skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're miserable in your job now then switching seems like there's lots of upside and only a little downside (it could potentially be worse than current).

The main thing I'd consider in this is the work/life balance. Will it allow the same stellar level of that? People vary in their priorities. For some it's interesting/fun problems to solve, for some it's impact, but for me it's work/life balance, presuming of course that the work side isn't a hateful stressfest. No amount of remote work or flex schedule will make up for absolutely hellish work environment, and I had something like that once. (I ended up taking a 30% pay cut that I could just barely afford and got the heck out)

So I'm sorry that I can't speak to the kernel work itself, but instead the framework for making the decision. If the work/life balance will remain constant then you're only risking the possibility that the work won't be any better, and hopefully no worse. If the work/life balance for the new job is also uncertain then (for me) that would be a bigger risk consideration.

Finally, you should consider the worst case scenario: The work is worse, the work/life balance is also worse. How easily can you shift to something better? If you have the chops to work on the Windows kernel then I'd wager that if you hit the worst case scenario you could get out of it without too much trouble, but you're the only one who knows whether or not that's true.

Best of luck to you, sláinte, and may the wind be always at your back.
Purely acquisitions/mergers, Booking.com has to be a best tech one in the modern era, if not ever. After Instagram. YouTube and Doubleclick are the others that fit in a top 5.

By 2010, was Booking.com seen as the essential core of Priceline? Were the people leading the overall company and/or Booking decisions, Priceline people or Booking.com people?
Do you care to contextualize this? Did you work for Microsoft and or on Windows? For how long?
Yes. Ownership of questions like "Are you building the right thing?" is explicitly delegated to product managers/owners/whatever the fuck they're called at your company. Software engineers have almost no say over that. If you speak up, nothing will happen.

The app being 270 MB and requiring updates every week is the result of following "best practices." If you question those practices or suggest alternatives, you will be told bullshit about "operational maturity matrices" and other bullshit that actual users don't care about because it doesn't make the product any better.

Don't bother. If you want to make good software, you either have to do it as a side project of your own, contribute to a high quality open source project, or start your own company.
I'm really torn about this because I don't think dealing with domains and web publishing is a good litmus test for who has something worthwhile to say. That said, I can't ignore the signal when it comes to tech-focused writing. For broader subjects though, I don't think tech-knowhow is better gatekeeper than traditional book or magazine publishing provided.

Ultimately I think lowering the barrier for publishing is a good thing, but that comes with an inherent cost on quality and the incentives just aren't there for businesses / brands to solve this. The backstop for me is personal reputation. Individuals can maintain integrity and principles, businesses cannot (except as a function of stable individual leadership). Therefore, I believe platforms which orient towards scalability and anonymous algorithms will be a race to the bottom (eg. Medium, TikTok), and platforms which orient around the individual (eg. Substack) will at least have a chance at representing quality (monetization, scalability, VC-pressure concerns notwithstanding).
Very surprised that the author was paid per word. Is that still a thing in publishing?
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It's kinda like listening to music on vinyl vs. digital.

High quality digital is clearly superior sonically, but vinyl has a dullness around the edges that is so aesthetically pleasing.

I agree that the Hubble images are just pleasant to look at, warm and wonderful.
cheap shot?

I was absolutely agreeing with the sentiment. I clearly asked if the feeling was there before as well or if it was just from the new images.

Thanks for your charity though
United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 [pdf]
My mother tries her best to pay her reports fairly and it’s been a constant source of conflict between her and her manager. The amount in dispute? Always <$100 a month — that’s the total across ~30 employees. It’s insane how petty some people can be.
Rivian to address layoffs at Friday meeting, Tesla to cut 229 jobs
Unfortunately, I think this is somewhat unavoidable, there's only so much time people can spend consuming entertainment, and so the market for it is somewhat fixed. Meanwhile, there are many people willing to produce it.

I don't know if it's possible for writing/entertainment/etc., to be sustainable for a large portion of the population without major economic reform.
> otherwise they'd be looking at the same spot all the time

It's in an orbit around L2, so it's not statically positioned in space. L2 also moves with the earth around the Sun, so it's not statically limited to any one region of the sky.
The Fall of History as a Major and as Part of the Humanities
Well, that's an ignorant reduction of functional programming but suit yourself.
Haha, speaking of Linus’s carefree attitude towards leaving dangerous things unattended because they are not imminently threatening”, this is an opportune moment to point out that AMD has a series of unpatched vulnerabilities (Take-A-Way and PREFETCH, both by Moritz Lipp of Spectre/Meltdown fame) that leak kernel page table mappings as well, unless you enable KPTI, which AMD continues to push as off-by-default due to performance impact.

