skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some senior engineers will be “coding machines” whereas others will be much closer to “architects” or “tech leads” where shipping a lot of code is not the most important aspect.

To be fair, most senior engineers should be involved in code reviews regularly, so it’s very unlikely they are incompetent coders.
This is an inspiring story, thanks for sharing.
Nice to see so many similar minds around. Of course I also have my procedure. Mostly gimp.
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Eventually you'll figure out it's all meaningless, no matter if it's big or small.

Find something that you enjoy doing, like you would enjoy a nice puzzle.

Purpose is all in your head.
> For instance, sewage solids from cites in are sold to farmers for use as fertilizer.

If this was human waste wouldn't it have to be treated to remove chemicals viruses? Couldn't you get HEP-A from this process? Seems impractical and dangerous.
It's a bit backwards looking in that it can assess known quantities.

But far beyond 'Black Swan' events it's hard to account for innovations, geopolitical shifts, things that change the dynamic.

Plastics, the dishwasher, women in Engineering and the workplace, the birth-control pill and Rock and Roll combined to shift things in ways we could not put down in math, at least beforehand.

But the biggest 'black hole' is that it does not account for consumer surplus: we only measure what is bought and sold, at that price. We don't measure the leverage gained by consumers for cheap fashion, the benefits of more variety in goods, more vacation, shifting to bikes from cars etc..

The data is still a beneficial area of study however.
And if you make $10 on each of those that's .1%. Or even if it's only $1 that's 1%. So be it!

I don't want to encourage shitty design for pennies at any level.

Stop making shitty shit.
“Hey, did you just get hit in the head and now feel sleepy/confused/nauseous?”. Nailed it!
Thich Nhat Hanh was a zen monk, and the zen word for "retreat" is "sesshin," so you you might do well enough with a Google search like https://www.google.com/search?q=sesshin+near+me&oq=sesshin.

Near Oakland there is San Francisco Zen Center (in Marin and in SF)—you might reach out and ask them for recommendations.

Also near Oakland you have many Tibetan organizations like https://gyalshen.org/ and https://nyingmainstitute.com/.

If you want to do more research, you can easily find directories like this: https://buddhiststudies.stanford.edu/resourcesother-resource.... There is tremendous access to teachings in the Bay Area and a handful of fantastic monasteries within 100 miles.

For effective teachings, I recommend: https://pointingoutthegreatway.com/. As you're getting started, it doesn't really matter what you do, but if you want to progress along the path quickly, I have found the Tibetan "pointing" style teachings to be most safe and effective by about an order of magnitude.

Realization Process is also very good, and not strictly Buddhist: https://realizationprocess.org/schedule-of-events/

Finally, https://sfdharmacollective.org/ is an incredible resource and people there can guide to whatever might suit you.
> turned down a offer to buy a 33% stake in Apple for $50K (about $260K today).

Isn’t that $260k off by a few of orders of magnitude?
I'm pretty happy to see people being filtered out by vaccines.

This guy is on the "top of the food chain", yet to me he is not smart enough to get a vaccine. It's well deserved.
> But there aren't enough developers with that skillset to fill the open positions, so instead, they throw it over the wall to another team that improves the security.

The best- run companies I've seen with respect to this have regular and frequent security audits and assign tickets to the team who wrote the code, sometimes even to the developer who wrote it. Also, security is built into the continuous integration as much as possible.
> Why is depopulation not even a consideration as a solution for climate change?

[...]

> Or do the world's largest and wealthiest nations only care for their hold on economic power?

