skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I am, in BC, Amazon is recognized as a challenging but rewarding employer; one that compensates better than most and expects consistently strong results.

I wouldn't consider that negative, really. Daunting, perhaps.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Architecture__Proje...
I’m using this as an icebreaker at some point
I have exactly this problem with my (admittedly much cheaper) TV. I find it very, very annoying.
Why a these TODO(emacs)? Is there a special emacs ticket or tool?
Dissecting Objc_msgSend on ARM64 (2017)
Is that really true? Even a quarterly offsite can be accommodated from almost anywhere on the world.
Someone made it up, I think on twitter :)
I get the general point about the affirmative action, but it's important to remember that it's not just Whites getting the short end of the stick. Asians are absolutely underrepresented too.
I liked my old Sceptre TV, but after 8+ years it recently stopped powering on. The identically-sized replacement has sound quality that is absolutely horrid... and by that I mean my cell phone sounds better!

Okay, a sound bar might be a reasonable investment but... my new Sceptre TV doesn't do HDMI-ARC, which means a soundbar is a big ongoing hassle, for the life of the TV.

I still give Sceptre credit that they have VGA inputs, and handle DVI converted to HDMI properly (separate audio input), which it seems all other manufacturers just shrug off and don't care to support, even if their know-nothing support reps may tell you otherwise.
Do your displays have non-integer scaling enabled?
Not that that stops companies from making you believe arbitrary modifications will wholesale void your warranty.

The crackdown on "warranty void if removed" stickers is better than nothing, but your rights don't mean a thing if you don't know you have them.
I was curious how much breakage GNU Parallel has suffered. So I fetched all versions (in parallel) and ran:

parallel -k --tag --argsep -- {} echo ::: 1 -- parallel-*

Every version since 20120622 work (except for 20121022). That is code which is almost 10 years old.
What's the win for Russia in this scenario?
It's a straw man because literally nobody here was arguing that there is value created in the nullification of employee pensions.
> I love having lunch with co-workers. It’s a great way to connect.

it is, but some people who prefer the remote world do so because they don't need nor want to socialize with their coworkers.
I was looking at monitors the other day and wondering who buys the large format gaming monitors. Gigabyte has a 48" OLED right now that looks pretty good for about $1100. Philips has a 55" VA panel for $1600. Both are 4k/120Hz and support an HDR standard, and afaict these are just monitors, no smarts.

I'm not sure what you give up with these other than the OS.
I switched from flight instructing to software engineering, with a stint as a waiter in the middle. Six years later I’m at Netflix.

> Honestly, getting into an "actual" developer role feels as daunting today as it did when I had no work experience. Is this just a confidence thing?

Yes. You know more today than you did when you started, so it should be easier. The problem is your rate of progress is low. If after 4 years you feel 10% of the way there, it’s going to feel way worse than 0 years and 0%. Remember that every software engineer knew less at some point than you do now.

You need to do something to dramatically increase your progress. Pick a technology or topic and start making stuff. This stuff is all free. It’s not like you want to be a ship captain and you need a boat. The only thing in your way is your mindset.

On that note, you need to become a different kind of humble. I get this “I’m no good” vibe. You need to replace that with something more neutral and concrete. Something like “I’m a beginner”. It’s the difference between “I’m weak” and “I bench 55lbs”. The latter can change.

Approaching it as a career change is really the way to go. I don’t know if you were just talking about the plants, but it applies if you want to stay in software. Look at it as switching from “software guy in marketing” to “software engineer”. Its a big jump, appreciate it.

Something you might not have thought of: move. That can really get things going. You could get a house in the rural part of a poor country for a few months for real cheap. Bring a few books and a laptop with you, good to go. Start sending out resumes to junior jobs when you have a month or two left. This is how I ended up at Netflix, more or less.
Class actions do virtually nothing to make individuals whole.
> This replaced a simpler and more reliable analog knob in older fridges.

The mechanical thermostats in refrigerators are inaccurate and failure prone (after a number of years). A digital thermostat increases life/reliability of the unit, even if it (very slightly) increases power consumption.
Saying they are "fun" is obviously my personal opinion. How could it be anything else? Of course it means I think they are fun and not it is a universal truth that everybody thinks my team is fun.

As for smart, aren't most/all engineers "smart?" I hardly thought that calling a group of engineers "smart" would be controversial.
> Value that was created in the past is still value, is it not?

That's your claim, not ours. Cotton plantation owners made obscene profits from the literal blood of slaves. Did the plantation owners create the value? No, the slaves did. Did the slaves enjoy multiple generations of exponential growth of their net worth? No, the plantation owners were paid reparations, and the slaves got nothing. Descendents of plantation owners are strongly represented in Southern business and politics to this very day. Not because their ancestors made value but because they took it.

