skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s true that Darcs or something else could have won if only Linus told them exactly what to do. Maybe he didn’t even know how until he tried himself, but it doesn’t cast these other SCMs in a good light to say they couldn’t build something performant without Linus telling them to; you’re giving him a little too much power & credit.

It’s also true that Fossil (or any of the DVCSs released after Git) might’ve won if only they had released before Git. Fossil was released after Git was, and after Git’s popularity had started growing. I have the impression that Fossil was built partly as a reaction to Git since the Fossil docs have always compared themselves to Git and complained about certain Git features. Fossil historically might not even exist without Git, but either way, market share may not be the primary reason, since one of these two actually predates the other. BitKeeper previously had the market share that Git took over, and BK didn’t win either, so market share may not be the explanation at all. Other reasons for nothing yet overtaking Git may be that nothing yet is better enough. I’d be surprised if something doesn’t replace Git eventually though.
Binance CEO, CZ literally tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1537013824666095617
Make the max job size $600 and the contracting company technically won’t need to send a 1099…
And, as stated, I would take a "CoL adjustment" by moving there.

That particular property falls pretty squarely in the "exception proves the rule" territory for me; it's a 135 y/o dwelling, so I expect you'll be paying more than the immediate price tag. Like too many listings, it doesn't come w/ a floorplan, and with what photos it gives I'm a bit suss on the 3bd/3ba (piecing together the photos, I think we've converted a second story apt.'s LR into a BR?). It's certainly seen a remodel (although … IDK about the taste of the remodel. But let's say taste is unimportant!) No driveway. The backyard is … well it needs work. You're still batting $2k/mo in Cleveland.

I'd almost hazard a guess that my CoL adjust would be >$500/mo, but I don't get to know these things, being an employee.

There are a few intangibles in my situation that make "move to Cleveland" a "it's not going to happen".

There's a point where one needs to step back and ask oneself, if that's what's affordable on SWE's salary, what's affordable on a baker's salary?
Incidentally this "Hiring 500 roles" PR appears to be an effort to get ahead of news related to an impending "hit piece" the CEO alludes to in his twitter feed today ->

https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1536978821345292288
You're not misinformed. Commercial thorium doesn't exist and prototypes have issues with proliferation risks and the lifecycle of the materials used to build the primary containment. It is promising and there are several groups working on these problems but it's a hard sell given that recent gen uranium reactors aren't gated by fuel costs and have established supply chains.
These Bitwig people are always doing something exciting. Seems like they took all the stuff that makes the built-in Bitwig instruments cool (per note/voice modulation, "non-destructive" modulation) and turned it into an open plugin format.

I wonder if this brings anything cool to the table for effects plugins? Does it allow for per-voice effects?
> Germany ... is (1) building coal plants

That claim may be a little out of date, especially as the new government plans to phase out coal by 2030. It's true that a new coal power plant was opened in 2020, but it was "expected to be the last"[0]. Admittedly, it's also true that the country is temporarily reactivating old coal power plants to reduce Russian gas imports.[1]

[0] https://ifrf.net/combustion-industry-news/new-coal-power-pla...

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-reactiv...
Senator Feinstein is perceived as low key corrupt and an entitled oligarch. Look at how she talks to kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIebWywFfNw&ab_channel=USATO... She's just not the person who has credibility to tell Californians not to fear nuclear power.
It’s very cool.

On the surface, it appears to be similar to Alibaba's HTAP system (alibabacloud.com/blog/what-is-t…). I would love to learn more about how they manage the fundamental tradeoffs between read latency/cost and (essentially unbounded) write amplification/cost. Any paper suggestions?
Very understandable. I worked as a post doc for 8 years, with a paltry salary, I must say I had excellent advisors, so the experience was professionally enjoyable and I had the opportunity to sharpen my skills, travel the world for work, and have fun in general.

But in spite of an excellent CV, with the caveat that I had no affiliations with top schools and was not part of any in-group--I did not know how important both would be for an academic career, I though my many well-cited publications and clear and long-term research plans would have been enough.

Over the years, I applied for at least 70 tenure-track positions for which I felt I had a good chance of making at least the shortlist of 20 viable candidates. I was called for just one preliminary phone interview.

I started applying for industrial positions in Machine Learning and, after receiving a few offers, took a job that paid 5 times my last postdoc salary (my last contract was 6 months, so it would have been 10 times). It has been a fulfilling, very well paid, and fun career so far.

I always recommend that not-too-promising postdocs consider a career in the private sector early on, especially in technology or related fields. They rarely listen, think or led to believe they are different. They aren't.
Relative to my salary as a board certified physician in private practice, I take about a 10x pay cut.

I guess since I sling code/data I take a pretty nice pay cut relative to that also.

