skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having never played video games before, I tried Stadia for the Cyberpunk 2077 release. I liked the experience initially but long loading times, and unintuitive menu navigation slowly turned me off to the experience. I ended up playing less and less, and now my controller sits in a box in the closet. I'm not against stadia, as a newcomer to the gaming environment I like the idea that I don't have to keep buying and upgrading a console or PC parts to get the best experiences. What holds me back is the odd interface and the inability to share my gameplay with my actual gamer friends.

All that being said, I wish the best for the Stadia team. The article said several people left and the division now only takes up 20% of the team's time but I like the idea of cloud gaming and hope it continues to get better and live on as the backend of other big games as "Google Stream".
He is most propably Russian, not Czech.
Just hilarious how Google is so celebrated for Material Design (yes because everything, including desktop apps, should be touch-optimized) when their actual product design is hot garbage, like most of their products. GMail won because it was better than Hotmail. That…wasn’t a very high bar. It’s still damn hard to find any given setting for a Google thing, and some have bizarre limitations (e.g. I cannot in any way show my work GCal on my Google Home Pro Plus Max display that I got for free at CES, because apparently Google Apps business accounts are wholly incompatible with “home” products that can only work with personal, non-Google-apps accounts). Most of their products just die a slow, unfounded death. Their public APIs are a nightmare to work with, sporadically documented, and have clients that either don’t work with my version of Python, have wack 80-deep dependency chains (because they were developed, err auto-generated by a Java engineer) and all the developer ergonomics of a St. Andrew's Cross.

Google doesn’t make good products anymore, and they destroy all the value in any company they acquire and actually try to do anything with.
learning to build your own stuff.

its the only way to get quality when it comes to certain items.
lol wtf.. you make a million a year.. i have worked at startups my whole career and the best one, that succeeded big and turned my options into valuable stock years later, the annual comp was like $350k. No, you're probably never ever going to get even close to a $1M/year at a startup. If money is your main motivation, a startup will probably never make sense.

I do agree early engineers get pretty terrible deals w.r.t equity compared to founders or investors, but that's to be expected IMO. A startup does not have the structure in place to plug in an engineer and crank out tens of millions of extra revenue. They typically don't have extremely complex technical problems that need a highly specialized engineer. They need to solve simple problems quickly and a $1M engineer no matter how good is not going to outcompete a team of 5 $200k engineers.
+1 to having physical whiteboards around. They're super handy. I have three permanently mounted to the wall and a small magnetic one that I keep on my fridge.
Interesting to note that the link between emotions and the 'gut' are all over the place in English:

'trust your gut'

'I have a gut feeling'

'I hate his guts'

'my gut reaction'.
Tribune Mag.
It looks like you have a solid financial cushion already. Maybe try working for a year or so, in the worst case, you're likely quite senior that you probably wouldn't have much difficulty boomeranging back (or to a comparable big tech)
What positive story are you talking about? That the Olympics isn't that popular or is "terrible" as the OP describes it?

Who is talking about the people who delivered the event, and who is slandering them in this conversation?

You say "5000km away" but it is the same government.

Have a read through this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
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And I'm assuming that if you don't have a phone (like me) that you can't use it at all? No phone, no phone number...or would a burner number work?
I've seen a bunch of people saying your financial calculations are correct, but I disagree. One person pointed out "why are you saying the optimistic side?"

This _can_ be calculated, and it doesn't seem like you are applying realistic probabilities. This is pretty routine in value investing when you are trying to value a company.

In essence, you multiply the probability of each possible valuation by the valuation, and then sum them up over the expected number of years.

Here's a quick calculator I threw together with possible scenarios what you can modify:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTox68rXDr1r...

At the end of the day, it's a risk reward tradeoff, this can help put things in the correct picture for what you're after. Startups have been said a number of times _do not_ give you the best odds for making money.

Investors, often because they start earlier in the company, are trading more risk for higher possible payoff.

