skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tell Junior/Level 1 engineers focus on becoming net productive, meaning providing more value than you take.

This feels like it could backfire, by encouraging people to ask less questions. It's easy to provide more value than you take if you never take.
It’s just what I had available. I wanted to see how much I could do with it. It’s surprisingly capable! But very slow.
I have rarely needed to make changes, but if I recall correctly there were some settings that would take effect immediately, and others that required a reboot. I'd need to refer to the documentation.
Do you think that would make any impact at all when they'd be looking at a $400M difference in hardware costs? People these days act like you need 5 PhDs to plug in a computer, it's insane.
Your understanding is wrong, I’m afraid. Twitter was profitable before the acquisition. (If you look this up don’t be misled by the once-off loss caused by losing a legal case).
It can be tempting to mock all the VC's freaking out about this, but I genuinely can't imagine how stressful this must be for a lot of people, so I"m willing to extend some grace and give people the benefit of the doubt when they let their emotions get the better of them.

With that said, the government's role in a situation like this is to prevent contagion, not make you whole. If a bunch of startups go under over this then that sucks, but that alone doesn't come close to justifying any sort of government bailout.
I probably should have thought of that, thanks!
Not one mention on their values page of being responsible financial stewards. Only virtue signaling.
True! But cleaners and mazdoori labourers make that much for better hours.

Also the 1.8lpa figure is for their "Graduate Engineering Trainee" - for assembly Foxconn began leveraging Engineering graduates to work in assembly. So this isn't an unskilled job, and even then pay is on the lower end for a fresher.

That's why there was a violent bandh a couple years ago at a Foxconn supplier named Winstron - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NqvT8LYj2Ic - bad pay and bad hours pissed workers off.
Rerendering should be Rendering, however they aren't different. They are the same.

Server rendering can carry less of a payload to the FE but you aren't sending unnecessary data.
LLMs – a paradigm shift for the pragmatic programmer
If you don't have more that 250k cash in there you should be good.
We have had check deposits with smart phone cameras for over a decade. I’ve done it with Schwab since college, and while I won’t share my graduation year, it’s been well over a decade lol
I read some of them, and I don't know what they're referring to.

Could you link to the relevant "file?" Would be even better if you had a secondary source that confirms the "file's" claims.
>Another bank will likely swoop in, probably no need to panic

This didn't age well.
MSFT is second biggest FAANG right after Apple and significantly ahead of #3, wtf?
>> Anybody with the financial means to walk away because payroll has been missed is someone with the financial means to ride out a few weeks waiting to be paid.

Everyone should maintain the ability to miss a few paychecks. And everyone should know to start a job search the moment a company misses payroll or even looks like it might.
Not all music is good. Not all the music written during 'Classical Times' was good, only some of it. The good stuff keeps getting played today. The bad stuff has been forgotten.

Today's music is not all good, either. In the future, the good stuff will continue to be played, the bad stuff will just peter out and be forgotten, likewise.

In the future, some of today's music will be lumped under the 'Classical Music' genre. Just like we see the music from the 1800s being lumped together with music from the 1600s as 'Classical Music'.

I'd assume that more than 95% of today's music will just evaporate away, never to be heard again.
Which is barely 4% (its not even at the price it was a month ago) Which means its not a big deal according to investors
You need focus on other parts though, you can have the most beautiful codebase with the most efficient algorithms, the highest coverage and the most extensible yet simple and elegant architecture but if you're not solving the business problems someone's going to eat your lunch with a hacked together excel sheet.

The other view I have on this is around trust. Do I need to "focus" on the code if I have people on the team whose job that is? At what level? At a more senior position I shouldn't be looking into the small parts, the more effective use of time is ensuring the larger components are going in the right direction and/or we're not spending time on parts expected to be unused due to a strategic shift coming in. Maybe it's more important to focus on documentation right now, or perhaps it's important to get people working on different things because everyone's fixed on their small problem and not understanding the integration issues we have.

Code is important, but it's important for a reason. Create your artistically beautiful perfect codebase when that's the goal perhaps as a personal project, but businesses have different goals and its focus should be on achieving those.

"Focus" or attention I guess, is a limited resource. Spending it on one thing is not spending it on another. Balance is needed - 0% interest in the code is a big issue, but so is 100%.
Not really freedom of speech if the legislature can just decide not to care about it.
I was astonished that Roku has half a billion in cash.

Then I learned this was only 26% of its cash reserves.

I thought cash was considered wasteful because it loses value via inflation.

Has the thinking changed? Can someone knowledgeable please help me understand this?
>Should I link to the twitter files?

That would be a change of subject, wouldn't it? I suspect you aren't interested in any evidence anyone will present on what Elon has done, given your tu quoque reply.
You want to check out this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096877
This is a very CA-centric research topic. In most of the US heartland theres millions and millions and millions of acres of farmland. There’s no need and limited benefit to mixing PV with agriculture.

