skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start your own business as an interim or gap managerial person.

At least that is what I did during the .com boom. Long, long time ago (like the 90s); cross the rivers, over the hills once upon a time there was a really really hot market anything to do with technology. Investors would drop millions on crazy ideas in hope to make it big. Technologists, including senior executives like CIOs, CTOs, CISO, CSOs, and other word-salad executive roles were garnering some (back then) crazy money. I crafted a company that would 'lend' such CxOs to small to mid-size companies on a retainer. It worked. They would sit in board room meetings, senior management team meetings, provide technical insights, help with strategic problems and solutions in their domains, and everyone was happy.

Maybe you can do something like that. You get a monthly (smaller) pay, and then you can charge by the hour when you are called upon. Two or three such contracts, and you would be set. This is assuming you actually have some expertise that is business usable and in demand.

The simpler path is to monetize your existing expertise as a consultant. It would meet most of your needs.
The saltwater cowboys and the annual pony roundup on Assateague Island (the descendants of the shipwrecked Spanish horses) are very unique pieces of coastal culture, it's an interesting case study in preservation of a "wild" population [0].

0 - https://www.chincoteague.com/pony_swim_guide.html
Vin Diesel, The Rock, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Michael Jordan, hell even throw in Jeff Bezos. Why would being bald have anything to do with how alpha you are.
Code monkeys are different than programmers (or "software engineers").

Nobody is learning, actually learning, all these topics in a condensed 3-month program.

Good programmers are always going to have work, because there simply aren't enough good programmers.
Do you understand that is just intern-level work?
If that were true it wouldn't be so common
That list is irrelevant. Even if Google had never killed a product before, it would be worth believing if there is solid evidence.

Here, there is none.
'Titanic' staffing crisis: At least 14 Ontario hospitals closed for long weekend
Link without paywall: https://archive.ph/pweIq
Exactly I think there are different types of jobs. If you just need to make a basic web site I am sure you can learn those skills in a few months. Being able to build real systems is another matter entirely and requires a lot of learning (formal or not) and years of experience. For me this is the difference between a developer and a software engineer.
Sometimes city walkability is expressed more simply: each spot gets a color based on the size of the area that you can reach in a fixed amount of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map

So you don't have to manually explore the map.
> I wonder why is it that there is no recognition (or study) of the mechanisms and processes behind these common phases everyone is so keen to perceive.

Now that you've mentioned it, it does seem like the idea that the world is about to end or has drifted into laxity/morally corruptness, the new generation being incompetent etc are ideas that have been consistently repeated so often in the past that there must be some underlying psychological or sociological reason for it.

Anywho, I am glad that the HN comments have turned sour toward Peter Thiel. I liked his book Zero to One, and some of his early interviews, but lately he has just lost my respect.
Probably the money that FB "generates" is literally insane, and doesn't make sense for a single company to generate.

Possibly a mastodon based solution where users pay a small recurring fee for server management and some R&D and offering privacy, could generate enough benefits for a company (or companies) to strive.

FB (among others) made us forget the sense of scale and the value of things, including the value of privacy and brain time. I would rather pay today from 1 to 5 USD a month for a service that works, where I can share my kid's pictures with my direct family and only them, with no ads.
I LOVE this. Thank you! :)
Probes could be mass produced and then shipped to space once a year with a Starship launch. A thousand probes per year would be great. Most of them could use the same gravity assist routes and then take off from there in slightly different angles. Space is huge.

Any billionaire looking for being remembered for millennia?
Another decade another failed cloud gaming service.

Is Playstation Now really the only successful/stable one? A key observation being that its not even advertised as a cloud gaming service and is just integrated into other offerings.

The other services don’t seem to have age on their side for me to compare.
Yes, and for much of the US it's also "What would a foreigner know in this part of the US".

Ex: Atlanta is "Martin Luther King Jr". It's a great pick if you're going for "internationally recognized". But it's not a great pick for "famous" (at least in my opinion).

Just off the top of my head, more valid alternatives might have been:

- Kanye West

- Spike Lee

- Jeff Foxworthy

- Pat Conroy

- Julia Roberts
Indeed, and this line of research has been continuing to improve in follow on work on Perceus in Koka:
https://xnning.github.io/papers/perceus.pdf
and
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2021/1...

