skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valuable Staff Engineering is basically the bridge between Product and the rest of Engineering. Product decides what the organization ought to build (based on discussions with customers etc.), while Staff Engineers break up the problem into buildable chunks and come up with a detailed plan for Engineering to execute, including a true understanding of costs and time estimates. Over the life of the plan (from paper to executed reality), you serve as the point of contact for any questions from junior to senior level engineers on how to execute, as well as the point of contact for Product to make changes to the plan as the business changes according to the market.

You are distinguished from Architects, who are specialists in writing said plans, but do not themselves spend much time coordinating between Product and Engineering. If the plan is especially complicated, a Staff Engineer may serve as the technical manager for Architects, who build out and maintain the more complicated documentation, but typically Staff Engineers will write the plan themselves. Staff Engineers will also often write the code for prototypes or proofs of concept, to help illustrate the plan to Product.

You are distinguished from Project Managers and Engineering Managers, because your role does not require actually running after people and ensuring that the work is getting done on-time. You are responsible for your estimates, and you are held accountable if they are wildly off, so it is important for you to be well familiar with the Engineering teams and what they are largely capable of, but you're not responsible for the actual execution or for the professional development of the engineers managed by Engineering Managers.

Good Staff Engineers are rare because they need to have a firm grasp on the company's code, systems, Engineering teams, and the company's business needs in order to be successful.
Also keep in mind that a kilogram of steel weighs more than a kilogram of feathers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0hikcwjIA
We have a minor problem mostly with the last meters of pipes if water is not flowing. Here it is sufficient to let the (cold) water flow until it reaches a lower temperature to be sure it was not sitting in the overground pipes too long.
I can't believe paying 750 000$ for a job is ever considered a good idea. If your goal really is only to provide jobs you might as well start a public works program instead of shoveling money to the private sector.
That is, how absurd is may sound, entirely correct. I belief on a yearly basis we subsidise about 18B on just big energy consumers.

Here is the source at the bottom table:

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...
I’m saying there are so many groups like Bilderberg that its the same as none of them existing

When I was in France, there were people super passionate about being sure I knew about the fraternities that control the world and the supporting conspiracy documentaries with ominous music for 2 hours, except these ones were french ones based in Paris

So are these greater or less than Bilderberg

What about the Trilateral Commission

ALEC

Fuck, the Lizard People
Nope, you need to run `npm ci` to guarantee that you don't write a new lockfile.
It's striking how quickly all the apps load and respond to user input. Nonetheless this in-browser version suffers from layers of abstraction; the mouse cursor feels noticeably sluggish (high latency), and audio is delayed by over half a second, desynchronizing entirely from video.
> he seems to be rather sociable and empathetic

It is not the main point here, but psychopats are sociable and can have a very high form of cognitive empathy. They can also be very charizmatic.

Also, I dont think the parent was saying Paul Bloom himself is psychopath. It was saying that he is pushing others to think that way, because that is congruent with his political ideology. That is different claim.
You're hand waving it away in the parallel discussion.
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>We should encourage self-empowerment. If there are local laborers who can clean up after a natural disaster, we should empower them to help their community

Usually, though, this empowerment is just giving them money.

>Instead of sending a Dr to heal people across the world, send a Dr to train local Dr's who heal the locals

Similarly, subsidizing study-abroad programs could have a similar effect.

I agree that stupidly giving out money is exactly that, stupid. But let's not let the pendulum swing too far the other way - the solution, much of the time, is giving out money, wisely.

EDIT:

I say the solution is to give out money much of the time because money offers freedom in ways that a good tractor doesn't; moreover, we might not know the comparative need of tractors vs doctors at as high a resolution or in as nuanced a way as the locals do, considering that we haven't lived where they have for X amount of years. Money lets them allocate according to their needs in real time and as specifically as they want. Of course this assumes the people that the money is going to is in the best interests of the people in general, and that's where wisdom and discretion come into play.
Beyond thorough commit messages and clearly-communicated PRs, don't forget the power of the project README.

An engineer who takes the time to document a thorough README, with screenshots and diagrams, proper use of markdown, etc.? Wow. A thing of beauty.
"Getting through life" is not the correct benchmark. An autonomous system that merely wipes out all of humanity is by definition a superior intelligence, and I would argue that no major breakthrough is needed to create such a thing; just resources. It doesn't matter how long that thing can self-sustain after annihilating us. A win is a win.
It's possible that the answer is no.
Javascript is one of the fastest dynamically typed languages. People use it instead of other languages because the productivity of dynamically typed languages is generally higher.

