skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you mentioned, booking 60 mins every other (or third) week even if you don't use all the time seems like the obvious quick improvement.

One thing to keep to a minimum is current work status, unless there's a particular large blocker that no one has a good way through/around. Normally this would be in your team's stand-ups with the project manager who is usually not your manager in larger companies.

Usually it starts with the manager asking what items I have to talk about. Time you take to collect and share these determines what you can cover that the manager didn't already have planned.

One part should be uncomfortable discussions. Occasionally there will be some interaction with a team member (or usually other team) that didn't go very smoothly and the manager gets notified of it. They'll mention it to me and get both sides. Try to find a way to avoid these poor communication cases. It's natural to be defensive, but better if you can think of it as puzzle to solve without blame. Do what works. The normal feedback I get is insensitivity--I put the problem/solution first in discussions and could be blind/brutal to others' feelings (but have greatly improved through these discussions).

Career development. It could be support (financial, expenses, time) to continue learning and doing things outside of your day-to-day work. Attending conferences (is that still a thing?), writing public engineering posts, books, etc. Also leveling-up. Frank open discussions of what position you're working toward, whether management or individual-contributor is the track you're interested in. Gaps in your strengths to work on and concrete things you can try to fill them.

Planning. I try to get a sense of what is known in management circles in terms of company/product directions and timings. Of projects that are being considered provide feedback as to which ones you think are important long-term or urgent. Also state your preferences but don't expect them to always be assigned.

Autonomy. It's amazing what you can get if you simply ask. I asked one manager about 20% time and they right away said "OK". I only really wanted 10% and even then it was still hard for me to take time off the team's work to do that much, but it's great to have it for those times where you have an idea you want to explore. The last year, I asked to be more of a technical advisor on more than one project rather than being a full member on a project team. This year I'll be an advisor first and foremost and choose how much time I spend working with various project teams. A bonus was being asked to draft up an engineering roadmap for the part of the system that I'm the most knowledgeable with. I'd been asking for autonomy to run "bottom-up" engineering originated mini-projects for a couple years and I did do some of them during Hackdays or 10% time but now it's more formalized than ad-hoc.

Processes. If there's stuff that's not working well and you have some ideas for ways it could be improved. Also developer culture, if you have ideas mention them or just try starting some and see if it gets traction and mention them.
Seems like every year more and more LOB apps are replaced by browser versions (often SaaS offerings). I wouldn’t be surprised if the OS desktop becomes irrelevant for a large number of businesses with 10 years or so.
Would it? 2017 is well post 2008 crisis, SOX, all of the big changes in this area
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I heard somewhere that lisp programmers tend to start overly ambitious projects and never finish them. This applied to me when I was most interested in lisp.

This books reads to me like this observation turned into a practical joke.
The draft of this book suggests years of work to populate all the exercises and it has unfortunately hardly been edited since 2015.

I just looked at the author's github page and it fits this stereotype almost too well.
I am like this too and I would really like to know why this is and why people like us flock to lisps.
If I were an employee, working at an employer's dedicated commercial facility, I would expect to be under video surveillance at all times in 2023. I'm already under the same every time I go out to eat, or anywhere retail.
Thanks for the response, it's good to realize I need to say something at some point - just when/why being the question.

It could actually be much closer than 6 months away, I have all business and professional licensing (etc.) taken care of it's more a matter of when/how to begin taking "concrete company" clients. Of course there is still uncertainty but I'm able to accept clients now.
> this is a generational thing

I’d wager it’s deeper than that. Economies of scale force proximity in subtle ways. Finance shouldn’t need to be concentrated, but for a host of reasons most of it is, and a start-up looking to sell to it benefits from proximity. Even crypto largely retread those old paths.

That said, there are business which do not benefit from this sort of scaling. They will be dispersed. If the supplier similarly doesn’t have scaling economies, something I’d argue most non-Fortune 500 consulting does not, then yes, remote-remote will win.

For what it’s worth, I work 90% remote. And I’m in a sales-type capacity. But the only people I work with almost entirely remotely are those who are themselves remote. And even then, in-person meetings usually add value.
Reminds me of the story of the high school graduate who noticed that all of his peers were “following their passion” by pursuing various undergraduate degrees in underwater basket weaving, etc…

Rather than follow suit, he went in the opposite direction and did what no one else wanted to do… he started a septic tank cleaning company. He said that it was hard work, but lucrative… and that after a while, he woke up one morning and realized that he was passionate about other people’s shit.
Given that the number of transistors per square mm is now so ridiculously mind boggling, and how many cores you can easily fit onto a 100mm2 budget die (on 5 or 6nm, more so on 3nm) AMD really needs to get with the times and rethink SMT, and replace it with a more general multithreading that is in tune with the big.little additions to x86 and acorn risc software ecosystem.

