skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really love the compilations by Sean Doran of our Sun -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI0oVK4Pa44 for example. Perfect ambient background video.
The context of the article is in reference to being honest with the company in an exit interview. It has zero to do with informal references, personal references, or that fact that you run into people you used to work with in every industry.

If HR is printing and handing out your exit interview to all your former colleagues and they all disagree with your POV; a) you have a bigger problem and/or b) you might just be the asshole everyone else is talking about.

Edit: To be fair, your feedback could get back to the person it was about and they could fuck with you later but aren't they doing you a favor at that point. Anyone who I dislike enough to specifically call out by name in a negative way in an exit interview was typically someone I would never work for or with again.
"Enlisted recruits in 2006 and 2007 came primarily from middle-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds. Low-income neighborhoods were underrepresented among enlisted troops, while middle-class and high-income neighborhoods were overrepresented." [0]

"Military recruits mirror the U.S. population and are solidly middle class.

A recent report shows that more recruits come from middle-income families, with far fewer drawn from poorer families. Youth from upper-income families are represented at almost exactly their fair share."

Your source is inaccurate because it's for enlisted only. Upper class are far more likely to be officers or warrant officers.

My point stands: upper class serve more than lower class.

[0] https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/who-serves-the-us-mi...

[1] https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/whos-joining-mili...
Pretty much the same with references. Of course, not really surprising. If I give the contact information for three hand-picked people does anyone really think any of them are going to say “run away fast”?
I like this guy mostly for preserving a hacker-ish culture in the atmosphere and for just being a real human being in public. Too often do I feel like I'm just interacting with interfaces to corporations or people who self censor themselves so much they barely feel human. I'm not sure this library matters much to me but I maintain positive perspective on this guy for these reasons.
What about that seems reckless to you? There are examples of cars today that use this approach. It sounds like you are eagerly labeling it as being reckless, then assigning blame to the person you replied to as if they intended to be reckless. I do not have that same impression.
This seems to discuss phd programs in cs, not programs in general. In chemistry, it’s not the department you work in it’s the group/prof your work for. Or, the group you postdoc for. There’s various sub disciplines in chemistry and interaction between those who are not near neighbours is minimal.

Grants are based on the group although schools with large enrolment in undergraduate chemistry courses need lots of ta’s and that’s worst case support. It’s very hard to publish before year 3 due to the coursework and pre-research requirements. Aside from theory, there’s a lag time due to developing lab experience and the biggest delay item is time put in. Reactions take time to prep, occur and work up. If you try to 9-5 school it’s going to be slow.

Good place, ticket to industrial work and a chance for academia if you’re good, lucky and have excellent credentials. This requires working for the right people not the right school.
Who knows, maybe someone who works on Chrome or Edge or Safari is reading this thread and will talk to their higher-ups about using it somehow. (Wishful thinking?)
Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem
You might be right about that. I left LA after graduating.
If you have Eigen-like code that won't tend to have many cases where you're not having many branch mispredicts or loads the prefetcher can't figure out and you also have enough calculations that you can use the width of the core on a single thread then there really isn't any potential throughput gain with SMT but you still suffer from cache contention from having two threads. It's really not Eigen's fault, it's the nature of SMT that it doesn't help in all cases.
The main advantage of a desktop that you can't get from a laptop with a dock is that they can be a lot faster.

There isn't any laptop that gets anywhere close to a 64-core Threadripper on threaded workloads. There are some that are competitive with 8-core desktop processors, but then they cost ~twice as much.

But this only matters if you care about more than single thread performance.
Why do we have shit like `enterkeyhint` but not some really simple things like

<input type="slider" min="0" max="100" step="10" name="foo">
<input type="toggle" value="true" name="bar">
Wow! Thanks for pointing that clip out. So, not just me. (:
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I took two separate 1-yr breaks in my 20s, and I can't say it has had any negative impact career-wise (some might view fewer years of work experience as a negative, but strictly speaking it hasn't made getting other jobs more difficult for me). If you have a solid skill set / body of work to share and speak about, and great recommendations from previous co-workers then I would say do what feels right to you.
No, but every library tries to solve at least _one_ problem, and maybe it needs to go over 1000 lines to do that.
Ask HN: How to Find a Mentor?
I've been a software engineer for about 7 years professionally. I was fortunate to have two very good mentors back to back at my first two jobs, but it's been years since I've had that role in my life, and I feel it has been a major reason I've slowed both personally and professionally growing.

So how do you find a mentor if one doesn't organically show up in your life, HN?
That's half my "I find this project interesting" consulting rate.
Not the OP, but I just lost a keyboard to a spilled drink as well. Not all of us have perfect dexterity and spatial awareness at all times.

