skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a former SE. I was unhappy working in different "Engineering" roles for non-tech companies and got a job in the post sales services group of a large software company selling Analytics products. I was identified by management as having a blend of good customer facing + technical skills and was recruited into a more technical PreSales team. I was not sure about switching to PreSales, but I wasn't very happy with the heavy travel requirements of services so I switched.

After close to a decade of customer facing work I got tired of it and left. It's a very long story, so I'll sum it up in the major reasons why I ultimately decided to leave.

1) I grew dissatisfied with basically being in constant MVP mode. The goal of PreSales is to convince a potential customer you can do something, not to actually do it. So you never really build something that goes into production. You never have the opportunity to learn from all the mistakes you made when you see it run for a year or more. Your sense of long-term ownership and mastery is very low.

2) SEs with strong technical skills are in a weird spot. Since your career trajectory is mostly evaluated by non-technical people, most people can't recognize when you do something amazing. You're in a sales org and above your PreSales manager is usually Sales Mangers. There's limited rewards for being technical. The rewards only come from selling.

3). There's no real career path for SEs. Unless you want to do the same job for the rest of your life, you need to move out of PreSales. At every company I've worked and known about, the titles (Associate, Consultant, Senior, Principal) are largely superficial and mean nothing other than your leverage when you are hired. I've known Associate Consultants with 0 experience who were better at PreSales than Principal consultants with 15+ years of experience.

4) I got really tired of sales people. A few of them are amazing and see PreSales as a precious finite resource that you need to take care of. Most see everything and everyone as disposable as long as their needs are met. At my last SE job the sales team was a bunch of toxic a-holes who would blatantly lie to the customer and then just turn around and task PreSales and Engineering to figure out how to make it work. There was no sense of "team" at all.

As far as $$$, I think Engineering and Data Science (my field) jobs have reached the point where you are paid the same as PreSales or just a bit less. This was different in the past. The big money is in Sales, not in PreSales.

I will always value the broad exposure I got to all levels (from ICs to C-Suite) at our customers. All of it was a great experience in climbing out of the technical weeds and really understanding what the customer was trying to do and why they were trying to do it. Learning to enjoy building (by osmosis, nobody taught me) a good slide deck and presenting it is something I value highly.
If it wasn't for Russia having nukes I think your government may have already joined the war at this point. Poland has made Germany look really bad in how much more forthcoming its been in aiding Ukraine against Russian aggression.
On the verge of a layoff myself yikes
This is a contrived example that you've twisted yourself in knots to try and justify. There isn't a person on this planet that wouldn't sell an heirloom for $1 Billion unless the heirloom was actually worth ballpark $1 Billion.

The people that wouldn't sell it for a $1 Billion are the people that would give it a way for free, ie: those that have little value for money.
At one point we had 12 different channels that carried college sports and maybe half the games we wanted to watch weren't available.
why do you assume Russia wanted only the Eastern lands? Putin said he wanted all of Ukraine. The invasion started with attempt to take Kyiv. Why level Kharkiv if all you want is Donbas?
Those also help, certainly.
Who determines excessive? How do high risk ideas get executed when there are no billionaires?
Back to the old ways, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
VMware Joins the Bytecode Alliance
> many cities real estate prices are extremely high due to the land already being built out

This has the causality backwards. Places don't become expensive due to the land being built out. The land gets built out because it's expensive, and in the process reduces the price of housing.
We have records showing male male sex was common in ancient Greece.
As a sport in grade-school, especially for girls, it has blown up. It's just more fun to play than it is to watch.
Might as well just house employees there as well and take the rent directly out of their paychecks.

Frighteningly they have almost 1 million employees in the US, which is more than the population of a handful of states.
Large fans?
Or if they are spinning, wouldn't air tend to want to stay in place while the ground moves, causing a breeze?

Ir maybe the Newtype are people that evolved to thrive in oxygen rich environment. :)
Database of University Spinout Ventures
> we do not have a democracy

Republics are a type of democracy.
Neither AES-NI nor ChaPoly can be influenced by this vulnerability, because they do not use the secret key with different kinds of instructions, that might consume different powers. The secret key is used only in XOR operations. Other secret state of the ciphers is also used only in simple operations, e.g. XOR, additions and rotations, where there is very little variation of the power consumption depending on the operand values.