Make sure that you don't delude yourself with probabilities, get actual base rates (how many startups fail in 5 years? How many go public?), and if you have insight to believe this is different, then you should modify that base rate.
Do you have space/opportunity to garden, even if it's just something on a window sill, or pot plants?
Accountants HATE Quickbooks. I wish I remembered which software the last accountant I talked to thought was better. I'd never heard of it, but apparently most accountants thought it was the best. It doesn't come up in search engines anymore.
“How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
What does someone at Senior staff/E7 level do?
You can't measure that without stopping all Beta testers' interventions, which implies allowing the system to actually kill people.
Code Magazine for .NET: https://codemag.com/Magazine
Same!

> homebrew

> making bread

> lock picking

> photography

> every programming language ever

> wood working

Never really done knitting, and oddly i'm not a huge fan of electronics work (I seem to burn myself every time I pick up a soldering iron) but I've done each of these to varying levels!

Started brewing Kombucha as well in the past year or so, that was something fun to brew which I can drink a lot more of than I do with homebrew beer since I don't drink that much anymore.
Yes, I see, it does reflect matters. Of course natural deaths embedded in covid would not be seen, but the invoices to the feds would be larger. Obviously a forensic comparison is needed to see if the states really tried to milk the cash cow?
I took the family to the Mount John Observatory near Lake Tekapo here in New Zealand thru the Dark Skies Project.

It was quite impressive.

As was the considerable efforts the town of Tekapo has gone to in order to limit light pollution with all external public lighting.

Just south of that location is an NZDF training area where one night I was able to observe an object burn across the night sky thru a night vision monocular and a thermal sighting system during an overnight training activity.

The seemingly substantial size and slow speed of the object going across the horizon from east to west was really unsettling, but there was nothing in the news the next day.

Several years later at an Act in Space Hackathon an attendee helped me determine that it was likely a booster stage breaking up from a Vandenberg Air Force Base launch.
For those who just want to see the rule:

> My willingness to judge something should be proportional to how much I know about it.

I think it’s a sound rule. Going to try to remind myself of this more.
In my experience, honestly the advantages of a unit testing suite are extremely minimal depending on your integration test runtime.

However, they're a good tool if for example you're working with a Big Data system, where an end to end integration test will necessarily take an extraordinary amount of time.

For my first job out of school in Apache Spark they were absolutely brilliant. For my current codebase? Not so much.

However, TDD just reduces the number of mistakes I make by an umpteenth amount.

Just because it breaks my code up into extremely short subroutines so I screw up less. Plus writing the unit test itself is a brilliant way to "measure twice, cut once."
I've used Python, Qt and BeeWare to develop an interactive tool to analyse compressed video. It's fast enough that I don't know it's not a native app. You can make some very complex applications if you learn to take advantage Qt's features.

I start with a release of WinPython, then use its command line to make a virtual environment, install `briefcase` and go from there.

I should also add that I found FMan's Build System to be quite easy to do the same thing: https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs-tutorial
I suppose the other way to look at it is if your'e making $1M/year now, and living anywhere close to like a "normal" person, you have put enough away in the bank/investments that now you can easily afford to do whatever you want without worrying about money, without getting paid at all. You are in the position where you can choose what you want to do, with the money not even being an issue. So why even worry about the pay at a startup? If it's something exciting you want to do, go for it.

But if you're happy where you are, and/or primarily motivated by money... what's even leading you to consider these offers, why even ask? If you're hoping to make even more money at a startup, the discussion here seems to say "unlikely, unless you get lucky".
it is not this industry’s responsability to solve the career issues of all other industries. and STEM is being promoted primarily to drive the cost of hiring down, resulting in the erosion of the careers of current workers.
The program in the new language needs to be translated to native Android and iOS code directly in the "app-browser" right?