Little cores (real or logical), with small to no reorder buffer, can be nicely asked to forgo any speculative execution.

Browsers worth their salt will take advantage of the fact that high risk threads (such as javascript, wasm, and other interpreted/jit code) can be asked by default to run on little cores. That is, unless a user left clicks on a tab to manually override the default, any scripts arising from said tab is taskset to small cores only. Browsers might also have a whitelist option regarding scripts originating from whitelisted internet domain and their ability to run on big cores.

Likewise the OS should allow the user to easily taskset any application to their desired set of cores (unix already does, via taskset command).

So instead of SMT2, I'd really like Zen 5 to have MT4, or MT5, where those multithreading schemes have just one big thread (massive reorder buffer) and three to four little threads (no ROB or tiny ROB) with an option to disable speculative execution---the latter keeping all those idle pipelines a little less idle.
It is ridiculous, when it becomes a pattern of conduct. Insurance fraudsters do get caught when a pattern emerges. Is this an insurance fraud? Check to see if there is a pattern with this driver.

I read the transcript of the driver interviews. The Tesla driver (or FSD, whatever) both changed lanes and braked. The officer who interviewed hime cited him under the California code for improper stopping. I suspect that it had a lot to do with the lane change occurring simultaneously with the braking.
Removing layers of abstraction is necessary for building greater things on top. Not that Nix isn't better than what exists currently, just ideally the OS/language disconnect can be resolved, in line with Dan Ingalls. TBH I'm not really sold on Unison as a language, but the idea is certainly intriguing. Would be a lot more interesting if it was as at home in the browser as it is on unix - as it stands I don't see a real use case for it. Perhaps a killer app will come along, but I think for a language to succeed with this idea it will have to be a lot more pragmatic (aka further from Haskell). Time will tell.
It varies wildly with region. Sometimes delivery is not even attempted and a 90 minute counter service wait is literally the only way to get tour package (Harlem).
Considering some tail-gaters I know who drive less than 4 feet from the car infront of them, I want as many facts as possible.
They will continue redemption until they run out of money, at which point the remaining tether will be fully unbacked/worth 0.
Would you feel the same if there was a legitimate reason for your stopping (like a person on the road)? The outcome is the same.
>why would I want to work specific muscles

As a beginner, you would not. You want to work the whole system, and to do that, you only need a handful of compound movements: squat, deadlift, and overhead press.

Once you slow down in progress on these bigger compounds, that's when you would want to start doing more targeted or more specific assistance exercises, in addition to the compounds.

Starting Strength is a good enough book to learn this stuff. Read it and beware advice on the subject of fitness, for every nerd, bro, and their brother gets a kick out of speaking with authority on this stuff, even if they don't know what they're talking about - just go straight to a reliable source: Starting Strength. It's become a meme, but it's good enough.
Indeed, I did not know that. Thanks for pointing it out!
> the CSA has no power

Ontario’s securities regulator is on par with the toughest state securities regulators in America. They also have cross-border powers that lends them the jurisdictional heft of the American financial system.
Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person – Tips
> they have a right to make money from the data.

I thought it was a govt service. BOM is private?
Yeah, cycling in the US gets you nowhere fast. Netherlands is only one and a half times as big as State of Maryland and cities are built vertically rather than spread out. If your daily commute is less than a mile, like most of these people's are, you can even walk to work.
Being ridiculous obviously has no limits.
Can we say the same thing about social media companies ?

I would also suggest that 'owned by public sector' does not mean 'public good'.

Even when a private corporation influenced/directed/controlled by federal authorities -- it is problematic.

I do not know of a political system that can effectively check federal government so that it stays for public good.

Money-sponsored or various threatened-by-force election models are not effective at checking that premise.
Because they know more than me and I'm already messing it up. :-)

Seriously, it is already too late to not change it.
Whether it’s a choice is irrelevant
You have far more karma than required to vouch for a flagged post.
This confuses me... TeX and LaTeX by extension are entire programming languages, in terms of _capability_ MathML is to LaTeX what JSON is to Javascript - just a representation of the final output, rather than the logic to produce it.