The cryptographic algorithms that have chances to be influenced are those based on public keys, which compute arithmetic operations with large numbers that can cause changes in the clock frequency.
Wealth taxes are an administrative nightmare. It’s very difficult to reasonably price private assets in an illiquid market. Figuring out how much to charge and collecting it can cost more than you bring in. Patrick Boyle touches on this in…

“Tax The Rich?” — https://youtu.be/pgW4LWeUyVY

My personal opinion is taxing the rich is good. Wealth tax specifically is problematic.
30% unplanned maintenance, work and other adhoc stuff, and rest is work according to plan, which is a mix of maintenance new features and bugs according to priority.
That explains why player 1 should not offer only $1, but it doesn't explain why player 2 would not take $1 if offered. If there is no chance of renegotiation, and you already got an offer of free money, it is irrational to not take the money. The only reason player 2 would do so is if: (1) this is a regularly occuring event and they want to help future player 2s, or (2) they like the emotional response of spiting player 1.
It's not just SQLite in macOS.

http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2017/6/5/Objective-C_...

In general, I don't see how one could safely rely on a third-party library spawning or not spawning threads unless they explicitly make guarantees regarding not using them as part of their public contract.
Sometimes, but usually have a separate search field.
Can this attack be used to extract Widevine decryption key?
Tried to post, but I don't have Twitter and registration failed with "Something went wrong, please try again later".
https://archive.ph/T2RvR
Read 1.1 of the pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.00613.pdf

It's too long to quote. I'm too lazy to summarise.
Oh yes Afghanistan where the fears of nuclear retaliation ran especially high.

But whatever. If Ukraine folds, 24-feb-2022 will be pinned in history books as the start of WW3 and in a few years all your fears will come to fruition. A coward dies a thousand deaths.
Amazon is one of the most trusted brands in America. It is almost as trusted as USPS (the top trusted brand) and is, in general, considered by most Americans to be a reliable, safe, and high-performance source of goods.
Japan makes 'online insults' punishable by one year in prison
Apple survived out of pure luck that one time. It's executed really well since then, though.
This paper relies on Turbo P-states, where they measure the oscillation when that is active; it is not measuring general SpeedStep (OS software controlled) as some seem to have taken away from it. Turbo state is the HWP (hardware P-state controlled) layer above SpeedStep; turning off Turbo in the BIOS still fully allows OS controlled SpeedStep P-states to function, it just disables the hardware level bursting P-states above that max listed CPU level for short periods of time. As others have noted, Turbo state can really kill a laptop battery and/or drive up the thermals pretty quick, a lot of folks disable it anyways if they've tinkered around before.

The abstract writes it as "When frequency boost is disabled, the frequency stays fixed at the base frequency during workload execution, preventing leakage via Hertzbleed. This is not a recommended mitigation strategy as it will very significantly impact performance." This is a confusing grammatical way to state it, as SpeedStep will still work at the OS layer, you'll scale min to max "as usual" and just lose temporary hardware boost max+ capability when under stress (full load at P0 state) - not really "fixed" as it were in layperson's terms. That would be more akin to saying SpeedStep had to be disabled, IMHO.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/admin-guide/pm/intel_p...
Ask HN: Resources to learn libraries and array methods for leetcode?
Hi all,

I am a junior dev switching jobs soon, and while I tend to do well on leetcode questions, I sometimes hit a question where I need to use a priority queue or an array method that sorts a certain way, and I have to google it to find it.

How best can I learn some of the names of array methods (like partial_sort) or math functions (like sqrt() )? Do I just need to keep doing leetcode until I am exposed to all of them or are there places that list commonly used methods/libraries?

I do most of my leetcode in C++, but I am sure people looking at this thread would also love to see Java and Python resources as well.
> It's a done product — it's been one for quite a while. Could they just stop meddling with the UX already and maybe rewrite their PDF parser in a memory-safe language instead?

Can't wait for this. And the same for the e-mail app. Even just a Swift rewrite of the 'hairy' parser code would be a reasonable starting point.
Depends on the GBA. The original model, sure. With the backlit SP it's less clear. The DS is more comfortable but less pocketable, can't play GBC or GB games and doesn't have a link cable port so no multiplayer and no trading Pokemon.

IMO a backlit SP is the best stock GBA you can get.
> Hmm. I guess one man's dystopia is another man's utopia.

That does seem true for most sci-fi stories!

I would think the dystopian aspect is lack of entry for smaller businesses to reach those potential customers
Bundeskartellamt reviews Apple’s tracking rules for third-party apps
> Russia wins in Ukraine

NATO population is 10 times that of Russia. The difference in economy/technology/production even more drastic. What winning are you talking about?
Which of the two, Russia or the US, would you rather live in and associate yourself with?
Not sure I understand. The laws work just like I described. Nothing to tax, which is the way it should be.
As somebody living under another strongman not far from Russia, I second that. Anybody with half a brain here wants to emigrate (and mostly not for economic reasons, but for political/social ones, and to get a chance to make something of yourself), but it's been close to impossible for at least 20 years unless you have millions in the bank (which an honest person is unlikely to have), or manage to win a green card lottery (which several of my acquaintances have done, but it's pure luck).

