skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed at the science we can do. We can measure gravity with satellite constellations so precisely, we can estimate surface features from that. We have ice penetrating radar. We measure glacier velocity. Dive under glaciers.

And yet I'm saddened by the huge waste of it all, as this can be brushed away by one "charismatic" speaker that enough masses will follow. Voters will not want to do anything. People burn their gas stoves out of spite.
Ah, yeah that's a terrible analogy for what's happening at Netflix. The complaints aren't about low production budgets. They are about the end result. "Beasts of No Nation" was a great low budget film, for example. They haven't produced something cheap, but good like that for some time.
I guess it might be because the nature of your work. When I started as a SE over a decade ago, my job was really just writing code according to the specs. Typing speed was important as I wrote over 100k lines of code in the very first year. But less and less code I wrote after that. Once I spent around 6 months meeting CEO daily just to figure out what was wrong with something screwed pretty badly by someone with a fancy big title. Eventually the code I changed to fix those problems were less than 30 lines. That was extreme, but on average, I hardly write more than 100 lines of code per day just like you. Typing was no more an issue for a very long time.
I’ll leave the Silurian hypothesis here:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/are-we-sure-there-wa...

Not only do we exist as a tiny island in the unimaginable vastness of space, but we also exist in a tiny present in an unimaginable vastness of time. Things that far back in time are like things orbiting other stars.

Who knows, maybe just a little more time and they would have shot down that rock.
If we had to guess (of course not good research to be guessing): The typical person working on a field probably believed what the church told them the world looks like. If they ever heard about being on a sphere, they would probably laugh and point to the horizon, saying: "How can Earth be a sphere? Don't you have eyes to see? Look into the distance, all is flat!" and any kind of argumentation, that it is simply so huge, that one cannot see it, would seem to them like a made up story, a lie to further some hidden agenda the explaining person has.
MDN docs are a gold standard for frontend development. I recommend starting with them.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript
> - Of course there are plenty of clowns willing to do that

> + Of course there are plenty of attention seekers willing to do just that

Calling someone a clown/attention seeker makes it seem like it's some unavoidable trait.

Let us not remove agency from them. Let us not confuse ill-intent with foolishness. At some point there must be some form of world climate trials reckoning.
If you're trying to solve a problem (whether in life or business) and you keep forgetting some of the constraints as well as options then you're not going to come up with a good solution.
Successful onboarding strongly influences an employee's growth because new hires can be more productive from the start, thanks to a uniform onboarding procedure that cuts down on the time it takes to get up and run. If you’re looking for a comprehensive guide for a smooth onboarding experience, this is the go to onboarding checklist for new developer recruits.

It delves into the onboarding experience and getting your employees acquainted with the organisation, the work flow, processes, job functions, etc making the transition process easy for the developers to settle in.

Not only is this guide useful, it’s detailed and very informative.
Personal anecdotes from any big company :)

There's a second layer to the tragedy. Also applicable to any big company:

- many teams are overstaffed for what they do/produce

- many teams are understaffed for what they do/produce

And this is also true at the same time.
Scientists propose turning abandoned mines into gravity batteries
"Cunctator" or "the delayer" was of course, the sobriquet given to the famous dictator and consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, whose eponymous strategy helped to fend off Hannibal from Rome.
You should try out something like Rescript then. It uses the ocaml type system including its ability to infer all types. You get all the benefits of the compiler enforcing consistent usage of types without having to annotate everything.
Hello chollida ,

This might be unrelated to this post , but I just read a post you wrote back at 2014 , talking about how to get a quant job.

And I aspire to be one day in it.

I was an engineering background now current at Risk management .intermediate in python, SQL and shell scripting.

I work in non finance field before and 3 years ago I break into finance by joining a risk consultancy as a data analyst for automation and data centralisation.

Then now I m in a small Investment Bank in market risk as analyst to automation all the report for them.

I m applying for a master of statistics currently

And now I have a dilemma for current next job opportunities. I m Googling around and trying to collect enough data for making career decisions.

1 offer i got :
A Swiss asset management firm - Junior trader (no programming , only VBA) and it came with a pay cut as I don’t have direct experience

2 offer in a retail bank:
Data engineer with 25 % pay raise doing digital transformation and automation like my first finance related job.

Question:
While I m working toward a master degree (part time)

Q1) Would getting offer 2 be putting in a bad track record on CV and driving me away from the path into becoming a quant - who trade

Would getting a data engineer job completely throw me off the path of trying to become a quant in the future even tho I m working on getting a master in statistics and phd after ?

