skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. No one in the 1970s and early 1980s would believe that Japan would be in the position they're in now.

Sounds a lot like people examining only post-WW2 markets in the United States during a period of historic national expansion and growth and thinking they'll continue on average.

The next few decades have very different social and economic considerations of the past few decades, so...
Making fines matter to the people paying them is a separate problem. Finland scales then by your reported income for example.
Well indexes are a relatively new product (less than 100 years old).
I don't have an example handy, but I disagree that Wikipedia is about the citations. It _should_ be about the citations, but I often come across pages (usually medical/health related) that have citations where the Wikipedia page says something completely different from the source that is cited.

If Wikipedia were about the citations, I would expect to see a larger effort in verifying that page content reflects what the source says.
It's aggravating for sure. I've cancelled interviews with them before because they couldn't confirm that I was actually interviewing for the team and product I knew I was interviewing for. The secrecy often crosses the line into silly and even disrespectful.
I was coming here to rant about KDE's long list of unnecessary dependencies on their softwares. But looks like Okular have finally reduced their list of bizzillion unnecessary dependencies. Maybe I am wrong here since I have been away for a while. But I do try and install okular to see how many dependencies is needed from time to time. So it looks like they have. And if so, thanks and kudos!

Also, why do I still need kaccounts-integration dependency package if I am not using KDE? Is there a reason why it is needed? Anybody know?
>> Index investing will work, if you live for a long time.

Maybe. Those who own the Nikkei index are still waiting.
People like that... artists? What are you responding to?
>Workers at Apple China Plant Clash With Guards Over Lockdowns< : https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/workers-at-apple-china-plant-cla...
It's a slightly modified selection sort. Bubble compares arr[j] to arr[j+1]. Selection sort normally compares arr[j] to arr[indexofsmallest]. The algorithm here avoids the need to track smallest index by just swapping the next smallest value found to a known location, arr[i]. Trades a single pointer worth of memory for n^2 swaps.
There are games that run exclusively on the clients by being deterministic. Like Starcraft 2. Server is just proxying packets back and forth, but doesn't actually know what's going on with the game.

It works really well with RTSes because of the number of things moving around. Unfortunately the drawback is that the client knows everything that's going on in the game. So fog of war is entirely client-side too. Another drawback is that rejoining a game (or a new player joining) is much harder (need a way to encode/decode the entire game state, or client needs to replay the game inputs up until that point to be able to play).

It has some really elegant side effects (tiny replay files, easy to reproduce most bugs, easy to check if a bug is fixed by playing a replay file with a new version, etc.)
Most of their regular users don't even know what Arm or Intel is, let alone cares about it. A macbook is a macbook. The fact that it's faster is lost on most people as well, since their daily use consists of opening the browser or video conferencing or (if they have a PC) gaming.

Computers have plateaued for their current use case. The only innovation that will make a difference in the near future is AI.
The first Korean Republic (1948-1960) was vastly more repressive than the PAP at its worst, let alone today. Mass arrests of political opponents, reeducation camps, massacres: you name it, Rhee did it. The second republic (1960 to 1961) was theoretically a liberal democracy, but got couped almost immediately. After that, South Korea remained a somewhat milder developmental dictatorship, ala Singapore, until 1987.
Siri is not a good example. It is horrible for most real-world tasks when I need to use hands-free
OK, so it could happen if I buy now it would be worth even less due to yields go higher which seems to be the trend.
> He said it was so bad that engineers didn’t even know who they could and couldn’t talk to about their work.

This sounds off. When I worked there 7 years ago there was an internal website where you punch in the person’s name and it tells you about all the mutual disclosures you have. I would expect it’s integrated into Directory by now.

Also, I don’t recall AirPods development as being particularly more open considering I was in the same rough org and the only reason I heard about it in advance of launch was because I happened to be in an exec review where it was being demoed along with other forward looking products. I guess that could be considered “more open” but that wasn’t an experience many engineers got.
It's pretty tough to figure out if there's over-exposure in index investments, and tougher still to untangle the expected fallout of that problem, if it exists. Some people have talked about it, and have been shouted down of course.

I've done a decent amount of reading on the topic and think I'm barely knowledgeable about the surface of it. I guess that's how it always is, though.

People burying their heads in the sand and thinking that index investing has no hidden black swans are the ones to be most scared of, though.
@dang this guy seems to be on a rampant throwaway spam spree tonight. Not sure if you can block him at the source.
Ask HN: What is your experience with Windows 11?
The CCP was pretty obviously against the release of this gene sequence. Thank God Zhang Youngzhen followed liberal norms of the scientific community and shared it with the world. [0]

Science's triumph began in in liberal societies, and both fed on and accelerated the advance of capitalism. The industrial revolution was essentially a virtuous cycle (maybe a vicious cycle depending on your perspective) of capitalism and scientific knowledge (thermodynamics & mechanics mostly). Sure, the research was going on for decades in universities funded by governments, but once a profitable use for that research presented itself, an effective good utilizing it went into production rapidly.

