skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're complaining in 2019?

Back during the Summer of Snowden ish, they moved the Chrome team to the SF office and used to hold a bunch of forced diplomacy events to provide cover for staff poaching interviews from within the same building.

It's been a long time since the Yahoo people had to lovingly hand craft artisinal lists (and spin off a separate domain, Yahooligans, for kids looking to not see Goatse or epilepsy gifs when looking up Pokémon.)

Teach people search operators and let Google die, it's past it's prime.
I think the future refrigerant for many applications is CO2, with a global warming potential of 1.

Volkswagen put heat pumps with CO2 based refrigerant in their latest cars.

Japanese company Sanden makes components for CO2 based heat pumps and compressors.

https://www.sanden.co.jp/english/products/car/lineup/CO2-Com...

Project Drawdown estimates addressing the emissions of refrigerants to have one of the biggest impacts on climate change.

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
We have slightly different opinions, but I thank you for taking the time to chat, and trusting that we can do so nicely.

The boards are to provide society comfort, but they enforce as you, said the minimum. Something just cannot be measured. This is very true in medicine as it contains a human aspect, as well as ethics aspect (I make more money if I see more people and give each less time).

When I was a teenager, I was losing hair due to Alopecia. My doctor at the time, who barely made sense (both of us were ESL) decided to put me on a course of prescription Iron pills. I was pooping black haha. Only later, I was told that I shouldn’t be taking it and that it was prescribed to me by accident by her because she had the file of another patient. Their last name was my first name, and they were pregnant female, I am a male.

The same doctor injected my mom with some drug and as she did, she said “oh shit” and “OMG” and decided not to tell my mom what it was. She tossed the bottle in hazardous waste box so my mom could not find out what it was. My dad was furious and made a scene as he and my mom naturally got worried. We went to this board and they said they did nothing wrong, and my parents were making a scene, and that we should find another doctor. So much for protecting my best interests and holding a bar.

These boards are mafia; another high profile thread about this is in HN right now. The boards are there to provide a facade of credibility.

> The point of these licenses is, in part, to protect society in professions where they are expected to ethically serve in the public good.

I don’t want to be called an engineer and opted out of license because I think most of engineers are doing the exact opposite. Working at companies that knowingly continue operating when we know it’s causing depression? Collecting data for users without them knowing?

Regarding equality of curriculum and standardization, I hear you. None of this is stuff we can ONLY get in school. I think the interview questions we all conduct at our jobs, or give when applying are doing just that. Checking minimum competency; tangentially I much prefer take home tests or something of that nature.

After this, I tend to think learning should be like gardening. Not all gardens are the same and they have different needs. You may need to learn more calculus if you are in robotics, but not if you are working on something really far from that. Another example, you might really need to learn about algorithms and databases if your job/interests require it.
I want to understand physics and maybe try to write pieces of software on specific physics domains which can be helpful to others (e.g., automate some stuff or something like that). Hope made my intention clear now :) Btw, thank you for the response.
Many of your examples just return syntax errors, is this somehow browser dependent? You should consider using a more consistent evaluator if so.
The fertilizer problems started with sanctions on Belarus which is 20% of the worlds potash as in potassium market, and got dire due to China, the US and Europe all messing up their natural gas markets. That's used to supply hydrogen atoms for the first step of nitrogen fertilizer, the most used by weight, in the Haber process which makes ammonia (NH3) using nitrogen from the air. A lot of entities, not just "Crop Production companies" are doing suboptimal things for the food supply due to the fertilizer crisis.

As for stores not providing baby formula recipes, I'd imagine they're worried about liability, and there are of course many other sources for them. Really, due to the Federal government's WIC program which is half the market, its import restrictions, and messed up FDA regulation it should be on them.

I say messed up because the FDA demonstrably wasn't serious about dealing with the Abbott Labs plant problem or getting it fixed quickly based on the timeline starting with the whistle blower, while they make it very hard to get into the business. Or the USDA's problem due to their policy of forcing states to grant a WIC monopoly to one formula manufacturer resulted in three companies having almost all the total US market with Abbott having the largest share, at the same time US prices being double those of Europe. Which isn't as strict about food safety but still seems to do OK.