And the places where it does make sense it makes sense only for running goats around in the PV sites to keep weeds down.
The difficulty is somewhat artificial. Their statements give away the game, namely their obsession with a "soft landing." Translation: an undue focus on securities markets and saving entities who'd made bad investments, i.e., picking winners. They were late because they were trying to balance a factor that isn't part of their quasi-mandate (but that is important to politicians, and to the institutions that Fed officers revolving doored from). Without that factor, you see radical hikes in 2021 and QT not being undermined by waves hands vaguely. It hurts, but less than what's coming now.
Some people don't have the aptitude (for either.)
NB: Life lesson here is that a pretty reliable indicator of a crisis situation is when you keep mis-assessing the situation. The ground truth is either changing far faster than you can keep up with it, or conditions are well outside any of your expectations or experience. Or that the story / narrative / signals simply aren't coherent or consistent.

This is something I've noted in a number of different situations --- not just business or financial situations, though those would be among them.
> If they could have held the entire term they would get back 100%.

Yes. But those "100%" wouldn't be worth as much, due to inflation. There's also an opportunity cost to consider: if you sell now with 20% loss you get a chance to invest that money wiser.
Ask HN: Approaching 40 and trying to get a foothold into Software Engineering
Hello everyone. I was sent over here by some folks on Discord who told me that this was a good place to get advice from a knowledgeable group, so I hope you don't mind me staring my story.

About a year ago now, I completed a Full Stack Web bootcamp. This entire year I have been submitting resumes, developing skills, building projects, working on my portfolio etc, but have gotten little traction as far as getting a job. The few interviews i've been given usually go fairly well, but result in being ghosted. I understand that this is normal, it's just that I get granted an interview so infrequently, it feels like much more of a blow.

A bit about myself. I am 39. I have been computer literate ever since we got our Macintosh LC when I was a little kid. I have been working mostly automotive jobs as an adult, some of which gave me the opportunity to do some things like build a fuel system controller, and do factory automation. Throughout the last 10 years or so I had wanted to get serious about moving into software engineering as a career, which is why I did a boot camp. Regardless of your opinion on these courses, I feel that I got what I needed out of it and have been further developing my skills ever since being done.

I have (from what i've been told) a decent portfolio and body of work. I feel my interview performance is adequate for a junior level position. Where I feel the problem lies is that my resume just isn't doing what I need it to. I have a couple jobs that could be considered relevant, but with huge gaps in between when I worked not so relevant jobs. If I were to accurately represent my work history, my resume would be 2 pages long. I also don't have a college degree. I've heard opinions ranging from "Jobs only care what you are capable of" to "It's possible, but extremely difficult".

The big question I have is, with all of this being said, how do I make myself seem like I'm worth giving a chance when the person making the decision is only looking 1 page of my life story for 8 seconds before putting it in the trash? I'm putting my portfolio URL below, which has links to my github and resume. If anyone has any helpful advice, I would love to hear it.

https://jgarrettcorbin.com
Silicon Valley Bank.

Knowing that probably answers your other questions.
Well, that’s still better than me. You putting your old Raspberry Pi to use, while me having my old Pi’s sitting unused just because the newer ones I have are faster :)

And meanwhile I have a couple old PowerPC macs that I plan to put to use, which may at this point be slower even than the RPi 1 B I have and am not using :p
I didn’t mean natural in that sense. Smart-phone-social-media would be unnatural in the same sense that the wheel is unnatural. (In that it wasn’t present for most 99% of our evolution.)

Humans didn’t evolve with access to semiconductors, but the social dynamics in social networks have always been there. They’ve just been augmented by semiconductors.

I doubt anyone here would disagree with me that it’s better having more ways to communicate with relatives overseas. That’s all I’m really saying. These new methods of communication come with serious baggage, but they’re still inherently positive I think.
There are multiple contradicting definitions of OOP, but I don't know any that would include C POD types and primitives.
I don't disagree, but S-corporation profits are only taxed once, regardless of distribution, and C-corporation profits are taxed on the corporate tax bill even if distributed in a dividend to shareholders. It's a little peculiar.
The purchase did.
I so want to upvote this article just because the discussion is so good. But I just can't upvote it because the title is so 1,000% wrong.
This is the only solution that makes sense everywhere where land is not a million dollars an acre (places not California).
The take is your salary, in my experience. I'm not sure what you mean about questions.
The problem wasn't really the bonds, it was the influx of 3-4 times the money from 2019 to 2021 that essentially made SVB make basic and bad decisions chasing profit. The influx was essentially a pump and then they leveraged themselves to current markets not future even with a safe vehicle. SVB's whole premise was that interest rates wouldn't go that high, a very bad bet in high inflation.

