skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Presumably it would have been even worse had everyone realized the United States had, a few years before this, planned to nuke the moon, more or less just because they could…"

Do have to say, that was a glorious era of scientific tomfoolery.
I'm with you. I was at least as productive, and much happier. I never had audiovisual privacy, and it never bothered me. If I really needed to do something in private I could go to an empty meeting room or booth, or even just find a secluded couch spot or something.

I was also able to learn a lot more from my peers and to build work type relationships much more efficiently, many of which have paid dividends over the course of my career.

I can also clearly see that the junior engineers at my company are developing much slower than they did when we were in office. I'm pretty sure that can be rectified with better process, but I think it's really significant that being remote makes those sorts of things much harder, and when things are hard orgs will often get them badly wrong.
Just curious, by “a person” you mean yourself or someone specific? If so why did you use “they” pronoun?
That was the whole idea of it, just doing something as a passion project even tho it's not the most useful thing out there.
I'll check out your project too!
> But back 10 years ago I figured I had everything I cared to have, so anything over and above would be gravy. Not so as it turns out.

Would you mind sharing what changed? This is actually something I've been thinking about lately. I'm trying to plan out the type of lifestyle that I'd ideally like to have while also estimating how much it would cost me. This way, I don't get needlessly tempted by chasing ever higher and higher salaries.
It's funny how after being exposed for insider trading (before this formal indictment), this guy went on to launch another NFT startup

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/31/opensea-exec-wh...
For other people who have never heard of bmalloc - it's a custom allocator used only by WebKit. I guess it's not surprising they added one since the Mac system allocator is extremely slow. A custom allocator is pretty much a free 20% speed up on Mac (depending on your workload) but I found they made no difference on Linux. Haven't tried on Windows.
Everything I know about programming, I learnt it from CSI.
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A search engine that only searched sites that wikipedia links to might be a fairly decent source in fact.

If monetisable, it would turn gaming wikipedia into a whole new level of shitshow of course.
I really wish there was a reasonable—like, less than 75 years from now—copyright expiration date for things like ROMs. Apple doesn’t make a dime from Newtons these days, so it’s not like they care if someone wants to run Newton OS on Linux. Same for the companies that made retro game ROMs—a lot of them don’t even exist anymore.

It’s just silly.
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Technique for play violins like Strads needs to change. (almost every violin needs slightly different technique)

As quoted, this isn't a test for superior sound, but rather whether a violinist preferred playing a certain instrument.
I like the massive degradation of this service and the rise in cost. Hopefully this will slow down the adoption and normalization of mass surveillance in residential areas.
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Most people I know have had Covid by now, regardless of where they live or what the mask mandate situation is/was.

That being said, it's fascinating to see how masking has become almost entirely a cultural phenomenon. I live in the New York City area. In many places here masks are still mandated, while in others masks aren't mandated but masking is nearly universal. I have a friend that lives "upstate" (about 40 miles north of the city). When I visit him, there is nary a mask in site. We hang out in packed bars and restaurants and it is exactly like Covid never existed. Nobody talks about it and nobody is concerned with it. Doubtless there is some level of awareness about the ~1 in 100,000 chance for someone up there to get seriously ill or die, but, unlike New York City, it isn't something that people dwell on or think much about at all. Just another one of the infinitesimally small risks entailed in daily life.
The reality is almost all of the best devs work at top places and get paid top money. If you need that quality of dev you need to pay that kind of money, now theres a strong argument that in some cases mediocre devs are fine and I'm sympathetic to that argument but from my experience the FAANG+ devs are better than others on average (maybe even most of the time).
I would also say, and I'm surprised this needs to be said in a community that is so connected to the Open Source and startup cultures, that just because something is valuable doesn't mean it's possible to make a business out of it.

Imagine research into a technique for getting better blood pressure readings from people who are so nervous around medical settings that their blood pressure spikes (or more basic research into the mechanisms of blood pressure and anxiety). This is a valuable thing to society (more accurate data informing treatment decisions for individuals, screening for physically demanding jobs, life insurance, forecasting medical spending for Medicare and the like), but it's not worth a lot to anyone in particular.