Q2) being now in middle office, would staying in market risk (which I m just doing automation for report ) be better to make a better track record

Q3) would job offer 3 be better while working toward my master in statistics be better in your opinion (pay cut to trade off for experience)
There’s also the react-admin hasura connector if you need more control:

https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura
> Building additional wind generation can never be more wasteful than the costs of its construction. If it were free, it would make sense to vastly overbuild.

In a simple model where there was only one company that owned everything from top to bottom across the entire electrical grid from all power plants to every single power meter and everything in between? Yes I agree 100%.

However that's not how the grid actually works, so a simple understanding of the economics of a marginal turbine isn't the same as understanding the whole system.
That's what they claim.

https://github.com/preactjs/preact
You should find some other content to watch. The person being interviewed sounds like a charlatan who is bullshitting and has no clue what they are talking about.

As someone who has does applied AI in genomics as a profession, I can assure you that this is among the least useful / valuable / profitable applications.
By no means disparaging and I'm addicted to the Expanse currently (book 5) - There is _no_ explanation of the technology (protomolecule, drive system, gates) in the books up until yet? Gravity and the Coriolis effect get mentioned a lot, the concept of a rail gun gets some explanation. I would classify Expanse as space opera. There's a lot more science, say, in Andy Weir. I think Andy would have a very hard time explaining the protomolecule.
Not at all my field of experience (nor any of my business), but wouldn't such a thing come out during "due diligence", long before the company was bought?
Hello, do you have open hardware indications?
Recently I searched for open hardware specifically for open hardware laptop or notebook. But what I found did not please me, I found three, pinebookpro, Teres-I and MNT reform. But they all have something in common the processor is not fully open source and the firmware is not open source either. If anyone here knows anything that is totally I would like to know.
All those KLOCs! Such productivity!
Why not drop it to 0?
Front End Engineer Archetypes
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/21/six-terawatt-hours-of...

6.5 Fengnings or equivalent should be enough for a 94% renewable grid in the UK.

It is well within the same order of magnitude.

>the first time the lights went out because the weather was bad you'd have people clamoring to build nuclear power plants

because why build a solar or wind farm this year when you can instead wait 20 years for hinkley c to be finished at FIVE times the LCOE cost?

it's absurd. the people dont clamor for nuclear power. only the military industrial complex does.
Then you should build one. E.g. gitlab can create special git references for every deployment it ever made.
Pretty much every major industrial facility receives lots of stuff. So yes, lots of them have worked out.

A notable good example is the Gigafactory in Nevada, where not only is the Gigafactory doing as well in terms of jobs as expected, but also that in Nevada lots of other battery companies have been growing.
https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/1613763746437947394?s=20...
I was the creator of Twidroyd (First and biggest Android Twitter app w/ ~70% marketshare) and there was a larger story behind the first big anti-3rd party move. Basically we had some plans to bring users over to a new network after we got acquired by Idealab — and Twitter got wind of it. Think Mastodon 2010 style.
One seeks to find a clear and beautiful double-negative-free rendition of the same sentence, written by thy own fair hand. Alas, one seeks in vain, as the critic fails this test of courage.
The $2 trillion loss in cryptocurrency refers to the decrease in value of the overall cryptocurrency market; this was due to a combination of factors, including regulatory concerns, hacking incidents, and market speculation.

On the other hand, the $2 trillion money supply expansion refers to the increase in the amount of money in circulation, usually as a result of government stimulus measures or monetary policy decisions.

In general, the two are not directly related and their impact on the economy may differ. The cryptocurrency market is still relatively small compared to the global financial system, so it's impact on the economy is limited.

I think this article might be of your interest: https://www.ratherlabs.com/post/how-to-make-money-on-crypto-...
You can definitely build these components yourself.

If you are a developer or a company using open source buying components and even training courses is like printing money.

It's an investment to save time and level up your skills and put out better software in less time with more polish.

Have you checked out TailwindUI. It literally replaced having a designer at our startup. Amazing value.

If you're not paying for tools you're leaving money on the table.

Plus supporting open source means the maintainer can make improvements that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Support, Learn, Save Time, Profit!
Yes since around 2000, mostly suffered from being commercial offerings, thus only available in enterprise shops.

- Excelsior JET (one of the most known ones, nowadays out of business)

- Aonix (now gone, acquired by PTC)

- PTC (https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc)

- JamaicaVM (https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm)

- Android since version 5 (https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/jit-compiler). With version 7 it became JIT/AOT as mechanism to reduce compile times.

