skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just interviewed for an embedded dev position. The interviewer told me it is rare to find a candidate that can tell why a linked list is a bad data structure choice for embedded systems. I guess it goes down to a fine knowledge gap between CS and EE curriculum.

There is a "Computer Engineering" major in my university. C/C++ and state machines are taught in a freshmen year course. However, digital electronics / communication protocols / debugging is never taught in class. Practically everyone who know what SPI or I2C means is either an electronics hobbyist or member of a student competition team.
Well, there’s less air between you and the sun. Most of that 94 million miles are void of anything blocking/filtering light. The last 10 miles aren’t. It likely makes a difference if it only 8-9 miles.
You can find the actual ruling (the "full decision") by going to https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions and typing "bald cunt" into the search field. Seeing as that expression appears 17 times in the full decision, it is, unsurprisingly, the first document found, though I am slighly unnerved by the search returning "294 decisions" ...
The project has just been submitted to the CNCF Sandbox, it hasn't yet been accepted. There's a lot of road to be done. If we get accepted, we'll be honoured to adapt and contribute to the project until incubation.

However, what is important here though is that this is the first operator for Postgres whose IP is now owned by a vendor neutral and openly governed community - or at least aims to be based on the public GOVERNANCE policies. We look upon the CNCF for principles and values.

This is our commitment.
Another thing about IT dept software dev vs. the tech company dev: Often in the IT dept you have smaller projects where you have greater responsibility and ownership. For all the talk about "t-shaped people" a lot of mature tech companies prefer a stay-in-your-lane person who doesn't dare venture beyond their assigned role or challenge the pecking order. You might expect it to be more bureaucratic in the IT dept because "tech companies are too cool to be bureaucratic" but I wouldn't assume that. Definitely true that the average expertise levels are lower, pay scale is a little more "average" and promotability is high. I'd say the less competitive atmosphere keeps the dog-eat-dog behavior to a minimum. But of course your mileage may vary...
Just from title, I can tell you are unintelligible and uninformed about crypto.

Tech stocks are crashing just as much as crypto right now. And Bitcoin is trading 30 THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Would barely call this a "crash that's finally happening"
>capital gains is income from investing, which is how new productivity gets funded (via buying new plant and equipment, etc).

How does that justify taxing work more than capital? For people with high salary, any extra income (from work) is taxed almost 2x that of capital gains.

Also, only a small % of investment actually goes funding productivity. Most is just rich people's money changing hands, base only on speculation with zero regards for impact on businesses/society.

>a 25% flat rate on investment based income is not too low, but not too high

Do you have a study on this, or is this your opinion?
such a killer feature.. imagine allowing customers to send email to your platform and process it in any way to trigger platform behavior (with apparently upcoming Email routing API to generate individual random email address per user this could be possible)
Dall-E, like most AI stuff, doesn't have a memory, so you can't just refer to an earlier image. Each time you run it, it starts from scratch. You might be able to (ab)use in-painting for this, i.e. have a comic panel with two image, fill the left side with an existing image, while letting Dall-E finish the right side. Though so far I haven't seen anybody pull that off successfully. In general Dall-E seems to struggle with complex scenes that have multiple characters. For example here is Dall-E trying to create variations of SuperMarioBros box art:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/umrkef/variations_o...

While it goes in the right direction, it's all just a jumbled mess and far less impressive than when Dall-E focuses on a single character, e.g:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/u5vajy/super_mario_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ubr2xd/a_real_life_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ufzk2f/incredible_d...
I applaud the San Diego Water Authority's efforts to diversify their sources. The Carlsbad desalination plant receives the most local coverage, but it's the investments in reclamation that will be vital in the coming decades.
It's especially helpful to be pure Go when targeting both iOS and Android (in addition to Linux, Mac, and Windows) with https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne#about
Five T’s to Gaining and Maintaining Your Team’s Trust
But their lifestyle is so much worse the moment they step foot in America
Oh, nice, I didn't even realise street view existed!

For anybody else who didn't realise - click on a circle to pop up a little preview of that subreddit, then click 'street view'. You can navigate in street view by clicking to bring up a crosshair, then using WSAD.
Not sure what your reasons are for not wanting to trade but there are other PHD maths roles in banks - quants, quant developers, structurers etc,
Hey! I'm one of the maintainers of the project so I thought I would address some of the comments here :)

> this feels like a terrifying way to make your infrastructure entirely implicit and remove anybody's ability to coherently reason about the stuff underneath your application.

There's two parts to this. The first is understanding what is happening under the hood since we're automatically provisioning so much for you (subdomain, LBs, DBs, etc.). Right now this is a little opaque, but a dashboard is in the roadmap to give users visibility on what's happening 'under the hood' - showing your provisioned infrastructure as well as how it's all wired up.

