skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment is a brilliant exposition on how anonymity can be good and bad.

I guess you want leave these things behind and don't make them public, you post an anonymous comment. The worst thing that could have happened is that you are astroturfing for Glassdoor but it's harmless and the sincere tone makes me think that you are not astroturfing.

On the the other hand we also have people who will lie, pretend to be multiple people, cause trouble with no repercussion to their characters.

I have this idea of censorship free web where you have your identity stored but not disclosed. So the content moderators can choose to delete your comments but you can un-delete those if you accept revealing your identity.

So in your situation, you should be able to tell Glassdoor, here is our investigation and we couldn't find anything to indicate that the claims are true therefore please remove this comment. Glassdoor removes the comment and if the poster of the comment is still behind the claims, clicks a button and the comment is restored but this time with the identity exposed.

This way, you can have anonymous comments that can be challenged and the commentators have a mechanism to counter censorship as they have the power to override censorship if they are willing to stake their persona.
To your first 2 points: Yes, it's quite possible that some features shouldn't be implemented, and yes, it's unlikely that there is a simple rule to describe all the cases where things should and shouldn't be implemented. But that doesn't mean that they're not drawing the line in the wrong place now; it seems like you're arguing that because something is subjective it's irrelevant.

>> It... Literally does?

> I looked it up on Can I Use. It was for desktop versions.

I answered that after literally clicking the menu item and making sure it worked on my phone. My guess, after reading through https://caniuse.com/web-app-manifest , is that maybe there's something about service workers or background processing that they're not doing, but just sticking an icon on the homescreen, empirically, works fine.
Power is power. To the extent 110V is slower to boil water, it's a reflection of either inadequate power delivery capacity due to the higher currents required, or wasted heat in places other than the kettle. Either way, heat gets lost over time.

You're almost always better off with higher voltage and less current, when given a choice. An obvious exception being when you get shocked. :-P Or when corona losses come into the picture.
sure, it's hard to know without detailed investigation. i mention it only because i've personally had some underlying issues surface due to being unable to play basketball (my primary physical fitness activity) for over a year during covid.
An indicator of that may be the fact that the NSA is in the process of finalizing their selection of quantum resistant algorithms. After that expect those algorithms to end up in the FIPS 140 certification process and percolating into requirements for government agencies to use.

The NSA has an interest in making sure that classified information stays that way for as long as the classification lasts. That is at least 25 years, potentially up to 75 years (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_...) so one could infer that the NSA believes there is a reasonable chance quantum computers will exist and be able to break classical encryption within that timeframe.
Similar discussion to the "The dangers of high status, low wage jobs" post from today. I do think the stress is directly correlated with their financial situation.

My spouse is in a PhD program. Advantages for her are a) her mother was also a PhD with a tenured job and b) she's married to me, who makes $350k a year (and to be clear, she works a lot harder than I do). I can't imagine people putting up with the same bullshit she does as outlined in the article, _and_ dealing with financial issues. Even if she doesn't get that tenure-track job, her opportunity cost for trying is much lower than someone who doesn't have those privileges.
From the article: "I’m not a binge watcher. I’ve never been much of a TV viewer. I didn’t even own a television until my mid-30s. [...] but I get restless if I spend too much time staring into that flickering screen. My wife Tara has a similar attitude."

This honestly makes me wonder "ok, why should I listen to you, then?"

It doesn't help that they then go ahead and give an, at best, oversimplified explanation of why VHS won against Beta.[1] Not a single mention of one of VHS's killer features versus Beta: Tape length. (And calling Windows, of all OSes, an "open operating system"... oh dear, I get the point you are trying to make, but "open" and 90's anti-trust Microsoft in the same sentence is pretty bold.)

Maybe the conclusions are still valid, I can't tell. I remember that what made Netflix so immensely attractive to me, a "binge watcher" of many many TV shows and with many friends who were at least to some extent binge watchers, was that Netflix was the platform that had all the movies and especially TV shows that I wanted to binge watch.

[1] Here's a very good video going into details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60
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Wow. A typical induction hob in the UK is 32A at 230V. 230V is of course the nominal voltage of a single phase, although in practice in the UK the voltage is closer to 240V.

That's only 7.35kW of power. Do you have significantly more powerful cookers?
The theft wasn't for dollars it was for Bitcoin.

If that were done the flip case would need to be done. Say property was stolen, but then it was found out the property was physically sinking because of bad bedrock and is worthless. The government should then pay full value at the time it was stolen, and take the loss on its diminished value. So the people who had the property then don't lose anything and actually benefit from it being stolen.

