skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've certainly been places where I've been out of cell reception for days at a time. Not frequently but I also wouldn't consider it some weird anomaly.
I do wonder; at some point, Google said they would penalize websites that show their crawlers something else than real visitors.
"Built with ConvertKit"

My guess: the author never tested it, saw a bump in email subscriptions after adding it, so they kept it.
Longtime lurker, but thanks to everyone. I get so much value and enjoyment from this community.
Can you elaborate so that I may regurgitate your response in an interview? Thanks :)
My company has four IC titles, the description of which includes typical experience, with credit for graduate degrees. When we went from two titles to four, I was assigned the highest title, and joked that it was another way of saying "old".

I would be level 7 under Daily's system, making more than I do now, but then what's my monetary incentive to improve? Younger, less experienced colleagues can literally set a countdown timer to their next promotion/raise.

It feels a bit lazy, to be honest. Some people have commented that it will lead to coasting. The alternative that I anticipate is up or out: you're a level 5 performer at a level 7 salary. You might be happy at a level 5.5 salary, but sorry, you're out.
It does, at $20B cost. A simpler JWST that takes advantage of the large fairing of Starship will cost less and take less time to build
People hate X11 and apps that use older toolkits but I can move Windows around my under powered PinePhone in real time all day long on Fluxbox.
What does this distinction mean to you, and which of the two is more significant and why?
You need exercise and a healthy diet to lose weight. Sure you could sit on the couch all day and eat very little and you'd probably lose weight, but you'd have to eat so little that it probably wouldn't be possible without developing an eating disorder. However, if your diet is really bad, eating way too much sugary food, then yes, exercise alone won't really help much.
Ugh... why do you have to do this to us Microsoft?

I log into a Microsoft account anyway, but I always make it local first because signing in with my Microsoft account during setup would always name my user folder as my first name but missing the last letter (I don't understand why.. my name is only 6 letters long).
Maybe keep it to yourself if the game plan is to half-ass psychoanalyze someone and then bail when asked a follow up question?
One of the co-authors here. Demonstrating inference on a neuromorphic chip can already be challenging, especially if it contains analog components. This is a way to make this kind of hardware "useful" on a given task. Of course learning on chip is the holy grail, but given that this kind of hardware has potential latency and power-consumption advantages for small (event-based) data, a general way of optimising the weights is pretty cool, I think.
Using www-authenticate for user authentication
There's a reason WHY people disabled WU. Microsoft might consider that, before going with heavy-handed approach.
It is so “philosophically” because the larger your set, the less inner structures it has (the larger your set the less you can say).

Akin to “you cannot say much about a genus but you can say a huge lot about a species”.

Of course this is a very rough explanation if at all.

Edit: there is much more to it, obviously, than my lame comparison.
It isn't obvious that mining goes away at any cost. Personally I'm in the "do both" camp. Have a simple carbon tax, but also find some inoffensive way to get rid of the mining. Both sound hard.
Culture. Big players produce a body of professionals who are used to certain practices, and when these move to other companies, the practices propagate there. Especially if they make money - but even if they don't; as you see from the number of companies that employ a data engineer when they don't have enough data for one.
Gaming on Linux is as bad as it's been in a long time and is only going to get worst because of anti-cheat systems.

Visual Studio is on more platforms than Windows and not even the preferred IDE of most devs on Windows unless they are doing .NET.

FreeBSD does not excel on the server side. I don't know any companies that even use it and I spent the last decade consulting with hundreds of companies.
Physical console games are quickly becoming a relatively niche market
This was submitted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374909

I don't want to rehash all the arguments from the previous thread, but it's clickbait, none of the migrants were tortured. The author is referring to another even where they chartered a flight for CIA captives.
I am the same. Grew up with the Internet in the beginning of 90'. I have my phone always on silent and notifications mostly disabled. I work on a computer and online all day and have no issues with 'going away' from it. When on holiday I don't check personal email for a few days and work email - never.

When in company I find it disturbing that people pick up their phones to check messages/notifications, etc.

I still remember the time when it was not polite to talk in public on your mobile. Phone ringing in public was frowned upon. Much changed :)
Novak Biddle Venture Partners is based near Washington DC. Their portfolio includes several defense and security startups.
I can't hardly be bothered to check email when it's relevant to do so.

If the people I care to talk to are in the room with me at the time, I don't need to get on my phone. That's not always the case. Sometimes I will stick my nose in my phone in a public setting, and it's not intended as a slight. I just have a fancy in my head about something I'd like to go read about.

