skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer service at the time of sale are things like promptly taking my order, being sufficiently staffed to minimize and address possible issues, and just having a quick, consistent, friendly experience.

If seller A is offering the above but no handwritten note, and seller B is not offering the above at the level of seller A, but is offering a handwritten note, I will chose seller A every time.

This thread makes me think I should possibly assign negative value for a hand written note.
I believe you mean John Landis, as Max was -4 years old at the time of "An American Werewolf in London" :P
This makes me more appreciative of the Surviving Mars devs (or at least the original ones thanks paradox).
Ok, I'll be dropping a substack article about this. Stay tuned. Give me until Friday.
My favorite diff tool is diff2html - see the diff in your browser as HTML!

https://diff2html.xyz/

Install the CLI, run the command (alias diff='diff2html -s side') - I run this at least every time before committing to quickly see all I've done.
This is bonkers -- I don't really follow/listen to jazz, but was aware of "So What" and the other Miles Davis standards -- I had no idea he went this direction. Was he just stretching the genre as far as possible at this point? The "genre-stretching" thing is something I've been thinking about lately and trying to identify -- the band Swans has done this convincingly imo with rock, especially with the 2013 album "To Be Kind."
FDA authorized the new bivalent mRNA shots without any trials of their efficacy
> What is the alternative to transporting containers by ships?

Ships are not going anywhere as there are no other/better solutions. Using ships that are powered by something other than engines using the dirtiest form of oil allowed would be the best solution, and it could be a combination of alt sources of go juice on the same ship
https://archive.ph/pyWUG
'Reject your inner high school' is hilarious
> Fantasy novel covers are exceedingly easy to do because of the mountain of examples in the training data

It's also because they are basically nonsense (fantasy) so the results in the style look more plausible.

I tried using a few AI generators to get some basic placeholder images for products and it's utterly shit, it's clear that networks dont understand what they are generating. Like I tried to generate bycicles and I would get components sticking to ground, floating components, stupid proportions, visual artifacts.
In the beginning of your career I think you just have to choose problems and persist on them until you've solved them no matter how long it takes (within reason). You learn from people and web research but also by doing and remembering. Persist on problems several times and you'll have started to build some intuitions on where problems hide. You'll have to persist less and less with time, but persistence almost always pays off (or you find out why a solution is impossible, which can also be interesting and useful). Eventually you become a guru. I think this is the traditional route to learning. By trying. Learning from others is another route, but trying is really the basis of learning.

Here's a trick you might find useful when you are really stuck and don't see any path forward: change some random related things in the code. If the code does not respond to those changes as you expected then that is a clue! There is something there you don't understand and the unexpected behavior is a clue to it. It's kind of like writing unit tests, checking for what you expect to be true.

Keeping a journal is essential also.
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It is indeed a concern, and I suspect that's why they're recommending any wikihous project include a full-house MVHR system (see About=>Product, the bent arrow near the middle of the image map). MVHR is the solution I've settled on for my house retrofit project - it should allow the house to breathe in a controlled manner, without leaking warm air in winter.
> cheaply allows for enduring dirt-based construction would be an interesting advancement,

you wouldn't mean clay brick, would you? I see some of the advantages, but want to be pendantic about calling a 10K old technology an 'advancement'
Overall RAM in your systems HAS been steadily increasing, it's just targeted at the use cases where that matters, so it's primarily been in things like the GPU rather than system memory.
In the past ten years GPUs have gone from ~3GB[1] to now 24GB[2] in high-end consumer cards.

Another factor is in speed; In that ten year span we went from DDR3 to DDR5, moving from 17000 to 57600 transfers per second over that time frame. SSDs are much more common meaning it's easier to keep RAM full of only the things you need at the moment and drop what you don't out.

In terms of RAM density increasing, I think it's been more driven by demand than anything and there simply isn't a serious demand out there except in the very high end server space. Even compute is more driven by GPU than system memory, so you're mostly talking about companies that want to run huge in-memory databases, versus in the past when the entire industry has been starving for more memory density. The story has been speed matters more.

I'd also suggest that improvements in compression and hardware-assisted decompression for video streams have made a difference, as whatever is in memory on your average consumer device is smaller.

Coupling this with efficiency improvements of things like DirectStorage where the data fed into the GPU doesn't even need to touch RAM, the requirement to have high system memory available will be further lessened for gaming or compute workloads going forward.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/372

[2]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-serie...
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I live in Colombia, where ag tech is a lot farther behind. The profit motive for farmers here is as strong as anywhere. They wouldn't farm if it wasn't for the money. But the lack of industrialización means that more people are invested in the activity, producing less output, and living in poverty.
Do sheet materials ever come in larger sizes than 4' x 8'? The CNC wouldn't need to be much larger than the largest sheet it could cut.
That happened before it was open. exFAT is the standard filesystem on SDXC
Engineering management is not bullshit in my opinion. It is, and always been, an organization-specific role. This leads to the ambiguities that can be frustrating.

