skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Probably Voltmeter) With Magic Eye
That would be much more elegant than something like libxo.
To Boldly Go: Star Trek and the Split Infinitive
"Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective"

https://computinged.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/computer-scienc...
Nice little site: Amiga / retro computing, woodworking, home cinema... I'm into these too. Was "Hutchhikes" yours (in the "geekpics")? I've got one from 1988 (since 1999) but thankfully never crashed it.
Not the person you replied to, but it's because manager's will never truly fit into a project. Most people don't want to go against the manager, or question decisions made by the manager.

Even if the manager specifically says "Hey everyone, give me some feedback. Be open and honest" - That's a trap. No one will ever actually do that, because if you bruise your manager's ego, they have the power to make your life a living hell.

As someone who has worked with managers who did tried to get too involved in projects, they just become a dictator. Since the manager will play an oversight role in the project, any small issues will be visible to them at all times. Normally, the team could work out small roadblocks on their own to keep stress low. If the manager is involved, they'll often try to "make themselves useful" and slow things down. Let's not even mention manager statements like "Hey guys, let's keep a note of this so we can work on restructuring our processes in case this happens in the future"... (Because everyone loves redrafting SOPs every 2 months, right?).

A good manager is one that stays out of the way and lets you do your job. Having a manager on a project kinda feels like that episode of The Office when Michael comes to Jim's party and everyone was just kinda standing around awkwardly.
Mac developers run code that runs on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS, that is why they are Mac developers.

Otherwise they are just UNIX developers that don't care which POSIX platform they are actually using.
You've cured my ignorance. Thanks.
I work IT in a manufacturing industry. Over the last 10 years, the plant operations have moved to almost 100% Spanish speaking. There's also Portuguese, French (Haitians), Igbo, Xhosa, Swahili, Afrikaans, and whole host of indigenous languages spoke out there (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Chol, who knows what else) ...
The average defect rate for all cars from 2-3 years old in Germany is 4.7 percent.

The Smart Fortwo Electric Drive performed best of all, with only 3.5% showing any defects.

BMW's i3 was not far behind, clocking in with 4.7 percent.

5.7% of Renault Zoes presented with defects in a below-average result.

The Tesla Model S. 10.7 percent of the model showed up for testing with a defect of some sort.

Not only was this the worst EV in the study, the Model S placed third-to-last out of all cars.
And it's hard to say whether that's just the local market for engineers or if a large employer nearby is pulling minority engineers at a higher than average rate that skews the local market for the rest of the potential labor pool.

In your example, I might question the lack of ANY other minorities in that company. In my local market, for example that 10% Black engineer number is way over-representing, but I'd expect ~30% minority for an average engineering organization.
> An in your face “be saved or suffer” religiosity. One that deeply informs the lives and realities of the residents, in a way that makes elites uncomfortable

When government social services are ineffective or had broken down, the little churches in communities like that is often the only thing which keeps the community together. Family issues, an old person is sick and needs meals brought home, a place to meet.

Yeah it makes the people across the river pretty uncomfortable. They like to have their abstract model of a poor victim they support but that often doesn’t jive with reality. Most of them wouldn’t even dare walk through that neighborhood.
If Google Play wasn't a monopoly (read as: if Google was forced to include say at least two open app stores not related to them on the Android main page), they would think twice before bullying developers. I'm sure the folks at F-Droid would be happy to host the app, but what's F-Droid exposure to non technical users?
> The test is right because it tests for the fact that lower case letters have a smaller representation as an ASCII character position.

It's the other way around, though.
I doubt there are many (or any) other languages besides the very peculiar case of English-post-Great-Vowel-Shift that pronounces [i] as the diphtong [ai]. "Omicron" may be pronounced "oh-MY-cron" in an English context, but it absolutely is not elsewhere in the world.
This seems to be precisely what the article says.

> The attempt to use computers to assist in racial classification tasks has helped sharpen the issues because computers can't deal with fuzzy concepts. If you try to define an ethnic code that is logically complete, consistent, and determinable for every person using current technology, you find that you can't.

> There seems to be a silent conspiracy to deny the existence of mixed racial groups in the United States. Most such people have acquiesced to this conspiracy and don't even think of themselves in those terms. Instead, they go along with the idea that they are members of one of the races recognized by the government. In fact, they often identify with a traditional race that represents only a small fraction of their genetic heritage!
I want fastsitesthatdostuff.com. No blogs, no portfolios. Give me sites that actually do things, are quite tidy in size, and are blazing fast.