The second point is about potentially destructive actions - here we're going to be following a 'terraformesque' philosophy where infrastructure diffs are presented to the user and need to be accepted explicitly when deploying (or via a `--auto-approve` flag).
Which new things specifically? And how does that work without violating securities laws?
Do you think that the US doesn't actively track the location of Russian missile subs? There's a limited number of sub pens and they're visible on satellite. And tracking missile subs is a big part of the attack sub's role.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's not nearly as impossible or hopeless as you seem to think.
> The appearance of indecisiveness and disorderliness is because he's doings things nobody has done before.

Indecisiveness and disorderliness are the least of his problems, at least as far as the public is concerned.

He's a bully and he's untrustworthy.
Which is why it's not at all unexpected that the Twitter board after some hand-wringing jumped on the deal because even at a "loss" someone who offers to turn your illiquid assets into cash without tanking the value of those assets is literally the dream exit.
A buddy memory allocation system in 11 lines
It's a reminder that cult of personality is a virus which can attack anyone ranging from the successful full stack developer making 200k in the Bay area to the Iowa farmer trying to figure out who to vote for.

It's also a reminder that things can always become worse. At least Jobs managed to first put a phone in every pocket and only then got paid for it. Like Gates with PCs.

Also Jobs was paid a salary because his hubris got himself outed from Apple the first time around and his ownership was down to single digits.

Musk first sued for the right to be called the founder of Tesla , he then managed to inflate a financial bubble to get paid upfront for work he'll never deliver.

It's the gilded age of frauds out there.
If twitter could detect what accounts were spam/fake accounts.. wouldn't they just.. ban them?

The number of spam/fake accounts depends highly on the accuracy of your classifier. Twitter's classifier could just be: "This account is not fake" and there's nothing Elon could say. He can't even sue because for all intents and purposes Twitter is not lying, the classifier is just wrong.
At least for Assange, one can say that being holed up for years in an embassy room and now having to face decades in an US prison (or even the death penalty!) isn't going to make anyone feel well.
Calling a software engineer (swe) 'Staff' because

"working on non-core product"

is indeed different from the standard corpororate 'Staff' prefix as a step/level of the ladder (within an org working on either core or non-core product)

"swe, senior swe, staff swe, senior staff swe, principal swe, distinguished swe, fellow swe, senior fellow swe"

I would have like to see mentions of both kinds of 'Staff swe' in the article.
I dunno man. I think that the dirty little secret is that we're all in line roles whether we like it or not. Some of us discover that sooner than others. This distinction is made plain when a company or organization isn't doing as well and tough decisions need to be made about who stays and who goes.
I've worked as a consultant at various jobs, with billable expectations ranging from 55% to 85%. The largest company I worked for, which was a Big Four consultancy, had the highest billable expectation. But they also had entire departments of non-billable support staff. The smallest company I worked for also had the smallest billable expectation, but also expected certain non-billable work of us (which I generally liked).

The Big Four company also calculated their billable expectation on a nine-hour workday. So working eight billable hours per day every day meant your billable rate was only 89%. It was fine with them if you only put 40 hours a week into the time-tracker, but the denominator was 45.
So basically ignore everything else and go toward the equator to remove seasons and then select average temperature by picking elevation.
Parag Agrawal warned us all more than a month ago, "There will be distractions ahead…"

https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1513354622466867201
Those are for persuading people who do see you as a statistic. You can unilaterally disarm if you like, but they're going to keep discriminating until they see data that proves they're discriminating. Far too few people are persuaded by other means.
And that's just a random boogeyman.
Anecdotal personal experience, but I don't think it would take 802.11ax to improve available bandwidth, just better AP hardware.

I replaced a high-performance n/ac router with years old leftover enterprise AP. Price-wise the enterprise AP would've cost as much 2nd hand.

It improved the situation in a very very crowded airspace in every measurable metric (~10-50%). Better latency, average, minimum and maximum speeds, connection stability, packet loss and even security (PMF support). All that on the same standards and other conditions.

My suspicion is that consumers are being sold bottom of the barrel hardware and new protocols just rise the bar on what s*t they can get working.
Interesting to compare that to what happens across the border in Denmark, where crypto is treated as speculation: EVERY individual sale you make has the profit taxed as personal income (calculated as FIFO and so up to ~52%) but the losses have deduction taxed separately at about 26%.

Thus you can end the year with 0 net profit, but a huge tax bill!
I also do this. But given the context of this post ("AI" models filtering resumes prior to ever getting in front of a human), maybe "decline to answer" comes with a hidden negative score adjustment that can't be (legally) challenged.

