skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hiring isn't "the problem". No one thing is "the problem". There's no bad guy to blame. No evil cabal. You don't need to get upset every time someone points out a systemic bias.

>You aren't being accused of anything. You aren't the bad guy. But it would be nice if you acknowledged things are a bit out of whack, and helped to reduce the skew in the next generation. You don't need to fix it. It's enough to occasionally point out things could be better.

But who are you to say that the way a thing is done by everyone, everywhere, is out of whack? Perhaps you (and I) just don't have full knowledge of all motives and incentives?

This whole discussion misappropriates the term 'sexism' to make it meaningless just like racism has become a meaningless term.
How about car companies deciding to sell more oversized vehicles because they don't want to put in the engineering effort to meet fuel efficiency standards? As actually happened. Advertising shifted to SUVs.

Blaming individuals may be interesting morally but it makes for terrible public policy. It doesn't produce anything actionable. Imagine trying to fix ozone depletion with a voluntary labelling scheme and "blaming" people who use CFCs.
mint.com to track everything + a google spreadsheet for forecasting.

It's OK, not perfect but OK.
If you're not passing your scratched to shit vinyl through a $20,000 tube amp and a Denon AKDL1 link cable you're not hearing the sound as the artist intended it.
You should use MPFR to have more precision on those figures
In the past, chest thumping displays by management cowed the less desirable workers but pushed the best ones towards the door. I would not think the wfh demo of the last two years changed this dynamic. Particularly if these desirables did their work in something resembling the offices of olden times. Stuffing people into a bullpen just isn’t going to interest people.
Arbitrary precision (the library claim) is not infinite-precision (your claim).

The original library claim for correct rounding is very important for many tasks, and is the entire reason for that library. I doubt your library does it, it it would claim it, since it's extremely hard to do and would be a great selling point.

Here's [1] a slightly older paper with lots of details on the problems in getting such a library to work. There's massive literature on this

[1] https://hal-ens-lyon.archives-ouvertes.fr/ensl-01529804/file...
The world obviously doesn't "need" 19,000 cryptocurrencies. So why do they exist? Simply because it is easy and profitable to create one. It is literally free money that you can make yourself.

As long as crypto-suckers exist, there will be people looking to service their "needs".
> vi/vim is nice but I find the convenience of VSCode - auto complete, show inf doc etc - very useful

You can have all of that on vim. On neovim, you can even setup LSP with the same LSP servers that VSCode uses [1]. The learning curve is steeper but if you like vim/neovim keyboard-centric features, it is worth it.

The only thing I miss from VSCode is maybe the debugger, not because you can't have one, but because it is a bit tedious to set it up and more error prone. So sometimes I use VSCode as a debugger, but I'm pretty happy with my config on neovim (imports, auto complete, docs info (or "hovering"), definitions, go to definition, rename a symbol, etc., you can have all of that with LSP).

[1] https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig
This looks interesting, but at the moment only in self-hosted mode:
"Actual is now open-source and 100% free. New signups are currently disabled until we figure out a plan for a potential hosted option. Go to the repo to learn more. You can self-host it and modify it however you want"
That’s where diversity hiring shines.
Shopify changed the whole shopping cart game! The way I explained it to my team, we wouldn’t be hosting product data on our servers anymore, and instead we add products similar to Amazon Seller Central. I was a hardcore Magento developer for over 10 years and wasn’t a huge fan of Shopify because I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t come up with any better solution in my head for hosting a webstore on our own distributed cloud stack. We were running Magento 2 for our website, and Lightspeed for our instore POS when COVID hit and we needed to start offering curbside pickup and local delivery. We tried to build our own bridge between the two services, and it was the worst experience. I started researching other shopping carts that had easy POS and curbside pickup integration and everything kept pointing to Shopify. I realized they host our product data similar to Amazon seller central, and give us a lighting fast storefront with a near 100 lightspeed SEO score, for cheaper than our current hosting bill. I was intrigued but still skeptical at that point. I then started looking at all the top trending websites like Colour Pop, Kylie Cosmetics, TB12, Tesla, Bomba Socks, Fashion Nova, and Death Wish Coffee.. What did they all have in common? I then hit BuiltWith to see what the current marketshare for shopping carts was for the top 1000 e-commerce sites online. I was stunned to see Shopify had majority marketshare compared to Magento 2 in the last few years. At that point I was sold and I convinced my team we were done with the days of hosting a Magento store. We migrated in less than 6 weeks and instantly saw a lift in sales and SEO.
Even when it comes to vocaloids like Miku, there's still attachment to the producer behind the song and not just Miku herself (and several producers have gone on from their vocaloid careers to launch "real" music careers).
They don't understand it all and probably tell others that I play all day in my computer.
My worry in that position wouldn't be getting fired, it would be getting the conversation (or, if it's got that far, the offer) spiked because someone in HR thinks they can either keep me in my current role by scaring off anyone I might talk to, or share my salary information so they can low-ball me, thereby stopping me from getting a pay bump.
No, there were tones that the phone sent for each coin value. IIRC they were fairly brief and somewhat "blippy", unlike the flat DTMF tones. Back in the day you could build a Red Box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)) that would simulate these tones.
Anyone using Homechart?
I find rust and scala quite similar on learning curves. You have to reach a certain level before you can work with the language and library ecosystem.