[0]https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coro...
I feel happy sad, in 2017 I applied to YC with this idea, and got rejected. I even called it exactly what they are calling it, mutlipass. I solved the problem of losing your phone. I also had it where you can have multi factor if you wanted, so you can still use you password which makes sense for much secure sites. I experimented with NFC rings where you could have a ring and your phone so if someone takes your phone away from you, they won't be able to use your phone. All the big corps trying to do this want to lock you into their ecosystem, this is a problem that should be solved by an org that has no other products to sell but security.
I agree that there is an element of logic in the process, but I also think that it's being done today to a large extent because "this is how we do things at Apple" rather than because it fits the needs of that particular project.

To your example, imagine that the full-time Apple employee responsible for negotiating with that SK factory owner also doesn't know that Apple wants the factory to produce iPhone screens. Just go sign a factory that satisfies our hundreds of requirements, none of which you know, and by the way we need it in a month and everyone else knows what is required but they can't / won't tell you.

There is just no way to get the best results when you operate that way internally.
So.. a CI/CD pipeline?

You have the source (your local text files) which is deployed somewhere (GitHub pages) which other entities can access (spiders crawling it).
This is wonderful. Thank you, @bredren, for sharing this.
Tip: Don't buy bond funds (mutual and ETFs). Buy the bonds directly, then hold to maturity. This will give you the yield-to-maturity that you are seeking.
My sister in law is doing the web dev freecodecamp courses and loving them. She doesn’t have a background in tech but it’s really heartwarming to see her light up when something she envisions in her head can be made to appear on the screen with some HTML and CSS.
Oh please. There's no need for any engineering blog to publish a company's 2 year product roadmap slides moments after presenting them to leadership, or ever. There are surely a bazillion problems solved every year at much finer detail than would be useful as a decision tree for competitors. How about OS engineering? Apps? Physical manufacturing? Logistics engineering? CAD design? At the level of detail. None of these things if covered at a small enough scope would provide competitors an undue advantage, but each would definitely inspire a young or aspiring engineer to up their game. Maybe they can just hoard the best talent with money to keep them away from competitors, but how much future and potential talent are they leaving on the table by forcing their engineers to bottle up their innate human desire to share their wisdom? It's a short-sighted local minima, they can do better.
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The "back on it's feet" in the title corresponds to "it will not lose 15% of the GDP this year as some economists think, and central bank rate is still at 14% while capital controls are in place" in the body of the article.

I invite everyone commenting to consider how a GDP loss of less than 15% mean that things are fine.
And yet most arguments you will _ever_ have are because different people mean related but different things when using the same word. So having, especially public, discussion without having the understanding of where the terms come from, what they refer to and what else can be referred to by them (so sources of misunderstanding) is a problem. Which is _exactly_ the point of the TFA
I was there for longer and still enjoyed it every day
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing, @brudgers. I've bookmarked these lectures.
This is targeting retained mode.
I've written all of these down. Thanks so much, @wly_cdgr.
The last analysis I looked at noted that a lot of perceived strength in the ruble was manufactured by lowering capital liquidity through controls and freezes. This sets the economy on a path to go haywire later.

We'll see.
How much of an advantage are you really getting here? The first day they are sold samsung has the airpod torn apart and rendered on a computer screen with all specs known. There are no big secrets here, these aren't warheads. It didn't take long for the gas stations around me to start selling knock off airpods along side the knock off lightning cables. If you get it early vs not, its not going to make a big difference. People who want to be in the apple ecosystem will buy the airpods anyway and people who don't care about that will buy whatever alternative is on the market, probably whats on sale at the time when they look.
As the saying goes, there are four types of economies: developed, undeveloped, Argentina, and Japan.
See, that’s a difference between someone born in the USSR and someone born elsewhere. I, as person from the USSR, remember well how the offical rate of the ruble was a meaningless number. In theory, you could sell rubles at that rate. In practice, there would be a strict limit on the amounts, number of transactions and people allowed to execute these trades. You, my friend, would have lost all your money.
I know that Apple is incredibly secretive about their launches, and I'm not surprised that carries over to their internal culture, but, I'm incredibly skeptical of stories told from the point of view of an HR person that has every single incentive to hype up their revolutionary new process that unleashed productivity and improved morale.