You seem to confuse "money" with "value."
I was once stuck on a box that didn’t even have ed, and I needed to edit a file. This is maybe 1995 and it’s an HP/UX machine that was used as nothing more than an X console, but its fstab or automount config was messed up so it couldn’t boot anything but single user mode.

I managed to cobble together an “editor” with just the shell that as I recall read each line of the existing file and echoed it to stdout. I could press return to keep it as is or retype the entire line with whatever changes I needed. The output went to a new file. When I was done I copied the new file into place.

Another time I needed to transfer an executable to a server I could access only over serial console. On the receiving end, I think uudecode was all I had to safely get the binary over serial console.

Fun times.
Doctors undergo a lot more and far more rigorous training than NPs, which is reflected in their efficacy.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32362078/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acem.14077

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28734486/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21291293/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10861159/

I also wouldn’t say that doctors are symbiotic with their hospital admins — the ones I’ve worked with seemed to really dislike the admins.

Simple solution seems to be to open up a lot more residency spots and not drop the rigor/licensing/clinical experience that we currently require for doctors.
Companies succeed by hiring the best people and setting them up to do great work.

I think the future in many large firms will be to pair full-time remote folks with others who enjoy full time remote. There are sure to be many hybrid and full in office teams as well.

A similar transition occurred a decade ago when companies moved* offices to cities and away from suburban campuses.

* for some definition of “move”
>Sometimes restrictions on sound content

Is there some sort of rule against sirens?

The song "Car Alarm" prominently features a car alarm on Youtube, but not on Spotify. This could just be a choice by the artists though, rather than a platform restriction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7nHX2RLjQ

https://open.spotify.com/album/2u4HDb57v96iiJZUC7PqOx?highli...
China was the first to offer Smart TVs that would connect to open WiFi hotspots to upload data without consent (Skyworth & Gozen).
Okay... and have you considered the "why"?

To start with, 2.2 million cars get built per year in the US, while housing has consistently been under 200,000 new units per year for a long time.
Other than Tool where Maynard removes himself from center of attention, I've never seen a live rock band where the singer was off to the left. Typically, lead guitarist on the left, singer in the middle, bass is on the right, and drummer in the middle back stage of the singer. If the idea was to make it as close to live as possible, why the decision to put Kurt over there?
If YouTube wasn't acquired it would have died.

There was no way to host video cheaper than ad revenue. Video just requires too much compute, storage and bandwidth compared to the few cents you get from an occasional ad click.

Google could offer it cheap bandwidth and storage. They could use consumers love of Google products to force ISP's to deliver YouTube video traffic cheaper when ISP's threatened to block YouTube because it used too much bandwidth. Even with that, it wasn't profitable for 10+ years!
Please don't take HN threads further in the flamewar direction. We want the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm with you. I definitely miss having an office to go to.

Would I take a job that required me to be in the office every day? Almost definitely not. Would I sacrifice a bit of pay if it meant working for a company local enough that I could go to the office 1-2 days a week? Probably.

That would really be the sweet spot for me. I like working from home a lot, but being a fully remote team wears on you. I've considered taking a part time bartending job just to satisfy the desire to have in-person coworkers a bit of time a week.
wlx00a096****** IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"XXXXXXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=300 Mb/s Tx-Power=30 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-31 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

> The AR9280 is 13 years old

They don't have an expiration date, you know. We aren't talking about fruit here.

And yes, like everybody on planet earth other than the IEEE -- including the people at Qualcomm/Atheros who wrote the source code for my wifi card's firmware -- use "a" to mean "5ghz band". People need to abandon this silly crusade to insist that "5ghz band" does not have an 802.11 designator, as if it is a feature with no name or something.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We want the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Crazy, I could have sworn you started the sentence with “I am sorry”

So what did you mean by this?
the opportunity this presents is getting lunch with people that aren't ephemeral and transactional. you can experience something OTHER than work on your lunch hour, expand your horizons, and build meaningful relationships. of course you will on occasion get one of those relationships from the office, but they're the exception to the rule imo.
We reached the smartphone and computer plateau and it's a good thing
I was just thinking the same thing. I was involved with a development project in Colombia, a three-story tract of 3b/2b apartments. The total construction cost was about $40k each. Permits and fees was maybe $1000 plus a year of waiting and a few bottles of gift-wrapped tequila. Selling prices were $50–70k, some rented at $250/month.

Why is it absurdly expensive to build in the USA?
I think that is the right thing to do: Don't like it? Don't use it.

Also: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...
No, it's absolutely not a straw man. The destroyed pensions are theft, which must appear on the balance sheet when you claim that vulture capitalism creates value. The loss of pension has direct impact on those owed: they are being deprived of money that they earned by providing value.
> ...in English...