There are two distinct roles in an engineering organization: staffing, process and engineering resources (indirect), and product/project development and delivery (direct).

Relegating staffing, process and resource decisions to non-engineers (e.g. HR) is not the best solution. It takes experience and expertise to build a good staff and engineering culture. That is the job of engineering managers.

Do engineering managers act as mentors? Sure, and they can also provide technical input. But that’s just one of their many responsibilities.

Roughly 30 years ago, this same discussion was happening around something called a “matrix organization.” It was the same confusion of responsibilities under a different name.

Everything works fine when everyone stays in their lane (managers, I mean) and pushes in the same direction. It takes coordination, and it’s not something that people can reinvent on a daily basis.

In short: Make a plan for your organization, write it down, show it to everyone (over and over again like beating a drum) and then stick with it. For those who don’t comply, send them packing.
Oh, how the times they are a-changin'.
I have quite a few friends who don't work in tech who regularly read and even comment on HN simply because the discourse is worth it.

I'd invest a few dollars into the "clone dang" kickstarter. At the very least he should consider writing a book on fostering communities through tasteful moderation.
The difference is the following:

Scenario 1 [S1]: I have $120,000 in cash.

Scenario 2 [S2]: I expect to make $120,000 in cash over 12 months, equally once a month

On Day 0...

S1 - I have two choices: put all $120k in the market ("lump sum") or DCA is over 12 months.

S2 - I have no choice but to DCA it.

If I choose to DCA in S1, then I could have made more money by lump summing (depending on market conditions). This is basic TVM.
Oh, that problem has been solved.

Haven't you heard? Dark matter doesn't exist [1]

Off to the stars!

[1] https://scitechdaily.com/dark-matter-may-not-exist-these-phy...
It's not just the tech giants. I work for a company that is fairly dominant in its particular industry (If you're in the US, you've probably done business with one of its customers). Much of our growth has come through the acquisition of other companies, each of which gathers its own user and customer data.
From my perspective in IT operations, I don't have any visibility into how we capture user and customer data, but I know we're big enough to track a user across the various products and websites, but still siloed enough that internally we still refer to the various business units as if they were separate organizations, each holding its own subset of the data. To sum up, this description of Facebook's internals doesn't surprise me at all.
Other great tracks:

Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5.

Piano Concerto 2. It's long but at least listen to the first 30 seconds, up until the point when the orchestra comes in. This is (in my opinion) one of the greatest moments in all of Western art music.
Yeah ? In the same way that if you're in my home and someone comes to me telling me you're being a shithead, and there's verifiable proof that you're being a shithead at the very moment, you're going out.
Cash is flooding out of Coinbase already. Be interesting to see what happens when they run out and can't raise any more, and people with their crypto on the platform become unsecured creditors in a bankruptcy.

Another way to look at crypto is a banking system with no lender of last resort or controls like FDIC to prevent a systemic bank panic. The only real hope that the crypto system has is that billionaires who are still True Believers will step in to serve as lenders of last resort and buy it all up on a firesale, but if they instead don't choose to catch a falling knife it'll just fall.

The crypto system as a whole has never yet had to survive a high interest rate sustained collapse of the external economic environment yet. The 2020 pandemic wasn't really a test because everything got immediately bailed out. Concretely, if Tesla is pretty screwed because nobody has money to buy cars any more and everyone is out of work, will someone like Musk toss cash at crypto to save it or not?
While that may be correct it's still insane you can't port open source software to a device you own without paying a fee.
> With forrest fires, unless there is burial and no regrowth, we are very much looking at the surface carbon cycle; trees grow (capturing carbon), burn (releasing carbon), cycle, repeat.

The point is that this cycle isn't anywhere close to 100% efficient and takes orders of magnitude more time to reverse than the time it took to burn it. On top of that, atmospheric CO2 hangs around in the atmosphere and is incredibly difficult and grotesquely inefficient to remove.

As I mention in another comment, here in SoCal we recently had a fire --one of many-- that took out over 5000 acres in a matter of two to four days. The recovery of that land, the regrowth, will likely take twenty years (how long does a mature tree take to grow?). The CO2 released in that short event will take orders of magnitude more time to be re-captured. It doesn't hang around over the burn area waiting to be absorbed.