I haven't lost a laptop screen to dropping it, though I have had a laptop screen spontaneously fail--two in fact. Both were HP laptops. Not buying those any more.
Interestingly enough, alcohol serves that function too, especially at social gatherings.

I can't tell you how many couples met because they drank a little alcohol to loosen things up.
It can happen, at least recently we had a good experience. Psychonauts waited 16 years for a sequel and it was everything I hoped and more, incredible sequel.

If this is true it would the be almost the OG team directing and writing. Tim schaefer is missig I guess due to his work on Psychonauts 2.
If its understood that this is the norm, then expectations adjust to match. Maybe you start overbooking your social calendar as well.
The risk of honesty is that something negative you say will get back to the target, who will then bad mouth you.

It does happen. In the worst cases, the bad guy will actively sabotage the frankly speaking exiter's job search.

You say, "I really found Bad-Director's micromanaging our sprints unendurable".

Now Bad-Director is your enemy and will bad mouth you at every opportunity including off the record reference checks. Doesn't happen 100% of the time, but often enough to be a risk.
We changed the URL from https://kottke.org/22/04/the-highest-resolution-photo-of-the..., which points to this.
Just say everything is great and you just want a change

If they cared about what you thought you already had countless 1-1’s, all-hands, anual reviews, etc

Be realistic- they are not going to fix their org based on 30 minutes of my feedback
Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft
KeenWrite 2.6.0
I know there are lots of Marxist/radical nuts in "social sciences", but social sciences as a broad concept includes too many fields. If the survey limits to the target we are talking about here (quantitative researchers with heavy training in statistics but never took a course in critical theory etc.), the number of these kind of nuts would be close to zero.

The reproducibility crisis is more related to social psychologists, which include lots of nuts. They are not what I was talking about.
Why it's now illegal to melt down US coins(2006)
> Support and warranty work is simplified when you only have 4 or 5 models of computer in your org, and can reference a spreadsheet to see exactly what a given user has in front of them.

In theory you could treat desktops the same way. Any hardware problem? Discard entire machine.

This is obviously wasteful compared to replacing only the component which is broken. But it's hard sell to label that as a disadvantage.
New Cell Type in Human Lung with Regenerative Properties
>Yeah, just not in any combat duty

That is false. Middle and upper class are more likely to serve in combat roles than lower class.

>Combat is for the lower classes, preferably rural poor

Complete opposite actually.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890674
I would love to have access to this in general (but maybe not for a physicist specifically) - sometimes I just am having trouble understanding a paper and want someone to walk me through it. Hire a biologist / computer scientist / etc
When can we try using it?? :)
I think my favourite bit of Dunning-Kruger is that it's failure to account for regression towards the mean and the better-than-average effect are kind of an existence proof of a "Dunning-Kruger Effect". ;-)
Harlan writes about the story: “Think of someone you know, even someone you love, trapped into a corrupt or self-destructive or anti-social behavior pattern by an inability to get around the roadblock of erroneous thinking. [snip] Polly wouldn’t permit such an evil to exist-as an unconscious understanding of the massmind of the general Analog readership, which is at core and primarily engineers, technicians, scientists, men of the drawing board and the spanner. [snip] [I wrote the story] to see if I could gig the Analog readers of thirty-and-more years’ good standing, who would have coronary arrest at seeing Ellison in the hallowed pages of their favorite magazine. You can imagine my joy when I saw the issue on the newsstands, with my name on the front cover with Isaac Asimov’s, knowing that Analog’s faithful would be gagging, and knowing the little jibe I had waiting for them inside”…
My bad. I meant full proper desktop-grade support for addons and devtools like what kiwi does for chromium on android. From your comment, it seems that proper full is still disabled on both stable Firefox and Fennec.

Since I'm not really interested in using nightly or jumping through hoops, I'll just continue using kiwi which is able to support both my requirements just fine.

Thanks for the clarification though.
Biology has a tremendous number of crackpots.

The "I disproved Einstein" equiv. is "Here's my cure for cancer" (yes, all cancer).

Then there are the anti-Evolution folks.

The AIDS denialists.

The anti-vaccine types.
>sure, but not in combat roles

That is false. Middle and upper class are more likely to serve in combat roles than lower class.
Was just reading Max Weber's The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism where he investigates the development of modern capitalism and its complex relationship with different Christian denominations (especially between the Catholics and Protestants). On the general (mis)understanding of Protestantism (as in 1920s) he writes:

> …that the spirit of hard work, of progress, or whatever else it may be called, the awakening of which one is inclined to ascribe to Protestantism, must not be understood, as there is a tendency to do, as joy of living nor in any other sense as connected with the Enlightenment. The old Protestantism of Luther, Calvin, Knox, Voet, had precious little to do with what to-day is called progress.