The benefits proposed by proponents of both languages are there but after the mean of the bell curve.

Also a beginner is asked to work with external interfaces and libraries because the language and its standard library is defined to be minimal in certain ways. The answers to which are supposed to come later. So a lot to take it on the first step itself.

Both languages are still working on some answers and kept options open. So "why" of that is also complicated.
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Thank you too for this information and for the resource, I'm looking at it now it seems very interesting.

The breakdown you give above seems to me to be more akin to something DL types tend to call 'feature engineering'. I also have a fun example, in this case it would be identifying land cover from satellite imagery. You can obviously just feed the raw reflectance values (RGB etc.) into a DL model to create a semantic segmentation of classes. However, it's been well established in literature at this point that that is not the most effective way to create a classification. This is similar to my previous comment, where there are lots of solutions that can be found through SGD based on these raw values.

There's a lot of traditional satellite imagery analysis algorithms that are based on very simple 'band-ratios', i.e. NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) is calculated by Near Infared - Red / Near Infared + Red. This index will visually highlight areas of vegetation that was extremely useful in human sight-based analysis to identify vegetative areas. Now, you'd expect a deep learning model that takes in all the bands to have this information already, it has the NIR band and the Red band. However, explicitly doing the NDVI calculation and using it as an input feature leads to increased accuracies for classification. The exact reasons for this are unknown, but I think you touched on some of this above. With machine learning, and DL even moreso, sometimes it's necessary to hand-hold the optimization to optimize for exactly what you want. It helps 'explainability' and oftentimes helps accuracy, at the cost of some preprocessing.
I didn't know Rastan at all. It's kind of crazy, you always think you know all the games from that time and yet you stumble across one every now and then where you think, that would have been my thing back then :)
Due to non-random sampling, anecdotes are not evidence when it comes to a phenomena at this scale. Even four randomly sampled entries are better than 100 posts of people complaining if the latter are more likely to appear in your feed than someone getting theirs with no issue.

You need an actually random sampling of delivered Teslas to determine how extensive QC issues are and whether the average one can go 400k km with only $3k servicing. Also, they defects reputed to vary substantially over time (e.g. one model year might have 5x the rate of two years later).
The vendors are the GPU manufacturers. And both AMD and Nvidia offer full support for OpenGL and Vulkan.

There is no reason why I should have to use a different APIs to access the exact same graphics hardware depending on whether I'm running Windows, Linux or MacOS.

OpenGL and Vulkan work just fine.
> but I'm basically one of those people who fit in the category of unemployed and not looking / don't want to work.

Yea, your story makes no sense
I've been using YNAB (You Need A Budget) for more than a decade now. Big fan, not affiliated.

https://www.youneedabudget.com/
It's extremely revealing that this particular classifier is framed as "prevent data loss" not "intercept skills loss" or "figure out why your employees want to leave and then fix that".
Yes, that's right. Yoshi's Island, for example, is a great inspiration for me.
Is there an easy way to try this model on my computer?
> 1. garbage collection is amazing for developer productivity if you can afford it.

Probably not for everybody. I haven't noticed any significant productivity boost when coming from C++ to Java years back, and then I also can't see any significant productivity decrease when switching from Java to Rust. I feel the unavailability of GC is widely offset by other features that make Rust more productive than Java. Surely, I got stuck once or twice while learning (Rust is harder than Java) but once it clicked, I know which things to avoid and generally it goes very smoothly. Now there are many things I love about Rust and I constantly miss in Java.

(The number of times I wished I had RAII in Java) > (The number of times I wished I had tracing GC in Rust).
Because it’s a cool piece of technology, and this is a place for computer professionals? if you can’t appreciate GNU MPFR, you might be hanging out at the wrong place
Yes, and it still feels a lot like Searle's Chinese Room. It's as if it skips a dozen steps. Well, that's exactly what happens, of course. But it does show that the network can match linguistic descriptions to images extraordinarily well.
If X has been marginalizing Y throughout history and you belong to X class then its possible that you might be uncomfortable to hear the history and find it anti-X. But that doesn’t invalidate the struggle of Y right?
>It's not like they are adding some malware in the binary.