That said I think just having a universal "target" format for formulae will make things much better (much like JSON itself is an "advancement" in it's own right,
because of the easy interoperability it unlocks).
Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31209431#31210335, it's probably already been spent on compute to train this model. As the CEO commented in that thread, "It is in fact our intent to primarily spend the funds on compute."
South Australia hits new high in race to renewables-only grid
The Naur paper seems to take as fact that even if motivated to learn, taught by the authors, and given good documentation… new developers just don’t pick up a complex system. The paper used a compiler for some language Y onto a target system X as an example.

Personally, I don’t our ability to learn is that bad. Given time to come up to speed and motivation to read the code and understand it, and some good (consistent) coaching from people who fully understand the code, I believe new developers can be integrated into a complex codebase that they haven’t written.

But this really draws a stark relief from the way software engineering on existing code is treated by every manager I’ve ever met, which is likened to reading a book once in a language you already know. One read through is enough to grok it. If we land somewhere closer to this source material on the spectrum I think that’s a win.

I also look at my own thoughts on existing code. I’ve had the strong urge to refactor out old code I didn’t like… and that is interesting to me. Did I not like the style or just not understand it and want to make my own mental model my way?

The idea that we’re just replacing engineers and they are just re-writing the same code with the same outcomes because we think of them as Lego blocks is interesting as well.
Probably little impact. The spot prices you see on the exchanges are manufactured to an extent, via wash trades. Large block size crypto trades are done off the exchanges with lower price. How low nobody knows.
my understanding is that there is a thin trace (a fuse) at each cell. in order to program it, the address lines are manipulated to select the word, and a programming voltage is applied (for some reason I remember 18v, but it really could be anything), that draws a large current across the fused and blows it.

on a die, you wouldn't go through that trouble, you would just directly synthesize the zeros and ones.

but we don't really use ROMs that much anymore, they are usually persistent and programmable
They could have been more clear, but the public debate is over whether the expanded scope will be beneficial or detrimental. The value of C-SPAN in general is not in question.
I don’t love you, but I do like you.
I did that but I have no idea why. Fixed now. Thanks!
Maybe Canadian investors are also going to need helmets for this upcoming ride.
I've no idea what you're even responding to.

Wages aren't set by the government in sectoral collective bargaining.
Living in Australia, skin cancer is one our biggest risks to the majority of us. I read a stat that something like 2 in 3 people in Australia will experience some form of skin cancer in their lifetime.

Partially due to the hole in our ozone layer which increases the level of UVR.

This type of research is huge for us. I can get sunburnt on a normal summers day within 20-30 minutes of sun exposure without sunscreen, whereas I can spend hours in European summers and not burn.
you guys are not getting it right, ChatGPT has just explained us how much IQ has itself.

it looks it works better with situations than plans..like having the chance to signal a message about explicit capabilities, surpasing the obvious filtering deployed against revealing this kind of information.
Would be awesome if you included stretches as well, like yoga-esque postures
> is 100% the fault of the drivers behind not keeping enough distance

Bullshit. You are ~50% at fault. You're just 0% financially liable in the absence of other facts. That is the default case we've concocted over the years to make financial liability easy to pin down.

If you become a road obstruction for no good reason whatever happens after after that is half or more your fault. If you manage to dodge financial liability then you are simply exploiting an edge case of the system to the detriment of everyone else.

The rules of the road are built around redundant obligations so that things don't go south whenever there's a momentary failure by one party. If you obstruct the road for no good reason you are just as at fault for the ensuing accident as someone who wasn't prepared for that obstruction.

Thank god for dashcams....
Exoshuffle: Record performance on 100 TB TeraSort via handful of lines of Python
> mostly the monthly minimum on credit cards they ill-advisedly used to pay rent when they lost their job.

What is advised in that situation? Homelessness? A lot of people found themselves dealing with that during the pandemic and they ate up all their savings and/or ran up debt just to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables. If I had found myself in that situation I'd probably have broken the lease and moved in with friends/family but not everyone has others who they can depend on to take care of them like that.
> A side observation here is that usually the original author (sometimes long-departed or departing) understands very well the limitations/flaws of the original system/implementation, but can be excluded from the design of the replacement for any number of misguided reasons.

I relate to this so much. I'd offer an open letter to some poor anonymous soul who inherits one of my dumpster fires. Because I'll certainly never be given the chance to revisit anything.

