skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you want to become? Tell me your goals. Let's help you make a plan.

All very empowering manager buddy stuff.

To a junior developer, sitting across the table, it all sounds like

I can't do anything for you. If you don't know what you want to do, you're a failure. I don't even know what you do here.

What I want to hear from a manager who understands me:

Here are the pathways open to you. Here's where I see you fitting in. Here's what you could be doing in a few years. Here's what I'd like to see you achieve.
Are there any examples of companies with flat profits that continue to exist years later, where the non-growth isn't caused by mistake or incompetence?
Sort of. It's actually fairly common on larger cores (and particular, larger SoCs) for there to exist magic that happens before architectural reset vectors.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5127

> By pre-boot code, I’m not talking about the little ROM blob that gets run after reset to set up your peripherals so you can pull your bootloader from SD card or SSD. That part was a no-brainer to share. I’m talking about the code that gets run before the architecturally guaranteed “reset vector”. A number of software developers (and alarmingly, some security experts) believe that the life of a CPU begins at the reset vector. In fact, there’s often a significant body of code that gets executed on a CPU to set things up to meet the architectural guarantees of a hard reset – bringing all the registers to their reset state, tuning clock generators, gating peripherals, and so forth. Critically, chip makers heavily rely upon this pre-boot code to also patch all kinds of embarrassing silicon bugs, and to enforce binning rules.
Are any of the corpus texts labeled with IQ?

Also wondering why concision is unlabeled as high IQ
I really hope some day we can appreciate that webcomponents are the best way to give users agency. Its an ok dev tool, but it takes so much invisible chaotic nonsense that JS does on modern sites & it can make it real, make it represented & visible & malleable on the site. It makes the web co-programmable, alike the better visions of what hypercard &al were maybe heading towards.

Treating the web as a low level platform that we can extense on top of, grow & further, with new, creative higher-level layers of hypermedia: that is a path to software with a soul, not just for big companies hacking out features, but genuine good for society. A malleable cohesive comprehendible connected information space.
It makes the absolute best firewood.
I signed up for Kagi. I’m disappointed in all the login stuff.
But the claim about Tether problems is about solvency, not liquidity. If they are insolvent then

1. They defend the peg

2. Run out of money

3. Remaining tether is worth $0.

Now, probably they will not defend until exactly 0, and maybe they will have some illiquid assets that will be worth something, but I think $0.5 on a dollar is extremely ambitious. Kind of like FTX isn’t a liquidity issue, it’s a solvency issue.
Glad to hear! Happy Tidbyt user here. The device is incredibly well made, and love how you've been iterating. Wish the company all the success!
What do you mean by "a better approach" here? The key is that the poster you responded to survived by virtue of owning a gas stove, so it seems to me like step 1 is simply not banning them, which costs nothing and requires no work. If I were in their situation, I would demand that the grid be made so reliable that this situation be impossible even in a hundred year storm, before a ban even be considered.
Just a small tip, but often these things are received better if you frame them as helping someone else and not as “going off on your own.”

So, if possible, describe your concrete company as being “your cousin’s/brother’s/friend’s company” (if such a person exists) that he needs help with one day a week, rather than the somewhat adversarial phrasing of, “I started a separate company and need to work there more and at this contracting job less.”

Whether dealing with employers or anyone else, it always helps to remember that they don’t have as much information about the situation as you do. Subsequently they will take whatever you give them and craft a story around it that may or may not be what’s actually happening.
PinePower's cables seem good enough for everything except probably the high-res display / PCIE cases

https://pine64.com/product/usb-type-c-to-usb-type-c-silicone... https://pine64.com/product/usb-type-c-to-usb-type-c-silicone...
If it’s 70% backed for example, not being algorithmic is exactly why they will first redeem at $1 for the first 70% withdrawals, and then declare bankruptcy and the last 30% are worth $0.

In practice if this is the case they will probably redeem the first 50%, and then run and hide with the remaining 20% USD they have.
If said newbie only wants bigger biceps then training only biceps isn’t a bad plan.
@dang some of OP's comments are unintentionally being killed by the spam filter :)
I think that's the other side of the same coin - GC lets you write more efficient code (for certain definitions of efficient) by default, but they're always possible to beat if you're more aware of lifetimes and manage them explicitly. GC is an easily achieved local maximum; badly written or unoptimized non-GC code (e.g., making everything a shared_ptr in C++) will be worse, while well-written non-GC code will be better. That may well be the right tradeoff most of the time, where either the delta between the absolute and local maxima is small or the effort it would take to surpass GC is too great, but there are occasionally workloads or patterns that are very easy for a human to optimize but hard for a generic GC.

