skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ffs, the claim is that the great engineers are 10x better than the worst engineers. Stop asking if 10x engineers exist and ask if some engineers are only 1x of the best. I've worked with people who spend months on a story that I can do in 3 days. I've seen engineers so bad that they provide negative value with all the time they suck from others. 10x is an understatement.
It's possible but it would be one way in most locations. But yeah I'm sure it'll be possible. I have it on my list to look for ways to block Amazon sidewalk by the way.

Personally I don't even have cable TV. I never watch live TV anymore. I get all my news from the web (I never liked watching TV for it) and shows I just download or stream.
> I never needed to take a test to know to stay away from people if I felt sick

What if you're asymptomatic?

Why it's so hard to spend 5 min taking a test before situations where you'll be with a bunch of people (airplane, large meeting, event, etc)?
Nothing holds a candle to https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

Applied learning is the best way to learn linear algebra.
Perhaps, but that’s speculation at best.
Microsoft has moved essentially the whole development team for Azure DevOps to GitHub. GitHub is what they consider the future.
How do you build this raw, generically-applicable problem solving skill? Everything I come across ends up being frameworks for probables specific to a discipline.
Elon seems to make a lot of irrational errors lately?
> Write on a post-it note affixed to a greeting card rather than on the greeting card itself, so the recipient can throw away the post-it and reuse your card

You are allowed to do this, but people will think it’s strange. If you don’t want to spend $7.99 on a greeting card (understandable) it’s better to make your own card and write a really thoughtful message. Draw something, if you can, even badly. Those are the cards that people keep.
Picky overcorrect comment: Try

dig +short

instead of

dig +noall +answer +additional

i.e.

dig +short mumbai.time @dns.toys

gives you the short and breve answer you probably expect :-)
Do you have the link to the report?
Plot twist: it's always the driver's fault. Autopilot is glorified cruise control (the technical term is 'Level 2' on the SAE scale). It literally doesn't matter when Autopilot bails out altogether (even if it manages to automatically avert a crash on other occasions), the driver must be fully in control at all times. Would you trust your cruise control to prevent a collision? Of course not, that would be crazy. It's not what it's built for. What a worthless discussion.
Make sure you buy braided cable, perhaps 10ft long and it will last you years.
Ideologies are driving forces.

There doesn’t have to be a reason why someone believes in it.
There's a "chat" floating icon in the lower right corner on the desktop web page, and along with that there's a floating checkmark above that. If you click on the checkmark, you can see the "This site uses cookies", "Continue to site", "Policies | Preferences", "Do not sell my personal information" window.
I endorse your much more thoughtful and well-argued post than my knee-jerk response down in the gray-colored section below.

John isn’t right about everything: he criticizes LSP in the cited talk, and I think the jury is in that we’re living in a golden age of rich language support (largely thanks to the huge success of VSCode). I think he was wrong on that.

But the guy takes his craft seriously, he demonstrably builds high-quality software that many, many people happily pay money for, and generally knows his stuff.

Even Rust gives up some developer affordances for performance, and while it’s quite fast used properly, there are still places where you want to go to a less-safe language because you’re counting every clock. Rust strikes a good balance, and some of my favorite software is written in it, but C++ isn’t obsolete.

I think Jai is looking like kind of what golang is advertised as: a modern C benefitting from decades of both experience and a new hardware landscape. I have no idea if it’s going to work out, but it bothers me when people dismiss ambitious projects from what sounds like a fairly uninformed perspective.

HN can’t make up its mind right now: is the hero the founder of the big YC-funded company that cuts some corners? Is it the lone contrarian self-funding ambitious software long after he didn’t need to work anymore?
> Where does my anecdotal information fit into your theory?

Brushed away with the certainty of not fitting into their worldview I am sure.
I don’t. If I’m not actively using something then it just gets evicted from cache.

I generally remember the difficult/weird parts that made initial learning slow, everything else I just re-learn as needed from the same sources that I used initially.
Firefox on Android. Page freezes at load and I cannot scroll.
when i do that, i list "freelancer" as employment, and i mention all the projects that i have worked on during that time.
Why are you trying to learn linear algebra?

This is highly important. Linear algebra is applicable to so many fields, but learning linear algebra for say... Graphics Programmers, is a completely different feel from learning linear algebra for an Electrical Engineer Signals-and-systems engineer.

Graphics programmers largely need to learn "how to use" matricies. Emphasis on associative properties. Emphasis on non-communitive operations.

In contrast, Electrical Engineers / Signals-and-systems want to learn linear-algebra as a stepping stone to differential calculus. In this case, you're going to be focusing more on eigen-values, spring-mass systems / resonant frequencies, applicability to calculus and other tidbits (how linear algebra relates to the Fourier Transform).