And with regards to the English:

> Montesquieu says (Esprit des Lois, Book XX, chap. 7) of the English that they “had progressed the farthest of all peoples of the world in three important things: in piety, in commerce, and in freedom”
I think we are plenty as is, and as for why bother to make the universe do our bidding - because there's great pleasure satisfaction and
fulfillment in bending cold indifferent nature to our will...not to mention in enjoying a hot cup of cocoa, a good book, and a long slow blowjob by the fireplace on a dark wintry night

If you have not seen the Les Blank documentary Always For Pleasure, I highly recommend it
> Suppose you want to see if a large pizza (16 inches) is bigger than two mediums (12 inches). Plug in 16 for C, and 12 for A. It looks like the large pizza can be split into a 12-inch and 10.5-inch pizza, so two-mediums are in fact bigger.

I never thought of applying Pythagorean Theorem here, but it's incredibly useful!
This question actually has a simple answer:

Most languages have embraced statements over expressions for a lot of language constructs.

This causes a lot of issues:

An if-statement is in essence a function from boolean to unit/() (i.e. from a barely useful type to a type with no useful information), while an if-expressions will contain enough type information to at least provide this kind of “flow typing”, (even if it induces an amount of boolean blindness.)

It’s even worse when you get to loop-statements, which often is a function from unit/() to (unit/() | bottom/⊥), compared to a map or a reduce or fold, which again provide enough type information to provide this kind of “flow typing”.

Sometimes you will of course need to provide impure conditionals or loops, but that can be made explicit in the type system.

IMHO statements in programming languages are an anti-pattern.
I do all of my mobile development cross-platform.

99% of the app dev happens on Android, and I just test on iOS when I need to--and for that I have an older, cheap, MacMini.
In my experience, exit interviews are mostly a formality that do not create any changes to people or processes after you leave. I think it would be interesting to have a law that says potential job candidates are allowed to view recorded exit interviews though.

Right now Glassdoor basically serves that purpose and is more cathartic than venting to some poor HR peon--someone might actually read your Glassdoor review.
Are you nice or kind?
Why should I care? I say things during an exit interview I want them to know.

Because you can't predict the future with 100% fidelity. Which means you could find yourself in situations like:

- working under the same person (that you pissed off via the exit interview) again at a different company

- applying for a job at another company where that person (that you pissed off via the exit interview) now works and will badmouth you

- applying to go back to the company you're now leaving

- etc., etc.

I would say there's nothing to be gained from being honest during an exit interview, and just enough to be lost, to make it a bad deal. But a lot of it honestly comes down to "luck of the draw." I'm sure plenty of people have gone all "scorched earth" in an exit interview and never had any fallout from it. Others, however...
> change in the way chips are designed can make them resilient to defects

This is already happening for almost all modern chips manufactured in the last 10+ years. DRAM chips have extra rows/cols. Even Intel CPUs have redundant cache lines, internal bus lines and other redundant critical parts, which are burned-in during initial chip testing.
Albeit still relevant.
This one doesn't, apparently.
I'm currently in a small house with older family members, and unfortunately the only room where the family computer is in. Deep concentration is also needed for my drawing work, and it's hard to maintain it if I don't have uninterrupted times for 4+ hours straight.

Part of it is having mature enough adults all the way around that can respect boundaries - if the door is closed, the room is not available. If the door is open, the room is available (even during work hours, let's say when I'm just catching up on emails.)

Something I've learned is there does need to be a little bit of negotiation - barring the room off for basically all of the working day isn't reasonable. So having those "up for air" moments is both a two-fold gift to myself (to remind me to get up, walk around, look at something else), and also a time where they can come in to talk and do their own projects on the family computer.

It does mean a lot of my heavier non-work drawing focus time gets shifted to night but them's the breaks for free rent. :)
Additionally - MCM - multi-chip module - instead of putting separate chips for various functions on a board, they're fused together in what from the outside looks like a single chip, but internally is 3 or 4 unrelated chips.

Examples at the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-chip_module
Just as an update, apparently it takes 1-3 months for docs to the IRS to make it to where they're supposed to go. I just got off the phone w/them (took 1hr:45mins to get a person) and found out I only owe $20 after faxing them my house sale docs in November!

