skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the more useful distinction has been: how close are you to the customer? If you never interact with them, not even indirectly through a team manager directly interacting with them, you're probably working more in a "staff" role under this categorization regardless of who is actually using the thing you're building. Admittedly this has problems -- you have to figure out who the customer is, for one, but it's legitimate for them to be either internal or external, paying or not. And for many companies (perhaps especially "tech companies" and tech startups) it often ends up being both via dogfeeding. I think the presence/absence of the customer in short feedback loops alongside those actually making and maintaining things dominates the distinction of whether it's staff or line. Focusing this way does help avoid the sometimes difficult distinctions of what makes a company tech or non-tech and how reasonable people can disagree over some particular example, whether what you're doing is really important to the company's overall success, or whether something is a profit center or cost center (I find it more useful to think first about whether an individual employee is an Asset/Profit or Cost, and note that being a cost isn't necessarily bad but also types can change over time).

Still, even customer proximity is not always a useful distinction, and certainly doesn't have to be a static one. I wonder if this industry resists distinctions among people or groups like these due to something at the root of the hacker culture that created it, like a realization/commitment to the idea that the only really worthwhile distinction is the bit.

I'm not sure I buy the dark matter idea. In the US there are only on the order of a few million software developers, you don't have to go very far down a list of FAANG/FAANG-like high paying tech companies to reach on the order of a few hundred thousand US-employed programmers at those firms (~10% of the market, already exceeding ordinary matter's 5% of the universe). Decide on a consistent definition of tech company in general and add in all of the programmers from them and it wouldn't surprise me at all if tech company employees actually exceeded non-tech, though I can see it being the other way too, just not being "vast majority".

As for stories from roles at non-tech places, most are probably told orally (especially to fellow employees at larger companies as cautionary tales of the crazy messes out there that make their own current insanity look pretty sane) but also remember that at any given time like half of the professional market has been in it for less than 5 years (how many of them got into tech-company vs non-tech-company roles?). And remember you may have read stories from them but not realized it because the actual work regardless of line/staff or tech/non-tech company distinction itself for programmers can be so similar, so it's not always clear whether some story on e.g. The Daily WTF is from which (though sometimes it is or you can guess).
I am familiar with the you know solutions patents and the one you refer to is for parallelizing C code and other languages into the flowcharts. Here is a link to the asynchronous design patent called "processing circuits for parallel asynchronous modeling and execution".
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/10181003.html
Researchers Claim Serum Albumin Increases Mouse Lifespan
But this could be said of any successful person:

"Steve Jobs delivers? Ha! The Lisa, Apple III, Pixar Computer, Next Computer. Checkmate!"
So do enriched breads like brioche.
the worst thing to me about the push to replace sdcard based storage with cloud based one (as expandable and "sharable" storage) is how incredibly US-centric (or..."rich country" centric?) that is. Forget places like India even in the US there is a huge section of the population that live in places with very poor cell reception and are just starting to see post dial up speeds. Yea, cloud storage is cool if you're like me - i live in a major metro, never really venture outside of downtown and my wifi and internet could easily get me >1Gbps speeds if i really wanted but it's a REAL pain when i'm on vacation somewhere and have taken a bunch of photos and need to share it with people, or running low on storage so need to upload it to clear some space...you ever tried to upload 200 photos taken by an iphone 11 or whatever at a random resort in mexico somewhere?

And those cloud data charges, yikes. I mean the lowest priced tier on both google and apple are $0.99/mth which is not gonna break the bank for most people but like, apple for example the free tier is only 5GB, that is absolutely nothing.
Are you an expat? I’ve been dreaming about a relocation to this area but I don’t know where to start.
Forget it, Jake.

It’s Chinatown.
Well, if he was a sensitive soul he would have stopped what he was doing, long time ago. Just look at this thread.
That blog post is pretty misguided, IMO. I'll assume the math is right, and the potential gain from regen braking is small. But it's free!

> The way regenerative braking is implemented is to have the motor continuously engaged.

This is wrong. Regen braking only requires the motor be engaged _when braking_. There's no reason you can't coast when you want to coast.
Great post! I'm very enthusiastic about the WebAudioApi. I'm currently building an audio sample pipeline and enabling users to preview combinations of loops via the api!