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The graphics programmer (probably) doesn't need to learn eigenvalues. So any textbook written as "linear algebra for graphics programmers" can safely skip over that.

The electrical engineer however needs all of this other stuff as "part" of the linear algebra class.

I'm sure other fields (statistics, error-correction codes/galois fields, abstract algebra, etc. etc.) have "their own ways" of teaching linear algebra that is most applicable to them.

Yes, "linear algebra" is broadly applicable. But instead of trying to "learn all of it", you should instead focus on the "bits of linear algebra that is most applicable to the problems you face". That shrinks down the field, increases the "pragmatism" of your studies.

Later, when you're more familiar with "some bits" of linear algebra, you can then take the next step of generalizing off of your "seed knowledge".

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I personally never was able to learn linear algebra from a linear algebra book.

Instead, I relearned linear algebra 4 or 5 times as the "basis" of other maths I've learned. I learned it for differential calculus. I relearned linear algebra for signals. I relearned linear algebra for Galois fields/CRC-codes/Reed Solomon. I relearned linear algebra for graphics.

Yes, it seems inefficient, but I think my "focus" isn't strong enough to just study it in the abstract. I needed to see the "applicable" practice to encourage myself to learn. Besides, each time you "relearn" linear algebra, its a lot faster than the last time.
how much time should one dedicate per day? Is this course compatible with working full-time?
For it I simply need to find them interesting. That causes me to spend time researching or studying them. And that means I have them at my finger-tips for conversation or application.

This may include downloading papers or buying textbooks or equipment to hack (when appropriate).
Absent bankruptcy, fiduciary duty to shareholders is prioritized over creditor's interests.

No, this is still wrong. Shareholders are not prioritized over creditors, at any time. Shareholders are the least important stakeholders in a corporation, because by virtue of their limited investment, they have the least at risk.
For reference / FWIW: https://nitter.net/captbaritone/status/1535471373191028737
Becomes muddy when you account for the 'children' who write some of the erotic fanfic....
I would have hated for my parents to not buy something so that they could leave me money. I mean not that they had that problem, they died pretty much broke, but still. They taught me how to make my own money.
> How do you then get the software update

Some of them allow updates via USB stick.
More ideas:

Run for office

Start a SuperPAC

Rent powerful tools

Install three-phase power to your homelab

Rent an office

Create a mysterious alter ego

Write a book. (Fiction, even.)

Hire a voice actor / composer / musician / painter / ... (related to several ideas on OP’s list)

File a patent

Build a musical instrument… radio transmitter… boat… car… plane… helicopter… rocket…
It's in the article: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF
Tesla is still strictly Level 2 driver assistance legally and in practice.

Meanwhile Mercedes has received approval for Level 3 with full legal responsibility in limited settings. Mercedes gives drivers at least ten seconds warning before giving back control in any situation.
I think he did, and the answer is SOC compliance. I learned something about this compliance from his comment, and it'll encourage me to write these tickets next time (my current org is going through this process right now).
Yeah, despite all the hype, MacOS is one of the least technically sophisticated operating systems in common use. Their main advantage over other systems is power management, and a large part of that is attributable at least as much to control over the hardware as to technical excellence.

The fanboyism and reality distortion field is very strong. I remember when they came out with timer coalescing and were hyping it as a major accomplishment and selling point. Of course, Windows supported timer coalescing for years before MacOS, but that didn’t stop Jobs from convincing a bunch of developers that this was a novel breakthrough.
Most companies won’t have structure to accommodate such generalists anyway so they will get pissed or bored and quit so you probably should look for “fake” ones then.
I’d ask a follow-up question of: what are the prerequisites for being able to successfully complete any of these courses/books? I’ve been thinking of doing something similar myself, and am 20 years removed from daily math exercises. Thanks in advance!
It appears to be so: misuse is included in the overall safety assessment.

But this is exactly the position of NHTSA in the report. They say that if Tesla can reasonably do something to mitigate misuse, then they should. That’s what this is about.
I have a TCL with Roku that I was able to turn into a dumb display for my AppleTV

Turned off networking and did factory reset

The biggest annoyance was the Roku “smart” remote needing new batteries every couple of weeks
I don't 'lack' ad blockers; I choose not to use them.
But you are allowed to do that!

Having been on the receiving end of a lot of CVs I can’t say that I expect any particular structure.

A CV is just like “technical specifications”. As long as it honesty tries to convey wether you are worth my time to evaluate for a particular role you can structure it anyway you like.
Sorry for the non-answer answer I'm about to give, but I don't really think you should have to keep these things in memory. At some point it becomes a waste of memory space (at least that's how I experience it).

There ARE some topics I want to remember, and those I try to put in writing. Both because it helps them stick in my mind for longer and because then I have a reference to go back to if I need a refresher. I use my own blog quite a bit to remember ways to do things that I may have figured out earlier and then forgotten.