So on an AMD system you indeed know exactly where to look to get into kernel memory. The processor will just tell you where to look.
Ask HN: What will the Hubble Space Telescope be used for now?
The James Webb Space Telescope is now operational and sending back stunning images that significantly exceed Hubble's capabilities and can be collected in much less time - minutes and hours rather than days and weeks, according to NASA's understandably giddy astronomers.

But I presume the telescope continues to be useful, if not necessary to the same degree. How is it likely to be used in future?
Man I envy you, that sort of thing is the dream. If you don't try, it will always be a what if. The services side of things will always be there if you change your mind.
Nice!

I've done some projects myself with MPU6050 and some with its 9-axis "bigger brother" the MPU9250 (same as 6050, but with added 3-axis magnetometer/compass). I've also used the LSM9DS1 — another 9-axis IMU, just a different chip.

— Yeah, definitely amazing tech for the price. Cheap as chips! /me gets coat.

Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter/drone, apparently includes a bunch of off-the-shelf kit like this — IIRC I think a bunch of the parts are made by SparkFun. I don't recall any specifics though.
Reading the comments, one argument I keep seeing in different form is essentially “corporations/the west are hollowing out/perverting/distorting/using only some parts of buddhist teachings, and this is bad”.

Why? Why is modifying an idea, even by twisting it to be the very opposite of it’s “original meaning” ( I don’t believe that exists, everything is a modified version of something else) an intrinsically bad thing?

If it’s not, what’s the problem with corporations twisting buddhism to suit their needs?
What's your favorite big-time saver tool?
I don’t know this is allowed by Google unless it’s not human reviewed at all.
>You probably don't realize this, but (in the USA) it's very illegal to actively prevent your employees from unionizing.

You need to do some thinking about what the phrase "ROI of your continued employment" actually means in practice.

Fines and fees are basically the same thing when they're being levied against huge sociopaths entities like BigCo. Naive "but that's illegal" appeals to emotion do not matter to these sorts of entities because responsibility is so diffuse and compartmentalized that they can't do anything but ruthlessly pursue the sum total of everyone's KPIs.

>Having all employees officially have bad performance warnings is one great tool in the toolbox...

And how is this any different than if you didn't have the metrics in the first place? If everyone has bad performance nobody does. My point isn't that Amazon isn't doing shady shit. Of course they are. All big organizations are. My point is that metric tracking is at worst a net neutral with potential to be positive. My secondary point is that both the person I initially replied to and yourself have failed to think critically about the situation. A metric that says everyone is under-performing isn't a pretext to dodge accusations of an illegal or otherwise not good pattern of firing anymore than not having the metric at all is.
Well. Apparently they also made Heardle unavailable in my region (Sweden).
IIRC, one shot continuations can be made pretty efficient, effectively folding back into a single stack. If there's a simple way to safely express this in wasm that might be the right balance. If you want multishot continuations you'd need to explicitly clone the one-shot continuation.
What do you think will arise to address this? Whats the next cycle look like?
How about shut down the whole useless operation?
The Times itself has devoted considerable ink over considerable years to the institution:

"Students to Erect Own Buildings; Black Mountain College Plans 'Living Example of Democracy in Action'" (1 Sept 1940)
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/09/01/archives/students-to-erec...

"Art: Legendary Influence Of Black Mountain College" (4 Dec 1987)
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/04/arts/art-legendary-influe...

"The College Died, but the Students Really Lived" (14 Mar 1992)
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/14/arts/the-college-died-but...

"In the Spirit of Black Mountain College, an Avant-Garde Incubator" (16 Mar 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/in-the-s...

"The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College" (17 Dec 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/arts/design/the-short-lif...

Little at HN though. One submission with any comments whatsoever:

"The Weirdness and Joy of Black Mountain College" (2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182291
Just a thought, you might like working at https://oxide.computer/. I'd at least interview there before you sign on at MSFT.
My great uncle was part of this; or so he claimed. He told me stories about training in California with the OSS for underwater demolition.
Watching videos of this event reminds me of a comedian's bit where he talks about watching Rocky when he was young versus today. When he was young, he would cheer Rocky on while eating those raw eggs. When he watched it when he was older he thought about how hard it would be to get those egg stains off his sweatshirt.

I guess that's all to say that I am of the age where I see a bunch of young men shutting down a street, cheering loudly and flying down a hill with no helmet makes me cringe and feel bad for the neighbors.
This is your characterization:

> each "run" or playthrough you change the game state somehow (varies by game) so that the next run is easier / you have more in-game options for progression.

You didn't say they could have that, you said they did. You can change your comment in a way that it would be correct, yes.

I could describe dogs as "brown animals", then you'd say that's not usually true. I could reply that some modern dogs are brown now so I'm not always wrong, but describing dogs as "brown animals" is definitely an incorrect definition.
I've never played Heardle before, also got it on the first clip. Interested in playing again... have to wait, though.
> Demand for rapid development of software has radically changed how we develop, deploy, and maintain software over the past decade or so.

