skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note: replace old.reddit.com with teddit.net in any Reddit URL and you'll get a less noisy reading experience, especially on mobile.
They also advertise "unlimited paid time off" but your manager has to approve it. So realistically I am not gonna get much vacation.

More to the point, it is strong indication that the management at this "well funded and very reputable" company is basically incompetent as far as "managing down" is concerned -- and/or suffers greatly from cognitive dissonance.

Not that that means they shouldn't take the job, of course. Just that they should have no illusions as to what that 300k salary is really paying for, in this particular case.

Which is: for your willingness to keep your mouth shut and pretend you aren't being lied to. And to be slowly but incrementally pushed to an early grave by the 12+ hour work days, and the damage to their mental health and relationships from not being able to make use of a reasonable PTO throughout the year.

But again, no judgements here. If that's an arrangement you think you can put with for a year or two before justly quitting this company and finding another one that offers similar salary but with reasonably sane work conditions -- go for it.
I slap ads on them since 2012, no effort, people get it for free, businesses get to put their products in front of potential customers. I know HN hates ads but they have allowed me to do drive-by projects that don't require maintenance and are pure passive. This way I can have a full-time job where I learn new things and work with other people without the pressure of running my own business.
I’m not particularly picky or discerning at all when it comes to restaurants, but I also found Wursthall to be mediocre. I didn’t try the sausages, so maybe that was my mistake.
Those are definitely soviet from the naming scheme. The Chinese use a completely different naming scheme

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/row/index.html
You think cars and IoT devices are insecure? We're going to end up with that level of danger baked into every PC on the planet.

Tolerance for that among business customers may have just decreased substantially due to the current war.
Not to take away from ReactOS as a project, this somehow doesn’t make much sense to me, as WINE (and its spin-offs, like Valve’s Proton) is already good enough as a portable gaming platform.
I can explain why the business behind music in particular is troublesome, but first let me just complain about the combination of "Pioneer" and "once DJing became a thing." DJing was a thing before Pioneer ever got involved. Technics turntables outsold guitars in the US at least once in the late 1990s.

With that out of the way, what are you selling, in music? You can sell recordings, but Spotify has made that pretty difficult, and even without Spotify, the margins are surprisingly bad because of all the middlemen. So mostly you're selling live performances, i.e., parties.

Some people go to the party for the music, some people go there to dance, and many people go to get high and/or get laid. The people who love music and the people who love dancing will come back often, and that's not a problem. But the people who show up to get high either don't do it very often, or they're a problem. The people who show up to meet somebody either then date that person for a while or are sex addicts. So again, they either don't do it very often, or they do, and that's a problem.

So there's the demand side of the equation. There's a small number of customers you can build an ongoing relationship with, and a larger number with whom you can't. Let's look at supply. Here it's the same story as it is with movies or TV: there are tons and tons of people who want to do it and are willing to take a financial loss in order to do so. So until you get to a level where you can charge a lot of money, you're stuck at a level where you can hardly charge at all. That phase can last for years, even decades.

If you want to instead consider promoters and event organizers the supply side, everything I said about the customers applies to them as well.

So there you have it. It's a brutally tough business for most people and a cakewalk for a lucky few.
Probably that.

Anything else also would be insanely hard.

Just trying to "store the GPU state" on a system with AMD GPU and resume it on a system with a NVIDIA GPU (or just old GPU and new GPU from same Vendor) is likely around the area of "lets treat it as impossible".
For less than 40 hours a week, start with:

- 5 day a week schedule

- 2 hour turnaround time for questions during core business hours
Oh no, not at all!

Sure, dealing with the problems of less knowledgeable users is sometimes annoying, because 99% of the problems stem from non-compliant monitors/hubs/docks etc.

But nowadays I get weeks at a time where I can do 0 work on Lunar and dive into my own curiosities (that's how I got to the idea of lowtechguys.com), or simply go on multi-city long trips with my bike without thinking that I have to ask for time off from a boss.

I don't look forward to being forced into long video calls where my time is simply wasted so that higher-ups can hear me saying "we're working on it".

The ROI is much higher than you think, time is far more valuable than money.
https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

This is coming and you will soon have any GPU want on ebay for nothing.

Inb4 someone tells me they will just mine something else. Nothing else is remotely able to handle the hashpower without crashing the price of the coin.

https://i.imgur.com/TBouXrK.jpg

That is a list of coins to mine sorted by exchange volume.
It's not a need, it's a want. Oil and gas are fungible products and can be replaced by goods from other countries. Right now Europe just doesn't WANT to change, as it will cost a significant amount of money to revamp supply chains, and vendors from other regions already know that they can charge higher prices. How much is Europe's security really worth?
For folks with no actual interest in cooking, and who live in a place with obnoxiously large kitchens (i.e. USA), they're fine. Also, it helps to be well off, as they're basically a scheme to mark up simple ingredients by a significant multiplier.