I’d be interested in hearing what are those other languages that would be faster to run and not slower to program in.
Our smartphones are stuffed with photos. The challenge is finding the good ones
Also someone who is a complete wizard at TDD might not come across well if there is no test framework in place.
Anything can be seen from space under right weather, can we stop with these clickbaity headlines?

Or do they actually mean Seen from space with naked eye? But it again comes down to definition where exactly in space.
Ah yes. In a completely "trustless" and "decentralized" environment I'm asked to trust an unknown centralized entity that they will keep all the historical data and have it open for inspection, pinky swear.
Old SpaceMonger[0] and now SpaceSniffer[1] present a much better visualization of folders while also letting you adjust the granularity of how deep you want to see through.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20121126062443/http://www.sixty-...

[1]: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
>Would you say that the percentage of French ethno nationalists is above 1% of the population?

Sadly I would say yes.
Yes, mainly using notion. Some alerts have links directly attached to them if the root cause is common/known

(reboot that db, or unstuck that kafka, etc)
This is because the word has been redefined in the US. As outsiders we struggle to understand american brand freedom because its a weird concept centred on "my rights" where in most of the rest of the world includes responsibilities.

The US is screwed until they fix their discourse.
You assume that the engine has to get started at some point. We have seen basic building blocks being produced in nature. We know how these building blocks can be assembled in self-replicating molecules that we would not consider “alive”. The engine is always working everywhere, it is just chemistry.

Now, there must have been specific conditions that lead to the production of some specific molecules, and we do not know all the details. These conditions are probably quite different from what we have on earth today, which does not help. There certainly is room for progress. But we do have a decent understanding of basic biochemistry.
I'm not understanding the selection here - for this to evolve there must be something better about offspring where the female picks the encounter.

Seems to be the strongest evolutionary signal would be where the female has lots of offspring, whether desired or not.
Studio Display Teardown: Is This an iMac?
Depends on how fast the fleet of Australian three trailer road trains are building up behind you.
The metabolic machinery in the sperm is thrown away in favor of that in the egg, that's why mitochondrial RNA is matrilineal.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. A lot of people were really excited about the idea, and now I see they have funding.

At the end of the day, though, it's all about results. Are people making profits from this terminal's features?

My own project is an algo trading system (crypto only for now), with a UI that lets you define your rules easily: https://tradecast.one.
The US only recognised Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in 2020, in exchange for Moroccan normalisation of relations with Israel. The fact that the US recognises it is pretty meaningless, since it was clearly just used as a bargaining chip.
That isn't "moving the goalposts", though. That phrasing is commonly used to imply that people who are skeptical of the imminence of AGI are being unreasonable. The fact that we can't yet define general intelligence convincingly is a large part of the reason I'm skeptical that we're close to achieving it.
What a nice solution.
Listen, I responded to a particular part of my parent comment. Whether the author's given explanation for why she in the moment read the code over the phone is reasonable or if it proves that she's a fundamentally terrible scam prevention expert is a much bigger topic which my comment didn't touch on.
Even UN doesn't recognize it as country, heck even Palestine has way way higher status.
This is the exact point of the final section of the article, yes.
If the target node can host static files it can serve as a mirror, if it can execute CGIs you can edit.

How do you tell 'backend-heavy'?
And I'm a big fan of SpaceSniffer (http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/)

The executable is a bit bigger (950K), but it's very fast, looks nice but not fancy, and gets the job done.
Not sure whether it's any consolation but the drivers do work when there's no internet connection (like on our intranet at work). Presumably this means it shouldn't be hard to prevent them phoning home even when there is a connection available? It's surprising to me that there aren't forks with this aspect removed.. maybe there are and I just haven't looked far enough?
Citing being able to use an LTS kernel as the reason seems like circular logic. If every device had a mainlined driver, what would you need an LTS kernel for, rather than just always using the latest?
You might enjoy “The Market for Lemons” by the economist George Ackerlof [0]. It fits people’s descriptions of what’s happening with Amazon.

His idea was: buyers don’t know if a car is good and the risk of getting “a lemon” (a bad car) reduces how much they’re willing to pay. That means sellers reduce the quality of what they’re selling or leave the market. After a while the quality degrades so much that buyers notice and want to pay even less. Eventually the market is 100% lemons.

The paper was controversial when it was published in the 1970s, but helped kick start research into “information asymmetry” and the potential for market failure.