Same as it ever was. We do the best we can with what we have.

> Agile and rapid iteration allow fast-to-market delivery.

This is how I know you're making a marketing post.

> The equation is simple: moving fast and cutting corners leads to increased risk.
> Stop it. Be an engineer, not MacGyver.

An engineer makes tradeoffs. Risk is one factor among many, which developers have to consider.

> Dear software developers: please please please stop making disposable software.

All software is disposable. So, no.
I know I’m in the minority but I really love my work 2019 MBP’s butterfly keyboard. I’m a very light typist, maybe that’s why, I dunno. I’ll miss it when it’s gone. I have a personal M1 MBP, and while I like it more in almost every other way, the keyboard is just ok by comparison.
I'm not sure how I feel about this.

If you look at my code in "multi-paradigm" languages like typescript, there's not a heck of a lot of loops, mutations or side effects. I like expressions, and immutability, and higher order functions. They make things shorter and means there's less state for me to keep track of - or screw up.

But at the same time, I like objects. Almost all of mine are immutable. I went through a phase of using plain old data + a collection of functions that transform them, but found a good object where all of that was self contained simplified things a lot.

I also have to say that sometimes FP programmers don't seem to understand OOP a lot. I'm of the opinion that working on an old school opinion that a legacy Java codebase doesn't really make you an expert on OO.

So while I'm glad we're thinking about purity, and avoiding side effects, I'm kind of sad that there's an object backlash. They're fantastic contstructs.
Thanks to the author for sharing this experience. Interesting!
>Maybe consider, oh I don't know, not deploying a spam cannon in the first place?

I'm not at all related to the people you are talking to, but I am a dev who has accidentally built spam cannons before. It is surprisingly easy to spam people - you need to deliberately build in checks - and put them in the right places to prevent spam cannons.
I think you've linked to the home page. Not to the article your title reflects.
Bad stuff:

1. There will be a lot of infrastructure complexity in the kernel, just prepare yourself for that. Even worse bugs! You'll be fixing a lot of bugs, or looking at a lot of bugs, and most of these bugs are from other teams who are interacting with your component! Just order a copy of Windows Internals and get yourself familiar with how thing work.

2. Old ass engineering systems. Just as the interviewers said you will spend a lot of your time waiting for Windows builds.

Good stuff:

1. Work life balance is amazing actually. Most of the time there's very little pressure for you to get work done, as long as you're doing something no one really bothers you.

2. Since you said you hate designing systems, good news, everything has been designed for you! Your, job will mostly be implementing new features for a component.

3. Windbg is actually great and I will die on this hill. You might have to print some debug logs but you won't be looking at metrics because there's whole teams dedicated to doing that stuff. There's also tools which quickly spin up VMs for you to do some live kernel debugging.

Meh stuff:

1. The pay, could be better. That might change soon though.
Sitting on the Microsoft campus at the moment... not a kernel developer. <looks around> yeah, this is not hell. Not even a bit.

Microsoft is great. It's an amazing place to make impacts in many different areas of technology. Work teams used to be more siloed, but that's changed a lot in the last 6-7 years. We regularly work across teams at GitHub and Microsoft to get things done with great cooperation.

As for Teams vs. Slack vs. Discord, it's a personal taste thing. I'd rather have Teams over Slack + Zoom 1000x.

Take the Windows kernel job! Worst case, it's not a fit and you move on, like any other job. Best case, you stick around for a long time and have a great career working on tech that 1B+ people use.

When Robert Downey Jr. was trying to talk Gwyneth Paltrow into joining "Iron Man", he said to her something like, "do you want to work on art house films the rest of your life or do you want to be in something that people actually see?"

Windows is massive... it's the largest code base that I'm aware of. It has a ton of process and procedures and test cycles because... it's Windows. Of course you can't just freelance there. But you can "be in something that people actually see", and most SV startups will never even get 1,000 users, much less 1,000,000,000+, and more if you count the users on Azure services using Windows indirectly.
McMindfulness, Inc.
Twitter Sends Letter Saying Effort to Terminate Deal ‘Invalid and Wrongful’
Idk about other users, but when I accidentally see an ads and its product seems interesting, I just google it in another tab. If that makes me a pirate, yo-ho-ho.
An all around amazing person!
Reminds me of this post: https://biggestfish.substack.com/p/data-as-placebo
Those are good points -- my original comment was a little simplistic.

I don't have the info at hand -- do you know what was the resolution of HST optical/NIR imagers versus JWST new imagers?
The Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (JMTE)
>You only get one chance to make a first impression.

