skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're understating your point. Most of what the OP mentions are generally expected of senior engineers or even mid-level engineers, though circumstances may vary.

> I don't like having to check on others to ensure they're working as they should.

This is impossible to avoid in most professional settings outside of entry-level.

> I don't like hiring people and doing interviews.

Interviewing is often a core expectation for engineers.

> I don't like having to worry about "capacity" when getting a new project.

Senior engineers almost certainly have to worry about whether there's capacity to take on a new project.

> I don't like doing performance reviews and making sure that people's "efficiency" is as high as.

This can mostly be avoided for ICs, until you get to a fairly high level (i.e. staff).

> I don't like having to supervise every proposal going out to make sure our marketing department didn't promise some technical heresy.

Standard senior engineering expectation.

> I don't like giving people "shitty" tasks to do (because there will always be some).

Prioritizing and assigning tasks are generally expected of senior or even mid-level engineers.

> I don't like sitting with someone for a couple hours to explains how I'd like things done

Standard senior engineering expectation.

> or having to fix something they've done wrong.

Standard expectations for most engineers.

> And of course I don't like being in endless meetings.

Meetings are also unavoidable as you become more senior, even as an IC.
When I was in third grade, I had to show the intermediate steps I used to formulate an answer to prove that I knew how to do the task. This has two benefits: (1) it gets students in the habit of working through a problem methodically, and (2) it lets teachers assign partial credit when students get the methodology correct but make a simple error.

Similarly, this is why we students have been required to cite sources instead of simply rendering an opinion on a topic. Most of these AI bots are just fancy plagiarism machines.
And yet tenure track jobs are still fiercely competitive. Maybe all the folks applying to those jobs are just the dregs who couldn't cut it as a quant, but I doubt it. Point being, that despite the fact that you can make more money in industry, universities still have an oversupply of people (both professors and grad students) who are willing to work for peanuts.
Oh that is just great. We will have all kind of teachers and professors running around with half baked ideas of what ChatGPT does or does not sound like, deducting points and being hardass based on a hunch. What do you think your false positive rate is? How did you quantified that based on a five minute interaction (which only contained true positive samples, and only in response to your prompting)
The author is a professor of "monetary theory, financial economics, and welfare economics" yet posits the IQ requirements of chipmaking with logic that appears to have been pulled out of his ass.

"A single speck of dust can ruin a production run." As if that is the only thing requiring such delicate hands. Even if we accept his assertion that we need rocket scientist-level folks to build chips, he seems to forget that demand is shared by all the other things that need rocket scientists, including but not limited to actual rocket science.

To say nothing of the wonderful irony of an american professor using such faulty logic to write a post about how stupid americans are. And can we talk about his unspoken faith in IQ testing?
We've changed to that from https://secondegress.ca/Manual-of-Illegal-Floor-Plans, which is also interesting but better as a secondary url. Thanks!
This is Intel erasure. OK, fine, they're a step behind the process leader for a sustained period for the first time in a few decades. But... "we can't make semiconductors in the US" ... ? Wat?
Actually... it is!

You can think of the barrier with two slits as a device that measures (a) whether the photon hit the barrier or missed barrier and additionally (b) when the photon hits the barrier, where did it hit the barrier. Notably, if the photon misses the barrier, it doesn't tell you where it missed. This is why, when the photon doesn't hit the barrier, it can end up in a superposition of passing through both slits.

There's some classic thought experiment, I think it's [1], thinking about an atom decaying into a superposition expanding in a spherical shape, and how you can make barriers to shape the outgoing superposition. For example, to make an expanding half sphere, block off the other half sphere and focus on the times the decay didn't hit the barrier.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renninger_negative-result_expe...
If you don't have enough yaml in your life, https://taskfile.dev/ is excellent.
But it's Johnny Cab - I hope you paid the fare!
Show HN: PipeScore – FOSS Bagpipe Notation Software
I've been working on some version of this since May 2019. It is a web app that allows writing out music for the Highland bagpipe.

While it uses the same notation as normal music, bagpipe music tends to have a greater focus on gracenotes (embellishments). Most music software does not deal with this very well (e.g. MuseScore just displays a list of every single possible embellishment, of which there are hundreds [1]). PipeScore instead takes advantage of the fact that the form of many embellishments is dependent on the notes adjacent to it, allowing it to reduce the number of options down to just 13.

Questions/comments welcome!

[1] https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/2b428c00c9df65c3...
You're not making any sense here.

1) I don't think "we" 've eliminated racism (who's 'we' here?)

