skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope -- try reading a collection of essays written 75 - 150 years ago and it will soon become clear how stupid people are today. And why do you think technological leaps lead to better thought? The most profound thoughts that have ever crossed the consciousness of Man are contained in the Bible, which was written by technologically inferior people -- men who walked with God.
Most of the FAANGs have a variety of different domains you can work on within the company, consider an internal transfer.
You get paid well to stfu and don't rock the boat.....
One of the issues that resulted in US sanctions is explicitly what you said they could do… they refused to enact any controls for just this kind of thing.
it might just be that trading your soul for money is not a good deal
We could see a very unexpected outcome of an ETHpow chain living on and PoS falling on it’s face, effectively validating PoW as the important innovation that is is. How does it fail you ask? Probably something along the lines of the outages seen with Solana, some unexpected sequence of events that causes a cascading failure of validators which needs a “restart”. PoW doesn’t ever need a restart condition, it’s build into the foundation. I don’t know what will happen, perhaps PoS will work fine, the Merge takes place and all the miners shutdown or move to ETC or whatever. Or does The Merge and some failure around it mark the eventual slow death of PoS and a resurgence of Bitcoin dominance?
> 100% uptime for the last 9.5 years

While correct, that conveniently omits the downtime in 2010 and 2013. Why be shady?

Edit: three nines is considerably different than infinite nines.
Around 2018 there was an inflation bug which was kept quiet until it was patched.
It's human to have an occasional bug. Setting the bar too high may be a dis-service if/when there is an exploit.
Could you explain why your solutions are being blown off? Is it because you're at a top-down environment which doesn't listen to junior engineers as a matter of course? If that's the case, then it's an unusual situation to be in at a FAANG, and you should just move teams. Or are your solutions not appropriate for some reason, or are you not effective at championing them? No shame in this! It's where most of us begin. Selling other people on a good idea is itself a difficult skill, and a necessary one if you want to be promoted more than one more time. So: stay. And think about all the non-technical skills one must learn in any career.
I got a content violation warning when I tried to get it to generate a facade… too close to “facial” I guess.
> There is an omnipresent danger that we've horribly under-estimated the effort required to deliver a project, but the customer isn't concerned about that.

Which is why the author states:

> These require highly detailed specifications that list exactly what is expected of the consultant. If it's not entirely clear what the requirements are, there will be endless disagreements over whether this or that is in the scope of work: The customer will think it is (you work for free), and you will think it isn't (customer pay me more).

And when you say:

> They are interested in minimizing their own risk.

You are entirely correct in that this is what customers want. What this also implies is risk is transferred to the consultancy if the aforementioned detailed specifications (contract) does not exist or is sufficiently vague.

> And the fixed bid is a guarantee of X results for $Y, which has more safeties in place.

If and only if the specifications are inflexible or recourse has been established such that "scope creep" can be negotiated.

Otherwise, the only "safeties in place" are that $Y is all a customer will pay, no matter what X becomes.
It does have several additional attributes:

1. Since the normalized significand will always be 1.bbbb, the '1' bit is stripped from the significand representation, except:

2. To extend the range, the lowest 'zero' value of the exponent drops the leading '1'. This is referred to as the subnormal range

3. The highest exponent value, when the significand is zero, is used to represent positive and negative infinity

4. The highest exponent value with a non-zero significand is used to represent NaN

5. There are many different values usable for NaN by software, including a differentiation between 'quiet' NaNs and a (I believe implementation optional) 'signaling' variant, which will raise an interrupt when used. The idea is that these can be used to convey additional information, and that the signaling variant as well as the right interrupt handlers can be used to add additional functionality such as variable substitution.

6. Zero is signed
This is great hindsight advice. It may be hard to see from the perspective of the OP though.

The way you describe is how it is in FAANG (I work at one, haven’t at others). Until you get to a certain level, you implement what others (PMs, higher level eng) put together. If you keep advancing in your career you may have creative freedom in FAANG. But it will never be like that of a startup - which is how I read your post.

Doing creative work for big co, someone else’s idea or a startup is overrated when you look back 10 years later. This is just my opinion but I believe it is very common and comes with age.

Good luck. Sounds like you have a few good options.
A video from 2020 for anyone interested:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22281619
I’m still in my 20s and I’ve fell to the idea that if you haven’t achieved everything you want early on then you just don’t want it enough or you’re not working hard enough.

However, what if I achieve everything before hitting 30? What would I have to look forward then?

I think some things are just meant to be hard and take a long time. You just have to learn to enjoy the process and understand that everyone has their own pace and that’s okay.
Are polar bears useful or bad for humans?