But in terms of keeping things completely in memory: I have grown to think that, for a healthy mind, the things worth remembering are the things we remember. It's _good_ to remember things you're regularly using. If you're not regularly using them, you may as well forget the details and refresh your memory later if needed. Of course the major caveat being that this is within reasonable limits and not a symptom of an illness or actual serious memory loss.

It is a balance, and losing my memory in general is one of my worst fears. I guess it is a matter of deciding if these topics are beginning to evaporate sooner than you're comfortable with. Do they disappear after a day? A week? A year? If I start forgetting knowledge too quickly for my standards, that's when I'll get worried. It's just a matter of deciding what "too quickly" is for us.
I search on Google and find my own articles I wrote about those topics in the past.

Strange, but funny feeling.
Every scrum proponent always responds to any criticism with a no true Scotsman claim. I’ve never personally seen or heard second hand of a successful scrum implementation, and the SWE academic literature doesn’t support it either.

I’d argue that spending time on activities like scrum poker or sprint planning are actively harmful for most kinds of teams. The points games are inherently adversarial, only add value for scrum masters, and waste time that could be spent understanding requirements/business problems better. The incentives are inherently perverse and the whole exercise encourages and rewards dishonesty.
Because his background strongly suggests that he's far from scientifically objective when it comes to sentience.

On another note maybe he saw an opportunity for his 15 minutes of fame here. My personal experience with religious (Christian) young people is that they find it very hard to control their special narcissisms. Very hard to even recognize them as such as they masquerade behind false humbleness and ethics and several other layers.

What I find really odd though is that, given his background, Google actually assigned him to such a task. I'd thought that of all companies they would be much better in posting the right people for the right roles.
That's exactly my point. The comparison is not mine, but from the article.

> but my work at Sendwave led to saving well over 10x more money, because the scale of the product was bigger and the improvements I was making were more important.
Fun series on learning practical linear algebra from a robotics engineer: https://youtu.be/FKs1XhlrZDw

I don't remember how I found this guy but watching him feels more like learning from a friend who's extremely knowledgeable about linear algebra rather than sitting in a university course.
Quickly like, at 10x normal speed?
> Is it normal to beg during work where you’re from?

Yes - but they call it tipping 'round these parts. They even have prominently displayed tip jars and everything.
I don't follow your statement about "Greeks care about barbarians".

Greeks, if I guess correctly, had a similar barbarian problems, like the ancient Chinese rules. Superficially, the 2 share the same high-level setting, i.e., an advanced kingdom is surrounded by nomad barbarians, where the advanced kingdom has a settled society built on top of rural + makers + traders economy, with a strong top governmental body; the barbarians are living a much more primitive life, and often trade with the advanced kingdom for things they cannot produce, and often resolve to invasion and looting when the climate cycle degrades their normal life condition beyond the normal capacity of their eudrance.

I don't know about Greeks. Ancient Chinese devote significant intellectual and military thinking and resources on barbarians. Dealing with Barbarians often determine the live and death of a Chinese dynasty. For example Tang, Song, Ming were all ended by barbarians (in the general sense). And the great dynasties of Chinese history is always characterized by a military success and political subdue of barbarians. Han in the Wu Di era, Tang in the Tai Zong era. Ming in the Cheng Zu era.
> The next 5 years could be very interesting and sad if it turns out that COVID has lasting, long term damaging effects on your organs and vascular system, we are just beginning to see the tip of the iceberg.

The same can be said about the potentially damaging long term effects of the experimental immuntherapies being touted as vaccines. Unfortunately it is taboo in polite society to raise this obvious concern about these risks but, until the passage of time, the long-term effects are just as unknown and just as unknowable as those resulting from COVID. As someone who has received this experimental immunotherapy (as well as having Covid), I am equally concerned with both.
Talk about a massive slippery slope.
Get a nice Gaming monitor that doesn't do much other than display usually and have built in speakers usually.
Even further if your neighbor totally trusts you you can just go grab it and they will know that it will be back where it belongs, fully fueled/charged and maintained when needed.

This drive to atomize humanity and make all relationships fungible is insane, and the only benefit is it allows long distance fuedalism.
> I think I saw a used x86-64 server with 512GB of RAM for sale for $1700 recently.