- J/Rockit had JIT caches (nowadays merged into OpenJDK)

- WebSphere Real Time and AS/400 JVM, nowadays lives on as OpenJ9 AOT (https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/docs/aot)

- Jikes RVM (https://www.jikesrvm.org/Resources/Presentations/)

- JX research OS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(operating_system)), not really AOT, but everything gets compiled to native code when loaded, before use

There were also some hardware implementations using the JVM bytecode as Assembly,

- JOP (https://www.jopdesign.com)

- picoJava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava)

- ARM's Jazelle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle)
I don't think that's what he meant.
If everyone only spent money they had with a credit card, then credit cards would not try to lure you in with free stuff and there would be no reason to use one. I pay my balance on time and "enjoy" "many benefits" derived from the human suffering of the people who weren't rich or sane enough to do so.
We may compare to the situation of American automobile manufacturers.

If we had no Toyota or Honda to compare to, one might then insist cars could not be reliable. One might even point to Jeep and Tesla and claim Ford and Chevy were exemplary, by comparison. But we happen to know cars can be better because we have better cars.
I have only ever listened to one audio book and that was "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" by Stephen Fry. This is nowhere close to that.

It does mimic the ups and downs of voice but they don't add up. The don't make sense. They don't really have any connections with what is being spoken.

But since it can do expressions, it probably only needs special markers in text to tell it how to really read a sentence.
That's exactly right. Asking for pronouns only really makes sense in a single-language situation, but most of the world's population uses more than one language.

On the one hand, you can't reasonably force people to select either masculine or feminine, particularly in English. On the other hand, if someone has answered the gender question with "neither / other" or "unknown / I prefer not to say", how would you refer to them in French, say? Would you ask "êtes-vous heureux", or "êtes-vous heureuse"? Unfortunately many languages do not currently have an established or convenient way of referring to non-binary people. (Though perhaps it's true that "most" languages are like Finnish or Hungarian in that gender does not feature in the grammar at all. The Indo-European and Semitic languages with which English speakers are most familiar are somewhat exceptional in that respect.)
OK, I accept your argument that oil is necessary. What is the appropriate punishment for the companies who are reliably supplying this critical-to-society natural resource?

Must the oil companies both continue to reliably supply oil and ensure that society obsoletes them? There are order of magnitude 20 million people working in oil, gas, and coal. Perhaps they could continue to focus on supplying society with these necessary resources and the other 7.85 billion people on the planet could take up the responsibility to migrate society off of those fuels rather than making those same 20 million people have to do both jobs?
Company will IPO in the next 4 years, current salary above market rate, will leave the company right after the IPO to "spend more time with my family". I want to maximise my gain and willing to gamble a few $ off my pay.
I disagree, it's death by a thousand paper-cuts.

Having my funds reduced to 91% the rest of the year is waaay worse for me, than having it reduced to ~0% the rest of the month. Because, the rest of that month, I'll be super-vigilant, I'll be acutely aware of why I have less money than normally, I know not to make anymore purchases, I know that this month is not for an extra treat, because I bought the other thing.
Next month I'll be back up to 100% capacity.

This affects my model of my financial situation, because, it's a camera then.. ~91%, it's a new toaster there ~86% and then ~40% and ~20% and now I get into the dangerous "poor" mindset, it's well proven (and I can personally attest to this being a very real effect) that having less money makes it harder to be financially vigilant, there's opportunity cost* for once, but there's also a tendency to "treat" oneself more because things feel tight, there's a tendency to short-sighted savings (the more expensive pr roll toilet paper, versus the cheaper bulk option that has higher up-front cost for instance).

Now, to begin with, I'd go into "savings" mode a month before buying something expensive, so that I'm not at ~0% for a month, I'd never do that.

* Sure, there could be 100% opportunity cost right after paying in full for something, but the recovery to full capacity is also quicker. I really prefer the large, immediate consequences over the smoothed-out slow-squeeze.
More about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327455 from 3 days ago. 133 comments.

Your comment shifted the topic. Natives in Tech made a request. There is no requirement, and I didn't see anyone requesting a requirement.

More importantly, we've long ago required permission to use some names.

Not only trademark, but in the US there are special protections for "Olympics" (and associated terms and symbols; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/220506 ) and "Red Cross" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/706 ), and likely other terms.

And you're right, these have large effects. But you're already so used to the effects you likely forgot they exist.

New York is derived from "York" which is derived from a word meaning "place of the yew trees". Who would we ask for permission? I don't think any yew trees are complaining.
Definitely. Disabling it would be a straight up loss for the consumer. I actually only upgraded the watch because of the pulse oximeter - I had a need for it and wouldn’t have been able to justify the upgrade otherwise.
> but definitely start with one and stick with it for a bit

Devs are paid quite a bit of money to play russian roulette with their tool choices.

Frameworks are an abstraction and not really key to understanding anything. And devs need to understand, at least conceptually what the framework is doing (or attempting to do) without too much magical BS. Ideally that starts with working with the dom and seeing first-hand the pains and joys of adding and removing elements, functions, sync and async behaviours, data handling, objects etc.