Even in English-language contexts I've seen variants of the German-style transliteration on occasion. But more importantly, the author is not restricting himself to English, and indeed the musicbrainz link gets to such a high count precisely by including other languages' transliterations. Only three are listed as English, and they're the two you mention (with/without Anglo first name) plus one that omits the middle name.

Were you saying that all other languages should use "the modern accepted spelling in English", or were you just ignoring the fact that speakers of other languages (or owners of foreign-published albums) might use music databases?
I'm in Singapore and that's missing a lot of context. The supply of government housing is not nearly enough to meet supply and there are restrictions on who can apply and even then it's a lottery. Property is still considered an investment, and no wonder when resale prices for the HDB flats are significantly higher than the purchase price.

IMO the HDB flats should not be saleable on the open market and can only be sold back to the government (subject to inflation and depreciation adjustments that no-one's going to agree to) but I'm an expat and not eligible to partake in the upside so I might be a bit biased.

All that being said they have done a better job than most of making government housing both accessible and appealing even if it means that I'm having to find a new place to live in the middle of an inflationary period (even as the country is seeing net emigration for the first time in decades, wth is going on??)
Explained: How UPI transaction values crossed $1T in 2021-22
dang, I think you are the best moderator I have ever known, but respectfully strongly disagree with who you've fingered as the "flamewar-style" poster in this conversation.

I, at worst, restated the parent poster's rude comment and stated I found it regrettable.

Additionally there are many other unbelievably rude replies to a small, positive anecdote I chose to share.

However, out of respect for your judgement I'll bow out of this discussion entirely.
Assuming this is a Show HN thread, cool stuff! Consider using IBM CP437 or Braille instead of periods in the hex editor. I talk about it here on my web page. https://justine.lol/braille/ It's hard to truly understand binary without a binary alphabet.
Any good resources (videos, books) about this ? I'm in ~rehab so I'm used to take it slow, and be very careful about the mechanics and cardiac limits, but I sure want to know more.
I've bought it two times: when it was $150 and $200. Both times consistently received very high quality device.
That’s actually something MediaMonkey [0] (Windows-only) had for a long time (I assume the current electron version as well, I use the last native version). Classical is one of the defaults, but you can add whatever.

It’s one of my favorite pieces of software, a true music library manager and not a music player with some management features tacked on.

[0]: https://www.mediamonkey.com/
That's weird. Living in Ireland I found the houses to be crap, with blown bricks, no insulation, terrible draughts, and no eaves (encouraging water ingress). I was delighted to build myself a proper stud frame home insulated with 200mm rockwool throughout.
Regarding why this post is so inflammatory, it's just tedious "i hate people" misanthropic posturing from people who still haven't figured out that their problem is them.
> I drive to work, communicate with no one except on the computer, then drive home.

You don't talk to people aside from at the meetings?
> Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient.

"Carry this 30 lbs box out to your car for me and I'll give you $100..."

Sounds like an excellent deal to me. I can't imagine many grocery store employees ever get that big of a tip.
Whenever anyone asks about pursuing a PhD, I usually tell them it only makes sense if one of more of these hold true: (1) You want to pursue a career in academia or research where the credentialing will matter; (2) You want access to equipment or material that is otherwise difficult to obtain; (3) You want the freedom & flexibility to pursue random interests for another couple years; or (4) You have a deep affinity for a specific topic at the frontiers of human knowledge.

The PhD definitely isn't required if your goal is to maximize learning & earning, apply research to commercialization, or to make a huge dent on the world -- the latter is just exceedingly rare statistically speaking.
I don’t know that you can use the acceptance rate as a direct comparison to med school, you have different populations applying to each.

I remember there was a PA that did end up going to med school and took the PA boards (forget what they call it) just for kicks and ended up scoring in the 99th percentile.
If they need people who are immune to how much shit their work environment is, they should fix their work environment instead of selecting those who are fine with Victorian sweatshop-like conditions.

If the problem was a loud office you'd say they should select for deaf engineers instead of fixing their shit.
Smart phones are ~annually getting major updates that change the functionality of the device. You typically can't revert back either. Some people might not like how the new method of doing something is different than the old.

However, you are not forced to apply the update. So that's a bit different.

So how does this affect smart phones? ;-)
Probably, but that won't stop the vendor from adding ads to the Android TV OS.
Initially it started out as a brilliant idea - a Twitter thread that serves as a bullet point hook for an article with more details and upsells. Reader gets quick value and the writer gets exposure, clicks and leads - everybody wins!

On the other hand some managed to completely miss the point and mangle this whole scenario to the point where the effect is essentially reversed. Impressive really.
No offense, but your comment reads like it came from a script. Thing happened -> unexpected result -> wonder why -> learn more about yourself. And the moral of the story is that working in the office is not that bad, because we're human beings not... robots?