For the field you described originally, complex imaging devices, there are only so many users of that research so it's conceivable that work could be taken up by a corporate R&D department.

There are all kinds of other very useful research topics that are very valuable to humanity as a whole but it's not clear exactly who should pay for it (I'm not saying you aren't aware of this BTW, hopefully I'm adding support to your argument). In those cases it makes a lot of sense to take a fraction of a cent from everyone and pay for it that way, as we currently do.
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But you're still in a meeting room on a video call, so why not just be on a video call if the rest of your day is spent in isolation with headphones on with all the inconveniences of office travel. What is the upside? Especially when there are open office plans with no assigned desks (as has been mentioned above - luckily, I haven't actually worked at a "non assigned desk role yet), which is f'ing dehumanizing.
Ask HN: Who is firing / laying off (June 2022)
Since we have threads for who is hiring and who is looking for a job,
I thought it might be interesting to find out which companies are doing
mass firings and lay offs.
Some see paying out dividends as saying “you can do more with this money than we can right now”
By accepting this deal, you'd be giving "free money" to the company out of your own pocket.

They will get the EXACT same value from your work - WHILE paying you less.
They like to have everyone on meds... they make better sheeple...
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I don't have any student debt pressure, but I'm debating trying to do the same. I have a lot of friends in Denmark and no strong ties to the US. I'm about to hit my forties and it's probably now or never.
That's actually an idea I had during the development of the IDE, and I might be looking more into it.
Godbolt says Compiler Explorer right there, the fact people call it "Godbolt" is because that's the memorable name rather than because Matt Godbolt tried to name it after himself. He calls it Compiler Explorer.

You can't control what people call things. My favourite example is Blackfriars Bridge in London. When that bridge was built, it was formally named after William Pitt. But like, who cares? In what way is this bridge, Pitt's bridge? People knew where it was, the Blackfriars area of London, so too bad William Pitt, everybody called it Blackfriars Bridge. And so, that's what its name is.

The priory which is why "Blackfriars" got the name hadn't existed for two hundred years by the time the bridge was proposed. Nobody living when the bridge was finished would have ever known anybody who'd met any of the friars during their lifetime. Nevertheless that part of London had "always" been called Blackfriars, and so a bridge and a railway station built many years later are named that too.
I saw that but it's a huge, sprawling site.

I guess I could just go to https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/ which is a list of maps and sort by size. But that will not neccesarily give me the most complex maps (I might just get map packs etc)

Is there a better way?
"accidentally" ;)
Fully agree. It was incredible when the tagline was "Ars Technica, the PC Enthusiast's Resource." It's become increasingly clickbaity. One wonders how a tech news site manages to justify using a school shooting to generate pageviews. In recent months they've been reposting stories from their "partner sites", most of which are spectacularly terrible. I think the decline began a few years ago when they starting amplifying Twitter drama about game developers. That's about the same time the rumors started flying about Peter Bright, which site admins continued to stomp on right up until he was arrested for pedophilia.
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I've worked with people my age that stopped updating their skillsets literally decades ago so I don't think it's fair to expect employers to take your abilities on faith.

I also deliberately avoided companies known for leetcode style interviews although I can do those kinds of tests too.
Clang was started by, and primarily developed by, Apple. Why Apple started Clang isn't relevant - because there is no reason they had to make it OSS. Clang also wasn't only a licensing thing - gcc doesn't work as a general tooling platform.

Similarly libc++, etc.
You wrote: <<You really want social media to have the same type of access to your personal information that banks have? A know your customer type of regulation?>>

Would you support if the data leak fines were similar? I would. To be clear, I am talking about global investment bank-style "know your customer" (KYC). If retail/commercial banks leak customer PI, the fines are _immense_ in 2022. Most of them now have enormous security teams, or they pay AWS/Azure/G to do they same via consulting / cloud fees.
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Yeah, it's kind of weird to do this kind of analysis when you have data that you include on a chart which clearly demonstrate the variable by which the groups you are concerned with are systematically different that you need to control for, and not include that among your controls, and then have a conclusion that is basically “research is hard, these groups must be systematically different in some way we haven't controlled for, but who knows what it might be”.