Would like such an idea with the 71 million, if also it also happened with the flip side. The government would lose money in this case.
But as long as we have fairly effective enforcement of IP law, so that e.g. only the publisher of a popular video game can get away with distributing that video game to smartphone users, don't you still have largely the same issue with concentration of power? You still won't have different parties able to compete in how Fortnite is distributed. The publisher of Fortnite can choose how to distribute Fortnite, but that power is still concentrated with the publisher, and arguably even more concentrated since the publisher would not be subject to power from any particular app store.
I don't know,towards the end ( season 7?) I felt that the makers of Futurama lost interest in the series.
Very poor analysis and argument for sideloading apps. I'm neither in favour nor against. I respect his opinion but the research he did was very poor.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220209201918/https://www.telegr...
Unless you're at the strange faang companies which do intake without finding you a team first: one of your interviewers should be your like manager, who can get these amendments made to your contract, and should know the answer.
High voltage from a Tesla coil not only has low average current, but is subject to the skin effect. So while it can still cause a painful shock to your superficial sensory nerves, not much of that energy ends up in contact with the motor nerves.

TL,DR: you probably don't want to be shocked by a big Tesla coil, even though it won't kill you.
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Yeah, it sounds like the best case scenario to me. It would let us hobbyists and tinkerers have our fun while still effectively forcing Google and Facebook to obey Apple's strict privacy rules.
When that article was first published, I had just closed on the sale of my condo but the purchase of my house fell through because the seller couldn't close on their purchase.

My family had just moved into an extended stay hotel, which had so many people in the same situation that there was a daily school bus to pick up the kids. Fun fact: if you list a hotel as your address, the State of Illinois considers you homeless and tries to give you all sorts of services for free. All the hotel taxes were refunded. The city we were in gave us free passes to the municipal water park. My wife and I laughed - we might have been the richest homeless people in the state. But then we looked at the cars in the parking lot and figured we probably weren't even close.

FYI - we did get a house, eventually. And it's worth about $100k more than we paid last summer...
The Yakuza were in a season 8 episode of The Simpsons in 1997. That would help make it a perfectly cromulent word for a lot of people.
There are plenty of tools like this where going up to the line is much different than crosing it. There's a vast difference between driving your car to an event and driving the few extra meters into the crowd at an event. You can cut down a tree with a chainsaw or cut down a tree onto your neighbours house.

There's definetly an argument that dangerous tools should be regulated to varying degrees. If we're arguing regulations in this specific area you'd probably also be balancing it with regulations that sites can't close an account for reasonable rate automated access and that public research can have higher rates so long as they're not crippling.
The change would more likely be driven by regulation than market action as the dynamic is not one which is readily assessed by individual buyers.

That said, it's regulation which has driven the present problem....
If you're not doing random writes (that is, random keys) an LSM has no write amplification, it essentially becomes a sorted list of SSTables.

I can't think of any OLTP application where the writes are not random (in the sense of relative position in the key space). Either your primary keys are, or at least all your indexes are.

Write amplification is not an issue if sequential writes are orders of magnitude faster than random writes, which is usually the case, so even with that LSMs come out ahead.

Also if your application is read-heavy, you can tune the LSM parameters to have fewer levels (at the cost of more compaction traffic). With B-trees, you have to chase a fixed depth of log_{page size}.
The Bay Area is a skewed microcosm of transplanted misfits.

I'm not sure this is a great surprise to anyone. But the Bay Area is filled with people who:

1) Move cross country to live in the most bohemian region in the entire United States (San Francisco).

2) Often pursue a technology profession. An industry which has an entire nation of career guidance counselors steering introverts to work in.

3) Sticks with it when remote work lets them move home, at little cost.

New York also has major "self-selection" for its inhabitants (wannabe high functioning alcoholics).

It's not necessarily a bad place.

But I wouldn't treat is as a fair and balanced cross section of humanity.

Yang's article is a far more national/global perspective.
I would say of the significant number of tradesmen I've met that owned their own business, practically all worked for someone else. Thats how you acquire the skills to start your own business. I paid two guys to spackle and paint a bathroom, install a vanity and new fixtures. They were the "no experience, but lets start a business" guys you don't want to meet. 2/3 way thru, I stopped them, paid them, gave them one piece of advice - "get a mentor to work FOR". I finished the job myself.
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I strongly dislike the current crypto environment. I just want reasonable priced GPUs again. Oh, and the energy wasted on solving useless math problems is insane.

I do like the idea of blockchain, but so many resources go into cryptocurrencies that make the future of blockchain mold toward this case instead of something more useful.
1) In FB's own words: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/02/meta-is-absolutely-not-thr... so mass media just put the word into FB's mouth

2) On "China didn't ban ...", that's the case for Google and Linkedin China, but it's actually a kind of "soft" ban that the cost to meet the regulatory requirements is too high to afford even for biggest companies in the world.

