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We are looking for a developer to join our growing team. There are just six of us at the moment, but we are a great team with an excellent culture - and we all work remotely. You will be working on a wide ranging list of projects which combine massive geospatial data sets, drone imagery, 3D models, web maps, machine learning, etc.

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HN in 2023:

"Conventional Codetags: a specification for structured TODO comments"
Peter Norvig's python is so elegant: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes#pytudes-index-of-jupyter-i...
there isa difference between dealing with some issues and having depression or anxiety to the point where you cannot do your job anymore. but you cannot understand that until you experience it yourself. i doubt that any amount of talking or medecine can fix it. i feel that you have to go back to the root events that caused it and address those or experience a powerful positive event to negate the previous event. without that i feel it is difficult to address the problem and find closure.
Yeah, I've gone down some paranoia rabbit holes into isolating my Facebook, Google, and Twitter logins into their own Containers with Firefox's Container tabs. It makes for a very interesting web browsing experience that is increasingly distant from the "mainstream" view of the web. (Even beyond the fact that Firefox usage in general is so rare according to current metrics of the Chromium hegemony.) It's amazing the dark patterns that websites get into when a Facebook, Google, or Twitter tracker doesn't work or doesn't return user details. Google specifically seems to punish me with a vast increase in the number of ReCAPTCHA attempts I'm forced to make (and you start to find out how many sites still use ReCAPTCHA as their primary prevention tool).
Deep dive into Linux io_uring worker pool internals
> but we can’t really drop N from the acronym without a replacement

Huh, yeah. That would be quite a GAAF. Gotta come up with something before Netflix is forced out of the FAANG club.
It is fan fiction about how Elon should leverage twitter branded cryptocurrency to gain enough political support to fight off any attempt by the establishment to take out twitter.

The basic idea is that if he can give all twitter users a share via cryptocurrency they will have a financial incentive to defend Twitter from a predicted political onslaught.
I never understand when people with enough health and money to do literally whatever they could possibly want for the rest of their life, chose to do whatever this is (or shitpost on Twitter every day, see Andreessen lately).
Why is paying(?) people for their support to Elon to take a company private seen as some righteous "first truly global political" revolution? This just seems like bribery/US-style lobbying with extra steps.
> The huge difference is that futures (and thus async/await) change the primary concurrency concept you think about into "wait until this value is available" rather than managing the locks and shared memory yourself.

Java has had Futures for a while (and pretty good ones since Java 8's addition of "CompletableFuture")

That being said, the biggest issue with Java Futures has not been the futures themselves, but rather the management of the ThreadPools for when you want to do IO in the futures.

As pron points out, virtual threads make that WAY better to work with.
What about the Dyn type parameter?
you going 100mph and turning off your car is not a great idea since that locks up the steering wheel all but guaranteeing a crash. I am pretty sure most cars should be able to switch into neutral though which would be advisable. who knows though how someone operates under pressure like that. they did call 911 and you can hear the final moments iirc.
Yeah, pay at the big banks is shit really, especially when you consider the utter lack of work/life balance. I left in 2013 making 150k, which was supposed to be supplemented by a ~40% bonus for the level I was at, but each year was "well its been a tough year..." and after getting a token amount one year, and then zeroes the next 2, after working 50-60 hour weeks, I was like I am not only done with this place, but this industry, and left for a 50% pay raise, my TC is now 4x where it was in those days. A neighbor of mine is more or less sitting in my exact seat there, and is somewhere in the 200-250k range.

That said, I went back to finance to work at one of the premier hedge funds out there, and they actually lived up to their expectations in terms of comp, that place was more like a tech firm though than any other firm I have ever worked at aside for maybe Knight. 8% annual increases were normal there. You can look in my post history back to 2018 if you want the name, I recently left after 5 years there and just want to stay out of their crosshairs- they monitor social media aggressively and there is deferred comp at stake.

At big banks, there are really only a very small number of people who are in tech that are getting paid- you have to know which questions to ask- where is the bonus pool coming from- are you "in the business" or the tech pool, which is a second class of citizen. I would have to be in a pretty bad place to ever consider going back to a bank, it was borderline abusive... always dangling the prospect of that big check that would make it worth it
Papers may not meet the standards for publication but still be useful. For example, I have a paper with 50 citations that is having difficulties getting published (either "not novel enough" or "not motivating"). There's also a randomness to review, as NeuralIPS has continually demonstrated.