The natural rate of change for atmospheric CO2 concentration reduction is in the order of 1 ppm per 1000 years. That figure comes out of ice core sample data, which is very accurate. Anything that claims a significant improvement to that rate of change must come with equally significant proof.

We have people claiming we can drop atmospheric CO2 by 100 ppm in twenty years. Put a different way, they are saying they can do what nature does in 100K years in just 20. This is a rate of change with a slope 5000 times faster than the natural rate...and nobody seems interested in questioning it. It's one thing to achieve this in a lab experiment. Quite another at a planetary scale.

And so, my point, with regards to forest fires, is two fold: The net effect is the same, meaning, CO2 in the atmosphere. Second, the CO2 generated per unit time isn't recovered at the same rate. It is recovered orders of magnitude slower. Therefore, forest fires are likely just as damaging (in terms of atmospheric CO2 accumulation) as burning any other fuel.
The best manager I've had described his job as "working for developers". Like a shared assistant that acts as the communication point for stakeholders, gladhands needy customers, completes rfps/security questionnaires/other paperwork, finds talent, etc. Seems like any other position - a great manager is priceless / a bad one is pernicious
Very few countries, even without an extradition treaty, will refuse to extradite someone over prurient contact with minors. However, there will still be hearings and lots of legal process to fight the extradition - a lot more than if there were a treaty.
It’s an example of a country with constant shortages of basic goods including food.
Do you mean that Amazon's price for a given product is higher for Prime customers?

Or do you mean the following? for a given product, some sellers are Prime-compatible and some aren't, and if you're a Prime customer the price they'll show you is for a Prime-compatible seller who may be more expensive.

Both of these mean that if you follow the path of least resistance you'll pay more as a Prime customer, but it feels like there's an important difference: in the latter case, but not the former, a Prime customer can get the same prices as the non-Prime customer without having to log out or otherwise try to make Amazon not know who they are.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not claiming that you do mean the second of those things, or that they don't do the first of them. I wouldn't trust Amazon any further than I could throw Jeff Bezos, and I am 100% unsurprised if they offer different customers different prices for whatever scrutable or inscrutable reasons they might have.)
Totally. So what's the advantage of using crypto over a bar of gold then?
Does running Data Center workloads on renewable energy is any selling point to some corporations? Or it is a too minor feature? I happen to work at one of those places, but I am thinking it is just a marketing/PR value add-on: https://www.deac.eu/news/information-for-the-media/data-cent...
I doubt you'll ever get an exact measurement from big companies like Amazon. If you can know your exact CO2 emissions for a workload you can pretty accurately model the power consumption of the processor. If you're Amazon and running entirely custom silicon like their Graviton processors then that power consumption info is likely a closely guarded trade secret for now.
Sublime Merge was pretty alright, don't know if it's still around
$100k of debt for a poor person is not unrealistic, between student loans and/or medical debt.
I just started reading the transcript. They asked a lot of questions trying to figure out details about various products.

It's 850 pages long, and the few spots I jumped to the guy kept answering with "I don't know", "I'm not familiar with this", etc. Even the parts he says "I'm familiar with this service", the guy goes on to answer "I don't know more than what's written there". The guy couldn't even answer if certain databases were accessible by third parties (not implying they were).

This must have been painful to be a part of. 100 variations of "I can neither confirm nor deny".
My take is like this: Engineering management works if EMs are good at their job.

According to this tweet:
- Startups with managers 33% more likely to develop product innovations

- Firing a bad manager and replacing them with a top manager drops costs 5%, since you reduce turnover.

- In a car factory, replacing a bad manager with a top manager diminishes the hours needed to build a car by 30%.

- In the game industry - good managers means +22% in revenue

[1] https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1561408118906568704
Man minutes in a suit with controlled oxygen? Man minutes in a cockpit? Man minutes in open atmosphere? A bunker? A ship? Large man? Woman? Obese man vs fit? Golly this is as poorly defined as the tree problem isn't it.
I think these comments come mostly from engineers who have just started their software engineering journey or somewhere in their early stages. When you are at that stage, your odds of coming across an inspiring figure in other areas are very low, unless you have a natural proclivity to other areas in your life.

As you grow, you do realize that software engineering is a piece in the overall puzzle and you mellow down and start to learn the interfaces with other functions. Even then your superiority bias won't away but will mellow down for sure. This is simply because your success as a mid-senior engineer is no longer a function of just your engineering skills. Its a function of how well you can sell your ideas, how you can articulate your messaging so that every other function can work with you, how do you get buy-in from competing parties etc.
But again, engineers will brush these aside as 'politics' unrelated to software engineering :)
Is it ethical to keep snapshots of pages doxing people? Or dumps of bank account numbers? There's no way to both preserve that content publicly and also protect the victims.
Yeah, it goes both ways. Worse is when someone thinks that they're this magical unicorn that is always right when they're in fact more often wrong and correspondingly makes trouble for everyone else. They make you out to be the enemy when you're not. It's horrible when that person is a manager. But it's also horrible when that person is a developer. Or any other role. I've managed people that you just have to let go, after trying every method known to man, you can't fix their fundamental psychology and neuroticism. Some people are just broken and organizations unfortunately are not equipped to deal with that (would be nice if every organization could have an in-house psychiatrist, but that's not the reality we have).

