skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding from my undergrad Money and Banking course (someone else may learn the same topic from a differing vantage point) is that even if all countries are printing money at the same time different countries print differing amounts of money because they either have some comparative advantage in some good or service they can produce or none at all.
For some reason German sometimes drops the i in "-isch" (cognate with English "-ish"). But the only reasonably common examples I can think of are Deutsch (etymologically definitely with -isch/-isk) and Kölsch ('pertaining to Cologne'). I don't know if this is somehow an example of a more widespread phonological process in German.
I build a lot of cmake and meson projects. I was an expert at cmake for quite some time (bleh), but now I use meson for everything I can.

The end user experience is in every aspect superior to autotools. There is a small downside for cmake compared to autotools: while you have to install the bits for autotools it runs on a shell. There is a bigger downside for meson: you need a minimal python infrastructure up and working. Over time you need that python infrastructure to keep working. Sometimes it doesn't.

I still vastly prefer meson over cmake and much more so autotools. If I have to fix cmake or meson builds, well, really, if you know their languages, it's just no comparison to debugging the 1000s of lines of shell code autotools generates.
I've never regularly taken caffeine or other stimulants, and my work is fine. I imagine that stopping would be more about an adjustment period than a significant productivity decrease.
Hehe Im on that subreddit what a small world . are you on it's rocket chat server ? We got banned from discord .

Regarding your questions I'm not certain but we can talk there . Just mention asp on generalchat and we can discuss more
What does "execute on it" mean from a legal perspective?
What Birds Listen for in Birdsong
Historically desalinization has been an extremely inefficient way to produce drinking water -- energy intensive while discharing a large fraction of the input water. I doubt the fundamental economics of desalinization have changed.
> who graduates a bootcamp today will need about 4 - 5 years of highly focused coding to become as productive as the Indian L4/L5 engineer that they would be compared to in this real comparison

First of all, I think it’s disingenuous to compare a boot camp hire with any L5 engineer, regardless of what country they’re from. A boot camp hire should be compared to a new hire/L4. Doing an L5 comparison is moving the goal post, which I assume wasn’t intended on your part.

A boot camp engineer absolutely can be as productive as any other L4 hire, Indian or not Indian. I think the L4 Indian hires in particular come better prepped for the leet style coding interviews. But in terms of quickly ramping up and becoming productive engineers, there’s absolutely nothing unique about a hire from India in many, if not majority of cases.

There are other stronger incentives for indexing on non resident hires. I could pay you market rate at $200K/year + equity that vests over four years. Or, I can bring a person from India and pay them $140K a year, reduced equity grant, and for the most part, I know that person isn’t going to quit. Especially with certain cultures that are more risk averse, they’re going to think twice, even if another employer is willing to offer sponsorship.
I’ve often thought that I could be diagnosed with ADHD if I wanted, but I don’t feel the need to label myself with a “disorder” and its possible stigma for something that I feel helps me more than it hurts (now that I’ve learned strategies to work with it). Then again, it might have been easier/faster to find my coping strategies if I was diagnosed early. For these reasons, I think it would be helpful to drop the “disorder” bit culturally.
This article mentions that regenerative agriculture as the solution. There is a lot of concern now about the potential for a global food shortage at the end of this year because of rising fertilizer prices (leading to less planting). Regenerative agriculture can help solve this as well by focusing on restoring the biome of the soil, thereby harnessing nitrogen from the air and minerals from the soil.
Without my medication? I think that would be problematic, yes.

But caffeine, I already avoid it because I think it redundant with my medication.
Maybe so, but if the argument against entertaining hiring boot camp grads is "many of them aren't good," then one must consider that the argument applies equally well to the other place most people try to source junior devs.
It doesn't do much for me either way. I don't see a clear difference between my productivity when I use it and when I don't.
How do you square this with the fact that more people go to college than every before, while people have fewer friends than ever before: https://nypost.com/2021/07/27/americans-have-fewer-friends-t...