Every single time I read a similar story and I had first or second hand knowledge of how things actually played out, the role of the person telling the story was massively stretched out.
The figure I recollect is that urbanisation accounts for 1% or 3% of Earth's total land area. That's in line with requirements for direct solar power.

In practice, that's not entirely appropriable (people and urban environments have some demand for sunlight other than solar PV), and you'd want some geographic distribution to account for weather, seasonality, and power demand variability (daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal), as well as other forms of interruption.

Solar is in theory largely sufficient, and with addition of wind, hydro (both power and storage), and geothermal, affords one possible route to a reasonably-sustainable, reasonably technological future, for a largish population. I suspect it still presents challenges and would probably fall below levels presently experienced in the US and Western Europe, especially at higher latitudes.
Who besides industry geeks actually cared about that?

ipod was innovative for the common man.

iphone was innovative for the common man.

ipad was innovative for the common man.

The rest? Meh.

Nowadays it's just an upgrade treadmill, consisting of "To re-pair my old watch I first need to update to the latest watch software (even though it worked fine before I unpaired it). But to update the watch software I need to update my phone software to a higher version than it supports, so now I need a new phone, which now won't work with my computer unless I update that, but it doesn't support the latest OS so now I need to buy a new computer..." For want of a nail.
This is very practical advice, and something that several people, in this thread and elsewhere, have told me. I'm made a note of this and will consider it a priority skill. Thanks for taking the time to share this, @engineerDave.
Amongst other multiple things which happened, this has helped Russia to move away from USD payments to their local currency. Given the chain of events like 40% of all USD printed in 2020, countries moving away from Petro-Dollar to their local currencies - It is a big red flag for USD (in my opinion)
I think the answer to this is no, but I'll ask anyway.

Is there any concern with the allocation for the view/widget tree every cycle? I know it's retained mode so the most important resources (graphics) are cached between cycles, but I'm wondering if the trees ought to be allocated out of arenas or something so that the allocating/freeing every cycle isn't undue performance penalty.

(I'm not sure what existing regained frameworks do.)
I understand that. My post never implies that that was the case.

> Quality Raters look at websites and answer questions about them.

Wrong. I was never asked any questions beyond to rank to site quality for a query

> Quality Raters don’t actually rank website

Wrong again. This is what we did. We assessed website rankings for specific queries.
I bought a $45 ship probably 5 years ago, and I just bought another one about a month ago. I've never even downloaded the game, I just love checking in every few months to see the game, and I'm happy to support its development. Seeing Morphologis' architecture reviews of the ships alone has been worth my [what has amounted to] $1.50 per month.
Dumb "breach of fiduciary duties" lawsuits almost always go nowhere.
I love this idea. I also see the value in reflecting upon what's been learned. Appreciate this great input.
I don't think the argument was, that you should call it a competent translation. Only that there is a charitable interpretation. Yes I'd agree it's done intentionally, but not out of incompetence.
Ditch old tools and habits for the golden tools of your new company
Right, so the theory is that in good times you put on the brakes so there is something in the tank you can spend during bad times. Spending can take many forms, but the traditional ones are lower interest rates and tax cuts.

The issue is that we lowered taxes significantly in the middle of good times. It's like feeding ice cream to kids already on a sugar high.

There is no room to lower taxes anymore as we are already running a significant deficit, and there is a recession coming where we are going to need to juice the economy.
Self-driving car is not only radar and good model. Tesla has their own battery factories, own mines, own delivery chain, years of experience of actual real world traffic data from all around the world.

You have to look at volume, Tesla soon will be producing millions of electric cars per year.

They already won the market. It will take years for competition to catch up.

If ppl want to gamble with their money and buy a car that never hit a real world traffic -> let them do it, but every other manufacturer is going to have to go through the same painful process as Tesla already did.

Not even mentioning that no other company beside maybe Toyota has any real experience with electric cars.
For this person this is a 7 figure paycheck.
Thanks for posting the heads-up re: Meta and Netflix; in the latter case I’m not surprised (or maybe they could just reduce the obscenely high salaries they overpay so they can feel superior to other members of FAANG, which doesn’t really fool anyone about their engineering prowess (they’re a content company, not an engineering/product/big-cloud company like the others, and everyone knows it). That would also allow them to get rid of this let-a-person-go-after-a-few-months-but-don’t-worry-there’s-warmth-and-respect BS.

Regarding your 2nd statement: “Other companies are cutting staff”; you mean in big tech already? Who?
I understand that.

> Quality Raters look at websites and answer questions about them.