- https://www.webpagetest.org/ (322kB)

- https://gutenberg.org/ (298kB)

- https://archive.org/ (441kB) [chained JS modules means it's still slow however]

Any others?
I always wonder a bit about this sort of polling. I felt pretty awful for the duration of the pandemic. If someone had phoned me to take a poll, I’d have declined, because I was stressed and miserable and didn’t want to deal with anything more than I had to; I really did nothing other than work and walk aimlessly for a year or so. If I’d somehow had to answer a poll on how I was feeling, I’m not sure that I’d have been honest; when you feel really bad, it’s often not the easiest thing to talk about.

I’d be inclined to trust data on diagnoses here more than polling on how people are feeling. Though that’s imperfect, too, of course. But polling on how you’re feeling seems really hard to do properly, because how you’re feeling will feed into whether you consent to be polled and how open you are if you do.
Recreating the Shortest Math Paper with Rust and WASM
Rule of a thumb: If a person brags how much he/she works, he/she likely doesn't work a lot.

Double, if the same person also an activist fighting for equality and 'fair' compensation. In such cases you're likely dealing with a hypocrite who should be terminated on the spot.
Do something.

Sounds cliche but people are the conduit for change.

Even if you only write your politicians you did something.

Even if you only call your politicians you did something.

Even if you walk door to door with a petition and get signatures you did something.

Even if you organize a PAC to support candidates you believe will treat this seriously you did something.

Even if you start a trade association to get manufactures to commit to supporting these policies with their own dollars then you did something.

All of this might seem like too little or too unrealistic but it’s something.
Yes, most of the faults he raises are in where Peter Jackson's movies diverged from the books. Tolkien, he repeatedly says, had an excellent grasp of the calculus and rationale of war. And to the GP's point, most of the realities of war, as long as we are dealing with biological entities in earth-like conditions, apply. Movement of troops, logistics, centers of power, etc apply as much to Middle-Earth (don't know why they referred to an "unnamed world") as they do to ours, as long as armies are relevant. The siege of Helm's Deep is a case where the armies are explicitly relevant.
Game theory is fun, if you are into math.

If you want a pop sci introduction, Tom Schelling's Strategy of Conflict is great.

It won't help you do any better in strategy games, though.

A big part of the reason for that is that two player games we play for fun like Star Craft are inherently set up as zero sum games. From a game theory point of view, you just minimax and are done. (You might need some randomisation to be optimal.)

The really interesting parts of game theory are non-zero sum games.

See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tJQsxD34maYw2g5E4/thomas-c-s... for a review.
Plot holes are everywhere in stories, serious or not.

People who care about plot holes and internal consistency are the exception, rather than the norm.
I am always very wary of obvious. If you say it's obvious, you say it needs not be explained which I already have a problem with. What is obvious, obviously varies across places and cultures. Most statements are oversimplifications of issues for purposes of communication. What gets thrown away in that process is generally quite political. How you say something, how you present information has an effect on the way an information is perceived is what living in a society that has had newspaper, radio, TV and now online information should have taught us.

Now you say "obviously if you have the talent for X then the harder you work at X the more likely you are at being successful doing X". I don't agree with this statement. It is just describing one possible path, an ideal cycle of work and reward, not all possible paths. It is absolutely possible to be good at something but not interested in it for example. Although what about all the people that had no particular talent for a domain but through work learnt to be reasonably good (which I suspect is the common fate) should have we quit because we had no "natural talent" ?
The original paper is shown here: https://paperpile.com/blog/shortest-papers/ , whose counterexample was computed on a CDC 6600 mainframe in 1966.

The source for this page can be found at https://github.com/CarlKCarlK/shortestpaper .
Sure, it’s not “MIT+”, but coreutils is one of the main GNU things. If you replace it with a non-GNU version, a non-GNU libc (musl), non-GNU binutils (llvm), etc, you could imagine a usable Linux distribution that would be inaccurate to call “GNU/Linux.”
Though Rogan may be spreading false ideas around, he is incomparable to the MSM making up stories and misleading the public in the last decade or so that I've been monitoring. There's a reason Rogan has audience in the millions. People have lost trust after being lied to repeatedly.
In that case why not write

h g f x

and keep the ordering of functions the same between the different syntactical structures.
I think there's a difference between being good at math itself and having a mathematical mindset. You can be unfamiliar with the (largely arbitrary seeming) rules and operations of maths while still being able to appreciate and reason about other types of algorithms/relationships.
Do apps really need to read back strings they omitted?
that is beautifully said
Imagine that a private company bought an entire city. Should we take away people's right to protest in that city, since doing otherwise would be compelling speech by the company?
Yes, the UX deteriorated over the years. DA was my main source for desktop wallpapers and Winamp skins until newer repositories sprang along, such as wallbase/wallhaven and most recently webamp as highlighted by a recent HN post.
D’s way is far superior because as the caller you don’t have to worry about whether you’re calling a method or an external function, it looks the same. Not sure it would be possible to tack this onto a dynamic language like JavaScript though
I’m one of the author’s “front row” people who lives in northwest DC (in Ward 1). He’s not inaccurate with his observations, but the article is also reductive, superficial, and exhibitionist. There are white upper middle class elites who live here for years inside a bubble, but the far more interesting and rewarding life here in the District is when you integrate more. That’s a story of DC that never gets told, unfortunately.
Kinda? It's on a scale. Where I grew up (London[0]), the concept of culture was that everybody brings their own, and it's cool to have a whole load of different cultures living side-by-side. In Germany, it's a lot more like you're supposed to become German, culturally.