It would be very easy for depopulation to be suggested as a solution for climate change without adversely impacting the wealthiest nations (well, I mean, if it was implemented as suggested—actually suggesting it might provoke damaging blowback.)
Pitfalls of Time Stamp Counter (TSC) usage (2015)
Several years ago, I've seen an opening where a company was looking for someone to "lead their engineering effort". When I applied, they asked me to pass a hackerrank test. I said, thanks, but no thanks. It's obvious that such mismatch of the role description and the methods of finding the right candidate can only mean they are either incompetent or lying. None of that says anything good about that company.
I agree with not adding unnecessary e-waste to the current crisis. But perhaps you have someone in your life that could really use a laptop? You could get them a gift if they're interested in the laptop
Try F# + Fable instead.
Time is half of the appeal though, the other half is randomness. If I had a nickel for every time I assembled an outfit or three around something so outside of my normal, I'd probably have a few bucks. It's delightful to find a funky 70s coat that you can work with and spend a few hours running around.

Also the cost factor is nice. My partner works at a local thrift and getting steep discounts on top of the already reduced prices is amazing. And whenever something outgrows my wardrobe it's back off to the donation bin (wear providing)

Sizing is tough though, you're right. My body is outside being sized for most clothes so a ton of otherwise good finds just won't do (but that's what traditional shops are for filling). Thankfully my partner has a similar sizer torso so we can share tops, jackets and whatnot style providing. Organizing two stuffed closets is a bit tricky however

There's always more stuff to dig through and finds to discover!
The #1 problem with C is buffer overflows. The solution is pretty simple:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

and does not break existing code.
I'm glad people are working on this problem. Typescript's compiler performance is certainly a weakness.

Other commenters have rightly called out the complexity of the type system as the reason why this is difficult. The other reason is that Typescript does not have a formal specification. The tsc compiler is the only reference for the correct behaviour. It would be great if the official compiler and these reimplementations could share a common test suite to ensure compatibility.
Economic incentive? Every billionaire on earth would gladly give up their fortune for just 100 extra years, and they'd probably be a billionaire again within a decade.
I think the OP meant that 50K of dollars then are, after inflation, worth about 260K dollars now.

Not that a third of equity in Apple is worth 260K.
B.S. Story. This happens every year. CO2 for drinks etc is always in short supply in the summer because it can only be made cheaply as a by product of ammonia production, which slows down in the summer due to no demand.
> I'm just demoralized that low birth rates are stigmatized as they are correlated with lower GDP

Low birth rates are correlated with higher GDP/capita; concerns are raised about them because they have a (decades delayed) effect of population aging producing a drop in the ratio of workers to those two old and infirm to work.
I think it's fair. You should review your opinions a little and try being more humble and adult about it. Losing a high paying job for a vaccine is a bit ridiculous.

But in a way I'm happy you got fired. I'm sorry.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic but big screen TVs are affordable, no need to sell a kidney to get a decent OLED TV. Also if you regularly watch movies I can argue its cheaper to buy the equipment than pay the ticket prices, especially if you have a family.
Why would you put out ads for senior engineers when you'll make them perform code monkey tasks?
> Wouldn't it be cheaper to just push forward with the robot thing rather than some decades-long (Real ID started in 2005 or 6) super-complicated social engineering project?

It’s not super complicated, it’s just the natural consequence of an elite in power wanting to stay that way. You can see it as some kind of class behaviour. It has been going on since as far back as we can see, e.g. in Ancient Greek and Roman societies. People are being replaced by robots, as soon as it makes financial sense. This itself is really not new, and has caused issues since the start of the industrial revolution (see the various textile labourers strikes over the last 2 or 3 centuries).

> If you were optimizing the world and were actually evil, wouldn't the world look a whole lot different than the uncoordinated mess we have today?

It’s uncoordinated because it isn’t actually a large conspiracy by a couple of evil masters of the world. It’s a result of everyone in a position of power acting it their own self interest over time.

> Why do "we" need people to feel pressured to do anything when frankly it's just easier to rule without a giant underclass you have to constantly fear?

Mechanisation has been a more and more realistic strategy, but this is very recent. You still need people to make stuff. Also, “the underclass” is not going to disappear on its own.