Would a toddler at the zoo and a polar resident have differing opinions?
From the OOPSLA paper abstract:

> techniques inspired by genetic programming with domain-specific knowledge to effectively undermine plagiarism detectors.

My creaky memory of CS Theory makes me suspect that, ultimately, Mr. Turing's halting problem may make resistance to cheating futile. [1] It's interesting that the paper is in OOPSLA, I used to follow the work from it more, especially when I listened to IEEE's Software Engineering Radio.

Thanks for your work in this area and your reply. DieHard and DieHarder are funny, creative names for fault tolerant memory managers. It's also nice to see a fellow humorist. At least we can rest assured that cheaters get what they deserve, like my classmate at Columbia. [2]

Regards.

[1] > He, for one, welcomes our new AI overlords.

Yes, let's suggest a Borg-like partnership with them. I'd be willing to drive "self-driving-car" tow truck--if they haven't invented a self-driving one yet.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32532896
I just finished this and can second the opinion that it is excellent.
> have a good manager, a good comp and my job isn’t that stressful

Sounds like you achieved this on the first try. You think it wouldn’t happen again? Why?
Since you answered my second order devil’s advocate, I should answer your first order devil’s advocate:

> Why should rail not bear some of the social costs in addition to its direct costs?

The social costs created by private cars dwarfs those created by train, and is seldomly actually mitigated with funds diverted from car infrastructure. Historically this has been an unpopular political choice, made without considering the local communities. Now California is prioritizing a different mode with the hope of reducing car dependency. Why shouldn’t car infrastructure now bear the defunding that other modes have historically suffered in order to accommodate cars historically, infrastructures which has historically created social costs to local communities?

I see this as a way to fix historic wrongs. Rail does not need to bear the social costs of its infrastructure because car owes us a bunch. We should collect on those debts owed by cars.
>that it perhaps became ubiquitous because white/colonial powers happened to be over-represented in scale.

Yes. Society at large got together and said "these maps make us look good, let's spread them around, we will have until 2022 until someone will unravel our master scheme".

> And once it is ubiquitous, it can be tough to walk backwards to something like the tetrahedral projection in the OP because anyone who does so in, say, America, would be diminishing America’s physical presence on projection maps.

Perhaps it's tough to walk back ubiquitous things for superficial reasons.

USA isn't "big" on a map and there's no one standing in the way of this great injustice unless you're thinking Canada Russia and Greenland control the world.
Get in touch with the business owners (in person, public property records, etc), make your interests known, leave them your contact info in case they are looking for a buyer in the future.
> if everyone calculates the same, the network will physically shrink.

Are you asking why it won't consolidate on AWS?

Penalties for offline validators are greater if many validators go offline for similar timeframe.
Oh, sure, you can easily build your own propane pilot light to release a bit of CO2 indoors and it'll very likely be perfectly safe. But I don't think you could sell it to other people.

Most of those "mosquito" capture devices that use UV are very effective at killing everything else except for mosquitoes. Including a lot of stuff that probably shouldn't be killed.
A typical university program in the US is 4 years.
It sounds like you're in an average FAANG team. You could try switching teams.

Here's why I think you might be in an average team:

>"I have tried over the past 2 years to propose different solutions to hard problems and I just get blown off."

A good team has tough problems, and they need clever solutions. Maybe your team's mandate isn't to solve a tough problem.

>"product managers and “leadership” assign to our team with barely any input on the overall project or ability to propose new projects."

This sounds like you might be in a workhorse/executing engineering team.

You say this:

>"I’m scared to move teams ... because I have a good manager ... and my job isn’t that stressful."

A better manager would be trying to increase the team's scope, and yours. If you're not feeling some stress, your manager isn't growing you. A better manager would create a challenging environment for you where you'd feel like your ass is getting kicked.

There are great FAANG teams, and great FAANG managers. Seek them out! (I'm at Amazon, probably the "A" that didn't make it in your acronym. But if you drop me a note I could introduce you to great managers at Amazon)
> This advice doesn't apply if you're a relentlessly competitive founder type like Gates or Bezons

Eh Bezos worked a couple different jobs. I’m sure he had these thoughts and doubts at that age.
In fairness, lots of brilliant PhDs have spent their careers working on string theory: that doesn’t mean it’s real.
Well, it turns out Boxes is older than I thought (more than 10 years old), but it also looks like it came out of Red Hat (where virt-manager also comes from), so there is still a choice of where resources are allocated...
Beyond that, it only works with technical knowledge and very specific learning styles. He learned the math behind the those progressions, but the taste, depth and creativity to explore new ideas and compelling ways to portray them involves play and self discovery. Creativity is not a technical problem to be solved.
Obviously you will keep running them for a bit to see what happens. That’s why for me it seems unavoidable there will exist an ETHpow or Ethereum Legacy, the only questions are does it’s value go to zero and if so, how quickly. If it does drop in value quickly then you will switch to ETC or some other PoW chain that your GPUs can mine and see if those are profitable.
The Clergy
Mosquitoes are attracted to several different signals that lead them to you, smells, heat, co2 and other simple chemicals.