3) FB case was a bit different. It was never given any opportunity to operate in China, so FB didn't "chose" to leave. We would never know what FB would do if given the chance. Maybe leave all user data there inside the great wall, as Apple does in its special version of iCloud in China.
I like this idea. Thanks for sharing!
Sure because you develop technology while working on achievable goals. As an example, what could someone in 1920 do to help develop fusion power? Pretty much nothing that would be practically useful today. But they had stuff they could achieve which laid the groundwork to what we're doing today.
It's wise to pick a library that can act as a portable layer over implementation details.
>> I think most dads would know what a doula is

> Not in the US, I bet. The only reason I know is that I had a male co-worker whose wife was one.

Yeah, I also feel the term and role could be very subculture-specific, and mainly limited to urban, very-liberal women interested in "wellness."

I've seen the term given brief treatment in some new parent books, but I would not have registered it if I hadn't already had some familiarity.
The high paying vocational jobs also tend to be more geared towards males. Eg. plumbing, electrician, etc. So I wonder if college is the best measure here. I think most people just go to college as a means of making money, they aren't actually in it for the love of knowledge.
Very cool. How did you implement your charts UI? Custom code or are you using a certain library or paid solution?

Where do you get your price data?
Too late to edit; I meant “hard to consider number of patents a metric that describes anything other than the number of patents.”
>We take granted how good VLC or MPC-HC as software are.

Yeah but neither VLC nor MPC-HC really whips the llama's ass.
I agree with @tnolet that it's not the number one stat I want to know about any given company. But, at the very least, it does mean that they were able to convince some people who look at thousands of companies a year and then interview hundreds of them to give them $12M. That's not nothing. Granted, $12M is not a whole lot of money in VC land, but there is some signal in that data point.
Great history of science reporting, I enjoyed reading it.

Errata: The article says "The higher the probability, the higher the entropy and the lower the information content." It should say "the lower the entropy", of course, as the definition of information is the same as the definition of entropy (they are correlated, not anti-correlated): white noise has the lowest probability (it's impossible to predict), the highest entropy and therefore the highest information content, according to Shannon's original Theory of Communication.
And shift-click on a second line to select a block.
Google's privacy requirements on the Play Store are a lot less developer-hostile than Apple's. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that Android and the Play Store are owned by one of the data-harvesting tech giants that Apple's rules just so happen to impact.
>Put the option in the settings, but require a device reset/wipe to activate it.

Hrm. I don't think that actually would be as effective on iOS, reset/wipe is essentially setting up a new phone or a recovery procedure that is meant to be quite easy and near fully automated if time consuming. Which means the bar to social engineering is either very low because it follows the existing workflow and restores from backup ("click this before going to bed that's it"), or if it wouldn't allow restoring a non-root backup to a root device then it really screws the utility for all of us who want root ownership over our normal hardware (me included). This would not at all be a "dev mode" after all, it'd be a more normal Windows/Mac/Linux/BSD use mode including for people who never intend to ever write a single piece of software but do want stuff that Apple doesn't allow/enable.

Still an interesting different potential path.
Sounds like he had perfected the work culture. I hope you applied his life lesson that life is more important than work.
Pyramid schemes keep working as long as suckers keep joining at the bottom. Various people I know who are completely "non technical" have started asking me about crypto. My son says all the kids at school are talking about crypto and NFTs. So I predict the market will soon run out of suckers.
Lithium is not a heavy metal.
I'm basing this basically on the size of the experimental reactors currently being developed like sparc and the ST40. No doubt building larger plants is going to be more efficient, but if the fusion reactors themselves are going to be that small a single plant will probably have multiple ones.

I think fission reactors and ITER have shown the downside of building really large one off reactors, I don't think they're gonna make that mistake again.
I usually give two weeks.

There was one job where I just quit and walked out - management was garbage (like not even present during business hours on the average day when I quit). It doesn't look good to your next employer though.

I always thought it odd that a company will never give notice if you are going to be released but at the same time you are expected to give notice.

I once hired someone that had just walked out on his previous employer, he walked out on us too. At some point it becomes a pattern to look out for.
I never got much mileage out of mind maps for note taking or knowledge management despite giving it the old college try. I do occasionally use them to collect my thoughts (pulling together a state of the union, if you will).
Please please please try to find good outgoing non-techy roommates that you can tolerate while you are at this age. Even better if they are good with girls. Do not live alone just because you can afford to do so. Try to spend as little as possible of your salary and regardless of the market buy a house/apartment as soon as you can. Live in the smallest room.