> It actively feels like everybody is looking for someone to blame for the state of the world when really the world is just the result of a whole bunch of people with a whole bunch of different hopes, plans, and dreams, many of which you might possibly disagree with.

Exactly. That, and the fact that some people’s hopes and dreams depend on them exploiting other people.
Fast access to regional AWS endpoints from Cloudflare Workers
How often do you actually need this?
Canvasfactory.com spammed me with unsolicited framed prints
Isn't it how the general software philosophy is? A composition of decoupled, do-one-thing-well pieces working together to achieve a larger task?
Regardless of any bludgeoning you might perceive: one's decision to get the vaccine can be entirely apolitical and is a civic imperative.

The GP's failure is a failure to perform their civic duty.
The only thing I don't like about subscription is rent-seeking. I'm fine paying a small amount every month if I expect security updates or small features that won't impede my workflow. If there is a lot of request for additional features, you can always bump up to a new version. If there aren't, that means your product is mature, or you may need to market to a different segment. But I'm not paying you every month just to shuffle the UI around or to be able to access my data.
If you actually read the standard, you will find out that this turns out not to be the case.

The C standard is (or maybe was, quite possible that the compiler mafia removed that bit as well) very clear that standards compliance is not sufficient for a compiler to be "fit for purpose".
I think a small part of the unfairness in the gaming industry comes from exploiting desperate workers. To think how much gaming means to these people, how long they’ve been immersed.

It’s well known that it doesn’t pay to be a developer. I don’t doubt there will always be enough passionate employees to do any type of menial grunt work as long as it somehow involves Mario.
Great for parents, devastating for kids often (some cope with a lot of therapy).

The kids lose a family unit and now float between two where their place isn’t even certain.

I’ve met many adult fucked up by that experience as a kid.
This looks like a very niche tool with one-off usage pattern. Seeing it being sold as a subscription makes very little sense, at least on the surface.
I think it depends heavily on the CEO, company, product, rest of the team, and rest the management.

An accidentally popular product with its own momentum can survive for awhile with even atrocious leadership and often other levels of management can make up for or mask the abilities of a CEO
Docker and docker-compose make maintaining stuff dead simple to me. In like 95% of the cases it's just a matter of changing the version in a YAML file and running one command, and in the remaining 5% of the time I'm not concerned at all with some downtime because I'm (mostly) the only user.
The article mentions various projects parsing TS, e.g. esbuild and TSC. Are there any in the JVM ecosystem? I know Google Closure does, but the code is pretty inscrutable. I've also tried using the ANTLR4 TS grammar, but it seems pretty out of date. In particular, I'm interested in parsing TS type declaration files, so just a TS subset.
I used BEAKL as well for a few months but in combination with a 5-column split keyboard (so you don't press enter, shift etc with your pinky) there was too little for my pinky to do (which caused other fingers to do more than needed).

Of others have similar issues I would recommend you to look at a split keyboard first (but switching layout is great too).
Honestly, the biggest crime that F/OSS committed was to peddle the belief that a software engineers’ time is inherently less valuable than that of a civil engineer or a chemical engineer. And yes you can quibble that F/OSS isn’t to blame, it’s really the fault of corporations who profit off of the shoulders of giants! Well you are free to feel smug in your glass house while benefiting from all of the industries who don’t share your tightly held scruples (medicine, chemistry, aerospace etc.)

Just because precursors to my work didn’t feel it necessary to sell said work doesn’t mean i should feel bad for selecting a different course.
AAIB Alauda Airspeeder Mk II, loss of control and eventual crash (2021)
How cool. He should try the new "Easy" CAD software we shipped with our latest major release in December. It is a breath of fresh air and much more streamlined & intuitive workflows compared to our classic CAD Software he is used to.

Reading your comment made me really happy. As a dev I am always excited to have contact with our customers. Other hate it, but I love giving 3rd level support.
I think someone should fork a new language from C++ and remove all the stuff that could be deprecated.