Your idea sounds really interesting, but I imagine it being hard to combine the two different frameworks. Especially UI elements.
paper gusto is under-rated :P :)
> Use an SSD:

If you can get your hands on a buttload of memory, try using a tmpfs mount instead. For i/o heavy builds it's like turning on ludicrous speed.

> trying to automate everything in a language where failures are silent

set -u -e -o pipefail

> and can do exciting things like call "rm -rf /" when you meant "rm -rf ${foo}/${bar}"

I mean, if you're calling any recursive-file-unlinking thing from Python you face the same problem. Same solution applies: normalize the path (readlink, realpath) and test if it's "/" before adding an argument to the command. (Also don't use -f unless you need to, it ignores errors)

set -e -u -o pipefail
_rm_r () {
declare -a rmargs
for arg in "$@" ; do
fullpath="$(readlink -f "$arg")"
if [ ! "$fullpath" = "/" ] ; then
rmargs+=("$fullpath")
fi
done
rm -r "${rmargs[@]}"
}
_rm_r "${foo}/${bar}"

But I agree with OP that you should use any language you're most familiar with to produce the best results possible in the least amount of time.
Here are some solutions I can think of. No telling if any would work, these are just conversation starters.

1. Socialism. I don't need to describe this because you've already heard of it. :)

2. Extremely general insurance. You don't know how successful you're going to be before you're born, so you have insurance policies for lifetime income. If we can insure against the treatment costs of cystic fibrosis (parent's insurance covers dependents, then they get their own insurance when they grow up) then we can insure against the costs incurred by being born with an IQ less than 160 in an economy that's out to get you if you so much as blink. Is having 159 IQ a pathological deficiency? Well, pathology is relative to your environment. ;)

3. By fixing our existing system. Maybe all of these pointless wars, intelligence agency black budgets and the dead weight overhead incurred by structuring government projects to allocate funding according to the influence of representative districts, adds up and costs us in a way that puts the lower income 50% underwater first. Maybe there's enough to go around, but we're wasting it.
The USPS isn't quasi-public, it's fully public, an “independent” (meaning it has an Presidentially-appointed, Senate confirmed board with limits on degree of single-party domination) federal executive-branch agency.
I had no issues with Google's mail servers, however, Microsoft's let a few of my mails just vanish. They were accepted with a 200 OK but didn't even go into the spam folder. Granted, I'm using an .xyz domain, but still, I think this is hostile behavior.

Another fun story, I once tried to contact a public authority and my mail was rejected. I then tried to contact the postmaster inbox, same thing. I had to use my gmail account and was initially met with a dismissive reply. Only after asking what the job of the postmaster incorporates if not helping users with delivery issues and whom else to contact I got helped reluctantly.
> First mission five space walks.

I stand corrected.
I wrote an OFX client for this purpose. That's the same protocol that Quicken uses. It pulls transactions from my bank and puts them into MySQL. It runs a couple of queries on that data but doesn't do much more than that.
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Reading, writing, studying, programming (my work is programmer but it has been my hobby as well for the past 40 years almost), hiking, weights, cooking, doing nothing (very hard to do which is why it deserves a place), chatting (online and in meatspace).
Interesting that the CDC is guilty of pumping out a bunch of junk papers.
Picked this up on a complete lark during a trip to Israel in 2019. Did a try-dive in what I later found out was one of the best places in the world to go diving.

Got OW certified just before the pandemic (literally in the last week of feb/2020) and though the pandemic slowed me down a bit i'm now AOW+Nitrox certified and did a two week trip to St Maartin last year to dive for my Birthday.

https://adamjacobmuller.github.io/subsurface/index.html

Really fantastic hobby and suggest everyone try it!
Communications of the ACM.
Yann LeCun's 5-year prediction for AI/PyTorch
How about the mainstream explanation? Energy used to be scarce, so high-energy foods tasted good. Now we have plenty of energy-dense and tasty food-like stuff without the actual nutritional content.
Can I clarify - you make 1.5M at a startup? is that equity vesting? or salary / cash bonus?
There's also Fman's Build System (FBS): https://build-system.fman.io/

It's got some very similar features to BeeWare and the author is on Hacker News somewhere...
> makes me angry against the authorities

Maybe you should protest
> the postal service is a fully public agency, the fed is partially governed by private banks.