2) It is factually correct that an increase in reporting of hate crime doesn't logically correlate with an increase (or decrease) in actual hate crime numbers.

In recent decades in the US it is a sign that hate crime is being taken more seriously and being reported more often by local LEO's to the central FBI stats page.

As you yourself acknowledge the US has known past issues with the reporting of hate crime and there's good reason to suspect that a high proportion of past sch crimes have gone unreported, to either local LEO's or to federal tally sheets.

Note that from a crime stats PoV the US FBI database is barely adequate compared to crime logging in other G20 countries, it's riddled with issues and the FBI meta commentary acknowledges the shortcomings.
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I have recently discovered that the MAME emulator can faithfully host a DEC vt240 terminal, and route the rs232 to a socket.

I wish that I had known this before we blew a huge amount of cash on terminal emulation for our VAX. The worst was Reflections, which is over $500/seat (we didn't pay this much).

MAME's vt240 isn't amber, but it is free.

...and I still have some amber HP 700/92 terminals on our elderly PA-RISC HP-UX.
I love stuff like this. Around 2008 or so I was working on a Java game for the T-Mobile Sidekick (aka hiptop). The platform let you register url scheme handlers so I registered "drod" (the game was a from-scratch port of Deadly Rooms of Death, a classic shareware game). Since the game was a 16x16 grid-based game with 3 layers, it was super efficient at expressing levels, including monsters and locks and keys, with just a limited number of bits. On my website I had "DLC" in the form of drod://[base64 encoded level here]. It always filled me with joy that users already downloaded the levels when they navigated to the website. Clicking the link just opened the game with the data they already had on their device.
He's not saying anything about chip design. His post is based on the assumption that to get the error rate low enough for chip manufacturing they require high iq line workers which are in short supply.
Eh, I mean URL shorteners are a thing and all kind of things redirect on the web. The length of the URL doesn't really tell you much.
Or you can use open source Grand Orgue. I am using it with default sound set and it sounds good enough for me.

https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue
I thought full self driving would be better than it is. My intuition tells me that not treating these self driving crashes like a regular manufacturing defect is wise.
Even if we assume it is, the reason is as you said, lack of incentives to even get on that path. And their below average IQ manager making much more /s
These chunked transfers are used to efficiently sync only the changed parts of the file. The actual network traffic is still over TCP. You're conflating several layers and abstractions.
It was a service advertised to improve your Shopify load times with a number of "optimizations" not just pagespeed score. Updated the original comment to clarify.
yes he did. the level of effort a good video makes is off the charts. and then you're rolling the dice of luck/marketing.
The 300GB is for "all public sequences", as explained.

But to answer your question about "one virus", the initial isolate of SARS-CoV-2 from Wuhan, China has a genome containing 29,903 nucleotides. You can see the full raw sequence by clicking on "FASTA" on this page: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/1798174254
Better to use the Advanced Filters section on the Alternative Fuels Data Center website to see a breakdown of CCS and Tesla DC fast chargers and AC chargers in the US and Canada:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

For DC fast charging in the US and Canada, there are 5,963 CCS stations adding up to 11,659 ports and 1,800 Tesla stations adding up to 18,927 ports.

The main problem North America has is the failure to standardise on one EV plug format. All EVs should be able to charge at all stations, regardless of car brand or charging network. Split charging infrastructure just makes EV ownership worse.

Europe had the right idea by standardising on CCS Type 2 Combo. It makes EV ownership easier and better. You can charge your EV at any charging station, just like you can fuel your ICE vehicle at any fuel station.
This sounds like the counter was picking up static electricity from somewhere. Touching it will shock you momentarily, but it's not dangerous.
That's a neat post, thanks for sharing! I didn't realize Scala had dynamic variables.

As for the HN comment that prompted your blog article, I did a double-take reading it, because I could've sworn I wrote the exact same thing around the same time - turns out I did, though on a different thread :).
Ha, I completely forgot I posted it already. But it's always good to share it again.
>"Part of the villainy of this place"

What do you mean by this?
I believe OP is saying “at or below” would be more accurate - the current wording completely misses those at the median (which in a normal distribution is the largest single group within the set with a shared result).
What is Mittens? A chess nightmare behind an innocent kitty bot
how about a self aiming device that only targets unmanned low flying satellites wheb they fly over? or a self aiming parabolic mirror
Imagine trying to imprison a child because they made "boobs lol" show up on everyone's screen
Can a lawyer even ethically do this? Outsource their statements to a third party, robot or not?
Ok, so I'll have chatgpt write my 15 page research paper with citations. I'll then spend 1.5 hours rewriting and proofing it as opposed to the multiday researching, outlining, and writing I used to have to do.