People that are interested in cooking are going to have that stuff around, aren't going to be put off by 60 seconds of measuring things out, and like the ability to tweek the composition -- plus making things from basic ingredients increases the understanding of how ingredients work.

Also, for those of us without ginormous kitchens (mine is huge by urban European standards, tiny by suburban American), there's just a limit on how much stuff you can store that you can reliably recreate in under a minute.
I agree: bash scripts should always be the first step what people should try. Usually, the build.sh finds its way into a project to structurally build the system on the pipeline, or a cron running shell to delete some temporary files and so on.
But, it simply doesn't work if you have more than one server. Each one becomes a so called "snowflake", with diverging configuration, installed packages and so on.

A book I really liked is "UNIX&Linux System Administration Handbook" which explains exactly this evolution in thinking that most people need to go through at some point if they want to automate things.

Ansible is not the only approach: I can see a lot of other things popping up in recent years:

- Nix is really cool

- Salt is an alternative for Ansible (but I didn't get it, although one of my former employers moved from Puppet to Salt so it's probably a really good thing for complex setup)

- Terraform/Packer (if everything is on VMs or in the cloud)

- K8s (ubiquitous, omni-potent, but I had enough of it tbh: I need to learn each year new tools and good practices and frameworks are changing constantly, it's like "frontend frameworks of infra" ;))
Not really, cryptocurrency seems to be dying off for exactly the reasons I assumed they would.

The original point was for small and ultra low overhead transactions, not as a way to make money. I am not saying the price is hitting 0 in 6 months or even 6 years, but clearly the original goal failed, interest is going away, and no use case has replaced it.
Lots of great interviews on interesting subjects with experts. This guy deserves way more views!
Oryx did fantastic work with tracking the military hardware during the Syrian civil war. Really interested to read this.
Probably some kind of keto/carnivore diet if I had to guess.
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks. Lots of good personal experiences from chemistry’s golden age.
James Burke's "Connections" series also has books by the same name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documen...
Noteworthy in that they show discovery and invention happen in context.
Thank you very much for the corrections! I haven't read HOPL3 yet, but he probably said similar things in the Oberon book and I just misremembered it.

Apologies for misleading readers!
Cant this just be Epoch 0 and the next one be Epoch 1 and so on?

Adding a designation before the number, or date parsers knowing to separate the first or last digit from the rest of the number, meaning that its not just an overflowing large number its two numbers

Any undesignated timestamp being part of epoch 0
To Explain The World by Steven Weinberg is great, written by a Nobel laureate theoretical physicist for a popular audience.
We have a guy on a 10-hour weekly contract and his output nearly matches his full-time peers.
It's wild that developers get so mad about the possibility of Microsoft locking down what can run on computers, when Apple has actually Done all of the things people fear and nobody bats an eye. Apple now controls 100% of the software running on people's computers via software literally called "Gatekeeper" and can revoke it at any time.
Get asynchronous stand-ups, discussions and accountability for your team with stand.
So it's effectively a gimmick.
"Pay with bitcoin, and if u are in profit, it's gonna cost you a 20-35% extra!"
In a First, Russia Admits Casualties Among Forces Invading Ukraine
> with over-fitted teams (do you really need 40 engineers to build this?)

I've encountered teams that use patterns like MVVM and VIPER, simply because they are designed to break projects into discrete components, so larger teams can work on them.

I have also been told that we shouldn't use advanced development techniques, because other developers can't understand the tech.

The project that I'm working on, has a scope that usually is implemented by a team of 10 or more engineers. That's nuts. It's a fairly ambitious app, but it's just an iOS app. I've done a ton of these, alone. I also wrote the backend; which is not my forte, but I don't like the selection for backends, out there.

I have control issues, I guess...

> I’m essentially an advocate for hiring fewer people and with more precision.

So am I, but that does not seem to be how the industry works.

I remember talking with a startup manager, several years ago, and they told me that the entire industry is based around engineers never staying at a company more than two years; with 18 months being the norm. I know that they had a heavy turnover, during the two years we worked with them.

That has many, many downsides. Of course, you have the issue of "too many cooks spoil the soup," but you also have people writing code that they have no intention of maintaining, so why bother doing a good job?