I will concede this though. When that bad person is a manager, EVERYONE on the team can suffer, the entire culture can suffer. When that person is just a team member, others on the team can usually figure out how to just avoid that person so that the problem can be compartmentalized. Better still, a good manager will not tolerate the bullshit because they know that it can poison the team if not handled properly. When that person is a manager, there's no avoiding the problem and team policies and culture will be poisoned accordingly so that the best people leave and nothing good is left.
Was about to comment that the author is not describing "Yak Shaving", but rather unrelated distractions. But I see they've already been corrected.
You must just be really lucky then because I see this at the top of one of the posts you shared (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pyrrhotech&next=3012...):

I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual return

April 2020, the exact bottom of the covid bear.

Not saying you're lying, and I don't know enough to be smart about the subject and I haven't read through your material, but it seems like a magic trick...

Your performance chart is misleading, I think, because it looks like it's showing hypothetical growth of an investment made in 2009 like we would normally expect from any other fund performance chart. Your site event says "$100,000 invested in the model at inception would have grown to $39,196,370". But your model was not investable until very recently. So it's essentially untested. The real performance numbers aren't anywhere close to that.

For this reason I think it would be fair call this out and to distinguish between the two types of trades shown on the chart: backward vs forward looking. Of course everyone would expect the backward looking trades to be impressive. The forward looking trades have already shown signs of weakness. It will be interesting to see how it does in the next few years.

Bottom line: this seems no different to me than someone producing a model that uses Jim Cramer recommendations as input to predict stock moves, fits it to produce near perfect historical trades", and then promotes their 60% CAGR as if it was real and actionable.

Good luck to you anyway.
> "...maybe they're here to probe our asses...well they're gonna have to take a number 'cause the military got there first..."

The existence of UFOs / UAPs continues to be an unknown. However, that confusion doesn't diminish the fact that we are all being probed on a regular basis. That's not a conspiracy theory. Remove UFOs / UAPs from his hypothesis, and funny isn't so funny anymore.
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That abstraction layer doesn't add value IMO, it modifies the message like a game of telephone.
I understand the urge to crap on Apple all too well.. but at least have the facts straight. $100 gets you a year; 7 days is for free accounts.
An even more interesting and funny perspective is from another programmer beforehand:

In this post-mortem talk [0] on Diablo 1. The creator mentioned his worst business decision - the Hotmail guy offering 10% of the company in return for an office in the back they weren't even using, and he rejected it.

According to him, the pitch was: "I'm going to make email over the Internet".

His response: "Dude, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard! What are you talking about, I already have my email over the Internet - this isn't even an invention!".

14 months later, that 10% was worth $40 million. Meanwhile they agreed to do Diablo only for $300k for Blizzard, and that was a bad deal - they even had to find more contracts to compensate it.

[0] https://youtu.be/Mlrrc_vy79E?t=2040
many new houses are much more energy efficient, though. Modern building code basically guarantees that this is true. from an energy consumption POV, a bigger new, efficient house may be better. (within reason).

OTOH, modern tax laws and lot coverage calculations actively discourage energy efficient design. In many jurisdictions, you are taxed on the size of the house measured from the eaves, not the walls, and this encourages builders to maximize the house relative to the roof overhang. this reduces the ability to implement passive energy efficiency strategies like large eaves to increase shade on walls / windows.
But a manager is something you progress into. How did bad people progress into it?
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Proctoring is testing overseen by an authorized, neutral, proctor, who ensures the identity of the test taker and the integrity of the test.

I wasn't familiar with the term. (non-native English speaker, lived in the US for ~10 years)
You could likely use autohotkey and winmove to place the modal windows where you want, I'm not at my desk now, but I'll update this post with the script I use (or a reply to it).
*twice the total consumed. If you count up all cans at the start of the day, and if you drink them all, then at the end of the day, you have 2x. If you start with one, then after a year you have 2^364.
Maybe it depends on what segment of society you are surrounded by? Most of my friends are barely hanging on (unhealthy/multiple jobs, multiple roommates, no kids, can't afford healthcare, etc.). So any decrease in quality of life would be a catastrophe.