https://signalsandsorcery.org
DALL-E did not think to put space helmets on the cats. the humans both did.
Does one even need to backdoor encryption? My own person opinion and observation is that all the operating systems and IoT appear to be slowly cooking/sneaking in instrumental convergence [1]. I may be a cranky old troglodyte but I see it in Linux with ebpf that one can not disable without recompiling the kernel and is already being used by file-less malware ... how many firewalls and load balancers have this enabled but not actively managed?, systemd bringing in platform design vulnerabilities from windows 9x including binfmt and hijacking debugfs, vendors accidentally leaving hard coded administrative credentials in firmware, cloud providers starting with insecure by default options see the history of AWS S3 buckets. I could go on all day listing these and no I will not accept Hanlon's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." The people creating these tools are not incompetent. For that matter I suspect many of the famous quotes may be abused as part of the tool-set for instrumental convergence. Again this is just my opinion and observations. I've probably been doing this too long which is all the more reason I should be raising some happy chickens.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
"Good quality of life" is not the same as "higher material consumption", though the former is unquantifiable and subjective. As someone who has lived about equal amount of time in the U.S., I'd say I have better quality of life in Europe but less material consumption.
I find meetings are often covering a deficit in the planning and documentation of the project and technology environment/project plan anyway. A great deal of the time, the information should have been documented somewhere already, and it would be much more valuable to the team long term if they just found the information, documented it properly, then circulated the document in an asynchronous way so that people can take their time to properly consider it and respond if needed and when they have time.
Teaching kids about analog clocks isn't just about telling time. It's teaching them about how gauges work.

If they can understand how the hour hand goes around, they can understand how a fuel gauge goes from Full to Empty. They can tell how a battery gauge on their iPad means they're running out of power.

Kids that age are soaking up concepts.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. “
A lot of theory and weird explanations (weird for an EE), but no verification like actually measuring VEN. hair dryer = dried capacitors, not LDO. Heating up temporarily rejuvenates dead caps.
He's a divisive figure, and people who like him will tune out if someone doesn't like him, and people who don't like him will tune out when someone likes him.

So, I tried to walk the line without using judgmental language. My own opinion is that he's a complicated figure. I can't come to a firm judgement on him because I don't know how much of what we see is truly him, how much of it is an act, and if it's truly him whether or not it's a representative small slice of him or not. I have a firm judgement on his his public persona, which I think makes him look like an asshole (the pedo guy stuff alone clinches that) but even if that's an accurate picture of him as a whole I still admire what he has accomplished.
> These are people that get taxed at 55% (top california income + top federal income + additional taxes).

Since income taxes are graduated, there is literally no one that pays 55%. Instead, you just approach that rate as your income rises (and never reach it since your front income is taxed at lower rates).
Do Norwegian police work as depicted in the movie "The Snowman"?
The median net worth of the Baby Boomer generation in America is $1.2 million.
I heard him say FSD will be fully functional by next year in the ted interview he did a few weeks ago.
Frankly, that all reputation. It's like paying for a brand name. There are likely people who can do similar work for less money. It's just that the people putting up the money want the status that comes with the name.
> It doesn't follow from the mind having a material basis that it is doing linear algebra calculations like a Python machine learning program. That's quite a leap.

It's clearly doing math and obviously no one actually believes its running python programs, you created a strawman.
This is a pretty well debunked ratio for actual actions as it's pretty rare to get that level of multiplier... this goes over it briefly with some WW2 data although it's not as good or relevant as the original one I saw : http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/blog/2018/04/25/u-s-army-force...

TL;DR defender advantage is vastly overstated although still a factor, and probably larger than historical in this conflict.
I was a US Army officer commanding tank units until 2015. This is pay-walled so I can only see the first paragraph, but if the article doesn't say, the 3:1 ratio to make an attack favorable is not meant to be a ratio of pure manpower count or weapons count. You're supposed to estimate the total firepower each side can actually bring to bear, so it should account for differences in training and readiness, equipment quality, intelligence quality, and anything else relevant (of course, your assessment of force ratio is already assuming you have high quality intelligence).

As mentioned elsewhere, it's also a very rough starting point assuming open terrain. If the defender is defending extremely easily defensible terrain, such as cities you're not prepared to just outright level to kill them, you need to adjust the ratio upward as appropriate. As with anything, you're supposed to exercise some discretion and judgment as a commander, otherwise what the heck are they paying you for if the job could be done equally well by a spreadsheet?
They are one of a handful of companies that hold a license allowing them to both customize the reference core and to implement the Arm ISA through their own silicon design. Everyone else's SoCs all use the same Arm reference mask. Qualcomm also holds such a license, which owes to their Snapdragon SoC, just like Apple's A- and M-series, occupying a performance hierarchy above everything else Arm.
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl actually working much better.
I think equating to the halting problem is silly, but the ISO levels are a bit of a mess.

* Level 5 is a vehicle that never needs a human to take over and can drive in "all conditions". Humans do not meet this driving standard.

* Level 4 is a vehicle, that within a set of vehicle-defined conditions can drive the vehicle without a human ever having to take over. It refuses to drive unless the conditions are met.

