skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This mirrors my experience with my prestigious job I had at SiemensVDO in 2005/2006. Same stuff of wasting time on anything else than coding. He said 10% of his time was coding. I suspect mine was like 20% and I felt miserable after a year. The honeymoon of getting to write embedded code for real cars, cars that would be driven by millions of people only lasted like 3 to 4 months. After that the job had nothing else to teach me and over a little year later I quit too, with a total of one month shy of 1.5 years there.
The day bug fixes drive sales you will see companies prioritizing them. This isn’t impossible either, you just have to make “no open bugs” a marketing term.
Yep. I think it is needed to satisfy some category theory thing but I never got a good answer on that. I like to use nri-prelude since I went from Elm to Haskell and it has the same idioms, to wit `head : List a -> Maybe a`.
At the simplest level, this reminds me of input in C64 BASIC. You could hit RETURN anywhere on on any line and that line would get parsed as if you'd just types it in. You could cursor around, edit previously-entered lines, and so on. It was pretty neat.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19552221
Actually, I think it was the initials of the original publishers
He never said not to tell anyone but he brought up several such details while we were working together. The information wasn’t really helpful for anything in that it wasn’t relevant to our work (making software).

I never revealed the info because it was said in confidence. But we weren’t really that close so it stood out to me.

My example was made up but the actual factoids were about medical issues and bodily functions. It wasn’t creepy or anything just not something I would want widely known.
There is shit-ton of work to be done :)
No, the real problem is that we continue to elevate low stakes local issues into high stakes national / international news because it advances our own preferred narratives.
> Poorly designed, failure-prone, brittle internal tooling was a time and energy sink to the point where even the most trivial deployment change was a nail-biter.

Considering rather good quality APIs they expose to the external world, this is shocking to read.
that's amazing... there are people in a meeting room at facebook believing this will increase revenue and the product owner of fb messenger said yes. lol
Lots of people don't care about real time collaboration
That evidently didn't happen here.

I do remember reading about that too though, maybe it missed it because it was JSON data not a variable definition or something?

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/sec...

I can't find anywhere that specifies the actual pattern though.
Absolutely - on my days off I HAVE to uninstall Slack, or I find myself reading all of the channels, messages and threads I'm subscribed to.

Some colleagues of mine have always just "batched" their messages, and have timeboxed reading/replying to slack messages on a schedule, just so they can focus.

I haven't tried this yet, as it feels rude, but that's the drawback of always online IM in a workplace.
I was being sarcastic because I'm pretty sure it would not impact it in anyway.
I’ve been finding many home kits as just empty shells.

The reagent is evaporating out of the packaging before the expiration date.
If you're searching for a way to snap your data to power-of-two byte grid, you're already not using RAM efficiently.
Acting on diet or microbiome can help relieve symptoms of Parkinson's disease
> Cryptocurrency makes this trivial. All computer systems likely also have vulnerabilities, including financial systems. An AI can probe these systems around the clock, or can subtly introduce vulnerabilities into our vulnerable software supply chains. These are only two among many options that are entirely within the realm of plausibility.

And there it is: the assumption that AGI will, necessarily, be capable of hacking effectively any computer system, no matter how well-secured.

This belongs in Hollywood, not on HN.
First thought: U.S. House committee members are probably better qualified to hold hearings on strategies for proving the Riemann Hypothesis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis ) than they are on the collapse of FTX.
This is interesting. It sounds like Facebook is potentially looking under the couches, so-to-speak, for spare change by doing this. I also wonder if other comms apps are going to be doing this too?
When he mentioned the steel cable, I wondered why they don't use an arrangement more like cable cars. It sounded like it is in case they break loose during a storm or emergency, so it useful to have the engine on board along with the back up generators.

Are the cables actually used for traction, or just a countermeasure against having to fight the cross current?
Nothing is perfect and there were trade offs. This person was really smart so the stuff we made was interesting. I wouldn’t want to work in that org again but I’d gladly work with that individual.
I am pretty sure nobody except nerds knows what IRC is right now. It's long since been supplanted by user-friendlier group chat services.

I agree with this. Like I mentioned this is slowly changing with web front-ends to IRC like TheLounge. NGIRCD [1] + TheLounge [2] take all of about 10 minutes to set up and then maybe another 10 minutes to tie that into and configure IRC services such as Anope [3]. I would not be surprised if this has already been automated with Docker or Ansible.

It is possible that Discord and Slack may be popular until they reach critical mass and their corporate leaders might feel confident enough to start doing hostile things to their user base or until someone with a large ego purchases them or a whistle blower publishes proof of some malicious behavior that people might care about.

One nerd can host a platform for tens of thousands of non-nerds, or equivalent to one Discord server. The challenging part is finding non-toxic and non-power-tripping moderators.