The dump trigger wasn't even an action/attack it was the lack of additional influx of VC/private equity/sovereign money, probably mostly from foreign markets that slowed or stopped, that tripped them up.

Then larger investment groups filled with startups like Founders Fund and Union Square Ventures doing a margin call across all their funds/investments caused a big enough dump that it was over. The run was started at this point and days later the bank is over.

Ultimately this is SVBs fault, but also regulators because concentration like this where they are responsible for so many companies and one type of money VC/private equity, is an attack vector just sitting there. It wasn't wise for investment groups to run the bank either because now this harms companies across the board, but may also be a consolidation move, shaking out companies they don't back.

HBS is even realizing too much optimization/efficiency is a bad thing. The slack/margin is squeezing out an ability to change vectors quickly. This is happening from supply chain to credit to food and more.

The High Price of Efficiency, Our Obsession with Efficiency Is Destroying Our Resilience [1]

> Superefficient businesses create the potential for social disorder.

> A superefficient dominant model elevates the risk of catastrophic failure.

> *If a system is highly efficient, odds are that efficient players will game it.*

It is CLEARLY time for some anti-trust busting at the funding level.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
>Cashier: How are you today?

>Me: Miserable. I'd like an Iced Latte.

...

>Barista: what type of milk?

>Me: Straight out the cow.

>Me: 7/8ths.

>Me: Chocolate.

Maybe I'm just a high entropy individual.
If you're looking for chips / SOCs which implement a given arch, this Wikipedia template from the article is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Application_ARM-based...

If you want to find a consumer device which implements a specific arch, you can take the list of SOCs from above, and select them in "Chipset" in GSMArena's search: https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?
> nobody is stopping and thinking

To trivial questions no, but to more complex questions humans actually does go "hmm, let me think". ChatGPT doesn't do that, it just blurts out the first thing that gets into its head regardless if the question is trivial or extremely complex.
Explanation of my downvote:

1. You make a claim but no attempt to back it up, or even explain what you mean. Comments that do that contribute in no positive way to discourse, but do contribute to echo chambers. Fortunately, HN is not one, on this topic at least. Let's keep it that way.

2. Your last statement sounds like a flimsy excuse, at best, and includes what sounds like a thinly veiled complaint against privilege being called out. TBH, that last bit actually sounds like a cheeky dog whistle, but I'm not American so my read could be extremely wrong.

Disclaimer / Source: Indian, from India, in India, which is also the sole entry on the list of countries where I've lived. Also, (lucky enough to) never have known my caste.
I just went through Atlas in 2023. SVB was still an option, but we went with Mercury, thankfully.
Convert “$x” into “something Alice wants”. Alice doesn’t really want $x, she wants a new car, a house, a vacation, a new machine for her factory.

Now “They want to (add, prevent from decay) as many edges as possible” becomes “They want to encourage different parties to lend each other things they want”.
/r/fuckcars
Yes you can but that would take a lot of work. Firefox by default is not very private. You can use LibreWolf instead.
Do you have a source on that? I've read several articles claiming that Twitter was only ever profitable in 2018-2019. e.g.

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/12/21/twitter-and-its-f...:

> Twitter has been operating at a massive loss for years, failing to book an annual profit since 2019 (Mauer, 2022). For eight out of the last ten years, the company has posted a loss.
Out of $1.9 billion total.
> undisputed king

Well, I personally do agree it's a better, more solid overall product. And also agreed that edit-and-continue in some highly stateful situation can be ::chef's kiss::

But I think there is room to dispute its kingliness (:

For instance, scripting GDB with Python is quite nice, on occasion.

Actually, just on Windows, WinDBG has some killer-feature functionality of its own.

Or back with GDB, take, for example, this classic post by Jonathan Blow, where there is some good back-n-forth discussion about GDB vs VStudio, with varying opinions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125078

Plenty of disputers out there, I daresay.
Thanks for this link, looks super interesting.
More generally, molecules are, which for example includes proteins. Finite set of possible atoms, virtually unbounded set of combinations.
You need cash to pay for things, like payroll and rent.
> How do they work?

A debugger is basically a very complicated exception handler that can, with the help of the kernel, intercept exceptions from other processes and access their memory. (This is for Windows, but I would guess that Linux is about the same.)

When process X wants to debug process Y:

1. Process X calls into the kernel and says it wants to debug process Y.

2. The kernel verifies that process X is allowed to do that. (You wouldn't want a low privileged user to be able to debug a service, right?)

3. The kernel triggers a debug break exception in process Y, usually.

4. Process X goes into a loop where it asks the kernel for the next exception from process Y, which is a blocking call until Y has an exception.

