skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it takes 3 weeks into the quarter to define your OKRs for the quarter, well, congratulations, you spent those 3 weeks choosing what you’ll actually do this quarter. You’ll make the case that the things you’re working on are really important and already in progress, even if they’re not lined up exactly with the department OKRs. And they may be really important, and the OKRs may be wrong because we didn’t spend enough time working on them and took too long to deliver them, and we didn’t leave room for bottom-up objective setting. So we do the important things we’re already doing, and we’ll fudge the KRs a bit at the end of the quarter.

LOL this paragraph really spoke to me. I've been in FAANG for 6 years, and every time roadmapping/OKRs come around this always happens.

As an IC, those weeks spent planning are precious time that could be spent landing ~impact~ for your performance review, so you might do a mini-planning session to figure out how to use your time. That project that you picked up ends up getting traction, but due to disconnects with the team's planning process, the overall OKRs no longer align with your work! Guess we'll have to fudge the numbers...
This sounds nice and plausible, but is it any better than any other psychological theory or therapy? Does it have any data behind it? How exactly are you defining and measuring "healing release", for example?
You’re run of the mill prima donna and one exists in every org. How do I know? Because 10x developers are on the other side of the Dunning Krueger spectrum. They struggle with insecurities and second guess themselves all the time. They wonder if they’re making bad decisions and actually listen to their peers. They hide their competence and even come off as dumb because they don’t want to alienate coworkers. They’ve started companies. They don’t need cards or stories. They can just build shit and it’s right.
yep, this person has bigger issues with themselves that others. Millions (Billions?) of other people seem to navigate the world without having to go to a "nomadic lifestyle in which I lived in multiple co-living spaces"... as if that is even a remotely possible option the vast amount of people out there in similar situations.
OP has problems, blames other, is entitled, needs to grow TF up
I lived through the 2008 meltdown. The goddamn crisis was more than real. In front of my eyes, people lost their jobs including my own colleagues. No one had money. Even those with jobs came to work fearing it was their last day. I just hope such a day never comes again. September to December 2008 and even Q1 2009 was really bad.
Victimhood is literally their only party platform rn. Like, can you name even a single policy proposal they have that’s not waging a culture war fight?
We absolutely can have both of these futures -- if people use the right tool for the right job and both of these tools can coexist (even if not used in the exact solution).

Also roads may just be the first use case for this technology but new thinkers and new people will find new usecases.
Think of it like a bad metric thats better than other metrics
There is a certain kind of religious nut that exists in the US, and no other place as far as I can tell, that believes that the invisible hand of the market is the benevolent hand of God, and that leaving it to its own devices is best. This is dogma, which needs no proof, and any market failures we mortals point out are simply failures to understand the Divine Plan.
CDKTF is very painful! I am using it with Go on a pilot and HCL feels so much comfy and easier to read!
Might have been shredded-tire playground walkway material.
If you really want to block all incoming connections by default on your own network you can. Personally I think if a reasonably capable (i.e. non-IoT) host opens up a port to accept incoming connections, and there isn't a specific rule set by the local admin to block that port or host, then incoming connections should be allowed. NAT certainly doesn't stop all incoming traffic given that UPnP is enabled by default on most routers, not to mention all the methods available for UDP NAT traversal. It just makes it more complicated.

If you've ever connected your phone or laptop to a public WiFi network (or for that matter, the cellular data network) then it's been exposed to an environment were there is no extra layer of protection from incoming connections beyond that implemented by the host itself. We generally expect that to work without major security issues. Non-mobile, "appliance"-type devices might need stronger filtering if they weren't designed to be connected directly to the Internet, but that assumption is becoming less common as more devices require authenticated connections rather than trusting the local network.
The former prisoners tasked with patrolling San Francisco
This is a bit hyperbolic. Intel implemented a known and popular algorithm (SRT [1]) with a standard LUT for the bit patterns expected in IEEE754 FP numbers. They were not the first, last, or only microprocessor design firm to do so. A fault in a script that copied the LUT values to the machines that program the PLAs as part of the manufacturing process led to 5 missing values in the LUT (set to 0), out of 1066 entries.

There's a great writeup with the results of Intel's internal investigation [2], which outlines the challenge in testing production chips for this sort of bug. A key point:

> The fraction of the total input number space that is prone to failure is 1.14 x 10^-10.

So around 1 in 9 billion possible numerator/denominator pairs exhibit the bug. Testing 9 billion double-precision FDIV divides on a 60MHz Pentium would take almost four days, if my math checks out and the CPU could do 2.5 billion divides per 24 hours.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_algorithm#SRT_divisio...

[2]: https://users.fmi.uni-jena.de/~nez/rechnerarithmetik_5/fdiv_...
> weird buggy/cheap feel that I don't get from i.e. Dell iDRAC or Enterprise switch interfaces.