A serious country would have done something to mitigate the shortage after they closed down Abbot's huge factory before there were bare shelves for months and it became a political problem in an election year.
To clarify, my comment about non-cooperative chat systems was in reference to MS Teams, Slack, etc. I didn't bring up XMPP. XMPP *might have* been an ok universal protocol to standardize on, but many players (like Google et al) took things in a non-cooperative direction. Thereby somewhat killing its benefit of federation. Also, as much of a fan boy that i am about matrix, i acknowledge it may not be the most perfect, but i feel it is pretty damn awesome from a technology perspective...But even more awesome, are the people and community behind it who - more than any other effort that i'm familar with - actually listen to the rest of the members of the community, and try to find some accord for what is best for all. Finally, i could be wrong, but some of the founders of the matrix protocol (and community) actually loved and came from the IRC world. Obviously, you have a right to your own opinion. :-)
Discussion forums like Piazza can really help with stuff like this. By allowing students to communicate with each other in public, with TAs/instructors explicitly present answering questions, the need to get a group chat going diminishes and you avoid the temptation to cheat.

As an aside, I will say, weekly quizzes are one of the lowest-reward types of homework. They are mainly favored by instructors because they are automatically graded, and they do really little to make you excited about the material. Students recognize and respond to instructor effort (or a lack thereof); if there’s a written assignment every two weeks that students know you are going to take time to grade and give feedback on, then they are significantly more likely to invest the effort to do it well.
The storage is not an unsolved mystery at all, we have many methods to store energy. Maybe it's not perfected yet and not optimal and cost effective as we would like it to be yet but it's nowhere near the situation with fusion technology. Unlike the fusion, the science of it is well developed and it boils down to its commercialisation optimisation.

Besides, as we are creatures who sleep roughly in sync with the fusion in the sky, we don't really need to have 24/7 constant energy input. Combination of storage and older tech like good old fission energy and natural gas can be enough.
What? You are going to use a global state for this? No, no, no! You ought to put that in a class ...

class MyBetterrrrInteger(MyCustomNumberClass) implements ICalculatable {
public static MyBetterrrrInteger(OtherIntegerClass num) {
...
// oh did I forget to add generics to the mix? damn.
}

...
}
I sincerely wish them luck with that. It would definitely be cool, if they could get it to work, but this part:

> highly controlled flight close to turbulent water surfaces

Has been a "heavy lift" for ekranoplan designers for decades.
>For the same reason they were thinking about the "iPad" and then "iPhone" (tablet consideration actually came first internally even though in 2004 it was redirected toward the phone first) long, long before it "viable as a consumer product" duh. You don't get out ahead of things by waiting until after your competitors do it to get started, you make it happen early with your own R&D.

But that's exactly what happened with the iPad though. Apple's competitors had already released tablet-type devices for years, they just weren't really ready as consumer products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC
If you're joining an established team you should consider yourself a cultural anthropologist, and seek to understand the human-related aspects of why things are the way you observe. You have not yet earned the legitimacy to have your big, disruptive changes considered, and once you do understand how we got where we are you'll have likely modified & tempered your original positions.
I once had an interview that told me to “design Twitter”. I drew some diagrams on the whiteboard, and the topic of the database came up.

I asked “do we want to have consistency or availability for this?”, to which the interviewer said “I want both”, to which I said “umm, I’m pretty sure you can’t have both, CAP theorem and whatnot”. We spent two minutes arguing which led to me taking out my phone and pulling up the CAP Theorem Wikipedia page, and eventually the interviewer begrudgingly admitted I was right.

I surprisingly did get an offer after that interview but I found it a little annoying to be interviewed by a person with less experience than me who I have to argue with because his understanding of computer science is wrong.
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Aviation fuel is taxed lightly but still train fares in france seem to be very expensive, the train in Ireland is far cheaper (even though most things in Ireland are more expensive).
> And I don’t know anyone irl who dreads react.

There's not a lot of us, but we're definitely out here.
Former patent examiner here.

There have been quite a few patent drafting softwares over the years. They seem to do a reasonable job guiding someone through the process of writing the patent application. But search and submission are not automated.

Here are some softwares that are still currently on the market:

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/patent/invent-patent-system/

https://www.neustelsoftware.com/patentwizard/

http://www.lanaconsult.com/products.htm#AutoPat

AI-based patent search approaches don't work that well at the moment. I wrote about this before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216394

AI-based patent search seems to look at citations (which is somewhat worthless as I'll look at citations anyway) and have some measure of text-based similarity. In my experience it does a poor job when the terminology varies. There was no substitute for making a search string containing a lot of synonyms.