However, this is more to my point. My separation from the internet has never needed to be some all-encompassing effort. I have never thought about needing to make sure that there is absolutely 0% access for an extended period. If I go on a multi-day backpacking/camping trip, it's not to escape the internet, it's because I like being outdoors.
It's not worth it for you perhaps; for others, international companies, it can be very lucrative to operate in or through Dubai.
Do you need to divulge your whole work experience? You can just share the last 5-10 years ( most relevant), and then you wouldn't be put up for jobs you don't feel up to.
Have you considered SBIR loans?
My home fileserver has drives from four different manufacturers after I 20 years ago had bad experiences with closely correlated drive failures (the infamous IBM Death Star batch)

I've never deployed anything without at a minimum mixing batches, and usually vendors since.

We avoided data loss, but had a tense two weeks while cycling drives out as fast as we could (we had backups, but having to shut everything down to replace drives and restore would have been massively costly)
Zoom is bad enough. The day someone sends me an invite to a Meta meeting I'm retiring.
Interesting. I'm surprised to hear that. I've never once had a problem, but its installer is weird. Figuring out how to select the target disk is always strange. Other than that, though, it's the same as any other installer.

The thing I really like about Fedora is how recent the software is. I also prefer dnf to apt.
I run Debian as my development desktop here at my small company for embedded systems stuff, and run FreeBSD for my database, file, and network servers. Also run Windows for office stuff. Only major OS I don't run at work is MacOS (and Chrome OS), although I do have an M1 MacBook Air at home for personal use.
You wax poetically about UAE (mostly emotion, little fact), then remind the reader that it is an Islamic dictatorship.

Why would any intelligent person ever set foot there? I'd lose over half of my current rights as it stands.
Yes, we have FreeBSD desktops in use and our infrastructure runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and illumos. Linux is also in use but it has mostly been banished to SmartOS zones for those few applications that refuse to run on other systems than linux.
That is a horribly relevant thread.
AWS Guide for Startup Founders
That is not true. See https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES...

Sorry, as a commenter on this pointed out, the comment I was replying to was probably talking about eMMC. For which indeed no wear levelling is specified by the JEDEC standard - it is a standard that defines the communication protocol between a device and a host system. Newer JEDEC standards define the interface to access vendor specific "health reports", the actual method of wear levelling isn't regularly disclosed by vendors.
That math applies to literally every other profession.

What one would need to do is to train less PhD students and have more scientific staff instead. Maybe one should even get rid of the current structure altogether, and just hire people as "scientists" and/or "lecturers" after their master's.
It's inclusive in R, Julia, Matlab, Fortran and presumably most languages use 1-based indices by default.
I really enjoy a pairing or mobbing session, but I haven’t figured out a good way to integrate a key part of my process.

I usually attempt an aggressive reshaping commit history as I find it allows me to re-evaluate and improve the code, but it also allows me to craft a PR that can be understood commit by commit (and even split out unrelated work to prevent big PRs).

I appreciate reviewing small PRs that tell a story (and revisiting a nice PR years later for context), so I put a lot of effort into it.

Often it’s an exercise in tedium that doesn’t really suit 10-15 min handoffs when you’re stuck deep in a rebase and it gets tougher when the commits are all “WIP,” but the biggest thing that bothers me is that doing so often clobbers the other devs contribution if the commits have been sufficiently remixed, and I want their contributions recognized in the history.
Supply and demand at work I guess; if it's easier to get project managers than developers it becomes obvious which one should be paid more.
I think most people want both. What would make you think otherwise?
I'll tag along as well. (But I happen to think pair programming is a beautiful thing.)

Code reviews in real time, in situ.

"White board discussions" in real time, in situ.

Learning how someone else codes/debugs.

These are all worth the price of pairing up engineers in my mind.

If we're talking agile development, I would love it if all engineers could get paired up for at least one sprint a year. Especially less experienced or new to the team engineers. I suspect it will be the pairing experiences that foster the most professional growth.
Love this site
But the comparison isn't social media, it's "all screens". I'm definitely more on the side of social media platforms being problematic, but claiming BBC dramas are as bad as TikTok feeds is just nonsense.

> Rock music and books are not similar.

The issue isn't rock music, or dancing, or books. It's an older generation claiming that the way that they experienced things is better than the way the the current generation are, and they're worse off for it, and the younger generation just need to take their word for it (which is exactly what the commentor I've been replying to keeps saying).
I think what I owe to this place is me transforming from a dumb fellow who would say "This ${shiny_thing} solves world hunger & ${everything_else} is wrong!" to "Yeah, naah ... everyone has a point of view and is right from their vantage point"

tl;dr I think this platform made me more humble!

