skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll engage as though this is a good faith attempt to read the complaint, for the benefit of anyone who is interested by this critique.

1. A union purports to represent the interests of a labor force to its management. Those interests are diverse, because the workplace is diverse, but the issues with largest intersection tend to be compensation, time off, and health benefits.

2. In the past several years, there has been an unambiguous inclination for the stultifying, puritanical, logocentric manner of leftist political spaces to also invade and supplant workplace norms and office culture. This goes as far back as Brandon Eich being ousted for making a donation that follows his conscience, but also includes a funded menstrual app startup that has to claim to serve not women, but "people with periods". It's an insane worldview that maybe 5% of Americans agree with, yet it's the dominant corporate culture.

3. These supposedly moral issues (I called them fashions) being broadly unpopular are nonetheless enforced norms. The way they are enforced is through the actions of HR departments, and particularly on the backs of legal theories such as disparate impact and workplace fairness.

4. Unions, i.e. labor relations, are exactly the type of concern that would fall under (3) and therefore susceptible to becoming another vector for propagating (2). That, along with the fact that most Google employees are extremely well compensated, make it reasonable that progress on (1) is not nearly the likely outcome of a union, while (2) is an easily foreseeable side effect, intended or otherwise.

5. Again, evidence of how unions in other knowledge work fields such as journalism, supports this. Journalists have been outed from their positions, without support from their unions, for expressing basic journalistic freedoms. Isn't the union supposed to protect you from being fired for doing your job? Education is another such field where we can see plainly what's happening.

Lastly, anti-racism is a moral abomination under its current critical theory construction popularized by e.g. Kendi, DiAngelo etc. Also, it's not the union's job to propagate morals or enforce them onto labor.
I understand the desire to not use LinkedIn, but for those of you not using who are either interested in being hire or in doing hiring, what’s the alternative?

From what I’ve seen everything else is fairly similar, just smaller scale.

I prefer to work with people who I’ve worked with before, and come in via referrals and to hire the same way, but sometimes your pool of contacts isn’t big enough to do that exclusively.
I don't think Microsoft stack offers a path to like, a mid-six-figure job at a major Silicon Valley tech company. Nor will you me able to leverage much of the SV ecosystem if you're trying to do a startup. In that sense it could be seen as a career dead end.

But there are plenty of solidly middle-class developer jobs in the IT departments of traditional companies, and a robust ecosystem of small consulting firms all around the country; I would guess that your best bet for optimizing lifetime earnings on the Microsoft stack is to grow some business savvy and start one of those.
> I'd be happy if we'd just get over this vindictive need to deprive prisoners of basic pleasures.

I won't argue that there aren't some people who have such a vindictive need, but in most cases where I've had conversations with folks about things like this, it's more that they oppose someone having a similar (or maybe "better") quality of life to what they have, without working to pay for it, and rather being paid for by them. The opposition to these things in prisons seem similar to the arguments I hear from people against social safety net things generally. Not to say these arguments are reasonable, but I don't think vindictiveness is the primary driving factor.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao beats Mukesh Ambani to become Asia's richest person
...until you've done it a million times. Don't forget that we're talking about emotions here; they needn't be rational.
> Ctrl-C Ctrl-V is a career killer for human artists. Why it's not for ML?

Human artists use copy/paste as a tool all the time, and it doesn't kill their careers. The element you're missing here is that jychang wasn't talking about copying pieces verbatim from others' work without permission & attribution, but rather using it as a tool to manipulate your own art ("to copy/paste a layer"). Imagine being able to do the same but with an AI model working behind the scenes to adjust the object to fit the scene it's being pasted into.
Interesting question, but seems unlikely.

If you're thinking of a direct mechanical linkage, you wouldn't want to put it up on the tower because the mass to effectively store megawatt-scale power is way more than you'd want to support up high. Also, since the wind blade usually swivels to the wind, you'd want to avoid the rotational inertia. So, you'd need a mechanical linkage to transmit the power to the ground, maybe installing it under the tower base.

You would not want to use a direct mechanical attachment, i.e., resembling a combustion engine - transmission flywheel, because this would impair the ability of the wind turbine to start. Generally, turbines are designed for minimum inertia to easily start in low-wind conditions. A direct connection would impede that.

Now, we're adding a clutch-sort of mechanism, and that has its own additional complexity, weight, and energy.

Moreover, considering that we're trying to store megawatt-scale energies, we are at a large mass spinning very fast, and probably spun up with an electric motor.