They are though, telemetry is malware.

>As far as I am concerned, telemetry is a good thing. Unless you are very paranoid, I don't see a good reason to disable it.

Oh.

Well I guess I disagree. Telemetry is malware and a bad thing. Unless you can examine what's being sent and have the ultimate choice of what's shared and when. The only reason to collect data surreptitiously is if you're a creep and up to no good.
https://nitter.net/HvnsLstAngel/status/1531506455714492416
It's interesting to read how bigots from around the world will independently converge on eugenics.
Thanks for mentioning this. I've been procrastinating on finding an alternative since they hiked the price up so much (not even my grandfathered $45/year pricing is immune!). It looks a lot like YNAB from the screenshots, but I'll give it a shot to see just how similar it really is. Being self-hostable is just icing on the cake!
I’m going to try my best to look at things from the outside.

I’m sure there are some people that do. But AWS also knows what is it’s customers need and would be far more likely to go after those markets. Than go after a second level derivative like bandwidth.

I personally couldn’t imagine that it would go over to well if someone wrote a proposal in the form of a PRFAQ saying we should go after $x market because we noticed that a customer’s bandwidth was high.
What's a good alternative? I feel like it's a matter of time before similar feature is added to Slack and Co.
But be prepared for constantly having to deal with well-meaning people saying “Excuse me, you left your light on!”.
> Otherwise every Christmas would be a hackfest.

It probably is.

I raised the alarm for log4shell internally on December 9th, and then then it was being actively exploited. I know people at other companies who hadn't heard about it, or didn't think it was worth doing anything about, as recently as April.
The joke from when I worked in Google was "deprecated means stable"
It’s not just warehouse workers, there was a pretty infamous article from the NYT about the office workers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...

The money quote that I find telling:

“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” - Person in books marketing.

What kind of environment are you building if entire teams in BOOKS marketing are getting so stressed they’re crying publicly at their desk?

Reading the stories is just unreal and that article was from 7 years ago. My public perception is that it has gotten worse. You can go on blind and read countless stories about people that were hired to fired, gaslighted into thinking they’re terrible workers, PIP galore.

The only confounding thing to me is that Amazon doesn’t have the same reputation as Oracle in the tech scene.
Today, we take internet for granted!
Have been using it for a while now. The best feature is the ability to block apps from accessing the Internet altogether. With the added bonus of a bit of adblocking. The only downside, IPv6 is not supported. The Internet connection is IPv4 only using the app.
Jaimie Mantzel is working on his cathedral.
Only marketers have agency.

Marketers and the US government.
> add the cost of waging wars that are made possible by the inflationary policies of the central banks

This argument significantly detracts from your credibility. Were there no wars during the millennia we were on commodity money?
The engine I'm using is based on this one with lots of customizations:

https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey
The dealership has to change anyway.

If banking and Everything else is a good example, people are getting used to buy online.

I bought even my current car without seeing it before.

I bought my bike online as well.

If more and more do that dealerships might loose too much revenue anyway to keep them afloat.
Small non-FAANG companies usually, where they do not have the internal skills to maintain and explain models. And from what I've heard, big corporations under regulated domains (banking, healthcare, etc).
Not particularly, CCTV7 documentary on Type 99A tank quoted the significant numbers a couple years ago.
You’re missing that you don’t have to use unsafe, you use a wrapper type which is essentially a smart reference-counted pointer. Rust makes these things explicit.
When the first Palm VII's came out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_VII) I wanted to see how responsive the wireless connectivity was before buying one. The local Staples store had a functional demo unit, but it had no subscription. So I tried signing up with random info, when it got to entering a card number, I entered 4111 1111 1111 1111, which passes the basic validation checks for a visa (and is obviously easy to remember). The device activated immediately and I was able to try some live data transfers. It worked for about 3 days (I went back to check it out of curiosity).

Presumably the activation of service happened locally in the device, or with minimal cross-checking with the backend billing service.