[0] https://www.sfu.ca/~wainwrig/Econ400/akerlof.pdf
I worked as a Linux engineer at Disney Animation for 4.5 years and can attest to the great driver support Wacom has on Linux. We frequently tried new devices and always had support (user space tools were a different story).
Is it possible to unload it, so it floats higher?
Nothing wrong with loving science, genitals, or dissection…
> It's incredibly important to us that everything in Supabase has "escape hatches" - you can choose to host wherever you want to

I'm rooting for you guys, not only your tech stack is very solid, but commitment to letting your users self-host if they want to is laudable.

But here's something I don't understand about your offering. Taking a look at the pricing page https://supabase.com/pricing there is only one pricing tier above free but below the scary-looking "contact us for a quote". The idea is that you get a reasonable baseline included and pay for extra storage and bandwidth. Cool.

But it comes with a number of fixed limits that I find puzzling, like 100k monthly active users. On edge functions, they can run 1000 hours (per month?), invoked 2 million times, and there's a limit of 100 functions in total. The customer can't pay a little more to have the limits raised a little further like they could with storage and bandwidth, they need to migrate to the enterprise plan. So I must ask: why is that?

I almost don't care because I'm the kind of person that likes to run their own servers but, I want to support you guys.
"The United Nations considers the Polisario Front to be the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people, and maintains that the Sahrawis have a right to self-determination."
I didn't? I mentioned them? I'd never leave out Nuke, as I used to help develop it... :)

I did leave out stuff like ZBrush (modelling, sculpting), Sihouette (Roto) and Camera Tracking stuff though :)

There's also an insane amount of proprietary software as well developed in house...
And fruit flies like a banana!
One of my favorite perspectives on the difficulty of formulating a general theory of PDE in light of the difficulties posed by nonlinearities is Sergiu Klainerman’s “PDE as a unified subject” https://web.math.princeton.edu/~seri/homepage/papers/telaviv.... If I understand correctly, any general theory of PDE would have to incorporate all the subtle behaviors of nonlinear equations such as turbulence (which has thus far evaded a unified description). Indeed, ”solvable” nonlinear systems in physics are so special Wikipedia has a list of them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrable_system. With this perspective, I’m tempted to say (in a non-precise manner) that solvable systems are the vanishingly small exception to the rule in a frighteningly deep sea of unsolvable equations.
> Do you really think a book with instructions in a room plus a man to carry them out understands Chinese?

Do you really think a blob of goo with static sputtering through it, designed by no one, accidentally mutated from pond slime, understands Chinese? I actually find your proposition easier to believe, but here we are.
Another victory for PIFS:

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
> A module is a collection of packages that are released, versioned, and distributed together. Each package within a module is a collection of source files in the same directory that are compiled together.

I wish Go had got these names the right way round. Every other programming language and packaging (NB. not "modeling"!) ecosystem uses package to mean distribution, and module to mean compilation unit.
I mean, you can call it "blatantly incorrect" if you wish. I'm just trying to discuss the facts, not defend the author.
The World’s Deadliest War Isn’t in Ukraine, but in Ethiopia
Serverless on AWS Lambda with Kotlin + Micronaut + Graal VM
Back in the day you could get national phone directories on cd-rom. So the crooks would have had to compromise the phone book or the cd. Idk if those cd's still exist.

Yes, the police web site is another point of vulnerability. But with any luck you can reliably find the area code for Podunk, then call directory assistance in that area code to ask for the police department number. So the crooks would have to compromise that too.
You keep maintaining that things haven't improved since 2014. Pretty sure this site didn't exist then: https://cannabis.ca.gov/

You can absolutely buy reputable tested products a lot more easily now. Each product on a very popular online home delivery dispensary has a license number in the description. That ties back to a company, it can be looked up on the gov website. There are registered businesses, with names attached, to sue when something goes wrong.

I'm not saying that things don't go wrong or that you didn't have a bad experience, but to say that things haven't improved since 2014... well, I think you are the one who needs to provide that data.
Are stars and other stellar phenomena a superior intelligence to humanity? They are autonomous systems that could easily wipe us all out
Hi!
(one of the authors of Spin here.)

