skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of these people. It's not just a matter of being "smarter", it's the way in which we think. I can analyze a complex system in my head and see the connection between the beginning and the end, most people have to reason about each step. So as a result I'm prone to overcomplicating things, and I have to remind myself to stop and try to think of other ways to do things, what trade offs I'm making and the like. Sounds to me like these guys aren't quite self aware enough for that yet, or they don't understand the debt that comes from increased complexity, maybe they haven't had to rework a system they built years ago or that someone else built.

Tell them there's no free lunch. If they're making efficiency gains they're borrowing from the future in the form of technical debt, they're increasing complexity and therefore increasing difficulty in maintaining and using the code in the future. Remind them that when they take that aspect into account they're not being efficient, and ask them if there is a more efficient way to accomplish the same thing without increasing complexity.

Tell them to take a moment, become disattached from their proposed solution, and try to reason on ways that it might make things harder for other people in the future. That's a key point, because it might feel easy as pie to them. And if they can come up with a way to do what they want without a continued maintenance commitment and another thing to store in their heads forever then you will reconsider it.

Your goal here is to make them better engineers by teaching them to think about the implications of added complexity. Right now their solutions seem so simple to them. They've got talent and potential, but they're not great engineers yet.
Those other threads had CEO bootlicker comments too. It's absurd. None of these CEOs are actually taking responsibility, it's all just lipservice.
Like i said in the older thread of the same article, bullying in my experience is negated by:

community integration (small school in small towns are better in my experience, especially when everybody know your grandma),

School/ysc 'admin' are good: basically if the 'chief' (don't know the English term, sorry) tell their team and professors to be attentive to bullying and respond/get involved with parents, you're golden,

and great teachers who manage to involve their coworkers.
From reports about the side-effects of Olestra, the problem extends beyond "a bit" and also into the realm of volitional control of the activity.
World’s only? This was commonplace in Germany maybe 10 years* ago. All (or at least both I knew which were decently large ones: Postbank and NordOstee Sparkasse) Banking websites would shut down every night and usually on Sunday as well. This was very annoying for the night-owl I was back then.

* My perception of time is notoriously bad, but I know for sure it was later than 2005
You can do all this for free on vscode and github. What's the value add here that I'm missing?
True, but you have it backwards. Web app needs user to download and install a web browser first; desktop app does not need anything downloaded first. Both can be started by clicking a link.
Shaders as concept are older than IrisGL actually, one of the first famous examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010
+1 to the GWAR of robot bands
I argued for it and all I got was downvoted without criticism of the substance of my arguments, only ad-hominems and fallacies.

If you can point to _fundamental_ criticism of my arguments, and not fallacies or attacks, I'd be more than happy to discuss them.
You are framing it like this company exists in vacuum and can ignore all external factors. And that is clearly not the case. They decided to regroup and downsize during tougher times, that's all.
Being late is disrespectful of the people you are supposed to be meeting. Do not expect them to respect you.
> If there is ever a WhatsApp outage, Metro workers have parallel Facebook chats to maintain communication.

That's smart to have a parallel system, but not great that both systems are the same company! A major Facebook outage would take down both systems at the same time.
I see shades of Google+ haunting the rhetoric surrounding Mastodon.

The lesson we should have learned about alternative platforms is that they will attract power users and enthusiasts. These people will be very vocal about why everyone will switch to the next big whatever. A lot of enthusiasts and power users will switch, and a big flood of people comes over to the alternative platform like the tide coming in.

But normal users don't really give a crap about Twitter politics. The people who don't think about Twitter as a community or wider thing and just want to retweet funny cat pictures or whatever. They'll never move. It is a lot of effort for something they just don't care about.

And the enthusiasts? Well, now they're dealing with a fragmented community, where some of their contacts are on one service and some are on the other but a majority are on both because let's be honest, all the new Mastodon folks aren't burning their Twitter bridges behind them.

They start out posting everything on Mastodon. Then they realize they're leaving lots of people out, and they start posting everything on both platforms. Then slowly, one post at a time, the laziness sets in and before you know it they're posting exclusively on Twitter and wondering whatever happened to that promising Mastodon thing. The tide goes back out.
Reading both The Register's story, and the blog post behind it - https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/ - it sounds like the complainers are perfectly aware of the eight (U.S.-recognized) Native American tribes with the Apache name...

...but those complainers are too ideology-obsessed to care in the least what the feeling or official positions (if any) of the actual Apache tribes might actually be.
Brammo does this as well. Selling a software 'upgrade' that runs the motor outside of it's manufacturers recommendation seems like a good way to stick your company with replacing a bunch of burned out motors.