The problem with college is that many people go off to some city they’re not from, then go take a job in some other city that’s not their college. I’m still best friends with my college buddies, but I see them pretty infrequently given how much we’ve all moved chasing careers.
the detailed feature tests really are intense and strange
"In the criminal information, the government alleges that, from April 1998 to August 2003, GSK unlawfully promoted Paxil for treating depression in patients under age 18, even though the FDA has never approved it for pediatric use.... The United States also alleges that, from January 1999 to December 2003, GSK promoted Wellbutrin, approved at that time only for Major Depressive Disorder, for weight loss, the treatment of sexual dysfunction, substance addictions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, among other off-label uses."
How many of those zillion contracts have been tested in a court of law? (As that is the relevant context here)
Aside from home automation related requests, ours is basically voice controlled alarms, timers, and conversion calculators. In all of those cases they are superior to alternatives imo.
Sort of. Little of the work being done in the cryptocurrency space is actually applied cryptography. The big innovation of proof-of-work consensus isn't using cryptography to achieve trustlessness. Yeah there are digital signatures. Hooray.
> The biggest problem was Motorola/Freescale saw that their future was in embedded, not the (relative) high performance required for personal computing.

Ironically that's also the niche where PowerPC ended up when Apple dumped them :)
> "I mean, anyone benefits from Adderall whether you have ADHD or not."

What benefits of Adderall are you referring to?

Drugs like Adderall can have distinct adverse effects, like cardiac arrythmias, increased blood pressure, jitteriness, insomnia, anxiety. And drug misuse/dependence is a major problem with stimulant-class agents.

So for sure it's not true that everyone benefits from Adderall. Widely abused on college campuses, among non-ADHD students it has a small positive effect on academic performance and at higher doses is a distinct negative. OTOH for people with ADHD the right treatment (Adderall or alternative) can be greatly beneficial. (That is, ADHD treatment allows recipients to perform closer to their non-ADHD peers.)

Finding out if a person has ADHD requires evaluation by a qualified behavioral health clinician. Often it's not an easy diagnosis to make for even the best clinicians. Anyway I'd concur that diagnosis and treatment should not be attempted as a DIY project. Collaborating with a trustworthy practitioner is by far the best option.
I don't understand, do you / your mother need to click the emojis?

User interface I've seen use buttons for clicking, and the buttons can be colored, regardless of the emoji colors or lack thereof.

In fact, with black-white emojis, then, colored buttons get even simpler to spot.

So, the remark you made seems off topic to me.

I'm sad about your mother though, and father. I hope Google and others won't make the important buttons black-white-gray only.
‘Where do hot dogs come from?’ A Children's Book About Cellular Agriculture
An older, but similar and still impressive alternative is available here: https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion

If you have a decent amount of VRAM, you can use it to start generating images with their pre-trained models. They're nowhere near as impressive as DALL-E 2, but they're still pretty damn cool. I don't know what the exact memory requirements are, but I've gotten it to run on a 1080 TI with 11gb.

EDIT: I also tried a 980 with 4GB of RAM a while back, but that failed...so you probably need more than that.
This is from 2012. Any context as to why it was posted now?

