the error() call due to some bug. Or some of the errors() could be in de facto unreachable code: no test case can cause them to be executed.

If you have a test suite which hits all the error() calls, and if the formatting system is robust to catch bad arguments at run-time, you don't have a problem.
Only because of all the Californians pouring into the rest of the country. /s
Leaving end'January.

1. Wife is retiring at same time. Physically beating on her (commercial kitchen).
2. Was recruited by HW company. Hiring mgr quit without notice, so I spent 3 months looking for stuff to do. No KPIs, feedback or direction.
3. Thanks to covid, we haven't gone out for 18+ months. Saved 85% of salary, so we can have pretty cheap ObamaCare coverage next year by living off savings.
I hate paypal's shady business practices almost as much as I hate facebook.
AntiX is a wonderful systemd-free debian and now also has Sid. It's fast as fuck in usage. It's best left as a live system.
You should. While it's true that your primary residence won't be counted as an asset in order to qualify you for Medicaid, they can and will place a lien on the property if you ever enter into a nursing facility (and maybe in some other situations). This allows them to capture the proceeds if the house is sold while you're living or (in some states?) from your estate when you die.

Older families should strongly consider placing their home into some kind of trust or transferring ownership to a descendant before this becomes an issue.
I'm not sure exactly how it affects the calculations, but if the house is paid off, you can use the money that would have gone towards mortgage payments towards investments though. So instead of $1000/mo towards mortgage and $1000/mo towards investments, you could do $2000/mo towards investments. It's probably a smaller total return than your method, but it's way less leveraged.
From what I understand, it was a way to attract employees during a time of wage freezes. And once that happened, you had the people paying for the health care being different people from those that consumed it. So that allowed prices to skyrocket. Now you have a situation where this is the accepted normal.

In some countries, the company you work for provides your housing. You get fired, you directly lose your apartment / dorm room.
Someone else replied with reasons for sodium, just want to mention that molten salt reactors are not sodium reactors. Sodium catches fire in water and air, salt is the stuff on your kitchen table. A molten salt reactor has nothing that could cause a chemical explosion.
I gave my notice today with an unofficial job offer. The acquisition changed the atmosphere of the company and slowed us down. The parent company swore not to change us yet they did and started pushing us to adopt all of their systems for no good reason. When I started there it was kind of still in the startup phase and was quite a lot of fun - not anymore. One sad thing about this industry is that almost wherever you go is going to be beholden to some massive entity or at the very least a board of people who just want to make money even at the detriment of the product.

The other element is salary. My salary just wasn't keeping up with inflation and I've benefited greatly by moving on.
I never mentioned mutation rate so your gotcha is not as crafty as you might think. Also a mutation in the sense you seem to be implying (random base pair changes due to lack of proof reading) is not really what I am talking about. I am talking about HIV-1 genome being incorporated into SARS-CoV-2 by the host cell or either virus during replication. That is not that crazy when you have quadrillion of replication cycles and a selective pressure to mutate and incorporate new RNA.
Not with the same PRRAR sequence of amino acids, right?
Yes I love ownership as an IC.

It's more that I spend near-zero time on any coding anymore, but also have very little visibility into the wider strategy (because there kind of isn't one).

So I am tasked to have work for my customer(s) / 2-3 devs on loan to me, planned out for a few months. However my manager doesn't really give us what his quarterly goals are most quarters. Product team doesn't publish them very often either.

In order of time spent in applications top to bottom it looks something like - Zoom, Slack, Email, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Gitlab, VSCode.
Short answer is no.

Long answer is that the question is premature (we need to answer more mechanistic questions first, and then we need to have an actual potential vaccine strategy to talk about) and there is currently no particular reason to suspect this.
Last time those rebels used Buk^, which is radar-guided, so IR-countermeasures won’t help.

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system
Not sure why this is controversial.

The idea that we'd have a "purely domestically-defensive force" doesn't compute. What does that even mean—defensive weapons guarding the homeland and forces deployed to protect only our coastline/waterways, land masses, and airspace?

Meanwhile China claims Taiwan and Russia re-annexes Ukraine and the rest of the former Soviet-bloc countries, etc.?

Of course we need to project power in various spheres of influence in order to provide for our overall defense. And, of course, that means offensive capabilities as a deterrent.
Two years actually sounds incredibly reasonable for a new nuclear reactor design.
There does come a point where you start to look at the size of your savings account even if you really like what you're doing. I was in a job that I mostly really liked--at least until latterly. But between dot-bomb and other things it was not great financially. Fortunately, where I went from there got me back to where I wanted to be.
Eg needing a month to move one ticket from one queue to another. Because only this guy has the permissions to do so, but 5 other guys are blocked.

That's why you name the blockers in your standup.
1) Once mainframe electronic computers started to be routinely manufactured computing jobs became engineering jobs which were primarily male.