The Fed is fully governed by a federal agency. (The Fed Board of Governors).

The individual regional Fed banks are private-public hybrids, but they don't govern the system.
"another major beneficiary would be the environment, specifically when operating in urban centers"

But you see, they don't care. If there is no incentive for them to do it, why would they? Good neighborhood-will will pay for a donation to a local charity cause, etc, but will not make meaningful expensive changes to the SOP.

Ideally this is the point where a regulator (of some kind) steps in and nudges the change. We all know what the political problems behind that are - despite mounting evidence of how damaging diesel exhaust particles are to us, and our children.
Fiber is so incredibly important and much of our food in the West doesn’t have much of it. We see colon cancers and diverticulitis in people in their 30’s and even late 20’s nowadays. This wasn’t the case years ago and it’s not the case in Asian or African countries.

But we don’t think it’s genetic because we see diverticulitis in people from these parts of the world 10 years after moving to the West. It’s thought that these places consume more fiber by virtue of eating more roughage.

Fiber + hydration is so important. You need to keep the waste moving. If it’s slow and hard on the gut lining you end up sounding these tissues opening them to disease.
There is a strange bug I've seen a couple of times where graphics, even simple things like scrolling a web page, get really slow even though it's supposedly using the GPU. Rebooting or logging out and in again seemed to fix the issue.

Also sometimes the virtual memory subsystem seems to get confused or overcommitted (e.g. after running a bunch of large VMs in VMware) and from that point on everything is just slow, even if you shut down every VM to relieve the memory pressure. It may be related to macOS's use of memory compression.

Then there are various background daemons (mdworker, syspolicyd, photoanalysisd, etc.) that occasionally wake up and decide to eat all of your CPU while simultaneously hammering your file system. The only effective response, short of disabling the offending service (which is much harder than it is on Windows or Linux, due to SIP) seems to be to let them run their course as they decide to scan every file they can find for the 100th time.

And when your laptop heats up, then macOS starts throttling the system via kernel_task processes that appear to be using all of your CPU.
I'd make enough to retire, and afterwards work part time for fun.

I would never join a startup to get rich. Just doesn't work out most of the time.
They played the shipping forecast at the start of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and it set the scene perfectly for the rest of the show.
There is no solution to self driving that doesn’t involve a black box. The safety of the system is easy to measure. When there are fewer interventions than accidents for a solid chunk of time, FSD will be safer. It could eventually reach 1 intervention per hundred thousand accidents, if you would just let them continue.
While the initial subscription rate is high, the annual renewal, including this year, has been $19.95. However, given I receive this offer over e-mail it is unclear if this other accounts get the same offer.
Forgive the dumb question but where is the source code? I can't find a Github (or similar) link.

Edit: Yes I know I can access the source code by simply downloading index.php but I'm looking for a place where I can file issues, submit patches, view commit history, etc.
Not new, created around 2017 so think of what the climate was
Empirical methods/experimentation have classically taken a back seat to mathematical proofs in computer science.
The Experiment: Two Short Stories
Your demo has a login and has no default values for the credentials.
I feel like this is captured in the popular wisdom: "Don't jump to conclusions"
Is the threat of violence an issue for you, otherwise? Or is it overblown?
Are you suggesting your mother was taking envelopes of cash home and opening them?
Pretty much what @United857 said. I had a successful career, but I'm far of an outliner. I did have luck to be at the right place, at the right time.

My day to day work is around planning, coding, and system design.
The Future of Solo Capitalists
This is a great system, I have something similar on OneDrive. But it is still a hell even for me, let alone my SO who's not a geek.