So a level 4 car could be a vehicle that can drive in a 1 block area of residential streets only... or something that can drive in way more conditions than I could safely attempt, but refuses to drive in say, whiteout blizzard conditions at night.
Where do we get the paper? Make more? What's lumber at lately? Omg... you want to increase demand on lumber when it's already crazy out of control?

Also why? Because we told lumberjacks a virus with a mortality rate of 0.004% they likely won't contract means they cant go do their job which has a much higher mortality rate.
Perjury laws. Once a judge has commanded you to give the same AI, you either give the same AI, or truthfully explain that you can't. Any deviation from that and everyone complicit is risking jail time, not just money.

"this is the June 2020 version, this is the current version, we have no back ups in between" is acceptable if true. Destroying or omitting an existing version is not.
I interpret this as "we will add a primitive that will allow you to implement TCO yourself (and more), but the behavior of existing java or byte code won't change, and the stack will continue to grow, even if a call occurs in tail position". Presumably because it's hard to impossible to retrofit TCO without changing observable behavior.
I don't think we have sufficient control of the base client hardware to the point where locking down higher layers can help. Nothing wrong with the effort even if it's only a theoretical; but if I really wanted to communicate something without being overheard I would not use modern networks or things capable of connecting to them.
KDE's energy saving mode probably helps a bit, and I hate hearing the fans or feeling lags so whenever I feel something I handle this. But that's not so usual. The main culprit is usually Signal. Video conferences and playing videos in the browser may also spin the fans but I often have a NC headset during these times.
Maybe? But now consider "tokenized stocks" (setting the legality of it aside for a moment) – should these be taxed as property instead of investments too?
Self referencing link. Brilliant.
> Something I never understood about embedded systems work: why is the pay so bad?

It's about in line with what electrical engineers make on average, slightly higher, at least in my location. The market places more value on people who can write code to give you a nice shopping cart interface over the ability to design digital control systems for engine control units to make sure your car can drive properly. It's just what we as contributors in a market value as truly important to us. To give some more insight: Look at the value of Twitter. A control system for a weapons-grade nuclear centrifuge - a weapon of mass destruction - is valued less than a 280 character limit.
> There would be pandemonium.

In some places. In other places neighborhoods would come together to help each other out.
I think he's pretty clear about his reasons:

"The bathroom and sports bills are defensive measures against the ideology infiltrating institutions and allowing the easy access of vulnerable spaces to mentally unstable individuals."

He considers transgender women to be mentally unstable predators who want access to women's spaces in order to attack them.
Halting problem comparison is silly, but L5 autonomy as defined ("all conditions") is probably not attainable.

A car that would complete all the trips I'm willing to complete, and some more, but refuses under some circumstances (e.g. whiteout blizzard conditions) would be a L4 vehicle under the ISO definition.
At the time the South African Rand was kept somewhat pegged to the US Dollar, and has an average value of R2/$.
(Ruby does have an ISO standard but it’s weird and nobody uses it.)
Put it in quotes: that is from Edsger Dijkstra.

And the idea remains generally, contextually wrong, because the issue is with engineering "submarines that can swim". The idea will have credits when our submarines will be able to swim, and now they cannot.
Kongen Befaler is fantastic.
I wasn't making a general statement about software standards but one specific to C/C++ preprocessor directives.
Especially considering hybrid remote/office and flexible working hours are becoming common. Asynchronous communication is such an advancement in productivity, documentation and clarity. Since it's all written down by default, and everyone can contribute even if they were away that day or otherwise engaged by work.

I think software agencies are inherently better at this, since they don't have to estimate an opportunity cost, the opportunity cost is billable hours that developer is currently not doing because they are in a meeting. I find working at agencies a bit more simple, with a lot less of the Org BS, because their is a level of pragmatism you need to have in order to operate profitably. Even more true if your agency is mostly contractors, because your boss is probably watching money tick away inside their head during sprint planning.
> Up close, the Delta doesn’t look like much: a huge expanse of flat agricultural land, with relatively few signs of human habitation. On Google Earth, it resembles a triangular green jigsaw puzzle. The principal puzzle pieces are five or six dozen irregularly shaped islands, which are separated from one another by seven hundred miles of sloughs and meandering waterways. The islands are actually what the Dutch called polders; they’re landforms that farmers created, beginning in the nineteenth century, by draining natural wetlands. Most of the islands cover thousands of acres. All are surrounded by dikes, which are known locally as levees; their purpose is to keep water from flooding back in. The cultivated fields inside the levees have gradually subsided, and in some places are now twenty-five feet below sea level. One consequence is that Delta farmers, in addition to siphoning irrigation water from the channels that surround their islands, have to pump water out—a chore familiar to anyone who has used a sump pump to keep a basement dry.