So, it would seem the best way to do that would be to make a flywheel farm, with the flywheels below ground to contain failures. At this point, why locate it in the probably inconvenient location where the wind turbines are located, and instead put it somewhere more convenient, such as nearer to the consumption areas?
If the parent comment to mine wanted to make a point, perhaps look toward movie stars. Although then I personally think the point falls apart.
I got hired via LinkedIn, but it wasn't necessary to have an account to get the job. The position I got hired for had a job announcement on the corporate website. LinkedIn was just another source of job listings. LinkedIN was a great tool for discovering positions, whereas without LinkedIn, I would have missed them.

There is the usual job opportunity spams, which for IT Security is not bad. I have received several initial introduction from recruiters from respected companies.

What I like about LinkedIn is that I can find out instantly if I know someone who already works at the company I am interested in applying. Being able to ask someone about the company's culture can help you make the decision if you want to accept employment or skip to the next one.
DRAM doesn't have program/erase wear-out. The device is essentially a capacitor. There is no endurance limit for tiny capacitors.

DRAM does have a retention limit, only a few milliseconds. That's a drawback.
The difference between a single node backed by PostgreSQL and OpenSea offering an API to interact with the blockchain is that in theory you could interact with the blockchain yourself. It's something like Wikipedia. I could run my own local cached copy by using the periodic wiki dumps. But its easier to go through the live Wikipedia.
It’s probably that none of the other crypto use cases really panned out, as they just drew people who were already into crypto, and you can only sell so many things back and forth to the same group of people.

Then this thing called NFTs came and a lot of crypto people shrugged… until they started hearing Eminem and Paris Hilton and Jay-Z were owners. Then they started to care, a lot.

It’s a circular answer, but people care about NFTs because apparently lots of other people also care about NFTs. At heart it may just be that it made a form of buying assets more fun - and that may be enough.

All we can really say w certainty is that famous people took a shine to them and that’s probably enough to ensure success in 2022.
Does it? Isn't this just re-implementing stuff that works in X11 to work in Wayland now?
Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-)

MS stack will be high quality and used by clients with $$$ for the rest of your career.

With that said, any serious non-MS shop will be happy to have your experience and so switching up stacks shouldn't be a problem either if you find a good team.

I would just apply broadly and go from there.
Also cutting underwater cables. In the news in the last few days as a potential act of war [0], and the real-world effects have already been , e.g. [1]

[0] https://www.forces.net/news/chief-defence-staff-russia-cutti...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruptio...
Interesting - is there any way to audit these courses if you're not an alum?
What's the evidence that stack ranking is unreasonable or that it doesn't correlate (even imperfectly) to merit? I think it's pretty trivial to construct a case that, given pressure to apply resources efficiently and to incentivize growing performance, stack ranking or similar are reasonable approaches.
> how many modern societies are there without corporations running a majority of the economy?

Playing devil's advocate, what you say is probably true on the supply side. However, the other side, consumer demand, is mostly driven by people unaffiliated with corps. That is, families arguably drive the majority of the economy. (That said this argument feels more than a little pedantic, but it must be made!)
I wonder if their next phones will be Made in Netherlands, or where will they buy them from to avoid spyware built into the firmware straight out of factory.

This is the kind of half baked decisions that show how those on the decision chain aren't deep into security and only are into it for the news.
A few years ago when Net Neutrality was a big topic, there was a lot of focus on them. At some point I felt the news cycle was being manipulated as ISPs kept pointing fingers (and I suspect increased their lobbying budget) at FAANG that they were just as bad, if not worse. “Why should we be subject to regulations when these other Internet companies aren’t!”, completely ignoring that there’s a huge difference between the utility companies who provide the actual Internet connection vs ones who provide services via a web site.

Evidently most people seem to have taken the bait, and everyone stopped caring that ISPs are tracking and selling every DNS query you make from their networks.
As people are saying, the read/write endurance doesn't seem like enough to replace DRAM, but this would be a _fantastic_ replacement for flash (and the long-term data endurance seeems awesome).
I'm not a messaging historian, but according to Wikipedia RCS group was formed in 2007. Apple's iMessage was launched in 2011, which means it had been in development for some time.

Especially being Apple, they would not pick an external pre-standard and run with it when they built their success on in-house design and control. It would also be a huge gamble to build around someone else's young standard.

Do you remember phones in 2011? The Android-based phones were wildly different from each other (often flawed in unique ways). There were still popular Nokia based phones. Apple almost certainly did not target "lock in" as their priority when building their phone software. They targeted "stuff we can control which won't blow up in ways we cannot understand or prevent".

(I do admit their focus shifted after Steve Jobs died, but that was later.)

But also realize the carriers were in heavy competition for decades. I've worked with/for telecom companies off and on for a very long time, and the only coordination really happens when one big company buys another and has to try to integrate things.
some will go through the mask (and be filtered).