I should also mention that you can also pad your citations this way and build your h-index. It is metric hacking, but if it isn't too egregious this is normal. Classic example of Goodhart's law.
Why is such a vehicle considered zero emissions?
I don't think there is a right studio for a live-service game with micro-transactions etc., etc., etc., and I blame Square for taking what could have been a tightly-focused game and making it into something big, bland, and expensive. Not to say that Crystal Dynamics couldn't have done better, just that I think Square is obsessed with making a live service game happen (see also: Outriders; Babylon's Fall) and they're letting that blind drive hurt their studios.
That position is currently filled, by G*D!
He must love all this attention
Let's face it, mobile devices are primarily for consuming, not producing.
Nvidia starts laying groundwork for future open and parallel code
Sounds tedious, I propose we make scripts for all these steps and bundle it alongside the frontend framework that renders static html
> The solution is to actually recycle plastic, build circular supply chains, and use biodegradable materials as much as possible.

This assumes that:

(1) Plastic can actually be recycled. Unlike a lot of other materials, it degrades rather substantially every time you try, and plastic quality coming out of recycling isn't generally uniform enough to make anything more than the big, chunky "recycled plastic toys and benches" you'll occasionally see. More and more, it's evident that "plastic recycling" is a myth mostly funded by plastic producers and crew, who wish to have it be seen as "not the terror it actually is." Hard on profits, you know, if people don't like your product. The Guardian has done some great work on the truths behind plastic recycling, and they're not pretty. That's before you get into the biological impacts of microplastics on "literally everything on the planet that's alive."

And, (2) that "biodegradable materials" actually do that in realistic end of life conditions. They don't. People date landfill digs by reading the headlines on the newspapers that are "slightly yellowed compared to when they were buried."

Treating plastic as the life-toxic sludge it is would be a far better start. At least with metal recycling, we know it's actually being put back into a smelter for recycling, and that it uses far less energy than the original materials (though "pure circular" with most metals is still a problem as they just dilute the various alloys down with virgin metal enough to make the additives not a problem in current systems).

"Oh, it's fine, it's recycled!" leads to far more plastic use than "No, we literally can't do anything with it, the best we can do is go burn it to offset coal use" (which is what my local area does with plastic, as it seems to have the best impact for the least cost, and the burn temperature is probably hot enough to decompose all the nasties...).
If I'm understanding you correctly, yes, there are alternative NFC payment apps to Google Pay, like Samsung Pay and various bank-specific apps. My main traditional bank doesn't support Google or Apple Pay, and you need to pass through an app of theirs for NFC payments, and you can even set it as the default app for NFC payments ( that's the extent to which Google allow alternative NFC payment apps).
You very well might not be. Carbon monoxide, stress, medication, sleepwalking, etc. If it's CO, at least try going outside and getting fresh air and see if things clear up. And at least ask someone for their opinion and get a CO detector. It's well worth a try for your own well-being.
Thanks. Ya, it's a grand vision. Every big journey begins with a single step and a lot will depend on how people actually end up using it and what they want. And I agree, I can definitely see myself adding an export feature in the future.
Related; In mid 19th century, Entire neighborhoods of Chicago were lifted up on jackscrews to raise the street above the swamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
I believe that categorizing comments will save some time down the road if you're specifically looking for something like "BUG". However, searching and aggregating all comments becomes more difficult, which is, in my opinion, one of the main benefits of using "TODO".
xcode

haha just kidding!
The way things SHOULD be, and the way things ARE, are not always the same thing.
Solution-focused therapy is related to cognitive behavioral therapy and can be effective for your demographic. I agree that speaking with someone you can relate to is helpful. In that case I would consider finding a therapist who has founded a group practice.
You can see two of these in the Denver, CO area, albeit neither in operating condition.

There's one at the Colorado Railway Museum near Golden, and another at the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver. The latter has had it's cockpit (?) restored. Pretty high tech, not quite a steampunk esthetic, because it was designed in the 1940s, not the 1870s, but still worth a look.

I'd like to see a book or something on the engineering of these things. There's all kinds of thermodynamics, kinematics and large scale dynamics involved. They did it all with slide rules and adding machines, I guess. Some discussion of the various trade-offs would really be interesting.
Normalization of deviance.

American chips are boring because they are what you are used to. Flavors not available in America are by definition exotic and unfamiliar.

Is BBQ flavor (primary notes tomato product, vinegar, sugar, and wood smoke) really more "boring" than lamb and mint, or is it just more familiar?
I haven't worked at a FAANG but I don't delete my local copies of codebases that I largely wrote myself.