It stands to reason that different people put out different amounts of the various things that attract mosquitoes.
I think this is critical too and the author is on point with the same concept.

I just go back to a more old-fashioned application of the terminology.

There is a similarity between a private practice of a single physician, or an individual attorney, whether or not they may operate single-handedly or employ an administrator or staff like nurse or paralegal. OTOH you've got major hospitals and large law partnerships.

But these are "industries" which for centuries it was recognized as unethical to persuasively advertise or use any type of pressurized sales tactics.

Just because advertising these things has been legal for decades now, it remains to be seen if that was actually the wisest aproach.

For one thing patients and injury victims are no longer just the treatment subjects but now financial commodities in addition.

Well back then the attorneys always had clients who were expected to engage them purely based on reputation and word-of-mouth, doctors too except they just called them patients as always. There would seem to be stronger incentive for achieving better reputation when persuasive approaches are recognized as unethical.

In business "clients" were the ones that came to you, "customers" were the ones that needed a little sales pitch.

Now an engineering office, or even a pure sales office, can operate along the same business model. Where the paying client who comes to you based on reputation & word-of-mouth because of what you have to offer is your real bread & butter.

This must seriously project value to the payer, form a good foundation, and it will capture those that would run the other way at the hint of persuasiveness or upselling of any kind.

So for terminology to me the "client" is nothing like the familiar concept in computer science, it is further from being like a "user", and instead a notch above the valued "customer" who is one that needs to be persuaded a bit to come along, sometimes continuously.

The customer gets teated like they are always right, even when it's not true, and the traditional clients end up with an even better feeling.

For the entire experience all must feel like they are getting their money's worth in a more personalized way than a general business "customer" would expect. Nothing could be warmer or fuzzier.

Having more familiarity with each client then will lead to those among them who occasionally would not only respond to a growth marketing effort, but would be eager to participate just to see you grow to serve them better and more extensively. This is probably not something you want to subject all your clients to.

Though it is possible to base many businesses on a marketing strategy for their bread & butter, alternatively it might be better to base it on something unique to offer. So future marketing effort offers more of a bonanza potential rather than just a baseline income stream.
>Plus you gotta factor in Gen Z's love of all things boomer.

it's called musical stockholm syndrome.
You think this is bad, check out the default Windows 1.0 colour scheme!

Here's some screenshots to whet your appetite:

http://toastytech.com/guis/win1x2x.html
Thanks. I just used the share feature from the app because I didn’t have a url to copy.
When you can't do something, when it's a real stumper and there's no obvious solution, how does a FAANG engineer tackle the problem? Try that.

Alternately, why do you feel "blown off?" Is that common on your team, or just you? The feelings and also the behaviors leading up to them? Have you talked with your good manager about this? Or, if you manager was actually managing well, did the manager ask you?
Color Journey
Representing 1/10 with fractional powers of two is an infinite series, so tenth of a whole number will not be exactly representable with IEEE floating point.

In financial apps, it is perhaps more common to use specific numerical types that don't lose precision.

One simplistic option is to simply represent the smallest unit (say, tenths of a penny) with a fixed point number rather than a unit like USD dollars in floating point.
There are lots of signals and so far nobody has found a reliable way to create something more attractive than a human.

There are traps that attract with co2 and smells and heat. They do attract but they don’t always win the taste test of which is more attractive vs a person.
In some ways, we are already there. People are doing crazy stuff based on what they read and watch on their screens all day. Content which is automatically optimized to be engaging and influence their emotions.

We also largely obey the algorithms that dictate how to navigate the streets when we drive.

This might not be hyper persuasion, but it’s definitely in that direction.

And depending on how you define what consciousness is, the networks, software, data and computer systems that enable this, could be seen as a conscious being that we depend on as a species.
No they should not. They need to live in the same world we do, using the same tools we have. The example being politicians should make one think: do we really need more of this greasy pole and lust for power and freebies in computing? The whole elite mindset is corrosive.

Besides, where would you put the bar for “distinguished”? Who would take the decision?
Ooh, a ribbonfarm fresh off the presses!

First off, this is some incredible stuff. It's difficult to live at the edges of understanding, and even harder to articulate it. Rao is dancing right at the edge. In 20 years the map's probably going to be filled in and crystallized. Everyone who cares will know, and everyone else will have forgotten, but right now this is dank shit.