It works OK for archiving - if you really won't ever need it often, like flood insurance etc. and for those I don't complain at all. However i do have items I access frequently: i.e: Tickets, passes etc. I also wouldn't mind paying an app for reminders (fines, event dates, appliance warranty expiration -or even maintenance checks, ...)

I don't have OCR for free with Onedrive but I'll look if that's indeed a difference, I could move to GCloud. But then again, I'm stuck with my nerdy setup (no offense, I love it :) )
If you know how to take advantage of Qt, then you can make real-time video player, a real-time interactive graph or whatever else you can build with Qt's framework, then deploy it to Windows, Mac or Linux as if it were a native app.
Just copy Elm!
Long-term care and use of digital devices
Not sure if it's just me, I just feel MIT tech review has too many sponsored and political stuffs...
Completely agree. Not giving them 30 mins to learn the position is half the money im making.
Well, you have to define a buffer size for the lexer, for both avoiding dynamic allocations and avoid bowing your memory. A 512 bytes buffer can hold 509 ASCII characters, two quotes and a zero terminator.

I don't know why they did it, but the size makes a lot of sense.
It is not too strong. GP specifically claimed that simultaneity depends on "where you're standing". This is wrong in all reference frames.

As for timing of distant events, GP didn't make any reference to other reference frames at arbitrary velocity, only different positions. In our reference frame, which they were implicitly talking about, the merger (assuming the prediction is correct) was in the past, unambiguously.
My suggestion (which if I had not made financial mistakes in years past I would be doing now) is building my own personal accelerator - basically decide on a stack, find five cool ideas (with some audience) and build the products with at least one co-founder for each idea. When one idea completely misses kill it quick and pluck a new one out. Spread the risk of one idea failing like VCs do but keep most of the upside.
I've always been fascinated by this idea, since surely this introduces a number of other machines that have seen your private key. It is not unusual for the factory default settings on a printer to allow reprints of the last few documents, for example.
Maximum PC is decent, although for some reason they don't have a website. You can preview it and subscribe here: https://www.magazinesdirect.com

If you speak Polish, "Programista" is a pretty good programming magazine: https://programistamag.pl
I believe they are called sealed authenticators. They would provide part of a mechanism to prove a backup code had never been accessed, but I don’t know how you would ensure a code was not used and sealed into a new case.
I don't know of good tech magazines in English.
There used to be some, e.g. Dr. Dobb's Journal (.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal ),
but perhaps that market has imploded.

Wired and other leftovers aren't technical, but there's occasionally good material about computing & society in it (not enough in an average issue to buy it, IMHO). The magazines listed in the other comments that are okay are generally more hardware project focused rather than software technology focused.

If you read other languages, in German there is c't and iX, which are still okay (but were also better in the past, things seem to get dumbed down more and more in general).
The fact that this is the strongest argument is pretty damning. Most startups aren’t offering 1%. And that percentage will be diluted as the company works through various funding rounds. Likewise, if you quit, you generally have a limited window to exercise your options, and you have to shoulder the tax consequences when you exercise even if the company hasn’t had a liquidity event.
Food equals mood.

I tell my cranky kids this all the time. Or, hopefully, before they get cranky, my kids don't like eating at appropriate times, it's like they're missing the hunger gene or something.
Do you have a relationship with your teeth, gut or brain? Because poverty tend to be bad for your physical and mental health.

There is a large gap in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest, not to mention the quality of that life. Poverty is not just a deprivation of possessions, it is a deprivation of housing, education, employment and health care. Increasingly it is a deprivation of clean air, water, healthy food and physical safety.

Poverty is a ruinous gravity well that chews you up and spits you out as a twisted shadow. It traps people in vicious cycles that can last for generations. You can escape it alive, but you can't escape it unscathed.
It's just a way too big market to give up.

Google gave up on China. Maybe there's reason to hope.