2) When I was at Stanford and MIT in the 1970s, there was a debate whether Computer Science was a legitimate STEM topic and deserved a separate department (took MIT until 2018 to recognize such). Part of this was programming was considered a trade-school subject, feminine and secretarial, not unlike typing.

3) My first industrial science job I was assigned a (female) clerk who would keypunch my coding sheets, submit job decks and retrieve lineprinter output. The senior scientists considered it beneath their dignity to sully their hands with mundane programming tasks. I was considered an upstart for doing my programming personally and code rapidly outcode the senior staff.
For deep background, Michael S. Turner just published a nice review of the past 50 years of cosmology, from when the "errors were in the exponents" ;)

The Road to Precision Cosmology

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04741
Driving is lifeless. You’re locked in a pod. You see your surroundings through a windshield, you are not apart of them. Try walking or bicycling.
"Known Medicinal Uses: Pepper is an important ingredient in Ayurvedic, Chinese, Unani"

Those are not medicinal uses.
This was, in my opinion the single worst thing added to C++ -- it's what made me quit the C++ standard's committee, as it was clear (to me) how much of a mess things were.

Different people wanted "{ } for unified construction" and "{ } for initalizer lists", and we ended up with this mess which made 0 people happy, and ruined unified construction.
It can be better, but it also can be just as chaotic sometimes. On balance overall, FAANGs are probably better at managing this "IC utilization" rate if you wanna call it that, vs just randomly expecting you to pick up and wear all the hats all the time or that hats are chaotically assigned, with no plan behind it. Certainly FAANGs aren't perfect, but at least it's easier to find "reference implementations" because there certainly are some very high-performing and well-managed teams, and if you're not on one yourself, then you can at least have the benefit of being able to see-and-compare, which then provides a potential for betterment and learning from others (which might be harder in non-FAANGs).
>these inconsistencies between cases, and time seem rife for popularity and crony "justice".

The sentencing guidelines I mentioned seems specifically designed to mitigate this issue?

>We like group X so they get 6 months we hate group Y so 20 years for them. There is a reason I became a programmer not a lawyer. Deterministic code is easier than subjective rulings at least for me.

The sentencing guidelines seem pretty deterministic to me. There's a bunch of factors. The factors add up to a certain amount of points, and the amount of points determines your sentence to within a fairly narrow band. It's certainly not the "6 months for one group and 20 years for another group" that you talk about.
Ohhh, you sound so confident! Give it some time…
> Don't clean & organize!

FWIW I basically did this: My thesis numbers were run on a branch based on the unstable version of an upstream project that was going through a major refactoring. I took a tarball of the VCS tree at that point in time and posted it online. Over the years 3-4 people have asked for the tarball; nobody has ever come back to me with any more questions. I can only assume they gave up trying to make it work in despair.

I think I tried to build it a couple of years ago, and it wouldn't even build because gcc has gotten a lot more strict than it used to be (and the upstream project has -Werror, so any warnings break the compilation).

I think it's definitely worth doing, but I think you need to be realistic about how much impact that kind of "publishing" is really going to have.
some of the answers I gave are the only correct answer.

if somebody was going to go straight to proposing a probabilistic data structure like a bloom count and could code up a simple example in 20-30 minutes, that is also OK (and would lead almost certainly to an immediate hire).
I don't think you're wrong. But there is another side to this argument.

Owning makes you responsible for things beyond your control. If the factory in your town closes, you're underwater no matter how smart you were about picking it or diligent you were about maintaining the house.

Similarly you can't really do what you want with it. You better keep it cream and beige coloured! And that's all you can buy. No one builds small homes or castles. Just identical units. Everyone must have a lawn, it must be one of three shades of green and cut correctly etc.

It also forces you to care about things you don't really care about: you have no problem with minorities living next door, but what if it effects your house price? The same for infrastructure your town needs. You know we need a free medical clinic but what if poor people hang around when you're showing the place?

It has the same effect on services: tax rates MUST be lowered because you can see them before buying. Internet speed is irrelevant because no one knows how bad it is until they move in. So no one has workable internet. Americans schools are famously underfunded for this reason too.

It gives you a big incentive to veto all future housing development too. That's given us a very big housing shortages in many places.

The ownership model also makes people much less mobile, limiting their income and productivity, not to mention cementing inequality and effecting nation gdp etc.
Marginal value of money decreases the more money you have as consumption doesn't really scale up. Easily one should take a nice 500k/year job vs a stressful 600k/year job.
Unfortunately in my area (Seattle), they do not. Not in stores, not online. I believe they’ve had them momentarily a couple times throughout the pandemic, but they don’t have a steady supply.
I cant afford to add any financial risk as long as recovery from a costly and complex to treat illness is ongoing.
Trick the program into doing something other than intended is a hack.