Pretty weird to read all these articles about shortages of IT professionals, and compare that to the immigration barriers your governments have put. Although I guess your typical HN visitor probably wouldn't be very interested in influx of cheap labor that will bring down his salary to sane levels.
Never. I use separate search and address fields for exactly this reason - to not reveal URLs to the search provider, and to not reveal searches to the DNS.
> Serious question: What specifically constitutes homelessness?

Serious answer: this always depends on the context.

>If I sell my house, decide to hotel/airbnb/etc for a month or two, then move into a new house, would I be considered homeless for those two months

Define home? Is a home a house? Is shelter a home?

In some cases people think of homelessness as a lack of adequate shelter, but obviously how you define homelessness matters to how it is constituted.
Doesn’t even matter the cost, if there isn’t enough to go around people will starve whether they can afford it or not.
But they do run arbitrary javascript code in my browser.
If race and _____ are correlated, won't any predictor of _______ also be a predictor of race? That logic could be used to even ban using income as a predictor.
In which way is Facebook Container "stricter"? Are you aware of any potential third-party tracking vectors that Firefox does not currently mitigate, but Facebook Container does? The only possible difference I can see is that Facebook Container keeps sites "shared" via Facebook inside of the Facebook Container, so if you navigate from e.g. Facebook -> CNN, facebook can only see the history of CNN pages you've visited inside of the Facebook container. Otherwise, clicking on a share link from Facebook (with, e.g., a unique query parameter) would allow Facebook to correlate their CNN.com facebook cookie with their Facebook.com cookie, getting (retroactive) access to all of your CNN history. So maybe that's one reason to continue to use Facebook Container
Yep. MLS = Multiple Listing Service.

I'll bet that holds true for the vast majority of U.S. citizens who've even heard of anything called "MLS."
Isn't it much the same as VietNam, don't help the NVA or we'll help them split and take over NV (though it worked out the other way around)?
There's an amazing essay on this: https://archive.ph/D9YWr

It feels bad to us to have these ridiculous politicians who spend 95% of their time on theatrical in fighting as the US has for the last ~15 years but in terms of first order effects, it doesn't really matter. Like the risk of something like a kinetic civil war is still roughly zero in the US.

But the problem is, no one actually believes that there is any need to do things like have a cohesive foreign policy or actually administer the government, people view the job of the politicians as to just repetitively engage in the kabuki theatre of dunking on the other team over over and again.

Which was fine when the world was basically peaceful and we could just lord over everyone with our massive military and totally dominant currency which were built up in the previous era. The problem is that this system is going to fail spectacularly when there are actual complicated geo political issues to deal with and I think we are in the early stages of witnessing right now.

Someone else made the observation that we are effectively trying to deal with this problem but cancelling Putin over twitter, because canceling people on twitter is one of the primary modes of governance in the US right now. That may sound hyperbolic but I think it's actually pretty accurate, a lot of the sanctions on Russia were companies self sanctioning after getting attacked on twitter.

It turns out saying mean things on twitter is not particularly effective against tanks and artillery.

Anyway, interesting times.
C++Now 2022 conference recordings made available
Shit that bugged them for a long time can multiply overall productivity going forward, and add far more value than slowly banging out the next user facing feature in a low productivity environment.
What a coincidence. I just got my first appearance of alopecia areata (only one spot, has been there for 10 weeks now --- hoping more dont pop up). It's quite annoying. Unfortunately, living in the EU I'll have to wait for you guys to figure it out first.

PS: Anyone in the know who wants to give me the straight answer to whether or not I should be expecting more holes to pop up?
I would recommend giving it another read with a charitable mindset. I didn't see any moralizing or judgment of the poor. They had a critique of current methods for addressing poverty, but I'm assuming you also agree that the status quo is not working well.

>In my view, the comment I was responding to did precisely that — came at this from a perspective of avoiding aid

They acknowledged that providing aid to adults is indeed good, but critiqued it as insufficient.

It is indeed noble to help the homeless who are mentally or physically disabled, or addicted to drugs or alcohol, or unemployable for lack of job skills or education, or abandoned by spouses or family, or simply too old and alone

They further advocated for providing aid that is missing, and focusing it on younger populations to empower them to avoid critical pitfalls and poverty traps.

Instead, the first step has to be a truly intensive effort to educate and convince children, beginning at about ages 6 to 7

They want to help children understand the following list and enable them make better choices on the following:

1) Importance of health and avoiding addiction

2) Value of education and marketable skills

3) The dangers of financial debt

4) Self sufficiency as a goal

5) Avoiding crime

Do you think that this education and helping children make successful choices is unnecessary or somehow detrimental?
So as far as I can tell:

- Streamed over AppleTV so presumably very high quality

- No need for an AppleTV subscription

- No blackouts for local since local no longer exists

- Simulcast with linear Fox/ESPN/UDN without blackouts so no need for cable/YTTV

- Free with an MLS season ticket

This seems like the best thing ever. This seems better than the old MLSLive back in the early days of (unpirated) soccer streaming when NBC Sports Gold was free.