> how do you know when to clean up the memory?

Right, you have to pick a time that's optimal for your application. It's not trivial, but a GC would only be able to take a guess, whereas the developer can know based on the program's logic when an optimal time is - for instance, at the end of a request in an RPC server (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...).

> Using something like a reference count adds contention to this high-concurrency data structure, slowing it down

I rarely find this to be true. If a thread is going to be repeatedly requesting access to a structure, it can usually hold the reference throughout. If there are lots of ephemeral threads that independently need to grab refcounts, usually there's a higher level coordinator that's spawning them that can own a single reference. If you really need to do something like a mark-and-sweep, there's usually a custom way to do it that's more efficient than a generic GC would be (e.g., with generational immutable data structures, if you can guarantee that versions are referenced in order, then if the min version referenced is N, you can immediately drop all versions <N without needing to do a full sweep.
"Exposes" is a strong word. Public keys are meant to be public. The only reason you might think twice about handing them over is they can de-anonymize you if you were practising identity hygiene.

Having a public register of public keys makes it easy to give people access to your organization, CI/CD etc.
I see a lot of recommendations in this thread already, but any specific suggestions for a beginner whole body routine using bodyweight/dumbbells that also can help with stretching/flexibility?

Edit: And also free. Not that I am opposed to people getting paid for putting out quality health education content - but free is preferable.
...does that happen? Outside of C++ templates or inlining is there a need to pollute the header file?
Most Tether users either aren't in North America and/or are directly holding on-chain. Add up all the US and Canadian centralized exchanges, and accounts for much less than 10% of Tether's outstanding float. Now I certainly don't know if Tether has enough reserves to redeem 100% of their supply, but I'm almost certain they can redeem 10%.
I'm a happy Tidbyt user. The device is really well made, it has a bunch of widgets that you can load from their app, and you can create your own and push to it (although I haven't spent much time trying it).
There was a whole industry that would dispense drugs in Canada and ship drugs via mail.

Alot of local government health plans started using it, but it is now illegal for most purposes.
Each type of memory has a somewhat different design, but generally, the address lines will control a pair of demultiplexers, one which activates a single row in a rectangular grid of memory cells, and one which reads a single column. (Old DRAM chips had separate RAS and CAS — row address select and column address select — phases.) Each memory cell in that row puts its value onto its column line, and the column portion of the address determines which column line is routed to the output pin and fed back to the data bus. Multiply everything by 16 for a 16-bit memory bus.

The memory cell itself might be a handful of transistors forming a bistable flipflop (for SRAM), or it might be a capacitor and transistor (for DRAM), or a floating gate and transistor (for EPROM), or just a wire and transistor (for mask-ROM).
You must be thinking about this one.
https://izbrannoe.com/upload/sotbit.htmleditoraddition/bed/b...

Trotsky was indeed deleted from a couple of pics, but they are much more obscure.
As the dev who set up the Pirate Weather source, I couldn't agree more. 90% of the challenge here was getting the grib files into a format I could quickly and easily access, since the provided format is about as difficult as it gets. I don't pretend to know more about the actual art of forecasting than NOAA, but wanted a better way to get the data they produce out there
Why would mentioning facts require a disclaimer? I mean, unless you embrace the genetic fallacy?
By the numbers:

- 66B in liabilities

- 17B in redemptions over a 2 month period (proof of some liquidity)

- 8 years of operation

- 100s of millions in annual revenue

How many billions are they short? What redemption rate would it take? Which catalyst?

At this point, the question should be: what makes you believe they are insolvent?

Edit: assets -> liabilities
Waiting for the day when crypto.com becomes irrelevant
Yeah. You come as close as possible to the product manager being the only point of contact outside the team because they know what everyone is doing and why they’re doing it in sufficient detail that they can do the communication work so everyone else can do the production work.
There is a lot that goes into distribution.

It’s not just scping your git repository to some machines on AWS. It’s developing the infrastructure, processes, tooling, etc. to create and package hundreds of millions of doses of a highly specialized and advanced drug with extraordinarily high reliability. If something does wrong, people will be harmed.

It’s also about conducting clinical trials properly and working with regulators to get approval for your drug. Probably a lot more happening behind the scenes I haven’t mentioned. All of this effort takes hundreds of thousands of person-hours w/ highly specialized expertise.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Disclaimer: I have a family member who works at Pfizer (but none of this info is from them).
Thanks for this perspective, this is helpful
> Yes, you can jump straight to the one incident that caused more victims than an average mass shooting. Do you know any others?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire (gasoline)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks (box cutters and airplanes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide (some firearms, but mostly machetes).