I don't mean to make a new language like Zig or rust or nim. I mean just a "saner" C++ without all the backward compatibility that is holding back the language.
> Whereas for Russia it is a near and existential threat, that they have lived through several times.

I think people tend to forget that detail a lot of times because the history of the WW2 Eastern Front is many times only presented as an after-thought in Western historiography. There are some mentions of Stalingrad, the Leningrad siege, maybe the Kursk tank battle on more technically-inclined web forums, and that's about it.

Granted, a lot of the details of the war are either hidden somewhere in some Moscow archives or have been burned to the ground in Germany during the final stages of the war, plus the people who went in that meat-grinder, more exactly through that hell, were not as "interviewed" (for lack of a better term) post-WW2 as compared to the people who had been active in the Pacific or in Western Europe. To say nothing of their (lacking) media presence, in fiction or not (there are countless documentaries about war in Western Europe, less so when it comes to the Eastern Front).

I was fortunate enough to have known a close person who had been a soldier on the Eastern Front (he had been active on the Axis side). He and his comrades went through hell, multiple times. Everything around them was hell. I can only imagine that the view from the other side was pretty much the same one.
Yes, but after the initial monoliths of mainframes, we had a golden era of operating systems, where all of the plumbing and infrastructure to run your applications was maintained by someone else (Microsoft, Apple, Commodore, Atari, SGI, Sun, Palm, Redhat, etc).

Now we've come full circle back to the bad old days where you need an entire team of dedicated people and arcane knowledge just to run your application software again.

I suspect that this will continue until we reach a point where the big players out of necessity come to an agreement for a kind of "distributed POSIX" (I mean in spirit, not actual POSIX). These are exciting times living on the edge of a paradigm shift, but also frustrating!
I hate fn+arrow as an alternative to having real home/end/pgup/pgdown keys. It's probably the thing I hate most about my blade laptop.
Word has the same built in scripting language as other Office applications, and you can use its object model if you like, as well as access anything else that a Windows system can do.

I don't know what the explanation is for people not liking Word, but it can't be "because I like writing code to produce documents and LaTeX is the only option for that".
Talking privately to researchers, in China, may mean the government knows, which may effect social credit.

This would not happen elsewhere, and thus, is a valid question. Would this effect, uniquely, reported numbers in China?

Thus the parent post made a sensible logical point.
The thumb cluster of Ergodox is really shitty for people without large hands though, and the Moonlander isn't much better.

Plenty of alternatives though.
They also didn’t produce as good work as before the pandemic. The boredom of being home kills the creativity (Yes, I know, “not me”), the reduced communication killed collaboration effects (everyone became more siloed), and a lot of people got depressed. There is a reason why people pay more for butts-in-seats.
Not kill myself/not be killed.
The pandemic will never end. It’s endemic and has several animal reservoirs. You will likely catch it several times over the next many decades of your life.
I simply cannot imagine giving another person this kind of power. If you’re going to risk such a catastrophic failure of the rest of your life for a neuro-chemical experience, heroin seems safer than romance.
This process would be a good candidate for point source carbon capture and storage. Unfortunately CCS seems to have mostly been a red herring so far, but if it's going to work anywhere, this is a perfect application.
My developer friend stopped working as an engineer because he found out he can pass those interviews with no preparation and the job takes way less effort compared to software.

He's now doing two jobs at the same time and the companies don't notice he's barely doing anything but appearing in meetings.

YMMV

Big corporations are incredibly wasteful, so I'm not surprised.

I also know plenty of developers who do little at work, but at least they need to produce a substantial amount of code, at the end of the day.
The story of Fritz Haber first wife is very sad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Immerwahr
I would just answer: ad buyers are Google's clients, and users are more like fodder. Not an original thought, I know.

I would be interested to know what major users of Google's advertising services think about the quality of their services recently.
> They could have just moved us up to the starter tier and given us a large enough pricing credit that the billing system will never charge me.