A big "thank you" to the community :)
Would it be possible to take the extra heat from mining and the co2 to make a really nice greenhouse that can use the co2, seems like plenty of space to make it happen in montana.
Just disable javascript and the entire article loads on the economist.
What website would you say is better?
It's good place to be a comfortable service expat, Dubai in particular, relatively small city with world class accoutrements. Break neck change in development and culture. Life's fine for these folks if they behave and accept relatively privileged position on pecking order.
They will need a lot of CGI graphics of the starship flying through the space, cuz this project will never take off anywhere near what Musk is promising.

It sounds like I am overly negative but if you push the hype aside and let only facts speak for themselves:

Orbital refueling - no technical details, just cgi images

crew capacity - no details

ship layout - no details

stage 0 launch platform - no details

life support - ummm scaled up dargon??

raptor 2 - 'its stripped raptor 1 and much better' (still in tests, not proven tech)

refuealing and relaunching withing few hours - Falcon 9 takes 30days!

Optimistically Starship is not going to be ready for human crew anywhere near 5-10 years.

Also someone made a super cut of his 2022 update talk and its beat for beat the same thing he said in update from 2 years ago. Its not a good sign if you havent done anything in 2 years for a project that promises so much in few years time.
> 1. From a simple sniff test, if this were true, then athletes wouldn't need a lot of calories. This obviously isn't true, eg Phelps eats 8-11K calories a day. I personally eat around 3.5K calories a day. If exercise didn't impact caloric burn I assure you I'd be a lot fatter...

I agree and I'm in the same boat. After 10 years of running ~70km/week, I'm eating way more, have dropped 20lb, and am healthier and stronger.

> The implication of this is that somehow the sedentary lifestyle of your average couch potato is the "normal" lifestyle for a body, and the lifestyle of a hunter gatherer is "overactive", and their bodies are chronically tired and trying to reduce their metabolisms. That... seems quite unlikely.

I think people underestimate what being active and excercise actually mean. Our ancestors were vastly more active than we are today. The amount of movement that was required for foraging, hunting, agriculture is hard for most modern people to imagine.

Even the act of preparing the food that was gathered/hunted/harvested was so much more manual and energy intense than what we are accustomed to today.

For most of our evolutionary history basically everything we did was powered by our bodies. Today we have machines for everything, and a high standard of comfort.

It's true that calorie restriction is easier for most people than excercise, but I think it's because.. to put it bluntly.. we've become lazy.
Let's tax stuff in proportion to the value it provides to society

Since crypto is used for crime and pyramid schemes, zero value so infinite tax = ban
I always used BSD for servers when it is an option. Linux distros are frustratingly different from classic BSD/SysV for seemingly no good reason while FreeBSD is "just right" for me. Same for OS X historically on workstations/laptops. I've tried many times to get FreeBSD working well on laptops but since all of my laptops are macs that has been unworkable.

My biggest problem with OS X in recent years is the process bloat. Mountain Lion was the last "clean" version to have a reasonable number of OS processes running, now it's in the mid hundreds (!) It's not just resource usage, it's the attack surface/telemetry leakage. I only want the absolute minimum processes running and FreeBSD still gives me that.
Just because it's obvious to many that you need therapy doesn't mean that any who notice are capable or willing to give it.
Experienced a very similar situation in Berlin. I assume it may actually be a norm. Loyalty to the company > experience/skills.
I've been coming here daily since 2018, before that I use to go to /g/. Difference is that over here I can get insights from highly intelligent people without being called a ret*d.

Thanks Dang
> The hardware itself also got worse. Removal of all but 2 USB-C ports from MacBook Pro was a last nail to the coffin for me.

Small correction, the latest MacBook Pro has 4 USB-c ports and an HDMI port

That said, is this really a big deal to people? Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

I use a docking station with a single USB-C cable to connect my Mac. Everything else connects to the dock. It’s simple, it works, I’ve had this setup for six months with zero issues. Linux computers also work the same way.

When I am working mobile, in a coffee shop or similar, I never use the ports. An external mouse would work with Bluetooth, and I’ve never needed to use external devices while on the go.

I don’t understand why people need a cocktail of barely used ports at all times. Is there a common workflow that I’m not aware of?
I totally respect that, but that's not how you stay relevant for anyone but old-school Unix hackers.
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> Incentives will always be a tradeoff because you can't measure skill.

Oh, so because it is hard let's just stop trying?