And with all of that extra time, I'll study for your "exams".

Just replace chatgpt with Wikipedia, did this for 4 years of uni and another 2 at an ivy n school. No one was the wiser and now I have a cushy MBB job to show for it.
Yeah but focus of repeating "high IQ" that article had heavily detracts from that point.

It's really not that different for any skill that is hard (whether it is by requiring "smart" people or just ten years of practice to perfect the craft) to learn and niche enough that people normally don't choose that career path
It depends on what you mean by "at the bottom".

If you mean at the bottom of the wasm, the the answer is, those won't be legacy APIs. The direction we're heading is to provide POSIX compatibility as an emulation layer on top of a cleaner foundation, rather than just doing POSIX at the base layer.

If you mean that all Wasm engines today are implemented on top of traditional operating system APIs, then yes, that is how things will often work, but that's ok. What really matters is how the virtual platform works. We don't have to expose things like "the filesystem namespace" directly to wasm, even if it's present in the host. And if we don't expose "the filesystem namespace", then we don't have the associated problems, even if the underlying host has them.
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>> but it has its advantages

>And tons of disadvantages.

I never said their weren't; everything has it tradeoffs.

>> and much of the terrain they can graze on does not make good farm land for other food production

>So ... maybe let's rewild the land with forests and shrubs?

much of that is scrub land and plains there naturally there are large heard of wild large herbavores that doesn't mesh well with current subdivision of lands into plots separated by fences and barbwire. better to alow grazzing by domestic herd animals that are close matches to their wild cousins ecologically but deal better with modern existence than have yet another a empty gap in the natural ecology.

>> will happily eat all sort of vegetation that doesn't need humans to water fertilize or plant

>You'd have us thinking that eating meat helps save water.

I said no such thing, waht i meant is that free range cattle don't require as much water use as grain fed beacuse you aren't watering feilds to grow food to feed them. as they are living off of the planst that grow their naturally.

I agree that we use to much meat, and that is a bad use of calories and land to grow corn to feed cow to get less calories back.

My point is their is plenty of land that is naturally good grazing for herd of cattle but otherwise unusable for farming that can be still be used to produce useful food.
Well: https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/3...

However, no politician will ever try to make landlords and homeowners angry by forcing retrofit, whatever they do it will only apply to new properties. I doubt there is anything other than government forcing them will make my landlord install new induction stove or solar panels, and may landlord is actually nice...
Pretty sure the first monitor on my first PC (~1988) was amber, later replaced by black and white that did not "smear" as much so was better for games, and later replaced by a color one (that might have been on a newer PC).
When visiting new places I always consider (and often manage to) visit the local botanical garden. It's like a park, but better.
Put it on youtube and probably will produce some entertainment value
Nobody wrote "punish" or implied it. Not sure why you felt the need to misquote them.
Not quite. Your deposits are usually redeemable on a short notice, while most of bank's assets are usually loans and mortgages and other long term debt.
Is the Land Waste? Did T. S. Eliot kill poetry? Really?
What do you mean "other side"? That's overreach too.
If I understand this correctly, your example isn't a case of retroactively modifying a license.

If you publish something under an X+ license, aren't you effectively saying "the conditions of this or a later revision apply"? You are willingly choosing to use this version or a later one. So if a later one changes one of the provisions of the prior version, this isn't a retroactive change but something you explicitly wanted when you used version X+. Version X isn't changed at all, it's just that you explicitly said you accepted version X+1 whenever it became available.

Is this the same situation with the OGL and Paizo? Is Pathfinder licensed under OGL version X+? Seems... unwise. Not like the GPL or whatever, because the GPL is not aimed at restricting your business success and is not designed by your direct business competitor!
The cable is symmetric, either UTP and fiber are not discriminating. The equipment at each end is not part of the law, if I understand it correctly.
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> your description of the shock does not sound like a fully fledged 230V 50Hz shock

Do they use 230V in Portugal?
I agree. I have a feeling more of the potentially innocent would not succumb to the futility of claiming innocence if they knew it would be publicly viewed.
Ok, maybe it involves stringing up a new cable, onto poles already carrying many cables. That’s not even close to being comparable to widening highways.
I definitely don't think Just will ever unseat Make. Just doesn't have file-based dependencies, so it's not a build system, just a command runner.

As far as unseating Make as a command runner, I think that might just take Just being available in more places, since one of the main advantages of Make that many users cite is that it's available everywhere. Just is already available in a lot of package repos, but not all of them. Finally packaging Just for Debian[0] would help a lot.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just/issues/429
My house was built in England last year and already came with two separate fibre gigabit internet lines, one grainconnect and another BT. I think there are two separate ducts running throughout the entire development.