They could - but that's still work, and who will go to bat for this when there is other revenue-generating work to be done? "I kept non-paying-users from having to pay" isn't exactly promotion-packet material.

I commiserate with you - I too have a grandfathered domain (or 2), but 10+ years of ad-free services (email, Docs, GCloud, etc) for free in exchange for being Guinea pigs for a bit is a fantastic deal. Our utility as early-adopters was valuable at the start - now we're a disposable inconvenience. A vanishingly small number of "Free for life" deals are honored for life.

Edit:

> I design and sell software, telling me that Google "doesn't have the resources" to solve this, holds about as much water as a colander.

You misunderstand me: Google has the resources move every single paying customer to the free tier - if they choose to, but that is unlikely. They are equally unlikely to do replace revenue-generating work with something that doesn't move the needle: it's a question of motivation, not resources. For the software you design and sell, would you prioritize a feature only used by someone you donated your software to over your paying customers?
I declined.
Why can't I put time on the Y axis?
For the German and French crowd I can recommend videdressing (more on the luxury side) and Kleiderkreisel.
It ignores the fact that this is UB.

It is not just "possible", but exceedingly simple to comply with what is written in the standard and generate code in that situation. For example:

Writing beyond the bounds of an array whose length is known is apparently UB.

int a[4];
a[2]=2;
a[6]=10;

To generate code for the last line, use the same algorithm you used to generate code for the second line, just parameterised with 6 instead of 2.

What was impossible about that?
Ah, I see the reason for the confusion. I thought you were an ISP, not an end user.
This has as much to do with him not understanding what bleed means and the customer service falling back to standard responses.
Same here; one user, only email, with all other Google account functions on my primary Google account (which, conversely, lacks Gmail as the login is a non-Gmail address). I'm still expecting to have to either migrate or pay up, but if anyone gets grandfathered in it's people like us.
Your two sentnces are not the same thing.

Drinking != excessive consumption. Telling us drinking is not stigmatized, is meaningless.
Hardware defects are often worked around by firmware. It can be things like adjusting current drive or lowering the clocks conditionally to mitigate EMI. It can even check the serial numbers of the hardware to determine what to do for the pieces with inferior quality in order to pass QA and increase yields. If customers get to find out what kind of defects or which batches are inferior, that would imply costly consequences for business.
A Google Maps link to the Kioxia Yokkaichi Plant
In practice it's _worse_ than that because you probably don't want a "long", you probably want a particular size like a 64 bit integer. So you have to add ifdefs to call either strtol or strtoll depending on the size of "long" and "long long".

And if you are using base 16 then strtol will allow an optional "0x" prefix. So if you didn't want that you have to check for it manually.

Strtol also accepts leading whitespace so if you didn't want that you have to test manually for it.

Don't pass a zero base thinking it means base ten. This works almost all the time but misinterprets a leading zero to mean octal.

Good luck!
Fastcopy is no longer the fastest copier and it hasn't been for quite some time now. It can's even beat robocopy /mt in mass file copying and it is barely on-par with it when copying larger files. And on SSD and NVMe drives fastcopy is not even a contender.

Its edge was that it used different copying strategies when copying between two spinning disks and when copying within the same one. This was a novel idea back in the 90s and it's a good tool, but its time has passed.
CVE-2022-0185: Detecting Linux Kernel vulnerability causing container escape
This works because electrolysis equipment is cheap, so shutting it down half time barely increases total cost of ownership compared to the input electricity.
Performance of stocks Robinhood pushed to users through their IPO Access Service
Funny, there's a mandela effect about that...

i and many others remember Objects in Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They are...which I think is how it goes in the song... instead it's always been ....Mirror ARE Closer than they appear.
Dangerous game? Football clubs look to mine fans’ cash with crypto offerings
Well, he left a family behind, but refused to get vaccinated.. So maybe it was that.
This sounds wild and frankly I don't believe you.