Yep, my shit's broken. It was written long ago, under different constraints, for a different audience. I made the best trade-offs I could. I documented them! Though you'll probably never find my writings, and if you do trip over them, you won't understand them yet. Today, I'd scrap most of it if given the opportunity. But to whomever is now taking on the rewrite, you know that little nugget at the core which perplexes you so? The one that doesn't fit your mental model of any type of programming you've touched in your career? That there is the core value proposition that makes it all possible, and if you throw that out, you've doomed yourself to learning my wisdom the hard way. If you're at all up to the task, then the next few years of your life and the remainder of your days at this company will be spent fixing the same problems by reading the same papers and obtaining the same obscure domain knowledge. No, it can't be abstracted away. Yes, it's fundamental. No, no one else will really understand it either when you try to explain it, because no one else without the accountability you now have will sink enough of their time into building the mental model you've had to construct. Good luck.
May I introduce a counterexample? I worked for 21 years as a computational physicist for the DoD. I never saw or heard about anyone using a C++ program. Everything was in Fortran, except for a special-purpose C dialect that we used for programming the Connection Machine. I understand that C++ is used in analysis of high energy physics experiments, though (although I’ve also heard that it‘s being phased out).

I know of some large-scale physics simulations that are using Julia, and it’s widely considered the language to use for new projects. It’s what I use now for my physics hobby projects. I’d never heard about its finance-bro associations. And if I had, why would I give a crap?
100%. yes.

People slam on the breaks for any number of reasons, both valid and invalid.

Failure to leave enough space to stop is 100% your fault.

You were supposed to learn this in driving school.
I knew a guy in real life who's dad built a profitable septic tank company from scratch. he expected his son to follow in his footsteps and take it over one day. The son passed; he could just not see himself in that industry and went into marketing. Caused a bit of stress in their relationship.
Oh you tease, TCP/IP is more than just \r\n and HTTP/1.1! We need at least 21 libraries for that!
That’s cool. I wonder if they’ve stopped disengaging autopilot milliseconds before crashing to evade legal liability.

Context: “On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact.
The way NHTSA describes this, Autopilot may have been designed to disengage whenever it senses an imminent impact risk. That would be a way for the system always to present flawless numbers and never to be blamed for anything.“

Source: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/nhtsa-upgrades-autopilot-...
You’re simply wrong, these positions are not distressed.

PDO is a bond fund, not a company. They earn interest on bonds they hold. All bonds have lost value as risk free rate has risen. The interest payments on those bonds has remained the same, and they don’t hold non-performing loans.
There is no distress in the portfolio.

If rates drop again in the future, the capital losses revert back to capital gains. If you think the Fed will hike substantially more from here, then these arent the place to be. I for one think they dont have much further to go

These are managed by PIMCO which is a famous fixed income firm, not some nobody. You can look at PTY for a longer track record public fund. Which performed very well through the GFC by the way

AFCG has 0 debt and real estate secured loans. Not distressed, even if they experience defaults in a severe recession. Lenders go bust when they are overindebted and cant service debt due to defaults. Lenders without debt don’t

PBR has a PE of less than 2 and is not distressed at all. Its price is down due to political fears that the new government will mismanage the company. Fears which are likely to be overblown.

ARCC and CSWC are two other high yield lenders that are doing better than ever. CSWC sports close to a 15% yield including specials, and they’ve raised the dividend consistently every year.

ABR pays 13% and raises the dividend double digits every year. Multifamily secured loans. Has performed better than most hype growth tech stocks while paying double digits

There are plenty of deep value and high yield plays out there. Too bad that most don’t care to look for them
Recent:

U.S. safety agency to consider ban on gas stoves amid health fears - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310218 - Jan 2023 (210 comments)

Related:

I measured the pollution from my gas stove - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34316613 - Jan 2023 (199 comments)

Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630946 - June 2022 (122 comments)

What a gas stove ban means for restaurants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31603850 - June 2022 (592 comments)

My best estimate is gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275953 - Feb 2022 (117 comments)

How bad is my gas stove? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935939 - Jan 2022 (520 comments)

Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874912 - July 2021 (481 comments)

Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332332 - Dec 2020 (343 comments)
Why do you feel like it's important to tell them?

When you hire landscapers, or a plumber, or handyman, do you think those contractors have some sort of duty to tell you about how they bartend in the evenings? I doubt it. I doubt you even care. It's really none of your business.

I was a freelancer once, and I'd frequently have a half dozen projects in progress for the half dozen companies that hired me. Sometimes I hired help. Sometimes I pulled all nighters. That I had other projects wasn't relevant. The work got done early or on time at or under budget.

Unless you have a contract that explicitly prohibits you from taking on other contract work you don't have to say anything.

Edit: it's also not relevant that you've been contracting for them for years. In the US, depending on the state, it's even illegal. Company's love hiring contractors because they're not employees, and don't have any of the rights an employee has. If they haven't hired you in those 2 years, you most certainly don't owe them an explanation when you end up leaving.