I think AI-based patent search could see a lot of improvement in the future if it simply started looking at the drawings. As a "mechanical" examiner, many of the applications I worked on were most effectively searched by flipping through patent drawings. Sometimes the prior art I'd use to reject an application would have drawings that are remarkably similar to those of the application I'm examining. But other times (particularly involving flow or electrical circuits), the drawing is equivalent in some sense but arranged differently. A more advanced AI/ML approach is needed for those.
Marketing is easy. Tech is difficult. Politics often feels impossible.
I’d say micro plastics and other related chemicals like PTFEs. They’re incredibly common and found throughout the human body and in every ecosystem. I have a feeling a lot of modern diseases, the ones relegated to “developed” countries are created or exacerbated by plastic chemical pollution. We know they can disrupt hormones and who knows what else. Worst of all they’re impossible to avoid
I've been a backyard composter for years, and have been thinking about trying out the worm beds too. One of the local hardware stores specializes in homesteading, and they have "the worm guy" come in once a week. One item available is gallon jugs of a brownish watery liquid that not only acts as a fertilizer but also has earthworm eggs. I used this on my freshly built raised beds. Earthworms galore!

Same store also carries packages of ladybugs to help with aphid control. Fun store
This sequence will get you busy for a couple of years:

1) Leon Cooper’s Physics: Structure and Meaning

2) The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Stop defending whiteboard interviews. We know [1] that they are inherently biased against certain groups and have a very large false negative rate.

It amazes me how many people will defend the current interviewing process and then openly admit that the majority of their engineers could not pass the same process without spending dozens of hours preparing.

[1] https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
A bit of irony here in calling out a specific demographic for unfairly stereotyping a different demographic.
Is there a physics equivalent of the chemistry book "the disappearing spoon"? I really enjoyed it and am trying to find similar books in other disciplines.
Well, if you go a long diatribe "not trusting your fellow Greeks", it implies you trust other people more for these complex projects.
Gunshot Victims Have High Risk Of Being Shot Again In The Future, UW Researchers Find [1][2]

[1] https://www.knkx.org/law/2015-02-24/gunshot-victims-have-hig...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrRNM9cMBDk
You might find this helpful:
https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
There was an expression at my school, in response to exactly what you're questioning.

"We train you for the last job you'll ever have, not the first."

The intent of a well-rounded bachelor's education isn't to be able to walk through the JavaScript library du jour from memory, but to have at least a base level of understanding how everything adjacent to the thing you're doing works.
That was my take but I think that’s not really what it’s about. It’s not decisions affecting the world. It’s having options on how to proceed past challenges. Shootout, stealth, or gimmicky ability in most cases.

I find this concept kind of lame though. Most of these design concepts tend to shoehorn you into a few repetitive approaches and gimmicky stuff is often so unrealistic to the point of anti immersion (“huh, must have been the wind” while partner bleeds out on the ground next to them).
How does enquire compare to autotools?
I am.. my use case is a computer with two devices in the same building and they share data over webrtc datachannels..

There are some quirks in getting all the signaling working but there’s now more of a standard to do that process the right way…

Anyway since the devices are on the same network latency is nearly 0…

I do have an ack and retry process … I should add logging to see how often that happens though
It's funny how clear things are from the outside when you're not exposed to American propaganda.
Ask HN: Is there any Linux distro dedicated to music performance?
I'm impressed by the recent developments regarding Linux and audio production; I've been using Reaper, both the Windows version under WINE and the native Linux one for some time, and it works flawlessly with very low latency. Also there are some really good native Linux plugins around, and Windows one - including some very old ones that stopped working on Windows ages ago - run without (almost *) any problems using Yabridge. So the question is: why not creating a very minimal Linux distro dedicated only to run straight after the boot either a DAW and related plugins, or a plugin host? I mean it shouldn't even have a desktop and most common applications, no browser etc. Just the bare minimum to run the audio, both native and WINE subsystem with the simplest window manager around. It should boot directly to the music software to minimize boot time, also handy should it crash in the middle of a gig. Anything like that in development?
Yet again, I'm jealous of the potential Scrabble scores Polish has over English
I don't believe the US even has a PE for software engineering any longer. I think something like 80 people got it after Texas initiated it.
It's trivial for you, but are you sure you've got the OPs best interest at heart? Remember, you're trying to help someone else here.

I think the magic is in getting the interpreter to work, and depending on the personality, that might be what's motivating.
One should never make long term contracts for delivery without long term contracts for supply, or at least something to hedge against supply costs.
Thinking of doing the same for a similar scale! Thanks for sharing.
Is there a citable source for "The parable of Mike (Michael Burrows) and the login shell"?

