skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define multitasking :)

There was a company (sadly defunct) that was building Erlang unikernels, and you can't say Erlang doesn't have multitasking.
> the average hood height of pickup trucks

Is about 55 inches for a current HD pickup, or 9 inches shorter than the average female human. The hood height is a bit lower for the more common half-ton pickups.
The way to handle this, I believe, is to make sure that the bug reports resulting from the "tornado"'s work end up back in their own lap. Don't let someone else fix them, especially not someone on another team. It has to be done non-antagonistically, of course. But it's the only way to make it clear to both management and (more importantly) the dev themself that there is a tradeoff for speed.
I think John Carmack is amazing but also an outlier.

The intersection of the sets of developers who:

A) make it to their 40s and are still IC's

B) still work > 40hrs/wk on a startup for little-to-no-pay

C) are still happy and enjoying themselves

Is small. It's not empty though!

But I do think there are many people who think this is the ideal way to live or something they ought to strive for. And the set of people who try and realize later in life that was not what they should have been working towards do tend to burnout and have regrets.

It happens a lot to people who want to be famous. They don't think about what they would have to give up to get it: some measure of your health in later life (hello carpal tunnel, frequent recurring hemorrhoids, type-2 diabetes, heart disease, poor vision, etc), friends and relationships (read enough biographies and loneliness is a recurring theme) -- things they might take for granted. There are stories from people who did make it and became famous and wish they hadn't. There are more of those than the, "I wouldn't have given this up for the world," types I think.

Grass is always greener on the other side, as they say.

Update: also, Carmack hasn't been working at a startup since he took the golden parachute out of Id and could afford to build rockets as a hobby.
> There are lots of good reasons for a company to be really choosy in who they hire, primarily because a bad hire can be hugely damaging to a company.

I think this is overstated. The only engineering positions that can really do any reasonable amount of damage to a company are people who set policy for the whole company (CTO, CEO, VPs). Everybody else is designed to be replaced. Any changes they make can be reversed. The worst you've lost is a little time and money.

> If you're not having much luck

I utilized /r/EngineeringResumes/ and rewrote my resume last month in an X, Y, Z format. I haven't had any problem getting interviews since then. But, I apply directly through the company website. I haven't had a single response on hired or linkedin, but I've had about 20 interviews in the past two weeks at companies I applied to directly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why not use a bicycle or a regular (non-electric) scooter? Honest question, I'm not being snark.
The first minute of every phone call is torture now
I used to believe that speed-cameras were "unsportsmanlike" until I a) grew up a little, and b) visited a country where they were in extensive use and driving felt safer.

Speed cameras massively decrease the need for traffic-stops, which is a huge win for both safety and potential profiling/discrimination. Lowering speeds can decrease the consequences of a crash and more-uniform low-cost enforcement can allow law-enforcement to focus limited human resources on responding to calls that actually require a human.

I'm a big fan of speed cameras now, especially those that measure average speed by photographing cars at the ends of a long road segment.
> There is no pretending that this is an accident, given that conservatives outnumber liberals by ~40% in the general population!

Age and conservatism are largely linked, so I would take this with a grain of salt as your average college class is going to be very young.
They also have the power to stop using it.

Easier said than done, as I know because I still use Messenger.
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in scanned docs [2013]
Single data point with a spotty read of the outcome should not be enough to put any weight behind a theory.

Chances are "big tech" advertises popular brands, both items in your pocket are likely to have fit into that category.
How to achieve permanent world peace
This article is NOT another bull crap that says: “We should all be better people.” This article shows how to achieve it.
At least in a dev situation I think 10-1 devs-to-managers is actually a pretty sizable ratio - I think ideally it's more of a 6-to-8ish to one.

Now, this of course assumes that engineering managers are not solely doing employee management but also are serving some "tech lead" type roles. I.e. even if an engineering manager isn't coding I think it's essential that (a) a considerable portion of their time is spent doing code reviews, (b) they should be working closely with product managers to define stories and requirements before the dev team starts implementing, etc.