There are plenty more, including a bunch of genocides that took place before firearms were even invented.

> Because causing a high victim count with a vehicle attack is not impossible but hard.

Sorry, that's simply not true. All you need is a large vehicle and a crowd.
Jumping over to Tesla's actual page, https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport,

> To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed.
Don’t I pay for pandemic prevention with my taxes? Where’s that money going?
This is fascinating, thank you for sharing! What is even more amazing about Dark Sky is that they did this in 2011, when a lot of the tools I have access to now didn't exist. For Pirate Weather, I avoid working with radar data at all, instead using the 15-minute forecast that the HRRR model provides
I'm not sure what the birth rate in New York City works out to be but it sounds like there may be more than one sucker born every minute up there.
> I literally just wired someone money today and it was <1 hour.

I can't count how many times I've had to explain to people that domestic wire transfers are actually really, really fast. Even international wire transfers occur relatively quickly in my experience, though obviously I can't vouch for every country:country combination.

I get the impression that a lot of Tether/crypto proponents have never actually dealt with normal banking at scale, they've only heard about it through exaggerated depictions designed to make crypto look like the better option.

Don't get me wrong: There are a lot of areas where normal banking is imperfect and can improve! However, replacing it with an unregulated asset operated by a shady company that has been proven to have been lying about their reserves once already is not an improvement.

Also, you don't need Tether specifically to transfer crypto around quickly. Most people would just transfer their crypto directly. It wouldn't make any sense to convert your Bitcoin to Tether to transfer to another exchange just to convert it back to Bitcoin and pay exchange fees on both ends.
Then those browser versions require newest browser, that is not available for old OS. So by installing Linux that has newest browser...
I’m sorry, I think Tesla does a bunch of BS, but any time you buy a product there’s a chance the price will drop the day after. You don’t get buy something and then demand what is functionally a partial refund of what you paid if/when the price drops later.

I guess unless you’re willing to pay them more if the price increases in future?
through the use of sulfur aerosols

This is actually already happening somewhat, due to the use of high-sulfur fuel oil by container ships. Of course, the irony is that certain organisations are attempting to lower this sulfur content, without the realisation that it's actually helping to moderate the temperature of the planet.
Why these individuals?
Thank you so much! I really want there to be a free level available, and it's donations like this that make it possible
Ask HN: Adjusting to a Future with Near-AGI
Dislaimer: my intent in writing this is not scaremongering. I'm sharing my view on this and want to see others' perspectives and advice.

Ever since trying out ChatGPT I've been getting increasingly anxious and even depressed. I have found my interaction with it to be more insightful, creative and knowledgeable than with the majority of people I've met. Even when it comes to software engineering, ChatGPT has shown more understanding, patience and insight than most of my colleagues (maybe that's more descriptive of the people I've encountered throughout my career, YMMV). I've done "pair programming" with it with great success. It doesn't matter whether it has consciousness or "understanding" (whatever that might be) of its input and output, the results it produces isn't that different from that of a junior developer's (again, from my experience).

Now, I don't want to argue about ChatGPT's merits and its future potential – I'm not an ML researcher and neither are probably the vast majority of people on HN. I'm genuinely convinced that there's far more to come in the nearest future, and ChatGPT is just an inflection point on our path to AGI.

My question is: what action should I take, right now, an undergrad, a CRUD "engineer", to prepare myself for the near future where I have to compete with not only my fellow flesh-and-bone software engineers, but now also a gigantic language model trained on the entire human body of knowledge by hundreds of smartest minds in the world? Should I run headlong into ML research and just try to join the minds behind the AGI of the future? Should I get into some esoteric niche software engineering area which is unlikely to be automated away in the near future (and if so, which)? Maybe I should quit software engineering altogether and aim for something hands-on, lab-based, like electrical engineering or physics research?

Thanks for any advice.
>Perhaps people that come from minority spiritual communities have to "think different?"

Christians are only 1% of Japan, but eight prime ministers have been Christian! <https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/a-chr...>
>On the web, the term "pirate" generally doesn't mean good things.

That depends on who you ask... People who are fans of, e.g., ThePirateBay probably would disagree with you.

Also, there's a shipping service called PirateShip that's totally legal (it's basically a frontend to USPS shipping labels). The website is pretty amusing with the "Arr, matey!" stuff.
But in Russia...
> Yes, you can't push Discord -levels of messages with a GC language (like their famous "we moved from Go to Rust" post told us all).