Yes, it's probably illegal and ethically questionable.

I don't show or sell the codebase to anyone else. It's more for me to refer to when I encounter a similar problem that I recognize I already tackled years ago. I'm not going to copy verbatim, but if it can save me time to refer to a working implementation of a solution I need to repeat, I'm going to do it.

And this happens pretty rarely, but I'm competing in this job market with people who are doing the same, or, if they're not, probably have much better memories than myself. If I can keep up with competition by referencing things, it improves my own ability to do the work I do.

I'm in my late 30s btw, so already at the point in my life where I need to do whatever I can to keep a competitive edge against 20-somethings in the industry... I'm very concerned about my memory continuing to get worse and the implications it may have on my employability, despite not having much money saved up.

If we're ever in some weird sci-fi future where people who leave jobs have their memories erased, I'll gladly delete my copies of code I wrote. That way, at least my age will only work against me in the context of my current job.

Until then, I don't see why someone with perfect recall should be able to refer to things they worked on in the past, and I shouldn't.
My only complaints about the freestyle machines are that they are slower to use and sometimes at busy locations it can create a bottleneck. The second is that it is harder to be precise with the fill level because there is significant latency on the dispense button. Overall I am ambivalent towards them.
You can send your CV to me. I run a research group working in that area. My email is myfirstname.mylastname AT analog DOT com.
I'm not making a claim about the price of oil for burning rising though.

I'm saying the money spent on noncombusted fossil fuels funds climate change denial just as much as the burned stuff does.

Is it the carbon that's the problem or the groups that have prevented a carbon fee being enacted for decades that is the problem?
Wow. This is pretty bad. So much potential for abuse or discrimination using this data.
I don't think I understand your objection because it doesn't seem like a category error to talk about optimizers having goals.

I think you would agree that thermostats have goals? They try to minimize the error between the desired and the actual temperature. And you would also agree that gradient descent has a goal? It tweaks parameters in the search for models which minimize error in the training set. The system performing that gradient descent was designed by humans and exhibits goal-like behavior.

But you think it's a step too far to believe that gradient descent could create a model which also exhibits goal-like behavior?

What is the difference in category that you see between those two steps?

I agree that humans are not goal-directed in the same way the community is worried that AGI might be. This makes it surprising that seeing AGI as potentially goal-directed is seen as anthropomorphism, humans often question their goals in exactly the way there is concern that AGI will not!
The Visio that came on the sampler floppy. It was small and did an amazing job.

PFE back in the day. Simple macros and templates that made life much easier in a small package. Some editors today don't even bother with macros or have all of PFE's options.
Having been part of 'the industry' for the last 40 years or so I'm fairly well informed about how things are done and that between 'common practice' and 'actual implementation details' there can be a very, very large difference.
If you enable "mock locations" in the Android developer settings I believe you can do just that. It has been awhile though
I'm pretty sure it's just an observation about the situation that any player in that market would find itself in, so therefore when you look at apps in that market they're shitty about privacy.

It's a comment about dating apps, not about people who decided not to go into dating apps i.e. found "a market you can address without doing that."
Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place.
This is a good point - Californias could start buying fruits and foods from states without water problems, and everyone could boycott California produce.

This would effectively be the same as shipping water to California.
OKC died when match bought it and they took down their blog post about why you should never pay for a dating app.
Is it possible for the "appeal" process to be compromised with any arbitrary content so that was what triggered the email? Are you sure the email is really from Twitter and not some kind of phishing?
> Elon thus takes a position of total moral authority

This is a frightening proposition. Extra-governmental elections of a transnational "total moral authority" is frightening.
When I got my first iPhone, such “limitations” weren’t really an issue. As a 30’s something dev, I understand them much more deeply than I did when I made the initial purchase. I now have a number of apps that I use on a daily basis, some of which I’ve paid 100’s of dollars to acquire over the years.

Thus simply “getting Android,” is quite an expensive prospect and we haven’t even talked about the social implications.
https://vertx.io and https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
In practice it seems like capital intensive large scale mono-cropping does most of that without GMOs needing to make an appearance. Careful application of GMOs could probably cut the need for fertilizers and pesticides.

Figuring out how to maintain some food production capacity without debt peonage in developing countries is a policy problem more than a technical problem.
> They're not magic - nothing is, but what are they?