That is, having line engineering managers solely do "people management" is universally a bad idea in my opinion. They should be getting their "hands dirty" in the tech aspects as well in order to be effective.
Elizabeth Warren
Somehow I missed this (very noticeable actually) non-algorithmic toggle button until I saw your comment, so many thanks for mentioning this.
Paris and rome are great examples from my perspective.
Ralph Lauren to Launch Fortnite Fashion Line with First Polo Logo Mashup
PIED PIPER IS REAL!
Starbucks Odyssey
"Pavements" means "sidewalks"?
Except for the fact that you won't have healthcare
As far as I understand this is what has happened so far.

1. Pandemic caused a demand collapse.

2. Money printing and stimulus to counteract.

3. Pandemic ending caused demand return. All of that money still out there, now inflationary.

4. On top of that, supply collapse because of war in Ukraine, and residual effects of pandemic.

5. Higher interest rates and tightening to counteract.
Lawn Darts were legitimately dangerous, but I think the reason Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US is that US law says you can't sell "candy that has embedded in it a toy or trinket". The intent of the law was to stop things like in the 1950s where toys were literally embedded in the food, which obviously isn't the case with Kinder Eggs. And it obviously isn't really a safety issue as places like Europe that have far stricter safety laws than the US have no problem with Kinder Eggs.
> Judges are NOT political appointees.

On the contrary, any officer appointed by the President, Vice President, or an agency head, with or without Senate confirmation, is a “political appointee”.

> Within the civil service a political appointee is one that can be and usually is dismissed in a change of government.

It is true that within the executive branch, political appointees often serve at the pleasure of the President (though even there are a number of exceptions where political appointees have fixed terms and cannot be arbitrarily dismissed.)
> because the other side doesn't bother to actually stop and think about the problem we're trying to solve and why.

The dude is describing his self here, he apparently doesn't bother to actually stop and think about the problem the kernel maintainers are trying to solve. He only wants his drivers to work and the world be damned.

He doesn't stop to think that they are going to have to maintain that code practically forever after he gets bored and moves on to something else.
Sure, I get the phenomenon you are describing. It is unclear how this relates to my comment.

My comment is merely that the criterion you are mentioning is actually not a great one for selecting who to perform surgery on you.
Elephant in the room that shall never be mentioned.
> 30x that

That is total deaths. Most people killed in a car-related accident are in the car. Pedestrian deaths are around 17% of the total. [0]

[0] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
Dumb question alert; can these certs be repurposed to sign windows binaries for running locally?

Depending on the environment, windows can be set to prohibit executing anything that isn't signed....which is annoying on a dev machine building windows executables.
There are only five media stories
1. Elon already tweeted that this is false.

2. As another commenter mentioned, I don't even think this would be possible given California WARN Act requirements, but I'm less sure on the legal requirements here.
Apologies I misunderstood. And when I was remarking on Musk I meant those actually involved in the lay-offs.
Among the first of my thoughts upon learning of the game is that it sounds fun. :)
It’s from one of the original CentOS founders.

I imagine they want to write “Rocky Linux: Brought to you by CentOS”, but cannot, since they sold the trademark to Red Hat years ago.
One of the reasons we're 'stuck' with TCP and UDP on the Internet is because most middle-boxes (firewalls) don't really understand anything else.

If you're strictly operating inside a DC, presumably with minimal/fewer firewalls, could alternatives like SCTP and DCCP be an option?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Congestion_Control_Pr...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_layer
The All-In Podcast had a chart (https://youtu.be/A-bIpJdaCnM?t=2126) that compared the Meta's investment on VR with the investment that changed human history in the past, all inflation adjusted. It's pretty interesting. iPhone: $3.6B, Tesla: $25B, Boeing: $32B, Apollo: $253B. And Meta's Reality Lab: $4B a quarter!
30 years ago the company I worked for had just taken delivery of their first Unix machine (a Sequent Symmetry). It was about the size of a large refrigerator and sat in our machine room blinking at me. My boss, standing in the doorway with a cigarette gripped in his teeth, said "learn how to use this."