What a weight off my back..
That's fun. I had the converse experience when I discovered and read an old pop science article that discussed the light ether as if it were established fact. I was quite young and it was several years until I learned in high school physics class that this was complete bunk.
People having a lot of student loan debt doesn't imply that education is hard to obtain. Having a low percentage of your population with tertiary degrees would show that. But that is not the case in the US.
Assertive avoidance is often the correct response to aggression (cf. Miyagi-Do).
I can't believe that this is the highest-resolution photo of the sun that ESA has taken. Surely earth-based telescopes have done better?

A guy in his backyard takes pictures with similar resolution: https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/147297870519032217... (downscaled for Twitter, approx 9Kx9K / 81Mpix on his Patreon feed)
but I assume material and software cost of these are too high for the people i was describing.
Yeah I mean this definition of accomplice very clearly doesn't follow or bear any resemblance to the legal definition. Likewise, rental car companies are not "accomplices" to your speeding even though they could put speed limiters in the vehicles they rent out. It would also plainly be suboptimal for rental car companies to nag everyone about following the speed limit. It's not their proper role and it's not like anyone is unaware of how speed limits work.
Hardly - performance/core hasn’t flatlined, but has not maintained the same growth over time (decades) in performance we’ve traditionally had. That’s the problem.

So if you want better aggregate performance, more cores has been the plan for a decade+ now.

FLOP/s per core or whatever other metric you choose to use.

Previously it was possible to get 20-50% or more performance improvements even year to year for a core.
> There isn't any laptop that gets anywhere close to a 64-core Threadripper on threaded workloads.

Challenge accepted.

https://www.mediaworkstations.net/systems/portable-amd-works...
In recent days i also started receiving those. I don't get how Google manages to do something this stupid. I was considering switching to iphone. This case improved odds of it.
I misspoke. I should have said "consensus-seeking". The state of having reached consensus is good, yes. Perpetually seeking consensus is not.
The other one big obstacle is chips are square while wafers are round.
> The "saving iraq from it's dictator" narrative only came after the WMD lies became evident.

True, none of which can be laid at the feet of the British army. I’m no fan of Blair but I’m not sure to what extent he knew it was all flimflam either.
Yes, the limit is implemented in browsers, but it's for the protection of servers. The idea is to prevent a web app from DDOSSing a server somewhere.

This is especially a problem for servers implemented with one thread or process per connection, rather than an async event queue like nodejs, because each thread takes up a few megabytes of memory, and if a browser opens 1000 connections, that's 2 gigs of memory right there.

But if a server is implemented properly to support long-lived connections (by using node, or greenlets, or other async system) then it should be able to opt out of that browser protection. A standardized header would allow a server to opt out of it.
I think this is good advice. I treat these interviews as an opportunity to keep a door to return to the company in different circumstances. When you look at folks working in FAANG (or other cohorts of big companies), there is quite a bit of movement back and forth over time. It might not seem like it, but HR records can still be hanging around when you interview in a different department a couple of years later. They often shield these some from hiring managers, but they get connected up eventually.
Obamacare created new gaps that absolutely sucked - made over 58k and self employed? No subsidies for you and paying a skyrocketing premium higher than any reasonable home mortgage with a 10k deductible. Completely unrealistic. And then the IRS hit you for thousands in penalties via the individual mandate.

I lived through that, uninsured, for five years or so as a business owner - to “rich” to get subsidies, too poor to afford 20k+ per year for nothing except a theoretical out-of-pocket max (I say theoretical because there are many exceptions, loopholes, and the annual reset). Being hammered by the IRS for this was.. just.. swell.

So for me Obamacare sucked because it made the cost of individual market plans completely unaffordable and then taxed me for not being able to afford it. As a business owner responsible for employing others, it seemed especially ridiculous because here was a strong disincentive for me to continue on, which would mean a negative ripple effect beyond just me, i.e. layoffs, if I shuttered the operation.

Once the individual mandate went away, and some new options for employer cost sharing like QSEHRA/ICHRA came about, it has gotten a bit more manageable, but most small business owners I know still struggle with healthcare. Cost sharing programs like CHM are about the only workable alternative but they don’t offer the kind of bankruptcy protection a solid insurance premium would cover, and they are religious by nature. Alternatively, DNR and a term life insurance policy.

Best option is to be married, have spouse work for the man to get into corporate group plan for family, while you grow your business enough to sustain an insurance scheme.

But it sucks out there on the individual market - the raw actuarial numbers to insure you are bad - and subsidies disappear quickly with any amount of AGI. Since the vast majority of Americans are on employer-paid healthcare plans, this is a view into it that most don’t see. The cynical side of me (as a small business owner) says this is by design to keep you working for corporate America - consolidation of labor, consolidation of the profits. For me, Obamacare further entrenched this aspect of the system, which has become more terrible, not less.