Surely you're not so surprised to get these responses :)
You pay for the console, and the games are open by design. You can load any pico game into the console, go into edit mode, and see / edit assets, music, levels. The console only supports lua, which gives you the advantage that every game you open to see the source code will be written in the same language. A wonderful little thing. I used it to introduce kids to game development with good results.
I think it's due to most users' preference to stay on the same platform and not have to go to another (e.g. browser) to read about something. Even if moving from Twitter from chrome takes just as much time as opening a thread, most users would prefer to open the thread rather than chrome.

This could be a good opportunity to figure out why users prefer to stay on the same platform. Some interesting psychology must be at play.
I wish I did more rigorous work on this but I managed a large Rewritable DVD backup for a satellite instrument with over 3000 DVDs stored in a filing cabinet for almost ten years. When I joined about three years in I added checksums to the backups and infrequently sampled and reburned older discs and found zero corruption after almost a decade stored in those conditions. Given there was a mix of R and RW burned discs I was actually pretty surprised there was no corruption because I had it ingrained in my mind these things shouldn’t last so long.
‘India can set up bilateral fin message system rapidly’
Another famous one is Prince's "Love Symbol no 2".

Fun fact: he adopted it as his stage name to spite Warner Brothers Music, due to the unfavorable contract terms and the creative meddling they kept doing (among other things). By terms of the contract they had to go along with whatever stage name he picked. They had to spend a bunch of money having a custom font created, then mailed on floppy disk to every music reviewer, newspaper, magazine, radio station, etc as part of album promotion. No one was on the internet in those days so it ended up causing them a lot of trouble. I guess he found his own loophole in the contract.
Cobain was both lead vocals and lead guitar.
Where I work, it was actually like this before the pandemic. We are a global company with lots of tiny offices. Teams were assembly remotely just to satisfy requirements. It was silly to be in an office.
Oh, that's good news. What model is yours, so I can look up it's and keep it (and similar) in mind for the future? :)
Hmm, that isn't going to do WiFi 6E though?

Are there any USB-3 devices like that?
Would it not be more fruitful addressing the hard issue: Funding.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...

I think many free software developers would rejoice if you cracked that problem.
> If you can mutate through a shared reference, then there is no need to alias `&mut T`s in the first place!

Unfortunately that is not true. See [1] as an example is core where mutable aliasing is needed (async generators). In this case they just added to compiler hack [2][3], but this really needs proper support in rust. Something like “AliasCell”.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63818

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/82834

[3] https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/3654
We use kaitai at Libre Space Foundation (https://libre.space) to parse data from satellites transmissions collected by the SatNOGS (https://network.satnogs.org) ground-station network.

Parsing this data allows us to build Grafana powered dashboards (https://dashboard.satnogs.org, click on the list of active satellites).
Exactly. That opinion doesn’t exist.
> I'm not sure why you'd replace WPA* instead of use it as yet another layer of protection.

Have you spent any time reading the source code of wpa_supplicant?

I still have nightmares from that.
> The other stores wouldn't be paying for the ongoing development and maintenance of the iOS, UIKit, OpenGL/Metal, etc.

Sure. And who cares? That has nothing at all to do with the App Store fees. :)
Not at all weird. You are guaranteed that to get to the next interesting checkpoint you only need readahead 280 chars.
Not the person you were asking, but I had next to no conversations about work aside from video calls, even before Covid. Between national and international distributed teams (and people working weird hours to avoid sf bay commute hours), and packed meeting schedules, it basically didn’t happen. It’s making me sad to write this and it’s making me think.
`sudoedit` should automatically invoke `sudo -e $EDITOR`.
Perhaps, but PIPing and firing is bad for the employee, bad for the manager, and bad for the PIP'd employees teammates. PIPs don't happen immediately; it might take a month or two before it's clear to a manager that a new employee isn't performing to the expected level.

So I think I'd rather have a candidate spend 7 hours interviewing if it could save months of pain for multiple people later.

(This does assume, of course, that the 7-person interview panel actually does decrease the incidence of hiring-the-wrong-person enough to be worthwhile. I don't know if that's actually the case.)

Out of all the things I think are wrong with tech jobs -- and with employment in general -- I don't think "I have to interview with 7 people instead of 1 or 2" even cracks the top 50.
Not surprising to me, as I expect these regions lack the same overwhelming regulations that stifle competition, innovation, and profitability that define the US, EU, and similar regions.
Still remember sneaker-netting the original on 5 1/4" floppies... looked at it recently and was appalled at the amount of clicking required. It had literally no consideration for player ergonomics.

Remind me again where is the Musée de la Demoscene? Must be one in Finland, no? This sort of thing should be featured.