There was no internet and we had no books but somehow I figured out the 'man' and 'apropos' commands. From there I read all the section 1 man pages, experimented with the things I found and basically figured out how unix works. Within a couple of months I had a suite of shell scripts doing most of the regular maintenance work for me.

A few months later on a Friday afternoon one of our legacy systems, the one for processing cheques, died (literal smoke coming out of the back of it). My colleague and I had been learning C in our spare time so we volunteered to rewrite it over the weekend. We had no sleep that weekend, but we delivered a working replacement (using ncurses) by Monday lunchtime.

It was a simpler time and a more charming time. The internet has been a game changer, both good and bad. It's easier to learn new things now but there are a lot more new things to learn.

Work-life balance is a hard one for me to answer because my situation has changed. Back then I enjoyed being at work more than I enjoyed being at home so I worked super long hours, I even slept in the office fairly regularly (mostly because of the pub across the street). So there was no work-life balance, but I liked it that way.
Asahi isn't the OEM, so I don't really see what you're comparing here. Nobody is mad at Asahi for writing drivers from scratch for black-box hardware, it's just that the Linux kernel isn't really the proper place to hack together cutting-edge shims for unsupported hardware. Linux has a larger obligation to stability than it does to novelty, so naturally it makes sense that the line gets drawn somewhere. Unfortunately the Linux kernel isn't maintained by some trillion-dollar company with the impetus to sort out these problems.
"Designed to be" == they recompile RHEL source and sell support - for some level of support - cheaper than RH.
Part of the problem is, you just need one civilization in this galaxy to invent von Neumann probes to expect to see their robot offspring everywhere, even if that civilization is half a billion years dead.
And you link Alan Watts... the most basic bro hippie shit.
The real Ligma would never have stood for this.
My friend who was in a doctoral program put it best:

"The point of academia is to make more academics. Bachelor and Master degrees are their funding source."
No, he hasn't. Conservatives are 0.36 of the general population, which is ~40% higher than the 0.25 that are liberals.
The mu4e front end looks really nice. I’ve ne er wanted to use Emacs as a mail client but this could worth a try
I was still in HS, but I did write a bunch of programs in Calculator BASIC on my Ti-85 and eventually sold a chemistry program for $1 to a classmate.

The big thing is, the internet was new, nerdy, most people didn't even have it, and I ended up carrying around the big thick manual my calculator came with because there was nothing else. Google didn't exist. And in fact I'm not sure what if any search engines there were at the time.
Because you don't need another library to do it? Why load jQuery at all in 2022?
The fed purchases treasuries in order to fulfill several different goals, all under the broader umbrella of monetary policy. It isn’t nefarious and is something that is done by central banks all over the world. This isn’t some sort of “only game in town” type of a deal.

Just as an example, what would you suppose would be a better mechanism to expand/contract the money supply? Just handing out money to random individuals? Randomly taking it away?
I stay on the bike lane on the road 95% of the time

Forgot that I take having bike lanes in my town for granted
I feel like I'm often accused of being that person but it's not just with him, it's usually with any divisive person. I greatly dislike the habit of people try and dismiss everything a person has done because they have done one or several things that they are against so I'm often seen "defending" controversial figures.

I don't have any particular love for Musk nor would I want to work for any of his companies but it's incredibly frustrating to me to see people pretend like taking EVs mainstream and re-usable rockets aren't an incredible feats that he's played a large part in accomplishing (even if it's just by funding, for the people who say "he didn't do any of that work!"). And he's objectively a good businessman, given that the metric for business is money.