Kinda like adding a 100kohm resistor in parallel with a 10k ohm. Most current will go through the 10k, but there will still be some going through the 100k ohm.
College debt is restricted to only be spent on college and thus cannot be separated from the expected yield of college. That is an entirely different conversation especially given current and expected future economic circumstances. Then there is the ability to eschew student debt as much as possible by going cheap, going foreign, or not going at all. There is no need for college to be so expensive.

There seems to be a hope that inflation will act as a debt forgiveness, or a gateway into MMT to support progressive spending. My point is inflation will exacerbate wealth inequality which is worse than the gain from the 'debt forgiveness' of student loans and MMT requires high taxes to avoid inflation. Which is fine until you're the one paying those taxes.
I can confirm, my current job plus my two previous ones all used .Net and Azure infra. I don't think it's dead.

I am in the Houston area btw.
Could be separate IPO (so a sale to the public)

Spinning out companies is pretty common. If anything, tech is the odd sector out in the US economy for still having conglomerates.
Interesting!

So two of what I considered indicators of fit are probably wrong. I'll call that a good day. (:
you need to pump water, probably flooding 80% of the mine. Since there are no humans involved 70+ celsius is not a problem.
At least 70 free-floating planets found in the Milky Way
> confiscating books

Deb Alderson's Global Tel*Link is replacing libraries with locked down tablets that have e-reader apps. Inmates are charged a couple bucks an hour for access to the tablet and are limited to 90 minutes of reading time.

E.g.,

https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/11/allegheny-county-jail-li...

https://moguldom.com/241982/exploiting-prisoners-w-virginia-...
To me it sounds gullible and one-dimensional to use the name of some far-away place with a different language system, to blame for every criminal or autocratic problem. Mafia in the USA runs health care and show girls -- poor idiots far away sell hijack tools.

There are smart people in every country, of every color and language.
Just cheeked some levelized utility scale costs for the US:

Advanced Nuclear is of $72/MWh.

Wind onshore $30/Mwh

Solar photovoltaic (PV) $30/Mwh

Lithium-ion battery storage is roughly $180/Mwh.

At the moment, if you want to provide baseload better than nuclear using renewables, the cost must of storage must not exceed $30-$40/Mwh.

(grid baseload is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, something unvarying power plants are best suited for. Renewables require storage and advanced grid to provide baseload.)
Lots of good advice in this thread. One thing I didn’t see anyone mention is how to explain the gap in your CV. Anecdotally, hiring committees are often sceptical about career gaps. The post says you got out of prison a couple of years ago. That’s recent enough that you probably can’t drop it off the end. (As people tend do for jobs that were decades ago.)

I can think of two broad options.

(1) Leave the gap as a gap. Accept that some companies will filter you out and many will ask about the gap at interview. You could prepare a good way to explain when asked and the story might do you favours. But springing a big surprise in an interview can go poorly.

(2) Include prison as an entry in your CV. Solves the gap problem and the “springing a surprise at interview” problem. Probably increases the “getting filtered out” problem, maybe by a lot. But it might also help you quickly discover which companies are a good fit.

Best of luck.
Side question - do you need to reach a certain level of membership with HN to see the downvote button? I may be missing something, but seems that's only allowed for certain individuals.
Do you value money more, or "kudos" from the internet more?

Somewhere there lies your answer.
It would more likely lead to a six figure job at an enterprise company or consultancy. MSFT "stack" is enormous.
"If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground." Lisa Marie Presley =)
I routinely upgrade versions - on AWS RDS this is just a click or two in my case.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...

When you say "complex ride" what does that mean?
I'll be damned.

And i thought dot net has never been as popular as now.

Simple search: https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-this-old...

:)
TBH I don't see how azure is dead end, it's just another cloud provider. If someone told me they manage everything in azure then I wouldn't be worried about them coming to work on say AWS or GCP. If they know the concepts and know how to navigate a platform then jumping to another cloud provider isn't much of a big step.

Likewise C# has been around for a while, sure companies may move away from it, but it will always be used, but again someone who can do C# are probably in a good position to pick up another language as well.
Out of the hockey fans I know, only the really casual watchers are interested in fights and checking at all. The big fans are way more interested in the strategy and statistics and many of them are annoyed when a big fight breaks out and wastes time in the game. If what you were saying was true, way more people would just be watching videos on the internet of people getting into street fights than professional sports.

It's way easier to find videos of car crashes than it is to watch hours of cars driving in circles. I don't understand the appeal of NASCAR, but it's clearly not about the crashes.

> Lets not even evaluate violent videogames.

Why not? You might find that long-term players of games are more interested in good gameplay than bloody effects or the violence itself. I've noticed that games in general are tending toward less violence and blood than a decade or so ago.