Emergent magic.
In that context it doesn't really look like a reply a hacker would make to get an account banned (unless they know exactly what triggers the auto-ban algorithm and are covering their tracks).
not arguing in favor of op but there's also legal reasons to not keep data.
> I hate to be that guy

Proceeds to be that guy.
If I was younger under the legal guardianship of my parents the N word would be No. However the news & social media has been very informative and educational at hilighting other peoples vulnerabilities giving would be agent provocateurs new angles of attack, so now I tend to associate the N word with a subsection of society getting angry at the non subsection of society using it. What I see is a subsection of society trying to own a word which can only be used by themselves. I think this happens when a subsection dont have many material possessions to keep them occupied with like toys for kids so like with religion, if you dont have much you start inventing things and laying claim to things that where there is no proof.

As to the cognitive dissonance angle, for having racist thoughts regarding a non euphemism, there is nothing quite like cognitive dissonance to mess people up, but what I find interesting about it is how it affects us as our chemistry changes, ie we age, we get more intelligent, we get wise, so then we start employing innuendo to avoid the legal and societal constraints, and there is another subsection of society which does innuendo brilliantly.
Mostly retired. I tried to do some startups but they all failed. Now I have a part-time gig at a chip manufacturer who uses Common Lisp for one of their internal design tools, so I'm helping them maintain that. Besides that I'm doing a little writing, a little hacking, a lot of traveling, and the odd podcast interview :-)
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Mental illness is not made up, nor is mental wellness. There are problematic aspects of the mental health field, but there are problematic features of every field.

Physical diseases have been around for 100000+ years too, part of life, but we don't say there's no such thing as health or illness.

I agree that the the diagnostic categories in things like the DSM are probably imperfect, and many aren't "real" but there are many in the area of mental health sciences who would agree with that. But that doesn't mean mental illness or wellness aren't real, any more than mismodeling bacterial disease in the 1800s didn't mean they didn't exist.

Part of the problem is that people want to project concepts from things like cardiology or virology or oncology onto behavioral health and it doesn't quite work the same. But that doesn't mean it's not real.

As for therapy, there are decades of randomized controlled trials with all sorts of controls that show efficacy of treatment: various types of treatment and behavioral controls, waitlist controls, pharmacological controls, and pharmacological placebo controls. It works on average, just like everything else. Not perfectly not all the time, but on average it works. We can get into arguments about why it works, and I think there are serious issues about what the "active effective components" of therapy are (I don't think they're what e.g., CBT theorists think it is) but that's a different issue.

This is a good overview of my perspective on things; note that it assumes therapy is effective, because there's so much evidence at this point that it is, but asserts that no one really knows why:

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095424
> as I don't really feel anything.

> I also don't like to bother people with my issues

Feelings like these can be a sign of depression. I would suggest finding a therapist who is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy and meet with them for a few sessions to determine if it is, in fact, depression.
Its rather incredible what an expert can figure out from just a couple of photographs.
"The one man holocaust."
It seems someone is replying to your tweet by triggering the appeal process and telling you it's not "learn on the job", you said it wrong, it's "die on the job...".
It certainly doesn't look like a phishing email. That said, I've received plenty of email from Google where I was quite sure that it was phishing when eventually it turned out that it wasn't so I guess anything is possible.

But it definitely looks genuine, headers and all.
I sure hope so. And I hope that future is an awful lot closer. The past decade or so of teenagers can speak to just how nasty smartphone addictions can be, in terms of mental health, suicides, etc. I grew up with the internet, but we didn't have profit-driven advertising empires pretending to "connect people together" back then, either.

Part of my reason for not carrying a smartphone anymore is to be a better example to my kids, and I certainly point out couples staring at his-n-hers smartphones at a restaurant instead of actually enjoying each other's company.

Odds are good that instead of a smartphone, my daughter will just end up with her HAM license and a VHF handset instead. It'll cover the common cases direct simplex if I put a base station on the house, and my wife isn't opposed to getting her license either. :)
I have created my blog almost a decade ago, https://reiblast.blogspot.com/ I'd like to know any new blogging site that is better than google?
> People choosing which traits to optimize for isn't evolutionary pressure.

It sure is. Look up selection or selection pressure ( another name for evolutionary pressure ).

> Evolution is a very specific mechanism that optimizes through random mutation.

Random mutations are meaningless without selection pressure. It's the selection that drives evolution not random mutations. You could have evolution without any mutations - the environment could change which selects for certain existing traits.

> We could select for anything through science and tech.

Which is called evolution. You seem to have a misunderstanding of what evolution is. Evolution isn't only "natural selection". Artifical selection exists. For example, dogs evolved from wolves by human/artificial selection, not "natural" selection. Regardless, it is still evolution.