Whoops!
I am generally in favor of more privacy, but it’s hard picture the real-world use of this for anything other than overlapping jobs (“J2”) and evading sanctions.

What else is it for?
Is Lisp the only language with REPL?
I think that's their "point", in that it's an urban home that's "affordable". I.e., if I only chose a city that wasn't part of one of the megalopolises, I wouldn't have problems.
> Because the duration is so dependent on the program, and the only end is when the advisor agrees that sufficient work has been done to merit a PhD, it can stretch on without much hope in sight.

At least one world famous research university has a fix for this problem of "... when the advisor agrees":

The official statement of the university is that the Ph.D. student must submit "an original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication".

So, if a student believes that they have done such work, then they are free to, and maybe should, submit it for publication. When the work is accepted for publication, the student can then so announce to the professor, department school, and university.
I use the the bookmarklet (https://pinboard.in/howto/#saving) and save one page at a time. It only takes a moment so I've never felt the need to automate it, but I'm sure one could.
Every time he pops in he gets asked about this, apparently...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204218#26205688 (2021)
This brings to mind a crazy story about Skyguide that I heard. Skyguide was implicated in a midair collision between two aircraft in 2002. A family member of one of the deceased later murdered a Skyguide employee in an act of vengeance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...
Do you have a Github repository?

(there is a hint in the Web page)

https://github.com/e-001
> I assumed hot loops could be implemented just as well using GOTOs, but maybe not?

Tail calls are GOTOs; that's the whole argument https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA030751
WebP is NOT a web standard, it's just a format a lot of browsers happen to support.
Except for boots on the ground [officially], NATO does everything else:
intelligence, weapons, training, supplies, etc. It is not a secret e.g., https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/15/infographic-what-we...

Imagine, somebody did it for Afghanistan in 2001 what do you think NATO response would be?
In the context of the argument that chaosbolt was making.
Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [video]
I was an industry person who wanted to transition to academia. I just decided against it obviously. I liked all the aspects you pointed out above. The one thing that is missed is that most places are publishing sweatshops where the pay and work conditions are horrible. The “boss” or the PI has unlimited control and can destroy your career.

The problems are also way out of the ordinary. I’d like to draw a parallel with medicine. Most researchers are doctors who interact and treat patients. In contrast - I think a lot of engineering post docs or phds may not be working on stuff the industry cares about.
I mean, as a electronics guy I'd say it kinda depends on how that living tissue detection is being done. You can trick a lot of sensors into outputing things that don't make much sense if you know which physical properties they are looking for.

The most sophistication would probably be something like a PPG (optical reflection changes due to blood flow in certain bands). If the fake is thin enough the PPG would likely just shine through it.
Skin resistance/humidity can be easily faked as well.
Annoyingly, along with this, the Ubuntu "Minimal" network installer is dead (no 22.04 release) — presumably to "encourage" people to move over to this.
Annual battery production for EVs is estimated to grow from 160 gigawatt-hours (GWh) today to 6 600 GWh in 2030 – the equivalent
of adding almost 20 gigafactories each year for the next ten years.

So we're building those batteries anyway, because EVs are cheaper and better than ICE. It's just a bonus that they'll help roll out renewables too.
We are not doomed to see the world burn. We know what to do: just build renewables. It is dishonest to claim that using carbon to build them is a problem. The more we build, the less carbon is used on them.

When you need falsehoods to make your case, you have no case.
In the US (at least for now) it's fairly easy for a Senior Engineer to get 250k TC, and if income is your goal and you want put the energy towards a FAANG, not that hard to get up to 400-500k. In 2019 the median postdoc salary in the US was ~50k [0].

The work/life balance part is a bit trickier to quantify. Anecdotally US postdocs work pretty hard, but my experience is that highly paid engineers at FAANG-style companies also work pretty hard. If you don't want work to be your life as a SWE $250k seems to be the easiest achievable comp while meeting those requirements.

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00587-y
Mine literally told me every day you shouldn't have kids unless you own a house.
You do know that lithium is just a few percent of the mass of a lithium-ion battery, right?

Also, I didn't realize that Li-ion batteries were the only conceivable energy storage technology.
Thanks. I was hoping for something online, like a blog post/website, which is an easy way to spread the word to other people so they know how to contextualize these things.
There is quite clearly not even remotely 100.000 premature deaths from Chernobyl.

The only cancer that clearly went up in immediate connection to Chernobyl was thyroid cancer, and that was in most cases very treatable. It's also unclear how much of the increase in incidence, was due to increased screening. Thyroid cancer seems to have affected the general population, but in a dose-dependent manner, where the increased risk became really low when looking outside the cleaning crew.