Would be great to have the title updates as well.
Most of my life-long friends come from either the summer camp that I went to as a kid (and later worked at) or I made friends at work. There are plenty of ways experiences you can commit to that will allow you to make friends, you just need to find a year of your life when you can go and commit to those experiences.
Not click-bait. This is an excellent tour.
The huge majority of H1Bs are given to L4+ (aka non entry level) engineers. These directors/VPs have headcount to fill and would prefer a productive L4 to a "needs a lot of training" L3 every day of the week. IMO the real issue here is that there is no rational incentive for any company to take on an L3 engineer now, regardless of H1B or bootcamp status. An L3 is going to join your company, receive 18 months of training where they are genuinely not worth what you are paying them AND they are a drag on your org, then leave in months 20-28 of their employment, usually shortly after a promotion to L4. So you put in 18 months and if you're lucky you get back 2 to 10 months of productivity.
I sometimes feel like authors sometimes get this problem once they get famous enough -- the power dynamic between them and their editor shifts, and the author gets to stand firm for their creative vision and they end up publishing novels that they could have trimmed a couple hundred pages from.
Not in my experience. I don't see or talk to any of my friends from college. We're not on bad terms or anything, we just all went our own ways after graduation. Tried to keep up for a few years, but guys got married or busy with careers and it wasn't sustainable. I believe that physical proximity is the overriding necessity in long-lasting friendships (and feuds, as well, if it goes that way).
I didn't say that every thing being laughed at is the next big thing to redefine the industry. I only predicted that augmented reality really is one of those things. Further, the person I was replying to claimed that the next big thing to redefine the industry is something that will be laughed at. Neither party claimed that everything being laughed at will redefine the industry.

The statement that augmented reality is "like touch keyboards" is a statement that you haven't given justification for. Augmented reality is not a technology centered around replacing physical input with non-physical input, and so the analogy is not self-evident. You might potentially have a good point, but you'd have to explain how this analogy is relevant to the technology of placing graphics and information at any position in a person's 3D visual space. Remember, most augmented reality objects don't need to be controlled at all to be useful, and you can still control an augmented reality screen with a mouse and keyboard.

I'm interested to hear more detail to your thoughts on why you think augmented reality won't be a paradigm shift. I'm also happy to elaborate on why I think it will, if you like.
Val Broeksmit, Deutsche Bank, and the Birth of a New Conspiracy Theory
That viewpoint makes the same strawman argument:

> <X> is part of the natural variation in how human brains work, and ... it's a category error to think of it as a malfunction to be repaired

No! No one is saying that everyone at one end of the spectrum has a disorder. It is specifically not a category error because the term "disorder" is not applied based on the variability, but rather based on whether the variation meaningfully disrupts the individual's life.

That's why the only change the author needs to make here is to say he has an attention deficit rather than saying he has a disorder.
About 10 years ago when I was still going to San Jose State University I began applying to SDE internship openings at various places in the Bay Area.

I recall one of {Uber, Lyft, AirBnb, Doordash, other similar place} having a drop-down on the application for the university I was attending.

There were roughly 10 universities. I can't remember all of them, maybe Stanford, CMU, Brown, Berkeley, etc. (typical top universities for CS/EE).

At the bottom of the list was "Other".

I was rejected within an hour or two of submitting my application. I don't want to say it was an automatic filter situation, but...
> Are you suggesting that after that dialog, were I to put a dollar bill down on the table and wander away with the tchotchke, there would be courts that would hold I didn’t actually buy it?

If the proprietor was aware of it and didn’t object, probably not, because the tender of payment is an offer on the negotiated terms and its acceptance is…acceptance.
You're really losing out on some great people. Grads from 'selective' universities (e.g., Stanford) have not impressed me any more than anybody else.
Imagine your skin has a different from your neighbors color. Would it be sensible to consider it a disorder? Even if it may happen that it negatively affects your every day life, and it may be maladaptation in the region where you live but it may be a considerable advantage if you had lived on different latitude.

Or consider a game where different character classes exist e.g., Necromancer (can raise an army with no resource, quickly) and Wizard (requires lots of resources, slow to develop though some units are exceptionally strong). Would it make sense to consider being a Wizard to be a disorder in such a game?
I once munged a configure.ac so that it would blast out its variables to a text file, i.e.,
CFLAGS="-g -O2"
LDFLAG="-l openssl"

I then replaced automake and libtool with tup, and the Tupfile would just source these variables from configure. It worked great! It's a pity that tup hasn't caught on.
For all the armchair lawyers arguing on this, bear the current facts in mind:
There is no legally binding precedent that can impel a private person to sell an asset just because they stated what the price was.