I do not think that this whole discussion about returning to a "known good initial state" has much merit, because computers are Turing machines: they modify their own state and then act upon that state. Which means that unless your boot drive is read-only, nobody can predict what your computer will do on the next reboot. (Unless someone solved The Halting Problem and I missed it.)

But the discussion about assertions and initially fragile software that quickly becomes robust did strike a chord with me, because that's exactly what I have been doing for decades now. (Also, I see other programmers using assertions so rarely, that I feel kind of lonely in this.) I have a long post about assertions (https://blog.michael.gr/2014/09/assertions-and-testing.html) to which I would like to add a paragraph or two about this aspect, and preferably cite Burrows.
I was using the word prove colloquially. That many professions are being automated is a given, and with NN people are trying extra hard to automate knowledge work that requires more trade-like knowledge than theoretical knowledge, like paraprofessionals and functionaries with domain knowledge. Recent developments in software lead me and many others to believe the automation of utilitarian development jobs is impending. Even Forbes thinks so and I guarantee you they hadn't seen GitHub Copilot when this article came out:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/02/23/11...

So, given that enough industry analysts believe development will be heavily automated to make top-10 lists, and recent developments provide even stronger evidence (copilot writes better comments on existing code than my coworkers,) can someone providence a strong a priori argument or maybe even empirical evidence that utilitarian software development is somehow uniquely immune to this?
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You've got to think like a guinea pig first & foremost.

You're already expected to be a research program designer.
I have degrees in math and physics. Those degrees gave me close to zero value in the market. Spending X years in school, then having to prove to an employer that you can do barely more than squat is a familiar experience in a lot of fields.

There are tests you can take in those subjects, such as the Graduate Record Exam. Those tests work to some extent because the subject matter is relatively mature, and consistent from one college to another. And yet there are entire fields of math and physics that I've never been exposed to. Their main purpose is to see if you're conversant in a body of knowledge that would prepare you for typical graduate study, not for a job.

Software engineering is a comparatively young field, with less standardization. There are even debates on HN as to whether software engineering is a real thing. There are places where every programmer has the title "engineer" regardless of their background.

I'm only employable because most people hate math and physics so much that they're relieved if anybody offers to do those things for them. That, and I'm pretty good at programming and electronics.
In the timescales of the evolution of the earthworm, pavement just occurred yesterday.
But how does this make it the most efficient method of pagination Vs key set. To me it seems this is an overstatement.
> But you probably don't have the skill for that. It's a complex task, and requires either good intuition or an entire engineering degree.

That’s just ridiculous, come on. You google some reviews of some parts or watch some Gamers Nexus videos and that’s all you have to do.
Not entirely. Democracy isn't a fixed concept, and there are different interpretations of it. Direct democracy (via referenda) is fairly rare, and has clear flaws (look at the EU referendum!)

Equally, the Good Friday Agreement signed in Ireland in 1998 is an example of where an arguably good outcome arose from holding a referendum.

Clearly, referenda aren't "bad" in their own right, but they are a tool that should be employed when the circumstances are right.
Nice build. I recently built my second NAS (from a used R720 from ebay). The total (without disks) is pretty similar to the build documented in this article.

Having a large NAS has had an interesting (though predictable) impact on all the computers around it: Pretty much every bit of data lives on the NAS (accessed either by CIFS, NFS, or iSCSI). When I had to reinstall Windows, it was mostly painless because all my important data and Steam games library was on a remote iSCSI disk. When I replaced the drives on my linux servers, I didn't have to backup hardly anything, as I worked almost exclusivly on NFS-mounted directories. When bringing up a new raspberry pi for projects, it also has instant access to more terabytes of storage than it could ever need.

Also, for a homelab, getting 10GBe fiber between two machines is surpringly cheap and easy. For certain workloads, it can be a noticable speed boost over 1GBe.
Yes of course, I started my second paragraph wrong - it should have included "or no plans to ever make the repo public"!

You've never accidentally committed secrets into a public repository, right?
Get the first volume from berkeley physics course, and work through it. That means reading, following tge derivations and then redoing then calculations. And do the problems.

If you enjoyed it work through Halliday Resnick.

Now you need to do quite a bit of labwork. Some universitys allow you to take/do lab experiments. Do not skip that.

Then you can work through the feynman lectures, to see the stuff from different angles.

This will give you a comprehensive physical understanding. Which is good enough. Missing would 'only' an insane amount of math and theoretical physics.
Can you expand on why splitting up the class would help? I didn't quite get that part.
scheme is kindof the fix point of sequential programming languages

it eats itself into constancy
Much of the regulations in the USA are mainly now used to keep the main businesses in those markets safe from competitors.