Edit: Zero, not Brammo
An A player from Google will fail at a 10 person startup. An A player from a 10 person startup will choke on FAANG bureaucracy and fail.

Fit matters. You wouldn't hire Jim Carey for a DiCaprio role.
You'll have to recruit fellow friends, because you will need help along the way!
> When so many generally-smart people make the same mistake, I always wonder what the incentives are that put them there.

"Money, it's a hit; Ah, don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit; I'm in the high-fidelity first class travelling set; And I think I need a Learjet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
Don't leave out the English or Welsh.

Winding up Americans unites the UK.
Same here. Sometimes I pay my bills at night just because that's convenient for me. If Wells Fargo started locking me out of my account outside of business hours (different from standard maintenance windows) I would immediately run to another bank.

Locking bank websites after hours isn't a great proposition for an increasingly cashless society.
Kill Zone
My son? Don't recall. Something managed services, he's an IT engineer/project manager.

Mine? Ellucian.
How is it that a bank filled with very smart, well paid people failed to do proper due diligence before investing in a company? I mean, I get that institutions are tripping over themselves to invest in Minority-founded/led startups, and there's nothing wrong with that. But that's AFTER you've done the due diligence and made sure there's a degree of legitimacy there....otherwise, what's the point?

Just sad that the banks (which tend to hire the best and brightest out of the top schools) made themselves look dumb. This in particular is a bank that has over 3 trillion dollars on its books....can't be making mistakes like that, even if the total $$$ amount invested is a rounding error to them.
I don't understand this article. It says at the beginning:

```

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.

```

However, right below that, it says:

```

It wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact. On the first day of the new year, a nearly 26-meter-high wave (85 feet) suddenly struck an oil-drilling platform roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Norway.

```

New wave is 58 feet, wave in 1995 is 85 feet?
From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
ICICI is the easiest Indian bank to open a NRI account online at. Depending on your country of residence, it can be completely online, not requiring anything to be sent by post
This is why I absolutely refuse to upload an image of my drivers license to anyone for any reason. I understand it can still get there via data upload from the DMV, but there's no way in hell I would ever give FB (as an example) an opportunity to have that data just to verify my identity. At no point is that service worth the risk, unlike the DMV where driving is absolutely necessary.
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's true. There is no automatic copy on write optimization in Swift. It's a manual optimization that expensive types like Array implement manually.
Totally agreed, every party in this whole debate definitely conforms to the idea that everyone's the protagonist in their own story.
I prefer Thai toilet shower you can easily install in any toilet.
It’s a little more nuanced, “we were drunk on cheap money and over hired, just like everyone else with the belief growth would continue”

As interest rates plummeted to 0% and monetary policy pushed lots of money into the economy, companies had easy access to capital, and demand for products and services surged. Organizations hired aggressively to meet market demand and the war for talent reached a fever pitch. The result, for Lattice, was that growth skyrocketed.

Which is a reasonable thing to do, it probably takes 6 months to a year to get many employees up to full potential. So over hiring during growth makes sense, if you under hire, you’ll never catch up.
F-Droid on LineageOS addresses most of the concerns with Playstore as only talented developers who care about open-source release their apps on it.

Ofcourse, Apps of 3rd party data hoarding, Democracy destroying services wouldn't bother releasing to F-Droid and I'm glad for that.

With microG version of LineageOS the app updates are seamless due to the F-Droid PE patch bundled in the ROM.

Lately I'm finding myself increasingly dependent on F-Droid only apps like Termux and Tusky.
I've seen other smaller banks do the same as recently as a few years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if there are still dozens of banks in the US that still do this. There are 4,200+ banks in the US.
I really hope your childhood home had a stained glass window with a Bayer pattern!
I don’t think they care about the numbers. They just want to push the narrative it’s a generational issue due to crumbling morals and supposed perfectionism driven by social media.
While they can have these elements, heat-pumps in general have come a long way in their ability to get heat out of the air at cold temperatures. Mine is still over 160% efficient at -13F, with no loss of capacity.

Below that it'll still operate at over 100% efficiency, but capacity starts to drop, so some part of the heating load may need to be made up by other means (it's common to install a handful of cheap resistive heaters for that case, as they add a redundant system that can continue to work even if the heat pump is out of service).

> So heat pumps will lower overall energy usage, but not peak usage.