[1] - https://ngircd.barton.de/

[2] - https://thelounge.chat/

[3] - https://anope.org/
As this is primarily a text on point-set topology, I recommend reading this article on the Texas Topology approach, which was taught to me when I was in undergrad

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S031508600...

Basically the idea is for the students to discover and prove the key theorems themselves -- with the instructor giving them hints and some feedback. No cheating and no textbooks -- the founder, R.L. Moore, would screen students to his classes to weed out those who already knew too much.

This approach was quite tough, and lasted from the about 1970 to the 1980s, at which point there was a bit of a revolution -- according to the story told me, the younger professors moved all the furniture of the older professors onto the lawn, and declared they would go back to a more standard approach to teaching topology.

At the same time, it's incredibly rewarding to discover and prove something like the Baire category theorem all by yourself. No matter how clumsy and inefficient your approach ends up being. It's a bit of a shame that no university does this anymore, but I think an enterprising student can still persuade a professor to work with them like this.
> That terminology is borrowed from the original practice of having mules haul barges along canals

The Panama Canal has mechanical mules, but they are only used to keep ships on course, not to propel ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_locks#Mules)

Disadvantages of towing are that it requires a towpath alongside the water, that overtaking is difficult, and that making tight turns can be difficult (the puller always pulls the ship closer to the canal or river shore, requiring the use of the ship’s rudder to keep it on track. In tight turns, the pull direction is closer to orthogonal to the shore, requiring more rudder)

Because of these, I think battery-powered ships with container-sized batteries that can easily be swapped may be a better solution.
I went to a tesla store late in 2021 to see the X, 3 and S.

On the model S in the show room, the boot looked like they had painted over a number of bugs.

One door was higher than the other. The panel gap around the driver door was massive.

I have a 2006 kia rio, which has better paint work, and better panel gaps than a tesla, and costs £1800.

I really wanted to like the tesla as I could have got a good deal, but if it didn't fit together, then what else has crappy tolerances? is the NCAP performance rigged? will it actually survive a crash?

edit stuff like this: https://imgur.com/gallery/jlSOOHJ
This uncertainty stems from the lack of rigorous proof. Medicine these days is all about statistics and correlation. It's "we gave drug A to people with B and we observed effects C occurring D% of the time". In way too many cases there is no exact model or understanding of how things actually work, just inferences from observed effects.
However the linked article makes a pretty strong case that the two are increasingly interlinked, especially in the EA institutions.
I guess there is a use case for that, but I've never wanted to do that.
Android and Chrome are small projects in this context :P
This scandal generated a whole host of reports, it collapsed the APA leadership. Books have been written about it. I am not a journalist, nor a historian. And I don’t have enough knowledge about it to answer any detailed questions about it, other then the fact that it happened. I’m sure you can find information by googling e.g. “APA torture” or “James Mitchell” and “Bruce Jessen” the two most prominent psychologists guilty of torturing people.
> If you receive a phone call while locked presumably the phone can still access the address book to display the contact name and photo?

Just so you know, this is true on an iPhone, but NOT if the phone has NEVER been unlocked since reboot. If you get an SMS/call in this state, it will just show the number. It can't read the address book.
CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
Sure it is, what is this Windows? Put emojis in your file names, it’s fun.
This is pretty cool. I wonder what the effort would have been to instead have a battery charging / swapping process on one end. It would still be clean energy, charged on shore. I'm sure the batteries wouldn't be super light but you could have them in modules and you could engineer solutions for moving them.

Perhaps for situations where it isn't already cable guided this is still a practical approach. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to the weight of the batteries and how much energy they can provide + etc… but if my Tesla is any indicator it doesn't seem too hard vs managing that cable back and forth
The janky overlays in that YouTube video are hilarious... Happening even when nobody's wearing cream colored clothing!
> (3) Autism epidemic.

Uh, I'm having more and more trouble believing this is just an increase in diagnosis rates. That's what we said 13 years ago when I was graduating college, and yet the rates have actually increased very dramatically even since 2010 (from 1/68 to 1/44) a 54% increase.

I appreciate that it's useful to consider alternative explanations of data, but presuming an alternative explanation is valid for over 20 years without hard data? Really?
Not sure what the Amzn situation is but something I've noticed at few previous gigs that there're some folks who claim they spent significant time wrestling with tooling but when you actually go in and make them formulate the issue it's either something really obvious or a 10-min google/github search like 9/10 times. These also weren't coming from people who I considered lazy or unintelligent (well, for the most part) so I can't really explain it logically. I suspect it may have something to do with motivation or cultural issues ("not my job" sort of folks).
That's because stagnation is setting in. Inflation will settle around 5-6% while consumption declines 10-12% over the next year as credit dries up with a massive decline in savings.
Right. The odds against intelligent, industrial life arising at this star in this galaxy were astronomical. The odds against it arising somewhere among trillions of stars and galaxies are much less so.