> The main threat to the Delta is saltwater intrusion. If an earthquake caused a major levee failure, the sunken islands would flood, drawing salt water from the Pacific into waterways that are now kept fresh by the pressure of inflows from the Sacramento. “Instantly, your fresh water turns to sea water,” Mulroy said—and, at that moment, a resource that millions of Californians depend on for drinking and irrigation would be unusable. A month before my interview with Mulroy, I had met with Bradley Udall, who had just joined Colorado State University as a senior water-and-climate-research scientist. During our conversation, he described the Delta to me as “the biggest potential water disaster in the United States.” That was eight years ago. In the meantime, the drought has continued, making all the problems worse.
Elon Musk tweets Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’
Show HN: I built an app to make it easy for anyone to get paid
If you're only picking what to work on, them how does anything get done? The people executing on that decision are the ones providing the tangible value. I may get downvoted for this, but I think it's stupid that people get paid obscene amounts for making some decisions and having fancy dinners with other big shots. Then they justify making 100x or 1000x what the actual workers do.
While looking into this, I also ran into the "DegenBox UST MiM strategy" which allegedly gave 100% returns (until it didn't), but atm I don't understand the mechanism; I think it will make an interesting addendum to the story for the intrepid reader/rabbit hole explorer.
The people living in the semiarid region -- most of whom do not live in a true desert -- are not the ones using all of the water. The water is used to grow food and cotton, which is consumed all over the country, and in many cases, exported.
Probably because when watchfaces were invented, the hour was much more important than the minute or the second.

People wanted to look up to the town hall or church clock and see what hour it was, maybe quarter hour.

Maybe keeping it more distinct from a distance during daylight hours was more important?
Related and possibly helpful:

* How Glimmer.js implemented autotracking: https://www.pzuraq.com/blog/how-autotracking-works

* Discussion specifically on Lamport Clocks and autotracking: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/autotracking-elegant-dx-v...
Countries do have a naturalization process where they try to teach the common values of a nation. Here is the U.S. process https://www.uscis.gov/forms/explore-my-options/become-a-us-c...

I do argue against your following points:

> Let in people who do not hold values like free speech, capitalism, and limited gov and you change the country.

There are plenty of people who live in the US (Left and Right) that don't really believe in these things.

Free Speech: See Trumpism (Parental Rights in Education (Don't Say Gay Law), Book Banning on the accusations of CRT, etc.), attacks on higher education and expertise. On the Left see Cancel Culture, Tech Deplatforming, ACLU's decline, etc.

Capitalism: The Federal Reserve has been handing out low interest money to corporations and individuals to keep the country afloat since the financial crisis in 2008. Republicans and Democrats are guilty of this. The Fed is just now starting to dial back as of mid 2022 due to high inflation.

Limited Government: Arguments about limited government go all the way to the founding see: Jefferson vs. Hamilton. This is not settled at all.

> Let in people that believe in collectivism and identity politics, and they try to get goodies for their group and the country moves further away from protecting individual rights.

This seems to be an attack on Leftist politics, but the Right is currently engulfed in populist fervor currently under Trumpism and checks all of these items. Individual rights are in steep decline these days and we are happily giving them away on both sides.

Americans do not all agree on these values, so why blame foreigners?
He didn't suddenly say it's a deal breaker, or anything of the sort.
New study lays out hidden backstory behind deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave
The odds we're about to live in a biopunk world just increased.
Is it common to associate quality of life and consumption? I’m sure there is some correlation but it seems a bit strange, especially when you think about things France has such as universal free healthcare or free access to good education.
I have about a 300 Mbps connection with my ISP. The gateway/AP provided by the ISP is located on the second floor of the house. On the first floor, the connection is degraded to the point streaming will occasionally stutter.

On the second floor the difference in speed tests going through cable vs 10 ft. away through one thin wall on my gaming pc is 250 Mbps -> 24 Mbps. There can absolutely be a practical difference in daily use.

Most people do not have multiple APs, most people are not getting APs other than what is provided by the ISP.
Humans actually don't perform at L5, we perform at a very high level of L4. (Still, the halting problem comparison is silly).
Simply achieving the office is what I was referring to
GitHub requires 2FA; here is an easy way to keep OTP
This is a funny quote, but for those who don’t know it’s also wrong. Escalators can indeed break, and violently: https://gizmodo.com/catastrophic-escalator-failure-in-rome-s...
Didn't Apple have a large or even dominant role in the design of the ARM64/AArch64 architecture? I remember reading somewhere that they developed ARM64 and essentially "gave it" to ARM who accepted but nobody could understand at the time why a 64 bit extension to ARM was needed so urgently, and why some of the details of the architecture had been designed the way they had. Years later with Apple Silicon it all became clear.