A few months later I tried it on another unit and the number no longer worked for activation :)
Marketing strategies to start or grow your business
Marketing plays a very important role while building your start-up.
Here are 11 marketing strategies that you can use to start or grow your business.
1. Find your niche
It helps to focus efforts and attract the right customers.
So, you're not wasting resources on marketing to people not interested in your offer.
2. Know your audience
Important step to any marketing strategy.
You can't sell to everyone, so you need to know who your target is.
After that, you can develop campaigns specifically for them.
3. Positioning
It is what makes your business unique.
It sets you apart from your competitors.
It's how customers perceive your business, and what they'll remember your business.
4. Build a strong online presence
Create a website, blog, and social media accounts.
Showcase your products or services.
Reach a wider audience.
Generate leads and sales.
5. Use social media
Engage with potential customers on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Create a strong relationship with your customers and grow your business.
Don't miss out on this huge opportunity.
6. Connect with influencers
They can help to promote your business to their audience.
Great way to get the word out and to reach a larger audience.
7. Provide excellent customer service
If your customers are happy, they will keep coming back.
Excellent customer service is key to keep them satisfied.
Always be polite, patient, listen to them and try to resolve any issues.
Thank them for their business and follow up to see if they were satisfied.
8. Focus on SEO
Ensure that your site is visible to potential customers.
Use keyword-rich titles, descriptions, and tags.
Start as soon as possible because it takes time to rank.
9. Analyze your data
Use data from campaigns to see what worked and what didn't.
Adjust your strategy accordingly, always be testing and improving.
10. Stay up to date with trends
Create content accordingly that resonates with your target audience.
It helps you attract new customers and grow your business.
Subscribe to newsletters or magazines. Follow influencers. Attend conferences and trade shows.
Create posts based on what you've learned.
11. Always be learning
Expand your skills.
You'll never know when or where those skills will come in handy.
Be prepared for any opportunity that comes your way.
Wrap up
That's it for today, folks!
Man, I understood something else under "interactive", I didn't see any flow diagrams either. I thought it'd be a system where you can enter inputs and then it would visually show which paths are taken through the flowchart, e.g. given this diagram [1] and some inputs one could step through the chart (and even change inputs to see the new paths taken)...

[1] http://jcosine.if.unram.ac.id/public/site/images/suwardiman/...
Kermit in Sopranos did it for me. Hilariously accurate.
I think the technology itself is 100x better in just about every way(Except for pure novelty, smartphones largely killed true gadgets)

The lack of fun, to me, is mostly because of how everything changed around it.

I can make a basic website now, no problem, everything is easier than it was aside from the fact we pretty much have to have HTTPS.

But, nobody will read it, because it will be lost in a sea of clickbait. I will have a hard time writing it, because I will be distracted by the sea of clickbait, and worst of all, I'll have a hard time finding things to write about.

And of course, the very fact it all does work so incredibly well, with a Sci-fi level of polish, means... it's no longer new. Most of it is being a cruise ship tourist, not an Arctic explorer.

Because the internet is dead without the offline stuff that gives it meaning.

It's like, binoculars and a field notes book with nobody to spy on, the perfect party where nobody shows up, or a spreadsheet showing all the customers someone doesn't have.

I think it's just like the idea of set and setting.

The internet/tech/coding/etc is the drug, and we lost all the cultural context, so now it's less "A beer at the bonfire with friends" and more "I had a bottle of wine alone because I don't know what else to do with myself".
Ah, cool I was not aware of the Trash spec [1]. I had to check the date on it, it seems to have originated in 2004 and I think I was past peak gentoo development at that time. Or maybe I just didn't spend enough time keeping track of FreeDesktop. Thanks for clueing me in!

[1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-...
So you have no evidence, he has evidence, and your argument is simply "I don't believe you." These are the same forum discussion strategies of white nationalists, and this has been a fascinating thread to read!
:-) Of course I did.
I don't disbelieve you but would still really like details (how much worse than others?)/a citation here.
Data Race Patterns in Go (Uber Engineering Blog)
There is also this project, that it's pretty cool to know who is consuming what.
https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler
> Everything in corporate email has always been subject to read by others, there is no expectation of privacy.

Depends where you work? I expect my work emails to be private.
On-screen and phone calculators seem hell-bent on replicating all the worst aspects of the absolute worst physical calculators on the market. Why would anyone want to use that?

I could of course get a more advanced calculator app, or use Maxima, but I already own a decent bitmap display calculator with scrollable history that I used in school, so using that is simply the path of least resistance.
I don't think there's any market. The only people who buy macs are people that have no intention of playing videogames on that system.

I personally transitioned from Windows -> Linux -> MacOS, and each switch correlated exactly with how much I was playing videogames at that time. I don't play games anymore which is why I'm perfectly content using a mac. If I wanted to play games again I would go back to linux, or all the way back to windows.
The good thing with my current bike is that it never runs out of fuel, by design. I can pick it up anytime and it just works, it was so 10 years ago when I acquired it, and it'll be so 10 years down the road.

I have a Garmin Forerunner 735XT watch and it needs charging every 15 days, which is better than any "true" smartwatch out there. At some point in the distant-but-not-so-much future the battery will flat out die and there will be no replacement part. The experience from my mechanical watch is entirely different: it keeps on ticking as I move around, and the thing will probably end up surviving me.

Going from zero to non-zero - whatever the value of non-zero is - is non-negligible mental weight. Zero is a freeing experience.