5. The kernel's exception handler catches the exception and passes details about it back to process X.

6. While process X is in control, process Y is suspended and process X can use other kernel calls to read and write process Y's memory.

7. When process X is done doing whatever, it tells the kernel to continue the previous event and asks for the next exception.

Process X will have, of course, loaded some libraries that help it navigate the structures in memory in process Y, starting with something at a well-known address like the PEB. That lets it do things like enumerate threads and loaded modules, find symbols, etc.

Relevant win32 calls are:

WaitForDebugEvent, ContinueDebugEvent, ReadProcessMemory, WriteProcessMemory

(Standard caveat that I haven't actually written one of these things in 20 years applies. Maybe there's new stuff now.)
Sure, but "hiring someone to do X, Y, Z" is generally consulting, freelancing, or outsourcing.

Employment contracts are typically tied to number of hours (much like service and retail). If you dedicate the 20-40 agreed hours per week to the employer and don't tread on noncompetes or NDA, reasonable managers will have no issues with side-hustles.

At any moment in time, your attention can only be working for one employer. That's what you're paid for as an employee. Much like you typically can't wait tables for several restaurants simultaneously. If you want delivery-based contracts you're looking for a different kind of relationship.
I'm reading the book not his manifesto version. There are no mentions of bombs in his book so the fact that he's the unabomber is of no importance. He's facing the consequences of his actions (good!). Doesn't mean that the book isn't good.

> would conflate liberals and leftists?

The book is from the 90s. You have to factor that in to be sure that he's conflating anything really. Lets also remember that Kaczynski is a literal genius. Top 1% of intelligence. Based on this also I don't believe that he thinks it makes any difference OR it made perfect sense in the times when he wrote it.

It's irrelevant because in a two-party political system they both (leftists+liberals) side to the left. The psychology (traits) of leftism/liberals are similar. The psychology (traits) of conservatives are the same no matter what "sub-type" (in lack of a better word) of conservative they claim to be because they side to the right. Wouldn't you call a neo-conservatives a conservative?

Since Ted is from the US he lives in the forementioned two-party political system. Making the distinction between leftist and liberals makes more sense imo in the European political system (not two-party) and perhaps others.

Left/Right, the political leaning can be observed because of various clues and traits. It's well understood. In academia and elsewhere.

> reactionary conservatives

Absolutely! Kaczynski also goes hard into conservatives. You should read the book, he is also criticising his own political leaning. He isn't so political-focused in his book. It's more on the sociology/psychology side.
I feel attacked.

I have a drawer containing stickers that arrived with beloved products that I can't bear to commit to putting on anything. Some are decades old.

I have a pair of Technics stickers that I got with my Technics SL-1200 mkIIs in 2002. I think there may still be a rainbow Apple sticker in there. I have stickers for bands whose members have long ago stopped making music and now have boring day jobs and families.
An employee spinning their wheels getting nowhere for a month because they didn't ask a question that someone more experienced could answer in 5 minutes is not a good tradeoff.

Unless you work for free, you are taking.

It's important to explain this kind of thing though, and guide people to when it is and isn't appropriate to ask for help.
Psst. You don't have an address in your profile :P
They wanted to chase high-yields in low yield environment. The only way to do so was to take on more risk, specifically interest rate risk. They ignored the fact that it was risky because it was a "safe bond" and got nailed by it.
if profits don't go up, shareholders get mad and the stock price tumbles. this is just capitalism.
Asking honestly - if you just got $100m wired to your account from a Series C, what's the right way to protect your cash?
Going to prison for such made-up crimes must have sucked.
I think you need to compare HN to just about any other open forum. HN users seem gracious, knowledgeable and logical compared to the rest of the Internet. Yes, we do need HN equivalents in other fields, notably Physics, Life Sciences, and Rocketry.
Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter.

I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed".

For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
Is anyone aggregating a list of exposed companies?
What is different here? FTX bought shitcoins. SVB bought MBS. They gambled rates wouldn’t change and customer’s wouldn’t withdraw.
I had to unsubscribe from lamp. Too many aardvarks posting family friends.
I don't know who Brad Hargreaves is (or if his area of expertise makes him qualified to opine) but his previous tweet is interesting:

> CEOs yesterday faced a hard choice: Pull your deposits and go into default on your venture debt or risk losing everything if the bank failed. Many chose to hold tight as SVB's outright failure seemed outlandish.
"Unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil, so boards are incredibly sensitive to employing workers they may not be able to pay."

This is the key point in my opinion, and one I was not aware existed. Personal liability changes everything. You can't tell employees to sit tight while funds eventually get unlocked if you're going to find yourself getting sued.
I think we are in agreement here, the "basic sanity" is throwing this case out the window. There is nothing sane about the neighbour's behaviour.