You can to a (pretty big) degree, as Discord have publicly stated in engineering blog posts:

- https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-...

- https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
(2013)

It's interesting though for folks who were not around then. Nowadays, no one serious is using MD5. It was a big deal for many companies back around that time to come up with ways to handle updating hashing solutions on the fly for users.
The assumption here is that the speed caused the deaths and that’s not necessarily true. We have better safety practices now like hi-vis vests, tie-offs, etc. They don’t slow things that much. I think we could build just as fast without deaths with modern materials and machines.
I wonder if they put the codebase into ClearCase too.
They (sort of) are! It gets into the nuance of the weather model side of things, which I don't know as much about, but the HRRR/ GFS models ingest data from APRS and incorporate that into their forecasts. This means that these observations are included (especially in the US), but are at about a 2 hour lag compared to direct readings
Prior to the pandemic we would play Diablo 3 in my home office with four people once a week, all night. Takeout food. Six plus hours of gaming after work. It's an "online" game, but we're effectively just playing a LAN game with friends. Since the pandemic we're down to three people in the home office, with desks and big monitors setup, but we still get together and play regularly.
The customers do eventually go. These companies will slowly fail, and they slowly fail because they specialized in customer retention (or more like trapping) either through legal (ie: lobbying, monopolizing, etc..) or illegal (dark shady patterns)
I think the question is, given a choice of stablecoins, who is choosing Tether and why?
I can imagine how that conversation went. Something along the lines of “I’m sorry, dad. I respect what you’ve built, but I just don’t want to deal with this shit.”
Not disagreeing with you, but I can think of two reasons why you might use distinct keys from the one client (and use ssh config to enforce the separation)

* You want to present different identities to the world and don't want them being conflated, eg separate your github hobby projects from your employer organization.

* You are using ssh certificate authentication, which isn't supported by GitHub yet, but you might be using it for other things, and GitHub should hopefully support it in the future. Since this relies on the name of the cert file matching the private key filename (eg id_ed25519-cert.pub corresponding to id_ed25519), you can't afaik have different certs active for the one key. Personally, I deal with this by simply having different private keys for different purposes, to avoid cert collision.
That hasn't been true for a long time, unfortunately.

https://9esec.io/blog/hardware-assisted-root-of-trust-mechan...
I just started gmb.io they have several programs similar to this
Is this a nefarious use case?
A Second Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf, Toi-700
LaTeX is nice to write until it is not, like you need an equation block or tables or wants to generate an equation programatically. And it goes through a mysterious backend engine that renders something that is correct 90% of the time.
Oh noes! You have awakened the Straumli Blight! (If you don't know what that is, try a web search).
I appreciate the feedback, you bring up great points.
If you want something you can almost fully understand, I'd go another step or two lower, to a microcontroller like an AVR or one of the old Motorola chips (68HC11 or something). These chips were actually designed by hand and expected to be programmed by hand, and their documentation reflects this. They also ave much less hidden microarchitectural state than a modern CPU.

Once you're familiar with that move to a more modern microcontroller like an Arm Cortex-M0, and after that maybe something with off-chip memory, a MMU, etc.
The left turn signal into nothingness prior to the stop is a definite tell of FSD.
You might not want to work specific muscles. But if you did, it could be for as basic a reason as vanity or just thinking having large delts or biceps is "cool". Mike Israetel has a good video on the general principles that go into specialization: https://youtu.be/BsuI-E_iIWc However, if you're a beginner, you should not specialize, in my opinion. Being completely untrained, strength and hypertrophy gains are so easy to come by — you can progress linearly for quite some time before reaching even an intermediate level. You would want to focus on big, compound movements which involve muscle groups and then potentially layer on top of that some isolation movements (usually at higher reps, possibly more sets), purely for hypertrophy. The truth is, though, that even the compound movements do target muscle groups though(groups, not a single muscle), e.g. a bench press will work pecs, delts, triceps and others, whereas the pecs are minimally involved in deadlifting and, instead, they work the glutes, quads, the posterior chain generally, etc.

I'm rambling a bit, but the point is that compound movements are so effective and they're really the most efficient way to drive strength and hypertrophy gains, especially as a noob, that it wouldn't make sense to do a ton of isolation movements. And even if you did do a bunch of isolation (as opposed to compound lifts), it wouldn't make sense to just pick one muscle while minimizing others while you're still building up a base of strength and physique.