Wrong. At least in my case. I was never asked any questions beyond to rank to site quality for a query
It sounds like you're mixing up the casual, colloquial use of addiction ("I'm addicted to key lime pie") with the medical term ("i suffer from addiction"). The latter is not just a failure of willpower and is qualitatively different from the former.

You can use either, but if people think you mean the latter and you start arguing points that only apply to the former, expect pushback.
That's really interesting. Let me quickly share this with you guys, It makes sense, BTC and crypto is helping to regulate, rather than pretend it won't ever happen. The big institutions getting in is the catalyst that will launch us into the stratosphere. Most people don't like change but after the change is made they grow used to it and it becomes a non issue usually because their fears never materialize. And benefits they were unaware of before turn out to be far more beneficial. Few if any rug pulls. The projects that initiated the process of regulation have not been ruined, they got involved in setting guidelines and helping the regulators understand the crypto space. I’d get involved more knowing that I have made over 10` btc from day-trade with norrelsmith8 @ gmail .com gm in few weeks
I’m going to ask you to leave now, Dad
> Keep in mind this attitude makes total sense to hardware engineers.

> The hardware business is...

> Let's just say that the difficulties you face definitely exist for hardware engineers.

I’ve worked in hardware and I’ve worked with multiple Korean CMs and I’m still struggling to understand what you’re trying to say. I don’t agree that this makes “total sense”.

Instead of being intentionally vague, can you please just describe what you’re trying to explain without the “Let’s just say…” and other totally unnecessary secrecy? This entire thread is about how toxic and unproductive it is when people use unnecessary secrecy and vagueness, so it’s kind of ironic to read comments using unnecessary vagueness.
As a teenager ~18 years ago, I joined ADW (Association of Deletionist Wikipedians) and I was very proud of myself. We took down a lot of personal vanity pages, per the Wikipedia is An Encyclopedia policy (at odds with the Wikipedia is Not Paper policy). I also led the push to get a lot of pokemon pages deleted as not notable. I'm not sure how I feel about all that now. Deleting the vanity pages that people put up about themselves probably improved the platform, but the pokemon were harmless.
I've been thinking about possible projects. So far, I've been reading about algorithms, which I want to practice via coding-challenge websites, but focusing on a larger project seems sensible. Thank you for sharing this!
What percentage of the population is unemployed?
I have yet to see the evidence that not-buying-rubles / sanctions have had an effect on the strategical and tactical goals Russia government and its armed forces have placed for themselves in Ukraine. This just seems to be assumed for some reason, as if Russia would see themselves as MBA Consulting Firm and simply drop the conflict when they get financially sanctioned.

iow. the sanctions are ineffective in their stated / assumed purpose (deterring, that is, modifying Russia's behavior wrt. the war, I do not believe they've discouraged or hampered Russia in their war at all).
Superb to you, ugly to me. You know, a bit opiniated term. s/superb/new render/
Don’t most most big tech companies have these? At Microsoft it is pretty common for most people to be in a few “tents” (project specific NDAs).
What is more rare are agreements _outside_ the in place system…
Seems like the low cost of ocean freight, especially compared to the infrastructural costs of rail or road, mean that it's often cheaper to trade with your oceanic neighbors than to even other parts of your own country.

This isn't new, Mediterranean has throughout history linked the Middle East, Egypt, North Africa and Europe through ocean trade routes. These trade routes have, on occasion, collapsed to disastrous effect.
> better at your job than you are

What you mean is «better at negotiating than you are».

Work skill an negotiation skills don’t always coincide (in my experience they almost never do).
Makes sense. I'll take a look. Thank you for sharing, @DantesKite.
They fall short of their goals all the time. I'm just saying: (1) they're clear about what their goals are, and (2) they're sensible goals. And, it's hard to argue with a project as successful a sthis.
Yes, absolutely.

Keep in mind as well, all corporate policies follow a normal distribution.

Most of the time, I find corporations never aim for 90th percentile high performance. Perfect is the enemy of cost effective.

They want "works pretty well 80% of the time. And the 20% that's balls up, make sure it's not so bad."

In your case I suspect the reason is they think "too much secrecy" has much less downside than "too little secrecy."

Now, whether that's incompetence or malice, we can never know. But those are the gears turning in the head of the Director/VP who's classifying these projects.
After seeing enough questionable crypto scattered around in code bases written by people who I can only imagine were trying to "demonstrate complexity" for their perf review, I now have half a mind to suggest software engineering have a system whereby only the crypto dev is allowed to write anything relating to crypto.
> Large wage increases based on expertise happen because you're able to better sell yourself to _another_ company when changing jobs.

In that case, instead of banding together with Joe Useless to strong-arm the company into setting money on fire (from management's perspective), you're better off changing companies as frequently as the market will tolerate.