As you can assume, we are just as excited about all the places where we can run WebAssembly! That's a pretty intriguing idea, looking forward to seeing it evolve!
I've heard quite a few stories of them being denied bank accounts already. Not even sure how you could fly in with flights essentially banned both ways
AirFlow 2 was released in 2020. You're saying you knew that these issues were fixed, and then an article is published on your webpage in 2022 knowingly comparing against the technical properties of a major version release 2 years behind? That is not a good look.
> is anyone aware of any common use of return where the target of the return isn't immediately after a call instruction

Bios before ram/cache initialization :)

F000:00D2 ,BC 00D8 mov SP, offset data_82 ; (F000:00D8=0DAh)
F000:00D5 E9 78CA jmp detect_CPU-type
F000:00D8 00DA data_82 dw offset loc_5
F000:00DA loc_5:
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Why do you care so much about historical data?

If you really care that much for some reason, store it too. Law enforcement will.
It is in pi, if pi is a normal number, as most think.
Suzuki has a good presence in europe (and i heard that also in india).
> I know a lot of folks are huge fans of writing pure SQL, the lack of type safety and lack of good intergration with source control (I dream of a world where database schemas, functions, security access and the rest can be saved to source control for reproducibility) scare me.

Hey there are some migration tools that play nice with source control. For example, Flyway has repeatable migrations https://flywaydb.org/documentation/tutorials/repeatable, here's some links about this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25839666/flyway-strategy...

https://github.com/flyway/flyway/issues/819

https://github.com/flyway/flyway/issues/128
Yes. They are immensely helpful. Right now they are static markdown files. But soon I hope to make them more dynamic and possibly executable.
People with this title are making 400k+
>If I have empathy toward you, it will be painful if you’re suffering. It will be exhausting. It will lead me to avoid you and avoid helping. But if I feel compassion for you, I’ll be invigorated. I’ll be happy and I’ll try to make your life better.

He puts his statement shortly after into perspective, but it's dangerous to state that empathy is exhausting in general. It is only exhausting if somebody doesn't have the means to help.

>If you and I are the only people on earth and you’re in pain and I can help you and make your pain go away, and I feel empathy toward you and so I make your life better, empathy has done something good. But the real world is nowhere near as simple
Relating to this sentence in the article:

> I've never heard of a call center system that can accept touch tones seamlessly while a call is active, and it would take extremely sophisticated audio processing capabilities to be able to do that, since the frequencies used by touch tone keys heavily overlap the frequencies of human speech.

It's actually happening all the time. VoIP systems _do_ extract touch tone (DTMF) from the call and convert them to appropriate out-of-band messages (either on RTP or SIP, there are multiple standards). This might also happen with VoLTE, although I didn't verify it myself.

So, while the request was indeed weird, there's nothing technically strange about typing touch tones at any point in a call. Regarding the fact that those frequencies overlap with human speech, it's expected because they were designed to be transferred over phone lines, which are made for human speech frequencies. Since landlines here in Switzerland have been converted to VoIP several years ago, I often hear DTMF tones appearing from nowhere in the middle of a call and covering the voice of the other person. The reason is easy: some intermediate system detected a tone and sent the corresponding SIP/RTP message, while also filtering the tone out of the audio. On the other end of he line, that out-of-band message triggered the generation of an actual in-band tone, whence the result.
> One of the unfortunate facts about open source operating systems like Linux is that specialized hardware support sometimes lags behind commercial operating systems like Windows and MacOS.

Well that's just because the manufacturer just doesn't write one, not because of some intrinsic factor of FOSS. That's an odd point to make when it's the manufacturers' fault.
RF develops and holds biological weapons, including plague. Moreover, it suspected that SARS-CoV-2 was released from «Vector» BSL4 lab: https://jglobalbiosecurity.com/article/10.31646/gbio.41/ . So, why RF is not nuked yet?

Moreover, if biological weapon will target Russians only (by asking them a question in the Russian language, I suppose) then it's completely legal for Ukraine to use such biological weapon to defend itself against Russian aggression. Madness is an important part of MAD.
I added a share results button. Thanks everyone for such amazing support yesterday. Much appreciated. Thanks for feedback on the weights. I think there are definitely some mistakes in there. I'll be checking them this morning. After I finish my coffee!
The only thing that Google maps has added is labeling of places. The rest is worse than the competition.
Wacom support on Linux has been good for over a decade, but not so good on a wide screen.

I got a 4k widescreen monitor and I still can't use my Wacom very well. The aspect ratios are completely off. I tried manually setting it but often these settings get lost after an update.

But my experience from the past has always been plug and play.
> Even on websites, you can feel when you click on a link, it is doing something more. It's a very uncomfortable feeling.

I know what you mean! Some websites make link clicks take a little longer. I'm not sure if it's due to tracking...