Merchant law and private seller law are two very different things.

I think Goldstein is over-stating and over-reaching what an offer and counteroffer implies.

Private sellers of assets and services are free to renege any deal - even after the contract is signed. After the contract is signed, then it is a matter for the courts. No contract was signed or implied to be signed in this case.

In a private sale there is no verbal contract law - A: "How much for the lawn mower?" B: "$50 firm" A: "Sold!" B: "I don't want to sell." Verbal or written, there is absolutely no implication of a contract or acceptance of the contract at that point. Though this very much varies by state and would be governed by the state of NV.

Just because an entity states they are authorized to act on a deal, does not mean they have that authority. There was a scummy domain broker around a few years ago that would send you a snail mail letter of intent to purchase your domain for a stupid low amount, with a cheque attached, and failure to respond to the letter after a certain number of days indicated your willingness to sell at the offered price. Depositing the cheque indicated your acceptance of the contract. Holding on to (or destruction of) the cheque indicates your acceptance of the contract. I know of quite a few people with high value domains who had to lawyer up to stop the transfers from taking place.
Made a bunch of lifelong friends at high school, and at University my social life dropped off a cliff - because I was responsible for making it happen, mostly.

I'm lucky to have the quantity and quality of friends I do have though.
I think this: "Respectfully, if you think http is unimportant or uninteresting, then you don’t know it very well" is fairly presumptuous.

HTTP has no interesting theoretical basis, and doesn't really generalize to much. Like most early internet protocols, it's kind of random and ad-hoc, with incremental hacks and improvements like keep-alive added later. You can pick up any RFC -- POP, IMAP, or whatever, and get just as much out. That's not nothing; they're worth knowing, but here's a short list of protocols and data standards which which have a theoretical basis which will teach you something deeper:

- git. Brilliant data standard.

- SQL. And relational database theory.

- SGML. Yes, the original. Much juicier than XML in design.

- Cryptographic protocols. Pick up a copy of Applied Cryptography, and read the chapter.

- A survey of the early RPC and object embedding protocols (OpenDoc, OLE, etc.)

- TCP/IP

- Any of the various compression and/or error correction protocols.

- Printer standards, especially PostScript

- Video, audio, or image compression standards.

.. and so on.

Some of those require months of study.
The cost estimates (at the end customer) are all right there in the article. $5 of month on the top side, and estimated to be something like 3x the price of importing drinking water.
Once it settled down, agreed. But iOS 7 initially swung too hard at a look that was not as discoverable or accessible. Thin font, UI elements that were hard to distinguish, low contrast.

https://www.macworld.com/article/221357/why-ios-7s-design-is...
Got above 98th percentile using: microbe, annihilation, annuity, junta, sash, polka, transition, epidermis, tome, token.
> Also: about a zillion successful purchases at yard sales indicate to me that this is a pretty good way to form contracts of sale.

In yard sales (and most retail situations, too), contracts of sale are usually formed with the tender of payment buy the prospective buyer for a specific set of items at a price stated by the seller as the offer, and acceptance of the tendered payment as the acceptance; they sale contract is formed fully executed, not as an executory (with some obligations still unfulfilled) contract.
Here's a list of processors supporting AVX-512:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefi...