On top of that there is some evidence to suggest that the risk of leukemia and other blood cancers increased in the cleaning crew. (But still really low numbers). And as far as I know no signs of increased blood cancer rate was seen in the general population.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28929329/

It actually appears that the largest loss of human life from Chernobyl happened because of panic. Women chose abortion because of the perceived increased risk of malformation in offspring. As far as I am aware, the actual increased risk of malformations has not been detectable, and I presume it to be negligible.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8516187/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywyqzv/why-hundreds-of-thous...
I was amazed by how many "NO LOITERING" signs I saw. There might be some interesting statistics in the signs a nation buys...
You can have people in your life that you never intentionally make an appointment to eat food together alone with. You can eventually marry those people and have children with them, having never had a "date."
And the other months it's a not-so-strong dip in production (Jan 16%, Feb 31%, Mar 57%, Apr 94%, Jun 100%, Jul 100%, Aug 87%, Sep 60%, Okt 41%, Nov 22%, Dec 13%).
This means (for germany) we have to install more than 170% PV and store 3 months worth of energy for half a year (or install 800% and don't store anything). It's just a very rough estimation, but it's clear that one can't compare the cost of 1kWh PV to 1kWh nuclear (at least if one doesn't live in the desert).
> the US had air superiority, etc, etc.

Thunder runs were limited incursions designed to test Iraqi defenses. Beyond air superiority, which is huge, the American tanks also had active defenses and well-trained crew.
Kiss the Girls? Along came a spider? Both were pretty successful movies? (There was also Alex Cross, which was a flop)

But Patterson is formulaic. If it's not your formula, you won't notice. Other cultural tributaries are the book aisles in your local Walgreens/CVS, which are overflowing with Patterson. But, again, if you're not in that audience, you won't see it.

And if your attitude is "I blank out on these kinds of books", your friends will know, and they won't bother to inform you. (Or they have told you once or twice, and you blanked, and they stopped).

There is so much media content out there that unless you happen to be interested in a particular niche, you can miss pretty large events.
I don't believe anything I listed is genuinely sinful. I don't believe Abrahamic God exists.

I'm not really concerned what a certain popular novel on the subject thinks about sin, especially one as heavily edited and manipulated as the Bible. [1]

As long as I'm not harming others, I wouldn't say that anything I do is sinful.

I might even argue that sin doesn't exist. Transgressing against divine law is something you can't really do if you don't believe divine law is real.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon
“I think the PhD system is an abomination.” – Freeman Dyson
it also seems funnier than passively watching Property Brothers
I think the assertion is "If you have everything else in the business right, then Deploying quickly makes it cheaper to fix issues and ship revenue generating features to customers, which will lead to more profit"

I think it's hard to say that there's a causal relationship though -- a lot of companies that can afford to invest in automation are those with already successful products + money to invest. This may change as it because easier to automate provisioning and deploying to environments (something I'm working on at my new company, jetpack.io)
I would suspect you would not be considered an employee but a contractor. I am not sure how they much they're required to report about their vendors.
"The fundamentals" is doing a lot of work there. It's fundamentally unsafe to move at a high velocity in a meat-based body. Does this mean the risk profile of high speed transportation is invariant across technology?

The "fundamentals" you speak of boil down to the first principles analysis, based on physics, of the possible states a nuclear energy production system can get into. This is not invariant with regards to technology. It seems far too reductive to claim "putting radiocative materials together in the same location" should box out all civilian use of a energy production mechanism.
You could say it the other way around, but the complexity of the electronics in the anti-tank weapons have proven to be difficult to produce in large quantities because of the chip shortage, but also because of the high level of experience and knowledge required to continue to make them. Tanks are much less reliant on complex electronics and manufacturing capability in order to be effective on the battlefield.

The US Defense Dept. has said it will take at least ten years to rebuild the stock of anti-tank weapons that have been used in Ukraine in the last five months.
Can you run Linux on a Cortex-M, which is basically a microcontroller, instead of a Cortex-A that has a MMU? I don't think it's possible.
I never understood why the tank tracks weren't targeted.

They look easy to immobilize.
It gets a mention, just not a starring role:

> By 2050, almost 90% of electricity generation comes from renewable sources, with wind and solar PV together accounting for nearly 70%. Most of the remainder comes from nuclear.

So "no path to clean energy without solar" and "no path to clean energy without wind" are a bit more defensible, though in both cases, we'd just build more of the other one.

"no path to clean energy without hydro"? Maybe, again we'd just build more solar and wind.