I think the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires notification. (i.e. I need to talk to HR/boss/whoever about any limitations and reasonable accommodations.) If I am correct, not-answering the question "Do you require accommodations according to the ADA? []yes []no []prefer not to answer" can legally come with a penalty, and the linked DoJ reasoning wouldn't stop it.
A shout-out to badcaps.net is warranted here. They have been a hidden gem for 2 decades.

https://badcaps.net/forum/showpost.php?p=1002389&postcount=7
> I agree hardware switches should be available

This doesn't stop exfiltration of, say, a dictation .txt being sent out after you turn the switch back on.
If you could find someone to do the same work for half the cost, you'd be able to make a pretty penny as a retained executive recruiter.

Knowing a couple of friends who run such firms, let me tell you -- it would be hard to find someone of 25% of that caliber for even 75% of that price.

Value is what the market is willing to pay. There is only 1 Andy Jassy in the world in the same way there is only 1 Jeff Bezos.
Well this certainly makes what Parag did make sense. The market conditions have essentially dictated that Musk is now massively overpaying for twitter, and he's doing it from a weak position with the value of Tesla dropping. It would be insane for him to close at this price, and the other people who bought in to finance it will also be very hard to keep on board. So Musk needs to walk away at this price. The question is whether he can either find an out that doesn't involve paying the break up fee, or bully Twitter's board to accept a lower price. Given how Parag is behaving I think that's unlikely.

It's important to remember though, if Musk walks away and then comes back with another offer it's going to be extremely hard to convince of a new deal, since Musk no longer has any credibility.

The other thing to consider is that no one else wanted to buy Twitter for $45Bn. But let's say Musk walks away and Twitter drops back to where it should be at around $25 per share. Now you could easily see someone coming in and picking it up for $35-40 per share.
Only to underline this common fallacy:
"Name an economically successful communist country."

The purpose of communism has never been that of being "economically successful".

If you want to dismiss communism as a failure, first off, you should not measure money, and not even wealth, but simply happiness. Second, you should measure equality, and, finally, you should measure the happiness of the least happy, not that of the most happy.
Isn't it a better idea to simply use Wayland?
It's 210M for one year. He just has to wait 10 years to get it fully paid out.
Has Twitter ever provided that kind of info to anyone?

Why wouldn't they wait until money is already on the table? I just don't see how they would have benefited by disclosing real numbers beforehand.

It's far more likely no one could have done due diligence outside of the executives and top engineers at Twitter.
> It works similar in sports...

Main difference here is that the average career span of a pro athlete very rarely reaches 20 years, and deal numbers tend to decrease with age. Executives don't have that problem, in fact it's quite the opposite.
What country is this so I can read more and/or move?
> he has a significant history of being indecisive and disorderly.

Think of it as simulated annealing [1].

Usually finds pretty decent extrema

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
You've got it wrong - the tumbling today was because Twitter was artificially inflated and being held on the hopes of a deal. As soon as the market tanked, the price of twitter still held out hope on a deal. Elon isn't about to pay full freight in a sinking macroeconomic environment.

In terms of his behavior you speak of - could be right, could be wrong. I don't think he needs the reinforcement at this point. He's already proved himself - he now just needs to keep executing. My concern is that he doesn't have the energy, focus and clarity of thought to make it happen.

Also I do have legit concerns on the mental health of our older twitter guys (> 50 ) as I have noticed there has been a lot of trolling poor behavior in that crowd and a turn to the hard right. Maybe it's the social validation needed at a later age?
Two thing. One, I always hated the cost center vs profit center distinction. These are accounting terms. It's super common in places that have embedded software (auto industry is close to me) where any manufacturing plant is considered a profit center, and engineering is often a cost center. When things are tight they tend want to reduce "costs" not realizing that engineering can also be seen as an investment in the companies future.

Second, as we move to more open source for infrastructure software (the tools used by staff) the above becomes more clear. SAP is charging for something with zero marginal cost, therefore it's perfectly valid to say they are renting software and hopefully using the money to develop the next version.

As the world moves to more open source I think you'll see fewer line software people, as the staff will do both support of the business and push some changes upstream (equivalent to what the line guys at sofware companies do). Once software is mature the rent model is really obsolete, but maintenance still has to be done by someone.
> ditto for the first version of Facebook shortly thereafter.

Thanks for this! I found a different source[0] but I'll make the update shortly!

[0] https://qr.ae/pvAGDH
In our company the prefix Staff was adopted when the CTO team got tired of creating (mostly fake) managerial positions for good software developers who have reached the maximum salary allowed by the CFO team for a “Senior” software engineer.
> All keyboard modifiers disqualify client-side routing

Don't forget clicks other than "left". Middle click can open a new tab.
> Also they are cooking the books. Everybody who looks at musk and how it operates understands this

Any additional references or reading material that could help break this down?
It's not possible to argue in good faith if you're just going to resort to "taste buds" nonsense.

Of course if there's zero benefit then we should expend no cost on something. You may as well argue that we don't need literature, art, friends and family, freedom, sex, etc. It's just your brain cells and neurotransmitters, right.