Very cool stuff!
Incredibly, some people still use GCP
Various automation/pipelining scripts benefit greatly from typing, as it at least provides a level of assurance that data of proper shape is passed to relevant functions at all times. It helps especially when the automation scripts parse and extract and concatenate yaml portions from larger configs. I wouldn't want to write manual unit tests just to ensure shapes' validity.
nice! I kinda want a trashcan but I just have no real use for it. But I love that case!
In the US it's a title and nothing more. And an HR one, not a legal or otherwise formal one. An HR title. Don't listen to anybody who tries to tell you that programmers with 'engineer' in their title are more 'rigorous' than people with 'developer' in their title. That is pure retroactive continuity and hasn't yet been widely backed up by anything.

Now, someone with a degree called Software Engineering may well have had a somewhat different education than someone with a Computer Science degree. That's another matter, and whether the former makes them an engineer in the protected sense depends on where they are and exactly what the degree program was.
It also plays right into peoples biases, so they'll keep their doubt low. If I were to spread any rumor to get my ten minutes of fame, Stadia shutting down would be the rumor to spread.
High-speed rail project is a warning for the US
if anyone interested here is the Github link to the source code => https://github.com/tjukanovt/tjukanovt.github.io/blob/master...
Thanks! That may meet all my requirements...

Although one of my use cases is video files (fairly small non-profit usage), which I have understood are not allowed by CloudFlare CDN terms of service (at least at non-"enterprise" tiers?)... it's been confusing to me understanding if I could, for example, serve video files from Backblaze via CloudFlare CDN and Bandwidth Alliance; or with R2, if there's a way to serve video files from R2 to the public that is allowed by tos.
> IMO it shouldn't be a company like FB running a people directory, it should be something mastodon

It really is not a technological problem, it's a "how do you get everyone to sign up" problem, which FB has solved. I don't think we'll see another company solve this in a very long time, unless they hit the jackpot while really focusing on creating a USEFUL product for their users.
I think the best phones are made by Sony. If you want stereo speakers, SD slot, headphone jack and high end performance, it's hard to find other models than these manufactured by Sony.
It also shows how much the train networks focus on domestic travel.

In nearly all bigger countries it is possible to reach most bigger cities within the 5h.
But journeys in this time-frame seldomly go much beyond the border.
There is still much optimization potential for transnational travel in Europe's train network.
I think there's some core research in magnetic control of plasmas / energy transfer from plasma that's been done, and is going to start leaking into more public applications like fusion. The military's "hypersonics" may be a beginning of some of that; bringing out things they've either been sitting on or desperately trying to get working for 30+ yr.
"embrace it" is easy to say for someone that doesn't have a head shaped like Kryten from Red Dwarf
"Not very far right now" seems to be the answer in Ukraine.
I fully agree. I'm not defending stack ranking as good, just saying that these types of roles are usually very competitive. With options, there's millions of dollars at stake. There is going to generally be some sort of evaluative process to insure all that money is buying sufficient value. Not saying it's fair...
I log in to Facebook about once a year, and my feed is just a panel of outrage. It's exhausting just thinking about it. But I do genuinely miss the early days when it was just the stuff my friends and family were doing, a great way to keep in touch. But no more.
Cname Flattening (2014)
I'd say (fulltext) search is one of the least interesting features of ES, and the aggregations are its USP. E.g. moving averages on (biggish) datasets can be calculated on very cheap hardware.
Thanks!

I know this might look like a small detail, but ipv6 geeks care about this kind of stuff :)

Since we're talking... Do you also delegate the reverse dns zone for the subnet you provide?
Sony seems to be the last manufacturer offering MicroSD slots in their high-end phones. (The last manufacturer that sells phones in the US, anyways.) They also include a headphone jack!

Samsung ditched both of those features in recent years.

I kind of hate sony, but in this instance they seem to be less shitty than everyone else.
Uh… This is a creepy mindset to go to these places with.
His point is highlighting that even if you pay for it you don’t actually own the game. In this weird market you only own the game if you pirate it.

Ip laws are the worst and terrible for the market. Especially the media companies that just recharge you for for the same content just to watch it on a different medium.
> So what's Google to even do?

Spin off non-core companies as soon as humanly possible with some investment and simply be a (majority) investor in them instead.
* use the very useful tool to launch other platforms that do not take advantage of the social graph (that you can monetize)

* use the great social graph that you now have to create other useful tools that you can monetize
I don't disagree, but there are other reasons to like Steam. I like Steam because they heavily invest into Linux support, even for games that are not theirs. I understand that they're not doing this out of altruism, they have several business-level reasons, but they happen to align with my interests and that's really all I can ask for in a for-profit company.
Google's auto-ban/content moderation issues are a separate issue from the tech, which is fine. I never noticed issues with resolution or rendering, and haven't heard complaints about it from friends who tried it. We all ended up abandoning Stadia due to there being better options elsewhere, not because Stadia itself (aside from game selection perhaps) was bad.
Correct. I am self taught but it is only through my somewhat relevant experience as a project manager and in IT that a company would even give me an internship based on a small demo and a recommendation from a lead engineer that I had promise. I have no idea if I would have been able to “break in” otherwise. They paid me next to nothing and I could afford that. It’s a lot of privilege and luck that got me in. I don’t recommend others try to follow my path, but I also wish it were easier to do so.