Well, this person had 6 first impressions.
> ideally, a cellular modem

Does this make sense, these days? My phone's connection is a click away, in my Mac's WiFi menu. What does an integrated modem solve?
Whenever someone says "X tends to be bad", people will show up to say "not all X is bad, only bad X is bad" which is really beside the point.
> In my mind the second hypothesis is the most important. One rough way to test this hypothesis would be to look at whether the decline in history majors across the United States is also seen at elite institutions. If 1) degrees are primarily a social signal, 2) the value of that signal is declining as a larger percentage of the population goes to college, and 3) employers have thus shifted to selecting on majors to separate wheat from chaff, it follows that students attending selective Ivy League institutions will feel less pressure to choose majors that signal their intelligence and discipline. University attendance may no longer be a mark of exclusivity; Harvard attendance certainly still is.

> I turned to the U.S. News and World Report for data on this point. Behold: approximately one in ten Harvard undergraduates major in history. Between 6% and 7% of the undergraduates at Yale and Princeton do the same—approximately the same percentage as the national rates in the 1970s.
Letter:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...

Archived version (no paywall):
https://archive.ph/N4DVr
Markdown. Not much to say about it, I just like having a super-simple markup language for plaintext. Makes it really quick to plot out ideas on-the-fly, and uses less mental bandwidth than a rich text editor. I write pretty much everything in it, and use Pandoc to convert to other formats if necessary.
Ah, so it is true: https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/08/...
A picture of a QR code will always be the same QR code. There are QR code generators that purport to let you update the value... but they're basically just hosting a link shortener service, giving you a QR code encoding that link, and letting you change where the link redirects to. That wouldn't work with a QR code for wifi, since the QR code does not point to a link, it directly encodes the SSID and password for a wifi network.
Lua's garbage collector can be asked to do a "step", which is a not-especially-well-defined concept, but which can be tuned until it takes the amount of time you intend. Works well in practice.
I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position.

For a certain kind of formulaic, clickbaity, “who needs an editor” kind of content sure, it was popular, but for serious writing?

Sorry, nope, not even close, not even temporarily.

Substack at least can make a claim for serious journalism and opinion that’s hard to monetize elsewhere — much but not all of it heavily libertarian — but what, please, was Medium’s claim to gravity?

The highlight feature?
Edit: Which apparently it does, which is why the SSD can ingest up to 48 Mb/s to be read out more slowly later (https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-hardware/jwst-s...).
This doesn't explain why I as an individual cannot adopt and adapt non-Western perspectives, values, and religious beliefs. Why should the actions of people long dead to whom I bear no relation other than shared skin color mean that I have to go to contortions to avoid adopting valuable ideas into my own life?
Yeah you have a very different mindset to me. I'd much, much rather people call me a name they know how to pronounce rather than listen to them butcher mine. I also think it's cool to have multiple names. Like Gandalf!

Many are my names in many countries,
Mithrandir among the Elves,
Tharkûn to the Dwarves;
Olórin I was in my youth in the West
that is forgotten,
In the south Incánus,
in the North Gandalf;
to the East I go not.
Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of This Year
> The author Carolyn Chen made some very compelling arguments saying corporatized Buddhism is unrecognizable.

I agree with that. I don’t see the problem though. Why is modifying an idea a bad thing?

> Carolyn Chen is arguing corporatized Buddhism is a new religion that celebrates 70+hour work weeks and the celebrity CEO.

I agree with this too. I am also left asking, why is this considered bad? To clarify, I don’t refer to the ethics of working 70 hours per week, I refer to the emergence of this new religion. Why is the emergence of a new religion bad?
Sorry, I meant the aspect that for example, Spitzer, only had so much margin to transmit data (or other heat-causing) activities else its lifetime would be shortened. That was not much written about (outside of detailed technical circles).
While his advice might sound obvious, so many people don’t do the work of self-promotion. A good article!

I am convinced that I have very much over performed in my life and career by writing and also not passing up opportunities of helping people.

While I have had a good career, I have worked with so many people who I think are much better than I am as far as technical skills. Sadly many of these super performers don’t do the extra work of self promotion.
I'm at a 4 I think. Things are going well but I reserve the last increment for the possibility of better times.
Bibliogram is an alternative interface to Instagram:

https://bibliogram.art/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/

(Similar to Nitter -> Twitter, Invidious -> YouTube, and Teddit -> Reddit.)

Speaking of which:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TJO3_UADLGk
That will be a problem for lots of centrally managed, distributed networks, like point of sale machines managed by a central entity.
I loved the feel of the keyboard (contrary to some) but durability and redundancy were god-awful.
> I've never heard anyone claim that it's cultural appropriation when non-Westerners adopt -- and benefit from -- various Western schools of thought.

They call it colonization.

White liberals prefer nonwhites to be quaint, uneducated, and poor.
I wish projects like this and RoboVM worked, but in my experience they’re a pain to set up, without much documentation, and they fail on weird Java edge cases.