This would only be true if we go far beyond normal 'cold climate' temperatures for a long period of time.
Bytecoder: Interpret and Transpile JVM Bytecode to JavaScript, OpenCL or WASM
How Belarusian hackers created an alternative Telegram for activists
Here is a plan for solar air heater panels that is quite efficient: http://www.iedu.com/Solar/Panels/index.html
All this will do imo is push the needle. People will get better at writing and better at seeing that it’s an auto generated text blob. Also you can still quiz the kid on the writing and the understanding of the concepts: thinking that having to write about them (and forcing them to pad their thoughts to a certain number of words) is the only way to ensure understanding is Byzantine and conservative for conservations sake.
"Factoring Integers with Sublinear Resources on Superconducting Quantum Processor" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34356365
Because the CEOs usually stay rich and the people who lose their jobs don't. And there's no rule stating that the CEO has to make 1000x what other people do. If you want to keep it that way, good on you. Some folks want something different and so they hold executives to a different standard!
I will echo this. I don’t know if we will ever reach AGI, but several goalposts seem to have already flown past and we are still moving at top speed. I think it will take a decade or more to integrate the AI capabilities we have today into our economy. But until the tsunami of advancements abates, it’s impossible to guess how much our world will be changed by AI. Homework already seems to be a goner.
Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft.

Metal also predates the nice present of AMD's Mantle to Khronos, which otherwise would still be arguing today what OpenGL vNext would look like.
Climate change: UAE names oil chief to lead COP28 talks
I’m sure it was. But that’s my answer regardless. ;)
C++ Is Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year 2022
I've wanted to move since day 1 (~2 years ago), but haven't felt compelled to. Job search hasn't been. There simply don't seem to be many developer jobs in my country.

As for why, the three main reasons are the commute, the punitive atmosphere created by management and the outdated tech practices. For an example of that last one, I got a lot of praise for generating a root keypair and using that to sign certs for our internal services. Apparently they had been trying to do something like this for upwards of a year but couldn't figure it out.
> it'd be nice to have better treatment options.

No disagreement with you there. By "perfect screening" I assumed a "perfect" patient set where problems brought up at annual checkups lead directly to tests which lead to detection, but perhaps that's a naïve assumption to the point of uselessness.

Still, I think it's easy to write off screening advances as skewing the data set vs. actually saving lives, when they do in fact help people that otherwise could have been much sicker.
Move fast and break things, unless people are involved.

Please, don’t break people.

People are non-fungible.
Again, this really isn't about Coinbase.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33895773
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268762
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33961410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809631

Every single time it's the same template, every single time the CEO is the villain, until we got one that was part of the in crowd.

I think people forget how tight knit the SV crowd can be. A lot of these people are former class mates/team mates/etc. It's a softer version of nepotism where any failings are taken much softer because these are people who just might rub your back the right way down the line due to proximity.
It is indeed unclear.

The resolution is that the absolute rogue-wave-height isn't the measure of extreme, it's the rogue-wave-height relative to the typical height. This is explained in TFA if you read carefully.

> Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall, while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.

And of course this makes sense.
Or put that point thing on a mouse. So much better than a scroll wheel. I still miss that mouse.
There's a lot of recent research which suggests that saturated fats have gotten a bum rap. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/5-studies-on-saturated-...
This is an underappreciated truth.

The corollary is: find out where you thrive and go there.

Don't beat yourself up if you get spun out of a FAANG, or a startup or a smallco or a bootstrap or a founding role or a mid-tier enterprise. Don't contort to a role or company that isn't a fit.

If you have solid skills, you can find a place.
Rafael Conde
Is it impractical for even an interstellar civilization to do something with a coronal mass ejection?
That is a dubious claim. While links between HPV and cervical cancer are quite strong and well-defined, the associations with the other viruses you cite are only correlative. Also, Hep C, HIV and herpes have no vaccine, so unclear what your statement is referring to anyway? What has contributed to a drop in cancer mortality would be advances in treatment (like targeted therapies and immunoncology), better image/blood/genetic screening practices, and certainly the decreased popularity of smoking.
He could just ride the federal eagle to Bavaria
It’s so easy to do, so how can you resist?
as the article says, it's "most extreme" with respect to its size compared to the surrounding waves: "the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers."
Hiring speed, hire quality, compensation (including things like work/life balance, healthcare, flexibility). I think you can try for two.

Once you get large enough your ability to really selectively recruit gets a lot harder when natural attrition means you need to replace X amount of people just to continue operating as before.

Of course earlier on, the fewer the people the larger the impact each one will have so just like the article says about transitioning to enterprise, the focus and requirements of the HR team change as well.
It means you don't need very much of it. And, now that iron-nitrogen magnets can be used in place of the lanthanide magnets, much less will be needed.
Sport! Hiking, mountain biking, running, weight lifting.

Trail maintenance in my region. I'd probably camp overnight a lot.

Catching up on all the books I havbe left behind.