Different strokes for different folks, to this I say THANK GOODNESS.
The baby formula shortage is specifically related to one company’s production being shut down, supposedly due to their negligence in maintaining quality in conjunction with policies specific to baby formula that prevent supplies from abroad to come in to fill the void.

It seems like a very poor example to refer to when talking about the broad economy’s needs and completely unrelated to a tech bubble.
I have a buddy that’s going into CU Boulder for material science soon! It’s such a cool area of study, it must be fun to work with stuff like this.

I’m interested in how these bricks work out in the medium to-long term though. Things as “simple“ as bricks usually end up being unfathomably complex in practice. Cool idea though!
I don't think society really cares. Just look at how much plastic is used in food takeout and packaging and several of the many other places where it basically serves no purpose.
^ "poor me, and had to resort to living nomadic lifestyle in which I lived in multiple co-living spaces" cry me a river. OP needs to think harder about "am I the baddie?"
Not that soft. It looked like rigid concrete, but sagged a bit.
Pink-Slip Party Etiquette
great resource! please consider adding something that would allow filtering of cool / comfortable / warm weather for a given month on the world map view

Monetization / expansion roadmap suggestion: an integration with the Google Flights 'explore' feature (price overlay on the world map for flights from a origin airport), if it's feasible. Such an integration would enable us to visualize what weather to expect when traveling to X and what it would cost to get there, simplifying a big part of the initial travel research process.
China’s GitHub temporarily closes all open-source projects to the public
OP sounds like a classic narcissist
Criminalize mental deviancy, as defined and adjudicated by some state-employed panel of "experts"?

You're really on the fence about the cost/benefit of this one?
The usual euphemism is "abstraction". It's doing something inside, it's hard to see what that is, and it has constraints on its use which are relevant to memory safety but are not enforced by the language.
Don't worry, the confidence does come eventually. Attacking others further along the curve isn't a good look though.
People seem allergic to anything that isn't superficially ALGOL like. I still remember Facebook had to wrap Ocaml in curly braces because it would apparently blow peoples minds.
Before I gave up on buying a house this year, I was considering an ARM. Why? Because it meant I could qualify for an extra $100k, which gave me a better chance of being able to acquire a house.

It didn't matter whether an ARM was better or worse in the long run, it mattered that the ARM could get the house and the fixed rate could not.
I feel so grateful to read your reflection—and I hope you don't enjoy your own reflection too much or you may become Narcissus himself :-)

Jokes aside, I feel very similarly to you and appreciated how you broke it down into more simple actions/sayings.
Why would an employer get to see my social security card? Not just the number, which is a "fuck the law" thing by this point, but the actual card? Might as well ask the dimensions of my intestines.

[Flashback May 19 23:19: someone did once check out my organs that way! A brain scan I only found out about because I was asked to participate in a class action suit against Aetna for not paying! Thanks for not paying, Aetna! You know I didn't sign on to that suit against you, that's why I didn't! Otherwise it would have been like picking up money off the street, which I have done, and it was easy, but I didn't see it that way because of the immorality of suing you! They were committing malpractice to harm me, spying on me with a brain scan! I sincerely thank you for not covering that claim, only thing that limited my time in the torture ward. I would be in there to this day if you paid and kept paying those fraudulent claims.]
3 point backup.
"We now know that core 2 dropped all kinds of safety features resulting in the Meltdown vulnerabilities."

Curiously, every other out-of-order chip designer except for AMD also designed CPUs with Meltdown flaws. That's per their own documentation ARM, IBM both Power and mainframe, SPARC, and I think MIPS but they weren't entirely clear about it.
I just played through Mass Effect 2 & 3 on mine (Intel i5) with no problems, using Wine. When I do upgrade my main board, I may get the i7 for better graphics performance.

Another huge + is setting battery charge limit with a console command (1). When I’m connected to power at home, I run `ectool fwchargelimit 60` to keep the battery at 60%. If I’m going out, I set it to 100% in the morning and let it charge.

1: https://community.frame.work/t/exploring-the-embedded-contro...
Wait, I think we’re talking past each other. “People eat too much” (where “too much” is defined not in raw calorie numbers but in terms of “more than burned or excreted”) is the obvious proximate cause, and I don’t think these folks are denying that.

The confusing question is: why is everyone suddenly eating “too much” and seemingly unable to control it? Why does it now require willpower and dieting to not become obese? People in the 1960s had plenty of food access, plenty of cars, etc. etc., and did not have obesity rates in the 40%+ range. Their diets were not so different from today’s diets in terms of macronutrient composition, in fact they were probably worse: plenty of sugar, fat, etc., components that have since been demonized.

Why are so many people eating “too much” now?
I used to feel exactly that. Then I joined a different company where everyone is super smart and now I feel perfectly average. If you're unhappy, maybe try another company?