But I'm not so sure about that last. The Drake equation and Great Filter do handle the multiple-endpoints question correctly. They ask, with so many possible occurrences in the scale of the universe, why don't we see any of them?
There's been strong pushback against the term "statistical significance", though I don't seem to find a widely-accepted alternative. See e.g.,

"Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”"
Ronald L. Wasserstein, Allen L. Schirm, & Nicole A. Lazar. Pages 1-19 | Published online: 20 Mar 2019

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...

"Statistically measurable" or "statistically determinable" come to mind though I can't find a cite.

The originally intended ... significance ... of the term was that a difference was capable of being shown using statistical methods. Not that its size or context was itself significant in some semantic, practical, or other sense.
Wow, I may actually become interested in Math using this.

I like that there is always a glossary of math symbols attached, with a short description included, so that I can search for further explanations for these.
I used to walk around 1 mile to school every day along a very busy road when I was 8 years old and nobody batted an eye. I lived in Texas at the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mark this as a [video], please.
None of what you wrote makes them sound like a "bad actor". All of these are good things for a failing business. Why shouldn't a photo editing app be $10/week? If you don't think you are getting that much value out of it then don't subscribe. Yet there is probably a group of power users who will gladly pay that amount. Evernote needs to be catering to them, not the millions of users who will endlessly complain but never spend an actual dollar on their services.
I understand this isn't the answer to your question but given what you've disclosed I'll have to advise against limiting yourself to embedded jobs alone. A job isn't the only way to follow your passion, in fact it may cause you to hate your passion over time. Find the most in demand skill that is somewhat interesting to you and focus on that. To follow your passion buy a cheap embedded linux board and hack away in your free time. I was in the same boat as you but now I've come to realize most jobs in tech are interesting to me, so I might as well focus on the ones that are most in demand. Just keep an open mind.
Edit: Typo
That’s still Google, though. I suspect non-MetaBet companies would try harder to avoid scaling the development team in the first place.

(My other two posts in this thread are -4 and +7 although they both have the same point. Never sure how to interpret that.)
>Towards the end of the article, they make it sound like it's for the good of the oppressed. I guess we have a good contender for a future Nobel peace prize award.

Isn't that the point a well written PR article? To inform and to persuade?

As someone who have done some reputation management work with the defense sector and firms that offer private peacekeeping solutions, it is crucial to shape the narrative early to avoid misunderstanding from the general public.
The batteries could even be attached cars themselves so moving them on and off would be really simple
Microsoft offered a website/tool that allowed importing from Evernote but they shut it down a while ago.
I see, thanks for the thorough explanation!
im asking from ignorance, what the difference in effect this context of not having the library itself?
I've felt overwhelmed too - multiple companies and community workspaces add up. Here are a few of the things I've done:

1. Disconnect the community workspaces that you don't really need or rarely, if ever, participate in. You can always reconnect periodically to get caught up.
2. Leave channels that you never participate in or waste time - like joke and water cooler channels.
3. Mute channels that you rarely participate in, but don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by leaving.
4. Stay out of most conversations that aren't directly related to your work.
5. Use threads and encourage others to use threads so no one has to scroll through conversations that don't pertain to them.
6. Mark yourself as away when you need to be heads down.
7. (Maybe better) Close Slack when you need to be heads down.
8. Don't respond to channel communication immediately, unless something really requires your immediate attention.
9. Don't respond immediately to every DM, unless it's important.

Essentially, do self care and set reasonable boundaries.
I guess we just remember things differently. For sure there was a lot of disbelief around the internet when Elon made his original offer because who in their right mind would pay that much money for Twitter? But once it became clear that the money was there it was also clear that Twitter's board had a fiduciary duty to accept. At that point the only obstacle was Musk himself, presumably having realized that he had handcuffed himself to a questionable business deal in a fit of pique. Cue the months of hemming and hawing, lawyering etc. until finally Musk knew there was no way out.
We tried this several times, specifically banning meetings on Friday, and it never sticks. Some manager or executive always winds up ignoring the rule and setting a meeting anyway, which throws the whole thing out.
Let me clarify my original comment. It's not just about the company name on your résumé. It's about what your stint there says about you. If I sensed that a candidate saw the environment that Elon is creating at Twitter as a positive thing? Huge red flag. And if someone joined after seeing how Elon wants to run things, I'm gonna assume they're into it. I don't want that productivity-destroying toxicity anywhere near me or my team.

With regard to how recruitment works, I've never been on a team where a recruiter got final say over whether someone is hired. As an engineer, I've had a lot of say in that decision many times. As for whether those feelings are projected, well… just look at which way the sentiment is going in this thread. Would you really want to take that gamble?
This whole episode should hopefully bring donation recipients to do more due diligence on where the money comes from, before spending it.