The author mentions it's difficult to identify which features are supported on which processor, but ark.intel.com has a quite good catalog.
It is in the article that the hardest part is liking your job.
There have been some notable failures - Where they've got the tradeoffs between form and function badly wrong.
* Butterfly keyboard
* iPhone headphone jack
* Single-USB Macbook Air
* Non-removeable battery used to really bug me, but the M1's incredible battery life has sort of mitigated that now.
The surprising thing to note is - Since Ive's departure, the design decisions have been generally better, and led by great engineering.
The M1 Macbook Air is a beautiful bit of industrial design that's a joy to look at and use - The last clunky bit, screen bezels, is a job for the engineering team too.
I think that the Apple of today wouldn't have ditched the iPhone headphone jack, that was the design team drunk on their earlier successes (Removing Floppy / CD drives just slightly ahead of the technology curve), making the wrong call about where the technology was up to. They won't undo it now (it's embarrassing, and there's good money in selling the only bluetooth headphones that you don't spend your life pairing and unpairing), but the UX (For someone who sits at their desk 99% of the time) is clearly worse than a headphone cable.
This is really well done! I found it on /r/golang and wanted to submit it to HN because it worked so well. Thanks for making such an awesome tool.
20 years ago, many people thought this would have taken far longer to accomplish. It may have only been for a short moment, but we’re clearly on the right path.
So you have to be purposeful and know what you’re doing to potentially corrupt your Mac…the horror.

Have you ever thought by making it hard for you to corrupt your Mac it also makes it hard for malware?

Apple fully supports installing Windows on x86 Macs and there are plenty of guides on installing Linux on x86 and Mx Macs.
To put it another way, if an item has a price tag, is that a quote? Can I refuse to sell you something?

The GP’s line of reasoning leads to an implication that it could be a contract and therefor are unable to deny sale. Or reverse, a quote is a price tag not a contract.

I’d say no they’re able to deny service despite the price list.
You can disable most of the unnecessary checks. For Fortran / other languages, I believe that's AC_LANG https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/h...

Unfortunately the defaults are what they are and many people don't care to fine tune their builds.
Racket, what an odd part of my life.

After learning QBASIC and then quickly pivoting to Python thanks to the advice of my peers on 711chan IRC, I read ESR's "How to become a hacker" which lauded Lisp as this magical language that will forever change the way you think. Wow, powerful stuff for a teenager to hear. I want to have elevated, magical thinking. So I downloaded DrRacket.

Years later, after a few years that were the beginning of a career in software, I was in jail. I took some math classes where they gave us programmable calculators. I was fucking enthralled to be able to code again. I used TI-BASIC to make a little lisp interpreter, which I called Prison Lisp.

So many games, all the glee of a child in gradeschool (which is comparable to incarceration in many other ways). The people in my pod (shared living dormitory type thing) all asked to play the games, it was like having a gameboy.

Out again, mid twenties, start to code again. Somehow, a few years with no computers hadn't affected my ability to code in the least. I was actually much better than before. I start competing for gigs on Upwork, supporting myself pretty comfortably. I get married, start a family.

My wife loves coding challenges, but has no professional ambitions in tech. So I show her Racket, she loves it. My daughter is curious and wants a different lisp, so I show her Clojure. She hates it, sticks with Python. No judgement, I'm a lifelong Pythonista at this point.

I think back, to a friend from that 711chan IRC chat. He was learning Perl and I had recommended he try out something else, taught him a bit of Racket. I Googled him a year or so ago, turns out he ended up making several contributions to the Racket source code, and is a big shot electrical engineer. Good for him.

Life is so beautiful and strange.
Well I have several friends who have worked there and no one has had anything positive to say about the culture.
did you have any past experience before switching?

how was the transition?
You might enjoy Semantle: https://semantle.novalis.org/
No, he isn't: he supposes that "any deviation from the standard" is called a disorder. That's false: we call something a disorder when it disrupts people's lives, not just when there's diversity. "Disorder" only applies when someone is bothered—and addressing the bother isn't "medicalization" any more than cleft palate repair or prescribing eyeglasses.

He seems committed to using the term "disorder" about himself, even though he says he doesn't have one. But it's a problem of his own making: he could stop saying he has ADD and start saying he has an attention deficit.
It's easy to make too much of coffee "addiction", like it becomes part of people's personalities (a very modern stupidity that substitutes for character IMHO) i.e. ZOMG I NEED COFFEE TO LIVE. Nobody needs that.

It isn't like going cold turkey on heroin or anything like that.
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