I have always been of the opinion that we keep teams together for years. It helps them to become "unified," and "move as one." That pays off, big time.

But it also requires a completely different management style from what seems to be the norm, these days, and that, apparently, is too big an ask.

FWIW, I would have been happy with part-time gig work. No one wants to work with us "olds," though, so I have found people that want the work I do, and it is far more than full-time.

No money, but I don't really care.
Yeah, its not gonna plummet. Theres still going to be huge demand. PS5s and Xboxes arent used for crypto and theyre still sold out
This has been "coming" for years, I'm sick of seeing the Ethereum community use it as a way to whitewash their wasteful PoW excess. You and everyone else should stop even talking about it until it's shipped.
I'd could probably do that (in the two years I lived in my flat I never turned the heating on). The problem is my wife would leave.
50% transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin, says Gabe Newell
I'm calling BS on all this.

1. Today we have FSP blobs but in the future we're going to have (menacing voice) Scalable FSP blobs. I consider Coreboot people to be unreliable narrators since Coreboot is feature-poor and isn't free from blobs anyway.

2. Pluton is going to be required for Windows so Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm will all have it. Resistance is futile. (It is really dumb that MS is FUDding themselves by not documenting Pluton.)

3. AFAIK Power10 was mostly finished before the pandemic. The switch from GloFo to Samsung and IBM's lack of experience with the Samsung process is more likely the cause of the third-party IP. Even if it was fully open the price/performance would still suck like all Power generations.
The title here seems wrong. What does "burn more fat" even mean? Everyone is capable of burning 100% of their fat. The article instead seems to talk about generating heat from a specific type of body fat.
Gee, half of the us thinks Putin’s a great guy and a model on the world stage. You must be living in a blue state…. Just move to a red one!
The Roman Empire went from being the birth of modern western civilization, to a people crucially dependent on selling unnecessary handbags to Russian war tyrants.
For every question, it's the positive that should be answered (like Russell asked how do we know there isn't a teapot floating in space somewhere between Jupier and Mars).

Why should we monetize any side project?

Why should we not have activities we do without aiming to extract value out of them?
And that would not be weird either. The economy of Russia is completely different on Monday. How to deal with Russian parts of your company?
I recommend "What is this thing called Science?" by A. F. Chalmers. It describes how science came about and how scientific principles were established. I found it highly accessible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_This_Thing_Called_Scie...
I charge people for my side project and at first I didn’t care about how much I made. After things picked up, I set higher goals for myself and suddenly something I loved turned into work. I no longer have as much interest in my project as I did when I first started.

The beauty of having a side project is that you can work on it whenever you want. By turning it into a business, you can no longer work on your own terms. (To some extent)
That's a good solution for future code, but not for past code. For example, lots of past code makes the assumption that

current_unix_time+1 second > current_unix_time

which won't be true when the wraparound happens.
Looks like this is real : https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-announc...
I wonder what will happen: Ethereum switching to PoS or Tesla having full self-driving.
I have started a petition to restrict Russia's access to American cloud infrastructure. Existing sanctions against Russia don't go far enough symbolically, nor economically, to account for the massive devastation they have inflicted on Ukraine.

My petition requests US political and cloud business leaders to remove their services from the Russian market.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of which companies I'd like to stop offering services to Russia:
- AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- IBM Cloud, Oracle, Rackspace
- Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly
- Cisco, Juniper, F5, Palo Alto Networks

Today I just want to get at least 100 signature on the petition.

Starting next week, I'll reach out to my network to find people who work at these companies to
share this message with leadership.
It has actually gotten much better - head over to Disney+ and watch "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" to see how people viewed computers in the 60s.
"They want rockstars, but they themselves are not that." Yes, that problem.

Zappos is a shoe store. Uber is a taxi company.
OP says after 4 hours of software development work, “they are done” and after that it’s just “obsessive tweaking”.

They also say they started their own business and wanted to work part time at a company.

Who is getting the “4 hours of work” and who is getting the “obsessive tweaking”?

Not sure how these 2 statements align.
I think the parent was trying to point out that if one side abandons principles the other side will be motivated to retaliate likewise, making the outcome of a treacherous race to the bottom becomes far more likely.
Motor proteins are so incredibly cool. Like many others I was blown away by the 3D animated Inner Life of the Cell[1] showing these proteins physically walking around in the cell. Previously I had this idea that cells were just blobs of jelly and somehow they interacted with each-other to produce macro phenomena like muscle movement.

And then you get into the other protein machines like the ATP synthase in the mitochondria [2] (also linked below) which are actually little motors/pumps. And we all have billions of these inside use spinning away. It's just amazing.