There are plenty of excellent places in the world where you can have a reasonable quality of life for about $10k/year, your goal is to have that covered from your real estate income. Go do that as soon as you can, travel slow. Overnight trains, house/pet sitting, couch surfing, 'etc are all good things to try.

Try to find a remote job and never touch your salary income again, keep investing it. Do not mention your net worth to anyone.

You will find in a few years that "DevOps" is a very finite skillset so there is no real need to push so hard as you'll know most of what you need to know in about 3 more years if you do not already.

No reason not to have a social and romantic life and great weekends. I'm quite confident your employer and less talented peers are exploiting your age and willingness to put in long hours.

Don't be available after hours and avoid being on call as much as possible.

You only get your 20s once. Make memories.

Money is important but you need less than you think and is never a worthy goal in and of itself. You can convince yourself of this by reading up on behavioral economics. Optimize for quality of life. Have a FU-money number, reach it, and bail.
Because of Poe's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law):

> Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

(the original phrasing)

But it works for other things as well. When a position is known to be, or believed to be, accepted by a significant number of people, and someone expresses that position, without knowing them it's impossible to tell if it's sarcastic or sincere. Even if it's presented in a somewhat exaggerated form, there are people would still hold some of the views the GP expresses.
One take is that many people spend $70 for a TV package, if they quit doing that they can afford $70 worth of streaming services.

Another is that there is nothing special about Netflix other than being an early mover. It might not be for you but Disney has a meaningful brand and the future belongs to meaningful brands.
Live boot on the smallest USB drive you can find, surveillance cameras at points of entry. If you see trouble coming, swallow the drive.
Who wouldn’t prefer to stay home if they had the choice? I could spend my days traveling, hiking, going to the beach, reading, working on hobbies, learning new skills, cooking, etc.
Okay, then it's like arguing that a rail cartel is okay because people have cars, which are better in some ways, except for the ways they aren't - that is a mitigating factor, but doesn't make it okay.
Developers creates things users wants, developer hostile is ultimately being user hostile when you are large enough. Being developer hostile can create gains short term, but that is mostly when you are a fringe, when dominant parties starts being developer hostile it starts hurting everyone as the tech sector as a whole becomes less effective.
The video shows them unboxing the pair of headlights out of a box with Chinese characters on it[1]. It made me look on AliExpress to see if they sell knock-off Bugatti headlights. Actually they sell look-alikes for other cars, e.g. a Honda Civic [2], so I guess these guys looked hard to find shapes that match the original.

[1] https://youtu.be/bwUnIN5RLm0?t=1379
[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003214053321.html
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unless you work at a unicorn and are fully vested, i would imagine you would find this very difficult.
They aren't: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/02/meta-is-absolutely-not-thr...
Of course enthusiasts exist, I'm just skeptical that women knowing the names of fabric on their furniture is at all common under a certain SES level, at least. I've seen women care about and know the names of fabric in curtains, use those kinds of words to describe them, and shop using those words, in multiple cases. I've never seen it with furniture, but I also don't know anyone who can/would spend money on interior designers, go to the scary rich-people (for very small values of "rich") section of Nebraska Furniture Mart except out of curiousity, order custom or trendy vintage furniture et c. The most sylish and best-looking (but not most expensive) furniture I see in my regular life is from Ikea.

I can't even say for sure I've ever sat on a chair that wasn't just some undoubtedly-very-cheap weave of polyester or something else along those lines, but that's because my friends and family range (in background and attitudes, if not in income) from the Fussellian low-prole through his Middle. I'm assuming there are interesting fabric choices in the stores (or parts of stores) that no-one I know shops in, but there don't seem to be out in the po' folks' sections, where the majority of people shop. Doubling (or more) the price of a couch to get a kind of fabric worth remembering isn't on the table for most people—except, yes, maybe enthusiasts or people rich enough that that's the only kind of furniture they buy.
> Who are this people? ARe they poor farmers or rich dudes on islands?

You know, there are poor dudes that live on islands too.

Like one of my friends. It's a river island, it's only about five kilometers to the nearest cellular tower, and as you might guess running fiber across a major waterway is out of question.

So we built a 20-meter tower with a 1.5-meter parabolic dish on top just to get 3G-ish speeds on the site.

Quit the condescension, please.

There are a LOT of people living in such environments. Hell, when we were doing rural cellular in Africa, it was like three days over non-existing roads to get to the installation site. No electricity, only satcom, and that with 1-second rtt. Starlink is the best thing that could've ever happened for those applications.