Places that adopted mask mandates had higher baseline pediatric infection rates which were erased within six weeks.
UK regulatory approach to cryptoassets and stablecoins: consultation
Switching from in office to WFH turned biking from one of my favorite parts of the day into a dreaded chore. I still do it, but I hate it now. You can't just discount the psychological impact of having to force yourself to do the activity instead of it being an integral part of your daily life.
Perhaps it would be better to be more charitable to parent's views (and to mine).

> You seem to need a quick brush up on what marketing is.
> Parent is a fan because the internet told him to be.

Question: Are you a non-fan of Musk because of marketing? After all, five years ago many people were much bigger fans of Musk, and the last few years have been full of anti-Musk messaging from various corners. So perhaps you are more a victim of marketing than parent? The "Internet" is for sure telling people to be anti-Musk nowadays.

I think it's more charitable to treat your views and parents views as sincerely held, and argue about the views directly, not about whether or not they are "just the result of marketing/the internet/the media/whatever". It'll make for a more interesting conversation.
Fundamental: the patents produced by taxpayer-financed academic research have no business being exclusively licensed to some pharmaceutical corporation. As far as the cost of clinical trials being borne by those companies, well, let's get the FDA involved in the clinical trials.

Then the competition can come in, i.e. whoever can produce pure preparations of those drugs at the lowest cost will win the most market share. This means investing in top-of-the line manufacturing platforms (much of this is now outsourced to India, Mexico, etc. for drugs being sold in the USA) instead of squatting on the patents, blocking competition, and using monopoly status to jack up prices.

Yes, this would greatly reduce the profit margins and perhaps the stock prices of Big Pharma outfits, but the overall benefits would greatly outweight this. As a practical example, look how the best Covid vaccines (mRNA types) have been monopolized, leading to low rates of vaccination in Africa etc., even though that was technology developed with taxpayer funding at public universities.
My understanding is anastrozole works in a similar way to clomiphene, but has heart and bone concerns.

HCG is an injectable. Others may think differently but I’d rather take a once a day tablet than introduce an injectable to my life.
I'm the total opposite. I love my in-car nav. I have a shortcut on the steering wheel that brings up a list of recent destinations, so starting it takes literally seconds. I don't have to plug in my phone, or even look at it. I get turn by turn in the binnacle AND the heads-up display. And on top of that, it _doesn't_ do all the silly stuff that Google does to make people think it's so great, like routing me through some residential neighborhood to save 45 seconds. I'm okay taking one freeway vs another, maybe (I don't like adding miles to my trip), but that's about as smart as I want my navigation to be.

Maybe this is because I don't commute by car though. If I get stuck in traffic, it's the one time that month, and I've probably got a podcast on anyway.
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Hey Phil, thanks for the write up! Curious why this is only used for JSC's JIT, and not to back its heap? Did the design of the JSC GC influence libpas at all?
The response was published on 4th April.
Maybe, but that's very unlikely. Usually FAANG workers (I'm one myself) if they are young will move to new hot startups in the hopes of a big pay off at IPO time, or if they are older ,then will take a small pay cut for better WLB (to raise their kids, etc.), the other pattern I have seen is people move to companies that are fully remote or allow working from other countries (digital nomads friendly). One thing many people ignore about FAANG is: you get to choose what project you work on, at least at Amazon and Google, you can work on anything from Finance, Robotics, Retail, and front-end , back-end, etc... Obviously there will be people who quit FAANG for other reason, and just want to be the lead of a small team at a smaller company, etc. Another myth you seem to believe is thinking high pay equates to high pressure or bad WLB , also wrong, plenty of datapoints on sites like Blind, Glassdoor, etc. I do agree is not for everyone, but it definitely worth the effort to get in, you learn a lot, and you get expose to all kind of problems.