Whether someone cares enough to pay a bounty is something else
Sorry to ask you this, and please fell free to not respond. But I have wanted to move to Portugal with my wife and kids for quite some time, but the large number of Brazilians linving and moving there bum me out to an extent. Mostly, I don't know what is the general feeling towards Brazilians in Portugal (I went there a few times, and absolutely loved it, but it was travel, not living). I'm not a fan of Brazilian mainstream culture, mostly. We are outgoing, friendly and warm, sure, and those qualities I embrace and celebrate, however, there are many negatives to Brazilian culture that are widespread (anti-intellectualism, veiled prejudice, sexism etc). I don't know what most Brazilians in Portugal are like, and I know that it will vary greatly, but how much hostility is there towards Brazilians? Every person I met in Portugal was pretty nice, and some were downright great people, and I would love to live there, but I'm afraid my kids might have a bad experience from being Brazilian immigrants in school, etc.
They built a frontend, not a clone
VFX Studio Platform Survey: 60% of workstations using Linux
In the US, you are taxed for the value of your house each year. As it goes up in value, so does your property taxes. It's hard not to be aware of its value :)
The thought crossed my mind, but here is an example that I am not sure actually ends up being helpful but illustrates a point.

Imagine some kind of game with rain where water is collecting on your lenses. You could render and compress the frame, send it over, and distort it further You could even render the first source at 60fps, and the rain at 120fps. Or the first image comes over at a lower resolution, is upscaled, and then the rain effect is rendered at full resolution. The same could apply to synthetic film grain. Compressing a more pristine image and then adding film grain later should allow for significant additional compressibility? Decoupling the rendering into two layers could possibly allow for more resolution and framerate tricks like this? Or even color space upscaling upon display? Would it be possible to send half the color depth in even frames, half in odd, and have a nn up color both frames to their original?
Throw away for reasons.

It’s the first time I’m working somewhere that is doing something I don’t mind talking publicly about; and people may see a point to it.

When I first started developing I loved it all on it’s own. Coding was fun, no matter what I coded. That short lived joy was the entirety of my decision making for my first job. I got an offer in a location I liked and I took it. I didn’t really fit with the company, or the industry; even if I liked the folks I interacted with just fine.

Then I changed jobs as a way of just changing jobs hoping I would fit better. Again didn’t work out like that. Enough iterations and I landed somewhere I fit better in.

I like what the company does, and I can fit within this industry. But comp could be better; and I have concrete reasons in real ways that a better comp could improve my life. But I would be terrified of changing jobs again, and risk not fitting and not liking what the next company does.
Could be worthwhile to check if knowledgeable people tweet about the situation. For example, in my country I follow for Russia and China:

https://mobile.twitter.com/martinkragh1

https://mobile.twitter.com/jojjeols

https://mobile.twitter.com/perssongudrun
quitting is always on the table, thinking otherwise is silly

people evaulate what they are doing constnatly
For clarity, we are not a publicly held company, the EU corp is owned by two entities 50/50.

The business accounts of the shareholder companies (in unrelated industries) were frozen, the personal accounts of the owners of the shareholder's companies were frozen, and any other account related (via email, name, passport, credit card, bank account, domain or corp name) were frozen.

We woke up to 6 "you can no longer do business with PayPal" emails, sent over the space of 30 minutes. You can clearly see the trail: corp one, shareholders of corp one. Corps of each shareholder. Accounts with the same email domain. Accounts of permutations above.
we're talking about the odds of the founder event. My guess is odds are about 1 in 3^{5-6} (3-ish wobble options, five to six wobble sites, haven't looked at the sequence to confirm this. Probably someone can do a better analysis based on codon usage in humans. I suggest doing it as an exercise in understanding molecular biology.
Yes, from the asset test required to qualify you for Medicaid. But if you enter into a nursing facility, for example, then they'll place a lien on the property and collect if the house is sold while you're alive or from your estate when you die (assuming there's no living spouse).

You really want to have a plan for your primary home before this becomes an issue. The asset test is only one concern.
Most people are not making 400k as a dev. People are leaving due to compensation because it is a strong market for seekers right now, and all things equal it is not rational to leave 20k+ a year on the table if you have even partially complete information(which a lot of people do nowadays).
There's a whole branch of CS, bioinformatics, which would be more confused if you did NOT ask the questions with biological structures involved.

The field of string algorithms, or "stringology" as they whimsically call it, is also heavily focused on DNA.

I was planning to study bioinformatics in my youth. Life events intervened and I had to do a regular software engineering degree instead, but I still have an unreasonable love for the Burrows-Wheeler transform.
Why is ffmpeg still using Trac for bug reports? Switching to Gitlab would make it a lot more pleasant to deal with.
Astra Space: Headed for Dis-Astra [pdf]
It would be interesting to me how likely it is to actually find random sequences in the database. Aka how much correlation there is between natural viruses. In my imagination it is plausible that if you take a particular virus that you will be able to find most of its subsequences (with minor modifications) in other viruses. In that case I think that his analysis is sound. On the other hand, if the other viruses appear to be randomly sampled from the set of all possible sequences than his reasoning does not cut it.