It's much more obvious when you go through the immigration process and have to learn about 'german' culture, and by that, they mean a certain type of white west christian german cultural traditions.

[0]: I don't know if it's still like that.
content-based storage is not "instead" of TCP. It's a different solution for a different requirement.
I have a fabulous System76 Linux laptop
I once had an interviewer tell me that he loved working there so much that he was happy to go to work every single day. Even when I explicitly asked him if there never was a single day where felt less happy he denied ever feeling anything other than pure joy for work.

At that point I concluded that he was either lying or unable to relate to people who are not happy all the time since he was supposed to be the supervisor it was one of the reasons to decline the job.
I believe that when you do a cluster analysis of people's traits or their genes, you do find categories similar to race.
I don't see how that negates my point, a failure of a State Government is still a failure of the US. India works in a similar way, but when we here news about bad infrastructure or sanitation, nobody blames the State of Maharashtra - we blame the country.

The US doesn't just mean the Federal Government, it means every local and federal authority that runs the country.
I've seen this advice many times before.

While I do generally agree, it can easily become an excuse for not thinking things through from the start.

If you have the wrong architecture it might be very difficult or even impossible to optimize performance later on.

Also: If working on a project for a client, performance can be difficult to sell when the feature already works. But that feature might break when it's put under load.

My advice would be to always have performance in mind. But otherwise to stay away from "optimizations" until they are needed.
Meritocracy means those who have lucky breaks early in life (schooling, opportunities, etc) earn compound interest on those choices.

If you could give everyone a "merit metric", and you had two options, one scoring 45 and one scoring 50, you'd chose the one scoring 50, without realising the the adversity the one scoring 45 has endured to get that far means they'll be operating at 55 or 60 in a year with the right environment, but the one that coasted at 50 for the last 10 years will continue to coast at 50.

Someone whose parents coached them in IT skilled for 14 hours a week for 10 years could have a higher "merit" score than someone that picked up 90% of the skills working on their own in 2 weeks, but would likely not be as good a hire
Demand reflects consumption opportunities

People kept receiving salaries, and unemployment benefits. So financial position and income of families was always strong

There's no precautionary savings cycle.. People engaged in financial risk taking by buying houses like never before
Why doesn't k means clustering help? Maybe we'd even invent new racial groups for everyone to get mad about!
They are comparing it to the housing costs, not just abstractly calling it too little.
No, as race is a social construct. There is no agreed upon and objective definition of what black means or white means.
Agreed. We desperately need a few large scale public projects. But the country (US) is so divided that no one’s going to agree to anything that selectively benefits one region over another.
Do you live here? Or are you just accepting your own bias and the author’s two days of walking around as all there is to know about DC?
I do not believe I have that power.
OK, so it's glued together - heat it up, release the glue. Yes, it does take different tools and techniques to deal with glued parts, surface mount solder and so on, but it is certainly not impossible to do. If my repair guy said hey, 50% chance I'll break it, but I'll try to fix that $1000 out of warranty paperweight for $350 that Apple will fix for $1200... I would simply like to be able to place that bet. Apple isn't taking any risk.

> This is not a problem in practical terms.

This is a problem when I cannot buy a standard (not custom) power amplifier chip because a manufacturer deal prevents the manufacturer of the power amp from selling to retail distributors. This is why I have to buy cheap knock-off parts most of the time. The original part would cost $7 and the cheap knock off is $3. The labor - $200. Why take the risk of having to fix it again because of the cheap part?

Every argument against right to repair requires you suspend common sense and buy into some scenario where reality doesn't apply. It's absurd that people are forced to replace $1000 phones over $7 parts, and even more absurd that a farmer has the same problem with his $1 Million combine over similar component level repair issues.

Apple sells some parts now, and the prices make new devices attractive.
The rules of propositional logic (or first-order logic) would seem to fit: i.e. that fact that "A and B" has the same truth-value as "B and A", or the use of modus ponens as a deduction rule. These rules are usually left out of axiomatic descriptions of mathematical fields.
Anecdotally, I think the companies where the focus on these sort of virtue signal things is the highest are those the least subject to market pressure. A trucking outfit competing on price is not going to waste money on a diversity officer or whatever, but a Canadian retail bank can create all sorts of elaborate bureaucracy and rituals without fear of having to actually compete.
Be careful. There's a big difference in impact of modest inflation like in the US at the moment vs hyperinflation.