I can't say I'm a lot happier. People will challenge me occasionally now which is nice but I have to spell out my concerns to get any kind of response. Everyone is busy with their own shit and the product is so big and complicated that no one can have the full picture to properly critique your work. The code itself is never the problem.
His non-denial-denial is a pretty big tip-off.

>After Insider contacted Musk for comment, he emailed to ask for more time to respond and said there is "a lot more to this story."

>"If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light," he wrote, calling the story a "politically motivated hit piece."

>Insider extended the deadline and reiterated the offer to Musk to comment on the claims. He did not respond.
What is this nonsense pricing ? Inr they say sending messages from India to Germany is inr 10. Within India is inr 0.4.

International phone calling is much cheaper than that. Why would they charge old calling rates for online messaging when they have everything ???
> while no noticable slowdown for the user (it may even end up doing the "first paint" faster in the browser if GitHub are careful about their implementation).

Have you visited math.stackexchange? Pop by their MathJax reference page[0], and observe how long all the mathematical notation takes to render fully—it takes at least six seconds on my recent notebook, plugged in. On my 2018 iPad Pro, it takes well over thirty seconds on the first page load (drops to ~5 s on subsequent visits: there's probably some caching going on).

Here's[1] a benchmark comparing KaTeX (server-side), MathJax 2.7, and MathJax 3.0 (apparently a complete rewrite supporting server-side rendering[2], but it's still noticeably slower than KaTeX).

MathJax is really slow (slower still than LaTeX itself, and that's saying something).

[0]: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-b...

[1]: https://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php

[2]: https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/upgrading/whats-new-3.0.h...
Agreed. Maintaining the "Entrepreneurial Spirit" (in the sense of Autonomy, Self-Directed growth etc.) is important but drinking the "Entrepreneurial" kool-aid of "don't work for the Man/Company" but "bet everything on doing something on your own" nonsense has to stop. The requirements of a financial safety net, time, effort etc. to build the next FAANG is just too much for most folks. It is even more stupid if you realize that the average salary in the Software Industry is much more than what can be earned in established Engineering disciplines like Mechanical/Civil/etc. I have met more PhDs(from Maths, Physics, Microbiology etc.) in the Software industry than outside of it. The rest of the World would kill to get that boring, CRUD-app churning, six-figure income earning job.

Everybody moaning about their "boring" job should read Taleb's description of Mediocristan vs. Extremistan first.
I haven't tried out hey.com yet. Does it mean I have to fill out some form or captcha in order to send someone an email? Or they would need to "approve" me first?
Don't confuse knowledge for intelligence. Watching someone in a different niche may seem like magic, but they've been at it for a while.
The article is a bit dense so for anybody wondering if they should dive in, my takeaway after a brief skimming is that the author is talking about how the modern world tries to solve social problems with technology, leading to bias in solutions that were assumed to be neutral (the myth of the machine)
I'd bet $1000 that it's another half true, half exaggerated "awkward nerd misreads woman and makes her uncomfortable" story.
It's going to be the same amount of change but delivered one at a time. What matters is how disruptive they are in aggregate, not when they happen.
And this is during a period when more and more companies are choosing to stay private longer.
hexagons are the bestagons
What about the malicious actors in the crowd? This is an asymmetric vector with significant latency
What are you talking about?
He didn't ban opposition, only pro-russian (and that is just small part of opposition).
What's in it for Fastly?
"All of the allegations are false."
Are you going to take your bucket out to the Great Plains and capture some of that water?
Yep, it's stable enough that you don't need to worry about it. It's not like other control panels going out making distinct configs/state

Also, the update process for these systems in question would be just as much to blame. Don't want updates twice a month... don't apply them!
Food shortage has nearly nothing to do with climate change and nearly everything to do with sanctions against Russia, resulting in skyrocketing prices of potash, nitrogen and ultimately fertilizer. Combine that with the fact that Ukraine and Russia are also major wheat exporters. Aside from China, most of the countries are running very lean food reserves, resulting in added pressure.
> > I think of this story whenever I see jQuery popup on Hacker News. There is always a strong contingent of devs who swear by this library. But to me, they are like the old grey beard who didn't update his knowledge as the times changed.

> This is a strawman argument.

I'm not sure I follow. It reads to me like the original commenter is arguing that jQuery supporters have out-of-date knowledge. What's the strawman? jQuery supporters?
I actually do kind of like the idea of a new IP for every connection...

I haven't had much time to look into it recently, so maybe the situation has changed, but I do recall seeing multiple issues with SLAAC and other privacy features (not just involving EUI-64) still leaving devices trackable in common situations, and even that's only where it's supported.