I think you are being unfairly judgemental about things that you don't understand.
Thanks! Didn't know this exists
I'm sorry, I got it wrong again, it's LGBTQQIP2SAA

https://oie.duke.edu/knowledge-base/glossary/lgbtqqip2saa

As you well know, the ordering and meaning of these last letters changes. It can't be refuted that the acronym continues to accumulate identities.
Hysteria: Network utility optimized for networks of poor quality
Ask the other students in your class. Professors typically have office hours too.

I think stackoverflow has big data stuff. I really didn't see any difference in resources required between BS and MS.
You are spot on - the real answer is readily available: nuclear. We have reactor designs that if the active systems fail the reactors shut down naturally instead of running away. We have designs that can be burning all that "spent" fuel we are currently trying to bury for 10,000 years (!). Modular reactor designs in particular have incredible promise to provide for infinite scaling (just add more modules as needs increase), deal with the inefficient building, maintenance and decommissioning costs of todays light water reactor designs, and being modular provide far more granularity in power delivery further negating the need for energy storage to smooth out spikes and troughs in demands; allowing energy producers to far better match generation to power requirements.

Sadly I think it will be far more feasible to develop energy storage technologies than hope we can ever get enough people to be rational about nuclear. I mean how asinine is it for Germany to have turned off perfectly working and economically viable nuclear plants to then be dependent on RUSSIA for natural gas? How dumb do you have to be to be to think that's a REMOTELY good idea? Yet here we are (thankfully France seems to be far more rational - you don't hear them even suggesting they plan to be equally idiotic).

Many battery storage studies don't account for replacement/maintenance, or the infrastructure that would be required to sustain replacement/maintenance at grid scale, let alone the resources required to scale up to handle initial deployment of batteries in sufficient quantities to support the entire grid. Where are we going to get the manufacturing capacity, let alone materials? The scale here is pretty mind boggling if you start to do the math.

Our current battery tech is nothing more than a transitory technology - they are far from sustainable long term. Personally I think super capacitors will be our ultimate solution, but in the meantime if these guys really have dealt with the seepage issues of compressed air, this is are next best bet for MASS energy storage at scale. You only have the privilege of worrying about efficiency if you have a working system. Wood driven steam sucked, but it drove the industrial revolution because there was literally no other viable alternative at the time that could have remotely scaled in the same way.

Remember grid scale solutions require MASSIVE energy capabilities. The scale here is ridiculous compared to home or vehicle energy requirements. If you don't think Goldman Sachs took all of this into account before they made their investment - well, you are grossly mistaken. You don't get to be their size by continually placing bad bets.
My toolbox of choice for web scraping is either Nokogiri or puppeteer

Can someone sell me on beautiful soup or scrapy or any of the others? Do they provide any advantages or features that I'd be missing out on?
Give a higher maximum character limit
You will always have storage tiers. The main technical divider between tiers is latency, even if the same way of storing bits becomes the best way for all storage you'll still have tiny low latency cache, small latency small local storage, and enormous latency but enormously sized remote storage. Inside those latency tiers you'll still have cheap lower speed options and expensive higher speed options. This is true even if they use the same technology to store the actual bits as there is more to storage than that. Even non-volatility just falls into cost tiering, 4 TBs of battery backed RAM storage with somewhere to dump quick when the power goes out is a cost consideration vs 4 TBs of non-volatile RAM like storage.
Go read the links I posted. You're just regurgitating whatever sounded plausible to you ages ago and has now become "knowledge" to you.

That poster literally measured particle filtration efficiency (PFE) as the mask exists on his face.

The data, summarized for the lazy:

- Surgical mask worn normally: 79% PFE

- Surgical mask with an ear saver: 91% PFE

- Surgical mask with a brace: 98% PFE

- N95, worst fit: 80% PFE

- N95, best fit: 99% PFE
While I think most people will agree it's not a dead end tech stack and their will be companies hiring for decades to come there's a element of truth here that isn't being discussed.

From what I can see Microsoft stack is used mostly by enterprises that are not engineering centric.

For all of the largest engineering centric companies that pay top of market only one heavily uses Microsoft....and that is Microsoft. Furthermore most VC funded startups also tend to shy away from Microsoft stacks. (Exception being parts of Azure compatible outside of the MSFT stack and other polyglot tools like VScode)

So while I don't think you need to worry about employability I wouldn't recommend investment in the stack to new graduates. Obviously my perspective is limited so I'm curious to hear counter points.
Indeed they were open source proponents for a long time (and are far from that now), but the failure of their messaging platforms matches the failure of many, many of their other product (projects). They just do some periodic financial analysis and decide to cull the projects they don't see a big future in.

True though that open standards are slower and harder to work with because they involve too many people and too much discussion. Apple is almost exactly the opposite example of this, and clearly their approach works quite well most of the time.