The Fed handled the monetary side of the pandemic reasonably well. Inflation overshot a bit, yes. But it's far cry compared to when they caused a slowdown in the housing market to become the Great Recession in 2008-ish.
As a manager, your main job is to make your ICs effective at doing their work.

That means you need to be dealing with poor performers, rewarding with outstanding performers, trying to improve uneven performers, managing expectations from your management and shielding your team from the vicissitudes of your bosses as much as possible, fighting for things your team needs while shielding them from the demoralizing realities of working for a big company where HR and IT etc. don’t give two shits about the actual mission (if applicable), keeping an accurate budget, making sure your team is individually recognized for their success but that you take the blame for their failures, responding to changes in direction and getting your team on board, being the face of management even when that’s unpopular, and doing all the other little things required to keep the team going as effectively as possible.

There’s a lot of work to do there, and it can be incredibly rewarding when it’s going well and incredibly frustrating when it’s not.

It can also mean you have days when your team is working all out to deliver and the only thing you can do is order pizza and keep distractions away. Those are boring, often frustrating days.

It’s not for everybody, but that’s what I think a good manager does. I think it’s often easier when you manage a team and aren’t an expert at what they do (although you still need to understand at a relatively deep level), since that minimizes the chances of you trying to dive in and solve the problem.
> This is exactly what math as a subject in school teaches you

Does it? My encounters with it at any place of formal education have all been about memorizing and practicing arbitrary operations. No intuition required.
That is working though.
Due to how long they’ve been making the S now I’d say it’s more likely to be a couple of specific manufacturing issues, like the wishbones and dipped beams mentioned.
Conceptually, I agree with you - but the reality is that many of the skilled jobs you describe take a long time to get trained. Power line technician is a 4 year apprenticeship.
I wouldn't cause the failure. That is risky to my rep and potentially illegal. But I would through neglect allow it to happen.
> Consumers are not forced to buy those phones either.

There are no alternatives on the market, so this is not an option.
Yes, however they aren't clearly delineated, which is the point OP is trying to make. You can have categories, but you can't assign individuals to them because they have lots of overlap.
I don't know if it still exists, but the comprehensive TÜV inspections in Germany used to create a sort of grey market for US military people stationed there. Personal vehicles for US military were plated by the US government, and weren't subject to the TÜV. So you could get otherwise nice german cars at bargain prices, with the caveat that you had really no idea why they failed. It could be something like emissions issues, or something safety related, but subtle and hard to find.
I can see this project really taking off.

It has two advantages on the GNU version apart from just memory safety with Rust.

1) Ease of portably building. Just type ‘cargo build —release’ and it will just work, even on Windows.

2) MIT License. A company can take these and distribute them as part of a commercial offering without having to worry about GPL compliance.
First, the link should probably be to the full report

https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/data-science-language-and-job-...

Second, this is data scraped from Australian job listings. So the title should probably reflect that.

Lastly, this data seems a little odd. You’ve got month-to-month swings of 20% or more happening here. This data source seems extremely noisy and I don’t think there’s anything you can reliably say about a trend here.

I think others in the comments have pointed out why, if it were real, you might see this overall trend and why it doesn’t mean salaries for the same role are falling.

This looks like a fun side project, but I would be careful reading anything into the results.
Ask HN: A high-value paid developer training?
So far I have just picked up books or learning projects and that worked out pretty well for me.

This year, my employer offers a handsome training budget.

I find most of paid trainings not worth it for a senior developer (compared to self-study approach which I prefer).

Have you attended a paid training which is expensive but well worth the money? What did you like about it (compared to just going through a book on the same topic)?
race is strongly correlated with major continental population groups; e.g black-identifying americans have roughly 400x african genetic markers vs white-identifying, forensic anthropologists can identify the continental ancestry of skeletons at ~80%, etc. it is of course a human and particularly bureaucratic taxonomy so it breaks down at the margins, but it points to something that exists in reality and can be used to establish useful correlations (for instance, medical issues) on average.
I was also called an "Iraq and Vietnam shill" by similar types before those wars.
Huge discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30087147
Keeping people out of unemployment is good. Longer spells of unemployment make skills 'rust'.
Yes, it's exactly the same but different speeds.

People with savings and salaries got a nice 7% wealth tax this year

The government, with it's massive 20 trillion dollar debt, got a nice 7% write down on the debt, so they can quickly spend this voucher again in a matter of weeks.
Solar superflares hit Earth multiple times