You can't measure skill accurately. But you can try to find correlations and you can measure other things that are as much or even more important like... erm... results?
Sure but that isn't what I said. Big data, cloud services smart tech people definitely needs to be paid as much as the smart business people. Compilers, meh.
While I don't dispute the accuracy of your description, there are some conclusions that I wish we as a society would revisit. By your logic that the researchers only work for the university in a very technical sense (and often retain the commercial rights to their work), I honestly don't see how they're underpaid. If anything I question what value they bring to universities at all, and question how much of the inflation of college tuition is driven by this operating model (I know administration is a large part of the increase, but many administrative jobs are tied to the procurement and management of grants).
Worse, they are combined together. Look into the average "metaverse" hype and you're likely to see NFTs/crypto floating somewhere around there too.

Partially this is just that it's still a major buzzword and so buzzword soup things will just have both because why not? But the (well, a) big problem for blockchain has always been the interface with the real world, so I suppose it's natural for it to be quite enthusiastically paired with the idea of a parallel digital world.
Sounds like Texas to be honest. wink wink.
I’m more referring to the culture this would create. If I’m at L3 the only thing I can do to get to L4 is… wait two years. Why would I do anything but the bare minimum to hit that tenure benchmark? More importantly, why would I stick around and wait?
It makes me think of Amazon's PIP system, where managers HAVE to get rid of the lower 20% of performance - whichever performance metric that is. When applied to this, it kinda means - assuming it's x years at the same company / using the same system - you don't get paid more for having X years of experience, but surviving X years of performance review firings. It's X years of not being in the worst 20%.

I mean if using that system I'd probably set the bar higher, but thankfully I'm not.
The first two are good discussions. I used to have an interview problem that was framed around money computations and I always appreciated it when interviewees considered the challenges with doing floating point math for money.

I also don't really expect "reverse a string" to be on any interview except the "have you ever coded before in your life" phone screen.

The last one, frankly, makes you come across as a jerk. If somebody spends their interview time telling me I am an idiot or mean or foolish for choosing a particular interview question, that's not going to go well. People who show up to a design review with a shallow understanding of the problem and assume that the other people are just stupid for not doing it a certain way are terrible to work with. Assuming that the other person has a reason for doing something is a better starting point.
I also thought this years ago, but I didn't foresee what an enormous percentage of the population would suffer motion sickness from VR. And even for the rest of the population, VR headsets are downright painful to wear for long periods; VR headsets will need to be lighter than headphones if they want people to go on long gaming binges. Games will need to have hybrid VR and non-VR modes in order to accommodate players who can't afford VR, or don't have the space for VR, or get sick from VR, or who are sore from using VR too long on a given day, and inevitably one group will start to complain about the other in the same way that controller users complain about mouse users. At best, the tech has a long, long way to go.
Same here, even though in the early years I was still trying to hang out more on programmning.reddit.com. But I don't think that extended into 2008 and I'm too lazy to check now.

Also, checking now I can't believe I joined so soon after this website was announced. Now I wish I had invested in BTC when it was considered as expensive at $100.
> My experience is that people care less about UI than most designers would like to admit.

Users aren't supposed to care about the UI, at all. They're supposed to use it. Feelings about a user interface usually come to the surface when it's confusing, or makes their tasks more difficult to complete.

If you're users never think twice about the design, you've succeeded!
Sure, but these people care about extreme profitability at whatever external expense. Something like that, while nice is unlikely to generate more revenue than spinning up another plant and pumping the CO2 into the atmosphere
What I mean is that "calories in" is not literally calculated by the total energy you put in your mouth, but rather the energy your body absorbs from that. And as you note that might be different based on the food, how the food is prepared, content of the food, etc.

Likewise "calories out" is not literally calculated by adding up your movement & exercise. We know that things like hormonal levels, etc can all impact how much energy your body is expending.
> Do you really still use… USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

Yes.
"NFTs" will be utilized as:

legal paperwork/receipts,

garage access tokens,

home access tokens,

school library reserved room token,

improved certificates of authenticity for collectibles,

augmented reality trading card games,

had to start thinking, so I'll stop there.

Have you deeply considered any of these (the technology part of the technology),

or just today's grifters?

Don't be the one to get everyone to throw away email because of fake princes scamming people through it.
> EU has the Galileo and USA GPS, so why not use Glonass?

There's a good chance that the non-Russians in the area do not have Loran equipment. Further, all GNSS systems basically use the same set of frequencies (E1/L1, L2, E5/L5):

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GNSS_signal

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GLONASS_Signal_Plan

So they can jam these small number of frequencies, and take out their own system (along with everyone else's), but they are ready for this, and the opponent(s) may not be.
To your point of on-chip analog neuromorphic training, there is some recent work with one of the same authors [1] on event-based backprop in spiking neural networks. So far they only have simulations, but this is likely an important step toward fully integrated, scalable training of SNNs on neuromorphic hardware.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91786-z
Or, maybe, it just indicates they prioritize fixing bugs over adding new buggy features.