Then only will frameworks click and make sense, and so choose the right tool for the right job.
The "care" seems to just be "thing that looks like a value type is a value type."

I'm not sure why the author would have ever expected anything different?
It was their first "complete" edition, where all volumes were released at once. (Previously, volumes were released as they were finished.) It was also when they transitioned to an American publication. Unlike Wikipedia which has "editors" that throw things together and reference "sources," Encyclopædia Britannica used real "experts." (Niels Bohr (atom), Marie Curie (part of the radium article), Albert Einstein (space-time), Sigmund Freud (Freudian School of Psychoanalysis)

It's now in the public domain and the "'Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia' is the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, renamed to address Britannica's trademark concerns." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_E...)
I’m currently reading the trilogy, and while it’s an entertaining enough read I don’t really understand the fascination with it. The overall plot is a bit simplistic, characters are wooden and storytelling awkward (but that might be an effect if Chinese literal tradition). Besides, the sci-fi elements are fairly weak and inconsistent.

I mean, I can see that a reader who is used to the run of the mill contemporary sci-fi or fantasy would see this trilogy with its plot twists and big topics as some kind of masterpiece, but that’s a pretty low bar to beat. I can also see comparison with Asimov novels (it’s pretty clear that Liu tries to follow the narrative style of Foundation in his own way), but let’s be real here - Asimov wrote the core of his stuff hundred years ago and he pioneered the relevant plot devices. The main narrative innovation of Liu is the idea of total surveillance (no matter how hand-wavy it is introduced) and the rest is mostly poking around with a stick and awkwardly bringing plot points together.
Preact: Fast 3kb React alternative with the same ES6 API
Aren't you test/building them because you changed them?
In the past I chosen more equity and less salary just to show more compromise / commitment (I know). I accepted the first offer, didn't bother with how much equity it was.

Turns out that the company sold 2 yrs later (yay!), then I did the maths, and turned out that money-wise it would still have been better more salary and less equity.
I still didn't care, though. I chose that job in first place driven by other factors - money in software is always good; but a healthy workplace is not always there.

I know this won't help you much with making a decision but it is my experience nevertheless.

So (just my 2c), equity is a pretty big gamble and won't give you a massive return unless maybe you are one of the first employees of the next unicorn, which is basically impossible to predict.
In the end salary (or equity) negotiations boil down to leverage. If you have it, use it.

Good luck!
Software can make a huge difference.

So can serving static pages from RAM.
That's incorrect, there were plenty of suggestions even forty years ago, many of them involving using less energy. Better construction, reduction of mobility for people and cargo, less wasteful mobility, resource recycling, many of the things that we still talk about.

Of course many of them imply a change in behavior and some of them imply a decrease in what's traditionally referred to as living standards.
You don't know that. Life might be possible with simpler chemistry too.

Chemistry was sufficient 100 million years ago for intelligent life to evolve, so some other solar system could've easily have had intelligent life for that long or even longer if they were lucky.

Our lives have changed beyond recognition in the last 500 years. Imagine a civilization that's thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us.
- "All the characters are flat."

Too soon...
I first came across the idea of neuroplasticity being competitive when reading "The Brain That Changes Itself" back in around 2017.

I spent some time over the Christmas break reading a few books on Neuroscience as the brain is a topic I for some reason keep on coming back to. Among them was "Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory" from Cambridge University Press, and looking it up now in Chapter Three they talk about studies comparing London taxi drivers with controls and noting down differences. To quote the relevant paragraph(s) "they found that taxi drivers had changes in the size of only their hippocampus, with a relative _increase_ in the amount of gray matter within the posterior hippocampus and a relative _decrease_ in the amount of gray matter within the anterior hippocampus. Moreover the changes in both types of hippocampal gray matter correlated with the length of time they had been taxi drivers, which ranged from 1.5 to 42 years (with the largest changes for those who had been taxi drivers the longest.". And also this one: "The investigators also found that the taxi drivers were worse at copying a complex drawing from memory, and a subsequent study from the same group observed the same result and also reported that the taxi drivers were relatively worse than control participants at learning object-place pairs and word pairs (they also reported that the taxi drivers had average IQs). These behavioral deficits may be due to the relatively smaller size of the anterior hippocampus in London taxi drivers. Thus, although the taxi drivers had superior memory for navigating London, it appears to have come at a cost for other forms of memory."

[0] https://www.normandoidge.com/?page_id=1259

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cognitive-neuroscience-...
My only gripe with tools like this is that I go through a bunch of effort to enforce invariants in code which don’t transfer over.

Sone invariants are easily expressed in the schema, but others (e.g. anything involving a join) are not.