I'd imagine this is just to make the cheapskates and small developers get on with it too.
And new users can’t sign up anymore and it’s being totally turned off at the end of this year.
better odds...as bad as crypto is
It is weird that software engineering (especially cloud and web) pay very highly while other highly skilled jobs like hardware programming typically pay much less. My suspicion is that its related to capital requirements.

A web dev has extremely low capital costs related to his work product. He can walk out of the job and be running again on a $500 laptop.

A hardware engineer is restricted by the fact that his work product is reliant on combination with large manufacturing orders. He can't fund a order for 1000s of IC units himself.

Because of this we see a lot more talent shift into the software world while other areas stagnate.
I guess it depends if you consider the act of writing to be something that can only be done by a human. If a program can produce a work that passes as "writing", then that program could be called the "author" of the work.

So a student that takes said output and hands it in is plagiarizing by claiming credit for something written by a different "author".

It'll probably take some time for language to evolve around non-human agents. There's no intrinsic reason to prefer separating (or combining) that terminology by humanness of agent, afaik. At least, for common usage. One will win and only time will tell.
I felt a wave of nostalgia at the title and the first photograph, so I was shocked to read the conclusion that “No one really misses amber monitors today”.

When I was an undergraduate in the mid '90s, my college had a row of terminals linked to the central university computer (which I think was a DEC Alpha). Most of them were green, but one was amber. That was my favourite, which I always used if I could. I liked the softness of it, compared to the harsh green.

So yes, I do miss amber monitors today. And as with all nostalgia, I suppose what I really miss is being young and discovering new worlds in the machine, but the particularity of the amber terminal resonates more strongly than I realised until I felt myself bristle at that curt dismissal.
i think corecursive gets hn approval regardless as long as relevant haha
Plagarism is passing off others' ideas or words off as your own without attribution. IMO there is an argument to be made whether conjuring up text from a model of others' words should qualify as "others' ideas or words", but if it isn't technically academic plagarism I reckon it is a distinction without a difference. The concern with academic plagarism isn't primarily IP, so I reckon it doesn't inherently matter whether "others" being borrowed from is a particular author.

Also, There's a commonly understood threshold for plagiarism where a single word won't qualify and a phrase probably won't qualify, but a whole paragraph does. That is why Grammarly isn't plagarism, not because it is software.
My own personal list:

1. Look up the 10 Essentials and learn what they are/how to use them.

2. Search for Wilderness First Aid (2 day) or Wilderness First Responder (10 day) courses in your area. The focus is on how to assess and treat problems after they've occurred, but in the process you'll learn what the potential dangers are and how to avoid them or notice them early. For example, you can get hypothermia at surprisingly high temperatures (50 degrees F) in the right conditions, and some of the symptoms are paradoxical.

3. This one might be a bit controversial, but look up the Boy Scouts of America requirements for tenderfoot, second class, and first class scout. Before kids can start earning badges, the Boy Scouts require them to learn a fairly rigorous and comprehensive set of skills in order to not die in the process (first aid, camping, starting a fire and camp cooking, navigation, knot tying, swimming, etc., as well as some ideological requirements that you can skip). Some of these, like what to do when you're lost, you can learn from books or YouTube videos targeted to scouts. For others, you'll at least know what you don't know and the right words to look up to find classes. For example, searching for 'map skills' might not find what you're looking for, but there may be an 'orienteering' club in your area.
Fair, but we will also see how much "not a bank" they really are. Based on FTX, they are absolutely a bank.
My point was that improvements ultimately are futile because there are practical limits on how wide you can make a highway.
One major inhibitor (perhaps the most major inhibitor) of high IQ people is social repression. For example you cannot get a better software job merely by having a higher IQ. You have to find the right opportunity specifically looking for a high IQ person. Doing so greatly reduces odds of candidate selection for both the candidate and prospective employer.
Students could print out their sources and turn them in with the essay. Of course this would require knowing ahead of time what sources you’d need.
ChatGPT is still supremely usefull there. I can borrow whole phrases and structure from it if I want to.

I get my question, research it, provide chatgpt with an outline and ask it to fluf it out in a nice style and maybe copy it down once. Even if I only remember 80% of what I wrote then that is still a win.
That kinda explains why drivers from hardware companies suck so fucking bad (at least in ARM bubble). Talent just goes elsewhere
it would quickly ruin the point of offering them if it became widely perceived the company could not be trusted to follow through, so I guess it is self limiting in the end.