I always wanted to pick up woodworking and I'd like to learn how to sew with a sewing machine. Practical stuff keeps me engaged.

Drinking beers? :)
"Harvest Diet"

"Agricultural Diet"....
"The answer is simple but difficult: Switch to the Sal Khan model. Lectures at home, classes are for homework."

I think this could actually work!
> skeptical of yield products

Yield products aren't the problem, they're a symptom.

The problem is wanting to buy something that has no value and hoping to sell it to someone else who in turn is also hoping to sell it to someone else even higher.

Bitcoin, NFT, yield products, etc, they're all manifestations of the same thing.
That paperwork is for legal risk, there are services out there that allow you to search for anyone's credit report at any time. 3rd party collections companies use them to try and hunt down people, for example.

IIRC, a few celebrities have ended up suing such services due to stalkers using them to hunt the celebrities down, so there ARE controls on them, but not typically for your normal person.
The 100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science
A PC Engines board [1] running OpenBSD would be my preference, but at present it doesn't have the horsepower to route a gigabit of traffic on this OS. A worthy tradeoff, IMO, but others may disagree. Can run Linux or OPNsense [2], too, on these headless boxes.

[1] https://www.pcengines.ch/

[2] https://opnsense.org/
Wait until they realize that Ripple is running a good portion of financial institutions.. Seems like people prefer keeping their heads in the sand, nobody is here to convince anyone of anything though because for some reason most of the critics happen to be the most ingorant of the matter
Then you've got a lot of potentially dead time for people staying in the same room. I'm not going this year but the last once or twice I went, I mostly picked a room and hung there for a good chunk of the day. If there was something else I really wanted to see, there's always video. I found that made the experience much less chaotic.
> i eat about 4 eggs a day and steak almost every day

I also had this diet for many years. Wait till you get older. This is a diet will run your cholesterol through the roof.
It's almost exactly the same price as July...

...2015.

And that's without factoring in inflation.
I have a theory that there is something down there, deep in the uncharted depths of the oceans lurking and causing rogue waves, but its just a theory one I dearly hope is wrong...
When you see "low fat" advertised on packaging, you know it is high in sugar.
I think the "CEO pay should be cut for layoffs" comments come from a misunderstanding of how CEO pay differs between public companies and VC-backed companies.

A VC backed CEO is usually paid a lower salary than the average software developer. Their biggest pay is by owning a lot of equity that's on a standard vesting schedule. Cutting their salary would be entirely performative. And clawing back equity is difficult and only matters is the company does well.

A public company CEO is usually not the founder. They're compensated with stock bonuses (that can be almost immediately liquidated) based on performance, as well as a large salary.

I think forgoing a bonus when you're the CEO and doing layoffs would be great. Unfortunately, that goes against the interest of the CEO and investors
The use of the word masters is now considered not cool according to Stanford... :-)
Heroku did the same
I would say it's much easier, because it supports even RSS, you just add .rss at the end of user account and you get RSS Feed, e.g.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss

Of course it's all up to the instance owners.
Our neighborhood has 7000 sq ft lots. My old neighbor had 3 hens and a rooster. Technically, I don't think the rooster was allowed. One day the rooster stopped crowing and I was happy. Other than his early morning call, we never would have known they had those birds except the few times I saw them get out and walk down the street.
I mean, I like Linux and am a bit of an ideologue... I want System76 to succeed and want to buy a laptop from them but I also like using nice hardware.
Even if you don't lose people money, lying about how you're using it is a crime and you can go to jail for it.

Ask Martin Shkreli. He never lost any investors money, but still got 7 years in prison because he lied about what he was doing with their funds and used profits from some investments to cover losses from others.
> the one that surfaced near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island was not the tallest, its relative size compared to the waves around it was unprecedented.

>Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall, while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.

The one in Norway was only roughly double the height of surrounding waves.
I'd imagine anything with evolved life is considered a habitable planet. The E.Ts probably have some rule that you have to mostly leave those places alone unless you've come to a fair deal with them. The fairness requirement is an obvious necessity due to the huge power imbalance between the two parties.
> Some have complained even Google search doesn’t work, but Google search doesn’t fall under the umbrella of “small internet”.

Yet it works on links, lynx and probably few other text browsers.

Sometimes small is too small
Now imagine how scary the rogue holes are, the inverse of rogue waves.
https://docs.gtk.org/glib/reference-counting.html
have any notable successes emerged from the 100k investment thing yet?
While birthrates were rising, how many did not heave the desire but were forced into it?
I don't know about Tailscale other than it's nice UI for a VPN, but seems like HN folk love it, although i would expect HN to be more cautious about something so important like direct access to your local network
PopOs - System76 distro supports fractional scaling.