Where? Sounds like a terrific bargain, my old supermicro only has 384GB.
Yes, to put it in the bank

While the drive towards lower interest rates has made that money come out of savings accounts and drive up all asset prices
There are main personality traits that are associated with being not nice:

1. Being a know-it-all

2. Unwilling to admit mistakes

3. Not collaborative

4. Not sharing knowledge

5. Unwilling to be coached

There are many more. These “not nice” traits are the same ones that will lead to stunting your growth as a software engineer.
https://www.newegg.com/Commercial-TVs/SubCategory/ID-3672

Try this. You’ll likely pay more but your TV won’t be subsidized by ads and such.
Chat with a homeless person. No social worker talk. Don't ask them anything about how they got there, how their life is, what they need, etc. etc. Just treat them like a normal person: weather, sports, local traffic, etc.
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares : https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/
Please read the article. It has a whole section called "In Defense Of Scrum". The author of the article was personally involved in a situation similar to yours and addressed many of the things you brought up.
I'm not sure I really "got distracted" by building those tools. Building the tools was kind of the point for me and the class was simply a good way to focus the tools on a concrete effort. I acknowledge that it ended up occasionally getting me in trouble when forward progress on class projects was stalled on seemingly unrelated tooling and I got an appropriate admonition about it at the end of the year from the professor, but on the other hand, doing the class this way was way more impactful long-term. A lot of that tooling is still in active use across the Julia ecosystem, while the actual code it was used for at the time never got touched again after the end of the semester.

That's pretty much my general philosophy when it comes to writing software though. Whenever possible, figure out what tooling would have made the task easy and then build that and solve the problem simultaneously. You're probably gonna have to throw away the latter code, but at least the next time it'll be easier, because you now have the tooling. Even better if you happen to be in a position like mine where you already build tools for others, because that way other people will end up benefiting too.

Anyway, does it still occasionally get me in trouble? Yes. I not infrequently end up in situations where the software is essentially done, but I have to write a compiler pass to make it actually work, because I decided to write the code in a way that I thought it should be written, rather than a way that would be performant out of the box. But hey, at least I'm aware of it (https://twitter.com/KenoFischer/status/1529814861693259777) ;).
This is an interesting point, and I hope it is actionable. Of course we need to understand the biological components and systems in detail.

Unfortunately biology varies wildly between individuals, while the radio is constructed to a specific design, from parts standardized to three significant figures or so. A wiring diagram for a radio is sufficient, but cells are influenced by a very dynamic environment. We won't diagram my gut biome to that level of detail, yet it influences My biology.
Maybe I'm being a bit cynical but given that there are data channels provided by some HDMI cables/endpoints - do we know that for example the Apple TV cannot support an Ethernet-over-HDMI connection or that if it could support it, it's configured by default not to route traffic to/from this port?

I think this feature was a commercial failure so hopefully it's universally unsupported.
Which is why punitive fines ought to scale with income and/or wealth. Finland is famous for this; millionaires have incurred speeding fines in the six figures: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
Is it just me, or is Golang's concurrency a very double edged sword? My exposure to goroutines and channels was mind-blowing, but I still really struggle reading through Go code and understanding what's going on in memory. The way that Go "abstracts away" ownership feels more like it's hiding important details rather than unnecessary minutia.

Here's a simple question that's stumped me for some time: if multiple go routines are popping values out of a channel, does the channel need a mutex? Why do the "fan-out, fan-in?" examples in the "Pipelines and Cancellation" post on the Go blog not require mutex locks? Link here: https://go.dev/blog/pipelines

Stuff like that, along with the ambiguity of intializing stuff by value vs using make, the memory semantics of some of the primitives (slices, channels, etc). None of it was like "of course". If something is a reference, I'd rather the language tell me it's a reference. Maybe I'm still too new to the language.
Computing’s Woodstock: videos of the 1976 Los Alamos conference
Maybe it’s hard to be reliable when Russia keeps attacking you.
Can someone explain why this has been downvoted? It seems like a genuine insight backed by a study.
when i get a card, i care more about the personal note than the card. so actually, i'd keep the post-it and reuse the card.

my grandma used to send postcards without a photo, where all space except the address field was used up with her message.
Not sure how much help it is, but NHS Digital is mainly for England, and perhaps Wales, a lot of it's work isn't for Scotland. NHS Scotland's equivalent is the [NES Digital Service](https://nds.nhs.scot/about/).

Good luck
I'm in the process of looking for a good 4k TV. I'm not worried about the smart features in the TV. I plan on using an outboard device to control the TV. In my case, a Chromecast. If I don't put the smart TV on my network, it can't phone home. Of course Google knows what I watch. But if I were more paranoid, I could put a DVD player and OTA antenna on the TV and still not network it.

Because many users will hook up their smart TV, the makers of those sets get subsidized, in the same way bloatware end up on Windows laptops and non-Pixel Androids. I'll take the w re the price.
The next role for Jose Andres: culinary advisor for Hannibal (2012)
I think you are putting a lot of emphasis on the word now and assuming I’ma lot younger than you.

Anyway, can they feed fight inflation and avoid a recession? Who knows but it seems if they have to choose they are choosing a recession. A string crash/recession definitely seems like a real possibility.