After a year of experience I was getting legit decent offers - initially almost entirely via referral. I stayed around the initial company because I was still learning a lot. Many years later I am a senior engineer. The world does open after the first job but getting the first one is hell.

Don’t underestimate the class signaling that companies and hiring managers look for. Being some person with a portfolio and no experience almost never seems to make anyone take notice or consider an interview. I haven’t figured out how one would best repeat what I did - there’s lots of very viable and capable (and diverse!) people I know who’ve never been given the chance.

I’d love if there were companies that offered apprenticeships - plenty of people out there would take low pay to get some real experience.
1/36 is indeed the most optimal estimator of the expected frequency of two sixes, it's not odd at all.
you say this as a linear progression, but you're only paying attention to certain written histories and ignoring a lot of anthro/archaelogical research of (large-scale post discovery of agriculture societies) cases where it was otherwise
Interesting that it uses 20 minutes. I guess that's optimistic if you need to account for delays, but that's much longer than I often take to transfer (5 minutes often being workable if the trains are generally reliable, and you're able to catch a later train if you miss the intended one).
I don’t think Charlie Chaplin is the most famous Londoner
They weren't making money, were they?

I guess it depends what you mean by Evil. Force-pushing ads and sharing updates about people you don't know because it could keep you connected so that you could see more ads, made them profitable. A free service that doesn't push ads can't be.
Google do what Google do. I stopped using any newer Google products. Can’t trust them.
I respectfully disagree.

I could disparage the reasons someone gets into programming (though, I think, money is a fine one), but if they then take positive actions to train, grow, learn then that is a net positive.

Look, we all know people who complain but never fix things. I have family members who I dearly care about, but they would rather whine about X/Y than take a step to fix it (or fix themselves). Someone taking the time, for whatever reason, to become more than they were before is a net positive I think.

Perhaps its more than you care to know, but its an important topic for me. I truly believe one of the reasons we are on this world is to become more and to grow. I appreciate people who try.
>That list is irrelevant.

A company's operating history is absolutely relevant to whether or not people believe rumors about it's operations.
At a very young age I ventured into taking apart my personal computer to better understand it. When I was in my early teens I could build a whole computer with off-the-shelf parts without any help. My older peers would poke at me for being some sort of "tech wizard" because computers were something a lot of the older generation didn't grow up with at the time. I would take every opportunity to show interested parties just how straightforward it was that I did; Certain cards fit in certain slots, cables only fit in one way, and there were a few internals you had to be a little more careful with than others. Many of those people were surprised to see just how simple "building a computer" was, more akin to building Lego than something that needed a college degree and high amounts of technical skill.

Code boot camps tend to be a bit one-dimensional and only give the students a slice of the basics, most often including setting up a work environment and focusing on lessons that produce immediate results and/or feedback. People interested in software development don't realize how easy it can be to get started making small projects, often needing their hand held at that critical entry point. Boot camps can help lift the veil of mysticism and show that software development isn't sorcery.
Most people would not be willing to pay for this, QED
I had my birthday 2 days ago. I tried to keep it as lowkey as I could since I always feel strange when people say 'happy birthday'. For what? I agree with the comment that said take any excuse to celebrate things, but it's not like a contributed to something just by being born.

If anything birthdays should be a celebration of our mothers and family, not in the selfish way birthdays are usually constructed. I find it extremely odd when someone congratulates me awkwardly for being born, as some sort of social tax, and I find it even more depressing when more people compliment me seemingly more on my birthday than on meaningful achievements, which usually are swept with a rug with a 'nicely done'. So all in all I just try to skip the whole deal. There's just something not right at the center of it all.
or "engine" + "eer".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/engineer
Every time my fingers have to leave the home row I feel pain. Mostly from knowing that I’m likely to typo straight after, or have to remove my gaze from the screen to check my fingers and then find my position on the screen again. It really breaks flow and that flow was a big motivation for me to start using vim
Yeah, if Google were to abandon the licenses then it would mean they'd just be giving up on gaming indefinitely. I don't see them doing that as all the big tech companies want to control the family room.