If they let you stream old games and don't remove them after a week or two that would be perfection.

If AppleTV brings quality to it, that could wind up being a major selling point, right now just the quality of the stream is often pretty poor and looks very second-class with MLS (and don't get me started on the twitter simulcasts with the UDN games).
I can confirm I saw this happen today
I feel for you, I hope you guys settle on something that works with as little sides as possible. It's a spectrum with a lot of means to address a moving target, so some trial and error unfortunately comes with it. Luckily I was able to work with my doc to find things that work for the things that eustress cannot solve. Just curious, what do you take?
But "free will" and "deterministic" just don't seem at odds. It's not just that I "feel" I have free will. It's that I make choices freely, those electrochemical processes are _all there is_. Whenever those electrochemical processes reach a decision, that decision is purely a product of my free will, because those processes are me and I am those processes.
I think Pharo fits the bill:

1) The "Hello World" is just to type "Transcript show: 'Hello World'" in the playground, and then see it printed to the transcript window;

2) It's a Smalltalk family language, with minimalistic syntax, and a environment that makes easy to learn it by exploring, initially developed as a means to teach children;

3) It adopts a image-based development approach, so everything you need in terms of tooling is contained inside the system image, and available out-of-the-box. There's no need to set up a complex set of interlocking dependencies to get proper environment and tooling.

There's a MOOC at https://mooc.pharo.org/ and free books at https://books.pharo.org/

Squeak, the Smalltalk dialect from where Pharo was forked also would be a good alternative.
The key being that it doesn't give any hair regrowth in the vast majority of people, so you have to get people taking it before they see much balding, which is an interesting challenge - why worry about something you can barely see or notice until it's already a problem?

There are ad campaigns from male order providers such as Hims and Keeps around this, I wonder how effective they are.

I take it, and it stopped the balding progression as far as I can tell, but I had to get an FUE hair transplant to get some lost hair back.
AGAIN is like “.” in Vim.
an action that has a slight temporary effect but performed consistently over time will have some sort of longer term effect.
https://www.advrider.com for adventure motorcycling

(Interestingly, launched by the founder of SmugMug, Chris MacAskill. He has a great TEDx talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_macaskill_your_difference_ca...)
"My Little Sony"???
Same. Not much, if any, regrowth
Indeed, the plain HTML plus JavaScript have been the best option for a kid to get a taste of programming ever since they became available.

I find Python to be more useful in general (should be taught in high school to everyone, in my opinion), but it is just less fun for a kid.
What about the classic story of the AirBnB founders pivoting from selling cereal?

It seems like the metric for whether you decide to pivot or shut down depends on how many rounds you've done and how many employees you have.

Early on, couple of founders & handful of employees: maybe do whatever pivots you can to survive.

If you're a big boat and pivoting will require firing 80% your staff and starting an entirely different product, maybe consider just shutting down.

(If you've got solid revenue but are just unprofitable, none of this probably applies, you should try whatever you can to save the revenue stream)
https://www.skyscrapercity.com - love to see what's being built in the cities around
How do high risk ideas get executed when there are no billionaires

The same way most of them do now -- through venture capital firms. Or maybe if they had more tax revenue, the US government could sponsor more speculative research and companies.
> Newborns do feel pain.

Presumably it doesn't switch on from nothing at birth, and pre-borns feel pain too. I'm pro-choice on abortion, but perhaps we should at least anaesthetise the fetus before late term abortions. Is that done? Or is their pain denied? Or is compassion toward that pain too difficult in the circumstances?
Thanks. Will do. One of my team mates already found the VS Code plugin. :)
Exactly, the tables have turned and suddenly those large Walmart and Target stores are basically customer-manned warehouses that they can also ship from. Best Buy is in on it, too - order from them and half the time the product will ship from some Best Buy store somewhere instead of from a warehouse.
So, someone predicting a sudden downturn in a bull market?
This is simply wrong as you dont take history and dont take future into account.

History: brzezinski sums it up well. Russia has some weird imperialist interest in Ukraine. They have ZERO historical interests in the Nordics.

Future: Finishing this war will take how long? Active conflict 1 year give or take + licking wounds 3 year + restoring economy and finding your way in the new world order 5 years + getting ready for your theoretical war against the Nordics 10 years (this is the time Russia took to get ready for this one). In total: 19 years. How old is Putin again?
My fault. They had to justify their stock price with a higher headcount somehow.
> A friend on ADHD meds told me that it feels like trading unbridled creativity for stability

As someone who has been diagnosed as an adult and been on meds for a few years I could not agree more.

I recommend trying treatment though, I can't see any downsides if it is an option for you. Highly likely there will be clear physiological side effects, but nothing to be scared about.