Some communities are incapable of espousing anything positive about people that they've deemed the enemy.
Its like cities had zero controls on parking then just banned cars instead of building effective parking enforcement laws.

Simple solution:

1) Cities establish guidelines on legal parking / riding.
2) Impose large fines for violations.
3) Scooter companies pass on those fines to the rider who parked illegally.

But instead we have a bunch of blue cities banning the most affordable, equity enhancing, zero emissions, last mile transportation solution.
Interesting that “Hello” could be this generations Tom’s Diner:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19727/how-toms-diner-tun...
Fwiw, Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is actually a classics scholar named Costin Alamariu, who holds a PhD from Yale and wrote a dissertation on the tyrants of antiquity. He puts on a Slavic accent for his podcast, but he moved to the US as a boy and speaks perfect American English.

BAP wrote a book popular in right-wing circles called Bronze-Age Mindset. In the late teens, it was reviewed in a couple of the usual places by conservative figures. BAP has lost a lot of steam since then, and it doesn't look like he'll lead his group of Frogs and fringe-heads to direct action, even though he fetishizes the warrior class.

BAP and his fellow travelers were early believers in Trump and grew disillusioned. They were consistent champions of Putin as well -- after all, he appeared topless on a horse and learned karate. I can only imagine that Russia's military failures in Ukraine have made them seek other idols.

The good thing about BAP is that he knows his sources. He has mastered political philosophy and read the original texts to a depth and degree that jokers like Yarvin cannot aspire to.

Like Yarvin, BAP wants a strong man. He does not believe in democracy. He does believe in racial superiority and inferiority. While I happen to disagree with him about a lot of issues, including those, for all the usual reasons, if I were to engage him on his own terms, I would simply point out that authoritarian regimes like those he idolizes have really obvious weaknesses.

Those include the inability to maintain high-quality, transparent communication under a punitive regime, and the inability of a kleptocracy to inspire the kind of collection action that wins wars.

BAP is chasing a pipe dream.
TCP is basically exists to deal with an unsolvable problem, "the two generals"

Its easy to look at it and say it could be better because you have tunnel vision for your use case. However its also easy to forget that the protocol literally has a billion edge cases.

Why do you think your NIC has a new driver update every couple of weeks even though they have been running the same protocols for the last 50 years?
It's not an anecdote. It's a basic understanding of traffic in Atlanta, the geographic limits of the ban, and all the Covid related fall out happening at the same time. It's the equivalent of arguing that days are 10% longer due to the scooter ban. It doesn't need critical examination to know it's wrong.
Honestly, I'm not sure how to say this politely, but your argument does not map to my understanding of how FB ads worked (I was there from 2013-18, predominantly working on ads).

Steps 1-3 are correct, step 4 is not.

What actually happened is that you'd say I want to spend $10 on FB ads. There's a system called pacing that reduces your bid most of the time so that you don't run out of budget before the end of the day.

Separate to this, FB estimated how likely a user was to click/convert on your ad, and multiplied your bid by this probability (times 1000). This number was used to rank your ad against other ads/content.

So, what would actually happen is that you'd see amazing performance on that $10 budget, and you'd be like FB rocks spend all the money. Unfortunately, because of the way the above worked, when you 10xed the budget it would all far apart.

If FB had actually wanted to maximise short term revenue they might have behaved like you said, but the reason they've made so much money over the years is that they were always much more focused on the longer-term revenue.
>I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.

My perception is that every major ideological group is doing this and has been since civilization started. Most people don't mind as long as the ideology aligns with their own ideology.
A lot of places have this problem. Pavements are for pedestrians. Roads are for roadworthy vehicles. It’s maybe legal to go on bike paths. But the network of those might go from nowhere to nowhere.
Cars/trucks do an extra special addition though: park in a lane because you're delivering something, or, ya know, doing something outside of the vehicle.
> Really the feds could (and imo should) force them to do so, given a ton of their money come from federal grants.