They're probably just going to rebrand it as "Chrome Games" and have people play in their browsers or any supported devices.
Not where I live :(

Glad to hear it’s doing well. Back in the day it felt like one of the most impressive pieces of software I had ever used.
I think Google already has a reputation for shutting things down prematurely, not just on HN but with consumers more generally. And I think that reputation is a big part of the reason why Stadia flopped. People knew this would happen so they never bought in, causing this to happen. A sort of self-fulfilling prophesy, but this outcome was very obvious from the start.
But the product you're using isn't the one you bought.
Job growth on it's own is nothing if the new jobs cannot provide a living (well enough of one), as it will still starve multiple sectors of economy of income and shrink them hard, possibly beyond recovery.
And interest rates are already near zero so that cannot be cut either. Taxes could but it will instead ruin already underinvested infrastructure.

Personal monetary liquidity would be a good measure, combined with business liquidity. (Money velocity excluding banks.)

Unfortunate fact is that because prices increased (mostly due to greed in oil/gas sector and housing bubble) and wages did not, it results in USA people facing austerity and cutting spending. And if they have to do it, so do companies, ultimately.

Covid mostly accelerated the trend in a few industries.
The Google play would have been to track user gameplay. That's currently a large number of user-hours that Google is blind to, given they have no offering in the dedicated console space.

... that said, I'd expect the margins were far lower / cost was higher than what Google was used to, and they financially decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
I also felt better after accepting my baldness.

Patrick Stewart can be an inspiration in this regard: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU
> Its actually usually slower than both manual memory management and GC

[citation needed]

You and the blog post are arguing opposite things, and neither of you have shown any evidence. I get that you're arguing that reference counted objects are bigger (to store the reference count) and/or might use double indirection (depending on implementation), which are both bad for caches. It's not a bad argument. But the counter-argument that the blog posts makes is persuasive as well: it's expensive running a GC that scans the heap looking for loose objects, and reference counting does not need to do that. GC is also "stop-the-world" as well unpredictable and jittery in a way reference counting is not.

My instinct is that reference counting is actually faster (which matches my personal experience), but really, this is not an argument you can solve by arguing in the abstract, you need actual data and benchmarks.
> No, Steam sells permanent licenses.

I don't know where you're getting this from.

To quote from https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/:

> [long list of things you can obtain/do via Steam] are referred to in this Agreement as "Content and Services;" the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are referred to in this Agreement as "Subscriptions."

> Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license.

> Valve may restrict or cancel your Account or any particular Subscription(s) at any time in the event that (a) Valve ceases providing such Subscriptions to similarly situated Subscribers generally, or (b) you breach any terms of this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use). In the event that your Account or a particular Subscription is restricted or terminated or cancelled by Valve for a violation of this Agreement or improper or illegal activity, no refund, including of any Subscription fees or of any unused funds in your Steam Wallet, will be granted.

There is zero legal entitlement to any given subscription in this agreement. The fact that they call it a "subscription", and that this is the "Subscriber Agreement" is not by accident. Rather, they explicitly reserve the right to cancel your "rights to access and/or use" their offers (aka subscriptions).
I'm in the same boat and have often wondered the same. I feel like it's just not persecuted.
Yeah, I'm always very skeptical of new Google services. I use GSuite and Chromebooks, but I know those are heavily used internally at Google and I believe that they'll continue to invest in those. But every other service, nah.

Between their inability to provide support while a service is up and their consistent lack of long term vision/ investment for the services they create, it's just not worth it.

I can't imagine I'm the only one making significant financial decisions based on this sort of thought process.
Plus you can play more than the ~100 games Google's hand-picked to play on their platform.
Do you not have something similar to Truecaller to block all the spam?
One of the reasons for this is probably that all (minus Stadia, it seems) of the products you've mentioned might have had bad starts but ended up gigantic successes:

>PS3

performed extremely well, beating Xbox 360 by a fairly thin margin.

>Gaikai

sold for $380M USD to Sony (most people consider this a success, even if you think it should have been more.)

>Xbox One

lost to the PS4 by a factor of two but was still successful (50 million est. lifetime sales)

Even if every single thing he was in charge of failed catastrophically, anyone who isn't looking closely is going to see someone with a huge amount of industry expertise working on some of the largest and most successful products to ever exist full stop (not just in gaming.)
It also shows an effect that the focus on high speed rail brings: rural areas are often very badly connected. Here in France they've even kept shutting down regional lines. That creates the train equivalent of "fly-over states": areas that you see from the train while going through, but that it would be impractical to go to.
To quote Abe Simpson, "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you..."

Facebook late 2000s was a very utopian vision of the social graph with Obama staffers bragging about the same tactics that were demonized by Cambridge Analytica. If anything, Facebook was more evil because of the data leakage then. The way that they made money then was still ads.