1. https://youtu.be/wJyUtbn0O5Y?t=80
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJI
Every renter is already paying the mortgage, just not theirs. What's going to happen when someone figures out how to use squatter's rights for a house they've more than paid for over the years?
What for? Are you planning on having to survive periods of extreme famine and/or cold?
"Konashenkov said the Russian army would return Ukrainian prisoners of war "who surrender" to their families." - I read this as, "and vaporize those who do not in a mobile crematorium".
This is not bad:

In some other programming languages like Python or Ruby we can define class methods or static methods which are bound to a class or type and can be called as MyType.myProc. In Nim we can do something similar by use of the typedesc proc parameter type:

But the boil-the-ocean first chapter, e.g. "what is an algorithm", should fall to the editor's pen. No good book is "for everyone." The first chapter misleads new programmers into the idea that the book is for them while they are beginners.
You might as well just use a 64 bit int if you're going to be changing code anyways

But this blog post is about how code which is already using 64 bit ints can have code which silently truncates. Another case of C's loose handling of types, whereas in Rust there would've been an explicit cast required (granted, in this case the macro expands to having explicit type casts)
Taboo has fallen: EU tightens sanctions and buys weapons for Ukraine amid war
It's not super polished or well documented yet (I think you still need to provision the machine), but guix deploy implements work in this direction, including explicit support for providers like Digital Ocean.
https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix/blob/master/gnu/machine/...
Maybe better is his “The Copernican Revolution”. It’s one of the best popularizations of the history of science I’ve ever read.
At the end of the day:
who cares that IBM wasn't able for whatever reason to supply a open CPU?

If they fail to reliable provide that: sadly shows how weak that platform is

Without any commitment to a future openness that can rapidly become an expensive cul-de-sac for anyone willing to develop for it.
VIC-20, only thinner. ;-)
I'm running a similar setup, but with k3s on Raspberry Pis and an old Mac Mini. For me it's about running home automation workloads (that should stay in the LAN) as well as learning and experimenting with devops tooling, currently working on managing everything with Ansible as well, still not sure whether to use a k3s role from Ansible Galaxy or just k3sup (anyone got a recommendation?) and running one of the k3s nodes on a Raspberry Pi robot I was gifted for Christmas, mainly because I can.

If I did the same on AWS I'd pay a big lot more and that'd cut into budgets for other pastimes. Also I wouldn't get to tinker with hardware and do some of the more exotic things like exposing GPIO pins to Kubernetes workloads, and if I ran home automation workloads there, they'd be useless if my uplink fails.

But if this was work, I'd do things differently for sure.
I think PostScript was considered “too powerful” for its own good by the industry, which is why it was mostly replaced by PDF (initially a subset of it).

With PostScript, you can have a document that renders differently every time you open it (on purpose). Or a file that will never finish rendering or printing, like the infinite loop you mentioned.

PostScript infinite possibilities are cool and cute, but not all that practical for a graphics description language.
I could certainly annotate the fields like you suggest. But that goes against the spirit of Bozen which is DRY.

When I define something as a `StrField` I'm already saying it's a string, so I shouldn't have to say it again elsewhere. It would be nice if Python has an API such that I can write code within my `StrField` class that tells python that `title` is a `str`, but to the best of my understanding this doesn't exist.
They announced this a couple months ago
It sucks that your post was taken down.

I’m very curious what sort of aid you were requesting.

Were you seeking support for the Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine? Or was it a group fighting for LGBTQ rights in Moscow?

Maybe something less obvious … raising money for the families of Russian “orphans and widows” or “healthcare for Russian veterans.”

Don’t answer these questions. You’re not allowed to tell me. This information is forbidden.
ID.me Locked Veterans and Families Out of VA Benefits, Documents Show
> One way we could circumvent this problem is static linking

Out of the question for any app using the GPU.

As that means statically linking with a given GPU user-mode driver version, not being able to get updates or support for any future GPU.
From an employer's point of view this makes little sense. Having to deal with the extra paperwork associated with the extra staff is very expensive and ultimately you get less production output when you hire part time. I think a 4 day week is probably a more likely option for developers to request and attain.

The other option is contract work. There you set your own hours.
The Ford F-150 Lightning’s extended range battery is currently only being offered as part of a $20k luxury electronics package starting at the XLT trim. The XLT is itself a mostly cosmetic $10k lighting package. You have to spend 80% over the base price to increase the battery capacity 30%.
But when you take all their wealth they don't have an incentive to stop it. You want to run up the panic so that they feel forced to do something.