People frequently tell me I don't understand what endowments are for. Harvard has $51 billion. If we take an average of 5% per year and this assuming they make a $2.5bn return on that investment each year (and raise zero money in addition to it), that would allow them to pay for 25k students (at $100k each. I'm rounding up by like $20k btw). That's more than Harvard has at any given time, by a few thousand.

I get that endowments are supposed to be safety mechanisms and allow funds for things like new buildings, tuition assistance, and gaining more investments. But at what point do we recognize that these are just money making schemes. Many public universities have multi-billion dollar endowments. Money held away and not being used is not adding value to our economy. I'd argue that education adds a lot of value. But that's an argument for cheaper education, not allowing it to become a highly profitable system. Clearly what is happening right now isn't sustainable.
You’re missing the whole story here. Was the Game Boy well designed? It was a smash hit upon release, but everybody immediately complained about the screen quality. The thing sold and sold and sold because it was inexpensive and just plain fun, bad screen notwithstanding. By 1996 however, it was woefully old, and the Game Boy Pocket sales were soft when it came out. Pokémon saved Nintendo’s bacon and gave them leeway to develop the Game Boy Color, which was also old and criticized upon release, but it again had Pokémon.

It’s more complicated than a simple good or bad checkmark whether a thing is popular or not.
There's USDA certified organic and they explain it all her

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-...

I'm also not sure how you think we should refer to it?
Ah ok I think I remember now:

my @foo = (1,2);
$foo[1]; #2

my $foo_r = \@foo
$foo_r->[1]; #2

my @bar = (1,2,$foo_r);
$bar[2]->[1]; #2

Re the sigils, you're right, I would just add, $ is for scalar and a scalar iirc can be /either/ a value or a reference, that's why $foo_r and $foo[1] above both start with $. That's what I found unhelpful, it would have been nice to have a distinct sigil for refs (but presumably Larry was out of available symbols at that point!).
To be fair, the issue is probably not going to be as evident downtown. Go over to the east side in old fourth ward or inman park and I think you'd have come to a different conclusion.
I'm not interested in wasting time over the trite debate of who started first. It's irrelevant. Put it how you want, the entire west is at war with Russia, and they are holding much better than we'd like to admit.
I absolutely despise Twitter and their mods, so seeing layoffs is lovely schadenfreude.

You cannot remove a sitting President when you’re functionally the town square. We now know COVID almost certainly was a lab leak. You don’t get to enforce your views on the world forever - this is gravity pulling down the bubble.
Meta made so many mistakes, the metaverse being one. Facebook's layout sucks, imho. The old one was better. There is a long history of VR being a commercial failure. This is something that could have been avoided. With PE ratio of just 9, it' very cheap though.
Indeed, that does seem to be the case. The opening shot of the game play footage they have on their website[0] does the developer no favors (nor does the rest of the video).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5wPE-aQwc
I wonder what the people of 30-40 years ago would have thought of it?
A lot of things “could” happen 40 years from now. Though I’m not sure that kind of speculation is particularly insightful within this context.
I doubt it. The rate at which you get new riders and old riders forgetting their painful lesson will naturally become equal to the number of people learning a painful lesson, and the number of reckless scooter riders will tend towards a stable equilibrium. I'd say we're already not far away from that equilibrium.
It's just money printing with extra steps.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, because games like this are almost always going to happen in politics. It's when the system gets rigid and these games stop being played that you have more issues.
There are two ways to encode a repeated field (100 floats, but could also be any size up to the limits of repeteating fields):
"Ordinary (not packed) repeated fields emit one record for every element of the field." That means type, value, type, value, etc"

However, "packed" fields are exactly a length followed by a byte array of the typed data. This was an oversight in original proto2 which is unlikely to be corrected, but packed the default in proto3.
We value companies at 10x their annual revenue and beyond. A country like the US is surely worth decades of its GDP at least. It won't be in the red at 200% debt to GDP.