Hopefully there are workarounds and patches for the issues that have been identified so far, and I should probably take another hard look at the current state of things but the impression I got just a couple of years ago is that if IPv4 can be made to protect privacy it'd still be way too complicated for most end users where NAT pretty much just works, and works with most devices and gateways.
1. DON'T save. DON'T sell equity (ie. Don't raise capital). DO take on as much debt as feasible. DO use said debt to employ the inevitable cheap labor and capital goods to run profitable ventures.

2. Yes, I was laid off from a start-up then joined as one of the first at an already profitable pre-seed start-up that would raise $20M with <5% dilution during the worst of the recession. Eventually exited very successfully. Labor was cheap and pre-PMF competitors dropped like flies.

3. Mistake #1: I saved instead of doing the smart thing and taking on massive debt. My savings and small debts inflated away over the next decade. My colleagues who opted for large debts had their large debts inflated away and faired much better than I did in the end.

Mistake #2: After the highly successful exit I joined a start-up with the hot "growth before revenue" strategy. The only thing that grew faster than our user base was the dilution of our equity. Investors won while we gave up years of work for a slice of the pie that got disgustingly small for the risk we took as founders.

To sum it all up:
Profit before growth. Leverage the things the recession makes cheap due to other people/businesses no longer being able to afford them (e.g. talent). Fund profitable new business with debt. If you sell equity, only do it after proving that you can do it with debt and exhausting the option for debt. Despite VC funds drying up, you'll be the belle of the ball if you've proven you have created a reliable money printer.

Caveat: If you can't make a reliable money printer, find someone who has and join them.
"Climate Change" was one of the topics discussed at "Rio Summit" in 92 [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit
A lot of comments saying you should find new opportunities. Another path in case thats not what you want:

Consider taking a step back. It seems like your worry about becoming complacent is what might prevent you from doing that. If you stay in your current role, try to anyways. Channel your drive into a hobby or personal project or ... Take a month off in order to reset baseline expectations with your org.
As a 58 year old developer that start at 18, it's about finding the right place to do stuff that is the right level of challenge for you.

It's also about adopting the attitude that "I can always learn more". Just by reading HN that's a really good step, because there are smart people here and interesting posts.

I started professionally as a Pascal programmer on an IBM PC/XT, now I architect OLTP systems and either spend my time debating high level architecture, or I'm down in the weeds watching log files of the apps.

There's always somewhere interesting to go on the journey. Especially if you treat it as about creativity and not engineering :)
Can confirm both: I've gotten lucky with some batches and unlucky with others.

Unlucky is quite nasty, but maybe extra protein? /s
> depressing

The Internet is still decentralized/distributed — this is a Good Thing™ — and most projects list the primary "hangout" on their landing page =]
> If the article was titled "Engineer does X.." on a tech blog

The title on HN is:

Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete

I clicked on it and read it because of that. I am, unfortunately for the sake of this conversation, of the opinion that it’s an article about somebody that made plastic bricks. I understand that you appear to have read some sort of referendum about race that didn’t involve engineering or bricks.

If you scroll around the rest of the responses to this article, you’ll find that many people are discussing bricks. Considering that so many of these people, myself included, have completely mistaken the subject of this article, I encourage you to continue complaining about race!

Thank you for your bravery, without your valuable input, nobody would know how important it is to be offended by this!
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It doesn’t matter who’s wrong who’s right, just stop the fight…
Type-2 Diabetic control drug Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) wins US FDA approval
first google result:

>the majority of Charter Flight Attendant salaries currently range between $30,500 (25th percentile) to $49,000 (75th percentile)

This happened in 2018, so she likely made less and $250k would have seemed like even more then than now - so yeah in her shoes I would have taken that deal too.
> Yes, I have seen and heard plenty of people say CICO is simple and "all there is to it", often along with some "laws of physics" snip, as included in your previous comment.

Your problem is with the people who say it, not CICO itself. Once again, if you can't cook with a recipe from Gordon Ramsay, are you saying the recipe is bad? Btw I replied to above post when he said CICO is nonsense. Do you have a problem with his claim?

> That's a straw man if I've ever seen one.

Because I am countering his arguments? All am I saying CICO is simple physics, I am NOT saying CICO is simple weight reduction method. Can you tell the difference? If someone are saying the CICO nonsense, then isn't the logical conclusion is that you can defy physics and gain calorie from the thin air?
I don't know that it's the expectation vs reality at this point, as much as it is the denial of reality. But then again sometimes I feel like that's a hallmark of our time.
This is why most people just buy a MacBook: it should not be necessary for the user to read, do, or configure _anything_ to make suspend mode work properly and not drain 30% of your battery overnight.
When scientists take all the complex factors into account and do the sums it turns out that in general plant-based foods are still far more sustainable than livestock, e.g. https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-how-the-climat...
The Black Swan, Second Edition. he added a chapter.