I think the reasonable (not rational!) stance is that everything is conscious until proven otherwise. Either because the universe is built on consciousness or whatever woo, or because we're conscious and observing it. AI's in this weird spot where it can do things, but we can't have a proper relationship with it because it doesn't exist in our universe of discrete entities and time and skin in the game.

Pushing the SIILTB in the other direction, I don't think it's clear that there is something it's like to be us without all our externalities. Take out the need to eat and sleep and communicate and relate, and there's not a lot left. Pure existence looks a lot like no existence.
This is the most underrated/prescient comment I've seen on hn. Once prompt engineering become a mature field this is going to be a serious issue.

Finally, the crossover of creative writing x cs... for graphic design? I can't wait to watch the lawyers recoil. ::Prepares Popcorn::
I was on the competitive programming team at my college. I was able to join on one of the more advanced teams pretty early, my other teammates were college seniors while I was a freshman.

I actually was able to get our 2x weekly meetings to count as course credits for basic classes and the professors who ran the group vouched for me to skip some of the pre-requisites for higher levels classes. (e.g. I took Algorithms II while in the same semester the competitive team meetings counted as Algorithms I).

Then my family moved, I wanted to transfer schools to keep living with my parents while attending school. The new school wouldn't accept my "free" credits. So in my third year of college I had to take intro to computers, intro to programming, etc.

I did that for one semester, hated it, then managed to find a job writing Python. I still haven't graduated, heh...
I'm with you. It's like the most ironic setup possible for an error in grammar. I was glad to see your response.
Can we please stop calling them FA(A)NG already?

Facebook is now Meta; Google is Alphabet; Netflix is a joke, and not really on par with others; and Microsoft is still there, big and relevant.

At least call them MAAMA, or even better AAMA (Meta is evil and nobody should want to work there).
Could be. Mosquito populations are also affected by weather, sometimes the right early spring weather will seriously harm mosquito populations.
Indeed, however since that is what many see, plenty of which place the genesis of high level languages on the birth of UNIX, the myth persists.
Or... Just use webp?
pasta.fyi
>What did you do?

quit. I mean it's that simple really. If you don't like the job you're doing and it's not meaningful, get another job. You'll have a good resume, so that shouldn't be a practical issue.

I think any other advice is really just copium. Collecting more money and joining a knitting circle or the bowling club isn't fulfilling, neither is retiring at 40 and even in a non FANG dev job you likely earn twice a middle class wage, and the only thing you don't get back is your time. It's scary but nothing's worse than not changing and regretting it later.
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> I wasn’t expecting a “well, actually, screw happiness and satisfaction” response but here we are.

Starting a successful business, offering an exceptional service or product to customers, seeing your employees fulfilled and happy -- those tend to tick a lot of boxes for people in terms of happiness, meaning, and sanctification.

Most successful people know it's that "offering an exceptional service or product" bit that makes you wealthy. Starting a business to be rich as an ends in itself rarely works out.
Ok, so there's no need. There's want, but no need.
Large parts of outer NYC boroughs are inaccessible by subway. But other large parts of outer boroughs are very much accessible by subway, mostly those with high enough density to make it economically viable. But even Rockaway Beach is accessible by subway, of all places!

Trains go every 10-15 mins even some time past midnight. They go every 30 minutes at time like 3 am; so do some buses.

Compared to some other large cities around the world where I've been, NYC is pretty well connected, and Manhattan (all of it) is superbly connected.
Agreed, but that is how things go, bad teachers that propagate the myth of UNIX being the genesis, language runtimes that happen to use C mostly of convenience than anything else, and around goes the myth.

Hence why stuff like MaximeVM, Jikes and now Graal are so relevant.
I didn't claim that's why they were added, I said that's what they allow you to express.

> Pointers can be presumed in some code bases not to be null with nullability being the unusual and documented scenario.

Just because you can train your users to assume/document when nullability is allowed, doesn't make it a better option than using a language construct that would make it explicit.
Correct pronunciation is more difficult than correct spelling. When people also consistently misspell your name despite knowing the correct version, you'd start to find it irritating.
Like it or not, Neumann has made WeWork into a household name. I know more people with a WeWork than a PS5.

Questionable Business ethics and personality issues aside, it is not unreasonable that investors would bet on him again.

Yes, even with the failed IPO.
1. It could easily be auto correct

2. A lot of brilliant people much smarter than you and me have trouble with spelling. It doesn't take away from their ability in other areas.

3. Hate to be that guy :) but it's not a grammatical error
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How often are you doing that (vs using the drive bays up front), though? Anyway, I have a 4U with 1U devices like a switch, patch panel, and PDU in the back and then a 2U server in the front. You can just unscrew it and pull it out from that position (rather than having to pull it all the way out). I wouldn’t want to do it with more than one 2U server, though.