The US president, those researchers, and many, many startups are holding what is pretty directly the money of FTX's unsuspecting users.

The recovery will be a long and painful process.
(not the op, but I do have some insight here)

At a minimum, CuSP data will be available via PySPEDAS:

https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas

If you're interested in accessing science data from spacecraft, you should check it out!
'I took magic mushrooms at 64 and the fog I've lived under my whole life lifted'
https://archive.ph/GRGLS
And coming to Skype or Zoom or WebEx or some other competitor: a notification that "Unlike some of our competitors, we promise never to intrude into your calls"
Show HN: Browse HN on an iPod Classic
Hey HN! For the past few months I’ve been plagued by the idea of scrolling through Hacker News on an iPod so I finally decided to bring it to life (using iPod.js). It works for HN, and then I added some other stuff like Twitter and watching Youtube videos in cover flow.
yes, proving my point. your worthless code does not have millions of users and developers building on top of your platform.
Seems unlikely they'd spend that whole round of funding on one app. I bet it was much, much less.
I agree 100%.

I've worked on some big TypeScript code bases that make heavy use of sort of FP the article promotes; dealing with stack traces and debugging the code is incredibly painful. Jumping around between 47 layers of curried wrapper functions and function composers that manage all state mostly in closures is a real drag.

Until the tooling is better, I can't recommend these idioms for real work.

TBF, there is a kind of beauty to the approach and as you really dig into it and understand it, it can feel like a revelation. There's something addictive about it. But any feeling of joy is obliterated by the pain of tracing an error in a debugger that isn't equipped to handle the idiom.
it wasn't stored on GitHub.

there's a json file on GitHub referencing the download of the source archive, stored on pypi infra.

in the tgz you can download from pypi you can find python code containing the secret.

https://github.com/orf/pypi-data/blob/main/release_data/i/h/...
Zoom has the audacity to show me (a paying Zoom subscriber) ads in the UI and at the end of calls. It's infuriating, even more so since it's ads for nothing I'd ever consider using.

In UI: https://cs.joshstrange.com/zTpdlC

End of call, always on top, popup: https://cs.joshstrange.com/BizVwE

EDIT: I get that it's less offensive since it's a "first-party ad"/"upsell" and I could forgive the banner in the app (even though dismissing it only makes it go away for like 24 hours, if that) but the popups post-meeting drive me bonkers. To the point I've considered seeing if I can write some code to watch for that window and kill it right away.
Whistleblower laws don't work out so well for those who threaten to blow the whistle as a negotiating tactic.

It's not retaliation if they fire you before you make the disclosure...
Nowadays you separate service by business capability and not by "layer". Layers just lead to a dependencies and dependencies lead to bad reliability and terrible development speed.
That’s a great take, but I have to mention that I disagree with a statement I may have only read into the thread: FP is not more complex just for the sake of it.
I don't think many ordinary British English speakers draw the distinction. And yah, I guess they'd take "sign" to mean any sign of anything. So in vernacular talk, all medical signs AND symptoms get smooshed into "symptoms".

So that's fine. Medical experts can use the technical meanings in expert discourse, and the vernacular meanings in vernacular discourse.
When investigating a report of abuse, that's often reasonable.

When the report itself doesn't have any abuse in it, no way.
That’s a f no from me dawg. They can add this to every video service out there and I’ll happily set up a SIP PBX. Not happening.
So basically a shared note from Notes.app
Just wait until you learn about the Hilton offset:segment addressing mode and Marriott memory mapping
Introducing Notion AI
Maybe like 20 years ago you were right but today there's a generation that's been working for 10 years on systems built like that. They don't know any better, and in most cases nobody is around to teach them otherwise.
> unlikely to have learnt enough

There is an important caveat here - sometimes the original is rough not because you didn't know how to do it better, but because you were emphasizing speed and flexibility e.g. very early stage startup and you don't really understand the product here.

[see also, ship the prototype problem]
I wish there was a similar list about economics, but it will take 150 years more.
We collaborated with thefuck to build our version of this :) TF is slightly different in that they actually _rerun_ your last command to get the output since they don't have access to command output
Assuming this is true, who comes up with ideas like this?

If I was an advertiser do I really want to pay to have my ad (video nonetheless) shown to someone while they're actively trying to have a phone call? As a user, I'd just be pissed off at the advertiser plus im not looking at my screen when talking.

I guess technically this increases ad "views" metrics. But advertisers are just wasting their money. I hope the fact that Meta is testing changes like this causes advertisers to re-evaluate the risks of using FB advertising.
> is $10 a WEEK.

Paxys. You probably don't have a clear idea of what kind apps he was referring to. There are no power users in this case.