If you don't care about eating meat, that's cool. I'm glad - genuinely - it's scarce, so the more of you there are, the better off I am.

Cheers.
>if he was always like that or grew into it at one point.

He went from being wealthy growing up, to being very rich after Paypal, to being an extremely rich billionaire, to being the most richest person in the world (maybe ever?). And now a single utterance of his can shape markets or otherwise influence millions of people.

I think it would be difficult to go through the above and not come out the other end without it impacting your behaviors & world view. At a minimum, before he was this wealthy & influential he didn't have as much margin for error. A single bad decision might have tanked Tesla or SpaceX when they were getting started. It would have required Musk to be a lot more careful & deliberate. He also had to care a bit more (or at least pretend to care) about other people's thoughts/ideas etc. These days he can lose $1B in a twitter acquisition breakup fee and it barely matters. And he has enough "f*ck off" money (the amount required to tell someone to "f*ck off" with no significant consequences) to tell anyone to f*ck off. The need to adhere to social niceties is greatly reduced.

This is all on top of the fact that the average person's behavior is usually going to change at least a little as they get older.

All of which is to say that I think there's an excellent chance that he's grown into his current personality. If so, I think it's very possible that it's a mixture: He grew into where he is now, but the seeds were always there & his track in life has amplified or caused those seeds to take hold.
What do you expect from a company that runs a superbowl commercial that attacks space exploration, for no apparent reason or connection with their company?
There’s been a huge stock market crash since he first initiated the buyout. It would have been unhinged if he didn’t try to renegotiate the price or otherwise pull out.

It can be argued that the whole idea of Musk buying Twitter is unhinged, but it doesn’t seem much different to Bezos buying WaPo, it’s simply on a larger scale. Media companies provide good political power/$ value to billionaires.
There is a need to standardize operators. Not only to streamline their usage, but also to ensure quality or at least give the community guidelines on what are the best practices to follow when building or using an operator.

That’s probably something the CNCF community should define.
"Docker is unusuably slow". Is that a Mac thing or Docker thing ?
> Make dumb clone

In hardware world that translates to contracting or hiring a Chinese team to clone your competitor and eat the lower-end of the market. This is especially true for development boards, hobbyist and supply chain stuff. Digikey vs LCSC, Sparkfun/Adafruit vs AliExpress/Taobao, Arduino vs clone boards.

Sometimes the dumb clone company gets big enough and become a legit player in the Anglosphere. Say Seeedstudio or ALINX (FPGA dev boards).
I've only seen it at the CSuite (and occasionally key SVP levels).... almost always if you're brought in from the outside.
Can relate about the dock part. I really hope it is the Windows taskbar.
What about silver instead of copper?
AWS commits additional $10M to OpenSSF for open source security
It's confusing because they are 2 different events. How the event works is there are 4 warder dragons in the raid dungeon (sleepers tomb) if you kill all 4 it awakens "the sleeper" a giant crystal dragon. There is then a event where this dragon goes on a rampage and kills everything then despawns. Its designed not to be player killable, and this event only happens once per server, once the sleeper has been awakened it never comes back. This is what the guild has done recently, 2022 on the p1999 green server, they didnt kill the sleeper just awakened it. In the rallos zek server event, they killed all 4 warders, and then killed the "unkillable" sleeper dragon, a much harder thing to do, and i believe it hasnt been repeated.
Elon has changed his tune (somewhat) about automated driving. He said in an interview that he now believes full auto-drive requires AGI.

Personally I think full auto-drive requires us to change to the roads to make them work for machines... but that's a different story.
maybe they have a good relationship with their boss and communicate in ways that work for them and match the world we live in? does your boss still communicate with you in formal memos?
Thanks. I think it will be a little hard to enforce. I believe tens of thousands of XMPP and Matrix servers are currently running, and they are proliferating. Matrix protocol management is centralized giving authorities a place to apply pressure, but people can still create their own implementations of the standard choosing to include this or not.
Not a single mention here of ansible, Terraform, puppet, chef or any other ways that this is actually done at scale.

You can’t readily build infrastructure from Code in a way that allows for solid uptime, redundancy, resiliency, or performance.

It sounds like a system like this would be fine for testing and possibly QA but definitely not for production.
There certainly are a lot of people who used APL at one time and then stopped. One of Richard Stallman's first software projects back in the 01960s was a text editor written in APL.

Is it possible the software you were working on was shitty in a way that wasn't essential to APL?
I think that's why he's hunting for the less than 5 % spam accounts. If that isn't accurate I bet you it allows them out of the breakup fee.

Also probably difficult for Musk to go in at a lower price if the deal falls apart. Best and most likely only route forward for twitter ownership by Musk is probably board agreeing to a lower price but prices are sticky in peoples mind so might be tough times ahead.