So, if someone waves a wand and magically makes nuclear disappear (or just economically unattractive) then I think the our path is still fairly clear. No real need to take that path unless nuclear becomes much more relatively expensive, but it's definately an option, and possibly one we'll gladly take because it's cheaper.
I don't know, and you should include that in your personal risk model. "basically a money market fund" is certainly not intended to suggest a certain level of safety. It is a comment on the structure of the asset.
The result when you are 'irreplaceable' is that there is no other place to be in the org--you cannot move on to other roles as easily.
For the most part, programming constructs like these split the world into two camps:

- People who point out things can be done without them, who largely see them as useless due to lack of familiarity

- People who've used them, and see critical ways to restructure code to make it cleaner using said constructs

That's been the case for a lot of progress in programming. Python, and ES2015, have done a wonderful job of bringing many previously-academic (including functional) programming constructs to a broader community, together with models like reactive programming.

That's true of about half of the bits of progress in programming. Garbage collection was seen as garbage by C/C++ programmers ("What's the big deal with adding a free() call? Stupid lazy people."). Garbage collections wasn't useful because it omitted free() calls, but because it allowed the design of flows with many exit points (for example, different kinds of exception handling, exiting in the middle of a function, or giving up an object in a half-dozen places an hour later in code where tracking for free() requires building an ad-hoc reference counter or garbage collector).

The place where tail calls are a huge deal is when dealing with deep (or even infinitely deep) tree-like structures:

if condition:
return red(left_child)
else:
return blue(right_child)

I don't mind opt-in versus opt-out versus neither. All the reasons listed for not having them are dumb, though, and have good and easy work-arounds. The major one -- debugging -- it's basically always good enough to just have a list of functions called, without having the whole tree. A 10,000 element stack trace is no help at all. You can, for example, keep the first 20 elements of the stack trace (don't start PTCs unless the stack is of a certain depth), and then still keep a list of functions called:

ipython
webapp.main
webapp.handler
render.make_tree
[PTC: render.red*91001, render.blue*10201]
webapp.callback

I have literally never seen a case where having a list of 100k calls in a stack traces is at all useful for anything.
Oh, thanks! Your comment made me look again and now I've figured it out!

I had "Secure Keyboard Entry" turned on in Terminal.app. Apparently this prevents the authentication pop-up (or anything else, presumably) from taking focus away from Terminal.

Turning it off solves the focus issue!
> you probably work for someone who is.

This is actually a very fair point, so I'm not sure why you are downvoted (perhaps the last sentence comes across as inviting trolling). But I take my responsibility for not doing so to people under me seriously.
Hey! Thank you for the kind words. Really means a lot.

You raise a valid point. I suppose you could submit a resume associated with your pseudonymous identity. I have two resumes personally, one for my legal identity, and one for work that I do under my pseudonymous identity. It does present a challenge though. It's not easy to separate the two and either one alone may not provide a holistic and accurate view of you as a candidate.

Without speculating and relying too much on buzzwords, I wonder if you could use Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that you have certain credentials or experience, without necessarily having to share your legal/irl identity. I don't have all the answers myself but I do have many questions, hence why I built this! And thanks for the feedback about filtering, you're right. Will ship that asap :)

Could I ask if you were hired as a full time employee or as a contractor? Trying to figure out how organizations may handle the legalities/taxes for full time employees.
OBS doesn't really do editing, it's designed for live streaming/events (hence Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)) but also handles 'VOD' (video on-demand) recording. You can do cuts on the fly as you record by configuring different scenes and using hotkeys but there's no timeline feature or post-editing features.

Camtasia is basically a NLE (Non-linear (video) editor) which has a screen recorder/A/V external capture function bundled though and can be used for splicing audio/video, adding basic effects/transitions and titles etc.

I suggested OBS if using OpenShot (which is also a NLE) as it's good for capturing screen/external video (capture card/webcam etc.)/audio content which then can be post-edited using OpenShot.
While I partly agree on asserting they're suitable for a job, actually employing them is entirely different. If someone has access to proprietary information/IP/Assets/etc, I don't want a pseudonym and a bitcoin transaction receipt when any of those go missing or an employee used my infrastructure to commit crimes and the feds are now asking me questions and my only answer is 0xPersona that I met on anon.com whom I pay with crypto.
For me "smart home" is more about opening the window blinds in the morning, and turning on the bedroom lights to wake me up. Easily adding light switches that do what I want, and where I want it, without worrying which cables are installed (want to have two separately controlled lamps instead of one? Add a switch next to your bed? no problem).

Yes, all these things have been possible for decades, "smart home" just gives them a new branding and a different UX.

But once you have a couple of things it becomes handy to have devices communicate. My smart power plug tells me how much energy is being drawn. I could use that to dim the lights when I turn on the projector, but that requires the two devices to live in a common ecosystem of some kind. That's what standards are for.
Been a huge fanboy since Warthog, but as of 20.04 I've sought refuge elsewhere. Turns out, Ubuntu isn't nearly as user friendly as it was back then, in fact, it's one of the least user friendly distros these days! Everybody progressed and you deserve t check it out yourself!